How 'Sconsin Are You? - Dinner Plus Drinks #75

SPEAKER_00 0:14

Hello everybody, Memorial Day weekend 2021, start of summer. That's the edition we got for you of Dinner Plus Dreams Podcast. But I'm in a sweater today because it's cold and rainy. I know. I'm in this, you know, little Patagonia vest thingy cuz it's freezing out.

SPEAKER_03 0:29

It's well, it's 55. It's actually beautiful. I love this weather.

SPEAKER_00 0:32

Yeah, this is like your Seattle weather. It's gonna be a little overcast, a little drizzly. I think it's supposed to be like hard rain later. Is it really?

SPEAKER_03 0:40

Yeah, like tonight.

SPEAKER_00 0:41

It's good for the trees I planted.

SPEAKER_02 0:42

Oh, that's so nice. Get off my lawn. Get off my lawn. My lawn needs to be mowed maybe before the rain comes.

SPEAKER_03 0:48

Tyler, what you doing? No way, man. We pay our neighbor to do it. Oh, that's right. He's a teenager, he loves it.

SPEAKER_00 0:53

Get out there and do it, teenager.

SPEAKER_03 0:54

We don't have time for that.

SPEAKER_00 0:56

He's at school, so stay in school, do it after. Don't stay in school. You don't learn anything in school. What you learn from is hard work. Get out there, mow that lawn, skip school and mow our lawn. You know, 20 bucks today in Bitcoin will be worth I don't know, maybe maybe $19 in 50 years.

SPEAKER_03 1:15

I don't know anything.

SPEAKER_00 1:16

Also, maybe $5 million. You don't know. It's it's a it's volatile. Gamble.

SPEAKER_03 1:20

Well, Memorial Day. Hope you guys are doing something fun. Do something fun. We we're getting the pool ready for the weekend, but it's gonna be not warm. So it's gonna be like fine, 68 and sunny, I think, later.

SPEAKER_00 1:31

I love when people in Wisconsin say, I got the pool, got the pool out. It's a heated pool, so don't worry about it.

SPEAKER_03 1:36

Oh, like the pool's been out. It just, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:39

No, it doesn't mat it's not a hot tub. It doesn't matter. Your pool's heated. If it's below 80 degrees, it's it's cold.

SPEAKER_03 1:46

It is cold. Also, this is the most Wisconsin thing. Someone called me out on this the other day. Might have been Shannon. We were like talking about the weather, and she's like, that's the most Wisconsin thing where we all just talk about the weather. And I'm like, yes. Little sneak peek.

SPEAKER_00 1:58

We might have some hot Wisconsin R you. That may or may not be a discussion of hot Wisconsin R U. And we're gonna want we're gonna want some participation.

SPEAKER_03 2:05

We are. We expect you to respond with this one. I will say, as I was getting in the shower this morning, my bathroom window was open. It was cold. And I was like, I'm gonna talk about this on the podcast, and then I'm gonna make fun of myself for talking about the weather.

SPEAKER_00 2:17

Did you have the window open, the space heater on? Yeah, all the things. I Sarah and I are very big fan people. So we like so we like to have a fan on us as we sp as we sleep. We like to have a lot of covers, but then the house cool and maybe a window open. Oh no, you can't.

SPEAKER_03 2:34

I do remember my dad when we were little used to blast the heat, but make us like go in the convertible. Or not make us. We wanted to. And I used to love it. Now I do that. I'll roll all the windows down and turn the heat on. Anyway, guys, we're gonna go.

SPEAKER_00 2:46

Back in the day when Sarah and I were just dating and it was uh uh you know 25-minute drive between the two of us. I'd be going home late at night. I'd roll those windows down, drive them down the country roads between Fontana and Genoa City.

SPEAKER_03 2:59

That's a long drive.

SPEAKER_00 3:00

Yeah, because it's see there's no easy way to get it. Yeah, that's why I'm saying like it is uh but I'd you know Blast a Little Africa by Toto.

SPEAKER_03 3:12

But yeah, you're gonna drop the heat. I've been like Wisconsin vibes, y'all. As I get in a funk, I've been putting on my 2000s hip-hop Pandora.

SPEAKER_00 3:21

You skies, there's nothing like a 2000 hip-hop Pandora to say I'm from Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_03 3:25

And like all the windows down, down Okay. We're done talking about the weather for you guys. White girl rolling down Highway 100, blasted Nelly. That's me. Yes, Nelly too. Someone as cool as Nelly, who I've seen in concert. Shocker, right?

SPEAKER_00 3:39

Um, going about nostalgia.

SPEAKER_03 3:41

Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:42

Have you seen the Friends Reunion? Is it even out yet?

SPEAKER_03 3:44

I think I just saw on social media. There's a lot of stuff leaking. I think it's out today. Are you a friends person? Okay, I was a friend. I saw this on the outline and I was like, shit, I have not been paying attention to this.

SPEAKER_00 3:54

I gotta sign up for HBO Max to watch this.

SPEAKER_03 3:56

Oh, this is HBO Max? Yeah. Well, F this, man. Everything I want to watch is on HBO Max. Well then why don't you sign up? Because I have 800, like, I'm not paying for cable, but I will pay for Hulu, Netflix, Disney Flux.

SPEAKER_00 4:07

Don't you have you have Bridget at Lake Geneva Country Meets? You have Hello at Dinner Plus Drinks. You're right. You have BillBaller23 at gmail.com. We are not doing that.

SPEAKER_03 4:19

Um, okay, so no, I haven't seen much about the friend. I have not watched it, nor have I even like seen too much about it. I know. I feel like I'm living in a hole. Uh uh. Tell me what you did.

SPEAKER_00 4:33

Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer admitted to wanting to hook up hard in the first like two or three seasons of the show off air. Oh, I was like, what? It never quite worked out.

SPEAKER_03 4:42

I'm like, I knew it. I freaking knew it. Okay, I saw somewhere, like literally, I was on Facebook right before we jumped on air, and someone said, like, yeah, I cried in the first five minutes.

SPEAKER_00 4:51

So I leads me to believe it came out last night or two. I think it had to come out, yeah, last night because all the stuff leaked. Uh evidently Gaga showed up to sing Smelly Cat.

SPEAKER_03 5:00

Oh my god, that's worth it. So I love friends. I I was watching some late night friends when I was working last night because I watched uh don't judge me, but I watch all of the Chicago like med fire and PD. They're terrible. Oh jeez. Shout out to my cousin Jessica, who she and I, and I think Shannon, yeah, I think Shannon was there. We watched the first episode together, and we were like, we're never watching this again. This is the worst show in the world. Well, I got back into it, and there there was a heavy, it was a little heavy last night. It was the season finale, so I had to watch some friends to make my life make me not have nightmares when I sleep. So I was watching Friends last night, um, but it didn't, you know, it was like on TBS or some weird channel, so I don't know anything about the reunion. I think it's time to drink. I will watch it though, sometime. Uh this looks gross in a cup.

SPEAKER_00 5:48

We got our sky vodka plastic cups. Again, how sconcin are you? That's gonna be the title of this episode, I think. How sconcin are you?

SPEAKER_03 5:56

Yeah, I like that.

SPEAKER_00 5:57

Um I got some extra Sky vodka plastic cups that I saved instead of throwing out the five extra cups. You know, we're gonna use them. We're gonna use them at some point. So they were in my cabinet up there. I got the stool out. And uh we I'm really into actually me and my wife both, not Simona, so not all of my household, but the adult members of our household, we are responsible. Not our one and a half-year-old. Um we're into like the canned cocktail things right now. Canned wine seems to be like, mm-mm. We have a few ones that are okay. Yeah. But a lot of it's bad. If it's a fad, done. But canned cocktails, they are figuring out some like spritzy, delicious things that aren't quite the gross, flavorless seltzers.

SPEAKER_03 6:33

Do you see me judge?

SPEAKER_00 6:34

But aren't like wine. So this is house wine. It's a big new company out of uh Washington. Uh hi, Brittany. Um uh it's a ginger mule, so it's Sauvignon Blanc wine is the base, and then ginger and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 6:46

So you'd consider this a house cocktail, not a house wine, even though it is wine-based.

SPEAKER_00 6:50

So wine cocktail.

SPEAKER_03 6:51

It's a wine-based. I uh I feel like have we had the canned cocktails on here? Did we have the French 75 like a million years ago?

SPEAKER_00 6:59

I think we did, and that one was not good.

SPEAKER_03 7:00

Yeah, like straight up cocktail, because you're like, oh, it's it's fine, but I just want it to be the real drink. So wine-based. I just want it to be a real, a real French 75. But these are pretty good.

SPEAKER_00 7:12

Yeah, I was impressed by these house ones lemonades that are good.

SPEAKER_03 7:14

We have them in store now. Also, they're beautiful if you're watching on YouTube. This one is the brownest one. So you know, it's a brown can, it looks whatever. But they're different summary colors. Really fun, summary looking cans. Good for the boat.

SPEAKER_00 7:28

Or the continuing how sconcing you are, let me tell you about the best thing I ate this week. And Sarah ate it several times because she just kept the gravy train rolling.

SPEAKER_03 7:37

Oh man.

SPEAKER_00 7:38

Do you Bridget, do you remember back to market day?

SPEAKER_03 7:41

Uh love me's market day.

SPEAKER_00 7:42

The little uh home meal thing that was a fundraiser for your school and it would come up and frozen stuff, you stuck your freezer in the basement, probably.

SPEAKER_03 7:50

If you went to St. Francis, you got a casual day instead of uniform. Casual day. So you know if your mom forgot to place a market day order, you didn't get your casual day, I'm scarred by it, can you tell?

SPEAKER_00 8:00

Obviously. So we made Texas toast pepperoni pizzas, which are simple, delicious, great thing to make with your kids. Simona actually helped with this one. Okay. You take your you get your loaf of Texas toast, garlic bread, whatever, your frozen stuff, put the pieces on a sheet pan, bake it for four minutes or you know, half whatever the time is. It's usually an eight-minute time. Flip it over, put a layer of pizza sauce on, put some shredded mozzarella cheese and little pieces of pepperoni. Yum. And then I like to do a little Italian seasoning on top. I think that just makes it a little bit more gourmet. Yeah, like makes it fancy. It's a little gourmet, maybe a little cracked red pepper if you like. Bake it another six minutes. You gotta go a little longer in this one because it takes a little longer with all the stuff on top. Make sure it cooks through. Some thick toast. And my god, it is so good. It is so trashy. It is so trashy. Market day had these things.

SPEAKER_03 8:53

Oh, we were chocolate pudding cake people at Market Day.

SPEAKER_00 8:55

Oh no, we we did the like chicken kievs.

SPEAKER_03 8:57

Oh, yeah, we did chicken kiev too. Have I told you? We did chicken kiev forever, and then I continued eating it. Like, we used to eat chicken kiev on Christmas Eve. And Tyler, who I've been with for now like 15 years, I don't know, he like two years ago was like, Bridget, I gotta tell you something. I'm like, oh my god, like what's wrong? I hate chicken kiev. Like, Tyler's the most agreeable person in the world for years. He was eating chicken kiff, and he's like, I just don't get it. You know, and I'm like, this does not hurt my feelings, Tyler. It's a frozen breaded chicken.

SPEAKER_00 9:27

Like Sarah took the initiative. We had some leftover hot dog buns. We're in a Texas toast because we ate all of them. Simona ate two of these things. I swear she ate two whole toast whole pieces of Texas toast like this. I'm sorry. Are you telling me you're gonna make a pizza out of hot dog buns? So Sarah did this with hot dog buns. So she, I swear she is, she got, you know, necessity mother invention. Yes. She got up the melted butter, brushed the hot dog bun with the butter, put the pizza sauce on, a little garlic, the mozzarella, the pepperoni, baked them up herself. So even if you don't have the garlic toast, do a Sarah. She baked it up all by herself. I mean, she's not known for being the one to come up with recipes or substitutes or do the cooking. So good job, Sarah. I mean, we gotta be proud of her, right?

SPEAKER_03 10:11

Real proud of your innovation.

SPEAKER_00 10:12

I mean, Bridget, this podcast has inspired you to cook more. It's inspired Sarah to cook more.

SPEAKER_03 10:16

Wait till you hear what I ate this week. Was it chicken? I did have chicken stir-fry on here originally, and I was like, no, that's not the best thing I ate this week because it was fine. Um, but I did go like two days with, I was like, by the end of the day, I'm like, I don't know that I've had a vegetable all day.

SPEAKER_00 10:32

It's just been um chicken counts as a vegetable, I think.

SPEAKER_03 10:35

Tyler tried to tell me potatoes counted as a vegetable, and I was like, were they red potatoes?

SPEAKER_00 10:39

That's a carb. Like red potatoes are definitely a vegetable. I mean something green. Now yellow potatoes, those are a carb.

SPEAKER_03 10:46

Yeah. So he was trying to make me feel better. Um, was it last night or the night before? I was like, I just need to eat vegetables. And so we love broccoli in our house. And I, trees, we call them trees, the kids do. Um, I just made a bowl of broccoli. Like I roasted it, used my air fryer. It's my favorite thing to use for roasting broccoli, salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, and red pepper flakes and parmesan cheese. And I just had a bowl of broccoli and it was delicious. Um, I have nothing else to say. It's hilarious the two things we ate this week, because I think it just goes to show that this week has been a little hectic. A little bit. A little hectic. A little bit. So we ate broccoli and pepperoni pizza, so we're doing great as a team here. Um, but it's a great way to get your veggies in.

SPEAKER_00 11:30

Cheers to us, Bridget.

SPEAKER_03 11:31

Hey, guess what? I already had my veggie for the day today, so I feel like I have put some broccoli in my eggs this morning.

SPEAKER_00 11:37

I had dehydrated cheese curds. I'm gonna count that.

SPEAKER_03 11:39

Yeah, yeah, that's a vegetable. For sure. This very Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_00 11:43

We um yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we're doing great. We're doing great. Doing great. Couple, you know, work till 10 o'clock nights, we'll be there. But we're gonna have some time off this weekend.

SPEAKER_03 11:52

Are we?

SPEAKER_00 11:53

I don't know. Maybe.

SPEAKER_03 11:55

I think we're just trying to get ahead so we can breathe for a moment.

SPEAKER_00 11:58

I like your news story that you have. Because there's two of them. Well, no, because actually I thought about doing this one because I was like very emotional about this. I know what. And is this the thing about how well you you talk about?

SPEAKER_03 12:09

Okay, great. So I put you two articles down, and it's not because I can't decide, it's because they both talk about things that are important. So two very important children's book authors died this past week. So um, I hope you all know who Eric Carl is. Uh, he wrote Very Hungry Caterpillar, amongst a million other beautiful books to look at. Um, but also one of our librarian friends that um Tyler used to work with actually uh posted, and I didn't even hear about this, which makes me so sad that uh Lois Aylert died as well, who wrote Chick-a-Chicka Boom Boom. So again, amongst other things. But I it's interesting to me that we not we didn't hear about her at all, or I didn't at least see it anywhere on my newsfeed until I saw um our friend Victoria post it. And Chicka Chick-a-Boom boom was a big part of my childhood, and actually like Elliot's reading it in school this week. So I think that's fascinating. I hope they teach him um that both of these authors were an important part of the world. Um Eric Carl was 91 when he died, so I think it's I didn't realize he was that old, yeah. I didn't either, but I think it's safe to at least it's nice that he lived a fulfilled life. Um and uh chicka chicka boom boom, Lois Aylert was 86. So a little younger than I'd like to say, but yeah, so sad week in the children's book world.

SPEAKER_00 13:21

I was going on a little rabbit hole with this stuff, and I guess they had to find they couldn't uh Hungry Hungry Caterpillar, they didn't have a printing press in America that could handle the necessities of the process they wanted to do to print the book.

SPEAKER_01 13:34

Really?

SPEAKER_00 13:35

So they had to go to Australia to get it printed and then get the books over back over. So you know, groundbreaking technology evidently with how they wanted to do the printing. I didn't didn't say exactly why, but I thought that was very interesting.

SPEAKER_03 13:47

Yeah, it is, you know, it's sad, but it's it's good, you know, circle of life. But circle of life. It's a good lesson and thing to be able to talk about with the kids.

SPEAKER_00 13:53

So caterpillar might eat your remains if you, you know, do the He's a very hungry caterpillar. He's a very hungry caterpillar. I mean, that seems fitting, right?

SPEAKER_03 14:00

But also chicka chicka boom boom. Like, let's not forget about her, man. She was born in Wisconsin. Did you know that? I didn't know that. Oh, yeah, sorry, she was born in Beaver Dam.

SPEAKER_00 14:07

Okay, I almost put this on the list of how Sconson are you? Do you watch a movie and get super excited? Like Titanic, every time I'm from Wisconsin, Jack comes on, like, yeah, Wisconsin! Who's from Wisconsin? Jack in Titanic.

SPEAKER_03 14:20

Leonardo DiCaprio?

SPEAKER_00 14:22

Yeah, he's from Wisconsin. Oh, he's not. Yes, he is. Oh my god, Bridget. You are not from Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_03 14:27

You guys, I think I am gonna fail this little thing later.

SPEAKER_00 14:30

Okay, you go, you know what? I'm gonna research this. Okay, so it is mental health awareness month. It is. We've talked about that a little bit. Yep. You got a tweet to talk about about that that we gotta give a Facebook post?

SPEAKER_03 14:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 14:41

Oh, a Facebook post. Uh we gotta give Ryan Reynolds some some credit here on this one. Um and I'm very, very aware of challenges of mental health and have a lot of um compassion, I guess, towards this. And one of the things that I struggle with as an employer, as a manager, sometimes is how do you hold people to saying, look, we got a job to do and we need to get it done, and you know, you're being paid to do this, but I also respect them as a human being, respect their needs as a person, and understanding everybody reacts differently and needs to be managed differently. Um and so that's a big struggle. And this this article really spoke to me. Naomi Osaka, if you don't know her, she is um a 23-year-old American Japanese woman. Uh, she was born in America, she's now uh she competes for Japan uh professionally. She's won three majors, she's ranked number two in the world, and she seems like a really smart, really lovely young lady. She gets um She competes for Japan because her parents are Japanese, and she decided to be Japanese because at the time it seemed like a better option for her.

SPEAKER_03 15:47

She did not qualify to play on Team America?

SPEAKER_00 15:50

She probably could have, but the endorsements.

SPEAKER_03 15:52

I was just curious. I don't follow tennis. We were talking about this a little bit on the other. I'm trying to be kind to her. I know you are. But I feel like everyone needs to understand.

SPEAKER_00 15:59

So athletes are humans too. They still are people. Same thing with celebrities. We need to respect the right to privacy, but also she made $55 million last year in prize money and endorsements. And a lot of that was from endorsements. Uh tennis players are notorious for wearing huge watches while they play. They have bags that are too big. Yeah. Uh, because watches luxury brands are very big in tennis. Um, you know, once you are done with the match, there's usually a post-match interview, and people will take the time to put their jacket back on, to put a watch back on, and make sure it's in frame. It's kind of like NASCAR where you hold your can of Coke with the logo facing out as you're doing your post-race interview. The French Open is next month, and she announced on Instagram that she will not be doing uh press interviews for her mental health. She said, I've often felt that people have no regards for athletes' mental health, and this rings very true whenever I see a press conference or partake in one. We've often sat there and asked questions that we've been asked multiple times before, or asked questions that bring doubt into our minds, and I'm just not gonna subject myself to people that doubt me. I've watched many clips of athletes breaking down after a loss in the press room, and I know you have as well. I believe that the whole situation is kicking a person while they're down, and I don't understand the reasoning behind it. Me doing it, me not doing press is nothing personal to the tournament, and a couple journalists have entered me since I was young, so I have a friendly relationship with most of them. However, if the organizations think that they can just keep saying, do press or you're gonna be fined, and continue to ignore the mental health of the athletes that are the centerpiece of their corporation cooperation, then I just gotta laugh. Whoa. That's bullshit. You made $50 million, and that's based on people watching you play a sport. And a lot of why you made money and why people want to endorse you is because of you and access to you. I respect your mental health, Naomi, but I make a lot less money than you and do a lot less celebrity things, and I have people come in and ask me the same annoying question every day, too.

SPEAKER_03 18:00

Right. I'm like, we still get kicked when we're down and don't make $55 million.

SPEAKER_00 18:05

Sorry, Naomi, if you're not mentally strong enough to deal with a journalist asking you, hey Naomi, what do you think went wrong after you lost this match? You're not a champion.

SPEAKER_03 18:15

It's uh it brings up, I think, a greater picture about professional athletes, right? Like you are you chose a job in the public eye. So like saying I don't want to be in the public eye, you are getting paid to work out, which is what other people kill to have time to do. I'm like, okay, maybe I can fit in this 20-minute run before getting my kids, you know, whatever. If I was paid $1,000 an hour or whatever her salary breaks down to to work out, I would do it. And then I would say, sure, you want to ask me a question about that?

SPEAKER_00 18:46

And I I have tremendous sympathy to this and I get this. And we've seen athletes take breaks or we've seen things, but this doesn't seem like she's making a point constructively. Perhaps she's right. There should maybe tennis does on court interviews after you lose the final of a grand slam and you're expected to be gracious. She, in fact, won one at the US Open, her first one, and Serena Williams had a meltdown.

SPEAKER_03 19:09

Well, so maybe maybe that's what needs to change. You don't have to be gracious, just be real.

SPEAKER_00 19:13

And that's maybe what I would have so much more respect for her if she said, Look, I'm not gonna do these ones that are 10 minutes after it, because that's bullshit to put someone in that position and expect me to be gracious. But I what I will do, give me an hour to cool down and I will do press.

SPEAKER_03 19:27

Even that, I mean, okay, so this brings up to me a struggle. I she said something about um, I don't know, somewhere in there it made me think, okay, this is boundaries, right? This is what therapists say. Everyone's therapist says you have to have healthy boundaries. And I'm seeing like um I feel like my age, our age, is kind of right on the edge of like we started talking about mental health and therapy, but the a couple, even five years younger than us, everyone's like, I have all the boundaries, I'm doing nothing. Fuck you. And I'm like, well, I get that boundaries are important, but you still have to be a human being. So, like I I don't know how to adequately express this, but I've struggled with this a lot as I watch other people struggle with mental health and we all struggle with it. Like, um, what is appropriate what is an appropriate amount of boundaries and an appropriate amount of gratitude, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 20:09

And I I hate doing the she made $55 million thing because you know, we want to say money shouldn't change people. We expect people to ex to treat people like people regardless of how rich or poor they are. But that much money means you never have to work a day again in your life, Naomi, if you don't want to.

SPEAKER_03 20:26

And other people don't have that choice.

SPEAKER_00 20:28

So if it really bothers you and is that bad for your lifestyle and you've chosen to prioritize your lifestyle, quit tennis. Other athletes have made that choice.

SPEAKER_03 20:38

That's true. That is true. It it does feel a little privileged, uh, the comment because because again, if if I take this down onto a level of like my job or my family or any struggles with my kid, and I'm like, I actually um Elliot's principle, you can't talk to me because like I'm upset about something. I mean, that's essentially what it is. Like, you can't talk to me today because I'm upset. Well, that would be great if I could do that, but I've had I've been crying one minute and then have someone else say something douchey to me the next minute, and I have no control over that.

SPEAKER_00 21:09

She's an independent contractor. Uh she owns her own business, the Omni Osaka Corp or whatever you want to say. I own my own business. There's a local restaurant that said, please don't write negative reviews of us on Facebook, it hurts our feelings. When you own your own business, you don't get paid for your good days. You get paid for your bad days. And I think in sports that's more than anything. You there's a lot of people that can be really good when they're good, but it's how good are you when you're bad? And when you're struggling, how good are you? Can you get through? Can you grind through?

SPEAKER_03 21:38

Yeah. As a character.

SPEAKER_00 21:40

I don't get the choice of saying, Oh, this person really is unhappy with the quality of the steak that they cooked wrong. I have to respond to them and I have to make it right. And I don't make anywhere near $55 million.

SPEAKER_03 21:55

So I it's what it's a it's a like good for. Her for speaking up about mental health.

SPEAKER_00 22:02

Yeah, what uh maybe maybe there's a happier middle ground. Yeah, and that's I guess it's what you know, it's it's an angel thing to say, oh the kids today they're not liked. But that's kind of like a lot of people. I worry about these kids. Yeah, I think your point is exactly right on where it's they have gone so far in this direction of no one can tell me nothing, I can do what I want, and call it and guise it under boundaries.

SPEAKER_03 22:24

Yeah, like and that's I just I'm here to say boundaries are important, like of course, but but you can't hide under that always.

SPEAKER_00 22:31

And also the fact that you made $55 million changes you have made that deal. Like it changes if I was sponsoring you and you decided not to do interviews, I'd say, okay.

SPEAKER_03 22:43

I actually am so curious. Is she gonna lose sponsorships?

SPEAKER_00 22:45

I'm not gonna pay you because I paid you thinking I would get my watch on TV for this amount of time and that's like in NASCAR, they track that. There's earned media value. You could say, look, I'm not paying you. So I wonder one, if she'll lose him, or two if she if she said I'm fine with that consequence, I would have a lot more respect for her.

SPEAKER_03 23:04

Well, that's what I was gonna say is like, or two, are they going to pull a contract and then she will be like shaming that company for pulling? So it's very interesting. I do want to touch on we he mentioned Nick mentioned the Ryan Reynolds post. If you haven't seen it, you should. I saw it on Facebook, I'm sure it's everywhere. Um I love him, uh, but we'll put a link to it too. And he posted about like May is almost over. It's also mental health awareness month. And then he comments, like, I'm posting this late, and it's because I overschedule myself to mask my anxiety. And, you know, I let things slip. And he calls it his anxiety his lifelong pal. And whatever. He says, you know, I'm not alone, I'm not alone in this. And more importantly, like everyone lives like this. They overschedule, they overthink, they overwork. And I just have to say that I feel seen.

SPEAKER_00 23:48

Yeah. I was like, this is me. It's me. And that's where I wanted to end this. Yeah, because we're closer in age, and you set this up perfectly. Thank you very much, Bridget. I this was not even planned, guys. We we're closer in age to Ryan Reynolds than Naomi Asaka's. Yeah. Weird as that is. And I think the way Ryan Reynolds and the people I've talked to personally, the way Ryan Reynolds deals with it of saying anxiety is my lifelong friend, depression is my lifelong friend, suicidal tendencies are my lifelong friend, whatever they are, whatever your issues are, learning to live a life that still is a functioning member of society. Because none of us can go be hermits. I mean, we we could, but in the way modern society works, I'll pass. You have to have a lot of money to make that setup. You have to be Howard Hughes, you know? It's not like you can just go off in the woods and do a bony bear that often.

SPEAKER_03 24:38

Not often.

SPEAKER_00 24:40

And that was for a very limited amount of time. That was for art. If you're doing it for art, that's one other thing. But learning to do the Rynald Reynolds, Ryan Reynolds thing of saying, I understand I am gonna have to make some sacrifices, and this isn't gonna be easy, but I'm gonna fight it and I'm gonna keep fighting. And I know I'm gonna have these boundaries, but I'm also gonna work with people. Seems like the world still's gotta keep turning, guys. Seems like a good compromise. Instead of just saying, I'm not doing it. I don't like that you did this to me. I don't like that I felt like you kicked me when I'm down when the reporter is just doing their job. Because the reporter is your access to the people that are watch that pay 65 bucks a month for their cable TV subscription because they want to watch tennis channel, yeah, that then pays the tournament $10 million to pay you five million dollars. So to play a game. To play a game. So I hope we can come to a place where we normalize the fact that we don't shame people for having cancer, we don't shame people for having mental health challenges. And we can say, I'm gonna fight this, I'm gonna work with this, I'm gonna be respectful of it, but I'm also still gonna do my job.

SPEAKER_03 25:44

This was I saw the link, and all I saw was like something about tennis, and I was like, oh great, another tennis story. We're gonna talk about tennis. Um, so I'm really glad to hear where this story went. It was a great way to wrap up kind of uh Mental Health Awareness Month.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

So we should do um a Wimbledon themed episode when that No thanks. No, because we can wear all white and we can drink uh what's the Wimbledon joke? Or not the Wimbledon joke, the Wimbledon drink. Uh what is it? Don't know. Never been.

SPEAKER_03 26:11

Actually, I have been when I lived in London. I took a little field trip to go peek at it. Drink.

SPEAKER_00 26:16

It's a like very famous thing. I can't I can think of the uh it's a Pim's cup. Oh my god! So we could drink Pim's cup and wear all white.

SPEAKER_03 26:23

I just got weirdly excited. Abby, I don't know if you're listening, I don't know if you're a listener, but my my good friend Abby and I, we have some history with Pim's.

SPEAKER_00 26:31

So we could have Pim's cups and uh cucumber sandwiches, and it'd be a lot of fun. It'd be a good theme.

SPEAKER_03 26:35

I don't love a theme party. Pim's cup. I'm here for a pim's cup.

SPEAKER_00 26:39

But yeah, so I uh I almost picked another story, it's also about tennis. It's about a girl that was standing in the middle of a tennis court and she wouldn't move. Do you know what her name was? What? Annette. Oh little bit lighter way to go. In the break.

SPEAKER_03 26:55

What? All right, guys, we're back. And I'm super excited to talk about this. This was not your original. It was not. I changed it. Change it up. You're scaring me. I love tricking Nick at the last minute. Um, so my product is like a free product. So can we still call it a product? Um I think it is? I think so. It's a resource that is provided for free by our friends at the DNR.

SPEAKER_00 27:35

Let's be clear here. It's provided at no charge. Okay, I'm sorry. Okay. Our tax dollars pay for this.

SPEAKER_03 27:40

I'm happy to have my tax dollars pay for this because really my printer ink is what I have to pay for. So um, there is a program that I stumbled across um through the DNR, and it is called the Wisconsin Explorer Program. So I'm sure if you're not in Wisconsin, check out your DNR or your local parks or something like that, might have something like this. And it is a way to get people outside. So kids specifically, obviously, but like parents telling your kids, giving them something to do. Um and it's like a little booklet that you can pick up at most state parks. If not, you can download the PDF and print it yourself. And it has you discovering things. So, like you can, once you fill out the booklet and do all of the things, you can request a patch. So, like, you know, think of Girl Scouts or Boy Scouts and you get your little patch for your vest. So to me, I was like, well, Elliot would love this. It's like he likes a goal here, check things off the list, and then you get a little prize. So it's like clean up litter or find this certain animal or see if you can explore, you know, it's just finding things out in the state park. So it makes people go outside. I think I've discussed on here before the thousand hours outside program, which I found as well somewhere. And it's a challenge constantly. I'm I'm we're working on it all the time with our kids, but it's like you've maybe heard the saying like if your kids are crabby, throw them in the water or put them outside. Those are like the things you do, and it changes everyone's mood. So I thought um, for goal-oriented people such as myself and my son, this little booklet is great. You can, it's like a little scavenger hunt out in nature, and it is provided at no cost from the DNR in Wisconsin. And I would love to hear if other states, if you guys find it um as well, go explore this summer.

SPEAKER_00 29:12

I'm gonna throw a surprise in two that's gonna combine a news story, a friend shout-out, and a product, no charge product recommendation. So I saw this from our friend Courtney Nobilio. Uh, the kids, the fifth graders at St. Francis of Sales, Bridget's fine a la matter. Yes, look at them in their lovely uniforms. Not a casual job. Those have not changed since I was a child. There is a small little nature preserve, used to be a dump on the outskirts of Lake Geneva called Four Seasons Nature Preserve. And the fifth graders evidently wrote a story and illustrated it about the different things you can see at that. And they are now taking first graders around and showing them everything. So maybe that's another thing you can do for Elliott.

SPEAKER_03 29:49

Okay, I love this.

SPEAKER_00 29:50

I mean, really, I think. I think it's in the your favorite publication, second favorite one, Lake Geneva Regional News. You can learn more about it there. That is my second favorite publication. Check that out. My real recommendation, though, is a Weber grill. Uh, if you are gonna go get a grill this Memorial Day, like a lot of people are, buy a Weber. I would strongly recommend them. Uh, they are more expensive than charb broil or things like that, but they are very well made. Uh, I bought another Weber. Actually, I bought two Weber's recently. I bought another little Smoky Joe because I left one somewhere and it's $30. I don't care that much. But they are the best of the small little ones. They actually last. You can actually cook. We cooked on fire! Fire! Fire and like sunburned. Oh my god, I was gonna make a joke about how red are you. Um gotta get the like 1300 degrees, and oh, that's another great news story. Arod's launching men's makeup. Whoa, oh boy.

SPEAKER_03 30:42

Yeah, that makes sense.

SPEAKER_00 30:43

Yeah, he's he wears men's makeup. Cheating on J Lo and put on makeup. But anyway, uh, they're a great quality. If you're looking for a grill and you're asking me for a recommendation, I would definitely say look at Weber. Yep. Uh if you want a gas grill, get a Weber. If you want a charcoal one, get a Weber. If you want other things, we can talk. I've got a Weber. The green eggs are great. Weber's are awesome. Yeah, it was a it was a housewarming gift for my in-laws, and it's so fun. They are in Palatine, Illinois. They are super nice people.

SPEAKER_03 31:07

Yep. That's where my cousins live. Hey guys.

SPEAKER_00 31:09

I had the opportunity to go down there. Uh, we did an interview earlier and much earlier in the podcast history with their master griller. Um, I had the opportunity to go down there and they have this amazing like Willy Wonka setup of they have all their grills inside under the world's it has to be the world's largest vent hood. And you can grill inside because they do demo classes and like uh recipe development. So I gotta do a little recipe development thing with them there, and it was just like so much fun. Kelsey Hyde Camp uh shout out. And uh so yeah, I would just really strongly if you're gonna get a grill, buy some serious quality, you know, it's the like buy a hundred dollar pair of boots or buy a ten dollar pair of boots. Buy the hundred dollar, you're gonna be much better off. So that's my shout out to Weber Girls. Fine products. I know a lot of people are going shopping for that stuff now, so just spend the extra money.

SPEAKER_03 31:58

Just write Nick a note and ask if you have questions.

SPEAKER_00 32:01

Be right back. Hey guys, we're back. Nick's really excited. I promised. How Wisconsin are you? I'm sorry, how Sconson are you? We teased this earlier. We are here. So I have a list. I'm nervous. Of 15 questions about how Wisconsin are you. We're gonna see if Bridget's done it, if I've done it. Uh there's actually a couple that are like, is it the correct answer or not?

SPEAKER_03 32:43

Do you need a pen or you can ask for us?

SPEAKER_00 32:45

And we're gonna see who's the most sconson. But most importantly, thank you. We are gonna put this on like a Google form thing, and we'll have the link in the show notes, and we want you to take it, see how Wisconsin you are. And if somebody gets 15 out of 15, we'll send you some sort of prize. We're not sure what it'll be, but we'll send you some sort of prize. We're trusting your honesty here. Yeah, like take a screenshot and uh send it to us and we'll we'll get you a prize. We'll we'll make sure we have that info in the show notes for you. Okay, ma'am, let's do it. Have you ever used a time machine? A time machine? Oh, you don't even know what one is.

SPEAKER_03 33:17

I'm gonna answer no, because I don't even know what you're talking about. T Y-M-E. Oh, time machine. Yes, I got my mom's card stuck in one once because I like did the wrong pin too many times.

SPEAKER_00 33:26

For those of you, which are many of you that aren't listening in Wisconsin, time, T Y-M-E, is an ATM network that was all we had in Wisconsin until like, I don't know, 2005 or something. So everybody in Wisconsin called it a time machine forever instead of an ATM machine. Also, you shouldn't call it an ATM machine because you're saying automated teller machine machine. Yes, pet peeve. That is pet peeve.

SPEAKER_03 33:46

Oh my god, time machines, I forgot about them.

SPEAKER_00 33:48

Time machines.

SPEAKER_03 33:49

They were white with red letters?

SPEAKER_00 33:51

Yes, they were huge too. They're like bigger than everywhere. I when I went to DC in high school and you know, had to use my debit card out there. I'm like, hey, where's the time machine? And people are like, what are you you you can't travel back in time, bro? What what are you? I'm like, no, you know, the time machine, you put your debit card in there like an ATM? I'm like, no, a time machine. Very house scons of my mind. Okay, that's so funny. Have you ever gone on vacation to a cabin up Nort? Sure have. Yes, I have.

SPEAKER_03 34:15

So many times.

SPEAKER_00 34:16

I have not. What? I don't I don't have friends with cabins up Nort.

SPEAKER_03 34:20

What?

SPEAKER_00 34:21

I've gone camping up Nort, but I've never done the cabin up Nort.

SPEAKER_03 34:24

I can't believe that. I've never been camping up North, but why would I?

SPEAKER_00 34:27

Oh, yes, I have. Yes, I have. I think the cabin's more Wisconsin than camping.

SPEAKER_03 34:31

I did go camping on Tyler's 30th birthday. So that's ahead of you.

SPEAKER_00 34:34

So there's a correct answer to this one now. This third question. Okay. Is Madison 80 miles from Milwaukee or is it an hour and a half drive from Milwaukee? Hour and a half drive. That is the correct answer. In Wisconsin, we do not say mile us. We say, oh, it's about uh, I'd say about a two-hour drive, Derek. Which I'm so grateful for because the mileage may be. It's inconsequential. Yes, it does not matter. What do we do? And try to figure out if our car can get there or not. There's a quick trip on the way. Get some more gas, get some donuts.

SPEAKER_03 35:03

I went to go get tacos. Is it Chuck's other? And it's seven miles away, and it takes me like 24 minutes to get to the other side of the lake. So no.

SPEAKER_00 35:13

Does the California Happy Cows commercial personally offend you?

SPEAKER_03 35:17

Yes, it does for so many reasons.

SPEAKER_00 35:20

I get so freaking angry at that commercial. Fuck you, California. Fuck you.

SPEAKER_03 35:26

Once I went to the Prices Right, which was like a dream come true, and we wore cow shirts because we were from Wisconsin, and you try and get noticed, whatever. And yeah, I was like, yeah, I'm wearing a cow shirt because I'm from Wisconsin and I'm in California for this taping.

SPEAKER_00 35:38

Obviously, personally phone, so that's a point for each of us.

SPEAKER_03 35:41

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 35:42

Do you have a deer head mounted on you mounted on your wall? Oh, hell no.

SPEAKER_03 35:45

I draw the line there. I don't either. That's very weird. That's zero for both of us.

SPEAKER_00 35:52

Have you worn Packers gear to church on Sunday? Oh, also never. That's not. I have. You have? Yeah, we had like a Packers thing once, and I was very uncomfortable with it. I'm like, I don't think God really cares. I mean, I know Vince Lombardi's God family to Green Bay Packers, but.

SPEAKER_03 36:06

I generally don't wear Packers Gear ever unless it's a game. Like I have I have a Packers running shirt and I wouldn't wear it running today. I thought it was trash.

SPEAKER_00 36:15

What do you think of when you hear bang the drum all day? There's one correct answer to this.

SPEAKER_03 36:27

Packers scoring a touchdown. I said sporting events. Yes, all right. I'll give you a lot of people. Okay, giving me, you're right.

SPEAKER_00 36:32

For those of you that haven't been to Lamble Field or watched Packer games ever, they annoyingly play. It's fun the first time. It's like, yeah, Packers scored. But I like it then when they like score three times in like five minutes, some sort of and it's like the damn song plays like 72 times. It's also like when the Wisconsin Badgers do like this push-up thing where Bucky does push-ups in the air and it's like 72 to nothing, and Bucky and they like score twice, and Bucky hasn't even got done with the first set of 72 and has to do now 79 pushups?

SPEAKER_03 37:02

Well, there are seven Buckys, so they should just trade them. They should. There's seven Buckys.

SPEAKER_00 37:06

Or there was when we were in college. What brown liquor do you put in your old-fashioned?

SPEAKER_03 37:12

I don't drink them, but brandy.

SPEAKER_00 37:15

I put rye whiskey in mine.

SPEAKER_03 37:17

No, brandy is the right answer though for Wisconsin lips. Brandy is the right one. Congratulations. Come on, bro. I don't really, I really want to like old-fashions, but like I don't. They're very good with rye whiskey. I'm a clear liquor person.

SPEAKER_00 37:28

Do you own any camo or blaze orange?

SPEAKER_03 37:31

No. This is where I draw my Wisconsin line.

SPEAKER_00 37:35

I have a hat at work. I'm not gonna take credit for this because it's just like some supplier gave it to me, but I do wear that when we're down in like areas where there may be hunters, but I'm gonna say no. Oh, I don't know, man. Is it a bubbler or a water fountain?

SPEAKER_03 37:50

Oh, well, to me, bubbler is a very Milwaukee thing. I it wasn't a Wisconsin thing. I call it a water fountain. I know.

SPEAKER_00 37:57

I do too. Yeah. But that is the wrong answer if you're gonna be a real true sconny.

SPEAKER_03 38:01

I didn't realize bubblers was a Wisconsin thing. I thought it was specifically a Milwaukee thing.

SPEAKER_00 38:05

Have you ever hit a deer in a car that you were driving?

SPEAKER_03 38:08

Okay, the quick answer is no. But also, I think yes, and it was like an out-of-body experience. I didn't actually hit it, but my sisters and I were on a road trip and we weren't in Wisconsin, and it was two in the morning.

SPEAKER_00 38:21

I have not personally hit one. I was in the car with my dad coming back from a Badger High School basketball game that he was scoring. I think Travis was playing, in fact. And we hit it in front of Nancy Cassidy's house, and I swear to God, I thought the car was gonna explode. I think this counts. We parked it down. No, it's if you personally did it. We parked it down across from the house, and like the radiator was hissing. I remember running. This was like kind of after we blew up Bosnia or something once. I was watching it on co on on CNN and I ran from the car, jumped in a ditch and screamed, She gonna blow. Seriously? Yeah, but it didn't blow up.

SPEAKER_03 38:54

I am really terrified of that every all the time. The car blowing up? Um, hitting deer.

SPEAKER_00 38:59

Oh, well, you got a Jeep, you'll be fine. Okay. Rugged. Cool. Was there a polka played at your wedding? Oh no. But there should have been. That would have been fun. Yeah, what the hell? I thought this would have been yes for sure from you.

SPEAKER_03 39:12

Well, I got married. I was like in a moment in my life where I was like, I live in a city, I don't want to be Wisconsin like this.

SPEAKER_00 39:18

We had the stupid chicken dance that some idiots requested. We tried very hard to tell our DJ. I'm very disappointed in our DJ. We had some like rules that he didn't follow and we paid him up front.

SPEAKER_03 39:29

Oh, I was very good friends with my DJ because we were in the industry at the time, so they listened to me. So thanks guys.

SPEAKER_00 39:36

We also played an unacceptable amount of country though.

SPEAKER_03 39:38

Sound by design, if you need a DJ. Pretty pissed off. I loved my wedding music, but no, no polka.

SPEAKER_00 39:44

Over or under four garnishes in your bloody Mary. Do I want more? Yep. Yeah, I want more. I think Bloody Marys are gross. I am not Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_03 39:57

My Aunt Mary, hello, come like comes to Wisconsin for Bloody Mary. It's like, can we go to that place? And it's Sobelman's is the place she's talking about.

SPEAKER_00 40:05

Two more questions. Okay. Have you ever said, you know, the state bird really should be the mosquito?

SPEAKER_03 40:13

No, I've never said that, but I agree with it.

SPEAKER_00 40:16

You know what? I'll give you a half point. Give me a half, a point five. I'm gonna give myself a half point of that one too, because no, I haven't said it, but people legit say that all the freaking time.

SPEAKER_03 40:25

They're not wrong. But it's the same in Illinois.

SPEAKER_00 40:28

Finally, have you ever had a serious conversation with someone about you know, no other state can party like we do in Squansin. A serious conversation about it? Maybe you've had several beers. Maybe you're at a party in a different state, and they're like, Yeah, I hear you people in Wisconsin can drink.

SPEAKER_03 40:48

What do you think about this? I've had a conversation about it. You've been probably at a party and probably like when when UW Madison got voted like number two party school. Yeah. So yeah, I've had that conversation. Me too.

SPEAKER_00 40:59

To everybody else, you suck at partying, come to Wisconsin. We're the best.

SPEAKER_03 41:04

But also, this made us sound real trashy. I do get very offended when people are like, you Midwesterners. And I'm like, you know what? One, listen to the country song fly over states, and it'll help you understand. Two, people are nice here. Like, I've gone out to the coast and I love uh I love a good New York City. So, but I just I feel like I need to defend the Midwest a little.

SPEAKER_00 41:24

All right, where are we at, man? Bridget, you kicked my ass. Whoop whoop. You have nine and a half. I have seven and a half.

SPEAKER_03 41:32

Oh man, you got some work to do. I do. Wow, where did I get you? I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 41:37

Did I not count right?

SPEAKER_03 41:38

I feel like we had like one thing different.

SPEAKER_00 41:41

I have eight and a half. Eight and a half.

SPEAKER_03 41:43

Math is hard, guys.

SPEAKER_00 41:44

So we're gonna put up a Google form. There's some things I'll judge you on. Uh, maybe I'll give you half points or Bridget will, I don't know. One of us will do it. One of us will do it. So we're gonna get that up. We'll have it in the show notes. Um, this is gonna be hard, I think, to get all 15. So if you get 15, we'll get you a prize.

SPEAKER_03 41:57

I don't think it's gonna be hard. Maybe uh But listen, we expect your honesty because we're from the Midwest and we are nice people.

SPEAKER_00 42:04

Exactly.

SPEAKER_03 42:06

All right, guys, that was fun. I hope you like this little fun segment of ours. Thanks for watching. Yeah. Okay, we're back to talking about food. More food. Which is another funny sconce. I just feel like this is where I'm at in life right now. So the meal plan this week um starts with Memorial Day. It's Monday, it's side dishes. Okay. So Monday is memorial day, and the meal plan starts that day. And I was like, you know what? People are probably like grilling or making burgers and they've got that figured out. So the meal plan has two side dishes on it because I'm a side dish kind of girl. Like I want the snacks. So we have um, excuse me, tomato, basil, cheddar cheese biscuits, and bacon wrapped asparagus. So you can't go wrong with either of these. I'm choosing both of them because I chose the side dishes from the meal plan this week. Because remember, you can't have you can't rent out your meal without your carbs and your vegetables. So anyway, I just picked the side dishes. I thought it was something a little bit different. They both sound delicious to me, and I would eat them and call it lunch. As I ate a bowl of broccoli and called it dinner.

SPEAKER_00 43:05

Did you know I was gonna pick this one?

SPEAKER_03 43:06

Uh, once you said, you know what I'm gonna pick, I went back and looked and was like, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:10

This is a Korean Vietnamese barbecue pork chop recipe. It comes from Bill Cam's Korean cooking cookbook. Do I have it here?

unknown 43:19

Nope.

SPEAKER_00 43:19

Nope. I have it somewhere else. Anyway, it's a great cookbook. Uh, highly recommend it. A lot of really good recipes. I did some tweaking to it because it needed a little bit of tweaking, I thought. So I tweaked it a little bit, but it's a like savory, sweet, spicy barbecued pork chop thingy that is freaking delicious. Have it with some rice, some green onion. It is so damn good. Pork chops are where it's at because uh they're cheaper than beef steaks. They uh can take more different flavors than beef steaks. And uh yeah. So yeah. Yeah, just go with go with the pork chops. We like pork chops. Get good at cooking the pork chops. Highly recommend that.

SPEAKER_03 43:53

Oh, yeah. All right, guys, you know what's time for. Kid Corner! All right. Kid Corner. So Uh, mine's not necessarily funny as usual lately. I can't ever top Lucy barfing and pooping all over herself or whatever we did. And then eating it one time. Um, but so we're in this like tremendous year of growth, in my opinion, for Elliot. He went from like my little kid to like a teenager when he turned five. And um, he's in school for the first time. And so it I this moment like made me be like, okay, so he's all we're all in, like once your kid enters the school system, you will see it totally changes, and you're suddenly like, oh shit, I gotta sign him up for this and this and this. If you are a parent that likes to do extracurriculars, which we support. So anyway, I'm very excited for him to play basketball. Obviously, he has the height of my husband. Um, he's already six, seven, it's unbelievable. Elliot is up. If you're watching, he's up to my bra line. Um, and he's five. So he's very comment. Well, I mean, I didn't know how else to describe it.

SPEAKER_00 44:54

I mean, you were kind of pointing for people that are not watching, but if they're not watching, I was kind of like pointing touching and like, hey, I can do that.

SPEAKER_03 45:01

My body, my choice, man. Which I've taught my kids, which is great, you'd think. But Lucy is like, no, mom, no touch. I'm like, okay, yeah, that's fair. Great. Uh but I need to change your diaper. So um anyway, so we were over at my in-laws, and they have a basketball hoop, and Elliot for usually he just like dicks around and like plays the ball, rides the bike, but Tyler and Elliot like had a serious basketball practice. And Tyler was like telling him exactly how you hold the ball and shoot, and Elliot was like doing the like getting pissed off if he didn't make every basket. And it was adorable, and this felt like this very this was the first like real like this is where I'm going. I'm not a crier, but yeah, people might cry right now. Um, but I don't cry, but I understand if you do but I understand if you have emotions. Um, but it was really cool. It felt like a it felt like he was old. Okay, so I'm just here to share that moment. And I also want to share because I forgot until I'm talking about it. I beat Tyler in pig. We played pig, not horse. And I beat him. Okay, but anyway, this is about my kids. Elliot's learning how to play basketball, and like we want him to grow up and be a prodigy. Is that too much to ask?

SPEAKER_00 46:08

Okay, and then he could not do press conferences because he has borders. Oh no, I'm gonna make him do it. All right, just kidding. Again, Bridget, yours team me up. I felt like we have a little bit of a transition week. My little girl, not so much my baby. I walked in Target, saw the baby clothes, like the cute summer girl, like rompers, and I started like crying because they're so wearing cute clothes like that. And she has like some very adorable cute outfits. Now let's not be, you know, hasty, but I was just kind of like but this week, this kind of like last four-day stretch at work. We're starting to look at things in sprints, so I'm also trying to like you know, do things that way. Um, this like four-day like block of my week, she did some things um that I think we might be starting to have like toddler losing the sweet little baby. She's still a great kid, but we uh Sarah and her were at Target and she picked out a toy and wouldn't let it go and made her mom buy it for her. Oh to be fair, she's never done this before. We haven't got our new toys in I don't know, six months, honestly, since Christmas. We haven't really bought anything new. Uh, we'd got a trampoline and a uh um uh wheelbarrow for outside because she likes to pick up rocks, but like an actual toy. Yeah, no. Uh it's a coconut doctor set. Oh, it's like, was it the doll that we have? It's so Lucy also loved.

SPEAKER_03 47:29

Yeah, well, she got the annoying doll instead.

SPEAKER_00 47:32

Um, so she did that. Oh uh she started screeching like a frickin' pterodactyl. And she thinks it's fun, and I think it's like she's enjoying using her voice.

unknown 47:42

I hate that.

SPEAKER_03 47:43

But she's just like I mean, gross and learning. You know who does that? That is Lenny right there.

SPEAKER_00 47:49

Um so she just does that. We were all you did her the other day, yesterday, in fact, at time of recording, and she just y'all got done, and she was sitting there, like nothing a little bit more, and looks up and smiles and goes, ah, and we're like, don't react. Just don't react. We're trying very hard. She's like, Okay, that's fun that you did that.

SPEAKER_03 48:06

Okay, please stop, don't ever do that again.

SPEAKER_00 48:08

And then finally, we had our first ever temper tantrum. Your first temper tantrum? Like, legit, she was sitting on my lap, we were reading a book, it was the morning, like slightly before had to get changed to go to school. She had her jammers on, having a great time, and then I don't know what happened, but she literally just randomly takes the book, throws it, jumps off my lap, goes running to find her mom, runs to the wrong side of the house, screams because her mom's not there, runs to the other side of the house, finds her mom, screams at her mom, and we're like, okay, let's put your clothes on. We can get going outside to go to school, takes all of the drawers, throws all the clothes out, fights getting dressed, doesn't want to go in the car, doesn't want to go outside, just sits there and cries, and it's like, whoa. This is a tough moment.

SPEAKER_03 48:57

I Shannon's going through this with Max a little, where you're like, oh, remember I said I had this really sweet, cute kid, and they still are those things, but also they're toddlers. So hopefully less. Sorry for you. This is just the beginning. I'm gonna bring you down to reality.

SPEAKER_00 49:12

More of you know cute little rompers.

SPEAKER_03 49:17

No, haven't I discussed the article and you're you are years away from this? But when you cross the aisle at Target, that's when it's really bad.

SPEAKER_00 49:24

Oh, I believe that.

SPEAKER_03 49:24

So when you're out of the like 5T and you cross over to the young kids 4-5, there's a whole article about like crossing the aisle at Target, and if you're a Target shopper, you know. And it is that was hard for me.

SPEAKER_00 49:35

I YK, YK. Okay, we're too old for that. Anyway. Oh boy. Happy Memorial Day. Please don't forget that this isn't about veterans, this is about people that died serving our country. It's a great grill out weekend, it's a great weekend to do gardening things with your friends. But please remember that it's about the people that died serving our country and protecting freedom, as douchey as that sounds. I can't ever say it seriously because it's been co-opted. But please go do something to remember those people. Um, do your part to be grateful to that and more importantly, to support those that they left behind.

SPEAKER_03 50:10

If your town has a little parade or ceremony, anything like that, that's a great way to go when you can thank someone in person, maybe a family member that lost someone. Um, I know Nick and I do that almost every year in our respective towns.

SPEAKER_01 50:21

Not last year.

SPEAKER_03 50:22

Last year it didn't happen.

SPEAKER_00 50:25

But anyway, happy memorial day. Thanks so much for listening. Have a great week. Remember, we have our House Gonsin RU challenge in. We're gonna call it a challenge, so it's like TikTok. Uh so it's in the show notes. Check out the show notes, follow along Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, all the things, all the stuff. Hello at dinnerplusdrinks.com. We'd love to hear from you guys.