Mother's Day '21 | Dinner Plus Drinks #72

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hey everybody, it's Nick. We had a little snafu with saving some audio files this week, so we're using the backup audio. The quality isn't what it normally is. I apologize for that. It was not totally terrible. And the episodes are pretty gosh darn good. Lots of Mother's Day stuff, some Taco Tuesday talk. You're gonna have to stay tuned to see everything that goes on, but it's a good episode. Hope you enjoy. Again, sorry for the little audio mishap. No video this week. But enjoy. Let's go. Hello everybody. Welcome to a very fun, exciting. Bridget and I have been pumped for this one for a couple days episode of Dinner Plus Drinks. Pumped for a couple days. Why? Well, because we've got a very interesting news topic to discuss later. But first, I would just like to say Happy Mother's Day, Bridget. Thank you.

SPEAKER_03 0:59

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there.

SPEAKER_00 1:01

We are celebrating with Frosé.

SPEAKER_03 1:03

Frosé, this was a surprise to me. Actually, our outline was margaritas question mark.

SPEAKER_00 1:08

Well, I wanted to mix it up over some of the things we've previously done. Rose would have been great for Mother's Day, but we just released the Pinkies Up about Rosé.

SPEAKER_03 1:15

Yes, I was gonna mention that as well because I recently just drank a lot of Rosé.

SPEAKER_00 1:19

So I was thinking a cocktail, you know, maybe margaritas, because it was Cinco de Mile, and uh we had some good ones, and it's fun and I love a margarita. But then I said, no, we are releasing on Mom's Day. We should do something fun and seasonal and exciting for mom. And rosé is great. It's delish. Okay, but you added a special little fun in here. Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:39

Are we talking or should we not talk about it yet?

SPEAKER_00 1:40

We should, we should, so let's just get this over with frozen and cold and we should drink it while it's still you know we're gonna chug it. Chunky a little bit. It's a lot of alcohol. Although actually I may have upped it a little bit. Yeah, I think you'll up to it there at the end. Okay, so uh this is a very simple recipe. Basically, you need um like two cups of strawberries. You could do other fruit. I think strawberry is good for rosé. Yep, frozen strawberries, thank you for reminding me. Yeah, yeah. Uh two cups of ice, and then like 500 milliliters of rose. Just you could do sparkling if you want, you could do still if you want. I used um the hogwartsh cans, which are like perfect for this. Uh you could do a little bit more, a little bit less, then just blend it up to your taste. And then I taste, I said, mmm, a little skimpy on the alcohol, and it just needs a little, because it needed like a little triple sack. Add a little bit of just a small dash of triple sack because orange is delicious with strawberry. You know, orange strawberry always plays together well. Adds a little bit more sweetness, which is nice in this, and just a touch more alcohol, which I think actually does help.

SPEAKER_03 2:44

Yeah, because it's a lot of sugar. Yeah, and um, first of all, orange is one of my favorite flavors of anything, right? So, like banana, love bananas, hate banana flavor, okay? Oh yeah. Orange I like across the board. So anyway, thanks for adding the orange. Yeah, I think um, isn't there a thing with like frozen strawberries and the water content if you use I feel like that helped that? I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 3:04

I don't know if that's a good one. So I was very happy with that. So Froze, make some. It's easy. Uh maybe we'll screw around with some more Frozés over the course of the summer.

SPEAKER_03 3:13

We can make them into popsicles? Oh, we could, you're right. I saw this is not a product rack, but I've got to. Eat your alcohol. Eat your alcohol. Don't give it to your kids. Um, I recently saw like little reusable plastic pouches. So, like, um, you know, like the kids' popsicle things. So those were a big deal last summer. Yeah, so just.

SPEAKER_00 3:30

Shannon brought some over the one time. Those were delicious.

SPEAKER_03 3:32

No, but like I saw ones you can make, like, you know, like reusable Ziploc bags to be more green. I saw those, but in popsicle shape on Amazon. I thought.

SPEAKER_00 3:39

Leave it to the millennials to figure out how to get your alcohol in like throwback 1980s, 1990s kids' ways while still being good to the earth. I mean, that's exactly what it was. Man, that's millennials. We're the best.

SPEAKER_03 3:52

We're the best. I do think that this is great for like if you're drinking with lots of other moms. So if you're celebrating with your other moms, um make it in a batch cocktail.

SPEAKER_00 4:00

We got Sarah a little bit of uh the frose as a preview.

SPEAKER_03 4:04

Yes, and uh thanks for being a mom.

SPEAKER_00 4:06

She said it would be better if it was hotter outside, and you're right, honey. I agree. But also, um, you know, like like Bridget said, just a mom's day get together with your your mom house.

SPEAKER_03 4:16

Down pals. And whatever momming looks like to you. If that is a dog mom, okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:23

A carrot mom.

SPEAKER_03 4:24

Yeah, okay, carrot mom.

SPEAKER_00 4:25

I was thinking of your exciting trip and and the fun you had with Brittany. So much fun.

SPEAKER_03 4:29

And yeah, I don't I feel like that was 10 years ago at this place. 10 years was just a couple days, but the night we arrived, we drank a lot of rose, like more than we needed to. It's a two-hour time difference to Seattle. I had flown all day with the two-year-old with a not-get two-year-old.

SPEAKER_00 4:46

Let's be very clear, you did not defraud the airline of that ticket for the house.

SPEAKER_03 4:49

I did not, she is not two. She was 11. She would have sat on my lap, except we had an empty seat next to us, so she got her own seat, thank God, because that's a long flight. Uh, but yeah, we arrived, and Brittany's very good at having all like snacks in the car for us because it's it's like a 45-minute drive to her house from the airport-ish. And she brought me flowers, and then we get to our house, and well, I got Lucy down to sleep right away, and then we stayed up till one in the morning, which is three in the morning Wisconsin time, drinking rose. But Lucy still woke up at 5 a.m. Seattle time. So that was a great first day of vacation, but super fun. And yeah, I I was gonna plug Pinkies up, but since Nick already did that, you should check it out. We talk about all the rose.

SPEAKER_00 5:32

Well, I thought the cool thing was how she got to have the carrots. Yeah, okay. Well, I was switched back to the colour.

SPEAKER_03 5:38

Yeah, Lucy.

SPEAKER_00 5:39

Britney liked the alcohol. Lucy liked the vegetables.

SPEAKER_03 5:41

You know what? We'll talk about the vegetables during Kid Corner. How about that? Okay, we'll talk about it then. Is that on the outline? It just says Lucy traveling. Oh, okay. There's a lot to cover. Like to cover there.

SPEAKER_00 5:52

There, I'll make sure to add carrots.

SPEAKER_03 5:54

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:54

Rose say, Happy Mother's Day, everybody. I think we should stay off the bat, right?

SPEAKER_03 5:58

Yeah, I think so, because hopefully you're listening on Mother's Day.

SPEAKER_00 6:00

Kathy, you're wonderful. I love you. Sarah, you're wonderful, I love you.

SPEAKER_03 6:04

You can't start naming names because then you will miss someone.

SPEAKER_00 6:07

All the other people that consider themselves moms in my life, you're also wonderful.

SPEAKER_03 6:13

Good job. Good job.

SPEAKER_00 6:15

I think I have to like acknowledge my mom and wife directly. Okay, so do I need to do that now? Probably.

SPEAKER_03 6:21

Definitely acknowledge your wife. My wife, Tyler. Just kidding. Everybody, I love you. Happy Mother's Day. We're moving on because I'm nervous. I'm gonna miss names, okay? Okay. Thank you for being such a good mom. I'm sorry. How hard is that? Can't remember her own mom's name. Brittany, you're a dog mom. Shannon, you're a mom of two. Beth, you a mom. And a dog mom. And a dog mom. Crap. You a win. See, I can't do it. I'm sweating. Okay. We're moving on. Okay, we already talked about our drinks. Lots of drinking. Oh, yeah. Should I talk about my drink?

SPEAKER_00 6:55

You should talk about you should talk about your food. This is why I was thinking margaritas at first, because Cinco de Mayo.

SPEAKER_03 7:02

So yeah, last week was Cinco de Mayo. If you haven't heard us talk about it already. We kind of love tacos.

SPEAKER_00 7:06

I don't know if you all got that.

SPEAKER_03 7:08

Yeah, but I I gotta tell you, like, it Cinco de Mayo sucked this year for me. Last year, we had to get creative. It was COVID, and remember, we we did like a special episode. You were busy. I was busy. Remember what you were doing. But I did a whole, I went around, got takeout tacos from three different places in Lake Geneva, and did a fun little episode or a fun little recording of taco taste testing. So it was great. I got all these delicious tacos and margs. This year, it was a bit of a challenging day in our household. So we had just gotten back from traveling and there was some other stuff going on. So I had Santa Fe salsa chicken, of course. I had some made, and like I don't even know what I fed the kids. I think I have no idea, to be honest with you, probably French fries. And when they went to bed, I was like, I just want a taco. But we had like no groceries because we cleared everything out before our case.

SPEAKER_00 7:57

Alcabell and Lake Geneva's closing early now.

SPEAKER_03 7:59

They are?

SPEAKER_00 7:59

Yeah, because they have like three staff.

SPEAKER_03 8:02

Their staff has gotten much better.

SPEAKER_00 8:04

They have, but there's only like three of them. So I think it's the three that like I hope they're getting paid. Like, I hope they have they're getting paid. Is it the people who franchised it? It's like the family owners.

SPEAKER_03 8:13

They are very nice though. So, um, but I was like, well, we have lettuce. I had some ramen cheese, so I was able to put but like listen, rawn cheese is delicious, but tacos call for just like shit cheese. Anyway, I made a salad.

SPEAKER_00 8:27

Unless you have the habanero cheese to shred up.

SPEAKER_03 8:29

I know I didn't. I just have a regular sharp cheddar. But like I had an avocado salsa that I treated like a dressing and made a salad. So like lettuce, chicken, rawn cheese, avocado salsa, and sriracha dressing. So I put a bit too much on, but it was delicious, and normally I would put some tortilla chicken. Sounds like you need some crunch in there, Bridget. I sure do. I'm glad you know where I'm at. So I was like sitting at my dining room table wallowing, like by myself, eating dinner, like, ugh. And I was like, man, this needs a crunch. So sitting next to me on the table is a bowl of goldfish that my children didn't eat probably hours ago during the day. So took some goldfish, crunched those right up, added some extra cheddar into my taco salad, and it was delicious. I love it. Yes, it was so good. It was a whatever, you know, quote, healthier version of a taco until I added goldfish crackers to it. And it was really great. It sounds good.

SPEAKER_00 9:20

There's all sorts of fun uses for goldfish.

SPEAKER_03 9:22

Yeah, yeah, and different ways to make tacos.

SPEAKER_00 9:24

I love it.

SPEAKER_03 9:25

Tell me about your real tacos.

SPEAKER_00 9:27

So we did we did a big thing, you know, on our anniversary, May 4th. Star Wars Day is our anniversary, and also Cinco de Mayo Eve. So we always have like a little debate of what are we gonna celebrate, you know, how do we so we have two days to celebrate in a row, and uh this year we decided we're gonna do tacos two days in a row. We did plain ground beef tacos. You know, I'm not the biggest fan, but we did those on Cinco de Mayo, and I made some bomb steak tacos on our anniversary for Taco Tuesday, Cinco de Mayo Eve, and man, they were so good, they were so good. I have this like uh dry rub for tacos dialed in. Like dialed in. I've somehow heard you talk about it, I've never eaten it. Well, maybe it's taco Tuesday, come on over. Seriously. But uh, we big green eggdom. I left work at like 4 10. It was perfect. Got the egg fired up, maybe I had a beer while I was doing it. I could have. Maybe. Oh, this is the Eve, yes. Yes, it was our anniversary. Okay, well, it's fun. Then we uh we grilled the steaks. My little brother-in-law and his girlfriend came over to join us. Simona was very happy. She had a lovely anniversary gift for her parents. She did a great job with that. Lovely baby girl. And we had our margaritas that were your margaritas are delicious. Very good. Yes. And we just, it was so nice because we just had the whole, you know, like chill and ah, I just love tacos.

SPEAKER_03 10:55

Oh, tacos and margaritas. I know I was just so sad because honestly, it was Wednesday and I was getting Elliot from school, and I was like, Do you want some tacos tonight, Elliot? Before like the day went off the rails. And he's like, Mom, it's Wednesday. I mean, he legit has tacos to be.

SPEAKER_00 11:10

He Regina Georged you.

SPEAKER_03 11:12

Yeah, he I then I had to try and explain Sanco de Mayo to him, and he did not care. I was like, okay, well, I'm gonna move on. Oh, Elliot, we trained you so well. Okay, so we had good food. This this section here, you guys.

SPEAKER_00 11:25

It's gonna go off the rails a little bit, guys.

SPEAKER_03 11:27

But we're gonna go through two of my stories, because I mean that Nick has a heavy one that we're talking through that we've been fighting about in the office for three days.

SPEAKER_00 11:36

And we like, because we're like, no, we start talking about it. I actually think we're fairly close in how we feel about this. I don't know. I can't tell. But we stop because we won't say it for on you. No! We're doing it for you guys.

SPEAKER_03 11:47

So before we get into the much heated debate, first let's laugh a little bit about Will Smith. Have you seen this stuff about his dad not?

SPEAKER_00 11:55

Oh my god. I saw a really good Will Smith meme Arsenal Football Club lost the Europa League. It's very bad. And the last episode of Fresh Prince, where he's like touring the mansion and like all set and leaving, somebody photoshopped an Arsenal jersey onto him and like did the like him like sadly looking in different places. I was like, oh, this is all feels.

SPEAKER_03 12:12

Dude, this is all feels. I have to say, I think I actually learned about this first on like 96.1 when they did like a celebrity gossip minute or whatever, which is our local radio station. Um I didn't like follow him on Instagram or know anything about his life until I heard that, and then I've been stalking. He posted a picture in this like hilarious pose, and it's him just in boxer briefs, and he's got a dad bod, and he's like saying, I'm in the worst shape of my life. And so he partnered, I think, with YouTube, um, to get get his fitness back on track, so to get his health back on track. And so he is saying, like, yeah, look at guys, like, I'm a celebrity, you think everything's perfect, but look, I have an action star. I have this dad bod. And so then all these other dudes are posting their dad bod poses, and the they're doing you have to look up Will Smith Dad bod and you'll see the like the picture, the way he's posing. So all these other people are posing like it, it's freaking hilarious. So if you need a good gig, we'll do that. Next up, I don't know if this is a news story because it's from Instagram, but I'm gonna it's a news, it's newsworthy because if you don't know, um May is mental health awareness month. Indeed, it is very important. Um we talk about it a lot here, we should talk about it everywhere, it should be part of a regular conversation. Um, and Shannon gets the credit for this one, uh, shared it on her Instagram story, and I spent a lot of time digging into it. So on Upworthy, um, and I know it's a Reddit uh thread too, a they did um it's a hashtag best thing a therapist said, and it's people just saying, like, here's the best thing a therapist taught me. So it's if you go, we'll post the link to this Upworthy Instagram um carousel, and it's just a whole bunch of quick little like therapy tips. So if you don't have a therapist yet, or you don't like your therapist, or you're not sure if therapy's right, these are some great little tips to like help, and they're actually really useful, I thought, uh, to kind of help you through some things. So we'll post that.

SPEAKER_00 13:56

There are two other really great threads in Reddit. One was therapist of Reddit. What is something that someone said that surprised you? Oh. And the other one was like, what is something that people always think is gonna surprise you that doesn't surprise you? Oh. The first one was like really boring. Because people are like, damn, nothing really surprises us. And like the boring, the stuff that they're surprised by is like super boring. Like, I like to make my bed every day. Nothing surprised. And people think that's like a you know, like compulsive thing. And the therapist is like, no, that's fine. Yeah. Why would you think that? That's not that weird. Uh and then the surprising ones, the people the thing that people think are surprising that always aren't are like sex things. And therapists are like, no, it's fine.

SPEAKER_03 14:34

This is also not surprising.

SPEAKER_00 14:36

And it's like, you know, because Americans don't talk about sex.

SPEAKER_03 14:38

Oh, I every time we talk about that, Reddit, I'm like, I know I would like Reddit. I love Reddit. And it's a day ahead of the rest of the social media, and I just like can't, it's so boring to look at.

SPEAKER_00 14:49

Okay, guys. Billie Eilish. She's a 19-year-old singer, very familiar. Don't jump who Billie Eilish is. Uh she has a very unique style with her music, and she has a very unique style with her wardrobe. She did a lot of very baggy clothes to conceal her figure because she said, I'm not out here selling my body, I can dress how I want, don't judge me. And she was really applauded for that. And I think that was great. She did that. Definitely her right to dress however she wants. In no way do I think women should be shamed for how they dress. And I think if you want to make a statement that you're dressing a certain way to prove a certain point, that's great. So she shocked the world last week by doing a cover of Vogue, uh, the British version of it, in um uh, what do you call it? What do you call it? A peanut. Yeah, she it's like a peanut model uh theme. So she's got the um like a boostier. Yeah, she's got a pink Gucci corset and a skirt over some expensive uh underwear and latex love and leggings. And it's like very not her thing. And so before anybody could even like shame her about her body, she came out and said, don't do it, I can do whatever I want, blah blah blah, blah blah blah, which is 100% true, and I don't disagree with. And now the controversy isn't that people aren't saying she can do it, people are like, you're kind of selling out.

SPEAKER_03 16:20

I have an issue with this in a much broader sense that, like, who cares? Why are we talking about like she's just a woman wearing what she wants to wear? If today she wants to wear a corset, tomorrow she wants to wear a sweatshirt.

SPEAKER_00 16:31

And I agree with you on that. I don't care. The reason why I do care is because she went out of her way to dress a certain way. Yes. And then say, In a hoodie. Screw you, I'm doing what I want. This is how I dress. So who cares? But then it feels inauthentic when you make that big of a stink about something, and then you go and like do the exact opposite and say, same screw you. Now she did screw you, I'll dress however I want, and she changed outfits every day, and that's her thing. Sure. Like that's authentic. What if she keeps dressing like this? Is it okay then? Yeah, then it's a change. But I just I feel like I'm skeptical of it, and I don't Well, why do you think she did that?

SPEAKER_03 17:07

Then I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 17:08

Like, I I honestly I think she's just trying to like shock people.

SPEAKER_03 17:12

Good. She did.

SPEAKER_00 17:13

Yeah, so good job, PR monitor. She's 19! Feels inauthentic.

SPEAKER_03 17:18

No, I have zero issue with this. So I was introduced by this to this story, of course, from Instagram, and it was like on a feminist-ish page that I follow, and it was like exactly the real problem is here that we are talking about what a 19-year-old is wearing. Who gives a shit what she's wearing, and I get your point.

SPEAKER_00 17:34

Like, she made a-chose to make us talk about she doesn't know what she's doing.

SPEAKER_03 17:39

She is 19, so she's like, Yeah, today I'm gonna be like, screw you, I'm in a black hoodie. Tomorrow I'm gonna wear this corset. I think it's I think it's great. She looks great, she does look great. I don't know, I think she had a speckled past.

SPEAKER_00 17:49

I mean, her she her parents are entertainers, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:52

Yeah, like I have not seen it yet, and I meant to watch it last night for research, but Apple TV has a movie out about it, and I think Justin Timberlakes in it. Anyway, I really like to watch it and understand it better. But I just like in general, I I see the conflict in this. I have no issue with her changing and wearing this now because good for her, I wouldn't wear that on a cover of magazine because I'm not in shape, but I don't know. I just think it's an issue, it's a broader issue. Um, and Nick, I know Nick does not have an issue with women wearing whatever they want, so this is not a statement to Nick. This is a statement about women in general, about how women are treated in general.

SPEAKER_00 18:32

I can't why she wanted to be proactive about saying, like, stop shaming me, but no one shamed her. And I actually think she was the one that people have said. How do you know that? Because she said people are shaming me in the interview before it even you know came out.

SPEAKER_03 18:45

So she was like second guessing her opinion already for her decision.

SPEAKER_00 18:48

So like she knew what it was gonna do when she did it. Like she did it to be provocative.

SPEAKER_03 18:52

Yep. Which makes sense to me. That's very much her attitude to be provocative.

SPEAKER_00 18:57

Yeah, and so like now I just feel like I don't I don't know her. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 19:02

I never so she honestly I never knew that she went out of her way. Like I just thought, oh, that's how you dress, and like you're gonna be the one.

SPEAKER_00 19:11

And like, I can dress this way, I can be a celebrity, which I think was a great stance. And so her quote in here, that kind of stuck with me. She said, quote, suddenly you're a hypocrite if you want to show your skin and you're easy and you're a slut. Yeah. Let's turn around and be empowered in that, showing your body and showing your skin or not, she's not taking respect away from you. And I 100% agree with that. Where I think where I have a challenge with it is like, you built this brand. Because I understand she's only 19, but she's making a lot of money. Sure. And her parents are entertainers, she's been working towards this since she was 14. She has smart people in her life that have this experience. This isn't this is a purposeful decision. Sure. So why do you spend all this time building your brand and who you are and sending this message to people, not just women, people because men take notices too of like I can be a celebrity and dress however I want, but only dressing one way.

SPEAKER_03 20:03

You know, you spent years only dressing one way, and now you're I think rather her stance is not like I'm this person that dresses this one way, it's rather I I am this person that can do whatever I want.

SPEAKER_00 20:14

Yeah, and but she only dressed one way. You know, if you can do whatever you want and you'll So I think if she would have always changed, or if when she did this, she would have said, like, hey, today I feel like doing this and I'm still gonna go back to my own thing and it's no big deal, and she wasn't so confrontational about it, I think she would have made her point better. I don't know. I think she did exactly what she meant too, which was like spark a discussion.

SPEAKER_03 20:32

I was reading our articles. She's going on Miley Cyrus wrecking. I mean, 100% this is what I thought of. I was like, this is the Miley Cyrus of my age, like of when I was younger. Who it's coming to Summerfest, by the way. I was like, could we go? I too old to go. Um, but I I think I was reading in some articles that, like, oh, she clearly did this to spark controversy, which like she did and it worked. And so then who cares? But I I don't feel um, I don't feel duped by her. Uh, but I am a 35-year-old adult that like, you know, so I I do wonder what this will do to young, you know, younger women that are watching this, but if it gives them confidence, like, go for it. Hopefully, it does not make them feel like they need to dress like that.

SPEAKER_00 21:13

And that's kind of honestly what I'm worried about. It's like you've spent so long sending the message of dress how you want, I dress this way, and it's totally fine. And now you're kind of doing the so a quote from and you know you can cherry-pick quotes from Twitter. Yeah. But um so Jesusaurus posted on Twitter before, unique, different, a class of her own, after mainstream exchangeable slick and polished why. And that's kind of what I feel like. Because I do agree, you can dress however you want, she looks great. I have nothing wrong with this. But when you've taken so much time and effort to build up this thing of this is who I am, this is how I do it, it's totally fine. Boom. Like it just And I think if she would have explained, like if she would have explained in like, hey, I just felt like this way for this week and I'm gonna do it because it's fun and Feel free, but that's not who I am. I'm not my clothes and I mean depends where you're looking.

SPEAKER_03 22:05

I'm looking at Slate right now, right? And Oh yeah, there's plenty of people that support it too. Well, yeah, and she is saying, quoted in Slate, like she states bluntly, I'm sorry, it's in the Vogue profile. I'm just it's re-reported on Slate. Uh she states bluntly in the Vogue profile that part of her interest in wearing corsets for the shoot was a is body image related. And it's quote, if I'm honest with you, I hate my stomach, and that's why. So she's like, in this era of accepting your body, like I'm saying, hey, I'm insecure with this, but I'm cool. Where you know, I I I think it was well-intentioned.

SPEAKER_00 22:32

Yeah, I agree it was well-intentioned.

SPEAKER_03 22:34

Um, so I think it's just it's just it's so like weird and here we are spending god knows what amount of time talking about this. And and yes, so we're diving right into exactly what we're kind of criticizing here, but but it is an interesting conversation, and I'm gonna sound like a real mom right now, but like it makes me very worried for our youth. I am generally very worried for our youth. Um, I had whatever I was just gonna go off on a bullying tangent, but I I I am concerned for like I had the um fortune of being raised in a a nice household where I didn't feel like I needed to look like celebrities in every magazine. Like, of course I did. I was like, oh yeah, I'd like to be skinny or whatever, but I didn't ever feel like I needed to change who I was. So I feel like I I have a hard time sometimes remembering that like there are young 14-year-olds out there that are like just watching doing everything Billie Eilish does, and so I'm just gonna be able to do it.

SPEAKER_00 23:27

Yeah, and if she shifted to this cat.

SPEAKER_03 23:29

I know.

SPEAKER_00 23:29

And so I hope it comes off as I think she did intention it, like you said, of like, no, you can do anything. I just worry that she spent and like me as like someone who kind of likes what she does. I don't honestly love her music. I appreciate it. I don't love it, but I think it's like cool that she's her. Yeah, I like it. Like I hope you didn't spend all this time building up this thing that's really unique and different, and it is hard to be different now. And she did it, and I hope it just doesn't undermine that, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 23:57

Is I hope kind of my point that we get to the root of the problem here and the parents of these kids talk to their kids. Hey kid, you don't have to copy Billy Eilish. That's I think we was that you and I that were talking about. I've had a lot of rants recently about like parents and the cyclical nature of like when kids are aft up, it's because their parents haven't done their job, and like anyway, okay. We're we could talk about this probably for a whole level.

SPEAKER_00 24:20

Billy Eilish, good on you for doing you.

SPEAKER_03 24:22

Um if you don't know what we're talking about, just Google it real fast.

SPEAKER_00 24:26

I hope I hope you're able to keep doing you. I hope this is a good influence on people because it's really cool you did this. It's a great photo shoot. Yeah, she looks beautiful, and like really well styled. She went for an aesthetic and she nailed it. She looks beautiful. Um like you said, she said she'd part of the reason she did this was because she had some body issues and she like did a great job with it. So yeah, I just hope it's because again, I don't want this to come out as like I'm criticizing her for doing it, or it's just like I have a feeling about how she spent this much time doing this one thing, and then you feel I feel, and I'm not her mega fan, so and I'm definitely not a target odd, but I just feel like confused, and I'm like, uh.

SPEAKER_03 25:05

Oh I would like anyone that's seen the movie on Apple TV, like I use Roku and not Apple TV, so I don't even know how I can watch it. If you have, feel saying that if there's something we're missing, maybe we don't know everything we need to know from Billie Eilish.

SPEAKER_00 25:19

So hopefully, kids, you get the good part of the message from this, which is you can do whatever you want, whenever you want, and not the part of the message is that if you have to, if you're gonna be on the cover of Vogue, you have to look a certain way.

SPEAKER_03 25:29

Okay, that's a great, great ending right there on that little bow. You put a nice little bow on the Billie Eilish package. Alright, guys, we're gonna take a break. Alright, we're back with two very exciting product recommendations. As I normally do, I had two myself and I had to pick. One of them was a Mother's Day gift, but um, I'm not gonna tell you about it. I'll tell you about it next week, maybe. Um, so you can order it for next year. But I'm here to recommend. I feel like Nick may or may not have recommended these, but AirPods. I know. You're like, okay, wham wham wham, whatever. I am the thriftiest person you know, so to spend this kind of money on a product is not something I always do. It was gifted to me. However, on my Christmas list, it said AirPods or some other similar, like great Bluetooth headphones. Part of the gift to me is that I hate doing the research. Like, I just whatever. Bless my parents for knowing that really the AirPods would be best. They're not an Apple family, like they they don't totally understand, um, they don't totally like it. Um, you know, if you're you're an Apple person. Yeah, like you're an Apple person or you're not. I have all Apple products, so everything talks to each other.

SPEAKER_00 26:52

So I thought, oh, someone else in your life is very annoying, green text person, and I want him to stop it. Get an iPhone, Tyler.

SPEAKER_03 26:59

Tyler will never get an iPhone. I know it is, it is like when we're traveling, when we're doing, we're like, okay, we have to speak on Google Duo. Um swear, like, whatever. Um, but anyway, I I busted out my AirPods recently um for my trip, and I was like, oh, I've got my two-year-old on my lap, what am I gonna do? But man, I didn't realize the benefits. Okay, I just thought like I don't want to mess around with cords with my kid on my lap and whatever. But when you take one out, it automatically pauses your audiobook. When you, you know, I I wear them running and I can talk to it. It always says, like, you got a text from Shannon, and then I can say like ignore or reply, and then I'm just talking to myself, replying to text when you know, whatever. If you know, you know. I love them, it's a silly convenience. I understand it's unnecessary, but if you're a runner or you're traveling, or you just like to listen to audiobooks a lot or podcasts a lot, you could listen to us on your AirPods. I love them so much. My dad got some moderate grade non-Apple ones. Yeah. Do they they don't pause when you pull them out, do you?

SPEAKER_00 28:00

No, no, they're just like they're not, they're not as good.

SPEAKER_03 28:02

And like they're fine for running, let's say, but to me, the like pausing when you pull it out.

SPEAKER_00 28:08

They're just not as good.

SPEAKER_03 28:09

Listen, I it's also my Apple Watch, with not every not everyone agrees with, but I'm telling you, I was like pausing because like if I thought, oh, Lucy's gonna be distracted for 10 minutes, I started listening to a podcast that I had downloaded, and I could pause it right on my watch, or I could take it. It was a very bougie, felt convenient flight. So AirPods.

SPEAKER_00 28:29

Well, I do have a Mother's Day related thing. Uh Simona actually is the one that picked this product out and recommended it. Is she? She got her mom a poster from stillnovel.com. So pretty. And there is some really cool, pretty things to it, and I'm not gonna go into specific detail because I think Sarah's gonna get this before she listens to this, but you never know. I hope so. Theoretically, you never know. We might be uh we have some Mother's Day plans, so this episode might come out a little early. Um but it's uh still novel.com. They have all sorts of really cool things. If somebody screwed up and forgot to get a Mother's Day gift in time, uh this would be a really good makeup. I'm sorry I screwed up. It was shipped late.

SPEAKER_03 29:13

Yeah, like a look, I made it.

SPEAKER_00 29:14

It's just yeah, it just shipped late. Um, they're really pretty. We won't tell. The quality was excellent, and uh Simona really did a good job finding this for her mom.

SPEAKER_03 29:24

It's beautiful. I've been targeted by this before, and it's lovely.

SPEAKER_00 29:27

I think the reason I got targeted with it because I spent too much time around Reddit, and just like the proximity tracker thing was like, oh you would like this too. So it's really cool. Stillnovel.com, we'll put a link to it. Um, they have sales and stuff all the time, so check it out. Alright, guys, we're gonna take a quick break. We'll be right back.

SPEAKER_03 30:03

Alright, we're back, and Nick's surprising me with a segment coming. My Froze's gone. Oh dang, sorry.

SPEAKER_00 30:08

Okay, so it's Mother's Day, and one of us here is a mom.

SPEAKER_03 30:12

It's me.

SPEAKER_00 30:14

So we're gonna ask Bridget some mom questions. Oh great. First question: why did you pick the names of your two kids?

SPEAKER_03 30:22

Oh, that's a great question. So, um, Elliot, we didn't know um if we were having a boy or a girl with either child, and Elliot, we just spent a long time trying to pick names out. Actually, the first name um we had a list, and the first name that came out of Tyler's mouth was Preston, and we were like, nah, that's not right. Um, so Elliot, Elliot's name, that name doesn't have a familial meaning or anything, but it was to us enough different where it wasn't like John, um, but it wasn't Apple, you know, so it was just a little bit unique. Yeah, so we just we loved it. Um, we called him E for a long time. Um, he used to be called Butters by our friends. Um, yeah, so we we went through like we wanted a name. This is ironic when I tell you about Lucy's name. We wanted a name that was just its name, not like this is Jonathan, but we call him Joe or whatever, you know. So that's why we chose Elliot. Um his middle name is Richard, which is after um Tyler's dad who passed away. So his middle name is a family name, where Lucy is the opposite. So uh Lucy's name is actually Lucille, and that's a family name from my side, um my great grandma, and so she is Lucille, and her middle name is May, uh, which is really just a funny nod to the fact that I was convinced I was having this baby in May. Um, I was due June 3rd, and I was like, she's gonna be born in May, and so I was pissed. And she I went to the hospital at 5:30 a.m. on June 1st, and she was born on June 1st. So this was just a like nod to Bridget, you can't plan everything. So that's the very quick um overarching story of we call Lucy Lucy, obviously. So we picked a long name and call her Lucy, but I would love if people called her Lucille. So, you know, if you want to start doing that, all my fans out there.

SPEAKER_00 32:03

What was the moment when you really said, Oh crap, I'm a mom?

SPEAKER_03 32:08

Oh, um, the second I got a pregnancy test. I'm just kidding. Uh, because it doesn't feel real for a really long time, actually, because I was lucky enough to not like be barfing every day. Um gosh, I don't, that's a really good question. Actually, I think it was probably when I got home from the hospital. No, the car ride home from the hospital. We lived five blocks from the hospital where Elliot was doing. We had some sweet GMs. We did, we put on awesome tunes, um, but it was the most horrifying car ride. It was in the city, so like it the streets were very different than they were in Lake Geneva. And we, Tyler and I were both like, these are streets we drove for 10 years, and we're like, you know, every every car that comes by, we're panicked. And that I distinctly remember pulling down into our we lived in a condo, we had underground parking, we're pulling down, and there was a song that came on about like um uh this used to be us, and it was talking about like I think it was a country song, like all the cool things you used to do, and I was like, shit. No more cool things. That was like the moment that I was like, we're still gonna do cool things, like, yeah, that's a good question.

SPEAKER_00 33:11

What is your favorite thing about two kids instead of one kid, and what do you think the biggest challenge is?

SPEAKER_03 33:16

Yeah, two kids for us was a big change. So zero to one we were really prepared for and actually had not a lot of struggles in that way, which was nice, but one to two like bitch slapped us. Um, so my favorite thing about having two kids is um how they are with each other. I always I always dreamed of having actually an older brother and a younger sister, so I got really lucky. Obviously, you can't plan that. Um, but I like the way I'm looking forward to seeing how caring a brother is to a younger sister. And like on the same token, seeing their personalities like they're completely different.

SPEAKER_00 33:46

Lucy also toughens up Aliet, so it's you know Yeah, it is a give and take.

SPEAKER_03 33:50

I love how they interact with each other. I think having siblings is um, you know, I grew up with siblings, so I think it's important. It yeah, I mean it helps. It's like being in daycare, right? Like you are around other kids, so you learn things from your siblings. Um, and the biggest challenge is that you you just you never get a break. Like with one kid, you're like, okay, mom or dad can always take a break if you, you know, really need it. It's not like obviously we figure it out, but that was that's honestly what was so much harder for us. We're like, okay, well, at 9 p.m. is when we will do our own things.

SPEAKER_00 34:20

So that's definitely the hardest part. What is the moment you're really looking forward to as a mom in the future for your kids? All things go well. What's that like bright shine thing you have in your head that you want to see with your kids?

SPEAKER_03 34:34

This is really dumb, but um, high school dances. Like I had a really great so obviously I was really super excited once Elliot could start sports, so I'm very excited. Um Lucy's doing a little kid dance, a little dance thing this summer. I'm really excited to get them into extracurriculars uh that like really shaped who I was as a human. So, but but I just the thing that's like in the back of my mind that I keep like, I can't wait for this memory is high school dances, like being the annoying mom taking all the pictures and like their first date, and yeah, I love all that.

SPEAKER_00 35:04

What are you gonna do the first time they really screw up and you have to like really bust them? First time. Do you have it like the real serious thing, you know? Like whatever it is, like underage drinking or something? Whatever it is, like rolls a car, you know, something like that. Something just really stupid that kids do, you know, jumps off of a tree house and breaks an arm. What are you gonna do the first time that happens? Are you do you have it in you to be the disciplinarian or is the tree?

SPEAKER_03 35:35

No, no, what's going on? It just depends. Like, if you jump out of a treehouse and break your arm, I'll just be like, well, you know what you deserve. Like, but I'm I might not discipline you, I'll be like, yeah, okay, that was not a great choice. Also, what I'm gonna say right here is sounds good, but I'm probably not gonna actually do that. Like, we are trying as parents very hard to not be reactive. So, like, you know, um Elliot just told me the saddest thing ever about being someone was mean to him on the playground, and the your reaction is like, what? What the hell? You know, and like I was starting, and I'm like, no, you can't react like that. You know, so I'm gonna try really hard to not be like, what the hell did you do, kid? And instead be like, you can talk to me, I'm your parent, but that was dumb. So no, I don't know. My kids are perfect, Nick. They're not gonna do anything wrong.

SPEAKER_00 36:19

I have no idea, I don't have an answer. Last question What is your number one piece of advice to new parents?

SPEAKER_03 36:25

Oh shit. Uh, no one knows what they're doing, so don't panic. Uh, I don't know if that's advice, but but no one knows what they're doing. Everyone looks like they have their shit together, and get a network of other parents that you're not scared to talk to. So that's been immensely helpful. Um, finding parents that have kids similar ages that you can be like, oh my god, their poop is white. Is that a problem? You know, or Nick had that. But that's that's you know I got the poop app. Your little com I don't have a poop app, but you have friends. But I have friends, so yeah, having a community of support is super important.

SPEAKER_00 37:02

I think that's a dad versus mom thing. Dads go get the app and mom's like talk to the friends.

SPEAKER_03 37:07

And if you feel like you don't have friends that are in the same stage of life as you, there's always online groups of some sort that you can find some kind of support in at three in the morning when you're breastfeeding your children. Those were really good questions. Well, thanks.

SPEAKER_00 37:21

That was fun. Happy Mother's Day, everybody. Thanks, man. A little fun. Shout out to the mom.

SPEAKER_03 37:28

Yep, that's me, everybody. I'm not a mom. Nick's not a mom this week. Um, but we have a meal plan coming up. And that's where I Mr. Mom it. Nick is better at than me. That's exactly. Hey, but we're flipping the gender norm here. We are. I don't like to be in the kitchen. Nick does.

SPEAKER_00 37:49

Also, my kitchen's like big and spacious and bright and airy and has all the things I want there and all the booths. So who doesn't want to be in my kitchen?

SPEAKER_03 37:55

Yeah, mine is still not that way.

SPEAKER_00 37:57

It will be when it's renovated. In the winter, it's nice and warm. In the summer, I turn on the exhaust van and open the patio door, and we have a nice breeze.

SPEAKER_03 38:05

That is a great you do have a nice breeze. The place to be. The place to be. I still would just like sit at the island and watch you cook. I want to get a hibachi, an indoor hibachi. I'll be here for that. And we would do like crazy hibachi party. Hibachi party. Yes, I want to do it. We are already planning all of our dinner parties as soon as well, I think everyone's vaccinated that wants to be in our life, and so we're like, can we have dinner parties again? Like Friendsgiving, we really miss. We discussed this a lot. So, hibachi party next. As soon as Nick gets his hibachi. I really want one. Maybe Father's Day. I'm just gonna buy it for the first time. I'll start into Yeah, that's the problem with men. Tyler just buys it, I'm like, what am I supposed to do?

unknown 38:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 38:44

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 38:45

We're way off topic here. Alright, meal plan. We we talked about this a little bit last week. We made a big technology shift while Bridget was on vacation. Yeah, it was really stressful. Talk about stressful. I'm still stressed enough. We are now on a Microsoft Things. Um, I was looking in the wrong place for the meal plan, and then I found out you switched it to the right place. And I was like, whoa! Well, Bridget did her job. No, not that. I was like, whoa. Bridget embraced Microsoft technology. I am struggling now. And I was I was like, oh man, I forgot. Bridget's a professional. I didn't know. She's a trooper. She'll do the bullshit I make her do.

SPEAKER_03 39:26

It took me like four times as long. It really did. I was like, okay, what, what?

SPEAKER_00 39:31

But I'll get there, okay? So we have our meal planning in a new place. It's a beautiful meal plan this weekend. Oh, I guess. I'm gonna say all these nice things about you. Pick my first one. I knew you were gonna pick this. Which is easy butter chicken. Budda butter. I love me fake curry. Fake curry is so delicious. I like real curry. Butter chicken is just so good. Oh, Sarah does not like it. Sarah does not like anything curry, even fake ones. I didn't used to. So I usually make it when she's gone. Fair. That's a nice idea. She's gonna start traveling again later this year. And uh Simona actually, I've I've curried some stuff for her and fed it to her. So one of the daddy daughter meals is gonna be this easy butter chicken. So maybe not this, maybe not this week, but soon. Simona and I are gonna sit on our couch watching cocoa melon. Oh. She's gonna just have a gob of rice in one hand and a messy ass gob of buttered chicken in her other hand. And you know what? I'm gonna look around and say, baby girl, you got it right. And I'm gonna throw my fork down and eat with my hands to you, and it's gonna be great. So an easy buttered chicken. It's really delicious. It's not super spicy, it's got great flavor, um, pretty easy to make, and it is a nice introduction to Indian food if you want to get more into it, or you like the dish at Indian restaurants, Indian takeaway, it's super easy to make at home. Check it out. Um, Lucy ate some kind of curried vegetable samosa thing. Dave Chang says that if you really want, so like I'm terrified of Samoa being a picky eater. I know she'll go through a stage at one point, but I love cooking different foods, and I really want to enjoy that with my daughter. So uh Dave Chang had a Momo Fuko, beard beard award winner, awesome dude. He um he has a podcast. It's not the greatest podcast, I'll be honest. A lot of people listen to it, a lot of people like it. He he's very interesting, and sometimes like we have this challenge, this challenge with your podcast, so he needs to just like rein it in a little bit. Is it just him? Uh he has guests. Okay. Um, but I listened to one where he talked about, I can't remember his kid's name. I think it's Sebastian. Uh but he was feeding him how he feeds him, and like his he got him to be a really great eater. And one of the things he said was like, curry. I learned from a lot of other chefs, their parents, and like a little bit of curry powder and things like exposes kids to so many different flavors.

SPEAKER_03 41:54

Interesting. I know some people that put it um in the eggs early on. Yeah, that's what Shane says. Yeah, I didn't do that unfortunately, but yeah, it's hard. It's hard.

SPEAKER_00 42:04

His podcast is good. Hugo, that's his name. Hugo.

SPEAKER_03 42:07

Oh my god, I love that.

SPEAKER_00 42:08

Yeah, um, if if you have not listened or what, he has some really great Netflix shows. Um, if you haven't gone to any of the Momofuku group restaurants, if you're ever in a place where they have some, they're great. He has some really great seasonings you can buy online. Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 42:23

I was just I don't remember what I was watching, but it was about Chinatown in New York and how it's like coming back and how they all um kind of the community helped one another during COVID, and it made me really want dumplings.

SPEAKER_00 42:35

Also, this is a picture of Hugo in an avocado costume.

SPEAKER_03 42:39

Oh, how adorable. Hugo, oh, we know Hugo, and he's a his uh his family's very lovely, and they have a Lucy in their family now too. Anyway, my recipe this week is for a beef wellington. So it's an individual beef wellington. I like I look at the recipes on our website all the time when I'm doing these, and for some reason I haven't come across this one or I ignored it or something, but I want this immediately. It is individual little tenderline fillets wrapped in phylod. I mean, do you need to know anything else? There are mushrooms as part of it, you know that, right? Yes, I know. So I I know that it's traditionally in Wellington's, and that's fine.

SPEAKER_00 43:15

I like it's called Dugzell's. Just view it as Dugzell's.

SPEAKER_03 43:18

Yeah, and then it's fine. I just love phyllo dough wrapped anything. So um I I used to work at a hotel and do weddings, and they had chicken welling tons, which was a dream. Yeah, because hello. So um, now that I'm eating more beef, uh now that Nick is introducing me to ways to do this, this would be a great thing for like a special occasion dinner. Everybody gets their own little mini wellington, or you know, if you just want to treat yourself one weekend night, I don't know. Um, it takes, you know, an hour or so, uh, but it looks like a great little treat for you.

SPEAKER_00 43:49

It does take some time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 43:50

Yeah. But it but it's a great little package, it's beautiful, and I think people will feel impressed by your cooking if you want to give it a try. So we'll get that posted for you.

SPEAKER_00 43:57

I'm also gonna link to the Momo Fuko uh page. Tree because these seasoned salts, you should get them, they're really good. I highly recommend them.

SPEAKER_03 44:03

But I want to look at it now.

SPEAKER_00 44:05

They have uh savory, tingly, and spicy.

SPEAKER_03 44:07

Shut up! How cute! Savory, tingly, and spicy.

SPEAKER_00 44:11

I do really highly recommend them.

SPEAKER_03 44:13

Oh, we have a lot to say. Okay, it's time, guys. For Kate Carter! I mostly just need to talk about Lucy and our adventures in traveling. So she did so great. I just want to brag on her for a minute. Um, it was obviously challenging. It takes four hours and 20 minutes to fly to Seattle. Um, and it takes like three and a half to fly home. So big difference. Um, I don't want to sit for four and a half hours on a plane, so like Plus with that two-hour time frame, it's like a seven-hour flight, one time, or three-hour flight. Yeah. The first thing Lucy did when we I put her in the pack and play that my sister so generously provided, she climbed up onto the bed. Because it's like it was at the foot of the bed. No puking. I did get very nervous. She, when she has to poop, she goes, Mommy, Tommy hurt, Tommy hurt. And so she like every day she does that. And I started the first few times I'm panicking, like it was the day before we got on the plane. And I'm like, Oh my god. And I of course on the plane. Yes, then I started Googling, and I'm like, Some kids get motion sick on a plane. I'm like, my kid will not get motion sick on a plane. She did not. I'm here to report. Um, good job. She did really great. She did not scream ever on the plane. She thinks it's funny to like do do this annoying scream, which I won't do into a microphone because you'll never listen to us again. But but I was like, if she's and she thinks it's a game, because then we like Lucy shh, and then she does it again. I'm like, if she starts this, I don't know how to stop it. So I'm grateful she did not do that. Um, I promised I'd tell you about the carrots. Um, Brittany has an exceptional garden at her house, and she told me before we left that I saved the carrot harvest so Lucy could do it. Well, that's great, because my kids love carrots, but Lucy doesn't know how to harvest a carrot. So Brittany was doing a great job trying to tell her what to do, and she's like, Okay, you gotta like get all the way down by the dirt. Don't pull from the leaves, you know, you gotta pull from here. Okay, so she pulls the leaves off. Brittany gets a carrot out, and Lucy immediately puts it in her mouth, covered in dirt. We're like, no, no, no, no, we need to wash it. And they have this amazing irrigation system. Um I think we've talked about it before.

SPEAKER_00 46:15

We have an episode invited.

SPEAKER_03 46:18

Yes, yes. Well, I got to see it in action, and it's amazing. So we went to just like wash it off in questionable water over there, but whatever. And then she twice um continued to just walk around with like, and these are not carrots funny, they yes, but like these are not carrots you see at a grocery store, they are grown carrots, so they're all different sizes, scraggly little ends, and she would walk around just gnashing on it and get real mad when I tried to like take it away and cut it off for her. Um, so anyway, I could go on and on Kid Corner. I there's not a lot of embarrassing things to say, honestly. She did a great job. Good job, Lou. Yeah, I'm I'm really proud of her. It was a lot, a lot. Uh, she didn't sleep much. Uh she got a little bit sick, got a little bugged probably from the plane, but uh she did great. I feel like there's probably embarrassing stories. She loved Britney's dog, Rosie, Rosie, Rosie. So she threw the ball at Rosie's face 27 times a day because two-year-old, she doesn't really know how to throw. So we kept being like, no, Lucy, throw it. And then she, whatever. My ball, my ball. So it was lots of fun. She learned a lot, I think. Uh, being around pets, I'm sure, is very helpful to children. We're not gonna have a dog anytime in the foreseeable future. So thanks to all my family and friends that let Lucy and Elliot throw balls for their dogs.

SPEAKER_00 47:27

I got an Elliot's story.

SPEAKER_03 47:29

Oh, great! I haven't seen Elliot in so long.

SPEAKER_00 47:31

We got uh we got Simona from the playground or from the daycare yesterday.

SPEAKER_03 47:36

We went to a tulip festival that was not as cool as not as cool as the one we went to. And I just don't know the story, sorry.

SPEAKER_00 47:45

Elliot was out on the playground with Tyler. They were Tyler was supervising Elliot's class at the time, and some kids started going up the slide, walking up the slide step, going down it, and Elliot, the narc came over and said, Dad, they're going up the slide step, going down it. And Tyler quickly said, uh, climb the stairs, slide the slide. He had some like funny. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 48:08

And uh Elliot's a narc. Whatever, the day before me, Lucy, and Elliot were at the playground, and they were both climbing up the slide. So Elliot's an opportunistic narc.

SPEAKER_00 48:18

He's smart, is what he is. Uh, my Simona story is I am starting to get free labor out of her, and it is wonderful. Child labor. So we live in a farmfield uh until it's been a farm field for hundreds of years, and then somebody put a house on it and stopped farming it, and is contributing to the downfall of rural agriculture. That would be good. But as part of that, there are rocks everywhere. Oh rocks everywhere. And when I was a kid, because this has been in my family for a long time, uh, my grandfather, when I was very little, would drive his damn truck across the field and make me pick up rocks and put them in the. It was horrible. I remember my friend Kelly having you do this. Uh and mostly we did in this field across the street because my grandpa owned that one. His mom just owned this side, and then my great uncle got it. Long family story. Anyway, so I would pick up a ton of rocks in this field, but I did when I was a kid. And rocks are really bad for mowing.

unknown 49:14

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 49:14

And really bad for grass growing, especially because we have some very large field stones, and they're very beautiful, and uh, we're gonna use them for something eventually. Great, we use them for a lot of irrigation stuff now. We'll use them for like a fire pit and other things. So, you know, I have to go outside and pick them up. And we like to have Simona with us. I like to have Simona with us. Because we only have one kid, I can give Sarah a break. So I can let her be outside and do this. She started picking up rocks. Yes. And now you didn't even have to tell her? Yeah. Oh. And like shockingly large rocks. Like, honestly, this big. Good job, don't drop on your foot. Um yeah, those agenuses are really gonna protect her.

SPEAKER_03 49:51

Oh, I don't even know where ours are garbage, man.

SPEAKER_00 49:53

So we need new ones. We bought new ones. She said the only shoes we wore. Anyway, so we literally now can get 30 minutes to an hour of I will dig up rocks. And she, like, honestly, god, they're rocks I have to dig up. What? She will pick them up and dump them in the wheelbarrow and just do it. And it is wonderful and is adorable. And also, I am getting free labor out of her, and it's the easiest way to watch her and occupy her. She goes down for like nap time, bedtime, whatever, perfectly because she's worn out. Man, I'm sure she's like baby Olympics now with lifting all that weight.

SPEAKER_03 50:31

But someone may want to come pick weeds at my house.

SPEAKER_00 50:33

She's man, I am so proud of her. No, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_03 50:37

She does such a good job. It is nice when you can involve them in manual labor, but she's not to the point of like eating rocks.

SPEAKER_00 50:42

No, she doesn't eat them though.

SPEAKER_03 50:44

Does she uh is she that person? Does she just put random stuff in her mouth?

SPEAKER_00 50:47

She does, but the rocks she puts in the in the I think she saw me do it, not that she does it. Because I originally was like, I don't know, you can't run that far. So I'll get one rock, pick you up, put you back down. But she started just picking them up. I'm like, nice. Oh.

SPEAKER_03 50:59

Yeah, kids. This is other great parenting advice. Kids mostly just copy adults. So I I was just reading, like, that's a great way for kids to learn. So, like, don't be a dick in front of your kids because they just copy you. So, pro-parent tip right there. Pro-parent tip. Maybe we should have a parent tip section.

SPEAKER_00 51:14

Maybe we should. From all of us that know exactly what we're doing. You have rocks in your backyard, put the wheelbarrow out and just your kid will put them in there eventually. Pro parent tip.

SPEAKER_03 51:24

Well, guys, thanks for sticking with us. This is a good episode. I feel like I hope you learned a little bit about me.

SPEAKER_00 51:30

Uh I didn't dive fully into my real true mom hood and my true feelings about motherhood, but if you get on that story that she shared from uh the carousel about therapist things, you're gonna read a lot about Bridget. Because Bridget's the one submitting a lot.

SPEAKER_03 51:45

That's me, guys. No. Um, anyway, this was fun. So again, happy Mother's Day to any of the mom types out there. Happy Mother's Day.

SPEAKER_00 51:52

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SPEAKER_03 52:28

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SPEAKER_00 52:30

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SPEAKER_00 52:44

Happy Mother's Day, one last time. Tuesday.