Kickoff, Travel, And Olympic Vibes

Speaker 1 0:02

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Speaker 0:35

Welcome, welcome, welcome, everyone. We are back, slipping it in with you on Megan coming at you from Savannah, Georgia.

Speaker 4 0:43

And coming from Detroit, uh, this is Matty, and I've got JJ here with me.

Speaker 2 0:49

Megan, you said that you're in Savannah. So you it seems like you're like in a world tour, like Denver, Puerto Rico.

Speaker 0:55

Yep.

Speaker 2 0:56

No, Savannah. Tell us the tea. What's happening there?

Speaker 1:00

I can't deal with this cold weather in Michigan. I need to get out and get a little sun.

Speaker 2 1:06

Is it warmer in Savannah? I heard that also Georgia is getting some cold weather too.

Speaker 1:12

It's sunny, blue skies, but 60. So it is actually brisk, like you need a coat, but it feels amazing compared to the nine degrees in Detroit.

Speaker 4 1:24

Did you fly in today or yesterday?

Speaker 1:27

I got in on Friday. Oh, Friday. So I got in and we went to our friends. Um, we have good friends here if you've listened to the pod before. Um, and we went to uh our friends' neighbors

Grading The Opening Ceremonies

Speaker 1:43

who live in a little cottage. We're in downtown historic district of Savannah in an old home from the 1800s, and there's a little cottage house on the same block, and we went to their house and watched the opening ceremony of the Olympics.

Speaker 4 1:57

Oh, nice. We were together, JJ and I were together watching the opening ceremonies as well.

Speaker 2 2:03

I mean the long opening Saturday morning, I would say.

Speaker 4 2:07

I don't usually get into the ceremonies really, but I I would give it a nine out of ten.

Speaker 2:14

Really? See, I would the only thing I enjoyed were seeing the outfits. There was a lot of fluff that I would have taken out. I didn't like that white lotus actress and all her dancing. Like I don't think she was the best dancer, and it made it.

Speaker 2 2:31

Oh, Sabrina, I love me some Sabrina.

Speaker 2:34

And that little girl running around. It just I could cut out a lot of that.

Speaker 4 2:39

I think the only thing I did not really like is when I think if she was a comedian or whatever, and she came out and she pretended like her microphone wasn't working.

Speaker 2 2:47

Oh, when she was going to give a speech or something.

Speaker 4 2:50

Yeah, and I didn't, I'm like, that could have got cut, but I love And the little girl that Megan said that with the world and she was just going into the future. I'm like, uh I didn't cut it. I mean, I guess you guys are right. It could have been cut. I I I didn't hate it, but I at that point it was almost 11 p.m. Like I had to keep checking his eyelids to see. I'm like, are they open? Are they open? And he's like, I'm here. I'm here.

Speaker 2 3:16

Yeah, someone.

Speaker 4 3:17

I did love the paint tubes.

Speaker 2 3:19

Oh, that was pretty cool.

Speaker 4 3:22

With the the flowing fabric coming out of the paint tubes that you know meant to be yeah, paint. Yeah, yeah. I feel like she wasn't watching. Were you you didn't know?

Speaker 3:35

I disconnected sometimes. Uh well, sometimes I just got bored with it and I moved away. The one thing I enjoyed were looking at everyone's outfits, yeah, and I will say US and Great Britain, we had the absolute best outfits. Well, so um Ralph Lauren designed the US team's outfits and they looked spectacular. I love the white coats. They were wearing this long cream colored coat with like those kind of wood buckles. It looked great.

Speaker 4 4:05

I like Great Britain as well, but some of the online talk is that people didn't like Great Britain. They thought that that was

Parade Of Nations Style Watch

Speaker 4 4:13

just too basic and then these bold scarves, but I thought it looked great.

Speaker 4:17

Yeah, and they all in US and Great Britain both had really great, nice sweaters on under their coats, like classic kind of winter ski type sweaters that I just love as a ski bunny. I love like a classic winter sweater.

Speaker 4 4:33

Yeah, we don't even know where to go with that ski bunny talent.

Speaker 4:37

Well, I know a ski bunny, I love skiing.

Speaker 4 4:39

So Canada.

Speaker 4:42

Canada was kind of cool. Like they had cool like well, I liked it at first. They came out in what looked like this big long kind of puffer coat with like a um maple leaf on it, but then when they turned, it I realized it's not even a coat, it's like a weird shrug slash scarf, and I didn't like that.

Speaker 4 5:05

What's a shrug?

Speaker 5:08

Shrug is like um it just goes on your arms and your shoulders, and but doesn't really have much body around you. Oh well, it's just like a it's like a happy sweater.

Speaker 4 5:22

I shru I shrugged to understand why anyone approved that design. I did not I did not like it at all. I I thought it was the worst.

Speaker 2 5:32

I was actually even surprised that Lululemon was the one that sponsored it instead of like like Roots is a big Canadian winter um apparel thing, and it I mean, I would say that Roots will do it, but Lululemon, like I don't know why. I mean, and then their logo of Lulu was pretty big in the past. What?

Speaker 5:51

Yeah, Roots has been on the Canadian outfits for years.

Speaker 4 5:56

What did you think about the ladies that would come out in advance? Aluminum foil. Yeah, the spacesuit late spacesuit ladies that would come out with these big glasses on and carry the sign of the country. Did you like it? Or did you you loved it?

Speaker 6:13

I loved they had, yeah, for the slippers who maybe didn't watch, they had long metallic silver, kind of like puffer coat material, but it was like a hood and kind of wrapped gown that a wrap, yeah, tied wrap, and went all the way floor length and flared at the bottom.

Speaker 4 6:33

I would say it flared at the bottom.

Speaker 6:34

Beautiful. I loved it.

Speaker 4 6:36

I liked it. A lot of again, I like it.

Speaker 2 6:40

It was like a long owl.

Speaker 4 6:41

It was, yeah. Yes. I mean, dramatic. I think it was meant to be dramatic. I again, people look online to try to find ways to like, oh my god, it's a space shoot. It's uh these ladies wrapped in tinfoil.

Speaker 2 6:54

Yeah, it's like categories, tinfoil.

Speaker 6:58

There's always haters online. Yeah, absolutely. The one issue I had with those girls is when I first started watching, I'm like, whoa, I don't know this country. Well, it took me a minute to realize the signs they carried were in the Italian names. And then I realized, oh, I get it, it's Italian. Well, that is easier.

Speaker 2 7:21

Megan, yes, you're right, and that's easier than Matty trying to figure it out the stage change because he it took him some time to realize that they were they were shooting not just from the center stage, but also from the other cities. And this is actually the first time that they do that in an opening ceremony, and then all of a sudden, Megan, Matty is like, wait, where are these villages coming from? I'm like, because they're shooting from the other cities.

Speaker 4 7:52

No, I actually thought, I'm like, how did they get that set changed so fast? Like, where this little community and cottage village, how'd they get construct that so fast? I literally because I didn't realize that that was part of what they were gonna do is flash to these other there were four locations in all. Yeah, still to this day being the next day, I only thought there were three, so I still was not tracking all of these locations.

Speaker 2 8:23

But no, like even not only with the villages and the little houses, but then he's like, wait, this country only had four athletes, but how where is this office coming from? And another circle coming in. I'm like, because this is another location.

Speaker 4 8:38

Well, hold on though, I do have a valid point here, which I think could be confusing, but I did some research on this because it would say the country on your screen, and then it would list the number of athletes, and some of these would say like five athletes. Well, what you would see come down the walkway is eight people, and then they do a remote shot to a one of these villages, and there'd be four more. And I'm like, I I know this math ain't mathing. Like, for Megan Mathieu, no, Megan probably didn't even catch it because she's like, I don't know, I'm not good at math. I don't want to count those.

Speaker 9:13

So I did see the numbers were off, but I knew they had were coming from different, so the next scene you would see was more of that country's no uh you're not team members, but you're still incorrect with what you're thinking because four is what they were saying, not four in this venue, it was four completely competing

Multi‑City Broadcast Confusion

Speaker 9:35

period.

Speaker 4 9:35

I knew that, but collectively between their shots, there's like 10 people, so I oh yeah, the extra people, yeah. So you could they were like flag guys, they could be honorary people, they could be previous athletes, they can't be family members, they can't be politicians. Thank god, thank god, and they can't there's another thing they can't be, but they're they could have some other which is confusing.

Speaker 2 10:00

It is confusing, it can get confusing, especially if you're thinking about people changing the stage from a village to the and then of a sudden correct like more people could change.

Speaker 4 10:09

Well, and I also want to see the athletes, and I don't know from this group which are the athletes and which one is Uncle Fred from Flash years, you know.

Speaker 2 10:17

Like I don't well, Uncle Fred is not invited because his family's family, so all right.

Speaker 10:23

Well, they should have them, yeah. The people who aren't official team members maybe have a slightly different coat or scarf or something that would quickly identify an actual Olympic contender versus just an honorary person along for the ride.

Speaker 4 10:40

How did you feel about Mariah Carey's performance?

Speaker 10:44

Um, I didn't see it.

Speaker 2 10:46

Okay. She received a lot of praises online, but I think that she it was she was lip syncing.

Speaker 4 10:54

I don't know, but she hit those notes.

Speaker 2 10:57

I I mean, I I gotta say, like there was um over the week there were some uh images or videos of her doing rehearsals and she was hitting those notes during rehearsal, so it felt that it was live, but it she felt, I mean, if probably this is going to sound bad, but it's the first time that I looked at her, it's like, what is going on with her cheeks? Because they were like full on with cuttings, and she could barely move her face.

Speaker 4 11:27

I'm like, I didn't know what I expect. She's always had chipmunk cheeks.

Speaker 2 11:32

I do believe she has always had chipmong cheeks. She barely, I mean, she normally doesn't have a choreography or anything like that, so she's just like sitting like still. That's what I was gonna say. She standing still, like it was not even she's moving barely her mouth, and that's it.

Speaker 4 11:46

I felt like during the invitation to perform there, she's like, as long as I don't have to move. Because this she does, she's notorious. I mean, she's not known for dancing, but she didn't really move at all. And I think she was holding little berries in her cheeks because it was cold. She wanted to like maybe cotton just to keep her warm. Yeah.

Speaker 12:08

I think it's a little too much filler.

Speaker 4 12:10

She probably she hit the notes that the creatures in the mountains are there.

Speaker 2 12:15

Creature feature.

Speaker 4 12:17

I got a creature feature. Kind like I'm taking some liberties with this. Oh, the electric. Yeah, it's tied to the I didn't see any creature. Well, here we go. How about Tina and Milo? Did you see Tina and Milo?

Speaker 2 12:31

What? I'm not.

Speaker 4 12:32

Uh-uh. Tina and Milo are the otters. Stoats. You know what a stoat? A stoat. No. A stoat. No idea. It's like a little weasel. It's the official mascot. It's the official official mascots of the Olympics. They they are stoats. And Tina. S like goats with a st-o-a-t-s. And Tina and Milo. Tina is the creative, thoughtful sister. And Milo. Oh, I love that story. And Milo. Listen, Milo is the energetic curious brother.

Speaker 2 13:16

Oh. So is he is he bicurious?

Speaker 4 13:19

Or

Performances, Lip‑Sync Talk, And Mascots

Speaker 4 13:20

just curious? Just curious. Just what's going on? Where are these guys coming from?

Speaker 2 13:23

I like us, though.

Speaker 4 13:24

They um they they turn completely white in the wintertime.

Speaker 2 13:29

But a white one.

Speaker 4 13:30

But they their tip is always black. Oh their tip, their tail, the tip of their tail always stays black. And they actually are referred to often as little murder machines.

Speaker 2 13:42

Oh wow.

Speaker 4 13:43

They can their prey is often bigger than them, but they just take care of business.

Speaker 2 13:46

Yeah, I've heard that the black tip can be a murder machine too.

Speaker 13:52

I just looked them up. They're kind of cute little things.

Speaker 4 13:54

Yeah, they are cute. And so that you'll see them around.

Speaker 2 13:58

They are so cute. I think you can actually have them as a pet.

Speaker 4 14:02

I didn't even know what a stoat was. Me neither. I'd never heard of a stoat.

Speaker 14:06

Oh, well, I just says the American version of the stoat is an American ermine or short-tailed weasel. So we just call them something different.

Speaker 2 14:15

It goes to Weasel. We call them weasels. Oh, that's a creature feature for sure. I didn't even well, I I did see the introduction of this uh mascot. I just thought they were otters. Which I love an otter.

Speaker 4 14:31

I feel like this is an example with animals where we're just putting them all in. Like a weasel wants to be a weasel, an otter wants to be an otter, and stoat is a stoat.

Speaker 2 14:43

Yeah, 100%. They're just getting thrown. We've been introduced introduced to the stoats, and we're gonna recognize them from this album. Yeah.

Speaker 4 14:52

Stoats.

Speaker 2 14:55

Creature feature is some of the packages we've seen.

Speaker 14:59

What? Oh, speaking of packages, I've heard these skiers have been doing some package enhancement.

Speaker 2 15:06

Oh, really? Yeah. Tell me more.

Speaker 15:08

Have you heard about that?

Speaker 2 15:10

No.

Speaker 4 15:11

Well, I heard about it because I flagged it. So I'm just doing my regular uh looking at headlines, and all of a sudden I see penis gate. Is it's like penis gate at the Olympics. I love it. And it's really a fascinating story. I'm gonna preface it by there is no proof here that any of this is real or legit. It's all rumor mill, but you know, where there's a rumor, there's usually a trail to something. And so what's happening?

Speaker 2 15:47

And we'll find it. I slip it in, we'll find that trail.

Speaker 4 15:51

Yes. So here's let me lay the land. So this is it is is associated with the ski jump event. So you go off those those ramps, right?

Speaker 2 16:01

Stresses me out every time.

Speaker 4 16:03

And you try to it's like, how far can you go? Well, apparently the suits that they wear are made of this fabric, but yes, yes, tight, but made of a fabric that is intentionally wants the air to kind of flow into the fabric.

Speaker 2 16:20

Oh, really?

Speaker 4 16:21

So that like it's different if you're doing speed skating, you don't want that, right? But in this, if the air gets into your suit, it keeps you lofted a little bit longer. And in a game where seconds and inches matter, it so the basically the more surface area your suit has, the more your suit can absorb that air. That makes sense.

Speaker 2 16:48

That's true. Yeah, that makes sense because you've seen those like um free divers. Yeah, like they're like do like parachutes that they have that air showing, like, yeah, that makes sense.

Speaker 4 16:58

Yeah.

Speaker 2 16:58

So do you want to so ask me, well, how does the penis come into the I will ask you now how does a penis come into playing?

Speaker 4 17:07

Because you're like, that all does make sense, but this has to track back to the peen.

Speaker 2 17:11

Bring me back to the peen.

Speaker 4 17:12

Okay. So what happens is these athletes get a 3D exam of their bodies. All of them have to apparently do this to then get fitted for their suit. And their suit is based on the 3D scan. So the the rumor is some of these players or competitors are injecting things into their balls to make their packages be larger in the scan, which then would create even like a really small amount. What are they injecting? I don't know. I've got it. So you don't have that.

Speaker 17:55

No, there's lots of things you can inject to make your penises bigger in your balls.

Speaker 2 17:59

Why can't they just do a like a penis pump? You know, those pumps that you can do.

Speaker 4 18:04

Well, you I don't think you can go in with a pump.

Speaker 2 18:07

No, no, it's not a hard-on because there is a penis pump that you can actually do hours before, and then you can just get your balls and your chef like bigger than normal.

Speaker 18:18

Well, maybe they're doing that. Now they want to even go bigger.

Speaker 2 18:21

I'm gonna have to, I'm gonna have to like defend it. Have you seen a penis pump, Megan?

Speaker 18:26

It's like standard pump rules, new season. I've seen it because this boy on the show has one because he's on OnlyFans.

Speaker 2 18:34

Oh, that's true. 100%.

Speaker 18:37

That's where I saw.

Speaker 2 18:38

They just pump it. They just pump it in this little tube, and then they just enhance their penis and their balls.

Speaker 4 18:45

Well, I don't know, but these guys have to go in for a scan. So I don't know if they want this look of like I just penis pumped it, even though even if it was an hour.

Speaker 2 18:53

I mean, they don't even know if they that what's that's the normal um size of their peen. Okay, well.

Speaker 19:01

So then what? It gives so then the suit gets made with extra fabric in the crotch that allows the wind

Suit Aerodynamics And The “Penisgate” Rumor

Speaker 19:07

to blow through it and lift them up more.

Speaker 4 19:09

Well, not necessarily. It's all based on the overall scan of your body and like how much space do you take up, and that's then your size gets X amount of fabric, is my understanding. So a slightly increased groin area justifies a slightly larger suit size, and then the more air resistance gives you a marginal lift in the area of going on your jump.

Speaker 2 19:32

And but again, that's kind of a little bit of a disappointment. Yeah, they get the larger suit, but then those people that are in the room with this, you know, athletes, then they're like, Well, this bulge has decreased quite a bit since measurement, huh?

Speaker 5 19:48

I don't know. I don't think you're doing follow up.

Speaker 19:51

I think it's great, and I now ski jumping has a whole new life for me. Well, I'm gonna start looking to see if I notice some of the things.

Speaker 2 19:59

I will try to pay close attention.

Speaker 4 20:01

But how are you gonna know if that what you're seeing is an increase from what I mean you've haven't seen it. I don't know. Like you you won't know if you're seeing a before or after, you're just seeing it. Yeah.

Speaker 20:12

Unless you're I'm just gonna take a look and see what I well, yeah, your surmising.

Speaker 4 20:18

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and just but this is all there's no substantiated evidence that this has happened, but it is yeah, something that's being discussed.

Speaker 2 20:28

What is substantial substantiated is um uh Olympic um speed skater is speed skater Connor McDermott from the USA. He's actually the first or the only uh out gay male um speed skater, and he's got quite a V VL, I'll tell you that.

Speaker 4 20:49

Uh quite a wild line. A VPL. Really?

Speaker 2 20:51

You know what a VPL is? I do. You might want to tell you. Do you know what a VPL is?

Speaker 20:56

Visible penis line because this is nt my first rodeo.

Speaker 4 20:58

Well, it could also mean it used to mean uh visible panty line for ladies, and so the male version is penis.

Speaker 2 21:06

Yeah, so Connor has quite a package, I'll tell you that.

Speaker 4 21:09

Oh, really? You've surmised?

Speaker 2 21:11

Yeah, he is on the Instagram, he's on the Instagram. He no, well, he's ever since because he tried on 2022 and he couldn't make it. No, so now it's his first um Olympics, Winter Olympics, and he was like trying out suits, and he's like, Oh, I don't know if what's gonna happen with this package on this suit. He's got the speech cater, yes. Oh, so he's just yeah, yeah, he's putting it out there.

Speaker 4 21:33

Well, you know that um there are looking at oh I'm getting a look. Oh, I see. Megan, we'll send you the URL, we'll send you the clip. Everyone else can Google it. Um these cut-I mean, in the summer Olympics, it's the divers, and in the winter Olympics, it's the skin suits that they're wearing. For skiing and uh speed skating and all of that stuff. Well, I know this to be true that the cameramen they had a pre-meeting they and they discuss it ahead of time, knowing that this is what's gonna be uh going on, and they have strict rules to say they were told that listen, this is the human anatomy, it's nothing that is vulgar, however, like just do not linger too long on shots, no zooming and no commentary.

Speaker 2 22:39

Really?

Speaker 22:40

So it that's like they have yeah, that upsets me because I like having the shots and the looks.

Speaker 4 22:47

Well, I mean, it's all subjective. So one cameraman might be like, I didn't feel like I lingered, but maybe they do linger. I don't know.

Speaker 22:56

But let's hope there's more gay cameramen than straight cameramen.

Speaker 4 23:00

Right, because lingering for a gay is probably a lot longer than lingering for a straight. Yes, correct. I love it. I love it. So I do love the VPL storyline.

Speaker 2 23:13

I'm always ready for a VPL.

Speaker 4 23:16

Oh god.

Speaker 23:17

What else do we have about um the well I'm sure you guys know you're all up on the up and up with the Grindr activity? So Grindr, which is a top uh dating app for UK men, they have um put in all these like safety features. Oh yeah, come on over, baby. That's their like when people like send messages or you get matched up on grinders, it says the little come on over. I love it. But it's a problem for me because every time the airwick commercials, they're using the Christina Aguilera come on over, baby. And I constantly feel like it's Grindr going on. And I don't have grind, and no one in my house has grinder.

Speaker 2 24:07

Yeah, like nobody will have it. Come on over!

Speaker 24:10

Yes. So I feel like Airwick is probably really angry that Grindr has now commandeered that phrase because now it makes this airwick a very kind of sexuality.

Speaker 4 24:20

Well, they should do a thing, well, embrace it. A collateral idea. I feel like with what Grindr has done at the Olympics and everyone has to stay in these villages, it's a prime opportunity because Airwick should be plugged into all of these rooms where

VPLs, Cameras, And Skin Suits

Speaker 4 24:35

there's sweaty athletes coming in and uniforms, you know. Like it seems like hello, invite me to the marketing table. Come on over. It should have been an airwick Grindr collab. Yeah. But JG, I think you know about the this the benefit, like whatever you feel about Grindr, I feel like what they've done here in this situation is actually a good thing. Yeah, it's a good thing. I mean, like protects the safety of some of the athletes.

Speaker 2 25:01

Yes, I agree 100%.

Speaker 25:03

What they did, yeah, what they did is they've made it.

Speaker 2 25:06

I was asking JJ. No, but go ahead. No, no, no.

Speaker 25:10

You were just talking about go ahead.

Speaker 4 25:16

We no, I'm done. No, no, no, come on, straight lady. You talk to us about it. No, go ahead, Megan. Come on. Oh, she's going radio silent. JJ, I'm gonna bounce. Go ahead, please, JJ.

Speaker 2 25:29

I mean, I I think that it just sets us some parameters of like people that might be just trying to um get into the gaze, uh, because there are some countries that ban being able to be part of the LGBTQ plus community, and it's in these situations when they can feel um threatened by uh many, you know, uh external resources, uh external sources that come in purposely creating profiles to get uh us um like identified or bullied. Yeah.

Speaker 3 26:07

I was shocked really.

Speaker 2 26:08

Or even sometimes like this, sorry, like this Olympics athletes they've worked all his they're they've worked all their life since they were very little.

Speaker 3 26:18

Yeah.

Speaker 2 26:18

And even though they have, you know, you know, they have that sexual inclination, they're they feel that fear of like if somebody were to know about this, this is the end of my future, really. Like some of these countries, they're like they depend on this to be able to survive.

Speaker 4 26:36

Well, not only could their athletic career be over, but they could face actual like things. Yeah, I was shocked. I did a little follow-up on this, and there are 60 countries represented at this year's Olympics that have some sort of law or discriminating legislation in place against the LGBTQ community, and it runs the gamut, right? Like in terms of the penalties that if you are outed, I guess. So that is shocking to me that there's 60 countries. I mean, I I'm not surprised. I mean, part of me is not surprised, but I just still think that I would have thought there was 30 to 40 countries, maybe, but 60 is a lot. I mean, it's more than half of the countries represented, I think. Like, I think there's 90 some countries there.

Speaker 2 27:31

I think so.

Speaker 4 27:32

So there's only third, there's only like a third of the countries in the in the globe that we can feel safe. That's crazy today.

Speaker 2 27:41

It kind of takes me back to like uh the big, you know, hot show that everybody's talking about, Heated Rivalry. That

Grindr’s Safety Moves In The Village

Speaker 2 27:48

one of the things that happens on the storyline is that one of the players is from Russia and he's not able to come out to his family because if he were to do that, then he will lose all his like pretty much everything and all his career, potentially his freedom, and potentially his freedom and life, uh honestly.

Speaker 4 28:10

Oh, yeah.

Speaker 28:11

So good on Grindr for Well, I mean, I think Grindr, like specifically for people who don't know, Grindr allows you to pull up the app and you can see where people are, how many how far away they are from you. So you know if someone's in the same bar or restaurant or if they're next door. So that feature has been turned off for um anyone within the village boundaries, and that no one who's outside the Olympic village can browse um or message users who are inside the Olympic village. So it gives all these Olympians like this sense of privacy that whoever they're communicating with within the village is another probably Olympian who has as much to lose as they do.

Speaker 4 28:57

Which is why I say good on Grindr. Now, I'm gonna take a potentially controversial stance on this. I will say, like, and I'm gonna not isolate this to grinder, I'll you know, it's for straights as well. If you're living your whole life to get to the Olympics and you go there for your sport, like can you keep it in your pants for two weeks or five days? Listen, hold on. You're I want to hear from your opinion. I want to hear it, but like also there is some data out there in other sport in sports. I'm not an expert, obviously, but like you're not supposed to have a release of sorts prior to a game because it can do something to your performance, your stamina, your whatever. But it's just like, do you need it so bad that you're like, you know what I mean? You put in hours and hours and hours and hours and days and days and all that stuff, and you get there and you're like, I gotta see what's going on in cottage number four.

Speaker 2 30:01

Well, can I say something now?

Speaker 4 30:04

You're gonna be like, Yes, that's what I need. Yeah, cottage four.

Speaker 2 30:07

I mean, face it, you are in Milan, Italy.

Speaker 4 30:11

Yeah.

Speaker 2 30:12

Chances are the men are pretty damn sexy over there. You don't you're not in a village. Yeah, well, you do. You got 90 countries. Well, I hope you're in a long distance relationship. You know, VPLs left and right. And you know, you don't you don't want to you wanna you don't want to shoot on a speed if you have blue balls on it, if you're heavy on it, so you don't want to shoot on a speed.

Speaker 4 30:35

Oh, you so you're pro-release pre-event. Pro release pre-event.

Speaker 2 30:40

You get a little bit of a freedom before the event.

Speaker 4 30:43

What I would what I would endorse is post-event. Release. Post-release. Like once your event's over, go for the gold.

unknown 30:51

Okay.

Speaker 4 30:53

Or the white shoot it for the role.

Speaker 30:55

Well, the Olympic villages have always been notorious for people hooking up. There is there's always these like movies and TV shows about these athletes in the Olympics who are like going and meeting other athletes that are Olympians. Like in my I've always been like, gosh, I wish I was an Olympic athlete just to go visit the village and like meet all these Olympians. And I feel like I can find a potential love of my life there. And have sex or just like that's what I feel like I no, I said love of my life. Right.

Speaker 4 31:29

And right. I want to meet all the people, and I wouldn't I wouldn't behoove my chances of making a connection, but I don't I wouldn't go so far as like I need safety on these hookup apps. I would just be like, I'm gonna park.

Speaker 31:41

Well, I think that's but I do for you know people who are gay, they are targeted sometimes, and they're oh right, yeah, 100% who are coming for them. I agree. That's why I said good on grinder.

Speaker 4 31:56

I do too. Yeah, I was just

Queer Safety, Laws, And Privacy Features

Speaker 4 31:58

adjacently bringing up a related topic. So I think we're all on the same page. I mean, I kind of I mean, I don't hold it against you. 100%. Yeah. No, I'm pro I'm pro-protection. I'm pro-protection. I am just saying, is it like my mind would be less about am I protected on any app I get on to try to meet somebody? And more on, I spent my whole life trying to get on the podium instead of the stick.

Speaker 2 32:29

I mean, you did say at the beginning, you did say, you did say in our episode at the beginning of this year that pen pals are coming back. Pen pals are, yeah. So this could be a great opportunity for you to exchange some numbers and some direct addresses. Love it. And after you stick it, you write it.

Speaker 5 32:49

Click it.

unknown 32:50

Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 32:52

One thing I was very, very surprised, and we can just like wrap it up with this Olympic stuff, is I when I started, we started watching this um opening ceremonies with um Matty last night. I was like, I one country I'm not gonna see here is Puerto Rico. You just one athlete from Puerto Rico doing the skeleton out of all the different events um and the Winter Olympics, which actually this morning, and I don't, you know, it's one of those things that I you're everything is listening to you. So the first thing I was like looking at on my phone this morning is like, oh yeah, people are questioning about why Puerto Rico was in the Winter Olympics, and it's not the first time that Puerto Rico is actually in the Winter Olympics. Um, and not only because Puerto Rico is a US territory, but they are actually able to represent their own country. That's a um and so those um Guam, American Samoa, and US Virgin Islands. That's why they are actually able to represent and being able to have their own Olympic committees uh and being part of it. So it kind of made me was like, oh, this is completely unexpected, but I I'm I'm enjoying it, you know, since like we're having some Puerto Ricans. I mean, not that this Puerto Rican um Kelly Delca that is doing the skeleton um event will was practicing in the mountains on the Junque, which is the rainforest in Puerto Rico.

Speaker 4 34:18

That's where she was practicing. No, she was not that. I was like, oh, really?

Speaker 2 34:22

No, they usually with these islands, they usually practice either in the US or Europe throughout the year. I would go with Europe. I would go I would go with Europe for sure. Um, so yes, no, Puerto Rico didn't suddenly get snow. Um, it was just um another way of Puerto Rico to just represent, show some pride and being able to be part of it.

Speaker 4 34:46

Because we're here to also educate, you should tell people what the skeleton is.

Speaker 2 34:51

Yes, because it sounds very like ominous, like so it's like one of those like sleds, like Bobsled, but it's just a huge it's just you, you are the vessel, head first on a little teeny sled, right?

Speaker 4 35:07

That looked like so way back in the day when it premiered, they said it looked like a rib cage. Pretty much so that they called it a skeleton, yeah, and that term stuck.

Speaker 2 35:19

Yeah, so yeah. So Megan that wants us always to try this louche right here in Michigan. Every time I saw that skeleton, I was like, there is no way I'm gonna get into this, like little But Puerto Ricans are apparently doing that, so you try to do it at the big as hell.

Speaker 4 35:38

You yeah, you might be like, wow, yeah, I missed my calling. 100%.

Speaker 35:42

So Michigan is one of the few places in the world where you, as just an average person with no experience, can go and experience luge. We have a recreational luge that you can use here in Muskegon, Michigan, and it's one of the few places in the world that offers that opportunity. But we got talk about doing it.

Speaker 4 36:05

We pretty much get fucked every year. There one year there's too much snow, and the other year it was like 60 degrees and there was no snow. And then the next year, I think we were like, are we getting too old for this? We don't want to break something. So we don't know. We may be able to do that.

Speaker 36:18

Well, this is the year, this would be the year to do it, and I tried, and full feet.

Speaker 4 36:23

You need to be in town in order to lose. And you haven't been in town since the beginning of 2026 on a weekend.

Speaker 36:32

Oh, I'm in town Monday through Friday every day, every week.

Speaker 2 36:35

Not true. I don't know if I gonna I wanna lose on the Monday to Friday is cash. Well, yeah.

Speaker 36:40

Well, my travels are coming to an end. Thank God. This is my last like trip out of town.

Speaker 2 36:47

All right. It's being

Puerto Rico’s Skeleton Athlete And Luge Dreams

Speaker 2 36:49

cold with this uh all winter stuff. But I mean, let me just slip in something very quick, and it's uh something that kind of goes into our a review of a product that I want us to bring in into the pod, and it's Bombas. Um, yeah, um, we are all have been participating in the Bombas brand. Uh, one thing that I found it very, very interesting is that socks are usually the number one most requested item at homeless shelters.

Speaker 4 37:23

Do you know why?

Speaker 2 37:24

Yes, I do know.

Speaker 4 37:26

Okay, I just want to go.

Speaker 2 37:27

I do know. Okay, and I want to bring that to the pod because socks can serve as two things can actually warm your feet, and also the homeless can actually do some cutouts on the socks and use it as gloves.

Speaker 4 37:41

Or not, or not cut them out.

Speaker 2 37:42

Or not cut them out. Yes. Yeah, yeah, it's wonderful.

Speaker 4 37:44

Which you can't do in reverse. You can't take a glove and put it on your foot.

Speaker 2 37:48

That's true.

Speaker 4 37:49

So that's why like socks are better than gloves. Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 37:52

That's a yeah. So that is actually what served as an inspiration for Bombas to create their brand. And we've been, I mean, I I just I'm just a weekend and I'm already over the winter after being in Puerto Rico. And I was thinking about the people that are, I mean, I know I'm complaining about it every single day, but I was somewhat reflecting on the people that are under the bridge or trying to find a place for them to find some warmth. And Bumba's um mission is that every time we buy a Bambas, they are actually donating a pair of Bambas. And one thing that I've loved the most about it is that they're not just donating uh socks. If you if you buy a t-shirt, they'll donate a t-shirt. If you buy a sock, they'll donate a shirt uh sock. If you buy underwear from Bombas, they'll donate that same item. Um, and it's not just that. And I know that it's typically a little bit pricier of a sock or an item, but when you see a mission and a vision like Bombas has, um, I think that it would be great for us to bring it out. And I want to do a call of action for slippers on this winter. We in the last episode we talked about fighting hate with love. There are people out there that are fighting this cold, trying to figure out a way to feel a little bit warmth. So I'm gonna encourage you not just to buy a bambas for yourself, but also like donate some bambas, uh, donate some socks uh for those that are in need. Because I think that it will be so great to add that on. Bombas actually has donated more than a hundred million items up to this date.

Speaker 5 39:48

That's awesome.

Speaker 2 39:48

Uh, to be able to provide that to those. And I gotta say, on top of that, I mean, Megan and Matty has tried some Bambas and they are pretty comfortable. Oh, I uh and they are, I mean, kind of like now that this the only socks that I have.

Speaker 4 40:03

I've been a bombas fan for a long time. In fact, two years ago for Christmas, um, I gave all of my family members bombas, and I knew going in they weren't gonna be familiar with the brand. I'll just leave it there. Um, so I included a little bit of a note in there to let them know that with this purchase, somebody else got a bombas as well. And I also have the full Sesame Street you do, I have the Sesame Street collection, and I gave it to your nephew as well. Like he got the little kids version. Yeah, you know it's funny too. The you know, I know when you say they're a little bit more expensive, they are high quality, they are, and they stand behind their brand. And you can they have a program online where you can just go in, and if you have if for whatever reason you're talking well, JJ, I did this for you once, and I didn't tell you the story, I'll tell you now. But you one time I was over at your house and a pair of bombas, I had bought you for a gift. I noticed like the heel had worn out or something, and you're like, Yeah, and I said, Well, you know, they'll return them. And I in my head, I thought they were a year old. I because I have an account, I logged in to go in and

Bombas Mission, Quality, And Giving

Speaker 4 41:18

do my thing. They were five years old, and they got me a brand new pair, and they gave they ice, I I'm like, they gave it no questions asked, they shipped you off. I did feel a little bad in that situation, but like they say they they have a lifetime guarantee, so I guess it was great.

Speaker 2 41:34

I love that. So Bambas, Bambas, yeah, they are also not.

Speaker 4 41:39

I mean, to kind of pull it together a little bit as a through line, they I don't know if you know this, but they are also the U.S. skating team's apparel partner.

Speaker 2 41:48

Oh my god, I love that.

Speaker 4 41:49

So they're not like a sponsor of the Olympics, but they provide both um apparel and discounts to all of the U.S. figure skaters skating community. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 42:01

Well that's yeah, that's similar to J. Crew. J. Crew is an official partner for the US ski and snowboard team. And if you go to J. Crew, they have a whole Olympic uh collection and you could they have some other cute sweaters and some other things that you can buy that they are giving to all of the skiers and snowboarders. Love that um on the Olympic team. So yeah, they it's really great products. There's a couple sweaters I have my eye on.

Speaker 4 42:30

Everything is so I hate to say it because what a beautiful message you just said. Like a lot of things are very commercialized. I'm not saying Bombas has commercialized this opportunity, but like the Olympics used to be about sport and now it's about fashion as well. Like through and through.

Speaker 42:46

And I think Olympians, I mean, they give up like so much of their lives to become amazing at their sports. So I say let's give it as much as they want. Like I love it.

Speaker 4 42:57

No, I support it. Uh, but you know, it's like everything is I don't know. We just everything is under a microscope, and we I agree. We're like, what's happening? Like, oh, they're eating the lava cake, you know, like that's the big thing that's going off in the cafeterias right now. The lava cake. Eat the auto grinder.

Speaker 43:16

You yeah, well, if you saw the prices on some of these J. Cruise sweaters, you would be wishing you were an Olympian and getting them for free.

Speaker 4 43:24

Well, oh, well, same thing with the Bumbas. Go to okay.

Speaker 43:28

Yeah, exactly. Like I'm ready for the free stuff. But with that, I think it's time for some slip it ins and pull it out. And let me just tell you, my slip it in is very much kind of reminiscent of where I am, and it is sun, cobblestones, and popcorn at a bar is like my life today. A little bit of sun, a little bit of cobblestone walking, and uh stop at the Perry Hotel Bar. They have this little popcorn machine in the corner where you serve yourself. And I love a little popcorn and a drink on a sunny day.

Speaker 4 44:06

So that was like a like a basket of slip it in. So is it Savannah? Is it being in Savannah? You're slip it in, or no.

Speaker 44:15

I mean, put me any city with some sun, cobblestones, and popcorn at a bar. Cute ambulance.

Speaker 4 44:21

And crime, apparently. Well, I do love true crime, so throw that in the mix. I love that.

Speaker 44:28

So I'll have to chase down that ambulance to see where it's right on cue. So my pull it out is, which kind of seems like it should be a slip it in, but in this case, it's a pull it out, is a dark web alert. Right before we started recording, I looked at my email and I had a dark web alert, like, oh, your information has been compromised, your private information's out on the dark web. And so I went to read this alert on my like um prof this company I use to alert me to things with my identity. And they said, Oh, someone was trying to use your login to Panera Bread. So apparently my login for Panera Bread just was compromised. Okay. And honestly, it might have just been me trying to like log in.

Speaker 4 45:22

What if they're unsubscribe? Like, what if they stole your free cookie? What if they stole your free cookie that you earned?

Speaker 45:29

Uh they can. I don't even have any reports right now. So they're gonna be sorely like out of luck.

unknown 45:34

Yeah.

Speaker 4 45:35

Can I ask why you said at the beginning that you this sounds like it could be a slip it in? What it seems like a pull it out.

Speaker 45:42

Theoretically, you want to notify. Yeah. Oh, on the alerting your info.

Speaker 4 45:48

The notification is a slip it in, but clearly the Panera compromise.

Speaker 45:53

I'm fine. Yeah.

Speaker 4 45:54

Okay.

Speaker 45:55

And I question whether it was really suspicious, unusual activity.

Speaker 4 46:00

Well, you better check it out at your local Panera.

Speaker 46:04

I'm letting it go. Let's just say that.

Speaker 2 46:06

My slip it in. It's um the first episode of the Valley Persian style. I used to not be a big, big fan of Shahs of Sunset, but The Valley: Persian style, I'm so in. I'm so into the two Resa situation. I love that MJ is not Mercedes. Uh I love that Gigi is not Golnesa. Like, I I love every single little bit of it. Um, and I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm in another show that I need to catch up with, but yes, I'm in.

Speaker 46:40

I'm fully caught up, but let me tell you something. Like, I watched Shaws of Sunset years ago, and so I was what way into the Valley Persian style as well. But they used to call Mercedes MJ.

Speaker 5 46:55

Yeah.

Speaker 46:55

And I thought her real name was Mercedes, spelled like the vehicle. But when this show aired, now they're not calling her MJ, they're calling her Mercedes, and then they spelled it, and it doesn't end with a D E S, it ends with a D-E-H. So I'm like, oh my god, it's not Mercedes like the car, which is how I've always thought it was. Yeah, that was new.

Speaker 2 47:19

And

Slip It In And Pull It Out Round

Speaker 2 47:20

Andy watched what happens live, kept saying he had a hard time trying to pronounce her name.

Speaker 47:25

Yeah.

Speaker 4 47:25

How much sleep have you guys lost over this? How much sleep have you lost over? Not much.

Speaker 47:31

It was just an eye-opening. I'm like, for years I thought her name was Mercedes. She's just rebranding herself today.

Speaker 2 47:37

Yeah, she's just rebranding herself. So that's when I slip it in. My pull out are blizzard or winter runners, outdoor runners. Like our treadmills on the gym. Like, what's the point? Like, what you are you trying to prove something? Like, I don't even know if this is healthy for you to be out and about in the middle of a blizzard.

Speaker 4 48:01

I have a brother-in-law that doesn't know, so you might have to answer to him.

Speaker 2 48:05

I've argued that with him, and he keeps doing it every every day. And I better buy him some bombs. I am not, I am not. I am one, not a runner fan, and Megan knows it. Like I went for a couple runs when I was in Puerto Rico, but then in the last one, I actually kind of twisted my my knee, and and it just changed into me limping the rest of my trip there. So your running career.

Speaker 48:29

Well, let's be clear. Let's be clear. It wasn't just you limping for the rest of your trip. You went out and had to buy a knee brace. And you were yelling at me when I was trying to take pictures. I was trying to take a picture to send to you, Matty, and he yelled at me. And I'm like, JJ, you went for this run.

Speaker 4 48:48

He went for this running. Did you fall while you're running?

Speaker 48:53

Maddie. Short shorts, a cropped Detroit daddy t-shirt. He goes out for this six-mile run, comes back. Oh, I feel so great. And the rest of the time he wouldn't walk. He was living worse than me and had to run out and get a neighbor.

Speaker 4 49:10

But I look great. Wow. Wow. I only had heard bits and pieces of this. Now I got the full.

Speaker 2 49:18

It was a great run, I'll tell you that. Until it wasn't. Nah, I'm not. Back to my pull out list of runners. I'm out. Matt.

Speaker 4 49:30

Yeah. Okay. My slip it in is shitting in public validations. What do you mean by that? So in an earlier episode, I had spoken about how there are people out there who have a fetish or get very excited about pooping in public. And I didn't have a ton to go on other than research that I had done and my own accidental things, which led to the conversation, but it was accidental. It wasn't intentional. But I did find out in my research, like, for example, around the holidays, there are people out there that like to shit behind a Christmas tree that are in the Home Depot or other places like that. So I come into a work meeting last week, and I have colleagues that are catching up on the pod, and two colleagues had personal stories from their past employment about shitters in public. One said to me, her boss, they worked at a salon, and her boss would go into the bathroom that was open both to like workers but the general public. And instead of shitting in the toilet, she would shit in the waste basket.

Speaker 50:55

Oh my God. I can't. Like I don't even understand. I don't understand.

Speaker 2 50:59

We have the option. The toilet is right next to it.

Speaker 4 51:02

I think I said to her, my take on that. It could be a fetish, but it also could be like, do you know there's people out there that will shoplift when they can clearly afford the item, but they get a rush or uh an excitement out of it. So perhaps Winona Ryder. Yeah, exactly. Winona did that. So maybe that's it. Like, I know I can shit in that toilet. I'm gonna shit over here and like it'll give like whatever provocate. I don't know. That's a situation I'm not gonna and the other girl in the room said, I used to work at JCPenney, and I would monitor the women's uh fitting rooms, and I would have to go in there periodically to clear the clothes that people wouldn't bring back out of the fitting rooms. And she goes, on a weekly basis, people had defecated in the fitting rooms. I can't even like that's so gross.

Speaker 2 51:56

So, and these are both ladies, so it's a slip it in of you, like just well, my validation the validation.

Speaker 4 52:02

My validation okay, because now I have real testimonials.

Speaker 2 52:07

You sure do that. What's up, you're pulling out?

Speaker 4 52:09

My pull it out is Valentine's Day. Now that might and so some people might say that should be a slip it in. It should be, but it's not, it's a pull it out, and it's right around the corner. Valentine's Day will be like four days away when this drops. And yeah, it I it's it's kind of hallmarky holiday. And when it typically, especially if it falls through the week, whenever I have been in a situation in my life where Valentine I had a Valentine, quote unquote, it'd be like, Oh my god, here we go. Should we? It's Tuesday. Do we have to like yes? All right, let's go out to dinner. I live in and then everyone would go, like, people would you try to find a reservation and it's cold out, and it's like, oh no, I just I don't, and so much hype is on it, and the stores for over a month now, or if not longer, have had their Valentine's Day merch out. Yeah, it's just like over commercialized, and you have you put I think too much pressure is put on to like do something, have

Closing, Links, And How To Reach Us

Speaker 4 53:13

a plan, yeah, go out of your life.

Speaker 2 53:16

It's like one of those things that you're doing it because it's Valentine's Day, you're giving me flowers because it's Valentine's Day, you're giving me chocolates because it's Valentine's Day, even though you know I'm allergic to chocolate.

Speaker 4 53:24

Correct. It'd be more important I'd get something more out of it on a random day where I get acknowledged. Right, rather than like a performative day. It's very performative.

Speaker 5 53:38

Right.

Speaker 4 53:38

And I know probably, Megan, you still are expecting a dozen on your day. Oh, she will get it when her button. She will.

Speaker 53:45

No, I just like a little, I like having just another little day to get a little special acknowledgement, and I like to acknowledge my love.

Speaker 2 53:53

That's true. Why not?

Speaker 53:54

I mean I don't mind it.

Speaker 4 53:55

Yeah.

Speaker 53:56

I'm not all about it. I don't do sweetheart day, but I do it.

Speaker 4 53:59

Sweetheart day is even worse. The sweetest day you mean. Sweetest day, yeah, sweetest day.

Speaker 54:04

Well, with that, I think it's time to wrap it up. Until next time, check out our link tree at Slip It In Podcast. We'll have links for the Bombas, the J. Crew and Snowboard looks, and anything else we talked about today. And you can always slip into our DMs on Instagram, TikTok, X, and Facebook at Slip It In Podcast. You can call and text us. We love to get texts and feedback at 313-444-9004. And our email always works. Slipitin podcast at gmail.com. Till next time, everyone.