Speaker 1: 0:04

Slippers unite, it's time to play. We bring the spice to your work or your day, confesses debates, and a product or two. We slip it in just for you. You laugh, you cringe, you'll beg for more.

Speaker: 0:24

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

Speaker 5: 0:29

Hey, Megan. Matty here. Welcome, everybody.

Speaker: 0:32

This is hello, hello. So, Matty, I'm dying to know, as are all the slippers, I'm sure. Did you break out with the Minaio Pure cleansing oil that I'm totally obsessed with?

Speaker 5: 0:46

I did not break out.

Speaker: 0:48

Oh, see?

Speaker 5: 0:49

I knew it. I will say, I do think extended use could produce a different result. Well, 100%. I agree.

Speaker: 0:57

For you two, you should know that if you find that your skin is typically on the oilier side, I don't. A lot of well, you said it was.

Speaker 5: 1:07

No, I didn't never said that. I said an oily product could make me break out. I never said I had oily skin.

Speaker 4: 1:14

I attest to that. That's correct.

Speaker: 1:15

Oh, okay. Well, anyway, typically, if your skin is more oily, it means your skin's dehydrated. So, especially using the oil the oil-based cleanser, it helps clean your skin without stripping it of all the natural oils.

Speaker 4: 1:30

Another very, very important fact. Matt used it once.

Speaker: 1:33

Well, okay. But I've been using it for months and I think it's amazing. So I urge everyone again to go out.

Speaker 5: 1:40

Do you consider yourself somebody with oily?

Speaker: 1:42

No, not at all.

Speaker 5: 1:43

Okay. So but you've gravitated toward this product that is meant for people with oily skin?

Speaker: 1:48

I have found that when I've used an oil-based cleanser, which I've been using for years. Yeah, which I've been using literally for years. Yeah. I found that my skin naturally was less dry and in better condition.

Speaker 4: 2:03

And it's glowing right now. It is. Well, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker: 2:06

Thank you, Manao Pure Cleansing. There you go. Yeah. It looks great. Well, something else we talked about in the last episode where Maddie's obsession has slipped it in of Cadbury mini eggs.

Speaker 5: 2:18

And that there was a new obsession. Well, it's Cadbury season. Right now I'm obsessed. I mean, I am obsessed with it for like a month. Okay.

Speaker: 2:28

Well, the new flavor of Royal Dark is out, which none of us had tried, and we've now since tried it. And I think it's great. I don't know that it tastes much of a difference. Maybe slightly more richer chocolate taste.

Speaker 5: 2:42

Yeah, I mean, I haven't met a Cadbury mini egg. I haven't liked so far. Right. And this one didn't really taste much different to me. A little bit, maybe at the aftertaste or something like that.

Speaker 4: 2:54

I could yeah, but I think that dark chocolate is very chocolatey forward.

Speaker 5: 2:59

Chocolate forward. Yeah. So well, and it's supposedly better for yourself. So I feel like I could up my Cadbury intake to two per day.

Speaker 4: 3:07

The coating, though. I could go of the catbury. It's not where's that.

Speaker 5: 3:11

Right. I I like it. No, I think he means from the health standpoint. Oh, well, yes. I think we all like the gets you at.

Speaker: 3:20

Correct. Yeah, absolutely. So yesterday I was just working away and got a phone call from my mom who was very angry listening to our last episode of The Pod because I said she was obsessed with peeps, which she's now denying. I am telling you, as of a year or two ago, she was.

Speaker 5: 3:41

You said she would almost eat them by like a bag.

Speaker: 3:45

She would. Yes. Wow, that is crazy. She's now claiming that's not the case. And that she hasn't eaten them since the 80s, which is a bold-faced lie.

Speaker 5: 3:52

But anyway, she now claims Vicky's telling the truth. Because you know, Megan can surmise.

Speaker: 3:58

And I don't know anyone out there. I can take a family poll. She's been eating them for years.

Speaker 3: 4:03

Take it, take it. I will. Take it and bring the facts.

Speaker: 4:06

I will. But she's now not into peeps and wants it. No, she thinks of it as a bad candy.

Speaker 5: 4:12

I'm glad we've cleared the record in her name. So, yeah, she's cleared. Vicki, you are free from the peep. Yep. Exactly. Yeah. Well, okay. So today we're going to do something a little different. We are going to bring back hot topics. Our hot topic mugs. Yep.

Speaker 2: 4:33

Hot topics.

Speaker 5: 4:35

So we're going to do six hot topics today, or at least that's the goal. We each have put and put two topics into the mug. Yeah. We don't know what each other's topics are.

Speaker 4: 4:47

We don't.

Speaker 5: 4:47

We don't. Nope.

Speaker: 4:48

Not at all.

Speaker 5: 4:48

And we're going to pull out one topic at a time.

Speaker 4: 4:50

So we might have a repeat. We could have imagined.

Speaker 5: 4:54

I'd love it.

Speaker 4: 4:55

Yeah.

Speaker 5: 4:55

We could have double hot tops. Two tops in one night? That's too much. Oh god. All right. I'm going to pick out the first one. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Oh, oops. I had a it's overflowing. Okay. Okay. And hot topic. Number one. Gay party culture at sea. Oh my God. It's me.

Speaker: 5:23

What is C? S-E-A. Oh, you mean like on a boat or a ship? Like a gay cruise. Yes.

Speaker 4: 5:33

Okay.

Speaker: 5:33

All right.

Speaker 4: 5:34

So this is because it came out of a, I was watching the news, and this gay cruise uh that is hosted by Atlantic Atlantic events, uh, it's a symphony of the seas, is well known to carry uh full-on gay cruise. Fortune Feimster, which we love.

Speaker: 5:55

Yeah, she was.

Speaker 4: 5:56

She was invited to be the comedian of it, and she rejected she did not want to go.

Speaker: 6:02

Well, she's done gay cruises before. So I don't know if it's what this talk is.

Speaker 4: 6:06

She was talking about this specific Atlantic event on the Symphony of the Seas, the gay cruise that she said no. And then when she went into it, she was talking about that this specific cruise, and it was actually in the news because uh uh last month they arrested about five people before getting in the cruise for drug possession.

Speaker 6: 6:28

Oh.

Speaker 4: 6:29

So it's she's she was just saying that it becomes such a big hole, like um I mean she was she she clearly just said she she just said that it she was not feeling safe about going there. So it just kind of make me cringe a little bit about um what the parameters are of the gay culture at sea, um and and how that is really going on.

Speaker 5: 6:54

And I think fact checking is being done over here to my.

Speaker: 6:58

I'm looking for something so stay out of my head.

Speaker 5: 7:02

Can I ask you a clarifying question about this hot topic? Are we talking about gay cruises in general, or are we talking about a specific Atlantic situation? Because our I don't I don't know that we want to give all gay cruises a bad name. I'm not. Okay. So it's this one.

Speaker 4: 7:23

I'm using this event uh it made me realize, and I I nothing that I was looking forward to. I would never go to a gay cruise, but that kind of confirmed, yeah, this is not for me type of thing. And I saw pictures of this Symphony of the Seas. Okay, the symphony, you know, it was not music to my ears, it was just like imagine like circuit type of EDM gays and the jock straps and the um strap-ons and furries and puppies. I'm more like they have an army night, they have a pink night.

Speaker 5: 8:02

I'm looking for bingos and buffets, right?

Speaker 4: 8:06

Right, and not this specifically, and it was just like very cringy. Um, and it kind of gave this is the thing, like I it kind of gave a bad reputation to the gay culture when it just made the news like that, and it was it just make me feel like ugh, this is just not what would it take for you to go on one of these cruises?

Speaker 5: 8:28

Not could you go ever? A lot of people gay cruise. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker: 8:33

I know a lot of gays who go on gay cruises that are not into the circuit drug, furry, jock strap culture. Yeah.

Speaker 4: 8:42

So I think Symphony of the Sea is not your cruise.

Speaker: 8:45

Yeah. Well, I think there's different levels in the sea.

Speaker 4: 8:48

It's that specific. It's just that what they were saying and Fortune was saying the same thing. It's this specific cruise that is hosted by this Atlantic event. See, that's what I was trying to say. It's like a full-on, yeah, it's a full-on, it's a circuit at at sea kind of thing. Okay.

Speaker 5: 9:07

Do you got any deeds on these five arrests?

Speaker 4: 9:09

Yes, I do.

Speaker 5: 9:10

I'd like to hear about that. Because this then it spills into true crime, which is right. That's my sweet spot.

Speaker 4: 9:18

One thing that I you know find it interesting is like uh in this gay cruises, they do have the K9. So the ducks were the ones that detected sniffed it out.

Speaker: 9:27

They did narcotics.

Speaker 4: 9:30

Yeah, yeah. So they sniff it because before the sniffing was happening on the cruise.

Speaker 5: 9:34

Right.

Speaker 4: 9:35

If you know what I'm talking about. Um, so there were some suspects there, Joshua Eddy, Adam Jones, Joshua. Oh, you're throwing out names.

Speaker 5: 9:44

Wow. Wow. First Vicky. Now these guys are putting it on blast.

Speaker 4: 9:49

And Ricardo, Gabrielle, Jungera, they were all with narcotics before getting in the cruise because the dogs were just niffing around.

Speaker 5: 10:00

So they I mean, they should know. As soon as you see that dog coming, you better pivot.

Speaker: 10:05

Well, at that point it's too late, probably. Well, as soon as you pivot, then you're looking guilty. And the dog's coming.

Speaker 4: 10:11

100%. And then the men faced felony charges ranging from possession of uh to trafficking the control substance substances. So some of them were actually selling the drugs before getting in the cruise.

Speaker: 10:25

Yeah, I'm sure.

Speaker 4: 10:26

Um, and they had a bond of like about 5,000 to sell it.

Speaker: 10:30

But do you know what there was it fentanyl? Was it math? Was it coke, heroin? No, I like to know the drugs. Yes.

Speaker 3: 10:39

Ecstasy.

Speaker 4: 10:41

Ecstasy, ketamine, oh, yeah, and JBL, which I have. Oh, I've never heard of JBL.

Speaker: 10:47

That's a new one for me. It was like a speaker. Even me too.

Speaker 4: 10:51

It was a variety. Yeah.

Speaker: 10:54

Yeah. Interesting.

Speaker 4: 10:55

Yeah, so I don't know what you guys think. I just felt it like a hot topic because it would just make me cringe a little bit. Uh, which is, I mean, I'm proud to be a gay man, but then that's one of those moments that I'm like, but it to your point, Maddie, is like, it's this is just because of this event that I would never attend, but I wouldn't mind just going into a uh probably a catamaran.

Speaker: 11:24

Well, I a virgin cruise is very gay friendly, and I think you would enjoy that.

Speaker 5: 11:30

Yeah. I also am going to say before we move on from this topic, yeah, that you can almost take any carnival cruise and you can take the white straight people associated with that cruise and have a complete shit show. So, like, there you go. So maybe there are some bad gay cruise situations making headlines, but you don't have to dig deep. Just go carnival totally like carnival mishaps or arrest. I bet there's a whole Reddit on the Bronx.

Speaker: 12:06

I bet there's arrests before every cruise, straight or gay.

Speaker 4: 12:09

There are prisons and cruises. I didn't even know that. Well, yeah. Well, inside cruises, they have prisons.

Speaker 5: 12:14

Oh, like a detainment. Yeah, if you go crazy and there's also morgues in there, you know. Someone's usually gonna die.

Speaker 4: 12:23

Yeah.

Speaker 5: 12:23

Sometimes overboard, though.

Speaker 4: 12:25

So my needs are met. Thank you. That's my hot topic.

Speaker 5: 12:29

Your needs are met. I love it. Okay, all right. You wanna why not pull it up? I will.

Speaker 4: 12:34

Next one.

Speaker 5: 12:35

Okay. Oh my god.

Speaker 4: 12:38

Please. Uh Reese's charging the formula or changing the formula for Reese's peanut butter flavored treats.

Speaker: 12:50

Yes.

Speaker 4: 12:50

I'm not understanding.

Speaker: 12:51

So this is my topic. So this has to do with candy companies doing a big bait and switch.

Speaker 2: 12:59

Okay.

Speaker: 13:00

So Brad Reese, who is the grandson of H.B. Reese, who invented Reese's peanut butter cups, has publicly called out the Hershey Company for changing the formula of Reese's peanut butter cups. Now, this is where things get where the candy company is saying Hershey's, well, we haven't changed the actual Reese's peanut butter cups. We've just changed the formula with like the the Valentine Hearts or the Easter Bunny Reese's cups or the Easter Bunny eggs.

Speaker 5: 13:37

Shapes is what they change, not formula.

Speaker: 13:40

Shapes or unwrapped. I tend to think even the little mini Reese's peanut butter cups have changed formula. Um, because I feel like based on what? My taste buds. And I feel vindicated by Brad Reese because when I read this article, I'm like, yeah, it does not taste the same. It tastes different.

Speaker 5: 14:01

I am I understanding correctly. So you're saying Brad Reese is coming for Hershey?

Speaker: 14:06

Yes. Because his uh grandfather sold the rights to make Reese's peanut butter cups to Hershey. I see back in the day. And he's saying basically um that he recently bought a bag of the Valentine's Reese's mini hearts, calling them not edible, and said that his lifelong candy makes the shift to being very devastating to him because it's like a family heirloom legacy to him, and now Reese's has gone and changed the formula. But that's his this is all allegedly no Hershey's has come out and said yes, they have made changes that um they are now saying that they are focusing on quality with innovation, yeah, and that the classic Reese's peanut butter cup remains the same. Any tweaks have been mostly made to new shapes and varieties. I see, but they're still using that Reese's name. So when you see Reese's like peanut butter cup, but it's uh a bunny or this, you're expecting the same taste, and when you eat it, it's not there. And basically have you noticed it in your bunnies? I didn't uh no, but I've noticed it uh with other flavors of things, and I actually also noticed this. The Mars Candy Company is doing the same thing. Oh, they're doing it because I love them frozen mini Snickers.

Speaker 5: 15:36

Well, she had me at frozen, yeah.

Speaker: 15:38

Well, have you had a frozen Snickers? I sure have. They're amazing. So I love the little mini Snickers, I freeze them, or the little fun size Snickers at the Halloween. Yeah. Yeah. So shorty. I love them frozen. Well, then at Christmas time, they had Snickers trees. I'm like, oh, I love it. I bought some, put them in the freezer, went to eat them. inedible. They don't taste like a regular Snickers. The caramel's different, the taste is different, awful.

Speaker 5: 16:07

You must have like a Padma palette.

Speaker: 16:10

I don't oh, I'll I've got a couple left because I couldn't eat them. I will we'll do a taste test.

unknown: 16:17

Yeah.

Speaker 5: 16:17

I don't know that if I uh if they did actually change them, I'm sure it's not so significant that my palate would pick it up.

Speaker: 16:26

Well, I think when the fact is they're not using any chocolate, no cocoa, they're filling it with oils. Yeah, they're using oils and synthetic flavors because cocoa, the price of cocoa is skyrocketing.

Speaker 5: 16:39

I'm afraid for you right now. Because I feel like you might be making unsubstantiated claims.

Speaker: 16:44

100% no.

Speaker 5: 16:45

You're telling me Snickers is no, you're no longer using chocolate.

Speaker: 16:49

This is all of the candy company, all of the candy company.

Speaker 5: 16:53

So cocoa no.

Speaker: 16:54

Well, some products they are, they've been dialing back because the price of cocoa has increased. So, to counter efforts to keep costs down, the candy companies are using different things to make up. They try to use less chocolate whenever they can.

Speaker 6: 17:11

Okay.

Speaker: 17:11

So, yeah, no, it's this is a hot topic. I'm shocked you haven't seen these headlines.

Speaker 5: 17:16

It is a hot topic, and I just want to go on record saying I haven't done my research, and those words are her own.

unknown: 17:23

Not mine.

Speaker: 17:25

Well, Brad Reese has been coming, he's gone viral for his statements against Reese's, which is owned by Hershey's.

Speaker 3: 17:33

Right.

Speaker: 17:33

And Hershey's is he's basically acknowledged he's truthful, and they're getting around it by saying the classic peanut butter cup has not changed.

Speaker 5: 17:42

Can I just adjacently ask you guys this? I have never hated but never loved a Reese's either. And it seems like in any candy contest, my I had to work candy bracket as well. Reese is always in the top. 100. I mean, do you guys are you a big Reese? Clearly, you like you have some skin in the game.

Speaker 3: 18:05

Well, I love the board of directors.

Speaker: 18:08

No, I love a little chocolate peanut butter action. How but when's the last time you hung out with Brad? Brad Reese. I don't know. I kind of want to see if he's attractive. I haven't seen a photo, but maybe I need to look him up.

Speaker 6: 18:22

Well, yeah, do it.

Speaker: 18:23

Because I love that he's taking on the big candy companies, and this has become like it's been talked about a lot about how the candy companies in efforts to keep their costs down have been taking out these high-end ingredients. Yeah.

Speaker 5: 18:39

You said that. We uh we need to do some more follow-up and research on this.

Speaker: 18:44

But well, and I think I'm gonna we'll have to do a lot of things.

Speaker 5: 18:47

I would need to bring in a Reese's cup, which is OG, right? Yep. Unchanged OG. One of these. Bring in a bunny.

Speaker: 18:57

Yeah.

Speaker 5: 18:58

Bring in an Easter egg. Yeah.

Speaker: 18:59

We'll do that.

Speaker 5: 19:00

And let's taste this. This is Brad.

Speaker: 19:02

Let me see.

Speaker 4: 19:03

Oh no. No. Um, he's probably got a lot of money.

Speaker: 19:07

He probably has a lot of money. I support backstage. I support Brad. Luckily, I am not single and I'm not on the market. So Brad's not an option for me.

Speaker 4: 19:19

Maddie, I think it's your turn for another hot topic.

Speaker: 19:22

Yeah, see what we got.

Speaker 5: 19:24

All right, let's see what we got. Oh, this is my own hot topic. Is that okay? Yeah, of course. All right, so my hot topic is Therions.

Speaker: 19:38

Therans. I feel like I've heard this word, but I can't. Right now it's escaping me.

Speaker 5: 19:43

What it's I've never heard of that one. Okay. So Therions have recently made huge headlines in Argentina throughout the month of February, where they have had three meetups.

Speaker: 20:00

Yeah, I this I don't think I know anything about it.

Speaker 5: 20:02

Okay. A Therian are people who identify as a non-human animal. So they identify as like a wolf, a fox, or a cat. They fully understand that they are a human being, but they identify as a non-human. And they get together. It's called therianthropy. What it is. And it's kind of like like if I asked you, JJ, how do you identify? Yeah, you can say sis man. Uh-huh. Somebody else might say meow wolf. Yeah.

Speaker: 20:52

So let me ask you this. Are they identifying themselves as wolf on their work HR forms? Because that's where I really start to question.

Speaker 4: 21:04

Like their like the pronouns and the way they would do the pronouns?

Speaker: 21:06

Well, no, like when you fill out your like HR paper, usually you'll have to say male, female. Sometimes they now have other to like but they will go into other.

Speaker 5: 21:17

Well, I mean, I don't think wolf is gonna be an option.

Speaker: 21:20

Well, and I question, are they coming to work in a professional corporate setting saying I'm a wolf? That seems sketch.

Speaker 5: 21:28

I'm gonna go out on a limb here. I don't think these people are working in a corporate setting.

unknown: 21:34

Okay.

Speaker 6: 21:35

That is clear.

Speaker 5: 21:37

Okay, a couple things to keep in mind. One, it's happening in Argentina first. It's where it's there's like a ground.

Speaker: 21:44

Oh, so this isn't all international Therians coming to play.

Speaker 5: 21:48

Well, you're gonna have to pause and okay. Pause P A U S E, not P A W S. Pause. Yes, you're gonna have to pause for a second while I tell you that. That it's picking up traction in Argentina. Argentina is typically a freer state where it's very accepting. And so it's getting a little ground swell there. And it is typically isolated. It started there. It had kind of you know, it started um it's not new, it started in like 1990.

Speaker 2: 22:21

Really?

Speaker 5: 22:21

But it's also among younger adults and teens. Okay. So I think, if anything, they're taking their wolf mask off to go and work at McDonald's or whatever. But like if it takes off, we might have to share space. I I'm not.

Speaker: 22:42

I think that goes too far.

Speaker 5: 22:44

I'm gonna give you how and do they growl at you and like meow meow and let me give you a little testimony for from Sophia. Sophia likes to wear a lifelike beagle mask. She runs across the grass on all fours. Meanwhile, her 15-year-old um friend Aguira leaps through the air, clearing an obstacle course while imitating the per precise movements of the Belgian breed dog. Others are dressed as cats and foxes. They're perched up in the branches of a tree. Oh and they're keeping they're keeping their distance from curious onlookers.

Speaker: 23:27

Wow.

Speaker 5: 23:28

This sounds like they're just they identify mentally and spiritually or psychologically with non-human animals. This trend has taken over Argentine social media over the past few months and has gained tractions on TikTok where the hashtag here surpassed two million posts. Um this is uh funny to me. Um so Aguira says I wake up like a normal person and I live my life like a normal person, she said. I just simply have moments where I feel like I'm being a dog.

Speaker: 24:08

Oh my god.

Speaker 4: 24:09

Well, that's just kind of contradicting because she is saying that she is waking up as like a normal person. So she's referring to herself as her as a person. So it's a but at moments she feels so you wouldn't consider yourself like a full-on, like the same way that it would be there will be a gender or a pronoun. Correct. This is just like you know, when she feels like it.

Speaker: 24:35

I think it's kind of like play acting, and I feel like it's just a glorified improv group.

Speaker 5: 24:41

Well, I'm surprised you didn't a glorified improv group. Is that what you just said? Yes, she sure did. Okay. I thought for sure you're gonna be like, how is this different? Are there aren't they just furries?

Speaker 4: 24:55

I was gonna that was going to be my question.

Speaker: 24:57

Oh well, furries is a sexual thing, I think. No, no, no, no, yeah, yeah. Again, you just throwing your shit out. Like, no, girl. I've never been to a furry convention.

Speaker 4: 25:09

They are even part of the comic-cons. They furries are everywhere.

Speaker 5: 25:12

A furry is the difference between a furry and a Therian is that furries like to dress up in costumes and they enjoy being a furry animal in a costume. A Therian feels like they are the animal. Okay. Okay. I get it.

Speaker 4: 25:30

So have you guys heard about um the German DJ um horse girl? She's very, very popular.

Speaker 5: 25:38

Is she part of a Therian club?

Speaker 4: 25:40

I don't know. That's but your hot topic made me think about that because she is always wearing this horse mask, and you can see this here. I can, I mean, I don't know if I can see it. Well, do you think she is like thousands and thousands of people, she's very, very famous now. Okay. But she's always red carpet, she's wearing the mask.

Speaker 5: 26:06

I think we're at a point here in this conversation and in the world in the life where what I'm reading is there are people that like to role play and dress up in a costume, and that could be horse girl. Or if horse girl feels like a horse, then she's a theoryan. So it's like cosplay or theory or furry, but I want to. But a theory, I listen, I'm not buying or selling here.

Speaker: 26:33

Well, it sounds like you're buying and selling. I know I'm not.

Speaker 5: 26:38

I'm bringing forth a hot topic because I have a hard time thinking about someone that's gonna say I identify to your guys' point as a wolf, but you know, only around noon or 1230.

Speaker: 26:51

Well, then you're a werewolf, maybe if it's there's something else. The sun goes down. Well, I mean, I would kind of like to see the scenario where they're hanging out and people are sitting in trees acting like birds.

Speaker 5: 27:04

Oh, well, I have a photo for you, but I can't turn my computer to you. But they're perched up in there.

Speaker: 27:09

They're on and they have no costume or anything. They just sit in like up there like this with his phone.

Speaker 5: 27:15

Oh my god. You can speak to the microphone. Oh, yeah. The other I'm getting excited about the theriots.

Speaker: 27:21

But they're up there perched and prowling and so do they uh wear they wear no costumes, they're just in a sweatshirt and jeans.

Speaker 5: 27:28

Well, they have a furry face.

Speaker: 27:30

Oh, so they are putting stuff on.

Speaker 5: 27:33

So they are well, so that's where it gets to to self-express, whether they're a fox or a wolf, or a cat, or a horse girl. I think she could be.

Speaker 4: 27:44

I wonder if she just did a little trip to Argentina prior to this.

Speaker: 27:49

Well, but some people like to be in a costume when they are performing like DJs or you know, singers like Sia would always cover her face.

Speaker 5: 27:58

They had an event on February 10th, 15th, and the 22nd. And coming up, this story was on the AP Newswire. Do you know the AP Newswire? Yes, okay. Well, I'm just saying it gives it credibility. This is uneducated. Well, I'm just saying that until I until I said that, it could have just been like the Argentina bugle. No, okay. We we answered that. Right. I just lended it credibility, in my opinion.

Speaker: 28:28

Well, all right. Maybe the AP reports on lots of things.

Speaker 5: 28:32

All right, SmartyPants, we're picking another one. We're picking another one.

Speaker: 28:35

I think it's time to move on.

unknown: 28:37

Well, meow.

Speaker: 28:41

Well, I'm just trying to see. Maybe I want to be a therapist.

Speaker 4: 28:45

This is mine. A lighter topic. It's still a hot topic, but it's a lighter topic. And it's still my vibe today, it's all about the gay culture. Oh, wow. So another gay.

Speaker 6: 28:56

All right.

Speaker 4: 28:56

Um, there is a new term coming up on the gay community. It's called the masc gay. Yep. Go ahead. Just let me talk about it.

Speaker 6: 29:06

Yeah.

Speaker 4: 29:08

There is a mask gay rebrand era. So a mask gay. That is mask M-A-S-C. Masculine. Masculine, but it's they're calling the masc gay.

Speaker 5: 29:22

We were back on masks. So did I.

Speaker 4: 29:25

No, it's the masc gay rebrand era. Uh, they're saying that there was a lot of toxicity, toxicity around you know, being feminine gay feminines and gay that are like more masculines. And they are, I don't know if you've seen the trend of a lot of influencers, most likely, that they're doing like the cold plunges, the protein powders, like presentations, and uh there are also alluding crypto investors being more on the masc gay rebrand era that are trying to get and they're at tying those to those that are going into the Tinder. We've talked about it all the time that they we've already swiped to a Tinder, you know, uh we're on the Tinder app, and we're swiping the next thing we know, they're asking us about being if you if you want some crypto on it.

Speaker: 30:16

Oh, I just thought those were pseudo-bots. I didn't know that those were really gay men behind it.

Speaker 4: 30:21

I thought so too, but I don't think they are necessarily gay men behind it.

Speaker 5: 30:26

Yeah.

Speaker 4: 30:26

There's there's but they were saying that there is a big surge on the fitness influencers that are trying to put themselves more of a masc gay.

Speaker: 30:41

And a masc gay, for my information, because I've never heard this term before, is just a masculine gay man.

Speaker 4: 30:49

Yes. Okay, yeah, a masc perception.

Speaker: 30:52

Abbreviated to M A S C. No, I get it. I just wanted to make sure I understood.

Speaker 5: 30:56

When are you ready for feedback right now? I'm 100% all in on this trend.

Speaker 3: 31:02

Okay.

Speaker 5: 31:03

Love it. I I'm about it. Can I ask? I prefer a masc.

Speaker 3: 31:07

Yeah.

Speaker: 31:08

Is a masc gay? Does he have facial hair?

Speaker 4: 31:14

Sometimes, most of the time, yeah.

Speaker: 31:16

But it's it's that it's not part of the definition.

Speaker 4: 31:20

It is straight acting only. Okay. It's a masc for masc. So they're using that term, and we've seen that before. Masc for masc. It's like a masculine man looking for another masculine man.

Speaker: 31:32

I get it. He doesn't want a bear, he doesn't want a twink.

unknown: 31:37

Yeah.

Speaker 4: 31:37

Matt, Matty, you have something to say, I think.

Speaker 5: 31:39

Well, no, I'm just saying um that yeah, I I'm surprised that it's an upcoming thing, as you mentioned, because it's been around. But I do like it if it's going to be the more popular uh way in which people are depicted. Although, I mean, depict depict away, depict how you want to depict, but um yeah, that's gonna be more my wheelhouse.

Speaker 4: 32:07

So it's according to this article, it says it's this is not that the masculine culture disappeared, it's just it has been rebranded. And it the search is just based on this all whole influencers that came from the fitness and the cold plunges and things like that. So the mat the masked gays thought, oh, this is an opportunity for us to rebrand ourselves and put it, put us out there to be like, hey, we are gay, we're masculine presenting.

Speaker 5: 32:35

We lift weights.

Speaker 4: 32:36

Uh, and we lift weights, we you know, drink some protein, and this is, you know, get ready with me.

Speaker: 32:42

So let me ask you, yeah, do the two of you think of yourselves as masc gays?

Speaker 5: 32:49

Uh I uh I don't lift a lot of weights. Uh I don't think I I think I ride the middle. Okay.

Speaker 4: 32:57

I think I'm masc presenting, but if I'm comfortable, I might throw a little hand here and there.

Speaker 5: 33:04

I I'm not like depending on like how uh con like constraining the definition is, like if you are in your mind thinking it is like beefy and bro and this and that, I don't even want to be that. No, like at me either. But I also am just I don't think that I'm complete. I'm like on most topics, I feel there's a spectrum in how you identify. And I think that you know, I kind of I'm right in the middle, I guess. Okay.

Speaker 4: 33:34

Yeah, and they were, are also promoting masculine men um showing off feelings.

Speaker 5: 33:40

Oh, god forbid.

Speaker 4: 33:42

So it's like trying to stay away from that masculine toxicity that could happen and you know now in the era that it's um you know it's all about influencers and how well you look and all those things. Um they're trying to rebrand that.

Speaker 5: 33:56

Okay.

Speaker 4: 33:57

Are they successful? Who's trying? No, it was just an article that uh, you know, Chat GPT and I put together.

Speaker 5: 34:02

Do you think that some of these masks you think some of these masques might be straight that just woke up that woke?

Speaker 3: 34:12

I was hoping that Megan would have come up with that little thing that are coming to terms with something.

Speaker: 34:17

Maybe. Yeah, I agree. That would make sense to me.

Speaker 6: 34:21

Yeah.

Speaker: 34:22

If they've been in the closet and now they're like, I'm out, but now I'm a masc gay. I'm not a gay gay.

Speaker 6: 34:29

Yeah.

Speaker: 34:31

Well, yeah, or I guess you should see everyone's using the word queer now. I almost think you're not supposed to say gay.

Speaker 5: 34:38

Oh, it was on Grey's Anatomy. It's all about queer now. I know what it's about, but it's all about your comfort level. Okay, and what you what you what you how you self-identify, Theory in.

Speaker: 34:52

Oh well, okay.

Speaker 5: 34:54

Queer.

Speaker: 34:56

Wow. Well, wow.

Speaker 5: 34:59

All right.

Speaker 4: 35:00

That is all that's a hot topic. Are we talking about that? Yeah.

Speaker 5: 35:04

Wow. Okay. Well, we better move right the fuck up. All right. I am going to say we've got Megan in the house, and I'm ready. Okay. Going to Canada for anti-aging treatments. Yes.

Speaker 4: 35:23

What what this treatment, what are this treatment? Treatment.

Speaker 5: 35:26

Can you just let our finish?

Speaker: 35:28

So there's so there's a couple big treatments that everyone in Hollywood are doing that I'm looking at potentially doing. Yes. So NAD and Morpheus 8. Now, for all the slippers out there who are not listening in the state of Michigan, I know there's lots of you. We in the Detroit area, literally in downtown Detroit, it's like a little river channel, and Canada's right there. So we can easily get into Canada. Yeah, we can get into Canada in like 15 minutes, 10 minutes, sometimes. Depending on the traffic. Yeah, depending on traffic and border control.

Speaker 5: 36:06

Yeah, and whether the border actually want us these days.

Speaker: 36:10

Yeah, I have Nexus, which gives me fast pass into Canada. Anyway, so right now for every US dollar, you get Canadian $1.36. So you're saving quite a bit of money on some of these more expensive anti-aging treatments. Okay. So I have been looking into going to Canada to get some of these.

Speaker 5: 36:37

She used to do this for yogurt.

Speaker: 36:39

Well, I did it one time. One time to try Foot Fairy before we had it.

Speaker 5: 36:45

True.

Speaker: 36:45

One time.

Speaker 4: 36:49

I remember you saying that.

Speaker: 36:51

Yeah. So I don't know if you know NAD is something, it's a coenzyme in your body that your body makes naturally that helps with cellular energy and repair. But as we age, our levels drop. So people get NAD supplements, and they say the best way of getting it is IVs. And it takes about three hours. Some people are doing injections like every day or every couple of days. But by the age of 40 to 50, the NAD levels may be 30 to 50% lower than they were when you were younger. And the decline in NAD is linked to increased inflammation, oxidative stress, and reduced mitochondrial efficiency. So this drop in NAD contributes to fatigue, slower recovery, cognitive changes, and visible aging.

Speaker 5: 37:47

Okay. So you are noticing a drop in your NADs?

Speaker: 37:51

Well, I don't know. I'm a I everyone is. As we age. It's happening. It doesn't, whether you notice it or not, it's happening.

Speaker 5: 37:59

Are there other uh treatments besides the daily injection? Like, so how are you?

Speaker: 38:04

IV therapy. So you would sit and have an IV and you can't go cheap.

Speaker 5: 38:08

How are you gonna fit into your lifestyle every other day or every day going to be a little bit more?

Speaker: 38:13

Well, that's an injection that you would do yourself. So that's just getting they would give you a vial and you would mix it up and inject it every day. Some people do that, some people do like once a month, they go and do the IV or every couple of months.

Speaker 5: 38:29

Can you? This is I do you know the answer to this? I don't know. Can you go over into Canada and buy a vial that you're gonna inject into yourself and come right back over the border? No problem.

Speaker: 38:40

Yeah, because I mean people are going all the time. They always talk about seniors going to Canada for their medication because it's cheaper.

Speaker 6: 38:47

Okay.

Speaker: 38:47

So with prescriptions, they're going over there and getting medication. So that happens. So NAD infusions in Canada are about 800 plus per session. So that's Canadian dollars.

Speaker 4: 39:04

So a session is an hour?

Speaker: 39:05

Oh, like three hours probably for an IV for a trip trip. But if you're doing the injections where you just get a vial, depending, it's like $50 to $80 based on the injection.

Speaker 5: 39:16

I feel like you won't even know if it's doing anything. Right.

Speaker: 39:19

Well, it's I mean, all these like celebrities, real housewives, they're all doing to Canada for now. No, they're doing NAD. They can afford it. Yeah, like I'm saying because we're so close.

Speaker 5: 39:35

I'm like, they're right over there in winter.

Speaker: 39:36

Let's what do you think about going there to get it done as opposed to um having it done here just to save costs? You could maybe do more treatments, more IVs, injections. Morpheus 8, on the other hand, is slightly different. It's a cosmetic treatment that combines micro-nebling, microneedling with radio frequency energy to remodel collagen and tighten skin from the inside out. So it's very popular for like smoothing wrinkles, tightening sagging skin, and improving texture. A lot of people say it's like the last thing you do before a facelift.

Speaker 4: 40:16

I wonder, I wonder what the cost is for a um salmon sperm face.

Speaker: 40:22

Yeah, so you could do sound, you yeah, like the same thing. And even if it's the same cost.

Speaker 5: 40:27

I wouldn't do not from the Detroit River.

Speaker: 40:29

Well, yes, I don't think there's salmon in the Detroit River.

Speaker 5: 40:33

Well, I wouldn't even that I wouldn't eat any fish out of there. And I see people fishing out of there all the time.

Speaker: 40:38

So but even if just aside the cost, even if the cost is the same because the dollar is so much stronger than the Canadian dollar, you're saving.

Speaker 5: 40:46

Are you looking for validation about what you're about to pull the trigger on?

Speaker: 40:50

Well, I don't know. I'm just saying, would you do it? Would you do it? Do you think it's a good no, you wouldn't.

Speaker 5: 40:56

I would not do either of those treatments in Canada.

Speaker: 41:00

The the top so you won't even do the treatments in general, correct? So you're just gonna age hell with you're not gonna do anything to like I've done nothing with help yourself out.

Speaker 4: 41:11

This is all you got a lot of like lotions and oh well, right, but I haven't done anything to do with that.

Speaker: 41:16

So you won't do a laser. A laser's not surgical.

Speaker 4: 41:20

What is it? You wouldn't do Botox.

Speaker: 41:22

It's a laser, they just laser your face.

Speaker 4: 41:24

You wouldn't do Botox to your lips or anything.

Speaker 5: 41:27

Uh I I'm like, I would do certain things, but I'm not gonna have my mitochondrial cellular reconfigured.

Speaker: 41:36

That's not that's just an injection. That's yeah, that's or an ID.

Speaker 5: 41:39

There was a procedure, yeah.

Speaker: 41:41

Well, no, it all it does is increases the NAD levels in your body that your body's already producing.

Speaker 5: 41:48

I heard all the benefits.

Speaker: 41:49

All right, so you're not you're not interested in doing any anti-aging treatments, and if you were, you would not do them in Canada.

Speaker 5: 41:56

I mean, don't put me in a box. I mean, I'm just not interested in these two things. For 30 cents? Are you wanting me to go to Canada with you? Is that what this is?

Speaker: 42:05

I'm open for people who might be interested.

Speaker 5: 42:08

I am willing to travel.

Speaker: 42:10

We could get in there dinner afterwards.

Speaker 5: 42:12

I'll hold your vials.

Speaker 4: 42:13

Yeah, just three hours with me. I'll watch what happens. One-on-one with me. I'll watch what happens.

Speaker 5: 42:18

Oh, he would love it.

Speaker: 42:19

Oh, well, that's in fact for the while you're getting your IV the more molecular reassignment surgery.

Speaker 5: 42:26

I am going to be around out and about. But I'll come pick you back up after two and a half hours.

Speaker 4: 42:33

Okay, great. All right, I have a hot topic for you.

Speaker 6: 42:36

Okay.

Speaker 4: 42:37

I think that we're running out of time. Oh we're gonna let that hot topic for the next episode. Oh, yes. Okay, next time. Ha ha hot topic for you is a product review. We haven't done a product review from Trader Joe's in a while. No, um, it's a product that I use weekly uh with my meal preps every Sunday. I marinate my chicken with the Trader Joe's Italian style sofrito.

Speaker 6: 43:10

Oh.

Speaker 4: 43:11

Um, and actually, I it what got my attention was that in our Hispanic culture, we have a specific thing that we call sofrito. It's not a dry rub like this. Okay, it's usually wet. So I'm like, oh, I'm curious to know like what is this going to give to my to my meat? And ho and behold, a dry rub. It's spiced it up with a meat. So it's $3.99 in Trader Joe's. Um, it's a it's their flavor profile. I love a good flavor profile. It's it's a slight spicy with not you know the Italian seasoning that we used to have. It's there's a hint to it, but there's it's not fully like Italian seasoning.

Speaker: 43:58

Okay.

Speaker 4: 43:58

Uh so it's a good mix. Of it. Um, it's a good size, I feel, for uh um, you know, spices like this, and it's $3.99 in Traider Joes. Yeah, and I use it.

Speaker 5: 44:10

What else do you put it on?

Speaker 4: 44:12

I put it on my rice. I do Spanish rice. I put it there. Yes. Okay. But it's Italian, no, it's Italian. Confusing. But it's you know, it's it's European adjacent.

Speaker 5: 44:25

Yeah.

Speaker 4: 44:25

From you know, it's Italy to Spain. It's not, it's not that far. So I use it there. I don't know if you guys know, but Trader Joe's has a recipes area on their website. They have a bunch of recipes with the Italian style Sofrito.

Speaker 6: 44:41

Oh, I love it.

Speaker 4: 44:42

Um, and I would encourage you guys and our slippers to go in and check it out. I use it often, like I said.

Speaker 5: 44:49

How long does it take you to go through that jar?

Speaker 4: 44:52

This is probably a month old.

Speaker 5: 44:54

A month old.

Speaker 4: 44:55

Yeah, and still have quite a bit.

Speaker 5: 44:58

Yeah, yeah. But you're marinating your chicken and your meat every Sunday.

Speaker 4: 45:02

Every Sunday, just a little bit of this. There is another other spices that I use with this. Trying to, you know, kind of doing the the the Megan's mix of nuts that she has. She has all mixed of nuts with different things. So I mix my spices with other things. And the Italian.

Speaker 1: 45:20

I love it.

Speaker: 45:21

So let me ask you: do you mix that with like a little olive oil and then make marinade the meats that way? Okay, I like it. I'm gonna try it.

Speaker 4: 45:29

Garlic, olive oil, and a little bit of this. And there's another one from Trader Joe's that I use that I think I've mentioned it to Matty before. Uh Green Goddess.

Speaker: 45:37

Oh, I've got it. I've got the Green Goddess.

Speaker 5: 45:41

Well, every time he finds a new Trader Joe's spice, I get it. Oh, it's I have saffrito in my cupboard.

Speaker 4: 45:48

Matty does it. How do I say uh Italian style soffrito?

Speaker 5: 45:52

Sofrito?

Speaker 4: 45:53

Yeah. Um, Matty does some meal prepping too. So I I recommended that to him because I'm like, you know what? If you want something that is good, it's flavorful, and still healthy for you, Italian style sofrito. I love it.

Speaker: 46:05

I'm gonna try it.

Speaker 4: 46:06

Yeah, you can find it on Amazon, but it's oh you can it's like double the price.

Speaker 5: 46:10

Trader Joe's products.

Speaker 4: 46:12

No, there is like you know, oh, this is private sellers. Okay, it is a Trader Joe's, it's a trade Trader Joe brand. But nowadays you find everything in the flavor mix-up profile.

Speaker: 46:22

Like I've seen that on Italian menus and stuff.

Speaker 4: 46:25

Like this is it.

Speaker: 46:26

Yeah, I can't wait. I'm gonna try it.

Speaker 4: 46:28

Yeah, you should try it.

Speaker 5: 46:31

I didn't prep my slip it in and pull it out. Well, I'm because I think we're about to move into it. I was just gonna pull it out. Yes.

Speaker: 46:40

She's she was so while we talk about ours. I won't start with me. I'll start with myself. Yeah. And my slip it in is McDonald's shamrock shakes. They're back, they're out. Love them, love them. And some places in the country you cannot get them. But luckily, Michigan and the surrounding areas, all the states carry shamrock shakes.

Speaker 4: 47:05

Can you remind me again what are the ingredients of mint chocolate, right?

Speaker: 47:10

No, no chocolate. It's just a mint shake. So it's kind of like creme de mint or grasshopper.

Speaker 4: 47:16

Okay. No chocolate.

Speaker 5: 47:18

I have something to say. So palm royal.

Speaker 4: 47:21

Yeah. Yep, palm royal maxine.

Speaker 5: 47:24

I almost put this as a hot topic in the mug. And it's not the McDonald's shamrock shake. I don't know if you've heard about this, but Costco is coming out with one to rival McDonald's shamrock shake. Wow. So here you go.

Speaker: 47:43

Well, that was a hot topic we should have had.

Speaker 5: 47:46

Oh my god. I'm I'm doing uh well now.

Speaker: 47:48

I want to know where when Costco's is going to be out because I'm going to do a side-by-side taste test. Because those shamrock shakes are very good.

Speaker 5: 47:55

There it is. Uh Costco adds a new manual item to its food court to rival the McDonald's shamrock shake. The $299 treat features mint ice cream layered with cookie crumbles and chocolate sauce clocking in at a set at 790 calories.

Speaker: 48:12

I'm not, I mean, that sounds good, but that's not a shamrock shake. Like I don't think it rivals when it's it's completely different. It's got cookie crumbs and chocolate. A shamrock shake has neither.

Speaker 4: 48:23

I mean, I'm not a big mint type of flavor guy, but the cookie crumble got me.

Speaker: 48:29

Yeah. Like I was, but I hate a Hershey's chocolate sauce. I like a hot fudge. Well, probably because they fucked with your reason.

Speaker 4: 48:36

I don't like mint chocolate, period.

Speaker: 48:38

Oh, I love mint chocolate. Oh, well, I'm gonna have to start looking at Costco for this. This is the hot top.

Speaker 5: 48:44

It almost made the mug.

Speaker: 48:46

Well, with that, I'm gonna move to my pull it out. And this has to do with I had to go to court this week to fight a speeding ticket. Oh, shocker. Were you on your way to Chicago by chance? No, no, no, no. And so I was representing myself, so I had to put my suit on, go to court. Let me just say, like, if you're going to court, I don't know for what reason I feel like I know where this is going. Just wear a proper outfit.

Speaker 5: 49:16

Yeah.

Speaker: 49:16

And when I say proper outfit, I mean maybe just like clean clothes and a tucked-in shirt. There was a woman there in literally a full silver sequin suit. Like a full sequin sequin blazer, full on. She had like a white t-shirt underneath, and then full-on silver sequin pants. Well, that sounds flashy. I mean, it was a suit. I'll give her that, but it was highly inappropriate. And then another guy was there, and I walked into him. He was like loitering outside the courthouse. He wasn't smoking, but all I could do is smell all this smoke. And then I was up waiting in line to speak to the prosecutor. And there's all these lawyers were all in suits, sit standing there waiting for the prosecutor. And he's milling about. He comes up. Oh, what? I got to go to the court. And one other lawyer started talking to him. He had on a dirty t-shirt, dirty pants, and he still smelled like smoke in the courthouse. And it's just, you're not going to do well in front of a judge when you aren't dressed a little bit more presentable. So that's my PSA. Pull it out.

Speaker 5: 50:27

And how did you do?

Speaker: 50:28

Oh, I got impeding. Oh. Which means zero points, and it doesn't show up on insurance. Where did this happen? On 12 mile going to work one morning in Farmington Hills.

Speaker 5: 50:40

What were you clocked at?

Speaker: 50:43

Come on. I was like 62 miles per hour. In a what?

Speaker 2: 50:50

45?

Speaker: 50:51

Probably.

Speaker 2: 50:52

Wow.

Speaker: 50:53

But the judge said. Good thing you wore your nice blazer. Well, yes. No, I dealt with the prosecutor. He just said, you know what they say in law school. I'm like, I know.

Speaker 6: 51:02

Yeah.

Speaker: 51:02

Being your own client is the worst way to go. He goes, yeah. And then he's like, if you can spell impeding, I'll let you have it. I'm like, Wow.

Speaker 5: 51:08

And you could? Yeah. Well, good thing they didn't ask you to do a math problem. Good thing they didn't say, take how how far, how fast you're going and minus the speed limit.

Speaker: 51:19

You would have been. You would have been you know, most lawyers maybe are like me. They went to law school because there was no math on that entrance exam.

Speaker 4: 51:31

All right. Um, I'm gonna start out with my pull-out. Uh my pull out is a trend that I um realize that's happening in Instagram. It should stop as soon as possible. They call it the AMA trend, is people going into their stories and they just put a little blurb that says ask me anything, AMA.

Speaker: 51:54

Oh, I love it. You don't like it?

Speaker 4: 51:56

Oh, I hate it.

Speaker: 51:57

Oh, I hate it.

Speaker 4: 51:57

Like, ask you anything about what? Like you like a random, you know, uh influencer. And I'm not talking about uh celebrities and celebrities, I love it. It's a connection that you have celebrities. But if it's this person that I know from the gym that has like 500 followers, maybe a hundred, and they're like, oh, I'm bored, ask me anything for the next couple hours.

Speaker 5: 52:20

Oh, because are they on there live?

Speaker 4: 52:22

No, they're not live. They just put it on the story, Ask Me Anything. Uh-huh. And they're just like probably, you know, getting their car fixed. And for the next hour, they're available then.

Speaker 5: 52:34

They are available. Yeah, random. I was thinking, like, could we do an A-U-A, like an ask us anything?

Speaker 4: 52:41

Like for Oh, we could probably do that. Oh, now you're changing your tune. We could probably do that.

Speaker: 52:45

I love them.

Speaker 4: 52:46

Yeah, I don't like that.

Speaker: 52:47

But I've never seen a random person do it. It's always a celebrity or an influencer.

Speaker 4: 52:53

I see a lot of random randoms doing that. No, I'm not a big fan. Okay. But maybe we can just do it in our slip it in.

Speaker 6: 53:01

Yeah.

Speaker 4: 53:02

As us. I like that. AUA. AUA more.

Speaker 5: 53:05

You heard it here first. Yeah. Heard it here first.

Speaker 4: 53:08

My slip it in is I always, Matty and Megan knows this. I love learning a new word. I learned a new word this week. The word is apricity. No, that is not it. That was not on my cards, but it was part of the hot topics today. My new word is apricity. Apricity. A P-R-I-C-I-T-Y.

Speaker 5: 53:33

I'm gonna learn another.

Speaker 4: 53:35

I'm gonna give you the definition of apricity. Apricity is the warmth of the sun in the winter.

Speaker: 53:43

I love that.

Speaker 4: 53:44

It's not talking about a blazing hot summers, uh, heat or anything like that. But the good thing about this is that it gives a feeling that lifts you up and makes you feel better. And it apricity only is allowed to like to have that feeling during winter.

Speaker 5: 54:07

Oh.

Speaker 4: 54:07

So it's like, you know, when you're like, you know, we've gone through different days of cold, cold winter, but the sun comes out and that warmth that you feel like right on your chest, that is a moment of apricity.

Speaker 6: 54:21

Oh.

Speaker 4: 54:22

So I know that there might be some people, you know, with you know, bat winter, like whether that is weather-wise or emotionally, mental health, and all those things. Try to find your apricity. Try to find your apricity. That's my slip it in.

Speaker 5: 54:38

I love it. I that's a new word for me as well. Thank you for bringing it to the pod. Ask me anything.

Speaker: 54:46

That's your slip it in. You're an AMA. Ask me what my uh slip it is.

Speaker 5: 54:51

What is your slip it in Matty? So on the fly, we had um the Survivor League kickoff at our house, my house, uh this past Wednesday, and I decided to get pizza, and I had got a coupon in the mail, and I went to use that coupon, save coupon, online, and you couldn't. So I'm like, oh my god, I've got to call in and order a pizza. I haven't called in and ordered a pizza in probably 20 years. But it brought me back to the joy of ordering over the phone. You basically just tell them what your coupon is. Oh god. They're like, what's your coupon? And I'm like, it's three pizzas for $34.99. How much was it for? $32.99. Okay. And then they're like, and I said it comes with breadsticks. How many does it how many breadstick orders does it say it comes with? Three? Okay. I mean, you just basically tell them what the coupon is and you get it.

Speaker: 56:04

What was the pizza place you ordered from? Nicks. Oh, I've not heard of Nick's.

Speaker 5: 56:08

Nick's is very good around here. And I good to know. I went with a non-huge chain for the friends that were coming from out of town so they could try something different. Yeah. Okay. All right. My pull it out is this. Oh. I was wondering when was this going to happen? I can't stand it. I like this. I don't however you do it, like this. It's the heart. I'm just like, eh. It's I don't like it. No. Yeah. So like what everyone does this. Oh, and I'm like, I know.

Speaker: 56:40

It's very big on American Idol.

Speaker 5: 56:42

It is. It's big on a lot of things. I just it just played out. Johnny Weir did it on uh the Traders Reunion. Oh, Johnny. Johnny, don't. Johnny, no. I agree. So I'm not. Can we retire it?

Speaker: 56:53

It's had a moment. I don't see it going away. It actually seems like it's getting bigger.

Speaker 5: 56:58

Really? Yeah, it feels like it to me. Based on what trend data?

Speaker: 57:02

Um, just my feelings of seeing it on the screen more and more. Okay and more.

Speaker 3: 57:09

And I see it. Yeah.

Speaker: 57:11

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