Library + Bridget's Fantasies

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Rarely do I have a podcast episode title in mind before the podcast. Whoa, what is it? Library and Bridget's fantasies.

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That's exactly right, guys. Listen in.

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So there's two themes to this episode. One, it's about Bridget. You're gonna learn a lot about me. Two. Uh the library, Lake Geneva Public Library, opened this week.

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Yay!

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Reopicifully. Officially. Yeah, officially. It's been open for a little bit. And uh Bridget, you did some, you did God's work with reopening the library.

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God's work. Food.

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Is what we provided the food.

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Well, Lake Geneva Country Meets, as well as, yes, my handy hands.

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You were the handy hands, and uh we went to two of the grand opening ceremonies. The the like VIP big baller one. These were VIPs. And the official one. And during these trips, I spotted something that was like, oh my god, Bridget needs this. And what is it? It is called drinking French. First of all, drinking, Bridget loves it. French, Bridget loves it. Loves it. Drinking and French, Bridget loves it. These are fancy cocktails.

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And as you all know, a French 75 is my fave cocktail.

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So I was like, oh my god, I need to get this book. I was thinking about surprising with you. No. Surprising you with it, but again, I just like I But you remembered what? That I hate surprises. So I was like, wait for it. The second one after the break is a surprise. Oh, great. You've got some guesses. They're valiant guesses. But wrong. Anyway, um checked out the book. Yeah. And decided we should make one of these cocktails. My problem with cocktail cookbooks, cocktail book, cocktail cookbook, cocktail recipe books, I don't know what they're called. Cockbook?

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But that's terrible. But also, it's a cocktail cookbook. I think it's called grinder. Anyway. Oh, damn. We haven't even started drinking, you guys. Um focus, Nick. Have I distracted you?

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Yes, the cocks. Anyway, so beautiful photography, lots of things. My cocktail cookbooks is they're all like, you need 17 different syrups that you've made from scratch that can make 150 cocktails, but you're gonna make two. You need half an ounce of this special thing. Anyway, so there's a bunch in here though that I think we can make, and one, there's a bunch that are Lilay cocktails. I sent Bridget on an expedition to get this. And this cocktail that I think you will like. Well, because there were two things I was gonna make. Oh, there's a cocktail in here called the tip. Make the cock jokes. Keep the tip.

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I was at the liquor store at 10 a.m. getting like the weirdest French liqueurs. And I was like, Yes, do you have this? They're like, no. But like they looked up an alternative for me. They got us the alternative.

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Shout out to Jim. He does a good work. Great job, Brunos. Um, so this is called a triple menace. I actually thought it was called the Menage A toile. I'm like, God, we just really are all in on the double entendres. Well be. So this uh so this is why I thought it was. The description is the cookbook is Drinking French by David Lebovitz, Leibowitz, whatever you want to say. Uh the drink is a triple threat, menace. Ohce, I think is the actual French pronunciation of it. Combining three of my favorite spirits, gin, lele, and sous. Uh weren't able to get Suze, but we did get uh yellow chartreuse, yeah, which is a very good substitute.

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Which I learned they also have green, which is just higher in alcohol.

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Add the gin, lele, and so's to a cocktail mixing glass. I do think it's so, not Suzanne, because there would be a T there. Yeah, I think you're right. He said it out loud. Fill with ice and stir until well chilled, straight into a tumbler or a rocks glass, add one large ice cube or a small handful of ice, which is what we did. Garnish with a citrus twist. We don't have a citrus twist. So this drink is an ounce and a half of gin, an ounce of Lilae Blanc, half an ounce of Suze, and an orange or lemon twist for garnish. There's a ton more drinks in here.

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It looks beautiful, you guys. Maybe we're just gonna drink our way through it. Because we have to have an aviation. Okay?

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This is what I'm mad about. Cheers. Cheers. I'm nervous about this. So we gave Sarah a sneak preview of this, and she had a bad reaction to it.

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Whew! Snuck up on me a little. I think this is delicious. That's pretty good. It's a it's strong. What is lilet and what is the other ingredient? Like, are they alcohol?

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Oh, oh yeah, one of them was a bitters. Yep, yep. So there's a bitters, there's a like floral element. So it's like bitter and floral, just like you.

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Bitter and floral. I'm gonna make aromatic, bitter, but floral. TM, everybody, TM. I'm gonna design a bomb ass shirt that says bitter and floral. Hear it now. I'm gonna make a note. You all can purchase one. It'll be dinner plus drinks, merchandise.

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It'll be like the notorious RBG shirts. Oh, I love it. Uh you were talking me about the screws in your hair.

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Yes.

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So, like you are a bun person. Like you you do have that signature thing. That's what I did for my wedding. So you could do the like kind of you have actually Lucy also has this look. You could do the kind of like this look with like the bun out, like black outline, and then bitter and floral.

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Bitter and floral. It's like it's called a cameo. Yes. Yes. Yeah. I actually inherited a lot of cameo jewelry from um, you know, basically no one else wanted it. And I was like, I love cameo.

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This is actually pretty delicious.

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This is good. You know what I like about it is it's a nice like sipper for me. Like this would take me to the house. Oh, I agree.

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Yeah, it's gonna take an hour to drink. But it's um as the ice melts into it, it definitely needs some dilution.

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That was the next thing I was gonna say is give me more ice.

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Yeah, it needs dilution.

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It's perfectly cold, which I appreciate. But it doesn't, does this not just make you feel so grown up? This fancy drink.

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I heard from you, Bridget. Not my old age. You need you need cocktails. You're tired of the beer, you're tired of the RTDs, you want real cocktails. Don't give me a canned cocktail. So again, this is about fulfilling your fantasies.

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Everybody, do not learn. It's all about me. Well, thanks, Nick. Here to make you some cocktails. Guys, I keep losing my outline. It's as if I'm not meant to do this today. Okay, here we are. Um, so library opened. It's really awesome. I just gotta go back to that. For all you people that were hating on it, you gotta shut it. Like the they thought through so many things like that you don't even notice that they lowered all the bookcases so you can see the lake from anywhere in the building, and it is brighter in there. Yes, Nick. He's raising his hand.

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So the best thing about the lowered bookcases is they're pretty tall still. I know what you're gonna They're about five foot eleven, so I can barely see over them. But so I recently learned I'm in the 97th percentile for height for men in America. Really? Yep. I didn't think I was that tall, but I was in a group of people that were 6'3, 6'4, and 6'8, and I was very uncomfortable. I'm like, I've never experienced So I was like, I was talking to Sarah about this. She's like, yeah. So I looked at it. Wait, how tall are you? I'm basically six two. Oh, really? If you measure in centimeters, I'm closer to six two than six one. Okay. So I'm tall. Yeah. Like, I don't feel like I'm that tall. I have no gauge of height. So I can see over it. Most people can't. Lucy needed to be picked up by dad.

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Yeah, she was running the little cray in the library.

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Tyler comes down. We were hiding in a corner, you, me, and Shannon. Avoiding as many city officials as possible. And there's a scurry of like, oh, I think Tyler's here. There's a text. And I can see like Ichabod, whatever his name from Salem, a head floating above the shelves. Perfectly. Tyler is so tangier. His head is just floating over the shelves, walking above the library. I'm like, this is the most funny thing I've ever seen.

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Like an angel from heaven.

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In my well, no, because it's just his head. It looks like a dismembered head.

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Oh, sorry about that.

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He's so tall.

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But really, he saved the day because Lucy sprinted across uh while someone was giving a nice quiet speech. Um she went sprinting across. But you know what? One of the board members, Lynelle Graham, maybe the best human being in Lake Geneva. Probably, yeah. She pulled me aside on Monday, the day after this like VIP opening thing and said, Thank you again for bringing your kids to that event, where very clearly people did not want kids. And she was like, Because people suck this library is for children. And I'm like, Oh, so you're right. You understand that there is a future in Lake Geneva and it's children who should be appreciating like learning their love for the library at a young age. So she made me feel better because I did not feel good about having my kids there, even though I was told to bring my kids to it.

SPEAKER_00 8:35

Tyler had well, Simona was supposed to come, but she kept sleeping, so she didn't come. Um, Tyler had quite the eventful week. First of all, he was a floating Ichabod. What is the name? Ichabod something? Anyway.

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Yeah, I know what you're talking about. He had he was first of all a floating head. At least once a week, I almost spit out a beverage onto our microphone, and that just happened because my tie. Um Tyler, shall I start with the punchline? Tyler's the best dad in the world, and I don't know how you're we're no longer on the apology tour like we were last week or the week before. I'm truly saying that he's the best dad in the world, the most fun dad, the most patient dad. And how do you sorry, Sean? How do you thanks for all the volleyball, Sean? Thanks, dad. My dad doesn't listen to the podcast. But how do you know that? He broke his hand playing with the children. That's right. Just playing with the kids. He broke his hand. And he didn't man flu it. So like Was it the metacarcel? The metatarpal. The metacarpal. Uh I think. Doctor friends. Uh, the but very close to his wrist. So, like almost his hands. I know. I I thought of that the other day. I was like, oh, I'm not as smart as my friends. Um, smart in a different way. So anyway, he was wrestling with the kids, and long story short, like basically uh kind of fell to his knees so the kids wouldn't fall. And Tyler's weight, Elliot's weight, and Lucy's weight all fell on his metacarpal slash wrist and broke it. He's had nothing. I was home when it happened, and I had no idea. The next morning he walks into the room where I was and he's like, I think I broke my hand. And they're like, No, you didn't. You know, like, no, you didn't. Well, I was wrong. He broke his hand. First bone he's ever broken. So we're we're struggling through cast life here. Like, he's not used to wearing a cast. Where me, I'm doing what my mom did, right? Like, we had to walk uphill both ways in the snow to school. So I'm saying this to Tyler. I'm like, well, when I had a cast, Tyler, it wasn't waterproof and it was this big, and I didn't get to pick a fun color because all these things were true. Like, so he has I've never broken a bone. Yeah, and I would I've been talking to many adults who are like, I've never broken a bone. I'm like, I've broken four, all on the right side of my body.

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Isn't that weird? Sounds like you're a disaster, Bridget. I don't know.

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Yeah, I mean, I am. So but yeah, he's got a bomb green cast. If you see him, please sign it. It's so funny. The kids all signed it. I need to sign it. Yeah, the kids. I'm like, Tyler, you have to carry a marker around with you.

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I have a marker. Conveniently, I carry a purple small sharpie, a purple ink point pen, a ballpoint, you know, ink pen, and a regular black sharpie all the time. So I'm well prepared to sign this cast. Well, sometimes actually I prefer writing with sharpie pens. Yeah, I do too. But not all paper lets you really write with it.

SPEAKER_01 11:17

Oh. So you got that purple ink pen.

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Yeah, so I like writing in purple. It makes me happy. It's Sarah's favorite color. It's become my favorite colors. Uh Simona's favorite color is Lalo. Lalo. Yellow. Really? Yep. She loves yellow. Oh, that's great. Currently. What a happy color. But she knows mommy and daddy like purple. Oh. And you know, conveniently yellow and purple, complimentary. They're, you know, near on the color oil. Vikings. Um but uh yep.

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So yeah, Tyler Tyler broke his hand. He itched it. He did the first time sticking something down your cast to itch it, because you know you're not supposed to, but he did, and it was like, I I thought he was gonna cry. He was so happy because he could finally itch it.

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Anyway, that's my week, man. What about yours? Got some uh stuff planted. My landscaper did. Did you see it? Did you see it? You know what?

SPEAKER_01 12:04

In the front of my house? I did see it, but honestly, I noticed it more when we were watching it on your doorbell camera.

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That's fair. Uh it's starting to get green and grow. Wow, look at that. But I just want to talk about the absurdity of so I am very big on watering. I like plants. I like plants growing. Sarah, also great at watering together. We are a good team on making sure all of our plants get watered. Not me. I am watering stuff in 35-degree weather. Yeah, why, man? Because it needs water to grow.

SPEAKER_01 12:37

But it's just ice cold. I was told we're not supposed to plant till the end of May this year.

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Well, certain plants, these are all grass seeds. Yeah, I mean, I have no freaking I don't listen to those rules, let me be clear. I mean, the other day I couldn't get the hose going because guess what? The water froze overnight.

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Oh, shut up.

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So, like, you know, on.

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Do you have to water this stuff every day? Yes, Bridget. I gotta be honest with you. I put grass seeds out on my lawn and we didn't do shit to it, and it grew just fine. Like we pulled a giant bridge.

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Well, you have well you have a lot of shade where you did that. That helps a lot.

SPEAKER_01 13:08

Oh, I mean, we watered it occasionally, but I definitely didn't use a hose ever.

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Grass likes water. Well, my grass grew. I have some projects I'd like to do this weekend. That's as nice as Nick's. I'm not gonna be able to. Because is it gonna be cold? Oh, it's raining all day. Because I got other things to do. Doesn't it rain Saturday? Yep, but you know, that means it's like perfect time to plant grass. I've got to run, so that'll be fun. I'm glad it's raining. If you can plant grass when it's gonna rain for a couple days, it's perfect. Keeps the birds away from eating it, helps it germinate, all the things, all the stuff.

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I hate learning about gardening.

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I hate it.

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I want a robust garden. Actually, I don't even care if it's robust. I just want to grow a couple things the kids get excited about eating out of the ground. That's all.

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Tomatoes are very easy. That's what everyone says. Grow to grow cherry tomatoes. In a pot, but I don't need to put those in a pot. This is what I can't figure out. Uh yeah, but that's like super easy to do that. I mean, as opposed to my raised bed? Oh no, you can do them in a raised bed.

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Oh, but don't they need to You can travel some.

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That's pretty easy.

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Yeah, I was like, don't they need a thing to go? Yeah, it's not I have a list of what I want to plant. I haven't planted any of it because I get overwhelmed with when I'm supposed to do it all.

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Simona's favorite thing was being able to go out to the tomato plant and a few offer.

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That's what the kids did last year with like the one thing that grew, which was some kind of lettucey kale spinach thing.

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Simona, early kid corner, you know, just says her mato and tato are very similar. Tomato and tato. So we had uh hash, well, we had tater tots and tomatoes the other day. Oh, mayo tomatoes. And she got really mad at me because she kept saying, Mato, mayo! And I thought she wanted more potatoes. Oh, but they were she wanted more tomatoes. You know, she like leaves off the first syllable of each of those words. Well, and uh so I kept like, oh, here you go. What I thought you wanted more. I was like, oh, because also I forgot we had cherry tomatoes on the counter. Oh so eventually I gave them turns.

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It all's well. Everything's fine, guys. Everything is fine. Can I go off topic? Not topic, off of outline. Yeah. We're talking about gardening, right? Are you ready for the next cocktail? It's April. There's more cocktails.

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Well, isn't that what you thought the segment after the breakfast? No.

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We're not there yet. Oh, okay. Segment after the break. Oh, okay, just hold on. I gotta complain about something, okay? Let me just please listen to my complaint, everybody. It is April 29th, as we record. Okay, I know I got a ways to go. Um I loathe the fucking constant lawnmower noise that happens in the spring, okay?

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So usually I'm the one that sends you hilarious, ridiculous gripes because I'm the person that has like I'm a little like there's some things in my life that are challenges that are very unique to me. So yeah, they're like weird gripes to everyone else. You had the most beautiful gripe I've seen in my life, and it was legit.

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It was cold and rainy yesterday, okay? Thursday. I spent like two hours. I work from home, and all I mean hours, this guy, my neighbors that are directly next to me, and they have the most obnoxious lawn care guy. Like he just like rolls up in his giant fucking truck. Like when I say truck, I mean like raised pickup truck that like kids had in high school with a trailer and just like dump stuff off the trailer. So it's not like a branded lawn care company. And he's got this giant beard. I'm sure he's cool and lovely and great, but he spends hours at my neighbor's house and it was pouring rain, not pouring, it was significantly raining yesterday.

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My favorite part, because you sent me video. And then I sent Nick a video to prove how annoying it was. Was he at the backpack um leaf blower, which is a great invention. I like it. It does get hot all the time. It probably was nice. Uh because it was cold and rainy. Um, so I'm I did a lot of long care when I was a kid because we have about 80 acres that we mow as a family, especially when my grandma was alive and she actually owned everything herself, and that was my job because somebody has to do it. I only charge $7.50 an hour. Um, got those Social Security credits, though, because I know I'm gonna get that money when I retire. Yeah, right. You cannot blow leaves when it's raining. Wet leaves do not blow. You need to rake them. So this dude was literally just racking up the billable hours. He's like a lawyer, but not as smart, not as rich. You're an ass.

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I did. I was like, bro, I feel like if you just raked this, I've never seen him with a rake, but he wears that mother-affing lawn mower or lawn leaf blower backpack all the time. Rakes work really well. I'm very upset, okay? But I left, I had to leave my house. I work from home and I was like, I cannot handle this anymore.

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You know, there's manual solutions that work really well sometimes, you know. Like raking? Well, and shoveling as opposed to snowblowing. Snowblowing only works if it's a light, fluffy snow and enough uh height that the augers and the snowblower can get it up and then suck it through. If it's a wet snow, it clumps and sticks up your snowblower. If there's not enough snow, it doesn't get up into the auger. It's like, dude, it's not working. You're burning gas and killing the environment for no reason.

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It was oh, these people fertilize, they do all the things. Anyway, it was my gripe. It's springtime. Tis the season for me to get mad at the incessant. I live on a dead end with like seven houses, yet somehow someone is always mowing their lawn. Okay, everyone, no May May. Go support it. Except it's April. Okay, whew. Speaking of, speaking of, my article is a nice transition here. Yeah, it is. Good work, Bridget. So I had to, I I had seed serenaders in here before, which I knew wasn't right, or seed something. But anyway, Tyler found a an awesome Reddit story that he knows what Reddit stories to share with me and which ones not to. And um, I don't have the exact Reddit story. Everybody needs something in their marriage that just makes it work. And Tyler, yep. Tyler knows when to not tell me about Reddit stories. I don't care about it. Um, so this exact link that I have is called gorilla gardening.org. And it's a.org, which I thought was awesome. But the basic story was that uh Tyler found this group of people that would ride their bikes around neglected areas of the city and drop seeds, like in shitty-looking medians or, you know, whatever that look clearly had not been taken care of by the government that, you know, probably the city. I would assume the city is supposed to take care of that. I know ours is. So, and they would drop wildflower seeds.

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Our city's also supposed to like make sure the timers on traffic lights aren't gonna get people killed.

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Yeah, but and I'm just like Nick, I was telling Nick about this, and I'm like, oh, our city would kill us if we did this because we are a city of perfectly manicured lawns, not beautiful flowers. So um, I I got digging into this, and this like gorilla gardening thing is everywhere. So you it, you know, you can figure it out if you know what gorilla marketing is. It's the same idea that you take seeds and put them in neglected places so they are turn out beautiful. And if hey, people were neglecting them before, then they shouldn't be mad that there are now beautiful flowers growing in them. So it's apparently a thing. Um, they have seats, like they have a whole website dedicated to it, and it was uh just like a fun little Reddit find that then made me like deep dive slash makes me want to just I've seen um kindergarten classrooms drop seeds in the cracks of sidewalks to just see what happens and like beautiful flowers grow. Don't care. Concrete's bad for the environment.

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That's true.

SPEAKER_01 20:25

So anyway, it was lovely. Look up Gorilla Gardening. If you have a safe place in your neighborhood or city to do it without getting in trouble, I support that.

SPEAKER_00 20:34

I have two things I want to talk about in this segment. Uh, one, we just talked about marriage, and I would be remiss uh if I didn't mention that uh this week is my nine-year anniversary. Nine years! And um, you know, we talked about Tyler knows which Reddit stories to share and which ones not to, and that's what makes your marriage work. That's it. I think my wife is the only person in the world that could be married to me, and I might be the only person in the world that could be married to her. We both have some idiosyncrasies and we love each other so much and work together so well. Um, I know I'm hard to come across as sincere because I generally am above being sincere. But uh I just want to take the time to very publicly say, I love you, Sarah. Um you're the best. I know you're listening, and I thank you for all you put up with me and how you make me better and how you drive me to do things. I say I work I work too much, but I do it for you. I do it to make you proud because I know what you expect of me, which is what I expect of myself. And I love you very much and happy anniversary. Whoa, Nick, that was a soliloquy. I got more of those coming.

SPEAKER_01 21:44

I had Again, I can't be sincere. I was not me neither. I mean, but that was very sweet. Um my anniversary will be coming up soon as well, and I won't be as nice, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_00 21:56

Okay, so my real thing, there's been all these stories about How uh there's not enough pilots in the world, which strikes me as bizarre because they underpaid pilots for too long, and people are like, this, I'm not doing all the schooling to be a pilot to make 30 grand. It's worse than being a lawyer.

SPEAKER_01 22:10

Really?

SPEAKER_00 22:11

Yeah, it was really bad because you have to work at a regional for so long. And now like the regionals are I was talking to a guy at Low Daily.

SPEAKER_02 22:17

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:19

Uh about this, who was a pilot that came out. They won the prize, actually. Oh yeah, they were so great. But so there's these things about how airlines are bussing people instead of flying people now. So I'd like you to pull up this link that I put in here as I read to you. United, their website, is proudly announcing a new way to connect to Breckinridge and Fort Collins. Oh my god. We're making it easier for you to enjoy all the hiking, rafting, and skiing that Colorado has to offer. Now you can book your Colorado adventure, flying to Denver and connect to Breckenridge or Fort Collins with luxury ground transportation provided by the Land Light Company. All booked seamlessly through United.com and United app. What they're not telling you is you booked a flight, you're gonna fly on a plane, and instead, because they don't have enough pilots to fly those regional routes from Denver to Breckinridge or Fort Collins and put you on a CRJ, they're putting you on a bus. No way. Yep. So you thought you booked this you know flight, which is better be cheaper, man.

SPEAKER_01 23:15

You better give me some money.

SPEAKER_00 23:16

Oh no, oh no, no, no, no, no, no. They're not no because you know when you sign the the ticket, it's dude. So uh how would you feel? You're like, oh yeah, I'm going to Breck, gonna rip some gnarly powder. I would be so angry. And you're on the bus. Oh and like honestly, it's probably faster. Your baggage isn't gonna get lost. A bus for two hours is probably better than like you get off the plane, you know, the big 737, not 737s aren't big, but you have the 737, then you gotta go to like some pital pile jumper. I've done that. So it's almost in some ways Milwaukee to Chicago. Yeah, it's in some ways a better experience, but also you're like, no, I am flying on a plane. I am better than a bus.

SPEAKER_01 23:58

I don't think it has anything to feel I don't make in bad progress on that. People are going to Breckenridge.

SPEAKER_00 24:04

I should have thought this out better. You were right.

SPEAKER_01 24:06

I told you, just give me the half size, man. People going to Breckenridge probably care. I'm not better than a bus. It's just a very different like my kids apparently my kids. I like I actually like like buses and trains and stuff. I like to like see the world in that way, which is weird.

SPEAKER_00 24:20

I like subways, I like trains, I don't like buses. Yeah, I don't mind them because like I get-stabbed on buses too many times.

SPEAKER_01 24:26

You gotten what?

SPEAKER_00 24:27

Stabbed? Shanked. Oh, that's weird.

SPEAKER_01 24:30

I just, for example, if I'm flying with my kids, great. If I'm busing with my kids, I'm nervous, right? Because my kids have puked in moving vehicles. And no, thank you. Like that would okay, no. I I have a very good friend that's a flight attendant, and she's so polite and like doesn't she's very polite, she's very nice. Tell us the best, worst stories of people on the plane. And she's like, Oh, it's not so bad. And we're like, come on, there's gotta be bad ones. She's very good at like protecting the industry. So I'm gonna be spending some time with her soon, I'm sure, having a few beverages and having a little girl's day. And I'm gonna ask her, are you guys she does not fly for United?

SPEAKER_00 25:06

So I would again, this COVID meltdown of society that like was on the breaking point and it was gonna happen, and COVID, I think, is just the trigger. Yeah. More and more weird and bizarre ways that society is breaking. I actually had uh another aviation-related story because I know, okay, so like Aviation related? Well, okay, so that's kind of one of the themes, but it was about this guy um flies planes, also climbs mountains, but I decided not to share it because it's just a cliffhanger.

SPEAKER_01 25:39

Whoa! We'll be right back.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

Do you guys like the break music? We didn't take a break last week. Um Did you miss it? My weekend's too busy. And one of the things that I, you know, if in therapy they tell you stop spending time on is finding new music for the break week after week.

SPEAKER_01 26:13

Be like, that is my therapy.

unknown 26:14

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 26:15

I know, I know. So I hope you guys enjoyed the break music. I'm a bad therapy patient. See what you got for uh some uh product racks here. Okay, I actually you got two. How about you do both? I'll do I'll do mine in the middle.

SPEAKER_01 26:26

I thought you were gonna make fun of me, but thank you for not.

SPEAKER_00 26:28

Um okay, just need you to drink that so we can.

SPEAKER_01 26:31

I mean, I I can have two drinks at one time, okay?

unknown 26:34

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 26:34

Okay. Um, so I got a package the other day that I wasn't expecting, which is always a fun treat. And I opened it up. My sister Brittany writes the like kindest cards, and I know I'm gonna cry every time she writes them, and this was no exception. But this gift that was sent with it was sent. Well, Shannon was out visiting Britney and um I don't know, a couple weeks ago. Shannon actually bought this mug, and then Britney wrote the card and mailed it. So I'm saying it's from both of them. It's good job, sisters. If you don't know, I collect like fun coffee mugs, and it's my favorite thing to like see what my mood is that day and use that mug. I don't have like nice matching, I do have nice matching mugs, I just don't use them. Um this is a clear glass mug and it's got daisies on it, super trendy right now. And then it says in a beautiful cursive, clusterfuck. And so, like, there's been a lot of just like shit happening in my life. And so Brittany, of course, related to the card to like, I feel like this mug is perfect for what's happening in your life right now. And it's a great mug, it's super fun. You can get one um on Etsy for 11 bucks. Mine is from a local shop in Seattle that unfortunately doesn't have um a functioning shopping website that I could link to. So Etsy is just as good. A local maker you can buy it from for 11 bucks. And, you know, I'll probably use it a lot on Mondays, I feel like.

SPEAKER_00 27:47

So we'll link to it. Etsy Link. You've inspired me today to take the podcast in an unexpected direction. Whoa. Um, my first one's gonna be hanger stakes. I'm gonna have two too. Yay! Because uh you inspired me as you said, you know, like you were talking about how it's this beautiful design than a beautiful script of, you know, clusterfuck. You were yelling at me because we have hangers stakes featured at work, that I needed to make a good sign to say it's like good for tacos. For sure. And I made a heart taco sign that said, great for tacos question mark. And it was the most low effort shit design that somebody actually would probably pay a lot of money for. 100%. Uh that took me about 30 seconds, and I put it up as a like, here you go, Bridget. It was hilarious. Are you happy now? And I said yes. Uh and the actual sign that I was like, you know, I have an idea it's gonna be like a step. Yeah, it was nice. It was a good sign. It is a good sign. Um, so anyway, hanger stakes, if you want to do tacos, they're delicious. But second of all, my my second product recommendation, um, we're gonna do a product recommendation sandwich. Yours are gonna be good. Mine are gonna be. Sandwich. You know, it's like when you fire someone, right?

SPEAKER_01 28:49

Compliment sandwich.

SPEAKER_00 28:51

Um so first of all, you spelled Low Daily wrong. I know. I didn't know hilariously wrong because you spelled it D-A-L-Y.

SPEAKER_01 28:59

Oh, did I? Yeah, you spelled like John Daly. I know, because I literally have to think about it. Because in my head, I thought they did that to be funny, and I'm wrong. It would be funny. I know.

SPEAKER_00 29:06

Um so we had our last beer tour, brewery tour event this Wednesday, Wednesday. Wednesday. At Low Daily in Burlington, and they're so awesome. Incredible beer. It's a beautiful space. I think we've spoken about their design aesthetic and how much Bridget. Couches. Yep. I would they're $3,000 couches. Okay, so the first time we went, we literally turned the couch over. We literally picked the couch up. Where's this couch? Turned it over and looked at the tag. I am I have wanted a couch like that for years. Everybody told us stories, so like, no, literally, we turn they're like, oh, you're kidding. I'm like, no, when I say literally, we got up, looked on the couch up.

SPEAKER_01 29:44

There aren't cushions.

SPEAKER_00 29:45

Yeah, people don't believe it, but we literally did it. Anyway, it's a beautiful aesthetic, a beautiful space. I would just like to talk about their table beer.

SPEAKER_01 29:54

Why, Nick? Were you not excited? I've never seen Nick so excited about a beer.

SPEAKER_00 29:59

My beer aesthetic is low alcohol, sessionable beers that have character. There's two ways you can build, well, there's three ways you can build character. Your malt profile, your yeast profile, your hot profile. Table beers um are also sometimes known as near beer. They're also um Oh, I didn't know that. I like that. Um, because near beer is legal to um serve to kids. Uh they're also sometimes known as small beers, which is the traditional English word for it. So they're they're oftentimes inspired by English pub styles. They go back to when water wasn't safe to drink. So if you have a little bit of alcohol in it, um, it's safe to drink. It sanitizes everything. So they're beers that you can drink all day, every day, as you're out doing the farm field things. Like I love Pilsner, I love lager, I love these beers that are like lower alcohol. All day beers, tailgating beers. And because I love the flavor of like a well-brewed beer. So we walk into Low Daily, and I I'd heard good things about them. I'd had some crowd the first time, rewind it back. Um first time I walked in, I'd had some of those IPAs. I'm like, these are pretty good. Like, you know, they're like a four out of five good, which honestly, like a lot of people are eating four out of five good on like a what uh a hazy IPA because if you do your things right, you can do it. It's a style that's not incredibly difficult to brew if you know what you're doing. Walked in and they had this English mild on, which is called ridiculous. Let me find it. We me and the bartender took way too long figuring this out. Um that was it's called Slow Prime. It's an English pale ale, it's a traditional English pale ale, so like very low alcohol, um, fuggle. It's weird anyway. So like it's a weird pub style, it's hard to brew. And I was just like, oh my god. And this is where to be crass, I creamed my pants. I was just like, man, you nailed this style that like that is exactly how we felt. I was like, who the F are you that you think you can brew this style in Burlington, Wisconsin, and get away with it? He did it anyway. So this table beer, um, it's delicious. You can pound it. It has like a malt character. Like, so it's like you could just, you know, if you're Bridget, you're maybe like, I have to drink like three of these. I don't even get a buzz.

SPEAKER_01 32:26

No, that is not my point.

SPEAKER_00 32:28

I'm like, if you're Nick, you're like, I can just drink this all day because I'm so big that I metabolize it out before I the alcohol even hits me. So you get like all the delicious beer. So it's like NA beer, but without the grossness of NA beer. Low Daily Brewery, go check them out. Beautiful building, beautiful aesthetic. Great beer. Tim the brewer is a G. And um he and his wife own it, right?

SPEAKER_01 32:55

Or there's a group of them, or is it oh yeah, I think he said one of the other guys. Well, anyway, I saw them last night at the restaurant.

SPEAKER_00 33:01

I just gotta tell you, go drink your beer. It's all delicious. Their staff bartender and I have this discussion of like, I remember where she remembers the menu so well. We both are like, because they have, you know, like hanging signs that then rotate on the I was like, no, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:16

They have um they have a lot of really great events going on too, trivia nights, and they do a um go daily, which is like meant to get people up and moving. They do bar classes, swing classes were going on when we were there. So check them out.

SPEAKER_00 33:28

Again, low alcohol beer styles, so good, so delicious. How you all know? Hard to do. You know, anybody can hide stuff in a stout. You can make mistakes when brewing a stout because you're like, yeah, big clear beers.

SPEAKER_01 33:41

Yeah, can't make mistakes. It's like Sype. This is the last time maybe we talked about ooh, Sype Columbia's coming. Ooh, Sype Columbia's, yeah. Okay, anyway, lots of beer, lots of beer. Okay, so my other product rack is not something I would ever normally recommend, but I've been like in a little bit of a funk. I was feeling it this morning too. And there's one thing Nick knows that always gets both of us odd before. You love surprise. Not surprises. Oh. 90s hip hop. Um, same, same. But in Seattle and in Chicago, there are two awesome throwback like hip-hop and RB stations that are just like everything anyone our age loves. 104.3 in Chicago and 103.7 in Seattle. Well, I've tried, I like will 104.3 to come in because you think like we're not that far from Chicago. But I happen to live right by our local radio station, which basically blocks the signal to everything, including my cell phone. So there is an app which I don't get radio apps. Like, no thank you, but it's called Odyssey. You want it to be Audacity. I'm not really sure. I thought it was Audacity. We used to use that to edit the pod. I know, and I used to think it was Audacity too. It's Odyssey, A-U-D-A-C-Y, and it's an app, and I download it and I use it 100% of the time to either listen to 1037 in Seattle or 104.3 in Chicago. And I highly recommend it. I was listening to 1037 today in Seattle because I missed my sister and thought that would be a fun uh screenshot of it, and Nellie was on. I sent it to her, you know, it got me right out of my funk. So totally uh these apps exist for some reason, and it is so I can listen to Seattle radio stations without being um, you know, without being fuzzy and which is like my least favorite thing, like fuzzy radio stations. So Odyssey Radio app.

SPEAKER_00 35:27

I have one last product recommendation. Why? It is crisscross. Why, Nick. Because it'll make you jump, jump, it'll make you jump, jump.

SPEAKER_01 35:37

Come on. We'll be back, guys.

SPEAKER_00 35:56

Oh guys, uh, oh guys. Okay, okay. We're back.

SPEAKER_01 36:00

Um I'm real anxious here because Nick, Nick really needs me to slam this cocktail and I just drinking French.

SPEAKER_00 36:05

Bridget, you think this is a segment? You think we're drinking our way through this book? You're wrong.

SPEAKER_01 36:09

I mean, I'm glad because this is a lot of alcohol in one glass over here. You are wrong. Nobody's got a binder, you guys. Well, I need to hide this. You look so a fish, Nick. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 36:25

Instead. Oh my you guys! Oh my god, Nick. I've been on the Price is Right. Did you know that? I did.

SPEAKER_01 36:39

Oh my god, I'm gonna be so bad at this game.

SPEAKER_00 36:42

We are playing Price is Right. Okay. One of your favorite things. You've done it. I know it's a fantasy of yours to win. You're playing against Shannon.

SPEAKER_01 36:51

I mean, Shannon, Aaron, and Jody, we all went. We decorated shirts like cows, and we went and waited in the pouring rain at Price is Right. It was the best, one of the best days of my life, guys. You know, also birth my children and my wedding.

SPEAKER_00 37:03

I didn't think of this until about 10 o'clock today. Wow. Uh, because we were talking about a product that we both agree is too much money, and you said like, not for the money. It's like, oh, price is right.

SPEAKER_01 37:13

Okay, but this is gonna be really hard. Is this like inflation version or pre-COVID? We'll get to that.

SPEAKER_00 37:20

Okay. So I'm already nervous. So the dating divas.com has a you can play at home as a date game, the price is right thing. And yeah, uh some of the things had to be changed because of inflation, COVID. We'll get to this. Okay. Uh I reached out to Britney. I don't have her number. I don't follow her because I wanted Britney Shannon Yu. Of course, it's two hours. She has a new kid. Congratulations, Brittany. So I had to like follow her, ask for the request, message her. So I was like, Brittany, because I didn't want to. You know what? I didn't think of that. I didn't think of that. So but uh Shannon, and uh, she's got the kids today. It's very stressful. Like, she was able to get me all the responses. Oh, she did? So thank you, Shannon. So you are competing against your twin sister. So all your fantasies could could come true. You could prove you are the great twin.

SPEAKER_01 38:10

The superior twin.

SPEAKER_00 38:11

I'm older, you know. Uh you can do price of right, all of your all of your fantasies. So round one, uh, guess the again, the dating divas.com. Don't sue us. Great job, guys. Great job. Uh beautifully done. Uh, round one, guess the price of the item of the following items. This is embarrassing. Earns 50 points for each item that comes within 50 cents of each actual price. So the number one thing, Campbell's 10.75 ounce chicken noodle soup. All these prices are from Walmart, by the way. I did all this research today.

SPEAKER_01 38:41

Wow, Nick, I am so impressed.

SPEAKER_00 38:44

I go hard.

SPEAKER_01 38:45

I have no effing clue how much a can of Campbell's soup costs. $1.50. $1.50. I'm right now.

SPEAKER_00 38:52

Shannon guessed $2.50.

SPEAKER_01 38:54

Wait, I'm sorry. Is it current prices? Yep, current prices.

SPEAKER_00 38:57

Shannon's probably all the research.

SPEAKER_01 38:59

Shannon's probably closer. Coca-Cola 12-pack soft drink. I feel like this is way more expensive than it should be. Um $6. I guess there's a lot of shit better in that.

SPEAKER_00 39:11

Extra chunky peanut butter.

SPEAKER_01 39:16

Uh $3.57. This is my favorite thing about prices, right? The random ass prices.

SPEAKER_00 39:23

Giardelli, natural milk chocolate baking chips. $45. All right. So 50 points if you come within uh 50 cents of each uh item. Okay. Campbells, you guessed $1.50. Shannon guessed $2.45. It's $1.17. So you get $50 points. I was gonna say a dollar. Yay!

unknown 39:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 39:50

Coca-Cola, $12 pack. You guessed $6. Shannon guessed $4.95. It's $6.18. You are killing it.

SPEAKER_01 40:00

I remember thinking how expensive Coca-Cola was.

SPEAKER_00 40:03

Like, yeah, Shannon and I both texted each other back and forth. They're like, oh shit, we need to pay more attention to prices of stuff when we shop. Well, guys, this is made for me. Jeff, extra chunky peanut butter. You guessed $3.57. Shannon guessed $3.79 is $2.42. So neither one of you wins.

SPEAKER_01 40:20

Oh, that's really much cheaper than I think.

SPEAKER_00 40:22

Tyler Huttner's calling me. Why do we think that is? Hello, Tyler.

SPEAKER_01 40:25

Welcome to the podcast. Decline then. Oh, I was like, are we gonna answer, make him be live?

SPEAKER_00 40:30

Ghiardelli, natural milk chocolate chips, which by the way, I would like to tell you is the most Ghiardelli Square in San Francisco.

SPEAKER_01 40:37

Yeah, I've been there.

SPEAKER_00 40:38

Um it's very touristy trappy. Not even like it's poorly done touristy trappy. It looks a little bit like Polar Express type of the way they have it. Oh, yeah. And it's just terrible. Um, it is $3.48. You guessed $4.15, Shannon guessed $2.97. Neither one of you came within 50 cents. Well, Shannon was a penny off. Shannon, I was hoping we could call you in, but you got the kids, so we could, you know, so you can. Well, that'd be fun.

SPEAKER_01 41:02

They would scream on air. They would love it.

SPEAKER_00 41:04

So it's 100 to zero. Oh, wow. Older, older winning.

SPEAKER_01 41:10

The eldest. Just kidding, that's Brittany. Oh, damn it.

SPEAKER_00 41:16

She was too busy with her newborn to check her uh Instagram requests.

SPEAKER_01 41:21

Brittany, check your Instagram friend requests. Sorry, Brittany. Next time now.

SPEAKER_00 41:27

Uh-oh, Tyler needs you urgently. Wants to know if I want some brewer's tickets. Uh don't have time. I would love them. Yeah, Tyler, we do want them. I'll take Tyler. The other Tyler. The other Tyler. All right, round two. Number the following items in order from least expensive to most expensive. A team or teams that guess correctly wins 100 points. So it's 100 or nothing. So the items are Adaville, Ibuprofen, Pain Reliever, Fever Reducer, 200 count. So like when you really have that, you know, wrist joint pain, that's what you need. Uh Hasbro's classic game, Twister. Uh this is, you know, the classic edition. 16 count Duracell Copper Top. You know, just the normal Duracells, not the lithium, nothing special. Double A batteries. Okay. Bounty select, eight-size big rolls, uh paper tiles, 12 count. So the the these are the double ply. I did a lot of looking into this to make sure I got the right ones. I already guessed mine. Double ply. So uh Shannon says least to most twister bounty advil batteries.

SPEAKER_01 42:29

Whoa, I did not guess that. Least to most. I guessed Advil, Twister, Bounty, Duracell.

SPEAKER_00 42:36

You're both wrong. Damn. Coming in at the least expensive, 16-count Duracelle Copper Top Double-A batteries at $14.48.

SPEAKER_01 42:47

No way.

SPEAKER_00 42:48

Coming in second, Advil Ibuprofen Pain Reliever. Mind you, this is for 200 of them, $14.97. Next, Hasbro's Classic Game, Twister, $19.95. And finally, Bounty, $20.98. Paper, trees, transportation, American labor.

SPEAKER_01 43:08

Bruh, this right here just shows you what's happening in our world. I don't know what else to say.

SPEAKER_00 43:13

So this next round is the inflation round. You'll see a crossout here where it's no longer uh done. And you'll also see the sizes have changed on the lucky charms and the tide. So round three is decide if the price for each item is too high or too low. Circle your answer in the space provided. Uh Shannon helpfully emailed me back. For each correct answer, your team earns 200 points. So the number one item, Swiffer Wet Jet Starter Kit, one count. Listed price $25.95. Is it too high or is it too low? I feel like it's too low. You think it's too low. Shannon thinks it's too high. Really? The actual price is $24.94. So it's two high. One dollar off. So Shasha gets Shannon gets a point. 200 points. Oh, 200 points. Jesus. Lucky charms. It says 20.6 ounce, which two years ago was a normal size. Now it's 18.6 ounce. Oh, sneaky. Um it says list price 325. What do you think? Too high or take it low. You both selected too low, and you are right. It is now $3.98. So $200 to each of you. Cereal has gotten expensive. I've uh they had a Freshetta Hawaiian style pizza for $8.49. I changed that to Jack's Pepperoni pizza for a list priced of $3.69. I think it's too high. Too high. What did Shannon guess? She guessed too low. Whoa. It is $3.42. It's too high. You are making a comeback. Oops, that's you are on top because you're the older one. You're the elder. Okay, and finally for this round, we have Tide Original Liquid Laundry Detergents, which is H possible. It was 100 fluid ounces. Now it's, I want to say floral ounces because you're floral and bitter. But it's actually 92 ounces now, $12.99. Too high or too low. I don't know because I don't really understand. I'm going to say too low. Shannon says too high. This is going to be the tiebreaker. Is it too high or is it too low? It is $12.97. Oh, come on! Shannon wins. That is BS two cents? I demand a recount. Shannon takes 600 points from this round. You take 400. So BS. It is 100 from the previous round for you. So you have 500. Whoa. Almost lost a computer there. Shannon has 600. You trail by 100 points. Oh! That one was BS. We are going into the final round and we had to do some modifications. So round four is examine the collection of items below. Determine the total price for the collective items. The group closest to total combined price without going overseas. 500 points.

SPEAKER_01 46:18

Wait, what is this called? The showcase. Showcase showdown. Do do do do do do do do do.

SPEAKER_00 46:24

The items are. This is, you know, like something Elliot would be really into. I do have. I have no idea how much this is going to be. I think you have an advantage here because this is like an Elliot thing. Shannon's a better parent than you and doesn't let her children just like park and play video games.

SPEAKER_01 46:37

Shannon's kids are younger. They don't know how to play video games.

SPEAKER_00 46:39

Congratulations, Shannon. You're a better parent. You're in a disadvantage here. Great job.

SPEAKER_01 46:44

High five. Motoro, terrible human. I have no idea how much TVs cost. Give me a 20-inch TV.

SPEAKER_00 46:56

Big as my computer. Vizio 70-inch 4K smart TV, a Nintendo Switch, and a Mario Kart game for said Switch.

SPEAKER_01 47:06

Okay. My bid. I'm just going with my first gut, which I think is too high, but you know what? Whatever. Okay, what's Shannon's bid? I won't change mine, I promise.

SPEAKER_00 47:15

Shannon bids $2,225.

SPEAKER_01 47:20

You guys, maybe mine's way too low. It's just a Switch, a TV, and a video game. Correct. $660. It's too low, but it's not over.

SPEAKER_00 47:35

The combined price is $846.94. Congratulations, Bridget.

SPEAKER_01 47:43

Shannon, what kind of TVs are you buying? Also, what? I blame the distraction of her kids for that one. So $1,600. Prizes, right winner. You guys, that was the best part of my week. Okay, I need to know how much was that TV?

SPEAKER_00 48:11

Do you know? I do. The TV was $498,000.

SPEAKER_01 48:15

Okay, I guess $400. TVs are super cheap. I guessed $400 for the TV, $200 for the Switch, and $60 for the game. Wow. You nailed it. Except the Switch obviously was more expensive, huh? Wow, Nick.

SPEAKER_02 48:27

I'm Oh, you guys, I needed that this week.

SPEAKER_00 48:34

I have confidence that Brittany would have won. Uh again, Britney, my apologies for not having your number or thinking to ask Shannon for your number. Or your number. I actually thought about texting your mom for Britney's number. Not Shannon. But I was like, oh, I could ask Beth. But the mental gymnastics of like having to explain to your mom what we're doing.

SPEAKER_01 48:53

That's very and it was rummage sale day. Oh, it's rummage sale. She's very busy. Um also Brittany would not have won because her pricing would have been skewed because she's in a more expensive part of the country. Just saying. Can we just let me revel in the fact that I won this one? Okay, thanks.

SPEAKER_00 49:07

So again, making all of your fantasies come true. Price is right. French cocktails. French cocktails. Wow. Uh superior twin, elder twin, whatever. Old and worse mom, but you know, better at game shows. I will say, thank you, Shannon, for entertaining my uh very late. This did come up because there was something that you uh that we we had uh an email go out about an overpriced product. Oh this is how the inspiration came because I had a different segment planned. I also shared the inspiration that was like, and then this thing came out. I was like, I mean, I'm interested in this, but not at that price. And then you sent a like, you said like 100%, not that price is not a value. And I'm like, Bridget loves a value. Price is right.

SPEAKER_01 49:52

Guys, I love a good value. I will pay for a good product, like as we were discussing.

SPEAKER_00 49:58

Okay. Don't wear your grandpa's clothes. Oh man. Don't get me started.

SPEAKER_01 50:03

I was like, don't get me started. My palms got squinted. I got excited. That's a macma. Everybody. Um, that's an MM lyric. Look at this. God, all my favorite things.

SPEAKER_00 50:14

And you know, we had some crisscross make you. Really, all of my favorite things on this episode, including the food I'm about to tell you about.

SPEAKER_01 50:22

I know. Man, you're killing the transitions, too. This is what I'm here for to help move us along. Um, you want me to tell you about mine? Yeah. Okay. We it is Lake. No, hell no, I didn't make this.

SPEAKER_00 50:34

Oh, I know where you. Yes, this is very good.

SPEAKER_01 50:36

Um, my dad's all makes sense. Yeah, right. My dad just uh he missed our low daily event. He wanted to come, but uh couldn't. So the next day. He would have loved the Mexican maca. I know, he would have loved it. So next day he was like, hey, you want to grab a beer? Uh and we went to Lake City Social. Uh it's easy. We could have the kids be there. They have great appetizers, great food. Um, we did not, we got an appetizer off the restaurant week menu, but we got four entrees for three adults because I'm incapable of making a decision. But I get the same I get the same thing every time I go there, which is when it comes to price rate, you just dominate. That's right, everybody. I have many skills, including 90s television shows. Um they're Nashville hot chicken. I was so lucky. Like, if I'm not gonna be at Hattie B's in Nashville, I might as well go to Lake City and have theirs. And they're very different than Hattie B's, but it's very good. I would agree. Yeah, it's different.

SPEAKER_00 51:27

I would agree with that.

SPEAKER_01 51:28

Tyler and I both love it, and rarely do he and I both like feel as excited about the same dish, and it is so damn good. So I'm here to say Lake City Socials, Nashville hot chicken.

SPEAKER_00 51:38

My best friend Doug and myself, uh, we both worked for family businesses and lived at home in the uh early uh late Augdies. Um and when it used to be Sprecker, we went there way too much because we were making like $32,000 a year. Sprecker, a value. Paying uh rent. Well, that was a lot of money. I know. Like when you're 23, 25. Like not paying rent because you have to just like save money for a house. You can live here and like do chores, and you know, like you're working for me for an undermarket value contract. So we went there all the time, and uh, so that was kind of our place. TR from Topsy Turby's call.

SPEAKER_01 52:20

Busy time, man. Um bet she needs more brats.

SPEAKER_00 52:24

Bet she needs more brats. But uh, so we go there too much, and we always ordered the same thing. And we also ordered they had uh because we managed to show up at 457, and Sam, our bartender, there is great. Love her, and um she was there last night. So we ordered these long islands. Oh no, people used to always get those at Spreck, we're like pink, and so we would order the same thing with these pink daiquiries, pink daiquiri-looking things that were actually long islands and were like on the happy hour menu, and the greatest way to, you know, like on kind of a budget, but like I got money. Uh anyway, people thought we were married. 100% people thought we were married. Again, not that there's anything wrong with that. I'm an ally.

SPEAKER_01 53:08

It's your Long Island.

SPEAKER_00 53:10

So I now want to change over to Lake City So well, no, this was hula hands. It used to be hula hand.

SPEAKER_01 53:18

That's Snickers ice cream pie dessert.

SPEAKER_00 53:21

Anyway, uh, so I tried very hard not to order the same thing, and Doug really likes the Nashville hot chicken. So I only have it if I don't go with Doug, and I rarely go there without Doug.

SPEAKER_01 53:30

This is what I'm saying. Me and my dad and Tyler almost all got it. So we're like, no, I'll get the street tacos, which were also very good.

SPEAKER_00 53:35

As we're getting older, like, oh, okay. It was a little, you know, less.

SPEAKER_01 53:39

Listen to us. So, you know, that was the best thing I ate.

SPEAKER_00 53:42

Uh, I made broccoli cheese soup.

SPEAKER_01 53:44

Oh, yeah. You talked about this last one other time when you made it, at least to me. I don't know if it was.

SPEAKER_00 53:48

I'm very good at this. I know, and it sounds so good. Narrowing it down. I'm very good at it. I just want to say it was delicious. I loved it. Uh, if anybody wants to come over and eat grilled cheese soup and grilled cheese and broccoli cheese soup. Well, because the key is the grilled cheese is just a vehicle to get more soup into your mouth. I just am a tomato grilled cheese person. I did. But I love broccoli cheese soup separately. I did. Um I have a new I'll we'll talk about this next week.

SPEAKER_01 54:18

I thought so. I was like, you're new to Apple Watch.

SPEAKER_00 54:20

We'll talk about this next week.

SPEAKER_01 54:23

Then I thought I fixed it and now it's broken still. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 54:26

Um I shred, I so I did a mixture of rawn cheese, shredded mild cheddar, sharp cheddar, and gouda. Whoa. Mix that together and do that for the grilled cheese with bacon and tomato. Yeah. And it was like sounds delicious. I wanted to get simple white bread, but they close it.

SPEAKER_01 54:44

A challenging time.

SPEAKER_00 54:46

Unreasonably early.

SPEAKER_01 54:47

It is a hard time, yes.

SPEAKER_00 54:49

Uh so no, we just did like crappy white bread. I mean, so I gotta tell you, like, because white bread is what you need for a grilled cheese.

SPEAKER_01 54:56

White bread and American cheese is what we used to have as kids. I mean, yes, as kids, that's what we had.

SPEAKER_00 55:00

Well, okay, but now you know rawn cheese exists. You gotta shred it so it like melts evenly, and then you can do like all the flavors.

SPEAKER_01 55:07

And mayo instead of butter.

SPEAKER_00 55:08

Yes, mayo instead of butter. Thank you, rawn cheese. Uh anyway, those were delicious. Also, I made some frozen margaritas out of Bodarin's.

SPEAKER_01 55:16

Those looked so good. That were so good. Oh, so jealous.

SPEAKER_00 55:19

Uh, next Tuesday, what are you guys doing? Come on over.

SPEAKER_01 55:22

Oh, I was like, what's Tuesday?

SPEAKER_00 55:23

Taco Tuesday.

SPEAKER_01 55:24

Taco does what is Tuesday? Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 55:26

We have a email chain going out about uh tacos. Yep. And there's a couple I need to re-photograph. So, like, come on over.

SPEAKER_01 55:34

If you want to sign up, check out our social media. Uh anyway. Okay, man, we've made it. I feel like we've we've put a lot in this week.

SPEAKER_00 55:42

Yeah, we've made it. Look how far we've come now, baby. Uh, that's you're welcome, everybody.

SPEAKER_01 55:49

Anyway, it's time for Kid Corner. More singing from us. How lucky. You want to go first? You want me to go first? Yeah, man, mine's kind of boring. Um, it's not boring. It's just I'm not making fun of my kids anymore. Not mistake. It's called stay. We did this a lot during COVID, but like, I don't know what happened. Tyler, the kids were just wily. It was before school. So you know when that's the case, you're like, man, it's gonna be a long day. But Tyler, I was like, they left me alone silently for a few minutes, and I was like, what it's a little quiet, and that grabs your attention when you're a mom. Um, Tyler had put on kids' yoga and they both were glued to it. And he put it on his phone, not the giant TV right behind them. Tiny little phone, and um, yeah, put on, put on kids' yoga, and they both sat there. I have pictures of them like calmly, quietly laying in like whatever, sleeping pose. I don't know what the hell it's called. Yeah, I know. And they that's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_00 56:40

Like I texted you yesterday a picture of Simona looking like a gangster.

SPEAKER_01 56:43

I'm like, just want to be like Lou. Just want to be like my Lou. Not like late. You should see the pictures Lucy made me take of her this morning. She put on her sunglasses, and she was like, anyway, so yeah, that's how you picture Lucy. I know when you were doing that before. So anyway, they were quietly, calmly doing yoga. So again, cosmic kids yoga is one of them. We do like um, this was finding Nemo yoga, I think. So it was like under the water, so they would like pretend to swim. Uh it kept them quiet and not killing each other for at least 25 minutes. Highly recommend.

SPEAKER_00 57:15

Highly recommend making your kids pick up sticks.

SPEAKER_01 57:18

Yeah, that's also a great activity. Just showing attitude pictures of Lucy.

SPEAKER_00 57:24

She again, your uh uh come come come Camaro, it's not camouflage. Camouflage? What is it called? I don't know what you're trying to say. The cutout picture we're gonna do of you for your floral embitter thing. Oh, cameo. Cameo. Uh is Lucy. It's Lucy! It is Lucy. I distracted him with a photo, sorry. Yep, sorry. Uh Lucy is you. It's hilarious. I didn't know you when you were. She's a product of me.

SPEAKER_01 57:50

But like she's clearly karma. It me.

SPEAKER_00 57:53

Yeah, no kidding. Um anyway, uh Simona is uh definitely hitting the terrible twos stage. Like she's a great kid. Like, this is like so privileged and relative. She's a great kid. Her like highs and lows are there's a lot of kids that are a lot worse. We're very lucky. I'm prefacing all this. We only have one kid. Like, I'm prefacing all of this with I know shut up, I don't want to hear it. But like she That's me telling him that, guys. She is like having her highs and lows bigger than she normally does. And the way to do it is like she just wants to work the energy out. She wants to be outside, she wants to be running around. We have all this land, she knows she can go run down to Mimi and Papa's house, and she wants to do it, which is like great in so many ways, but also a challenge in other ways. So the other day, we got the wiggles out by walking. She walked, it's literally half a mile. Yeah, it's a long walk. Down a very steep hill. She walked across like a hill, uh, across a field that's bumpy and rocks all over. She literally walked her ass all the way across that field, all the way down the very steep hill. Like it's a great sledding hill. To me, and papa's house, got the side-by-side, the mule, drove it down to where there's a bunch of sticks on the ground, and she spent 25 minutes picking up sticks with me. Because like we do need sticks for kin, because we have fires a lot. Yeah. Uh, picked them all up, put them in the back of it, like taller than her, bigger than her, talked to me all the entire time about how she used her muscles. Miss Sarah told her to use her muscles. Uh, shout out to Miss Sarah. Sarah. Uh my god. When I was a kid, my parents were like, go pay up sticks. I was like, this is a terrible chore. Like, who cares if we run over? I now know it's a way for you to entertain your kids. Okay, busy. So um picking up sticks. I got a great picture of her standing in the back of the mule. So proud of the sticks she picked up. They are sitting on the side of our lawn, drying out, because they're a little wet. They're they're new wood, they need to dry, especially if we're museum as kindling. You don't want like wet smoke in your fire.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:01

Oh, why not? JK, JK. I know that much.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:03

Do you want to talk about table beer some more?

SPEAKER_01 1:00:05

Or bonfires?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:07

Anyway, very proud of my girl. I love her. She is a country girl, I think. Um, it's very special. Um my god, I'm gonna be another Nick is here. We go, guys. It's very special to me the time, the quiet times I spend with her where we do walks and like talk about things. And I just love my daughter so much. I love my girl so much. Okay, everybody. I'm actually gonna start crying. It's very special to me. I love my daughter. Um, very proud of her.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:37

You know stop talking. You're gonna cry, man. I am gonna cry. Shave it off air. Okay, everybody. Thanks for listening. I will find.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:46

I can say you know how to find us, but I also I was thinking about this. I write really great show notes. You can look at the show notes. Look at the show notes.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:51

And if you don't know what show notes are, my very favorite podcast of Current Times Morbid explains what show notes are. Show notes are in the where it says see more. There's a title of the episode, and then there's some words. You can press see more. Those are the show notes. So you can always find links and info. You can find us on Facebook, Instagram, no longer YouTube. The show notes. Thanks for listening. Have a great week. Bye-bye.