Lead Stuffed Walleye - Dinner Plus Drinks #145

SPEAKER_03 0:16

Well everybody. There's nothing on the outline, but I have ideas and I know what I want to talk about.

SPEAKER_01 0:23

There's nothing on your outline, Nick.

SPEAKER_03 0:25

Yeah, that's right. Thank you for clarifying that. You have done your prep work. You are prepared. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01 0:32

It makes me panic otherwise.

SPEAKER_03 0:33

I have a list of things in my head. It's just been one of those days. It's been one of those days, which is one of the things I wanted to talk about. But first, I'm very excited for this beer.

SPEAKER_00 0:43

All right. Tell the people why. Ready?

SPEAKER_03 0:45

Oh, that was a good one. That was a really good one. Nicely done.

SPEAKER_00 0:49

I'm hired for opening beer.

SPEAKER_03 0:50

So this is a hype beer. Like, we got one case of it from Revolution, and someone uh um already bought two. I had it hidden away, and somebody bought two and didn't pay enough money for it. I already yelled at everybody about something today. It's very fizzy. I'm doing my best here. Uh about like, hey, um you know, if I put something somewhere, it's probably there for a reason. So please don't move it. Uh and then, like, also, hey, if a delivery comes in at four o'clock on a day when I'm leaving at four o'clock, just because it's out on the floor doesn't mean you can sell it, especially if I like hide it. So anyway, so this is a hype beer. It's from Revolution.

SPEAKER_01 1:33

It is a caramel corn something. It is a caramel crisp, caramel popcorn alevolution with um in partnership with Garrett's popcorn. And it says creme brulee-like sweetness, lightly salted finish. 7%. What do you think? Oh, I like it more than your face says.

SPEAKER_03 1:58

I'm a little welmed. I'm welmed. You know, I'm weird. I'm not overwhelmed. I'm not underwhelmed. I'm just welmed.

SPEAKER_01 2:05

I think I like it more than your face is saying you like it because it's whelming, not not over. It's like I wanted to be overwhelmed. I wanted more of the caramel corn, like, but then you could have like two sips before you want to die. Like so many of these, like I guess what you would call hype beers, I can have like two sips of like peanut buttery, chocolatey. I'm like, oh god, and I want to die after two sips. This one I could maybe drink the whole thing.

SPEAKER_03 2:28

So I almost brought, I was dropped off a sample of this grape soda from PBJ Deli in Miwake.

SPEAKER_01 2:38

An actual grape soda? Yep. I love grape soda.

SPEAKER_03 2:41

Uh I do too. I almost brought it over, and it's actually not from Miwake, it's from the dirty. Stallus. Which I know if I referred to something from the dirty as being from Milwaukee, you would eventually get very angry at me and tell me. Because the dirty is, you know, definitely not Milwaukee. Definitely not Milwaukee. It's a it's it's a whole other vibe.

SPEAKER_01 3:06

Wait, you got it dropped off from a PBJ place?

SPEAKER_03 3:09

It's called Peanut Butter and Jelly Deli. And I looked this place up and I think it looks pretty cool, and I think we might need to go there. They do all their own interesting little jellies and they do private parties, they do catering.

SPEAKER_01 3:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 3:22

They have some cool merch. Go. Are you looking at their website?

SPEAKER_01 3:25

Yeah, bring me there now. Yes. I ate a PBJ every day of my life growing up. That was my lunch.

SPEAKER_03 3:31

Grilled PBJ's, toppings, bacon jamone, mallow cream, marshmallows, Nutella, gelopinos, chocolate sauce, honey, caramel sauce, pickles, sliced fruit, strawberry, apple, bananas, siriracha sauce, cream cheese, and more.

SPEAKER_01 3:47

Okay, this is so cute. Ew, gross. That like peanut butter ice cream on their video looks like poop coming out. It does definitely look like something I saw earlier this morning. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_03 3:57

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_01 3:58

Oh, this is so cute.

SPEAKER_03 4:00

Grilled cheese and jelly. I am all for that. And also, it's only $5.50, which is a steal.

SPEAKER_01 4:05

I will say that this place belongs in.

SPEAKER_03 4:06

This is gotta be on Beecher Street, right?

SPEAKER_01 4:08

This place belongs in a city.

SPEAKER_03 4:10

Well, okay, so this is on Beecher, right? No, West Greenfield.

SPEAKER_01 4:14

Yeah, I was like, no, no.

SPEAKER_03 4:16

West Ellis is like really getting cool on stuff. The mayor is very, very uh liberal, and I don't mean that in like he votes with Democrats, I mean it like he's pro trying new things and developing. Uh and this guy, Mark, that owns West Dallas cheese and sausage, is privately funding an incredible amount of Renaissance. Oh, really? Yeah, he uh Beecher Meats, which I think is a hilarious name for a meats company. It's located on Beecher Street, B-E-E-C-H-E-R. And then you call it Beecher Meets, like, you know, sounds like a sex pun if you don't understand that. But uh he's got a lot of stuff going on, he's done some things, got some grant money. He also famously, he has the that uh Lut uh Lutz Bloody Mary mix. Yeah, oh yeah, and famously said, can't Milwaukee be a sanctuary city for business owners instead of immigrants? I know. Which is when I stopped, stopped.

SPEAKER_01 5:12

Um also Westalion. I knew the um woman of the couple that started Westallion. I'm I don't know I say new. I like I don't know, I volunteered at an event with her, I think, but they have some really delicious looking beers.

SPEAKER_03 5:25

Yeah, they make some nice beers, yep.

SPEAKER_01 5:27

Oh my gosh, this place looks so cool.

SPEAKER_03 5:28

Anyway. So yeah, I almost brought that. Maybe I'll save that. Uh I figured this would be like a Well, let's go there and record on site. We want to split uh the 16 ounce can. So I also have something else that we're gonna save for after the break.

SPEAKER_01 5:39

Oh, okay. Is that gonna are we just gonna recap after the break of what's going on with that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Any preview rather than recap?

SPEAKER_03 5:46

We're gonna preview the remix.

SPEAKER_01 5:48

Um, okay, so your week's been a little cray.

SPEAKER_03 5:51

Yeah, I got too many things to do. My parents have left, which causes ripples in my personal life, my work life, all of my life. And it's one of these days where kind of I needed everything to fall right.

SPEAKER_02 6:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:04

And nothing has fallen right. And I acknowledge that, like, I realized there's in a really bad headspace about 7.50 in this morning. And I Googled how to stop a bad mood because I knew like I was gonna take this out on people. And I knew it. So, like, you know, they're like, fake it till you make it, which is always a really good way. Uh, Renee Descartes famously did this proof of why you should believe in God, which is like, just go to church, doesn't really take a lot of time, and if God exists, at least you won't go to hell because that would suck. So, like, fake it till you make it has some mathematical proofs behind it.

SPEAKER_02 6:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 6:35

Um, you know, fake it till you make it, play some happy music, get in the mood, make yourself dance, act like you're happy, go for a walk. So I did the like that thing. Usually I like kicking things, like physical aggression usually helps me get like if I kick something, I'm usually like then in a good place. Just like makes me feel better. I know that's immature, I know that's bad. So, what were you kicking? Well, usually I kick doors, and that's not good, especially when I have not good shoes on. Oh my god, Nick. To be clear, I had my enclouds on, which are great shoes for running and walking and good foot support, but not for kicking things.

SPEAKER_01 7:10

Are there good shoes for kicking doors?

SPEAKER_03 7:12

Yeah, steel-toed boots.

SPEAKER_01 7:13

Sure, okay, right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 7:14

So went and did my walk. I was like, did my breathing exercises. I was like, I did my walk back and forth on the backtop behind the store where no one could see me. Close my eyes, I can walk that thing.

SPEAKER_00 7:26

You think no one can see you.

SPEAKER_03 7:27

Don't care. And I was like, in out. Yep. Wow, man. And I was like, okay, okay, let's. You are just choosing to be negative about things. Yes, there's been like four things that didn't go right for you this morning. Yes, somebody else's poor decisions have wasted a bunch of your time. But you know what? Still not even eight o'clock. We can turn this around. Walk in and someone moved all my shit, and I just started screaming, you motherfuckers, this is when you had to do it. Fucking today.

SPEAKER_01 7:58

So it went well.

SPEAKER_03 7:58

It went well. Your walk did well. It so you know. But it did give me some like introspection about how much your mood can change your perception of how things go. And something that's like innocent, not that big of a deal, can just like, if you're in this headspace of like everything sucks.

SPEAKER_01 8:16

Yeah, it's easy to notice everything that sucks. I mean, I've had a week like that too. But then someone did tell me that I should be focusing on the positive things, which honestly infuriated me and we got in a fight about it, but she was right.

SPEAKER_03 8:27

Well, it's like, what are you supposed to tell the person that's not calm? Right. Calm down. Calm down.

SPEAKER_01 8:31

And so in the moment, but like, yep, okay, I will am trying. Yes, I'm still being bitten.

SPEAKER_03 8:36

I don't think this is very good.

SPEAKER_01 8:37

Oh, I like it. I just think it's like dumb of mine, which never happens, which is exactly why I like it. I'm like, it's not flavorless. I think it has flavor, but it's not nauseating. Anyway, yeah, I um might I suggest to you, Nick, there is a notebook called the Anti-Anxiety Notebook, uh, early product rec. My sister got it for me because I asked for it. Um, and I'm an incredibly anxious person. So I was good at doing it for a long time, and then my life fell apart in that I have to live out of a suitcase right now. So I'm out of my routine very much. And when I'm out of my routine, I spiral. So I know this about myself, but check out the anti-anxiety notebook. There is a website called therapy notebooks.com. Really? Yeah. There's there's a depression one, there's all kinds of ones. I think. All kinds of ones. You like that? There's a therapy journal, an anti-anxiety notebook, depression guidebook, sleep uh and CBT workbook, and a trauma and written exposure workbook. Ooh. I cannot tell you any of the details as I'm not a therapist and I only have the anti-anxiety one.

SPEAKER_03 9:39

Working great. All my anxiety's gone. It's Simona's birthday, the day after we record the day before we release. That's true. And we have to have um a couple different parties because we have one that's fun, and that's called Symtober Fest. And it is a special, sacred, safe space to have fun and not be judged. And if my family came, it wouldn't be judgment free. I think it'd be fun. Uh in a different way. I think you would sit on a hay bell with your style.

SPEAKER_01 10:17

Sure. I would sit in a corner 100%. Sounds fun.

SPEAKER_03 10:22

Uh I wouldn't. So we we we're on the like, we're gonna have a family thing, we're gonna have a like friends thing. But two family things. We have to do two family things because our families can't attend at the same time. We have thrown out about three different, you know, uh things that we think would work for everybody.

SPEAKER_01 10:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 10:39

And no, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 10:42

It doesn't work.

SPEAKER_03 10:43

Doesn't work. So guess what? We're doing a couple different ones, and it's further complicated by the fact that Simona's one cousin's birthday is the release day, so they're having a thing for him, and they've said, oh, well, we can just do both of them.

SPEAKER_01 10:55

Oh, how old is that cousin?

SPEAKER_03 10:58

Four. So a year older than Simona.

SPEAKER_01 11:00

So we're like that would work, wouldn't it? Or no?

SPEAKER_03 11:01

Is it too? Well, it would yes. They'll do it in a way that it's like very clearly, oh yeah, Simona can tag along.

SPEAKER_01 11:09

Oh, that's not good. I see. I was like, oh, those are perfect ages. I get it.

SPEAKER_03 11:13

Yeah, it's like, no, Simona can have her own thing.

SPEAKER_01 11:16

Yeah. When you get older, I feel like I don't do that.

SPEAKER_03 11:19

But like when they're young, you don't want to have the same birthday party as Shannon.

SPEAKER_01 11:22

Yeah, bro. My parents threw a separate birthday party. And you're twins. I know, that's why. It's extra like please give us our own independence.

SPEAKER_03 11:31

So it's a little stressful to get all the food figured out.

SPEAKER_01 11:34

Yeah, man. Three parties. I have three parties at the same time on Saturday night.

SPEAKER_03 11:39

Yeah, you do. And to be clear, one of them involves cool stuff.

SPEAKER_01 11:47

I would say two of them involve cool stuff.

SPEAKER_03 11:49

Oh, that's good. I'm glad.

SPEAKER_01 11:50

One of them is adults only, so that involves cool stuff. Oh, that's even better.

SPEAKER_03 11:53

Yeah, go to that one.

SPEAKER_01 11:54

The other one is the same place I've been for a birthday party 900 times this month, and really very late in the day for a seven-year-old's birthday party, if you ask me. And then one of them is Symptoberfest. So yeah, uh, we don't have it figured out yet.

SPEAKER_03 12:07

It's okay. I was talking, yeah, I'm yeah, I'm gonna try more. Uh I was talking to someone who asked me, how do you do everything? You do a lot. I said, Well, I've just accepted not living more than 15 minutes in advance.

SPEAKER_01 12:21

Honestly, I wish people would ask me that and feel like they would recognize how much I'm doing. I recognize tiny violin.

SPEAKER_03 12:28

You know what they say?

SPEAKER_01 12:29

Game recognize game. Okay, also, you can fear my feel you can hear my swishing as I have two jackets and a sweater on, but it's too late now. I've committed, so you're gonna just hear my swishing. What is the update on the house?

SPEAKER_03 12:43

Jesus Christ. Let me pour more beer. Let's be clear. I have nothing in the outline because my life's a disaster. And what I have in mind is in all caps. And it just says stressful. Well, there is a period after stressful. Period.

SPEAKER_02 13:01

You're right.

SPEAKER_03 13:02

There's not an exclamation point. There isn't an ironic emoji. Nothing. There is a gif you could have put there.

SPEAKER_01 13:08

I uh don't have the brain power for that. It's fun. I did reply to one of Nick's emails yesterday with my favorite. Did you get did you get the point from that email?

SPEAKER_03 13:18

Uh also, so we we have an event coming up. It's gonna be fabulous. Yeah, it is. And uh Men. Let me just say men. The number is uh clear in my head, and maybe I didn't quite communicate it great.

SPEAKER_01 13:32

Because a week and a half ago we sat down and went over the numbers, but there are two men involved, Nick, M, and someone else, another man, and it's just constantly changing. So the person planning the event, me.

SPEAKER_03 13:44

In my head, I okay, so in my defense, I thought I communicated well. Obviously, I didn't use a good way of describing it to you. So I'm not saying that like that was my fault. Like, I in my head, I thought I'd like explained, like, hey, this is how we're gonna do it, and I didn't. So Nick and I are never gonna be on the same page about this. Uh but I've stored tables and linens. Okay. So that's my fault. And uh and chairs. And uh uh someone else is coming, and it's fine.

SPEAKER_01 14:11

More people are coming. This is fine, it's fine. But I always like to have one or two extra seats because always one or two extra people on the vendor side come, assholes, and then get mad when they're like, Well, we're not having a seat. I'm like, Yeah, because you didn't tell us you were coming.

SPEAKER_03 14:26

I've told all the vendors they don't have seats, so it's gonna be like a bonus if they get to sit. A surprise and delight.

SPEAKER_01 14:32

Yeah. And that's like that is where the confusion was. There is like, oh, we could sit, but there was a hard number of no more seats than this, otherwise, we need another table. Anyway, event planning. I love it. Um, but I love it most when also my house is in shambles.

SPEAKER_03 14:48

Are you gonna talk about Charles? Because you seem like you don't want to talk about it. So we could because we could also do a like name a happy thing. We could do name a happy thing. I just wrote down a happy thing for me.

SPEAKER_01 14:58

I literally took my layers off. Um, you're gonna talk about your flowers in a minute. All right. Um we got our windows installed this week, which has literally been something I've been working on since May. Uh, I ordered them in literally. Literally. I think the discussion started in May, maybe earlier. I placed the order, I want to say early July, maybe. And here we are recording on October 14th. And they are just finishing installing them today. Um, in general, very highly recommend to the company I use, Soberg Windows and Doors, um, located right here in Walmart.

SPEAKER_03 15:34

Two early product recommendations.

SPEAKER_01 15:35

You like that? They're awesome. Um, really been great, but I know everyone says, like when your house is being renovated, like buckle up and also budget for $900,000 more than what you're already spending. And I was like, no, how would I budget? I've already, I know what these windows are. I don't need to budget more than the fucking tens of thousands of dollars I'm spending on these windows. Um, but it turns out when you spend multiple tens of thousands of dollars on a product, you are very like, I scrutinize everything. So I made the mistake of being around when they were installing things. And so then I would spaz. So anyway, we have 17 feet of windows, uh like picture windows, straight across in our living room. And it turns out the ding-dongs that put those windows in, um, they had they didn't have a header. And I'm learning all of these things now. For those of you that aren't general contractors like myself, you have to have one giant, very supportive header when you have a 17 or 18 foot.

SPEAKER_02 16:30

It's a large piece of wood.

SPEAKER_01 16:32

Big piece of wood, very heavy, sturdy, helps hold your roof up and make sure nothing caves in. Um, we didn't have that.

SPEAKER_03 16:39

So they had to basically be clear you don't want your roof to clue cave in, right?

SPEAKER_01 16:42

It's bad if your roof caves in. Okay. So it was shit like that.

SPEAKER_03 16:46

My small peon man brain can understand.

SPEAKER_01 16:48

Your man brain. Let me draw you a picture. It was just shit like that everywhere we turned. I'm not joking. Every day they've told me, oh, you're just so lucky your roof didn't get, oh, you're just so lucky, so good, glad we're here. I'm like, okay, everybody. I'm so glad I now have to pay an electrician because we had to cut all the electricity. I have to pay a Mason to fix the bricks on the outside, and I have to wait for you to come reframe these windows again after the Mason can come.

SPEAKER_03 17:13

Again, this is I wish this was on video. Usually I'm the gesticulating one. You have some extraordinarily strong gestures right now. This is like incredible communication skills. Yeah. You're doing the one, two, three, you're thumbs indexed. Yeah, like it's incredible what you're doing.

SPEAKER_01 17:30

I it's been a lot. The windows are freaking beautiful. Um, but like we need a new, we need to have the roof match, which we know, but like we had a full moon last night, so I decided two o'clock in the morning.

SPEAKER_03 17:40

You know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna swing by Bridget's house and check out the window.

SPEAKER_01 17:43

I wasn't there because we haven't been living there, which is also hard. Like, you know, we're moving back in tonight. Uh, thank God. Congratulations. Yeah, I mean, I hope. I'm moving in regardless, okay? If they're not done by now, uh, they put our door up yesterday, which is awesome. Very, it's really hard because like now parts of our house are very modern and parts are not, because we're just in the middle of modernizing the house. So it's like everything looks weird. Uh, but you know, it's a process. I'm I'm so patient, so it works well. They put the doors up and the doors are fucked up, so they have to uh redo something with that. Not on their fault. It came from the manufacturer that way. Uh they knew it, but they had to give us a door. Um I spent $115 on a door handle. Did you know that? Door handles cost whatever. Are these smart door handles? I don't fucking know.

SPEAKER_03 18:28

I want smart door handles.

SPEAKER_01 18:29

I don't think I did. I was like, just this door handle is modern and I want to be able to touch it with my wristwatch and it opens for me. You know where has one of those right now? Burlington Wholesale. Another product rec. Okay. Anyway, it's been really stressful. I could go on and on, but I'm not gonna bore you with it. Um, I do have friends getting windows installed with the same company. I recommended them. They've been very happy. They get their windows next month. Uh so every day at school pickup.

SPEAKER_03 18:53

So they ordered yesterday.

SPEAKER_01 18:54

Yeah, and then I told them, I was like, you better get these ordered. Um, so they get them next month. And I see every day at school pickup, I see the dad, and I'm like, Walt, you get ready for this, man. Walt, buckle up for this. And I was, he's like, I know, I'm just scared that when they like open this, it's gonna be rotted. And I was like, it will be. So just like get ready to spend $10,000 more dollars. He's like, I don't know. I'm like, yeah, man, I don't know what else is. And he's like a construction-esque guy. Like he's doing a lot of work himself, but I just feel like I wasn't prepared for this. We're gonna name a thing that makes us happy, okay?

SPEAKER_03 19:26

Oh, why? Am I stressed? Let's do, let's do this. It was one of the things when I Googled how to stop your bad mood. They said, think of something that makes you happy.

SPEAKER_01 19:33

All right, great. Do you got anything? Yeah, do. Go. Kids' Halloween costumes. Oh! I am having so much fun with Halloween costumes right now for my kids. I just bought one on Facebook Marketplace.

SPEAKER_03 19:44

Can you guess what makes me happy?

SPEAKER_01 19:46

Your goddamn plants.

SPEAKER_03 19:47

No, so these were someone else's plants, but they will be my plants. I was in front of Simple Cafe and Bakery. It was at 410, so it was all closed, unfortunately, for me getting bread. But their flower beds are fully grown in, and everything's dead basically at this time of the year, but it's still beautiful because like there's still colors and textures.

SPEAKER_02 20:06

Native plants.

SPEAKER_03 20:07

And the goal with our flowers is you never see mulch eventually. So you don't have to weed because weeds need sun to grow. So if your foliage is over, the you know, uh, easiest way, most eco-friendly way to kill weeds is to put tarps over your grass.

SPEAKER_01 20:22

I didn't know that was the goal for you guys.

SPEAKER_03 20:24

Yeah, that's the goal. Okay. So it looks like the front of the library, the front of simple cafe and bakery. Yeah. So that it's just all greenery, it's lovely, it's lush, and I have a hard time uh picturing it sometimes. I'm usually very good at like, oh, I can picture visualization is a strength of mine.

SPEAKER_01 20:41

Not me.

SPEAKER_03 20:41

Sarah, not as good. So like having good concrete pictures to show her is like very helpful. Same, same. Um and this one was one I even had a hard time visualizing. So seeing them, how they have it, a lot of the same plants, geraniums, alliums, things like that, is like one day it'll look this beautiful. Um, and it's just cool because it's good for all the pollinators, it's good for erosion control, which like we have a lot of rain come off our roof. So instead of washing stuff all the way all over our lawn, it just so it's very exciting. It was cool to see, and it was actually really cool because you don't do a damn thing to these plants until the spring. You let all the dead stuff stay on it, you let it compost and mulch over the winter in itself.

SPEAKER_01 21:28

And are you just reading Roy's book? I saw Roy's book. Yeah, I'm reading Roy's book. I saw Roy it's simple. I'm just gonna tell him eventually, just do this in front of my house someday when I have another nine million dollars.

SPEAKER_03 21:38

No, honestly, I'll do it. I love it so much.

SPEAKER_01 21:40

I hate it so much.

SPEAKER_03 21:42

I love it so much. I will do it for you.

SPEAKER_01 21:43

You're hired.

SPEAKER_03 21:44

You heard it here, dinner plus drinks. I will I I will just need uh Elliot labor. Great, he loves to help. It'll be great. Uh Elliot, we'll get Elliot, Simona, and Lucy outside.

SPEAKER_01 21:55

Sounds like super.

SPEAKER_03 21:57

You can give me a bottle of silk and spice. I sure can. I'm Go buy 10 cases of it. And I'm very excited. Uh, but yeah, I was just very excited that because it looks so beautiful, even in the dead season. Yeah. And it's just like.

SPEAKER_01 22:09

I should go look at it. I mean, I was there today, but I didn't appreciate it.

SPEAKER_03 22:12

Nature really does have. Oh, I don't have my phone on me, otherwise, I'd show you the picture.

SPEAKER_01 22:15

Look at us being positive.

SPEAKER_03 22:16

Yeah, so it's just like very what a delight of a week. The person that said, like, how do you do it said 50 minutes of time? Like, also, my daughter makes me happy, and my flowers make me happy. And I like to chop up onions and cook them and because it smells good, and then I can be left alone for five minutes.

SPEAKER_00 22:32

Oh, bro. Things that make me happy.

SPEAKER_03 22:37

Okay, everybody. Can I talk about mine first? Yeah, go for it.

SPEAKER_01 22:41

Mine, yeah, mine is not as exciting.

SPEAKER_03 22:43

So I have the worst cheating scandal of ever in sport. I don't know if you heard about this. This is bigger than the Black Sox, uh, you know, World Series 19, whatever Chicago White Sox that threw it. This is worse than Mark McGuire P.E.D.s. This is worse than Lance Armstrong doping up, making us all think that losing your balls made you a better biker. This is worse than Tom Brady deflating balls. This is worse than all of this. I don't know if you saw this, but I've been very out of touch this week. Ohio fishing duo charged with cheating and attempted grand theft. Shit. The pair had stuffed walleye fish with lead balls at an Ohio fishing tournament last month in an attempt to win nearly $30,000. I'm sorry. And he thought he wasn't gonna get caught. Jacob Runyon and Chase Kaminsky, center left and center right. Oh, it's a caption of the picture I'm reading. After they won a previous tournament. So anyway, these guys, 42 and 35 years old, they uh I want a link to this.

SPEAKER_01 23:48

I want to see the engorged some walleyes on a biofishing scandal is what I'm just gonna type in. You think it'll come up? Oh wow, yeah, it's everywhere.

SPEAKER_03 23:58

Everywhere.

SPEAKER_01 23:59

I'm just going to- I'm sorry, did you say they stuffed their pockets?

SPEAKER_03 24:03

No, they stuffed the they engorged the walleye. Cuyahoga county prosecutor Michael C. O'Malley said in the statement that the men's actions were, quote, not only dishonorable, but also criminal. And I thought fishing was like a very gentlemanly sport, like golf is. Um Whoa. I'm just gonna read this. So this is for the New York Times, their article, which makes it even more funny that the New York Times is covering that.

SPEAKER_01 24:28

That's the link I just kicked up.

SPEAKER_03 24:29

So uh, quote, I'm gonna read two paragraphs. No, three, sorry. Competitors were tasked with capturing five of the heaviest walleye fish in Lake Erie, and the winner was to be termed with a weigh-in. Mr. Runyon and Mr. Kaminsky, which is again what I love about the times, you have to put, you know, an honorific in front of everybody, approached the scale with fish significantly heavier than what was standard. Jason Fisher, the tournament's director, said. In a dramatic reveal at the weigh-in captured on video, Mr. Fisher prodded the stomach of a walleye caught by the pair and then sliced the fish open to reveal its contents. A lead ball. Shut up.

SPEAKER_01 25:07

They put a lead ball in these.

SPEAKER_03 25:09

More were found in other fish presented by the two men. We got ways in the fish, Mr. Fisher exclaimed. I'm sure that's how he said it, right? To jeers from the crowd, onlookers swiftly gathered near Mr. Fisher to get a closer look at the lead ball he brandished in the air.

SPEAKER_01 25:24

Whoa, you guys. Something says they've been doing this shit for years. Sport Bible. This is crazy! Isn't it? Not really my sport, so I don't follow it. Um like also a picture of fish guts. Wow. This is gross. These fish look disgusting. Isn't this hilarious? Okay, uh I just have to say something quickly because you talked about golf being a gentlemanly sport. So my dad sends us a lot of like things on our family group text that aren't necessarily as funny as he thinks they are. Um, but he is at a golf tournament in Las Vegas right now. Let's go, Brandon. And he's at a golf tournament in Vegas, very hilly, very mountainous, mountainous. And he sends a picture of a golf cart in a lake. And we're like, okay, like is this some stupid meme? It's always some meme. And then he called very shortly. I was with my sister and he called shortly thereafter, and he couldn't stop laughing. And like when my dad can't stop laughing, like, stop laughing, it's especially funny. And the the foursome right in front of his group, one of the guys lost their golf cart, like very, very mountainous. So he was at the top of a hill, kind of got the cart stuck, and instead of like rolling.

SPEAKER_03 26:30

Rolling golf carts is always funny.

SPEAKER_01 26:32

He got out of the cart and it rolled down the hill, and then he he ran after it, and then it got down the hill onto the fairway, going backwards, and the guy's running, but then you, you know, you're running down a hill, and then you like stabilized. I've seen this. He fell, the guy fell, and then it's like you know, and then he's so close. And my dad's like, the cart like almost stopped, and the guy couldn't get up, and then the cart just like popped in the lake. It was the funniest story. I don't know if we all just like needed a good laugh, but anyway, that is not my news article. Very funny golf story.

SPEAKER_03 27:02

My favorite part about this is the tournament organizer said, quote, the cheating scandal was one of the most disgusting and dishonest acts the fishing world has ever seen in a lifetime.

SPEAKER_01 27:13

Was disgusting.

SPEAKER_03 27:14

And the individuals involved here appear to have put greed and ego in front of everything else, forever tainting our sport. First of all, it's not a sport, Brian.

SPEAKER_01 27:23

I mean I can't even.

SPEAKER_03 27:25

It's a recreational activity.

SPEAKER_01 27:27

What is the definition, I wonder? I think someone's gonna get after you. But like, I don't know. You're fishing. I don't know. Is band a sport? No. I was just actually curious what you thought about that. No, like I don't know what how you define it.

SPEAKER_03 27:41

Drum core is kind of a sport, but it's yeah, because you need to like have you need to be in shape for that. Like it's scored and stuff, but like it's not like a sport. But fishing is a is uh scored.

SPEAKER_01 27:52

I don't know. I'm trying. My neighbor is a very big fisherman, our last kim. He stopped to tell me he's so sorry we're going through all this. He's like, I just feel for you guys with your windows, but it's gonna like yell at me. He's very nice.

SPEAKER_03 28:04

You know, Jesus was a fisherman of men. He was big and he got a bunch of fisher people.

SPEAKER_01 28:09

Blessings, you know.

SPEAKER_03 28:10

So like Jesus, these people disappointed Jesus.

SPEAKER_01 28:13

Jesus.

SPEAKER_03 28:14

How dare they?

SPEAKER_01 28:16

I can't. This is too much for me. Um, I my story originally I saw like on Instagram, um New York Times on their stories. They do a really good job of like clickbait. And so they had they had a little thing up about um brown noise, which I am not a white noise fan, but I was like, brown noise? What is this? And you click through, there's also pink noise. So I started doing a deep dive. Did you know there's all these different noise things? Like I had no clue. So white noise machines to me make me want to c rip my ears off my head. Like I don't understand wanting to listen to static. Um, I'm much more of I put on the waves, like the ocean wave, or 100% if it's up to me, I put on rainfall. That's what I like to listen to. So there is, I will link um soundofsleep.com is the place that I found it most interesting. But white noise, pink noise, and brown noise are three different types of noise.

SPEAKER_03 29:09

Like so, pink noise is basically the Pacific Northwest.

SPEAKER_01 29:12

Yes, which it it seems what I is what I like.

SPEAKER_03 29:15

Even flat sound, like a steady rain, windless rustling through trees, or waves on a beach.

SPEAKER_01 29:19

Yes, see?

SPEAKER_03 29:20

AKA the Pacific Northwest.

SPEAKER_01 29:22

So I have learned that I'm a pink noise person, so it's louder at the low pink noise, it's louder at the low frequency and softer at the high end. So the sound of light to medium rainfall is an example. White noise is broadly spread across the spectrum, including low frequency, mid-range, high. Brown brown noise is even deeper, even stronger at the low end and without the high frequency of pink noise. So it like brown noise is like hard, gentle surf that comes with a storm, is what they say. So anyway, it was really fascinating to me because like one uh like noise machines, I can't sleep in the silence. I want like a fan on or it or the you know kids' rainfall on my Pandora station, whatever it is. Um, but I like having noise, and it's never been the static white noise. So just thought it was interesting if the static white noise makes you want to jump off a cliff, cliff like it does me. Maybe you're a pink or brown noise listener. Isn't it fascinating? I thought you would like it actually.

SPEAKER_03 30:14

I'm very interested in this.

SPEAKER_01 30:15

Because are you guys sound sleep? Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:18

We got a fan on all the time.

SPEAKER_01 30:19

Yeah, yeah, for sure. We put fans on when we have nothing else.

SPEAKER_03 30:21

Um Simona has a noise machine that's a uh washing machine, actually, is what works for her. It's like oh, that sounds horrifying to me.

SPEAKER_01 30:31

Uh, what would that be categorized? I think brown noise. Feels like brown noise. Brown noise. I bet you'd like it. I don't know. Yeah, I mean I'm a I'm definitely like a rainy.

SPEAKER_03 30:41

We can go in a room and play it.

SPEAKER_01 30:42

Yeah, could we? My kids both had sound machines, but we don't use them anymore. We just put the fans on. Um, if I if the kids are like really wily and need low and I need them to calm down, I do my rain rainfall. Elliot insists that there are thunderstorms. Lucy just likes the rain.

SPEAKER_03 30:57

More on thunderstorms later.

SPEAKER_01 30:58

Yeah, more on that later. We'll be right back. Are you ready?

SPEAKER_03 31:12

I'm ready.

SPEAKER_01 31:13

More product recommendations from Nick and Bridget? I I haven't had any yet. Oh, gee, what is yours here, Nick?

SPEAKER_03 31:21

No, mine is not the water pick, although I still recommend it.

SPEAKER_01 31:26

Um wait, did I text you the there was like, you know, the Amazon Day deals or whatever?

SPEAKER_03 31:31

No, you didn't.

SPEAKER_01 31:32

Oh, I screenshotted it, circled it. I meant to text you. Oh, was it on? It was a fucking water pick right front and center. And I was like, oh, Nick.

SPEAKER_03 31:38

Targeting. Um, I actually had one and now I forgot what it was because I was oh, you go ahead. Well, you Oh, no, I do. Oh, okay. It's actually an event that's coming up. It's actually a thing.

SPEAKER_00 31:47

Go for it.

SPEAKER_03 31:47

It's called Fifty Shades of Gruyere. Oh, yeah, this looks so good. It is a book club at the Lake Geneva Public Library the first Tuesday of every month at 6 p.m. Sample cheese from Hill Valley Dairy and discuss whatever. Oh man, I wasn't gonna I was gonna make a late Ron Cheese mention. I don't know. We gave a middle Ron Cheese mention. Uh also shout out to Ron Cheese who provided me commentary that this past episode there was no mentions of Hill Valley Dairy, but only Ron Cheese mentions.

SPEAKER_01 32:16

Oh, so sorry. Hill Valley Dairy, Hill Valley Dairy Ron from Hill Valley Dairy.

SPEAKER_03 32:21

But yes, so you can sample cheese and discuss books, shows, movies, or podcasts such as this lovely podcast, uh, with people. So I am very excited for this. I made a joke to the librarian that I was gonna make it very uncomfortable by wanting to discuss Lolita, the book by uh Vladimir Nabokov, famously about a man abducting a very young child and using her for Oh terrible, but also she using him. Um and I was gonna go in and say, hey, I I got Lolita, I'd love to talk about this. And uh do you think these cheeses are kid friendly? Just like very like and then Emily, the librarian, pointed out that Ellen, the you know, fiction person, has an English degree and is very excited to discuss the meaning of Lolita. I'm like, I I'm not. I want to be very clear. This was an inappropriate joke. This was a joke. I read the book, I was very deeply disturbed by it. I'm okay with banning that book. And um I did not read it. I do not intend to please tell Ellen that I am not serious about this.

SPEAKER_01 33:25

She's probably mad because no one else has read it. Well, it's I mean, it's it's really well written. Great. You know what? I'm so glad about that. But um uh yeah, that event looks great. I had no idea that was in the works.

SPEAKER_03 33:37

Yeah, so I'm very excited about it.

SPEAKER_01 33:38

Not that we know everything, but you know, I've got we've got one more week of soccer, I think, on Tuesdays, Nick. Do we really? I thought this was the last one that got canceled. They rescheduled the one that got canceled. Oh, good, good, good, good. That's what I'm told. So, okay. My product recommendation is absolutely absurd, but as I am looking at all of the house things and we're redoing a bathroom right now, did you know that IKEA sells pink toilet paper? It is October. It is breast cancer awareness month. Why not get some toilet paper? It's completely ridiculous. But you know what? Things that make me happy. Fucking pink toilet paper instead of boring white. I'm just gonna replace all the rolls in our house and see if anyone notices.

SPEAKER_03 34:19

I'd be worried it would cause cancer.

SPEAKER_01 34:22

Yeah, I mean it might, okay? Uh they also sell gray, which I don't understand. Uh yep, there you go. That's what I've got for you. Pink toilet paper from IKEA, mostly because it's funny, okay? And it's beautiful. I mean, it's bright and cheery.

SPEAKER_03 34:40

Can I just say my favorite? So Lolita is just like such a funny book. Two of my all-time favorite references are to the book. One of which was a beer by Goose Island called Lolita, is one of their sour beers that they added cherries to, and Lolita famously like candy cherry sucker. Uh and I had a tasting with their head of the sour program. I was like, So Lolita, it's a good book by Nabakov, right? He's like, I don't know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_01 35:06

I'm like, Wait, did he really not know?

SPEAKER_03 35:08

No, he's like, They knew they shouldn't have done it. Oh, I was like, they straight up knew they should have done it. And he's like, I don't know what you're talking about. I'm like, okay, bro.

SPEAKER_00 35:18

So sorry.

SPEAKER_03 35:19

He chose to like do like it's like the same. I'm like, uh-huh. Because it was like a hilarious reference, right? And they usually are pretty cool about like, yeah, we made a weed reference, or like, you know, stuff like that. Yeah. And this one, they're like, no, no. Like, so they must like so someone at Anhexer Bush Corporate must have finally figured it out and then been like, you guys, this crossed a line.

SPEAKER_01 35:40

You can't do this.

SPEAKER_03 35:40

And then also uh Don't Stand So Close to Me by the Police, which is a great book about a teacher wanting to have uh affair with his underage student. What? And uh they include one of my all-time favorite lines of just like that old man in that book by Nabokov. It's a great reference to the book. There's just so many good references to Lolita. Everybody, it's it's a disturbing book, but you should all read it.

SPEAKER_00 36:04

Terrible.

SPEAKER_03 36:05

You should read Lolita. Everybody should go read Lolita. There we go. Product recommendation.

SPEAKER_01 36:09

We're gonna we're gonna take a breather. We'll be right back. We're back. We're back. We have decided to spare you the political discussion that we were going to have after the break because we are focusing on happiness.

SPEAKER_03 36:32

Yes, happiness. And I want Bridget. Actually, you know what? This is kind of you know, like a segment right here. Okay. Rate me, Bridget. Hot or not. What? Swipe left, swipe right. I don't even know what's going on. That's where we're going. I don't know which way. I don't know which way is good. People always say that. I'm like, okay, like I get, I understand what you're saying, but I'm not sure if left is good or right is good.

SPEAKER_01 36:54

All it makes me think of is my Gmail app and how you have to set up the swipes to do what you want. And I'm like, well, I prefer to swipe this way, left, for trash. Like, that's when I want my email to go in the trash. So does that mean you're trash? Tell me you're old without telling me you're old. That should be a segment.

SPEAKER_03 37:11

That should be a segment.

SPEAKER_01 37:12

We are not prepared for it, but you know, send us ideas if you have them.

SPEAKER_03 37:16

Okay, so Monday. We had to make a quick meal. I'm I'm I'm listening. A quick and simple meal.

SPEAKER_01 37:25

Why?

SPEAKER_03 37:26

Out of time, all the things, all the stuff, you know? And this was what I thought of as a quick and easy meal. And I want to know.

SPEAKER_01 37:36

If it was quick and easy.

SPEAKER_03 37:37

Do you agree?

SPEAKER_01 37:38

First, lightly saute, chop, divide, conquer. Then take 27 steps to pick these herbs out of your garden, sniff them, cut them, grind them. Okay, go on.

SPEAKER_03 37:52

I bought four chicken tenders at Lake Geneva Country Meats. They're on sale right now. Oh, yeah. Oh, F. I need to start cooking chicken. Oh, F for tonight. Oh better wrap this up, buddy. Um we gotta go. Need to throw it in a slow cooker so it shreds. All right, so I took four chicken tenders. I took our butter, garlic, seasoning, I shook it on there. Okay, I'm listening. I put them on a tray and I put them under the broiler and broiled them for five minutes aside.

SPEAKER_01 38:23

That cooks a chicken tender through? I've never broiled chicken if I'm being honest.

SPEAKER_03 38:27

You don't use your broiler? Not for that. Oh, yeah, it works great.

SPEAKER_01 38:30

Wow, that is okay. Learn something new today.

SPEAKER_03 38:32

Yep, so you know, just like aluminum tray, put it on there.

unknown 38:35

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 38:37

I did make boxed risotto, which I thought you would like.

SPEAKER_01 38:40

I use a bagged risotto, but I'm here for boxed risotto.

SPEAKER_03 38:42

Well, it's you know, in a bag, in a box. Yep. Made that. Okay. Because, you know, it fancied it up just a little bit. Sounds delicious.

SPEAKER_01 38:48

I fancy up my boxed risotto.

SPEAKER_03 38:50

Uh no, I didn't fancy it up. I just literally followed it. But, you know, instead of like putting rice in a rice cooker.

SPEAKER_01 38:55

I fancy up my bagged risotto because I'm fancy.

SPEAKER_03 38:58

It takes 20 minutes, you know.

SPEAKER_01 39:00

Which is annoying if I'm being honest.

SPEAKER_03 39:01

But that was the first thing I started. Okay. And so did that, did the chicken, and then I microwaved a bag of peas, stirred the peas into the risotto.

SPEAKER_01 39:08

Bro, yes. And it was delicious. But so you call this your quick and easy dinner. That's like my regular dinner. That's like, look at this fancy meal I made tonight. Bagged risotto and chicken.

SPEAKER_03 39:18

Butternut squash risotto.

SPEAKER_01 39:20

Oh, you know what we didn't discuss? No. We switched beverages. Oh, I was like, what did I miss? Something with squash? Oh, yeah, now we're enjoying a late in the season Oktoberfest beer. Do do do do do. I don't know why I felt like I need to.

SPEAKER_03 39:35

So this is, in the words of Tom Hanks in the Polar Express, the first beer of Simptober.

SPEAKER_01 39:42

That was well done.

SPEAKER_03 39:43

Thank you. So Bridget deserves a lot of credit for Simptober, uh, because she's the Oktoberfest inspiration.

SPEAKER_01 39:49

You know, love me, some Oktoberfest.

SPEAKER_03 39:50

Nobody celebrates like you and Shannon. I do think we have to give Shannon some credit here as well.

SPEAKER_01 39:54

We do, and actually Britney. And Britney. She might have started the tradition.

SPEAKER_03 39:57

So um I always enjoyed it, but then I have to say, you guys were an inspiration. The first time I went to the Glendale Oktoberfest with you guys, I was like.

SPEAKER_01 40:08

It's so fun. And screw you if you don't want to slightly dive in and like put your hair in braids or something. Come on, guys.

SPEAKER_03 40:15

This is also my problem with people who are like, maybe I just do need a beer. I'm like, you know what? You all need to shut up. Like, you need to eat a bratwurst, drink too much beer. Not too much beer, but you know beer. You can get wine there if you want. And, you know, like dance a poker. Like you enjoy this. You're you're a miserable human being, and I don't want to know you.

SPEAKER_01 40:32

Yes. And my family of four, made them all, even my kids. We were the only ones dressed up out of the like 20 of us that were there this year. Because now it's like a family thing, like my cousins and stuff come. And then whatever friends are in Milwaukee are always like, cool, I'm coming up because it's 10 minutes away. But yeah, I was really disappointed. However, many of them have new babies, so good for you for even coming. Also, you made the banner. Oh, the banner, yeah. Yep. I liked your um Facebook header today, though. What the hell is my problem? You're this year. I liked the image you put on the Facebook event. Thank you very much.

SPEAKER_03 41:02

You guys, we're struggling. I learned that uh Canva. I learned that from you as well. So I figured it'd be appropriate. So Simptober is the fun party because also you provided the advice of the one-year-old parties for you, not for the kid.

SPEAKER_01 41:15

I mean, even getting three, four, you start to get into, you know, the kid cares.

SPEAKER_03 41:18

And you know, maybe we'll have four parties eventually, one for each side of the family, one for Simona's friends, and one for like, hey, these are the family friends that we're all gonna just get together and drink some beer. And yes, we're celebrating your birthday, but like No way.

SPEAKER_01 41:32

Take Simona's friends from like school or whatever, mix those parents with us. That's the best.

SPEAKER_03 41:37

Yeah, I'm gonna do that. But like, you know, if they really suck, it's see the problem is if they can't hang. Right.

SPEAKER_01 41:41

Because we have a group of friends that can all hang.

SPEAKER_03 41:45

I know.

SPEAKER_01 41:46

But all of our kids are friends because they started out at Daycare Together.

SPEAKER_03 41:49

That's the way to do it.

SPEAKER_01 41:50

Sadly, though, I am like, it is getting sad because I'm seeing everyone go in these different directions. Like, you know, I have the oldest kids of the group, and so well, Lucy is the same age as everyone, but Elliot's the oldest. So, like, everyone goes in these different ways, and I'm like, oh, you guys in five years, I don't know what's gonna happen. You better all freaking send your kids to the same school as us. That's right. Just kidding.

SPEAKER_03 42:08

So we have a third space brewing keg of Oktoberfest beer because not the best Oktoberfest beer. It's not my favorite. It's good, it's good, but it's not my favorite.

SPEAKER_01 42:18

I love Third Space. I mean, I can't. It's available.

SPEAKER_03 42:20

Yeah, it's available. You know, it's available. Availability is an attribute.

SPEAKER_01 42:25

I still have some MC Hammerschlaging in my fridge.

SPEAKER_03 42:28

You know, one of the problems with um Jermichael Finley was that he was hurt all the time.

SPEAKER_01 42:33

Oh my god, I loved, I remember loving it.

SPEAKER_03 42:35

Supremely talented when he wasn't hurt. But if you're hurt 12 out of 16 games, yeah, guess what, bro? Doesn't matter how good you are, those four games, you're cut. He was hurt a lot.

SPEAKER_01 42:44

I forgot about him, to be honest.

SPEAKER_03 42:46

So, you know, this is the beer that we have, and it's better than no beer.

SPEAKER_01 42:50

That's true. You know what? It's better than I don't know. I really liked that caramel corn beer, actually.

SPEAKER_03 42:56

I was at an event at the Geneva Tap House, which is this uh really cool concept, really beautiful building, really nice people running it. It's got 40 taps, uh self-serve, and they just had an Oktoberfest thing and they had 15 different Oktoberfest beers on.

SPEAKER_01 43:13

I completely missed that.

SPEAKER_03 43:14

And I was like, I don't think I care about Oktoberfest beers as much. Honestly, all I wanted was a logger, and I mean, don't at me. I know that many Oktoberfests are loggers, but I just wanted like, you know.

SPEAKER_01 43:26

Yeah, a basic beer.

SPEAKER_03 43:28

Because like I'd had a hazy IPA, I'd tried some stuff that I was like, mm-hmm. That's one of the cool things about the self-pour, like you can do the two ounce. I was like, not what I want. Honestly, kind of want a coors light.

SPEAKER_01 43:39

And sometimes there's a place for that.

SPEAKER_03 43:41

Because like I wanted to talk to a couple people still, I wanted to have a beer in my hand, but needed to find it. I just need like a coors light. I um nothing. No coors light. No lager. Yeah, but I talked to the owner about it, and I was like, yeah, I just wish you guys had a lager on. She's like, well, we usually have one, but you're like 15 October. Octoberfest, right? And I'm like, That's true.

unknown 44:02

And you have 25 of them. Anyway.

SPEAKER_01 44:05

Well, they had um this summer, Tyler and I went there after like rewarding ourselves for ripping apart our basement or something. And they had a really good blueberry beer that I liked. A little like you would probably hate it, but I love that.

SPEAKER_03 44:15

They had six ciders on.

SPEAKER_01 44:17

Oh, Tyler would have loved that.

SPEAKER_03 44:19

None of them were just like a because I was like, okay, no lager. Like, I'll get a like just a cider. Like they were all like flavored bullshit ciders. Oh, I mean I was curious. Like pear ciders. Not a pear cider. Because I would have accepted. Yeah, I would have accepted that. Because no, I love Perry. Yeah. Because like it the same thing. It's just like crisp refreshing, no added crap. You don't get like the worst hangover in the world. So I was like, could you just like, if you're not gonna have like a crisp queen lager, could you have a crisp queen cider? No, it's pumpkin marshmallow cider.

SPEAKER_01 44:50

Pumpkin. I mean, gross. I'm not I do hate fault. This is the problem is once you miss Oktoberfest season, then it's just like bullshit. It's pumpkin and like gross winter beers. And I'm like, just give me something better than this.

SPEAKER_03 45:04

Can we also talk about my pumpkin? So I went to talk to children yesterday and Bridget documented it. Oh my god. And it eventually got into can I make Bridget laugh? How many times can I make Bridget laugh? Because these children were not listening. Because Bridget can't hide her emotions. And I was like, you fucking kids. Like it was terrible. So it eventually got into this game of I could see Bridget in the back of the room out of the corner of my eye. So can I like keep it together where the kids think I'm kind of professional?

SPEAKER_00 45:31

But Bridget's dying.

SPEAKER_03 45:32

And Bridget's dying in the background, but I'm still like not saying anything so outrageous. Oh my god. And I did make a really strong pumpkin spice joke at one point.

SPEAKER_01 45:40

Nice that I felt like no one listened to me. I know.

SPEAKER_03 45:42

And I could just see you like defawing in the background. I'm like, okay. I laughed out loud. Both old, though, all the more. Or like these kids are just.

SPEAKER_01 45:51

Well, and the teacher. She laughed with us, of course. So I don't think we're that old. I mean, is pumpkin spice latte not something we can make fun of anymore? These kids all had Starbucks cups. I know. These kids, you guys. I can't. I have so many things to say about it, but I don't want to offend. I don't care if I offend someone. These kids were punks. You're not allowed to have a cell phone, but you can keep your Apple Watch on and they all have laptops. So like I'm like, how do teachers do this? I would be the worst teacher in the world in case you were curious.

SPEAKER_03 46:18

Uh Jamie, Miss Lutz, the instructor, who is the current uh Pro Start instructor of the year, very well deserved.

SPEAKER_00 46:25

She is great.

SPEAKER_03 46:26

Uh, she's like, yeah, you know, we need subs. I was like, I can maybe say, can you just sub for me? I'm like, I could maybe do that. I would do band as well.

SPEAKER_01 46:33

I would do never any of it.

SPEAKER_03 46:34

Because band's pretty easy. You're like, all right, guys, we're gonna play this song. Go. And then you can be like, this part sucked, flutes. Redo it. Uh, but food, I could just like walk in and be like, what if we're making sausage today?

SPEAKER_01 46:46

I mean, if you're making something, like these kids clearly just want to be making or eating, they don't want to sit and listen and learn. Which is a big part of cooking. I I see, like, I'm very old when I sat in there. I was like, you guys are little punks.

SPEAKER_03 46:58

Isn't that crazy how like walking through the hallways, you're like, you look like you're 10.

SPEAKER_01 47:03

That's the first thing we were in a passing period, and I was like, these people are babies. Anyway.

SPEAKER_03 47:09

I always thought like when I was in like eighth grade, high schoolers look so old. And you're like, oh man, that Travis Leach.

SPEAKER_01 47:16

He's so mature. Oh, Travis.

SPEAKER_03 47:18

And then uh, yeah, you know, you get you get to be It was something else. 35, and you're like, I don't know if you're 30 or if you're 10, but I need to see your ID before I serve you.

SPEAKER_01 47:29

You made a joke about like uh you're talking about what goes in brats, and we said something about beer, and those two punk kids in the back right were like, oh yeah, beer gets good in a brat. And I was like, you guys are 14 years old. Like it was very funny. I'm like, you two are the ones that probably aren't drinking. There was, I have to give one kid credit back left. He busted out his laptop and I was back there, so I was like, mean mug and I'm like, what are you going on Facebook on this?

SPEAKER_03 47:52

Look at a bella haden.

unknown 47:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 47:54

He started doing his brat research right away. He filled in his whole like as you were talking, he was like our worksheet. I didn't see it well enough. It's in Canva. Oh, good. But he started filling it in. It's in Canva. Anyway, high school kids. Blessing to us when our kids are that old. Canva has this like Canva Fest thing. Can we go? Should go.

SPEAKER_03 48:18

We're the biggest supporters of Canva in the world. I just want to go and be like, hey guys, I made the crochet thing.

unknown 48:23

I love you, Canva.

SPEAKER_03 48:25

Could you just like change where the delete buttons are?

SPEAKER_01 48:30

Yes, there's a few, there's a few bits of feedback.

SPEAKER_03 48:33

They also now have, I don't know if you've seen like they have the duplicate and delete buttons like floating now, but like they disappear too easily. Oh, I don't know, man.

SPEAKER_01 48:42

There's something I always do, and yeah, accidentally duplicate the page or accidentally delete all the time. Okay, did you see my favorite food from the week?

SPEAKER_03 48:50

Scholzberg spicy cheeses. I just pulled up Canva and I see this incredible Scholzberg spicy cheeses.

SPEAKER_01 48:56

I didn't make that. Um fire! Okay. Inflavable. Okay, guys. I want to tell you, you know how on the Food Network, if you made a peanut butter and jelly, they would describe it as like uh like two crustinis encompassed with a nut spread and macerated berry preserve. I tried to do that, but I didn't. I gave up. But here's what I actually made recipe. I didn't make my own ravioli. Uh it's a basil and pine nut ravioli.

SPEAKER_03 49:32

You screwed up right away. You have to say basil.

SPEAKER_01 49:34

It's a basil and pine nut ravioli, which I bought at Aldi, and they have delicious like seasonal ravioli, where if you don't buy them all when they're there, you miss out. So I bought a goat cheese and caramelized onion because I thought I would take one bite, but I don't like onions. Tyler would like it. And a basil and pine nut ravioli, and I made a brown butter sage sauce. I know. You know what Shannon said to me? I'm like, Shannon, you just blew right past the fact that I said brown butter sauce. She's like, I feel like you make brown butter sauce all the time. I'm like, I have never made brown butter sauce. I'm always scared I'm gonna burn it. It's so easy. It's so easy. Elliot helped me. Good job, Elliot. And then I put Parmesan on top and it was way to go, butters. So freaking delicious. Butters. I've started calling Lucy little butters. It's so good. Um anyway, it was so good. I want to go buy all of the containers of the basil pine nut raviolin. I know I could make it myself, but that would not be a making ravioline's paint button. Yeah, it's not a quick dinner.

SPEAKER_03 50:27

So so good. I was talking about butterboards with raunches again. Yeah. And we both still agreed. No. I love the butterboard. No. It's not good for my cholesterol, but give me the board of butter. Well, okay. So if you had the like good butter, it actually would be good for your cholesterol.

SPEAKER_01 50:46

Oh. It feels like all butter is bad for cholesterol, though.

SPEAKER_03 50:50

No, if you get the um I don't really know. Like depends on how it's processed, but it helps your HDL.

SPEAKER_01 50:55

Oh, well, good butter.

SPEAKER_03 50:56

Um they did I had to get my cholesterol pulled for uh uh life insurance thing.

SPEAKER_01 51:01

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 51:02

And it was hilariously like, you must eat a lot of good fat because your HDL is like really strong. I'm like, a lot of cheese, bro. A lot of cheese. A lot of cheese.

SPEAKER_01 51:13

This makes me want to log into my like ch my well-being thing. Anyway, um, yeah, I loved that ravioli. Also, I want a butterboard, but I want it. Um, Josie was doing some testing on us, so we talked about flavors. I want like a rosemary butter, maybe like an herb butter with some salt, and I will eat the whole board a bit. That's all.

SPEAKER_03 51:33

Did you like at the children's presentation where I was eventually so, so nice and like, yeah, you can put herbs in it.

SPEAKER_01 51:38

I'm like, herbs? What the did they even notice? I don't remember. There was one moment I laughed out loud where someone should have laughed, and I was like, You guys are losers. Oh, you guys, I should have. I did catch Nick's Bratwurst joke, um, which is how he opened the presentation and caught it on video to the dead silence. It was great. It was great. I was like, come on, you people joke, dead silent. Me and the teacher were laughing. It's a good joke. It was good. Oh well. Oh boy, it was a rough week. On that note, it's time for Kid Carter. All right. Never thought we'd make it, but here we are.

SPEAKER_03 52:11

Strong Ronchies references now. Uh-oh. What's that? This is gonna be all about Mr. Ronchies. So that was a strong gulp. We uh I have two weeks of just never not working, staring me at the face. And so uh want to make sure like I booked some serious quality time with Simona before the booked some time in her calendar. Shit apocalypse of not having good quality time with Simona happens. So picked her up yesterday, busted her out from daycare a little early, and I said, All right, she was you know very surprised, very happy. Uh, she wouldn't let go of my leg. She gave me the biggest hug, which is just like the most gratifying thing in the world. So nice. And like, because Sarah's usually the one picking her up, so it is like a surprise and a joy when I pick her up and she's goes, My dad pick up me up, my dad pick up me up. That is the best. She's never lost that like mispronunciation.

SPEAKER_01 53:05

Which are for the record, moment of silence for the moms here who always pick up and they're like, Oh, it's you again. I'm like, Okay, okay. It's just me. Yep. The person who does this every day. Okay, go on.

SPEAKER_03 53:16

I that was my that was my mom rant. So it's like Simona, you have two options. We can go pick apples or we can go to the cheese bar. Well, I'll pick apples and then I'll take them to the cheese bar. I said, okay, well, we don't we don't have time to do that. If the apple orchard was a little closer, we could. I would be down with no negotiating. And I would just call mom and say, we're not gonna be home till you know 7:30, but it'd be like nine o'clock.

SPEAKER_01 53:46

Yeah. So all apple orchards are like 20 minutes away.

SPEAKER_03 53:49

So we have to do, and it's like an inconvenient 20 minutes.

SPEAKER_01 53:53

And it was fucking cold. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 53:54

So I'm like, so we can only do one. So and she's like, well, I've already picked apples, so I want to go to the cheese bar.

SPEAKER_01 54:00

To the bar.

SPEAKER_03 54:01

So we went to the cheese bar, she told all the teachers, go into the cheese bar.

SPEAKER_01 54:05

Go into the bar. I didn't know the bar.

SPEAKER_03 54:07

Great, great. So we get to the cheese bar. That's where we saw, we took a look at the simple flowers, did a walk.

SPEAKER_01 54:12

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 54:12

Had a nice discussion with our favorite publisher on the way there. She was very surprised that Simona loved the cheese bar. My baby girl. So Ron had a customer drop off these cheeses that they brought back from their trip to Oktoberfest. Side note, Sarah, Ron and I are going to Oktoberfest next year. Uh, I believe that the wives are gonna come.

SPEAKER_01 54:34

I am the reason you celebrate Oktoberfest, you jerk.

SPEAKER_03 54:37

So it's gonna be great. It's gonna be great. So he had these two goat cheeses and a lamb sheep's milk cheese. One was all lavender, so it's a purple cheese. Shut up. Yeah, go try them. Lucy would die. He may have taken them to Josie's.

SPEAKER_01 54:53

We actually might go there tonight.

SPEAKER_03 54:54

So uh yeah. So Simona ate all of the goat cheese, all of the sheep's milk cheese. Literally, everybody else is a little like ambivalent. She's like, I'll eat it all. Ravender cheese? All of the cheese. She called it the purple cheese. Yeah. It's like a little sweet, kind of yummy. I liked it. Uh, Carrie and Ron were not so much. Uh Lucy would die if I give her purple cheese. She'd be so excited. So Samoa ate it like a champ. Uh, we originally started out in the like love seat uh area because there were other people there taking up our normal table.

SPEAKER_01 55:28

We sit at the bar, like asking. And so then we moved to the house. So with our children, we're like, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 55:32

She just wants to sit in my lap. I was just really lovely. We colored, we read the Visit Lake Geneva uh Visitor's Guide. We read the Visitor's Guide. Which was a lot of fun. Dreamy. Like, I mean, with a kid, and she's like, What's that? And then you know, like you can just say something stupid. Yeah, and there are lots of fun pictures, and yeah. So I was like, my friend Jeff made that picture and it's being illegally licensed.

SPEAKER_01 55:54

This is funny.

SPEAKER_03 55:56

Uh so it's just really great. And uh got to hang out with Ron a little bit. Um, we tried uh beer that was maybe past its prime.

SPEAKER_01 56:05

Yeah, like that was fun. I think Tyler ran into Ron yesterday, and so that that's why Tyler suggested we go there tonight.

SPEAKER_03 56:11

We tried a wine that Ron usually doesn't like and he likes because it was maybe a little too old. Excellent. And I was like, oh man, how could we like it was uh this Nirando Evola from Sicily and have you heard of Marsala wine? Yeah, yeah. So basically it's the same grapes and the same area that makes Marsala. Yeah. So it's just like spoiled. Yeah, it was like So I was like, Ron, you could like, we could, we could like drizzle this on the cheese and call it wine cheese.

SPEAKER_01 56:42

They should just start making like batch cocktails with the wine that's about to go back.

SPEAKER_03 56:45

I like it. Like sangria, but you know what I mean? So it was a great time. I'm just very grateful we have a place like Hill Valley.

SPEAKER_01 56:54

Hill Valley Dairy, cheese and wine bar cheese and wine bar? That's wrong. That's wrong. Yeah, that's wrong. I'm so sorry, Hill Valley Dairy. Just go there, you'll figure it out.

SPEAKER_03 57:01

Just go there. Um there's a store and a bar. It was great. We had so much fun. It was just one of those things you're like, we got home too late. Cheese bar. Yes, because we went on a walk afterwards. Who cares? YOLO Nick. Well, Sarah was waiting for us to eat dinner.

SPEAKER_01 57:16

So oh, that was nice of her. I wouldn't have done that.

SPEAKER_03 57:20

I felt bad.

SPEAKER_01 57:20

I would have said no.

SPEAKER_03 57:22

Like, I just like very consciously put my phone away and everything. And so I was like, oh yeah, it is seven o'clock. Um but uh it was great. It was just like a super, like, I love that my daughter and I can do this.

SPEAKER_01 57:37

Because we live in this lovely town.

SPEAKER_03 57:39

It's just so great. Thank you, Ron and Josie, for the sacrifices you make for the sake of me and Simona eating cheese.

SPEAKER_01 57:47

Oh my god. I know. I'll let you know if we go there tonight. Um, okay, guys. There was a tornado this week. Like uh actually.

SPEAKER_03 57:56

An EM Zero with winds of 65 miles per hour that went right by my house. Yes, either way. And your mom's house slash your hotel.

SPEAKER_01 58:05

Slash my hotel for the week. Yeah, it was fast and furious. It came kind of out of nowhere. Like, yes, it came out of nowhere, meaning it was fast and mediocre. Furious, you're right. I mean furious in a different way uh than what you're thinking. But the kids, the without you know, giving all the details of how scared some of us adults were, um, the kids were in school. So like my immediately my thought went to, oh crap, Elliot is gonna be so scared. And oh, I wonder how Lucy's gonna handle this because she's in the big school with Elliot now. So it turns out Lucy, unsurprisingly, didn't give a crap. She's like, Yeah, we went to the wall and I covered my head like this, but they were in their tornado, like in their safe space for close to an hour. The school did a nice job updating us, but I get a text in the middle of like kind of in what I would say is the thick of it at my mom's house, where I'm I was in the basement with my mom, and like, oh, we could see out of one tiny little window of like, oh, well, it's coming right now. And um, I get a text from a number I don't know, and it's a picture of Elliot and a different teacher, not his teacher. And I know her. Um, we just like did, you know, we I know her in that we're friendly. Um, and she's like, please send me a picture. Elliot's worried about his family. So we go on and I send a picture back, it's just of me and my mom. So then, like, that was it. She, you know, she texted, okay, great, thank you so much. Like he feels better. And then she told me when we were in the all clear. So, like, I'm so grateful for her doing that. Um, I knew he'd be scared. So he we get through the day. We're at the end of the school day, all night. It's what we talked about. Elliot talked all about it. He asked every question you can imagine about tornadoes. We talked about atmospheric pressure. Then it's very humbling to find out where you rank on who he was most worried about if you lived or died. So, right before bedtime, we're laying there, and Elliot's like, yeah. I was really scared. He's like, I was sitting, they were at lunch. So he's like, I was sitting in the lunchroom against the wall and I was crying. And then finally, Mrs. Smith came up to me, and so blah, blah, blah. He goes on and on. And here's how he ranks the list of people. Boring old mom who does all the pickups and everything. You know, he gets wah, wham, wham, when it's not anyone else picking him up. I was at the top of the list. He was worried about me, then he was worried about grandma. I think then dad, then his grandpa, and then Lucy. Was like, oh no. At least I was at the top of the list. But nothing like a tornado to find out where you rank on your child's uh child's list of if you're gonna die in a tornado.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:33

I've sent you two Reddit things. I've been saving up for this. And when I saw they were gonna be my news segments, but when I saw this was on a thing, uh Reddit R slash Milwaukee had a number of great commentaries about this. My one is unofficial worst tornado ever thread. Yes. And then the comment is when it comes to the many acts of God, this is just a poor performance, which is like why I also didn't take this seriously, because the National Weather Service is just like wrong all the time about it.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:02

Yeah, but like, won't you feel dumb if something did happen? Yeah, you will feel dead. You're right. So like, meh.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:09

Uh and then my favorite one is big storm damage in Waukesha, and they have it grayed out. You have to click to see the spoiler, and it's somebody's fire pit, and one of the chairs blew over. One chair, not even all three, which honestly was my mom's house. One chair and a pool floaty blew away. And to be clear, a tornado was like 500 feet from your mom's house, my house. Very close to us. We had some flower pots blow over. It was it was Sarah was like, Well, but it came out. I'm like, because we haven't watered anything in two weeks, so the soil is shrunk. Regardless, it was windy.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:42

Like it was, you know, lots of for example.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:45

The Duracho was worse than this.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:47

No, and I mean, like, because the Duracho had like 100 mile per hour winds. Oh my god. It to me, I'm I'm a big like, you know what? I don't want to feel like an asshole. I'll just sit in the basement for a while. But like this one, I felt like there was one second of like, okay, which corner of the basement should we stand in if this hits? Because my mom, your house, this door, everything in the middle of the country, the tornado's just gonna take the top of the house right off.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:10

We had a discussion of uh I know where and people are like, oh, the beef cooler. I'm like, oh, so the really tall thing with a weak ceiling and rails holding 1,200-pound beef carcasses, that's where you think you should shelter. I'm like, what is the woman's bathroom that's surrounded in concrete blocked, like snails in there? I'm like, okay, so you can't both be concerned about not dying. And the smell. Yeah, like also that's not enough room. Oh, you could fit. Oh, yeah. See, no, thanks. And also like the inspector's office is right there.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:42

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:43

So yeah, that that area.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:44

I was wondering. I wasn't there. Uh anyway, it was a funny. I hate to say funny because I hope no one got hurt. I don't actually know, but I haven't heard anything about it. I mean, RIP, our one flower pot. I mean, I actually went and chased down the pool floaty, so it's it's back and deflated now. Anyway, guys, it was a weird week. The tornado like weird tornado was the perfect way to sum up the week, I would say, actually. Good job, tornado. You sucked. You sucked.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:12

I'm glad you sucked. Thanks so much. Anyway, on that note, thank you guys for listening. You don't suck.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:18

You're great. Thanks. Uh, have a great rest of your week. And uh October's half over. Ta-ta. Which is unbelievable, right? I know.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:27

Like, unbelievable. All right, bye bye.