Cold Open: Comedic Tease

Speaker 2 0:05

Slippers unite, it's time to play. We bring a spice to your work or your day, confessions, debates, and a product or two. We slip it in just for you. You'll laugh, you'll cringe, you'll beg for more. With a guilty pleasure you can't ignore, like a drug text sent at 2 a.m. We slipped it in again.

Speaker 1 0:38

Welcome, welcome, welcome, everyone. We are back, slipping it in with you. This is Megan, and I'm here with Matty. Here, Miss Megan. And JJ's here as well.

Zainab Johnson Shoutout And Show Recap

Speaker 3 0:53

Hello, everybody. And before we slip it in into our theme and our topic today, I just thought I was just thinking about the joy that we bring to many of our slippers. And I think I was ta texting with Matty probably a couple months ago. We used to go uh to a comedy club near uh here in Royal Oak, uh Marguerite Lee's, and we enjoyed that those you know times that we just like spend at. But a couple of weeks ago, Matty and I had the pleasure to go see at the House of Comedy in Detroit one of who has become like I think that one of my favorite comedians, uh Say Nab Johnson. Um, and I think I've shared with Matty some clips.

Speaker 4 1:45

You asked, in fact, you asked me your you're like, have you seen her special? And I'm like, Well, I've seen all the reels he's having.

Speaker 3 1:52

I know, yeah, because she does have a special and uh prime video, he jabs off. Uh Zainab is a black Muslim comedian, and I love a storyteller.

Speaker 4 2:07

Yeah, well, hello.

Speaker 3 2:09

Right, I'm right here.

Speaker 1 2:10

Well, wait, I'm like, you said the comedy special is he jabs off. It jabs?

Speaker 3 2:17

He japs. He jabs is uh Oh, the hat.

Speaker 1 2:21

Okay, I got it. Well, we want to be spent Well, no, I know. I Okay.

Speaker 3 2:26

We and I don't want to be make fun of that at all, but it's uh is is there crap head like the the covering?

Speaker 4 2:34

I think it was a misunderstanding. She thought like he punches me. He jabs.

Speaker 3 2:38

No, he jabs or not.

Speaker 1 2:39

I didn't know if it was jabs or jabs. I was trying to understand that. Sorry.

Speaker 3 2:43

So he jabs off. Brilliant He jacks off? That's why he jacks off.

Speaker 2:49

That's been my that's what was stopping when my head.

Speaker 3 2:53

I like that move forward. Guess what? I have an accent.

Speaker 1 2:56

Well, I'm not sure.

Speaker 3 2:58

That's not about that.

Speaker 1 2:59

I've just been my mind was reeling like, what is this comedy special? I get it.

Speaker 3 3:04

Well, if you haven't watched it, you should watch it. She's brilliant. And if it she was great, if it wasn't enough, like like she commanded the stage. She again, she's a storyteller. And one thing that I kind of I I like to look a little not like Matty when I'm he's like next to me and I'm very excited about something. I'm like, she interacts with the audience, which I love. And immediately I was like, Matty, she's going to like be you know feeding off the audience and giving her back to us. And uh she did, she sure did. Um, and if you don't even uh follow her on Instagram, it's at Zainab Johnson um on Instagram. You should follow her.

Speaker 4 3:42

Why don't you spell that out for the folks?

Speaker 3 3:45

I will do oh yeah. So Z A I N A B Zanab Johnson. J O H N S O N. Perfect.

Speaker 4 3:55

Zainab Johnson on Instagram.

Speaker 3 3:58

Yeah.

Speaker 4 3:58

She's got a lot of funny clips on there. It's really good. And you you're right. She absolutely did an amazing job. We don't have time to get into a particular over-enthusiastic person in the audience that just was not a heckler. That's why I say over-enthusiastic, but wanted to feel like he felt like he had won a raffle for a one-on-one with a comedian. One night with a one-on-one. It's like, dude, enough. It was, but she handled it well. She did. And it actually worked in our favor because I think her set went a little bit longer. Yeah. Because she had to deal with this man. Yeah. But it was great.

Speaker 3 4:41

I'm saying up if you're listening and you recall that you know, time. You know, we have a fourth mic here. You can't, you're more, you're more than welcome to the slippers.

Speaker 4 4:48

Yeah, and we got some photos with maybe we've posted. We do, yes. We got some photos with her.

Speaker 3 4:53

So she acknowledges she should come on the pod for sure. As soon as we got into the line and we were getting the picture, she immediately said, Oh, the boys in the corner.

Speaker 4 5:02

Yeah, we were from. Oh, you've got call now. Oh, you're the boy. You're my she said, You're my I think she's you're my boys in the corner. Oh, I love it.

Speaker 3 5:10

So, yeah, I wanted to lift that uh Zayn up Johnson. Um, yeah, yeah, we're a fan. We're definitely fan.

Speaker 1 5:16

I'd love to have her on the pot. Yes, I am. Sounds great. Well, it sounds like you had an unruly audience member there when you saw her.

Crowd Etiquette And Meet-And-Greet Moments

Speaker 4 5:25

Yes, we did.

Speaker 1 5:27

Well, speaking about things that are unruly, I have a creature feature update. Creature feature. So we previously talked about these crazy bear attacks in Japan.

Speaker 4 5:40

But by the way, that group is home, safe and sound. Oh, yes, update.

Speaker 5:45

Like uh Melissa's dog. The ones where we thought, yeah, like we gotta get to get an SOS out to them, they're home, no bear attacks. No bear attacks.

Speaker 1 5:54

Okay, well, that's good to hear.

Creature Feature: Bear Attacks In Canada

Speaker 4 5:56

But that doesn't mean the bear attacks are no the bears are talking across waters.

Speaker 1 6:02

So the Japanese bears have been telling these Canadian bears, go attack the people because there was just a crazy bear attack in British Columbia where a bunch of students, school-age children, were taking a peaceful school walk and it turned into chaos when the grizzly bear charged the group of students.

Speaker 3 6:23

Oh my god.

Speaker 1 6:23

The kids had to run for their lives. And luckily, we had a couple teachers there who like sprung into action. Um, one of the male teachers who had the brunt of the attack from the grizzly bear. Oh no, two people were critically injured in the attack. They had to be airlifted out, two more were seriously hurt, and seven others had to be treated on the scene. So 11 in total were harmed in this grizzly bear attack.

Speaker 4 6:51

Are you blaming the Japanese bears? Yeah.

Speaker 5 6:56

They're telling the grizzloys in Canada.

Speaker 4 6:59

I'm trying to connect the dogs. Are telling the Canadian bears, seize the mama. Correct. 100%.

Speaker 3 7:06

They're hungry in Japan. They're hungry in Canada.

Speaker 1 7:08

Maybe the Canadians are very sweet and well, this was this town of Bella Cula in British Columbia, Canada. The town went on lockdown. They closed the forest up, and this aggressive grizzly is still out there. As far as I know, they still have not yet killed him or found him.

Speaker 4 7:24

Do you think he made his way to Pennsylvania? Because I also have a bear story.

Bear Chases Boy Into Family Dollar

Speaker 7:27

Maybe. Was he a grizzly?

Speaker 4 7:29

This creature feature. This creature feature bear network is out of control. So let's take you to Markleysburg, Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Wow. Wow. Wonder what city's close to there. I'm not sure whose call he picked up, whether it was Japan. If it was the Japan Japanese bear or the Canadian bear. Yeah. But this one seized the moment. This happened a couple days ago. Um, and this involved an 11-year-old boy. His name is uh Cole, and he and his dad went to the family dollar. Okay. His dad was like shopping around, so then the boy decided to step outside. The boy, while outside, encountered this bear. The bear saw him. The bear chased the boy into the family dollar store. Oh my god.

Speaker 1 8:28

The bear was in the store.

Speaker 4 8:30

The bear was in the store.

Speaker 1 8:31

Just like the Japanese bears in the supermarkets. Correct.

Speaker 4 8:34

Yeah. And it's foraging.

Speaker 3 8:37

They're picking up the trend.

Speaker 4 8:40

Yeah, it's it's all over TikTok. And then so the bear, the boy, and the cashier jumped up on the counter to like get on higher ground, and they have surveillance footage. The bear goes around the aisles for like 10 minutes, just going up and down the aisles before he left.

Speaker 9:01

So like oh, and then the bear just sauntered out. Sauntered out. He knew how to go back out.

Speaker 4 9:06

Didn't even pay. I think he took a little honey and some beeswax. I don't know. But like he, yeah, like this is we talked about this before when I said, Can you imagine? Because this was in Japan. Like, can you imagine being in your Kroger and you're just like in the ship off? Now they're in family dollars. So they I mean, yeah.

Speaker 3 9:27

This is I just hope with the family dollars that they don't increase that. You know, they go to like from $1 to $125. Now that they have $5 aisles, and now with the bear attacks, they're just gonna increase another aisle for like $10 aisle.

Speaker 4 9:40

Because the bears only snaps. I feel if anything, the prices should be lower. Because you're you're you gotta get your whip, you gotta get your wood back, but it could cost you your life.

Speaker 9:53

So I think I mean please, like yeah, this is called the penny aisle. The penny.

Speaker 3 10:01

R.I.P. Penny.

Speaker 4 10:03

We're putting your most essentials in the back of the store because in the front you could get attacked at any moment.

Speaker 3 10:10

You can barely make it.

Speaker 4 10:11

You can't barely, yeah. You gotta do something.

Speaker 3 10:15

That is definitely a creature feature for sure. Oh my god. It's a lot.

Speaker 1 10:19

I'm nervous about these bears getting talking to the Michigan bears.

Shopping Field Trip: Bulletin Board Quest

Speaker 4 10:23

Well, they are we don't need another attack on Michigan. Not at all. Okay. Speaking of stores and things you can barely stand, like I'm gonna tell the audience a little snippet of our life that's our reality, which was a couple weeks ago. Just to give a little background. Little background. I have created, I think I did I tell me if I said this on the podcast before, but I've created a bulletin board. I have I have okay. So throughout the year, I capture moments on it. Well, for my work, my job, I brought this a similar version of this to the leadership team to say, why don't we put something visual in the office that is represented of culture, uh, some D E and I stuff? We capture pictures of staff in Polaroid photos, etc. etc. Right? Okay. So I had to get this done on a weekend. So we were about to record in the studio, but I told the slippers, I said, JJ Megan, how would you guys be okay if we started an hour earlier? You guys came with me. I've got to go to Michael's and try to find a bulletin board and a Polaroid camera. And they were like, sure.

Speaker 3 11:46

We were up for the adventure.

Speaker 4 11:48

Biggest mistake of my life. Do not shop with these two. Well, I'm a great shopper. So I get them in the car, we're off and running, we go to Michael's. Michael's does not have what I wanted, and everything's fine. But then I start to, I start, Megan starts kicking into her, like I'm I feel like I'm out with somebody that knows everything about bulletin boards.

Speaker 12:17

Like she suddenly is a bulletin board accent. Well, I have purchased bulletin boards before. Oh, you have.

Speaker 4 12:22

Oh, let's dive in. How many?

Speaker 12:24

Probably three.

Speaker 4 12:25

For what?

Speaker 1 12:27

For my office.

Speaker 4 12:28

Have you oh, have you bought giant bullets? Your office doesn't supply that bulletin board.

Speaker 1 12:32

Well, when I say I, it means I have bought them through my office purchasing.

Speaker 4 12:38

Oh, got it. So we go from Michael's to Office Max.

Speaker 1 12:42

Just for the listeners, I need to comment. I also was Google searching for these bulletin boards of where he could buy them. So I wasn't saying it like from my own knowledge. I was speaking from what I was finding on the internet.

Speaker 4 12:55

I was being fed a constant stream of communications from the backseat, and which like I wanna I wanna say it was helpful, but like I also was on a journey and I'm gonna go from Michael's, didn't have what I wanted. I'm going to Office Max. So we go to Office Max.

Speaker 3 13:12

Office Depot Depot.

Speaker 4 13:14

Depot? Was it the depot? Okay. So the Office Depot is located in a shopping uh market area. A strip a large strip. The minute we get out of the call car, her nose is tuned in to Asian smells.

Speaker 1 13:33

No, not my nose, JJ's. But I also smelled it and confirmed.

Speaker 4 13:38

And it was like you would thought someone was doing a thesis on Asian smells, and then you're like, is it from this one? Is it from that one? Do you smell that? Do you smell it?

Speaker 3 13:47

It was a very strong smell.

Speaker 1 13:49

Well, and there were there were multiple Asian venues in the strip center. There was an Asian market. Right. There was a Japanese restaurant and a Vietnamese one. And a Vietnamese one. Yeah. So we were like, oh my God, this is a strong smell. Where's it coming from? Right.

Speaker 4 14:05

And we was an Asian concussion. And you guys were changing the your path to the home, the Home Depot. Office depot. Office depot to try to figure out the culprit of the smell. So we get into the Office Depot 10 minutes after the Asian thesis, and I find the bulletin board.

Speaker 3 14:27

Yes. Yay.

Speaker 4 14:29

And then I need some um tax. And Megan was very particular. She wanted tax for me. The fun ones, the cute ones. She wanted ones that had little arrows. What were they?

Office Depot Checkout Circus

Speaker 1 14:39

Yeah, arrows, because you were talking about you wanted employee engagement. I thought, oh, that's cute. You can put an arrow to someone's picture with like a comment. Like I thought there would be a lot of fun things you could do with the arrows.

Speaker 4 14:50

At this point, you can imagine I'm losing my mind. Because it's just like I'm trying to get a work task done on a Friday, and I've got hamburger helper on my right trying to buy all this stuff.

Speaker 3 15:01

Can I stop you for a second? Just a quick second. Yes, you can. So when you invited Megan and I into this journey, you thought knowing what you know about us, you thought that we would be completely submissive, no opinions. No opinions, and completely just um going with the flow with no comment about it.

Speaker 4 15:24

I didn't think that.

Speaker 3 15:24

So you were annoyed by it at this point. You said I was. Yet I knew that you this is what comes with the package.

Speaker 4 15:35

I know. You're you bring up a good point. Yeah. But I was hoping to get it done in less stops, and Michaels didn't have I thought I could do one shop and well, the stops were not because of JJ and I.

Speaker 1 15:46

It's because you chose a stop that maybe wasn't the best first stop to start with.

Speaker 4 15:51

Okay, can we talk about the checkout at Office Depot? So I yeah. So I don't know what has happened to America, but like you no longer have to wear anything that identifies you as an employee of that store.

Speaker 16:07

You do not. That is true.

Speaker 1 16:09

I would have Office Depot that's.

Speaker 4 16:12

I would have expected a little red Office Depot vest or something, something, a name tag, something. Something. But I had a backyard barbecue boy, like literally, I think just smoked a fatty.

Speaker 3 16:27

Ready for hunting season.

Speaker 4 16:28

He yes, has not showered. I didn't even think he worked there. Suddenly he hops behind this register and says, Sir, I can help you over here. I'm like, who are you? Like, I know, like, okay, so I go over there and he asks me if I'm a home uh depot. No, I keep saying that guy, office depot. Remember, and I'm like, Well, let me no, not yet. Don't jump your little frequent flyer cards yet. And I he tries to, he goes, sir, you should get this re he goes, do you oh here's what he says. He goes, sir, do you print? And I said, No, I don't print.

Speaker 3 17:06

He goes, you don't have a printer.

Speaker 4 17:08

He goes, you don't print anything. And I said, no, I don't. He goes, Well, what are you gonna put on this bulletin board? He goes, Well, I might print something out. He goes, Oh, so you do print. And I'm like, Well, I print, but I don't I have a I have a printer. And he goes, Well, then you need this ream of paper. Oh, he's for your selling next for your purchase. You can get this for three dollars. And I'm like, I don't need it. And he goes, It's three dollars, sir. You where can you find this? I don't need it. I don't want it. He goes, All right, fine. And then he he's like, Do you have a frequent flyer card? Frequent card and I said and I said, I don't think so, but we can try it. Doot do do. I plug, plug it in. He goes, You don't. Do you want to sign up? I'm like, I don't. I just need this bulletin board and I'm good. Thank you, sir. Well, that's when I stepped in.

Speaker 1 17:55

I'm like, I thought I'd help you. I'm like, well, you could try mine. And he said, yes, absolutely.

Target Patrol And Polaroid Rescue

Speaker 4 18:02

No, it sure did not. She put hers in and then on the side. I'm like, no, on the side, I'm like, stop. Like at this, at this point, this man. You don't want the rewards. I just wanted to get out. I was starting to perspire.

Speaker 1 18:17

But let me tell you, at that moment, you were like kind of giving me eyes, like, stop it. Right. And I'm like, And did you pay attention to that?

Speaker 18:24

No, because he kind of took it as a way to like screw it. I'm like, oh, well.

Speaker 1 18:31

Maybe the doctor has the doctor, try this number. And the the worker just wants, he just said, give me an e like he was a dog with a bone.

Speaker 18:39

He wanted these numbers.

Speaker 4 18:41

He wanted to give us the discount. I think if he made that sale with a card in there, he was gonna get a bad. He was gonna get a uniform, I think.

Speaker 3 18:50

Because I don't have the new level.

Speaker 4 18:52

I was so fit to be tied when we got it. I know you were, but I was like, so then we just have a short jaunt from there over to Target.

Speaker 1 19:03

Before you go there, I just want to clear this up. So you're calling it Office Depot. It might have been Office Depot, but Office Max, Office Depot merged in 2013.

Speaker 5 19:14

Oh.

Speaker 1 19:15

So they're all the same store. So the fact that like we can't know is it Office Depot, Office Max, who knows? They're operating under both names. It's no one knows. And the issue I had is Yeah, here's the revelation.

Speaker 4 19:28

She has a fucking staples car.

Speaker 19:30

And I think she knew it all the time. She knew it.

Speaker 4 19:33

She knew it the whole time. She's like, oh man, let's try this one. Yeah. I cannot.

Speaker 1 19:39

I didn't know. All those office stores merged together.

Speaker 4 19:42

I still needed my Polaroid.

Speaker 3 19:44

That makes sense.

Speaker 4 19:44

I still need my Polaroid.

Speaker 3 19:46

Right, right.

Speaker 4 19:47

So from here, we have to go back out into the Asian air. And then we go over to Target, which is in the same area to get my Polaroid. Same strip mall. I will say this. On this little ride over, I compliment JJ on how well behaved he's been.

Speaker 3 20:04

Thank you.

Speaker 4 20:04

Yes, I did. I said, JJ, I appreciate we've shot before, so well, this it's not gonna get good for you after this, though. Give me a minute. I said to JJ, I said, I appreciate how quiet you've been. You've been very quiet. This one over here has a lot to say as a staples frequent flyer. And then immediately it was like JJ woke up and said, Well, I've got to be more, I've got to be more chaotic. And he started to side with Megan. We get into the target, and this what happens is Megan. We're walking down the aisle, and all of a sudden her hands go behind her back and they are clasped, and she is walking around like Inspector Gadget. So if you could see me, my hands are behind. She's laughing. My hand, her hands are behind her back. She's slightly leaned forward, and her head is going to the right, to the left. She's looking at the card aisle, she's looking at the beauty product.

Speaker 3 21:03

To the point, Matty, that you are saying, what is going on with your hands? And a lady, a lady had to look around.

Speaker 4 21:11

I said, I do not like the way you're walking around me again. And this lady had she looked over and she starts laughing. And I she's like, Well, I had to look. And she's like, I agree with you. Yes. Because a vegan is walking around. Oh my god. Hands behind her back. Because a vegan's like, oh, oh that look, oh, they've got a candle now that comes in autumn flavor. And it's like, what is happening?

Speaker 1 21:42

Sometimes when I don't have a cart, I just I put my hands behind my back and just look around.

Speaker 3 21:48

It was like a supervisor.

Speaker 4 21:50

It was like there was a 48-hour mystery camera crew following her as the inspector was checking out the scene. And she's crying. She's laughing so we I will say that after we made it, I had to buy some ice cream for that thing. You had a lot of opinions on that.

Speaker 1 22:08

We made it to the Polaroids, and you did become helpful in the well, correct, because you were trying to buy things that weren't going, you're trying to buy film that didn't go with the camera and the wrong camera, and et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 3 22:19

You did, I did give you compliments. And when her hands are going back.

Speaker 4 22:32

When those like I couldn't, it just was too you saw it, JJ.

Speaker 3 22:37

Yeah, and I started doing it too.

Drag Queen Christmas Tour Recommendation

Speaker 4 22:39

I know exactly my point. Exactly my point. I told you.

Speaker 3 22:44

I got no, I gotta say it's I told you something about it. Like Megan's energy fills me up, and sometimes that that behavior just turns probably.

Speaker 4 22:53

And sometimes it drains you out as well.

Speaker 3 22:55

It does too.

Speaker 4 22:56

And I left that chart. I'm like, we're going home. We have got what we need, we are done. And I don't think I can do it with you.

Speaker 3 23:04

It was so good. It was it was a great experience.

Speaker 4 23:07

I had a great experience. And then we came and recorded a show. Yeah.

Speaker 3 23:11

A full show. Oh my god.

Speaker 4 23:13

Okay. So that was, I don't know. I almost would have preferred the bear.

Speaker 1 23:20

Well, God. I don't know. Like that bear chasing us around Target. You better believe my hands wouldn't have been behind my back.

Speaker 3 23:27

Not at all. Not at all.

Speaker 1 23:30

Well, I guess I mean warm. Yeah.

Speaker 4 23:35

Well, Megan was teary-eyed and you were sweating. I got the fluids flowing, ladies and gents.

Speaker 1 23:42

Well, it is officially December, and shopping is the name of the game in December for our holidays. Also, there's always these like holiday-specific activities that you know people like to do every time of year. So one thing I know that the three of us really enjoy is we have our friends, Peter and Murray, and they put on a drag queen Christmas, which is a touring show of drag queens that have uh performed successfully on a RuPaul, RuPaul's drag race.

Speaker 4 24:16

It's under MP Productions. Correct. For Murray and Peter.

Speaker 1 24:19

Yes. So they put on every year at the holiday time, they put on the Drag Queen Christmas. It's a touring show all over the country. I'm sure it's international. Yeah, they actually they've gone, yes, they've gone international.

Speaker 4 24:33

I know they did with Golden Girls.

Speaker 1 24:34

Yes. Uh I don't know if they're always Christmas or not when they gone, they've gone to Canada and they are an international production company. 100% and Europe, Europe as well.

Speaker 4 24:44

So that's international.

Cyber Monday: Slip It In Shopping Edition

Speaker 1 24:46

Yeah, correct. Okay. I'm just saying, like it's beyond Canada. So anyway, through the weekend of December 29th, which is their last show in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Speaker 3 24:56

They started in Michigan, they finished in Michigan.

Speaker 1 24:58

Their first show proud Michiganders Detroit. Yep. They are Michiganders. Anyway, uh, they're touring all over the country. Look it up, go see it. It's an amazing show. So good. Puts you in such a great holiday spirit. You're gonna laugh. You might get a little teary-eyed. The costumes are amazing, the performances are great, the production's awesome. Yeah, highly, highly recommend it. So check it out.

Speaker 3 25:24

Dragfans.com. Dragfans.com. If you want tickets for the show, dragfans.com. Love that. Um, yeah, it's so good. And it's in the time that we're living right now. Yeah, they are. In the time, we need some drag and enjoyment. 100%. It's perfect for the holiday season.

Speaker 1 25:45

Well, it's it's a great, it's a great holiday show. So with that, I think Matty, you got us going on the shopping. And now that it's officially Cyber Monday today, which is when this episode's getting released, there's lots of shopping going on. I know I've been all over trying to get ahead of my holiday shopping. And I will say, for me, my slip it in related to slip it in.

Speaker 26:13

Well, you're gonna slip it in early.

Buying For Others And Yourself

Speaker 1 26:14

Pull it out all relating to holiday shopping. Okay, yeah, I love that. Ding ding ding ding ding. So my slip it in um is my one of my favorite stores to shop in in general, but also specifically for holiday shopping is Nordstrom.

Speaker 3 26:31

Really? Really?

Speaker 1 26:32

I didn't I love Nordstrom because I love a good department store. And now I'm always been a Bloomingdales girl and I still am, but Bloomingdales are few and far between. We don't have one in Detroit. Anyway, Nordstrom are all over the country. They have a 365-day return policy. So you can buy something December 1st, 2025, and return it through December.

Speaker 4 26:58

You like to go into the department store?

Speaker 27:01

I do that's I do both.

Speaker 4 27:03

This is not my pull it out, but like when it gets into this time of year, department stores are like a nightmare.

Speaker 3 27:11

But sometimes Especially Nordstrom, I feel that it's like a collage of many things.

Speaker 1 27:17

Well, that's what I like because if you're shopping holiday shopping, you have a lot of people to buy for, you have a lot of different items to look for. It's a one-stop stop.

Speaker 4 27:25

Good quality stuff.

Speaker 1 27:26

It's very good quality.

Speaker 4 27:28

It's a one-stop stop.

Speaker 1 27:29

Yep. And they have a good return policy. So you know people can return it if they need to.

Speaker 3 27:38

And we like a good return policy. Correct. Exactly. We know that.

Gift-Wrapping Craft, Tools, And Tips

Speaker 4 27:44

So, all right. Well, um, I, if you're asking my slip it in, it's what typically ends up happening is that I buy a lot of shit for myself. And that's I ran because I love to buy that's your slip it in that you get to get. That I come out of yourself. It is a good excuse. I don't know how to frame it, but I come out on the winning end. Here's why because I am very particular in terms of shopping for people. Like I try to understand the person that that like they are and the things that they love. And I try to find unique things that speak to their personality and their aura and all those things. And in the process, I typically find products that interest me, so then I buy them for me. Sometimes I buy a double, yeah, right. So they get one, I get one, and sometimes it's not the right fit for them, but it's a right fit for me. So, like I think how and I try to do most nowadays all online. So I think 50% of the shipments that come to my house are for me.

Speaker 1 28:57

Well, the sales are so good this time of year as well. So that's what I find is when I'm doing my shopping, I'm just out there looking for stuff for gifts, but at the same time, I'm coming across some amazing great deals for myself. So it's a win-win.

Speaker 4 29:13

So you just pick those things up.

Speaker 1 29:14

100.

Speaker 3 29:15

Yeah, and I gotta point out like you saying because of holiday season, but you are notorious of saying, and I've been on the receiving end. It's like, JJ, I got you something. And the next thing he says is like, and I got one for myself.

Speaker 4 29:30

Well, well, I mean to the while the year, you don't wait for the holiday. You're welcome. Is that what you are? Is that a thank you? You're welcome. Yeah, because I appreciate it. I give you gifts and I give other people gifts, but just because I see something and it reminds me of you or you or a friend, and I pick it up, and I I like to get one for myself.

Speaker 3 29:53

Yeah, yeah. I've been I mean, what can I say? I enjoy that. Um, well, since Since we are doing slip it ins on the holiday shopping edition, one thing that is my slip it in is you all know on the holiday season and throughout the year thing, gift wrapping is like one of my favorite things to do.

Speaker 4 30:12

I don't think the audience knows that.

Speaker 3 30:14

You say you You guys, like you Matty. Because we know, but our slippers don't celebrate at all because it's a big thing for me. Gift wrapping is a huge thing for me. I'm I think that it's very, very um I don't know, there's something about it. And and there is some history. Like I actually paid college when with my I had a side job, you know, working in a little job in Spain that was just wrapping gifts.

Speaker 4 30:42

Um and you put yourself through college then or partially partially, yeah. I mean people are in the can I can I jump in? Yeah, like people are like, how can that be? But like if you were to see his rapping, like it's Martha Stewart. Like Martha Stewart would hire him. Yes, yes, for sure. It is amazing.

Speaker 3 31:00

Thank you, thank you. But I it kind of brings it's it's one of those things that it connects me back to like my roots and like how really I was able to continue to go through college and you know, and and be empowered to just do graduate school after that and wow help my parents, you know, and not have to deal with that.

Speaker 4 31:17

It tracks back to rapping.

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Speaker 3 31:18

It well, it's it's connected to that, and I I really enjoyed it. Um and connected to you know, one of the things that I love, which is gift wrapping. I gotta say, if you have not run into Dollar Tree and get your well, watch the bears paper, watch the bears, and your gift wrapping and your gift wrapping materials, double-sided tape, best invention ever. You love the that is part of the gift wrapping, it changes the whole entire dynamic. It's got some coming.

Speaker 1 31:53

Well, you say that, and I want to use it, but it scares me. Why? Because I feel like it doesn't hold as strong as the tape above.

Speaker 3 32:02

Really? I've done double tape in all my gifts.

Speaker 4 32:06

I have a pro tip. JJ also does a great job taking this tissue and stapling it. Yeah, he fluffs it and staples it to the side and like it's a win-win. So like he very well, it takes a lot for him to even put something in a gift bag because he's anti everything must be very crisp, folded, beautiful. But once in a while, if it goes gift bag, it gets the treatment. It gets I've been a recipient of that trip treatment and I like it.

Speaker 3 32:37

And if I if I if you're able to get a double tissue with a design and a double color, oh you must be important to him. You must be very important. So gift wrapping comes right along with holiday season and holiday shopping and I meanwhile, I fucking hate it.

The Labubu Bet And Resale Plan

Speaker 4 32:54

I hate it when I have to like I hate I love your gift wrapping, but again, I think you associate that with a hobby. For me, it's a chore. That yeah, I get it. So it's different. So you it brings you joy, it brings me like a task to do, and it's usually reserved. I'm like two bottles of wine I need to purchase, I need to put some music on. Yeah, I'm gonna have a rapping night, it's not gonna come out pretty, but and there's a lot of gift bags. So I always there's a lot of gift bags.

Speaker 1 33:22

Yeah, there's a lot of gift cut for me. I do all my rapping with Hallmark Christmas movies. Oh if you're looking for something to kind of occupy you while you rap, but you also don't have to pay super close attention to a Hallmark Christmas movie fits the bill.

Speaker 4 33:41

I'm not a fan, but I know you are. I know. I love it.

Speaker 1 33:45

I love a romantic comedy and I love a mouth. Now, Netflix has gotten in the game, and Netflix puts on some good uh Christmas movies as well.

Speaker 4 33:56

I'd rather have like a true crime documentary slash wrapping.

Speaker 1 34:02

But going back to what you said, Matty, about how you end up buying stuff for yourself. Like, I will say, for any of those people who shop at Aldi, I did just see a really great deal that could be a good gift, as well as a gift for yourself. Aldi is selling two stainless steel wine glasses that are stemless for $19.99. Apparently, last year they went viral and sold out super fast. So for anyone who is a red wine drinker, it's kind of nice to put your red wine in a stainless steel cup. You can have it chilled before and then it kind of keeps it. And then put your wine in.

Speaker 5 34:44

That's right.

Speaker 1 34:44

You know, wine red wine typically you don't chill, but if you put it in a chilled stainless steel cup, it kind of just adds a little crispness. And then for the white wine drinkers, for the white wine drinkers, it keeps your white wine cooler longer. So the stainless steel wine glasses are a dream. Highly recommend.

Speaker 4 35:04

So like somebody's just yeah, you're well, it's a viral deal.

Pull It Out: Gift Lists And Free Shipping

Speaker 1 35:08

I that went out, it went, they sold out super fast last year, and I just saw the new recent Aldi, like, here's the deals coming to you.

Speaker 4 35:17

I also have a news flash. Um my Labubus were never were never opened. Oh so let me tell you this. Here's my strategy plan. I am aware, people, before I get all the mail, I'm aware that the trend has died down a little. My philosophy is during the trend, there were a lot of children who wanted Labubus, and the parents said no, we're not spending that much money. But now that Christmas is coming around, they might be more apt and willing to spend a little bit more.

Speaker 3 35:49

There's a laboo boo movie.

Speaker 4 35:51

So my I correct. There's a Labubu movie coming out as well. So these Labubus Stock X Verified are going to be available via marketplace. So if you want to get in touch with me about a laboo-boo, go through our slipitinpodcast.com all the ways and just say Matty Labubu Facts, please. And I will get the show.

Speaker 3 36:17

So is that your pull out of holiday shopping? Like the Labubus? Say again. Is that your pull out? Oh no.

Speaker 4 36:23

Oh no.

Speaker 1 36:26

I mean, they're kind of losing favor. Wow.

Speaker 4 36:29

I think I'm a movie coming up. I think I started my whole commentary by saying I acknowledge this. Okay. I think you were not paying attention, Megan. I was.

Speaker 5 36:39

I don't think so. Just reminding you.

Speaker 3 36:41

I'm with you.

Speaker 4 36:42

Oh, you can't shop with her. I'm ready for no, let me go because this size. This because you just push my button.

Speaker 3 36:54

She loves it.

Speaker 4 36:54

She does love it. Here's my pull it out. Megan and I are the same age. We're of an age. Megan is my pull it out. Oh.

Speaker 1 37:04

Oh my god.

Speaker 4 37:06

Of this old age, she still makes a fucking Christmas list for her parents.

Speaker 1 37:12

Well, no, not for my parents, for my family.

Speaker 4 37:16

For her family.

Speaker 1 37:17

We do, we draw names. So we all every the whole family makes lists.

Speaker 4 37:21

Oh well. This is she's spinning it into something that might be that's might be her current truth. But like growing up, it would be a list of like 50 items on a yellow tablet page piece of paper. It still happens, and it gets forwarded on to family members, and typically it's like item one, Tiffany bracelet. Item two, that's blooming gills stole.

White Elephant Rules Done Right

Speaker 1 37:51

No, we our whole family does lists. We do lists for Christmas, birthdays, mother's day, father. We do lists for everything. Everyone makes a list. I want to know what the doctor makes a list, the the my brother, my niece, my sister-in-law, my parents. We all make lists. And they're not done, they're all done virtually now. Oh just so you know, it's not done on paper.

Speaker 3 38:16

All right. Well, I'll be chat GPT knows in a minute.

Speaker 1 38:19

Don't pull it out based on false facts.

Speaker 4 38:22

There we go. I'm not.

Speaker 1 38:24

Yes, you said yellow, yellow like legal pads. That's not happening.

Speaker 4 38:30

I think you are the only yellow. Well, you're not very computer savvy, so I bet yours are somebody that's oh, no, I'm actually very computer savvy. Okay, I'm gonna rest my case. Okay, somebody else pull it out.

Speaker 1 38:43

My pull it out is actually more related to holiday shopping. I do most of my holiday shopping via websites. And my pull it out. Yes, I peruse, I peruse, and then I may or may not buy, and then I go home and then I look things up on the websites and figure it out. So um, my issue is websites without free shipping.

Speaker 3 39:14

During the holiday time, anytime.

Speaker 1 39:17

Anytime, but it's how I feel. It's anytime, but specifically during the holiday period, a lot of websites that normally don't have free shipping do have it, which I highly, highly appreciate. So um, but I will go to links to find that same item elsewhere with free shipping. So, like if I know I want to buy the certain item, I start Google searching, I look everywhere I can to find it on a website with free shipping.

Speaker 4 39:48

Yeah.

Speaker 3 39:49

So do you are you okay when the free shipping is like if you spend $75, if you spend, yeah, I always add more items.

Speaker 4 40:02

Like just I'm just trying to buy the cheapest item to get me. Yeah, I'm like, okay, okay. And the pair of socks, you got a pair of socks. I'll put the socks on there.

Speaker 1 40:12

Yeah, I'm always adding anything I can find, I add on. So I get the free shipping.

Speaker 3 40:18

Yeah, okay. My pull out is shopping for a white elephant.

Speaker 4 40:26

Well, you're not supposed to, are you? I don't think you're supposed to be throw up.

Speaker 3 40:30

So that is my pull out. When people do go and shop for a white elephant, now Amazon has a white elephant category. Oh, really? Yes. So I it just takes away the joy of a white elephant.

Speaker 4 40:44

Go in your basement.

Product Pick: Lemme Sleep Gummies

Speaker 3 40:45

Yes. We have friends that have a basement with a lot of different, you know, shatskis in there. So I have them too. Yes. There are things like throughout the year that I'm like, oh, this is good for a white elephant. I have a shelf in my basement.

Speaker 4 41:00

I have a shelf in my battery. I agree. Yeah.

Speaker 3 41:03

Um, so I like I think that the joy of a white elephant um exchange, gift exchange, is that surprise of like, oh my god, that's just ridiculous.

Speaker 4 41:15

Then it's something of yours that you are getting rid of versus 100%. Trying to buy one. I agree with you.

Speaker 3 41:22

And I don't like when, you know, I get it that it has been so it has become so popular that like now Amazon has that category, but I don't want to go to shop in Amazon just for a white elephant.

Speaker 5 41:33

Yeah.

Speaker 1 41:34

Yeah, like lots of times for me, it'll be like something maybe someone gifted me and I re-gift it as a white elephant.

Speaker 4 41:42

Well, yeah. Of course. It's probably not something you're buying if because if you're buying it, you like it.

Speaker 1 41:47

Yes.

Speaker 4 41:48

But a lot of things are things you're like, oh, I haven't used it.

Speaker 1 41:52

Oh, I'm not sure I will. This perfect white elephant.

Speaker 4 41:55

Yeah. I agree.

Speaker 3 41:57

I love having the topic with the slip it ins and pull-outs. Like using our slip it ins and pull-outs, that's our part of our topic throughout the floor.

Speaker 4 42:04

Well, I think in the like historically, I think in the beginning, our slips and pulls were gonna be quick, and I think we have a lot to say. We do have to say, and I do like it because it it seems like that part of our podcast that gives a little peek into our personality.

Speaker 3 42:21

Yeah. Can I slip in a uh a product before we wrap up?

Speaker 4 42:25

Yeah, absolutely. Should we let it? Yeah, all right, go for it.

Speaker 3 42:28

I have a product that I want to uh introduce. Um, the Kardashians are doing it again.

Speaker 4 42:33

Yeah. Um another Kardashian product.

Speaker 3 42:37

Fourny Kardashian, which has a lifestyle kind of brand, very similar to Goop.

Speaker 1 42:43

Yes.

Speaker 3 42:44

Created this, um it's called the Lemmy, Lemmy Leave. Like Lemme instead of let me, Lemmy, L-E, M M E.

Speaker 4 42:55

And she's got different leave, not leave. Did you say leave?

Speaker 3 42:58

The brand is the the this is a branch of it. Oh, what's the so let me leave.

Speaker 4 43:04

Like Let Me Leave is the top brand.

Speaker 3 43:07

Uh-huh. Oh, yes.

Speaker 4 43:08

I'm learning.

Speaker 3 43:09

And then she goes into different vitamins that help, particularly like female like vitamins and things like that.

Speaker 4 43:18

Okay.

Speaker 3 43:18

I tested out something that I um was through, you know, scrolling through Instagram and TikTok that it it got great reviews. It's called Let Me Sleep.

Speaker 4 43:29

Let me sleep.

Speaker 3 43:30

Um yes, and you know, with the holiday season, I'm sure that you need some rest. Um me? And myself.

Speaker 4 43:38

I want to sleep the whole week.

Sleep Habits, Magnesium, And Price Talk

Speaker 3 43:39

Let me sleep is a very good. I I really liked it. Um, I I've been testing it out for the last 30 days, I would say, because it's it's so it's a brand, it's a kind of a gummy, it's it is a gummy that it's it has a buildup. You have to kind of work your way into it. Um, it has only two grams of it's a it's a combination of uh melatonin and um magnesium magnesium.

Speaker 4 44:04

Okay.

Speaker 3 44:04

So it has only two grams of melatonin, which sometimes for me it makes me so groggy when I just use melatonin to sleep. So I was a little bit hesitant at the beginning. But this specific brand is like it's vegan, um, it is like it the taste is very good, um, the flavor is great, it's very good. I mean the packaging is nice. Um, it's a $30 sleeping gummy, which goes into the higher price.

Speaker 1 44:33

Yeah, it's high.

Speaker 3 44:34

Um, very Kardashian-like.

Speaker 1 44:36

Yeah.

Speaker 3 44:37

But I think I I liked it. It feels very like I take it 30 minutes before bed. And I used to take a tea, like a sleeping tea. It has it has given me the same reaction of like like slowing into feeling tired and going to bed, and same thing like when I'm actually waking up.

Speaker 4 44:56

So I so do you know what I get for two dollars and ninety-seven cents after my insurance is Lunasta, which I oh my god, also does the trick. But I yeah, but I mean, like, let me sleep, it's cute. I like the packaging, I like the product. I'm not sure I like the idea of something having to build up into your system because I guess here's what I would ask, JJ. Is like if you were to go a couple days without it, do you think you lose traction or and then you take it a third day after? Like, would you get right back into the groove?

Speaker 3 45:34

I think I would not it and this is just I haven't done it, but I think that it will give me a sense of just like detachment without any like attachments to it. Like, I'm like, oh, I'm not really that attached to that gummy at all.

Speaker 4 45:49

Um well, I think the uh I think true or not true, because I don't know if it's false claims by the Kardashians, but the fact that they say that it needs to build up creates this uh situation where you as the consumer feel like you can't stop taking it, you gotta keep taking it. So I mean that's good marketing, I guess. So I don't know. I you know, I I'm for me it's a leave it in.

Speaker 3 46:13

We'll see. And and talking, it's it's a it's a sellout product, it sells out very quickly.

Speaker 4 46:19

All other products do, all of them do.

Speaker 1 46:22

I liked the product a lot. Um, I my big issue with it is I don't typically need melatonin to go to sleep. I like the magnesium aspect, so I would like it if they just came out with a lemmy mag.

Speaker 3 46:36

Oh, a lot of magnesium. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 46:44

You just you go on very few hours a night.

Speaker 1 46:46

Yeah, I'm not a big sleeper.

Speaker 4 46:48

If I over tell the listeners, like, what do you consider a good or a necessis a necessity about number of hours?

Speaker 46:56

Five hours. Wow.

Speaker 3 46:57

No.

Speaker 46:58

I am nine.

Skims, Poosh, And Final Holiday CTA

Speaker 3 46:59

If I sleep five hours, I'm gonna be so grumpy.

Speaker 4 47:03

If I sleep five hours, I must have been in New York.

Speaker 1 47:06

I don't if I sleep longer, I get I I am not as productive. Like I'm more productive with less sleep.

Speaker 4 47:12

I can't even imagine that. That is crazy.

Speaker 3 47:15

No, that is a let me sleep. Let me sleep five hours. Let me sleep. So that's the product. Go in. Um, it's also on Amazon. Um, so you can go into our Linktree.

Speaker 5 47:29

I was gonna say, dare I ask.

Speaker 1 47:31

Well, yeah, we'll have it on our Linktree. And then also, just so everyone knows, Courtney has created this website kind of similar to a goop called Poosh. You mentioned the poosh, P-O-O-S-H. Poosh. So it's kind of like she's creating this lifestyle website kind of like uh Gweneth Paltro did, which and there isn't a rivalry there. People try to say there is, but they have like done joint ventures together.

Speaker 4 48:03

So I like to say push.

Speaker 1 48:05

Yeah, no, and I mean I love the whole the marketing of Lemon, I think it's great.

Speaker 4 48:10

I went into a skim shop. Oh, you did? We looked for the hairy panties. No, no, I mean they sold out. Yeah, no, but I did find they had men's underwear and socks in there.

Speaker 3 48:20

So I guess I I heard that they're very comfortable.

Speaker 4 48:22

I was yeah, I almost bought them, but I'm like, eh.

Speaker 3 48:25

Yeah. For now, I'm gonna just let me sleep.

unknown 48:29

Let me sleep.

Speaker 1 48:30

Well, I think everyone, with that, we're gonna let you go while you're doing your holiday shopping. Don't forget to check out our Linktree. We have lots of items that we love and have discussed with our videos.

Speaker 48:42

Are you gonna curate little lists for us? I was just getting there, Matty.

Speaker 1 48:46

Sorry, like we each have our own category of products that we think make great gifts. And as a reminder, our Linktree is at Slip It In Podcast on Linktree. We also welcome hearing from you about everything and anything. You can slip into our DMs on Instagram, TikTok, X, and Fit Facebook at Slip It In Podcast. And you always can email us at Slipitin Podcast at Gmail dot com. And you can call and text us at 313-444-9004. Until next time.