Two Forty Speed - Dinner Plus Drinks #101

SPEAKER_03 0:00

Bridget, it's time to ditch the gobble gobble gobble. Yay! And go into the fa la la la la. Here we are. Because I have a surprise for you. Oh, really? You know how I like to do a nice thing with a not so nice thing? The best kind of surprise? It's all gonna make sense real soon. I promised moving from gobble gobble gobble to fala la la la. And I also promised a surprise that you wouldn't necessarily love. And the surprise that you're not gonna necessarily love is these canned cocktails. Oh good, my favorite. From Beautiful Drinks, which they are beautiful things. They're summary, it's freezing cold outside, so I thought a summary one might be good to try. And to bribe you to try them, Sarah helped me out and got something very special.

SPEAKER_01 0:54

Oh my gosh. Oh Sarah, leave it to the wife.

SPEAKER_00 0:56

Sidon!

SPEAKER_03 0:59

We have Little Debbie Christmas tree cakes.

SPEAKER_00 1:02

The gross is the best thing in the world.

SPEAKER_03 1:04

We could get into the Christmas spirit by drinking canned cocktails, summary-themed canned cocktails, and seeing how they work with the little Debbie cakes.

SPEAKER_01 1:12

Waxy Christmas bites of deliciousness. Thanks, Nick. Thanks, Sarah. Did we discuss on air the best parts about these? I think you talked about them a little bit, but I can't remember what the best parts are. Well, it's the point of the tree, obviously, and the green sprinkles.

SPEAKER_03 1:28

Well, there's a lot of points of this tree. It's like how many triangles could you go?

SPEAKER_01 1:32

Like the very top is the best part.

SPEAKER_03 1:34

So we have we have three cocktails from we have a grapefruit and rosemary gin and tonic.

SPEAKER_01 1:39

Ooh, sounds good.

SPEAKER_03 1:40

Which actually that one I kind of thought was a little like, you know, but it won't be good. Uh cucumber and lemon sparkling vodka collins. Also sounds good. And then a limb lime and ginger sparkling margarita. Is there one you particularly?

SPEAKER_01 1:52

I think this grapefruit and rosemary one might go great with our if you're watching on YouTube, you can see the not excitedness in my face because I'm trying not to. They always sound like a great idea. Like, oh, this sounds refreshing. Christmas tree tree.

SPEAKER_02 2:06

Cheers.

SPEAKER_01 2:08

Oh, good times. This is a great brunch. We're recording a little early today, so you know, brunch. Uh-oh. I already spilled some of my waxy Christmas tree. Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_00 2:21

Okay, how's the canned cocktail? I like it.

SPEAKER_03 2:25

Smells better than some of the other ones I've smelled. I think it's refreshing. I think the flavors are right on. I mean, it's only 5% alcohol, which is disappointing, but given that it's two o'clock in the morning as we're recording.

SPEAKER_01 2:36

It is not two o'clock in the morning. That's pretty good. Isn't it? I mean, I was impressed. Okay, to be fair, these have been on our list of like items to taste for like m a month or two or three. And I keep being like, no, but I thought they were seltzers.

SPEAKER_03 2:50

No.

SPEAKER_01 2:50

Which you know I hate, but also canned cocktails.

SPEAKER_03 2:52

There's gin in this. Darby gin in that can.

SPEAKER_01 2:56

I mean, it's still my my feeling on canned cocktails is they work, but they're never as good as the actual just cocktail.

SPEAKER_03 3:03

See, that surprises me from you a little bit because you are a very convenience-driven drinker.

SPEAKER_01 3:08

But I don't like spend a lot of time and whip up beautiful cocktails nowadays.

SPEAKER_03 3:11

I know, so that's why I'm like, aren't these perfect now?

SPEAKER_01 3:14

Just like, well, have a beer.

SPEAKER_03 3:16

Man, but I can't I just can't drink all of this out of my red solo cup. I'm gonna move on to the um cucumber and lemon sparkling vodka collins. I don't know, man.

SPEAKER_01 3:29

I can't this is the problem. I feel like I need to pour these over ice. Yeah, that'd probably be good. Yeah, because they're always just like a little.

SPEAKER_03 3:39

Tastes odd. Yeah, it tastes a little odd.

SPEAKER_01 3:42

What's off about it?

SPEAKER_03 3:43

The cucumber tastes like cucumber soap.

SPEAKER_01 3:47

Like cucumber extract.

SPEAKER_03 3:48

Yeah, so that's really like cucumber. It's not as good as a cranberry one.

SPEAKER_01 3:51

Because at first I'm like, oh yeah, cucumber for sure. Yeah, and then it's like that's not real cucumber.

SPEAKER_03 3:55

Yeah, it's like fake grape flavor instead of grape flavor. It's like cucumber stocked in an aluminum can. I mean, I don't know if that tastes like aluminum can.

SPEAKER_01 4:03

This is what all canned cocktails are like to me. Slightly like they've been stocked in an aluminum can for too long.

SPEAKER_03 4:09

And now, lime and ginger, sparkly margarita.

SPEAKER_01 4:11

I'm not gonna like this. I mean, if I'm gonna have a margarita, I need it to be a real margarita. Maybe, I don't know, we'll see. I took another bite of the Christmas tree, so tough call.

SPEAKER_03 4:25

I like this one.

SPEAKER_01 4:26

I thought you would.

SPEAKER_03 4:27

It's good.

SPEAKER_01 4:30

Yeah, I mean, it tastes like margarita mix.

SPEAKER_03 4:33

Maybe you can put it in the tequila.

SPEAKER_01 4:35

I mean, I don't love tequila, so like So then why are you ever drinking margaritas? I I know, this is what I'm saying. I don't. I don't love tequila. I thought you drank margaritas. I do drink margaritas, but like on occasion, like cinco de mayo. It's not like everyone. I like don't have a bottle of tequila at home, but I do have bottles of gin and vodka.

SPEAKER_03 4:57

I can fix that.

SPEAKER_01 4:58

Thank you. Those are generally not as bad as I would have expected.

SPEAKER_03 5:02

I like them, and they have beautiful cans, and they like, you know, if you buy some, they they support pollinators.

SPEAKER_01 5:08

Oh yes, this is the supporting nature one.

SPEAKER_03 5:10

Yep, so they each have their own like little thing. So the margarita has a butterfly on it. The Tom Collins has a bee on it, and the gin and tonic has a hummingbird.

SPEAKER_01 5:24

Uh, do they all support different things? Um crafted by nature. TM. I'm not really sure. Okay, well, they're great for nature and for your body. Just like these Christmas tree cakes.

SPEAKER_03 5:37

Ingredients, carbonated water, gin. Wow.

SPEAKER_01 5:40

Oh boy. Um, okay.

SPEAKER_03 5:42

Juniper berry, quasia, bergamot, elderflower, and rosemary.

SPEAKER_01 5:46

I'm so glad you want to transition from Thanksgiving to Christmas because I have all sorts of Christmas things. Let's hear it. But but not this, not yet. I'm I'm saying goodbye to Thanksgiving with my good news story of the week.

SPEAKER_02 5:55

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:56

Um, yeah, I changed it from the original outline. Did you?

unknown 5:59

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 5:59

Because I didn't want to be a downer. Yeah, yeah. So oh no, I guess we're not ready for the good news. I got too excited. No, talk about the good news. Okay, we'll talk about the good news because it's about Thanksgiving, and then we can talk about our Thanksgivings. Um, it's Black Friday as we're recording, just FYI. So yesterday was Thanksgiving. Um, so there is a gentleman in Moline, Illinois. So I love a story that comes, you know, locally, relatively locally. And he is known as Mr. Thanksgiving. He is a grocery store owner and crossing guard, Bob Vogelbaugh. Um, he has hosted thousands in his grocery store. He got an idea in 1970. He learned that a 91-year-old, one of the people shopping in the store, Rose Hansen, um, she was gonna be spending Thanksgiving alone. So he was so sad about this, he invited her and other seniors to celebrate. So I talk about Inamuz Bouche this week of all about traditions. And so this tradition has been going on since 1970. He's been hosting um Thanksgiving in his grocery store so no one feels alone. So thousands of people at his store. So just saying, Nick, uh, if you know you own a grocery store, if you want to start hosting everybody. That's a big event to plan there, Bridget. Oh, okay. Good call, good call. We won't be doing that, but you know, Moline, Illinois. Um, I don't have the name of his grocery store. Maybe it's too full now, but um, good news of the day, Mr. Thanksgiving in Moline, Illinois.

SPEAKER_03 7:23

How was your Thanksgiving?

SPEAKER_01 7:24

Uh, you know, it was fine. Um, Shannon cooked and it was delicious. Like our the food was good work, Shannon.

SPEAKER_03 7:30

Yeah, we had really good food.

SPEAKER_01 7:31

It's just Thanksgiving's like not my holiday.

SPEAKER_03 7:34

It is mine.

SPEAKER_01 7:35

Yeah, but so how was yours?

SPEAKER_03 7:36

It was nice. I enjoyed it. I, you know, it's hard for me to talk about what Thanksgiving means to me without getting a little philosophical. Excellent. I like traditions and I like the past and like things like that, but I also am a big believer in getting better every year and like trying to constantly improve. For so for me, Thanksgiving is this perfect opportunity to do this very traditional meal, but always try and put a new spin on it and always try and do better every year. So I'm on the competition? Yes, competition with myself because once you slay your inner self, you have we reached level 99. Whoa, uh anyway. I just I'm in this constant like arms race to come up with the best turkey I can. And so every year I try to come up with something better, and even if it's very good, there's there's always you can always do better. I'm a big believer of that. Thanks, Mom, for yelling at me for getting uh 100% when there was five percent extra credit available, and I didn't get that loser. You you messed me up for the rest of my life. And here we are.

SPEAKER_01 8:36

I love you Thanksgiving traditions.

SPEAKER_03 8:37

So so that's my I just I love Thanksgiving because you can do the same thing, and I really enjoy the meal, and I love trying to do better every year, and then getting to judge it in a very delicious way.

SPEAKER_01 8:50

And do you let anyone else judge it?

SPEAKER_03 8:52

Oh, yeah, Sarah. Okay, good Sarah gives me the honest feedback, she's very clear. She we sit down with a glass of wine, we offload Simo to my mom for a second, and we sit down and we very clearly give myself ratings on how the turkey was, how the gravy was, you know, what was good about it, what could be improved.

SPEAKER_01 9:14

Okay, man. That's serious.

SPEAKER_03 9:15

It's it's you know, I think I emailed you it's it's effing game time.

SPEAKER_01 9:19

Yeah, yeah. I think something like that, and I was like, I don't have that same excitement.

SPEAKER_03 9:23

On Wednesday, I sat down at the butcher block counters and I took a sheet of butcher paper and game planned out everything, wrote it all out. Great. And uh, yeah, so I was I was very happy. I think um my turkey two years ago I had a better turkey. I had to get a bigger turkey than I wanted because of some reasons. Oh boy. Um so it didn't cook quite the way I wanted to cook it, but it was good. It was it was very good, in fact, but it was not my best work. Um, but I'm on to something for next year, I think.

SPEAKER_01 9:53

Well, we're already planning next year.

SPEAKER_03 9:55

Well, yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_01 9:56

I uh haven't planned tomorrow.

SPEAKER_03 9:59

My duck was good, but it the I the what I was gonna do a thing with the thighs that I ran out of time and it didn't work, and I was disappointed about that. Uh and my gravy was good, but not as good as my friend's giving gravy.

SPEAKER_01 10:11

Oh yeah. I would have I liked thicker gravy. I like thicker gravy. Sorry, but you were being dietary friendly, that was nice of you.

SPEAKER_03 10:19

I mean, I could thicken it even more. I could just more stuff.

SPEAKER_01 10:22

I'm a thicker gravy person. Uh I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 10:24

I like a little thinner gravy myself.

SPEAKER_01 10:26

Oh no, no. I don't like it to spread over everything. I just want it to spread over the things that I want it to spread over.

SPEAKER_03 10:31

Well, that's that's a sauce.

SPEAKER_01 10:34

What is the difference? Is it a gravy and a sauce? Gravies are thinner. I really don't know. There's like broth, gravy, sauce. I thought a gravy was a sauce.

SPEAKER_03 10:43

Well, I mean, in the biggest term, technical definition of the term, it's type of sauce. A gravy is a sauce. Well, yes, it's like, you know, red is a color, but red is also an emotion.

SPEAKER_01 10:53

Okay. I win this argument. Nick talked himself right out of winning that argument. Um, you guys always then had the store open, so you didn't have any, like you never did crazy Black Friday stuff or shit on Friday. We my parents always decorated um for Christmas on that Friday. They never left the house. It was like stay in pajamas, put on Christmas music, decorate. That was always super fun. Um, my life is different now. Uh, we're recording this, so my kids are actually helping my parents right now.

SPEAKER_03 11:20

I used to go with Mitchell, my little brother-in-law, on Black Fridays, because we'd go to his mom's house like in the afternoon and pass by when they open, we go just like kind of, I don't know, gawk at people.

SPEAKER_01 11:30

I know it is kind of entertaining.

SPEAKER_03 11:32

Not anymore.

SPEAKER_01 11:33

No, I agree. Shannon and I once went and just like, I remember buying Tupperware, and I was like way too young to think Tupperware was cool. And I was like, gosh, this is a really good deal on Tupperware. But we just like went to gawk at the madness.

SPEAKER_03 11:46

And now the real pro tip is go to Goodwill and you will find great deals on Tupperware.

SPEAKER_01 11:52

That's on Pyrex, okay? I don't buy plastic Tupperware at Goodwill. That's gross.

unknown 11:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 11:58

So anyway, lots of traditions in this holiday season. Okay. Um, I already talked about my tradition.

SPEAKER_03 12:05

I read not mine, Mr. Thanksgiving's. So I've been fascinated by this news story, and it's not a traditional thing we talk about, but I've just been fascinated by it, and I wanted to share it. Uh so Sweden, supposedly the you know, bastion of progressivism and and forward-thinkiness in Scandinavia, has never had a female prime minister. All the other countries in Europe have basically had one. Uh, all the other Nordic countries have had one.

SPEAKER_01 12:32

I'm surprised Sweden hasn't.

SPEAKER_03 12:33

And so I know it's shocking. So finally, Magdalena Anderson became Sweden's first prime minister last um Friday, I think it was. Uh last Friday. No, last Wednesday. And then she lasted about seven hours. Wow! So I thought this was very interesting. So great that she's you know the prime minister. We are all for female empowerment. We like seeing this. And then she because it's like an interesting Europe versus America thing, because they're a parliamentary system, so there's like many parties, and they none of them had a majority, so they had to come together. Uh, her party is the center-left social democratic party, and they had to ally with the Green Party to make a government together. Uh, but then to get a budget through, because the Greens put a budget together that was like, we're putting all the money to, you know, saving the whales. Um, which I respect a lot of what uh environmentalists proposed. Um, but the green parties are a little you know, humans do need to take things from the earth at some point to survive. So so you you know, there's there's a compromise there, there's a middle ground. So uh she her party went after a different budget process, and the Greens got mad and left the government after seven hours. Come on, and she resigned. And because she said according to const so she at 10 o'clock, she put a Facebook statement out announcing she was the new prime minister, and then at 4 30, she released a second Facebook statement saying she was resigning. And she said, according to constitutional practice, a coalition government should resign if one party leaves the government. For me, it is about respect, but I also do not want to lead a government where there may be grounds to question its legitimacy. So I thought that was great. That uh it was cool to see peaceful transition in power, even if it was seven hours. And um it seems like she's going to probably be the prime minister again. After because they'll form a new government, and hers is the biggest one, so they'll figure something else out. But I just thought it was like a very interesting. I was like, cool, go, go, women, and then I was like, oh wait, this is bad. You just got squashed by the whales. And then it was just a very interesting, like, oh yeah, the rest of the world does things very differently than America.

SPEAKER_01 14:54

You are a better human than me in that I just shut out all of the real news like that for like the next month and just like read Christmas articles. Watch Christmas movies, sing Christmas songs. I really get into it.

SPEAKER_03 15:06

Just think it's very interesting to see all the different types of government.

SPEAKER_01 15:11

Okay, Nick.

SPEAKER_03 15:12

I mean, wouldn't it be great if the Green Party could exist in America alongside, I don't know, the I don't know. What other parties could there be?

SPEAKER_01 15:20

You mean besides the two? Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 15:22

I mean, there could be a libertarian party. Pay for your own roads guys.

SPEAKER_01 15:26

Yeah, it would go great here in America.

SPEAKER_03 15:28

I mean.

SPEAKER_01 15:30

I mean, right. We're not getting into that, guys.

SPEAKER_03 15:33

Anyway, we're gonna take a break. Y'all stay right tuned. Right tuned. Right tuned, you hear? Are you right-tuned or left-tuned? Right tuned.

SPEAKER_01 16:05

Or wrong-tuned. Are we left tuned? Does that mean we're back?

SPEAKER_03 16:08

I don't know. We're left-tuned now.

SPEAKER_01 16:10

Um, okay. Oh my gosh, look, they're the first thing that came up. Um, so you know, I'm on the gram a lot and there's all kinds of influencers doing all kinds of things, but there's one This is money making season for the influencers. I have decided that all of my product recks for the next couple weeks will be gift guides. So there'll be things that you buy.

SPEAKER_03 16:29

I I have a really great gift suggestion.

SPEAKER_01 16:31

Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Um, I'm gonna make fun of it just pre-warning, okay? I've seen the link and it is not a good gift. I mean, or it is if you're gifting it to Nick. But um I every year ask for new slippers because I wear them constantly around the house. And it's just like a little, you know, I don't need, I'm not asking for Uggs slippers. I want like $20 slippers, you know? So maybe if you bought Uggs, yeah, yeah. I know, I understand. And I don't need that. My ones from last year are fine still, but okay, I have a particular thing about slippers. Like, I would like a pair in my office that stay at my desk, and then I would like a pair in my bedroom. So anyway, I found these slippers. There, there's an influencer that um Wow Like I was like, wow, Nick, you're not making fun of me for that one.

SPEAKER_03 17:14

Um I couldn't come up with anything fast enough to deal with.

SPEAKER_01 17:18

I don't like wearing socks. Like, as soon as I get home, I like to take socks off.

SPEAKER_03 17:22

Oh, yes, I hate socks.

SPEAKER_01 17:23

Um people like my husband wear socks and slippers. Um, that is just blasphemy.

SPEAKER_03 17:31

You know, we know Tyler's an old soul.

SPEAKER_01 17:34

I know, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03 17:35

But man, that's Tyler, you're about 30 years early to that party, buddy.

SPEAKER_01 17:39

Okay, I wanted to make sure it wasn't just me that was crazy.

SPEAKER_03 17:42

It's horrible.

SPEAKER_01 17:43

So, okay, so I kept seeing like the classic smiley face. You know, on the plastic bags, the yellow smiley face that's just like thank you.

SPEAKER_03 17:50

That like Forrest Gump invented.

SPEAKER_01 17:52

Is that right? I mean, not invented, but made famous.

SPEAKER_03 17:55

No, remember in the movie, he like accidentally invented it by um I don't remember that. Oh, yeah, it's one of the things he did. Okay, I need to rewatch it.

SPEAKER_01 18:02

So I'm all in on these like very classic, very basic, very simple design pattern that's now like coming back. So this smiley face is there's a um hat that this influencer wears all the time. And so now all a thousand million people have bought it because like you know, she has a gajillion followers. So I do not feel it necessary to have a hat with a smiley face, but slippers with smiley face.

SPEAKER_03 18:23

Oh, I'm all over that.

SPEAKER_01 18:24

They're so cute, they're just fuzzy. Slip on it, they're like 20, 24 bucks. There's a million of them all over Amazon, but um, you can get the smiley face.

SPEAKER_03 18:32

There's only three left in stock, so order in this color, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_01 18:35

So they're super cute. I just think they make a fun little add-on gift for whoever you might want to add on a gift for. So sisters, me, you know, whatever. But there's tons of fun colors, have a little fun. Look, look at all those colors. Aren't they cute? Okay, that's all. Smiley face slippers, great gift. As good as Nick's. Smiley face killers. Yeah, I know. Scary.

SPEAKER_03 18:55

Um, so mine is very practical. Great. Uh, I I don't have it yet, but I have it on order. It's on Black Friday sale for a bit still. So, you know, if you listen to this in time, hi Nick this. It is a steel frame dish rack from Simply Human that makes you know elevated things. And uh let me this was highly recommended by the New York Times uh as like a thing to get people because I was looking at some gift for guide things too, and all the stuff. And um anyway, I need to let me tell you some of the features of this. Wow. You guys, it's just it's like very nicely organized to drain into your sink.

SPEAKER_01 19:36

A $67 dish rack?

unknown 19:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:39

What is this is Nick's dream for Christmas?

SPEAKER_03 19:43

Well, and this is this is what I thought. I mean, it's beautiful, first of all.

SPEAKER_01 19:47

Beautiful.

SPEAKER_03 19:47

There's an integrated wine glass rack to safely hang up to four extra large Bordeaux wine glasses so they dry quickly and efficiently. Bridget, you need it. I do, actually, that's really good. Not only do you have slippers in every room, you have a wine glass in every room.

SPEAKER_00 19:59

That's right.

SPEAKER_03 20:00

I have my wine glass for my office, a wine glass for the bedroom, a wine glass for the living room, and a wine glass for the kitchen. You need to have enough room to dry all these safely and efficiently.

SPEAKER_01 20:11

This is my problem with like the trendy farmhouse thing, right? Like, where do you actually dry your dishes?

SPEAKER_03 20:16

We usually just dry them and then put them away.

SPEAKER_01 20:19

But this will be nice. Yeah, this is very nice. I hope Santa brings it too.

SPEAKER_03 20:23

Because we have the one huge, oh, I already ordered it. We we have the one huge sink, you know, we have the farmhouse thing, and it is great for cleaning dishes because you can get so much more crap. I got a full sheet pan in the other day, but like these people with their little sinks, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:38

Me, you can't you can't get that in there. Where are you gonna do that? I literally have thought about this because if our renovation ever starts, I'm gonna have to pick a sink. And I think about this every day.

SPEAKER_03 20:46

We didn't do the like low one because stuff falls out of that too much. We did the kind of it's a bit of compromise, but I don't know. We like it. There's ones that are like div like dividable, but they seem like they leak. So I didn't we didn't go that way. I haven't researched it this much. So I would say get a farmhouse sink, get this beautiful dish rack. It has a great drain that goes right into your sink. Yeah, uh, it looks gorgeous. It is very beautiful for a dish rack. And it uh holds all the things very nicely.

SPEAKER_01 21:17

But you didn't wait for it as a gift.

SPEAKER_03 21:19

Well, you know, I wanted it.

SPEAKER_01 21:22

You're such a man. That's such a man.

SPEAKER_03 21:24

I mean, this is the thing about Christmas gifting these days. This is why you should just give alcohol. Because if somebody if a grown adult wants something, you know what they're gonna do? No, buy it.

SPEAKER_01 21:33

I have not bought myself smiley face slippers in the month of November or December.

SPEAKER_03 21:36

I mean, I also asked for a cleaver. Oh my god. Because that would be nice to have.

SPEAKER_01 21:40

This is a weird, this is a weird gift guide, but I hope it's helped you guys. Dish rack and smiley face slippers. We'll be right back. We're back. Yep, we sang it.

SPEAKER_03 22:10

And we're looking at more color options of the smiley faced slippers.

SPEAKER_01 22:15

And Nick said it's because no one likes this color.

SPEAKER_03 22:17

There's some cheaper. So by supply and demand, if it's cheaper, it's because people aren't buying that. Well, I like weird colors, so when we I am uh excited. You have a rotating segment that is blacked out. Well, this is good.

SPEAKER_01 22:29

I deleted it because I was gonna give you a choice, uh, but I decided not to because I know you're gonna hate this one more. So good. I look forward to it. Like I really tried again with Reddit. So I wanted to talk about the craziest Black Friday stories, but Reddit is the worst and I couldn't do it. So I found an article that like rounded some up from Reddit users. Oh, good. But like the stories weren't that great. They were like, oh, the power went went out at a store once on Black Friday, and that was scary. Uh okay.

SPEAKER_03 22:58

And everybody took everything and ran away.

SPEAKER_01 22:59

I was like, yeah, but like have you seen those people getting shot?

SPEAKER_03 23:03

No, no, like the organized theft hitting California of like well, I've heard about it. I haven't seen anything about it.

SPEAKER_01 23:08

I I haven't seen any crazy like Black Friday stories yet. It's only 10:30 in the morning, though.

SPEAKER_03 23:13

I mean, also I I really think this might be the quietest one because like everybody's convinced themselves that today's gonna be super busy, so everybody did everything ahead of time. Yeah. And it's gonna be like a bust.

SPEAKER_01 23:24

I kind of feel like everyone's just like doing it online, and there's there's nothing that's like you have to be at the store today to do it.

SPEAKER_03 23:30

The coves are spreading again, so people are trying to avoid crowds again.

SPEAKER_01 23:33

No, I don't think people are smart enough to be doing that yet. Okay, so I was gonna give you the choice between that and what we're actually gonna do, which I know you're gonna hate because I did it with Britney Spears songs before. But because I'm now officially allowed to listen to Christmas music without anyone giving me crap because it's after Thanksgiving, we are gonna read, I'm gonna read, Christmas lyrics in a mundane voice, and you have to guess the song. Are you distracted? Yep. I'm excited for these Christmas lyrics. Okay, Nick, thanks. Deck the halls, Holly, Fallal La.

SPEAKER_03 24:14

Okay, we're only gonna do a few because I think these are hilarious, but I'm glad you didn't take, I have an idea for next week and you didn't take it.

SPEAKER_01 24:20

So I'm I mean, there's five songs here. Okay and some are significant one is definitely harder than the other. All right, I gotta turn my computer down. I can't see. I won't trust Nick here. I won't look. Okay. Uh um, we'll start with the easier, I think. It's really hard not to sing these. There must have been some magic in that old.

SPEAKER_03 24:41

Old silk cat they found, because when they placed it on his head, he began to dance around. Oh! Frosty, the stone match.

SPEAKER_01 24:49

Excellent, excellent! One point, Nick. I wanted to not start with the worst one. Okay, okay. Okay, so great job.

SPEAKER_03 24:55

That one was great. I don't like that movie, by the way. I can't remember the movie. It's terrible. It's literally like them trying to get 32 minutes of content out of one damn song.

SPEAKER_01 25:05

Out of like a song that's barely three minutes long.

SPEAKER_03 25:07

It's just like, uh I do um painful.

SPEAKER_01 25:10

We're reading Christmas books a lot, like before bedtime, and we have like eight copies of Rudolph and five Frosty the Snowman, and they're all just a little creepier than the next.

SPEAKER_03 25:19

Maybe I need to change my that reminds me of a kid corner.

SPEAKER_01 25:22

Uh-oh. Okay. Uh I tried to do just say you know Santa Claus is coming to town, but like it's really it would it's a dead giveaway. A lot of these Christmas songs, dead giveaways. Dead giveaways. Okay. Um, let's see. Let's do this one. Ready? Oh, I won't ask for much this Christmas. I won't even wish for snow. And I, I'm just gonna keep on waiting underneath the mistletoe.

SPEAKER_03 25:45

Isn't that all I want for Christmas?

SPEAKER_01 25:46

Is you it is! Nice! I don't want a lot more. That one was really hard too. That's like the best.

SPEAKER_03 25:55

Are you a Mariah Carey version? Yeah, duh. That's the only version. I like the one that's like, what do they call it? Like, I even put whipped cream on my uh it's like very sexually suggestive. It's like I don't know that. It's like with whipped cream and cherries on top, Mariah Carey. And it's it's like the whipped cream and cherries on top version of it. Like peaches and cream. Yeah, it's and she's got like all the bells and whistles. I can't remember what they call it, but like the cover art is like her and you know, like she does the like Santa, like slutty Santa Halloween costume thing.

SPEAKER_01 26:28

Don't we all love that? Like uh in Mean Girls? Yes, it's exactly that's all I can think of. I I will say, I'm just gonna I wanted to put in um the Christmas is all around us from Love Actually.

SPEAKER_03 26:39

Oh, you should have. I would have gotten that.

SPEAKER_01 26:41

I was like, oh, but that's gonna be way too hard. Shoot, I didn't know if you were a Love Actually person or not. Oh yeah, but is it a Christmas movie or not?

SPEAKER_03 26:47

Okay, this is I think it's a movie that used Christmas as a plot point. Well, good for them because it works.

SPEAKER_01 26:53

Okay. I love that. Come on and let it snow. Shoot, I should have done that one. Okay, ready? Uh-uh. Um I have to like hold my hands like this because it otherwise I want to sing. My mother will start to worry. Beautiful, what's your hurry? My father will the rape song. Totally the rape song. Because then he goes, My father will be pacing the floor. Listen to the fireplace roar. I really must go, baby. It's cold. Good job, Nick. You do love Christmas music. I've got to go away. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 27:27

Baby, it's cold outside. Wow, Nick. What's in that drink? Oh, don't worry about it. It's fine. Uh, but it's cold out. Oh, you can't leave because I drugged your drink. Please stay. I always, you know, the debate about that song comes up every year. I'm like, yeah, I mean, you know, it's like the classic game of cat and mouse, and I'm like, oh, wait, no, he drugged her.

SPEAKER_01 27:49

No, no, no, it's not. You know. We were discussing Christmas movies.

SPEAKER_03 27:53

No, you gotta work for it sometimes.

SPEAKER_01 27:55

But yeah, and that's real hard work. Dragging.

SPEAKER_03 27:57

Drugging it.

SPEAKER_01 27:58

That's um, we were talking about Christmas movies at my in-laws yesterday, and they were talking about elf and how one of them had said that that's one of their favorite scenes in Elf. And I was like, I think that's so creepy. He's like sitting on the bathroom counter while she's showering. Very creepy. I know he's an elf and doesn't know better, but anyway. Still. Okay. If you don't know this one, listen to the lyrics, and it will help you. That goes for the next two because I think the last one's the hardest. Okay. 240 for his speed and hitch him to an open sleigh, and you will take the lead.

SPEAKER_03 28:33

This is some weird song about Rudolph.

SPEAKER_01 28:35

It's not, but you're close. I don't know. 240 for his speed and hitch him to an open sleigh, and you will take the lead. Jingle bells. This cannot be jingle bells. It is jingle bells. This is the hardest lyrics for this one and the next song.

SPEAKER_03 28:51

Like, congratulations, the seventh verse unofficially done by somebody.

SPEAKER_01 28:55

Like, I had to get make you a little bit. All right, all right, all right.

SPEAKER_03 28:57

That's okay.

SPEAKER_01 28:58

Always room for improvement. Constant improvement. Yeah, get to know the actual Christmas lyrics. Okay, here is the final one. Your bows so green. Bows. Oh, Christmas tree. There you go. Look at you. Because I said bows. Oh, tannenbaum. Oh, tan and bomb. Oh, I didn't really think you were gonna get O Christmas tree.

SPEAKER_03 29:19

Um is that a favorite song of yours? Yeah, so yeah. I love it. I love it. Let's uh I got one for you.

SPEAKER_01 29:25

Oh shit, you can't turn it.

SPEAKER_03 29:26

Venite adoremus. Venite amoremos. Venite adoremos. Dominus. I know that I should know this because I went to Catholic school. Yeah. You guys sing it in Latin all the time. It's like you're singing in Latin. I don't know. Venite adoremus.

SPEAKER_01 29:46

Venite. I actually love that in Latin. Wow. I did want Joy to the World. So my favorite memory of Catholic school mass is Father Brown at the time, who was there when I was there. He would sing Joy to the World, exiting the church, and he would throw candy out. Yeah, man, that was great.

SPEAKER_03 30:03

One of my favorite things about Joy to the World is it's just a major scale. And so one of the great musical exercises you can do when you're bored and just need to keep playing for a while to like is just like go through every possible major scale and have to play Joy to the World with it and just like transpose it constantly.

SPEAKER_01 30:18

None of those are things I have ever thought about.

SPEAKER_03 30:20

Traditionally played in either D or E major.

unknown 30:24

Great.

SPEAKER_01 30:26

I love the mundane song reading. It reminds me of reading Mean Tweets.

SPEAKER_03 30:30

Just wait. Just wait till next week.

SPEAKER_01 30:31

I'm just gonna keep doing it. If I can never think of a thing, that's what I'm gonna do.

SPEAKER_03 30:36

So we're gonna circle back to Thanksgiving again. We're gonna go back in time again. Follow off. So I'm gonna talk about some food. And so I talked about my turkey, my dressing, my gravy. Um, but my favorite thing that I made was my mac and cheese.

SPEAKER_01 30:51

Oh, you know what? At Friends Giving, that mac and cheese was damn good.

SPEAKER_03 30:54

Yeah, Shannon did a really good job with it.

SPEAKER_01 30:56

Okay, you made mac and cheese.

SPEAKER_03 30:57

I I did.

SPEAKER_01 30:57

I like that's not a thing traditionally at our Thanksgiving.

SPEAKER_03 31:01

Uh I just realized we needed more food because we had some more people coming than I originally planned on. And I really like mac and cheese, and so is Sarah, and so is Simona. And I just knew if I had a big bowl of mac and cheese, well, if nothing else, guess what Simona's gonna eat? For the rest of the week. So uh we we have some really good mac and cheese. Yama. It's a mixture of uh Velveita and Ron cheese gouda. Wow. And uh Ron will stand up for the gouda for the uh for the velveita on this one. It's perfectly made for melting, brings what you need, and then you spice up the little flavor with that touch of the rawn cheese gouda. It's so good. I actually use the whiskey gouda. Uh so it gives a little bit more like I'm a classic gouda person. Ciao! In the words of Lightning McQueen, thank you for that. Uh so yeah, I I was just so happy with it. It was so yummy. And that one, now that one I made sure didn't touch the other stuff because gravy and mac and cheese is not good.

SPEAKER_01 31:55

Yeah, well, if that gravy's too runny, you can't control it.

SPEAKER_03 31:58

So all the tables slant, right? So figure out which way the slant is, which way the drainage is, and keep it upstream of the gravy. Or make a thicker gravy. Forget about the salami river, have a gravy river.

SPEAKER_01 32:09

Gravy upstream. Um, are you wondering why I didn't type anything? Yeah, what was your favorite thing? It's because I couldn't decide. And I didn't want to put all of them down and have you make fun of me.

SPEAKER_03 32:19

Oh no, I'm all for having all the favorites.

SPEAKER_01 32:21

I've decided so like we have a very traditional Thanksgiving um dinner, and I love that. But Shannon hosts most often because she is a good cook.

SPEAKER_03 32:29

And um Oh, don't undersell her. She's a great cook.

SPEAKER_01 32:32

She's a great great cook. Great job, Shannon. And she made a surprising dish to me. It was a classic dish, but I was surprised I liked it. And I said, Is this a new recipe? She's like, No, it's what I always do. She made a cranberry sauce, right? So yeah. We always have the jellied cranberry because it's like a memory thing. It reminds us of our my grandma. I think my dad actually likes it. Um, but Shannon likes like the real one with the orange best. And she does make it every year, but usually it's still like a little too tart for me. And then you're growing up, right?

SPEAKER_03 32:59

No, the one that's so good. Or you're just so bitter now with the way life is going.

SPEAKER_01 33:04

Give me all the bitters. I don't care. Give me the bitter tart cranberries. But um, it was really delicious. So I I can't say like cranberry sauce was my very favorite thing of the whole meal, but I liked it because it was the most surprising. I didn't think I, you know, I was like, I'm not even gonna put this on my plate. But I did, and it was great. So good job, Shannon.

SPEAKER_03 33:22

I'm working on a list of top 20 wines of the years, or maybe 15, I don't know. And as I'm working on it, like that's part of the thing, right? Is you're like, this isn't a list of the best 15 wines I tasted this year because it would just be like too pretentious. I'm like, well, I drank this $500 bottle of wine and I had a sample of this, and that's not worth it. But there's like some things on there, like I thought I would hate this and I actually really enjoyed it. So I think if you're kind of someone that would be interested in trying something new, this might be a good one.

SPEAKER_01 33:46

So it's always I like food tied to memories, tied to memories.

SPEAKER_03 33:50

It's just like something that surprises you, and you didn't think you know, maybe it's not the best thing you had, but but it was good, it was damn good.

SPEAKER_01 33:57

So thanks. So good job, Shannon. I mean, everything was the potatoes were really on point this year, the mashed potatoes as well.

SPEAKER_03 34:05

I'm getting another call from potential spam in Trevor, Wisconsin, and it needs to stop.

SPEAKER_01 34:10

We should have answered on air.

SPEAKER_03 34:12

Oh, should we? We can do it. We can stop. No. Uh we have a Bluetooth hookup that I could connect to.

SPEAKER_01 34:18

Next time. If they call again in the next five minutes while we're still recording.

SPEAKER_03 34:22

Well, on that note, it's time for Kid Cutter.

SPEAKER_01 34:25

Nice. Nick, you have two?

SPEAKER_03 34:27

I got two.

SPEAKER_01 34:28

What?

SPEAKER_03 34:28

So when you're talking about reading the Christmas books, we loaded up on books at the Lake Geneva Public Library before they move to City Hall. Because I think you all know my feelings about going to City Hall in Lake Geneva. I will not. It's traumatic. Uh so one of the books was this like uh duck and goose get a pumpkin. Yes. And uh it's a very simple book. A duck, uh a gosling and a duckling are friends, and they see some other, like a young swan get a pumpkin and they want one. And so they go and they look in different places, and she must have seen this at daycare or something, because we start reading it, and it goes, Is there a pumpkin in the pond? And she just screams, No! Yeah, who does that? Screams it. And she now is at the point where she'll be like, drop the book off on us, make us start reading it, go get another book, because it's only like 10 pages or something. Go get another book to have us read, and we read it, and she just screams no at the appropriate times without even looking at it.

SPEAKER_01 35:27

Um what is why do kids love peekaboo like find books so much? I don't know. Lucy, shockingly, same thing. She loves we have we have some search and find pumpkin books. It's the same thing. Well, so sick of it. We know the pumpkin's not under the bed. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 35:42

My other one, we put up our Christmas tree.

SPEAKER_01 35:43

Oh, thought you were.

SPEAKER_03 35:45

I mean Sarah. I'm gonna let you just Oh, just great.

SPEAKER_01 35:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 35:48

Uh she put it up on Wednesday. Simone got home, and she to say lost her shit is an understatement. Christmas tree, Christmas tree, Santa, Santa! Yay! And every time she sees it now, she smiles, lights up. It's amazing. We woke up this morning, we went in the spare room to uh cuddle for a little bit because she was still very sleepy and like just wanted to hold on to dad. I was like, Well, I'm not gonna say no to that. Cool. And then uh I was like, okay, let's go get get a clean diaper. So set her down and she starts walking out and she gets sees a tree, and the lights weren't on. And she starts to cry, she goes, Christmas tree lights, Christmas. So we had to go turn the lights on. She just likes to look at them. She put herself in a box and slid herself underneath the Christmas tree to be a present. It was a spot of cow box, okay? This is Wisconsin, no judging. They're sturdy boxes, recycle, reuse, upcycle.

SPEAKER_01 36:43

It was nice. I saw her Instagram page.

SPEAKER_03 36:45

So she, yes, she put herself in a box under the tree and said, present.

SPEAKER_01 36:49

I'm a present. Oh, good. She's gonna be it is so fun this year. Yeah, I was like trying to think of her age. Yeah, this is a good year for Christmas. Next year's even better. Fala la la. It's Christmas. Um, except that also my kid corners about Thanksgiving. So uh it's a little, you know, back and forth. It's just it's a it's a weird day, right? We had to recap Thanksgiving, but now it's Christmas. Our local radio station made the switch to Christmas music.

SPEAKER_03 37:14

I know Santa Claus.

unknown 37:15

Yeah, me too.

SPEAKER_01 37:17

Um, so we every year generally uh do a turkey trot, an official one, right? Like with a number and a bib and a shirt and a metal.

SPEAKER_03 37:25

Timing and everything. Timing. Uh but let's be clear, it's not about it's not about the time, it's about the journey. It is about the journey.

SPEAKER_01 37:33

Uh so I've discussed on here that Elliot did cross country uh this year at school, and he's been really into running. And I think I've talked about um how like the running community all means a lot to me, the whole the whole feeling of it. And it's been really important to me to have my kids come to my races just so they can see like exercise is good. This is part of life, whatever. So Elliot asked if he could run the turkey trout with me this year, which meant the world to me. So I knew he was not gonna run the whole 5K. That's a lot for a five-year-old, at least for my five-year-old. I don't know. So we I always intended to like just kind of take a cue from him. Well, as the holidays go, at least in my family, plans change 900 times. And it didn't quite work out where we were at the official turkey trot, but we did have like I'd already registered, I picked up my shirt. So Elliot and I had a little turkey trot, like in it was also supposed to be in the state park, but it was down the road by my in-law's house. And it was like the highlight of his day. So we did a little race, and of course, Elliot won. Um, we were trying to teach him, teach him a little bit about sportsmanship, about like as soon as I lost, you know, I came in second to Elliot. I congratulated him and we were trying to teach all those lessons, but he won the shirt, the turkey trot shirt. So he won the official shirt from the race we were supposed to run, and he just like has the biggest smile on his face. And so anyway, it this is not an embarrassing kid corner. This is one of the oh, it meant a lot to me how excited he was to like run this race, but really it was just like him being competitive and being a five-year-old. But I'm gonna hold on to the fact that he really wanted to do it because he saw his mom run. And anyway, he's proud. It was a lot of fun. Good way to start the day.

SPEAKER_03 39:09

I'm gonna get in on the Christmas lyric fun.

SPEAKER_01 39:11

I pulled another song from I can't take this shit. From Love Actually. Oh no.

SPEAKER_03 39:18

Another one that was sung in it, and I did the jingle bells thing, and I pulled the fourth verse.

SPEAKER_02 39:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 39:24

I will say the first half, and if you guess it, I'll give you. I got a $50 bill, I'll give it to you.

SPEAKER_01 39:30

But um listen, there's only one song I'm gonna guess, regardless of what you tell me right now.

SPEAKER_03 39:34

But then I'll I'll I'll sing the last half and you'll get it. Bring me flesh and bring me wine, bring me pine longs hither. Thou and I shall see him dine when we bear them thither.

SPEAKER_01 39:44

Um, what? The only other song I can think of from Love Actually is all you need is love.

SPEAKER_03 39:50

No.

SPEAKER_01 39:51

It's not that song.

SPEAKER_03 39:52

Page and monarch, forth they went, forth they went together through the rude winds while the man's end the bitter wither.

SPEAKER_01 40:01

Isn't this fun? See, you gotta read it's when you take things out of context. Like I could sing a whole song from memory, but when you take it out of context, really hard.

SPEAKER_03 40:10

Uh the lyrics of good King Wenzel Sauce are actually hilarious. King Wenzel sauce. Bring me flesh and bring me wine, bring my pine lugs hither. Thou and I shall see him dine when we bear them to like the arm. Yeah, you gotta do the yeah, yeah. It's funny when English people sing it too, because like the accent starts to creep in. You know, I always think it's weird that like English people sing like without an accent generally. Oh yeah. Like they sound like Americans when they sing, and then you're like, like Adele. You know, she's singing and she's she's just like no accent, and she's just like got the worst like lower class English accent where you're like, I haven't gotten in on the new Adele yet. Oh my god. I know, everyone. You're just like a normal working British person. Oh my god. She doesn't have like the posh accent. Except you're not. And then it's like, hello mommy!

SPEAKER_01 40:58

Whoa, you know, Nick backed up from the microphone for that. That was well played.

SPEAKER_03 41:01

But you should watch it on YouTube still.

SPEAKER_01 41:03

Anyway.

SPEAKER_03 41:04

Thanks, guys. We hope you had a fabulous Thanksgiving and are ready for the Christmas madness. If you're not, just go out and buy yourself a uh dish rack. It'll be a great gift. Do that. I'm sure it's on Black Friday sale. Y'all follow us. Oh, we need to announce the winners from our 100th episode. Oh my god. Purposefully, we went through, we did this, we had it all planned. Uh, we wrote it down, everything. We we said it right before this, and we still forgot to put it in the L1. But we had it all done. Uh, so we're gonna announce those. Thank you to the people that entered. We had three ways you could win. Uh, we had the Facebook. You got a Facebook $25 Etsy gift card and a candle. Uh, and that one was from Candle Mercantile, I think, right? For Facebook. I don't know if we declared that. Uh, and then we had Instagram, it was a $25 Etsy gift card and a uh candle from uh Haverly and Company. Yep. And then YouTube, we also were giving away a $25 gift card.

SPEAKER_01 42:04

Yeah, Nick threw that one in there.

SPEAKER_03 42:06

Last minute.

SPEAKER_01 42:07

Surprise. Oh.

SPEAKER_03 42:14

I had it wrong. Instagram was Candle Mercantile and Haverly was Facebook.

SPEAKER_01 42:18

Sorry. We were just holding that out there. Aww. Um Okay.

SPEAKER_03 42:23

All right. Are we ready? We're ready. Nobody won on YouTube because nobody entered on YouTube.

SPEAKER_01 42:30

Guys, what the heck? Well, Facebook winner?

SPEAKER_03 42:33

Facebook winner. John Elke!

SPEAKER_01 42:36

John, thank you.

SPEAKER_03 42:37

Congratulations, John. We will be in touch with you. We know how to get a hold of you.

SPEAKER_01 42:41

Thank you. He says, congrats on 100 and cheers to the next 100. We appreciate it. I hope there's a hundred more. I don't think I can do this one.

SPEAKER_00 42:54

Sorry, we're uh we're having a technical difficulty one moment.

SPEAKER_03 43:01

Well Did we get that one right? Yeah. Yeah. Oh. Well, are we gonna drum roll this one? Sorry, sorry, sorry. Okay. I was confused. All right, and then for Instagram, it is Sue Horton. Congratulations. She said, Thankful for a warm house and good food, a healthy family and friends, and for your podcast. Great to cook and listen to your awesome chit chat. Oh, thanks, Sue. That's awesome. So we'll get in touch with you as well. Check your messages.

SPEAKER_01 43:25

Woohoo! Thanks, guys, for doing that. It was a big milestone for us. We enjoyed it. Thank you. And we have a great lesson.