Post Event Hangover Bloody Mary's | Dinner Plus Drinks #36

SPEAKER_01 0:15

Hello everybody, welcome. Uh, our pre-show conversation was sending me around how awesome of a show this week's episode is gonna be. It's gonna be so good. So no pressure on us at the start, but all the pressure. This is gonna be great. Strap yourselves in. It's it's gonna be a wild round. This week, which for us isn't over yet because we record on Friday. Saturday, we have our first big event for uh our first post-COVID event.

SPEAKER_03 0:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:42

Bridget.

SPEAKER_03 0:43

All the event stuff. Uh yeah, so so just keep in mind we're recording Friday. Sunday, when you hear this, it's post-event. So lots of that happening this week. Lots of confusion.

SPEAKER_01 0:53

And it may still rain, so the event might not happen.

SPEAKER_03 0:55

Okay. Oh my gosh, it's 1245. Okay, anyway, sorry. Just a little reminder went off in my brain there. Um, yeah, I think that we're not gonna talk about the rain. The event is going to happen. It's gonna be beautiful tomorrow.

SPEAKER_00 1:07

It's gonna be amazing.

SPEAKER_03 1:08

So I'm really excited. Um, yeah, it's been a lot. Like my capacity to hold on to the amount of things I used to do pre-COVID is changed a lot. So, like doing a hundred person event could usually come to me pretty easily. And it is, but it's just like readjusting to that lifestyle, I guess, if you will.

SPEAKER_00 1:25

So it's just been a weird week.

SPEAKER_01 1:26

It's been a weird week. Well, and you have a huge life change happening.

SPEAKER_03 1:30

I know. So tell us about Ellie Belly. Ellie Belly. So Elliot's going to school. Um, school, he's going to 4K, so it's like legit five days a week. And yes, we are sending him in person. Um, everyone has their own opinions, and it is mine that it's gonna be a great thing for him. We feel really good. He'll be great. Um, we got to meet his teacher today.

SPEAKER_00 1:49

Oh, yay!

SPEAKER_03 1:50

They get assigned to all sorts of. Does she listen to the podcast? No, should I get her to?

SPEAKER_00 1:54

Yes, she should.

SPEAKER_03 1:55

Mrs. Nelson. Uh so he's got a great teacher. Yeah, maybe not, actually, maybe not yet, until she gets to know Elliot better. So we got to meet with her today, and it was so great. Like, Elliot was like skipping through the halls. He was so excited. He wore a tie-dye mask that he made himself and a tie-dye shirt, so he was all tie-dyed. Um, I just I felt really comfortable, also kind of sad. It's it was just a lot. It's just a lot. And I'm not like I'm not that like ooey-goooey sentimental mom necessarily. I'm not like the crier mom. You are a crier. I've seen you cry. I mean, but I remember dropping him off at daycare the first day, and I cried and I was shocked by that. So anyway, I think this year's like it's it's a little different, right? So anyway, super excited for school. Elliot was so excited. Maybe we'll post a picture of how excited he was.

SPEAKER_01 2:41

Um, maybe we should.

SPEAKER_03 2:42

But he dropped off all his supplies. So we did that. So school is happening. Stay tuned to like hopefully it continues to happen. Um so okay, that's a lot of my week happening here. What else is happening in your week before I continue to tell you more things?

SPEAKER_01 2:58

Just keep going. Hurtling towards the fall, which is a busy season for us at work. And it in our line of work, we have to be ready for Thanksgiving in about one week.

SPEAKER_03 3:07

Like yesterday, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:08

So there's a lot of stress with that. The stress of um the event, I don't have as much to do with it. Yeah, but you still have a lot. Yeah. There's like getting stuff in and making sure that people have all the food. Yep. And because it's some weird cuts of meat. So wrangling all of it. Ice and bartending and water. So it's a lot of it's a lot of stuff. It's a lot of stuff. But I just I'm all over the place a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 3:28

It feels a little good, a little good, I'll say, to be like back in the grind.

SPEAKER_01 3:31

The um, you know, what's happening in Kenosha, obviously, literally right down the road from our house. Um puts a little bit of a Yeah. Just a thing. Yep. We uh we had we had a uh uh the alarm at work go off uh one evening uh this week. I think it was on Tuesday, and the sheriffs came out, Walruth County Sheriffs, and they were very fast and they were very prepared for trouble.

SPEAKER_03 3:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:57

And they said they are more prepared for trouble than usual because of our location and what's happening, and it was I don't want to say worrisome, bothersome, I don't know. It just weighs on you a little bit, you know? It's just this 10% of your brain capacity is just taken over here because there's this horrible thing happening 25 minutes away.

SPEAKER_03 4:21

Yeah, I had friends from Chicago texting me about it, and to be completely honest, I didn't have the extra 10% of brain capacity like when it happened.

SPEAKER_01 4:29

So I did what all real adults do and just ignored it for a couple days. Um I'm drinking LaCroix. In case you missed our hard or not hard seltzer, we did one of those too. Our seltzer bubbly water taste off with Mike Mason this week. You should watch or listen to it because it was pretty fun. And Bridget, Bridget had quite the impressive performance. Uh that could be good, that could be bad. I'm not gonna spoil it. You're gonna have to watch. You're gonna have to watch. I this one's very good on YouTube. You can obviously listen to the episode back on your favorite podcast player too. But so I'm drinking LaCroix because now I have five five twelve packs of Lime bubblys. Assorted lime bubbles to drink.

SPEAKER_03 5:06

I think that's Nick's cue for me to move on from the Kenosha story, but I have another article that's floating around the internet that then we can go back into update. I actually wasn't doing that. I just wanted Just wanted to tell you about the LaCroix. Just wanted to tell you about LaCroix. Yeah, so we all know there's like if you're well anywhere, I mean it's nation, the whole nation knows about international. Um, yeah, international, I'm sure. So um we've we talk like it's been a little while since we've kind of revisited how coronavirus is affecting us all. And there's another new article that's popping around the internet um that I found like it very interesting because so I pulled a couple quotes out of it and we'll post the link to it.

SPEAKER_01 5:42

Um it's I saw this too, because Shannon shared this, right?

SPEAKER_03 5:45

Yeah, Shannon shared it. My aunt shared it initially, so she and I both saw it from her. And then Shannon shared it from Aunt Mary. Um, so one of the things, like, this is a quote from the article, but what happens when you struggle to renew it because so we're talking about like this brain fog again and like your mental capacity, but what happens when you struggle to renew it because the emergency phase has now become chronic? So, like, right, we were all like, okay, we can make it to Memorial Day. I remember being upset when like this things got extended to Memorial Day. Okay, then we can make it to 4th of July. And we're like, oh, here it is in September. So the article just goes on and on about like adjusting to the new normal and how we all thought we could do it for a set amount of time, but now there is no set amount of time. So the new normal is indefinite. Um, so there that is a thing. That one was weighing on me this week because we're doing a lot of adjustments at our house right now with getting back to school, and that changes our entire schedule. The uh school systems, like everybody, are a bit behind. And so I didn't even find out if my son was an AM or PM 4K kid until one week before school started. So, like that affects my work schedule. That affects because we're not sending him on the bus.

SPEAKER_01 6:55

That affects how we can record this podcast. Yeah, it affects everything. So important things it affects.

SPEAKER_03 7:00

Anyway, it is very important and very challenging for a type A mother like myself.

SPEAKER_01 7:05

Can we call you a tiger mom?

SPEAKER_03 7:07

Uh sure. Can I get a can I get a shirt? I think we should. We could we should get you a shirt, a tiger mom shirt. We have a lot of shirts we have to make that we've promised. Okay, but on happier news, did you see the articles about Krispy Kreme? Yes. Some exciting things happening with Krispy Korean. They're opening a new flagship store, right? They are, but also they have an ATM. Wait, what? I didn't see that. So it's different than the flagship. So I saw like they're opening a flagship Krispy Kreme store in New York, of course. But um, then I saw a different article because now Facebook knew my algorithms and knew it I was looking clicking on Krispy Kreme articles. And another one came up about I feel like it's in like South Carolina or something. They have an ATM. So just like Sprinkles cupcakes, they have a donut ATM. So Krispy Kreme, if you're listening, I want one in Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_01 7:51

Lake Geneva, please. Okay, Bridget. You were pretty intense about what you wanted to drink today. Yes. So um I'm handing this one, I'm handing this one over to you. I'm gonna hand it over. Tell us what we're doing today.

SPEAKER_03 8:03

So I we're having Bloody Marys today, okay? So I'm pretty picky about my bloodies, but the reason I was pretty picky about this.

SPEAKER_01 8:11

We're gonna give you a tease right now. Bloody is a theme of this episode.

SPEAKER_03 8:15

Stay tuned for kid corner. It's not what you think. Um, so I call it the event hangover. Like when you've worked all day at an event, you're running your bahooty off. I called it bahooty. Um it's an event hangover. I don't know what else to say. Like, if you've ever done an event, organized an event, you are exhausted in a weird way the next day. So um, as I get older, I find that I'm exhausted in many different ways. But I know already Sunday morning, I'm gonna want a Bloody Mary because it's like, oh, I made it. The event was awesome, but man, my body hurts and I am tired. So I am doing Bloody Marys for us today because it's Gazing Grays event hangover day. I don't like Bloody Marys.

SPEAKER_01 8:55

Oh, well, I don't know. I don't drink Bloody Marys. I don't I don't know how to make them, so you're gonna make them and try and convince me.

SPEAKER_03 9:01

What okay? Well do you like vodka? I like vodka. Okay, so why don't you like Bloody Marys?

SPEAKER_01 9:06

Uh the peppery thing, I just I don't know, the like the viscosity of the drink.

SPEAKER_03 9:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 9:12

The viscosity? Yes, it's very viscous. I don't like that. Okay, sir. You know, like like slushies. I'm not a huge slushy person because I I don't like You are a really picky drinker. Well, I just I don't like all that like I do, I suppose I do like pulp orange juice though. Ew!

SPEAKER_03 9:30

Oh my god, I hate pulp orange juice. Okay, so little known for- I don't like V8. Okay, man.

SPEAKER_01 9:37

Not a huge tomato soup person.

SPEAKER_03 9:39

So a couple things. Normally, well, I'm very bad at measuring, so sorry.

SPEAKER_01 9:43

But solo cups are great for that because they have the lights on the inside. So, Bridget, it kind of makes it easy for you.

SPEAKER_03 9:48

Um, I used to be a Bevcart girl, and this is how we would make them on the back of the Bevcart because you don't have like fancy bar equipment. So this is my secret tip. Dump a little pickle juice in. It's a that is a good thing. I'm likely gonna spill, so I'm just gonna like do it over here.

SPEAKER_01 10:02

Would you I have well, this is more fun. We have uh here's the thing.

SPEAKER_03 10:09

I'm sad that this is the Bloody Mary like let me just use my sock like a man.

unknown 10:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 10:14

Okay, so this is the tip. We we need it. This is how you mix them when you're on the back of a bev cart. So I needed an extra cup.

SPEAKER_01 10:23

Which is you are so for people listening, not watching. Oh, yeah, sorry, sorry.

SPEAKER_03 10:29

All over.

SPEAKER_01 10:29

Uh, and also now is pouring this is like terrible bartending. Bartending. This is terrible cartwheel bartending. Okay, everybody, don't judge me. But you put a lot of booze in, so you got a big tip. I know.

SPEAKER_03 10:42

So normally, like, here's my issue.

SPEAKER_01 10:45

And a pickle on the inside, okay.

SPEAKER_03 10:46

First of all, you need to garnish it, okay? And this is the garnish I want. There's a nice meat stick, complements of Lake Geneva country meat.

SPEAKER_01 10:52

I picked cheddar bites because I figured at least I'll get my favorite flavor of snack stick out of this.

SPEAKER_03 10:57

And a pickle. I hate when bars put celery in because it just takes up a ton of space in the drink. Well, yeah, so you save money. Right, but the bar does.

SPEAKER_01 11:06

So when I make when you order a soda at McDonald's with no ice, because I don't want I know, I know how you people make your money. You fill it with ice. So expensive that soda at McDonald's.

SPEAKER_03 11:18

So also there should be ice, so don't judge me. I would normally, I like mine really spicy, so I would normally put in um lots of Worcester, celery salt, and hot sauce. Um, so these are like on the fly podcast, Bloody Marys. So cheers. Good luck, because I don't think you're gonna love it. Oh, it's so warm, but it's really quite delicious, actually. Nick hates it. Okay, well, Nick is running away to get something else. We did forget, uh, how could I forget? Yeah, whatever. You have to have a beer chaser. So, friends that aren't in Wisconsin, I never understood what a Wisconsin thing this was. The pony or the beer chaser or the what are the million names for it. I like to also dump a little beer in mine or drink it afterwards. So, anyway, Bloody Mary's like there are 100,000 ways to make them. This was a way in which we could do it down here in our recording studio, and we have a beer fridge. So that's what we are drinking this week. Nick hates it. I'm loving it.

SPEAKER_01 12:21

I'm gonna drink my beer.

SPEAKER_03 12:23

I'm gonna drink them both because I just did an event in theory.

SPEAKER_01 12:28

Okay, that's better. Moving on. That's much better. All right, so um, what are we at? Random news story time? No, we're at uh best thing you ate this week, but I have two news stories, so I'm gonna share one. Nick can't make it a second. There is a dinosaur drive-thru coming to the Waukeshaw County Expo Center.

SPEAKER_03 12:44

Oh, yeah, duh, I saw that. Come on, man. You don't have kids of that age, so they're not targeting you yet. It came out like yesterday night. Wait, isn't this like you you pay for a carload of people you can like drive through and see dinosaurs?

SPEAKER_01 12:57

Yeah, there's 80 life-sized dinosaurs, including a 40-foot tyrannosaurus rex, a 30-foot brachiosaurus. Holy cow, you really are getting targeted. Old news. You taking Elliot? I no. Maybe. I don't even know when it is. Um it's in September. Uh, isn't this cool? I have a lot of things. September 17, 20. Oh no, you got stuff happening that week. September 24th or 27th. Oh, no, stuff happening.

SPEAKER_03 13:19

So no, I'm not. I guess I'm not going on. Life got busy again. Um, okay. I do want to tell you about what I ate though. I feel like you're gonna be proud of me. The meat sticks?

SPEAKER_01 13:29

Yeah. What? They're your meat sticks. With the stuff on it?

SPEAKER_03 13:35

He doesn't like the bloody. Oh, god, Nick. Okay. I'm gonna tell you what I ate this week, okay? I think you're gonna be proud of me. So we this week in the case, we had Sachuan brats, which like Nick can explain better about us. Stop drinking it. Nick can explain better exactly what's in the Sachuan brats. You want to guest guest speak and say that?

SPEAKER_01 13:54

I'm trying this blood. I'm trying to like it. It's he's trying so hard, but he's really failing. Uh, it's got um well Sichuan seasoning, which is uh a special peppercorn in China, so spicy, uh, but not super spicy. Yeah. And then uh it's all pork. And we have some green onion in there for a little bit of bite and freshness and color. Pizzazz. And then a little bit of sriracha sauce for just a little bit of burn and um roasty garlickiness.

SPEAKER_03 14:18

Okay, so that. So Nick talks about recipes a lot where you can like cut the casing off because I don't like the snap of that and like gr and make it like ground meat, you know, of some sort. So anyway, seasoned. Uh seasoned seasoned. So I remember him saying this. So I got a couple Sajoin brats and made a stir fry. And it was so yummy. I had never had this Sajoan brats, sorry. Um, I just have a lot of flavors. We have a lot, yeah. So anyway, we made we just cut the casing out, made it. Elliot loved it, like wasn't too spicy for him, which I was shocked by. Threw it with some peppers over some rice. Did you tell him it's like Chinese flavored? I told him nothing. I just said it was pork and he loves pork. So he loves pork. Yeah, there we go. So that's the best thing I ate. I was really excited about it. That's a really yummy. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:58

We've done that. Yeah, that's a good one. It was great. Mine actually doesn't involve meat. What? I know, shocker. Um, following your lead of making delicious summer salads, I did I do this fairly frequently while it's available, but um, we really like this. I did a pasta salad thing of uh just a bunch of albo macaroni boiled and then, you know, drained. I uh rinse it with cold water to stop it from cooking and serve it cold. You don't have to, you can serve it warm if you want. But then uh, you know, cubed cucumbers and uh some quick pickled red onion and uh some halved grape tomatoes. Toss them in some vinegar, balsamic vinegar, and some olive oil, and some lemon juice, and salt and pepper, and if you like, you can add a little bit of uh minced garlic. We don't because Sarah's kind of off garlic since the baby. Uh just her taste changed a little bit there, as they do. So it's just like very fresh, very delicious. We had it with um I feel like I'd eat that for lunch up there. Yeah, we had some brats with, and you know, it's just a nice side, but it's so fresh and so delicious. I love like pickled foods and like acidic, like balsamic dressings. So, like if you like that, you get acidic.

SPEAKER_02 16:09

Hello.

SPEAKER_01 16:10

Yeah, not this. Let him marry her. So that was good. It was great. Well, it you can like put uh you it's kind of like a Greek thing, kind of a little bit. You know, you can put like feta cheese on top if you like, which is nice.

SPEAKER_03 16:19

Oh, yum. This sounds delicious. Could you make it for me for lunch? Sure. I'll make well we have a little bit left over. It's okay. I brought lunch. Um, okay, so we ate some delicious things. Um, hmm, what did we learn this week? We have so many news stories, you guys. So many news stories. I can't even tell you. But I'm gonna share mine because I literally laughed out loud. I'm gonna try this again. You're just gonna keep I appreciate your uh effort. Okay, so there's an article.

SPEAKER_01 16:45

It's like seafood. I keep trying it. Like I always want it because I want to like it. This isn't gonna kill you, though. No, seafood, I'm fine. It's shellfish. Just shellfish, yeah. If any of you have me over at your house, please don't serve me shellfish.

SPEAKER_03 16:57

He will die. Um, okay, so the article I saw is about my favorite place, Milwaukee. Um, Stephen Colbert, who like I feel like every man in my life is like, oh, Stephen Colbert, and they just like reference him on the regular, so it's not like exactly a show I watch. I like him. He did some really funny things about lifestyle bloggers that is like to die for funny. And I love lifestyle bloggers, but he did a really funny take on it. Anyway, getting off track. So the article I the article was shared by lots of Milwaukee news sources. The one I thought was the best was from Milwaukee Record. And basically, Stephen Colbert made fun of Milwaukee on his show by like, you know, Milwaukee was supposed to host the DNC and like that all fell apart. That year for Wisconsin. Yeah, and so that all fell apart. So he was like kind of making fun of that. Like, oh, the whole DNC went virtual. Like, here's this virtual tour of Milwaukee, and he made this like really kind of lame virtual tour of Milwaukee, and like whatever, hated it.

SPEAKER_01 17:51

Um, I mean like I get it, it was kind of funny, but it's also like pretty shitty.

SPEAKER_03 17:55

It was yeah, it was pretty shitty. It was like kick us while we're down, okay? It wasn't like funny humor of like so he um apologized to Milwaukee, I don't know, the next day or a couple days later, and he's got a video of his apology on here, and his apology is very like Stephen Colbert, it's still a little sarcastic, but also like I did do that. Like I I kind of crapped on them while they were down. And so um they call it dumping on Milwaukee. Is that's how the Milwaukee record uh that's what they said, that's how they explained it. And so Colbert is like, oh, now people are Googling dumping on Stephen Colbert, Stephen Colbert dumping. And so anyway, very funny. Like, if you love Milwaukee like I do, or if you love Stephen Colbert, you're gonna think this is funny. So check it out. Very funny article, um, very funny video, too. If you don't watch the Colbert show like me, so you can just check it out online. We'll post the link to it.

SPEAKER_01 18:44

My story, I had one other one I was thinking about, but this is the one I I had three. Um, so this is from the Warsaw Zoo in Poland. Uh Frodesia, a young female African elephant. The um they had four elephants in March. Now they have three, because Erna, the largest female and elder of the herd, died. And elephants grieve and all these things. Frodesia is not having a good time, and they're gonna give her C BD oil to calm her down.

SPEAKER_00 19:16

Come on.

SPEAKER_01 19:16

Yeah, they're giving her C BD oil. So this is a new thing to see if elephants can de-stress with CBD oil. I mean, I have no idea. I don't know. You know what? I'm interested in the C BD oil. It seems to have kind of you would think now would be the time everybody would, you know, be into it if it actually really worked. But I think like January is when people are like, eh, you know, I spent a last year was a year of C BD oil.

SPEAKER_03 19:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:42

I wanted to make a CBD oil brat, but we didn't. But like, does this year count? I feel like it's like But isn't this a year you'd be like, oh, give me all the C BD oil.

SPEAKER_03 19:50

Yeah, I guess. There's a there's So I'm not sure if it works called Equilibria or Equilib Equilibrium Women, and it's like specifically a company that uh deals with CBD oil doses and things for women. I hear lifestyle bloggers talk about it a lot. I don't know much about it, but let us know if you're new.

SPEAKER_01 20:09

I feel like it's gonna work. So that's that's my I just thought that was interesting. I mean, so my other one was actually, I thought you and I would have really been into this. It was about fonts and experimenting um how font choices affect how you do websites. Like you and I would have thought it was very interesting. You know, it's a difference like sans serifont, seraphont, but instead I chose to go with a story about elephants.

SPEAKER_03 20:30

Oh, Nick. I really wanted to know about your font story. That's my dad joke. Okay, guys. Take a break. We're back. I just got really excited to be back, you guys. Hey guys. Because I want to tell you about my favorite product. And I can't wait for our surprise live unboxing of my favorite product. I hate these surprises, but whatever. I guess it's another good week to watch on YouTube because you get to see my face. Also, my hair is a mess. It's like 900 degrees out, and I'm flepping stuff for the event, and I just, this is what you're getting today, everybody. So, my product, my product recommendation is writ dye. Very simple, but we tie-dye a lot at our house. So I don't necessarily use my writ dye to tie-dye with Juliet. Hippies. That's exactly it, is I'm not that. And you can make, okay, I highly recommend writ dye's Instagram account. If you are any kind of like art or color nerd of any sort, much like myself, check it out. It's like a it's it's so fun to watch. And they have all these cool methods. So I've been doing lots of like single color. I used a taupe the other day and made a crew neck sweatshirt that I'm super excited for for the fall.

SPEAKER_01 21:54

So the pickle's good.

SPEAKER_03 21:55

Great, thank you. I'm glad. So anyway, writ dye, they have a thousand colors. Um, I've Even dyed synthetic fabrics using they have a certain dye for synthetics, it works really well. Um, and then you can use it with your kids, of course. Um, we use a different tie-dye for our children, but writ dye, and then also I just started experimenting with their color, I think it's called color stay, which helps like keep your whites whiter so you have vibrant, you know, white, bright blue. So, anyway, especially if you have hard water at your house, highly recommend using that product. Rit dye, we love you.

SPEAKER_01 22:25

Okay. Okay. This is a little bit of a follow-up. Is it? This just came from Etsy. Fragile. Emily Junker, Yunker, I don't know. She's in Washington, Illinois. Oh, yeah. She uh sent this.

SPEAKER_03 22:39

Oh god.

SPEAKER_01 22:40

She sent this. Nick ordered it. You can see.

SPEAKER_03 22:45

Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 22:45

Oh, how do you think? It says thank you.

SPEAKER_03 22:48

This is why I love Etsy.

SPEAKER_01 22:50

And we're gonna be able to do that. I'm so nervous. And what's in here? I'm excited. What's in here?

SPEAKER_03 22:59

Oh my god, this is so cool. Oh, you guys have to listen to was it last week? A couple weeks ago. Two weeks ago. So these are pretty.

SPEAKER_01 23:07

You can find them on Instagram. This is like she has a nice sticky note here that says, Thank you for your order. You're welcome, Emily. Oh my god, look how cool these are. Oh, look, I'm keeping the rubber ducky. I'm keeping the rubber ducky.

SPEAKER_03 23:19

You guys, I hope you can see this. I'm sure you can. We'll have to post a picture of it. I love this.

SPEAKER_01 23:25

Thanks, man. It's gonna make so there's one of each of the turtles.

SPEAKER_03 23:28

There is?

SPEAKER_01 23:28

Yep. Oh my god. So, you know, Elliot's gonna have some crazy bathtubs.

SPEAKER_03 23:32

Is this Michelangelo?

unknown 23:33

I don't remember.

SPEAKER_03 23:34

I have no idea. Okay. You're gonna wrap this up and give it to him. Okay. Yeah, he'll be so excited. Next time we come over, he gets so excited when he comes over.

SPEAKER_01 23:41

So that's that's so if I'm they smell great. They do. It smells really good. They smell really good. I opened the box, I was like, oh, this is delicious smelling. Should we give surprise gifts to each other every week on the podcast? That's fun. So they were also like not very expensive at all. Oh, really? Yeah, so I was like, because I was like, I was Googling as you're talking about this, I was like bath bombs. And this one came up, I was like, oh, that's cheap. Like, that's gonna be worth the happiness on Elegant Space.

SPEAKER_03 24:07

Yeah, you guys are so fun. They're not like easy to make. Didn't I tell you I made them in a class? Like I learned how to make a bath bomb, and I'm like, why don't I just buy these? These are not easy to make. Maybe that's why they're cheap. Or not hard. They're whatever. Anyway, not my thing. Those are our products for you this week, guys. We'll be back in a second. Okay. We are back. We're back. Did you miss us?

SPEAKER_01 24:48

Well, now we have if you're watching again, if you're watching on YouTube, we have cool transitions now.

SPEAKER_03 24:53

Like this.

SPEAKER_01 24:54

Well, that's that's you know, like transition, you know, traveling. We're just like dancing. All start, transition.

SPEAKER_03 25:00

I feel like we haven't seen off enough and we're just like going a little crazy.

SPEAKER_01 25:04

I did wake up at three in the morning the other day and was like up for an hour and a half. I should have just gone into work.

SPEAKER_03 25:09

Yeah, you're saying that I was just telling Nick how last night I had like a nightmare of sorts, but it felt like I was really living it of a crime junkie episode. Like I was the person that got killed in the crime junkie episode that I had just finished. It was and I just couldn't fall asleep. I was just like laying there being like, how do I get out of this?

SPEAKER_01 25:25

What if we did our own true crime episode? What would you think of that? Let us know.

SPEAKER_03 25:29

Or just stay tuned.

SPEAKER_00 25:32

Okay, we're moving on. It is time for interesting questions with Bridget and Nick. Dun dun dun.

SPEAKER_03 25:40

Bridget's turn. Bridget's turn. And shockingly, I didn't come up with any kind of theme because my brain is scattered.

SPEAKER_01 25:46

So I have four random questions. You're in like fight or flight mode constantly now.

SPEAKER_03 25:51

I do love that description. I don't know. I just think it's like the best description to describe exactly.

SPEAKER_01 25:56

And based on your what? This is what you get. I think you're in fight mode. What? I'm usually in fight mode.

SPEAKER_03 26:03

Okay, everybody. Shall I talk back like the golf announcer, like last week?

SPEAKER_01 26:08

Hello, friends. Hello. Jim Nance here from Augusta National.

SPEAKER_03 26:12

Time for interesting questions.

SPEAKER_01 26:12

The hydrangeas are in bloom. And Tiger Woods is back on the 17th.

SPEAKER_03 26:17

I wish I could talk about that.

SPEAKER_01 26:18

Over to you, Faldo. Oi, Crikey, mate.

SPEAKER_03 26:22

Nick. Question one. Okay. Would you rather make a movie of your life before you were 21 or a movie of your life after the age of 21?

SPEAKER_01 26:32

Oh, before 21, because I was paging in DC and that was kind of cool. And like, could be like uh the Goonies, kind of, but in the halls of the Capitol. That's true. You have an easy answer for that. Like, we pulled some cool hijinks, you know, some cool hijinks. And uh I think it'd be good. I think it'd be good.

SPEAKER_03 26:48

But like other any that was one year.

SPEAKER_01 26:50

Uh well, but that's like a movie. Yeah. I've also done some really stupid stuff in my life that's pretty funny on the movie, and it's all before the age of 21.

SPEAKER_03 26:57

Oh, really? Really? He just plateaued at 21.

SPEAKER_01 27:00

I did. I mean, in terms of like stupid shit I did. No one said it had to be a stupid movie. But it needs to be an interesting movie. We're not making the hangover.

SPEAKER_03 27:08

Or are we?

SPEAKER_01 27:10

If you want, like, I think for a good movie, I don't think I have anything dramatic in my life that'd be interesting. So I think it has to be a comedy.

SPEAKER_03 27:19

Yeah, okay. I hear you.

SPEAKER_01 27:21

Because like, I don't want to be a shitty movie. I don't want to be seven years in Tibet or whatever it was. It was so long. So long, so bad. I kept waiting for like, all right, it's gonna be, you know, it's the fallacy of the sunk cost. We're like, I'm two hours in. It's another hour. I'm just gonna stick. No, it's you're the two hours is a sunk cost. Get out. If you know it's gonna be more of the same, it doesn't matter how much you want it, get out.

SPEAKER_03 27:48

No one wants to leave, though. You've committed two hours already.

SPEAKER_01 27:50

Yeah, sunk cost fallacy.

SPEAKER_03 27:52

Okay. Well, I I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 27:54

I think I'm just gonna think you could do logic in college. Cornell College did.

SPEAKER_03 27:59

Uh no. You know what my favorite class was? Media ethics. Because you just like got to argue about what was ethically right and wrong.

SPEAKER_01 28:06

See, and logic could have been an episode in my movie because it's before I was 21.

SPEAKER_03 28:09

Okay, well, so we can have nothing's happened in Nick Live, Nick's life since then. Um nothing interesting. I think I want post-21. Um, like I'm late, I'm a late bloomer in my class. Like, I have my September birthday, so I'm very young for my class. So I didn't actually turn 21 till well after all of my friends. So I just like don't think I need any illegal things on video. But like my 25th birthday was, I think 25 was like my marquee year. It was like my swan song. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not committed to this. Like, I could go either way, but I'm gonna say after 21.

SPEAKER_01 28:44

You know, I feel like you and Tyler's love story could be a good, like, yeah, you know what?

SPEAKER_03 28:49

That is a good love.

SPEAKER_01 28:50

Because then you culminated at the the airplane hangar wedding.

SPEAKER_03 28:54

Then then everything ended.

unknown 28:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:57

In 2014 when we got married.

SPEAKER_03 28:59

You know, like uh, okay, yeah, and then we can make a movie together of like now this is our life. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 29:09

We're done. Simona and Lucy.

SPEAKER_03 29:12

And Elliot can hang out with us. Elliot. Okay. Would you rather win an Olympic gold medal or an Academy Award?

SPEAKER_01 29:20

Ooh, this is tough.

SPEAKER_03 29:22

I know. I felt like I know your answer for this one.

SPEAKER_01 29:24

Ooh, this is tough.

SPEAKER_03 29:26

I like to when I'm like picking questions, think I know Nick's answers.

SPEAKER_01 29:30

This is tough.

SPEAKER_03 29:31

That's what I'm here for.

SPEAKER_01 29:32

Um is it like an anything I want for the Academy Award and the Olympic sport, or is it like some bullshit sport like curling?

SPEAKER_03 29:42

Just kidding. I love watching curling.

SPEAKER_01 29:44

I know I do too. I was gonna say curling, but it is anything.

SPEAKER_03 29:47

What sport would you be competing in? Yes, it's anything. This is a made-up question, so make up your answer. I mean, I'll answer mine while he's thinking I want an Olympic gold medal. We love the Olympics. Shannon, my sister and I have like been obsessed with them for years. So I want an Olympic medal. I want to bite it. I don't, I hate not actually. I don't like that. Oh, I don't get it.

SPEAKER_01 30:10

Um, I mean, it'd be really cool to win the basketball one because you could be hanging out with all the NBA guys. Yeah. I'd just be like, because I would obviously be the mascot. It's the only reason it's cool. You'd get an Olympic gold medal for being the mascot. And I could just like, well, I they're not gonna put me out to play.

SPEAKER_03 30:23

Uh this isn't this is a made-up thing, right?

SPEAKER_01 30:26

I could run around and chest bump people. That'd be fun. That's cool. Um, so that'd be pretty cool. Like that whole experience would be pretty cool. I love the Olympics. I remember we were uh we were in Louisville, Kentucky during the 96 Olympics in Atlanta and watching the whole like gymnastics team in bed with my mom and my sister, like in a hotel room. Like we skipped like these social events at this thing we were doing to like stay in the hotel.

SPEAKER_03 30:50

Carrie Strugg broke her ankle.

SPEAKER_01 30:51

Yeah. Like that whole thing, like is that her name, right? Yep, one of the greatest, most amazing, yeah, vivid memories of my life. Dominique Mochianu, right?

SPEAKER_03 31:00

Uh weird. Like, how do I have brain space to remember the names of that Olympic team?

SPEAKER_01 31:04

But Academy Award. You can make some serious bank off of that. I would like to be rich. I'm gonna go with Academy Award. I knew you'd go with Academy Awards because once you know you win your Academy Award, you could keep going. You can just keep doing movies. You can just keep doing movies, but like, whoa, I got an Academy Award. Plus, you've got a couple movies about our life to make. So uh I'm gonna go with Academy Award. That was a toughie, huh? Just because I want money.

SPEAKER_03 31:28

Okay, okay. I feel like that was one of the hardest ones we've debated. So I would like to hear your input, people send us a note and let us know. Okay, would you rather have hands instead of feet or feet instead of hands?

SPEAKER_01 31:41

Oh, hands instead of feet.

SPEAKER_03 31:42

Hands instead of feet.

SPEAKER_01 31:43

Well, think about that, because you know, like uh all the animals basically have four hands.

SPEAKER_03 31:48

I think because you could swim so much easier. Kicking.

SPEAKER_01 31:53

Well, and then like you could feed yourself with your feet.

SPEAKER_03 31:55

Yeah, I mean, okay.

SPEAKER_01 31:57

Lucy already does that. I know.

SPEAKER_03 31:58

Yeah, I mean both my kids like eat their toe.

SPEAKER_01 32:01

Uh no, I think because you know, you you'd be like uh some sort of monkey, like this one also should be easy, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_03 32:10

Would you rather drink all of your food from a baby bottle or wear visible diapers for the rest of your life? Ooh.

SPEAKER_01 32:17

Um not easy.

SPEAKER_03 32:19

This feels easy to me.

SPEAKER_01 32:20

I don't know, because so much of the joy of food is textural, and if it's all from a baby bottle, it's all mush and gross. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 32:30

True. I would still rather do that than wear. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 32:32

The the visible diaper is it just like the the the the young children that have the boxers pulled up a little bit too high?

SPEAKER_03 32:39

No, no, this is a diaper over your pants.

SPEAKER_01 32:42

Or no pants in a diaper. I would do the diaper. Really? I would sell advertising on it. I would have like some advertising on it. Or you know, maybe not even sell it, just put like some advertising on it. So be like, what? I'd be like, yeah, I'm getting paid a million dollars a year to do this. Okay. And I think people would be like, Yep.

SPEAKER_03 33:00

Cool. Maybe my baby bottle could have like dentures advertisements on it or something. Okay. That was a good idea. You should do marketing. Okay, those questions were great. That was good. Good work, Bridget. Thanks so much. Great episode. I'm really doing great. This is a great episode.

SPEAKER_01 33:18

Sorry for all the other crap ones.

SPEAKER_03 33:20

Yeah, so sorry. We'll go a little crazy more often for you.

SPEAKER_01 33:24

All right.

SPEAKER_03 33:24

What are you eating this week? Okay, this upcoming week, Labor Day. Yeah, there's like a lot going on this week. There's many food holidays we're celebrating. The first of which is Euro Day. Is it Euro? Is it gyro? Is it Hyro? Is it? I don't think we've ever talked about a Euro. So that's what I chose. Um, I remember my mom having Euros growing up, and I always thought they like looked really cool and fun to eat, but like I think she probably told me what it was, and I was like, ah, I'm not even late. Oh, Beth Gallagher.

SPEAKER_01 33:57

And she has an amazing Facebook cover photo.

SPEAKER_03 34:00

I don't know what it is. I've been a go look. I'm sure it's us, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 34:03

Yes, it's great. I hope it actually is.

SPEAKER_03 34:08

Um, well, anyway, I'll while I look back here. Oh no, it's her profile picture. This beach one? Yes. Oh, yeah. It is like a throwback picture of us at the Riviera beach when we were like, I don't know, four.

SPEAKER_01 34:21

I'm not really sure which ones are you and which one is the other one. Are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_03 34:25

I don't know. You all look at the one. Two that look identical to Lucy are me and Shannon. The blonde one is Britney. Well, y'all look about the same size. Anyway, it is an awesome picture. Good job, mom. Um, but her cover photo is also an awesome picture, which is us currently with all of our grandchildren. Our grandchildren, her grandchildren. I don't have grandchildren. Anyway, back to the food. I'm eating, I chose our euro recipe. It's a new recipe, so it's no one's seen it yet. So I like new exciting things. And so that is Tuesday. We subbed tacos. I mean, I think you said that these are basically tacos. So we subbed out our normal taco Tuesday for Euro.

SPEAKER_01 35:05

It's like uh Euro, Greek for taco.

SPEAKER_03 35:07

I have seen a thing where a guy like sits at a table with a sign and it says, like, Pop Tarts are sandwiches. Prove me wrong. Oh, yes. I love that. So I've always thought, like, well, what constitutes a sandwich? Anyway, that's for a different day. I'm eating Euros this week.

SPEAKER_01 35:21

My saddest thing is that Giannis doesn't have a restaurant called Eurostep. Are you listening, Giannis? Giannis, I mean, I'm sure he's been pitched this and it's you know gone around the internet. But think about it. So if you're not into basketball, Giannis does this move that's pretty much traveling that's called a Eurostep. It's pretty much U-R-O Eurostep, because in Europe they're like, we have a bunch of white guys that aren't very good at basketball, so you can kind of do this Eurostep thing. Not so in America, we're a little bit more athletic. But as the Euros come over here, they're like, oh, but look at this. We get a dunk more hard. So it's so, and he's Greek. That's why they call him the Greek freak. And he eats Euros because he's Greek. So Eurostep.

SPEAKER_03 36:01

Also, Milwaukee Bucks, great job. If you're not following the news, look up what the Milwaukee Bucks just did.

SPEAKER_01 36:08

I am going with our Texas smoked brisket recipe.

SPEAKER_03 36:12

Yeah, I feel like you're really strong about this one.

SPEAKER_01 36:15

I was very strong about this one. Uh because we've used it. We've used it. There's a finite number of recipes, but we're gonna start. But uh, I think we used it fairly recently. Here's the thing Labor Day weekend is your last opportunity as an American to get out and smoke some meat in the summer. You ain't working on Monday. Last opportunity. Unless your name's Ron Henningfeld, and then you're a farmer and it's a Monday, you gotta make cheese regardless. Sorry, Ron, you're gonna miss out on the brisket. So Sunday, I am going to be making some brisket, smoking it, having some people over, having a barbecue. It's gonna be great. It is gonna be great because I don't have to make the beef. And if you're not doing this, you're not an American. Okay, you're a communist. You're uh getting a little close here. You're you're something line. Go out and smoke some meat this next weekend, guys.

SPEAKER_03 37:06

Can I tell you a funny thing that's not kid corner that you'll appreciate? Yeah. Because it's about meat and Elliot. Um, he was like, I was feeding him pork, this pork that I was talking about, and he's like, Well, what animal does this come from? And I said, a pig. And he's like, Well, what about and he just like went down the line, where does where does chicken come from? And I looked at him, he said, Oh, a chicken? And then he goes, Well, what about a steak? And I'm I said, a cow? Or he said, What about beef? And then I said, A cow? And he's like, Mom, I want more steaks.

SPEAKER_01 37:34

I was like, Oh, okay. We can hook them up. We have some nice, cheap, kid-friendly steaks.

SPEAKER_03 37:39

I mean, you do. And Nick, I've been very lucky to let my four-year-old try all different kinds of steak. So, anyway, I thought that was funny. That was not my kid corner. Do you want to hear? All right, it is time for Kid Corner. Did you read my notes here? I hope you're so interested. I okay, here's my note. It says, quote, toddlers call 911 for mom after mistaking her period for an injury. End quote. But there's there's parentheses. Read the parenthetical. It says, hooha story. So we're gonna get we're gonna get personal here, guys. So a year and a half, maybe two years ago, Elliot started asking about his private area a bit. And so I naturally turned to my husband, who has worked with children his entire adult life and is far more qualified to be a parent than I, and was like, how do we handle this? What do we do? Uh and okay, so um right, wrong, or indifferent. What we do is Elliot's private areas are his penis. We tell him that. He also sometimes calls it his weenie, but a woman's area is a hoo-ha. So I don't know how this happened, but we I this news story, this headline of Reggie, has nothing to do with Kid Corner except that we've been having a hoo-ha discussion in our household this week because Elliot doesn't understand our one-year-old Lucy was running around like without a diaper on, and he asked, he asked where her penis was. And so we had to explain that she has a hoo-ha, and then he's like, Well, where's her? Where's her penis? So, anyway, we've gotten all the way down the rabbit hole this week in our house. So, you people with children that have not made it to this age, I'm talking to him. Um here's what you have to look forward to. But especially if any of you have one boy and one girl, then you really have fun to look forward to. Dial me up and I'll give you my pro parenting tips. That's all. I'm gonna just sit over here and stop blushing.

SPEAKER_01 39:43

Well, my my my parent, my my kid corner. Uh, so it's it's been like a shockingly calm week on the Simona front. She's crawling all over. Yep. She's climbing up stuff. Uh, she's not managed to do that. Well, while doing that, she hasn't managed to like put her fingers in the door and close them on her door or the door on her fingers.

SPEAKER_00 40:04

Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_01 40:05

Yeah. She hasn't managed to do some sort of whiplash headphones. Oh. She hasn't managed to have any crazy ridiculous blowout diapers. She hasn't managed to not sleep. She hasn't managed, like, she's been a great sleeper. She's not drooling all over the place from teething. Like, she's got some teeth coming in, but she's not like drooling all over the place. Yeah. She's ate all of her food. She's been like perfect angel little child. I don't know what that is. And I'm terrified. Yeah, it's coming, man. Because it's coming. It's coming. I'm just terrified. All gonna come in one day. Being like the most amazing, beautiful little baby girl. Yeah. And uh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 40:46

So she starts walking.

SPEAKER_01 40:48

This is like the fatality, you know, the fatalism I have. I think Corona's definitely put this in me. I've always had it, but no, I I got it. So if things are going well, it's because it's gonna go terribly very, very, very soon. So that's my kid corner. I'm just it's this is like a great time. She's just having fun, living her life, being a happy little child. And uh I cursed it. She's not gonna sleep tonight. Sarah's probably listening to this on Monday. Cursing you. You lots of words, lots of words.

SPEAKER_03 41:17

We're also still planning her birthday party in the world. Yeah, we're planning that.

SPEAKER_01 41:20

It's gonna be fun. Burger themed is where we landed after a couple weeks. It's gonna be fun. I was talking to Aaron, our friend Aaron, about that. And uh yeah, she she she thought that'd be cool. So yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:31

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it's really just a party for the adults. We've discussed this, right? Yeah, you made it a year. So, guys, you hung in with like a pretty crazy episode with us today. It's a good time. It's been really great. Nick is still trying to choke down a bloody Mary.

SPEAKER_01 41:46

He's moved to his beer. I've moved to the beer. It's uh St. Bernardus Wit. It's an Abbey L.

SPEAKER_03 41:51

St. Bernard. Um St.

SPEAKER_01 41:52

Grenardis.

SPEAKER_03 41:53

Oh, I'll save it for next week. I have a good kid corner. Um, okay, find us on Facebook and Instagram, Dinner Plus Drinks Podcast.

SPEAKER_01 42:01

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SPEAKER_03 42:16

It is, I mean, of course we think it's fun.

SPEAKER_01 42:19

So check it out and tell us we're wrong. Let us know what you think. Thanks so much. Uh, you can always send us an email info at dinnerplusdrinks.com. I'm gonna keep playing with this uh rubber ducky.

SPEAKER_03 42:29

I'm gonna keep uh moving my hands in and out of my pockets, which is what I do all day. Thank you guys so much for hanging in there with us. I'm losing my mind a little. I can't wait until next week because I can't do it.