Lord Coldemort | Dinner Plus Drinks #61

SPEAKER_00 0:15

Hello everybody! Today we're talking about hot topics, not the clothing store. I said, ooh, hot topic you've got on here. And then I realized what she was talking about. I was like, we're talking about hot topics? Not hot top. Is that still a store? I was gonna say, I didn't even know if it was still a store.

SPEAKER_01 0:28

The mall's still a thing.

SPEAKER_00 0:29

Do malls exist or are they all Marcus super centers or whatever they call them?

SPEAKER_01 0:34

Exercise facilities. I want to be a mall walker.

SPEAKER_00 0:36

I like see the appeal to that now. I do too. It seems like a great way to have greenery and everything. Fancy fair mall. Oh, you're right.

SPEAKER_01 0:44

I'll just do laps back and forth, back and forth. Just sprints, maybe.

SPEAKER_00 0:48

It's always like, you know, the swimming pools. You have to go back and forth, back and forth. Not my thing.

SPEAKER_01 0:53

But it's I just like to float.

SPEAKER_00 0:54

I like I like floating too. Oh, so you're talking about lazy rivers.

SPEAKER_01 0:58

Oh, oh man. Someone brought up a lazy river the other day. I don't know in what context. And I was like, what I wouldn't give to float around in a lazy river.

SPEAKER_00 1:06

With a pina colada and the sun on my face and no mask on it.

SPEAKER_01 1:10

Yeah, I don't even care if it's indoor, okay? But like not with 900 screaming children.

SPEAKER_00 1:14

So is that too much to ask for? Is there a market for premium water parks that are basically just alcohol and lazy rivers? And like children. Yeah, I I love my children, but there are adult-only movie theaters. Are there? Yeah. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:29

Oh, I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_00 1:30

Yeah, because I don't go to movie theaters a lot. Really, it's it's like under like 20 that I think it should be. Because do you really want to go with high schoolers? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:39

I probably haven't been to a movie like since high school. So I don't know. I'm just kidding. I have. Yeah, Tyler.

SPEAKER_00 1:44

Tyler are annoying you.

SPEAKER_01 1:46

But like I am in my 30s and Tyler hates going to movies with me because I'm probably as annoying as a movie.

SPEAKER_00 1:51

Oh, you are very annoying at movies. I've experienced this. Oh my god, you asked 20 million questions. Yeah, I have a lot of questions.

SPEAKER_01 1:57

Watch the damn movie and maybe you'll get them answered. Just give me the popcorn, I'll watch it at home. I can pause it when I have to go to the bathroom. I can pause it when I have questions. Great. So how's your week? Happy Valentine's Day. I was working on the outline and like forgot it was only Valentine's Day, a mere five days ago. Five days ago, yeah. Like it's been a blur, to be honest. I don't know how to explain this week without sounding really dramatic. So I'm just not going to. Because I feel like your week is more uplifting. Um, yeah. Well, no, hold on. Sorry, don't say it. Nick has exciting things to share, but first we're gonna talk about the pop-ups, okay? Yeah. Just real briefly, this was super exciting because I got to open a donut store.

SPEAKER_00 2:36

Lifelong dreams. Bridget's out here making dreams happen, donut stores. And up next, Lazy River.

SPEAKER_01 2:42

Up next, Indoor Adult Lazy River. No, the permitting won't be hard for that. Um, Kevin, can we do that in your pop-up space? Um, yeah, so if you haven't heard, we have a pop-up space in downtown Lake Geneva, which has been super awesome. We were really grateful to fall into that. And we did a donut pop-up this past weekend, and it was so fun. So, besides it being all my dreams um and the donuts being delicious, good work, simple.

SPEAKER_00 3:05

We couldn't have done it without you, obviously. Uh, we're not donut experts. You guys I am. I'm a donut expert. Well, I mean, we're experts at eating them, but the the making of them and the frosting. Uh, you didn't know the difference between a vanilla bean and a vanilla frosting.

SPEAKER_01 3:19

So I mean we need champions chocolate donut person, so don't hate me. Um, the donut thing was so fun. We had a lot of really awesome customers. So it was a freezing cold. We did some pre-orders and it was Valentine's Day, so we were open for two days, and people, it was just so fun to talk to people. I know that sounds dumb, but like people were so excited about donut shop, so excited about the idea of pop-ups. Hint hint, city of Lake Geneva. Do more pop-ups. So, anyway, super fun. That was great. Valentine's Day. Uh, I ate a lot of heart shape things, which I'll tell you about a little bit later. So, what about you? Valentine's Day, you had nachos, right?

SPEAKER_00 3:55

Oh man, I had so many good things. I made the most fire nachos ever.

SPEAKER_01 3:59

I'm letting you talk about them since you're not gonna talk about them later.

SPEAKER_00 4:01

I made um, I made these pulled pork nachos. I grilled or I braised some pork like Texas style. I gotta put this up on the website. So it was like a really great Southwest rub, braised them, shredded them, blue corn chips, uh, salsa verde. Does it have to be blue corn? Well, I I just I like that for the color and the, you know, a little bit. I think it's a little bit different, you know, a little different flavor, a little different texture. They were so good. Shredded cheese, all the stuff. Oh, they're so good. We both passed out. It was delicious. They were so good. Simona loved them. Valentine's ass parents. We were so happy. We're gonna be able to do it. She was a clean plater, and we were aggressive on the because she likes nachos and she likes pulled pork. So we're like, girl, this is this is we my mom always did this dinner of love thing growing up. She's like, we're all gonna sit down. Like, it's the only time in the year we ever use the dining room, right? And Thanksgiving. No, we didn't even use it for Thanksgiving. No, like it's so we literally where her um where her dining room table is now that used to be like a big separate dining room. And the kitchen was where like the open spaces. Wow. And where the kitchen is was like a living room. Oh, wow. Like they gutted the house. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was a great choice. And so it was the only time we'd sit used this thing. And it was our dinner of love, and she made something very nice, and uh, you know, we all sat down. It was like also the only time we ever had steak. So this is so funny to me. It was all very funny. So, but I tried to do that too. I tried to make a dinner of love. I said, Sarah, what would you like? And uh she'll express my that's my cooking is my love language.

SPEAKER_01 5:32

So um acts of service? I don't know. Close enough.

SPEAKER_00 5:36

So geez is my love language. Um so we made our dinner love. It was so good. We had a great Valentine's pop-ups were awesome. I ate more donuts in three days than I usually do in a month, which is wonderful.

SPEAKER_01 5:49

I had a lot of good donuts. I did um try and make them last more days than I should have, and that was a bad idea.

SPEAKER_00 5:54

Bad idea. That's user error. But most importantly, I'm fully vaccinated against the COVID.

SPEAKER_01 6:00

Alive looking. How do you feel? Talk about it.

SPEAKER_00 6:03

I feel great. I feel great. Um the Walworth County Public Health had some challenges with how they did the scheduling and implementing people get there. But once you got there, they were great system. Uh, everybody was so lovely, so happy. Um, when I got my second dose, the people were like legitimately cheering. Like the people doing the vaccinations were like, Congratulations, you're good now. And it was just this very lovely feeling of uh accomplishment. I don't it's the weirdest thing. I um, in all honesty, I haven't taken a day off since March 3rd of last year, March 2nd maybe. Um I've worked every day, including Christmas Day, New Year's Day. Um, I've it's kind of what I do. Um this is the longest stretch ever. I'm not asking for sympathy. I do it to myself, I enjoy it, it's part of my job. Uh, but it is a little extreme, and it's been a lot of it's been because COVID. Um a lot of the things that I needed to get done in the spring of last year or summer didn't get done because we were so busy trying to figure out how to stay open. How to stay open, how to communicate things to people, how to put new systems in place. How many signs do we have to print? Um, how can we do we had a lot of event ideas and they're like a big growth area for the business and something that is very important to us, and we didn't want to give up on them because of COVID. Uh, we're not excuse makers. No, not at all. So I mean, yeah. So we we made that happen. Yeah. And um it took a lot more work than I think you or I thought it should have.

SPEAKER_02 7:26

Yep. Yeah. In a normal year.

SPEAKER_00 7:28

Because of COVID. So um this was a light at the end of the tunnel, a like the work was worth it. I was able to get ahead of a lot of other people. Uh, I don't know if ahead of is the right way to put it, but before um the state tried to screw with grocery workers getting it, which was incredibly disheartening, not just to me, but to our employees, um, another other friends. Yeah. Um, how they treated people was deplorable. Um with putting people that they said were essential at one point and now saying you actually don't matter going with the general population. That that was really crappy. Um, but the overwhelming joy and happiness I feel um I miss going to a bar at three o'clock on a weekday with one of a lot of a lot of my friends have jobs where we work a lot, but yeah, also it'll be a Thursday. It's like, hey man, can you meet me at three at you know, Flatiron Tap or Bottle Shop or Champs or Hogs or wherever? One break because you haven't had a day off, and that's your break. And so you go and you meet your buddy for a beer, and it just an hour and two beers makes everything better. And just it's such a like pressure release valve, and that's gone. So I am so happy I'm vaccinated. Yay me! Uh I'm alive. I had a really sore arm and lost some strength in it after my first one. I felt good after the second one. Um I know it's an RNA thing, so it's not like it's doing stuff to you, it just changes stuff. Um, but I felt like that meant it was working. Uh, I was a little tired this first day, I was a little tired the second time. But um just really grateful, really happy. Don't be an anti-vaxxer, believe in science. Bridget has the thanks science pin. Um a lot of people have worked really hard for this. Yeah, don't spit in their face.

SPEAKER_01 9:15

Um don't be mad at the order in which people get vaccinated. I think that this has been a hot topic with a lot of my friends and Nick, obviously, that we've talked about. Like, and I was I was like, oh yeah, I do have all this guilt. I've had COVID. So I did feel that sense of relief for a little while after I had it. And so, you know, but my husband has not been vaccinated, nor has he had COVID. So I I I get this relief thing. And then I saw an article from NPR that was like, hey, hey, doesn't matter what order you get vaccinated in, even you getting vaccinated in whatever order is helping everyone else. So what whoever is getting vaccinated, however they're doing it, it's helping you.

SPEAKER_00 9:52

So it's just great. Um I know a lot of people are like, what's the point? You're still gonna have to wear a mask. You're still have to do this and that and this and that. Well, that's temporary. That's very temporary, and it still works against all these variants. It still gets us closer to herd immunity. And what they said in the second time, the first time they said, Still wear your mask, do all this stuff. And the second time they said wear your mask until we get herd immunity. So that's cool. In the course of three weeks, that felt like a big change to me.

SPEAKER_01 10:19

Also, you won't have to deal with the side effects of COVID.

SPEAKER_00 10:22

Oh, yeah. I mean, I don't want to get it and die.

SPEAKER_01 10:25

You know, or not having, you know, the long haulers that talk about this a lot and like weird things you're experiencing even months later. Anyway, I could go on. I this was not on the outline, but I am gonna take two minutes and keep talking about this. Go. My week was really hard. It just felt, you know, we talked a lot months ago when COVID was um a big deal. I mean, not that it's not anymore, but people are talking about other things. It like is up and down, right? Of this um like this COVID cloud or whatever we were saying. This week kind of felt like that to me again. Like, this sounds really dramatic, and I'm fine, everybody. It I just felt kind of numb. Like I was so sad. I just wanted to literally, I just wanted to go out and have a glass of wine with one of my friends. And like my friend group, as you get older and as you have kids, your friend group is dwindling anyway. You're not sure who can hang out with who, you have kids, and then adding COVID, you really have no idea. And so, like, I yeah, this week sucked. And I was like, all I want to do is just like have a normal day and whatever. So, this is happy news. I'm happy to hear that my friend is vaccinated and we're one step closer.

SPEAKER_00 11:25

So, yay. Um and cheers to you. And hey, here we are. We made it another week. Uh so uh this is something fun I thought we could do together. This is um, we're gonna do a pinkies up episode sometime on like the best under $10 bottle. Yeah. Uh, we're gonna try to do like California because you know that's Bridget loves California. But this is um, I haven't had this. I bought this for the store. Uh good deal, good price. I thought it couldn't, it's gonna be like $8, maybe $7. Really? Uh but this is a Portuguese red blend. I've never had this before.

SPEAKER_01 11:54

I love it.

SPEAKER_00 11:54

Um I mean I it's a good, easy drinker, I think. It comes from the Duro in Portugal. Uh it's a family, the Symington family that makes it. Yeah. And it's a blend of Torriga Nacional. Oh, sure, yeah. Torriga Franca, which is um uh Tempernill. Oh, that's why I like it. And some other Portuguese grapes. But it's got a nice fruitiness. It's lighter bodied. Okay. Without being like an eight dollars?

SPEAKER_01 12:23

Yeah. That's crazy. You guys, this is a must-try for eight dollars.

SPEAKER_00 12:28

So we're gonna have it out on sale next week. We'll see how long it lasts. Bridget's gonna buy it all. Watch out. I love Portuguese dry reds, they're just delicious. I know we've tried these same grapes make port. Oh, really? Yep.

SPEAKER_01 12:39

You guys. I'm a new port. Come around out of port. I don't like couldn't point out Portuguese wines that I like. So I've just started drinking them thanks to Nick.

SPEAKER_00 12:50

They're relatively new, like in terms of being widely available in America, but they're they've been like the next big thing for 20 years. And here we are. But I've kind of latched onto them because I like them myself. They're good prices, they're very drinkable. They've cleaned up some like in winery practices that were making not great wines, so they've doing a good job.

SPEAKER_01 13:10

I feel like I haven't had a lot of red blends since I've been working with you because I've been trying to learn more about specific wines. A lot of red blends are garbage. I know, and I I used to like just drink red blends. I was like, I don't know, if I mix them all together, it'll be fine. That's true. So thanks. And I hear Nick in my head saying red blends are garbage.

SPEAKER_00 13:26

Well, I mean. Yeah, a lot of times they're not, they're just hiding things. There's some great ones. Uh Joseph Phelps Insignia. You never had that. Google it. I'd have to see the logo, the label, man. Um, so how I remember. But anyway, so yeah, this Simmington Altano, it is delicious. Uh, Bridget, let's just let you go after it. The floor is yours. This is like a so I know you had the fog. Maybe it's because of all this stuff you ate. That's no, this is an impressive impressive list.

SPEAKER_01 13:55

Okay, well, I started with one obvious thing because it was Fat Tuesday this past week. So we're generally not, you know, we don't do a huge thing for Mardi Gras, but my best friends do. Um, he went to Tulane and we went to uh New Orleans with them for their bachelor-bachelor art party. So it means things to me by association of my best friends that I miss so much. And um, so we had jambalaya, because why not, right? And your dad loves it. And so my dad loves it and Tyler loves it. I like it, except for them I put shrimp and andouill in it, and that those just like aren't my favorite things. So, but I like the flavor of it.

SPEAKER_00 14:29

Um I hear someone unexpected is all into the andouille.

SPEAKER_01 14:32

Oh my god, Lucy! I didn't think the so I used the jump uh jambalaya kit that we have because it's easy and I don't know how else to make jambalaya. And um, I I I know it's a little spicy, I remember it from last year, but man, Lucy was getting after it. So Lucy is my one and a half year old daughter. If anyone listening is new here, Elliot obviously didn't care because he's picky, as I'll get out. But Lucy was loving it, so big win there. Happy about that. Jambalaya. That was my first obvious choice. And then I continued thinking, wait a sec, this past week was Valentine's Day. Feels like it was four years ago, Valentine's Day.

SPEAKER_00 15:06

It does feel that way.

SPEAKER_01 15:07

That's what I mean. This week has been one of those. So the donuts obviously needed to be on my list, okay? Donuts. Um, but really the thing that actually means something to me, we talk a lot about food relationships and food and feelings, blah, blah, blah. Heart-shaped everything, okay? So when Tyler and I have never been big, um, like go out to dinner and spend too much on Valentine's Day just because it's Valentine's Day. You know, I always told him, like, if you're gonna buy me flowers, buy them any day but Valentine's Day. Yep. Um, so he's very good at the random flower giving, which I much prefer to like a dozen roses on Valentine's Day. So, anyway, the other thing we used to always do is to like take that time to cook dinner together. Like this started in our 20s when we started dating and we would have wine and put on music and enjoy cooking together, which like wasn't a thing we did a lot in our 20s. Um, but there were a couple of years, like probably when Elliot was newly born, things, or like maybe right before Elliot was born and I was nine months pregnant. I don't know, that we just like ordered a pizza. Um, I used to work connected to the Grand Avenue Mall in Milwaukee and they had a Rocky Rococo's Rocky pizza. And they had heart-shaped pizza. So we would get heart-shaped pizza all the time. I know you love your pizza. Love my pizza. You love your frozen jacks. We um heart-shaped pizza was a thing. And some years we made our own heart-shaped pizza. So this year, I we had a lot of good food from our delicious Valentine's thing with Grand Janine.

SPEAKER_00 16:26

Shout out to Chef Nelly. That was so good. Murdering the dinner. I mean, in a good way.

SPEAKER_01 16:31

Like, yes, in a good so like we almost had too much delicious food, but Tyler was like, Well, what about our heart shaped pizza? So, anyway, of course, I almost forgot, but I paid double the price of what I normally should have paid from Pizza Hut for a heart-shaped pizza, but it was good. It was Can I just do the dad comment here? What?

SPEAKER_00 16:48

Why don't you pay half double the price for half the pizza? That is 100% what I'm saying. You want a heart-shaped pizza? Why don't you just buy a big pizza, cut out the heart shape, and there you go. Because I'm lazy.

SPEAKER_01 16:58

So we had the freaking one for pizza. That is 100% what my dad said, like to a T. So anyway, it was lovely. We ate heart-shaped things. Oh, I almost forgot. My parents, geniuses, they also do adorable things for us still for the holidays. They sent um Shannon and I, and I don't know if they sent Britney one. Sorry, Brittany. It gets really far away. Milwaukee Pretzel Company is an awesome hot pretzel company. Yes, they they had heart-shaped pretzels. So my parents um got us heart-shaped pretzel with Nutella dipping sauce and cheese dipping sauce. So that's awesome. All of the heart-shaped carbs.

SPEAKER_00 17:33

So um, I was gonna do the shout-out to Grand Geneva because that was delicious. But I'm gonna give you an unexpected twist of one of my favorite things. So we we do the Ash Wednesday no meat thing. We do the Fridays and Lent no meat thing. And uh we just did a cornucopia of cheese-based vegetarian dishes on Wednesday. I made mac and cheese from scratch, obviously, because you had to. It was delicious. Um, made too much of it, but you can never have too much mac and cheese. No. Uh, it was so good. Then we did grilled cheese sandwiches with Hill Valley Dairy, sharp cheddar, and tomato. Yum. Delicious. Unfortunately, we were gonna go get bread from Simple, but I got out of work too late. So we used just um plain white bread. Different. Which was unfortunate. Uh, the one thing I will say about that I forgot when you use plain white bread is it does toast better. Oh, sure. Because there's more sugar in it.

SPEAKER_01 18:28

Because there's more preserve it to it. So like it does caramelize it.

SPEAKER_00 18:31

Yes, and you're like, oh, the color on this is so nice. It's and you're like, oh yeah, that's because of all the crap in here. Well, that's funny. I've never thought of it that way. But it's like, you're like, oh yeah.

unknown 18:41

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 18:41

But that's childhood right there. And then uh we had broccoli cheese soup. And so we just had like a little bit of everything. All of my favorite things. And it was so good. It was just like so lovely, and uh just a little bit of this, a little bit of that. Simona loved it too. She she likes deconstructed sandwiches. So she likes bread and cheese separately. And so it was so funny. She would uh we gave her a little bit of soup, and she obviously ate the mac and cheese, you know, by hand. She's she'd sometimes she's actually getting very good at forks in general. But um, but she still like will just sometimes go like and mac and cheese is one of those things she just wants to yep. Yep. Uh but we gave her, you know, little tiny um, you know, they they're very English, the little tiny sandwiches. Oh, like a tea and crumpet sandwich. Yes, yes, yes. So we kind of did that first. Yeah, okay. And uh, you know, she takes it and then she takes the bread off and puts it in the cheese and eats the tomato and puts it all over her face. She likes tomatoes. She likes tomatoes, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:40

My kids don't like them.

SPEAKER_00 19:41

So yeah, so it was very nice, it's very unexpected. Um thank you, Ron. Shout out uh for the delicious sharp cheddar cheese. Her weekly shout-out. Uh we did uh a little bit of the cajun cheddar grated in the mac and cheese, which was also delicious. Thanks, Ron. Man, yum.

SPEAKER_01 19:58

So it was great.

SPEAKER_00 19:59

I just loved it.

SPEAKER_01 20:00

You just reminded me that I left some Hill Valley dairy cheese at my parents' house in their fridge. Dang it. Including the Cajun cheddar. I bet that got eaten.

SPEAKER_00 20:08

I bet your dad was like one o'clock in the morning snacking time.

SPEAKER_01 20:10

I was like, what is this? I had cereal for dinner, so now I'm hungry an hour later. Weird. Weird how that works. Wow, we ate a lot of good things this week. I know.

SPEAKER_00 20:18

This was like a really good food week. I mean, I made some bomb tacos, I did the nachos, like they had a lot of good stuff this week.

SPEAKER_01 20:26

Man, we should have done this after we ate lunch.

SPEAKER_00 20:28

I know.

SPEAKER_01 20:29

Okay, so moving on to the news. I think you guys might be living under a rock if you've not heard what's going on in Texas. Um, to me, you guys are all gonna hate and judge me for what I'm about to say, but I laughed a little bit when I first started hearing about this news. Yeah, okay, for sure.

SPEAKER_00 20:45

I have my godmother lives in Texas, very close with them. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 20:48

And I was like, I so my Brittany in Seattle, she texted us two days prior, showing us mountains of snow. But like they were able to handle it because their power grid isn't as effed up as Texas. So, anyways, I was like, oh, there's this, there's a lot of snow happening in crazy places. Was like, okay, cool. So then I was on a group chain with all of my brother-in-laws, and I'm like, yeah, okay, guys, I get it. Like, there's snow in weird places. We keep getting dumped with snow. And like, I get we're from the Midwest, but this winter has been relentless. It's been relentless. It's eight to 12 inches at a time overnight. So you wake up to it. Anyway, not here to complain about the snow, it's winter. Um, so so I I didn't understand obviously the severity of it because I didn't know anything about the Texas power grid.

SPEAKER_00 21:34

Well, I'm just reminded, I know Texas is very into Jesus, as am I. I'm reminded of a quote uh from Jesus that they who live by the sword die by the sword. And that's kind of how I feel about your separate energy grid. I mean, I do have to say that's effed up.

SPEAKER_01 21:48

So, but now But you're independent, like But you're a giant independent state. So I have a brother and sister in law that live there. I have brother in laws in um Albuquerque and they got snow. So it has Been really cool to see the snow all across the country in places it doesn't normally happen. But I've been following the news now, and I feel like I just saw a really heartbreaking story about a kid who's a baby who's five months old on oxygen, and like they've had to ration the oxygen tank. So, like this is now horrible. But out of all of this, um, you know, any kind of disasters, we like to talk about how you see the good parts of humanity. So um, I saw a really cool thing on Good Morning America yesterday about um his name is Jim Mattress Mac, and he's in Houston and he owns a mattress, he owns a furniture store. So um, as you know, furniture stores are giant, lots of square footage. So he did this when the hurricane hit, he's doing it now. He opens up his store, which is huge in square footage, and he lets it's a shelter, it's a makeshift shelter. And like the guy is so cool. What I loved about it is he's being interviewed on Good Morning America, and um, so I will find a print news story for this, but I watched it on the actual news, but we'll link to the story on Good Morning America. What I liked is they were like, Well, how are you making sure everyone's safe with COVID? And like, I get it, COVID is still a concern, but like these people not being able to drink water or have heat is maybe arguably a bigger concern. I would agree with that, you know, basic human needs. So um he and he was honest. He was like, We have however many square feet a lot. Um, and you know, we are requiring masks. He's like, but we could be doing better, I'm sure. He's like, but I think it's more helpful to allow people somewhere warm. We are limiting the amount of people the best we can, but like, yeah, I could be doing better, you know? And we're like, dude, you are he is getting donations for water and food. Like, he's doing all of this on his own time. And I hope people then turn around and support his mattress store. So, like, good job, Jim.

SPEAKER_00 23:38

You are awesome. That was my favorite news story this week. This one's been over a little bit and I love it. Uh, in Scotland, they name their snow plows, they call them gritters, I guess. That's awesome. So some of the names make more, and they have a site where you can live time track them. So you can literally see these and let me read you some of these names. Uh, Lord Coldemort. Uh whose job is that?

SPEAKER_01 24:03

I want that job.

SPEAKER_00 24:04

I don't know, but they came up with the Bodie McBoat face. So, like it's a GIS thing, right?

SPEAKER_01 24:07

This is the same Bodie McBoat face people?

SPEAKER_00 24:09

Yeah, it's the Scotless people. Yeah, I guess. They they have uh Mary Queen of Salt. Uh they have Mr. Plow going to Snow Date at Sprinkles, Arctic Angel, Salty, license to chill. Oh my gosh. Ready, spread, grow. Oh, I love that. They have all of these hilarious names, and they could provide a lifetime map of what the snow plow routes are and how lately they've been plowed. So right now it's all red, except in this place, which must have snow. So it's red because they haven't plowed them because they haven't had salt or snow. But America, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_01 24:45

Like, who I want to know about.

SPEAKER_00 24:46

I know you have GPS in these trucks because we track everybody all the time. So, like, put it up so I can be like, you know, there hasn't been a snow pile by my house. And you can say log on here.

SPEAKER_01 24:58

But like my dad um runs a company that has a lot of maintenance vehicles. So they have he has a screen up in his office where you can walk in and see. Polar Bear Express. You can see where all the maintenance vehicles are. So, like, if a small business can do this, I think a state or county or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 25:13

Flippy McGriddy. That's an awesome news story. I love that. There's a lot of cool stuff coming out of watch it. It's funny when there's snow in Scotland. So you've got to like be on the Scottish Twitter to know when there's snow. But it's actually hilarious. And it's like so calming to watch these things go and they're plowing.

SPEAKER_01 25:27

It's like when you watch the airplane flying over.

SPEAKER_00 25:30

Yes. Um, there's there was another one. There's there's some really good ones. Uh, this guy had uh, and I thought of this with the pop-up because of all the Guinness glasses that Kevin has, and we're like, how do we get, you know, we don't want to get rid of them because they're good glasses, but there's glasses everywhere. Yeah. So in Scotland they had it with one of the um distilleries, I can't remember, I think it was the frog. And they had, you know, this huge thing of all the glasses that they use for stuff, and they couldn't find them. And the guy just said, Where did my glass go? Oh, geez. Scotland. That's my Scottish dad joke for the day. Good job. We'll be right back. Okay. New random news story. Bridget discovered Reddit is great.

SPEAKER_01 26:30

I'm we're saying this after the break. You ready? I'm back. We're back.

unknown 26:34

We're back.

SPEAKER_01 26:35

You guys, we talked about some breaking news over break. I mean, so I often give my husband, Nick, any guy that is around me all the crap for how much they love Reddit. Because it is painful to look at. Like it is a lot of weird text. Or you could say it's simple. Uh I mean, sure, but streamlined interface. We joke about like Reddit is for dudes where Pinterest is for ladies. Back when Pinterest was like really a thing. Anyway, um, it is still a thing. Uh, but Pinterest is beautiful to look at, and Reddit is just painful. But I just admitted to Nick that last night I deep dove into Reddit voluntarily. Tyler wasn't even home. And I I read, apparently, there's a thread on Reddit about hating on influencer blogs, and I went hard reading like this whole thread. I forget what it's called, which whatever. I was not prepared. Very good thread. Check it out on Reddit if you are a lady that hates Reddit.

SPEAKER_00 27:28

Uh, I'll go first with my product recommendation then, since you gave a recommendation. That thread. Double recommendation. I have a visual. Oh, of course you do. More children's art. Uh, Simona is getting very good at the artwork. She learned about teeth this week, which was coincidental, because I went to the dentist and inquired about when I could get her in there. Oh. But you see these beautiful daubs of marker. Uh I recommend marker dabbers. Yeah. Uh we have these uh these washable ones that, first of all, don't ruin stuff. They're also non-toxic. So if the kid, if the kid puts them in their mouth. Uh, Simona, we have these for her. Uh, so she can keep doing stuff like this at home. You know, it's when they're smaller, they just uh uh instead of you know actually doing it. Instead of this, which is what Louis. Sarah found these. Sarah has done a fabulous job with the arts and crafts. Uh so marker dabbers. Marker dabbers. Daubers, I don't know. How do you pronounce that?

SPEAKER_01 28:26

I think it's well, these are dot markers, but I think it's daubers, isn't it? D-A-U-B.

SPEAKER_00 28:30

Yeah, so it says, you know, non-poxit paint, daubers, dab marker. I mean, maybe one is Scottish and one's American. Yeah, all only Scottish is what we're on now. So that's what that's what I say. Get those. It's a great craft thing. Yeah. And the kid can't screw up the entire everything.

SPEAKER_01 28:45

Like crayons, which is what we have. We have like thick kids. I'm like, well, these are good. They're infant crayons, they're thick, but they go out everything. Everywhere. Okay. I also have a child-related butcher paper.

SPEAKER_00 28:55

That's what we do for the crayons.

SPEAKER_01 28:56

We do too. I have a role at home that something was wrong with it. Oh, that's right. Yeah. And so I was like, heck yeah. That's what we have it just like over our coffee table at all time. Um, whatever, create a it's like that's gotta be Montessori play, right? Heck yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:07

Why pay the Montessori money when you can do it at home?

SPEAKER_01 29:10

You should get rid of your kids. Just kidding. I'm here with a lovely child's recommendation again. So sorry if you're listening this week and you like to buy our products and don't have kids, but if you know someone that has kids, um buy it for them.

SPEAKER_00 29:23

They'll think you're so thoughtful.

SPEAKER_01 29:25

We actually bought a doll house for Elliot when he was younger. He loved setting things up and playing with them, and not necessarily the dolls, but he liked setting furniture in places and maybe he could be a model maker. Maybe. So I we chose a house that like we knew we were having a second kid. Maybe I was pregnant at the time. I don't know. We didn't know if it was gonna be a boy or a girl, but we said, who cares? Like, we are happy he's playing with this. We bought one from IKEA that's very Swedish looking, you know, so very minimalist. It is plain wood. Um, so we have the house, and both kids love it now, and we've been buying furniture for it. So IKEA has some furniture, which we have bought, but it's hard to get to IKEA. Um, so there's a brand called It's harder to get out of IKEA. I mean, it's just a lot. So I haven't certainly not been there during COVID because it is always a lot. So um Happ or Happy, I'm not H A P E. Um, it looks Swedish, and we have a lot of different pieces of wooden toys from them. So they have wooden dollhouse furniture that is so cute. So we buy like a one room at a time.

SPEAKER_00 30:24

Looks like a good quality.

SPEAKER_01 30:25

It's so cute. It so far it has been great quality. We have my parents bought Elliot some like pet shop thing that was the same brand. We have a toaster that's the same brand. So, like we we use this brand a lot, fully support it. I know they make great little kids' games as well. So H A P E is the brand. We will link to it on Amazon, which is where we got some of these items. Um, certainly if there's a small kid store in your town that carries this, check that out as well. But we will give you a link. I totally recommend this product for if you have a dollhouse.

SPEAKER_00 30:53

Can I give you a couple more names of the gritters? Yes, we found more. Mega Maltasaurus. Ooh, I like that one. Credence Clear Road Revival. On Her Majesty's Slippery Surface. Oh my god. And Spready Van Halen. Oh my god. Okay, do you think that the snowplows have those names written on that?

SPEAKER_01 31:12

I mean they have to. They should.

SPEAKER_00 31:13

Like fighter planes, you know, they have, you know, screw you Nazis on the side, and then they have like the Nazis, you know, like the emblems when they shoot them down. They probably have like, you know, Credence Creden's Clear Road Revival on the side of it, and then like things of like every uh every time they scrape snow off, you know, like you're an ace pilot. I'm gonna imagine it that way.

SPEAKER_01 31:32

With that note, we'll be right back. Alright, guys, we're back. We're back. We were ranting on break about something as usual.

SPEAKER_00 31:59

I am so excited for this week's episode of Interesting Questions with Bridget and Nick. Because it's a Bridget week, and I'm sure she's bringing the fire.

SPEAKER_01 32:09

I uh they're very random again this week. All right, I like it. You know I love a good theme, but I just like there's no theme. What do I do? It's winter. Here's a snow impossible question, which I did find, but they were too easy. They were kids' ones. Do you want to build a snowman? Do you want to build a snowman? It was like, um, I don't even know what the snow ones were like. Would you rather sled all day or ice skate all day? Whatever. Sled for sure. Ice skating's hard. Have you tried to do it recently?

SPEAKER_00 32:35

It's like so I've always had a problem with ice skating. Like my ankles are kind of weak. Oh, I get that. Yeah, same thing. So like I've never rolled an ankle because it is like roll. So like I I always wear low top shoes because and people are like, oh, that's bad support for me. I'm like, honestly, my ankles just roll and it's like just you know, but then when you're trying to do the skating where you need to like actually Wait, have you never like broken or sprained an ankle?

SPEAKER_01 32:54

Nope. Oh my god, I have so many times.

SPEAKER_00 32:56

So like I just I have always used that as like a like when I pitch, for instance, like it's actually always helped because you get a little bit more push off of rubber because of that.

SPEAKER_01 33:05

I'm all right, pro tip for you guys.

SPEAKER_00 33:08

Weak ankles, positives and negatives.

SPEAKER_01 33:10

Weak ankles. I broke my right ankle in fourth grade, and I think that one's stronger than my left ankle.

SPEAKER_00 33:15

Happens that way sometimes.

SPEAKER_01 33:16

Anyway, that's a little tidbit you never cared to ask.

SPEAKER_00 33:18

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

SPEAKER_01 33:21

Okay, everybody. Are you ready? I'm ready. Let's go. Um, okay. I think maybe I should uh this one's timely in my household. Would you rather have Baby Shark stuck in your head forever or the jingle from your least favorite commercial? Oh, baby shark.

SPEAKER_00 33:40

Why? Because I basically already have it stuck in my head forever. We have this like soundboard that's baby shark. Oh and uh I always start adding like harmonies and like doing interesting like musical riffs on it. So like I can do with it. Oh yeah, because it's like you can do like all sorts of chords off of it. So yeah. Baby shark.

SPEAKER_01 33:58

Does Simona like when you do that?

SPEAKER_00 33:59

Oh yeah, she loves it. Oh my god. She's all over it.

SPEAKER_01 34:03

I hate baby shark. Oh well, what's your least favorite jingle? I don't I don't care. It's not baby shark. Baby shark is my least favorite. I don't know. It's a lose list for you. I'm so angry because we avoided it with Elliot. It was like a still a thing when Elliot was younger.

SPEAKER_00 34:19

It's a big thing.

SPEAKER_01 34:20

But then Coco Bellet! My darling mother, and I just brought this up with her. She was just trying to help. We were watching Elliot's soccer game, and Lucy was there, and Lucy was insane. And so my mom was just trying to get her to sit still and showed her baby shark, and it has been non-stop baby shark.

SPEAKER_00 34:35

Yo, Lucy at the soccer games, we went to, I think two because it was a fun, good outing. We like seeing Elliot. Lucy would be, I don't know, a mile away, maybe. I know, she just books it. I mean, we're in a park, so it's cool, but there's roads nearby. And like you see Tyler, big tall Tyler, who can probably do one of theoretically do one of her steps and like, or ten of her steps and one of his. And he's still like, Jason, Lucy. Because we were like, how far can we let her?

SPEAKER_01 35:01

Like, we can still see her. Can we sit here for a minute?

SPEAKER_00 35:03

And Lucy just keeps going.

SPEAKER_01 35:05

Man, yeah, she did not care about what.

SPEAKER_00 35:07

She should be a running back. She could play football. Yeah. She sees daylight and she gone. Maybe she will be. Lucy, the possibilities are endless.

SPEAKER_01 35:17

Okay. Another random one for you because I don't know the answer. Yeah, I do know the answer to this one. Would you rather be a ninja or be a pirate?

SPEAKER_00 35:26

Oh. Uh-huh. Yarg maidies. I would much rather be a pirate. You get that booty, and y'all know I love the booty.

SPEAKER_01 35:33

But here that's my gut reaction, because I'm like, I can't. You can drink rum all day. But you're a bad person.

SPEAKER_00 35:41

No, not if you're like uh Are there good pirates? Well, yeah. I mean, you could be like the Robin Hood pirate.

SPEAKER_02 35:46

He's not a good thing.

SPEAKER_00 35:47

Get in on GME. No, you don't know. No robin pirate. Okay. Pirate's just thinking of the seafaring pirate. Yeah, you could, you know, rob from the rich, give to the poor, drink some rum, you know, you got your wenches around. But like uh what a lifestyle. You can sing sea shanties. Sea shanties? If you've ever played Assassin's Creed Black Flag, it looks like an awesome life. Did you know? I'm scared of sharks though. Like terrified of sharks.

SPEAKER_01 36:15

I think you'd be a bad pirate. Effing terrified of sharks. Oh, this is a good question. This is not an impossible. Would you rather? What is your leak scariest animal? Like, is it a shark? Are you more terrified of something else? I have a very obvious, very clear answer. Spiders.

SPEAKER_00 36:29

No, that's not my least. I was like, seriously? Uh no. I am absolutely so I love swimming. I love fish. I want to like go scuba diving in the ocean, but I am so terrified of sharks. Really? I don't know what it is. I've never seen jaws because like I will pee myself so hard.

SPEAKER_01 36:46

I've been scuba diving and I didn't see any sharks.

SPEAKER_00 36:48

I if you could guarantee to me that I would just see the nice fishies and no sharks, I would do it like all the time.

SPEAKER_01 36:54

I don't think you can guarantee that.

SPEAKER_00 36:56

Build me a big aquarium with no sharks. Okay. Wait, will you see a shark in an aquarium as long as you know it can't be? Yeah, and I love watching them and stuff, but and like I love Sarah will tell, like, I watch all the ocean documentaries. I love them.

unknown 37:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 37:10

Fine, terrified of sharks. There's this great like YouTube clip of this lady that's some sort of blogger influencer. She's like, let me tell you, children. She's she's she's from the south, and she's like, let me tell you, children, you could you a chicken, you come to my house, I'm gonna eat you and fry you. If I I go in the ocean, the shark will eat me and fry me. That's a shark's house. You go in my house, I go eat you, I go in your house, you go eat me. I'm like, yes, ladies, yes, you are in Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_01 37:37

Wow, this is I love when I learn new things about you on our path.

SPEAKER_00 37:40

I'm absolutely terrified of sharks.

SPEAKER_01 37:42

This is fascinating. Minus snakes, but I don't need to go into it further. I think snakes are wily, and you have no idea what they're gonna do, and some of them can kill you, and you have just no idea. Okay, they could eat you alive. A whole shark, yes. But it's snakes. I would much rather go and like pet a shark and take my chances.

SPEAKER_00 38:00

Who kills more people? Sharks or snakes? I bet sharks. Actually, I don't know. Nope. Only three people were killed by sharks in 2014.

SPEAKER_01 38:11

I think people lose limbs, but they don't die. How many were killed by snakes? Like, you're gonna be like, You guys don't realize how dangerous snakes are. Also, they're horrifying to look at.

SPEAKER_00 38:21

Uh we had a great time in the shark house with Elliot because you were too chicken to go in.

SPEAKER_01 38:25

Dude, we all went to the zoo, a group of friends, I don't know, a while ago, and definitely Sarah and Nick took their child and mine into the reptile house because Elliot thinks it's hilarious. Like, come on, mom, you can be brave with me. Come on, which is like, you know, a thing we teach him. Be brave, do these things, whatever. And I'm like, nope, uh-uh, no, that's not a thing I'm ever gonna be brave about.

SPEAKER_00 38:47

The best part of that trip though, in that place was there's like a Pacific Northwest exhibit. He goes, Oh, boo. And I'm like, oh, let's get a picture, like we can send it to, you know. And he's like, No, I'm just left. I know it was the honors. It was like, oh, you're so sweet. You're and then he's like, no.

SPEAKER_01 39:04

He like 100% is is like says things he thinks he's supposed to now. Like he'll say, sorry, and like, you didn't do anything, but like he's quick to be like, I'm supposed to say sorry. It's it's kind of I feel a little bit bad. We did something wrong. I don't know. Okay. All right, are you ready? Last one. Oh, I can't decide. Would you rather? This is an easy one, I think. Have your own private island. You love to swim. You could tame the sharks. Are there sharks? Oh, take them. You could tame them, they could be your private laser beams, freaking sharks, freaking laser beams. They you could have that life. Or have your own private jet.

SPEAKER_00 39:40

Oh, private jet. Yeah, I know that's an easy one. Actually, because you need a private jet to get, I mean, these are both very expensive things. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 39:46

Well, once you're on your private island, I think it's assumed that you have everything you need to get and leave there as you wish.

SPEAKER_00 39:51

Private island, then. I've actually Googled like if I could buy, because there's islands up in like Door County. Yeah, so I've like Googled this pretty hard.

SPEAKER_01 39:58

So you'd like an island because you could like put a resort there?

SPEAKER_00 40:01

No, because people have to leave me the F alone.

SPEAKER_01 40:03

Oh, I know. No Wi-Fi.

SPEAKER_00 40:05

Is there no Wi-Fi on your own? So we've been over the like I work a lot thing this episode. Yeah, that's why I brought it up. And and but when I when you leave, you leave. When I leave, I leave. Like I drink a pretty good episode. I do, I'm a you know, the Jesus code is a desert thing. That's what I like to do. I actually really like to go to Palm Springs and just like be in the middle of it's not in the middle of nowhere, but like if you go out into like Joshua Tree and stuff, like just kind of there's nothing, and you just gotta like be quiet and just turn everything off. And it's like a it's like uh my computer's not working. Did you turn it off and unplug it? Did you restart it? Like, I just need to do that. I just need to like unplug it all, sit there and just be quiet and do a whole lot of nothing.

SPEAKER_01 40:50

All right.

SPEAKER_00 40:51

So yeah, I want my own island because the couple days a year I take off. I'm going to that island and I'm being left alone.

SPEAKER_01 40:59

He's gonna go there for three days a year.

SPEAKER_00 41:00

I'm gonna do like the bony bear thing.

SPEAKER_01 41:02

Oh, yeah. I mean, that worked out well for them. Worked out well for Justin. Justin, really, yeah. I mean, all right. This is great. I love my interesting questions to learn all these things about your deep dark secrets. I appreciate that, Bridget.

SPEAKER_00 41:14

I hate sharks so much.

SPEAKER_01 41:16

Wow, I've just seen real. I mean, it makes sense. Sharks are scary, but not as scary as snakes.

SPEAKER_00 41:20

I I mean it's like finding Nemo. I was like a grown man when I was watching that. I'm like, no, I can't. Oh my god. And the shark busts through. Like, I would love to do uh like deep sea exploration, like do the uh like dive on the Titanic. First of all, I'd be terrified of seeing skeletons. Like that just seems weird to me. But second of all, I'd be terrified a long time ago. I mean, they're all actually they found some that were like Really? They just recently found some like feet that were Yeah, and uh which is why I'm like, don't go diving on the Titanic. Okay, don't go diving there. Steel stuff, grave robbers. Um didn't stop me from going to the Titanic expedition at the Luxor, but but uh I'd I'll be more terrified you're like going to your submarine and suddenly shark! And I would like hit that emergency ballast blow thing like so bad.

SPEAKER_01 42:05

You cannot do that, you will die. This is a thing I learned about. Well, now that you're in the submarine, yeah. Oh yeah, if you're in the submarine, sorry.

SPEAKER_00 42:11

Yeah, no, if you're diving, you have to go like slowly. Yeah, you have to bounce.

SPEAKER_01 42:15

That's terrifying to me. I'm like, so if I panic, I can't just like shoot up to the surface, like no you'll be able to do it. Well, and like I was panicking, and so I'm like, uh uh, okay. But you were brave, Bridget. I was brave. Look what I taught my kid, clearly, to be scared and apologetic for everything he does.

SPEAKER_00 42:29

Um, you put together a bomb meal plan this week. I am excited about it.

SPEAKER_01 42:34

Um last week was just like okay.

SPEAKER_00 42:35

Yeah, there's a lot of options. You know, it's kind of an in-between week. It's like you know, people are gonna do but this week. Um Okay. Oh, I just got a text from Ron.

SPEAKER_01 42:44

Is he listening live? Can he know we're talking about him? Okay, are you?

SPEAKER_00 42:51

I'm texting him. You just got a live mention.

SPEAKER_01 42:52

I was like, are you gonna share this with the group or should I just go talk about my?

SPEAKER_00 42:56

He dropped off the world's best string cheese at the store for lunch.

SPEAKER_01 42:59

Oh, whatever. Lunch isn't late, man. We are hungry. Bring it here. Telling him. Okay, we'll see. While he requests our string cheese delivery over here, I'm gonna. Oh my gosh. I actually like only kind of like string cheese. Oh, you'll like this. Um, okay, I'm gonna tell you about what I'm eating this week. So Taco Tuesday is getting a little creative. We do have a regular traditional fajita for Taco Tuesday, but what I'm choosing is the fajita chicken mac and cheese. Because even before I knew Nick made bomb mac and cheese this week, I really wanted a good mac and cheese. So putting some Mexican ingredients in it, we're gonna put it on Taco Tuesday. So fajita chicken mac, this is um, you can take the deli mac and cheese that we have, or you can make your own, whatever you want. Whatever you want. Use a box of craft, I don't care, it won't be as good, but whatever. And put in some fajita chicken. You can use salsa chicken that my mom loves so much. Um, tomatoes, chilies, whatever, whatever toppings you like. You can kind of get creative. And I'm gonna call this like a Wisconsin casserole. It is it is taking fajita, like, take your favorite fajita. Toppings and some mac and cheese and meld it together. Sounds delicious.

SPEAKER_00 44:04

Sounds so good.

SPEAKER_01 44:04

That's what I'm eating this week.

SPEAKER_00 44:06

Um my recommendation off of you pick some winners. This was a tough one. Yeah. Uh chimichurri flank steak. I think I've spoken before how much I love chimichuri. We love Argentinian food. We love our boy Juan Martin Del Potro. He's unfortunately injured, might never play the tennis again. Uh think of you, Delpo. Hope you're listening. Juan Martin. Okay. Uh let me show you pictures of him.

SPEAKER_01 44:30

Yeah, this is important to me, you telling me about your chimichuri.

SPEAKER_00 44:33

Anyway, so we like to eat it because we love him. And uh, you know, we like to, I mean, look at him. Look at him. How can you oh look at him? Yep. Look him up, guys. He's a very nice man. So we like to eat Argentinian food in honor of our favorite tennis player, Juan Martin. And uh yeah, so make yourself some Argentinian food. If you like beef and fresh flavors and potatoes, Argentinian food is for you. So yeah, make yourself some uh chimichuri and some flank snakes.

SPEAKER_01 45:00

I know I I actually can never go wrong with that. I always want to pick those, and I'm like, have I put this in the meal plan every week? All good. All right, guys. Time for Kid Corner. I gotta go first because my kid corner is kind of boring. I don't like this week was weird. I'm just gonna tell you two tips for people if you happen to have kids the same age as my kids, one and a half and almost five. Ooh, we almost have an Elliot birthday episode coming up soon. Ellie Belly. He turns five pretty soon. Um, so anyway, we did two great things. Well, three, but a sensory table is no new news to any of you, I hope, if you have kids. But like daycare does that for me. Um, so I don't usually do it, but the weekend days have been long, and that's been part of my challenge. Like very long. The monotony of not having anything to do because we're not allowed to go anywhere has been killing me.

SPEAKER_00 45:48

Well, even like you talked about mall walkers, like when Simona was very little, like we just go to a mall. Because you get a 45-minute car ride that they're gonna do something. Yeah, you can get out and walk, see some stuff, maybe you buy some stuff, maybe you go to Orange Julius, I don't know. And then you know, you go back.

SPEAKER_01 46:06

Yeah, and same with zoo. We would do the zoo, but it has been like I'll go to the zoo in 30 degrees, but I won't go in four. Yep. Um, so anyway, we made our own sensory thing. I'm not gonna even call it a sensory table. And the only thing, like, I would advise using something like um honey nut cheerios. I mean cheerios. I like honey nut. I do too. Cheerios, or like Shannon said, cornflakes, but we only had rice. So I used uncooked white rice, which is like not ideal because I don't really want Lucy eating it, but also if she does, she does. Yeah, I mean, like it's gonna be fine. So we I knew it was gonna make a mess. I like braced for it. We had an area that like our carpeted living room and then our hardwood floor dining room. So I put the sensory play area on the floor that I could sweep up. Obviously, that didn't last. And it was Lucy loves to dump things. So I just put on a whole bunch of Tupperware and some cups and some scoops, and it ended up everywhere. But just embrace the chaos and put together your own sensory table. It was like 45 minutes of entertainment. And you know Lucy, she didn't do anything for 45 minutes. It was awesome. Okay, easy, easy. The other thing we're doing, Elliot's obsessed with Pokemon. He's like into obsessed. I mean, and I don't know anything about Pokemon because I didn't grow up with it.

SPEAKER_00 47:11

Every time I see him now, he's like, Nick, I'm blah blah blah.

SPEAKER_01 47:14

Which one are you to counter? Full poor whatever. I have no idea if that's dude. You just gotta like learn one. So, so Jigglypuff is this like pink little cloud-looking thing, and I'm just always Jigglypuff. She always loses battles. So, anyway, my mom got this like Pokemon.

SPEAKER_00 47:28

Tyler's really good at it, though.

SPEAKER_01 47:29

Well, yeah, Tyler's great at it because he and his brothers grew up with it, but that's the thing. So then Elliot doesn't ever want to hang out with me because I don't know anything about Pokemon. So my mom got him this like encyclopedia thing for Valentine's Day, which is clutch. So I've been learning. So we have what's called Pokemon School, and it's really lovely and fun, and it's a great little activity. If you have a kid that you're like, I don't know if anyone else has this problem. I've got to think we're not the only one that like uh Tyler was a boy growing up, so he knows all about Pokemon. I don't, and I'm trying to.

SPEAKER_00 47:56

Tyler's always been the boy in 2021. I think we should clarify.

SPEAKER_01 48:00

He's a man. Anyway, we do Pokemon School and it's been lots of fun. Okay, it's silly, but I'm just here to give you advice. If like you don't, if you you have a game, like it is all Elliot wants to play, and so I feel bad that I can't play Pokemon School by yourself a Pokemon Encyclopedia, and Elliot hosts Pokemon School. So, like, I'm usually the principal, and so like he's doing Pokemon School with his stuffed animals, and I have to come in and tell him when it's time for bed. It's great. It like somehow has worked out really well. Anyway, some pro tips for you for kids corner this week.

SPEAKER_00 48:30

Uh Simona, um, the daycare teachers have said that he uh she's getting much more communicative this week. She's in with some bigger kids, learned some words, and she's recently learned to go on. Oh no. So Sarah's also encouraged this because Sarah's working really hard with the language and things like that, and on's a fairly easy one. Sure. And then you realize how big of a curse it is. Yep. So we um have invested in some home automation stuff. We have Alexa in many of the rooms of our house. We have smart lights, and we like the Alexa thing because uh we like playing music in different rooms. And all the like we have they're all speakers, we have it hooked up to Spotify. Um, we like the smart lights a lot because we like to do different colors for different times of day. It's like automated where it's and if I do if I photograph food, we need a certain color of light that Sarah hates. So it works out really well for us. Simona has discovered Alexa will play music. Oh no. And she's also discovered she likes dancing, and I am so proud she learned to dance from me. She goes like this. Yeah, you guys, you got it. Moves them shoulders. Move them shoulders, girl. So proud of you. So proud of you, my darling baby girl. Uh so she'll walk up to all of the Alexa's and point at it and go, ah. And then we have to come up with a song, and it's oftentimes baby sharks.

SPEAKER_01 49:48

But uh, nicer than me.

SPEAKER_00 49:50

I like to pretend it doesn't exist. Last night Sarah turned to me and goes, You need to come up with a song. I've been doing this for an hour and a half.

SPEAKER_01 49:57

Wait, can you you just like make a playlist?

SPEAKER_00 49:59

We could, but then she's gonna be mad. Oh, and she also claps every time a song gets over. Oh because I think they do that at school. They must, yeah. Yeah, they go like, yay, good song.

SPEAKER_01 50:07

Cheer for yourself.

SPEAKER_00 50:08

So uh, you know, she's really big on party rock anthem by LMA FAO.

SPEAKER_01 50:12

It's like a really good kid song, though, because it's like Well, they have good kids, they have like kids' versions of all these like hips. That's not a hip song, whatever. Of all these. It was learned during why not night songs, like whatever.

SPEAKER_00 50:22

They have kid versions of them that are so yeah, she's you know, goes up to Alexis's aunt and we play her a song, we move our shoulders.

SPEAKER_01 50:29

Do you know what I just discovered though? If Simona just like moves her shoulders when she dances, Lucy just like moves her bottom half, she just like straight up holds onto a table and like shakes her butt like this.

SPEAKER_00 50:39

If we just put them together, I was gonna say, we could do it sounds like a uh really bad SNL skit. Like Lucy and Simona dancing once are like shoulders.

SPEAKER_01 50:49

They love you know what? This is hopefully one day we'll put them together to dance for you. We're gonna put them on top of this table.

SPEAKER_00 50:56

Yeah, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:57

And they're gonna dance dance clowns. Probably never gonna happen, but we'll see.

SPEAKER_00 51:02

Here we are. You never know. Okay, guys. Um We'll just need to put mattresses all around them because both of those girls are clutsy, are really good at the like hatter.

SPEAKER_01 51:11

Like they'll just jump. Anyway, guys, that's gonna be a weird day. I don't I don't know what else to say for you. Okay, guys, make sure you're watching us on YouTube because we just danced. Um I know that we do it a lot, but this was a really particularly good time. So Dinner Plus Drinks podcast on YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook. God, I almost forgot about it.

SPEAKER_00 51:32

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SPEAKER_01 51:51

Maybe we'll add it one day. Maybe. You know, maybe we have maybe we need a newsletter about all these great things we're doing.

SPEAKER_00 51:58

It's 10:30 at night and I can't go to sleep. Here's some random nick thoughts. Here are some things we have to tell you. Would you want to listen to that, Marlene? Let us know. Let us know. Um, thank you all very much for listening. We'll be back soon with another great episode. We announced some pop-up dinners that are coming up.

SPEAKER_01 52:14

Oh my gosh, yeah, we have three pop-up dinners starting February 27th, and then the next uh two Saturdays after that. So three Saturdays.

SPEAKER_00 52:20

Possibly a very fun way to interact with your favorite podcast host.

SPEAKER_01 52:25

Possibly a way. We'll see. So listen up and keep following us on social media for any funny announcements like that. Just got a time.