Our Biggest Episode Yet: The Wedding Game - Dinner Plus Drinks #94

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Bridget, what if I told you there was not one, not two, but three guests today for this episode? How excited would you be? Oh, three guests or three drinks. Well, three guests. Oh, but I'm not sure. Actually, there's four guests, and there's even more excitement and three drinks.

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Whoa, whoa. We are excited for you to join our little s sector of the world this week, guys.

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This is another episode of Dinner Plus Drinks, but it's gonna be the most epic ever. The most drinks, the most guest. Whoa. Whoa. Why are we going so big? Because it's Oktoberfest weekend, so come on, join us.

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Thanks for the little therapy session.

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We're happy you're here.

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All right, man.

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What are we doing? So it's Oktoberfest weekend in Lake. This is a big, important weekend for both of us.

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Yeah, it really is. Why? Everybody.

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You love the beer and the pretzels. I love the beer and the bratwurst.

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And also it's like therapy for me because I don't have to work it or plan it anymore. Yay! Uh I just hee hee. Just giggles. It's funny I drove through town and roads are closed and annoying things that I didn't do because I couldn't close the roads until Saturday morning.

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We had a discussion with someone that recently said, oh yeah, it's easier because well, Nick and Tyler did those things. And it was like, well, we did that because one of us is married to Bridget, and one of us is Bridget's friends, and we we help Bridget because we like Bridget slash love Bridget.

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Tyler and slash love.

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I think Tyler's so it was but I was just like, Yeah, you guys are all it's funny.

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I mean, the event will be great to the public from the outside. It's gonna be great. I'm gonna go have a beer. I have a friend coming up. We're gonna probably ride some horses if that's happening. Save some cowboys. You know, get some pumpkins, but um, it's really nice to not have the anxiety I used to have.

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But it's great this weekend to be able to be out in the fall weather. It's as Elliot said, it's nice, cool fall weather, not the hot fall weather.

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It's not cool fall weather. I was all ready to complain about how hot it was out. It's not that hot. Are you kidding? It's supposed to be 80 on Sunday. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, man. When this or maybe like whatever. It looks like a beautiful weekend. It's gonna be nice. I would like the humidity to go away a little.

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That is the problem, the humidity. Anyway, so Oktoberfest, we love it. This is our thing, this is our stuff. Um, the beers are delicious. I I know there's some non-drinkers that listen, uh, so please don't judge us too much, but I'm judging you right now. If you don't like an Octoberfest, it's great. So I figured we could do, because this is our last opportunity to do it. We can do a taste off of the Midwest. So we have a Minnesota beer, an Illinois beer, and a Wisconsin beer. Let's see who's the winner.

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I didn't know that.

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Shells. Okay. Uh let's start with that.

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Yeah, you so this was a new one to me this year.

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So we can see which one's Bridget's favorite.

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I'm so sad because this time of year I do get anxious of like, I need to start hoarding all the Oktoberfest beer. You do.

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Because like a lot of it's sold out. Yes. It was just like last three days, like this midweek. I know I was like, holy crap! I saw our display.

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I'm like, oh, there's like three cases of beer. I'm like, oh no.

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And then it went, yeah. So we had like nine cases on display on Monday, and now it's down to three. Yeah, not even that. Yeah, I was like, That's insane how fast people are like, everybody's playing.

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It's gonna be a beautiful weekend. Okay, so Minnesota. So this is Shell's.

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Shell's is actually one of the oldest continually operating um family breweries in America. You may know them from Grain Belt Premium, which is an outstanding version of PBR.

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Oh, really? Okay, so I think to me, I've had this one this season, but it was new to me this season, and I really like it.

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This actually has won a lot of awards.

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Feels like a classic, not too malty, not too thin or easy drinking. Like we had one the other day that was like a much easier drinking one. This this is like the perfect balance Oktoberfest to me.

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I agree.

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Okay, great. I'm like, is Nick gonna tell me I'm wrong?

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I I was curious to hear you use words to describe this. I'm so proud of you. I'm learning. You know, who says you stop learning at 25? Not me. You have continued to learn the just about alcohol. It's so good. So uh shells, you should everybody they also do uh really great. Um it's called Noble Star. They do these like wild and sour beers that are incredible. Kind of expensive, kind of hard to find, but shells. But you know, good luck. It's great. We used to sell them, but then they distribute nationally? Yes, they do. Yeah, I mean, um people stopped buying 750 milliliter bottles of beer.

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Is that like the um raspberry tart? Like the new Blaer's raspberry tart?

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Yeah, it's a lot of beer.

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Tyler used to love those, and I was like, but yeah, it's so much beer. But whatever. Okay.

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It smells like a bakery. You know your beer is delicious when it smells like a bakery. Now we know this one's a winner right here.

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That's funny.

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Best beer lager for it. It really does smell like a bakery. From Maplewood.

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Maplewood, yeah. I know I love this one. This was my favorite, I think, up until this season. It was, so this is why. Um I hope I don't oust it. Sorry, Maplewood, if I do. It's a little warmer than the other two, sorry.

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I mean, still pretty cold, but I know how cold you like your beer.

SPEAKER_02 5:13

And isn't Oktoberfest beer supposed to be a little warm?

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Yes.

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I'm not on board with that, but you know, the Germans.

SPEAKER_06 5:18

You know, wood tag, drive that thing in the what what is you're like driving a wood wedge into it and then putting the wood to yeah, anyway.

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Okay. Do I need to rank? Yeah. I I like shells shells better.

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This has got a little bit more funk to it.

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Yeah, it does. And it doesn't like, it's not as like evenly distributed to me.

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Um that's a weird way to explain it, but like So Maplewood usually puts their recipes on their cans if they don't run this one.

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That's weird. Um this one like doesn't have as great to me, it doesn't like linger in my mouth the same way.

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I think they use Hellertou hops, which are like kind of forest flory. So it has a little bit of like kind of mossy flavor to it. Yeah. That's I never drink them next to each other. We also have uh MKE pretzel company. No, pretzilla. I keep having seen this up. We have Pretzilla pretzel bites, which make everything better.

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I know. I'm really glad you brought these. I was like, man, I wish we had pretzels. But yeah, I think Maplewood got ousted. Still love you, Maplewood. Still love your cans. Uh shells. Shells, shells. Shells.

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Our last beer. We didn't get a German one because um That's not fair. Because I sold all the German beer. This is more cool. And it was like, oh my god, all the German beer sold. We had we had two cases of it out on Tuesday. I'll get to this, but I haven't been in the store on the last two days.

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I was like, oh my god, it's all gone. Good. Sorry, I'm trying to chew a pretzel not into your ear.

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So this is the uh official beer of Symtoberfest, which is coming up soon.

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Oh, is that right?

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Third Space. Oktoberfest. No, yep, they call it Oktoberfest.

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That was the loudest swallow in the microphone. Sorry. No, I did it.

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I thought I did it.

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Um fun fact about Third Space. Uh the owner, one of the owners, I studied abroad in London with his wife. We lived together, actually. I know. It's like my every time I have a third space, I think of it. Um that was a million years ago, though. Oh, but it's so different.

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Yes, this is the darkest and like multi-est.

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Okay, like so multiist.

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They have like a little bit more like caramel roasted, it feels like.

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Ooh, so do I want I I mean I have a favorite out of these three.

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I think you've you've all heard Ooh, I like the description of this. Multilager beer, spelled German, B-I-E-R. Perfect for brisk weather and a festive ambiance. Throw in your later hose and find your gamulakite.

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Oh, that's cute.

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And because the genius that used to run Visit uh Wisconsin, what's it called? Travel, Wisconsin. Travel, Wisconsin, Stephanie Clock. She, we're not lucky enough to have her at Visit Lake Geneva running it. She came up with this great German-themed Oktoberfest themed um Gamuli Kite ad campaign about gamulakite numbers. Like, what is very hard to spell. This is very hard to spell, very hard to pronounce, nobody knows what it is. But she took gamulakite and made it this huge thing. So now we all know gamulakite is a German word for friendship and good times. Thank you, Stephanie.

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Yeah, it it it that was a that was a fantastic campaign. And it's so fitting for Oktoberfest. I remember using it at they had a little cutout that traveled throughout the state. Yeah, anyway.

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We uh so Simptoberfest, you know, we we like to celebrate Simona.

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Yeah, do the people know?

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I think we talked about it last year and how good the sign was that you did.

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If you're new here, his daughter's birthday is near Oktoberfest celebration. So we have his daughter's birthday, his daughter's name is Simona, so we have Sim we, we, we Nick and his wife. This is a this is a I basically live here, so um her name is Simona, so there's Sim Toberfest, and it's really just like, you know, hot pretzels and beer. Hot pretzels, beer, and bratwurst. But what a great party to transition to your child when she turns 21.

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I mean. I think at like age 12, 13, 14, she'd be like, This is dumb. Yeah, yeah. So until 12, she's gonna love it. Then she's gonna hate it. And she's gonna hate it, and she'd be like, This is affine awesome.

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Then she's gonna have the best college birthday parties ever.

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So uh we have a banner. Maybe we'll update it because you know, it's a baby photo of her. But it's I don't know, it's kind of a good photo. It is.

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She's got sunglasses on, no better party photo than one with sunglasses.

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It's a cool party. So this is the beer. So for the adult, because Bridget was big on this of like a one-year-old birthday party is celebrating the parents just as much as, you know. So I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Celebrating the one-year-old that doesn't know what's going on. So we have a keg for the parents, and there's not enough parents to have a keg, but we don't have enough friends. It's more the vibe, you know. Plus, then Bridget can have Oktoberfest for months. Thanks, Nick. So anyway, it's just it's a good time. This is the one we have. Good, great. Um, and it's it's a lot of fun. So I'm gonna call that. Do you have a ranking here?

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I have a preference, yes. A preference. I mean, they're all very good.

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Um let's be clear, these are three of the better Oktoberfest beers in America.

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And maybe this is based on the fact that it's been really hot this October, or like it's been uncharacteristically nice. Thanks, El Gore. Thanks, global warming. Okay, here's my ranking. Number three is now Maplewood. Oh wow! Because I put them side by side here, on its own, still beautiful. Number two is third space, and number one is shells. Because I could drink shells all day.

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So I have a hard time with this because they are very different beers.

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Very different.

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The the shells is the easiest drinking, and the maplewood's the hoppiest, and and the third space has the most malt. So they're very different. But like if I'm just gonna pound beers, it's the shells number one. It's the shells number one, the maplewood number two, and uh Third Space Three. And to be clear, these are not I bought a keg of Third Space. That's how much I enjoy it.

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So if you didn't know, we love Oktoberfest beer here.

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I mean, it's a perfect combination of malt and we always wonder like why Germans are like rosy cheeked, you know, that's why hudgy people. And um man, we love our malt, don't we?

SPEAKER_02 11:22

We just had to bid Oktoberfest like a fond farewell because it's over this weekend in Germany or last weekend.

SPEAKER_06 11:29

Uh so they they put an extra weekend on. Oh, they did? Yeah, so it's this weekend. That's right. It used to be last weekend, but they put an extra weekend on.

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Yeah, and like Geneva's is this weekend, so it's kind of like wrapping up our Oktoberfest, and then we're scooting right into the holidays. So we're we're on um ultra high speed over here getting ready for the holidays already. Like I drank out of a Christmas coffee mug this morning because that's how much I'm in like the holiday mindset because we're planning ahead, obviously, our content and such. So yeah, I like had a Christmas coffee mug. I was like, this feels normal.

SPEAKER_06 11:59

We should talk about our crazy last two days.

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I know we should. Without giving away your favorite food.

SPEAKER_06 12:07

Um excuse me. I'm a start, you know. I'm I'm known for an emotional kid corner, and it's gonna be an emotional again. But mine's not. Uh I cry a lot. It's okay. You can be a man and cry. Uh, it doesn't make you any less of a man. Yes, you can. Then you can cry. Tyler does regularly. Nick's giving you permission. Um anyway. Uh so we had two shoot days in a row where we pay a very, very, very talented videographer to come up and video me. And that's right. Uh I'm a big believer in team effort and giving credit where credit is due. But sometimes also you have to say, it is me on video, and if I fail or I do good, it is on me. I let the team down or I led the team. So not trying to be, you know, where are we going with this? Egotistical, but like it is two hours, two days of me being on camera.

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Yes, for sure. And it's very stressful. Yes. But people like we talk about this all the time. We are in marketing and content creation, and people do not understand what that means. And they're like, oh, well, you're just having fun. And I'm like, yeah, we like it because it's our jobs that we enjoy, but it is a lot of work. Like, we run to the store ten times, we organize props, Nick thinks through recipes and ingredients. We have to schedule the day, we have to do things 10 times over.

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You work three hours to make three minutes of content, and at that one point, you are not the happiest MFR you could ever be. And your hair isn't brushed, and you're yeah, like you're gonna get destroyed on YouTube, first of all. Um, the YouTube comments are check out the comments toxic. You're gonna get destroyed on YouTube, which you can compartmentalize and you can rationalize. These people are terrible trolls, living in their parents' basement. It's a 13-year-old, you can or a 35-year-old. You can do all of these things, but it's still hurtful. Like, it's 100% still hurtful. I get a lot of comments about like, hey man, your hairstylist sucks, and I'm mad for Becca. Because I love her. Like, I've been working 60 hour weeks. Everybody like anybody else say an 80-hour week, but people overestimate how much they work. I've been working 60 hour weeks, working out every night, taking care of my kid, all these things. So, guess what? Yeah, I'm three weeks overdue for a haircut. Shove it. So, like, do I just say, like, hey man, you're right. Maybe give some construction anyway.

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Whoa. Remember how we said we were gonna be positive and not rant anymore? So sometimes that doesn't work, okay, guys. The positive thing about this is it worked out better for us.

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The first shoot day, we did one recipe. It was a deep fried turkey thing. We had some teaser picks up that you can very clearly see what those are. And um, Elliot, my my five-year-old, was able to come over and be a part of it. And he was like very interested and wanted to be on camera.

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By that we mean our life is a disaster, and I had to pick Elliot up from school and come back to the shoot because we're a disaster. And so he came and played with us.

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I was like, hey, Elliot, I had to go check the temperature. Uh, you and and Colin, oh, you guys have met Colin. Uh, we're inside working on some other stuff. I was like, Elliot, come on, and like, here's my phone, take some pictures. And uh, so he took some pictures as I was like, oh my god, this thing's going wrong. This turkey cooked way too fast. What's happening? Uh, there's oil all over my pavement. Like, what is happening? This shouldn't have happened. And um, anyway, so later that night, I was looking back at photos because I screenshot something for a reminder, and Elliot took three really good photos.

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This is so sweet. Nick posted something on Facebook saying something about a picture that Elliot Leach took, and I was like, what? I didn't know that was happening. I just thought, like, oh my god, I'm trying to keep my kid out of the way. Like, Nick is very good with Elliot, but I also don't want this turkey to like blow up in his face of oil, whatever. And yeah, he's like, No, Elliot actually took those photos. I thought he was just messing around.

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So it was just one of those times where you look back late at night, you're done with the day, you're trying to wrap everything up, and you're like, you know what? Actually, life isn't that bad. There were some fun parts of this. This was a lot of work, but I gotta work with really talented people who are my friends that I really enjoy. Um, I gotta bring a little bit of joy to a kid's life. I think Elliot had fun.

SPEAKER_02 16:18

He had a ton of fun. And then, yeah, I mean, he felt like a celebrity. Elliot's really into like making videos too right now. Like he wants his own YouTube channel. No, thank you. I don't know. I don't have time to edit more videos we're gonna get this happening. Oh, but yeah, anyway, it was really nice. And we're just we're just getting sappy right from the get-go. Okay.

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But it was like it was nice to- You know, hashtag grateful, hashtag thankful, hashtag blast, like all these things. We gotta look back and be like, man, these are the good old days.

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Like, it's not that bad. I got to bring my kid to work because my boss is pretty cool. So we had we've had a busy week. If your kids sucked, he couldn't come. But it's cool. Um, you can hang. We it's really fun to do content creation, but like anyone out there that's like watching whoever you're watching on YouTube, it takes a long time or I'm sorry, on Instagram, it takes a long time to edit a reel. To create and edit a reel. Okay. That's all. We love it. It's super fun. We made some bomb recipes this week.

SPEAKER_06 17:16

You really to everybody that's a creator, like you really have to care. Like you really have to I think so. I don't know. You can't half ass content creation because it's so obvious so fast. So next time you're gonna leave a D-bag com none of our listeners would do this, but just in general, like next time you're gonna leave a D-bag comment on somebody's stuff to be like, Well, actually you said the wrong words, or you said is is instead of it is on an Insta story.

SPEAKER_02 17:46

Yes, we did. Um I misspelled something on the Insta story, and I was like, I love so hard. I gotta go back and correct. Yeah, because I'm like, someone's gonna yell at us. But stop it. Stop it. Um, I I just I will wrap it up once I say this, but I have fallen into a deep dive. There's an Instagram account of a person who like calls out influencers for doing like fake giveaways and things, and it has been this like crazy deep dive this girl is doing, and it's like getting to be a bit much because I don't actually care. I'm like, yeah, they bought bots and they buy fake followers. This is not breaking news.

SPEAKER_06 18:18

Like, um I'll be honest, I've bought fake followers. Excuse me. Because so, like Instagram to get verified, you have to hit a front. Yeah. But I mean, this is like uh taking people's money. Yeah, so I can like buy a hundred fake followers and yes, everybody a lot of people do that.

SPEAKER_02 18:34

Um, but it's been really fascinating on Instagram, and I don't feel like we need to spend much time on this, but can we just talk about Facebook and Instagram going down this week and how interesting that was?

SPEAKER_06 18:45

Do you think it was like a purposeful hack?

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Well, I didn't want to have it affect my life, but it did, and I kept, of course, we had a bunch of things to do. Yes. I was like sitting at my home office and I'm like, oh, just like my home internet, I feel like goes out all the damn time spectrum. Um, but it so I was like, okay, it's my internet. I restarted my internet, I logged out of my account, I re-downloaded the app, I did all the things, and then I was like, I'm gonna go to Twitter and see what's going on. And then all the funny memes on Twitter were like, Zuck had me apologize on Twitter that all of his apps are down. It was funny. I just discussed it a lot. Like there was a family group text about it, a funny meme going around, and I was like, hey guys, you know what's not funny? When you work in marketing and like you have you do this every day for your job, and I was like, I know that we hate that, but when you're about to say, bring it, bring it, bring it. What are we posting this event? I was finding it annoying is like, yeah, we were trying to connect an event from Eventbrite to Facebook. Couldn't do that. I was trying to just log on to Instagram for like two seconds to just look at something, be like, wait, did we do this? And I'm like, I can't even do that, I can't even check that.

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Do you want to what my like really rich white dude problem was? Yes. I have an app that is like a gaming app that's connect that's a Facebook social login.

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And you couldn't get on that. I couldn't get on it. Oh, like it was connected. Oh, yes.

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It's like, I just want to play my game for five minutes because I'm like a little burnt out and I need like five minutes of this game on my phone. And I couldn't get onto it because it's a Facebook login.

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I was like, it was a very funny societal like thing. And AOC is putting um on her Instagram, she's got all kinds of stuff about like Facebook being a monopoly, and like, hey, maybe we should split it up. Anyway, we could do a whole episode on that, and we'll move on. That's what the internet does.

SPEAKER_06 20:30

Um yeah, so yeah. I haven't looked at your news story. Oh, good. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 20:35

So there's a lot of things here. I know it's a long link. I didn't care to shorten it. So you know I love street art, people. If you are listening, it's about street. Nick, you know I love it. It's about street art, but like literal street art. So normally when I say street art, I mean graffiti and such. This is about um there's a Road Works Festival in San Francisco, and this is a steamroller.

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This is amazing.

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And this they have a steamroller print lino cut. So like um, it's printing art onto the street using a steamroller. I don't know what else to say. So it's a linoleum cut piece of artwork. So it looks like um, like screen printing almost, but it's with linoleum. And so this at this festival, it's like, hey, in this tech heavy part of the country in San Francisco, we're going way back to a steamroller. And he's he, the steamroller is a he, I guess. The steamroller is printing all kinds of beautiful art directly onto the street. I'd be canceled if I said that. I know, I'm really sorry. I called the steamroller a he. Maybe just say it. It could be a woman, it could be a they. I apologize, steamroller.

SPEAKER_06 21:43

Um To be fair, they don't have their preferred pronouns listed on their Twitter account.

SPEAKER_02 21:47

So I called it a he. Um, so apparently every year, this seven ton steamroller comes and does 40. 14,000 pounds. Is that what is that what, right? That's easy math. I didn't know that. Um, anyway, they do 42-inch square prints in the middle of San Francisco streets. It's like a very cool process. Everyone gathers around to watch it. And that's all I have to say about it. It's this website called This Is Colossal, which has like really awesome things with art design, photography, craft. And I I constantly go back to like art as a therapy. I'm not an art therapist. I don't know, but I think like when I get really stressed, I have my eye my iPad with an Apple pencil, and I like literally just color coloring pages and or I'll color an actual coloring book and like it's a great form of therapy. So I'm all about art street festivals and connecting art, making sure the kids have arts, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So this is really cool. We'll post the story so you can check it out and see the really amazing prints that they have. And maybe you can go to the festival one day. Take me in your luggage.

SPEAKER_06 22:52

I hate San Francisco.

SPEAKER_02 22:54

Okay, well, I'm gonna go to this festival, okay?

SPEAKER_06 22:55

But I love Napos, I love Oakland, I love everything around San Francisco. Um, so I think I've spoken before about how dumb representation sounds, but how important it is. And it's easy to be like, ooh, representation is stupid. And I think I spoke about my experience riding a bus through a historically African American community where streets were named things like Tuskegee and uh, you know famous black people's names. And you're like, who is that? I've never heard of Christmas Addicts before, and then you go and look it up. Um so representation is important as dumb as it sounds because it puts that spark in people's mind of I don't know what that is. People usually don't like knowing what it is, and you want to learn what it is.

SPEAKER_02 23:37

Or kids seeing a doll that looks like them in a wheelchair with a skin disease, etc.

SPEAKER_06 23:42

Representation is important, and the US Mint has decided that they are going to do um issues, quarters. We had the state quarters, now they're gonna do quarters that are um featuring historically important women.

SPEAKER_02 23:58

Do that! This goes along with my product rack, just for the record.

SPEAKER_06 24:01

So the first five, the first five group is, and this is why representation is important. I know a lot of stuff. I know a lot of useless stuff. I like knowing this. So the five women are three of these five I've never heard of before in my life. So the first one's Maya Angelou, and if you haven't heard of her, you're an idiot. Um, the second one is Sam Ryan.

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I still love you. You could Google it.

SPEAKER_06 24:22

Again, you're an idiot. Everybody knows these people, right? Stop. The third one, Anna Mae Wong. No clue. So I Googled her, I learned about her, and she turns out to be the first real Chinese American movie star. She was active from 1919 to 1961. Um, she did, she got screwed over by how Hollywood operated with the studio system.

SPEAKER_02 24:46

I have heard of her, actually. Well, see from the I mean Mo Work that more woke than I am. I'm probably being targeted. I'm a woman.

SPEAKER_06 24:53

But anyway, um, so I learned about her and her story and how Hollywood used to work. Nina Otero Warren. She is the first Latina to run for Congress. She lost. Uh, it's actually a really funny story. Thanks for running. Um, it's actually very funny. She was in New Mexico, like when it was a territory. You forget New Mexico wasn't a state till like 1918. You're like hilarious. Uh but she was a suffragist, so she's always it's funny because like she's always really cool. Her Wikipedia is funny because it's like the first 35 years of her life, she'd always BA things. And then she started selling real estate. And it's like, oh, and she sold real estate for the last 40 years of her life. But people really liked her. But she was cool. Okay. Anyway, so like good for her. First Latina to run for Congress. Yep. And then best name I've heard in a while, Wilma Mankiller.

SPEAKER_00 25:42

Wilma.

SPEAKER_06 25:43

So it turns out she was the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation. Okay. So, you know, good, good for her. How much crap do you think they got? Like trying to decide. Yeah. Like, how do you decide these five? So as I'm like, there have to be more representational, better women you could have chosen. And I'm like, oh no, Nick, you just fell into the trap of Oh no, Nick. Stop that. Like, these are all people that deserve recognition. Maybe they're not the Mount Rushmore people, but maybe it's cool. It's just a quarter.

SPEAKER_02 26:12

It's just a quarter that everyone sees every day.

SPEAKER_06 26:15

I'm a traditionalist. I like the quarter to be the quarter. Are you serious? Yeah, but still, you know, when it comes to quarters, you can't fear change.

SPEAKER_02 26:24

Oh god, I was like, are you kidding me? We're gonna take a break. All right, guys, we are back, and Nick just segueed right into what I need to talk about now. Need to. We're telling you about some products. We're loving, and guess what? It's October. So you know what I've started doing? Because my shit is together. Christmas shopping. Okay, but the holidays are here. We've talked about this for a couple weeks. I know I bought something a little while ago. My mom, everyone's mom. By something you mean the nugget. The nug. Which I like forget about because it's at my parents' house hiding. So I feel like everyone's mom is sending news articles to their kids, being like, shipping delays, shipping delays. Did you know there are shipping crates stuck in this?

SPEAKER_06 27:17

Well, it's because all of our moms just want us to fail at Christmas and be like, see, if you would have listened to me, my grandchild would be happier.

SPEAKER_02 27:23

Well, oh, I don't think that's why. But anyway, they're right. And uh things are gonna take a while to get to us. So I was trying to be prepared for Christmas in that, like instead of putting all of Christmas Christmas isn't about the stuff, Bridget. It's about the joke. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. I get it. That's true. Um, but instead of like buying all the things on one paycheck, like let's space it out or be responsible. Are you asking for a raise? Right here on air, Nick. You can't say no. I need a raise for the month of December, please. Um, so anyway, I've been looking at Christmas stuff. I've tried to be very purposeful about what I'm buying instead of like rushing through and buying everyone a tea towel, which I love tea towels.

SPEAKER_06 28:01

Anyway. Yeah, you can buy me a tea towel.

SPEAKER_02 28:03

I know, I'm like, actually, anyone can buy me. I was gonna say candle, but I'm like, you can buy me a candle. Um, so I in general love all of the monthly subscription boxes. Not all of them, but in general, like love every key we create. Those are a couple of the kids' ones that are amazing because not only do like my kids love getting mail, Elliot specifically, like, is this package for me? No, honey, it's another Amazon box for mom. Whatever. Mama needs Amazon. So it's fun to get the mail, and then it's a different craft or book or whatever monthly. So one year, actually, my mom, bless her, did the coolest gift, and she couldn't find a subscription box that was like everything she wanted to give us. So she made her own. And every month, for it was either six months. Mama, gee, killing it. And she, my mom makes really beautiful paper like cards and things.

SPEAKER_06 28:51

So every I've seen some of those, she's great at it.

SPEAKER_02 28:54

It was health, beauty, mind, and something else. And each one had a different category. So, like she buys you a lot of wine. I do know that. She did, she comes in and is like, Nick, I need to. For our birthday, she gave us a um, a care package for ourselves. So, care for yourself, like spa gift certificate, wine, and nail polish. It was exactly what I needed. So, she made our own subscription box. Um, so all these things are super great gifts. You know, contact my mom if you need her to make one for you. Um but I really was wanting to tell you about one I just discovered that was specifically for the young ladies in your life. So there is a crate called Girls Can Crate, and it's a toolkit for future world changers. So, like Nick and I both have daughters. There's a lot of boy kids in our life, but this one is specifically about women and the I love this kids, girls, you know. So, so her like dress thing is adorable.

SPEAKER_06 29:47

Like a boiler suit dress hybrid list. Noted.

SPEAKER_02 29:51

Nick wants the dress. Um, so this crate has um an inspiring role model. So it'll be like an artist, an engineer, an activist. So it's a real woman that like did something amazing that you your two-year-old has probably never heard of. Um, in activity book that is a story about games, experiments, different things, but this is all female focused, and then hands-on activities, um, two or three engineering, science, or art activities, and then other a couple other fun things, you know, buttons, uh little posters, stickers, whatever. So um, you can pick all kinds of different options and they give you samples, but this one is geared towards like female empowerment, uh, empowerment. So always something we're kind of looking at. It's a girls crate, girlscancrate.com.

SPEAKER_06 30:35

So you purposefully tried to make me look like an idiot today, right? Yeah, I think that's an recommendation.

SPEAKER_02 30:41

Thanks, man. I didn't know your uh project rec at the time, but yeah, man, you're an idiot.

SPEAKER_06 30:45

Just kidding. I'm recommending beer. Men can brew beer too. Northern Brewer. Uh I've been there. Have you really? I have. Oh, yeah, you would have. Yeah. Something in Milwaukee, I don't know. So Northern Brewer is a home brew supply place. Um that they have retail locations in the Twin Cities and Milwaukee. Uh well, Wakeshaw. Um, and Mail Order. Is that what we still call it? Mail Order? I was like, Mail Order. Anyway. You can buy it online. Um they're like the OG of Mail Order homebrewer supply things. Brewing your own beer is a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun. Have your homies over. Honestly, you can do it with your kids because it's baking. Children. No, seriously, making beer is baking. You're you're turning grain into things. You can use the spent, so you But they can't try to. You boil water, you add well, sure they can. Uh you boil water, you add grains to it, you take the sugar out of the grains, you ferment it, and you have spent grain at the end that you can bake into cookies and things. Anyway, home brewing is a lot of fun. It's a really rewarding activity because you do a thing that you can hang out with friends, family, whomever, and then you can taste something at the end, and it's probably not as good as the beer you bought on the shelves. But you know what? You made it, and that's worth something. Um and uh it's Oktoberfest season, so we're a little too late to make the beer. You always have to think six weeks ahead for the for the stuff. Is it six weeks? It's usually like four to six weeks, depending on the floor. I thought it was longer, so okay. Well, it depends on the recipe. Loggers are a little longer, stouts are a little longer, but an Oktoberfest, four to six weeks. Okay. Um, but Northern Brewer, their website is is is incredible. Um, they have a lot of great kits that you can just get started. It's a great Christmas gift as we're as we're thinking of that. Um, it's a lot of fun to brew beer. You can go insane. Uh, like I started to go insane and then I quit because I realized how bad it is as a disease, as a hobby. Um, but it leads a lot of people into professional careers. Yeah. Um, if you're not insane like I am, it's just a fun hobby. Um, it it really is a good family activity. Like it's it's a good way. This is Wisconsin, so we have a different attitude about drinking than a lot of other places. But your older kids, if you do it with them, you can show them that this is an actual craft, an actual art. Like, hey, yeah, it's alcohol at the end, but these are the steps that went into it. And it can be a business, yes, which I think is important to teach kids of like that whole thing. Um, but they're also the nicest people in the world. They have a retail location in Milwaukee, like I said, one in Twin Cities, where they do classes, they teach you how to do all these things. You can go in and ask for advice. So if you're someone that likes an Oktoberfest beer or any type of beer, Northern Brewer, check them out. If you're looking for a gift for somebody that likes beer, um, someone cider mead. Uh they do wine as well, they do home winemaking.

SPEAKER_01 33:41

I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_06 33:41

Yeah, so like uh also they do soda. Um soda. So um that's a great gift. It's just a great gift. Go check them out, Northern Brewer. Nice people, cool things. Check them out. Guys, we're gonna be right back.

SPEAKER_02 34:10

We're back. I made Nick do it today because I thought it'd be fun. Did you miss us? Um, I walked in, I had to take a break here and walk back into the recording area, and Nick had this weird smirk on his face because he's so excited.

SPEAKER_06 34:23

So I have a disease where I really want people to be happy. I want to do nice things for people, but I just always have to throw in like a little twist. So I have a cousin that asked us to ship us a bunch of brats, uh, asked us to ship him a bunch of brats out to New York, and which I happily did because I love him dearly. Uh, but you know what we did in addition to these things he really wanted? Well, put some pig ears and a beef heart in there to just disgust him. Because I could never just be He was like, What else can I send?

SPEAKER_02 34:51

I'm like, uh that all sounds disgusting. I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 34:53

Anyway, I love a little bit of uncomfortableness. Cool. So I don't know if you listen to this week's Amoose Boosh. But you should have. Because it's about weddings and wedding planning and how fun weddings are.

SPEAKER_02 35:06

And it's not our wedding. So my brother-in-law is getting married. A brief recap here. Um, my brother-in-law is getting married, and he and his fiancee are I'm very close to his fiance, Paul and Fiance. Fiance. And um, I also used to plan weddings in a previous life. So um they are not living locally, but they're having their wedding um locally here in Wisconsin, and so I'm helping them plan a lot of the wedding. Well, they came into town this week to um, because they're getting married at this time next year. So they're like, oh cool, we'll check out like the weather, what does town look like, what flowers are in season, etc. And I'm like, oh yeah, it's like 80 and humid out. I don't know. This is hopefully not what it's gonna be like next October. So um wedding planning has been on the brain this week. I've been going to tastings with them and appointments, and it's been awesome. So it it inspired this next segment.

SPEAKER_06 35:52

So I was like, you need to like pick Bridget's brain about weddings. Great. Everybody loves weddings. Like I know a lot of our listeners are already married, or you know, whatever. So but everybody loves to judge a wedding. We all judge everybody. I don't know if everyone loves weddings, but everyone loves to judge weddings. So um, I don't know if you've seen these things that are like you gotta pick three from five or whatever. Um hard stress, hard stress, very stressed. So I designed this thing. We're calling it the dinner plus drinks, design a wedding game, where we have five categories: venue, music, food, drinks, and guests, where you have to pick an option in each category, and there's five levels of options: epic, great, good, meh, and oh no. And you can only pick one epic, one great. So I'm just gonna quickly read through this. We'll have this in the show notes. So if you want to play along, it's gonna be a lot more clear there. Or play with your friends because you should. It's a lot of fun. Yeah. So in venue, there is epic, a beautiful historic mansion with every amenity possible. And like to be clear, price is no concern with this. Like you get all this thing. Um, so this isn't like, well, that was the hardest part. Uh great, a fancy resort with on-site accommodations for all your guests. Good, an idyllic barn that's open to the elements and a bit musty. Meh. It's a in a tent in your backyard. It's a bit windy and mosquito-y. And oh no, the local VFW hall, the floors are sticky. Music, epic, Britney Spears and JT, incredible concert set. That's Justin Timberlake, everybody. Great. Uh, an 11 piece live cover band. Then we have dueling pianos, uh an okay DJ that mostly does what you told him to do. And then Oh Nell is the guest-controlled iPod experience. Food is uh epic. Gordon Ramsay prepares the food specially and personally for you. So he's actually there. It's not just like his people. Yep. Uh the best cater in the area did a special menu for you. Your friend who likes to cook put together a food spread for you, a chicken-based buffet, vegetarian option is a side salad, which we know is like the big slap in the face. Yep. And then the uh oh no is Subway sandwich platters. Drinks, we have uh an all-you-can-drink top shelf everything, let the bubbles flow, a nice open bar with call-level liquor, so you know, we can get some Tito's and tonics if we want. Uh, good wine and beer, and something you really enjoy is your, you know, like sweetheart table treat. Uh, crappy wine pour with dinner, which, you know, is still nice that you get a wine pour. Uh cash bar for the guest with generic products.

SPEAKER_02 38:35

This this one threw me off, but I feel like you're missing something here.

SPEAKER_06 38:38

There's like get some kegs of Miller Light and boxes of wine, B IO flask, which I always feel like a just disastrous option because people are here to get hammered. And then the oh now is two liters of soda are available, and there's a bubbler over there, which if you're not in Wisconsin, that's a water fountain. Help yourself to the soda and water. And then finally, guests, uh, epic option is the people who matter to you can hang at an epic party. No one more, no one less. And then we have uh you could invite most of your friends, your parents can invite some of their friends, and your annoying stepuncle has to be there. Then we have all of your annoying family is there, your parents pick most of the guests, but you get two tables of friends. It's all your family, your parents' friends, and work acquaintances. You have to talk to each table. And then finally, there is no guest list. Anyone in the entire world who wants to can come, can just come and show up. So we both have our picks, but this is where the guests come in. We thought it'd be fun to get the people that are important to us in our lives to comment on it. I'm so stressed. I talk to these people ahead of time. Bridget has no clue what they're gonna say. We have my wife Sarah making her triumphant podcast debut. We have two guests that are near and dear to our hearts, Shannon and Britney, Bridget's sisters. Uh they participated, and then finally also making his triumphant debut, Tyler. Hi, husband, is on. So we're gonna play these. Each one's about four minutes. We're gonna, you know, see what they had to say, and then provide some commentary, and then what we were picking. So here we go. We're gonna start with Sarah making her debut on the podcast. We've tried to get her on before, but this is the time we've got her. My wife, Sarah. Hello, honey. How are you?

SPEAKER_00 40:23

Hi, I'm doing great. Thank you.

SPEAKER_06 40:25

Um, you listen to a lot of podcasts, and now you're on one. How does it feel?

SPEAKER_00 40:29

Um, not my thing at all.

SPEAKER_06 40:31

Well, thank you for playing along with the wedding game. We had a lovely wedding, we had a lot of fun. Our wedding was a great party. Now we're gonna find out what you would design. So the first is venue. We got married at the Riviera. What uh what would you pick in that category?

SPEAKER_00 40:50

Oh, okay. I'm with her on this. So you want to know which option I'm picking.

SPEAKER_06 40:56

Yes, which option are you picking?

SPEAKER_00 40:57

Sure. I would go with your meck in a tent in your backyard. I can't believe it.

SPEAKER_06 41:01

The wind and the mosquitoes.

SPEAKER_00 41:02

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_06 41:03

Alright. Why why would you? Yeah, tell us. Why would you get married in the chat?

SPEAKER_00 41:10

Okay. No, you can tell us why.

SPEAKER_02 41:12

Sarah's a rule follower. I love her for that.

SPEAKER_00 41:14

For one, I think that's a well, I mean, you're not being specific enough here. So if you close the tent, it would eliminate mosquitoes. Okay. Second of all, anyone that probably would come to our wedding has probably been at our house. I love how she assumes windy every day. So they wouldn't know what to expect.

SPEAKER_06 41:35

Okay. Love it. That's fair.

SPEAKER_00 41:37

Anyhow, moving on.

SPEAKER_06 41:39

Music.

SPEAKER_00 41:42

Oh no. The guest control that I'm going to do. No, Sarah! You're picking that up. Well, because you love having control. I I I do, but uh uh basically.

SPEAKER_06 41:54

They're gonna play all country music.

SPEAKER_00 41:56

No, no, no, no, no, no. There's no reason why I have that there.

SPEAKER_06 41:59

Okay, I I think I know why we're getting to that now.

SPEAKER_00 42:01

There's a whole con reason for everything.

SPEAKER_06 42:03

Food.

SPEAKER_00 42:06

I don't like it.

SPEAKER_02 42:07

I I'm with Sarah, I actually would have gone a different way explaining this.

SPEAKER_00 42:11

What do you want to know?

SPEAKER_02 42:12

What's the food pick?

SPEAKER_00 42:14

Um, your friend who likes to cook. Whatever that says. Your friend who likes to cook put together a food spread for you. Because do you want to know why? Yeah. Well, you have some really great friends that know how to cook really well, such as Chef Nelly. Oh, you're gonna make it. Raw, you just got volunteered. I mean, I'm sure I would do something. I would do something.

SPEAKER_02 42:42

Good job, Sarah. Drinks.

unknown 42:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 42:47

Um drinks, a nice open bar with call level liquor, good wine and beer, and something you really enjoy. You mean me. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 42:57

What would you pick? Yeah, girl.

SPEAKER_00 42:59

I just told you.

SPEAKER_06 43:00

Yeah, but what would something you really enjoy be? Your special bottle.

SPEAKER_00 43:04

Well, that wasn't one of the questions. Oh, Sarah, I love it. No, no, no, no. It'd be bubbles, because everyone in our group likes bubbles.

SPEAKER_06 43:11

Also, like so I think that's just Bridget doesn't like Pinot. Only the epic level on that.

SPEAKER_00 43:18

You got it. So your guests are My guests at our wedding the people who matter. Thank you, Sarah. And can hang at an epic party, no one more or no one less.

SPEAKER_06 43:30

So that's why you're doing the tent and the iPod.

SPEAKER_00 43:34

Well, yeah, because my logic in this, this was very easy. It took me about 30 seconds. Everybody else has said this is hard. Oh, yeah, this was hard. Well, that's an unproblem. Okay, so um our lives, I'll speak for you because I can now. I love you, Sarah. Yeah, you can. We revolve our life around people. Okay. People are the most one of the most important things to us, right? Yeah. Food and drinks.

SPEAKER_06 43:58

There you go. Make those things. That's good logic.

SPEAKER_00 44:00

Girl, we're first. Because no matter what situation you're in, if you have people that you like, the group if you have your group of people, you're good people, you can get through whatever. Mosquito, twind, an iPod experience. Okay, if my guests are controlling it, I'm controlling my guests. Right. But I have more control over guests because I get to pick them more than I did before. Oh to anybody.

SPEAKER_06 44:24

Sarah, I love this. No offense to anybody that was a guest and played crappy music at a wedding.

SPEAKER_01 44:29

But we hate you.

SPEAKER_02 44:31

Okay, I am gonna this is gonna be hard to listen to everybody's and not change mine just so. This is why Sarah said. I wrote it down.

SPEAKER_06 44:38

Yep. Okay, so now live from Washington, we have Britney.

SPEAKER_01 44:46

Brittany, are you there? Washington's far away.

SPEAKER_06 44:52

Brittany, thanks for joining us all the way from Washington. It's great to have you on.

SPEAKER_04 44:56

Great to be here, Nick.

SPEAKER_06 44:58

Now this will be interesting because you have a different perspective than than Bridget. We'll see what she has to say. I'm very glad to have you on. So let's go through your choices. What was your venue perspective?

SPEAKER_04 45:14

So the venue I went with the attic. I knew it. I knew it. I wanted. Yeah, when I had my own wedding, I wanted everybody to be able to stay on site. That was important to me. And I felt like it would be important to my guests who felt like so they so they would feel free to party. And people who had kids would be able to like check on their kids on like put them to bed and then come back to the party. I'd also have kids, that's a good point.

SPEAKER_02 45:46

Yeah. Good point. It was nicely.

SPEAKER_04 45:48

I got kids on the bridge now. Music. Um music. Um 11 piece live cover band.

SPEAKER_05 45:58

You're using up the good ones right away.

SPEAKER_04 46:01

Yeah, actually, you'll see how my choice is actually just cascade down with a spoiler. That's what's gonna happen. Spoiler alert. Uh music is so important to me. I've been to um like I made my own playlist for my wedding. Um, but my wedding only had 20 people, and I wanted absolute control.

SPEAKER_06 46:20

I love how the women all are talking about control.

SPEAKER_04 46:22

Like order and everything. That's true. I was like, but she would be happy with an iPod. I would have had a a live band. That would have been cool. That's true.

SPEAKER_06 46:30

I should have known that. So food. Damn, you should have known that.

SPEAKER_04 46:34

This is funny, um, because I was talking to Shannon, and for food I chose uh the good, what you called the good version with your friend who likes to cook. But my friend who likes to cook is my sister Shannon. And she's a great cook. Oh, that's adorable. I don't get to cook.

SPEAKER_05 46:52

Yeah, I told her. I told her.

SPEAKER_04 46:59

Um, that was nice. But she actually baked the cake for my own wedding, and it was really special and wonderful and yummy.

SPEAKER_02 47:06

And an Airbnb, mind you. Yes, just as good.

SPEAKER_06 47:12

Drinks. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 47:15

Uh I was recently at a uh wedding that was um super fun and had kegs of Miller Light, boxed wine, and bring your own flap. For real? And it worked out great. Because the friend you knew who wanted the party. Um everyone had a headache. And you know, they knew you were on a budget. So um they brought the party.

SPEAKER_06 47:40

So that leaves you with no guest list. Kind of passed that age. You've let Shannon cook for an in an incredible amount of people. You've just thrown her on the bus and I don't know, Shannon, maybe 10, maybe 5,000. Good luck.

SPEAKER_04 47:51

Yeah, yeah. Plan for 5,000, Shannon. People are gonna be wandering in off the off the street. Many people want to come to the mansion with every amenity. And uh no guest list to me seems better than some sort of like my my parents get to invite all the people and like what I ended up having is wedding and good gifts. I mean, I I I love my own wedding. We all we all say that, right? And for me, it's true. I had just family, um, just immediate family. And if I would have been able to do how I wanted, I would have had like my immediate family, and then like that's my favorite members. Yeah, like eight cousins. But not twenty for the other five.

SPEAKER_05 48:36

But that's not how it works.

SPEAKER_04 48:38

Um so the no-guest list allows me to tell my friends that they need to show up and they need to bring the party and they need to bring their own liquor. Bring your own booth.

SPEAKER_02 48:51

This is so funny to hear everyone's logic. Wait, tell me.

SPEAKER_06 48:54

And live music.

SPEAKER_02 48:55

Yeah, I'm stressed out.

SPEAKER_06 48:57

All right, that is my.

SPEAKER_04 48:58

And live music.

SPEAKER_06 48:59

I think it sounds like a good party.

SPEAKER_04 49:02

It was super hard. Oh shit. But I put a lot more thought into it than you might think looking at my grid. That sounds about right. Like stepped down from epic topics.

SPEAKER_02 49:13

Brittany's got 10 spreadsheets color-coded for this.

SPEAKER_06 49:15

Thanks for playing along. We appreciate it, Brittany.

SPEAKER_04 49:18

Dude, I love hearing great, and I can't wait to hear uh what a difficult time Bridget had.

unknown 49:25

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 49:26

Thanks, Brittany. I did. Mine's gonna be surprising to people.

SPEAKER_06 49:30

All right, should we go from your older sister to your younger sister?

SPEAKER_02 49:33

Yeah, this is gonna be funny. Everyone's logic is what's making me want to change my mind.

SPEAKER_06 49:37

I was really impressed by Shannon's uh logic. Our most frequent guest, Shannon. I'm very happy to have you as joining us to explain your wedding game choices. And you have an interesting way of doing this. You said you started from the bottom, now you're here.

SPEAKER_04 49:52

Started from the bottom. So what that's exactly what I said, yes.

SPEAKER_06 49:55

So, okay, explain your process on this.

SPEAKER_04 49:58

Yeah, so I started from the bottom. Like, what could I be okay with in the oh no category? In the you know, the options, and then I went up from there. I like it. Um that's smart.

SPEAKER_06 50:11

It's a good logical way.

SPEAKER_04 50:14

Thank you. I think some might argue that I'm not very logical, so I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_06 50:19

So what was the creative approach?

SPEAKER_04 50:22

Yeah, the oh no choice was no guest list. And I think uh this might be people like that. You don't need to watch on YouTube to see the face Bridget just made that, but I'm fine with no attack. She didn't have heart attack.

SPEAKER_06 50:32

I did have a heart attack. Uh spoiler alert, Britney chose also no guest list and made you cook. So, you know, that might be a panic attack for you too. Maybe people, maybe 5,000.

SPEAKER_04 50:44

We did talk about that a little, and I said, cool, so I could be cooking for 700 people.

SPEAKER_02 50:48

Yeah, but you say you want control people.

SPEAKER_04 50:52

I figure there's some some wiggle room. We don't know how it's advertised. So maybe, you know, maybe I just tell you what no one will be fine anyway.

SPEAKER_06 50:59

Yeah, to post a notice in the Lake Geneva Regional News. I don't think anybody reads it. You'll be fine. Uh, drinks is actually what's the next bottom one you have?

SPEAKER_04 51:11

Well, okay, so the next one was actually okay, DJ. Just because, you know, they play most of what I request. I'm okay with that. Cool, cool. I think we'll be okay.

SPEAKER_06 51:20

Our DJ did most of what we wanted, but the two things he didn't do were our two, like, you must do this right, which is he swelled like a surprise thing I had for my mom and played country music for like the last hour straight. Just go walk up to him and be like, stop.

SPEAKER_04 51:34

Yeah, I just think the DJ at my actual wedding and at two pianos, actually, and then a DJ. And he didn't really listen that well anyway, but it didn't really ruin things. So we did fine.

SPEAKER_06 51:47

What is your good option?

SPEAKER_04 51:51

The good option was actually the idyllic barn a little musty. This one was tough for me. I had two different versions of these answers, but I went with idyllic barn a little musty.

SPEAKER_06 52:05

Okay, okay. The the musty thing scares me a little bit, but that's fine. What is your great option?

SPEAKER_04 52:12

Okay, so now my drink option being open bar should take care of the fact that the BJ might only be okay and the barn might be musty.

SPEAKER_06 52:22

Good luck.

SPEAKER_05 52:23

You are killing it with the lodge.

SPEAKER_04 52:26

Yeah, I know. Well, and also barn, like you could be outside. If it's really musty, step outside. If it's nice out, I know the weather was bad.

SPEAKER_06 52:34

I can hear Shannon saying that's a beautiful leaves, the venue being epic.

SPEAKER_04 52:39

No, no, no, that means the food is actually I guess. Oh, that's right, that's right. The food is epic. That's how makes sense.

SPEAKER_06 52:47

This is so funny when you're gonna be. I'm not gonna tell that option myself, but it didn't work out with my things. But it didn't. Man, I hope I well, you don't have a list, so I can come.

SPEAKER_04 52:56

Yeah, that's true. You're welcome.

SPEAKER_06 52:58

Have that Gordon Ramsay food. Uh I'm gonna scream at him that the risotto isn't cooked right. Never is. And uh call him a wanker, and I don't know, but it'll be it'll be great. That sounds like a fun wedding, Shannon. Did you consult Michael at all? No.

SPEAKER_04 53:13

Um, the other the other actions I had, I mean, food always ranks pretty high. So food and venue were high up there. I don't know. But no matter what, I was always gonna choose no guest list.

SPEAKER_06 53:21

I like it. That's so trying to think. Did you consult Michael? Does he know what's happening? How important men are?

SPEAKER_04 53:27

Oh, I did not. And I'm not he would agree.

SPEAKER_06 53:31

He would not agree. You know, maybe tonight you guys can just talk this through and see what's going on. Yes, it's their wedding anniversary as we record.

SPEAKER_04 53:38

So it's our five-year anniversary tomorrow, so this feels like a good game to play for our anniversary. Happy anniversary. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 53:46

Whoa. Um, I don't want to speak too much because I until you hear mine, I have a lot to say once I say mine based on Shannon's, because we are twins after all.

SPEAKER_06 53:57

You are twins after all, but even more important than your twin. My husband.

SPEAKER_02 54:01

This one I'm dying to hear.

SPEAKER_06 54:03

Tyler. You heard from Sarah. Now, Tyler is here. We get both the spouses on. Thanks for coming. It's like being on a game show.

SPEAKER_03 54:14

Yeah, thank you for having me, Nick. This is a wonderful, exciting game to play.

SPEAKER_06 54:19

So, Tyler, so kind of wedding game. I don't know how much you had to do with your original and uh only wedding so far. But this is your chance. Design what you want for a wedding. So you said you were thinking you'd do what Shannon did, which is share your oh no pick first and go up from there.

SPEAKER_02 54:38

Smart man.

SPEAKER_03 54:39

And I'm glad you brought up my wedding.

SPEAKER_06 54:47

Oh, Tyler. That was perfect. The best part was Bridget was there. Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 54:54

The most wonderful decision was was the music that I think having an iPad or an iPod that someone can just reel out off. Well, you know, making it too, right? Yeah, but well then go change it. I guess you could go change it if you can.

SPEAKER_06 55:14

Somebody that maybe is bitter about something could come on with the you know, love socks song. And I was busy on my wedding day at Creeper Change. Creeper National Anthem. So puppy. You went with uh the guest-controlled iPod experience as your oh no. What's your meh?

SPEAKER_03 55:32

Uh so my meh was the drinks that you had me at Kegs of Miller Light and Flask. Oh, faster special. Little BYL flash.

SPEAKER_02 55:45

We're in our mid-30s, Tyler.

SPEAKER_03 55:48

A wonderful place.

SPEAKER_06 55:48

They're adults.

SPEAKER_03 55:49

Who wouldn't love that?

SPEAKER_06 55:52

The negative side of it was that you know, maybe some family member brings something and gets a little too drunk with no control, but I I think okay. So you got looking at you, Shannot. Tyler's blushing. I just hate Miller. That's Tyler and Brittany Shigan, Mary. I maybe downvoted that a little bit. Just kidding. What's your good option?

SPEAKER_03 56:16

So my good, I decided on the venue that I think having a nice big open barn with Kegs and Miller Light and an old iPod would sound pretty romantic.

SPEAKER_06 56:27

You just wear your overall. The good thing about a barn is there's a loft where you can go up there and play DD during the thing. You thought I was going somewhere else.

SPEAKER_03 56:37

My brain lives somewhere else, but yeah. I would love to roll some dice. You can weigh and roll some.

SPEAKER_06 56:44

Happy wedding day, everybody! Now your great option. This is where we start getting some fun stuff. Jesus have uh food and guests available to you. This is funny to me.

SPEAKER_03 56:54

This is tricky, but it's it sort of wraps it all together. That for great, I thought food to have a great cater, you know, simple catering exactly what I want, you know, breakfast bowls for everybody.

SPEAKER_06 57:06

Breakfast bowls for everybody. I love it. Jung does amazing Korean beef breakfast bowls. I love those.

SPEAKER_03 57:13

So good.

SPEAKER_06 57:13

So good. And then I'm invited, right?

SPEAKER_03 57:17

No, that's the worst one.

SPEAKER_05 57:18

That's the best part, is the epic is my guest.

SPEAKER_03 57:20

So not only am I only hanging out with the most wonderful, awesome people that I can think of, but their taste of music is probably going to be just as wonderful, so I don't have to worry about any of those really crappy songs.

SPEAKER_06 57:32

So kind to naive, Ty, because you and Sarah both did the same thing of picking the apple and going from there. I don't know what Bridget's gonna go with, but I went a little different way. Shannon and Brittany went a little different way. So this is no one's done. Oh god.

SPEAKER_03 57:53

I'm curious to see it, and it just reaffirms my love for my good buddies and friends and family that I would love to hang out with. Also, my friends. I don't hang out with enough, thank you. Oh, Tyler.

SPEAKER_06 58:07

Thank you for having me, sir. It was a pleasure. Love you. Bye. Love you too, buddy.

SPEAKER_02 58:12

Yes, that was really funny. Um, also, Tyler was at least a glass of wine in when he did that because we had his brother was over and he like had to sneak away to the bedroom. I was like, okay.

SPEAKER_06 58:22

You didn't hear the I'm sneaking away to the bedroom to talk to you jokes.

SPEAKER_02 58:26

Well, he had said someone else called, and I'm like, who is he talking to? I'm like, oh no, that was Nick. Okay, are you up now? I'm up now. Oh, I can't wait to talk about mine. Okay, so I'm very excited about my picks. I like making guesses in my head at first.

SPEAKER_06 58:41

Shannon actually did, I think, a good job of start from like Yeah, I didn't do that. But yeah, I didn't do that. So I started with, and I thought about my wife on this one, and she didn't do it this way. So I screwed up. But our wedding really was like a great effing party. Yep. And that was what was important to us. So I'm starting with the Britney Spears and JT Incredible Project. Oh, what? Because, okay, come on. I mean, but then the whole night would have been about Britney. Bitch. Bitch. Um, no, and JT. And Sarah loves JT. She has a hall pass with JT. I mean, I would be so proud to be Eskimo Brothers with JT. Like, my God. Eskimo Brothers. Come on. That would just be an incredible, incredible party. So I started there. Yes. And I said, no, we're having this incredible music, and it's just gonna be like JT and Britney reunited, the tension between the two of them. Incredible. Um, okay.

SPEAKER_02 59:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 59:40

So that that that was my first pick. And then surprises me. Uh, I went to uh let's see. Drinks. No, I went to guests. I went to most of your friends. Your parents can invite some of their friends and annoying step uncle. Okay. Because that's kind of where we were, and it was like, you know, it would have been better. You know, I think everybody looks back and it's like, man, I won't do this again, but like with the friends I have now, because it'd be even better.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:09

I didn't. Because I invited everyone who wanted to bra.

unknown 1:00:13

Damn.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:14

Sneak peek at my list. We didn't get to do that. So anyway, uh, so yeah, so I went with that next. And then I went to uh I did the same thing as Sarah of uh one of my friends has to cook. I have talented friends. I also probably would make Nellie cook or Brian cook.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:31

I cannot believe drinks have not been chosen yet.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:34

Well, just wait for it, wait for it. So I was like, you know, Nelly, Nellie can cook. Brian can cook. I wanted to kind of do a pig roast anyway. Okay. So I I might actually have like instead of dueling pianos, I might have dueling pig roasts. Okay. So Nelly can do the uh Carnita style pig roast. Okay, great. And Brian can do the you know barbecue style pig roast and then go get you all your pork.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:58

It'd be great. Plus, they made your guest list by way of being your chefs. Hell yeah. But they your guest list might not include them otherwise.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:05

Nelly, you are coming to cook.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:08

It sounds like regardless, you're cooking at Nick and Sarah's next wedding.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:11

I I think you should take this as a compliment that we both think he's a very talented and beautiful guy.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:16

It's so hard now hearing everyone's laughing.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:17

And then uh next, uh, we're doing the kegs of Miller Light and boxes of wine because I'm not gonna drink the Miller Light, but there are some good boxes of wine. We've proved this, we did this on a Pinkies Up episode. There are some drinkable boxes of wine. So we'll get the Chania. Well oh we'll get the nice box. We'll get the premium boxes of wine. It'll be fine. It'll be fine.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:40

Wow.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:40

Um that is baffling. The problem is the bubbles. That is the problem. Not available in a box, Nick. See, that's where the problem is. But it didn't specify cans. It'll be fine. But JT and Brittany, bitch. Uh anyway.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:52

But gotta be gotta be drinking Miller Light, JT.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:54

I'm not I think JT would party with that. Like, he was probably drinking anyway's 11 on him, Mickey Mouse clock.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:59

I mean, he is in Wisconsin, so.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:01

And that leaves the VFW hall as the venue. This every one of those surprises. Okay, think about this. You're in a VFW hall, and it's Nick and Sarah, and we're like, hey guys, show up at this time, at this place. Gonna be a pig roast. Jeff Nelly style. Uh. Brian style. And then, and then we're like, we're gonna have some tags in Miller Light, and then boom, it's Britney, bitch! That's so weird.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:28

You would have so much fun. Yeah, I mean, I I'm a very good wedding guest. And we would have so much fun. I dance all night, regardless of where the wedding is.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:35

We would have so much fun. Like VFW Hall would just be like, man, remember the time we got Britney and JT to play for us at a VFW Hall? Remember that time we hung some streamers with duct tape at the VFW? Yes! I mean, I think that's what a good wedding is. It's like a good hang, a good party. It'd be epic.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:52

I am surprised at every one of your choices.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:55

I love this game.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:56

I do love that I made a choice that no one made here. Should I start at the bottom or the top? What do you think? It's up to you, Bridget. I'm gonna start at the top. Okay, because most importantly, I think my husband and I have always said we would be really good on the newlywed game together. He and I, there was one episode about like what sh like size bra does your partner wear, shoes, clothes, whatever. And he guessed every one of them correctly at the time. I've changed sizes a lot over the years. Okay, anyway, Tyler and I both chose the same epic, which is the guest list, which is how we actually planned our wedding. I think it's super important, and you'll hear on Amus Bouche, one of my top tips for wedding planning is like pick your your priority. You're non-negotiable, you're 100%. And ours was we want to be able to invite everyone we want to invite. We don't want to have to cut people. Okay, great. How do you design a wedding like that? So we want the people who matter most. Plus, I think, like some of the logic has said from Sarah, like those people will make it fun, regardless if you're at a VFW hall or a different setting. So the people who matter the most, no one more, no one less. You don't have to deal with the weird uncle, except you do. Um, but you know, the people, I don't want to have to regret that. So if you weren't watching on YouTube as she said that, she was like, I'm twitching. Yes. You really need to watch this one on YouTube because I've mostly been twitching the whole time awkwardly. Okay. Um, I struggled with this one, but I am surprised that Shannon and I, I took notes here. I was not allowed to change my choices, which Sarah made a good call. She's like, Bridget's gonna want to change her options. So Shannon and I picked the same middle ones, which was interesting because generally we're pretty different. Um, my great level was the nice, the drinks, the nice open bar with call-level liquor, good wine and beer, and something you really enjoy. I don't that this is 100% based on the fact that I did this at this age, not the actual age when I got married.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:46

We did good liquor at our wedding and it was amazing, but I had to make sacrifices because I wanted JT and Britney. Because I thought Sarah would want JT and Britney.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:53

I don't care about the liquor. If it was just like decent wine and not cat like if there was just decent wine and beer available all night, that's all I needed. Okay. But there was no in between. So I had to opt for it. But I I tried to make it hard. It was so hard. I'm like, well, I waffled between these big time. But I went with alcohol because I like to entertain, like Nick. Like I love having a good party. I love entertaining. And so it's like, thank you for coming. Thank you for traveling. Here's at least a nice glass of wine. Yeah, you have to. And there's bubbles at my wedding. Not at mine. You can't go to the BMW Hall for that. But you know where you can go? A fucking barn, which literally is the last goddamn place I ever want to get married.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:36

As I designed this, I thought of the barn at Ceno Conservancy where we did where there was literally bat in the corner. No, you know, you say like battery. No, this is literally guano. Yes, literally, they have bats, and there is bat poop everywhere. You have to beautiful venue beside them. A stainless steel shovel and just scrape the entire barn floor.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:59

How many times do you Think I didn't do it. I don't look, we're not gonna be in here. That's what I was thinking of. It's like okay. Smells terrible, batshit everywhere, dead cockroaches everywhere, but it's beautiful.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:09

Here, I hate until you go up in the loft and play DD. Let me calm down. Rustic weddings are not my style. Um, I like a bit more modern industrial um feel in a hanging bit more creativity, perhaps. Um, but here's why I chose it. Uh, one, it worked with my other options. Um, really, the first thing I wanted to design everything around the historic mansion because I was like, oh, that'd be so great. And I was like, the people are more important to me. So um, you said idyllic barn. Idyllic. So that makes me think it's like could be more like um, what is the barn? Providence vineyards. It's a barn, but it's very modern. So it's idyllic. Um, also it's open to the elements. The musty part was my issue, but it's open to the elements, which means the musty smell will just waft right out. Nope, it's still musty. I mean, put an air freshener in. Um, my delicious. Delicious food will mask that. Um, it's a bit um the elements. So I was like, cool. I love, love, love the rain. So in my dream wedding in the dumb barn, it's pouring rain outside, straight down, not sideways, so you can hear the rain and smell the rain over the must. Slash it'll make it more musty. Um, also, it would be my end goal to make this barn modern. Like, I'm not putting mason jars or burlap anywhere. Okay. Getting married in a barn, I guess. Okay. I had to sacrifice a lot to get you all to come to my wedding. My meh is an okay DJ that does mostly what you told him, which also Shannon chose. I think Sarah chose. Because, like, for who cares? I mean, that's not true.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:48

I'm still salty about this.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:49

DJs, I loved my DJ. They were very good friends of mine. They were amazing. DJs run the night. They're like the MC. So, like, they're not.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:55

You run the night, DJs.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:57

But like, who cares? Who run the night? Well, how bad. Like, I don't care. Play a country song. Fine, people will do a lot of hours straight. Play electric slide. Cool. I would stand my ass at the DJ and be like, move, change this song now. Anyway, okay, DJ. I just don't like to me, you're gonna make a party wherever you are. Okay. And the best here, everybody. Subway sandwiches for everybody. I cannot believe you're doing this. I chose this because the alternative thing is. I knew Nick would love this because the chicken-based buffet, I don't like food. Oh, yes, you're right. Because of your background, yes. I just don't really like buffet food. And to me, I'm like Subway, cool. At my wedding, we had food trucks, like, like cater the whole meal, as in you walked to a food truck and got like chicken on a waffle, chicken and a waffle on a stick. Like, that is what we did. So, fancy food, not my jam, don't care. No one talks about the wedding food unless it was like god awful or like really unique. So, like, yeah, people are gonna be like, bitch, had platters of Subway. It was sweet. I was full, and then I had some late night snacks and good bubbles. Maybe Subway would custom cater a menu and be like, this sandwich is called the Tyler, and it has uh the meat on it. This sandwich is called the Bridget, and it is just a BLT. I don't know. What a fun wedding. This was embarrassing and hard, but I hope you guys enjoyed it. And please play the game with your make it a drinking game. Send it in to us because I'm dying to know how other people do.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:27

We have a voicemail function on our website, dinnerplusdrinks.com, where you can talk this through. We'll play it on air or not, depending on what you ask us for. Oh, we will. But um, it was so fun. We'll put the categories up on the show notes. This was a lot of fun. We we had a lot of fun with it. I'm still stressed about it. Okay, we're just gonna quickly talk about the food we made that was delicious, which is Thanksgiving Pop Tarts. Oh, dude.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:50

We made it up on the fly, and I'm real proud of it.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:53

We tried to make some fried mashed potato balls, and they weren't not good. How would you gelatinous?

SPEAKER_02 1:09:59

So we're like, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. We need a new Thanksgiving recipe immediately. What would be fun? We came up with Thanksgiving Pop Tarts. They're delicious, and the photos are beautiful. Even the photos I just took with my phone are beautiful. Just saying.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:12

I got really pissed because it didn't work, and I tried like seven ways to make it pissed, and Bridget pulled me back from the ledge and said, Man, let's make some Pop Tarts.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:22

So thank you, Bridget. Dude, they're so good. We're not gonna tell you much more about it because we're gonna ruin the sweet video that we made yesterday.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:28

But I just gotta tell you, like, you need to do these things.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:31

You do. I we it kind of was born by like we do Thanksgiving brunch with one family and dinner with another. Like, if you're trying to fit in two Thanksgiving meals, what do you do for Thanksgiving brunch? Well, you make damn Thanksgiving Pop Tarts, is what you do.

SPEAKER_06 1:10:42

They were so good. Okay. All right. On that note, it's time for Kid Coder! Do you want to go first? Do you want me go first?

SPEAKER_02 1:10:50

I'll just go. Mine's like, you know, sappy. Um, I love to craft. I love it. Love making things. Really trying to like wean away from screen time with the children, which is, you know, a trap. It's easy. It's it's a hard trap you fall into. Yeah, you can like get stuff done. But especially in the mornings, I like don't need them watching something before school. But we have a lot of time because our kids wake up early and school doesn't start till almost 9 a.m. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:15

What I get it's better for them, but it's like 8 45.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:19

So um, anyway, we've been talking about Halloween, and usually Elliot changes his mind a hundred times. But this year he's been pretty set. Like he wants to be the YouTube influencer. Probably that. A character from Minecraft. And I'm like, okay, cool. You um an Enderman, which is the black one with the purple eyes. I have no idea. I don't know what that means, but but all these Minecraft characters are boxes, basically. So I'm like, cool, Elliot, you wear a box on your head, all black outfit. Great. But he's like, we need to make the costume now. I'm like, uh, I don't have the right size box, I don't have black paint, I don't have like Steam Country Meets has a lot of boxes. I know, but he wanted to do it that day, so it was like a freaking meltdown. So we got him out the door to school, whatever. But I did prepare for the next day. And all in one morning, we made his Halloween costume. I mean, it's literally a box with black duct tape and purple duct tape over on the eyes, and then he made like a container to put his candy in, which is another piece of the costume, which I won't bother explaining. And he was so proud of it. He's take a picture and send it to daddy because dad was already at work. Yeah, it was great. It was a fun little craft time. If you have um little kiddos, maybe get them in. I had to let go of a lot of control because I was like, this isn't evenly spaced. Like a guest list at a wedding. Nope, won't let go of that. Uh yeah. So anyway, it was really fun. Let go of the control, let your kid like craft the costume. He's super proud of it. It was great.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:34

I gotta pick Simona up from school, daycare, whatever you want to call it, one day. We call it school. Yeah, you know, why not? Basically school. She's learning a lot. And uh, I don't usually get to pick her up. And I walked in and she had her back turned to me. And I walked up to the door. They have a you know, kid gate that it was just high enough I didn't want to like step over it. Also, like I think it's weird just like walking into someone's classroom, you know. I feel like at one point we weren't supposed to because of COVID. Yeah, anyway. Whatever. So I go, Hello, Simmo, and some other kid runs up to me and tries to grab me in the crotch.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:08

Yep, it's right at crotch level.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:10

Simona goes, she was drawing at the time. She goes, Dad. Good pull away from the mic. Yep, sorry about that. That was good. Uh she like lost it, absolutely lost it, throws the thing she was drawing down, runs over to me. The other kid that's trying to grab my crotch is there, and she hits him away. This kid has hit her all the time. So I'm like, yeah, you do this, girl. Brawl. Um, she goes, No, my dad-da. Oh, garbage. And like puts her arms up at like, grab me, hold me, love me, dad-da. And uh I pick her up, and you know, it's like it's the best part of it.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:53

Picking kids up from school or daycare is the best.

SPEAKER_06 1:13:55

And she's like, da-da! Da-da! And I'm like, okay, bye, Miss Katie. Have a good day. Thank you. Did she poop okay today? Is everything new? And she and um she's like, well, she had a really nice job job. I'm like, oh yeah, she did, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's great, great. Da-da! And then so we walk past the next classroom, uh, which she really likes to teach her. She's with the teacher a fair amount. And uh occasionally Lucy's in that classroom. Lincoln, her other friend, is is in that classroom. She has some friends in that classroom, and so I have her on my shoulder, and she does this incredible lean back to go, My dad! Aww. So, like she's yelling at the teacher that her dad does here. And uh need to pick her up more, Nick.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:38

Yeah, I was just like, Aww, I love you too. Nick's gonna go step away to cry.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:45

Gonna go step away to cry. But anyway, I was just like, yeah, you do love me. That's right.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:51

Yeah, damn it. Wow, guys. Thanks for sticking with us this week. We know it was a long one, but I hope you loved it as much as we did.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:58

It was, I mean, you guys need to play this game.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:00

I hope you do. I don't know what else to say. Please, I needed to print it out.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:05

I know you are listening for sure. You and Josie need to play this.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:08

Yeah, actually, that would be really fascinating. I like really, it's fun, like in the newlywed game. Guess what people are going to respond and then get scored that way. You should we should have pitted husband and wife against each other, like a healthy marriage. We'll get just kidding, everybody. Not a marriage and family therapist here.

SPEAKER_06 1:15:26

Uh next dying. I don't know what else to say. Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, definitely YouTube.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:37

Dinner Plus Drinks Podcast. Send us the score of your game. We need to know. What?

SPEAKER_06 1:15:45

Have a great week, y'all. Thanks for listening.