It's A Mouthful - Dinner Plus Drinks #146

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Do you know how many sausage jokes I have made this week that have just been so good?

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Were they received well, Nick? The people watching the TV segment enjoyed it. But not the high school kids.

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Thank you very much to good friend Ron for having us come down to Hill Valley Dairy. That is the proper name for it.

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Hill Valley Dairy.

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I know the people on CBS58 News couldn't necessarily remember it, but I just cannot. It was it was a really nice, uh, fun segment. Uh the for those of you that don't intensely follow Lake Geneva Country Meat slash Hill Valley Dairy social media. Ron and the dairy farmers of Wisconsin or whatever the heck they call themselves arranged for a morning news segment.

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Milk marketing board. Milk marketing board. We're gonna call them that.

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That's the one I want to continue to call them.

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No matter what they want to be called.

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And one of the segments, Ron included us to talk about how we make bratwursts with his cheesecards. Yeah, it was really cool.

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And uh brought together a group of local people. So Simple was there, Lo Daly was there, and of course, your very own Lake Chenew Country Meads.

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And this poor girl that was doing the hosting had some trouble remembering names, places, introducing people, name of the business she was with all morning. The studio crew was horrifically bad. Um I didn't see no excuse for how bad the studio crew was. Uh girl on site, I think it's this is a harder job to like have to, you know, you have the headphones in your ear talking to the studio, and so that's a harder job. Uh but she started off says Nick from Lake J Lake Country, Lake Geneva. And to be fair, it is a lot, but it was right on my chest that she was looking at. Yep.

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But it always ends up being county because they just kind of missed the up. Yep.

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And uh so said, well, that's kind of a mouthful. I said, You're right, it is a mouthful, but we do make your mouth happy when you get a bite of these bratwurst. So I did not say everybody's like, oh, you said you're gonna put my sausage. I'm like, no, I didn't. But your head went to that and it was the highlight of this whole segment. That was the goal, man. Yeah, it was a lot.

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I I would feel bad, but it's her job. Yeah. To do all those things. So unless she started this week, I I don't, I don't, that's what she does.

SPEAKER_01 2:25

That was really the highlight of my week because I got to get two, I got two stealth Ranchies mentions in this thing. I got that one in there, I got one other one, and it was just a lot of fun to see you and Ron dying of laughter behind me. Or in front of me behind the whatever.

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For sure, uh, I did a lot of quiet laughing behind a camera this week because there were so many awkward things of like, come on, people, like just loosen up. But I'm not allowed to laugh loudly, so I just smirked so Nick could see it.

SPEAKER_01 2:56

TV is a lot of fun and morning TV, these like lifestyle things do quite well. That's why everybody has them. They're cheap to produce, yeah. Oh my God, it was it felt awkward. I don't know what else to say. I am famously not a morning person.

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I know you killed it that day. I was worried about you. That was a big thing.

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24 ounces of Red Bull, 12 ounces of beer, and like three ounces of wine before 8:30, 8.45 in the morning. And I was I was good because then we were at Lake Shiva Country Meets till 10:30 that night. Oh my god, that was a really long day.

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It was for a Tuesday. It was.

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It felt like we were young again.

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Did it feel that way? It just makes me feel the opposite of that.

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Remember when we used to go out at 10 p.m.? It was a crazy day. We had an awesome Dow dinner. More on that later. Uh, and it wasn't really dinner, it was just snacks. It was flights and cheese bites.

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Yeah, wine, flights, and cheese bites.

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It was a lot of fun. And I just this was a week that I could complain a lot about how much work I'm doing, how like things are kind of going a little haywire on everything. For instance, we had all these orders, and I said everybody, yep, we'll get I had the order, I said everything's confirmed, we're gonna have it. And then half of it didn't ship. But you know what? We got it Friday morning, so I so I'm just gonna choose instead. And what I've said at night is I uh counted my blessings as I went to sleep instead of counting my troubles. Wow, buddy. I really am very grateful for the incredible group of people I have around me in my life. Uh, from friends that I gotta play golf with yesterday, which I normally wouldn't take off on a Thursday to golf, but I said, it's the end of the year, let's do it. Uh having people to support me in that, Sarah and what she does to hold down the home font and handle all of this thing. Uh, she was fortunately able to come out on Tuesday and had a lot of fun. So I was glad that made it very worthwhile. Bridget, yourself, as like somebody that's just a rock that I can depend on. I'm gonna start calling you Peter. You know, call me the rock, if you will. Dwayne? Yeah. So I just start calling you DJ. Just call me the rock. And uh just like what you took care of with the event, Ron coming and helping out with everything. Uh it just really, and then like at work, uh Kim and Mark, my manager type people and Nick people, they're doing these things and just getting stuff done that honestly a year ago would be incomprehensible that these things would happen. Live mention, I just got a text from Nick. Did you? Yeah. So uh about cheese boards. So whoa. Whoa. So it's just really great that I have these people in my life that I can depend on, that I enjoy being around, and it feels like I'm very grateful for it.

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That's so nice.

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I'm trying to do gratitude journal thing.

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Do you do a gratitude journal?

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No, I literally, so like my head hits the pill and I'm out in like three minutes. But I do try to just do the like um, man.

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It takes me forever.

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I do try to do the recap my day type of thing in my head and say a little prayer, you know, and just like thank you.

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Sorry, I love that song.

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Um so yeah, I just I just want to say thank you to all these people and how I'm trying to be positive and enjoy it. And I I feel like I'm in a good space.

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Yeah, you are really quite chipper actually for this week. I just like hit a wall this week and I felt like um My knees hurt.

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I'll be very clear. My knees hurt.

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Your knees, your knees, huh? My recurring ankle injury ankle is just perpetually hurt now. I'm like, maybe now five years after this race, no, seven years. I feel like this race was seven years ago that I hurt this button. And I'm like, maybe I should see a doctor, but it's not a doctor, it's like a muscle, like uh, whatever. Can Aaron help you with this?

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Or is she just bones?

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Maybe I should. Oh, she just bones.

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Yeah, I don't know. I mean, muscles are attached to bones.

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It feels like a kinesiologist, chiropractor, wood doctor thing.

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Yeah, because Jeremy and Aaron, they're just not gonna be able to help. I know.

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So anyway, um, maybe I'll take care of it, probably not because self-care.

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You know.

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I had a little dilemma picking a beer today because you said you had a little tickle.

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So I'm sorry, I'm I'm getting sick, you guys, and I'm trying to do it.

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But you seem to be excited about this.

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I know, I am excited. So I wanted like I told Nick, I don't know. I'm getting sick. Nothing sounds good. Like, um, but he made a really good choice. Uh Sophie, is Sophie the brand of Goose Island? Like a segment of Goose Island? Yep.

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This is their wild and sour program.

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Wow, it's so beautiful and it looks nothing like their other bottle or cans, really. Um, a Belgian-style saison with orange peel. This is lovely. Such a good beer. It's a great choice for today. You suggested maybe a hot toddy, but it's like 70 degrees out. It is 70 degrees. Or a hot apple cider, you said. Yeah, which I was like, yeah, good idea. And then I stepped outside and was like, nope, I hope he doesn't do that.

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No. So it's just a lovely, refreshing, great in summer, great in fall, great in winter.

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Great in random 70 degree falls.

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Yeah, it's really good. It's kind of Christmassy in some ways. It's kind of fally in some ways, and it's kind of summery in some ways because it's kind of light and crisp and refreshing. It's got some like clovey fall type of flavors, but then like the orange peel kind of puts you in that Christmas celebration mode. So it just, I don't really think it's a spring beer. It doesn't, I mean it's kind of springy, but you know.

SPEAKER_02 8:08

Okay, I have to veer off topic, shocker. You just mentioned Christmas. I love the holiday season. Put out the holiday decor in July. I don't care. I know people get really angry about that. I love Halloween too. So like I'm not saying skip holidays. I'm just saying give give us all the joy. Okay. Um, so but I went in the store the other day and the Christmas decor was out. And I was trying to describe this feeling to my mom of like overwhelm. Like I've been incredibly overwhelmed lately with the house renovation and stuff, but it was overwhelmed, but it was like more, it was more like I felt paralyzed, like, oh my God. All you know, because it suddenly you just like start getting this whole other to-do list in your head when you see Christmas decor. And I I just like had this moment of like, holy shit. And whatever. It was very much in control.

SPEAKER_01 8:51

But dad brain goes to nothing. I've got a nice weekend. I could probably get the Christmas lights up before snow flies.

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Yeah, right. That's not where Tyler's brain went. Is it Tyler?

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Tyler, you have all these new windows to show off with Christmas lights.

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I actually thought about this because that stupid porch needs to go and we usually put lights on it. Um, but the kids were like, oh yeah, we gotta buy all new Christmas lights, Mom. I'm like, no, we don't. They're like, said the same thing. We have these new windows. I'm like, the lights are the same, you guys. We don't need new lights for a whole house. So anyway, that was off topic.

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But can I just ask, why would you spend all this money on these gorgeous windows to not then show them off with incredible Christmas lights?

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Well, we have incredible lights. We'll just have to figure out how to attach them to the brick that surrounds the windows. But my Mason still hasn't called me back. So maybe we'll never get that window solved. Anyway, yeah, so I have just felt this like um the way I could describe it, I was talking last night, like feeling you remember when we talked about the COVID cloud?

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Yeah.

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That's where I kind of feel this.

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You got a lot going on.

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I just I think after Tuesday for some reason, which like I can hang on days like that. I used to do that all the time. I just like can't, I just feel like I'm floating outside of somewhere else. Yeah, because I'm right now just like what comes in the next hour. That's just how things are, and I don't like living like that. Okay, so it's making me stressed, and now I can tell this sickness is coming, and I'm like, I cannot, I can't be sick right now, guys.

SPEAKER_01 10:12

So have you ever seen the movie Doctor Strange Love? No. So the subtitle is Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

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What?

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It's a hilarious movie from the 60s about nuclear apocalypse and all sorts of things. It's in black and white. Peter Sellers plays seven roles in it or something. Sounds like a movie I would hate. It's really funny. It's a good movie, but I just really love like the phrase how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb. Uh that's I just I'm in the stop worrying and learn to love the chaos. Maybe one day in life we'll get away from chaos. Oh man, will we? Maybe money will grow on trees.

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Is it gonna be 2023? Cause 2022 has been a year.

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It has.

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I was like, should we go back and we said that in 2020? But I mean, there were nice things, at least that came out of COVID, where you're like, oh, we learned, you know, people learn to like do, we did game nights every week with my family on Zoom. Like that was so nice, and we don't do that now. So now it's just like the bitter end of all these things and trying to catch up on two years of chaos.

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But in the good news side of things, consumer demand has tanked. So the outlet stores, you can get some sick bargains like door handles for nothing almost.

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Door handles, let me tell you.

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I will say that But sometimes the bar stools don't match.

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I they don't. Okay, I'm going to a new liquidation place this weekend. Have I talked live about my obsession with these liquidation places? I'll save it for another time. But I found two new ones and I can't decide which one to go to this weekend because both are a half an hour away. I don't know where to go. Lakevilla, Illinois. Lake Villa Illinois or Salem.

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Lakevilla, Illinois.

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That's where my gut is telling me, but their taxes are their sales taxes higher.

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Yeah, but they're gonna have good stuff.

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They're gonna have more stuff, I think.

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Salem is just gonna be like Well, they're all by pallets.

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Okay, guys, these liquidation places buy pallets of like um overstock from stores. So yes, it's like overstock.com, but in person. And I am weird and I still like to shop in person and not just online. So it's a warehouse full of like, oh, this is currently flooring at Home Depot, but like someone returned it or whatever, and it's half the price. So hello, it's like thrift shopping, but for my home. And it's not used. So Tyler will love that. It's all brand new products.

SPEAKER_01 12:29

I almost cried uh at someone's Instagram story earlier this week. It was about how 10 years ago today Macklemore sat down at a it was yours.

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That was a great I almost used that as my news story, and I was like, this is not a news story. I love Macklemore and like bro, read it. Go on Macklemore's Instagram and read his little his life story, man. Come on, no one would emotional. Yeah.

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Also, you posted it like one in the morning or something. Yeah, I don't sleep. Ridiculous. And I was like, Bridget is sitting up crying about this right now. I don't cry very often. Live look into Bridget's life. It's very emotional.

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I love Macklemore. Yeah, I did post it at a weird time now that you say that. I remember that. Because I wanted to send it to Brittany because she knows we share a mutual love and respect for Macklemore. And I was like, oh, she's two hours ahead of me, but I think it's still too late to text Mr.

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She's two hours behind you.

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Behind. Sorry. Yes, yes, she is. We're doing great, everybody.

SPEAKER_01 13:24

Hey, I have some exciting Milwaukee news. I don't know if you saw this. Who hasn't seen this? But there is a professional outdoor soccer team coming to Milwaukee. I know.

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Are you excited? I'm very excited, actually. It's bullshit.

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No, so I'm very excited. I was concerned about which level of soccer they'd be playing in. Because there's different this is the second highest level.

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So where do they fall compared to the wave?

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They so the wave because they're indoors. Yeah, just a joke. I mean, like, honestly, indoor soccer, like it's great, it's a lot of talent, but it's I love indoor soccer. It's much more fast-paced. But it's it's you know, it's not serious. Um so this is like triple A baseball, is basically what it is.

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Oh.

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And there is a possibility in the future that we will get promotion and relegation in America, which is if a team the bottom two teams from MLS go down to the championship and the top two teams from the championship go up to MLS.

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So you think could happen? Well, we don't know anything about it. They're working on it.

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This is how soccer works everywhere else in the rest of the world. There's some challenges because in America you pay a franchise fee.

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Blah, blah, blah.

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Um, but we're hopeful. And even if not, there are some very good teams in USL that um for American quality. The quality of football, soccer in America is not good.

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Are you mad that people call it soccer here still?

SPEAKER_01 14:50

No, I don't care. Actually, there's like historical context to call it soccer. So the English people that get mad at us for calling it soccer and make fun of us is kind of like, well, you guys called it soccer until like 1950, and then you stole the German word. Okay. So, like, I don't, you know, whatever. I didn't know that. It doesn't bother me. Um so there's our our quality of football sucks. Like, it's just not good. MLS is not a very good league. There's it's not very sophisticated in tactics. The players aren't, I mean, obviously they're incredible to professional athletes, but compared to the top European leagues, it's not yeah, it's not good. Yeah. But um the stadium looks great. Yeah, the group that owns it has a lot of history of successfully running minor league franchises in engaging, fan-friendly, and affordable ways. And where it's located will be fairly simple to get to because you can get off on national, you can get off of 894 on national and scoot up to it. So you shouldn't have to hit the whole Marquette Interchange thing.

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It's a little bit of an area.

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So I'm hopeful that uh it'll be a cool place that you can scooch into, grab a beer, sing and dance, and have fun at a sporting event, and hopefully they're good. Uh, Wisconsin has gotten behind minor league teams in the past, and if they get the support, if it's a party, it's right on Marquette campus, so I'm sure a lot of students will show up. Um yeah, I'm really excited about it.

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Yeah, I mean, obviously I think it's awesome because I'm here for all all and any of the growth in Milwaukee. Um, so yeah. When is it, 2024? I think they said 2023. Oh, that's exciting. Yeah. Yeah, it's great. I mean it's not gonna happen in 2023.

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There's no I was like, uh maybe we'll play at somebody else's stadium in 2023. Well, let me open this story.

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Make Milwaukee.

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Only I had it.

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If only I mean I I had it, but I'm trying to, I was got distracted trying to see it on a map.

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Have I ever told you my pipe dream um 2025?

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2025?

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Yeah. I knew it was an odd number. I thought it'll take like two years to get the stadium and the expansion plans. Um this looks a lot like um uh why can't I think?

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Where the milkmen play. I mean, literally, it looks like the same thing. And I'm surprised MK Esports, who used to do the wave, I'm surprised they're not doing this, if I'm being honest.

SPEAKER_01 17:05

I'm excited. The thing I was really low-key excited about and thought we had an opportunity and really wished like if I was in a different place professionally, I may have tried to like get people interested in this was the uh the Wisconsin Herd, the Bucks D-League affiliate. They're in like effing Oshkos.

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That would be awesome.

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And one of the buck two of the Buc owners have houses in Lake Geneva. There's enough cheap land here that we could have built an arena. That's so cool. And D-League basketball is actually a very good quality of basketball and very entertaining. And it's not they don't need to make money. Like to be clear, this is straight up, they are parking players to develop.

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Yeah.

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Um, that was the one where I was like, man, I would love to see a minor league sports team in Lake Geneva. Oh my god. Because I would just go there all the time. And D-League basketball's fun. You can have like a 4,000 seat arena, so it's not anything huge.

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That would be so cool.

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And it's like it was like 10 million all in.

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Did they make a move?

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No, they're an Oshkosh.

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But like would like they oh, you mean when they first started?

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Yeah, it's a brand new, it was a brand new. Oh, okay.

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I thought they were trying to move away.

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I was like, man, like it's not that much money. Oh, yeah, that would have been kill here. Like, I think it would kill.

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Oh yeah, because we might steal some Chicago people too. Yeah. They're here for cheap entertainment. Yeah. Oh man, that's so cool.

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And think about all the times we're like, oh, it'd be uh on the CVB side of like we need a convention center.

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Yeah.

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Like we really do for like groups that come in.

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So you'd have a convention center, you'd have a performing arts place, you'd have literally I've been in all of these discussions when I worked at the convention center in Milwaukee, and it was like, we need to expand and we need a bigger hotel, and we need this. And I was like, ah, deja vu. Okay, you just brought me back, ma'am.

SPEAKER_01 18:52

So I'm very excited about that. Uh yeah, it's really great. I'm looking forward to it, and it'll be cool. And you know, fingers crossed, they don't suck. You know what else is cool, Nick?

SPEAKER_02 19:01

Beer for your dog. I what the hell is this? Okay, you guys, if you've missed it, which um mostly no, like they're all local channels that seem to have picked up this press release. Um, but I wonder why.

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Is it because we're all alcoholics in Wisconsin?

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I mean, I'm just saying that it was a good and interesting PR strategy for Bush. Um, but they have come out with a dog brew by Bush. And it is um, it says on Thanksgiving, you can put the turkey in the oven, switch on the game, and grab a brew ski for you and your pooch. They made a Thanksgiving beer for your dog. Um, it's a turkey-flavored quote, dog brew. I don't know why it has to be in quotes. I'm sure there's some legal reason. Um, yeah, but it just says it won't it won't make your furry friends suspiciously merry. It's non-alcoholic, consists of turkey, sweet potato, basil, peppermint leaves, turmeric, ginger, and water. You can get them on Bush's website, a four-pack for $15. This is not the first time Bush has experienced um or experimented with suds for man's best friend. So apparently they tried in 2020, their first ever dog brew, and it sold out in 24 hours, you guys. So let's see when it launches so you can get some. Oh, it doesn't say.

SPEAKER_01 20:20

I have such this is hilarious.

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I couldn't wait to hear your feedback about that.

SPEAKER_01 20:24

I have such a like um, I think I maybe talked about this a couple of weeks ago. Like a restaurant launched in San Francisco that has a $75 tasting menu for dogs. No, that's made of real food and everything. And I just have this problem with like, we are running out of resources for humans and can't feed all humans. And especially a place like San Francisco where there's this incredible cost of living crisis and incredible housing crisis. And we're opening up restaurants to charge $75 for dogs to eat food that humans should eat. And people will do it. And it's just like, you know what? Dogs are great, but uh oh guys, the beer is available now.

SPEAKER_02 20:59

So dog beer, I just you can bundle it your turkey brew with a toy, you can bundle it for the cheap price of $40. The but the bush bottle pet toy is $25, and then you can get your four-pack dog brew. I want to buy this as a gift for somebody. I hate capitalism. I think I'm gonna buy it for Pepper. Shannon, report back. Will Michael let me give this to Pepper on Thanksgiving? I hate capitalism. Okay, so pretty fascinating. Um, it's not sold out yet, so I guess get it now while you can. This should have been my product wreck.

SPEAKER_01 21:34

I wish I I should have read this ahead of time because I also saw uh Halloween, spooky season, you know, we're all here. I saw this news story. Um, you know, Dracula is like this historic figure, and these people did some fascinating research on him as a real historic person. And Dracula? Yeah, Dracula. He was a real person, like Vlad the Impaler was a real person. Dracula was a real person. Turns out he had a bunch of dogs. And the most interesting thing was they found out they were bloodhounds.

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Oh, Halloween, dad Joe. That was well done.

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Be right now.

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Hey y'all, we're back. Hey y'all. Hey y'all. And we moved to the south.

SPEAKER_01 22:34

Um, I interviewed this dude with a southern accent today that I, or not today, uh, a couple days ago that I really liked. Um, and I was trying to place the accent, and in the hiring process, you can't be like, bro, what's up with the draw? Where are you from? But uh hopefully one day I can have the discussion of where'd you pick up the draw, y'all?

SPEAKER_02 22:51

Where'd you pick oh boy? Someone used y'all the other day out of place, and I was like, nope. Okay, I want to tell you.

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I'm a y'all person.

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You are a y'all person, which I don't think I knew about you.

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Because it's so much better to say you and y'all instead of you and you and you skies, like most sconnies do.

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I'm just not on board with the use guys. Nope, I'm not on board with that either.

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So you just use the indeterminate.

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I just say you all.

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Specificity language is a positive thing.

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I made a mistake and looked at Nick's product rack, so I'm just gonna Could I go? I'm just gonna Okay, sure, sure.

SPEAKER_01 23:26

So we to your point.

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Don't tell me you bought this about Christmas. Bro, this is horrifying.

SPEAKER_01 23:33

We took Simona to Home Depot to try and kill some time because I was trying to find some stuff, all the things. And what did we see? All the Christmas stuff is up, and we're like, God, this was not on the cards for today. But so we have to go look at this Christmas stuff, and they have a six-foot-tall animatronic Santa that speaks to you and sings you songs, and is Simona's best friend. It's $200.

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You're gonna buy it.

SPEAKER_01 24:03

Simona really likes it, and I'm not gonna buy it. Oh, Nick! But if you are in the market for a six feet tall, inside-only animatronic Santa Claus that is actually not as creepy as these pictures look. Inside only? Inside only. This is so creepy. Oh, it looks it's so much better in person. Go to Home Depot and check it out. Um and it's so confusing for the kids. Uh Simona just said uh Santa Claus lives at the wine shop. Right. Now Santa Claus is at the hardware store. Because no, she thinks he literally lives at the wine shop. Because that's where she first saw him. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 24:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:38

And uh thank you very much, Beth, for having Santa Claus. We appreciate you. At Santa. Yep. Good Santa, good Santa.

SPEAKER_02 24:45

Oh as a woman, my experience was different.

SPEAKER_01 24:49

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 24:50

That Santa was something. I think that Santa had some wine. How about that?

SPEAKER_01 24:55

Uh don't comment. Anyway, he was uh he was nice. He was nice. So yeah, uh, if you have a place that you want to have a Santa Claus talk to your kids and tell you sing you some songs, and you got 200 bucks burden in your pocket.

SPEAKER_02 25:08

Yeah. And you want to answer more Santa questions than you can handle?

SPEAKER_01 25:11

Well, I have Santa in your living room 24-7. It could be a good, like, Santa's literally that's a Santa robot that reports back to the North Pole and tells Santa what you are doing.

SPEAKER_02 25:22

I'd say Santa robot, children. It's like fucking Elf on the Shelf.

SPEAKER_01 25:27

Elf on the Shelf creeps me out.

SPEAKER_02 25:29

I know. I have lots of things. We're not doing it. We have one, but like the kids don't know what it is. I like I don't know if we were gifted one or I thought I would do it, but we just ignore it and I hope to continue ignoring.

SPEAKER_01 25:40

Elf on the shelf seems just like an adult version of hazing where it's like, I took a paddle to your butt and made you crawl naked through a bunch of honey because it happened to me, and damn it, I'm gonna do it to you too. Like just like some horrid hazing. And Elf on the Shelf is like, I was forced to do this every day for 25 days, and it's the worst thing, and I'm gonna make you do it too. I love that shit. Uh so much like brain power and uh that's true.

SPEAKER_02 26:07

And like one more. And if you screw it up once, you ruin it. No, no, you have a good lie for one or two times. You say the elf got sick. Please just go online and Google it. Every mom everywhere has it all over of like pro tip. Okay, anyway. Um, my product rack is actually this lovely lavender body mist that sadly I cannot link, but you can get at the Lake Chamber farmers market for one more week. Um, my in the week of chaos, we um are down to one car key for my car, and we have a constant shuffle of contractors in our driveway and a dumpster. So Tyler had to move my car and took my car key, came back in, he said, Where should I put your key? And I said, put it in my purse. Uh there was some confusion about what bag that was. And so it was time to leave for school, and I could not find a key anywhere. I looked everywhere I could think he possibly would have put it, and it somehow appeared somewhere below a backpack in a pile. So anyway, my mom um raced her butt over and helped us get the kids to school on time. And then um, you know, I think felt a little bad about the chaos of the morning. So I came back home later that day. We found the key, you know. Tyler also came home, found the key. Uh we I got back home and on my steps was a note from my mom that said, you know, hope your day gets a little less crazy or something. And then it's, you know, I thanked her and she said, Well, lavender is supposed to be calming. And I said, Oh, I know. I will like guzzle lavender. So I have like a lavender pillow spray. This is a body spray. So just one little, you know, and it does make you think. So I spray it on now, morning, noon, and night when I'm feeling a little chaotic, and it makes you think, like, okay, chill, man. Just take a chill. So anyway, I'm sure you can find other lavender body mists. I'm speaking to the one that's from the lovely local person that makes it at the Leichteau Farmers Market.

SPEAKER_01 27:50

Did you get to try the lavender cheese at Hill Valley?

SPEAKER_02 27:53

I did not. I would never did. I know it's purple though. Very purple, very purple. We'll be right back. I tried to make it sound as Halloween creepy as I could.

SPEAKER_01 28:15

I got some exciting, fun, random facts from Cosmopolitan.

SPEAKER_02 28:20

I saw this later I wanted to share with you.

SPEAKER_01 28:24

Okay. So I just figured we could do a little mind blowing. We got Halloween coming up. So more spooky things later, but I wanted to mind blow all of the things. These aren't spooky ones, they're just, you know, general. I know. Um let's see. Did you know that it's illegal to own just one guinea pig in Switzerland?

SPEAKER_02 28:48

Why? So they can have friends?

SPEAKER_01 28:50

Yeah, it's considered animal abuse because they're social beings and get lonely. Oh my. Okay. The ancient Romans used to drop a piece of toast into their wine for good health. That's why we raise a toast. Oh, come on. Also, I think that actually might take some like bad, like I think it would soak in some of the um uh like various schmuckis into your bread, so then your wine is like kind of filtered through the bread.

SPEAKER_02 29:15

What a weird thought.

SPEAKER_01 29:18

Dropping a piece of toast? I think it would filter your wine. Like I think it would attract I think it would find stuff. Was it bad wine? Well, they just didn't have modern sanitation like we have.

SPEAKER_02 29:27

Okay. Well, then maybe it was a very genius idea. I think it was. That we just don't know about.

SPEAKER_01 29:33

You know, you've seen like wines that's Mark Vegan friendly. Yeah. That's because we still use like fish bladders or egg whites to uh get crap out of water.

SPEAKER_02 29:42

Please don't tell me, thank you.

SPEAKER_01 29:43

Well, it's not like you're drinking the egg bladder, the fish bladder goes off. Oh, great. This one I've seen before, and it blows my mind. Amy Polar was only seven years older than Rachel McAdams when she took on the role of Cool Mom and Mean Girls. Rachel was 25 as Regina George. Amy was 32 as her mom.

SPEAKER_02 30:04

I love seeing how old people were when like the Saved by the Bell cast, or all those people. I love seeing how old they were when they did shit like that.

SPEAKER_01 30:12

I love that Mila Kunis was 14 in that 70s show, and everybody else was like 18, 19, and she lied about her age. She's like, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm 18, I'm 18, I'm 18. She lied when she auditioned. Yeah. Oh, I didn't know that. And that's why like her and Ashton have the big age gap and everything. Oh, that's true. And she's like, I'm the last person to actually be my age on a TV show.

SPEAKER_02 30:31

That's true.

SPEAKER_01 30:32

I love her. Um this one I think will speak to you. People are more creative in the shower. When we take a warm shower, we experience an increased dopamine flow that makes us more creative.

SPEAKER_02 30:45

I mean, 100%, I think, of all my best ideas. Well, laying in bed trying to fall asleep and in the shower. So I am one, I am like every year or many years for uh Christmas, Brittany buys me the field notes, notebooks with the waterproof paper so I could take notes in the shower. Yeah, I know. Don't make fun of me.

SPEAKER_01 31:02

No, I I I I actually saw this fact. I was like scrolling through this list to see like, is there anything good? I saw that one. I'm like, I know Bridget's a shower note taker. I'm gonna share with her the science behind it.

SPEAKER_02 31:12

I'm making this face because I'm reading a fact that I wanted to have a better story behind it. Um it says the Spice Girls were originally a band called Touch. And I wanted to like know why. And it just says, when we first started with the name Touch, we were pretty bland. Mal C told The Guardian in 2018. We felt like we had to fit a mold. Okay, but why touch? Was the mold like sexual band names? I don't know. Spice. I'm sorry. Okay, move on.

SPEAKER_01 31:40

We did make a good Spice Girls joke recently. Oh, I know. That's a good one.

SPEAKER_02 31:44

Do you want to know something that maybe people will yell at me for saying? And by people, I mean my childhood friends. One year we all made a Spice Girls music video at a sleepover where we all dressed up as different Spice Girls. I think we made up our spices. Maybe some people were spoiled. You were like nutmeg? I was two merigas. Um, I don't remember, but it was embarrassing. And we all, almost all of us, if not all of us, referenced it in our senior quotes at Badger High School. No, you'll never see the video.

SPEAKER_01 32:13

Speaking of nutmeg. Speaking of nutmeg, it's a hallucinogenic drug. The spice controls mirrors tycine, a natural compound that has mind-altering effects if ingested in large doses. So, kids, if you want to get high and not run the risk of a fentanyl overdose, just go buy a bunch of nutmegs.

SPEAKER_02 32:32

Chug some nutmeg. Oh, that sounds like painful.

SPEAKER_01 32:35

Can we make this a TikTok trend?

SPEAKER_02 32:37

Chugging, I'm sure it already exists. And dumb people are doing it and dying from like ingesting a thing of nutmeg. Wasn't that a thing? Like people were chugging cinnamon or something and like dying? Yeah, like suffocating themselves.

unknown 32:50

I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01 32:51

Don't believe everything you see online. Yeah, I'm sorry. Some of the stuff I'm like, I don't know. Like, is it sad you're dead? Yeah, but you're stupid. So like. Don't chug cinnamon. Not my problem.

SPEAKER_02 33:01

I'm scared to bring all my children in this world.

SPEAKER_01 33:04

Oh, mate. Should I pull Elliot aside and just be like, hey, bro, I got a little advice for you. Don't chug cinnamon.

SPEAKER_02 33:10

No, because then he'll think about it. Elliot's pretty smart. Okay. Did you know? The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland. How could you skip this one?

SPEAKER_01 33:20

Oh, I was giving it, I was gonna come back to it.

SPEAKER_02 33:22

Oh, well, I see.

SPEAKER_01 33:23

Because this one, I'm happy you brought it up because this is incredible.

SPEAKER_02 33:25

This is for the children everywhere. It was apparently chosen because of its connection with dominance and chivalry, as well as purity and innocence in Celtic mythology.

SPEAKER_03 33:35

That's so awesome.

SPEAKER_02 33:37

Unicorns, man.

SPEAKER_01 33:38

Are they real? I think we talked about this one when we talked about the Olympics, but I just want to share this again. Competitive art used to be an Olympic sport. Between 1912 and 1948, the International Sporting Events awarded medals for music, painting, sculpture, and architecture. I mean, I just I don't know if I would call architecture a sport. No. So much as a skill. Oh, it's an incredible skill. But a sport? I would love to see Tom doing competitive architecture. I would love to Google. So there's a time limit on those, so I don't know how well you do.

SPEAKER_02 34:13

Um, yes, you have to be expeditious.

SPEAKER_01 34:18

Okay. How do you do competitive architecture? How do you judge architecture?

SPEAKER_02 34:23

I mean, there are architecture awards. Yeah, but they're in categories, probably, which makes it easier. Um okay, I don't think I believe this, but you will tell me I am wrong. A chef's hat has 100 pleats. Apparently, it's meant to represent the 100 A's you uh the 100 ways you can cook an egg. I don't know. Is there a hundred ways to cook an egg? Probably. I mean I don't know. I mean, I know you don't cook eggs, but I do cook eggs. You do. That's you just don't eat them. That's right. Uh I just don't know. I I just I can't imagine there's a hundred ways to cook an egg.

SPEAKER_01 34:55

I think it's like an apocryphal, like bullshit wives' tail thing. I know, but listen to us, we're talking about it.

SPEAKER_02 35:00

So it's working.

SPEAKER_01 35:01

I like this one. In 2014, there was a Tinder match in Antarctica, two research scientists matched on the global dating app in the most remote part of the world, a man working in the United States Antarctic McMurdo Station, and a woman camping a 45-minute helicopter ride away.

SPEAKER_02 35:15

Uh just take a quick helicopter ride.

SPEAKER_01 35:18

This just goes to prove that the human urge to bone has no limits. It's just a quick helicopter ride away. Uh, I've read some stuff about uh recently, I don't know exactly how this came up, but uh sex in space and if it would logistically work in zero gravity. And uh there's some concerns of you know, like if humans start colonizing, first of all, people are, you know, like you're in a spaceship for two years.

SPEAKER_02 35:44

Yeah like you're gonna have sex with whoever's next to you.

SPEAKER_01 35:46

Yeah, it's gonna happen. Like, let's be clear, Republicans, people have sex. I know, I know you're against sex, but it happens.

SPEAKER_02 35:54

You don't watch Gray's Anatomy, but Gray's Anatomy was all about people having sex.

SPEAKER_01 35:58

So um, I used to watch it religiously, and there's been two, it's like on the ER thing now where it's just like Oh, I watched ER till the end, too. I just there was one too many helicopter crashes. I'm like, I'm out.

SPEAKER_02 36:09

It was weird when like people started coming back from the dead, and like a weird episode about that.

SPEAKER_01 36:13

I'm out. Oh, I'm in. So we uh Yeah. There's some like you'd have to strap one person in because there's no gravity. So you'd have to strap someone in. Oh my god. To like the wall, right? Like in a you know how like they sleep in a couple of things. Yeah, and then so like you'd have to have someone like that, and then use that as lever. I was like, whoa. That sounds awful. Also, the scientists that are studying this are like, you know, scientists are like the craziest hornballs in the world. I mean, and you know, you're like, oh, you nerds, you aren't getting any. And then they're out here like that.

SPEAKER_02 36:44

Oh, studying sex in space. I mean, I studied how you could. I have other questions, but I feel like it's too much to speak about on air. Also, I don't want to Google it. Um, good call. Speaking of sex, this is could be taken one way. The Japanese word kuchi zamishi is the act of eating when you're not hungry because your mouth is lonely. We do this all the time. I just thought the mouth is lonely part was funny. And also, I eat, I guess my mouth is lonely a lot. I eat all the time when I'm not hungry.

SPEAKER_01 37:18

Google Images was literally created after Jennifer Lopez wore that infamous dress at the 2000 Grammys. So many people were searching for her outfit. The search engine added an image.

SPEAKER_02 37:29

Oh my gosh, I didn't know that, even though it says imagine function. Typo. Um, wow, I didn't know that. I also didn't know this, and I am embarrassed that I didn't know. I don't know why I'm embarrassed. No one in my life wears Louutons on the rag. Um, Louuton's iconic red souls were inspired by Andy Warhol. Really? Yeah, who I love. The 60s pop artist drawing, Flowers, that's the name of the drawing, caught the eye of the famous designer, which gave him the idea to add the infamous red soul to his designs. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01 38:00

I had no clue.

unknown 38:02

Huh.

SPEAKER_01 38:02

Pigeons can tell the difference between Picasso and Monet. A 1995 study shows that the birds can differentiate between the two artists. Well, let me be clear. One's good and one's like random bits of cubes. So, like, that's not really a hard one. If they could tell the difference between like Monet and I don't know, like some other impressionist, like, cool. That would be impressive. But like Jackson Pollock and Claude Monet, okay, bro. My three-year-old can tell the difference between those.

SPEAKER_02 38:31

Um, I am completely blanking. What's the exhibit called? Um, the big that it just came just opened in Milwaukee. Oh my god. Yeah, Monet. Yeah, it's the Monet exhibit, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, it just opened in Milwaukee. Did you know that? Yeah. At the Wisconsin Center. Have you seen it? It's really cool. Not in Milwaukee, but too.

SPEAKER_01 38:48

The last time it came, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 38:49

Oh. Oh, yeah. I forgot that it's been to Milwaukee. Yep. I saw it in Seattle, so I guess I thought in my head it hadn't made it here. Good call. Anyway. Um, Queen Elizabeth II was a trained mechanic. God bless. When she was 16, the Queen joined the British Employment Agency at the labor exchange and learned the basics of truck repair. Apparently, she can repair tires and engines. Is there anything the Queen can't do?

SPEAKER_01 39:12

Well, she can't do anything now because couldn't do. Um Do you see Liz Truss? Have you seen that news? No. Prime Minister of England for four weeks. Boom. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 39:23

I saw a joke about like my kid is only one, you know, one month old and has been through like Prime Minister, whatever, a number of kids. Three kids.

SPEAKER_01 39:30

Yeah, and it was funny because she's like, I'm handing my announcement to King Charles III. I'm like, who? What? What? Uh also uh God Save the Queen is now God Save the King, the national anthem. You know, uh what is the American version of that song? Um we uh of we use the lyrics for something, and I don't even know what is because like God save our gracious kids.

SPEAKER_02 39:54

Like I didn't know there was an American version of this.

SPEAKER_01 39:58

Yeah, uh song. Uh let's see. What what do we use it for? I can't remember. Uh while you're talking about that, I'm gonna talk about Moon Quest. Oh, My Country Tisothy.

SPEAKER_02 40:11

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:11

I just started like singing God saying. Oh, yeah, you confuse me. It confuses me. I uh When it's yeah, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_02 40:20

Um, okay, this is not the one I was gonna read, but have you seen Pulp Fiction?

SPEAKER_00 40:24

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 40:25

I have not. Why are all the clocks set to 420? Is it really like is that really?

SPEAKER_01 40:30

I believe it. Quentin Tarantino does stuff like that.

SPEAKER_02 40:33

Oh, I don't know anything about like to be honest, I don't know anything about pulp fiction. I mean, I know what pop fiction is. We're gonna have a party. Oh, we should have a pulp fiction party. It doesn't feel like something I want to watch.

SPEAKER_01 40:43

You'll ask Tyler a lot of questions. I know. So it just doesn't feel like something I want to watch. Are you aware of like the costumes at all?

SPEAKER_02 40:50

Uh no. I haven't read I couldn't tell you anything about pulp fiction.

SPEAKER_01 40:54

Let's see if we can find pulp fiction.

SPEAKER_02 40:56

I mean, 1994.

SPEAKER_01 40:59

I feel like you like the aesthetic.

SPEAKER_02 41:02

Oh, yeah, I could see why you would think that. Yeah. I mean, I don't like old movies. I mean, this is 1994, old Okay. Maybe I'll watch it. I know.

SPEAKER_01 41:15

I just have never seen it. That's all. Kim Kardashian has a glam clause in her will. It states that if she's ever in a position where she can't ready herself, can't communicate, or she's unconscious, someone has to make sure her hair, nails, and makeup are all perfect.

SPEAKER_02 41:31

Bro, whoever's job that is, don't do it.

SPEAKER_01 41:34

Don't do it. This is a person whose ex-husband is putting uh anti-Semitic garbage out in the world, and she can't like even just do a like, hey guys, I don't hate Jews.

SPEAKER_02 41:44

Also, she's a horrible human being.

SPEAKER_01 41:46

She is a horrible human being.

SPEAKER_02 41:47

Um, this is the best, and I feel so vindicated. A jiffy is an actual unit of time. It's one one hundredth of a second. So every time we use it, we're wrong. But one one hundredth of a second is pretty damn swift.

SPEAKER_01 42:01

And finally, for devoted listeners of this podcast, you probably know this already. But Japan has over 200 flavors of Kit Kat.

SPEAKER_02 42:09

How many do you think we've tried?

SPEAKER_01 42:11

50. 30. 30, I think.

SPEAKER_02 42:13

We've barely scratched the surface because these ones look good. Banana, blueberry cheesecake, Oreo ice cream, unlike bean paste, which is one that we tasted.

SPEAKER_01 42:22

They also have baked potato, milan and cheese, wasabi. We did try a wasabi one, didn't we?

SPEAKER_02 42:28

I think so.

SPEAKER_01 42:28

And vegetable juice.

SPEAKER_02 42:29

Ooh, baked potato. Give me a baked potato cake cat.

SPEAKER_00 42:33

Guys, if you like stuff like that, there is a pot roast brow. We're coming to like Sheneva Country Meats.

SPEAKER_01 42:39

Spoiler alert, my bro. Spoiler alert. My bro! It's gonna be very gummy. Um, speaking of nummy things. Time to talk about the thing. Who would you eat this week? Alright, so we had uh the the fine folks from Dow Winery in town this week. We did. And it led to a lot of things. Uh uh. Text from Ronnie.

SPEAKER_02 43:02

Oh, are you listening live? Live course.

SPEAKER_01 43:04

Live mention, Ronnie. Um the uh so we had the first event featuring rawn cheese. There was four things. They're all very good, but my favorite was a final course. No, I actually really like the Stroopwaffle one.

SPEAKER_02 43:23

Oh yeah, the Stroopwaffle. Stroopwaffle was.

SPEAKER_01 43:26

So it was Stroopwaffle with lemon curd, whiskey gouda, and malden salt. I really liked it. It was delish. And then I went to a dinner that turned out to be Nelly and Marvey's last dinner together as professionals. Marvey, uh, chef Nellie at Grand Geneva actually cooked this one because his normal he's the food and beverage director now. So his normal executive chef was out of town, so he executive chefed it. And Marvey, his wife, also cooks there and she's leaving cooking to do something else to have more time at home with her child child. Oh. Um So that was kind of special to see to see that. And um she made the first course, which was citrus hummus, chicken kafta, olives, pickled root, vegetable, and roasted garlic sauce. And it was delicious. Bomb. Yeah, that's a good thing. It was like the best thing I've had in a long time. The other courses were very good as well. But um, like that dish was just so good and it was so beautifully plated. And like I told Nelly, I'm like, Marvey cooked the first course, dude. And she's like, How'd you know? I'm like, well, well, oh like the way it's put together was like very Marvi.

SPEAKER_03 44:33

Like Wow, that's fun.

SPEAKER_01 44:35

So yeah, it was really cool, but it was just so delicious. I love all those Mediterranean-y type of flavors, and I love all the hummus. Yeah, it was really delicious.

SPEAKER_02 44:42

Give me the hummus.

SPEAKER_01 44:44

Oh, and there was a bunch of naan with it, so I ate it with my fingers. Like, you should do anything that's hummus and naan. You know what you should do? Eat it with your fingers. And my dining companions were eating with forks. I'm like, y'all are stupid. Like, get in it. Get in it. Okay, bro.

SPEAKER_02 44:58

My dining companions.

SPEAKER_01 45:00

Uh yeah, so I yeah, I uh yes, it was good. So uh shout out to um those people for making good food for me this week.

SPEAKER_02 45:11

Good job, Marvey.

SPEAKER_01 45:13

Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 45:13

Um, and I'm sure Nelly. Um, I thought I would be cool, Mom, the other day, and we went to an apple orchard, so we have like copious months of apple, but I don't really like baked apple things, so I'm not like getting apples to bake pies because no thank you. Um, but I did buy a caram dip. So I was like, you know what? It was maybe like right after school, and the kids wanted a snack. I'm like, great, have one of these 900 apples, and I'm gonna give you some caramel because I'm cool. So I dished it out in a microwave safe dish, and I was gonna warm it up. You're just like Amy Polar. You're a cool boy. I'm just like Amy Polar. And then I like, you know, used my finger to get it off of a spoon and then licked my finger, and I was like, ew, like it tasted bad. I'm like, I don't know, I didn't buy the off-brand. I bought whatever brand, the only brand they had. I put the lid back on the container and it was fucking pumpkin spice caramel apple dip. I was so angry, or actually angry. Luckily, the kids didn't know about it, so we did not have World War III, but I immediately texted a picture of it to my neighbor and was like, Do you want this? We do not eat pumpkin things in this house. So she came over and we had a nice visit, but I was very angry. So, really, the food I'm loving this week is not pumpkin spice caramel apple dip. I'm so angry.

SPEAKER_01 46:24

That would anger me too. So anyway, I'm day of recording. It's International Nacho Day. Nachos? So I'm gonna be making nachos tonight. Delicious. Uh I haven't been informed steak or chicken or ground beef. Uh, haven't been informed. There's a place for all of them. So we'll see.

SPEAKER_02 46:38

Why don't you make one row with steak, one with chicken, and one with ground beef? Probably won't be. You're welcome for that.

SPEAKER_01 46:44

Otherwise, I would. Uh I have done that in the past.

SPEAKER_02 46:47

That sounds delicious.

SPEAKER_01 46:48

So we usually do a like, I cook all the ingredients and then we have like the little mini sheet pans.

SPEAKER_02 46:52

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 46:52

So then you can like assemble your own. And like, let's be honest, a little plate of nachos where you can then enjoy it as a little plate instead of like having to scoop out from a whole thing. 100% better. Best way to do it. And then it's not gross of like other, like, even though it's like your family, you're still like, I didn't that was the bite I wanted.

SPEAKER_02 47:09

You might avoid getting their germs right in your mouth.

SPEAKER_01 47:11

Yeah. Um, but Kim at our Huddle talking about this brought up uh apple nachos, and we all said, Oh, yeah, that's effing disgusting. But no, it's so good. Well, because we thought it'd be like chips and cheese and apples, and she's like, no, it's just apple slices and caramel. Yeah, it's just a caramel apple. Yeah. Oh, it's just caramel apple dip.

SPEAKER_02 47:30

Yeah, it's just a fun way of doing it. Yes. For the children. Okay, breaking news. Might not be breaking, but it's breaking to me. Balenciaga has severed its ties with ye. Good. Yes. So it's um, whatever. I just happened to see it when I opened my phone because it's breaking news. They no longer have any relationship nor any plans for future projects related to this artist.

SPEAKER_01 47:53

I thought they put artists in quotes. They did not, but it doesn't, it did not elaborate any further. Adidas is in a world of hurt with the Yeezy collab because he he needs to probably get hit by a bus at this point. Because I think that's the only way any of this ends without it.

SPEAKER_02 48:19

Which is just funny.

SPEAKER_01 48:20

I don't know why I find that funny, but this is really unfortunate. He's doing so much harm to people that have legitimate mental health problems. He's doing so much harm to minority groups.

SPEAKER_02 48:30

I mean, he used to be he's insane. He's certified. Like I mean, no, that shouldn't, that was not nice of me to say, because uh certifiably I think he's having a hard time and everyone's ignoring it.

SPEAKER_01 48:42

I don't think anybody's ignoring it. I think he's ignoring it. I think he wants to be crazy.

SPEAKER_02 48:46

Oh, I don't think so.

SPEAKER_01 48:48

And I think the people in his what life around him just want to keep making money off of him.

unknown 48:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 48:53

So it's really sad, actually. It's just like a public, it's a public mental health breakdown. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 48:58

And we're all watching it. Gotten help in the past and decided he doesn't want to do what he's supposed to do. So you know 2022 is getting all of us. Bye-bye, Kanye. You can No!

SPEAKER_02 49:12

You make such good music.

SPEAKER_01 49:14

Not anymore.

SPEAKER_02 49:15

Well, yeah, I mean, you're right.

SPEAKER_01 49:17

Not at this time. It's just so sad. He's going through a mental health breakdown, man. It's so sad. The last three albums have all been garbage. Oh, I don't agree with that. I just want him to like, I don't know, just stop being an anti-Semite. Okay, people. Remember, the Jews don't run the world no matter what That means it's time for Kid Corner.

SPEAKER_02 49:42

Great transition, right there, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_01 49:44

Anti-defamation league ally. Um, well, guys, uh, it was Simona's birthday this past weekend. We had a lot of fun. Uh giant bounce house. 900 parties. Lots of one to come.

SPEAKER_02 49:56

Lots of we have another one?

SPEAKER_01 49:58

Because her family couldn't like do anything until this weekend. So Sarah's family, and no, no, no. That was for the other cousin.

SPEAKER_02 50:05

He got oh, I'm stressed out for you. Guys only have one kid. How are you gonna keep doing this? Four parties? Three. Well, I thought you had three this past weekend and one more to go.

SPEAKER_01 50:17

One was for her cousin who's born the day after her.

SPEAKER_02 50:19

Oh, I thought that was like a joint thing.

SPEAKER_01 50:21

No, so uh boy. Yep. So anyway, good times. Uh it was just a very uh fun, fun birthday weekend. Uh Simona got some new activities that she's very excited about and has been constantly playing with in like a very fun, good way. Good. And she's been like very excited to come home and grab her like different craft kits and do crafting things. It's just been really fun to see that she's happy and doing those things. And um, yeah, she got this one that like has some stamps that she's really into. Nice at her gymnastics thing, they give you stamps on your hands if like you're a good listener, you know. And so she's very excited. She gets me stamps for being a good dad dad every uh morning. So I go to work with these stamps on my hands. It's pretty cool, and I I like it. So it's just kind of like it.

SPEAKER_02 51:08

Uh it's just cool to see. Like craft gifts is where it's at. Yeah. I'm just saying, um, not because that's what I gave Simona, but because Nick told me, like, oh yeah, we just like do all these crafts to kill time. And I'm like, oh yeah, duh, because so do we. Yeah. And yeah, and I'm like, we're always buying, I'm always picking up random, you know.

SPEAKER_01 51:24

Target dollar section is just like so good for that.

SPEAKER_02 51:26

But you know where I I went into Joanne Fabrics. Yeah, and Sarah gets a lot there too. Like, oh, does she? I was like so excited because I'm like, this doesn't feel like a place Sarah would shop.

SPEAKER_01 51:34

Home goods, they hit up a lot for like because they'll have home goods is pretty hit or miss. Like you almost always will find something in Joanne. Target, you almost always will find something.

SPEAKER_02 51:42

Oh, I was so excited to be creative with my Joanne shopping. No, that was great.

SPEAKER_01 51:45

But she doesn't get there as much because it's I don't think to go there. That store is claustrophobic. Yeah, it's very it's small. So it's kind of like if you see 10 cars in the parking lot, don't go in.

SPEAKER_02 51:55

Oh, and it's Halloween, so it's it's always most crowded. Yeah, but it's I bought at one of my wholesale places, they buy um the one of the liquidation places, they buy Target stuff.

SPEAKER_00 52:04

About a pallet of craft paper.

SPEAKER_02 52:07

People do buy full palettes, not me. Um, but they had a Mondolama, you know, the Target craft kits for three dollars for three full kits. Like and they're all wrapped together, and I forgot I had them. Brought them out the other day, and every day the kids come home and are like, can we do more crafts? And they're all just those like foam assemble a foam face. Love them, you know. So much fun. Yeah, so no kill 15 minutes. I mean, it's great. And then like I have to put these decorations all over the house.

SPEAKER_01 52:32

Anyway, um yours sounds like more interesting than mine.

SPEAKER_02 52:36

Yeah, I was struggling because like um I feel like I haven't seen a bunch of my kids, or it's just been chaotic, or I've been like living in a cloud.

SPEAKER_01 52:44

There are three of your five that you haven't seen in a while.

SPEAKER_02 52:46

All of my kids. I have so many. Um, but we were doing a bath the other day, and Lucy loves baths. But Lucy's um not a gentle flower, like we've previously discussed. I feel like it's been a while since we've reminded you of that. And she she has been farting like a man. And in the bathtub the other day, I took a picture of how hard she laughed at herself farting in the bathtub because it is. I'm gonna show Nick while we're sitting here, pure joy. So, and you know, in a bathtub, maybe you don't know because your kids are not my children, she it's it's all blurry. Oh my god, like just pure joy. She looks like a manic person. Like, because she sitting on directly on the toilet, it farted and like it bubbled and then it echoed. It was like so loud and disgusting, you guys. But it made her night. So anyway, I wish I had the phone backwards because she likes to look at it, and those always take worse pictures, so it's like blurry and terrible. But I wish it was a better photo because it'd be a great, like framable, hilarious. Aww. Oh, farting Lucy. So graceful. Elliot doesn't care that I exist this week. So, you know, I don't have any stories about him. Because right now he's on a dad kick, let's say.

SPEAKER_01 53:58

Well, that's that's nice.

SPEAKER_02 53:59

Yeah, share quality time.

SPEAKER_01 54:02

Well, everybody, we hope you had fun with this uh episode of the podcast. Anything else you'd like to share, Bridget?

SPEAKER_02 54:07

I was trying to think of a date. And we're gonna be like one week out from Halloween when the next after the next one. So hopefully we'll have a spooky spot podcast for you. Spooky. So spooky. Are we scary? Are we? Um, enjoy, well, actually, when this comes out, you will have enjoyed a 70-degree weekend, hopefully. Or if you listen to us early in the day on Sunday, enjoy the rest of your 70-degree weather.

SPEAKER_01 54:31

Guys, get outside, enjoy it, have so much fun. Slash, you live all over the country, so enjoy the weather wherever you go. Go get some apples and don't get pumpkin spice caramel bit.