Bonus Giggly Hotline: cats, chaos, and hosting disasters

This bonus episode is brought to you by Armin Hammer, Cat Litter. We love a little extra bonus, especially when it's about our cats. I could talk about my cat for two hours. I could do a full TED Talk. No, literally. She's stunning. She's gorgeous. She's model. She knows she's pretty. Do you know how crazy I am about cats? Besides making everyone adopt them around me, I know what kind of cats everyone likes. So like when I see a cute cat, I go, wait, but which person would prefer this cat for me to send it to. So like, I do have a ton of, like, um, rag doll cats on my feet because I send you all them, and then I have tuxedo cats for grace. And then for my mom's cats, I have orange cats. So I have so many cats in my algorithm of all shapes, sizes, colors. You're even dated with cats. And I'm curating the perfect cat meme for everyone. It's exhausting, but it's the life I chose. Each one has a unique personality. When you're meeting a dog, it's like, you know, they're gonna be excited. You can generally suss out what their personality is. Cats are so different, and especially when you have people over, like butter doesn't, butter's not into it. She's not socializing. She's not small talking with you, particularly if a man comes in her direction. She doesn't want to hear. See, she's hissing. A woman, she'll give a chance. Yeah. The routine age boys. She was like, I'm calling the police. There's so many nuances of funny things cats do. Like, does your cat ever use the litter? And then just decide to sprint. Yeah, like gets the zoomies. Why do they do that after? I think because they're like, oh, I'm so skinny. I like to think that down. He's like, hit my goal weight after that. I don't want you down anymore. Let's go. It's party. Let's get out of here. And then they're like, whoa, there's a good run. You know another thing people don't talk about in terms of like cats and dogs? You get a dog. You get a puppy. You're training that puppy. Hey, this is grass. This is outside. This is where we go. You get a cat and you're like, hey, there's a litter box. And they're like, cool. Thanks for the heads up. Thanks. And not to talk about it anymore. That's what I do. And that's all you talk about it with them. That's so much smarter like than a child. You know, you know, long you have to pipe train your cat. Your cat is like, perfect. I looked up one time, like, what is Daphne? Not Daphne specifically, but like, what is what are rag dolls like brain capacity? Yeah. And them almost like three years old. And I was like, yeah, I've a three year old daughter who's really getting brushed. I do just say I've gotten people so close to the point of adopting cats to them. They go, but I have a really smart small apartment. I can't have it smelly. Yeah. I was one of those people. You worked. I was one of those people that was like, I'm not having an older in my apartment. I'm not having like a litter box. Arm and hammer cat litter's job is to make sure that after the cat goes to the bathroom, the apartment does not smell. Cats actually could be a huge part of hosting. Yeah. Whether your cat likes to be around guests like Daphne who likes to sit atop the stairs and watch everyone below her because she's like, look at all these ugly people. She literally does act like it's 1456 and she lives in England and she's the queen and she's like, how do I remember inviting them over? Your apartment smells so good. Like, you would never know. The odor is nice. The cat lives there. Okay, so we asked some gigglers to send in stories about crazy things that their cat has done, whilst hosting while people are around. So we're going to listen to some of them and make some comments. Yeah, and hear what other crazy cats are doing. Hi, my name is Magarita. Go to the giggler. She loves the couch raw, loves watching TV and always put some little mittens on the TV when a young mom makes a special guest appearance. So it's July 5th and I'm hosting a watch party for the Mexico versus England World Cup game, since this is a sports podcast. I'm Mexican. My family's Mexican, so my parents and friends are over. I have a Chilequilla bar. I'm Magarita bar. Super cute. The guest arrived. Marge's on her perch the whole game, but then we're 70 minutes in. My friend plays to Magarita by the TV. Marge comes out into the living room and sees the soccer ball on the screen. So she hops onto the council and tries to pair a little mittens on the ball. She knocks down the Magarita. It goes all over the floor and then splashes on her. At this point, Marge is freaking out. She runs behind the council and naturally she's unplugging the TV and the game turns off and next to go lost that day. Anyways, this was my fault for hosting a sports event. Bye, I love you, Rose. She did everything but called the police to get everyone out of her home. Can a girl have a crush out? That's literally like, you know, when you have me a bad day and then like you trip and you stub your toe and then like, you got fired. Like that's what happens. Like your jacket gets caught on like the door knob and you're like the building burns down. I thought she was gonna say that the cat went over drinking Margarita and got drunk. I don't know why that's where my brain was going. Actually, I was like, because her name's Margarita, she should be able to have a little Margarita. At least a sip. But we're responsible for the cat's name was Margarita. Yeah, I think the cat's name was Margarita. Oh, well, she was calling her Mar, which is okay. But then you know that at the end, she was like, Margarita, she did her full name. I need to train Daphne to like turn the TV off when we're going to bed. But can her little paws get the right button because they're kind of, I don't know, Margarita can unplug. I also feel like when you're a cat and they can open doors. True. If there's a TV with a ball going around, I'm like, that's my game. So like, I feel like it wasn't properly explained to her that she wasn't playing soccer. And that's just, that's on the host. But also you knew afterwards that the host was like, Margarita, I still like, you're perfect. Yeah, of course. But like, sorry, she wanted a sip of her name's sake. Sorry, she had an amazing story. She was like, the string is named after me. It's mine. Also, it sounds like a really fun party. Like, invite us next time. And there's just so many things when you're hosting that are out of your control, like you're cat turning off the TV, jumping a drink on your friend's hand. But one thing you don't have to worry about is arm and hammer cat litter and any odor while you're hosting because they're dealing with it. Hi, my name's Claire. My cat's name is Snow. And I also foster cats. And at the time of this story, I had four foster cats in my house, plus my cat. My cat does not like other cats. And she was very unhappy about this. I was also newly dating someone and I had them over for dinner and they stayed over. And then I woke up at six in the morning to a weird sound. I'm trying to figure out what it is without getting up and waking up this man in my bed. Finally, I go downstairs and I see that my cat has taken a huge dump on the living room floor. And I start cleaning it up. I think I'm being really quiet. You know, of course, my cat's perfect. She would never. And the guy who had stayed over comes down the stairs while I'm holding a paper towel full of ketchup at six a.m. And yeah, he's my boyfriend now. Wait, that is a modern day love story. You know that Daphne has actually pooped and peed on multiple people. Yeah, because she hates when she's gone and you weren't telling her where you were going. One time I had my brother was spending the night at my apartment. She was not sure about. She was not sure about it. She still not sure about it. And he accidentally shut the door in the living room, locked her in. And so she went and pooped literally right next to his head on the couch. And my brother didn't know what it was because he had never smelled her poop before because usually it's in the litter box. We have very similar cats because butters the same way to the point that like when I would bring a guy over, I wouldn't even give him the whole spiel that I have a cat because they're not going to see it. Right? So I was like one guy remember stayed at my house for like a long time, like all day. No, he didn't have a job. And he was, we were just hanging out and he had nowhere to go. No, it'd be probably not a house. None of them think about it. And we were relying there. And like hours went by. And when it gets really quiet, sometimes better. I don't know where she runs across the bed, across both of us. Yeah. He squealed. It seemed like it was a huge rat. Yeah. Because it's a spirit city. And I was like, oh, yes, my god. Oh my god. She's squirted over us. Wait, that would, that would scare the cat. He shot himself. Yeah. And also shout out to all the foster cats to out there. If you foster, you don't just save one life. You save many. One time I got home from a weekend trip with my husband and then had to go back to the airport to pick up my in-laws who were staying with us for the week. We just walked in the apartment, had enough time to unpack our own stuff, clean the litter box, and feed the cats. Then we left for the airport. After we picked up my in-laws, we walked back into the apartment. I showed them into the guest room to find that our cat Mingo fully took a shit on the guest bed, mortifying. I think he was mad because he thought we were leaving him again. We laugh about it now, but I was so embarrassed and horrified. One time two of my girlfriends came to stay with me and Daphne woke up in the morning and like obviously wanted them to leave. So she went on to the bed. She looked at both of them and they were like, oh my god, she's so cute and she was just peeing. They didn't know until they built something warm. And she's a silent assassin. She had better with this, though. I feel like as a kid and she was a little more. She's better now. Wild with her bladder. Yeah, now she's like, okay, I guess you can stay. She hasn't had an accident when I'm like leaving in a couple weeks. Months. Couple minutes. There is something though, but cat litter where I think they love like it's a familiar smell. So when you bring them somewhere new and you put down the cat litter, they're like, oh, I'm home, which is kind of like me when I go to a restaurant and I'm nervous. I have social anxiety because I go to the bathroom and I sit there and I go, oh, I'm at peace. Anytime I go somewhere and I have to bring Daphne and I have obviously her emergency bag. Wherever we get to our destination, I show her this is where your litter box is and this is where your food and water is. That's all you really need in life. Yeah, and I feel like she understands like, "Okay, cool, thank you." Where do I eat? Where do I shit? And let's take on life together. Yeah. So when you have like friends visiting, what do you do to prepare? Well, I did everything for my girlfriends before they got there, like let them sleep in my bed, like did new sheets, had like cute things on their night side table until like I tried to plan everything very adorable. And Daphne just came in and was like, "No, I don't think so." See when I have guests, they're coming into Butter's house. Yeah, that's right. I'm not changing my house for the guests. I said the reason this little like spiral toy is right there is because that's where she likes to play with. I also just bought this huge play thing made of like recycled materials and it looks like a cave. And it's huge. And I just put in the middle of the living room and I have a full family visiting next week, but they're going to have to walk around because these cats are loving it. I count on Arm and Hammer Cat litter when I'm getting the house ready. Arm and Hammer Cat litter is the one thing I don't have to think twice about. Okay, so we lovingly call our cat Pino the Mino because she is well, she's a little bit of a psychopath, but our faux pas is we had our buddy living with us for a summer. This is a 33-year-old grown man and he lived upstairs where the guest bedroom was. And one night at like 11.30 pm, we get a call from him and we're like, "Well what the heck, like you are inside that, like why are you calling us right now?" So this man is calling us because Pino, the Mino, is standing at the top of the stairs and basically guarding the stairs and will not let this man walk past her. So a grown-ass 33-year-old man is terrified of our cat and cannot walk past and has to call us for reinforcements for us to protect him and let him get to his own bedroom. So yes, we were hosting because he was living with us. She didn't do anything yucky, but you know, I guess she just had some good judgment here. She said, "No man allowed. It's fine." She's a woman with conviction. She could have done anything in that house and she was like, "You know what I'm going to do? Defend the land." She's like, "This is my house and I must defend it." Wait, I just like want, I wish like, "Okay, can we come up with AI that's actually useful? Like what are our cats thinking in their brains?" Like, what was she thinking? When she was standing at the top of the stairs, like, "Can I get past me, bud?" Like, why is she like putting her claws out? I was like, "If you're a grown man, what could the cat, what, but your ankle?" I was just going to say also, like, I think what the worst cat can do is like, scratch your life. That's a bad PR because there's like, in cartoons or movies, cats always like, scratch your face. Like, you know, like when they could jump on your, like, no cats ever jumped on my face and latched on and not come off. Could he actually scratch me for the first time last week? Yeah. I was laying in bed sleeping. I'm on my side and she's like, "I'm on my side. I'm not facing her. My back is towards her. She's laying like right here by my head. I think she was falling off the bed because she put her paw up. I'm not kidding. She gripped my ear to, like, hold on. Wakes me up." She was titanicking it. She was going down at the ship and she was holding it. I think she, like, rolled over too hard and was like, "Oh, no." And also, Pino D'Amino, like, you have to be an it girl to have, like, lore that you have that kind of nickname that's being talked about in Gagley Squad, like, she's that girl. Yeah. She's telling me. He knows Amino. Hannah the banana. Hannah the banana. Hannah the banana. You're not doing it right. Yeah. Okay. I love all of these stories because they truly feel like we're connected because we're all cat moms. And it's a very special bond. Yeah. And if you don't have a cat right now, you should adopt one. No, you should literally look into it. Look what mom say about kids. It's worth it. It's worth it, even though it's really can be hard sometimes. Arm and Hammer cat litter gives me peace of mind when hosting. And it just keeps everything fresh. So be guest ready with Arm and Hammer cat litter. Shop on Amazon or Walmart. And upgrade your litter experience. Thank you, Arm and Hammer for sponsoring this bonus episode. And thank you to everyone who talks about their cats.