More Bitter Coffee - Dinner Plus Drinks #127

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Feels like forever since we've sat down and done this.

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But it's really only been one extra week. Thanks for your patience with us.

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Well, this is how I like to start these things.

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Oh, I almost forgot there was alcohol today. So glad. Oh, something special today. Yeah, what is this? This is proper glassware, Bridget. Whoa, look at you. You guys were not even drinking out of plastic cups. That's for later. So whoa! It's summer.

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You know I'm gonna like it, so you're giving me a full pour, huh? We had to do something a little special. We have some other special stuff.

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Oh, second after the break's gonna be fire.

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One of the things I'm focusing on is small little things that make me happy. And one of the things that makes me happy is a beautiful pour of beer in the perfect glassware. Oh. So I have some correct Hefeweiss glasses that preserve the head beautifully. Promote uh all of those beautiful esters, are the aroma compounds that come out. They're called esters. Oh, really? Promote that. So those banana, clove, kind of yeasty notes that are so beautiful about Hefeweizens or wheat beers as we'd call them in America, they come out better in this. And uh you get all that nice foam, which helps protect the beer, helps protect the carbonation, gives it more of the flavor, and it's just beautiful. So I figured for today we would open up this Hefeweizen from Fair State Co-op in Minnesota.

SPEAKER_02 1:35

Oh, I'm so excited to try this because another beautiful can. You know how much I love that.

SPEAKER_00 1:39

It looks like the bruised banana arsenal jerseys that I love as well, which makes me super happy. It's like a yellow and black kind of geometric wave pattern. It's beautiful. They are a cooperatively owned brewery. Interesting.

SPEAKER_02 1:52

Is there one is there one in Wisconsin like that or no?

SPEAKER_00 1:55

Um, I'm not sure. When they started, they were the third in America. Um, I don't know if anybody in Wisconsin does. We obviously have a huge history with co-ops here in Wisconsin uh and kind of progressive values like that. But they are progressive or cooperatively owned. They have over 2,000 members. They do a lot of really cool stuff. They're well known for their lagers, which are delicious. They make some great pale ale's, and this Heffaweisen, I'm very excited for.

SPEAKER_02 2:25

Um, what's with your voice, man? Are you getting over a little sickness? Yeah, I've got the allergies. We need to tell the people.

SPEAKER_00 2:30

I think I think a lot of people have had allergies. I think a lot of people have had some random, you know, not COVID. I've taken a lot of COVID tests.

SPEAKER_02 2:39

I don't I was just cleaning my bathroom.

SPEAKER_00 2:41

Maybe it is COVID, but like it's not even detectable in any of the tests anymore. I don't know.

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I was cleaning my bathroom taking stock of all the COVID tests I've somehow acquired. Um yeah, we just cheers. This cheers. I'm really happy that this makes you happy because I'm thrilled about it.

SPEAKER_00 2:56

Isn't it so cool? You got the big tall glass. It's the aromas are beautiful. It's summer, it's a summertime beer.

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It feels like summer coming from someone who just came from downtown Lake Geneva. Holy shit.

SPEAKER_00 3:08

Aren't people driving like jerks?

SPEAKER_02 3:10

It is wild in. It's the only word to describe it. I don't know what else to say, but like, holy shit.

SPEAKER_00 3:16

I feel like the incentive structure in America now is so screwed up for. You get yours right now if you can. Baby formula, um, toilet paper.

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We're back to that.

SPEAKER_00 3:26

We're back to all of that stuff. I feel like it just translates to life. There's always been the thing of like, we can't do flight or flight for this long. Well, it's been two and a half years. It's you know, get your guns and ammo before they're banned. Oh, wait. No, somehow we're passing laws to make more guns in places.

SPEAKER_02 3:43

Someone, I volunteered at Elliot's school.

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This is why we didn't do this last year.

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Yeah, like and we promised we'll switch gears, but someone just made a shotgun joke at the school. I and ooh, sorry about that. I was at Elliott School this morning and someone made a shotgun joke. I was like, I I think it's too soon. We were in the school. I'm like, no, no. Anyway, it's uh his last day of school, and that makes me happy. We're we're trying, um let's say thank you. Thanks, first of all, for giving us the space last week to not be terrible and negative. For sure. We needed that, and yeah, now it feels like summer, and we we both said, you know what, maybe we'll just start sharing happy things.

SPEAKER_00 4:22

Would you like to hear my list? I already told you guys the um I love the beer in the perfect glassware. I was at Low Daily yesterday picking up some beer that we're gonna start selling from them, and they have these cute little eight-ounce pores. Oh, yeah. And they're beautiful glasses, and I love small pores of small beers. So you can try them all. Um, but here's my list of five other things. They're ridiculous. But I've tried to do the gratitude thing. Driving on a newly paved road.

SPEAKER_02 4:53

Okay, that doesn't make me happy because I was driving six miles per hour on my way out here.

SPEAKER_00 4:57

Well, it's more like at night and there's no one else on it, and it's just smooth, and it's so like Okay, I'm glad that it has the view and the quiet of the road. I love it. And then the converse of that is driving on a road that's fully packed with snow in the moonlight, no one else there, because it's completely silent, and it's just beautiful, and the snow's shimmering, and you just drive around. It's so great. That makes me happy. Nick and I would not like to drive together. Deadheading flowers. I love it. That satisfaction of when you peel off the flower bud and it just like you get it right the time, so you just literally touch it, it goes boom. You guys should see my face right now. Um that really is very satisfying to me.

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Okay, man.

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That's this next one, uh also kind of textural. A uh, this hasn't happened to me since puberty, but popping a pimple at the perfect time.

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My sisters love popping pimples like on each other if necessary. This was years ago. I'm sorry, sisters, to embarrass you. This was a long time ago, but we had a lengthy discussion about it.

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The perfect, like, just touch it and that is disgusting.

SPEAKER_02 6:04

It's do you watch that show?

SPEAKER_00 6:05

Satisfying, Dr. Pimple Popper? Yeah. I've followed her on Instagram before it was a show. It's amazing. Dr.

SPEAKER_01 6:11

Pimple Popper's a girl? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:12

Oh, I've obviously never watched it. I think it's disgusting.

SPEAKER_00 6:15

See uh she's a dermatologist. So if I told you it was a dermatologist, you'd probably guess it's a girl. That's a female dominated specialty. Is it really? Yeah. Mine was a man. The ones that she does that are like cysts and stuff are so fun.

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Ew. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 6:30

I would love to do that. Like cut someone's cyst open and just makes me so happy. Oh my god, ew. I have two more orderly kitchen drawers. This past weekend, I went through and like redid all my spices, relabeled stuff, threw out old stuff, uh, made some of my blends again. Wow. Simona helped me. You have more time than I do. It made me very happy. I mean, I had other things I should have done, but it was like 30 minutes of calming the chaos that made me very happy. That's great, man. I'm proud of you. Finally, I know you also enjoy this one. The pop of a champagne bottle.

SPEAKER_02 7:03

Yeah, man. That's what we should have done. Just kidding, this beer's perfect. I thought you'd like it. I did uh swallow two ibuprofen with my beer uh as we are recording, if it gives you an idea of how my week has been.

SPEAKER_00 7:14

At least you didn't do some Red Bull with it. An upper and a downer. Although there might be some other uppers coming.

SPEAKER_02 7:19

Whoa. Yeah, there is.

SPEAKER_00 7:21

Different kind of drug. Have I told you about uppers and downers?

SPEAKER_02 7:24

Is this a dad joke coming?

SPEAKER_00 7:26

No, no, no. No, it's I mean, I could make one. I could make a very inappropriate joke, I could make a dad joke, but have I told you about uppers and downers?

SPEAKER_02 7:32

No.

SPEAKER_00 7:33

It is a beer and coffee festival in Chicago.

SPEAKER_02 7:36

Oh my god, I love that. I want to go. When is it?

SPEAKER_00 7:39

I kind of think we should do it.

SPEAKER_02 7:41

Like record live there? Or we should host one.

SPEAKER_00 7:43

We should host one. We should steal it. You can do you can do the coffee side of it, and I'll do the uh beer side of it.

SPEAKER_02 7:49

Oh, Nick is teasing. Oh, great segment we're gonna have later.

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Chicago.

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I mean, that's funny. I guarantee you, Lake Chenew City Council would never let me name it that.

SPEAKER_00 7:59

Well, so it's just saying it's this uh it's called Good Beer Hunting. It's a like multimedia thing that does it. They host it.

SPEAKER_03 8:05

I've heard of it.

SPEAKER_00 8:06

And they come to Camp Wanawega for their retreat. So maybe we just say, like, hey guys, we know you're familiar with the area. How about we do a northern edition?

SPEAKER_02 8:15

That's how Ice Castles got here. Literally, a local person just reached out and said, Hey, you want to come to Lake Geneva? And they said, Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:22

They've done them in Berlin and London and Chicago. So why not like honestly? I bet if we reached out and said, like, hey, we'd like you to do in Lake Geneva, they'd be like, we've always wanted to do one in Switzerland.

SPEAKER_02 8:31

You're right. Lake Geneva, that place where you come near where you go to your retreat. Please, thank you. No way.

SPEAKER_00 8:39

And one of the great things about Lake Geneva, I was actually sitting at Topsy Turvy on the patio having a beer with a colleague the other day, and looking down the street, you took a great picture when you ran the downtown thing of uh an angle of the town that people don't usually think of. And there's some actually very beautiful angles and buildings and architecture. And looking down that way and just seeing flowers popping, all that stuff, you're like, man, there are some cool things about here. And one of the other cool things is there's a lot of really talented people in Chicago that you can just reach out to and be like, hey, you want to come up and do a thing? And they're like, Yeah, I love Lake Geneva. Yeah, it's an hour and a half. I don't care, I'll do it.

SPEAKER_02 9:14

Well, we're in the triangle. I I like to call it the Bermuda Triangle, uh, but the Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago triangle. So don't forget Rockford. Yeah, sorry, Rockford Freddie.

SPEAKER_00 9:24

We gotta talk about this, but maybe we could have a live podcast next week.

SPEAKER_02 9:27

I was gonna say the same thing on our group text teaser, guys. Should we do a live one?

SPEAKER_00 9:31

I think we should.

SPEAKER_02 9:32

Let us know.

SPEAKER_00 9:33

I mean, not it's gonna work out best for us.

SPEAKER_02 9:36

Yeah, let's okay. We'll have special guests. Uh, we're making our plans on air. Do you guys like that? That's how good we are. Um yeah, okay. I'm gonna save this for Kid Corner. I was gonna say it now, but I'm gonna just throw it down here because here's how organized I was. I usually start this outline on Monday. Uh, I filled nothing in until we're sitting here this week. Uh, I was planning a really good after the break segment, which you will learn about soon, but that's about as far as I could manage today. That's how my week's been.

SPEAKER_00 10:04

Can I talk about my news story?

SPEAKER_02 10:06

Yeah, also I want to talk about mine because I want to eat it right now.

SPEAKER_00 10:10

So mine isn't necessarily positive, but I think it's absolutely hilarious. Um so golf etiquette is a big thing, right? People that are serious about golf are very into, you know, take your hat off and shake hands. I mean, I like it. I I also so like I don't like that you're competing against yourself, but then like it's competitive, but then like if someone does something you don't like, it's a game you. I don't get it. Like, either play all in to win or don't. That's why I don't like tennis, sometimes too drives me nuts.

SPEAKER_02 10:45

Like, isn't it the same type of etiquette?

SPEAKER_00 10:48

Yeah, it's like considered bad form to chuck it at someone, but like uh no, like to nail a ball at someone. But if it hits them, it's your point. So, like, oh well if you want to win, you know, and if you hit the net and then the ball goes over you to go, oh sorry.

SPEAKER_02 10:59

No, you're not sorry. I mean, uh, I like sports etiquette.

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The end. I like winning. Anyway, the headline from Fox Five, New York. I will hit you, Florida man, which all you need to know is Florida Man 77. Punch his friend 84 over golf etiquette at the villages. Come at the villages. Oh my god, I can't wait to live in the villages one day. Sumter County, Florida. An argument between two men on the green at the villages over golf etiquette led to one of them facing a battery charge.

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Oh my god, he pressed charges?

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Richard Rendell, 77, entered a not guilty plea for his alleged crime against his 84-year-old friend. His buddy. According to the rest affidavit, the deputy spoke to a man who's playing golf with both Randall and the friend. Around the fourth hole, the man said the two began arguing, which was something they reportedly did often. But the friends, you know, this is men are different. Okay, this is just like children, too. The affidavit said the friend told Randall, who was standing on the green near the hole, to move, to which Randall replied, saying he knew the etiquette of the game. They continued to argue, and the friend reportedly flipped off Randall. He then approached his friend and reportedly said, Do it again, I'll hit you. Friend flipped him off again, and Randall reportedly punched the man in the face. The friend fell to the ground. Define D said the victim was taken to a local hospital with a visibly swollen bruise on the side of his face.

SPEAKER_02 12:28

Oof. Um, why did he press charges if they're always fighting? And they're friends. Tell me from a man's perspective.

SPEAKER_00 12:35

I don't know. I think it's a little bitch move.

SPEAKER_01 12:38

Like he said, I'm gonna punch you if you do it. You did it. So then don't press it. I the pressing charges part is I don't know why that's the thing I'm sticking to here.

SPEAKER_00 12:46

And it's so evidently in Florida, there's a you know, because Florida. He was arrested to charge a battery on a person 65 years or older. Oh, come on! Okay, that's ridiculous. Shouldn't that be illegal to like charge you if you are older than 65?

SPEAKER_02 12:59

Like it's just And it's your bestie. Like, this is his best friend. Oh God. I mean, punch him. I mean, I knew you were worried that I wasn't gonna come up with something great to share, but the algorithm was at work last night, and I was talking about we've had a lot of people.

SPEAKER_00 13:15

I also drank like half this beer already. I it's just like crushable.

SPEAKER_02 13:18

I know. Um, so we've had a lot of cake in our house lately. Lots of, you know, happy birthday Lucy, etc. Lots of lots of sweets and things to celebrate. We were discussing our favorite cakes. I think one of Elliot asked, asked me what my favorite cake was. What's yours? Do you have one? I do. Mine is a Dairy Queen ice cream cake. Oh, a very strong cake. And it has to be specifically a dairy queen, not just any ice cream cake.

SPEAKER_00 13:42

Mine is very specific. Okay. I'm not surprised. Yellow cake, raspberry jam filling, yellow cake, raspberry jam filling, raspberry cake, white frosting. Raspberry cake? I'm sorry, raspberry cake.

SPEAKER_02 13:53

Oh, I was like, what?

SPEAKER_00 13:55

So two layers of the jam filling. So, you know, three layers of cake with two layers of raspberry jam and then vanilla white frosting.

SPEAKER_02 14:04

Like buttercream or like out of the jar?

SPEAKER_00 14:06

Yeah, like out of the jar.

SPEAKER_02 14:07

Like out of the jar. So this is like a homemade Okay, okay, I got you. Yes, I got it.

SPEAKER_00 14:12

And then sprinkles.

SPEAKER_02 14:13

Oh, interesting. Simona has invented this.

SPEAKER_00 14:18

Simona has invented this thing where she likes to sprinkle, sprinkle. Okay. And um I think I talked about this. She made a cake for Easter that she basically just dumped the like little tiny sprinkles that are like all over the cake. And so it formed like kind of a rock candy crust.

SPEAKER_02 14:35

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 14:35

So you got sweet and crunchy at the same time.

SPEAKER_02 14:38

Well, that's why people like those sprinkles.

SPEAKER_00 14:40

Yes, because it's like, but it was like fine grain. So it's like the ice cream cake, you know, the part that has the little crunchy nuts on it. A fudge.

SPEAKER_02 14:47

No, it doesn't have nuts.

SPEAKER_00 14:48

Whatever they are.

SPEAKER_02 14:49

They are fudge. I will tell you what they are in a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 14:51

So Savona basically created that, and it was just like, Yum. I need this on all my cake now.

SPEAKER_02 14:56

I like the uh non-parels, but yeah, not to the level of the amount that Lucy puts on cake. This is good. So if you're eating cake, it should be sugar. I mean, yeah, I'm not here for a healthy cake. I just love, specifically, what I love about the Dairy Queen cake is the fudgy center. So they describe it.

SPEAKER_00 15:12

The fudgy center is so good.

SPEAKER_02 15:13

It's the fudgy, it's fudge with a crunch center. But what I love, so I love the fudge part, and then their frosting, like whatever their whipped topping is, is delicious. So that also is yeah. What I'm here to tell you is Facebook heard me and they targeted me with this um article from a website called kidsactivities.com. Dairy Queen, I'm all about a secret menu, has a secret individual ice cream cake. So you can go to Dairy Queen and order your own individual cake, everybody. So you just have to go and order. All you have to say is that you want a cupcake. And it will give you, it shows you the picture. It's like chocolate ice cream on the bottom, the fudgy, crumbly stuff in the middle, the vanilla ice cream, and then that delicious whipped topping. It is described as with sprinkles. A decadent indulgence made just for one. Our cupcake features an irresistible fudge and crunch center that's surrounded by creamy vanilla and chocolate soft syrup. Go ahead, we won't tell. And it says serves one, $3.29. Pricing may change. Anyway, super sad Lake Cheneva doesn't have a dairy queen, but I am gonna go drive somewhere, wherever the next dairy queen is.

SPEAKER_00 16:18

Have you seen how quickly that uh yes, Burlington?

SPEAKER_02 16:21

Yeah. It's every time we used to drive by every day to daycare and we would look, but I haven't seen it in a while now.

SPEAKER_00 16:27

It's like a full building right now. Oh shit. Got rough gold.

SPEAKER_02 16:30

What is their construction team? Come to my home. Anyway, we will link this article if you too want to go get an individual Dairy Queen ice cream cake.

SPEAKER_00 16:40

I read another article about golf violence. And this one didn't start when somebody flipped someone off. Instead, it started when someone yelled, kiss my putt!

SPEAKER_02 16:51

Oh, whoa, weak, weak sauce dad joke.

SPEAKER_01 17:07

I'm over here stretching. It's a good stretch. Like, I know I'm like, my whole body hurts, you guys. I'm old. So old.

SPEAKER_02 17:14

I'm old. You know why my body hurts? It's gonna transition right into my product, I want to tell you about. This is a good story. Okay. Um, Lucy turned three this week and we got her a big girl bed. So it's actually my childhood bed that my parents bought, and we're like, this is great quality. You can give it to your kids one day. And we were able to keep it. Uh, it's been in our garage since we bought our house. It was in great shape, but holy shit, it was heavy. And I moved it with my dad because Tyler was at work. Um, anyway, so my body hurts. But that's not what we're here to tell you about. What I want to tell you about is this particular bed is like a platform bed, so it doesn't need any kind of box spring or anything like that. And so I ordered the mattress in a box. Um, there's a million brands. We have one on our bed and we love it. The one we have on our bed is a lime. Lime is the brand. Um, and it was like very inexpensive for a California king. And we get the hybrid. So it's like a foam and spring hybrid. You can't feel the springs at all. So we did the same for Lucy and we got her a smaller bed. But this mattress, lovely, gets delivered in a box like the same size as the nugget. It's the same idea. It comes rolled up like a little burrito, and then you lay it on the bed, cut out the plastic, and it just unrolls and goes like pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. And that that's like the exactly like that. I actually almost wanted to like quickly record it and be like, we'll make a reel out of this. That'd be a good one. I know, but I was too late. I couldn't like hold my phone, cut the plastic. So, mattress in a box, it was a hundred bucks for a twin mattress. Like, if it lasts for five years, who cares? I hate mattress shopping. This showed up on my doorstep in one day. I was able to easily move it in. And so far, Tyler and I have had ours for four years and we love it. So, mattress in a box, I can tell you that Lyme is a great brand because we have it, but there's like a million. There's one called Purple, there's one called avocado. There's there's a hundred of them, but I'm here. We will link the ones that I have uh so I can tell you those have been tested and are comfortable. But I support the mattress in a box.

SPEAKER_00 19:12

My product recommendation is what, Nick? It's a book about cheese. Oh we've been doing a lot of cheese stuff. It's called That Cheese Plate Will Change Your Life. I actually think we've talked about it before. We have, yeah. Uh Josie of Hill Valley Dairy, our good friend, uh brought it into my life. She said this is the way you need to do things. Um, I've done some cheese boards recently and just like literally Sorry, everybody, I'm punching things. Take out that book. You do like, it's literally cheese by numbers, like color by numbers. So easy. It's so great. Um, if you want to make some cool looking stuff, that's really yummy. If you're like, uh, you know, I want to live that cooter lifestyle. Cooter. Uh, but I don't know how. Um, that cheese plate will change your life. It's a great book. We'll link to it and uh you can buy it and maybe make me like 32 cents on an Amazon affiliate commission.

SPEAKER_02 20:01

Get yourself one. Well, guys, did we mention it's National Donut Day today? It's National Donut Day. National Donut Day. Nick had to tell me how depressing, guys. I mean uh, I know. But if you know me at all, two of my very favorite things are donuts and coffee. So today we're making Nick drink coffee. I'm excited to try this. And sample donuts.

SPEAKER_00 20:38

I'm not You look stressed. So um I've never like really gotten into coffee, haven't done it for a while. I think I should get into it like it's a drug. Um I mean it is. I don't like hot beverages.

SPEAKER_02 20:51

I know. So I was nice and I got Nick a variety. I got two black hot coffees, because you gotta, and then two like full of shit creamy iced coffees. So maybe you like those.

SPEAKER_00 21:04

I like iced tea. But to be clear, I don't like full of shit iced tea. I like tea.

SPEAKER_02 21:11

Yeah, I should have thought of that, but instead, I got you hot, bitter black. Because I wonder if you'd like cold black coffee, because it's bitter like iced tea.

SPEAKER_00 21:21

Everybody says that's the worst thing. So I don't know. It is gross. So we have donuts.

SPEAKER_02 21:25

Here's what we're doing coffee. We have donuts from four different places. Okay. I've made um, I've gotten a few samples. Like some places I only did one. There's a reason. Uh, some places I did a couple different because it wasn't I couldn't get apples to apples everywhere. Like, that's not true. I didn't want to. I picked what I knew was like the favorite donut at some of these places. Um, and I just want to see what you think about them. If you have guesses on where they're from, this will be fun. If you want to rank them, you can.

SPEAKER_00 21:52

I write wine descriptions, beer descriptions, liquor descriptions all the time. Let's do it with donuts.

SPEAKER_02 21:57

We will, we will. I I'll describe what you're eating once we start. That. And then, um, if you'd like to pair them with a beverage, you're welcome to. The coffee is solely here, so I can see you spit it out all over the uh microphone and expensive equipment.

unknown 22:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 22:10

Um, I prefer a hot black coffee with a sweet sugary donut. So I also have coffee from four places. This one that you are starting with is a hot black coffee. He's got it in a mug. We have a hot, I'll tell the people the hot black coffee is from Dunkin' Donuts and Boxton Burlap. So there is a local coffee.

SPEAKER_01 22:31

Oh my god, it's there's a local coffee and then there's a Dunkin' Donut coffee. It's like not flavorful tea.

SPEAKER_02 22:40

Tea doesn't have oh my God. This is the best because always I have to try disgusting things. Oh my god. Don't worry, I got a photo of his face for you guys. We can use it as a thumbnail. This is disgusting. Well, eat it. Wash it down with a donut, Nick.

SPEAKER_00 22:57

I'm gonna try donut number one.

SPEAKER_02 22:59

Okay, donut number one is chocolate cake. Yep, it's a chocolate cake donut. It's pretty shiny frosting. Um, very classic. You know, I would say that it's a spongier cake than some other cake donuts.

SPEAKER_00 23:11

This is a fine donut.

SPEAKER_02 23:12

This is a fine donut. I'm gonna write that down. This is a fine donut. Wait, before we start, do you have a type of donut you normally drink? Eat? Sorry. You're drinking this coffee and it's just hilarious. Who likes this? Me. Me likes this. Um, tell me what kind of donut you normally eat. Vanilla. You're a vanilla donut, aren't you?

SPEAKER_00 23:36

Yeah, vanilla donut with sprinkles. That's what I thought.

SPEAKER_02 23:39

You're a child. Yeah. Yeah, I am. Yeah. Oh, cake. You're a vanilla cake. I would have pegged you as a raised donut guy.

SPEAKER_00 23:47

This is a donut, you know, when someone brings a box of donuts to your office and it's just like, uh, it's a donut.

SPEAKER_02 23:53

I got I gotta give you a PSA here. If you're gonna order 80 donuts, order them ahead of time. Someone walked into Dunkin' Donuts when I was getting these donuts and said, Yeah, can I have 80 donuts? I thought the manager was gonna kill her. She was trying her best, but she was like, next time could you order those three days in advance? I'm trying to understand coffee. I'm gonna give you a pass on that coffee because uh there are better coffees out there. But what what I thought you might not hate about this particular coffee is it's pretty mild. It's very mild.

SPEAKER_00 24:25

There's nothing going on.

SPEAKER_02 24:27

I there's a flavor, it's just not a great flavor, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_00 24:33

I'm gonna use my my words. I'm gonna try it one more time. Oh yeah. I mean it smells of coffee, which is reductive. Thank you. It's got like zero flavor. It's like crappy tea. It's like crappy, too much watered-down earl-grade tea.

SPEAKER_02 24:50

I should have made you Folgers.

SPEAKER_00 24:52

Oh, that's watery.

SPEAKER_01 24:54

That's gross. Who drinks that? Isn't my favorite. I gotta tell you, not my favorite black coffee. Who would drink that?

SPEAKER_02 25:02

You know what? Why? Why would you do that to yourself? Let me just can you try the other hot coffee while it's mildly lukewarm? You can, you know, these ones I'm not gonna make him guess because he wouldn't have a clue. So once you have this one, I please coffee makers, if you're listening, Nick doesn't like coffee, so this is nothing personal. He doesn't like anyone's coffee.

SPEAKER_00 25:21

This has got something interesting going on in the back end.

SPEAKER_01 25:25

These are both terrible.

SPEAKER_02 25:32

Nick is snipping it like a fine wine, everybody. Nick, that's not the way it works. Actually, I bet um people who like actually study coffee. It's only lukewarm. At least I didn't make you drink scorching hot coffee. This is gross. I'm gonna be so curious if you like the cold coffee beverages. And I say coffee beverage because it's mostly milk.

SPEAKER_00 25:57

Um, I'm gonna challenge you to get me some better coffee than this.

SPEAKER_02 26:02

I mean, that one's not as bad by any means. That one's better in my opinion, which is there's something happening in it, but it's you just splashed some of that, man.

SPEAKER_00 26:11

Oh, I did, didn't I? Here, I'll get you a napkin while you continue tasting. I can just wipe it off on my jeans. That's what men do.

SPEAKER_02 26:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 26:19

And also punch each other in the face while golfing.

SPEAKER_02 26:22

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 26:23

I I take a coffee break, man.

SPEAKER_02 26:25

We're gonna keep we're gonna go back to the hot coffee. Yeah, we're gonna go back. And it listen, I know you don't like hot beverages, but it hurts the mission that it's lukewarm.

SPEAKER_01 26:35

So it's bitter, right?

SPEAKER_02 26:37

It is. Just drink tea. It's bitter in a different way. It's better.

SPEAKER_00 26:44

Okay, boulder coffee. You need bolder coffee? Yeah, give me, or like, I don't know, is lighter roast light like this, or like yes.

SPEAKER_02 26:52

Lighter roast, more watery. I'm a bold punch you in the face. Okay, but this is fascinating news. Bold, piping hot. Sure. Um okay, let's go back to the donuts. You had one chocolate donut. Number two, there are two donut options. Both are sprinkled. One is another chocolate cake donut, so you could compare. The other is a raised vanilla donut with sprinkles because I thought that's what you liked. Also, these are two very classic donuts. You can try them. Um, and they're from the same place. So I just wanted you to have two options from one place.

SPEAKER_00 27:26

The cake is a little moister and a little more sweet and flavorful. And the frosting is um less sweet and more balanced, and like less syrupy isn't the right word, but like less syrupy. Do you like that better? Who's having a coffin attack? Uh yeah, I do. I think overall it's like a better combination of flavors.

SPEAKER_02 27:52

I like the um I mean, number one was good. It's more dense, this cake donut to me. It's like more traditional cake donut than the first one, in my opinion. But I'm not actually sure if that's true. I just like that better.

SPEAKER_00 28:06

Now, this raised donut. Like perfectly fluffy.

SPEAKER_01 28:10

Oh, I was like, are you gonna hate on this, man?

SPEAKER_00 28:12

The white frosting, perfectly sweet, like straight sugar.

SPEAKER_02 28:18

This is like white donuts frosting is like clawingly sweet. I'm a chocolate donut person. Yeah, that's real sweet. I don't know about white white frosting on donuts. Uh we want these. Okay. Then go to number three. This is one single glazed donut. I wonder where this came from. I know I'm gonna make you guess next. Don't worry. Delicious. Don't hate on this one, I will punch you.

SPEAKER_00 28:46

Let's have it with some coffee.

SPEAKER_02 28:48

No way, man. Don't drink it with the lukewarm bad coffee. It makes the coffee taste better. I think I know you say you want bitter, but I bet you would like coffee with shit in it. And I say shit meaning cream and sugar.

SPEAKER_00 29:06

It makes the coffee like have some fruitiness. Interesting.

SPEAKER_02 29:11

Like adding sweetness to it. I can't imagine Dunkin' Donuts, uh, hot coffee has a ton of flavor notes to it. There's not a lot of places here. Although I can tell you where the other hot coffee is from. Baxton Burlap does the other hot coffee, and I'm sure they have interesting flavor notes on their coffee. I will look it up. But it is not as quite as not quite as bold as I prefer for a hot coffee. Are you trying the final donut? I love the sprinkles. So final donut. And you're crunchy. We got different sprinkles. This is a chocolate-raised donut, and then there's a vanilla longjong. Um, vanilla longjong, no sprinkles. Classic. The chocolate has a different kind of like, yeah, it's a crunchy sprinkle.

SPEAKER_00 29:54

This is what Simona dumps on cakes.

SPEAKER_02 29:56

Oh, okay, not the non curls. Okay, even better.

SPEAKER_00 29:59

I hear you. Um I don't love the donut base as much. Uh-huh. It's fairly um it's not very sweet, it's not very fluffy, but it's a great vessel for the sprinkles. And the sprinkles. Because the chocolate frosty is like everything you want. It's rich, creamy, a little bit of bitterness for the chocolate, perfect amount of sweetness is great.

SPEAKER_02 30:22

You're doing great at describing these frostings. It's funny because I don't pay attention to the frosting so much as the base of the donut. Just cares. Tell me about the vanilla. Because I feel like this one's well, I don't want, I won't say till you eat it.

SPEAKER_00 30:42

It's not sweet enough.

SPEAKER_02 30:44

I was like, I feel like this one's way less than a lot of things.

SPEAKER_00 30:46

This one's very boring. Yeah. This one's just empty calories. Aren't all donuts empty calories? No, I mean I think the first two in particular were like good, flavorful.

SPEAKER_02 30:58

Okay. First give me a ranking, then give me a guess. Okay. What was your least favorite donut?

SPEAKER_00 31:06

The vanilla longjong from four. Okay, vanilla longjong. Okay. And then the chocolate one on four. Okay. And then the glazer. Glazed the donut.

SPEAKER_01 31:19

What? You didn't like the glazer?

SPEAKER_00 31:21

No, I didn't not like it. Yeah, but it's just a glazer. And then number one. And then um number two. Yeah, number two, the chocolate, then number two, the white.

SPEAKER_02 31:32

Okay. This is exactly what I thought would happen. You want to guess where they're from? Do you even need my options, or can you guess? Yeah, give me the options. Quick Trip. Yep. Dunkin' Donuts. Yep. Piggly Wiggly. Yep. And Bittner's.

SPEAKER_00 31:45

So I think Bittner's was number one. I think Pig was number two. I think Quick Trip was number three. And I think Duncan was number four.

SPEAKER_02 31:53

Nailed it! Nick is a donut genius. They are all very distinctly different. They are very, yeah. Yes. But I mean, there's also only so many options for donuts in Lake Geneva. So I stuck with some classics. Uh the Duncan ones are not good. They're not good. I was hoping you would say that.

SPEAKER_00 32:10

I mean, everybody knows that. They're little um donut holes.

SPEAKER_02 32:12

Does everybody know that?

SPEAKER_00 32:13

Those are good.

SPEAKER_02 32:14

Yeah, because it's a different because it's a deep-fried dough.

SPEAKER_00 32:17

This base just always tastes a day old. Yeah, the base is not good.

SPEAKER_01 32:21

And the frosting's bad. The chocolate frosting was good. The vanilla frosting is bad.

SPEAKER_02 32:24

So those sprinkles, I think that was a special like for donut day or something. Because they're like, do you want the gold or the silver? And I literally was like, I don't care. I've been in here for like 20 minutes trying to buy one donut. Oh, Nick's trying the okay. Well, I gotta say something about the donuts while you try this next week.

SPEAKER_01 32:38

Oh my god, this is even worse. What did you just try? Jesus.

SPEAKER_02 32:45

Because that's clawingly sweet. Okay, Nick is trying, there are two creamy coffee beverages that are cold. And when I say creamy, I mean like they don't look like coffee. They're just like, you know, when people say they like coffee and then they like go through the McDonald's drive-thru and get like vanilla syrup.

SPEAKER_00 33:02

It's horrific. There's no flavor to it. There's absolutely zero flavor in this beverage. You want to guess where that's from? Duncan. Yes, it's from Dunkin'. There is legitimately zero flavor to this. There's no milk. Because it's not like a quality milk product. There's no milk. No. Well, that's not true. There's no coffee flavor. There's the wateriness. It's just sugar. It's just I said, what's your favorite?

SPEAKER_01 33:26

Disgusting. Tyler, you're doing it wrong.

SPEAKER_02 33:28

I said, what's your favorite, like sugary? I think I said full of shit drink. And the manager said, whatever that is, caramel crunch or something. I don't know what it is. It doesn't taste like caramel. It's probably got 900 calories in it.

SPEAKER_00 33:40

People are going through that drive-thru, just filling. This one's great because you can already see everything separating out of it.

SPEAKER_02 33:48

Oh, well, this one's gonna be funny. So this is a cold. This one I got as a like. This one's okay. Yeah. That's what this one I got thinking. I think Nick might not hate this one.

SPEAKER_00 34:00

I would never go out of my way to drink it.

SPEAKER_02 34:02

Because that is simply espresso and cream. So that is a canned Starbucks espresso and cream, where you're like, okay, this tastes like coffee a little more, but it's full of mm heavy cream.

SPEAKER_00 34:15

Alright, so you need to get me espresso because I like the coffiness of this. I don't like the creaminess of it.

SPEAKER_02 34:20

So just straight espresso, though, is is gonna be too bitter if you want to add sweetness to coffee with a donut.

SPEAKER_00 34:25

No, I just want like I want to try the bitter coffee.

SPEAKER_02 34:28

Bring it on, Bridget. More bitter coffee. You guys, you heard it here. We're gonna have a coffee tasting again. No more donuts. You nailed the donuts, though, man. I gotta say something. So the Piggly Wiggly chocolate cake donut is my favorite donut in town. Um, they do a great job. It's a family-run business. Bittner's chocolate cake donut, close second, but it's too it's too springy. Like it's too close. It's not, I want like a dense, crumbly one.

SPEAKER_00 34:56

They I think Bittner's does the best cakes in town. And like they're um I haven't had one in forever. Sorted um sweet baked things. Now I haven't been to what's that new one that's old for poppy cakes. I haven't been there. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:10

They don't have donuts, so otherwise I would have gotten them.

SPEAKER_00 35:13

Would have driven over there. But I think when it comes to like cupcakes and stuff, like I think Bitner's does an incredible job at that. And I think that frosting is too much like a cake frosting. Um that it just doesn't quite as it's in my mouth. Yes, that is what it tastes like. Like it it doesn't quite translate to the smaller amount of um um base, whatever you want to say. This was just fascinating. Like it's it's it's very good, but um, you know, I'm here to like give you the most nitpicky things that are possible.

SPEAKER_02 35:43

Because picking apart the frosting. I I mean this is what I'm finding fascinating and never thought about the frosting until now.

SPEAKER_00 35:49

So this is my friend Brian, who homebrews, we had to pick beer for he's sending to a very big, very prestigious competition he got invited to be in.

SPEAKER_02 35:58

Oh. Um congrats, Brian.

SPEAKER_00 36:00

So we had to taste through six batches of his beer and pick which one, three, three of them to send. And it's very minuscule, and like they're all uh quite honestly, like in the top five percent of beers for that style in the world. Not just homebrew, like he's very good at it and he's able to control it because it's a small enough batch, but it's a big enough batch that you get some consistency. And so you have to be so incredibly specific and start with the hey, we're all gonna acknowledge this is really good, right? Yeah, but we're not gonna talk about what's good about this. Like the purpose of this exercise is not to talk about what's good about this.

SPEAKER_02 36:36

Don't be nice. So Yeah, we that's true. All of these are great in their own right.

SPEAKER_00 36:42

Not the Duncan one. I was trying, okay? It's just empty, gross calories. Don't don't eat it. Like, grab the bag of Fritos.

SPEAKER_02 36:49

But it is the most, like, it's it's the most bakery-filling place to go in where it was like so pretty and fun, and they have beautiful, fun, lovely looking donuts. And you're like, you're tricked every time you go there. I'm like, I'm tricked by it. And then every time I'm disappointed.

SPEAKER_00 37:02

I think um Piggly Wiggly is the best place for donuts. I think they do bread well. I think they do if you need a like big custom cake and don't want to spend a lot of money. I think they do that well. I love their cakes. And I think if you um need any custom bakery stuff, like they can do slider buns and things like weird sizes because uh they're really um one of the ownership group loves the bakery, he works there every day, and so he just that's like his thing. Um so I highly recommend them for that stuff. I think Bittner's does the best um cakes. They're more money, but uh anybody that's done custom cake understands. I think it's worth it. And there's a reason. And I think like their assorted sweet things, like their putschkies they do are excellent, you know. Um so like I think that's good. And I think simple like bread and savory things, scones, stuff like that. Like it's not close.

SPEAKER_02 37:46

They also don't have, you know, they also don't have donuts, otherwise I would have to do that.

SPEAKER_00 37:50

So that's that's my ranking of you did great.

SPEAKER_02 37:53

I'm really impressed that you got them all, they're all distinctly different.

SPEAKER_00 37:56

If you go to Walmart and get any bakery stuff there, like you're an idiot. I know a lot of people like those donuts. I was gonna stop there, but it was like too chaotic, honestly, in tow. Those, because my dad would used to like bring them back, and it got to point I'm like, Dad, please just don't bring me anymore. Like they're not good. Yeah. Oh, the Walmart ones? They're like waxy and preservative laden, and just I'm like, full of preservative. I appreciate that you're trying to do something nice. Yep, yep. Like if the frosting you could take off in one piece, you know what I mean? Like you could just like peel it off. Like this is the wrong uh viscosity.

SPEAKER_01 38:27

But like yeah, you could just it's viscous.

SPEAKER_00 38:31

Yeah, I know like you could just like I'm watching you do like this.

SPEAKER_02 38:35

Yeah, you want to say like a toupee?

SPEAKER_00 38:37

Like if somebody's got a toupee on and you just take it and peel it off, that's like what I feel like you can do with that frosting because it's it's terrible. It's terrible. Uh so yeah, I'm happy to shit talk Walmart. But uh Yeah, sorry, Walmart.

SPEAKER_01 38:50

I didn't grab a donut from there because I knew you hated them. Also, Dunkin' Donuts, I mean your coffee sucks.

SPEAKER_02 38:56

It all sucks. People love Dunkin' Coffee, so the reason I got two from there is because people don't like flavor. I know people when people say they love coffee, they love that cup of shit. Like whatever that caramel, I don't even know what I have no idea what's in it, okay? No, but at least honestly, from Starbucks, I know what's in those drinks. That, no idea. I don't know what's in that, Nick. Anyway. Um, okay, well, that was fun. Thanks for playing along. And if you are listening on Sunday when this is released, get a donut and pretend it's national donut.

SPEAKER_01 39:27

I mean, it tastes like chocolate milk. Well, then it's not that bad. Chocolate milk with caffeine, I'll take it. I would prefer, I don't know, like more. More flavor.

SPEAKER_03 39:38

More flavor.

SPEAKER_01 39:39

You know, we're in search of big bold reds for you. Find me some big bold coffee. Next time we're coming with Collectivo.

SPEAKER_02 39:45

Gotta tell you, today was busy, couldn't get them all. Also, I didn't know where I would put them all in my car. I filled, I filled a cup holder in my kids' car seat. The struggle is real. I only have four cup holders. Well, I guess six with the car seats. So, all right, man. Next time, more coffee.

SPEAKER_00 40:01

You forget one in the car seat cup holder. I know.

SPEAKER_01 40:03

Lucy chugs it. Lucy had the Duncan hot coffee in her car seat today. So And Lucy's just like, hey, mom, what's up, mom? Hey, what's up?

SPEAKER_00 40:12

It's like Encanto at the start, which is and this is why coffee's for grown-ups.

SPEAKER_02 40:17

Oh, Encanto. Um, okay. Hey, this has is not scripted, but you just mentioned this. Elliot plays a really fun game with us. And if you've seen Encanto, you know, and he always says, Hey, what's your Encanto door? And it's like trying to find your happy place, which just goes back to like us trying to find gratitude and joy in the small little thing. So, like, yeah, he would go, What's your Encanto door, mom, dad? And he's genuinely interested. And we go into deep detail and it changes depending on the day. Like, you know, I'm usually like, hey, I don't know what my door looks like, but inside it smells like beautiful flowers and there's a light rain, and there's a path by a lake I can walk, you know, and we describe it and it's so fun.

SPEAKER_01 40:58

No, your encanto door is endless thrift shops. There's a goodwill at the end of the path.

SPEAKER_02 41:03

There's a thrift shop less expensive than goodwill at the end of the path. Anyway, it's a fun little game. If you have kids, you can play what's your encanto door. I like that. It's my tip for you.

SPEAKER_00 41:13

Man, I don't even know what mine would be.

SPEAKER_02 41:15

Yeah, it might change. Tyler's most recently was a habit door, and it was a, I don't know, he described a habit house, I think, or something.

SPEAKER_00 41:22

Can we talk about a local tragedy? Uh hot air balloon. Oh, I was like, what? Crashing into a smokestack, crashing into power lines, crashing into a train. Is everyone okay? It's serious.

SPEAKER_02 41:35

I heard there was one person that was serious.

SPEAKER_00 41:37

They all got flight to life, but they're all out, I guess. Well, they are. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:40

It said, I thought it said three were like okay and one was more serious.

SPEAKER_00 41:44

Do you imagine? I'm terrified of hot air balloons for this very reason. I'm like, how do you you can't hard to control.

SPEAKER_01 41:49

I've seen Wizard of Oz. I know this ghost.

SPEAKER_00 41:51

That's real life.

SPEAKER_01 41:52

Like, you can't control it. Yeah, that's a hard one.

SPEAKER_02 41:55

Uh they don't at least scare me that much for the amount of control I need in my life.

SPEAKER_00 42:00

And this just reinforces, like, do you know how hard it is to run into a train? Yeah. I mean, it's a hard job, man.

SPEAKER_02 42:06

I gotta I can't. I can't I can't fly a hot air balloon.

SPEAKER_00 42:09

So if if you're you know, if your numbers up, like your numbers up. That's kind of you know what I mean? Like nobody died. But it's like if you manage to crash a hot air balloon into a train, which is not like trains are like tractors where tractors can go all over a field, go on roads, tractors can go anywhere, you know? Trains are only on their tracks, which are like four feet wide. Yeah, but I think they there's a finite number of trains. How did you hit the- No, the train was running.

SPEAKER_01 42:37

It was smacked into the side of it. I mean, I I don't think they're that small, trains. Trains are very small. Like not if you're trying to land a hot air balloon.

SPEAKER_00 42:47

Trains take up a very small, they're four feet apart.

SPEAKER_02 42:50

Like they're they're you know like he hit the side of a train, which is long.

SPEAKER_00 42:53

Yeah, but you still like have all of this landing area you could land in.

SPEAKER_01 42:57

Like you wanna go land a hot air balloon, Nick?

SPEAKER_00 42:59

Tell us how it goes. I'm guessing I could like not hit a train. Well, he has landed many times without hitting a train. My friend Doug and I, he's a pilot, and we had this debate many times about airplanes are easier to fly than have air balloons. Yeah, I agree, because you know, but like I feel like I could land a plane. I don't think it'd ever fly again. I think I could land a plane. But I do think I could land a plane. Well, did you see that guy in Florida? He was talked through it, though. Yeah, I think I could. I've played flight simulator for many hours.

SPEAKER_02 43:27

I think if someone talked you through and said, like, there is a lever on your left, do this. Anyone can do that.

SPEAKER_00 43:32

I'm not saying like it's gonna be a safe landing. I'm just saying, like hopefully it won't crash. Yeah, I mean it's a controlled crash. You know, you just like stall it into the ground. Oh chaos. Just bump your way into the ground. Yeah, it'd be fine.

SPEAKER_02 43:44

So that was some local news update from Nick Borpegle. That's the craziest thing I've ever seen. I like forgot about it, to be honest. And I feel bad for I feel bad for the company because people are gonna give them shit. And I go try and flat hide air bloom, man. I don't know. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 43:59

It's a zero. Zero failure business.

SPEAKER_02 44:01

Yeah, because I imagine you a wind gust comes and like I'm sure he wasn't aiming for the train guys, but you know, I I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 44:09

Well, it would be crazy if you said, actually, I was aiming for the train because I knew the momentum would stall us enough that we wouldn't Maybe.

SPEAKER_02 44:15

But no one's probably taken it, no one's probably taken the time to ask him. And instead, he's probably just getting ripped apart. I feel bad.

SPEAKER_00 44:22

I feel bad for him. People are trying to do that. I feel bad for the people that paid. Do you think the people that paid to be at are gonna get a refund?

SPEAKER_01 44:29

Yes, I do. I do think they probably are, but I don't know. I think they won't because that'd be admitting fault.

SPEAKER_02 44:39

Oh god, Nick. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 44:41

Okay, we're not- you know what? I don't know. It's too depressing. Back to donuts. I mean, the pictures are just like bizarre. I was gonna try and look them up, but instead I got distracted.

SPEAKER_02 44:52

So okay, Nick, do we have any food to talk about besides donuts today? I made some really good chicken last night. Did you?

SPEAKER_00 44:59

I don't know if I've eaten a real meal this week. I took the bourbon chicken and chopped it up into pieces. Okay. A little oil in the pot. Zoom, zoom, zoom.

SPEAKER_01 45:08

Zoom zoom.

SPEAKER_00 45:09

Uh, dumped in a little extra whiskey, like just cheap $10 crap, tossed it in that, you know, to give it a little bit more uh zhuzh and a little chili powder and a little bit uh more salt. It was very good. And what did you eat it with? Just chunks of chicken? Uh rice and broccoli.

SPEAKER_01 45:26

I was like, what did you do? This is very Bridget friendly. I know. I was like, that's a very Bridget meal.

SPEAKER_02 45:31

Rice and broccoli and chicken. I was just gonna say, I just picked the chicken. I've never had our bourbon chicken, honestly. Sounds scary. I'll give you a piece. It's upstairs. You can just take a chunk. What this was a great lunch. A plate of donuts. I think all I've eaten today. Just kidding, I ate a salad while I was driving out here from Piggly Wiggly.

SPEAKER_00 45:47

I'll give you, you know, I tried your crappy coffee.

SPEAKER_01 45:51

I tried, okay. Crappy coffee is where it's at.

SPEAKER_02 45:54

Uh I don't have anything to refer to.

SPEAKER_01 45:56

Do people seriously drink this coffee?

SPEAKER_02 45:58

Yes, people seriously like that coffee. I don't know what to say to you. I am not people.

SPEAKER_00 46:03

None of those coffees were my favorite. I mean, there's things where like I can understand why people like it. Like, I'm not a big seafood guy, but I understand why people like it.

unknown 46:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:12

And I can identify flavors and say, oh, I understand why you'd like this or you know, whatever. Not this.

SPEAKER_01 46:17

It's flavorless and gross and disgusting. Well, I wouldn't argue it is not flavorless. Just you just don't like the flavor. It's so one note. Isn't coffee supposed to be sufficient? Very watery. No, not Dunkin' Donuts coffee. But like, isn't coffee like supposed to have multiple flavor notes? This um box and burlap one, I'm like I guess a little uh I need to learn more.

SPEAKER_02 46:39

I need to educate myself a little bit more about that, is the nice way of me saying. Um, okay. The food, I can't believe you didn't say it. The best food we both had this week was probably the aged gouda. Oh, I forgot about the gouda. Um maybe Hill Valley Dairy's doing an aged gouda just for Lake Geneva Country Meets. And we went out and shot a video and got to sample a delicious smattering of a few different cheeses. Um, all were amazing. I'm not gonna talk about them because they're not released to the public yet. Um uh, but aged gouda is available only at Lake Geneva Country Meets right now, but it was super, super delish and a great way to celebrate dairy month. So also, Tyler, plug your ears. Great birthday gift for Tyler Leach. He loves Gouda. So that's what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_00 47:27

Wheels and wheels of Gouda. Box and Burlap, their journey for a perfect espresso machine led them to Christopher Calkins, a bespoke coffee roaster in Brooklyn. He has a long history with coffee, which includes working with the co-founders of Starbucks and an apprenticeship with Alfred Pete. I don't know. Is that it? That's basically what it says about their coffee. It's bespoke. They roast their own. It's a custom roast and cannot be found in any other Midwestern coffee shop.

SPEAKER_02 47:54

Oh, good to know.

SPEAKER_00 47:56

I mean, okay, there you go. It's bespoke coffee. Whatever. I would just like to say Earl Grey tea is delicious. Just get yourself some tea. But it's hot. I ice it. You ice Earl Grey tea? Yeah. Oh. Make it extra strong.

SPEAKER_01 48:10

If you like my snort, and then ice it.

SPEAKER_00 48:14

It's aromatic, flavorful, bitter, full of caffeine, and delicious.

SPEAKER_01 48:18

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 48:20

Um, okay. Simple does an exceptional iced Earl Grey. Really? Yeah. Well, you're gonna try their coffee next time. And I'm gonna have to find some other bold coffees. To be continued, everybody.

SPEAKER_01 48:33

The key is like you gotta make the tea a little strong.

SPEAKER_02 48:36

Yeah, because you ice it down. That's like they do that with coffee too. People screw it up. Okay, that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna get you some cold brew coffee also. That's next up, Avant and Collectivo. That's our next coffee tasting. All right, man. You know what we've made it to? It's time for.

SPEAKER_00 48:56

I got a simple one. You got a kid with a birthday, I'll go first. Um Simona's decided she doesn't like wearing shoes outside. Yeah, no shoes, no shoes for life. So we're like, hey, we're gonna go uh water some trees. Like, I don't oh yeah, that's gonna be so much fun. I'll do it. Because like you're gonna dump a bucket of water on trees and like pump the water and hold the hose. Pump the water? Yeah, because you like my trees are very far away from where there's a hose. So we get a big trash bu barrel loaded up with water. We have a hand pump and little buckets, and you bump pump the water into the buckets.

SPEAKER_02 49:29

Wow. That is a way to do it.

SPEAKER_00 49:32

Yeah. All right. Country living.

SPEAKER_02 49:34

Country living.

SPEAKER_00 49:34

Uh what are you talking about? I'm like, okay, let's put our shoes on. And then she says no, and she has a meltdown, and then she gets she's not allowed to go do it because like there's prickers and stuff and bugs, and you know, you can't snakes. Snakes. So, and then she gets mad that I'm watering the she wanted to come do it. It's like, well. Ah, the good times are rolling. So she doesn't want to wear shoes. It's annoying. Wear your shoes, Simona.

SPEAKER_02 49:58

It's annoying. Simona, when you're listening, age three gets way harder. JK, I can't say that. Elliot was harder at three. I don't know about Lucy yet, because she just turned three. Uh, yeah, we had a birthday this week. Lucy turned three, have you heard? All the pictures made me cry. I was like, oh, Lucy, there's so many pictures.

SPEAKER_00 50:15

A little back in the day.

SPEAKER_02 50:16

I just like I know I've talked about it on here, but this chaos of like Mother's Day to Father's Day in my life is going to kill me. So Lucy's birthday was Wednesday, Elliot's last day of school is today. Lucy's birthday party is Sunday, and Tyler's birthday is Tuesday. Woo! So um, I could share any number of things from her birthday, but I'm just gonna tell you my most proud parenting moment is now that Lucy makes me coffee every day. It's not real coffee, sadly. Crappy coffee like this or good coffee. It's um she my parents got her a brand new play kitchen because she loves playing in her kitchen. So she got one in her bedroom and they got her a little coffee maker. She loves when the shit makes noise, right? Which I, you know. So she got a they have a little coffee maker. So she will go and get a real mug from our like my coffee mugs and make me a big coffee. Mom, you want a big hot coffee? I said, Yes, I need a big coffee, Lucy. So she delivers it to me with a croissant, coffee and a croissant, all fake. Don't worry. I wish it was real. But it's my most favorite thing that she does now. Um, there's a hundred other stories, but it was a lovely, fun birthday. Lucy now also demands that we sing her happy birthday almost every day. So this is gonna go on until at least she has her party on Sunday, and then we can move over to Tyler's birthday. Fair. Fair, fair kids, they cray.

SPEAKER_01 51:37

That's all, everybody. Well, I hope you guys enjoyed this uh episode.

SPEAKER_00 51:41

Donut day. Happy donut day.

SPEAKER_01 51:44

And uh thanks for giving us a break last week, but we're back.

SPEAKER_00 51:48

Get some beer from Fair State. Super beer. It's the best beverage here by far.

SPEAKER_02 51:52

That bar was low. Um, and it's summertime. Yay! Donuts are good. If your kids got out of school this week, blessings to you and good luck this summer.

SPEAKER_00 52:03

Don't punch anybody on the golf course, especially if they're over 65 in the state of Florida, because it appears to be uh enhanced crime.

SPEAKER_02 52:09

And go get a mattress in a box. Have a great day, everybody. Bye-bye.