Slip It In

Serendipity at The Moth, Pictured Rocks & Paddle Games

Matty, Megan, JJ Season 2 Episode 64

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Sometimes the unexpected turn is the whole story. Matty’s first trip to The Moth in Detroit starts with a StorySLAM built around serendipity and leaves him thinking differently about storytelling, while JJ returns from his first trip to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula genuinely blown away by Pictured Rocks, kayaking on Lake Superior and just how far Michigan can feel from home.

The Michigan appreciation continues with Matty walking the new Gordie Howe International Bridge before Baby Kitten Fishing makes its return, this time with paddles. Matty throws out everyday half-truths and Megan and JJ have to decide whether each one qualifies as Baby Kitten, full Kitten or something else entirely, including the gossiping mom who “doesn’t gossip,” the vegetarian who eats bacon, “I’m basically ready,” someone else’s boat and some very questionable dating-profile math.

Matty also brings YSL MYSLF Eau de Parfum to the table before this week’s Slip It Ins and Pull It Outs cover Colleen Hoover’s Verity, excessive DoorDash notifications, a J.Crew pricing win, someone paying with a bag of change at Trader Joe’s, the Woodward Dream Cruise and the surprisingly divisive phrase “picky choosy.”

In this episode:

• Matty’s first Moth StorySLAM and the theme of serendipity
• JJ’s first trip to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Pictured Rocks
• Kayaking Lake Superior and a stop at Mackinac Island
• Matty walking the new Gordie Howe International Bridge
• Why Michigan suddenly gets a lot of appreciation around the table
• The return of Baby Kitten Fishing as a paddle game
• Dating-profile height, bacon-eating vegetarians and “I’m basically ready”
• YSL MYSLF Eau de Parfum
• Colleen Hoover’s Verity
• DoorDash notifications, J.Crew pricing and Trader Joe’s pennies
• The Woodward Dream Cruise
• “Picky choosy,” “however, comma” and this week’s Slip It Ins and Pull It Outs

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[00:00] Matty: Whew. This week's Slip It In podcast was a little bit of a roller coaster. Completely. What do you guys think the uh listeners are gonna love the most about this week's ep? Baby kitten.

[00:11] JJ: Baby kittenfishing. Yeah, I I just feel that the people we're gonna hear from the people from Dakotas.

[00:19] Matty: Oh, the Dakotas are gonna reach out to us. Absolutely. And hey, I don't know if it's good, uh, but the Woodward Dream Cruise, if you don't know what it is, it's basically a nightmare. Yeah, listen and find out why. Yeah.

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[00:34] It's Slip It In, the convo that has you obsessed. We're talking pop culture, bad choices, obviously things that should stay in the group chat. But they don't. You'll laugh. You'll cringe. Oh my god, did they really just say that? Oh, we said it. And yeah, we Slip It In. Every single episode. You laugh, you cringe, you beg for more. We're the guilty pleasure you can't ignore.

[00:59] Megan: Welcome, welcome, welcome, everyone. We're back, slipping it in with you, bringing you the unhinged brunch conversation that you just can't stop listening to. I'm Megan.

[01:10] Matty: I'm Matty with a hatty.

[01:12] JJ: Oh god, this hat.

[01:13] Megan: It's obviously.

[01:15] JJ: I think that we're up for now that you said that, Megan, I think that we're up for a brunch. We haven't done a brunch in a while.

[01:20] Matty: Oh, I'm not sure.

[01:21] JJ: We've had the conversations without the brunch. I think that we're we're doing fans are asking for it. We're not if you don't have a mic, I don't think you were so focused on your pad that yeah. So the Matty with the Hattie did not even nobody even listened to that.

[01:37] Matty: So true. Nobody even heard it. Well, oh well.

[01:42] JJ: All right, Matty with the hatty is with us today.

[01:46] Matty: How's everyone been doing? Very good.

[01:49] JJ: Yeah.

[01:50] Matty: Matty also has a shirt.

[01:51] JJ: What's that shirt about? Oh, yeah.

[01:53] Matty: And it says tell me a story. It goes well with the storyteller hat you got me, Megan, which I love, but I probably won't wear them together. It's a little too much story.

[02:05] Matty: is important because this dates back to when Molly came on the show. Our our friend Molly, who was talking about The Moth.

[02:13] JJ: And The Moth, yeah.

[02:14] Matty: And she also had that incredible story about her father and the drug runs through the Caribbean.

[02:20] JJ: I think people won the part two of the things.

[02:22] Matty: They do. Absolutely. Yeah. And we're gonna bring her back and dive a little deeper. But what she was saying to us as part of her story was that she was telling a story at The Moth. So The Moth is there's all over the states. NPR um is behind it all.

[02:37] JJ: And they It's like sponsored NPR sponsors.

[02:40] Matty: Well, they're a nonprofit, so they're funded through donations. And so you buy a ticket, you go, they have 10 people, they have a topic for the evening. This topic, well, she did one about her dad. And then I said, This is incredible. I'd like to go to one of these moths. So I did. I went with her, and then she had another friend come along. So the three of us went to in Detroit at the marble bar. Now they I found out they have one the first Thursday of every month, and you should check your local city for The Moth because they're all over the country. It was life-changing for me, I would say. Which series? I know it says a lot. But I just was so engaged and there was such a diverse group of people in attendance. The topic was serendipity, which is like I love serendipity. How would a big theme was like how do you define it? So, I mean, do you want to take a stab or you want me to tell you what we landed on?

[03:37] Megan: I can I can take a stab. It means um something unexpected happens that is like in any scenario you could imagine would never happen, and it essentially is life-changing.

[03:56] Matty: For the good, right? Yeah, yeah. That's a great, yeah. I'll leave it there. I think that's perfectly said.

[04:01] Megan: Well, what was your definition? Well, I didn't know I was defining it for the whole mom.

[04:06] Matty: But a lot of people were saying, and even the host said, you know, people seem to know what it is, but hard to articulate. What are you laughing at? My hat. It's serendipitous.

[04:17] Megan: No, we were in 100%.

[04:19] Matty: It's not in Puerto Rico, and we just so happened to walk into this store, and I found it, and that's serendipity right there.

[04:26] Megan: No, that's not serendipity.

[04:27] Matty: Serendipity duda. No. If you ask me, no. Anyway, it was so good. It was so, so good. Ten people got up, they have five minutes to tell their story, and then they identify three friend groups within the audience to be um a group of judges. So collectively, like four people that make up a friend group would be like, I we give them an 8.5 or whatever. And then there's one winner at the end, they win nothing. Because it again, it's like a trophy, nothing, just bragging rights, and it's just great.

[05:01] Megan: You I mean not even a free round of drinks.

[05:04] JJ: No, no, it's it there are drinks, they're you I mean, it's at a bar.

[05:07] Megan: It's a bar.

[05:08] Matty: Yeah. So there were drinks going on, and the hosts even did a plea like if anyone wants to buy us drinks, we're open to it. And then people bought them drinks. Yeah. But it it was great.

[05:19] JJ: Um I do think that you should go and do the story. Because you have your you know, you proclaim yourself to be a storyteller.

[05:28] Matty: Yeah. It is, it would be um uh a little intimidating for me. This I like to tell a story, but uh in my comfort zone, and you guys are totally my comfort zone. Getting up there in front of strangers, I don't know, but I do I would love to do it. Yeah, but it's also gotta be the right topic. And you know the next topic for what are we in August? Yeah, September is nine to five. Oh, really? I guess that is at work thing. Oh, that's kind of a I think it's open to interpretation. Somebody could get up there and tell a dolly story, like a dolly part because of the movie. Someone else would probably get up and talk about their job or their career. I know.

[06:06] Megan: I but you serendipity is a much better.

[06:10] Matty: I think that you I won't do nine to five, but I'm gonna go again.

[06:13] JJ: And I will go again.

[06:14] Matty: I got so I got this shirt from The Moth, tell me story, and it's got The Moth logo. I got these two books that are a collection of That tracks, The Moth and All This Month. And I love it because you know, like I like to read, but sometimes I don't always feel like I have time to start a big novel. These are just short little stories about humanity and people's experiences and five minutes, whatever that equates to in reading, but like that's how long they're supposed to be talking.

[06:43] JJ: Well, that was a Thursday, that Friday, right after that Matty went into The Moth thing experience that I went for the first time ever to the Upper Peninsula here in Michigan. Oh, okay. And I have to say that the saying of there's not there's no summer, like Michigan summer.

[07:00] Megan: So true.

[07:00] JJ: It just lived to the expectation. I've never ever, I mean, it's on my top three even international places that I've too. Wow. It's well that says a lot as well.

[07:12] Megan: 100%. I don't know if I would say that.

[07:14] JJ: It's just amazing. It was such a and I think that it was like a part of like it was fully we fully disconnected um in a cabin up there. It was almost six and a half hours.

[07:27] Matty: But aren't there a lot of content creators in your group?

[07:30] JJ: So I would say fully there was some content creation happening. And and one of my friends might come in and join in and talk a little bit more about the details of it. But I there was like moments that I had to like stop for a second and say, is this really Michigan? Especially when we went to Pictured Rocks. We went in kayak and Pictured Rocks.

[07:52] Megan: I've always wanted to do that. I haven't.

[07:54] Matty: I've never been to the UP.

[07:55] Megan: I could not even Oh, you haven't? Even when you were little.

[08:00] Matty: I know. Because to your point. I know to your point. I think you can, I think it's true that you can the amount of time it takes you to get up there, you can almost be to like Tennessee or Tech or like Florida or something. So it is like I know it's no wonder why you feel like you're in a different state because you have to drive for so long. And it's what was your drive? Oh, I thought it was more like eight. Oh, I did too.

[08:26] JJ: No, if you go straight to I mean, what to our the cabin that we stayed at, it was about that. But if you went all the way up, if you were to calculate all the way up to Pictured Rocks, yes, then that'll be about eight.

[08:37] Megan: Oh, okay.

[08:38] JJ: But so we did that in the middle of our weekend. We didn't up a little bit. That's yeah, we just did that. And also on the way back, we stopped at Macchinah Island.

[08:47] Megan: I love Mackinac Island.

[08:48] Matty: Did you do that on the the day? So on did you stay on Mackinac Island?

[08:52] JJ: No, no, we didn't know. We just did a day.

[08:55] Megan: Did you go to have drinks at the um ping pony club?

[09:00] JJ: Yeah. I love it.

[09:01] Megan: Did you go to the Grand Hotel and I think that's the city?

[09:03] JJ: We didn't go, no, we didn't, but I went to Machina Island before with Matty, and I've done it before. Uh Matty too.

[09:11] Matty: With my good friends Bright and Carl. Hi, I know you're out there with us.

[09:15] JJ: Yes, we they rented an RV and we went from here to Machina City on the RV. We stayed in a couple campgrounds. Oh wow.

[09:24] Matty: Um, it was a one and done. I mean, I enjoyed them and everything, but I'm just not into camping. My parents did the RV thing. It's yeah, so we did a way of life.

[09:38] JJ: Yeah, and and this time we bike around on the whole island and then we had lunch, lunch at uh the sea biscuit.

[09:44] Matty: Are you talking about our trip? No, this time around. We biked too, didn't we?

[09:48] JJ: We did, yeah. Yeah, we thought so.

[09:49] Megan: I think every almost everyone who goes to Mackinac does the biking around the island. It's very interesting.

[09:54] JJ: We got me some fudge.

[09:55] Yeah, there's another big thing. Yeah, I love that.

[09:58] JJ: So it was it was again. I'm not gonna say much because I think that uh one of our friends are gonna come in and uh if you're listening, you know we have a seat for you. Um, but we're gonna talk a little bit well more about the impact that that trip and the Michigan the whole whole Michigan experience was just like it's so amazing. Like it just felt like we were in St. Thomas.

[10:19] Matty: I had a new Michigan experience, also Michigan Canada adjacent.

[10:24] JJ: Oh.

[10:24] Matty: So the day after you left, the next day, I were on tour. We were trying new things. This hat's tight with his phone.

[10:35] Megan: Maybe the hat should be taken off. Well, with the headphones on.

[10:39] JJ: Matty with the hat in.

[10:40] Megan: We told you the hat maybe wasn't the best idea, and you chose not to.

[10:45] Matty: Oh, I can see you going red. I am getting red and blushing. Okay. Oh my god.

[10:49] Megan: So there's a new in this hat.

[10:52] Matty: There's a new Gordy Howe bridge that opened up. Stop. Let me get through it. And it's the second, well, third bridge, right? But second in downtown Detroit. There's one in Portage or where? Fort Hero.

[11:06] Yes.

[11:07] Megan: Which is a bridge I take. Okay. Yeah.

[11:11] Matty: But now there's two within like a mile of each other for downtown Detroit area. And the new one they put in plus the tunnel. Yeah. And the new one they put in has a foot, like a footpath and a bike path, which is which is right alongside the car path, but I mean safe and stuff. And yeah, so I walked, I did I chose to walk it. The bridge itself is about a mile and a half. It's a about two miles all in when you're like going up and zooming around before you get to the bridge. And then I got all the way over there, and then I mean it was like cement city over there on that side. So there's nothing area is.

[11:48] JJ: Yeah, there's that much there.

[11:50] Matty: If you Google it, don't don't fall for it because it says like sandwich city is like right over there. It's not, it's another mile and a half, which is fine if you want to catch Uber or if you're on your bike. If it's you, it's just a little bit. I was just me. I'm like, I'm it's not worth it. So I just turned around and came back. Yeah. And came through came back through customs.

[12:09] Megan: Well, news flash, sandwich city isn't all that either.

[12:13] Matty: No, it's like a Tim Fucking Hortons.

[12:15] Megan: It's like Tim Hortons. I mean, let me ask you this. So when you had to go over, did you do customs on both sides? Have to show your passport?

[12:26] Matty: No. I did to get back in, and I would have if I went into Canada, but to like get on the bridge.

[12:32] Megan: Okay.

[12:33] Matty: Like nothing. There's really there were some security people positioned along the walkway, but they were just more or less greeters. And probably watching things, but they don't ask for anything. So you can go. I didn't get, you know, until I was done basically and had to come back in.

[12:49] Megan: Well, I guess that makes sense because you don't show anything driving across, but you have to pay a fee, a fine, or not a free.

[12:57] JJ: No, so that was gonna say that. So we must say that pedestrians and people that are biking is for free.

[13:03] Megan: Correct. But I'm saying when you drive.

[13:06] JJ: Oh, when you drive.

[13:07] Megan: You don't show ID either. It's all at the end on the opposite side. But you have to do a stop just to make a payment.

[13:14] JJ: Yeah. But for the Gordy Gordy Howell.

[13:17] Matty: How he's a famous Red Wings player.

[13:20] JJ: Oh, really? So for the Gordy Brit, like pedestrians.

[13:28] Megan: Yes.

[13:29] Matty: H-O-W-E.

[13:30] Megan: Howdy how.

[13:31] JJ: Um it's free. So it's a great adventure and an experience. I loved it.

[13:36] Matty: It was really good. And people were smiling.

[13:39] Megan: And when you were up there, was it really windy?

[13:43] Matty: Uh no, breezy, but easy breezy.

[13:46] Megan: Did it feel really high up?

[13:48] Matty: I don't know. I didn't feel I didn't feel weird about it. That's so I've done both bridges on foot and the tunnel on foot. Because I did the half, yeah, I did the half marathon. Same. So that's the only way you can actually walk or run the tunnel and the other bridge is through the marathon. Otherwise, yeah.

[14:05] JJ: So I'm I just got to- I wonder if those changed the route for the marathon and they do four.

[14:10] Matty: I wonder if you'll go over one and back over the other.

[14:13] Megan: Oh, and not do the tunnel at all.

[14:15] JJ: The tunnel is a little bit scary to come back. It is phobia.

[14:18] Megan: Yeah, I can imagine because I'm not a fan driving.

[14:20] JJ: Yeah, that moment. Yeah.

[14:21] Megan: And sometimes it gets backed up at the border. So then you're just stuck sitting there in the tunnel.

[14:27] Matty: Well, can you imagine though? Like if you have any claustrophobia or just fear of like I'm actually underwater, if you're not in a car and you're on foot, you're like, no, I would not.

[14:36] Megan: No, because I try to zip quickly through that.

[14:39] Matty: Well, we know with just a zip, zip, zip, zip, zip. What do you got for us, maybe?

[14:44] Megan: Well, well, you guys were in the UP, crossing borders.

[14:49] Megan: I was just having a pool day. Oh, toe tip and you just a toe tip? No, I was where were you pooling? At my brother's pool. Okay. Oh, in the west side of the perfect ideal pool. And we had a it's a dream pool and it was a dream day for a pool.

[15:06] Matty: I saw you guys in the little loungers that were positioned in the shallow end.

[15:09] Megan: Missy was yeah, there's uh Baja uh what do you call it? Baja ledge. Um, so there you can put uh lounge chairs in the water. I love that. Yeah, it's really nice.

[15:20] JJ: It's also those lounge chairs are not stationed there, you can just move them around.

[15:24] Megan: You pull them out because then the cover goes on.

[15:27] JJ: Oh, that's true.

[15:28] Megan: But um otherwise, yeah, they're easily you put them in and they have holes in them, so they take in the water, so then they're like kind of locked in when they're in the pool. But then when you want to move them, you just have to like drain them out.

[15:43] JJ: Okay, and then you can lift them easily. I mean, I can take a pool day any day, so it was it was really nice.

[15:48] Matty: But it's been really humid, so a nice pool day.

[15:51] Megan: Yeah, it was like 85 and sunny that day, but some clouds, so we had a little cloud cover. And to go back to our prior tanning conversations, I went no lotion.

[16:04] Matty: Chasing uh the whole day on my chest, I put 50. My chest that's lotion.

[16:10] Megan: When you say you put no lotion, but nowhere else, my legs were my legs were free and fancy, no lotion whatsoever, and my arms, no lotion.

[16:18] Matty: And are you saying this is this is a good thing? What is the point?

[16:22] Megan: Yeah, well, because I said I normally go at least an hour, and this time I went the whole day. The only thing I did was my chest. See, I'm just my chest.

[16:32] JJ: Should we put a warning across like this is not maybe?

[16:36] Megan: Well, it's been a week at this point, so I mean, I'm I didn't I didn't have really any tan going into it.

[16:42] JJ: I mean, I do have to say that you could you should do a wiki feed.

[16:46] Megan: Oh, thank you. I maybe we all should do a little week, we've talked about doing footsie dutsies. I think we should.

[16:54] Matty: Footsy dootsie.

[16:55] Megan: I'm in the well, we have a group pool day coming up, and I think we should do some food or foot pictures and food with Tootsie Bowls some food picks, but I will say, as you know, you guys are talking about Michigan and the Gordy Howe Bridge and Pictured Rocks. Like, I am very happy to be a Michigander and from Michigan. Like, I do feel like we have one of the better states. I mean, I'm glad I'm not from a Dakota.

[17:24] JJ: No shade Dakota. No shade. If it's north or south, any of them.

[17:29] Matty: But what about a like a Iowa?

[17:31] Megan: You'd say they're all the plain, like I'm happy I'm not from one of those states.

[17:36] Matty: I mean, we have a lot to offer, really.

[17:38] Megan: And we don't have water shortages like anyone else will because of our beautiful Great Lakes.

[17:43] Matty: Well, knock on wood, because I do feel bad for all the countries and cities and states that are having all these it seems every year it gets worse and worse. Michigan, for I mean, like again, knock on wood, we're we've kind of we kind of dodge a lot of the weather.

[17:58] Megan: Well, and with global warming, our winters have been getting milder and milder.

[18:03] Matty: Yeah.

[18:04] Megan: And I will say, with all lately around the world in the last like six, nine months, lots of earthquakes. Yeah, some tsunamis, like scary though. Los Angeles has been having water main breaks left and right, which is really unheard of. That's not common. I think there's lots of ground shifting, and I'm nervous for a big quake coming to our west coast.

[18:29] Matty: Well, I don't think you should have put that out there.

[18:31] Megan: Well, if you're on the west coast, but you heard it here first.

[18:35] Matty: Like take precautions.

[18:36] Megan: Yep, get yourself ready, be prepared. Come to Michigan.

[18:40] JJ: Move here. Yes. There's nothing like a summer in Michigan.

[18:43] Megan: And Detroit is becoming one of the top cities to visit.

[18:46] JJ: Yeah, 100%.

[18:47] Matty: Well, the Detroit downtown is amazing. It is. It's awesome. It's like one of the things. The river, like all of the Great Lakes and the UP, and you name it, you name it, you name it. Yeah.

[18:56] Megan: We've got it all.

[18:57] Matty: But name it.

[18:58] Megan: I mean, it kind of sounds like Michigan's blowing up, but you know what is blowing up? What is kittenfishing? More specifically. Baby kitten. Baby kitten. Baby kitten.

[19:10] JJ: Baby kitten. We introduced this term.

[19:13] Megan: Well, I mean, we didn't create, we didn't create kittenfishing, but we created baby kittens.

[19:18] Matty: Well, I think it and it was organic. Like you just said, well, baby kitten.

[19:23] Megan: Yes.

[19:23] Matty: And now it is because trademarked and licensed and t-shirts are being printed.

[19:29] JJ: Yeah, baby kitten.

[19:30] Megan: Along with some gay vine.

[19:32] Matty: And some noodles.

[19:33] Megan: Well, noodles we're still on the fence about. But so yeah, go ahead. Like, I just think like the more you talk about it, it's like, well, is this kittenfishing? Is this baby kitten? Or could this even be a little catfishing?

[19:47] Matty: I was talking to um a friend of mine the other night, and I was talking about this and how baby or kitten? The segment in general. And he's like, Well, I I've had this conversation with a few people. Some I brought up, and others they're like, I have to talk to you about this segment. And the people that hadn't heard the segment yet, I said, Do you do you know what kittenfishing is? That's where I start. And they're like, No, I haven't heard of that. I'm like, you know what catfish is, right? And they're like, Yeah, I know. And then they they're putting it, they're putting it together, like, oh, so it's kind of like catfishing, but not so intense.

[20:26] JJ: Yeah.

[20:26] Matty: And I'm like, yeah, and then this guy says this guy's like, if I put on the apps that I am 5'10, and then I show up for the date and I'm actually 5'7, is that kittenfishing?

[20:41] Megan: And I'm like, Wait, two inches or three?

[20:43] Matty: Well, I think what did I say?

[20:45] Megan: You're three three that's a catfish, I think. No, no, no, no, no, no. JJ catfish is like you're a whole nother. I mean, why would you even change your stats? But that's catfish from a straight girl perspective on the apps, almost all straight men are changing their height to be taller. Well, the ones in the fives. The ones in the sixes, I think, are more than I would never change my height.

[21:13] JJ: Well, you're six foot.

[21:14] Megan: Well, and I think in the gay world, height isn't as big of a deal as it is in straight.

[21:19] Matty: It's baby kitten. That's baby kitten. When you say you're six and three-quarters, baby kitten.

[21:25] JJ: Yeah, so if I say that, it's a baby kitten.

[21:27] Megan: Because you're really I'm six. Oh. Well, we're even at three three quarters.

[21:33] JJ: There is people, but I wanted to just prove a point.

[21:35] Megan: Well, in the straight world, they're adding inches. They're not adding three quarters.

[21:39] JJ: In the gay world, they're adding inches as well. Well, that might be for other people. In other places than others.

[21:46] Matty: All right. I grab your paddles. Oh, we gotta do paddles today. Bringing the paddles back. We got kitten on one side, baby kitten, and baby kitten on the other. Yeah. Okay. And I am gonna read. And you guys can drop throw one out if one comes to your mind.

[22:02] Yeah, yeah.

[22:02] Matty: But I've prepared a few. Okay, here's the first one. Your mother says, Oh, I don't like to gossip, then gives you a 22-minute briefing on your cousin's divorce, the neighbor's DUI, your aunt's facelift, and why Carol from church suddenly stopped wearing sleeveless tops. Okay. Baby. That's a baby kitten.

[22:22] JJ: I say a kitten.

[22:23] Matty: I say kitten.

[22:24] JJ: A kitten.

[22:25] Matty: Baby.

[22:26] JJ: She says she's not a gossip.

[22:27] Matty: And then gossips five things.

[22:29] Megan: But some of that's not gossip. Some of that might just be relaying life events of people around you.

[22:36] Matty: Well, you can see why it's a good thing. All right, Carol. Yeah, whatever. All right, Carol. Carol says thank you. Okay. I got your back, Carol. Someone proudly says they're vegetarian, then you learn that they eat bacon at brunch. Well, that's a baby cat. We know.

[22:54] Megan: I think baby cat.

[22:55] Matty: That's baby kitten. I almost go full kitten.

[22:58] JJ: Oh, that's a baby cat.

[22:59] Matty: And I would almost go cat.

[23:01] JJ: No.

[23:02] Matty: No.

[23:02] JJ: If you say me a vegetarian and you eat meat, you can't be. No, it just for a moment. You said that it was just for brunch. During brunch, they just take a bite from the bacon.

[23:12] Matty: I'm assuming they're doing it every time they have button in their pocket. That's on you. It is on me.

[23:17] Megan: You didn't give us those other fats.

[23:19] JJ: Well, do you say on the on your scenario is that you are at brunch and all of a sudden it's like, let me just get a little bite.

[23:26] Matty: Yeah.

[23:26] JJ: I will support it and I will invite that.

[23:29] Matty: Well, if they were can you both can you be both a vegetarian and a bacon eater? No.

[23:35] JJ: Okay. But it's just a one time at brunch.

[23:38] Megan: One time five years, no problem. You guys are also adding multiple at a weekly meal.

[23:47] Matty: Did I say one time every five years? No. No, but you said it's one time at brunch.

[23:52] Megan: One time at brunch.

[23:53] Matty: That's what you said. Okay, so what if it's at brunch? Every time they go to brunch, they have bacon. They're not vegetarians.

[24:01] Megan: Kitten. That's kitten. That's cat's cat.

[24:04] JJ: That's a different though. It doesn't really cat eat burgers every week. That gets a cat.

[24:10] Matty: Oh, that's well, no.

[24:13] JJ: Pinky, pinky from Atlanta. Real Housewipes of Atlanta, Pinky. She is like a vegan entrepreneur, and with how she has restaurants. And people are saying on the streets that she really eats meat.

[24:24] Megan: Isn't her restaurant called Bad Vegan? Oh no, that was the documentary. It's slutty vegan.

[24:30] JJ: Slutty vegan.

[24:31] Megan: And we're getting one in Detroit. Slutty vegan. I'm kind of excited to try it.

[24:36] Matty: Yeah. I have one that hits close to home. Uh-oh. Oh. Someone says I'm basically ready. Oh, that's me. This is a baby kit. 20 minutes later, she's still dabbing and blending. Baby kid.

[24:51] Megan: Well, basically ready doesn't mean I'm ready. Baby kid.

[24:54] Matty: It's a baby. When me says she's basically ready, we're like, give it away. So we're about 30 minutes out.

[25:00] JJ: But she's basically ready.

[25:02] Megan: No, basically ready is more like 1015.

[25:04] JJ: No. I mean, it has changed and you have improved a lot.

[25:09] Megan: But it I'd say 1015 is basically ready. Because usually it means my makeup and hair is done. I just have to change and put lipstick on.

[25:17] JJ: Or refresh.

[25:19] Megan: Yes. Correct.

[25:20] JJ: Okay.

[25:21] Matty: Well.

[25:22] JJ: She just he just put that in. He knew it was talking about you.

[25:25] Matty: Do you guys have any? I have one other one more. A guy tells you I have a boat. He posts sunset photos from it all summer, and he's like, Oh, I'm taking my little baby out on the water. And then you later find out it's his uncle's boat.

[25:41] JJ: Well, he has a boat.

[25:42] Matty: No, no, he doesn't. His uncle has the boat. Yeah, kitten. That's a kitten.

[25:46] JJ: It's kitten. I was.

[25:47] Matty: I've go and baby kitten. No, no, no, no, no.

[25:50] JJ: It's kitten because he doesn't have access to the boat all the time.

[25:52] Megan: Yeah, it's not like he has keys. You said he didn't have keys. I didn't say that. Oh, I thought you did.

[26:00] Matty: You are making by definition, you are baby kitten. You're baby kitten by design.

[26:06] JJ: So if I have an idea, I have a uh a scenario for you guys. Okay. So if in the profile there is no stipulation at all about his social habits of drinking. Okay. Okay. And we all three of us participate on that. And we're going to drinkers drinking. Yes. But then when you go into the um a date, your first date, there is he s says, no, I'm not gonna drink. I'm not a drinker.

[26:38] Megan: Well, is he a not so does he never drink or he's not drinking that day?

[26:43] JJ: Never drink.

[26:43] Megan: Never drink.

[26:43] JJ: Well, I don't know.

[26:44] Matty: Not even has not even said he didn't declare one way or the other.

[26:49] JJ: Well, there's like there's nothing stipulated like on it.

[26:53] Matty: I think he might. I feel like the cat kitten left the room. There's no cat or kitty. There's no kitty in the room.

[26:59] Megan: No kitty in the room.

[27:00] JJ: No kitty. I don't know.

[27:01] Matty: No, because he I mean, I feel like we start to get into kitten and caddy when we're talking about if he puts occasionally or he puts never or he puts he puts drinks and then you go and he's like, Well, like don't drink.

[27:15] JJ: Well, special occasions, and that special occasion never happened.

[27:18] Megan: Or the question is asked, Do you drink? And he says yes, and then you show up and he says no.

[27:28] JJ: Then that will be a kitten.

[27:29] Megan: Uh, it's a kitten. Because to me, cat has to rise to a very blatant level of like completely different person, different everything, like a man being a woman, um a 50-year-old being a 20-year-old, you know, like totally creating scenarios of like making a whole person up that doesn't exist, basically.

[27:53] JJ: A blonde being a showing up as a brunette, kitten or a baby kitten?

[27:58] Megan: Probably baby, because honestly, because some people are into blondies. Then women change their hair color.

[28:02] JJ: Yeah, but like that's just for example that I'm into blonde.

[28:05] Megan: Yeah.

[28:06] JJ: And one of the reasons, not all the reasons, but one of the reasons why I'm pursuing pursuing you because you're a hot blonde.

[28:13] I think.

[28:14] JJ: But then all of a sudden she shows she shows up brunette.

[28:20] Megan: Well, I can be blonde again, just give me a couple days.

[28:23] JJ: But at that point, it's a kitten for me.

[28:26] Megan: I don't think so.

[28:30] JJ: All your profile pictures are blondes.

[28:33] Megan: Yeah.

[28:34] JJ: But it's so I am attracted to blondes.

[28:37] Matty: Right.

[28:38] JJ: And then all of a sudden that? Yeah.

[28:40] Matty: She does. Yeah.

[28:41] Megan: You've told her.

[28:42] Matty: Does she does she know you're gay?

[28:44] Megan: Because that's a kitten. That's a cat.

[28:49] JJ: Well, no. I'm I'm talking about I'm talking about if I were to be straight pursuing Megan. I know.

[28:56] Megan: Well, here's the thing. If you told me, oh, I love all your pictures, like I'm so into blondes, I'd say, Oh, FYI, what? I'm now brunette, but I'll be blonde again soon. That's how I would handle it. So they would know when I showed up not to look for a blonde, I'm now a brunette.

[29:15] JJ: Yeah, but then what I'm saying is that we're actually discussing the fishing, like the babykin, the catfishing set of things, but you kept quiet when he's saying things about it. Well, then that's that is kitten.

[29:27] Megan: That becomes kitten. Yes, because you have to address it.

[29:29] JJ: You're addressing it as a, oh, I love a blonde. I love your pictures, that hair looks amazing. And you just say quiet.

[29:38] Matty: Okay, you two, I'm gonna have to ask you to take it offline because this has become like a one-on-one at a brunch table. People are listening and like they won't shut up around the book brunette. Well, do you I hope does the audience know kitten and cat and kitten?

[29:56] JJ: Well, let us know. I would I would encourage the Slippers to let us know a scenario or situation, and we'll let us see. We'll let them know. Yeah, so baby, yeah, we're happy.

[30:06] Megan: We'll give you a we'll tell you. Is it cat, kitten, baby kitten? But I will, you know, just Oh, are you I are you going back to the Bruna? I can't.

[30:17] Matty: I knew it. I knew it.

[30:19] Megan: Well, here's the thing I will say.

[30:20] Matty: Oh my god.

[30:21] Megan: Because this is what I don't know how this really works. So let me ask you this. I was born with a full head of hair and it was jet black. You are then my hair color.

[30:33] Matty: Is this you or a made-up scenario?

[30:34] Megan: No, me personally, as Megan. Born, brand new baby, full head of hair, jet black.

[30:41] Matty: Oh, wow.

[30:42] Megan: With all like the uh my mom said all the everyone thought was never had seen a baby with so much hair, and they kept like doing weird things with my hair.

[30:50] Matty: Yeah, just for shits and giggles.

[30:51] Megan: Yeah, they're like giving me like mohawks and weird little Wow, are there photos of this? Yeah, because I had so much because I'm like, why is my hair all weird? And my mom's like, they wouldn't stop messing with it because it was like they'd never seen a baby so much hair. Look at this girl's hair. Well, then fast forward age two, I'm pure white blonde.

[31:13] JJ: That is crazy.

[31:14] Megan: Then fast forward three more years, I'm like a golden blonde, similar to how I am now. Fast forward a few more years, I become a brunette. Never touching hair color. It's is that the question? And then well, then I started coloring my hair in the middle.

[31:35] Matty: She says, Let me ask you this.

[31:37] Megan: The question is, what am I? Am I a blonde? Am I a brunette? What am I?

[31:43] Matty: You're kitty going through a lot of stages.

[31:48] Megan: Is your hair color defined what you currently have it as?

[31:53] JJ: Yeah, right now you are a brunette because uh you are a blonde.

[31:57] Megan: Okay. So I'm right now. So I'm not kitten, cat, no, you're not kitty, baby. If I just say calico, I think. You're calico kidding.

[32:05] Matty: Your calico kidding. Calico kidding.

[32:11] Megan: Okay, well, if someone has my hair color going forward, I'm gonna say calico kidney.

[32:15] Matty: Oh my god. Yes, I'm calico kidding. Say that. Say that. Oh my god. Can we um transition and yeah, you have a product? Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's gonna go right into my pulling out. I can't wait to go fucking complain about it. Oh god. Oh, I do have a product.

[32:32] JJ: So if you speak to the mic, that would be amazing.

[32:35] Matty: It's YSL, Yves Saint Laurent Laurent.

[32:39] JJ: Saint Laurent.

[32:40] Matty: It's a Eau de Puffum. It says right there, Eau de Pafum.

[32:45] JJ: Yeah, you took French in high school.

[32:48] Matty: And it is uh Can you say it again? Eau de pafum. Oh, I don't know. That's crazy. And it's called MYSLF. Oh, I like that. So how did I stumble upon this? Eau de Pafum. I got an order from Sephora.

[33:09] JJ: Yeah. Which I think is interesting. Oh, with all the samples.

[33:12] Matty: Oh my God. I got 10 mini samples of clone, which I mean you can get four or five uses out of it times 10, 50 squirts.

[33:22] JJ: Oh, I've got a set you right out there. Can I imagine always ready for a squirt? Well, I'm sure. But let me say this I knew it.

[33:31] Megan: For anyone who gets those samples with purchases of perfume, puffum, cologne, whatever you want.

[33:41] Yeah.

[33:42] Megan: Those great travel hack, put them in your carry-ons.

[33:47] Yeah.

[33:47] Megan: So if you get delayed or get stuck somewhere, or you have a long travel day, or you're around people maybe who didn't put deodorant on, you've got a little spritz right in your day.

[33:58] Matty: I'm not diminishing that, but I don't think that's a big well-kept secret. I don't know if that's a hot like pack. It's a drop, it's by design, it's like a travel size.

[34:12] Megan: I think it's a huge travel help. Because lots of times I pull them out and I'm like, I don't where are these things?

[34:20] Matty: I don't like no no, these are everyone's like, oh wow, I've never no this is breaking news.

[34:28] Megan: Well, I keep sometimes perfume that our I wouldn't wear, I wouldn't purchase, but I'm like, if I'm in a bind and get stuck somewhere traveling where I'm stuck for the night, whatever, I think we got it. This gives me a little fresh spritz.

[34:43] JJ: Matty brought the fool back to New York and it was a dream. Every day it's like, what I'm gonna wear, right?

[34:50] Matty: And myself was the one I gravitated towards the most. And the obvious one.

[34:53] JJ: This is a very good smell.

[34:54] Matty: JJ Do you think it is, it smells nice. Who's on first routine? Do you know anything? Like who's on first, what's on second? Yes. We it's the like stooges. The three stooges. I'm not gonna get into it. It's not great content for the pod, but I'm not sure it was great content back then. Well, like who's the early days of stocks? Who's on first is like the name of the player, but they're like, I get it, but who's on first? Who is on first? Do you get that? No, okay. Well, it's kind of like myself. So somebody said, What are you wearing? I said, I'm wearing myself, and I'm like, Well, I know you smell great. But what is it? I wish you'd be myself. I yeah, I do like that. So it's kind of it's I like that too.

[35:37] Megan: Or it's like basically then people assume you are like a great smelling person naturally.

[35:42] Matty: This is like, I don't know, a hundred with some change, or like 70 to 90 to 100.

[35:47] JJ: I mean, you gotta like Yves Saint Laurent, and it's like very myself, yeah, it's very me.

[35:53] Megan: So if you're looking for gifts for the men in your life, you the Linktree, uh myself, Yves Saint Laurent, yeah, and it's in our Linktree.

[36:03] Matty: I do have a I do have a hot tip about it. It uh I will also say it is only requires one spray, it's very strong. Yeah, and I did one spray direct, and I thought, ooh, that's a lot.

[36:18] JJ: Yeah.

[36:18] Matty: So I've since went to the I don't know, I don't know if you guys know if you like this technique, but I spray and wash that the air.

[36:27] Megan: Well, that's what they tell you to do at the at the JJ with the department spray.

[36:31] Matty: Oh, you spray it and you walk into it.

[36:35] Megan: No, let me ask you guys as men, do you like a spray or like traditional clone always was like you put it in your hand and then you like that's aftershave, isn't it?

[36:47] Matty: Oh, yes.

[36:49] Megan: All right, maybe that's right.

[36:51] Matty: I don't know. That was a different generation. Well, you are funny today. You're funny, funny today. Yeah, we're different bottle.

[37:00] Megan: All right, well, I didn't I've forgotten about aftershave.

[37:03] Matty: To your point, go out if you're a lady and you're looking for your man to smell good, or you're a man looking for your man to smell good, or you're a man.

[37:10] JJ: Well, yeah, or do you feel like you want a good cologne and whoever, whatever gender you feel like you are and you identify with, go for it.

[37:19] Megan: Yeah, well, let me ask you this. She's got a lot of let me ask you. Is old spice an aftershave? Yes, not a cologne, not a cologne.

[37:29] JJ: I think that they have now a cologne, but they started with an aftershave.

[37:33] Megan: Now I feel like to Manny's point, it was generational that older men used to be all about aftershave, and our generation and younger now do cologne.

[37:44] Matty: No aftershave. Yeah, they are two different things. Yes. No, I do not. Shave is intended for after you shave to smooth to smooth any of the irritation.

[37:59] Megan: Oh, I thought it was to smell nice.

[38:00] JJ: No, well, it has to be it has a scent, but it's not all right.

[38:06] Matty: Okay, I think what has happened over the years is the blades that they've created and the shaving creams and lotions have gotten and kind of it's not as necessary. But back in the day when there was like a single blade shave, it would be very like traumatizing to the skin. So you would after shave it.

[38:25] Megan: Makes complete sense. Thank you. Like that's really informative for the girls out there that don't deal with beards.

[38:34] JJ: There's some girls out there that have to see some beards.

[38:37] Megan: Well, uh they might need some aftershaves.

[38:41] JJ: Matty, I think that you also want to go in and you're slip it in and pull out.

[38:45] Matty: I know, but can I just get a breath? Sure.

[38:48] Matty: guys go.

[38:48] JJ: My Slip It In is a book that was recommended for me to me by a friend Melissa.

[38:57] Megan: Oh, okay.

[38:58] JJ: Is um the title is Verity from the author Colleen Hoover.

[39:05] Megan: Oh, I know about Colleen Hoover.

[39:08] JJ: I'm trying to pronounce it well. It ends with us. I don't know.

[39:10] Megan: Oh, didn't she write It Ends With Us?

[39:12] JJ: It Ends With Us, yes.

[39:13] Megan: Which is all the Justin Baldone like lively drama.

[39:17] JJ: Yeah, and I I enjoyed that book so much.

[39:20] Megan: Um It Ends With Us?

[39:22] JJ: No. Very book. I enjoyed it so much, and it's a book that actually actually a movie is dropping this year on October 2nd.

[39:33] Okay.

[39:34] JJ: And it's starring Anne Hathaway and the Cutter Johnson.

[39:37] Matty: Summer of Anne Hathaway.

[39:38] JJ: Yeah, it's the summer of Anne Hathaway. So it's I read the book. And you did.

[39:42] Matty: I have read the book. I also thought it was a great book. I am excited to see the movie and see how it does. I think it's I mean, a lot of people I think it tops their list.

[39:52] JJ: I think also like on top of that, it's just um I really enjoy when my when my friends have because Matty has done the same thing. They know already like what type of reading I will get, like kind of gravitates towards, and he will recommend me some books. And now Melissa's recommended me like this type of books as well, and I really just um um enjoyed everything about it.

[40:13] Matty: That's great. I enjoy reading a lot. I just started a new book, and I'll maybe I'll give a little nod to it after I finish it, depending. But it started out good. But yeah. Do you read Megan? Do you read? I was oh remember, she's a speed reader.

[40:28] Megan: I was a voracious reader when I was younger. Yeah, literally reading one or two books a week or more. Um, then I went to law school. Then that was a lot, and I've never read again. It's a lot or for fun.

[40:42] Matty: Like I read so much for work that I just policy and pop culture. I was getting a lot of policy.

[40:51] Yes.

[40:52] Megan: I was gonna that tracks. That tracks read a lot of gossip vlogs.

[40:57] Matty: Right. Yeah, yeah. 100%.

[40:58] Megan: So that's taking over my regular paper.

[41:00] Matty: I remember the day when you're like, I had to stop reading. I couldn't, I wasn't too fast. Yeah. I'm like, well, no, is that a thing?

[41:07] Megan: No, my problem is I get OCD with reading. So literally I will stay up. I just am like, I can get through this chapter, I can get it. And so then I just look and I'm like, oh, this just looks like a lot of adjectives. And I go past several pages.

[41:22] JJ: Oh my god.

[41:23] Megan: And just to get the book like, and so it doesn't, it's not even fun because all I'm doing is trying to finish the book.

[41:29] JJ: Okay.

[41:29] Megan: I stop.

[41:30] JJ: I see. My pull it out is the amount of notifications I get for just one DoorDash delivery.

[41:37] Matty: Oh, I like them.

[41:38] JJ: They send me three different messages on I on my phone number. I'm on my phone with different with every single message is a different phone number that is coming from. And it's just it's so annoying.

[41:52] Matty: I don't you like the updates as to where your phone is.

[41:55] JJ: I like the updates, but can you just keep it to the same number?

[41:59] Matty: I don't even pay that close attention. Why are you examining?

[42:01] JJ: Because I don't like a notification and I don't like to have three the three of the same messages. Do you feel like tell me the same thing?

[42:10] Matty: Main numbers? Numbers. I don't know.

[42:13] Megan: I kind of think, JJ. I don't know. I could be speaking out of turn, but I feel like you might be able to change that in your app.

[42:23] JJ: Oh, you're gonna help you with that.

[42:25] Matty: Well, I'd like to be there for this conversation.

[42:28] Megan: I'd like to be in the room.

[42:30] JJ: It's usually all the way around.

[42:31] Megan: So turn off notifications.

[42:33] JJ: My notifications are turned off on the app, but it's still that has the iPhone 12.

[42:40] Megan: Well, it's soon to be the iPhone pulled.

[42:42] JJ: So I don't like those notifications for just one delivery.

[42:48] Megan: All right. Well, I will talk about my Slip It In because I had well, my Slip It In and pull it out are actually two experiences that I had yesterday, surprisingly enough.

[42:59] Megan: I went to the mall because I wanted to check out some things at Jake Route because they have a new roll neck cardigan sweater that can be worn buttons front or buttons back. And I'm not gonna pay full price for that, but I'm like, I kind of want to check it out, and they have a really cute one with lobsters on it that I thought might be cute if I go out east. So I wanted to try that.

[43:30] Matty: Well, while I was there, I was shopping wearing a Mickey Mouse shirt at Disney.

[43:36] Megan: Well, I mean, if you're like Okay, I'm sorry, a Nantucket or something like that. Yeah. Anyway, it's very cute. I would wear other places, so I wanted to try it, and so I wanted to see how this new sweater worked that you could wear both ways. Well, I found some items on the sale rack that I decided to purchase, but in this A PSA for anyone who shops at J. Crew, they do not have the same pricing in store as on the um online. So if you're ever gonna buy anything that's on sale or not on sale, you should check the uh online store before you purchase in-store to make sure it's not a different price.

[44:20] Yeah.

[44:21] Megan: If it is a different price, they will give you the better price. So the one dress I bought was a why are you laughing, Natty?

[44:29] Matty: I'm like, what'd you say? I don't know.

[44:30] Megan: So the one dress I bought was a work dress and it was in the sale rack.

[44:36] Matty: Is this buttons back? Buttons for? Oh, did we have we transmitted? We moved on.

[44:41] Megan: I was that your pull it out, buttons for no, that's a slip it in.

[44:44] Matty: Oh, we're not there.

[44:45] Megan: I'm on the Slip It In.

[44:46] JJ: Oh, gotta slip or stick with us so clear. She's gonna land it.

[44:51] Megan: This is actually it. I went to buy this dress, it was cheaper online, so they're like, we'll give you the online price. And the guy's like, it's a sale item, so we'll give you 40%. But the website actually didn't say it was on sale, but he said, Oh, it's not on sale because plane. No, listen, it's good because there's none in stock anymore. So the only way you could get it is if you found it in store. So he's like, not only am I giving you the sale price, I'm giving you 40% off. So I felt like I got a free 40% off because had I ordered it online, which it wasn't available, it didn't say I was getting it, but he said I would. And I'm like, okay, I'm not gonna argue with that. So shout out Jake Rue for your great workers and giving us discounts.

[45:41] JJ: She might need a storyteller hat and a lesson.

[45:45] Megan: Well, okay, but let me get to my pull it out. It'll be much faster and quicker. So then I go to Trader Joe's and I go to check out. It was very busy, lots of people in line. So I'm like, oh, this guy is all done. He's checking out. I go stand there. He is paying with a bag of change and is sitting there counting out pennies after penny. And I'm just like, I get using change at a gas station, maybe at a fast food restaurant, but at Trader Joe's and yeah. So then I'm like, oh, I got out of line, I went next door, someone was checking out in front of me. They finished next the next the next uh cashier. I'm in line, check out, pay. He is still counting pennies, yeah, and I leave. I mean, that's no change at Trader Joe's. That's my pull it out.

[46:46] Matty: I feel like if you want, I've got a I've got a PSA. If you've got a lot of change laying around, take it to one of those coins. Now, the first thing people will say is they're gonna take 15% of my not if you purchase there. Oh, is this your PSA? My PSA. So if you not well, if you can convert it into a gift card, and most people shop at Amazon, that is an option, so you don't lose a cent. Ah see what I did there? You don't lose a cent.

[47:15] JJ: We got it.

[47:16] Matty: And so it you can get rid of your change, convert it to Amazon, it goes right into your balance. Yeah, it's much easier than counting your pennies at Trader Joe's. Correct.

[47:26] Megan: Exactly. Well, it shouldn't even be a laugh, honestly.

[47:28] JJ: I don't know.

[47:29] Matty: Speaking of honestly, quite honestly, I'm shocked that neither of you had your pull it out be the Woodward Dream Cruise. Wow. It is upon us.

[47:37] JJ: It is it's this as we recording it, it's happening right on Woodward. Zoom cut to avoid like a mile. But it's been really happening for like a month now.

[47:46] Matty: Yes. So I know you have issues, both of you, with it. Let me just for the listeners give a little context. The Woodward Dream Cruise, I don't know how many years it's been around, too many, but it is a like three-mile stretch on Woodward Avenue from Birmingham, Michigan to Ferndale, actually nine mile, which I'm half a mile from, is where they cut the ribbon. So I'm in the in the middle of it.

[48:11] Megan: They're in the thick of it.

[48:12] Matty: They're the population of Ferndale is like uh I had it, I had a figure, 700 and some thousand, uh, seventy, nineteen thousand. One point five million people descend upon the city for the Woodward Dream Cruise.

[48:32] Megan: Just Ferndale, or you're talking a lot Ferndale, Rollock, Birmingham.

[48:35] Matty: So that's a little bit, but like still, let's just shave off even half of that. You're still got like 35 times the number of people that literally. I mean, this it's um uh twice the population of Detroit.

[48:53] Megan: That's crazy.

[48:54] JJ: Yeah, 31 years, 31 years for the Dream Cruise.

[48:57] Matty: And there's really it started 31?

[48:59] JJ: 31.

[49:00] Matty: It started in 1995, and there's 40,000 vehicles that participate. And they're just fucking drive cruising.

[49:08] Megan: And let's be clear the idea when you hear like people say, oh, Woodward Dream Cruise, it's like to go back in the old days of cars and when you would just drive Woodward from Detroit all the way up to Pontiac. So this is what they're trying to recreate. But they make it sound like it's gonna be all these cool old cars, whatever. No, what it is is basically a Los Angeles freeway at 5 p.m. It's just every car you could ever see, and every 10 cars is maybe a car of interest. It's not I can see that, it's mostly just your everyday cars driving.

[49:43] Matty: I don't know if I would 100% agree with that. I think you're stretching a little because I think I mean there's 44, 40,000 vehicles that come into town. I would say 90% of those are legit. No, no, I wouldn't say 90%.

[49:56] Megan: When was the last time you went and sat and watched Woodward Dream Curse?

[50:00] JJ: I've never done it.

[50:02] Megan: I've done it a couple of times. Oh, you've sat at parties, at people at houses that lived on Woodward, and then I've gone into Birmingham and bebopped around. So I and I've driven a little bit, a block or two here and there. Let me tell you, it's it's a old-fashioned.

[50:20] Matty: Here's what I will say. I do like any event that brings revenue and attention to the city and the businesses. So for the businesses and the local businesses, I'm very happy for them if they're getting it. Some of them, though, have to fucking shut down because you can't even get to the business. So it's does it's like even that. And like people here that live here, it is gridlock. You it's hard to like get anywhere. Try to find a route. I used to live in a road that was blocked. Like you, I literally you could not get your car out for the whole two days. It's really a one-day event, but it's turned into one day. And they line start lining their lawn chairs up at the beginning of the month. Yes, correct.

[51:01] JJ: And leave them there. It's insane. With a little cooler. It's yeah.

[51:05] Matty: And usually we all three of us are out of town. Yeah, it used to be the pool. Intentionally. It used to be the pool event. I would schedule the pool event to coincide so we could get out of town. Okay. That was my pull it out. Um, my Slip It In.

[51:19] Matty: Um, I've been going back and forth. I'm gonna go with picky choosy. Picky choosy. So I'm really big on words if you haven't noticed. I like to bring words. Last time was this isn't me. Somebody else used it and I took a note. So it's just, I'm not trying to suggest it's something it isn't. It is just, I don't know. Somebody told me they're like, well, it was Lexi. Hi Lexi. It was like, she goes, I'm just really picky choosy. I'm like picky choosy. Like picky. Like it's really just picky. Or well, or you can be very choosy. I'm a little choosy. But if you're picky choosy, you're extra choosy. I feel you're extra choosy. You're picky choosy. Don't you like picky choosy?

[52:00] Megan: What's choosy? What is choosy versus what is picky?

[52:04] Matty: I think um combined, they are it's a level up.

[52:10] Megan: I didn't ask you combined. I asked you what is picky. What is choosy?

[52:15] Matty: What is choosy? What is picky? Choosy is I go into a store and I'm like very picky about my choice. Well, you said picky is when I go into a store and I'm very choosy about my choice.

[52:27] Megan: It's just picky. It's one word. You don't need picky choosy.

[52:30] Matty: I like picky choosy.

[52:32] Megan: Okay.

[52:32] JJ: Yeah, but I think it's just means the same. Exactly. That's picky.

[52:35] Megan: So I just feel like it.

[52:38] Matty: Yeah, but then you've got no fun in that. It picky's been around for years. Don't you? I might just go.

[52:43] Megan: I might just say I'm a little pick. I can just shorten it. Yeah, that means I'm a baby pick.

[52:52] JJ: Baby picky. I'm a baby choosy.

[52:54] Matty: But what if you let picky choosy run off your phone? Do you like juicy? Yes, I do like it.

[52:59] JJ: I'd rather just say I'm pick or I'm picky.

[53:01] Megan: You're not gonna use it. I'm not gonna use it.

[53:04] Matty: Lexi's not gonna like that.

[53:06] Megan: Well, I'm sorry. I'm gonna stick with my baby pick. Yeah.

[53:10] JJ: I don't think that she expects us to use.

[53:11] Matty: You're picky juicy about your words, I feel. 100%. All right. Well, I like it, Lexi, and I'm using picky juicy.

[53:19] Megan: Okay, go ahead. Have at it.

[53:21] Matty: Oh, can I just say one thing? Cut the music, please. I speaking of words, I forgot this with The Moth. Speaking of words, however, comma was used twice in a person's speech. And let the record show, and I have footage and recordings I can bring to it. Yeah. So not only is picky choosy gonna be a comma thing, but however, comma was used.

[53:46] Megan: Yeah, I think it's someone who was trying to like act like they're having a story and think they needed to use it. I questioned.

[53:54] Matty: Well, they were telling a story.

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