Meet Lucy and Simona | Dinner Plus Drinks #64

SPEAKER_00 0:14

Hello everybody, welcome to a St. Patrick's Day edition of Dinner Plus Drinks. I don't wear my green. Um we I didn't either. We have some Irish things, some non-Irish things. So if you are not into the Irish things, that's okay. But we have one heck of a would you rather section this week with some six. Six count them. Oh no, dos, trays, quattro, cinco, stays. Whoa. It's gonna be super exciting. Nick is pumped about these questions. Um it's gonna be a great week. And I have to tell you, I Bridget didn't have puke in her life this week. Oh my god, you guys. Small minor miracle. Fingers crossed, we're not going to. Fingers crossed. I had a great week because three things, little joys in my life. Why? Bridget's little joy was she didn't have any puke in her life.

SPEAKER_01 0:58

I have one more big joy, but you know, we can share that big.

SPEAKER_00 1:01

Um but I had three little things.

SPEAKER_01 1:03

Okay.

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One, uh, our friend Ron, shout out to Ron. Early Ron shout-up. Early Ron shut up. Uh he needed to source some new whiskey for some of his cheeses. So what a troubling job. It was very important. You gotta have the right flavor profile. This is the hard gig. His whiskey cheeses are great, big sellers for him. So we've been trying to arrange a sampling where we could have a number of different whiskies, compare them to the old one, and find a new one. And it's been about a month of schedules not working out. We gotta do that. Ron's bought a bunch of experimental cheeses. So I got to try new Ron cheese that nobody's tried before. Um and it was worth it. It was so good. I had so much fun. Thank you, Ron. Um, new Sype beer. Yes, oh my god. You guys know how much we love Lauren and everybody at Conrad Sype Brewing Company. Uh, they have a second beer out. It's the colony industry, a second brand. I thought that Nick was overhyping this beer, but no way. It's so good. It is so good. We're gonna have that soon. We're doing a virtual launch event with um there's a ladybug crawling across the front of our table.

SPEAKER_01 2:12

Must be springtime.

SPEAKER_00 2:13

Must be springtime. Um, a virtual launch event with Lauren and Dave from Black Point Museum. That uh we'll drop a link to that in the show notes if you want to join us for that. It's gonna be a lot of fun. You'll get some beers, some brats. Uh, get to meet Lauren virtually. And she's awesome. She's awesome. One second. I'm going to. Nick's really distracted by this ladybug.

SPEAKER_01 2:32

I don't know. That looks like a brighter colored one. Is that the springtime ladybugs?

SPEAKER_00 2:36

I think so.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:37

Um, and then I got to try decoy seltzer.

SPEAKER_01 2:42

Another thing I've been hearing a lot about.

SPEAKER_00 2:43

So when we did the Valentine's Day virtual wine dinner, we worked with Kyle from Duckhorn directly on this, and his email signature had new this year decoy seltzer. I'm like, this is a joke. This is this can't be real. Which is what I thought when you told me about it. It is not a joke. It is like a premium wine brand making a hard seltzer. Yeah, you know, guys, you know how we feel about hard seltzer, so I had to try it. I got to try it, and I am jazzed about it. So, uh, Bridget, you tell us about your week, because I want to like go full, full on, you know, I'm off the deep end. Watch as I dive in, you know, far from the shallow now. Whoa. Let's do it. So you tell us about your week.

SPEAKER_01 3:26

Um I mean, we had Elliot's birthday, which we've talked about. It was my background music. We had Elliot's birthday, so I feel like birthday hungover still. Kids' birthdays, man. Lot of work. Lots of sugar, lots of work. So, but that was great. Blah, blah, blah, other things. But most notably, I've just got my first round of my vaccine. And by just, I mean like an hour ago. So we're doing great. I'm still standing. Everybody who's not sure about it.

SPEAKER_00 3:52

Oh, it's another great song.

SPEAKER_01 3:53

Still standing. Standing. You guys are getting it this morning. Or Elton John. Or afternoon, whatever. Um, anyway, I got the Moderna. Uh, it was a great, quick process. I even told the lady who administered my shot how anxious I was, because I am a high functioning anxiety person. So I have every reason in the world to just like be anxious for no reason. And she was so lovely, didn't even feel the shot at all. Yeah, it was very tiny.

SPEAKER_00 4:18

Yeah, it was like it was smaller than a flu shot.

SPEAKER_01 4:21

And really high up.

SPEAKER_00 4:21

Yes, very high up.

SPEAKER_01 4:23

Um anyway, that's great. I just wanted to share that great news. So congratulations. Next round coming. I was really worried because I thought the next round was gonna be Easter weekend. And I'm like, I love Easter, and I very much didn't want to be sick in case I had any kind of reaction on Easter, but it's the week after.

SPEAKER_00 4:38

I I've talked to a lot of people that actually have had the opposite, like my friend group has had the worse reactions to the first shot than the second. I had another friend that just got it, and like I said, I had the arm soreness. Um, I had a friend that was like sick the next day.

SPEAKER_01 4:52

Yeah, I'm a little bit dreading that. I I the late the nurse asked me why I was anxious. She's like, How are you? And I'm like, I'm good, I'm I'm a little anxious. And she's like, Well, why is that? I said, you know, I've had COVID and I don't know a lot of people that have gotten the vaccine that have had COVID. She's like, We've had tons. I'm like, Oh, that's great. I know that. I just don't know them to ask about their reaction. She's like, everyone is so different.

SPEAKER_00 5:11

And let's be clear about why that's important, because even if you've had it, you can still spread it. The vaccine really cuts down the odds of you spreading it, even if you've already had it.

SPEAKER_01 5:19

And I honestly, I am doing my part. I trust science. Um I I do. And I understand people that are are questioning it, I guess. But um, I yes, I've had COVID. Yes, I've uh, but I'm still doing I'm doing my part, and I honestly just didn't want to miss my opportunity. Like I I am in this group 1B. I signed up through all of the proper channels, I did everything, waited my turn, and so I just didn't want to miss my opportunity.

SPEAKER_00 5:44

Yeah, and like uh I think I talked about when I got my shot, our friend Erin, who uh is a nurse, a new mother of two. Congrats again, Erin. Um, she said, You're gonna feel guilty for a little bit because you got it before other people, but don't. All that matters is you're doing it jabs in arms.

SPEAKER_01 6:01

I get a little like I give blood, my husband and I give blood as regularly as we can, and I am happy to do that, and that's all obviously voluntary, but I get super anxious again every time. And I think it's because like I don't know how the people around me are gonna react. So, same today. You have to like get your shot and then sit there and wait to make sure nothing happens for 15 or 20 minutes. And I'm like, oh I just like was like, what's gonna happen? Are the people around me gonna throw up? Is this gonna be my peak story? Like, that is one and last time I went and gave blood, like a woman passed out by me. And that stuff makes me so anxious. So I get it. Anyway, none of that happened, everybody.

SPEAKER_00 6:32

It was a positive experience. If you hear little footsteps running around, it's because Simona and Lucy are having a play date while we're doing this. Thank you very much, Sarah, for watching.

SPEAKER_01 6:42

Sarah, we really should have them come on and say goodbye at the end. We should.

SPEAKER_00 6:46

That'd be fun. Now I I'm now we're here talking about decoy. Decoy seltzer. Okay, so these they have four flavors. They have, and the cool thing about these is these are wine seltzers. So it is 44% wine, and this is decoy wine. This is not so like they bought crap shrappy wine. Uh, we're gonna keep it PG as much as possible. They used real decoy lime and then natural flavoring, um, which is some of the best flavoring I've had, to go with that, and then um seltzer water. Wait, which one is that? So this is Sauvignon Blanc with vibrant lime. Oh. These are an 8.4 fluid ounce container, and they are 80 calories and two grams of carbs.

SPEAKER_01 7:31

Okay, you didn't tell me it was a wine seltzer. Well, yeah, it's a wine seltzer. I thought it was just like gross whatever, hard seltzer water. These look delicious. Chardonnay with orange, chardonnay with mandarin orange.

SPEAKER_00 7:46

So, all right, so here we go. Okay. So this is a Sauvignon Blanc. I am so excited. Kyle dropped off some cerebral.

SPEAKER_01 7:52

I always smell these like I would wine, and that's the problem. That was a mistake to smell it.

SPEAKER_00 7:57

Sauvignon blanc, crisp, refreshing, delicious. The lime, zesty, delicious.

SPEAKER_01 8:03

This is zesty. That's a good way to put it. So that it's pretty lime forward, which is like a little much for me.

SPEAKER_00 8:09

It's a little much. But it kind of tastes like Chardonnay on the end. You know, it's gonna be like 90 degrees sometime soon. I guess I would have wanted this with lemon. Well, there's lemon coming up. Great. Okay, lime. Sauvignon blanc with lime. Now we have Chardonnay with lemon and ginger. I guess ooh, good for the tummy. Good for the tummy. I thought I guess. So if you think you're gonna puke, do this because you're hangover. This is a great hangover drink right here.

SPEAKER_01 8:39

Yeah, because it mixes. You know, when I in college, we used to like get uh fountain soda from McDonald's, coffee, water, all the things. So like carbonation. Yeah. Okay, anyway.

SPEAKER_00 8:49

So it's like a little seltzer to calm your tummy with the ginger to calm it, but then a little bit of alcohol. It's only hair of a dog. Five and a half percent. So you get all those things. Okay.

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Oh.

SPEAKER_00 9:01

This is so refreshing. It uh it is. It kind of tastes like summer. I like the ginger. It just tastes like a little hint of ginger in it.

SPEAKER_01 9:07

It tastes like it tastes like a bubbly water.

SPEAKER_00 9:10

A lemon ginger bubbly water. It has none of the grossness of a lot of the like garbage seltzer's white cloth. Um it has like none of the grossness or fakeness of it. It tastes like real fruit to me.

SPEAKER_01 9:21

Yeah, it does.

SPEAKER_00 9:22

I think the wine base helps.

SPEAKER_01 9:23

Okay, are there any other like um what would be this? Like, what would be this? What would this be comparab?

SPEAKER_00 9:28

I can't speak today, you guys.

SPEAKER_01 9:33

But are there any other wine-based ones? I don't know. Oh man, okay. I haven't done like a ton of time. I wouldn't have been dreading this so much had I known it was wine-based.

SPEAKER_00 9:42

You had me in wine. We are on to Chardonnay with Clementine orchard. I'm sorry I thought it was mandarin. I am excited about this. So this is kid friendly because it's Clementine's feels easily.

SPEAKER_01 9:51

Don't mind the Chardonnay.

SPEAKER_00 9:52

Thank you. Thank you. It's only five and a half percent. This is why Sarah's watching the kids. You know, in 1700, we'd say this is safer to drink than the water. Give it to the kids. But it is 2021. Kids these days, they're going soft. Ooh. This is a fierce orange flavor. I really like this one. This was my favorite.

SPEAKER_01 10:16

Actually, yeah, this is uh the the least tangy of the three. Because I mean it's not a lemon or lime. Yeah. I actually want this like on ice. That's how I want these super, super cold.

SPEAKER_00 10:26

I agree. Um the uh they got a little warmer than I had them. Um I also got the report from Kyle that this is kind of I was able to get sample batches. They're not available in stores yet. Oh. You guys are like, whoa, whoa, when are they available? Hashtag blessed that you're gonna just preview to the reader. Welcome. Um, but they're coming soon. They'll be out by summer, and they might have just a scoshmore carbonation in the final.

SPEAKER_01 10:49

Oh, I could get on board with that. Mm-hmm. This one could use a little more carbonation, I guess. Now that you should have to do it.

SPEAKER_00 10:55

So just like Pisa, just we're gonna go like one knot.

SPEAKER_01 10:58

I just, as you pour that one, I'm dreading the container, like this is so funny. My grandma, uh, quick story. My grandma used to have one of those, um, they had what was called the rec room, and it was our favorite room in her house. They used to have one of those phones that that was a duck. I don't know why I'm talking like people know what that is. It was a telephone that was a mallard, like it was a duck, and you picked it up, and the base was a phone. Like, and we used to think it was the coolest thing as kids, but it the duck looked just like this. Did it quack when it ranged? Maybe I don't yeah, we're having a hard time today. I don't remember it ever ringing. I'm not sure it ever worked. But anyway, that's what these cans remind me of.

SPEAKER_00 11:30

And now we're on to rose with black chairs.

SPEAKER_01 11:32

I was like, why is this one red? Pink-ish. Oh yeah. I don't like cherry-flavored things too much, but this is pretty good if you do it.

SPEAKER_00 11:44

I don't generally like cherry flavored things. I don't I actually like this a lot. Yeah, it doesn't taste it doesn't taste like cough medicine y. This was pretty much the favorite for most people. I think this was Sarah's favorite. I called Sarah while we're doing the tasting and said, Honey. Honey. I need your opinion.

SPEAKER_01 11:58

Yeah, that's actually pretty good for cherry flavored. It tastes like um second sip.

SPEAKER_00 12:03

You're gonna judge it on the second sip and now not have gross cherry flavor on your mind. Have like, oh, it's not that bad.

SPEAKER_01 12:09

It tastes like um some soda. I don't drink a lot of soda, but I feel like it tastes like um out of like cherry seven up.

SPEAKER_00 12:15

Yeah, you know that that's exactly what it tastes like. Right? So it's like easily drinkable.

SPEAKER_01 12:19

Yeah, this is pretty good. Really delicious.

SPEAKER_00 12:21

We will have them still be like, I don't know, I was told somewhere between twelve and fifteen dollars a four-pack.

SPEAKER_01 12:28

Okay. Which I don't think is very bad for I can't I've never buy this stuff, so this is wine-based. So carbonated wine I can get on board with. But I don't know. Okay, well, I'll take a decoy. Yeah, uh again, like the one ribbon of color flavor in the duck's mouth is a funny thing on the branding. But it's you know what? I'll take it.

SPEAKER_00 12:51

I think it's uh, you know, like showing off what's uh oh, so it's like it's a it's a lime peel, a lemon peel. Yes, and a cherry peel. The cherry peel's weird. Whatever, it's fine. Decoy, that's our feedback to you. The cherry peel is a little weird, but the rest of it's cool, makes sense, and it's delicious.

SPEAKER_01 13:08

Yeah, it's better that I mean I get why you were excited, Nick was real jazz. I'm like, do we need to try another hard seltzer? I think we know how we feel about it. I actually think like these are this is different because it's not seltzer water, it's wine-based.

SPEAKER_00 13:18

And it'll be like three dollars a can. I would pay that.

SPEAKER_01 13:22

Yeah, and what is it? A 8.4. Yeah, that's good.

SPEAKER_00 13:25

Yeah, like 80 calories. I mean, it's all right. Do they do mixed packs or no? I'm not sure. I asked, he said they weren't quite sure how they wanted to release it yet, but uh they're doing a little market research.

SPEAKER_01 13:34

I'm always curious about that because I want to try every flavor before I buy a four-pack. Anyway, now I have.

SPEAKER_00 13:39

Thanks, G Clay. Time to move on to best thing you ate this week. Time to move on.

SPEAKER_01 13:45

Oh, mine is not real food. It's not real food, it is all the cake. We all of the cake had, or maybe I should just say all the sweets. Um, what we decided two, maybe three years ago with Elliot's birthday is that like we split mealtime celebrations because like we did a thing on the weekend. His birthday was on a Tuesday. We did a thing on the weekend with um an outdoor group of people. Um, but still the grandparents on both sides would like to see him and wish him a happy birthday on his actual birthday since we live so close to them. Um, but that gets to be a lot, like on a Tuesday night dinner. So we kind of split meal periods. So we had a breakfast, we uh took him out of daycare and or took him out early before school and did an awesome little brunch or I'm sorry, lunch with um one side of the family, and we had dessert. We had a five. Shout out to Zach at Simple, who made a pancake in the shape of a five. Whoa. This is not a thing he does normally. I said, I'm gonna put on Yelp. Ask the chef to make a pancake in the shape of the birthday year. Anyway, um, he did it for us. It was super cute. Ask for the owner, Tom. He will happily make you a pancake in any shape. It was clearly not something they normally do, so that was very sweet. Um, we had then we had sweets there, we had sweets over the weekend, we had cake again. Elliot requested a very particular cake that night. So I'm calling this the best thing I ate because it was actually terrible.

SPEAKER_00 15:06

Um but terribly delicious.

SPEAKER_01 15:09

A lot of love went into it. He's like, Mom, I want a chocolate cake with vanilla layers in between, vanilla on top, chocolate around the edge, um raspberries at the bottom, and sprinkles on top. I was like, oh. Oh, that sounds amazing. Yeah, except like I am not good at making layer cakes. So I tried if it's a big thing. If only there was a sha-shaw. She even gave me tips. And I like, I don't know what I did wrong. I'm guessing when I cut them, they were uneven. Whatever. The she came over and was like, oh, these cakes are too moist. I'm like, well, I made them out of a box. Like, I followed the directions on the box. What was I supposed to do?

SPEAKER_00 15:44

So bake cake at all. I'm not good at yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

I mean, I maybe shouldn't have made it, whatever.

SPEAKER_00 15:48

It was he enjoyed it. I don't like the whole measuring part of baking. I really do not like measuring.

SPEAKER_01 15:56

Oh, I don't like baking with people like you.

SPEAKER_00 15:58

This is what my mom is like. Oh yeah. Here's a funny story. Bridget actually gave out a recipe this week, and it was like, I don't know, do some of this, do some of that, do some of this. I'm like, this is literally everything that you complain about anytime I tell you how to cook something. You did call me out on that. And you pulled the total, like, I can't even remember it was. I don't either. Oh yeah, I just like put the skillet for like two minutes, I don't know, maybe five minutes. You gotta watch the color. I did like some little bit of salt. I put like, I don't know, they're talking about Bridget, that's not a recipe. Well, it is, but it's like a no recipe recipe, which are the best ones. No, I hate that.

SPEAKER_01 16:33

And it was just like all of the things that you I can't even remember what it was. Anyway, I don't know, you guys. I can't remember because I'm in a sugar haze because that's all we did was eat birthday cake for five days, I feel like. So cake. I ate cake this week.

SPEAKER_00 16:45

Uh what did you eat? Made some corned beef hash that was very delicious, but also like was very um cool for me. I made a little kind of humble brag outpost on Facebook. Uh because I photographed it to upgrade the photography we have on the website for a corned beef hash recipe. And like it was um a five-year progression of when I really started doing recipe photography and cooking for the rest for the website instead of just myself. And um, I could sell these photos for stock, like they were pretty good. And humble brag. The the one before was pretty terrible. Uh Jeff Anderson, our good friend from Grayspot, sent me a picture, a message that said it's not terrible. So that is like really strong praise, right? From from Jeff.

SPEAKER_01 17:32

From Jeff. Every time I post a photo, I'm like, Jeff's gonna judge this.

SPEAKER_00 17:35

So um, you know, I it was a really delicious meal. We'd love hash, we'd love corned beef hash. Um I did uh it was just like a very redemptive, it was like a redemption arc. It was like, I see, I am getting better. Because it feels like, you know, I've pounded out like 500 recipes for the site in the last couple years, like a hundred a year, right? So that's uh what once every three or four days I'm putting up a website, it's a lot of recipe on the website. And you get so caught up in it, and you're like, I don't know, I'm not getting better, I'm not getting better, I'm not getting better. Like, I always have to do better. And so to see the progression like that stark, and yeah, um it was good. I was I was very proud of myself.

SPEAKER_01 18:14

I can tell, like I can go on the site and be like, this was Nick five years, you know, this was a picture taken years ago. So you are getting better.

SPEAKER_00 18:20

I'm a better cook, I'm a better photographer, maybe a better husband. I don't know. Hopefully a good one. Sarah, chime in. Hello at dinnerplusdrinks.com. Let us know what you want. Please email us there, Sarah. All right. We got some good random news stories this week.

SPEAKER_01 18:34

Oh man, okay.

SPEAKER_00 18:35

I I see the title in this one.

SPEAKER_01 18:38

Okay. I, little known fact, went to a private grade school that used to on recess have Irish dance lessons. Irish jig? I don't know. And I'm not talking like full on the wigs with the curly, crazy hair, but they do that now, though. Yeah, it was the beginning stages of that, except it was like at our Lake Geneva grade school. So we loved it. We used to do these Irish jig classes. Um, I don't remember a ton about them, besides I remember loving them. So we used to do that. I also used to love watching um figure skating, so specifically figure skating in the Olympics, and used to want to be a figure skater, which is hysterical. Um, and I'm not graceful at all. I could never do that. So I saw this article come across my world, and it combined both things. This was an Olympic figure skater that did an Irish jig on ice, and it brought people to their feet. And it's just the happiness we all need in our life right now. Okay. So it's St. Patrick's Week, it's the coronavirus anniversary. So get a reason to smile, go have a beer and watch this article or this video, I guess. Read this article, watch this video of this Irish jig on ice because it's the best thing you'll see all week.

SPEAKER_00 19:50

All right. Mine uh is not that joyful, but I thought it was really interesting. Uh, if you try to get our podcast two Sundays ago or that Monday after it, uh you maybe had some problems. Our podcast hosts, it's called Buzz Sprout. They're a cool group of people that do a really great job with the hosting, offer some great features, and do a lot to just kind of further the entire, as they would call it, podcast ecosystem, which is a little, you know, pie in the sky. Um, but they really do believe that podcasting can do a lot of great things and they do a lot of really nice things to support people. Well, they were the target of what's called D uh a DDoS attack or distributed denial of service attack, where a bunch of computers flood a website to try and take it down. Um, and that's why you couldn't maybe get our podcast when you try to get it. Um, because you had to download it from them. But anyway, they um it was really cool. They put they were great with customer service throughout the whole thing and how they communicated through Twitter, were on it, um, emails, their entire, and then they published a post mortem and they talked about how their entire company, not just customer service, not just tech support, their marketing people, their sales people, their receptionists. Everybody came in to help on a Sunday, worked all through the night, Sunday, Monday to be ready for like round two of this attack because it was some guys that were trying to ransom them. Um they they figured out some technical stuff that stopped this, that they then shared with every other podcast host who was technically competitors with them, but a lot of them were starting to face the same attacks. So they shared it all out for free. Nothing they called the FBI to you know champ down on these people, and they said, you know, the money isn't the issue. If we thought paying the ransom would make it better for our customers, we would, but it's just not because we'll get targeted again. Yeah. So what they did then was they donated the ransom amount to two organizations that are helping people in Texas that are recovering from all the weather stuff, um, feeding Texas and front steps, which I thought was really cool. And then even cooler, they said since these attacks take a lot of energy to run, they also made a contribution to Project Vesta, which is um A startup that takes carbon and turns it into rocks to get it out of the atmosphere to offset the carbon footprint of the attack on them.

SPEAKER_01 22:07

Dang. So, like, talk about a company that's doing it right.

SPEAKER_00 22:11

So I thought that was that was really cool. Um, if you're someone that would like to start a podcast, check out Breath Spout. Um, they just put out a new video called How to Start U a Podcast in 2021 on their YouTube channel. That's very entertaining, very straightforward way to start a podcast. Check it out. They asked if people that have podcasts with them would share that with their listeners. So I'm doing that. Um so yeah, I just thought it was interesting. I thought they're the way they addressed this was like really admirable. Um it seems like the people were from Russia that were doing the hacking. Great. And we know that because they tried to orthodox some people. And uh, you know Okay, okay. You know, they also um Got another one in there? They left by uh going out a back door and they ran somewhere.

unknown 22:57

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 23:00

On that note, we'll be right back.

SPEAKER_01 23:25

We're back. Okay, hello, everybody. Yeah, I just threw in my rough accent there. Hollaback. Man, Nick is all over the song today. Uh Gwen Stefani, right? That's Hollaback Girl. She ain't no Hollowback girl. Okay, right. Man, get it right, Britain. Okay, everybody. We're back with product recommendations. I have recently not found the spare time, but realized I need to find some spare time to bring crafting back into my life. So I used to be very good at like taking some time, like me time, right? And we all have seen the mom memes that are like, no, showering and grocery shopping by yourself is not me time. Those are essential parts of life. Find some other things that are me time. So I'm very bad at that. I think going grocery shopping alone is me time. So um what I'm doing is I've purchased myself a ridiculous sounding thing for the age I am, but it is a clay beads set. So if you guys have seen um celebrities, I don't know, influencers, cool people, people that are cooler than me, have like a lot of bracelets that are these flat clay beads. So not, you know, not circular, they're flat discs. And then they also sometimes have those letters, like the lettered beads that are literally from my childhood, which are apparently are trendy now. Um, so bracelets that are made with these like letter beads and flat clay beads. So whatever. I bought a set on Amazon because that's Did you give Tyler one? I have not, I haven't received it yet.

SPEAKER_00 24:46

Did it say crushing for you?

SPEAKER_01 24:50

Love for Eva. But you know, with the number four.

SPEAKER_00 24:54

Shouldn't make fun of you. I'm glad this is relaxing.

SPEAKER_01 24:56

So this I figured was an easy barrier to entry to back into my craft love. Um, it makes me relax, and even I can do it with a stupid show on. So this is yes, just a simple bead kit. And if you receive a bracelet from me, it's because I was like gone full-on cat knitting lady, and I'm just like making bracelets all night while watching crime TV shows. But anyway, we will link the kit if you have five-year-old girls that might like to do this, or 35-year-old adults like myself that might like to enjoy this crafting time.

SPEAKER_00 25:24

Or your 75-year-old grandmother.

SPEAKER_01 25:25

I mean, who knows? I don't know. These are very small pieces, feeble hands. Maybe not good for kids. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 25:33

Uh, my recommendation comes from Mr. Lake Geneva, Sean Payne. Ah, Sean Payne. Uh, we were in Clearwater Outdoor harassing him, I think. Um about his wonderful cover spread on the newest edition at The Lake magazine, and they have this really cool artwork in there. I said, Sean, where'd you get that? Oh, he and he said it's from this lady called Sister Golden. Ooh. And Bridget, you want to get your craft on, check this out. Sister Golden. So, what this lady does is she makes uh art out of flowers. So she lays natural things she found on a flat surface, photographs it, and then turns it into cards and things. So, like this is a Starry Night thing where she got actual evergreen bows to make uh, you know, her stuff. So, does Clearwater sell the cards? No, they just had some art. He like knows her somehow or something. Sean knows everybody. So like they have um, you know, all these prints that are really cool. That's awesome. So they look three-dimensional because she photographed them three-dimensional, and so it's really cool. Sister Golden. Thank you. Yeah. It wasn't really me. I mean Sean, whatever. But uh, you can like browse by artist inspiration. She has like a whole Fruiticala thing. She has an inspirational woman theme. So you can get yourself uh, you know, Bridget to Peace. Oh no, Bridge to Peace. What? I was like, oh my gosh, Bridget. Um, they have a notorious RBG flower print. Yes! Oh Britney, don't listen.

SPEAKER_01 26:58

Yes, exactly. Sometimes she's been falling behind, so maybe I can gift it before she listens. I mean, that's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_00 27:05

Oh, that's awesome! So anyway, check that out. I thought that was really cool. Uh local-ish artist, Wisconsin, kind of. Local enough, we'll say we'll take it. We'll be right back.

SPEAKER_01 27:38

We're back with the segment Nick has maybe been most looking forward to for a week.

SPEAKER_00 27:44

It's time for Interesting Questions with Bridget and Nick. Nick edition. Ireland edition. That was terrible. I can't do Irish. I can't do action. I can't. We can't. I can't. All right, I got this page. You guys can see what it is.

SPEAKER_01 27:59

That is so long. What are you asking me?

SPEAKER_00 28:02

All right. Uh we're all Irish here. Sure, actually. Oh, it's like actually we are. Um, so you know, this is this is this is tremendous. So, Bridget, would you rather go on a dinner date? And it can just be dinner as like friends. It can, you know, be more. It's up to you. Sorry, Tyler. These are all hall pass type of people, so it's fine. With Colin Farrell, Pierce Brosnan, or Liam Neeson.

SPEAKER_01 28:28

Oh. I thought that my mind was made up, but actually, Liam Neeson. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:35

Me too. Is it I think? I mean, Pierce Brosnan is James Bond, which is near and dear to my heart.

SPEAKER_01 28:39

So honestly, that would he would have been last on my list. Um, sorry, Pierce, but I don't care about I don't care about it.

SPEAKER_00 28:45

Callin Farrell's a recovering alcoholic, so I don't think it'd be as fun.

SPEAKER_01 28:49

Okay, I didn't know that. He was gonna be my first choice, but that's a good one. Okay, okay. I wish I had more to say about that, but I don't.

SPEAKER_00 28:56

Uh Liam Neeson, he's just I know.

SPEAKER_01 28:58

I I just like he's I just feel like he would have like wise things to say.

SPEAKER_00 29:03

I want to ask him about love, actually. Oh, the greatest movie of all time. Is it a Christmas movie or not? Oh, this is a hot debate. It is a hot debate. I would watch it year-round. I would too. It is not a Christmas movie. It's a movie that used Christmas as a plot device.

SPEAKER_01 29:19

Yeah, that's true. Also, it's about love. So it could be a Valentine's movie with a Christmas play.

SPEAKER_00 29:26

That's not really a Christmas play, so Christmas octopus. Yeah. Would you rather have to eat a potato dish at every meal or never have potatoes ever again? Um, I would eat potatoes at every meal. I mean, me too. This is an easy one.

SPEAKER_01 29:39

Assuming that there's a pass on all the weight gain.

SPEAKER_00 29:41

Well, because like you could eat some chips or you know, some like.

SPEAKER_01 29:44

Potatoes are in a lot of things. Yes, potatoes. And I assume we can't have any potato byproduct.

SPEAKER_00 29:48

No.

SPEAKER_01 29:49

Yeah. I would be really sad if I could never have a mashed potato omelet again.

SPEAKER_00 29:53

I haven't had that in so long. Would you rather go to a concert by U2 or Van Morrison? Van Morrison. Oh, really? Yeah, I don't like you too. Oh, I love you too. I would love to go to one of their shows, but uh, you know, they're really adored by like 60-year-old rich white dudes that can spend $700 a ticket. Yeah, it's so expensive. I'm only a 35-year-old, not really upper middle class white dude. So I can't really afford those tickets.

SPEAKER_01 30:20

I just don't, I think I'm annoyed because that uh U2 song is always plays like by default on your phones. I don't know. I don't I just don't care about U2 as much as the rest of the world. I like them. They're good. Yeah. Good book.

SPEAKER_00 30:33

Starting to get good now. Starting to get good. Okay. This is where the vomiting might start. Oh no. Would you rather have to drink a pint of Guinness every morning first thing when you wake up? Or would you rather have to drink two shots of Irish cream every night right before you go to bed?

SPEAKER_01 30:47

Oh my gosh. So 10 years ago I might say the Irish cream, but I think that like old lady body probably can't handle that dairy right before bed. I don't know, man. Because people drink like warm milk before bed. I'm not those people. I want Guinness to start my day. It's healthy. Dr. Sean told us that. Exactly. It's healthy. Guinness. I feel like I mean I'm going with Guinness too. I have a new love for Guinness. I used to like, eh, but man.

SPEAKER_00 31:13

I know your little like the Guinness in the morning thing could be tough for you. So that's why. Um, what's really hard for me is water first thing in the morning.

SPEAKER_01 31:20

I think it's just sometimes too. I like, no, I need eight cups of coffee, then I'll have water.

SPEAKER_00 31:27

Would you rather have a best of Dublin vacation where you're gonna do all the fun Dublin things, walk the streets, experience street life, eat the food, do the Guinness tour, check out the castle, the the library, just love being in a beautiful old European city. Or would you rather do a tranquillic Irish countryside cottage vacation, relaxing the Emerald Isles, the sheep? This is gonna surprise you. Cut off from the phones, the internet, the world.

SPEAKER_01 31:55

This will surprise you because I actually want the countryside.

SPEAKER_00 31:57

I knew you would pick that.

SPEAKER_01 31:58

Because I've already done the Dublin. I knew that. Yes. So come on, man. But normally any other Bridget would pick the city, obviously. Uh but I've done all those things you described.

SPEAKER_00 32:07

I don't know what I would do. I really don't.

SPEAKER_01 32:10

If you have never done either, I don't know, actually. I can't say that.

SPEAKER_00 32:12

I would do Dublin because I want the Guinness.

SPEAKER_01 32:14

Right. And the Guinness tour is fun. You have to do it. I want to. I loved, I mean, we we just felt like 100% at home. We had an awesome hostel. I went in college, so we stayed at like a bomb-ass hostel, and the people were super kind. Um, I don't know. It was we loved Dublin, but done it. Let's do the countryside. I do regret not doing the countryside. We didn't have enough time.

SPEAKER_00 32:35

All right. My last one. Okay. Would you rather have to watch a four-hour river dance show from the front row with Elliot and all of the nose right up in your face of the dancers right there and Elliot obviously wanting to join in? Or would you rather do a one-hour pub set in an Irish pub with a Celtic folk band and you have to do an Irish whiskey shot every time they finish the go, hey!

SPEAKER_01 33:03

Oh man. Oh, that is uh that is a challenging one. Because I mean I was all set to want to do that until I had to do an Irish whiskey shot like 900 times in an hour.

SPEAKER_00 33:15

See, that's where the kicker is, right? Yeah, I can't. Because obviously, River Dance right in front of your face for that long, and with Elliot wanting to, you know, join in.

SPEAKER_01 33:22

Could I get him to fall asleep?

SPEAKER_00 33:24

I wanted it to be. I wanted to add just a little degree of difficulty. So that was the that was a twist there.

SPEAKER_01 33:30

It obviously has to be River Dance because I'm confident that the second option would end in puking. We all know where that's gonna go next week's podcast. I mean, maybe you could bribe the band into like one lullaby? I'm gonna stick with river dance. I'm just gonna suffer through four hours because not suffer. I think it would be good for a limited amount of time. Um, I can't I can't do the shots of whiskey. I hate river dance with a passion. I don't hate it.

SPEAKER_00 34:00

With an absolute passion. Why? Like you hate too much of it or it periods. I hate how, like, I don't know, we were in grade school when that whole craze happened and was, you know, like touring America. My grandparents bought all of the freaking VHSs and made us sit down and watch them. Okay, that's that's the problem. Okay, I get it.

SPEAKER_01 34:22

I think it's fascinating, but not for four hours. I can't do an extraordinary.

SPEAKER_00 34:26

Congratulations, it's an athletic feat. Like, I no way how I could do it. But wow. Not for me.

SPEAKER_01 34:33

Uh maybe four hours would fly by.

SPEAKER_00 34:36

Uh no, it would be like, oh, also, you know how many times I had to play Irish Washer Woman in band?

SPEAKER_01 34:41

Oh, see, I don't I don't I don't not basically talented.

SPEAKER_00 34:44

Blow my brains out if I had to play that damn song again.

SPEAKER_01 34:47

That question would be truly impossible to ask if um faster and faster. If it was Lucy. If I had to have Lucy and try and keep her seated for four hours. Well, Lucy would just go up and Lucy likes to dance, so she would just be up there like Okay, anyway. Great job, Nick. Thanks. I was excited for this one. Those were good ones. You made all those up, didn't you? I did, yeah. Wow, yeah, that's way harder than Googling them, which is what I often do.

unknown 35:10

Thanks, Bridget.

SPEAKER_00 35:11

Great job. I was excited for this one.

SPEAKER_01 35:13

Um St.

SPEAKER_00 35:14

Patrick's Day.

SPEAKER_01 35:15

I I know, I just can't believe St. Patrick's Day is here. I'm so excited about it.

SPEAKER_00 35:20

Okay. Meal plan time.

SPEAKER_01 35:22

DM you. I took next. But why? I can't believe out of all the food. Okay, okay. So the meal plan this week, St. Patrick's Day's is Wednesday? Yeah, it's Wednesday. So the meal plan is front-loaded with a lot of Irish meals. So you can like try them all out, see what you want to eat. And then there's like one or two. And then double down on St. Patrick's. And then eat it all leftovers on Wednesday. Um put a lot of meals. Um, and here's the thing: I chose the dick dish that Nick wanted because I don't really like Irish, like, I don't really like corned beef all that much. There's not a lot of Irish food that I love except potatoes. So I took the potato dish on the meal plan. Was it Kolcannon? Colcannon potatoes? So you can't do access. No, no one can do Irish. Who can do an Irish accent?

SPEAKER_00 36:06

Call us. Hello at ZarPostSrinks.com.

SPEAKER_01 36:09

Are you Irish? Kevin, I bet Kevin can do it. Kevin could probably do it, but Kevin is Irish. I'm eating potatoes. Kevin's literally Irish. Is literally Irish. Uh yeah, I have nothing else to say except that I don't really like a lot of Irish food. So I think on the Tuesday before I put on these potatoes as a side dish for myself only, so you could eat them and pretend like you're doing something Irish for the week.

SPEAKER_00 36:29

Okay, so I love potatoes. Like I love potatoes. I could sit down with a bowl of mashed potatoes and that's lunch. Yes. I mean, I I agree. So but that's why you could have these for lunch, right? They got like the sauteed spinach in there or kale in there. So it's healthy. Yeah, and they got the bacon in there and more cream and more cream. It's really just a baked potato mashed up. And it's so good. And damn you for stealing it. But it is trying to be spring around here, even though we're supposed to get five to six inches of snow on Monday. I just heard that this morning. What the where have I been? Um and you had something good on the back end of the week that is beer, can, chicken. And what can be more fun than shoving a can of beer up a chicken's butt? Maybe I'll make it and have Elliot over and say, Hey, Elliot, do you want to shove a can of beer up a chicken's butt? You would love to do that. He would then go to school and say, you know what I did to a chicken?

SPEAKER_01 37:17

Shoved a beer up its butt. Go great.

SPEAKER_00 37:19

Go great. Uh I'm gonna preview the remix to the kid corner, and Mrs. Garlock might not be sick. I won't be giving you about that's exactly what I thought. But beer can chicken, it's delicious. Um, it actually doesn't really make a difference on the flavoring, it doesn't, the steam and the things and stuff. And it can be dangerous because you gotta make sure you don't hit the piping hop can of beer over on your hand and burn yourself. But it's fun, it's a cool gimmick. Sounds scary. And uh vertical roasters are great for chicken. So if you don't want to use a beer can, um, you can get it's like $15 a ceramic thing that you can sit down and do the same thing and it works great. It's a great way to cook a chicken.

SPEAKER_01 37:58

Yeah, I mean, that's on the same day we're cooking with alcohol that day on the meal plan.

SPEAKER_00 38:02

Oh, I like it. Yep. What else are we making that day?

SPEAKER_01 38:04

Uh Guinness salmon.

SPEAKER_00 38:06

Ooh, also a good recipe if you like.

SPEAKER_01 38:07

If you have leftover Guinness from St. Patrick's Day. Oh. Yeah. Look at that. Cooking with beer, everybody, only in Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_00 38:14

All right, it's time for Kid Corner. And we might take a pause and go and get our kids. Oh, that would be fun. Do you guys want to say hi to the one of my we'll be right back? Okay. Okay. We're back. We have Mona.

SPEAKER_01 38:44

Hi Lucy. Hi, are you saying hi? You want that way? Can you say hi? All right, this is Lucy. My kid corner isn't about Lucy today, but she's here playing with Simona and her very important phone. Lucy, can you say hi?

unknown 38:56

Hello.

SPEAKER_01 38:58

All right, guys. Well, I'm gonna tell you all about do you need to go first? Do you think she can hang? Yeah, she can hang. Okay. I'm telling you about Elliot. So you can stare at Lucy here and remember I have a second kid. But Elliot's birthday was this week. And I don't know if I've talked on here, but we've had a particularly challenging time with Elliot's. Okay, Lucy's leaving us. We've had a little bit of a hard time with school with Elliot because his teacher has been out his teacher's been out sick with coronavirus since before Christmas. She's had a few complications. And um anyway, so it was really nice the other day. I was picking Elliot up and someone goes, uh, where's Elliot's mom? I'm like, uh-oh, am I in trouble? So I like sheepishly raised my hand. And Mrs. Garlock, who's not even his teacher, but in a neighboring classroom, she was helping a lot um while the sub was in the classroom for two months. And she came over and said, Elliot is just such a nice kid. And I know it's such a dumb thing, but I'm bragging right now about him because it almost made me cry because I was like, We've been having a really challenging time because we don't know anything that's going on. Because with a sub in the classroom, it's a lot harder to understand what's going on with your kid. So she said, he's just so kind and always saying the sweetest things. So anyway, I've had enough puke stories for like three weeks, so I thought I would tell you something fun today. And I'm telling you that Elliot was complimented by a teacher that wasn't even his teacher. So yay, Elliot.

SPEAKER_00 40:22

So luckily, I only have the one child. No, don't touch that. Um, and she uh is growing teeth like crazy. She has like 10 or something now, and she really loves brushing her teeth. It's her favorite thing. So every night before bed, we uh well and in the morning too, we make her do it. We dip some uh a toothbrush and some uh mouthwash and she brushes her teeth. And it's her favorite thing, and now she brushes my teeth too. So every night after her bath, she this is easy with these two, can you tell? Yeah. She goes and brushes her teeth, and it's the cutest thing, and then she's very worried about my teeth, and she brushes my teeth too, and I love it. And it's a little gross that she takes her Simona toothbrush and puts it in my mouth. But you know, I'm encouraging good oral health. Hey guys, kids are hard. So that's my story. Look at us. Thanks for uh listening to this week's episode. We hope you enjoyed it. It was a fun episode for us. And for my children if you're watching on YouTube.

SPEAKER_01 41:27

Yeah. Um, make sure to find us on Instagram, Facebook, or YouTube at Dinner Plus Drinks Podcast.

SPEAKER_00 41:35

Okay, did Lucy mute us? Uh we're not muted. Uh thanks for watching, guys. Subscribe, share with your friends, follow us, whatever platform you like. Have a lovely week. Happy St. Patrick's Day. Happy St. Patrick's Day.

SPEAKER_01 41:50

Wow, you guys are made for the camera. Good work, ladies.