Slip It In
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Slip It In is the unhinged brunch conversation you can’t help overhearing! Longtime friends Matty, Megan and JJ take on the kinds of hot topics that always find their way to the table, including pop culture, internet trends, products, dating and relationships, and the everyday chaos we probably should keep to ourselves, but don’t.
Expect personal stories, questionable opinions, unexpected confessions, product discoveries, recurring debates and the occasional piece of advice no one asked for. It’s smart, funny, self-aware and just inappropriate enough to make you check whether anyone else heard it.
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Slip It In
Bad Bunny’s 13-Minute Masterclass, Nextdoor Fame, and Sayso’s Teabag Espresso Martini
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We revisit Bad Bunny’s halftime show to decode its symbols, honor for Puerto Rican culture, and ripple effects, then pivot to an unsettling encounter with First Amendment Auditors outside Trader Joe’s. Along the way we test an espresso martini teabag, share dating wisdom, celebrate small family rituals, and vent about home repair spam.
• layers inside Bad Bunny's halftime show visuals and staging
• real Puerto Rican vendors on the field as cultural tribute
• Gaga’s dress details, Ocasio 64, and family homages
• viral view counts and the flush stats as impact signals
• what First Amendment Auditors are and how they bait reactions
• practical boundaries between public recording and harassment
• dating mantra: date from worth not wounds
• Sayso espresso martini teabag review and technique
• Love Is Blind comfort TV and recovery downtime
• Carol Burnett’s memory, elders’ stories, and perspective
• secret hand-squeeze ritual and staying close to family
• Angi quotes turning into nonstop calls and texts
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Hosts Return & Super Bowl Vibes
Speaker 2Slippers unite it's time to play. We bring a spice to your work or your day, confessions debates and a product or two. We slip it in just for you.
Speaker 1You'll laugh, you'll cringe. Welcome, welcome, welcome, everyone. We are back, slipping it in with you. Hi, guys. Hi, Matty.
Speaker 5Hi, Megan. Hola, JJ.
Speaker 3Hola Matty. Hi, Megan.
SpeakerHello.
Speaker 3I'm so happy. I still I talking about highs. I'm I think I'm still on a high about the Bad Bunny concert. Well, the Super Bowl, but you know what? You know what I mean.
Speaker 5Yeah. It was more the Bad Bunny concert.
Halftime High: Why It Still Matters
Speaker 5It wasn't much of a Super Bowl, right?
Speaker 3I was gonna say, I'm usually not a sporty guy, especially when it comes to like American football. But I looked at Matty a couple times. I'm like, is this really the way it should be?
Speaker 5This is usually this boring? I'm usually boring. It was a little bit of an uneventful game.
Speaker 3Yeah. Yeah. But in I I I but I I I I loved every minute of the Bad Bunny halftime show. And before anybody says that we're late talking about it, um, let me say this. I think that this moment didn't end up when the lights went down. Um, I think culture culture doesn't really expire in a week. Uh and and what Bad Bunny did was establish uh what culture is about, and um what he did even at the begin at the end of it with his uh little words on the football says that we're all together, we're America. Um so I think it was great.
Speaker 5I kind of feel like there were a lot of Easter eggs and they're still being found. Like every couple days or every day, like there's another little component that kind of comes to light that wasn't intentional on his part, but it's taken a minute for it to come into the light.
Speaker 3And I love that you said that because I think that talking about it now, um, it actually gives us perspective, it gives context, and all the layers that most people actually miss. So I mean I want to talk about it. Let's do it. Let's talk about some of the details,
Puerto Rican Roots On The Field
Speaker 3some of the details that Bad Bunny brought in. Um dates. In 13 minutes, he accomplished a lot. Uh, and I think that he proved that his Latin culture and background actually put in a uh a statement in um a big, the bigger, probably one of the biggest stage uh in the world, which is a Super Bowl. Um and and the the visuals was like it kind of felt at the beginning that it was a kind of a telenovela. Uh kind of kind of a soap opera for us, yeah. Like, yeah, kind of a thing. Yeah. And it kind of brings in like with like the sugarcane fields, which brings back to like the Puerto Rican roots of like workers, uh, that they, you know, they usually, you know, work in that in that, you know, those fields for years and years and years. Um in kind of an homage to like small businesses, too. Oh, definitely.
Speaker 5We all been like an old San Juan uh when we see those little kiosks, and he did that throughout the whole uh like he literally brought in Puerto Rican like street vendors, yes, those were
Real Vendors, Bushes, And La Casita
Speaker 5not actors, though that wasn't staged, like that was the real business transported to the Super Bowl field.
Speaker 3Yeah, and that was one of the things 100%. And that was that was intentional from Bad Bunny and his team to bring that like that vendor didn't just show up accidentally and be like, Will you let me be the field?
Speaker 5Like, what about me? Can I get in there? Right, very intentional.
Speaker 3I mean, to to your point, Matty, can we talk about the bushes? Well, okay, I'll make an exception. I'll make an exception.
Speaker 5We'll bring in the bush, bring it in.
Speaker 3So, so to your point, I think that you know, even when Bad Bunny was his doing his residency in Puerto Rico, he brought in a lot of business to the island and a spotlight to it because he wanted to give more jobs to people, and he did the same approach like Puerto Ricans, Puerto Ricans, specifically, yes, and he did the same approach with the Super Bowl when he could have actually just hired people just to do bushes, literally bushes. I mean, I don't think your resume has to go deep for a bush, it doesn't, no but especially when it comes to Latin. Sometimes they do like a little bush here and there. Not a little manscaping here or there. No, oh no, there's there's some trimming that needs to be happening. Wow, that's right. So he hired people.
Speaker 6Oh, hi Megan! Hi.
Speaker 3So he hired people to be acting as a bush. As a bush, but at the same time, he paid them, but then it kind of worked out because when it comes to relocating the bushes, they just moved around. Like it doesn't, you know, it didn't require much main manpower to just move a bush from left to right.
Speaker 5Yeah, all right, bushes, keep moving.
Speaker 3So I think that it was it was just a a beautiful homage to not only Puerto Rico but all
Gaga’s Dress, Symbols, And 64
Speaker 3Latin culture and Latin America. Um, we also La Casita, which is the little house that he has bring in ever since he started his residency in Puerto Rico, and he's bringing it into different countries.
Speaker 5Well, listen, if you put Pedro Pascal on that front porch, I'll bring it out.
Speaker 3Move into my neighborhood with Cardi B, Cardi B Jessica Alba, Carol G. Karol G. I'm just getting to learn. Yo, Miko. Yes, I know. You're like, she'd be everywhere.
Speaker 5I don't know who this Karol G is.
Speaker 3And even from the casita, they went into like the wedding, which I know that some people like didn't get the whole vibe of the wedding. But I think that he it it is all part of the culture that comes in with Latin, you know, Hispanic, and like the whole wedding.
Speaker 5Do you know what I love about it? Is you know, I think you know, but do you know, Megan, that they they actually invited Bad Bunny to their wedding?
Speaker 1Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 5You just never know what will happen. Yeah. And he's like, I'm sorry, I can't make it.
Speaker 3How many people invite Bad Bunny to their wedding?
Speaker 5But would you like to come to the Super Bowl and get married during my halftime show? Like, could you even imagine that unfolding in your world? I cannot I would almost get married for that.
unknownOh my god.
Speaker 3I would almost, yeah. I mean, maybe not. Then and then you have Lady Gaga as the wedding singer.
Speaker 5Oh magic hands. Yeah.
Speaker 3Do you know that the designer of Lady Gaga's dress didn't even know that this was happening? So he's of course, like many designers do, he signed an NDA. Yeah. They say Lady Gaga is gonna wear this dress.
Speaker 5Didn't know that it was gonna be in that. No, he didn't. He didn't. Well, I don't think we, I mean, none of us even know Lady Gaga. They did a pretty good job keeping their wraps. They did. Very much so. So that makes sense. And so he probably just thought, oh, she's gonna wear this at an award show or something like that.
Speaker 3Well, they did tell him very Michelle Obama. They did tell, yeah, very Michelle Obama, but they did tell him that it was going to be a salsa number. So he so that he could have some inspiration. You know, you're a creative mind, so you know that
Viral Numbers And Flush Stats
Speaker 3he wanted to hear some some create uh uh inspiration in regards to what kind of dress. He wanted the vibe to be the vibe to be very like salsa-like, and I don't know if uh and any of uh our listeners are are aware of this, but the flower or the corsage that she was wearing is the national flower of Puerto Rico, too.
Speaker 5See, everything is colour, everything meant something. Do you know he was wearing a hundred percent Zara? Which I love me some Zara, and that's that's a speaker.
Speaker 3Because I was gonna say Zara is Spanish from Spain, which colonized Puerto Rico. So it's whole bragging back that is tied back to yeah, and even the number 64 that he was wearing on the back of his uh jersey with the last name Ocasio, which was an homage to his mother, so he used his mother's last name and not his dad, bringing up the beauty, the beauty of a mother that raised him and believed in him ever since he was a little kid, which the kid was part of the whole what's the 64 piece? The 64 is his uncle, that he's the one that introduced him to American football for the first time.
Speaker 5See, I love all of that.
Speaker 3So I think it was just like so intentional, and that's why I think I'm like I'm in a high of this bad bunny. Um and the amount of views that it got, it was probably bad bunny like should come on.
Speaker 5Oh my god. I mean, he's getting great air time with us. I think that the same way he's having a moment and he deserves it.
Speaker 3I think that the same way, I don't know if any of you watched when Ellen was really adamant about being on the cover of the old magazine and she was doing a big campaign, Ellen DeGeneres. She was always in a subject. But we can just be a campaign of like
Invitation: Bad Bunny On The Pod
Speaker 3Bad Bunny being on the pod.
Speaker 5If you like Bad Bunny, can you come to my wedding and then they're on the field? So why don't we do a Bad Bunny? Can you come on our pod?
SpeakerYeah, I love it. I support it.
Speaker 5All right, well, we're gonna kick that campaign off.
Speaker 3Yes, but a total of about 128.2 million people watch that. Can you believe that?
Speaker 5It's amazing.
Speaker 3Making it one of the first.
Speaker 5Can we zero in on the city of New York?
Speaker 3Tell me that fact. That was the most here's the funny thing.
Speaker 5The funny thing for me, let me say this, and then we can like sit speak to what we're talking about, actually. But there's apparently a person whose job is as a data analyst to monitor toilet flushes during the Super Bowl,
The Trader Joe’s Filming Incident
Speaker 5I guess.
SpeakerI mean, I think they talk about it every year.
Speaker 5Okay. Oh, really?
SpeakerOh, yeah, every year they talk about the year there's a flushes, too.
Speaker 5Okay, well, I think he's I think he had a record. Yeah. Uh so for 13 minutes, correct? 13.25 seconds. 13.25 seconds, toilets were not being flushed anywhere. Well, it were flush. A flush here, a flush there. Everywhere flush flush.
Speaker 3If it's yellow, let it mellow.
Speaker 5Yeah.
Speaker 1Oh my god. I can't.
Speaker 5But yes, you're correct.
Speaker 1So have you heard about it? Yes, Andy.
Speaker 5Well, what's the other part of it? Because if it's something If it's yellow, let it mellow.
Speaker 3And if it's brown, no.
Speaker 5Let it drown.
Speaker 3Maybe.
Speaker 5I don't know. We might be.
Speaker 3We just made that up.
Speaker 5But anyway, it's significant in that people were holding it. Yeah. Because they wanted to see what happened during the Super Bowl and then release after. So, okay.
Speaker 3Yeah. Right after it. There were so many moments. 761,000 flushes after that.
Speaker 1Bam. That's so crazy to me. But I also think it's crazier that after the Super Bowl, the halftime show had over 4 billion more viewers who watched it online after the show.
Speaker 5I feel like that's a little indicative of like a lot of people, just that's how they consume their they don't even a lot of them don't even need to watch it live. They just do it after. But that number is huge.
Speaker 3That is insane. That it's that talking about going viral. That went viral for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1Well, and I also think you don't get paid to do the Super Bowl halftime show.
Speaker 3You don't.
Speaker 1No. You do it for exposure. Exactly. That's what they say. Alone.
Speaker 5Well, you guys are giving me a lot to think about because I feel like I'm on the cusp of somebody seeking out my presence for some viral moments.
Speaker 1Oh my God. I can't believe it.
Speaker 5I'm hoping for a paycheck.
Speaker 4Are you putting yourself in the same stage of Bad Bunny?
Speaker 5Adjacent. Are we going to call you good bunny? A djacent.
Speaker 3Bad Bunny versus a Good Bunny.
Speaker 5I'm going to call myself Observant Bunny.
Speaker 3Oh my god. All right.
Speaker 5I you guys know a little bit about it. I have I told you I'm going to save some of this for today's up. And I'm going to break this down. And this is going to maybe get a little heavy, but we'll see how this conversation goes. Monday, 3 p.m. I'm going home from the office. I need to do a drive by my Trader Joe's to pick up my weekly salads for the week.
Speaker 3Sounds like a regular Monday.
Speaker 5So far. Yes. Oh, right. That sounds
First Amendment Auditors Explained
Speaker 5dun dun dun. So I'm in line checking out. I don't know if all Trader Joe's are constructed this way, but at the checkout lanes, it's just a wall of windows, and you can see out into the parking lot. All of a sudden, there's a kerfuffle going on in within the store, and people are starting. I hear murmurs, people are looking. I look out. There are three individuals positioned strategically outside the storefront. It's kind of like a busy road. It is a busy road that Trader Joe's is on. You can go into Trader Joe's off of this road. It's Woodward Avenue. A lot of people actually might know it. Um Woodward Avenue, you can enter into uh Trader Joe's, and then there's also an exit. So you go in one way, you come out the other if you're going in and out from this road. There are three individuals, two of them are positioned at the entranceway and they're standing on the sidewalk. The third individual is at the exit. And from what I could what I saw, there were two females and one male. It was still very cold here in it was like 20 or 25 degrees. They're dressed as you would expect someone to be dressed in the winter. They do have like puffy jackets on, hoods up, but they also have scarves around their face, and they are holding gimbals with their iPhones. So a gimbal is like you trying to be like a movie content creator. You pop your iPhone into it, and just imagine like out in front of you, you're holding your two hands out, and you're holding like a camera type device on both sides, and in the center is your cell phone. And you can move your, you know, you can move left to right with this thing, and your phone's in there and it's staying stable. So they're filming people coming in and out, both on foot and uh in their vehicles.
unknownOkay.
Speaker 3So it's like a camera crew for like a commercial, right?
Speaker 5Like every well, everyone's like, What's going on? What is going on? And I did hear while I was in the store someone saying, Well, are they doing something for you guys? Like a customer asking. For try-to-joes? And they're like, I not that I'm aware of. And they're like, Well, should they be here? And they're like, Well, they're kind of on public property. I mean, they're on the sidewalk, they're not in the parking lot, so I don't know what's going on. So anyway, I go out.
Speaker 3But the parking lot does belong to well, no, they're not.
Speaker 5I'm saying they're not in the parking lot. They're standing out of the side.
Speaker 3I go on the sidewalk. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay.
Speaker 5Which is a is public, right?
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 5So I go out, I get in my car, I'm actually parked in the row. I all I have to do is back out and go right out that exit.
Speaker 6Yeah.
Speaker 5I notice I'm being clocked by the female that's standing on the exit. She is like tracking me as I walk to my car, uh-huh. Get in the car. When I back out, I see she's still focused on me. I have to pull up right next to her and wait for the traffic to clear before I can pull out into Woodward. And she is literally two feet from me, zeroed in on me.
Speaker 1Trying to get you to like say something.
Speaker 3And you're like, is this my looks? Like, what's going on? Right.
Speaker 5I mean, I mean, I didn't, yeah. Yeah. I mean, when I walked out, I didn't know my life was gonna change when I walked out that morning on a Monday. I would have done a little bit more. But anyway, I did have all of those feelings in my mind when she's two feet
Safety, Legality, And Harassment Lines
Speaker 5from me filming me. Like, I wanted to like inside, I wanted to be like, What are you filming? Why are you doing this? Yeah, I felt like self-conscious in the sense of like this is like a like you're kind of invading my privacy, but I'm not parats, but like I'm literally just sitting in my car trying to pull out. So I am like, what I did know to be true was I'm not gonna engage because yeah, I don't know. That's what they want. I mean this could go sideways. Yeah, it seems like they're up to no good. Okay, sorry, it's long-winded. I told you buckle up for the read, Dorite. I get home, I finish my day at work, and then I decide I'm gonna find out a little bit more of this. So I went out. Have you do you guys know the Nextdoor app? Yeah, try to avoid it. Everyone knows next door. I don't think it's the same though in every city. I think there's someone told me there's like a city, city app version or a citizen something. There's multiple. Okay.
Speaker 1Well, when you sign up for Nextdoor, ask your city and your neighborhood, and it puts you in those areas.
Speaker 5Yeah. So you're saying it's across the states? Uh yeah.
Speaker 1I mean, I know next door, I know people in let's say a handful of states that are on next door.
Speaker 5Okay, fair enough. I mean, I figured it is on it. But I think there's competitor apps, and some choose to be on that app for some. Well, maybe fine. Well, whatever. I went viral on this app.
Speaker 1Yeah. Oh my god. So you went viral Nextdoor. On Nextdoor. Listen. I mean, from the Super Bowl speech, you're Nextdoor.
Speaker 5I mean, like, watch out, Bad Bunny.
Speaker 1I can't with you.
Speaker 5Listen, are you getting high with some bushes? Listen, this is so weird to put it in context because I've always wanted to kind of go viral on a post. Like, not not listen, I didn't want to go viral intentionally, like, I'm gonna create a piece of content that will go viral. I just wanted to post something in my day that somehow, some way took off.
Speaker 6Yeah.
Speaker 5Little did I know it happened within this little microcosm of next door. So here's my post. I'm gonna read this. Today at Trader Joe's in Royal Oak, there were three randos standing at the entry and exits onto Woodward filming cars and people coming and going with their iPhones and gimbals. Workers inside the store were commenting about it, wondering what they were doing. Uh so definitely not sanctioned by TJs. When I left, one of the filmers literally filmed me backing out of my spot, then tracked and filmed me right up until it was clear for me to pull onto Woodward. They were quite brazen and intentional about it, filming me just feet from my car. Anyone else experience this or know anything about why they were filming? Okay.
Speaker 3That was it.
Speaker 5I literally did not know. And so that all of that was authentically
Comments, “Sheeple,” And Tactics
Speaker 5me wondering like what WTF. I'm just gonna say this and then I'm gonna stop talking so you guys can uh you know, in, react, ask questions. My post insights 11.1, thousand views. Wow. Wow, good cheer. 42 reactions doesn't sound impressive. No, 126 comments.
Speaker 3126.
Speaker 5And there are comments. What kind of comments? Um, the comments were very telling, but like I'm gonna pause again. I've done a lot of talking. I think you all know a little bit about what's going on, and I'd like to defer.
Speaker 1Yeah, these guys are called First Amendment auditors, and they're just out to try to create drama. Well, I know you're using it loosely, but like men and women, they're known as First Amendment auditors, and basically they kind of are part of like similar to an anti-vaxxer where they're just out to create chaos, and they love to like try to get rise out of people, and they want the police to be called so that the police want that, yes, because they want the police to come and get all up in their faces so they can throw out that they have First Amendment rights and the police can't do it, and then they can highlight that these government officials aren't following the laws, but they really are uh on the line of what is legal and not illegal illegal.
Speaker 3That's what I was gonna ask you, Matty. Do you feel like safe?
Speaker 5Like you like when you were I just felt um uncertain about what was going on around me. I didn't feel like it was unsafe, but it didn't feel normal, right? And and as the comments come in, and I actually was sidebaring a little bit with Megan too, and she was like doing a little research as well. And it's it's very interesting
Dating Wisdom: Worth Over Wounds
Speaker 5to once I peeled back and started to learn about it, everything Megan just said is correct. And on top of that, I think what's going on too is like you got to keep some things in mind, they're very calculated, right? So they are not in this case, you couldn't identify them if you if you saw them in a lineup, they're standing on a public sidewalk, they're filming, they're filming people. And it feels like an invasion of privacy, but they're breaking zero laws. They're also not saying a word to anybody. Okay. But they are clearly doing things that are intentionally trying to incite a reaction. Okay. And if you do, then you are quote unquote the aggressor. You're the one. And then they will respond to you. And the typically, like there's a lot of videos out there. Why are you filming me? I don't want to be filmed. Well, it's my First Amendment right. Okay. I'm not breaking any laws. You're actually harassing me. Yeah. You know what I mean?
Speaker 3So they didn't have any certain color hats worrying, like none of that. No.
Speaker 1No. I mean, they're, I mean, they have been like people who are First Amendment auditors, people will accuse them of like holding racist or bigoted views because they do typically go into more white liberal areas because they feel like those people will be the first to maybe call the police or the first to like get into it with them and they want to get these videos of you, and then they're going to put them on the internet. Now, it is illegal to profit from someone that you film without their consent. So that's where again they start blurring some of these
Espresso Martini Teabags Review
Speaker 1lines of what's legal or illegal. Plus, if they're filming you and you tell them to stop and they keep filming you, at some point it well, it becomes harassment. Then they don't have to stop, but then maybe you have a claim and an action against them for harassment.
Speaker 5But the the chance of all of that going to court and the thing that you would have to invest with your time and maybe money, it's just a lot. And you know, like they are they are in some way, I think people have different motives in this class of individuals. Some are just doing it because that's their nature, right? And they have nothing else to do on a Monday at 3 p.m. There's others that are monetizing it, and I just think they don't like I don't think they they realize that the amount of people out there that would really take an action against them is gonna be very low, but they will they're putting these on TikTok, they're putting them on YouTube. Yeah, people are it's clickbait content, people are watching them, then they you know they open their account to ads, ads can get placed, that monetizes it. And to Megan's point, you don't really have your right to use me, but like, do I even know where that like I have no idea where that footage is, who that handle is? I'd have to find it. I like it, there's a lot, right? And it just I don't, and nobody the fact I don't think it'll see the light of day in a courtroom, really.
Speaker 3So yeah, it's and I think that you've said it before, Matty, that it's like there is this type of people that I'm like, how do you have time in your hands during your day to just say, you know what? Today, what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna go to Trader Joe's.
Speaker 5I can barely get my load of laundry done.
Speaker 3Oh wow, but I am going to go into that corner.
Speaker 5But you know what? At 2 45, I'm gonna start warming my car up because I'm gonna hit the Trader Joe's, and I'm just I get grab my gimbal. Grab my gimbal.
Speaker 3And out of like off places, we all know Trader Joe's parking lot is not the best parking lot in the world.
Speaker 5Well, two things. One thing you said, Megan, and one thing you said just now, JJ. Both of those were brought up in the comments because I had 128. Okay. To Megan's point, someone was like, just try doing this bullshit in Detroit or Dearborn.
Speaker 6Yeah. Right?
Speaker 5Right. Because they're like, they're going to white Trader Joe's, Royal Oak. And then what you just said, um, JJ, is what'd you say?
Speaker 3The parking lot.
Speaker 5Yeah. Right. What you just said is like that was some people's initial instincts because we've talked about this before. Like, maybe they're filming because like so many accidents happen in the Trader Joe's. Because it's trying
Slip It In & Pull Out: Personal Peaks
Speaker 5to back out of there. I'm like, I'm always like, I'm gonna get hit by something or I'm gonna hit something. But none of these, this is not what they were doing.
Speaker 1Well, in your comments, so these First Amendment auditors will call people who criticize what they're doing bootlickers or freedom haters. So, did you have any comments refusing referencing that?
Speaker 5I heard nothing about bootlickers. Lickers? Leggers.
Speaker 1Boot lickers.
Speaker 5Boot lickers. Meaning like that sounds like the prohibition. Well, those were bootleggers. Oh, really?
Speaker 1Yes, they were bootleggers. Yeah, not bootlickers. So what are they? So they're kind of licking L I C K E R S. Like you're licking my boots. Oh, like you're you're licking the boots.
Speaker 5That's weird.
Speaker 1Well, it's sound of a like it's kind of like how the anti-vaxxers use terms like sheeple or tell people do your own research. Sheeple, yes.
Speaker 5Like, okay, not anti-vaxxing. I do not know a sheeple.
Speaker 1Anti-vaxxers will call people sheeple, meaning you're sheep, but you're people, but you're just getting a vaccine. What do you mean? Because you're getting a vaccine because some of the government's telling you it cures you.
Speaker 5So you're just you're a sheep hurt it.
Speaker 1Yes, yes.
Speaker 5Oh my god, I kind of like sheeple.
Speaker 3Well, not in that context, but I might use that you sheep, you sheeple. Come along with me, sheeples. We're going I do like me sometimes a word that stuck with a z.
Speaker 5Oh my god. I've never, honest to god, I've never heard of sheeple. You got it.
Speaker 3Well, is this my camera? I'm taking a note.
Speaker 5I'm taking a note, sheeple use it in the future.
Speaker 1Well, when the you're back at Trader Joe's getting recorded, call them a sheeple.
Speaker 5Who?
Speaker 1The First Amendment auditor.
Speaker 5I see. That's what they want.
Speaker 3Were you when you were being filmed? Were you like, is this a camera?
Speaker 5Where's my camera? I forgot my line. Line.
Speaker 1Well, maybe you should ask them to come on the pod, and then we can have a real crazy. Bunny, you should say that.
Speaker 5So the last thing I I've been trying to feed the content. I've weighed back in, I've answered some questions because people had questions for me.
Speaker 3Because you were like you this is viral.
Speaker 5I did let me read this. Bad bunny, watch out. I gotta pull up this phone and I gotta scroll. Oh shoot, you guys like bear with me. Okay. Okay, okay. So basically, what I did at the end, because this is who I am.
Speaker 3I'm scrolling.
Speaker 5And we can I would love to hear from a self-identified First Amendment auditor. Oh, I'm always open to a different perspective. I have to imagine there's a few one and double A's. That's I couldn't write it out again. One double A's, First Amendment. Oh my God.
Speaker 1I like I couldn't even figure that out.
Speaker 5I have to imagine there's a few one double A's out there that I have that have read this. Please explain, defend, justify your position. Don't you think that's I love it. Don't you think that's me reaching across the aisle?
Speaker 3Did you hashtag it slip it in?
Speaker 5No.
Speaker 1You should have. Let's get
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Speaker 1them on.
Speaker 5So far, I have not brought in the pot.
Speaker 1Well, I'm ready for them. Let's bring them on.
Speaker 5Yeah. Okay. Bring them in the pot.
Speaker 1Well, before we get into this special drink I'm drinking, I wanted to tell you, I've like, I know you're both trying to date in the new year, and I heard some great dating advice.
Speaker 5Hold on. You went out on a date last week. Oh. You did or didn't? What did you did?
Speaker 3But that's a very private.
Speaker 5Well, you just said, well, Matty's trying to date. Because you've said it on the pod. Okay.
Speaker 1Well, well, anyway, I'm here to offer some dating advice. Okay.
Speaker 5Because we're right now really open to it.
Speaker 1Well, it's something I just heard someone else say, and I thought that's like amazing, great advice. Yeah. And so this is the advice I'm going to give. Okay. Date from your worth, not your wounds.
Speaker 5Oh. Date from your worth, not your wounds. I like that. Fuck. So profound.
Speaker 1Well, that's why I wanted to pass it on because I felt it was amazing.
Speaker 3I've been doing it wrong. This is you, Maya Angelou.
Speaker 1Well, so many people you when you're hurt, you like maybe don't make the best decisions. And so you have to remind yourself what you're worth and what you deserve. Yeah. And those are the people you should date.
Speaker 5Can I ask, like, where did this come from? Were you listening to a pod? Or is this a good one?
Speaker 1It was from a podcast.
Speaker 5I love it. Heal to feel. You're healed to feel. Megan, you know what? You're two for two. You're two for two. It was about
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Speaker 5that because she had a quote from the last episode of an impressionist artist. Like, who is this woman?
Speaker 1Yes. I am well-rounded. 2026. You are well-rounded.
Speaker 5Buckle up.
Speaker 1Yeah, buckle up. And I know my worth. Fi is a hell.
Speaker 5We need a words of wisdom by Megan. We can. Moving forward? Well, we can.
Speaker 3Sounds like a merch option. One thing that I've know for a fact is that Megan's always got our back.
Speaker 1I do. We had a very heated discussion earlier that I'll keep to myself, but I made it very known that I have your back.
Speaker 6Well, I don't like it.
Speaker 1Even when maybe you don't think you want it.
Speaker 5So that I'll keep that secret, JJ. I'll keep that secret.
Speaker 3Yeah. In future exes, you're gonna be best friends with Megan, most likely. Yeah, 100%.
Speaker 1So true.
Speaker 5100%. Just know your words. Hold on. Not your word.
Speaker 3Well talking about dates. We did talk about espresso martinis, and you got something going on with espresso martini that we should bring in. I do.
Speaker 5Like I do think an espresso martini goes well with any date. Me too. Unless you're a non-drinker.
Speaker 1Oh. Then it's just those are the dates you maybe don't want. Well, date from your worth. My worth is I like to have a drink.
Speaker 5Well, let's just let's not ostracize any community, but I hear I won't be on those things. But there is but there is somebody for that person. 100. Yeah. Great. And we love that journey for them. Yes, 100%. If you love it. We're not in that path. No. I will not just be in on a Sunday when I have a Monday off reading the newspaper with you.
Speaker 3I will be at brunch. 100%.
Speaker 5But yes, so. Oh. Sayso . Yes. Sayso is the product.
Speaker 1Okay. Well, it's the brand, right? It's not the product.
Speaker 5Well, I think it's both. I think it's both.
Speaker 1This is it's the brand. Oh, right.
Speaker 5Is it your review?
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 5It's got some facts in front of it.
Speaker 1If it is, just say so. No. If it's your product, just say so. Say so is the brand. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 5But you should thank you for saying so. Let them. Let them. Okay, let me just get this out. All right, fine. Say so. All right. It went a little viral. Oh I can't. Say less so I can say more. Perfect. Okay. Put that in your little book of quotes. All right. So it went a viral on TikTok. It is really, it's a espresso martini teabag, is what it is. Let me cut to the chase.
Speaker 3I'm locked in when you said teabag. Yeah.
Speaker 5Okay, give it. Hold on. Because this is a woman-owned
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Speaker 5product. Well, that makes well. It should say women and gay men-owned product. But women's also like a teabag. Here it is. You do it is it's a package that I have. There's eight teabags in there. It's like one week plus a day. And then what you you get it's a teabag with a string and everything. You put two parts water for this one, one part either tequila or vodka, and then you drop the teabag in there, and for one to three minutes, you kind of do the swirl, and then it's ready to go. And it is, let me pro let me give a little, it's this and this and that. It's non-GMO, it's vegan, it's gluten-free, it's kosher, and it's plant-based. And again, like I said before, it's women-owned. It is available on uh it's not just Sayso. It's drinksayso.com. They've also branched. No, I would say not.
Speaker 1Yeah, well, say so, I can see like people are doing play and words. Yeah.
Speaker 5But this is espresso because I know we all gravitate to it. I love an espresso. But they have they have old fashions, they have margaritas. Uh, I think they also support LGBTQ hospitality, whatever that means. Thanks for having us. Uh they have also have these are our tea bags. They also have, you know, how you buy like a single like Kool-Aid mix or like um liquid IV packet? They have the packets as well. I mean, Megan, do you want to do you want to plug Linktree or do you want me to?
Speaker 1Oh, you yeah, we'll we'll just gotta put it on our Link Tree. We'll put it on our Linktree. So if you want to buy it, you can just go right to our Linktree if you want to.
Speaker 5If you want to buy it, Sayso. Just Sayso.
Speaker 1And yeah. Just Sayso, Sayso. Slip it in, sent you. Yep, exactly.
Speaker 5But like, what'd you guys think? Because we all tried it for the first time today. I had never had it before.
Speaker 1And I loved it.
Speaker 5I loved it.
Speaker 1I enjoyed it. It made me feel like I was just drinking tea
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Speaker 1when in reality I was drinking a it was a very good espresso martini, and I'm very particular. So I thought it was excellent. They also say you can put the tea bag in and then uh shake it up so then you can pour it in your glass and get foam. I liked that would be nice because I do like a foamy espresso martini. But I enjoy the like dunking of my teabag.
Speaker 5Oh my god, I cannot. Well, I enjoyed it. I loved it. Like, did you like dunk it in and then dip, pull it up, dip, pull it up? Yep, slap, slap. Well, flip it. I slipped it in and I pulled it out.
Speaker 4I had a different experience with the tea bag. I gotta say, we've grown to be very particular about our spectrum teenies. And at first, when you said about this whole experience with tea bags, I am like with the tea. I can't.
Speaker 5I can't. I've said it like ten times that I can't, but I'm okay.
Speaker 4At first, I am a tea person, not a teabag.
Speaker 1At first you said, you come around a teabag.
Speaker 3Did you come around? No, I'm saying that usually I came around. I'm sure you did. Not sweating your guys. Um, but I was actually surprised that this was actually gonna work because usually a teabag works with hot water. Oh, right, and this is cold to get that this is cold and alcohol. So the whatever technology say so made it, it made it happen. It it worked. So I like that part. I just didn't like the fact that listen, listen to me, slippers. I was done with my teabag, but Matty and Matt, Matty and me again, sorry, I'm like, my tea bags.
Speaker 5It's fine. Pull your bags together.
Speaker 3Had their dirty their dirty bags under martini glasses.
Speaker 1No, I kept dunking and dipping. I love the teabag.
Speaker 4I'm like, it's it's just dirty bag there. It's full of espresso.
Speaker 1I wanted to keep it like I wanted to suck my dirty bag. Yeah, I mean, I wanted to keep getting as much flavor in my drink.
Speaker 5I loved it. I love it. Did you like the taste and just not the dirty bag? You didn't like the taste was good.
Speaker 3I am grown to be very good.
Speaker 5The dirty bag was brown and you're more into vanilla.
Speaker 3Probably. But I do have to say that we've we are been vein spoiled with Espresso Martinis.
SpeakerWell, correctly.
Speaker 3This is not a thing that I would go Oh, I'd love it. It's convenient.
Speaker 1Oh, yeah, I loved it, and I loved the tea bagging. I didn't, and I I didn't laugh this hard in a while.
Speaker 5And so, like, I think we might teabag Cosmo at next month.
Speaker 1Yeah, I can't wait. Listen, Sayso, you made my Sayso.
Speaker 4Say so. I'm ready.
Speaker 5All right, I think we're gonna leave Sayso there and say something more about slips and pulls. Yes, 100%. Okay. Wow, that was fun.
Speaker 3Uh, can I can I start with my slip it in and pull out? Yeah, absolutely. It's something that I actually didn't realize, but my sister brought it up to me when I was on a call with her uh a couple days ago. Um my I my sister um son, my nephew, um, we're very, very close. But he's gone, he's grown to an age that he's almost like he's a preteen. And when I went and saw him last, um, I didn't I I wouldn't say that he was distant, but he was obviously on his friends and all those things. And I find myself many times saying, like, is Julian not aware that I'm here? Like, it's not like it's like, can you please like bring it up to me and like things along those lines? And she would say, Yeah, he's you know, he's just being himself. It's that stage. Yeah, it it is that stage. But then one thing that she reminded me this past week is she's like, you know what? Um, so Julian, my nephew, and I, um, we had this sign between us um that I would squeeze his hand three times every time we're holding hands, and that meant it's a secret language that we both have. And if I squeeze him three times, it means I love you. That's cute. And when we're walking around, I think that we've you've seen some pictures of us like walking around because he likes a little picture of that. Um, and then he said to his mom the other week, it's like, hey, I noticed that Uncle JJ didn't squeeze my hands this past round. Can you please squeeze? Tell them that I missed the squeezes of the hands. Oh, that's so nice. I love that. So that that is definitely a slip in. It's like it's it's beautiful to see that even though they're growing up and growing older, they still remember those little things.
Speaker 5Yeah, and you or anyone else might think like, oh, they're like more interested in something else, but they're just showing it differently, and that still means something to them. 100%.
Speaker 3That's so great. 100%. On the other hand, oopses might pull it out. Um, and I've it's been it's it's been taking me a little bit to just bring in this pull out is running eggs. Say again. Runny eggs.
Speaker 5Runny eggs.
Speaker 3Yeah.
Speaker 1Like what kind of runny eggs?
Speaker 3Any type of eggs. Like an egg. Like sunny side up.
Speaker 1Like, oh, you don't like a sunny side up.
Speaker 3Sunny side up. You don't even do over easy. I would not do over easy. I do like an over-ease. I like on toast.
Speaker 1I don't like eating it on its own, but I'll eat it on a toast.
Speaker 5A runny egg is to me your next cottage cheese. What do you mean? No, coleslaw. Sorry. Your next coleslaw.
Speaker 1But cottage cheese? Like, what?
Speaker 5No, he hated, he's like, he hated the idea of coleslaw until he tried it and now he loves it. I think if you were to this is your pull it out. Go ahead.
Speaker 3It is my pullout.
Speaker 5But I think you would love it if you put it in your mouth.
Speaker 4Like a teabag.
Speaker 1Oh my god.
Speaker 5It is my pull out. Okay. All right.
Speaker 3No runny eggs for me.
Speaker 5Are there is there any flexibility with that? Could we do a could we do a live on air running a taste test with you?
Speaker 3Oh, I think I will drop. What? He'll throw up.
Speaker 5Oh, you said drop. No, throw up. Like drop off the pot? Well.
Speaker 6All right.
Speaker 1All right. Well, I'll start with my slip it in. And it is Love is Blind is Back. And I love it. It's on Netflix. If you haven't seen it, it's amazing. They're in Ohio this season.
Speaker 3Oh wow. That's awesome. Sounds amazing.
Speaker 1Well, it's great. I love it.
Speaker 3Um I would love to have them do a date in this sing uh secret fingering club.
Speaker 6Oh my god. Right behind that church. Well
Speaker 5Can I ask a quick yeah? We are not letting people get their slips. And when you say they're filming in Ohio, are the contestants? No, no, no.
Speaker 1It's airing on Netflix right now, and the the people are all from Ohio. I didn't know that. So if no one has seen Love is Blind, you go on the show and you date people where you don't see them. So you sit in the pods and you can't see the other person and you have dates. And then you get engaged to someone sight unseen. And once you're engaged, then they see each other and then they have four weeks to decide if they want to get married or do you think they're making decisions based on their worth or their ones? I think probably more on their worth because they have so much more time to talk to each other without anything else getting in the way.
Speaker 5Like the voice.
Speaker 1Similar, yeah. Yeah. For dating. And it's a great show. I love it.
Speaker 5See the singer.
Speaker 1And as you said earlier, I do like to watch a lot of reality. And I had a procedure the other day at PRP, Platelet Rich Plasma, where they took out my blood, spun it, took out the platelets, and injected them into my hip.
Speaker 5And it was those hips on the platelets together.
Speaker 1Yeah, way more painful than I expected. And I came home and I'm like, I gotta just go sit in bed and watch TV. And I'm like, what am I gonna watch? And I didn't realize, I'd forgotten that Love Is Blind was coming on. So I had a bunch of and I'm like, oh my god, this is the best thing.
Speaker 5What a dream for hits for recovery.
Speaker 1Such a dream. So if you haven't watched it, watch it. The season is starting out great.
Speaker 3So Ohio.
Speaker 1So Ohio. Anyway, my pull it out has to do with my two co-hosts, unfortunately. Okay. So not surprising. I arrived in Puerto Rico and I saw a beautiful JJ, like I haven't seen. He was clean shaven, gorgeous cheekbones, and I couldn't get over. I'm like, you look so good. And it took me a minute to realize he had shaved all his facial hair and he looked amazing. Then in Savannah, I turn on the cameras to record. And oh my God, Matty is clean shaven and looks gorgeous, beautiful cheekbones. And I was like, I've got the two hottest co-hosts around.
Speaker 5Oh, here it is.
Speaker 1No, we're back. The facial hair is back. It's not on both of them. Well, more than I'd like to.
Speaker 5Well, just so you know, I had an accident. Well, I was trying to do a little manipulation with the stash, and things went awry. Which, so I my intent was never to actually shave it off, but it looked amazing. Yeah, I was gonna say there's a compliment in there somewhere, which I'll thank you for. But no, it looked amazing. Deep, deep.
Speaker 1No, it was it's totally complimentary. I am not a fan of facial hair, and it was so good to see both of you clean shaven, even though it was short-lived.
Speaker 4Right.
Speaker 5That's my pull it out. Okay, my slip it in. Okay, I have not talked to you about this, JJ. But you have encouraged me. We both listened to Amy Poehler Good hang. Yesterday, I listened to the Carol Burnett.
Speaker 3Oh my god, finally.
Speaker 5I feel as if I sound like the lady from Saturday Night Live. I feel as if that episode kind of changed me in a way.
Speaker 1Oh, wow.
Speaker 5And here's what I'll say there are so many incredible moments with Carol Burnett. Carol Burnett is 92 years old. Amy would ask her questions and be like, Do you remember when? Blah, blah, blah. And Carol Burnett was like, Yes, it was 1957. It was May 15th. And here's what I'll say. I could go on and on and on about this. We don't have that. And she was funny, and she had, I will say, life is a lottery. Not from a fame standpoint. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying, like the body and the mind that you are dealt. She is still working. Yeah. She is incredible. Her memory is incredible.
Speaker 3Palm Royale, if you have not watched it, cracking jokes.
Speaker 5She is, and she's an she's able-bodied. Yeah. Like everything, but here's what I'll say. Older people, like, we need to embrace them more. Yeah. They have so many stories to tell. Yeah. And so fascinating. One thing, and I'll I'll move on. She asked Amy, that it was part of a story she was telling. She was trying to go to well, I'm gonna tell a little more. She wanted to go to UCLA for college. She couldn't afford it. She was living with her grandma. It was like a one-bedroom house or whatever. She was sleeping on the sofa. Her grandma was sleeping on a Murphy bed. She's like, Grandma, I want to go to UCLA for one semester. Grandma's like, no, we can't afford it. And then she said to Amy, she goes, What do you think in that? I don't know. This was probably 75 years ago, based on being 92. What do you think a semester at UCLA would have cost? You know the answer, JJ. What do you think? 75 years ago, one semester, UCLA.
Speaker 1$500.
Speaker 5$43.
Speaker 1Wow. Right? Wow.
Speaker 5Amy guessed, Amy guessed like a thousand. I would have guessed around a thousand. $43. That's insane. Grandma said no. Carol Burnett got Carol Burnett got a letter in the mail, no return address, typed out her name on the front. She opened up the envelope. There was a $50 bill in there. She said to this day, she does not know who sent that to her.
Speaker 1Oh my God. That's amazing.
Speaker 5And that paid her tuition. And that put her on the road to everything that happened after that. And to this, Megan, you're tearing up. It's isn't that incredible? And it's just like that story. She lives so amazing. I and she's got more stories like that in the thing. It's just like so. What I'm saying, here's my call to action your grandmothers, your parents, people in your life, like talk, not only embrace them, talk to them.
Speaker 6Yeah.
Speaker 5They have stories that beyond our comprehension of like things were different. $43. Could you imagine? And still not being able to afford it. Yeah.
Speaker 3Oh my god, Matty. Thank you for bringing that up. And yeah.
Speaker 5I will talk to you more offline about the episode because there were so many great. I've been wanting to do that. I know you kept saying, have you listened to it yet? Have you listened to it yet? Yeah. I had not. Okay. My pull it out is god damn it. I want to do a home improvement. I want to get new gutters put on my place. I went on Angis list. Oh Lord. I put in my project shit. They gave me five recommendations. Why? I said, yes, give me a quote. I've had 72 phone calls.
Speaker 1Oh, I've done this before. You should have told me. I didn't get rid of them. I know. They're texting me. I want the number. I don't want to talk. Just send me an email. I gave you my square footage. I told you I have a bungalow.
Speaker 4Give them the number.
Speaker 5JJ, they won't stop. The phone is ringing constantly. It's the word. I am sending them to voicemail. I'm texting them. I'm no longer interested. The minute they try for me from Ohio, then they call me from Nebraska. I can't. I cannot. I no longer want these gutters. I don't want them. I've done it. I'm done. I'm good with the gutters I got.
Speaker 4You'd rather have a teabag.
Speaker 5God damn it. It's gonna make me drink all six other teabags in that bag. Let me say so. Oh, say it. Oh what in a journey this episode was. Wow. Loved it. You say so, I say so. Yeah, 100%.
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