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The one where the gang has a perfect Sunday
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Paco seems to really be ripping off most of his roommates. Dishes are put away, atm fees are thoroughly debunked, and we finally get to the bottom of how much R rolling is too much.
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Unique dynamics in a mixed household
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So, I mean, Christie started out as a rattle, right? Oh, is that right? Yeah, that's right. Interesting. So Paco, you know, keep your wits about you because they come from anywhere. Well, it is like, it is a, I guess, a mixed house. So there's guys and girls. And by that, it's just there's one girl, but... Man, whatever floats your boat. Wow.
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Uh, first off, never tell me the odds.
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that Second, uh, you know, whatever again, you, uh, I would, you, are you starting to get like, um, like white hairs on like the side of your head yet?
Gray hair: To dye or not to dye?
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Uh, yeah. Yeah. That's new as of like this year. That is really, yeah. Yeah. Cause I, yeah. Well, I've had it for a couple of years, but. I guess, I guess, uh, I guess I've had some, um, but like this year on the beard, that's, that's the new, the new thing. But you didn't have it at temple. I feel like we both know. Nope. Just me. Just me.
00:01:15
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Yeah, this year it's like, there's one little patch that is like, it's a white, but when I have a long beard, I can like hide them. They like just kinda, you know, fade away. But I recently shaved it all off. I didn't go clean shaven, but I went like stubble, like very short. Like mutton chops? Mutton chops. And so you can tell a little more. How old is this guy?
00:01:45
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Uh, uh, interesting. Yeah, that's okay. Wait, so is your patch like in that, right in the, like on your chin? Yeah, it's like the side, like side chin. Uh, oh, so, oh, just not like sides are literally just one side. Just one side. It's not in the center. It's like, it's like offset from the center and it's just the one side. And I'm like,
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Yeah, wait. So are you trying are you trying to hide it because that's a ridiculous location or are you trying to hide it because you don't want these kids to know that? you're Well, and I thought about like, should I die? it Should I not? And I haven't done anything. I'm just leaving it like it just is what what it is. But I'm gonna say it's that the early distinguished look. I feel like I've had ah white in my beard for a minute, like four four or five years. um My-in-law, who's only two years older than me, he's had like the majority of his beard, I think is is white now, but also he has like three kids and a wife and you know whatever, ah real responsibilities.
Travel tales: Amsterdam and beyond
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um and But yeah, this is this is new for me.
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Yeah, I feel like, uh, horn is, uh, maybe, maybe he has ah a full head of white hair or maybe he has a full white beard with all the his stress levels, but he's keeping it, he's keeping it a secret. So. Yeah. Like he said, when he keeps saying people keep getting hurt at work, I imagine it adds to stress.
00:03:28
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It's either the microphone on the laptop or it's just next to the settings on it.
00:03:34
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Hmm. Uh, I guess, uh, Paco's doing dishes. He's trying to kick that pipe loose. I've, I've heard of, I've heard of, I mean, I know I personally listened to podcasts while doing dishes, but being on a podcast while doing dishes is. It's multitasking.
00:03:53
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Yeah, that's yeah thats what that's pretty good. All right, pocket. what what Give me play by play. what What does your Sunday look like? Either this Sunday or just a Sunday in check in general? well Well, this Sunday, I was telling i was telling Chris, this Sunday, my son that came I came to my parents' place because they're away for a while. so ah know You're going to throw a rager? You didn't even call us? Yeah, dude. It's party time up in here.
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And so,
Brunch culture: DC vs college life
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no, I was cutting the grass, making sure everything's in order and whatnot, but yeah. Getting the getting the dishes put away. because And putting putting them dishes away, you know it. I'm just a good son like that. They're still outside Harrisburg, around Harrisburg? Yeah, yeah. That's right. Nice, nice. All right, so that's not, but you're saying that's not your normal Sunday. No. um I guess my, I don't know, it it depends. um I'm usually- Okay, let's put it this way. how would What would you prefer your Sunday to be? How would it play out?
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ah probably Probably staying in the the DMV area in Arlington. and then That's DC for the listeners.
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Yeah, yeah, for sure. And then brunch because it's DC. So, you know, you got to do brunch and then wherever. Did you do brunch before DC? Or was that a thing you started in DC? It's probably a thing I have done a lot more regularly um in DC. And just so there's, there's some really good brunch spots around. So just rubbing shoulders with some young staffers. Yeah.
00:05:43
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Nice. Very nice. and Well, I guess we did brunch in state college, right? Like Waffle Shop? Yeah. Yeah, I guess, you know, yeah, there's there's that Waffle Shop, but they're not doing that. Denny's at four in the morning. You're not going to get bottomless mimosas at Waffle Shop or Denny's.
00:06:04
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No, I think a small glass of orange juice at Waffle Shop is like $5 per glass. No refills. No refills. That's fresh squeeze right there. Do you know how hard it is to get oranges in Central PA? I was like, I don't know, grocery store. Feels like it's not that hard, but I don't run a breakfast shop, so you know.
Navigating travel costs: ATM fees and more
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You know, that was a good operation they had there because it was, well, it's not anymore, but it was all cash.
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And then they had their ATM there. Yeah, that was good. I feel like a lot of smaller, smaller plate, like there's a great like Vietnamese bakery around the corner for me. And they do like, like bond me's, but also like croissants and baguettes and all the French colonizer stuff and with their cash only. And they have an ATM because they're like, Oh,
00:06:59
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Pay our $5 surcharge if you want to get cash out. But isn't that the doesn't the money go to whatever bank put the ATM there? No. no Yeah, no, you own it, so you set the fee. Go ahead. So so the the bank will charge you on their end, right?
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but Charles Schwab, right? Then they, you get reimbursed for. First off, not a sponsor. I don't know why we're. They're sponsoring us. And so, uh, yeah, they, uh, then they'll reimburse your NEATMP worldwide. So it's a good, it's a good option. Um, that's what was it? What in Japan wasn't like the only place to get not destroyed by ATM fees was like seven 11. Yeah, that was exactly.
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Yeah, that's that's crazy. And also can use cards anywhere, is cash only. Yeah, so you had to like, if you're taking out, you would take out money from your thing and then they would automatically get converted. And I forget what that cost was. Wait, they you you got money out, but then you still have to convert it?
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No, it it does convert it for you, but that was part of the cost. um But it wasn't there was like the cheapest cost they had there. Right, because they're laundering the money for you. So they take their vig. I feel like I've gotten like mixed messages with like you know some people say, like you know get your money out of out of an ATM, because you know the banks will give you the best the best exchange rates. But then I've heard, like no, don't do that. You get worse exchange rates.
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go to, you know, whatever exchange rate place and then change your American, you know, the US s dollars.
Missed flights and miracle solutions
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take a I think it's, uh, I feel like it's, if you get the money out state side, you're you're better off, but you can only carry, you only should carry around so much money, like internationally, like on a flight or whatever. So that is limiting. And I think the,
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exchange Like when you land in the country, the exchange places at the airport are terrible. yeah yeah like ah so Yeah, I heard, don't don't do it at an airport, go to whatever local bank or something. Yeah, so it's it's rough either way. That's what it sounds like. Well, I mean, Japan, the yen is so weak, it doesn't really matter. like it's just I mean, it's pretty much free money.
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but but other countries for sure sorry matt the thing of running out of all his money ah well yeah i mean here that that you know McGrew Break glass in case of emergency bag yeah asking for basically i know what the conversion was but they were twenty s and yeah they're two hundred and in up yeah yeah' you another one i here another one and i was like oh's I remember running out of
00:10:25
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all of my money in Amsterdam but this was like it was the last you know it was the end of the trip and I was just I just needed to get home and I get to the airport and you know they direct me to wherever line I needed to go to and then when I get to the front of the line this is maybe 45 minutes later they're like oh no you're going on an international flight you need to go to the others the other freaking you know united gate or whatever. And so it wasn't like, you know, one or two gates, you know, down it was like on the other side of the airport. And ah so then there was like, no, the gates closed, you can't you can't get on this flight, you're gonna have to book another flight.
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And at that point I was like, you know, I can't afford to to book another flight. I went to the gate agent. ah They were like, nope, sorry. And I still had maybe like 30 minutes before the flight actually took off.
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But they would not let me through. They're like, nope, it's too late. The gates closed. So you're going to have to buy another ticket. And so I stayed in the airport probably 24 hours. But in that time, I waited for you. How did they put you on standby or whatever?
00:11:43
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No, no, they were just they didn't even allow me to do that. What? But I waited for the the shift change. I went up to another gate agent, this super nice old lady. And I told her, you know, I told her what happened, that they directed me one way. And she was like, oh, my gosh, they're doing they're doing construction at the airport. I can see how it's how it's confusing in like five minutes. She booked me another flight.
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And actually, she she even changed the final destination. I think I was go i was landing in in Dulles, but I wanted
The Terminal: Fact vs fiction
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to land in Philly. She did that, no cost. and It was like, yeah, ah super easy. And so those gate agents have a lot of power, and they just sometimes they just don't want to help you out. Do you think that Paco charm that can barely handle the hotel?
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beginning of the shift, they can't take it in the shift there. So then it's like, you know what? All right. Let's see what you got. Do you do you feel like the old lady helped you out because you still got a wild baby face? Um, I did have like, if she had, if she had, if she interpreted you as like, just like an, like an old 45 year old man, did you think she would treat you the same? Probably not.
00:13:05
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Uh, yeah, probably not. Cause, uh, yeah, when that happened, I looked like a little snot nose kid, no, no facial hair, nothing. And I was like, I don't know what I'm going to do. And so, yeah. Wow. I can't remember the last time I saw you without facial hair. Yeah. It's been a while. You know, that movie with Tom Hanks where he's like trapped in the airport for years, horse gum. Yeah.
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That was one of the plot points. Captain Phillips, right? Yeah. Terminal, I believe. Yeah. They fixed it on a real guy. Yeah. But yeah, that's crazy that it wasn't even about money. It was about a... Wasn't he going to get arrested if he went out of the airport or something? Yeah, because he had no... Well, kind of. I mean, the real guy, and I think this plays out in the movie too,
00:14:03
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ah The companies like from Czechoslovakia and as he was flying Czechoslovakia collapsed and no longer existed. Now there's like the Czech Republic and Slovakia so effectively.
00:14:16
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he did not belong to any country, so they had no way of letting him in, and they had no country to send him back to. Yeah, and I think they can they had something where he had been to a protest also, so he was considered a terrorist somewhere. oh So like that added on to that, so that like that's why he couldn't continue on to Britain or something like that he was trying to go to. But it also turned out he was a pathological liar. And it it's like once people backed- So that didn't help. Yeah, once people checked on his stories, they were they weren't true. Like he said he was trying to see his real mom or something who in England. And it turned out that was like far from true. love He was not part English.
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Are we talking, to are we talking with a real guy or Tom Hanks? Oh, I don't know if Tom Hanks is part English. I mean. Is he Czech? We can make some assumptions, I suppose. ah I don't think he's Czech. Well, maybe. I don't know, actually. I did just find out that I am part Eastern European.
00:15:32
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o well And that should do what 23 and me or something. So my my mom did it. Okay. So I think, you know, her I have to get some of her numbers. And her numbers were like 22% or something like that. That's pretty high. Yeah, that was way more than I expected. The 2% was probably more when I was thinking, but here we are. You feel like you're gonna do a lot more reading about like the ah the like ah Kosovo conflict in the 90s, just to you know feel a little- I feel like this is still too small of a sentence to care. for For anyone else to care, yeah, that's for sure. oh Oh, as in like if you went there, if you went to Kosovo today and you were- They wouldn't accept you as theirs.
00:16:28
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no Yeah, right. they would Oh, yeah, say what I'm talking here you're from here with that with that Irish ass last name get out of here right Get back to your island I Remember reading that Aguilar the first, you know Aguilar's were from Ireland and I found that to be interesting I don't know if that's true or not, but Like interesting.
Discovering ancestry through trade routes
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ah I mean, they're definitely the like, I dont don't know how we started Sunday and we're here, but there's definitely like a very interesting, like ah the the amount of like trading and interactions like ah people had like extends so far back, like way further back than the last like 500,000 years. Like there was these trade routes for for forever. Like the, in my mind, have you ever heard about, um
00:17:28
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Oh, I can't think of the name of it. There's there was a theory that tribes from like the western coast of South America, which would have been like Peru or Bolivia or somewhere in that area at that like a long time ago, they at some point decided to make a trek across the ocean.
00:17:50
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ah And they landed in the Philippines. And this is like a ridiculous theory. But then in the 50s or the 60s, there's a bunch of Dutch explorers that wanted to prove that it was possible. So they did it. They built ships like they would have had 2000 years ago and took that ship across the ocean and landed in the Philippines. Which I remember what they thought that was impossible.
00:18:19
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Uh, yeah, for sure. I mean, if you look at these ships, they're just, it's just like a, a pallet for a sail. Yeah. oh they were bad ships i oppos to ah but Well, I don't know if I'd say they're bad ships, but like a lot of like.
00:18:35
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Not Trans right they work these These are ships made for like nearby fishing not for Traveling across the ocean. Yeah, I'm not gonna speak speak ill of my people like that. I can't make ships um but ah Yeah, anyway, so now I remember from social 119 Well, the I guess the theory was like i Way back in the day when the continents were closer together there was a little pangaea yeah, there there was a a um I don't know a a router a way to to go from that Philippine area that like
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Asian area over to Peru and and you're saying South America, which is why there's a lot of Peruvian Central American that have like very similar traits to to people in the Philippines. And I was like, huh, interesting. i thought I thought the continents went together the other way. well I thought that would be a big part of a part where South America was like smashing up against Africa. Yeah. That's a good question. I don't know. Yeah, I guess we don't know where the Philippines
Pangea and historical connections
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went though. So maybe they were. Those those islands were, you know, pushing up against South America. I'm looking at the map now. Of Pangea. Yeah. This is a set a satellite photo of Pangea.
00:20:14
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um it ah south america did have africa on its eastern coast but they were still so they would still have to uh wow this is like hard to even like conceptualize your asia um i wonder because it shows like I wonder if Eurasia was closer to then than the way it looks on the map. Yeah. Well, that's true. like this type of like Whenever you look at a ah map, it's always immediately distorted and does not give you a good context of like what the distance is from like effectively like around the other way.
00:20:55
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Oh, yeah, don't no matter what it goes on that way. Yeah, it's impossible to do a correct map, but it does. I mean, yeah, like this map makes it look like, oh, if with Pangea, they would have just gone south over like Australia is like attached to Antarctica. They would have gone that way. But I think they would have still gone the other way. They were still gone ah west. So anyway, the point is ah that potatoes came from Peru and ended up in Europe and ah We are. We're still pretty upset about that, that the Irish Irish get. Yeah, they get the. crowd They get all the potato jokes. I'm like, what? Yeah, I mean, we get. That's our thing. We give Peru a lot of credit, but what when are they going to start taking, uh, you know, taking hits for some of the stuff they did. Oh, like get conquered. Yeah, exactly.
00:21:47
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It's true, true. They were at the top, they were at the top of the game for a little bit and then... ah Well, i would I don't even know, i mean I think they were like top of the, ah I don't even know if I would say Mesoamerica, it's literally just like the like the the the Incas never, I don't think they ventured that far north, as far as I know. so but But who knows, right?
00:22:16
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let's say they Let's say they did and they lost it. All I'm saying is chocolate, right, from Mexico, but the but the Swiss are known for their chocolate. Yeah,
00:22:34
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there's a lot of, yeah, there's a lot. I mean, there's just like so many things, which is like if a European country ah colonizer, if you will, is known for something, there's a good chance that they took it from somewhere. yeah like ah Like a high probability. I don't think it's 100%, but I think it's it's pretty damn close. It has to be the case where you look at England and how small they are, and then they get all this credit for
00:23:08
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their museums. How do you feel about them returning all of their stolen items back to the countries that that they came from? Yeah, that was that's a while too. Well, the man I I don't think I have a strong opinions as as some people. I do think like if a country asks, there's no reason not to like I I get. Well, right. Like the argument is like, oh, no, it's going to be a lot safer. Right. That's that's the part that I definitely am just like that is
00:23:41
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That's wild to break into somebody's house, steal their stuff. And then when they come to get it, come to get it back, it's like, oh no no no yeah, it looks it looks better in my house. I'm sorry. Like that's that's a. But like the the argument of like, oh, they should spend all they should just just kind of just give it all back on a whim. And no, I mean, like I get them wanting to have like a um come take it. Right. Right.
00:24:08
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ah No, I mean like part of it is this like a logistics problem like they stole so much stuff Like they have some like a million items in stores like well And that's the thing is like there's there's some things that like have not seen the light of day because they're in storage and it's culturally meaningful for for you know, whatever culture it's it's from yeah, and so ah Yeah, it's not not ah not not great. But I do like looking at it, I'm not gonna lie. And I do appreciate looking at it, all of it in one place. So that's also convenient. But ah yeah,
First class flights and airport luxury
00:24:49
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don't feel great. Speaking of which, I think ah i think there's a King Tut exhibition in in DC right now. Well, some of them are like literally yeah the country's loan out
00:25:01
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Right, that's what that's great this is. This is just like an exhibition thing. Zero problem with that. yeah Chris, what was the last museum you were at? Oh, wow. Oh no, I went to the, what's the one here? It's a couple. Well, do you you mean literally in the the suburbs by you or in Philadelphia? Yeah, the one in my apartment. No, the one in Philadelphia. I can't remember what.
00:25:30
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The big one is the Philly Art Museum. truly That's a good one. see Is there another one? Oh, the Franklin Institute. Yeah, yeah I went to a few of them back in the dinner back in the day. frank That's like the science and it's like a stem for kids, pretty much. I think the last one that I went to was for Matt's bachelor party, that the Museum of Pop Culture or something. I was like, we went to a museum? That's ah all right. we did We did go to a museum. Yeah.
00:26:00
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Uh, that's pretty good. That first day of his bachelor party was a pretty good time. ah Apparently that's why I missed all the fun. Cause that's when, that's when everything went down. Yeah. It was so, um, it was the, uh, the, the Seattle days were so demure. So just, yeah, yeah very mindful. Very much. What are we doing?
00:26:27
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Uh, but I mean, to be honest, like Matt was, uh, I think, uh, hungover for both of those days. So and you he was recovering and also it's his day. So whatever he wants to do, right? Yeah. Yeah. good I think it works like that. I don't know if it's that way or we were supposed to torture him because he's leaving the fold. Oh, uh, I what the mini and the bachelor parties is.
00:26:51
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Well, I think ah what was the place we went to? Pumps? Heels? What was that? I think we tortured him a little bit by going there. Oh yeah. So, but yeah, otherwise I think he was, he was in it. Paco, did you have a ah bachelor party? No, no, I didn't do, I didn't have nothing. Uh, no bachelor party, no, uh, ceremony. It was, uh, no honeymoon. Just no, not, uh, not really. We did go on a pretty,
00:27:21
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Nice trip to to Cancun, but that wasn't necessarily a honeymoon. That's the most honeymoon thing. How was how was it not a honeymoon? Too many kids? because i was like All those adult kids? But it was it was like a fantastic... that's I think that was the only... like Couples like international couples trip that we took which worked out great because um ah That year I ended like I had status with United and just randomly got Selected for an upgrade to first class, which was like fantastic um That was on the way there and on the way back but chris you you only fly first class now, right because you ball out and Oh, yeah, that's the way to do it. Oh, we first class. Because, you know, just being in back of there with a bunch of demons. You don't want you don't want some class. Yeah, and says in the cesspool. ah Yeah, that is. I mean, international, they have like beds and stuff like that.
00:28:27
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The chairs turn into beds. They make your bed. Well, now they have like sweets and everything. That is true. Those are one of those. But there's like first class and then there's like the premiere. Like there's a difference. I'm going to pay like $5,000 for this flight versus I'm going to pay $30,000 for this flight. Yeah. You got to get on the points game.
00:28:50
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That is true, I follow some of those and even the the points for those are still, it's like, you're okay, well, you're spending, I don't know, $30,000 on your Amex card in the next three months. It's still, now if you could figure out a way to like pay like your rent or your mortgage with a credit card, then. You can, with a bill credit card. Oh, the bill. Yeah, but it's like, it's its own points. Oh, like actually it actually does transfer, doesn't it? Yeah, it transfers.
00:29:19
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oh man I don't want all the credit cards, but especially not one just to to pay for housing. and so So I remember when we were in the Seattle airport, I think me and Matt went to a lounge or something like that. And Doug, you who are a you're a pretty avid traveler. He said something like that. You don't like going to lounges or something or you don't do that. Is that is that accurate? It's the opposite. I think we we we didn't go to the lounge because Horner didn't have I think it was like a ah like a delta or an Amex lounge or something like that. And Horner didn't have a status of any of those. And one of us would have to let us let him in and speak you know what? No, no, no, he's not with me. yeah
00:30:13
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ah yeah so they said Yeah, because I think you went to a lounge and then I end up meeting ah Matt and and Steve. had ah at a restaurant because, again, Horna would not have been allowed in the lounge. so but so with With some of those you know statuses or whatever, you get you get like a companion pass with you. You get a companion. ah Well, yeah. VentureX, all these companies are sponsoring today. VentureX, it's like yourself and you get, I think it's three other people with you.
00:30:49
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Hmm. Oh, that's a good bet. Yes, that's true. Amex used to now you now they they have to pay now that you do get like two a year or something like that. But you get like, um well, priority pass with priority passing get and a couple people with you, I think. And that is true. And also none none of these people are sponsors. That's why venture X is the way to go for millennials and gen X.
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terms Terms may apply. um that's ah All the links to everything are are in the description. In the doobly-doo.
The allure of airport lounges
00:31:34
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Either way, yeah no i'm ah I'm a true lounge convert. like if i If I'm at an airport, I'm in a lounge. I don't like being downstairs with the riff-raff. That makes the world different. so I mean, I've done like, like for a red eye flight, being able to go to the lounge and then take a shower at the lounge. It's just like, this is incredible. Well, yeah, because before it was like, I don't want to go to the airport any earlier than I have to. right And now I'm like, I want to get there early so I have time in the lounge to like,
00:32:11
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You know, have a drink or food or whatever. I want to be able to eat some mid buffet food. You know, getting so well, the the, one of the three capital one lounges are is is in Dallas. So that's where I fly. convenient So I am like there all the time. That's where I'm at right now. That's where I'm at right now.
00:32:36
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Look how quiet it is. and I never thought of letting me get to the airport to take a shower. Well, think about it. If you're doing a red eye, there's a good chance you've you're doing a bunch of stuff throughout the day because it's your last day of a trip. And instead of getting on that flight with the grime of the day, you get to get yourself a nice nice shower and then get on the flight. It's great. See, I've never i never done that or wanted to do that. But I will say like taking a red eye,
00:33:05
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You know cross cross the atlantic and and being able to like be in a ah one of those beds in first five yeah that world that was like those have those have showers too on the plane.
00:33:21
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i wouldn't I wouldn't do that. I feel like I wouldn't do that. but just You would leave would try it.
Long flights: Showers and humor
00:33:28
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Being fully naked on a plane, that's like your dream. Well, and then I you know give a little wink to one of the and stewardesses. right ah flying the Flight attendants, I believe. but still a flight town what's What's the difference?
00:33:44
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Oh, uh, I think about 20 years, I think is the main main difference. Uh, but yeah. So you fully, fully naked it on a plane, winking at a flight attendant. Yeah. Walking down the aisle. just yeah and Oh my gosh. I can't imagine having wet feet on like a plane carpet. Oh yeah.
00:34:05
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Oh, you're getting you're getting athletes foot so fast. And then just trying to air them out. ah jesus tough Tough acting to an act and it's not going to break that down. that's That's that's forever. So did you guys see that Nicolas Cage is playing John Madden? No. i Yeah, they're making a they're making a movie that's not about John Madden.
00:34:32
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the not about John Madden's career. They're making a movie that's about how the john how the how the Madden video game series got started. and Nicholas Cage will be playing John Madden. I just saw, what's the movie with him and Pascal?
Nicolas Cage as John Madden: A cinematic twist
00:34:51
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ah oh ah yeah What is that? Where he's playing himself effectively? Yeah. yeah yeah That was good. that was i had like zero, I don't know, uh, idea of what that movie was going to be at it. No, I didn't see a trailer or anything. And, uh, but that was fun. That was entertaining. All the like stuff that was like callbacks from other movies. Yeah. Yes. I loved that. That was good. So, yeah. So, so funny. What was it? Uh, it's like a, it's like a long, it's like a phrase is right like,
00:35:25
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This is the the end or something like this. No, not this. It's it's not the.
00:35:33
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but Well, we'll figure it. We'll figure it out on another episode. So this everything we talked about, this is your this is your perfect Sunday. All those. um Yeah, doing a little bit of all that. I think you ended with I think you ended with brunch. I think you said staying in the area and getting brunch. Yeah, brunch. And then and then wherever the day takes you.
00:35:52
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And it has taken me to a lot of crazy places. so But you're not, correct me if I'm wrong, but you're not a house mouse. No, no. I feel like I could be a homebody, but if it was mouse like my own house. Yeah. what What of the house would you be talking about? Well,
Roommates: Sharing spaces and social dynamics
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right now. Wait, do you not have a home right now?
00:36:18
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I have a home but yeah I'm sharing it with people so it doesn't feel like my home. ah If it was mine then I would maybe I would be there more more often but um I don't know it's like half and half I'm like half the time I like to be out and about doing something.
00:36:39
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um But I definitely need my own time away from everyone to recharge. And then it's so like, I'd say Sunday morning, out and about. But Sunday afternoon, then I need, I need to like mentally transition back to like work mode. Yeah, I hear that. I hate doing stuff Sunday night. Like, yeah no, I need to be getting ready mentally. Exactly. what's about to happen Uh, oh wait. So you, uh, you very roundabout way said you have roommates currently. Yes. The unbearable weight of massive talent. That's the, that is the name of the movie. Yes. Uh, and you don't, these roommates are just kind of like randos or you knew them before. Uh, they're randos, but they're, they're all cool. Like they're, they're very chill. Um, I haven't gone out ah the old dude in the apartment. Uh, yeah, I am. I think I am. Um,
00:37:40
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Do you pretend like you're not? Do you pretend like? Well, so what's up until- What's up fellow teenagers? Just a fellow youth. Let's hang. No, uh, I think up until like- Skippity Toilet, yeah. Up until like three months ago. I got res.
00:38:02
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Riz me up, bro. but Up until three months ago. Up until three months ago, I was not the youngest. And now like two of the roommates left and there's two new ones. Damn, how many roommates do you have? Oh, okay. Yeah, there's like five of us. What? That's what it is now. That's what it is. And we're in a townhouse. Not like a studio.
00:38:30
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No, it is a townhouse, but there's still a lot but the good thing is like, you know, do you have your way? Do you have your own bathroom? I do. I'm the only one though. um I think everybody else shares oh So they definitely don't like you in i wait it so okay with that Are you saying it's a house of five people with two bathrooms and you have your own bathroom three bathrooms and I have my own bathroom. So the other two share with one other person because it's like there's the basement that has two rooms and and a bathroom so they share that and then the top level has three bedrooms and two bathrooms and one is in my room so then the other two share that. one So that was like my
00:39:16
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Because I haven't had roommates in a long time. Yeah, and so in state college you live by yourself. Yeah. ah Well, I guess i guess ah I did live by myself for some time. And then there was like a time when ah Eddie and and Patches and I lived together. But we each had our own room and we each had our own bathroom. Did Eddie wake you up every morning with music? Oh, God. Well, he was in the basement. That's why I was like, I didn't really care what he did.
00:39:45
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But, but over here, it's, uh, yeah, now up until recently, like now I'm the old guy, uh, but everybody else, I mean, they're, they're fine. Everybody kind of does their own thing. What I noticed though, is like, um, um definitely what's that? Were they all hooking up without you? Uh, yep.
00:40:09
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Yep. Sure. Sure. So, uh, I am definitely eating out a lot more than I used to. Like I used to like cook, but yeah thats now, now it's like the people are are cooking and and I'm like, I'll just wait till they're done. And then it's like 10 o'clock and I'm like, why i don't feel like cooking now? Like, all right, I'm going to just go order something. and what's your What's your good word? Well, Chipotle is like, you know, a block away. So.
00:40:40
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I've been doing that and then Wendy's is like right next to it, but And then actually there's a there's a Mexican place that is really good um yeah but you choose to like right there Well, I get after a while you get tired of oh um Tacos, but that's the place I was saying has really good Uh, man, we're, and we're, we're back to rolling our hours. That's good. Uh, I mean, if you eat, if you, uh, period tacos on the regular, you will die. Oh, what kind of tacos? Uh, beer can't even, uh,
00:41:22
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you yeah the the tacos dipped in the consummate. You know what I'm talking about. Uh, detail explanation of this.
00:41:33
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What a beer tacos. Yeah, I believe it's it's like a a stewed beef that's cooked with like a bunch of different like peppers and spices typically for like 12 to 24 hours and then you like take the meat out.
00:41:49
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what you keep you you take this the the profit you kind of reduce it down to like a consummate and then when you're going to make the tacos you take the tortillas and you fill them with the beef sometimes with cheese sometimes not.
00:42:05
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ah And then you some places will like kind of use the consummate to like fry the outside of the tacos. Some places don't. But the biggest, the big thing, the the thing that everybody notices is like when you get the tacos, you get a cup of the consummate. So you you eat the tacos by dipping them in the in the broth. And it's wildly delicious. But again, and that effectively with that broth is just like a vat of fat and spices, delicious spices.
00:42:35
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but But yeah, so this place they they fry it and it is fantastic. Yeah, it's it's ah undeniable how delicious those stock. So they are just like every now and then you'll go to places that have.
00:42:50
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Not the healthiest, but. No, it's the least. I mean, every now and you go to places, right? Where it's like, it's very focused on like, whatever the the meat is, like carnitas or whatever. And like, so sometimes it's like very delicious and like the the flavor profiles on point. But sometimes it's like, yeah, you know, whatever. It's a taco restaurant. Like it's a little dry. This has been out for a minute and it's fine, whatever. But like with birria tacos, that's never a problem. They're always there.
00:43:20
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Oh my gosh, but yeah, I actually had to I try to only have them like I don't know once every three months or six months or something. So one of if i'm in my yeah co co work, he's not really co worker, one of the subcontractors brought brutal, brutal. Well, I guess we kind of work together. One of the sub humans that I work with. Yeah.
00:43:48
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A trade partner, one of our trade partners brought in um these saltenas, which are, it's a Bolivian, it's like an empanada.
Empanadas and their global journey
00:43:59
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It's this Bolivian thing and like, um but the inside is, it's basically like a soup. It's like very juicy. It's super delicious and it was like kind of sweet and then tangy a little bit, but very good. I'd never had them before.
00:44:16
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and they were excellent. So yeah, Bolivian something, yes, they're good, and you should try them. One, it's wild like if you kind of like expand your definition a little bit, there's like almost no country on Earth, or at least region, that doesn't do an empanada of sorts. that's that That is like such a staple like ah food type um prototype, if you will. Yeah, like samosa, basically the same thing. yeah it's just like oh you take some you take some dough and you fill it with something delicious like shockingly that ends up working out pretty well uh but yeah that does sound it does sound pretty actually i think i'm into a lot here which i don't think i got much of in other places is there's this place called uh puerro which is a venezuelan restaurant and i don't think i've seen
00:45:11
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Venezuela and cuisine. Well, i I guess I kind of assumed it wouldn't be that specific. Right. Yeah, I would agree with you. I didn't know that. But yeah, so many of the dishes that one, it's all delicious. But two, so many things I'm like, I don't have like a comparable dish from like a nearby country. and It's like, oh, ah but yeah, that place, that place is a go to. It's slaps, as we say, as we young and say.
00:45:42
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It's busing. ah you are do you Do you have roommates as merely it's cost-effective or you just miss human companionship?
Rising rents: The roommate solution
00:45:52
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A little bit of both, maybe. No, um probably just cost-effective. So i yeah I was living alone. It was a one-bedroom apartment with a den. When I moved in, it was like They seventeen hundred bucks and I was like okay I can do that and then within the span of like a year and a half it went from seventeen hundred to twenty seven hundred and then at that point I was like it just doesn't make sense like it just I can't justify it like it's not worth it.
00:46:27
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But I was like, fine, you know what, I'll have roommates, but my sticking point was like, I'm not going to share a bathroom. And so that's, but I will say, so like now I'm like saving all kinds of money because my rent is super cheap.
00:46:42
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I mean, when you think about how much we paid like as like in state college, like what was what was part place like for like 300 or 400 bucks a month? Chris for 400. And that was like, Whoa, how are we gonna do this? Yeah, like the most expensive place I think that I that I rented was like, I think I was paying 600 600 a month. And that was when I was living with with Eddie and Ab. But that was like a townhouse. We had a garage. We had like It was a big place.
00:47:13
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um And then and and then yeah then the the house that I lived in, that was um maybe, I think that came to like 750 each. and So we we split that. But yeah, 750 and that was like ah a whole house, three bedroom garage and a big basement and stuff.
00:47:37
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But like houses that look like crappy little state college houses are like a million dollars. And that's like no exaggeration. No, yeah, it's ah pretty wild. Chris, would you would you ever live with rando roommates again? No, no, definitely not.
00:47:56
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Would you ever live with roommates that you know? Like, would you live with Paco? No, but Chris, here's, here's the thing, cause that's what I used to say. So, but let's say, let's say your rent like triples, would you be like, no, I'm still not living with roommates or would you be like, uh, maybe I'll take on a roommate?
00:48:17
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No, so it it did. It didn't triple, but it did do something similar to what you do describe. And just going back home. Just take it. Just take it like a champ. Just take it like that. Just back to living with my mom in theory. But which is, I mean, you could argue that is a ah roommate that you know, right? Right. But not random.
00:48:42
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No, no, no, definitely not randos. Yeah, I think I would do rumors that I know at this point, but not randos. The last ones I did were in Binghamton. They did not have it together. ah That's true. but you But you saved a lot on rent, for sure. Oh, a lot. What was that pain?
00:49:07
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ah something I mean, you were paying so i so little. I think you were coming to like every Penn State game, every home game. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, basically, because I forget what it was, two and a half hour drive or something like that. ah Yeah, so I missed that because ah Paco's urine stream sounded wild. Strong, strong.
00:49:34
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cut You know what it sounded, it didn't sound strong, it sounded wide. A wide stream, like slowly slowly coming out. like the Like on the hose, the the full setting.
00:49:51
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I don't know if that's a youth a euphemism or not, but ah but yes, that's exactly. good But yeah, you saved a lot. Binghamton, ah ah no no one cares what I think, but for sure I would never, never have random roommates again. but so I mean, I think you did it the most.
00:50:10
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Right. Rando roommates? Yeah. yeah most I guess the most, well not with Paco's doing it now, but you had done it the most recently. Right. Prior to Paco. Paco wasn't on this call, I would have done it the most recently, sure. And by most recently, 13, wait, 12, 12 years ago. Yeah. So.