RIP RBG | Dinner Plus Drinks #40

SPEAKER_01 0:14

Hello everyone, welcome. Newest episode. Do I need to come up with a new intro or kind of? I'm so excited. Hello. Because I am excited. It's the Bridget, it's the most favorite part of my week. Getting to be here. Spend between 25 and 50 minutes with you. Um holy cow, how much fun was that with Shannon last week?

SPEAKER_00 0:34

Okay, except last week I had my actual twin, and today we're dressed like twins. You guys, I'm wearing, for those of you that aren't watching us on YouTube, you should be. But we have this all right. Look at her beautiful face. Never do I wear my Lake Cheney of a country meets gear unless we have events and things. Not never, but I just, you know, I am allowed to be aware of it. Because she's not proud. I'm allowed to be able to express my creativity by way of different clothing. Thank you for that. So today, though, I get to match Nick and I'm very excited about it.

SPEAKER_01 1:00

Well, I liked your outfit thing yesterday. It was like the tie-dyed splashy white thing with the blue blotchy things that I asked was camo or Do you like the way you did it? It was very creative. I was like, oh, it's happy. You know, it's just like I like seeing people put some joy into their clothes.

SPEAKER_00 1:14

Oh, thanks. It is like Did you thrift it? That one actually is from Walmart. Wow. Okay. Ellen DeGeneres has a line at Walmart. I didn't know that. I totally got influenced to buy it. Um, it was 20 bucks, and it's Ellen DeGeneres, and I would buy it in 12 more colors if it existed.

SPEAKER_01 1:29

So, how was your weekend?

SPEAKER_00 1:31

Oh, my weekend.

SPEAKER_01 1:32

Your weekend getaway with Shannon that we talked about. It feels like a year ago. The people want to know. We had a lot of nice well wishes come in. Yes. Uh hello at genderplusdrinks.com. Thank you to everybody that listened. Uh Evan, thank you for the very nice note. Uh, but uh we had a lot of people want to know. Did you guys have a good weekend?

SPEAKER_00 1:48

Yeah, I appreciate the birthday wishes that we got. So thank you. And yes, it was so fun. Um, I went to a town that I've never been to, Two Rivers, Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_02 1:56

Are there two rivers there?

SPEAKER_00 1:58

Uh you know, I saw one dried up stream, I would say, in the front yard.

SPEAKER_01 2:03

One river, two, one river, one dried up stream. Not quite as good of a name for a town.

SPEAKER_00 2:07

I don't know. We didn't spend any time in the town because our house um that we rented was right on Lake Michigan and it was absolutely perfect. Um, what I decided is that I want to buy real estate there because it's on Lake Michigan, and we just like there was no houses for sale by us because I would never sell my house where we were. It's so perfect. But um, it looked really cheap. We looked it up on Zillow and the zestimate was really inexpensive. I was like, shit.

SPEAKER_01 2:31

Every realtor out there is screaming at you right now.

SPEAKER_00 2:34

Sorry guys. But whatever. It was so fun. Um, really nice, just little getaway. It allowed the kids, we went kayaking early on Saturday morning and it was brisk and it was perfect. I wore a winter hat. I brought Lucy with me. It was just, I love, I love the brisk weather. I am not on board with the fact that it's like 80 degrees today. I don't, I'm not here for it. I'm done with summer.

SPEAKER_01 2:55

Uh we have more to talk about the week, but I we have a little experimentation. So drinking today, uh, it's actually very early in the morning for us as we're recording. Not very early, but we're recording several hours earlier than usual.

SPEAKER_00 3:06

I'm still drinking my coffee.

SPEAKER_01 3:07

So I'm drinking my Red Bull, but we need a little bit of fun drink. And so we're gonna do some beer mosas.

SPEAKER_00 3:12

Oh, yeah. This was a great idea. Bridget, uh, do you have you done the beer mosa? Okay, I've had beer mosas, um, but I was saying to Nick, I have no idea what the actual ratio is. I just kind of like it. It's like two parts. Yeah. I think what I do is like make it like a mimosa, so like the beer is my orange juice. Is that right? Do you put orange juice in a beer mosa? I don't know. We can.

SPEAKER_01 3:31

So I'm gonna do two types. We're gonna do an Oktoberfest beer mosa, which is gonna be maybe your favorite, and then traditionally it's like a wheat beer or uh like an IPA, something that's like tropical fruit flavors. So I have uh I'm Googling it. Also a cashmere hero double dry hop, so like very floral, uh, very fruity IPA that we can try and see if we like that one more.

SPEAKER_00 3:56

Oh, so this one, beer mosa, just says beer and orange juice. Is that a beer mosa? Are we making this up right now? No idea. You guys, do you know the actual right beer mosa recipe? Oktoberfest beermosa. Yay! Cheers! This looks beautiful if you're watching. It looks like we're just drinking beer out of champagne glasses.

SPEAKER_01 4:18

Yeah. Not sure that works with the uh Oktoberfest.

SPEAKER_00 4:22

It just kind of tastes like weird Oktoberfest.

SPEAKER_01 4:25

I think that we uh maybe should have orange juice. I don't think so. I think when we have the proper beer. You know what? I left orange juice in your fridge uh some other time. That's right, you did. You did. Okay, yeah, let's just chug this one. Or we can we have a cup, we can dump it.

SPEAKER_00 4:40

I almost just fit my delicious beer bosa all over our expensive recording it quick.

SPEAKER_01 4:46

The other ones better, and then if we have to, we can add orange juice. We will report that. All right. Um we had a really fun shoot day this week. I was just telling you, I forgot to thank you for all of your excellent efforts. Thanks. Um, we the challenge a lot of people in my position, people like me, people like Bridget, that have to do food content every year is Thanksgiving. Christmas, you can come up with some new twist or like, hey, have you thought of this recipe or this side dish? But Thanksgiving is such a traditional holiday that everybody does the same thing every year, but you can't put out the same magazine issue or recipe show or recipe tips from like Geneva Country Meats. So this year we're doing kind of a Norman Rockwell theme.

SPEAKER_00 5:26

Yeah, back to tradition. We sat um and brainstormed. We had an outdoor meeting the other day, Nick and I, and brainstormed our holiday plan. Um, yeah, and we I think that people just like are craving that homey, like, can we just like live in a bubble and pretend like 2020 didn't happen kind of feeling? And so yeah, we're going that way. Um, so this week I got to eat Thanksgiving dinner. Did you guys have Thanksgiving dinner already?

SPEAKER_01 5:49

Did you like it? So I have to say, since you guys are podcast listeners, we'll give you a little behind the scenes. You gotta chug that, Bridget. Oh my gosh, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_00 5:56

Um busy talking.

SPEAKER_01 5:58

We we had to use some frozen turkeys that were brined ahead of time, which is not what we normally sell at Thanksgiving. We sell fresh turkeys, Amish rays, nothing added to them. Um so much more flavorful, so much more juicy, but we sold out of them, so we didn't have any, so we had to get uh more of the generic commodity turkey to cook for this recipe.

SPEAKER_00 6:19

This was just for a video show. Just for a video. No one had to eat it except us.

SPEAKER_01 6:23

So mad, because it was I I would say like 30% not as good.

SPEAKER_00 6:27

Okay, listen, I didn't think I would be able to tell a difference, but Nick cooked. We did a Friendsgiving last year, and Nick did the meats, and it is a vast difference. Um, it it was different, I will say.

SPEAKER_01 6:39

It's like the difference between two rivers and a stream, a dried-up stream. And maybe one river. Like Pittsburgh, the city of three rivers, you know? There's three rivers the Monongahela, the Ohio, and I don't know, the other one, but there's three rivers. I'm impressed that you know that. I was a geography champion. Uh, sure. You are Brittany, basically. I lost. I was so mad. I lost the final question in what should have been my ultimate crowning glory about a question of what the largest swamp in Florida is. I think I was like, hmm, this seems too easy. Everglades.

unknown 7:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:13

It's the Okie Fanoki swamp. Okie Fanoki. And then the kid that like had a just was like, oh, thank god the smart guy got that question. Then the kid who is dumb that ended up winning it got like, what is a name of a national park? He's like, uh, Jelly Stone.

SPEAKER_00 7:31

Just any national park?

SPEAKER_01 7:33

Yeah, it was something dumb like that. And it's like Celebrity Jeopardy, where at the end Trebek's like, Celebrity Jeopardy. Name a person. Name a person.

SPEAKER_00 7:41

Nick Borpagle.

SPEAKER_01 7:43

So it was, I was kind of angry.

SPEAKER_00 7:45

Okay, I hear that. So back to Thanksgiving though.

SPEAKER_01 7:48

Yeah, so I was kind of angry, but it was a lot of fun. Like aggressive shoot day. Our friend Colin at Grayspot did a heck of a job.

SPEAKER_00 7:54

Yeah, sticking with us. It was a long day. It's been like a dream of mine to style photo shoots. So I wouldn't say like, you know, this is exactly what I was doing, but I did some of it, and I've been doing it with some other things in my life, and I love doing that stuff. Like, I love like wiping the plate. Oh, wait, move this potato this way. Anyway, I thought it was fun. Um, we got to eat Thanksgiving dinner last night as leftovers. JOMO.

SPEAKER_02 8:20

Did you get the cranberries though?

SPEAKER_00 8:21

No, I forgot. I'm sorry, Tyler. I threw out all the jellied cranberries after the shoot. I had I had manhandled those cranberries. So anyway, we did an awesome video shoot. You guys will be seeing that in the near future.

SPEAKER_01 8:32

In the near future. We're gonna have a Christmas one coming up too. That's gonna be really fun too. Um, that one we actually might have to make sure all the family comes over afterwards because that one is just gonna be like a mess of beef.

SPEAKER_00 8:44

But like we have so much, we our fridge is full of leftovers. We had dressing, which dressing, otherwise known as stuffing.

SPEAKER_01 8:50

Uh people get really pissy about. I'm sorry if that's not a good word to use, but it's people get really pissy if you call dressing stuffing. Stuff, it's stuffing, okay? But you don't stuff it in the turkey. It's only stuffing if you stuff it in the turkey. Otherwise, it's dressing. I think we can all agree to just call it stuffing. Yes, because when you say dressing, I think ranch. Or like putting clothes on. But um so I made a very traditional dressing that is my grandmother's recipe. Uses uh turkey liver. Bridget threw up.

SPEAKER_00 9:24

I did almost gag while I was watching him chop up this turkey liver. But at the end of the day, it was so good. Really good. Wait, is the turkey liver salty?

SPEAKER_01 9:33

Uh no, it's just all that iron, all that yummy yummy iron.

SPEAKER_00 9:36

Well, I'm anemic, so that turkey liver helped me. Thank you. Um but we both agreed that that stuffing was salty, and we're like, yes, more salt, more salt. We both just could like dump salt on things and be thrilled. So anyway, super delicious. The best thing I ate was Thanksgiving dinner here in September. I forgot what month it was.

SPEAKER_01 9:54

It was good. What did you eat? Well, I actually haven't ate it yet, but the reason we're recording this early is because we have our barbecue weekend this weekend. And the reason we matched Christie from just north of Memphis. You heard them earlier on the podcast. They are down here and uh they're cooking. They're cooking. They're cooking, they're cooking. We just saw them, yep. So I'm gonna go with barbecue. By the time this is released, uh, you're gonna have heard it. I I'm guessing the Wagyu brisket. We had these absolutely gorgeous, uh, just gorgeous Wagyu beef brisket. And John and Christy are smoking them. And so they have a, you know, we talked about they have kind of a rotisserie smoker thing, and they're meat self-based. So they have, we we loaded it up. Uh John loaded it up. I was just watching him, I shouldn't say. We uh he loaded up the rotisserie, he's got all the pork butts for the pulled pork hanging, and then he puts these beautiful wagyoo briskets, all that fat, all that marbling, all that tenderness on top of them. So these these this pork butt is gonna have this beautifully rendered fat coming all down over it. It's gonna be the best pork.

SPEAKER_00 11:04

That's some pro barbecue in the history of the earth.

SPEAKER_01 11:07

And I am just so excited for all of this. I'm so happy they were able to come down.

SPEAKER_00 11:12

Um and you guys know if you listen to that special podcast that we did with them, I came into this, like, what? I don't know, barbecue, what? And I left a fan. They are the kindest people, and I know their food will be delicious. And they're just like, they I just want to hang out with them. So if you're not sure about barbecue, if you love barbecue, you better be here. If you're not sure, you ooh, you will have missed it by the time this podcast came out. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 11:38

I will get it out. No, it'll be out Sunday morning. So if you listen to it right away, you can come to Dusterbeck Brewing from 12 to 5 on Sunday. The 27th that we're releasing this says it right in the title of the document that I'm looking at. So listen to it immediately when you wake up on Sunday.

SPEAKER_00 11:55

Anyway, they're awesome. Beer Mosa number two. This one looks more like the beer mosas that I Googled. Good luck.

SPEAKER_01 12:02

Well, I only did an Oktoberfest one because you like Oktoberfest more than anything.

SPEAKER_00 12:07

I do, that's true. Um, this is better. Still think we uh need some orange juice.

SPEAKER_01 12:12

Do you want orange juice?

SPEAKER_00 12:13

Nope, I'm gonna drink it anyway.

SPEAKER_01 12:15

Okay, I can go get the orange juice.

SPEAKER_00 12:16

Because you guys, we've got about 16 hours ahead of us still today.

SPEAKER_01 12:19

It's gonna be a good day. All right, so it's been an eventful week. Um I got Friday night. Uh, I wasn't talking to you because you were out of communication. Oh, and I was like, what was I doing? But I got in in about 15 seconds, I got four single-word texts from friends. They all started with F and ended with K. Where could that be? And I knew right away Ruth Bader Ginsburg died.

SPEAKER_00 12:49

Yeah, really terrible.

SPEAKER_01 12:51

Of how that was going. The friends that texted me, they're all legally minded, politically minded. Yeah. And um I wanted to text you right away because I know you're such a fan. You talked about the um collars and stuff. Yeah. I was like, no, no, I'm not sure. And then you came back and you're like, oh my god!

SPEAKER_00 13:11

Um So R. R.I.P. I just uh my older sister was RBG for Halloween for an office party they had.

SPEAKER_01 13:18

Can I tell a funny story about that?

SPEAKER_00 13:20

Uh yes.

SPEAKER_01 13:21

Your mom changed her Facebook profile t shirts to that picture of Britney and of French. This was so funny. It said, Beth, is that you?

SPEAKER_00 13:32

Yeah, um, I that was really funny.

SPEAKER_01 13:34

You look really young.

SPEAKER_00 13:36

Um so Brittany, yeah. I I mean there's some similarities about Britney and my mom, but it was not. It was Britney. So Britney, who we've talked about, who's been on the show, the one that lives in Seattle, um, they did an office Halloween thing, and Britney dressed up as RBG, and then they made her the judge for the competition, which was hilarious. So, anyway, I um there's a really great website that this is not a product rec, but I'm gonna put it in here anyway. It's a website called Descent Pins. Um, I got targeted years ago on Facebook about it.

SPEAKER_01 14:06

You recommended this in the past.

SPEAKER_00 14:07

Have I I don't remember.

SPEAKER_01 14:08

I'm gonna note it so I can make sure we put it on.

SPEAKER_00 14:10

Yep, we're gonna link to it. So I bought Britney some, they're really great little like um RBG's collar was made into like necklace and earrings and whatever. They have a whole bunch of other things, but RBG has some great little um products on there. I know there's a whole bunch of small retailers that are doing stuff um and donating process uh donating profits to proper causes. So please support those people when you are buying things. Um but yeah, this it's really sad. I mean, and of course 2020 would be the year.

SPEAKER_01 14:34

It feels like a passing of an era. I don't want to get in the politics of it.

SPEAKER_00 14:38

I do.

SPEAKER_01 14:39

But okay, let's get into it. I think what the Republicans are doing is ridiculous. I if I hate hypocrisy more than anything. I hate the pursuit of power more than anything, and I think what they're doing if you're gonna say no to vote in election year, the fact that you have both uh Senate and the presidency doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. You're splitting straws to get yourself whatever. So that's the political side of it. But I think it's a passing of era because what you saw RBG and Scalia, who had very different interpretations of how to interpret the Constitution, what you saw in their friendship and their civility and their respect for each other, Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer don't have that.

SPEAKER_00 15:29

There's it there's a lack of respect, I think you said it right.

SPEAKER_01 15:32

There's Donald Trump and Joe Biden don't have that. There but you know who probably does. Barack Obama and George Bush had that. Um there's it's the end of an era. It's the end of people that weren't elected, appointed, whatever, based on social media. It's I I paged in Washington, D.C. for Paul Ryan. So I was behind the scenes as invisible furniture.

SPEAKER_00 16:00

Oh wow. Sorry about that, guys. We're getting an important phone call.

SPEAKER_01 16:04

Um how do I hang up on this? I don't know. Silence it on the right. It doesn't have a thing.

SPEAKER_00 16:10

On the right hand side, your button. Are you kidding me right now?

SPEAKER_01 16:13

Oh, there we go. Um Nick's new to technology. So a lot of people don't like when politicians don't come home for breaks or um aren't on social media all the time. When they didn't have to be, they could go to dinner with someone across the aisle and be a friend and do these kind of back channel deals of, hey, um, you know what? I might I got the school in my district that really needs some chairs. Can we get $100,000 for that? And is there a post office in your district? And that's how things get done. That's how compromise works. And you can't do that anymore because there's social media, and if if you compromise and if you're friends with someone across the aisle, you're a uh sellout or a fake. And uh, so that's what I'm sad about is that air of respect and kindness and civility is gone.

SPEAKER_00 17:05

She had so many notable quotes, which I'm sure you've like all seen all over your Instagram stories and Instagram feeds made beautiful. And I don't care how cliche it is, her quotes are like they're an exact summation of who she was, where she she is saying, I you know, I of course have some written down, um, that she she said, fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you. So that's exactly I think what you're saying. Hey, maybe if we're not all assholes, we can talk civilly with one another and get something done. And I think that's what we've lost with the Trump administration, obviously.

SPEAKER_01 17:39

Um I want to be very clear. I have voted Republican in every presidential election. I have voted Republican in every statewide election.

SPEAKER_00 17:47

I wondered if Nick and I were gonna go here because I think this is the year Republicans are turning, obviously. Um, I have previously voted Republican and and moved a lot, uh moved away from that even before Trump a little bit. Um, but obviously this year I'm certainly not voting for Donald Trump. I'm sorry if that makes some of you not listen to us, but I I think character matters. Yeah. Um it's a hard this is a hard year. This one hurt because it just felt like the perfect shit frosting on the 2020.

SPEAKER_01 18:15

So anyway, on to funnier things. Funnier things. I'm gonna go first because um I think you need a moment.

SPEAKER_00 18:21

I do, man.

SPEAKER_01 18:22

It was hard. I have some really good stuff this week that I didn't want you to be aware of ahead of time. I didn't look at it because I'm a disaster this week. Okay, so this just came out in the New York Times. Airlines are now offering flights to nowhere for the travelers that miss flying. What is this? What? This is a New York Times article. Yes. So it's not fake. No, it's not fake. So you used to travel a lot. Yeah, I did. Yeah. Sarah traveled a lot for her job pre-pandemic. And Sarah's admitted she misses being on a plane.

SPEAKER_00 18:54

Yeah, I miss travel. I miss the whole thing. Yeah, I miss the process.

SPEAKER_01 18:57

And so, especially in Asia, they're seeing airlines are offering flights to nowhere.

SPEAKER_00 19:03

So people just like go through the process?

SPEAKER_01 19:05

Yep, you get on your plane in Tokyo or wherever, you fly around for two hours, and you get off your plane in Tokyo. Okay, that is stupid. You're still getting on a plane, just go somewhere. Now, Qantas, well, but there's uh lockdown rules and stuff. You can only stay on your own stuff. Go to a plane. Not everywhere. Well, in Japan. Okay, in Japan. This is so this is also like a very ancient thing. Yeah. It's very, very different. It's that way. No, it's actually that way. Okay. Uh Qantas, uh, the Australian airline, used to do sightseeing flights of Antarctica. They canceled them for a while because people weren't doing them. They reinstituted them. So now the flight to nowhere includes and it's like, yeah, it's a very it's like 30 people in a big plane. Yep. And they're like, hey, go over to these seats this time. Go over to these seats, and you can see this. So that's cool. That I would do. Uh uh attention, uh, ladies and gentlemen. Uh if you look to your left, you'll see we're passing the Mississippi River. Fun fact 66% of the land area is west of the Mississippi, but only 30%. Nick's gonna do the rest of the podcast this way.

SPEAKER_00 20:13

Okay, so I'm on board with a sightseeing flight. Isn't that cool though? A flight goes in circles?

SPEAKER_01 20:19

No, because I'm you you you're the traveling type. You like to get up and go. I could see you be like, screw this, I'm just gonna be on a plane.

SPEAKER_00 20:27

But if I get on a plane, I want to like I severely want to get on a plane and go to Seattle. I like, but Miss Yaboo.

SPEAKER_01 20:35

I know, I just Hey, uh, am I destroying the environment with watering my grass or not? Brittany, really you need to answer Nick, okay? I'm worried about this. You are my best resource.

SPEAKER_00 20:46

So anyway. Help me, Brittany Wang Kenobi. You're my only hope. Anyway, I wouldn't get on a flight to nowhere, but at some point I'd like to get on a plane again. So anyway, here we are. Um, are you all through with your flight to nowhere? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:00

Treat you to some me.

SPEAKER_00 21:02

What is this? Okay. You guys. I got on a little bit of a rabbit hole about lifestyle brands recently, um, influencers, if you will. So you've got to know what I'm talking about. I follow them, I love them. I think, you know what? Great. If a company can pivot enough to know that they need to hire a 24-year-old beautiful person to say, hey, use my skincare product and that works, great, good for them. I don't care. That's the world we're living in. But before I followed a ton of influencers, like years ago, Stephen Colbert came out with his own lifestyle. Oh my god, yes. It's called the Covetin House. And you have to say it like that, the Covetin House. And it is hilarious. It is um, think anthropology. It's a rug with a carpet.

SPEAKER_01 21:49

Is it anthropology or anthropology? Anthropology.

SPEAKER_00 21:53

That's just what it reminds me of. Is like, so there's a chandelier hanging in the woods, and there's like a uh, whatever, he's got a an ascot. And he's got like an ascot and a pocket square and a like lapel pin.

SPEAKER_01 22:04

It looks like what's his face from Gossip Girl?

SPEAKER_00 22:06

Yeah, uh Chuck Bass. Yes. Yeah, man. Anyway, so funny. So the Coveton house, that's great. But the reason I got to thinking about all of this is somehow someone else posted. Um, there's a person on Instagram called The Daily Tay. She also, of course, has a blog and a million other things, but she like I she had a is this you?

SPEAKER_01 22:24

David, are you listening? My my friend David has. Oh, I don't know who this is. His wife is Tay. Oh, well, I hope it's her. She could actually go with The Daily Tay.

SPEAKER_00 22:31

I want to know this person. So The Daily Tay posted, um, I think it was a real, I don't know, TikTok or Reel, I think they're the same thing. So she posted a real tonight. And it was, it was all about influencer speak. So at first I thought it was her like being an influencer, but it is in fact her. Um, I don't want to say making fun of because I'm sure she's friends with influencers, but her laughing at like influencer speaks. So she'll be like, hey, uh, okay, guys, I'm just popping on because I got like 10,000 DMs about this lip gloss. Check out my lip gloss, pumpkin spice, lattes, hats, false sweaters. And it's completely random. It's hilarious. Just like go look at the Daily Tay on Instagram and follow her Instagram speak. She has six of them right now, and I cannot wait for the next one to come out. So those are my fun news stories. Let's laugh at lifestyle brands. They're great, they're doing wonderful, but they're also funny.

SPEAKER_01 23:18

All right, we're gonna take a break, uh, come back with some product recommendations and more fun after this. Hey everybody. We're back. We're back. Bridget's 35.

SPEAKER_00 23:48

Oh, man, Nick! Very sad. Oh, did we not talk about that? Well, we were talking about that on the break, but here is Nick. Also, I have to apologize. I was sniffling a little on the break. It's not the COVID, everybody. When I don't sleep a lot, I get like a little sniffly and I haven't been sleeping a lot. Um, my kids, you know.

SPEAKER_01 24:04

I enjoy how it's become the COVID.

SPEAKER_00 24:06

I know. Well, we have to make fun of it somehow. But I did sniffle into the microphone a while ago, and I'm really sorry about that. Should have muted myself. Should have muted yourself. What do you got to recommend this week? I mean, we already have the RBG descent pens. I don't have them, so descent pens, so good. Um, but I'm recommending Zenny. Okay, if you guys wear glasses, this is for you.

SPEAKER_01 24:26

Okay, I wasn't sure if these were glasses or glasses.

SPEAKER_00 24:29

Oh, these are spectacles. So I of course just looked to see if I had mine and I don't. But so I have glasses. I did not get my first pair of glasses until I was 30, I think, maybe 29. Um, but it turns out once you get glasses, your eyes just like keep getting worse. Yeah. So I that's why I stopped wearing mine. I can't, I will like, I really struggle with the mask and glasses situation. And so anyway, I need to wear my glasses to see distance, especially, and definitely when I'm staring at my computer all day. So I also like to have multiple options, which is why I thrift my clothes. I have lots of clothes, but I don't like to spend a lot of money, and glasses can be expensive. So, Zeni, I just got a bomb pair of glasses for 48 bucks with my prescription. So you can go on Zenny, they have like a million styles. You can buy your frames for like 15 bucks, and then you throw your prescription in them. So now I got my first pair. I think the prescription's right. You have to like do a couple, like measure the distance between your pupils, um, know your prescription. So I just got a new um, I just got an updated prescription. Turns out my eyes have gotten worse. So um, anyway, I got a pair of glasses for 48 bucks. You save them on their website. You like you save your prescription on the website. Now I can go back and order 10 more pairs if I want. So super pumped about it. You can get really fun shapes, colors, all different things. Check out zennyoptical.com if you want to get some really fun, cool glasses.

SPEAKER_01 25:48

Okay, Bridget, I need you to come look at my computer for this one. So, my recommendation is a new online resource through the Lake Geneva Public Library. I think a lot of other libraries have this. Uh, it's called A to Z Food America and AT's A to Z Food World. Okay. And so the Food World one we used for a lot of our German recipes, they had stuff. Now, the American one has like all of these, it's this incredibly cool recipe database. Yeah. Um, and all you need is a library card. Get your library card. It's free. So we do a lot of historical reference stuff because we like to do that with the stuff. So this historical one, you're gonna dig this in this A-Z Food America database. They have old fast food ads, they have old dining phudos, old uh canned cook labels. I do love old school ads. Old school soda pop ads. It even says soda pop ads. Um, what did they eat? I we did a on the previous edition of this rendition of this podcast, we did a thing about Thomas Jefferson's cookbook and like how he would cook. So they have all these recipes from old presidents. Like, it's really cool. If you love food, you love cooking. This is another one of those totally free resources you get by being a library member. Member? Patron? Member library card holder? Card holder.

SPEAKER_02 27:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:08

Um, so it makes you sound fancy too. Check out um A to Z World Food and A to Z US Food Databases. I've been using this a lot. It's really cool. I just I love trying to do the like how did someone cook in 1880? I think it's a fun-themed dinner. Uh we need to start dinner club.

SPEAKER_00 27:25

Mystery murder, like murder mystery dinners. I've done one where you have like you you can buy the board game, but then they theme the dinner with the like era that it's setting. It's so much fun.

SPEAKER_02 27:34

It is.

SPEAKER_01 27:35

I just I love food. I love what food does with people. Um my gosh. So this is a really cool database. We'll put the link up. Um, you can buy a subscription if you're not a library card holder. It's honestly not that much money. But again, library cards are free. Get the library card. We've recommended the library card before, and it's just it keeps on giving. The gift that keeps on giving. All right, we'll be uh right back with our normal stuff and a new segment that you are not gonna want to miss.

SPEAKER_00 28:22

Okay, we're back. We were just talking about how much I love to say we're back, and Nick stole it from me last week.

SPEAKER_01 28:29

It was a real dick move. Rude. I apologize. This is um You know, there's a lot of things men in the workplace should do to make sure that you promote women in the workplace, and one of them is not stealing your favorite things. I don't steal my thunder, Nick. Men that are listening. Um, this is a real thing. Like we're when you look at the broad statistics, we're more likely to take credit for things that we thought was a team thing that other people don't think were a team thing. So if a female that you work with comes up with an idea, be very sure to say, I believe Bridget came up with this idea, and I believe it's a really good idea, even if it was a team collaborative effort, because it's not perceived that it was a collaborative effort, if you say, Yeah, I came up with this as part of the team. So make sure you give credit to women for ideas.

SPEAKER_00 29:18

That's very kind. Nick is very good at that, but I will agree with him that the vast majority of people are not good at that.

SPEAKER_01 29:24

So it's something as men we need to be aware of and make sure that we're doing a better job. Thanks, buddy. So that's you know.

SPEAKER_00 29:30

So now I'm gonna kill you with some interesting questions.

SPEAKER_01 29:33

Interesting questions with Bridget and Nick.

SPEAKER_00 29:37

As usual, because I'm a disaster, as I've mentioned, these are completely random and not themed at all. It's all good. But also, like, I I don't know how I would answer some of these. So these are hard for you, hard for me, man. Okay, you ready? I am ready. Let's go. Would you rather be able to freeze time or trap can can we just we're pausing?

SPEAKER_01 29:58

I'm sorry. We just got news, breaking news. Guy destroyed Miller Park. Someone broke into the brewer's ballpark, ripped up the grass, and carved his name into the field with the tractor.

SPEAKER_00 30:09

I am Googling this. We used to have a friend, um, Tyler and I had a good friend that was in charge of like the surveillance.

SPEAKER_01 30:16

We're gonna post this. This is the great thing about podcasts. It happens live.

SPEAKER_00 30:19

This dude casually walked into Miller Park and took a ride on the tractor. We had a friend that was in charge of the grounds crew there for a while, and it was so fun to see him at games. You guys, okay, I'm really sorry. This is we are distracted.

SPEAKER_01 30:32

Okay. Oh my gosh. We need to move on. Okay, this is the greatest thing. We're gonna post a link to this if you need to laugh.

SPEAKER_00 30:38

You do, you guys. I think we've been a little heavy this episode, and I'm sorry, that's my fault. All right, do I want to pause time or what do I want to do? Okay, yeah, right, back to that. Okay. Would you rather be able to freeze time or travel in time? Freeze time, 100%. I knew you'd say that because 100%. Because I'm gonna steal shit and get rich. Oh, really thought you were gonna say something nice about Simona, but that's fine. No, you can steal things, that's fine.

SPEAKER_01 31:00

No, well, I mean, it'd be for Simona.

SPEAKER_00 31:02

Sure, okay.

SPEAKER_01 31:03

Hey Simona, you see all that Tiffany's jewelry that is so beautiful on you.

SPEAKER_00 31:08

True, because you're wait, are we talking like time out, like Zach Morris style? You know how I used to time out and say by the bell? No?

SPEAKER_01 31:15

Oh, yeah. Like that. I was like, no, okay. Freeze time. Oh, I thought like freeze time like no one ages, or freeze time like I can move and I guess I'm not I guess in my head it was no one ages, but you went a different way and it's not clear. Yeah, I want to like everybody else can't move. I can walk into the bank vault, take all the money. Okay, I didn't think is that selfish and terrible, yes, but you know what? It's honest.

SPEAKER_00 31:37

So I didn't think that way, and so to me, I wanted to travel in time. I I'm feeling things deeply this week, so like I want to travel in time, could go see RBG, go see my friend Stefan, you know.

SPEAKER_01 31:51

I would love to see.

SPEAKER_00 31:52

Oh, you oh, you want to visit dead people? Yes. Oh, you want to go?

SPEAKER_01 31:57

Oh Stefan.

SPEAKER_00 31:58

Okay, Nick is gonna steal things. I'm gonna visit my loved ones.

SPEAKER_01 32:01

Well, like, I'd like to see like how were the pyramids built. Okay, also then you're like, oh, let's see.

SPEAKER_00 32:06

Nick likes history. I like people.

SPEAKER_01 32:09

Well, learning a lot about us. Movie's a terrible person. He steals, doesn't care about his.

SPEAKER_00 32:19

Well, this question I can't imagine is gonna get us serious, but we'll see. This is an absurd question. I don't know how anyone's supposed to answer it. But would you uh would you rather wrestle wrestle a bear or an alligator?

SPEAKER_01 32:33

An alligator. Bears are terrifying.

SPEAKER_02 32:35

No, I want to wrestle a bear!

SPEAKER_01 32:36

Bears are terrifying and heavy, and you're not gonna win. You're not gonna win. I like winning. You have to be in a swamp. Do you see how many that crocodile dundee? No, I don't watch that. Uh, great movie. No, it's so like alligators, you just you gotta get on top of them. I mean, their jaws are very dangerous, very dangerous. But you can wrestle an alligator. Uh, there's a way to do it.

SPEAKER_00 32:59

Bears, bears, you're just feeling like they're gonna like hap on their back and become their friends. That's not how bears work. Bears aren't baloo. Here's the thing. I'm gonna die if I wrestle either one of them. Bears. That one just made me laugh out loud when I read it.

SPEAKER_01 33:13

So yeah, bears bearing you. I have a lot of friends that go bear hunting, and everybody that goes bear hunting, I say, hey man, if the bear eats you, I'm not sorry. I am not sorry. Bears are big and terrifying and scaring, and if they eat you, it's your own fault. Why do people go bear hunting? Don't poke the bear is a saying for a reason. I mean, you're you're right, but why do people poke the thing? Bear also does not taste good.

SPEAKER_00 33:37

Right. So is it just a trophy hunting? I'm not on board with that.

SPEAKER_01 33:40

Yeah, I think it's a, you know, I I killed a bear thing.

SPEAKER_00 33:42

Sorry for your friends. That's a dumb thing to do.

SPEAKER_01 33:44

Don't bear hunt. Bears are terrifying.

SPEAKER_00 33:47

Moving on. Would you rather only be able to speak in rhyme or only be able to speak using alliteration? It's divine to speak in rhyme. Duh. Plus, you could be like a rat master. That's really what I was excited about.

SPEAKER_01 34:00

I mean, people think Kanye's great. When I can only speak in rhyme.

SPEAKER_00 34:06

But I like his music.

SPEAKER_01 34:07

I don't like when he decided to become a gospel singer, that's when I'm like, eh, Kanye's.

SPEAKER_00 34:12

Or run for president?

SPEAKER_01 34:13

Stop. Please, stop.

SPEAKER_00 34:14

Kanye. I don't care about the gospel music. I care about the running for president.

SPEAKER_01 34:18

I do think Kanye's the voice of our generation.

SPEAKER_00 34:22

In a way. But then his wife came out and was like, he's bipolar.

SPEAKER_01 34:26

The thing, which is the voice of our generation. We're all screwed up. The things he speaks about, especially like graduation, uh homecoming, like not homecoming, uh graduation, what's the one after that? Like oh, like his album names? Yes. Oh, I don't know the order of them. Things he speaks about, the themes, obviously a lot of them are unique to the black American experience, but a lot of them are also unique to our generation. And even if we can't completely relate to them, there's a lot of themes in there that I think are very cognizant of the experience people our age have. Yeah. And I don't know, I don't know how old it's like. Like power, um, that song and the way it speaks to how structures are set up in America and who holds power and how people that are usurping power are viewed by the people that have power. It's it's just I feel like it's against our generation struggle.

SPEAKER_00 35:15

It makes me feel less shitty for loving his music. We I went to a Kanye West concert.

SPEAKER_01 35:19

I mean, he's a terrible human being. Like I'll be very clear about that. But I like his music.

SPEAKER_00 35:23

Tyler and I went with two of our other really good friends, Hi Robin and Reed, and it was drop out. I forgot how like how much I loved Kanye West's music. So you forget, like, oh yeah, you also sang through the wire. Like whatever. It was right after his mom died, and he like had a meltdown on stage. Really good. Saw it at the Summerfest grounds. Highly recommend. Okay. Another product recommendation, Kanye West concert. Kanye West.

SPEAKER_01 35:46

If you could go, I'm gonna ask an interesting question. Any concert, any venue, what would it be? A repeat concert and a new concert. It could be anything.

SPEAKER_00 35:54

Oh my god. Uh so I'm in an Alpine Valley, like I love Alpine Valley. I've I've been going to Alpine Valley concerts since I was eight years old. Uh, we go every year to see Jimmy Buffett with my dad. Uh not we haven't been not this year. Um so Alpine Valley would have to be it, I think, just because there's a million concert venues. Um, but what concert would I be? I've seen a ton of concerts. Um mine would be Rihanna in a club. In a club?

SPEAKER_01 36:23

Like in a basement.

SPEAKER_00 36:24

Like in First Avenue. Have you been at First Avenue in um Minnesota? That would be a really good one.

SPEAKER_01 36:28

Like, you know how Gaga. So like I'm a huge Gaga fan too. You know how Gaga did those like acoustic stripped-down dive bar tour thing? Yeah, that's cool. Like that, but Rihanna.

SPEAKER_00 36:38

Um I did see, you guys are all like, you guys that don't know me are about to judge me real hard. Um, I saw Dolly Parton at Gran Old. Oh no, very the opposite. Um, the Anger Management Tour, um, which I believe Eminem headlined. Uh so I love me some good rap music. Um so I actually like, I don't know if that's what I don't know. I don't know. This is I can't answer this question because like rap music's not my favorite thing to see in concert, but I like this Kanye West concert was so awesome.

SPEAKER_01 37:12

Um what was the Jay-Z Kanye tour?

SPEAKER_00 37:14

Oh, I don't know, but I didn't get to go in. Like, those are two of my freaking favorite favorite singers. I don't know why I didn't go. Anyway, I did see like uh Britney Spears in concert, which was terrible, and uh we could go on forever about concerts, so we're not going to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_01 37:27

So we're gonna start our new segment instead, which is Bridget's fantasy update. And this isn't fantasy like Tyler, you know, in a thong. Princess Leia. This is fantasy football. Bridget, we're two weeks in. Yeah, guys. Uh, all you talk about when you're at work these days is I don't know, should I play Devante or should I play um shit?

SPEAKER_00 37:48

I gotta check my screen.

SPEAKER_01 37:49

You know, like whomever. I don't who are other wide receivers? Who are other people? I know this.

SPEAKER_00 37:54

So two of my best players, by the way, are out. Or I'm sorry, one is not probable.

SPEAKER_01 37:58

So, first of all, what is your fantasy league?

SPEAKER_00 38:01

What is my league? We we use e ESPN.

SPEAKER_01 38:03

No, like who tell us how many people, who are they? Okay, so Do you play for money?

SPEAKER_00 38:07

Do you play for No, we play play for like bragging rights, and we used to Is there a trophy? There is a traveling trophy. It used to be like the trophy in a six-pack of beer, but like we've been doing it. So it is, it started. Um I am married to my husband, Tyler.

SPEAKER_01 38:20

Oh, you're married to Tyler? I'm married to my husband.

SPEAKER_00 38:22

Strange. Um, but he has there's six boys, so he has five brothers. Um, and that's great. I have no brothers. So I married into this family of boys. So I only have sisters. So it's always kind of been this ongoing joke. So anyway, I love football. I don't mean to say I love football more than Tyler, but I definitely care. You do love football. I care about football more than Tyler. So it was funny when this league started, uh, a couple of us were invited in, a couple of the wives, and I was one of them. So I was like, yeah, I'm gonna do this and I'm gonna win. I don't even remember how long ago it was, but I did get I either won last year or got second. So now I, of course, feel pretty confident. Um, so it's with all the brothers. It's changed a lot. So now we have um, there are many more women. Thank you, Avery, Libby. Um, so a couple of the cousins are in there with us. Um, brothers, cousins. I think I'm the only wife that's playing. Yeah, Tyler and I, like we did a joint team one year. This year we're on separate teams, so we play against each other. So good. But the breaking news, guys, I'm undefeated. Two and oh. Two and oh. I really thought I was gonna lose last week. I screenshotted a couple, um, I had one game left and I was down by six points.

SPEAKER_01 39:30

That was the only thing you texted me about this entire weekend. I'm down, but I won by three points. Because I texted you happy birthday. I'm like, I'm winning. I wish you a happy birthday. I had a time, I was like, I don't want to like because you were like, let's get away. Yeah, and I put my phone away a lot this weekend. So I was like, uh, but I should still happy birthday, Bridget.

SPEAKER_00 39:49

I should still talk about it. I got back. I'm almost winning! I'm like I did, you guys. I took all the screenshots because I need to share this. I need to share this on my podcast. This isn't the place I come and brag about things like this. All right, so anyway, yeah, so two and a half three. How's it looking? What's not looking good? I'm playing Avery. I I think I would have to pull up my phone, but I'm behind. I set a reminder on my phone every Thursday because now we play football on Thursday nights. Yep. Um it really screws me. So I I played around with my lineup, but I've got a couple injured players, and so I'm I was really good about it. Oh, most dark. Like, sometimes I get lazy with my draft. This year I was really good about it, and now that my players are dropping like flies, I just like am panicking. So anyway, I'm playing Avery. I love her, so if she beats me, it's okay. It's better than one of the men beating me, but I gotta check it out. So I don't know, I have to play with my draft. I have to play with my lineup a little, but it's not looking good.

SPEAKER_01 40:41

All right, that's Bridget's fantasy update. Thanks for listening. Uh meal plan this week looks delicious. Uh, we're still on the German stuff. Yeah, this is funny. Um I'm actually so I've never tried this before. I'm very excited for this one. I'm gonna make a Grunkohl.

SPEAKER_00 40:57

I like listening to him saying the German roots.

SPEAKER_01 40:59

It is a German. I spoke to my SEO expert about this. We have to call it German kale. SEO is search engine optimization for the people that don't know. Very important for us. We want a lot of people to show up on our website. Um, so how you name a recipe is very important. Uh, so we have to call it German kale sausage stew, which is what people are gonna search for, but the real name is Grunkohl.

SPEAKER_00 41:21

Nick called me to talk through all the German recipes so he could say them all like that.

SPEAKER_01 41:25

It was a very unnecessary phone call that was incredibly necessary. Um I love kale. Like I know it's a you know, like hipster joke and all the things, and I don't do the smoothies. I just I love peppery, bittery greens.

SPEAKER_00 41:40

I put it in a smoothie or like bake it like a chip.

SPEAKER_01 41:43

Yeah, I love that. So when you cook it down in the stew with some sausage, it's very good. Uh Germany, I love like historical context of food and like I heard understanding where it came from. Yes. So Germany, they can't grow romaine because it's cold there. But kale thrives thrives in Norman Germany. So this is like a German comfort food, and um, I haven't made it before. I've seen it like all over the place. We put a recipe up from a very reputable adaptation. I did not steal it from someone, and uh I cheaked it a little bit, so it's definitely 100% Nick content. Um but uh I'm gonna make it. I'm very excited. We're gonna put some smoke kielbasa in there. Uh what my favorite thing about this German recipe is is it uses Polish sausage because that's what us Germans do. We just steal from the Poles. I'm German, my wife's Polish. So it's gonna be great. I'm really excited for it. Okay. When you first be cold next week, right?

SPEAKER_00 42:43

I don't know. I hope so. Yeah, screw this. Yeah, every time we've like been planning like comforting stew recipes in 80 degrees.

SPEAKER_01 42:51

Yeah, it jinx.

SPEAKER_00 42:52

Stop it. Sorry for all of you summer lovers, but it is the end of September, okay. Um, yeah, when Nick first told me about that recipe, I was like, ugh. But I looked it up and it looks beautiful. So, okay. I chose to do all the things that are not German. So on Tuesdays, we still feel very committed to taco Tuesdays.

SPEAKER_01 43:11

Very committed to taco Tuesday.

SPEAKER_00 43:12

So there's not a lot of German tacos. Um, so this week we're just doing like a very basic taco showdown. So we all know that Nick feels very um particular about like not gringo tacos. Well, I love gringo tacos. I had them last night.

SPEAKER_01 43:29

You know, gringo's a put down.

SPEAKER_00 43:31

Well, I apologize for that. Uh ground beef tacos. So, so we are oh sorry, Nick's showing me a picture of a Polish style taco with pierogi taco shell stuffed with sauerkraut and kielbasa topped with onions and bacon. Okay, I'm gonna put that on the meal plan next week. Put it on the meal plan. Um, but this week we've got ground beef tacos, super basic, super delicious, versus chorizo sausage tacos. So chorizo wins. It's the taco showdown. I knew Nick would like the chorizo. Actually, I think I Will too, but we'll see. I'm on board for both tacos. I think it's fun to pit two recipes against one another and see who wins. I'm not competitive at all. So, okay, that's what we're eating this week. But now it's time for Kid Corner. You like it?

SPEAKER_01 44:15

I'll look at Nick and I'm like, it's Kid Corner time. Let's go. I'm trying to find the right thing I need to show you.

SPEAKER_00 44:21

I don't know if I have like, I don't think I've talked about this yet. But when Elliot started playing T-ball, it was a big deal. Well, now he's playing soccer and it is hysterical. Um, T-ball is like entertaining to watch because each kid gets a turn. So it's like, okay, Elliot's batting. Soccer is like you're literally all just running in a circle toward like towards the ball, but you're not really actually ever hitting the ball. So anyway, uh, Elliot started soccer and it's so fun. It's another great way for him to like run around, meet new people. We get I get to see people I haven't seen in a long time, other parents there. Um, but this week we had an extra special fan base. I think he had one, two, three, four, five, I don't know, like eight people watching his soccer. We want to come someday. You should. It's so fun. We're gonna have signs. Okay, this is what I'm saying. So two foot am Elliot. My my wonderful friend Aaron uh lives in Chicago and she is really good about coming up and visiting and saying hi to the kids. And um, she came up and she made a special stop at Target to get markers and a sign, and she made an awesome sign for Elliot, and it said, like, go, Elliot, go.

SPEAKER_01 45:26

And oh, mine's gonna be much more like Elliot, two foot the kid.

SPEAKER_00 45:29

You don't know what that is.

SPEAKER_01 45:31

It's going and kicking someone with two feet.

SPEAKER_00 45:34

Oh, wow, that's pretty self-explanatory. Very proud people. I'm ignoring Nick and telling you it was so nice. Um, I got to spend some time with Erin. Well, she got to hang out with the kids, and uh Erin doesn't have kids at this moment, and so we're like, hey, you are welcome back to come to soccer anytime. This is our life now. We rush from soccer to chasing Lucy around to getting home. So anyway, it was just like a funny little snapshot in time because I've been friends with Erin for years, and uh having her it was just a funny snapshot in time. I don't know how else to explain it. It was super fun. I'm grateful that she came. Elliot thinks he's like a little celebrity. I took a video of him on the soccer field. Aaron yelled, like, hey, Elliot! And he just stood there like, like, oh yeah, hey, I'm just over here being a soccer star. Whatever. Super fun. Thank you, Erin, for coming.

SPEAKER_01 46:20

All right, watch this video. Oh god, okay. My story is on Tuesday, yes, I got a video from Sarah, lovely, my wife, of Simona on the floor in our basement, or our not our basement, our bathroom, which is very clean. We are very, very clean oriented. It is very clean. Uh, with a box of feminine products, tampons, tampons that were unopened, unused. Let's be very clear. And Simona has all the tampons spread out in the floor. Like she took the box, dumped it all out. That's awesome. And she decided the most fun activity would be to start putting the tampons back in the box. I mean, it's like putting markers in a box, right? And it was very fun for her. And I was it was Monday at 4 30, which Monday's like a really crappy day for me at work. A lot to do, very long day. And I got this. I was like, hey, what do you want for dinner? And I got this video back of Simona putting it. It's adorable. Get in the box, and it was the cutest thing I've ever seen. And you know, Sarah's narrative, she's like, Simona, what are you doing? Do you like those? Do you like those? You're gonna hate them. You're gonna learn to hate them. So, wedding day, this video. Oh, I was like, I'm sorry. I already got a folder of, you know. I should do that. Like this is the embarrassing crap I'm gonna play on your wedding day.

SPEAKER_00 47:37

Pictures of Elliot specifically, like with the double tunes. He's like, you need to buff that out on their wedding day. I'm like, I have 900 photos for his wedding day, and he's only four. That video is great. Love when kids play with silly things like that, because actually, it is really like putting markers in a box, okay? Think about it logically.

SPEAKER_01 47:55

Have you ever had the she she loves raspberries? And she had some white pants on one day and definitely took one and like smeared it. We were here when Lucy did that.

SPEAKER_00 48:05

Yeah, and we're like, ee, ee, yes, is it okay to make the joke? There is like some account that's like, I don't know what it is, but it's like let it bleed, or something that's like, hey, yeah, man, girls have periods, get over it. Like, I remember specifically when I got my first period, like hiding a tampon in your sleeve to like run to the bathroom. Like, this is ridiculous. Like, hey guys, I have my period. Here's my okay. Anyway, that's a whole different episode, guys. Thanks for listening about that.

SPEAKER_01 48:33

That's King Corner. Thanks, everybody. We're gonna have a really special episode coming up. Yes. Um, we're gonna be doing a our next episode of Pinkies Up. Pinkies Up is gonna be about uh German and Austrian wines. Yeah, because Oktoberfest. Uh I'm gonna be wearing a derndle, you're gonna be wearing later hose. Wait, something like that. Strike that, reverse it. Um dude, maybe we should do that though. No, I'm not wearing a derndle.

SPEAKER_00 48:56

Do you want to wear my derndal? No. I think it'll fit.

SPEAKER_01 48:59

No, it won't. I'm much bigger than you.

SPEAKER_00 49:01

I can't wait, though. I haven't gotten to wear this derndal since last year. So I'm waiting to bust it out.

SPEAKER_01 49:06

It's gonna be so much fun. Um, so what we're gonna do is we're gonna have six wines that we're trying. We're gonna talk about them. The question we're trying to answer in this is all German wine disgusted and sweet. Because we know how Bridget feels about sweet wine. I don't like it. So we're gonna try some other wines from Germany and Austria, of course, because Austria may as well just be Germany itself. And uh they speak German, all the things, all the stuff. It's gonna be a lot of fun. You can we're gonna do it as a Zoom. Uh, we're gonna release it in two weeks on the podcast feed, but we're gonna do it as a live Zoom tasting. So if you want to join us, we have the wine for sale at the store, Lake Shane Country Meets, you can buy it, or if you're somewhere else in the world, um, it's wine that's widely available, except for the sparkling wine that's not super widely available. But uh, you can buy the wine, taste along with us, send in your questions, and just have a good time.

SPEAKER_00 49:55

Yeah, you can check out the event on the Lake Shane of a Country Meets Facebook page. Um, it's October 1st, is when we're recording live, and we would love for you to heckle us. You know, you can type in live questions, and Nick is gonna, I'm gonna make Nick moderate all the questions while I'm drinking all the wine.

SPEAKER_01 50:08

It's gonna be a good time. We're very excited. Um, so yeah, we hope you join us for that. Uh, you can then see the Pinkies Up episode released Wednesday, the something.

SPEAKER_00 50:18

8th, 7th? Yeah. 7th, 8th, whatever, the week after we record it live. That's something sometime in October.

SPEAKER_01 50:25

So you can you can get that. It's gonna be a lot of fun. We hope you'll join us. And I mean, I'm really excited.

SPEAKER_00 50:30

I am excited because we haven't done a live question event in a while.

SPEAKER_01 50:34

It's gonna be fun.

SPEAKER_00 50:35

It's hard to manage.

SPEAKER_01 50:36

There's gonna be a lot of jokes about the Austrian sparkling wine, so tune in for that. Yeah, jokes.

SPEAKER_00 50:42

Okay, guys, I hope you join us. Thanks so much for listening. Uh, of course, make sure to send in any comments you have, subscribe and rate us. That really helps other people find us and join along in our fun adventures.

SPEAKER_01 50:53

Again, thanks to everybody that gave Bridget the happy birthday wishes. I'm gonna thank everybody on behalf of her and rude. Uh it was weird the one one person said, like, oh, it was so cool to have the twins on. Happy birthday, Bridget. But not Shen. But not Shen. I was like, Well, they know me, man. I'm in their home once again. But they now as twins.

SPEAKER_00 51:12

Well, I appreciate all of the wishes regardless.

SPEAKER_01 51:15

Is it weird if I just so okay, we're gonna finish this soon, but so I had I had a very weird, like, because you two were together this weekend in the same house. So it's like, do I text them? Do I text them together? Do I text them separately? Do I text them like how do I do this? It was very strange. So I texted you basically both the same thing at basically the same time.

SPEAKER_00 51:37

But separately. Yes. Yeah, that's important.

SPEAKER_01 51:40

Because I didn't want to it's funny. I we I didn't want to offend you guys by treating you as one person, but I didn't want to make one of you more special than the other because you're both my friends.

SPEAKER_00 51:49

Okay. Uh this is a thing we I can't speak for Shannon, but I know Sure you can. I know it's like when someone sends us a separate text or one together. I know that's terrible, but like, okay, if you have two friends unrelated that have a birthday on the same day, do you send them one group text? No, you send them two separate texts. Who cares if it says the same thing? They're separate people. Are you though? Okay. Anyway, all my friends that wish me happy birthday, thank you very much.

SPEAKER_01 52:16

Facebook, Instagram, check us out, subscribe, and be sure to watch on YouTube. You can see that Bridget still has a little bit of beer mossa left.

SPEAKER_00 52:24

This is actually just beer now. Oh, it's just beer. In a champagne glass.

SPEAKER_01 52:28

Thanks, guys. Have a great week. We'll see you soon.

SPEAKER_00 52:30

Bye-bye.