Labor Day Fun 2020 | Dinner Plus Drinks #37

SPEAKER_00 0:15

Hello everybody. Hello! This is gonna be a rather casual episode of Dinner Plus Drinks. It's a holiday weekend. It's a holiday weekend. Happy Labor Day. Happy, you know, you work a lot. Have a long weekend. How is it September already? Happy all of those things. So we actually have a bunch of things we just want to talk about. Yeah. And uh they all giving headlines go to you know what we talk about on thing usually. So we're gonna have kind of a free-flowing discussion of how's your life? We've purposefully not talked to each other this entire week. Yes, silence, radio silence. So that we have all of the things and all the stuff. Do our normal little break, and then uh we're gonna end with some discussion of a really exciting, fun weekend activity and some kid corner stuff. Because we can't we can't leave you without Kid Corner. It's gonna be really great. And what we're drinking today, we're just gonna start with that. Yeah, is bubbly. Well, actually, I'm drinking um Good and Gather uh left over from my fave. If you didn't see our uh taste off with Mike Mason of Bubbly Waters, you're missing out. You are but we are doing non-alcoholic drinks for this episode because shortly after this, what are we doing, Bridget? More wine.

SPEAKER_01 1:23

So we are doing our very first, we're recording our first episode of Pinkies Up. So if you have not heard us chat about it, now is the time. So this will release as a special dinner plus drinks on Wednesday. And here's a little teaser. I have to stick with water and water because there's a lot of wine involved.

SPEAKER_00 1:40

A lot of wine involved. Pinkies Up is our series trying to take and answer questions normal people have about wine. Normal people are kind of scared to ask because they don't want to be dumb, you know, don't want to disappoint the pinky. I'm gonna be proud.

SPEAKER_01 1:53

It's it's a play on like is wine pretentious? Pinkies up, you know, it's a fun little thing. No, wine does not have to be pretentious. We can have a lot of fun with it. So we will leave it to us.

SPEAKER_00 2:03

So my first question goes out to you. You might be able to answer this, but also to someone who listens to the podcast a lot and is very close to you, and it's not Tyler. Who are one of my siblings? All right, so I have a new house, as you can see by we are in it. And we got some sod for a lawn. And sod requires a lot of water. I consider myself a conservationist at heart. I I like the great nature outdoors. I like the great nature. Uh we were just in great nature. It was great. I love nature. Uh also I want my lawn to be green because if it's green, snakes can't get in it as much. That is garbage. But I want Simona to be able to crawl around, and crunchy grass isn't as good as ice green grass. So I am watering the heck out of my lawn. Now I know there are water shortages in a number of places in the world. Uh, climate change, uh things like that. I just saw a stat that like 60% of the world's water is stolen from some other country. I don't know about that.

SPEAKER_01 3:03

Don't read everything and don't believe everything you read on the internet, Nick.

SPEAKER_00 3:06

Somebody who works at the Washington Nature Conservancy, could you please get back to me and let me know if I'm running from my own well on my own property and I water back into my own property. Is that anti-nature?

SPEAKER_01 3:22

Okay, so what we're talking about here is my sister Britney, who was a guest on the show um back in July when she was here for a month. Um, she works, she's an environmentalist, she and her husband, and they live in Washington. And right now it's um dry season in Washington, which you know doesn't happen very often.

SPEAKER_00 3:39

A lot of Washington's a desert. You don't think of that. You just think of lovely rainy Seattle.

SPEAKER_01 3:43

Yes. So their lawn, um, you know, they don't they don't sprinkle it. So their lawn is brown right now, but that's just fine. They have a thriving garden. Um, but so Nick and I got in this discussion about the lawn, and Nick and I both have wild water, and so this would be a really good question. I don't sprinkle my grass because I don't care. Um I care. But my grass is green, so I'm not gonna. I'm just snakes are for a different day. So anyway, Brittany, send us a note. Let us know.

SPEAKER_00 4:10

This is really bothering me, and I thought this would be the best way to communicate with you, Brittany. This is the only way. Please let us know. Um, and we will relay the answer. So other people that are listening that have this challenge of wanting to be good stewards of the environment, preserve water, but also like a nice green grass, you will know if it's good for the environment.

SPEAKER_01 4:29

In case you were wondering. Okay, I think it's a valid question. So anyway, I'm not watering my lawn. Um, but I think we talked about this last week on the podcast. We had a big week in my house.

SPEAKER_00 4:39

Yeah, you had a huge week.

SPEAKER_01 4:40

I know. Okay. Elliot went to school this week. How did it go for Elliot? This isn't even Kid Corner because I'm talking about Lucy in Kid Corner. Who's guys? So um, I'm not like the uh I don't mean to say I'm not a very sentimental parent, but I'm not a crier really. I'm not like a oh my gosh, my baby's growing up. Like I think it's great he's growing up and it's wonderful to see the things he's learning.

SPEAKER_00 5:01

As they say, it's better than the alternative.

SPEAKER_01 5:03

Yeah, as they say. So, but we're gonna skip the dad jokes. I had a little bit of a a little hard time, you know, and we're living in a weird world. And of course, uh the great internet targeted me with all of the things. And there was an article um from a a mom website called Cafe Mom, and it was about it was this kindergartner's first day of school, and they he was doing it virtually. I assume they didn't have an option, and he was just like sobbing in front of his computer because he was already overwhelmed and felt behind. And I, of course, just like am reading the article crying because I was like, Yeah, Elliot would definitely feel behind because he's not used to staring at a screen to learn his shapes, colors, alphabet, and sharing. So I'm really grateful that we had the opportunity to send him in person. Um, it was a little weird, like all the kids just like marching off in their masks, but he's so excited. He doesn't care about the masks. Um, the PTO donated little lanyards so the kids don't lose their masks, and that's what we don't care about these days. So, anyway, really exciting. Um, he started yesterday at the time of recording, so today is his second day. Um, and he's already asking us to take the bus. He's like, I don't want you guys to pick me up.

SPEAKER_00 6:10

Like he's too cool for you guys.

SPEAKER_01 6:12

He does not care. He's not, he didn't even look back. Like, there was one kid on the ground, like seizing in tears. He was so sad, and Elliot didn't even look back. So that's great. I would rather have it be that way. So big week for us.

SPEAKER_00 6:26

My next thing I want to talk about. I was listening to a podcast by our host for our podcast. If you don't know the technical things behind podcasts, there has to be a website that stores the audio file and uh then shoots it out to all of your podcast listeners. And um based on the statistics from them, which they don't have like Joe Rogan experience on their thing, that's gonna be Spotify exclusive soon. Um we are much closer to the top 10% of podcasts in the world than the top 20%. And we thought the top 20 was cool. So we're very, very, very excited about that. We get about 900 people listening every month. Um, we'd like to hit a thousand soon. Thank you again to everybody that's subscribing, listening. It really is very cool. It's super fun that all of you guys are doing this with us. Um, if you're new, please again subscribe. Everybody that's sharing, um, I hate doing we always have like a note of like, hey, say could you review us?

SPEAKER_01 7:28

It just feels so Could you write us a note on the bottom?

SPEAKER_00 7:31

But it does help. It's great to see. It really does.

SPEAKER_01 7:33

Um I mean, when I'm picking podcasts, the reviews are important to me. Just like if I'm online shopping. So we thought about it.

SPEAKER_00 7:39

That was really cool that we're moving up, more people are listening. We're getting a lot of new listeners, a lot of really dedicated listeners. Some of the stats we see are a little scary. Um, with like we can tell repeat listeners versus new listeners, things like that. But it was really cool to see. And we we've had um we haven't talked about Case and Craze yet, have we? I know.

SPEAKER_01 8:03

Yeah. Oh my gosh, no, how can we miss that?

SPEAKER_00 8:05

That'll be our next topic. Okay. We had uh we kind of sat down on what was it, Monday and said, like, we need to have a positivity session. Yeah, we were just like feeling a little drained, and we'll tell you why. And so we had to have a positivity session, and that was some really awesome news that I figured I'd I'd share with everybody. And thank you, because you were the guys that really and gals. The guys and ladies. Um other people. You know, it's like y'all instead of you.

SPEAKER_01 8:31

Yes, except we're in Wisconsin. There is no need for y'all. I don't understand this. I have friends that do this too.

SPEAKER_00 8:36

Y'all is very more specific that it's so much harder to say you all. You all sounds like very you all. Y'all. Y'all are kind to us and we're gonna be able to do that.

SPEAKER_01 8:48

Do you guys say y'all? Do you say y'all? If you're in Texas, that's fine. You on the East West Coast or Midwest. Do any of you say y'all? Use guys. And if you use guys, why? And where'd you pick it up? It's more specific. I like specificity. I thought you would like the specificity of y'all. We did discuss that y'all and use, which one is better? And I'm like, well, I think I would just use the full phrase.

SPEAKER_00 9:11

It's it's like the 2020 election, you know, shit sandwich or shit sandwich with shit on top. Which one would you prefer?

SPEAKER_01 9:17

Okay, guys. I gotta take my glasses off. Sorry. These headphones are jabbing into me. That's not good. Just gonna be blind for a while.

SPEAKER_00 9:23

Gaze and grays, go.

SPEAKER_01 9:25

Oof. Okay, so we talked about this last week. We had our first socially distant responsible event. Um it would be last yeah, where's the sound effects, man? It would be last weekend now. I don't even know what Dave is anymore. Um so you want some applause? Yes, please, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good luck, budget. So it's never ending. Wow, that was really a great applause. Thank you. Well, you did a great job. Thank you. It I I think overall, super awesome. Like, I'm always, as an event planning person, I'm always waiting for like the next shoe to drop, the thing, like the bad review, the person to come yell at us about something. And I'm really grateful that for the most part it we haven't had that. I hate to say, I don't even want to say it out loud.

SPEAKER_00 10:08

It's been very positive. It's great. I mean, I had a great time.

SPEAKER_01 10:12

Yeah, I I had a nice time. It's hard when we're the same morning. Dude, what Nick and I, I think maybe it was Sunday. I don't even know. I'm not kidding. I went to bed at 6 30 p.m. on Sunday. I have done events for years, and we went to bed at 1 a.m. or so. Yep, about that. Um, ate dinner at 12 30 a.m. Dinner. I'm gonna call it dinner.

SPEAKER_00 10:34

I went to bed at 8 o'clock on Sunday night. Yeah. And I was like, and still. I was actually gonna text you and be like, oh, Bridget, I'm getting old, getting my butt kicked by this, but you were already asleep asleep. Because I was like, she's gonna laugh at me.

SPEAKER_01 10:47

And I was like, should I admit this? Yeah, I mean, which is great. That's a sign of a great event. We worked our butts off. Um, it was super windy. Like, we had we got a beautiful day. Yeah, in the start of the event, so you know, the whole day in which I was setting up in a field, we couldn't do anything. So nothing. Like the hour before the event, we just had to like get creative, and my sister came and helped. Um, and then the team from Simple Shannon were awesome, and they like filled the water with the water. Oh, and don't forget about Nolan. And Nolan was here, Shannon's brand new baby. Supervisor. So we put like rocks on the whatever. You know, we did what we had to. It was great. The guests flowed with it, and I think everyone was just so excited to like see human beings again have an awesome meal, and it was like we're not in a rush, we're sitting under the stars, there are no bugs. The bugs were bad for like 15 minutes, maybe, and then it got cold enough where it was fun and comfortable, and there were no bugs. So it was just a dream. So, and it was beautiful.

SPEAKER_00 11:39

My takeaway really was how much people can really suck, but also at the same time, this whole thing really reminded me of how much people value getting together and eating with friends, having a meal, having some drinks. We had music, so just being able to laugh, and there were some people dancing.

SPEAKER_01 12:01

Oh, I was so excited.

SPEAKER_00 12:03

There was one couple that had maybe a three, four-month-old baby. Yeah, they were chants, and they I was the baby was great. I was so proud of them for like taking their kid and having this great evening.

SPEAKER_01 12:14

And we told them that, and they were like, Yeah, we're proud of us too.

SPEAKER_00 12:17

It was so it was just it was so wonderful. I I'm a huge mask proponent, y'all know, like, yeah, but the way we distanced tables and you were with people you knew, you know, seeing people without the masks on, able to just enjoy an evening outside of being normal.

SPEAKER_01 12:32

That was it was it was so cool. So, and we had our wonderful friends Ron and Josie stayed and helped us clean up, and and that's what's really fun. Like, no one wants to clean up an event, okay? You're exhausted and you're like, I haven't eaten a meal.

SPEAKER_00 12:46

Um food is really good I hear.

SPEAKER_01 12:48

Yeah, I had two bites of one of the course, one half of one of the courses. It was great. Um, but they stayed, and so we got to like, yeah, we took a little slower time cleaning up, but we got to hang out and really have a chat with them because we didn't, you know, we didn't sit down a ton. So, Ron and Josie, thank you. That was so fun. Um big ups, guys. Anyway, really a lovely event, but man, I I have this recurring injury I was telling Nick about. I heard it, I heard it in a race, like put it up so that people can see that. Yeah, like I took a picture. Um, I hurt my left ankle in a race a million years ago and never did anything about it.

SPEAKER_00 13:20

It wasn't like a serious that's a very man thing to do, Bridget.

SPEAKER_01 13:23

I'm not a big like we're not a doctor family.

SPEAKER_00 13:25

Like, we don't serve on it.

SPEAKER_01 13:28

I broke my finger once my dad made me spend the night until the next morning. He's like, it's fine. So um, anyway, I did this thing, whatever. I thought it was fine, but like every time I'm on my feet for extended amounts of time, it is swollen big time and like hurts up to my knee. So I showed Nick, I think at the end of the night, and I'm like, you see, you see what I'm talking about? You look at my ankle. So maybe we'll put a picture up. I'm depressed. So anyway, yeah, I felt I felt my eight. No, it's gross. I'm not gonna put a picture up. Super gross. Um, and I slammed my finger like in chairs.

SPEAKER_00 13:59

So you're like, we have bumps and bruises, but I have like all these, I always like get cuts all over my arms. And I'm like, how did that happen?

SPEAKER_01 14:07

We sound really old and crachedy right now, but we're just saying the event was great, but man, like behind the scenes, it's always a whole different story. Um, so anyway, lots of fun. So glad we did it. And we've got a lot of other like super fun things coming up that we just kind of solidified today. So super excited. I better get my ankle fixed before then.

SPEAKER_00 14:26

Alright, you got anything you want to talk about? Should we take a break?

SPEAKER_01 14:29

I have one more really important news headline.

unknown 14:31

Boom.

SPEAKER_01 14:33

Guys, remember, I can't even remember the name of the show now. Remember when Tiger King was a thing? Does that feel yes? Does it feel like 25 years ago? Tiger King? Isn't that the name of it? Yes. Okay, I forgot for a second. I'm sure you've heard by now that Carol Baskin is a new judge on dancing with the stars.

SPEAKER_00 14:50

She's a contestant, isn't she?

SPEAKER_01 14:51

Or a contestant. I'm sorry, I don't watch that show, honestly. Well, some people are stars and they dance, and some are some people are dancers and they dance. So there's like a million, I should pull it up, but I wasn't prepared. A million hilarious memes going on all around the internet about this, and I just it made me think like, holy shit, Tiger King feels like four years ago. Remember when that was a thing? I know. Anyway, that was my really important news headline.

SPEAKER_00 15:15

Alright, well, I have no dad jokes.

SPEAKER_01 15:17

Oh shoot.

SPEAKER_00 15:18

So we're just gonna go take a break and be right back with some product recommendations.

SPEAKER_01 15:42

Alright, we're back. I hope you enjoyed your little break. We're back.

SPEAKER_00 15:47

We change up the break music. I hope you like it.

SPEAKER_01 15:50

Let us know. Just kidding. We don't care.

SPEAKER_00 15:52

I mean, I can always find you a break music if you really hate it.

SPEAKER_01 15:55

Um, all right, product recommendations. I like to theme my things usually, but this week, not a theme. It's just a book. So I am all in on audiobooks. Um I love paper books, but like I don't have a ton of time to enjoy that. So anyway, I was flipping through my good old Instagram stories, and a book came across called The New Parisi. You said it before, I can't say. The new Parisian. Parisian. I don't know why I can't say that. And it's The Women and Ideas Shaping Paris. So this book is so cool.

SPEAKER_00 16:24

Or The New Parisian, the Women and Ideas Shaping Pavy.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

Or that. But I'm in America, so um, excuse me. So it's just gonna have quesadilla, y'all. Gonna have my quesadilla.

SPEAKER_00 16:37

Hey, America!

SPEAKER_01 16:39

This book uh is perfectly fitting, I think, for this year, and especially this world we're living in, but it's all about the women of Paris and what they're doing to make it a better place. So businesses that they own, restaurants that they are chefs at. Um, so you can pick it up if you want. If it's important to you to go to women-owned businesses, you can pick up the book if you're in Paris or if you're taking a vacation ever again in your life, and you can read through it. I think it would be so cool if every city had this, or every state, or however we want to do it.

SPEAKER_00 17:06

Like Sheen with Country meets a female-owned business.

SPEAKER_01 17:08

There you go. See, we could be in the book.

SPEAKER_00 17:10

We could. If there was one in Wisconsin. We're gonna have a feature written about my mom in a magazine code episode.

SPEAKER_01 17:15

Yeah, we are. So, Lake and Country, check it out. So, anyway, that's my product recommendation. There's a million books I could talk about. This one just felt really fitting, and I thought was a really cool way to, I don't know, urge anyone that might be an author or wants to take on writing a book to do this in their city because I think it's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_00 17:30

Oh, that's a good idea. Um, my product recommendation is badminton net. That also could be volleyball net.

SPEAKER_01 17:39

Yes, but too small.

SPEAKER_00 17:42

So I bought one that has a volleyball and badminton stuff, shuttlecocks, rackets. And uh, we're gonna set it up this weekend for a little demonstration of how great Bridget is at Balleyball. Once upon a time, guys. So that's my recommendation. Badminton is like the best sport to have in your backyard with people. What about bocce ball? I'm not in the bocce.

SPEAKER_01 18:06

I wonder if I can find Ibocce ball set.

SPEAKER_00 18:08

Bring some boccee.

SPEAKER_01 18:09

I'm gonna look.

SPEAKER_00 18:09

There's uh beautiful courts in Late Geneva uh by St. Francis. The City Department of Public Works donated them. Boccee ball? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:17

How do I have no idea?

SPEAKER_00 18:18

I feel like I've heard about this. I've literally never where are they? The Water Tower by St. Francis D. Sales. I can't even envision that. So, anyways, that's my product recommendation. Uh it's a set on Amazon. We'll put the link in the show notes. Awesome. And you get uh uh a net that's not like the greatest net, but it's a pretty decent net. I was happy with it. I thought it was better than I thought it was gonna be. Uh, some shellcocks, uh, some rackets, and a volleyball. And you can go to town play. All right. That's my do that. It's better for your backyard.

SPEAKER_01 18:50

Be outdoors.

SPEAKER_00 18:50

All right, we'll be right back with Labor Day Talk and Kid Corner.

SPEAKER_01 19:16

I feel the need to like sing. I can't actually sing, so I just like to sing like two words at a time because that's about enough, right? You don't need to hear any more.

SPEAKER_00 19:24

I could do three or four.

SPEAKER_01 19:25

Okay, well, next week then. So Labor Day.

SPEAKER_00 19:28

Labor Day, I love Labor Day. I was like very great end of summer, chill out, relax vibe. Uh, oftentimes Sarah and I would go do a big late walk on Labor Day. Uh now we're old and less ambitious. You're a kid. So instead, we're doing a big cookout. And uh, if you subscribe to emails from Lake Geneva Country Meats, I sent out an entire kind of step-by-step way that you can do a huge barbecue cookout. Um, I included recipes for how you can do inside or outside if you don't have a smoker.

SPEAKER_01 20:01

Um, that was good. That was nice too.

SPEAKER_00 20:03

Because I know not a lot of most, the overwhelming majority of people don't have a smoker, right? We don't have to. Um but it's also like you can do smoking stuff on a grill or you can do stuff in a slow cooker. So I am so excited for Labor Day. We're doing a little outdoor gathering. Bridget's gonna be there. I will, yeah. I think Tyler's gonna be there. Yeah, and Elliot, I hear Lucy. It's gonna be a great time. Elliot's gonna play volleyball or Badman, maybe. We'll see. I'm just looking forward to seeing you play volleyball and tell Elliot, yes, do you get it, Roger?

SPEAKER_01 20:38

What are you doing? I'm not competitive with volleyball.

SPEAKER_00 20:42

Okay, so maybe your dad shows up suddenly and he's like, wait, I heard there was volleyball yards.

SPEAKER_01 20:47

I'm gonna play against my daughters. For those of you that don't know, we grew up playing volleyball like since we could walk. Like, slept with volleyballs in our bed, went to nationals for volleyball with our club team. Volleyball was a big part of our life. Not anymore, because we're old. And Lake Geneva does not have any great volleyball weeks. Get on it.

SPEAKER_00 21:06

So we are going to do crazy cooking or Labor Day. I find it very relaxing. Uh, my job, your job. There's a lot of times we do things that are we're gonna do two hours worth of work that we're not gonna see any payback for until next year. And I'm not even gonna necessarily say that I can say, hey, that's two hours of work I did on September 2nd is, you know. I agree.

SPEAKER_01 21:31

Which is really hard.

SPEAKER_00 21:32

It's very hard. And it sometimes feels like you're accomplishing nothing. And like even though you know it's like, okay. Um, and we're very checklist oriented to do type of people. So no taste. So cooking, I just love it because it's a very I do these things in this order, and then I can taste what I make, and I can see other people enjoy it. I get very tangible results that's a good thing for for what I do. Okay. And so it's just very relaxing to me. Even though it is stressful, like doing a meal like this, occasionally you're like, okay, I gotta get you know getting stuff out. But I just I love it. So I'm very excited. That's what I'm excited to be eating this week.

SPEAKER_01 22:10

I'm making the same one salad I've made all summer.

SPEAKER_00 22:12

So I'm very excited.

SPEAKER_01 22:13

That's what I'm contributing. And like maybe some chips. Um Nick's got like this feast figured out. Um but Tyler and I did talk about last night like what we would bring and how we're doing it. And Sarah and I, Nick's wife, we already discussed the beverages. So good things are all covered. Snacks and beverages and whatever Nick's making, which is all the other food. Um, but yeah, it's hopefully um a couple other people, you know, there's a small group of us that we've all seen outside of work. Um, and Nick's got five acres that we can run around on, and we'll draw the circles. It'll be we'll all fit. We just want the rain to go away. So, yeah, I um usually on Labor Day we go to the fair. So yeah, we're pretty sad about that. Oh my god, I love these sound effects.

SPEAKER_00 22:59

So sad.

SPEAKER_01 22:59

Yeah, we're pretty sad about the fair. There is um truck and tractor polls.

SPEAKER_00 23:03

Sunday, Sunday, big time fair ground. See the truck and tractor polls.

SPEAKER_01 23:12

Not like explaining, hey, this is usually a part of the fair, and we go and they're like, Oh, you're going to a truck and tractor pole? I'm like, What's next? WWE WrestleMania?

unknown 23:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:21

So I forget that you know, people outside of my little bubble of Elkhorn don't understand. Anyway, so that's Sunday, but it looks like it's gonna rain, so we'll just get wet. Um, maybe it'll be muddy, it'll be interesting. Um, but also I have like food events, I feel like a lot this weekend. Is that just like what people do, I guess? Yeah. Um, our neighbors, um, one of our neighbors just turned 50 and they're doing a shrimp boil. Oh wow. So again, our neighbors, we live on a dead end, we've all been seeing each other outside of homes. Um, we're gonna stop by and have a little shrimp boil on Saturday night.

SPEAKER_00 23:54

That's exciting.

SPEAKER_01 23:55

Crazy Saturday afternoon, who am I kidding? But like we, their children are, you know, in high school, ours are a bit different. So we'll swing by, have a couple bites, and put our kids to bed a couple hours later, and I'm sure they'll still continue and have fun. So, yeah, there's a lot of food happening.

SPEAKER_00 24:10

That's all I'm doing is eating all of it. You put the meal plan together this week. Yeah. It's a weird time of the year because kids are back in school, have been back in school. It's kind of like a or maybe they're at home.

SPEAKER_01 24:23

Maybe they're at home.

SPEAKER_00 24:25

It's kind of summer, but it's like 40 degrees at night. This is a hard time of the year to meal plan for. We're here for you.

SPEAKER_01 24:33

Yeah, so we're switching up the meal plan a little bit. This week we have indoor-outdoor options. Wow. So much like what Nick did for the Labor Day feast. We called it the meat feast, by the way.

SPEAKER_00 24:42

Yeah, I called it the meat feast on social media. Bridget, can you put this up in a blog post? And I did. And then so I didn't really, I just, you know, like trusted you would get it done, and you did. And so I was scrolling through my news feed on Facebook and I saw meat feast. I'm like.

SPEAKER_01 25:02

I used to check these things with Nick, but now I know it's do it. Just push the boundary.

SPEAKER_00 25:07

This was great. Wasn't it funny?

SPEAKER_01 25:09

I like you guys really made his day here. So it's good. Anyway, meat feast is for Labor Day meal plan. So every day has an indoor-outdoor option. So if you're like feeling it and it's not raining and it's beautiful, and you want to get out and grill every day, we've got options for you. Nick's gonna sing. And then, um, so it's the same protein each day, and one indoor, one outdoor or outdoor. So, like a sheet pan recipe and a grilling recipe. So, fun options.

SPEAKER_00 25:35

I know a lot of people in Wisconsin have a ton of bravado about I grill year-round. What do you mean it's the end of Yeah? You're lying. Are they? I'm curious. I guarantee you, you're lying because I saw your pictures on your Instagram and it wasn't a grilled food, it was a sheet pan food. So, like, dude, it's okay. Men can use ovens too.

SPEAKER_01 25:54

Dude, in shorts in January.

SPEAKER_00 25:56

I am put on pan. In shorts in January. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:00

Anyway, so yeah, meal plan, kind of exciting this week.

SPEAKER_00 26:03

Check it out. We'll put a link up to it. Um, let us know if you like having a couple different ideas of things to cook. We're here to share with you. We love occasions that center around.

SPEAKER_01 26:12

We love you. I felt like I added the Carol Baskin headline because I was like, listen, this podcast is about what I would talk about over dinner, and I would talk about that.

SPEAKER_00 26:21

I would be like, are they sure they have enough insurance on the like judges? Because she gets people killed.

SPEAKER_01 26:27

You guys. I just can't believe what we've come to here in 2020.

unknown 26:31

I'm tired.

SPEAKER_01 26:33

Here we are, so thanks for hanging with us.

SPEAKER_00 26:35

Alright, it's time for Kid Corner. I almost forgot about Kid Corner. I'm gonna go first because my story is, I don't know, not as good as yours. I don't know. Uh Simona is doing a really good job with the crawling up stuff. Oh. And you've scared me. Oh. Where I think I need to start anchoring stuff to walls. Oh yeah. Because now I'm like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 27:02

This kids can die like that.

SPEAKER_00 27:03

This super smart daughter of mine is gonna be like, I just need to be a little taller, a little taller, and then boom, everything falls down on her. Uh, she hasn't managed to do it yet. She tried. I can I am convinced she definitely knows what she's doing.

SPEAKER_01 27:22

Yeah, man, babies are smarter because she's listening.

SPEAKER_00 27:24

She's looking at me like you're gonna have to come pick me up, and then we're gonna go outside.

SPEAKER_01 27:31

Um yeah, anchor it, anchor that shit to the uh that's my story.

SPEAKER_00 27:35

I'm now all like, I gotta go anchor stuff.

SPEAKER_01 27:37

I know, actually, my angel baby Elliot never had to do any of that. Like, we never we didn't anchor anything. Sorry, Sue me. But Lucy, my god, everything.

SPEAKER_00 27:46

I mean Lucy is not what you would call a delicate flower.

SPEAKER_01 27:49

Oh my god. She got her first bloody nose yesterday and like gushing, and I was like, I thought it was her mouth because it all bled into her mouth. Yeah, anyway, she's rough and tumble that one. Um I mean, no, we were we picked Elliot up from school and it was beautiful out, and my mom was downtown, so we just like Shannon, whatever, we were all there, we were walking, and she I wasn't out there, but she like something between pavement and grass got challenging and she fell, but she didn't like hit her head. It was like whiplash gave her a bloody nose. Oh I don't know, whatever. It wasn't her teeth, it was just a nose. She screamed for a while, she's good now. Elliot was very adorable. He he was very adorable. Oh, can I have two kid corners? Sure. Okay, I have to, I'm sorry. And this is gonna get personal, everybody. Okay, what is it is it about who has? It's close. Close. So Elliot was three when Lucy was born, and I breastfed my children, and so good for you. Thank you. Uh for a while.

SPEAKER_00 28:47

Also, if you don't breastfeed your children, good for you. Fed is best. That is the fact. We had some struggles with the the nurses at the hospital where we delivered Sonona who didn't necessarily believe in that. So I'm very big on the Fed is best. Do what you can.

SPEAKER_01 29:02

Who cares if you you gotta worry about your mental health too, everybody? So, okay, so we were pretty open with Elliot, like explaining breastfeeding because I would do it in front of him, and I'd have to say, like, this is what's happening because he's very curious. So, fast forward, no longer breastfeeding, stopped a while ago. But Shannon, my sister, is with her one-month-old baby. So we were all together, and Nolan, her one-month-old, got hungry, and I was holding him, and Shannon was doing something, and you know, Elliot was like, Nolan's hungry. Mom, he pokes my boobs. Mom, do you still have food in there for him? And I was like, no, no, honey. That doesn't. But Shasha does. I'm like, yep, Shasha does. Anyway, sorry, thought of that one on a whim. But what what I planned to tell you about was apparently, if you don't know in my household, there is a hot debate about puppies.

SPEAKER_00 29:58

Oh, I know where this is going.

SPEAKER_01 30:00

I do not want a dog. Uh like I can barely handle my two kids and keeping a home, period. I'm not even gonna say keeping a home clean because it's not. So um keeping it from burning down. Keeping it from burning down. Keeping dressers from falling on my children. So um, my husband, like, I'll put up checklists or like a dry race board and write on, you know, write to-dos on it. And Tyler always sneaks in puppy. Like on a grocery list, he'll write. Good word, Tyler. Puppy. So currently on our fridge, we have like a whiteboard of things, and um, on the bottom of it is puppy vote. Yes, Lucy, Elliot, dad. No, mom.

SPEAKER_00 30:37

So then you have four votes. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 30:39

So there's a clear winner. So apparently Lucy, I'm told, apparently Lucy has Lucy doesn't say like a ton of words yet. She's 14 months or so, but um, she apparently is saying puppy. I don't believe it because I haven't heard it, but daycare is saying. Have you seriously? Are you lying?

SPEAKER_00 30:57

She's she says puppy.

SPEAKER_01 30:58

So I haven't heard it yet, and I'll see it when I believe it, but apparently Lucy's saying puppy, and this is great news. I will believe it when I hear it. Anyway, we're not getting a puppy. Elliot's asking. Elliot like pouted his way through the grocery store the other day because we couldn't get a puppy.

SPEAKER_00 31:15

I would love to get a puppy. We have five acres of land. Oh my god. Um, Sarah's not a big dog person. I don't think we're gonna get a puppy. I'm very excited.

SPEAKER_01 31:22

It's so much work. It's like another child.

SPEAKER_00 31:24

It's harder than another child. But it's a child that like gives you sloppy looked kisses. Oh, wait, it's just like a child.

SPEAKER_01 31:31

It's just like a child that barfs on you, you clean up after it. Sounds just like another infant that you have to train.

SPEAKER_00 31:39

Simona has been getting better on the spitting up. That I will say she's gonna stop at some point.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:45

We had a bad sound every bottle. I was like, what are you doing? Well, it's worse than when they start eating real food. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:52

Anyway, that's our kid corner. I'm sorry I told you 27 things, but thanks for listening.

SPEAKER_00 31:56

Thanks for listening to everybody. Remember, we're gonna go record a new special episode releasing Wednesday. What's Wednesday? Who knows? September 9th. I don't even know. Something like that. Excuse me, let me look it up on my calendar.

SPEAKER_01 32:09

It is September 9th.

SPEAKER_00 32:11

Yep, Wednesday, September 9th. Gonna drop in this exact place that you're getting this.

SPEAKER_01 32:16

But there'll be an outfit change.

SPEAKER_00 32:18

It's gonna be great. We're very excited. And uh see if Bridget can tell the difference between a $15 and $50 wine.

SPEAKER_01 32:24

Don't judge me, but there's some fun things coming up on Pinky Sup, so don't miss the first episode. You'll learn a little bit about what Pinky Sup is, and you'll learn if you have to splurge on the expensive bottle or not.

SPEAKER_00 32:34

Have a lovely Labor Day weekend. Thank you guys for your support. We appreciate it. Um, it's so cool to have a community with you guys, even if we don't get to hug you.

SPEAKER_01 32:43

It's like having a socially distant dinner.

SPEAKER_00 32:45

Thanks, guys. Fist bump you, all of the things. You guys are great. Um, find us on all the places, give us a rating, give us a review, and share with your friends.

SPEAKER_01 32:53

Thank you for listening. We hope you have a safe and happy Labor Day.

SPEAKER_00 32:58

Cheers guys.