Happy Birthday, Bridget! - Dinner Plus Drinks #91

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Alas, ye scallywags, lend your landlover ears, and it's, you know, it's just such an exciting day because it's me, Minnie Bridget's birthday. We're going to engage in grog and plunder, so keep listening else. Walk ye play. Two, it's time for our shanty. Yo ho ho, my hearty's, let's go! Whoa! Did you like that shanty?

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I caught on part way through. I'm like, what? Is he being Scottish? Oh, that's a pirate. It's a pirate, eh?

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Yay? Why? Tell me why. Well, because today, release day, September 19th, is a momentous day. It is Bridget's birthday! Woohoo! Also Shannon's birthday. Let's not forget Shannon. Happy birthday. Uh we would like. Did you know Bridget's a twin? Did you know? Have you heard? Her name's Shannon. Um So it is not just Bridget and Shannon's birthday. It is international talk like a pirate day. So we had to have a little pirate talk. I assure you there will be no more pirate talk.

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I imagine there will be. So um I had I feel nervous. Okay, I just gotta start out with this.

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I had uh two two ways to start this episode that I thought about. Uh-huh. And one was to promise you two things you like and two things you don't like.

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Yeah, I see this. Uh-huh.

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And then I decided to go pirate.

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Great. Um I uh typically uh kind of start the outlines here and have a good idea what we're doing for the show. I don't really have a clue what we're doing today.

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So I gotta be real here. I love gifting. Like it's my favorite thing. And like I try to do very nice gifts, but also with just a hint of mischievousness to it. Oh, great. So uh for this episode, we are celebrating Bridget. She deserves to be celebrated. She's had a crazy stressful last couple months with kids and jobs and all the daunting. And uh so she deserves to be celebrated. She's got a great week coming up, weekend coming up. We record on Friday, her birthday's Sunday, so it works out perfectly. Yeah. And so two things that you like are bubbles and this food that I'm gonna pair with these bubbles.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:16

And two things you don't like are surprises, which what we're gonna have as a surprise, and history lesson. So let me grab this.

SPEAKER_02 2:22

This sounds great. So Nick is combining all the things I love and hey, thanks, buddy. I'm in my celebratory black today. I did consider changing. Bubbles and popcorn! Okay.

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So we have this is actually Sarah's contribution to the podcast. Sarah! Rose-flavored boom chicka pop kettle corn. Is this new? Yes. What? She found and said, Oh my god, you need to try this on the podcast. Bridget needs to be aware of it.

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This is amazing.

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So this is 100% Sarah.

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Okay, Sarah, good job. Sorry about this annoying bag noise.

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And then we have Girard Bertrand, Cremante le Mieux, Brute Rose, Cuvée, Thomas Jefferson.

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Oh my god, this popcorn is pink, you guys!

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And this is where the history lesson comes in. Oh, good. So this is Cremant des Mueux, which is an area in southern France that makes not champagne, but makes it in woo! Southern in champagne method.

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Nick's a disaster.

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Uh getting to that story in a bit.

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Uh and spoiled it.

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Cremant desu is uh not champagne, but mainly the method. It's cheaper, it's delicious. And Bridget, did you know there's gonna be some American history on this podcast? Oh, great. I know you love it. Um so this couvet is a tribute from Girard Bertrand, who you you met virtually. Yes, I did. He's more interested with being fashionable and an influencer than making wine at an affordable price point. That's my man. To Thomas Jefferson. It's a tribute from Girard Bertrand to Thomas Jefferson, the most French of American presidents. He was Lemieux's greatest admirer, and he discreetly cultivated his love for France and for Lemieux's sparkling wine. In fact, wine from Lemieux was the only sparkling wine to be found in his personal wine cellar. So, history lesson. Thomas Jefferson, our greatest wine loving president, preferred Cremante Lemieux to champagne.

SPEAKER_02 4:10

Okay. Cheers. Cheers. Happy birthday. I was still amazed by this pink popcorn. Oh, that's delish. The champagne, not champagne. It's all delicious. I mean, my f my taste buds are a bit off with the boogers that are in my nose. But yeah, man. Popcorn, this is a great pairing. Good job, Sarah. Wow, thanks. This is great.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

Yeah, this mine's great too. Thomas Jefferson, this one's actually fairly priced. It's 20 bucks.

SPEAKER_02 4:41

Oh, what a great. Okay, right here, everybody, gift for all your friends. When you get to be like my age, you're like, ah, what about like I want to celebrate my friends, but none of us need like crap.

SPEAKER_01 4:51

Although Yeah, please stop buying crap.

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Although what people think is crazy.

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I got you some crap.

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Someone, thank you. What people see think is crap, like, oh, I just need another candle. I'm like, you can always get me a candle. I love candles. We burn them all the time. Well, candles not crap, candles are consumable.

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You see something you can consume, right?

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Yeah, it's but people Shannon and I have had this discussion. She's like, I don't know.

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Popcorn's really good.

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Another candle. I'm like, I do. I burn them every day.

SPEAKER_01 5:13

Shannon, love you. Happy birthday. You're wrong. Everybody needs more candles.

SPEAKER_02 5:17

But my point is, this is a great gift for people. This is a food and it looks beautiful. It's like pink and bubbly and happy, and I'm I'm thrilled with this. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 5:25

Gerard Bertrand makes some incredible wines. I want to be very clear on my feelings on this. You guys don't care. But uh he makes some incredible wines. He does some incredible things to support. So the south of France is very, very rustic, like in ways that we would think of West Virginia or Kentucky coal country. It's very, very rustic. Towns are just separated from the world, time has passed by. And um, he's done what they've always had is like bread and wine and cured meats. And he's so it's our favorite place. Yeah, and he's like this really kind of rock star wine producer that has gone to these towns and said, I'm gonna pay you above what the free market would pay you for your grapes. Because they have some grape varietals that they've planted that are a hundred years old and are economically unviable if you pay a quote unquote market rate. He pays them way above that, so that's a living wage instead of a minimum wage, effectively. And makes these incredible wines from them that are just like, I really like this. This is really unique, I appreciate the history, but it's also like $35 instead of $20. Okay. So it's it's tough, but he this um Cuvée Thomas Jefferson sparkling rose is top notch, everybody. Top notch. And he does cool stuff. It it's just annoying that Okay, Nick. He he's very into marketing. Good job, man. He's a marketer. Um, sounds right off my alley. Like, I don't know, man. Maybe do a little less marketing. He's marketing people. He shipped us, so we did a we did a virtual wine tasting with him.

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Yes, we did.

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Uh, where he shipped us literally a retail value of $800 worth of wine.

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So much. We're like, what all of these bottles we're doing for this tasting, the two of us? We like invited people, we're like, someone, anyone, come taste this with us.

SPEAKER_01 7:09

I I was it was great. It was really cool. Yep, but excessive. But also, I was kind of like, mmm, man, I don't know. It was pretty funny.

SPEAKER_02 7:17

Oh, okay. So how's how how excited are you for your birthday? I'm excited for you, I've got to be honest, I'm not actually not actually all that excited for my birthday. My actual.

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Because it's gonna be 90 degrees.

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Because it's gonna be 90, and I'm not here for that anymore. Um, but I'm super excited about tonight, uh Friday as we record. So um I don't do well with a lot of pressure, Tyler. I don't do well with a change in plans, as you all know. And my sister was supposed to fly in, but thanks to COVID being a thing again, um, she's not coming in. So it shifted plans a little bit, which made me really sad. Um, well, because mostly I like to see her, and we won't see her now for quite a while. And but Tyler came through clutch with an awesome experience because we're like, oh, what do you want for your birthday? I'm like, I don't need anything, you know, but I would like experiences. I would like things, like places to go. Sorry, not things, candles. Um, but I would like, you know, tickets to something, whatever. So he found this exhibit down in Chicago. It's a Banksy art exhibit. And if you guys know me at all, I don't know if we've talked about it, but I love street art. So I love public art. I love graffiti as an art form. Um, yeah, so Banksy's one the OG, in my opinion. Oh, for sure. And uh, so there's an exhibit down in Chicago.

SPEAKER_01 8:29

I mean, I don't know if you've been to uh Pompeii, but there's some street art preserved in Pompeii. I have not been there either, but it's all very sexual. Banksy is elevated to form.

SPEAKER_02 8:39

Yes, we'll say Banksy is the elevated. You know, I I watched his documentary early on, I guess, when I was like, The documentary is really cool. Yeah, and that's what made me really get into it. So um there's a Banksy exhibit. I'm super pumped. I also really love a reason to like put on real clothes, makeup, and jewelry and like feel like a human being and get out of um the small town and just kind of go, you know. So go into the city, which I'm super pumped about. We have dinner reservations at a delicious dumpling place, which like you know is up Tyler and I'm alley. And um, yeah, so we're super pumped. That's tonight. And I am like giddy about the Banksy exhibit. I can't even tell you how excited I am. So yeah, then then honestly, plans after that really just go downhill. So I've gotta take my kid to a birthday party on my birthday. I've got which he'll be thrilled about it.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

Is it Shannon's birthday? How dare you, Shannon?

SPEAKER_02 9:25

You know, I usually Shannon and I always like sneak away at some point and get a pedicure, you know. But so like that stuff's a treat these days.

SPEAKER_01 9:31

Have you considered doing the fish pedicure?

SPEAKER_02 9:33

Do you know what I'm talking about? I will never. I that is disgusting.

SPEAKER_01 9:36

I'm really interested in that.

SPEAKER_02 9:37

Things that like tickle me where you're like, I'm not, is something touching you?

SPEAKER_01 9:40

I don't like being tickled either, but I think the fish thing would be interesting.

SPEAKER_02 9:43

Oh, because it's so light of a tickle that I just feel like you're constantly trying to like, what's tickling my foot? Like, and bat it away. That's my opinion.

SPEAKER_01 9:50

I'm not into people touching my feet. My feet are terrible. But I and I'm also not into alternative medicine, but there's some things where I'm like, I don't know if the fish could eat all the bacteria away. That sounds cool. Oh, I just I have nothing good to say about this. Um Tyler, next birthday.

SPEAKER_02 10:05

No fish pedicures, please.

SPEAKER_01 10:07

Look a fish pedicure.

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Maybe I'll just do a pedicure and a manicure and call it a day. And Michael, Tyler and Michael. Tyler and Michael, fish pedicures for everyone. Um, yeah, on Moose Boosh, you should quick listen. I talk about a couple of my favorite birthday parties and a few little birthday traditions, which is funny. Had I had, you know, way more time, I would have gone into vast detail about that Vegas one. Just kidding, I would not have. Um, but that was fun. I love birthdays. We make them a big deal. And birthdays shouldn't be a big deal. I don't know. They're lots of fun. And I had another exciting non-birthday related thing happen this week. Should I talk about it now or do you need to interrupt me for something? No, you talk about it. Okay. This was super fun and super nerdy. I think I've talked about like, uh, how do you make mom friends anymore? Like, oh, I've got this whole new phase of my life. Like, you know, do I have to like make all new friends now with kids in Elliot's class? Or what do I do? So I was picking Elliot up from cross country. Now, cross country is kindergarten to second grade. Anyone can do it. It's a school-wide, very casual thing. Um, and I was standing near another um mom who had a younger kid. So I had Lucy and she had a kid who was also not in cross country. They were running near each other, so we were near each other. And um she kind of walks up to me and I never know, like, oh my God, do you know Shannon? Do you think I'm Shannon?

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Happens.

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Did I meet you somewhere? And I don't know you. So I was very polite, like, hi, like you look kind of familiar. I don't know, we're gonna play this game. And then she goes, I really love your podcast. So I was like, oh, thanks. But still, that did not clarify if I knew her or met her previously. And um, it turns out I hadn't. And I just wanted to give a major shout out to Beth. Thanks for listening. And also thanks for saying hi to me. Um, she's like, I have just like seen you a lot the last few days because we also have kids in soccer. And so we pretty much see each other every day now. And thanks for saying hi. That was so fun, and I'm happy to see you every day now.

SPEAKER_01 11:54

You're one of our well, last week it was like 121 listeners.

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Thank you very much. Yeah, so anyway, it was awesome. Thanks for saying hi, Beth. Shout out.

SPEAKER_01 12:02

Um, I'm just so happy it's your birthday. I think thanks, man. I think I love birthdays. I love the celebrating the year around the sun. I know that's like cliche and all the things I hate. Um, but I mean, I have a party for myself, each one of my birthdays. You do, yes. And it's just like a great excuse to, I don't know, like, does this sound terrible? But celebrate life. There's so much that honestly sucks about life and is depressing, especially now. Like, we can just really get sucked into it. Yeah. But I think at some point you should celebrate being happy with yourself, being happy that you're alive, and being happy that you've made it. Yeah, and I think that you've surrounded the yourself with the people you've surrounded yourself with. Like, I'm very proud of my friend group. I'm very proud of um the people. Uh my friend Brian, you know, they're they're big on Framily. Uh Framily. Which is, you know, friends that are like family. I'm very proud of that too. So it's just a great opportunity to get your family together. Family. You can't, you know, Christmas is like, yeah, go see your Did you know Thanksgiving's the biggest drinking holiday of the year? Because Thanksgiving more than any other holiday is the holiday, you have to be with your real family. And you probably, I mean, the odds are you hate one of the people that has to go to your Thanksgiving because it has to be all your so like you probably hate one of those people, not like, oh well, no, like you probably literally hate, and alcohol is the way to deal with that. Obviously, we are condoning that. I I mean, there's a lot of other ways. It's also the biggest domestic call, you know, holidays. Is it really? Yeah, so I mean, those are kind of intertwined. But uh, so like I feel like your birthday is a great chance to celebrate the people that you've chosen to surround yourself with. And it's a nice way of putting it. So I just really like having my friends and you know, my family. My family. And doing my thing, which is some brats and some ridiculous bottles of wine that I'm just like, I don't know. I've collected this and it's kind of And I gotta drink it today.

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You know what I like to do? Not make the plan. Which no one believes, like still to this day. Family that is listening, family that is listening. On my birthday, I just want to not have to be the one to make the decision.

SPEAKER_01 14:05

Well, good job, Tyler.

SPEAKER_02 14:06

You took this out of her hands. I think Tyler has listened and gotten it, which is why our marriage works. But yeah, they're like, well, I don't really believe that. Because what if we choose what you don't want to do? I'm like, just choose something that I don't have to choose. So, you know, I like to not make the plan, isn't that funny?

SPEAKER_01 14:22

It is very funny. Yeah. I think your news story is probably funny too.

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You know, it's not birthday related, but I saw it and knew I had to share it.

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Popcorn's really good.

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I know. Sorry about all the nothing in the microphone. Um, so had to share. Oh, it's not funny. A badass woman. It's I read it.

SPEAKER_01 14:37

It's cool, but it's a long Facebook link, so I didn't even like everything.

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No, I'm sorry. I didn't know. Yeah. And now it, you know, I saw this like the day after we recorded our last episode. I was like, I don't care, we need to talk about this. So, excuse me. There, um, a Kenyan engineer and entrepreneur, she solved two huge crises happening in her country. So, um, excuse me, in her city, obviously her country as well, but in Nairobi, there's more plastic waste than it knows what to do with.

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So I believe that.

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How much do you say? How much is it? 500 metric tons each day. Holy crap.

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Um they're not just imperial tons, they're metric tons.

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Metric. Um, it's not all recyclable, nor is it all being recycled. So she took a solution and she takes this plastic, uh, plastic waste from factories, heats it up, mixes it with sand, and compresses it into bricks, basically. And these bricks are five anywhere from five to seven times stronger than concrete. And then her company, which I looked up how to pronounce it, Genj. Oh, that's what you were practicing. I was listening before you came in. Are you having a seizure or what's happening? Um Did you get into DD? Genj Makers uh has transformed more than 20 tons of waste into bricks since 2017. So she's also in the process of adding more workers, so getting employees to make more bricks, and then they use these obviously uh to build homes and buildings in her community.

SPEAKER_01 15:59

I think it's so cool because and I think this is what we should be doing in America. I was talking with a mutual friend of ours uh who might be closer related to you than me. And my husband? No, no, no, no. He's does housing things for people that need housing, and um homelessness is such an issue. And this is one of these like mind-blowing things. The way to stop homelessness is to give homeless people people who are experiencing homelessness. I'm sorry, houses. So things like tiny houses, houses made with these bricks. Like, uh, it doesn't have to be a mansion, just like give them four walls. I love these elegant solutions that like kill two birds with one stone, and you get rid of the plastic waste. It's actually three birds. You make some lady entrepreneur a bunch of money. Hopefully, I she has a patent that she gets royalties on this and she didn't sell some scumbag. But like you make someone that deserves it and had some ingenuity, some money, and you get these people that need a place to live into a place that you could build affordably. And uh tell call your city code enforcement person, tell them to like stop with the tiny house, anti-tiny house laws.

SPEAKER_02 17:08

Yes, and like these are developing countries doing this, and we are the most developed country not doing this.

SPEAKER_01 17:15

I really're not watching on YouTube, you didn't see the air quotes.

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Could you not tell in my voice? Most developed. Anyway, that's that.

SPEAKER_01 17:23

So we always struggle um with the segment in the last like I shouldn't say always, like the last two months have been a little brutal with like how negative we want to make you guys happy, we want to have fun. You know, it's like when you go to, you know, the premise of the podcast is what do you talk about? Have you talked about dinner? And but like also it's like one of these things where you go to dinner with someone and you'll be like, Bridget, we're not going to talk about the stupid Geneva Shore report.

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We're not talking about how mad you are at daycare. We're not talking about any of that tonight.

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We're talking about happy things.

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What do you think we talk about the whole time?

SPEAKER_01 17:56

So uh it's been a struggle, but I found this really good so Vince Betrano. Oh yeah, I'm a man lovely man, uh, news anchor on today's TMJ4. Short man. Uh short man, lovely man. Uh works great with Susan Kim because they're both short and they don't have to do any weird height staging things. He shared this story. Um he also is in Lawn Wars with uh Lance uh Allen. Uh he's way into his lawn, which is a dad I relate to. Oh my gosh. He's a father of twins. Uh so you should relate to him. Yeah, sure. Uh-huh. Um twins.

SPEAKER_02 18:31

I'm I'm a channel 12 news watcher. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 18:33

So this is channel four, NBC in Milwaukee. He shared this story about that's literally titled People Flocking to a New Bird Boutique in Grend in Greendale, uh, which is a suburb of Milwaukee. And COVID has just destroyed so many businesses, but this was a business that um the owner's name is Annie uh Shimmel. Shimmel? Shimmel? Shimiel? I don't know. Shmiel? One of those things.

SPEAKER_02 18:58

Shimmel, I would say Shimmel. And I bet that's Anne.

SPEAKER_01 19:02

A-N-N-E? Oh yeah, my I didn't read my own handwritten right there. Anne, yeah. And Schmeel. Um Ann Schmiel. It's called the Nest, which is a great name. Yep. But she said it that COVID was literally the perfect time to launch this because people were looking for outdoor hobbies, things to do. Yes. So all these people that uh wanted to do bird watching, start having bird feeders, feed the birds. I have a bird feeder now. Like it was really cool to see this lady that was like, I mean, I know it sucks for people, but it's really good for me. You know what it's called?

SPEAKER_02 19:32

Birding.

SPEAKER_01 19:32

Birding.

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It's just called birding.

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And it's cool because they're also doing a lot of um, you know, we love our library. Yeah. Uh they do a lot of outreach stuff, like programs at their library and with the Milwaukee County people to like educate people about this and say, like, hey, if you want to get outside, but you don't want to do frisbee golf or something dumb like that, you know, maybe try birding. It's a really accessible hobby. Yeah, birding and frisbee golf. Well, I don't know. Like, I feel like there's frisbee golf is like a great way to get outside and still be fat.

SPEAKER_02 20:04

Um I would never call myself a birder nor care about different types of birds, but someone gave us a bird feeder, we hung it up and we are obsessed with it. Now we're like, see, we said we had a cardinal at the bird feeder yesterday.

SPEAKER_01 20:17

My pa my parents' house has a lot of birds outside because we're the wheel of and so we had binoculars in a bird ID book, and you just sit on the porch and be like, oh my god, did you see that? I think that's a thrush. I don't see that. No, no, no. I think it's a swallow.

SPEAKER_02 20:29

We get really excited when we see the cardinal, because if you heard that like the legend, if that there's a card uh a cardinal coming near your house is like a reminder of someone in heaven, like coming to send you a yeah, and I'm I'm who knows, that's just like a story in my family. Um Cardinal Richelieu. Anytime a cardinal No. Anytime this card there's a cardinal that like definitely is in our neighborhood. Maybe there's ten. I just like to think it's the same one. And yeah, so I guess I'm a birder now, guys.

SPEAKER_01 20:54

So uh this would normally be the time of the podcast that I make a really terrible dad joke. And there's a lot of like bird dad jokes I could have had in mind. Um, but someone that I think's very funny, uh Norm McDonald died this week. He's uh a comic. He was on Saturday Night Live, he did a weekend update. And uh uh it was very sad.

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I uh childhood.

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He's been uh yeah, 100%. And like I honestly almost remember his appearances on Conan and Letterman more than uh I remember he was one of the like really good um I mean obviously the Burt Reynolds stuff on S S N L the weekend update stuff, um, but he was just a very funny comic and kind of very dry um comics comic type of thing. Played some of the like we'd call them memes now, but like definitely was into the memes before the memes. And uh memes. I just want to share a joke that he made uh as a little tribute to him because I found him so funny. So uh this might not be funny. I'm gonna link to the actual video in the show notes. You guys should watch it. It's worth the I think it's seven minutes, it's worth it. Uh, but Courtney Thornsmith of Mel. Place was doing an interview on Conan as the second guest. He was the first guest. This is when Conan was on NBC. And um he he just decided I'm gonna stay around and mess with her. And Conan's like, please, God, stop. Please, please, God. Uh, and Norm's just kind of like giving her a lot of crap about everything in the way that like he could just be very dry and very acerbic. And uh finally they get to like promoting Melrose Play's finale, and she's in this new movie, and it's with Carrot Top. And oh my god, did Norm McDonald have a field day with Carrot Top? And and Conan's like, can we get the this girl's here trying to promote her movie? Can we like get to this? And so they talked about the movie for about three minutes, which is a forever on a late night segment, without ever naming it. And so Conan's like doing the wrap-up, and he's and he's and um he finally goes, All right, so what's the movie gonna be called? And Norm goes, I know box office poison. And it keeps going from there because Courtney Thornsmith's like, oh no, she he's right. This movie, by the way, got a 13% of Rotten Tomatoes. It was the last major movie she did, and she's admitted it was terrible. Um 13%? So finally, Coden is able to get her to say the name of the movie, and it's called Chairman of the Board, and then he like glares at Norm MacDonald and goes, do something with that freak! And Norm MacDonald just like has this shit-eating grin on his face and goes, Well, I bet the board is spelled B-O-R-E-D. That is a dad joke. Watch the clip, I have it linked. Uh, R-I P Norm MacDonald, you brought a lot of laughs to my life. Thank you very much. We're taking a quick break.

SPEAKER_02 23:59

We're back. Nick's hiding things. I'm nervous.

SPEAKER_01 24:02

I have two product recommendations off the outline, so I'm gonna go first. My first product recommendation is thrift stores and the crazy stuff you can find. Did you go thrift shopping? I found this book called Thrift Store Masterpieces, which is a book of random crap people have found. Happy birthday! Wait, wait, wait. Bridget, it is a coffee book of crap people have found. This is the most horrifying cover.

SPEAKER_02 24:26

It says a terribly funny coffee table book. It is for you. I recommend this book. I'm sorry, the first pages I opened are just plain white.

SPEAKER_01 24:35

It's self-printed on Amazon. It's like $8. Oh my god. And it's all the random horrible crap.

SPEAKER_02 24:42

Nick, you and I could have made this book. And maybe made it better. Okay, this is great. It will be on my coffee table. This is pretty creative, man. I'm really proud of you. I thought you went to a thrift store though, but I actually bought it.

SPEAKER_01 24:56

Uh I originally went to uh a secondhand bookshop.

SPEAKER_02 25:00

Come on.

SPEAKER_01 25:01

Wow. Did you not, Bridget? I went to secondhand bookshop looking for books about thrift stores. Because I thought for sure, like, could you imagine like if someone did a real coffee book? Like I should I write a book? I honestly I was gonna tell you, like, I know you have a lot of projects going on, but like But write a book, damn it. Like a beautiful coffee book of like thrift store finds.

SPEAKER_02 25:20

I mean, I have forever wanted to start a blog about it, but whatever. That's for a different maybe that's for a different job.

SPEAKER_01 25:27

Thrift store masterpieces, subtitled Try to Look Away. It's by I mean The guy didn't even put his name on it. Yeah, would you? I mean I am definitely in the USA, Moni, Illinois. It was printed on 15 September 2021. So literally you just shipped it off to me.

SPEAKER_02 25:43

He literally just printed it. Oh my god. This is hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 25:48

It's very funny. He literally printed this two days. It's like eight dollars. And it's terrible because this is okay.

SPEAKER_02 25:57

I hope you guys visit my house someday, not in a creepy way, and find this book on my coffee table. Because I have this weird art in my bathroom that people think is weird, and it's like a whole bunch of sketched butt cheeks. And I'm like, yeah, I like art to be something you talk about. Same with coffee table books. This is clearly a conversation starter. Okay, Nick.

SPEAKER_01 26:18

Happy birthday. That's product recommendation one. What's your product recommendation?

SPEAKER_02 26:21

This is amazing. I hope someone buys it through our link. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 26:25

Um PS, if you buy through our Amazon link on an Amazon printed book, we're gonna make like at least 60 cents. At least five cents.

SPEAKER_02 26:35

Um, okay, my product is an Instagram influencer, and I'm gonna call it a product because um she recommends products. And I am, if you know me, as you should, because Nick just referenced my love for thrift stores, I'm rather thrifty. So I also am getting older. So I'm constantly looking at like my skincare routine and what I should be doing for fine lines and wrinkles, et cetera, et cetera. Because that's something apparently we have to do in our 30s now. So there is a person called the blushing blogger. I only follow her on Instagram. I'm sure she has a lovely blog. Um, but she comes up with dupes. So, like, hey, this $75 Estee Lauder thing, here is one for $14 that she tests all of. And like, I don't know. I've bought one of the recommendations as I recently started following her, and it takes a while for skincare to like, you know, to figure out if it's being working. So I can't really report back yet, except I'm happy to spend $14 to test it out instead of $75.

SPEAKER_01 27:27

I mean, I recently said you look vibrant and joyous. Oh, thank you.

SPEAKER_02 27:30

Yes, he did say that the other day, which was really lovely. Um, I did not feel that way. So appreciate that. But the blushing blogger, we'll put a link to our Instagram page. She's got tons of product recommendations for if you're looking to try something that's maybe a little more budget friendly. Um, if you're like me. So here she is. Okay. Nick ran away again, so that's scary. Oh, Nick, what's this next product recommendation? We can't just have the bubbles, huh?

SPEAKER_01 27:57

I told you to eat carbs and be prepared. I was like, My second um product recommendation, Oktoberfest beer! It's the season. Can you imagine what more fitting time for Bridget to be born than Oktoberfest season? So this first one is from Eagle Park Brewing Company. They're in Milwaukee and uh Muskego. Uh this is called MC Hammerschlagin.

SPEAKER_02 28:20

Uh yeah, so it's also got a witty name, which I love.

SPEAKER_01 28:23

So I thought you would like this. So here's the thing. So I put together, you know, some I just hit my hat on the microphone. Uh I was 10 minutes late to record today. Oh, this one smells like a beer. Like a okay, go on. Sorry, why were you late? And uh it was because it's putting together an October. This isn't good. It's it's not good.

SPEAKER_02 28:45

It's not my favorite Octoberfest.

SPEAKER_01 28:47

No, it's just not good. It's fine. Because you smelled it. No, I've had this, right? Yep. So um, so I was putting together an Octoberfest beer care package. This is from so Eagle Park's like really cool. They do a lot of great beers, really known for their hoppy bears. I was so excited for this beer, cool name, yeah. All the things, all the stuff. So I haven't had one yet. Have it chilled down for Bridget. Uh my Beachwood rep, who sells this to me, uh, came in. I'm like, hey, have you had this yet? He's like, no. I'm like, oh, we should try it.

SPEAKER_00 29:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:18

And it's not good. I I mean it's very light and very like it's if you like lager beers, you'll like it. But if you're like looking for a full-body Oktoberfest experience, it's not good.

SPEAKER_02 29:29

It's not a full it's not bad. I would drink it, but it's not what I'm looking for.

SPEAKER_01 29:33

It's not flawed. So um okay, Nick. So it was like shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit. Uh, I had this whole shtick where I was gonna have two product recommendations and go from like hey Bridget, you know like how I had to give you that history lesson on the wine? Uh, but I'm actually gonna give you the wine that I know you love bubbles, and then I'm gonna like give you a little Oktoberfest, and just like you can coast into your Chicago thing. It's gonna be great. I'm like, but I'm gonna have this like Oktoberfest I know you're not gonna like this. This is terrible. Pan. So it's like, ah, Nick. Uh I start having to like break up the beer from the six-pack holders on the the um six-pack ring, the plastic ring. So I'm taking some off, put them into the box to make it all fit, because I had a number of things to bring over here, you know, this thrift store masterpieces book. And uh one of the beers just honest to god randomly falls off.

SPEAKER_02 30:24

Wait, was it the MC Hammerschwagen?

SPEAKER_01 30:26

Nope, it was a different beer. Oh. And it literally had like the tiniest pinprick of holes and exploded. Like if I was trying to, like, I don't know, shotgun this beer, it would have been the most like ridiculous. There's beer on the ceiling, there's beer all over Kate's stuff, there's beer all over my crotch, there's beer all over my hair. I smell like an Oktoberfest beer. Hey! O day Oktoberfest.

SPEAKER_02 30:53

Kate has a workstation near where the alcohol is in the store. Anyway, so this is the one we love.

SPEAKER_01 30:59

Um now we're gonna switch to third space, which is much better.

SPEAKER_02 31:02

Okay, have you ever had a can? I've had this happen. Like it falls out of your trunk, you know, long weekend, packed up the alcohol to go to the cabin, and it falls out and gets a pin prick and then spins down the driver. Oh yes, that's it. So it's just like spurting beer or soda or whatever everywhere.

SPEAKER_01 31:17

That could be a Banksy.

SPEAKER_02 31:18

Yes, it should be. I hope there's a gift shop. I was trying to Google, like, is can I buy merchandise of any sort? And I went on a dream.

SPEAKER_01 31:25

Here, I think I got a $20 bill. I'm gonna give it to you and buy me what you can with $20.

SPEAKER_02 31:30

I'm excited. Okay. Yeah, so this is one we know we love Third Space Octoberfest.

SPEAKER_01 31:33

So Third Space Oktoberfest. Check them out. They're great.

SPEAKER_02 31:36

Um Nick, I appreciate all of the effort you put into this.

SPEAKER_01 31:39

So I don't know if you're gonna appreciate this now, because now it's time for more history and trivia. Because it's time to party like it's 1985.

SPEAKER_02 31:49

Now you all know how old I am.

SPEAKER_01 31:55

Um next dancing still. All right, so um I had to do a little bit of research about things that are happening uh either in the year you're born or the day you're born, things like that. I'm not gonna know any of these. And it was it was really a momentous day in American history. Uh uh, Continental American history. Gallagher twins were both. I'm just gonna lay it out there. Like, this was not the best day in the world. Like on my birthday, Franz Ferdinand got shot and started World War I.

SPEAKER_02 32:23

Kind of a big deal. We didn't do a lot on September 19th.

SPEAKER_01 32:26

So, uh, but in 1778, the Continental Congress passed the first United States federal budget. That's right. I spent about 20 minutes trying to figure out how much money it was, and I couldn't find it. Must have been important. In 1796, George Washington issued his farewell address, which is very famous. Okay. Yeah. Um, and he famously warned against sectionalism and political parties and said, if we all get sectionalist and political party, here we are. Everything's gonna be up. And fast forward, George Washington, smart dude. Uh anyway. We all love New Zealand. And in 1893, they passed the Electoral Act, which allowed all women to vote in all elections.

SPEAKER_02 33:07

Hey! Yeah, New Zealand!

SPEAKER_01 33:09

I mean, always doing things better than everything. Um the first Glastonbury Festival was hosted on September 19, 1970.

SPEAKER_02 33:17

Glastonbury Festival.

SPEAKER_01 33:18

Do you know what Glastonbury is? No, you're an England person. Oh, it's like Woodstock and Summerfest combined in England.

SPEAKER_02 33:24

That is what I thought it is. So okay, great.

SPEAKER_01 33:26

With some comedy stuff. Actually, a lot of comedy stuff.

SPEAKER_02 33:29

Woodstock, okay, fair.

SPEAKER_01 33:30

Um, I thought this one applied to you. In 1982, the first emojis were posted by Scott Felman on Carnegie Mellon University's bulletin board system. Shut up. Yeah, first emojis, 1982.

SPEAKER_02 33:42

Like a piece of paper cut out? No, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 33:45

They like it's uh, you know, like oh, on the virtual bulletin board. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's crazy. And it was the uh colon-apostrophe for uh smiley face and bat. You know, it wasn't even just like they put the nose in, you know, us lazy millennials.

SPEAKER_02 33:58

I would never put the nose in.

SPEAKER_01 33:59

What a waste of time. But most importantly, I I mean, this maybe should be your like, I don't know, your 40th birthday party for you and Shannon. Uh in 1983, St. Kitts and Nevis had their independence from the United Kingdom. That should be. I mean, I think you're still part of the, but anyway, so go there.

SPEAKER_02 34:16

It should be our birthday. Oh, it's our birthday, it's your independence day. Happy birthday!

SPEAKER_01 34:21

I mean, maybe that would have worked better when you were younger, but no way, man. I looked at I looked at uh some other birthdays. Why? I I don't know. I mean, maybe you want to know who you share a birthday with. Oh, yes, yes, this. In 86, Antonius Pius was born. Oh, great. You know who Antonius Pius was? He was one of the five good emperors. Oh, no. Uh he was very peaceful. He had no wars.

SPEAKER_02 34:43

Thank you, Antonius.

SPEAKER_01 34:44

A lot of uh great economic development, technological development. Antonius Pius. Really He should be better known. Yeah, he should be. I mean, he's a great, great emperor. Uh great, thanks. He didn't screw up. Antonius, you know, in the early 100s. Uh I thought this was exciting. 1909, Ferdinand Porsche.

SPEAKER_02 35:00

Oh, like of Porsche? Yeah. Oh. Gotta get by a Porsche. When I turned 40, I got big plans, guys.

SPEAKER_01 35:07

Um, a lot of baseball players.

SPEAKER_02 35:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:09

I know we don't care about that. 1974, Jimmy Fallon.

SPEAKER_02 35:13

What? Yeah, Jimmy Fallon. Oh, Jimmy Fallon. Can we be friends? Does that mean we can be full of things?

SPEAKER_01 35:17

I think you should be friends. Are you listening, Jimmy Fallon? And then, you know, there's a lot of like meh. The one I thought you might be interested in, Raja Bao.

SPEAKER_02 35:25

Oh, no.

SPEAKER_01 35:26

No, okay.

SPEAKER_02 35:27

Jimmy Fallon's cooler.

SPEAKER_01 35:28

We already covered his talk like a pirate day. Uh but then I did a little bit of research into uh 1985 prices.

SPEAKER_02 35:35

Oh, good. This stuff interests me. I actually think this is faster.

SPEAKER_01 35:38

Guess the interest rate. I don't know. 10.75. No. So like people are like, oh, I can buy my house cheap. No. What anybody that's not rich is better off having 10.75% on your savings than your mortgage.

SPEAKER_02 35:54

I remember like, yeah, the interest on the savings account being a big thing. That's like what I remember when I got my first bank account. So you could have got 10.75%. I didn't open it when I was born.

SPEAKER_01 36:05

A house cost $90,000 to build. Come on. An already built only was $83,000.

SPEAKER_02 36:12

What? Like a middle class home? Yep. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:14

And that would be uh your average income was $22,000. So like Woo! Like, you know, four years, you could pay for the damn house. Shit. Ground beef cost $1.39 a pound. It's now like six dollars. And bacon was a dollar sixty-five, and that's like eight dollars.

SPEAKER_02 36:33

Ooh, this is really funny. What was gas? Did you find gas?

SPEAKER_01 36:36

Uh, I did. I mean, I'm sure it's I mean, I'm sure. But most importantly, especially for me as a diehard fan of this brand, New Coke was launched.

SPEAKER_00 36:45

What?

SPEAKER_01 36:45

New Coke. It was so terrible. You don't know about New Coke? No. So Coca-Cola decided they're gonna completely rebrand, do everything. Okay. There's a lot of conspiracy theories on this. There's some good documentaries. You should watch them. But they launched like New Coke and it bombed. They spent like a billion dollars and had to go back to old Coke and like.

SPEAKER_02 37:01

Like three was just like a new recipe?

SPEAKER_01 37:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 37:03

Okay, I remember. Do you remember Clear Pepsi?

SPEAKER_01 37:05

Yes, it was basically the same thing.

SPEAKER_02 37:07

Yes, I loved Clear Pepsi though.

SPEAKER_01 37:09

The Coke Museum and like thing in Atlanta is like off the heasy, cool. I highly recommend it. Uh and they have this whole like thing of like, yeah, we really effed this one up. Because it is the study. It is the case study in like marketing classes of like, know your product, know your customer, Coca-Cola, like yes.

SPEAKER_02 37:30

Coca-Cola was diehard fans. Um, also, in case anyone else is curious, the average price for gasoline in 1985 was a dollar twelve cents in w in the Midwest.

SPEAKER_01 37:40

I mean, I paid, I remember paying like 79 cents a gallon in high school.

SPEAKER_02 37:44

Yeah, there was some some sort. So that was an average price for the Midwestern region.

SPEAKER_01 37:48

It's crazy. Gas up and down. I think I've paid 79 cents at the low and like five something at the high.

SPEAKER_02 37:54

I remember specifically the gas price change at 9-11 and like when people were lining up and then it never went back. I mean, really, that's like the turning point, right?

SPEAKER_01 38:03

Wasn't it great though? No, it was in high school, which was after 9-11. I was in high school for 9-11. No, it hit like 79 cents in high school because I could drive for a week on five bucks, which is what I made an hour. So it was really like if I worked an hour, I could drive for a week.

SPEAKER_02 38:17

That's hysterical. I didn't, I don't remember those like equations in my head, which makes sense. You're a stats guy.

SPEAKER_01 38:25

I just I love the stats.

SPEAKER_02 38:26

Oh, that was good, man. I'm really excited. Thank you. To celebrate, since I couldn't, I could have, but I didn't bring a cake. I'm gonna talk about a dessert for my favorite food because Oh, Jesus! Nick, was that planned?

SPEAKER_01 38:44

That was planned. I was waiting until you were gonna say something about like I didn't plan anything. I just opened a pee popper. If you're watching on YouTube, you saw the I'm doing this. Okay. There's confetti in my beer.

SPEAKER_02 38:57

Well, oh, I thought it missed mine. I was gonna be really happy about that. Still gonna drink it.

SPEAKER_01 39:03

Okay, well, that was great.

SPEAKER_02 39:07

It was um okay. Well, I'm just gonna shake off the beer off my hand here. We're doing great. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 39:14

I just got an activity out of this. I'm gonna make Simona pick everyone up off the floor.

SPEAKER_02 39:18

Oh, I'll brush them on the floor for you. 52 card pickup. Um, if you're an avid longtime listener, you know that Nick and I have tried every flavor Kit Kat that does exist. Not really, because there's like thousands of them, I feel like. But I can't- We've tried to try. We've tried to try them. The the box that we ordered from China or whatever was pretty bad. Japan.

unknown 39:37

Japan.

SPEAKER_02 39:37

But I did just see um Kit Kat has a gingerbread cookie one. Did you see that?

SPEAKER_01 39:42

Can I just say Bridget's very particular about her laptop because very carefully there was a bunch of confetti about it, and she's like very you jerk. You don't have to call me out. To say she caressed the confetti off of her laptop. There's like a weird dust layer, okay? I just brought it off. I think we talked about it uh where you had some issues with the laptop. Oh, yes.

SPEAKER_02 40:09

And okay, leave me alone. I like my laptop not to have confetti on it, everybody.

SPEAKER_01 40:15

Very emotionally attached. Okay. It's very kind of you how you treated your laptop.

SPEAKER_02 40:19

I'm very emotionally attached to my laptop. It has my whole life on it. Okay, so Kit Kat has a gingerbread cookie situation coming out. From Japan. I doubt it was good. Gotta buy the American American version full of sugar. Um, anyway, but what I'm telling you about is I did not realize Oreos is like playing the same game as Kit Kat. They are. Okay. We just always buy double stuff Oreos.

SPEAKER_01 40:42

But I recently saw that Well then the key is untwist them and make quadruple stuff. Duh.

SPEAKER_02 40:47

Yeah, yeah. Duh. Um, but there was I recently saw that there was a Pokemon release of Oreos. What? What what?

SPEAKER_01 40:55

You gotta catch those all.

SPEAKER_02 40:57

My kid and husband love Pokemon. Um and yeah, I blew right past that. Um, so I was like, I gotta get a bag of these Pokemon Oreos for him. So went to go grab one at the store. Which him? Just the he in my household. I got him for Elliot, and he was very excited. Um, but as I was grabbing the Pokemon ones, I was like, I just like looked up. You know, I literally normally just like here, double stuff Oreos, whatever. There's like 30 different Oreo flavors.

SPEAKER_01 41:24

The ones that are uh at least yellow, they're like lemon, they're gross. Don't get those. Yeah, because those are not chocolate. It's gotta be the chocolate with the creme.

SPEAKER_02 41:32

I almost bought like four ones. There's you had the fun fetti ones. Oh, yes, yes. Shannon actually bought some like for maybe last year's it's a birthday cake, aren't they? Yes.

SPEAKER_01 41:42

Yes. Yeah. Okay, so next special episode. No, the double stuff.

SPEAKER_02 41:47

Oh, okay, duh.

SPEAKER_01 41:48

I mean, they're good, but like, why are we messing with them?

SPEAKER_02 41:50

Well, why? Okay, so right here. So peanut butter, I discovered, which like I love peanut butter.

SPEAKER_01 41:55

I'm sure Sarah will like that one, but that's gross.

SPEAKER_02 41:57

S'mores, but this one, and then chocolate hazelnut, which is okay, Nutella Oreos. But my friend Aaron introduced. You do this mint one. Yeah, wow. Actually, those are probably pretty good, but mint is just not my favorite.

SPEAKER_01 42:10

You know what you could do with that? What? Uh you can make an uh a milkshake, like a creme de menth milkshake with this.

SPEAKER_02 42:16

Grasshopper?

SPEAKER_01 42:17

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:17

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:18

Oh, that.

SPEAKER_02 42:19

So I almost found myself.

SPEAKER_01 42:21

I gotta go buy some.

unknown 42:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:22

So, ooh, carrot cake. But Aaron Murphy introduced me to these like 4th of July ones, and they have red, white, and probably blue frosting in the middle, and then they have pop rocks in the frosting.

SPEAKER_01 42:34

I mean, if it's 4th of July, what it would be red, white, and green.

SPEAKER_02 42:36

But I felt like it was only red and white. Anyway, they have pop rocks in the frosting. Oh, that's right. And so she bought a, we had a girls' weekend, she bought brought some Oreos, and she's like, wait, I want to save the rest of these so you can bring them home to Elliot. And yeah, it was very cute. So, anyway, those are amazing. So, we're gonna do an Oreo taste off. Look for it.

SPEAKER_01 42:52

Could we just say that Elliot brings people together? Oh, thanks, Ellie Belly.

SPEAKER_02 42:56

Someone called their kid Elle Bell this morning as I was dropping Elliot off and it was not my kid. And I'm like, So I'm like, Eliza? It was a girl. I don't know. Alicia. Any E name. Anyway, that's my uh food of the week for you guys. I made these like really yummy chicken tacos. Sounds like something I would like.

SPEAKER_01 43:14

Uh that you would like. I think there's a little leftover if you need something. If I need some lunch after this, but like I was a uh it was so good. Um, I just like diced up some chicken breast and then threw them into a little bit of butter because everything good starts with butter.

SPEAKER_02 43:27

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 43:28

Uh ideally it would have been I save bacon grease.

SPEAKER_02 43:30

Yeah, people do that.

SPEAKER_01 43:32

First of all, because I don't want to put it down the drain, but second of all, because you know, frying stuff in bacon grease is good. I know, I should do it, but I don't. Duck fat is actually the one you really need to save. But anyway, that's a different story. Uh so you know, fry it up in a little bit of that with a little like, you know, special Southwest seasoning from Nick. Add some onions, some bell pepper, just dice it up, dump in a can of diced tomatoes. If you like a little spice, you could do like the uh rotel, you know, with With g chilies? Yeah, with the green chilies. But like literally took 20 minutes. Because the great thing is like you can just dice the vegetables as your Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:08

As your chicken's cooking.

SPEAKER_01 44:10

And uh, oh my god, it was so good. You could do it on rice, you could do it on a tortilla, you could do it as a quesadilla filling, a burrito. Burrito. Can we just agree that tacos should are the easiest thing to make and should be eaten? I was just like, oh, this is so good. I think that's true. So good. I was just very happy with that. I just want to say chicken tacos. Um It's a very Bridget dish, thanks. Yeah, no, it was. I and it's kind of I thought of you, I was like, oh damn, I should have called Bridget and some. Damn. Get the kids down and come and get a chicken taco.

SPEAKER_02 44:36

Should have fed Bridget dinner, because I know she's eating Pizza Hut.

SPEAKER_01 44:39

But uh, you know, I've I've so I was a Carnitas guy for the longest time. I still really like Carnitas. But my favorite tacos now really are um actually chicken thighs. You take the chicken thighs and season them and like grill them over ridiculously high heat to get like burnt and crispy and then dice those up with like the guacamole and everything. Oh, so good. Like chicken street tacos.

SPEAKER_02 45:02

I would like to. I've had your chicken thigh recipes, I'm sure. Okay, do you guys cook with chicken thighs? I don't know. Sarah and I are on the same page about chicken thighs. Anyway, time for Kid Kodak! Nick, I'm gonna let you go first because I stole his.

SPEAKER_01 45:16

Yeah, what the hell, Bridget? I stole yourself. To be fair, so so some people have been so the local school district person uh was like very confused while I was there with my kids. Obviously, only two, not even two, and he's like, Simona playing soccer. So we went to soccer. So we have a lot of friends that are in the soccer leagues. Yeah, and it's a beautiful night. Yeah, it was a beautiful night. We like being outside, we like being at the park, we like killing an hour before bedtime, and we really like our friends, and we like to like see their kids play sports, and like our friends' kids are a big part of our life. We go see my nephew play, my nieces play, like we just go and watch people's sports. Why not? So it's a lot of fun for us. And uh Elliot's playing soccer, and we last year he was not good.

SPEAKER_02 46:04

And and let's just say, Nick reminded me, like, I don't know if this is the sport for Elliot. And I was like, Yeah, man, I he might not be.

SPEAKER_01 46:12

And so we're walking in, we're a little late because we had other things happening, and um sorry about that. And oh my god, Elliot scored the most beautiful goal. It was a nice goal. He so like most of these kids' soccer, Elliot's what, six? Five. Five? Damn, he's so big, we'll be six in March. Um like it's like a scrum. Like you're you know, two inches away from the goal, and somebody like kind of knees it into the goal and like. Which was his second goal. Yeah, I'm gonna get into that later. Yeah. Uh but he was like five yards away. He like shaped his body, struck the ball with the inside of his boot, which is like I didn't see that. Yeah, no, he did. I was he like curled it in. I was like, oh my god. That was like across, yeah. I was across three fields, like way where I was like, Elliot!

SPEAKER_02 47:03

I know he showed up like behind me, and I was on the other side, and he's like, that was an awesome goal. I'm like, where where were you? Were you?

SPEAKER_01 47:10

I was so excited. I like I was so excited. I was so proud of Elliot. I was so he scored, he's he claims he scored two goals. The second one was like an own goal that like came off some of the kids. But he's gonna claim that he should actually have had three goals because there's another one where I was like, bruh, if you're gonna claim that goal, there's another one you should claim.

SPEAKER_02 47:30

Well, I mean, he's being humble.

SPEAKER_01 47:33

Not distracting. Elliot's great at being humble. Uh but it was just like, I was so proud. Yeah. And then um, he likes throw-ins, he's really good at throw-ins, and when you watch him, he's like, he learned soccer somewhere. I don't know if he's watching soccer. You've said he's not.

SPEAKER_02 47:48

This is what Nick and I stood there with. Yeah, we learned 40 minutes.

SPEAKER_01 47:53

Because I'm telling you, it's not Tyler and actually. It was like very natural, like he knew the thing to do, where you're like, no, no, no, no. You're like frigid. Like, no, he knows what he's doing. This isn't like he's just like good at like he's good at it, and he knows what he's doing.

SPEAKER_02 48:07

He's okay at it, guys.

SPEAKER_01 48:08

Uh so anyway, Elliot's coming over later tonight, and we're gonna play FIFA and drink some Guinness, because that's what you do with soccer.

SPEAKER_02 48:16

And we're gonna work on his game.

SPEAKER_01 48:18

It's gonna be great. We got a net down in the basement. Um, I'm I'm so proud of Elliot. Yes. I suppose I should bring Simone into this. She also was very proud of Simona, of Elliot. It was cute. Simona was very proud of Elliot. She goes, Go, Ellie! Go, Elie. She loves Elliot. He's like the big brother she'll never have. And uh Elliot's the big brother everyone will never have. Elliot, I expect you to beat up anybody that's mean to her.

SPEAKER_02 48:42

If you're listening, Elliot. Um, yeah, I stole his kid corner because I thought it'd be funny, quite frankly. Um, it was Happy birthday, Bridget! Happy birthday, Bridget. Take my kid corner. Yeah, I hadn't thought of it. You have another kid. I know. Talk about Lucy. I know, but like, I actually was catching up with Britney last night. She's been out of um cell service, out of touch for two and a half weeks. Out of pocket, um, like legit somewhere that she had no service. So I was just chatting last night, like normal discussions, and I'm like, oh, this, this. She's like, wait, what? Like, yeah, so she missed his first day of school, him losing his first tooth, this doctor, like all things that like you are not required to be here for Brittany, Elliot's aunt, but like big deals in Elliot's world. So we here on the podcast have talked about them a lot. So I will try and wrap up Kid Corner with Elliot this week and remember that I have a second child and she'll be talked about next week. I got nothing for this week for you.

SPEAKER_01 49:38

Lucille, you know, Lucille's feeling better. I don't know, man. Her and Simona are in the same classroom. They've had this terrible affliction. You think we sound bad with our coffee?

SPEAKER_02 49:48

Oh, these two. And like, whatever. I'm not can't I'm not going down the bad hole here. The negative daycare hole. Yes, the kids have been sick. Um, they've given it to uh given it to us. They just seem to bounce back things. Um, then us, and that's great. Um Lucy is sleeping in her bed through the whole night, which is really exciting. I may not have mentioned that she will only sleep on the floor next to her bed as of late. And we've decided that like perhaps we should work harder at getting her to sleep in her bed. So, you know, two nights in a row, actually in her bed. Big deal. Good work, Lou. Whatever. If you have kids and you're judging me right now, best of luck to you because something changes. She used to be our best sleeper 12 hours a night, no problem. But shit. And she got constipated one week. And it never has gone back to normal.

SPEAKER_01 50:40

Well, everyone, if you want to wish Bridget a happy birthday, you know how to get in touch with us. It's hello at dinnerplusdrinks.com, our Facebook, our Instagram.

SPEAKER_02 50:47

I'm gonna post the competi confetti picture for you guys. I wish I took a video, but I didn't, so you can see the aftermath of stuff.

SPEAKER_01 50:55

Spreeze!

SPEAKER_02 50:55

Surprise! So you can find us on Facebook and Instagram.

SPEAKER_01 50:58

Do you like surprise parties?

SPEAKER_02 51:01

I used to really love them. Now I think my anxiety gets a little the best of me. I like to be in control.

SPEAKER_01 51:07

Did you know? That's what we're gonna do.

SPEAKER_02 51:08

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 51:09

I'm gonna text Tyler right now.

SPEAKER_02 51:10

I have a few years until my 40th fall.

SPEAKER_01 51:13

Well, I know. I'm just trying to think of like an occasion that would be.

SPEAKER_02 51:15

Yeah, you better start planning. No, you gotta do a surprise for like 38. No one expects it. It's your 38th birthday.

SPEAKER_01 51:24

It's not also I'm not that old, okay? My mom did one for me for like my 15th or something, or 16th, I can't remember.

SPEAKER_02 51:31

16 is a big deal.

SPEAKER_01 51:33

No, it would have been 15 because it's my freshman year.

SPEAKER_02 51:36

And uh I was like, This is a weird birthday to do.

SPEAKER_01 51:42

Thanks for finally caring about me for once in my life, mom.

SPEAKER_02 51:45

Stop it. Thanks for hanging out and celebrating my birthday for this whole 45 minutes to one hour.

SPEAKER_01 51:52

52 minutes and counting. Thanks, guys. Uh, we had a lot of fun with this one. We hope you did too. There's confetti all over the place. There's three open alcohol containers. Celebrate something bottle of popcorn. Celebrate something for us. Happy birthday, Shannon. We love you too. You are, I know you were born second. Um I was I know you were quick two minutes after me. I actually Googled, does the second twin live longer? I was hoping to have good results on that. To be like, you know, Shannon, it's okay. You're gonna live longer.

SPEAKER_02 52:23

There were inclusive results.

SPEAKER_01 52:24

There were inconclusive results, so I can't report back on that, but we all need to, you know, Ireland. Congratulations, Aaron Gobra. Shannon, we love you too. Happy birthday, Shannon. Have a good week, everybody.

SPEAKER_02 52:35

Bye-bye.