Shingles Awareness - Dinner Plus Drinks #99

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My name is Nick Forpagel. I'm 34 years old. Thirty-fur? And I have shingles. If you've had the chicken pox, you can have shingles too. More coming up next.

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Okay. I had to hold that together. We didn't know that was coming. Guys, I have shingles. This has been the big news of the week. I could have just made the outline that just said shingles in the side. Well, you did. You filled in. I did. Filled in Nick's portion of how's your week going? Shingles.

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So um before we get into this. I feel like you need a drink for this. I do. And I'll get into why I do need a drink. We have Strayan uh wine. It's perfectly aged. It's 10 years old. Molly Duker, uh Enchanted Path. It's a Shiraz Cabernet. Shiraz. What they do uniquely with this wine is they put nitrogen in it.

SPEAKER_02 1:02

Whoa. And so like nitrogen coffee? Same theory? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:06

So uh you open it up. I'm weirded out already. Whoa. A little bit of nitrogen comes off. You pour a little bit out. There's so many rules. This is for these wines. And then you shake it. No way. Yeah. You're shaking this wine? You shake it and that gets the nitrogen dispersed. Wait, does it like say on the bottle that you're supposed to do that? Yeah, they this is why the QR code's there. So this is a 2011 QR code. Oh it's called the Molly Duker Shake. This is very unique to them. Try that.

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Try this? Yeah. So you can drink that first little bit. Yeah. Everybody who's not watching the side.

SPEAKER_00 1:43

It tastes flat. It tastes flat. So try that.

SPEAKER_02 1:46

Yeah, I mean, okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:50

Wow, this is baffling to me. Now, since this is mature wine, it it the effect isn't as pronounced as when it's young wine. Oh. Much better. Yeah, it brings out all the fruit. I was a little worried. I was like, I don't know, that first sip wasn't great. So this is nice. Molly Duker, Jan Path, they make incredible, like yummy, fruity wines.

SPEAKER_02 2:13

Wait, I need to see this bottle.

SPEAKER_00 2:14

I like need it to say shake me. Like it's a beautiful circus looking. It's kind of like an IYKYK type of situation.

SPEAKER_02 2:21

Well, that's terrible. If I didn't know, I would just have kind of a bad glass of wine, right?

SPEAKER_00 2:28

It'll open up eventually.

SPEAKER_02 2:30

Wow. Okay. It doesn't say. I'm just gonna give you that. I guess I have to take a picture of the QR code.

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Yep. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:37

We were talking about this the other day about how everybody tried to make QR codes happen like, I don't know, six, seven years ago. I don't remember. And we're all like, nobody uses them. We're gonna quit. And now like everybody's cell phones just automatically do it, and we're like, wow, QR codes are great.

SPEAKER_02 2:51

Yes, because do you remember? I was saying to Nick, I'm like, I feel like QR codes are making a comeback. Because yeah, you used to have to have a special app. Like you had to download a separate app, open the app, take a picture. Anyway, look at technology.

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So anyway, I have shingles. Yep, that's how your week is going. You think old people have shingles? Let me give you the whole rundown. Shingles. I'm gonna drink while you do that. It's not good. It's not good. So last last Wednesday, I started having this like what I thought was a bug bite on my back. I was like, ooh, this is itchy scratchy, hmm, weird. And then I started having uh a little like pale pink rash on my back that started spreading. I was like, mm, Sarah, did we change the like the laundry detergent? Or you know, maybe I wore some shirts that I shouldn't have worn. Maybe I should use the extra bouncing to get the stuff out of my moisture wiki thing, which we actually started using. It works well. I love it. Uh I was like, mm, maybe that didn't work. No. On Monday, I'm like, oh my god, I am in so much pain. This thing hurts so badly. I'm like, I call my dermatologist. I'm like, hey, I got this rash. Kind of like send you a picture and you can tell me like it's a like just deal with it or we should see you type of thing. Quit whining. And they're like, yeah, just come on in. We got noon open. I get in, my dermatologist, like, oh yeah, you have shingles. But I literally respond, you've gotta be fucking kidding me. That's an old person disease. Hey, it's like gout. And you know what she says to me? I had it when I was in seventh grade.

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Seventh grade? Okay, I have so many questions. I'm sure you listening also have questions.

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So anyway, uh, I have shingles. It's uh a line of rashes from um let's see how to explain this, uh, from my sternum, about halfway between my nipple and my neck, all the way around that that uh longitudinal circumference to my spine, on the left side of my body. Only happens on one side of your body. Oh uh, it's a bunch of like rashes that feel like, well, above my heart, it's like a tightening sensation that feels like I'm having a heart attack. So for the last five days, I felt like I'm having a heart attack. Sounds great. Uh, and then on the rest of it, like especially under my arm, it feels like a ripping, burning sensation that my nerves are on fire, and on my back, same type of situation. But there's not okay, how do you get shingles? So if you had chicken pox, the varicella verasumphen virus that causes chicken pox never goes away. It lies dormant in your nervous system, and at some point it could just come back, and they don't know why. Basically, you have to have like some sort of immunity deficiency at the time it comes back, could be stress, could be your daughter goes to daycare and brings back all sorts of weird stuff. Now there is a vaccine to prevent this, but guess what? Not until you're 50.

SPEAKER_02 5:41

Okay, but if you get the chicken pox vaccine, how does this relate to it?

SPEAKER_00 5:45

So I think if you've had the chicken pox vaccine, you're still because they put the varicella thing in you. I think you're good with the chicken pox, but you could get shingles. Because if you get chicken pox as an adult, it's really bad. So I am not contagious. Uh, I'm not gonna give uh shingles to anybody unless you lick my like pustules.

SPEAKER_02 6:07

Ew. First person I told, they were like, uh, should you be around him? Isn't it incredibly contagious? Which was also my reaction. I was like, Well, I'm not touching him.

SPEAKER_00 6:15

No, no, no. Um, you know, you're not especially if you've had chicken pox, you're fine. It's not like a thing. It's my doctor's like, are you stressed right now? I'm like, no. And she's a customer, she knows what I'm like, and she's like, oh wait, that was yours, you got a lot going on. I'm like, yeah, that's right, Sarah. Um, anyway, so no, but if you haven't had chicken pox and you're an adult and I'm around you, you have to be very careful. And with Simona, I have to be careful, but she's been vaccinated for chicken pox, so she's mostly okay. You can't touch the liquid that's weeping from the sores.

SPEAKER_02 6:47

Really a disgusting way to describe it.

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There's no good way to describe it.

SPEAKER_02 6:51

I was comparing this to um my crotch disease that we talked about, I think, months ago. If we didn't talk about it, that's a weird. It's a weird segue. You know, this is this is technically a type of herp. I feel like everything's a type of herpes. Also, I feel like I need to clarify. It was on my like bikini line. Okay. So I was telling Nick he was being a wussy because I said that this one.

SPEAKER_00 7:12

I got accused of man flu. I got accused of being a baby, and I gotta tell you, this thing's very painful.

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Yeah, man. That's because it's like the boy who cried wolf. All you men who are in bed crying when you sneak up.

SPEAKER_00 7:23

I am not a I am not a man flu person. So Yeah, you're pretty good about it. It's actually very painful. Um, I don't recommend it. I think, Bridget, you should definitely go to your doctor and say you're high risk for this because you have children that bring home diseases that immuno compromise you all the time, and you have like a stressful life. Yeah, and you've been around me. So, like, you should get this because this vaccine, because I swear to God, this is the worst thing in the world. So I'm on an, you know, people, what what drugs? My mother, my mother, of course, doesn't say, Oh, that sucks. I'm sorry. My grandfather had it and he had it on his face, which was even worse. Oh, and uh, which can happen. Thank God I don't have that.

SPEAKER_02 8:01

Can you get it again though? I can get it again.

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Yeah, so you know, it's still fun. Getting vaccinated as soon as I can. Uh, but she doesn't say, Oh, I'm sorry, I know it's painful, or oh, blah, blah, blah. She's like, Well, what'd your doctor tell you to do? I'm like, I mean, I get it, because I'm also like a practical step person, but one of the things you're like, hey Nick, you know, as your mother, maybe you should show some human emotion before you try and help people. Um so I am, I'm taking an antiviral, which so this is why I wanted to talk about it. We just actually want to complain. I want you guys to know if you start seeing a rash like this, this like light pink thing kind of on a nerve line somewhere on your chest or back, and you haven't changed soaps or anything like that, go to your doctor and be like, Do I have shingles? Because you can get on the antiviral right away and it like stops it.

SPEAKER_02 8:50

But it's can it happen anywhere, not just your back and chest?

SPEAKER_00 8:53

Yes, it can happen anywhere, but like very, very mostly commonly back and chest. Because it's it's a nervous thing, so it happens in like that nerve line and only on one side of your body.

SPEAKER_02 9:01

That's awful. I I have a thing with feeling like centered and even. I hate having like I've only broken bones on the right side of my body and it like feels uneven.

SPEAKER_00 9:09

I know, isn't it? So anyway, um, antiviral, you know, hopefully it stops. So the real kicker is you can get phantom nerve pain for like eternity from this thing, but hopefully it stops that. And the fact that I'm young and overall very healthy, uh, all things considered. Ha ha not stressed sleeping 20 is a good thing. But uh so so go in, get that antiviral. They have these like nerve pain drugs. I have a very good friend that is a pharmacist. I check with her before I take any drugs because I know she's gonna tell me the real thing.

SPEAKER_02 9:41

Before he had a glass of wine.

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And uh she was clear antivirals, you can drink all you want, it's fine. Uh, but these nerve pain drugs, no, don't drink. Don't drink, they're gonna knock you out, you won't feel anything. And I'm like, well, I actually got a lot of stuff I need to productively do. And I've been playing this wine tasting for a long time, and I would like to drink. Now, maybe that makes me a terrible person for valuing drinking alcohol over the pain in my body, but But this is why we're stressed. We also have Friendsgiving coming up, which is a great drinking holiday as well. So I am prioritizing that. And I have found that having a glass of wine does really help with the pain. Wow, Nick.

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This is Dr.

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Nick. It's like back in the day. Back in your day. You know, you're in the civil pool. Put whiskey on your kid's teeth. You take a mini ball to the leg, it shatters everything, you got it amputated, and what do they do?

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Yeah, shingles is just like that. They give you a shot of rum. It's just like that at back.

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So, anyway, don't eat shingles. If you see the warning signs, go to your doctor. I'm here with the PSA of Yes, this has been your young people disease as well.

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Your medical minute with Nick Vorpegle. Ooh, maybe that's how we should start our podcast now.

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I like it.

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Non-sanctioned, not at all qualified medical.

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I'm not a lawyer, I'm not a doctor. This is not actually advice. This is my experience talking. This is me telling you, I'm a real person.

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Um, Dave's happened. Crotched. I did. I talked about that. I don't remember what it was called, but it was disgusting. But this is this is Nick's medical issues we're working on this week. Mine was back in June.

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It's old news. It's gone. Because I'm old, I also am in PT for uh pinch nerve in my back. Yeah, literally, Nick is at the doctor like 10 hours a week. And I had to call. I like this PT and I like the stretching I'm doing. Like, I feel good, it's helping. But I had to call and be like, um can't go to PT today.

SPEAKER_02 11:31

Gotcha.

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I have open sores on my back due to shingles. And they're like, oh yeah, you can cancel, it's fine. I'm like, no, because they have this like cancellation policy because a lot of people don't show up of like, if you don't come to an appointment, the rest of them are canceled. Oh, that's annoying. So I'm like, I but you have they're like, no, no, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine. Please don't come in with your open pus wounds. Do I have to pay for this? Like, I'm okay with that. I just would like to keep coming. They're like, no, no, no, no. I'm like, well, that's okay.

SPEAKER_02 11:55

Okay, put this in writing.

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Anyway. Okay, great. Daylight savings. So Nick had a rough week. Yeah, because and daylight savings made it even worse.

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Oh, screw you. Daylight savings made it worse. Nick's like, yeah, yeah, Simona, she's getting up early. Wrong. My kids have straight up not slept until every day have woken up before 6 a.m. Today, does anyone want to know today? It actually won the record. 4 54 a.m. is when Elliot woke up. Yep. So I fought him until 5 24, I believe, and then gave up and was like, okay, well, we're getting up. And then he then he's out like adorable in the morning. He wanted to craft this morning because you know, he said, You like to craft, mom, so I thought we could do it. You know.

SPEAKER_00 12:41

So I'm not a lawyer. I'm not a doctor. This is not advice, but have you considered rum?

SPEAKER_02 12:47

Oh my god. I I love, I love the advice because I also got the advice. Maybe I was thinking about this, maybe um keep him up later. And I was like, well, okay, thank you. But he's like legit falling asleep at 7 p.m. So he's also five. And whatever. I I um what do you do with your kids in the morning? Like, I have like three hours with my children in the morning.

SPEAKER_00 13:09

So on Reddit, more on that later, there's a Reddit called Life Pro Tips, and it's yeah, like let's talk about Reddit later. And then there's another one called Shitty Life Pro Tips. It's like mocking these people that think they're dropping advice. And on Shitty Life Pro Tips would be your kids not sleeping in, get them drunk the night beforehand. They'll sleep in in long time. I think that's wrong. I think they'd be barfing in the middle of the night. Well, that's why it's a shitty life pro tip.

SPEAKER_02 13:34

Um, because we've been whining at you for the first, what, like, I don't know, 12 minutes of this podcast or however long? 12 minutes, yep. Well, that was a good guess. I wasn't whining. I was I mean, I'm sorry, because we've been complaining about our shitty weeks, I need to end our little um therapy minute here with have you started seeing holiday ads?

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Yes.

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I love them so much.

SPEAKER_00 13:53

And the Starbucks ones this year I feel are really good. Yeah. They're getting me in the spirit, and I'm like, oh, Bridget, they're all right. Coffee for the holiday. Yeah, but it's Starbucks, man.

SPEAKER_02 14:02

Like local coffee shops are better.

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Duncan's got uh a store coming into Lake Geneva. Oh, yeah. And they have a new holiday button that has like molasses in there. Like, your coffee can be a little sweet.

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I'm like, will they be open for the holidays, you think?

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I don't know, but I wanted to take a video of this. I want to do one of these like TikTok duos or whatever they call it. It's really into TikTok. Uh like the ones that go like this. No, no, no, no, no, no. The like side-by-side ones where I send you the video of like the coffee. Bridget does it a lot. Yeah, of like, oh, this is a bowl, dark roast, blah, blah, blah, with like Ecuadorian spice and molasses to sweeten up. And we'll see like Bridget, like, yeah, I'm here for and then like, oh, sweet coffee.

SPEAKER_02 14:43

We're gonna turn this into a coffee chat. I want my coffee bitter and black.

SPEAKER_00 14:47

I mean, maybe a good episode would be Bridget making Nick try all sorts of coffee.

SPEAKER_02 14:52

It would be fun, actually. You would hate it. It'd have to be cold. Actually, we should do that. Coffee from lightest to darkest. Okay, great. Um, anyway, I just have to give a shout out because I'm incapable of just enjoying like a holiday ad. Dick's Dick's Sporting Goods is killing it with their ads. I think they had, um, I forget a couple months ago, they had a really great one. Some it was about women because Dick's is um actually run by a woman. So hooray. But they they have, I don't remember the ad now, but I saw it last night, an awesome holiday ad, and all I could think was, I need to figure out who their ad agency is because they should be paying them tons of money. Because I've never paid attention to dicks, I gotta be honest. Until like my dad won a whole bunch of gift certificates there from a golf outing. Um, but other than that, like I don't go to dicks, but I'm telling you now I want to. So whoever their ad agency is, good job. I'm sure you're listening to this podcast. Okay, that's been our weeks, guys.

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I hope your weeks have been shiny, bright, and wonderful. So, talking about ad agencies, I've been increasingly targeted by good news Milwaukee things. I think I'm around you too much. I know. I think my desire to like bring you good Milwaukee news that you haven't found out is No, I knew about this duff. Um, but this one I thought was really cool. It makes me really, really happy. Uh, Giannis and Tenka Compont. And his wife, um Riddlesperger. What's her first name? We're doing great.

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I can't remember. I guess.

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Mariah. Okay. Uh Mariah Riddlesperger. Uh they had their second baby, and he's named Maverick. Mav. What are they gonna call him? Mav, you think? I don't know.

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What's his middle name? I don't know. Maverick. I'm just gonna look up Janis' kid. Okay.

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Because like the middle. Oh, nope, that's Leah first one's yeah, because like they have I think the middle names are like important to them. Uh I I don't know, man. You keep going. I'll look this up. That one, that one.

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Oh, oop.

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Oh to celebrate the birth of their second child, Maverick. Um, they are doing a really cool diaper drive where they said they've been a little bit um secretive about this until Giannis ruined it by taking this kid out to buy sneakers in a mall. So, first of all, he still goes to malls. I mean, I love him. Like, he just seven-foot Giannis suddenly shows up at a mall with like security. It's like, oh yeah, I wasn't trying to make a big deal of it. I just wanted sneakers. Like, dude, you can buy your like you can call Nike and they'll send you sneakers. I'm sure. He's like, no, I just want to go to Foot Locker. So he will go so he brought his kid, like one week old kid, out to Foot Locker with him, and everybody's getting pictures like, oh, Giannis and Mariah had their second kid. Yeah, he loves that stuff. So anyway, that's why he's not gonna leave Milwaukee. Like, because he couldn't do that anywhere else. I yeah, I mean maybe Cleveland, I don't know. Anyway, so to celebrate their second kid, people are like, because people have this weird thing with celebrities, they want to send gifts, even though they have more money than you can ever imagine. They are doing a collab with um the Wonkey Diaper Mission to get diapers donated for people that need diapers, which is this incredible thing because you forget, oh yeah, diapers are expensive. And it's expensive. It's annoying to most people, but to people that have kids and are really our need, it's a prohibitive cost. And diaper rash is a horrible thing.

SPEAKER_02 18:12

Are you burying the lead here? Do you know who started Milwaukee diaper mission? Bridget Leach? No, she's from Lake Geneva, Megan Johnson. Oh, I didn't know that. That's why I thought you were saying it. Yeah, no. No, I didn't know. A local person from Lake Geneva started this Milwaukee diaper mission.

SPEAKER_00 18:26

So this is so cool. Well, maybe uh maybe Mike Kasaric, who is one of the owners of the Bucks and is a Lake Geneva landlord. Uh, you know him well. You did a lot of work with him in your time with the Lake Geneva Downtown Business Improvement District. Maybe he introduced them. That would be an amazing. I don't think so, but maybe. Anyway, um, so good for Giannis and Mariah doing this to get diapers to these people that need it.

SPEAKER_02 18:52

It's called Maverick's diaper mission.

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It's amazing.

SPEAKER_02 18:54

Yeah, it's really cool. It just makes me think like I want to hug Giannis. Oh, well, I want to hug Megan Johnson for doing this and Giannis. Anyway, yeah, I was so excited. I'm like, oh, I wonder if Nick knows this when I saw this from the article. Oh, okay. Well, I have spent all this time while Nick was telling that story trying to find Maverick's middle name, and I still can't find it. So Nick's gonna do that while I tell you about my news story, which is also local.

SPEAKER_00 19:18

Also, shout out to the Walworth County food pantry, which expanded to diaper bank recently because um they realized they need people need diapers.

SPEAKER_02 19:28

I am part of all these like moms of Walworth County groups because like that's what you do. And my current favorite crime podcast, Morbid, is it was laughing about this. Um they were talking about like the mom Facebook groups, and I couldn't relate. I like could so relate where I don't talk in these groups, I don't comment, I don't post anything, but I do laugh at I I don't laugh at the mean things, but there are sometimes some really petty shit on there, and so I just read and like ha ha ha. It's a great way to just figure out what's going on in the neighborhood too. So anyway, um, there's always people in those groups kind of posting about a friend in need or something like that. And I'm happy to see that a lot of people are tagging the uh food and diaper bank because I don't think people know about it, even in Walworth County. So anyway, um my news article uh comes from Crane's uh Chicago business. So it is Richard Dreehouse. So he, if you are from the Lake Geneva area or probably the Chicago area, you know who he is. Um, but he has an estate on Lake Geneva. So he had, he depth. I'm sorry, had, yes.

SPEAKER_00 20:26

He he did Maverick Shea.

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Shea, oh I love that. Um one of the girls' friends at daycare's name is Shay.

SPEAKER_00 20:33

Uh Shay scratched Simone in the eye once, and anytime there's an owl, like if you Shay did it. Yeah, no, so if you're like, oh ouch, that hurts so much. Like, she points her eyes and goes, Shay scratch.

SPEAKER_02 20:44

Lucy did the same thing for a while. Um I we don't know because they keep it anonymous, but Lucy got bitten, and every time she got hurt, she goes, Shay bit me, Shay bit me. I was like, okay. And yesterday actually I picked up and Katie said that Katie, um, their teacher, Miss Katie, said that the Lucy and Shay were fighting. So Miss Katie said, Lucy, what are you doing? And she goes, We fighting. Yeah, you would. Okay, anyway, early kid corner. Um, so Dreehouse died. Yes, he had a huge estate on the lake. I'll get to that somewhere later in the article. I just don't know. Um, Glanworth Gardens is what his estate is called because rich people name their houses. Um I named my house. Um did you seriously?

SPEAKER_00 21:28

It's called Mikasa. Oh, I was like, are you kidding me? Um so I could just call it to my house, and then you walk in, welcome to my house, you know. Okay. Anyway. I'm not listening anymore.

SPEAKER_02 21:38

Continue. Um, so Glanworth Gardens, his house, was on the market for it, came on the market October 22nd, priced at a cool 39.25 million dollars. That's can we just 39.25?

SPEAKER_00 21:53

Yes, listed by Geneva Lakefront Realty, our friend David Curry. David Curry, yeah. Good customer. We advertise. In his magazine every year. Shout out to David. What a he is quoted in this.

SPEAKER_02 22:05

Oh, is he? Yes. And Tim Salm of Jamison Sotheby's International Realty also. So he um as of November 11th, it's under contract. So it was what's that three weeks?

SPEAKER_00 22:15

I can't believe this is already under contract.

SPEAKER_02 22:17

I cannot believe because there so then this article discusses how next door there's a house that's been on the market since February. And oh my God. Like, so this is the second price on this house is incredible. Well, yes. It's the second highest price tag on the lake, blah, blah, blah. So yeah, Curry is quoted saying, I'm surprised. I'm not surprised it went so quickly. There's nothing like it, and buyers recognized how rare the opportunity was. So this estate, to give you an idea, has 621 feet of shoreline, 13 bedrooms built in 1906, and it's been restored meticulously.

SPEAKER_00 22:51

It has been.

SPEAKER_02 22:51

He bought it in 1998. Um, there's a four-bedroom guest house. So the guest house is probably bigger than either of our homes. Um there's a children's village. So anyway, if you're from around here, you've probably been there, maybe either for his party. He hosts a birthday party every year at the end of July. Um, or I actually have worked there twice at a birthday party.

SPEAKER_00 23:13

You know you're rich when you let people use your house for fundraisers.

SPEAKER_02 23:17

Oh, yeah. I mean, when you have 621 feet of shoreline and 13 bedrooms. So yeah, it it's crazy. If you have know anything about the Lake Geneva area, you know about this house. Uh, you can pop on the link in the show notes if you want to see pictures of it. It's I have babysat there. Isn't that weird? That is weird. I babysat there once and I worked a carnival there. So, you know, local people here. This is what fancy Lake Geneva people do. I don't you think it's funny when people are like, oh, you like you're from Lake Geneva? Oh, yeah. Heavens, yeah. Yes, there are people that live here. There's a high school. Oh, do you live on the lake? No, no, I work birthday parties of people that live on the lake. Nope. Okay, that's what's going on in the news.

SPEAKER_00 24:00

We're gonna be right back. No dad joke? I I had some on they were bad shingles jokes. And we talked about it enough. Okay, guys, we're back. I know I said no more shingles talk, but my product recommendation has shingles in it. I thought it might. Um, although there's other uses for this. So as part of my so I got done with my doctor's appointment, and if you, you know, you you get your post post visit care notes. Yeah. I think that's what they're called. And I'm always like, I got the app, it's fine, don't print them, please. I don't need to wait here like five minutes while you try and figure out how to print them. So uh it was on lunch break. I said, you know, I got it at noon, and my doctor's walking out as to get lunch as I'm checking out. She's like, no, no, print them. He needs them. And it's a list of like, I gotta change this soap to this, I gotta do this vinegar soap thing, I gotta do this, I gotta do that. And one of them is like, change your soap to this, and then the next one is like, do these moisturizing creams on this list. And uh, so I got I got this thing, and it's called Sara Ve Moisturizing Cream. And I gotta tell you, it is fabulous. Provides a little bit of uh actually a little bit of pain relief. I don't know if it's pain relief so much as it stops the itching.

SPEAKER_02 25:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:33

Stops the itching, which is great. And Sarah, who's had uh a number of wrist surgeries in her life due to various things, said, Oh, that's the good stuff. Because as, you know, like you have to, when you do the wrist surgery, you take like skin off and she she's like, that's the stuff they told me to get when I had my wrist. So Cervey moisturizing cream, it's great for eczema, uh, according to the packaging. Um, it's got um what's that thing that they say in your face cream you're supposed to have? Residerol or something? I don't know. Retinol? Yes, that. Um it's got that in there, but it's from the uh the shingles. So if you got like dry skin, it was like $18 for a huge tub.

SPEAKER_02 26:16

Um I have so many comments on this because I'm a lotion person.

SPEAKER_00 26:20

Uh and they were very clear cream, not lotion.

SPEAKER_02 26:23

Well, okay, so it's thick lotion.

SPEAKER_00 26:25

Well, I don't know the technical things. I could tell you the technical things about sausage. I'm not a lotion or cream person, so I can't tell you the government regulations on that. But I am gonna recommend this. Drop a link in the show notes. If you have dry scaly skin or if you have shingles, check this out. I hope you don't.

SPEAKER_02 26:43

My very exciting.

SPEAKER_00 26:45

Would you say cera vee for that? How would you pronounce that? It's C R, and then like there's like a different color and it's V.

SPEAKER_02 26:51

I always thought it was Cera V, but it it does say Cara Ve. I think there is an accent.

SPEAKER_00 26:56

I think there's an accent on it.

SPEAKER_02 26:57

Oh, yeah, so SaraVe. Oh no, that's a registered trademark.

SPEAKER_00 27:00

Oh, I thought it was an accent. Whatever. Who knows? Um, look at it also could be like Cher V.

SPEAKER_02 27:05

Did you get the um pump one or the tub?

SPEAKER_00 27:07

No, no, the tub. I think the pump's lotion and the tubs.

SPEAKER_02 27:10

Oh, so maybe that's the difference. Okay. Yeah, here's a lotion. Okay, great. Glad we discussed that. I do feel strongly about proper lotions. I moisturize every time I get out of the shower.

SPEAKER_00 27:21

That's a that's a brand name you'd go for over a generic.

SPEAKER_02 27:25

Oh, yes, for sure. I've tried.

SPEAKER_00 27:27

It's actually about the same. It's like a dollar more for the size than a quate. Because they had a quate on the list and they had this one, and this was like a dollar more. I'm like, Really? I'm gonna get the like brand name one.

SPEAKER_02 27:36

I need to knock these shingles out. Okay, this is such not a Bridget thing, but let me make it a Bridget thing. So I went to Target after Halloween to look at the Halloween clearance costumes because my kids love to dress up, so it's for a good Christmas gift. They also love to wake up early. So early. So early. Too soon. Um, so so they um, I was just like in the Halloween clearance section, and they had like little, probably not brown name, Pyrex. I know I'm saying Pyrex. So glass bowl with lid that looks a lot like Pyrex, but it like had Halloween colored stripes in that it was wet.

SPEAKER_00 28:11

I will say you should buy Pyrex because the like propensity of these things to blow up in the microwave, even with Pyrex is high, and the not brand name ones.

SPEAKER_02 28:20

No, okay, Nick and I differ on this because you know what's worse? Getting cancer from microwaving plastic.

SPEAKER_00 28:26

So well, the glass bowls still blow up, but Pyrex blows up a lot less than like knockoff.

SPEAKER_02 28:31

Yes. So where I'm going with this, guys, is I saw these glass bowls with lids in the clearance section. I did buy them because I like to store my things in glass because I refuse to microwave in plastic.

SPEAKER_00 28:43

But I hear it causes shingles.

SPEAKER_02 28:45

I did get I shop at Goodwill all the time. And I find Pyrex there all the time. And yeah, I don't care. I wash it, I bleach it, I put it in the dishwasher, I do all the same shit everyone.

SPEAKER_00 28:55

Glass is sterile, it's fine.

SPEAKER_02 28:56

And and I so I have full sets of Pyrex dishes, bowls with lids, rectangular ones with lids, and I'm here to recommend them, okay? I didn't know about the like knock off brands. I that makes sense. Blowing up the microwave. So get the Pyrex ones, find them at Goodwill if you're thrifty like me. I was gonna use if I'm cheap, I'm thrifty. But please don't microwave in plastic. Uh Britney Value driven. Did studies, value driven. Brittany did some work at the UN, I believe is when this was. No, I'm mixing up the cool things she did. Um, but she did a lot of studying about plastics and cancer, and so please don't microwave in plastic. So get yourself some Pyrex. I will find some of Goodwill for you if you want me to, okay? Pyrex with lids, everybody. It's leftover season.

SPEAKER_00 29:38

Bridge's new job, personalized goodwill shopper. It's literally my dream job. We'll be right back.

SPEAKER_02 30:05

Alright, guys, it's time. We're back. We're back. It's time for me to sing the first time this episode. You're welcome. Um, okay, what are we doing? Because you're trying to come up with a rotating cycle. So you know what I did? I went on Reddit last night forever and tried to be like, all right, guys, I'm gonna and by Reddit I mean not the app because I don't have time for that garbage on my life. So it it defaults to Safari. Um I don't understand. Like I was trying to find all these things. You're like, yeah, there's this channel, or what do you call them? Subreddit. Subreddit. There's this subreddit called whatever, and I'm like, oh, how do I find this? I don't know. PR slash public freak out. Is that a subreddit? Yeah. This is the most man laid out thing in the world. So I tried to find a cool one.

SPEAKER_00 30:54

One of the big difficulties Bridget and I have in our working relationship is that Bridget likes to dump everything in one place and search it. And I like to do folders and navigate it.

SPEAKER_02 31:04

I mean, I would like to, but I'm often much too like uh it sometimes it takes 12 clicks to get into the thing I need.

SPEAKER_00 31:10

And it's very satisfying to me and very frustrating to Bridget.

SPEAKER_02 31:13

Yes, it's weird. I know. Well, that's why Reddit's frustrating because what I w I want to search it. What do I do? I got like I text. Not great on the search. Was it last night or this morning? And I was like, I oh no, I just put it on here. I'm like, I tried. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 31:28

I give up on Reddit, I don't know what the hell to do. Luckily, though, luckily Nick hasn't got we have this thing we need to talk about, and we should just talk about it on air.

SPEAKER_02 31:36

Uh-oh. What do we have to talk about?

SPEAKER_00 31:37

Friendsgiving. Oh, I was like, uh-oh. So we've talked about Friendsgiving. We love Friendsgiving and it's coming up for us. And Bridget took the bowl by the horns to organize who's gonna make what. Do you know why I did that? Because you're good at organizing and making toasted check's mix.

SPEAKER_02 31:56

That's not true. Which is very good. It's seasoned oyster crackers. That one, Jr. It's really good. Um, okay, but really, do you want to know why? I'm really sad I'm not hosting. I miss hosting, but my house is still not under construction.

SPEAKER_00 32:09

Let's go, Pete. Okay. Anyway, so Virgin concluded very kind note that I think how did you want to Nick was interested in doing the meat, so I'll let him do that. Something. I was like, I just didn't.

SPEAKER_02 32:22

I didn't want someone to Yeah, because I didn't want someone to email me and be like, you forgot the turkey on the sign up. I'm like, well, Nick's doing it. And by turkey, I mean he's doing 900 things.

SPEAKER_00 32:32

So I need some advice on how we should do the turkey because Oh, yeah, this is always fun to me. I don't have one of my good fresh ones yet. We're gonna do a frozen one, which will be fine. So I need help. All right, because I want to go a little insane. I love cooking for Thanksgiving. I love the Friendsgiving thing. We've talked about it, it should be like kind of traditional, but with like a little twist, a little bit of fun.

SPEAKER_02 32:53

Well, this is my exact question, actually. Did we discuss that on here? We did, but we never came to a conclusion. Yeah. Well, Friendsgiving is the place, in my opinion, to do the crazy recipes.

SPEAKER_00 33:02

So if we do a turkey, do I do like a fun seasoned one? Like, do we do a curry one? Do I like do I don't know, something a little different? Like we could bring some Asian flavors in. Asian flavors love poultry, or do I just do like boring turkey? Like, I'm gonna cook are baffling. I'm gonna cook this and transport it two miles down the road. Uh big, big transport.

SPEAKER_02 33:27

I would argue that it's maybe not even one mile.

SPEAKER_00 33:30

Uh no, I mapped it out for running routes, and it's like a mile and it's 1.8 miles. Nick's training to run a 5k with me, guys. Uh, I've taken off recently because I have shingles. I have shingles, and I was told that I shouldn't run because they will rupture my pustules. That's disgusting. I don't want to run with your pustules. So I don't know. Okay, well. Should I do like a party bird? So we're big proponents of like party bird. But then when it came to, what if I did a feast of many birds? This is what I'm saying. So there's this Italian thing. I'm sorry, we're in Wisconsin, this Italian thing that the Italians do uh around Christmas that's called the feast of like eleven fish or some dumb thing. Seven. Seven fish? I don't know. It's some like biblical Catholic thing. I'm Catholic. I'm not as Catholic as Bridget. She went to Catholic grade school. Seven. It's seven. Look at me. Well they call like fishies. It's Feast of Seven. Whatever. Uh so what if for Friendsgiving we did the feast of many birds and I made a little bit of turkey, a little bit of duck, because Tyler loves duck. I know he does. And of all the people I'd want to make happy in this world, there's Simona and then Tyler.

SPEAKER_02 34:42

Also Sarah. Right next to Tyler. Um, okay.

SPEAKER_00 34:48

Somewhere around there.

SPEAKER_02 34:49

I don't know why I feel like pheasant.

SPEAKER_00 34:52

We could do quail. We could do goose.

SPEAKER_02 34:55

Actually, Kim, Kim, Chief Retail Ambassador, meat ambassador, and I were talking about all of the birds of a different feather yesterday. I think that's the way to go.

SPEAKER_00 35:04

So what you're saying is I should do like maybe a turkey breast. So for the people that just want a traditional children.

SPEAKER_02 35:09

Although the kids, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:11

Yep. There's some turkey breast. Yeah. And then we could do like a goose for the people like the dark meat, the duck or the people that are Tyler. We could do like Pheasant. We could do quail. All right, this is how I'm gonna do it.

SPEAKER_02 35:23

What about Cornish game hen?

SPEAKER_00 35:24

We could do uh, you know, it's just a chicken. I could do a chicken. Yeah, well, I like chicken, okay? We could do a chicken.

SPEAKER_02 35:29

Here's the thing I say get adventurous, and then I'm like, but I kind of just want some turkey.

SPEAKER_00 35:32

Because my other thoughts were I could do something like kind of out there. Like I could do the turkey, and then I could do uh like a stuffed pork loin roast where you pound it flat and do like cranberry sauce and stuffing or dinosaur beef. Yes, I could do dinosaur beef. Uh this was really what made you go, what is it? Yes, I was like, what is happening? Nick smoking something to for pain relief, alternative medicine. Yep. No, so this is you take um beef short ribs. This is a real thing. I thought this was a joke. No, no, no, no. You take beef short ribs, like a whole plate, um, and and you smoke them. Uh, or you could do back ribs. Back ribs are not good. Uh, and a lot of people do with back ribs, and you smoke them, and the meat pulls back from the bones enough it looks like the Fred Flintstone thing that made his car tip over. Oh, yes. Yeah, so like the bone, like the rib bone sticking out. I don't know. And it's a little big thing of it's kind it's feels like a turkey leg. Maybe we should just have turkey legs for everybody. We could do that. Do you know how much turkey legs cost right now? It's insane. They tripled in price this year. They're still only like four bucks a pound, but I'm like, what?

SPEAKER_02 36:41

Okay, I am feeling conflicted because most of our friends that are gonna be at Friendsgiving are listening to this podcast. Thanks, guys, loyal listeners. What do you want? We're making you send an email to us. Don't text us, don't Facebook message us, send us an email at hello dinner plus trade.

SPEAKER_00 36:56

Email thread you can respond to also. There's a sign-up genius. Um, nobody signed up for stuffing yet. I might might make stuffing because I might have time.

SPEAKER_02 37:04

I've locked myself out of my sign-up genius extra. Um, and I am the one that started it.

SPEAKER_00 37:09

So oops. Um now, my other dilemma with this thing is wine. And I sent an email about this recently. I saw this email. Did you uh I did not reply. Would you like to read this email? Okay, stand by. Um Listen, I'm I I go insane on Thanksgiving. We're pretty busy this week, so I'm waiting for everyone else to reply. And I would just like you to share with our listeners how insane Nick is about Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_02 37:33

I gotta tell you though, I don't think it's enough. Okay. I agree. Okay, good. Here's Nick's reply to our group email. Okay, I read what Bridget sent more closely, and she said, bring your own drinks. But I do have a lot of wine that needs to be drank. So I could cover wine if that would be fine with people. I have bubbles, Riesling, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Syrah, and of course Cabernet for Bridget. I think six or seven bottles would be enough, yes? And these friends, our best friends, are all saying yes. Yes, they're all gonna reply and be like, oh yeah, that's great.

SPEAKER_00 38:02

It's not enough. It's not. I'm thinking this through. I'm like, I don't think this is enough. We're just gonna drink a bottle by ourselves. Sarah's gonna drink a bottle by herself. I'm gonna have like two ounces of every bottle that's like most of it gone.

SPEAKER_02 38:12

Listen, I'm gonna drink bubbles and calve, let me be clear. So maybe I'll split my bottle drinkage. I just but it's a lot of adults. It's a lot of adults.

SPEAKER_00 38:21

I don't know. What if people want beer? And what I told him to bring them. Yeah, so Brian has beer. I mean, this email was me passive aggressively saying, like, hey guys, don't bring wine. I got this covered. I don't want anybody else to screw this up.

SPEAKER_02 38:33

This is funny because Nick and I are obviously anal planners, and I was like, this is not going to be a group text. I hate group text. I'm not gonna have a group text every 10 minutes with 85 people on it. I'm like, also, it's not gonna be a Facebook message because we're adults and group Facebook messages are maybe worse than a group text. I'm not sure. So I was like, this will be an email. And but like clearly, these other our very good friends maybe plan differently than us.

SPEAKER_00 38:58

Or aren't as insane about parties as we are. Where we're like, I mean, this is why when what time? Where's the wine? What about the table decor? Like your hosting style and my cooking style line up very nicely. That's true. Yeah, I don't want to cook. And there's a couple things I'd really Thanksgiving. I love it, and I just don't want them screwed up because I don't get a lot of leisure time, and if during my leisure time, I'd like it to be leisurely. So I would like to control the meat, the stuffing, and the wine.

SPEAKER_02 39:31

Nick does not want my box stovetop, but I'm gonna bring it from us. I mean, there's nothing wrong with that, but yeah, it cost 90 cents and is ready in a minute.

SPEAKER_00 39:37

There's nothing wrong with that. I just really do enjoy the process of I'm I Who are you? Process? I'm gonna keep saying leisurely. Uh I was just kind of picking at that scab until Thank you, until it I blew up. Yes. Uh my fuse is much shorter. I haven't slept a lot this week. I might make my own gravy too, because I'm gonna have all of the, you know, weird stuff from the turkeys and the birds that I'm cooking, that I could just make some really good gravy.

SPEAKER_02 40:07

In all seriousness, we're joking a lot about this, but we all work our butts off. And we are getting babysitters for this event. The kids will be there in the basement. Did they have a basement? They have a huge basement. I have not been. Or maybe up in the tower. Um, the kids will be there, but like we are taking some adult time, which none of us do really enough of. I I don't. Um, so like this is a moment, okay? Yes, I don't take enough adult time. Tyler and I, I was just telling Nick before the podcast, like, Tyler and I are like high-fiving at the door. Like, you've got the kids today, I'm working. Okay, you've got the kids today, I'm playing DD. Tyler. Oh, you're not playing DD? But you're not listening to this, so that's fine. No, he's listening to this in three years from now. So anyway, we are taking a lot of like we're we're organizing an evening, and hopefully everyone's getting a minute to chill the F out before. Well, it's in the middle of the busiest time of the year for Nick and I, but uh we're doing great. Before Christmas, hopefully we all get to chill. So we want our wine.

SPEAKER_00 41:05

So, yeah, I don't think I have enough wine. I think I'll bring some more.

SPEAKER_02 41:09

I mean, I yeah, okay. I knew when I sent it to the water. I know Katie likes wine, for instance. I honestly don't even know who's coming if I'm being real. I didn't know Katie was coming until she chimed into that email.

SPEAKER_00 41:20

I was like, oh, okay, I didn't know your family was gonna be there. Nobody signed up for roles yet, which is I need to look at the sign-up genius because uh you know you could just open an incognito window and you can see. Oh shit, you're right.

SPEAKER_02 41:33

I taught you that like a week ago about something else, damn it. Okay. Canva. Uh all right, anyway.

SPEAKER_00 41:39

No, co-schedule.

SPEAKER_02 41:40

Co-schedule, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:41

So anyway, okay. So this is good. So I'm gonna plan. So we haven't figured anything out. Maybe we'll do like uh a podcast during it of like getting real life reactions. See how much our friends hate us. To what do you think about the goose?

SPEAKER_02 41:53

Wait, I kind of like the cranberry stuffing stuffed pork loaf.

SPEAKER_00 41:57

Oh, it's very good.

SPEAKER_02 41:58

Slash chicken. Just kidding. But like this stuffed pork, can you just make all these things except maybe the dinosaur beef? Can you just bring every meat that we sell? Yes, but everyone knows that I don't make decisions. Um, because uh how many turkey breasts? We're gonna have to make enough turkey for the kids. There's like a hundred children.

SPEAKER_00 42:19

Well, the turkey breast is like eight pounds. That's like 16 people's worth of food. I would say that's just the kids.

SPEAKER_02 42:25

I mean, think about the number of kids that are gonna be there. I don't know, my kids like turkey. Two, four, six. Yeah, there's like at least ten kids, right? Nick is distracted.

SPEAKER_00 42:40

We've had a wine delivery screwed up three times and it's arrived.

SPEAKER_02 42:45

Right now. So we're just checking if it's right. We'll be uh momentarily paused for you.

SPEAKER_00 43:08

Alright, we got that settled.

SPEAKER_02 43:09

We're back, guys. Did you miss us?

SPEAKER_00 43:11

I hope you enjoyed that fun music that I'm gonna find uh Sunday morning. I'm gonna go find some fun music.

SPEAKER_02 43:17

You don't want me to just sing? Oh, actually, no, let's sample you. Let's sing it. No, let's not do that. Um you will all never listen again.

SPEAKER_00 43:22

So, man, Bridget, I thought you were gonna figure out what I should cook. No, man, the pork line thing's really good. Really bad at making decisions.

SPEAKER_02 43:28

Surprise, surprise.

SPEAKER_00 43:29

But kind of like this Feast of Many Birds thing.

SPEAKER_02 43:31

And it'd be a fun, like you know, something for a concept. Yeah. I um, I just want Tyler to be happy. There will be duck, Tyler. Um, I'm bringing crackers. And they're weird. And I feel like I signed up for a second. Oh, dessert. Oh, it's not gonna be a pie. Thanksgiving dessert, everybody. I'm just telling you.

SPEAKER_00 43:49

I never eat dessert because I've ate all the stuff. Everybody's dessert, but I love dessert. No, I eat dessert all the time, but not on Thanksgiving because it's the worst. Pumpkin pie is gross. Yes. Oh, Aaron signed up for Sweet potatoes and she's asking, does everybody want okay? So I love Erin, very kind of her to host, but you can't comment on people's Sign Up Genius comments. So asking, do people like marshmallows in your Sign Up Genius thing doesn't work. Do you know why I did sign up genius? Google Doodle's gone.

SPEAKER_02 44:18

No. Well, I couldn't figure it out because it just shows Google Doodles, you know, like the drawings. So unless it's called something else, I couldn't find it. And then I was like, I'm wasting too much time on this. So anyway, um, I will have to go look at the signal.

SPEAKER_00 44:30

No, I don't like marshmallows on my sweet potatoes.

SPEAKER_02 44:33

I don't like sweet potato casserole, so I don't care. But Tyler likes marshmallows. More coming on that. We'll have a leftovers edition. Um, anyway, yeah, I'm making a thing that's a family. It's not like a recipe we made up. It's like on the back of a ranch packet, like the ranch powdered dressing packet, I'm sure. But it's called seasoned oyster crackers. And they're laugh all you want. They are addictive.

SPEAKER_00 44:59

They're really good, but they are seasoned oyster crackers.

SPEAKER_02 45:01

They're literally oyster crackers with some seasoning on it. Gill, dill, lemon, pepper, garlic, whatever. It's pretty good.

SPEAKER_00 45:07

That's what I'm making. Well, I think I'm gonna do the Feast of Many Birds because I gotta start defrosting stuff. No, I don't. It's next Saturday. We got a week. Yeah, I got a week. Okay, I can start defrosting. It's gonna be great. It's gonna be great. It's gonna be great. Well, guys, um I want to hear about your brats. Yeah, so you know Can I talk about my tacos real quick? Uh, sure, man.

SPEAKER_02 45:26

It's not on the outline, so I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 45:28

Uh I made some really good tacos. Okay. Uh, for Taco Tuesday. I took a chicken, I put it in some water, and I boiled it. Ew. Sounds gross. To cook it. Well, it's an easy, quick way to cook it. So I cooked it for like an hour and it's all soft, easily shredded, like a rotisserie chicken. Yeah, like a rotisserie chicken from Walmart. That doesn't sound like an easy way to cook a chicken. Well, you can walk away.

SPEAKER_02 45:50

Okay, wow. This is baffling. Okay, more on this later. I've never boiled a whole chicken, okay?

SPEAKER_00 45:53

Oh, yeah, it's super easy. That's it's a great way to get shred chicken with like nothing added to it. Oh, okay. And then you have like chicken broth afterwards.

unknown 46:00

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 46:01

For like if you want to make soup. I mean, I'm I'm following, but I also know shred the chicken, uh, melted some butter, threw the chicken in, can of rotel, some taco seasoning, fried it. Oh my god, it was so good. I love me some rotel. So good. So good. I love tacos. These chicken tacos were en fuego.

SPEAKER_02 46:22

En fuego. Okay, I'm so glad about that. I could eat tacos every day. That's all. I've talked about it.

SPEAKER_00 46:26

I just want to talk about tacos.

SPEAKER_02 46:28

Um, my food is a football.

SPEAKER_00 46:29

I want to talk about tacos.

SPEAKER_02 46:30

Taco about tacos. My food is not a food uh that I ate this week. It's just a food I play with every week. Um, we do, if you follow our social media channels at Lake Shiva Country Meets, we do a brat picture every week. And it's just to show what brats are fresh in the case. It's gotten a little out of control because I get it. Yep, yep. I get a little bored with like putting brats in a line. And if we put them upside down, people get mad that there's frowning brats and like whatever. If there's nine brats or if there's no shave November, like mustache. What just like a line of mustache brats? Yeah. Yeah. Obviously, we spend far too much time on this. Uh, and this week I just needed a break. Like, I needed a brain break. I'd been staring at my computer for way too long. So I went to the area of the store in which I take the brat photos, chatted with some people, brainstormed uh wonderful idea. So around Halloween, Oktoberfest, we did some fun ones, right? We did a pretzel. You did a pretzel one week. Yep. Nick took over the five. You took it up. You did um then I did a beer stein. Yep. Uh, and then I did a ghost at Halloween, which was one of my faves. That was really exciting. It was fun. It was easy. Again, this photo was just like meant to be brats on paper. Um, but we've just gone, we've gone past that now. I can't just put brats on.

SPEAKER_00 47:49

You've taken it to the next level, Bridget. So this week, what was most fun about?

SPEAKER_02 47:54

I mean, truly, is we brainstormed this. When I say we, I mean like multiple staff members were like, why don't you make a turkey out of the brats? And I was like, screw you, I can't make a turkey out of brats. And they're like, Yeah, just like do this. I'm like, okay. So I mapped it out. I'm like, I need exactly this many brats to do it. So this week, guys, there's a turkey brat photo.

SPEAKER_00 48:11

It's incredible. And it was so fun. I should never doubt you. I should never doubt your creativity, your ability to make a simple turkey even more complex than it needs to be. And you did it, Bridget. I did. I made it way harder for myself than it needed to be. And in the words of the French, incredible.

SPEAKER_02 48:30

Listen, it was fun, and I needed that like brain break while it was still work, but um, it's because next week, I know it seems a bit early, but we're knee-deep in turkeys already at Lake Shimba Country Meets. All of our turkeys had sold out. We're sold. We're talking all about turkeys. So I did a turkey brat photo. Next week, our uh chef Nick at work gave me a good idea.

SPEAKER_00 48:48

So stay tuned for more brat photo fun. I mean, if you need someone to arrange sausages into functionality, in a weird way. Bridget is the person I'll add it to my business card.

SPEAKER_02 48:59

Brat Arranger.

SPEAKER_00 49:00

Sausage arranger. If you need someone to shop a goodwill for you, also me. I have many skills. If we were to do a Wikipedia of like oddly specific talent, this is a Reddit thread. What is your oddly specific talent? Bridget's list would be longer than anybody's.

SPEAKER_02 49:16

I should join Reddit. Just kidding.

SPEAKER_00 49:18

I can't. It's so hard. You keep wanting to. All right, on that note.

SPEAKER_02 49:21

It's time for Kid Corner. As usual, I had 900 options, but I've narrowed it down.

SPEAKER_00 49:27

I'm I'm glad. I actually what I'm more glad about. I should not touch it there. Uh I touched my disease. Uh what I'm more glad about is that you witnessed my kid corner.

SPEAKER_02 49:38

I did yesterday at daycare pickup.

SPEAKER_00 49:40

Tell the people. Talented at many, many, many, many things, my darling baby girl. Uh having a lot of hair is not one of the talents she has. She uh does not have a lot of hair. She does not, no. It's very fine, it's very blonde, and uh she does not have a lot of hair. Um she's very not a lot of hair.

SPEAKER_02 50:01

Especially when you put her next to her, darling Lucy, who has a strong mullet.

SPEAKER_00 50:04

So anyway, uh at in her daycare classroom, they were doing hair braiding. Oh, was it braiding? I believe Lucy got some braids. No, no, Lucy got pigtails, just like top-of-the-head pigtails. And Simona got uh in true Vorpagel fashion, where I got mad when I saw someone else get something that I didn't get. I was like, that's BS, I don't want that. She got mad and yelled at the teacher that she wanted one too.

SPEAKER_02 50:30

Is that what happened?

SPEAKER_00 50:31

Yep. And so Miss AA gave her a bonytail. Oh, that's really funny. Uh, this is two days Wednesday? Yeah. No, so Tuesday or Wednesday was the first time she got one. Oh and it was literally just enough hair. Like, I have more hair to do a ponytail. You have way more hair. To like, it was literally just like a finger length of like a pinky finger length of hair sticking up in the middle of the head, and she was so proud of it.

SPEAKER_02 50:56

Yes, Miss Katie said, Oh, she's so proud of that ponytail.

SPEAKER_00 50:58

She was so proud of it, and um, she was running around showing everybody, look at my my pony, my pony. Um, I was like, jump on it. Oh, different pony. Oh, different pony. Anyway, but she was like, My pony, my pony, and bath time was a disaster that night to take it out. And like because it was so tight to keep it up and everything, like it was, I'm sure it hurt to take it out. Every time, yes.

SPEAKER_02 51:20

And uh and their actual rubber, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 51:22

Yep. And so then yesterday in her normal class, yes, got it again, and she comes home and she's just got like the biggest shitty ingredient of like my pony.

SPEAKER_02 51:30

Like, yeah, my pony, whatever. And uh she's just like, it is funny. I hope I wonder when she gets more hair, if she will like her hair being done or not, because Lucy doesn't like us doing it, but she loves it done at day.

SPEAKER_00 51:41

Because Dada is gonna take some classes with Miss Josie and learn how to do hair.

SPEAKER_02 51:45

I know. I need Josie to cut Lucy's mullet, is what I keep telling myself.

SPEAKER_00 51:49

So, anyway, she's got a ponytail and uh she looks ridiculous.

SPEAKER_02 51:53

I wouldn't call it a ponytail.

SPEAKER_00 51:55

She's got a thick as like a sprout. Yes, a sprout. That's actually the perfect way to put it. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 52:01

What is that movie? Little rascals. Yes. That's exactly what it's like.

SPEAKER_00 52:04

Yes, that's exactly what it looks like. But it's not like curled and like gelled.

SPEAKER_02 52:07

Oh, is it curly? It's gelled. Yeah, anyway, it's very adorable. It's very funny.

SPEAKER_00 52:11

Yeah, she's funny.

SPEAKER_02 52:12

She's funny. I love you so much, Simona. You funny. That's what Lucy says to us. You funny. I'm like, okay. We fightin'. We fightin'. It was so funny. I'm like, I can see her saying that on video.

SPEAKER_00 52:24

You recently did say something of like, oh no, Lucy will knock you out. And the person was like, Oh, Lucy's. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, Lucy will. Lucy will knock you out.

SPEAKER_02 52:34

My and I've mentioned this, I think, on here. I've learned through the years of having my kids that I think if I had to pick one thing that I want for my children, like what like a characteristic, it's confidence. Because I do truly think if you're like self-confident, things are easier internally, like the mental battle with yourself. So my Lucy has no problem with that. Um, so I got to just make sure Elliot's on that path, and I will, all my dreams for my children will come true. Lucy may knock you out. Lucy. So speaking of Lucy, uh we have from our trunk retreat, uh, I gotta tell you, the dollar store balloons are where it's at because that's always where I go to get balloons. Um, we use some blue and white balloons.

SPEAKER_00 53:16

I appreciate that tip that you gave me.

SPEAKER_02 53:17

It was a great tip. It's great. So we use like blue and white balloons to help our frozen themed trunk. Let it go. And then for a dollar's worth of entertainment, those balloons come home with us. I know, balloons are bad. I don't get it. But they mine did not fly away. They're in my home where my children can play with them every day. Well, Lucy um needed one tied to the end of her crib, which like I forgot about at one point. We were running around and I was like, I'll put it right here for you, Lucy, because they're helium balloons, right? So I'll tie it right here. Forgot about it until we turned on her, like we went to look at her monitor, and the balloon was right there. And so it's a white balloon and it's a the dark monitor. So it just looks like a creepy, like terrifying balloon floating in her room, right? Okay, well, last night I was watching her monitor like a creep because I kept like hearing phantom things. I'm like, is she awake? What's going on? Sure was. You know why? She got her balloon untied because I just I didn't tie it in a knot. She got her balloon untied. She's laying in her bed holding her balloon, playing around, and then she let it go and she goes, uh-oh. And I'm watching, I'm like, is she gonna be able to get it off? Oh, your monitor's not creepy and black and white. Ours is like dark and pitch black. Well, at night it is. Don't you have blackout curtains in there?

SPEAKER_00 54:27

Yeah. So at night it's black and white. I don't remember what mine looks like during the city. Simona's home right now and sleeping, so we So we checked out her monitor.

SPEAKER_02 54:34

Um, but so last year she lets the balloon up. She goes, uh-oh. And I'm like, oh crap, is she gonna like start screaming because she couldn't get it? No, no, she stood up on her bed, pulled the balloon right back down, started playing with it in her bed, let it go again, and she goes, again? And like this is all a conversation with herself in her room playing with the balloon. So I watched her, and then you can record from the monitor. I recorded a multi-minute video of her like releasing this balloon again, and then getting it. Yeah, so here we are.

SPEAKER_00 55:04

She should get AP physics credit for this lesson that she's learning. I mean she's learning physics right now.

SPEAKER_02 55:09

She figured out how to get the balloon. I don't know, like, she's not well, she's tall. I don't know how she reached the balloon on her ceiling, but she got it. Anyway, that's all, my darling, Lucy mullet child. Good for Lucio. That's our week, guys.

SPEAKER_00 55:26

Don't get shingles. Daylight savings sucks. Fuck daylight savings time. Yay for the Friendsgiving. And uh if you have $40 million, we have a house for you. A cool $40 million, but it's under contract, sorry. Well, I'm sure if you you know how rich people are.

SPEAKER_02 55:42

If you offered another million dollars, if you offered one more million, they will break that contract. I'm dying to know. They can't say until the contract is complete who bought the house.

SPEAKER_00 55:50

Also, we're doing uh Feast of Many Birds, right? Oh no, wait, we're doing pork. No, wait, we're doing chicken.

SPEAKER_02 55:58

All the birds plus the pig stuffed with cranberry and stuffing.

unknown 56:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 56:03

Cool. Can't wait to tell you all about it.

SPEAKER_00 56:05

The stovetop inside of there.

SPEAKER_02 56:06

I was gonna ask. Okay. Yeah, well, that one we don't compromise. We'll tell you all about it on next week. No, the week after.

SPEAKER_00 56:13

Yeah, you're gonna have to wait.

SPEAKER_02 56:14

Gonna have to wait to hear about the Feast of Many Birds, guys. So in the meantime, if you have suggestions for our Friendsgiving, send them in. Hello at dinnerplusdrinks.com. If you are one of our friends attending Friendsgiving and hate us now after this episode, thanks. We still love you.

SPEAKER_00 56:27

If you want to know the recipe for seasoned oyster crackers, hit me up. Guys, it sounds like I'm making fun of Bridget, but I am not. I mean they're the stupidest, easiest thing, but they're so good. You could also just Google it, it's literally everywhere. Or you could ask Bridget, because Bridget makes it with love.

SPEAKER_02 56:43

I do, and that's the secret ingredient.

SPEAKER_00 56:45

Secret ingredient. Or Elliot throwing it all over it.

SPEAKER_02 56:48

I will let the kids help make that one, kind of.

SPEAKER_00 56:51

Simona's really good at cooking now, and she just has to like chef.

SPEAKER_02 56:55

Simona's probably better at cooking than me.

SPEAKER_00 56:57

Anyway. Instagram, Facebook, YouTube. Hello, dinnerplusdrinks.com. Or just dinnerplostdrinks.com and listen to us on all of your favorite podcast players. Thanks, guys. We'll see you soon. Bye bye.