Skee Ball Fair Dreams | Dinner Plus Drinks #34

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Hello everybody, welcome to the newest edition of Dinner Plus Drinks Podcast. Now with headphones on Virgin and Night. Look how fancy we are. So we're definitely gonna hear ourselves so much better now. I'm very excited about it. Because it's all about hearing ourselves, not about not about you hearing us, but we hope you can hear us too. Anything else at all.

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At least we can all hear how much I giggle, which you know was feedback I got in one of the first few weeks.

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I think you have a good giggle.

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I mean there's nothing wrong with giggling. I giggle because I'm happy, guys.

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All right, now because the weather was 55 and rainy a little bit.

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I wish. I'm like sick of I always get to this point in summer, like August. I'm like, well, it's been 95 for three months. I'm over it and I'm ready for it to be fall.

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Normally, this is a week where everybody goes on vacation, takes the kids before school. What? We're going to whatever. Is school happening? Is Elliot going to school?

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He is um Lake Geneva Schools. Great job. Um we're new to the school system. He was in 3K last year, but that like didn't really count. 4K, he'll be in school five days a week. But the registration system. Apparently there's he's gone. Apparently. Well, I love I love school supply shopping. So apparently there's a school supply list out there somewhere. I've yet to figure out where it is, but it's out there. So it's probably at Walmart. Oh, like print it out. Actually, you're probably not wrong.

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I love that. Every like it's June, and you walk into Walmart, and there's the school supplies for every school in the area printed out. I'm like, what?

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It's it's June.

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You're gonna do great when Simona's in school. I'm so excited.

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So she's gonna go to school with like two pens and some loose paper and be like, what? What? My dad did it this way, and he's fine.

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Okay, whatever. I love school supplies. I bought new ones every year, which is ridiculous.

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Don't they get Chromebooks these days or something like that? And it's just like, here's my Chromebook, do the things, do the stuff.

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One of the options for Elliot, like in this world we're living in, is I think, I think there was a virtual option. I don't know. We knew we were gonna send him to in the city.

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He's great at Minecraft, he'd be great virtual.

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Well, but it's like pick up your Chromebook for your four-year-old. I'm like, I just don't see that being successful. Me picking up a Chromebook for my four-year-old and thinking that's gonna be a full education.

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He's great at Minecraft. I'm sure he can learn another. Minecraft's a very educational game.

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You know, honestly, I wanted to hate on it, but he's done a really good job. He's done pretty things. He's built a really cool glass house, but anyway, he's gonna do great. We're gonna surely doesn't throw any rocks. Well early for the dad joke.

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Boom.

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Um, I will say picture day is September 15th already, and you will be hearing about it on this podcast. I take picture day very seriously. Shocking.

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How are you gonna style him?

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I don't know, but he wore a banana shirt last year. He chose it. It's a like a button-up shirt. Nanna, nanna, nanna, whatever. It was adorable. Okay, don't make fun of me. There's picture day at daycare, so you get to dress Simona.

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Oh my gosh, they have Picture Day at Daycarecare.

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So I get two sets of pictures for my channel.

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He's adorable every day, so oh Jay's.

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Nick, okay. What else happened this week?

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Anything cool? You know, uh, what do we do? We did some. You did some work down here. Yeah, we I I did more work down here, uh, picked up some rocks outside. We have five acres of rocks. So picked up some rocks. Uh the land where my house is has been in my family since the 1840s. It was homestead grant land, and um, you know, it's it's very cool. I like it. It's cool, it's great. Um my grandfather and his brother were um acrimoniously related, let's say. I love listening to the explanation. And so my my my grandfather's brother, my great uncle had the 40-acre plot, uh, a little bit more actually, where my house is now, and right across the street, my grandfather owned that. And my grandfather, when I was he died when I was in fifth grade, but uh when I was in grade school, he would make me and my older cousin walk behind his truck and pick up field stones and put them in his truck.

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I remember a friend of me telling me about this, like a friend that live on our farm.

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When when you're a young kid, it is the worst job in the world. I never had to do that. It's just terrible. Uh, you know, it's not that bad, but you're like seven. And you think it's terrible. You're walking by this truck, picking up stones.

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Oh, it's so heavy. It's so heavy.

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Um, so I swear to God, the field across the street, which my grandparents sold to a hunting club, is picked clean of stones. And this field, there's stones all over, which is problematic when you try to mow it. Because then you know, break it's like a fun game. Yeah. Whack-a-mole. So if Elliot wants to come over and pick up some stones, I'll pay him. Elliot would definitely whine about that. I'll pay him like a nickel a stone. Whoa, that actually could add right up. I mean, it could. There's lots of stones. He could be clever about it, pick up a bunch of pebbles, and call it. He would, you know, we would. I'd have to probably put some things. So I did that.

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Uh he's real into his piggy bank and like saving and spending. We're trying. We're trying to work on that. I mean, mostly he wants to spend it, but we're working on it.

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You know, you you stretch your dollar further at got at Goodwill.

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So that's probably where I mean. I totally love my. I made a goodwill trip with you. That was a dream.

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I just haven't been going as much. Went to a new brewery, deucerbacks over in Delavan. Stay tuned. Yes. Alcorn.

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Alcorn Delavin? I think he said it's an Elkorn address. Uh but the best part is it's kind of in the middle of nowhere.

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It's kind of in the middle of nowhere. So stay tuned, everybody. Had a great time with Adam over there, thinking of some cool possible. Yeah, you'll be hearing more from us on that. So yeah, it was, you know, it was good. It was a good week. Good week. Good week, good week. And got a new product in the store, which leads to what we're drinking today.

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Yeah, Nick made a really good recommendation because everything in here is something I love. This is a Tom Collins. He's gonna come back and tell you more about it. I just know that there's gin in it, and that speaks right to my heart.

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So this is a Tom. So uh you all know we love everybody up at that's a lot of ice in there. I like cold drinks. Uh tap maple syrup, Jeremy and his family. Uh he's been on podcast. Yep. And they do these really cool cocktail syrups. Yep. That uh the first one was an old-fashioned, which in Wisconsin you're an idiot if you're not doing it. And Jeremy's a really smart guy, so of course he did old-fashioned first.

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And we have a cool old-fashioned uh video on on how to make that old-fashioned.

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So this next one is um, here I'll show it. Oh my gosh, I'm so excited. If you're watching, you can see it. Let me see it. It is a cherry bark vanilla bitters infused maple syrup in collaboration with Bittercube. Oh, bittercube, good guys from Milwaukee. And the suggested cocktail is a Tom Collins. Even has a recipe over here for you. So it's three quarters of an ounce of the syrup, three quarters of an ounce of lemon juice, two ounces of gin, and then a splash of seltzer. Seltzer. Uh nice. Which is, of course, bubbly for us. Cheers. Cheers. So let's see. Oh my god. Oh, so refreshing. Oh my god, it's so good.

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Wait, what flavor bubbly did you put in? Just some lime.

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Lime. Oh my gosh. Okay, very little. You've heard us talk about like you can fancy up your drinks by putting different flavored seltzers in. And we use Great Northern Distilling Herbalist. This is so herbalist. I mean, if you're you, probably herbalist.

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Herbalist. Uh herbalist. If you're regular people herbalist. So we use that in this.

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We even have a place for products now on the back of Nick. I'm gonna take this one because I don't have enough stuff on it.

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It's a nice, it's a really nice summery drink. It's so good. I feel like we should bring this. We have a fun activity. Yeah, I'm gonna bring it tomorrow.

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Okay, I was like, we have a fun activity that we're doing tomorrow together with some other friends of ours um that have been on the podcast before. I think we should make this for them. And by we I mean you.

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Yeah, should I just bring like a huge picture? Like ten of those. Do you think Jeff would drink it?

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Jeff Anderson.

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You know what? Stay tuned. Jeff Anderson will let you know if he drank it or not. Our friend Jeff.

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He's um He's better at us in that or he's better than us in that he drinks less.

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He drinks a lot less than us. Uh, but he's dabbled occasionally.

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Not in the hard cells we're tasting.

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I feel like we could tell him that this is just lemonade. Don't listen, Jeff. Well, this will come out after we live in the line. Yeah, so come out. So I brought some fancy lemonade.

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Uh he could try it.

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Do you think Elliot would want to try it though?

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Um actually, no, Elliot doesn't really like lemonade, so we're safe. Perfect. Um, yeah, so that's this is so good.

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It's really good. Uh so shout out to everybody up at Tapped, Jeremy and the gang. Shout out to uh everybody at Great Northern for making some great awesome Wisconsin products, yeah.

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Oh my gosh. The lemon juice is not from Wisconsin. Oh shoot, well, forget it, but I'm not drinking it anymore. Neither's the bubbly, but the two products that really matter are the lemon juice and the bubbly. Okay. This is um going to smoothly transition into the healthy food that I ate this week. You know, drinking, lemonade. What does lemonade remind you of?

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Oh, the fair. And college funds.

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Uh okay, also that. But the lemonade at the fair has the special ice cubes, I think, which is what makes it supposed like the pebbles. Oh, pebbles, roughs, look. Yep, yep. Okay, I honestly my sister and I like talk about the ice in the lemonade cubes. So you went to the fair thing. Yes, so we all know the Warworth County Fair is not happening. This is very sad. Like, we love the fair.

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It is the big one. It is legitimately the oldest, biggest, yep, grandest fair.

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It's the best, it's been a dry fair forever. It's a grand champion fair. It's I actually have won a grand champion at that fair, Nick. Did you know? In photography, actually. Okay, you're not impressed.

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It's a that's a hard color.

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Have you told Jeff Anderson this? Yeah, Jeff Anderson. I bet Jeff Anderson's never won a grand champion.

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I think I was eight and I won a grand champion in 4-H.

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Yeah, you definitely did not do that.

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That picture I didn't even think was that. Bridget's a grand champion. Tell her to bring the picture. Let's get okay, guys. If I can find the picture, I'll definitely post it. Um, but anyway, so there, the midway, like uh the carnival food people did a food fair like drive-thru. I thought we were just driving through, getting our fried food and leaving, but I found out that you get to sit there. So we got to sit in a field and eat our fried food. But the thing that really made me want to go is that they had a game. They had one carney game. And if you could have one carney game, take a break from your text and tell me what it could be.

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It would be the throw a ping pong ball and win a goldfish. That's a terrible game.

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Because then that goldfish dies in like a week. Oh my gosh.

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Also, Elliot or lives forever. Elliot informed me he would like a puppy, but if not a puppy, a snake, and then a goldfish. So you could achieve this for Elliot.

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Stay tuned about the puppy in Kid Corner. What?

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Anyway, that's what it's called.

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The one game they had was Ski Ball.

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Oh, Ski Ball's gonna be talking about it.

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I love skee ball.

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So we got just on your phone. Do you have like the app? I didn't know there was one. Oh, Bridget.

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Okay, well, so many exciting things. So again, this was not necessarily like the most delicious food I ate, but it was the most fun. I had cotton candy, funnel cakes, we had fries, really healthy stuff. We all we got home, we're like walking.

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Jeff is intrigued about her grand champion photography.

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Oh, good. This is a group text, so there's gonna be 87 texts by the time this episode is done. So anyway, I had fair food. It was super fun. It was probably not the best, like delicious, most wonderful, healthy food, but neither was Nick's. So, Nick, tell me what you ate.

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I how did I describe this? A Bridget dish? Kind of describe this.

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It's a Bridget dish.

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It's a Bridget dish. Uh so what I did. You also described it as trashy. So well, it is kind of trashy. Um we we had to do a quick dinner because Simona needed to eat fast, and we try very hard to feed Simona our food. And so the quick way to cook chicken is to cube it and poach it. So I had some butter, garlic, poached chicken, cubed up some chicken breast. That's fancier than mine. And well, I mean, I melted half a stick of butter. I didn't poach my chicken in anything. Well, that's if you cooked it in butter, it's effectively like that much butter because I'm poaching this much, and then you know, some some garlic and a little bit of lemon juice, and uh, you know, cooked it. And then I had some uh noodles that we bow tie, so fancy. Oh, that is fancy. Fancy. And uh we we you know boiled those and then put a bunch of butter in those. Some lemon juice. Fancy. Fancy, because we have lemon juice and bow shoes. We roasted some garlic, or not garlic, some some uh broccoli. We put all those things together and then put a bunch of parmesan cheese. Yeah, it's not but it was it real parmesan or not?

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Like no, it's real parmesan. Okay, at least it wasn't. You could have trashy this up way more. Like the shake, what is that? Like the craft, yeah.

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That stuff is terrible. Like, don't don't I have a photo of it here. Let me show it on on the YouTubes for you people looking.

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He has a he took a photo of this dish to tell me just how trashy it was and how much I would like it. And he's not wrong.

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I don't know if you can see that on YouTube. I think you should. Uh maybe we'll put it up. It was the most yummy thing I've ever had. I have a friend Andy who uh we did a wine podcast with him. And I like Andy because he's a very fancy dude, very sharply dressed. He's from Meckwell. Oh yeah, I've met him. Yeah. So, you know, very fancy dude.

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Did you share this dish with him?

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And uh we're talking about like very serious. He sells very expensive wine. We're talking about serious wine, and he kind of, you know, Nick, wine should just be about yummy. Everybody forgets the yummy factor. I'm like, uh, bruh. Yeah. That's right. Let's let's not forget about the yummy factor. Bring back the yummy. And this was just yummy. Here we are, guys. So that was what I ate. I encourage everybody to not forget to eat the yummy to bring back the yummy. We're gonna make that stick. Uh maybe that's our campaign slogan. I one of the reasons I realized I should quit law school was because on election day, God, what was it? 2008. Yeah, it was a Brock's election. Um, I wore a Vader Palpatine 2008 make the galaxy great again. Oh boy. Shirt to school, and everybody else had like suits on because they were doing real campaign stuff. And I was like, Oh, what up? And that was one of the reasons I think I quit law school because I realized if I was more interested in making a like everybody sucks comment, maybe I shouldn't maybe maybe the law isn't part of it. Maybe I shouldn't be part of this. So maybe that could be our 2020 funny shirt. Is we could have I think we should make themed shirts. Make America Yummy Again.

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Someone was just telling me, actually, Kevin um Fleming was telling me that his wife was sewing masks for a friend of someone who worked at the polls down in Chicago, and so they made voting masks, which is cool. I want I was like, Yeah, I want to walk around with a mask that says vote because I wanted to wear it here. It's like the bubble for the NBA.

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They all say vote on the back. Do they? Yeah. So they the bubble, they they're how they're able to have social justice messages instead of their name. And so it's really weird because there's like 10 dudes on the floor that their name is vote, and you're like, oh my gosh, I love that.

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Yeah, it's cool, but I can surprise you and just wear a vote mask here. But I don't like speaking into a microphone with a map. I mean, I feel like in my old age, I don't. I used to love surprises. Now they just like make me anxious. You have a big birthday coming up. I do. I feel anxious about it already.

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So let's just get right into the politics. Let's get into the politics.

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Let's talk about this. This news story that I chose. Gosh, it was it really prompted me to make the outline for this podcast days earlier than I normally do because I saw this news story and was so happy about it. So um pol this is the real gist of it, and then we'll post the link because you need to see the picture. It's a great picture. Um, Polish MPs coordinated their outfits to the members of our moment. Yeah, uh, Polish members of parliament uh coordinated their outfits to create a rainbow flag at the swearing in for their homophobic homophobic president, Andrzej Andrzej, do you think? Doja. So this person, not a big fan of the LGBTQ community. Plus. So um plus so this is a photo of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, ten women, all in ranging rainbow colors with rainbow-colored masks, and that's what they wore for the photo. And I am just, I love this because like they don't have a ton of power in taking over, you know, this dude's the president, and that sucks.

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Well, in Eastern Europe is is going pretty hard right-wing totalitarian dictators. Uh, it's one of the things that's actually getting overlooked right now. We're currently, we like to hang out with right-wing dictators, so um, we're we're kind of overlooking that a little bit, but uh what's happening in Poland is really unfortunate because a lot of things that we take for granted in America are being um trodden upon would be the nice way to put it. Hungary is another place where a lot of really bad things are happening. It's gonna be a long couple months till November here. Um yeah, so I think this is really cool that it's happening. Yeah. And because Poland, so my wife's Polish. She has a similarly uh unpronounceable maiden name. Yeah. And uh we really want to go to Poland. Yeah. And I we had a USD inspector that was uh is Polish, straight off the plane, the boat, whatever you'd want to call it. Um, but like she moved here from Poland and got a job with the USDA and worked her butt off and is one of the nicest, kindest people. And she always is like, you need to go to Poland. It's $300 for an airplane ticket. They give you vodka on the flight. I'll tell you where to get the vodka. There's vodka everywhere. And we're like, Sophie, whoa, no. Um, but so Poland is somewhere we'd really like to go. And unfortunately, what's happening with this right-wing dictator thing is kind of a little scary. So it's awesome on these ladies. Yeah, for standing up. I mean, like shame on everybody else that's not right.

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And that's like you read the article. The pictures are so powerful. Um, you know, there's of course a whole bunch of men in navy blue suits standing near them, and then these women in bright yellow business suits, hot pink. I'm loving it.

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So we'll post the article. Another reason I knew I should quit law school is when I bought my navy blue suit. I'm like, I'm gonna have a pinstripe on it. I'm not gonna just do the like straight. I'm like, you know, it had to be a little flair. You can also do it with pocket squares. No, men's fashion tip. A cool way to add a little bit of flair to yourself is just what about ascots?

SPEAKER_04 18:34

I wanna bring those back. No. But I'm not a man, so could you do that?

SPEAKER_02 18:37

No, just like a little you look like uh Pen Badgley from uh Gossip Group.

SPEAKER_04 18:41

Uh yeah, and who doesn't love him. He's a But he's in that creepy you show now. Is he? Right? Some Netflix show, I don't know. I watched like one episode and it got a little weird for me.

SPEAKER_02 18:51

Uh my story is more uplifting. Great. Moving on. It's about a man that's so uh this is a little dated, but it's just coming out now. Uh of course. So this dude news takes a while. Was in Portugal. Uh actually not even he was in some island off the coast of Portugal. It's a Portuguese possession. Uh he's Argentinian, he's a sailor, him and his dad. His dad uh was stuck in Argentina when this whole plague, pandemic, whatever thing kicked off. His dad's 90 years old, and this dude could have stayed in this remote island, idyllic paradise where there was no threat of pandemic. Plague, uh, global pandemic. Life was normal as much as it can be, and uh instead decided he needed to sail across the Atlantic to see his dad.

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Oh, I know. I just clicked on this story.

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I hadn't seen this, and this is so lovely. So it took this guy 85 days. I mean, couldn't think his dad stayed alive for those 85 days.

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Sail across the Atlantic is a little heroine, it sounds like his name is Juan Manuel Bastrero.

SPEAKER_04 19:52

Yeah, okay, sure. Um you did better with that than I did.

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And uh yeah, so he got there. There's this great picture on his Instagram of him and his dad, and I'm assuming a brother. They all look pretty similar on his boat. It's not a big boat. Uh what would you call it, Bridget? You're more naughty than I am. I'm more nautical.

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I'm not a sailor.

SPEAKER_02 20:10

I've been sailing. What 35 foot? Uh it's called the Skua.

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I don't know how long this is. I can't. I don't know. I'm sure the article tells us.

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And my favorite part of it is while there were numerous dark, lonely, and treacherous times along the way, Carlos proved to be right, with his devoted son finally docking on 17 June, receiving a deserved hero's welcome.

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My favorite part is the very last line in the article. You to man one.

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You da man.

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Literally you da man. So I'm glad for that. Yeah, that's cool.

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I just think it's cool. Like you we've all realized family matters, all the things, all the stuff. That's like the thing about this pandemic, right?

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Is we've connected to a community in a different way.

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Well, and the other thing that I thought was really interesting about this article is it explains what you should do with a sick boat.

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What should you do? You should take it to a dock! Oh it's just feeding right in now. All right, let's let's let's take a moment. We're taking a moment.

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All right, we are back with one of my favorite segments.

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Also, with an update from Jeff Anderson and Colin Gregory of GreySpot Visuals. They are very jealous of my grand champion. Uh, this is a great thing about podcasting. We can bring you live up-to-date news. Uh, Gray Spot Visuals, check them out on Instagram. Uh Instagram. Uh check them out on Instagram.

SPEAKER_03 21:34

They're probably on Facebook, but check them out on Instagram.

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Instagram. Um, they're great photographers, and they are jealous of my eight year old photography skills.

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So they've clearly gone downhill from here. Clearly.

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All right, Bridget, what do you got to recommend?

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All right. So I don't know if I've talked about this on here, but I'm gonna tell you now, if I haven't, my Elliot, he doesn't love taking baths, but a long time ago we were shopping downtown.

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He liked it when I hosed him off.

SPEAKER_04 21:56

I mean, that's easier.

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I'll back the kill for what are you supposed to?

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Okay. He just doesn't like getting his hair wet. I don't know what the thing is. Whatever. He has some weird nuances like that. So somehow, somewhere, we found some bath bombs at our house, like the fizzy. Those are fun. Is that what they're called still?

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So I got Sarah when she's pregnant. She loved them.

SPEAKER_04 22:15

Oh, I don't like taking baths. I think it's like sitting in your own filth, but I agree.

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Um yeah, it's disgusting. We don't have a bathtub for us.

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We do in both of our bathrooms upstairs, um, but not downstairs. And anyway, so children take baths. Elliot doesn't like a shower yet. So anyway, I get them to bathe now by using bath bombs. So we had two in our house. And like I don't buy, I just don't think to buy them because I don't take baths. My lovely sister Shannon sent me an Amazon Flash sale the other day of these like sweet bath bombs with hidden toys inside. So what better than hidden toys inside bath bombs? So we're gonna stock up on these now. I have a link to them. There's of course a million different options, but these ones have like toys that Elliot would like, like a little weird-looking dinosaur thing and a Pokemon. Maybe these are all Pokemon things. When's Elliot's birthday? March 9th. He's already planning his birthday party. Um, he we went to a bowling alley last year and he wants to go with it. It was right before COVID. Yeah. Right? Like the party.

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We were freaked out about that.

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I don't, I like don't.

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We had like a serious discussion.

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I don't remember coronavirus virus even being a discussion at it.

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No, it was a huge discussion.

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Because Lucy just got over handful of mouth.

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And so, because it was uh it's also uh Sarah's one brother's birthday that weekend. Because we had the two birthdays, remember we had to go to pizza.

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You were party hopping. Shoebox Yeah, we had bowling and pizza, and they had to go have pizza somewhere else. I do remember that.

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And like Elliot was crashing his own party outside when we got there. Yeah, because he was having a freaking meltdown. So we had the we had the discussion with Tyler outside of like, hey man, how far away should we stay from you?

SPEAKER_04 23:53

Oh, I don't remember that at all. So our darling Lucy did have hand, foot, and mouth, which everybody listening that is not as gross as it sounds. It's literally just a viral infection, but people always freak out about it like it's the plague. But now, in fact, we do have a plague. We would rather have so calm down about hand, foot, and mouth. Oh, the good old days. So, anyway, that was back in March. So, anyway, Elliot loves bath bombs. Of course, we have some product, um, there's a million different options on Amazon, but there is a place if you're local to Lake Geneva in the Fancy Fair Mall on Main Street. Fancy Fair Mall where we got our very first ones. It's called Bath Body and Soul. It's towards the back. Um, so you can shop local. The owner's lovely. She gave Elliot a free little bath bomb when we left because he was so excited. So bath bombs are a thing in our house now.

SPEAKER_02 24:37

All right, I have a twofer. Ooh, a twofer. I meant to have a visual aid for the people watching on YouTube. I forgot. Um, so I got uh I spoke earlier when I recommended the public library about the fact that you know you've made it when they just send you free books. I mean, they're all free. But when you when you put a hold and they're like, hey Nick, we think you'd like this book too. Here you go. Good job, Emily. The first book is I actually I think it was Emily Staff.

SPEAKER_04 25:00

Oh, they're also lovely. Um we love Sarah, children's librarian. I don't think Sarah sent this one.

SPEAKER_02 25:07

I don't think so. Uh it's called Spiced Unlock the Power of Spices to Transform Your Cooking. Uh it's an American's Test Kitchen book. It's a great book.

SPEAKER_05 25:14

I love Americans Test Kitchen.

SPEAKER_02 25:16

They had a lot of really interesting ideas on spices. I love spicing. Food up, I think most Americans are uh scared of spices. Scared of spices, scared of seasoning their food. Bunch of white people. Um like Nick and I. Uh it's a very bad thing to be told your food tastes like it's cooked by a white person. I'm just gonna throw that out there.

SPEAKER_04 25:36

Yeah, when I went to live in England, they're like, well, good luck. There's no remarkable food, eat the Indian food.

SPEAKER_02 25:41

I'm like, yep, you're right. Same thing was in Germany. Like, well, we got a great uh Italian restaurant, we got a great uh French restaurant. On over to Italy. Um really cool Thai Thai place. I'm like, no, I want to eat some German food. They're like, No, you don't.

unknown 25:54

You sure?

SPEAKER_02 25:55

You sure? But uh so really good book. Talks a lot about kind of the science of different spices, the combinations, best ways to bring out flavor and food using spices. Um, and one of the things I actually do enjoy is making my own spice rubs. Um so I have like a stock barbecue rub, a stock kind of southwestern rub, and a stock kind of like chickeny rub. Chickeny. That Bridget rub.

SPEAKER_03 26:20

Not swarma.

SPEAKER_02 26:22

I have swarma. Um so but I make these rubs myself. They're kind of tuned to what Sarah and I like to eat. Um, I'm assuming that Simona and I are gonna make them together. They're great for kids because basically you dump a bunch of stuff and you loosely measure a bunch of stuff. Oh, this makes me anxious, and then dump it in a bowl and then mix it together.

SPEAKER_04 26:42

My mom's recipe is like, Mom, we loved this recipe when we were a kid. Can you give it to us? I don't have it. I just guessed. I'm like, well, that is not a recipe.

SPEAKER_02 26:53

I don't understand. So this book had some great ideas on spice things, and then I bought a bunch of um clear plastic spice jars on you have a um mute button if you want to. I do. Oh my gosh, I'm learning. So you guys don't have to listen to me cough. Um so you know, that you buy these plastic jars and you can make your own spice rubs. Now I like were previously at a make it every time, and it's kind of a pain in the butt, and you throw a bunch out. Oh, good job.

SPEAKER_01 27:17

I did it.

SPEAKER_02 27:18

Um it's kind of a pain in the butt, but you know, now I have big bunches of it. So if you want to do something where you can make your own spice rub um for like if you do a lot of barbecue cooking or you like a lot of tacos, um it's often gonna be better for you to make your own exactly the way you want it. It's a really fun kids' activity.

SPEAKER_05 27:40

Yeah, I love this activity.

SPEAKER_02 27:41

It's just like it's like baking with kids, it's a lot of fun. You know what I mean? So um the spiced book has some good ideas. Yeah, do they like tell you how to do your own mixes or just how do you have they have um some really great mix ideas and like hey, if you like a little bit more of this, adjust this way. Or hey, if you like a little yep. So get the book, it's at the Lake Shiva Public Library. If you want to buy it, it's $19 for a hardcover copy. So, you know, affordable. Not that much money. Um, but great book. And yeah, it's just a it's a really fun thing, and that's my recommendation is make some spice blends. It's a lot of fun, it's very rewarding. I obviously love eating. I love cooking. I think I love cooking because I love eating.

SPEAKER_04 28:23

I can't wait till Simona's old enough to cook with you in the kitchen.

SPEAKER_02 28:26

It's gonna be so great. She already like rolls up and is like, hey dad, I'm down here.

SPEAKER_04 28:31

Let's go. Let's go. You're gonna need to get away.

SPEAKER_02 28:33

Could you drip some of that uh grease down here for me to eat? Sick. No, no, Simona, you're not allowed to eat the baking grease. So that's my recommendation.

SPEAKER_04 28:41

All right. Okay, moving on.

SPEAKER_00 28:51

It's time for Interesting Questions with Bridget and Oh boy, okay, guys.

SPEAKER_04 28:59

So it's my turn this week. Your turn. Last week, Nick tortured me with like really challenging questions. I think that was last week.

SPEAKER_02 29:05

I'm giving him You were deeply personal.

SPEAKER_04 29:07

Yeah, okay. I had nightmares about it. It's fine. I'm giving Nick really easy ones this week, mostly because I'm all about a good theme and I wanted to stick with carnival and fair food things.

SPEAKER_02 29:19

Yes. This is from Bridget, and I knew I was like, hey Bridget, uh, a cute little jar thing that we could use for our cocktail today. She's like, I got it.

SPEAKER_04 29:30

You had several options, sound like I spent many years event planning, and I've planned many weddings for friends. Planned many events this year.

SPEAKER_02 29:39

Only one of them is happening.

SPEAKER_04 29:40

Planned many events this year, cancelled all of them. So I have many little things like that. I don't know, whatever. Um, so yes, I brought that lovely jar for our uh beverages today. I also looked up BuzzFeed, love BuzzFeed, source of all good quality news information, had a really great would you rather question series. Here's what we're doing today: hipster food versus state fair food. Oh my! Because honestly, this is the easiest one ever, but I picked the three hardest ones I could because like I think it was pretty easy. Like, I'm gonna read you an easy one and then we're gonna go in. So, for example, would you rather feast on smoked turkey legs or have a few chicken lemon kale sausage? That's a pretty easy answer. Right. We're not we're not gonna choose kale sausage. So I picked the three hardest ones.

SPEAKER_02 30:36

I've never even had anybody ask for kale sausage.

SPEAKER_04 30:38

Yeah, no one's gonna ask for it, but it's a hipster food. The whole reason we're doing these questions today is because I like kale. We're gonna laugh about hipster food, okay? I like kale, but I will tell you right now for all you hipsters out there. I lived many years in a very hipster neighborhood, and I do like many silly hipster things. However, especially avocados. I love avocados. That is one of the questions.

SPEAKER_02 31:03

I saw this great recipe this week for it's like a five ingredient sauce. It's like avocados and olive oil and stuff and cilantro. Sounds great. And uh some people would just it's like call a green sauce. Some people would make chimichuri in like a like kind of more traditional, uh, very real type of sauce. And some people would just put avocados in it as like, this is a great recipe. I'm gonna steal this.

SPEAKER_04 31:25

It's a healthy fat.

SPEAKER_02 31:27

And it's like I'm avocado, olive oil, cilantro, water, salt, pepper. So it's actually like six ingredients, but I want all of that. Sounds delicious.

SPEAKER_04 31:36

I'm just gonna eat that for lunch. Could you some lemon juice in there? I do just eat avocados with salt and pepper for lunch if I like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 31:42

There's nothing wrong with that.

SPEAKER_04 31:43

Don't have lunch. Anyway, okay. Are you ready? I'm ready. All right. Would you rather have ice cream made to look like a potato or a deconstructed lemon tart?

SPEAKER_02 31:56

A deconstructed lemon tart, are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_01 31:58

So the hipster food choice, I think. I don't actually know which one you can do.

SPEAKER_02 32:01

That's a hipster food. Yeah. So lemon tarts are great. So, okay, so uh ice cream made to look like a potato, like what's the point? Is just ice cream. I love or like do you have to hold it?

SPEAKER_04 32:10

You're like, I love food made to look like other food. My sister, I have to tell you, I'm sorry, it's off track. Tyler's 25th birthday, so many years ago. Shannon made Tyler a birthday cake that looked like a platter with a T-bone steak, mashed potatoes, and corn, and it was freaking amazing.

SPEAKER_02 32:28

I mean, we know Shannon is a talented sister. It was amazing. You don't need to rub it into yourself.

SPEAKER_04 32:32

Shannon, send us that picture if you have it.

SPEAKER_02 32:34

Okay, anyway. So go think about that. Like, lemon tarts are delicious because there's like the creamy part, there's the the lemony part, there's the powdered sugar part.

SPEAKER_04 32:42

But when it's deconstructed, you have to like make sure you get it all together. Otherwise, you're just like eating powdered sugar.

SPEAKER_02 32:47

That's a good point. It's a lot of work. Uh I have faith in myself as somebody that's been to many Michelin-starred restaurants that I can figure this out. So deconstruct- are you going with the ice cream?

SPEAKER_04 32:57

I mean, yeah, I like ice cream. Lemon tarts to me are like hit or miss. You could have a bad lemon tart. Ice cream you can't screw up. Simple bakery. Good lemon tart, but it's fully composed. I'm not on board with like deconstructed things.

SPEAKER_02 33:12

Is there is there a place between constructed and deconstructed? They're like, we have a three-quarters of spring tartar.

SPEAKER_06 33:17

We have a halfway constructed tart? You just need to put your own powdered sugar. Sprinkle your own powdered sugar.

SPEAKER_02 33:24

That might be, you know, that's like a very millennial thing. It's like an experience. Wait, maybe we should do that. We have a three-quarters of the way constructed brothers with meat and intestines. No bad. Just shove the meat in. And if you don't like snappy sausages, don't all the way constructed the thing. Man. Because we're opening a restaurant.

SPEAKER_05 33:41

We're calling patent. Part way constructed by Nick and Bridge.

SPEAKER_02 33:44

No, we're gonna call it under construction. Under it's like themed. It's like a 1990s Las Vegas casino, like over-the-top themed, construction tape everywhere. We're gonna be paying for the case.

SPEAKER_00 33:57

What? Construction tape addresses?

SPEAKER_04 34:02

We are getting off track. But what do you think about our restaurant concept? Let us know.

SPEAKER_02 34:06

Let us know. If you have some money and you'd be interested in funding this, we'll think again because there are better ideas.

SPEAKER_03 34:14

No, give us your money.

SPEAKER_04 34:17

Okay, back to state fair food versus hipster food. I'm gonna talk like this more often. Would you rather try the try a lamb parfait or a crab moose? Oh, those are delicious.

SPEAKER_02 34:30

Or a crab moose. This is an idiotic question. You know I'm allergic to shellfish. I know, but could you like pretend the lamb parfait? I've had these. These are delicious. You've had a lamb parfait? Oh my god, yes, the lambda. Like a deconstructed Euro? Yes, is exactly right. Oh, okay. That sounds great. Yes. We've talked about famous bowls and all these things. We love bowls. We love oh. That's an easy one.

SPEAKER_03 34:50

Because like anything made into a moose is unless it's chocolate. No thanks. What about like pate? No. Head cheese. We're having head cheese, gays and grays.

SPEAKER_02 34:57

Sold out.

SPEAKER_04 34:58

Sold out. So excited. We're gonna talk about that a lot, I'm sure, next week or the week after. I don't know. Can't keep track of my days. All right. This is also, I think, an easy one for you. Would you rather have deep deep fried tacos or avocado tacos?

SPEAKER_02 35:14

Avocado tacos.

unknown 35:15

What?

SPEAKER_04 35:16

You caught me off guard there, man.

SPEAKER_02 35:18

I know I just made fun of you for the avocado tacos. Yeah, you totally did. Uh so I don't love things that aren't meant to be deep-fried bean deep fried. Oh, like tacos? Yeah, like they shouldn't be deep fried. Like gorditas, okay. Whatever. Gordita. But are we referencing Taco Bell right now? Yes. Like I just I don't tacos are they're supposed to be fresh, right? Tacos? Okay. You all know my taco thing. They a well-constructed taco. You have a corn tortilla, possibly masa. Um I love how heated you get about it. You know, you you heat it up, maybe you fry it a little bit, so you got rich corn base, and then you have meat that is preferably seasoned well and a little crispy and cooked and warm. Okay. And then you have, you know, the bite of onion and you have some sort of acid, and it it all works in tandem. And then you deep fry it, and it's like mesquite wood smoke. You just went nuclear. There's no purpose in going nuclear on tacos. Well, do it.

SPEAKER_04 36:25

Belair in Milwaukee. Okay, delicious. Great place, great place. They have deep fried avocado tacos. So like the avocado is fried. So good. Have you ever had them?

SPEAKER_02 36:35

I've had deep fried avocado. I've never liked it, but I have a lot of faith in Bel Air.

SPEAKER_04 36:41

Okay. I mean, I don't know if they're still on the menu, but they were when I lived there.

SPEAKER_02 36:44

I've because I've had like the deep fried avocado fingers. I mean, it's very similar. As like a mozzarella finger fry type of substitute. And they're gross because the avocado gets like kind of warm and gushy.

SPEAKER_04 36:57

So great. The only complaint is like I like salt on my avocados. Oh, yeah. And they felt a little under-salted. Anyway, great job. Go to Bel Air. Go to Bel Air. Yep. Go to Bel Air. So good.

SPEAKER_02 37:08

How many locations they closed one, right?

SPEAKER_04 37:10

Yeah, I just heard they did. That's why I was trying to think. Like Downer, they had one on Downer, they had one off of Brady and one somewhere else. And I think one just closed. Oh, in Tosa. They had one on Tosa.

SPEAKER_02 37:19

The Tosa one closed, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 37:21

Anyway, I don't know much about it, guys. I'm way out of the Milwaukee loop.

SPEAKER_02 37:25

Wait, they have a Wikipedia page. Okay. Well, I'm moving off of Wikipedia. The uh the water one was across from a really great bar that my friend Ian used to manage. Stubbies? Now he owns a different one. Stubbies? Different one. It was uh yeah, but now he owns uh House of Guinness in in Waukeshaw. Oh really? Yeah, we should go sometime. Oh yeah, I've never been there. Go to House of Guinness. Uh Ellie. You know Ellie? Yes. That yeah, her husband Ian. Oh. Or as you you may say, Ian. Um yeah. As you may say.

unknown 37:53

Well.

SPEAKER_04 37:54

All right. We've got this week's meal plan. Oh, it's a good meal plan. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 37:58

And I went a lot of diversity on here in terms of the Yeah, I try and do that, guys.

SPEAKER_04 38:03

Yeah, we've been doing, you know, uh this past week we had a cup, like a barbecue themed, so I did a little barbecue heavy. Um, so but this week I went crazy. And my recipe choice actually is a seafood one because we don't talk about it enough. We don't. Um my neighbors and I this recipe sounds like death. Yeah, Nick would die if he ate this. But my dad would love to die.

SPEAKER_02 38:23

I would just stop reading. My store, my my throat would close up and I'd start.

SPEAKER_04 38:27

You might die.

SPEAKER_02 38:29

So I'm like so, don't risk it.

SPEAKER_04 38:31

Well, my neighbors like really he loves to cook. He's been talking about doing some kind of like we live on a dead end road and we've gotten to know our neighbors so much better in this pandemic, which has been really awesome. Most of them are great. And so we we've talked about like doing some kind of like low country boil or some kind of grill out, whatever. So this just kind of spoke to me. Drunken crab legs. So I always put our seafood recipes on Friday, just in case, you know, people year-round don't want to eat meat on Fridays. For whatever reason, it's an easy place to put our seafood. So this is super easy to make. And I think most people that eat any kind of seafood have fun eating this way. Think this is a nice treat. Um, like we do this for my dad for his birthday almost every year. Um, so anyway, this was a fun recipe. It has happy memories for me, something that made me think of my neighbors, and is easy to enjoy on a Friday.

SPEAKER_02 39:18

Drunken crab looks so easy.

SPEAKER_04 39:19

Yeah. So there you go. Don't eat it, Nick, because I don't want you to die.

SPEAKER_02 39:21

Can I tell you a neighbor story?

SPEAKER_04 39:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 39:24

Mine are shooting off fireworks at 9.30 at night on a Monday while my child is trying to sleep like it's the 4th of freaking July.

SPEAKER_04 39:31

So I don't understand the year-round fireworks thing.

SPEAKER_02 39:34

You're you have a husband who's on Reddit. There's a subreddit called Am I the Asshole. Am I the Asshole for wanting to call the cops on them for having fireworks at 9.30 on a Monday on August 10th or whatever it was?

SPEAKER_03 39:45

Get off my lawn. Set me. Let's have a get off my lawn segment.

SPEAKER_02 39:49

Would that be a good segment? Yes.

SPEAKER_04 39:50

I actually told Tyler something this morning. He was complaining about something, and I we both together said, get off my lawn, because we realized we were being ridiculous.

SPEAKER_02 39:58

Tough being old. Alright, so my recommendation from this week's meal plan. Um Sarah's gonna be very happy. It's on the meal plan. She's gonna be very happy. I talk about it. It's this um slow cookered pesto chicken thigh thing. It's pretty easy. It looks pretty chicken thighs and pesto. And if you are like me and you love broschetta and bread, this recipe, you have your chicken thighs, uh, nice thing, slice it on your plate. We'll cut it however you want. And your little boscetta and your brosquetta and you and your bread and your olive oil, and you just go.

SPEAKER_04 40:31

Nom nom nom nom nom.

SPEAKER_02 40:33

Well, it's really good. Yeah, it looks good. If you like, it's not quite, you know, totally trashy Bridget food, but this is a very Bridget dish, okay?

SPEAKER_04 40:42

I also love pesto. People keep telling me that the pesto from Costco is like the jam. I've heard that. Yeah, I just became a Costco mother, guys.

SPEAKER_02 40:50

Really big Groupon had a great.

SPEAKER_04 40:54

Oh, yeah, which was because I do buy things every week. Yeah, I did buy a great. If you guys are listening and Groupon still has this deal.

SPEAKER_02 41:02

You can't see. We moved our soundboard down to a rack. Nick keeps hitting it. And uh, it's great. I bought that from Target. Okay. Target fine. We Tarjay, if you're listening, we try to be an affiliate of you to recommend more of your products, and you also your stock on socks right now is pretty low.

SPEAKER_04 41:20

My husband just had a get off your lawn moment trying to buy black ankle socks, and we cannot get them. And he texted me about it. I was like, Yeah, this is a terrible problem.

SPEAKER_02 41:30

I I have a surprise for Tyler. Maybe I could have asked.

SPEAKER_04 41:33

I said, I'll run to a different store and see if I can find you some socks, honey. Otherwise, I'll order them. So, anyway, it's time for Kid Corner. Okay. Best time of the show. I teased this a little earlier. Um, I had a moment.

SPEAKER_03 41:50

It says spoiled kid. I just like it says spoiled kid.

SPEAKER_04 41:53

So it's obviously about Elliot. It is about Elliot. I panicked. I was like, what am I gonna do when Lucy is old enough to know what's going on and I have to spoil both of them?

SPEAKER_02 42:02

Okay, I realize I No, she's gonna take pride in like, you know, I have it hard. I'm the hard one. Elliot, he's soft. I'm hard.

SPEAKER_04 42:10

I do envision Lucy constantly like just going like, bitch, that's how I like it. She's like Jennifer Lopez. I know. I hope you're watching on YouTube and just saw my like snap because that's exactly what Lucy will do. I'm telling you, in a year, that's what she's gonna be doing to me.

SPEAKER_02 42:24

That song, that I ain't your mama song. That's Lucy. She she debuted on a minute. She's a backup singer. And I don't know why we we did not watch American Out, but we had it on. And Sarah, like for the next month, was like, I ain't young.

SPEAKER_00 42:39

I don't need this in my life. Yeah, you do.

SPEAKER_04 42:42

Look at the joy it's brought you.

SPEAKER_00 42:43

Don't. That's what we want Lucy.

SPEAKER_04 42:45

It I mean, I cannot wait to see how she grows up and hates me. So all right, but Elliot, my delicate friend. Shannon wanted a girl. I forget Shannon. I don't know, I was with Shannon and I had Lucy, and and Lucy did something ridiculous. And I said to Shannon, I'm like, you still want a girl? I love Lucy, everybody listening. Don't get mad. Um, okay, so I brought Elliot to this like fair thing, right? And I mentioned the only game they had was skee ball. Well, I'm very good at skee ball. Okay. And so it's Parsley letter, volleyball, volleyball, ski race team, yeah, and skee ball. So Shannon and I, like every year at the fair, play ski ball. It's like the only game we play and to the death, or what is this? I mean, often I win. She admitted, Shannon admitted I am better at ski ball, all the things you guys that I'm really great at. But like Ellie Also photography. Also eight-year-old photography. Um, so I realized like we went to this fair thing, and we usually spend a lot of money at the fair over the course of many days. So we went into this last night being like, we're gonna spend a weird amount of money on disgusting fried food and cotton candy and skee ball. And so we were prepared for that, but I Like Elliot was kind of being a brat. Like when he doesn't nap comes six o'clock, he's a real challenge. And he was doing that, but we continued to reward his bad behavior because, like, I wanted to play ski ball and also I wanted a funnel cake. And you know, so we like knew this is bad parenting and we're doing it. So any parents out there, you're doing great, even on your worst day, like mine was yesterday. Okay. We had a really challenging week this week with a sick kid and some work things with my husband. And so I think this was just like the the the crappy fair food release we needed. So anyway, Elliot couldn't have cared less about like he wanted to learn skee ball. So like he can't. Were there horses there? They were in the distance. We found them. So that's all he cared about, really. But I was determined. I'm like, I'm gonna win a prize for Elliot. And it turns out he So you're a great mom. Yes, but he didn't care about the prizes. I'm not a great mom because I just played because I wanted to play. I was like, well, I need to prove that I can win. So I like would Tyler would go help Elliot. Like he's holding Lucy, he's helping Elliot do ski ball, and I'm like four lanes away. Like, come on, I can win this. And I did. And what prize do you think Elliot chose? A turtle. A puppy. We got a puppy. It's a stuffed puppy, and it is rainbow colored and it is awesome. He loves it so much. And now I can say he got a puppy, and it'll last at least like a month before he asks me for a real puppy. It was so fun.

SPEAKER_02 45:22

We were walking through the field of dreams on the way to show him uh which is his backyard. The uh dead animals. And he he was very clear about his love of puppies and how he wanted a puppy and how his dad was gonna take care of it for him.

SPEAKER_04 45:37

I mean, I took care of it for him. Honest kid. He didn't say that he wanted a real puppy. And he had the choice between like a Saint Bernard puppy stuffed puppy. I called her Saint Grenard, and then felt the need to explain to the Carney what I was talking about. She was so nice. She gave him a free game, which was lovely. So, anyway, we have a rainbow-colored puppy. I think he decided to call it Salty because my sister's puppy is named Pepper. Um, but I'm not sure. And I will say, like, I did look back at the pictures and it is pure joy. So, like, I spoiled him when he was misbehaving, and I don't regret it. He had a lot of fun and we had a lot of fun. So there you go, parents. You're doing great.

SPEAKER_02 46:16

So, my my kid corner story, uh Simona's growing. She's always growing. Growing every day we're growing. Uh you know, so she's drinking water now. That's uh, I suppose something children do as they get older. They don't just drink milk, they drink water. And she's got her own sippy cups, and she's good at them. And uh, she has one that's like some valve that like you go like uh that's the 360 cup, Nick. I cannot understand how that works. And so I was like, oh, you just like I'm like Well, it's made for children, Nick, so if you can figure it out. I don't so anyway, so she this actually I had a different thing, but this just happened this morning. She has the one that's like the you know, you like bite it down like a nail gene, and you know, she's got you hold it and she bites it down. So anyway, she really enjoys it and she's in a little walker thing and she's tootin' around and going all over the place. Uh and because I'm a sucker dad, I gave her some some snacks and some water after her bottle because she seemed like she was still hungry and thirsty. And she's like through half the bottle of water, I was doing some cleanup and you know, three-quarters paying attention to her. But I'm like, man, this isn't gonna go well. Girl, you drank a lot of that water, you thirsty? Because you know, we're we're a little worried. Her diapers have been not the wettest recently. You're like, it's hot outside, or you know that is the worst.

SPEAKER_04 47:31

I remember that.

SPEAKER_02 47:32

She's transitioning from bottles to solid foods. Yeah. So we're like, Are you are you drinking enough? You know, all the things, all the stuff. I'm like, you go, girl, you drink, and I'm like, your shirt is soaking wet. And I see her take a drink of water, and she goes, Oh, that's awesome. And doing the like swimming in the pool, like, what does the fishy do?

SPEAKER_04 47:55

Hey, you know, she's not gonna drown in a pool.

SPEAKER_02 47:57

That's awesome. So she's like, every other sip she takes, she's like going and like spinning it, but not like spinning it, like doing the like arc fishy like a whale. Yes, like or like you know, like the fish uh fountain thing. Like that kind of trajectory, and she's doing it perfectly, and she's dying of laughter every and so I'm like, well, whatever, you're still in your jammers, we're gonna change you in 30 minutes to go to school. So I don't really care, and you're having a great time. Yep. And uh so yeah, so I'm not sure if like she was drinking all the water because it's like a teething toy, because you know, you have to bite it to get the water out, and then it's like she's like, okay, well, this helped my teeth, but now I have all this water in my mouth, I can swallow it or I can do a fun game. That's one option. Two, she was thirsty. Three, she's just like, ha, she's just having to show you.

SPEAKER_04 48:45

Um, but do you like I have a good teething recommendation? I'm gonna throw in another recommendation here. There's these like uh pouches, they c they look like a kind of like a pacifier, but you can put a frozen piece of fruit in like a piece of netting and you clip it closed, and they can just like notch on it. It's kind of it's a teething toy, but it's a piece of fruit, so they get like the fruit juices, whatever. And it's the only teething toy Elliot would use. And I like that. Lucy loved them too. They're a mess, but like whatever, good project rack if you're looking for teething toys.

SPEAKER_02 49:13

We'll put that one up too. So yeah, yeah. I mean, I don't know if she was dehydrated, whatever. She's just having fun. So that's you know, maybe I so I'm thinking now maybe we should put like bubbly in there for her. Probably not. Trying to introduce her, like all the things. I'm I'm trying really hard. I'm pushing on curry.

SPEAKER_04 49:29

I feel like Yeah, I've actually um know someone that would put curry spice like in their eggs just to get well, she probably doesn't eat eggs yet. Oh, yeah, you guys don't eat eggs. I actually think of you every time I made I made eggs for my kids this morning. I'm like, this is the easiest protein-filled food. I wish I was eggs.

SPEAKER_07 49:43

I was like, oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 49:44

I can't believe you have to give Simona eggs. We have eggs, we'll make her eggs. She eats eggs. Sarah makes I just the smell, I don't know what it is. I just I just can't. It's I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 49:55

Every day I eat eggs. Every day. I I try not to eat them like in my breakfast and my lunch, in fact. I'm like, okay, which meal do I want my egg at?

SPEAKER_02 50:03

There's so many ways you can do over easy, scramble.

SPEAKER_04 50:05

Yeah. Anything at simple.

SPEAKER_02 50:07

Uh pickled. I saw a a fellow butcher shop just smoked eggs. Whoa.

SPEAKER_04 50:12

I mean, sorry, that's not supposedly they were good. Like a hard-boiled smoked egg.

SPEAKER_02 50:16

I don't know. I can ask Louie.

SPEAKER_04 50:17

Okay. I just smoked is not my favorite place.

SPEAKER_02 50:19

Or we could drive up to Cumberland and get some. Why?

SPEAKER_04 50:23

Maybe that's Oh, is that where he is? I'm like, why are we driving to Cumberland? All right, guys. Well, we got way off track this week. Thanks for hanging with us. It was a great episode.

SPEAKER_01 50:33

We had a lot of fun. We're still working on this drink. That's so good. We're 55 minutes in. Wow. Oh, geez, we had a lot of fun this week. There's a lot to cut. There's a lot to cut.

SPEAKER_04 50:42

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SPEAKER_02 50:49

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SPEAKER_03 51:13

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