Cinco De Mayo Part 2

The Genizus family gets festive — and a little nostalgic! As they follow up with part 2 of there Cinco De Mayo Podcast. We Join the Jon & Jessica and Producer Julia the genz, as they share how they each celebrated Cinco de Mayo in the past and their past traditions, plus they dive into unforgettable traditions from growing up in a Mexican American household. From spicy family recipes to lively fiestas and heartfelt stories, this episode is packed with culture, laughter, and the family vibes you love. Grab your favorite snacks and tune in for a taste of heritage, humor, and heart — only on Genizus Podcast!

Transcript

SPEAKER_04 0:00

Welcome to Gen is Us Podcast, where we dive into the dynamic world generational conversation with your host John the Baby Boomer, along with Jessica the Millennial, and Joey the Gen Z. Welcome, welcome, everybody.

SPEAKER_03 0:14

Mine is Joey.

SPEAKER_04 0:16

Yeah. This is the second part of Cinco de Genesis Us podcast. I'm your baby boomer.

SPEAKER_03 0:23

I'm Millennial Jessica. It's me, Jessica.

SPEAKER_04 0:27

Yeah. And so, you know, we just finished talking to Ceci Rodriguez. Actually, her name is Paulina. Paulina Rodriguez. Uh, that's my second cousin. She's from uh Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. And so we were talking to her about uh, you know, the different traditions, uh, what they think of the government, their own government, our government. And it was uh pretty enlightening uh discussion about uh, you know, the two different countries. Jess, what did you think?

SPEAKER_03 0:51

Oh, I thought it was great. Um, it was fun to finally talk to someone who I've been friends with on Facebook for about 10 years. Really?

SPEAKER_04 0:59

10 years? I you know what it's funny because um I see her on there. I see my cousin, Rossi. She's the one really that um I've been communicating with.

SPEAKER_03 1:09

And is that her mom? That's her mom.

SPEAKER_04 1:12

Okay, yeah. And uh Rossi, Rossi actually, I've been talking to my one of my uh cousins. His name is José Carlos, and um he was telling me about you know the struggles that the family's going through in Mexico and all that. And um, you know, Rossi had uh two bouts of cancer, brain cancer, and she survived it. Yeah, right now she's in remission. So, and you know, life is we're lucky. We're very lucky that we have things uh that we, you know, that life's a little easier for us, I think. Uh Mexico, it's a little tougher. Uh the government, you know, just from what uh Sessie was talking, you know, their government is all over the place. And I can remember when I was a kid growing up, Mexico was always um under turmoil and politics and drugs. And you know, it's funny because when we went to Mexico one time, we drove all the way down to Mexico and uh we had a motorhome and we'd stop at the border, and the only way you can get through is if you gave the uh Federales a little uh a little chiching. Yeah. So, you know, it's um and it I think it's still like that, probably, but now it's instead of chiching, it's chachung, you know, it's that's a lot more money now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:17

So it's qong.

SPEAKER_04 2:20

Yeah, I think they went down there too. Up in smoke. Uh but yeah, so I mean it's life in Mexico is is tough. And I was actually gonna ask her, says what what's your the prettiest or what's the the nicest city in Mexico that you've gone to? I mean, we didn't get to ask her that, but you know, um what would you say for the U.S.? That I've seen in the US? I mean, I've only been to a couple states. Key West? Key West is pretty cool. I mean, you can't touch the uh the roosters. Oh my gosh so uh we actually went um before there was a hurricane. Yeah, we went like a few weeks before hurricane and it just devastated uh that whole area and it was leveled. So that this was I think in 22.

SPEAKER_02 3:00

I have to say California is pretty because it's hilly. So you have different terrains. Um San Diego, their grass was funky. But I mean, as far as horizons and stuff, I mean I think because of the different um you didn't think tombstone, you know, like Arizona was that where we went to Arizona, tombstone. No, it's very dry, very no.

SPEAKER_04 3:20

But there was some there was some mountains too.

SPEAKER_02 3:22

That was so oh on our drive.

SPEAKER_04 3:23

Yeah, I mean, also coming down from uh South Dakota. South Dakota, yeah, South Dakota.

SPEAKER_02 3:29

Oh, there was uh yeah, sections there that were absolutely beautiful going through those hills and mountains and things like that.

SPEAKER_04 3:35

Right, right.

SPEAKER_02 3:35

You know, um White Sands was really interesting in Arizona. New Mexico.

SPEAKER_04 3:40

That was New Mexico.

SPEAKER_02 3:40

Was it New Mexico? I thought it was Arizona.

SPEAKER_04 3:42

No, no, New Mexico.

SPEAKER_02 3:43

And um my brother um and his family just went to Puerto Rico, and so some of the pictures there are absolutely gorgeous. I've heard that, yeah. And you know, it it's it's even better. I think it was better than Florida because I think it's more of a natural state.

SPEAKER_04 3:58

Well, Florida's flat.

SPEAKER_03 3:59

Florida is the armpit of the US. Yeah, I mean Florida is very tight. It's the taint. It's yeah, it's the taint, it's the grundle.

SPEAKER_04 4:06

Yeah, I mean, nothing good comes out of Florida. Swappy ass.

SPEAKER_02 4:10

We still go there. The only time it's Disney and yeah, it's Disney.

SPEAKER_04 4:15

It's got universal. I mean, we went we went to the uh the conference, we went to Universal, had a terrible time, but we went to Universal, and uh that was you know, that's about what people do is go to Walt Disney Universal, go to the beach. Or retire. Yeah, or go retire and die.

SPEAKER_02 4:29

I I think beauty comes in the eye of the beholder. I think it's what appeals to them. I mean, I like water areas, I like the the terrain and the mountains and the hills. Yeah, it's like it in the summertime. I don't know if I like it in the wintertime.

SPEAKER_03 4:42

Yeah, we so last the first thing that comes to mind last year is we went to Colorado, and that was seriously like breathtakingly beautiful. And it wasn't even their like on season, which is winter. We went during the summer, which is like their off-season, but they had, I mean, we went through Garden of the Gods and like they had all sorts of different types of terrain, and just the it was just it was awesome. Like, I can't wait to go back. Beautiful, breathtaking.

SPEAKER_04 5:07

See, I now I think that our trip that we went to South Dakota and then we went to Wyoming, that was pretty cool. And then we went down to Tombstone. It was beautiful, that was awesome. I would do that in a heartbeat.

SPEAKER_03 5:17

St. Thomas, but that's not really in the U.S. No, that's that's uh Nyland through the national park area.

SPEAKER_02 5:23

Yeah, that's what I wanted to do. Those yellow stars came.

SPEAKER_04 5:26

It's so cool.

SPEAKER_02 5:27

Those caves that you had a drive-thru that it was only one car can go through.

SPEAKER_04 5:30

No, that was uh Missouri. Remember that was Missouri. What was the Brantford? It was a Branson.

SPEAKER_02 5:36

No, that was not Branson. Missouri. Not when you took the trailer and we went through and we saw the Rams, and it was a good thing.

SPEAKER_04 5:44

Yeah, that was the national park. Yeah, that was one of the yeah, the buffalo came up to you. And then a donkey almost took out my hand.

SPEAKER_03 5:50

Yeah. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 5:52

I was trying to feed a donkey and it took my whole hand. I'm like, give me back my hand. You got a little too close. Right. What an ass. But yeah. But it was, I mean, it was see, I love driving. I mean, it as as much as it's rough to drive, I would do it in a heartbeat. I mean, I would love to drive all the way to Alaska and back. You know, that would be a trip and a half. But um, like I'd like I'd I'd like to go to Salem, Massachusetts. Yeah, too.

SPEAKER_03 6:17

I've never done that.

SPEAKER_04 6:18

Yeah, and see if there's really ghosts out there and stuff like that. You know, all Gettysburg and all that kind of stuff. That would be so cool.

SPEAKER_03 6:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:24

You know, so hey, if anybody out there wants to pay our trip uh to go out there and we'll review it, we'll do it. We'll do it.

SPEAKER_03 6:30

We can ask for more, like let's go to Scotland or like Scotland, you know, that would be interesting. I want to I want to go to Scotland, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 6:39

I mean, there's so many, I would think, international places. Yeah, right. Or just that are older than us.

SPEAKER_04 6:45

You know what? I I don't know if I think I told you I I asked you this uh before. Remember you've been like harping on me about going on a cruise.

SPEAKER_01 6:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:55

And uh we saw this program. It was called the Crap Cruise. Oh, don't it was it happened a couple years ago.

SPEAKER_03 7:04

It's when they got abandoned. Right.

SPEAKER_04 7:06

The power went out, um, and they had to be tugged in, but they had to be tugged in like through a different direction because they were they were um the waves are bringing them in.

SPEAKER_03 7:16

Wasn't it during COVID?

SPEAKER_04 7:17

Yeah, uh was it around COVID? I forgot.

SPEAKER_03 7:19

I don't remember.

SPEAKER_04 7:20

Yeah, I don't remember, but apparently the power went out and it smelled like oh god, there was poop all over the place. They were sleeping outside. Uh it was and it turned out that it was like a three-day thing, and it ended up being a whole week on the boat, and it was like terrible. And you know what they got? They got a free cruise cruise, and that was it. I think I think some get money.

SPEAKER_02 7:44

They got reimbursed for the one that's right. They got reimbursed for the trip. Another free cruise. But yeah, what cruise line?

SPEAKER_04 7:49

I don't I don't ru I really don't want to say because I don't want to get sued, but I don't know which one it was. I don't know if they had it was one of the popular ones.

SPEAKER_03 7:56

Well, we went on Carnival and that was a party. Might have been. Um they that was so fun. Um, like pretty good food, actually. Um, and they had something for everyone.

SPEAKER_04 8:11

How many cruise lanes have you been on?

SPEAKER_03 8:12

I did two.

SPEAKER_04 8:13

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_03 8:14

So we did Carnival and then we did Royal Caribbean. And I wasn't as impressed with Royal Caribbean Caribbean Caribbean, no. I wasn't I thought it also made me smaller. It made me take a shit so explosive. I think I think I burned a hole in the toilet. It was so bad.

SPEAKER_04 8:33

Okay, that was a crap cruise.

SPEAKER_03 8:35

Um yeah, it was not good. Although it was just the one time and then I was fine. It was like a six-day cruise.

SPEAKER_04 8:41

Yeah, it was Montezuma. Where did you go?

SPEAKER_03 8:43

Um, so for a carnival we did um like St. Thomas, we did like the they had their own private island. Oh. Actually, both of them went on their own like area. So then we we went like that way, so like Bahamas, um Half Moon K. And then uh Royal Caribbean, we did Jamaica. Haiti? Jamaica Haiti was kind of scary.

SPEAKER_04 9:09

Was it it's like Jamaica?

SPEAKER_03 9:11

No, Haiti.

SPEAKER_04 9:12

No, no, but it's like Jamaica, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03 9:14

Haiti, because I think it's more run down, it's more run down, and they like you they had to sequester you like because it is scary. It was very weird. Yeah, they have their own area that you can go on, and then we went on like this. Um we did everything last minute on that cruise. It was hilarious. Like every excursion that we signed up for was like the day of. So we basically just went on to Haiti and were like, hey, we're wondering if you guys have any room for this one um thing. And so it ended up being really awesome. They ended up taking us. This sounds very scary, but it was a boat. They took us to the middle of uh the ocean, basically, and they just fed us drinks the whole time, and we were able to play whatever music we wanted, and it was just we were just like floating in the middle like a party bus on a boat. It was really, really fun, and we literally just happened upon it that day. I really wanted to go swim with the pigs. Um with the pigs, they sold out. I think I seen that.

SPEAKER_04 10:10

Yeah, swim with the pigs? What's that?

SPEAKER_03 10:12

Yeah, there's a little like area, uh it might be Jamaica where you can literally, it's like a bay where they have little tiny pigs that you that run around and really swim at them. Yeah, it's do you get to eat them afterwards? No, I don't think so.

SPEAKER_02 10:25

We saw that on a Hallmark movie we were watching.

SPEAKER_04 10:28

Get out of here, really? Yeah, we did. Okay, you're embarrassing me. Hallmark movie? Come on.

SPEAKER_02 10:32

Oh, come on. Anyway, number one Hallmark fan here, here he is.

SPEAKER_03 10:37

Carnival, I think would be better. I would take the boys because there's like this whole kids area that did you take have you taken the kids? No.

SPEAKER_04 10:44

Oh, you haven't taken the kids?

SPEAKER_03 10:45

Well, we need their passports. Oh we haven't ordered that yet.

SPEAKER_04 10:49

I haven't gotten it. See, I well, here's the thing. I'm gonna get my uh dual citizenship uh in May, I think. Oh, really? Yeah. I've got um supposedly my cousin's gonna send me the what I need. And so um Good luck with that. I know. I've been asking since last year. Uh but um he's gonna send it to me and then uh BB and Maria want to go too. So we're gonna go to the consulate and get uh our uh citizenship. Yeah. I don't know if do you need a passport uh even with that? I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 11:20

Yes, because you're not going to Mexico.

unknown 11:22

No.

SPEAKER_03 11:23

It would be I mean, unless you went to Mexico.

SPEAKER_04 11:25

Well, no, that we're going to Mexico.

SPEAKER_03 11:27

Yeah. Yeah, don't know.

SPEAKER_04 11:28

See, I want to go to Mexico to visit the mother country.

SPEAKER_03 11:31

Well, if you do that on a cruise, it's like you go to a port and that's it.

SPEAKER_04 11:35

And then I want to see their space program.

SPEAKER_03 11:37

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 11:40

Their rockets are made out of taco shells. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 11:43

I you know what I would like to do? I want to do the um Alaskan cruise.

SPEAKER_04 11:48

That would be kind of cool.

SPEAKER_03 11:49

I would really like to do that.

SPEAKER_04 11:50

I would like to go salmon fishing. Yeah, coho. Salmon fishing.

SPEAKER_03 11:54

Owen would like that.

SPEAKER_02 11:55

I had a friend who did the Alaskan one. She loved it. Um yeah, she said they did get to see a lot of icebergs. But it's you know, Alaska, a lot of times now their weather is different. So there's a lot of things melting. Yeah. And so it's not the same as it used to be.

SPEAKER_04 12:13

A lot of UFOs, too. Oh boy. People being abducted.

SPEAKER_03 12:16

Superman.

SPEAKER_04 12:17

Superman Fortress of Solitude.

SPEAKER_03 12:20

Daniel's uncle and husband went on a 14-day European cruise. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 12:27

See, I wouldn't mind doing that. Yeah, I want to go to France. See, I want to go to France. We be.

SPEAKER_03 12:33

I think they do like they did like Barcelona, like the Mediterranean. Is that that Viking? Yeah, I think it might have been.

SPEAKER_04 12:39

Yeah, but the Viking ones for like uh people that are over 90 years old, isn't it?

SPEAKER_02 12:43

Where they No, there's one that's like just one level. I don't even know if they have rooms, but then I think there's one that's a bigger ship.

SPEAKER_04 12:49

Your room comes with an ICU unit?

SPEAKER_03 12:51

The Virgin uh the Virgin cruise line, I think, also has the Mediterranean one. No. Which is that's adults only.

SPEAKER_04 12:59

Right. So see, I don't know if I want to go on a cruise, if I was going on a cruise, I mean it's different if we went with the kids like that. But if it was other kids, I don't think I'd be able to do it.

SPEAKER_03 13:09

That's why they have specific areas on the cruise where it's adults only because otherwise you'll pull your hair out and want to jump off.

SPEAKER_04 13:16

I'd be throwing some of those kids overboard.

SPEAKER_03 13:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 13:21

What?

SPEAKER_02 13:22

Kids would be faster than us. Well, of course they are. Doing other things. They're younger.

SPEAKER_04 13:26

Yeah. But yeah, I mean, just hearing the you know, screaming and you know, carrying that stuff like that. I don't know if I could handle it.

SPEAKER_03 13:34

It's yeah. It's that's why it's so massive. The cruise the ship, and then like there's activities all the time, every single waking hour. It's ridiculous. It's just so much. It's right, it's a blast. Do you have to participate in your room? No, you can literally sit in your room all day if you wanted to.

SPEAKER_04 13:56

But then that would be a waste of money.

SPEAKER_03 13:58

Yeah. Definitely.

SPEAKER_04 13:59

Yeah. I mean, I would I would probably if I spent that kind of money, I definitely would be yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:05

But keep in mind too, like if you want to do excursions off the boat, that costs more. It's not like part of your cruise.

SPEAKER_04 14:12

By by the way, my Xpedia account, ten thousand dollars.

SPEAKER_03 14:18

You owe?

SPEAKER_04 14:19

No, I can use up to ten thousand dollars on my Xpedia account.

SPEAKER_03 14:23

Why?

SPEAKER_04 14:24

I don't know. I just got a credit for travel. Yeah, for travel, ten thousand dollars.

SPEAKER_03 14:29

What the hell?

SPEAKER_04 14:30

I'm like, I'm not gonna use ten thousand dollars. Yeah, it's like uh one of those credit cards or whatever for and it's like a ten thousand dollar credit limit.

SPEAKER_03 14:39

Okay, so that's not a credit, that's a credit card. You're gonna have to pay it back.

SPEAKER_04 14:44

I gotta pay it back, but I mean still ten thousand dollars. I'm like, I could take uh a cruise to uh I we can go to Europe. Yeah. But rather, I'd rather have somebody out there if they're listening, if they want us pay pay for that'd be great.

SPEAKER_03 14:58

Well, dumb cruises itself aren't expensive, it's the flights and everything that you do on the cruise.

SPEAKER_04 15:04

See, I would drive.

unknown 15:06

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 15:07

I drive there, I say, hey, we're gonna meet you there, and then uh, you know, take the cruise.

SPEAKER_03 15:12

Like go to like Port Canaveral. Right, go to Port Canaveral. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 15:16

You know, one thing that I, you know, uh th to think about with the kids is uh put them in uh what is that uh uh astronaut, what is it uh the the Nancy camp? Yeah in Florida Space Camp. Um that'd be so cool. I want to do that when I was a kid.

SPEAKER_03 15:31

One of my son's Asian friends is did that oh really?

SPEAKER_04 15:35

Did they find him? I'm sorry we can't find your son. He's Asian? Well, you know, there's about 10,000.

SPEAKER_03 15:44

Yeah, we went to the city for one night, and this kid went to space camp for swing break. I'm like, wow. Wow.

SPEAKER_04 15:51

That's pretty cool. You know, they have adult space camp. I would do that in a heartbeat. That's like only three G's.

SPEAKER_03 15:58

Only.

SPEAKER_04 15:59

Yeah, three G's. Let's go. Let's see you put on a let's see you put an astronaut suit on.

SPEAKER_03 16:06

Oh god. That man in a little space suit.

SPEAKER_04 16:13

I'm sorry I can't get my bulge in the suit.

SPEAKER_03 16:15

No. Is it true that they have to like hook up to a poop shoot?

SPEAKER_04 16:21

Right. Yeah, they gotta stick a hose up your ass and then when you gotta go, you gotta press this button and it sucks out the shit. I'm kidding, people. I know you stick they stick like a hose in your wiener, and then if you have to go, it's like you know, it's a catheter. It's a catheter, yeah. And you're just too gross.

SPEAKER_03 16:43

I know. He's such a he should deserve to go to space camp with the little immature jokes over here. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 16:52

Oh boy. By the way, everybody, happy Cinco de Mayo.

unknown 16:56

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 16:57

Part two. This one actually will uh will air the week after Cinco de Mayo.

SPEAKER_03 17:02

So what are some uh traditions specific that you think were like Hispanic or Mexican traditions that the for what?

SPEAKER_04 17:14

For anything, like for Cinco de Mayo.

SPEAKER_03 17:16

No, no, no, just in general.

SPEAKER_04 17:19

Um well one that we celebrate uh every year is Dia de los Muertos. You know, we what we do is we make uh or we buy food that our um relatives um used to like, and you know, we we have that for that day, which is what November 1st or something like that?

SPEAKER_02 17:38

First or second.

SPEAKER_04 17:38

First or second, yeah. So yeah, it's uh Dia de los Muertos, or as I like to call it, uh Coco Day.

SPEAKER_02 17:45

I love that movie.

SPEAKER_04 17:46

I know I love it. They're making a sequel, by the way.

SPEAKER_02 17:48

Oh mine was grito. The grito every year. No, it's not. Come on, you're you guys it was. My mom went every year, dude. You remember what I went through when I was younger? Yeah, you don't know. You don't know my laugh. You can't tell me. I am 9-11. She took us, she would travel sometimes on a bus, and we'd go downtown to the band shell when it was the old band shell, and we'd go go out and watch the gurito at um at night.

SPEAKER_04 18:19

You know, one thing I couldn't stand when I was uh in Chicago, going on the bus. That is the worst experience. Smelly, smelly, you're crowded. When I was working downtown and I had to take the bus to get to work when I was living with your mom, um, and I had to take it uh to take the bus. It was awful.

SPEAKER_03 18:37

I took the bus once when I left downtown. Once.

SPEAKER_04 18:40

Well, there was one there was one time there was this one time that I was dating this girl that uh she lived out here, and uh we took uh a train and then we picked up the bus. She worked for United Airlines and she had like um sweet tickets at uh Soldier Field, and we got to see the Bears and the Eagles. And uh so we went on the bus, and I tell you, man, there was so many people on that bus. I could smell their urine ready to come out of their you know, urethra.

SPEAKER_03 19:11

It's like taking the red line when there's a Cubs game, it's the same thing, it's packing. And I've done I've done that.

SPEAKER_04 19:16

Yeah, I've done that. Yeah, Cubs game. I I used to love doing that.

SPEAKER_02 19:20

Spoken like a true suburban night. I know right, but you know what when it's everyday life, you get used to it and you just have to do it.

SPEAKER_04 19:28

But you know what? It was the experience of getting to do it. How many people, how many suburbanites don't actually get to do something like that? I got to do a lot of things. I bet you the things that my parents, my parents or my sisters don't even know that I did. You know, I got to experience so much, you know, and and I'm lucky about that because you know, my mom and dad, you know, they let me go. They let me basically do what I wanted to do because, you know, after I hit that nun, that was pretty much it. You know, I was in military school for three years, and then after that, you know, um I kind of grew into being my my own person. I I'm very different from my family. So in some ways. In some way. Well, you know, some things that do keep tradition, you know, but um you're always gonna have that part of you in your subconscious telling you, you know.

SPEAKER_03 20:23

That's called Catholic guilt.

SPEAKER_02 20:25

But they're part of the Mexican tradition. Right. A lot of them were uh centered around religious holidays.

SPEAKER_03 20:32

Yeah, that's true. Yeah, so like Sabado Gigante.

SPEAKER_04 20:37

That guy's dead, by the way.

SPEAKER_03 20:38

Is he really?

SPEAKER_04 20:39

Yes, I think he's dead.

SPEAKER_03 20:40

He looked like a walking corpse when the show was on. Oh, I don't think he is.

SPEAKER_04 20:44

No, you're thinking about uh El Gordo y La Flaca. No, you're thinking about Savitigante Fernando de las uh that was one thing I remember watching every Saturday. Right, yeah. Mom and dad love to watch Don Francisco. Yeah, Don Francisco.

SPEAKER_03 21:08

Is he croaked?

SPEAKER_04 21:09

I think he died from a meatball stuck in his colon.

SPEAKER_03 21:14

A garganzola.

SPEAKER_04 21:16

A gorgonzola stuck in his yeah. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:19

He's still alive, 85 years old. No way.

SPEAKER_04 21:21

He's still alive.

SPEAKER_03 21:23

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 21:24

That guy knows how to eat tacos.

SPEAKER_03 21:26

Yeah. There's some something in that tequila.

SPEAKER_04 21:30

Wow, really? I thought when when did his show get canceled? Because obviously it had to get canceled.

SPEAKER_03 21:37

It wasn't canceled.

SPEAKER_04 21:38

Or he it just ended, right?

SPEAKER_03 21:40

Stopped doing it because it was every week.

SPEAKER_04 21:42

Yeah, it was every Saturday. That's why they called it Sábado Gigante.

SPEAKER_02 21:47

Last one was 2015.

SPEAKER_04 21:50

Oh, really? That's not too long ago.

SPEAKER_03 21:52

That's not long. I thought it was way better.

SPEAKER_04 21:54

I know, I thought it was like end of the years and years ago. Wow. Yeah, I remember, you know. Saturday afternoon watching it with my dad.

SPEAKER_03 22:02

I remember that one skit. Do you remember that one skit where like a weird, creepy guy in uh almost like a scream outfit with a black cape? Yes. Oh, I do. I do, I remember that. Capture the woman or some shit. I'm right. Why am I seven years old and watching this?

SPEAKER_04 22:20

Being subjected to this uh yeah, Jeffrey Epstein uh type of thing.

SPEAKER_02 22:25

Well, there was also Cantiflas.

SPEAKER_04 22:27

But yeah, no, Cantiflas died a long, long time ago.

SPEAKER_02 22:30

He but I mean he was one that we all watched too.

SPEAKER_04 22:33

Cantiflas was actually in American movies. He was in uh a John Wayne movie, I think, with Dean Martin.

SPEAKER_03 22:38

Did he have a mustache?

SPEAKER_04 22:40

Yeah, yeah his whole thing was like uh the Fu Manchu, the Fu Manchu uh mustache. Yeah, with the sombrero. He was your atypical uh you know bandito.

SPEAKER_03 22:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 22:50

Funny bandito. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:52

I remember uh another thing, uh Rock the Baby uh new uh Christmas Eve.

SPEAKER_04 22:57

Well yeah, that's yeah, that's that's a tradition, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 23:00

I did not do that in my family. Yeah, I don't think everyone.

SPEAKER_04 23:02

No, we did we did that every Christmas since I can remember. Yeah, we did rock before anybody opened up any presents, we did the Rock the Rock the Jesus beside the baby. And of course I was and of course I was always a comedian because you know uh I would always be funny about the whole process. But you know, my mom and dad, well, my mom was the one that really kind of that was a tradition. And I think she had a statue of the of the baby Jesus. Yeah, that I mean by the end. I mean, I I guarantee you my sisters still have it somewhere. It's missing toes, it's missing toes, legs, uh, an eyeball.

SPEAKER_03 23:39

Um stayed in a glass case all year round until Christmas Eve.

SPEAKER_04 23:43

Right, yeah. It was like that. That was a punishment. Yeah, it was right next to the it was right next to the velvet uh Jesus with the 3D. So if you move pictures, the pictures, if you moved, you moved with the with his eyes. Yes. Jesus was always looking at you wherever you moved.

SPEAKER_03 24:03

Across across the room from the really horrifying, grotesque uh Jesus on a cross.

SPEAKER_04 24:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:09

Who's staring at you with bloody I mean you know, and it's funny because half naked.

SPEAKER_04 24:15

Whenever we'd go to Mexico, my my mom picked up uh, you know, these uh statues and stuff like that, and she'd put them in the house somewhere. They always creep me out.

SPEAKER_03 24:24

They're so creepy, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 24:25

They always creep me out.

SPEAKER_03 24:26

And why do they gotta be so white? We all know that they're not white people, okay? They're from I think they had a tan.

SPEAKER_04 24:32

I don't think they were white people. They literally had a tan.

SPEAKER_02 24:35

No, they had a tan. My mom had those as well, and they were some bigger, like really when my mom passed, and we were trying to, we were like, what do we do with these? You know, we weren't gonna keep them. No, but she used to have them with the candles, she would burn them, she would do her rosary, and she always had candles in front of all of the saints because that was her way of keeping us safe. She would pray in front of some voodoo ass shit if I ever heard it. Yeah, well, you know, everybody has when she burned her candles, her her vegan candles, if she ran. I can get some of those at Walmart. That's why you're gonna go. Yeah, they're like a buck fifty. Because when she would go it when I would go out and she needed another one, if I didn't go and get it for her and she didn't light that damn candle, someone got in trouble for something, something bad happened. So we made sure we always had got her candles.

SPEAKER_03 25:29

So it was never was it because she made it happen and to no point?

SPEAKER_02 25:33

It would be like she my brothers were very adventurous, so I mean they always got in trouble.

SPEAKER_04 25:38

So she by adventurous, what do you mean? They experiment with each other?

SPEAKER_02 25:40

They punch none.

SPEAKER_04 25:42

No, they didn't punch none, but they experiment with each other, they used to go away.

SPEAKER_02 25:46

They used to get harassed by police. Um, so well that's normal. Right. Once they found out Joey got harassed by police. Once they're white boy, their last name was Madellin. They associated with the cartel.

SPEAKER_04 25:57

Well, wait a minute. I want to find out why did Joey's getting harassed by police.

SPEAKER_03 26:01

Because he had long hair. Yeah, he had long hair.

SPEAKER_04 26:04

See, it's always something.

SPEAKER_03 26:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 26:05

Yeah. Either you're dark skin, long hair, or you got tattoos that say, Hey, I want to be gang raped.

unknown 26:11

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 26:12

No, what he actually really did get hurt. Like he got um coughed and everything. Really? Yeah, because they they mixed him up with a different Joseph. Oh, who had a warrant out identification issues. And yeah, and it wasn't him, it wasn't Joe. So but they yeah, they like coughed him and everything. It was really scary. Yeah. Wow. Wow. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 26:39

Right? That's nuts.

SPEAKER_03 26:41

What about the eating the cake with the baby in it?

SPEAKER_04 26:43

Oh, that's called La Rasca.

SPEAKER_03 26:46

What is that for?

SPEAKER_04 26:47

I think that's after Christmas, I think. Is it the three kings? Or yeah, the three kings. I think it's right, right? It's the three kings.

SPEAKER_02 26:53

You get the baby, you have to host an expansion.

SPEAKER_04 26:54

Right. And if you get the yeah, I did that, you know, that this is when mom and dad would store around store around. But um, every year we do the rasca, and whoever got uh the baby G's or whatever, then you had to host a party. You had to pay for a party, whatever. Usually it was like Popeye's chicken or you know, some sort of portillos.

SPEAKER_01 27:11

Portillos, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 27:12

So I mean, we it was never a big big party, but I mean we we had the normal traditions, you know. We had the, you know, I mean, we even had American traditions, you know. Okay, normal to a Hispanic family that was integrating into American family.

SPEAKER_03 27:28

I was gonna say that's not normal.

SPEAKER_04 27:30

Because remember, they still had their traditions from Mexico, right? And then, you know, coupled with the traditions here in America, you know, they want to integrate everything together. They didn't want us to miss anything. My mom was very particular about making sure that we celebrated everything that had to do with uh America, but also keeping the Mexican values alive in us. And you know what? That's what I remember. I mean, I'm very proud of being um Hispanic. I'll always uh, you know, uh fight for our, you know, our voice and stuff like that, you know. But um especially right now with everything that's going on with our government and all that, but you know I just heard a podcast, or you made me think of something. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 28:14

Who's that famous Mexican uh um Cesar Chavez?

SPEAKER_04 28:21

Oh, the rapist?

SPEAKER_03 28:23

Yes, yes, did you hear about that?

SPEAKER_04 28:24

Yeah, I know, it's pretty depressing.

SPEAKER_03 28:26

I heard uh He's not a rapist, he's a sex offender. Yeah, no, he's yeah, it is.

SPEAKER_04 28:32

I think he was uh sexual assault, not sexual sex offender.

SPEAKER_03 28:36

It's rape when they're under 13 years old, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_04 28:39

Right. So he's the Hispanic uh version of Jeffrey Epstein.

SPEAKER_03 28:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 28:43

Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:44

Yeah, I heard uh you know what anybody on the daily, the podcast, right, the news podcast I listened to, they did a whole episode on how he it came out that he And now they want to rub his name off of everything, which they should. They should.

SPEAKER_04 28:58

Yeah, because that's sick. I mean, come on. What I don't understand is okay, you're a grown person and you have He was 45 and girls were 12. Right. That's sick. I mean, I don't understand how some person decides, okay, yeah, you know, I'm uh I want this 12-year-old. It's all power. It's all about power. Yeah, it's about power. I mean, yeah, I I I'll never I mean we know that you know the guy in the White House, you know, did his stuff, you know. We know because he has a record of it.

SPEAKER_03 29:28

Allegedly.

SPEAKER_04 29:29

Allegedly, he's got a record of it.

SPEAKER_03 29:30

No, he was convicted. I know, but we've got a lot of people. He was convicted of sexual assault.

SPEAKER_04 29:34

Gene, whatever her name is. Uh yeah, Jean Lee or whatever her name is. Yeah, she won$80 million from the the uh the.

SPEAKER_02 29:41

And he was trying to get overturned.

SPEAKER_04 29:42

Right. Yeah, and he lost.

SPEAKER_02 29:44

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 29:44

And he lost. So I mean, it's it's just a sick world that we live in, and it's just, you know, that's why, you know what our kids that are that are now uh see everything. I hope that they see that we need a change uh in our in our life and our world. I mean, society has to change. The people that support this administration, they're on the wrong side of history. They really are. I mean, I don't care what you think or what you believe that he's gonna be good or no, he's not. He's against democracy, he's against you know, people's rights, he's against healthcare, he's against he's just wrong. He's he's one of those people that wants power, like you said. It's just about power.

SPEAKER_03 30:30

Yeah. Uh there is hope though.

SPEAKER_04 30:33

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:34

Um, you know, my sons made up a song called The Orange Big Idiot.

SPEAKER_04 30:39

So I like it already.

SPEAKER_03 30:41

Yep. And they were singing it around the house.

SPEAKER_04 30:45

Yes, and how old are your kids?

SPEAKER_03 30:47

Nine and seven.

SPEAKER_04 30:48

Right. See, that's where it starts. You know, I mean, it may take a little while before their voices are heard, but their voices will be heard.

SPEAKER_01 30:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 30:55

You know, so I mean, and the voices are being heard now because even though the Republicans are trying to gerrymander every freaking southern state, but by doing that, it's giving uh dem uh Democratics the ability to do the same thing. Right. And not only that, I mean it's tit for tat. He's got 34% approval rating. You know what that means?

SPEAKER_03 31:17

He's in dictate.

SPEAKER_04 31:18

He's in he's he's yeah, he's in the tank. He's done. I mean, I don't care how you like it, people are either Republicans are not gonna go out and vote for this guy, or they're gonna vote for the other side. Even if you gerrymander everything, they're still gonna go out and have their voices heard and say, we don't like five dollar gas, we don't like our groceries that are sky high that we can't afford it. We can't even go uh afford to go to McDonald's. That's how bad it's getting. You know, they can't afford clothes, healthcare. Things are bad. So, I mean, you know.

SPEAKER_03 31:50

Well, how do we always get political?

SPEAKER_04 31:52

I know, right?

SPEAKER_03 31:52

We always go into the Because your dad loves politics, he's impassioned.

SPEAKER_04 31:57

I am impassioned.

SPEAKER_02 31:58

He's impassioned.

SPEAKER_04 31:59

So let's get back to talk about Cinco de Jesus.

SPEAKER_02 32:02

No, you're talking about Mexican traditions, right? Vicks vapor rubber.

SPEAKER_03 32:06

Oh my god. My mom loved that stuff. Yep. That except it was rubbing alcohol for our family, but they did have the stick. Do you guys remember the stick? They stuck it up already. It would cut it would come in and it would be like a nasal stick. It almost looked like a suppository. Ointment.

SPEAKER_04 32:23

It was a depository. Oh, they stuck in well, see, they were invented the COVID stick. At that time, they invented the COVID stick.

SPEAKER_03 32:29

No, it was a big vapor rub like stick. Yeah, it's a nasal stick.

SPEAKER_04 32:34

Yeah, it was that big round, the big round.

SPEAKER_03 32:36

Yes, it looked like a dildo, but it you'd a midget?

SPEAKER_02 32:40

The ointment. Rubbed an ointment all over us.

SPEAKER_04 32:44

No, there was one uh one time I got really, really sick when I was a kid. I was like, I think maybe 10 years old. And my mom, and this, you know, it's been proven that it doesn't work, but my mom thought that this would work and get me better. Maybe it did. I don't remember.

SPEAKER_03 33:00

Maybe rubbing onions on your feet.

SPEAKER_04 33:02

Right. They she would put like tomatoes, onions on my feet, wrap my feet in it. And um, like I said, I was like 12 years old, maybe 10, and she put this wrapper on my feet.

SPEAKER_02 33:13

I don't remember if I can better an onion broth that she made. It was nasty. We hated it. Onion, it was an onion broth concoction that she made.

SPEAKER_04 33:23

And then see, now that's supposed to actually be good for you.

SPEAKER_02 33:26

And then when we got a little older, we got the canela hot today. That was canela um cinnamon stick tea with the shot of whiskey and lemon, and you had to drink it while it was hot as can be, and then get under the covers and sweat out what was wrong with you.

SPEAKER_04 33:44

Nah, I don't remember that. You know what? If she added beef if she added beef broth to it, that would have been French onion soup.

SPEAKER_03 33:52

That sounds like crackhead medicine right there. Oh, I know one sucking on limes when you're you still do that. Yeah, I know, but it started when I was a kid. It was a Mexican.

SPEAKER_04 34:03

That's because I liked it too.

SPEAKER_03 34:04

No, they would they weren't gonna you got scared or they would give me limes to suck on.

SPEAKER_02 34:10

See, my mom gave us a teaspoon of uh sugar.

SPEAKER_04 34:14

See, my dad would just scare the crap out of me.

SPEAKER_02 34:16

You almost got like a shot kind of situation. She'd give them a spoonful of sugar to come out of it.

SPEAKER_03 34:23

Yeah, remember when we almost got into that horrible accident on driving to Florida?

SPEAKER_04 34:27

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:28

I sucked on limes. Really? Yes. I remember that.

SPEAKER_04 34:31

Yeah, we almost died.

SPEAKER_03 34:33

It was bad.

SPEAKER_04 34:34

It was bad. We would there was this car coming straight at us.

SPEAKER_03 34:37

It was a semi.

SPEAKER_04 34:38

It was semi, yeah. It was a semi, yeah, you're right. And it was coming right at us.

SPEAKER_03 34:41

And it was like a five-lane highway, and my dad just quickly went into the one lane that was free.

SPEAKER_04 34:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:47

It was scary AF.

SPEAKER_04 34:49

It was. It was. I thought we were all gonna die.

SPEAKER_03 34:52

Was the semi coming the wrong way? It had, I think what happened is it had probably broke like really abruptly. So that so the trailer in the back started turning. Yeah. And then it was covering all four of those lanes. And I just went into the fifth lane that was open.

SPEAKER_04 35:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 35:12

And it was on one of those raised, you know, highways in Florida.

SPEAKER_04 35:18

It was in Florida. Yeah, it was one of them big bridges that we were driving. Like when we went to Key West, it was like that. Because I think we were going to Fort Lauderdale.

SPEAKER_03 35:26

Yeah, we were going to Fort Lauderdale.

SPEAKER_04 35:28

So yeah, so it was uh yeah. I remember remember that trip? Uh we went to Don Shula's steakhouse, and we got deathly sick. You got sick the night. You got sick the night before that we left, and I got sick on the highway during the drive. I threw up. I think it was the last time I threw up, and that was like, I think you were what? How old? Like 10, 15.

SPEAKER_03 35:52

Eleven, maybe at the most. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 35:53

We went to Fort Lauderdale for you know for the week or whatever.

SPEAKER_03 35:56

Because we had steak and lobster.

SPEAKER_04 35:58

We had steak and lobster. It was good.

SPEAKER_03 36:00

It was.

SPEAKER_04 36:00

It was very down. But you know, the next she got sick first that night. And I didn't even think we were gonna be able to travel, but we had to.

SPEAKER_03 36:09

I don't remember that. I must have repressed that.

SPEAKER_04 36:11

Yeah. Sick. You got really, really sick. Like barf? Oh, yeah. You threw up and you were really sick. Yeah, you threw up. Oh my god. Yeah. And um, I think the only ones that didn't throw up was Gloria and who else? I forgot. Did Mary go with us?

SPEAKER_03 36:26

I thought Mary was with us.

SPEAKER_04 36:27

Yeah, I think Mary, yeah. But um, but I don't think they got sick. We got you got sick the night before, and I think it was like 24 hours uh that you were sick, and then we took we st we had to head back, and we stopped in the middle of the road, and I was like not feeling good, and I threw up all over the place.

SPEAKER_03 36:46

But you made it out, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I remember that.

SPEAKER_04 36:50

Yeah, I made it out exactly. So it's I mean, Don Shula's. I don't think that's open anymore. Don Shula.

SPEAKER_03 36:56

I wonder why. Right.

SPEAKER_04 36:58

I think it was do you remember when we went to Hawaii when we landed? We ate everything inside because we were starving. So it was it was like a 10-hour flight.

SPEAKER_03 37:09

That was more than that, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_04 37:11

No, it was about 10 hours because we stopped over at LAX. Didn't they feed you on a flight? They did, they did, but it wasn't a box. Yeah, it was like a box lunch or whatever. And it was a 10-hour flight. So we stopped in LAX. I think we got maybe something, I don't remember. But um, then we got back on the plane and we flew from LAX to uh Hawaii. And it's and we were all starving. I think it was Gloria, you, me, um, I don't think it was Mary, I think it was just Gloria. And uh when we got there, we were all starving. We guess where we went? The most expensive place, Ruth Chris's steakhouse.

SPEAKER_03 37:48

And we just Oh my god, I do remember that.

SPEAKER_04 37:52

Our our stomach our eyes were bigger than our stomach.

SPEAKER_03 37:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 37:55

And um, we ended up taking stuff back to the hotel room. We never ate it again. Yeah, no, yeah, it just ended up staying in the the refrigerator. But I mean, it was it was expensive, but you know, it was so good.

SPEAKER_03 38:06

It was good. I do remember that.

SPEAKER_04 38:08

Yeah, that was such a fun trip.

SPEAKER_03 38:10

That was I yeah, I still that was yeah, I would love to go back. Speaking of Hawaii, so I've been uh I saw this documentary, I think it's on HBO. It's called Eye of the Storm, and it's each episode is centered around a different natural disaster. We've seen that. Did you see the one on Hawaii with the fires? Yes, did we see that one? That was so scary. I had to see how that happened.

SPEAKER_04 38:36

Yeah, we did see it, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 38:37

It was in the big island for you, the whole island basically burnt down.

SPEAKER_04 38:42

It wasn't Honolulu, it was um it was the big island or Huahua. No, no, it wasn't Oahua was the big island. No, not not big island, no, it was Honolulu's where we were at.

SPEAKER_03 38:54

It's been what three years now, isn't it? Yeah, I think it was 2022.

SPEAKER_04 38:59

Yeah, was it Kauai?

SPEAKER_03 39:00

It might have been that. It might have been Kawaii, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 39:02

But yeah, it it it yeah, that was devastating, yeah. It was terrible.

SPEAKER_03 39:06

Really scary looking, right?

SPEAKER_04 39:08

And I think that's one place, one thing that I definitely wouldn't want to you know die in.

SPEAKER_02 39:15

It was Lahina. Lahina? Oh, Lahina on the island of Maui.

SPEAKER_04 39:20

Oh, it was Maui.

SPEAKER_02 39:21

Yeah, over 13,000 residents' homestries.

SPEAKER_04 39:24

Geez, that's a lot. Yeah, that's that's horrible.

SPEAKER_03 39:26

But I mean, where they actually had to stay in the water to avoid getting burned. You know what's what made me cry the most was the guy who lost the dog.

SPEAKER_01 39:36

Wow, he found them dead.

SPEAKER_02 39:39

No, he didn't. He never found him. No, that was so sad. Well, he just assumed that because he didn't find them, but he found the other ones. Yeah, yeah. But it was just he didn't know that he just didn't get out.

SPEAKER_04 39:50

You know, we want to get another dog. But the problem is Stormy is such a pain in the ass.

SPEAKER_03 39:56

Are you gonna get a big dog?

SPEAKER_04 39:58

No, no, no, we can't get a big dog. I was thinking about uh, you know, like a Rottweiler.

SPEAKER_03 40:03

Oh god. Rottweiler's a big dog.

SPEAKER_04 40:05

Oh, well, not if you buy him a bummer dog.

SPEAKER_03 40:06

Wait a second, why why not big dog? Because big dogs can help you with because walking, we rent and it's against it's not in the lease.

SPEAKER_04 40:14

Right.

SPEAKER_02 40:15

Well, hey, we have over 25 pounds.

SPEAKER_03 40:17

20 what? Yeah, stormy's 25 pounds. That big loaf of bread. She's 15 inches.

SPEAKER_04 40:23

She's 15.

SPEAKER_03 40:24

She's a sourdough egg McDonald's.

SPEAKER_04 40:25

Yeah, she's she's a big, yeah, she's a big bag of potatoes.

SPEAKER_03 40:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 40:30

I mean, you know what? Every morning it's like I come down and she's just a pain in the butt.

SPEAKER_03 40:36

Dude.

SPEAKER_04 40:36

She does not listen at all.

SPEAKER_03 40:38

No, Ollie's, yeah. Ollie's a spaz.

SPEAKER_04 40:43

That dog is just, I mean, I love her to death. And, you know, she like licks um licks me every day, and it's like, you know, it's like I want to get rid of this dog in my mind, but it's like I can't because she's Yeah, she's your baby.

SPEAKER_02 40:56

She'll sit there and you'll yell at her, and then she'll come and put her head on your hand. Right. Just stare at you, and I was like, Right.

SPEAKER_04 41:02

She'll like sit and stop doing that. Put her head over my shoulder like that, and it's like, it's the cutest thing.

SPEAKER_02 41:07

Oh, come here.

SPEAKER_04 41:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:08

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 41:09

Let me hug you.

SPEAKER_04 41:10

Yeah. Pain in the butt.

SPEAKER_03 41:11

Ollie has Harpo Jr. that she's been carrying around. It's a stuffed animal that looks like Harpo.

SPEAKER_04 41:18

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 41:18

It's the cutest thing. And she doesn't like tear it up or anything, she just carries it around in her mouth. It's really, really adorable.

SPEAKER_04 41:27

The storm carried anything around, she'd tear it up.

SPEAKER_02 41:29

Yeah, and I see the things we have to get something comparable to her size because she's a roughneck. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 41:34

You know, I would like another chihuahua.

SPEAKER_02 41:37

I it had to be something that is sturdy to stand up to her because she likes to fight.

SPEAKER_04 41:43

She does.

SPEAKER_03 41:43

She fights hard because I fight with her. Yeah, she's just do like a mini poodle mix.

SPEAKER_04 41:49

No, that poodle'd be hair all over the place.

SPEAKER_03 41:51

They don't shed like a shihtzu. Yeah. Oh my god, it'd be hairless.

SPEAKER_04 41:55

Yeah, it'd be hairless after she got rid of uh.

SPEAKER_03 41:58

But I'm saying it's that would be less than 25 pounds and it would be sturdy enough. Yeah. Yeah. We're looking at corgis. We're thinking of corgies.

SPEAKER_04 42:04

Yeah, corgi would be cool. So cute. I would love a corgi.

SPEAKER_02 42:07

Because it's short, stocky. Right. It'd give her a run for her money.

SPEAKER_04 42:10

Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 42:11

And they don't yip like chihuahuas.

SPEAKER_04 42:14

And as long as they don't shed either. Because because that dog, Stormy, she sheds at a blinking of an eye.

SPEAKER_03 42:21

Poodles don't shed. Ollie does not shed.

SPEAKER_04 42:24

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_03 42:25

No.

SPEAKER_04 42:25

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 42:26

Neither does that.

SPEAKER_04 42:26

No, Stormy. I mean, she would like I you know, I'd I'd be wearing black, right? And she'd get on, like, I'd wear like new black stuff or whatever. She'd get on me by the two seconds later, I've got like all this hair on top of me.

SPEAKER_03 42:39

Yeah, labradoodles don't. Yeah. Because of the poodle mix. The poodle. Yeah, they're hypoallergenic.

SPEAKER_04 42:45

Yeah, you can't even shave that dog because you know, yeah. It would grow it and then just shed it again. She would look like a naked mole rather than she'd look like the the cat from uh James Bond.

SPEAKER_03 42:58

Oh god.

SPEAKER_04 43:00

Or the Austin Powers.

SPEAKER_02 43:03

Ew, don't creep me out.

SPEAKER_01 43:05

Right.

SPEAKER_02 43:06

And you know what's hard for her like to put clothes on her? She has that high big chest bone. Right. And not all pugs have, but she does. Yeah. So with that big chest, it's like hard to put shirts on her because it just gets too tight on her. So I don't put clothes. That in her eyes go like this. She's a big breasted woman.

SPEAKER_04 43:24

She's a big breast woman. That's like um what do you call that?

SPEAKER_03 43:28

Like her eyes go like she's got like uh lazy eyes or whatever.

SPEAKER_04 43:33

Crazy eyes.

SPEAKER_02 43:33

Cash patel eyes.

SPEAKER_04 43:34

Like yeah, cash patel eyes. Right.

SPEAKER_02 43:37

But she's cute. He's not.

SPEAKER_04 43:39

Right. Well, he's just uh yeah. But you're right. Yeah. So yeah, we're we're you know, I'd like to get another corgi would be cool.

unknown 43:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:47

Corgies are cool dogs. Yeah, but I want a mutt. I mean, we gotta we gotta rescue someone.

SPEAKER_03 43:51

Yeah, I'd go rescue. Yeah, yeah, you're right.

SPEAKER_04 43:54

Because I'm thinking they need to be rescued. Yeah, yes.

SPEAKER_03 43:57

So you pay for Stormy and then look at her. Her weird eye, you know. Right.

SPEAKER_04 44:04

She came damaged.

SPEAKER_02 44:05

Well, yeah, but we we thought, you know, we picked her. Right.

SPEAKER_04 44:08

And we didn't want to, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 44:09

We didn't want anything else just because it was small.

SPEAKER_04 44:12

Yeah, because what was the story that she got in a fight?

SPEAKER_02 44:15

Yeah, she was fighting with the other puppies and one scratched the cornea.

SPEAKER_04 44:18

Yeah. But she and they asked us, says, Do you want another dog? And we said no. We'll just keep her.

SPEAKER_03 44:24

So when we went to get Harpo from his the breeder, we drove five hours south to go to this breeder. And it was basically like first come, first serve. Like you put the deposit down and then you go and pick it up. But like obviously the litter is whatever, eight puppies. Right. And so we were the last ones to get there. The last dog was Harpo. And he had the breeder was like, We just noticed this that he actually has a weird deformed paw. They were like, you know, we'd understand if you didn't want to take him. And we're like, we're fucking drove five hours to get here, you son of a bitch. Give me the dog. And it ended up being like he's the best. Yeah. And part of his like charm. Yeah. You know, but he uh he had his paw, so he his paw was deformed, so he had the the two digits that grew into each other, and then his pinky just give me a discount. I know. Yeah, his like pinky toe didn't have a bone in it, so it's literally just a floppy little digit. It was really weird.

SPEAKER_04 45:34

A limp.

SPEAKER_03 45:35

Mm-hmm. As much as he said on my lap, I don't remember her face. I know. I'd never bothered, you would never know.

SPEAKER_04 45:40

Yeah, and Ollie is like crazy.

SPEAKER_03 45:43

She's a spaz man.

SPEAKER_04 45:43

Yeah, she's a spaz.

SPEAKER_03 45:44

She's a freaking spaz.

SPEAKER_04 45:46

You gotta feed her too. I mean, she's like skin and bone.

SPEAKER_03 45:49

Oh, now she looks like uh she did before with you can barely see her eyeballs because of furs. Yeah. No, she's she's a sturdy dog. She's she's a good girl, she's just a spaz man.

SPEAKER_04 46:01

You know, it's funny because I was never a dog person when I was growing up or anything like that.

SPEAKER_03 46:05

You weren't allowed to have pets.

SPEAKER_04 46:07

Huh?

SPEAKER_03 46:07

You weren't allowed to have dogs. Right, right. Well and he was afraid.

SPEAKER_04 46:10

And I was afraid because you know, uh, my mom was attacked by a dog. It took a chunk out of uh out of her uh leg when she was really young, and so supposedly supposed well, no, I I I saw it. I saw the then whatever. But um, yeah, so I mean, you know, I think she was afraid of uh having a dog again or whatever. But you know, it's funny because I always always wanted a dog, but I never really uh obviously I couldn't. And when I was uh when I finally got out of the house and all that, um I thought about it, but I never really did it until I met you. And then we you had uh a crazy devil dog and uh poopers. Poopers. And um, so then you know, once we we got stormy, it was like you know, I love that dog, you know, even though she's a pain in the butt.

SPEAKER_02 46:58

Oh, you love Charlie too.

SPEAKER_04 46:59

Oh, I love Charlie. Uh Charlie was a rescue basically.

SPEAKER_03 47:02

Yeah, you know, but he was already an elderly dog.

SPEAKER_04 47:05

Yeah, he was all yeah, he was he was very subdued and you know, he was just waiting for the flaming star of death.

SPEAKER_02 47:12

No, but he was a very calm chihuahua.

SPEAKER_04 47:14

He was. I love taking him on trips because he was always well behaved.

SPEAKER_02 47:17

You know what the best demeanor, yeah, quiet. Yeah, I love that dog, and he lets you know when he wanted to cuddle.

SPEAKER_03 47:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 47:24

I love that dog, yeah. Miss that dog.

SPEAKER_03 47:26

It's like I can't imagine having a small dog. It's fun. Big dog.

SPEAKER_04 47:31

We've had none but small dogs, yeah. I mean, I wouldn't mind having having a big dog, but as long as the big dog wasn't uh, you know, um didn't have big shits, because then you have to clean up after it. At least with Stormy, at least with Stormy, I don't have to clean up after her. She can just go take a dump somewhere and that's it.

SPEAKER_02 47:53

Oh god. I've had both. I've had big and small dogs. Yeah. I had my chow. I had one that was a Rottweiler Chow. I had one German Shepherds. Oh. Like one that was like a big lab, all black, toughy. So I've had a mixture of dogs.

SPEAKER_03 48:12

Really stupid thing this week. Yeah. Oh no, it was last week.

SPEAKER_04 48:16

Uh a rat floating in your tub.

SPEAKER_03 48:19

No, that was last year. Um, so took Ollie on her first walk, decided to meet um one of the boys at his practice with school. So Finn and I rode our bikes there, brought Ollie with. Like she was on the leash while I was on the bike. Horrible idea.

SPEAKER_04 48:38

Right.

SPEAKER_03 48:39

Halfway through, I'm like, this is a mistake. This is a total mistake.

SPEAKER_04 48:45

The dog is flying, probably.

SPEAKER_03 48:47

You're like, and like weaving all over the place. And I'm like, I'm about to die. It was awful. I had got a bruise on my arm. Um, but and so I ended up like she ended up being pretty good because I think she got tired. So she ended up just, you know, riding along next to me at some point.

SPEAKER_04 49:05

But then once you were dragging her.

SPEAKER_03 49:08

Oh my god, dude. She, I was like, this is a what the hell was I thinking? Um, and then Finn looked back and he's like, it's like a it's like the olden days. I'm like, you mean a horse-drawn carriage?

SPEAKER_04 49:22

Oh my bad idea. Right. Alrighty then. Well, thank you for listening. Keep listening. Uh, we'll be back next week for another edition of the Genesis Podcast. Listen to us everywhere you get podcasts and at www.genesys.com or at our YouTube channel of the same name. Have a great evening.

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