Ultra Bright LED Lights | Dinner Plus Drinks #52

SPEAKER_01 0:15

Hello everybody! Merry Christmas! It is uh the newest issue of There Plus Brick. Bridget and I are remote again in an abundance of caution, wanting to keep everybody um what you call it, quarantined safe for the holiday. For the holidays. Um we're not trying to get yeah, we're gonna see some old people this holiday season.

SPEAKER_00 0:40

Because remember, we live right by our families, so um the old people are part of our childcare routine, and who knows. So we're just trying to be safe so you can enjoy us remotely.

SPEAKER_01 0:51

Also, what Nick surely meant by is to a mutual. I was talking to a mutual friend of ours and the podcast that recently was able to go back to grandma daycare, and she seemed very happy about that. So, you know, we won't want to screw that up for the mutual friend.

SPEAKER_00 1:12

That's right, mutual friend. Yeah, so anyway, thanks for dealing with this during you know the holiday season. Seems like COVID was on the rise around the area, so we're just doing our best. But man, instead you get this beautiful vest of mine, which certainly I wouldn't have remembered if I wasn't at home.

SPEAKER_01 1:32

And my hat that jingle jangles, and I think you can hear the jingle jangles.

SPEAKER_00 1:36

Yes, I purposely picked a hat that didn't have a bell because I thought you might be so angry. Well, here we are. I so like don't like do you have an abundance? Do you have lots of ugly sweaters? I feel like you don't.

SPEAKER_01 1:50

I don't. I don't have ugly sweaters. I'm not into them.

SPEAKER_00 1:54

I just I love it, and like I think I have enough to wear every day from now until Christmas, and I will, because I'm just here.

SPEAKER_01 2:02

So today, Friday the 18th, is official ugly Christmas sweater day, though, right?

SPEAKER_00 2:08

I don't know. Is that a thing?

SPEAKER_01 2:10

I think it is. I believe so. Or as they call it inland, a Christmas jumper.

SPEAKER_00 2:14

Christmas jumper day. Well, I'm wearing a vest, which is, you know, usually if I was going to an ugly sweater party, I would wear a turtleneck with like snowmen on it with this beautiful ornament vest. Yeah, I know, but like it's okay at Christmas. I also have a few crew neck sweatshirts. Um, I had a Zoom call with some friends last night that I thought was like a holiday Zoom call because we're not gonna all see each other. So I wore my green crew neck sweatshirt with a giant Santa face, and a couple of the girls were like, What do you wear? Are we supposed to be wearing ugly sweaters? I'm like, I don't know, but why not?

SPEAKER_01 2:53

Be festive. It's the time of the year, it's COVID. Everybody should just be a little festive.

SPEAKER_00 2:59

Right. This is what we're doing. I also like used to have really great earrings that I can't find. So, Nick, you missed out on my earrings. Sorry.

SPEAKER_01 3:06

I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 3:07

I'm so sorry.

SPEAKER_01 3:09

Very that would have been great. I mean, I appreciate when other people go all out. I'm not quite a you know themed person. I think we talked about this around Halloween.

SPEAKER_00 3:17

I'm not great at the I was thinking of this as I was, you know, digging out my vest. I'm like, have I told my podcast friends that how much I love a good theme? I'm like, I must have. So here I am again every time. Every time I wear something funny, I must tell you guys. So awesome. Um, okay, so knocking on the themes. What about what are like some family traditions you guys do at Christmas? I want to know.

SPEAKER_01 3:41

So we always have this weird thing of not having any plans and not knowing what we're gonna eat or anything like that, because it's very dependent on like how terrible things go at work. Yes, that's right. So, like, we will, you know, I always think it's funny that people are like, oh, there's this butcher's cut that they keep for themselves, and if you can get it, it's really good because they it's like, no, you know what I like more than this kind of meat that I can get whenever, honestly. Selling money. I like money. So, like, we will sell, we will sell you our last rib rows that we had our name on. Like, we will sell it to you because you know what we want? Money. There's some other meat. There's some other meat. We can always find other meat. So, our tradition, the Leahy family tradition, always has been um cheeseburgers and French onion soup on Christmas Eve. And because we always have crowned beef. Like, if we don't have crowned beef, something went really terribly wrong. Yeah, it's been a really bad year. Really, I mean, or really great, I don't know, but really we should never be out of ground beef. No.

SPEAKER_00 4:56

I don't ever want to hear of you not having that.

SPEAKER_01 4:59

We um Sarah and I got engaged on Christmas Eve. And uh yeah, we have we have a little tradition around that that involves eating a Jack's frozen cheese pizza. And uh we're a little militant about like, no, we're not gonna go to your house for dinner on Christmas Eve. And um don't really care, but that's what we're gonna do. So and then Christmas Day is just like it's you know, it's for us, it's always been a catastrophe because we've been the last ones with kids. So we go wherever, you know, we're like, oh we don't have kids, it's flexible. Even though like we all work a lot and really confuse the day off, but we're like, oh, it's flexible. So this year we made it very clear I think we're gonna do our own brunch. I'm gonna make uh waffles. I make really good waffles.

SPEAKER_00 5:45

Yum like Leslie Noffles.

SPEAKER_01 5:48

Uh I do mini ones. I do mini ones. Even better. Good, good cheese. And then uh we'll have some maple syrup from our friends uh tapped, Jeremy, the Solomon family, and some bacon and some of our delicious Christmas spice pork sausage links.

SPEAKER_00 6:04

Yes, so good.

SPEAKER_01 6:05

Maybe I'll make eggs. I hate them, but my girls seem to like them. So, you know, maybe I'll make it. Everyone in the world likes them. So bananas, because Simona loves bananas. And um, yeah, it's gonna be great. What are you doing?

SPEAKER_00 6:21

Yeah, we uh you know, this year's kind of up in the air still, to be honest, but every year I found myself like, I forget someone asked me something about a tradition. I don't remember what it was, and um I had to like come up with a list of some of our traditions, and it was like silly things, but my dad's birthday is on December 23rd, and so we're always very careful. Yes, and now we have Max, Shannon's son. His birthday is tomorrow, so the 19th. By the time you guys listen to it, it will have been yesterday. Um, so Max is turning two, so we have a lot of birthdays around Christmas, but um, so we try and focus on that, you know. Um, but until two years ago.

SPEAKER_01 7:00

Um Jesus' birthday too, okay?

SPEAKER_00 7:02

He's the reason for the season. It is Jesus' birthday. Um but my sisters and I.

SPEAKER_01 7:07

It's a commemoration of Jesus' birthday.

SPEAKER_00 7:09

He was born in the summer. Okay, well, you're right. Um we so my dad, you know, tends to do some shopping late in the game, but he's always he's always worked very hard, you know, and owned his own businesses a lot of the time. And so he's working a lot up until Christmas. And we know like the day he puts on his Santa hat and starts like driving through town and running errands, dad's like in full-on Christmas mode. And he usually does that on his birthday. He like switches to the Santa hat. And we always try and make it about his birthday, but he doesn't care, you know. So that has always been like a little tradition of ours. Not a tradition per se, but like Jesus' birthday more. That's why, yes. So that's been really fun. Um we do this silly thing that I just have to mention because my sisters who are listening will get a kick out of it. Every year until we were way too old, we did this thing. My parents used to um, if there are young kids listening, maybe don't listen anymore right now. Um skip forward a minute. Just skip forward. We would uh my parents would put garland at the top of the staircase. And so, like Christmas morning, we'd wake up and you couldn't pass the garland. Like we knew we could just go under it or move it, but you couldn't pass it. And it turns out it's because my parents could like do any last-minute things they needed to do out in the living room. And then they also could get the video camera ready because it was like a camera at the time, you know, like a video camera, you had to make sure you had to tape in at the time. So, um, so anyway, that's a silly tradition that like we've brought to my kids, and like we live in a split level, so we tape it like across situation. We tape it like across that hallway, you know, where the bedrooms are, and like Elliot Elliot's four, so he like just wants the presents now, and so he gets really angry. I mean, I imagine he'll get very angry this year that he has to wait behind it. So, anyway, we I have a list of fun things that like silly little things.

SPEAKER_01 9:05

No anything. So Lucy just gonna go and do whatever she wants.

SPEAKER_00 9:08

Luckily, she's in a crib, so we can control her. But we did decide that tonight we're gonna do, you know, everyone this year is like doing all the Christmas lights things, right? Because you can't do anything. So you're gonna drive through the light shows. So we don't want to like drive an hour to a light show, and so we are gonna drive around. We printed out little cards um that says, like, we really appreciate your lights, and that you're one of our favorite houses, and whatever. It says a little more than that. So we're gonna drive around with the kids and like pick out our favorite houses, just like in town, and leave it, leave a little note in their mailbox because I feel like more people have put lights up this year, right?

SPEAKER_01 9:45

So I had a little discussion with someone about possibly arranging something like this. Oh, okay. Uh our discussion was a little different, that the concentration of lights maybe wasn't quite as great.

SPEAKER_00 9:57

Oh, maybe it's not the concentration, but I feel like there's more of them.

SPEAKER_01 10:01

Yes. I mean, also my house can be seen from space because I bought them ten times as bright in LEDs.

SPEAKER_00 10:08

Well, and maybe like we live on a dead end and our dead end is all decorated this year, and it hasn't been, so maybe I just feel like uh there's more.

SPEAKER_01 10:22

And every time you're anywhere near your house, they're like, oh my god, there's a laser in my eye.

SPEAKER_00 10:29

I'm having a seizure.

SPEAKER_01 10:31

This is the worst. Don't do the laser lights, people.

SPEAKER_00 10:35

No, and don't do the mismatching, like ten different types. Okay, we're not judging you. We're saying thanks for putting up Christmas lights to make us smile.

SPEAKER_01 10:42

Did a really nice job on your house. Like, I'm very impressed. He did a really great job.

SPEAKER_00 10:46

It I I was too. It's really just quaint. He hates doing that stuff. So it means that you know, it's like a it's an act of service that I can see he's doing for me. And they're perfect, just like very simple, but it like matches the aesthetic of our house. I'm very pleased with them.

SPEAKER_01 11:02

I love that he's not coaching basketball, so he can do things like this now.

SPEAKER_00 11:06

Yes, we are talking about that. And the Badgers are 0-6. Um, this is Lake Geneva High School, not like the Wisconsin Badgers, everybody. Um, but Tyler, yeah, he's been following the team. So rough start to the season for them. They've been close games, which has been a problem of theirs for a couple years, so feel bad for those guys.

SPEAKER_01 11:26

But let's talk about food. Okay, yeah. My creations were more around food than yours because I'm more of a like, I eat all the things. You had like these nice garland and yeah, like we have all kinds of ridiculous.

SPEAKER_00 11:40

We have food, it's just like cinnamon rolls out of a can. My mom makes bubble loaf, or some people call it monkey bread. Oh, yes.

SPEAKER_01 11:48

That is yes, that is so good. She does that, she does that really well.

SPEAKER_00 11:53

Sounds good, Kathy.

SPEAKER_01 11:55

It's an okay cook. You know, it's not like her thing, it's not like what she's known for, but she's an okay cook. But where she really kills it is this bubble oaf. That's where she kills it.

SPEAKER_02 12:04

I feel like I need to make that.

SPEAKER_01 12:06

She's a great job with rolls and generally mashed potatoes. She's gluten-free now, though, supposedly. So I don't know if we're gonna have the bubble oaf this year.

SPEAKER_00 12:15

Gluten-free bubble oaf. Bummer.

SPEAKER_01 12:19

Actually, don't you need bubble, like, you need gluten to get that like nice light airy texture.

SPEAKER_00 12:25

So you know, feels like my sisters have both tried to make like my great-grandma cinnamon roll recipe. That's like a shit ton of work. And Brittany, love you, but she like failed miserably the first year, and they were so bad, and she did it for so long. Um, so the next year she redeemed herself. They were very good.

SPEAKER_01 12:46

And then um because she's you know not using lard in the cooking. You need the lard.

SPEAKER_00 12:51

It might be. Um, and then Shannon, I think Shannon tried them, but Shannon perfected a really good homemade cinnamon roll recipe at our birthday this year. So again, I bring them out of the Pillsbury tube. That's what I bring to the party.

SPEAKER_02 13:04

Shannon's such a good baker, though, so like I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 13:07

So she'll probably do something. Could I mean I don't know. I the tradition is the cinnamon rolls out of the tube.

SPEAKER_01 13:16

You're really good at dressing up like a you know, seamed. Ding dong. Yeah. Ding dong. Yep. Shannon's really good at baking things. I'm really good at drinking.

SPEAKER_00 13:25

I make the mimosas. Actually, my dad does. I don't do that either. So I do just sit there and look nice in this vest.

SPEAKER_01 13:36

I want to talk about chorizo bowls because I made some really good chorizo bowls this week, and I just feel the need to tell people. I've been slacking on my Instagram account a little bit because it's been like a really busy time at work and Chris Kindle marketing and all these things.

SPEAKER_03 13:55

Crazy we're gonna be.

SPEAKER_01 14:07

Then you do a bowl, especially as your child starts running around because you can eat the bowl and still chase the child.

SPEAKER_00 14:14

Yeah, that's how we enjoy meals now.

SPEAKER_01 14:17

But the rice and the guacamole, and Target has this crema sauce in like a squeeze bottle. Really? It's a lime cilantro's crema that is bomb. Okay. And then, you know, what else do we have? We have beans and corn and salsa and uh there's something else in there. I don't know. It is really good. Cheese lettuce and some cheese. Yep. There you go.

SPEAKER_00 14:48

Nice, that sounds delicious.

SPEAKER_01 14:50

Are you a Q Dava person?

SPEAKER_00 14:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:53

Who isn't? I don't know why people actually get the burrito and not the bowl. Yeah, I don't get the burrito. You can't get the stuff in the burrito, it's a disaster. It ends up being a bowl. Yes, and then you just like mix everything up and shake it, and then it's like this like creamy disastrous mess. I like to dip chips in it though.

SPEAKER_00 15:14

Then you dip, I like to put it on your tortilla chip, and it's like a mini taco.

SPEAKER_01 15:18

Yeah. People that don't do that really confuse me because it's so clear, like, get all the things in your thing in the to-go container, shake it all up, shake it up and use it with the chips. Like, so clear. That is how you do it.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

This is like so horrifying that I'm admitting this, but do you remember, do you remember the salad shakers at McDonald's? I don't know if that's still a thing. Right? Okay, but I think that's where I learned. I must have eaten those a lot at McDonald's, I don't know, but that's where I learned to like put it in a thing, shake it up, was those stupid salad shakers.

SPEAKER_01 15:50

I do get how those went around or went away because they actually had good lettuce. The reason why is because they go through so much of it. Sure. So like it's always fresh, you know.

SPEAKER_02 16:00

That makes sense.

SPEAKER_01 16:01

And then like the ham and like the cheese and the their dressings are really, you know. I know. I'm not saying healthy, but but it's good.

SPEAKER_00 16:11

I like those a lot. I know. I I haven't been to McDonald's. I can't even tell you in how long. I like wanted an ice cream sundae or something, and they were so rude to me because their menu is limited. I don't know, all these things, and I was like, listen, guys, I'm sorry. I don't know, I never come here, so like just give me an ice cream sundae. Anyway, I haven't been there in a long time, is my point. So, okay. You're eating real food this week. That's great.

SPEAKER_01 16:36

I, you know, McDonald's, you know, there's a website that says, is their Sunday machine up or down or their ice cream machine? Yeah, so it shows you like if you can actually get a McFlurry. I went there like a month ago because I wanted a fry and a Coke. It was like two o'clock. I haven't had anything to eat that day. I'm like, I just want a small fry. I wanted a big ass one dollar diet coke. And it is a well-known fact, Coca-Cola is better at McDonald's because they like buy the the way they get the concentrates a little different, and um they like ice it differently so it's colder, so it's like more delicious.

SPEAKER_00 17:18

I mean, their coke is better than anywhere else.

SPEAKER_01 17:21

So that's what I went to McDonald's for. I was like, I just need a little bag of crispy, salty deliciousness, yeah, and a coke.

SPEAKER_00 17:30

Not judging you, man. Well, okay, so I uh speaking of healthy food, all I've got for you this week about what I've what I've been eating, yeah, it's along those lines. We've been doing a lot of baking this week, because you know, Elliot loves to bake. And when I say baking, I still make all the easiest things in the world. So fudge and peanut brittle, and uh, I did make caramels, whatever, easy things that are like peanut brittle, peanut butter, I don't know, peanut brittle is great with pork.

SPEAKER_01 18:06

But oh yes. I did make that.

SPEAKER_00 18:13

Check it out. Also, we're dressed festive for it. Um, yes, we just did some baking, so I'm gonna go with like that. Was obviously the best thing I ate this week because you eat while you're making it. And you know, we are all about the food and the memories on this show. So you're that's like my only, not my only, but my biggest food tradition is we always do like a baking day. Mine now extended over many days because I have kids, so we can do like one thing a day. Um, so but yeah, Elliot helped. We made some great things, so I'm all about the Christmas baking. That's what I ate this week that I loved. Easy enough.

SPEAKER_02 18:50

I love it. That's wonderful.

SPEAKER_00 18:51

I love it. Yeah, we almost though we skipped our most important part of the show, I think. What do we skip? What are we drinking?

SPEAKER_01 19:00

Oh, right now I am drinking San Pellegrino. Water out of a coffee mug. Are you a San Pellegrino person? I mean, I know you're bubbling. We did the whole thing.

SPEAKER_00 19:13

Yeah, I do love San Pellegrino, and actually, um, I don't have any though. I like never think about it. I like it straight out of the bottle. I think it makes a difference, actually.

SPEAKER_01 19:24

Just it does, and I prefer it like the carbonation dispersed a little bit more.

SPEAKER_00 19:30

Oh, yeah, no, I like it the other way. So, you know, but I don't ever think to buy San Pellegrino. I always buy some other bubbly, but I'm just drinking plain old boring water right now.

SPEAKER_01 19:39

We should do a pinkies up where we test the idea of if the wine glass you drink out of makes a difference with the wine.

SPEAKER_00 19:47

Oh, we should do that. Um I have not I am now a believer that it does. I never used to think so, but now I am a believer. Shannon is a firm believer.

SPEAKER_02 20:00

Shannon's very smart. Also very good at thank you.

SPEAKER_00 20:03

Yes, again. Fine, everybody. Okay, what were you gonna say?

SPEAKER_03 20:11

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 20:12

Okay, man. You said I got something. Whatever.

SPEAKER_02 20:15

Life is hard. Cool, cool.

SPEAKER_00 20:19

We're moving on, so we're not exciting, is our point. We're not drinking right now, um, because we are separate and we are hydrating ourselves.

SPEAKER_01 20:26

Getting ready for the hydration. I can't, I always forget in the winter with like I actually need to drink more because it's so dry.

SPEAKER_00 20:34

Yes, so much water, and when your lips get start to get chapped, yes, because you're dehydrated. Yes, we're teaching this to Elliot. So you're just breathing like moisture. Yeah. I used I used to lick my upper lip as a kid a lot, and I'd get that like red chapped mustache, which is like really horrifying for a young person, woman. And I mean, I wasn't I was young, but I cared, whatever age I was, and so Elliot does it now, and he gets like just a chapped line right here and gets so upset, and we're like, dude, you gotta drink more water, stop licking your lips.

SPEAKER_01 21:07

I mean, I thought that was where Lucy punched him, but that makes more sense.

SPEAKER_00 21:12

Could be, we never know, man. Lucy's fast and she runs away. Who knows?

SPEAKER_01 21:16

It's like the you know, the Will Farrell uh funny or die landlady one with the baby. Lucy's definitely showing up in the middle of the night in Elliot's room, haunting him, saying, Fish, where's my money? Give me my money.

SPEAKER_00 21:29

Oh my god, that's so good. I haven't watched that in so long. Okay, that should be a highlight, real. Um, okay, so I would make that a random news story of mine. However, I have one that I love so much for the holiday season. You're gonna think it's so boring, but I'm gonna share it anyway. Um, so you know, there's if you listen to our last week's, it was a it was a challenging week. So, and then this week has been a whole different challenging week for a number of reasons. So I'm trying to find all the happy, like holiday things because I love the holiday season. So there's a site I'm sure I've mentioned before called Love What Matters. And there was this story, and it was just entitled $208. I'm like, okay, what's this all about? So it was a guy who went through a drive-thru at Dunkin' Donuts and he bought a gift card for $208. And his wife passed away six months ago. She would come to Dunkin' Donuts every morning and order her coffee. So the guy said he wanted to do something to remember her. So he calculated out how much she spent at Dunkin' every day for those six months, bought a gift card in that amount, and then gave it back to Dunkin' Donuts and said, buy everyone's, buy $208, you know, spend this gift card until it's up. And so then the guy and his son sat in the Dunkin' Donuts parking lot and watched all of these people's reactions. And I was like, oh, this is the cutest thing in the world. So that was my happy news story. It was so great. And like I love hearing about the like chain of buying people coffee. I'm like, how are you the person that stops that? How are you the one that's like, nah, I'm not gonna buy the coffee for the person behind me?

SPEAKER_01 23:08

Probably Jeff Bezos or something. You're like, yeah.

unknown 23:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:11

This is how I get rich.

SPEAKER_00 23:12

Buy your own coffee. So I love hearing that stuff. So anyway, that's my happy story for you.

SPEAKER_01 23:18

When I saw that you had Dunkin' Donuts drive-thru on this thing, I was like, I know got donuts without me.

SPEAKER_00 23:24

What a I don't I don't like their donuts, actually.

SPEAKER_01 23:28

They're really not good.

SPEAKER_00 23:30

I love putting ambiguous things so then I surprise you.

SPEAKER_01 23:34

I was like, but I want donuts.

SPEAKER_00 23:36

I want a donut. Well, man, I like to hear yours because I know where it's from and I know it's gonna be a happy one.

SPEAKER_01 23:43

Okay. So mine is from Tank's Good News. And the headline is giving quote unquote senioritis a whole new meaning. 74-year-old grandmother graduates with her granddaughter. Oh, well, come on. So 22-year-old Melody Ormond graduated from University of Tosi at Chattanooga the same day as her grandmother, who got her degree in anthropology. So, uh her the grandma first attended a college class in 1978 and was able to finish her degree 42 years later. She started in Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, but dropped out to have a family, moved to Chattanooga, all the things, has been doing some classes after she retired as an accountant and um just kept going. She said they both took classes together, and she said, Pat, the grandma, online classes are definitely more difficult, and I prefer in-class. I really enjoyed the discussions and being able to interact with so many people from different backgrounds. Not having those people around made it much harder.

SPEAKER_02 24:56

No.

SPEAKER_01 24:57

So I thought that was really cool. That is cool. I'm never gonna retire because I mean I'm probably gonna die while I'm working. Like it's just kind of the way it's gonna be.

SPEAKER_00 25:09

Oh Nick.

SPEAKER_01 25:12

But like I think it'd be also like I I have issues of like I like working. So it's your fault. I think it's a man thing. Like, I feel like your dad's the same way, right?

SPEAKER_00 25:25

Oh, for sure, my dad's the same way. But you know, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:29

So I always thought it'd be cool though, like, because when you hit what 65, you can audit any class from UW for free.

SPEAKER_00 25:35

Oh, was that right? I I guess I forgot that. I think, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:38

Like you just like show up at Whitewater or Parkside or something and roll and be like, what up, bitches? I'm here to learn.

SPEAKER_00 25:45

I'm here for anthropology 101.

SPEAKER_01 25:48

Like, uh, this is you know, how cool would it be to go like a history class? I'm like, I was there. Let me tell you.

SPEAKER_00 25:56

This was real life. I know because you'd be learning about like 9-11. You're like, yeah, man, I grew up during that. Yeah, it would be weird, but awesome.

SPEAKER_01 26:05

I also think like that's gonna be weird. Like when our kids' teachers are teaching 9-11, they're like 25.

SPEAKER_00 26:11

You'd be like, that's how I'm like that's not accurate. Oh my god, you'll be like the old man snickering in the back of the classroom. It'll be great. Or lecture hall, whatever.

SPEAKER_01 26:23

I would totally do that. Like Statler and Waldorf from the Muppets.

SPEAKER_00 26:27

Like, oh man, I hate the Muppets. I gotta say. I don't know why, but they really drive me nuts. I know. I know, it's a weird thing. No, I no, I don't like any of those. Like, also, unpopular opinion. I don't like the Muppets. Also, I cannot stand the Elven and the Chipmunks Christmas music. Is that something anyone likes?

SPEAKER_01 26:53

No, no one likes that. That's not an unpopular opinion.

SPEAKER_00 26:55

Okay, I was like, do people enjoy this? Because they play it all the time. I hate it so much.

SPEAKER_01 27:02

It's the worst. I feel like it's yeah, it's just the worst.

SPEAKER_00 27:06

Yeah. So, you know, anyway, that's what we got for you right now.

SPEAKER_01 27:11

Time to take a break. Enjoy our lovely music.

SPEAKER_00 27:34

All right, we are back, and I always love this part. We're back. Maybe I should start singing it. I say that every week. Um, we're back with our product recommendations, and it's still a holiday gift guide, I would say, kind of, maybe, even though it's I do you want to start? I mean, yours is good, or should we leave the suspense going?

SPEAKER_02 27:56

Let's leave the suspense.

SPEAKER_00 27:59

So, okay. Mine, um, I switched it up at the last minute. I can't promise you're gonna have time to get these before the holidays. I know, it's so weird, right? Um I think everybody needs, I mean, we're big ornament people, ornaments that tell a story, people. So, like, my tree looks like children barfed all over it, but like that's what's the best. Like, I love it. It's every ornament has a story. What?

SPEAKER_01 28:23

My tree looks like people barfed over it because Savannah barfed on it this morning.

SPEAKER_00 28:28

She did not.

unknown 28:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:30

How do you get that off of a tree? Okay, fair enough. Um, that's disgusting. That didn't actually happen in my house, but mine has mismatched ornaments everywhere, and like I don't care, I love it. So my product recommendation is simply a 2020 ornament. So we buy ornaments every year that like are a remembrance of something for the kids. So, like, we had a cotton candy maker at Lucy's first birthday, so I have a cotton candy machine ornament for Lucy, for example. Um, so for the family this year, I've gotten a 2020 one. And you can get like nice ones. There's there's an Etsy shop that has an adorable, I mean, there's a million of them, but that has a house and it says like the year we all stayed home. Or um, I'll link to this Etsy shop, but they've got some funny ones that are like Merry Christmas and it's Santa with a mask, or it says 2020 and it's got a one of five star reviews. It says very bad, would not recommend. Hilarious.

SPEAKER_02 29:28

I've seen that one.

SPEAKER_00 29:29

Yes, and I hadn't seen that one until recently. So this person has some hand stitched ones, uh, cross-stitched ones, which are just hilarious. So I'll link to them. But I think everybody needs to get themselves a 2020 ornament, even if with shipping it's not going to arrive on time. You should have it so next year you can pull it out and laugh at it when you're putting it up on the tree. Very different than next.

SPEAKER_01 29:51

It is the only thing that makes me happy in my life anymore.

SPEAKER_02 29:55

Dad and his family.

SPEAKER_01 29:58

It is a drone. I have acquired the GGI Mini 2 drone. Actually, I have it right here. Let me show you.

SPEAKER_00 30:09

Oh, I just have my little baby.

SPEAKER_01 30:10

You can see it. Look at it. So it's ultralight foldable. You just go like this. And you have a quadcopter drone. Uh, you can fly it to spy on people. Um we used it for Chris Kindle Market, got some cool video footage. I actually put up a little behind on the FOMO posting there. Um you can fly it to take pictures of your house, uh, took it up to Bridget's house.

unknown 30:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:44

Was able to fly it a little bit because it's pretty easy to fly. Yeah. Um, Ellie did a great job. He uh didn't, you know, do anything.

SPEAKER_03 30:55

He didn't break it.

SPEAKER_01 30:57

So we'll call that a win. Uh it has an ultra-clear 4K video, level 5 wind resistance, 10 kilometer video transmission, and a 31-minute max flight time. I'm more in the like 20 minutes to 25 minutes, but it's really cold right now, which you know hurts that. And it's also windy, which also hurts that. But this thing is great. And it's only 249 grams, you don't need a license. So Los Federales don't have to know what you're up to.

SPEAKER_00 31:29

Oh, that goes by weight?

SPEAKER_01 31:31

Yeah. So if it was 250 grams, it would have to be, you know, like, yeah. So that's ridiculous. I'm gonna tell you, if you're having a rough year, and you're just like a dude that likes stuff and likes toys, this is it, this is the best toy you can get. I highly recommend it. I have a link to it in the show notes. Um, maybe I'll put the video like in a picture-in-picture thing if you're watching on YouTube, so you can see some of my video shots that I did of this. Um the worst part of Chris Kindle Market was I spent a lot of time practicing the shots I wanted to get at Lake Sheneva Country Meets. Like, probably an hour. I probably spent an hour practicing this, and then we had to move it. So you know, I went with it. I got some cool pictures, some cool videos still, but um I was you know disappointed that. That's like all these kids that are whining that you know, well, we can't play our high school sports because of coronavirus. I get it, man. I spent a lot of time practicing my drone shots for it to not be able to happen.

SPEAKER_00 32:39

Same. Um also you got some cool shots of your house and all the Christmas lights.

SPEAKER_01 32:44

I did, which was wonderful. Uh we my other product recommendation is the 10 times bright LED Christmas lights. They have like the normal LED ones, and so we have okay. So I love exterior Christmas lights. Love, love, love them. So you know, you can get the little tiny bulbs, which is what Tyler and Bridget did. Yeah. Um, and those work really good in your house because you have the really low profile with the house. It's the brick, it works great. I love the huge bulbs. I believe they're called like um, I don't know, C5. I don't know. They're big. The problem is those work really great as incandescents because the incandescent bulb goes so far, or filament goes so far down it that it makes it very bright. But as an LED, which is much more energy efficient, so you can have them all night and not have a thousand dollar energy bulb, because the LED emitter, the light emitting diode, the diode, is so far down, the tip of the big bulb doesn't stay bright. So, what I did was get the medium size. So, like still a traditional bigger bulb, but medium. They are so bright. Don't get the normal ones because it's just like, oh, the LED is not that bright. They have a two times one, they're like super bright, you know, like that's cool, but but no. We have a final approach to O'Hare from a lot of places. So these people, as they're coming from wherever, you know, they probably have a bad impression of America because of the way things have been going in America. But as they're in a final, they're coming down, coming down, they see my house, like Clark Gwiswell, because we got the 10 times ultra bright. So that's my other recommendation. 10 times ultra bright LED C2, C5, I don't know, whatever the medium-sized bulbs are. I'll put a link to that. Um, they're all sold out right now. So, you know, but for next year, if you want to be merry and bright and come home and just be like, ah, my house is cheery.

SPEAKER_00 34:46

Well, Nick's got the lights for you, guys. I hope you enjoyed that. Uh, now you know exactly what lights to get for next year. So we're gonna take a quick break and we will be right back. Okay, we're back. I sang that one. I sang it from you all.

SPEAKER_01 35:22

Um festive stuff. We're not back in black.

SPEAKER_00 35:26

Back in festive. I was about to sing a Backstreet Boys song. Oh my god, we're back again. I don't remember. Okay, moving on.

SPEAKER_02 35:38

Maybe I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 35:40

Shame on me for not knowing that. Well, guys, okay. I think that we're gonna start removing this segment after today because what I said to Nick when I was looking at the fantasy update, I was like, I gotta go see if see if fantasy is even still happening. So if that gives you any idea of how I've been doing, it's not great. I honestly didn't even look at it this whole week, and obviously I lost. Uh, it wasn't as embarrassing for I mean, it was bad. I lost by 37 points or so. That's not good. No, oh, it's playoffs because it says round one. So clearly, I mean, I'm I'm in the loser's bracket, I imagine. Maybe I'm done. I have no idea. But then I mean, yeah, I got it. I really dropped the ball this year on fantasy. I blame it on 2020. I think that's fair. We're gonna move on.

SPEAKER_01 36:32

Is it one of the uh girl cousins that we spoke of so lovingly?

SPEAKER_00 36:35

Probably. Um, I think Avery is still winning.

SPEAKER_01 36:39

Good job, Avery.

SPEAKER_00 36:40

Yeah, man. Great job, Avery. I don't even know. Here's the league. Okay, standings. Yeah, it's Avery. But her sister has been bumped to third place by Spencer, so sorry. I'm in seventh out of um oh, yeah, I'm in seventh, and then three people are tied for last. So we're doing great.

SPEAKER_01 37:00

You're not last.

SPEAKER_00 37:02

Nope, not yet, but I will be.

SPEAKER_01 37:04

We all started so promising.

SPEAKER_00 37:06

So it really did, but then it just once it started downhill, it just can continued. And it was the week that all the like my whole team blew up because of COVID, and I just like I I could not do anything else. I was like, there's no players to pick up. I don't know what to do.

SPEAKER_02 37:21

All right, and now it's time for Interesting Questions with Bridget and Nick.

SPEAKER_00 37:28

Christmas Edition Christmas Edition. Oh, that sounded like reminded me of Troy and Abed in the Morning, which I missed.

SPEAKER_02 37:36

Troy and Abed in the Morning! Troy Abed in the Morning!

SPEAKER_00 37:40

I have not watched in so long. I need to re-watch it.

SPEAKER_01 37:43

Alright, we're going back to an AP bio class now that has like four seasons. Did you know about this? No. Yeah, there's an AP bio class. I don't I'm kind of interested in it, but also like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 37:58

You're pretty busy. So well, good to know. Um no, I didn't know that, but we're gonna talk about what are you binging right now?

SPEAKER_01 38:10

Do you have a love list of stuff you're binging? I'm I'm like watching uh Queen's Gambit right now. I know actually. I'm enjoying that. I love it. Yeah. Uh Sarah, of course, went and binged it faster than me because I my binging is like watching an episode a week.

SPEAKER_00 38:25

So oh yeah. Tyler started watching one episode and I was like so angry. I was like, I've been waiting to watch this with you. I thought it would be one we would enjoy. And he's like, I put it on because I thought it would put me to sleep.

SPEAKER_01 38:37

I'm like, oh, okay, great. I mean, it's about chess, sex, and drugs. Oh, well, the next things are interesting.

SPEAKER_00 38:46

I I just have heard it's really good, but honestly, no. I dive full on into the holiday season and I am watching all of the Hallmark movies while it's relatively acceptable.

SPEAKER_01 38:57

I we're derailing this segment, but I saw this hilarious uh meme of somebody took so like craft beer, people just keep pooping out IPAs that are like 60% citra hop, 40% mosaic, 57 citra, 32%, like the same formula over and over and over again. So somebody took all the Hallmark Christmas movies and put in like a beer meme thread of they changed the names to like super terrible generic beer names that all these people come up with that were like making fun of this thing and like how all the Christmas movies are the same formula, and it was really funny. I'll see if I can find it.

SPEAKER_00 39:40

You should. I I assume it was on Reddit.

SPEAKER_01 39:42

Yes, it was on Reddit.

SPEAKER_00 39:44

Yeah, this would be my guess. Um, it is funny. I mean, like obviously, you know what you're getting in for if you watch Hallmark movies, but I've been watching like one a night when the kids go to bed because they're so dumb, so I can work during them and catch up on things or whatever. And um, yeah, and but the plots are just like so funny. You can tell which ones are from years past and then which ones are like modern. Um, like I don't know, I just watched one about a newspaper, like this person had like a newspaper article, and I'm like, oh well, this can't be modern. Like, whatever. It was so funny. But the newspaper was struggling financially, so I was like, oh, it is modern. It's they're so dumb. Anyway, I quite enjoy it. So, on to what we're gonna say are interesting questions, but really they're just like silly festive questions because fall along. Fall la la. Um, I don't know the answer to all of them, so we're gonna start with this. I think I know how you'll answer this one. Would you rather take a ride on the Polar Express or the Grinch's sled?

SPEAKER_01 40:48

Bridget, let me ask you a question.

SPEAKER_00 40:51

I yes.

SPEAKER_01 40:54

Do we ever ever let it cool? Oh, we got it. Oh, we got it. Oh, we got it.

SPEAKER_00 41:04

I do not like that part in that movie.

SPEAKER_02 41:05

Chocolate, here we only get one rule, here we only get one rule.

SPEAKER_01 41:10

Never ever let it cool. Polar Express. What type of idiotic question is that?

SPEAKER_00 41:16

But is that because you love the movie, or what is your reason?

SPEAKER_01 41:19

Love trains, love the movie, wanna go see Santa Claus.

SPEAKER_00 41:23

Yeah, so my answer. I don't want hot chocolate. I hate hot chocolates. I don't like hot beverages. I knew you'd answer Polar Express, and I think my answer was gonna be the Grinch's sled because like he does some crazy shit, like goes up and down these very steep mountains, and it's completely unrealistic. And so I just want to see how it all happens.

SPEAKER_01 41:42

Oh, you think a rocket ship is more unrealistic than taking a ride to the North Pole on a train?

SPEAKER_00 41:49

I mean, trains are more realistic than this sled that's pulled by a wiener dog.

SPEAKER_01 41:55

I mean, that's fair.

SPEAKER_00 41:56

Full of toppling gifts. But so I just want to see it. But but you know, tempting that the Polar Express ends at the North Pole because I would like to go to the North Pole. So it's a real tough question.

SPEAKER_01 42:09

Kicking it off with realistic. I feel like Britney has been to the North Pole as part of her environmental studies.

SPEAKER_00 42:16

Brittany, why don't you write in and let us know, okay?

SPEAKER_01 42:18

Seems like something you would do.

SPEAKER_00 42:21

Okay. Would you rather have a big white beard like Santa or pointy elf ears? And this is year-round.

SPEAKER_01 42:32

I made that. So I have a beard. I keep it fairly closely trimmed. I'm terrified of white hair.

SPEAKER_00 42:41

Just because that means you're aging?

SPEAKER_01 42:43

Yeah, I don't do well with aging. I really don't. Um, all the way down.

SPEAKER_00 42:51

Yeah, I mean it's Santa length. I think it's Santa length. It says big white beard like Santa. So I'm gonna say, you know, a decent fluff.

SPEAKER_01 43:01

I'm a little bit of a messy eater. Um beer could definitely save some things. Yeah. If it was white, like try to eat spaghetti with that. I love spaghetti. And you get the marinara in that white beer, that's not good. So real challenge. I'm gonna go with the pointy ears because I can just wear a hat like this. And um, boom.

SPEAKER_00 43:25

Cover it right up. No, no, no. It's a tough one, but I I too would go with pointy ears. I feel like there's no rule saying girl, it's a little weirder.

SPEAKER_01 43:38

Like not modern movies, the circus.

SPEAKER_00 43:42

Even if I pretended it was normal that I had a beard, I think beards get nappy. Like my husband has had a beard forever. But you know, like, just requires more washing. I don't know. Just give me some pointy ears. You're right, food gets stuck in it. Anyway, pointy elderly. Years for both of us. All right. This is I don't know the answer to this one either. Would you rather string a mile of popcorn garland or wrap 100 presents? Oh shit. Yeah, it's a tough one. Do you hate wrapping presents like all men?

SPEAKER_01 44:19

It's the worst. I do bags. I use newspaper or I come to LinkedIn Country Meets and use butcher paper.

SPEAKER_00 44:27

Butcher paper. Hmm. I mean that you still have to wrap it. Yeah, it's a tough one. Uh-huh. And popcorn breaks easily. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 44:39

5,280 feet.

SPEAKER_00 44:42

Plus, I gotta imagine you have to pop that popcorn. It doesn't say, or you could buy a mile's worth, I suppose, from our friend Tristan.

SPEAKER_01 44:51

Are you doing 63,360 inches? Oh, okay. 63,000 inches. No, I feel like a popcorn is an inch, then you can probably do about an inch space. So you're like 30,000 popcorns.

SPEAKER_02 45:08

Oh man.

SPEAKER_01 45:11

As much as I hate wrapping presents. I'm wrapping the presents.

SPEAKER_00 45:17

I know. I think that's gotta be true.

SPEAKER_01 45:21

A mile of oh, that's the worst. It's gonna be like Dante's seven circles of hell right there.

SPEAKER_00 45:29

Pretty much. Oh, that's hilarious. Um yeah, well, I'm gonna also obviously wrap the presents. There's no time limit, so it doesn't say if I have to like do this all in a day. Yeah. So maybe I can do two a day for three months. Um I know, okay, that's more.

SPEAKER_01 45:52

You know, I think what would be funny is if like a personal trainer was named Dante, and his gym was like Dante's circles of hell themed, and the different workouts were different levels of hell, and you got like You know, do you know that my trainer was named Dante? Yeah, that's why I thought of it.

SPEAKER_00 46:10

Okay, I was like, right? You know that. I didn't otherwise it was gonna be really. So uh pass along the name wreck. Oh man, he's a very nice person. Um, okay, this one is like really weird, but I'm just gonna ask it to wrap it up here. Would you rather have Christmas presents? Just like those hundred Christmas presents we're wrapping. Would you rather have Christmas lights for hair or a light up nose like Rudolph? Ooh.

unknown 46:43

Ooh.

SPEAKER_00 46:45

Ooh. There's so many logistics. Really?

SPEAKER_01 46:51

Well, I guess like you could electrocute yourself in the shower with the Christmas like hair.

SPEAKER_00 46:56

Either way, right? Because if your nose is lighting up, is this?

SPEAKER_01 46:59

That one's easy to put like a shower cap over.

SPEAKER_00 47:01

Oh yeah, just like this. But so is your head, in theory. Easy to put a shower cap on. I don't know. This one's weird.

SPEAKER_01 47:13

You could be like a big time EDM musician.

SPEAKER_00 47:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 47:19

With the Christmas tree hair. Like, think about that. Like, you're doing your like your sets, and you got your Christmas light hair like going all over. Um, that's like light up nose would be like a fun parlor trick. And you know, like you do the thing, you know, your freshman year in college, and you you meet your people, like, tell us two things true and one to such. You're like, oh, and my nose lights up like Rudolph. Nobody would guess your nose actually lights up with Rudolph. So then, yeah, like you win that game.

SPEAKER_00 47:51

For that purpose, then.

SPEAKER_01 47:53

And think about like all the times when the power goes out and you need a light. You know, he's got one right here.

SPEAKER_00 48:01

Also, your hair is lights, you probably also have lights there, too.

SPEAKER_01 48:05

Atmospheric, I would say, than directional.

SPEAKER_00 48:07

You know, like your nose light, you can be like, just looking for a candle.

SPEAKER_01 48:13

You know, you're going rummaging through your your pantry looking for that can of beans, and you know, you can't really see, but oh wait, I have my nose light. Yeah, so building flashlight, nose light.

SPEAKER_00 48:25

Nose light too would be my answer, and that's because I'm a woman that has long hair, and I just feel like lights would get tangled, right? Obviously, they would get tangled. So yeah, man, yeah. Christmas lights always getting tangled. That was a riveting round of questions.

SPEAKER_01 48:43

That's a good one. I like that one. Were you being sarcastic? I thought that was good.

SPEAKER_00 48:47

Actually, it was good. I forgot because I wrote them, I copied and pasted them from a website a while ago, so I had to reread. I they were they were hard. I forgot that.

SPEAKER_02 48:55

They were, yeah. I like that. Always happy for a challenge, Nick.

SPEAKER_00 48:59

I you know me.

SPEAKER_01 49:01

I'm down for for challenges.

SPEAKER_00 49:04

Oh, well, okay, so this upcoming week, I'm sorry to say, we're not doing our normal meal plan at Lake Geneva Country Meets because it is Christmas week, and that would be silly. Um, so instead, we're just gonna talk through um some of our favorite things to eat at holidays. Nick already spoiler alerted this, however, with no spoilers.

SPEAKER_01 49:23

Spoiler alerted this. It is bubble up.

SPEAKER_00 49:27

So whatever. I mean, is there anything you missed, Nick? Anything you forgot to tell us about food-wise?

SPEAKER_01 49:33

You know, I enjoy making duck. I really enjoy making duck. I've done that a couple years because we kind of always have some frozen. Yeah. So I like making duck. It's a very festive thing. You know, you can do it. I do it sous vide with like some cranberries and oranges and stuff, and it's really good. And then you steer the crap out of it.

SPEAKER_00 49:55

Do people still like make goose? Like, I was noticing I was doing some social media work and yeah, I saw a goose. Do are people doing that?

SPEAKER_01 50:03

Yeah, we sell maybe like 20 geese a year for Christmas. Have you ever had a goose? I don't think so, no. Are you a dark meat or a light meat poultry person?

SPEAKER_00 50:14

I usually eat white meat.

SPEAKER_01 50:16

You will not like goose.

SPEAKER_00 50:18

Yeah, I didn't think so. Um, I was reading through our recipe about it and was like, I don't know if this is for me, but it looks fascinating.

SPEAKER_01 50:26

It's very flavorful, it's you know, not cheap. Um, but it's very flavorful, and if you like spend some time cooking it, yeah, um, like it's really good, but you gotta cook it all the way through because it's a very like rich dark meat thing, so you gotta get good temperature on it. And like it does have a bit of like yeah, like it has a bit of greasiness and a bit of like you should put a good rub on it.

SPEAKER_00 50:54

Yeah, I'm just so like intrigued by it. Again, because we're doing this whole Christmas recipe series, and that's one of them. I was like, oh, goose. I'll make you goose. Thanks, man. Next time we have dinner, goose.

unknown 51:06

Goose.

SPEAKER_01 51:06

It's on the menu. Tyler was all excited, he's like, oh good, I'm getting duck. No, fake out.

SPEAKER_00 51:12

Sorry, bud. I mean, maybe he'll like it. I don't know. Um, so speaking of things he loves, he'll tell me anything I make of his good. I know, because this is exactly what I'm about to tell you. So forever, uh so a couple years back, Tyler and I started the tradition of us doing, we just took Christmas Eve. We're like, no one on either side of our family really did much on Christmas Eve. And we're like, why are we trying to do everything on Christmas Day? Let's just like break it up a little and do a Christmas Eve party. Um, so anyway, we usually do just like appetizers and cocktails. But prior to that, um, traditionally Christmas Eve, we would have, you're gonna laugh at this. We would have chicken Kiev at my parents' house. Yeah, we just like grew up having it. I think like Market Day. Yes, I think it was for Market Day. So, but like I love it. And um, we so I just it's just like a thing we've always had in our freezer, just if you can't think of a meal, right? So for I mean, Tyler and I have been together for a million years, and I would cook it enough, and he cook, I would take it out of a bag in the freezer, and he finally admitted, he's like, I hate these. Why are you cooking them? But like for years and years and years he ate these because like what's not they're not terrible, it's just like breaded chicken with something inside of it, you know. So anyway, we used to have chicken Kiev every Christmas Eve, and then we would like use the fancy dining room and the nice china at my mom's, and we don't do that anymore, it's unrealistic. And Tyler doesn't like chicken kiev. So that's one of my favorite like things we eat at Christmas, but we don't actually do it anymore.

SPEAKER_01 52:48

Did you get China for your wedding?

SPEAKER_00 52:51

Um, no, so I wanted I always wanted China like that. Was a hand-me-down that had a story if I was gonna have it. I didn't want to register for new China, so your mom's still alive, so well, I actually did get some from um I want Lucille. So our Lucy is named after a um relative, obviously, so a great grandma. So um, but anyway, I do have a set of China. It just like wasn't exactly the heartfelt story, but it was handed down from someone I never knew. You know. So anyway.

SPEAKER_01 53:20

We didn't want China. We do.

SPEAKER_00 53:22

Yeah. Well, it's not like generationally something I think many of us got.

SPEAKER_01 53:27

Um, I don't know if you've noticed. No, you haven't been over because we've been doing the social distancing thing, but we got some gold-rimmed Christmas themed wine glasses. What? Because my grandmother, and we had to buy them from Home Goods. My grandmother had these like terribly chintzy, like this big, you know, like wine goblets, I think you would technically call them. They're like gold rimmed, Christmas themed with like doves on them. And we would always go to my grandma's house and like just kind of congregate there and hang out in happier times. And um, we wanted two things, Sarah and I, from my grandma's house. We wanted our cookie jar, we got that. And we wanted these wine glasses, and those didn't work out. We didn't get those, and we're not sure what happened. We're it's uh it's a point of contention, but so we bought our own. So that's you know, that's what we like. We like we drink all December long. We're drinking our wine from our gold-rimmed Christmas themed wine goblets. It's a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_00 54:28

I yeah, I when my grandma died, it was a coffee mug. Everyone wanted this one coffee mug. Um, but obviously only one grandchild could have it. But now many of us have a replica version. Like I got a replica one off of eBay. Like it's the same mug, you know, it just is this white mug with like a rainbow on it. Um, so a lot of us have got, I got it for my sisters for a gift, or for I think Britney got my grandma. No, I think my cousin Jessica got my grandma's actual mug. I'm not sure. But I, you know, so we've since now made sure we all kind of have one. Um, but we didn't know there was just no real Christmas china at our house. Like Shannon just found this set on Facebook Marketplace that she sent me and was like, is this cool or tacky? I'm like, are you gonna buy this? And it was like had holly leaves on it. And I loved it. I was like, I need this, but like, no, I don't need formal china, and I specifically don't need formal china that's good for one month of the year. So, anyway, no, no formal china. We just graze on Christmas morning, like we put out, you know, egg bakes, cinnamon rolls, etc., and call it a day. That's what we do. So that's what we're eating.

SPEAKER_01 55:31

Wow. You know what time it is? It's time for kid cards.

SPEAKER_00 55:38

All right. Excellent.

SPEAKER_01 55:40

Bridget, what you got?

SPEAKER_00 55:42

Okay, what I got, what I got. So I had to think about this because like lots of kids' stuff these days, but it's not Christmas related. It is it is um winter related in that we have been watching Frozen 1,200 times a week at our house. Um, both of my kids love it.

SPEAKER_01 56:00

Frozen one, Frozen 2, Olaf's Big Adventure, watch one.

SPEAKER_00 56:05

Of any of them that Tyler and I can like stomach. We're like, which one haven't we seen in the last 24 hours? So we watch them um so many times, all of them. So what Lucy has started doing is Lucy has a limited vocabulary, but she's she's speaking. And she knows. Oh, yeah, of course. But she also is very good at Elsa, Elsa, Moana, Elsa. So then we say, okay, you have to pick which one? Elsa. So we put it on. Anytime any song comes on, she thinks it's let it go. And she just she'll put her one arm out like this, and she'll go, go, and she spins in circles, literally until she falls. So it's like she's going, go, singing, and spinning, spinning, spinning. And then she stops and she legit like stumbles like a drunk person around the house until she crashes down and falls. And so now Elliot thinks it's funny to do spinning, spinning, spinning, and he's like, How many times do I have to spin until I'm dizzy? We're like, I don't know, man, like test it out. So I'm horrified and terrified that my kids are gonna spin, spin, spin, and puke.

SPEAKER_01 57:12

Yeah, for Elliot especially, I'd be worried that kid is gonna like go a little hardcore on it and puke.

SPEAKER_00 57:17

Oh sure. Little ham. So anyway, it's very funny and it's adorable. And this is like how she dances, and now Elliot's in on it. But we're doing a lot of Elsa singing and spinning at our house, and then they look like drunk little children falling all over the place. Good touch. That's a great story. Thanks, man. What's up with you? Really Simona. What's up with Simona?

SPEAKER_01 57:37

Simona, you know, we got the teefers coming in. More and more teeth every day.

SPEAKER_02 57:43

All the time.

SPEAKER_01 57:44

Her two front teeth are coming in, and it is terrifying. Because like they're like not in, but like if she's on her back and her mouth's open like this, you see like the backs of them through her gums, and they're like these big buck teeth, and it's like, are you a heck? Oh are you from Kentucky? Like, I saw where you came from, so like I know you're not a Kentuckian.

SPEAKER_02 58:17

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 58:19

Like, girl, you got some big ass buck teeth there. Wait, does she have other teeth down on the bottom? Yeah, she's got all the bottom ones, and she's also so like now she's got like so like these the front two aren't like all the way down, and they're kind of like a millimeter apart from each other, so it's like a little awkward, and then the canines are trying to come in, and so it's like this weird, you can see it from an angle thing, and it's gross. Like it's honestly gross.

SPEAKER_00 58:48

Yeah, good call. Now that you explain it, it is terrifying.

SPEAKER_01 58:52

I you know, there's like I know you're not on Reddit, but there's all these hilarious like memes about how you know what type of species would evolve would evolve to have its most vulnerable point of its throat right where anybody can shoot it. You know what I mean? I was like, what type of species would evolve to make something it needs to survive, teeth to chew food, come in as the most painful infection-ridden, fever-driving thing ever.

SPEAKER_00 59:20

I mean, true that, man. It's the worst. It's a weird thing. Yeah, it is weird. And yeah, constantly hands in mouth, more germs coming from all the hands, drool, snot. It's really lovely. Magical time. Magical time.

SPEAKER_01 59:37

I get like, I was like, ah, put some teeth. Because like I was a kid that like I would just like go to work, I'm taking teeth out, right? I was like, this one's a little loose, like out.

SPEAKER_02 59:47

Oh my god, that just like yank.

SPEAKER_01 59:51

Yeah. I didn't care. I wasn't even in for the money. I was just in for the like, boom, gone. Done with it.

SPEAKER_00 59:58

Okay, then that's gross, but whatever.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:00

Yeah, now it's you know, it is what it is. Well, that's what's happening with our kids. Thanks for tuning in this week, everybody. We'll be back after Christmas. Uh maybe we can hear about all the awesome things Tyler got Bridget.

unknown 1:00:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:17

Yeah, I mean, please. Once there's kids in the picture, adult Christmas, what?

SPEAKER_01 1:00:22

Maybe we can hear about more drone stories. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:26

I it's gonna be fun. I'm sure we'll have stories. I bet Kid Corner's gonna be fire next week, I would guess. So fire. So we hope you enjoyed your festive little episode with us. Um, you know, send in pics in your ugly sweaters because you know, I love a good theme and love to see it. Um thanks for listening, guys. I hope you have a Merry Christmas.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:48

Merry Christmas, why all? We'll see you next week. Bye bye. All right.