Speaker 1: 0:07

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Speaker: 0:28

We are back, slipping it in with you. This is Megan, and I'm here with Matty Accounted for and JJ.

Speaker 3: 0:37

Hello, everybody.

Speaker: 0:38

So, Matty, you are just getting back from Vegas where you saw the Wizard of Oz at the Sphere. Yeah, tell us about it.

Speaker 3: 0:46

It's my last trip of the calendar year. You've had a few years to see. Several, several road trips and trips by air. And it was great. Uh yeah, I have a couple funny stories to talk about and things to clue people into. I would recommend going to the Wizard of Oz. It was fun. We enjoyed it. It was uh I was doing a little bit of filming of the things, the clips. Yeah. So I put together a little 30 minute, 30-second reel that captured the whole thing, but it was cool.

Speaker 2: 1:24

They uh look at you with the reels now. I know. You discovered the reels, and now you're like a real aficionate. So I well, he's done two in the meta.

Speaker 3: 1:35

And I I'm who I mean, I got I got uh notifications from Instagram like, congratulations, you've had over 750 views of your Bravo reel. Really?

Speaker 2: 1:46

Oh, this is for real.

Speaker 3: 1:49

For real.

Speaker 2: 1:50

It is for real.

Speaker 3: 1:51

And the what I learned by happenstance, by coincidence, is I I I usually always take live photos. So those live photos, plugging them into the real, the real does all of the like do do do do do and it I mean the real was amazing for the bravo. The real was a wasn't it great? The Bravo reel. So good. So good.

Speaker: 2:14

Well, I don't want to talk about Bravo right now. I want to talk about the wizard, the wizard of odds. I've got lots of questions. Okay.

Speaker 3: 2:21

So you're in it's an immersive experience. I won't spend a lot of time on this, but we had great seats. When I look, I had to look up and look all the way back in order to see the full like viewing experience. My seat rumbled at some points. You felt wind, they dropped leaves during a little paper mache, not paper mache, but like tissue paper, tissue paper leaves at one point. They dropped apples, which were very coveted. Like everyone had the apples. None of us got an apple. And at the end, a man was offering a hundred dollars to somebody to give him their apple for his granddaughter. But then you could buy them at the stand at the end for ten dollars. But at that point, like I don't stand. No, because I touched them and they were just like it's a home apple. Yeah, it's one thing if you catch it in the experience. Yeah. And there were mechanical flying monkeys. So I think you're gonna ask me about the munchkins.

Speaker: 3:33

Yeah, did you I rumor has it that now that you like see on these huge screens and they almost seem like they're zoomed in on these munchkins, that they're really hot, some of them.

Speaker 3: 3:46

I was too busy trying to catch content that I didn't, I don't think I either either way. I don't think I would have been like, wow.

Speaker: 3:55

Well, apparently, yeah. I was curious if you thought they were they had they were prominently.

Speaker 3: 4:00

Yeah. Correct. Accounted for. Here's the old here's the funny phrase. Here's here's a funny thing that did happen. So you can get these souvenir glasses, and you have to get these particular types of drinks. So I had these drinks, and I got two of them, so I could get a green cup and a pink cup. I didn't like the drinks, they were kind of sweet, so by the end, I had a full drink left. And the show ended. I'm trying to grab content. I went to put the drink in the cup holder, and I missed the cup holder, and it fell down and splattered all up in the air. All it splattered so high my glasses were covered with drink. Oh my god. But the it fell into the aisle in front of me. So these old ladies, old ladies got all my wicked drink all over them. Oh my god. And I'm like, oh my god, I'm so sorry. And the lady was just sweet as pie. She's like, mistakes happen. I'm so sorry. But yeah, like that was yeah, that was the big to-do uh at sphere.

Speaker: 5:09

Did you notice that there was a lot of um content missing from the movie?

Speaker 3: 5:16

I did notice some content was missing, but they cut it.

Speaker: 5:19

Yeah, they cut it down, so it's only 90 minutes.

Speaker 3: 5:23

Yeah. Yeah. But it was great. I mean, I learned a lot of things I forgot about. And it's interesting, I'll say this. When you watch the movie, I don't know when this was filmed, but long time ago. Some of the commentary still can seem relevant to today. For example, the Tin Man who doesn't have a no, the scarecrow who doesn't have a brain. Some kind of comment was said to some extent, but but even those with brains seem to do a lot of talking that doesn't really make sense. Something to that effect, and the whole audience was like, clocking that, clocking that relevance.

Speaker 2: 6:11

That's happening right now.

Speaker: 6:12

Well, what's interesting is the movie itself, The Wizard of Oz, was released in 1939, but it's based on a 1900 novel. So it's even older than you might think.

Speaker 3: 6:27

So some things just always will be irrelevant.

Speaker 2: 6:32

I just love that. I mean, I I love old things, uh, Wicked and The Wizard of Oz, and I love that at the time that the movie was released in 1939, you said, Megan? Um it was the time of like the Technicolor, and like the it was like it's stated like it started at a at a moment that it brought something new to television. Um it didn't come out, it started with black and white. It was black and white, but they used Technicolor as part of the movie when they got released, and I just love that they're bringing that back to sphere at a you know era that AI is is is amongst us and they're bringing it to a different level and they're using Wizard of Oz that established such a great you know parameter back then and now is you you know people are just enjoying it going to sphere.

Speaker 3: 7:23

I just love that the whole commentary that's weaved through the storyline back in 1900, 1939, yeah, is like seems like things we are still talking about today. Yeah, and that just is proof that the story, the author, you know, used themes that are forever irrelevant. Okay, so when I landed in Vegas, I um went out the night I got there to a Vanderpump restaurant. Love that and it was great.

Speaker 2: 8:00

Uh I sat next to a big line, a big way for no not for me.

Speaker 3: 8:05

I mean, they're like, sir, come here. Sir, we've got a sir, we've got a spot for you. Of course you do. And so I was ponied up to the bar. Uh immediately uh I had one waiter come up to me and said, I really like your product's glasses. Oh, your son, your glasses. Yeah, thank you, I said, and we carried on a conversation. Then there was another cute little bartender. Well, he was tall, and he was chitty chap. And then they sat these two girls next to me, and um, I made friends with them instantly. We all of a sudden what they started to do, and I knew Bravo Con was happening this weekend, the same weekend I was there, but I didn't know, like I didn't, it was coincidence, right? Like I was going for Wizard of Oz with Melissa from three episodes that she's appeared on, and her two adult daughters, but I knew for several months that oh, it just so happens Bravo Concer. I didn't have I that didn't make me purchase any tickets or do anything, but I got in a night before the girls got in. And so I went out on my own, went to Vanderpomp, met these girls, and they started showing pictures on their phone. And I'm like, Wait, how are you getting all these pictures with these Bravo lebrities? Bravo Labs. Bravo Bravo. I want to say Bravo, it's Bravo celebrities, and they're like, Here's what you do you go to the ride share drop-off at Hara's um location or whatever. This it's basically outside of the convention center where they're shooting all of the different Bravo segments.

Speaker 2: 9:51

What's what happens live, the panels, and all those things that happen in there.

Speaker 3: 9:55

Well, they've got to come into the building and they gotta get out of the building. And this is the ride share drop-off. She gave me the girls gave me here's where you go. You hang a left here, you go to the Ferris wheel, hang another left, and it's right there. And so that is, I put all of that information into my note app, literally. Yeah, and you took a note, and I took a note, and then I continued on my evening. I went out, I did the Fruit Loop, JJ. I did the Fruit Loop, it left a lot to be desired. Uh, there were um there was a fatality accident in the Fruit Loop area, and so these Uber drivers that were picking me up and trying to get me from one little gay bar to another, it was they couldn't in some instances. So that at one place I just got dropped off. I had to find my way around. I did meet a nice gentleman um named Sterling. So, Sterling, if you're out there, text me.

Speaker 2: 10:54

Um, didn't change any numbers or Instagrams?

Speaker 3: 10:58

Yeah, I sterling and I were communicating. I do love that name. And then the next morning I got up and took this stroll to the ride chair, like the lady said, and lo and behold, all my Bravo dreams came true.

Speaker 2: 11:15

Really? Yes. Wow.

Speaker 3: 11:17

You guys probably saw the reel. You posted it first. But like I saw all of the lady, not all of the ladies, but like 30 ladies probably, and a lot of from the other shows. My highlights were Kathy Hilton and I had a little exchange. Jennifer Tilley tripped on the little railing and fell into me and apologized. Uh, Mary and Bose when a little give me a little bit.

Speaker: 11:47

Oh, were you playing me off? Yeah. Were you playing me off? Yeah. I think that means let's wrap it up. All right.

Speaker 3: 11:54

Well, like, okay, well, I'll leave it there though.

Speaker 2: 11:58

How about that? Did you see, like, kind of wrapping it up? Did you see any like Brabo Labs on your way back? Uh, and any flights or anything like that on the airport?

Speaker 3: 12:07

I didn't. And Megan was giving me tips throughout the whole trip. Like, go here, go there. The only place I actually ended up seeing them was at that ride share. So I didn't see him out and about. But I didn't get to the other. Well, you didn't go to their hotel. Yes. But I did go to a Vanderpomp, but no, on the airplane. I was hoping for because I know wasn't there some shit that went down.

Speaker 2: 12:28

Well, I was gonna ask because there were some altercations. Well, there were altercations in the premises of BravoCon.

Speaker: 12:35

Yes.

Speaker 2: 12:35

Um, but I know that there was a big um incident with Portia from uh Real Housewives of Atlanta at the airport at the Delta plane.

Speaker 3: 12:45

Oh, and I fly Delta.

Speaker 2: 12:46

Oh, you that's why I'm asking because I know I knew that you were coming Delta, and she was um, I mean, she was apparently according to the story allegedly, she was the last one going to the plane that she boarded the plane. And as soon as she sat down, she um started scrolling on Instagram. And I here's a problem I have people that go into the plane without their headphones. I agree, and they start either calling their family members or using YouTube and there's like a video. It's loud, it's loud, and people everybody listens to it at the same time.

Speaker 3: 13:24

This is related to my pull it out I had before, where like at the loud we're talking about an airplane, but I was talking about a restaurant, and it's like we don't need you at a volume for us to have to experience what you're experiencing.

Speaker 2: 13:38

So allegedly Porsche came in, came in hot to the plane, came in last one, and she's like scrolling on Instagram for like 20-25 minutes, and everybody could hear what she was actually watching. And the people were starting like, Lady, you can you have to just shut it down or like do something, and she got upset about it. She even called the lady ugly, she had to apologize after, but she had to be scolded out with the cops, she had to be what like sculted, like as escorted, escorted out, yeah. Thank you.

Speaker 3: 14:09

You're welcome. That's yeah, I'm here for it. But I heard that there's I thought he said scolded out, which could be a great word because scolding is appropriate. She got scolded, is like you go. Scorted out by the cops. And if you get escorted, that means you've been taken off. Yeah. So a scolded could be a word where both happens.

Speaker 2: 14:32

Ma'am, she did bad behavior. We're danging you off. Well, she did when she arrived at Atlanta. Yeah. So it was big, big, big shenanigans.

Speaker: 14:39

Well, it looks like she's not getting charged from her plane trip. But yeah, there was Chef Rose, which is one of my favorites from Southern Charm. He was caught on camera talking about Paige from Summerhouse and his castmate Craig, also from Southern Charm. And then Lindsay Hubbard from Summerhouse was caught on camera yelling at Tom Sandoval, who had been in a big argument with his girlfriend.

unknown: 15:08

Oh.

Speaker: 15:09

So those were both at like the hotel.

Speaker 3: 15:12

Yes. It does.

Speaker: 15:14

I mean, but it's like people are just sitting out and about at the hotels where they know the celebrities are staying and just constantly videoing, which I love.

Speaker 3: 15:24

Which I I love that.

Speaker 2: 15:25

Would you say, Matt, Matty, um, that if you were to go back to BravoCon, oh, I mean to Vegas during BravoCon, you would just do the same thing that you did. Uh, you don't have to just like get the tickets or anything like that.

Speaker 3: 15:37

I probably would just do, I mean, literally, I had up close and personal experiences with a bunch of Bravo liberties. And what's interesting is they were the kindest, sweetest, nicest. I even told JJ and Meegan, you might want to boop ba-doop-ba-doop fact-check me. You probably know the answer. Probably she's surmised. It I almost am like, is it a requirement in their contract to engage? Because they're a different type of celebrity, right? They're like, Yeah, they are like Bravo celebrities, they are a different tier, but they were all like the minute they come out. A couple of them were like, I'm sick, I'm sorry, or I'm late, I'm sorry. But the otherwise, I would say 95% of them came out and immediately came over to and talked. They didn't just pose, they had conversations with us. They would take the phone out of your hand and be like, Here, I can help you. I did it, I'll I'll take the photo for you. And like all of them, and people would be all relatable. What about me? I'm over here. She they'd be like, I'm coming, don't worry, I'll come. Of course, I'll be there. You know, like so. They really were very accommodating.

Speaker: 16:50

I think it's relating to cancel culture, and they don't have long-term contracts, they're one season only contract, right? So they do not want to get in an uproar with fans against them because they won't be asked back for the next season, or they'll get canceled.

Speaker 3: 17:07

They want to be a fan favorite, basically, and this just helps them do that. But like, even Kathy, I'm like, Kathy doesn't need like, but and Jennifer Tilly.

Speaker 2: 17:17

I mean, she's an Oscar-winning or Bozemath Saint-Jean, like she's established, she's well established.

Speaker 3: 17:22

I don't know, they were just amazing. It was so cool. I I would do that. Yeah, I would just, you know, maybe next time I would get a ticket to something, but I would also do this.

Speaker: 17:32

I think I would use my money because the Bravo Con tickets are crazy expensive. I think I would just save my money and stay at the Four Seasons, where you're gonna have an amazing stay at an amazing hotel, and that's where they all are staying too. So then you can just monitor them in the bar and in the hallways and the elevators, and then the next day we set up shop and we get the best of both.

Speaker 2: 18:00

Next year we should just do that, Megan, and then we can just say bringing our equipment and Matty.

Speaker 3: 18:06

Hello, hello.

Speaker 2: 18:08

Well, Megan is my travel buddy, so I know, but I'm the one I've met, I've met like 20 that you have not met at this point.

Speaker 3: 18:17

I did, I will say that I was living a glorious moment in life because these two are much bigger into it all than me. But here I am, snap snap. And little people next to me were like, who is that? And I'm like, I don't know. And I'd be like, I'm but I'm messaging, I'm sending these photos off to my slippers, and they are they are letting me know who's who. 100%. I mean, I knew 50% of them.

Speaker 2: 18:40

I would say 40.

Speaker 3: 18:41

50.

Speaker 2: 18:42

I knew 35. 50. You just went down because I because I don't think he know he you mostly know the housewives, some of them.

Speaker 3: 18:52

Yeah, I right.

Speaker 2: 18:54

Not all of them.

Speaker 3: 18:54

I correct. But I yeah, I JJ, I knew 50%. You I in my reel, I said there's only four in here, I don't know. And you gave me two of them, but there's also I didn't even send you pictures of probably 15 others that I'm like, I don't know if they're who they are.

Speaker: 19:13

But well, there's also some controversy in the Bravo world over the recent uh issues happening on Salt Lake City, Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, because there was this infamous plane trip where Brittany Bateman on the show was supposedly getting harassed on a plane back home to the States after they had a cast trip by Meredith Marks and Lisa Barlow. And everyone on the cast that was in first class with them says, Oh, this was going on. It was so horrible. Brittany was in tears. Meredith pulled her hair, she was shaking her chair, she was yelling at her. And Meredith Marks and Lisa Barlow are saying, if this happened, there'd be tons of videos of it. Uh, the producers, production would be around, someone would have captured it, and there's nothing. There's nothing at all. Well, there's so there's rumors.

Speaker 2: 20:14

Allegedly.

Speaker: 20:15

Yes.

Speaker 2: 20:17

Rumors and nasty of the plane ride.

Speaker: 20:20

Yes. Allegedly that everyone on that plane, non-cast members, non-Bravo production crew, etc., were asked to sign NDAs. Now, if that's the case, I wonder, because if I'd been on the plane and I knew anything or capture, I would have said, no, I'm not signing your NDA.

Speaker 2: 20:43

I at this point, I will give Megan permission to surmise. And what do you think really happened?

Speaker: 20:48

I think if that's the case, they gave them money. Because the only way you would sign an NDA is if they're gonna pay you money. So because I would sign for money if you have the video.

Speaker 3: 21:00

Listen, it has to be the case because if you watch the episode, you are seeing like Mary and Heather and what's that other blonde? Whitney Whitney. They're all saying, like, I was there. I saw like so, like they are like they are corroborating what's happening, and you're right, the phones would be a recording.

Speaker 2: 21:24

Like we were watching, like Matty and I were watching it, and Mary, which we love, and she she knows, and she stands her ground, and she you're not gonna move me. They're like, Well, if it happened, and Mary constantly like it happened, I was there.

Speaker 3: 21:40

You don't have to tell me I was there, yeah. And it's like Mary's doesn't even drink.

Speaker: 21:47

Correct.

Speaker 2: 21:47

She does.

Speaker 3: 21:48

She does, yes, not a lot.

Speaker: 21:50

Well, they're Mormon, like half of them drinking.

Speaker 3: 21:53

She usually doesn't. She's usually eating McDonald's fries and drinking a diet coke. She does not, I don't think Mary was intoxic. I my point being, my point being is a lot of times memories are blurred on that show because everyone's in toxic. They are in a plane the next day.

Speaker 2: 22:08

She's known to drink a 2003 Donperignon. Like that is her drink of show.

Speaker: 22:13

And that's not Sarah.

Speaker 3: 22:14

Okay, that's not happening on this Delta flight.

Speaker 2: 22:17

Well, but I you're saying that she doesn't drink. She does drink.

Speaker 3: 22:21

Right. The point I'm trying to make is that these ladies on this flight were flying home. They weren't intoxicated per se. Meredith sounds maybe. Maybe. Yes. But the other ones were in and out of sleep. It doesn't, it does not matter. I think it will come out at the reunion.

Speaker 2: 22:40

Let's well, that is what they were allegedly saying. Like the NDA from the producers was that we're collecting all this because we're going to show it at the reunion. And we'll see if that was going to happen.

Speaker: 22:52

We'll we'll see. But it is interesting that supposedly they made everyone on the plane sign an NDA.

Speaker 3: 22:56

So do you want my Taco Bell Cantina story real quick, and then we can move on from Vegas? Here's the story. Sure. I'm doing this for you, Megan, because you love a Taco Bell. The ladies want to.

Speaker: 23:07

I don't even like Taco Bell, but not necessarily to eat.

Speaker 3: 23:10

I agree. I hadn't eaten 24 hours. The ladies landed, and they're like, We're gonna go to Taco Bell Cantina, and we're so excited. I'm like, what makes that exciting?

Speaker 2: 23:20

It's still Taco Bell.

Speaker 3: 23:21

Yeah, like it's a cantina.

Speaker 2: 23:23

I'm like, and yeah, and and I guess it lasts probably like what two months here in Detroit? It was a little bit longer.

Speaker: 23:30

We had one alcohol.

Speaker 3: 23:32

Yeah, really the big difference.

Speaker: 23:33

No, it's it's basically a Taco Bell with alcohol. That's it.

Speaker 3: 23:36

That's it. So we get there, I didn't see anything different. We order, there's an upstairs that doesn't make it a cantina, but this one happened to have an upstairs. We go upstairs. I had been filming my Bravo content all day. I had literally 7% on my phone. So I had to plug my phone in. And I'm like, oh, look, over here, there is a power strip cord. And I plugged it in. And then 10 minutes later, I look and I'm like, oh, my phone isn't charged at all. Oh, the power strip itself wasn't turned on. You know, that little red button. So I clipped the turn the red button on and I'm like, all these lights came on. On the continuous upstairs. I had just turned on the the uh DJ booths, which is awesome. Oh yeah, but I'm like but it gave you power. But I'm like, I'm fine. So I let my phone charge, and then Melissa and I wanted to get content, so we were doing all these photos like around the balcony. We've I've left my phone, I'm 30 feet away from it, I'm getting photos. Next thing I hear is, excuse me, whose phone is this? And I'm like, that's mine. She's like, Sir, sir, you are powering the entire DJ booth, and this is very expensive equipment. You cannot be plugging your phone in here, and I'm like, oh, I'm sorry. And she's like, it's okay. And I'm like, I feel really bad. She's like, it's fine, sir. She was fine with yeah, she was, but um, that was my Cantina story. Yeah, well, I mean, we had That was my first meal in Vegas.

Speaker 2: 25:13

Oh my god. Talking about meals, let's just move on to the Panskin.

Speaker: 25:16

Yeah, yeah, exactly. 100%. So Martha Stewart created all sorts of controversy last week by saying the perfect time for Thanksgiving dinner is 2 p.m.

Speaker 2: 25:26

That is insane. That is insane.

Speaker 3: 25:28

Why do you find that insane? Because I don't find it crazy.

Speaker 2: 25:32

Well, let me just reel it back a little bit. Because when I because I'm not originally from here, and like back in Spain, our dinner times are completely different than American, and I'm not usually give us the facts on that.

Speaker 3: 25:46

I think the audience wants to know. Yeah, because we're what is your typical in Spain dinner time?

Speaker 2: 25:50

Like around 7, 8 p.m.

Speaker 3: 25:52

I that's me here and in the Americas.

Speaker 2: 25:54

Yeah, but not Thanksgiving.

Speaker 3: 25:55

No, we're not.

Speaker 2: 25:56

You don't you don't I didn't think you were talking specifically? But they're talking about Thanksgiving dinner being at 2 p.m., right?

Speaker 3: 26:02

Right, but I thought you were equating that to normative behavior in Spain. What time do you think? Oh, we don't celebrate Thanksgiving. Oh, well, there you go. It's hard to do that.

Speaker: 26:14

So that's well, that is an American holiday. You thought that was a worldwide holiday?

Speaker 3: 26:18

Well, Puerto Rico's American.

Speaker 2: 26:20

I'm talking about Spain.

Speaker: 26:23

My bad. Oh my god.

Speaker 2: 26:24

God, you're questioning me or something that you're talking about.

Speaker 3: 26:26

I'm not questioning, I'm trying to bring, I don't know. For the record, I don't know. I'm trying to ask really good questions so we can educate our podcast listeners. Okay. Not I'm not coming for you. A little bit. Not are you, you think? No.

Speaker: 26:43

Well, let me like ask you this because you said you love the time 2 p.m., but does that change when the Lions game starts at 1 p.m.?

Speaker 3: 26:53

Hold on. I want JJ to tell me what his favorite time for Thanksgiving is because we glossed over that and I want to make sure he has his moment to talk about it.

Speaker 2: 27:05

No, I I think that 2 p.m. is fine if you call it a late lunch. I don't think it's dinner.

Speaker 3: 27:12

Well, I think Thanksgiving, I wouldn't call it lunch or dinner. It is a weird weird like meal that happens in the middle of the day, I think.

Speaker: 27:21

Well, and typically with Thanksgiving, I feel like I don't do a breakfast or a very light breakfast, and then typically don't do a dinner. Like I prefer to say my dessert for kind of like a dinner.

Speaker 3: 27:35

Oh, no, no.

Speaker: 27:36

I wouldn't because I don't like to eat dessert right after the dinner. I would probably choose four or five.

Speaker 3: 27:54

PM. I would probably choose three or four p.m.

Speaker 2: 28:01

If we're gonna call it dinner, I'm gonna say I'm gonna go with Megan, four or five p.m.

Speaker: 28:05

Okay, let's just call it Thanksgiving meal. Does that change your time?

Speaker 2: 28:08

It does.

Speaker: 28:09

What does it okay?

Speaker 2: 28:10

Then why do you it'll be a uh 2:30, 2230? Like Martha. I would go with Martha.

Speaker: 28:15

Well then we're right back where we started. You and Martha are on the same page. That's what I'm saying. No, you started out.

Speaker 2: 28:23

Well, because she calls it dinner.

Speaker 3: 28:25

Oh, that's your issue. I thought your issue was at all.

Speaker 2: 28:28

That's just what I said at the beginning. That's what you're not you both are not listening to me.

Speaker: 28:33

No, Thanksgiving meal then. We don't need to have the dinner on it. Like that's just you both. I well, it's just you're big.

Speaker 2: 28:40

To get a little bit more culture in the Spanish.

Speaker: 28:41

No, it's just Thanksgiving meal. It doesn't have to be dinner, lunch.

Speaker 3: 28:45

Spanish doesn't even have a or Spain doesn't have a Thanksgiving dinner, so Thanksgiving.

Speaker: 28:51

Let's call it Thanksgiving holiday. Don't even call the Thanksgiving dinner.

Speaker 3: 28:54

Oh okay. Well, I guess we're really semantics.

Speaker: 28:57

Well, I didn't realize. But so you and Martha basically are Kismet. You both wanted 2 p.m.

Speaker 3: 29:02

I love Mesa Martha.

Speaker: 29:03

Thanksgiving meeting.

Speaker 3: 29:04

I love Mesa Martha too. So we can agree on that.

Speaker: 29:07

I like a little later because I'd rather, you know, have extra time to cook. You don't have to get up at the crack of dawn to get that turkey in. You can have some nice apps and wine and then have your meal and then still take a little break and have a little dessert later.

Speaker 3: 29:24

What's your favorite dish that you would like? What do you want on your plate?

Speaker: 29:30

You're really opening a can of worm ice.

Speaker 3: 29:33

Am I? Well, it's you should know by now at this point in your life.

Speaker: 29:38

Thanksgiving meal is a little bit of a trigger for me.

Speaker 3: 29:41

Oh, Lord.

Speaker: 29:42

Because I really don't like my food touching.

Speaker 2: 29:50

Correct.

Speaker: 29:51

So I don't have little sweets and savories.

Speaker 2: 29:54

I know. I don't know.

Speaker: 29:55

So on my plate, I just do little small piles. So nothing.

Speaker 3: 30:00

Why don't you eat a little kid's plate that's got those little dividers in it? I love those plates. Yeah.

Speaker: 30:04

Yeah. So, but the fine china doesn't come in there. Thanksgiving is best when mixed. Oh, that's what I hate. That's my trigger. I see people who make these plates. Everything's on top of, on top of. And I it like is triggering. I choose just to look at my own plate and only deal with my own foods. Because I don't like it.

Speaker 3: 30:25

You must be a joy at Thanksgiving. You've got your little blinders on.

Speaker: 30:29

No, I am a joy. But I just I don't I don't like gravy, getting on squash, or getting on things that gravy shouldn't be on.

Speaker 3: 30:37

JJ doesn't like gravy, period. Yeah. Uh-uh.

Speaker 2: 30:40

Not a big fan.

Speaker: 30:42

Oh, I do like gravy. Uh, but I only usually put it on the potatoes. I don't put on anything else.

Speaker 2: 30:47

Same, same. I sometimes put if I were I I just put a little dollip of it.

Speaker 3: 30:52

Like it's just so good on the gravy or on the turkey and on the stuffing.

Speaker 2: 30:57

Well, do you are a gravy aficionate?

Speaker 3: 31:01

I my favorite go-to is stuffing.

Speaker: 31:05

Me too. That's my number one.

Speaker 3: 31:07

Okay, that's the question I asked.

Speaker: 31:09

Well, but you said on your plate. You went all down the triggered.

Speaker 3: 31:14

Because it triggers me, I told you. It's a triggered palm. I triggered her. Yes, you did. You did. Went all along. It was fucking stuffing.

Speaker: 31:24

Well, don't trigger me with the plate.

Speaker 3: 31:26

Just answer my question, don't you? You took a lot hard left and went down like your childhood triggers.

Speaker: 31:32

It's not a childhood trigger, it's an adult trigger. It's an everyday trigger.

Speaker 2: 31:37

So we can all agree on stuff in his mind. We are in agreement finally in this episode.

Speaker 3: 31:43

Do you know that? Listen, say what you will, but I do love stovetop. No. No. Not for Thanksgiving, but just on the regular basis. Like in a regular like you throw it in a February, mid-Feb stovetop.

Speaker: 32:00

Well, I'm gonna let me give you this.

Speaker 3: 32:02

Give it.

Speaker: 32:03

So what I enjoy is some specialty markets, like a Whole Foods, or we have some other similar type grocery stores or markets that are similar to Whole Foods that have a lot of pre-made foods. This time of year, like starting a week or two before Thanksgiving through Christmas, usually, they have stuffing, like pre-made stuffing that you can buy that's amazing. So speaking of that, Whole Foods has a very good stuffing that you can just go and buy. It's in their pre-made food section right now.

Speaker 2: 32:41

I don't count that as like a pre-made, like a box thing. No, it's not stove.

Speaker: 32:46

What I'm saying is, I agree. I'm not really a stovetop fan. And if you just a stuffing lover, this is a tip for stuffing lovers out there. Stuffing lovers everywhere you can go. Here's what I'm gonna say.

Speaker 3: 32:59

This time of year. There is a stuffing spectrum. There is stovetop on the left, and there is homemade on the right. I agree. I will eat the entire spectrum.

Speaker 2: 33:10

Oh, really? I don't care. I'm sure there's a stuffing club around a secret store.

Speaker 3: 33:19

Let me ask you this. With the savoriness happening. Sweet and savory sometimes.

Speaker: 33:24

Let me ask you this. Would you do you like the stuffing with sausage in it?

Speaker 2: 33:29

No. Oh, yeah. I don't know.

Speaker: 33:31

So there is this when there is a big stuffing spectrum, but you're clearly not all of it.

Speaker 2: 33:36

I've made stuffing with sausage and you've eaten it. You've been like enjoying everything 100%. I need receipts. When we were together.

Speaker 3: 33:43

Yes. You gave you put sausage in it? Yes, 100%. I bet you minced it.

Speaker 2: 33:48

No. Really? Yeah, very little.

Speaker 3: 33:51

Well, that's fine. I don't want a chunky sausage in my stuff.

Speaker 2: 33:54

It was one of your favorite stuffings when I did it.

Speaker 3: 33:56

Well, we were together. I didn't. Of course I said that. Of course it was Thanksgiving. I said that. And I love it.

Speaker: 34:04

Years later. Wow. Years later. My preference is typically not to have meat or sausage in my stuffing. I like a typical traditional bread stuffing. But I also want to give another tip out there for people hosting Thanksgiving meals, Friendsgiving, etc. Last year I kind of went on a deep dive and did a taste test of pre-made turkey gravies. So the doctor wanted to use this jar of turkey gravy that you use as a base that comes from William Sonoma. And I just didn't want to do it. And because I had found these stuffings at our local markets, they also had gravy, turkey gravy. So I did a deep dive and taste tested all these turkey gravy. All right. Put the prize in the bag. Well, long story short, too late. Whole foods, hands down, had the best turkey gravy. So again, if you need to, you know, have some easy things to do when you're making your meals, you can pre-buy your turkey gravy.

Speaker 2: 35:15

And I tasted that one last year and it was pretty good.

Speaker: 35:17

Yes.

unknown: 35:18

Yeah.

Speaker: 35:18

You can get it. You can go in and grab it. Usually it's pre-made and ready to go. But here is an expert tip. You can go online and order it, and it will be ready. You just go in and pick it up.

Speaker 3: 35:29

You mean like the internet?

Speaker: 35:31

So talking about the no, you actually end up doing it on Amazon because Amazon owns Whole Foods.

Speaker 3: 35:38

Can I say this? I'm gonna come in with this because this just I just heard this news last week, and I tried to find it today and I couldn't. But Heinz has come out with its first squeezable bottle of gravy.

Speaker: 35:52

That sounds disgusting.

Speaker 3: 35:52

I but I tried to find it.

Speaker 2: 35:54

Talk about a spectrum between like the one side and the other.

Speaker 3: 35:57

I don't think I've met gravy. I hate that. But how about this? Let me ask you, let me ask you guys this. I'm gonna read from my notes.

Speaker 2: 36:05

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 36:06

There are two products out there, Thanksgiving, that I feel are too much. And I'm tired of these companies getting all craziness with these products. And here we have one of our repeat offenders, Oreo.

Speaker: 36:25

Don't come from my own.

Speaker 3: 36:26

I know sometimes we like them, Selena. We liked it. Yes. Sometimes we don't. Thanksgiving, cookie tin. So Oreo has come out with a 12 count tin. Six flavors are in the tin. Here they are. Oreos, mind you.

Speaker: 36:41

Okay, so there are multiple flavors in a tin.

Speaker 3: 36:44

Correct. Well, I do like it. And here's what I need you to do: create two bubbles, thought bubbles, above your head. On the right, put Oreos, just the Oreo cookie. And on the left, put these flavors: cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, turkey and stuffing, cream corn, sweet potato, and caramel apple pie.

Speaker: 37:04

Well, let me tell you this. Because you I thought these were all in one Oreo when you first started talking about it, but now you've told me they're separate Oreo flavors in a tin.

Speaker 3: 37:15

This goes back to your food merch. Yeah.

Speaker: 37:18

You were against it because all of those were but now when you say a cranberry Oreo, I maybe. Would you like a turkey and stuffing Oreo? The only one. The only one. The rest I'm here for. You would have a cream corn. Yeah, because they have those corn puddings. Cornbread. Do you like cornbread?

Speaker 2: 37:39

He loves corn corn.

Speaker: 37:40

With maple syrup. Yeah, and I don't like it, but you need two wafers.

Speaker 3: 37:45

Well, they're a good wafer with the corn. Craft came out with apple pie flavored mac and cheese. No, absolutely.

Speaker: 37:53

That's a no.

Speaker 3: 37:54

I'm done with both of them.

Speaker: 37:57

Well, this Oreo chip. But I do like I'm kind of perked about.

Speaker 3: 38:01

Are you? Well, JG, you know what that sounds like? You and I might be going on a road trip. Because when Megan likes once when she's intrigued by a product, she'll be like, buckle up, boys. We're driving around. Yeah. We're gonna stop at every place that the internet says it's available. 100%.

Speaker 2: 38:20

They're usually not until we find out.

Speaker 3: 38:22

But yeah, it'll be a long day. Yeah. But lo and behold, we'll get there. She'll find it. She's like, got it, and she'll do her clap.

Speaker 2: 38:32

Yep.

Speaker 3: 38:32

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 38:33

100%.

Speaker: 38:34

Wow. All right. I think let's to this episode. We have a product review that's meant to be one, life-changing, and two, perfect for this season. Life-changing is going a bit far. Oh, it changed my life.

Speaker 2: 38:51

Well.

Speaker: 38:51

So the product is Kirkland stretch tight plastic food wrap.

Speaker 3: 38:59

Now you hear the general public right now is like food wrap changed her life.

Speaker: 39:07

No. This Kirkland stretch type.

Speaker 3: 39:10

Oh, it's right.

Speaker: 39:11

Plastic food wrap changed my life. Because food wrap, plastic food wrap, otherwise known as the regular term, which is another competitor, saran wrap.

Speaker 3: 39:22

Right. Saran is the Kleenex of plastic wraps.

Speaker: 39:26

Yes. So everyone, I'm sure, has had an experience where you take out that box, you try to get your saran wrap. Oh no, it didn't get cut off perfectly. So now it's stuck. I can't get off a whole nice sheet. Now it's crinkling together. Oh my God. Now I'm wrestling with the box. Like you know, everyone's had that moment.

Speaker 3: 39:50

I've also caught a knuckle before. Yes.

Speaker: 39:54

I've done that too. I've cut myself on that ridge. Or I go to pull out the saran wrap, the um the roller, the whole roller comes out, then I'm stuffing it back in. Can you imagine? Cutting my finger. All of that goes away if you get the Kirkland stretch type plastic.

Speaker 1: 40:12

I've seen it in action.

Speaker: 40:13

So this is a large, long box. It's a bigger box, a little bit bigger of a box than your regular saran wrap. Oh, it'll fit in the drawer. Trust me. We have it drawered up.

Speaker 3: 40:25

And I've heard that before. I'm like, nope, too big.

Speaker: 40:29

And you pull out your saran wrap, and on top is a zipper cutter.

Speaker 2: 40:36

Yeah. So it's the that is the life-changing feature.

Speaker 3: 40:39

It's like a paper cutter at your.

Speaker: 40:41

So you pull it out, like whatever you want to cover, you just pull it out of the box, you pull it over whatever it is you want to cover, and then you go to your box and just zips, it's cut perfectly. You wrap it. There is no wrestling with it. No wrestling with that box. The roller doesn't come out. You don't cut it. Yes. Yes. So you can get them at Costco for $10 a box. But here's the thing that's very interesting. Walmart is selling the Kirkland brand, which everyone knows. Not a version of no it is the Kirkland brand, which makes me wonder does Costco have some type of special patent on this box with the zipper?

Speaker 2: 41:25

Maybe because I have not seen it somewhere else.

Speaker: 41:27

Yeah. So run to Costco, get your Kirkland stretch type plastic food wrap.

Speaker 3: 41:33

Or one. What about our Lingtree? Can they run to our Lingtree?

Speaker: 41:36

Our Lingtree has it up. Well, then that's where they fucking need it.

Speaker 3: 41:41

Listen, this episode is gonna drop and you have three days before Thanksgiving, and you're gonna have to wrap some shit. So Lingtree it up, just pay the extra because we'll get the perfect for the holiday.

Speaker 2: 41:53

Put it on a stocking. Stocking stock. Oh, right. If you can't correct.

Speaker 3: 41:58

If you can't wrap your, you know, your turkey, then wrap your ham for Chris.

Speaker: 42:03

There's lots of jesting about it, but let me tell you, the first time you use it, you're gonna be like, oh my god, this did just change my life.

Speaker 2: 42:12

Life changing. If it's first world problems, it is not first world problems.

Speaker: 42:17

Correct. We're not talking on this podcast about third world problems typically.

Speaker 3: 42:21

Yeah, but these are all first world. This changed her life.

Speaker: 42:26

Well, all right. My fingers aren't cut, and I've been saran wrapping.

Speaker 2: 42:30

Slipping in and pull out could change somebody's life too. Are we ready for some slip ins and pull out?

Speaker: 42:35

Absolutely.

Speaker 3: 42:36

Thanksgiving style.

Speaker: 42:37

Yeah, I'll start it off. I am very thankful for Quince. For those of you who don't know what Quince is, Quince is a website that sells many products that are typically very similar to higher-end products, but basically at far, far cheaper prices.

Speaker 2: 43:00

I'm talking give me an example of what kind of products?

Speaker: 43:03

Cashmere sweaters for $50. Um, bedding, towels, Egyptian cotton house towels.

Speaker 3: 43:14

Is this an American company?

Speaker: 43:16

You don't know about Quince. Oh, they have lots of men's clothing too. Do they? Yes. Men's clothing, houseware.

Speaker 2: 43:22

They have that triggers his attention, right?

Speaker 3: 43:24

Do they have product? Like uh like facial products?

Speaker: 43:29

No, uh, they aren't really into skincare, but I do see now they've got special wine. They have caviar, they have couches. No lotion, but they got caviar.

Speaker 4: 43:40

So okay.

Speaker 3: 43:41

Well, how does this place have clothing and caviar?

Speaker: 43:44

Because they're this is what they're about. They're about luxury items and they cut out all the middlemen.

Speaker 3: 43:51

I love cutting these middlemen. It's really a dream, yeah.

Speaker: 43:54

And their products are great. Like I buy a lot of Quince. So anyway, I bought a cashmere sweater from Quinn's that I was gonna use for a photo shoot.

Speaker 3: 44:05

Did you get a side a calf?

Speaker: 44:07

No, no side of cav. I don't like caviar, but anyway, um, I decided I didn't want the sweater, so I they also have a very good return policy.

Speaker 3: 44:16

Well, we know that's important. Yeah, that's very important for vegan.

Speaker: 44:19

Free returns, free shipping, always. So I filled out my return. They said, Oh, can we send it to you in a different color, a different size? I said, no, just refund me. They said, You're refunded and just keep it.

Speaker 2: 44:34

Oh, that is my dream. Not just coins, the moment that a company takes me.

Speaker 3: 44:44

Keep the cashmere switch.

Speaker 2: 44:47

Do it.

Speaker: 44:48

I am online. There's lots of cashmere for men on there.

Speaker 3: 44:52

I don't like cashmere for me. Oh, I love cashmere. The fact that they're letting you keep a cashmere. Yes, it sounds promising.

unknown: 44:59

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 45:00

Sounds promotion for an account over here. Okay.

Speaker: 45:03

So my so that's my slip it in, shop at Quinn. Thankful for it. Great deals. They've got Black Friday deals going.

Speaker 4: 45:10

Okay, we got it. Got it.

Speaker: 45:11

All right. So my pull it out is I'm very unthankful for excess my chart messages. So everyone knows, like your doctors nowadays, your hospitals, wherever you go, you have these my charts. You can converge them all. I have my converge. Well, like I have different doctors, different hospitals I've gone to, so you can have them all converge. So whatever doctor you go to can see everything. Anyway, I have been getting these my chart messages that say they come to my email. You've got a message on my chart. And I'm like, oh, that's weird. I haven't been to the doctor. I don't have anything going on. Like, what why am I getting these messages? So I'm like, do I have a bill I haven't paid? Something going on? I go in there, go get your flu shot. That's important. No, I don't want a my chart message about a flu shot. Well, go into your settings. I see it when I go to the pharmacy. I'll like I know about flu shots. Don't send me a special my chart message about it. It's a no for me.

Speaker 3: 46:12

Okay. All right. Well, then we'll chart. I like my chart. Well, I like real messages with real doctors. My doctor is still doing paper in faxes. They don't. Oh, that's an annoyance. Oh, it's worse than that.

Speaker: 46:26

That's a I find a new doctor.

Speaker 3: 46:28

It's worse than my dentist kissing me. Do you want me to? I'm gonna go. So my um slip it in. What I'm thankful for is the yellow tissue in the tissue box. The warning. Oh, I know. The warning yellow tish. Because when you put those tissue, I have a little container. Yeah and and Megan actually finally convinced me. I had to hide tissue boxes in my house because she wanted a tish. I didn't use tissues.

Speaker: 46:55

He would not eat this cleaner.

Speaker 3: 46:57

I hide them, but I've come okay with them, and now I have them out. But you put them in this container and you don't like you can't even see in the tissue box. It's not a clear tissue box. So you know, like, how close? It's not like toilet paper, like I'm about to run out. Suddenly a yellow tissue shows up, and I'm like, time for a refill. Oh my god, thank you, yellow tissue. I need to go to the store. I'm like five to ten tissues away from a catastrophe. Thank you. Thank you, yellow tissue.

Speaker 2: 47:29

I love that.

Speaker 3: 47:30

My pull it out is kids checking out at self-checks and bottle returns. All right. Here's the thing.

Speaker 2: 47:41

I've never seen a kid doing that.

Speaker 3: 47:43

Well, good for you. Cause good luck. Because today I went and got some of my provisions for Thanksgiving. Provisions. Provisions. I like that. I'm in the self-checkout. And here is this woman letting like the line is very long. I'm being very patient. But here's this little girl that wants to scan her cranberry cans. She wants to scan the croutons for the stuffing. And the mom's like, yeah, you can scan it. And the girl's like, have you been to a can return where the child wants to put every fucking can in there? Like, this is you will learn when you get older, child. This is not a game. This is work. And people are on a schedule.

Speaker 2: 48:29

It's like Trade Joe's when they have the kids' cards.

Speaker 3: 48:31

I kind of I kind of want to give them their space and like you're teaching your child how to scan items. Can you not can you do it at home and like create some make-believe thing? Because I don't want your child scanning your fucking 50 items while I'm trying to get through. Yeah. No.

Speaker: 48:51

I think I would agree with you, but I think there's a happy medium. Like you do one, I do one. So then it keeps it moving. Yeah.

Speaker 3: 48:58

But then the channel's like, is it my turn? Is it your turn? No. Is it my turn?

Speaker: 49:02

Is it your turn? It's like you need to go faster, or mommy's going. That's yeah.

Speaker 3: 49:07

I know how it's parenting 101. And I don't know.

Speaker: 49:12

Mommy's going unless you can get your act in gear and go faster.

Speaker 3: 49:16

How about this Kroger and Pigley Wigs? Why don't you make a full area for your kids? Child parent checkout lane. So it's a teachable checkout lane. That's Brill. Brill. Put me on brand.

Speaker 2: 49:32

Yeah. Yeah, that's why you need to go to brand.

Speaker 3: 49:34

You only need two probably checkouts, but it's parent-child, it's educational. Listen.

Speaker 2: 49:41

Love that.

Speaker 3: 49:42

Listen, I'm here for.

Speaker 2: 49:43

What I am grateful for is our dear uh friend Melissa introduced us to Zenny a few episodes ago. And I actually got my first pair of Zennies. They're progressive.

Speaker 3: 49:57

We can see them now. They look great.

Speaker 2: 49:59

And I can actually see everything in front of me, my text messages without taking my glasses off because I finally gave on progressive. And I'm like, I'm now, you know, in that progressive train. And we knew we know that those of us that are into that progressive train, they're very expensive. Not with Xenny. And if you are interested in getting into Xenny, I would recommend it doing through our Linktree, which I did. You did. And then if you add holiday 20, you get an extra 20% off. So I'm very grateful for you, Melissa and Zenny, for my new glasses.

Speaker 3: 50:40

Last night we went out and we got some chicken fingers, and he's like, Matt, it's amazing. I can see these fingers without even taking my glasses off.

Speaker 2: 50:50

Oh my gosh. And the menu, and the menu, and everything. Oh it was so good. It was like good. I'm so grateful for that.

Speaker: 50:56

Clearly, you were in need of these glasses for a long time.

Speaker 3: 50:59

He could all they were, I mean, you had I did I went through the same thing. Yeah, in terms of transition, like you have either nearsightedness or far-sightedness. And so when you just have one or the other, you're taking your glasses off for one or the other, and suddenly you don't have to. I I lost three pairs of glasses at the bar before I went to transition because I would take them off.

Speaker 2: 51:22

Yeah, and just leave them on the grateful for that.

Speaker 3: 51:26

In the morning, I'd be like, same thing.

Speaker 2: 51:28

Like on a treasure hunt.

Speaker 3: 51:31

My glasses make it. I know they didn't.

Speaker 2: 51:33

I know. Um what I'm ungrateful for are virtual backgrounds. Virtual who? Backgrounds.

Speaker: 51:40

Oh, I love them.

Speaker 2: 51:41

Um, people coming in into a Zoom meeting with a landscape behind you. You're not in Switzerland. You are in a meeting. I don't like them. I do find that some companies, like Zoom, has done it in a way that it feels a little bit blended. But I still, when you move in, I can still see your bed behind it. Like I can see your cat moving around. Like I I just don't appreciate. I mean, it's it's it's silly information. If you want if you don't want people to see what's behind behind, you know, behind you, behind you, just put yourself. It go into the office, or you can blur it a little bit, which is better, but I'm just not a fan of a virtual background.

Speaker: 52:25

Wow, our company every like quarter releases different virtual backgrounds that are branded for us to use for the seasons.

Speaker 2: 52:33

Well, if you do, there is actually an Amazon. Amazon has like a green screen that you can put in the background behind it.

Speaker 3: 52:40

Seems excessive.

Speaker 2: 52:41

So that you're don't the blending doesn't happen. I it's just distracting to me. So I'm not grateful for that.

Speaker: 52:49

I love it. I'm a big fan of them. All right. Well, I think with that, we'll let everyone get off where they are get off. Get off for Thanksgiving. For their Thanksgiving activities. Remember, when you're doing your holiday shopping or you want to get your Zenny opticals, check out our Linktree at Slip It In Podcast on Linktree. And remember, we want to hear from you. So reach out to us with anything and everything. Slip into our DMs on Instagram, TikTok X, and Facebook at Slip It In Podcast. You can always email us at Slipitin Podcast at gmail dot com. And we'd love to hear you vocally or via text at three one three-444-9004. Till next time.