Live From The Candle Mercantile - Dinner Plus Drinks #92

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Bridget. Nick, this is the best smelling episode of Dinner Plus Drinks ever.

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I was like, are we starting out sniffing?

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We're starting out sniffing.

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It's so weird not having our headphones today, man.

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Guys, we are at the Candle Mercantile in downtown Lake Geneva, and we're being attacked by a bee.

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I was trying to be cool, but I couldn't, you guys. Bees, this is I've had two bees in my car today, so they're after me.

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Okay? They're after you. I know. It's time for an episode of Dinner Plus Drinks. We're just having a little bit of fun, having a beer, enjoying the beautiful fall weather.

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You know we love when you're a part of our little world and you let us talk through a little therapy session, so what better way to do it than downtown like Eva.

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Well, guys, it's gonna be a little different today. You might have some ambient audio. Sorry, we're trying really hard. We have we we hauled the microphones down, we have a 4K camera.

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Bridget forgot her equipment.

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It's an iPhone. So if you're watching on YouTube, you'll see the amazing candle mercantile behind us. Plus our amazing outfits. Yes, I'm in Lederhosen.

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And I'm in a part of a derndel. It looks great, Bridget. You look amazing. Um, a couple pieces are missing, but no one would know because I'm sitting.

SPEAKER_00 1:16

Uh this Lederhosen thing is like very pinchy and that's like legit? Yeah, it's a legit one. Is it from Germany? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:23

Okay, well, mine's from Amazon. Yeah. I was like, well, mine is not leather and it's from Amazon. It feels like it.

SPEAKER_00 1:28

But it's weird. Okay. I think we've talked about candle mercantile before and how much we love them. We love their candles. But one of the things we haven't mentioned is they have an amazing outdoor patio. Yes, we're sitting on it. With beer.

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Hey, cheers. Prost.

SPEAKER_00 1:43

Pro host. Oh, you're right. Prost. So we're having a little Oktoberfest beer.

SPEAKER_01 1:46

Yeah, I haven't actually had the pleasure of sitting on the patio. There's a group right by us that's enjoying it, looks like some champagne and some charcuterie, maybe.

SPEAKER_00 1:54

Yep, they did. Uh this worked out well. I dropped off some charcuterie here. And they bought them. Uh like literally walked in, like, oh, charcuterie. So it worked out really well. Awesome. And now we're recording.

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Yeah, so you'll see the store behind us if you haven't been in. We have some things we'll talk about a little later on that will maybe make you want to sneak in here in these fall months. Um, Bridget. Nick, what a week. It's just been a blur. You guys, I forgot a piece of equipment we needed for recording. Luckily, I timed it. Without traffic, it takes me five minutes to get here from here from my house. Whatever, to here. But um man, yeah, it's just like my birthday was last weekend. It's a cement truck.

SPEAKER_00 2:34

Did we talk about Banksy?

SPEAKER_01 2:36

I don't even know if we talked about it, to be honest. Um, but my birthday was last weekend, and then this weekend we have a family wedding, so I knew that was gonna be a long haul. And Tyler's out of town this weekend, so I'm single mom in it.

SPEAKER_00 2:48

So ooh, I'm what's Tyler doing?

SPEAKER_01 2:52

Tyler's at a uh retreat, let's say, with his brothers. He's having some fun, um, which he deserves a weekend away. We he I had a really fun girls' weekend over the summer, but man it just happens to be on, you know, he rescheduled his trip three times. This wedding got rescheduled three times, so here we are. Thanks for hanging with me while I make it through the end of this blur of the seven days.

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The other great thing that they have here are pretzels and cheese dip.

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And not just any cheese, but beer cheese.

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Last Natural's a local company that does these like they do boat cheese, but it's fancier.

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Oh, oh, it's in Burlington? Yeah. Oh, I had no idea. Okay, and cheers dipping pretzels. You gotta have your pretzels. You guys, the best part of doing this, I hope you catch some on YouTube, is the people that walk by.

SPEAKER_00 3:36

No, they want to know what we're doing.

SPEAKER_01 3:37

Well, though, and sometimes they just give us dirty looks.

SPEAKER_00 3:40

You know, we should have brought a Dinner Plus Drinks Podcast sign on some new subscribers.

SPEAKER_01 3:45

No, we should make a Dinner Plus Drinks Podcast sign.

SPEAKER_00 3:48

Man, oh wow. Okay, what about your week? It's it's been it's been crazy. Uh-huh, yeah. A lot of craziness, a lot of things. This is always the time of the year where it's like, oh yeah, let's just get through summer and we'll take care of that. And it's a lot of cashing checks that you wrote earlier, and they're all starting to catch up with me. We do all these Oktoberfest events, which I love. I have so much fun. But like next week we're gonna be we have to talk about recording because we're gonna be on a golf course.

SPEAKER_01 4:16

Should we record live while pouring beer on a golf course? And clicking drops. That won't be a disaster at all. If you think this is a disaster. Bridget, Bridget, I need more. Hold on, hold on, wrap that one.

SPEAKER_00 4:28

Um anyway.

SPEAKER_01 4:29

Great, okay, so we probably won't do that, but we'll figure out how we're recording next week.

SPEAKER_00 4:33

But I uh I'm trying to take a moment to still myself of calm in the storm. Something like that.

SPEAKER_01 4:39

Yes, calm storm.

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Um I just was I was at a thing, a local event thing last night, and I wanted to like give some shout-outs to a couple local businesses. Candle Mercantiles One, uh, all the fall candle scents. But there's three places downtown Lake Geneva that I was just like, you know what, Nick, stop being such a negative Nelly. Stop doing it. And uh there's a couple people doing some really cool stuff. And Bottle Shop, our friend Beth had a really lovely event last week.

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I know, I missed it.

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It was uh Gala. I can't wait to see the photos. And um her employees, Dory and Emily, did like all the decorating. It was really amazing. Emily has a new shop opening up there. I saw a sneak peek when she had some decor in her car.

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So cool.

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Um, Dory is running the Lake Life market there, that you can get some food and stuff and decor, and I don't know, not decor, uh like uh not decor, but snacks you can get like gift items?

SPEAKER_01 5:28

Yeah, like Lake Geneva gift item things.

SPEAKER_00 5:31

Oh, and the good uh the good purple door ice cream.

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Oh my god, salted caramel purple.

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So like I'm very happy they're doing some cool stuff. Uh I gotta give a shout out to Clock Tower Pizza. Yes.

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They have great fries.

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The hand cut, like super deep fried.

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To not be confused, it was it's the former, does it still say Frank's Outside? It still says Frank's outside, so it's uh uh diagonal.

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The guy that owns it is Frank.

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Yeah, so don't be confused. It's actually a pizza place with fries and other amazing food burgers, smash burgers.

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Really good smash burgers. And that is right diagonal from Topsy Derby Brewery, who's doing um The next shout-out. Yeah, some really awesome, fun community things. They they joined a it was a long road for them to get open. Yes. Um, but they've really made a lot of efforts to be a part of the community and get involved with all the events and stuff, and so just like shout out to them for helping out.

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They're gonna it on theme with our Oktoberfest episode here, they are gonna be doing some really cool stuff for like Geneva's Oktoberfest, so check that out. That's on Columbus Day weekend, so 9th and 10th, right?

SPEAKER_00 6:34

Yeah, it's easy to you know read through city council minutes. Oh, wait, not the minutes because they haven't been posted in six weeks. Oh wait, but uh watch the videos as you're waiting at the doctor's office.

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Yes.

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And uh, you know, get like involved in stuff. But there's people doing good stuff here. There are. Other good news. So two uh two things to close the loop. First of all, I'm not getting a new car.

SPEAKER_01 6:54

You're not?

SPEAKER_00 6:54

I'm not getting a new car.

SPEAKER_01 6:55

I bet I I bet our listeners were wondering.

SPEAKER_00 6:57

I mean, I talked a lot about it. The equity on my car was not enough to make it worthwhile. So we'll we'll we'll wait, we'll wait it out for a little bit. But I might get an electric car, we'll see. And then also, I had my annual dermatologist appointment to check for all the moles. I don't know if I've ever been. He does always get nervous. It's very clear. Everything's good. Big news! This is why you wear the long sleeves on the water to make sure you don't get the moles. Or just the sunscreen.

SPEAKER_01 7:34

I do none of these things. I wear sunscreen.

SPEAKER_00 7:36

Don't get the skin cancer. No one wants that. I am proud of you for doing the property checkup. Like if you have kidney cancer, just knock that out. Who needs it? I think liver they can chop part of that off. Just chop it. What if you're chopping?

SPEAKER_01 7:52

Oh, yeah, that's easy to get. It's really easy to get a heart transplant. I guess there are ways to get get through skin cancer.

SPEAKER_00 7:59

Anyway, guys, that's exciting news about it.

SPEAKER_01 8:00

Nick is cancer free. That's exciting. Um, I have not been to a dermatologist since like high school, and they basically were just like, You're in high school, you're gonna have zits. Here's some cream. I was like, Thanks. I mean, that's what like everyone did, right? In high school, like, oh, I have bad cramps. Okay, anyway. Oh, I can't stop staring. This is this is distracting down here, you guys. Um, okay, can we talk about these candles? Yes, but I'm not sure.

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No.

SPEAKER_01 8:25

Okay, can I call this my news story? It's just kidding.

SPEAKER_00 8:28

All right, guys. So I think it's big news that the fall scents are out.

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Um, the awesome team here, in case you don't know, so candle mercantile, you can mix your own candles, which is so fun, and I highly recommend it.

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And it's a great bachelor party. Like, everyone thinks of it for bachelorette. Oh, but like honestly, you could drink a bunch of beer and like make fun of everybody's candles. And you could do like ridiculous, like make the dankest candle, because they have like a marijuana.

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Yeah, they um cannabis, I believe it's called.

SPEAKER_00 8:54

Uh or you could do like make the most girly candle or make the manly. Like, just have like a couple of things. Smell the worst.

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Yeah, they're fun. And I mean they actually smell, they last a really long time. But if you don't have time to make a candle and you want to buy an awesome local gift, they have pre-mixed, pre-made candles. So um the awesome team inside was so cool to set us up with some new fall scents so we could tell you about them. I was like, we'll sniff them on air, we'll tell everyone. So, in case you don't want to just hear me sniff these out, I'm gonna tell you about the first one. That was that that was a sniff for you, everybody. Let me spell that one. This is Autumn in the woods.

SPEAKER_00 9:24

This is the ones I'm supposed to get for syrup.

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I would guess. Oh, this is one.

SPEAKER_00 9:27

We have this one at home. This is amazing.

SPEAKER_01 9:29

Really? So here's okay, so this Autumn in the Woods is a blend of pine needles. I'm using cheese.

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Oh my gosh, it smells so good.

SPEAKER_01 9:35

Pine needles, campfire bourbon, and autumn leaves. So, like, hello, that's a good man scent right there, okay? To me, um, because I've been here 500,000 times, I know what all these individual scents smell like. And I'm like, oh, I can smell the campfire in this one. Caramel apple? Okay, caramel apple is another one. Have you smelled this one yet?

SPEAKER_00 9:53

Uh no.

SPEAKER_01 9:53

So this is not normally like normally I'd be all over an autumn in the woods, but actually I like the caramel apple better. I don't know why. It's caramel apple is a blend of go figure, honey crisp apple, caramel, hazelnut, and a touch of cinnamon spice. Ooh, I like it. Yeah, and this one to me is not like obnoxiously cinnamon, and it the honey crisp makes it really fresh.

SPEAKER_00 10:13

We did a caram apple marinated chicken sample batch at work. It was love it or hate it. I think we're gonna do it as pork chops, though.

SPEAKER_01 10:21

I could that would be popular, I think.

SPEAKER_00 10:23

Probably more than um apple pork chop, man. Is today's key corner gonna be about Elliot? He needs to be.

SPEAKER_01 10:28

It's uh both kids. I thought that was nice. Win-win. Okay, next week will be Elliot. So, and then they also have like those are the fall scents featured, and then you can buy all of the individual like mixer up. So this was a good fall one if you're into it. This is a chai tea candle. Oh, that is good. So this was just an example of the 90 plus cents that they have in the store. So, did you know they had more than 90? I didn't.

SPEAKER_00 10:49

Um but yeah, so cranberry, maple syrup.

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Yeah, those are some other good fall ones. So just our point is like there's a million fall candles. If you're in town for Oktoberfest or something else, or just like to check out the colors, come check out a candle instead of only drinking and eating, which is what normally we do for Oktoberfest.

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So are you more of a fall candle or winter candle person?

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Winter. They have a winter candle that I will buy year-round. So I love it. Well, there's like a Christmas tree candle is my favorite candle. Like after post-Christmas sales, I go and hoard those. Me too. Nick and I are fighting each other in the aisles on Black Friday looking. Um, anyway. So I I love fall, but like fall flavors and scents actually aren't my favorite normally. But these are damn good.

SPEAKER_00 11:32

I my news story was about Christmas.

SPEAKER_01 11:36

I know, I saw this, though.

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Evidently, all of the things are gonna be incredibly expensive before Christmas and like buy your kids Christmas presents now. This is why I started stocking up. Get the nugget now. Um just pick a color. And you know what you call it when your kids' toys cost too much? What? You're being Saint Nicolas. Oh, Nicholas. Oh, Nick. Anyway, we're gonna take a slight break and smell some candles. Alright, we're back. Did you miss us? Did you miss us? For our product recommendations, here's two more spots you should drink an Oktoberfest beer in town.

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Alright, we're here on the bottle shop patio, and it's beautiful. Look at this. Look at this fall decor. It's beautiful. Nick, cheers.

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Cheers.

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It's a beautiful day, and what you need to know is this patio is huge. We're just in like the back third of it, would you say?

SPEAKER_00 12:46

I would say the back there.

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It's perfectly shaded here, and then there's sunny spots up in the front.

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There's music frequently. Haverly and company, Emily's place that we said was like so awesome. It's right back there, so you can check out what she has. And um, we know not everybody likes beer, so wine. Bubbles. And um, if you want to know more about German wine, we just released a pickies up about it.

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And Beth carries some that you can try. This is not true. This is not, but Beth is the owner of the bottle shop and she'll help you out and find the wine that works best for your Oktoberfest celebrations.

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Bottle shop. Pros. Urban breweries, not just for Milwaukee.

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Also for Lake Geneva.

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We are at Topsy Turvy. Because you know, you'll get a little Topsy Turvy when we do a little drinking, or should I say a loud drinking? And it is this awesome brewery in Lake Geneva. Oh, I should adjust my straps here.

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Adjust your later whole thing.

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Anyway, we have little beers. Oh, I went in for it. Sorry. I left you hanging, Bridget.

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This is just a great patio. This is what happens when we don't plan. He leaves me hanging on cheers. All these people walking past are wondering what we're doing.

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We are the only people wearing Oktoberfest garb, which it's Oktoberfest in Munich. I'm very disappointed, people.

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It is. Most people, some people cheer for us. Someone said they like our outfits, but no one asks why we're wearing it.

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Anyway, if you want a nice, great outdoor patio to watch people go by, drink some delicious beers. Yep. Maybe have some snacks sticks from like Geneva Country Meets. Maybe, maybe. Or that product rep coming up that you're gonna hear, they sell it here. Check it out, topsy turvy.

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Alright, guys, what'd you think? Are those spots you've been to before, or did we show you something new?

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And seriously, we don't get funded by the Lake Geneva Tourism Commission. No, we sure don't. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 14:46

Well, we haven't tried to be fair.

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But uh I think they should just write us a check. Waspy, we know you listen. Well anyway, but if you guys aren't local, you should come. It's a great, great thing.

SPEAKER_01 14:58

So It's the best time of year in Lake Geneva.

SPEAKER_00 14:59

Yeah, this is the best time of lake.

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Like you it's still very busy, but like less annoying busy than summer, in my opinion.

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It's people are here to enjoy it instead of like I need to get away.

SPEAKER_01 15:07

I need to go shopping. Although, like, today seems crazy. I feel like it was a beautiful fall morning and now it's like almost 80 degrees and it's gotten nuts.

SPEAKER_00 15:17

I I was I have a good segment here, but I'm gonna digress a little bit. I was talking with somebody. And uh I have all these like I love like weird stats and like weird indicators. That sounds right. So I think we should have, you know, there's like all these misery index stats that are like if bread costs so much, like people are really struggling. I think we should have a misery index stat of like how many people are pulling shitties in downtown Lake Geneva. And if you don't know what that is, it's holding up traffic to whip it. Whip a U-turn and pull into a parking spot across the street the wrong way. Angled the wrong way. You have to back out and back back in. So you've held up traffic three different times. I know and it's gotten just we should just sit here and count, but we're on an end of a block, so we don't see that many.

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But I was behind two. When we recorded live at Flemings, you should check out that it was a St. Patrick's Day episode, right? And we could we just sat in the windows and people watched, and man, there's nothing better sometimes. Yeah, you're right. That's terrible downtown.

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So this is a bit of another product recommendation.

SPEAKER_01 16:16

Oh boy, okay. But um Nick's just throwing me for loops. I'm just here to listen.

SPEAKER_00 16:20

I okay. So when uh we all know Facebook is listening to everything we say. Just read an interesting article. Obviously, talking about Bridget's birthday, and right after recorded last week, it was Bridget's birthday. Buy Bridget these things. And I got this thing from Facebook saying buy buy Bridget these things. So you did not. All of these, it's 32 gifts under $50 that Facebook suggested you want. That's hilarious. So I wanted to go through these 32 products and see what you think.

SPEAKER_01 16:46

Oh my god. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 16:47

The first one is Fierce Cologne from Abercami and Fitch.

SPEAKER_01 16:50

I don't need that, but great idea. Uh, Tyler. Fierce cologne? Obviously, yeah. Isn't that a man's cologne? Yeah, so Tyler, get it for yourself.

SPEAKER_00 16:58

Whatever Facebook algorithm thinks Bridget thinks you would. Thinks I'm a man. That's cool. No, she thinks you would the things you've said would make Tyler smell more sexy time.

SPEAKER_01 17:07

So for my birthday, buy Tyler Cologne. Noted. Ladies, listen up. Uh Hydro Flasks. I own like 10.

SPEAKER_00 17:15

So yes. Um, an iPhone cover with a wildflower purple design.

SPEAKER_01 17:21

Okay, so maybe not purple, but my daughter's talks about purple a lot, and I love wildflowers, so I can see that. I actually just bought a water bottle with wildflowers on it.

SPEAKER_00 17:31

Alright. Uh oh. Here we go, scrolling. LED wireless uh speakers that are an off-brand, but they make rainbow colors while they're playing.

SPEAKER_01 17:42

Ooh, I mean I love a good Bluetooth speaker, and it must know that I like off-brand things.

SPEAKER_00 17:48

An Origins beauty sampler pack with free shipping. I mean, I hear you. My skin is aging. Uh single uh wine glasses in fun colors, and they appear to be plastic.

SPEAKER_01 18:01

Are they packable?

SPEAKER_00 18:03

Um wine on the go? No.

SPEAKER_01 18:06

Well, they're plastic, so yes they are. There you go.

SPEAKER_00 18:08

Yes. This one I knew was good for you. A certifleece electric blanket.

SPEAKER_01 18:14

Oh, yeah. You guys. We're in that season where Tyler still just sleeps in like his underwear and I'm in a sweatshirt and sweatpants.

SPEAKER_00 18:21

AirPod Poke AirPod AirPod Pro case. Pull it together. In like uh that goes on a keychain and is tie-dyed. I think they know you like tie-dye.

SPEAKER_01 18:32

Oh, I thought I had tie-dye on earlier. I can't I mean, yes, I'm in love with my AirPods. I've I've waxed poetic on here about them before, but damn, yeah, sure. Okay, tie-dye. But hold on. You have AirPods. Yeah. What is the difference in the case? Like, what's wrong with my regular case that charges them? I have no clue. Okay, anyway.

SPEAKER_00 18:50

Fine pine candle. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:52

Pine candles, you got these candles.

SPEAKER_00 18:54

We're getting these, but it's pine scented. Uh personalized monographed billfold. A bilfold?

SPEAKER_01 18:59

You're not a dude. Again, Bridget is a woman's name. I mean, if there's a man named Bridget, that's cool too.

SPEAKER_00 19:06

Um, a keep your coffee hot thing from Lululemon. No. Uh what the hell is Lululemon making? Rosewood blush samples from bare minerals.

SPEAKER_01 19:18

I mean, okay, sure. I wear all the blush all the time, can't you tell? Uh FYI necklace. It says FYI?

SPEAKER_00 19:26

Yep. Sure, that's hilarious. I love a good witty necklace. A mini portable USB lantern. Or maybe this is a blender. It's a blender. A blender! A mini portable blender that's powered by USB. Margarita's on the go. Rose Skylight Candle. Yes, any candles. Chrissy Teegan's cookbook, Hungry for More. I have conflicted feelings about Chrissy Teegan and her cookbook. Uh you know, I Chrissy Teagan, I like her when she was like, yeah, I've lived life, and now she's like, I gotta dial my wife. Like, I'm sorry, yeah. It's kind of like, eh. I like you when you live in your life. When you were like yelling at people. That's my thing about Billie Eilish, too, where it's like, did you see she she's like mad at people that are not following her now because she lived her life? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:11

Which was her whole thing. Um you said something. Oh, candles. I just want to be clear and say thank you to my family who all gifted me candles, which was great. I probably have I netted maybe four new candles, I think, for my birthday, and I'm so excited.

SPEAKER_00 20:25

Now, this is a winning streak after their wireless charging station. I'm not sure about that one.

SPEAKER_01 20:30

Well, I mean, actually, my dad has one that charges all the kinds of phones, and it's really helpful.

SPEAKER_00 20:35

A very fluffy woman's robe.

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Yes.

SPEAKER_01 20:39

You've talked about this. I have four different robes, maybe five, and they all serve a different purpose. And the very fluffy one mostly serves as a blanket I can wear.

SPEAKER_00 20:47

White marble iPhone cover. I think you have this exact same.

SPEAKER_01 20:50

I used to. I used to. I have a marble, uh, whatcham, what do you call this? Pop socket thing.

SPEAKER_00 20:54

A matte black travel coffee cup. Sure, you can never have enough of those. Nope. Yeah. Let's see, keep it. Water bottles, coffee cups, you can never have enough. Travel jewelry case?

SPEAKER_01 21:05

Yeah, I don't understand those. I just throw it in a bag.

SPEAKER_00 21:07

Scrubby things that are jasmine robes, like scrubby things. Bath scrubby soap things, but are in the shape of like a scrubby thing, so you can wash yourself and scrub.

SPEAKER_01 21:17

Oh that was really descriptive. But no, I found those silicone like scrubber things that I recommended.

SPEAKER_00 21:23

I love those. But it's like soap and a scrubber. Wow. Yeah, so it's like an all-in-one. I don't know. That's a tough call, guys. Um, another candle. Yes, thank you. A diamond shot glass that also looks like a DD dye.

SPEAKER_01 21:36

I see it and I want it. I it's a hard thing to explain, especially if you're not like watching. But um, yes, I like weird shaped glassware.

SPEAKER_00 21:44

Um a mushroom tufted pillow.

SPEAKER_01 21:47

No, I don't understand the love for mushrooms.

SPEAKER_00 21:49

Uh a high quality laptop carrier thing. I have a low quality one that I like. Uh a faux fur fur faux fur throw blanket. Sure, yeah, can never have enough of those either. Neoprene AirPod covers.

SPEAKER_01 22:04

I don't no, definitely no. Ew, I love my AirPods as they are. In the case they came in.

SPEAKER_00 22:11

Or at the end of this thing and I keep cook it quick, easy recipes.

SPEAKER_01 22:16

I hear the algorithm telling me that I don't know how to cook, but cookbooks are I I don't know. I don't have space for that in my life right now.

SPEAKER_00 22:22

And then a pack of 125 assort earrings for $40.

SPEAKER_01 22:25

Okay. I would never pay $40 for although that's a lot of earrings. I do I don't know. I can't answer the last one, guys. I'm leaving you hanging on the 40 earrings. Nick, that was a that was a funny one because I do, there was just some articles.

SPEAKER_00 22:40

That they're watching you. Why would I give you a gift?

SPEAKER_01 22:43

Second of all. You gave me a thrift store book, okay? Yeah, that's all you need. It was $8 on Amazon. Plus all the wine and Oktoberfest beer that I need. Well. Thanks, buddy.

SPEAKER_00 22:54

I just but I was impressed that Facebook like is monetizing birthdays. Because at this point, for me, Facebook's very useful to remember people's birthday, right?

SPEAKER_01 23:02

I know. It's so funny.

SPEAKER_00 23:03

And then I don't I don't write happy birthday on people's walls really anymore. Because my thought is like This was gonna be my question.

SPEAKER_01 23:10

Yes, if I this is exactly my. Okay. This is so funny. Is this an age thing? Because I I'm dying to know. Because like it is really funny. I remember I used to like on my birthday be like, oh my god, who's written on my wall? That was so nice. And then I'm like, this person has legitimately not talked to me in four years. So when I got pregnant with Elliot, my sister, I would my sister was not having babies, and she's like, Well, why aren't you posting it? Why aren't you writing? And I was like, Because if if there is someone that I don't talk to in the entire span of nine months that doesn't know I'm pregnant, I probably didn't need to specially tell them that I was pregnant. Whatever. So, same thing when it comes to birthdays. If a birthday comes up and I wouldn't pick up my phone and text that person happy birthday, then why am I writing on their wall? But unfortunately, there are some people that wrote on my wall that never would text me, but I was still like, oh, it was so nice to hear from him or her. So thanks to everyone who wrote on my wall or emailed me or text me. That was so nice of you. No, I don't want to call out the any one person, but there was a couple people that stick out in my brain that I was like, oh. Anyway, sorry that Nick and I don't wish you happy birthday on your wall. That's mean of us. Sorry, not sorry.

SPEAKER_00 24:20

Uh what I'm really not sorry about though are empanadas.

SPEAKER_01 24:23

Oh, Nick, that was a smooth transition. Empanadas are just not very on theme. I know. So here's the thing though.

SPEAKER_00 24:29

So yesterday, Thursday was National Snack Stick Day, National Pop Pie Day, and then Juan Martin Del Potro's birthday.

SPEAKER_01 24:38

Oh, all of those things?

SPEAKER_00 24:40

So Juan Martin Del Potro is our favorite tennis player, male tennis player. I was like, why do I know this name? Favorite female tennis player, Simona Hallep, just got married to an effing billionaire. Congratulations, Hallop. Congratulations. She's who we named Simona, our daughter after that. Yes. Uh but anyway, Juan Martin, like Sarah has to call it a hall pass with him is.

SPEAKER_01 25:00

I gotta look this guy up.

SPEAKER_00 25:02

Denigrating hall passes. Anyway, she um she can have whatever with him. Okay, sure. He's a very good looking man. He's a very talented man. He's been scarred by injury, but he still won a lot. Very kind. People love him. Uh yes, currently ranked 740 in the world.

SPEAKER_01 25:19

Excellent. He's 32, right in the age range.

SPEAKER_00 25:22

Tall.

SPEAKER_01 25:22

Great, weighs 214 pounds. Thanks for the info.

SPEAKER_00 25:25

It's his birthday. So we had to celebrate with Argentinian food. So we did empanadas and frites. Oh. And we sang ole.

SPEAKER_01 25:31

I think I had a macaroni and cheese out of a box, so that's the same thing.

SPEAKER_00 25:33

We have Simona taught how to sing Ole Ole Ole for the book. Oh, that's cool. I like that. Yeah, it's a lot of fun. So we just had some empanadas. I love them because they're like on the go. Wait, I'm sorry. This is tennis? Yeah. Why is what is ole? Well, so it's like a soccer thing. But since he's from Argentina, all the Argentina So like that's a lot of people show up and just like ole for him to show him some love. Well, but you know, nobody knows Argentina for tennis. They know Argentina for soccer. True. But this guy plays, aren't we supporting this guy? I don't watch either of those sports. Anyway, they're like handheld and delicious, and you get like all your filling with your beef and your tomatoes and your onion and your cheese, and it's just delicious.

SPEAKER_01 26:14

I uh yes, I'm going on my phone because I have something very important to look up now that we're talking about sports. And there's so oh, your fantasy. Yeah. And I wouldn't bring this up if I didn't already have a winning record. But obviously, I'm bringing it up because I need to tell you that I am undefeated in fantasy. I had to make sure. Two and oh.

unknown 26:32

What?

SPEAKER_01 26:33

Two and oh. I was like, oh wait, hold on. Okay, just had to tell you that. Slight aside. Okay, but I love empanadas. There's a place in Milwaukee called La Massa. Oh yeah, that's super. Um super delicious. Could you, to get back on theme here and smooth right into my pro my products?

SPEAKER_00 26:48

Cabbage are kind of an empanada.

SPEAKER_01 26:49

But could you put like cut-up brats in an empanada?

SPEAKER_00 26:53

Um, I wouldn't do the actual, I would just take it out of the case you can fry it.

SPEAKER_01 26:57

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 26:57

That makes more sense. Yep.

unknown 26:59

But good try.

SPEAKER_01 26:59

You're making more sense. So if you want an Oktoberfest empanada, make it happen, okay? But, or you could just do what I do, which is buy frozen Milwaukee pretzels and cook. This is a promo. So this is Milwaukee Pretzel Company, out of Milwaukee. Seriously, Nick's dying over here. You're hearing Nick or Cement trucks, I don't know. Um but Milwaukee Pretzel companies, like obviously, if you can go to them at any kind of event and buy them fresh, do that. But we saw them frozen, all sorts of grocery stores sell them frozen. They have huge giant. We have little pretzel bites right now. Colossal, what's the big one called? So they have like a huge giant one, they have regular size one, and then we also have little pretzel bites from from Pretzillas, different pretzel company. Yeah, that's right. Those are for pretzels. Yeah, but whatever, they're all delicious, but I prefer Milwaukee Pretzel Company because it's it's more to me the like authentic where it's like crispy on the outside, soft on the inside. I don't know. Who am I? A pretzel connoisseur? Yes, I am. But that with hot pretzel cheese dip, that's bomb. That's all I ever need to eat the entire span of Oktoberfest because also carbloating with the beer, it's responsible. Hell yeah. So marky pretzels. There you go, guys. We've made it. We haven't. We've almost made it. All right. It's time for Kid Corner!

SPEAKER_00 28:13

Did you make it there, man? Yep, I did. I did.

SPEAKER_01 28:16

I feel so bad.

SPEAKER_00 28:17

So I'm gonna go first. Oh, okay. I'll let you because you got two kids.

SPEAKER_01 28:21

Oh, this is fun.

SPEAKER_00 28:22

Okay, because I have two kids. Uh we have um in our friend group, a lot of kids have been, you know, having some trouble with using the potty.

SPEAKER_01 28:29

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 28:30

Some constipation issues. Um Lucy. Not just Lucy, actually a couple friends I know.

SPEAKER_01 28:35

Okay, good.

SPEAKER_00 28:36

She's not alone. I was texting one of my friends who starts his own wine distributor thing. Andy. And it was at night. I was cooking, he was doing stuff, and it's like, oh blah blah blah. He's like, hey, I gotta call you back later. My kids, or I gotta talk to you later. My kids Lucing. Like O-O-S-I-N-G. Oh, of course. Oh. Oh, and he actually meant loosing. I read that as loosening her shit. Oh. Because like, I'm into like everyone's all about the constipation. I'm like, well, there's two ways I could take it to the typo. There's one obvious one I took it loosening. I was like, I took it the wrong way. I was like, oh yeah, man, that sucks. A lot of constipation around here. I hope she's able to get some out. And he texts me back like an ellipsis. He's like, What the fuck are you doing? I'm not losing her shit, but I'm glad she's not constipated. Kids are the best. That is amazing. Cheers, Annie. Oh, cheers.

SPEAKER_01 29:33

There's nothing. I mean, to be honest, I would never have thought, I would have just assumed losing her shit. Because how often do you text that? That's fair. I I text losing her losing ex shit. So losing his shit, losing her shit every other day easily. I sent Shannon a video the other morning of my kids just screaming on the couch. She was trying to plan something with me, and I was like, this is what's happening at my house right now. I I actually can't deal with this. Okay, but that's not my kid corner. I have a lot of things I could talk about, like Lucy being homesick for the 900th day this month. But instead, I'm uh my kids are at the age where Elliot is now calling us out on our shit. So, like, you know, all those like little white lies you tell to make your life easier as a parent? Well, Elliot called us out on one as we said it to Lucy. So, like, when we're in the car and we're going 80 on the highway, going 65, 70, whatever the speed limit is anymore, on the highway, we lock the windows because Lucy loves to go up and down, up and down with the window. And then we're just like, the window's broken. I'm so I don't know, Lucy, it's broken. And it has worked for all two years of her life, okay? And it worked when Elliot was a kid, and the two of them hate like one of them likes it open, one of them doesn't, and so they fight. And then it goes like yes, so we just close it. So we we were like, Oh, it's broken, Lucy, and Elliot's like, no, it's not, you just locked it, it's not broken. And I was like, Elliot, it's broken, but like we're driving, Elliot can't see our face. Eventually he gets it, and then he and then he loves being part of the lie. And he's like, No, it is broken, Lucy. And it it's hilarious, it's great, but he called us out on our shit, so now we gotta be careful. Now we can't lie. So good thing you only have one, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 31:09

That's all.

SPEAKER_01 31:12

Oh, she did?

SPEAKER_00 31:13

Sarah's really mad. Oh. I thought it was hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 31:15

Oh, Elliot has done it, and we of course immediately are like, Elliot is-I'm so sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Did Smonna understand like what she did? No. She's too young for that. That's funny. What was it? It was shit. Oh shit. That's nothing.

SPEAKER_00 31:28

It was no, you know.

SPEAKER_01 31:30

You guys, if you could see what we were seeing right now, we really appreciate you dealing with this because it's very distracting. There are people staring at us right now.

SPEAKER_00 31:38

Thanks for listening. Happy Oktoberfest season.

SPEAKER_01 31:42

Come on down, celebrate fall in Lake Geneva or wherever. I think there's probably cool Oktoberfest shit happening all over the country. I hear Munich has a good one. I hear this other country has a better one.

SPEAKER_00 31:53

Thanks for listening. Check us out social. See you soon.

SPEAKER_01 31:56

Hello at Dinner Plus Drinks and check us out on YouTube as well this week. Thanks, guys.