Nike Unzips at the Olympics, Drunk Danica Goes Live, and Tyra Smizes Through It

We unpack the speed skating unzip that sparked a Nike branding uproar, a tipsy live hit that went global, and a sharp rewatch of America’s Next Top Model through a modern lens. We balance criticism with comfort picks, from K-beauty cleansing oil to fuzzy bedding and seasonal candy joy.

• why the Olympic “unzipped” Nike moment spread so fast
• rule-breaking vs smart, crafty branding in elite sports
• what the ANTM doc gets right and wrong
• accountability across hosts, judges, and producers
• how reality TV evolved with social media pressure
• practical self-care picks that actually help
• cozy textiles and small upgrades for winter
• seasonal candy confessions that spark joy and disgust

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Transcript

Speaker 0:04

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

Speaker 2 0:25

We are back slipping it in with you. I'm Megan, and I'm here with Matty and JJ.

Speaker 4 0:30

Hello, hello, hello.

Speaker 2 0:32

Hello, hello. Oh, it's hot in here. I'm gonna unzip my top. Okay. Hopefully you guys know what that's in reference to.

Speaker 5 0:41

Yeah.

Speaker 2 0:42

It is Jake Paul's fiance who just won the gold in speed skating.

Speaker 5 0:46

Danica. No. Jutta Leerdam. We'll get to we'll get to Danica. Jutta Leerdam. So I was just listening to our uh opening music, and it says a product or two, we'll slip it in for you. That's exactly what Jutta is kind of like people are saying maybe intentionally slipped in a product placement. Uh so if you're not familiar, she is an Olympic speed skater. She took the gold in the 1000 meter, and then afterwards, she unzipped her top, or it's like a one-piece skating suit, right? And lo and behold, she was wearing a white sports bra, and around the band of the bottom of the sports bra was the Nike swoosh symbol, and it said Nike.

Speaker 3 1:45

Yes.

Speaker 5 1:46

Well, it is against rules to have sponsorship within the actual events. And we talked about it.

Speaker 4 1:55

We did talk about it.

Speaker 5 1:56

Yeah, like yes, they can sponsor or or do things for like opening ceremony outfits or whatever, but in the actual events, there's no like product branding, there's no sponsorships.

Speaker 4 2:07

So for the speed skating, that opening up the sip, it's a typical thing. It it happens often. So you think that when she woke up that morning when she got ready for it, she's like, I'm gonna put, I'm gonna wear the Nike bra.

Speaker 2 2:21

No, I think she put on what she likes as her favorite sports bra, lucky sports bra, or her most comfortable sports bra. She's going to compete in the Olympics. So I don't think she purposely was trying to do a branding deal.

Speaker 5 2:35

Or I think she just I would say is brilliant. So I'm not here to let nobody will know, or nobody does know, except for her and Jake Paul. And let's be real, Jake Paul is an influencer, so he knows a brand deal and he knows what might get likes and clicks and all that thing.

Speaker 4 2:56

And nowadays it's all about a moment.

Speaker 5 2:57

You just hate one moment, you do, and I mean, that's right, and all of a sudden everything blows up. So I do like to think that you know it was harmless, but they could have said, you know what, we can't do sponsorship. Here's what if we did this? Because to your point, JJ, it is common practice, both for the men and the women. These suits are very well, they won't have a sports bra, I call it. Well, that's even that's a press. But it is common practice, and those suits are hot, they're done, they want some air. But uh at the same token, I'm sure it says they know whatever your apparel is, your uniform is, or whatever you want to call it, no marketing. And she, when she puts it on, the thing she's seeing in the mirror is Nike. And if it's common practice, unzip. It could be brilliant, it could be, you know, like harmless, you know, didn't think about it, but now they're saying she could get more than a million dollars as a result of the attention it's getting. Nike reposted a picture of her on their website, and they said something to the effect of when you're that when you're that fast, you don't ask for permission.

Speaker 4 4:15

Oh, I love that. It sounds like a win-win for me.

Speaker 2 4:18

I agree. I love it. Yeah, and I bet next year or the next world competition, there will be a very specific rule. Yeah, well, that's that's 100%. Anything that you would have underneath also can't have brands and marketing on it.

Intentional Branding Or Harmless Habit

Speaker 4 4:32

Because even when you show me that picture, I didn't even, it was it's very subtle kind of bra with the Nike logo. I I had to kind of squint and try to find it.

Speaker 2 4:42

Yeah, it's not a big in-your-face logo, it's just on the very band, very side.

Speaker 4 4:47

They know exactly what their bras look like.

Speaker 5 4:50

Right, and you don't even need to say Nike. I mean, the swoosh is one of the most recognizable brands in and of itself. So either they will come out with a rule or Gatorade's coming out with a bra, one or the other, and you'll see a lot of it unzipping, and you'll be like, oh, look at yeah, oh, Adidas.

Speaker 4 5:08

She was wearing orange with the case. All day I dream about sex.

Speaker 5 5:11

You know that, JJ? Have you ever heard of what Adidas stands for? No. All day I dream about sex.

Speaker 2 5:19

Really? I have never heard that.

Speaker 5 5:22

You've never.

Speaker 2 5:22

Never. Well, the letters line up, and that's what Adidas says their name stands for.

Speaker 4 5:29

The designer is Adidas. Adidas? Yes.

Speaker 2 5:33

You're right, JJ. That rings true to me.

Speaker 4 5:36

Yes. What did you say? Adidas is how you say it. It's that's the way you're supposed to.

Speaker 5 5:40

Well, I never heard that. Look at us bringing the facts. Yeah, education applied. All day I dream of sex is not the facts. That is like something somebody made up.

Speaker 2 5:51

Like they're so here's what they're telling Matty. It is not all day I dream of sex. It says the company's named after its founder, Adolf Audi Dassler.

Speaker 5 6:02

You guys who died in 1970.

Speaker 2 6:05

Well, I thought you were meaning that was literally.

Speaker 5 6:12

Never have I heard that. You've never heard that either. Oh, no. Okay. Well, I'm not suggesting Adidas is like we should do a brand, and it's all day I dream about it.

Speaker 2 6:21

Well, that's what I thought you were memeing.

Speaker 5 6:23

It's I'm just saying that's just like what people have said in the world.

Speaker 2 6:27

They're saying the Adidas name is uh a linguistic blend of words formed from Addy, a nickname for Adolf, and Das from Das.

Speaker 5 6:37

Okay, Addy Das. You call me German. You caught me this whole time. I thought it was all day I dream.

Speaker 2 6:44

I had no idea.

Speaker 5 6:44

When you said pop culture, it's pop culture.

Speaker 2 6:47

That's a pop culture.

Speaker 5 6:48

I've never heard of if the listeners have heard this before, chime in. Yes, all of that.

Speaker 2 6:54

Flippers, we need you because let me tell you, all day I dream of sex. I didn't just make it up. I question. Maybe you did.

Speaker 5 7:01

Oh you think on the whim, just like that. Well, maybe you're thinking about let's go to Danica now. Shall we move on to the other Olympic moment that is making headlines? Okay, I need you to give me a moment to play this. This is Danica. She is an Australian TV sports journalist, and she is on the Today Show in Australia on for channel nine. And with that, let me just play you uh the clip of her first like five seconds of her live report. This was airing live. Yeah.

Speaker 1 7:41

Like the price of coffee over here is actually fine. It's more the price of coffee in the US that we are gonna have to get used to. I'm not sure about the the iguanas. Where are we going with that one?

Speaker 4 7:54

But anyway, let's before we get to the. Do I need to play it again?

Speaker 2 8:00

No, you should have played more where she was slurring all her prices.

Speaker 4 8:05

I there's something about somebody that is tipsy that starts their conversations with literally when they do when they there's something.

Speaker 5 8:15

Well, also if you really pronounce the T and it literally.

Brand Rules, Logos, And The Aftermath

Speaker 4 8:18

Literally, like I feel that we've been at the bar many times when we hear across the bar, it's like this girl comes, like, you know what? Literally, this is a lot of fun.

Adidas Myths And Naming Folklore

Speaker 5 8:32

You're letting the cat out of the bag. You're basically telling everyone she had drinks before. So that's the so literally, she was talking about coffee prices, and then she said, and the iguanas, like, can we? I don't know what's happening there. The iguanas, like that, like she might have been drinking coffee in the village, but where are these iguanas coming in? So it's very crazy. I don't I doubt that there is iguanas and uh millennials. I I highly doubt especially in the wintertime. Yeah. So when I guess when they caught her, they cut her, and then the co-host back in the studio or whatever is like, well, clearly, um, Danica, uh, it's really cold there, so it must be affecting her lips and what she's saying coming out of her mouth. And but she came out the very next day and said, uh, I apologize. Espresso martini. Well, she didn't say espresso martini, but she did uh uh Mikeala Shiffrin did though. Yeah. Yeah. And then she did you say she she said on the today show, I guess. And she said fucking shit on the today show today. I was laughing so hard. Anyways, that was a squirrel iguana moment. Uh where was I? So um she did apologize. She did apologize, she did admit, she said she had one drink. We all know we shaved that number a little bit. She probably had two and a half to three. And she did they did they did pull in like maybe it's the altitude, maybe it's the time change, maybe it's the cold, maybe it's the drinks, maybe it's all of those combined. I think it's similar to like all you need is a moment, right? And now what this woman who is very successful in her own right in Australia is now known around the world.

Speaker 4 10:18

Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 10:19

So yeah, sometimes a little drunk, but it's gonna help you. Listen. I know I'm I have an issue with I will say literally a lot if I'm drinking.

Speaker 4 10:30

So that's a sign if you're like literally correct.

Speaker 5 10:35

Well, you all should check it out. Danica Mason is probably all you need to Google and maybe Olympics, but you to me again's point, it's they let it go for like 25 seconds, 30 seconds, and then they cut. But um, it's it's a gem. It's it's like a slip it in for sure.

Speaker 4 10:56

It's it's such a gem like um um news bloopers.

Speaker 5 11:01

It's like you can't get enough. I cannot get it enough in news. We might play some with your problem news bloopers.

Speaker 2 11:09

Yeah, well, you seem to be struggling with your stuff. I just did that on purpose.

Speaker 5 11:13

Yeah, that was intentional.

Speaker 2 11:14

Well, besides the Olympics, the other thing people are talking about is the new docuseries, well, not docuseries, documentary that just dropped on Netflix, which is reality checked America's Next Top Model.

Speaker 4 11:28

It's the hot one.

Danika Mason’s Tipsy Live Hit

Speaker 2 11:29

Yeah, three episodes and kind of delves into America's Next Top Model, which I watched from when it came out through to the, you know, towards the end. And it really was like a big phenomenon. And I think one, because like who doesn't like to see models who are, you know, beautiful and girls, you get to see them not just doing their modeling, but living as well as I think it was great because we got to see, you know, two gay men kind of living their lives open and proudly and loudly. And not that that was 100% new on TV at that time, but it was kind of in the beginnings of when we were seeing people like that. There was Miss J, who was this like, I don't know, like six foot two uh African-American man who'd wear six-inch high heels and taught all the models how to walk.

Speaker 4 12:25

He was the run the Runway Coach.

Speaker 2 12:27

Yeah, yes, that was his job. And he was like a fabulous, like I love his comments, his clothes, like he was amazing on the show. And then Jay Emmanuel, uh, who, or Manuel, who was just this attractive, great guy, and he did all the photo shoots and kind of had to deal with the girls. And then so those two were on there, and plus we had the straight eye candy, Nigel Barker, who was always like sweet, he had a great English accent, he was handsome, and he was always so nice to all the models, which he was also strategically pleased as a guest. Which I didn't realize until I watched this reality show. And I'm like, smart. We needed we needed a straight man on the show. We had all our gays, we needed a man.

Speaker 5 13:10

Well, Janice Dickinson. Well, Janice was too much. She was something else, but she was like the villain you love.

Speaker 2 13:20

Yes, correct.

Speaker 5 13:21

But I wanted to say the silver haired Jay, he aged the best. I mean, he did. And Nigel, not as much. I'll just I don't know.

Speaker 2 13:28

I think I think Nigel's still very attractive. I think so.

Speaker 5 13:31

Well, I'm not here to judge looks, but well, that's what the show's about.

Speaker 2 13:35

And it was I think it was a trendsetter.

Speaker 4 13:37

He's here. That show is was like kind of on one of those like trendsetters like you said. And I think that one thing that why I was attracted to, it was not just about watching the show, but also looking at the backstage and their like behind. A pick behind. Like I think I think I like that the most.

Speaker 2 13:53

Yeah, so apparently, which I didn't really realize till I watched the show, is that you know, I think the three of us were watching it in real time when it came out, but Gen Z had a whole rewatch recently when it got re-released out on one of the streamers.

Speaker 5 14:09

With COVID. Well, it was yeah, they consumed it during COVID.

Speaker 2 14:12

Yeah, and so they basically were having crazy reactions to the show as that it was so unhinged and the things they were showing were so wrong. And I think that it kind of shows this was one of the first reality shows. And obviously, we're all big reality show consumers here, and how like things in the beginning of reality, maybe you know, things have changed a bit, and things that were very standard in the early days of reality TV. Now, in today's world, through today's lens, people are just doesn't hold up. Yeah, they're reacting to things differently.

Speaker 4 14:51

And uh plus this generation, it's not just reacting with their family and friends, they're just posting things online too. So more and more and more people were getting into that um comment, and those some of those comments, like it's like really why we're seeing this documentary happening.

Speaker 2 15:09

Yeah, yeah, probably. Yeah, yeah.

Apologies, “A Moment,” And Virality

Speaker 5 15:12

Well, um, I think also uh it's it's it speaks to how people just want more and more and more and more craziness, kind of like the Jerry Springer show, how it started out and then how it ended. Yes, because we they even acknowledge it in the documentary, like they were doing these fashion shoots, but then how do they how do they keep making it interesting? How do they keep people to tune in? And so then they start doing things that you would think somebody around the table, regardless of what year it was shot in, might say, Do you really think we should have them switch ethnicities? Or do we really think the girl whose mom got shot and died should pose in a photo shoot where she's shot in the head? Like those things, I mean, for me, I was just like, wow.

Speaker 4 16:03

Yeah, but you know, and and to you to that point, and I know that there's a lot of uh fingers being pointed at Tyra because she was like obviously kind of the head, the executive producer of the whole and even I mean, she was the creator uh of this phenomenon, which that was an America's next model, but there was a moment on the documentary that a producer asked J Manuel, like, did you ever thought about saying something? And he immediately says, like, what would have happened if I say something? But it's like if you stay quiet, that is louder sometimes.

Speaker 5 16:38

Oh that's well said.

Speaker 4 16:40

So if if and I again I get it, there was there was a there was a lot that Tyra obviously, you know, was when making the decisions and things like that, she went ahead and did things that I was not I would not even ever approve, but they were part of the show too. They were getting paid for the case.

Speaker 5 16:59

Well, I think everyone acknowledges it, to my in my opinion, at some point or another, that they're like, should I have said something? I probably should have. In hindsight, I wish I had, but like in that moment, I didn't. And some of them even acknowledge like the truth is that's how the model scene really was. So we were kind of depicting what it is. So I don't know, it's very polarizing. One minute I was feeling one way, another I was feeling another. I but I will say I forgot that UPN was even a network.

Speaker 6 17:31

Like, wait, I had to Google it. I'm like, wait, you what UPN? I guess good on you, UPN.

Speaker 2 17:38

I guess I didn't even realize it was UPN. I think I always thought it was like Fox or CW. Like U.S.

Speaker 4 17:44

V H VH1, I thought.

Speaker 5 17:45

And I'm like, UPN. Yeah. I forgot that. Where are they today? They are not around. Yeah. They're not doing a reboot, aren't they? As UPN in the mix for cycle 25.

Speaker 4 17:57

They did announce cycle 25, which we don't, who knows how that's gonna be.

America’s Next Top Model Revisited

Speaker 2 18:02

Well, I do think, I mean, to Tyra's credit with the show, she wanted to change some of the perspectives of women in the modeling industry and open it up to more ethnic women, larger women. And I don't think it was a hundred percent. Shorter women. Yeah, I don't think it's a hundred percent due to the show, but I do think the modeling world has changed a bit since the show came up. I think having it be broadcast every week about the issues in the modeling world and that how, you know, oh, they're not thin enough, they're too fat, or they're too big, uh, that there's no place for them, or they're too dark, or they're too light, whatever it is, that I do think the modeling world has expanded a bit. Still very tall, thin white women for the most part. But I do think there's a lot more ethnicities that are there that weren't there, and there definitely is a large plus size market now for models that there never was when this first show first came out.

Speaker 5 19:07

I am here to give Tyra credit where credit is due. And I do think that I appreciate that I do think she opened the eyes to the definition of beauty and that beauty can mean more than one thing.

Speaker 4 19:19

That means that you're a fan of her death?

Speaker 5 19:22

No. I was going to say that being said, I cannot get behind Tyra Banks as the person she is and presents. I just I I don't know if it was that smising. I think it was before.

Speaker 2 19:39

Well, that's in the dictionary now.

Speaker 5 19:42

I mean, it I cringe and she can be, I get very embarrassed for her. Well, first I'll say in the documentary, she didn't come across authentic to me.

Speaker 4 19:53

She did not.

Speaker 5 19:53

She seemed very rehearsed, like she'd been prepped by a media company. Um, I didn't like some of her answers.

Speaker 2 20:02

Well, she's always had a little bit of a chip on her shoulder, I think. Um yeah. I just I she's always been a little bit of like um, I like her, but then sometimes she rubs me up the wrong way.

Speaker 5 20:16

There's also a way in which, and I won't be able to reproduce it here, that she's talks in the rhythm to her sentences and her affect.

Speaker 4 20:24

Something is very produced, very produced.

Speaker 5 20:26

Very, yeah, yeah. But I also saw her at Christmas time on the today show, the third hour. I mean, did you see it? Yes, I did see it. Did you not want to crawl in a hole and die for her? Yeah, she's trying to push it.

Speaker 4 20:42

She performed yeah, she performed in Australia DJing her single.

Speaker 5 20:50

It was Santa Smizing. Oh my god. And she put on a beard and a sandwich because of her ice cream, smize cream. Jenna could not, she Jenna was like, is this happening? Like you could.

Speaker 4 21:02

But she's building, you know, she's got ideas in her head.

Speaker 5 21:06

So I'll keep them in there. Some of them, you she she made her mark. Yeah, like let's smise away.

Speaker 4 21:13

She did. She created this supposedly like innovative, um, hot ice cream, and people were on the line and said, This is hot cocoa.

Speaker 5 21:22

This is not just you just poured cocoa over ice cream. Brill. Brill. Oh, but that's Tyra.

Speaker 4 21:30

You know, remember that time? She was actually doing poses and she would do the owl neck. Oh, yeah. Or the giraffe.

Speaker 5 21:36

Oh, give me, yeah. I remember, yeah, give me mouse eyes, give me giraffe neck, give me elephant ears. A girl. Yeah.

Speaker 4 21:47

You should watch it. It's it's uh it's a it's one of those things that is like it's cringy a little bit, but it's to Megan's point, you know, she did establish something different on the modeling um world. Yeah, that's for sure.

Speaker 5 22:00

To be given. At the end of a Netflix show, you get the thumbs up, thumbs down, and some other choice. Do you did you thumb it up or thumb it down?

Speaker 2 22:07

I don't ever do it.

Speaker 5 22:09

You don't? I don't like uh helps your algorithm.

Speaker 2 22:11

I know, but I like to keep them guessing.

Speaker 4 22:14

Oh well.

Speaker 5 22:16

I don't give a I thumbed it up because I hated it.

Speaker 4 22:20

Which I hate a thumb regardless.

Problematic Shoots And Accountability

Speaker 5 22:22

I mean, like you give me good documentary insight into something, I thumb it. But did I like what I saw? No. The content I was entertained by it, but also um, I don't know, I was taken aback.

Speaker 2 22:36

It was kind of good, I thought, for a little nostalgia, because I'm like, oh my god, I forgot about this. I forgot about that. That's true. That's true. And one thing that like I was reminded of is that on season 16 of America's Next Top Model, the runner-up was Molly O'Connell, who is now a cast member on Southern Charm, which is my favorite reality TV show.

Speaker 4 23:00

You would say that that is your ultimate favorite right now.

Speaker 2 23:03

How old is Molly? Always been. I think she's in her early to mid-30s.

Speaker 5 23:09

Really? So America's next top model seems very far in the rear view. Well, they were she was on there and now she's on this show.

Speaker 2 23:16

Well, they were doing two seasons a year.

Speaker 5 23:18

That's that's true.

Speaker 2 23:19

Who was America's Next Top Model?

Speaker 4 23:22

So like pumping them out.

Speaker 2 23:23

Yeah, they pumped them out quick. Um I will say, like, the one thing I stopped watching America's Next Top Model when Nigel Barker and the two Jays were fired.

Speaker 4 23:35

That was different, yeah.

Speaker 2 23:36

And I do think like the show totally went downhill because the show, I think Tyra maybe thought it was all about her and the models, but it really also was about the judges. And that was Miss J, J Manuel, and Nigel Barker. And the three of them, they were all fired at once. And basically they've never talked to Tyra since.

Speaker 5 23:54

Well, I think Tyra's never talked to them. That's my takeaway. I don't know where the truth is.

Speaker 2 23:58

Well, I think it's a combo of both. I don't know.

Speaker 5 24:01

Well, I don't know.

Speaker 4 24:02

I completely forgot that Rita Ora was a host. Oh, yeah. Oh, I didn't know. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like, who is this?

Speaker 2 24:09

Just so you know, if someone came to me and said you have to fire Maddie and JJ, I would say, no, we're I'm not interested in continuing because I do think you should stand by the people you started it with.

Speaker 5 24:21

It's very sweet. I'd have to sleep on it.

Speaker 4 24:23

Well, enough is enough. Um Matty, do you have a favorite reality show right now?

Speaker 5 24:31

Well, you just mentioned Survivor, and I would say Survivor is my favorite reality show with an asterisk because when we talk reality shows, I always think of them in two categories. There's the competition reality, and then there's, I don't know, lifestyle or yeah, like docuseries. Like, yeah, filming your supposedly actual life or whatever. And so in the I mean, overall, I would still say Survivor, but I think they're different, and it's hard for like, in my opinion, for Southern Charm and Survivor to be compared to each other. Yeah. If you're picking a favorite, yeah.

Speaker 4 25:08

Otherwise, I I think that that's the same way I feel about um Amazing Race.

Speaker 5 25:13

Is your do you like that more than Survivor?

Speaker 4 25:16

I don't. Oh. But it's it's one of those competitions. Yeah.

Speaker 5 25:19

But I have Survivor and Traders is in the in there too.

Speaker 4 25:23

Traitors is there. I'm not sure. They're up and coming.

Speaker 5 25:25

But I would say Survivor and Survivor for those listening, and if you're a Survivor fan, you you already know this. But when this drops, this episode drops next Wednesday, February 25th. If you listen on that day, you can watch the premiere of Survivor 50. Happy Survivor 50 if you watch it tonight. Yeah. And JJ and I, being such big fans, you're gonna hear this pop up into our commentary probably in some of the upcoming episodes. We'll see what Megan has to offer. Megan, you know, you did watch at one point early on.

Speaker 2 26:01

I watched all the initial survivors, and then my friend from law school was on it, and I stopped watching after that.

Speaker 5 26:08

Why? Because he got a bad edit or she got a bad edit.

Speaker 2 26:12

No, well, no, I don't think he had a bad edit. He didn't do well.

Speaker 5 26:15

And so you stopped watching because of that?

Speaker 2 26:17

Well, it wasn't kind of not as fun when I didn't know someone on the cast.

Speaker 5 26:21

Well, you just you only knew a cast member one season.

Speaker 2 26:24

Yeah, and I loved I loved having a friend on the show.

Speaker 5 26:26

And you it couldn't go that was the pinnacle.

Speaker 2 26:29

Yeah.

Speaker 5 26:30

Okay. Well, she is coming, Megan is coming over to the house on Survivor Premiere Night. And uh so is our guest podcaster, Melissa, and her two daughters are coming from Grand Rapids.

Speaker 4 26:44

Survivor 50.

Speaker 5 26:45

Uh, people are a little nervous about Megan being able to button it in the show and not ask questions. We're gonna see. We'll see.

Tyra’s Legacy, Cringe, And Smizing

Speaker 4 26:54

Yeah. I think CBS is actually running some um marathons of survivor.

Speaker 5 27:00

Oh, they are now like some of the best episodes.

Speaker 2 27:03

Well, I think you should like tell the slippers that you guys do a survivor league. So you're like in a league about survivors.

Speaker 5 27:11

No, because we are in a survivor league.

Speaker 2 27:13

Most people don't like because you you've made up the league. You're not doing it online, are you?

Speaker 5 27:18

Last year we did an online and an offline. To be honest, I think we all like the offline better, our own little rules. Yeah. And so this, yeah, we're gonna we have a twist for this season. We can talk about it at another time. We won't we'll wait till we're a little bit deeper into the show, but we're very excited for the premiere. We are a little apprehensive. We'll say this up front so it doesn't sound like we're jumping on a bandwagon wagon later. Yeah, but there is a lot of stuff that they're incorporating that are like brand deals and celebs and stuff that you know, no, I don't think that's the right way. We don't, in our opinion, to um honor a series and a 50th anniversary, like keep it original to like what it was and don't commercialize it. But I agree.

Speaker 2 28:06

It sounds in the sense like there's gonna be tons of celebrities on it and stuff, like it seems like it's like they're out on a challenge, and all of a sudden, um what's her name?

Speaker 5 28:17

Phineas's sister, Billy Eilish. Billy Eilish pops out and puts the idol around your neck.

Speaker 4 28:24

Like, yeah, I think that's what I need them to do is bring in family members that stops since COVID, and I'm like missing that moment.

Speaker 5 28:34

Was that a thing you could vote on? Because you could vote on like this or that.

Speaker 4 28:37

It's not it was not the same.

Speaker 2 28:38

Yeah, they used to like in the early years, there was always one where the family members left him out. That's stupid, yeah.

Speaker 5 28:48

So stupid. But they are gonna have the finale be live, which I'm I really being the final um episode casting.

Speaker 2 29:00

No, the five final fire where they go, yeah. But what do they call that? The um final tribal council. Yeah, the tribal council. That's what I couldn't remember.

Speaker 5 29:08

Yeah. Well, for the last several seasons, they um do not do like a live on-air reunion, bring them all back and announce the winner.

Speaker 2 29:19

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 29:20

They yeah, they do it right there on the island and announce it, which I like the uh like the way that they're gonna do it this year where they bring them back because then the contestants have left and been able to like process some things and come back with um different perspectives. And you also it's interesting to see how they changed because after being out there for so long, a lot of them get like very thin and beards and rag, and then you see them come back, and you're like, wow, okay. It's interesting how what of a change they go through. So exciting.

Speaker 2 29:55

That's one of the things I think I don't enjoy about Survivor is how just dirty and gross and like smelly everyone is. We can smell it through the I know, but I imagine you kind of sometimes I feel like I can.

Speaker 5 30:07

Yeah, there are a couple contestants where I'm like, yeah, girl, I can smell your dirty hair, dirty hair, and Sue. Sue, dirty Sue. Sue would just have mud on her face and nobody's busy.

Speaker 2 30:18

That's what partly what I, you know, the just juxtiposition of like what juxtaposition. Yeah, of my favorite reality show is I like seeing cool clothes, hot guys, tall boys, showered boys, in fan. Yeah, shower. I like dirty shades rugged in nice environments, eating cool food, having nice drinks, taking fun trips. Like, I like that whole thing. So that's kind of where I get turned off by Survivor.

Speaker 5 30:47

How did you like seeing your lawyer friend be all dirty?

Speaker 2 30:54

Well, I feel like thumbs up, thumbs down. I feel like I sound like that lawful. You're like, you're like, keep him guessing. I'll keep him guessing.

Reality TV Then Vs Now

Speaker 4 31:06

If you give me a minute, I just have an idea. If you give me a minute, since we're talking about reality shows, yeah. I'm going to give you a very quick round of reality TV shows. Just the titles. It's either reality TV or fake TV. Okay. Just give me a minute. Okay.

Speaker 6 31:26

You have to ask. We're ready.

Speaker 5 31:27

The floors are but like just so I know, you're gonna name something.

Speaker 4 31:31

And you tell me real or fake.

Speaker 5 31:33

Okay. Do and Megan and I can have our own answer, or do we come up with an answer together? 100%. Okay. And do we have to do it on like one, two, three, fake?

Speaker 4 31:41

Yeah. Or real or reality.

Speaker 5 31:43

Or do you want me to do one, two, three?

Speaker 4 31:44

I'd like to know the rules.

Speaker 2 31:45

Fake or real, right?

Speaker 4 31:46

Fake or real. Let's just say real. Yeah. Fake or real. Okay. Virgin territory. One, two, three.

Speaker 6 31:54

Fake.

Speaker 2 31:54

Real.

Speaker 4 31:55

It's real from TLC.

Speaker 6 31:56

Thinking one point for you, baby.

Speaker 4 31:58

Adults navigating dating while still being virgins. True. No, that is the explaining to know.

Speaker 6 32:03

That's the next show, you idiot. That was any title that long had to be real.

Speaker 4 32:18

Next and um, second show. America's next funeral director. Truth.

Speaker 5 32:25

Sorry.

Speaker 4 32:26

Three, two, one. True. Fake. It's fake. Next one. Sex box. Three, two, one.

Speaker 2 32:39

True.

Speaker 4 32:39

False. It's true.

unknown 32:41

No.

Speaker 3 32:42

I was there.

Speaker 4 32:43

It was on WE TV. Couples go into a sound. Look at listen to this. Okay. Couples go into a soundproof box, have sex, then come out and talk to a panel about their relationship.

Speaker 6 32:54

What relationship?

Speaker 4 32:57

What's it called? Sex box.

Speaker 6 33:00

Sex box. Jesus.

Speaker 4 33:02

Okay. Last one. The baby.

Speaker 5 33:05

Can I? Is this does this is this worth four points?

Speaker 6 33:08

You've lost no matter what. This one's fine. This one's worth four points.

Speaker 4 33:12

Last one. The baby borrowers. Three, two, ones. True. Real. It's real. Yeah. Megan is the winner. I didn't mean to. This is teens couples were given actual babies. And they had to take care of it. Sounds good.

Speaker 2 33:28

Sounds like a Home-Ec club in high school.

Speaker 5 33:31

With an egg. But we're going to be able to do that.

Speaker 4 33:33

We know TV has come a long way.

Speaker 5 33:34

You know why I think I lost? Because those were all not competition. Oh God. I'm into the competition reality. Megan is the winner. Yeah. Cheers to you, Megan. Good job. That was fun.

Quick Reality Game: Real Or Fake

Speaker 2 33:45

Yeah, I like that. But I think let me continue as the winner with a little product I want to tell you about. Oh. So to your credit, Matty, you introduced a concept of favorite things to us years ago. And then I took it to all my local girlfriends here in Detroit that we have a monthly happy hour club where we go out to drinks and dinner at like a new Detroit restaurant. And at the end, at Christmas, we always do kind of like a gift giving. And instead of doing like white elephant, we do, you know, a $50 product could be something you love or a favorite thing. And we started it a few years ago. Everyone loved it. So this year, one of the items I got was a bunch of like skincare products. And one of them was Manio or JJ, you can say it better.

Speaker 5 34:40

Manio.

Speaker 2 34:42

Manio.

Speaker 5 34:43

Yeah.

Speaker 2 34:43

It's a Korean pure cleansing oil. And they it's called pure cleansing oil, and the company is Manio. Manio.

Speaker 4 34:52

Manio.

Speaker 2 34:52

Manio. Anyway, I've always been a fan of it's an oil-based cleanser. I've always been a fan of an oil-based cleanser because it cleans your skin but doesn't dry it out. And this uh pure cleansing oil won the 2025 Allure Beauty Award for Best Oil Cleanser. You can get it on Amazon, $17.50. We have a link to it on our Linktree. So go to our Linktree, slip it in podcast, just click the link, and you can buy it. And I'll say this pure cleansing oil, it's a very gentle but a powerful cleanser. So it melts away blackheads and white heads, but it won't clog your pores.

Speaker 5 35:37

This is not FDA proven, like melts away. Yes. Oh, melts away blackheads.

Speaker 2 35:43

Yes. It transforms, it's an oil when you squirt it out, but it transforms into a luscious milk that dissolves makeup and impurities while you rub it on your face, and it will restore your skin's natural moisture and pH balance, which is important because you don't want to strip away your pH after you cleanse. And it's suitable for all skin types, including acne-prone skin. Oh, wow.

Speaker 5 36:08

Okay. Wow. And let me tell you. You're really slipping it in.

Speaker 2 36:14

Well, there's a secret ingredient too that I just learned of.

Speaker 4 36:18

Tell us the secret.

Speaker 2 36:19

Sake.

Speaker 4 36:20

Oh.

Speaker 2 36:22

You might be able to drink it too.

Speaker 4 36:24

Don't try it.

Speaker 2 36:25

But if you want to, go ahead. Anyway, I highly recommend it.

Speaker 5 36:30

It actually melts away your taste buds.

Speaker 2 36:32

Has taken up my top spot, it is my new everyday cleanse.

Speaker 4 36:37

And it's an affordable price.

Favorite Things And K-Beauty Pick

Speaker 2 36:38

Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. And some other girls who were like saw this, the skincare products, they like took a picture of it, bought it. They're using it now and love it as well. And so, like, multiple women, we are using it, love it. I had Matty and JJ try it to their reluctance. They tried to say because it's oil, it's going to make them break out. I've assured them it won't. So we'll see.

Speaker 4 37:02

We don't know that until tomorrow.

Speaker 5 37:03

Well, yeah. Yeah. You want to hear my review?

Speaker 2 37:07

I do.

Speaker 5 37:07

First of all, I do love the packaging. I always like to comment. I like simple I mean it's simple, right? It's clean, I think. I mean, I think it supports the brand of trying to be refreshing and nurture nourishing.

Speaker 2 37:28

And you like their slogan, what they put on the bottle.

Speaker 5 37:30

I do. I like it that it says endless hunger for ingredients. I mean, it all seems simple, clean, crisp, and the yellow is calling my name.

Speaker 2 37:41

Yeah, it's a yellow bottle. And it's vegan too.

Speaker 5 37:45

Oh, look at that. It keeps on vegan. And they don't test on animals. But Megan's correct. I have not always got along with oil-based products historically. I do feel like it could make me break out. I tried it on my face, you know, like what it's meant for. And um I was having anxiety when it was on. I'm like, oh God, this is not gonna turn out well a couple days from now. So we'll see. The jury's out.

Speaker 2 38:11

Yep, we'll see. Next episode. I will say once tune in.

Speaker 5 38:14

Once I um did rinse it off, I did tell Megan that I'm like, I feel I I do like I feel kind of refreshed. So yeah, I I just need to do uh episode two.

Speaker 4 38:26

Yeah, I'm gonna yeah, turn turn in turn in for um page uh part two of this because I'm still debating on it. I think that the smell is very strong. It's very citrus.

Speaker 5 38:37

You haven't gotten to the point where you're allowing it to squirt on your face yet. No, no, just hands. It's it's I like it's probably for a second date. I like the well hands, you do hands on the first.

Speaker 4 38:48

I haven't done face yet.

Speaker 5 38:50

Okay. Tune in, everyone.

Speaker 4 38:52

Tune in.

Speaker 2 38:53

It has a light citrus tinge scent, but it goes away. Well, when you rub it on your face and add water, it goes away.

Speaker 4 39:01

I just need to rub it in my face.

Speaker 5 39:02

Boy, these product reviews have really between say so and this, we really are bringing the heat. Yeah.

Speaker 2 39:10

Well, if you haven't used an oil-based cleanser, I highly recommend it. It's from Korea. I think Korea skincare products are known to be very high quality. This is one of them. I urge you to try it.

Speaker 5 39:23

I also urge you to try, excuse me, a favorite things with your friend group.

Speaker 4 39:28

Oh, yeah.

Oil Cleanser First Impressions

Speaker 5 39:29

And Megan alluded to it a little bit at the upfront. But I I came up like this, isn't a brand new idea, but I thought, why not have the idea of favorite things around the holidays, which is pretty typical, and just like use that as an excuse or a reason every month to get together with a social circle or community that you're tight with with relatively manageable numbers, and come up with a theme for that month and a price point. And what the beauty of it is, is uh we incorporated like uh something uh that tells the story behind why you it is one of your favorite things. So you are getting actually everybody in your group in some cases, the favorite thing, or you would bring two of your favorite things, and everyone would be true two of their favorite things, and you can kind of make the rules how you want, but at the end of the day, you're like, oh my god, Megan, the gift that you selected, I brought it, it's my favorite thing, and here's why. And sometimes there's an emotional connection to it, sometimes it's just like a benefit product, but it's you know, reach out if you want some guidelines on it. But it we did it for over a year, and uh it was really a date to look forward to on the calendar.

Speaker 2 40:48

Yeah, and now I do it with my girlfriends once a year, but we love it. And we've even talked about we should maybe do one in the summertime.

Speaker 4 40:54

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 40:55

So we like July, like because we love it all so much.

Speaker 4 40:57

You do it at some mail.

Speaker 2 41:00

Yes, absolutely. But probably not because the girls are we've all been exposed to it now, and many of us are using it. The slippers they might want to, but with the talking about favorite things, one of my favorite things is my slip it in, is I've always been a fan of French manicures. And then they're back, they went out of fashion for many years, so I stopped, but they're back. And I was toe tipping their back like several months ago, but I'm now solidly a hundred percent they're back. I've checked blogs, I've checked the like in-style reports, they're back, and I'm happy and I'm excited.

Speaker 4 41:42

On FaceTime this week, and she was wearing like she she usually just goes to her normal person, and usually she just wears a full color. Yeah, but I noticed the French did and I didn't realize they went out of style.

Speaker 2 41:54

I always liked it because the black or the really dark nail polish came into fashion, which I never did, so I went to other colors and things, but I stopped with the French because I didn't want to look old or old fashioned, but now I'm back, and the last two manicures I got, I got French, and it was so happy.

Speaker 4 42:12

Are you in? Are you in with because I've seen variations of the French tips now with different colors? Are you in with that?

Speaker 2 42:19

Um, I'm not against it. I might try it, but I really like yeah, but I really like just the classic look.

Speaker 5 42:27

What? Wow, your nail knowledge is coming through to have a lot of things. Is this from your aunts? Oh well, yeah. Oh, I love it. He's a game boy. How about the wide leg jeans coming back too? Wear them together. We've talked about those. I know, I know, but I'm excited about wide legs.

Speaker 2 42:44

Yeah, I'm more excited about my French manager. There you go.

Speaker 5 42:46

Well, I'm looking forward to seeing what you bring.

Speaker 2 42:50

Well, I have a pull it out, and it's kind of sad.

Speaker 5 42:54

Uh-oh.

Cozy Textiles And Winter Comforts

Speaker 2 42:55

Unfortunately, we lost a great one last week, Reverend Jesse Jackson. I was always a fan of his. He's actually the first political person I ever saw speak. Oh, and yeah, I went and saw him when he spoke at Michigan State when I was there as an undergrad. And he's an amazing oritator, amazing speaker. Um, he always had an amazing message. So I just want, as my pulled out, to share a quote of his, one of his famous quotes, that I think is also really good for the times we're in. The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the business person, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay, and the disabled make up the American quilt.

Speaker 4 43:47

Oh my god, that's beautiful. Yeah, I just got chilled.

Speaker 2 43:50

Especially for where we are in our country today. I think it's really, really timely and telling and something that everyone should think about.

Speaker 5 43:59

I love that. I love that. And this isn't to get a laugh or anything, but I do love a quilt as well. So I just do love the quilt of the American fabric. Like I love the concept. Just the visual. Tying those two together. Yeah.

Speaker 2 44:14

Well, and quilts are very classic American things.

Speaker 5 44:18

Every square is different.

Speaker 4 44:20

He was an amazing speaker. He was. So yeah, he was a great speaker. With that, my slip it in are actually fuzzy blankets. It's quilted adjacent. Quilted adjacent. So there is this brand that I found on Amazon called uh Bed Elite.

Speaker 3 44:37

Oh, I've never heard of them.

Speaker 4 44:38

It's a fuzzy blanket. It's a full-on sheet set that is all fussy with the pillowcase and everything. And on this cold weather, one thing that I look forward to at night is just like I know it's going to keep come that time that I'm gonna get in that fuzzy blanket. Usually around 9:30.

Speaker 6 45:00

Same a lot.

Speaker 4 45:01

Same over here. So I am I'm just loving that. It's just like it's just it's it's a full warm embrace from my blanket. It's kind of like my blanket is cuddling me. Oh, that's a nice way to look at it.

Speaker 5 45:14

It cuddles me too because I took your advice on it and I got a uh set as well. Oh we should probably put it on the Yeah, we'll add it to the link tree.

Speaker 2 45:23

I love that.

Speaker 5 45:23

Plus, I have the Sunday Citizen um the sweatshirts that you said is a favorite thing in the past. I have that in pillowcases, and I'll tell you I will tell you what. It is hard to get out of bed in the morning.

Speaker 2 45:39

Well, I'm a satin pillowcase girl. Well, I doesn't give you wrinkles.

Speaker 4 45:45

Your skin glides over it. Yeah. It's a must.

Speaker 2 45:49

And it's good for your hair. It doesn't cause breakage.

Voice Notes: Hard Pass

Speaker 4 45:51

But for me, fuzzy blankets, slip it in. I'm really wanting to have a wrinkle. Pull out voice notes.

Speaker 2 45:58

What are voice notes?

Speaker 4 45:59

Voice notes. Like people, instead of texting you, they just send you a voice note.

Speaker 2 46:04

Oh, I don't know. Is it a voice note?

Speaker 4 46:06

My family does it constantly. Oh, really? And they know that I'm working, and I'm like, I don't have the time for me to listen to a voice note. Send me the text.

Speaker 2 46:17

I agree. I don't want to listen. I like to read.

Speaker 4 46:20

So I'm most of the time, Megan and Matty, I'm like, can you please text me? I'm in the meeting. Can you please text me? I'm in, I'm doing something, I'm at the gym. I I'm not gonna be able to listen to your voice voice note right now. Apple now does voice noise notes as well, and then you have to. This is what it gets, I mean, I it gets me annoyed. Um, annoying. I can see your voice. Because Apple has the that so you can actually send the voice note, but if you don't remember to save it and keep it, it just disappears. So you don't even know what the voice note was was that about. So it's and you have to select ephemeral content. You have to select that you know that you have to keep the note, and it just makes sense. I didn't know any of that. So complicated, so annoying.

Speaker 2 47:11

I didn't even know what it was.

Speaker 4 47:12

I don't get in voice notes all the time, and sometimes even like going back to my family, they're like, Well, I know that you cannot you know listen to this voice note. It's like, so don't send it. The voice note is just telling me that I cannot listen into it because you know I can send it. Well, breathe. Take a breath. I cannot go into my fussy blanket like this.

Speaker 2 47:30

I do, I do a lot of uh it'll help. It'll help. Yeah, it'll calm you down.

Speaker 5 47:38

Yeah, it will.

Speaker 2 47:39

But I feel your pain because I do a lot of my text reading, like we feel your pain.

Speaker 5 47:46

That's number two on his list, I'm sure.

Speaker 2 47:48

I so I like to have the words. I might read on my watch, I might sneak in a meeting. Like if people are watching me, I can read. But if you're sending me voice notes, I'm not gonna be able to do that.

Speaker 5 47:58

But you're sending me voice text. No, voice. I never do.

Speaker 2 48:02

You think I am. It's the stupid autocorrect on Apple has gotten out of control. It thinks it knows what I'm writing, and it's not. It's like I'm typing in specifically what I want to say.

Speaker 5 48:14

See, she needs a fuzzy blanket, she needs a fuzzy blanket, and she needs to pause before she hits send because knowing that it autocorrects, just give it a once all.

Speaker 2 48:22

I do, but sometimes I'm quick on the fly and I can't get to it. Oh God.

Speaker 48:27

Can you give a slip it?

Easter Candy Joy And Peeps Ire

Speaker 5 48:29

Mine is gonna be really low-key. My slip it in is I went to CVS yesterday, and the Cadbury mini eggs are out. Oh, you love those.

Speaker 6 48:42

You do like those.

Speaker 5 48:43

I saw them. Buy one, get one free. You bought them. Well, just the small packet.

Speaker 2 48:48

Yeah, yeah, I buy those sometimes.

Speaker 5 48:49

I do not know what it is about this hard shell little candy with chocolate in the middle, but I cannot name a better candy. Really? And what I part of why is it's seasonal, I think, so it keeps me coming back and something to look forward to. I just now don't get me wrong, those cream eggs by Cadbury, I'm not a fan of those either.

Speaker 2 49:15

But I will say, I'm gonna agree with you on the mini eggs, but I'll also add to it, Easter candy is my hands-down favorite candy.

Speaker 5 49:24

Oh, we should do a top three holiday candies.

Speaker 2 49:26

Yeah, well, I'll tell you.

Speaker 4 49:28

Oh, she's already talking about it.

Speaker 2 49:29

Oh, she's already propped. No, you like Cadbury mini eggs, but what I look most forward to are the Russell Stover coconut nests and coconut cream eggs.

Speaker 5 49:38

But I also think that they only out at Easter. I also think Easter has the worst, which is Peeps. Oh, I'm out.

Speaker 2 49:46

I hate a Peep. My mom is obsessed with Peeps and loves them.

Speaker 5 49:49

Peeps with a P.

Speaker 2 49:51

Peeps, yeah.

Speaker 5 49:51

Oh, I thought you said peets. No, Peeps.

Speaker 2 49:53

And she eats them like she'll eat a whole package in one setting.

Speaker 5 49:57

Vicky I can all right. My pulling it out is Cadbury mini eggs.

Speaker 2 50:04

Oh God, a double pull. It is.

Speaker 5 50:07

I haven't ever done a double pull because I feel like I have so much to say. I think you guys have before, but here's the thing they are like a Peanut M&Ms, in which once they're in the house, they are hard. This Easter bunny wants to gobble them up, but I do have a one-a-day rule. So I have them. If you go look in that lazy Susan cabinet, yeah, they are in there. I have one a day. That's it. And I usually try to have it in the afternoon. So it's the I burnt it off throughout the day, and I'm not having an egg just before I go to bed.

Speaker 4 50:46

I have a follow-up question. Do you put that egg in the freezer?

Speaker 5 50:51

I have before, but these are not, but that is loves a freezer type. But you know what else?

Speaker 2 50:57

I don't think these would do well. I mean, I don't think they wouldn't.

Speaker 5 50:58

Oh, they do do well.

Speaker 2 51:00

You prefer them in the freeze?

Speaker 5 51:02

No, no. I'm just saying they do well. Okay. There's a little crunch, and I also, but you know what else I like is stale candy. Yeah. And so these eggs are out, and I like a lot of stale things. Okay. Like stale food, it's a topic we can have. Like stale popcorn, for example. I'm I okay, I'm rambling. But um they're not in their package, they're just in a little candy dish. And I just have so it's a pull it out because I want to eat the whole bag, and they're tempting, and I know exactly where they're located, and I I have to just say no.

Speaker 2 51:38

Well, I will tell you, I almost brought it tonight. Is I saw they have the Cadbury mini dark chocolate eggs. Have you had those?

Speaker 6 51:47

No, not. No.

Wrap-Up, Linktree, And How To Reach Us

Speaker 2 51:48

Well, bring them in. Maybe next week, next episode. Bring me one. Just bring, just bring me one. Well, with that, not to get too excited over these dark chocolate mini eggs, check out our Linktree. Until next time, slip it in podcast. I'll log these Cadbury mini eggs along with the pure cleansing oil.

Speaker 5 52:08

I think we named a lot of things we could throw up there.

Speaker 2 52:11

I can just pillowcases. Yeah. But we want to hear from you. We'd love to hear from our slippers. So reach out to us, slip into our DMs on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook. You can email us at slipitinpodcast@gmail.com. And as always, we want you to call us and text us. Just no voice text. You can reach us at 313 444 9004 until next week.