Inauguration Celebration 2021 | Dinner Plus Drinks #56

SPEAKER_01 0:14

Hello, everybody. Happy inauguration week. If you are watching on the YouTubes, which you should be. Because you see, I have USA all over my place.

SPEAKER_00 0:26

Of course, of course. And I am wearing Madame Vice President.

SPEAKER_01 0:30

We decided for this week's episode, we're gonna put a little inauguration theme on this. It only happens every four years unless the president dies, then it can happen more frequently. With Joe Biden, it is a concern. He is very old, so maybe it'll happen. Maybe Madame Vice President will become Madame President, and Bridget will just have to take a Sharpie to that show.

SPEAKER_00 0:49

I'll just I don't know. I'll yeah, I'll take a Sharpie. Okay, I hope I do.

SPEAKER_01 0:53

So we'll see. But we inaugurations are fun. You know, we tried to stop it. We're gonna try and be happy and not, you know, sorky as best as we can on this one. But uh so we decided we would do some fun inauguration themed things of this and celebrate America and all the presidents that have been president.

SPEAKER_00 1:13

But let's be honest, this all started because we're like, oh my god, what's gonna happen on inauguration day if that shit happened on just a regular day at the Capitol? What's gonna happen?

SPEAKER_01 1:23

So we had we put out um a little question to all of you that follow us on Facebook, Instagram. Oh, I guess I didn't pull up Instagram. I pulled up Instagram. Yep, you pulled that one up. And we asked, who is your favorite fictional head of state? So a president, a vice president, a king, a queen, a chancellor, a dictator, um, a whatever. This was a good one. We got some awesome answers. So, Bridget, I want to throw you some of these and see what you think on these.

SPEAKER_00 1:54

But let's let's discuss here. So, if you saw this on social media, you didn't have to select only the people in the image. I think there was some confusion until people started saying things like Joe Biden.

SPEAKER_01 2:06

Yeah, somebody commented on Instagram that Joe Biden was their favorite fictional president, or as some people call him Sleepy Joe. Which is fair. But you know what? Come Tuesday. Yeah, sorry. Sorry, man! So then once that happened, you know, the ball really got rolling. So we got some good ones. Uh, you know, a lot of people put Jed Bartlett, Martin, you know, Martin Sheen in West Wing. He's one of my favorite ones.

SPEAKER_00 2:32

I have not, I know I would love West Wing, and I just haven't gone back and watched it.

SPEAKER_01 2:36

Aaron Sorkin is like your type of writing, I feel like.

SPEAKER_00 2:39

Well, I I like everyone's told me I love that, right? I love I maybe you people don't know this, but I also love political dramas, but I don't love period pieces. So not that West Wing's period piece, but like you can't. You just have the moment a little bit. You can't go back too far. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 2:52

I'm not sure. It's like one watching Friends again. There's some of the things where you're like, I don't know, but man, okay, we're gonna get off track. A lot of that. Uh some people we put up uh Julie Andrews in uh the you know Princess Diaries one. I think she's of you know Genovia, Queen of Genovia. I think she's a good one.

SPEAKER_00 3:11

But what about my fave, which I know Shannon chimed in on? Designated survivor. Designated survivor.

SPEAKER_01 3:18

We got some of that. Morgan Freeman Deep Impact. Couldn't that have happened?

SPEAKER_00 3:21

I think, which is why it's so timely.

SPEAKER_01 3:24

I mean, it could have. Uh we put it on my Facebook page. We got a nice couple of votes for uh Bill Pullman in Independence Day. We will not go quietly tonight to Independence Day. That's a great movie.

SPEAKER_00 3:42

Uh, we have to admit, I mean, I'm sorry to say, but we do have to talk about House of Cards. Yep, we got some of those. Did we get any? Okay, I know I mentioned it. I'm sorry, but I had to.

SPEAKER_01 3:54

Dave DeSimone uh shows Charlie Chaplin's character in The Dictator, which was a call out to Hitler before Hitler became Hitler. It's kind of funny, but also too soon, Dave. Way too soon. Hitler jokes are still not funny.

SPEAKER_00 4:10

Kind of like House of Current.

SPEAKER_01 4:12

It's too soon. Uh Melissa Jordan, she said Dumbledore, but then she realized Dumbledore is not ahead of state. He just runs a school, so it'd be Fudge, but Fudge did a terrible job dealing with the Death Eater. So I can't.

SPEAKER_00 4:24

I don't know what that means.

SPEAKER_01 4:27

I'm sorry. I don't know who Fudge is. He was a minister of magic.

SPEAKER_00 4:31

Okay. Maybe if you said minister of magic. I was forced to watch all of those movies at one point in my life.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

Well, who's your favorite fictional president?

SPEAKER_00 4:39

One million percent Keefer Sutherland. I love him as an actor. I didn't realize how much I loved him till designated survivor, but also I had never heard of like hit like his role. What who's the designated survivor? I never heard of that whole system. So I loved that show for the very reason of like, oh, this I never thought something like this could actually happen, but feels like it could. Feels like it could. So I also just like him as an actor, and the show is gone. It lasted like, I don't know. Didn't last very long, yeah. So I think he's my favorite. Um I'm sure if I sat and thought longer, I would get more creative, but I I love him.

SPEAKER_01 5:13

Guess mine. I can't begin to. Aragorn from Lord of the Rings. Okay, number one. Let's talk about him. First of all, he's very handsome. Vigo Mortenson's a very handsome man. Is he head of state? Yeah, he's king. He becomes king of men. Of Gondor.

SPEAKER_00 5:29

I've never seen Lord of the Rings.

SPEAKER_01 5:30

And and the North. Okay. You know, because he starts as a ranger of the north and then he becomes king. He kills all of the bad people.

SPEAKER_00 5:38

I think also I thought maybe we're married to an elf in America. No. Not a made-up land. But we weren't very specific. So I also think Leia Organa Solo is an excellent choice. I think this goes to show exactly how we think differently. Like, I was like, well, this has to be someone, some American fictional head of state.

SPEAKER_01 5:56

Our friend Daniel, who's a big nerd, uh theater guy. In the best way, Daniel. He he picked Jed Bartlett. You know, maybe he was seeing how to be from the things, but I would have thought he would have had some weird sci-fi thing too.

SPEAKER_00 6:07

I'm really proud of him for not having that. Thanks, Daniel. Did my husband respond?

SPEAKER_01 6:12

No, I think your husband would pick someone, you know, interesting.

SPEAKER_00 6:16

Maybe he would go with Star Wars. Tyler.

SPEAKER_01 6:20

Tyler, are you listening? Could you tell one of us who you talk to almost every day? The other one I do like. Uh Josie picked Julie Louis Dryfish in Veeep. You know, she started as the Veep but then became president. So it counts.

SPEAKER_00 6:30

I do. That was a good choice, especially fitting for this year with all the female power.

SPEAKER_01 6:34

Thanks, Josie. That was a fun one. Thank you to everybody who answered. We appreciate that.

unknown 6:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:40

These are so fun.

SPEAKER_01 6:42

We'll have to come up with a good one for next week, too.

SPEAKER_00 6:44

I know I love them. I love crowd participation.

SPEAKER_01 6:47

I mean, next week's theme might be Civil War themed.

SPEAKER_00 6:50

No, not going there, people. We'll get away. We'll do something more fun.

SPEAKER_01 6:55

Bridget, tell us about your week.

SPEAKER_00 6:56

Tell me about it. I'm going to open this bottle of wine here. You know, I was talking about this with someone where I think you go into the new year and you're like, I'm going to solve all of my dreams and plans for 2021, like in a week. And then after that first week, like I'll hit the ground running. So like we're in what, the second week? Second and a half.

SPEAKER_01 7:13

The 54th week of 2020.

SPEAKER_00 7:15

I'm going to call it second and a half week of 2021. And I feel like finally, like this last week was a blur to me. I like you asked me about my week. I'm like, I don't know what I did this week, but I feel like I haven't slept in a week. Do you know what I did? What?

SPEAKER_01 7:29

I got a shed. Oh yeah. I got a shed. I'm very excited about this. So to people listening. That like don't live in Wisconsin. You get a lot of stuff. You know, you need snowblower, you need shovels, you need rakes, you need uh pools for your kid. You need them. You need all these things, right? Because we got five acres here, you know. We're we're the landowning gentry of the world. So we have a lot of stuff. We have a three-car garage with our house, but uh, you know, if you have all your stuff in the garage, you know, we have like outdoor chairs, patio furniture, stuff like that. You can't use your garage if you have all your stuff in your garage. So we decided we would get a shed. And this isn't just like some little lean-to-garbage plastic thing. No, this is like a 14 by 18 shed with a door, a window, and a roll-up garage door. And we can store up door all of our stuff in there. It's got a loft. Elliot can go, you know, jump up in the loft. He can sleep there. Oh, okay, cool. It's not heated.

SPEAKER_00 8:26

I was like, is it insulated?

SPEAKER_01 8:27

Bring an insulated sleeping bag. Yes, Elliot. Uh, very excited about this shed. We've had it on order for a while. It comes fully made on a truck, and they drop it off and level it up. One of those wide load trucks. Yeah, it did have a sign that said wide load.

SPEAKER_00 8:41

I I saw that as I pulled into the driveway. There was a big vehicle here. I saw your shed. Very exciting. I literally cannot think through what I did this week. Um, I got it. So you're excited for my shed. I just I'm really excited for your shed. I'm so tired. I've just not been sleeping a lot. So that's cool. It's the weekend though, so that's super exciting. Got to FaceTime with Britney, so she made it through her first week of legislative session, which was like really exciting news.

SPEAKER_01 9:05

Have you saved the environment yet, Brittany? We're three weeks in, two and a half weeks into 2021, and you're supposed to have that solved. Okay, good. What are we drinking? So can we move on? With our inauguration edition of the podcast. I'm trying to figure this out. We are drinking Black Stallion Cabernet Sauvignon. Oh. And this is because this was served at the 2016 presidential inauguration uh dinner.

SPEAKER_00 9:29

Like I don't know how else to say this. Is this just like regular people wine?

SPEAKER_01 9:33

Well, it was a very special version of this. Oh, okay. It was like, is this just like wine you and I could buy? Yeah, but it's very similar to what this is. And uh if you go on Black Stallion's website, you can you can buy more of their stuff. It's a delicato family wine, friends of Lake Shane Country Meets, friends of Nick Vorpegle. They're very nice people. And it's a great wine. It's $20, it's Napa Cabernet. Can't beat that price for Napa Cab.

SPEAKER_00 9:56

How much was the bottle that they served at inauguration day?

SPEAKER_01 9:59

Well, I think it was free because I think everybody just donates stuff. Okay, how much would it be? Probably like 90 bucks. Oh.

SPEAKER_00 10:06

So not stupid expensive. I okay, I will drink this, but you guys, I will keep discussing this this whole time. It's been like a weird closet dream of mine to plan like a state dinner or maybe an inauguration. That would be fun.

SPEAKER_01 10:19

I've I've maybe we could have a pop-up space for dinners and we could do for presidential dinners. Maybe. Maybe.

SPEAKER_00 10:27

I've always I've done events for those of you that don't know me that are listening. I've done events for many years of my life. So I'm always thinking through like big events, like, ooh, who picked out this china? What about the menu? Did they have 10 tastings? How'd they pick this linen? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So I've always been curious, like, how does one get a job planning dinners at the White House or whatever? So this has been fascinating to me to learn about all the past inauguration day meals.

SPEAKER_01 10:51

It's very, very interesting because this week's meal plan, stay tuned, has got some inauguration tie-ins that are kind of fun.

SPEAKER_00 10:57

That's when I started like becoming obsessed when I was putting together the meal plan. I'm like, I did too.

SPEAKER_01 11:02

Yeah, I know. I got kind of really obsessed. I was like, oh, this is all very interesting.

SPEAKER_00 11:06

Okay, which leads us perfectly into. Well, I didn't comment on this wine. Obviously, I love it because it's California.

unknown 11:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:12

I was like, this is good, this is a camp miss. Bridget's gonna be a little bit more. This is gonna be an entertaining podcast. Bridget hasn't been sleeping. Bridget doesn't know what day it is. I don't know. And she's got a whole bottle of California Cabernet in front of her.

SPEAKER_00 11:26

So stay tuned for 35 minutes from now and see how I'm doing. Um, I'm doing great. This is going perfectly into my news story for inauguration day. Yes. Okay, I'm gonna tell you about this. So I was looking up news stories. What can we do? We could talk about how Airbnb is canceling all the reservations, but like I think you've probably all heard that by now. So I'm like, interesting inauguration day history or stories, whatever. I run across a website and I see AOC.gov, and I'm like, oh my god, it's AOC's website. I love her. I'm gonna go see what she has to say.

SPEAKER_01 11:57

That'd be the architect of the capital.

SPEAKER_00 11:59

It sure would. But I was obviously multitasking. I'm like, I don't know. I just like brushed past it.

SPEAKER_01 12:06

You don't know what AOC.gov is? Stop. You didn't like walk past architect of the capital signs every day and be like, This was also part of my story.

SPEAKER_00 12:13

Was like, who I didn't even know this existed.

SPEAKER_01 12:16

Isn't that a great job, Titan?

SPEAKER_00 12:17

So yeah, so it is the Architect of the Capitol website, which I had no idea was the thing. It's like a facilities manager, but way cooler title. Well, and that's like they quote the like capital woodworker in this article. So I'm sure there's like I kind of started getting lost, but the one I happen to have pulled up was about the planning of inauguration day. And this was in 2012. So it's an old article. We will post it and then you'll get lost on this website because it's fascinating and there's some great pictures. Yeah, because it's a very behind-the-scenes view. So this is like super lovely and fluffy. It's entitled One Team, One Mission, One Day. And it's all about like what the AOC's role is in planning events like this and how you start planning it the day after for the following um inauguration, and I'm sure many other large events. But so anyway, they're talking about like my favorite thing is when they talk about one of these woodcrafters, and he's like, it's a very special day. Our whole shop is part of it, and we take pride in the work we do to get ready for the ceremony. And like somewhere else, he goes on to later talk about how, like, when we all come together, this beautiful thing happens, and it's just like such a hopeful, beautiful article that I just like to think is what's going to happen moving forward after this inauguration day.

SPEAKER_01 13:25

I think that's the cool thing about a lot of the what would kind of derisively get called the bureaucracy of the Capitol and the federal government. You know, ah, these guys, lazy guys, why do we need a woodworker of the Capitol? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. It's for things like this. And it's men and women of, you know, not to be super cheesy, different political beliefs, different faiths, different ethnic ethnicities. Um, they're a very diverse group of people because I've worked with a lot of them. And they're very normal people that get have the same differing things as you and I, but they always manage to put that together and be professionals to get the will of the American people done. And I think that's so cool. And I think we should be a little kinder to government workers because government workers, you know, they they have to put aside a lot of the stuff to do what's good for everybody, and they usually do it.

SPEAKER_00 14:17

I mean, it's also a so this specific, obviously, we're talking about a political event, but anyone who's ever planned an event, if you've attended an event and maybe never planned one, step back and realize how much work goes into these events. So, you know, there's a high voltage electrician at this event. They have someone who shovels the snow off of a platform after an unexpected snowstorm. Like all of those things have to happen before you can sit and peacefully enjoy an event. And then obviously we won't even go into the security. But this I thought was awesome because it's specifically not talking about the security, which everyone's talking about this year, but it's behind the scenes, all the crap that goes into planning an event when you just like take for granted, like, oh, cool, those flags are hanging there. Like someone had to get those out of storage and hang them.

SPEAKER_01 14:57

The amount of foresight that has to go into stuff like that. I was reading this article about how the Swedish Navy planted these um super specific oak trees 200 years ago because that's how long it takes these trees to be ready for wooden ships, not knowing that we wouldn't have wooden ships anymore. But the United States Navy and like a lot of churches and things do that too, where they know they're gonna have to replace uh that was one of the big things when the Notre Dame Cathedral had the fires. Like, how are you gonna replace these huge wooden beams? And there's actually forests that like churches have grown for these very I just love this like, yeah, hey, you know, in 200 years we're gonna need this. I love that forethought.

SPEAKER_00 15:32

It was cool. It's a nerdy, I'm gonna call it an industry thing, as if I'm nearly as cool as any of the people in this article, but whatever. It was a cool look at event planning.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

So I pulled up an article from the History Channel that wasn't about UFOs, which is to me even more of a shocker. Thank you. But it was about 10 unexpected moments in presidential inauguration history. There's some cool stories in here. One of my favorite ones is Ulysses S. Grant's inauguration. His second one was one of the coldest days in DC. Uh windshield was 30 below zero. The flags all froze. Someone had to deal with that. But the most tragic thing was in the uh they had this temporary structure for the ball, and it wasn't equipped for cold weather. Oh no. They had all the champagne froze. Oh, that is as tragic. As bad as that is, they had a hundred canaries hanging from the ceiling in cages that were supposed to be the song for it, and they all froze to death and died.

unknown 16:36

Oh no!

SPEAKER_00 16:37

Not even one survived. Come on. Oh my gosh, this is fascinating. Now I want to read every one of them.

SPEAKER_01 16:43

Uh Richard Nixon's second inauguration was held at the Smithsonian Museum of History and Technology, which we now know as the American History Museum, and they had a farm exhibit at the time. A rooster escaped from it and started assaulting guests, and the Smithsonian secretary had to chase it down and get it back to the colonial barn. That's brilliant. Brilliant. And then um this has actually happened a few times, but I think it's funny because it's Barack Obama and he is, you know, kind of he was a little exuberant. He got the words wrong. Yeah, someone I was just reading, oh gosh, where was it? Kennedy, I think it sounds like he did too. Yeah. Uh Lyndon Johnson got the words wrong for his vice presidential one. Gotta be nerve-wracking. So him and John Roberts decided they they they got back together the next day and made sure they got the wording right. Because there were some people out there that were like, well, he didn't say that. Because it is a constitutionally prescribed oath. So it's it's a big deal. If he didn't do it word for word. Yeah. So, you know, he also wasn't born in America, so well, I said no, snark. Darn it. Failing.

SPEAKER_00 17:44

Come on. I mean, Jimmy Carter's here, hilarious. He has a $175 suit. Love when a politician has a great, like normal, normally priced something.

SPEAKER_01 17:53

I think there's some other stuff about Obama, and you know, some of it was about uh Michelle and her couture, which always was on point. Not always couture, that's the point. But my favorite thing was uh what came up with the constitution and her was she definitely has the right to bear arm. Okay. Bringing the dad joke back. Presidential inauguration joke. Be right back. Taking a break.

SPEAKER_00 18:36

We're back. That was a really good timing. Like we got it. Anyway, we're back with my face.

SPEAKER_01 18:41

I'm gonna have to take that clip out and use it in some of our transition stuff.

SPEAKER_00 18:44

Could you just do it on repeat like a boomerang? For those of those of you that aren't watching, we're like yielding finger guns. Finger guns, which are not allowed in inauguration. I feel like this is bad. Okay. Anyway, we are here with product recommendations. And like any good, I don't know, I wish I could tie this to a Michelle Obama couture joke, but I can't. I'm talking about my cousin. Because you're not a dad, you're a mom. It's because there's not mom jokes as bad as dad jokes. Um, I'm talking about my sweatshirt. So I love good apparel. Like you will recall, apparel and accessories. I had my vote necklace because it's a nice passive way to tell people that they should vote um without being terribly in their face. So I am wearing this Madam Vice Presidency.

SPEAKER_01 19:23

I mean, it depends on how tall they are. If they're at your neck level, then it is in their face.

SPEAKER_00 19:27

I don't I mean, if I'm sitting down, boom, Jesus. Um, okay, this beautiful sweatshirt can be purchased on Etsy by many different makers. I'll link the one that I purchased. Um, but also you can buy a million different shirts. I chose to go the direction of the female empowerment this year, of course, because for a thousand reasons, but I um am giving each of each of my sisters one of these sweatshirts. Surprise! Surprise! Hopefully you've gotten it in the mail by now, Brittany. Um, so each of these are my sisters. We're gonna wear them while we're watching the inauguration. And my kid, as you know, is super astute and always asking me things like what does your sweatshirt say? And I just thought about how cool it was that he's gonna be able to watch an inauguration where there's a woman actually being sworn in, which you know, so hopefully he just grows up thinking that's a normal part of society. So, madam vice president, crew neck sweatshirt for all of your sweatshirt needs.

SPEAKER_01 20:20

Mine is more America themed than inauguration theme. And this is something I've always wanted. My uncle actually has some of these, and I am jealous. Oh, wow. But look at these. Yeah, these are right. These are Andy Roddick Editions, Babylot Propulse 3 Stars and Stripes Tennis shoes. They're not in uh, you know, production anymore. They're from like 2012. Oh, that makes sense. You need to get these on the sneaker eBay, but they are the most disgustingly America shoes you will ever seen. They are uh they got star, they got the the what you call the like solid leather part. I have no idea. In the middle of the shoe, towards the back of the shoe, that has to be a little bit more solid. Those are it's a blue, you know, the American flag blue with str with stars. Yeah. And then towards the toe, it's red and white striping. They are disgusting, they are flashy. They say, I give no anything, I support Marica. Wow. Uh Andy Roddick wore these as he was killing people at the US Open, represented for America. I loved watching him in these. Uh he's very funny on all the social media. You should follow him if you don't. And uh yeah, if you're into sneakers or you just like America or tennis. If you're into tennis, you know these shoes. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 21:32

Uh oh, are they they're pretty like people talk about in the tennis world?

SPEAKER_01 21:35

Fashion is big in tennis, obviously. I don't know, man. Tennis is just like very far removed from a sport that I watch. It's very uh the people are very into the fashion, you know, like Nike's rolling out collections, everybody's rolling out collections every every grand slam. So uh yeah, so you should check out these shoes. They're awesome. They're bright. If you buy some, you should probably send them to me. I'm a size 13. Yeah, everybody. Actually, maybe a little bit bigger than these because they're probably a little tight. Because they're tennis shoes? Yeah, I mean look at them. Don't they look tight?

SPEAKER_00 22:02

I don't know, man. They look like they're from 2012.

SPEAKER_01 22:04

So that's that's our uh product recognition.

SPEAKER_00 22:07

We'll be right back.

SPEAKER_01 22:07

We'll be right back.

SPEAKER_00 22:27

Hello everybody.

SPEAKER_01 22:29

We're back, and we were talking that maybe Bridget should, you know, she's a very team-oriented person, but maybe she should get in tennis because instead of a uniform, she could express herself.

SPEAKER_00 22:37

I said, I don't know, sports I watch have uniforms, so like I don't know. But I have talked about golf clothing a lot with my dad. So anyway, we were just talking about clothing on the break.

SPEAKER_01 22:46

All right, but it's time for interesting questions with Bridget and Nick. And luckily it's my week. So I have some really fun presidential themed would you rathers for Bridget.

SPEAKER_00 22:57

I am feeling like you're gonna like my screen.

SPEAKER_01 22:59

Yeah, okay, okay. Okay, so these are fun. They're about all sorts of different presidents, so don't get on me about any sort of well, you didn't pick. They're about all sorts of different presidents. So the first one is Bush themed. Would you so George H. Bush, well known for liking to jump out of airplanes for his birthdays to celebrate. Or so would you rather jump out of an airplane with George H. Bush or do the Bob Ross style painting along with George W. Bush, who's now well known for doing paintings to benefit uh wounded warriors. Okay, this is a good question.

SPEAKER_00 23:32

Um Because I know you want to do the jump out the airplane thing, but I'm just gonna so I've already jumped out of an airplane. Um, but I think it'd be cool to do with H. And we're assuming he's alive, by the way. Yeah, for the record. Um, I'm actually going to choose Fab Ross painting because W was a very like part of my life, you know. So I think while I think that would be incredibly boring, um I would like to talk to him. Like I just think that would be really interesting because I grew up.

SPEAKER_01 24:01

Also, I'm gonna choose W. He's a really cool guy. Say what you want about him. He's like a dude, and I would love to do that. And you know, we raise some money for wounded warriors.

SPEAKER_00 24:09

Yeah, and I mean, yeah, I've already jumped out of a plane. I've never painted a Bob Ross.

SPEAKER_01 24:13

I'm very interested in that, but you know, I don't have enough life insurance.

SPEAKER_00 24:17

I mean, I'll tell okay, different episode, we'll talk about it.

SPEAKER_01 24:21

Would you rather have a nickname of tricky dick like Richard Nixon or old granny, which was William Henry Harrison's nickname? He was 68 when he's elected, so they called him an old granny. And then he died 31 days into his term. Old because he got the the pneumonia from his inauguration because he was out in the cold delivering a two-hour speech.

SPEAKER_00 24:43

Is that true? Yes. So he died. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 24:46

So don't stand up. It was one of the things people were worried about with Trump, in all honesty. They're like, hey man, you're not exactly like a spring chicken. So if it's gonna be 10 below, like bundle up. So I mean, Joe Biden, also no spring chicken. So would you rather be called tricky dick or old granny?

SPEAKER_00 25:02

Well, my gut was tricky dick, so I could do my finger guns. Tricky dick. But I'm gonna go with old granny because I'm a woman and I will be an old granny before I know it, I'm sure. And I cannot wait time and old granny can like wear ugly sweaters and have it be normally accepted.

SPEAKER_01 25:16

Old granny. I'm guessing you want to be tricky dick. I want to be tricky dick. I think it's a great one. There's another one I thought about I want to give you a female option. Oh, but I could have I could have gone with Andrew Old Hickory Jackson. I like old hickory. Or Tricky Dick. You could be old hickory or tricky dick. Old hickory for sure.

SPEAKER_00 25:36

That sounds like a finely aged bourbon, which I hate.

SPEAKER_01 25:41

But you know, it sounds good. So this one I think is gonna be tough for you. Oh, great. Actually, the the last three ones are tough for you. I think.

SPEAKER_00 25:48

Last three?

SPEAKER_01 25:49

I got three more. Would you rather go on an outdoor adventure to one of the national parks that he founded with Theodore Roosevelt? Or would you rather go boating off a Harrisport with JFK?

SPEAKER_00 26:01

Oh, dang, that is a toughie. Can I ask a follow-up question? Sure. Do I get to pick the park? Yeah. And do I get to drive the boat? Yeah. What kind of boat?

SPEAKER_01 26:11

It's one of Kennedy's wood boats. And you can be boating in the Caribbean, off Massachusetts, in the Pacific, in PT 109, whatever you want.

SPEAKER_00 26:20

I want a full boat. Will there be boat cheese? Can I have is there boat cheese and champagne? And can I take a picture of me in a boat where wooden boat is?

SPEAKER_01 26:29

Jackie O is there too.

SPEAKER_00 26:30

Yes, wearing something fancy next to Jackie O. Obvious choice. Jackie O is like, I mean, maybe one of the top five people I'd like to have.

SPEAKER_01 26:39

There's also probably drugs on the boat. So you know. That's why I chose it. Perfect. What do you want to do? Uh, I'm not big into roughing it like Teddy Roosevelt would be. I'm pretty sure he would be like, up at three in the morning, like, let's go find some airs to shoot. And I'd be like, hey, TR, like I'm going on the boat. Can we like chill, man? Like, I can we go meet Bridget. She's out on the boat. I was kind of watching these stars. Up and at him, Carpidium. I would like to meet Teddy Roosevelt. I've seen the Night at the Museum movies. He's insane. So, yes, I'm also gonna go boat with JFK.

SPEAKER_00 27:11

I'd like to do both of those. I thought it'd be fun.

SPEAKER_01 27:13

But I do love a screaming.

SPEAKER_00 27:16

Britney will take me to the national park.

SPEAKER_01 27:17

So there you go. Would you rather watch Hamilton with noted villain of the musical Thomas Jefferson or watch the movie Lincoln with Abraham Lincoln and have his commentary on what's true and not.

SPEAKER_00 27:32

Oh God.

SPEAKER_01 27:33

Um because Jefferson would just bitch throughout the entire thing.

SPEAKER_00 27:37

So actually, I haven't seen Hamilton and I know I should. Everyone has told me I should. I intended to. I don't have a lot of four free hours. Um, I actually really would like to meet Honest Abe. Um, so if I could just travel all the way back, or if you know he's gonna be able to get away.

SPEAKER_01 27:54

He gets to come this way because there's no movies back then.

SPEAKER_00 27:56

Plus, yeah, also um him coming here would be a fascinating journey. So if he could see what the world looks like now, honest Abe it is.

SPEAKER_01 28:05

Last question.

SPEAKER_00 28:07

These are wait, which one do you want?

SPEAKER_01 28:08

Uh I want to watch Hamilton with Jefferson because I think hearing him just bitch about Alexander Hamilton nonstop and also like the the language gap, and they're like, what is this music? Would they be singing? Yeah, would they be singing? Oh, yeah, yeah. Jefferson? Yeah. No, he'd just be watching it with us. Oh, well, I'd like him to sing along. Well, I'm sure we could feel like he could sing along. He probably could. He's a he's a noted. What they have some, oh, he was called Long Tom. Because he was very tall. Tall? Oh, was he? He was 6'5. Should we call Ty Should we call Tyler Longtie? Long tie.

SPEAKER_00 28:41

Long tie. Sounds like actually an Indian, like a chief Indian name.

SPEAKER_01 28:46

Last one. Okay. Would you rather have a beer with White House brewer and noted beer connoisseur Barack Obama?

unknown 28:54

Oh man.

SPEAKER_01 28:55

Or a glass of champagne with noted wine drinker and fashion icon, Michelle Obama.

SPEAKER_00 29:00

Dude, not fair. I'm gonna say that I am gonna be able to pull off both of them. I actually really want to meet Michelle Obama. I think that would be awesome. I mean, that's an impossible question. But I want to have a glass of champagne, but mostly I think it'd be really fascinating, especially now, especially this year, to meet Michelle Obama.

SPEAKER_01 29:24

I'm gonna have a beer with Barry. Yeah, Barry.

SPEAKER_00 29:26

Beers with Barry. That's a really good question.

SPEAKER_01 29:29

He's a he, you know, we could bro out, we could play some hoops. This is why I'm not sure. Did you see him do uh uh comedians having coffee in cars, the episode he did? Yeah, he did one with Seinfeld and he was it's Seinfeld's show where he drives one of his cars to pick some comedian up and they have a cup of coffee and talk about it. It's a it's funny. And he did a he did one with Obama while he was president, like kind of on his way out where Obama's just like, I got a year of nothing happening. The Republicans have the Senate, like I'm just gonna do cool stuff. I'm gonna brew some beer. So he did a he did an episode with Seinfeld, and it was really funny because they wouldn't like they did a shtick of like he couldn't drive off the premise and you know stuff like that.

SPEAKER_00 30:07

So it was funny. I'm just gonna sit here and like be upset that I have to both never think those things are gonna happen because they're not, but also You never know. You're right.

SPEAKER_01 30:16

I mean they get an oh maze sometimes and do things like that.

SPEAKER_00 30:19

If I'm having champagne with Michelle Obama, I'd like to think that like maybe I could just like meet the hubs somehow. Okay, anyway. Moving on, those were great. Thanks. We did a great job. I was really nervous that you were gonna stick me in some weird political corner.

SPEAKER_01 30:32

No, I I wanted to make it fun, and you know, we uh we actually got a shout out at the store from W one time. He was driving by and said, Hello, Vorbagel family, how y'all doing? He was actually supposed to stop in, but then there was a security.

SPEAKER_00 30:44

Oh, when he came to town? Yeah, yeah. I remember that.

SPEAKER_01 30:48

It would have been, and I wouldn't have even been there because I was at his rally.

SPEAKER_00 30:51

Downtown?

SPEAKER_01 30:52

No, at Kenosha the day. Yeah, it was very sad.

SPEAKER_00 30:54

I remember him driving through town. I remember like standing by Kevin.

SPEAKER_01 30:57

It's really cool. Like, it's really cool to have a president. Doesn't really matter.

SPEAKER_00 31:00

Yeah, it doesn't matter if you're not gonna be able to do it.

SPEAKER_01 31:01

There's maybe one president I'd have been like, no, peace out, and that is Andrew Johnson. Just the one. Andrew Jackson, sorry. Lyndon Johnson, I would have been scared to have him in, but he would have killed me. Good thing he didn't stop by. Okay, so this week we're talking meal plan, and tell us about this week's meal plan because it's kind of cool.

SPEAKER_00 31:21

We're not actually gonna give you a million options this week because what we want you to do is travel back in time with us. And like we talked about earlier, like I think it's fascinating to see the fun stories of past events, how these events happen, but also what they ate and drank.

SPEAKER_01 31:35

I love seeing the like culinary habits over time. Taste at home will target me with these like 50, 1950s Christmas recipes you could try. I'm like, I'm trying them all.

SPEAKER_00 31:44

Now we're gonna get targeted with all of it. Um, so Nick actually said he ran across an article, and then we both, I think, spent way too much time deep diving into this. Like, so I, of course, as usual for me, couldn't make a decision, but went with this one. So, what we did was pick some of our like past favorite inauguration meals slash stories. So, our meal plan this week, like we'll talk about the meals and then share a little tidbit about the story behind that meal and why it is what it is, because they're they're funny.

SPEAKER_01 32:12

Um, y'all can make one of your own. A lot of restaurants in DC are doing uh inauguration themed takeout things that are funny and like you know, wink wink, nudge, nudge jokes. So I think it's cool. You can do your own, like this is something we should all celebrate.

SPEAKER_00 32:26

I mean, this is like part of why I chose the one I did because it's totally approachable, something I could make. Um there was there is a feeling. Yeah, because you can buy it at Lake Sheneva Country Means. Yeah, see? And when I say make, I mean buy. Um there's there was a funny one that was like just snacks. Yes. So I was gonna choose that one, but I chose a meal.

SPEAKER_01 32:41

Uh Jimmy Carter, because he's a noted cheapskater.

SPEAKER_00 32:44

No, it was the one that was marching in the parade. Um, okay, anyway, that's yeah, it was Carter. Was it? Okay. Well, so what I actually chose was Roosevelt. So Franklin Roosevelt, um, in 1945, it says, in the interest of wartime rationing, which I mean, like, okay, but also maybe because this was easy. Franklin Roosevelt's housekeeper served guests cold chicken salad. This is my favorite part. Rolls without butter. Come on. Yes, rolls without butter, coffee with no sugar, and cake with no frosting at the president's fourth inauguration. So, like, this is funny.

SPEAKER_01 33:18

Uh- there was a funny quote about that too, where one of the guests went to the housekeeper and said, You did a great job. How did you make chicken salad with so little chicken and so little celery?

SPEAKER_00 33:26

So mayo. But like, the I don't like sugar in my coffee, so I'd be on board. I like rolls like with or without butter, if they're good rolls. So I'm on board for this. Um, I don't like too much frosting on my cake, so you know, this meal's for me.

SPEAKER_01 33:39

So Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer and he served like peanuts and pretzels. Yeah, pretzels. So one of my favorite things is if you are, you know, lobbying in the Capitol and you need a snack, you go to one of the Georgia members' offices because they have an endless supply of peanuts and Coca-Cola. Because Coca-Cola bribes the crap out of the Georgian office people with just like constant Coke, like, hey guys, we love Georgia. And then just the Georgia peanut farmers are like, hey, show everybody some of our some of our you know, peanuts. We love our peanuts. So like you can just go there and get snacks. So if you're at the Capitol and you're about to pass out, that's where I need to go. That's where you need to go.

SPEAKER_00 34:16

My doctor My doctor said, like, when you need that sugar, you drink soda. I'm like, I don't have to.

SPEAKER_01 34:21

Also salty peanuts. Like, it's perfect. That's great. So they may have stopped it recently. Actually, they may have stopped it recently because of some sort of BS anti-bribery laws. Many things. But I also I do think like the way the Atlanta companies like all stick together. Is funny is like really kind of funny. Like Air Train always had Coca-Cola and peanuts, and they had like a Home Depot themed, like I love that. It's like good for them, man. Yeah, hot Llanna living it. We got quick trip and culverse here. Yeah, five ever president. It's gonna be a quick trip catered to Nogar's.

SPEAKER_00 34:49

Blazers and Culver's burgers.

SPEAKER_01 34:53

Awesome. So my favorite meal was Ronald Reagan. He was a smoker, you know. He was he was in Hollywood, had to smoke, probably to keep that weight off, you know, look fabulous. And he used uh jelly bellies to not smoke, basically. This is before nicotine, so he just popped some different kind of drug, sugar. And so for his inauguration meal, he got, I can't remember that it was some ridiculous amount of jelly bellies shipped to him. I saw that. And the beans were some of his favorite flavors, and they were, of course, red, white, and blue. So they were cherry, coconut, which is a terrible jelly belly flavor. It's good with mixed with other things, and blueberry.

SPEAKER_00 35:31

Nice, that's hilarious. Is it was actual jelly belly brand, right?

SPEAKER_01 35:34

Actual jelly belly brand.

SPEAKER_00 35:36

That's important.

SPEAKER_01 35:36

Very important.

SPEAKER_00 35:37

That's hilarious. Okay, so can we make that meal? Can I have that this week? Sure. And it could be my favorite meal for next week's podcast.

SPEAKER_01 35:45

My favorite meal was I sat there honoring Ronald Reagan, God bless, R I P, uh, watching Joe Biden be sworn in, eating my jelly belly.

SPEAKER_00 35:54

And drinking my champagne. I think for a long time I knew nothing about politics, and I only said I liked Ronald Reagan because Shannon, me, and Ryan Cocroft, my grade school, and maybe other people, I don't remember, we did a report on Reaganomics. And it's like all I know about Ronald Reagan is like whatever grade I was in, I had to do a report on Reaganomics. So I used to be like, yeah, he's my favorite president.

SPEAKER_01 36:15

He had some good speeches. I mean, that's literally all. I have no reason. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. Who can forget that? I think that'd be a fun one. You know, like sometime if your neighbor, you have lovely neighbors, but like if they build a wall, you could be like, tear down this wall. If they build a wall. Start throwing jelly bellies at them. If my neighbors build a wall, I'm gonna think there's probably my neighbors built a wall.

SPEAKER_00 36:38

That's true. It's called a fence.

SPEAKER_01 36:40

It's actually called a berm.

SPEAKER_00 36:41

Oh, yeah, the berm, you're right. It is like a berm. I mean, it is a wall of dirt. It was like a 20-foot wall of dirt. Hey guys, welcome to the neighborhood. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 36:53

Now, uh, we really hope you guys enjoyed all the presidential fun on this one. If you have some favorite presidential food tidbits, yeah, uh, whatever, let us know. We'd love to hear.

SPEAKER_00 37:03

What are you doing for the inauguration?

SPEAKER_01 37:04

You know, Lyndon Johnson was a beef rancher. We could have done some Lyndon Johnson stuff. He he was an interesting person.

SPEAKER_00 37:12

Uh I'm having a Zoom party with my sisters for inauguration, and we're dressing up. I mean, I'm gonna wear this with like a ball gown. Because we want a reason to dress up, and what a reason? Yeah, because America, that's a great reason. We're like, we just want to dress up. And I know that it's at noon. Um, so that evening when it's all over the TV again is when we're gonna do it.

SPEAKER_01 37:31

Nice. Yeah, busy night. I'm probably just gonna tune in, you know, and and watch it and hope Joe Biden says something interesting that makes the stock market go up.

SPEAKER_00 37:40

Oh, Nick. Okay, everybody. Guess what it's time for? Kid Corner. All right, everybody. Bridget, what do you got? I'm sticking with inauguration theme, guys. I mean, I'm mostly sticking with presidential theme, and I'm sure I've touched on this, but I am super proud and also a little ashamed of how much I've told Elliot about politics this year.

SPEAKER_01 38:00

So he asked me how a bill becomes a law. Yeah, and when I started saying to him the, you know, I'm just a bill song, he said, I talked to Boo and she said that is not how that works.

SPEAKER_00 38:10

You are wrong. He did, he, I mean, he's asking some interesting questions, but we very much as parents take the approach of like, uh, we can't hide the world from him. So we want to tell him about the things before he finds out from someone else at school or like some smart approach, you know, news in the background that we can't control or whatever. So um, yes, I'm a control freak, so I choose to control the narrative. Um, so we did talk a lot about what's going on at the Capitol, but yeah, it went deep down into like, what is Congress? Um, so anyway, early on during the election, we have some stellar footage of Elliot uh cheering on Joe Biden, and he, I think it's a little confused because Tyler discusses his love for Bernie Sanders and he calls him a Tyler's a Bernie bro. A Bernie bro. And so I think Elliot is a little confused. So we are Biden bros. So it is awesome, it's great. I just am gonna smile about the fact that he seems interested in it now. I know he's four, and the point is we can talk openly about it, and I'm super excited, and Biden bros.

SPEAKER_01 39:10

Biden bros. Uh mine's about teething, and we've talked about teething before. Simona is in a bad place, she's such a good baby, and like she's a toddler, I guess. She's a toddler! She's she's she's so good, she's so happy. And on Monday, when she came home from daycare, we it said in there, Simona was a little more emotional than usual today. And I'm like, what does that mean? And then we had her for about 10 minutes, and she would do something, uh, like play with her stacking cups nicely, like she does. She likes the stacking, and then take them and chuck them and start screaming, just absolutely screaming for someone to pick her up. And then you would hold her for about two minutes, and then she'd start jumping and she'd go play with something else. And um, I think it's because you know, all of the teeth coming in. You can see that she's got some on the bottom, some on the top coming in. And I'm sure she's in excruciating pain all the time. We can only drug her so much.

SPEAKER_00 40:08

Yes, everybody. That's it.

SPEAKER_01 40:10

And uh, yes, everybody, children's style and all for teeth and pain is totally acceptable. I am not a bad parent.

SPEAKER_00 40:16

It's okay.

SPEAKER_01 40:16

Uh Sarah's the one doing the dosing. She's stuck with that whole deal. She does a much better job of it than I do. Here you go. Sarah's very scientific, very good, very patient. She does a wonderful job with that.

SPEAKER_00 40:29

Does she like the medicine? Uh yeah, she's okay with it. Our kid, like um Elliot used to suck it down like juice, and Lucy hates it. Shocker. Shocker.

SPEAKER_01 40:36

So I I just why, why, why is it so painful? Like, we obviously need teeth.

SPEAKER_00 40:41

Can you imagine though? Like, I don't know, poor.

SPEAKER_01 40:44

You know, sharks just have endless teeth. Yeah. Just like pop them in a big.

SPEAKER_00 40:47

Why can't our toddlers be more like that?

SPEAKER_01 40:49

You know, she's good at the baby sharks song. You know, God, don't even. Don't do it. Don't do it. Guys, we're moving past that. So, anyway, that's I just, man, why teething?

SPEAKER_00 41:00

What I was like really hoping for you to sing an America song for us.

SPEAKER_01 41:07

God bless some. I fully expected some kind of tribute.

SPEAKER_00 41:11

And that's we love. You're welcome, everybody. Thank you for listening to the video.

SPEAKER_01 41:15

Would you like me to complain about the Star Spangled Bell?

SPEAKER_00 41:18

Don't complain. We are happy, we are positive. It is inauguration week and we are pumped.

SPEAKER_01 41:23

So, a little behind the scenes, we hope you enjoy the um pomp and circumstance not the pomp, the hail to the chief with uh some ruffles and flourishes. Bump ba da ba-da-ba-ba-da-ba-ba-da-ba. Uh Nick listens to this a lot and told me lots of band things. Yeah, really. Well, because I had to make sure that we could play it without getting sued. Uh, because you know, we have to have licenses for the music we use. Uh shocking thing to people that are maybe interested in getting to podcasting. You can't just play any music that you want that other people own. You have to license it. In trouble. Big time trouble. Uh so I had to research that. Then I got a little some of the band nerd stuff. Uh so very exciting. And uh the title of this episode is Inauguration 2020. I'm guaranteeing you I'm gonna misspell it somewhere. 2021.

unknown 42:07

Damn.

SPEAKER_00 42:08

Yeah, he's doing great. So the actual title I know, inauguration, Nick and I were both saying we can't spell it. Like my Zoom invite for inauguration says Inaug fancy lunch. So anyway, we're doing great. We hope if it's misspelled, sorry, you know what we mean.

SPEAKER_01 42:25

God bless America. Long live Joe Biden and Prosper. Uh and Madam Vice President. Hi, Madam Vice President. You know, may we all come together and enjoy a prosperous four years and do this crap all over again with the case.

SPEAKER_00 42:42

And let's be like the woodworkers and the electricians, and let's think more like that back in 2012.

SPEAKER_01 42:49

So moving forward. If you have any thoughts, any ideas for questions or themes for next episodes, things you'd like us to talk about, hello at dinnerplusdrinks.com. Drop us an email. You can always find us on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook Dinner Plus Drinks Podcast. We appreciate all your support. Thanks for listening, thanks for sharing. Hope you enjoy this episode. We'll see you soon. Thanks, guys.