Surprise Quiz - Dinner Plus Drinks #142

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Are you ready to rumble?

SPEAKER_02 0:04

Whoa. Is this sports themed?

SPEAKER_00 0:06

No, it's not. But I just like uh thought that'd be a good way to get started today.

SPEAKER_02 0:09

You did wake me up from the You had quite the jolt.

SPEAKER_00 0:12

Quite the jolt of doing something else. I'm sorry, because I didn't have the outline filled in. We're here. Hello, everybody, and boy, do I have what Bridget loves the most a quiz. Damn it. Alright, Bridget. So we've done the like pick a $10, $20, $50 wine before. I have three wines today. Okay. And this is culminates in a number of things I've just like randomly bounced off of you in the last week. So this is work and fun. Two of the wines are wines I wanted you to try because they're on our upcoming mega blowout wine sale.

SPEAKER_02 0:59

More on that. Don't you love our teasers?

SPEAKER_00 1:01

And one is a Zinfandel that I thought was like really good and I think is less Zinfandeli than people thought was Zinfandeli. Okay. And so I'm curious what you think about it. So I'm gonna make you pick the $10 wine. One of these is a $10 cab. Okay. One is a $16 cab. Oh, that's a close margin. And one is it's 60% more. I mean, I hear you. Uh, and one is a Zinfandel.

SPEAKER_02 1:25

Oh, God. This is a quiz.

SPEAKER_00 1:28

I'm gonna make you pick. So this is wine number one.

SPEAKER_02 1:31

Okay. Oh, it's right here. He was like prepping in the corner, but I didn't know we were having a quiz.

SPEAKER_00 1:37

And also, since we're gonna have to sell a lot of these wines, I thought you might want to try them.

SPEAKER_02 1:43

Okay. I don't feel like I can be mean yet until I know what's going on.

SPEAKER_00 1:47

That's wine number one.

SPEAKER_02 1:49

Which was like enjoyable at first, and then it was less enjoyable. And it's not bad. My gut, I don't want to say my gut yet. Don't say your gut yet. I'm not going to. It's got a nice um very like color.

SPEAKER_00 2:03

It does. It's very dark red, yes. Indeed, indeed.

SPEAKER_02 2:08

Ooh. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 2:11

Let me adjust this microphone so I can stand and yell from the back corner.

SPEAKER_02 2:15

Well, we have lots of fun things to talk about after this quiz of mine that we're starting out with. Everybody loves a test. Ooh, even darker. This one looks prominent.

SPEAKER_00 2:24

Even darker. Even bolder, even smoother, all of the buzzwords. Barrier. Should we call it a bigger? Barrier. Err.

SPEAKER_02 2:34

Wow. Okay. I need I wish I what I want is all three of these next to each other. This is the problem.

SPEAKER_00 2:41

Well, I mean, I'll give it to you, but that would that would make it difficult to tell. I will I'll take all you know what? I'll grab all three bottles after you try the thing.

SPEAKER_02 2:48

This one is more barrier, much less um tannic than the previous one.

SPEAKER_00 2:53

I would agree with you on that one.

SPEAKER_02 2:55

Thank you. Thank you. I'm getting better at this continually. Got to admit, it's getting better. What else would you say about it? It just feels much less tanic and more berry forward. I like this one. She likes it. It's gonna be Zinnadel, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 3:14

I love the crippling like self-awareness slash like anxiety that you just again.

SPEAKER_02 3:20

If people could have seen your face on that one, you were just like Nick's life is here to prove me wrong. His life goal is to prove that I like more than just California cats.

SPEAKER_00 3:28

Well, I mean, that's you know like a nice bonus if I do that.

SPEAKER_02 3:31

I like Temper Neo. Come on, that's red wine. Okay, okay, okay. This one is more okay, never mind, because that was a dumb comment. It has more browns in it than the biggest.

SPEAKER_00 3:47

We'd say it's got a little bit more like oxidized color.

SPEAKER_01 3:50

Oh, is that what we mean? Oh. Um we have some water in between. Alright. I'm prepared to make my guess.

SPEAKER_02 4:09

Although that just changed my mind. The only thing that is making me guess the way I'm gonna guess is because I think your life's goal is to prove me wrong.

SPEAKER_00 4:17

Not actually not in this case. I just like it's not. It's a hundred percent not. I suppose purely I want your like you are our target demo. I need some feedback on this. So I just want you to be you. I don't want to prove you wrong.

SPEAKER_01 4:30

Oh, I'm so sad about it. And I actually thought you would think it'd be interesting.

SPEAKER_00 4:33

So we have three wines. One is uh three finger jack cabernet from Lodi. Yep. One is Castoro Zinfidel from Paso Robles, and I know it should be Paso Robles, but no, it's Paso Robles. It is pronounced Paso Robles.

SPEAKER_02 4:48

I was gonna just let it fly because you say things weird all the time.

SPEAKER_00 4:51

It is Paso Robles. And then we have 1924 double black limited edition by gnarly head cabernet Sauvignon.

SPEAKER_02 5:00

Can you tell me the prices of which is which yet?

SPEAKER_00 5:02

Well, that's what you have to guess.

SPEAKER_02 5:03

Oh, I thought I was guessing which wine was Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00 5:06

So Oh, actually, yeah, sure. I can tell you.

SPEAKER_02 5:08

Um Like is the 1924 or the three-finger jack.

SPEAKER_00 5:11

So the 1924 is $10.

SPEAKER_02 5:12

Yeah, that's what I thought.

SPEAKER_00 5:13

Okay, Sterrow's like $15, $16, and the three-finger jack is sixteen dollars.

SPEAKER_02 5:18

Okay, so I think the three-finger jack, the 16. I was just coming in like really confident, and I'm second guessing myself now. Is that the second one I tried? No. Damn it, that's the Zinfandel, isn't it? No. Oh, I'm wrong on all of them?

SPEAKER_00 5:32

You're wrong.

SPEAKER_02 5:33

Holy shit. This my favorite one then was the cheapest one. Weird. Okay, so my favorite one that I had was number two. Is this last one Zinfandel?

SPEAKER_00 5:41

The last one was Zinfandel.

SPEAKER_02 5:42

Okay, that was my least favorite.

SPEAKER_00 5:43

And this actually is not as good as the one I had it. This is two years old, though.

SPEAKER_02 5:46

So Okay, so here, so to recap, the first one is the $16 cab, and that one was pretty tannic for me. Yeah, it's a little trot.

SPEAKER_00 5:55

And actually, I think we should try that again because I don't remember it being that that tight.

SPEAKER_02 5:59

Let's do that. Yeah, because it that is a great way to describe it. Like the first step, I was like, oh good, and then it just kind of got worse.

SPEAKER_00 6:05

Because I actually think that's like I think that one might be a complete Bridget jam.

SPEAKER_02 6:09

I agree with you. That's why I'm like, I don't want to hate on it because I I agree. Everything about it.

SPEAKER_00 6:13

When I had it, I was when I sampled it, I was first of all, I don't like the three-finger jack thing.

SPEAKER_02 6:18

Cause like Yeah, I wish you guys could see what Nick just did. It just take your guesses.

SPEAKER_00 6:24

It's a sh it seems like a sex button to me. Send in your guesses. Uh it just I don't love it. And it's in this like squatty bottle. Squatty bottle, yeah. That's like hard to fit on the shelves. Is there a story? It's this guy that was a miner in California, and he only had three fingers, and his name was Jack, and he made like shine, and you know, like actually the story is kind of cool.

SPEAKER_02 6:44

We think of Jack sounds like a pyro.

SPEAKER_00 6:46

Made up. Yeah. It's all like, I'm sure made up. But their website's cool. It does look like a pirate bottle. It looks like a bottle of grog. Yeah. Grog. Um they have a rum barrel red that we're gonna have on our sale too. Um I bet that's cool. I bet I get that for my dad. But I had this and I was just like Bridget would love this.

SPEAKER_02 7:04

Yeah, we should try that again because I don't want to hate on it because I don't want to hate on it because I want to love it. Um, because we Nick and I have talked about this wine and I felt like I would like it. Um, I am confirmed though, I don't like Zinfandel. That was that was there's something like weird with this one. I think it's just too old because I had I just thought you were gonna like try and trick me and have number two be the Zinfendel.

SPEAKER_00 7:23

No, so number two was the Double Black 1924. Uh Gnarly Head used to make like the most worst wines in the world. So they kind of rebranded to have a like higher quality one called Double Black. We have this one in the red blend. When I tried them, I was like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 7:37

And they look expensive too. Great gift.

SPEAKER_00 7:41

So um it's really nice. They have like some liquor barrel-aged wines too that I'm not messing around with.

SPEAKER_02 7:47

I don't love liquor liquor barrel-aged.

SPEAKER_00 7:49

Their white wines are like fine, but you can find like you can find nicer brands that are the same price point that are like the same quality. So it's like, yeah, I'm if they're the same quality, they cost me the same. Yep. Like, I might as well just sell the nicer brand because people are like, oh, I can get Josh Sauvignon Blanc for the same price as double black Sauvignon Blanc.

SPEAKER_02 8:10

Yeah, and they I I but they're fine.

SPEAKER_00 8:11

But yeah, the reds, I was like, these are good.

SPEAKER_02 8:13

He told me about this wine by Gnarly Head, and I was like, nope, nope. Because I've had gnarly head thinking, oh, I like their branding, it's funny, and it was so bad.

SPEAKER_00 8:20

So bad.

SPEAKER_02 8:21

This was my favorite one. Good job.

SPEAKER_00 8:23

Yeah, so like I really wanted you to try this. I keep money to send a bottle home with you to be like, hey, try it. Because like I think, so I think we're gonna sell this wine for like seven bucks. What on our list?

SPEAKER_02 8:33

Friends of mine, you're all getting this as a gift. I love you.

SPEAKER_00 8:35

On a little uh blowout sale type of situation.

SPEAKER_02 8:38

We're having a very cool wine blowout.

SPEAKER_00 8:40

This for seven dollars.

SPEAKER_02 8:41

Dude, that's great. Yeah, that's my everyday wine now.

SPEAKER_00 8:44

I plan on like having it open and be like, try it, try it, try it, try it.

SPEAKER_02 8:47

Try it, try it, trust us. Because I'll just I'll just tell the people they know I love the cab. People take this one. People of the world, try the cab. But yeah, Zinfandel, I just can't get on board with it. I was excited.

SPEAKER_00 8:58

This is like dryer. You really did a nice job of feeling confident to say it looked brown, because you're right. And that's something that when you look for, it's like kind of an oxidative thing, and that mutes the fruit a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 9:07

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:08

Like oxygen contact and stuff. And I want to. So the wine's just kind of too old.

SPEAKER_02 9:12

Yeah, okay. So does Zinfandel not age well?

SPEAKER_00 9:14

Some do. This one probably wasn't made to.

SPEAKER_02 9:16

Okay, interesting.

SPEAKER_00 9:17

Um, you'll see that in Cabernet when it starts getting that color, like more mature bottles. Like, I could go pop some old bottle and have that kind of color to it. But Cabernet, like, has, if you do it right, it's first of all, tight, like that um three-finger jack where the tannins need to unload a little bit, let the actually interact with them. The fruit can like fade a little bit, and you still have all those like secondary and tertiary characteristics of spices and herbs and wood and earthy things and forest. And like those start forest in a glass. Those start to interact with the fruit to make a better experience. But you need a better quality of fruit in production than a $15 bottle wine to make that plus.

SPEAKER_02 9:56

All right, I'm gonna pour us another three-finger jack while we talk about our weeks.

SPEAKER_00 9:59

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, do that. Do that.

SPEAKER_02 10:02

Do that, do that.

SPEAKER_00 10:03

Good call.

SPEAKER_02 10:04

Um, fall has arrived. I'm so excited. And how do you feel about that?

SPEAKER_00 10:08

I like fall.

SPEAKER_02 10:09

Yeah, I look fall. I'm sitting here in my leggings, my fuzzy socks, my fuzzy shirt, like cozy town over here. Um, I'm so excited about it. It's also officially the first day of fall, two days ago, yesterday, something. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 10:21

There's this TikToker named uh Lauren Powell that I like to like see her stuff when it comes up in my feed on Instagram because I watch TikToks on Instagram like an adult.

SPEAKER_02 10:31

I have started going to directly to TikTok.

SPEAKER_00 10:34

And uh it's like L-O-R-Y-N, Lauren. So it's a weird one. But I just find her funny. Okay. She does some funny things. Does she have something to do with fall or? So she did this uh weird weird transition. She did this like my college self showed up and you know, like did what uh, you know, commented on my house and stuff. And one of the ones is like she goes and her college self goes in her closet. She's like, Why do you have all pajamas? She's like, Oh, they're called leggings, and we can wear them everywhere now.

SPEAKER_02 10:58

I know it's funny. I uh still believe that leggings are not pants, and so I still like to cover my butt and mostly crotch uh with clothing. So as I was getting dressed today, I I did the butt check, and yes, my clothing, except that I'm sitting like a child right now, Nick can see my leggings, my full leg leggings. But yeah, I just don't believe. I mean, I guess if you're a size zero, that's great, but who's a size zero anymore?

SPEAKER_00 11:20

But it's not even just that. I think the crotch point is great. Yeah, people yeah, it doesn't work for a lot of well, and many people wear yeah, like a shirt that's shorter in the front and longer in the back.

SPEAKER_02 11:30

I'm like, it's it's not just your butt, guys, that you're trying to cover, but I'm old, so I guess I'm not very trendy.

SPEAKER_00 11:36

I we also had a discussion, we saw pictures of some students at Badger High School.

SPEAKER_02 11:40

Oh my god, this was the most old lady discussion ever. And I hesitated to bring it up, but I had to.

SPEAKER_00 11:46

I thought the same thing.

SPEAKER_02 11:48

Okay, I was flipping through like follow I follow the schools on Instagram because that's where I get half my information for my kids' schools, and there was a picture that I had to like pause and look at it and was like, fuck, this girl is wearing a sports bra.

SPEAKER_00 12:00

Like, yeah, it was a legit sports.

SPEAKER_02 12:01

I am here for crop top.

SPEAKER_00 12:02

I mean, a little like longer one.

SPEAKER_02 12:04

Yeah, it's a little longer.

SPEAKER_00 12:05

It was halfway between a crop top and a sports bra.

SPEAKER_02 12:07

I wear that at home. Like if it's warm, I will wear that at home. But like that's what she's wearing with a pair of joggers to school. And like, I don't I got yelled at at prom once for showing an inch of my stomach, and I was on the honor roll. So, like, I was a good kid and I got in trouble for showing an inch of my stomach, and these kids are literally wearing sports bras to school and they're crop tops. I'm like, I I can't, I don't understand. I also like went to a Catholic grade school where I wasn't allowed to show my shoulders. So I definitely acknowledge my age, but I was I had to stop because all three girls in the picture were like in some sort of crop toppy sports bra looking thing. And then the boys at the table behind them all had like hoodies on. So I'm like, is it 50 degrees out or is it 90 degrees out? I can't tell about this clothing choice.

SPEAKER_00 12:54

I just think it that picture is interesting to me in a lot of ways because it was like all these kids are just they're doing like a lab thing, but they're doing it all on their computers.

SPEAKER_03 13:02

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:03

Like standing up all their works on a computer. You said like Elliot has a computer already, and like these kids are wearing unacceptable clothing in a professional setting. And like when a man says it, it's always like, well, women can wear what they want. You can't tell women what to do with their body. Oh, you can't not be distracted by an attractive woman. And the answer is yes. I can't not be attracted to an attractive woman who comes in with distracted by. Like, I'm sorry, no, you put that out there like I'm just gonna awkwardly stare into your eyes our entire conversation because awkward. Like, what am I supposed to do?

SPEAKER_02 13:39

I mean, don't look at the bare shoulders, those sexual shoulders.

SPEAKER_00 13:44

But the like I know it the sports bras.

SPEAKER_02 13:47

And I know. I don't know what to say.

SPEAKER_00 13:49

My favorite is servers that wear just the leggings and like their crotch levels at your face.

SPEAKER_02 13:54

I know. When they walk over and you're like, And their waistband says like pink on the butt. Yeah, and you're just like, hey, um I don't what I think is funny, we're getting severely off topic here, but remember the juicy, remember the brand juicy and like the clothes that said juicy on the ass, and that was never acceptable. But now, like Victoria's Secret, if your waistband that you flip down says pink, it's just above your butt, and that's acceptable, but you can't wear juicy on your butt. That's what I constantly think of when I see like, yeah, servers wearing pink waistbanded pants. When I say pink, I mean the brand pink from Victoria's. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:28

So I think Lucy should have juicy shorts or whatever. And she could just be like, what is my nickname? People call me juicy.

SPEAKER_02 14:35

Oh my god, she's gonna be a stripper. Stop.

SPEAKER_00 14:39

I was talking to Amber in our kitchen on Monday. I was like, you know, Amber, I woke up the other day and I had some nicknames for you. I was like, I'm gonna come in and see Amber. And my two nicknames for her were Wave, as in like Amber Waves Grain, and Jurassic, as in like, you know, Amber gets the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park. This is how like men do nicknames, like stupid sports ones. You know, like the movie Jurassic Park? They get the dino DNA from Amber.

SPEAKER_02 15:06

I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_00 15:07

Yeah, you know, like frozen amber. Yeah, it's terrifying.

SPEAKER_02 15:10

We let Elliot watch it. We're like, this is actually very scary.

SPEAKER_00 15:13

Well, like everybody's in the Chris Pratt ones.

SPEAKER_02 15:16

Yeah, I that was weird.

SPEAKER_00 15:17

Chris Pratt appears to be a horrible human being.

SPEAKER_02 15:19

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_00 15:20

Yeah, Adam Levine appears to be human being.

SPEAKER_02 15:21

Oh, I mean, Adam Levine, come on, I'm living for all the people.

SPEAKER_00 15:24

Like, he is making some dumb shit. Also, his wife knows, right? Like, oh yeah, she knows. The like level of like she knew, she knows.

SPEAKER_02 15:32

She knew. Oh, I don't know how to do it.

SPEAKER_00 15:34

She has to be okay with this on some level. I have no idea. Maybe not okay with it, but accepting it.

SPEAKER_02 15:37

Maybe it's a PR stunt. You never know.

SPEAKER_00 15:39

Uh you never know. You never know. Um, as you noticed as I walked into the house, I was checking out my flowers. I planted more flowers up front in our perennial garden bed.

SPEAKER_02 15:48

I called him out on it immediately.

SPEAKER_00 15:50

We had a little bit of frost, so I just wanted to check a few things. Did it frost? It was close. Yeah. I mean, I have no idea. I don't care about a garden. Nick in our kitchen. Both kitchen people get a shout out today.

SPEAKER_03 16:00

Oh, look at that.

SPEAKER_00 16:02

Some tips on like crazy things I could do to protect from frost. I'm like, I mean, they're native perennials, so if they can't deal with a little bit of frost, like I want them to die now.

SPEAKER_02 16:10

My neighbors put pillowcases on them. That just seems so excessive.

SPEAKER_00 16:14

Yeah, and I have like 70 plants in there, so just throw a sheet over it. Like, I just I don't I don't think it's gonna work. Um, and like some of them are very tall, so like I don't want to look to I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 16:25

I mean, I'm not the person to come to for gardening. I'm not either, but uh, I was just very worried about my plant children. I mean, seriously, I think you care for these children equally. I do. Sarah, how do you feel about that? Nick is a real plant guy. I don't know what else to say.

SPEAKER_00 16:40

I like my plants. I do tell people they're like, uh, what's going on in your life? I'm like, well, I like to play with my daughter and I like to check out my plants. My other children. That's basically the only thing that I have going on.

SPEAKER_02 16:52

So Nick and I actually aren't in our 70s, if you were unclear. We are bitching about social media and talking about our plants, but we're in our 30s, guys. That's basically all I have going on.

SPEAKER_00 17:04

Have you retried the three-finger jack?

SPEAKER_02 17:06

I haven't because I'm distracted. Um, I have to tell you about school because we're Yeah, I want to hear about bullying. Well, so it's not so Did you see this on TikTok? No, I no. I just the transition into first grade has been very hard. And I knew it would be because first grade feels serious.

SPEAKER_00 17:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:23

Like 4K, you know, it all feels more serious as the years go on.

SPEAKER_00 17:26

Kindergarten. It's a funny German word.

SPEAKER_02 17:29

And I'm I'm sure if you guys rewind, rewind, go back to last year. I probably said the same thing about kindergarten. But yeah, this year has been like Elliot seems older. I mean, he is older, obviously. He's got a freaking laptop at school, but he um, you know, he's just acting older, like, duh, that happens, that's fine. But I'm already seeing, and I don't just mean with the kids, with the parents. And I'm like panicking. I I see like this cool kids click, and they all like got put this way because their parents all pushed in the into this group. Like, you know, all the parents are friends, so they all got put together. They're all on the same soccer team together. They're and I I feel like so sad about it because Elliot doesn't really know yet, but he's gonna know. And so I just like am and yes, I'm overanalyzing. Yes, I'm like uh bringing stress into my life that doesn't need to be here. I understand all these things, therapist friends out there. Uh, but but also shut up. But also shut up. I can't help what my brain does. Yeah, so it I just like feel very angsty about it all. So that's too bad. But um, but Elliot has a track meet tonight, so or a cross country, the all-city cross-country meet, which is so fun. He participated last year and uh he's very nervous. He's stayed up for about 45 minutes in his bed last night, like being very nervous about it. Um, he's been very excited all month, and then he got very nervous last night.

SPEAKER_00 18:48

Sounds like uh we need a sports therapist friend.

SPEAKER_02 18:50

He did approve us to cheer for him this year. Uh last year we were not allowed to cheer. This year he said we could bring signs, and then by the end of the night, he said we are allowed to say four sentences. But he made a good point. I was trying to understand why he got mad about kids people cheering for him. And he said, because everyone's yelling at me. And we're like, oh. That should make you run faster. I get why that would upset someone like Elliot. And and I said, Who's yelling at you? You know, people I, you know, I'm explaining people are cheering and they're encouraging you and whatever. And then he said, Other parents. I'm like, if another parent yells at you, you tell me. You know, I'm like, are your coaches yelling at you? So anyway, it's we're like just diving into heavy stuff, I feel like. You know, we're in this like very I just feel suddenly like I have all this parenting stuff that I'm not prepared for again.

SPEAKER_00 19:35

So should we have him like practice running on the field out here and I can drive behind him in the mule and say, Go go faster, you're gonna get run over.

SPEAKER_02 19:43

I think he's scared he's gonna get lost in the woods because they run through the woods.

SPEAKER_00 19:46

Yep, that's fair.

SPEAKER_02 19:46

You know, and that's very we're like, no, people are gonna be able to do it. Especially when you're short.

SPEAKER_00 19:49

I mean, like he's tall, but you know, like he's not like because no, like there's enough scrub and stuff in there that you can't see over it. I know. I've gotten lost back then. And you'd be like, it's not like Tyler, who can see over every shelf in the library. Yeah. Still my favorite Tyler thing.

SPEAKER_02 20:04

Still my what's that?

SPEAKER_00 20:06

Was we're like uh library grand opening, and we're like, Tyler's supposed to be here, and all the way on the other side of the library, there's just like a head floating above all the shelves. Like, oh, there's Tyler.

SPEAKER_02 20:16

Hi, Tyler.

SPEAKER_00 20:17

Anyway, Tyler chasing Lucy as she runs through the middle of the grand opening.

SPEAKER_02 20:21

What do you think Lucy's gonna do at the track meet tonight? She's gonna try and join in. I'm like, you go find your brother, Lucy, you go find him in the woods.

SPEAKER_00 20:27

He's got around a half mile. Have you seen those things that like child gets lost in the wood, appears feeling fed and well watered four days later? That'd be Lucy. She'd be like, What?

SPEAKER_02 20:36

Bye. Yeah, she 100%. She walked away without even saying bye this morning.

SPEAKER_00 20:39

Would I ate some bugs? Would they're tasty?

SPEAKER_02 20:42

This leaf was good. My mouth itches a little. Anyway, moving on. It's fall.

SPEAKER_00 20:48

I have two stories.

SPEAKER_02 20:49

What? Me too, but one's kind of depressing, so I'm just gonna not talk about it.

SPEAKER_00 20:53

Oh, let's do the depressing one. I'll start with uh not depressing one that I thought you would find really interesting, and I'm really disappointed that you didn't end up marrying this person because it sounds perfect for you. Oh, this is not the one you have linked. Nope, not the one I have blanked. Ex-Pacers player headed to AVB Pro Beach Volleyball Championship. It was always the plan. Six foot seven, former Indiana Pacers player Chase Bootinger will step inside an NBA arena again Friday, but not to play basketball. He will be there playing beach volleyball, a sport he has conquered in a way he never did the professional world with hardwood and hoops.

unknown 21:25

What?

SPEAKER_00 21:26

So Chase was, let me pull up his wiki because it's a little bit better. Uh anyway, he's like one of the top two or three teams of beach volleyball in the world right now at a as a 34-year-old man. He's 6'7. He was uh the standout basketball and volleyball player, your two loves, at La Costa Canyon High School in Encinitas, California. Okay. And he won a sectional title in basketball and three state championships in volleyball. And he was the national player of the year for volleyball mag named by volleyball magazine as national. Player of the year as a senior. He was a McDonald's All-American basketball player and the runner-up in the 2006 McDonald's All-American Slam Dunk Contest and the number four recruit in the nation in 2006. For basketball. Yep. He chose to do Arizona that does not have men's volleyball, and he had offers from USC and UCLA to play both. He just went to Arizona and did both, where he had a solid but not spectacular college basketball career.

SPEAKER_02 22:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 22:26

After some people would say he was a little bit of a disappointment in a series of mean. Well, he had a lot of hype, and like Arizona very un very underperformed for what they were in those years.

SPEAKER_01 22:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 22:37

He was drafted and played um seven years in the NBA and one year in Europe, uh, never starting more than 22 games in a season or averaging more than 10 points, which is a very respectable career, but again, nothing spectacular. Retired at 32, and it was always his plan, focused back on volleyball, saying, I knew I could play volleyball when I was done with basketball, and he's killing people.

SPEAKER_02 23:03

I love this guy. Whatever. I hope this is my children. I mean, whatever. They can play band things, whatever. That's so awesome.

SPEAKER_00 23:12

I thought you would want to know about this.

SPEAKER_02 23:14

I have not even heard about it.

SPEAKER_00 23:15

Yeah, so I thought I saw this and I was like, I gotta tell Bridget about this.

SPEAKER_02 23:18

Bro, I mean, uh, shit. That should have been my backup. Just kidding. I was never good at basketball. I didn't care about basketball. I care about it now, though. Um, okay, and then I guess, you know, are we each just gonna do two too? Yeah, let's do two. All right, I'll start with my depressing one. It's not depressing. Uh it's a New York Times article, so I thought you'd love it, Nick. Um Health Panel recommends anxiety screening for all adults under 16 years. Yes, I thought about talking about this one. Do you think this is interesting? Do you think it's ridiculous? Did you?

SPEAKER_00 23:45

I think it's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_02 23:46

What? Why?

SPEAKER_00 23:47

Because we all have anxiety.

SPEAKER_02 23:49

I don't know if that's true. Actually, that's like my whole question with this article is like, okay, we'll link the article. You guys should read it, okay? Pay the dollar or whatever for New York Times, four dollars, whatever the hell it is. I I don't know. Like, I definitely am a high function anxiety, a person with high functioning anxiety. Like Britney and I were, my older sister and I were talking about this. Like, my I've literally had a therapist say to me, and she has two, well, you seem to be doing great.

SPEAKER_00 24:13

No, you do seem to be doing great. But I'm not doing it. But people who know you know you're not.

SPEAKER_02 24:17

Yes, like I'm telling you that I am dying. Like I am struggling. But I yes, do I have the ability to absolutely function like a normal human being? Yes, and that's great. And I know not everybody does, but that does not mean that I don't also have crippling anxiety.

SPEAKER_00 24:32

So my take on this is that yes, you do, and I think almost everybody does, but I think you're better at verbalizing it. And I think we're we've But that doesn't make it better.

SPEAKER_02 24:42

I mean, it makes it better, it doesn't make it easier for me. No, it doesn't make it easier. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:46

But I think I think having anxiety and depression of some type is normal and everybody basically has it. Okay. We've never spoken about it. We've never um like there's always been gay people. Yeah, but we've never like you know, talked about it. So now it's one of those things we're like, oh wow, look, five percent of people are gay. It's like, no, five percent of people have always been gay. We just like didn't know about it.

SPEAKER_02 25:08

We didn't, you know We didn't do a we didn't screen to get a number. Yes, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:13

So I think like basically everybody's you know, but now we know that like instead of shooting yourself to deal with it, you should talk to someone. Also, there's now therapists, there's now money in anxiety, there's drugs for anxiety. Yeah, so if more people get screened, I'm gonna go faux type full Tyler here.

SPEAKER_02 25:31

Okay, listen, therapists don't think I need to be on anxiety medication.

SPEAKER_00 25:36

No, I agree. You don't, but it's absurd. Do you want to be an anxiety medication?

SPEAKER_02 25:41

I mean, I don't know, I've never been on it, but uh I everyone I know is on it, you know?

SPEAKER_00 25:45

It's good for the drug companies, also be good for the edible industry.

SPEAKER_02 25:49

These are different things. Also, anxiety and depression, I think, are very different. Oh, yeah, but not everybody has both eyeballs.

SPEAKER_00 25:56

I I agree, but I think most people are dealing with something like that.

SPEAKER_01 25:59

I think anxiety for sure.

SPEAKER_00 26:01

We're just now normalizing, talking about it. And I think it's ridiculous to make it like this thing where Do you think it's like ADHD where everyone is like, well, yeah, everyone has anxiety?

SPEAKER_02 26:12

And I'm like, okay, so maybe it's not so much about diagnosing with anxiety, because anxiety, stress, like, where do you draw the line between what is stress and what is anxiety, right? And I I do think there's a line. Um many people would argue there's not, I think.

SPEAKER_00 26:25

But um I think a lot of therapists argue there's not.

SPEAKER_02 26:29

Really?

SPEAKER_00 26:29

I think a lot of therapists say it's that's a terrible therapist, right? Well, it's how severe it is. They view it as if you have these symptoms, you know.

SPEAKER_02 26:38

Don't you think stress causes anxiety? So stress and anxiety, I don't think, are the same thing.

SPEAKER_00 26:44

I think somebody coming in saying I'm stressed is what they, you know. I think they view stress sores and stress differently.

SPEAKER_01 26:54

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 26:54

So stress and anxiety, but stress sores and anxiety are different.

SPEAKER_02 26:58

Here's here's uh a thing that causes me crippling anxiety. And I'm just gonna lay it all out here for you guys. It's not like it is what it is. So um when my kids get sick, like throw up sick. Yes. Um, no one likes it. I get it. Like, and if you don't know me, you're gonna think I'm crazy. But everyone in my life knows like I I cannot handle when a kid throws up. Like I cannot handle it. When a kid throws up, and if Tyler is not home, like my mom has come over and sat with my kids instead of me. And and it's embarrassing, but it is crippling. So the there was a time the flu was going through our house, like Tyler was sick, Lucy was sick, and then I just waited up at night for Elliot to puke. I was like, well, when's it gonna happen? It's gonna happen. He's gonna puke on me, he's gonna choke on like, and this is this like spiraling anxiety. And then it was like, I hadn't even thought about when I was gonna get it. But to me, that's I'm not I guess I wouldn't call that a stress, but maybe it's I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 27:52

The puking is a stressor.

SPEAKER_02 27:54

Yeah, the puking is the stressor, or the anticipation of the next puke. Anyway, anyway, we could have a whole podcast about this, but we're not qualified.

SPEAKER_00 28:02

Bridget does therapy on air.

SPEAKER_02 28:03

Bridget does therapy. I'm not qualified at all. But it's an interesting article. Like uh It's super interesting. I don't know. Yeah, it made like look at we could talk about this for a whole 60 minutes, but we're not going to.

SPEAKER_00 28:14

I also think it's like kind of irresponsible for them to just be like, we should do this because there's not the infrastructure to do that.

SPEAKER_02 28:20

I don't think people will do it.

SPEAKER_00 28:21

Yeah, there's well, but like now being recommended.

SPEAKER_02 28:25

Do you think they're gonna do it? It creates a notice on health insurance. I was like when the drug companies start paying for it, then they're gonna do it. So it's like oh, how depressing. Yep. Don't get addicted to drugs, people.

SPEAKER_00 28:37

I have a different one. This actually is from 2018, but it popped up in my Reddit and I had to share it. Love that. Timely. Actually, it's from 2019. Oh. Aggressive goats addicted to human urine airlifted out of Olympic National Park in Washington. Ooh, so maybe Britney's aware of this. I don't know. Hundreds of mountain goats in Olympic National Park in Washington State have become so addicted to the salt found in human urine and sweat that they are an aggressive menace to national park visitors, charging at hikers and trampling vegetation. They have a taste for salt and minerals in human urine and sweat and clothes and backpacks. That's a solution about three hundred airlift three hundred and seventy-five of the non-native grumpy animals to more remote areas, closer to their natural habitat, where they will be less of a nuisance. And then there's some incredible pictures of last fall, teams using helicopters, tranquilizer guts, uh, tranquilizer darts, and net guns captured 115 goats during a two-week period, releasing 98 back into the wild. I think we can guess what happened to the other 17. Uh, there's a further two operations planned this summer that will impact Olympic National Park visitors July 8th to 19th and August 19th to 30th. And there's this incredible video picture of and a video of goats being airlifted out.

SPEAKER_02 29:50

Yeah, ew.

SPEAKER_00 29:51

A mountain goat dancing from a helicopter.

SPEAKER_02 29:54

This is so gross.

SPEAKER_00 29:56

Okay. In 2010, a 63-year-old Walker bled to death after being gored by a 370-pound male mountain goat.

SPEAKER_02 30:04

This is a weird series of articles that you're finding on Reddit, my friend. How did you stumble across pea addicted goats?

SPEAKER_00 30:10

I don't know. It was just in like today, I think it was in the Today I Learn. And um it's just somebody saw this article, like, today I learned she had to airlift these goats out of the national park because they're addicted to urine. Okay, cool. Um but I also read another article about um I still have my non-depressing article. Oh, you do have a non-depressing article. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 30:34

You gotta stop. I hear a dad joke coming.

SPEAKER_00 30:37

No, it's actually a story, but continuing, tell yours. Was it? Yeah, I'll do a third one.

SPEAKER_02 30:41

A third one. You guys, I hope you don't have anywhere to go today. Okay, this you have got to, I hope everyone has seen. If you are our age, I imagine many of our listeners are. I haven't looked at the demographics lately. McDonald's is supposedly bringing back the Halloween Happy Meal bucket. Yes. Have you seen this article? No, I haven't, but this is incredible. So yeah, the buckets are are supposed to be coming back. I literally put it on my calendar. I think it's October 18th, and there it's like two weeks that they're here. And it's um, no one's like confirming it, but it's it's out there. Um, it's the like a pumpkin, a ghost, and like a witchy or Frankenstein looking situation. Uh, the reason I'm stumbling through this is because I'm actually looking on eBay right now so I can report back that these are being sold, these buckets, because they come with a lid, which is the coolest thing. They're being sold for like a minimum of one bucket. This is a plastic bucket, you guys, like a shitty plastic bucket for $8.50 plus be a good puke bucket. I have a story about that. My dad used this as a puke bucket once. It was Christmas Day, and the family was getting the flu, and he had one of the pumpkin ones in the front seat of our car going down to Christmas. I like obviously remember it because trauma. So there's like um, you can buy like there's a lot of maybe you don't have anxiety about this.

SPEAKER_00 32:03

Maybe you have PTSD.

SPEAKER_02 32:05

Maybe it is PTSD. I can pinpoint the weirdest memories from puke. Anyway, there's a there's a lot on eBay of six of these buckets selling for $66. You guys, $66. Three plastic pumpkin buckets, $30. Like, I'm sorry. So anyway, it seems like I'm so curious what's gonna happen. McDonald's Halloween nostalgia escalated quickly. That's one of the articles. And it's like, we've never seen so many Gen Xers suddenly craving a happy meal. So yeah, it it looks like these buckets are coming back. I hope they are. I don't know what to tell you. They were originally offered um nationwide in 1986, and they replaced the you know cardboard cube. Uh, I will say recently Pokemon had there was Pokemon uh Happy Meal crap, and I've I was like, oh my god, this reminds me of like the teeny beanie craze. Like we were getting Pokemon Happy Meals all the time. The kids were so obsessed. So, anyway, there you go. Hopefully they actually are coming back, and this isn't like a horrible prank.

SPEAKER_00 33:04

Hopefully not. Hopefully not real. Uh so okay, so my last one I thought was interesting. I don't know if you've seen. So Disney, you know, is doing all these live action remakes of our favorite movies, speaking of nostalgia. Yes. And they suck. They all suck. Uh, I liked Beauty and the Beast. Did you? Uh I maybe was because I wanted Emma Watson to be hotter. Because she's my Because I love her. Uh she was just like not quite right in that yellow dress. It was just like not quite right. And that was I was like looking forward to that. I was like, oh my God. Anyway, uh yeah, I'm a terrible human being. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's cool. That's cool. Uh so anyway, um, people are losing their minds right now about Little Mermaid is black. Yes. Uh, but they're doing this as their like franchise, and Dreamworks, their big competitor, has to start a responding uh franchise. They're owned by Peacock NBC Universal, so they're releasing all these things on Peacock. I thought, you know, part of the Streaming Wars, whatever. Anyway, they thought Airbud was so successful, they're releasing a series of goat-themed movies called Joseph the Amazing Dream Goat. Are you goat male? The botchler.

SPEAKER_02 34:12

Okay, you're dumb.

SPEAKER_00 34:13

Something's go to give.

SPEAKER_02 34:15

Move on. You're dumb. It was a dad joke, guys. Okay. Okay. Well, guys, I'm here to report that this wine is much better. Yeah, it's much better. So like a different wine.

SPEAKER_00 34:41

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 34:41

So I take it back. This is delicious. Now I need this next to the other one, but still that $10 one is so good.

unknown 34:48

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 34:48

Okay, anyway. Sorry about the wine talk, but I just felt like I needed to.

SPEAKER_00 34:52

It's a good product recommendation. Now you can recommend three-finger jack.

SPEAKER_02 34:56

Three finger jack and 1924. Okay. You guys are gonna think I'm crazy because we've been talking all about Halloween.

SPEAKER_00 35:05

Can I can I read? I'm gonna recommend Three Finger Jack. I actually got The Legend Lives On. Three Finger Jack roamed the rugged and lawless wilderness of the California gold country in the closing days of the old west, searching relentlessly for riches. The gold may be gone. But this wine, grown in the land where Jack once roved, pays tribute to Jack's outlaw nature.

SPEAKER_02 35:28

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 35:31

Uh, there's that. Three Finger Jack was a notorious desperado who roamed the Sierras on the land east of Sacramento in the closing days of the old west. Nobody knows where he came from, how he lost two fingers, or where he died. But his legend still lives on today in Lodi, California.

SPEAKER_02 35:48

I'm sorry. This is a full made-up backstory. Yeah, yeah. It's pretty stupid. Yeah. So sorry. Anyway. Um, okay, guys, I'm here with a weird product recommendation for the time of year, but don't judge me. Christmas pajamas. I mean, actually, you can judge me, but here's why. Okay. They always sell out. And if you have a child the size of mine, particularly Elliot, who is only six and still loves fun Christmas jammies but needs a bigger size, they never have anything cute left in his size. Uh, two years ago, last year, I don't know, COVID Christmas, probably one of them. Um, my older sister got us all matching jammies and Christmas jammies, and she didn't have a kid yet. So um, you know, we did in a million, it was just the kids. The adults didn't have the matching jammies. We're not, we're not that mean yet. Um, but we now it's a fun little tradition. Like she bought it for all the kids. Um, I'm told someone else in the family has already purchased this year's Christmas pajamas. Um, so I'm just here to remind you, parents, to stress you out that it's the end of September and you already need to be thinking about Christmas jammies if you're trying to buy multiple matching sets for your four children, for your cousins. If you are the family that adults wear matching jammies, now is the time. And we'll include a link. Um, Bert's Bees is a beloved favorite for Christmas jammies. Not mine, but many people. Old Navy, of course, Eddie Bauer. But my personal favorite is a site called Cotton On, um, which actually is an Australian site. Um, but they also have a United States site, and they have just like really fun, cool, different because not everyone's being targeted with cotton on ads unless you follow them like me. Um, so we'll include a link to those, but get shopping for your Christmas jammies before it's even Halloween.

SPEAKER_00 37:32

Woo-woo! Mine is not about mine says not Windows. So I understand why you might think it's about renovating and physical windows that go in your house. No, it's about the operating system.

SPEAKER_02 37:44

Damn.

SPEAKER_00 37:45

Really wanted to hear what you had to say about windows. I would just like to again say buy a Mac. Yeah, uh, Windows and what it does with updating and destroying your computer is the worst. We have a computer that runs all of our deli scales. So to change any prices, we need to use it. It stays on all the time. I go to change a price, think everything's good. People come over like, hey, the price didn't change. I'm like, oh, that's weird. I'll send it again. Maybe something happened. Send it again. Nah, still not changed. I go, I look, there's no Wi-Fi. I'm like, hmm, that's weird. Let's restart the computer. Probably like uh, you know, something weird. No. Uh suddenly the Wi-Fi card. I the stupid Dell, which like again, I shouldn't have bought a Dell because they are the cheapest of the worst ones.

SPEAKER_03 38:30

Are they?

SPEAKER_00 38:30

Uh they suck. They all suck. All the Dell ones suck. Whoa. I then, you know, like their automated thing wants to go on the internet, and guess what? We don't have the internet because the stupid Wi-Fi card doesn't work, because it tried to upgrade something, but it always screws up the automatic updates because it doesn't do it right.

SPEAKER_02 38:49

And it's not mad at all about it.

SPEAKER_00 38:51

I'm like finally able to figure out how to bypass their stupid recovery tool and get into Windows recovery tool, which generally works okay. I can open it up in safe mode, see, oh, Windows doesn't think there's a driver for this thing. It's throwing up an air. So I uninstall it and uh restart it, and like it kind of starts up. It gets a starts. I'm like, great, but then it won't let me log in. I'm like, hmm. So restart it again, have to go through all this whole rigmarole to have to look at my digital bit locker passcode, which is 24 no 36 numbers that you have to type in, like with just the keys, can't copy and paste, obviously, to get into the stupid thing because suddenly bah bah uh anyway. I hate this. This is driving me insane. This happens too often with Windows computers where it Fs up. No, it fucks up. It fucks up the whole process of automatic updates. My Mac, I had to turn it off overnight the other night because we had like this power situation. Turn it on, and it takes 25 fucking minutes for Microsoft Office updates to get installed because like Microsoft Office auto auto updater on Mac just like hates us.

SPEAKER_02 40:00

It I they just hate each other.

SPEAKER_00 40:01

They just hate it. And I hate Microsoft, the way they do their auto updates is ridiculous. And I really want to just say, like, hey, so I know you force auto updates because like, oh, you go get a virus and then you could get hacked. How many computers do you bribe by your stupid auto updates not working versus how many people get hacked? Now, maybe your goal is to bripe people's computers because then you're another another unit of Windows, but I would just like to say don't buy a Windows computer. Don't do it.

SPEAKER_02 40:31

Buy a Mac. This is an anti-product recommendation, everybody.

SPEAKER_00 40:34

Maybe get a freaking Linux. I don't know. Get a Chromebook.

SPEAKER_02 40:39

That's what the kids use.

SPEAKER_00 40:40

Which also doesn't teach them a damn thing about how to use computers. All these kids are like, I know how to use a Chromebook. Well, you don't know how to use a damn computer.

SPEAKER_02 40:47

I don't I've never used a Chromebook. Don't you think it's a good place to start? Uh for first grade.

SPEAKER_00 40:52

Yeah, but then like when I try to teach them, like I have to teach all of our employees now. I'm like, this is the start menu.

SPEAKER_01 40:58

Do Chromebooks not do that?

SPEAKER_00 41:00

No, it's literally just a Chrome browser. Oh, well, that's good for kids. It's basically Android. It's it's Android.

SPEAKER_01 41:06

Oh, it is Android. It's Android.

SPEAKER_00 41:08

It's a flavor of Android. Right. So anyway, that's my uh don't buy Windows.

SPEAKER_02 41:13

Guys, we're gonna take a breather so Nick can have a drink.

SPEAKER_00 41:17

Don't do it.

SPEAKER_02 41:31

We're back. We're back, we're back. And we are gonna have a little wholesome fun here with a friendly game of fall, this or that.

SPEAKER_00 41:40

I'm excited for this. I am excited for this.

SPEAKER_02 41:42

I feel like I could guess every single one of these for you. Uh, so this will be fun. Are you trying to prove me wrong? Uh yeah. I'll tell you in my head. Although, because I think I know in my mind something about you, but I will learn very quickly if I'm wrong. Okay. I don't think I am. All right. Follow this with that. I feel like it should have a theme music, but it doesn't.

SPEAKER_00 42:04

Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.

SPEAKER_02 42:07

That was picturing different music. I don't know. But A for effort. Okay, we're gonna start with an easy one here, which again, this will set the tone for me knowing if I'm right or wrong. Hot apple cider, pumpkin spice latte. Oh, God, hot apple cider. Okay, we've had this discussion, huh? Have you ever had a pumpkin spice latte? Yeah, it's disgusting. Okay, I've never had one, and I feel like I've hated on it forever because I hate the whole like pumpkin space spice latte like subculture. But I feel like maybe it wouldn't be as terrible as I have made up in my head.

SPEAKER_00 42:38

Can I just say that we have we use PSL forever as an abbreviation for pork sausage links? And then these basic people have appropriated PSL culture for their pumpkin spice lattes.

SPEAKER_02 42:52

I mean, I will say that. Oh, good. Speaking of Microsoft, it just shut down on my computer. Yeah. Microsoft error reporting, it says there was a problem.

SPEAKER_00 43:01

And their error reporting never works. Yep. Because you're like, type in 0x84, 0000, and you're like, how many zeros? I'm X73 and tell Microsoft. And then so you call Microsoft, you're like, hey, I got this. So like, oh, that doesn't show up on our list of error codes.

SPEAKER_02 43:14

You're like Nevermind. I didn't, I did not submit my error code. Okay. Um pumpkin patch or apple orchard. I have strong feelings about this. Do you let's start here. Do you do either of those traditionally? Yes, we do, yes. Do you do both of them? Yes. Different places or the same place? I mean, historically. Like we go to the same place every year.

SPEAKER_00 43:42

So like the apple orchard has pumpkins and the pumpkin patch has apples.

SPEAKER_02 43:47

Yeah, but they're very different.

SPEAKER_00 43:49

I'd say apple orchard.

SPEAKER_02 43:50

Apple orchard. Do you have a place you go every year?

SPEAKER_00 43:53

We go to Royal Oak.

SPEAKER_02 43:54

Okay. We used to go to Royal Oak, but it's like so obnoxious unless you go on a weekday.

SPEAKER_00 43:59

Also, like It's obnoxious in several different ways.

SPEAKER_02 44:02

It's very obnoxious. So we still like that's where we'll go if we go with my parents. But my little family of four, we go to Elegant Farmer every year because it's very spaced out. And it's like up a huge hill. It's very fun. The kids have a great time.

SPEAKER_00 44:14

You still have to ride the hay wagon and stuff.

SPEAKER_02 44:15

You don't have to, but you can choose to. You pay for the hay wagon. We make our kids walk. We're like, you're gonna walk to the apples and then you're gonna pick them. But they love it.

SPEAKER_00 44:23

So they have great brats there.

SPEAKER_02 44:25

I love the apple orchard. Do they? I love um, like in the store and stuff is crazy. But we just go to the apple orchard. They we let them ride the ponies, which holy crap, the pony rides, and I know this guy because I've hired him for events. They used to be five dollars for a ride, then they were six, then they were eight. Now it's ten dollars for a pony ride, and they you know, like the very pathetically sad circle.

SPEAKER_00 44:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:46

Oh my god. But Lucy The Lines Forever, too. It's so sad. It's so sad, but my kids freaking love horses. So anyway.

SPEAKER_00 44:52

What I actually really want to know is why every apple orchard is like some type of Christian themed thing. Is it? Yeah, like elegant farmer's super Christian, Royal Oak is super Christian.

SPEAKER_02 45:06

I don't what it makes it Christian. I have no idea what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_00 45:09

Like they all have like Jesus stuff all over.

SPEAKER_02 45:10

Really? Yeah. I've never noticed that.

SPEAKER_00 45:12

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 45:13

I mean, we don't like even go in the store. It's too chaotic.

SPEAKER_00 45:16

Yeah, the store is just a dumpster fire. Beautiful weekend for that this weekend.

SPEAKER_02 45:21

Um anyway. Epic proportions. This one I'm curious about, although again, I think I know. Would you rather hand out candy or go trick-or-treating with your family? Oh god. Think of your daughter.

SPEAKER_00 45:35

Uh, I hate both of these.

SPEAKER_02 45:37

You do? I love one of them.

SPEAKER_00 45:38

But I'd rather go trick-or-treating with my daughter. I hate handing out candy.

SPEAKER_02 45:42

I love handing out candy.

SPEAKER_00 45:44

Little punks.

SPEAKER_02 45:44

I never was in, I still am not in a house that people come trick-or-treating at. But oh, are you kidding? The older, the kids that okay. The kids that some people deem as too old. I try and think they are too old. Like, yeah, but what if what if they have something going on at home and this is their okay, fine. Well, give them a free bar of candy.

SPEAKER_00 46:02

But also, it's bad for their teeth.

SPEAKER_02 46:04

Yeah, well, they probably already have bad teeth. So probably. Okay. Or I try and make them do something ridiculous. It's embarrassing if I think they're just being punks. I think they're handing out candy. I don't know. We make them like uh like tell them a stupid joke. Like we used to hand out candy at Tom and Lori's, and Tom would tell them like a dumb joke, and they would just stand there and it's it's the best. I love it. Or come on, most of it is adorable. Oh, I love handing out candy. I could see that being really this is a no-brainer, I imagine. Halloween or Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_00 46:33

Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_02 46:34

Does Simona like love Halloween yet or not yet?

SPEAKER_00 46:37

Oh yeah, she's all into it. She has a ghostie that she made us buy at Home Goods. Yes. She has a stuffed pumpkin thing that she also bought that she loves. Yeah. Uh, she dropped it in the sink the other day. That was like uh, and then it, you know, had to go away for a while. And that was like disaster. But she wants to be a ghost for Thanksgiving. She has this like ghost Halloween. She has this ghost towel thing that she goes around now and goes, boo.

SPEAKER_02 47:04

That's hilarious.

SPEAKER_00 47:04

Uh, she loves it. And then she goes, It's it's not a ghosty, it's me, dad dad. Surprise. It's me. You don't be scared.

SPEAKER_02 47:11

Or look, you already have your costume figured out.

SPEAKER_00 47:13

Uh so yeah, she wants to be a ghosty. She's wanted to be a ghostie for like two months.

SPEAKER_02 47:16

Hilarious.

SPEAKER_00 47:17

Uh so yeah, she's gonna be. She's gonna change two days before Thanksgiving. She's gonna be a ghosty. Ghostie. But I love Thanksgiving. Uh, okay. We've touched on my love of Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_02 47:26

I know you, and I was just wondering if it changed at all with your daughter not caring about Thanksgiving as much as being a ghostie.

SPEAKER_00 47:31

No, she loves Thanksgiving. She eats all of the food.

unknown 47:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 47:37

Um, okay.

SPEAKER_00 47:38

Well, this year we can watch the World Cup. Great. Every kid's dream. Well, she does like to watch soccer with me. Uh, US Newsflash got beat 2-0 by Japan in a World Cup 2 tune-up with zero shots on target.

SPEAKER_01 47:52

Not looking good for us. Uh, not surprised by that.

SPEAKER_02 47:55

Um, I know that you love hot beverages, so I'm making you pick between another two. This one I don't know the answer to, although I'm I have a guess. Hot apple cider or hot cocoa? Hot apple cider. That's what I thought. Do you not like hot chocolate?

SPEAKER_00 48:08

I don't like hot chocolate. I mean, I just think so, but it's like I love hot chocolate. I don't like chocolate milk.

SPEAKER_02 48:13

Oh, I don't like yeah, I just don't like it.

SPEAKER_00 48:16

It's just like too I don't like milk in general. I don't, it's just like too viscous and disgusting.

SPEAKER_02 48:22

You have a weird set of things.

SPEAKER_00 48:24

It's just like disgusting.

SPEAKER_02 48:25

I just don't you have a very wide array of things you'll eat, but you won't eat like basic things like eggs and milk.

SPEAKER_00 48:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 48:31

Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:33

I acknowledge it. I don't acknowledge any eggs. It's not because I like don't, I don't know. I just don't like the texture of it. Eggs are gross. Nauseating. That's the smell.

SPEAKER_02 48:42

Yeah, beef liver isn't though. I mean enjoy your scrambled eggs. Okay. Corn maize or hay ride?

SPEAKER_00 48:51

Oh, both I think are uncomfortable in different ways. Um I was like corn maize, like Mexican corn? Uh yeah. No, yeah, now I get it. I get it. I get it. Um, I thought you meant like maize, the name for corn. No. Um. Uh tough one. Hey Ride, I get really pissed off in mazes. Oh, corn mazes creep me out. Yeah, because I'm like, I I don't, I'm done with where am I? I want out. This is like I get done with it. I'm just like, did you go in them as a child? Yeah, they're terrifying.

SPEAKER_02 49:26

Yes. I remember being in one, and they told you, like, the way to get out is to swallow this corn. I'm like, this is terrible.

SPEAKER_00 49:33

No, that's not how to get out.

SPEAKER_02 49:34

You're gonna die in this cornfield. No one, like how really, how will anyone find you?

SPEAKER_00 49:39

Well, now they they have drones, I suppose.

SPEAKER_02 49:41

So send up the drone. Bridget's lost in the corn maze. But Harriet's are really uncomfortable.

unknown 49:47

Um I mean.

SPEAKER_02 49:49

I mean, if you're wearing leggings like that. Just generally, if you're sitting on a bale of hay, like bumping through a field. Well, wear jeans and then you won't get it's nothing to do with my legs. Well, it is my butt bouncing around on a hay bale in a bumpy field.

SPEAKER_00 50:03

See, I thought it was like the hay bale like poking you.

SPEAKER_02 50:06

No.

SPEAKER_00 50:06

Because the hay doesn't poke through your jeans.

SPEAKER_02 50:09

I don't care about the hay poking me.

SPEAKER_00 50:11

Oh, it's just the general like bumpy bumpity bump.

SPEAKER_02 50:13

Yeah, it's just uncomfortable.

SPEAKER_00 50:15

Oh, that doesn't bother me so much.

SPEAKER_02 50:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 50:17

I like the fresh air. Usually you have an alcoholic beverage along with it.

SPEAKER_02 50:21

Not what?

SPEAKER_00 50:22

Not when you're on a hay ride. Yes, you take a drink. Yes, you take a roadie. Okay. You got a thermos. Again. Who are you? Who knows what's in that hot apple cider? Oh, better idea.

SPEAKER_02 50:35

That's how we make it better. There's no alcohol on this quiz. I'm so sorry. Um, okay. Are we watching football or playing football?

SPEAKER_00 50:43

Um, I mean, I really like playing football. I know. So This is a tough one. I would say playing. Yeah. You know, you're not playing it. I I increasingly have a hard time like sitting down for three and a half hours to watch an American football game. Oh my god, I love it. Soccer games that long? No, they're an hour and 45 minutes.

SPEAKER_02 51:02

Oh my god, they feel that long.

SPEAKER_00 51:04

45-minute halves, 15-minute halftime. Okay. It's great. You're in, you're out. Oh, I love it. Wham bam, thank you, ma'am. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 51:14

Oh, I needed to check on my fantasy team after last night. Um, okay, well, this one's tough. We used to always play at halftime. We used to always run outside in the snow and play. Yeah, I love it. I love, yeah. We just talked to Elliot about starting that again because like he's old enough now to do it.

SPEAKER_00 51:29

So take a ball to the face.

SPEAKER_02 51:32

Okay. Um, carving pumpkins or bobbing for apples.

SPEAKER_00 51:35

Carving pumpkins, I don't understand bobbing for apples.

SPEAKER_02 51:38

Have you done it recently?

SPEAKER_00 51:39

No.

SPEAKER_02 51:40

It is so hard. Because Tom and Lorraine. It's also like waterboarding. It's also just disgusting. You know how many spit is how much spit is in that water? It's disgusting. You think the bottom beer is gross. Try bobbing for apples. Well, we did actually try it, and it's very hard. So obviously carving pumpkins. Um, okay, haunted house or scary movie.

unknown 52:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:02

I'm gonna this is a tough one. I can't pass, right? No. I I don't actually know what I would say for this either. I think haunted house, because you can like do a short one that's like not super scary.

SPEAKER_02 52:16

Oh, I know, but I think scary movie you can like hide from under a blanket and plug your ears. Like haunted house, you might pee your pants in public.

SPEAKER_00 52:24

Sarah gave uh one of the we did the haunted hay ride at the Grand Geneva thing.

SPEAKER_03 52:28

No, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 52:29

And a guy jumped up and like grabbed her and she was like, ah, and headbutted him. And uh headbutted him? Well, yeah, because like he got all up in her space and he got a bloody nose, and it was hilarious.

SPEAKER_02 52:41

I mean, definitely yes, I could I think I would pee my pants.

SPEAKER_00 52:45

I mean, totally his fault for like being in a position where like you go like this, which is a very natural thing to do.

SPEAKER_02 52:51

Did you have to sign like um waivers now? Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:54

Did you used to? I have no idea.

SPEAKER_02 52:56

I used to go to haunted houses very much.

SPEAKER_00 52:57

I might want to be like the scarer, like that might be fun, but like I don't know. I half our staff works them.

SPEAKER_02 53:02

I know. I used to go because it would be fun to like, you know, hold it's a good excuse to like hold hands with your crush. Definitely used to do that. He spoiler alert, he ended up being my boyfriend. Stefan.

SPEAKER_00 53:15

I was gonna say that seems like a Stefan move. Hey. Okay. Yeah. Let's go as you shift uncomfortably in your seat.

SPEAKER_02 53:24

Yes, I am.

SPEAKER_00 53:25

Okay, okay, okay. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_02 53:27

This one obvious I think I know too. Fireplace or bonfire?

SPEAKER_00 53:31

Oh, actually, this one's kind of tough. Um, because I enjoy both. I know a lot. Uh fireplace is easy, and you don't smell, and you don't smell, and it's you know, romantic. And split up the uh bearskin rug.

SPEAKER_02 53:47

Yeah, just roll that out uh with your kid.

SPEAKER_00 53:51

No, with my wife.

SPEAKER_02 53:52

Right, but you have a kid? Oh, she sleeps. But no fireplace before bedtime.

SPEAKER_00 53:58

No, that's for mama and daddy. Oh, uh, but the bonfire, it's a lot of work, it's smelly. It's uh outdoors. Outdoors, it's very visceral. You get to like throw gasoline on fires. Uh you just see mice scurry away as they light their house on fire. Um can have s'mores.

SPEAKER_02 54:21

Uh no. Someone did that recently. I was like, what are you what are you saying?

SPEAKER_00 54:26

It's a shmore. It's the like New York Jewish delicacy inversion of a s'more. Um I'm gonna go with bonfire.

SPEAKER_02 54:35

Really? I mean, that's what I would have expected, but I'm gonna go with bonfire.

SPEAKER_00 54:39

I'm a fireplace person all the way. I love we have a what are you doing with your fireplace and your reno?

SPEAKER_02 54:45

We're keeping it.

SPEAKER_00 54:46

Are you doing it? Is it gas? Is it wood?

SPEAKER_02 54:48

No, it's a real wood burning fire.

SPEAKER_00 54:49

Are you gonna keep it like that?

SPEAKER_02 54:50

I love that.

SPEAKER_00 54:51

Do you have a gas ignition at least?

SPEAKER_02 54:53

In our fireplace? Never looked.

SPEAKER_00 54:56

So you might want to think about that. My dad got this installed on his. So while you're doing it. No, no, it's just a gas ignition. So instead of having to mess around with like all the kindling and everything and like hoping the fire starts, you run a natural gas line as like a pilot light.

SPEAKER_02 55:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 55:11

So you can light that and then you have a steady source of heat and flame to get everything going.

SPEAKER_02 55:15

I mean, I gotta say, more natural gas in my house just makes me nervous. I know, I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_00 55:21

There's enough to kill you as it is.

SPEAKER_02 55:23

I I love I like an old school fireplace. Yeah, it's so much better. It's like so much better, I can't even say.

unknown 55:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 55:30

Um also in the like small quantity of the glass in the basement, it's chilled down just a touch that actually I think is like kind of nice.

SPEAKER_02 55:37

I know. I I had enough sips of red wine that I shed a layer, you guys. Oh usually like in a fleece blanket. Okay, okay. We'll wrap up here soon. But this is so much fun.

SPEAKER_00 55:46

I'm actually really enjoying this.

SPEAKER_02 55:47

I know. I love I I love a good this or that because I'm very bad at decisions. Um, but this one's easy. Fall's my favorite season, but I hate like fall flavors and scent. Like, I don't love apple pie or pumpkin pie. I don't love like how do you feel about squash? I like squash, it's fine. I like roasting vegetables to obliteration. Roasting a vegetable.

SPEAKER_00 56:07

What do you think? Okay, this or that. This or that. This or that. Roasting a vegetable to oblivion or slow cookery to oblivion.

SPEAKER_02 56:14

Oh, roasting.

SPEAKER_00 56:15

Because we know everything you do is just to oblivion.

SPEAKER_02 56:17

To oblivion. It has to be roasted because slow cooker would just be like mushy. It should be like baby food. No.

SPEAKER_00 56:23

You are the author of a baby food cook.

SPEAKER_02 56:25

I am noted in a baby food cookbook. My hands are in. Actually, I don't think my hands are in a lot of those pictures. Anyway.

SPEAKER_00 56:32

That'd be weird because your hands are definitely not baby hands.

SPEAKER_02 56:35

But I am an adult that feeds a baby. That one, um, there was a whole photo shoot day that I wasn't a part of for something. Anyway, okay. Trunk or treat or trick or treat?

SPEAKER_00 56:47

Oh, I love trunk or treat.

SPEAKER_02 56:48

Okay. I just kind of think trunk or treat is like a candy collection event.

SPEAKER_00 56:52

Yeah, it's faster, it's easier.

SPEAKER_02 56:54

Oh, come on. It's uh Do you know what I love about Trick or Treat? I need to sell you anything.

SPEAKER_00 56:59

You know what? I should do a trunk or treat in the field.

SPEAKER_02 57:03

Yeah.

unknown 57:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 57:05

Here I am like, oh, shut up. I don't want another event.

SPEAKER_00 57:09

No, no, no, no, not for like for sure you should do that. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 57:15

Yes. Friends listening, mark your calendars for some time for the trunk or treat.

SPEAKER_00 57:19

You could drive everybody around on the mule?

unknown 57:21

I love this idea.

SPEAKER_00 57:22

There would be so much alcohol. We could have a bonfire. Family friendly. Family friendly. As in, your kids can run around, not hurt themselves, burn off all their candy energy. We can bring all the candy that you get from random crappy things and re-gift it.

SPEAKER_02 57:37

Regift your candy. New candy. We should do it the day after Halloween, so all the candy's on sale. November 1st, trunk or treat. Ooh, all Souls Day trunk or treat. Halloween is like on a Monday or something stupid, isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 57:48

Uh, I think you're right. Yeah, it is on a I also I told you this, but I do love how I was at the Lions Town Board meeting and they had the discussion of when should we do and this is a discussion every town board, every city council has of when should we do trick or treating? Well, we don't want to do it when no one else is doing it because then all the low life kids are gonna do it.

SPEAKER_02 58:08

But what if like you just didn't have this be a very important agenda item every year and just fucking kept it the same? Like this is so stupid. Anyway, okay. Uh chili or soup?

SPEAKER_00 58:19

Soupy.

SPEAKER_02 58:20

Soupy.

SPEAKER_00 58:21

Simona's favorite thing in the world is soupy. I hate chili. You hate chili.

SPEAKER_02 58:25

I mean, I hate chili. Yeah, that's true. I guess you're not.

SPEAKER_00 58:27

The first work event we did together as co-workers was chili cook-off.

SPEAKER_03 58:32

I hate chili.

SPEAKER_00 58:32

And was it Leslie Schwinn? It was Leslie Schwinn. It was Nick's mom-in-law from that we were like, we all hate chili.

SPEAKER_02 58:42

No. There are good chilies, but like it's very much not a chili. Like this like white chicken chili.

SPEAKER_00 58:47

Yeah, the white chicken chili is delicious.

SPEAKER_02 58:48

But like, that's not chili. That's not chili. That's just like a soup. So anyway.

SPEAKER_00 58:54

Simona loves soupies. I love making soupies. I make a very good broccoli cheddar soupie.

SPEAKER_02 58:58

Oh, yeah, that sounds so good.

SPEAKER_00 59:00

I make what did I make the other day that was a very good soupie? I don't remember. I don't know. Oh, I did um like we were kind of feeling uh chicken and biscuits. We're kind of feeling pot pie, and like I didn't quite have time for any of them, so I just did like diced up chicken uh with which I hate how big our chicken breasts are because it takes forever to dice them up. But cook them in a slow cooker. Uh well, this needed to be diced, not shredded. Yeah. Uh so diced up chicken, and I didn't have enough time for that. So diced up chicken, frozen peas and carrots, cream of chicken soup, one can of cream of chicken soup, one can of chicken broth, uh, a little bit of milk at the end. Oh, and uh cook that. Sounds so creamy, Nick. Well, it was delicious. Well, you thin it out with a chicken broth, so it's not really that creamy. And then uh, you know, have that in a bowl with bake some biscuits real fast. Um then you like dip them and it was like kind of chicken and biscuits, kind of.

SPEAKER_02 59:58

I am confident I've talked about my like uh fake shepherd's pie on here, and that's what it sounds like. Yeah, so good.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:04

Same type of just like super easy, like fake cook a biscuit, do some fake. 45 minutes. I mean like a legit 45 minutes.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:12

Thank you for being legit and honest about that.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:15

Because you get it in the oven, but like the oven times 15 minutes and 15 minutes of, you know, so it's like all works out.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:21

Prep time.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:22

Everybody lies about prep time on their recipes.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:24

Everybody, I agree. Okay, we're gonna wrap up the fall this or that, which uh one I couldn't not mention. Candy corn or corn on the cob. I know the answer. As Nick is about to vomit over here. Can I say something as an adult? Oddly, candy corn has like grown on me. I mean, I still can only have like five pieces of it because who can eat more than that?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:48

But I think the candy corn would make me vomit back up faster.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:51

See, perfect.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:52

So it would just go faster. So I'm gonna go with candy corn.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:55

Candy corn, great way to end fall this or that. Oh, it's so terrible. I mean, it is painful on my teeth. Can you just like feel that? Okay, great. Do you love candy corn? Why do you love candy corn? Please tell us. I know, I know. Thanks for playing fall this or that. I love a good this or that. Hey, I was able to restart my Microsoft Teams in that amount of time. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:22

Um I hate those candies so much. I would like to talk about the best thing I ate, which was in the words that I put on the outline, this burger from Clock Tower.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:34

I love their burgers.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:35

There was this honky talk festival in downtown Lake Geneva.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:39

Yes, that was a snort you just heard.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:41

Uh more on snorting later.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:44

Uh but uh is that true?

SPEAKER_00 1:01:46

Uh yeah, it's actually true. Um it was this uh what'd they call it? The Uncle Jack burger. So Frank the owner had an Uncle Jack that he was close with that just died, and he was cooking at this honky talk festival and wanted to do something special that meet the country western theme. And uh so he did a burger that was Monterey Jack cheese, uh Jack Daniels soaked fried onions.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:13

I was gonna say fried onions, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:02:15

And our Smash Burgery thing and some like good fried buns, or not fried, but you know, toasted buns. And it was delicious. Like really good. The whiskey actually brought an interesting thing. The way you did the cheese brought an interesting texture, and there's one more crunchy thing on it. I can't remember what it was. But it was really good, and I really enjoyed it, and it just like really hit the spot for a lunch of like, hmm, this is good. I enjoy this. I really liked it.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:38

Um uh did you go to honky tonk festival?

SPEAKER_00 1:02:41

No.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:42

You were able to get that at the store, not at their booth.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:45

Oh, yeah, I got it at the yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:47

Good, good.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:48

I didn't go to honky tonk festival.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:50

I know. Um I just was wondering.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:52

I wanted to go, so it was they well, I think I told you this. So this beer festival that they had as part of it is like a concert in a beer festival. I think it was like 35 bucks to get in. And it was like all of these breweries that were big in 2010. Oh, really? And they're beers that are good and I like, and I haven't had in seven years because there's now stuff that's like more interesting and newer and different.

unknown 1:03:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:18

And so it would have been fun to drink them. Yeah, it would have been fun, like Great Lakes. I love their beer. I legitimately love their beer, but you know what? It's just kind of like uh that's my dad's beer. So uh, but my dad doesn't really drink that. He drinks Potta Cow or Corona, so it's not even really, but uh, I was just like eh. So I was like, uh, you know what'd be worth it to go try all of these. But I talked to one of the beer repsos there, and he had um he was pouring bells, and he had two hearted, which is like one of the OG incredible IPAs. He had their Oktoberfest, a stout, and some he's like, I tried them all, and they're really good beers, and I really like them, and I'm glad I had them, but I don't know when I'm gonna drink another one.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:59

But oh uh wait, but two hearted, isn't that pretty well good seller or no?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:07

Yeah, for like 65-year-old men. Oh, really? Yeah, like all of those like first generation IPAs, I didn't amber ales. That's like the 50s.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:17

Amber and IPA, different grouping. I love Amber's, not IPAs. I would never buy a six-pack of IPA, but I would have Amber.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:25

Well, because you're not craft beer dude. So that first so the first generation of like craft beers were English styles. So Ambers, pale ales, uh, and then like porters.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:41

Like Porters.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:42

So like those were all like very much so the first generation of your craft beers. Everybody did like the brew pub and like English styles, and then people started getting German styles and Belgian styles, and then people started like really being like, whoa, let's try these American hops and like hop up the IPA, and now we have what we have.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:03

Oh, yeah. Extreme IPA, and then everybody dialed it back, but it feels like extreme, like wh, wh, wh. Did you expect that?

SPEAKER_00 1:05:12

We all chased the hunter IBU IPA, and it's not good. It sounds terrible to me.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:19

Um, okay, I am here to talk about birthday cake. I know you guys have talked about this for I don't know if it was your birthday, Simona made one or Simona uh Sarah's birthday. I don't know. But my mom wanted to bring cake over after we had like our family dinner, and what kind of cake do you want? And she forever, my nickname when I was a kid, it used to be Fudgeface. Yes, that's right. So she just always assumes I want chocolate cake, chocolate frosting. And I'm like, hey, mom, now that I'm like, you know, you shouldn't have told me that. Closer to 40 than 35. Oh, Elliot thinks it's hilarious. He loves calling me fudge face. I'm like, all right, kid, you know what we used to call you when you were a kid? Butters. We used to call you butters, and he also thinks that's hilarious. Um, so anyway, we um I was like, I actually just like want a marble cake, mom. Like a shitty, out-of-the-box marble cake with milk chocolate frosting. She made it. It was delicious. Everyone loved it, cleared the whole pan. And I'm just here to say thanks, Mom, for the marble cake with chocolate frosting. I know it was out of the out of the box for you. I know it was supposed to be chocolate on chocolate. And she's even tried to do like crazy homemade lovely cakes. I'm like, no, I just want a shitty boxed cake. I love an excuse to have it.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:25

So boxed cake is so good. It was so good. Yes. Like when you make it correctly, I would argue it's probably more satisfying than well-made scratch bakery cakes.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:36

I mean, yeah, it's so different. Like you cannot compare it. And it's so nostalgic. So it was lovely. I am 37 and my mom is still making me lovely homemade birthday cakes. So I feel very lucky. Thanks, Mom. So it was delicious. Best thing I ate this week. Well, that means it's time for Kid Corner. I can't open my outline, so I have my documents on a different thing. So ignore what I have written down there.

unknown 1:07:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:02

Okay. So mine was we were eating dinner the other night. Sarah, Simona, and myself, our little family.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:08

And Simona was sitting at the edge of our uh island on a stool. So Sarah was sitting the one in, and I was standing next to him because I was originally told to well, actually, no, I was sitting on the couch because I was told, Dad, go over there. Because we ate before my mom had abducted our daughter for a while, so we had ate and Simona was uneating when she got back. Got it. So I was banished. So I sat over there because I do what I'm told. I've learned. Wow. When your three-year-old daughter says, Do something, do it. It's just easier to do it. Just easier to do it. All right, man. And so then I hear, no, Dad Dad, you come over here. So I go over and stand next to her. And then I did something. And Sarah goes, go over there. And like points to like across from the thing. And they both go, over there, and make the same gesture and say the same thing at the exact same time. And it was freaking terrifying because it was very much so like mom and her mini me teaming up on me, telling me where to go. And then Sarah recognized, and I just started dying, and Sarah recognized it. And then Sarah uh sometimes, sorry, honey, goes, and she laughs, and she had a snort, and then Simona started snorting. And they had like the same laugh, and both started snorting, and then it was like this snort fest between them. I mean, and it was just adorable and also terrifying. And uh this is everything they sounded the same. Kid Corner should be. They sounded exactly the same. It was just like, oh my god. I love it. I am in for so much trouble.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:44

Yeah, I think you're gonna have a go at it as the years come along. So yeah, I just as am I. It's the only reason I'm saying it. Misery Loves Company. It's gonna be great.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:53

Great, great, great, great.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:54

Great over there. I mean, uh, mine is also about Lucy, who's going to boss me around for her entire life. I've had an experience with both of my kids. This is not supposed to be my kid corner. I've had experience with both of my kids this week, maybe both yesterday, that I have directly told them to do something and they have done like, no, don't do this. And they look at me. Like if I say, hey, no, don't do this. Hey, don't drop that glass and just look at me and just bloop, drop it. Both of them. And nothing infuriates me more. I'm like, you ate so I'm like, Tyler, what is your education taught you?

SPEAKER_00 1:09:28

Because that's when you take out the little BB gun, nerf gun thing, and shoot them.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:32

I'm like, okay, how do you think? Take out a salt gun. How do I stay cool in this situation right now? I didn't. Spoiler alert, I didn't.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:40

Um spoiler alert. I told him they're the worst child in the history of the world. I got it. And all hell's coming down on them when their father gets home.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:48

Well, it's window open season, so you know what that means. If you live in a neighborhood, your neighbors can hear you yelling at your kids. And my neighbors don't have kids, the closest ones that I can hear her and her husband fight all day. And I'm like, oh my God, not fight. I can just hear them discussing things. And I'm like, oh my god, they're gonna call the police on us. Like the woman's a little bit um different and not different. She's very nice, she's alternative, she's very nice, but I'm like, she might call the police on us. Because once my kid drove one of its motorized vehicles into a tree branch and they like ran over, like I was not watching. I was watching my kid. I just couldn't get to them fast enough.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:23

They were things that like well-intentioned people's like, uh I know. Kids bounce. Yeah, like it's fine.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:29

They're fine, but they don't have kids. So anyway, anyway, what I'm here to say is I feel like something's stuck in my skin.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:35

I was gonna say you got a stitch coming out?

SPEAKER_02 1:10:36

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:37

They're all out, I hope. Hey, exciting medical news. No stitches. My stitches are out. I have no cancerous spots on my skin.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:43

Wow, you have been to a dermatologist more time than I ever have in my life. I'm proud of you.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:47

They showed a picture, they have this handout of the dermatologist in the region. Yeah. Uh, one Filipino, one, I think I can't tell Vietnamese or Chinese, uh, one black lady. Oh, half men, half woman. Mine who's a white lady, and like a Mexican dude.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:06

And I'm like, Diverse crowd.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:07

Whoa.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:08

Good job, Aurora dermatologist.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:10

I thought all dermatologists were like white chicks.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:12

I just know that we have a shortage of dermatologists. Yeah, we do. That's what they said.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:16

Because I kind of was like, Well, this is a really diverse group. They're like, we need more.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:19

Yeah, no shit. When you can't get in for an emergency appointment for two and a half months, I would say, screw you, dermatology. I put some cream on it and it's fixed.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:30

I got so many. I meant to talk about this first part. Sorry to hijack your kid correctly.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:34

You know what? It's fine.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:35

I got like seven coupons for uh different. So we use like dove soap for stuff. Yeah. And they have all these like dermatology recommended $2 off. Uh cervey, they have coupons for. Uh the uh butt cream that we use where there's two points for. I'm like, can I I'm gonna take these? They're like please, yes. Like, can I? Yes. They're like I'm just gonna take two. Take them all, man. So anyway, I got a bunch of cool.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:03

Dove made a butt cream?

SPEAKER_00 1:12:04

No, it's not a dove butt cream, it's the um I got them all right. Yeah, Aquifer, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:09

Oh, and Aquifer's expensive, but it works. Like the only thing.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:12

Yeah, it's the best thing. Yes. So $2 off Aquifer, $2 off Usurin, $4 off Usarine uh SBF 50, which I'm gonna get this stuff because Wow, man. And then you know, some dove ones too. It's a pretty good deal. I'm just gonna put them back in my back in my butt.

SPEAKER_02 1:12:27

Okay, I'm here to tell you how children have no grasp on reality in case you were on. Oh, paper cut. Ooh, that sucks. Don't bleed all over the soundboard. Um, okay, so both of my children yesterday had uh such an experience that I'm like, wow, how how have we raised you? Um, one of Elliot's best buddies from last year moved to California, but it was his birthday yesterday, uh yesterday as we're recording. And so we FaceTimed him and Elliot got really sad. I miss him so much. Can't we go see him? And we're like, oh, well, he lives across the country now, you know, the other side of the country. So it's a plane ride. He's like, well, okay, we can't go tonight. Can we just go on Sunday? And we're like, no, no, Elliot. So, and Elliot's very smart. So, how we quickly try and explain, like, you can't just hop on an airplane uh as he's like literally crying because he misses his friend. So that happened with Elliot. And then Lucy has boots, hand me downs from Josie. Thank you, praise the Lord. That she calls her.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:22

That was a long time for a Henningfeld mentioned in an episode.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:25

I know. We made it all the way to the end. Um, she they said, Who are I said, Oh, these are from Miss Josie. And she goes, Who are they from? And I said, Josie, Ronnie's wife. And they go, Oh, that's where we buy our cheese. And I said, Yes, that's where we buy our cheese. Um, but anyway, so she has boots, she calls them a riding boots. So yesterday, four times, this morning already today, and I assume as I pick her up, Lucy loves to go, what are we doing after school? Where are we going now? She just can we go ride a horse now? Can't we go ride a horse? And I'm like, man, one kid thinks I have an airplane in my backyard. One kid thinks we have ponies at my disposal. So we officially have those children, like the I want a pony kid.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:05

So have you had the talk of yes. Privilege? We are the one family that lives here that doesn't have an airplane and doesn't have a horse.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:14

I know. I have not. I mean, yes, I have, but clearly my kids were too young to understand it. So start them young, guys. Start them young. Trying to explain privilege is hard. That's what all I have to say.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:27

I tell you.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:28

I'll just buy them a McDonald's Happy Meal bucket. And if they ever have to puke, right? Use the bucket. Look at that. Multifaceted $66 worth of buckets on eBay. Everybody, thanks for listening. Thanks. And lovely. As always, happy fall, y'all.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:44

Happy fall, y'all.

SPEAKER_02 1:14:45

Oh boy, that was cringy.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:47

You uh Siri wants to know what she I can help her with. Happy fall, Siri. Uh I actually think it's interesting you always say fall, because in emails you always correct me and say, like, shouldn't you say autumn here? I do. Yeah. Oh, well, you know. But you're right. Do I really? Because like in written communication, fall gets like very it does get confusing.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:05

Well, I stand corrected, Nick. No, it's just verbal communication, we're saying fall. Yeah, it's fine. Yeah. We're talking about pumpkin spice lots.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:11

One of the things I appreciate in a proofreader. Well, thank you. Oh, yeah, you're right. I always forget to do that.

SPEAKER_02 1:15:16

I have many skills. Thanks for listening. Have a great fall. Y'all. Bye-bye.