I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream!

Nothing kicks off summer quite like a deep dive into ice cream preferences and a candid taste test of Lady Gaga's questionable beverage choice. We start with updates on the helicopter "wiener drop" event we'd been anticipating - complete with the unexpected appearance of Bill Murray helping distribute 2,600 hot dogs raining down on a stadium field.

We couldn't help but address some genuinely concerning beauty trends currently making rounds on social media. From people using Sharpie markers as lip liner (despite the chemical smell and dermatologists' warnings) to the horrifying practice of "cryo branding" - essentially burning decorative patterns into skin using extreme cold. Our professional advice? Don't put Sharpie on your face, don't brand yourself with ice, and maybe reconsider those discount butt implants that might literally fall out during a workout (as one unfortunate woman discovered and then needed a $85,000 corrective surgery).

The heart of our conversation centers around ice cream - its fascinating journey from ancient China to Thomas Jefferson's America, the technical definition requiring at least 10% milk fat (sorry, Dairy Queen!), and our personal preferences from soft serve to sprinkle techniques. Did you know vanilla remains America's favorite flavor, except in Illinois where Moose Tracks reigns supreme? Or that 90% of Americans keep ice cream in their freezers at all times? Between comparing cone versus cup preferences and debating the merits of toppings, we conducted a brave taste test of Lady Gaga's favorite drink: red wine mixed with Diet Coke. The verdict? "They're fighting in this glass" - two flavors that absolutely refuse to blend harmoniously. 

Try Lady Gaga's peculiar concoction yourself if you're feeling adventurous, but maybe avoid the Sharpie lip liner. Share your thoughts on our taste test or your own ice cream preferences, and join us again next week for more candid conversations and unexpected experiments!

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Catching Up and The Wiener Drop

Speaker 1 0:07

Hi, thanks for joining us today. It's Nora and Nora, welcome to those of you tuning in for the very first time and to those who wait all week just for new content. They're like come on Monday, here we are again. Here we are again Listeners, full disclosure. We did not make it to the wiener drop, no, but we tried. How about this? I got a text from someone you did, who heard about it on our podcast and tried to get tickets themselves. Oh, they were also unsuccessful. Yes, my dad sent me a video of it on Instagram, and so the helicopter hovered over the stadium and they dropped them all on the outfield. They were like hot dog day. Oh they were. I thought it was going to be like Oscar Mayer packaged hot dogs, like falling out of the sky. But somebody was sitting somewhere rolling hot dogs. Somebody rolled 2,600 hot dogs, and then this guy was dumping them out of the side of the helicopter and then people were picking them up and putting them on trays and then passing them out to people in the stands, and one of the people picking them up and passing them out was Bill Murray. What Bananas? Well, you know, the guy's retired. He's got a lot of extra time on his hands. I guess if Bill Murray wants to go to a wiener drop, bill Murray's going to go. Yeah, what's the backstory? Does he have any connection? I don't know, it was very peculiar to me, but congrats on a successful wiener drop.

Speaker 1 1:35

Oh man, how was last year week? It was good, we both had our oldest sons off to football camp. Yeah, launched those boys 100 plus boys off, oh my gosh. And then Aiden, when I picked him up, he's like oh, the equipment truck broke down, so there's just one guy driving all their sweaty equipment. And then can you imagine sitting in that truck just baking with all that sweaty boy. We'll say they came home tired as all get out, tired, yeah, big time.

Speaker 1 2:07

And I didn't waste one second. I started the. Usually I make my kids on path. But I was like this is sick. I had it all prepped. I mean, aiden doesn't even play, he's the manager, so his stuff isn't as sweaty. But I had like the detergent like ready to go, like I had the detergent ready to go. It was in there ready and I was like bring your bag to the laundry room and just right in there, even Mike's arm band that has all the plays on there. Oh great, it's all sweaty soccer cleats, which I know is one of your least favorite smells. This was on your arm. How does this smell so bad? No one needs to hear the Don and Dirty on this.

Speaker 1 2:43

Sorry, that's too much information. Oh man, did I switch gears a little bit? Yes, there is two new crazy trends that I have to ask you what you think. Yes, have you heard of this lip liner Sharpie trend? What? No, what? Yes, no, what is it? Tell me Exactly what you think. It is A Sharpie to line your lips? Yeah, and dermatologists are, of course, warning against this. One of the girls who is a fan of this trend was saying that, yes, she can smell it and she can feel the chemicals on her lips. Yeah, but it's less expensive than makeup and it stays on.

Speaker 1 3:25

Oh, jesus and Mary and Joseph, I will say I like to write with a Sharpie, not like a fine point Sharpie, but if you buy them in a pack, they're expensive. Yeah, and that kind of. I mean oh Lord in heaven, there's so much wrong with that, there's so much wrong with that. And also, if you make a mistake, you're doomed. Oh my gosh. No, thank you, how is this a trend? I don't. And also, I mean, I love Sharpies and they do come in a lot of different colors, but I've never been like, oh, wow, that would match my mouth perfectly. Like, oh, this chartreuse should be a try. There's not enough shades of Sharpie, there's like a magenta and a red and a pink. If I tried to do it it would probably look like blood. Is she using red In the clip? Yeah, in the clip they use a couple different colors. Oh, no, please don't do that.

Speaker 1 4:18

Well, I would do that if I had given the choice, because I'm a fast know on cryo branding as well. What is that? And I've given the choice because I'm a fast know on cryo branding as well. What is that? And doctors again are warning against this. Cryo is cold, cold, yeah, cold. Like branding, like cattle branding. Yeah, look, put a brand on it. No, yeah, what? Instead of using a hot iron to brand it, they are using cold, like cryotherapy, to do it. Like we are not horses people. Oh, because they're doing it for horses. But now then they're doing it. No, yeah, why would you brand yourself what? It's essentially burning it? Yeah, it's cold burning, it's cold burning it.

Speaker 1 5:00

I had a friend who burned a, burned himself with on purpose to like make a smiley face. Oh no, how old is he? He was 21. My God Shoot. Oh, look at that girl. She's in a lot of pain. Oh, that's a stock photo. That's a stock photo of back pain.

Speaker 1 5:20

But wait, but where are they finding the metal things to do this? I don't know where they're getting this stuff. But, oh Lord in heaven, just leave your body alone. Yeah, don't do that. People Don't do that. Don't do that. And don't line your lips either. Oh, with a Sharpie. Oh, look it, they have an actual iron. Oh, no, and also, don't let your friends do it. Oh, and also don't let your friends do it. And look at this friend watching. He's just watching. Oh, he's holding his arm. So what did this young man brand himself with? Oh, he's holding it on there. He's not even wincing. Oh, look at the dermatologist is like no, he's a cowboy. Look, is it worse than a cow? It's a cat, it's a moon. I don't know. It's a cat Flying at the moon. I don't know. No, whatever, don't do that.

Speaker 1 6:05

Well, this is have you heard of the Gen Z stare? Yes, I did. Have you heard of this? I heard about it on the radio. But tell our listeners more about it. It's basically a blank stare that's given in situations where verbal responses would be a more common reaction. My kids do it. My kids do it too. It's kind of amazing. It's like a flex. It's a flex, but being on the other side of it is maddening, and as somebody who is a nervous talker who fills all the space, it's terrible.

Speaker 1 6:38

I found myself doing it because they do it, but I didn't know it was a thing until I heard it on the radio. Yeah, yeah, I never would have qualified it. I just thought it was my teenagers being disrespectful. Same. I was like oh, this is everybody. It's powerful though. So now I do it. It's powerful, but it is rude. It's so rude. I don't do it to other people, right? I just do it to the people I care about the most, like my family. Like some of the examples I saw online, the people I care about the most, like my family, like some of the examples I saw online.

Speaker 1 7:06

This woman was describing her interaction with a sales girl. She's like where is this? Yeah, over there. Oh, I looked over there. Could you help me find it? It's over there and then just crickets oh my gosh, it's maddening because of the lack like and you can't call them out on it. Really, it's kind of like could you say more? Please Say more. There you go. Could you say more? But it's a, it's a thing.

Speaker 1 7:36

Another form of communication that I'd love to chat about is the new emojis. There's new ones. There are how do I not know this? There's eight more on the. What system are we on? Ios? Ios 26, maybe, possibly.

Speaker 1 7:50

So the article said that whenever new emojis get introduced on a new system, it typically doesn't come out on the first or second version. So whatever the most recent update is, has them in the lineup, but it's not necessarily the first version of that update. Oh, okay, because I think the updates come in like 0.1, 0.2, 0.3. Mm-hmm, but none of them were any that I was like. Oh yes, I've been waiting for this. All right, so lay it on me. A trombone, yes, there we go. Okay, maybe that's how you're supposed to. That's how I'm gonna start using it.

Speaker 1 8:30

Um, a treasure chest jackpot, like. Oh, I found in this treasure chest. That's for all the pirates out there. Yeah, true, treasure, sure, a hairy creature like bigfoot? Oh, is that like? Oh, my gosh, they finally came out of their basement. Oh, my gosh, I need to shave my legs, it's okay. An apple core? Oh, is that like rotten? Like just finished lunch? Huh, an orca whale, also just finished lunch. Orcas are fierce. Orcas are really nasty and mean. She's being a real orca, real orca. I'm going to send that one to you. Maybe we'll just whatever they mean by them. We'll just make up our own names.

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Speaker 1 9:15

A landslide, maybe, like you're overwhelmed, like things are really caving in Like a dumpster fire. Yeah, do they have a dumpster fire emoji? They should. Really caving in Like a dumpster fire. But, yeah, do they have a dumpster fire emoji? They should. That would be a great one. Yeah, in the meantime, I'll just use the landslide. I don't know what a fight cloud is. Is it like a cloud with like stars and like things coming out of it? Uh-huh, and then maybe like punches and things. That's exactly what it is. Okay, that's from. Like cartoons. Oh, i's not like poor weather, fighting with the weather, fighting off. The spring Could be. I mean, you can spin them however you want, I guess.

Speaker 1 9:51

And then, lastly, a ballet dancer, which if I was a dance mom or had, or if you were a dancer and I was like, hey, do you want to go to the ballet? Your ballet is my working out. What is this? You like a? He's a nurse. Nora did, like it's a great person, really high, a high, really, uh, armpit level piano. Then we can go work out. Okay, great. Oh my gosh, what is that? You need to take me to a gym and I'll take you to see a ballet? Okay, great, it'll be awesome.

Speaker 1 10:40

Moving on, I do have a want-want story, oh, but I feel like I've hijacked the whole section of this podcast. Yeah, it's delightful, I have something for you to try. Oh, good, I have something. Did you forget? Did you forget? Oh no, oh, okay, no, so I'm just trying to regain composure. We good this woman. Okay, do I know her? No, she went to the Dominican Republic Okay, which is not funny. Common tourist destination, yes, very popular To get butt implants, which are also common Because they were less expensive, okay, and then she went to the gym.

Speaker 1 11:31

How soon after Too soon after, oh no, did she lose her junk in her truck? They fell out. Where did they go? I mean, they didn't like come out of her legs? Yeah, they like. And the doctors did say it is uncommon but it can happen. And when she was signing her paperwork. That was one of the liabilities she signed for or one of the conditions. It's like if you, yeah, mm-hmm. And so she had to spend $85,000 in her own money because insurance wouldn't cover any of it Of course not In corrective surgery Okay, don't get butt implants.

Speaker 1 12:12

Don't get butt implants. Don't put Sharpie on your face. Don't get butt implants. Don't cold cryobrand yourself. Don't cryobrand yourselves, just come on.

Speaker 1 12:20

But could you imagine if you were like working out and all of a sudden you're like, wait, if you're working out, and all of a sudden we were like, wait, it wasn't leg day. You have like these really big thighs, like, oh, my God, my calves are, yeah, the leg press man. So, like I know, there's this whole like medical tourism thing where like, oh, it's so much cheaper to get butt implants in the Dominican Republic. But seriously, no, you shouldn't do that. I'm sure there are great doctors in the Dominican Republic, but let's let the Dominican people have those doctors and we'll use our doctors for butt implants.

Speaker 1 12:54

Yes, or otherwise. Butt implants, okay. Anyways, should we cleanse our palate? Yes, okay, I think you've seen this and we've talked about it, but I wasn't sure if you had tried it. Yet I did, you did.

Speaker 1 13:09

I love it. I love it too. I brought you a regular. This is so. Can I save this? Yes, this is the greatest thing to hit the shelves, but it wasn't cheap. They've re-released Diet Cherry Coke and it is delicious. It is so good.

Speaker 1 13:23

I bought a whole case. So did I. It was $10.99. It was that's expensive. I was like huh.

Speaker 1 13:29

But you know what, though? The regular Diet Coke in the 12-pack 10-pack is also that, but it was buy two, get one free, but then the 24-pack was cheaper. Oh, I didn't see a 24-pack Of the regular Diet Coke. But this is so good. This is the greatest thing to hit the shelves. Love it. Love it, because I really like Diet Cherry Pepsi.

Speaker 1 13:52

But do you remember what happened to me with Diet Cherry Pepsi? The can is blue. And then, remember I had dirty mouth at school, so humiliating. So I was thrilled to see this is a white can. Thank you for this, but it gives me a bad aftertaste. Oh, it does. I had to brush my teeth because I felt like I had bad breath. I didn't have that problem, but now I'll be mindful. Okay, well, no, I hope you don't. Well, while we're talking about Coke.

Speaker 1 14:17

Lady Gaga's favorite drink is a red wine and Coke mix, wowzers. And I thought, why not? No time like the present? Sure, it's summer. It's kind of similar to the Tom Hanks yeah, tom thinks. Yeah, the cocaine.

Speaker 1 14:31

I thought maybe we could try it on camera. Okay, maybe we could try it on air. Let's do it, we'll test it out, all right. So what are the? So, lady Gaga, when I saw it, did it in a wine glass. Okay, it had ice.

Speaker 1 14:47

I like, where you're at, I'm going with a tumbler, I don't have to drink it all. Splash your red wine. Okay, I don't think it's that much. And does it matter what kind of red wine? I don't think so that's too much red wine. I think it's fine. I think it's fine, it doesn't matter. I just went with a cab.

Speaker 1 15:00

Okay, regular Diet Coke. I think it looks like more. Have to give it a little mix. What do you think you should give it? Like a little once around in the glass. You know what I mean? It looks like cherry Coke, it does. Thank you, nora.

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Speaker 1 15:20

Oh, yeah, the presentation is spot on and you have not tried this yet. No, gosh, no, I had to wait for my partner I, when she was describing this. She did not, but I thought of him. Remember his cocaine? Yes, and I was in the audience for that. Like, I saw that being filmed. We were at the Colbert show and then we went back to the hotel and tried it. That was good too, thank you All right. Well, let's see, because you're not a huge red wine fan, are you Not? Really, I mean, I don't mind it, it's just cheers. Hmm, ah, could I say gaga? Yeah, it tastes. Okay.

Speaker 1 15:59

This is going to sound strange. It tastes like you had a sip of red wine and then you had a sip of Coke. Like to me, the flavors are so separate. Yeah, they're not complimentary. They're fighting in this glass. This is a fight cloud. Actually, the second drink was better than the first.

Speaker 1 16:19

You asked if I I do like wine. White wine gives me a headache, so I have to be careful. Red wine I like, but I just I would rather drink something else. It depends on what I'm eating. I would never just have a drink and have a glass of red wine. This is the weirdest thing. This is weird Because I can definitely taste the red wine, but I can definitely taste the Diet Coke.

Speaker 1 16:39

They're not compatible. No, they're not, they're fighting. Yeah, they're not blending. It's like oil and water, like I feel like, maybe because the wine is not carbonated you know what it's like when you put olive oil on a plate and then put a little balsamic on there and then it goes, yes, yeah, I wonder if, maybe because of champ, because champagne is carbonated, it mixes better, because it's kind of flattening out the coke, it is, yeah, and then it's like fight. And maybe also because they're, I don't know, this is bizarre, it's a mystery. If somebody gave, if somebody said closure, like gave this to me as a blind taste test, I'd certainly be able to tell you that it was Diet Coke and red wine. Yes, where I feel like the champagne in Diet Coke tastes like a cherry Coke. That was great, that was really good.

Speaker 1 17:27

This is confusing. Did I do too much of something? You think? I don't think so. Because I you think so? Because this is only half, not even half a.

Speaker 1 17:35

Can you put more Diet Coke in than wine? But I find the wine to be very strong. The wine flavor is overpowering and there's not that much wine in it. No, there's not. Well, you know what? Try it. Try it for yourself.

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Speaker 1 17:48

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Speaker 1 17:54

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Speaker 1 18:39

Our topic today is ice cream. You scream ice cream. We all scream for ice cream. Do you scream for ice cream? I love ice cream. I love ice cream too. Will you eat it at home, like, will you have a bowl of ice cream? It's, that's exactly what I said. It's not the same. I grew up eating tcby, oh, and I probably ate more of that in my childhood than I eat anything else. It's still one of my favorite.

Speaker 1 19:05

They're hard to find. The gas station in hinsdale has it. No way. Does it have toppings? It does they. Their cookie dough is the best. I was going to ask you about that later in the segment, but it's kind of organically coming up. Okay, sorry, are you a toppings girl? Because I know you're not a condiments girl.

Speaker 1 19:25

Yes, I like a cookie dough, but I'm picky about it. Surprise, surprise, I like cookie dough. If I'm having it in a bowl, I would like a cookie dough or Reese's Pieces, but not Reese's Cups. Oh right, okay, got it. My go-to is colored sprinkles. I do like rainbow sprinkles too, but I would rarely.

Speaker 1 19:47

It's rare that I would scoop myself a bowl of ice cream at home. Same that I would scoop myself a bowl of ice cream at home. Same. Every once in a while I'll get a, because my favorite favorite ice cream is half-baked by Ben and Jerry's. What's in that? Chocolate, vanilla cookie dough and brownies. Oh yeah, every once in a while I'll treat myself because there's like a low-fat one and I'll do a little scoop of that, but that's like rare.

Speaker 1 20:14

My favorite ice cream is rainbow ice cream, so it's a south side, oh, rainbow shop, oh, and it's orange, sherbet, chocolate, pistachio, strawberry and vanilla. Yeah, my grandparents used to take us there, yeah, and we would eat. And the way they do it is like unique. Unique because they have to like scoop them all individually, don't they? I don't know, I think it's like smacked in there, yeah, and they just scoop it up and slap it on. But the way that those flavors like mesh with each other is my favorite. I like to keep it separate.

Speaker 1 20:58

Are you more ice cream or are you more fro-yo or are you more soft serve? I do love real ice cream, but I like soft serve too. When Al and I were living in New York before we got married, there was Tasty Delight and New York does sprinkles. It's like soft serve. I had never seen sprinkles done this way before in my whole life. New York, when they do the soft serve, they put the ice cream in the sprinkle bin. They don't use a spoon, oh, so they do the cone and then it's almost like breaded chicken. They like dunk it in the sprinkle, so your whole cone is covered in like sprinkle armor. That's amazing. It's amazing. So I let my kids do that in my house, like, if I do ice cream cones in this little sprinkle jar, oh, they must love that, it's great, yeah. And then I'm like go eat it outside, yep, but that's the way to do sprinkles. That is 100% the way to do sprinkles.

Speaker 1 21:43

What about you? It depends how I'm feeling. Like, sometimes I feel like ice cream. I love a McDonald's cone, oh, which is vanilla. I love a McDonald's cone, oh, which is vanilla, which is vanilla.

Speaker 1 21:53

You're not a vanilla ice cream fan. That's the most popular flavor. Look what I took out Scoop States of America. Yes, what is with America? Why is it vanilla? We're so vanilla, we're so vanilla.

Speaker 1 22:07

But I will say I do like Dairy Queen too. Well, did you hear the bad news about Dairy Queen? What? No, they legally cannot call it ice cream. Oh, because it's less than 10% milk fat. Jinx, there's this like five or less. Yeah, so they can call it ice cream. But you know what? It's not holding them back. No, I did read that soft serve is 3% to 6% milk fat. Frozen yogurt is yogurt-based, obviously. And then ice cream needs to be 10% milk fat to be called ice cream. Yep, that's true.

Speaker 1 22:41

I do like vanilla ice cream, like on a brownie, like if I have a hot brownie, yes, or pumpkin pie, apple pie, but just if somebody's like— I don't like it on—I love pumpkin pie, but just if somebody's like I don't like it on. I love pumpkin pie, but I don't like ice cream on pumpkin pie or on like a cookie skillet. I would love some vanilla ice cream on there, but if somebody offered me a scoop of vanilla ice cream I'd probably say no. What about in like a blizzard? I would With Reese's Pieces, I like to get chocolate in a blizzard. What so like at Highland Queen? Is that a thing? You can get chocolates. I do chocolate soft serve with Reese's Pieces.

Speaker 1 23:15

They have good pistachio ice cream. Really, I love. You. Do not like pistachio ice cream. I don't like pistachios at all. Oh, then you would not like that. I found one. I like that, but I'm so happy for you though. Thank you, they have it.

Speaker 1 23:32

I never had a flurry, but you know who has a great ice cream sundae who? Mcdonald's. Their fudge is good. Yeah, my friend and I when we were in high school, we used to go to Denny's and we would get ice cream with hot fudge on the side, like Cupid's. Did you ever go to Cupid's? They had the best ice cream, like real, real ice cream. It was like an ice cream parlor and you got a hot fudge sundae and they gave you the hot fudge on the In that little cup. It was like a little. It was either silver and then they had little plastic ones with like a little. Yeah, it was like a shot glass with a spout and it would be great because I would take a little spoonful of chocolate ice cream and then I would dip it into the hot fudge. Yeah, that was a great place, it was the best.

Speaker 1 24:19

Do your kids like ice cream? They do, all of them. I think that's one of the few foods they all eat, some more than others. I think Kevin is probably the most.

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Speaker 1 24:31

How do you feel about milkshakes? I don't like to drink them because I feel like they have so many calories. Now, I don't have that same problem with ice cream. It's something about like a liquid. I like an ice cream. Yeah, I don't know. I don't like milkshakes. Yeah, I don't dislike them.

Speaker 1 24:54

Are you a cone person? I was going to ask you that. It depends. Mcdonald's I like the cup and the soft serve or the cone and the soft serve. But if I get a scoop of ice cream. I like it in a cup. Oh, okay, soft serve you like in a cone? I do like soft serve in a cone. Okay, I will go cone Every time, nine times. Yeah, if it's an option, I would go cone. How do you get the cookie dough on there? Well, if I'm at home, I do it in a bowl, okay, but I like it in a cone, which were made in 1904 for the St Louis World's Fair. Isn't that fun? I love it.

Speaker 1 25:21

This is not the first time I've read about the St Louis World's Fair. I feel like it's come up before. You know, it's still a thing, was a one-time thing, but there's a lot that. So if you go to st louis you can like my friend margie has driven me around like the pavilion is still there and like where everything was. But, um, I'm like it's kind of like the olympics. You into the world fair in 1904. Yes, yeah, there's a whole movie. Meet me in st louis, judy garland.

Speaker 1 25:47

It is the trolley song. No, clang, clang, clang with the trolley. Zing, zing, zing with the bell. No, I got clang clang with the trolley. Zing, zing, zing with the bell. No, I got it wrong. Ding, ding, ding with the bell Zing, zing, zing with my heartstrings. Oh hello, oh my God. It's such a good song, oh my God. But oh, and that's, have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. That song is from that movie In St Louis. Yeah, oh well, I don't think they filmed it in St Louis, but it's about this family during the St Louis World's Fair. Oh, anyways, I digress.

Speaker 1 26:18

But the World's Fairs, though, in the 1800s, 1900s, were huge, like hotbed of invention, like Chicago when they had theirs. It's Corn Flakes, twinkies, ferris Wheel. It was like a big deal. It's a thing I know. We should bring those back World's. We can't even find the time to go to a podcasting conference for two days. I don't know if this is going to work for us. I don't. Maybe it's the red one getting to me.

Speaker 1 26:49

Did you read that ice cream was invented, they think, by the Chinese people? Yes, I did read that. And then that Marco Polo took it to Italy and then Catherine de' Medici took it to France and then Thomas Jefferson brought it to America. I'm glad that somewhere between China and America they got rid of the rice and milk situation. Oh yeah, have you ever made that mistake Of putting rice in my milk? No, al and I were in Portugal and I thought it was ice cream, but it was that mochi. Was it mochi? Yes, I am not a mochi fan.

Speaker 1 27:20

Oh, the consistency. Oh, it was like the flavor, the taste. Yeah, it was not chocolate, like wiggly paste. It looked like chocolate. Yeah, it was like beans. I called it wiggly paste and you called it paste. It's raw Gross. Yeah, I'm sorry, not like that. Yeah, so, thank you, thomas Jefferson.

Speaker 1 27:41

Thanks, tj, but in my research, though it was saying that you know people, for since human beings have been trying to keep cool and keep things cool forever, that even in 4000 BC, they made ice houses along the Euphrates River in Mesopotamia to try to keep cool. Well, obviously, there's stuff I thought of you in your plate with ice. People have been struggling with this forever, so it's not just you. But yeah, vanilla is the most popular ice cream, except for Illinois Moose Tracks. I don't mind a Moose Tracks, I don't know what that is. I think it's. Well, it's vanilla based, but it has like chocolate. There's chunks in it. Chunks in it, yeah, mm-hmm, I do like cookies and cream. I like that too. Yeah, that's not bad, but then I always have to check my teeth. Oh, yeah, well, that's the Oreo kind of problem, and I don't mind. Like a mint chocolate chip, I do. Like a chocolate peanut butter ice cream. You do, because it's like a little salty.

Speaker 1 28:40

When I was a kid, my dad would always take us to 31. And we would get chocolate with the chocolate peanut butter. Uh-huh, yeah, that's a good one. And I look back now and he would do it usually on Sunday nights my mom would stay home and clean the kitchen. Oh, that's really good. That was a good setup. Al used to do that when we lived in Texas. I would clean up and he would take the boys, like for a walker to go get ice cream, and I could just have like a moment of zen. It was nice.

Speaker 1 29:05

I also read that 90% of Americans have ice cream in their freezers at all times. Huh, I do, I do, yeah. Yeah. Kevin likes to make milkshakes, so All right.

Highs and Lows of the Week

Speaker 1 29:15

Well, should we jump on over to high and low? What's your low? Oh, my low is the bad books. Bad books, bad books. Oh no, my charming little lending library that I take such care for. My flowers are planted, the books are straightened, the glass is shined, the roof is roof shingled, roof is roof shingled.

Speaker 1 29:40

People are taking my nice, good hardback books and leaving garbage again. But is it just garbage? Because they're not hardcover, that's part of it, but they're like tattered and worn and poor quality. It's like you know what, if you want to take that nice book, take it, but then bring it back. Oh, they're not bringing it back. I'm still reading the book you gave me. I'll bring it back. No, that's fine. I'm just saying, like you have two choices Either leave if you're going to take a nice book leave something in the similar shape that you took it in, and nobody ever returned your nice books. And nobody ever returns my nice books oh, never. I'm surprised I never get those back. I get like worn Danielle Steele that has like the binding torn or like the back cover is kind of hanging off. Oh, no, no, it makes me sad. It's like this is for everybody. Just bring back the book you. Or maybe tape the cover, maybe just give them a little tlc. It's like they found it in the bottom of their basement and then took my best seller. But take it, enjoy it and then bring it back.

Speaker 1 30:46

Yeah, I could say whatever, anyhow, um, I'm so sore, nora, I did a like a lower body legs class. It was only 10 minutes, but it was 10 minutes of constant squats. It was squats and lunges. Good thing you didn't get a butt implant oh my God, it would have been. I feel like I did. I feel like I'm recovering from something Like Rory. I brought him to pick up his new glasses today and I was like you have to slow down, it hurts. When did you do this class? I did it yesterday, okay, and I'm going to do it again because I'm like clearly I'm not working these muscles because they're really sore. But I was like. I woke up this morning and I was like ow, like just laying in bed. Don't you love that feeling, though I'm like kind of glad because now I'm like all right, here we go, keep going, let's go. But it's because I feel like I'm walking, like I am a robot, like you probably are. Oh, but good for you for getting back into it. Oh god, I'm so sore.

Speaker 1 31:47

What was your high yesterday? Al went out to dinner with a friend and I had. You know, aiden was super tired from football camp and we had dinner and I was like I don't want to just sit around the house. It was hot. So we went to Puttshack. We did like impromptu Puttshack and I had a coupon code and it was free, what you had some kind of code. Well, I put it. I accidentally put it in twice, but it accepted it. So we have free golf. Oops, oops, you know, that's your good fortune. I was like I mean, I didn't do it on purpose, I booked it and then I was like I got distracted and then I went back to book it again and I put the coupon code and it accepted it twice and I was like, oh it's free, great Congratulations, free Pudge Jack, that's a double hot.

Speaker 1 32:32

I had a really nice time and I won one of the rounds. Look, look at you. So look at throwing hole-in-ones. You did that's killing it. Yes, nice, holes-in-one or hole-in-ones, hole-in-ones. Did anybody else get a hole-in-one? A couple other people. Yeah, we're killing it. It's hard to do, I know. Congratulations. So that was really fun. How about you?

Speaker 1 32:52

My high is that on, one time with one of my youngest daughter, which was so nice, because I rarely get that, and it's kind of a two-parter because then the last couple of days I've had my oldest daughter home and around. She likes to hang out with me, so we've got to catch up a little bit, which is nice. It's really nice, my little shadow. But she'll say what do you want to do? But I'm in a phase now where it's not, where what I want to do is very different than what I need to do and what you can do and what it can do. Yeah, so I don't know if I'm the best partner in crime, but oh so, yeah, but that's really nice.

Speaker 1 33:30

I feel like my boys like just run away from me, well, like they gotta be running home soon because a storm is like brewing. Look at the sky yeah, it's pretty ominous. I should probably shut, we should probably. Should we leave the plane? We should Go grab a scoop of ice cream. Yeah, and also, let us know how you feel about the Lady Gaga Diet Coke and red wine drink and meet us back here next week. Bye, bye.