Weird Infections - Dinner Plus Drinks #76

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Hello everybody! Welcome to an edition of Dinner Plus Drinks that you are not gonna want to miss because woo! Woo! I want to start by what we're drinking today. Um I kept it secret. It's in this beautiful Packers Koozy. It's from Indeed Brewing in Minneapolis and uh Milwaukee, and I picked it out before I knew everything that was happening this week because I was giving it as a sample. Thank you very much indeed. And it commemorates something very important that happened this week and might otherwise get lost. It's called Lucy. It's called Lucy. It's a session shower. It's a little spritzy, a little sour, a little sweet.

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Just like my Lucy. Oh, little sweet, little sassy. Who turned two? Turn two. Little Lou is two. Yeah, she had a birthday. On Taco Tuesday. Yeah, good call. Um yeah, Lucy turned two. It was bonkers. We're gonna talk about it more later because it was insane. Um, but it was so fun. She turned two on Tuesday. So we did Taco Tuesday for her birthday party theme, which was so easy. I gave up all of my like trying to be a superhero mom because like the only thing I feel like matters is if I make my kids' birthday cake. So I'm like, if I make the cake, and by make it, I mean make it out of a box. So like if I'm make it out of a box and frost it myself, I feel like I'm did something. Even though I've decorated a party, like I've wrapped beautiful, thoughtful presents, but that's the thing that like is the marker for me. Well, this year I tried to make a cake in the shape of a taco. Don't know why. Like one that stood up, and I was like, Well, I can do this. This is easy.

SPEAKER_00 1:51

It was not easy. There are literally three quality bakers that are a hill roll away from you.

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Dude, I am not kidding that I am planning five hours in advance. I'm not a day in advance, even more or less a week. I am I am today not sure what I'm doing in one hour.

SPEAKER_00 2:08

Well, that's okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:09

So we're doing great. So yeah, Lucy's birthday. That's the overview. So I short poured you on this. So I'm short poured.

SPEAKER_00 2:14

I short poured you.

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I am on the show. First of all, cheers. Okay, sure. And then we'll explain.

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Cheers to Lucy. Happy birthday, Lucy.

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Happy birthday, Lou. There's a lot to celebrate in my house this week. We have a lot to talk about.

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This is yummy. It's just like Lucy. A little sweet, little spritzy, a little sour. Oh, it's a little sour. Just like Lucy.

SPEAKER_02 2:32

Woo. I'm short poured, you guys, because I'm on some medication. That's only kind of working. Um, do I go into this all right now? Are we subject? Are we doing this? I don't know. Um I thought I think we should do it before the political rant we're about to go on.

SPEAKER_00 2:49

Um it's not really political, it's societal more than political.

SPEAKER_02 2:53

You're right. Um I got a bit of an infection, um, which sounds disgusting. I'm alive, I'm standing for now, so it's good. Um, I got bitten by something in an area that you don't want to get bitten necessarily. So I think it was a tick. Uh, which like this is the most Wisconsin sounding thing in the world. I've never had a ticket.

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We did the House Gonson RU, and guess what?

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Bridget just got a point. Upgraded. Tyler is like, yeah, man, I've gotten like a thousand tick bites. Whatever. I've never seen a tick, I've never gotten bitten. I don't know nothing about ticks, except that my neighbor has Lyme disease and talks a lot about it. So I was terrified that I was gonna have Lyme disease. So I got bitten like a week and a half ago, um, long before Memorial Day weekend. And I was in the garden, and this is why I don't garden.

SPEAKER_00 3:38

Sorry, Bridget. This is my fault.

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I got bitten, it was fine for a while, and then it really wasn't fine. Um, it is it is in an area that my underwear are.

SPEAKER_00 3:50

I'm very worried you might lose a leg.

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Um, it's in a really unfortunate spot that moves and bends all the time, right on the groin line there. Um, and it is wildly infected. So um it's getting better now, I think. My medicine just took a while to uh work and there's no abscess. We've had an ultrasound, I've had some blood drawn, I've been spent 1,200 hours at the doctor's office this week, and I hopefully have to stay out of the ER this weekend because next step is IV antibiotics. But I'm doing great, you guys. Okay, so I'm just not drinking much because I'm on a couple antibiotics. So let's hope they keep working.

SPEAKER_00 4:32

I do enjoy this beer. I like the little session sours indeed are newer to Milwaukee. They got kind of screwed. They launched last yeah 2019 fall, yep. We're very popular, and then guess what happened? The life ruiner. But they stopped in this week, dropped off some samples, talked. Um, it's actually a really cool tap room when you I don't know if we can go in there right now. Uh but what I opened as in there, I was like, that's cool. They're also in the Twin Cities, which is great. They make some really crushable beers with really pretty cans. Uh Bridget picked last IPA day, she picked the Indeed Flavor Wave IPA as the one she's most likely to buy because of the pretty can art.

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So I mean, it was beautiful. I do love their cans.

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Do you ever they also have the Hello Milwaukee beer, which is really delicious? So if you ever see in their stuff, it's great beer. Nice people.

SPEAKER_02 5:19

I love this. I love the art. Great job, indeed.

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Speaks to good choice.

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Speaks to my Lucy. I feel like you need a follow-up of what was that last week?

SPEAKER_00 5:29

That was last week. So last week we had the discussion about Naomi Osaka, who decided the tennis player, number two tennis player in the world, who decided not to do press for her mental well-being. Well, um the four Grand Slam tournaments, the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open, in a very rare, almost unprecedented joint statement said we're gonna find Naomi Osaka, and if she continues to do this, she will be barred from the tournaments.

SPEAKER_02 5:59

Wait, they all that's surprising.

SPEAKER_00 6:01

It was joint. Wow. As a united front. Um, also important to know that the French Open in particular, since this is their tournament, tried very hard to get in touch with her and say, Hey, can we can we talk about this? Are you okay? Yeah. And she just didn't even talk to him. Really? Didn't talk to him. Um, every other player on tour, as I think I predicted, got asked about it and said, It's your effing job, Naomi Osaka. Oh, did they? Yep. Was there anyone that didn't? I think everybody was very sympathetic to her and said, Okay, you know, this is paraphrasing a lot of people, because literally every player was asked about it, but you know, it it can be a challenge, but we're here for the fans. The press is our access to the fans, and it's something that we have to treat as a job because this is our job.

SPEAKER_02 6:41

So their PR agents told them to do that.

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Um, Ash Bardy in particular, who is, I think, number three woman in the world, she's Strigin. Um, and she gets a lot of press too because she is probably the big ath biggest athlete in Australia right now. Um said, Look, this is my job. I'm very grateful that it's my job, but press is part of the job, and we have to do it. She was one of the kind of strongest coming out and saying, eh. Uh, and these are their peers, these are whatever. Well, Naomi Osaka won her first round match in very convincing fashion, and then promptly got fined and quit. She quit the tournament because she said, I have too much anxiety. I've had depression since um 2018 when she won the US Open. Uh, if people remember that, she beat Serena Williams. Serena Williams was the overwhelming favorite. She had just come back from having her first, well, her only child, uh, her daughter. And she had some, she got fine, or she got points, she lost points because she was coached during the match, and like it was the cor correct call, but it was kind of one of those like you've never the referee is never the umpire had never ever like find or made a point deduction for that for anybody else and could have done a like hey, stop it. Oh, and Serena lost her shit. Like, oh, I remember this and she started screaming, I'm a mother, you're calling me a cheat, I have a daughter.

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Yeah, that was a bit much.

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It was a bit much, and like that scarred Naomi, and like it was a terrible thing, but also like uh you know like what does having a mother have to do with getting in trouble for that?

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Or being a mother, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 8:19

I think she was in I think Serena Williams was in a really weird mental place of she was just like it was like four months, yeah. And oh, like when the rest of us have to go to work? Yeah, but you know, things change when you have a a a child, uh chemically speaking, um watching Nick tape toe around this subject. Chemically speaking, things change. Uh your taste buds change, uh Women become crazy. Your your mental priorities change, and I think for Serena Williams, she really wanted to win it for her daughter who was there. Okay. Um so anyway, uh and Eddie, so Naomi came out and said, I'm depressed, I'm quitting for a while to focus on myself. And the mainstream press piled on tennis of this is what's terrible about sports that we and that is and then the four grain slims ramply issued a statement saying that hey, we're here for Naomi Osaka, we want to have a discussion about this, we support you 100%. And the mainstream and then they didn't take any questions because really why would you do a press conference taking questions about a player's mental health? Yes tiptoe. So but the mainstream press is like, oh, they just turn tail and they're not even taking questions when they expect her. It's like that's totally different.

SPEAKER_02 9:30

Like So what are people saying about her quitting?

SPEAKER_00 9:33

Are they just people are generally pretty so like people within the sport are very supportive and like look, you know, we do what you gotta do, we can't wait to have you back competing.

SPEAKER_02 9:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:41

People outside this, and I think fans are the same way, where it's like, you know, you you can't, it's a competitive advantage to to not do press.

SPEAKER_02 9:49

Yeah, like this is more if you had a mental health challenge, an issue, yeah, this makes more sense.

SPEAKER_00 9:54

Right, and I think people really do agree with some of her points.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:00

And say she just maybe went around it. She went around it completely the wrong way. And so people want to have that discussion, both tournament directors, other players, fans, everyone's like, yeah, I get it. But the people outside of tennis that don't understand how the sport works and don't understand it's a very different game than football, for instance. They're like piling on about this is another misogynistic thing. Of course you did it to a woman of color, blah, blah, blah, blah.

SPEAKER_02 10:22

And it's it's not I mean, I don't understand the sport or care about it or any of those things. I I I uh respect that I know nothing about it, so I'm sure there are intricate intricacies to it. But what I think is the right choice is she stepped away, which really is what she needed to do from the beginning to protect her mental health. Not like, I'll just take one piece of this incredibly public lifestyle away. It you still in the public eye.

SPEAKER_00 10:45

And her second round matchup gets like a free hundred thousand dollar check for winning that match now. Like good for you. But yeah, so that's what we're so that's the update. Good. Okay, okay. We obviously wish Naomi Osaka, if you are, which we have to believe she is, really suffering from real depression and and not general angst about the world, which I think we all are and have to learn to deal with. Angst is real. Um we we wish you the best of luck with doing that. You're not my favorite tennis player. I think you've made some of the choices that put yourself in this situation, but I I hope you get help, and I'm I hope that you emerge from this in a position to have meaningful, productive conversations about mental health within the sport.

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And good for you for taking the first step.

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Good for you, Naomi.

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That's the hardest.

SPEAKER_00 11:30

It is. It is do whatever you need to do. That goes for everybody. It's easier when you have a lot of money, though.

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Um that wraps up our comments on mental health awareness month, but wishing a happy pride to everybody out there. So one of my favorite months. It's, you know, June is a busy month in our house and it kicks off really happy and continues on. And I just wanted to wish a happy pride to everybody out there. So there you go. Look at us. All right, guys. So, food. Food.

SPEAKER_00 12:03

Did we eat any real food this week? Well, can you eat food? Well, so I think I offered you about 72 things you can't eat for snacks.

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Elliot even knows. So I'm 90, and one of the medications I'm on, apparently I can't be in the sun for like a prolonged amount of time, which is fine because it's like 90 and sunny all weekend. I don't want to go swimming. That's fine. You should go on vacation in Seattle. They said, you know what you can do? You can be outside if you need to, but like, I know it's gonna be hot. You just need to wear pants and a long sleeve and a hat.

SPEAKER_00 12:32

Well, that's what I do. Oh, well, everybody made fun of me on the boat for you.

SPEAKER_02 12:36

Yeah, that's BS man. I wouldn't, I won't do it. I won't do it.

SPEAKER_00 12:40

Well, I don't want skin cancer. Sorry.

SPEAKER_02 12:42

I mean this has nothing to do with skin cancer. So anyway, I'm not allowed to be in the sun, just plus eating amiibos. Just whatever's eating my insides. I also am not allowed to have dairy or calcium or anything. So most dairy, I don't know how much because no one could tell me, nor do I know how many hours away from the medication. The pharmacist and my doctor said, just a couple hours, or I wouldn't eat a bowl of ice cream or yogurt with this with your medicine. A couple hours, several hours, a few hours, a bunch of hours. Make sure you take these two medications at separate times, but not one with dairy or iron. I literally put a Tums in my mouth last night and took one bite and then scraped it out of my mouth because I was like, this is a calcium pill. This is a pill of calcium, and I just took my medication. Anyway, I don't know how people do this. I don't take daily medications, uh, you know, mostly. Uh I so like I don't know how people balance this. I'm on two and I'm losing my mind, and it's for seven days. I don't know how to do it longer than that. So uh yeah, I'm having a hard time eating um because I don't know how to eat dairy freaks. I also don't go on diets like that.

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And I tend to do with the best thing that I ate, kind of this week, which was your idea. I know, but I couldn't even have half. And you couldn't even eat any of it, really. So don't cutery. Don't cutery. I don't know if you all saw our video from Lake Stream Country Meets, but you should. Friday, the day we're recording this, but two days at the minimum after you've listened to this, before you've listened to this, was National Donut Day and National Cheese Day. Um, that's like the maybe my favorite day. Josie commented her favorite day. It's amazing, right? Yep. All the great things. So we tried to combine them. We did a um donut grilled cheese that was rancid looking. Horrible. Uh we did donut uh fondue that was also terrible.

SPEAKER_02 14:34

Well, you did lip dip a blueberry donut into queso.

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To be fair. It was not good. Yep, didn't look good. But what we did do was a donut charcuterie board with cheese and a salami river and nuts and fruit and which didn't look good. And uh it was kind of fun, yeah. You got a little sweet, a little sweet little savory, a little this and that.

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And that was not our worst idea.

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But poor Bridget. I know, suffering. Sitting there filming it, all the yummy cheese, all the yummy raunchies. Couldn't have any all the nuts, all the donuts, cream-filled donuts.

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Couldn't have that. I could have those plain nuts though, and those apricots, I think. I don't know. Shannon was dairy-free for a while, so Shannon, could you write me a menu for the next like four days?

SPEAKER_00 15:15

Those apricots are, you know, a dried one, so they got uh more of something. I think that I can't keep it together on this.

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I'm gonna come up with a reason you can't eat everything. I ate a peanut butter cracker and then I looked at the label. It was like, this may contain milk. I'm like, okay, I think this is fine, right? Anyway, it's been a weird week. Uh that's all I could say. It's been a freaking crazy week. So I ate I ate takeout from Sebias Bai, which is delicious. I got vegetables and there was no dairy in it, and so I called it a win. Tyler, thank you for making me eat that.

SPEAKER_00 15:49

Good job, Ty. So, anyway, on to the news. Tyler, you're gonna listen to this in about a year and a half when you're caught up. So good job.

SPEAKER_02 15:56

Thank you a year and a half ago for the case.

SPEAKER_00 15:58

Give yourself a pat on the back.

SPEAKER_02 16:00

Um, I live under a rock and I have no idea what's going on in the world these days. Like this week. Can you update me on any current events? I should have just asked for news stories this week if you could have just like done a quick snapshot of what's going on in the world.

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Well, Joe Biden's still trying to get the infrastructure plan done. Okay, okay. And there's a lot of Democratic senators that uh aren't really interested in helping. Okay. There's a lot of uh Voting Rights Act things happening throughout the world, and 60 people in the Senate wanted to vote for it, and 40 people said no, and democracy means that it doesn't happen. Right, yep. Makes sense. The Arizona thing is insane. Yeah. Um the Russians hacked JBS Swift, which is the world's largest producer of proteins, and our meat supply got, you know, just like the pipeline. Heard about that. Um, let's see, what else?

SPEAKER_02 16:49

What else is going on?

SPEAKER_00 16:50

The United States beat Honduras in a Nations Cup qualifier, and we'll play Mexico in the final.

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These are all of the updates I was looking for. Thank you. Um what's happening in the meat production market and what's happening in the International Soccer.

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Um let's see, what else? More uh there's more sanctions against Lukashenko and Belarus for his abduction of the journalist dude. Oh, oh, yeah, abduction of the journalist dude.

SPEAKER_02 17:16

I do appreciate an update on that.

SPEAKER_00 17:18

Um more sanctions against him. We haven't really seen any more video of the journalist dude. He's probably gonna be murdered in his sleep in prison. Hopefully, for him, it's in his sleep, nothing. I was like, I feel like it's not gonna be in his sleep. Um, but sadly, you know, unfortunate.

SPEAKER_02 17:32

Wow, thanks for the end of the day.

SPEAKER_00 17:34

Uh Israel. Um they uh are very close to forcing Sharon out uh with a new government, and it seems it seems like good to get him out because he's corrupt and like has started a war basically to keep himself in power that killed a bunch of people. But also the person that looks like he's gonna be the new president seems to be uh more of an ultra nationalist. So who knows?

SPEAKER_02 17:58

Okay, well, nothing exciting and new. Is there any good news? No, I'll tell you my good news. This is an old story, um, but I it just came up again in my news feed. I don't even know if we've shared it here, but you all need to know about it because I am in the depths of school right now, right? Today, as we're recording as Elliot's last lake. Elliot had his 4K fly up, his graduation yesterday, and he it's uh his last day of school, which is funny that I literally brought him to school today to like just play outside for two hours because it's field day.

SPEAKER_00 18:28

Hey, you don't have to watch him.

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This is exactly what Shannon said. I'm like, well, daycare could have kept watching him and it saved me some driving. Anyway, it's his last day of school, and um my husband, and therefore I am sure Elliot will one day love to doodle. So, like, and Tyler's a good doodler.

SPEAKER_00 18:45

I'm Tyler's a very good doodler.

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Yes, he's a good doodler. I'm not a good doodler. Like, I like to do things, but he's a good doodler. So I feel like Elliot will be. So um, if you haven't heard this story, there is a boy who kept getting in trouble for doodling um at school. And so now a restaurant has hired him essentially, has allowed him to doodle all over the walls of their restaurant. He's nine years old, and I think this is the best way to be like, hey, instead of um, hey, nine-year-old, you are his name is Joe. Joe, you are clearly using art as an expression for something, some feelings. And instead of punishing you for that, I'd like to celebrate that. And maybe just don't do it during school time, but otherwise come and show your art to everybody. So if we have talked about this, sorry. If we haven't, I want to use it as a way to say, hey, art is a thing. Art therapy is a thing. Um my cousin's currently doing a really cool art therapy project. Um, so I I won't go into all the details to respect their privacy, but Jack, you are doing an awesome thing with art therapy right now. And I never really, I just never really paid attention as much to it until I had a uh family member talk about it. And now I'm I think there's a reason this article came back in my life. So anyway, love this. It's in England, even better. So good job, Joe. I want to see your restaurant one day.

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I got some great news. Great news, kind of. Is it? Um, got a listener email from Seattle, our number one West Coast listening fan, Brittany. Our number one fan. Shout out. Um, she responded as a vegetarian that she doesn't think she would eat a cicada. Uh, I'm not sure if she was speaking for all vegetarians. I don't think she was either, but she said no. I also will not be eating cicadas. Oh no? The FDA came out and announced in one of the weirdest announcements you will ever see, because they were all of these how to eat cicadas thing. Everybody heard about it on Thitter Plus Drinks podcast. Thanks, Bridget. Blowing it up. Good article. So the FDA had to come out and say, um, if you're allergic to shrimp, they're actually related to cicadas and you can't eat cicadas. What? Oh, so that's your out? So I'm allergic to shrimp. I have not eating no cicadas because I know I would have been forced to eat some. I was gonna bake some this week, but you know. So no, no cicadas. If you are like me and you are allergic to the shrimp. Oh, I'm gonna start lying and saying I'm allergic to shrimp. Don't eat the cicadas. They will do whatever they do to you. In my case, my throat swells up and uh it makes it hard to breathe, and I start to violently expel the shrimp from my from my body.

SPEAKER_02 21:15

I would have run away if that happened.

SPEAKER_00 21:17

So, um yeah, I'm not gonna eat the cicadas.

SPEAKER_02 21:20

Um, I'm really glad we know that because what if I actually did make a cicada thing and you would have had an allergic reaction right here on YouTube?

SPEAKER_00 21:27

I'm always very terrified when people come over about allergies. I always check with that stuff, you know?

SPEAKER_02 21:32

Oh, that's nice of you.

SPEAKER_00 21:33

The first time you guys came over for dinner, I had to, you know.

SPEAKER_02 21:35

You did. I guess I feel like if you have a life-threatening allergy, lead with that.

SPEAKER_00 21:39

I'm in the food production business. I'm very like good about that. I don't want to hear your bullshit. I'm gluten free, but like uh it's just because I want to be skinny. That's that's there's no there's no correlation there. If you're a celiac, I have cider for you. I have almond flour, we can deal with that and make it. But anyway, I Actually, I had a another story too about pride. I was gonna let you keep going on that. That was fun. It's about it's about pride. And it was a butcher shop that wanted to make a political statement, and their pride flag is a cow, a pig, a lamb, a chicken, and a fish. They're all inclusive too.

SPEAKER_02 22:16

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_00 22:16

Nope. I just made it. Oh, I was like, are you serious? But I'm thinking that might be our pride flag.

SPEAKER_02 22:20

I love that. I thought this was like we're doing a fun play on it. Maybe that's offensive. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 22:26

I think it would be.

SPEAKER_02 22:27

Yeah, it would be. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 22:28

But wouldn't that be cool if we we, for pride, we had like the rainbow flag and co-opted it and made it.

SPEAKER_02 22:33

We can make LGCM rainbow. I think we could do that. All right, guys, you heard it here. We're gonna take a quick break. All right, we're back. I can't help but sing it again. Back becker back becca back back. Oh, oh. Maybe that'll just we'll just record that and that'll be the intro. Anyway. Maybe we're back. Nick's gonna keep singing jingles for you. Oh, I'm gonna tell you. Uh, as we've mentioned, it it was Lucy's birthday. And kids' birthday gifts are always so interesting to me because you'd think I'd be like the best gifter for kids younger than mine, because I would be like, oh yeah, when Elliot turned two, he loved this. No, I don't remember any of it. Um, but our my brother-in-law, Spencer, and his fiancee Paul are the best gift givers. Brittany on my side, best gift giver. Paul and Spencer, best gift givers. So I say that because they're responsible enough to mail gifts to my kids, which I do not expect. Like you can FaceTime us and wish her a happy birthday, but like I don't expect you to remember my kids' birthdays. And actually, I take that back. Uncle Travis and Aunt Carrie always send really cool um gifts that keep on giving. So, like the STEM boxes and things like that, like Kiwi crates and things. So anyway, I'll recommend those a different time. Um, but this year Lucy was very much into tea sets. Um, she really loves, you know, the play kitchen thing. She loves taking care of play babies, play cooking, all of the things that society tells her she should do, I guess. And um, Paul got this really awesome paint your own tea set.

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So to be fair, she also loves punching people, which she does is not what society tells her to do. So she's she's not completely quick conformist.

SPEAKER_02 24:31

You rebel against that girl.

SPEAKER_00 24:33

Lou, if you want to walk up to someone and punch them out, you do that. You do it. MMA is for girls too.

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Go ahead. Sorry, future teachers of Lucy. Um, so anyway, I'm here to recommend if you have really, I would say any age, I don't know, I can't speak really beyond five years old because that's as old as my kid, my oldest kid, but um, there's a paint your own tea set in. Brody and slow. Actually, okay. Um, Elliot thought this was cool too, um, which I think is even better. But what I learned is age ranges on gifts are a bunch of bullshit. So this gift is says it's great for eight years and older. Well, sure. If you want to like intricately paint this beautiful teapot, but if you want a cool memory like ours, which is just gonna like be a brown blob on a tea set, but anyway, this is really cool. It's a white um ceramic. No, it's porcelain. So a white porcelain tea set. It comes with the paints. You get to paint it, bake it, and keep this little tea set forever. So I just think it's an adorable little moment in time. And I know our um four-year-old niece also got one as well, and she loved it, painted it right away. Uh, we opened ours at bedtime, so we made Lucy go to bed.

SPEAKER_00 25:38

But it appears to be $15. Uh, it is $14.95. So click the link in the show notes, buy it.

SPEAKER_02 25:46

It's a great little gift for anyone in your life, even an adult if you need to relax.

SPEAKER_00 25:51

Um, my suggestion, I think I've talked about this before, but summertime shady ray sunglasses. I have two pairs. They're wonderful, they are very affordable, so I don't feel so bad when I'm a little rough on them, but also they don't break. They don't break. They're very stylish, they look just like Ray Bans, but for about a third of the price. Yeah. I used to have Ray bands and then I lost them. Bougie. I know. I had them for about five years and I lost them. And I was like, mmm, don't want to pay that price tag. So I got some shady rays. Check them out. They're a really good quality. I'm sure you've heard the advertisements. I'm sure you've been targeted by them, but I can tell you, as a real person, they're good quality, they're comfortable. If you like polarized, they're great. They have non-polarized options. I hate polarized when I'm trying to read my phone.

SPEAKER_02 26:39

Uh but polarized were the only ones that actually protect your eyes.

SPEAKER_00 26:42

So, you know, there you go.

SPEAKER_02 26:44

Um, also, I'm a real person and have a pair and can also recommend them. Check them out. We'll be right back. All right, guys. We just realized we didn't tell you about our Memorial Day weekend. I know.

SPEAKER_00 27:14

I don't know. Did anything exciting happen? Oh, mine went terribly wrong.

SPEAKER_02 27:18

Yeah, yeah. Mine didn't go as great as it should have been.

SPEAKER_00 27:20

In about 72 different ways. Work. A lot of work, things just didn't go well. Uh had a bonfire. Um that was very calming to myself where it was supposed to be. And um, some things lit on fire that weren't supposed to lit on fire. Uh, but I was prepared with water and and things and and stuff, so it wasn't a big deal. But I was like, you gotta be. It's these straw bales that like we use for seeding for Symtoberfest and now by our fire pit. And I've been trying to get rid of them because they're old and you know, bent on the weather. And they literally have never been on catch on fire or anything because they are so soaked, and this fire evidently was so hot they caught. And I'm like, you you gotta be kidding me. The one time, the literally the one time I don't want them to go up in flames, they go up in flames.

SPEAKER_02 28:07

Are they all gone now?

SPEAKER_00 28:08

Some of them. Well, it's a it's a complicated story. It's hard, it's hard. But you know, I was very, very proud of the staff at uh Lake Geneva Country Meets. They made me very proud, and that was something as I looked back at, I was like, you know what? People did a good job. We're still here. We got through, we had a lot of challenges, got through them all, and on uh Monday we went to Simona's first parade, which was great. She had a good time. That was her first parade.

SPEAKER_02 28:32

Oh, it was really fun. It was it's like Lake Geneva's Memorial Day parade, it's four minutes long, I think.

SPEAKER_00 28:38

It's the shortest of the parades.

SPEAKER_02 28:39

Maybe seven minutes long, but that's a good one to start with. Yep.

SPEAKER_00 28:43

You know, there's sirens and stuff, and we were like, eh, you're gonna freak freak out, or you're gonna so she we had fun. She didn't freak out. She didn't freak out. Lucy hated it. Did she really? Yeah, isn't that surprising? That's very surprising. Seems like a lot of Lucy friendly things.

SPEAKER_02 28:55

Lucy hated it, and Elliot, she was terrified. And Elliot thought that it was gonna be the Christmas parade for floats and candy.

SPEAKER_00 29:02

There was no candy, except I was by uh Troy Nottested. Nice. And uh Troy's daughter was uh marching in the band and he threw candy at her as she was marching.

SPEAKER_02 29:12

Oh, that's hilarious. I I will say that I feel like the only people that go to that parade are people whose kids are marching in the band, but it was really busy. I would say it was very busy.

SPEAKER_00 29:20

I was happy.

SPEAKER_02 29:21

Yeah, we decided at the last minute to go to the parade as well. Um, and it ended up being like one of the best moments of our weekend.

SPEAKER_00 29:27

Um my favorite is the mayor driving in the old car, just like dude, being old, you know, going down the street.

SPEAKER_02 29:33

It's like well, nothing will talk last year. There was no Memorial Day Parade, the year before Elliot got to be in it because Pops was the mayor.

SPEAKER_00 29:41

So um And Pops had the good sense to wave an American flag.

SPEAKER_02 29:45

And he rode a bike.

SPEAKER_00 29:46

So you know.

SPEAKER_02 29:47

So it was um our weekend was also, you know, what I what I think I've I've been reflecting on it, and what I think it is is like suddenly things feel super overscheduled again. Like there's suddenly it feels like regular quote, regular life where like in the summer you have every day, every second scheduled. That's kind of how I feel like now. So this Memorial Day weekend felt like holy shit. And that's just hard as you get older or as you maybe you've decided you don't like being a social. But for me, it's hard um with the kids and trying to keep them on any kind of schedule, which we are very flexible with our schedules in the summer months, especially. Um, so anyway, yeah, Memorial Day uh weekend was a lot. Um, but I liked the parade and we we went to a first birthday party, and my cousin Jessica is a teacher, and she rocked this party because let's be real, one-year-old birthday parties are for the parents, um, you know, so she but she thought of everything um because she's awesome and she does this for a living. And so she had stuff for all the kids at the party too. So, like uh my I Shannon and I were both there without our husbands. They were both busy, and but we both had our each of our two kids, and Jessica had coloring sheets for them and little bouncy balls and those popper things that kids seem to love, and they all were very on theme. So good job, Jess. Um, so anyway, it was busy, it was great. Good job, Jess. I don't know you, but good job. Good job. We've made it now almost to another new week. Okay. This week, because I feel like we've barely kicked off summer, and since it's Memorial Day, we're gonna kick off summer with some summer would you rathers. Let's go cook it, kick it, kick it. Kick it, cook it. Bridget uh spent a lot of time at the doctor's office this week. I don't have my shit together, so it's just regular old would you rather question summer-based because I can't handle my life right now, you guys. It's okay, Bridget. Let's be honest, okay? Okay. Also, Tyler's starting a new job on Monday. I just feel like I have to say. It's Tyler's birthday on Monday. And that we have a lot happening, so please forgive my lameness, everybody.

SPEAKER_00 31:45

Happy birthday, Mr. Tyler. Love you. Love you, buddy. Okay, Nick. Big hug. I need to know. Tyler's such a good hugger.

SPEAKER_02 31:53

I didn't I tell you that I learned in the pandemic that I don't care about hugging. I'm now telling people this, and now I'm telling all of you. Sorry, hello. I don't like hugging. Did you learn anything like that? Are you mad at me? Do you are you thinking of all the times you've hugged me? And I'm like, no, I don't actually feel like you're a hugger either. I'm a big hugger. Are you? Yeah, I just know not to hug me.

SPEAKER_00 32:15

Because you're not a hugger. Because I'm like, get away from me. Uh Sarah's also not a hugger.

SPEAKER_02 32:21

It's infuriating. I never really realized it. I said it in front of some people I think I shouldn't have said it in front of. I'm a big bro hugger. Yeah, bro hugs are funny to me. Anyway, we're getting off topic, but I've learned I don't. Tyler is the best. Tyler's a great hugger. Snuggle into his warmth. I will hug Tyler. What I don't miss is the awkward hug of like should we be hugging? We're gonna hug. Why is the default? Yes, we're gonna hug. Like, let's go back to 2020 when the default was like, I'll hit your elbow or just wave at you from across the room.

SPEAKER_00 32:51

Or ignore you because I can't see you because you have a mask on. Anyway, I'm really a very social person. Would you rather hug or not hug? Never hug your husband again or have to hug every random person you see on the street. It's terrible. I'm not answering that.

SPEAKER_02 33:05

I really love Tyler hugs. They are good hugs. Okay. I would I guess I'd have to hug random people, then I would get weird. Because then you could at least laugh about it. That is not a summer, would you rather? Okay, we're starting easy. Summer 2021. Does the mask come off? I don't think this is easy. Yeah. This question We eat a lot of watermelon in the summer. Do you prefer watermelon wedges or chunks?

SPEAKER_00 33:28

Chunks. Because? Because you just like pop them in your mouth and it's just like.

SPEAKER_02 33:32

But what about maybe this will change? Does Simona eat a lot of watermelon? Or not yet?

SPEAKER_00 33:37

Yeah, we we cut it up, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:38

Give her the wedge and you get like the quintessential summer picture of her nothing into a wedge. You'll change your mind.

SPEAKER_00 33:45

This might be weird. I like the chunk. And you just like put it in your mouth and it dissolves.

SPEAKER_02 33:50

That's a little weird, but I like that with cotton candy. Okay. Favorite?

SPEAKER_00 33:58

This is like the seeds are out more easily with the chunk.

SPEAKER_02 34:01

Yeah, actually, that's totally true. What fun is that? What's your favorite ice cream cocktail? Don't tell me you don't like them.

SPEAKER_00 34:11

This is how Sconsin are you, isn't it? Grasshopper? Grasshopper. My God. Oh, yeah, that makes sense. You love mint. Are the best thing in the world.

SPEAKER_02 34:20

Is there like another ice cream cocktail that is as well known?

SPEAKER_00 34:24

Brandy Alexanders?

SPEAKER_02 34:25

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 34:26

My family are big brandy Alexander people. My mom would keep this Schwepp's ice cream jug that we all, you know, uh full of brandy Alexander. I'll let her know if you want some. I mean, but I don't like the brandy Alexander. I like my grasshoppers.

SPEAKER_02 34:41

I just want someone to make me some like peanut butter chocolatey ice cream thing with alcohol in it. Cool. Next week on the podcast. Okay. Skinny dipping, yes or no?

SPEAKER_00 34:52

No.

SPEAKER_02 34:53

No, you've never done it. No, you won't do it.

SPEAKER_00 34:55

No, I don't like doing it because I'm What? Okay. Here's the story. Okay. So I have done it. This is why we're doing this. So we have a pond in our backyard at my parents' house. Dude, do you get leeches? I got bit by a pike. Ooh, go. And not in an unfortunate place, thank God, but close to the water. Or like where my bite is. That I would just like some protection from the things in the water. I would just like something that makes. You know, like we all know, like a loincloth, for instance, isn't gonna really do you much good, but I feel like it at least makes you feel like you're not gonna get an arrow straight to the to the to the you know. Um I just want a little bit of protection. Okay, okay about like I'm not gonna have a there's snapping turtles in that pond. Um, I just feel like I I just no. No, I just want a little something that makes me feel a little protected. This is funny.

SPEAKER_02 35:55

I feel like it it I mean, I haven't done it recently. Uh used to be a thing we did pretty regularly in high school, I think. Back in the day. If you're listening, it was not like what it sounds like. Um anyway, I feel like it'd be really funny. Well, it's not like we were on dates skinny dipping, um, necessarily. So all the time. Usually often. We're moving on. I'm not moving on. What I'm saying is I feel like it'd be really actually freeing and great because what I really wanted to be like skinny dipping a day or night. Well, no, skinny dipping at nighttime. Like nighttime swimming, skinny dipping just brings you right back to like kids' summer to me. Not kid, like high school summer, I guess. I don't know, do kids skinny dip? I hope my kids don't. When they're two, I guess it's okay. What age is acceptable to skinny dip?

unknown 36:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 36:47

I think there's also like when you're 75 and don't DGAF, then it's also like cool again.

SPEAKER_02 36:52

So maybe just like when you're bell curve. When you're two, you yeah. No, I feel like it's like there's like a it's a camel. It's a two-oped camel. Okay. Well, we'll have a whole episode about that some other time. Um sharks or dolphins?

SPEAKER_00 37:09

Dolphins. I'm terrified of sharks. Oh. I think we've discussed this before. How terrified I am of sharks.

SPEAKER_02 37:14

Sharks, cool to look. I actually am too.

SPEAKER_00 37:16

I am absolutely terrified of sharks.

SPEAKER_02 37:18

I want to like ride a dolphin. I swam with them in the Bahamas once.

SPEAKER_00 37:22

I I don't, I am terrified of the ocean because I'm terrified I'm gonna get eaten by a shark. I really want to go like scuba diving and watch all the like the coral reefs and the fishies. I love aquariums, I love the fishies. I watch big blue world all the time. I don't want to get eaten by a shark. Okay, I think this also goes back to the trauma I previously. Oh my gosh, this is like I know. This is great. If I was Hyonio Saka, I would probably not answer this question. Keep going. Uh I think love goes back to getting bitten by that damn fish. Dude, how old were you? I was like eight or nine.

SPEAKER_02 37:53

Did you properly deal with that trauma?

SPEAKER_00 37:55

No, I'm older than that. I was in middle school. I was like in sixth grade.

SPEAKER_02 37:58

What happened when you got bitten by it?

SPEAKER_00 38:00

I was swimming and it came up and bit me on my like hip stomach area side. Swimming a pond doesn't sound fun to me.

SPEAKER_02 38:09

And there's like teeth marks and But do you like get out and bandage it up? Like, what do you do?

SPEAKER_00 38:15

Do you just started like screaming?

SPEAKER_02 38:17

Yeah, because gross ran out and was like, I got yeah. I don't know. I've just I'm just curious because I've never been bitten by a fish necessarily that I know of. I must have looked yummy. Oh man. Okay, this brings me to a big white blob moving through this pond. A question that is not written down. Is it that you're terrified of sharks? Like, do you mind being in the middle of a freshwater place, or has the pond scarred you for that?

SPEAKER_00 38:42

Yeah, it's all I'm just like no. Like Lake Geneva is gross. There's fish everywhere.

SPEAKER_02 38:46

Lake Geneva's like the cleanest, maybe second cleanest lake in Wisconsin.

SPEAKER_00 38:50

Yeah, and there's fish everywhere.

SPEAKER_02 38:51

Okay, wait, you don't like swim in the middle of Lake Geneva? Oh, I was like, wait, what? I don't want to get eaten by a shark, okay? Okay, so do you water ski or tube? Would you? Yeah. Okay. That was gonna be one of my questions, but we're not doing that anymore. Okay, this is really, I'm sorry to dig up all the trauma.

SPEAKER_00 39:08

It's okay. I don't love to deal with it. I don't unless you're naomi asaka.

SPEAKER_02 39:14

Okay. I don't love I don't want humor is how I deal with my issues.

SPEAKER_00 39:18

So sorry, Naomi, if this is offending you. Maybe you could use humor to deal with your issues.

SPEAKER_02 39:23

You guys, this is turning into a therapy session. How many times have we said that? Okay, summer nights or summer days? Oh, summer nights. Summer nights. Which will lead me to my last question. But why?

SPEAKER_00 39:36

Oh, I just love the like sleep with the windows open, fan on, the smell, the crickets. Uh I'm not as close to it as you were, but the sound of Lake Geneva raceway in my window. Oh, yeah. You see, the smell of the smokehouse drifting down the hill from Lake Geneva Country Meets is great. All the sound, all the smells of summer. I love on the summer solstice. I try to get at least 36 holes of golf in, start late, and just play until, you know, kind of chase the sun. Oh, that's hilarious.

SPEAKER_02 40:04

I felt, I think it was last night or the night before, I was outside doing something and I was like, this feels like a summer night. Like, this just feels like a perfect night to sit on a screened-in porch where bugs aren't gonna bite me and I'm gonna die. Me too. So Tyler is someone. It was either Tyler or Shannon was like, oh, well, soon enough. And I was like, I don't think so. Probably not this summer. Um, anyway, last one. What would be the summer theme song? The song of summer.

SPEAKER_00 40:33

Jack and Diane by Bruce Springsteen.

SPEAKER_02 40:35

Oh yeah? Oh I feel like I have one on the tip of my tongue, but I like can't figure out what it is. But it's like a it's not that. Mine is much worse than that, much tackier. Like uh something from the 90s. You know, like Barbie Girl. Something terrible like that. Those type of songs are summer songs.

SPEAKER_00 40:52

So I was it's Jack and Diane by John Mellencamp, but I was also thinking of Born to Run by Springsteen. Those are like kind of my two.

SPEAKER_02 40:58

Okay. Summer, summer, summer time. What is that?

SPEAKER_00 41:03

Maybe no scrub.

SPEAKER_02 41:04

I love that song. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 41:06

That's just a general. Guys, summer's here. Our friend Melissa just put a like video up on her Instagram of do you ever do songs with proper things? And she used like all of the proper white person words to no scrub. Oh, that's hilarious. And it was like, I can't get out of my head. Thank you, Melissa.

SPEAKER_02 41:24

Um, once my sisters and I made like a we made a proper music video at Disney World one day. It's terrible to a jewel song. It's highly embarrassing. But we hit it and have I I literally have no idea where it is anymore, but I think one of my sisters probably does, Brittany.

SPEAKER_00 41:40

Um, but we Britney send the audio. We'll play it on air.

SPEAKER_02 41:44

It is painful. Like it's very, very bad. Anyway, we did like a we were on a road trip and we sang waterfalls, TLC waterfalls. I remember being, I think I was in Lake Michigan. I remember what I was wearing. I had spandex pink shorts on and like a flowery beige white top of some sort. And I was, I am on my knees in the shallow part of the water, but in the water, and my hair is wet. I'm like 10, 12, and like, yeah, this was this was all the TLC waterfalls. I have a picture of it. That's great. If there's a video, maybe I'll share that one. Anyway, we're really happy summers here. Um those are good. I like that. That's a good summer discussion. I'm excited. I know. I think I just really felt like we've totally kicked it off and I'm incredibly overscheduled already. Which is summer. So here we go.

SPEAKER_00 42:30

Wisconsin, where we just schedule all the good things in three months instead of 12 months.

SPEAKER_02 42:34

Yep. Anyway, we're really trying to stretch that out more. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 42:39

Meal plan this week.

SPEAKER_02 42:41

I'm just feeling that's right downhill. Okay. I because I can eat them. I chose chicken tenders.

SPEAKER_00 42:50

Also, how can you not choose chicken tenders? So I I was gonna tell you about this. Uh never mind.

SPEAKER_02 42:56

It's coming up in my I saw that we're talking about tendies. Okay, well, I'll tell you about my.

SPEAKER_00 43:01

I'm gonna save it for kid corners.

SPEAKER_02 43:02

I'm saving it. Fire.

SPEAKER_00 43:03

Um, we uh have only like three flame fire, not like seven flame fires.

SPEAKER_02 43:08

Just regular fire. Um, we have two tendy recipes. So grilled or fried. So, okay, people, if you choose grilled, good for you because it's grilling season. But I am a purist and I want fried chicken tenders, okay?

SPEAKER_00 43:23

Buttermilk chips.

SPEAKER_02 43:25

Oh, wait, no, I'll bake them. Bake them so they're healthier. Um, but yeah, we have two tendy recipes, which we don't share that often because we're talking about chicken breasts a lot. Um, but tendies are where it's at this week. So that's what I'm eating.

SPEAKER_00 43:38

I got some tacos on there for your taco Tuesday. Um, they are delicious pork ones that you put a slow cooker or however you're smelling them, whatever. Uh, but you just put it it's a combination of Mexican Cuban influences on this one, Chipotle moho, uh, moho being from Cuba. You do like oranges and stuff like that. That's a little sweet, a little bright flavor. Chipotle being from Mexico, where you have. The roasted spicy chili peppers, so you get the sweet, roasty, spicy thing playing together with the fat in the pork, add a little bit of acidity in from all that moho with a little lemony type thing, and it's just like this incredibly delicious thing. Uh, cook it all together, pull it up, and then important note fry it. That gets it a little crispy, and there's gonna be some little bits of pork fat in there that you're not gonna like. And it's you won't like it fried? If you fry them, it takes care of them.

SPEAKER_02 44:27

Oh, I was like, wait, what? I feel like I would like it.

SPEAKER_00 44:35

So, anyway, these tacos are delicious. Definitely serve them uh Mexican style, not gringo style. They do not do well with red salsa or you know, split cheese or sound like it. Uh lettuce don't don't don't do well with that. So a little bit of onion brings it out. Uh cilantro, definitely, lime juice. And if you do want to do cheese, queso fresco is just enough to kind of liven it up.

SPEAKER_02 44:56

Nice. It's a delicious taco.

SPEAKER_00 44:58

I love it.

SPEAKER_02 44:58

Feels like I could have that without cheese on it.

SPEAKER_00 45:01

You could have it without cheese, not necessary.

SPEAKER_02 45:04

All right, guys. We've made it. It's time for kid cutter. As usual, I have two. I don't know. I just feel like I have two kids and both did really exciting things this week.

SPEAKER_00 45:15

Okay. Um, one turned two. One stayed alive and the other did the minimum level of education in America.

SPEAKER_02 45:23

Both really exciting things.

SPEAKER_00 45:25

Hey, got some orange slices for you, kids.

SPEAKER_02 45:28

Listen. It's summer and there's about to be a lot of shit.

SPEAKER_00 45:33

Watching the look that Bridget just gave me of mama bear, I'm gonna murder you. I am proud of my kids.

SPEAKER_02 45:38

You know what the look is for?

SPEAKER_00 45:40

Wait till your daughter's in school.

SPEAKER_02 45:42

Yeah, kid.

SPEAKER_00 45:42

I'll sit there at the fly up ceremony as they say. It was freaking adorable. As they say, Simona Vorpe, I'll get up and go.

SPEAKER_02 45:51

Well, they don't they it's not like they get a diploma.

SPEAKER_00 45:54

Slow clapper.

SPEAKER_02 45:56

It's 4K. They sing a lot of songs. Oh, yeah, it was something. I will, okay, so we're gonna start with Elliot. So Elliot had his 4K fly up, where they, I have to say thank you to the schools. I it was a crazy year, but our school was able to stay open uh the whole year. And Elliot's classroom didn't have to shut down at all. He did have a sub for a substantial amount of the year, but um, that's fine. He was able to stay in school and they did a really cute thing. We were finally allowed in the building for the first time all year um for his little graduation. So that was really sweet. Um and Steinbrink's Piggly Wiggly donated some cookies. So thanks, Piggly Wiggly.

SPEAKER_00 46:32

Um the bakery she could have gone to for the taco cake.

SPEAKER_02 46:35

I know, had I organized it more than three hours before the party. Um so man, they would have done a good job. Um, but they sang all these songs, right? They were on these like little risers and they organized these songs and they were adorable. And bless my son, because these kids are all. If you're watching the video, you'll get a better sense of this, but they're all standing there like, I'm just gonna say the ABCs because I don't remember the songs. A, B, C, and then Elliot, no joke, is like dancing. They there's movements with all the songs, but these kids are like barely doing them. And Elliot has straight up like got his arms out, and he's like, A, B, C, D. And I'm mountain. I just didn't like Lucy has a lot of flair to her. And I just thought Elliot might turn out to be a little shy when he was on a like in front of everybody. There was a lot of people there, and you know, but he did awesome. And like we had other parent friends of ours, and they were like, Good thing Elliot was up there, like yelling the words and dancing because otherwise this would have been pretty dull. I'm like, yeah. So I was super proud of him. So good job, Elliot. He um spent the whole evening then saying, I'm in kindergarten now. I'm in kindergarten. We're like, well, kind of. So good job, man. Maybe he's not as smart as I thought. And then, you know, Lucy's birthday. Um, maybe we should post a picture, but I we did let her partially get dressed herself um in true Bridget fashion. I found a shirt that says, I am two at goodwill. And because society has taught me to think that green and blue are boys' colors, I'm like, oh, I hope she's okay with this. Like, yeah, I bought her shirt at Goodwill like two days before her birthday, because I did. We put that on with this like tutu skirt with like confetti on it, and she freaking loved it, and then picked this gold, like bomber jacket out of her closet, and she chose her own these like floral sunglasses, and she wears gym shoes everywhere she goes. So it was just just this like impeccably perfect Lucy outfit for her as a person, and she chose half of it, and yes, I chose half of it, but it felt very perfect for her. It was like it. I just, yeah, I felt it felt really good. This week was, I don't know, guys. I'm just getting it be a proud parent moment right now. This week felt very much like both of my kids did things that were very proud and very like it felt very much like them. Like, oh, these are their characters, like in a snapshot right here, and it was cool to see.

SPEAKER_00 48:52

Well, congratulations, Mama Bear.

SPEAKER_02 48:54

Thanks so much. Yeah, we made it.

SPEAKER_00 48:56

Um, so mine's about chicken tendies. I almost had this on the list of best things uh we were doing. So with chicken tenders coming up on the meal plan, I was thinking of some possible new recipes we could add, and our oven is an air fryer, so I wanted to do air-fried chicken tendies because Bridget always tells me they're delicious that way. They are. So I got out the panko, and you know, we had the panko crusted chicken tenders air fried, and they were very good. And this was Simona's first fried food because really she's got enough teeth and a big enough mouth now that like having the crunchy fried stuff is good. Before this is like, yeah, you're gonna maybe just like not do so well with this. So we gave her the bits of fried chicken tenders.

SPEAKER_01 49:36

How'd it go?

SPEAKER_00 49:37

And um, also lots of dipping sauces because that's the best part of chicken tenders, right? You got all the dipping sauces. So honey mustard, barbecue, ketchup, and ranch. We had four different sauces.

SPEAKER_02 49:47

That's hilarious.

SPEAKER_00 49:47

And she loves dipping right now. She almost to the scary point of like, mm, you're not gonna eat if you don't have ketchup? Are you gonna eat the food or just the ketchup? Interesting. And I I am terrible. I really like ketchup on my fries. Uh, fries are really just a convenient vehicle to get ketchup into your body. Maybe she learned a little too much for me. But anyway, so she also likes to now sit at the big kid table, and we need to get a booster seat for her. But so she sits between the two of us, and you know, it's like her eyes are above the table, and like she so she like goes like boom, grabs from underneath the table, takes it, throws it in her mouth, because like it's funny because her eyes are at the table anyway. So she decides that um she was she was done with all the dipping and all the eating. She did a great job eating, and then she wanted to feed Dada. Oh, Dada had an eight. With dipping sauce. So she started taking the pieces that we cut up for her, which were small little chicken tender pieces, nice fried ones, dipping it and then shoving it in my mouth. Oh, yeah. Because I had an eight because I was making sure she didn't nosedive off the you know, all the things you do as you're feeding your kids.

SPEAKER_02 50:57

Yeah, you eat you eat dinner at 9 p.m., yeah.

SPEAKER_00 50:59

And um which is great and fun, and uh, you know, thank you, Samuel. You're very helpful. And then she seemed to be hungry, so she uh ate some more. But then she decided she wanted to feed me and took the food out of her mouth and put it in my mouth.

SPEAKER_02 51:12

Oh that I draw the line.

SPEAKER_00 51:14

And um I don't want to be rude, so I ate it. Why? No, she's gonna think that's normal now. Well, for birds, it's normal. Are you a bird? Nope. Um I was just very much in shock. I didn't know what to do. Did you spit it out? No, I ate it. It was perfectly good chicken tender, and there's a perfect amount of honey mustard on it, so I ate it. Um but so she was very nice, she's very nurturing, she's very good. Very good. Thank you, Simona. Disgusting. It was very gross, but you know, I'm happy she thought to make sure Dada ate it. Yeah, thank you. I love you, Simona.

SPEAKER_02 51:47

Does she just like dip her fingers in the dipping sauce yet?

SPEAKER_00 51:49

No, we're not there yet. Thank God.

SPEAKER_02 51:50

It's coming soon. Lucy just will warn you of everything. That's what's coming. And then she's like, here. And then you just have to like lick her dirty ass finger covered in ketchup. Good times, everybody. Gross.

SPEAKER_00 52:02

Anyway, Simona, yeah, good job with the chicken tenders, good job with the dipping. Um, glad you like honey mustard, unlike your mother. Uh I don't like it either, sorry. We're now we're now on the two for two against one. I know moms count as three votes, so I think we still lose. Yep. But um smart move. You know, oh well. Oh, sorry. Oh guys, happy summer. Happy summer. We got a pinkies up coming out this next Wednesday. It's about boxed wine. It is an interesting one. It's gonna be a lot of fun. Stay tuned for that.

SPEAKER_02 52:31

Another surprising one to me. Um, yeah, it's a great one. So find us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube at Dinner Plus Drinks Podcast.

SPEAKER_00 52:38

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SPEAKER_02 52:55

Anyway, do people still call it a mailbag? Is that acceptable? I think we can still call it a mailbag. Okay, we're gonna do that. Thanks as always for following along, guys. We love hearing from you. So leave a comment, subscribe, all those wonderful things. See you soon. Episode.

SPEAKER_01 53:07

Bye bye.