December 13, 2023 • 33 mins
On this weeks episode of the Slightly Messy Show Meaghan and Mike talk about the best and worst places to poop and why Meaghan is going to be unimportant this weekend.
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Oh, I don't have the slightlynessy show intro? How does it go?
Is episode? Oh? Mike begginga psyche, a busy show?
This wouldn't it be the best way, two years into this to end a
podcast year without the intro. We'rein the same room, so we've accomplished
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that, but we don't have That'sfine. I have recorded one of our
podcasts in the same room together.No, I don't think we have at
first. It's a milestone. Andwe're close to one hundred episodes. I
haven't even counted. I lost count. We're close to one hundred, though,
are we We're very close to onehundred. I want to say we're
in the nineties. Do you thinkwhat'll be passed it already? How would
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that? That would be shitty?We missed fifty We did miss some of
them. Bitch really bad at it. We've been doing this for like,
what two years at this point?Has it been longer than that? No?
No, no, no, Ithink it was. It's probably two
and some change too, and somechange because we started at the end of
one year, went through a fullyear, and then I would say too,
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and some change. I think soyeah. And we've never done it
in the same room. Huh uh. And we always seem to fox something
up. We've done it. We'vedone it in about as far away from
the same room as possible. Yeah, either Detroit to Grand Rappers to Grand
Rappis Is Toledo, or over thephone driving down the road, which we've
both done. I'm so excited tobe here. It's weird, like hearing
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you like here it like and it'sthere's no delay, like I could stare
into your eyes but not through ascreen, but I can see you by
the screen. We have no excuse. Now what's gonna be our excuse?
People are just gonna know we're badat this. We'll find something Today on
the podcast, we're talking poop.We're talking poop. I mean we're face
to face. Let's talk poop.And second fiddle to Oh I didn't even
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see this. We didn't discuss thisbefore the podcast. You mentioned it,
but I don't know what this is. Second fiddle to your brother And it's
the last run of the year.Yeah, yes, and it is.
Are you ready for a break?Yeah? Same, same, same,
Yeah. I only cried every daythis week except for today. But I
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mean it's we're we're wearing this andit's twelve twenty, so there's still we
got time. So last minute wetalked about it. You talked about it
on the show today. Last minuteChristmas shopping. Yeah, I am in
the kind of the same boat whereI am. I haven't gotten anything for
my wife yet. Yeah, Iknow where I got some for the kids,
and I know what she wants,so I have an idea, but
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there's no more online shopping like Ican't there's nothing I can I can get
that's gonna get here in time.So I've been popping into like malls.
I went to Target and a fewdifferent malls on the east side or west
side of the state. So it'slike Rivertown Crossings, my Woodland mall.
And I don't know if this happensto everybody. And then I felt a
little validated because I saw it onInstagram, But I still don't know if
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it's a real thing other stores thatyou walk into, or maybe it's just
shopping in general where you have theshopping poops you where you walk into a
store and you instantly your stomach goes. Let me tell you, when you
pitch this to me before we startedthis, You're like you know, pooping
in stores. And immediately I hadone store pop into my head that it
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was every First of all, Iwas like, that's so dumb, shake
up boytop it. And then Iwas like, nope, I have one
right off the top of my head. Happens every single time I actually take
pepto before I go into the store. Oh really, you're the You're like
the tombs queen took the pepto tums. Let me tell you, Yeah,
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a girl has IBS and knows howto treat it. She knows what situation
she's working into walking into rather.But we were even joking about like knowing
what are the good bathrooms and badbathrooms on your way from Detroit to grund
Wrapp And my brother always laughs thatyou know the good bathrooms, I know
the good pepto places. So Iknow what gas stations have the liquid pepto
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bismal, which is trash chewabowls alsotrash pills. Capsules are fine. Liquid
cabs are our gold when it comesto pepto bismal. I always thought the
chewabwls were the best. Absolutely notreal. They turn your teeth in your
tongue black. Next time you takechewaboles, look at your tongue. About
an hour later, it's going tobe black. What is the reason that
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there's probably something in it that oxidizesin your mouth when you talk and let
air into your mouth or whatever,and it turns it black. And so
unless you brush your teeth after youtake chewaboles, this really shows how much
pepto I've taken in my life toknow the physical effects it will have on
your mouth side effects. Immediately,what's the store for you that when you
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walk into it, though, you'relike, I have to poop. Barnes
and Noble. Oh, that's myfavorite place. I don't I don't know
why. And it's always hard tofind the bathroom at the one that I
go to, which is in Rivertown. I don't know why. It's like
it's like Narnia. It's like hiddenin the back somewhere. And then Target
sometimes but I always get a Starbucks, Like there's a Starbucks in my Target.
So yeah, immediately, I somind's similar to Barnes and Noble because
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Barnes and Noble has done it tome before. But it's also my favorite
smell in the entire world because I'ma book girl, and it just smells
like paper, and I think itsmells so good, so good. But
the store that does it for meis candle stores. Every time I walk
into a candle store, the smellis so overwhelming it makes me have to
prove. Do you think I'm sure? I wish we could get like a
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psychologist on or somebody to explain it. But do you think it's the comfortability
of like smelling a candle that bringsyour mind back into like home, like
or something to that level where you'relike your whole body just instantly calms down.
And when your body instantly calms down, whoa oh. And it all
because books going into Barns and Nobles. It's a very calming store. It's
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never noisy, it's always very quiet. Everybody's always very calm, and I
always when I walk in or Target. But it's not the mall, Like
if I walk through the mall,it's like I gotta move, I gotta
go. I'm like, right,But when it's a calming store, not
me. No, No, Idon't think it's calming. I actually think
it's quite the opposite. I thinkmy body is so overstimulated by the intense
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like sense of smell that it's likesomething's not right here. Get out of
it. The body is like youhave been poisoned. There's too much fragrance
in the air, and I needto get everything out of this body right
now to make sure that we willsurvive. And I think my body goes
into fight or flight, and it'sfight or flight as we've got to take
a poop right now. That's yourfight or flight. Like if you were
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about to die, your body's justgonna shit itself. Absolutely to the point
where Darwin hates me because my youwant to know what my true fighter flight
is, drop to the ground.If you skin the absolute shit out of
me, I will not run,I will not swing my knees buckle,
and I hit the floor. Iabsolutely would have been the first one to
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die in the dinosaurs. Absolutely,it's like a feigning goat. Those goats.
He's scared when they just slip over. Oh my god, that is
me. Oh my god, I'mthe fainting goat of Darwinism. Peah,
Sure, yeah, that works.Cassie is on our TikTok Live right now.
She says, this is episode ninetyseven, so we are Jesus Christ
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that's good though. We'll get intothe new year. We can get a
couple of weeks in, okay,and then boom one hundred. I don't
know what we do for a hundred, but we should do something. You
know how in school they make youdress up like one hundred things or one
hundred years old. Yeah, shouldwe dress up like old people? Old
people? Absolutely? I talk aboutall the old people things. How old
we are. We already started.Think about it. Think about the conversation
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we had, We already started.We talked about shitting ourselves. We talked
about pepto bismo, and where thebest place is to actually didn't talk about
that yet. But where is thelet's do it now? Okay, where's
the best store? Not work,not in office, not home, not
somebody else's house. What is thebest store that you've ever pooped in?
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And why? Oh? Great question? That is such a good question.
Best store I've ever pooped in?Does it have to be a store?
Or can it be like any bathroom? It could be anybody. Can't be
work or home. The brakeman hasa really good bathroom. I gotta give
them credit. Uh, what's thebreakman? Explained that somebody like a bar
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slash restaurant attached to the Shinola Hotel. I think it's attached next to UH
in downtown Detroit, Okay, Andit's kind of like a catchual, like
I went there in a red wingstairs and some jeans, like it's a
cool place to go, but youhave to go downstairs into the basement,
and I you ever go to aplace with the bathroom that you're like,
why am I going on in thebasement? Is it's gonna be scary?
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And then come back up you're like, oh my god, what rich person
it was in the bathroom because whatit is, nobody knows. It's down
there, so it's always nice.So that's probably one of the best.
I can also say, without adoubt, the worst bathroom in downtown Detroit
is in the Old Miami and thatis like a hole in the wall.
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Well, it's kind of legendary atthis point. It's very old bar and
their bathroom is in the hallway andit's just a shower curtain that is your
stall door. A shower curtain.That's how saw starts. Saw that doesn't
fully reach both sides of the stall. Did you go to the bathroom,
Yes, I did know how Ihad to break the seal. No,
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no way, I mean I hadto. There was two options, and
it was be an adult who peedthemselves clearly in their jeans, or get
behind the shower curtain and go asfast as you can and pray nobody slides
the curtain over. It sounds likeit sounds like you're about to be drugged
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and then handcuffed to a toilet forthe rest of your life. That's fun
best, I would say for me. I have two different So one is
Dick's Sporting Goods at Rivertown Crossing Mall. It's a very specific one. I
know they have bathrooms and very nicebathrooms of Rivertown. But the and the
reason I found this out they havea really nice one I DICKX is because
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they have one of those those treesthat kids play on, those big huge
like yeah yeah. So the kidswent and played on it, and I
got the oh, and I'm like, I gotta go to the bathroom.
So I walked into Dick's Sporting Goodsand I was like, do you just
have a bathroom here? And they'relike, yeah, we do. All
right, Oh good. I didn'tbecause usually the stories don't have bathrooms,
and so it's hidden behind where theshoes are, and it looks like the
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bathroom that they always go in toget shoes, so nobody ever goes back
there. Yeah, but it's reallythere's a bathroom back there. It's not
nice or anything, but nobody goesin there. You could have a good
long poop and scrawl on your phone. Legs go numb even. Isn't that
the greatest Your wobbley stand up whenyou wobble like a baby. Goodell,
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But it's great, but it's great. Another good one is there's a a
gas station on off of exit ninetyon I think ninety six on the way
from Grand Rapids to Detroit, andit's I want to say Foulerville, but
I might be wrong on the actualexit. But there's a Love's gas station
and it's like one of those truckergas stations. There's big ones where they
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have showers and yeah, it's likea whole and I got, as a
like kind of a joke, Igot Christmas presence there when you're for everybody,
and it's it's really super nice.I want to say there's an eyep
attached to it too, but it'sthe bathroom is just immaculate. Oh yeah,
it's very clean. It's very nice. It's usually pretty quiet because most
people that go there are truckers andthey always use the trucker restrooms, so
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the regular restrooms are not touched andthey're clean and they're nice, and there's
no there's no writing on the wall, there's no phone numbers on the wall,
there's there's no dirty things. Yeah, it's great. I will say,
I think there's a connotation of liketruck stops are nasty and truck stops
are the nicest, cleanest place.If I don't even have to go to
the bathroom, but I'm on aroad trip and I go buy a Loves
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or is it Pilots, isn't aYeah? Yeah, Flying Jay, Yeah
yeah, all of those, I'llbe like, do I think I have
to be in the next I'll justpull off. Here you go. Is
it Loves that has the voting systemin the bathroom too, And it's like,
right, how cleanly or clean thisbathroom is? And if you can
push a button next to the sinkand if they get like a bad face,
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they'll send somebody back almost immediately togo clean the bathroom. I didn't.
I didn't look, so I don'tknow. It might that might be.
Oh, and I went to atruck stop recently that I had a
ton of bathroom stalls and they hadlights above them that were either green or
red, so they told you whichones were open and which ones were occupied.
That's a genius idea more more,because that little lock thing sometimes doesn't
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lock, and there's nothing more uncomfortablethan either being on the side where you
open it or being on the sidewhere you're sitting there. So as well,
I guess you guys don't pee inthere. I was gonna say,
as a girl, we just likeput our foot up on the door and
keep it. Like, how doyou go to the bathroom? Lock me,
you go to the bathroom just likejust like like that. Yeah,
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I could pee, like pee likethat. Yeah, because if I have
enough pressure with my foot on thedoor, I'm not actually like do it
on the wall? Not yeah,on the wall. Can't you relax?
No? No, I'm actually verystressed and I don't. Well, it's
different for me peeing obviously because wehave different parts. But what I have
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a penis what you'll get this.It's it's I would have to push things
down because it's like a little it'slike a fire. I was like,
there, hose that's on. Itwould just flail fail around if I'm sitting
straight like this. I feel likemaybe I gave myself a little too much
credit on that. Do you remembercrazy daisies, Like you're crazy daisy when
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you peek flowers, Like, ohmy god, I got my peen all
over myself so much pee everywhere.I forgot to hold my pen is down.
I've given myself way to much credit. I would not do that at
all. I feel like every guyshould have to sit down to pee anyways.
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That should be legislated. It's notit's I don't fully agree. I
don't fully agree because I don't mindthe standing saying is actually way more comfortable.
But how many toilets do you clean? Uh? My house? Toilet?
Occasionally what I'm told to, Andthat's only because I peeed everywhere.
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She doesn't want to clean it up. It's so much different to lot to
you when you're sitting right across fromYou're terrible liar. Yeah, boys should
have to, especially because all y'all, even if you don't pete her in
the day, you might be like, yes, you have in the middle
of the night when you were refusedto turn the lights on, you pee.
So do you think that toilets weredesigned always to sit down? Then?
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And then because we have urinals?Obviously urinals are different. Yeah.
So do you think that when whoeverdesigned the toilet was like, we men
should sit down too, and weat some point decided ourselves that we should
stand up. I never thought Iwould google this on a work computer.
You the toilet design for everyone tosit? The toilet see a brief history.
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Toilet see dates back to two thousandyears to the Han dynasty in China.
Simply made of stone. Bla blahblah blah. Okay, can I
get like ato actual brief synopsis?Not like u. This to me reminds
me of every time you look upa recipe on line and they have to
write you a blog post that's eightpages long about those family history and traditions
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of Christmas Day. I just wantto know how to make puppy chow.
I don't really need you already gotthe ad revenue from me, Like,
let's let's fucking go. I waslined up in public places and yeah,
looks like everybody was supposed to sitdown just out in the public in front
of people. Bring back public peing, public peing, like everybody, face
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to face. You've never done that. There's no way you've ever said I
with a human being in Peede.Let me tell you about the wildest bathroom
I've ever wrote. So there isa bar in Toledo. It's inside of
a hotel called the Renaissance Hotel,and it is called the Heights because it's
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the top floora though. You're socreative and I actually love this place if
you're wondering. They have one ofthe best pulled port pizzas in the city
of Toledo. So just that's that'syour fun fact of the day. Beautiful
setting, cool place to come.When you walk into the bathroom, it
is almost like walking into the movieOh what is that movie called where he
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spins the top at the very endof the movie Leonardo DiCaprio Inception. It
feels like either inception or the mirroruniverse. In Doctor Stranger's world. You
walk in and it's so dark andthere are mirrors everywhere that it's kind of
like discombobulating. Why are there somany mirrors? Okay, you know what
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I'm saying not practicality, it's you'rea cool vibe. We're going for the
Instagram post. So you go tothe stalls, you go to the bathroom.
There are windows because like this wholebuilding is all windows, and you're
thinking, well, I'm an install, nobody can see me. But there's
like windows run outside of the stallwars. You can pee in front of
a window. Whatever. Again,not that big of a deal. You
go back into where you wash yourhands and you realize that around the mirrors
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you can see sinks on the otherside, and it's not a reflection of
your sink, it's the men's bathroomsinks. And you can see the men
in their bathroom, and the mencan see the women in their bathroom,
but you can't see anybody when they'reactually like in a stall er using the
toilet. Why in the hell wouldyou want that? Great question? Great
question. It is so weird.It's not even funny. But you can
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see the men washing their hands andlike waiting for stalls, and it's just
it's so weird because it's not likeit's not weird in like a I can't
believe they allow this way. It'sjust weird and like a this is a
choice. Why can I see them? But yeah, what can they see
you from the other side because it'sjust like open It's not even like a
two way mirror that you can seethrough. It's just like hanging mirrors and
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then gaps in between them. That'sweird as ship. There's not ever a
time I would think that ever anybodywould want that. Now, as a
girl, you can only publicly poopin very few situations. We have poop
standoffs. Sure it is your dutyas a woman. If you know somebody
is sitting on a stall for along time and they're not peeing, you
have to get out because they're waitingfor you to leave so they can poop.
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Okay, Can you imagine going toa bathroom where the men can hear
you pooping Because there's no wall there, they can hear everything. You can
hear it all too. Oh Ithought it was at least soundproofn No,
that's weird shit. I know,really great drinks, really great food,
really cool space, really weird bathrooms. Does anybody say anything? I feel
like somebody needs to say something.I mean, here, I am,
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this is my my soapbox. Welcometo my ted talk. I think this
specific business that I clearly named shouldchange their bathrooms slightly. All right,
let's talk about the second fiddle,second fiddle to your brother? Yeah,
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so do you know? Oh Godbless you? Yeah? Did I ruin
it? Sorry? So, whois the favorite out of your siblings?
I used to think my entire lifeit was me very quickly learned as I
got older and a little more,it's my sister a hundred percent. My
sister, gotcha? Yes, yeah, yeah, So I'm the favorite too,
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by a long shot. And it'snot even like deniable. My dad
would be like, yeah, therewas one kid who was allowed to take
dance credit card places, wasn't mybrother? You know what I mean?
Only one of us got all oftheir dad's love and me. I also
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think that it's so funny. Mybrother and I fight about this all the
time. We break it down byperson in our family, like a specific
aunt's favorite. Now, my brotherhas one aunt that I'm very jealous of
that he is the favorite. Ihave one that he's very jealous of.
I think ant wise, So ifyou throw that in there, I know,
aunt wise, I'm the favorite,but not my Yeah, I didn't
know that I didn't put that togetherthough. Okay, So on my dad's
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side of the family, I win. He has a few that he clearly
beats me on. But like overall, for counting numbers, quantity over quality,
I win. That all changes whenit comes to my mom's side of
the family, which we are seeingthis weekend. I didn't even know you
saw your mom's side of the familyat all. Yes, So I specifically
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see like one aunt and uncle andtheir kids a couple of times a year,
once or twice a year. Theylive out of state. They live
done in Well now they live statesaway because I moved. They lived done
in Kentucky, and we just don'tsee them as often, but we stay
in contact. We text every oncein a while. We catchup. YadA,
YadA, YadA. They're coming intotown. They have family and in
the Toledo area. I'm gonna godown and I'm gonna see them this week.
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When I tell you, I havenever known what it felt like to
be my brother and not be thefavorite until we reconnected with this side of
the family. Because on my dad'sside of the family, I am one
of fifty eight cousin. Holy shit. On my mom's side of the family,
there are old on seven of usokay, and six of us are
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girls. And my brother is theonly boy for thirty six years because they
my cousin just had the first sonrecently, and then my other cousin had
a son recently, so he's notthe only boy. But he's still ill,
the shiny baby boy for thirty someodd years. He's got his time
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and he doesn't care. Oh no, no, no, it never died.
So this week and I've already preppingmyself for my aunt will show up
and she's like my darling baby Sean. He's nearly forty years on. He's
a great entrance. That's exactly howevery person should welcome. Absolutely. I
think if you could have like trumpetsplaying like carpet, they would, they
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absolutely would. I think they thinkat this point I should be walking around
with a red carpet on my back, that I should be rolling out for
him, just because he deserves it. That's the treatment he gets, and
I love it. I cannot standthe fact that this weekends, I don't
think I will be asked a singlequestion, and I have all of the
life events happening right now, likekind of new job, new place to
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live, all this stuff, andI think they're just gonna go Darling Sean
donas all the wonderful things go.You're like, Hi, Megan, how
is it going? That's truly whatit'll be. Uh, It'll be like,
Sean, how are you dealing withMeghan's new gone? Because she just
moved so hard for you? Ohmy god, miss Meghan now that she's
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got her new job, not actuallyasking you about the job. Now,
they are ashamed of me, tosay the least. Do you think ashamed?
Do you think it's just because heis the only boymbo? I'm definitely
bo. I'm why would they beashamed of you? Well, a couple
of things. I think the numberone thing is nobody nobody is impressed by
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my job. It's so funny tobe Do you find like just people in
general are like, you have acool job? Oh they Oh so sorry,
I didn't mean but so to answeryour question, yes, some people
are like you have a cool job. Usually the younger, the younger end
of my family are like to askthe cool job. There's a certain age
that it hits where it's like aunts, uncles and stuff like that. They
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don't fucking think it's real. Andthey think that because they all did like
trades and stuff like that, orlike have these like big corporate jobs,
and they're like, what you dois you play around on the radio.
Yes, They're like, I didactual labor, or a lot of my
family members, I invented something.What the fuck did you do? You
showed up with no makeup and toldjokes. They weren't even that great.
Like even my cousins who think mycurrent job is cool. I did radio
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before I was on Mojo in theMorning and they're I'm like, okay,
and I enjoymoje in the Morning.They're like, oh my god, is
so cool. It's like, bitch, I've been doing this for you just
want fucking tickets. I have bettertickets on that show. But I think
they do not necessarily I agree withmy opinions on a lot of things and
don't think that I should be sharinga lot of them, or that I'm
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a little true inappropriate, or thatI don't have any boundaries or privacy.
Uh trying to find out with thehigh pitch voice. It's all the things
they value. But I am sostressed out because here's the worst part about
all this I have to plan onthe weekend for me to be treated like
a second fiddle. Oh yeah,because perfect baby angel darling boy does he
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doesn't know how I having a reservationrestaurant. Well, I mean he can't.
It is tough. He does haveto take over coreline now that yeah,
he can do it, Like hewhat is Rezie? What is open
table? He doesn't know. Hecan't figure it out. To dial a
phone I think would cause him excruciatingpain. Does he technically work in sales
and make phone calls all day?Yes, but if he had to make
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a phone call for a reservation,I think he would combust. So I
have to play the weekend that Iam going to be treated like I have
nothing. He has been dialing phonesall week Megan, I think you could
dial No. That sucks, that'sh is it? So it's this weekend,
you guys are doing stuff. Yeah, they're coming into town this weekend,
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and I'm just like, I'm veryexcited to see them. Just a
case I for some reason didn't thinkyou just heard I for some reason didn't
even think you were in contact withthis side of the family at all.
I know, because like it's yourmom's side but like I didn't think I'll
tell you like a smidge in here. I know that we both have to
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run here in a second, sowe're gonna wrap it up here soon.
Bye. When it comes to mymom's side, i've only met her dat
so my grandfather like two or threetimes in my life. I wouldn't say
we're super close, but like Imet him, I saw him recently.
Sure, whatever, it's like,we're cool. I this is not meant
to be disrespectful. I don't knowif I would. And it's not his
faults and it's not my fault either. It's just weird life circumstances. I
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don't know if I would call himlike grandpa. It's just a man that
I've met a few times, himby his first name. It's kind of
weird. And then my my grandmotheron that side has passed. And then
my mom only had two sisters.So the one sister is coming up and
she's the one that we stay incontract, and the other sister is very
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sweet and very nice, and Ithere's just I think we're a reminder of
a bad time in people's life.Oh that sucks, Yeah, it sucks
because it was probably a long timeago, right, Yeah, and it
was nobody. It's neither of oursfault, and I think it judges that
bad memory. Sometimes I get it. I get it, I got I
got an uncle like that, AndI don't think they blame us, and
I don't think we blame them.But it's just the only time we ever
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really interacted was under poor circumstances.Yep, Okay, I got her.
Yeah that was cool. Like Idon't have on my biological dad's side.
I have like a couple of grandparentsand relatives that pop up randomly, but
I didn't really know a lot ofthat side, So it's interesting to see
that, like you don't like talkto because I don't talk to my dad
at all at all. But Ialso don't have that connection with that side
of the family. It's relatively new. I will say, it was only
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in the past couple of years,and it's only been a few times.
Yeah, they're very generous to us, Like we were invited to cousin's weddings
and went down there and like gotto reconnect with a lot of people,
which was nice because again, nobody'sfault in all this, but it's still
awkward and weird. Yeah, andthey're very open arms, very nice.
But there's a lot of distance theretoo, like physical distance, so it's
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not like you can see each otheroften or whatever. That's where I go
to get my Mexican fixed. It'smy Mexican side of the family, so
like I'll go to my grandfather's superlike accent, my grandmother accent. It's
where I'll go when I want likenot I'm just kidding fixed, but like
when I go there, I'm fullyengulfed in like Mexican heritage because they know
I didn't fully grow up like itwas half and half and my dad wasn't
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necessarily pushing that on me, andI wish he had, but like that's
where so like when you go tothat side of the family are there's certain
things is where I was going withthis, but I go you go to
that side of the family, arethere's certain things that like you didn't grow
up with that they're they try topush on their side of the family on
you, because that was always withme. It was always the No.
They are all very close, thoughvery close, and I think we don't
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always see eye to eye on things, which can be kind of difficult when
you're reconnecting with people because you're justlike, this is stupid. I don't
want to talk about this. Let'stalk about like what's been going on our
lives, not this stuff. Butthey are all very close to like all
of my girl cous there's three ofus that were born. It was my
cousin than me, then my othercousin, and we were all born two
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months apart from each other, sowe're all like. But the two of
them are best friends. And I'mso happy for them because I'm very close
with my brother and cousins on mydad's side, and I understand how amazing
it can be to have those familialrelationships that are are very close and tight
knit, and so I'm happy forthem. But I do think it's a
little awkward. You go out asa group and they have all these memories
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that you weren't there for, andthey're sharing all these experiences or jokes or
whatever it is, and you knowit's not intentional, it's not meant to
be we're excluding you. But likewhen you start a conversation, remember that,
like it just happens, It totallyhappens. It's even happened. On
our podcast, will reference old thingsthat we do. It's just I feel
bad for anybody who hasn't listened everysingle episode because sometimes we do refer back
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to things sometimes, but you justlike you miss out on some of those
things. That makes it sometimes difficult. But I'm very glad because all of
us, I think, went throughtrauma in different ways through you know,
familial relationships that I'm very glad thattheir choice was to stick together. Yeah
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yeah, I mean yeah, no, that's great, Yeah, that's great.
Yeah, but it is weird tobe like, every once in a
while, my cousin pops up atmy time, Oh my god, this
sounds so great. I hope yourespond to me. And I'm not being
weird for reaching out. It's almostlike reaching out to somebody who went to
high school with. I just didthis recently. Two kids I went to
high school with that have been datingsince high school got engaged. Yeah.
That was like they've been dating forlike thirteen years at this point. I
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colleged way so well I would talkto women because eleven years and I still
commented, oh my god, it'severy for you. It's like, am
I the am I the weird one? I think you ever look at you
ever look at when somebody posts somethinglike, especially on Facebook, you can
do this. How long they postedit? Like? How long? So
has it been up for an houror has it been up for like twenty
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eight minutes? Because anything under anhour, I'll wait. Really, I
feel creepy. I feel weird.I feel weird. I feel like I've
accidentally liked something that got posted sixminutes ago and I went, oh shit,
can you imagine though posting something onlineand nobody responded for an hour?
Well? Well played, well youso what? Okay? Yeah? So
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what is worse? Waiting a longtime and then still doing it or waiting
or doing it in like two minutesof posting. Two minutes of posting is
fine because it just means wow,you were at the top of my timeline
right as I opened up my phonewhile I was pooping full circle moment.
What's actually worse? Have you evercommented or like something that's super old that
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just proved you a creep it?Oh yeah, oh yeah yeah, your
hands down, hands down, youever done? You ever done it?
But it was like an X andyou may have done it, like,
but you didn't comment on the post. You commented on somebody that somebody else
commented on that said post, justsaw your name popped up It okay,
(32:30):
you don't know how petty I am. Yes, my ex and I took
a very long time to break up, and then he was official with somebody
else very quickly after we broke up, within two weeks. I for the
longest time. He forgot to blackme on one social media platform. He
did all the others. You forgotwhat he didn't use it that often.
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But if you posted on another socialmedia platform automatically post there didn't, He'll
get it up. And I'm acreep. Yes, So I was being
a very petty bitch and uh,they got a dog and I was very
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upset about it, and I waslike, oh my god, I didn't
think this was a breed of doghe wanted. Was that a compromise?
And immediately immediately got blocked and Iwas like with it. I was like,
still got my petty fucking remarking.I was done following you. Your
life got boring, and I wasa bitch. It was great. I
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laughed very hard, and I knowhe was pissed. I winn't And That's
why I'm a cold hearted bitch.You single slightly show
Oh, I don't have the slightlynessy show intro? How does it go?
Is episode? Oh? Mike begginga psyche, a busy show?
This wouldn't it be the best way, two years into this to end a
podcast year without the intro. We'rein the same room, so we've accomplished
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that, but we don't have That'sfine. I have recorded one of our
podcasts in the same room together.No, I don't think we have at
first. It's a milestone. Andwe're close to one hundred episodes. I
haven't even counted. I lost count. We're close to one hundred, though,
are we We're very close to onehundred. I want to say we're
in the nineties. Do you thinkwhat'll be passed it already? How would
(00:44):
that? That would be shitty?We missed fifty We did miss some of
them. Bitch really bad at it. We've been doing this for like,
what two years at this point?Has it been longer than that? No?
No, no, no, Ithink it was. It's probably two
and some change too, and somechange because we started at the end of
one year, went through a fullyear, and then I would say too,
(01:07):
and some change. I think soyeah. And we've never done it
in the same room. Huh uh. And we always seem to fox something
up. We've done it. We'vedone it in about as far away from
the same room as possible. Yeah, either Detroit to Grand Rappers to Grand
Rappis Is Toledo, or over thephone driving down the road, which we've
both done. I'm so excited tobe here. It's weird, like hearing
(01:33):
you like here it like and it'sthere's no delay, like I could stare
into your eyes but not through ascreen, but I can see you by
the screen. We have no excuse. Now what's gonna be our excuse?
People are just gonna know we're badat this. We'll find something Today on
the podcast, we're talking poop.We're talking poop. I mean we're face
to face. Let's talk poop.And second fiddle to Oh I didn't even
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see this. We didn't discuss thisbefore the podcast. You mentioned it,
but I don't know what this is. Second fiddle to your brother And it's
the last run of the year.Yeah, yes, and it is.
Are you ready for a break?Yeah? Same, same, same,
Yeah. I only cried every daythis week except for today. But I
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mean it's we're we're wearing this andit's twelve twenty, so there's still we
got time. So last minute wetalked about it. You talked about it
on the show today. Last minuteChristmas shopping. Yeah, I am in
the kind of the same boat whereI am. I haven't gotten anything for
my wife yet. Yeah, Iknow where I got some for the kids,
and I know what she wants,so I have an idea, but
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there's no more online shopping like Ican't there's nothing I can I can get
that's gonna get here in time.So I've been popping into like malls.
I went to Target and a fewdifferent malls on the east side or west
side of the state. So it'slike Rivertown Crossings, my Woodland mall.
And I don't know if this happensto everybody. And then I felt a
little validated because I saw it onInstagram, But I still don't know if
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it's a real thing other stores thatyou walk into, or maybe it's just
shopping in general where you have theshopping poops you where you walk into a
store and you instantly your stomach goes. Let me tell you, when you
pitch this to me before we startedthis, You're like you know, pooping
in stores. And immediately I hadone store pop into my head that it
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was every First of all, Iwas like, that's so dumb, shake
up boytop it. And then Iwas like, nope, I have one
right off the top of my head. Happens every single time I actually take
pepto before I go into the store. Oh really, you're the You're like
the tombs queen took the pepto tums. Let me tell you, Yeah,
(03:45):
a girl has IBS and knows howto treat it. She knows what situation
she's working into walking into rather.But we were even joking about like knowing
what are the good bathrooms and badbathrooms on your way from Detroit to grund
Wrapp And my brother always laughs thatyou know the good bathrooms, I know
the good pepto places. So Iknow what gas stations have the liquid pepto
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bismal, which is trash chewabowls alsotrash pills. Capsules are fine. Liquid
cabs are our gold when it comesto pepto bismal. I always thought the
chewabwls were the best. Absolutely notreal. They turn your teeth in your
tongue black. Next time you takechewaboles, look at your tongue. About
an hour later, it's going tobe black. What is the reason that
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there's probably something in it that oxidizesin your mouth when you talk and let
air into your mouth or whatever,and it turns it black. And so
unless you brush your teeth after youtake chewaboles, this really shows how much
pepto I've taken in my life toknow the physical effects it will have on
your mouth side effects. Immediately,what's the store for you that when you
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walk into it, though, you'relike, I have to poop. Barnes
and Noble. Oh, that's myfavorite place. I don't I don't know
why. And it's always hard tofind the bathroom at the one that I
go to, which is in Rivertown. I don't know why. It's like
it's like Narnia. It's like hiddenin the back somewhere. And then Target
sometimes but I always get a Starbucks, Like there's a Starbucks in my Target.
So yeah, immediately, I somind's similar to Barnes and Noble because
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Barnes and Noble has done it tome before. But it's also my favorite
smell in the entire world because I'ma book girl, and it just smells
like paper, and I think itsmells so good, so good. But
the store that does it for meis candle stores. Every time I walk
into a candle store, the smellis so overwhelming it makes me have to
prove. Do you think I'm sure? I wish we could get like a
(05:39):
psychologist on or somebody to explain it. But do you think it's the comfortability
of like smelling a candle that bringsyour mind back into like home, like
or something to that level where you'relike your whole body just instantly calms down.
And when your body instantly calms down, whoa oh. And it all
because books going into Barns and Nobles. It's a very calming store. It's
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never noisy, it's always very quiet. Everybody's always very calm, and I
always when I walk in or Target. But it's not the mall, Like
if I walk through the mall,it's like I gotta move, I gotta
go. I'm like, right,But when it's a calming store, not
me. No, No, Idon't think it's calming. I actually think
it's quite the opposite. I thinkmy body is so overstimulated by the intense
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like sense of smell that it's likesomething's not right here. Get out of
it. The body is like youhave been poisoned. There's too much fragrance
in the air, and I needto get everything out of this body right
now to make sure that we willsurvive. And I think my body goes
into fight or flight, and it'sfight or flight as we've got to take
a poop right now. That's yourfight or flight. Like if you were
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about to die, your body's justgonna shit itself. Absolutely to the point
where Darwin hates me because my youwant to know what my true fighter flight
is, drop to the ground.If you skin the absolute shit out of
me, I will not run,I will not swing my knees buckle,
and I hit the floor. Iabsolutely would have been the first one to
(07:09):
die in the dinosaurs. Absolutely,it's like a feigning goat. Those goats.
He's scared when they just slip over. Oh my god, that is
me. Oh my god, I'mthe fainting goat of Darwinism. Peah,
Sure, yeah, that works.Cassie is on our TikTok Live right now.
She says, this is episode ninetyseven, so we are Jesus Christ
(07:30):
that's good though. We'll get intothe new year. We can get a
couple of weeks in, okay,and then boom one hundred. I don't
know what we do for a hundred, but we should do something. You
know how in school they make youdress up like one hundred things or one
hundred years old. Yeah, shouldwe dress up like old people? Old
people? Absolutely? I talk aboutall the old people things. How old
we are. We already started.Think about it. Think about the conversation
(07:53):
we had, We already started.We talked about shitting ourselves. We talked
about pepto bismo, and where thebest place is to actually didn't talk about
that yet. But where is thelet's do it now? Okay, where's
the best store? Not work,not in office, not home, not
somebody else's house. What is thebest store that you've ever pooped in?
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And why? Oh? Great question? That is such a good question.
Best store I've ever pooped in?Does it have to be a store?
Or can it be like any bathroom? It could be anybody. Can't be
work or home. The brakeman hasa really good bathroom. I gotta give
them credit. Uh, what's thebreakman? Explained that somebody like a bar
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slash restaurant attached to the Shinola Hotel. I think it's attached next to UH
in downtown Detroit, Okay, Andit's kind of like a catchual, like
I went there in a red wingstairs and some jeans, like it's a
cool place to go, but youhave to go downstairs into the basement,
and I you ever go to aplace with the bathroom that you're like,
why am I going on in thebasement? Is it's gonna be scary?
(08:54):
And then come back up you're like, oh my god, what rich person
it was in the bathroom because whatit is, nobody knows. It's down
there, so it's always nice.So that's probably one of the best.
I can also say, without adoubt, the worst bathroom in downtown Detroit
is in the Old Miami and thatis like a hole in the wall.
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Well, it's kind of legendary atthis point. It's very old bar and
their bathroom is in the hallway andit's just a shower curtain that is your
stall door. A shower curtain.That's how saw starts. Saw that doesn't
fully reach both sides of the stall. Did you go to the bathroom,
Yes, I did know how Ihad to break the seal. No,
(09:37):
no way, I mean I hadto. There was two options, and
it was be an adult who peedthemselves clearly in their jeans, or get
behind the shower curtain and go asfast as you can and pray nobody slides
the curtain over. It sounds likeit sounds like you're about to be drugged
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and then handcuffed to a toilet forthe rest of your life. That's fun
best, I would say for me. I have two different So one is
Dick's Sporting Goods at Rivertown Crossing Mall. It's a very specific one. I
know they have bathrooms and very nicebathrooms of Rivertown. But the and the
reason I found this out they havea really nice one I DICKX is because
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they have one of those those treesthat kids play on, those big huge
like yeah yeah. So the kidswent and played on it, and I
got the oh, and I'm like, I gotta go to the bathroom.
So I walked into Dick's Sporting Goodsand I was like, do you just
have a bathroom here? And they'relike, yeah, we do. All
right, Oh good. I didn'tbecause usually the stories don't have bathrooms,
and so it's hidden behind where theshoes are, and it looks like the
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bathroom that they always go in toget shoes, so nobody ever goes back
there. Yeah, but it's reallythere's a bathroom back there. It's not
nice or anything, but nobody goesin there. You could have a good
long poop and scrawl on your phone. Legs go numb even. Isn't that
the greatest Your wobbley stand up whenyou wobble like a baby. Goodell,
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But it's great, but it's great. Another good one is there's a a
gas station on off of exit ninetyon I think ninety six on the way
from Grand Rapids to Detroit, andit's I want to say Foulerville, but
I might be wrong on the actualexit. But there's a Love's gas station
and it's like one of those truckergas stations. There's big ones where they
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have showers and yeah, it's likea whole and I got, as a
like kind of a joke, Igot Christmas presence there when you're for everybody,
and it's it's really super nice.I want to say there's an eyep
attached to it too, but it'sthe bathroom is just immaculate. Oh yeah,
it's very clean. It's very nice. It's usually pretty quiet because most
people that go there are truckers andthey always use the trucker restrooms, so
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the regular restrooms are not touched andthey're clean and they're nice, and there's
no there's no writing on the wall, there's no phone numbers on the wall,
there's there's no dirty things. Yeah, it's great. I will say,
I think there's a connotation of liketruck stops are nasty and truck stops
are the nicest, cleanest place.If I don't even have to go to
the bathroom, but I'm on aroad trip and I go buy a Loves
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or is it Pilots, isn't aYeah? Yeah, Flying Jay, Yeah
yeah, all of those, I'llbe like, do I think I have
to be in the next I'll justpull off. Here you go. Is
it Loves that has the voting systemin the bathroom too, And it's like,
right, how cleanly or clean thisbathroom is? And if you can
push a button next to the sinkand if they get like a bad face,
(12:30):
they'll send somebody back almost immediately togo clean the bathroom. I didn't.
I didn't look, so I don'tknow. It might that might be.
Oh, and I went to atruck stop recently that I had a
ton of bathroom stalls and they hadlights above them that were either green or
red, so they told you whichones were open and which ones were occupied.
That's a genius idea more more,because that little lock thing sometimes doesn't
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lock, and there's nothing more uncomfortablethan either being on the side where you
open it or being on the sidewhere you're sitting there. So as well,
I guess you guys don't pee inthere. I was gonna say,
as a girl, we just likeput our foot up on the door and
keep it. Like, how doyou go to the bathroom? Lock me,
you go to the bathroom just likejust like like that. Yeah,
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I could pee, like pee likethat. Yeah, because if I have
enough pressure with my foot on thedoor, I'm not actually like do it
on the wall? Not yeah,on the wall. Can't you relax?
No? No, I'm actually verystressed and I don't. Well, it's
different for me peeing obviously because wehave different parts. But what I have
(13:31):
a penis what you'll get this.It's it's I would have to push things
down because it's like a little it'slike a fire. I was like,
there, hose that's on. Itwould just flail fail around if I'm sitting
straight like this. I feel likemaybe I gave myself a little too much
credit on that. Do you remembercrazy daisies, Like you're crazy daisy when
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you peek flowers, Like, ohmy god, I got my peen all
over myself so much pee everywhere.I forgot to hold my pen is down.
I've given myself way to much credit. I would not do that at
all. I feel like every guyshould have to sit down to pee anyways.
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That should be legislated. It's notit's I don't fully agree. I
don't fully agree because I don't mindthe standing saying is actually way more comfortable.
But how many toilets do you clean? Uh? My house? Toilet?
Occasionally what I'm told to, Andthat's only because I peeed everywhere.
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She doesn't want to clean it up. It's so much different to lot to
you when you're sitting right across fromYou're terrible liar. Yeah, boys should
have to, especially because all y'all, even if you don't pete her in
the day, you might be like, yes, you have in the middle
of the night when you were refusedto turn the lights on, you pee.
So do you think that toilets weredesigned always to sit down? Then?
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And then because we have urinals?Obviously urinals are different. Yeah.
So do you think that when whoeverdesigned the toilet was like, we men
should sit down too, and weat some point decided ourselves that we should
stand up. I never thought Iwould google this on a work computer.
You the toilet design for everyone tosit? The toilet see a brief history.
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Toilet see dates back to two thousandyears to the Han dynasty in China.
Simply made of stone. Bla blahblah blah. Okay, can I
get like ato actual brief synopsis?Not like u. This to me reminds
me of every time you look upa recipe on line and they have to
write you a blog post that's eightpages long about those family history and traditions
(15:43):
of Christmas Day. I just wantto know how to make puppy chow.
I don't really need you already gotthe ad revenue from me, Like,
let's let's fucking go. I waslined up in public places and yeah,
looks like everybody was supposed to sitdown just out in the public in front
of people. Bring back public peing, public peing, like everybody, face
(16:08):
to face. You've never done that. There's no way you've ever said I
with a human being in Peede.Let me tell you about the wildest bathroom
I've ever wrote. So there isa bar in Toledo. It's inside of
a hotel called the Renaissance Hotel,and it is called the Heights because it's
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the top floora though. You're socreative and I actually love this place if
you're wondering. They have one ofthe best pulled port pizzas in the city
of Toledo. So just that's that'syour fun fact of the day. Beautiful
setting, cool place to come.When you walk into the bathroom, it
is almost like walking into the movieOh what is that movie called where he
(16:52):
spins the top at the very endof the movie Leonardo DiCaprio Inception. It
feels like either inception or the mirroruniverse. In Doctor Stranger's world. You
walk in and it's so dark andthere are mirrors everywhere that it's kind of
like discombobulating. Why are there somany mirrors? Okay, you know what
(17:12):
I'm saying not practicality, it's you'rea cool vibe. We're going for the
Instagram post. So you go tothe stalls, you go to the bathroom.
There are windows because like this wholebuilding is all windows, and you're
thinking, well, I'm an install, nobody can see me. But there's
like windows run outside of the stallwars. You can pee in front of
a window. Whatever. Again,not that big of a deal. You
go back into where you wash yourhands and you realize that around the mirrors
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you can see sinks on the otherside, and it's not a reflection of
your sink, it's the men's bathroomsinks. And you can see the men
in their bathroom, and the mencan see the women in their bathroom,
but you can't see anybody when they'reactually like in a stall er using the
toilet. Why in the hell wouldyou want that? Great question? Great
question. It is so weird.It's not even funny. But you can
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see the men washing their hands andlike waiting for stalls, and it's just
it's so weird because it's not likeit's not weird in like a I can't
believe they allow this way. It'sjust weird and like a this is a
choice. Why can I see them? But yeah, what can they see
you from the other side because it'sjust like open It's not even like a
two way mirror that you can seethrough. It's just like hanging mirrors and
(18:26):
then gaps in between them. That'sweird as ship. There's not ever a
time I would think that ever anybodywould want that. Now, as a
girl, you can only publicly poopin very few situations. We have poop
standoffs. Sure it is your dutyas a woman. If you know somebody
is sitting on a stall for along time and they're not peeing, you
have to get out because they're waitingfor you to leave so they can poop.
(18:47):
Okay, Can you imagine going toa bathroom where the men can hear
you pooping Because there's no wall there, they can hear everything. You can
hear it all too. Oh Ithought it was at least soundproofn No,
that's weird shit. I know,really great drinks, really great food,
really cool space, really weird bathrooms. Does anybody say anything? I feel
like somebody needs to say something.I mean, here, I am,
(19:12):
this is my my soapbox. Welcometo my ted talk. I think this
specific business that I clearly named shouldchange their bathrooms slightly. All right,
let's talk about the second fiddle,second fiddle to your brother? Yeah,
(19:32):
so do you know? Oh Godbless you? Yeah? Did I ruin
it? Sorry? So, whois the favorite out of your siblings?
I used to think my entire lifeit was me very quickly learned as I
got older and a little more,it's my sister a hundred percent. My
sister, gotcha? Yes, yeah, yeah, So I'm the favorite too,
(19:53):
by a long shot. And it'snot even like deniable. My dad
would be like, yeah, therewas one kid who was allowed to take
dance credit card places, wasn't mybrother? You know what I mean?
Only one of us got all oftheir dad's love and me. I also
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think that it's so funny. Mybrother and I fight about this all the
time. We break it down byperson in our family, like a specific
aunt's favorite. Now, my brotherhas one aunt that I'm very jealous of
that he is the favorite. Ihave one that he's very jealous of.
I think ant wise, So ifyou throw that in there, I know,
aunt wise, I'm the favorite,but not my Yeah, I didn't
know that I didn't put that togetherthough. Okay, So on my dad's
(20:37):
side of the family, I win. He has a few that he clearly
beats me on. But like overall, for counting numbers, quantity over quality,
I win. That all changes whenit comes to my mom's side of
the family, which we are seeingthis weekend. I didn't even know you
saw your mom's side of the familyat all. Yes, So I specifically
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see like one aunt and uncle andtheir kids a couple of times a year,
once or twice a year. Theylive out of state. They live
done in Well now they live statesaway because I moved. They lived done
in Kentucky, and we just don'tsee them as often, but we stay
in contact. We text every oncein a while. We catchup. YadA,
YadA, YadA. They're coming intotown. They have family and in
the Toledo area. I'm gonna godown and I'm gonna see them this week.
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When I tell you, I havenever known what it felt like to
be my brother and not be thefavorite until we reconnected with this side of
the family. Because on my dad'sside of the family, I am one
of fifty eight cousin. Holy shit. On my mom's side of the family,
there are old on seven of usokay, and six of us are
(21:44):
girls. And my brother is theonly boy for thirty six years because they
my cousin just had the first sonrecently, and then my other cousin had
a son recently, so he's notthe only boy. But he's still ill,
the shiny baby boy for thirty someodd years. He's got his time
(22:06):
and he doesn't care. Oh no, no, no, it never died.
So this week and I've already preppingmyself for my aunt will show up
and she's like my darling baby Sean. He's nearly forty years on. He's
a great entrance. That's exactly howevery person should welcome. Absolutely. I
think if you could have like trumpetsplaying like carpet, they would, they
(22:29):
absolutely would. I think they thinkat this point I should be walking around
with a red carpet on my back, that I should be rolling out for
him, just because he deserves it. That's the treatment he gets, and
I love it. I cannot standthe fact that this weekends, I don't
think I will be asked a singlequestion, and I have all of the
life events happening right now, likekind of new job, new place to
(22:52):
live, all this stuff, andI think they're just gonna go Darling Sean
donas all the wonderful things go.You're like, Hi, Megan, how
is it going? That's truly whatit'll be. Uh, It'll be like,
Sean, how are you dealing withMeghan's new gone? Because she just
moved so hard for you? Ohmy god, miss Meghan now that she's
(23:15):
got her new job, not actuallyasking you about the job. Now,
they are ashamed of me, tosay the least. Do you think ashamed?
Do you think it's just because heis the only boymbo? I'm definitely
bo. I'm why would they beashamed of you? Well, a couple
of things. I think the numberone thing is nobody nobody is impressed by
(23:41):
my job. It's so funny tobe Do you find like just people in
general are like, you have acool job? Oh they Oh so sorry,
I didn't mean but so to answeryour question, yes, some people
are like you have a cool job. Usually the younger, the younger end
of my family are like to askthe cool job. There's a certain age
that it hits where it's like aunts, uncles and stuff like that. They
(24:03):
don't fucking think it's real. Andthey think that because they all did like
trades and stuff like that, orlike have these like big corporate jobs,
and they're like, what you dois you play around on the radio.
Yes, They're like, I didactual labor, or a lot of my
family members, I invented something.What the fuck did you do? You
showed up with no makeup and toldjokes. They weren't even that great.
Like even my cousins who think mycurrent job is cool. I did radio
(24:30):
before I was on Mojo in theMorning and they're I'm like, okay,
and I enjoymoje in the Morning.They're like, oh my god, is
so cool. It's like, bitch, I've been doing this for you just
want fucking tickets. I have bettertickets on that show. But I think
they do not necessarily I agree withmy opinions on a lot of things and
don't think that I should be sharinga lot of them, or that I'm
(24:52):
a little true inappropriate, or thatI don't have any boundaries or privacy.
Uh trying to find out with thehigh pitch voice. It's all the things
they value. But I am sostressed out because here's the worst part about
all this I have to plan onthe weekend for me to be treated like
a second fiddle. Oh yeah,because perfect baby angel darling boy does he
(25:18):
doesn't know how I having a reservationrestaurant. Well, I mean he can't.
It is tough. He does haveto take over coreline now that yeah,
he can do it, Like hewhat is Rezie? What is open
table? He doesn't know. Hecan't figure it out. To dial a
phone I think would cause him excruciatingpain. Does he technically work in sales
and make phone calls all day?Yes, but if he had to make
(25:41):
a phone call for a reservation,I think he would combust. So I
have to play the weekend that Iam going to be treated like I have
nothing. He has been dialing phonesall week Megan, I think you could
dial No. That sucks, that'sh is it? So it's this weekend,
you guys are doing stuff. Yeah, they're coming into town this weekend,
(26:03):
and I'm just like, I'm veryexcited to see them. Just a
case I for some reason didn't thinkyou just heard I for some reason didn't
even think you were in contact withthis side of the family at all.
I know, because like it's yourmom's side but like I didn't think I'll
tell you like a smidge in here. I know that we both have to
(26:25):
run here in a second, sowe're gonna wrap it up here soon.
Bye. When it comes to mymom's side, i've only met her dat
so my grandfather like two or threetimes in my life. I wouldn't say
we're super close, but like Imet him, I saw him recently.
Sure, whatever, it's like,we're cool. I this is not meant
to be disrespectful. I don't knowif I would. And it's not his
faults and it's not my fault either. It's just weird life circumstances. I
(26:49):
don't know if I would call himlike grandpa. It's just a man that
I've met a few times, himby his first name. It's kind of
weird. And then my my grandmotheron that side has passed. And then
my mom only had two sisters.So the one sister is coming up and
she's the one that we stay incontract, and the other sister is very
(27:10):
sweet and very nice, and Ithere's just I think we're a reminder of
a bad time in people's life.Oh that sucks, Yeah, it sucks
because it was probably a long timeago, right, Yeah, and it
was nobody. It's neither of oursfault, and I think it judges that
bad memory. Sometimes I get it. I get it, I got I
got an uncle like that, AndI don't think they blame us, and
I don't think we blame them.But it's just the only time we ever
(27:33):
really interacted was under poor circumstances.Yep, Okay, I got her.
Yeah that was cool. Like Idon't have on my biological dad's side.
I have like a couple of grandparentsand relatives that pop up randomly, but
I didn't really know a lot ofthat side, So it's interesting to see
that, like you don't like talkto because I don't talk to my dad
at all at all. But Ialso don't have that connection with that side
of the family. It's relatively new. I will say, it was only
(27:57):
in the past couple of years,and it's only been a few times.
Yeah, they're very generous to us, Like we were invited to cousin's weddings
and went down there and like gotto reconnect with a lot of people,
which was nice because again, nobody'sfault in all this, but it's still
awkward and weird. Yeah, andthey're very open arms, very nice.
But there's a lot of distance theretoo, like physical distance, so it's
(28:18):
not like you can see each otheroften or whatever. That's where I go
to get my Mexican fixed. It'smy Mexican side of the family, so
like I'll go to my grandfather's superlike accent, my grandmother accent. It's
where I'll go when I want likenot I'm just kidding fixed, but like
when I go there, I'm fullyengulfed in like Mexican heritage because they know
I didn't fully grow up like itwas half and half and my dad wasn't
(28:41):
necessarily pushing that on me, andI wish he had, but like that's
where so like when you go tothat side of the family are there's certain
things is where I was going withthis, but I go you go to
that side of the family, arethere's certain things that like you didn't grow
up with that they're they try topush on their side of the family on
you, because that was always withme. It was always the No.
They are all very close, thoughvery close, and I think we don't
(29:07):
always see eye to eye on things, which can be kind of difficult when
you're reconnecting with people because you're justlike, this is stupid. I don't
want to talk about this. Let'stalk about like what's been going on our
lives, not this stuff. Butthey are all very close to like all
of my girl cous there's three ofus that were born. It was my
cousin than me, then my othercousin, and we were all born two
(29:29):
months apart from each other, sowe're all like. But the two of
them are best friends. And I'mso happy for them because I'm very close
with my brother and cousins on mydad's side, and I understand how amazing
it can be to have those familialrelationships that are are very close and tight
knit, and so I'm happy forthem. But I do think it's a
little awkward. You go out asa group and they have all these memories
(29:52):
that you weren't there for, andthey're sharing all these experiences or jokes or
whatever it is, and you knowit's not intentional, it's not meant to
be we're excluding you. But likewhen you start a conversation, remember that,
like it just happens, It totallyhappens. It's even happened. On
our podcast, will reference old thingsthat we do. It's just I feel
bad for anybody who hasn't listened everysingle episode because sometimes we do refer back
(30:14):
to things sometimes, but you justlike you miss out on some of those
things. That makes it sometimes difficult. But I'm very glad because all of
us, I think, went throughtrauma in different ways through you know,
familial relationships that I'm very glad thattheir choice was to stick together. Yeah
(30:36):
yeah, I mean yeah, no, that's great, Yeah, that's great.
Yeah, but it is weird tobe like, every once in a
while, my cousin pops up atmy time, Oh my god, this
sounds so great. I hope yourespond to me. And I'm not being
weird for reaching out. It's almostlike reaching out to somebody who went to
high school with. I just didthis recently. Two kids I went to
high school with that have been datingsince high school got engaged. Yeah.
That was like they've been dating forlike thirteen years at this point. I
(30:57):
colleged way so well I would talkto women because eleven years and I still
commented, oh my god, it'severy for you. It's like, am
I the am I the weird one? I think you ever look at you
ever look at when somebody posts somethinglike, especially on Facebook, you can
do this. How long they postedit? Like? How long? So
has it been up for an houror has it been up for like twenty
(31:18):
eight minutes? Because anything under anhour, I'll wait. Really, I
feel creepy. I feel weird.I feel weird. I feel like I've
accidentally liked something that got posted sixminutes ago and I went, oh shit,
can you imagine though posting something onlineand nobody responded for an hour?
Well? Well played, well youso what? Okay? Yeah? So
(31:45):
what is worse? Waiting a longtime and then still doing it or waiting
or doing it in like two minutesof posting. Two minutes of posting is
fine because it just means wow,you were at the top of my timeline
right as I opened up my phonewhile I was pooping full circle moment.
What's actually worse? Have you evercommented or like something that's super old that
(32:05):
just proved you a creep it?Oh yeah, oh yeah yeah, your
hands down, hands down, youever done? You ever done it?
But it was like an X andyou may have done it, like,
but you didn't comment on the post. You commented on somebody that somebody else
commented on that said post, justsaw your name popped up It okay,
(32:30):
you don't know how petty I am. Yes, my ex and I took
a very long time to break up, and then he was official with somebody
else very quickly after we broke up, within two weeks. I for the
longest time. He forgot to blackme on one social media platform. He
did all the others. You forgotwhat he didn't use it that often.
(32:52):
But if you posted on another socialmedia platform automatically post there didn't, He'll
get it up. And I'm acreep. Yes, So I was being
a very petty bitch and uh,they got a dog and I was very
(33:12):
upset about it, and I waslike, oh my god, I didn't
think this was a breed of doghe wanted. Was that a compromise?
And immediately immediately got blocked and Iwas like with it. I was like,
still got my petty fucking remarking.I was done following you. Your
life got boring, and I wasa bitch. It was great. I
(33:36):
laughed very hard, and I knowhe was pissed. I winn't And That's
why I'm a cold hearted bitch.You single slightly show
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