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(Bonus) The gang is still on that date
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Donuts, gymnastics, the merits of Cruella's crusade. Everyone catches strays.
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Paco's Podcast Debut
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but Paco, is this your first time on a podcast? This is my first time on a podcast. I've listened to quite a few. Yeah, you're an avid consumer. I consume this shit out of podcasts. Whoa, you've got to go through the salty language. Oh, my God. No, not at all. Don't fucking worry about it. I can cut that shit out. Out of podcasts, yeah.
America's Dog Obsession
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Yeah, and didn't go over well, so I don't think he went back to it. He is anti-dog. Oh, that is the one political stance I will... Die on that hill. At least so far that's come up every episode is... Yeah, Horna is just... Whatever he can do to stamp out America's obsession with dogs, he's rather trying to do it. That's right. What about puppies? Oh, don't get me started on puppies.
00:00:59
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Did you have pets growing up, Paco? I did. I had a Dalmatian dog. His name was Spots. I think you could have just said Dalmatian, but... Well, I wanted to be clear that it wasn't a puppy. It was just a full grown dog. Oh, it was? Okay. I had a Dalmatian. Really? That's true. I did not know that they were aggressive at the time. And yeah, they're an aggressive breed. And I got bit. Well, I mean, don't they like... Firefighters and police officers have them, right? That makes sense. They'd want an aggressive dog there.
00:01:27
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I know. Yeah, but after watching 101 Dalmatians, you would think otherwise. Ah, those were puppies though. They didn't even know. They were puppies. And look what happened to them. Yeah, they got made into a coat. No, they didn't. They almost, they got away with it. You almost got there, but damn, those damn puppies. Jasper and Boris didn't make it happen, I guess.
Cruella's Dalmatian Dilemma
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Did you guys see Cruella, like the Disney movie a couple of years ago? No, I didn't. Is it with Emma Stone? Emma Stone. Because these movies have to, these prequel movies, they give a backstory for why Cruella hates Dalmatians. And I could spoil it if you guys want to, but it's incredible. It's just like, I want to hear this.
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It's so they show like Cruella as a young girl with her parents at a, I don't know, some some gathering party thing at a like a mansion on the cliffs and a bunch of stuff. How did they get killed in the back alley? Pretty close. Dude, you're so you don't you won't believe like her parents get knocked off the cliff by a pack of Dalmatians that are just running around.
00:02:49
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It's the, they deserve to get made in jackets and monsters, filthy beasts. Uh, it's, uh, it's pretty incredible that they, they are like, well, how do we, how do we back justify this? Yeah. You know, looking at the, uh, if you're tasked with that, you're in the writer's room and you're like, all right, so we got this kid, she wants to murder these puppies. How do we humanize? And that's right.
00:03:18
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When you were talking about the two Christian girls, there was a budget. You didn't know any of their names. There was a ton of bleeps around that. Oh, because we did say names. Oh, we tried to give them names? Yeah. Well, you were bleeping out fake names. You gave up a name and just to bleep it. Some girl, let's call her James Bleep.
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Right. I will say I, uh, censoring assets factory was difficult because the word is so long that it was a lot of times it would, it would like bleep and then it would say factory. So it's like, well, kind of pretty good sense of who that is. I never would have thought about the, the length of a, of a, of a beep clip that it's got a, it's got a limit on it. Yeah. So if you say factory, that's.
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Well, if you say it real slow, you have to do multiple beeps for the same word. Beep, beep, beep, beep. Remember, everything's wrong. Every time we say it, I do have to go in and manually. Oh, my God. That's all well and good within hours of this time. That's OK.
00:04:32
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We're getting a lot of the Paco, but let's hear from the lockdown guys. Yeah. How do you guys keep it going? Especially Valentine's Day.
00:04:43
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What were your approaches for that?
Valentine's Day Traditions
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Well, step one, do you actually like celebrate like Valentine's Day or you're like, not forget that it's, you know, made up holiday. Well, I mean, it was a weekday this year. So, you know, I had to take care of the kids first, right? They still got school. Who's speaking? Who is this? A trick for sure.
00:05:10
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Yeah, I can go. Whoever. You can both go at the same time if you want. I can just edit one of us out. Whoever has the better story, I guess. Man. Good. Christi's not that into it in general, but a big thing is I've always made a steak dinner. We pretty much almost never eat steak. I don't know how that started or why that started, but I always make some sort of
00:05:35
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steak and risotto, like some sort of dinner that takes longer than dinners normally do. Um, and then we'll have like a, I don't know, romantic set up or whatever. And sometimes some, some gifts and, uh, but, uh, sometimes we'll go like every other year or every few years we'll go on like a trip. So like we've been to like, uh, Disney world for Valentine's day. And last year we went to super Nintendo world for Valentine's day. We kind of just go to, you know,
00:06:01
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fun places. And I will say a lot of these like event locations are great to go to around Valentine's Day because effectively nobody like it's not the summer. So like none of the families and stuff are there. You get it, Steve. Yeah. So like the crowd, there's just no crowds at all. It's awesome.
00:06:20
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It's also not your traditional place. So you have everybody else is busy doing kind of. There's a lot for sure. There's a lot of couples. Like if you look at February 13th, verse 14, verse the 15th, the 14th is like an uptick and it's mainly like couples like at some of these places. But but yeah, definitely less than what you would see over the summer. But yeah, we don't take it too seriously. Although Christy this year, she did.
The Yeast Donut Quest
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She disappeared in the morning. She's like, I got a secret thing I got to go do. I was like, oh,
00:06:52
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I guess she's finally finally cheating on me. That's what it is. But no, it turns out so like a month ago or maybe like two months ago, I got a strange desire for and none of you are going to guess where this is going. But this like this hankering for proper doughnuts and I don't mean like cake doughnuts. I mean like yeast doughnuts like like a standard like puffy doughnut. Think like a crispy cream type doughnut is like a yeast doughnut, but just
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Alright, well, I guess, uh...
00:07:21
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but just better. And I feel like when I was a kid, there were donut shops all over the place, like mom and pop donut shops that made that type of donut. But here in Philadelphia and surrounding areas.
00:07:32
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there's not a lot of those donut shops anymore. Instead, most places do cake donuts and it's because cake donuts take a lot less preparation and you don't need all these additional chemicals like rye to make the donut. So people have kind of just switched over to cake donuts. So anyway, so I very specifically wanted a
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maple frosted like Long John yeast donut. And I just kind of mentioned that and there was like, nothing. I was like, yeah, whatever. Her and her sister drove two hours away to Central PA, picks them up at an Amish market. Wow. I don't know if it's great, but between Wednesday and Thursday, it wasn't great. Six of those donuts. No, no. It was real shit. I don't know.
00:08:17
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I didn't tell her this, but it was the worst that I ever had. I don't know if it's good at my age that I ate six of those donuts. Oh my God. In like a day and a half. So like every six hours I was having one pretty much. But they were delicious. And I didn't want them to go bad. Plus it was a gift. I wanted to show, you know, I was thankful. I just throw it away. Yeah. Yeah, no choice. I understand.
00:08:45
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Uh, but I guess that's like all that. What's that? That's a very good gift. Uh, yeah, for sure. It's like a really thoughtful gift. My gifts tend to be like, here's a, here's a new iPhone or like, just like, I don't know. It's not, it's like, Oh, that's a nice thing, but not necessarily like a super thoughtful thing. Like she, like she does need a new phone or whatever. So it's not like
The Delayed Valentine's Card
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thoughtless, but, uh, yeah, that was much more like, Oh, I'm going to pay attention to stuff you say and actually act on it. So.
00:09:14
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I always thought that was the key this and i all this time i didn't need to listen.
00:09:22
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I'm not saying I'm a thoughtless, heartless son of a bitch or anything. I'm just saying that she's better at picking up on some of those things than I am. Sometimes I won't even notice that. That donor thing, I don't think I was consciously thinking about it all the time. I just had said it at that one point. Your mouth was watering. It's just like a trigger.
00:09:45
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Yeah, but all to say like we don't we don't take it that don't take that particular day that seriously We definitely do stuff but it's not like some years have been much more low-key than others and that's perfectly fine I mean objectively as you're describing it you guys do you know, you don't ignore it's like it's a Wednesday, right? You are creating Experiences and events maybe they're not traditional stuff, but it sounds like you do take it pretty seriously like you never forget do something
00:10:15
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I got her a Valentine's Day card last year and just forgot to give it to her. And then I've been I've been telling her about it for the last year. And then I finally I was like, well, at this point, I might as well just give it to you next year. And then I finally gave it to her this year and I forgot what I wrote in it. But it's one of these I don't know if you've seen there's these new cards that they're like they have like 3D pop ups. And so it was like this a bunch of a bunch of hearts and stuff and all that. Whatever. That's just all nonsense.
00:10:43
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But the fun part is the part that you write on is actually like a little insert. So I wrote a secret message on the back of it, and the secret message was the code from Lost. And she'd never seen Lost, so she immediately looked up that code and had all of Lost spoiled for her, because it talks about that code. So yeah, so it kind of ended on a sour note a little bit, but you know. Oh, that wasn't the plan to be malicious.
00:11:16
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Well, that's what the lost writers did to me, so fuck him. Yeah, that's projecting for sure.
00:11:26
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She caught all that. Yeah. Just straight after straight. No, I think I assumed that she would never notice that. It would just be something that she stumbled upon at some point, not immediately pull it out and look at the because who looks at the back and the place somebody writes. Yeah. Yeah. She took it all in.
00:11:43
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Maybe. All right. Okay. That's enough of my rambling steam. Well, so in between, do you guys feel Valentine's Day calls for some type of bedroom for Rolex? For Rolex? Yeah. Honey, I know you've been wanting to rotate the bed and I've been like, my back, but you know what? Let's do it. Today we're going to rotate that bed.
00:12:08
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I don't, I mean, I don't think so necessarily, but, uh, you know, to, to each their own, I suppose. So I keep it a hundred every night. Yeah. We all know that. What's your call on this? You know, it's, uh, I'm intentionally, uh, quiet here. I know.
00:12:36
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He's pretty tired after Valentine's Day. You could just say a relationship in general. It's all good, man. Everything's great. What I was going to say before this devolves was that it's, well, one, you know, both full-time working as everybody knows, then we have also the
00:13:03
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during that February timeframe, it's also on the tail end of like, like Charlie's birthday is on the third, Juliet's birthday is a week later on the 10th. And then- The presidency. And we all can't forget about our leaders. Our founding fathers. Yeah, but we always do something. We always have like, we did, whether it's like a date night or oftentimes now that the kids are older, it'll be like, I'll get things, you know, always do chocolate and card and flowers and also bring, get the kids involved in it where they,
00:13:33
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They're the ones that give mom the flowers and all that. So it's a lot of that. It's always, yeah, we always think about it. We do.
Alternative Gifts: Lego Flowers
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Christy's not super new challenger. Christy's not into like traditional, like presentational flowers, like roses, stuff like that, like plants and stuff she's all about. But like, so recently, we've been doing like Lego flowers. Those have been going on.
00:14:00
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It's like a, they literally call it adult Lego sets. And it's like, you build up these, these flowers that you can then put on display. My God, that's genius. Yeah. Yeah. That's how I, I like to think about it. They're pretty good. And when you're building the Lego set, like the, the actual book has a bunch of information about the flowers that you're building, like how they grow and where they're from, like all this stuff. It's pretty nice.
00:14:30
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Yeah, a lot of the the again, they're they're pitched as literally called adult Lego sets, which I feel like for some people means a different thing, but they almost purposefully have the set split up into like player one, player two, like, so you do building together. Yeah.
00:14:50
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That's that's good that's that's that's good but i'm glad i'm glad you know is the fact that well maybe if i. You are saying that you are going to grow but you have a knowledge that like if i did that would maybe that you would need to. Yes i think i'm more understanding that this is still a lot to learn. Technically when when john wick is the ring that they cut his finger off so.
00:15:16
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Oh, spoiler, man. I don't even know what movie that was. Well, I don't want to say because then Horna will be expecting it. Now, every film, you're just going to be watching hands like, oh, what's that? I just saw that Netflix got John Wick 2 just came on.
00:15:39
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There goes, there goes my weekend. Again, why even watch it? I know what's going to happen a few films later. So Doug, you're probably so at this point, you've met everybody in Christie's family at this point, right? Like you're, you were mentioning it last week about her dad. No family. Is it a big family? Well,
00:16:00
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Yeah, not in the like. Yes, I guess. Yes. Short answer. Yes. But I also know that like on like the Peruvian side of my family or whatever, there's like like four hundred cousins and second cousins and like uncles that are like it's extended family means a much different thing. But like here, it's like, yeah, yeah, there's a there's a decent. It's like 20, 20 something people.
00:16:27
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have any of them or like really mainly like her parents or whatever kind of giving you like a look like like, alrighty, you know, should I get off the pot here? Or should you tell like, you know, what's what are you doing? No, I think I
00:16:43
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No, her parents are pretty chill about that just because all of her sisters, she has three sisters and a brother. They're all kind of at varying relationships, most of them about the same length of time, and only one of them officially sanctioned under God. And that was an actual shotgun wedding. Was that the Utah crew? Yeah, of course.
00:17:11
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Yeah, that's right. Chris has hung out with some of Christie's family at Thanksgiving. Oh, get out of here, really? Yeah, in Colorado of all places. Yeah, did we break bread? I know we played a goose game, but I don't know if we broke some pumpkin pie. Yeah, I think we did break bread. Yes. This was in the heat of the pandemic. Oh boy, that was risky for sure. Chris didn't give a fuck.
00:17:37
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Not Matt, Matt refused to even say hello when I was in Colorado. Yeah, he would decline my calls. No, no, no, I bet Doug's with you. Let me turn that, I'm not gonna answer that. I've actually asked him about that and he's like, I don't know what actually happened. I'm like, oh, all right. Because he was like there, he just didn't answer his phone.
00:18:04
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Yeah, cool. Cool guy. Cool guy. So he was too busy hanging out with his other best friend. It's a race. Better be that. Oh, that's right. The fake guy. What's his name? Tim or something. Tim, Tom. He was rich. It was rich. It was rich. The motherfucker didn't even stay for the ceremony.
00:18:33
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He did his part. He said his speech and. Yeah, but we said we said ours and then we stuck around for dancing and then pizza and then cookies and no fucking cake. But then we're dancing gymnastics. I really felt like I know. Stakes, I forgot about that. I can't believe I missed all that because when when I left what like betting the kids went to bed,
00:18:58
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And I felt like we're all just kind of hanging out at the table. And there was like that pizza. It was felt like it was winding down. And then you guys showed me in the morning, all these videos back and lattice going on. And like, you guys were having like the best time. Not a text, nothing. Uh, we, we assumed you were, you know, kissing your kids on the forehead on the forehead and then, you know, just sitting, reading Twitter or whatever you want to, want to disturb that.
00:19:28
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nightly ritual.
Wedding Connections
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Uh, yeah. Well, I mean, the whole, the whole sequence of events was all just constructed to see if we could get Paco to connect with his dentist. Oh man. Chris was loving that. I mean, he was just like, just putting his hands together.
00:19:51
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rubbing his hands and just loving it. Are you sidestepping anything specific, Paco, here? Say nothing, if that's true. No, I'm not sidestepping nothing. Since the wedding, have you talked to anybody from the wedding besides the people that are on this call? Anybody besides that? No, I have not. No, I have not. I'll say that.
00:20:19
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Uh, no, no, I'm gonna say no. Uh, you're going to say no, but do you mean no? Or is it actually? I'm going to say and mean probably no. Doug's beating around the bush. He wants to know if you're going to join Rich's podcast after this. It's like, I got a hard stop at four. So, uh, yeah, everybody did think you were dating the dentist. That was a good thing.
00:20:46
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No, no, no, I mean, she was fun. Like, you know, but I was. Was that a new challenger again?
Relationship Red Flags
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That's not the bat. Oh, yeah, I'm here in the bat, but I heard a ooh. Yeah, he said she was fun. Oh, oh, oh, you're remembering, remembering what happened.
00:21:08
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That's the most information he's ever given us before. I guess that's true. Wait, didn't you go? I feel like you went on a date near me recently. Not recently. Near you? Oh, I was in. Yeah. Oh, that's right. I went to Pennhurst for Halloween. That wasn't a date. It was a group of friends. So that was fun. Well, that's how Horna started dating. So that's true. Six years later.
00:21:34
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Is there is there a red flag? Like you're you're back on the scene, Paco. Is there a red flag or you're just you just take what you can get? Take them all down. Yeah, there's there's red flags and then it's just up to you if you choose to ignore them. What's what's an example of a red flag? Like if they don't have any friends, it's a red flag, you know.
00:22:04
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Yeah, that's true. Why don't you have any of your own friends, like close friends, you know, or friends, you know, more than a year. Like a three on three pickup game, right?
00:22:22
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Um, yeah, we'll say that's a red flag. Uh, that's a, that's a, that's a very solid answer. Like I wouldn't have thought about that, but then, uh, yeah, that, that actually kind of aligns with some of the stuff I've, that we've talked about Chris, like this idea of like people, at least in my mind, successful relationships, the individuals need to be both able to be together, but also to be apart. Yeah. That's, that's.
00:22:49
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I mean, uh, a healthy relationship, right? You'd want to spend some time, uh, apart from each other, uh, just as much as we need to go. Wait, Horner, what's your tape on this? Cause I've heard Doug's and I'm hearing Paco's, but Betty's slipping him some notes on what to say. All right. Well, according to this, uh, yeah, that's all I need.
00:23:22
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Oh, all right. That's okay. There you go, Chris. Did you get, did you get what you needed out of that? I can hear me. No, no. Chris, are you back? You know, you know what I noticed on this setup that I got right now is that it'll, uh, timeout, it'll go idle.
Technical Glitches in Conversations
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And then it, it
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kick me off when I started. Oh, like if you're not interacting with the website or something, that makes sense. It really did seem like you said a bunch of stuff and then like Betty's pulled the power cord. You're done here. This dinner is not going to make itself. Speaking of that, I need to go.