St. Paddy's 2022 - Dinner Plus Drinks #116

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We talked about travel horror stories and I had a dream that a plane crashed. I was on right by my house and I it was as Bridget was flying home.

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And I had quite the flight home. Let me tell you more about it.

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Well Bridget, we are recording live at Topsy Turby Brewing.

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We are, and it is what episode, Nick?

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It's our annual St. Patrick's Day episode, and that means our good friend and Irish citizen, Kevin Fleming, is joining us once again. Welcome! Thank you for inviting me. Glad to be here, of course.

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Yeah, year number three, right? Year number three. Wow, really?

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I mean, we only know one Irish. Well, you know, two Irish citizens you and Marines. Two Irishes. We have to go to the Irishes.

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Is that the proper term, Irishes? Uh it could be, you know.

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Or we could coin it right. Can we call you paddies? Is that better?

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Okay, big question.

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We'll keep it at Kevin. You can try, just slip it in there.

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Here's the big question: is it P-A-T-T-Y or P-A-D-D-Y?

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P-A-D-D-Y. Because if it's P-A-T-T-Y, that's short for Patricia.

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Oh.

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So that's why it that's why Patty is the Irish form of Patrick is Porg, which is P-A-D-R-A-I-G-H with P.

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I always thought that was Padrig.

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Padrig, or some people, some people even I don't say Padrig, but it's Porg, so it's actually, but that's alright.

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But you're wrong.

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So but in some Irish shows, people say Okay, that's right.

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Like Padrick Harrington.

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Yes, yes.

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Right.

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So that's where the patty P-A-D-D-Y comes from. Okay. And Patty. So that's why it's Patty. I never knew why.

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I knew it was P A D D was the proper way, but didn't know why.

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Patty is a good way to spot the frauds, right? The Happy St. Patty's Day, like don't go that far. They're a fraud. Yes.

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Okay, but here's the other real question: three leaves or four leaves? Clover versus shamrock.

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Shamrock, three leaves for sure, shamrock.

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You taught me that years ago. I had to give someone a lesson about that this morning at work. We were talking about it in a minute.

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Somebody does a four-leaf clover and then something for my own be like they cringe.

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It's wrong.

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And it's it's it's good luck. I mean, I don't know how many people have found a four-leaf clover in Ireland, but.

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Do they exist, Kevin? What about leprechauns? Do they exist?

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Oh, leprechauns for sure. Yeah, yeah, those are definitely exist.

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Four-leaf clovers, I don't know, but leprechauns.

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Yes, leprechauns.

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All the rage these days. When I was a kid, we used to do leprechaun ladders. And like it would be a probably four-leaf clover, and with straws in between, and we'd make like a ladder up on the fireplace. And like at the top, like so we'd hang it where a stocking would go, and at the top there'd be like care?

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We'd love it. So St. Patty would be there.

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St. Patti. Paddy. Patty. Um, and we'd have like gold coins and green tic-tacks, like just green candy. Yes, yeah. And my the leprechaun, my parents would put powder or whatever, and that's like leprechaun dust. Well, we did that for my kids and last year, and Elliot was like, Mom, I'm supposed to have a leprechaun trap. We have to trap the leprechaun. Like, what the hell is that? So apparently that's the thing now, and he had to do it this year. He had to make a trap for a leprechaun. And leprechauns are attracted to green and shiny gold. And so, like, we literally got a shoebox and like painted it green and like made a whole contraption to try and attract the leprechaun and then trap him in the box. That sounds like that's not that's not authentic Irish?

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I have not heard of that. You should put a Packers jersey down, you know, like it's the little Wayne song green and yellow. You know, green and yellow, you know.

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That would have been good. You should have done that. I don't do my kids' homework, so trying to pull up a pick.

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The homework was to trap work.

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No, literally, we had to make it.

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Everybody's gonna fail. That's literally the teacher setting them up to fail. You cannot trap a leprechaun.

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The homework was to create a leprechaun trap that would attract a leprechaun, but yeah, like, what's the teacher gonna say? You all failed. Sorry!

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You have to create a trap.

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A trap, and then you have to, it was a writing assignment, and then you have to write why this trap would be good. So I don't remember what we wrote because we did it before our vacation, and I was like, we just gotta get this done. Elliot was did it the day it was assigned to him, and he was so excited. I'm pulling up a picture. Also, I went into the school to drop off his cupcakes the other day, and let me just tell you that there were parents who did their kids' homework. All the leprechaun traps were like out in the hallway, and I'm like, no five-year-old made this. Like, you're mom-like, what are you doing, doing your five-year-old's homework already? That's my rant, everybody.

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Well, it's just a window of time, I feel like, where you can do your kids' homework. You know, like multiplication tables. Once it gets to like 12, I can't do that. Yeah, I know. Calculus, I can't do that. They the kid can do it. So, like, third grade, you can do your kid's homework. Fourth grade starts getting tricky.

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Look at this trap this house, and the roof drops down to trap it. Wow. Okay, that's the leprechaun trap. And then it the roof falls down to trap the leprechaun. Yeah, but like on a pulley system, I don't know. Anyhow.

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And he looks very proud of it.

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He was so proud of it. Anyway, this is my PSA parents. Let your kids do their own homework. How was vacation?

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How was Ellie's birthday?

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You know a lot of things happened. It's been a lot, yeah. By the time you guys listen to this, I will also have had a one more birthday party. Um, it was great. Vacation was awesome. The kids traveled really well. I mean, they were still kids, but my expectation was very low. Because vacationing with kids is not like sit by the pool and read a book. Vacation, it's get in the cold pool and swim with your kids. And etc. Um, but mother's love. You know, Tyler really was the real hero. He let me go sit in the hot tub at one point, so I was like, I'm freezing. The pool wasn't incredibly warm.

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Um, but they didn't bring you a refreshment while you were in the hot tub.

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Oh, there were strict rules about refreshments on the um thing, so we brought it down in our water bottle like real adults.

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Um It is Florida.

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I mean Florida is the truly the most lawless society. Um, people just like drink at 7 a.m. They I don't it it was like living in a bubble of fake society. It was a weird place, but um the way home made me really grateful for my kids. There was like a hundred children on my return flight, and um they were loud and not as well behaved as my kids. So, you know, that made me proud for a minute. Uh my kids were at a generally good age to travel. But I'm gonna tell you, I think we've talked a lot lately about puking on this podcast and travel.

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Yes.

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So I thought I'd culminate both of those things with my favorite travel story so far. No, my family did not puke on the plane.

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Can we just say that you looked into being a flight attendant? I know. Your flight attendant friend told you, no, there's never any puking on the plane. This never happened.

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So I got offered a job as a flight attendant, and I was like about to take that job.

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Irishy, Irish. We'll come in with all these new words.

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I would have been fired by now, I'm sure. Um, so anyway, we were we had a connecting flight, which I hate, I hate, hate, hate, but we were trying to fly home with my dad, who had already booked his flight, and it was a connection. So we were at the airport in Florida, and our flight starts getting delayed. One time, two times, three times, and luckily we still had time to make our connection, but two full flights of people had to get rebooked because we were sitting by the gates, we're like watching all this happen. So a flight to St. Louis and Philly had to get fully rebooked, so hundreds of people. And Southwest, we were flying Southwest, and they were giving people, um, they were giving them $200 voucher each, plus they were booking paying for their hotels and their transportation. So, like, this cost Southwest a fair penny. So I was I waited till all the gate agents were like done rebooking, and I went up to go gate check our stroller. Like, you had to get a tag for it. And I was just waiting in line, and the guy behind me was like a younger gay man, and just was like, hey, do you know why the flight was delayed? And I'm like, I don't know. I just overheard that it was not weather and it was not mechanical, but like I haven't thought about it beyond that. He's like, I heard it's because a kid puked all over the plane. I was like, what? Yeah, and I'm like, you like that's a rumor. That is bullshit. And I thought I was like, oh, I'm just gonna leave it at that, but no, we kept talking, and I was like, and he was like my spirit animal. He totally understood. We're like, oh my god, so now we have to like get in a capsule with like the most disgusting germs, and like, whatever. So he's like, Are you gonna ask what happened? I'm like, no, I was really just intending to get a tag for my stroller, but like I'll ask. So I went up and it was a really nice young lady, and I said, Oh hi, I just need my gate tag. Um, you guys, so sorry. It looks like you've had quite the day. What happened? She just started laughing, and I think she was over it at this point. She's like, Well, a baby threw up all over the plane.

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And I was like different than a kid.

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I know, and that's why I said I was like, was it a baby? And she's like, I don't know. I'm like, a baby is different than a kid. Also, like that poor mom, if she knew the hundreds of people that had to get rebooked. Also, how is this kid puking all over a plane so much that they had to hold the plane in Dallas and deep clean? It was an hour and a half delayed. So they had to hold it and like deep clean the plane.

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Oh no.

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So anyway, good times, and I was like, I text my sisters, I'm like, this would happen to me. So it was maybe the cleanest plane I've ever been on, and I think I'm done traveling for a little while. Great. Just kidding, I'm going to Seattle soon. So that's my puke story for the day.

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And that's so that's not part of kids.

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Oh no, it wasn't.

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Okay, but it wasn't yours, so okay.

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No, I do have to save Kid Corner for later.

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It's it's hopefully luckily no puking.

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So, Kevin, last time we spoke, you were newly retired. It was a new venture for you being retired. Oh, yeah. You were just diving into it, giving it a try. Giving it a go. One year later, how are you liking retirement? It is wonderful. So we our demo is younger people than you generally. And we're all a lot of us are millennials, and we have no hope of ever retiring.

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Yes, it's so I just say as we say to our children who are 40-ish, just keep working because you need to support your parents, Medicare, monthly Medicare, and uh Social Security checks. So just keep working, and I would say the same to you, and we appreciate your working and your hard work and you know, so I probably won't be here in 30 or 40 years. So I'll think of someone else.

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So you're living a relaxing life. Maybe you will live 40 more years.

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Yeah, what what are you up to? Are you gardening more? I know you got the big green egg going out.

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It's kind of great.

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Yes. Um, gardening. I'm sort of I'm doing a lot of gardening. Uh, you know, it's nice. We still get up early, 6 o'clock, 5 30. Oh, come on over to the city. You don't have to get going until you know you can sit around or you can go for a walk or you can get moving at 10 or 11.

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I will say, Lake Shneva by the lake bath, 6 o'clock, 6 30. That's the time. Yeah, it is the time, yes. Yes.

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It is much nicer. We um when we had kids realized, oh, 7 a.m. on Sunday is the time to be in Library Park. And then leave. No one.

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Yeah, about 8.15.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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We leave by nine.

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Yeah, and the nice thing about living in town is you can we can go for a walk during the day, and we don't necessarily have to go to a walk on a Saturday and Sunday when it's too busy, and you can walk down the lake, you can walk by the cemetery, you can walk wherever you want. So I'm not sure. Come downtown and look at the store windows and see what you don't have to worry about anybody looking back at you and spy and wondering what that Fleming guy does.

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Yeah.

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So I do my I do so not so much in the winter when the weather's not good, but at least a couple times a week I do make my rounds. I just tell Maureen I'm leaving. So it's anywhere from two to four hours. So of course I stop and see Sean and Thomas and Steve and Roger and I just sort of make the rounds and somebody's on in, I go see someone else, and oh how fun.

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I'm gonna join one of them.

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And of course I tap in Lucas naturally, but so it's it's you know, so I keep keep an eye on things.

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I always know you've got an eye, Kevin.

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You're like a drone. You're like without you know the creepy aspect. I just read flying. But you can see me.

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So you just hear me.

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DGI, who makes the drones. I have a DGI drone. Evidently they have software that lets you see like where everybody flying a drone is, and they sold it to the Russians, but not the Ukrainians. They're a Chinese company. What? So, I mean, you're like a drone without the Chinese being able to spy on you. You know L, but the Chinese don't know.

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That was a weird uh transition there.

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Well, I he's just you know, he's a spy. He knows everything. He knows everything. Kevin in the sky.

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Like, if you want to know. And if I don't want to see anybody, I can just walk down the alley.

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Yeah.

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You know, I have options.

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I have um ducked and hidden from people in like Quick Trip a couple times. There's been a handful of people that shall remain nameless that I have actually run away from twice in Quick Trip. The same person twice. His name starts with a J. And ends in an O E. We're sort of a nice one, we wore masks. I agree. And a hat and sunglasses?

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Yeah, sunglasses.

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And a turtleneck. I don't know you. So, have you considered doing street art? You know, you could be like the mask bandit at night, go out, do some street art.

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No, but I'll tell you what, I can relate a little uh St. Patrick's Day. So let's go back about 35 years or something downtown. Okay. And the city was replacing the sidewalks. So I don't even know, a couple of us got together. I don't even know if we asked the city. What we did probably we each maybe there were three of us, we each had a shamrock cutout, and we go around and at the corners we spray painted the pocket of a big giant three foot by three-foot shamrocks. And we sprayed them all around town, knowing that within two weeks or four weeks they'd be covered. However, we failed to find out that there were certain areas, let's say where the Starbucks is on that block, that they were not turning to the cycles. So there were at least a half a dozen shampoos.

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Oh, that's amazing.

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That didn't get to the Okay, it was a half a dozen. And it was, but you know, everything was fine. You know what? We got mad about it, nobody got pissed off, and it was fun doing it, it was a fun St. Patrick's Day, and we just I love that did a few times. We should do that.

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I will admit that I have done this in town. Not many people know, because I'm sure now I'm telling the world. I did it with sprayable chalk so that way it wasn't permanent, and if it rained, it would wash away. And I did it, um, I made stencils, and I did it in the crosswalks. And I literally put on a black hoodie and I did it at five in the morning, and I know where all cameras are going to have. And now I'm telling everybody, because it wasn't illegal, it was chalk, okay? I could chalk where I'm at work, but um, but I did it during like the art weekend that we had in town. Oh, okay, yeah. And I did a little crosswalk art.

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It was really cute. Well, and now that Fleming's Limited is no longer is now limited, she is now not existing, limited to zero, uh, nobody would think that it's you, because they'd be like, yeah, if you did it with when Flemings was open, people would be like, oh, this is just promoted at an Irish store, but now there's no Irish store. So I could do it.

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I hear that we're meeting at 5 a.m. on the 17th at Italy.

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That's right, and nobody can wear your like game country meetings or sweatshirt.

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So here's the thing there's a virtual run that uh they're doing here at I'm sorry, that uh the bid the the priest of Lake Shneva are doing, and it's a virtual run. And as long as you somehow get 5k in, you get free beer here at Topsy Turvy. We would like to thank Topsy Turvy for being community-minded and doing these things, and somebody's getting a parking ticket, it's just never- Oh!

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I forgot to pay for my party!

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Oh no! Uh usually I know the parking manager and I can text him, but he's on air uh he's on vacation right now. Ah! I gotta do it! So you we could get our 5k in and spray prate shamrocks everywhere. I'm just saying it was our virtual 5k and then come for a free beer at Topsy Turvy.

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I mean, here's what I'm saying. Topsy Churvy has a lineup of some pretty fun events. I'll tell you that. So they've got stuff starting the 17th through the 19th. And um, yes, the virtual 5K after party is here. I'm not totally clear on how that works out because like it's a virtual run.

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I honestly wondered, like, you know, you play like Red Dead Redemption or Grand Theft Auto, they give you stats on how far your character runs. Could I just be like, yeah, I played Red Dead Redemption for two hours and my character ran five miles, so I want my free beer. So I'm sorry, 3.6 miles.

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I do have to say, I love oh, the shirts are out.

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Ooh, I love great.

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Um so I I love, I am a huge vines. Of a 5K, right? We need a 5K in town. I tried to do it a number of times, but the point of a 5K is that it's a fun themed thing. You get dressed up, you have an after-party, have a beer. So we're like, we're part of the way there.

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So if we could just actually permit the actual race, then we would be there and that'd be awesome, and I would have 5 o'clock in the morning, black hoodies, shamrock stencils, and let's run our 5K. 5K. Dude, I'm there. You and Kevin? I'm just saying. What's a date? 17. Oh, you're an alibi.

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Oh, Kevin has to do it virtually. Good thing there's an hour.

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Oh boy.

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He doesn't give his beard. Well, never mind then. Never mind.

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You weren't supposed to ask for this.

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So we do want to make sure and say You know what?

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When we do do it now, you have an alibi. It's remembered. Yeah, it's right, yes.

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Could it have been Kevin? It wasn't even believing that. Even though we talked about it on air.

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Um, I will say Rennes is retiring, he's gonna do it thing. Topsi Turvy's got one, two, three days in a row of bands. So, regardless of the 5K or the after party or whatever, come out to Topsi Turvy and check out the music they have. Um, I am excited for like their back patio. I think they said they're gonna tent it, right? And may or may not have some heaters out there. I don't think they'll need it because it'll be crowded. Um, and it's supposed to be beautiful, I think, on some of the days, and so I will I will give that. I'm excited for that kind of atmosphere. We haven't had that, I think, often.

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And they did have heaters out the couple they cut last weekend, the weekend before. Sort of mild 40-50. I heard it was nice out. Oh, the seats were taken, they had their heaters on, and so Wisconsin people love to drink as soon as it hits 50 outside. You're supposed to be nice, so perfect.

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And you're leaving us, so you're going on vacation.

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Where it's warm.

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Where it's warm, warmer than where I was.

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Yes, warmer. To wrap up this first part of the podcast, we usually do some dad jokes. And uh we I have some Irish ones, Irish puns. Kevin, I want to know. I want you to give me a rating on these and how many times you've heard them before. Okay. What did the drunken Irishman in New York write to his wife back home? I wish you were beer.

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Oh boy.

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Oh boy.

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Or do you want me thumbs up, thumbs down, or would you rather I don't?

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Also thumbs down. Did you hear Ireland is the fastest growing country in Europe? Its population is always Dublin. Oh boy.

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Did you look at Irish ghetto?

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Why shouldn't you iron a four-leaved clover? You don't want to press your luck.

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Oh, I like that one. I like that one.

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That's good. Why can't you borrow money from a leprechaun?

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They're always a little short. There's a lot of these. Why isn't there so many of these? What do you call a big Irish stone?

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A shamrock. Let's see. Let's find one more. One more. A good one. What do you call a big Irish spider? A patty long leg.

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Oh, the P A D D Wag.

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Yes, it is. Well, I'm sorry. I hope you didn't find these Irish puns offensive. Oh my god.

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We're gonna take a quick break and we'll be right back.

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We're back. And uh for our product we're excited about, we're gonna talk about the delicious beer we're drinking here. That's right. We're at a brewery, and it'd be weird if we didn't.

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It'd be weird. We also had a pretzel. Um Milwaukee Pretzel Company, I'm sure we've talked about them before, but pretty good. There's one bite left, so now someone awkwardly has to finish it.

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I keep staring at it. Kevin, what's It's her guest host. What are you what are you drinking?

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I'm drinking the Fontana frog.

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Fontana!

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Named after the frog in Fontana. We have the frog and fontana, and it's uh it's nice. It's a light sort of a lighter IPA, a little more of a lager.

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Oh, I like that.

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Um, but yeah, I like it. It's very nice.

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They have great little like mini sample cups here, if you're not sure. So

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That's right.

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We tried a couple samples of different things before we landed on our kidding, Nick didn't. What are you drinking?

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I'm drinking a twisted hammock. It's their uh they call it a pale ale, uh, which it is, technically. Personally, I'd call it uh I would call it a hoppy ale because when you see pale ale you think it's gonna be like an IPA. Uh you know, pale ale's big style. I don't think that, I shouldn't say. Um but uh I would have just called it like a happy ale because it's a lighter body, lower alcohol, it's like 5%, a little bit of hop, a little bitter, a little bit of amber malt to it. It's great. You know, your favorite, ambers.

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Uh that I am drinking the amber ambiance, which is pretty much what I get 99% of the time when I'm here. It's a safe beer.

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They they used to have a red.

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Yeah, which is what I was intending to get today, you know, full Irish theme, but they don't have it on tap right now. So I stuck with Amber Ambiance. It's safe and delicious if you are an amber beer drinker like me. I think they knew you were coming and said. Oh, let's not pull if they ever pull the amber ambiance off their menu, I will have words with them.

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So coming down. They have lots of rotating beers. They have uh Great Patio. They have uh the infamous dive-in seltzers.

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They do, which have improved everybody. They have improved.

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They were improved.

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Uh still not a seltzer fan here, everybody.

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Stop on in, great beverages. We'll be right back. We're back.

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We're back at the same time.

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I mean it is church.

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It is a nice echo here, and uh we're in a we're in a church brewery looking at some stained glass windows.

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Time to talk about Ireland and St.

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Patrick's Day and Yes. Kevin, where is the best green river? We were talking about green beer. Is green beer actually a thing in Ireland? No.

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No.

SPEAKER_03 24:02

Don't worry to it. It is Miller Light. It is Miller Light. It's I think it's who knows where it started, but it certainly is big on college campuses. Any big city like Chicago, New York, Boston, where there's a big St. Patrick's Day parade, yes.

SPEAKER_00 24:17

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 24:18

But in Ireland, no.

SPEAKER_00 24:20

Definitely no.

SPEAKER_03 24:21

Definitely not. Do they die rivers creep? They do not.

SPEAKER_01 24:26

I have had an experience in Ireland on St. Patrick's Day. Did you know that?

SPEAKER_03 24:30

Did you know?

SPEAKER_01 24:31

I was in Ireland on St. Patrick's Day, and it was certainly unique.

SPEAKER_03 24:34

It difference, yes. So we've we've been there a couple times, and I probably I think I shared this regular last time, is you know, Dublin is a big city parade like Chicago or Boston.

SPEAKER_01 24:44

Yeah, but it was a weird parade. That's where it was.

SPEAKER_03 24:47

Yeah, and it used to be up until the 20.

SPEAKER_01 24:50

There's no leprechaun trap.

SPEAKER_03 24:52

Yeah, up until 20 or 25 years ago, it was, you know, St. St. Patrick's Day was a holy day of obligation. Yeah. There was no alcohol serve. What? Now they changed it to no alcohol till afternoon.

SPEAKER_01 25:05

Until afternoon.

SPEAKER_03 25:06

And it was a national holiday, of course.

SPEAKER_01 25:09

That stamps, no alcohol till afternoon, nothing. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 25:14

And, you know, parades. So everybody from Ireland came over here. The dignitaries, the politicians, the bands, and then they they go home and they find, oh my god, you see those Americans do it's great. The first time we were there a couple a couple times on St. Patrick's Day, once was we happen to land in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day. Because it's the perfect time to fly, because the fairs are cheap. I bet! Because nobody wants to fly now, because everybody's already there.

SPEAKER_00 25:40

Oh, good call.

SPEAKER_03 25:41

And we're like, Pro tip. Oh my god, look at these people. This is like 20 years ago. They've got shamrettes on their cheeks and white and glitter. And we're like, oh my gosh, and then another few years later, our friends live in a town called Gori. So Terry Byrne, who used to work at Lake Geneva Country Meets. Oh, wow. And so it's a small town, sort of let's sort of like Lake Geneva. Okay. And so every community every town has a parade and it's a community event. It's sort of like a homecoming, homecoming parade.

SPEAKER_05 26:10

Oh, fine.

SPEAKER_03 26:11

All the bands, all the parents get up for it. Everybody's there. And there's no alcohol served till afternoon, till when the parade is over.

SPEAKER_04 26:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 26:20

But do they bring water bottles like adults?

unknown 26:23

No.

SPEAKER_03 26:23

I don't think they do actually, because they might get called out. Oh, wow. So that's what St. Patrick's Day is in Ireland. It's it's a community, you know, family. It's so nice. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:35

I mean, my experience was in Dublin, so I'm sure it was more Americanized. Yes. Um, and I was college-aged because I was studying abroad in England, and uh we went to Ireland for St. Patrick's Day, like a good American college student. And you know, we did the Guinness tour. We did all the appropriate things. Um, the Guinness really is better over there. It is. Um, but the parade was weird. Like, just it there was no floats really, I don't think. And there was a lot, I just like my memories were big heads. Like they like people, it was more like a carnival parade is what it felt like to me.

SPEAKER_03 27:08

A lot of a lot of people on stilts and yeah, more like right.

SPEAKER_01 27:11

It was just very different. But then afterwards, we went off whatever the main road was, just to to the left, I remember, to this tiny little pub, and this dude was dressed up as St. Patrick, and people were just like passing around trays of homemade food that, like, as far as I can glean, like the owner's wife made or something. And it was it felt very authentic for being in Dublin, but like I don't know, it just felt more authentic than that parade. We had a blast. It was so fun, obviously different. We knew it was a different thing in Ireland than in America.

SPEAKER_04 27:43

Was this one of the times that uh somebody masturbated in front of the city?

SPEAKER_01 27:45

Oh, that was in Italy, no. That was Italy. I saw multiple times.

SPEAKER_04 27:50

Nobody would do that.

SPEAKER_01 27:52

Oh no, it happened once in Chicago once in Italy. But oh, here we go. I had to pull up pictures. So, I mean, you guys, now I'm living way back looking at all my pictures of the Guinness tour and the parade. Oh yeah, look, big head! Okay, sorry guys, you can't see these, but that was the parade. Yeah, that's right. Okay. Kevin and I'll go through these photos now when I'm done.

SPEAKER_04 28:14

When you're in Ireland, do you start to pick up a brogue at all, or like do you just stay do you try and fit in or do you stay in America? Yeah, I can try to fit in, you know.

SPEAKER_05 28:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:23

Yeah. Do you think that's a good one? Sometimes somebody might say something, they'll be like, wow, you are you from? What accent is it? I say, Northwest side of Chicago. What do you mean, Chicago? I mean, it's not Bridgeport, but I mean in Ireland, if you think that Ireland is the size of Indiana, and there's 32 counties, including the counties in the north, the accents are range. Oh my gosh, there are so many different accents, especially a West Cork accent or a Mayo accent. And we've been with people from Dublin and somebody who's from West Cork, and I'll say, What are there, what are they saying? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 29:02

I am dying to do Ireland countryside business. You know, we did the tourist stuff, right? It was our only time uh there, and so I'm dying to go back and yeah, there's still this this small town atmosphere is still there.

SPEAKER_03 29:15

I mean, I don't mean right now. And it's not filled with smoke from peak fires because you can't do that anymore. But it's a pub, and a pub in Ireland was a meeting, or still is, especially used to be, a meeting place.

SPEAKER_05 29:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 29:30

After school, kids would maybe they'd meet their mother there. But their mother would be having tea, and then they'd sit and have a bowl of, you know, potato leek soup, and they wouldn't be having any alcohol at all. And, you know, but it was just it was a meeting place.

SPEAKER_01 29:46

Yeah. Well, here we are meeting at a pub.

SPEAKER_04 29:51

So you said, you know, including the counties in the north. I just thought of an Irish thing somebody should do. They should do a take on We Don't Talk About Bruno.

SPEAKER_01 29:59

Uh huh.

SPEAKER_04 29:59

But we don't talk about Northern Ireland.

SPEAKER_01 30:02

Captain Kelly doesn't know we don't talk about Bruno because. Are you aware of Encanto? Why would he watch Encanto? He does not have a two-year-old.

SPEAKER_04 30:11

No, no, I mean it's on the top 40.

SPEAKER_01 30:13

It is uh the latest Hot Disney movie.

SPEAKER_04 30:17

It's about this song, it's very big. It's we don't talk about Bruno. Yeah. No. Okay, so it's not about Bruno for Bruno's Liquor who's recently just.

SPEAKER_05 30:25

Bruno.

SPEAKER_01 30:29

Okay, go ahead. Totally different. The the it's one of the songs in the movie has topped the charts. It is. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:35

Billboard Hot 40 top. Number one. Where do I find this?

SPEAKER_02 30:38

I don't. Do you have Disney Plus? No. I don't have to. I do not have Disney Plus. I don't feel like they're watching a ton of Disney movies.

SPEAKER_01 30:45

Star Wars? Well, um, you can probably just look it up on YouTube. Or just Google. We don't talk about Bruno. We'll play you the song when we're done.

SPEAKER_03 30:53

It's catchy. Is that on like a Spotify or Pandora?

SPEAKER_01 30:56

Oh, it's on there, yes. No idea.

SPEAKER_03 30:58

It's on there, because we play it through the Alexa, through the Spotify.

SPEAKER_01 31:01

We're mean parents and don't play children's music. We play like Abbott Brothers through the house because we're like, yeah, there's not bad language.

SPEAKER_04 31:08

I'm actually more of a fan of uh Luisa's song, uh Pressure.

SPEAKER_01 31:12

Yeah, listen, I don't know Encanto as well as the rest of the world.

SPEAKER_04 31:16

We're into that one. Speaks to me. Okay. You know.

SPEAKER_01 31:19

Oh, okay. Um, great. So when are your next plans to go back to Irish?

SPEAKER_03 31:24

Yeah. This year.

SPEAKER_01 31:25

Yeah?

SPEAKER_03 31:26

Yes. What?

SPEAKER_02 31:27

You plan a trip and that time? Yeah, it's like uh You're planning a trip to the time.

SPEAKER_03 31:33

We were going, our original plan last year was to go over Easter and take our children. But, you know, when it came to December, January, and everybody had to make their vacation plans for their jobs. Weren't sure and the pandemic was roaring, so we thought, well, let's we won't do that. So now we're now we're talking about over Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_02 31:54

Oh fuck with the kids?

SPEAKER_03 31:55

Yeah. Oh jealous.

SPEAKER_02 31:57

Do they celebrate Thanksgiving in Ireland?

SPEAKER_03 31:58

They do not, that's what's nice. So weird. Yeah, we all know we got and they don't do not celebrate. Obviously, we don't celebrate thousands of Thanksgiving. Now I will say that so obviously St. Patrick's is a holiday. They have a pretty much have a bank holiday every month. So there's we we pretty much do that too. Maybe not in Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_00 32:16

Not yet, in Illinois.

SPEAKER_03 32:17

So I mean Cassian Pulaski. Next year there is going to be a new bank holiday.

SPEAKER_01 32:23

In Ireland.

SPEAKER_03 32:24

For the for a person who is equal in stature to St. Patrick. St. Bridget. What? What? Look at February 1st, St. Bridget's day, February 1st. What? So they're going to be talking about this for years about doing um.

SPEAKER_04 32:40

Oh my god, Bridget Gang. I'm Bridget Gallagher.

SPEAKER_00 32:43

Hello.

SPEAKER_04 32:44

Governor?

SPEAKER_00 32:46

Celebrate me today. I will not try and pick an accent.

SPEAKER_01 32:52

What? Kevin! So that's a book of vacation.

SPEAKER_03 32:55

So because actually St. Bridgeda's Day. St. Bridget pre predates uh St. Patrick.

SPEAKER_01 33:01

B-R-I-G-I-D, right?

SPEAKER_03 33:02

Yeah, so B- You know the Irish would be Yeah, so B R B-R-I-D-G-E-T. What date you made that? There's a special cross for you. Oh it is.

SPEAKER_01 33:13

Wait, does Martin spell it the same way as me?

SPEAKER_03 33:15

She does.

SPEAKER_01 33:16

Everyone spells my name wrong. I know I have it hanging in my house. Wow. I have a necklace with it. Wow. It came from Fleming's Limited.

SPEAKER_03 33:24

That's the St. Bridges Cross. So what it was was during pagan times, they made this thing out of rush, which is what that's made out of, and she St. Bridges just sort of turned it into, made it look like a cross. So it's called the St. Bridges Cross. And in Ireland, every building, every structure, whether it's a house or an office, has St.

SPEAKER_01 33:46

Bridges Cross.

SPEAKER_03 33:47

They will or a business. They will have a St. Bridges Cross over the doorway.

SPEAKER_01 33:51

Usually, yeah, should it be over an entrance or an exit?

SPEAKER_03 33:54

An entrance or an exit, yes.

SPEAKER_01 33:55

Okay. Because I actually just um we had packed up a lot of things, assuming our house would be renovated by now. And I was unpacking some things and came across my St. Bridget's Cross and was like, where should I hang this? So my home entrance. Do you have one at your house?

SPEAKER_03 34:10

We do. And we have one at the stores now in the basement of the store, so it's no longer over the over the door. And I'm gonna push my lockdown. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 34:22

This is so exciting. So, friends listening, February 1st, if I'm not in Ireland, we are celebrating. Okay, so I'm ready to go.

SPEAKER_03 34:29

So that's this is this will be uh twice a year? Yeah, we'll do this twice a year celebrate on St. Patrick's Day or Sandra. That's just her feast. That's her feast day.

SPEAKER_04 34:40

Remember we looked up you know the feast of the guy that makes you not puke? Oh yeah. Yeah, F him. Do you speak Irish?

SPEAKER_03 34:48

I do not.

SPEAKER_04 34:49

So all these weird letters that I'm trying to figure out how they're pronounced, you can't tell me.

SPEAKER_03 34:53

I can tell you some. So in the Irish, uh there are actually 20 letters in the Irish alphabet. So there's so for instance, my name, Kevin, is Queen, which is spelled C-A-O-I-M-H-E-N. What C-A-O-N. There's no, there's actually no K. Okay. So even though County Kildare is K-I-L, but it's in Irish, it would begin with a C. Okay. And a V sound is M H. What? Or it could be, alright, so M-H-O, there's no between uh U D W X Y and Z. Like three or four of those don't exist. Wow. There's not a D there's not a K. This is it's a C. Um Okay. But yeah, so my.

SPEAKER_01 35:47

K and C make sense. You lost me at the V with the M H or whatever.

SPEAKER_03 35:51

C H is a V. Yeah, so like Queen is C-A-O-I. C-A-M-H. M-H-H is a V. Is a V.

SPEAKER_02 36:01

That's I. Can we call you Kwevan?

SPEAKER_00 36:03

Can we begin to call you Kwevan? I cannot spell it. You've told me how to spell it twice, and I still don't.

SPEAKER_03 36:09

So Terry Byrne, whoever we speaking of, he has a his one of his daughter's name is Quiva, which would be the feminine version of Kevin.

unknown 36:16

Quiva.

SPEAKER_04 36:17

What's the English? What's the English feminine version of Kevin?

SPEAKER_00 36:21

I don't know if there's the feminine version of Kevin. Quiva? Well, I think that in Quiva. Quiva's a good name. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 36:29

So their their daughter's name are your oldest is Roshin. Roshin. And then Quiva. So I remember when their daughter. The hell, Lucio? There were three daughters, and the youngest daughter was born, and so I sent an email and I said, Congratulations, I don't know what you want your daughter's name. And it's in Ireland, it's they don't really live two, three days. Sometimes it could be a month, six weeks. Oh, sure. So he said, Well, Kevin, let me tell you this. It's not gonna be Mary. And her name is Schifra. And their names are Mary and Kevin.

SPEAKER_00 37:08

That's awesome.

unknown 37:09

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 37:10

So I love those things. But I don't. I mean, I, you know, I've sort of tried you can do it online, and it's a really difficult one. You can say some of the things I know the letters and but it's sounds like a great retirement project. It is right.

SPEAKER_04 37:27

Product rights. Do Wordle instead, it's easier. I did not get it today. It's the I had the it was, you know, like what? Have you done your? I haven't done it yet today, don't say it. It's one of the ones that makes me the most mad, and the last time I missed it was the same situation in that.

SPEAKER_01 37:43

I really don't like that it's not an app. Sorry, everybody.

SPEAKER_04 37:46

We should get in Duolingo.

SPEAKER_01 37:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 37:48

And then you can Duolingo your Irish. This would be really funny. And then you can surprise the kids when you're over in the middle. Oh, yeah, the kids in Ireland shut up. You'll be dropping on the thing. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:01

Oh. Sorry, kids. Wow, okay. I I'm simultaneously jealous of your Ireland trip slash dreaming of mine for next February. To celebrate myself. This date. The best type of celebration.

SPEAKER_00 38:15

Celebration for yourself. I'm going alone.

SPEAKER_04 38:17

You're going alone. Bye. Definitely. It's a Tuesday next year. I'm gonna be in vacation. Monday to Wednesday. Just a quick pie. Just a quick. It's worth it, man. We're going through passport control. Yeah, bridge it. Bridge it. Bridget. No. Yeah, and I know it says leech on there, but it's actually gallery.

SPEAKER_01 38:39

Here's my previous license from 10 years ago.

SPEAKER_04 38:42

You don't know where they came from. I'm actually one of you. Yeah. And I don't know if you know what date is.

SPEAKER_02 38:49

But you should be nice to me. But pay attention.

SPEAKER_01 38:52

They would detain me for sure.

unknown 38:55

Well, you wouldn't.

SPEAKER_03 38:56

Without a group they would, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:58

You win some, you lose, so. On that note. It's time for King Ca! Ooh, the echo is that's gonna be nice. So it's gonna be nice. You want leave it? I don't know. I'm I'm really just gonna talk about Elliot birthday stuff. I'll go first then.

SPEAKER_04 39:12

Okay, great. Um, we had a great time on Saturday going to candle shop and wine shop. Our two favorite places candle shop and wine shop. Every two years old. It was warm outside, and so Simona started wanting to go to wine shop because the bottle shop near town because she knows she can go in the patio and run around. So we went to wine shop and had a glass of wine, and then we went to candle shop, which is the candle mercantile, and she likes the candle mercantile because Miss Liz and Miss Leanne play with her and she gets to smell all the candles.

SPEAKER_00 39:47

What a day!

SPEAKER_04 39:48

So she got to run around all over downtown Lake Geneva. She didn't like that she was not allowed to not hold her hands on the sidewalk. We're starting to hit that stage.

SPEAKER_01 39:57

She doesn't like having her hands out?

SPEAKER_04 39:59

No, because she wants to run into the street, obviously, like every two-year-old.

SPEAKER_02 40:03

Um, but it was a great day.

SPEAKER_04 40:05

We got a great picture out of it. We got a new candle, it's a St. Patrick's themed candle. That should have been my product rack. They have an Irish PT thing, it's burning peat. Okay, yes. Uh it's very good. I mean, I I've never been to Ireland to smell those peat bottoms, so I don't know if it's authentic, but I enjoy it, so we got a new candle. It was great. I just love that my two-year-old's favorite places are a wine shop and a candle shop.

SPEAKER_00 40:28

Wine shop.

SPEAKER_04 40:28

And when it gets warm outside, she starts asking to go to wine shop and candle shop.

SPEAKER_01 40:32

Smart girl.

SPEAKER_04 40:34

That's what I got.

SPEAKER_01 40:35

Good, good. Um, as we've covered, Elliot's birthday was this week. Uh, I've been in full-on Pokemon cake making mode.

SPEAKER_04 40:43

You did a good job.

SPEAKER_01 40:44

I will say that I truly felt what it feels like to be a mom this week, where it's like Oh, not like on this day six years ago. No. I had no idea what I was in for. I like planned all the details of this trip, packed all the stuff, did all the things, no appreciation. Like, dad, my kids wanted nothing to do with me on the trip. They were like, Dad, fun dad. Then it's Elliot's birthday. Same thing. Like, okay, so tomorrow is his actual birthday party. So he has requested Pokemon cupcakes again. So so far this week I've made Pokeb Pokeball. If you don't know Pokemon, look up Pokemon Pokeballs.

SPEAKER_04 41:23

You gotta catch them all.

SPEAKER_01 41:24

Gotta catch them all. So um I made Pokeball cupcakes for school, and then I made a Pokeball cake for that night. So that night on his actual birthday, just both sets of grandparents came over for some cake and presents. And I will say, I felt I was feeling beat down. I was like, I'm exhausted. I stayed up blowing up balloons and wrapping presents, whatever. Every time all four of the grandparents all drove separate vehicles in sorry environment, but they all came from like separate places. So they all showed up at four separate times. And every time one of them walked in, Elliot would run to the kitchen and say, Look at my cake, look at my cake. And he was so excited. And how so I'm just saying, I whined a lot this week about all the mom shit I had to do, but Elliot was very excited, so I'm doing it all again tonight, and hopefully tomorrow he'll be just as excited.

SPEAKER_00 42:12

We'll see.

SPEAKER_03 42:13

So I have to Google to find out what a Pokeball is.

SPEAKER_01 42:16

Pokeball, I'll show you, Kevin.

SPEAKER_03 42:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:21

You don't know how you don't know what a Pokeball is? Me neither. This is a Pokeball.

unknown 42:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 42:27

You keep your Pokemon in it.

SPEAKER_01 42:28

You keep like this po this jeez.

SPEAKER_03 42:30

I do know what they are, so that looks like a cupcake.

SPEAKER_00 42:33

That is what it for you.

SPEAKER_04 42:39

Don't be such a smart.

SPEAKER_02 42:40

God, Kevin.

SPEAKER_04 42:41

Kevin, you have more years of parenting than us. What's your kick corner?

SPEAKER_03 42:45

So I tell Maureen she's this and she said, oh just tell them that, you know, just tell them. Give them each an extra 30 seconds.

SPEAKER_01 42:53

Well, you can tell a story about Maureen.

SPEAKER_03 42:55

So we each either would watch that. Well, I just remember when the kids were, whatever, second, third, fourth grade, for each of their classes, three of them, because they're all within four years, making cherro cookies. They would either be with green dye or some little green frosting, and then you'd have to walk them down with them, of course, because if they were in second grade, they'd fall over the ground or eat them all.

SPEAKER_00 43:15

Wait, they'd bring them to school?

SPEAKER_03 43:16

Bring them to school for the whether it was for I love that. Mrs. Dinan or Mrs. Alan or those are both my teachers. So the great teachers were at central school. Well, that was it. That's it.

SPEAKER_01 43:31

So they may call Oh, I want this idea. I want to see this and be like, I was a Gallagher before I would teach everybody.

SPEAKER_03 43:38

Bridget.

SPEAKER_01 43:39

Bridget Gallagher. Remember that I'm going to go to the first. Lauren.

SPEAKER_03 43:43

Lauren.

SPEAKER_01 43:43

So it's Bridget Lauren, Brittany Aaron, Shannon Ashley. Yeah, just saying.

SPEAKER_03 43:48

Just saying. Good. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 43:51

Wow, Kevin. Thank you as always for showing us.

SPEAKER_03 43:53

Thank you. I enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_01 43:54

We love having you as well.

SPEAKER_03 43:56

Yeah, so next year we have two months in a row.

SPEAKER_00 43:58

Next year we're doing environment. We have actually all expenses work paper. We're just going to do it. We're fine.

SPEAKER_04 44:04

We'll love it. We're flying on uh Air Lingus all the way over.

SPEAKER_00 44:07

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SPEAKER_04 44:10

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SPEAKER_01 44:16

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SPEAKER_04 44:18

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SPEAKER_01 44:25

We will confirm if there's gonna be green beer.

SPEAKER_04 44:27

They don't know who we are, but uh two of them do. Tell them that sent you.

SPEAKER_02 44:32

I would say the brewer and the person that does all of the running here know, and that's important. Tell them that queevants sent you.

SPEAKER_01 44:39

For sure. For sure, tell them that Queven sent you. That would be great. Okay, also follow us on social media, Facebook and Instagram, Dinner Plus Drinks Podcast.

SPEAKER_02 44:50

Thanks for listening. Everybody have a great day. Uh let's launch up.