Oh Thank Heaven, It's 7-11 - Dinner Plus Drinks #81

SPEAKER_02 0:14

Hello everybody, welcome. New edition of Dinner Plus Drinks podcast. I was just telling Bridget off the air, uh, I'm a little tired today. Didn't sleep real great. I was kind of like, uh, there's so much to do today. We got an event on Saturday. We had an event on Thursday.

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And that's crushing. That's just too many events.

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I I went through the outline, plugged my stuff in. I'm like, this is gonna be great.

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I'm I plugged mine in a couple days ago, so maybe I was excited then. But I'm tired, guys. I'm tired today. I'm on the tail end of a cold if you can't hear that.

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I I haven't had the opportunity to speak with you much since your vacation.

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Yeah, I'm back. So I feel like we were I got sick while I was there.

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Got the times to talk about all of it. So you're sick. I heard. So let's actually let's start. No, let's you tell me about your vacation. Tell all of us about how this vacation to the beautiful cottage in Michigan went.

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It was a bit much. Um, you know, I don't know if I said this on air or to everyone who will listen to me in my life, but Shannon actually, Shannon, my sister, said before I left, she's like, remember, it's a trip, not a vacation, which was like the truest words that were ever spoken to me. Like an acid trip? Yeah. What are we talking about? So if you have kids, certainly like vacation is a joke. You're still just doing your parenting thing somewhere else. So it was a trip, not a vacation. It took that's a great way to think of it.

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It really sets expectations differently. Good job, Shannon.

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If you paid attention on Amou's Bouche last week, I talked about the, you know, setting expectations real low, which I did, which actually was really helpful, um, and about accurate. So it took seven hours to what should normally have taken five on a high end uh to get there. And then we'll just skip everything in between and fast forward to the drive home where Elliot threw up in the first 45 minutes of the way home.

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So give you an idea.

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Puke in a car when you have nowhere to go. My beautiful, I wouldn't say pristine by any means. It's very nice. It's in great condition. It is a nice car. Um, yeah, so that sums it up right there without like giving you every detail of the trip. Um, it was a lot. Uh, we didn't sleep a lot, the kids didn't sleep enough, we didn't sleep enough. We we had some quality time with our family, our extended family. That's what's important. You know, Elliot had an awesome time swimming with his cousins. Lucy could like float around on an island by herself and not give a crap. So I think she had fun. Um you know, there were certainly fun.

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Lucy was in her corner staring. She had so much fun.

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Dancing in circles with herself. Um, so we'll talk a little bit about a fun activity that Elliot did during Kid Court Kid Corner, but uh I'm I'm glad to be back. Um the kids fell asleep about 20 minutes from home after not napping the entire drive home. They fell asleep right as we're coming into Lake Geneva, and Elliot woke up in our driveway, and I'm like, oh, he's gonna be so sad. And he woke up, he's like, I'm really glad to be home. Like, me too, Elliot. So it was nice. I am lucky to have a place to go. I am glad to be home.

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I watched fireworks from you did?

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How were they?

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They were beautiful. This was an incredible year for fireworks. I feel like everybody really stopped up. They saved up their money. Yep, everybody used those Biden bucks, those those Trump dollars, whatever, uh who whichever you want to wrote them. Uh, those free money checks. They used them up on fireworks, and it was astounding this year. Oh, dang. I didn't see that. We had the full 360. I watched with my brother-in-law and his girlfriend. Oh. It was a lot of fun. They had a very romantic uh we drank a bottle of Lambrusco. Oh my god.

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Wait, they went up on the roof again.

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Yep, it was it was a lot of fun. We did our all-American uh hair, we did smash burgers for lunch on the 4th of July and Bratwurst for dinner, watched some fireworks. That is an all American. Drank some sweet, sparkling Italian red wine.

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Besides that lambrusco, that's all.

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But I mean, isn't that like the American thing? Like it's sweet. Drink wine sparkly. At least it wasn't white. So we had we had a lot of fun. Oh, good, that's it.

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Yeah, good. I heard it was really hot back here.

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It was so freaking hot.

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It was not that hot by us.

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So hot. So hot. It was unbearably hot. Like I wore long sleeves up on the roof because bugs. So many bugs. And it was windy, thank God. Yeah. Um, but too hot. It was it was marginal.

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So 4th of July is coming gone. We're in like a weird. This is another one of those weird weeks that's like, it's nothing happening. Like it's it's not Father's Day, it's not Fourth of July now, it's just summer. I don't know. That's what I say.

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And you know what summer needs? Beer.

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NA beer.

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So we're gonna pull this one out and share this with the people because we want to see what you guys think of NA beer. But there's a lot of people releasing new NA beers, including one of Bridget's favorite breweries.

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Yes. Uh River West Stein from Lakefront Brewery is one of mine and Shannon's. I think Shannon actually turned me into this, but one of our favorite beers. I have the alcoholic version in my fridge right now, but I guess today we're trying the non-alcoholic one.

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So Lakefront, which is a great brewery, very nice people, very progressive on how they think of beers. A lot of people think of nostodgy old styles, which they make a lot of what we'll kindly call classic styles, like River West, an amber ale or an amber lager, is kind of a traditional style, and it's a very good beer. I love it. Uh, but they also try some new things, and they're very forward. They were on the first brewery. I think they're actually the first brewery to do a gluten-free beer. Yeah. Uh new grist. And then so now they're forward-looking on seeing the number of people that are looking to reduce their alcohol consumption.

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Yeah, why is that just more people? I don't know. People are dumb.

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During COVID, everyone was like, shit, I'm drinking too much. So this comes in a convenient 12-ounce can. It's rich malt flavor and perfect hop to balance made with malt, hops, yeast, and water. Just no alcohol. Actually, it's less than 0.5%. It's amber near beer. So what do you think?

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Okay, but please note anybody that's watching this on YouTube, it looks like a dang can of River Westin. Oh, I don't think it's that bad. Okay, so Nick has never had to endure being pregnant and trying all of the NA options.

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Um this is one of the last not good NA beers I've ever had.

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This is would rank right behind my favorite NA beer.

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I put this a little behind Klausthaler because I think Klaustheller's got some of like European funkiness.

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So Klausthaler, um, I have I that was my NA beer of choice when I was pregnant, which means like my entire pregnancy I maybe drank a six-pack, but um, it was so much tasted like regular beer that I once had someone that was drinking a lot that evening enjoy my NA Kalst Klausthaler at the end of the night because he thought it was a regular beer. So this is not so bad.

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I to me it's just a little watery. Like it's it almost is like malt-flavored water. Now, because I'm not actually gonna torture you, I have the real one. I'm gonna go grab that so you can compare it.

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I was like, what is this shit? Um yeah, if you have had to try out different NA beers, I will not totally shame this very well-known previously Milwaukee-based brewing company, but their NA beer is nasty. I once spit it out at a wedding. Someone was being so kind. I was pregnant at a wedding, they got me an NA beer to like be part of the crowd, and I laughed and spit it out on someone, but it tasted like wet cardboard. So I'm on board with River West Eine NA. Not as much as the real River West Eine.

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Yeah, I liked it. I I mean it's good. I honestly would drink it as like flavored water.

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I has flavored water. Wait, if you're okay, I'm showing on YouTube how similar these look. Please note the giant NA on the can, but otherwise, like these are the same.

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Man, this is so much better. I I understand. I'm not shaming anybody that is, you know, NA. Uh lots of various reasons for that, all of them very good.

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But I really like them both, I gotta be honest.

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I just I think the alcohol ups the flavor, it tastes like beer.

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Yeah, I don't intend on ever getting, you know, doing this again. But never getting pregnant again. Ever, I was like, why can't I think of words? Um, yeah, ever having to drink NA beer uh for pregnancy reasons, but there I would say good job, Lake Front. Good job, Lake. Good job.

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For the most part. Let us know if you have a favorite NA beer that we should try.

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But maybe not. I've heard St. Pauli Girl is good.

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I haven't had that, but that would be another like kind of Eurofunk one.

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For years, I didn't know that was an NA beer. Because why would I have known? I never looked, I never had to look for it. Anyway, now I'm an expert. Also, for the record, NA wine, not good. There isn't any good NA wine. I've tried.

SPEAKER_02 8:42

When you when there's that much acidity and sweetness and stuff, it needs the alcohol. It's like a flavor colour.

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I've tried so hard. Ugh, uh okay. Anyway, that's what we're drinking. Both are delicious.

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So there's gonna be a theme on this. There's a couple themes on this week's episode. Maybe it's why I got excited. You know, we love themes. Um this time, I'm the one that couldn't choose. I had a really, really hard time choosing things this this week's episode.

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You only chose one thing, one meal here. Yeah, two years.

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There was like seven.

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You got I looked at pull up the outline?

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The the meal outline, the meal plan this week was like, oh, that looks good. That looks good. I haven't made that in a while.

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What is you have you have two choices for everything here? So uh please note for the record, it's Nick this time, not me.

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We're talking vacation things, we're talking um Nick can't choose.

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Nick is indecisive.

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Uh I'm gonna let you go first with your with your news story.

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So what are we aren't we gonna talk about what we ate? Oh, yeah, we've got to talk about food. I was so excited. Oh my gosh, food. Okay, I was so proud.

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I got so excited for my news stories.

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I'm excited for this food. So at the cottage, um, every family, like so at so me and Tyler being a family um and our kids, we are all assigned to a night to make dinner. So it was requested that I bring for our dinner Lake Geneva Country Meets Brats. So this was not a plug, I did not suggest it. Honestly, I would have chosen something else, maybe, because it's easier to make something else sometimes. But um, it was requested that we bring a whole bunch of different fun flavors for everyone to try. So I brought two of like I don't know, four. I think I had 12 different flavors. Um, and we did what I like to call a bratcuterie board. Heck yeah. Which why isn't that a term yet? Is it? I think it should be. We're gonna do it.

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Getting training on uh Insta there, Bridget.

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Bratcuterie board. And we made all these.

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You're gonna be the queen of bratcuterie.

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All my dreams. Bratcuterie Bridget.

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Anyway, we brought Queen Bridget the first of Bratcuterie, her Snappy Highness.

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Bratcuterie land of Snapsville.

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There's Cheese Landia. Why couldn't there be bratcuterie landia?

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Snapsville. Okay, we're gonna work on it, but I like it.

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We're gonna workshop it a little bit. We'll get back, make an idea.

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We're gonna, yeah, we're gonna put it on a whiteboard. Um, so we made bratcuterie, which was really just a brat tasting, where we made all these, I think 12 different flavors, caught them all up, gave everyone toothpicks, and let them try. And it was so fun because honestly, I haven't tried all of our flavors.

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It's like grazing, it's so much fun.

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I mean, that's my favorite way to eat, is like a charcuterie board and grazing small bites. So, um, but I of course know that our brats are good and I work with them every day in some way. These people didn't, they live all over the country, my relatives, and people were going crazy.

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And like it's the crack.

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Um, that's a joke. You can't say anything on the internet these days. Um, picking all, you know, picking other favorites. My brother-in-law Spencer was like, oh yeah, for sure, it's jalapeno pepper. No, no, mushroom Swiss. Oh, and I think he landed on cheddar green pepper. And I told him he was boring. Um, anyway, they were great. It was super fun. I highly suggest it. Like, come in when we have our fresh brats out or buy a whole bunch of frozen uh six packs if you want. But I did it when we had a large variety of fresh and just got a whole bunch of different flavors, cut them all up. It was so fun for a large group and let everyone like if I really had my shit together, I would have like made score cards. Like Bridget three years ago, maybe would have done that, but Bridget today could be a good thing. Brackerie, man. If you're coming to my house, you know you're gonna be eating braccouderie now. So it was super fun. That was the best thing we ate. We put a whole bunch of fun side salads together because we have some vegetarian friends, which you'll hear what I serve them in my news story. So there you go.

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Tots. That's what I ate. We had our first beer garden, that was a Thursday event. We had Gracie's Kitchen Out, which is a new food trailer. Yep. Uh Lynn is a good customer of ours, and she started a food trailer and uses uh a number of our items for her thing. For her food trailer? And she has a really tight menu, which I think is good.

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Yeah, good for a food truck.

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Works well for logistical and ordering. You know kind of what you're gonna get, but I also think it's a good mix. So she does pulled pork, which she then does on a sandwich with fries. She does grilled cheese, like classic traditional American.

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It was so good. That's not grilled cheese.

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And you can put pulled pork on that and then tots. She does a fully loaded tots that has onion rings, bacon, pulled pork, and you can just smother barbecue sauce on it. And my God, it was so good.

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I think like everybody, I saw everybody order that. Um, I got the grilled cheese, also delicious.

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I believe the Henningfeld children got a bucket of fries.

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Well, I I added the bacon secret menu item to my grilled cheese.

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Ooh, that was a good one. You know, you know.

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Yeah, she was she did a really great job.

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And my favorite thing was she like, I think she deep fried the tots. So they were like a little underdone in the middle and very crunchy on the outside. She deep fried, which is perfect.

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She deep fried the bacon too.

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I love it.

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So the tip that I learned um from them is you know, when it's super hot out, they don't use the deep fryer, which I do not blame them because, like I said, I heard it was really hot over the 4th of July, so they turned it off. But as long as tots are on the menu, it means the deep fryer is up and running and you can get bacon because they deep fry their bacon, which means it's crispy, which is the way I like it. It was perfect.

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Anyway, I don't like crispy bacon usually. I like it, still tastes like pork, but in this thing where it was a crumbly thing, perfect.

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Perfect. I those tots looked good, man.

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So everybody go get some tots, maybe come to our next beer garden. Yeah, we should do that. Or just, you know, maybe just make your own tots. Oh, wait, come to our beer garden and put a lot of stuff on top of them. Like pulled pork from Lake Chief of Country. We didn't plan. I knew you were gonna pick this one.

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How'd you know that? When it okay. Oh, wait, no, no, no. This is a different one. Where you know this one.

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All right, the one I thought you were gonna pick was Heinz started a petition to make sure that hot dogs and hot dog buns were sold in the same uh quantity of packaging, which I think you complained about 73 times.

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Because it's irrational.

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And it's also like you like when brands do cool, funny things like that. So I thought for sure that's what you're gonna go with.

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But that's Nick's like third news story, everybody. That okay, are they winning? Because they should be sold. Yes, they should be sold in the same quantity. And if you don't believe this, go away. Okay, it's just logic. That is not my article, but close. No one will have seen this article, I imagine, because it is actually from 2017, but you need to know it. It is an article from the Chicago Tribune, and it is entitled A Carrot in Disguise When a Hot Dog Is Not a Hot Dog. So um we made what's called knot dogs. So we have a number of vegetarian and vegan um which is called cats. Dad joke. Um, so yeah, two dad jokes in this episode, too, huh? Um, so we have a number of um people that don't eat meat in my extended family. And so my mother-in-law introduced us to these not dogs a while ago, and it is literally a carrot with like 12 weird, crazy spices, and you boil them in all these different spices and liquids, and it tastes like a hot dog. Like I put it on a bun and ate it with ketchup, and it tasted exactly like a hot dog. So really this was the texture, it wasn't so bad. I mean, textures of hot dogs are weird, so it was a boiled carrot, it tastes exactly like a boiled carrot, but not like you have to stop it before it gets too mushy. You know, anyway, this is the same thing with hot dogs.

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Stop before it gets too mushy.

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Along with brat couderie, we served these not dogs. So I wanted to share the article. If you have a vegetarian or a vegan family member, you have to try this and just like carrots. Or if you're me and are like, cool, yeah, let's give it a try. It's a great article from the trib, it's kind of funny. Gives you the recipe, so we will post that. I would love to know if you try it and if you think I'm crazy or if I'm right, but I'm telling you, it tastes like a hot dog. Eat it with ketchup in a bun, otherwise, you don't get the full effect. So, Chicago Tribune, not dogs.

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I have two news stories. Well, I guess now three. Um, they're both like really good news stories. I was very excited about them. We want to talk with you. First, giant pandas are no longer endangered. Okay, this is interesting.

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So, why?

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What the Chinese have said that the pandas in the wild has reached 1800 and they're now just vulnerable, not endangered.

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For like a day until they fall to 1799.

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Well, I love this picture of a panda falling it's in a tree about ready to fall off. They're the dumbest.

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Ooh, they're back to being endangered.

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Um, but you know, the Chinese send the pandas all over the world to extract favors out of other nations. You know, like you never can all the giant pandas in the world are owned by the Communist Party of China.

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Seriously?

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Yeah, this is a fact. Like they own them. Yeah, and then it's like a lease and it's a diplomacy thing.

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Like for zoos? Yeah. Yeah. So that makes sense.

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So the zoo, you could never own your own giant panda. It's kind of like, I don't know, like really weird.

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Like child trafficking?

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I don't want to go there. But it is. You know, if I said what I was gonna say, it might get canceled as an insensitive person. But they own them, they own their offspring, and they can do whatever they want with them. So figure out what that might be. Oh my god.

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But um like in perpetuity, yeah. Just always, oh my god.

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So they're always the property of the communists. Wow, okay, great. But uh they they're doing a lot of breeding. It's very hard to get these pandas to mate in the wild or in zoos. They just are not really very their libidos are low. You know, they might want to call Pfizer for a little blue pill. Oh my god. But um anyway, I'm very excited because I love pandas. My very good friend Jenna uh is a huge panda person. Anytime I see panda news, I send it to her.

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This is funny.

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So this really made me think of my friend Jenna, who I've never seen anyone get so irrationally happy as anytime she sees pandas.

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How often does she see pandas?

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Well, like we'll go to zoos or stuff, you know, when we're together, we got kids now.

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Okay, yeah.

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I'm looking for for whatever. Looking for a panda. And then the other one I thought you might grab, but I'm very excited. I grabbed. I gotta remember this. I listened very hard to make sure I got the pronunciation right. Zayala. Zayala. Uh, which it shouldn't be Zayala, because it's Z-A-I-S. I'm looking at it. And they managed to say the I twice, so whatever, but it's Zayala Avant. She is uh Avantgarde?

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I was like, I'm pretty sure it's Avantgarde.

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Yeah, so that's her name, actually. Wow. Um that's actually her name. That looks to be actually her name.

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Okay, funny.

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Zayala Avantgarde, she's 14, and she is the first black American to win the script's national spelling bee. What? She's from New Orleans, uh, which is awesome. And uh it was a hundred years of these spelling bees, and finally a black American won, which is awesome.

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So I did not know this was no black American has won.

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The winning word was Mariah, which is a genus of tropical Asiatic and Australian trees. Would you like to take a guess at how to spell it? Not like Mariah Carey? It's Latin via Sweden.

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Oh no, the only Mariah I know how to spell is Mariah Carey.

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M-U-R-R-A-Y.

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Although the Sweden, I would have ended in an H.

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I I don't know.

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I never I wouldn't win that.

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So the craziest thing about all of this, though, is that um not only so she's only competing in spelling bees for two years, but she already has three Guinness World Records. What? They are for dribbling, bouncing, and juggling basketballs, and they all occurred before ninth grade for her. Holy cow. So she had a few quotes in here that I really liked. One was now I get to get a nice trophy, which is the best part of any win, which I think we can all agree. Uh she said that on ESPN she got the $50,000 prize. Oh, that's on Good American America. They asked her what the um easiest word she had to spell in the competition was, and she said it was panda. All you need is P and A.

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We're taking a break. Have a good one, guys. Okay, we're back. And I have a very important thing to say before we tell you our product rex. You we were talking about not dogs, hot dogs, brats, and a beer. You mentioned something else during your spelling bee discussion that somehow made me think of oh, it was winning trophies trophies and ESPN. Did uh Coney Island hot dog competition happen? Yes. Okay, I usually like weirdly get obsessed with watching Joey Chessner.

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You didn't hear about this? No, I've been gone. I have my fourth news story. Joey Chestnut uh had uh 67 or 76 hot dogs, broke his own record, but we couldn't watch because ESPN had technical difficulties during the whole thing. What? And like cut out the whole thing.

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Oh my god.

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I also if you haven't seen the his introduction, no, I've seen it. You need to watch this. Oh my gosh. Uh I'll publish it in the show notes. Yeah, I'll I'll show you.

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Okay, I like one year watched it. I couldn't stop looking at it, even though it's the most repulsive thing. Anyway, okay, I knew you'd know the news on that, and I've been, you know, out of pocket when I was at the cottage. So this is a guy that always wins, right? Yep. Yeah. Has anyone like when's the last time you lost? Uh a while. Okay, great. Anyway, isn't the secret to like dip your hot dog in water? Yep. Oh, it just like actually makes me want to throw off talking about it. Okay, can I move on? Are you showing me an intro?

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Uh I'll message this to you so you can watch it later. You need all of the sound on.

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Okay, while we're looking up disgusting hot dog pictures, I have to tell you about something that is very unlike Bridget. Uh so I've been influenced by every influencer on Instagram. And uh there is a product that I finally bought because I was going to the beach, uh, you know, little beach vacay. It's called Supergoop. That's the brand, which is super. Is it by Glenn's Paultro? No, that's just goop. Okay. This is Super Goop. So Supergoop, and it's called Glow Screen. So in my advanced age, it's just like a glow-up. No, I'm gonna keep asking old man jokes. You are full of them today. Um, it's it's important to wear SPF on your face in our advanced age, everybody. Um, I mean at all ages, but I am an SPF 50 person. Yeah, you know what I mean?

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And a long sleeve and floppy hat person.

SPEAKER_00 22:50

Yeah, he is that. I'm not those things. I wear sunscreen, but I'm not those things. I get too hot. Um, but there's a thing called Supergroup, super goop glow screen, and it is a facial sunscreen. It just gives you like a little, a little light coverage, but it's SPF 40 and it covers your face enough to make it look like you have your shit together and covers those bags under your eyes a little bit that says I slept more than four hours.

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I need that.

SPEAKER_00 23:14

But it is just a light, a light sun-kissed look. So it was perfect for like beach vacay if I wanted to look like it wasn't a disaster. Um, or I suppose like everyday wear if you live in a hot climate that you're outside a lot and not working in an office. Uh, but it is a little pricey, which is what my issue is with uh this in general. But it turns out that proper skincare products are a little more expensive than I am used to paying for, you know, clear. Is that what it's called? Claroce. Anyway, super group, super goop glow screen, hard to say, but totally worth every penny in my opinion.

SPEAKER_02 23:45

I would like to recommend a video game. A video game, great called Assassin's Creed Valhalla. It's been out for a while now, but I'm just getting around to playing it. I'm about, I don't know, 25 to 33% through the game. Uh, part of the thing is like I like to play a little side quest. Wow. Uh, if you're not into the Assassin's Creed franchise, it's great. You get to stab some people, but also you like learn some stuff about history. They do this really cool job of making an alternate universe where uh they weave in historical figures and historical places. So you're like in England in the 9th century, 10th century, raiding people. And uh, you know, sometimes you stab people, sometimes you don't stab people. Uh, you get to see London in, you know, like the late 900s, like a very nice, very faithful recreation of it, which I think you might be interested in.

SPEAKER_00 24:30

That would be the most interesting.

SPEAKER_02 24:31

I could load it up and show you what London looked like back then. I know you like London.

SPEAKER_00 24:34

I hate nothing more than watching people play video games.

SPEAKER_02 24:36

Well, I would let you play. You could, you could, you could navigate London. I appreciate it, thank you. But uh good recommendation. If you're into the video gaming and the history thing, it's like, yeah, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, they did a really good job with this one.

SPEAKER_00 24:48

Look at us. This is a funny recommendation.

SPEAKER_02 24:51

So yeah, I'm all about it. Playing it all the time.

SPEAKER_00 24:55

Good relaxation, stab. I love it.

SPEAKER_02 24:57

Stabbing people, it's the best.

SPEAKER_00 24:58

Yeah, I listen to crime podcasts, you stab people in a video game. We're great, we're doing great. Yeah, it's wonderful. We'll be right back, guys.

SPEAKER_02 25:23

Guys, we're back.

SPEAKER_00 25:25

We just had the best break.

SPEAKER_02 25:26

We watched we watched the Joey Jesson intro. I'm gonna put that in the in the show.

SPEAKER_00 25:29

You have to. I thought he was joking, being a little dramatic, but no, it is the best intro in all of sports.

SPEAKER_02 25:34

It's amazing.

SPEAKER_00 25:35

I get like excited when baseball players have a great like hype song for when they walk up, but this was the best.

SPEAKER_02 25:40

And and then the beat drops in this thing, and it's just like the announcer like looks like he's gonna pass.

SPEAKER_00 25:44

Let's go. Go eat some food, the number one eater in all of the nation. It's unbelievable. Well, that was really special. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 25:52

So for this week's bit after the break, uh, we were gonna share some interesting facts with you. And Bridget started with a really great one, which was about the perfect vacation length. I was like, wow, this is a really good one because it's like good. And so I was looking for some other like vacation tips.

SPEAKER_00 26:06

I was like, maybe we could do some some vacay tips, because you know, people go on vacation a lot in August, I feel like, right before school.

SPEAKER_02 26:11

So So I then came across uh Life Hacker is a website I really do enjoy. And um they have this web, this uh this article called Top Ten Tips for Having a Perfect Stress Free Vacation. Which tell me about it. So I thought maybe we could go through these and uh say yay or nay on these tips.

SPEAKER_00 26:32

Okay, I want to say the fact I found differs a little from this article. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:37

So and this is what I actually think will be some good good good banter.

SPEAKER_00 26:42

Okay, well, we'll start with my fact once we get to that point in the article.

SPEAKER_02 26:45

So number 10, know why vacations are so stressful. They say this site keeps like reloading. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 26:51

So they're saying if you only take a vacation once in a while, it puts a lot of pressure on that one time period for like everything to be perfect, right? So understand that. Take a break more often, which is like such a thing to say to Americans, right? Yes. Like, take more vacations, people. I mean, I get that. I for sure, because you take like one every four years.

SPEAKER_02 27:10

But uh, I don't know. Yeah, I think that's a good tip. I would agree with that, even if I don't live it.

SPEAKER_00 27:15

I think it's the it depends on the type of vacation you're doing. Like, do you count your cabin up north as a vacation?

SPEAKER_02 27:22

I don't have a cabin up north, and also like hypothetical cabin up north? I don't get the like having to drive four hours every weekend to take.

SPEAKER_00 27:29

Oh, I've established that it has to be three hours or less.

SPEAKER_02 27:32

Tyler and I That was actually what I was looking for. I was looking to see like the yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:35

We've spent a lot of time discussing this. Okay, number nine is the real debating point here.

SPEAKER_02 27:40

So this is take a 10-day vacation. They say a three-day getaway is nice and a week-long one is quite common, but 10 could be the magic vacation number. You've got enough time to travel, uh, maybe with multiple stops, and you're away long enough that you're forced to offload your duties at work.

SPEAKER_00 27:52

Well, that's funny. So the fact I found before we get into debating, saying that the perfect the it was from a source called Weird Facts, and it's the perfect length of time to be on vacation is eight days. And they say your health and wellness levels rise rapidly while on vacation, duh. Maybe. But they peak on the eighth day. So your health and wellness levels peak on the eighth day and return to baseline within your first week back, no matter how long you're gone. Because lengthier vacations don't seem to make a difference. Experts say the key to improved overall satisfaction is to take more vacations, not longer ones.

SPEAKER_02 28:26

I think that eight days is about right. Because I think I've actually read before that like day four is when you start to like really shut it down and be on vacation mode. I could see that. And then like after four days, you're kind of like, so I agree with you. I think eight days, ten days is long.

SPEAKER_00 28:40

Ten days is long. I do feel like at some point I feel disconnected from reality and I feel a little, a little FOMO, I think. But also like there is something to be said. I actually was just talking to a girlfriend of mine who she and I are very similar about like our work ethic and such. And we're like, is vacation ever really worth it? Because like you're never really worth it. Well, that's coming up. Okay, sorry, sorry, I'm getting ahead of ourselves here.

SPEAKER_02 29:00

This is a good one that you talked about. Travel with your kids while keeping everyone happy. Traveling with kids adds unique challenges, unique as well. Especially when you have to schedule around nap and feeding times. Don't let having young kids or kids of any age keep you from traveling. All you need to do is extra planning.

SPEAKER_00 29:16

Uh-huh. Yeah, I'm a good planner. Uh, I've planned everything and it's still stressful. I mean, I am I am for traveling with kids. My kids have traveled a ton. They've both been on multiple plane rides, a thousand road trips, but it it's still incredibly stressful, even if you're a good planner like me. Like I thought I covered all my bases. I think the better tip here is just lower your and even when you think they're low enough, lower them to the level of puking in the car. Because I didn't quite do that.

SPEAKER_02 29:44

Now, speaking of being a good planner, number seven here is let someone else plan your trip. Oh man. Most of us go the DIY route route, but a travel agent can save you time and stress when you have a complex vacation plan. So just traveling with a group or if you have health issues that need to be accommodated. You can also save a lot of money using a traveling agent if you are planning an international trip. F that.

SPEAKER_00 30:02

Okay. Normally I am like F this. However, if you are doing like in my my grandma used to always go on bus trips, and I was like, what is this? But now I'm like, yes, someone go on a bus trip, like plan this bus trip for me, drop me off somewhere. It's like a cruise. Like I we were gifted a cruise, my husband and I, for our honeymoon, and I thought I was gonna hate it because hello, control freak. It was dreamy because you don't have a choice. You're like, you can do one of these four activities.

SPEAKER_02 30:27

Go. If Jack Dawson didn't fit on that life draft, Tyler Leach would not.

SPEAKER_00 30:31

You're not gonna, it's a freaking cruise boat. Come on.

SPEAKER_02 30:34

So it was the Titanic. Yeah, okay, you're right. Uh I do have a guy, his name is Omar. He does help me out with my international travel. So international travel, maybe.

SPEAKER_00 30:42

It dep again, it depends on the kind of trip. But I like, yeah, I'm I'm mostly a plan my own trip person, tracker.

SPEAKER_02 30:48

Six, head to an underrated vacation destination. If you like crowds and long lines, visit a popular destination in prime tour season. Otherwise, you might enjoy your vacation more if you head somewhere less popular. Then they, you know, have like uh links to their own website, some underrated places. Gotta get them called somehow. I'm looking at you, Disney World. Um, I think the better tip is go I don't like unpopular time.

SPEAKER_00 31:13

That is also a good tip.

SPEAKER_02 31:14

Things are popular for reasons, I generally think.

SPEAKER_00 31:17

Yeah, I'm I'm having a trouble with this one because like of course we want our kids to go to Disney World, but also the things we could do with the amount of money we would spend going to Disney, even in the offseason, and I 100% will go in the not popular time. I am not on board with traveling with like crazy hundreds of thousands of people. I don't know. I can't, I I'm undecided right there. Because I like going to a place that no one's really discovered. Yep, that's all.

SPEAKER_02 31:41

I mean, my last vacation was to Kansas City, and I really enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_00 31:44

So I think you know, there's one because you guys love Disney too.

SPEAKER_02 31:49

So but we go in the off times more, you know, I don't know. Number five, streamline your vacation planning. Sometimes vacations are stressful, but you have apps like Tripit for automatically organizing travel plans, or you could have a custom Google map or a spreadsheet. Or you could have a note on your phone with all the things, which is what I do. This you thought this was a making fun of Bridget joke, but I have everything in an Apple note that's on my phone.

SPEAKER_00 32:16

I do keep Apple notes of things to do. Um, I do also have a spreadsheet, which all of my friends make fun of me for. We're going on a little girls' weekend to a cabin, and of course I was like, we need a spreadsheet. Yeah, you do. And I think I think people are getting on board with that now. How else do you organize meals and spreadsheets? We love a spreadsheet.

SPEAKER_02 32:34

All right, number four. This one I think is going to speak to you. Set guidelines, boundaries.

unknown 32:40

Boundaries.

SPEAKER_02 32:41

When traveling with a group of friends, traveling with friends is a lot of fun, but can also drive you crazy, maybe family as well. Since you'll be together constantly and probably won't agree on everything all the time. Keep your cool by making sure everyone is on the same page when it comes to accommodations and planned activities. That might require a spreadsheet. This is hard. Maybe a consent agreement.

SPEAKER_00 33:02

Okay, this is hard. I don't know what else to say here. Um, there are select people I can travel with, and I've done it. I've gone to Europe with friends, I've gone to, you know, other states. I don't know, whatever, Europe comes to mind. And yeah, man, I you learn quickly who you can travel with. I it's like one of the first things I like to do as early as acceptable with a boyfriend to be like, yeah, we're never gonna make it because we can't travel together. I agree. I think that's a huge deal breaker. Because you learn Tyler is patient as a saint, um, but can't hold on to a plane ticket to save his life. So, like, I will hold on to the paperwork and plan the things, but also be a little crazy as long as you are patient and bring me down a level at, you know, when we meet in the middle. So I am not a relaxed traveler.

SPEAKER_02 33:44

You roll in five minutes before gate time he rolls in three hours.

SPEAKER_00 33:48

Like a meet in the middle, maybe. Um, I'm not a relaxed traveler. I don't like to just sit and do nothing. I do like to have a plan. Yes, even on vacation because I have kids and I like to eat meals. So people don't always like that. And yeah, everybody who's listening that knows me, I'm picky about my coffee. So when I'm on vacation, I want good coffee. Shout out to my sister.

SPEAKER_02 34:10

Number three, work on vacation without going crazy. Sometimes you have to take work with you on vacation. It can't be helped. If that's the case, try setting aside small blocks of time that you'll use to catch up and work and save the rest of the time for enjoying your vacation.

SPEAKER_00 34:24

I think this is a great tip. I like this too because preparing for a vacation otherwise is so stressful. I slept for four and a half hours the night before we left for our trip because I was like trying to do everything. I'm like, I can't take five days of work and jam it into one night and try and get it all done. So yeah, I don't have an issue with working on vacation. I I like my job. I don't mind doing it. Like, that's right. Once kids are in bed, like give me 30 minutes to do this task real quick so I don't have to go crazy while I'm trying to pack.

SPEAKER_02 34:51

I too like my job. And uh when I go on vacation, I usually set a uh time every day that I'm gonna spend an hour doing work stuff, check in. There's some things that are a lot easier if I do them the day of instead of in advance or afterwards, get those things done and then move on and just set expectations or what some people might call boundaries.

SPEAKER_00 35:11

Okay. What I like to, I will just say what I do like to do on vacation, like I'll put on my out of office, so I like to not feel like I have to respond to emails or texts or calls or whatever immediately. That's like my vacation.

SPEAKER_02 35:23

Sometimes I just send back F off on vacation to people. If you know I'm on vacation and you send me a question that you can figure out yourself, you might get some expletives.

SPEAKER_00 35:31

So that's that's like really being disconnected. The other tasks are ones I don't mind, so I'll do those, but like, no, I don't want to be at your back and call while I'm on vacation.

SPEAKER_02 35:40

So tip number two, but don't let work ruin your vacation time.

SPEAKER_00 35:44

I mean I I do think like again, if I don't feel like I'm at your back and call, I'm not gonna check my email and do my work at noon when I'm on the beach. I'm gonna do it at 7 a.m. when everyone else is still asleep, or 10 p.m. when I don't know, people are playing cards.

SPEAKER_02 35:58

So tip one is take a vacation already. So this list, um, there was some good things in here, but it's really about six items, not ten. Yeah. And uh three of them are the same. Yeah, it's like they're pretty obvious. But I think the the really good ones that we can agree on are plan, plan, use a spreadsheet or at least a note app. Lower your expectations real low. Set a time that you're gonna do some work.

SPEAKER_00 36:24

If you know you have to, right? Some people I think will disagree with. I can like already feel the hate mail coming at us about this.

SPEAKER_02 36:30

I mean, if you're the type of person that is a wired-to-work type of person like Bridget and I, yeah, set those boundaries. Uh, set boundaries, be clearly communicating with them. Consent is for all types of activities that adults do. Uh so you know, if we're going on a family vacation, maybe say, hey, we're doing these two meals together no matter what. These are the other activities. We'll figure it out. Here's some alone time, here's some other times, you know. We can be chill.

SPEAKER_00 36:58

Bridget's bringing you good coffee if anybody wants any.

SPEAKER_02 37:01

Bring good coffee.

SPEAKER_00 37:02

I mean, those are joys in my life, in my day. You know, maybe go for eight days. Go for eight days. I guess I'm not totally sold on the number of days still. I can't figure it out.

SPEAKER_02 37:11

I like Shannon's point of you're going on a trip, not a vacation, a seven-hour trip.

SPEAKER_00 37:16

Seven-hour trip that should have been four and a half. Whatever, whatever. To be fair, I'm complaining. And my five-year-old and two-year-old didn't, I mean, they like whined like kids, but they were champions on that trip more than me.

SPEAKER_02 37:27

Except on the way home where Elliot puked.

SPEAKER_00 37:29

And then, but he just laughed. I mean, he asked for French fries 10 minutes later, and we were like, we're gonna not let you eat for a little while. Please don't throw up again. Anyway, so if you have vacation tips, I really like we've done a lot of I would say, quote, research on this in the past week or so. I've recorded a podcast, a moose boosh about it, and like, how do you do it? How do you go on a stress-free vacation? Is that a thing? Anyway, let us know. Is there a secret answer?

SPEAKER_02 37:55

Is there a secret answer? Let us know the secret to life. Yes, please.

SPEAKER_00 37:59

Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 38:00

All right. So, uh, meal plan this week. Yeah, you were pumped about it, huh? It was a great one. You really put some really good recipes in there.

SPEAKER_00 38:08

I don't know how excited you get about these because sometimes I'm like, oh man.

SPEAKER_02 38:10

So we have um, I think it's 602 recipes on the website now.

SPEAKER_00 38:14

I feel like I've used 598 of them.

SPEAKER_02 38:16

And I forget about all of them.

SPEAKER_00 38:17

I know. It's like I do go through and try and be like, I haven't seen this one in a while and build the meal.

SPEAKER_02 38:22

So I really like seeing some old favorites, some meals I've made in the past that are delicious. And this week, I'm really gonna recommend the grilled steak with beer mustard sauce.

SPEAKER_00 38:30

Oh, yeah, this is an old one.

SPEAKER_02 38:32

Mustard gets overlooked as a condiment for beef. Um, I hate mustard. It's so good on beef. Uh like it's a very English thing. Yeah. And uh it's great with a roast. It it's just the it's a great condiment with beef. Mixed with beer and put together and spooned on top of beef. It's not like disgustingly sweet. It's a little tangy, it's a little acidic, plays off the rich beef flavor really well. I love this sauce. I love this recipe.

SPEAKER_00 38:56

And it's any steak, right?

SPEAKER_02 38:58

Yeah, you can do any, just put it on top of any steak you grill. I think we wrote it for a porter house.

SPEAKER_00 39:02

I feel like it says pick your favorite steak.

SPEAKER_02 39:05

But uh yeah, I just really like this recipe. It's delicious.

SPEAKER_00 39:08

It's a classic. I could see why it would be good if you liked mustard. Yeah. I understand the characteristics.

SPEAKER_02 39:14

I use mustard for all sorts of things.

SPEAKER_00 39:16

I wish I did. Uh I have no idea why I chose the recipe I did because I think I put this in like two or three days ago. But there is one on Wednesdays on the meal plan. We always try to kind of go with like a sheet pan or a one-pot meal because like by Wednesday, you're just like, God, get me through the week.

SPEAKER_02 39:32

Um I should go to sleep.

SPEAKER_00 39:34

We I I don't know what, but um, one pot spaghetti bologna's. I think I was feeling like I just want a comforting meal. So it was that and beef stroganoff are our two one-pot uh meals, sorry, one-pan meals um for Wednesday. And I was like, these are both just like the most hearty, comforting. I'm gonna make it and then I'm gonna have leftovers and eat it for the next four days. So this was just a classic. Like, I can make it and not have to make a separate meal for my kids. I don't have to just like serve plain noodles because Elliot will now eat noodles with red sauce. You can have garlic bread with it and my kids will eat bread all day. So, anyway, it was a classic, like, can't go wrong, middle of the week, get you through the shitty days. I think I wrote it on a rainy day and I was like, this is what I need today.

SPEAKER_02 40:16

Have you um ever really pondered why all the you know, these are meals here? I need a mop. I need something to mop up. I need some garlic bread. And it's like the carbiest of meals, and you're just at you're like, I need a carb to serve with my carbs.

SPEAKER_00 40:30

I know. I do feel that way with spaghetti. I'm like, this is like the most unhealthy dish in the world. But whatever. Don't care. Delicious. YOLO. Remember when YOLO was a thing? YOLO.

SPEAKER_02 40:40

Anyway, well, guys. I got a good one for next week that I I just saw on Reddit. No, for the thing uh I that reminded me of something.

SPEAKER_00 40:48

You better start uh next week's album. I'll just start it now. All right, well, it's time for Kid Corner. I had to black out my punchline here, so uh so Nick didn't know.

SPEAKER_02 40:57

I respected the blacking out. I've been pins on pin been on pins and needles.

SPEAKER_00 41:03

It's not anything that thrilling, but I think it's been a while in Kid Corner that I've like made fun of my kids or told a story about them eating their own poop. So we're gonna bring it right back to embarrassing kid stories, which is why we started Kid Corner. Um, Elliot, bless his soul, came up to me and was like, Mom, can I do Pokemon yoga? And I was like, sure, man, what is that? Um, but we did do some yoga during COVID when that was like a thing. Um kid yoga. Yeah, and Elliot loves it. Um and I keep meaning to like every morning when you're up at the butt, crack it on, do some yoga with him because he loves it. Um it would make me do it too.

SPEAKER_02 41:36

So um And it's a big kid, like it'd probably help his joints and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 41:38

Yeah. I mean, he did it with Travis. So um with his uncle Travy, um, so Tyler's older brother, they did Minecraft yoga one morning and Pokemon Yoga one morning, and they do it out in the grass. Um, it overlooks Lake Michigan. So it's like this very peaceful thing. I can sit and have a hot cup of coffee on the Screen porch and watch them do yoga. So I'm sitting there peacefully, like, I don't know, Lucy somewhere, and having hot coffee. And Elliot is in these awesome pajamas. I got him. They're teal with bright yellow bananas. They look like Andy Warhol, kind of. They're really cool. And he's like doing tree pose and he and he sits down to do something and he goes, I just farted on the grass. And he was so excited that he farted on the grass. He like thought it was the funniest thing. And I was like, kid, that is exactly what you're gonna do during yoga. It's like you're a dude, you're like loosening your muscles and you're gonna fart. And so he likes did it when he sat down and then he stood up and did the tree pose again. He's like, I just farted again, and like was so excited about it. And I'm like, this if this isn't parenting, I don't know what it is. Like, I'm so proud of my peaceful kid doing yoga, having my hot coffee, watching basically his butt side, you know, and then he started yelling about farting. So it was great, it was really fun. Thanks, Uncle Travy, for doing yoga with them.

SPEAKER_02 42:53

Mine isn't about uh bodily functions, it's about my little queen. My queen. We had uh my little princess. You mean Sarah's your queen? Sarah's my queen. We had uh we had the beer garden, and Sarah and Simona walked over, and Simona walked half of the way, then got in the wagon and rode across the field like she was the queen of Effing Sheba. I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you right now, I'm playing this music by uh Georg Frederick Handel. Uh, it's the arrival of the queen of Sheba. It's performed by the Advent Chamber Orchestra November 2006, Roxana Pavel Goldstein, musical director, Ella Goldstein, orchestral manager. That's how we got the rights to play this music by saying that. So we're gonna play Arrival of the Queen of Sheba. So just picture this. She's in her red rider wagon thing with her blanky, her puffer, her like furry coat, uh, her thing of milk, her baby doll, and I think she had like a bar of some sort, too. So she's just like riding over like she is the queen of the world. Her mom's pulling her across the farm field, and Smells like, hi. Hi, hi everybody. She did.

SPEAKER_00 44:06

She came rolling up, hey.

SPEAKER_02 44:07

With like the Miss America wave. Oh my god, it was very funny. She gets out, rolls around like she owns the place, gets pulled in the wagon back.

SPEAKER_00 44:18

I was just like, baby girl. You should make it a video somehow. Like, you know, uh, put her face into Queen of Sheba.

SPEAKER_02 44:27

I should, yeah, that type of thing.

SPEAKER_00 44:28

Sure, yeah, why not do it?

SPEAKER_02 44:30

I'll do that. Do it for the gram. Yeah, do it for the gram. So anyway, I was just like, you gotta be kidding me. It was funny. But also heartwarming.

SPEAKER_00 44:36

So that's my baby. I love her so much. I don't know if we're gonna make it through a kid corner ever without him doing that.

SPEAKER_02 44:43

Good work, Sarah. You're the champion.

SPEAKER_00 44:46

I mean, you were. That was a long walk, okay. I mean, it's a bit of a walk across some rugged terrain.

SPEAKER_02 44:50

I believe uh Rayla and Lenny were interested in doing the walk too, and then they looked at the distance and said, nah, nah.

SPEAKER_00 44:56

We'll just run around the field. It was really cute. It's nice in Wisconsin to have kids be able to come to a beer garden and not be stressed about it.

SPEAKER_02 45:04

Yeah, we we were stressing that in the emails of look, you you can have your kids here.

SPEAKER_00 45:08

Yeah, this is family friendly.

SPEAKER_02 45:09

It's a field.

SPEAKER_00 45:10

We have water.

SPEAKER_02 45:12

And sangria.

SPEAKER_00 45:13

That is a good thing. We won't give your kids sangria.

SPEAKER_02 45:18

Who cares?

SPEAKER_00 45:19

Who cares? It's not.

SPEAKER_02 45:20

Maybe they'll sleep tonight.

SPEAKER_00 45:22

Just kidding.

SPEAKER_02 45:23

Give them a little brandy. It'll hurt, it'll make their gums feel better.

SPEAKER_00 45:25

I feel like we have to tell you we're kidding.

SPEAKER_02 45:27

I'm wrong.

SPEAKER_00 45:28

We're gonna be canceled. Well, guys, thanks for listening.

SPEAKER_02 45:32

Uh, I'm gonna give you one last tip. Oh, drink this Riverwest NA when it's very cold.

SPEAKER_00 45:37

Oh, did you try it warm? I don't know why I feel like I need to try it, but I'm going to.

SPEAKER_02 45:41

The like, it's obviously not really beer.

SPEAKER_00 45:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 45:44

Becomes a lot more multiple.

SPEAKER_00 45:46

Wow, it really is so much worse lukewarm.

SPEAKER_02 45:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:49

Okay, well, put it on ice because who cares? It's not real. Put it on ice.

SPEAKER_02 45:52

Uh, have a great week, everyone. Thanks for checking it out. Did you listen to this week's Amuse Boosh?

SPEAKER_00 45:57

I don't know, because I publish it late. Because I'm a disaster and vacation is hard. But we learned that in this week's episode.

SPEAKER_02 46:04

Uh, listen to Amuse Bouche. Amuse Bouche. Amuse Bouche. Well, listen to our Pinkies Up. Our is American wine better than French wine.

SPEAKER_00 46:12

Watch it on YouTube, really. Nick put some hard time in on graphics. So you gotta watch that one on YouTube.

SPEAKER_02 46:16

Uh Sarah herself said that was a good episode, which is extraordinarily high praise from my wife. It is. She she gives us good, honest feedback. I really appreciate it. So she really enjoyed that one. So if she liked it, you probably will too.

SPEAKER_00 46:29

She is our best critic. I don't, I'm not kidding. She's very complimentary. I'm not kidding. God, I'm a mess, you guys. Okay, thanks so much for listening in. I'm gonna go recover from my vacation.

SPEAKER_02 46:39

Instagram, Facebook, dinnerplusdrinks.com. Jewish an email. Hello at dinnerplusdrinks.com and YouTube. See you next week. Cheers, guys. Bye bye.