Megan O: 0:09

Hello, hello, welcome to the inaugural podcast of Slip it In. I'm Megan and I'm here with Maddie and JJ. We are an opinionated best friend trio with a lot of differing opinions, or, as I like to say, say it's more like a different take or vibe. Life is messy and we're discussing all the messiness. No topics too awkward, no stories too embarrassing. If it's part of life, we are slipping it in.

Matty: 0:37

So maddie and I go way back to childhood well, yeah, like, wait, like six years old childhood, like there is a photo of megan and I don't know who has it, but there's a photo out there of megan and I in a small creek, uh, trying to catch tadpoles wait, wait, wait, wait.

JJ: 0:57

What a tadpole. Yes, I've never heard of that oh my god, another thing.

Megan O: 1:03

Jj doesn't know, you don't know what it's like wait no, I don't know, no, what is that?

Matty: 1:08

like a frog without legs. It's like well no it's like a baby.

Megan O: 1:12

It's like a baby.

Matty: 1:13

Well, it's like before, it's a gross frog, yeah, pre-frog like a pre-frog like it's a frog, starts out as a temple okay, I've never, I've never heard of that, oh my God.

JJ: 1:23

So you see them swimming in the water.

Megan O: 1:27

They kind of look like a large sperm.

JJ: 1:31

So you were both catching those.

Matty: 1:34

Yeah, you do that as kids, but it's not like we. Yes, we didn't, at six years old, think we were catching large equivalent sperm, but yes, but okay. So this is like hell bent with you. So jj, just for the record, like is not from well he was he's spanish if you can't tell from the accent, well, yeah second language america

JJ: 1:59

yes, yes, spanish. Spanish is my first language. Yeah, so, yeah, so he's an American citizen but he was born in Spain we want to clear that up.

Matty: 2:08

No one needs to worry, he's not getting deported, but like last week, I texted him about this podcast and I said wow, megan is hellbent on this particular topic and he's like hellbent, I've never heard that I'm going to use it, so it's a joy.

JJ: 2:26

It's a joy because, like he picks up on, but it's more like it is a typical slang type.

Matty: 2:32

Yeah, yeah, but it's not slang, but no, but it's, it's.

JJ: 2:35

It's a typical thing of me. I just learn a new word, probably from you too that in a regular basis do you, do you foresee like?

Matty: 2:44

Oh, I'm going to learn new ones, but are you going to, like you said, you're going to submit Halban into your daily. But Tadpole, I don't know, tadpole, I would not, I tell you right now Tadpole, I'm not going to use, but Halban.

JJ: 2:58

I've used it already in a sentence. Typically Okay, but yeah.

Matty: 3:03

I learned from it.

JJ: 3:04

All right, good to know.

Matty: 3:05

So, anyway, back to Megan and I. So at six years old, I, you know, obviously had no idea that this person, this girl in the creek with me, would be played such a big role which, by the way, I was not born then and just want to put it that way.

JJ: 3:21

Well, okay, just another reason to show how you're younger than us, but you're not that much younger, so Well. I was not then.

Matty: 3:29

Okay, well, you were like, we were frogs, you were 10. So, so yeah, fast forward. We go to college together, we live together.

Megan O: 3:42

At Michigan State.

Matty: 3:43

go Spartans, Go, Spartans, go State go Spartans, go Spartans, go green, go white. And so we lived together off of campus and then she went on to law school and then after law school she came and moved in with me where I had migrated to after college Detroit.

Megan O: 4:02

Let's go Lions tigers. Let's go Lions tigers.

Matty: 4:06

With with my uh then partner, uh, tony, at the time.

Megan O: 4:12

Um, yeah, you date great men. I'm still friends with Tony JJ and you dated.

JJ: 4:20

I can attest to that.

Matty: 4:22

Oh okay, cats out of the bag there, yeah.

JJ: 4:27

Well, I mean dated. I can attest to that. Okay, cat's out of the bag there.

Matty: 4:30

Yeah, well, I mean he is very good picking up men, not for him but for the friend, like me. Again 100 correct. So I uh, this is getting a little ahead. But like, yeah, I've been in three long-term relationships and megan uh is connected to all three of them, friends with all of them, like one.

Matty: 4:44

She visits regularly to take advantage of the pool sitch and then um I am very thankful, however, that um, jj and megan have become like really best friends as well, so I'm happy about that. But yeah, I mean, I'll just say my dating situation is where it does better for her than me.

Megan O: 5:03

But hey, when a great guy comes into your life, one way or the other, you want to keep him.

Matty: 5:08

Well, okay, well, you're keeping him. Yeah, I keep him, and I'm still around.

Megan O: 5:13

You bring him, I keep him.

Matty: 5:14

I love that. Very true, very true Okay.

Megan O: 5:27

As you can see, we don't have it all figured out, but we have snacks, opinions and zero shame snacks. Well, we always love a good snack and we love trying out any new snack that comes our way, as you'll soon learn well, you will also like I love a wine snack like well well, yeah, but I was gonna say that you will also learn that matt is not considering himself a snacker, but a grazer well, same.

JJ: 5:42

Thing it's pretty much the same thing I think my dad called me.

Matty: 5:46

He's like oh, you're a big snacker, aren't you? And then it turned into grazer. But like I do, I do like um yeah, I like snack. I do like a salty snack, I, I do and I like to have. Like I don't like to eat one thing and it's gone. I like to have that one thing be in like quantities of like 25 or 50. So I can pick one and eat it.

JJ: 6:06

Pick one and eat it. You were saying something like that probably a couple of weeks ago. You're like you know what, jj? I just need a snack out and like on the counter.

Matty: 6:15

Well, I only eat popcorn one kernel at a time.

Megan O: 6:18

I've noticed that, but I will say one of my favorite snacks is popcorn and whenever I go to a comedy show I expect a good popcorn.

JJ: 6:28

It's a highlight. Those are anti-calories, that you're not eating anything.

Megan O: 6:30

Well, I don't have it often, but sometimes, you know, if I'm home alone I might just do a popcorn dinner.

JJ: 6:37

Popcorn dinner.

Megan O: 6:38

Yes, I love it A popcorn dinner is one of my faves.

Matty: 6:40

Or, if you go to a movie, I'd love to do cereal dinner.

Megan O: 6:42

But no cereal for me.

Matty: 6:45

I don't think I've bought a thing of cereal. I could eat cereal for every meal.

Megan O: 6:47

It's been like 10 years, 15 years since I bought cereal.

Matty: 6:51

Stop, we're done, we're no longer.

Megan O: 6:53

Wow. So last weekend we were all at a birthday party and we came across the birthday boy, he loves malort, he loves malort. If you don't know what malort is, welcome to the club. Uh, yeah, it's well.

JJ: 7:13

It's few and far between, if you like malort it is the equivalent of gasoline, I feel I don't even know gasoline, it's more like a dirty dish rag.

Matty: 7:24

Dipped in a dirty dish rag, dipped in gas, yeah 100%.

Megan O: 7:28

So Malort is a Chicago-based bitter liquor that was started by some type of Swedish immigrant and people from Chicago love it and our friend spent a lot of time he was from Michigan but spent a lot of time in Chicago and it's based off of wormwood and sugar and it's warm, I don't I don't know what wormwood is okay.

Matty: 7:49

Well, that alone makes me not want to drink it.

JJ: 7:52

Well, you did drink a few well yes so no, that's not true.

Matty: 7:56

I didn't drink a few.

Megan O: 7:58

I accidentally well go ahead well, I don't want to like you off. They brought around like early in the party a shot for everyone of Malort, and can you?

Matty: 8:11

spell this for people that want to look it up.

Megan O: 8:14

Well, it's spelled. It's called from Jepson's. Jepson's. Is this Swedish immigrant who started it, Carl Jepson? So it's Jepson's Malort. Malort is spelled M-A-L-O-R-T, but the O has those two little dots above it.

JJ: 8:31

I never quite know what that means. How do you call those?

Megan O: 8:34

I don't know.

Matty: 8:35

Yeah, two dots, yeah, two dots above the letter.

Megan O: 8:38

So it started production in the 1930s by the Swedish immigrant and now it's considered the Chicago icon, a symbol of the city's unique drinking culture, because Chicago is a big drinking city, very much like Detroit, where we're all from. We're, you know, hardcore Midwesterners. I think they're just big drinkers, we're just fun that way. But anyway, getting back to this Malort shot, the birthday boy loves it, it's his favorite thing. They came around with all these shots that everyone at the party was supposed to take. I knew what it was about, so like I wasn't about to take it, because I've had it before and it's not my favorite, and when I say not my favorite, I guess I should say the worst thing I've ever put in my mouth.

Megan O: 9:24

So JJ and I took our Malort shots and put them along with Matt's. We put them in an empty beer glass and we thought, oh my God, like let's put this beer glass on, like the neighboring table where no one was sitting but yet was still within the like confines of the private room we're in we just have to say, too, like the color of this shot is very, very close to beer looks like beer so it was like it was a perfect setup.

Matty: 9:54

That's important, yeah, you probably are picturing like a dark liquor.

Megan O: 9:58

Yeah, no, no it's like it looks like beer it's.

JJ: 10:01

It also looks like like sitting beer, like it's just so, it was perfect plan for me and I just to put that out there to the universe, to somebody, yeah.

Megan O: 10:12

So we put it in this empty beer glass. We sat it on the neighboring table and it was like I was eagle eye on this beer glass, just waiting for someone to mistake it as their beer and drink it. And the birthday boy's younger brother, like, had his beer glass that he kept setting on the table. So it was like prime that he might accidentally pick up the wrong beer glass. I was just waiting, waiting, waiting and then the waitress comes by, takes that beer glass.

JJ: 10:40

That was the worst part.

Megan O: 10:41

Takes away our beer glass with the malort away. I was devastated because I was like, oh my God, this is going to be like the highlight of my night that this unbeknownst person takes it and takes this beer that he thinks is a shot. It ends up being a shot of Malort. Anyway, fast forward, Wah, wah wah Well, yeah, wah wah well. Yeah, fast forward to the end of the night. I'm drinking a hard salt by end of the night let's just hold on by end of the night.

Matty: 11:14

This is like five pm no, it was like seven six no it

JJ: 11:19

was not.

Megan O: 11:20

It was not dark out, but like okay, but the party started at three so it's not like we were at the party for hours, right, but we're not closing the bar at this time.

JJ: 11:27

No, correct, correct, correct Okay.

Megan O: 11:29

But we'd had several drinks. Anyway, I take the last sip of my hard seltzer. It was a high noon and we're like, okay, we're going to leave, we're all going to the birthday boy's house for after hours.

Megan O: 11:50

Which after hours again is six and they come around, oh my god, with the people who are still there. Another shot of malort, oh my god. I already threw the first one away. I feel bad throwing alcohol away. It like goes against every being in my body. But that shot came, we took that shot. We took JJ's shot and we put it into my empty high noon. Well, I don't think Matt knew we did that. Well, I did not.

Matty: 12:14

No, I'm going to tell you as a fact.

JJ: 12:16

Clearly, we didn't even expect him at all.

Megan O: 12:20

Because it was a smaller group that got these last minute shots on our way out the door. So we didn't want to seem on our way out the door. So we didn't want to seem disrespectful and not take the shot. But we also wanted to make sure it was hidden. So we sneakily put it into my empty high noon, can?

Matty: 12:36

Well, I don't think. Okay, tell me if I'm wrong, but at this point I know you had this whole agenda for your first shot.

Megan O: 12:45

But at this point you were just making it. No, we just wanted to hide it.

Matty: 12:47

Yeah, see empty shot glasses. So it looked like you had done this Taking the shot, so you weren't again trying to bait anybody.

Megan O: 12:53

Correct.

JJ: 12:53

There was no baiting. We had forgotten at that point.

Megan O: 12:55

Yeah, we were just ready to leave, we were done.

JJ: 12:59

Right out that the way that the can was placed, it was clearly from somebody else's. Plus, on top of that, Megan's lips were all over that can.

Matty: 13:11

Well, I mean, yeah, I had just applied lipstick before I took my last drink.

Megan O: 13:15

It was hardcore lips Wow.

Matty: 13:18

She's getting so excited she's knocking her mic over. Okay, so, like I mean, the audience is like let's get to the point. So Do you want me to take over here? Go ahead.

JJ: 13:31

Yeah.

Matty: 13:32

Okay. So what she's trying to say is that her intentional attempt at trying to get somebody else to drink the first one failed. Her unintentional attempt at the second one actually proved to work, because I took a little tiny sip of my shot and I'm like oh, I can't, that was everybody correct? Yes, dirty rag, gasoline shot and I'm like, oh, I need to like get that taste out of my mouth. So what do I do?

Megan O: 14:07

I turn to my friends no, you didn't turn to us, you just grabbed this well I turned towards can on the table.

Matty: 14:14

Which is turning to my friend's drink, and I thought I'll just wash it down with high noon, so yeah.

Megan O: 14:23

And then I hear a shriek oh my God, what was that? And I look and I realize that he's setting down the high noon can and I was like a glow, like what I had dreamed to have happened earlier was like oh my God, this is amazing.

JJ: 14:42

That's really what took me back to the table, because I had to step away from it, and I looked at Megan and Megan is like JJ our dream has become completely true. Somebody's taking our shot. Yeah, it was heaven on earth.

Megan O: 14:56

Heaven on earth and then taken like literally two huge shots of Malort, all in in an effort to wash away the sip that he had had.

Matty: 15:08

Oh, phone call no. Do you want to take your call that?

Megan O: 15:10

was not a call.

Matty: 15:11

Are you busy? No, let us know, I'm good to call.

Megan O: 15:12

No, do you want to take your call? That was not a call, are you?

Matty: 15:13

busy. No, let us know I'm good to go, okay.

Megan O: 15:17

So Heaven on earth. Heaven on earth. Like I loved it. Like that my Lord is so bad. And the fact that you had a baby sip and wanted to wash away and then basically just took two more shots in one full swoop it was heaven.

Matty: 15:32

I kind of think that well, I don't. I honestly I don't know if I think this is has anything to do with it or not, but then I was like I was fine for the rest of the night but like I was down for the count. Sunday through Wednesday.

Megan O: 15:45

Well, it was the Mallard. I'm sure it's that Wormwood.

Matty: 15:49

Maybe I don't know what that's warm Like, maybe I didn't have a great react. I actually like I took two COVID Like listen, I don't think the two things are related, but I did not feel great on Sunday and then I actually took Monday off of work because I was sick and then Tuesday and Wednesday were a huge, huge struggle.

JJ: 16:14

So Malour took you down, yeah.

Matty: 16:17

So I think the PSA here is everyone go out you know how to spell it. You know, like Janepri, what was his name? I don't know.

Megan O: 16:28

Carl Jepson. Jepson, sorry, he's the creator of Malour.

Matty: 16:32

Carly Rae Jepson. Carly Rae Jepson.

JJ: 16:34

Jepson sorry.

Matty: 16:35

He's the creator of Malort Carly Rae.

Megan O: 16:36

Jepson. Carly Rae Jepson, I think, is the creator. Oh yeah, Call me maybe.

Matty: 16:38

Yeah, call me, maybe Correct yeah.

Megan O: 16:54

So, yeah, don't call me because I don't want any of it. Well, funny, you say you thought you had COVID because, like, one of the big breakout stars of COVID, so to speak, was the Tiger King, mr Joe Exotic, who is crazily back in the news. Who would think he's back in the news when he's been in jail? He just announced that he wed a fellow prison inmate and Mexican, jorge right.

JJ: 17:07

Jorge. J-o-r-g is Jorge.

Matty: 17:09

There's the Spanish.

JJ: 17:12

I will correct you if there's a Spanish word or not, jorge.

Megan O: 17:15

Marquez, marquez, age 33. Mind you, joe.

JJ: 17:21

Exotic is 62.

Matty: 17:23

Like a little tadpole. I am younger, but I'm not 33. He married a little tadpole.

Megan O: 17:30

And Jorge is in prison for immigration-related issues, but he'll be released next year. Meanwhile, joe Exotic, I think Scott like 10 plus years he was put in jail for like he had 21 year prison sentence.

JJ: 17:43

So do we have any details about the wedding? Was there a wedding planner?

Matty: 17:46

I have one detail that I picked up on. I saw on social.

JJ: 17:49

What is?

Matty: 17:50

it. Well, I mean, they're in prison so they can't really go out and buy wedding rings, so they got like prison. I'm gonna make an assumption, because I don't know if they have a licensed tattoo artist in there, but you know how they. But they are. Okay well, they got wedding ring tattoos in prison.

Megan O: 18:08

Well yeah, tattoos are big in prison. Well yeah, but I don't think are they sanctioned?

Matty: 18:12

Like are you getting a clean needle?

Megan O: 18:13

No, they're just like, I think, guys who do tattooing in prison like it's a big thing in prison, Correct?

Matty: 18:21

They're picking up like a shard or a hot fork.

Megan O: 18:23

Oh, you think that no? I think, they have more legit tattooing somehow. I think that's part of the man, I just think.

JJ: 18:29

I think, think that's part of the Invest in Yourself program in the prison, Don't they have something like that?

Megan O: 18:34

You think Invest in Yourself goes to tattooing.

JJ: 18:38

Yeah, really Like expand your horizons.

Matty: 18:40

From whose standpoint the tattoo artist From?

JJ: 18:42

prison. I think that they have like courses that they have to take. They go through like educational stuff, don't they?

Megan O: 18:49

Well, they do, but I'm not sure.

JJ: 18:50

tattooing is part of it, but I'm not sure tattooing is part of it, but I'm not a prison ward. If it is your passion, I will go for it. Creative minds. People that want to channel that Instead of like picking up a gun Like I don't need to go to tattoo school To do a ring Like on someone's finger.

Megan O: 19:09

That's probably pretty easy. But this is the Tiger King's third marriage, and they've all been younger men.

JJ: 19:16

Yeah.

Megan O: 19:16

And this guy so what?

Matty: 19:19

What's your point?

Megan O: 19:19

Well, you guys seem to like younger men too.

Matty: 19:21

Well, I do, madness, clearly he doesn't because I'm the older of the two, but yeah, yeah, I typically only if anyone's listening. Uh, I typically like a younger man, so usually a shorter pocket.

Megan O: 19:36

Yeah, I do like a pocket day and you guys love the stashes, which I can't do.

Matty: 19:42

They're so awful to me as I'm currently you know, featuring jj's, featuring a stash and it's I can't do it listen, it's not distracting me I'm fine we but I do love and, for the record, jj and I are the same height, so but you know, like there's, there's a few well, this is getting off topic but I like a short beige, I like my beige, I like ethnic, but I mean like yeah, like off-white. And you know younger, but I also have other requirements. But we'll get into it. I mean, you've got to have a job.

JJ: 20:23

They are requirements. I know for a fact Correct.

Matty: 20:25

Okay, so Tiger King yes.

Megan O: 20:29

He has recently recovered from prostate cancer and he says Jorge really helped him through that which is why he fell in love.

JJ: 20:37

She checked that out for him.

Megan O: 20:39

Well, I don't know if he checked it out, but he supported him.

JJ: 20:41

Well, he is. He's on it, maybe on the wedding night.

Megan O: 20:45

I don't know that you get wedding nights in prison.

JJ: 20:47

I think you do, because don't you? Get those conjugal visits.

Megan O: 20:50

Yeah, but that's with someone from the outside.

JJ: 20:52

I don't think prisoner prisoner.

Megan O: 20:54

Aren't there wedding photos of these two?

Matty: 20:57

Yes, and you'll see it on our socials and just like it's an official marriage, like they had to go through. I did read that they had to go through like they had to talk to the warden, a psychiatrist.

JJ: 21:10

Oh, I didn't know that, oh yeah.

Megan O: 21:12

Oh no.

Matty: 21:12

Yeah, a psychiatrist. Oh, I didn't know that. Oh yeah, oh no yeah, and like a marriage counselor or something.

Megan O: 21:16

Oh wow, so legit. You gotta go through hoops to get married in prison.

Matty: 21:18

I'm assuming because otherwise, people are doing it for reasons that are trying to like, like they. They want to make sure that this is legit and you're not trying to do it like in this case, especially with him being a Mexican. Yeah, well, not well, immigration issue.

Megan O: 21:33

He's not an American, like he's not here. I don't know Legally.

JJ: 21:36

You know for the fact that he's Mexican he's a hundred percent Mexican.

Megan O: 21:40

He's a hundred percent not an American citizen.

Matty: 21:42

That's it's not that he's Mexican, it's that he's not an American Correct, and Joe's hoping that will help him get asylum so he can stay in the country. That's why I think they did due diligence to be like okay, we gotta test the fact that like is this legitimate?

JJ: 22:05

relationship, love, partnership. Right they have. Did they have a first dance?

Megan O: 22:08

well, I don't know all I can find news wisewise. Nothing referenced for stances. Oh my God.

Matty: 22:14

What was the? I wonder if they invited the lady. Oh, what was her name? I can't remember Carol Baskin.

Megan O: 22:20

Carol, yeah, that's why Joe's in prison, because he tried to kill.

JJ: 22:24

Carol.

Megan O: 22:24

Baskin, who's the head of the Big Cat Rescue in Florida? Okay, If any of you didn't watch Tiger King during COVID. You should go check it out.

JJ: 22:33

Yeah, check it out. That was a guilty pleasure, for sure.

Megan O: 22:36

And then Hulu also had Joe vs Carol, which was like a series that they created about this Tiger King story.

Matty: 22:45

Tiger King is a documentary. Save it as a fave, because the bird flu is coming around. Yeah, it's on its way, way. But that's a topic for another day, so okay well, you heated me up what do?

Megan O: 23:00

you, tiger king, talk what do you like?

Matty: 23:02

okay, let me ask you before we move on like are you pro tiger king, third marriage or?

Megan O: 23:08

god well considering. His first marriage ended in a suicide.

JJ: 23:14

I was going to say they died pretty much right.

Megan O: 23:17

That was in the documentary. He killed himself.

JJ: 23:20

So did the second one.

Megan O: 23:21

No, the second one he was the second one showed up at the zoo as a straight man. As you should do on a date and then I think he kind of like has gone back to being straight. But he became gay for Tiger King and they got married and then that's when the whole murder for hire plot happened and Joe got convicted and thrown in jail and once he was in jail some point after his husband divorced him and now I've heard he's back to being straight.

Megan O: 23:52

He had another partner that they didn't get married oh first boyfriend before his first I wasn't suicide, but that yeah, I think he died from something legit so did you answer my question?

Megan O: 24:02

you're pro, oh yeah, I love the tiger king and funnily enough, like you know how, like, if you remember back to the documentary they showed how he was like doing all these weird TV shows he was putting out there his own produced TV shows and stuff. I remember hearing in some weird entertainment news or things like I was reading gossip things I heard about the Tiger King before I even knew about him and saw the documentary and so then when I watched the documentary I'm like, oh my God, I remember hearing about this Joe Exotic, cause he like ran for governor and stuff like. So he kind of got in the news as being this eccentric out there. So I'd heard about him but like I didn't know anything about him until I saw the documentary. But it triggered all these old memories but yeah like.

Megan O: 24:51

I support it and. I kind of like those big cats.

JJ: 24:54

Isn't it crazy that I'm listening?

Megan O: 24:56

to you.

Matty: 24:59

I do like a big cat.

JJ: 25:02

Isn't it crazy that I'm listening to you talking about this and I'm like I'm sure that many people feel that same way, but like we feel that during those COVID times, like two kind of two years were taken away from us.

Megan O: 25:11

A hundred percent. Oh wait, totally when? Kind of two years?

Matty: 25:14

were taken away from us A hundred percent.

Megan O: 25:15

Oh wait, totally. When I compute time, I can never. I would lose those years, do you notice?

Matty: 25:19

now we always talk in terms of pre-COVID or post-COVID. Oh yeah, that is such a monumental point in people's lives. We put things into context in terms of well, this was post COVID or this was well, it was during.

JJ: 25:36

like well, tiger King was a guilty pleasure during that time and it was like what was it like? Getting delivered at my door Was?

Matty: 25:43

it a cap to zero, Like I can't get it out. We remember JJ. Jj and I were living like, okay, our relationship actually didn't survive COVID, but like circumstance kept us under the same roof, um, and so we figured it out.

Matty: 25:57

but anyway, but I feel like our, our friendship did survive covid I think covid is the reason why I think so yeah yeah, because we were forced to figure out a path forward under the circumstances of confinement right and like when you had to like what do they call it? When you would like have to seclude yourself? Yes, isolation yeah all the, all the above, yeah, but I don't know whatever happened at some point, like I introduced you to a raisin bran and I raised, by the way, not just a- raisin bran crunch the one. But then that's what started it. And then all of a sudden we were getting like eight and ten boxes of Costco

Megan O: 26:37

size.

JJ: 26:39

Yes, family size Really With cereal.

Megan O: 26:42

You're just eating cereal. You're just at home eating cereal.

JJ: 26:49

Have you tried the Crunch Raisin Bran.

Megan O: 26:52

So I will say I'm really anti-raisin. I don't like a raisin.

Matty: 26:58

This is probably the first time.

JJ: 26:58

I've heard that from you. Do you eat grapes?

Megan O: 27:01

I do eat grapes, but I'm particular about the grapes I eat.

Matty: 27:05

You don't want them to sit out for long? No, no, no, no no.

Megan O: 27:07

I like a black grape, no pit.

Matty: 27:10

I'm not a fan of a green or a red?

Megan O: 27:14

Are there grape, no pit. I'm not a fan of a green or a red. Are there even grapes out there anymore, with pits? I don't.

Matty: 27:18

Well, I don't know but I buy the big black ones, no pit okay, I I don't, I didn't know pits.

JJ: 27:20

That sounds kind of sexual to me, but I'll go with that, you brought the grape I mean big black with no seeds yeah I'm in exactly.

Matty: 27:31

Well, you're in, I'm in.

JJ: 27:35

I'm in to see it. I've got somebody. I've got the doctor.

Megan O: 27:38

You know, I don't need anything else, he's my guy if you're listening, I am available.

JJ: 27:47

Megan will give you all the information at the end of this podcast. But yeah, matt, I'm sure that you will receive all the slip ends DMs yeah, yep, yep, yep, yep, just to um at maddie in the dm and I'll get my eyes on it yeah, why not?

Megan O: 28:04

it's getting hot in here. Yeah, how are you gonna cool me off?

Matty: 28:10

oh, I might slip it in.

Megan O: 28:13

Well, I'm not looking for a slip sorry wrong, wrong audience.

JJ: 28:16

Yeah, wrong. Yeah, this is not your audience, matt maddie.

Matty: 28:19

Okay thank you like that. Okay, so do we talk about me being a fan of him yeah, your newest obsession in life.

Megan O: 28:30

Oh my god, oh my god. Like I'll start it, because, well, let's tell the audience.

JJ: 28:35

It's Matt's obsession, but Megan's not going to talk about it which is a typical. Megan comment.

Megan O: 28:40

Because, like Matty, is so crazy about a fan. It's like if he's coming to your house, you have to make sure you have a fan available to blow on him. If you go on a trip he is traveling with a fan, he brings a fan.

Matty: 28:56

I missed a flight once because of a fan. Well exactly, or if?

Megan O: 28:59

you're booking anything Airbnb, hotel there's fan questions that come follow up. So it's like anytime you're dealing with him, you have to deal with this fan situation and we've known each other a long time. We've slept together a lot in beds. There's always a fan right on your head because it's a master requirement yeah, I actually started getting my own fan because of that.

JJ: 29:22

Oh, I think he got me into that, yeah I should have joined my facebook I was oh what facebook group is this?

Matty: 29:28

what I started? I started a fan of fans. Oh my god.

Megan O: 29:33

I didn't know. You didn't invite me to this Facebook group. You hear how you're talking about it.

Matty: 29:39

You were not a fan.

Megan O: 29:40

I'm not a fan of fans, but I might support you.

Matty: 29:43

I didn't know. There was a Facebook group out there. I started a Facebook group Called fan of fans. I cannot. I think there were three of us, including myself. Oh my god, and it was just. You know, like, if you love a fan, I cannot. There were three of us. I think there were three of us, including myself. Oh my God, and it was just. You know, like, if you love a fan, let's talk.

Megan O: 30:01

Oh my God, what an awful group.

JJ: 30:03

I just can't, I can't. I don't think I've ever heard of this.

Matty: 30:06

Well, it didn't take off.

Megan O: 30:09

So did you close it off? I have closed it.

Matty: 30:14

Well.

Megan O: 30:14

Facebook groups are no longer really a thing. I don't think, oh really, I don't know, I'm in tons of facebook groups well, well have you. I like check your no, I, I'm actively like okay.

Matty: 30:24

Well, if anyone's got any information on this, we're gonna need to hear from you.

Megan O: 30:28

We'll give you some well, did you officially shut your group down?

Matty: 30:31

yeah, so it's no longer if I search fan of fans, I crush two people's hearts and souls when I shut the fan off well, I shut the fan off.

Matty: 30:41

Oh my god, I can't a transition from facebook groups to facebook dating like people are like, how did they get on this topic? But like, here's the thing, one of the things we want to do is talk about hot products and from food items to non-food items, like household items too, like that is just anything and everything, just organically. We discovered about the three of us like we are constantly in search of, or attuned to, new products that hit the market, so we want to bring that to this.

JJ: 31:16

So, I think me Megan was the pioneer at least for myself, that she's typically known by somebody that will come in. You invite Megan over Right and you know for a fact that on whatever your spread is, you need to put some space for whatever Megan is bringing.

Matty: 31:34

And you have to. I do love to try out something Well and I have to put this out when she comes out over to my house, like before she even steps foot, like whatever you bring you leave with, like you do not leave it here, because my Sundays I just I can't, I just don't I just tear into it If it's a new product.

Megan O: 31:53

As you know, sometimes just I can't I, just I just tear into it If it's a new product. As you know, sometimes those new products aren't things you want to have again. So I'm like if I tried at someone's house. Perfect. I don't like it. I leave it.

JJ: 32:04

So is this fan a new product.

Megan O: 32:07

Oh, so there is this viral fan that can only be purchased at Costco, and I have one read about it it can't stay on the shelves. And two I saw it in real life at Alani and I told Matt about it. Alani's, the Disney resort in Oahu. I was just there on a family vacation.

Matty: 32:30

So that's when I got a text. I see one in the wild.

Megan O: 32:34

Yeah, exactly One hundred percent, Because I was shocked. It is one. It generates a really nice breeze too. It's super, super quiet.

Matty: 32:44

I thought this was my review.

Megan O: 32:45

Well, it is, but when I sent it to you and then you went and bought it. I bought it and the doctor said he's been wanting it for a while. I didn't know that he claims he had on a christmas list, but I think it's something that's only out momentarily at costco and goes away. It's been out before. So yeah, go ahead, let's hear it well, okay.

Matty: 33:07

So here's what I love about it one aesthetically pleasing, so I give it a 10 out of 10.

Megan O: 33:13

I have.

JJ: 33:14

It's like we'll put a post, a picture, describe it.

Megan O: 33:16

Yeah, but describe it, but it's like a round ball that will move around and it has a remote control.

Matty: 33:25

I mean you guys can do the review, so it's woozoo. It's aesthetically pleasing. I give it a nine out of 10 on that. My previous fan that was on my side bed. When I would do the home prep for a company or whatever, I would put the fan under the bed just because it was an eyesore. This one stays out and about. Love it, yeah yeah.

Matty: 33:50

I'd love the the roundness of it, but here's the thing that surprised me there is this setting on there that is like I think it's called natural air or like I don't know. Let's go that natural air. And when I go to I like to watch little TV before I fall asleep from my bed.

JJ: 34:12

Can you search, megan, if it's like natural air, what the setting is, for people might want it. Oh people.

Megan O: 34:18

Okay, well, I'll try. I'm just assuming it's called natch.

JJ: 34:21

I'm intrigued by this Natch Okay, natch air.

Matty: 34:23

Well, here let me clue you into what it is. Yeah, so I don't like the fan blowing on my face during my TV progues, but I do like a gentle breeze. I like a gentle breeze, so I put it on this natural air and it literally feels like a natural air, like you're outside, where you know, suddenly there's a nice breeze, and then it dies down.

JJ: 34:46

And then I lost me there. Okay, well, I just need a concept. There's other settings.

Megan O: 34:50

Well, this isn't a sleep.

Matty: 34:51

Yeah, this would be a time when I go, when the TV gets shut off and I go to sleep, I go to full blast fan mode. Yes, this fan also rotates side to side, up and down. Oh. So like I don't need that in my bedroom, but I might need that on my deck, Like in the summer, like, Deck S-D-E-C-K Correct.

Matty: 35:14

Oh, I just got it, let's try a second. Wow, now I see where your mind's at. Well so, but I also want to like say this, and uh by. It probably won't be a factor for y'all, but there was a little bit of a costco scandal around the price well, isn't it still occurring?

Megan O: 35:34

because through may 4th, okay, but may the 4th be with you so, all right, let me clear it up, or ask the question and this may not clear up anything is we saw an ad that said it was 28.99 both in the store and online. But when you go online because I just went online per JJ's instructions it's online price is $49.99 minus $10, which makes it $39.99. Correct, but in the store is it $28.99, $29.99? $28.99 $28.99.

Matty: 36:08

Yeah, so online.

Megan O: 36:10

They said you would get that price, but you're not.

Matty: 36:12

Correct. And when you flagged this product to me, I bought it before it went on sale, so I paid 49.99. Oh, now, within 30 days of my purchase, it went on sale and I could walk into a costco and buy it for 28.99. Well, costco has a very simple way pro tip of like if a product goes on sale within the 30 days of purchasing it. They've got a landing page dedicated to like. You just plug in like, your receipt number and the price and they refund the difference.

Megan O: 36:44

I didn't know that what that is a pro tip.

Matty: 36:46

Yes, what they did. However, I put in they're like what is? What did you pay and what's the current price? I put in 28.99. They only refunded me ten dollars. Oh, that's 39.99. But I went into the store and I bought a second one for my guest room and I only paid $28.99. So I don't feel like let's not blame Woohoo, woozoo.

Megan O: 37:08

I see, when you said Woozoo, I didn't know what that meant, but when I looked it up on live it's the manufacturer.

Matty: 37:15

Woozoo. Well, it's printed on my fan as well.

Megan O: 37:17

Oh it says, woo fan it's the manufacturer. Well, it's printed on my fan as well. Oh, oh, it says woozoo. Oh, I didn't notice that because it's like woozoo. Well, factually, since jj made me look it up, it says this fan can propel air up to an impressive 82 feet oh, wow I don't know what normal, you know what, but this one does great when I'm just two feet from it. Yeah, well, there you go.

Matty: 37:41

So anyway, I guess at the end, here's what I would say. It also has a timer. If you're a fan of fans, two things.

Megan O: 37:47

Don't join his Facebook group, Sorry I shut down my Facebook group.

Matty: 37:57

But if there's still a demand out there for it, hit me up in the dms and we'll talk. We'll find it will create a community. But also get to your costco, buy it and if you miss the sale window, may 4th. You gotta buy it before may 4th right, and normally I would say easy peasy, go online and buy it but you'll save 10 more dollars if you go into the club.

Matty: 38:19

But the other thing is that if, if you're looking for a beautiful fan that can be publicly viewable, this is your bet. So I'm saying yay, buy the fan I say yay too.

Megan O: 38:33

I'm not even a fan of fans, but I bought it you were not in the group either. I was not. I didn't even know the group existed. I might have joined it just for support for a friend.

Matty: 38:44

Yeah, well, that would have been nice, somebody, somebody hid to say our new Facebook group. I think I was pretty out and about with it, but people are like no.

Megan O: 38:54

I would have joined if I'd heard about it.

JJ: 38:57

Just to support. So how many members did you have? There were three. I said oh, three yeah.

Matty: 39:01

There were two Like when we just talked.

JJ: 39:03

You could have had five.

Matty: 39:04

We had deep conversations about oscillating. I can't.

Megan O: 39:07

I can't either. I mean, I cannot Honestly that's like too much.

JJ: 39:14

That shows everybody, like, how we learn from each other. Oh exactly, well, we don't know that.

Megan O: 39:20

Yeah, we don't have it all figured out, but we always have snacks, opinions and zero shame, that's for sure. But one thing we always want to do is kind of lead you into what we call our slip it ins and our pull it outs. Slip it ins are things that make us happy that we like, that we love Pull it out Slip-ins and our pull-it-outs Slip-it-ins are things that make us happy, that we like that.

JJ: 39:42

We love Pull-it-outs Slip that in Pull-it-outs.

Matty: 39:44

Well, those are painful. Yeah, they're very painful.

Megan O: 39:48

Pull-it-outs are what we do not want, yeah.

Matty: 39:51

They are things we don't want. Thanks, but no thanks.

Megan O: 39:53

Yeah, so for me right now, the things that are my, slip it in like. I'm so excited because one I'm a regular Trader Joe's customer and something they had last year that they introduced were cherry lemon animal crackers and I fell in love with them, but they went away, so I kept hoping they would come back, and sure enough, it's springtime. Guess what I saw when I was checking out the other day at Trader Joe's right at the checkout they had cherry lemon animal crackers.

Megan O: 40:29

I immediately bought them and combining that with another Trader Joe's love item I have is the European style butter.

Matty: 40:35

So you like double pen, two slip it ins they're two slip it ins because they're related to the same store okay and the european style butter is my everyday butter.

Megan O: 40:48

To keep it to one, slip it in it's okay, it's my podcast, I can do what I want, oh uh, it's ours well karen still we can do it all together, ken, and anyway, european style butter had disappeared from the Trader Joe's shelves.

Megan O: 41:04

I'm not sure what happened, but it's back again and let's hope it stays amongst all the tariffs, coming in because it is manufactured in Europe, and my pull it out because it's affecting me daily is pop-up construction. This is the construction you don't seem to know about. You're on your weekly drive, wherever you're trying to go, and all of a sudden a road is closed, a freeway is closed, and now you have to regroup, but you regroup without knowledge. And here in the Detroit area right now we have construction on what feels like every major freeway. So every time you try to go somewhere, there's construction roadblocks.

Matty: 41:45

Let's just say I can get behind that Like I'll pull it out please.

Megan O: 41:49

Pull it out or give us some way of fair knowing and knowing what you're going to encounter.

Matty: 41:55

Like how do I get from here to you? I can't.

Megan O: 42:00

It's difficult 100% 40 minutes normally.

JJ: 42:03

I need to pack a bag if I do that.

Megan O: 42:06

Or we need Big Gretch to get us some type of reasonable notification system here. Can you stop trying?

Matty: 42:13

to fix the damn rules. I mean we get it.

Megan O: 42:17

The rules are fixed, you've delivered, your campaign promise got it exactly thanks scratch.

JJ: 42:22

Yeah, okay, all right what do you got matt? All right, here's my slip it in.

Matty: 42:26

My slip it in is that I do a little bit of a hummingbird tracker and the hummingbirds have hit my zip code. What?

Megan O: 42:37

What are the hummingbirds? How do you know? I don't get this tracker business.

Matty: 42:41

Listen, they don't live in our state. They come here in the spring and they migrate and they have a migration pattern. I'm tracking their progress.

JJ: 42:52

And we've been waiting for this hummingbirds for years.

Matty: 42:56

Well, I did a lot.

JJ: 42:57

Well, no, they're here every year, no, no, no, Matt's been waiting for the hums to show up Well listen.

Matty: 43:03

I did a lot more research this year. I realized what I was doing. In previous years the hummingbirds were like no, I'm not, no, thanks. I didn't realize I'm doing like literally he's doing meal prepping.

Megan O: 43:14

Well, no, yeah, we feed the hummingbirds.

Matty: 43:16

I'm doing hummingbird meal prep.

Megan O: 43:18

Yeah, you're doing the salt or the sugar water.

Matty: 43:21

Yeah, correct, but in years past I would put. So he prepped for the week, though In years past I would put this sugar water in the feeder and leave it for three months.

Megan O: 43:33

No, no, no, no. They want fresh.

Matty: 43:35

They're very protect, oh know they're like, during this temperature, this time once a week, but as soon as it heats up, like every three days, yeah changing.

JJ: 43:46

I know wow, what a pretentious bird well, not only that, they're like the ants, the bees, they love those things. So you want to make sure that you correct you keep them away, correct? So but anyway here's the thing, so happy about.

Matty: 43:58

I'll keep y'all updated as to whether or not the Hums visit my area. But I've got bait out there, I've got the flowers, I've got the feeder.

JJ: 44:08

There is food being prepped on the fridge as we speak, correct?

Matty: 44:12

I do it looks like I'm. It looks like urine, like I'm doing urine. Samples, if they're in your zip code.

Megan O: 44:18

You better get it out. It's out, oh it's out. You've got some backup food ready?

Matty: 44:22

I had it based on the tracker. I put it out a week and a half ago and I told JJ, I'm like JJ, you better switch it out now.

Megan O: 44:29

It's old.

Matty: 44:29

No, I switched it out Thursday of this week.

Megan O: 44:32

Okay, good.

Matty: 44:46

Yeah, I'm glad you're on it. All right, my pull it out is the program on Apple TV called the.

Megan O: 44:48

Studio, which sometimes I call the producer. But it's the studio, yeah, the studio.

Matty: 44:51

It's the studio, all right, so it was touted leading up to the premiere. It's like this is the best comedy people have seen in years. It's so well written. It's so this this is the best comedy people have seen in years. It's so well written. It's so this so that it's star studded. Whatever I watched the first, I will say Catherine.

JJ: 45:08

O'Hara yes, Anything that she does, though.

Matty: 45:09

I just love her, she's hilarious. But the show itself like. I watched the first episode and I was like, all right, I'll give a second. I always I like to give two, at least two chances for sure. The second one, I watched the third and then I'm like I what the third one? I'm like this show is fucking giving me anxiety. Like the band, they, I think they it's like so overproduced. Maybe that's why I called the producer, but it's just like it's so like fast, banter, quick quips. They think they're so clever. I just I pulled the plug, I pulled out, I'm done, I don't know.

Megan O: 45:47

It's on my list, so like I don't know, is it too industry or is it like, cause I've been excited to watch it and we were waiting for multiple episodes to build up.

JJ: 45:56

I watched one episode and that was good.

Megan O: 45:59

Really, isn't it, jonah Hill? No, it's the other one that's like his twin, seth Rogen, which I am not a big fan. I like him. I don't like his laugh. Oh, I love his laugh.

JJ: 46:09

Oh you do I do, it's so annoying.

Matty: 46:11

Yeah, I kind of agree, I'm a Seth or with Megan. I agree, his laugh is annoying.

Megan O: 46:19

Oh, really, I love that.

Matty: 46:20

So there you go. I'm in on the hums, out on the studio. Okay, I love that.

JJ: 46:27

You know what? My slip it in is that I can kind of get reconnected to this song last night from. Megan Trainor Criminal? I don't know if you've heard, of it. Oh, I love it. There was this show in Netflix, the Perfect.

Megan O: 46:42

Couple. Oh yeah, I love that show and at the end?

JJ: 46:44

well, at the end of the beginning too, they had this little flash mob moment.

Megan O: 46:49

Yes, I love that.

JJ: 46:50

So they had the song with the flash mob.

Megan O: 46:52

Oh, so that was the criminal song.

JJ: 46:54

But the thing is that the show was all about a murder. Yeah, it was a murder, yeah, so the contradiction between the two of them was fine. Again, the slip of the tongue is not about the show, it's about the song criminal that pop up.

Matty: 47:12

Is it the song or the dance? It's a combination of the two.

Megan O: 47:16

So where's the song popping up all of a sudden?

JJ: 47:19

Do you know?

Megan O: 47:19

the song yeah.

JJ: 47:20

It's like red lines, red lines.

Megan O: 47:23

No, I saw the TV show and I loved it and I liked that song and the whole opening segment I thought was awesome.

JJ: 47:28

The thing is, it came up in a conversation at the right you know when it happens at the right time and the right moment and it was not just about a song. It was just the song and we try to do the flash mob at the same time. It was just like so good, and not only happened like last night, but this morning, as I was, you know, getting ready for my workout, it just came up oh, I love that kismet, what kismet?

Matty: 47:57

yeah, he's what. I don't know what that is.

JJ: 47:58

I mean you're just going to stop for a second. Take a note. Yeah, what is it?

Megan O: 48:02

Kismet is like all the stars align and it's just like the perfect moment, let me just write that out.

JJ: 48:10

I've never heard Kismet, kismet.

Megan O: 48:13

K-I-Z-M-E-T.

JJ: 48:16

So I had a Kismet moment. This, I think it's K-I-Z-M-E-T. Yeah, so I had a Kismet moment. Yeah, okay, I love it. This morning, on my way to a workout with Criminal showed up and again, this is like a very early workout at 7.30 am on a Saturday morning, no thanks. I had no energy.

Matty: 48:29

Well, I see those workouts, but Criminal prepped me right up. Oh, I was just pointing out people. Were you saying red lights?

JJ: 48:36

yeah, red lights as you're driving. Yeah, as I was putting out people, did you do?

Matty: 48:41

the clap above your head. I sure did when the red light came up. I'm like I was just doing my little flash mob.

JJ: 48:47

So it just I. I think it was just a moment that made me very happy on a saturday morning and um it just I, yeah, I love that I didn't mean to cut you off. You should have.

Matty: 49:00

I was just going to say. A little tidbit about that that I'm aware of is that the cast in their interviews they were like, they were like done with that Because you met. Well.

Megan O: 49:12

I mean like yeah, I heard the same thing. They were so annoyed with that opening sequence.

Matty: 49:17

Correct. Well, when you see it, it's not just the main characters, there's a full beach of people.

Megan O: 49:22

Yeah, I loved it, though, so they had to do like a hundred takes or whatever, and they felt very corny or whatever. Well, it is dumb, but it looked great.

JJ: 49:30

I think that also, you would have felt very bad about the fact that they were in the sand, and probably this is something that we can talk about later. But your relationship with sand is not good.

JJ: 49:39

It's not the best, but my point here is like my slip it in is not about the show right, it is about like the music, yeah and the song coming in at the right time and an early morning workout perfect yeah which it kind of comes, goes to my uh pull it out moment oh one thing that I kind of realized this morning is that I've said that I was going to my workout, which we can talk about my routines and all that and later time but I do have a morning workout on Saturdays and I just realized that I cannot stand sweat oh my god, I don't think anyone likes sweat. I do.

JJ: 50:21

I do, but go ahead yeah it's my moment, right, maddie and megan. Um, so I, just I, it was a moment what americans in us? I. I just had a moment that I was like covering sweat after an hour and a half workout and I'm like this is so disgusting and gross. What am I doing like I might?

Megan O: 50:44

I'm too old for this well, no, you need to keep it up when you're old.

JJ: 50:48

Yeah, but I know when you're like a morning workout and a morning squat, you know yeah don't you feel, don't you feel like sweat is symbolic of doing your body good?

Megan O: 50:58

Yes, I agree with that aspect. I still don't like it. Well, don't you like?

Matty: 51:02

getting. Maybe this is too much, but like, don't you like sweaty in the beddy? I don't.

JJ: 51:07

No, Absolutely not. As soon as I start sweating, I'm like let's just go to the shower.

Matty: 51:11

You're not an armpit guy.

JJ: 51:13

I am not.

Megan O: 51:14

Are you saying smelling armpits, are you?

Matty: 51:15

saying smelling armpits? Well, I don't have that fetish, but it's a kink. No, I know it's a kink. It's a no-go for me. No, it's not something that I'm excited about, so you're not into the sweat.

JJ: 51:22

It's definitely a pullout that I discovered this morning that I'm like you know what, I'm doing this, but I'm not eating.

Matty: 51:28

You discovered it this morning.

JJ: 51:39

You've lived your whole life and now is you like? I'm not a fan of sweat.

Megan O: 51:40

I'm a typical workout like person that doesn't sweat much, but but it's getting warmer it is getting warmer.

JJ: 51:43

That is the thing. Like I think that that is like what happened today.

Megan O: 51:46

It was just like the air is not on.

JJ: 51:49

Well, I'm an ac girl well, today okay fair I don't want to get into it yeah, but anyway, I just that thing, that's okay, I get it does that mean, I'm? Not gonna do it again. No, I'm not going to do it again.

Matty: 51:59

No, obviously no, I'm going to continue to do it. Well, you can't not sweat.

Megan O: 52:02

Well, if you're working out, yeah, yeah, and I work out often. Oh, did you all hear that? We know.

Matty: 52:09

We see the videos, if you like working out.

JJ: 52:11

Just slide on those DMs.

Megan O: 52:14

As you can see, we're here to unpack the chaos, call out the cringe and laugh through the disasters or the sweats. If it's real, raw and slightly inappropriate, it's getting slipped into our conversation and you'll hear that in our next episode a targeted shituation.

Matty: 52:32

She pronounced situation correct Shituation you'll hear.

Megan O: 52:36

Follow us on our website at slipitinpodcastcom, slip into our DMs on Instagram at slipitinpodcast, or call and text us at 313-437-1337. And we can always be emailed at slipitinpodcast at gmailcom. We want to hear from you Until next time.

Matty: 52:55

Yes, happy Anag.

Megan O: 52:58

Anag.

Matty: 52:59

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