Cold Open And Host Banter

Speaker 0:04

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

Speaker 4 0:24

We are back, slipping it in with you. I'm Megan, and as I'm sure you can tell, it's a week later, and my voice is still not quite back. I'm kind of liking the sexy voice. You like it.

Speaker 3 0:37

I like when Megan comes in there with that sexy voice. I like it. I am JJ, by the way.

The Bahamas Overboard Mystery

Speaker 2 0:42

Hi JJ. Hi, JJ. I'm Matty. Hi, Matty. Hi. I've been thinking a little bit about murder. Really? I am actually not surprised. I'm just surprised. I mean, I know. I lead with it. I sleep with it. You sleep with sleep with it. I have told the slippers in the past that Dateline puts me to sleep. And I, it's weird, right?

Speaker 3 1:10

And you find that normal.

Speaker 2 1:12

No, I never said that. But I do find it like I go to sleep before I know who did it, but most of the time I know who did it. Right? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of writings on the wall. And recently, if you haven't seen the news, shame on you, but there is a Who Done It that is directly tied back to Michigan. It's on all the news shows. There's updates all the time. And again, somebody went onto a boat and quote unquote fell overboard. Like a little vessel. I just I can't.

Speaker 4 1:57

You're talking about the hookers.

Speaker 2 2:00

The hookers.

Speaker 4 2:01

Lynette Hooker, the 55-year-old woman.

Speaker 3 2:05

Oh, I didn't this took a twist. Yeah.

Speaker 2 2:08

I'm like, no, I didn't think I would. No, I didn't. No. But is that their last name? Yeah. Okay. So you're actually you're you're clocking this as I'm all over. Okay. Tell well I mean she didn't know to swim.

Speaker 4 2:24

No, she was a very, very good swimmer, which is why it's questionable.

Speaker 2 2:27

She probably wasn't even able to swim when she got into the water because probably something happened before that.

Speaker 3 2:34

Oh right?

Speaker 2 2:36

We don't know.

Speaker 4 2:36

Yeah, no, well, sort of. Go ahead. Uh Brian Hooker and Lynette Hooker are a Michigan couple. They were in the Bahamas sailing, and Brian Hooker told authorities that while returning to their yacht, well, it's called a yacht, but it's not like what you think.

Speaker 3 2:57

Pantoon.

Speaker 4 2:58

Well, I mean, it's not like Well, we've seen it in the house.

Speaker 3 3:04

Like, oh, we have a boat day, and next thing we know, it's a little pontoon.

Speaker 4 3:08

Yeah. So anyway, they were traveling, they were returning to their boat from Hope Town to Elbow Cay. And he he says his wife, and they've been married for 25 years, which I was surprised. His wife fell off the dingy, which caused the engine to stop because he said she was carrying the keys.

Speaker 2 3:29

Of course, she had to.

Speaker 4 3:30

So and then he lost sight of her. I guess he threw her a uh like raft or something, but he lost sight of her in the strong currents. Yeah. Because there was, I guess, storms in the area or something. So they've tried to search and find her, the Coast Guard and other authorities. No sign of her was found, but they found the flotation device along the shoreline. So that somehow ended up along the shoreline, but her body nowhere.

Speaker 2 3:58

And they did arrest him. Yes. He was in custody for like five days, I think. And then, lack of evidence, they released him. He's back in Michigan, but he's claiming like, oh, I won't rest until I find my wife. I'm gonna search for her. And yet he said that on the news, and the very next day he was on a flight back to Michigan. Yeah. Her daughter is now pursuing justice and trying to get to the bottom of it.

Speaker 4 4:26

But yeah, and apparently their this their relationship, they had a lot of abuse. There's was a lot of prior domestic abuse. And um Lynette had confided to a friend that she was scared of being at sea with him.

Speaker 3 4:42

So again, like she's confessed that.

Speaker 4 4:45

And then also she told her mother because they've been traveling around the Bahamas or Caribbean, I'm not sure, for a while. And she booked a plane ticket a month ago to go home after she told her mother that Brian's abuse was accelerating.

Speaker 2 5:01

Listen, again, like we should throw the hotline number out. Like, if you're being abused, seek help. Well, yeah, right. And we don't want to necessarily make light of the situation, but this gives me triggers back to what I think I've said on a previous podcast. And that is if your partner, this is the equivalent to me. If your partner says, honey, let's go out on a hike, and you've never fucking hiked in your entire life with this human being, and suddenly they want to hike around gorges and cliffs. Like, I think you need to say no.

Speaker 3 5:38

So she didn't know how to swim.

Speaker 4 5:40

I'm saying that. Her daughter said she was a very good swimmer.

Speaker 2 5:43

But like, here's the thing. She's uh clearly on record saying, I'm scared to go out on this boat. Like, don't go out on this tiny little boat in the like you were in the you're in the Bahamas.

Speaker 4 5:54

Let me just end with this and we can move on.

Speaker 2 5:56

Okay.

Speaker 4 5:56

The daughter we got more to say, girl. Yeah. Well, the daughter said this, and this is a direct quote in quotations. There's history of him choking her out and threatening to throw her overboard. So the fact that this is actually happening makes me believe there's more to the story.

Speaker 3 6:14

I mean, quote.

Everyday Red Flags That Escalate

Speaker 4 6:15

Don't get in a boat with someone who you who's been abusing you, choking you out, and threatening to throw you overboard.

Speaker 2 6:22

If for five years you drink decaffeinated coffee and then suddenly on Tuesday morning your coffee tastes funky. Like, believe your idea. I'm that's why I said five years. Like, if suddenly your beverage of choice is like, hmm, wow, this tastes a little funky. That's fine on Tuesday. If Thursday it tastes funky, the expiration day.

Speaker 4 6:54

Well, and you're getting a stomachache or you're feeling lightheaded. It's it is I watch Datelines and 20/20s every day when I get ready.

Speaker 3 7:04

You do every day. Yeah. No, well, she when she gets ready, then I go to sleep.

Speaker 4 7:09

Mine's a background, it's good background because you don't, there's not a lot of things to see. It's like hearing everything. Anyway, it is like a smoothies, coffee, like those are all standard things that people puts like stuff in.

Speaker 2 7:22

Right.

Speaker 4 7:23

Poison. Or drugs, whatever.

Speaker 2 7:27

Let's say all of a sudden, I'm gonna say your husband, but it could be your lesbian lover, it could be your gay lover, it could be any significant other. All of a sudden, they it's like they have stock in Home Depot and they are just making Home Depot runs left and right.

Speaker 4 7:45

I see your I'm not agreeing to this.

Speaker 2 7:48

You're not? Why?

Speaker 4 7:49

I don't think that's a red flag because I feel like a lot of straight men, especially, love to go to Home Depot and just walk around.

Speaker 2 7:58

Oh, trust me, I know and lesbians and lesbians. Well, I love as a gay man to go look at the straight men that are checking out the fixtures.

Speaker 3 8:06

Uncle Kathy's gallows.

Speaker 4 8:08

Oh, Uncle Kathy's forever. But also as a homeowner, lots of times you just end up at Home Depot because you're looking for some random thing. So I feel like a lot of Home Depot runs or Lowe's or Menhards is not as I agree with.

Speaker 3 8:24

Are you like in the middle though? Like I can see if you're running to Home Deep Home Depot and you get an obsession with tarps. Correct. And zip ties.

Speaker 2 8:37

Zip ties.

Speaker 3 8:38

And you like another hammer.

Speaker 2 8:40

JJ, can I just say this? Because you bring up an excellent point, and Megan, if you're a watcher of Dateline, you will know this to be true. When they pull the footage, oh yeah. Nine times out of ten, someone is going through the line and they just purchased gloves, a shovel, uh, some lie.

Speaker 3 9:01

Always tarp, always a tarp.

Speaker 2 9:03

Yep. Like, always a tarp. Like, hello. Gloves. Do you right? I said gloves. But like, but like it's always like, and then they go around to the local Home Depots, they pull all the footage, and there we go at 324.

Speaker 3 9:17

Duct tape.

Speaker 2 9:18

There's Joe going through the line buying all this bullshit. It's a lot of Walmart, too.

Speaker 3 9:24

It's not a lot of Walmart Walmart.

Speaker 4 9:27

Also, but so but yet you say they can buy all the but yet you just said Well, you said regularly going. This is suddenly going. Oh, well, okay. Let me say this.

Speaker 2 9:38

I think you should be checking your husband's, in your case, partner, boyfriend, husband, whatever, receipts from Home Depot Depot. Home Depot, in and of itself, fine, great. If you're buying petunias, if you are buying shovels and you are buying tarps, I think there's a discussion. Or I agree with that.

Speaker 4 10:00

Well, I think it's better, a better uh red flag for me is that suddenly they're hyper into your daily routine. Like questioning, wanting to know every minute of your day, like, and normally they don't care or it's not a big deal. All of a sudden, they need to know. Now, the only time this might come up is if you're dating and not married and think it could be a proposal situation.

Speaker 2 10:31

But in my opinion, anything that is normal that starts to all of a sudden that routine change, to your point, like they were fine, and then all of a sudden, to your point, they want to know every like look under your front bumper. There's probably a little little you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 10:48

Those draft the fact that you know this little thing. Listen, you can get it on Amazon.

Speaker 2 10:55

I just you don't know it.

Speaker 3 10:58

I'm girl, wake up that like I just don't wake, but even like to Megan's point, like I think that and if we've talked about this on the pod before. So if like out of a sudden your partner, lover, your significant other is like I think that we should switch our locations. Like, I I want to know what your location is.

Speaker 2 11:19

Oh, on your phone.

Speaker 3 11:20

On your phone.

Speaker 2 11:21

Red flag.

Speaker 3 11:21

Yes. Correct. I think that that is a point. It's not an opening day moment. No, not at all. It's closing day.

Speaker 2 11:30

It's probably closing day, girl.

Speaker 3 11:32

It is closing day because they want to know your whereabouts. Yeah.

Speaker 4 11:36

Well, if we're gonna both do it, I don't have a problem. Yeah, no, no, I don't do anything one-sided. It's mutual or not at all.

Speaker 3 11:44

I do like me aside from time to time.

Speaker 2 11:46

What if all you do is take showers? Your husband, partner knows, and suddenly he says, Honey, you deserve a very relaxing bath, and I'm gonna put rose petals in the bubbles. I think that's gonna take a knife. Until there is.

Speaker 3 12:04

What is the problem with it?

Speaker 2 12:06

How many women have gone into a luxurious bath and then suddenly the daughter finds them in the tub the next morning and be like, oh my god, my mom is drowned in the tub. Red flag.

Speaker 4 12:21

Again, what I said earlier, I don't do anything one-handed. So if you're gonna do this bath, they would be taking the bath with me or I won't do it.

Speaker 3 12:29

But if your husband is the problem is like if you're just he's just drowning you in it.

unknown 12:34

That is a problem.

Speaker 2 12:36

That will be a problem. Because if he's in there, he's gonna, yeah. You I don't think that solves your problem. Well, I'm just saying. But don't you feel it find it a red flag if suddenly you're like Megan, all you do is shower, and like you, he's never recommended that, and then all of a sudden he's like, How about a bath?

Speaker 4 12:55

It is a little questionable. But what if you just got a new bathtub?

Speaker 1 12:59

Well, that's a question. That's not what we're talking about. How often are people getting new bathtubs?

Speaker 3 13:05

The problem is like when you're like dipping into the uh bathtub and you're like, Why is that my hair dryer is right next to me?

Speaker 4 13:12

Correct. Well, exactly. The common move is they're putting uh drug, they're drugging you in your coffee, in your smoothie. So you're becoming all the things, yeah. So you're kind of becoming out of it and you slip it.

Speaker 3 13:28

Well, you seem a little out of it. Slip in.

Speaker 2 13:30

You seem a little out of it, come to think of it.

Speaker 4 13:32

Because of my voice.

Speaker 2 13:33

Well, yeah. So how's have have you what's going on with your coffee?

Speaker 4 13:37

My coffee's fine. So she sucks because I make it myself.

Speaker 2 13:42

Oh, or I buy it.

Speaker 4 13:44

Do you always have an eye on the cup? What if you take it on the city?

Speaker 2 13:47

When I'm making it? No.

Speaker 3 13:49

She's making it herself.

Speaker 2 13:51

I understand. That's not when they strike.

Speaker 4 13:56

Well, I think it's better to say um, if they start questioning you about your life insurance, I need to up the policy. 100%. Or oh, I'm taking out a bigger policy on you.

Speaker 3 14:11

That is not a red flag, that is a banner. That is a banner.

Speaker 2 14:17

That is like skywriting.

Speaker 3 14:19

Yes.

Speaker 2 14:19

100%. And yet, they're like, a lot of times it's like some survivors of it'll be like, I didn't, I just thought, you know, they want to protect the kids. Yeah. I can't.

Speaker 3 14:30

They wanted the best for us.

Speaker 2 14:31

And then he drove me to Costco and he brought bulk anti-freeze. And I couldn't understand why all the antifreeze.

Speaker 3 14:39

Well, I'm I'm not I'm that person. I would not even know.

Speaker 2 14:44

What do you mean?

Speaker 4 14:44

What do you mean?

Speaker 3 14:45

What does that do to you?

Speaker 4 14:47

Oh, antifreeze is an easy. It used to be an easy way to kill people.

Speaker 2 14:52

I bet a lot of people were killed by it.

Speaker 4 14:53

Yeah, because you couldn't show up in general toxicology.

Speaker 2 14:57

It's also odorless and tasteless. Yeah.

Speaker 3 15:00

So you So if that is on your pantry and not on your garage, that is a problem.

Speaker 2 15:05

100%. Girl, you got a problem. You endanger girl.

Speaker 3 15:08

So I would be endanger girl. I don't, I mean, thank you for that, letting me know. But if I see it inside the house, I'm like, why is it this here?

Speaker 4 15:18

Well, it's now they have tests.

Speaker 2 15:20

You should start looking for your own place. Yeah.

Speaker 4 15:22

And they or kick them off.

Speaker 2 15:24

Yes, 100%.

Speaker 4 15:26

They're testing for it a lot more now.

Speaker 2 15:28

So just to clear it up, people have tried to poison their significant other by pouring antifries in their beverage of choice. They typically don't taste it. It's a slow poison. It happens over a long period of time and it doesn't show up to Megan's point on the toxicology reports. However, it's crazy, over time, they would be like, I don't understand why this young, healthy woman or man of 40 years old would suddenly up and die and it doesn't make sense. And they're like, let us run another report or test, and then because you can run a specific test for it, and then sure enough, there it is. Costco receipts.

Speaker 3 16:10

One thing that will be like a two-parted for me in regards to like this red flag, is like one, if all of a sudden my partner decides to be cooking all the meals for me.

Speaker 2 16:24

Yes.

Speaker 3 16:24

When especially again, if it's a different routine. It is a different routine. I think kind of speaks to Megan was talking about. Like they're like all up on your business about what you're doing here and there. All of a sudden, this partner decides to cook my meals. Not for a special night, but like for this week.

Speaker 2 16:41

Like you are always on par for Taco Tuesday, and suddenly you're not allowed to make the and then the food starts tasting weird.

Speaker 3 16:49

And I'm not the type of person, I am that weird friend that will look at the expire date on your products.

Speaker 2 16:57

Oh, right.

Speaker 3 16:58

Like I was looking at your ranch.

Speaker 2 17:01

My ranch is fine. Girl, try the ranch.

Speaker 3 17:04

It has been a little bit off sometimes.

Speaker 2 17:07

Tell me if you have any uh illustration. I'm still alive.

Speaker 3 17:12

Well, barely. Um, but but if if the food starts tasting weird and like exactly I think that there are some there are some.

Speaker 2 17:22

My whole point on this is like people not just wake up, like look at the flags. Like suddenly, if you are really more like into soy sauce and there's 20 barbecue sauces purchased at your local Meijer or Kroger, like what are you gonna do with that barbecue sauce?

Speaker 3 17:44

Yeah, I mean, there's nothing wrong with barbecue sauce.

Speaker 2 17:47

Unless unless they're gonna Unless there's a murdering unless they're gonna murder you and then cut you up and eat your ass. So it's screaming, Karen.

Speaker 3 18:00

One thing one thing though that I was thinking about as we were going through is like um you make me think about a sign of like if if your partner starts wearing like if you open a drawer and you see like saran wrap and like they wearing like their gloves, everything.

Speaker 4 18:19

Well, that's my saran wrap wrap. Wait a minute.

Speaker 2 18:22

You're saying in your saran wrap drawer, there are classic gloves start or latex gloves start showing up.

Speaker 3 18:30

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Like that. That's your life?

Speaker 4 18:34

Yeah. That is we the doctor wears gloves for like all sorts of coaches.

Speaker 3 18:38

Oh, that's true.

Speaker 4 18:40

So we have gloves with our Ziploc and our saran wrap.

Speaker 2 18:44

Are the gloves allowed to be worn outside of the kitchen perimeter? Um that's where I'd get nervous.

Speaker 4 18:51

Sometimes with some gardening and trash pickup and things like that.

Speaker 3 18:55

Yeah. Even to change the clocks.

Speaker 4 18:58

Oh, the gloves work. Yeah. The gloves to come out for the clock changing. Oh my god.

Speaker 1 19:04

That's a different red flag.

Speaker 4 19:08

We don't have fingerprints on our shinolas.

Speaker 3 19:12

We don't, but you don't want fingerprints.

Speaker 4 19:16

This is why the gloves are very common in my house. So it's not a red flag.

Speaker 3 19:25

Oh, but yeah, that screams dexter to me. You know? Yeah. Sarang wrap, gloves, plastic everywhere. That's a sign.

Speaker 2 19:35

It's like if I yeah, and if I'm dating someone for the first time and I go over and they have a drawer dedicated to Reynolds wrap, saran wrap, and latex gloves. No, I don't, I'm out.

Speaker 1 19:46

Really?

Speaker 2 19:47

You would you would you wouldn't? Like you're I didn't. But but like, what if the guy I'm dating is like uh an Uber driver? Oh, well now would you like yours is a gun? I wouldn't either. I wouldn't have to do it. I'll start from square one. All right. Well, okay, fair enough. Yeah, it's all Florida to me. I mentioned burb burb barbecue sauce earlier. This woman, she was um an Egyptian model. She apparently reportedly murdered, castrated, and disemboweled her husband during a sex game gone wrong. She then cooked parts of his body, including ribs smeared with barbecue sauce. Oh my god. Allegedly mixing it then with turkey and serving it for Thanksgiving.

Speaker 3 20:46

Well, at least she had the turkey for Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 20:50

Well, she fried his hands and other body parts in a pot and they found his head in the fridge. Uh they also un they covered m there were meat-fueled rumors of cannibalism. She ended up being uh convicted of first-degree murder, and I'm just saying there probably were red flags all over the place. Starting again with the barbecue sauce. And she probably bought a very big pot. So if you're if they're going to Costco and they come home with antifreeze in a giant 20-quart pot, you better run, baby.

Speaker 3 21:38

So this happened in Florida?

Speaker 2 21:41

No. But you would think it happened in Florida.

Speaker 3 21:44

I mean, it was reading like Florida along.

Speaker 2 21:47

Oh my god. A couple episodes ago, remember when I said like we'll have a Floridian episode?

Speaker 3 21:54

This is it.

Florida Animal Chaos And Internet Lore

Speaker 2 21:54

This is not it. Well, I mean, it can be if you want to talk about because I've got a Florida story. If you I But this lady was from California, but this screams Florida to me.

Speaker 3 22:05

Well, it's just some of these Florida.

Speaker 2 22:13

Well, uh barbecue sauce can can really change a meal. I will say.

Speaker 3 22:18

It's a strong sauce.

Speaker 2 22:19

It's I mean it can Well, it's a dream sauce.

Speaker 3 22:23

Right. It can barbecue sauce with the size with the side of like a homemade ranch.

Speaker 2 22:30

Not that we're advocating that if you get in an argument.

Speaker 3 22:34

No, no, never.

Speaker 2 22:36

Never. JJ.

Speaker 3 22:38

Never.

Speaker 2 22:39

Um Florida. You told me a story, and I s this is why I was like, we have to have a Floridian episode, JJ. I'm talking to you. The Florida lady. That was can you tell our listeners about this?

Speaker 3 22:57

Listen, there is this lady, and I sent, I think that Megan and I sent it to you too. There was this lady that went into um, she was arrested.

Speaker 2 23:06

This is Florida.

Speaker 3 23:07

This is Florida. She was arrested because she was caught. Caught? Yeah, she was caught on top of a manatee. Let's just start with this. Manatees are a protected creature. Very docile, very not touch them. If they touch you, you cannot touch them back. They're protected. But she was on top of them. She was dressed as a mermaid, chanting, like if she was just a little mermaid, like if she was right in front of Ursula, and she is right in front of this manatee, and she is just saying, you know what? Take me. I am just taking care of the world. Can you imagine this lady?

Speaker 2 24:02

It's so crazy. So she likes riding. I like that. So she's riding the back of a manatee, dressed as a mermaid, singing show tunes. Yeah.

Speaker 3 24:12

So I I when the point like the point of her being dressed as a mermaid, love it.

Speaker 1 24:19

The fact that she and it ends there.

Speaker 4 24:24

Well, they are this.

Speaker 1 24:25

Well, they're slow.

Speaker 4 24:27

There's a lot of facts. They're lethargic animals. Okay.

Speaker 3 24:30

I think Matty, you remember during COVID times. I do. We did uh there is a lot of manatee tours that you can do kayaks on it. It's very free-flow. Like you can jump in and you see the manatees everywhere.

Speaker 2 24:43

Okay. But if you're a tour guide, also red flag. If one of your tourists brings a mermaid outfit on she's got a tail. Yeah, we got we got another red flag. She about it.

Speaker 3 24:57

Uh there was this documentary in Netflix of this mermaids and mermaids. Oh, I saw the mermaid documentary.

Speaker 4 25:04

Yeah, no. So they it's a big thing. No, some of those were in California.

Speaker 3 25:08

Some of them, but there's a big community in Florida.

Speaker 2 25:12

So was the Rib Girl.

Speaker 4 25:14

So I mean, like, well, I the mermaid documentary kind of made me want to get a mermaid tail to swim around the pool in.

Speaker 3 25:21

Listen. Well, I support I would say less.

Speaker 4 25:23

I'm you know, I'll so I mean, but that's different getting on a manatee cabinet on a manatee. Yeah, correct.

Speaker 2 25:32

It's one thing when you're inhaling a manatee cab, uh you're out. That poor manatee, he's like this crazy bitch.

Speaker 3 25:40

Yeah, get off me.

Speaker 2 25:41

Yeah, there was also a lady in Florida who this is a creature feature. Creature featch. She, I she must have been on drugs, but she dressed up as a squirrel, and maybe it was a um sugar glider. Sugar glider, but no squirrel. She got up in the tree, she perched herself on a branch, she claimed to be the squirrel queen. Oh my god. And when the police tried to come over because she was disturbing the peace, she started throwing egg, she brought a pouch of acorns. She was throwing acorns at the police. Oh my god, what a crazy woman. She was dressed head to toe as a squirrel. Wow. So she was a borderline furry. This is on she was. Well, I don't think borderline. She was yeah. This is if you don't follow this uh Instagram handle, follow it. It's called Screaming Karen's. I would say up, I would say a large majority are gonna be Floridians. No offense, but offense. And this is uh there's so many good stories on there.

Speaker 4 26:52

Well, what's interesting is there's a phenomenon known as Florida Man that like becomes like a meme and it's all over the internet because there's so many crazy people in Florida, but this is like these are particularly women's stories, but oh they it does it doesn't gender doesn't describe there's plenty. I think it might have to do with the fact that Florida is actually high with a lot of drug issues.

Speaker 3 27:17

Oh, really?

Speaker 2 27:19

Yeah, I think probably. I mean, you okay, girl?

Speaker 3 27:24

Well, she's yeah, she's struck.

Gas Station Find Mentos Discovery

Speaker 2 27:27

Oh wow, you might want to do that. Sexy voice. Does that water sound taste off or no? No, okay, all right. Well, we're gonna have to take it from here, JJ. Yeah, we will. Okay, what do we have left to talk about today?

Speaker 3 27:42

I gotta say something.

Speaker 2 27:44

Tell it.

Speaker 3 27:46

And I'm glad that we are able to bring this up on the pod. As simple as the sound.

Speaker 2 27:54

This is what really happens in true life.

Speaker 3 27:57

But I need the show must I need our yeah, I need our slippers to understand um something about Megan now that she's you know doing.

Speaker 2 28:06

Can you hear her in the bathroom?

Speaker 3 28:09

She is obsessed with new products. Like, if there is something new on the shelf, Maddie and I know that she already probably knows about it. Yes. How many times have we been in a situation when we're texting Megan, Did you know about this?

Speaker 2 28:26

She's like, Oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 28:28

It's been on the shelf for months.

Speaker 2 28:30

Yeah, she's like, I got it three months ago.

Speaker 3 28:33

Yeah, so you're out. So he's tried it. She's she has tried it, she has reviewed it, she probably has ranked it already on her head. So we were actually on our way to Chicago.

Speaker 2 28:46

Home. On our way home.

Speaker 3 28:47

No, we were on the way to Chicago. I think we're gonna go back. You were on the back doing your business and you were working. Megan and I, we were trying to get a gas station or like a liquor store. And we stopped on the way there. And I can remember as if it was today. I found this product, and my smile my my face just lit up. And at that same moment, Matty just happened to come right up. Out of the restroom. Yes. And you're like, what?

Speaker 2 29:21

I was coming. Well, here's the thing. I was coming out of the restroom, and I come down the gum candy aisle, and I see JJ in the middle of the aisle all aglow, like beaming. Like literally, this sounds cliche, but like a kid in a candy store.

Speaker 29:38

Yeah. Well, right. Yes.

Speaker 2 29:41

And I'm like, what are you so happy about? And you turn to me like a kid at Christmas, and it's like, oh, look at these. Look at these mentos I found. I don't think Megan's tried them at all.

Speaker 3 29:51

So I found the best product for me to show Megan. 100%. And it's called Mentos discovery. Um, and yeah, so Mentos discovery is a 14 Mento. Get out! Yes. Different, like 14 flavored Mentos.

Speaker 2 30:11

All in one little package. No repeat flavored package.

Speaker 3 30:15

No repeat. Wow. And it's orange, lemon, strawberry, lime, grapefruit, race, raspberry, watermelon, grape, sherry, banana, passion fruit, pineapple, blueberry, and black currant. All in one little package. I have a comment when you're done. And as soon as I show that package, and Megan is a big Mentos fan.

Speaker 4 30:40

Yes, we know I love Mentos. Oh, welcome back. Yeah, I've been here.

Speaker 3 30:44

Um, so the fact that I was able, we were talking about like the joy that brings me to be able to bring your new thing, a new product. The fact that I was like, What do you think that's rooted in?

Speaker 5 30:56

I don't know.

Speaker 2 30:57

I think it might be because you're not originally from here. And if you find something here that we haven't found, maybe probably that's it. But it's exciting to watch it unfold.

Speaker 3 31:08

Yes, because I was so excited. We were in the middle of nowhere. I mean the gas station.

Speaker 2 31:13

Who could be more happier in this podunk gas station? I mean, dreams came dreams came true.

Speaker 4 31:19

Let me tell you, when JJ got in the car and showed me what he had bought. Oh, I I was giddy. I was so excited.

Speaker 2 31:27

It was yeah, it interrupted my text.

Speaker 3 31:32

Yes. And it made our trip so much better because we would all get a little flavor. What did you get? It was like kind of the same as a jelly belly. Are you getting a grapefruit? Oh, wait. When she got a banana.

Speaker 4 31:46

Oh, that banana mento is so good.

Speaker 2 31:49

Here's what I think is genius about the 14 flavors, and it's not repeated. And if it's your trying that product for the first time, what if Megan tastes the banana and she's like, it's so amazing, JJ? You and me cannot taste it. Yeah. So what do we have to do? We have to buy it in order to taste the banana. Yes. You know what I mean? Yeah. Because normally it'd be like, oh my God, this is so good, you got to try it. But you can't try it because there's one and done.

Speaker 3 32:17

Yeah. So it's brill. Yeah. Yeah. And to your point, he's like, what did you get?

Speaker 4 32:21

Yeah. It was good. It was interesting. And then it's like, oh, I wish I had gotten that one. Right. And you you'd have to go and buy it.

Speaker 3 32:28

Because you only experienced a banana. Yeah. At that time.

Speaker 4 32:31

And I love that banana. Yeah.

Speaker 3 32:33

And I like the potato.

Speaker 2 32:34

And Gigi and are both into bananas. The audience doesn't.

Speaker 4 32:39

No, it was a dream find. Yeah. As far as I'm concerned.

Speaker 3 32:42

Yeah. So I am giddy as well. Is that what you're obsessed with? Yes. The Mentos Discovery. That's I love the name too. Like The Mento's Discovery, because to your point, you can get only one on that package. That's all we get.

Speaker 2 32:58

Well, so there's 14 in there, and there's three of us. So we each got to try four. There's like eight. I have not discovered. Yes.

Speaker 3 33:06

Yes.

Speaker 2 33:07

And how do I get them? You can get them on your can I go to Menards? Amazon, I think.

Speaker 3 33:12

Megan Well. Amazon.

Speaker 2 33:14

Listen, I don't buy food products on Amazon. You pay a lot more.

Speaker 4 33:19

No. Well, you, I mean, you here's the thing: Mentos, you can always get the mint. Yeah. Sometimes you can find the fruit. 100%.

Speaker 2 33:28

The mint is seven.

Speaker 4 33:29

Occasionally you might find a rainbow. Now the rainbow is seven flavors.

Speaker 2 33:35

This is she's proven every point you made at the beginning.

Speaker 4 33:38

So, like, I know because I went looking for them because she was giddy about it. I love these Discovery Mentos so much. And I'm like, I just have to get more. And I searched here and there at a couple stores. No luck.

Speaker 3 33:53

Wow.

Speaker 4 33:53

So I had to go to Amazon.

Speaker 2 33:56

Oh, you did buy them off Amazon.

Speaker 3 33:58

Oh, 100%. Yeah. And she discovered other ones. I think you know what?

Speaker 2 34:03

I tried a couple. I will say, hands down, the rigid OGs are my favorite. I love the mints. They're great. They're like a little 100%. Yeah.

Speaker 4 34:11

But better than the peppermint. Yeah. Or spearmint.

Speaker 3 34:15

Spearmint.

Speaker 4 34:16

So the mint is like a go-to easy thing because it's a good air uh mouth freshener and in lieu of gum, because you can just chew it and swallow it and you've got the fresh breath.

Speaker 3 34:27

Chew one's fresh.

Speaker 4 34:28

But am I supposed to eat 10 within two minutes or no?

When A Snack Turns Into A Habit

Speaker 2 34:32

That's the problem.

Speaker 4 34:33

Well, let me tell you getting into my slip it in. My slip it in, interestingly enough, is well, it's actually a slip it in slash pull it out.

Speaker 2 34:44

Because is it a leave it in?

Speaker 4 34:46

It might be because uh these mentos discovery created a little mento monster in me. And I can't stop. It's like I get a pack, I ordered off Amazon because I wanted the discovery, and in my research on Amazon, I discovered, oh, this world pack that included a Coca-Cola Mento. Shut up. Yeah.

Speaker 1 35:12

Really? Yeah. That's great. There was the spearmint. Do they have a cherry?

Speaker 4 35:16

No.

Speaker 1 35:17

No.

Speaker 4 35:18

Mentos, that would be a dream. But the problem is just do a collab.

Speaker 3 35:23

Yes.

Speaker 4 35:23

I sit down, I'm like, oh, I'll just have one.

Speaker 3 35:25

Oh, the bit mentos.

Speaker 4 35:27

I can do one or two and be done. I can stop myself. I can't with these flavors. Like the cola is so good.

Speaker 3 35:35

The cola was very good.

Speaker 4 35:36

And I'm like, oh, I'll just have one or two here and there.

Speaker 3 35:39

No.

Speaker 4 35:39

I took them to work one day and then I didn't have one. Do a little work. I'm gonna get another little coca. I mean, I couldn't stop. And then I'm like, I finished the cola pack. Then I'm like, oh, I'm just gonna try some of the fruit. The fruit's three flavors strawberry, orange, lemon. I do one. She is a mental ambassador. I said it's a monster ambassador. I can't stop.

Speaker 2 36:06

It's a monster. Who's the monster? Are they the monster or are you the monster?

Speaker 4 36:10

There's a mental monster in the front of me. Oh my god.

Speaker 3 36:14

Clip that. This is the reason why, Matty, I was so giddy when I discovered Mentos Discovery. Clearly. I was like, yeah.

Speaker 2 36:23

Can I just say when you kept talking about cola, I would like a caffeinated mentos. Oh.

Speaker 1 36:31

Can you imagine mentos? Isn't that a dream? Yes.

Speaker 2 36:34

Like caffeinated. Like I would have two to five mentos in the morning. Caffeinated colas.

Speaker 4 36:42

Well, a cherry coke mento would be amazing.

Speaker 2 36:46

They should be collabs. Like you could do a Dr. Pepper.

Speaker 4 36:49

God. I actually have been worried that Mentos might like go away because I love a mint mento. It's my go-to for like uh fresh breath. So I've been nervous, but now that I discovered on Amazon all these other flavors, I'm like maybe they really are. And apparently they're kind of a worldwide treat, apparently. Like I didn't know Mentos had such a large following.

Speaker 2 37:13

Wow, I'd like a deep dive on one of the countries.

Speaker 4 37:17

Sweet. I don't know what to do with it.

Speaker 2 37:18

I don't, and that's how did you classify this as a slip it in? Or a pull it out.

Speaker 4 37:23

The slip it in is just mentos and the discovery. But that is the monster. It's gonna be my pull it out. Because I can't stop. Like I can't the mint, I can't, but I can't open any of these other flavors and just have one.

Speaker 2 37:38

JJ, how do you feel in in in reflection of what has happened based on that moment in the candy aisle in Michigan City, Indiana?

Speaker 3 37:49

Is that where we were? It was closer to that. I'm overjoyed. I love it.

Speaker 2 37:54

You are yes, but what a but it's your you've created a mini monster.

Speaker 3 37:58

I love it. I'm so excited. And that I think that that is why my face lit up so much.

Speaker 4 38:05

You know, you know. Well, you knew I love a mint mento.

Speaker 3 38:08

I knew about your love for mint mentos. So as soon as I saw the mentos discovery, I'm like, wait a second. She has not mentioned before. Go ahead. This is going to be an experience. She needs a cough drop mental.

Speaker 4 38:25

Yes. All of a sudden I have a cough.

Speaker 3 38:27

Why does your pull it out since you already told us?

Face Recognition And Notification Anxiety

Speaker 4 38:30

The monster, the mentos monster.

Speaker 3 38:32

Oh my slip it in. Yeah. My slip it in. Not as exciting as well.

Speaker 2 38:38

Maybe it was this fangirl, fangirling over you.

Speaker 3 38:42

I've been loving more and more and more and more face recognition. So face recognition. But why? So being able to not put in my code every time I go to my phone to an app or to a website or to another subscription. Now you have the key pass which connects your face, and then that way your password is connected to that. And I don't have to deal with the old shenanigans around. You have something to say?

Speaker 2 39:16

I do have something to say.

Speaker 3 39:17

So I am I really enjoy the face recognition. I don't have to deal with that. Even when they have to send me a code to my text messages. Oh don't, this is what I want to say. I don't even have to go back to my text messages because the face recognizes that it's me on the phone. So it gives me the numbers, and I am already on that same website, and I'm already in.

Speaker 2 39:44

Oh my god, I'm following.

Speaker 3 39:48

Are you excited?

Speaker 2 39:49

Um I slip it in. Here's what has happened most recently within the last two to three weeks. You know how y'all always have to be like, well, how do you want to get your two-factor? And I'll be like, email or SMS text. Now you don't have to actually open up the text or go to the email. When you click in there, it's like, could it be 81043? One. I'm like, 100% it's 81043 that you just sent me to my email. But that's not necessarily face, but it's getting but it's connected to it.

Speaker 3 40:19

Face recognition is bringing that in.

Speaker 2 40:20

It knows it's reading my email. Ugh. It's scary, but comedian.

Speaker 3 40:24

It's scary, but listen, I'm in I'm in control.

Speaker 2 40:27

I'm gonna have to cross that off. I can't use that in the future. That was on my slipping edge.

Speaker 3 40:31

Oh my god, I love that so much.

Speaker 1 40:33

Well, I bet you do again. Playing right into your ego. Playing right into your ego.

Speaker 3 40:37

Oh, my pull it out on notification bubbles. I hate a red bubble telling me that I have a notification there.

Speaker 2 40:47

Oh, I have one I can't get rid of.

Speaker 4 40:49

What do you mean your notification bubbles?

Speaker 3 40:52

And the thousands. That's different. That is that gives me anxiety.

Speaker 2 40:55

I have a voicemail that says I have one voicemail. I'm like, I can't find it.

Speaker 3 40:59

You go to on red.

Speaker 2 41:01

I've done that and there's none. So it's a glitch.

Speaker 3 41:05

You have to do an update. Well. It's just like the bubble. The red bubble sends notifications. When I sign up for whatever app it is, I immediately said, I don't want any notifications on the app.

Speaker 4 41:19

Yeah, I don't do notifications from apps.

Speaker 3 41:21

But sometimes. You don't?

Speaker 4 41:23

No, I don't want it.

Speaker 3 41:23

I don't want it either. No notifications.

Speaker 4 41:26

Because I go to my email or I don't really know.

Speaker 2 41:28

But even on your text messages and phone voicemail.

Speaker 4 41:32

Um maybe text or voice. No, not text. Texts just come in.

Speaker 2 41:38

But she got a fever.

Speaker 4 41:41

I don't need I don't do notifications for anything because I don't need it. I see the text when it comes in. I see the call. Not always. Not always. You just told me last week. I don't know why I've missed your last five or four. Oh, I had a problem. But I had a problem that week. Remember that week you were not getting things? It happened to me.

Speaker 5 42:00

Oh, God.

Speaker 4 42:00

I discovered legitimately, I'd be like, I didn't get that text. I didn't get that. And then all of a sudden, four days later, out of the blue, these texts were coming in.

Speaker 2 42:12

Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 42:13

And I'm they're like texts from when we were in Chicago. I'm like, this makes no sense.

unknown 42:17

Yeah.

Miniature Wife Rant And Bathroom Bullseyes

Speaker 2 42:18

I have a slip it in and a pull it out, and they're gonna seem really kind of random, but these are just my thoughts. I am not currently. Should I what should I do first? Should I leave it on a positive note? All right, my pull it out is the miniature wife.

Speaker 3 42:36

Oh my god.

Speaker 2 42:38

I agree.

Speaker 4 42:39

Stop so stupid.

Speaker 2 42:40

Stop trying to shrink people into little people and putting them on TV.

Speaker 3 42:44

Isn't it like a version of like honey? I shrink.

Speaker 4 42:47

Yes, it seems like.

Speaker 2 42:47

I'm like, Elizabeth Banks.

Speaker 3 42:49

Oh why are you doing this?

Speaker 2 42:52

Like, stop. And then she's like, you know, she's gonna battle with a big insect. It always happens. It's always like, oh my god, there's gonna be lost in the backyard. Stop with the mini people and like honey, I'm sorry I shrunk you. I can't I agree.

Speaker 4 43:06

I've seen those commercials and I'm like, this looks like I want to know when I see it in Peacock's top 10.

Speaker 2 43:14

Like, are these Floridians watching the show? Like, stop. I don't like tiny people episodes. Wow.

Speaker 3 43:23

If you're if you're a wife and you're noticing that you're shrinking, check your coffee.

Speaker 2 43:28

Check your coffee. Yeah, check your acts. JJ, that's spot on. Okay, my slip it in. Okay, I want to know before you start coming for me. I think all men do this. If you go to pee and your bowl in front of you that you're peeing into has a bit of a poop stain on the side, your goal is to pee off that poop stain with your stream. It doesn't matter to me. Me. And if that poop moves and falls off the bowl, it's a victory and it's a slip it in.

Speaker 1 44:08

Oh my god. JJ, do you do it?

Speaker 3 44:10

100%.

Speaker 1 44:11

I do it.

Speaker 3 44:12

It's a bullseye.

Speaker 2 44:14

I have never have, I have never talked about this ever to anybody, but it is a game.

Speaker 3 44:21

It is game on.

Speaker 2 44:23

It's like because you just want to piece. You want to piece strong and you want to aim, and you it's you clean the bowl and it's a win. You like, I just scored 10 points.

Speaker 3 44:36

Yeah. Yeah, it's a bullseye. It's a double bowl.

Speaker 2 44:39

You can't play the game because you can't see the bowl.

Speaker 4 44:41

Boys are so weird.

Speaker 2 44:44

I hope that the guys that are listening to this rise up.

Speaker 3 44:49

Yeah, 100%. Rise. I agree. It's a slip it in.

Speaker 4 44:54

I think it's time for us to say goodbye. Until next time, check out our link tree at slip it in podcast. Reach out to us by slipping into our DMs on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook at Slip It In Podcast. Call and text us at 313-444-9004 or email us at slipitinpodcast@gmail.com. Until next time.

Speaker 45:18

Feel better, Megan, you cringe, you beg for more with a guilty pleasure you can't ignore. Like a drunk text sent at 2 a.m. Again.