Bonus Giggly Hotline: cats, chaos, and hosting disasters

**Hannah Berner** (0:00)
This bonus episode is brought to you by Arm & Hammer Cat Litter.

**Paige DeSorbo** (0:03)
We love a little extra bonus.

**Hannah Berner** (0:05)
Especially when it's about our cats. I could talk about my cat for two hours, I could do a full Ted Talk.

**Paige DeSorbo** (0:10)
No, literally.

**Hannah Berner** (0:11)
She's stunning, she's gorgeous, she's a model, she knows she's pretty.

**Paige DeSorbo** (0:14)
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 when I see a cute cat, I go, wait, but which person would prefer this cat for me to send it to? So I do have a ton of ragdoll cats on my feed because I send you all of 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.

**Hannah Berner** (0:39)
You're inundated with cats.

**Paige DeSorbo** (0:41)
And I'm curating the perfect cat meme for everyone. It's exhausting, but it's the life I chose.

**Hannah Berner** (0:46)
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.

**Paige DeSorbo** (1:06)
Particularly if a man comes in her direction, she doesn't want to hear or see she's hissing. A woman, she'll give a chance. There were teenage 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 around?

**Hannah Berner** (1:25)
Why do they do that after? I think because they're like, oh, I'm so skinny. I like to think that Daphne's like, hit my goal weight after that one. I'm not wearing down anymore.

**Paige DeSorbo** (1:34)
Let's go.

**Hannah Berner** (1:36)
Let's party. Let's get out of here.
And then they're like, oh, it was 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 the litter box. And they're like, cool. Thanks for the heads up.

**Paige DeSorbo** (1:54)
You don't have to talk about it anymore. That's what I do.

**Hannah Berner** (1:56)
And that's all you talk about it with them.

**Paige DeSorbo** (1:58)
That's so much smarter than a child. You know how long you have to potty train your cat? Your cat is like perfect.

**Hannah Berner** (2:06)
I looked up one time, like what is Daphne, not Daphne specifically, but like what is, what are ragdolls brain capacity? And someone was like three years old. And I was like, yeah, I have a three year old daughter who loves getting brushed.

**Paige DeSorbo** (2:21)
I do have to say, I've gotten people so close to the point of adopting cats, to then they go, but I have a really small apartment, I can't have it smelly.

**Hannah Berner** (2:29)
I was one of those people.

**Paige DeSorbo** (2:31)
You were, because you love cleanliness.

**Hannah Berner** (2:32)
I was one of those people that was like, I'm not having an odor in my apartment, I'm not having like a litter box.

**Paige DeSorbo** (2:37)
Arm & 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, 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.

**Hannah Berner** (2:57)
She literally does act like it's 1456 and she lives in England and she's the queen and she's like, I don't remember inviting them over.

**Paige DeSorbo** (3:05)
Your apartment smells so good. Like you would never know.

**Hannah Berner** (3:10)
The odor is nice.

**Paige DeSorbo** (3:11)
That a cat lives there.

**Hannah Berner** (3:12)
Okay, so we asked some Gigglers to send in stories about crazy things that their cat has done whilst hosting, while people are around. We're gonna listen to some of them.

**Paige DeSorbo** (3:22)
And make some comments.

**Hannah Berner** (3:23)
Yeah, and hear what other crazy cats are doing.

**SPEAKER_5** (3:25)
Hi Paige, hi Hannah. So my kitty's name is Margarita. Girl is a Giggler. She loves to couch-raw, loves watching TV and always puts her little mittens on the TV when the yarn bomb makes a special guest appearance. So it's July 5th and I'm hosting a watch party for the Mexico vs England World Cup game. Since this is a sports podcast. I'm Mexican, my family is Mexican. So my parents and friends are over. I have a Chilequile bar, a Margarita bar. Super cute. The guests arrive. Marge is on her perch the whole game, but then we're 70 minutes in. My friend plays her Margarita by the TV.