Speaker 1: 0:02

Slippers unite, it's time to play. We bring the 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 sentence.

Speaker: 0:28

Welcome, welcome, welcome, everyone. We are back slipping it in with you. I'm Megan. I'm Matty on the Roadcaster.

Speaker 5: 0:37

And we are back slipping it in from Puerto Rico. This is JJ.

Speaker 3: 0:41

Yes, JJ is still in Puerto Rico, and guess who's on the board?

Speaker: 0:46

Matty is pressure off me. Yay, yay, yay.

Speaker 3: 0:50

And I'm feeling it. I'm feeling the pressure. We are really exploring, finding out some new things, doing this remote thing because we're also, you know, testing some other video options because we're gonna bring you some video. So yeah, I've come a long way, I feel. You have. Remember when I wouldn't even unplug or plug in the mics? I'm like, can you guys just help me? Totally. 100%.

Speaker 5: 1:17

And let me when Megan was plugging it in in a different hole.

Speaker: 1:20

Well, yeah, I'm not used to plugging holes. It happens to the best of us. Well, it is officially a winter advisory here in Detroit. So JJ, please let us all wish we were with you. What is it in Puerto Rico tonight?

Speaker 5: 1:42

Tonight it is 89 degrees.

Speaker: 1:46

Are you kidding me?

Speaker 3: 1:48

Oh, that sounds fabulous. Wow. So are the windows are we gonna hear some beep beeps tonight? Any beep beeps?

Speaker 5: 1:57

I'm hoping not. I'm hoping not. I try to sound proof.

Speaker 3: 2:02

Well, we like it. Hopefully. We like it because we live vicariously, because we hear snow plows and shovels and snowblowers, and you hear like beep beep in life and city life.

Speaker: 2:15

Well, I will be with JJ in Puerto Rico in a few short days. So I will be loving that 80, 90 degree weather. Oh, somebody's dating apps are going off. Beep, beep. Let me shut that off.

Speaker 3: 2:30

Hey, I'm still learning, my friend. So we're gonna here's the thing. We went through the three of us in one room to one in Puerto Rico and two of us here. And the next time we record, it's gonna be me with two of you there. Yeah. So we're we're just checking all the boxes. We're just troubleshooting, I call it. Yes. Troubleshooting. Yes, absolutely. Well, we miss you, JJ, and we're looking well. Megan's gonna see you. I'll see you in a couple weeks. Can't wait till we're all back in the same room. But this is good. We're figuring things out. I love it.

Speaker 5: 3:05

Yeah, and and just quickly, I wanted to just give you a quick um update on Puerto Rico because uh there's a few things that I uh thought you guys might have uh probably enjoyed to hear uh from it. Uh I actually was it just happened to me that I'm in Puerto Rico um enjoying the longest, it's actually a world known that Puerto Rico has the longest Christmas. Um and uh I think I actually was my slip it in uh on the last episode. But um interesting enough is that this week uh Puerto Rico is celebrating uh San Sebastian Festival, uh, which is actually my first time even in San Sebastian. If you if you think if you want to know a little bit about uh San Sebastian, it's um you know it's the patron of um All San Juan, and every you know it has become a V like kind of almost like a global uh festival. Um I know that Megan loves uh cruise. 14 cruises came in on Wednesday.

Speaker: 4:07

Oh my god.

Speaker 5: 4:08

A bit over a million people were just in all San Juan, and you've both been in all San Juan could just imagine how many people. And you were you went is this tied to Christmas? It's just so good in Braver.

Speaker 3: 4:18

Is this tied to Christmas? Yeah, tied to Christmas. Oh, it is. You know what I love about that? There's not they used to I'm sorry, go ahead. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Speaker 5: 4:29

They used to do they used to do it actually started in the 1950s. They used to do that. This is this was the last procession that we're do after the Three Kings Day uh in Old San Juan, and they were celebrating um uh San Um Sebastian, which was a martyr uh patron of uh the old San Juan.

Speaker 3: 4:51

What I love about it is if you've got a million cruise ship people that's a breed. That's a tip, a di a different breed of people. I mean, I'm one.

Speaker: 5:02

I well I I JJ said I love a cruise, and I want to clear up the record. I loved it. Went on one cruise, it was a virgin cruise, and I did love it, but I would still categorize myself as a non-cruiser. Oh, okay. I'm specific about the cruises I might try again. I will always do virgin, but I'm would be particular about trying any other cruise.

Speaker 3: 5:28

Well, what I would say is that somebody probably didn't make it back on the boat. If there's 14 cruises and one million people, so Kathy didn't make it back. Like, where's Kathy? We gotta leave Kathy. It's gonna parlay into a these dings, into a day line special.

Speaker: 5:53

So Matty, as we know from our last episode, is back on some dating apps, and clearly you can hear these dings coming in. Well, what's weird lots of action on a Sunday night of a holiday weekend.

Speaker 5: 6:06

What's weird is hoping for a coming over here in Puerto Rico.

Speaker 3: 6:09

Oh, coming over. What's weird is I keep muting it and somehow they want their they come through anyway. They're coming through. It's yeah, it's just life. Um I have to clear something up with you guys. I have to clear up TLDR. Oh, okay. Let me give you the real definition or the real four words and how you can understand why I defined it the way I did and how I stand by it. This is a little poet care poet code core adjacent for the record, because I did get a couple people coming to me and say, just so you know, TLDR means too long didn't read. Oh. So correct, that is true. That makes more sense. Well, here's how it worked. Like you told us too long, don't read. Correct. But that's how you use it now, actually. So it's kind no, let me explain. I in the day, I would say, let's say I sent you a really long message, you would respond to me, uh TLDR. Like you just too long, I didn't read this, just give me the 411.

Speaker: 7:24

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 7:25

Well, now people put it intentionally at the front. Uh, and so it doesn't really make sense for me to send you a long email and start off with TLDR. But what I'm trying to signal to you is this is too long, don't read it. Here's the upfront. Okay. And there's all this. If you want to go back and you know, look at the facts and read the whole thing, you can. But I know, I know. In that moment, I didn't even know you were gonna ask me what it meant. I thought we all knew what it meant. No, it's all yeah. So I said, don't read. I kind of stand by it as how it's evolved, but the origin is too long, didn't read.

Speaker: 8:03

Okay. So that's similar to I like to sometimes say long story short, which means this is a long story. I'm gonna try to shorten it real quick for you.

Speaker 3: 8:13

Okay.

Speaker: 8:14

Sim? If you simba diff.

Speaker 3: 8:17

Yeah, I don't know. Long story, I don't know. Because usually you say long story, and then it nowadays you say long story longer.

Speaker: 8:27

I'm saying long, I'm saying long story short.

Speaker 3: 8:30

I'm saying this is long story longer.

Speaker: 8:33

Okay.

Speaker 5: 8:34

I also have that this long story, we need to make it short.

Speaker 3: 8:41

I have another story for you. I have another story for you. JJ, I don't know short. True story. All right, JJ. I don't know if you even know this. I had a roof of my mouth situation while last week. I suddenly started to feel something on the roof of my mouth. It was weird. I'm like, oh, I have a swollen, I don't even know what you the I don't know what you'd call it, a roof of your mouth, I guess. But like it was swollen.

Speaker: 9:11

Like a cut or a blister. Like a kinkersore.

Speaker 3: 9:14

Like maybe bruised, but like how do you bruise it up there?

Speaker: 9:17

Well, I think we all know how you can bruise it up there.

Speaker 5: 9:21

Sometimes I find it sometimes when you are like like drinking like a very, very hot coffee or hot tea, it just goes into the roof. Well, that's what I thought happened stays for a while. That area is very sensitive.

Speaker: 9:35

Very sensitive. Well, someone is back on the dating app, so there might be some other action happening bruise in that roof. No, I have not shut up. I'm just saying, shut up. You're in a lot of ding.

Speaker 3: 9:49

Well, I did go to the dentist, and the dentist didn't cite that as a culprit. No bruise. No culprit. Is this the dentist that kissed you? Yes. Okay. So, and I visited her again because of this situation.

Speaker: 10:02

So wait, wait. First, okay, for all the new slippers, a few episodes from last fall. Matty disclosed to JJ and I that several years ago he went to the dentist. He was down in the chair. The dentist walked in and kissed him on the lips. No. Oh, no, I didn't say that. On the cheek. No. Lips or cheek? Gee. Okay. Well, anyway.

Speaker 3: 10:28

She would have kissed me on the kid. JJ and I were shocked.

Speaker: 10:33

We were shocked.

Speaker 3: 10:34

Well, I I can see why if you thought you kissed me on the lip.

Speaker: 10:38

It is a female dentist. I don't know, but as a cheek, any doctor that would come in to a room where I'm a patient and kiss me on a cheek, hand anything, I'm immediate, it's very uncomfortable, and I think it violates medical rules of practice.

Speaker 3: 10:51

I've got some, I got some new for you. Okay. I will, and for the slippers, I didn't even know I was gonna say that in that episode when I said it, and now it did become a thing. And in the and in those times, and I guess by those times, I mean 10 years ago, I didn't it it took me off guard, but anyway, I didn't I still go to her, and so this thing on my roof of my mouth, it turned into something that got bigger. I thought it was gonna go away to your point, JJ. I thought it was like coffee burn. So I went in three days ago and uh they popped it and drained it. I know it's gross.

Speaker 5: 11:32

But it was we need to know those deeds.

Speaker 3: 11:34

You might. Well, she wasn't kissing me with this business in my mouth. But then uh but she said that she'll be the first one to say if you have a bruising on your uh roof. You know what she said? It's like the equivalent of getting a sliver in your finger. So I got something like and she said it could have been a popcorn seed or a kernel or something like that. And I'm like, and I I'm like, well, which you are a popcorn. Popcorn is a go-to snack. So just be careful, you never know. I had to do panoramic like x-rays and all this bullshit, and yeah, and now it's cleared up and and good. But I will say this, just so you all get some juicy content, is that when she came into the room this time, she had her back to me again. She puts the file folder on the counter, she turns around, she goes, Wow, don't you look handsome today? I can't with her, and then she followed up with like, Howard, what have you been doing to keep you so handsome? And I uh I said, Well, I did have to go in the office this morning, so I like I had to present be presentable.

Speaker: 12:45

So this dentist, she crosses a lot of boundaries and lines.

Speaker 3: 12:50

I told my colleague, I'm like, say what you will, but I mean I wouldn't mind a little compliment like that. I just yeah, what I was just gonna say. I said to my colleague, I'm like, say what you want, but she's good for my ego.

Speaker: 13:00

Well, I get it, but I'm telling you, if a male dentist came in a room and was carrying on like she does, I would be highly, highly uncomfortable and I wouldn't return.

Speaker 3: 13:11

I know it is a it is a conversation for the ages. Yes, it is something we we don't want to spend too much time on today, but there's a lot to unpack.

Speaker: 13:21

Are you but you seem to love it and you keep going back for more? So I guess. At this point, I feel like it's good content. Well, I will say, from a doctor-patient perspective, I did go see a crazy dermatologist for a while who was friendly with a lot of the gays in the area. And she knew I was friends with some of the same gays. So she got very loose with me. And one time it was St. Patrick's Day that I went to see her. And she said, Oh, I bought this St. Patrick's Day green bra from Victoria's Secret that doesn't fit. I should just give it to you. And again, you don't do that's an appropriate. It was, it was, and I did continue to go back, but I knew she was a straight woman, and I'm a straight woman, so I wasn't worried like there was a hidden.

Speaker 3: 14:12

Well, let me play devil's advocate.

Speaker: 14:14

I get it. What if I say she's straight?

Speaker 3: 14:15

No, what if I'm a man and a male dermatologist comes in and says, I've got a cute pair of green thongs for you to wear if you'd like them. I'm gonna give them to you. Would you think that something weird there?

Speaker: 14:27

Well, are you both straight or both gay? It doesn't matter. I think it does play. It doesn't. It's inappropriate either way. Well, arguably, I yeah, I would agree. I agree. I don't want to talk about bras and I don't want to get kissed when I'm at the here's what I'm gonna, here's what I told uh a friend of mine.

Speaker 3: 14:43

The next time I go there, there's always like I have the uh hygienist first or whatever the depending on what I'm there for, and then I know when she's about to come in. I'm gonna hit the record button. Oh my god, I love it. I'm gonna hit put the phone between that's heaven. That's heaven. So I'm gonna come, I'm gonna come with facts and receipts next time.

Speaker: 15:08

Well, I also feel like there's another little factor you're leaving out. What did she not say, please text me over the weekend?

Speaker 2: 15:17

She did.

Speaker 3: 15:20

You're laughing. Well, because she asked me to say, she said, how long has this been going on? And I said, Well, it started like on Tuesday of last week, but then it was the weekend, and then um Monday I was gonna come in and I got too busy at work, and she said, Well, you should have just texted me over the weekend.

Speaker: 15:37

Yeah, she just wants you to text her. I mean, it's too much. I said, I'm not gonna do that. I feel like she's gunning for a gay best friend, and I don't want her to take mine.

Speaker 3: 15:46

Oh, that's a good way to Yeah, I think we can move on.

Speaker 5: 15:53

We need to grab on. There are very few.

Speaker: 15:54

So I know, and I don't want people coming for mine.

Speaker 5: 15:59

Right. Well I do have to say before you move on, really quick, just a thought. I've not been able to um reach my goal when it comes to that, but I do find myself trying to find an attractive doctor every time I'm looking for a doctor for myself.

Speaker: 16:15

For male, a male or female attractive doctor.

Speaker 5: 16:18

Both.

Speaker: 16:18

Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 3: 16:19

Well, do you want to come to my dentist? I can get you a referral. She's great for the oh, she would love you, I think. Oh God.

Speaker: 16:30

Yeah, she'd be making out with you left and right, just like Matty. I can't.

Speaker 5: 16:35

Oh my god, I'll support it.

Speaker 3: 16:37

Oh God. Oh my God, we can book. What if you booked like at a one o'clock and I booked a 1:30?

Speaker: 16:42

Oh, I can't. She'll kiss Matty on the cheek and you on the lips. You can get my sloppy seconds. Oh Lord. I can't. Well, I've got kind of a funny story for the two of you that I think you'll love. So the doctor got me a very beautiful upgraded tennis bracelet because what the slippers don't know is a little bit over a year ago, I went to New York City and I wore a tennis bracelet that the doctor had given me, and I was robbed on the streets of New York. Were you mugged and robbed? Well, it was I was on Canal Street looking at fake handbags, and they pulled the whole like scam of like diverting my attention elsewhere and then pulling me by my hand. And I know it felt weird where they were holding me. Well, in retrospect, they were cutting my bracelet off my wrist. Wow. Yes. So that happened. I've been devastated. I'm like, I'm gonna have to replace this tennis bracelet. So anyway, the doctor got me a new upgraded tennis bracelet for uh Christmas. And it's my old one was princess cut round diamonds. It's beautiful. This one is oval, it's gorgeous. I love it, and it's heavier and bigger than the last. I'm about to fucking cut it off. Yeah, exactly. So anyway, he has made it very clear I'm not allowed to wear it traveling. So you will not see it in Puerto Rico, JJ. So you won't see it in person till you arrive. Anyway, we were at his mom's house last weekend taking down her Christmas tree. And she and I were at the Christmas tree in the living room. The doctor was in the next room over doing some other things she wanted him to do. And she's like, Oh, what did he give you for Christmas? And I'm like, Oh my god, he got me this gorgeous tennis bracelet. It's beautiful, I love it, it's oval, and she's like looking at she's like, Oh my god, that's gorgeous. So I'm back taking things off the tree, and then she says, under her breath, which she's her under her breath is still very loud. And she's like, The boy loves to buy diamonds, just not the one you want. I was like, oh my god, like I just like smiled, and I'm like, Oh, it's gorgeous, I love it. And then I moved on. So then later we were So we're talking about a ring on the finger. Yes. And then later we were with my parents, and the doctor's like, Oh, of course, this is what my mom said tonight to my parents, and I was just laughing, and I'm like, Oh, so he heard it. He goes, 'Yeah, she can't say anything under her breath.' Of course, everyone can hear it in all the rooms. So I was just chuckling. It was just very funny because I just kind of pretended I didn't hear it. And I'm like, oh, I just love it. It's so pretty, and just kept taking decorations off the tree.

Speaker 3: 19:38

I feel like there's a lot to unpack here as well for a future episode. Well, I don't think the slippers even know the dynamic around like the diamonds and what what kind of diamond you're looking for.

Speaker: 19:49

I'm not looking. Oh, no, don't turn it into that. Oh, well, you did you just told the story the mom said. Yeah, because she's meaning like he should be proposing and we should be married. But you're now acting like I'm in saying I need a certain type of diamond. Oh no, no, no. I'm sorry.

Speaker 3: 20:06

No, no, just this whole idea of like the diamond should be for not the type, but the placement. Instead of the wrist, we're looking at a oh correct.

Speaker: 20:17

Yeah, she's just I think she likes me. I we have a good relationship, so I think she would like him to propose.

Speaker 3: 20:23

We also have something in common because I don't think you have an under-the-breath either. I don't think you're under the breath.

Speaker: 20:32

It's very I have a good under-the-breath when I'm really trying to be under the breath.

Speaker 3: 20:37

JJ, do you think she's under the breath?

Speaker 5: 20:42

So I need to ask a question. Yes. I am listening to the story and I'm I piece all together, but the under the breath component I am not aware of at all. Like I don't even know what you guys are.

Speaker: 20:58

Oh, what do you mean? Oh my god. When you say something under your breath, it means like you're saying it like without thinking other people can hear it.

Speaker 3: 21:09

Like you're taking it down to like this. Yes. But some people just cannot do that.

Speaker: 21:14

Yeah. Or even not even a whisper. Like you're just saying it, not really thinking anyone else can hear it. Like it's a lower tone and it's meant just for Megan, but Brian can hear it in the other way. Or it's only meant for yourself. Like it's almost like you're speaking your internal thoughts.

Speaker 3: 21:29

I feel like that was a does JJ Noah.

Speaker: 21:31

Yeah, it is a does JJ Noah. But I will also say is that sometimes as you get older, your hearing goes bad. So you think you're under your breath that no one can hear, but because your hearing isn't as good, everyone around you can hear. So yeah.

Speaker 3: 21:48

So she, I don't know if she wanted me to hear or not, but I just like I keep going and don't like address it because let's say JJ, you and I are at a little friend gathering, and you and I are at the food table dipping chips and salsa, and I want to talk to you about somebody in the living room, and I'm gonna go from this to Did you hear what this? That's a little under the breath. I'm gonna bring it down a level so the people in the living room can't hear, and then I'm gonna suddenly bring it right back up to normal tone. Yeah.

Speaker: 22:23

Yeah, I'm not sure if she wanted me to hear it or not wanting me to hear it.

Speaker 2: 22:29

We have a delay.

Speaker 5: 22:30

I feel that now that you tell me what we have a little delay.

Speaker 2: 22:37

Yeah, keep going.

Speaker 5: 22:40

I feel that now that you guys are telling me this, I find that we do talk under the breath all the time.

Speaker 3: 22:46

Oh, of course. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yes. So you've been practicing it for a while. You just didn't know.

Speaker 5: 22:52

When we're in a room and then we were like doing going to somewhere, even a party or something like that, I find the three of us on a corner doing that same thing.

Speaker: 23:01

Yes. So also, so right after we were or the doctor told my parents this story, we were sitting at the kitchen table, all of a sudden we look over and creature feature. Oh my god, right there in our kitchen is a sort of, I guess, a baby squirrel running around. And we all like kind of screamed. It was crazy. Um, and all of a sudden squirrel in the kitchen. Yes. And it was smaller than a normal squirrel, so that's why I call it a baby squirrel. And then he like ran back around. My parents have an island, and he ran back around and like was gone. So we think he went under the uh oven, which is in their island. And immediately my parents' dog, they have an Idaho shag. And for anyone who knows Idaho shags, they are herding dogs and they're bred to be herders out in the west. So they like herd cattle. So she constantly herds other animals, other dogs, anyone around. She'll even try to herd people, kids. So she immediately goes into herding mode and she is running over to the oven. She's running around. We all, okay, squirrel's gone. We start talking.

Speaker 3: 24:28

You can't just be like, squirrel's gone.

Speaker: 24:30

You're in your kitchen. Well, the squirrel wasn't gone. It came back out.

Speaker 3: 24:34

I mean, well, wouldn't you be like, we got to get this fucking squirrel out of the house?

Speaker: 24:38

So the squirrel came back, and then again, the dog's going crazy. The squirrel runs and it keeps going underneath the oven. So finally we're like, we'll take the bottom of the oven off and see what's under there. And so then we're down there and you can kind of see in the corner, way back underneath the oven, little eyes. Yes. So then we're like, okay. And the dog's just like going crazy.

Speaker 5: 25:08

I wish you could take a picture of that.

Speaker: 25:09

I was trying to get video, but like at the same time, I also am jumping on chair. Like, I don't want my feet down where the soil is.

Speaker 3: 25:15

Did you have your heels on?

Speaker: 25:17

No, I just had on like socks. So then we quiet back down again. Again, we were ready to go to bed. We can't go to bed because of the fucking squirrel. Correct. So then we're all sitting down. We make the dog get away from the oven. We're holding her back. Five minutes later, squirrel's back out. Squirrel. Now we're trying to capture the squirrel or get it to run out the window or the door. It jumps on the counter. It's crawling all over the counter. Then it jumps down. It runs in our living room. We're again opening all these different doors. It's so cold outside. So now the whole house is.

Speaker 3: 25:56

He doesn't want to be out there, probably.

Speaker: 25:57

Exactly. Yeah. Then he finally runs into the bathroom. We shut the door. So now we've got him captured in the bathroom. The doctor goes in there with gloves on and a towel and a wastebasket. And he's in there trying to get this squirrel. Finally, he gets so he finally Who's Jack?

Speaker 5: 26:21

The squirrel. I've just named him.

Speaker: 26:22

Oh, you've named him Jack. Okay. So Jack the squirrel is now in the wastebasket. The doctor covers the top of the wastebasket with the towel. All of a sudden, the squirrel starts biting holes in the towel and crawls out and jumps out. So then we're like, just let him back out. We're going to try to force him outside.

Speaker 3: 26:42

He chewed through that fabric that quick. Yeah. Well, that doesn't sound like a baby squirrel to me.

Speaker: 26:47

Well, I don't know what the hell it was, but it was a squirrel of some species. He then runs back out. He runs finally back into the kitchen underneath the oven. The dog's going crazy. We re-look under there. We see no BDIs. He's gone. We don't know where he went. We all go to bed. No sign of him the next morning.

Speaker 3: 27:10

He didn't show up for brunch?

Speaker: 27:12

Nope. And he nope. No brunch. No brunch. And we have supposedly has not been seen since. So I don't know. Oh that's my creature feature. I'm going to tell you this.

Speaker 5: 27:24

That's a scared creature feature.

Speaker: 27:26

Well, what do you want me to say? A squirrel in your house is not a creature feat.

Speaker 5: 27:30

You know, there's a saying that, like it is, but this whole biting on the um it seems a little bit fictional to me. No, true.

Speaker: 27:40

Oh, oh, oh, it's a true story. There was a big hole in that, in that towel, and the doctor was afraid he was gonna get bit, and I was nervous he'd get bit too and have issues working. You know what you need to do.

Speaker 3: 27:52

So you know, in the future, in the future, now that we're on video, we're gonna expect a chewed towel evidence.

Speaker: 27:59

So you're not gonna be able to get away with that. I could I can still produce it, it still exists. I don't think my mom threw it out.

Speaker 3: 28:05

Well, here's what I here's what I find weird. Like they say where there's one, there's more. Correct. If that squirrel found a way into your home, my fear would be, oh, well, where's the hole or the that they got in, right?

Speaker: 28:22

Well, what I will say is we've been feeling that there's some cool air coming from underneath this oven before this. So I do think there's a hole somewhere that they need to address. Now, mind you, they also have a cat. They have a cat who's living in the house, and he's lazy in the living in the house, like invited or uninvited? He is an invited cat. Well, okay, that's a pet. Well, correct. But he was lazy. He was down in the basement just sleeping it away when the squirrel's around.

Speaker 3: 28:56

I don't think you need to call the cat into the situation. The cat seems like it was not.

Speaker: 29:01

Well, Mittens needs to be doing his job and catching these squirrels and mice.

Speaker 3: 29:05

Here's what I'm gonna say. I think our stories have been great. We've got like we've got some shit going on. Like we're all living our little lives. All right, so we gotta caught catch up, we got caught up on our little last couple few days. Let's talk about an adjacent. I'm gonna call it an adjacent creature feature because it sounds like a creature feature, but it's not. Okay. And I it's Phrog.

Speaker 5: 29:34

I love the word adjacent.

Speaker 3: 29:35

Yeah. Adjacent? Yeah, I do too. It's close, but you know, it's just like in the neighborhood.

Speaker 5: 29:41

But just right around the corner.

Speaker 3: 29:44

Right around the corner. Just a hop, skip, and a jump. Phroggers. Now, I happen to I here's what I like to do. I like to find a program that I can put it on in the background that doesn't deserve or require my full attention. And a lot of times I like to that be true crime. Hulu had this Phrogger show on. Now, Phroger sounds like a creature feature. Video game. Correct, yeah. Like Lillipad jumping, avoid the cars, get on the logs. However, this is spelled P H R O G G E R. Question, JJ.

Speaker 5: 30:31

So I am glad I am glad that you said that because I I did a little Amy Polar moment uh here in Good Hand, and I just put as you were talking, I'm like typing in the Google, what is this Frogger about? Because I didn't want to get a call out of does JJ know it for a second. Uh but it's just I I I landed on the uh video game Frogger. Yes. Um I'm glad that you spell it for me because otherwise I would have just Well, type T H N. Not followed that at all. So you are out of town.

Speaker 3: 31:06

Yeah, this is different. So you're out of town. So Megan and I, I told Megan, I'm like, watch the show. She did. It's crazy. But let me just like okay, set a little bit of a scene because I stumbled upon the program. I was not able to watch it in the background. It got it commanded my full attention. So for anyone that doesn't know the term, it is somebody is living in your house, kind of like the squirrel.

Speaker: 31:35

The squirrel's a little bit of a Phrog. He's a Phroger, 100%.

Speaker 3: 31:39

But you knew he was in there, but at some point you do discover this Phrogger. But a Phrogger is taking up residency in your home unbeknownst to you. Correct. So they could be living in your crawl space, your attic, your basement. One guy was taking up house in a closet. I'm like just he it's crazy. Yeah. It's they again, they're finding a way in, yeah, and they're setting up shop. And the show has it's um, it's on Hulu, but it's a lifetime show. And I just it's they're 20-minute, 30, 40, maybe 20-minute segments. I think you get two in an episode. You should just really watch them. There is this one episode that can we talk about it, maybe?

Speaker: 32:29

Yeah, we can because it honestly, it when I watched it, it gave me chills and still creeps me out.

Speaker 3: 32:35

I don't think you watched it, JJ. Well, in fact, I know you've been too busy to watch it.

Speaker 5: 32:39

I didn't know. I mean, I was trying, I was I was searching for Frogger at video game.

Speaker: 32:44

Uh yeah. You it's you're like, what's all the fuss? It's that whole PH thing. So I used to have a dog named Phineas, but it was spelled PH, not F.

Speaker 3: 32:55

Well, I think that's how you spell Phineas, no?

Speaker: 32:58

No, it can be spelled with a F. Oh, it can? Yes, yes, all right. Phineas um Billy Eilish's brother. That's Phineas, yeah. With an F. Yeah, 100.

Speaker 3: 33:08

The more you know. So this we're gonna give you one taste of an episode. We're gonna have a little discussion. JJ, since you're not familiar with it, feel free to ask questions. I will say this of the episodes I've watched, because I watched probably five different stories, three ups, five stories, they're not all as doom and gloom as this particular one. But like nobody wants somebody taking up shop in their home. But this one is particularly disturbing, and it's called the episode is actually episode one. So I get it. Hulu started thinking, like, when we roll this out, let's start with a bang. And it's called Boy in the Wall, Man in the Closet, i.e., there's two stories, but we're gonna talk about Boy in the Wall.

Speaker: 33:59

Yeah, exactly. But I will say there was something weird because I feel like when I watched it, it was episode two, but I'm just thriving.

Speaker 3: 34:06

One or two, yeah. Either way, watch them. So, do you want to talk about it?

Speaker: 34:10

Yeah, so this is a situation where three girls were living with their father in a house. Their mother had just died.

Speaker 3: 34:19

Well, and also just it's two girls and a best friend.

Speaker: 34:22

Yeah, correct. The best friends, family moved away, so the dad said she can stay with them. Anyway, shortly after the mom died, they started noticing different things happening around the house. Stuff went missing, they'd hear weird noises, they'd go to eat the cupcakes they just bought and they were gone. Then they'd show up again in another room. So weird things. And the daughters kept saying things to the dad, like, we see this, what's happening? The dad's like, You guys, this is crazy. Right. They started kind of thinking, oh, these are signs maybe mom's giving us from the dad.

Speaker 3: 34:59

Well, and also the dad worked like long hours. So, and back in the day, I don't know, they maybe get in trouble now, but this is the teens.

Speaker: 35:09

Yes, correct.

Speaker 3: 35:10

And so they're he's not there. The girl he'll come home and the girls will have these tales, and the dad's like, girls, enough. I've I've worked a long day, blah, blah, blah.

Speaker: 35:20

Well, one night the dad was working and they legit legitimately hurt like something huge, like a rock hit the window of their house that created a huge bang. They felt like some other yes. Then they were home alone. And let's say it's like 12 o'clock, one o'clock in the morning, something like that. They got freaked out. They called the police. The police came, they checked everything out, they say nothing's going on. They called the dad. They kind of gave the dad a lecture about leaving these young girls alone.

Speaker 4: 35:53

Oh, you're right.

Speaker: 35:54

So he said, Yeah, he said, don't call the police ever again. Like that's not appropriate. When you get scared, call me. So then that's insane. Yeah. So then, long story short.

Speaker 2: 36:07

You just wait, JJ.

Speaker: 36:08

Yeah. Long story short, uh basically, they keep little things keep happening. Again, a huge bang, something weird goes on, and they call their dad at work. And the dad's like, Oh my God, don't call the police. I'm coming home. He comes home again, doesn't see anything. They all settle down. And again, now they're all in a room, they hear noises and crazy things.

Speaker 3: 36:34

Well, the dad, a rock hits a bathroom window, I believe.

Speaker: 36:37

When the dad's there.

Speaker 3: 36:38

And he he's like, Okay, something is going on. Yeah. What was that?

Speaker: 36:42

Exactly. So they start looking, they all end up in a room together, and then the dad actually starts going through the house and opens a closet door because he was hearing something, and there was like a man in the closet.

Speaker 3: 36:58

You know what?

Speaker 2: 36:59

Yeah, tell us.

Speaker 5: 37:01

This is where I was stop. Like, I'll get out of the house. Oh, not JJ. Many, you know me. Like, I'll be, I'd be like, uh I'm out. You're I locked my own bedroom door when I go to bed. Well, you put a this is a point, and I'm like, yeah. Correct.

Speaker 3: 37:19

So the father, yeah. Well, JJ also, but in this situation, this is a father protecting three young girls. And so, well, go ahead, me again. But JJ, yes, you yes.

Speaker: 37:32

So he confronts this man who's in the closet, and he basically says, Oh, I'm so sorry to disturb you. He basically tells all the girls to get in this other room. The dad follows. So all of them are in one room together, and this man who was in the closet's just out in the other rest of the house. The one teenage girl sees the window, just jumps out and runs as fast as she can to the neighbors, goes to the neighbors. Oh, because in the meantime, they're all in one room. They go to call the police. All the phone lines are cut. So that's when the daughter was like, oh my God, she runs to the neighbor's house, runs out the window, goes to the neighbor's house, tells them there's someone in our house, call the police. The police show up, they come in, they can't find the man anywhere in the whole house. The father, the girls go to a hotel room for the night. The next day, the police are like, your house is clear, go back to the home. They all go to the home. The dad said, I refuse to go in the house until you guys again search it.

Speaker 2: 38:38

Yes.

Speaker: 38:38

The police go in the house, and then on the walls, there's signs with knives in them. There's like two or three that say, I'm still here, come find me.

Speaker 3: 38:50

Yes.

Speaker: 38:50

So can you imagine, JJ?

Speaker 3: 38:53

So that gives them proof that there was somebody. Come out. There is a, I think it's like a paper plate or a piece of paper and stabbed in the wall. I'm still here, come find me. And so this police officer is looking through, and there were three or four police officers, and they're all like, except for one police officer, the all rest of them are like, he's not here. And the guy's like, no, I can sense it. I feel it. He's here. They kept looking for the sake of time. I'll just say they found him in an eight-inch crawl space behind, like when the home was built to hide these pipes. They put up this wall to like aesthetically hide things. There was an eight-inch gap, and that fucker was behind there. Like they found sleeping bags, dirty. They looked back there with a flashlight and they didn't see him. What they saw was a dirty pile of clothes. He had hidden under those clothes. Yeah. He was in that pile. They found him, they pulled him out. Okay. I think for the sake of time, we gotta go ahead. You must have questions.

Speaker 5: 40:00

This time I've been complaining about my back pain when I'm um about to sleep. And this guy isn't this eight inch tall. Yes.

Speaker: 40:07

Well, I don't think well they covered, I mean, it was kind of like a little room because they built a wall to hide all of the plumbing and stuff.

Speaker 3: 40:15

I just say JG just had sympathy for the guy. He goes, My back pain. Meanwhile, this guy's living behind a furnace.

Speaker: 40:21

Well, and terrorizing.

Speaker 3: 40:23

He shouldn't be in there.

Speaker: 40:24

Yeah, terrorizing the girls. So fast forward, he is living there. He gets arrested. He's thrown in jail. He's in jail for months. And then his mother bails him out. Then he goes on the run essentially and has disappeared. Fast forward a year or two later, a whole family gets killed. A mother and two kids basically went into the home another home. Another home and killed a mother and two kids.

Speaker 3: 40:55

It's awful. The details are awful. Yeah. And I don't even want to get into them. I'm not going to give into it. And that's where I said at the upfront, this is a little more grim than others. Some of the other ones are they're all very crazy because if you are going to take up residency in somebody else's home and frog it, you've got an ish. But there are there are some interesting ones. Um, I mean, every story is very crazy.

Speaker 5: 41:22

Likely not a video game, I'll tell you that.

Speaker 3: 41:24

Oh no. Can you imagine though? Like right now, somebody could be in my basement phrogging, and I have no clue. I mean, I was down there earlier today, so I'm guessing no.

Speaker: 41:36

Well, when I lived alone, I had a full basement and I had a third story. And I sometimes would think like I haven't been upstairs in like two, three weeks. Like someone could be living up there and I wouldn't know.

Speaker 3: 41:50

Just so you know.

Speaker 5: 41:51

And granted, I would just say, just before you go in, like if any of if if a phroger will were to be in Matty's or Megan's basement, they got it golden. I mean, there is supplies in those basements for years.

Speaker 3: 42:07

They could have lived out there for a while.

unknown: 42:10

Yes.

Speaker 3: 42:11

Yes, they could survive Armageddon. So just so you guys know, a frogger actually, like, in my mind, I'm like, oh, they they have to be in there for a long time. Not necessarily. The rules are in order to be a frogger, you have to, the home you go into has to be occupied, so it can't be an abandoned home. And the person obviously is gonna be hiding, and the occupants don't know. And it can be for days, but it can be for hours. So, like somebody could so the thrill of it for some people could be like, I'm just gonna take up residency for three hours and then I'm out and they never know I'm in there. I'm a froger in that sense. And Megan brings me back. You know where I'm going with this. East Lancing. We have a froger sitch that we need to talk about when we have our roommates back together again.

Speaker: 43:06

We do. We uh you know, honestly, I've had Do you know what I'm talking about?

Speaker 3: 43:09

Oh, I do cliffhanger, cliffhanger slippers. We're gonna get there because I don't think we had a term for it. Now we do. Now we do, and we're gonna break it down and uh I've had several frogger experiences. Oh, several. Yep. Well, okay. Well, we're gonna need the receipts. Yeah.

Speaker: 43:26

Well, with that, I think, yeah. Go ahead, JJ. Tell us what you're just dealing with.

Speaker 5: 43:32

I was gonna say, just like a frogger, I am going to slip in something uh as part of our reviews, and I'm gonna do like you said, plot twist.

Speaker: 43:42

Yeah.

Speaker 5: 43:42

Uh I'm gonna do something different, and I think that we should embrace it on 2026. Uh, we've had multiple great reviews of great products on 2025. Uh, I think there's been a slip-in uh live hack that I've really, really enjoy. Um, and I think that probably many people wouldn't know about this um before. Um, if you have health insurance through Blue Cross Blue Shield, there is this benefit called uh health waste, fitness your way. Uh I said it again, health waste, fitness your way. The good thing about this, and Matty knows this, I've been talking about this benefit for the longest time. Uh, I just pay them $39 every month and they give me a card, and I can go to a gym wherever I go, even when traveling. Uh so right now I'm in Puerto Rico. I went to the nearest Planet Fitness. I do have to say, they not every location knows this benefit. So I when I presented the card, they came to me and said, sir, this we don't accept this, but I have a network with a list of specific locations, so I knew going into it that they better be deemed this for me.

Speaker 3: 45:05

It's almost like when you go to the back down when you go to the gym, you're like, I gotta reserve 15 minutes to just troubleshoot my entrance. Yes. And I, JJ, you're right.

Speaker 5: 45:18

Yeah, why not?

Speaker 3: 45:19

My company I've been with for 12 years, and you told me about this benefit two years ago, and I'm like, uh, I don't think I have that benefit. Sure enough, buried deep in my benefits, my company didn't ever promote it as like you should check this out. You kind of guided me through the menu and I found it, and I don't mine. Well, this was two years ago, so the prices might have gone up. But I think I paid like $29.99 for this benefit you're talking about.

Speaker 5: 45:52

It really starts at $19.99.

Speaker 3: 45:54

Wow, that's amazing. Well, I wanted a towel. I wanted a towel. Same. I didn't want to have to bring my I didn't want to launder my clothes.

Speaker: 46:06

That's such a great tip. I love it. Especially in the new year.

Speaker 5: 46:11

Yeah, so I wanted to slip in not a product, but a live hack. Um that I think that I personally cannot talk talk um stop talking about it. Um, and again, like I do have something to say, JJ. Like I was in the kayaks for the bioluminous um um bay. I was like, you better get me this deal. Don't tell me that I cannot have fun.

Speaker 3: 46:34

I do have something to confront you with. Oh, wow. Which I feel is like at odds with each other. Because I feel like in the last episode, you said, listen, I don't need all you new people coming to my gym with your New Year's resolutions because you know you're gonna crowd my gym, and now you're telling everybody about this new benefit, which will bring more people to your gym. So, how do you reconcile?

Speaker 5: 47:04

Well, well, the good thing about this is you can actually have multiple memberships with the same uh benefit. So, to my point, it's still my point. So, if if the gym that you go to is too busy, go to the other one. Which I do the same. I just go to this.

Speaker 3: 47:23

Get out of my gym, is what you're saying. Like, get the benefit, don't come to my gym. Is that what I'm hearing? Yeah, fair. The more you know, the more you know. Yeah, I love that. I love that. It's a good hot tip, hot tip for New Year's.

Speaker: 47:37

Thank you. Yeah, well, with that, I think I'm gonna move into our slip it ins and pull it outs. And my slip it in has to do kind of similarly to what you said, JJ, like a life hack. Like mine is not always something you can control, but like I love an IT glitch in the system. So I was recently shopping at my local specialty market and they carry C's candies, which is my favorite chocolate maker. They're from the West Coast. So people who live on the West Coast know about C's candies. Other people maybe don't. Um, anyway, they're like a chocolate maker, and they had these limited edition pre-packaged Black Forest truffles. And I'm someone who loves dark chocolate and cherries. So I saw these and I'm like, oh, I don't know. It's a small little box. I'm like, you know what? I'm gonna treat myself. I'm gonna get these. Well, I went to check out and they're I didn't realize the price. I wouldn't have bought them, but they were regular price $19.99, but they checked out for $5. So I'm like, oh, that's a dream. So I bought one box. Well, then I went home and tried them and the doctor tried them and we're like, these are really good. I'm like, you know what? I'm gonna go back and get more. So I went back and bought several more doc boxes. They all the doctors. Yeah, exactly. They all checked out at $5. I'm like, that's amazing. Yeah. So then a few days later, I'm like, you know what? I'm going home. We're going to see my parents. We're gonna see the doctor's mom. I'm gonna get them all a box of chocolates because these are so good. And I know they like dark chocolate and cherries. I go to ring out my new boxes. $19.99. I see where this is going. So I tell the guy, I'm like, oh my God, I just bought these the other day. They were $5. They call in the chocolate people of that department. They come in, they're like, uh, yeah, that was an IT glitch in the system. We didn't even, it costs us more to buy them than $5. Like that was a mistake. They're like, these are $19.99. I'm like, okay, I don't want them. Thank you.

Speaker 3: 49:44

I mean, you did good.

Speaker: 49:45

Yes, I did. So those are things I love. Little IT glitches in the system. You never know when they're coming, but when they do, it's a dream situation. Yeah. My pull it out kind of ties back to frogging. So my childhood bedroom had a connected walk-in closet. But at the end of this walk-in closet, there was a doorway to the attic. And often growing up, I would be worried there was somebody in the attic, and their only avenue out was through my closet and through my bedroom. So that's my pull it out, like a connected attic to a bedroom or walk-in closet, because it does kind of always have this underlying terrorism to you.

Speaker 3: 50:35

Well, this closet had a connector to your bedroom, your brother's bedroom, and the attic. No.

Speaker: 50:43

Oh, it was my bedroom, my walk-in closet connected to my bedroom. And at the end of my walk-in closet was a doorway to the attic, the only way into the attic.

Speaker 4: 50:54

Yeah.

Speaker: 50:55

But I also felt like if any like noises or people I sensed in the house like late at night, I had a quick avenue to go hide behind boxes in the attic and they never find me. So that was always my like, oh, someone breaks in.

Speaker 3: 51:09

The frog was probably up there anyway. So good.

Speaker: 51:11

Well, if there was a frog or yeah. But I always thought if someone's breaking in, I'm running into that attic and hiding behind boxes. So there you go. You always have to, it was like my own little safe room, but it also felt like I also had monsters coming at me any day, too.

Speaker 3: 51:28

I mean, yeah, it's a push-pull.

Speaker: 51:30

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 51:32

Puerto Rico, would you like to go?

Speaker: 51:34

Well, it is a push pull because there's benefits. There's it's it's a push pull. It's more negative, but I always did also feel like I had a safe room connected to my bedroom. Puerto Rico.

Speaker 5: 51:46

All right. Hey, Puerto Rico. Um, my slip it in. Puerto Rico. Um, my slip it in is actually I and I Maddie, correct me if I'm wrong if you actually talked about this, but um we've have we've have talked about our uh love for code names. Matty introduced us to the app of code names and actually has become a slip it in for me because while in Puerto Rico, because I uh get a little surprise from Matty every time I get invited to a uh code names game. Uh and it kind of brings me, you know, it's a little piece of home while I'm away. So it's uh it's definitely a slip it in uh for me. Uh and it obviously we go back and forth with some of the uh guesses and some of the words. Like, really?

Speaker 3: 52:35

We both are like, really? What do you think?

Speaker 5: 52:37

This week Matty was like no, I was just saying that Matty's like this week is like I just try to think, how does JJ think about this word?

Speaker 3: 52:48

And that's I said I try to put myself in the head of JJ for these clues. Because it is, you know, you do like yeah, but I love it too. I get a little and he his um I think we talked about this as well. S-H-E-Y, S-H-E-Y Shay Shay for J J is his name. So I'll get a new game request from I get a new game request from Shay Shay, and I'm like, okay, let me change. I get my mindset on. I love it. It is, it's nice little attachment.

Speaker 5: 53:25

Yeah, my pull it out. Um the Uber situation here while in Puerto Rico is the worst experience I've ever had. Ever.

Speaker 2: 53:35

Really?

Speaker 5: 53:36

Um, I use Uber to go everywhere I go, including to work, and they do cancel the ride mid mid-request. Like there's been times that my Uber has been cancelled three and four times while I'm actually going to work back and forth. And it's uh apparently it's okay for them to do that here. I don't know why. I you best believe I send a message to Uber. But it has, I mean, so I I actually put my Megan hat um for that. Um, but I I it's it's insane. It's very, very like annoying, uh, to be honest. So that is definitely a pull out.

Speaker: 54:18

Well, have you tried Lyft?

Speaker 3: 54:20

I don't think it's there.

Speaker 5: 54:22

I try both, yeah.

Speaker: 54:23

Oh, both. It's the same situation.

Speaker 3: 54:25

Have you tried Waymo?

Speaker: 54:26

Waymo's not there. Let me tell you. I'm like on top of everywhere Waymo is.

Speaker 3: 54:30

I said that just getting a riled up. She knows, she knows every city, every location. All right. My uh slip it in is I've come around to Harry Styles. Really? Wow. So his last his last album I loved. The album before that, I did not enjoy. I didn't, I wouldn't say I didn't like it. I didn't enjoy it and I didn't see what all the fascination was. This last album I loved, and now that he's dropped this new album, I am a fan, and I love the title of his album, which is called Kiss All the Time, disco occasionally. When I heard it, it kind of this is not a haiku, but it screamed haiku to me. And I'm like, I think what's gonna trend is everyone having their own Harry Styles tagline that is similar to kiss all the time, disco occasionally. So mine is explore all the time, mischief occasionally. That's what I'm gonna go by for now. That's that's my era that I'm in right now, is explore all the time. Okay, mischief occasionally, which if I break that down for you, I love to travel, I love to learn, I love to find out new things, which all for me is exploration, but I like to have a little fun and get crazy and be chaos and just like mischief a little bit here and there. So think about your own.

Speaker 5: 56:12

I can't wait for that to work.

Speaker 3: 56:14

Think about I can't either. Think about your own and what that might be for you. And my pull it out is tech. You had a tech glitch that worked in your favor. Oh this board, this board, and this past week trying to find out and try to get all the settings right as we go on this journey together, as the three of us taking this podcast from audio to audio and visual has been a process. Not one that we've all enjoyed at all, but one that we're on together, but it's been fucking annoying. But I think we're gonna get there. Yeah. And so maybe it's a leave it in when we get there. Maybe it's a leave it in, but for now it's a fucking bullet out. We're working on it.

Speaker: 57:09

We're working on it.

Speaker 3: 57:10

Is it time to cue the music?

Speaker: 57:12

Well, no, but I think to your point, yeah, tech that you hate, we also have some tech we love, which is our Linktree. So check us out at Slip It In Podcast on Linktree. And you can see everything and anything we're talking about and the things we're obsessed about and we can't stop talking about. You also can reach us by slipping into our DMs on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook at Slip Itin Podcast. And you always, always can email us at slipitinpodcast at gmail.com. And you can call and text us at 313-444-9004. We want to hear from you. We love hearing from the slippers, we love your comments. And check us out, reach out to us on socials, like our post, comment. We're here for you.