Speaker 2: 0:04

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Speaker 1: 0:20

You'll laugh, you'll cringe. Welcome, welcome, welcome, everyone. We are back, slipping it in with you. Hi, guys. Hi, Matty.

Speaker 5: 0:29

Hi, Megan. Hola, JJ.

Speaker 3: 0:32

Hola Matty. Hi, Megan.

Speaker: 0:36

Hello.

Speaker 3: 0:37

I'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 5: 0:47

Yeah. It was more the Bad Bunny concert. It wasn't much of a Super Bowl, right?

Speaker 3: 0:51

I 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 5: 1:02

This is usually this boring? I'm usually boring. It was a little bit of an uneventful game.

Speaker 3: 1:09

Yeah. 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 5: 1:45

I 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 3: 2:02

And 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, some 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 5: 3:11

We 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 not actors, though that wasn't staged, like that was the real business transported to the Super Bowl field.

Speaker 3: 3:31

Yeah, 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 5: 3:44

Like, what about me? Can I get in there? Right, very intentional.

Speaker 3: 3:48

I 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 5: 3:57

We'll bring in the bush, bring it in.

Speaker 3: 4:00

So, 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 6: 4:47

Oh, hi Megan! Hi.

Speaker 3: 4:50

So 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 5: 5:11

Yeah, all right, bushes, keep moving.

Speaker 3: 5:14

So I think that it was it was just a a beautiful homage to not only Puerto Rico but all Latin 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 5: 5:34

Well, listen, if you put Pedro Pascal on that front porch, I'll bring it out.

Speaker 3: 5:40

Move 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 5: 5:52

I don't know who this Karol G is.

Speaker 3: 5:54

And 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 5: 6:12

Do 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 1: 6:20

Oh, I didn't know that.

Speaker 5: 6:21

You just never know what will happen. Yeah. And he's like, I'm sorry, I can't make it.

Speaker 3: 6:27

How many people invite Bad Bunny to their wedding?

Speaker 5: 6:30

But 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.

unknown: 6:40

Oh my god.

Speaker 3: 6:42

I would almost, yeah. I mean, maybe not. Then and then you have Lady Gaga as the wedding singer.

Speaker 5: 6:46

Oh magic hands. Yeah.

Speaker 3: 6:49

Do 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 5: 7:05

Didn'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 3: 7:22

Well, 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 he 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 5: 7:55

See, 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 3: 8:06

Because 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 5: 8:50

See, I love all of that.

Speaker 3: 8:55

So 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 5: 9:09

Oh 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 3: 9:16

I 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 Bad Bunny being on the pod.

Speaker 5: 9:31

If 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?

Speaker: 9:40

Yeah, I love it. I support it.

Speaker 5: 9:41

All right, well, we're gonna kick that campaign off.

Speaker 3: 9:44

Yes, but a total of about 128.2 million people watch that. Can you believe that?

Speaker 5: 9:50

It's amazing.

Speaker 3: 9:52

Making it one of the first.

Speaker 5: 9:53

Can we zero in on the city of New York?

Speaker 3: 9:58

Tell me that fact. That was the most here's the funny thing.

Speaker 5: 10:03

The 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, I guess.

Speaker: 10:20

I mean, I think they talk about it every year.

Speaker 5: 10:22

Okay. Oh, really?

Speaker: 10:24

Oh, yeah, every year they talk about the year there's a flushes, too.

Speaker 5: 10:27

Okay, 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 3: 10:46

If it's yellow, let it mellow.

Speaker 5: 10:48

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 10:48

Oh my god. I can't.

Speaker 5: 10:51

But yes, you're correct.

Speaker 1: 10:52

So have you heard about it? Yes, Andy.

Speaker 5: 10:58

Well, what's the other part of it? Because if it's something If it's yellow, let it mellow.

Speaker 3: 11:02

And if it's brown, no.

Speaker 5: 11:04

Let it drown.

Speaker 3: 11:05

Maybe.

Speaker 5: 11:05

I don't know. We might be.

Speaker 3: 11:06

We just made that up.

Speaker 5: 11:07

But 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 3: 11:20

Yeah. Right after it. There were so many moments. 761,000 flushes after that.

Speaker 1: 11:25

Bam. 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 5: 11:37

I 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 3: 11:48

That is insane. That it's that talking about going viral. That went viral for sure. Yeah.

Speaker 1: 11:55

Well, and I also think you don't get paid to do the Super Bowl halftime show.

Speaker 3: 12:00

You don't.

Speaker 1: 12:00

No. You do it for exposure. Exactly. That's what they say. Alone.

Speaker 5: 12:05

Well, 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 1: 12:15

Oh my God. I can't believe it.

Speaker 5: 12:18

I'm hoping for a paycheck.

Speaker 4: 12:20

Are you putting yourself in the same stage of Bad Bunny?

Speaker 5: 12:25

Adjacent. Are we going to call you good bunny? A djacent.

Speaker 3: 12:28

Bad Bunny versus a Good Bunny.

Speaker 5: 12:30

I'm going to call myself Observant Bunny.

Speaker 3: 12:32

Oh my god. All right.

Speaker 5: 12:37

I 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 3: 13:03

Sounds like a regular Monday.

Speaker 5: 13:06

So far. Yes. Oh, right. That sounds dun 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.

unknown: 15:08

Okay.

Speaker 3: 15:08

So it's like a camera crew for like a commercial, right?

Speaker 5: 15:11

Like 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 3: 15:34

But the parking lot does belong to well, no, they're not.

Speaker 5: 15:37

I'm saying they're not in the parking lot. They're standing out of the side.

Speaker 3: 15:40

I go on the sidewalk. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay.

Speaker 5: 15:42

Which is a is public, right?

Speaker 3: 15:44

Yeah.

Speaker 5: 15:45

So 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 6: 15:52

Yeah.

Speaker 5: 15:53

I 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 1: 16:15

Trying to get you to like say something.

Speaker 3: 16:17

And you're like, is this my looks? Like, what's going on? Right.

Speaker 5: 16:22

I 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 from 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 1: 17:36

Well, when you sign up for Nextdoor, ask your city and your neighborhood, and it puts you in those areas.

Speaker 5: 17:42

Yeah. So you're saying it's across the states? Uh yeah.

Speaker 1: 17:46

I mean, I know next door, I know people in let's say a handful of states that are on next door.

Speaker 5: 17:52

Okay, 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 1: 18:01

Yeah. Oh my god. So you went viral Nextdoor. On Nextdoor. Listen. I mean, from the Super Bowl speech, you're Nextdoor.

Speaker 5: 18:10

I mean, like, watch out, Bad Bunny.

Speaker 1: 18:13

I can't with you.

Speaker 5: 18:14

Listen, 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 6: 18:34

Yeah.

Speaker 5: 18:34

Little 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 3: 19:25

That was it.

Speaker 5: 19:25

I literally did not know. And so that all of that was authentically me 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 3: 19:55

126.

Speaker 5: 19:56

And 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 1: 20:10

Yeah, 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 3: 21:07

That's what I was gonna ask you, Matty. Do you feel like safe?

Speaker 5: 21:10

Like 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 to 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 3: 22:33

So they didn't have any certain color hats worrying, like none of that. No.

Speaker 1: 22:40

No. 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 lines 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 5: 23:35

But 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 3: 24:44

So 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 5: 25:03

I can barely get my load of laundry done.

Speaker 3: 25:07

Oh wow, but I am going to go into that corner.

Speaker 5: 25:10

But 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 3: 25:20

And out of like off places, we all know Trader Joe's parking lot is not the best parking lot in the world.

Speaker 5: 25:27

Well, 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 6: 25:43

Yeah. Right?

Speaker 5: 25:44

Right. 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 3: 25:55

The parking lot.

Speaker 5: 25:56

Yeah. 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 to 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 1: 26:16

Well, 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 5: 26:29

I heard nothing about bootlickers. Lickers? Leggers.

Speaker 1: 26:32

Boot lickers.

Speaker 5: 26:33

Boot lickers. Meaning like that sounds like the prohibition. Well, those were bootleggers. Oh, really?

Speaker 1: 26:41

Yes, 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 5: 26:54

That's weird.

Speaker 1: 26:54

Well, 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 5: 27:04

Like, okay, not anti-vaxxing. I do not know a sheeple.

Speaker 1: 27:12

Anti-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 5: 27:26

So you're just you're a sheep hurt it.

Speaker 1: 27:28

Yes, yes.

Speaker 5: 27:29

Oh my god, I kind of like sheeple.

Speaker 3: 27:31

Well, 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 5: 27:46

Oh my god. I've never, honest to god, I've never heard of sheeple. You got it.

Speaker 3: 27:50

Well, is this my camera? I'm taking a note.

Speaker 5: 27:53

I'm taking a note, sheeple use it in the future.

Speaker 1: 27:55

Well, when the you're back at Trader Joe's getting recorded, call them a sheeple.

Speaker 5: 28:01

Who?

Speaker 1: 28:02

The First Amendment auditor.

Speaker 5: 28:04

I see. That's what they want.

Speaker 3: 28:07

Were you when you were being filmed? Were you like, is this a camera?

Speaker 5: 28:11

Where's my camera? I forgot my line. Line.

Speaker 1: 28:15

Well, maybe you should ask them to come on the pod, and then we can have a real crazy. Bunny, you should say that.

Speaker 5: 28:20

So 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 3: 28:27

Because you were like you this is viral.

Speaker 5: 28:32

I 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 3: 28:50

I'm scrolling.

Speaker 5: 28:51

And 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 1: 29:10

I like I couldn't even figure that out.

Speaker 5: 29:13

I 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 3: 29:26

Did you hashtag it slip it in?

Speaker 5: 29:28

No.

Speaker 1: 29:28

You should have. Let's get them on.

Speaker 5: 29:31

So far, I have not brought in the pot.

Speaker 1: 29:34

Well, I'm ready for them. Let's bring them on.

Speaker 5: 29:36

Yeah. Okay. Bring them in the pot.

Speaker 1: 29:37

Well, 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 5: 29:52

Hold on. You went out on a date last week. Oh. You did or didn't? What did you did?

Speaker 3: 29:59

But that's a very private.

Speaker 5: 30:01

Well, you just said, well, Matty's trying to date. Because you've said it on the pod. Okay.

Speaker 1: 30:07

Well, well, anyway, I'm here to offer some dating advice. Okay.

Speaker 5: 30:11

Because we're right now really open to it.

Speaker 1: 30:14

Well, 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 5: 30:30

Oh. Date from your worth, not your wounds. I like that. Fuck. So profound.

Speaker 1: 30:36

Well, that's why I wanted to pass it on because I felt it was amazing.

Speaker 3: 30:43

I've been doing it wrong. This is you, Maya Angelou.

Speaker 1: 30:48

Well, 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 5: 31:05

Can I ask, like, where did this come from? Were you listening to a pod? Or is this a good one?

Speaker 1: 31:10

It was from a podcast.

Speaker 5: 31:12

I 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 that because she had a quote from the last episode of an impressionist artist. Like, who is this woman?

Speaker 1: 31:25

Yes. I am well-rounded. 2026. You are well-rounded.

Speaker 5: 31:29

Buckle up.

Speaker 1: 31:30

Yeah, buckle up. And I know my worth. Fi is a hell.

Speaker 5: 31:33

We need a words of wisdom by Megan. We can. Moving forward? Well, we can.

Speaker 3: 31:38

Sounds like a merch option. One thing that I've know for a fact is that Megan's always got our back.

Speaker 1: 31:45

I 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 6: 31:54

Well, I don't like it.

Speaker 1: 31:55

Even when maybe you don't think you want it.

Speaker 5: 31:57

So that I'll keep that secret, JJ. I'll keep that secret.

Speaker 3: 32:00

Yeah. In future exes, you're gonna be best friends with Megan, most likely. Yeah, 100%.

Speaker 1: 32:08

So true.

Speaker 5: 32:09

100%. Just know your words. Hold on. Not your word.

Speaker 3: 32:12

Well 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 5: 32:22

Like I do think an espresso martini goes well with any date. Me too. Unless you're a non-drinker.

Speaker 1: 32:28

Oh. 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 5: 32:38

Well, 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 3: 33:04

I will be at brunch. 100%.

Speaker 5: 33:06

But yes, so. Oh. Sayso . Yes. Sayso is the product.

Speaker 1: 33:13

Okay. Well, it's the brand, right? It's not the product.

Speaker 5: 33:17

Well, I think it's both. I think it's both.

Speaker 1: 33:20

This is it's the brand. Oh, right.

Speaker 5: 33:22

Is it your review?

Speaker 1: 33:23

No.

Speaker 5: 33:23

It's got some facts in front of it.

Speaker 1: 33:25

If it is, just say so. No. If it's your product, just say so. Say so is the brand. Yeah, I know.

Speaker 5: 33:30

But 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 3: 34:03

I'm locked in when you said teabag. Yeah.

Speaker 5: 34:06

Okay, give it. Hold on. Because this is a woman-owned product. 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 1: 35:14

Yeah, well, say so, I can see like people are doing play and words. Yeah.

Speaker 5: 35:19

But 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 1: 35:53

Oh, 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 5: 36:00

If you want to buy it, Sayso. Just Sayso.

Speaker 1: 36:02

And yeah. Just Sayso, Sayso. Slip it in, sent you. Yep, exactly.

Speaker 5: 36:07

But like, what'd you guys think? Because we all tried it for the first time today. I had never had it before.

Speaker 1: 36:14

And I loved it.

Speaker 5: 36:16

I loved it.

Speaker 1: 36:16

I enjoyed it. It made me feel like I was just drinking tea when 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 5: 36:47

Oh 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 4: 37:05

I 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 5: 37:30

I can't. I've said it like ten times that I can't, but I'm okay.

Speaker 4: 37:34

At first, I am a tea person, not a teabag.

Speaker 1: 37:41

At first you said, you come around a teabag.

Speaker 3: 37:46

Did 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 5: 38:32

It's fine. Pull your bags together.

Speaker 3: 38:36

Had their dirty their dirty bags under martini glasses.

Speaker 1: 38:42

No, I kept dunking and dipping. I love the teabag.

Speaker 4: 38:45

I'm like, it's it's just dirty bag there. It's full of espresso.

Speaker 1: 38:50

I 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 5: 38:58

I 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 3: 39:05

I am grown to be very good.

Speaker 5: 39:06

The dirty bag was brown and you're more into vanilla.

Speaker 3: 39:10

Probably. But I do have to say that we've we are been vein spoiled with Espresso Martinis.

Speaker: 39:17

Well, correctly.

Speaker 3: 39:18

This is not a thing that I would go Oh, I'd love it. It's convenient.

Speaker 1: 39:22

Oh, 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 5: 39:28

And so, like, I think we might teabag Cosmo at next month.

Speaker 1: 39:31

Yeah, I can't wait. Listen, Sayso, you made my Sayso.

Speaker 4: 39:36

Say so. I'm ready.

Speaker 5: 39:40

All 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 3: 39:51

Uh, 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 5: 41:49

Yeah, 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 3: 42:01

That'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 5: 42:17

Runny eggs.

Speaker 3: 42:18

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 42:18

Like what kind of runny eggs?

Speaker 3: 42:20

Any type of eggs. Like an egg. Like sunny side up.

Speaker 1: 42:22

Like, oh, you don't like a sunny side up.

Speaker 3: 42:24

Sunny 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 1: 42:34

I don't like eating it on its own, but I'll eat it on a toast.

Speaker 5: 42:36

A runny egg is to me your next cottage cheese. What do you mean? No, coleslaw. Sorry. Your next coleslaw.

Speaker 1: 42:49

But cottage cheese? Like, what?

Speaker 5: 42:54

No, 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 3: 43:02

It is my pullout.

Speaker 5: 43:03

But I think you would love it if you put it in your mouth.

Speaker 4: 43:06

Like a teabag.

Speaker 1: 43:09

Oh my god.

Speaker 5: 43:10

It is my pull out. Okay. All right.

Speaker 3: 43:12

No runny eggs for me.

Speaker 5: 43:14

Are 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 3: 43:20

Oh, I think I will drop. What? He'll throw up.

Speaker 5: 43:24

Oh, you said drop. No, throw up. Like drop off the pot? Well.

Speaker 6: 43:29

All right.

Speaker 1: 43:30

All 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 3: 43:45

Oh wow. That's awesome. Sounds amazing.

Speaker 1: 43:48

Well, it's great. I love it.

Speaker 3: 43:51

Um I would love to have them do a date in this sing uh secret fingering club.

Speaker 6: 43:56

Oh my god. Right behind that church. Well

Speaker 5: 44:00

Can 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 1: 44:08

It'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 5: 44:53

Like the voice.

Speaker 1: 44:54

Similar, yeah. Yeah. For dating. And it's a great show. I love it.

Speaker 5: 44:59

See the singer.

Speaker 1: 45:00

And 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 5: 45:17

And it was those hips on the platelets together.

Speaker 1: 45:22

Yeah, 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 5: 45:39

What a dream for hits for recovery.

Speaker 1: 45:41

Such a dream. So if you haven't watched it, watch it. The season is starting out great.

Speaker 3: 45:47

So Ohio.

Speaker 1: 45:48

So 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 5: 46:30

Oh, here it is.

Speaker 1: 46:32

No, we're back. The facial hair is back. It's not on both of them. Well, more than I'd like to.

Speaker 5: 46:39

Well, 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 1: 47:00

No, 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 4: 47:10

Right.

Speaker 5: 47:11

That'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 3: 47:28

Oh my god, finally.

Speaker 5: 47:31

I 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 1: 47:42

Oh, wow.

Speaker 5: 47:42

And 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 3: 48:25

Palm Royale, if you have not watched it, cracking jokes.

Speaker 5: 48:29

She 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: 49:33

$500.

Speaker 5: 49:34

$43.

Speaker 1: 49:36

Wow. Right? Wow.

Speaker 5: 49:38

Amy 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 1: 50:03

Oh my God. That's amazing.

Speaker 5: 50:05

And 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 6: 50:34

Yeah.

Speaker 5: 50:34

They 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 3: 50:45

Oh my god, Matty. Thank you for bringing that up. And yeah.

Speaker 5: 50:48

I 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 1: 51:19

Oh, 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 4: 51:32

Give them the number.

Speaker 5: 51:33

JJ, 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 4: 51:58

You'd rather have a teabag.

Speaker 5: 52:00

God 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%.

Speaker 1: 52:16

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