Aliens Communicate, Bears Coordinate & Pennies Evaporate

We chase viral bear antics including a frenzy over Starbucks bearista cups, then pivot hard to 3I Atlas and whether it’s a comet or something stranger. A deep dive on the 1994 West Michigan UAP case anchors the middle before we lighten up with skincare wins, pet quirks, and practical consumer tips.

• bears climbing poles and the bearista cup craze
• seasonal cookie memes and scarcity marketing
• pennies discontinued and small-scale hoarding instincts
• 3I Atlas anomalies and comet vs spacecraft debate
• UAP vs UFO terminology and MUFON reporting stats
• 1994 West Michigan lights with radar corroboration
• secret tech hypotheses vs credible witness accounts
• belief in aliens, timelines for contact, cultural touchstones
• belif Aqua Bomb and GQ Box product review
• dog meal rituals and stair-light demands
• subscription upsells, renewals, and Costco–Shutterfly hack
• holiday app visitors and guarding queer spaces
• how to reach us for slips and pulls

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Chapters

• 0:00 Cold Open: Slippers And Shenanigans
• 0:50 Hosts Return And Bear News
• 2:26 Starbucks Bearista Cup And Cookie Trend
• 4:16 Pennies Discontinued And Nostalgia
• 8:12 Enter 3I Atlas: Comet Or Craft
• 12:40 UAP vs UFO And Reporting
• 16:36 West Michigan 1994 UAP Case
• 21:10 Are Aliens Real And How Soon
• 24:32 SNL Close Encounters Comic Relief
• 27:00 Do Aliens Walk Among Us
• 28:20 Product Review: Belif Aqua Bombs And GQ Box
• 34:12 Slip It In & Pull It Out: Dog Tales
• 37:00 Age Of Disclosure Documentary
• 40:00 Subscriptions, Upsells, And Costco Hack
• 43:10 Dating Apps: Visitors And Boundaries
• 45:20 Wrap-Up And How To Reach Us

Transcript

Cold Open: Slippers And Shenanigans

Speaker 1 0:18

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'll cringe, you'll beg for more. With a guilty pleasure you can't ignore, like a drug tech sent at 2 a.m. We slipped it in again.

Speaker 7 0:50

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

Speaker 5 0:56

I am JJ. We are back.

Speaker 3 0:58

And here's Matty, and I'm getting right into it. I've got to bring some news. Oh, wow. Uh, the bears, the creature feature bears are at it again. And I have to say, this is so funny to me because we were talking the last time, and you were low-key accusing the bears of communicating between like Japan and American Pennsylvania. Like, yes. And we were like, there's a bear network.

Speaker 7 1:25

Canada and U.S. bears are picking things up from the Japanese bears and attacking people in supermarkets, Dollar Trees, out in the wilderness.

Speaker 3 1:34

I'm like, so you're telling me they're communicating, and you said yes. Yeah. Well, just last week in Arizona, I don't know if you saw this, but there was a bear that climbed up a telephone pole. Well, there you go. Now we know how they're communicating. Well, I saw it and I'm like, this bear's trying to bring in Mexico. They're in Arizona. He's trying to like get on, like patch through the lines. Those bears are smiling. A coworker had to, a co-worker, a line guy, whatever, up there with a pole had to like course him down. If you watch the video, it's like a 30-second clip. It's really funny. Just Google bear climbs telephone pole, but he runs down and then he runs over to another pole and he starts to go up that pole and then he thinks twice and he scurries away. But so we're we might be on top of it. I think so.

Speaker 4 2:24

He's communicating with the bear.

Starbucks Bearista Cup And Cookie Trend

Speaker 3 2:25

It's happening.

Speaker 5 2:26

They are Starbucks than we think. Starbucks is picking up on the bear uh shenanigans too. Have you seen and you know hear all the things about the bearista cup?

Speaker 7 2:36

Yeah, I've tried to find one and they're like nowhere to be found.

Speaker 5 2:40

I have a coworker. She spent $50 on it. I don't know what the original prize is, but it's like the prize is a black market. Yeah.

Speaker 7 2:47

They're th they they originally, so what they are is a glass bear. I thought they were plastic. No, they're glass. It's a glass bear kind of coffee cup with a straw and top on it. And they originally sold for $30 and it basically sold out immediately. It's not bad. Yeah. So $50 is not bad, but they're online, like up to like $400, $500.

Speaker 3 3:12

$50, you're getting a beverage in it, right?

Speaker 5 3:14

So the no. No, no, no, no. You're just buying the vessel.

Speaker 3 3:18

Oh, you're just getting the beverage.

Speaker 5 3:19

You're just buying the vessel.

Speaker 3 3:20

I do think it's clever, the bearies done.

Speaker 5 3:22

Yeah, that's clever.

Speaker 7 3:23

It's it totally is. And for anyone listening, the polar bear cookies just dropped, which is Starbucks uh decorated shortbread cookie that they bring out every year at the holiday time. And the people have gone viral with them where they eat off the top head of the snowman. And um, well, I called it a polar bear. It's a snowman.

Speaker 3 3:46

I was pondering. Your head's not gonna be a big thing.

Speaker 7 3:49

It's a it's an actual snowman, but it's painted white, obviously. But anyway, and uh people are uh eating the head off the snowman, and then they put it in front of their pet's head, like mostly dogs, and taking pictures. Oh, like from a distance, so it looks like the head of the animals on the polar bear. I keep saying polar bear, snowman. The bears are in my head.

Pennies Discontinued And Nostalgia

Speaker 5 4:14

I feel that this is kind of a miss opportunity for Starbucks. They should have just made the cookie without the head.

Speaker 3 4:18

They should have.

Speaker 5 4:19

Well, well, you know I'm a cookie aficionado.

Speaker 3 4:22

Where is your hat at? I could have a penny for your thoughts.

Speaker 7 4:24

Oh, well, you can. Speaking of pennies, I'm devastated over the pennies. Look at that.

Speaker 4 4:30

R.I.P.

Speaker 7 4:31

Yeah, they are officially not making any more pennies, which we knew was coming, but it's now officially done. And I thought, you know, who knows how quickly these pennies are gonna, you know, increase in value. So I was gonna give people rolls of pennies for Christmas as holiday gifts.

Speaker 5 4:50

Um, I don't know if I want pennies for Christmas.

Speaker 3 4:52

Like what like one roll?

Speaker 7 4:54

Yeah, just like stuff it away in a drawer whenever.

Speaker 5 4:56

How much is one roll? Like a dollar? 50 cents.

Speaker 3 4:59

50 cents. Not much. She's like, we set a 50 cent limit. Well, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 7 5:06

So I went to the bank trying to get a few rolls of pennies. They will not give them to you. No pennies.

Speaker 5 5:12

It's not that they don't have them, they just don't give them to you.

Speaker 7 5:14

They're saying we will not give any pennies out.

Speaker 3 5:17

I am not a coin collector. Well, nor am I. But I think the fact that you're already trying to stash the pennies away when they they just like two weeks ago went out of circulation. I think, I think we're hundreds of years away before that penny is valuable.

Speaker 7 5:33

I could be wrong. I don't know. It was just that for 50 cents, I'm willing to throw it away in the corner and not think about it and check it in 10 years.

Speaker 5 5:43

But Megan is a penny lover, and she loves a penny lover.

Speaker 7 5:46

Well, I do because when I was five, I used to go around when I was with my parents at stores and tell people my name was Penny, and they'd give me pennies. They'd give me pennies. Yeah. They'd say, What's your name? And I'd say, I'm Penny, and they'd hand me pennies.

Speaker 3 6:00

And they'd be like, Oh, I've got a penny for your penny.

Speaker 7 6:03

And yeah, and back in the day, you could sometimes get like penny candy at some of the like stores that I would go to.

Speaker 3 6:09

Wow. You were working the corner at age five.

Speaker 5 6:13

It was. Matty made a penny table, remember?

Speaker 3 6:16

I did make a penny table with uh epoxy over the top of it. I love it. It was cool, it wasn't my finest work, but somebody was all over it in my garage sale.

Speaker 7 6:26

Yeah, I love the penny floors that they have in like restaurants and stuff.

Speaker 5 6:31

There is a local restaurant instead of garage, and they have the penny floor. Yes, I love it on the bathroom.

Speaker 3 6:37

Well, they better watch out. People are gonna try to probably pennies from under that epoxy.

Speaker 7 6:41

Well, didn't you say you had a penny worth $25?

Speaker 3 6:44

I did. And I lost it in a move.

Speaker 7 6:46

Oh no.

Speaker 3 6:46

I was devastated. Now that penny, because it was like from the revolution. And so look how long it took. Yeah, that's why it was worth $25. And so look how long it took, Megan.

Speaker 7 6:58

But well, I don't know. Like, I don't know how quickly they go up in value. It wasn't meant to be like, I'm giving you some high dollar gift. It's more like, hey, here's a side item, little gift. Just tuck it away, and maybe someday it'll be worth something.

Speaker 3 7:13

50 cents.

unknown 7:14

Yeah.

Speaker 7 7:15

Oh no. I think you never know. Like, you don't know what you're doing. But anyway, the bank's not giving you pennies. Okay. So don't try to go get a penny. They're gone, they won't be given out. They're rare. And if you have pennies, I'd hold them tight.

unknown 7:27

Yeah.

Speaker 7 7:27

Yeah. But speaking of rare and hard to find items, have you guys been following 3i Atlas?

Speaker 5 7:35

Tell me more about it.

Enter 3I Atlas: Comet Or Craft

Speaker 7 7:37

This is supposedly it's being called an interstellar object. It's been around since I think its first sighting was in July. Well, there's a lot of discrepancy about that. NASA is calling it a comet, as are some other worldwide astronomers. But Harvard professor Avi Loeb, who is known like in the astronomy world, he's an uh super popular, very famous, very well-renowned astrophysicist. And he believes it's possibly an alien spacecraft. And he, yes, and he is coming for NASA constantly and says they should not be calling it an interstellar object. And that new pictures that NASA has recently dropped of three eye atlas, he says don't prove anything and still tend to show that maybe this isn't a comet, because even though there are a lot of similarities to a comet, that everyone should be looking at the things that are anomalies that make it maybe something other than a comet.

Speaker 3 8:44

I'm gonna have a list of the anomalies.

Speaker 5 8:48

Isn't it a comet supposed to have a tail? Yes.

Speaker 7 8:51

And initially they didn't think this object did, but now new images show it could have a tail. Yeah.

Speaker 3 8:57

Well, AI could have put that tail on there.

Speaker 5 8:59

That's true. Like nowadays with the AI.

Speaker 7 9:02

Well, potentially, but this is these are photos coming from NASA. So you're accusing the government of AI immigration.

unknown 9:10

I know I know.

Speaker 7 9:11

Oh you accused the government of documenting. But here's these are the things that make it unlike a comet. It's enormous, it has a huge, suspected, large mass. So this is a much bigger than a traditional comet.

Speaker 6 9:29

Yeah.

Speaker 7 9:29

It also has a wildly unlikely trajectory, meaning it's not normal. Like comets, I guess, kind of go on a normal path. This is kind of all over the place. Also, it has huge, tightly focused jets blasting toward and away from the sun, which is something that is not normal for comets. And it's also something other amateur astronomers have also been noticing and commenting on. So there's a huge discrepancy and kind of fight out there in this world of astronomy about is it an alienship or something else or a comet?

Speaker 3 10:06

A UAP. Do you know what that they're calling it used to be UFOs, not that this is, because this is it could be, but now this is point in case why it's uh UAP, an unidentified uh aircraft phenomenon.

Speaker 5 10:24

Oh, that could be a UAP then.

Speaker 3 10:26

Oh, but it might sorry, I got that wrong. Okay, it's an aerial, not aircraft. Oh, unidentified aerial phenomenon. And so the government has actually pushed to use that term versus a UFO because peop pilots and people in higher up positions felt like if they were made claims of seeing a UFO, they would get ridiculed and it, you know, society would think they were crazy. So the government spun it through a little PR move, and now does UAP with the hope that people will be more inclined to come forward because in UAP, we're not just talking about an object, it could be light, it could be a weather phenomenon, it could be another um uh unexplained object, and so that's why. So there's been a switch.

Speaker 7 11:19

But I feel like that's the same thing as UFO.

Speaker 5 11:21

Like, what's a foreign f it's a false.

Speaker 7 11:23

It's just something you can't explain in the air, right?

Speaker 3 11:27

But but there's less stigma, they're saying, associated. Like if you are a physic physicist, for example, maybe not this one, but a physic physicist or a pilot flying a plane. Like the idea is people are like, if I tell them I saw a UFO, they're gonna think I'm a nut job. If I now can say I saw a UAP and you are just reporting something maybe other than uh an object. I'm just giving you interesting. Yeah, I'm just giving you a lot of things.

Speaker 7 11:56

Well, I'm happy to know because I still would say UFO, so I'm happy I'm now in the know of the proper terminology.

Speaker 5 12:02

It really fascinates me that whole like you know, interstellar, you know, what's happening out there. We are like tiny little grain in this vast universe and galaxies, and so many galaxies, and sometimes we just feel that it's just us and this universe. There's a lot more happening uh out there.

Speaker 3 12:22

We're gonna get to that.

Speaker 5 12:23

We are.

UAP vs UFO And Reporting

Speaker 3 12:23

I want yeah, I want to I would like to get what your thoughts are on that. Um, but before I do that, or we do that, I want to take a little trip down memory lane and bring it back to our hometown, home area of West Michigan. So, first of all, back in the news, Michigan's back in the news, uh, from September wait no, October through September.

Speaker 7 12:51

September through October is typically how it works on the calendar map.

Speaker 3 12:55

Yeah, it goes back and forth. But through those that time period, they're up in the up north area, which is not where we're from, but I'll bring this together. There was sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena, UAPs. UAPs, okay. And when they investigated them, they did put that into a category where they could not identify them. So here's another little fact there are thousands and thousands and thousands of reportings every year. Of those, there are between three and five, no, two and three percent that are truly unexplained. So most a lot of them are just like, okay, that was an aircraft, that was somebody doing some testing for government.

Speaker 7 13:48

But when you say unexplained, because the government's not taking ownership of them, or the government saying it's unexplained, or what?

Speaker 3 13:58

They're saying like they cannot find a characteristic of that that can quantify it as a known object or anything.

Speaker 7 14:10

Who makes that determination?

Speaker 3 14:12

Uh MUFON.

Speaker 7 14:14

Oh, who's MUFON?

Speaker 3 14:16

MUFON is the they are the mutual UFO network. They're the leading authority for reporting and investigating sightings, abductions, and other unexplained phenomenon.

Speaker 7 14:27

And is that like um a group that's like people from all over the world and governments are involved?

Speaker 3 14:35

All 50 states and 43 countries are a part of this group. So it's governments are involved.

Speaker 7 14:42

Yeah, okay.

Speaker 3 14:43

And so they get uh between um 500 and 1,000 reports every month. Wow. And from those, there's a two to three percent where they're like, wow, can't explain that. So um, yeah, so so they that's what happened up north. Yeah, they didn't market unexplained, but I will say the witnesses were 76 year old and 87 year old.

Speaker 7 15:13

Wow, so you're like saying that they're too old to make a comment about what they're seeing.

Speaker 3 15:17

I'm not, it's this isn't an age discrimination, but like sounds like it. I uh I'm not anywhere near that age, and I have trouble like what is that in front of me? What is that light?

Speaker 7 15:29

So but they saw these weird lights and they were up, like you see a lot more stuff.

Speaker 3 15:34

I'm not coming for them. Okay, the aliens are.

Speaker 7 15:36

Well, I feel like the aliens, like I think maybe it's because I'm like blinded by ET, but like I feel like if I saw an alien, like we're gonna be best friends.

Speaker 3 15:49

Do you well it's gotta go both ways? I don't know if the aliens.

Speaker 5 15:54

I also think that they're not as ugly as we they picture them.

West Michigan 1994 UAP Case

Speaker 3 15:58

I you guys, I know we gotta get. Can we hold this? Well, E.T. I know, I know. Okay, let's get let get let's get moving. So here, yeah, this is oftentimes put in the top 10 list of most um, what do you want to say? Like recognizable, reported, uh reported, um uh documented, documented, yeah, and and valid, historical, yeah, yeah. But like credible is what I was trying to say. You found it March 8th, 1994, West Michigan. Yeah. Now, this is where Megan and I grew up, is in West Michigan. There were over 300 witnesses that reported seeing bright lights. They were going back and forth, um, many different colors. Uh, red, green, white, sometimes blue, sometimes blue. And um, the witnesses were everyday, you know, West Michiganders, but some of them as professions were police officers, weather radar reporters, and pilots who were flying planes over that area. And um they had reports over 42 counties, and it spread from like areas of Michigan all the way to Indiana. And phones were ringing off the hook, and these people were all credible, they all were telling the same story, and this is one of those that falls in that two to three percent that to this day I mean, they've done a lot of investigation of it. It's still kind of an open investigation, but um, yeah.

Speaker 7 17:45

I love it. I mean I always wonder though, when especially when there's major sightings like that, I sometimes wonder is maybe this is like new technology, new planes, whatever. Well, no, but that those were like new that these drones that we now have today that the our government was testing and doing things with. And then obviously they're not gonna report it and say, yeah, that's us, because we don't want our enemy countries to know we've got this great new technology. So I sometimes do wonder some of these things that are UAPs or UFOs, if you want to use that vernacular, um really it could just be our superior military at work.

Speaker 3 18:34

I agree. And I think I think historically they have not really been forthcoming about that.

Speaker 7 18:40

That's crap, which I appreciate, but yet it keeps this. But I think there's a change.

Speaker 3 18:44

It feels very different now with the current administration is trying to open up uh access to things. But we'll see.

Speaker 7 18:50

They say that, but they've been in office for months and we haven't seen anything now.

Speaker 3 18:54

I mean, what's some other shit?

Speaker 5 18:55

And but we one thing that we have to note too, and regardless of this 90 foresight and in the credibility of it, is that it's not just about the hundreds of people that reported it, but this there is radar data to it, so that confirms it as well. Um, and it seems to corroborate, like corroborate at least some of what people saw with the data, and that is what makes it actual. Yeah, exactly. The data actually made it more legitimate to not people, drunk people or people that are over 70 years old, uh, doing that. It was there was a commonality to it, uh, that just civilians and you say police officers, pilots were actually talking about that. And also, very important is like the behavior of the lights was that there was a common threat throughout the same reportings, throughout like the people were confirming the same thing over and over.

Speaker 3 19:53

And these people had no relationship to each other at all, they were counties away from each other, so and they are saying that the lights were.

Speaker 5 20:00

Hovering, the lights were splitting, there was fast acceleration. Um, there was um one lady that reported that the lights actually came to the level of the trees and came right up. Uh and so those things, I think that that is what makes this 94 event so legitimate and very credible. Uh, to your point, Matty. That I mean, they're not calling it top 10, but I think it's like on the top 10 um sighting of a UAP uh situation.

Speaker 3 20:30

Uh I think some are putting it in the top 10, but this depends on the criteria you're using.

Speaker 7 20:35

But well, this is where I'd like the government to come in. So, like, I agree, like that, but hundreds of people saw it. This was a such a big event. But when you think about it now, looking back 20-some years or more, I can't do that math. Um we know that it sounds very much like it could have been a drone. We didn't know drones didn't exist back then, but it could very well have been a drone. And I would love if like the somebody would come out now and say, Hey, everything everyone saw in this whole event, this was our drones that we were.

Speaker 5 21:10

The light splitting and like the the shape of the lights were different to like one to the other, and like the I get it, the drone side, but it's like we're talking about 94. I don't know. I get what you're saying, though.

Speaker 3 21:24

Like our government could have had it. Yeah, drones were not anything we knew about, but there's advanced technology. But why would they be testing in that area? And there, I don't know.

Speaker 7 21:35

Well, I think because in the Great Lakes, if things fall, it's not gonna fall in like the land where people can get it. It would fall in the lake and just sink and be gone.

Speaker 3 21:44

Well, you can all make up your own decision if you want, because this is and the reason I even knew about this is because I stumbled upon it on an unsolved mystery episode.

Speaker 5 21:55

So you can go watch it. It remains an unsolved mystery. They still they're labeling that so unsolved, and you can watch the episode.

Speaker 3 22:02

I think it's still out on Netflix. Uh, it's volume three of Unsolved Mysteries, episode two. Um, and I think the date is October 18th of 2022. Yeah. So as early as 2022, not long ago, they were if you watch the episode, yeah. Some of what you're talking about, like they're trying to like dig into it a little bit more, and you'll see a lot of interviews with people. And I left that episode and I immediately texted my dad and my sister. I'm like, Can you guys remember this? Because like we we were all alive and around, and we didn't, but um that's so crazy.

Speaker 7 22:43

Well, so okay, so I'm still waiting for each other. Do you believe in a knock on my door?

Speaker 3 22:49

Come on, knock on my door.

Speaker 5 22:51

Um I mean, there's so many movies, like Close Encounters, which is like one of a good movie, and E.T. You mentioned. I'm like, I'm you know, I I I'm not skeptical about it. I kind of I'm open to the city. Cocoon is my favorite. Cocoon. Oh my god, I forgot about that movie. Some cocoon. Yeah, I like that.

Speaker 3 23:09

So um Americans in general. So I want to know if you guys believe and where you stand. Here's where your fellow Americans stand. 56% of Americans believe aliens definitely or probably exist. More people believe in aliens than they do Bigfoot, the Yeti, or the Loch and Sponger. Forty-seven percent believe aliens have already visited Earth, and 42% think those visits may have happened in the recent years. 16% think we'll make contact within the next 10 years, and nearly one in three believe it will happen within 50 years. So, I mean, these are some I mean, we're hovering around about half the population.

Speaker 7 24:00

Yeah.

Speaker 3 24:01

So where do you stand?

Speaker 7 24:04

I say 100% they exist. I am unsure if they've made contact or not. I'm very 50-50. I could go both ways. And I would hope it happens in my lifetime to have some alien activity. I do too.

Speaker 4 24:25

What kind of activity do you want?

SNL Close Encounters Comic Relief

Speaker 7 24:26

I just want a little ET to pop up, giving me Reese's thesis. Like that's what I'm looking for. What a dream.

Speaker 5 24:32

Oh, I mean, to Megan's point, uh huh, in kind of what I said at the beginning, we are just one planet in one galaxy. We there are estimated about two trillion galaxies on this universe. The thought of just us being in this area and nobody else, I I mean, that's selfish of us, which speaks to our humanity. That's on brand. It's on brand. But I I do I do think that there is other like there is life outside of this planet.

unknown 25:11

Yeah.

Speaker 3 25:12

But in the form of a being, a being.

Speaker 5 25:15

Yes, yeah, in the form of a being. I I 100% believe that. And this takes me to an SNL, and this is what makes me believe more in aliens. You know, you probably we are big fans of Kate McKinnon. And 10 years ago, when she actually joined SNL, she started doing this bid about this called the close encounters. I'm gonna play just a quick bite of this clip because she just sinked to another level. And she started Ryan Goslin was the uh host on that. I do remember. And I I just wanna play that because it's it's so funny and it's going to be very, very quick. Um, but it's just a matter of like they were interviewing them about that close encounter with an alien um to these three people.

Speaker 26:07

I'm sorry, I'm just crying about, just think about it a little bit.

Speaker 2 26:11

Do you need a tissue?

Speaker 26:12

Well, no, I'm sorry, I just I'll use my shirt.

Speaker 2 26:15

Um, the aliens showed my mind the furnace of all creation, what we would call God. What? These fancy cats are seeing God. Me and my mom's starting phase two, which is me sitting on a stool. 40 gray aliens take turns gently bounting my knuckles.

Speaker 4 26:45

The question is like, what kind of activity do you want with the aliens? I want a different type of activity with the aliens.

Speaker 3 26:51

You want 40 little ETs banging in your knockers? No.

Do Aliens Walk Among Us

Speaker 5 26:58

So you know what? Some people have sub-specific version of the aliens. You can have an ET. Some people will have the ones playing in the knockers.

Speaker 3 27:06

There's a lot of people think they've been probed, that's for sure. Well, I am with you both. I think they do exist. And whenever I talk to somebody that says, no, I don't believe in them, the fact that we exist, yeah, to me is like, how can you really, with any certainty, say they don't exist because we exist, and like trying to even imagine, like, how did we come to exist? And with all these galaxies, that's a lot.

Speaker 5 27:36

Yeah, those questions.

Speaker 3 27:38

I mean, it could really open up my dating opportunities. And I don't get this though. Like, why are they always like why we all look so different? Yeah, they're always depicted as like always looking exactly the same.

Speaker 7 27:53

I think they might look like us. You do. I think so too.

Speaker 3 27:56

Maybe they walk among us, they very well could. I've seen I've seen some oddballs. I can recall. There are. Yeah. Well, there was a um TV show called V. I love V. I have I have com comic books talking about things you stash away. I have one through five originals in their bags.

Speaker 7 28:15

Oh, I love it.

Speaker 3 28:15

Yeah, talk about take that penny.

Product Review: Belif Aqua Bombs And GQ Box

Speaker 5 28:18

Take that penny. I think we're ready for a product review.

Speaker 3 28:22

Are we there? Yeah. Okay. So I am on product review this week. And this product, it's okay. I've got actually three, if you think about it.

Speaker 5 28:33

Okay.

Speaker 3 28:34

Because I am a part of a subscription program called GQ Box. I love the prescription subscription box or yeah, that whole concept. And I've joined them and I stop them right away because a lot of times I'm like, uh, what I'm getting month after month or whatever the cadence is, it kind of gets a little boring or dull or repetitive. So I signed up for this GQ box, and you I only it's $216 is what I pay for the year. And I get four boxes a year for each of the seasons.

Speaker 5 29:11

$200 and what?

Speaker 3 29:12

$16. But I think sometimes, like even around Cyber Monday and stuff, they were it was even less expensive. Um, but each box is valued at over $200 worth of things in it. I've now gotten six boxes, and I kept telling JJ, like the first box I get that I don't like, I'm just gonna I'll cancel it. Or if I get if I start getting things I've already got, they keep it fresh, they do a great job.

Speaker 5 29:38

I mean $54 for a box, and that's great. That's great.

Speaker 3 29:41

There's over $200 value in there, and they give you the price and everything on each of the books.

Speaker 5 29:45

And GQ is very, you know, yeah, value.

Speaker 3 29:48

Yeah, and so I got my winner box, and in the winner box there was a small belief aqua bomb, and it's belief spelled B-E-L-I-F. Um, and then on the bottle it says belief to truth. But that's yeah, a little font, but the it's B E L I F. And it's a very light lotion. Uh, I use it as I've been using it regularly. I got the little one and then Cyber Monday, I got the big one.

Speaker 5 30:23

The big one from small to big.

Speaker 3 30:25

I did, and the big one I got for like $25.

Speaker 5 30:29

Um, and it's a good it's a good size.

Speaker 3 30:32

It is. This one is 50 milliliters. I don't know how if you can picture that in your mind, but I do love the packaging as well. The when you take the lid off, you think a you think one piece of it's coming off more than you think comes off, and it's like a little black top hat. It's uh very adorable. Um the other one I have is the belief aqua bomb sleeping mask. So, what I like about that is you put it on at night before you go to bed, and then you rinse it off in the morning. But I will say, like, your people are like, it's do I feel like I have got a mask on at night? You don't. It's kind of like a little more jelly, but it kind of still goes into your skin. And what I like about the fact that you in the morning you rinse it off, it's a double great thing for me because it a little splash of cool water in the morning kind of gets you going anyway. And then I do feel like I'm like, I love it. I'm like, I've got a smooth feeling of it, and it's it's great. So I have both of these on uh under Maddie's holiday faves on the Linktree. You can find it in our shop and uh under my collection that I put together. Both of them are up there. They have other products as well, but um, check these out through our Linktree. I think I linked them through to Ulta Beauty.

Speaker 7 31:50

Um, love they're also we also have links to Sephora and Nordstrom as well. So you can buy wherever you prefer. I will say I've tried it and I've tried them both and I really like them. The um day cream is really light and nice and feels really good when you put it on. It also contains hyaluronic acid as well as niacyanamide, which I use a lot in some other products because that helps take away uh redness or also takes away spots that you might have on your face. So that's always a good like chemical that I look at with some of my lotions. So I think they're both really good. I really love the texture.

Speaker 5 32:33

Yeah, I was gonna say, because it speaks to like what Matty was talking about, it's really very light. Um, and it's it's it feels fresh.

Speaker 7 32:42

Yeah, feels very fresh.

Speaker 3 32:43

You know, I got this in the winter, but the point we're all making, like I'm gonna really like it in the summer because I like a light lotion, especially in the summer. Like that if you put a heavy lotion on and this and then you sweat and your skin can't breathe. So I highly, highly recommend it. And I also highly, highly recommend the GQ box. I don't know if I can I'll try to put a link in there about that. I don't know if I can do that. We'll see. We'll try. But if not, uh you you heard it here first.

Speaker 4 33:12

You sure did.

Speaker 7 33:14

Well, with that, I think we have some slip it ins and pull it out. I'll start with my slip it in. So my slip it in is as you may have heard me talk about on past episodes, I have a um a Rottweiler who has a lot of personality. Yes, he does. And so my slip it in is whenever I'm making his breakfast or dinner, we give him a dry dog food, but also put on some type of little add-ins on top.

Speaker 3 33:46

I've been here for the Martha Stewart in the kitchen recipe.

Speaker 5 33:51

He was when he knows. He's a spoiled little boy.

Speaker 3 33:53

We have to cook and he'll send it back a couple times because I've said that.

Slip It In & Pull It Out: Dog Tales

Speaker 7 33:57

So when he knows he sees his bowl gets put out on the counter, he comes over and sits right next to the uh counter and just stares so intently and watches my hand, everything I'm doing. He's just like got this blaze on me. And it's like the look in his eyes, it's like he knows this is going to him, and he's just watching and waiting, and he wants to make sure everything's getting in that he's gonna want.

Speaker 3 34:24

He's like checking for the pinch of salt.

Speaker 7 34:26

Is that he's like it's very, very cute because you just see him, and then if you move your hand a little differently, he'll cock his head. It's just like he is zeroed in on whatever you're doing. But my pullout also relates to Phil.

Speaker 6 34:40

I love it when you do a duo.

Speaker 7 34:42

So conversely, he is a little older now, he's eight and a half. So in the last like six months, probably he's gotten to where he won't go up our stairs or down our stairs unless the lights are on.

Speaker 5 34:58

So at night, that's umbrand.

Speaker 7 35:01

Yeah, he is so particular. I think maybe his eye, we have very steep stairs and they're wood. And I there's something about the wood stairs because at my parents' house, they have carpet, he goes up and down, there's no problem. But our house, he'll sit and just cry and won't go up the stairs until we turn the light on. So as soon as the lights on, he goes right up.

Speaker 3 35:20

That is and then in the morning, you created the monster. Not a monster, but I mean, and he's spoiled. So now he's like, I need the lights on. I just ate.

Speaker 7 35:30

Well, if he really feels like he can't see, I get it. Like, and then at night, or I mean in the morning, I'll literally be in another room getting ready, and then I hear I'll hear his like little tap tap tap on the floor because of his nails, and then I hear him crying. He's kind of dancing around the top. He won't go down the stairs without the lights on. So I have to go out, turn the light on, then he'll go right down.

Speaker 3 35:54

Do we know? Have they been able to determine whether I thought there's rumors that dogs can see in the dark?

Speaker 7 35:59

So well, he also, I will say there are times he has gone up and down the stairs without lights when, like, if the doctor and I are both upstairs for too long, like he's used to. Yeah, but like he knows he's like double duty, so it's a pull it out because it's kind of annoying because you're in the middle of something and you gotta stop to go deal with these lights.

Speaker 3 36:21

It's kind of cute though.

Speaker 7 36:22

Like it can be cute, but it's like yeah, for the first time, maybe.

Speaker 5 36:26

Yeah, or like there might be an alien that is.

Speaker 7 36:29

Well, and maybe, yeah, I don't know. Who knows? We might have an ET in the house.

Speaker 5 36:33

Maybe. Maddie, you want to go next?

Speaker 3 36:36

Sure. I'm gonna bring it back to the aliens.

Speaker 5 36:38

Okay.

Age Of Disclosure Documentary

Speaker 3 36:39

So I think one of the things that uh I'm very excited about is an episode, uh, a documentary, rather, that is coming out, or it's out actually, but coming out when I say coming out, like for me, it's gonna come out when it drops from 1999 down to free. It is on it is on it is on Amazon Prime. I wanted to watch it before we broke it down today, but I'm like, I'm not paying 1999. Are you out of your mind? Who does that? Uh, so we have to wait for that to drop down. But um, it's called Age of Disclosure. And it is a lot of the stuff, Megan, we were kind of talking about that we've been hoping for. So a little breakdown.

Speaker 5 37:26

It's an hour and 50 minutes.

Speaker 3 37:28

Oh, oh.

Speaker 7 37:29

All right. Well, that's fine. I'm here for it. Yeah.

Speaker 3 37:32

If it gives me some real answers, it premiered at this uh South by Southwest in spring. I thought and it uh had a coordinated release on November 21st uh in the theaters, but then also exclusively streaming on Amazon video. It uh has on record testimony from 34 former or current US government, military, and intelligent officials. It alleges an 80-year global cover-up.

Speaker 7 38:06

Wow. See, this is what I'm here for regarding non-human.

Speaker 3 38:11

We might have to do a intelligent life and UAP evidence. There we are. There we go. And the trailer when they put the trailer out, it accumulated more than 20 million views even before its release. Wow. So people are either, I mean, some maybe are splurging 1999.

Speaker 7 38:31

Well, maybe we should have a viewing party.

Speaker 4 38:32

I mean, the three of us put it in split it, yeah.

Speaker 3 38:35

Yeah, 650 each. Yeah, we can manage. Um, but yeah, I think it is gonna, we might have to do a report in the new year, a little like reflection back, because we've we've kind of all said the same things here. And this documentary for me is that piece where I think they're gonna start pulling back the curtain a little bit.

Speaker 7 38:55

Oh, I hope. Well, just hearing the former government people who are gonna comment on it, like you wouldn't think they're all lying. You think there is some truth to what they have to say. And if it's a global cover-up, which I think it would have to be, like, I'm here for it and I want to like know more.

Speaker 5 39:10

Yeah, yeah, let's do it.

Subscriptions, Upsells, And Costco Hack

Speaker 3 39:11

I'm that got you guys excited. Yeah, my pull it out is um all through I've gone through a lot in the last couple of weeks as far as doing stuff online. I got a new phone, I took advantage of Black Friday, I followed it up with Cyber Monday, and I wheeled and dealed and did my things. And when I sign up for something new or I buy something new, my biggest pull it out is like, Congratulations, you just unlocked a bonus offer. I'm like, bitch, I I just bought a five dollar item or something, and every time it's like it's not a bonus, it's like you can get a credit card offer, you you can get. Uh I don't know. What they're all like bullshit things. Magazine subscriptions.

Speaker 7 40:06

And let me tell you, I fell for that once and I got 'em and it was great. But then those fuckers charged me fifty dollars for the next year's subscription. Yeah. Well, yeah, yeah. I I missed it one year and I caught it the second year and I canceled it.

Speaker 3 40:22

And yeah. Well, pro tip, anytime I do take advantage of something in the same sitting where I subscribe, and then they say after whatever your trial period is, it kicks, I go right in to my account and I cancel automate it, automated that's where they're getting you.

Speaker 5 40:42

I either do that or just tell Alexa to remind me to cancel.

Speaker 3 40:46

Yes, but sometimes you a year from now, you might not be. That's true. I don't know. You don't even know where to go.

Speaker 7 40:52

Well, pro tip, I agree with you, but I think I didn't even realize what I was doing. Or I thought I'm gonna get a notification and I'll cancel at that time.

Speaker 41:00

In this case, they charge me.

Speaker 7 41:03

And I went to the magazine, I found in, I was able to log in, and it said I didn't have like auto renew or anything on, but yet my card was charged $50. So I uh disputed it on my credit card and you got it? Yeah.

Speaker 3 41:17

Okay. Well, I just don't need your Omaha steaks and your health steaks is always one.

Speaker 4 41:27

Especially on the holidays.

Speaker 3 41:28

I don't need a two-night free stay for a 13-day trip in the world.

Speaker 5 41:34

I don't want a $50 gift cut for Shutterfly.

Speaker 3 41:37

Oh, yeah. I don't, yeah, I don't, I don't need it. No.

Speaker 4 41:40

Oh my God. That's funny.

Speaker 7 41:42

Well, I just have to say this really quick. Sorry. You just brought up Shutterfly, and I'm just gonna say I something I just learned. If you're a Costco member and you link your Costco account to Shutterfly, you always will get anything you purchase at Shutterfly, 50% off in free shipping.

Speaker 3 42:00

Oh, nice. I just got Shutterfly at Cyber Monday, and I got one penny four by sixes.

Speaker 7 42:06

Okay, well, link your Costco card and you'll always have free shipping and you'll have half a penny. Well, okay, fine. Well, half a penny. There's the not, it's everything's gonna have to go back to the page. Everything goes back to the penny.

Speaker 5 42:20

I can't. All right, so my slip it in. Uh, talking about visitors from another area, my slip it in is around the holiday season. Matty was talking about like, you know, there's the pool that we have from the gays is very small. When the holiday season comes in, you see on the apps visiting. Oh. That is a slip it in.

Speaker 3 42:41

It's just like well, now you just see a little airplane, don't you? A little green airplane. Yes, oh wow. I love it.

Speaker 5 42:46

So people visiting and you know, being part of it.

unknown 42:51

I love it.

Speaker 5 42:52

That's my slip it in. My pull out is related to the apps.

Speaker 6 42:56

Oh.

Dating Apps: Visitors And Boundaries

Speaker 5 42:57

And I'm gonna call out all my girlfriends out there. There are some girls on the apps now. That I'm just like, just can you just leave us some space for us now? Wait, you're saying they're coming in to Yeah, on the on the dating apps for the gays.

Speaker 7 43:12

What do you mean? Like if they're on Grinder?

Speaker 5 43:14

Yeah, they are on Grindr.

Speaker 7 43:15

Why would girls be on Grindr?

Speaker 5 43:18

Sometimes, sometimes they want to make gay friends. Sometimes they just want to see what their base the guest best gay friends are doing, and they just want to talk to them. I actually talked to some girls that are on the app and I've told them, it's like, what are you on the app? It's like, well, because you guys are there and I want to see like what's happening. It's like, well, you actually like the pool is really small, so your point of you being there, like it's not really helping us at all. So I just don't like that.

Speaker 3 43:45

Yeah, I would agree with you. That just seems nuts. First, they come into our bathrooms and now they come into our app.

Speaker 5 43:50

Exactly. So that is definitely a pull out for me.

Speaker 7 43:54

Well, I do understand the need for wanting gay friends, and if they're new to the area, I can see where they're trying to make gay. All they gotta do is go sit at a gay bar at the bar and they'll pick up some gay friends. It's very easy.

Speaker 3 44:08

I don't even think you have to go to a gay bar. Did you hear the recent? There's a stat out there, and I can't quote the source, but I can if you guys reach out to us, I can maybe follow. One in five straight men identifies as secretly being gay. What? Yes. Wow. Yeah. So how's that for a bombshell? That is a bombshell. That's wither. So you better check your partners.

Speaker 7 44:38

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