My Poor Beard - Dinner Plus Drinks #148

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Fala la. Easy there, Tiger. Good transition into what we're drinking. Hey everybody. We're excited this week.

SPEAKER_00 0:10

It's gonna be a great week. It's an Aloha Friday. Yeah, and it's downpouring, which is my fave. It's great. Bridget's smarter than I am. She ran into the house with a hood on. And I covered my computer. I did not do any of those things. No, I know. This is why men are cheap health insurance at the start of their lives because they're like, I don't know. I'm fine. And then they're very expensive. And then they die.

SPEAKER_02 0:32

Wow, that's weird.

SPEAKER_00 0:33

Women, on the other hand, are expensive up front because they take care of their things. And then they, you know, live longer.

SPEAKER_02 0:40

Don't die. Live long. And my husband.

SPEAKER_00 0:54

Didn't plan that guy. Well, everybody, um, so when I said easy tiger. I'm so excited about this. Okay. So this is uh um okay I was like, I can't see it, but I saw it originally.

SPEAKER_02 1:05

It's oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:07

So you tell me, so this is one of these wines where I'm just like, I it makes sense. Wait before I read, okay, go on.

SPEAKER_02 1:15

Sorry. Go on.

SPEAKER_00 1:15

My comment on this one is I need Bridget to try it.

SPEAKER_02 1:18

Yeah, I know, because honestly, I don't think it's gonna be very good. So our friend Andy sells it, I think. Oh well, I love Andy and I love this label. Uh honestly, I want to Google the artist because it looks like an artist that I love who's from Oregon. And this is a wine from Oregon. So stand by while I Google if she made this label.

SPEAKER_00 1:33

Red table wine from Oregon.

SPEAKER_02 1:35

Yeah, I don't know if okay, I'll taste it so we can talk about it while I'm Googling.

SPEAKER_00 1:38

Or maybe it's from Tom. It's from Tom or Andy. I can't remember.

SPEAKER_02 1:44

Um I had so many thoughts. Um, so my first thought was, oh, this isn't as bad as I thought it was gonna be. Um, it's not like my style wine.

SPEAKER_00 1:55

It's 95% Cabernet.

SPEAKER_02 1:57

I know, but it doesn't taste like that.

SPEAKER_00 1:58

Yeah, so that's why they call it table wine. Yeah, and it's like okay, so I was like how much is this bottle? Like 18 retail. Yeah. So I was like, cool label, but like it's a Cabernet-based wine in a Pinot Noir bottle, not a Cabernet bottle. Uh technically, Burgney bottle is what you would call a Pinot Noir bottle, and a Bordeaux bottle is what you call Cabernet. Anyway, so I was like, I mean, it says red wine thing, and it's in this Pinot Noir bottle, which you would think is like a juicy jammy thing, but it's not really juicy jammy. I think it's a little jammy. It's a not job, but it's not like over so it's like not necessarily like over-the-top juicy jammy and not like super bone dry. So it's not a cabernet and it's not a red blind.

SPEAKER_02 2:39

No, it's none of those things.

SPEAKER_00 2:41

It's kind of expensive.

SPEAKER_02 2:43

It tastes like juice, but not in like the good way of wine. It just like, yeah, kind of just tastes juice, and then it has a weird aftertaste, is my issue. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:51

But like it's totally drinkable, but not for 20 bucks. It's a red table wine that's of fine. It's fine.

SPEAKER_02 3:00

Okay, I'm I can't even find like I'm struggling to find information on wine. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 3:06

I'm just because I really want to know. Wine surgery. So this is the second time I've tried it, and both times I was like, I feel a little stuck. Also, it's easy. Oh, this is from Tom. I wish it was um So it's organic.

SPEAKER_02 3:23

And there's a lot my biggest issue is the aftertaste. That's my biggest issue. And now that I'm continuing to drink it, it that's my problem. I don't know what else to say. And it's price point.

SPEAKER_00 3:35

It's just like so I want this wine to be good. I do too. And it's not. And this is the third time I've had it, and each time I've said exactly what you said.

SPEAKER_02 3:47

Okay, good. Oh, good. Look at it.

SPEAKER_00 3:49

I'm still learning. Trust myself to not be nick dickhead.

SPEAKER_02 3:53

I agree with that. This is how I feel. But also, I'm not sure I'm gonna buy that wine without tasting it even for $20. Like if it was $12, I would buy it and try it because I like the label. You know, but I'm still searching for who designed this label. I can't even find a website if I'm being honest for this company. Because is it Easy Tiger? I'm you guys, I am not an idiot, but I cannot find Easy Y T G R wines.

unknown 4:24

What are you doing tonight?

SPEAKER_02 4:26

Where are you going? I'm doing I'm doing house stuff tonight. It's really too bad because yeah, this is beautiful. Okay, I'm just gonna do this. And at least a comment. I should take my coat off. I can hear it on the microphone.

SPEAKER_00 4:47

Oh here.

SPEAKER_02 4:52

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:54

I'm back.

SPEAKER_02 4:55

I'm back. Did you miss him? Yeah, I just wanted to. I want to keep trying it to like make it better.

SPEAKER_00 5:01

Yeah. So I I want this wine to be good because of all of the things about it.

SPEAKER_02 5:08

Yeah, and it's just not Can I tell you while you're opening this wine something that's completely unrelated to anything? But I pulled up my phone to try and find more info about this wine. And do you see what's pulled up? I asked Elliot what he wanted to wear to his Christmas program today, and he said red pants and a red shirt and a red coat and a green bow tie and a Santa hat. So I'm like looking for kids' red suits, and it's this like oppressively red suit that I found. This is a female-owned company. Oh, sure is. That's the thing. Okay, I did get to this website. This website doesn't match the excitement of the label of that label.

SPEAKER_00 5:47

I think it's very Oregon.

unknown 5:49

Oh, yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_00 5:50

Big Salt is their other wine, and that one's really good. Oh, it is? I mean, they have a number of wines. Um, but this Big Salt is like a white blend thing that's really, really good. Um also a little too expensive.

SPEAKER_02 6:06

Okay, so Nick, this is the artist from Oregon that I thought maybe designed the label. Yeah. Like it's just a the same type of feel, and I love her as an artist. So that would have made me buy the line, to be honest, but she didn't design the label. What what do you do? Did it break? Yep. That's okay. We'll strain it out. Want me to go get a f a paper towel? You guys, this is a great start uh and kind of a great way to talk about how our weeks are going. Oh my god, I thought you just dropped the bottle. Oh, I love this. I was clearly targeted because I talked about this last night with these this like the curl thing I was at. I did it! Nick has done it, everybody! Look, I did it. Holy cow, you really did. Look, I did it! I believed you.

SPEAKER_00 7:11

Oh, you don't like this.

SPEAKER_02 7:12

I think I've I I think I've had this. No? I thought I had it with you in an experience like this. Obviously, I've never purchased this.

SPEAKER_00 7:21

Because I'm shifted.

SPEAKER_02 7:23

Okay, uh, because I remember you showing me this label. And I was like, oh, I don't like this label.

SPEAKER_00 7:29

Okay, so this is uh I can smell it though. Nickel and nickel, which is not my favorite style or producer of Napa Valley wine, but a lot of people really like it. They do all single vineyard Cabernet. Very prestigious. It's from Oakville. I had to buy some for some reason once. And I didn't sell all of it, and I took a couple bottles home and I have one more. So this is a 2013 nickel and nickel, John C. Sellinger Vineyard, Napa Valley Oakville.

SPEAKER_02 7:57

Whoa. Okay, so tell me. Aloha Friday. Aloha Friday. Oh, uh it looks super bougie, the late like a classic, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 8:06

Very expensive, very classic bottle of Napa Valley wine aged. So 2013 was a really good vintage. Um, how much do people you think care about this? Um, one and a half minutes worth.

unknown 8:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 8:18

So I think what's interesting about this, there's two things that are interesting. There's two things that are of particular interest to this wine. First of all, it's an expensive Napa Valley cap. So just base it there.

SPEAKER_02 8:30

If you like, yep.

SPEAKER_00 8:31

Um so Nickel and Nickel is a very old place, and they were some of the first people to focus on vineyard instead of just it's a Napa Valley thing. So they were some of the first people to say, these are the four vineyards we own. We make wine from here, sometimes it's bought fruit, sometimes you know, long-term contracts, and then sometimes we own the vineyard. And so this is what this one looks like instead of saying it's from Oakville, but they looked at it's an actual vineyard, which is a French winemaking approach, and people got really into that. Um, and they took a specific approach to winemaking that people like. Second, this is a 2013 vintage, which 10 years later is basically in its prime. 20 so 2009 was like marginal, people some people really liked it, 2008 was great, 2010 was like fine, 2011 was a horrific vintage, and then 2012 was like this textbook beautiful, hot vintage with some water and produced ripe fruit, and people lost their GD minds over hot vintage. And made these opulent wines that have everybody said was you know the vintage of the century, the best wines ever. But winemakers was like, we're gonna let all the sugars run free. And it created these wines that were incredible on release, but like fell apart in five to six years. Oh and 2013 was a very similar thing, and everybody got over the like, oh, let's actually dial this back a little bit. Let's restrain the wine a little bit, let's let it so one of the first smart Nick calls in the wine world he ever made that gets Nick street cred was Nick went. You Nick. Yep, okay. Uh I basically told her, I'm like, hey, these 12s are great, but drink them in five years. And everybody said, like, no, it's finished. I'm like, the 11s from the right producers will hold on for 20 years, and the 13s will be a 10 to 15 year line. Yeah, you were right. And I was right. So uh 13's a great vintage. If you have any 13s, drink them now.

SPEAKER_02 10:13

Drink them now. So they'll just get worse after this. You think?

SPEAKER_00 10:18

Yeah, this isn't a great place. So this has got like a two to three-year window now. Okay. And then it'll take a dip for probably a year to three, and then you'll have a five-year window, and then it's done. Oh, really? Yeah. So you as wine. So the thing that wine does as it ages is it's the oxygen interplay and um suspensions and solid. So like gravity acts on the wine, basically. So when you make wine and it ages in barrels and stuff, it picks up, you know, you press the grape juice, so it picks up all these solids from the grape things and it gets suspended in the liquid. Eventually they fall out. So that's like the sediment at the bottom is part of it. Acidic structures fall apart. Um, that falls to the bottom, and then the oxygen changes flavors and stuff and causes chemical reactions. So you have these times where it does, it's called dumb phases. So like you dumb? Dumb phases, yeah. So like the wine just tastes kind of muted. So, you know, your first things you'll get is these big primary fruits and a lot of tannin from the yolk. Well, that stuff needs to fall out of suspension a little bit. So if you wait five years on wines that are made to age like this, you get a bunch of crap in the bottom. So that's why you have to be careful pouring. Um, but you start picking up the primary fruit fades, and then you pick up some secondary characteristics on the acidity types better, and then you'll have a window there, and then it'll like kind of go in this dumb phase again where it's some of that stuff falls off, and then it gets like very like alcohol evaporates off because alcohol evaporates first.

SPEAKER_02 11:49

Um but then it's still yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:52

So it's a lower alcohol, higher acidity, like softer, more beautiful wine, but very different than the first thing. So we have all these peaks and valleys.

SPEAKER_02 11:59

Okay. Peaks and valleys.

SPEAKER_00 12:00

So one of the great privileges of my life is I've been able to taste wines over all the years. Yeah, and so you understand this and you understand where stuff is and drinking windows, and it's it's an incredible pleasure. And this doesn't have to be something that you can only do if you're rich. Um, come to Lake Geneva Country Meets, talk to you. I can put you on some like $30 to $40 wines that you can buy a case of for, you know, what $380 or something. Great gift. Um, that you can sit on for 10 years, and you will have some wine that's like very markedly different and mature and beautiful.

SPEAKER_02 12:37

I need a chart then that would say there are charts bottle then.

SPEAKER_00 12:40

Yeah, wine enthusiast has them.

SPEAKER_02 12:42

There you go.

SPEAKER_00 12:42

Um, so it's uh it's out there. Um, everything's a little different, but it's a lot of fun. It's actually a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_02 12:48

And I know we've talked about it before, but you should share one more time birth year bottles. Birth yeah, make a great gift.

SPEAKER_00 12:54

Yeah, so um talk about birth year bottles. I have to grab the ones for Elliot, because those are starting to be released.

SPEAKER_02 13:02

Um but it's just something good to tell the people as you're looking for a great gift.

SPEAKER_00 13:06

So there's an Apa Valley Cabernets that will last 20 years, no problem. Yeah, they're expensive, but no problem, they will last. If you want to spend a little less money, um you can buy Riesling and that'll hold on forever. And probably a 21-year-old will like drinking or something. Yeah, good point, actually. Probably more than an Apa Valley port. You can buy vintage year port fairly, I don't want to say easily, but you can find it, and like a good wine merchant will run it down for you. Yep. So we have birth year ports.

SPEAKER_02 13:35

Yeah, that's what I have.

SPEAKER_00 13:36

And um it'll be good for a hundred years.

SPEAKER_01 13:40

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 13:40

So like if you buy one, you can drink it on milestone birthdays. Oh, and then like if you die before you drank all of it, your kids can drink it on birthdays for remembering. Oh no, once you open it up a week or so.

SPEAKER_02 13:52

Oh, but if you buy a bunch of bits, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:54

Um, and then champagne, vintage champagne will also hold on forever.

unknown 13:58

What?

SPEAKER_00 13:59

Yeah, so if you were so my birth year was unfortunately not a vintage port year, so I had to buy something called late bottle vintage and also not a vintage urine champagne. So uh it is a bummer. But if you were fortunate to, so like three out of four years is a vintage urine champagne where they'll actually make champagne only from that year instead of blending. And if you were fortunate enough to be born in one of those, that's like a 30-year wine, no problem. Dang. That'd be sweet. So you can pop bubbles on it. Everybody else's wine sucks. Don't bother. I mean, you can buy, there's some like Australian stuff you could buy that's a good like 21-year wine, but birth year bottles are baller.

SPEAKER_02 14:39

This could be uh the earliest product rack. I just think it's a good, oh, whoa, whoa. I just think it's a good like uh gift guide as we get into holiday season, fa la la. Can you believe it?

SPEAKER_00 14:52

Heart Davis Heart. Go look on their auction house website. It's an auction and wine auction place in Chicago. They have a retail store. You can search by Vintage Year and find Birth Year Bottles.

SPEAKER_02 15:01

What? Heart Davis Heart. Heart Davis Heart.

SPEAKER_00 15:03

I think it's HDH wines.com.

SPEAKER_02 15:05

Oh, how does one even find out about that stuff? Cray Cray. Anyway, okay. I just whoa, I'm in all caps. All right, well, we've veered off. Uh sorry about that. That was more than a minute and a half. Welcome back. It was bad. I mean, it was yeah, it wasn't great. No. It felt like I would have a headache.

SPEAKER_00 15:27

I don't think you would.

SPEAKER_02 15:28

No. It just it felt juicy enough where I was like, this is a very natural wine and just like not my jam.

SPEAKER_00 15:37

Uh it yeah, it doesn't deliver what the bottle communicates, I don't feel like.

SPEAKER_02 15:41

Um, do you feel like Halloween was like 10 years ago? I do.

SPEAKER_00 15:44

I do too.

SPEAKER_02 15:45

But it was really just last weekend. Really? I had to literally look at my calendar. That's how, that's how. I had to literally look at my calendar. Uh, but I feel hungover from Halloween still. That's what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_00 15:58

Oh. Like, feel that cork. Yeah. We're gonna get into a product recommendation for this. But like the cork is like pretty moist still. Like it shouldn't have flaked the way I did, but I'll get into that later.

SPEAKER_02 16:08

But I'll get into it. I'll just whoop, whoop, that didn't go as planned. It's on the ground now, everybody. Cork down. Okay, anyway. Uh it's November, and I feel like we're in the holiday season, but it's 70 degrees out, so it's kind of hard, except today it's 65 and raining.

SPEAKER_00 16:24

Um, I'm really excited you have this on the outline. Also, I redid the outlines. I don't know if you appreciate it or didn't appreciate. Uh I was I'm not I hate how the copy function in Teams works, so I started a new one and then like Yeah, I did notice it actually, but I don't mind.

SPEAKER_02 16:40

It's it's great. It's great. Everything's great.

unknown 16:42

It's great.

SPEAKER_00 16:43

Try green and purple color code stuff. I know, Nick and I commute.

SPEAKER_02 16:46

That's the best way to do it, okay? I agree. We send one email with a bunch of like bullet points, and then we just reply back and forth in I always use green and he always uses purple, but we still feel the need to tell him my notes are in green below. Like, okay, I could say nothing, and I bet you'd figure it out.

SPEAKER_00 17:03

Anyway, I wanted to ask about your reno.

SPEAKER_02 17:05

Oh, yeah. I just had to do that.

SPEAKER_00 17:06

I know there's been a lot of like Mason situations. I just want to know what's happening with the Mason.

SPEAKER_02 17:12

Well, I've been watching him on my ring camera all day, if I'm being honest, because I just don't know him like I know my other contractors.

SPEAKER_00 17:17

Is he tuck pointing correctly?

SPEAKER_02 17:19

Who the hell knows? I have no idea. Honestly, it could all be a scam. I don't know. But like I feel like what he's doing needs to be done, but visually, it's hard to see. So it's like marketing. It needs to be done, but visually- So, you know, I was like, I'm literally avoiding my house. I I work from home, but like it's very hard with all the constructions. You work from anywhere, okay? I work from anywhere. So I did spend some time at the library this morning, and um, I don't want to be there because I don't want to talk to these people because every time I do, it's like 200 more dollars. So it's like, oh, uh, you know, we need this new, this thing is twisted, this like metal piece. And I was like, honestly, guys, I don't really see that. And they're like, well, if you stand here, you'll see. Cause I'm like, are you just trying to like get 200 extra dollars? But also it's like a very important piece to like holding my roof up. So like just take the $200 because that's nothing compared to all of the other money. Um, so anyway, what I'm finding, no surprise to anybody that knows me, is most annoying, is I guess I think you start a job, you come back until it's done. But most contractors like just skip a day here and there. So, like Thursday, neither the Mason or my contractor were there. And I'm like, hey, everybody, what's up? I'll be back tomorrow. Because they're doing a hundred other jobs. And so they're like, I'm gonna wrap this thing up today. The drywall's drying, and I'm gonna, I'm like, I just can't, I don't want to operate like that. Start on Monday, finish on Friday or whatever. But uh, that's not the way it works, apparently. So we um have a dumpster for one more week, and so we are ripping out all that basement, what I hesitate to call a carpet, you know, whatever that like turf is in our basement. So we ripped a lot of that out last night, which was great. Um, and then tonight I'm thinking we're gonna knock down the walls outside the like washer and dryer that are in our kitchen. So exciting stuff, Nick.

SPEAKER_00 19:08

This one's really good.

SPEAKER_02 19:10

I was like, what are you doing?

SPEAKER_00 19:11

It's in a really good place.

SPEAKER_02 19:13

Yeah, well, that's my renovation.

SPEAKER_00 19:15

You lost some of the plumpness.

SPEAKER_02 19:16

Plumpness.

SPEAKER_00 19:17

I'm really happy to that you're gonna get rid of the turf.

SPEAKER_02 19:20

Oh, yeah, it was so.

SPEAKER_00 19:21

I know how much it bothered you, but it didn't bother me. Oh my god, it was so but I don't live there.

SPEAKER_02 19:25

Yeah, well, it's gonna be so much nicer. So it may be.

SPEAKER_00 19:28

And usually when I was down there, it was drinking beer with Tyler.

SPEAKER_02 19:32

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 19:33

Watching Elliot play Minecraft at our weird bar.

SPEAKER_02 19:35

So it's like perfect. Yes. Well, it's gonna be still fun, but way cleaner.

SPEAKER_00 19:40

Can I still get drunk with Tyler? Sure. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 19:42

We haven't figured out the new bar situation yet because it's just like not a priority.

SPEAKER_00 19:46

Uh, I think you should talk to Ron. Ron is an expert at making bars. I should have um Josie's dad build us.

SPEAKER_02 19:55

Okay. Anyway, coming up with all kinds of ideas. So yeah, thanks for asking.

SPEAKER_00 19:58

Product recommendation.

SPEAKER_02 19:59

Josie's dad. Period. Um, it's moving along. Here we are. How about you, Nick? My poor. I'm sorry, what is this thing?

SPEAKER_00 20:11

I won't spoiler alert. Okay, so let me read all the things. I have some notes here. The key to this week is to never sit down. Fortunately, I have a standing desk. I don't know if I've ever recommended that. Uh-huh. So I can keep standing and work. This has been a week. There's been a lot of things happening. Um, and I've had to work a lot because of some other people's failures. I might be related to these other people that have failed. But um I've had to work a lot and cover some things, and it's fine. It's fine.

SPEAKER_02 20:46

Everything's fine.

SPEAKER_00 20:47

Everything's fine. But the key is don't ever sit down. Yeah. Just keep working. Just keep working. The second you sit down, guess what happens? You pass out and fall asleep. And then you wake up and then you feel a panic attack because you're behind.

SPEAKER_02 21:06

Isn't that the worst in the world?

SPEAKER_00 21:08

Being a millennial's worth.

SPEAKER_02 21:09

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 21:09

Um, second, I think I may start a drop shipping side hustle.

SPEAKER_02 21:13

Yeah, what?

SPEAKER_00 21:14

So I saw you have all the spare time. I saw a TikTok. Well, this is passive income. So I got like, as I was like passed out sleeping, I also was, of course, watching TikToks on Instagram Reels because I'm an adult.

SPEAKER_02 21:26

I'm here for passive income.

SPEAKER_00 21:28

The first one was uh stupid what's his face, Grant Cardone, talking about how the CEO of Coca-Cola got 50 million in a year, but Warren Buffett investor and it got $550 million, which is true. And one of the things that's wrong with America because of like tax structures and all this stuff, and like the people at work should make the money, not the people that are like so anyway, and then so it's like passive income, bro. Um anyway, the next one was this guy that's like drop shipping art because you can buy. I no, I'm sorry, you can't buy art. It's free. It's 500 years old. So you can drop ship posters for free on Etsy.

SPEAKER_02 22:08

What? Yeah. What where do the posters come from? Printful. Oh, I see what you're saying. So you're literally just like not doing anything. Yeah. But you have to list it and manage your Etsy shop. Yeah. So I can do that.

SPEAKER_00 22:23

Super passive.

SPEAKER_02 22:25

Not passive, like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 22:28

Like, yeah, you have to do a little workout for that.

SPEAKER_02 22:31

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 22:32

So I might do that because I think you all know I love art.

SPEAKER_02 22:36

I mean, I have always wanted an Etsy shop of like something that I can just like sell this row, this sheet of stickers.

SPEAKER_00 22:43

Well, and like, so you could.

SPEAKER_02 22:46

I know, and I just don't.

SPEAKER_00 22:47

The other thing you can do is the Mona Lisa's in public domain. So guess what you could do? You could put a yellow smiley face on it, on a t-shirt, and sell that. I would sell that.

SPEAKER_02 22:56

I would buy that.

SPEAKER_00 22:57

So I think I might do that. And then finally.

SPEAKER_02 23:00

I will buy it.

SPEAKER_00 23:01

My last note is my poor beard.

SPEAKER_02 23:03

Yeah. What happened?

SPEAKER_00 23:05

So how bad does it look? I don't think it looks bad. Okay, well, that's good.

SPEAKER_02 23:10

So now I'm gonna stare at it this whole time, figuring out what's wrong with it.

SPEAKER_00 23:13

My I had to uh we have a family picture thing. So I saw a friend that I haven't seen for a while on Wednesday. And I gave him a big hug. He's like, hey, your beard's a little out. I'm like, yeah, Brad, you're right. It's a little scraggly right now, but I have these pictures, so like I try to like when I know I have a thing, I want the beer to look good, it looks best on the third day of growth. Oh, so I So like I try to, you know, like trim it on, so like I shave like every other day, but then you trim the beer like once a week because it has like a growth period. So I try to like if there's something I know I want it to look good for, like third day of growth because like the neatly clipped ends don't look good. You want to have a little bit of curl, a little bit of softness, but you don't want it to be like overgrown anyway. Yes, Tyler's is what you do. The guard that regulates the length fell off on my first swipe.

SPEAKER_02 24:05

No.

SPEAKER_00 24:05

So it went down to like almost nothing.

SPEAKER_02 24:07

I was gonna say it was pretty low.

SPEAKER_00 24:09

So then you have to figure out a way to match the rest of the beard to this disaster. And it was so low in the one place, I think I managed to handle it.

SPEAKER_02 24:19

Yeah, I mean it all matches.

SPEAKER_00 24:20

Also, my beard's kind of white, which is like I'm gonna fucking kill myself.

SPEAKER_02 24:24

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 24:25

Um but I have I have quite trigger warning suicide.

SPEAKER_02 24:30

Not for real. Just a beard, it's just okay. I I actually it's a tough, it's a tough it's very hard for me.

SPEAKER_00 24:37

Yeah. And when I was like, I I have not not had a beard since I was 19. And it's very much a part of my identity and who I am as a person.

SPEAKER_02 24:48

Men are so funny about their facial hair, but I get it.

SPEAKER_00 24:50

And I actually started almost like having a breakdown this morning over like, am I gonna have to shave my beard and be in these family pictures and be on TV without a beard?

SPEAKER_02 25:01

No. So why don't you just have a salt and pepper beard?

SPEAKER_00 25:05

Well, no, it's fine. It's fine. And like on Tuesday, when I have to be on TV, it'll be like definitely fine.

SPEAKER_02 25:10

What are you on TV on Tuesday?

SPEAKER_00 25:11

The Alice and Dari Land thing.

SPEAKER_02 25:12

Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:14

So I like I had to like I there was a lot of work into it, and Sarah walked in, she's like, What's happening? Okay, it was very, very emotional.

SPEAKER_02 25:21

Very important question. Why do all men's beard trimmers seem to suck? Like every time you this just fell off. Because they all suck. Yes, like I don't understand.

SPEAKER_00 25:30

So there's like, so okay, so here's the thing. So I actually read a LifePro tip on Reddit is like, women buy men's shaving products because just because it's not pink doesn't mean you can't use it. Actually, what's the thing? Your stuff costs $20 and ours costs so in men's grooming products, there's the $20 trimmer and then there's a $300 trimmer.

SPEAKER_02 25:46

Oh, and that's the difference. And you're like, I'm not spending $300 on a trimmer. I feel like Tyler, though, has purchased like $10 ones because they keep like breaking. It's like, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:56

It's like water picks.

SPEAKER_02 25:58

There's the $50 standing desk, standing desk and water picks. Okay, that's the episode title, everybody. Okay, well, I think your beard is gonna be great by the time Family Photoshop. Maybe my core beard will be the have you, yeah, that could be good. Have you coordinated your outfits?

SPEAKER_00 26:15

My mom's okay. I sent you I sent you the color palette, and my mom sent these pictures of people and said, Don't wear these colors. I want it to look like this. The colors she said not to wear are literally the colors the people are wearing.

SPEAKER_02 26:29

Well, I think it's more the tone of those photos or very yellow.

SPEAKER_00 26:33

Yeah, she's not smart enough to understand. Literally, someone put their lightroom preset to yellow.

SPEAKER_02 26:40

Don't get me started. I'm gonna wear one of my Patagonias. Like just wear the baby quarters at.

SPEAKER_00 26:47

Yeah, that's what I'm gonna wear. Because it's exactly what she described.

SPEAKER_02 26:51

Let me check. I'm pretty sure this family photo, oh, look at that. This family photo, Tyler's wearing his gray quarters. Just saying.

SPEAKER_00 26:58

He's very handsome.

SPEAKER_02 26:59

I actually was really proud of how coordinated these were without being I'm showing Nick family photos from last year. Yeah, anyway, I hate coordinating family photo outfits with like just my family of four, more or less like 15 people or 20 people or whatever. So godspeed.

SPEAKER_00 27:13

I think the solution is don't coordinate. Oh no. Who cares? That's oh, I care. I care deeply. You're gonna look at it in 10 years and cringe no matter what. So wear something you like.

SPEAKER_02 27:24

I hear what you're saying. I don't make my kids wear absurd things on Picture Day because of that reason. I'm like, who cares? You're gonna look back and be like, yeah, that's what my kid you should see Lucy on Picture Day this year. You guys, she has like a bow in her hair, gold Mardi Gras beads, um, like a tool dress with stars and a cardigan. She looks absurd, but I don't care. That's it.

SPEAKER_00 27:43

Picture day first demo on Thursday. Was that yesterday? Yesterday. Yeah, I saw someone else post about it. She got very excited. Yeah. And picked out her outfit. She did. And picked out her shoes. Sarah had her outfit, but it was choice of shoes. So Mosa's very interested in the shoes.

SPEAKER_02 27:59

I saw shoes upstairs.

SPEAKER_00 28:01

And she was very proud. She came home. Actually, we were at the cheese bar uh with some friends, and she walked in and said, I said cheese. She's very proud that she said cheese instead of cried in these pictures.

SPEAKER_02 28:16

That's pretty good. Because we showed her new one.

SPEAKER_00 28:19

We showed all the pictures of hey Simona, why is Simona cried in this picture? Cause I was sad. Because I was sad. Are you gonna be sad in the next one? No, I'll say cheese.

SPEAKER_02 28:30

I have told this story on here, and we're just going way off topic now. Um, but I asked Lucy to say cheese last year for picture day. Lucy, are you gonna say cheese? She goes, No. And then sure as shit, her pictures come back and her smirk just looks like they said cheese, and she goes, Fuck you. Like that's what her picture looks like.

SPEAKER_00 28:49

Lucy smirks. No. Did she learn that from me? Because like I have a patented Nick smirk and Lucy, my god, that girl's got me one upped.

SPEAKER_02 28:58

I will say her school pictures this year are perfectly fine, but they're very like they do not capture her her attitude. It's just like, oh, you look normal. Where Elliot's like cheese in and it looks like him and they're great, but like yeah, Lucy's are fine, but I'm like, this isn't Lucy's real character.

SPEAKER_00 29:14

Well, two not two years ago. Last year's were definitely like you little Lucy.

SPEAKER_02 29:20

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:21

That was the smirk. Yeah, you little Exactly. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:25

Dot dot dot. We love our children. Okay, guys. All right. News stories.

SPEAKER_00 29:29

We both have two.

SPEAKER_02 29:30

Well, yeah, because one of them is just like something I have to uh like shout out to my feller fellow moms about. I'll just I'll talk about that one. That's the dry shampoo recall that's going on.

SPEAKER_00 29:40

Sarah's big dry shampoo person.

SPEAKER_02 29:41

Bro, every mom is a big dry shampoo person. So everyone I talk to.

SPEAKER_00 29:45

I'm a brilliant brunette person.

SPEAKER_02 29:47

Oh my that's not dry shampoo. It surprises me that Sarah's a dry shampoo person, actually. Yeah. Um, because she showers every day. But she doesn't wash her hair every day. Is that the thing?

SPEAKER_00 29:57

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 29:57

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 29:58

So she's also like she showers between calls a lot of the time, you know?

SPEAKER_02 30:02

Oh, so she'll dry shampoo like before a call or something? Okay. Well, I have been very troubled because all of the dry shampoos I use are on the list of like the things that are gonna kill me. So Shannon and I were talking. Shannon. Something's gonna kill you. Well, I know it's cancer, a bus. I was at this girl's night thing. We were all talking about it. Dry shampoo. I found one that wasn't on the list that I happen to have in my drawer, but it's like very bad. It leaves like white streaks. It doesn't rub. That is a problem. Yes. So I use Dove usually or Batisse. Both of them are on the list. So I'm like, what am I gonna do? So I just wanted to shout out to my fellow moms who are having the same struggle right now. Get dreads. Dude, it's terrible. I know it's so dumb. We should be pleased that like we're not gonna get cancer. Or I mean we are. Hey, wait, this article doesn't have Batisse in it.

SPEAKER_00 30:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 30:50

Anyway, sorry, moms.

SPEAKER_00 30:51

My first quick shout out is the Lake Geneva Public Library was up for Wisconsin Public Library of the Year.

SPEAKER_01 30:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:57

Um, the they just got done their renovation. They like slayed COVID. They didn't even get any goat money from the city to do their renovation. The public library Shindig was in Lake Geneva at the Grand Geneva Resort and Spa. Everything lined up for them to win Public Library of the Year, and stupid Viroqua got it. Um, so I just want to say, I see you, Emily, and team BS, your library of the year every year in my book. She was talking to somebody this morning that was like a new, you know, I Evidently there was like tons of librarians coming through for tours. I was talking to her yesterday and she's like, I want to be bitter about this. I'm like, you should be. No. I was going full Emperor Palpatine. I'm like, let your hatred can be.

SPEAKER_02 31:51

And she's the nicest person in the world. So it's like, okay, the other thing I needed to share, which I thought was so funny. I don't usually like read things or like read this whole thread, or like thread continues in comments. I'm like, well, but this one was about Halloween. And the reason I really want to share it is because this person's in Milwaukee. And so this got shouted out on the upworthy.

SPEAKER_00 32:09

Jeffrey Darmer?

SPEAKER_02 32:10

Yes. It's me and Jeffy. This um person got featured on the Upworthy. Uh, I found it on their Instagram page, but this person hands it out, she said, I'm handing out full-size candy bars per usual, but I'm also putting it a potato in the bowl to see what happens. And she went on and on, and like, but the whole thread is hilarious, you know? And the moral of the story is these kids get the potatoes over the full-size candy bars, and they're more excited about the potato.

SPEAKER_00 32:37

It's like a tradition for these kids now.

SPEAKER_02 32:38

They're like, Yes, I'm back at the potato house. I had no idea. And so, like, the very last post was we're out of potatoes. The last group fought over the last potato. Final count: 46 potatoes in 100 minutes with 50 minutes remaining in trick-or-treat time with 150 pieces of mini candy that they had to go through. Like, whatever. It's so funny. We'll put a link to the whole thread. I highly recommend taking four minutes and reading it.

SPEAKER_00 33:01

Adulthood is expensive. You have to buy candy for Halloween.

SPEAKER_02 33:04

Potato, dude. I can't believe how much money people have to spend on candy. Luckily, trick-or-treaters don't come to our house.

SPEAKER_00 33:11

Um, my last thing is something near and dear to your heart.

SPEAKER_02 33:14

Yeah, this was so funny.

SPEAKER_00 33:15

Uh, so I don't know if it's because my phone listens to you too much. I don't know why, but I'm in proximity. Deep into uh college volleyball highlight reels.

SPEAKER_02 33:29

Yeah, this was so fun.

SPEAKER_00 33:30

And I'm not sure if you're aware how good the Wisconsin women's volleyball team is, but they've had some big wins over Nebraska and Minnesota recently that are very highly ranked. I also think it's hilarious that all of the it's like UCLA and then like Big Ten team, big ten team, big ten team, big ten team, big ten team, big ten team. Um there's so many like good women's volleyball teams in the Big Ten. I don't like men's volleyball is incredible, but yeah, I it's a little too like okay, you're six, eight, you can jump high. Yeah. Yeah, like congratulations. This is actually kind of why I like women's tennis more, is because like you're not such an overwhelming athlete that's you take tactics out of it. Yeah. So like I think women's I think women's volleyball still has like interesting tactical things and like you have to move a little bit better.

SPEAKER_02 34:13

Um isn't there there uh one of the Wisconsin volleyball players keeps getting player of the month or yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:19

Well, and also they have like a weird she almost got a pro contract and then she didn't. And so, but the NCC DAA still like banned her, but like football players can get it. So there's like some injustice with the women's volleyball team this year. Um, but they're doing great, they're super fun to watch. Whoever their social media people are create incredible content for them. Nice, and it's just really fun. So, like volleyball. And also, if you can get up to the field house for a match, like so fun. It's so much fun. The student section's really popping for it. Pep band's there, and it's a like field house is the coal center's great, but the field house is awesome. Like when it rocks, you feel like you're gonna die, it smells like vomit, like all of the things.

SPEAKER_02 35:01

Okay, two things. One, I got to shag balls, like when I was a club player at the field house, our team got to, and it was so fun.

SPEAKER_00 35:08

It had to be fun.

SPEAKER_02 35:09

I also, one of my friends that played a club with me played at UW Madison, and so did her younger sister. So they're actually where I get most of my content because they're sharing about the team all the time. That was two things. But my other thing, I nearly stepped in a pile of vomit today. You said it smelled like vomit, and you know how I feel about that. I know how you feel about that. I ran in to get a coffee at the bakery. Usually I park in the front. It was so packed. I'm like, okay, I'll pull in the lot. And I opened my door, and like these ladies in the parking lot were looking at me funny. I'm like, could you just move so I could park? Well, clearly it was because I opened my door and pile of vomit. So then there was another spot, another like pile of puke in the parking lot. And so clearly, very clearly to me, someone walked from the restaurant, like puked in the middle of the parking lot, and then puked right by their door. I'm like, bro, it's time to go home. Like, and they were obviously going, but yeah, it was deeply disturbing to me. I'm like, mom, I can't get it out of my mind, you know? It was awful. Okay, I'm scarred for the rest of the day.

SPEAKER_00 36:04

That is bad.

SPEAKER_02 36:05

It was disgusting. I told someone in the bakery, and they're like, Are we responsible? Should we go wash it? I'm like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 36:10

Get a bucket full of water, dump it. Do you remember Oktoberfest when the people puked and I had to clean that thing up with buckets of water from Avant?

SPEAKER_02 36:19

I didn't, but now I do. Wasn't that incredible? Oh, was that the year I was pregnant? Was it my last year? Yeah, and I was just like, fuck. I was six weeks pregnant or something, wanted to vomit every day. So looking, oh my god, what a dream it is to not have to do that anymore.

SPEAKER_00 36:33

So my last note is that the Badger High School volleyball team played the Badger High School girls' volleyball team played the boys' soccer team in a charity match.

SPEAKER_02 36:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:41

And like, first of all, awesome. Uh first, no, okay. So yes, that. But first of all, of course, the boys who don't play volleyball thought they could beat the girls that do play volleyball. And no, you can't. It's not beach volleyball. If it was beach volleyball, you'd have a chance. 100%. But on the court, no, you don't have a chance. You guys are idiots. Second of all, great for you guys. That goes into that. Yeah, like skill gets taken out of the window a little bit in beach because of the sand. Um, second of all, good for you guys for doing this and keeping up a tradition and raising money for charity. And third of all, like, this is awesome.

SPEAKER_02 37:18

I mean, we never did that. Yeah, like it's so cool. I thought it was so cool. When you put this on the outline, I'm I quick was like looked at better. I don't know, something came across, and I was like, oh, I I didn't hear about that.

SPEAKER_00 37:27

I think one of the improvements since we were in school is like the teams all get along better and support each other better and like go to like cheer for other teams and stuff.

SPEAKER_02 37:35

And I'm all for that. There was so much drama that the swimming girls hated us volleyball players because all the people came to the volleyball games. I'm like, why do you hate us for that? No one wants to sit at a hot pool. Like gross. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 37:47

Anyway, gross people.

SPEAKER_02 37:49

Also, you guys were hotter, so like I mean, just get hotter swimmers. It literally turned into like, well, we wear swimsuits and you guys are in spandex. Because it was like, yeah, the high school boys were watching like our butts in spandex, okay? It is what it is. But also, like, I'm not gonna wear a swimsuit to play volleyball. I don't know what to tell you. They're not sexy swimsuits, okay?

SPEAKER_00 38:08

No, they're not.

SPEAKER_02 38:09

Oh, whatever. What a life that that was our worry. What a life.

SPEAKER_00 38:13

What a life indeed.

SPEAKER_02 38:14

Okay, we're gonna take a breather, guys. We'll be right back. We'll be right back. Right back. Are you ready? For some football. So excited. So excited. Sorry, you can keep singing.

SPEAKER_00 38:41

I actually love the Monday Night Football songs. Well, they keep screwing with it because it bounces from network to network. Yeah. And it went from country dude to like Chania to like Carrie Underwood.

SPEAKER_02 38:51

Love Carrie Underwood singing my Monday Night Football song. Okay, so excited about this product rec, which is really more of a company. I'm interested in this. Yes. So um Oh, these are great. Nonprofit gala season is generally uh January through April. But here in Lake Geneva, we like to put them in December quite often. Uh so if you have holiday parties or nonprofit gallows to attend, um, I was shopping last night. I was talking to some friends about this gala that we all have coming up. And I don't like I have plenty of dresses, but I'm gonna look at it.

SPEAKER_00 39:21

I'm gonna buy Sarah this never fully dressed sleeveless wrapped mini dress in abstract.

SPEAKER_02 39:25

Good idea. So I just want to recommend ASOS. They have some questionable dresses, but a lot of really great.

SPEAKER_00 39:31

I would get divorced if I bought her that.

SPEAKER_02 39:33

Really great, very affordable dresses. Actually, this one's her style. When I was pregnant, I I got they have a really good maternity line of like not dowdy, but very fashionable and adorable and well-fitting maternity clothes that are also like don't break the bank.

SPEAKER_00 39:45

So Okay, you were positively glowing.

SPEAKER_02 39:47

Glowing. Just glowing. It's a great sight.

SPEAKER_00 39:51

A great thing you can tell pregnant women is that they're glowing.

SPEAKER_02 39:54

You're like, no, I'm sweating because being pregnant. Just shut up. Just don't just don't talk. Um smile and not said gala that I'm going to. Uh Cirque des Lai themed. So I can't uh oh dude, I'm jazzed for it because it allows me to wear something ridiculous, and I cannot wait. Can't wait. Yeah. I was with a girl last night who has a pink sequin jumpsuit. Had she, I think she's probably like at least one size smaller than me. Otherwise, I was like, can I try it on? I will borrow it. So anyway, ASOS is the site, not rather product that I'm recommending. And you should totally pop on there for a holiday dress. Like, honestly, they're so affordable. You can get like an adorable dress for 50 bucks or a gala gown for a hundred bucks. So I'm jazzed. I'm shopping for mine. Don't have it picked out. Send me Certe Sway recommendations.

SPEAKER_00 40:41

All right. So my recommendation. Yeah, what? It's called an asso.

SPEAKER_02 40:46

Oh, that's real. I thought that was like some sneaky thing.

SPEAKER_00 40:48

Nope, it's called an asso. Cool. So uh this bottle of wine that I opened, uh, corks dry out over the time. And the traditional waiter's friend um wine opener is not the easiest thing on them. Oh, so an asso is, as I'm sending to you, a handle with two metal prongs. And one prong is longer than the other, and you put the prong on one side and then squiggle the other prong on. Yep. And it goes all the way uh down the side of the corks and seizes them, and then you twist it out and bring the cork out intact. It works really great for older bottles. Uh, it's fun to say also. They're like seven bucks. Fun to say squiggle. Oh, really? And um, I need to buy like four more because I need one at my house, I need one in my office, I need one in the wine area, and I need one down here.

SPEAKER_02 41:40

I did not get it. Did you text it to me? That's a great recommendation.

SPEAKER_00 41:43

I did.

SPEAKER_02 41:44

I don't know what's going on, guys. Um, also, that'd be a good gift. Look at us.

SPEAKER_00 41:48

Holiday gift guide shopping or $6.98 on Prime. Wow. I actually don't like this one. I don't think the prongs are quite the right size. Well, Nick will put a different link up for you. But I'm a big fan of the ASO. It works great. I've started just like it takes a like you will screw up a cork. Like you will definitely screw up a cork. So like do it on cheap bottles first. That like, who cares? But like once you do it two or three times, you get the and like I've just started being like, if it's anything like that I've had sitting around for a while, or any type of expensive bottle, like not even expensive, like over 20 bucks, where if I like break the cork, which happens, yeah, I'd be mad. I just take out the also and it takes like 10 seconds longer, and you never break the cork.

SPEAKER_02 42:33

What?

SPEAKER_00 42:34

Yeah. Great product rec, guys. So I'm uh yeah, I'm gonna recommend actually I think this $11.75 one.

SPEAKER_02 42:41

Oh, $12. Break in the bank, ruminate on that, my friend.

SPEAKER_00 42:44

There's a $30 one that looks like really beautiful and like the prong lengths are maybe the $30 one is a good gift.

SPEAKER_02 42:52

The $12 one's good for yourself.

SPEAKER_00 42:54

So anyway, that's that.

SPEAKER_02 42:56

That's that. Ruminate. We'll be right back. We deep dove into dresses for a while, and and I made us take a stop because we would have done it all day. Um Nick likes to shop for dresses. Sorry. That's true, he does. I I vetoed one of them. You're welcome, Sarah.

SPEAKER_00 43:26

I am going to be Simona's prom dress person. Oh, I can't wait for that. It's gonna be great. I would just like to thank the Lakeshiva School Districts for telling Bridget that she could not bear her midriff.

SPEAKER_02 43:41

Like honestly. It showed like literally an inch of my stomach. Scandalous. I'm sorry. Scandalous what these kids are wearing to dances now. We will not have an inch of Simona's skin showing. You should have I had a tube top. It was a sequin, like tube top. So strapless, and then no joke, an inch of my stomach, and then like. A puffy tool skirt. It was adorable. I got it in Spain. I was so proud of it. And Espana. And Shannon and I like both. I'm like felt like we were taking the principal's office. Like, this is bullshit. Anyway. Good times. Um, here we're to tell you. We're well, we're here to talk about Nick and I's crazy planning, and we're gonna help you plan.

SPEAKER_00 44:22

Um, we need to give Shannon some credit for this too. Because Shannon deserves like a big That's on you and Shannon.

SPEAKER_02 44:28

I have not talked to her about it. Oh, she's making pot stickers. Oh, that's a great idea. Erin's making pot stickers. Oh, Aaron. Okay, here's the thing, guys. Friendsgiving.

SPEAKER_00 44:39

Okay, so first of all, you need So I was talking about this with the purchaser at Grand Geneva the other day because we are friendly and I helped her out with something, and I like needed like 10 minutes. So we had some conversations. And it started with this thing I'm doing for my grandparents on Saturday night, how insane that is, and then like one and two, like how much more fun uh my thing the next Saturday is gonna be for Friendsgiving. And so half of our group is like hospitality industry adjacent.

SPEAKER_02 45:10

Okay, that's a nice way to put it.

SPEAKER_00 45:11

And the other half is not.

SPEAKER_02 45:14

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 45:14

So the hospitality half adjacent is all like all insane planners of like, hey, what time is this? What are we eating? What's going on? Let's get this figured out. It's in two weeks. Like, we're gonna prep our dishes, we got stuff to do, like, come on.

SPEAKER_02 45:31

Uh-huh. Nick is doing exactly the right symbol. Like, let's go. Let's go.

SPEAKER_00 45:37

The other half is like, I don't know, food will show up.

SPEAKER_02 45:40

Food and people will be here sometime, maybe, for an anonymous amount of people.

SPEAKER_00 45:45

And like, to be clear, the really insane group is Shannon, Bridget, and myself. 100%. That's correct.

SPEAKER_02 45:52

And sorry, I am not sorry. It's me and Nick who are the really insane. Shannon is insane just about the food, particularly. I am insane about the whole thing.

SPEAKER_00 46:04

So Shannon, Bridget, and I have managed to spreadsheet everybody.

SPEAKER_02 46:11

I mean, to be fair, Nick and I are like, hey, what time is this happening? How many people? Who's eating? What's going on? Okay. Yes, we did spreadsheet everybody.

SPEAKER_00 46:19

Sarah had a lot of concerns about this too.

SPEAKER_02 46:21

Yeah, but she's just nicer and quieter than that.

SPEAKER_00 46:22

She's so nice, and we are not scared. So, okay, so the first thing about Friendsgiving is make sure in your group you have someone that's good with Google Sheets.

SPEAKER_02 46:32

Yes. And not and not Excel Google Sheets, everybody.

SPEAKER_00 46:37

So any idiot in the world can get on this. Uh, we did a poll. So Google Forms another positive thing.

SPEAKER_02 46:44

Okay, but yes, first, you have to invite the right people. Okay, and that sounds mean. I get it. But everyone has different friend groups, okay? They gotta dive together for a dinner.

SPEAKER_00 46:54

This is a side fill episode. Your world's colliding. Like you have to manage your friends' groups.

SPEAKER_02 46:58

You do, because so everyone has kids, and we're cool with that. What the best thing to do on Friendsgiving, you get a babysitter or two, and you have a basement, and the friend, the kids get to have a kid's Thanksgiving in the basement. They don't come up from the basement. They get cute paper plates and crafts and wonderful things to do. The babysitters down there, sure, we'll bring them a delicious meal. The kids eat mac and cheese and maybe some nuggets. I don't care what they eat because they're not.

SPEAKER_00 47:22

We're gonna have nuggets from Bell and Evans, all natural. There you go.

SPEAKER_02 47:26

See? The kids stay in the basement because the second they come up, it's all over.

SPEAKER_00 47:30

It's all over. Okay. And they're having fun. You can't invite anybody that's so concerned about their kids.

SPEAKER_02 47:34

No, I mean, that makes it sound terrible. But they're having more fun than you, remember. They're having a great time with their friends in the basement forgetting you are upstairs.

SPEAKER_00 47:42

Don't invite someone that is going to show up and just like, I don't know, get so drunk and start sexually assaulting someone. Don't invite- did you say that? Don't invite someone that you think might need to get high because they've never smoked before in their lives and think that's how they do it.

SPEAKER_02 48:04

Like, don't invite someone that Don't honestly don't bring someone new into a group that's been together for 10 years unless you've talked to everyone about it.

SPEAKER_00 48:12

Don't invite a vegetarian.

SPEAKER_02 48:13

You can be a vegetarian. Well, only if they're cool. But it's I once had a Friendsgiving with a friend who wasn't comfortable, they had never left their kid before, and they went down in that basement 15 times. And every time, well, well, my kid was crying. I couldn't come back up. I'm like, he's crying because you keep going down there. And he must not have been a daycare kid. I don't really know. But I feel strongly about that. So you gotta think about who to invite. You can have a separate Friendsgiving with a separate group of friends at the end. That was our number one rant. Figure out who to invite. Menu plan number two.

SPEAKER_00 48:50

Um Shin and I collaborated on this one. So I think that doing a theme for Friendsgiving is fun. Because, you know. This wasn't I struggled with this one, I'll be honest. Sarah did too. I did as well. So we could do a uh traditional thing or not. So I put a Google form out there, everybody voted. And I was as part of don't ever sit down, just keep working. Just keep working. I needed a little bit of fun in my life. Uh Shannon coincidentally seemed to need a little bit of fun in her life at this time as well. So we had some text with some fun ideas. And we came up with 10 concepts.

SPEAKER_02 49:26

That was a lot. That was unexpected, I will say.

SPEAKER_00 49:30

Here are the ten. Traditional turkey trisa, I wontan Chinese, barbecue bonanza, a mighty meal of mez, pasta pelooza, ductastic dinner, Korean catastrophe, and catastrophe is spelled with a K. Street food soiree, taco twos giving, butterboard bullshit.

SPEAKER_02 49:52

Oh, I didn't even here. Can I explain what I think why the winner won? Do we want to reveal the winner?

SPEAKER_00 49:57

It's street food soiree. This is a Shannon genius idea.

SPEAKER_02 50:00

Genius. It won because it was number one. It was supposed to shuffle. Oh, well, it was number one on mine. Oh, so it shuffled. Oh, okay. Well, that is good, actually. I'm glad because honestly, I didn't know.

SPEAKER_00 50:10

Again, Google Forms knowledge.

SPEAKER_02 50:12

I didn't know how you set it up, man. I'm glad because How dare you doubt my I'm so sorry. I just voted for street food because duh, and also I won't be there probably, so I just voted to make sure I could vote. I know something else came up super sadly. And I would never normally trump Friendsgiving, but it's an in-law family thing.

SPEAKER_00 50:29

So the great thing, I tried to make ductastic because I knew Tyler would give up his family for duck.

SPEAKER_02 50:35

I know. We're we're in a big struggle. Tyler's priorities. Duck. Duck? Family venison. Somewhere else. Friendsgiving. Yeah, I know. But but honestly, you just had all these ideas that I'm like, I didn't even read the butterboard. I would have voted that one just for fun.

SPEAKER_00 50:54

Um so the great thing about a street food soiree is like a lot of people, so the Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving, you have to deal with your family, you have to like have the traditional dishes for better and for worse. You eat your one plate, get some, you know, second helpings, and that's it. Friendsgiving, you can try lots of different things. You can have all sorts of fun. Everybody's chipping in. You know, at regular Thanksgiving, I do this, you do that, you do that, and we're done. Oh the end. So for Street Food Soiret, we have a sign-up now for what you're making. Oh. Um, I am making donor kebab with pita, tomato, lettuce, etc. I'm bringing wine. I'm in charge of wine.

SPEAKER_02 51:36

Always. Um that's all I get put in charge of at family holidays.

SPEAKER_00 51:40

I might make swarma. Because it's like a close same thing as donor kebab. It's gonna be incredible. Uh Brian and Aaron, our lovely hosts, have signed up for pot stickers. Delicious, man. Um pot stickers yesterday. It's gonna be exceptional. I know it's so fun. Someone better make tacos. Well, because Sarah's concerned about what's she gonna eat. I'm like, Your wife? Yeah. I'm like, someone will make tacos. Is she a picky eater? Well, she doesn't want like she doesn't want lamb. When she's like, you're making lamb? I'm like, yeah, I'm making lamb.

SPEAKER_02 52:12

I mean, I feel that. This is my excuse to make lamb. I'm struggling with it a little because I'm a very traditionalist Thanksgiving. Like, I get very angry if I don't have a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. You're gonna have one later. Yeah, I hope. I mean, I have no idea. Actually, my mom has started planning the holiday already. Good job, mom.

SPEAKER_00 52:27

I'm very excited for the uh kebab because it'll be on like the uh spit thing. You have to carve your own. You're gonna do it in front of people? No, I'm gonna make Ron do it.

SPEAKER_02 52:37

Ronnie.

SPEAKER_00 52:38

Okay, I mean, because who would you rather have standing with a sharp object, half drunk, carving you meat than my cheesemaker?

SPEAKER_02 52:45

It's Ron. Nick, I'm fully distracted by a very cheap, horrifying website that has a lot of very good Cirque de Soleil dresses. Just gonna spit that out there. Okay. Um, so menu planning, not my strong suit. Like I said, I always get assigned to wine. But you know what your strong suit is? Decor. Decor! So also cheap cirque de Soleil dresses. Also cheap cirque. I'm like, I need to order 10 of these and see if any of them fit. Um decor, guys.

SPEAKER_00 53:14

You know, it used to be you had to go in a fitting room, try on the dresses, and then the embarrassing thing of like, no, I prefer that.

SPEAKER_02 53:21

Let me go to a goddamn store.

SPEAKER_00 53:23

I'm an eight in all of these things. And I need a 16 in this. Also, women's sizing, like, I don't understand. It's like based on nothing.

SPEAKER_02 53:35

I am so I like to shop in stores.

SPEAKER_00 53:37

Have I told you my horrible? So I told you my drop ship idea.

SPEAKER_02 53:40

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 53:40

I've also considered making women's dresses that they're all size zero. I'd be like, That's challenging. Oh, like, oh, well, you're a size zero. Well, I mean In Knit clothes, you're a size zero.

SPEAKER_02 53:51

What would you call it?

SPEAKER_00 53:52

Zero. No, I'd call it knit clothes.

SPEAKER_02 53:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 53:55

Like something, like I would call it like something like I would call it knit clothes. You know, like who's the um okay, so this is like wrong, but you know, the guy that has the socks that has like um uh kind of a he has the coffee shop, he's like developmentally challenged, and he has like locally? No, no, he's over in like Arizona somewhere, but he has like a big sock company. He's like in Doug's world, like his name's not Doug. I know what you're talking about. You know, like Doug's World, everybody's an extra large because everybody's extra awesome. Like, so I can't do that. But like just like some sort of something like hey Doug can. You know, like you're beautiful, like you're a size zero. In my mind, you're a size zero.

SPEAKER_02 54:29

I like this.

SPEAKER_00 54:30

Like everybody's a size zero.

SPEAKER_02 54:32

Okay, could you design a cirque sole dress? I will wear it and then tell all my celebrity friends that this is a mix. A strength of mine? Not a strength. Well, you got you got one month, man. Two days less than one month. Okay, decor. So this is something many people get angry at me about, but I think it's vital to a proper party is to have some sort of tablescape. And listen up, people. It doesn't have to be a giant tablescape. Just like one Friendsgiving I was super proud of was at our house, which was like not prepared to have company. We put up a whole bunch of eight-foot tables in a T-shape because to me, the joy of Thanksgiving is being at one table, is sitting down together and being at um, sitting down together and being at one like long table. So I did a T-shape table, which I thought was also awesome. I set the glasses at the table. I put out paper napkins, probably because I didn't want to clean them up, but I had a lot of candles. I had like fake leaves. Um, I had some logs that held votive candles. Like, you do not have I'm the I don't like to say, cheapest, thriftiest person I know.

SPEAKER_00 55:36

You're very thrifty.

SPEAKER_02 55:38

You don't have to spend a lot of money. Thank you. So I just think like setting that all sets the tone. Like, put the lighting down a little bit. And this was a year, like we had kids, so don't get at me about that. I had children. They were just in the basement being babysat by someone I paid a lot of money to babysit our kids. So, like, it was a super fun way to do a Friendsgiving and be able to include, like again, the kids had their own party downstairs with like turkey paper plates and fun food. I had snacks for everyone down there. So just like take 10 extra minutes and go outside and get some leaves from your yard and scatter them on a paper tablecloth, like or some butcher paper. Butcher paper is the easiest, best thing for Thanksgiving. And you let everyone like write what they're thankful for on it. And then when you're drunk, you can read it. I'm sure we did that that year. I think we did. I feel like we did do that that year.

SPEAKER_00 56:23

Well, that was a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_02 56:24

It was so fun.

SPEAKER_00 56:25

Yes, I'm I'm thankful that your house retto is gonna be done sometime. Sometime. Uh because forward to you having more things like that.

SPEAKER_02 56:33

I know I'm so so sad to not host. So really trying to be able to host a Christmas cocktail party, but we'll see. So, anyway, do a little decor. It goes a long way, and it's super fun to get thrifty. And if you don't want to do it, I will do it. Let me do it. Thanks. Nick, this last one's on you again.

SPEAKER_00 56:52

What to drink? Very important. Okay, so um, you know how much I love a good tight theme. You know how much I am Nick. I am Nick. We all love a theme. Friendsgiving is not the time to be a jerk about anything. Friendsgiving is the time to bring the best things you have. Your family's not worth it. I'm a big proponent of your family sucks. Um, you're stuck with your family.

SPEAKER_02 57:17

Trying not to spit my water out.

SPEAKER_00 57:18

You love them, they're great, they got your back, but your friends are the family you choose. Your friends are the people that really truly know your bullshit and have chosen to support you despite your bullshit. And guess what? They deserve your best alcohol. So Yeah, they do. Whatever your best alcohol is, bring that.

SPEAKER_02 57:41

Bring that back.

SPEAKER_00 57:42

Don't care if it matches your thing. Um, there's like dinner clubs and stuff like that if you want to do tight pairings. No, no. There's like all these other things.

SPEAKER_02 57:49

Like, if you want to-I'm not gonna match your lamb kebab.

SPEAKER_00 57:52

Oh, I got mine. But like, just bring whatever your best alcohol is and come and be proud of it. And if it's a super sweet, terrible Moscato, come to Friendsgiving and be like, hey friends, you know what? I love this, and I hope you try it, and it's great. And if you don't like it, I'm gonna drink it. And you know what your friends are gonna say? They're gonna say, You're ridiculous. Oh, they'll say, I'm gonna try it. They're gonna make fun of you. Yes, they are. They're your friends and they love you. And but then you know what they're gonna do? They're gonna try and say like something nice about it. So, like, I'm gonna come and be like, hey guys, I've been saying this bottle of champagne for five years, and I'm finally drinking it, and I hope you like it. And they're like, You're a privileged jerk. And everybody's gonna be like, Yeah, it's good. So, like, bring your best alcohol. Maybe you're a bourbon person, and maybe you're bringing knob creek, and you're like, I really like it. Like, okay, you basic bitch. But like, but they'll appreciate that you cared. So, my alcohol advice is first of all, there needs to be alcohol.

SPEAKER_02 58:50

Uh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 58:50

Unless you're sober and recovering, and then congratulations, that's awesome.

SPEAKER_02 58:53

Then you know, like as a host, yeah, make a cool like mocktail for them.

SPEAKER_00 58:57

But um, also, I'm a fan of alcohol. I don't know. Sorry, not sorry. Bring your best alcohol. It's a way to show how much you care about these people that you feel uh comfortable, laying your guard down a little bit. Don't get so drunk, don't get sloppy, don't puke anywhere, but like have a good time. Please don't puke anywhere. Drop those curtains a little bit, drop your like let yourself relax for a minute.

SPEAKER_02 59:22

Like um, I have two drink tips different, very different than yours. Okay, because I really like your tip of like, hey, bring a great bottle and let your friends make fun of you and then prove them wrong.

SPEAKER_00 59:32

Okay. Prove them wrong. Like, let them show, like, this is kind of a man thing, too, of like you will mercilessly mock your best friend.

SPEAKER_02 59:39

Yes. Here it is.

SPEAKER_00 59:40

But the instant someone else comes after them, you'll get after them. Yep. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 59:44

I hear that. Um, okay, what I two quick tips. Um, a thought would be if you're hosting, have like a batch cocktail ready to go. So like when people arrive, you can quickly be like, hey, would you like um this holiday punch that I have? Or like, would you like a quick, almost like a welcome glass before? Cause it's like weird to walk in and be like, I'm going right for the bottle, unless someone is there ready to pour the bottom.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:07

I do like the punch idea. That's a great idea.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:09

I went to a girls' night thing last night and it was like my first night with this kind of newer group of people. And I was like, Oh, I like when is it not awkward to pour myself a glass of wine? You know what I mean? Because I was the first one there, of course. Yeah. Until the host does it. So when you're a guest, so like have a punch or whatever, some kind of themed, even if it's like a white sangria or something.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:31

That's a great great way to use um old red wine.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:36

Oh, sangria. I mean 100%. Um, I've done it for like when I do my Christmas holiday parties all the time. And then the other thing would be if you really want to carry it through, in my old age, I have started to love decaf coffee with my dessert. Okay, I know you're not a coffee person, but hear me out. Then, like, have a little dessert bar of drinks. Have some gremier. A safe phrase?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:59

Didn't we decide this? Of like, when you say, I'm actually not feeling coffee right now, that means so you're like kidnapped. Oh, wow, I shouldn't say that. So, like, I'm always feeling coffee. I I'm I'm not feeling coffee right now. I'm drinking decaf coffee. I'm like, hey, um, Bridget. Are you dead? Are you being in just a couple of things? Is there an alien inside your head? What's happening?

SPEAKER_02 1:01:19

I should have been more clear. I like decaf coffee sometimes when it's like with a dessert at the end of a dinner. I'll eat, I'll drink regular coffee. But, you know, just saying, um, it's nice. So then, like, have some Bailey's and have some maybe port or something if you really want to carry through the whole thing. So then you have a little bit of a.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:38

I actually have like a ridiculous limited edition bottle that I can't sell. I should bring.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:42

Perfect. So there you go, guys. That's we just wanted to quickly go through how to plan a friend's giving and can I tell you another recommendation? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:52

Um, I would love to. Sparkling water.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:55

Oh, that is a great recommendation. See, and that's great for if someone's gonna be able to do it.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:58

Have a little pellegrino on the table.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:00

They can put that in their wine glass with like a lime or lemon and coming from someone who had a hard time like being pregnant and going to social not a hard time. I was just like annoyed.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:09

I know you had a really hard time like with people judging you for drinking your glass of wine while you're pregnant. Even though the doctors say there's nothing wrong with that. I didn't do that, people. But yeah. And that's why Lucy is such a smarmy.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:19

And that's why Lucy's thriving. I just wanted to not feel like all you can drink is a glass of tepid water. It's like, give me something fun in a wine glass. Pellegrino's delighted tip, Nick. Great job. And it looks pretty on a table. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:32

You can get the big bottles, you can get individual bottles. There's all sorts of ways you can do it. Green glass goes to the biggest. You can get the essencias, which are like so much sugar and so disgusting to make me want to die. Don't get those noted. But uh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:45

There you go. That's your friend's giving uh tips and tricks from Nick and Bridget.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:50

Can I talk about this ridiculous food thing I made?

SPEAKER_02 1:02:52

Uh it sounds like it would be delicious.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:55

So I'm curious where you're at on this one. Like, I almost sent you like a play-by-play of this whole situation to get the Bridget commentary. Okay. So Monday, uh, Simona had a doctor's visit and, you know, like got a flu shot. Oh yeah. Ped all over the place because she was so scared, pooped on the way home because she was, you know, so scarred. God bless Sarah. My God. Also, like I have to assume like pediatric doctors with three-year-olds are like, yeah, we're gonna give you a shot and you're gonna pee yourself, right? I don't know. Like, I think that can't be that uncommon.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:30

I honestly don't know because we're pretty far behind on Lucy's vaccination. So I blame COVID because we switched doctors, you know.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:39

Simona loves soup. It's her favorite thing. She asks for soupy whenever she's a little like soupy. And like when she's very happy, she like it's her like high and low meal. Like when you're really feeling nice, you want soupy, and when you really need to pick me up, you want soup. I love it. Tacos are my like, when I'm really feeling great, I want tacos, and when I need to pick me up, I need tacos. So um not enough time to make like real soup. So instead, I had some leftover chicken breasts that I diced up. I have uh chicken broth concentrate, which is the way to do it. You're sounds delicious. Losing your butt if you don't just keep the like spend the $10 on the concentrate bottle and then just mix it.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:20

I never thought of that.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:21

Yeah, it's like the way to do it because broth is expensive and takes up a bunch of space and everything.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:27

All right.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:27

Um, and then I had some frozen peas and carrots. I mean, I'm here for frozen veggies right now. I am too, but like just like okay, we have peas and carrots and corn. Okay, we'll add we'll add some of this in there, and then um we have macaroni. So we're gonna add some macaroni noodles.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:48

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:49

And then uh like a little salt and pepper, touch of soy sauce, and uh some herbs.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:54

It sounds delicious.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:56

It was, I mean, it was good, but it's like very, it's very good, very hit the mood. Smonaga dumped stuff into the soup and stir it a little bit. You know.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:03

Oh, that sounds so yummy.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:04

But it was just like, this is like the most ghetto shaken noodles.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:08

This is Bridget style, where I'm like, mmm, give me the recipe. That is ghetto.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:13

Go look, go look in your fridge and your pantry.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:16

What can I do? Wait, and you just like it was good in like 30 minutes? Yeah. Had enough flavor?

unknown 1:05:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:22

In my opinion, I think one of the biggest myths is that soup takes like eight hours to make. Because it doesn't. No, it doesn't. Okay, great. I just wanted to make sure. That was like, it doesn't question mark.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:31

Broth, like really good, really uncuous.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:33

Oh, if I'm not buying broth.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:35

Yeah. Oh, heard. And like store-bought broth is full of sodium.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:39

Fine. And delicious.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:40

But like it's garbage, right? Yes. Like if I'm just concentrates really good, and like if you make your own broth, like oh yeah. But that's the making the broth is like what takes for it.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:50

Okay, okay, okay. I feel better.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:51

Because like you don't want the veggies to go in there too long to be soft. Whooshy and disgusting. Yeah, and like the noodles, like I cook the nudes separate.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:57

Nudes because like gross. And then you just mix them in. Yeah. Sounds delicious. I haven't had lunch, so maybe that's why. I'm like, this all sounds so good.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:07

So my lamb donner kebab sounds really good too. Everything sounds so good right now.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:11

I'm like, I need to go eat. Okay. Um, multiple things. I have to talk about too many things. Sorry. But I have to give a shout out to our serve over meals, okay? We did a we have a new program that are these like meals for lazy people, which are me. And so it's you legit, it's a frozen tub of deliciousness, and all you do is heat it and serve it over your favorite carb. Boom. I'm gonna do it every day in my life.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:35

It's like the third whoa. We should do synchronized swimming or something.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:39

Yeah. Maybe it's still raining out and we can do it in a puddle. Be beautiful. Um, okay, these meals we have four. Dude, I have five tabs open of dresses. So my favorite one is the chicken tikka. I kept calling it tiki because, you know, I grew up in a Jimmy Buffett household. Um, the chicken tikka masala is over. Carry to the right. We're doing great today. That's well, well done. Um, so I just very quickly, I'm done talking about those, but that was maybe actually the best thing I ate this week over some rice. So good. But I'm here to brag about something else. I've talked about this girls' night that I did last night. So this was a new group that, like, really it's um some of Shannon's friends, and one of them, she and I get along very well. So she was hosting and she just decided to include me. And she said, Hey, you want to come? And I, you know, I'm always looking for social activities. And I'm like, Yeah, great. That sounds lovely. Thank you for including me. But, you know, it was my first time with a new group. Like, I I have met these people all. I've never been at their night.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:40

We have another group dynamic.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:41

Right. And I haven't been at their girls' night. Like, are we dressing up and looking cute? Because it was at someone's house. If we were out, I would have dressed up and looked cute. Do we wear joggers to this? What do we do? Joggers. So also it was like, yeah, bring a snack if you want. But like in my head, I'll definitely bring a bottle of wine, you know, because it was like snacks and wine. So I brought wine, of course, um, Prosecco from the truckload sale. I know, but you know, I didn't know. And I have a lot of. It's a safe decision. Yep. I don't know that I remember one of the other girls in this group often drinking white wine. So I thought, well, I'll just bring some bubbly. So um, I felt like I needed to make something, but I had nothing at my house and I had like an hour. So I made chocolate, sea salt, popcorn, and it was so good. Spoiler alert, it didn't dry in time, so I couldn't bring it, but now I have it at home.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:28

So I got there and was like, sorry guys, I tried, but it's still at my house. So I think you should like bring True Shard Temper Neon everywhere and just like do the like, hey, like low-key, I'm kind of a BFD.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:39

I don't think people would appreciate it. Like someone.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:42

Well, I think people would like get that you're a BFD and then be like, okay, cool, I'm not gonna drink it. And then guess what? I can bring it back home.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:48

This is always a qualm of mine. I'm like, oh, but you guys didn't drink it. Once I brought a bottle of wine somewhere and I knew they preferred a much different type of wine. And so I was like, Can I take this back home? You're not gonna drink it. I know it's a bad faux pas. Anyway, don't do that. It's rude. Hosting tips from Bridget. And on that note, it's time for Kid Corner. Okay, I moved yours second because yours is actually funny and mine is braggy and not funny, but I'm gonna brag anyway. So often we talk about Lucy, so I felt like I needed to make sure to get some Elliot love in. And we've been struggling with.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:23

We've had some good Lucy discussion already.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:25

I know. So we've been struggling with Elliot, big emotions, like he's too cool for me half the time, whatever. We're like really trying to teach gratitude because you go off of like spoiled Halloween.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:36

Have you talked about hashtag gratitude or just gratitude?

SPEAKER_02 1:09:39

I haven't given him a gratitude journal yet. We don't have a sign that says grateful, thankful, blessed in our house. Maybe that would help. Um, but we're really trying, like every parent, you know, to teach like don't be a spoiled brat. I don't think every parent's trying to teach that. Oh, well, it's like my number one goal and it's not going well. See, but at least you're trying. Yeah. So we were having popsicles after school yesterday because it was like 75 degrees out. So we were like having a picnic in the yard and like playing outside. And we do highs and lows at dinner of like best part of your day, worst part of your day. It's like my favorite thing. So we were just chatting about that over popsicles. What was the best part about your day today?

SPEAKER_00 1:10:16

Chocolate covered popcorn. They didn't get to try it yet.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:19

So I made it last night. So um they, Elliot goes, Well, the worst part of my day was that I played a game with Caleb and I didn't win. And I was like, Oh, you know, that's it. Yeah, because losing is the worst. Yes, but then he goes, But you know what? The best part was that I was really happy for Caleb because he got all the points. And I was like, Elliot. I literally like grabbed him and I was like, Elliot, this is what I've been trying to explain to you forever. And he was like, Okay, mom, yeah, I was happy for him. Like he did not get the weight of how important that was. And I was like, Can you just always understand that you're happy for your friend? And you can also be sad that you didn't win. It was like the best moment. And I just wanted to make sure he remembered it forever. I'm sure he didn't. That's all.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:02

So on Tuesday, I think it was Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Uh had a day, some stuff happened. Big day. And it was a big day, but I had promised there was uh 50 shades of Gruyere book club at the library. And books and cheese are Simona's two favorite things. Yes. So I had promised Simona. So I asked her in the morning, I'm like, hey, what are your favorite things? And she literally said books and cheese. That's awesome. Like, literally, zero problem is like, I like books and I like cheese. I'm like Delicious. So, like, you know who the mom is because you can see it happen, but like the dad is always a little more questionable unless you get testing, you know? And we haven't had testing. So it's unclear. It's unclear, but when she said books and cheese are her favorite thing, I'm like, I knew it. You are my daughter. You are my daughter. So all these things happen. I was like, you know what? I'm gonna get to six o'clock and we're gonna go and we're gonna get our books and we're gonna get our cheese. And it's gonna be special. And let me tell you, it was special. We walked into the library, and someone was very excited to get her books. First of all, you need to get her basket. I was like, hey, we're gonna go, and she's like, No, I need my basket first. I'm like, okay, good point, good point, good point. Fair, fair. So, like, stomped her ass over to where the baskets are, took three, hefted them all up, and then decided this is the one I want. Daddy put the other ones back. Sure. Headed over, and she's like, Where's the cheese? I'm like, okay, we're gonna go in here. So we had to go into the meeting room, and there was uh Ellen, the outstanding librarian. Oh, great, and then Jill, our friend, and then some random person. And Jill's like, oh, this is cool, Nick and Simona are here. And the other person, because this is clearly just their adult book club. Oh, let me be clear, this is their like regular book club that they've got like the cheese thing put over. Yes. And so random old person's like, not happy there's a kid. Not having the kid. And someone's like, hi, grabs the cheese, starts eating it, and asks me for a cracker. Oh, like here's a cracker. I'm like, hey everybody, we just came. And Ellen is dying because we had seen Ellen earlier, and she's like, You're not showing up. I'm like, oh no, we're showing up. And so Ellen is like dying.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:24

Dang, I wanted to go and talk about my podcast. And it says we could talk about podcast books, whatever. I'm like, oh.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:31

We leave because I'm like, oh, this person is not at all happy about this. Dang! Big out all the books, like play on the blocks, have some story time is great. Simona, do you need to go potty? No. And she's like, no way. She started saying, no way. That's hard for you because you have to take her in the men's room. Which is fine. It's not a big deal. Okay. There's a family one at the library too by the meeting room, so we didn't have to go back and be like, hey guys, again.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:56

Oh, yeah, that one.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:58

Um, so anyway, like okay, great. So we like do it. She's like, I want to go for a walk because it was a beautiful night, everything. So we go for a walk, and she says she wants to see where mommy and daddy got married because we got our reception's at the rift. So I was like, okay, we'll go over there. Do you want to look at the boats? And we get there, and there's now this live stream webcam. So I'm like, hey Sarah. Uh because Sarah's like, hey, you get everything because we and Yeah, you coming home? Yep.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:24

So I was like, oh, check us out on the webcam. So Sarah tunes in and starts screenshotting. And so I'm like, Simona, look, let's get a picture with the fountain. Beautiful night. Simona, let's go wave at the camera. And so Sarah has this thing where like her and I are like, oh, let's go look at the camera. And then Simona squats as I'm like, hey, let's turn around. And Sarah's like, oh yeah, she's peeing. Oh, come on. So like the fountain, all the things. She just squatted and started peeing? She like goes like this and like pees her pants. But didn't tell you? Nope. So like in the space of time it takes me to be like, hey, why like pick her up? I'm like, oh no.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:05

And now you have to carry her because she doesn't want to walk. Now I have to carry her. And oh, that's the worst.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:11

Pee all over me. Pee all over her. The car seat. Oh, so I took the pants off and everything, like stripped her in the car, and like we had a tall and stuff. So like okay, good. So Sarah did send me like make sure you take everything. I'm like, I'm not totally stupid. Like, yes. I mean, I am mostly stupid, but that one, like, don't worry, I understand like much harder to clean a car seat. So much rash, so much. I didn't even care about the car scene. I'm like, I'll scrub that. I'm like, I don't want her to get rashes. And here I am.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:39

I didn't even think about a rash.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:40

What the fuck is 10 minutes in wet pants gonna do? Do you do a rash? So she has my sensitive skin. Oh, I was like, what is that gonna do? I have like very sensitive skin.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:48

I mean, remember they lived in diapers that stayed wet more than 10 minutes. But like it absorbs it.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:53

Where it's just like chafing.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:55

Well, that's so funny. I never even considered it. I'm like, God, car seats are hard to clean.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:59

So wow, that's Sarah sent us a photo sequence of like That's hilarious. And like it's just like me then like, oh, we gotta go.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:08

Gotta go, soaking wet. Oh, I hate that. So it's just like this beautiful summation of the day. Yeah. And she ends peeing her pants. We've had a few moments of like Lucy one time was just like, oh, I just peed on the couch. I'm like, what why? Yeah. Like, you have not peed your pants in a month. What are you doing? I just I had to go really bad. I'm like, then two minutes ago, walk to the bathroom. Ugh, children. Way to go. Anyway, guys, this was uh off the rails, so thanks.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:37

Thanks for listening. Hope you can find a dress.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:40

We're gonna talk about Thanksgiving. Yeah, not just Friendsgiving, but traditionally-ish Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:46

You're gonna hear about this meal I cook for my family. Oh my god, I can't wait.

SPEAKER_02 1:16:50

Ah, which is not gonna be Thanksgiving food. Or is it? No, it's not. Okay. What's the main dish? Prime rim. Oh, yeah, right, right. Okay, that's for next week, guys. Tune in. Have a great week, y'all. Thanks, everybody. Happy November. Cheers.