This Is A Chicken Heavy Episode | Dinner Plus Drinks #42

SPEAKER_00 0:15

Hello friends! Welcome to the newest edition of Dinner Plus Drinks Podcast. I feel a little down today, and I'm just excited now that we get the opportunity to talk to all of you. I'm a little down just because I feel like I'm coming off of like a little bit of a very busy period. Yeah. And so it's just like all of the weight of that is a little weighing on me.

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So then you're just like playing catch up. I feel the same. Like, oh and we're starting to catch up, so it's good.

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But I'm just like, ah, but you know what? I get to talk to my dear friends on our podcast. So welcome. Behind the camera. We see you.

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Thanks for being here for us on our weekly therapy session.

SPEAKER_00 0:54

How's your week going, Bridget?

SPEAKER_01 0:56

Uh, kind of same. Like you had a lot of flies landing on your head? Oh my god. So the debates are generally uh really stressful, you know? Stressful, you know. So it's really hilarious when things like that happen.

SPEAKER_00 1:08

Whatever your political views, still funny. Please laugh at it. I give Pence a lot of credit for taking it in stride. There's not really anything, yeah, there's nothing you can really do. You know, if you start batting at it, you know. Which is what I would do for the record. I'd be like, You don't look good if you just take it, people are like, you don't even realize I mean, once that happens, my suggestion would be don't use so much product on your hair.

SPEAKER_01 1:29

That really was the best part. It's like, does he even feel it?

SPEAKER_00 1:31

Like I don't use any product in my hair because I I I'm an incessant hair toucher. Yes. I run my hands through my hair as my stress thing.

SPEAKER_01 1:42

Yeah, that's it.

SPEAKER_00 1:43

And um, it ruins it. I also like my hair a little bit longer for that reason. It's just very soothing to me. But I mean, shout out to that pretty well. I give them credit. I give them a lot of credit.

SPEAKER_01 1:54

And that was the highlight from the debate. That's all we're gonna do for the top.

SPEAKER_00 1:59

My highlight of the week, though, was we made a little trip to the library.

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And we love the library.

SPEAKER_00 2:04

Uh it is so much fun going in there.

SPEAKER_01 2:06

Dang. And they're open, guys, because this was my I talked to Emily, the director, and I'm like, listen, I know I haven't brought my kids in because I just can't keep track of whenever the store is open and if you're allowed, and whatever. So they have a handy little thing that tells us when they're open. You can stay for, you know, an hour at a time if it's crowded, hourly. Yeah, otherwise you can hang out longer. So I'm super excited to make that back part of our regular thing. Um, they're open late three days a week, so you can bring your kids after school.

SPEAKER_00 2:31

We were doing some promos for National Cookbook Week. Yes. That are months that I think are gonna be fun. But we we were there before they're open. And more offensive. Because we wanted to uh be very loud and uh record the film without masks on, which would be rude if there were you know people there. So uh wanted to get there early, so we're talking with the staff and they're great, and they were telling us about how and we said they were a little self-conscious about being loud, but like, oh, we like loud. Yeah, they got a one-star Yelp review for having the loudest library stamp ever.

SPEAKER_01 3:04

This is the loudest. So we're like, okay, first of all, who's writing Yelp reviews of a library? Okay. I'm like, oh, he's probably sitting in the corner right over there, like me mugging you, writing this. I just think people are getting brazen on the internet. I agree. I think they always were terrible, but now everyone's just like angry at the world. So like I'm gonna take it out on the library.

SPEAKER_00 3:23

Well, and their response to it was we are allowed library and go away. They're what they say to people like that, they said was, go talk to your cats.

SPEAKER_01 3:33

Oh, right, right, I forgot. Yes, done. Because Nick and I, when we're talking about crab, or when we're being crabby old people, we say, get off my lawn. I learned that from Nick.

SPEAKER_00 3:41

And then they're uh go talk to your cats.

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Go talk to your cats. So we love it. That's pretty funny.

SPEAKER_00 3:45

We might have a new segment called Go Talk to Your Cats.

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And we have Emily on from the library. I love it. It was great. Our library, I mean, whatever, we could go on and on about our library because you're you don't have to like be scared to tiptoe in there. So you can bring your loud children. Also, there's lots of great resources and a million cookbooks I just learned.

SPEAKER_00 4:02

Beautiful. Like, I love sitting there and like the beautiful picture windows looking at the lake. Right now, this is a favorite time of year because the the sun comes and warms you up through the windows in summer and uh but and you can see the beautiful uh you know changing colors of the leaves and all the things and it's a beautiful architectural building if you're interested in that.

SPEAKER_01 4:22

Great history, and yeah, right now you get the best view of the lake and all the changing colors. Well, there you go, guys.

SPEAKER_00 4:30

I'm giving and taking today from you. Oh boy. Uh and a giveth-taketh situation is uh this what we're drinking today. It's gonna be our last Oktoberfest of the year.

SPEAKER_01 4:41

Oh my god, you guys, uh as you know, it is just barely in October. It's like what, the I don't know, the 11th when this comes out. And yeah, Oktoberfest is already like sold out in so many places, so this is my brother-in-law's favorite Oktoberfest. We're drinking spotten today, Michael.

SPEAKER_00 4:58

So good.

SPEAKER_01 4:59

Thinking of you at whatever time we're recording, I won't be able to do that.

SPEAKER_00 5:02

Thinking of you uh drinking early is partly while we're thinking of you, because you're a champ at that, Michael. Um but yes, so it's very sad. I I do love that Americans think Oktoberfest is all October long. The city of Lake Geneva's has a plan to do Oktoberfest events every week in October. I'm like, you idiots are missing the point.

SPEAKER_01 5:25

It's actually September.

SPEAKER_00 5:27

But congratulations on trying.

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So But also, I I think that maybe I shouldn't go down the dark rabbit hole of Lake Geneva's Oktoberfest right now. Um, usually at this time of year, I am setting up the city of Lake Geneva's Oktoberfest. So I'm thrilled to be here enjoying a beer instead of setting up a street festival.

SPEAKER_00 5:45

Well, and what we're gonna have next week, did you get the invite? No. Go look on your Facebook. Oh god. Next week, we're very excited for yes.

SPEAKER_01 5:59

I was wondering when you were gonna release this, you guys. Nick's gonna post this picture because it's sad that you can't see what we're laughing at right now.

SPEAKER_00 6:08

We're having Simtoberfest. Simtoberfest! Tell everyone what it is next. So we decided uh I have a friend Brian who has a pork and pie festival every July that, or August, that he does for his friends where he cooks a pig and everybody brings a pie. And it's just a great gathering, kind of a silly tradition. Um for Simona's birthday, since it falls in this wonderful fall harvest time of the year, Oktoberfest time of the year, we decided it would be fun to have Simptoberfest. And so we're gonna have a beer tent and uh a product. This is all for Simona, though. And uh she's not gonna necessarily be all into it. This year, there's one more thing I want to get to that's gonna be at Simtober. There better be dang hot pretzels, otherwise I'm not coming. And uh it's gonna be a lot of fun. And so it's not for her this year, but all of her friends are gonna be there. And then next year she'll you know be more aware. And as she grows up, hopefully she just thinks like this is this really fun party that happens every year around her birthday. It's not like a good big stuff or something. Oh no, we don't want that. Yeah. We have enough crap. Don't bring crap.

SPEAKER_01 7:12

You made it a year of parenting. This is what the first birthday is about, is we're really celebrating that. Nick and Sarah did it.

SPEAKER_00 7:17

Yay! With some Toberfest. We did it, yes. You did it. We did it like 22 months ago. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_01 7:24

Well, we're in the deck.

SPEAKER_00 7:26

Um, but uh yes, so we're gonna have some Toberfest. We want to make this a yearly tradition for our friends, her friends, everybody to come, just have a lovely end of like insanity season.

SPEAKER_01 7:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:37

Um but is it or is it just the start? I don't know. It's just the start. It's a transitional time of the year. You know, maybe in the future we'll have like Badger Game on at night. Oh man. College football.

SPEAKER_01 7:47

Remember that?

SPEAKER_00 7:48

Yeah, all those things. Maybe we can get an inflatable screen, show some movies, all sorts of stuff. Oh, this event is growing and it hasn't even happened. I'm looking forward to. We have a keg of Third Space Oktoberfest. Oh, nice! We'll have some other beers. Uh, we invited someone that's gluten-free, so we'll definitely have some cider. That's thoughtful of you.

SPEAKER_01 8:06

We invited someone that's gluten-free. Uh but cider's very, you know, delicious. Tyler loves cider. I do too. I have one more Octoberfest. It is good for gout. Actually, no idea. Just dark cloudy beer is not when he comes home and his cheeks are rosy, like, you know, after a beer. He tastes like a little cherub. He's like, I had cloudy beer. I'm like, yeah, I know. Um, last Oktoberfest beer shout out. I want to shout out a happy belated wedding anniversary to my sister and brother-in-law.

SPEAKER_00 8:35

Shout out, Shannon and Michael.

SPEAKER_01 8:36

It was their anniversary yesterday from the day we're recording. So on the 8th, so they celebrated, I think it was their first wedding anniversary with me at the Lake Geneva Octoberfest with a boot of beer. So what a way to celebrate your first Oktoberfest. Now we're celebrating Simona's first birthday with Oktoberfest. So, all about celebrations.

SPEAKER_00 8:52

Bridget, what was the best thing you ate this week?

SPEAKER_01 8:55

Well, Nick, I did this for you because I knew you'd hate it. I even took a picture. Oh my gosh. I had a particularly stressful night last night, and um I had Elliot soccer, came right home from that, had to like do some work for um the other situation. I had to get some things done really quickly, like immediately before the kids even had dinner. You know, so Tyler did all the dinner things, he did all of the like all the great parenting things, and I was passive aggressively sitting in my office, like hinting that I was starving, but like didn't want to ask him to make me dinner. So luckily we've been together so long he can read my mind. And he made the Bridget of all Bridget meals pasta, chicken, and broccoli. Oh my god! Um, but with what as the sauce, you ask? Let me tell you, scordaya. Yes, I was at the harvest market and I got some fresh basil scorda, scordaya, scordaya, whatever. Scordaya, and um use it like as a sauce, and then parmesan cheese is so good. And I knew you'd hate it.

SPEAKER_00 9:55

This is no, this is hilarious. The best thing I ate was noodles, chicken, what? Peas and tomatoes. Ooh, I made uh a little uh, so I made a bunch of penne, tossed it in some uh olive oil and lemon juice, uh, a little black pepper. Okay. Then we had some gorgeous tomatoes from the farmstead that we cut into like quarters and roasted. Okay. Some peas. Fancy. Put that all in. Oh, but they're so much better that way. Like when they're ripe and you get all the sugars caramelized, they're so good. Toss it all together. Chicken cubed it with swarma and lemon pepper. What? Yeah. Good shawarma? Yeah. Mine was like garlic chick, whatever the garlic chicken is from country meets. Also, good option. It was a great. We did the swarma, toss that all together, a little part. It's great.

SPEAKER_01 10:42

Okay, so Nick and I both had just like total white people food last night.

SPEAKER_00 10:47

Little peas in her gut, too, because like we can give those to Simona and she just, you know.

SPEAKER_01 10:50

Elliot likes broccoli.

SPEAKER_00 10:52

She's teething, so the peas are especially very good because you know she can put like right on the And I don't ever have peas at my house. They're great in the freezer, they're easy to keep.

SPEAKER_01 11:00

Yeah, okay. Well, approach it. Okay, guys, what's going on this week? Random news. I've seen news to talk about. What do you gotta talk about? I know, but I was really excited about this one because it's not actually a news story, shockingly, but it is a recommendation for something to watch on Hulu, and we don't do this a lot. Like, I don't give you TV things to watch. But this caught my attention because um I was watching something else on Hulu and an ad came on, great, and it was a woman talking about how all she wanted to do was be a butcher. So I like it caught my attention, obviously. I'm like, what is this? I feel like Nick and I need to watch it for work, and it was saying that she was constantly told she's not strong enough. She was like my size, maybe a little smaller, you know, told she can't do it, she's not strong enough, she's not gonna be able to, whatever. So um there is a it was an ad, it turns out, for something called A Woman's Place, and it's a documentary on Hulu about all of these women who wanted to do jobs that maybe they were told they couldn't do, and of course they had succeeding in them. Spoiler alert. So Women succeed. It's called A Woman's Place on Hulu, and it looks awesome. Um the cover is even like a whole bunch of raw meat, so it's right up already.

SPEAKER_00 12:08

Yeah, raw meat. So check it out. That's that. I saw this uh thing on the New York Times. I love reading it, and it's an article about we've talked about how some people just genetically hate cilantro. Ghosts, yeah. Um, all these like weird things that some humans have that others don't. And this is about 2% of people have a genetic mutation that they cannot smell stinky fish.

SPEAKER_01 12:34

Oh, really? Okay, I just saw like stinky fish in the line, which is why I said gross.

SPEAKER_00 12:38

So this is like an Icelandic research thing because you know they're all fishy up there. And they found it's like 2% of people that just cannot smell stinky fish at all. They smell like potatoes or onions, they smell like something like roasted potatoes. They smell instead of fish. Yeah, instead of the rotting fish. That's so much more pleasant. I just I yeah, I thought that was really cool. And it's again, I I started in a rabbit hole, and supposedly, so like I don't have wisdom teeth. Like you do not get them pulled, you just never got them. Just don't have them. That's weird. Genetic mutation, but like awesome! Awesome!

SPEAKER_01 13:09

Never had to have my teeth pulled.

SPEAKER_00 13:11

Save two grand. Evidently, like that is becoming more common, like we're still evolving. Whoa, whoa. How cool would that be though? Like, if you could just be like, do do change my genes. I don't want to smell stinky fest. It's like a little RPG.

SPEAKER_01 13:27

One day.

SPEAKER_00 13:29

It's like those people that are really good at um finding out the fake pasta. You know, you don't want in pasta.

SPEAKER_01 13:35

Oh my god. I'm like fake pasta? Get out of here. We're taking a quick break. All right, we are back, and it looks like Nick is jumping in front of the program.

SPEAKER_00 14:04

I'm on a uh a thing. On a thing. Audible.

SPEAKER_01 14:08

Uh can't make a decision, like Bridget?

SPEAKER_00 14:10

Okay. Yes, I have two. So one is we had a flat tire this week at our household. So did I. Same time. It was crazy. Yeah. Uh we ran over some sort of stapley looking thing.

SPEAKER_01 14:22

Oh, ran over a nail of mine.

SPEAKER_00 14:23

Uh we had to get the car to the place, and we have a portable tire inflator that plugs into your cigarette lighter. Oh. Oh, I don't know. You're right. Plugs right in. Uh, you don't need to like have a whole air compressor or anything like that. Has a little gauge on it. It's super simple, super lightweight. Uh, this really great one on Amazon is on sale right now. So if you're someone that is scared of like getting flat tires on us, don't have an air compressor and that type of stuff, it's like 25 bucks and it's just a really great add it to your roadside emergency kit. You can use it to blow up um basketballs, volleyballs, things like all that type of stuff too. So uh yeah, it was very useful this week. We use it to do that and uh put up a link for you to get one and also if you click on our link, we get a little bit of money to help all this stuff. So we'd appreciate that.

SPEAKER_01 15:16

Um, you know, it was useful to me. I was at my parents' house when I got my flat tire. So my dad was like, hey, come out here to my let me show you my air compressor. Um also, do your cars have outlets? Like actual outlets? I think we have one, yes. Because my car is the newer of our two and it has an outlet and it's my favorite thing, but it doesn't have a CD player. Mine doesn't. I haven't CD player. But I didn't notice. It's not like when I was buying my car, I was like, well, no, there's no CD player, but I found a whole bunch of like old school CDs that I wanted to listen to and literally brought it in my car and was like, what? Was it like was it like like a mixed CD? Yes, it was. Of like 2000s hip hop? Yes, it was. Yes, I realized I could just listen to that Pandora station through my fancier comment.

SPEAKER_00 16:00

Maybe we should do a special edition podcast of Bridget commenting on her previous 90s hip hops.

SPEAKER_01 16:06

Oh, you guys would judge me hard. But it'd be good. So this is a very not Bridget product recommendation. I I was surprised by this one. Yeah, I got this as a gift. I think we've mentioned before about my gardening and lack of skills um in that area, and how I wanted my sister Brittany to give me just like a gardening plan for my house after we do our renovation. So, in fact, she did, and she got me started with a whole bunch of fun things. So she she even did it in a nice digestible way. So instead of like overwhelming me with 27 pages of different plants and things, she gave me like a one-pager and was like, do these things. And at first, it was so great, like she knows me. And the first thing was start composting because I've mentioned this to her too. Like, I know what I should compost, I know I should do it, all these things, but I just haven't. So she bought me this great little compost bin, it's a very normal one. We will post the link to Amazon, it's a little silver thing, sits on your countertop, put all my coffee grounds, banana peels, you know, all the things in there, and then we dump out, dump it out in the yard. So I was really worried, and I know like she has one. I know a million people that have this compost bin, I was still worried it was gonna smell. And it doesn't, because it has a nice charcoal filter. So, anyway, if you're looking to start composting, it's super easy, it turns out. I was intimidated. Let's start with this little bin that we'll post the link to.

SPEAKER_00 17:25

Okay, Bridget, I sent you the top secret link.

SPEAKER_01 17:28

You sent it.

SPEAKER_00 17:29

And yes! Yes! Alright, so my previous uh I think add a K to the end of it. Oh. Uh, my previous uh discussion of Simtoberfest, Bridget said, what did she say? There must be hot pretzels! Milwaukee Pretzel Company is awesome. It is the best. They have free ground delivery to Wisconsin. They ship elsewhere too. We are getting a number one pretzel for Simona's birthday. Oh my god, a pretzel cake, if you will. Yes, a pretzel cake. There will also be cupcakes. But um who needs them? Who needs them? We're gonna have warm hot pretzel for Simona and the one. Uh normal pretzels for other people too, but it comes, it comes, so this birthday kit pack thing comes with some dips, comes with candles, I believe. Oh yes, candles and natural cheese cups. This is amazing.

SPEAKER_01 18:19

All the way up to a nine. So this is a one-pound pretzel for any number one through nine or letter A to Z. It's a one-pound pretzel, a pack of birthday candles, colors will vary, and two natural cheese cups. Oh cool. I just want this for every occasion. This is great, isn't this? Okay, this is the best product recommendation you've had.

SPEAKER_00 18:38

I probably should just also bought a B.

SPEAKER_01 18:40

Yeah, and just like give it sends it home.

SPEAKER_00 18:42

Oh, yeah, weird. I just have this extra. Oh wow, weird. Shoot. Okay. So that's that's my other one. So if you have something festive coming up, what more festive way to celebrate than with a giant warm pretzel from Milwaukee Pretzel Company in your favorite shape?

SPEAKER_01 18:57

Dude, also totally cost effective. I also believe this is gonna be expensive. Love Milwaukee Pretzel Company, guys. Highly recommend. Ooh, okay, got worn out with my excitement for that one. All right, we'll be back.

SPEAKER_00 19:08

We're gonna just calm down. We're gonna calm down.

SPEAKER_01 19:29

We're back! Ooh, that sounds like a good Halloween. We're back.

SPEAKER_00 19:35

Can we tell the people what's coming up for Halloween? I don't know. I feel like we did. I think we did. Did we tell you? True crime edition. We're gonna need we're gonna back.

SPEAKER_01 19:45

We're back. We're certainly doing not as good of a job as my pals at Crime Junkie, but we're gonna do the best we can.

SPEAKER_00 19:51

It's gonna be great. It's gonna be a Bridget with Nick hilariously watching. Deep plus for effort of a crime junkie. It's gonna be great. I'm really excited because I'm not into true crime. I'm uh I just Oh, but Sarah and I are. I don't know, people kill people. It happens. Oh my god. So I'm just very excited for this.

SPEAKER_01 20:07

I'm listening to one with a missing child right now. Oh, that's sad. Okay. I'm a little behind on Crime Junkie, but I'm catching up. Okay, guys, it's time for interesting questions.

SPEAKER_00 20:16

Oh, should I say that or something?

SPEAKER_01 20:17

Um, yeah, okay. Interesting questions with Bridget and Nick. I'll spit my brain up again. Sorry. Um, so we're going real deep this week, Nick.

SPEAKER_00 20:28

Super deep. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 20:29

So sorry about that.

SPEAKER_00 20:30

Dig a hole in China deep or how deep we're gonna be.

SPEAKER_01 20:32

We're both feeling a little rough. I just figured I'd go right into the soul of us. Okay. Would you rather live low life with your loved one or rich life all alone? And I should say caveat, Sarah, he loves you. We all love our husbands, wives, spouses, and family. Let's pretend that.

SPEAKER_00 20:53

How low is low life? Like press like cardboard box?

SPEAKER_01 20:57

Like how like um I don't know the answer to that question, so make it up. All I can think of is um shameless and the Gallagher family.

SPEAKER_00 21:05

I don't want to be like homeless.

SPEAKER_01 21:07

Okay, you have a shithole home on Skid Row.

SPEAKER_00 21:12

I would say with the loved ones, then.

SPEAKER_01 21:14

Like if we're So low life with your loved ones? Yeah. You can't always climb up, right?

SPEAKER_00 21:19

I would hope so. Sarah's a hard worker, she'll make me some money. Sarah, no pressure. No pressure, honey, honey.

SPEAKER_01 21:27

I think that's the way to go, right? At least that's the thing we should publicly say.

SPEAKER_00 21:30

I mean, and Tyler is so lovely, you couldn't leave Tyler.

SPEAKER_01 21:33

I would never know. I'm very thrifty, so I'd be fine. I'd be great on the streets. You would be great. I would do terrible. You would be great on the streets. I don't like bugs or rats, so I would do very bad. I would move into a goodwill bins.

SPEAKER_00 21:49

Anybody who knows Bridget, right?

SPEAKER_01 21:51

Do you think Bridget would do well on the street? We're gonna put up a poll. Would Bridget die in her first 24 hours on the streets? The answer is yes. But Tyler. To protect me? Okay, we're doing great. Doing great. Alright, so we made the right choice with that one. Okay. Would you rather give up your love life or your work life?

SPEAKER_00 22:13

Ah, my work life.

SPEAKER_01 22:15

Okay, but how would you pay for things?

SPEAKER_00 22:17

Is this why you're living on the streets? Well, but then I have to go do a different work life. Luckily, I'm a man with many interests, and I love my job. That's not part of the question. So like I could never work. Well then I'll I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 22:30

I think really what this is, I should have asked this first and said, oh, this is why you're gonna live on the streets.

SPEAKER_00 22:34

I'll be um, yeah, no, I'll I'll win, uh I'll go play the lottery or uh just hang out at Pottawatomy. And yeah. And you know, you give me one dollar, I will turn it into a lot of money at Pottawatomy.

SPEAKER_01 22:46

Did you hear that, everybody? So Nick and Tyler taking over Potawatomi. So yeah. Okay, cool. Yeah, it sounds like great, great fun. Great fun. Okay, now this one, it's real 2020, in my opinion. Would you rather rule the world or live in a world with absolutely no problems at all?

SPEAKER_00 23:05

If I rule the world, there will be no problems. That is BS. I will fix all of the problems. Nick for president, 2020. Actually, I'm sorry. I don't need to be president. He's starting his presidential campaign one month outway. I'm too I'm too young at this point in Constitution. You know, we don't seem to care about it anymore. We so screw it. I could be president. But, you know, really, I would if anybody's seen Star Wars. Oh god. You know, Palpatine moves his way towards becoming Supreme Chancellor and then he becomes the Emperor. And I too would just slowly assume powers. And you would all love me for it. So you would like to rule the world. I would, yes. I promise you universal basic income. I promise you. Now, you guys, you heard it here first. I promise you socialized health care. I promise you. What else should I promise?

SPEAKER_01 23:58

Yeah, we did promise we were gonna get very political, so we really agree.

SPEAKER_00 24:02

No, I don't promise that. Nobody could be.

SPEAKER_01 24:05

If you live in a world with no problems, okay, obviously I would rather live in a world with no problems.

SPEAKER_00 24:09

It's always gonna be political.

SPEAKER_01 24:10

The question says no problems. Well then not some problems.

SPEAKER_00 24:14

I will Nick 2020. If you could vote for Kanye, you could vote for Nick.

SPEAKER_01 24:19

Kanye didn't make the ballot, Nack.

SPEAKER_00 24:21

Aw, so sad.

SPEAKER_01 24:22

Oh, 2020. Okay, that was fun. We're moving on.

SPEAKER_00 24:24

Alright, so time for a fantasy update. Not the fantasy of living on the streets, Bridget. But fantasy football. You were uh This was a last week. Uh we we had some updates going on about the COVID situation. Really screwing with fantasy.

SPEAKER_01 24:40

Big time. Nick would text me, thank God, first thing in the morning. Ah, these teams are both out for COVID.

SPEAKER_00 24:46

I literally woke up, saw the alert, I'm like, oh, I don't because I don't think Bridget has like bleacher reports.

SPEAKER_01 24:52

I don't have I mean I have the ESPN app, I just turned off the alerts because it was. I turned off the alerts, so I have to voluntarily look, and I didn't do it at 6 a.m. I know I should have. So Nick kept me in the loop, and like I this hurt my hard. So like, so four teams were out. I think it was four right for COVID.

SPEAKER_00 25:10

Well now we have buys starting, and like, this is this is gonna screw the Packers because at some point you gotta figure with the way it's going. A Packer is gonna get it.

SPEAKER_01 25:18

Well, and or injured. I have so many people injured. So I ended up, I put everyone, anyone I could on my bench. So my entire bench was either out for COVID or injured. So like I had no more options, and I have a good I was undefeated, so I don't want to drop players and like lose my team, but now I'm just effed. Like, I think I have like five people that are questionable every week. I have one on injured reserve. Like, I'm gonna have to redo my whole team. So I got beat hard this week. I saw the score, it was not for it wasn't good and it was against my father-in-law. So, anyway, if I was gonna lose it, I wish it was to Avery or Libby. I like them. Just kidding. I like to father-in-law, but I like to talk crap to you more. So, anyway, rough week in fancy land.

SPEAKER_00 26:02

We'll see what I do with the team this week. Yeah, what's the what's the projection looking like this week? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 26:07

I didn't even want to look, you guys. Honestly, I didn't want to look. So I'll just pull it up here. It was, I did adjust things. I was losing, I adjusted things, I was winning, but it changes like by the minute because people get COVID and get hurt. So, okay, the projected, you guys. Right now I'm projected 123.3, and I'm playing Bennett, and he's 124.8. So, really, anything can happen. I hope you're I'm sure 10 people are gonna get injured. Yeah, my I just can't. My bench up in Minnesota. Anyway, guys, it's not looking good. So, who's gonna be?

SPEAKER_00 26:40

So we could be falling to four and two, is what we're saying.

SPEAKER_01 26:43

I don't think so. I'm gonna win this week.

SPEAKER_00 26:45

Okay. Frederick is going to win this week. We'll see. What are you winning this week? You know what I'm really winning at?

SPEAKER_01 26:53

Chicken on the meal plan.

SPEAKER_00 26:55

A lot of chicken this week. So I think I may have taken your recipe though.

SPEAKER_01 26:59

No, I'm just coming with a curveball for you, Nick. So chicken's on sale at the store next week, which you know we don't talk about a ton, but it's a great deal, and I love chicken. So the meal plan. Meal plan's heavy on chicken because it's fun. Why not? But I did throw in some beef recipes, of course. So this week I actually chose a beef. Any pork for Elliot? Uh yeah, I'm gonna throw in one pork recipe, but we've done a lot of pork last week. We have done a lot of pork, so I'm just gonna put in one.

SPEAKER_00 27:24

So But Elliot loves pork.

SPEAKER_01 27:26

I mean, they also love beef.

unknown 27:28

No.

SPEAKER_01 27:28

They pretty much love everything but chicken. They'll eat chicken, but we'll show you, Mom. Mom. Um, so anyway, I thought I would really surprise you and choose a beef recipe. Why did I choose it, you ask? Because it has Brussels sprouts. Aww, Brussels are so good. Yeah, and I saw uh Farmstead just posted a beautiful photo of the.

SPEAKER_00 27:46

I know, I didn't know they had Brussels.

SPEAKER_01 27:47

Me neither. They well, I don't think they had them at the farmer's market, so they must have just gotten them, just harvested them. So I do have a recipe that's only five ingredients and made on one sheet pan. So bullfairy bridget style, uh, tri-tip and brussels sprouts.

SPEAKER_00 28:00

Have you ever seen the Brussels sprouts plants?

SPEAKER_01 28:03

Yes, I know. They look like a weed plant. It's the best.

SPEAKER_00 28:06

I love that.

SPEAKER_01 28:08

So, anyway, I chose a beef recipe, thought I'd really surprise you. I'm gonna eat all the Brussels sprouts.

SPEAKER_00 28:12

I chose a chicken one, and it's one of my all-time favorite chicken ones that uh I've been supposed to make for a couple times, but does take a little bit of planning. It is a barbecue bourbon chicken breast pizza recipe. Yep, yep. And our bourbon marinade chicken is one of my favorite flavors. It's so good. Uh, a little sweet, just a hint of spice, but just like super flavorful, really yummy. Uh so you cook that, you shred it, which is where you need a little bit of advanced dining.

SPEAKER_01 28:41

Sort of a slow cooker.

SPEAKER_00 28:42

Yeah, but still, you know, a little advanced vining, so I always forget until too late. But then you get a pizza crust, you put barbecue sauce on it. I love a barbecue sauce pizza, the chicken, some red onion, nice little slice of red onion. He's like doing this with his hands. I'm a big fan of the Mexican cheese mix on top. Oh, really? Um because I think a little bit zestier cheese is.

SPEAKER_01 29:07

Did you hear that, Tyler? There's another use for that cheese. He hates that cheese because he's like, what do you use it for besides tacos? So here you go.

SPEAKER_00 29:15

Here you go, Tyler. Put that on top, get a lovely color, and then I like to just put a little bit of uh like dry Italian seasoning on top. Sounds great. Just for a little bit extra spice. Grill it. So good. I don't actually love barbecue sauce, but I think people that would love barbecue sauce would love this. Do you do you like uh like olive oil pizzas? Yeah, love olive oil pizza. I still have some tomatoes and the ease up, so I maybe I'll make a tart.

SPEAKER_01 29:39

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 29:40

I'm I'm coming over for the tart. Tarte. So yeah, barbecue bourbon chicken breast pizza.

SPEAKER_01 29:44

That is like that sounds good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:47

I mean, obviously I love the meal plan this week.

SPEAKER_01 29:49

So if you love chicken like me, check out the meal plan.

SPEAKER_00 29:52

Alright, so it is time for King Connor! And I have wanted to know about this thing for like the last three days. And I've just not asked you because it's better when it's a surprise. Better when it's a surprise.

SPEAKER_01 30:05

So, in true Bridget fashion, um, every night at dinner we do highs and lows. So we ask Elliot and when Lucy can talk, like, tell us about the worst part of your day and the best part, because we want him to know he can talk to us, you know, whatever. We're fostering all these good things, right? So it's super fun. I love talking to him about it, and I learn a lot about his day. So I'm doing highs and lows with my kid corner for the week. We're gonna start with the high. Um, we went apple picking, like we did Wisconsin fall things. Um, we went last weekend and uh it rained on us and it was great. So I love the rain, I don't care. We just like wanted out of the house, we had nothing going on for the day. Um, so we went up to Ellegant Fermer, super crowded until you're out in the uh you know, apple orchard. So we stayed in our car, like we literally stayed in our car until Did you get some bratwurst while you're there? No, we didn't. I have another source for that. Um but so anyway, we stayed in our car until like all the people were in, there was no line, um went in, and it was super super fun. It's like up a big hill and you hike to the back. Um they're really their staff's really great there. They have a million kinds of apples, whatever. It's all very great, but the best part to me, Elliot said, Mom, this is the best day. It's better than video games. And crying about crying. Oh my gosh, I would cry. I would definitely cry. I said to him, Elliot, I will take you apple picking every day if you never play another video game. And he said, Okay. So anyway, very exciting. Um, turns out he loves Granny Smith apples. Gross. And he must be able to be starting to read because there's signs that say, like, and he said, the Granny Smiths! And like he's gonna be able to do that.

SPEAKER_00 31:42

Oh my gosh, he's so he's he's ahead of you because he I mean he screwed up. He was probably just like not letting you know that he could read or understand stuff. So when you're like, oh, we need to go get a T-O-Y for E We don't do that crap. Oh, I don't know, toy.

SPEAKER_01 31:59

I just say it. Smart tip. Um, so anyway, apple picking was so fun. We like when it was in and out of like misting and raining. So when it would like rain rain, we would just like hide under an apple tree.

SPEAKER_00 32:09

It was it was so great. I think you guys should get Tyler one of those like umbrella hats. He's so tall, you could just stand there and he's gonna. Yes. You would be a great umbrella. It was great. He really is not about umbrella height.

SPEAKER_01 32:21

Yeah, Tyler, we're gonna find that out of the product recommendation. Giant umbrella hat.

SPEAKER_00 32:26

Get a tall husband and a giant umbrella hat. It's great.

SPEAKER_01 32:29

It's great. Um, so anyway, that was it was really just like a lovely day. The kids got along. That sounds great. Um, uh, you know, got some great photos, which I love. But then we had family photo day. Well, I'm gonna call this the low. Um, I normally like I knew Lucy would be a challenge. Like everyone who's tried to take nice family photos knows that it is always a nightmare. But for some reason, I was like, it's gonna be fine. Elliot is generally very well behaved, and like he's old enough to like know to smile for a picture. He likes it. He's a total ham. Yeah, he loves it. School picture. Holy cow, that was a great picture. I haven't even posted it. What kind of mom am I? Daryl. I'll post it. Daryl. But we did family photos, and the photographers are saints, and like she she was like, No, it's fine, but Elliot just like threw a fit the second he got home from school, threw himself on the ground, and then just like got worse and worse. And Lucy is, you know, always a challenge, and we're in a field, whatever. So, like the photos, I don't need to go into detail. We were sweating, we're like, and it was warm out, like it's but it was a warm week.

SPEAKER_00 33:30

So did you guys wear white shirts and jeans?

SPEAKER_01 33:33

White and denim all the way. We all match.

SPEAKER_00 33:35

White and denim, white and denim.

SPEAKER_01 33:37

Roman, white and denim. So it was I mean, like, I'm confident, I didn't leave saying there was no good photos. I'm sure there's tons of good photos. It just was like Tyler and I were both like ready to lose it. And then Tyler had to go to a meeting, so I had the kids on my own. Oh, that was a good meeting. Yeah, it was a good meeting, but I took the kids home and it was way past their bedtime, they're already annoyed. Lucy was crying, and Elliot screamed at her the entire drive home because she was hurting his ears. So his solution was to yell at her for the whole 20 minutes. Anyway, that was not a great time. I'm sure the photos will be lovely. And the end.

SPEAKER_00 34:11

The end. Highs and lows. Uh, my story is that Simona has decided to become Lucy now way into the shoes. Get it! She basically seems to be into Schrdinger's shoes because Schrodinger's she simultaneously wants them to be on and off. Oh, yeah. So I think we need to give her like double shoes so she can hold two and wear two. Yeah, yeah. Because it's she so in the morning now she will go to crawl, she will put her down to play, and she takes off to her room. We can put her in the basement, she'll go upstairs. She will climb up the stairs, crawl to her room, go to the basket where the shoes are, get the shoes out, start sorting through them, you know, knock the basket over, right? Start sorting through sorting through all the shoes, and then she will go and try and put some on and try and hold some. And so you put one on, and she then obviously wants it off. She's now more on the one-on-one-off. She is Lucy. And she loves the shoes, and I just was looking at her. I'm like, damn it, Lucy.

SPEAKER_01 35:19

I can't wait for them to hang out more. Yeah, I'm gonna give all the best traits to Simona from Lucy. Wait, are she like in like hard-sold shoes or like those awesome soft soled ones? Oh, they're still like like the slippers kind of. Oh, no, she's in the hard-sold one. Oh man. Yeah. They're like, I don't know what else to call them size, soft sold. They look like moccasins almost. Yep. I want to get her some Timbaland, so oh, okay. I have a pair for Lucy. They're very hard to put on. What size shoe does she wear? Do you know? I don't know. I'm not a job. Probably like a four, I would guess.

SPEAKER_00 35:47

I don't I don't understand shoe size.

SPEAKER_01 35:49

I need to know this. Her birthday is coming. For anyone listening, Simona needs shoes. Mom and dad aren't buying her shoes.

SPEAKER_00 35:59

Uh some baby Timbalands. I need to get that. I actually was just looking at Timbalins, because, you know. It's like her, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's like her vibe. I feel like it's, you know, she's got some some energy that way.

SPEAKER_01 36:12

I think I might get black um like boots for Lucy. Like like Timbalins. No. Like black timberlands. Yep. You heard it here. You heard it here, guys. Lucy. Rocking in the timberlands. Um, Ellie had a pair of knockoff timberlands. Okay, everybody. We're just getting work boots for our children.

SPEAKER_00 36:34

Okay. It's great. It's great. Well, we we hope I feel a lot better now. A lot better. I don't repos beer. But thank you guys for indulging us. We hope you learned some interesting things. You know, get that compost bin. Get that compost bin. Uh, have some ideas of some delicious food you can cook this week, and most importantly, feel like we have more problems than you, and your life isn't that terrible.

SPEAKER_01 37:01

Most importantly, know that we're all doing great. Thanks for listening, guys. As always, make sure to send us a note. Um, it really helps if you subscribe and rate us. That helps us and we appreciate it very much.

SPEAKER_00 37:14

Thanks for listening. We'll see you soon. Bye bye.