Encore! Encore! “Slippers Unite” — One Last Hurrah

In case the holidays had you so busy that Slip It In slipped your mind, we’re bringing back our final episode of Season 1 for anyone who may have missed it. Stay tuned — Season 2 premieres soon.

We ended 2025 with a warm, fast-moving round-up of cultural shifts and personal plans: poet-care style, letter writing, fibremaxxing with cabbage, cashmere deals, dating strategy, and a nostalgic 30-year playlist for New Year’s. We keep it playful and practical, with real advice and a closing invite to connect.

• Fan encounter and community vibes
• Cashmere steals at Bloomingdale’s, Quince, Costco quarter zips
• Defining poet-care aesthetic and foggy window bookstores
• Letter-writing renaissance, stationery, pen pals
• Fibremaxxing, fermented foods, cabbage-forward meals
• Rich mom aesthetic and a quick take on men’s skirts
• 30-year throwback playlist for New Year’s
• Dating expectations, photos, fast in-person meets
• Gym resolutions, consistency tips and what not to wear
• Slip it In and Pull it Outs - One last time

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Chapters

• 0:00 Cold Open And Host Banter
• 0:43 Listener Spotting And Approachability
• 3:41 Quick Updates And Linktree Reminder
• 4:49 Champagne Fanfare And Cashmere Deals
• 7:40 Quarter Zips And Budget Style Finds
• 9:10 Defining The Poet Care Aesthetic
• 12:50 Anti-Influencer Vibes And Letter Writing
• 16:53 Fiber Maxing And The Cabbage Moment
• 20:02 Trend Mashup Dinner Plans
• 21:04 Rich Mom Aesthetic For 2026
• 22:01 Skirts For Men And Hipster Notes
• 23:58 30-Year Song Nostalgia Playlist
• 26:44 Would You Date A 31-Year-Old
• 28:03 Resolutions And Open Mic Courage
• 30:45 Aldi Skincare Dupes Quest
• 33:44 Gym Reality Checks And Sustainable Habits
• 35:16 Dating App Strategy And First-Date Tactics
• 40:26 Slip It In And Pull It Out Round
• 45:21 Farewell, Contact Info, And Listener CTAs

Transcript

Cold Open And Host Banter

SPEAKER_00 0:06

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'll laugh, you'll cringe, you'll beg for more with a guilty pleasure you can't ignore. Like a drug text sent at 2 a.m. We slipped it in again.

Listener Spotting And Approachability

SPEAKER_04 0:39

Surprise, surprise, surprise. We are back, slipping it in with you for one final episode in 2025. We just couldn't stay away. We couldn't stay away. So here we are.

SPEAKER_02 0:55

Hi, Megan. Hi. How are you? Good, good. Hi, Maddie. Hi, nice to see you, JJ. Good to see you, Maddie. Yes. We could not stay away. We couldn't. We're back. One last episode. We're dropping one last episode.

SPEAKER_01 1:12

And now that you said that, good to see you, JJ. There was a slipper. I was over the holidays visiting our friends from the west side. And to my surprise, surprise, surprise, I was mining my own bus, walking our friend's dog, Franny, shadow Franny. And all of a sudden, my our friend told me, He's like, Oh, JJ, wait, while you were in your walk, uh actual slipper was texting our friend and said, Is this JJ from Slip It In Walking Franny?

SPEAKER_02 1:45

I think a slip it in podcast host just walked by my eyes.

SPEAKER_03 1:49

I know. Is that true?

SPEAKER_01 1:51

Could that be 100%?

SPEAKER_02 1:53

Well, I know it's true, but like in her mind, like, yeah, could that wait could this be happening?

SPEAKER_01 1:58

Yeah. I wish she would have just come and say hi. So next time I'm I'm we are typically in that area often. So next time I'm out and about with walking Franny or not walking Franny, just feel free to reach out. I'm you know, I'm available for signatures, um, autographs, hugs. Just open up.

SPEAKER_02 2:19

Just open up the door and be like, does JJ know it?

SPEAKER_04 2:24

That'll get your attention.

SPEAKER_02 2:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:25

Yeah. So basically, you have a very high approach rate. You want to be approached.

SPEAKER_02 2:31

He's one for one. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:32

Yeah, exactly. That's what they say in like the celebrity world. Like, if you have a really high approach rate or low approach rate.

SPEAKER_02 2:40

In terms of like approachability, well, it I learned about it. Vibe you give off.

SPEAKER_04 2:45

Well, maybe it's Disney speak, but like if you go to Disney, you can get a private guide that takes you all over, and celebrities usually get these private guides.

SPEAKER_01 2:57

Dean Anderson got that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:59

And so they the guides at Disney will say, Oh, you have a high or low approach rate about how often people come and approach the celebrity to say hi or take a picture or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 3:12

And so I have a high.

SPEAKER_04 3:15

And you're encouraging it. Yes. So you want it. So you are like 100% approach me.

SPEAKER_01 3:21

At this point, yes. Yeah. Five years from now, I don't know. Right. I agree. But I'll keep it. I try, you know, I try to stay grounded. But what I'm saying is like, slipper, next time you see me, shout it out.

Quick Updates And Linktree Reminder

SPEAKER_02 3:33

Does JJ know it? This was your opportunity. Yeah. Because he'll be next time you see him, he might be having security with him. All right, I have three quick updates. So JJ won our Survivor League, Savannah won. That's exciting. Well for you. I got four new pairs of Zennies, and Megan and I are doing a lot of tech prep because JJ's gonna leave for Puerto Rico in January. So we're trying to learn the podcast. What do you call that? Roadcaster? Roadcaster provided everything. Yeah, we're gonna figure it out. That's what I've been doing since we last went off the air.

SPEAKER_04 4:09

Well, we've had some listener feedback. So we'd had some listener fanfare that went JJ's way. Well, we've got some Quince fanfare from fanfare or feedback? Fanfare.

SPEAKER_03 4:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 4:24

From a slipper in Huntington Woods. So Kim, who's a slipper in Huntington Woods, received an email from Quinn's that she was one of their best customers, and they were giving her a free bottle of Don Perrion.

SPEAKER_03 4:39

Oh wow.

Champagne Fanfare And Cashmere Deals

SPEAKER_04 4:41

Quinn's just started carrying Don Perrion Brute Champagne Vintage 2015 for$259.99. But for their best customers, apparently, they're giving it away free. So she got the email, she ordered it with the special code, and it shipped to her for free.

SPEAKER_01 5:03

Too bad it's not 2003 and it's just 2015. You just not do you recall Mary 2003. Mary Cosby. That's her favorite Domper in the world.

SPEAKER_04 5:13

Real House and Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.

SPEAKER_02 5:17

Yeah. God rest their souls. The one those that brought it up.

SPEAKER_01 5:20

Apparently in 2003, there was a big hit wave in France and gave the best you know grapes of probably the old like of all times, that's to say. She recalls that on Salt Lake City. But I'm great. That coincidence.

SPEAKER_02 5:34

But a lot of people in my I remember had to pass away to make this happen.

SPEAKER_01 5:40

Yeah, but produce a great grape.

SPEAKER_04 5:42

And apparently she only drinks 2003 Dom Perion. Well, yeah, that's what she says.

SPEAKER_02 5:49

You didn't get it? You didn't get any Don Perion? Oh no. And I'm very sorry. You were a best customer.

SPEAKER_04 5:56

Apparently, not as good as Slipper Kim in Huntington Woods. Wow, I wonder what she's buying.

SPEAKER_01 6:02

I'll tell you that. I have a few things on my cart on Quince. So hopefully one day, Pobby on 2026, you'll see me walking in with a cashmere sweater.

SPEAKER_04 6:14

Oh, I love it. Make sure to use our Linktree link first.

SPEAKER_02 6:21

The 2025 trend that will not die.

SPEAKER_01 6:24

The resolution for JJ, try to use that Linktree.

SPEAKER_02 6:27

Well, Maddie too, because every time I make a new purchase, the first question I get is did you buy I I did not. I'm sorry. And I'm like, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:38

We encourage everybody to do it.

SPEAKER_04 6:40

Exactly. I know. But also speaking of cashmere, for all of you people on the hunt for cashmere, not only is Quin's got amazing cashmere, but this is the time of year Bloomingdales puts all their cashmere on sale. So head to Bloomingdales. Let me tell you, their men's cashmere hoodies are amazing for any men out there that are looking to elevate their look. The cashmere hoodies, it's classic. It looks great. Anytime you walk in with a cashmere hoodie, you look like you're elevated, but yet you're super comfy and cash.

unknown 7:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 7:18

So men's cashmere hoodies currently at Bloomingdale's on sale for$109.90. And on Quince, they're$149.99.

Quarter Zips And Budget Style Finds

SPEAKER_02 7:30

Supporting that trend at a much cheaper price point is a banana republic quarter zip at Costco. Oh, yes. You told me about this.

SPEAKER_01 7:44

I need to get one from the doctor. I went and got mine.

SPEAKER_02 7:48

Quarter zips came out of nowhere, right? They came out in the fourth quarter of 2025. The trend. Yeah. And I was not necessarily I'm like, okay, I'm gonna get one eventually, but it found me rather than me find it. And I was at Costco and it and I love the Banana Republic brand. And I'm not an idiot. I'm sure that this is Banana Republic creating down to that, yeah. Creating a version that is for this purpose and not necessarily for like the store you would find at your average mall. Nonetheless, I don't even care if it didn't, if it had a different, if it had the Kirkland tag in it. There were 20 bucks, they were 25, but they were on sale. So 20 bucks 19.99. I got uh like an olive sage color one and a blue one, and then I told Jij if you want one, you your options are black or black, because I got blue and gray.

SPEAKER_04 8:43

Well, why can't he buy them and wear them when he's not with you?

SPEAKER_02 8:46

He can.

SPEAKER_01 8:47

Yeah, I got the black one just in case.

SPEAKER_02 8:49

But a black is classic. It is classic. So I think start there.

SPEAKER_01 8:53

Just have to be careful when you wash it, though.

Defining The Poet Care Aesthetic

SPEAKER_02 8:55

And in general, this whole trend, like that's a a unique trend that quarters it, but I think it plays into the overall trend that I think we've seen glimpses of, but they're saying it's gonna rise even uh to more popularity in 2026. And it's what I am calling poet care aesthetics.

SPEAKER_01 9:17

You are calling it. I am.

SPEAKER_02 9:19

You name it. So you created this. I did not well, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 9:22

Oh. I heard it. So when you say I am calling it, it feels like it feels like he just created a phrase at a word. No, he didn't.

SPEAKER_02 9:32

Well, I'm calling it that based on like I've heard it being called like the library or like studious trend, also like poet's rebirth. So I'm calling it poet care aesthetic.

SPEAKER_01 9:48

So you created this.

SPEAKER_02 9:49

I don't think no, I didn't create it.

SPEAKER_01 9:52

I'm confused.

SPEAKER_02 9:53

Giving it, I'm calling it like what do you want? You can call it, I'll tell you what it is, and if you want to come up with something, you come up with it. I'm calling it poet care aesthetics.

SPEAKER_04 10:02

But you someone else you heard use that term.

SPEAKER_02 10:05

No, I did not. No, so we're gonna make up the term. We're gonna have to get past this to get to the point. No, I heard it on the Today show, and they called it scholarly look and like like more um like po I guess they didn't say poetic. I was gonna say poetic just to get me past that screen.

SPEAKER_04 10:31

When you discuss think of it when you think of a poet, what does he look like? Billowy sleeves and white, a white shirt with billowy sleeves.

SPEAKER_01 10:41

I'm thinking about a vest and a tie. Yes, like not a full-on tie and maybe like a little bit undone.

SPEAKER_02 10:48

Did he just walk out of a foggy bookstore? Probably. Probably. Is he writing with a fountain pen? Is he got a layered knit outfit on and a blazer? This is what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_01 11:00

You know I'm in a knit.

SPEAKER_02 11:02

And maybe carrying a book. Oh my god, do you know what those are? A book. So they're more introspective, they're readers, they are poetic aesthetic.

SPEAKER_04 11:14

Wait, okay, stop. Okay, you guys is it poetic aesthetic? It's poet po e tare space care c A R E.

SPEAKER_02 11:24

It's whatever you want it to be. I didn't create the word.

SPEAKER_04 11:27

I thought you said just said you did. Poet earlier. I thought you said the Today Show called it this. No, you just are calling it.

SPEAKER_01 11:36

Pre-production, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 11:38

I'm just a little flabbergasted because I didn't.

SPEAKER_01 11:40

But I love it. If you created that, I am I will call it poet care aesthetic from now on. Every time I see it, I've seen it actually, this kind of trend on the real. I love it.

SPEAKER_02 11:52

I am not here to coin a new phrase or trademark anything. You should.

SPEAKER_01 11:56

If if you created it.

SPEAKER_02 11:58

I've seen several topics, read articles. I they use the word poet, they use the word studio. This is not what I came here to talk about.

SPEAKER_04 12:07

No, but my question is care.

SPEAKER_02 12:10

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 12:10

What is care? Well, how does that come back?

SPEAKER_01 12:12

It's the care of it. Yeah, they're all taking they put so much.

SPEAKER_02 12:15

Poetically taking care of my aesthetic. Okay.

unknown 12:19

Okay.

Anti-Influencer Vibes And Letter Writing

SPEAKER_01 12:20

I like I do like it because what I was gonna say is like I actually seen it and I was like questioning because you know, watching the new season on The Real Houseways of uh Beverly Hills, which we love, Kyle Richards, which she typically is uh Well, she also has a different thing going on, too. But yeah, and Jason, which is what I my mind went into, like, oh, here we go with the lesbian story. But then with your point of this poet care to be less lesbian, Mo, more poet. More poet. She's trying to give you poet. Lisa Vanderbum, same thing. More poet. Less lesbian poet.

SPEAKER_02 12:58

I'm gonna be a 2026 poet. With care. Yeah, and you know what? The other thing in my reading that I picked up on that I really liked is they said with this trend, it's almost to um counteract the influencer world in which we live in. So rather than just like influencer, influencer, influencer, like stop trying to influence me and let me take in you as a main character, as just somebody that exists, creates space, takes up space, and brings some introspective behavior to it. I'm all about it. Yeah, I'm about it. Okay. Also, there's gonna be a letter writing renaissance. And just so you know, I did not create the word renaissance. It exists.

SPEAKER_04 13:49

Well, I didn't say you created that.

SPEAKER_02 13:52

It exists, it exists.

SPEAKER_01 13:56

Love that you said that.

SPEAKER_02 13:57

And I'm on board with this as well.

SPEAKER_01 14:01

I am.

SPEAKER_02 14:02

I have always been a person who likes to do a handwritten note and receive a handwritten note, especially as we get more and more into like everything doing everything for us. Yeah, like it is the I uh AI, but like even before that, it was texts and emails. Uh, the handwritten note just sends that signal.

SPEAKER_01 14:26

I took calligraphy on elementary school, and I really like sometimes.

SPEAKER_02 14:30

It shows on your name tags for Christmas. I saw them. Wow. Yeah, I love but it's about being slowing down again, making connection. People are burnt out on digital. You're gonna see, well, so they say. Not my prediction. You're gonna see an increase in interest in stationery, handwritten notes, and here's my favorite pen pals. Let's bring back a pen pal.

SPEAKER_01 14:56

Like sending letters.

SPEAKER_02 14:58

Well, you get matched with somebody you don't have any connection to. I got matched with the girl.

SPEAKER_01 15:04

How?

SPEAKER_02 15:05

Is it a company that does it? Well, I don't know. I'm sure if we Googled, there could be. There probably are. I mean, there's a company for everything. But back when back when I was in school that happens.

SPEAKER_04 15:18

That's a different kind of pen pill. Leah Black constantly writes men in prison.

SPEAKER_01 15:23

Really? Well, yeah. Former former cast of Real Housewives of Miami.

SPEAKER_04 15:28

And Betty Broderick supposedly still gets tons of letters written to her.

SPEAKER_03 15:33

Really? Well, that's a whole nother episode.

SPEAKER_02 15:36

But that is a whole nother episode. But yeah, anyway, and maybe it's creepy nowadays. But when I was in school, there were programs and you would get matched with other students in other countries. And I uh had uh a kind a match with a girl from Sweden, and we stayed in touch for like five, six years. I still have all of her letters, but oh wow.

SPEAKER_04 15:56

Well, I would think anyone out there in the dating world on these dating apps, they pick up pen pals left and right because sometimes these men just don't want to meet in real life and they just want to message back and forth.

SPEAKER_02 16:07

We talk about it, maybe pen pals shouldn't happen. Well I mean, like it was innocent then, but now, like, you're right, jails and well, no, the men in jail.

SPEAKER_04 16:17

I mean, the men and women in jail, I'm sure they appreciate those letters. That's true.

SPEAKER_03 16:22

Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_04 16:22

I mean, the Menendez brothers have been married in divorce at least once or twice in jail. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:27

So that's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 16:29

And that all started with a pen pal.

SPEAKER_01 16:30

Once in a while, I'll get a letter from a Jehovah's Witness in my man like my mailbox.

SPEAKER_02 16:35

I get that as well. I'm like, girl, yeah. How do you have time to be right? I'm like, glorious Jehovah. I can't. No offense. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:46

Not like in everything.

Fiber Maxing And The Cabbage Moment

SPEAKER_02 16:48

Just don't put it in my mailbox. No. Move on to the next box. Cabbage! That's the last trend. Cabbage. Oh my god. Have you heard of this trend? Cabbage? Cabbage.

SPEAKER_01 17:00

In what in what way? In what capacity?

SPEAKER_02 17:03

It's in a food capacity. It is about this idea. Okay, so there's this.

SPEAKER_01 17:08

But before you go into it, this kind of feels like we are going into like the trendsetters from SNL. In. This is what's happening. Ow. This is. In.

SPEAKER_02 17:18

So you're you went into protein. This is what Rob Hobson says. He's a registered nutritionist and author of the Low Appetite Cookbook. And he told Business Insider that we are currently entering into a world of fiber maxing, which is maxing out as much fiber as you can get.

SPEAKER_01 17:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 17:40

And also a trend for fermented foods. And that those are both trending. He's seeing it trend on social feeds.

SPEAKER_01 17:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:48

Which then easily lends itself to cabbage having a moment. And so he thinks fiber is going to overtake protein as the trendiest nutrient next year. And then it's going to be cabbage, cabbage, cabbage.

SPEAKER_01 18:06

I mean, I have to say, I fell in love with cabbage at the moment that I have not. That I I mean, I taste it coleslaw. There is cabbage in the coleslaw. It is made of coleslaw. There is. It is made of cabbage. You're right. You're right. You're right. I don't hate it. I mean easy to do it. You know what I don't think for a while.

SPEAKER_02 18:24

I just I think I'm turned off by warm cabbage. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:28

Warm cabbage.

SPEAKER_02 18:30

Like cabbage and coleslaw.

SPEAKER_01 18:31

Respect for the polish fails because they have like the wrapped cabbage rolls.

SPEAKER_02 18:36

Yeah, I don't like a cabbage roll. They are warm. I think warm cabbage just feels like um like moist and I'm not a huge cabbage fan. That's why I put them together.

SPEAKER_04 18:48

In general. But when I say that, I am reminded that the doctor makes this Weight Watcher, zero point Weight Watcher soup. It's a cabbage soup and it's really, really good.

SPEAKER_02 18:58

Cabbage, I feel, is one of those vegetables that you burn more calories eating it than the vegetable itself, which is similar to carrots, I think, and lettuce.

SPEAKER_04 19:12

Well, I'll also comment is Taco Bell has a cantina. No. No. Listen.

SPEAKER_02 19:20

These calories are gonna stick with you.

SPEAKER_04 19:22

Have has a cantina chicken menu and they have a chicken soft taco.

SPEAKER_02 19:26

Cantina.

SPEAKER_04 19:27

Yeah, they have a chicken soft taco that has cabbage in it. Oh it's amazing.

SPEAKER_02 19:31

Of course. It's cabbage forward. Yeah. Taco Bell is on trying. I'm in.

SPEAKER_01 19:35

I'm in for cabbage. You are.

Trend Mashup Dinner Plans

SPEAKER_02 19:37

Can we monitor the cabbage trend? Listen, we usually get together and do a pre prod, and we have um, you know, a meal provided. Yeah. What I am looking for is you to RSVP in writing that you'll be here for a cabbage dinner dressed in layered knits. All three trends. You hit them all. Oh poet. Yep. Care aesthetic. Yeah. You're our you are having a renaissance by our being in writing. And we are gonna eat.

SPEAKER_01 20:12

I do like some knit. I've been doing knit on the summer for a while.

SPEAKER_02 20:17

I'll tell you this. There are a lot of trends happening. I selectively pick these three because these are the ones I'm hoping catch on.

SPEAKER_04 20:24

Well, I am hoping to kind of raise my rich mom aesthetic for 2026. That was a look that kind of came out this year in 2025.

SPEAKER_01 20:35

But I think Can you explain it to me?

SPEAKER_04 20:37

It means clean lines, neutral palettes, and elevated basics. So basically, you're talking luxe, textures, rich hues, and refined details that look far more expensive than the price tag suggests.

SPEAKER_01 20:52

I'm in. Yes. And I can definitely see you on this trend.

SPEAKER_04 20:55

Yes. So I'm trying to like that's my aesthetic and look. I'm gonna try to go.

SPEAKER_02 20:59

For 2026.

Rich Mom Aesthetic For 2026

SPEAKER_04 21:01

Yes, correct. I've been monitoring it for 2025. I've seen other people do it, and I'm like, okay, I need to try to like if somebody compliments you on your outfit.

SPEAKER_02 21:13

Are you going to just say thank you, or are you gonna say, I uh yeah, I'm rocking the rich mom aesthetic?

SPEAKER_04 21:21

Well, just like what happened at brunch last week when I was told I have gorgeous, beautiful hair. I'm just gonna say thank you so much. That's so true. Appreciate it.

SPEAKER_02 21:29

Same when they're like, Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 21:31

I'm like a poet.

SPEAKER_01 21:32

When I'm getting poet, she's not gonna come and it's like in rich mom aesthetic. Oh, unclean line. When they come to me with like, oh my god, JJ, I love that tie. In poet aesthetic.

SPEAKER_02 21:50

And you're ruining my poly.

SPEAKER_01 21:52

Oh, sorry about this.

SPEAKER_02 21:53

Sorry about that. Teaser.

Skirts For Men And Hipster Notes

SPEAKER_04 21:55

Well, I want to ask you something that I saw earlier today, and I haven't been able to shake it. And I'm wondering how you would rate this as like, is this a new look we should be looking for? Or is this just like one man on his own journey? Um, so I saw a man in a long cotton skirt, like how long? Waist to ankle.

SPEAKER_01 22:20

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 22:21

But then I could see right under he had a black legging on to ankle.

SPEAKER_01 22:27

So he was cold.

SPEAKER_04 22:28

And then he had just like uh like a tennis shoe or something on. So he was wearing a legging underneath a long cotton skirt.

SPEAKER_02 22:36

Right. Are you asking me to rate this on a scale of one to ten?

SPEAKER_04 22:40

Is this a look I should be looking more for in 2026? Or is this for match? Yes. For match. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 22:47

I've seen it around.

SPEAKER_04 22:48

You've been seeing it around. So this is I don't think it's gonna skyrocket.

SPEAKER_01 22:52

I don't think so either.

SPEAKER_04 22:53

But but you might see more men in long skirts to the ankle.

SPEAKER_01 22:58

Yeah. Really? Well, I've seen it.

SPEAKER_02 23:00

And I did it on the did it just leave a foggy bookstore. Well, he could have.

SPEAKER_01 23:06

You're really trying to make this poet care aesthetic happen.

SPEAKER_02 23:10

I can see him bring it back. I can see him leave bookstore with foggy windows.

SPEAKER_01 23:15

I do. He has long hair. Well, there is a hipster type of vibe to this skirt. I'll tell you both. You're not gonna see me walking in with a skirt. That's no.

SPEAKER_02 23:28

Well, a mini skirt, maybe.

SPEAKER_04 23:30

Yeah, I was gonna say he likes a short short skirt. Yeah, I feel like I feel like I've seen you in a little skirt.

SPEAKER_01 23:38

Well, if it's if we're doing St. Patty's, it's a Patty's St. Patty's Day. I did do a little uh kilt.

SPEAKER_04 23:44

Yeah, I was gonna say, I thought I've seen you in a skirt.

SPEAKER_02 23:47

Well, I think a kilts and a skirt are 100% different.

SPEAKER_01 23:50

100%. 100%. 100%.

SPEAKER_02 23:52

I mean, if he had a pleated pink skirt mini on.

30-Year Song Nostalgia Playlist

SPEAKER_01 23:56

If I were, now that are we done with the skirt?

SPEAKER_04 24:00

I that was it. I just threw it out there. I haven't been able to forget about it.

SPEAKER_01 24:02

If I were to try to bring in a trend for 2026, and I want to bring in nostalgia. And one of the things that I learned is that I was when I was digging some things, is that there are some songs that are turning 30 years old. We hit our 30 episode on our first season.

SPEAKER_02 24:23

We did.

SPEAKER_01 24:23

And there are some songs that I found very fascinating that are actually turning 30. We are not, we're very, very young. I probably have never heard of these songs, probably not, but I actually find it fascinating because some of the songs, and I was like, really, these are turning 30. So I want to get your reaction to it because I think bringing nostalgia, and as you're getting ready for like to ring in the bell with and the new year's, this is the time for you to put the songs on your New Year's Eve playlist playlist. Can you believe the knock the Macarena is turning 30 in 2026?

SPEAKER_04 25:01

I don't know that I even needed it to be around ever.

SPEAKER_02 25:05

Really?

SPEAKER_04 25:05

Yeah, I'm not a big Macarena fan.

SPEAKER_02 25:07

Oh, you never really get you never really get up in the line dance.

SPEAKER_04 25:10

Oh, I love an electric car.

SPEAKER_02 25:12

Oh, that's true.

SPEAKER_01 25:15

Another song turning 30, Because You Love Me by Celine Dion.

SPEAKER_04 25:20

I like that song.

SPEAKER_01 25:22

Always be my baby, but Mariah Carey is turning 30 in 2026.

SPEAKER_04 25:27

I'm not a Mariah fan.

SPEAKER_01 25:30

One thing that you're gonna love. No diggity. But by the back seat versus Dr. Dre and Queen Pen. I love it. Turning 30. I'm supposed to rock a Dr. Dre song in the Ready or Not by the Fujies.

SPEAKER_04 25:46

I like that song a lot too.

SPEAKER_01 25:49

Maddie, you're gonna love this. Oh, okay. Ironic by Analias Morissette is turning 30. That is a great song. You were such a baby when that song came out.

SPEAKER_02 25:58

Isn't that ironic?

SPEAKER_04 25:59

It's Don't Speak by No Doubt. That's another good one.

SPEAKER_01 26:04

Yeah, turning 30. So I just thought it was like, you know, it was interesting that this is turning 30. Our first season, 30 episodes. 31. Well, 31 with this bonus one.

SPEAKER_02 26:16

Yeah, we 31 now. Yeah. You got any 31-year-old songs?

SPEAKER_01 26:20

Not 31. Not 31, but just 30. So if you are trying to make that playlist, you know, hot, a hot one for the you your New Year's Eve uh gathering, you might want to get those 30.

SPEAKER_04 26:34

I like it. Yeah, those that's a good playlist.

SPEAKER_02 26:35

But let me unless you're a listener that's 25 and you're like, well, you might want to start coming back.

Would You Date A 31-Year-Old

SPEAKER_04 26:40

You might want to learn those songs if you're not a familiar if you're not familiar with those. You better learn.

SPEAKER_02 26:46

You better you better poet care.

SPEAKER_04 26:48

Here's the better question to ask. Would you date a 31-year-old? Why is that a for our slippers and for us at the table?

SPEAKER_02 26:57

Well, for our slippers, I mean it's irrelevant to how old they are, wouldn't you say?

SPEAKER_04 27:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:01

But it could really be I mean, there are several things that I would consider before even stepping into that. But I think, yeah, I would date a 31 years old.

SPEAKER_04 27:12

Really? I wouldn't.

SPEAKER_01 27:15

Sorry. Shocked on the number. Well, nobody knows what my age is. Let's just start it with that.

SPEAKER_02 27:19

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 27:20

So I would date that person.

SPEAKER_02 27:22

Listen, I'm not willing to date.

SPEAKER_01 27:23

And I love an old soul.

SPEAKER_02 27:24

I'm not willing to date someone four years younger than me.

SPEAKER_01 27:27

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_04 27:33

Well, I've always preferred an older man. So, and I'm so not to know that. Well, I'm a little just like Maddie, just a few years older than 31.

Resolutions And Open Mic Courage

SPEAKER_02 27:42

Yeah. How about this? How about so, like, all kind of around the same topic, but like personally, like we've been talking broad trends and broad cultural type stuff. Like, zero, let's narrow it in a little bit. Let's talk about like your own any personal resolutions going into the new year. And I'm gonna put that out there. I'm gonna start with something that I didn't even know was a resolution of mine until I said it over the holiday break. And I said, and I don't listen, I do not believe this is gonna come true. I should manifest, and I might write some shit down in a book. Well, but I've thought about doing open mic night.

SPEAKER_04 28:25

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 28:26

Didn't I?

SPEAKER_04 28:28

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 28:29

Like a little sew in.

SPEAKER_02 28:31

Like at a con we're gonna be in the crowd. I'll go.

SPEAKER_04 28:34

It's scary.

SPEAKER_02 28:35

Somebody already told me that they've booked the limo, the pre-limo party and the the pre-game, yeah. So I'm gonna start testing some of my content here on the pond.

SPEAKER_01 28:48

Maddie, that kudos to you. I would never be able to do that. That's a lot.

SPEAKER_02 28:52

Here's what I really think will happen. I'm gonna embrace the idea and the moment and maybe not follow through with it. And well, listen, it can still serve a purpose for me without it actually being something I uh present and put out to the world or the public or whoever those five people are that would show up on open mic night.

SPEAKER_04 29:14

Well, here's the other thing I would offer you coming from my theater background. Take it or leave it. I would just say that if it's something you're considering, you might want to try it and not tell anyone first. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:30

And just do it, yes. Anonymously for yourself.

SPEAKER_04 29:34

So no, crowd, yeah, exactly. Because that's a good idea. It's a lot to just do it to get up there and it's let alone without having friends or people there that you then feel like because if you go and no one you know is there, whether it's good or bad, it's just you don't have that pressure of, oh, there's people in the audience who does good advice.

SPEAKER_02 29:56

Correct.

SPEAKER_04 29:57

And you know what else as you're a theater major. I know how this is.

SPEAKER_02 29:59

As you're saying that to me, the other benefit I feel about it is like afterwards, I probably would critique it over and over in my head, and I would probably put whoever was in the audience on the hotspot, like what that sucked, in it, or did you like that? And like it doesn't put the other thing. Yeah, that's a good advice. Okay, so that's okay. So that is something I'm thinking about and it's in my head. What what do you guys got? Anything you're talking about?

Aldi Skincare Dupes Quest

SPEAKER_04 30:26

I I mean I didn't really have it in 2025. I made a goal to go to Pilates once a week, which I did. So I thought I wanted to try to maybe increase that, but then I read this article today. And it today, today, and it literally has given me a new resolution, and it's gonna sound crazy, but this new resolution has me going to Aldi at least once a week or more.

SPEAKER_02 30:53

Oh god, she's in pursuit of a giveaway, I bet.

SPEAKER_04 30:56

No, I'm in pursuit product of a new item.

SPEAKER_01 30:59

There you go.

SPEAKER_04 31:00

Yeah, this article, and it kind of goes into what we're talking about, is on trend for 2026, is that apparently Aldi has a skincare brand called La Cura or La Cura, and it's all about creating duplicates of luxury products you can't help yourself that actually perform. No, but anyway, products.

SPEAKER_02 31:22

Here we are. Well, luxury products.

SPEAKER_01 31:24

It's interesting. I don't know what the what this brand is about at all, but La Cura in Spanish means the remedy.

SPEAKER_04 31:33

Oh, so I wonder if it's connected to that. Well, anyway, the article says that they make a dupe for La Prairie Skin Caviar Luxe Cream, which retails for$485.

SPEAKER_02 31:45

You drop something.

SPEAKER_04 31:46

They call it La Cura Caviar Illumination Day Cream. And the woman who wrote the article said, like, if you see it, buy several bottles. You'll never know the difference comparing it to La Prairie. And I've never tried La Prairie. I don't know, but it's she hasn't tried it. I haven't found it. I bet it drops from five. That's part of her resolution to try to find it.$485. Yeah. So I don't buy that expensive of skincare.

SPEAKER_02 32:14

If you listen, if you see one, pick it up for me as well.

SPEAKER_04 32:19

Now you're on board.

SPEAKER_01 32:20

Well, so your resolution is to go to Aldi every week.

SPEAKER_04 32:24

Because Aldi apparently doesn't always have to be here for her, JJ. We're gonna support her all the way. Well, I have an Aldi down the street by my house, so it's close.

SPEAKER_01 32:34

But if I see it, I'll let you know.

SPEAKER_04 32:36

So apparently Aldi has this liqueur different creams and stuff under that brand, and they're all called different things, but they aren't always in the stores. So it's those things that kind of come and go.

SPEAKER_00 32:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 32:48

They also have a dupe for Estee Lauder's Advanced Night Repair Serum. So they're knocking it off, or basically they're using it's not the same ingredients, the same active ingredients, so no caviar, but different other no caviar. I don't know if it's caviar or if it has some type of fish something in it. Who knows? Right.

SPEAKER_02 33:09

Some other fish stuff. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 33:11

So I don't know. That's like, and now I'm like, I've got to go to Aldi like literally once or twice a week looking for these creams.

SPEAKER_01 33:18

If I and if I see it, I will I don't go in there, but if I just look for caviar in the name.

SPEAKER_02 33:26

Well, I think you don't, I think you can just go. Do they have a beauty aisle? I don't know. They do have now.

SPEAKER_01 33:32

Like you have they have like a home section. Yeah, they do. I've never noticed skincare there.

SPEAKER_02 33:36

Where are you gonna right? So that's uh I don't know. I think they have cabbage though, FYI.

Gym Reality Checks And Sustainable Habits

SPEAKER_01 33:42

FYI, cabbage 100%. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 33:44

JJ, what about you?

SPEAKER_01 33:46

I am not into their resolutions at all. So I am enjoying you both resolutions and I will support them in 2026. Thank you. I one resolution I would not support is the gym goers, the new gym goers. Listen, don't don't take me the the wrong way on this. I if your journey for 2026 is to get your gym membership, that's amazing. But it's just a a trend or a thing that happens every year, and it just gets so I think that gyms make the most money. Oh, sure. January, February, yes, because of this gym goers that they would sign up for the full year and they would not show up after that. So my so if you are committed to that, my goal is for you to take it one day at a time as a resolution and try to extend it more than that two-month mark. Yeah. That is, I I would say if I were to give an advice to anybody that is looking for a uh fitness journey, um, I think that that would be the best thing. But it just gets or maybe staggering.

SPEAKER_02 34:58

Join in March.

SPEAKER_01 34:59

Yeah.

Dating App Strategy And First-Date Tactics

SPEAKER_02 35:00

Like, you know, like don't like don't tie your resolution to January 1st, and then you're like, oh, now I'm getting on every machine and I'm gonna lift all these weights, and then you're like February 2nd, you're like, ugh, yeah. I'm just uh yeah, I I I remember when I used to go to the gym. Yeah, now I have so my gym here at the house is oh, it's gonna be so busy on January 2nd.

SPEAKER_01 35:24

Do you have any um new year offers? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:28

If you come and just dust off my equipment, you get a free membership.

SPEAKER_01 35:35

Yeah. I just I just it's it's a lot. And um, but but again, if you are in that journey, I think that I would encourage you to, you know, try to extend it more than the the standard of what people are really expecting you to do it. Um but um my best yeah, it's just a lot.

SPEAKER_02 35:54

My best advice to somebody that's doing that is just take it slow and don't put a lot of pressure on yourself and don't try to think you're gonna go five days a week. Just like go twice and then keep going twice. Yeah.

unknown 36:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 36:07

Um, so this is not necessarily a resolution, this is more of an intention, and I'm gonna I've talked about this in an earlier pod. It was several pods ago, but I'm here to ask my fellow podcasters and best friends some advice. As you know, I went off the dating apps in October. I was off October, November, December. I gave up Hinge, I gave up Facebook dating and Tinder, which I didn't really like Tinder anyway. But those three, God. I have always said I'm gonna get back on them in the new year. Not January 2nd, but in January, I want to put myself back out there. What advice can you give me? And I'll take advice in terms of expectations, things I might want to consider in my bio, the types of pictures I might like, whatever. Like we don't have all day, but if you could how about this? If you could give me one solid piece, and you're a dating expert, as you say. She's waiting for it.

SPEAKER_04 37:18

I am I can see her.

SPEAKER_02 37:20

I respect both of your opinions on this topic, and I just like what one piece of advice would you give me? And it could also just be about expectations or whatever, it doesn't have to be about how I approach the app, but how I approach the journey.

SPEAKER_01 37:36

So with that, I would like to I'm gonna start because I I wouldn't let the dating expert after me. I would say, and I've probably said this before to you, I would start out with Instagram, expand your horizons with Instagram, which is still not a dating app, so it's a good transition from you to being out of the apps, but expand and extend your horizon horizons when it comes to what green Instagram can do for you. I've met many people, many good guys and friends through Instagram, and I think that you should probably take that. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 38:15

Okay, I have a couple comments. First, I'm gonna make this as a shout out again to anyone on Raya who can get us on Raya. Like that would be a good time for you to get on Raya.

SPEAKER_01 38:27

She can't help it.

SPEAKER_04 38:28

But anyway, bad to me. No, yes. So now Patty Stanger will say that she thinks Hinge is a great app for gays as well as straights of people who aren't like in their 20s and they're looking for a serious relationship. I know you've been on it before, but that might be a good one to go on.

SPEAKER_02 38:49

She also I'm on I was on Hinge.

SPEAKER_04 38:51

So she also says that she doesn't think grinder is necessarily just hookups for gays and that relationships can be born out of that. So I might suggest a grinder situation. Now, my other comment of two other comments. The second is you had some professional photos taken. So I would use one of those pictures in your profile pictures. Really?

SPEAKER_02 39:18

Finally, something that is just like yeah, personal to me, other than just apps I should or shouldn't be on.

SPEAKER_04 39:24

Well, I was giving you the advice that I had heard from a millionaire matchmaker. Okay. So this is my other thing that I would say. I think you should, as soon as you connect with someone, I would not spend too much time with some back and forth. I would get to an in person date ASAP.

SPEAKER_02 39:53

So I don't think And the reason for that is it's twofold.

SPEAKER_04 39:59

One I think not you are very funny in comments when you text and and through words, but I think you're present even better in person.

SPEAKER_02 40:10

Oh, thank you.

SPEAKER_04 40:11

And second, I think you're also going to know if you have a connection or not. So why spend time messaging back and forth with someone, talking about like just immediately say, hey, let's get together for a dress.

Slip It In And Pull It Out Round

SPEAKER_02 40:24

That is such a good piece of advice because that has happened to me before where you do think there is a connection because and you feel it, you feel like there's something there. And everything's different when you the energy is different when you're in the same room with somebody, and you immediately, I feel, can sense whether or not there is chemistry. 100%. Which you can't through messaging, because it just is well, it's different, right? And so I agree with you. And I was talking to JJ about this at some point too. Like, I don't want to put invest a ton of time into something that um uh doesn't immediately speak to me. Yes. And so I I I like that.

SPEAKER_04 41:06

Well, I think it's also it's basically a fantasy. So it's a fantasy until you see that person in front of you. So you see that picture, you see what they're writing you. So you've your mind creates this person that's not a real person, right? Yeah, right, right until you actually meet them and feel that energy and that connection, it means nothing.

SPEAKER_01 41:27

And what that same thought, and I apologize, Maddie, that I didn't understand the question at the beginning and I went into Instagram. I just thought it was just general. Um, but I would say to you, and I I probably mentioned this to you before, I think that you should be more open to a quick coffee date.

SPEAKER_02 41:47

Yeah. Talking about just picked up coffee this year, so that's so I think you you're not you're not agreeing to that.

SPEAKER_01 41:54

No. I do think that a good coffee date gives you the right amount of um it's it's set up a at a good time on during the day. I think that there's good conversations that could happen about that. You can actually explore new coffee shops around town.

SPEAKER_02 42:13

No, it's not.

SPEAKER_01 42:14

It could be midday, it could be mid-afternoon, it could be coffee or tea.

SPEAKER_02 42:17

Try not to have caffeine baths too.

SPEAKER_01 42:19

Yeah, so so that that gives you and it gives you an out if you're not really feeling it. Um, but it it ignite a good conversation with somebody new. Um, that is that's one thing that I would just say.

SPEAKER_02 42:36

I take both pieces of advice, and I I think there's I like it. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 42:42

I would encourage just let's meet for a drink, which you can do it in an afternoon, you can do it in early evening. When you say a drink, I think you can have a drink and get out after one drink. You can be in and out in an hour, the same as coffee.

SPEAKER_03 42:58

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 42:58

I've done many coffee dates every single time. They were a bust. Not necessarily because like there wasn't interest from the men.

SPEAKER_01 43:07

Not my experience, though.

SPEAKER_04 43:09

I've had no good coffee.

SPEAKER_01 43:11

I've got to do the gays love coffee. I think that that's a different straight and gays. I think the gays love alcohol too.

SPEAKER_02 43:17

I got caffeine on one side, alcohol on the other. I like them both. So I'll take any other uh advice, unsolicited advice or solicited if you want to. And if there's any slipper. Yeah, we want to hear from you. Dating advice. Yeah, and maybe you'll check both both my boxes if you drink an espresso martini.

SPEAKER_01 43:41

Oh, yes.

SPEAKER_02 43:43

And we'll have it around 1 p.m. How about those apples?

SPEAKER_01 43:48

Can we get some slipping ins and pull-outs before the end of 2025?

SPEAKER_02 43:52

Oh, yeah. Do you guys want to talk about what happened with our chosen family Christmas? Yeah. With this, and then go into it real quick. Just real quick.

SPEAKER_04 44:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:00

Family chosen Christmas. One of our slippers from around the table said, You would you guys mind if we went around the table? And there's like what, eight of us, ten of us? And just said, Why don't we all go around and say what our slip it in and pull it out are for the year? And I think there might have been one, maybe two people that weren't familiar. So they gave a little explanation about our podcast and what those mean. And you guys can it was a it was moving, don't you think? We love it.

SPEAKER_01 44:30

It's probably one of my favorites of part of the Christmas that we have. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:34

It was like, I think people didn't even approach it necessarily from a humoristic standpoint. Um, people were really open, honest, yeah, uh, emotional. There were uh exciting things. There were people were vulnerable about their challenging moment of the year. And yeah, I mean, like, if you try it out, I guess. I'm like, I'm not trying to push anything down but anyone's throat, but like you're gonna probably go tonight to a family or friend or chosen family, New Year's Eve gathering. It could be a great thing to end the year with and just go around. And you might learn a thing, a two thing or two, and it might turn into something that carries over into the new year in terms of a conversation. Do it a poetic care conversation.

Farewell, Contact Info, And Listener CTAs

SPEAKER_04 45:20

No, it was definitely great, and it was it was a highlight for me that it was brought to the table by someone not one of the three of us. Trying to push an agenda. Yeah, we weren't even thinking about it. Someone else said, let's do it for the year, and we're like, Oh, that's cool. That's a great idea.

SPEAKER_02 45:34

Let's do it. Yeah, it was fun. So let's do it here. Let's go, not for the year. Just for the one round in general, just in general, one last round. I'm gonna get it started. This is it.

SPEAKER_01 45:45

We're not doing a bonus bonus out. I'm gonna get it started. Um, I think my slip at end. I I saw it happening again and again and again in some of the gatherings that we had, and now like we have like movie and award season coming up. Close caption. I've learned like I learned English with closed caption uh before it came to America, and I love that my friends are really into closed caption now. Um, and it just fills my heart every time somebody is like, are we not putting closed caption into this?

SPEAKER_02 46:20

I love it.

SPEAKER_01 46:21

So I I that is my slipper then. It just it fills my heart and makes me happy because it just takes me back to you know, this little boy from Spain trying to, you know, figure it out this uh you were watching like soap operas, no? Yes, I was like the young and the restless, closed captioning general hospital with Ricky Martin. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, uh pull it out since we talked, and I personally talked about uh the New Year's resolution is on uh the gym. One advice I will give you don't do the gym gloves. That they're out. Okay, same. Don't you them, don't use them. And also, like that is a sign that you're giving everybody else that this is your first time at the gym. Like people come in full gear, like knee pads, the gloves, and all the things. Can you also don't do them?

SPEAKER_02 47:09

Can they also not wear those foot gloves?

SPEAKER_01 47:11

That's tattoo.

SPEAKER_02 47:13

What are foot gloves? Yes, they're gloves for your feet and your feet.

SPEAKER_01 47:17

Your toes.

SPEAKER_02 47:18

Your toes go, you haven't seen them? You look like Bigfoot. Like there's each toe goes into its own little glove. Oh, I've seen those.

SPEAKER_04 47:27

I didn't know those were called toe gloves.

SPEAKER_02 47:29

Well, I don't know what they're called. I don't like to glove. Oh, again.

SPEAKER_04 47:31

He's making words again, not a game.

SPEAKER_01 47:35

He's making words.

SPEAKER_04 47:37

There's something.

SPEAKER_01 47:37

But Jim, like gym gloves.

SPEAKER_04 47:40

I think it looks weird when people wear.

SPEAKER_01 47:42

And I think that there's something about having your cellas showing that people are. If I were trying to wear gym pumping the iron.

SPEAKER_02 47:49

I think you're trying to send a signal when you wear those gloves. I could be wrong.

SPEAKER_01 47:53

Oh, I agree with you.

SPEAKER_04 47:55

I love it. All right. Sounds good. Well, my slip it in is this is something that Maddie introduced me to, the Siam Iceland Hydrating Eye Stick.

SPEAKER_01 48:06

We're back talking about this.

SPEAKER_04 48:07

I've talked about it before, but this is something. Yeah, but this is something that Maddie doesn't know. I gave it to all of my girlfriends as a little extra gift.

SPEAKER_01 48:17

You could you trendsetter.

SPEAKER_04 48:19

And they all, I'm getting the reports back this week. Everyone's loving it. They think it's so cute. It looks like the polar bear, and they love how it feels on their skin. So yeah, that was.

SPEAKER_01 48:29

I'm glad you got them because I tried to do the same thing and it was sold out. It was not coming. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_02 48:35

Black Friday deal. I was out with one of JJ's friends, and we were trying, we were transitioning from um one bar to the restaurant to the bar. And he goes, Before we go in the bar, you want to try some of this? And he he knew I was he knew I was behind it, but he's carrier of it, and he put it on right then and there. And also uh Melissa, who is our podcast, her daughters were like, uh, we got a couple things from your podcast this year from mom, and they got them as well. I mean, like the if you they need Iceland, Iceland needs to reach out to me.

SPEAKER_04 49:09

They do, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:10

Give me a code.

SPEAKER_04 49:12

I saw that they were sold out, but I bought them Black Friday, six dollars and seventy-one cents.

SPEAKER_01 49:17

Wow. God, I just did you use the link tree?

SPEAKER_04 49:20

Oh, I did. I used the link tree. Who knew? And my pull it out. I've said it here before. I'm not a fan of facial hair, and I just can't with the mustaches. I need them gone. I'm over it.

SPEAKER_01 49:35

She's sitting in front of like me with the mustache, two stashes right here.

SPEAKER_04 49:39

Well, I'm over it. I'm done. I'm ready for this trend to go away.

SPEAKER_02 49:44

We're over it and done too. Yeah, we are over it.

SPEAKER_04 49:46

Every turn I time I turn around, it's like someone new's trying to mustache, and it's like it's not 1985, and you're not Tim Cell.

SPEAKER_01 49:54

Like, let's move on. I do love to say though, that's coming back. Maddie, I did see a meme uh running around this past week that was like, oh, gays trying to say, I'm gonna change it up and I might style. And I it was all mustaches.

SPEAKER_02 50:10

That's all it takes.

SPEAKER_04 50:11

It's true. It's not a style change. Let's move on.

SPEAKER_02 50:14

All right, my slip it in and pull it out this last one of the year is very SL forward. Oh, those are any light forward. So I listened to Amy Poe's Good Hang podcast today. Which we love. Yes, I love it. She is interviewing Haley Williams, who is the lead singer of Paramour. A little irrelevant. But Amy said in the podcast, Hell is the hallway. And I I'm like, oh my god, I love that saying. And I don't know how prolific the saying is, and I think it's said in different ways, but it is that moment when you're in a transitionary period. So like you were in a funk and you see the light, but you're in the hallway, and hell is the hallway, and you just need to get through the hallway. And I kind of am like, I think it played well with where I was in terms of like saying, I'm going off the dating apps, I'm going back on the dating apps, I'm in the hallway. I'm not saying it's hell, I'm not trying to be over dramatic. I like it, but I'm in the hallway. I might use it. And hell is the hallway. It's that period where you're like, I know where I was, I'm not there still, but I'm not where I want to be. I'm in the hallway. And I like Hell is the hallway. Love that.

SPEAKER_04 51:34

I like that too. But when you first said it, I thought you said Halloway. So I'm like, is this like now like tied to Natalie Holloway's death? Like, I don't get it.

SPEAKER_02 51:43

You just keep thinking I'm making up words over here.

SPEAKER_01 51:45

Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 51:47

It started that way. And just uh this is a bonus slip it in. Also, if you have if you listen to Good Hang and you haven't listened to Maya Rudolph's, also SNL, listen to that and then get yourself reacquainted with when she sang the national anthem.

SPEAKER_01 52:04

It's so good. It's so good.

SPEAKER_02 52:10

Okay, pull it out. Bo and Yang's departure from SNL.

SPEAKER_03 52:14

Oh, wow.

SPEAKER_01 52:16

Unexpected.

SPEAKER_02 52:17

Yes. It and quite honestly, I give him respect for it because I think a lot of times, and everyone's on a different journey, but like they know, kind of going into the new season, that this is gonna be their final season, and therefore they're like, This is my final season, and they ride that wave the whole season. He announced it the week before his last episode, if I'm not mistaken. And he's just hilarious to me. I think he's obviously gonna go on to bigger and better, not better, but bigger things. He's got his podcast, he's done a school too or two, he's done a couple movies and stuff. So, like, I like I just am gonna miss him just in terms of his humor and the characters he plays.

SPEAKER_01 53:01

I cannot wait until he hosts SNL.

SPEAKER_02 53:04

Oh, yeah. That's always a great moment when they come back years later. But like, great job, Bowen, and sorry and sad to see you go.

SPEAKER_04 53:13

I think there might be more to the story.

SPEAKER_02 53:15

There might. I hope to run into a match. That's what they are talking about.

SPEAKER_04 53:18

I'm waiting to hear what's really going on.

SPEAKER_02 53:21

All right, but I'll get to the bottom of it at the next foggy bookstore. I run into a match. Oh god.

SPEAKER_01 53:27

Are you gonna be wearing your poet carrot?

SPEAKER_02 53:30

He is gonna come up to me because I'm gonna be smoking a pipe and just reading a book. Reading a book, smoking a pipe with my scarf.

SPEAKER_01 53:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 53:41

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