Olympic Opening Ceremonies - Dinner Plus Drinks #83

SPEAKER_03 0:14

Hello everybody, welcome! Very exciting, very new Hot Out the Kitchen Olympic edition of Dinner Plus Drinks Podcast. And you might be asking, what is an Olympic edition? Bridget!

SPEAKER_00 0:28

Well, there's actually three Olympic editions. So this week is going to be the opening ceremonies. We, you know, have to pick a country though.

SPEAKER_03 0:38

So is that what we're gonna do today? So we love the Olympics. It's happening. This is what we would be talking about all the time. So we decided we should have an Olympics, but me versus Bridget competing is no fun. So we brought in a third member.

SPEAKER_00 0:50

An Olympic expert, if you will. Oh, an expert. You may have met her previously on the podcast. This is Shannon, my twin sister. Hi Shannon.

SPEAKER_03 0:57

Hello. Twins is always the great competition. They know each other intimately from the womb. And they will compete against each other as a country. So first thing we're gonna do today is we're gonna spin a wheel and determine what country they're gonna represent. They both want to represent Ireland.

SPEAKER_00 1:16

Yeah. And or the United States.

SPEAKER_03 1:20

We'll see if that happens. I'll take breakfast. Um we have a few other things to do today, but our first events are gonna be.

SPEAKER_00 1:27

Yes, so uh three weeks, like I mentioned. So we're gonna do a little opening ceremonies. Then we're going to um with the country chosen, you will be learning about a meal from that country. Shannon and I will each pick a meal that we think represents our country. Nick will make the recipe, and in week two, we're gonna hear who won. So luckily, we don't have to cook because Shannon would win. Then we are also, of course, going to be picking a drink that represents the country that is chosen. So some of these countries are gonna be harder than others, as you will see when we run through the country spin a wheel. Um, and then we will have to assemble a team of champions from that country. So that team of champions will include an actor or actress, a celebrity of sorts, an athlete from that country, and then a wild card. And that will be our team of champions from that country who will compete.

SPEAKER_03 2:18

So, like if you had America, you could have Barack Obama as your wild card, you could have Brad Pitt as your actor, and then you could have um, I don't know, Giannis at oh wait, no, he's green. Oh, sorry, Chris Middleton as your athlete. So we're recording this uh on a Tuesday, which is incredibly unusual for us. So before game six, hopefully Bucks and six. I hope I didn't jinx it. Yeah, come on, man. But so we're gonna record half of this podcast on Tuesday. Yep. Give Shannon and Bridget some time to go away to a remote location to do the first week of activities.

SPEAKER_00 2:51

Well, you know, you know, the Olympics are for athlete prep, actually. Yeah. You're right. We have we have to um go to a cabin in the woods to prepare.

SPEAKER_03 2:58

And uh it's like a Boni Vare album. Exactly like it. But we're they're gonna quarantine like the Tokyo Olympics. Their beds are not made of cardboard.

SPEAKER_00 3:06

We're gonna take 19 COVID tests like they did.

SPEAKER_03 3:09

Whatever. First, let's let's celebrate the Olympics with a toast. We're gonna start this whole thing with an Olympic toast. Where is this uh sparkling wine from, Nick? New Mexico. So it's both America, Spain.

SPEAKER_00 3:23

Woo! Oh, that was annoying. Ooh girls, sorry everybody. Shannon, better played Olympic music.

SPEAKER_03 3:31

Oh man. Yeah, so um So Grue, sparkling wine, we're representing America, Mexico, Spain, all the indigenous American peoples. Wow, this isn't a full-on representation. Cheers to the Olympics. Happy Olympics! May the odds ever be in your favor.

SPEAKER_00 3:48

Olympics 2020, 2021. It's all the same year.

SPEAKER_03 3:52

Okay. So here's the list of countries. It's a list of 11. Originally it's 10, but then we realized we forgot Ireland and we had to put Ireland in. Of course. Here's the list. Actually, it's 12. Oh, we can't even count.

SPEAKER_00 4:04

So Nick is already not an Olympic athlete, okay?

SPEAKER_03 4:07

I'm gonna be the judge and the moderator because I am not Olympic. The announcer. So here's the list of countries that you could be. Straya, mate. I think crocodile Dundee is a strong, strong rugby. You're gonna speak in an accent for you. You can pick you can pick dead people. So, like, you know, crocodile dundee is cool. R.I.P. buddy. Uh Brazil, uh Capoenhas are an amazing drink. That very summer you could do that. Yeah. England, uh Jolly old England. Uh Bridget Libre, so she could pick that. France. Uh-huh. Viva. Germany, 99999. Um Ireland, where the pots of gold is awaiting you as a winner. Oh my god. Uh Italia. Uh they just won Euro 2020. That was in Euro 2021. So, you know, possibly really good luck there. Uh Japan, the actual host nation, a lot of great people from Japan. I swear I hope no one gets this because the recipe might be fish, and I'm not cooking fish.

SPEAKER_00 5:04

Nick's gotta cook it. But Kazakhstan.

SPEAKER_03 5:07

Kazakhstan. You know, Borat brought to America his culture film, and we thought we should represent Kazakhstan. They've won a shockingly high amount of medals in the Real Olympics. Bridget did some serious research on this. Yeah, plus we need a few wild cards in here. Uh Mexico, which everybody loves Mexican food. Everybody loves uh, you know, Speedy Gonzalez is in the new uh Space Jam movie. Yeah, everybody loves it. Strong character, he could maybe be your wild card. Uh uh United States, because you know we lived here, gotta do it.

SPEAKER_00 5:41

Uh and then Yemen. Of course. Uh, you know, why not? Wait, what about Greece? Are we not doing Greece?

SPEAKER_03 5:49

We can add Greece in.

SPEAKER_00 5:50

Do you want me to add Greece? It's on one of our lists. We you know, I think we were on a Giannis high. Oh Greece. All right. Obviously, Giannis will be on my Olympic team. Like for the Olympics, you know, we might as well probably have Greece. Timely. Yeah, you know, timely, yeah. We should do the OG. Same timely.

SPEAKER_03 6:06

So this is really one of the um things that we recommend you watch on the YouTube.

SPEAKER_00 6:14

Of course.

SPEAKER_03 6:14

It all three weeks, really, because week two on YouTube is gonna be nice. Some fire, fire, um, some fire video going on here. And what what we have right now is we have a big giant virtual wheel with all of the countries on it. And if you tune in now, you'll see it and it's spinning. This is gonna be a practice demo one. So you see it's uh ended up a Mexico for this one. So, ladies, um, we have a champagne cork here. And I'm gonna flip this. Uh, you see, the heads have the Gruway logo on it, and the fat end of the mushroom is tail.

SPEAKER_00 6:52

Okay. So um This is modern day uh coin flipping. Yeah. So uh Shannon's our guest. Shannon's our guest.

SPEAKER_03 6:59

Shannon is also younger. Oh yeah, she's more youthful than I. So we're gonna let Shannon call it. So um I'm gonna flip it and you call it in the air, right?

SPEAKER_00 7:07

Yep, I'm gonna go heads.

SPEAKER_03 7:08

Oh, I call it a kind of an angle, but you know, tie goes to the guest.

SPEAKER_00 7:15

All right, so we're gonna spin it. Oh boy. Uh uh.

SPEAKER_03 7:22

Yemen. Oh! Oh, maybe there's the fireworks going off. This is this is amazing.

SPEAKER_00 7:32

For those of you that don't know, Shannon's maiden name and mine, of course, is Gallagher. And her married name is McCarthy. So this is in her blood. This was I was prepared to walk out if I live in Ireland.

SPEAKER_03 7:42

So some fun facts about Ireland. It's a nation of about five million people, most well known for Guinness and the potato famine. Also, corned beef is not from Ireland, so if you bring that corned beef up in here, uh-uh. Uh, there are pots of gold at the end of rainbows. Yeah. And uh, you know, it's just an amazing place. I don't know if it's actually five million people, but it seems about right.

SPEAKER_00 8:04

I was like, did you look up? Okay, you guys know I'm gonna get Yemen. Yeah, let's go for Yemen. Nervous I think.

SPEAKER_03 8:11

So now we have not Ireland. Let's spin it. Okay, okay. And where is it gonna land? Oh my god. It is Yemen!

SPEAKER_00 8:23

I'm sorry. That is bullshit.

SPEAKER_03 8:27

You mentioned it. You added Yemen because of friends. This is 100% your fault.

SPEAKER_00 8:34

This is amazing. One in twelve that is that is not one in thirteen, I think, we had a great shit. Yeah, but it got even worse. Oh wow, this is amazing. I don't know if this could have worked out any better. Are you Googling Yemen? I'm not sure what your home is.

SPEAKER_03 8:49

So, Yemen is uh a country, if you're not aware, on the southwestern part of the Arabian Peninsula. Yeah, western Arabia. There's currently a horrible civil war happening right here. No better time to celebrate the Olympus. You know, it's uh shit hot, dry, arid, a lot of mountains. Wow. Um, I believe it's where the USS coal got bombed. Yeah, what a dreamy place. It's an Islamic country, so good luck with the alcoholic drink portion of this. And um shit.

SPEAKER_00 9:15

Well, this is gonna be weird. God bless Bridget. I have nothing to say except I better start studying.

SPEAKER_03 9:23

This is amazing. Well, guys, it's now time for the Olympic oath. So I need you to sit after me. Let me just uh bring up the actual oath here. I was like, oh I gotta stop recording. There we go. Stop. Stop. There we go. Okay. Let me just bring it up. Oh, you guys. There's an actual Olympic oath that we're gonna modify a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 9:46

Yeah. But wow, this looks like such a joyful place, Yemen. They have Olympic athletes, huh? Oh my god. Oh. You guys, I did just see a note about the guy from the 2016 Olympics that um was all oiled up in the um opening ceremonies. Remember? It's like, I don't know, maybe Trinidad and Tobago, I'm not sure where he's from. He's competing this year again, and he was like a real um he went viral in 2016 for his shirtless wal uh walk. Oh, I do remember, yes.

SPEAKER_03 10:12

All right, would you two please repeat after me? Do we need like our hands? Yeah, raise your raise your wine glass.

SPEAKER_00 10:18

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 10:18

I state your name. I, Shannon. I, Bridget. Promise to take part in these podcast Olympics. Promise to take part in these podcast Olympics. Respecting and abiding by the rules of having a bunch of fun while representing countries that we aren't from. That was too many words for me to remember. While respecting and abiding. While respecting and abiding. The r the spirit of a country we've never been to or heard of before. Not from the spirit of a country we're not from. The spirit of a country I've never been to. As well as inclusion and equality. As well as inclusion and equality. Together we stand in solidarity for fun. Together we stand in solidarity for fun. And commit ourselves to sport without doping. And commit ourselves to sport without doping. Without cheating. Without cheating. Nor any form of discrimination. Nor any form of discrimination. We do this for the honor of our adopted countries.

SPEAKER_00 11:17

We do this for the honor of our adopted countries.

SPEAKER_03 11:22

In respect of the fundamental principles of Olympism.

SPEAKER_00 11:26

In respect of the fundamental principles of Olympus.

SPEAKER_03 11:30

And to make the world a better place through podcasting.

SPEAKER_00 11:33

And to make the world a better place through podcasting.

SPEAKER_03 11:37

Wow, thanks, guys. Have a drink. That is very close to the real one. It's ridiculous. Anyway, um, good luck. Good luck. Yeah, this is gonna be great. Let's take a break and uh we'll be back with the first competitions. Kids at home, stay tuned. This is gonna be a good one.

SPEAKER_00 11:54

It's gonna be great, guys. Come back and see what I'm wearing to represent Yemen.

SPEAKER_03 12:18

And there's been an important update in the rules, uh, an important happening in the world. The Bucks won. Giannis go to 50, and in celebration of that, we decided that we should assign Bridget Giannis and Greece instead of Yemen.

SPEAKER_01 12:35

No more Yemen.

SPEAKER_03 12:37

Because we just decided it wouldn't be fair to not celebrate Giannis. So Bridget is now Greece, not Yemen. Shannon is still Ireland, and you guys have gone and done your homework. Yes, and your first assignment. Well, actually, should we talk about the Bucks first? How happy are you?

SPEAKER_00 12:53

I mean, we should. I recorded a special little moose boosh that uh, if you don't know, comes out on Fridays, and it's all about my love for Milwaukee and for the Bucks and how amazing that team is. And holy cow, what a game. I mean, what a series. What a series. Let's be clear. I I don't know. I've got I poured my heart out on that one, and I could keep talking about it for days, but I'll let you listen to a moose boosh and hear what I have to say about it.

SPEAKER_03 13:17

My favorite part of all of it was the 50 Chick-fil-a nuggets.

SPEAKER_00 13:22

Yes, how funny. I just happened to be on Instagram when he was live in the Chick-fil-A drive-thru. Uh, you know, I meant to put that in my show notes on a moose boosh, so I'll edit it and add it. Go ahead. There was a good interview. Um oh my gosh, I can't. It was with Bobby Portis and oh my god, I can't remember now. And they were asked how much champagne they had drinked. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 13:45

Bobby Drew, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:46

Yes, yes. And they just started laughing, they just looked at each other and sort of laughing. And I love when like the little kid comes out and people slash these people are basically little. Like grown men athletes. Yeah, grown men athletes that are 26. So anyway, that was a fun interview.

SPEAKER_03 14:00

I we were doing our own film shoot and we're between stuff. So yeah, we just sat there transfixed as Giannis was doing this very normal person thing. My favorite part of the whole thing was his girlfriend. I think she's still his girlfriend, not a fiance, who's like eight months pregnant, and just like Giannis, Giannis, these people behind us. They're these poor people behind us, and she's just like clearly wants her Chick-fil-A and to move on with her life. And he's like, I want the championship, I want my free Chick-fil-A.

SPEAKER_00 14:33

And he's with both of his trophies in the car in the in his Mercedes in the Chick-fil-A drive-through.

SPEAKER_03 14:38

And the that poor girl, that porter order taker, had no clue who he was and was like, because he told her, he's like, You're on an Instagram live with 120,000 people, and she's like, huh?

SPEAKER_00 14:50

Who are you? Oh, you have two trophies in your lap. Yeah, it was very funny. Oh, good times. So Milwaukee Bucks, man. We couldn't continue on with the Olympics without talking about how amazing they are.

SPEAKER_03 15:02

Well, so for our podcast Olympics, rehashing, Bridget and Shannon are each representing a country that is not America. Bridget originally had Yemen, but and in light of this, she's now Greece. Shannon is Ireland. And for the next three weeks, we're gonna have various challenges that they have to compete against each other. And um we're gonna see which one, as me, the neutral judge, thinks is the winner. So our various contests uh that we're gonna have today are each one of Bridget and Shannon had to come up with a representative drink from their country. Uh they had to come up with a representative recipe, and then they had to come up with uh some product recommendations that are great things you can get from those countries, and then assemble a team of champions. I'm not gonna judge the drinks because I'm sure everybody all the drinks are great. I'm gonna make each of the recipes that they suggest this next week, and Sarah's gonna be the judge of which one was the best. And we're gonna have you guys vote on the team of champions which one you think will win. Uh all right, Bridget.

SPEAKER_00 16:16

Yes. Um, I just want to note if you're watching us on YouTube, you'll see that Shannon and I are far away at the Olympic Village, um, preparing ourselves for the games that are coming. Um, we are each representing our team colors. Um, we would normally have far more decor, but you know, the Olympic Village doesn't allow it. So we're not sitting on cardboard chairs, we have real chairs. They allowed that.

SPEAKER_03 16:41

There are a lot of rules at the Olympic Village this year about what you can and cannot do. It's isolation.

SPEAKER_00 16:47

So I just wanted to let you know that we're here, we're we're preparing for the game. Mentally and physically. Yes, we uh um have coffee and donuts. That's that's part of the regimen, I think. That that is uh the breakfast of champions. Breakfast of champions, powder donut. So let's go, let's dive right in.

SPEAKER_03 17:04

Bridget. Yeah what is your drink for Greece? Is it Cantonori?

SPEAKER_00 17:11

It is not. Um it is a liqueur. Um, you know, after some some very rigorous research, it sounds like recourse, liquorse, liqueurs are uh becoming rising in popularity in Greece. So I chose one called Catrone, and I chose it because I have such pride for my country. Um, it is marketed with a protected designation of origin, meaning that if it is not made in Greece, you're not drinking the real thing. So don't go getting fake stuff here because you're gonna be wrong. Okay. So Catrone, uh um, the leaves of a citron tree are the source of Catron's distinctive flavor. So as you might expect, you get um a sour, a bit of a sour taste, uh similar to a lemon. It's it's the cousin of a lemon. Um different temperatures produce different colors and flavors. Uh so there's a green Catrone, which is distilled at a lower temperature to produce a sweeter flavor, which is what I'm here for. Okay. Sweet Catrone sounds delish. Um it would, you know, be described as citrusy and sour, but if you have one that's a little sweeter, you're not gonna get that bile taste that I think sour things make you feel like in your mouth. So my yeah. Doesn't it sound delicious? Um feels like a thing you need to like drizzle over ice cream. You know, my well, do it. I hope the dairy makes you sick. So, you know, I'm a big fan of my friends in Italy and their lemoncello. Uh, this feels like the better version of that. Oh that's what I'm here for.

SPEAKER_03 18:52

I'm on Wikipedia about this, and my favorite sentence of this um four-paragraph, 12-sentence article. The drink was briefly fashionable during the early 1980s, but it's difficult to find today outside of Naxos, which is the island where it has to come from. Right. Shortage of citrone trees.

SPEAKER_00 19:10

Well, save the planet, people, okay? Save the planet, save Catron.

SPEAKER_03 19:18

I'm underwhelmed.

SPEAKER_00 19:20

What? Wait till you hear Shannon's drink. I know.

SPEAKER_03 19:25

What is your drink, Shannon? Is it similarly underwhelming?

SPEAKER_00 19:28

You have some strong choices to I do, I know, but I I'm a purist, and what I really needed to go with was Green Miller Light. Isn't that a pass of Ireland? Just kidding, just kidding. Um, but we did decide to go with Guinness because we are a classic, prideful Irish people, and that is there's just nothing better and more pure than a uh room temperature Guinness, actually. So um it can be uh it serves as a meal. There's plenty of calories and anyhow.

SPEAKER_03 20:04

We had Kevin Fleming noticed uh noted Irish citizen on the podcast. He shared that they give uh they used to give every woman a uh a pint of Guinness after childbirth because the protein was restorative after the afterly, yes, it's a great restorative drink after I expend all my energy competing.

SPEAKER_00 20:26

And I know I could have gone with a number of whiskey options and a number of, you know, perhaps some uh Irish coffee direction, but I just had to go with very pure Guinness.

SPEAKER_03 20:37

I I am I'm with you. I think this is a winner for Ireland. I mean, this is not a judge thing because all alcohol is great. Yeah, but Guinness, I mean, how can you compete with the deliciousness of Guinness draft?

SPEAKER_00 20:53

Yeah, well, I would say that a unique product perhaps could beat it. Oh, whatever purest in class. Whatever.

SPEAKER_03 20:59

Whatever. All right, so let's move on to the first judge event. Uh, we're gonna mix this order up. We're gonna let Shannon go first with what is your proposed Irish dish.

SPEAKER_00 21:12

Okay, I I believe I mentioned this when I when I was chosen to represent Ireland, but I uh in honor of the potato famine did want to do an entire array of potatoes, a potato cuterie board. Well, cuterie. About cootery cuterie. But we did uh choose to go with a um archived Lake Geneva country meats recipe and do Irish Kolkan and potatoes.

SPEAKER_03 21:39

Suck up I love it. Something easy for me to do.

SPEAKER_00 21:46

Delicious, it's um representative of our you know, our heritage. And it's true homage to the potato. Someone is sucking up to the judge.

SPEAKER_03 21:58

Um I'm not against bribery. If you want to take it one step further, we are a proud country and we do not do that.

SPEAKER_00 22:09

I think everyone's made it pretty clear our feelings for Giannis. So I'm not sure that you have not swayed the judges already. We have Giannis.

SPEAKER_03 22:19

So what is your uh Greek meal here?

SPEAKER_00 22:21

Okay. Mine, I thought you might yell at me for choosing just a dessert, but I am choosing a dish you all know and love. Baklava. Oh I am requesting a sweet and a savory baklava because I have to have a meal and a dessert. Oh. And if I was really being mean, I was gonna make you uh make me Greek coffee as well. Alinikos, but I feel like you would make the most disgusting coffee ever. So we're skipping that one. Okay. Okay, Bridget.

SPEAKER_03 22:54

Okay, so we have to make a couple baklavas.

SPEAKER_00 22:57

A sweet and a savory baklava. Yum. You can treat it as one dish, but I like I prefer a challenge, Nick. And sweet baklava would obviously be potatoes just right, is a challenge. You cannot just humble dump the flakes out of a box. There's a number of phylodough dishes I could have chosen, but I went with the classic here.

SPEAKER_03 23:22

You know, as I as I Google baklava, it comes up that it's an Ottoman cuisine, not a Greek cuisine.

SPEAKER_00 23:28

It came up on my Greek research, okay?

SPEAKER_03 23:32

You mean for the Ottomans were your oppressors. Jerks.

SPEAKER_00 23:38

Uh, you know, sorry about that. Prove them wrong and show them that baklava is from Greece, okay? It's hot here in the Olympic village. Just gotta throw that out there.

SPEAKER_03 23:52

So there's um wow, I'm reading about this, and there's a theory that uh the word baklava kind of comes from placenta.

SPEAKER_00 24:00

Oh, who doesn't love a good placenta snack? So many pregnancy references in this Olympic.

SPEAKER_03 24:09

Wow. Wow, wow. All right, I wasn't expecting that. I was something I was expecting something with goat cheese from you.

SPEAKER_00 24:17

Oh what about feta? I mean, we could make a backup with feta.

SPEAKER_03 24:24

That's savory.

SPEAKER_00 24:25

Or it could be an accoutrement. I mean, that could just be my appetizer, a bowl of feta and olives.

SPEAKER_03 24:32

All right. Well, I'm excited about one of those meals for sure. You are such a you are a very clear favorite here.

SPEAKER_00 24:42

Well, I mean everyone has a bias.

SPEAKER_03 24:48

I'm not the Russian judge, I'm the American judge. Now, I like that you guys have some product recommendations of things people should try from your countries. These are all easy things. I actually saw something, a news article that uh the Queen of England is now making beer on her estate and selling it. They have an English bitter and an English strong pale ale that she's making that. I really want to go fly to Windsor or wherever and get it.

SPEAKER_00 25:19

But I'll go there and get it. That sounds great. It's worth the trip.

SPEAKER_03 25:23

But what, Bridget, what are these Greek products you are gonna recommend to us?

SPEAKER_00 25:28

You know, after all, dinner plus drinks, and we like to talk about food and beverage. I already mentioned our love for feta cheese, but really we know that olive oil is a product, is the only product really that uh you need to try. But I chose this to represent the product from Greece because it's my secret weapon in the Olympics. You just dump it on your competitors, they get a little slimy and greasy. They're gonna lose in the games, as you'll see next week when I dump olive oil all over Shannon. So Greek olive oil. Uh, we have a we have a friend that sells at the local farmer's market. We sell our stuff at Lake Shima Country Meats, Marva. It it really is different, in my opinion. Better, obviously.

SPEAKER_03 26:11

Um it's better than Irish olive oil. You know what, Bridget? I'm gonna be back. Greek olive oil is better than Irish olive oil. That's right.

SPEAKER_00 26:19

I think oi win in this category. Oh, I don't know, but you know all the things Shanna couldn't decide between. You know what's better than Greek olive oil is Irish butter. Oh, Irish butter? Shoot. You're right. Yeah. So if we're gonna be oiling each other up for competition, I think the fairy gold might just do the trick. Nick, did you think we were gonna go there? We did. We're going there.

SPEAKER_03 26:42

You guys did.

SPEAKER_00 26:44

I do also want to note, however, that my um our team uniforms, well, not well, they have not arrived at the Olympic Village yet. Yes, are in um fisherman sweaters. We are wearing them. The wool really helps us in the summer months to uh maintain our warmth, sweat out, and wit our sweat. But we'll be wearing some fisherman sweater as our uniforms. Um and it's a wonderful product that you can also purchase in honor of our Olympics team. That's great. It's not hot at all. A wool sweater sounds nice. Yeah, it'll be great.

SPEAKER_03 27:16

What about some Greek pottery with you know, like old Greek dudes painted on it?

SPEAKER_00 27:21

Like I mean, uh Hercules or whatever. It's hard to fly with, you see. Yeah, you can pack up olive oil nice and small, put it in your luggage. Pottery, you'd have to ship, and I'm here to think about the people, okay? Oh, I am a people's person, just like Giannis. Um, I don't want to make your life harder by making you try and ship pottery home from our beloved country. Oh, yes, okay. But you can buy it online from a certified Greek producer, please. You should be able to buy all my wonderful products at the lovely Flemings in Lake Geneva. But you know, certainly you can go online to buy Belique and Waterford Crystal and all of the high-quality goods from Ireland. So when I win and I need to drink my champagne out of a chalice, it certainly will be Waterford Crystal. Not this beautiful, I think this great inspired mug, as you'll see. These striped blue and white mugs that we have in the Olympic Village. Oh my god. Just saying.

SPEAKER_03 28:21

Well, any other products from your countries that people need to try out?

SPEAKER_00 28:25

I think we've listed a number of wonderful options.

SPEAKER_03 28:29

So this is the exciting thing. This is I'm really excited to hear your team of three champions to represent your countries. It's a little bit like the Ryder Cup where you guys are the non-competing captain. Um, this year, um Tiger Woods is America's captain. He can't golf, he only has one leg because he, you know, got in a car crash and destroyed his leg. Uh so yeah. I think Steve Stricker is another captain over the hill, but whatever. So you guys are not the competing ones. You have your three champions. You have to pick an athlete, a celebrity, and then a wild card. So anybody else, um, let's do this category by category. We're gonna let Bridget go first. Who is your athlete?

SPEAKER_00 29:15

Oh, geez. To no surprise, my athlete will be my BFF Giannis. Um, really, I was just gonna have him be represent all the categories on my team, but I feel like we need some females.

SPEAKER_03 29:27

So we've got Giannis, the Nassis, and Kostas. All the uh all the brothers.

SPEAKER_00 29:32

I would have had all the brothers, but no. We've got Giannis, he scored 50 points, just won a championship. I think there's no arguing that he is the strongest competitor for the Greek team. Giannis. I have nothing else to say.

SPEAKER_03 29:46

All right, all right, Shannon. Who is your athlete?

SPEAKER_00 29:50

Well, you know, I did have a few wonderful golf options, but I'm going to have to dig a little deeper, and I'm going with Connor McGregor, the fighter. There, so I think he's got his butt kicked. Yeah, he's just got well, he won't in the Olympics. He's gonna be a scrappy little fella for our team.

SPEAKER_03 30:11

I don't know about that one. I mean, Giannis has got Reach on him.

SPEAKER_00 30:14

Well, I mean he's got the fan base. We'll see. He's the he's a man of the people in our home country. I think. Well, the Olympics are not in your home country. I guess we'll see.

SPEAKER_03 30:26

Shannon, who is your Irish celebrity?

SPEAKER_00 30:30

My Irish celebrity will be Pierce Brosnan, James Bond himself.

SPEAKER_03 30:36

I like that. I like that. Very good, very good. Figure out how to compete. And uh, Bridget, your Greek celebrity.

SPEAKER_00 30:46

Well, I think okay, I'll call, I'm gonna go with uh Tina Faye, which you may be surprised by. She's not Greek, she was born to a Greek mother from Piraeus.

SPEAKER_03 30:59

Piraeus, yeah, it's the the area of Athens.

SPEAKER_00 31:03

Her real name is Elizabeth Elizabeth Stamatina Faye. Oh, so don't think I'm getting tricky here. She is of Greek descent, and she is gonna be a fantastic asset to our team because she's a strong, powerful woman, and she might distract you with a hilarious joke. I think she's really gonna surprise you.

SPEAKER_03 31:25

Wow, and then your wild card, Bridget. Anyone Greek, anybody of Greek descent, I guess? Anyone that was Greek in a movie.

SPEAKER_00 31:38

I guess this is a wild card. She's also a celebrity, and she's the real surprise on our team. Because everybody Betty White, that's right, Betty White, why do you say that? Oh, her maternal grandfather was Greek, and as far as I can tell, that makes her Greek enough to represent our team. Because some of these people representing countries in the Olympics, it's a it's a stretch, let me say, okay. I'll allow it, but this is a stretch. This is a perfect wild card pick. I am putting a 90 plus woman on my team because she, I'm sorry, is gonna outlive all of us. Okay. So and the queen. That Betty. I think that Betty, yeah, I think Betty White and the Queen are like secret BFFs. Don't you think? I feel like they're probably just kicking it somewhere together. Yeah. Betty White, I know that you are all surprised about this. There was not clear rules on um if she could or could not compete for my team. I'm sure you expected me to pick maybe a man, someone Greek, or an athlete, another athlete as a wildcard, but I think the real wild card category should be judged on just how wild of a choice it is. And I think I've I think I've covered that.

SPEAKER_03 32:54

Maybe we're gonna go with like Achilles, you know, some historical figure. Like Achilles.

SPEAKER_00 33:01

Does that seem like something I would do? Uh God forgot it? I think that feels like something you would do. How about Betty White feels like something I would do? Yeah, that's accurate.

SPEAKER_03 33:11

Um, Shannon, your wild card.

SPEAKER_00 33:15

I mean, my wild card is, you know, I have a celebrity, I have well, James Bond, I mean, I have an athlete, and now I will have a religious figure and I will choose St. Patrick.

SPEAKER_01 33:26

Oh yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:28

So I mean we need to all be blessed in our competition, and we might need a little extra boost. So yeah, against Betty White, you will. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 33:36

A lot of snakes in Greece. Saint Patrick's gonna drive them out of Greece, too.

SPEAKER_00 33:40

Yep, it's gonna be great. You guys I would say that this is a fair matchup. Yeah, this feels equal.

SPEAKER_03 33:47

So the teams are Giannis, Betty White, and Tina Faye. But who doesn't want to be a man team? Pierce Brosnan, Connor McGregor, and St. Patrick.

SPEAKER_00 33:57

Wow, yeah, those are two teams of champions.

SPEAKER_03 33:59

Yeah, we're gonna put this up on our Facebook and our Instagram, and y'all need to vote on what team you think is gonna win or you prefer, or you think would I don't know. I don't care how you vote, what category, what criteria you vote on.

SPEAKER_00 34:13

Oddly, I probably want to hang out with Bridget's team. Yes, I want to hang out with my team too. But I mean, my team would win. Maybe we party in the Olympic village with your team. That's what I'm here for.

SPEAKER_03 34:23

Let us know which team you like. All right, guys. Now um that that's our Olympic Games for for this this this week.

SPEAKER_00 34:32

But we do have a check for the athletics that are next week.

SPEAKER_03 34:35

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 34:36

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_03 34:38

Wow, that was some good stretching or something, Bridget.

SPEAKER_00 34:41

Thank you. Yeah, I'm gonna be good.

SPEAKER_03 34:42

I'm not sure exactly what that was. Uh, I'm impressed though. So it's time for Kid Corner. We're not gonna skip that. Um, mine isn't like super great, but Simona, she is she's just producing prodigious eye amounts of eye boogers right now. Oh, that's great. We're just like constant down her eyes and like getting on her eyebrows, the common daycare, everything else seems fine, just like constant eye boogers everywhere. It's kind of gross. You like go to try and get them out because you're like, you don't want those all over, and then she like hits your hand away and doesn't want it. Nothing seems to be wrong. I don't know. I don't want to call the doctor and be like, hey, um eye boogers, eye boogers everywhere. Is that okay? Because I think they'll be like, call me if she has a fever.

SPEAKER_01 35:33

Yeah, that's what doctor calls for high fever.

SPEAKER_03 35:36

Yeah, if anybody has any ideas, let me know. I'd love to know more about why you have the the eye boogers thing constantly.

SPEAKER_00 35:44

Oh, really delightful.

SPEAKER_03 35:46

Yeah, that's just that's what we that's what we're dealing with right now, just constant. She woke up today and they're like all caked on her eyelashes, and it's like, oh wait, how many days has it been going on?

SPEAKER_00 36:00

I don't know, like two or three days. Because like before, I used to get pink eye as a kid of multiple times, and the day before, your like eye wakes up. It's goopy. Your eye is like itchy and goopy, and then the next day you wake up with it caked up, caked closed, and it's pink eye. But usually it's only like a couple days. I don't know what I was thinking. Medical diagnosis from Bridget Leach.

SPEAKER_03 36:20

Well, keep an eye on that. Lucy's coming over tonight, so we'll make sure that she doesn't touch Simona.

SPEAKER_00 36:25

Heather said that they um were up at 445, so bless. Good thing you're not there. Yep. So sorry about that. It's life is hard here in the Olympic Village. Yeah. Um quarantine. Yeah. I I mean, would you like me to go or yeah, sure. Yeah, sure, sure. So we had some um exciting time with Elliot in urgent care uh just the day before I left for the Olympic Village, which is always a dream. And um I'm just here to provide a tip for any other parent whose child is terrified of everything at the doctor's office, which is what Elliot was. He had to get one of those, like a pulse ox meter on his finger, um, you know, temperature, very basic things, which were very scary to him. But the only way we got him to put this pulse ox thing on was mom pulled out the big guns and called it a robot finger. And I told him, Oh, wow, if you put it on your finger, you're gonna be a robot. And instantly he was like, Oh yeah. And he put it on and he was like, beep, boop, beep, boop, beep, boop. And the whole appointment, he was like asking to put it back on. The next day, he was like, Mom, mom, I had a robot finger. And I was like, Yes, sometimes you just pull those wins out of your pocket that you're not really like you didn't think were gonna be a real win. So pat on the back here, parents. If your kid is terrified of the doctor, tell them they get a robot finger. If they're like my kid and love robots, then it works. So it was adorable, it was great. Robot finger saved the day for the win, for the win.

SPEAKER_03 37:54

And Elliot's okay, right? He's not, you know, in a castle.

SPEAKER_00 37:57

Oh my god. Oh, by the way, yeah, no, he's good. I I left for the Olympics, so I just left him at the hospital. Um yes, he's good. Mild concussion, but everything's okay. He's he's great, everything's great. Thanks, right? He'll also be over tonight, so you guys have a barrel of fun. Sounds like a nice night. What do you got, Shannon? This would be great. We're gonna continue training on the game. Enjoy the pink eye in concussion. Yeah, it's like Shannon, I love you at the stuff. I will stay on theme here, of course. Oh, of course. And the day before I left to come here to the Olympic villages, my baby turned one. Oh, and I had a party over the weekend that was Olympic themed. Party for champions. Yes, and I had to, I think it was Nolan was going for the gold, and I had to rein it in because he's one and we're really busy right now. And the all the kids that were there are little, and so I did not go full on like opening ceremonies. Here's all the organized games and like closing ceremonies. But I will promise you that in the next Olympiad, you can expect that when the kids are all five, six, and seven and will be into that.

SPEAKER_03 39:04

I've already three years from now.

SPEAKER_00 39:06

Yeah, she's already planning it. I'm already planning that party when I think the ages of the kids will cooperate with my yard games, adult games, kids.

SPEAKER_03 39:14

So here's the cool thing about three years from now, it's in Paris. So you can hit like a French theme for the adults with champagne and baguettes and you know all that fun stuff.

SPEAKER_00 39:25

Oh great, yeah. I think you just signed yourself up to party plan, my kid's first birthday. So thank you. Or I'm fourth birthday, right? Um, we we did attend an adult Olympic party years ago. Yes, and we had young, some of us had young kids. There was a babysitter watching all the kids, and we all represented a country. I was also Ireland, so that was they did and got the silver medal with me and my friend Megan and I. Um, I think perhaps we should also do that on video, maybe in a couple of years for the podcast again. Yeah just saying.

SPEAKER_03 40:01

Well, that's it for this week's episode. Thank you everybody for tuning in. We hope you enjoy the Olympic theme. There is so much more fun to come. Next week, we're gonna have the results of the cooking competition. Uh, we're gonna have the results of the team of champions voting, we're gonna have some fun games. Uh, we'll be back away from the quarantine. We'll be back in person. So you're gonna wanna tune in, miss not miss that. And uh follow us on all the social media: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube to see our bright shining faces. This is a great one to watch on YouTube because you can see us spinning the wheel, the great reactions.

SPEAKER_00 40:38

Um, send up a note, you can always send us an email at hello at dinner plus drinks, and don't forget to get on social media and vote for your favorite team of champions.

SPEAKER_03 40:47

Bridget, Shannon, thanks for joining us from the Olympic Village. You guys have fun. We'll talk to everybody later. Bye-bye.