Unexpected D&D - Dinner Plus Drinks #118

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Hello, everybody. Hello. Welcome to a new, exciting, regular old week of dinner plus drinks. We didn't have anything happening weird this week. Except we did. So get ready for some spring break-themed fun. Alright, well, I hope you enjoyed the music. Or messing. Um, I mean, it's part of the music. I'm gonna fade it right now. You're just gonna cut it. You should just edit it. It'll be seamless. Seamless transition. Spend you maybe 30 minutes just like cross-finding.

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Finding the exact we're switching our theme music this week.

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Maybe I'll auto-tune you a little bit to get it right on.

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That was my spring break music for some reason.

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You sent me an incredible mashup of old school MTV spring break stuff.

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Yes, which credit to Brittany, my sister, for sending it to me. It just really, I was like, Nick, I gotta find a segment related to old MTV spring breaks for this podcast, which we didn't quite, but we were motivated. It is spring break for the Lake Sheneva schools, so you know it's pouring rain and 50 degrees. Of course.

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And we are here.

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Here we are, not on spring break.

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I never really got to go on spring break because I always played baseball, and it was like if you did baseball, you you didn't get a go on spring break.

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Yeah, I have gone on spring breaks, but I this year took my kids on vacation before spring break when flights were still affordable because I'm not road tripping across the country with my kids, but blessings to all my friends who are doing that. Blessings to you people. I know a lot of people doing that, and that's so exciting for you.

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While they're off leaving, we are here with a draining week for a number of reasons that uh we're not gonna get into because Yeah, because it's not our life to tell, but it's been a draining week.

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I don't know what else to say besides like it's like when you have an adrenaline rush when you like cut yourself or something, you have this high adrenaline rush, and then you like suddenly crash. It's been a whole week of that.

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But it's been really challenging for you, Bridget. So I decided I would make your favorite cocktail.

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I'm so excited. We're not opening a drink, but rather enjoying an ice cold French 75. I'm so excited, everybody.

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Gin and stuff, lemon, and simple syrup and gin and delicious champagne.

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And it's cold. Gin and champagne's all you need to know.

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So I hope I made it all right. Cheers. And it's also spring like because the lemon juice and oh my god.

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It's so good, you guys. I could just chug these, but just so which I think I did at my older sister's wedding. So sorry about that, Brittany. It's okay. She did remind me that it was okay that I drank so many similar beverages because I believe she said I kept the party going with all my really good dancing.

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So it was a smaller wedding, wasn't it? It was. That can be a challenge when it's a smaller wedding because you run out of people to go talk to.

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Well, I rose to the occasion. Wow. Because you know, I'm not gonna let anybody down.

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I'm proud of you, Bridget. Yeah. Uh I wrote in our outline that I don't really want to talk about my week. I just want to talk about my pozole. It's in fact a chicken pozole verde. It's a Mexican soup if you're unaware of it. And uh good week for it. I like foods that have animal fat that have just completely folded into them and it like coats your tongue. It's so uncuous and delicious, but not gross in any way.

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Just like that's literally what he wrote on the outline.

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Uh because I knew you were gonna read it and just be like, stop. You used uncuous. Uh, it's one of my favorite words. It uh let me show you pictures of my soup. Oh my god. So this is what it looked like. So you so this is how my you make my soup. This is the highlight of my soup. You boil a chicken in some water for a long time until the chicken's falling apart. Uh add some onions. I actually had a little bit of bacon, like we had some bacon ends lying around. I know that, so it gives a little smokiness and a little extra uncuousness. Unctuousness. You know, salt, pepper, that type of stuff. So that's what it looks like. Then you uh take the chicken out, strain all the fat, and you have an incredible broth, like a really rich broth.

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Okay. That's literally just from like boiling a chicken. Yeah. Okay.

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And then you take and you uh was up some tomatillos, some was up, you know, in your blender. Was them up, everybody. Some uh onions, some jalapenos, some cilantro, some lime juice. I should have set up. I have some, yeah. Actually, I should some. It looks good. Uh and then you you dump it back in, mix that all together, and then you add your hominy and your shredded chicken.

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And uh it's do people just have hominy, do you think?

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Well, I mean, you can go to the supermarket, it's like a dollar for a giant can.

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Can you just like get it at a can? Yeah. What? Okay, I've never coached with hominy.

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Um it's delicious, it's warming and filling, and it's crappy weather. It's good for this week. Let's look at Target. Oh, can we talk about your incredible brat picture?

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Oh, so I love the rain. I love this weird weather. And yes, my brat picture this week. Oh, hominy in a can. Um yeah, my.

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Juanita's foods. This is the fancy pants stuff. I get the who's the guy that supported Trump and got canceled. Um many of them. No, no, the Mexican or the like American South American foods guy. Um don't know. And like it was a big deal because he's yeah.

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Oh, bummer. Yeah, cancelled, huh? Um, yeah, I made a brat um umbrella? A brat brella?

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You can stand under my brat umbrella.

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I wanted to like make a joke about April showers, but I was a month off. So uh yeah, I made an umbrella out of brats, and it looks good, okay? I feel an immense pressure to come up with a creative brat photo every week.

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And so on weekends Goya Foods, that's who it is. Goya, oh. Yeah, they have like really good, really cheap hominy.

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Oh, okay, good to know.

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Everybody in case you can't afford the dollar can, they've got this the one at Target's a dollar eight nine, which is a rip-off. It's just nixtimalized corn. What is it? It's uh this is one of the great uh increases in society. You put uh you wash the corn kernels with uh neosin, well, lie, and it gives it neosin, and that like keeps you alive.

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Okay.

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It's incredible. Like that they figured this out, you know, back in the whenever.

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Back some time ago. Anyway, I've just never cooked with it. I would like to know if you guys have though. Like, I it honestly is it it's not weird I've never cooked with it, but is it an average ingredient that people cook with? I mean, if you're Mexican, it is.

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Oh, okay.

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I didn't honestly even realize that it was a staple of a good cocktail. It's so good. I was gonna interrupt us in a little bit to tell you how good it was. Um yeah, uh, okay, guys. So news GaryCon's happening. Oh, sure, yes. Breaking news. Um breaking news. Except it'll be ending by the time you listen. Yeah. So sorry if you missed it by the time you listen. Uh, GaryCon is a convention um that happens in Lake Geneva every year. Gary Gygox Gygax, who is the founder of uh Dungeons and Dragons, which was developed here in Lake Geneva, in case you didn't know, honestly is a huge deal. And like it's an untapped market that our city does not capitalize on.

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My aunt that I haven't spoken to in six years, four years, uh, she actually was TSR's first accountant.

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Oh, I feel I don't know if you told me that, but that's amazing. Like, there's this really cool history, and Grand Geneva, right outside the city limits of like does a huge event called Gary Khan. And so every year Tyler goes, and every year I'm like, oh God, it's four days that I gotta like kind of single mom it, but he's very good at trying to help. And then every year, you guys, he's like a little kid in a candy shop. He's so excited. And same today, he was like, Happy Gary Khan Friday! Yeah, talking about like getting autographs from people. It's very cute.

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I like to go and spy on Tyler every year.

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We should we should have live podcasts.

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Oh god, we should damn it. Oh, we st it's not too late. We can do it. I actually have to go there.

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Let's go. Let's go. Um you can buy a kid's badge for $5 just to walk around.

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Just saying. Be right back. Um JK, Almost. My favorite drink out. My favorite part of Gary Khan is Grand Geneva has the worst possible hotel art on the walls. Like it's all generic and terrible at every hotel. Theirs is even worse.

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I've never really paid attention.

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A lot of hotels now, especially like in their group, St. Kate is an arts hotel. So like they've done a lot of like, hey, we actually have cool art. We've supported local artists, it's unique, it's not just Grand Geneva doesn't do that. They don't. And they're very sensitive about it. Because I asked about it once. I was like, you know, St. Kate's doing all these cool stuff. Like, have you guys ever thought of doing something? And like, there's a great Geneva Lake Arts Foundation that does a lot of cool. I'm like, have you ever thought about doing a collab there? And they're like, our art's just fine. I'm like, Oh, Grand Geneva. They let them put posters over all of their art. They get it. GaryCon puts posters over all of their art.

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What?

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And they're like, they pay enough money, it's fine. It's also, I know this, it is the biggest pizza delivery day in the city of Lake Geneva. Really? Saturday night. And it is, they go through about seven times their average till on their ATMs.

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Oh, I'm sure. Tyler takes out $200 in cash every year, right before he goes, because they have all this stuff that you can buy, and he brings our son and like they so Elliot got to buy some art yesterday. He got to art addressed to him from the original artist that drew the first things for DD. So, like, anyway, if this is your world, it's like really very cool. I have just been married to someone like for a long time. I've been dating and married to someone for a long time who's very into this, so I've learned a lot. But regardless, really lovely group of people, like ride or die friends, and they spend a lot of money. So, like economically, we should be paying attention.

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They don't have kids. Uh, many, many of them.

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I mean, and some of them bring their kids. Like, Tyler has a group and they have kids. Half of them have kids. Daniel has kids. Daniel does have kids. Yeah. So anyway, um, husband is going to have lunch with Daniel right now. Very nice. So that's happening. Um, but I I usually have about 87 news articles to talk about. Um, but today, just one.

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We usually talk about uh things happening and uh we try not to be depressing. There is a historic judicial nominee happening. Yeah, hopefully Justice Tom Thomas. Thomas? No, not Thomas. Brown, Brown. Uh I was thinking of Justice Thomas and uh his insane whack job uh the world today wife, uh, who's trying to undo the election. Anyway, uh so Kintaji Brown Jackson is uh the first black woman that has been nominated for the Supreme Court. It's very cool, very exciting. Uh she's qualified. Um, I don't think anybody really should dispute that she's qualified. Um she brings a unique perspective that um she is a PD and has served as a public defender. And there are very, very, very, very few people that have served as public defenders again to high judge positions because they have to do some very unpopular things. They do need to defend child molesters, they do need to defend Guantanamo Bay people. This is one of the things she's getting hammered on, absolutely hammered on, and basically for doing her job too well. If you believe that part of the criminal justice system in America is uh that you should have vigorous representation for the worst of people because you never know what's going to happen to you, then you should be very proud that someone with the perspective of being a public defender and having to work with these people is in the Supreme Court. And actually, um, we have a good friend Kyle who is a public defender locally, and judges that have been public defenders are harsher on criminals than those that haven't because they know who's for real and who's not.

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Yeah, that's a good point.

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So she's bringing this perspective, she's getting hammered for it, and the confirmation hearing is a joke. I mean, just a joke. Ted Cruz is up talking about critical race theory that has zero to do with this, and she's handled it very gracefully. And in my Reddit feed, a story came up of uh today I learned that this charade of a hearing is not happen until 1916. The United States Senate did not begin holding confirmations hearing for Supreme Court nominees until 1916. And here's what triggered the first hearing Woodrow Wilson nominated Lewis Brandis, which is he's one of the most famous people now. And do you know why he was controversial?

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No, I mean he's Jewish. That's it. What a world, everybody.

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So we have these disasters because uh we didn't want a Jew on the Supreme Court.

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Okay.

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So anyway, next time we think that these are important. Remember, we didn't do it until 1916, and we only started doing them because we weren't so sure about this guy being a Jew and being on the Supreme Court.

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If you can't tell, uh Nick and I's weeks are a little clouded, as we've mentioned. So this segment is usually only positive news stories. So Nick was like, oh, mine's mostly positive, but I think it's interesting. Mine is the same. It's like mostly positive, but I need to talk about something not positive before I tell the story. Mine is about this war in Ukraine. Not positive. I'm sorry. It's not a war, Bridget. It's a special military operation. This um adventure in the Ukraine. Um, so I don't know if I've mentioned it on here, but I have been to Ukraine. I have been to the exact places being obliterated. Um, so this hits home to me in a we in a weird way that like I just again won't share a ton about, but I've been there in high school. And so it's like a weird level of mind fuck. Okay, everybody. So anyway, I one of the things when I was there, um, the person I was there with, I we met his cousin, and his cousin came bounding excited about this new cassette tape that he got. And he had gotten a cassette tape of 50 cent. And at the time, for us, 50 cents.

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Some specs on that.

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But like 50 cent was like, yeah, he'd been around for a couple years for us in the Ukraine. They, however, somehow cycle through like a cassette in this.

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We were old enough the internet wasn't. I mean, you were a Napster at that point.

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Yeah, but like, so I didn't listen to the street. No, you were a good girl. You probably did Napster. No, it scared me. I like thought I was gonna die if I had downloaded things on Napster. Um, whatever came after Napster, I downloaded things on it. Limewire? No, I mean I think I did download on LimeWire, but not Torrent?

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Did you do Torrent?

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Dude, I don't even know. So maybe 10 10 things after lime. Anyway, so iTunes. It was completely legal. This we completely no. Um, I never download stuff on iTunes. Um, so my the point is we were way past cassette tapes. Like we were thinking, we were listening to CDs at the time that I was there, but very excited about 50 Cent, like this old school music for us, like had been around for years. So, excuse me. I recently just saw an article about a group of um Ukrainians preparing for battle during the Russian invasion, and it has gone viral, and it it is they're preparing for battle while listening to Bon Jovi's It's My Life. Oh, I was like, And it just brought me right back to like that. You should say that's my mom. Does she love she loves Bon Jovi? Oh, I will. So Bon Jovi posted it actually on their social media, which is so cool. Instead of like pulling some, like suing them over listening to, you know, whatever. So it was originally posted by I'm gonna try here, Olexander Sherba, uh Ukraine's former ambassador to Austria. And it's um it was in Odessa, Ukraine, and they're preparing to fight, listening to this. And so Bon Jovi posted it and saying this is for the ones who stood their ground, Odessa, Ukraine, which is just cool. So I it just brought me like right back to that moment of like being so excited about 50 Cent. I'm like, do we think Bon Jovi's new in the Ukraine? And you know, so it just went full circle and it was something to smile about instead of like want to cry and claw my eyeballs out.

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So it was a cool article. So there you go. I um have a joke about Ukraine.

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No, no.

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So the Russian defense minister, who was very media savvy out a lot, he's uh not been seen for about two weeks now. Oh, yeah. And uh it was announced that he's having heart problems, and Reddit is, of course, a horrible place of dark humor that said, yeah, nine millimeter heart problems. That's the diameter of a bullet, in case you weren't aware. Um, I found that very funny, but I did get some clarification from uh loyal listener Tom uh about dad jokes. And uh when a joke becomes a dad joke, when it's not a dad joke, he said, a joke is a dad joke when you know it's a parent.

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Oh, Tom, we are taking a break with that one.

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We're the heck we don't sing yet.

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Damn it, but can't I sing? You can sing. You always yell at me when I sing. I know, I know. Okay, I just was excited because I'm talking about a cool ass product today. I saw this, yeah. Swearing a lot. It's just where I am right now. Sorry. Okay, everybody. I can't decide if you all have heard about this and you're gonna roll your eyes. I had never heard about it until like last week. There is I wrote about it in a good email. Yeah, y'all know how much I love my coffee. So we're gonna make Nick try coffee, and I'm adding this. It's coming up. There is a new coffee called Comateer Coffee, and it is like space age coffee. I don't know how else to say it. It's basically like flash frozen. So it's brewed deliciously, and it's like from actual delicious roasters instead of like this is not instant coffee, but it's flash frozen into what kind of sounds like folgers to me. I know, and this was my issue until I tried it.

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Can folgers be one of the ones I try?

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Yes. And if you like it, we're done. We're done talking. We've reached 163 episodes, and it's all over. Because Nick liked folgers. Um, so this coffee comes in like what looks like a K cup, but it's fully recyclable and it's aluminum or something. I don't, that's probably the wrong material. I don't want to bore you with looking it up. And so they it's top-tier beans from the world's best roasters, ground and brewed, very precision, and then flash frozen. And then it is meant to be frozen. So it's a frozen pot of coffee, and there's a million ways you can enjoy it. Like you can make it a latte, whatever. But for black coffee drinkers, me, you can just take your frozen pot out of the freezer, put it in your coffee cup, and you put boiling water over it. The end. Oh, that's perfect. How is that different than instant coffee? Like, it's just so much better than instant coffee. So anyway, I tried some. I can tell you it is delicious. I'm a bold dark in your face coffee.

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Their website looks horrifically stocked, though. That's all I'm gonna say. Like that picture with all the beakers and everything. Like that looks like one of the world's that looks like the website I made for our April Fools joke when we announced we're going to space.

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I don't think that's what it's meant to feel like. That you're going to space. Look at the coffee pod. Maybe that's because I I like their website. Ooh, battle. We need to be able to do that.

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Hey everybody, April Fools is coming up. Bridget's favorite day of the year.

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Stay tuned for more fun on that. Um, so anyway, it's a it's a really cool product. You should check it out, commenteer.com. You get a discount on your first bundle, and you can um say, like, if you like dark coffee, they give you a little quiz so they can pick. I mean, this is really cool. It's expensive, like it is definitely a convenience product, but it's really cool to try. Have some.

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Is there is is there a price for good coffee? No, there is not.

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So, and good coffee, like this is instant good. It's a great for like your afternoon cup of coffee.

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So, does this is are they um because I'm actually interested in this. Yeah, uh, is this like fair trade thing or like how do they so you said it's brewed at like good places? Does that mean like it's done closer to the source or like no?

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They have a whole bunch of different so because everyone has different priorities in their coffee. So whether it's fair trade or not, so they have some that are fair trade, some are that are single bean, single origin blends. Like I like blended, I like blended from dip like a blend of a light and a dark roast and like blue healer. Some have higher acidity acidity versus the colour.

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See, that's all maybe I like more acidity. I'm an acidity technique.

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So, what Collectivo does really well is like they put a chart on their coffee bag, and like so blue healer, which is my favorite coffee, is high body middle acidity. And then there's a third chart, and I can't remember what it is, but it's low. So then if I go look for other coffee, I know that's what I like.

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Do you know what you described as Cabernet Sauvignon?

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What?

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High body middle acidity.

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Weird weird is that like a palette thing that's just my bet my body likes high-bodied beverages.

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Like, I don't know what I got the new iPhone 13 Pro Max. Yeah, you fancy, man. Um, I previously had the iPhone 10 X. I've skipped about four generations of it. We got this for free. Like, I wasn't planning on it. Uh my mom really needed a new phone. We're all on the same plan because you know, it's $10 if you do it together and $50 if you it is. So uh we split a plan, and so it's like, okay, let's go do this. And we're doing more and more and more reels because fun. Because Nick loves them. Sweating. So the camera on this phone is unbelievable.

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I mean nuts, Nick.

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Like we were filming some stuff on a very good mirrorless camera on a very uh a four out of five good lens. Maybe a three, seven, five out of five lens. It's pretty good. We should have just done it on your phone.

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And yeah. Honestly, I think the color would have been better.

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Oh, once I I'll fix it. I know because there's no post on the iPhone. It does it in software right away. I'll have to do levels on the Right.

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Um But hey, man.

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My God, guys. It's very good. It's incredible.

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Does it have like eight cameras on the back? Like eight circles?

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Three yeah, it has three cameras, a sensor, a microphone, and a flash. Like eight, basically. It's close enough. I mean Five rounds up to eight if we were deciding quorum. Um I'm just gonna say this thing's incredible. Also okay, so here's the bad thing. Because looking at the camera that doesn't um when I imported it, I've kept one tab open in my mobile Chrome for Wordle for four months. All of my Wordle stats are gone. I'm really, really sad about it. Come on. So uh I'm on a streak of one for Wordle now. And uh that was the worst part.

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Do you use the notes app on your iPhone?

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I do all the time. Did it not for yes it did? Okay. The new transfer process is really cool. You like you let your phone sick. Mine took an hour and 30 minutes because I have like 40,000 photos. Uh the the lady's like, oh yeah, we have the 120 added GitMine in. She's like, we have the 128 gigabyte thing in stock and uh also 256. I'm like, That's enough. She's like, nobody uses 256 gigabytes. I'm like, I do. She's like, you have a lot of videos. I'm here. I'm like, when I told you I want this phone for its camera, it's because this is what I do for my work. Yes. And my dad's like, he takes a lot of videos. He takes a lot of videos. Thank you, Dad. I worked for you. You don't understand what I do. You don't always give me, but you at least know I take a lot of videos.

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Okay, guys, since we're gonna wrap this product product segment, but I need to know how many photos open right now and videos do you have on your phone? This is embarrassing, but I heard someone else do this, and I want you all to submit this and don't judge us, okay? We do this for work.

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3,026 photos, 328 videos.

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I'm sorry, 3,000 photos? Yeah. Do you want to guess how many photos I have?

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13,000.

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46,000. How do you have 46,000? 46,000. Don't you move them off your phone? I don't because once I lost all of them. So I have them saved in Google Photos, Amazon Photos, the iCloud, and here. I will someday. 46,225 and then 3,275 videos. How do you have that much? I'm just telling you. I someone once did this and it made me feel so much better because a lot of other people were like, Yeah, I got 35,000 photos. I'm like, Do you have 75,000 on-read emails? Well, that's not, yeah. I mean, I'm not a zero inbox person. I wish I was. I know. I wish I was, but I'm not.

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So anyway, everybody. My week just got a lot more anxiety filled. I'm gonna go breathe into a paper bag and we'll be right back. I have a bonus product rack. I'm gonna come in right now. Uh, we have another thing to do after this, but uh, we're talking about photo storage. Western digital, they make really good hard drives. Uh they're slightly overpriced, but with that, you get their WD Cloud service. Okay. So you can have a remote drive that automatically backs stuff up. And even if you delete stuff off your iCloud, then it's on your external hard drive that you can have forever.

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See, this is my issue.

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And they've good, so WD Cloud. So uh that was just a bonus thing right there. Western Digital, they're hard drives.

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We'll be right back.

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Hello, we are at the bar at Grand Geneva Resort and Spa.

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It's a grand day here at Grand Geneva.

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Bridget worked the front desk here once or twice, and uh we ran into our very good friend Daniel of Griffin and Gargoyle. Hey guys. Can we say you're of Griffin and Gargoyle yet? Can you say what? That you're from Griffin and Gargoyle yet, or is it not open?

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I I'm always from Griffin and Gargoyle, but groundbreaking isn't taking place till this fall.

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But don't you dare steal any of those ideas.

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So Daniel's kind of a big deal. I mean, I think we can say that.

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I don't think we can say that, but that's very kind of you.

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I think we can say that. Two against one.

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People come up to you and they know who you are. So give us an overview of this event. You're pretty qualified.

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Alright, so this is GaryCon 14. It's the 14th anniversary of the celebration of the passing of the co-creator of the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game, Gary Guy Gas. It started out as sort of an Imrequiem gaming session, but it has grown into a full-fledged fantasy celebration. Um, this year we had two of our tabletop DD role-playing streamers, uh, Sateen Phoenix and Jameson Stone, actually get married here yesterday at a fantastic event that was full of people dressed up in fantasy garb and there was music and celebration. It was a crazy experience. So uh yeah, it what once was sort of a mournful remembrance of the passing of the creator of this game has turned into a celebration of the legacy that he left behind.

SPEAKER_05 26:44

So Dungeons and Dragons is the OG fantasy game, but now there's like Magic the Gathering. Can we put Pokemon with this? What are other things that you guys do here?

SPEAKER_01 26:52

Well, it it the history is kind of fascinating because Dungeons Dragons started in 1974, and the mechanics of that game have permeated pretty much all of entertainment society. So if you think of any video game that you've played that has a leveling up system, you know, Elden Rings going on right now, all of these elements are based in this game that was created here in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin in the 1970s.

SPEAKER_05 27:18

What are the cool things here? What do you do at GaryKon? We're new to this. Um there's beer here. I see someone with a GaryKon beer cup that appears to be imminently refillable. Uh so what do you do at GaryKon?

SPEAKER_01 27:32

Well, uh, GaryKon is a a place to come. You buy your ticket and you get to uh basically spend four days playing games. Um there are dungeon masters. Dodgeball or what type of games are we talking about? Well, uh it's primarily tabletop role-playing, uh, but they're tabletop miniature war games. Um back in the 70s, the the first Gen Con took place here in Lake Geneva at Horticultural Hall. And at that time, it was primarily uh tabletop war gaming with little miniatures that you moved around and you determined what happened in the overall battle. Uh these days uh there are game masters or dungeon masters that are running small tables of events, so there will be up to seven tickets at any specific game uh that people will uh coordinate their schedules, they'll sign up for four hours at a time of a gaming session, uh, and they'll go from game to game to game over the course of their their weekend here. So they'll be playing uh the original Dungeons and Dragons, they'll be playing the newest edition. There are different systems like Dungeons and Dragons uh that use uh the the same dice but are different philosophies. So uh there's a little bit of everything here.

SPEAKER_05 28:43

So there's a guy that there's a lot of people here. It's crazy. Thanks for gonna set little overview. Uh could you just plug Griffin and Gargoyle? Because it's really cool what you're doing.

SPEAKER_01 28:54

Sure. Well, we we've chatted a little bit about it before, um, but we are opening uh an immersive fantasy entertainment center here in Lake Geneva uh on the property next to the Imagine Theater. Uh and we've got 20 acres of commercial property there, and we are currently working out the details and the cost-saving measures, but uh the heart of the project is the Griffin ⁇ Gargoyle Tavern. It's gonna be a 350-seat uh restaurant where all of our servers and bartenders are actors and fantasy character welcoming you into the fantasy world that we've created for the project. Uh we've got a fantastic group of creatives that have helped to develop the story behind the adventurers that founded the Griffin and Gargoyle. And some of that story we're actually working with scenic designers to write into the architecture of the building. So if you come in, you start with your dinner, you can explore the space and kind of try and figure out the story that that's hidden uh throughout there. Not quite like an escape room, but some of those similar elements where if you're paying close attention, you might learn something and might even unlock a feature or two uh to the experience that uh you wouldn't know was actually available just walking in the door.

SPEAKER_05 29:59

There's gonna be some cool stuff, so follow you on Facebook and Instagram, right?

SPEAKER_01 30:03

Yeah, there's definitely a lot of cool stuff. In addition to the restaurant, we have Curated Curiosities, which is gonna be our retail space. Uh we have the Barbarian in the basement, which is gonna be our axe throwing venue with 12 axe throwing lanes, and then we have the steampunk bar, the Gnome Alchemist, uh, where we'll have molecular mixology going on and uh molecular smoking bubbling drinks. It's gonna be fantastic.

SPEAKER_02 30:25

I don't know, that was good.

SPEAKER_01 30:27

Yeah. Uh so a lot of things going on there. Uh big things for us. Uh this fall, we're gonna be hosting a Kickstarter to cover some of the products that we'll be adding to the curated curiosity space. So be on the lookout for that. And you can find us on all the social media avenues.

SPEAKER_02 30:43

How can people best support you? Just pay attention to that Kickstarter, share your stuff, what?

SPEAKER_01 30:48

Uh yeah, so if following us on social media or filling out a contact form on our webpage are the two primary ways to make sure you're getting the best information and the the latest information from our crew. Uh, but then we would really be honored to have everybody support the project as we go into our Kickstarter this fall. Thanks, Daniel. Appreciate the overview. Thanks. Well, it's lovely to catch up with you guys, and I hope you have a fantastic time here at GaryCon 14.

SPEAKER_05 31:13

Hey Bridget, you want to interview your husband about what's going on?

unknown 31:16

I'll interview.

SPEAKER_02 31:17

I'll interview my husband. Hi, husband. Thanks, sweetheart. Thanks for listening to our podcast finally. Yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_04 31:22

I'm catching up slowly but surely.

SPEAKER_02 31:24

He's 800 episodes behind. So in 10 years, he'll be there. He literally hasn't listened to it in this until this week.

unknown 31:31

Two weeks ago.

SPEAKER_02 31:31

Two weeks ago. Okay, so what's been the highlight of your experience so far here at Gary Khan? Uh you're very tall. You need to speak closer to the microphone. Sorry.

SPEAKER_04 31:41

The highlight is that we're actually here in person and we don't have to do this virtually anymore. It's very nice to see people and play around the same table and to get back into my love of miniature wargaming.

SPEAKER_02 31:53

Okay, and you're here with one of your friends that you met through this experience?

SPEAKER_04 31:56

Yeah, his name is also Tyler, which is fantastic. Um he is one who really pushed my love for mini war gaming. And uh you own a mini war game store, correct?

SPEAKER_00 32:08

I used to manage a store. Oh I was there for almost 10 years, though.

SPEAKER_02 32:13

Warhammer, right, is your specialty, if you will?

SPEAKER_00 32:16

Yeah, Warhammer's like kind of what like kept me with gaming over the years. Uh I love painting minis, love like, you know, preparing everything, doing the scenery, all that. So that's always kind of been my thing.

SPEAKER_02 32:26

Um, my Tyler prefers to buy them already painted. What do you think about that? You can't do that.

SPEAKER_03 32:33

Plus, I haven't had the money. I have the money to do it.

SPEAKER_02 32:38

Ooh, the plot thickens, everybody. I'm here causing drama.

SPEAKER_04 32:45

It's okay. Some people do it, you know.

SPEAKER_01 32:47

I just don't have a lot of time for that stuff. You may not be able to tell over the air, but the whole aura of the bar here in the Lake Geneva just darkens.

SPEAKER_02 32:59

I'm sorry. Tyler is beat red. I love you. I'm sorry. It's all good. It's all good. Okay, and what do you have next on your agenda?

SPEAKER_04 33:09

Uh so I have a special game, the Siege of Rivendale, which is a Lord of the Rings uh mini war game setup that is on a giant uh like 8x12 table, and it's just it's a good recreation of some fun battles that, you know, between some orxies.

SPEAKER_02 33:24

Okay, some or I do have to say Tyler always buys his wife a gift when he's here. He has bought me 20-sided dye earrings, um which are they go with many of my outfits. But this year he bought me a gift. I showed up in the lobby, and it was coffee. Did you learn about this company at all? Can you tell people about it?

SPEAKER_04 33:44

They are from uh northwestern Indianapol Indiana. Indiana, yeah. Not Indianapolis. Um, and they have several different kinds of coffee that are all DD themed. Um, and they are supposedly delicious. We'll find out soon.

SPEAKER_02 33:57

Yeah, I'm gonna try them all. I love coffee, so it was a really great gift. Thank you. And if you want to wrap up by telling everybody what you bought our children to enjoy the last couple days.

SPEAKER_04 34:06

Um, so we bought some foam uh beat-em-up swords so they so that our kids could battle each other. Yeah, but they're foam and they're soft, so it's more appropriate than the things they use at home. Yeah. And we're just teaching them how to eventually become LARPers one day.

SPEAKER_02 34:20

All my dreams, everybody. Thanks, husband. Have fun at your game tonight.

SPEAKER_04 34:24

Thank you for supporting our hobby.

SPEAKER_02 34:25

Anytime. We are well, this is GaryCon. Are we at Gary Khan on Gary? GaryCon.

SPEAKER_05 34:35

We're walking back from the forum.

SPEAKER_04 34:43

So the Geneva Convention was formed, and um I believe the first one was at Horticultural Home. It was.

SPEAKER_02 34:50

There's a sign out front that says the first home of the first Gen Con.

SPEAKER_04 34:54

And then there was it switched over to George William College for a year, and then came back to Grand Geneva, and then it got bigger and moved to Milwaukee, and then watched it.

SPEAKER_05 35:02

Was it Grand Geneva or Americana? Ooh, I'm not sure which one it was. I would think Americana.

SPEAKER_02 35:08

I broke my ankle on the Americana Ski Hill.

SPEAKER_05 35:14

Um it's quite an experience. There's a lot of people, there's a lot of stuff. It's a big resort. It is honestly like one of America's great resorts in terms of the property, the way it's laid out. You can stay here all the time, there's lots to do, and it's all Gary Khan all the time. So there's a lot to take on. Uh, Bridget, what would you have to say about this?

SPEAKER_02 35:35

I think actually I want to hang out here. It's just like uh an interesting sect of society. Sect.

unknown 35:42

Sect.

SPEAKER_04 35:43

Section. Oh, it's like really caring and involved people that enjoy their communities and it's a lot of people.

SPEAKER_02 35:48

And I'm serious, it's not a world I would normally be a part of, and I want to stay here, is what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_05 35:52

Well, the great thing is there's a lot of worlds that you could be a part of here.

SPEAKER_02 35:56

There is! What's your favorite world, Tyler?

SPEAKER_04 36:00

Uh oh wow, you can't spring that on me.

SPEAKER_02 36:03

Are you sweaty?

SPEAKER_04 36:04

Uh a little sweaty. I mean, um gosh, I don't I couldn't even tell you right now.

SPEAKER_02 36:11

Well, you'll have to come back on our podcast and answer in four months when you're ready.

SPEAKER_05 36:17

So, Gary Khan, cool thing. Lots of people. It's a totally different world, guys. If you you should I'm so glad we came.

SPEAKER_02 36:24

I'm so glad we came.

SPEAKER_05 36:26

Tyler, if people want to get involved with like weird tabletop games. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 36:31

You should uh check out your local public library or community groups. There's always a DD game going on.

SPEAKER_02 36:36

Great.

SPEAKER_05 36:36

Well, on that note, that was GaryCon.

SPEAKER_02 36:39

I love you, husband.

SPEAKER_05 36:40

I love you too, Tyler.

SPEAKER_02 36:57

We're back.

SPEAKER_05 36:59

Oh, I bet you didn't really expect us to go out to we didn't plan on that.

SPEAKER_02 37:02

Surprise! We love unplanned things.

SPEAKER_05 37:05

We have uh we had a a different uh segment planned. We'll bring it to you later.

SPEAKER_02 37:10

Yeah, we'll bring it to you next week, maybe. Um wasn't that fun? No, just for us? Okay.

SPEAKER_05 37:16

I love it. I had to drop some brats off with uh Dustin. Yeah, so it worked, huh? Chef Urbanic. He's a talented guy.

SPEAKER_02 37:22

I only kind of know him, but I believe he is. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 37:25

So that that worked out perfectly.

SPEAKER_02 37:27

Yeah, so we hope you enjoyed it. I have never actually gotten to see that, so how fun. Yay.

SPEAKER_05 37:32

Uh I already told you all about the great food I had. I don't want to skip this segment because Bridget actually made notes on it this week.

SPEAKER_02 37:38

I made a real dish. It wasn't just like pasta and chicken.

SPEAKER_05 37:41

I made pizzola.

SPEAKER_02 37:42

Although it was pasta still.

SPEAKER_05 37:43

But there's nothing wrong with pasta, unless it's the pasta I made two weeks ago and told you it was a complete disaster.

SPEAKER_02 37:48

Yeah, it wasn't that. That was what far too involved for me. So, but I did make homemade veggie lomain. So veggie be kind of weird. Asian food of some sort. That's like, did you really? Oh, I actually did, yes. Oh, you actually didn't believe me. Yes, I did with a homemade sauce. Like oh my god. So Tyler had that sauce from his library event that he had to do for work.

SPEAKER_05 38:10

Um Lake Geneva Country Meats sponsored premium butcher shop, sponsored an event for the it's not food stamps, but food stamps, vegetarian meals.

SPEAKER_02 38:23

Everybody, this is a joke. Don't get crazy, but Lake Geneva Country Meats did lend some equipment to help. So um We're all for my husband works for public health. And he had, long story short, but he had to make a um tofu, like vegetarian stir fry dish thing for a thing for work. So he had come up with a recipe for the sauce. He found it somewhere. But so Chef Tyler, I love it. So he was like, Do you just want to use my sauce? He had it memorized. He's like, You need one cup of this and a tablespoon of this. I'm like, okay. So yeah, I made homemade veggie lomain. I had the low-main noodles and everything because I had planned to make this for something else. And it was delicious. Like, I didn't have any meat thawed, so I didn't care because it was just meat. Like the kids had eaten, it was like freaking 8 p.m. And you know, I starting dinner. But it was delish and then great leftovers.

SPEAKER_05 39:10

I gotta tell you, I'm a fan of tofu. It's so beyond burgers that I'm like, this is wrong. Like tofu, it's just soy. Like it's fine, it's a plant. I like it. You know, you need to fry the crap out of it. Yeah, it was like fry it. You need to fry the crap out of it and douse it in soy sauce. So then it's great. It isn't healthy, but it's like crispy and savory and umami and uncuous and delicious. Unctuous twice in one pot. Uh but these like beyond burgers and stuff where it's like, I still want a burger. No, tofu is its own thing. Yeah, very different. But like beyond burgers, I'm not on board with that. That's a whole different podcast.

SPEAKER_02 39:46

Maybe we'll do a beyond burger tasting from the butcher shop. Uh I'm all in that. Yeah, I've never tried one because I don't feel the need to. I went and got a beyond whopper. Oh, why?

SPEAKER_05 39:57

Of all the things. Well, it was my easiest opportunity to try a beyond. Yeah, you're right. That's fair. Uh it got thrown out in about three bites.

SPEAKER_02 40:04

That makes sense to me.

SPEAKER_05 40:06

It was really not good.

SPEAKER_02 40:07

Was it not flavorful?

SPEAKER_05 40:08

Was it texture weird, all the above? So they had to throw so much not MSG at it to make it um give me all the MSG. So I would have preferred if it's MSG.

SPEAKER_03 40:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 40:22

So it was they had to make it more savory because this is gross. Um, the the protein structures that you get from the blood, um, but it's not blood, it's water and iron. Um, the structure and flavor that adds, you have to replace that. So they like lab create that, and it tastes lab created, in my opinion. And the texture, so this is always the thing I say about like when I do wine service, right? I the burger was like 85% of the way to what a burger is. Okay. But what you taste is the like this is slightly off and s on texture, flavor, and like smell. So you're like, I hate this. Because that's so many of your senses. But like a bean burger where it's only like halfway there, you're like, oh, it's something different.

SPEAKER_02 41:07

Yeah, and like beans are real food.

SPEAKER_05 41:09

Yeah, so it's better to be like when I do wine service, I just like ham it up. I'm like, hey, here's a little bit, you know, because I'm pretty good, but you would notice like he's not a Somalier if I did my best.

SPEAKER_02 41:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 41:20

So like the Beyond Burger is like clearly not a burger that's trying to be a burger, and you're like, this is not a burger, I don't want it. Whereas a bean burger, you're like, oh, it's just beans.

SPEAKER_02 41:29

It's just beans in a burger shape. Anyway, that's my rant about that. I did not make a beyond burger, but my lomain was good. Sounds good. I mean Hey, I'm just proud I made like a different dish. We love, love, love, love, love all the kinds of Asian foods. So we're trying to make more at home because like it's immensely more um affordable and healthy.

SPEAKER_05 41:48

Wow. I just read the album. Yeah, didn't you? All right, I'm gonna go first. So it's time for Kid Cutter. Uh I cut myself. He did. Uh more on that some other time. Um it's not bad. It's not good.

SPEAKER_02 42:03

Just everyone had a different opinion about it. It could be worse, could be worse.

SPEAKER_05 42:07

Could be worse, could be better. Uh, but it definitely required um, didn't require stitches. Some people thought it did, they're wrong. Um, but definitely needs to be like covered and many band-aids bound together a little bit. Um, so it heals. Um and Simona is definitely in the stage where she loves band-aids. And uh God, yeah. Kim, our manager told us the our retail manager, chief media master said, Oh no, you made the mistake of getting cute band-aids.

SPEAKER_02 42:33

You did! Yes, they're so expensive.

SPEAKER_05 42:36

Well, we got one kid, who cares?

SPEAKER_02 42:38

That's the principle. I'm like, these 12 band-aids are four dollars. I could get a hundred for a dollar. So, you know, so Dr.

SPEAKER_05 42:46

Mona, she loves her band-aids, and I'm like, you know what the silver lining of this whole situation is? Is Dr. Mona is gonna be like, Daddy, I could help.

SPEAKER_02 42:56

Daddy, let me help. Wait, are we calling her Mona now?

SPEAKER_05 42:59

No, but uh she called herself Dr. Mona once.

SPEAKER_02 43:02

Uh yeah, because we call her Mona So when she's doctor, it's Dr.

SPEAKER_05 43:05

Mona.

SPEAKER_02 43:05

Dr. Mona at your service.

SPEAKER_05 43:08

I mean, it sounds like you know, yeah. Um so this morning, she's you know, she got up a little bit before I was in the bathroom. I see um Nanicam, she's out, and I'm like, this is gonna be awesome. So she's sitting eating her breakfast, watching Beast, as we call, you know, the Beast. But not the live action one. Not the live action one. And I go out there and I go, Sammo, Daddy has an oui, and she goes, Oh no, daddy needs band-aids. There's 900 band-aids. And I'm like, Could you help daddy? And she stopped watching the movie, stopped eating, got off her stool, ran to where we keep the band-aids, got them, opened the band-aid herself. Genius. Took it I mean, like, she's young enough where like to peel that thing apart. Like, did all the steps, puts it on like. Like pretty darn well.

SPEAKER_02 44:01

This I gotta I gotta tell you, this top one's really driving me crazy.

SPEAKER_05 44:04

That was the one she screwed up.

SPEAKER_02 44:06

Yeah, she can't be perfect, okay?

SPEAKER_05 44:09

But it was the cutest thing ever. She said, Mona help.

SPEAKER_02 44:12

Oh, it's Mona.

SPEAKER_05 44:13

Dad, dad, you you uh Mona help.

SPEAKER_02 44:15

Here's the real test. Do you know what princesses are on your band aids?

SPEAKER_05 44:18

Uh Jasmine and uh I don't know what this one is. I don't either.

SPEAKER_02 44:22

But I'm glad you know Jasmine.

SPEAKER_05 44:24

It's the one so she also has this like or Tangled, the girl from Tangle. I think that's Rapunzel, yeah. That's Rapunzel. One of them. There you go. She has this um like uh Bento box thing with the cover that has we're like, I don't know what this middle one is. Because it's like it looks like Rapunzel, but there's toe.

SPEAKER_02 44:39

Oh, is it from um uh Target?

SPEAKER_05 44:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:43

Everything we have that's what I was like, I gotta tell you, Bent Go, which is an actual brand. Or uh home goods. I gotta give them some credit because I got two lunchboxes from them that aren't cheap. One of them got mold on it immediately, and I was like, what the fuck? And I wrote them a message and like almost no questions asked, they mailed me a brand new one. Nice. Just saying. Sorry for the fourth product rack. Um, well, good job with the band-aids.

SPEAKER_05 45:06

Uh, very proud of you, Mona, as I look at the camera again. Please fix the top one. Um If I have to look at the princesses on your hand, Nick. This is gonna be, I mean, Gary Khan loved this. I can't wait. Um fit right in on the game.

SPEAKER_02 45:20

I think we're gonna go back. We're gonna like that. I think we just need to go back. JK, we're not going back.

SPEAKER_05 45:26

I mean, I've there's some way we gotta hack a sponsorship out of this, right?

SPEAKER_02 45:30

Feels like we could. I mean, we kind of pulled the like we're a podcast. Feels like we could sell jerky. Yeah. Let's get a booth next year. Let's do it. I mean Grand Geneva, can we please make profit?

SPEAKER_05 45:41

So, okay, so little story. Um The first time I went with Tyler. You've gone with Tyler? I've gone with Tyler. I had a meeting there. This was I've never been. This was I'm gonna get in trouble now. I'm sure Tyler would love for me to go. So this was man, four years ago, five years ago. It was our last festival. No, it was two festivals. Anyway, I had a planning meeting, business meeting at Grand Geneva during Gary Khan. And I was walking out, and I quite literally ran into Tyler. Oh, really? Quite literally. Who was you know three Guinnesses deep because it was a week earlier.

unknown 46:16

What?

SPEAKER_05 46:17

And uh Tyler is the world's best hawker.

SPEAKER_02 46:21

Yeah, especially after a couple and you'd think Tyler could handle more alcohol. We gotta be careful because Tyler's listening to our podcast.

SPEAKER_05 46:27

So he took uh he took me around and we played, you know, he showed me all the games and stuff, and he apologized right up front for the smells. Oh, dude, let me tell you.

SPEAKER_02 46:36

And I'll say hot now.

SPEAKER_05 46:38

Yes. So if we sell beef jerky, it will just contribute to the smells. We'll be great.

SPEAKER_02 46:42

Okay, I know we're getting off track, but I have to tell you. I used to work at the convention center in Milwaukee, and we worked there, so I know this world. We worked there, I worked there when anime, so there wanted to be an anime convention in Milwaukee, and like people did not understand it at all. And I was like, you guys, this is gonna draw a crowd and like this is gonna be a big deal. And no one believed me. Well, sure as shit, it was and still is. But one of the rooms that they rented out, they wanted it to be a 24-hour gaming room. And we, as a center, uh, people that got paid more than me, decided that we had to close the room for like three, two or three hours in a 24-hour period to air it out. Like we literally closed the room for three hours, made everyone leave to air it out. It's incredible. Because otherwise, these people these people will not leave for a couple days and they're just in their own world. And I I didn't used to understand it, but I have to tell you, like, it is such a cool community of people. And they've got again, like ride or die people is what I'm I'm like, your friend, those are the best friends in the world. That anyway, I could go on forever. Okay, gotta tell you about my kid corner. Next week I hope to have one about Elliot because Elliot got to go to GaryCon, but I need Tyler to like get off his GaryCon high and tell me more stories about that. So till next week for that. But this week, little update on my not even three-year-old. Her um, her stripping moves are getting worse.

unknown 48:08

Like, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 48:09

Oh, is it this story? Yeah, well, oh I don't even know if you know this because I started recording it to be like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_05 48:16

You know, Apple is checking your phone for kitty porn now, right?

SPEAKER_02 48:19

Well, that'll be fascinating. You're gonna get flags. I'll be like, this is my daughter. Um, she, so we have a we have a freezer drawer, like where you pull the drawer out. Like, so it's double door fridge and then the drawer. She grabbed the door. Um, she grabbed like the handle of the freezer and then like bent over and just like stripper danced with a skirt on. I'm like, oh my God. I need to get her to stop this, but she thinks it's so funny. And so anyway, just here to report that it's getting worse. Um, send help. Help. That's all I got for you. Nick is speechless. Never, that never happens. I gotta finish my cocktail.

SPEAKER_05 49:03

Um I love Lucy so dearly. She's uh such a great kid. Uh I've known her since she was very little. Um I mean, maybe you should have called her Lucille.

SPEAKER_02 49:16

I mean, that is her name. Anyway, guys, thanks for like sticking with us, making a spur-of-the-moment decision. That was a fun surprise for all of us. Because, you know, we like to plan. But we went off the cuff today. Because Garrakhan only happens once a year. Nick is wildly, feverishly texting something over there, you guys. Trying to figure out some logistics. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 49:39

Uh, this day has gone off the rails. We have a beer tasting after this.

SPEAKER_02 49:42

Um, yeah, that's fun. It should be summer sometime.

SPEAKER_05 49:46

I don't we got like five weeks of deliveries of wine that I haven't put away.

SPEAKER_02 49:50

Uh so we're doing great, everybody. And Mercury is not in retrograde. I checked. So what else can we blame it on? Someone tell us. Some like horoscope. COVID? Is it some horoscope thing? Like, anyway, thanks for sticking with us. Who does blame it on the alcohol?

SPEAKER_05 50:05

Blame it on the uh they should redo it as blame it on the cup. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, blame it on the SARS, blame it on blame it on Alpha, Omega, oh blah, blah.

SPEAKER_02 50:16

What if we went a whole episode without singing? Jamie Foxx? Oh, blame it tea pain and Jamie Foxx.

SPEAKER_05 50:22

There we go.

SPEAKER_02 50:22

Okay, I'm weird. Well, guys, uh, we asked for a lot of feedback from you. Like how many photos are on your phone? Can anyone beat my 46,000 photos? Uh, hello at dinnerplusdrinks.com.

SPEAKER_05 50:32

Y'all are G's. Y'all. Hope you have cassette tapes of Fiddy Cent. Fiddy Cent. Um and Bon Jovi. Slava Ucran, or whatever the Thanks, guys. Have a great week. Bye. Still with the camera.