Opening Music: 0:20

Thank you for you. You'll laugh, you'll cringe, you'll beg for more, with a guilty pleasure you can't ignore like a drunk text sent at 2 am.

Megan: 0:33

We slipped it in again. Welcome, welcome, welcome, everyone. We are back slipping it in with you, oh, my god, I love this song I love it so much do you love it?

JJ: 0:51

I love it. I love it. I was just dancing around I know, I know like in my short shorts yes yeah, they are shorty, short with a crop crop well, we are in a vacation mode, we're at the cabin, so I thought it's the moment for a crop and a short yes.

Megan: 1:10

Today we are coming to you from the wild. We took the pod on the road for the holiday weekend and we are in a cabin in the woods on the Osabo River in northern Michigan.

Matty: 1:21

For any of you fly fishermen out there, the osaba is one of the top fly fishing rivers in the country I didn't know that in the country, in the country, one of the top ones like I think in the top 10, maybe top five okay, I think that. Yeah, maybe fact check, but I mean I've never seen one while we've been up here.

Megan: 1:39

But a fly fisherman I haven't oh well, you have to go over to the south branch oh, oh, I don't think I have details Fly fishing for me sounds too complicated. Yeah, it is.

Matty: 1:51

It's difficult.

Speaker 4: 1:52

It's a lot of work the whole whipping.

Matty: 1:54

It looks very artistic though, like when you I mean it's like picture, it's on a postcard, it's in a movie it's, but it does look like a lot of finesse.

Megan: 2:04

It is. It's a lot of work. Have you done it? Yes, I've tried it a few times. I'm not really a fishing fan personally.

JJ: 2:11

I do like that you have a little bit of an overall outfit to put in when you're fly fishing. Can I say something?

Megan: 2:17

They have all sorts of contraptions and they have little flies that they tie, so they tie these little things. Hands to flies that they tie.

Matty: 2:26

So they tie these little things to fly fishing. Yeah that they put on the end. This is going away. I didn't realize we were gonna go, but now I have this thought and I just can. I just say this real quick one of my favorite comedians is kathleen madigan and I remember seeing her do a skit about fish fishing and it's so funny if you think about it, like think about how we are abducted, like the alien abductions and and people say I've been abducted. She has this thing, this whole bit about fish. Imagine you're part of the fish community, right, and suddenly you're swimming around you see a worm and you take it and then you're pulled out of your water and you're in this whole other world and then they let you go because the fish isn't too, too big, and you go back and you're like I was abducted, Like and the fish are like.

Matty: 3:08

I don't believe you.

Matty: 3:09

I don't believe you.

JJ: 3:11

That is funny.

Matty: 3:12

No, listen, there's a whole nother like I was zoomed right up out of the water. I'm in this vessel, AKA boat. Yeah, I a hook in my mouth they're like looking at me and the other fish are like.

JJ: 3:24

Oh, that, frank is crazy frank is like and frank is like and I'm not. I'm not worthy to that from that world, because they threw me back in here and so then they're.

Matty: 3:34

So then the fish is like not only does nobody believe me, but like this world, they didn't even want me oh my god.

JJ: 3:42

Frank's self-esteem was like went from zero to none yeah, fred is like.

Megan: 3:47

Yeah, just like hanging on with a hole in his lip, like he had a little piercing on his lip well, if you're enjoying this fishy frank and fishy fred talk, please subscribe and follow us wherever you get your pods and share us with your friends.

JJ: 4:04

Yeah, and give us a five-star review.

Matty: 4:07

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JJ: 4:09

I think it's our intro. Yes, we'd love to hear from you Dance with us. Do a little dance video too, send it out.

Matty: 4:15

Oh God, do a trend, do a TikTok trend to our song. We'll teach us.

Megan: 4:26

Wouldn't that be great? Oh, I'd love it. So, unfortunately, I was hoping to have some good listener feedback news today. I thought maybe we could announce that jj and maddie were getting sponsored on riot that hasn't happened.

Megan: 4:34

I mean, that hasn't happened so it's a little devastating, but we're still hoping for that riot sponsor yeah we did hear from vicky in grand rapids, michigan, and she had a comment that she was very frustrated that while listening to our last episode, alexa got all crazy at the end of the episode when it's. I said in the episode, play alexa, play, slip it in podcast and her alexa started going crazy.

JJ: 5:04

She just did it. Yep, she just did it. Alexa just slipped that in. She slipped it in.

Matty: 5:10

Do you know? What's really weird Is that anytime you say Alexa in your house, she'll be like I'm sorry, I didn't understand that, but when they do Alexa ads on TV she doesn't.

JJ: 5:23

So they figured out a way in their alexa commercials or whatever there might be something on the background when they are creating the ads. That's what I'm saying.

Matty: 5:31

There's something like how come? Because I get it like if you're doing ads and you're putting that in everyone's living room, it would send off their alexas. So I don't know I don't know it's topic for another day, but it is something I've always contemplated and I just want to say we cannot move from here.

JJ: 5:48

But I there's nothing like having a conversation or a moment that you can see megan fighting with alexa.

Matty: 5:54

I need alexa to step her. I need her to step her game up. Ai is leapfrogging. Alexa like, yeah, I ask her a simple question and she's like I don't know. Yeah, anything about me. I'm like girl, you should have it.

JJ: 6:07

I think that they're working on it. I was excited when Alexa started whispering. Remember that.

Megan: 6:13

Oh, I do love the whisper.

JJ: 6:15

I whispered Alexa every night and she whispers back. It's very soothing.

Matty: 6:20

But like, more importantly, have your nuts changed, megan? Have your nuts changed?

Megan: 6:24

Well, I do have some exciting news to report.

JJ: 6:28

Do we have a?

Megan: 6:28

nut replacement. My nuts have changed.

JJ: 6:30

Okay, I did some more thinking my nuts. I checked this morning. They're still the same, oh my.

Megan: 6:36

God I can't with you. My nuts have changed.

Speaker 4: 6:39

Okay.

Megan: 6:40

What is out Smokehouse.

Matty: 6:42

No, no, no, no, no, cas, what is?

Megan: 6:43

out Smokehouse. No, no, no no no Cashew still held their top spot.

JJ: 6:46

Cashew is always number one.

Megan: 6:48

Yep, I'm swapping out my number two. My number two before was a pistachio. While I like a pistachio, it's dropped to third. No, it's off. I took pistachios out. Pistachios are gone.

Matty: 7:02

I'm replacing them. That's like a Coco Gauff going out in the first round.

JJ: 7:07

Oh yeah.

JJ: 7:08

That was devastating.

Megan: 7:09

We're here for you, so cashew first I'm replacing it with any type of honey roasted nut.

JJ: 7:14

What you can't be like, fine, I'll do. Honey roasted peanut. Honey roasted peanut.

Matty: 7:20

Can I say this? I mean you, peanut, can I'd say this and you? I mean you do you, but you get specific on your nut, like coverings, and it's really meant to be at the core, a peanut, not like a flavor of a, like you did, small calls small.

Megan: 7:36

They're still hard times. It's smokehouse almonds are still number three. They didn't change.

JJ: 7:42

And number one didn't change. It is still. One didn't change. It's an almond, no, it's a smokehouse almond.

Megan: 7:47

Because I would put other nuts before a smokehouse almond.

Matty: 7:53

But I love a smokehouse almond. What would you do with a plain peanut?

Megan: 7:55

It wouldn't be there, so you got to coat it, yeah, okay.

Megan: 7:59

All right, those are my nuts.

Matty: 8:01

I mean, there's no hard and fast rules on the nut.

Megan: 8:03

When you go to the nut aisle there's always a honey roasted peanut.

JJ: 8:06

And there's always a smoked house. Almond, a coated nut.

Matty: 8:09

You can always find me in the nut aisle. I'm a rum.

JJ: 8:13

I do think that I didn't share with you my top three and we can move on from here.

Matty: 8:18

No, I want to know.

JJ: 8:19

I think my top one is hazelnut.

Matty: 8:21

What I love, hazelnut. That is controversial, controversial 100. More so than some of the verdicts coming out.

JJ: 8:28

Hazelnut is number one, not just because of the nut aspect of it. I like hazelnut flavor.

Matty: 8:36

Just like a handful of hazelnuts. You like a Nutella? I?

JJ: 8:40

love. You know, you both know that I Nutella.

Megan: 8:43

You love a Nutella, I love you know, you both know that I love a Nutella.

JJ: 8:45

Well, in Europe, Nutella is in the Australian community.

Matty: 8:50

What Doesn't?

Megan: 8:52

the.

Matty: 8:52

Australian community. Love Nutella no.

Megan: 8:55

They have that mincemeat or something. What is it they have? It's something like that. It's something like that I should have done my nut research. Or it's some weird thermogen. It's like weird names.

JJ: 9:05

Hazelnut for me is like a good baking flavor.

Matty: 9:10

And when.

JJ: 9:10

I get coffee, I always get a creamer with hazelnut flavor.

Matty: 9:14

Do you like to take a handful of hazelnuts and?

JJ: 9:17

pop them in your mouth, no I don't.

Megan: 9:18

I don't either.

Matty: 9:19

I mean, they're okay, they're pseudo, this is another and, I feel, a branching of the nut conversation, because at the core, it's like if you had five bowls of nuts in front of you. What three nuts are you going with? I get it. Some nuts are great for cooking and flavoring your coffee, but you're not eating hazelnuts on the couch.

JJ: 9:38

If I went to do eating them, it would be a cashew.

JJ: 9:41

Okay.

Megan: 9:41

Yeah see it would be a cashew, so that's why cashew is my number two.

JJ: 9:45

I do like it, cashew is my number two and pecans are my number three again, pecans.

Matty: 9:49

You're not eating them just like I do.

JJ: 9:51

I love, I do I roasted pecan like a sweet roasted pecans not the best I do go.

Matty: 9:56

You find them in oakland mall okay, all right, well, let's move on. Yeah, this is well no, what, no?

Megan: 10:03

what's your number three? Yeah, pecans.

JJ: 10:05

It will be hazelnuts. You're still keeping hazelnuts as one. He's standing by the hazelnuts.

Matty: 10:09

Oh.

Speaker 4: 10:09

God Alright, yeah, I'll save my nuts.

Matty: 10:13

My nuts change constantly.

JJ: 10:15

Yeah, so from day to day, especially with age.

Matty: 10:17

JJ, you love to go there, and that's after the podcast.

JJ: 10:21

Why did I talk so much about the?

Matty: 10:22

innuendo.

JJ: 10:24

Yes or no, but I'm caught up on the not conversation and I love it so much.

Matty: 10:28

Yes, is that a yes or no question? Yeah, like the next day, you're like. Why did I say that? I don't know?

Megan: 10:33

I don't want to put that clip. So what are your nuts?

Matty: 10:38

How have they changed this week? Well, I mean, like I just it's hard because I just found in the cabin here a can of peanuts.

Matty: 10:45

They're up there, your dad must have left them, Yep.

Megan: 10:47

I see and.

Matty: 10:47

I'm like I'm going to pull these nuts out and try them and then I was going to sit them here and eat some of them, but I didn't want you to know that I was going to come in with the nut combo to see if your nuts had changed. So I thought that's a dead giveaway. However, long way of saying, oh, my god, I just ate those. So I got some out and I'm like those could, like a regular salted peanut could be my number one, where last week it probably wouldn't have made the list. Yeah, I, and I have. I brought pistachios here.

Matty: 11:17

Oh, so those are on my list and I do love almonds and I do love a cashew, but I feel like the cashews know it. I feel like a cat. I feel like cashews are walking around like everyone's, not less, and part of me because of that is like, well, you're not making my list, so you get all your nut influencers cashew and you leave. So I don't know. But I go back and forth, give the nuts to the squirrels. This is, the nuts are getting squirrels, oh yeah thank you.

Matty: 11:44

We need a transition because we got to get off these nuts.

Megan: 11:47

We just get caught up in the nuts and, as you can imagine, there are a lot of creature features happening around us here in the woods. Yes, there's a lot.

Matty: 11:55

Well, should I dive right in with my squirrel story?

Megan: 11:58

Yeah, Because it might happen again this weekend.

Matty: 12:02

I am still, to this day, very baffled by this situation that happened it's a situation okay, lexi, I used it from dallas. Uh, so here's the thing. I go on this walk I ever. I do the same routine a lot of times around my neighborhood. I'm walking and sudden and I have my earbuds in and suddenly it is like somebody took something and just like I'll say like a book, let's just say a big book, and like slammed it slammed it on the top of my head and like my head like and shoulders kind of squished together real quick.

Matty: 12:43

Oh my god, and it could have been a concoction 100. Well, I, I had neck pains after. It was like I equivalent it to like a whiplash Right. So oh, wow. And then in an instant no, in an instant out of the left corner of my eye, I see this girl tumble off my shoulder onto the ground and scurry away. I look up.

JJ: 13:09

She was not finding.

Matty: 13:11

I am not. I am underneath like a 50 foot tree, oh my God. And I'm like. And then I look around. I'm like, did anyone see that? Like usually on my walk, you know, there's other people walking, biking cars. Nobody's around. So I'm like am I being punked? And then I'm looking for the closest house, cause I'm like I wonder if this got captured on a ring cam.

JJ: 13:33

Oh my God, yeah, that would be great.

Matty: 13:35

But no, and so I'm like, how did this squirrel from that?

JJ: 13:40

distance. I'm surprised it didn't die, but I literally was like blown away.

Matty: 13:48

I'm just and.

Matty: 13:49

I had to like walk.

Matty: 13:50

I had to keep moving like no one, like Frank. No one's going to believe this, no one's believing that this squirrel just fell from God knows where on my head.

JJ: 14:01

Do you think that hindsight like this squirrel was 53, you know, feet up or whatever what else, and she was on that branch and she was like I think I can make it, or I can see this guy coming in, but I can't make it before. Or do you think she's like? I think I can make it, or I can see this guy coming in, but I can make it before. Or do you think she was?

Matty: 14:15

like I'm just ending it. I've lived a good life. I'm tired of what's going on in this world. I'm just going to jump and take somebody out with me.

Megan: 14:28

Did you have any scratches on your head? Oh yeah, from those squirrel claws?

Matty: 14:32

No, but no, it didn't claw me, but it did literally push my neck like I think my neck's tiny shorter. Oh my God.

Megan: 14:40

I can't with you, well, this is like when we were in DC in high school. What?

Megan: 14:46

happened and we were walking around looking at all the monuments.

JJ: 14:50

Oh.

Megan: 14:51

And we.

JJ: 14:52

How old were you?

Megan: 14:58

Like 17, the monuments. Oh, and we, how old were you? Like 17, 16, high school. No, like 16, 17.

Megan: 15:01

And you know, we were content creators before content creators were out because we were stopping taking photos. Oh no, we were out of control.

Megan: 15:07

It's just a little martini we were taking pictures like crazy, posing everywhere with the monuments, and next thing we know we turn around and Maddie's got this whole pose on.

JJ: 15:20

Oh, he was ready for the picture.

Megan: 15:21

His whole shoulder and shirt is covered in bird shit. Oh my God.

Matty: 15:27

I know that shirt. I know that shirt. What the hell happened to you? No, I don't still have the shirt, but it's a burgundy shirt. What the hell happened to you? No, I don't still have the shirt, but I was. It's a burgundy shirt. It was a button down and it was like this is perfect for this monument. Yes and moment. And then yeah Was it a tank top?

JJ: 15:43

Was it a full on shirt? Was it a button up, button up.

Megan: 15:46

Yeah.

JJ: 15:48

He was devastated.

Megan: 15:50

He was like we have to go immediately to the hotel. He was like we have to go immediately to the hotel.

Matty: 15:54

We're like no, we can't, we're not touring.

Megan: 15:55

We cannot.

Matty: 15:56

We're high schoolers, we're on a bus. I don't even remember what I did. You bought a t-shirt. I blocked those memories out. Exactly, he was devastated.

Megan: 16:05

He was near tears because his whole photo album was now going to be ruined, because he wasn't able to get pictures like the rest of us, because his shirt was covered in bird shit and it was kind of on his ear too and his hair. It got his hair, his tip of his ear and then all on his shoulder.

JJ: 16:23

And you know, oh, because it was a memory ingrained in my mind. You know that bird shed is mixed with their pee, so that's why it's just all watery yeah, so you were peed in, so when they poo, they pee at the same time.

Matty: 16:38

Oh my God, how convenient.

JJ: 16:40

And that was all on you. Good for them. That is so efficient, but I do hate moments like that. People say that it's a blessing.

Matty: 16:49

Is it?

JJ: 16:49

Yeah, you get a bird shed on you.

Matty: 16:56

Not when you're in high school and you're feeling all the feels and you're like trying to fit in and like you're not fitting in if you're the guy with the burgundy shirt with bird shit.

JJ: 17:01

Oh my God.

Megan: 17:01

Manny.

Megan: 17:02

Like in your hair, on your, in your shirt.

JJ: 17:04

Oh, you had hair. At that point I'll zip it yes.

JJ: 17:08

That's a creature, feature Can. That's a creature feature.

Matty: 17:11

Can I go back to squirrels?

JJ: 17:13

Yeah, I have a squirrel that I feed hazelnuts at my house once in a while.

Megan: 17:19

My neighbor feeds squirrels from his hand. He feeds them peanuts in his backyard.

Matty: 17:24

How does your bunny feel about?

JJ: 17:25

that JJ, my bunny has a different diet.

Matty: 17:27

Every time JJ gets home late at night, the bunny is like Waiting for me. Looking at its watch.

JJ: 17:33

Like where have you been, just carrots?

Megan: 17:35

you put them out for him?

JJ: 17:37

wow, yeah, a full family. So my dad sorry, matt, you were saying something about squirrels, it's fine, we, oh, squirrel, that's that.

Matty: 17:43

Do you know? That's a yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. I don't know if jj knew that. No, I know that, like squirrel alert, it's like a distraction, yeah you haven't, you're on a team's meeting and someone like we're talking about a topic and somebody says something random, completely unrelated, it's like squirrel, you've never done, never.

Megan: 18:02

It's kind of the equivalent. It's like oh, there's something shiny. No, try it. You be the girl that brings no, no, thank you, you bring the girl, that brings this girl.

Matty: 18:11

You be the girl.

Megan: 18:12

I'm bringing the law man.

Matty: 18:14

All right. So my dad's over at the house last year or year before and we're sitting out on the deck.

JJ: 18:21

I remember this.

Matty: 18:22

And he's like oh my God. And I said what he goes, you have black squirrels. And I'm like well, what do you mean? He goes we don't have black squirrels in West Michigan, in Grand Rapids area. I'm like well, yeah, we're pretty diverse there.

JJ: 18:36

I'm like you're in.

Megan: 18:37

In.

JJ: 18:37

Fernando Michigan. It's like pretty diverse.

Matty: 18:41

But he was like blown away.

Megan: 18:43

There's black squirrels on the left side of the state. Now they are.

Matty: 18:47

That's why I said like he's like, oh yeah.

JJ: 18:51

Now, yeah, before that, Megan, I was only one percent um diversity.

Matty: 18:59

Every time I was that, well, okay, but also this year I have a black squirrel with a brown tail. You've seen it, jj, that's a malat um malat squirrel and I I'm like, love this, I love it. His parents are you really think? It's I well, I mean he is.

Megan: 19:18

You think the black squirrels are a different breed than the brown squirrels? I think so. I mean they have to be but all are welcome.

Matty: 19:24

All of them are welcome in my backyard. I'm, uh, all right. I love every kind of squirrel. Well, I, they're kind of.

JJ: 19:32

The chipmunks need to go, yeah, talking about chipmunks need to go, yeah, talking about chipmunks, and we can talk about other creatures if we're into it.

Matty: 19:38

Let's feature a creature. We're like creatures.

JJ: 19:41

I do remember when I used to have a vegetable garden. The chipmunks love a vegetable garden and they just love to be up and out, but I learned that if you put cayenne, pepper or paprika around, that would keep them away. The best part of it is you can actually hear them sneeze the shit monks when they are doing it, and it was the cutest thing I would just go in and they're like I'm like you fell for it.

Matty: 20:13

You're eating the paprika.

JJ: 20:15

Yeah, you're eating the paprika.

Megan: 20:16

At Halloween time and Thanksgiving time, I like to do pumpkin towers outside my house. Oh yeah, I take all different colored pumpkins and sizes and make these towers. Well, I'm constantly fighting with the squirrels and somebody said they love pumpkin. Well, they said, cayenne pepper would keep them away. It doesn't. It doesn't, no, but you know what does.

JJ: 20:35

Hairspray.

Megan: 20:36

Aquanet Hairspray. So I'm spraying those pumpkins constantly.

Matty: 20:45

But I'll tell you sometimes one will get a little bite out, and then they all monitor and then I'll tell you they all monitor.

Megan: 20:48

Yeah, and one day I was working from home I saw a squirrel come on and was trying to bite at my pumpkins.

JJ: 20:55

I went out on the front porch and yelled at him.

Megan: 20:57

He ran away.

JJ: 20:59

And came back with more people.

Megan: 21:00

No, he ran away, ran up the tree and watched me, and when I went away from the door he came back. I went running out there yelling and screaming at him again.

Matty: 21:08

Can we call?

Megan: 21:09

this squirrel Bill.

Matty: 21:10

Because Bill is, people are. Other squirrels are watching to see if bill is can make a breakthrough he was.

Megan: 21:15

He kept trying and then he was in pump patrol I had to keep running out there and yelling and screaming at him and I just like I took that hairspray and I sprayed that little bite he made.

Matty: 21:26

So if he went and tried to bite again, he should know better than this hair spray to fuck with you.

Megan: 21:31

Well, I felt like a crazy person constantly running out my front door yelling and screaming in the air yeah to the squirrel when other people around wouldn't know what I was up to okay.

Matty: 21:40

So, uh, can we talk about horses and megan? Yeah, we can. Okay, maybe this isn't funny, yeah, but I find humor in it, in the way that I sometimes tell the story and I accuse megan of like still having after effects, and she puts me in my place. But she was kicked by a horse.

JJ: 22:01

Oh my gosh.

Megan: 22:02

Yes, yes, and at middle school, uh, yes middle school and I feel like it split her, it split her liver it almost split my liver completely, oh my god me again. So my um and your liver is like your, one organ that can regenerate and fix itself. So after I was kicked um they, I was at a like a. It was at a pony club meet At the Pink Pony Bar, yeah, at the Pink Pony Club.

Megan: 22:33

It was at the Pink Pony Club, chaperone, if you're listening, I was at the Pink Pony Club.

Matty: 22:37

Okay, well, and I?

Megan: 22:38

got kicked by a horse Chances are you would get kicked and my side didn't hurt. Where I was kicked my left shoulder hurt because apparently your nerve endings for your liver are in your shoulder.

Matty: 22:49

Oh God hurt, because apparently your nerve endings for your liver are in your shoulder, oh god again.

JJ: 22:53

We are here to bring the education, or you know.

Matty: 22:55

I mean, we are not. I'm gonna have to change our one of our categories from comedy to educational. Yeah, we are educational podcast.

Megan: 23:02

So they brought me into, like, the lounge area and laid me on a couch, but they put my left shoulder along the back of the couch and it was bothering me. It kept bothering me and they're like you weren't kicked in the shoulder, you're fine, like, and I'm like no, my shoulder hurts. So then I moved and switched sides of the couch so my left shoulder wasn't near the back of the couch and the fireman showed up. Well, I'm a little girl and I'm like why are are these firemen here?

Matty: 23:31

so I didn't talk to the fireman. Can I just not to derail? Yeah, I'm still confused sometimes as to like the deployment of the fire department for things that are not fire, because they, they do have like, they're like med tech, so they have like medical training for emergencies because you know what I mean, there's not a lot of fires, so a lot of times they're sitting around doing nothing and they can get places faster than somebody broke into my neighbor's house. The fire trucks are here.

JJ: 23:54

Why? Or the cat is in the house, the cat is in the tree. Well, that keeps them. That's because they have ladders, yeah.

Megan: 24:00

Well, I'm a little girl so I didn't know and I'm like the firemen don't know anything not answering their questions. And then the ambulance came with what I assumed were like highly trained medical professionals, and then they started talking to me and I was like answering their questions.

Matty: 24:16

And then the firemen were you in pain I guess we can just go the firemen were upset because,

JJ: 24:22

why I wouldn't talk to them oh my god, so were you in pain at this point, just, but it wasn't, which is so weird, right? Can you describe the pain there?

Megan: 24:31

on a scale like it hurt, give me a one to ten like I mean your, your liver's barely hanging on but it's all like, didn't you have to? Go to the hospital yeah, so they so the firemen are like fuck this, we're out. They left and then I went in the ambulance to the hospital. But I was really excited because I was in an ambulance she's.

Megan: 24:50

You see how she did I had just read michael jackson's moonwalker and he talked about how, when he got burned doing the pepsi commercial, he got taken away in the ambulance, which is was his childhood dream to ride in an ambulance. So I'm like, oh, I'm just like michael riding in the ambulance.

JJ: 25:07

Big michael jackson, well oh my gosh.

Matty: 25:10

So his dream was to ride, and so then that became.

Megan: 25:13

Well, I was like. I'm just like Michael, I'm getting to ride in an ambulance and it is so fun. Okay, so this is new news.

Matty: 25:18

I haven't heard about this. When I retell your story, I mean I knew you went to the hospital, I didn't know that somehow. So was this whole kick planned? Was this a premeditated kick? I'm like, because that changes the narrative for me.

Megan: 25:35

I couldn't get a horse to kick me, it just happened. But I was in intensive care for two weeks and for the first like 24 48 hours they. I just had a surgeon and a resident like sitting right by my bed, apparently watching me, because they don't want to operate on your liver, because your liver's like a sponge, so when they try to sew, it, it just falls apart. So they're like if we have to operate, it's a 50-50% chance of life.

Megan: 26:04

So they were monitoring because they said the liver can fix itself, so we just want to monitor her. And they kept checking your eyes to see if they're turning yellow and different other signs. Yeah, something I don't know. So they were just monitoring you the whole time to make sure, like I, wasn't taking a turn for the worse.

Matty: 26:22

Well.

Megan: 26:24

I do think this whole experience gave me a super liver.

Megan: 26:29

I have the ability to drink and I'm back up fresh as a daisy the next day.

JJ: 26:36

That sounds like Matty's morning affirmations to the liver. Is that you can fix yourself.

Matty: 26:40

I want Megan to put a kick me sign on my back and I'm going to walk around the pastures.

Megan: 26:44

Oh, my God.

Speaker 4: 26:47

Yeah, I can't with you.

JJ: 26:50

Talking a little bit about. That's crazy, megan, that you went through that and you always love horses, you know and you've always been around horses all the time. It wasn't my horse that kicked me, it was a different horse but now that you mentioned about this experience connected to Michael Jackson I don't know if any of you have watched the news recently- oh well, I mean well, the news, I mean, I mean if you were to get it's hard to escape.

JJ: 27:15

It's a lot going on.

JJ: 27:16

Yeah, um, yeah but trying to lighten up, sure, the mood and and we're not bringing in a little joy foxhole? We're not going down that foxhole, rabbit hole. Yeah, I don't know whatever that is, but in um there was a this part of orcas in West Vancouver. Well, okay. West Vancouver.

Matty: 27:34

I know Vancouver. You can keep Vancouver.

JJ: 27:37

They found this orcas doing a moonwalk.

Megan: 27:40

Oh really.

Matty: 27:42

It's a rare sight Megan cut to Megan booking a trip to Vancouver.

Megan: 27:47

Well, I would love to see a moonwalk in the wild by a dolphin. Yeah well, it's an orca, it's an orca. So at first, when they posted the video, on tiktok.

JJ: 27:58

People thought that this is like all ai but, they were birds flying at the same time and the birds were flying forward thank see the birds, birds, hey you know,

Megan: 28:09

they're all yeah couldn't that also be AI, though?

JJ: 28:11

Thank you birds, how can you not AI the?

Megan: 28:14

bird and the whale at the same time.

JJ: 28:16

No, it's actually a behavior from the orcas. It's very rare to see. But there is a name for that behavior. It's called the orcas moonwalk.

Megan: 28:25

Oh, I love it. See, michael lives on in some ways, he lives on.

Matty: 28:30

But let's face it. There is some you know I mean controversy, but we'll leave that for another. I am a little innocent until proven guilty, which never happens, and nobody can take away the moonwalk. The orchids are still paying. Amish, yes, Amish, free willy.

JJ: 28:47

And maybe that's just Michael reincarnated. Who knows, free willy, and maybe that's just michael reincarnated, who knows? Maybe like they were, like it's. It's very rare is that they see that happening, and it's very rare to even see in on video. Um, so it's, yeah, I'm gonna post the video on the on our social so that people can see it.

Matty: 29:02

Yeah, yeah yeah, I love that. That's awesome. What else? What other creature feech do we got I? You want to talk about some tattoos what tattoos?

JJ: 29:11

you got some tattoos on birds.

Matty: 29:12

Well, I have a bird yeah, it always comes back to the birds, just bird, nerd but well, you bought the shirt. Well, I had. You saw it in the last photo because I've never had so much talking about birds for my bird. Well, there it is weird, because I you, you know what, my friend Rolando, because my grandma was into owls. This is, I digress.

Speaker 4: 29:35

Yeah.

Matty: 29:35

She was into owls. I was talking about owls. He started buying me owls. I'm like enough with owl merch. Like it's my birthday, it's Christmas, it's owl merch. I'm like I'm not an owl fan but apparently I do have a thing for birds, because hummingbird business yeah.

JJ: 29:49

I remember that.

Matty: 29:50

I have birds on my. The tattoo the Cardinal for my grandma, for birds, I, I, I don't know.

JJ: 29:57

There's a bird mask.

Matty: 29:59

Too much bird.

JJ: 30:00

I think we had enough of creature features. Yeah, enough creature features.

Megan: 30:03

I think it's time for Just to say, I have several more creature features.

Matty: 30:10

I'm going to save them. I'm taking a note. But, my podcasters are like let's move on.

Megan: 30:16

Wrap it up. Wrap it up, all right, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine. Well, I'm ready to talk about a guilty pleasure. Okay, oreos, I do like me some Oreos, and I don't buy them often, but you know, again I get sucked into those limited edition flavors. When I see them, I can't walk away.

Matty: 30:34

I feel like we are in a situation where are we talking about a classic Oreo or are we talking about another product extension? Sounds like product extension. Yes, the only way I don't like. I'll just go on record I don't. I'm not a big fan of Oreos straight out the package, but I do like a dunk. I do like to dunk my milk. Yeah, or almond milk.

Megan: 30:56

I'm anti milk. So, I like it Just.

Matty: 30:58

are you anti milk?

Megan: 30:59

milk. What about almond milk? I'm anti all milk. All milk yeah, I'm not really a milk fan.

Matty: 31:05

I don't drink it. I'm taking a note. Yeah, I don't drink it. I'm taking a note on this, so I prefer to eat my Oreos.

Megan: 31:11

I take one of the cookies off, eat the cream and then eat the cookies.

JJ: 31:17

Oh, I don't like a cream.

Matty: 31:18

We could have a whole probably podcast on how to eat an Oreo?

Megan: 31:21

Oh, we could, because there's many different ways and they've marketed it around it, yeah, but carry on.

Matty: 31:26

So this is.

Megan: 31:26

Anyway, two limited edition flavors One I had read about, heard about, never saw it. Finally, I did the Selena Gomez Oreos.

JJ: 31:36

I love you some, Selena yeah but I had read about them.

Megan: 31:39

They're a chocolate Oreo with a cinnamon cream and I really thought I was not going to like them. The whole idea of the cinnamon and the chocolate. I get that it's like a Mexican hot chocolate, but it just oh, is that what it's supposed to be?

JJ: 31:52

Well they haven't said that oh you're bringing this in.

Megan: 31:58

Well, it kind of they kind of danced around it. I feel like it's interesting because they actually promoted it as horchata, which is like a.

Matty: 32:03

Mexican rice milk. Can you say it again?

Megan: 32:05

Horchata, it's H-O-R-C-H-A-T-A, you got it Orchata. Can you use that in a sentence. I don't like to drink horchata.

JJ: 32:16

Oh, there we go. I love that, but it was interesting because when I saw in the packaging it's not called horchata, it's like cinnamon and chocolate, exactly.

Megan: 32:32

So there something going on. Yeah, oh anyway the secret to any good marketing. Yeah, surprised, I really liked them.

Matty: 32:34

Here's the thing I have a love hate relationship with cinnamon. I it's weird, I do. There's um cinnamon I like in some situations and some that I don't, and cinnamon is used in many different ways, like as a cooking thing, as a flavor, as a toast topping, like I, my grandma. If you guys haven't tried this, this could go viral. This could go viral. If grandma was here, she would put cinnamon sugar, like you do. You know, first of all, cinnamon in its raw form could kill you yes, yes okay so mix it with sugar, put it on your grilled cheese.

JJ: 33:11

Call me we'll have a couple. Yeah, call me it's like it's crazy good it's pretty much the equivalent of, however, putting some honey on it.

Matty: 33:20

Well, honey, honey. Yes, honey is also great, like I, I wouldn't put the two together, but either or are delish. I tried this. I went in thinking with this love, hey, I don't know if I love it or hate it. I actually I really did like it.

Megan: 33:37

Yeah, it's a surprisingly good yeah.

JJ: 33:39

I really liked that too.

Megan: 33:40

You liked it too, so it's a three A three for you, selena.

JJ: 33:44

No, because, like me, like for my Hispanic roots, even though it didn't say Orchata.

Megan: 33:51

Are you the Hispanic roots?

JJ: 33:55

I thought they were Spanish. The Hispanics is everybody that speaks Spanish, every country that speaks.

Matty: 34:00

Spanish I see a rainbow.

Megan: 34:01

Latino is Latin.

Matty: 34:02

America. I see an education. Oh, got it Okay.

Megan: 34:04

I get them all confused, Well the more you again, we're going back to educational.

Matty: 34:09

Here we are here we are again.

JJ: 34:12

No, what I was saying is that I actually went in thinking horchata and I saw cinnamon and chocolate. But when I tested it, like tasted it, it did taste like horchata, so it gave some like nostalgia to it. So I really like that.

Speaker 4: 34:27

I love it.

Megan: 34:28

Well, the other one was a limited edition flavor also.

Matty: 34:31

Oh, it's a two for today.

Megan: 34:33

Yep Chocolate covered pretzel Oreos and it's a pretzel cookie topped with salt with chocolate cream in the middle.

JJ: 34:40

Oh, I like that.

Megan: 34:41

It was very good. We can talk about it later, but I had an obsession.

Matty: 34:45

I think now is the time.

JJ: 34:45

No, I had an obsession with pretzels when I moved to the United States. Oh, and every time I would go, every time I would go to this specific bar, gay bar they would have pretzel rods ready for me.

Megan: 34:59

Do you remember this?

JJ: 35:01

I love a pretzel rod.

Megan: 35:02

And I don't even like pretzels, hold on.

JJ: 35:04

I don't want to go into it because we're going into review.

Matty: 35:06

I do. I do. I do Because people would be like looking at JJ, Like why are you eating those Dirty pretzels? People were like those pretzels have been manhandled.

Megan: 35:19

Six ways to Sunday. Oh they just had these pretzels out in a jar At the gay bar In a cup in a glass.

JJ: 35:27

But the good thing is that I started to know the managers and the bartenders.

Megan: 35:31

And they give you a fresh rod.

JJ: 35:33

They will give me a fresh rod.

Megan: 35:34

You know it's a fresh rod.

JJ: 35:36

They will bring the package.

Megan: 35:38

Matty doesn't seem to think you've got a fresh rod.

JJ: 35:43

Yes, there were some fresh rods.

Matty: 35:46

In his mind they were fresh, they were dirty rods.

JJ: 35:51

This is why I did not want to open the can of worms. Well, I I kind of did.

Matty: 35:56

You did, and when you said it, I couldn't. I was brought, I was transported back, like Frank, to these dirty rods, oh my God, I cannot.

JJ: 36:08

I could not get enough of them.

Megan: 36:09

Is this like the drag queen with the Denny's?

Speaker 4: 36:12

The drag queen Denny's.

JJ: 36:13

Is that where you're going to get these rods. Not that same bar, but adjacent Sounds just as dirty, oh my. God, where are we? I didn't want to take it away from the review.

Megan: 36:22

The chocolate covered pretzels. Sorry, did you like them?

JJ: 36:25

I guess, I don't know. I like me a salty and sweet uh so I like, I liked him because I love that chocolate cream filling. I, I like me, I did not not like them.

Matty: 36:35

I did like oh, there you go, you're gonna regret that you're gonna regret it.

Megan: 36:47

you're out oh wow, oh wow.

JJ: 36:52

I do like it, what about?

Matty: 36:53

you I would have. If you put those two things in front of me, I would have immediately said I would like the pretzel over the Selena, based on cinnamon versus chocolate and pretzel. I flip-flopped, you're a flip-flopper. I'm a flip-flopper. What was her name from?

JJ: 37:12

Ayan Ayan, chanel Ayan from.

Matty: 37:15

Dubai. I'm a flip-flopper.

JJ: 37:17

Yeah.

Matty: 37:18

I love that.

JJ: 37:18

Real Housewives of Dubai.

Matty: 37:19

So I went in thinking one thing, because I'm more chocolate and pretzel than I am chocolate and cinnamon, but just pure taste. I liked Selena's better, I, but just pure taste. I like Selena's better, I give it to her.

Speaker 4: 37:29

Yeah.

Matty: 37:30

I give it to. She's moving on to round two.

JJ: 37:32

I had yeah, it's like yeah, it was good Okay. Just completely. I find I think that for the rest of our stay here, I will continue to eat those Oreos.

Megan: 37:42

Well, good Cause, I don't want to take them home, yeah.

JJ: 37:45

So I'm hoping they're gone. I mean I could, but why would I want to?

Megan: 37:50

Well with that I think we're on to our slip-it-ins and pull it out.

Matty: 37:54

Do you want me again? Let's do it.

Megan: 37:56

My slip-it-in is another little sweet treat. We have around here Jelly Bellies, which I don't eat that often, but whenever I do, I'm just reminded how much I love them. They're so good. I love trying all the flavors. I like mixing and matching to make little recipes. It's heaven no-transcript.

Matty: 38:16

I wouldn't harbor on it too long, but I feel like one little jelly belly. I'm like okay, that's fine, that's what five calories.

JJ: 38:24

I like the sound of it.

Matty: 38:26

One little jelly belly 10 calories and then 30 jelly bellies later. I'm like I got to stop.

JJ: 38:32

You're going to get actually a jelly belly.

Matty: 38:35

I am going to.

Megan: 38:37

Just stay away from the buttered popcorns.

JJ: 38:39

I hate those.

Megan: 38:41

Anyway, my pull it out is Starbucks sherry. I am not choosing joy and I'd prefer to get my drink quicker. So Starbucks, please, please, stop with the cup writing and bring back the challenges and rewards.

Speaker 4: 38:53

Did you say sherry?

Megan: 38:54

Starbucks sherry. Yeah, who's sherry?

Matty: 38:57

It's just any random Starbucks worker, I see you call him Sherry, starbucks, sherry, okay, I thought it was a flavor. I don't go to Starbucks so I didn't know if it was a menu. I'm just over it.

Megan: 39:12

I don't need the writings, I don't need the smiley faces. I just want to get my drink and go, and I don't want to wait those extra seconds and this is a've not said it before.

Matty: 39:26

You'll say I had to bring it again because it's just, it irritates me. Yeah, all right. Well, okay, I hope for you starbucks. I've heard other people not like this yes, but I think they were born on this tradition, so I don't know.

Megan: 39:35

I'm, I'm, uh, I'm switzerland well, I think it's because it's fine if they want to do it, but bring back the challenges and rewards.

Matty: 39:42

What is it? Give me an example. This is what I talked about before.

Megan: 39:47

They'd be like you would order three cold brews in a row and you get 100 points.

Matty: 39:52

Oh, jesus, gamify everything, I can't.

JJ: 39:54

Yeah, well, I enjoyed it. That's why she's always asking who wants some Starbucks.

Megan: 39:58

Yeah, because I'm catching my, because she gets a badge she's made it to the next level. No, I'm getting extra like 100 stars, and 200 stars gives you a free drink.

Matty: 40:07

Oh, okay, great, Good for you, good luck, good luck.

Megan: 40:09

Well, it's gone. They're not doing it, so that's my pull it out.

Matty: 40:13

Several pulls.

JJ: 40:26

My slip it in.

Matty: 40:27

We kind Kind of mentioned it a little bit at the beginning of the show, but I am so into in the summer of a slight cut crop. There's nothing slight about it, Megan. They're not slight crops Correct.

Megan: 40:34

They used to know as pump covers.

JJ: 40:36

If you're going to Amazon, you can find them.

Matty: 40:37

They're called.

JJ: 40:38

what Pump covers Pump covers Pump Like your arms.

Matty: 40:39

So if you're lifting weights. It's a pump them.

JJ: 40:40

They're called what?

Megan: 40:41

Pump, covers Pump covers, pump Like your arms.

JJ: 40:42

So if you're lifting weights, it's a pump cover.

Matty: 40:44

It's called a tank top. My friend no.

JJ: 40:46

It's a pump cover because it has sleeves on it, and then you slightly cut it so you can see oh, you're not talking.

Megan: 40:53

a crop at the waist.

JJ: 40:57

You're talking a crop at too. Just a slight.

Megan: 41:00

It's a slight crop. I'm looking at it right now.

JJ: 41:03

And it's a slight crop that you're not really showing your full-on belly, but I think they're in this summer You're going to see them around and I'm 100% supportive.

Matty: 41:11

Oh, megan and I are seeing them in the wild, yeah.

Megan: 41:16

When we say in the wild, it's on JJ, next to us.

JJ: 41:19

You're welcome.

Matty: 41:19

Up at the cabin.

JJ: 41:21

You're welcome. That is my slip it in. I'm living for it.

Speaker 4: 41:25

This season, this is the season for the spy crop.

Matty: 41:32

I'm not going to talk about the previous seasons.

JJ: 41:33

If you guys want to talk about it, call me. I pull it out and I know it's not near my birthday, but Maddie just celebrated his birthday. Megan celebrated her birthday a few years, a few years a few days ago.

Megan: 41:45

That is correct, I'm not aging any longer.

Matty: 41:48

She doesn't acknowledge him after, but I cannot stand a birthday wish in a group chat. A birthday wish in a group chat. What?

Speaker 4: 41:57

do you mean?

Matty: 41:57

Oh, like, everyone feeling like, so we have a group chat.

JJ: 42:00

We have several group chat we have everyone, several group chats, it just feels obligatory it just feels like the. It's like replacing facebook that I know your birthday because facebook is telling me that is your birthday today, so if you're gonna, if maddie or megan want to wish me happy birthday, they better send me a private message to that point. You had the text.

Matty: 42:21

You had the most recent birthday and there was a lot of text. I don't think you would if you go look at it now.

JJ: 42:26

There's nothing from either jj or I but, we both on I, I won't speak for you. Yeah, I did it.

Matty: 42:32

I did on my end because I had a separate and I I I don't feel the obligation to like have it in there, Cause like if these people know my friendship with Megan, they're not going to look at that and be like I can't believe Matt didn't chime in.

JJ: 42:49

Where's Maddie?

Matty: 42:51

They know that I'm yeah she's so.

JJ: 42:53

that's why I just don't like it with that. I like that I we have a.

Matty: 42:56

We need to have a full episode and just texting.

JJ: 42:59

Yeah, yeah, we need to have a full episode of just texting addicts, because I have a separate relationship with that.

Megan: 43:03

Well, you have your own issues with group chats, which is where I think this is really stemming from.

Matty: 43:07

How do you feel about? Did you have a particular feeling about us? Not on the group chat giving you a happy birthday.

Megan: 43:13

No, I don't even think about it. You don't have time for that show. No, exactly.

JJ: 43:16

I'm busy. I'm busy, that's why I'm busy.

Matty: 43:22

I'm busy. That's why it's my pool of thought, and not me.

JJ: 43:25

Nope, I'm biz. Matt, do you have any slip of the hands?

Matty: 43:27

I do. Okay, my slip it in is on the way up here, a three-hour drive. Jj and I had a conversation about frugality. Jj and I had a conversation about frugality and like what would if you were wealthy, what would you pay for and when? When do you become frugal? Because I've. It's interesting to me that a lot of celebrities still are like I'm not paying that kind of money for popcorn at a theater and I'm like you're not like what. You've won four Emmys. How are you? How do you you? Why do you think that's expensive? However, there are a lot of things I wouldn't pay for, but what I would pay for if I became wealthy and this is my slip it in is I would employ a full-time back scratcher oh my god that's crazy that's too intimate I feel it doesn't need to be.

Matty: 44:20

It can be platonic, Platonic, Like you come in, you scratch my back, you don't talk to me. I don't want to have a convo Like this. Is me being like elitist, yeah, and I don't like being that.

Matty: 44:33

That's not me.

Matty: 44:34

But I do love having my back scratched and that's the biggest thing. When I'm single is like I miss the most, but I do have a little back scratcher.

JJ: 44:42

I have a couple back scratchers too.

Matty: 44:44

That's a replacement until you get your back scratcher, yeah so back scratching is my slip it in my pull it out and I'm gonna go back to the creature feature. I mean, please stop. Dogs don't want to wear crocs. I saw that this week. I just I don't. Oh my God, yes, no they don't.

JJ: 45:05

Oh my God, it's crazy that you mentioned this Maddie. I saw that this week and I'm like there's dogs and cats wearing crocs.

Matty: 45:11

They don't want them. They don't, they don't. If you want to get your photo, I don't even care. Don't spend them, pull it out. Dogs have paws and they're built for the weather. They do not need to walk around with Crocs on their feet. They fucking hate them, so stop. Like I can, I can get behind up one piece of clothing, but no, we don't need support that. We don't need Crocs for the ball. I'll support that one, that's it.

Megan: 45:43

Okay. Well, with that, I think we're ready to close it. So, in the meantime, we want to hear from you. So send your questions and comments to slip it in podcast at gmailcom. Slip into our dms on instagram, facebook and tiktok at. Slip it in podcast and remember when out. Don't forget to leave your name and where you are from, until next time you laugh, you cringe, you beg for more, with a guilty pleasure you can't ignore, like a drunk text sent at 2am. We slipped it in again.