Kiss of Death - Dinner Plus Drinks #134

SPEAKER_00 0:00

I'm ready.

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Oh, you're ready?

SPEAKER_00 0:01

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:01

Uh that was bad communication on our part. About what? If we were studying or not.

SPEAKER_00 0:05

Oh yeah, we're just hanging out. Yeah, man. I thought you saw my stuff in the outline.

SPEAKER_01 0:09

We uh what should we kiss of death this week, Bridget?

SPEAKER_00 0:13

Yeah, no shit. Everything we talk about, this has been burning down 2022, man.

SPEAKER_01 0:26

Well, if you don't know what we're talking about.

SPEAKER_00 0:29

Alex Lazarie. But also the weather. I would say we're talking about two things here.

SPEAKER_01 0:33

And we had a great time doing our podcast with Alex Lazarie. Thank you to everybody that came out.

SPEAKER_00 0:38

Yeah, and thanks to everyone on this team who allowed that to happen.

SPEAKER_01 0:41

We I thought it was a really uh, you know, pat ourselves on the back. Well done interview. I did have a number of people from all over say I really enjoyed listening to it and changed my mind about how I was gonna vote. Uh different, you know, different ways, or like not necessarily gonna vote for him, but just, you know, like it was a good thing. Um and then boom, he dropped out.

SPEAKER_00 1:02

I had, you know, I had a lot of people say, hey, you guys did a great job letting him talk, because no offense, but like that's what that podcast was for, you know, to hear from him, and which I was nervous about. I because you know, we're used to just talking for an hour at you guys. So I hope you enjoyed that. But yeah, I, you know, I like him as a human being, uh, so I like to think this was the right choice for the Democratic Party. But yeah, sad, sad.

SPEAKER_01 1:24

Yeah, it seems like there's a lot of pressure to clear a runway for Mandela Barnes, from what I've been ever able to gather, and that's unfortunate because um I think a well-run primary race and letting people one of the things in Wisconsin primaries is that it's an open primary. So you can choose to vote for either the Republican Party primary or the Democratic primary. So you don't have to be registered as any which one. Uh sometimes the Libertarian Party or the Green Party has one. You can vote in that, but that's really stupid. But don't do that. Because we are in a two-party system, we can debate if that's good or not later. But we're not going to. We're not going to. It's a different podcast. I think we all agree it's a bad system. Yeah. We uh you can vote for whomever. What it does for me is now I'm definitely voting in the Republican primary because I'm there's someone that I definitely don't want running for an office. So not that I really care if they win or not. I just don't want them to, you know. So I'm gonna vote for strategic reasons in that primary.

SPEAKER_00 2:21

But sadly, people aren't smart enough to do that.

SPEAKER_01 2:23

Uh, there's actually a shocking amount of cross-voting. It's called cross-voting. Yeah, it's in political science, it's a big deal, it's a big thing. I think there would have been a lot of people that maybe would not have voted Democratic in the general that would have voted for Alex in the primary because they're like, you know what? If Ron Johnson's gonna lose, I don't want Mandela Barnes to be our senator, but I could live with Alex Lazary. And polling never captures that. Uh, so it's unfortunate. So here we are. Uh I think polling's a whole bunch of shit anyway. It is because who when's the last time you answered your phone to do a poll?

SPEAKER_00 2:58

Right. That's what I mean.

SPEAKER_01 2:59

I just it's such a cell phones don't work. It polling worked when you could call people on their landline, you knew exactly where it is, and you could get a representative sample. It doesn't work anymore. I know.

SPEAKER_00 3:08

So why hasn't like you know more about this than me? Why haven't we caught up with that?

SPEAKER_01 3:12

Because it's a huge industry and it's a lot of money.

SPEAKER_00 3:15

Oh, so it's all about the money still. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 3:18

What you're saying is what I hope we don't kiss of death is Indeed Brewing Company.

SPEAKER_00 3:22

Hey, hold on. We kissed of death something else.

SPEAKER_01 3:25

Well, I just want to talk about this beer before it's not the coldest. So I want to make sure.

SPEAKER_00 3:29

Come on, man, put some ice on it. It was in a fridge. All right, so indeed, we love them. We love their branding. That's what I judge my beer on for anyone that's wondering. But what are we drinking, Nick?

SPEAKER_01 3:40

We are drinking their Paloma, which is a grapefruit-infused cocktail ale thingy. Uh, so it's like a Paloma cocktail. Yeah. But as a beer. So less alcohol, you can take it more places. It's squritzy, delicious.

SPEAKER_00 3:53

This is what I'm here for because you know I'm not a huge fan of canned cocktails, but a canned cocktail beer, I can get on board with because it's just a beer. Not trying to be something else. I like, I love these. I forget what was the other one we tasted when we had Indeed here. Keelime sour? Yes. Keelime pie sour. Yeah, actually, we tasted that a while ago. Yep. Yeah. Anyway, I'm on board with these like cocktail-infused beer. Are a lot of people doing this?

SPEAKER_01 4:16

Um, I'd say a decent number. Like uh more and more people are enjoying the sour beers, and this is technically a sour beer.

SPEAKER_00 4:23

No, see, that turns me off every time.

SPEAKER_01 4:26

But this is technically a sour beer. That's how you get those tangy flavors in it.

SPEAKER_00 4:30

Oh, but we've talked about that, right? My my extremely sophisticated palate cannot handle sour beers because it tastes like vomit bile. Haven't we talked about this on the floor?

SPEAKER_01 4:38

Yeah, Nick in the kitchen recently described something as no offense, but that flavor before you're about to throw up. And like, yeah, that's a real flav flavor.

SPEAKER_00 4:46

100%. And that's what's sour, like specifically very sour beers, sour gumballs. I remember being like tortured as a kid eating those. Good times.

SPEAKER_01 4:55

Do you want to know what the actual flavor component is? I can tell you.

SPEAKER_00 4:59

No, but I feel like you're gonna tell me anyway. No, I won't then. I'll tell you. Like a flavor, like what makes up that flavor?

SPEAKER_01 5:04

Yeah, what you're tasting.

SPEAKER_00 5:05

Uh, sure.

SPEAKER_01 5:06

It's called um I've never thought about that. It's called THP. Uh, it's really easy to get uh you know confused with something else that's T. T H uh But anyway, it's uh it's called Tetraheedon Pridine. Okay. Um and it's kind of that serile, like there's some like fruit loopy things in the background flavor of this. That's what it is. And if you don't think that's delicious. If you don't manage that right, it gets that really biley gross flavor. Oh wow so this is what's called a kettle sour where you you do it afterwards. Yeah, and you kind of shortcut the time to get that flavor out. So if you don't manage your temperatures and things right, it gets out of control. So a lot of people that don't do this well, yeah. So that's why. Well, indeed does it well. Thanks for the sample, Kylan. Good job.

SPEAKER_00 5:53

Also, good job on D indeed on your clothing because she had a rockin' shirt. I loved, I think we talked on here about a brewery that was like uh taking flannels from thrift stores and putting their logo on it, which I just think was bomb. That's basically I'm sure this shirt was not from a thrift store, but you know, I love that. Like it doesn't just have to be a crappy t-shirt anymore. Great job, beer industry. Way to go, beer industry. While we're drinking, let's talk about the concert with all the drinking that never happened. Uh, I believe I would have been talking about how awesome the Jimmy Buffett concert was on air this week, but it never happened.

SPEAKER_01 6:32

We have wine complained about our events and weather calls and how hard it is here. And I would just like to say how vindicated I feel I thought it was to see the largest concert promoter in the world horribly fuck up a weather call. I mean, just flounder. I think they have uh in their defense, they did not make the call. The sheriff's department made the call.

SPEAKER_00 6:54

And the Troy Fire Department.

SPEAKER_01 6:56

The way they the way they communicated it was bad. But this the Jimmy Buffett concert, people showed up at you said 11?

SPEAKER_00 7:01

Well, the early lot opened, the VIP parking started at 11, the rest of the lot opened at 3.

SPEAKER_01 7:06

And if you've never been to a Jimmy Buffett concert, you get there at 3.

SPEAKER_00 7:10

And you st it start drinking. I mean, you get there, like we were, we got there, we were parked with our tents out of our car at 3 15. And you said some people or 11 had uh sandbars and no, those people were three o'clock arrivals. So yeah, there was a whole lot to one side of us that had, I mean, hundreds of tents, like hundreds of cars that came in early. Uh that's a bit excessive if you ask me, but I'm not here, Judge. Uh three o'clock, we were like one, two, four rows back. But when we say four rows, like this is in a field, that's hundreds of cars. Yeah. Um, and then there was another complete double stack row behind us. And then we didn't notice, we're like, oh, there's no one else behind those people. Like they must have closed the parking lot, you know. But yeah, people, people dump sand out, you blow up inflatables, you pop up tents, bring out all your food.

SPEAKER_01 7:52

So the National Weather Service had issued a severe weather watch watch, whatever the bad one is. I can't ever think they need to make it not warning and watch. They need to make it. They I know they do they're like talk a watch, talk a warning to try and get they need to change it. It's too confusing. I'm a smart human being.

SPEAKER_00 8:07

I can't keep it straight. A watch means the conditions are right. A warning means the conditions are here, essentially. Like it is happening.

SPEAKER_01 8:13

Just giving you a heads up. So they had it issued at 7 o'clock in the morning, and they canceled the event based on that warning at 2 30.

SPEAKER_00 8:24

Wow, it depends who you're listening to.

SPEAKER_01 8:26

So the actual call by the sheriffs and fire department. So either you say we're going with the National Weather Service and you cancel it before anybody shows up and gets blitzed out of their minds, pays the parking, is not safe to drive home as you're shooing them out of the parking lot. Or you say, Well, you know what, we're gonna do this at seven o'clock when we know if the weather's actually coming through or not. The weather did not come through.

SPEAKER_00 8:49

It rained for like there would have been like 20 minutes of unfortunateness. But let me tell you, I've been going to Alpine Valley since I was eight years old for concerts. I know, don't judge my parents. And I have been there in mudslides on that hill. Yeah. I have been there.

SPEAKER_01 9:05

People like I've been to Buffett when it's been pouring rain. And you know what? It's incredible because you all just are wet together and it's the music for it.

SPEAKER_00 9:13

And we all had ponchos, which I I made fun of my friends. I was like, why are you bringing a poncho? Like, just you're in a swimsuit. You're gonna get wet. You know, um, it was nuts. It how how it was so shitty. So we got there, and my dad was frustrated because his phone had crashed. Um which I hear you, it happened to me, and it's incredibly frustrating, especially on a day that he was coordinating a whole group. And so he was still in his car trying to figure out something with the phone when we were setting up the tailgate. He heard on Radio Margaritaville, Jimmy Buffett Radio, that it had canceled. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:43

At 2 30, he heard that. So, and this was crappy of Buffett, too, because like Sheriff went to him and said, Hey, we're done. And he just went right away, didn't go to the venue, didn't say, like, hey, we're gonna give you 30 minutes to figure out how to get people out of the parking lot. Just said, Hey, everybody, it's canceled. Yeah, I just that's crappy. Like the venue does need some time to say, like, okay, this is how, you know, are we gonna figure out a reschedule? Right. Because you have to Yeah, tell us.

SPEAKER_00 10:05

I mean, what was frustrating for us, uh, we had heard this rumor, it was canceled. We're like, no, we don't believe it. But like my dad was right, and we're ah, we don't believe it, we don't care, you know. Then at 4 30, we had found out that it was canceled.

SPEAKER_01 10:18

Yeah, life nation took way too long.

SPEAKER_00 10:20

But then they told us, and it was just like people like 14-year-old girls who used to be me, I used to work in the parking lot, come around being like, it's canceled. Like, hey guys, hey, you know, whispering because they're scared of drunk adults. And at 4 30, they tell us, but we can stay in the parking lot till six. Why? Why are you letting us stay? Too sober on. Like, yeah, so I I had stopped drinking because I was a driver. So I had a glass of how how responsible. I had a lot of people in my car. Um, yeah, I had a glass of like champagne and was like, okay, well, I guess I'll eat a sandwich and just like hang out. And yeah, and then we ended up, then the next failure, bars in Lake Geneva. Yeah. One of you just needed to put on your social media, Buffett people, come here. Because I don't give a crap if you hate Buffett. Everyone will spend money, everyone was ready to get drunk at a concert. So just say, hey, and then play Jimmy Buffett all night.

SPEAKER_01 11:12

The end and put Corona on special. Like, I don't know. So Sarah and I had a lovely date night that night. We actually got a babysitter. We went out to a restaurant that uh we were able to sit down and not rush our meal and just behave like two adults together, and it was great. And as we were leaving the restaurant, people started pouring back into because it's at a hotel. It was Brasago at Gran Geneva. I can just tell you. The pork ragoo was delicious. Also, their house salad is super underrated. I highly recommend it. No, the dressing's great. Like it is a great salad. They do a really good job with that. Um and people were pouring back in, pissed off.

SPEAKER_00 11:50

Because people travel from all over. We met people from um uh Massachusetts. Yeah. And so they came for the iconic venue.

SPEAKER_01 11:58

Yeah, that's exactly what it is. So that was funny. We went to a couple local establishments. The one was already packed, they were having their own patio party and couldn't have done it. The other one was our friend Beth at the bottle shop where we hosted the podcast, and she was supposed to have live comedy that night. Oh unfortunately, as of eight o'clock that morning, only two people had bought tickets, so she decided to cancel it. At 7:30, as we were like closing down the bottle shop, people start pouring in, like, I hear there's live comedy, I hear and Beth's like, because Beth was like, should I go? So she actually did like turn the music to Radio Margaret Readaville and like but she had sent everybody home. Wine bar wasn't the place though. But like if she would have had the comedy show or like not sent everybody home, she would have probably done the like open the back room up as well.

SPEAKER_00 12:41

Give me the patio, yep, throw on like that's all we wanted. We wanted a patio because we are all like, screw you, it's not raining. Yep. Anyway, sorry, bars, you missed an opportunity there. The place we chose to go seemed clearly annoyed that half of Alpine Valley showed up. Then they did a last call for their outdoor space in the weather, and then they reopened it. So anyway, what a mess. What a mess. So yeah, I do my friends hate me because I was like, You guys, I have to make weather calls for events, and they're like, Yeah, shut up, we don't care. But Nick, Nick appreciated it. Yeah, I think like right away I was like, oh my god. Yeah, like okay, and last thing before we, you know, tell you things that aren't complaining. Happy birthday to my mom. Happy birthday, Beth. On release day, it will be her birthday. Mama G, happy birthday. Happy birthday. That's all. Just had to make sure to wish her that before we moved right on to the enjoy retirement, happiness. You know, she's going on another trip. So she's been taking road trips with her sister. Nice. I know, it's been great. She's living her best life. So here we go.

SPEAKER_01 13:41

Boy, back to the boards. Oh, I actually already had okay, I'm gonna release one of my continue your thing because I actually had this as one of my random things I was gonna talk about.

SPEAKER_00 13:48

Oh, my article? Yes, I'll find a new one.

SPEAKER_01 13:50

No, no, no, that's a good one. Talk about that one.

SPEAKER_00 13:51

Okay, so we you know live in a world of social media, and you know I'm I've talked on here how obsessed I am with the Instagram culture in general and how it's replaced traditional advertising. So so many people have been complaining, always complain about the Instagram algorithm. Have you noticed it as much? I haven't noticed it this round as bad. I did get because I got put on the full screen.

SPEAKER_01 14:12

Oh and I was like maybe kind of drunk when I said, Yeah, sure. So it was your fault. I didn't really know. Or like I was no, it was during like an event that was trying to go from my personal one to Lake Geneva Country Meets. Oh, so I was like it is annoying. You know, so I was like, yes, whatever. I need you to switch accounts. Yeah, yeah. And so then I put my personal one back in and I'm like, what is going on here? Why is it black? Why am I in dark mode? I don't understand what's happening. I hated it.

SPEAKER_00 14:38

Yeah, I mean, they're constantly they, the powers that be, constantly changing everything with Instagram feeds, so you're not seeing what you want to see. So uh NPR, who we all love and trust, it's a.org, guys. You can trust them. Uh published an article that was great and brief and bullet pointy, which is what I love. Give me them bullet points. Yes, four steps you can take right now to improve your Instagram feed. And this is more to like make sure you're seeing what you want to see. So we will obviously link to the article if you want to read the details, but it is give input on your algorithm, which I love because I am just like a I like and save, like and save. If I want, if I want this person to keep showing up, I always save their post because that helps. But this goes into a little more detail, which I didn't know. So that was really helpful. Snooze suggested posts temporarily. People seem to be getting really mad about the suggested posts. They don't bother me as much, but people are really mad about them. So you can snooze them. Did you know that? We'll show you how in the article. Choose your feed view, and that's maybe what uh one of the things that happened to you. You can choose your favorites or who you're following. So you can choose what you want to see, and then do an account purge, which is just like, you know, get rid of those people you don't care about, which I gotta be honest, I don't have time for that. But, you know, if you want to take a little while and like you're really mad about your Instagram feed, just look at this quick article and we'll show you what how you can.

SPEAKER_01 15:49

Also, Instagram has announced her basically scrapping all of it because Kendall Jenner decided she didn't like it.

SPEAKER_00 15:54

Okay, this article starts with Kendall Jenner.

SPEAKER_01 15:57

The influencers rebelled against it and said, So this is where I so like. I have um kind of an unpopular opinion of you age into Facebook, you age into Instagram. Like they all have uses, and like Facebook is great when you have a network of 300, 400 people that you kind of like all of them and you kind of like knowing what's happening, but you don't care about them that much. That doesn't happen until you're 25, 26. Yes. Like that is a natural progression of high school, college, a career. Like you start together a network that you kind of care about. Instagram is for your, you know, yeah. All these influencers that are making so much money, the most important ones, the Kardashians. There, this article I read had a list of other people. Yeah. They said don't make Instagram like TikTok. Because basically they don't make money on TikTok. It's you know, some random kid that hits it for a while and then it changes. So it made me feel a little bit better where I'm like, I just don't think we need a TikTok. Because I don't think it's not our people, man. Yeah, and I just don't think we don't want them in our store. Yeah, I just so it just makes me feel better that TikTok doesn't have staying power.

SPEAKER_00 16:58

Yeah, I think it has staying power, but not relevant staying power.

SPEAKER_01 17:02

And the challenge they're really gonna face like Zuck is facing this challenge with Facebook is they were started by young people who are not young people anymore.

SPEAKER_00 17:14

I love this. This is my favorite challenge.

SPEAKER_01 17:16

You constantly have to hire 21-year-olds that are smart, talented 21-year-olds. Odds of that are very low. Yeah, I mean, yeah, your chances of success of hiring a 30-year-old that will do a good job versus a 21-year-old. Like, you have some track record with the 30-year-old. You can they can answer some questions with some experience. They know, yeah. 21-year-olds don't know shit. And sometimes that's good, sometimes that breaks the mold. They could maybe code for you, but yeah, you know, but like in terms of being like good experience does matter sometimes.

SPEAKER_00 17:51

Yeah, it's the whole thing, it's just so fascinating to me to the I I just can't explain how fascinating I find influencer culture. And I just call it that because I it you have no idea how much money these people are making, but also how well it's working. It works, you guys. Okay, go on. I'm done ranting about it.

SPEAKER_01 18:08

My story is titled Penguins Refuse to Eat Cheaper Fish in Japan Aquarium amid record inflation. Ooh. There's a hilarious Japanese video that you can watch. Aquarium had Hiroki Shimamato of the Japan's Hakone N aquarium in the country's Kanagawa Prefecture. Um, they have tried to give their penguins cheaper fish. Come on. And according to Hiroki, he says they take it into their mouths at first, but then they decide they don't like it and drop it. He added, they are sensing something is off. The aquarium has gotten rid of some of its expensive horse mackerel as a replacement. They have introduced cheaper mackerel. If you speak Jap Japanese, watch the segment. Even if you don't, I find people speaking Japanese and people speaking German both hilarious. Uh Korean, I'm always like, I just don't understand any of this. But Japanese, I'm like, I like the the way you sound. Chinese, I just don't have any clue.

SPEAKER_00 19:04

I mean, also, we're continuing to raise the interest rate.

SPEAKER_01 19:09

So I mean So those fish aren't getting any better. I got I'm getting 1.4% from Ally right now, and I'm like, woo, damn windows, though. Those gods. Damn windows, though. That's a meme I should make. I'm gonna make a meme for that.

SPEAKER_00 19:22

My mom, yeah, we were just talking about the price of windows. And my mom just wants like one window replaced, so she asked me, like, hey, what's the quote for you know, one window? And I told her, she's like, oh my god, that's crazy. And I was like, oh, I thought that was good. Because in the grand scheme of a whole house of windows, that seems like nothing.

SPEAKER_01 19:38

You know, she probably put herself through college working too. I mean, yeah, no.

SPEAKER_00 19:44

Oh, Jesus.

SPEAKER_01 19:46

Okay. I did see a thread of uh boomers telling Zers or whatever they are now, you know, I worked a minimum wage and put myself through college. Okay, so you had to work, you know, it's like 500 hours of work got you through, and now it's like 7,020.

SPEAKER_00 20:02

It's like the memes of trying to buy a house, right? Like this is the avocado toast is not why we can't afford a house right now.

SPEAKER_01 20:08

I got very uh excited about penguins, or as Simona calls them, penguins. Uh her favorite jammers are penguin jammers. She has this like uh furry onesie pajama set that she still wears in the middle of the summer.

SPEAKER_00 20:21

I feel like it's July.

SPEAKER_01 20:22

And like puts seven blankets on her. Um, she's a cold sleeper, evidently. But I got all into the penguins, and I have I have some questions for you. What what where do penguins keep their money? In a snowbank, of course. Oh what do you call a happy penguin?

SPEAKER_00 20:40

What?

SPEAKER_01 20:40

A pen grin.

SPEAKER_00 20:42

Oh, that was a stretch.

SPEAKER_01 20:43

Why don't penguins like rock music?

SPEAKER_00 20:46

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 20:47

They only like salt. Sometimes mackerel as well.

SPEAKER_00 20:52

I wanted to do it.

SPEAKER_01 20:53

What do penguins like to wear on the beach? A tuxedo. A big bikini.

SPEAKER_00 20:58

Nope, tuxedoes better.

SPEAKER_01 21:02

How does a group of penguins make a difficult decision? How Nick? They flip her coin. Oh my god, be done with these. What do penguins eat for lunch?

SPEAKER_00 21:15

What, Nick?

SPEAKER_01 21:16

Iceberg.

SPEAKER_00 21:18

I want a burger.

SPEAKER_01 21:20

We're gonna be right back.

SPEAKER_00 21:37

We're back. We're back. Nick's product rec is already falling on the ground.

SPEAKER_01 21:42

I had to go get it. I forgot it. This is a this is a show and tell version. Just for me, though, because we're not recording on video anymore. Yeah, but I think you'll really like it.

SPEAKER_00 21:49

Are you gonna read it to me? Maybe. Spoiler alert. Okay, all uh save Nick's here in the in the balance for one minute while I'm telling you about a brand, not so much a product. And this is for my local southeastern Wisconsin, Northern Illinois people. But I just have been meaning to go into this store in Burlington forever called Quotes and Cotton. And I finally was able to, I think Nick and I have talked about um like Low Daily on here and the um runaway and the loop. Burlington, which is just a hop, skip, and a jump away from us, is doing some Low Daily calls it.

SPEAKER_01 22:20

Birlington.

SPEAKER_00 22:21

Bearlington is doing some really cool things. And having spent a lot of time in the city of Lake Geneva uh trying to develop new businesses, we went into a store called Quotes and Cotton. It's owned by two women that seem to be around my age, uh local to Burlington. And, you know, they they have young families. What are we gonna do? Whatever. They ended up opening a retail store. Like I we're not breaking the mold here. It's a retail store, you know, hats, clothing, shoes, purses. And it's for women. But it is, first of all, the space is amazing. It's beautiful, it's huge. A space like what they have in Burlington would cost them a minimum of $8,000 a month in Lake Geneva. I mean, easily, because then they have a giant storage space in the back. Um, the first thing I noticed, the first rack when I walk in on the right hand side, they have size 2x, 3x. It's totally size inclusive, which was awesome. You just don't, in my opinion, find that much, and you certainly don't find that in small boutiques on Main Street. Um, so they had everyone's size, which was so cool, super friendly staff, beautiful space, and best of all, in the back right corner, a lovely little kids' area. And it had little kind, you know, like you matter, be kind, great little art. They had books, they had toys, a little couch, a little, you know, poof on the floor, and a TV. So if you like really truly just like wanted to have a little shopping time, could be like, could you just throw on some uh coconut up there? Thanks. So just here to brag about them. Totally affordable. Like it was completely reasonable. Um, the owner was there, she was super kind. She had her kids with her, like um they were running around in the kind of back storage area, and then they had another uh staff member on. Super lovely, highly recommend. Great place that's like totally affordable. And I'm jealous, quite frankly, that it's not in Lake Geneva. So I'm heading to Burlington more.

SPEAKER_01 24:10

So I had a thought from that uh based on what you said there. You know how the brewers do uh their like Spanish language night and they do their the cerveced instead of the brewers? I think we should make some shirts for Lake Geneva that say Ciudad Lago. Lago de It's uh one second, I pulled it up. Ginebra, G-I-N-E-B-R-A. And just see people Geneva? That's what, yeah, I'm looking at the Spanish what Geneva is called, yeah. So I think people would lose their effing minds. And it would be hilarious. Let's do it. Let's do it. Um okay, so my recommendation is a book. Um it's called simply Build. Now, unlike many books, it doesn't have an author listed. Instead, it has a studio listed. Red Nose Studio. And this is like one word a page. Oh, I was like, please don't read me this whole book. And look at the art. Okay. So it's mixed media art. And all of these it's a photograph of stuff someone has built? Yes. Oh so this book is made by this Red Nose Studio. A guy's name is Chris Sickles, and uh it's award-winning. He's illustrated a number of very imaginative picture books. He creates his fascinating 3D illustrations with wire, fabric, wood, and found objects of every variety. Do you know who this reminds me of? Studio Ghibli. No. Terry Border.

SPEAKER_00 25:42

Peanut butter and cupcakes.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. So anyway, like this is another one. Like you can clearly so like I'm just fascinated as I read this. Simona loves his book.

SPEAKER_00 25:50

Oh, but I was like, isn't I feel like she'd be bored by it.

SPEAKER_01 25:53

No, she loves it because she can like yell the word and like uh the style of illustration. I think it's very interesting. It's really cool art. I don't understand exactly how he made it. I'm very curious about that. I'd like to see a behind-the-scenes video of how he did it. But it's called created it and photographed it, no? Yeah, but like so that's what I thought. But you know, like it has very much so like a digital illustration, and that's what he said, digital illustration. So interesting.

SPEAKER_00 26:18

Now I'm confused. I know that I almost dropped my phone.

SPEAKER_01 26:23

We're a disaster. All right, we're back with a segment that I called, Oh yeah, go ahead. You missed our song.

SPEAKER_00 26:43

We're back.

SPEAKER_01 26:45

Uh I'm calling this shit I screenshotted and decided to talk about with Bridget later.

SPEAKER_00 26:50

Yes, Nick and I have talked heavily about this, and I'm like, I have an entire folder of screenshots.

SPEAKER_01 26:56

So I have five stories. Five stories. The five stories is called What is Spicy Rose, social media's hottest new drinks trend. How to sh here's how to turn up the heat on your summer tipple and maury fari cocktails. This is from England. Uh, it's a TikTok. Uh it's putting ice cube and sliced jalapenos into a glass of ice cold rose, and then you drink it. I am here for this.

SPEAKER_00 27:20

I am here for spicy wine, actually. Um, my uh Travis, who lives in Texas, they brought us some like jalapeno wine at some point, and it was weirdly delicious enough to have one bottle and not more than that, but it was good. Why are you looking at me like that? I feel like you would like to try this, no? The flavor compounds don't go together. Okay, but what about the drink I told you about that we have to try? That orange spray. Oh, yeah, I gotta look at that. Yeah, could you get some, please?

SPEAKER_01 27:44

So let me be clear. You give Tyler shit all day about strawberry, mango, mascara.

SPEAKER_00 27:49

Orange is never as sweet as strawberry. No way, man. That fake strawberry, no.

SPEAKER_01 27:54

I'm sure this is like citrone orange, like super sweet candied orange. I want it. Here's another thing you might want. This $15 Velveita martini is now in the menu at restaurants across the country. I do not want that. The Veltini is made with Velveeta cheese sauce infused vodka and garnished with shell pasta. Let me uh disgusting. Send you this picture. I can't. Who is drinking that? I don't know, but this is Velveeta's version of viral marketing. As we look to summer, one of life's greatest pleasures is enjoying summer sips during golden hour. Kelsey Rice, Velveeta's senior brand communications manager. There's a job title. There's a title. Stated in announcing the partnership. We wanted to find a way to elevate this experience for our fans even further by bringing the rich creamy goodness of Velveeta to a martini in a unique and unexpected way for the ultimate outrageous pleasure. Ew, gross. Is it vodka and cheesas? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:49

Is that it? I actually don't care what it is. That's disgusting.

SPEAKER_01 28:52

DLT restaurant group is evidently the ones that are releasing this. I don't know what that is. Otherwise, the you can get a $50 package from Gold Belly that includes two martini glasses, a gold cocktail shaker, two Velveeta coasters, a jar of olives, cocktail picks, a box of Velveeta jumbo shells and cheese, Velveeta cheese sauce for infusing the vodka and garnishing the rim, a Velveeta brick for stuffing the olives, and a Velveeta Veltini recipe card to make sure everything is prepared just right now. This is disgusting.

SPEAKER_00 29:20

I'm just looking at it now. Do you know there's a mac and cheese ice cream? Yeah, I I've tried it. I enjoy it. It's not. No, I mean I definitely am not here for like this mac and cheese that should be a sweet ice cream. Wow, okay. This is weird. I'm I don't I don't want to try that. Although I do. It's $15. I mean, that's actually a steal. That's actually a cheese steal because cheese is not expensive or not cheap. But you know, Velveeta doesn't have any real ingredients in it, so that's fine.

SPEAKER_01 29:50

It's all rubber. Mexican beauty queen arrested in connection with wine theft of the century. Ooh, excellent. After a nine-month police chase across Europe, a former Mexican beauty queen and Miss Earth contestant has been arrested over the now infamous 1.6 million euro theft of bottles of wine from a Michelin-starred restaurant in Spain. Michelin. This couple pulled off a meticulously planned wine heist last year stealing 45 bottles of wine, including an 1806 Chateau de Chem from Atrio in Spain. Basically, this woman went and uh distracted the entire uh distracted the couple dined in the restaurant and then they requested a tour of the wine cellar. They'd been there a couple times. The woman distracted a member of staff by requesting more food after the kitchen had closed. Okay. There's probably something else she did to distract, I'm guessing. Oh, I'm like, I don't get it. Why is that weird? Uh while his man made the way to the wine cellar and made off with three backpacks of wine. What so you know, wine theft, it's a thing. I just thought this was so funny because it seems like an Oceans 12 movie where, like, you know, Angelina Jolie goes and distracts somebody and anyway. But it happened in real life? Happened in real life. I don't believe it. Uh this is attributed to one of the reasons why Alex Lazary lost support and left the race, and people are losing their GD minds over this.

SPEAKER_00 31:17

Oh, I thought you meant the wine heist. I'm like, what are you talking about?

SPEAKER_01 31:21

Beachwood Sales and Service, Anheuser Busch partner with Bucks. Big news. Pficer Forum will not be serving Miller products, they will be serving Budweiser products. This is a mistake. People are losing their minds.

SPEAKER_00 31:33

I mean, because people from Wisconsin hate Bud Light more than any other beer.

SPEAKER_01 31:36

So McUltra is gonna be the big Actually, I'm here for McUltra. So uh I kind of like told people they're wrong because so Miller Coors, first of all, is not Miller Coors, it's Molson Cors. Yeah, it's not in Wisconsin at all. Yes, there is Kraft Beer, well, the big brewery, but not the like headquarters or anything. Yeah. Um they didn't put linies in any of the buck stuff, really, which is their craft brand. You know what I miss? Orange shandy. Yeah, bring it back. Anyway, go on. You also want that orange sparkling. Yeah, I like orange, okay. Uh the Miller distributors have no craft beer. Uh they're very, you know, so uh and they're cheap. They're quite honestly cheap. They don't spend promotional money. They don't, they just they're just they're the second-rate beer company. Anheuser Bush has a lot more craft beer available. Um and they spend more in the Super Bowl, you guys. Yeah. So uh I think this is great. Beachwood sales and service. Uh you think it's great? Yeah, I think ultimately the beer experience in Pfizer Forum will get elevated because let's go over the brands of beer we like in Wisconsin. Indeed, not distributed by these people. Oh well. Uh Three Sheeps, Third Space, uh all the other ones. All so many.

SPEAKER_00 32:47

Like, quite honestly, like three quarters of the. But like, is that what you're drinking when you go to a box game?

SPEAKER_01 32:52

Yeah, generally, I still I mean I'm gonna drink an ultra light. I would drink an ultra or I would drink a coarse light, but you know, those are fairly interchangeable. So, like when I want to have, you know, especially if you pay the tickets, Pfizer Form is really good at having special areas for people that you can add on and get your better quality food and drink. And I would like a better quality food and drink. I mean, when I go to Miller Park, I one of the things I do love is how good of a job they do. I'm sorry, American Family Field.

SPEAKER_00 33:19

Um, it was like, I don't think it's called that anyway.

SPEAKER_01 33:21

And even with the Miller sponsorship, they did a good job and they elevated this year with getting away from it. They have some super awesome, well-priced representation local breweries and work with people to bring that. So I like that. But people are losing their minds, and I find it hilarious. Oh, yeah. Really? People are like, see, that's why Lazie lost. Oh, Jesus. He's so stupid. Oh my god. I find it funny. Oh my god. And then my last thing, it's a Twitter thread, which I know is your favorite. Oh god. But oh no, I gotta bring the screw uh darn it. Darn it, I gotta bring it back. Okay, so this comes from an account called at Cultural Tutor. And uh he does threads of it's a like dude in the picture, of um different interesting things. And this one is Has the World Become Less Colorful? The craft shows the color of objects over time.

SPEAKER_00 34:12

Oh, sad. I don't want to see it. Let me send this to you. I was trying to go through all of mine to see if I could share, but I'm gonna have to share some other time.

SPEAKER_01 34:20

The uh basically, yes, the world has become a lot lorfiable. Yeah, it's depressing. Uh grayscale colors now make up three-quarters of uh cars produced globally compared to less than 50% in the past. Oh, that's a cool one. It is. The most popular paint colors, according to deluxe, the paint brand, are beige, gray, gray, gray, beige, beige, beige, a blue, white, gray. People everybody, it's just this hilarious thread that I know you would love, and you should go through it of statistical information about how little color is left in the world.

SPEAKER_00 34:57

This McDonald's thing is spot on.

SPEAKER_01 35:00

Like, there is so little color left in the world.

SPEAKER_00 35:08

Certain colors evoke a certain feeling. Now McDonald's looks like a fucking jail cell.

SPEAKER_01 35:13

When we went through a rebrand, our brand colors were red, white, and blue. Like completely red, completely blue, completely white. Because America. You have your old logo on, but new color. Old logo, different color, play. Oh, yeah, because this was the um, and this is like a 10-year-old shirt. That's so funny. So we did it at the time that everybody was like, oh, earth tones. If you're in food, you should do earth tones because it's organic. And I pushed real hard on that. I'm like, no, we need to keep red in some way, like meat. Oh. Blood. Ew. Ew. Too red. Okay, stop. But uh yeah, the whole world has gone more gray, like scientifically data-based, more gray.

SPEAKER_00 35:51

I mean, okay, this is a great example. I'm wearing this incredibly bright colored floral, like, some icolic bearish, but I think it's bright, floral, and fun. I have gotten, and it's noon. No, it's just about one o'clock. I've probably had 10 people compliment my dress today. And someone stopped me and said, it's just so great, bright colors. And I know I always tend to like go to black, but this is awesome. It just makes me happy. And I'm like, thank you. And it's literally like a bag, you guys. Like I debated changing it this morning because it's I bought it because I love the pattern so much, but it's two sizes.

SPEAKER_01 36:21

It's loose and flowy.

SPEAKER_00 36:22

Yeah, it is. It's like, oh, if I was asterisk, I am not trying to hide a pregnancy. If I was, I would wear this. It's just like a bag. Remember, people can listen to this.

SPEAKER_01 36:32

I'm trying to delete your pregnancy tracking apps or your period tracking apps. None of it works. Nobody wants to know anything about you that could be used to say you had an abortion, which is now illegal in Wisconsin. Oh my God.

SPEAKER_00 36:43

Yeah. So anyway, I'm here for all the color. Shannon and I, my twin sister and I talk about this all the time because she's a she, you know, leans towards more neutrals. Houses, please. I have like a green velvet couch and pink velvet chairs, and people think I'm insane. I walk into every other house of everyone I know. And as we're renovating, I'm like everything. Nick's house, beautiful, white, navy blue, everything. Black, white, gray, navy blue. And I just can't do it. I can't do it. I might regret it, but I'm thinking I won't. Because, you know, I've halfway through my life and I don't regret it.

SPEAKER_01 37:14

Check out the Twitter thread. It's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 37:16

Those are my things. I just wanted to like this is completely random, but it's one of my 9,000 screenshots. Have you heard about this Airbnb for pools? No. That's exactly what it sounds like. But people are Airbnbing their pools. So you can like, I don't know a ton about it because, you know, this caught me off guard, but it's a Washington Post article. You can just like Google Airbnb for pools, Washington Post, and you can rent it for a couple hours, like bougie ass pools. Or, you know, when some of them come with a cabana, some come with a pool house, some it's just like the pool. Fascinating. I tried to be like, if I'd pool, would I do this?

SPEAKER_01 37:46

The answer is no. Why though? Because you don't know what people are gonna do to it.

SPEAKER_00 37:50

You can you could be there watching them. Yeah, but still all the liability and everything. Like I'm sure you sign your life away when you do that. Come on, I'm sure you do. Anyway, it's fascinating. Tell us what you think. That's all. Food we are loving. Oh, yeah. Food. Did you make this? Because I want to make it not tonight because I have dinner plans, damn it.

SPEAKER_01 38:10

Roast cauliflower. I know. I want to make some. I we are working with Von Bergen's Country Market. Yeah. Down the road from us away.

SPEAKER_02 38:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:18

And they are bringing stuff to our store and they are bringing some of the most amazing cauliflower. And I love roast cauliflower. You what do you do with it? Okay, so I break it so I don't cut into steaks because like you need it's very wasteful.

SPEAKER_00 38:32

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 38:32

So, and you end up with a lot of florets anyway once you do the steaks. Yeah. So I break it all into florets, put it in a bowl, pour on some olive oil. Yeah. I have light olive oil and extra virgin. Extra virgin burns at a higher temperature. It's good for salad dressing. I have the light stuff that burns at a lower temperature so it doesn't, you know, or a higher temperature so it doesn't burn. Just gonna use extra. So I toss some that on there, a little lemon juice, salt, pepper. Yeah. And uh toss it, toss it. And then, you know, 400 degrees, about 15 minutes, and it's so good.

SPEAKER_00 39:03

Shannon made it recently on our girls' trip, and it was, yeah, salt, pepper. I feel like she did it in a pan, like sauteed it actually.

SPEAKER_01 39:08

Oh, yeah. I mean, I I don't saute it, I just put it on a oven. Yeah, not baking sheet.

SPEAKER_00 39:12

Um, I had some at Simple one time for an event that was so amazing, but it had like tons of flavors on it.

SPEAKER_01 39:17

You know, like so Gara masala is like a really traditional thing that's great on it if you want to go Indian.

SPEAKER_00 39:23

I have curry powder. That would work. I don't know what I'm gonna do, but I have that beautiful purple cauliflower. I want to try it. So good. I'm here to tell you about a knot recipe. Snack plates! Snack plates! I'm on a group text with a couple of my mom friends. OG listener Beth is one of them.

SPEAKER_01 39:38

And we Oh, she had some pictures on her, like that was probably from our uh event last night.

SPEAKER_00 39:44

We went to concerts in the park, two of my mom friends and our kids, and like I just didn't have a lot of extra time. And Beth was like, Oh, you know, what are we bringing? And I'm like, I'm grabbing whatever shit I have in my fridge. She's like, Yeah, me too. Then she came with this beautifully arranged snack plate. I have like a Tupperware of peppers, a bag full of cucumbers, some chips, you know. And I and then this morning we've all been texting, like, I'm dreaming about that Brie. Ooh, you know, and we're all just eating our leftover snack plates all day today. And I'm just here to say that that's completely acceptable. It's a meal, okay? You can snack all day on snack plates. And I don't need to explain to you what they are, except also this was not planned, but I need to tell you about have you seen the snackle boxes? Yes, I have. So you take a fishing tackle box and just pack it with snacks if you're going on the boat or to the beach, and it's called a snackle box, and I'm seeing it everywhere, and I'm obsessed with it. So I'm just here to give you permission to have a snackle box or a snack plate, charcuterie platter, whatever you want as a meal. That was my favorite food this week by far.

SPEAKER_01 40:43

It was so Monday was National Wine and Cheese Day, and I definitely enjoyed that was my dinner. Snack plates. Nothing wrong with that.

SPEAKER_00 40:48

100%. But but however, back to screenshot folders. I do have a meme or something um screenshotted that's like charcuterie boards have given me permission to eat my body weight and cheese and think it's okay. Oh, it's okay because I added a couple grapes. Yeah. And I'm like, oh yeah, that's exactly like I can eat a whole wheel of brie, but I had like three carrots, so it's cool. Anyway, well then. It's time for Kid Corner. I always have to throw my hand up when we do that. Kid Corner.

SPEAKER_01 41:15

Simona continues to be a very bad listener. Oh like just not wanting to, and I she's like at this age where like she knows that she's doing she just wants to do what she wants to do. She wants to push her boundaries, but like you can't do anything to discipline her in like a way that doesn't seem like you're just being a jerk. So you're like, I'm gonna take this away. Like the the logical thing of like it got taken away because I did this wrong, yeah, is just not there. So you the the we do it, but but the like, hey, if you don't do this, this won't happen. You know, like if you don't get dressed in time, we won't be able to go to the park. Cause and effect. You know, like the logic isn't there yet. No, so it just seems like I wanted to go to the park and you didn't let me, you're a jerk.

SPEAKER_00 42:00

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 42:00

And like just the like won't get dressed on time, won't do anything. It's just like everything's a chore.

SPEAKER_00 42:07

Man, but I've been waiting for this day for you, Nick. You know, she's still my beautiful baby girl. Like, okay, it's about to get worse. Uh Lucy, this morning, this isn't my kid's corner, but this morning I said something like, Okay, Lucy, you need to go in the other room and do this. And she just looked at me like no. And then I was like, Okay, um, you know, I'm I'm trying not to be like, I don't want to threaten, I don't want to whatever. Probably three times. And then I was like, fine, I'm just gonna threaten you. It was like, then you don't get to do this, and then she went and listened. So I'm just here to tell you threatening's okay too. Just kidding, everybody. I feel like sometimes CPS is listening to us.

SPEAKER_01 42:45

Delete those apps too. Delete all the pictures of your kids because CPS is watching them.

SPEAKER_00 42:49

Speaking of Lucy, um, so again at concerts in the park last night, she just starts walking up. And you know, there's hundreds of people in the park, and Lucy's walking up to someone, pointing just like this, like straight in their face. I know her. I know her. And I'm like, huh. And she was right by a dog. Mom, I know her. And I was like, okay, uh, it's just like some people don't want you touching their dog. And I'm scared of dog people because once you never know. Once I got told no, when I asked if my adorable two-year-old at the time could pet their dog, and they're like, No. I'm like, okay, I'm sorry. You know, um, I and she just kept yelling at me. Turns out Lucy's at a relatively new daycare, and this is a new friend of hers from the daycare. And the girl came running up and she kept saying, It's Sophie, it's Sophie. And I was like, Is that a dog? Like, that could be a dog's name. It's definitely a dog's name. I know lots of dogs named Lucy. Like, yeah, it's Sophie, mom. And Lucy like grits her teeth when she gets mad, mom! And I'm like, I'm sorry, Lucy. Anyway, Sophie, bless her, came running up and like gave Lucy a big hug. And I was like, Oh, this isn't a mean dog parent. This is just a small child that goes to daycare with my kid. So I made a new mom buddy from daycare, got to talk to her, you know. It was fascinating and stressful.

SPEAKER_01 44:00

I saw a long Twitter thread, again, your favorite thing, about how if you take your child out in public, you should be prepared for that child to know how to deal with dogs properly. Oh my god. And awful. I'm like, don't we forget that like this is a human's world and if you bring your dog out, you need the human's more important than the dog. Um we forget this.

SPEAKER_00 44:24

Well, yeah, I always ask permission, always.

SPEAKER_01 44:26

How can you and then then sometimes But like if you're just walking and the dog starts attacking you because you looked at the dog the wrong way?

SPEAKER_00 44:33

Oh, I just dogs, dog people scare me. I'm sorry, dog people. I know there's so many of you, but I'm scared of you.

SPEAKER_01 44:40

I'm not scared of a lot, but I'm scared of you. On that note, I think it's uh good time to say goodbye for today.

SPEAKER_00 44:46

Goodbye, friends.

SPEAKER_01 44:48

I hope we didn't jinx anything that's important to you today.

SPEAKER_00 44:50

I have a stain on my dress and it's really been bothering me.

SPEAKER_01 44:53

Oh no. So there we go. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 44:55

I don't think we've jinxed anything. We didn't talk about anything too thrilling. I hope. So thanks for um thanks for listening to our podcast last week that now hopefully just reminds you to vote, period, and vote in your local elections.

SPEAKER_01 45:07

Have a great day, everybody. Have a lovely week. Happy birthday, Mama G. Happy birthday. Bye bye.