[00:00:04] Speaker A: Hello, hello. Hello, everyone. Welcome back to Weird World Adventures, the podcast. I'm your host, Mallory.
[00:00:10] Speaker B: And I'm your host, Michael.
[00:00:11] Speaker A: And we're here to show you just how weird this world of ours really is.
We have a really fun episode here talking about our recent experience in Puerto Vallarta.
[00:00:21] Speaker B: Puerto Vallarta.
[00:00:23] Speaker A: Puerto. Puerto Vallarta.
[00:00:25] Speaker B: Vallarta.
[00:00:26] Speaker A: Okay. I say it like a weirdo because I have an Argentine accent because my teacher was from Argentina.
[00:00:31] Speaker B: Well, my last name is Maldonado, so I'm pretty sure I have. You know, I'm a quarter Spanish.
[00:00:37] Speaker A: That's true. But you can't speak Spanish. You tried to say, my name is Michael, and you said, I like Michael.
[00:00:43] Speaker B: Both.
That is not an untrue statement. Maybe I stand by that. Maybe I was trying to say I like Michael.
[00:00:51] Speaker A: We were somewhere. I wish. I. Honestly, it went by so fast. I don't remember where we were, but we were somewhere. And they said, what's your last name? And I said, maldonado. And they went, oh, Maldonado. And then they just assumed we were from Mexico.
[00:01:04] Speaker B: Is it a big Mexican last name?
[00:01:06] Speaker A: It's more Puerto Rican, but it is Mexican.
[00:01:09] Speaker B: That's where it is for me.
[00:01:10] Speaker A: There were a lot of Maldonados from Mexico in California.
[00:01:13] Speaker B: I think there's some Cubans, too, I usually assume.
[00:01:15] Speaker A: And Mexicans.
Before we dive into this, though, first of all, if you have not checked, checked out the show, you have to go to Weird World Adventures on Amazon Prime. I do promise you that season two is coming out soon. This is all on us. So it's been a loving work in progress, and we want it to be as perfect as it can be for the release. So that will be coming out here shortly. And season three is already being filmed because we have that part down. So.
[00:01:44] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:01:45] Speaker A: And this trip was us filming for season three.
But before we get into that, we were just having this conversation, and I feel the need to get it off my chest. Maybe because I had a sangria.
Okay.
I love Eva Gabor, so I needed. So did you. Did you like the Rescuers?
[00:02:05] Speaker B: I was indifferent. I honestly don't even know the story. Here's what I know about. Literally what I know about the Rescuers is that one of them is famous for having hidden porn.
[00:02:18] Speaker A: That's the Rescuers done under.
[00:02:19] Speaker B: But it's the same franchise, right?
[00:02:21] Speaker A: Yeah. There was two movies, and I will say, Disney is not known for sequels. There was all the. Every. Every. Disney didn't want to do sequels. And it wasn't until Walt Disney had passed and other people were in charge that they started doing sequels. And they weren't good, but. But this one was really good. The Rescuers down under was great.
[00:02:42] Speaker B: Is this the sequel or.
[00:02:43] Speaker A: That's the sequel. So the Rescuers is when there's a little girl who is kidnapped by this, like, crazy woman who looked a lot like Cruella de Vil.
[00:02:51] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:02:52] Speaker A: And it was because she had this, like, teddy bear. And there was, like, there was a diamond. And the woman was trying to get this diamond. A little girl was small enough to get the diamond. So she adopted an orphan to have her go in this, like, sea tunnel and take out a diamond as one does. Yeah. And she put it in her teddy bear.
[00:03:12] Speaker B: Well, this, to me.
Is this a bad moral? This woman adopted an orphan. And all that little orphan has to do to have a loving family from here on out is steal this chap. Are they stealing it?
[00:03:24] Speaker A: Well, no. It was like, in a sea tunnel.
[00:03:27] Speaker B: This is a victimless crime.
[00:03:28] Speaker A: But it was in the sea tunnel.
[00:03:31] Speaker B: Hey, you gotta earn your place in this family.
I'm just saying.
I mean, she's adopting. It's a big move to adopt. It's not cheap. You gotta. It's not cheap to adopt a kid.
[00:03:42] Speaker A: And I think she had two pet alligators.
[00:03:45] Speaker B: You're right.
[00:03:45] Speaker A: Like flotsam, jetsam. Except it was like. Or flotsam, Jetsam, whatever. Except it was.
[00:03:49] Speaker B: It's flotsam and jetsam.
[00:03:51] Speaker A: Flotsam, jetsam, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam.
[00:03:53] Speaker B: But do you know those are real words?
[00:03:54] Speaker A: Yes, I do. I just can't.
[00:03:56] Speaker B: Which I just find interesting. Yeah, they're not just like, flotsam.
I might get this backwards. So I'm not like a super nautical terminology guy, but they're like actual nautical terms.
[00:04:07] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:04:07] Speaker B: I think flotsam is all the crap debris. If a ship goes under, it's like. And I think jetsam is the jettison. Like, if you're going to sing, it's the stuff they start throwing overboard.
[00:04:19] Speaker A: Got it.
[00:04:20] Speaker B: I think.
[00:04:20] Speaker A: Well, the alligators served that purpose. They were like the henchmen, and they weren't very nice. And the rescuers are like these little critters.
[00:04:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I know. There's that.
[00:04:30] Speaker A: Help the Orphans and the Children in Need. And they have that song that's R E S C U E. It's like rodent types, Right?
[00:04:37] Speaker B: Aren't they heavy on the rodent type?
[00:04:38] Speaker A: They are.
[00:04:39] Speaker B: That might be why I don't love it.
[00:04:40] Speaker A: I don't.
[00:04:41] Speaker B: I don't love Rodents. I don't have, like, a fear of rodents. It's just, like, a type of animal that I'm like, these are just rats.
[00:04:49] Speaker A: Yeah, but they have. They just have a bad connotation in society.
[00:04:53] Speaker B: No. Well, that's not why I dislike them.
Like, I like rats more than I like squirrels, for example.
[00:04:59] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:05:00] Speaker B: And it's cause squirrels get too much credit.
[00:05:02] Speaker A: I agree.
[00:05:03] Speaker B: They're just fluffy rats.
That's all. Have you ever seen.
[00:05:06] Speaker A: I love rats and squirrels.
[00:05:08] Speaker B: Have you ever. Look, I respect a rat. Cause it knows it's a rat.
Squirrels. Everyone's like, oh, it's a squirrel. It's just a rat with a fluffy tail.
[00:05:16] Speaker A: But the rescuers, Bernard and Bianca.
[00:05:19] Speaker B: I have to finish this.
[00:05:19] Speaker A: Okay, go ahead.
[00:05:20] Speaker B: Have you seen a squirrel with its tail shaved?
[00:05:23] Speaker A: It's a rat.
[00:05:24] Speaker B: It's a rat.
[00:05:25] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:05:25] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:05:26] Speaker A: Yep. I know. I got to. I also like them both. But the rescuers, it's Bernard and Bianca. They're mice. And Bianca is this cute little, fluffy white mouse. And they kind of make her, like, stylish, like Eva Gabor. And I just fell in love with Eva Gabor when I was, like, 4 years old because, to be honest, I didn't love the rescuers. I loved the rescuers down under.
[00:05:49] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:05:49] Speaker A: And there was, like, this weird. I don't know what kind of mouse he was. He was like a kangaroo mouse from the outback.
[00:05:56] Speaker B: Oh, like the hoppy kind with, like, the long thinny tail.
[00:06:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:01] Speaker B: What kind of mouse is that?
[00:06:02] Speaker A: I don't know. I have to look this up now. But he was great. And he was, like, hitting on Bianca. And Bernard was trying to propose to her the whole movie. It was really cute. But Eva Gabor, her voice in that was just lovely. Like, oh, Bernard. Like, it was like a Hungarian accent. Like, she was. It was just so wonderful.
[00:06:21] Speaker B: And then I feel like you've modeled.
[00:06:23] Speaker A: Your whole look after Bianca's health.
[00:06:27] Speaker B: Now that I'm looking at you, I'm.
[00:06:28] Speaker A: Like, well, that makes sense.
[00:06:30] Speaker B: You, like, kind of having the, like, sexy, sensual look.
[00:06:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:34] Speaker B: And I feel like you were four.
[00:06:36] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:06:37] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:37] Speaker A: You even had a Russian hat. That's where the Russian hat came from.
It's true. And she was just so darling and, like, you know, like classy and had the cute little, like, Russian hat.
It's Bianca the mouse.
[00:06:52] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[00:06:52] Speaker A: So you.
[00:06:53] Speaker B: You saw this movie at 4 and were like, that's who I'm going to be.
[00:06:56] Speaker A: Yes. And yes.
[00:06:58] Speaker B: Now you're almost 40.
[00:07:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:07:00] Speaker B: And that's you.
[00:07:01] Speaker A: Her voice is so wonderful. She's classy. And I liked in the wrestling under. I'm curious if you remember anything about it at all.
[00:07:09] Speaker B: Mm, no.
[00:07:11] Speaker A: Nothing. Okay. The bad guy was a poacher.
[00:07:13] Speaker B: I told you what I remember about it.
[00:07:14] Speaker A: Okay. The bad guy was a poacher, and he had a.
Oh, my God. Why am I blanking on the word? The Komodo dragon. His pet was a Komodo dragon. Her name was Joanna.
She was the henchman. And I just loved Joanna, too. Like, just because it was so bizarre. Like, okay, it comes up on Google.
[00:07:38] Speaker B: We know that this translates great.
To an audio.
[00:07:42] Speaker A: So Joanne. Yes.
[00:07:43] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:07:44] Speaker A: And she wanted to eat the eagle eggs. They were trying to save this golden eagle.
Maybe that's why I love conservation so much. I don't know. I loved that movie as a child.
[00:07:54] Speaker B: And then you basically have that Bianca outfit.
[00:07:58] Speaker A: I do.
[00:07:59] Speaker B: In human form. Like, several type. Like, several copies of it.
[00:08:04] Speaker A: I do.
And then, like, Green Acres.
So Eva Gabor was in Green Acres, and this was the other show.
[00:08:16] Speaker B: A wild interlude here.
[00:08:18] Speaker A: Yes, it is. I'm sorry, I have to get this out, though.
It's the sangria, but I actually didn't love Green Acres, But Eva Gabor, 70, she wore the Lucy Ann robes that I got from Bewitched. They rented them out for two shows. They rented them out to PR back during the 60s on Bewitched. And so Samantha wore them all the time in Bewitched, and then for Green Acres. And Eva Gabor wore the same robes in Green Acres.
[00:08:51] Speaker B: So you did just. You're just Bianca.
[00:08:53] Speaker A: Yes. Bianca, the mouse is my favorite animal, apparently.
[00:08:56] Speaker B: No, no, no. You are just Bianca. You just took this mouse's personality and stole it.
[00:09:02] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:02] Speaker B: And made yourself into her.
[00:09:04] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:05] Speaker B: You're a human in Bianca's skin.
[00:09:07] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:09:07] Speaker B: Bianca's skin.
[00:09:08] Speaker A: I would be very proud of that. Anyway, this was a long interlude to move on to the fact that we just got back. We're probably a little tired because we just got back from Puerto Vallarta, and. And we were there for a press trip at the Marriott.
Yes. And it was amazing. So the Marriott just went through a $2 million renovation.
[00:09:30] Speaker B: Worth it.
[00:09:31] Speaker A: It was incredible.
For the people that are afraid to travel to Mexico, it's very Americanized as a resort. But the reason I like Puerto Vallarta is because it still has a lot of that Mexican heritage. It still feels like Mexico.
[00:09:47] Speaker B: The town felt like Mexico. Yes, Mexico. Or like a Spanish town.
[00:09:51] Speaker A: Yes. It has the cobblestones. It has the old churches, and it's an art hub. So there's hundreds of art galleries, like personalized little artists. I mean, it's a beautiful place. It's a creative place. And they're known for their malecon, which is like their boardwalk.
[00:10:09] Speaker B: That was pretty cool.
[00:10:10] Speaker A: Yes, it's very. And you didn't get to do the whole thing, which is great. But they have famous statues throughout, like down the Malecon. And we were there for Day of the Dead.
[00:10:18] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:10:18] Speaker A: So they had the largest Katrina in the Guinness Book of World Records.
[00:10:23] Speaker B: Pretty big.
[00:10:24] Speaker A: Huge.
Amongst just an entire row of Day of the Dead, like, skeletons and artifacts and people celebrating.
[00:10:32] Speaker B: What was the dog? What's the dog's name?
[00:10:34] Speaker A: I don't know the dog's name.
[00:10:36] Speaker B: They said it.
[00:10:36] Speaker A: They did.
[00:10:37] Speaker B: I was like, I'm gonna forget that.
[00:10:38] Speaker A: I'm gonna look it up.
[00:10:39] Speaker B: You know what I'm talking about, right?
[00:10:40] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:10:42] Speaker B: Yeah. Oh, right, right.
[00:10:44] Speaker A: The dog was there. So apparently Day of the Dead has several days, and the first one is for the children.
And that one has the dog.
It doesn't say his name, but it's like a hairless dog.
And it honors. So Day of the Dead honors dogs as sacred guides for souls traveling into the afterlife. And it's especially there to look out for children, they were saying. So that was the first day, and then the second day is for the adults.
Look at.
[00:11:09] Speaker B: Look at the name of that breed, though.
[00:11:13] Speaker A: Good luck pronouncing that chicolaki.
[00:11:18] Speaker B: I think he crushed it.
[00:11:20] Speaker A: Well, the X is a ch.
Okay, so that's chul.
[00:11:30] Speaker B: Is that what it is?
[00:11:31] Speaker A: I think it's Quetzalcoatl.
[00:11:33] Speaker B: I think that's a different thing.
[00:11:38] Speaker A: Anyway, it's. It's. I like the dog better. I'm always fond just of the. The animal brains, but the one of one of the famous statues or, like, pieces of architecture on the Malecon is the archway, those four arches, and they had that converted into an altar.
[00:11:59] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:59] Speaker A: And that one specifically was for the dog.
[00:12:02] Speaker B: Got it.
[00:12:02] Speaker A: And that was very cool. We barely got to see that because they rushed out as soon as we got there. But that was very neat.
And I guess we should start at the beginning.
[00:12:11] Speaker B: Wow, what a concept.
[00:12:13] Speaker A: We should start at the very beginning.
[00:12:16] Speaker B: I like to start on a total tangent about Bianca the mouse.
[00:12:20] Speaker A: I love Bianca the mouse.
[00:12:21] Speaker B: I have structured my whole life to be this God damn mouse.
[00:12:25] Speaker A: She's beautiful and kind and. And has the best voice with, like, the Hungarian.
[00:12:33] Speaker B: The sexy sensualness.
[00:12:36] Speaker A: That's what you try to be.
And she has the Ophi guy following her, trying to propose.
[00:12:41] Speaker B: What are you trying to say?
I remember you told me when we were early dating, you were like, I don't really like to be sexy.
[00:12:52] Speaker A: I like to be sensual, like Bianca.
Yeah, yeah.
[00:12:56] Speaker B: I was like, all right. I guess that's a different thing.
[00:12:59] Speaker A: Yeah, it is different, though.
[00:13:01] Speaker B: I feel like, you know, they overlap.
[00:13:03] Speaker A: Okay. I'll give you that. But the attention is different.
[00:13:07] Speaker B: I like to be a little bit overweight and schlubby and follow you around and try to.
[00:13:12] Speaker A: Right. Like Bernard. That's how she says it. Bernard.
[00:13:15] Speaker B: Bernard.
[00:13:16] Speaker A: Oh, Bernard.
[00:13:17] Speaker B: I do remember that.
[00:13:18] Speaker A: Yeah, I know. I love.
[00:13:18] Speaker B: Why is he so schlubby?
[00:13:20] Speaker A: I don't know, but it's cute. I wonder who the voice actor was. No, I get it. Because I feel like that's. They, like, they put some of the person.
[00:13:27] Speaker B: Yeah. The personality of the character.
[00:13:30] Speaker A: Let's see.
[00:13:32] Speaker B: Bernard.
[00:13:33] Speaker A: Bernard.
Bob Newhart.
[00:13:36] Speaker B: Oh.
[00:13:36] Speaker A: Oh, well, that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah, it was Bob Newhart.
[00:13:41] Speaker B: Bob fucking Newhart.
And Ava Kapoor.
What a cast.
[00:13:46] Speaker A: That's why it was such a great movie.
I don't know what that is, but. Yeah, you remember, that's the mouse. Okay. Yeah.
The Australian guy. That was also. The rescuers was the 1970s, and the rescuers down under was the 90s. So there was 20 years of a difference in those movies.
[00:14:05] Speaker B: So they waited 20 years, and in the sequel, they decided, let's put a porn picture into it. Hidden.
[00:14:11] Speaker A: I guess so, like. But that was back when Disney was making those raunchy choices, because they did that.
[00:14:18] Speaker B: I don't. I don't think that was, like, a Disney choice. I don't think, like, some executive, like.
[00:14:24] Speaker A: People were sneaking stuff in.
[00:14:25] Speaker B: I know, but I mean.
[00:14:26] Speaker A: Yeah, okay.
[00:14:27] Speaker B: I don't think it was like, hey, for this one, we're gonna sneak it, get it done. Tell her. Tell our people.
[00:14:32] Speaker A: People were. I think it was, like, a rogue. See what they could get away.
[00:14:35] Speaker B: Yeah, it was a rogue animator.
[00:14:36] Speaker A: It happened in Aladdin.
[00:14:37] Speaker B: Or, like, two guys being like, let's.
[00:14:39] Speaker A: See, happened in Aladdin.
[00:14:40] Speaker B: I read conflicting stuff about the Aladdin king.
Like, I agree. I know what you're talking about. Where the priest gets.
You know.
[00:14:47] Speaker A: That's the Little Mermaid.
[00:14:48] Speaker B: Ah, shit. You're right.
[00:14:49] Speaker A: The Lion King is the sex. When he falls on these, like, leaves after he sees his dad, the stuff comes up. And it does spell sex.
They edited it later because people caught on to it.
[00:15:02] Speaker B: Okay, but it does spell it. You can definitely see it.
[00:15:05] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:15:05] Speaker B: But my question to you is, has that been confirmed as intentional or is that Pareidolia? Is that just like. Oh, well, you can see words in clouds.
[00:15:14] Speaker A: It would be clear. How do you accidentally spell sex Now? I will say I'll do research on this. We should follow up on this next time. I'll do the research.
[00:15:21] Speaker B: Okay. Cause there's a bunch of Disney, like, raunchy things.
[00:15:25] Speaker A: The Little Mermaid, the priest. That was his knee.
[00:15:28] Speaker B: Yeah. Or it's like the guy behind him or something.
It's so.
It's such an unfortunate faux pas, though, because, wow, that one. To me, that one was the most convincing one when I was a kid. Me and my friends would all try to find it and it's just so like, wow, that barista's getting hard on in their ceremony here.
[00:15:50] Speaker A: That one, I think was just unfortunate. Same thing with Aladdin. The Aladdin one is like the audio version of that because.
Yes, because when Aladdin is trying to hit on Jasmine and the genie is saying like, let's go, let's go, let's go. And he's pretending to be a bee and he says, let's take off and go.
[00:16:09] Speaker B: Let's take off and go.
[00:16:09] Speaker A: And it sounds like, let's take off your clothes. But I heard. I listened to that as a kid. Cause I was like, I was curious. But let's take off and go.
[00:16:16] Speaker B: This is what you do as a kid before you realize, oh, I can get grainy Cinemax.
And that's a little bit better than trying to get my jollies off on maybe Disney mess ups.
[00:16:30] Speaker A: Right, right, right.
[00:16:31] Speaker B: This is like sixth grade. And then by seventh grade, you're like, we can probably just like grainy Playboy TV through our parents cable channel. At least back in the day. Now it's all streaming.
[00:16:42] Speaker A: Right, right, right, right. But anyway, yeah, that's a total tangent.
[00:16:47] Speaker B: But I will say the Rescue is down. 1. 1 is unambiguous.
[00:16:52] Speaker A: You can pause it on the right frame.
[00:16:53] Speaker B: You can pause it on the right frame. And it's not even a drawing. It's a.
[00:16:57] Speaker A: Well, they've since taken it.
[00:16:58] Speaker B: Oh, I'm sure they have.
[00:17:00] Speaker A: None of this stuff is even, like, provable anymore. Because the second that someone said it, Disney was like, all right.
[00:17:05] Speaker B: But you can pull screenshots of it and it's like.
It's like a. Yeah, it's like a nude poster in someone's room in an apartment in the very background. You'd have to, like, zoom in and find it.
[00:17:16] Speaker A: What was the.
[00:17:16] Speaker B: I think it's actually like a picture, right?
[00:17:18] Speaker A: I think so.
[00:17:19] Speaker B: It's where the seagull's flying through the town scene.
This is a good search.
Porn in the rescuers town under. That's not gonna be what you think it is. Yeah, it's not.
Damn. Bianca.
[00:17:34] Speaker A: Yeah, it's right there. Yeah, yeah.
And I. They recalled 3.4 million copies of it.
[00:17:41] Speaker B: Wow.
[00:17:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:42] Speaker B: So we're not talking about.
[00:17:43] Speaker A: Oh my God.
[00:17:44] Speaker B: No.
[00:17:45] Speaker A: But yeah, it's here.
[00:17:47] Speaker B: Awesome. Bianca's looking at it in the scene.
[00:17:50] Speaker A: Well. Cause she's flying by.
[00:17:52] Speaker B: Uh huh. She's like.
Anyway, Bianca might be more my kind of woman now.
[00:17:59] Speaker A: Wow. What was the name of that bird?
[00:18:01] Speaker B: She's a little more gettable.
[00:18:02] Speaker A: Wow.
The name of the bird was.
[00:18:08] Speaker B: I don't remember the name.
[00:18:09] Speaker A: Wilbur. Wilbur. It was Wilbur.
[00:18:12] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:18:14] Speaker A: Anyway.
Marahout, a giant golden eagle. Oh no. That's what they're rescuing. But his name was Wilbur.
[00:18:21] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:18:22] Speaker A: Anyway. Okay, back to the beginning in Puerto Vallarta.
[00:18:27] Speaker B: Where did we go?
[00:18:28] Speaker A: We're starting at the beginning of Puerto Vallarta. We haven't even gotten there yet, you guys. All right, all right. This has been fun. Bye. Just kidding.
So we got there and the first day was just relaxing and having a nice dinner. And it's a beautiful resort, which I.
[00:18:46] Speaker B: Kind of need because I don't like traveling. So I have to be like a little bit zoned out to get to the place. I need a good. Like I'm going to plop in this bed and do nothing. On the day I'm.
[00:18:55] Speaker A: You crashed for five hours. I was jealous. I took a two hour nap and then did some work and then got some food.
And I loved that.
So they. With the renovations, they've like updated the food and they've really thought about everything with the meals and they try to keep it kind of Americanized and like, you know, accessible for everyone. So there's something there for everybody. It's like a sports bar. Yeah. They have a hibachi house, which I'm sad we didn't get to go to.
[00:19:23] Speaker B: Oh, that's right. We didn't get to that one. I know.
[00:19:26] Speaker A: And then they have their authentic, you know, meals. So we did a tapas the first night and that was really nice. I feel like you can't go to Puerto Vallarta without doing tapas at least once. Because every time I've been there, I've done tapas and that was very good. And they had that. What was the rice? That was so good. That was my favorite part.
And then the Day of the Dead was like, you know, the point of the press trip. So then the second Day we're there, it's all about Day of the Dead.
And we got to relax at the resort that morning. Everyone got to kind of gather, which was really nice to get to sleep in and gather by the pools. And so now they have this little long infinity pool that's just for adults, which is great because not that I don't love children at resorts, but you know, you need an adults only pool.
[00:20:08] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah.
[00:20:10] Speaker A: And so, you know, there's like the pool by the ocean, which has all these lounge chairs in it. That's really nice. And the swim up bar.
And then behind that's just this long, peaceful infinity pool for adults. So we took advantage of that. And it's really nice because you're sitting out there in the lounge chairs and everybody just comes over and like, you have a server immediately, like, what can I get you?
[00:20:31] Speaker B: Yeah, they were very attentive.
[00:20:32] Speaker A: And then someone walking by with a massage chair. Would you like a massage? It's free.
[00:20:37] Speaker B: And I'm like, oh, yes, don't mind if I do.
[00:20:40] Speaker A: So that was nice too. But it's. It's everything you would want in that type of resort. And, you know, you don't have to go anywhere to get anything. You can just stay in your lounge chair and people will bring it to you, which is what you want on those kinds of vacations.
So that was lovely.
And then we got to celebrate Day of the Dead and what I liked immediately about the people we had with us, the whole experience.
I'm just gonna jump in and say it now because there's this faux pas where people sometimes believe that celebrating a culture is appropriation. Appropriation. And it's not. There can be appropriation. I'm not saying that doesn't exist. But if you are going into a culture to learn about and celebrate their traditions, that's not appropriation. That's celebrating. Celebrating it.
[00:21:26] Speaker B: I agree. Look, I might get canceled here, but, like, everybody does this every. You know, like, if you celebrate St. Patrick's Day.
[00:21:36] Speaker A: Right.
[00:21:37] Speaker B: Okay. I mean, like, that's Irish. Right. I mean, I'm half Irish. Right.
It's some ways it's just nonsense. It's just like I have anything better to be offended about. So let me find something to be offended about. There are ways to do it. Offensive. You know what I'm saying?
[00:21:49] Speaker A: Offensively, it does exist.
[00:21:51] Speaker B: But if you're just trying to experience this culture and put yourself in their culture and their celebration, it's not appropriation in a healthy, positive way. How is that bad?
[00:22:07] Speaker A: It's not, if anything, you are learning out and spreading the culture.
It's a positive and for Weird World. The thing that I love about what we get to do, my main goal for it when we're filming is to, like, deep dive into these cultures and celebrate them and become a part of them.
[00:22:27] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:22:28] Speaker A: And just spread nation about it.
[00:22:29] Speaker B: I guess the problem is if you, like, take the attitude of, like, well, I'm gonna take this thing from this culture and change it to suit my Americanized view, it's like, all right, that's appropriation. But if you're just like, I'm in.
[00:22:44] Speaker A: Your country celebrating your holiday.
[00:22:46] Speaker B: Your holiday.
[00:22:48] Speaker A: As a visitor. As a visitor and a participant.
[00:22:51] Speaker B: Yeah. A full participant.
[00:22:52] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:22:52] Speaker B: In a. Like, I want to.
[00:22:54] Speaker A: I think that's beautiful. I think that's beautiful.
[00:22:56] Speaker B: I don't know what's a good example as, like, an American.
[00:23:00] Speaker A: Well, when I went to do this. Sorry, this is, I guess, not as American, but when I went to Argentina and we learned about the mate, we had no idea what mate was. When they were first handing out the mate, we were like, are they smoking something? Because it's that metal straw. Looks like you could be smoking something. And then after we had a few days working together, they, like, told us, we became friends. This is what this is. Let's share it. And it became this special, like, oh, wow. This is really important. In Argentine, I think Brazilian and maybe Chilean. There's a few cultures in South America that this is a huge part of their culture.
[00:23:34] Speaker B: It's like a communal drink.
[00:23:36] Speaker A: Yes. So with the mate, it's a tea.
Right. And you pack it in a very specific way and you add water to it, and one person drinks from it, and then they fill it back up and they hand it to the next person and they drink from it, and then you fill it back up and the next person drinks from it. So I'm a germaphobe, so I had. I was a little, like, hesitant about it at first. But, you know, when in Rome, like, you. You want to be a culture and you, you know, you want to participate and not offend. And it's like, this is a great way to immerse yourself in here and to celebrate the culture. And it was this beautiful, like, communal. Like, this is how we solidify our friendships and say that we're, like, all part of the same group here. We're all going to participate in this together.
[00:24:18] Speaker B: Right.
[00:24:18] Speaker A: And I came back with it with my own mate. Not to appropriate, but to be like, I love this. This is beautiful. I Like, to do this.
[00:24:27] Speaker B: Yeah. And then you made it and took some and handed it to me. I was like, I'm not sharing this with you.
I don't know where that mouth has been.
[00:24:36] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:24:38] Speaker B: Bernard.
[00:24:40] Speaker A: Bernard.
[00:24:41] Speaker B: Yeah. I saw those pictures of Bianca on that Google search.
[00:24:45] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:24:46] Speaker B: She looked like she gets around. And I don't need to be sharing any mate with that.
[00:24:50] Speaker A: So, anyway, we went to Mexico to celebrate Day of the Dead and to understand and come into and be informed about the culture so we could come back and, you know, present it and explain it and celebrate it here.
[00:25:05] Speaker B: It is something that is, I feel like, starting to infiltrate the US as.
[00:25:10] Speaker A: Its own because there's such a Central American presence here, too. And I love.
[00:25:16] Speaker B: I think Coco did.
[00:25:17] Speaker A: Coco definitely helped push that.
[00:25:19] Speaker B: I never saw Coco, but it's so good. I heard it was good. I bet that did quite a bit to kind of.
[00:25:24] Speaker A: Definitely. Because Disney made it mainstream.
And they actually were playing songs from Coco and in the parade when we were down there.
[00:25:33] Speaker B: Oh, well.
[00:25:34] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:25:34] Speaker B: You pointed them out.
[00:25:35] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm like, this is from Coco and it's a lovely movie and we should watch it. It's great. But they. So it started where they actually had professional makeup artists come in and paint the Katrina at the Marriott. At the Marriott. The skeleton faces on everybody who wanted to participate in that way. And so, of course we did that.
[00:25:55] Speaker B: The Marriott had a package you could sign up for as their Day of the Dead package. Right. Where it was included, a tour and everything. Obviously, we had our own PR team. But, yes, that was something that offered.
[00:26:07] Speaker A: Yes. So you could come and get your face painted and, like, sign up for the special dinner they did celebrating Day of the Dead.
And it was great. I love. We got to match. I'm like, I want to match. And we match. I was like, Arthur went full black and white.
My friend Arthur was there. He's traveled with me many times now through Germany, and he's just wonderful.
[00:26:27] Speaker B: You've definitely mentioned him on the.
[00:26:28] Speaker A: I definitely have mentioned him on the pod. Definitely. We're Lucy and Ethel, so he's my Ethel. I'm sure I've brought that up.
And it was very cool to get that, like, authentic experience to have that done.
And then from there.
[00:26:42] Speaker B: Looked good. They did a good job.
[00:26:44] Speaker A: They did a great job.
And then we went into Puerto Veerta to see a little bit of the Malecon and how it was decorated.
[00:26:52] Speaker B: I do have to point out for the face painting, it felt like such nothing that I. The hardest part about it was remembering that half my face was painted to not smear it all over the place.
[00:27:03] Speaker A: Everybody smeared. Yeah, I didn't. I was the only non smearer. I'm so anal about that.
[00:27:07] Speaker B: I didn't feel like anything. Like I couldn't tell it was on my face once they finished.
[00:27:12] Speaker A: Yeah, it was really nice. Both you and Arthur smeared yours all over. I know I was good. I was like. I was so conscious about that.
But yeah, you couldn't tell. You really couldn't tell. It was very. Especially if you had to itch there. I'm like, what do I. What do I do? I'm just gonna go like this.
And we got to see a little bit of the Malecon. We saw the.
The world's largest Katrina, which was very nice. And some of the skeletons and a few of the cool sculptures down the Malecon. And then from there we went to the cemetery. And this was the part I was most excited about. I felt sad we didn't get to see it later when it was really lively. But it was so special to get to see people decorating graves and celebrating their loved ones. And they kind of walked us through the process. You know, you bring the water and then the special like item or food or things that like resonate with the person who passed. And I love the examples that our tour guide gave was. Well, you know, one of my. You know, we have our four grandparents and the two grandmas loved the chicken and mole, so that's what we leave for them. But then the grandpas, one of them just loved smoking and the other one loved tequila. So we love tequila for one and then the cigarette for the other one.
[00:28:27] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:28:28] Speaker A: It's that thing that embodies. And then Brenna even asked us, she was our representative with us from the pr, like, what would be our thing? And I actually had a hard time even thinking about that.
[00:28:41] Speaker B: Is it a food related thing or is it just a thing thing?
[00:28:44] Speaker A: It's. It sounds like it's supposed to be a food related thing, but people also take it to like whatever the most special thing is that would be a representative of that person. What would you want to experience if you came to.
[00:28:55] Speaker B: I can give you one for each. And I'm curious what you would assign me though, before I do that. Yeah, Give me a food item and then give me just an anything item.
[00:29:03] Speaker A: Something about video game. Video game controller. Yeah.
[00:29:05] Speaker B: I mean, this is just like a PlayStation.
[00:29:08] Speaker A: Let's put your portal right here.
[00:29:10] Speaker B: What doesn't work with. Without the.
[00:29:11] Speaker A: We'll put it on the PlayStation okay, that's good.
[00:29:13] Speaker B: Don't cheap out on me.
[00:29:15] Speaker A: Food wise, I would say pasta, angel hair.
[00:29:19] Speaker B: You gotta go pizza.
[00:29:20] Speaker A: Pizza. Okay. Pizza.
[00:29:22] Speaker B: Pizza's my. Like, cheese pizza or pepperoni.
[00:29:24] Speaker A: Okay, but you would do cheese pizza over pepperoni.
[00:29:27] Speaker B: Would I?
[00:29:27] Speaker A: Yeah, I think so.
[00:29:28] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:29:28] Speaker A: You always go for the cheese first.
[00:29:29] Speaker B: That's fair. Cheese pizza's fine.
[00:29:31] Speaker A: Mm. And then cheese pizza in my PlayStation. So did I get it right? Yeah. Okay, good.
[00:29:37] Speaker B: Well, you gave me pasta.
[00:29:38] Speaker A: I had it. That's fair. But Italian. That was close.
[00:29:41] Speaker B: I know. That would be my next.
I could eat. This is another tangent here, but I could.
Not only could I. I have lived off pizza, pasta, and Chinese food for extended periods of time. Just that three things. And I would. I would buy, like, a crew. Just a cheap crate of pasta. It's like, the only thing I can make because, you know, I boil water, and I would make enough for, like, two days, Right. So I'm just eating it for, like, four. Four meals in a row. And then I would order a giant pizza, knowing there'd be leftovers, and eat that for four meals in a row. And then I would order two orders of Chinese. This was when I was single. So I was a very sad single guy living by himself in an apartment.
[00:30:21] Speaker A: No woman seems appropriately stereotypical.
[00:30:23] Speaker B: Like, I'll order two beef and broccoli. Oh, for you and your spouse. Yeah, definitely for her and not for me. Two days in a row.
[00:30:32] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh.
[00:30:35] Speaker B: But I did that for a while.
[00:30:37] Speaker A: That's. That's, like, stereotypical.
[00:30:38] Speaker B: It was sad, and then, like, the trash would pile up because, you know, God forbid I can, like, go outside and throw it away. It would be like pasta crate, pizza box, Chinese food containers. Repeat. Yeah, just a stack of them repeating in threes.
[00:30:54] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:30:55] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:30:56] Speaker A: What would mine be?
I have thoughts.
[00:31:00] Speaker B: You're harder than me.
[00:31:01] Speaker A: I was hard. I was hard for me to decide for myself.
[00:31:05] Speaker B: So I'm going with a food and then an anything.
[00:31:07] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:31:10] Speaker B: Now I'm gonna look. So see, I'm Though it wasn't uneasy.
[00:31:12] Speaker A: This wasn't a. I feel like my. I'll say it, and I'll be like, oh. I had two food items I was going back and forth on, and the other one for me is kind of a food item, but not exactly. And I was like, well, definitely that.
[00:31:26] Speaker B: Well, I mean, okay, hibachi.
[00:31:31] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:31:32] Speaker B: I got the food.
[00:31:33] Speaker A: So the food. I was going back and forth between hibachi and just classic, like, pasta. Yeah, but hibachi's gotta win.
[00:31:41] Speaker B: Yeah. You eat more pasta because it's just easier to get to. But you get way more excited about hibachi. It'll be hibachi, by the way, I'm sure we're gonna be having hibachi tomorrow after this conversation.
[00:31:52] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:31:53] Speaker B: Okay. On Friday. Yeah.
Your anything item. Oh, man.
[00:31:59] Speaker A: I think it's way easier than you thinking.
[00:32:05] Speaker B: Your Bianca gown.
[00:32:07] Speaker A: No, it's kind of food related.
[00:32:10] Speaker B: Oh, is it food related?
[00:32:11] Speaker A: Kind of.
[00:32:12] Speaker B: What a fatty year you're gonna have. Food and. Food related.
[00:32:14] Speaker A: Yeah, food related. Well, there's one. So I have two options in my head. One's not food related and one is food related.
Both. Both are winners.
[00:32:24] Speaker B: Both are winners.
Oh, man. I'm not gonna know. Give me some hints.
[00:32:30] Speaker A: Well, I can just tell you.
[00:32:31] Speaker B: I want a hint.
[00:32:32] Speaker A: Okay. I go there regularly.
[00:32:36] Speaker B: Well, you can't have a spa with you.
You go there regularly.
[00:32:42] Speaker A: We were there today.
[00:32:44] Speaker B: Oh, that's food. Okay, I have that.
[00:32:46] Speaker A: Food related.
[00:32:47] Speaker B: Well, I would just call that food. So Starbucks. Starbucks. Yeah.
[00:32:49] Speaker A: I would. I would say I.
For 15 years of my life, I drank a single drink at Starbucks. And only the last maybe five or six years, I started changing it up. So I would say classically, ice venti chai with whole milk, but from Starbucks. But I would also accept my recent choices of the pumpkin spice.
[00:33:09] Speaker B: Can I just, in general, express my disdain for the. For the Starbucks.
[00:33:15] Speaker A: We want them to sponsor us, Michael. No, no, no.
[00:33:18] Speaker B: I'm not criticizing the brand. I'm criticizing the user. There's a specific. Yeah, yeah, I'm criticizing you. This is a Mallard criticism.
The disdain I have for the, like, the fact that you're just like, I'm a venti. Blah, blah, blah. These are just fake words to me. Like, this is just gibberish.
[00:33:37] Speaker A: Iced is a word. Venti is a word.
[00:33:41] Speaker B: I just have such, like. Just give me a fucking black coffee. Just a black coffee. Sometimes I like it cold, so I'll cold brew it, and that's it.
[00:33:50] Speaker A: I was not a coffee drinker, though, until, like, five years ago. So that's why it was my ice Venti chai with whole milk.
[00:33:55] Speaker B: My argument would be, you still weren't. That's not coffee.
[00:33:59] Speaker A: Well, that wasn't.
[00:33:59] Speaker B: That's a milkshake that has some caffeine in it.
[00:34:02] Speaker A: But that's what I'm saying. I wasn't a coffee drinker, so I drank an ice Fenty chai with whole milk. It's chai tea latte.
My other thing.
[00:34:11] Speaker B: It's like, people are like, I Have, like, I love Star. I love coffee. And then they tell you they're their thing, right? Everyone has, like, their. I'm a blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And it's eight words of just complete gibberish. And I'm like, that's not coffee.
That's a milkshake. And I sprinkled some coffee into it.
[00:34:28] Speaker A: If you don't put an iced Fenty Chai with whole milk on my altar here, I'm going to be very.
[00:34:32] Speaker B: I'm not even going to remember what it is.
I'm not gonna lie.
[00:34:35] Speaker A: Isn't that the other thing?
[00:34:36] Speaker B: I'm not gonna lie. I have made no effort to learn your Starbucks order because I just.
[00:34:41] Speaker A: I just.
[00:34:42] Speaker B: I. I can't tell you how terrible I would feel to go up to the counter and say those words. I'd rather go. I'd rather go to a Victoria's Secret and be like, I will take a G string, please, than make that Starbucks order.
[00:34:59] Speaker A: Okay, well, the other one is really easy and not at all complicated. And that was.
[00:35:03] Speaker B: This is your just thing Thing. Yeah. You've given me two food items. I need a hint for the thing thing.
[00:35:10] Speaker A: I mean, I can just tell. My hint. My hint would just tell you.
[00:35:12] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:35:13] Speaker A: It's in our bed with this every night.
[00:35:15] Speaker B: Oh, and it's not dirty.
[00:35:18] Speaker A: No.
[00:35:19] Speaker B: Yeah, well, Wishbone. You would take Wishbone over Bubby?
[00:35:24] Speaker A: Either. Either or.
[00:35:25] Speaker B: Oh, it can't be either, though. You get one Wishbone.
[00:35:29] Speaker A: Wishbone's been with me through more.
[00:35:31] Speaker B: You're gonna have to preface this also. Cause it's also so funny.
[00:35:33] Speaker A: Wishbone is my stuffed dog.
[00:35:34] Speaker B: Complete nonsense.
[00:35:34] Speaker A: I know. Wishbone is my stuffed dog. He's been with me since I was eight.
So, Wishbone, how's Bubby been with you? He's been with me since I was born. But, wow, the bubby that's in our bed now is other Bubby.
So when I was little, I had a Bubby, and it was yellow, and it got shredded into a million pieces, as Bubbies do.
So that part of Bubby lives in Wishbones.
[00:35:57] Speaker B: Can you explain that? Bubby's a blanket.
[00:35:58] Speaker A: Bubby's a blanket. O lives in Wishbone's stomach. So it would be like. I get a twofer there.
So that's in Wishbone's stomach.
[00:36:06] Speaker B: Scamming the system here on Day of the Dead.
[00:36:07] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. So that's in Wishbone stomach. The one that we have in the bed now was other Bubby. Because I was a child, and that was like, the Original, like baby blanket my mom put away. And that was like the other Bubby in the closet. And then I just.
[00:36:20] Speaker B: So you had to get like, oh, the hamster.
By the way, this is Hamster two.
[00:36:28] Speaker A: Other hamster.
[00:36:29] Speaker B: Other hamster. He's basically the same hamster. And I'm sure the other one's just fine and definitely didn't die horribly.
[00:36:36] Speaker A: I have Bubby in Wishbone's tummy. And then the one that I actually use is Other Bubby.
[00:36:41] Speaker B: So you're kind of scamming the system by getting a Bubby in a wishbone.
[00:36:44] Speaker A: Yeah, definitely.
[00:36:46] Speaker B: So you just go there with your stuffed animal.
[00:36:48] Speaker A: Yeah, that's like my manifestation of life. I sleep with them every night.
[00:36:52] Speaker B: Well, I'm gonna be gaming it up on my PS5 in the afterlife, and you're just gonna be stuck holding my wishbone with a stuffed animal. Stuffed with the carcass baby blanket.
[00:37:06] Speaker A: This is probably a little more morbid, but what I liked about this experience was that they made it personal because we brought a photo of our own loved ones that have passed to be able to celebrate with them. And so we.
[00:37:19] Speaker B: That was a very nice idea that.
[00:37:21] Speaker A: Like, it makes it more real. Like you are celebrating this.
[00:37:24] Speaker B: Yeah, you were just fully in the celebration. Yeah, we did. We did the thing.
[00:37:28] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. So we brought a photo, like collectively of Marissa, who was Michael's sister and my best friend who passed a few years ago. And it felt like she was there with us. It was very special.
[00:37:37] Speaker B: It was very special.
[00:37:39] Speaker A: And I was. I was thinking then I'm like, well, what would I put on Marissa's.
[00:37:43] Speaker B: Well, we should say that this was a separate dinner set.
[00:37:47] Speaker A: Yeah. So first we did the cemetery.
And that was nice. And they kind of showed us what. They picked a grade that didn't. Hadn't been celebrated at in years to like celebrate there. And we like, told us about the experience and we did it. And you like the incense and you put the water and you put the.
[00:38:01] Speaker B: Food representation, like a process ritual.
[00:38:06] Speaker A: And then, I mean, I wish I could have walked around more.
[00:38:09] Speaker B: It was a cool looking. It was very cool old Spanish looking cemetery.
[00:38:14] Speaker A: And we got to go around a little bit and look through. And that was very special. And then we got to watch the parade kind of start even though it hadn't really started because then we had to rush back for our dinner. But it was. There were these black horses painted like skeletons. Yeah, that's so cool. I loved that. So we got to kind of walk down and see the horses doing their Little tricks a little bit while they're getting ready to go. And. And it was nice. I wish we could have spent more time down there. I wish we could have gone back later, but we had a very early morning the next day.
[00:38:41] Speaker B: Beware the pale horse, for upon him rides death.
[00:38:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:38:45] Speaker B: And all hell follows with him. Oh, no.
Yeah. Here's your Bible quote for the day. I think it's the Bible. I'm the wrong person.
[00:38:56] Speaker A: You're gonna burst into flames now.
[00:38:58] Speaker B: I know it from Tombs down, the movie.
[00:39:00] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh.
Well, then we got to go back to the Myriad. And they had a special dinner on the beach with their own altar. Very nice. Gigantic, Tiered, like.
[00:39:10] Speaker B: Tiered. Yeah, it was nice altar.
[00:39:11] Speaker A: And we got to, like, sit all around and have a nice dinner. And then we got to all participate in the celebration. Had, you know, some people bring up the water. I got to bring up the enchiladas. I was very excited about that. I was like, of course you picked me for the enchiladas and brought them up on the. On the altar.
[00:39:27] Speaker B: Said it looks like she'd want the food option.
[00:39:29] Speaker A: Yeah, that was great.
And we went through the whole process. They explained what it meant. It was beautiful. And then we got to place the photos of our loved ones on the altar. And that was just extra special.
[00:39:40] Speaker B: It was good. 20, 30 people that had pictures of their loved ones.
[00:39:45] Speaker A: Yes. And what would you put on Marissa's altar? I have to ask.
[00:39:48] Speaker B: Oh, geez. Now I'd have to think, oh, man, I know.
[00:39:51] Speaker A: I had a hard time because she was so eclectic.
[00:39:56] Speaker B: I mean, it would be something animal related.
[00:39:58] Speaker A: Oh, definitely.
Well, I would put a cheetah. If it was an. I'd be a cheetah. Some kind of cheetah for the item. But like, I was like, food wise, she was so eclectic. I'm like trying to think, you know what I would be?
[00:40:10] Speaker B: Boba tea.
[00:40:11] Speaker A: Boba tea's a good one. My other one. Is that Frank's pizza.
[00:40:14] Speaker B: Oh, she did like that. Frank's. But one by her, one by her.
There's multiple branches. And the others were unacceptable.
[00:40:22] Speaker A: Yes, that one. Because she never stopped talking to me about that place.
[00:40:27] Speaker B: Yeah. And there was a Frankston Ramaine. She's like, no, not that one, not that one. It's the same.
That's like saying this Pizza Hut, not that Pizza Hut. Yeah, it's the same goddamn name.
[00:40:35] Speaker A: No, it's not.
I came home for Christmas every year and would go see Marissa and she's like, we have to go To Frank's. And it was always the day after Christmas when it was closed. And we never got the hint that it would be closed. So there was like six years where she tried to take me to Frank's and it was closed. And the last year it was open and we went in. It just was. It changed her life that we had. We got to have Frank's together.
[00:41:03] Speaker B: Apparently. It didn't change your life.
[00:41:05] Speaker A: It's all right.
[00:41:05] Speaker B: It was all right. Wow.
[00:41:08] Speaker A: But I would put the Frank's pizza and a cheetah.
Boba tea is good too.
[00:41:12] Speaker B: I'm not. I don't know if she had like a single favorite stuffed cheetah, you know what I'm saying?
[00:41:17] Speaker A: No.
[00:41:18] Speaker B: She had a baby blanket, but that thing is a carcass in something else's belly probably.
[00:41:23] Speaker A: We used to sleep with our baby blankets at our sleepovers when we were 10. I remember we were way too old, but we did it anyway.
[00:41:30] Speaker B: We were way too old.
You're still sleeping.
That was 27 years.
[00:41:40] Speaker A: I know.
But I will say the Marriott did such a beautiful job at making this a special celebration for people who celebrate there, for people coming in wanting to know how to celebrate and to participate in the celebrations.
It was very accessible for everyone and informative and it's very pro life.
[00:42:04] Speaker B: It was very.
[00:42:05] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:42:06] Speaker B: I'll be honest, I didn't know a whole lot about it going into it. I hadn't even seen Coco. Right. So I hadn't even seen the US adaptate movie adaptation thing. And it's a lot. I mean, I think most people would recognize, at least in this country, the imagery, the half painted skeletons or fully painted skeletons. And it can be kind of creepy.
It almost feels a little voodoo to me.
[00:42:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:42:33] Speaker B: It looks like just the look has nothing. The culture. Yeah. Nothing to do with the religion, but the lot of black and white.
[00:42:41] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:42:41] Speaker B: The black and white paint, like half painted faces, the skeleton aesthetic.
But it's not creepy at all. Like, it's not.
The celebration is not creepy at all. It's not like jump scares like the United States Halloween celebrations are wet. It's like, it's scarier.
[00:43:03] Speaker A: It's a celebration of life.
And what I love about Central and South American Hispanic culture about death is they don't look. Most of the world doesn't look at death the way we do.
[00:43:15] Speaker B: The US has a problem, we have a problem.
[00:43:17] Speaker A: We look at it as this negative thing. A lot of other cultures look at it as just the next phase and then they celebrate the people that passed.
We Think more selfishly about ourselves. When people die, they think about celebrating the person.
[00:43:31] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, here's a tangent.
And the stat. I don't have the exact stat in front of me, but it's, you know, whatever. Close enough to illustrate how much of a cultural problem the US has with accepting death and dying.
I believe you will spend 50 to 60% of all your healthcare spending for your whole life in the last six months of your life.
[00:43:57] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:43:57] Speaker B: What a waste.
[00:44:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:44:00] Speaker B: Right?
[00:44:02] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:44:02] Speaker B: I mean, this isn't, like, prolonging life in a meaningful way. And we're not really treating suffering either, because hospice care, the people out for that, so less overall comfort care.
[00:44:16] Speaker A: Mm.
[00:44:20] Speaker B: So, yeah. I mean, we just, like, you know, that mindset. Everybody has that mindset of, like, do everything for everybody till the last minute. I mean, we have that added. Like, us. The US has that attitude of fight the cancer. You fight the disease. You fight it and fight it and fight it and fight it. And, you know, it's. I get it. I mean, there's something to be said for that. You don't want to go in with that. She's like, well, you know. And have.
But you're gonna get taken out with something. I got news for you. No one's getting out.
[00:44:48] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:44:48] Speaker B: Right.
[00:44:49] Speaker A: And our goggles that we look through for death, like color in a bad way. The way we see cultural traditions around the world.
The Manene Festival in Papua New guinea, where people bring out their dead. We're horrified by it because you're digging up your dead ancestors and dressing them, but they see it as like, this is not the end of life. This is the next phase, and we're preparing them to move forward. Same thing with Momoth purification was preparing them for the afterlife. It was thought to be a positive or helping them move to the next phase. There was always something else, and it was such a positive.
And even in, like, one of my places, which is, like, Because I'm a weirdo in Buenos Aires, is Recoleta Cemetery.
[00:45:30] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:45:31] Speaker A: And it's because it's so. It's not morbid. It's like a celebration of the people that existed once. And, I mean, we. I accidentally went there the first time I went to Argentina on the anniversary of Evita's death, and it was like they had celebrations still.
[00:45:50] Speaker B: Oh, that's right. They still go all out for that, right?
[00:45:52] Speaker A: Yeah. There's celebrations in all the churches around town.
[00:45:56] Speaker B: Hey, you know what? We should do another podcast on Evita. We definitely haven't covered that topic, but.
[00:46:01] Speaker A: I'M just saying the different mindset.
[00:46:03] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:46:04] Speaker A: And I respect.
And we look at death with these terrible, morbid glasses and it affects the way we view these traditions. So we look at it like a negative when it's a very positive.
[00:46:17] Speaker B: Well, another stat that should make people pause in the U.S. again, I'm talking about the U.S. is a substantial proportion of healthcare workers don't want the end of life care, that we're horrible.
Like, if you ask a lot of doctors or nurses what they want at the end, like, I want hospice care. Like, when it's not going to make a difference.
[00:46:39] Speaker A: I want hospice.
[00:46:40] Speaker B: I want, like, comfort care, hospice.
And because they've seen how horrible it can be, you know, for just no gain.
[00:46:51] Speaker A: It's the people that are alive desperately trying to hold on to something that might not be right for that person anymore. That's passing.
[00:46:58] Speaker B: Yeah. I mean, don't get me wrong.
[00:46:59] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:47:00] Speaker B: Have a healthy fear of dying, too.
[00:47:01] Speaker A: I know, I know. But. Yeah, it's just.
[00:47:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:47:04] Speaker A: But a lot of time it's not about the person that needs the care. It's about the people around them.
[00:47:08] Speaker B: Yes, that's true.
[00:47:08] Speaker A: Because we selfishly look at death, and that's why we're so sad about it, because we feel like we're losing something, because we are. But other places look at that person that's passing and celebrating them and what they believe might be a transition into something else.
Yeah.
[00:47:24] Speaker B: I mean, I get it because I have no belief in any of that afterlife stuff. I mean, not to take away from that, but I personally don't.
To me, it is very much like.
[00:47:32] Speaker A: Well, that's it. Yeah.
[00:47:36] Speaker B: Hard to sugarcoat that. Right. Because I don't think anything's coming afterwards.
[00:47:40] Speaker A: But I like seeing the magic. One of my. The thing that drew me into anthropology and the thing that I like to study in anthropology is how other cultures view death. Because I think there's something so magical that everybody believes something slightly different about the great unknown. Yeah.
[00:47:54] Speaker B: The unknowable unknown.
[00:47:55] Speaker A: Yeah. And how. And how other people see it, I think it's so exciting and beautiful and weird and wonderful.
And it was so. It was. It was such a blessing to get to be able to experience that and become a part of it and to truly have that connection. They did such a perfect job giving you, like, well, come celebrate it. Bring your loved one. Make it a part of, you know, become a part of the celebration. And it was truly, truly wonderful. And Mike even had some chicken and mole and it was good. And some tamales.
[00:48:27] Speaker B: I feel like you were surprised I was fully into trying the.
[00:48:30] Speaker A: You don't like a lot of food. Sorry. It's not like you don't a lot of different things, but you just have hard stops. So I'm like, I will not eat this.
[00:48:38] Speaker B: I don't eat seafood. That's kind of the hard stop.
[00:48:40] Speaker A: Okay. All right.
[00:48:42] Speaker B: And they have a lot of beef, pork, chicken dishes, and I love all that.
[00:48:50] Speaker A: A lot of Mexican food is eggs and beef and chicken.
[00:48:53] Speaker B: Yeah. I have no issues with any of that. I don't like seafood.
[00:48:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:48:57] Speaker B: And the stuff that's not seafood, I don't like. It's a texture thing. I don't like mushrooms, especially cooked, like, when they're slimy.
[00:49:04] Speaker A: I don't know.
[00:49:05] Speaker B: Anyways, I don't know. I feel like I eat. Otherwise, whatever. Just give me my cheese pizza and let me be dead on it with my PS5. Partying up with my apple.
[00:49:14] Speaker A: Speaking of food.
Then the next day, first of all, we got to wake up super early in the morning to do a boat ride, which was a lot of fun.
[00:49:22] Speaker B: That was pretty cool.
[00:49:23] Speaker A: I am not a boat person. I can't stand boats because I get super sick. But I did take my Dramamine, and I did not get it.
[00:49:29] Speaker B: Yeah, it was good.
[00:49:30] Speaker A: It was great. And we got to just sit up at the top of the sailboat and relax.
[00:49:34] Speaker B: I don't think I'd ever been on a catamaran. I'm trying to think.
I think so.
[00:49:38] Speaker A: Yeah.
It's nice.
[00:49:40] Speaker B: It was cool.
[00:49:41] Speaker A: I like the small boats. When you can get up on top of the front of the boat and the top of the boat and just lay back and relax and get served food. That was a great experience.
[00:49:51] Speaker B: We just got up on top of the boat at the very front, and they just waited on us.
[00:49:56] Speaker A: Yeah, it was great.
And then. So that was fun. Then we got.
[00:49:59] Speaker B: And I got a tan.
[00:50:00] Speaker A: You did get a tan in November. What?
[00:50:03] Speaker B: Yeah. And you.
[00:50:05] Speaker A: I did not. I didn't burn, though. I'm very proud to say I did not burn.
[00:50:09] Speaker B: 50 all over.
[00:50:09] Speaker A: 60.
[00:50:10] Speaker B: 60. Wow.
[00:50:11] Speaker A: We usually do 70. So that was the whitest.
Whitest princess out there.
[00:50:17] Speaker B: Better than that.
[00:50:18] Speaker A: Like Bianca.
[00:50:19] Speaker B: I know.
[00:50:21] Speaker A: And then we got to do the spa, which is always my favorite part, because we got to do a couple's massage. That was really nice. That was cool. And I even took advantage of the little spa dips and stuff afterwards. That was nice, too. The whole. They had, like, the. You know, the. The spa therapy with the. The hot tub, and then the warm water. And I didn't do the ice plunge. I will never do the ice plunge. I can't do it.
[00:50:42] Speaker B: I would have done that.
[00:50:42] Speaker A: I can't do it.
[00:50:43] Speaker B: I was more concerned just at the start of the massage where they're like, all right, here's your robe. And I'm like, how naked?
I'm never sure, like, how naked.
[00:50:53] Speaker A: How naked?
[00:50:54] Speaker B: And Arthur was in there with me.
[00:50:56] Speaker A: It depends.
[00:50:56] Speaker B: In the chain, in the state. Yeah, I know. And I was like.
I'm like, I'm fine either way, but.
[00:51:03] Speaker A: What do I do?
[00:51:04] Speaker B: What do I do? And Arlo was like, I think you get naked. I'm like.
I was like, but what's the bigger faux pas here? If I'm supposed to be naked and I walk in and I still have my shorts on, they can just be.
[00:51:15] Speaker A: Like, take it off.
[00:51:16] Speaker B: And if I walk in butt naked and I'm like, there I am. And there's like, that's a way worse.
It's like, alright, I'm gonna go in there at the shorts.
[00:51:27] Speaker A: The woman followed me in and showed me all my stuff and said, take off as much as you want. We recommend getting fully naked. You're gonna be covered when you're in the massage, but do what you're comfortable with.
[00:51:38] Speaker B: See, the guy came in and didn't say that. And I was like. And I even. I said like, what do I do here? I got shorts on. He goes, whatever. And I'm like, well, okay, I just want you to tell me if you want my dong out or not really, like, under this robe, like, what's acceptable?
[00:51:54] Speaker A: Then we meet.
[00:51:54] Speaker B: Then we meet in the couples. Because we had a couple in the same room, and it's just us and like, all right, you know, get on the table and whatever. And I'm like, I still have my shorts on. And you're just like, I'm naked.
And just shh.
[00:52:05] Speaker A: They told me to be naked. I know.
[00:52:06] Speaker B: And I was like, you are.
[00:52:09] Speaker A: Yep.
[00:52:10] Speaker B: I have miscalculated here.
[00:52:12] Speaker A: And I'll say, too. As far as that Marriott massage, that was pretty great because we. You got the girl, I got the guy. Because that's normally more natural. I prefer women, but because men usually treat me like I'm gonna break, and they're. They don't. They don't dig in there and give me what I need. This guy was great. He actually. He was not afraid to, like, go in. And he even said, relaxing massage. And I was like, yes, but I know I have issues.
And please, if you need I like getting in and doing the deep tissue is absolutely fine.
[00:52:42] Speaker B: Break me.
[00:52:43] Speaker A: Like I said, if you need to do deep tissue, I can do deep tissue. I prefer that if like I need it, you just do what you need. And he goes, okay. And he did. And it was great. And I was like, well, this was great.
[00:52:55] Speaker B: Yeah, I guess I prefer women, it feels more natural. But I've had them from guys too. And it's never been.
I've never done the George Costanza touching his inner thigh and he's like, I think it moved.
I never had that issue.
[00:53:14] Speaker A: Yeah, that was very good.
[00:53:16] Speaker B: And then I had the guy massage in Iceland.
[00:53:19] Speaker A: Oh yeah. Well, that was, that was weird. That was different. I've never had anything like that.
[00:53:23] Speaker B: The water massage?
[00:53:24] Speaker A: Yeah, we had a massage in the blue lagoon in the hot springs from the volcano. And you're laying on your back and they're massaging you from underneath. I've never had anything like that.
[00:53:35] Speaker B: That was a little funny to me because it was two guys. We had both had guys.
[00:53:38] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:53:39] Speaker B: And it's like a young built, good looking Icelandic guy, right? It's like, this is a man.
And then he massages me. I'm like, bro, you have the softest man.
[00:53:56] Speaker A: Cause they're in the water all the time.
[00:53:58] Speaker B: The hands of an 18 year old woman who has never touched manual labor in her life. Right. You know, I was like, these are the softest unused.
I was like, that was the first time. I was like, oh, I hope it.
[00:54:16] Speaker A: Doesn'T move the hands of an angel. Yeah, yeah, that was pretty great. Anyways, and then we got to release baby sea turtles that night and that was great. So I love the conservation effort.
[00:54:30] Speaker B: It's on its own beach.
[00:54:31] Speaker A: Yeah, it's on their own private beach. And it sounds like when the turtles lay their eggs there, they take them and protect them and let them hatch in a controlled environment so they don't get eaten by the birds and the crocodiles and all the things that would eat crocodile.
[00:54:47] Speaker B: Be aware of crocodile signs.
[00:54:48] Speaker A: Oh yeah, there's a lot of crocodiles down there. And so then when they hatch, they bring. They can't tell which night it's going to happen because they have to hatch. And when they hatch, they bring them out in like this container and, and like supervise their adventure into the water so they don't immediately get eaten by birds or crocodiles or anything like that. And it helps to like, you know, they have the crowds of people kind of come out which deters wildlife. So it's actually like A good idea.
[00:55:16] Speaker B: Protect it. Yeah, it's like protective crowd of people. And the birds aren't.
[00:55:19] Speaker A: And they make sure each one gets there.
[00:55:21] Speaker B: Some of them were.
[00:55:21] Speaker A: I was like, oh, man, you're not gonna make it. I know.
[00:55:24] Speaker B: You don't have a bright future, my friend. I know.
[00:55:26] Speaker A: Like, the two that were in front of us were the most confused little turtles. And they were going the wrong way. And then they were taking their time and it was like.
[00:55:35] Speaker B: And then he's like, sideways. At one point I was like, bro.
[00:55:37] Speaker A: Oh no. And they use their fingers to make movement by them so that they feel like, oh, my brethren are there. I need to move this way and speed them along a little bit. And we got to release our own turtle. Mine was named Fred.
I should rewrite it to name it Marisa, though, because that was a great idea. Someone said afterwards, and I was like, dang, it should have been Maria.
[00:55:57] Speaker B: I just picked a random ass name that means nothing to me.
[00:55:59] Speaker A: I like the name Fred, but damn it.
[00:56:01] Speaker B: Oh, from. From Angel.
[00:56:03] Speaker A: From Angel.
Fred is the best character in Angel. We haven't even gotten there. But once you. You'll see. You'll see.
Well, and yours was Fernando, right? Or no, yours was. Wasn't Fernando.
[00:56:14] Speaker B: I already forgot what it was, Federico.
[00:56:17] Speaker A: I don't know. It was something Frederico. Something like that. Something like that, yeah. Okay, that's appropriate.
[00:56:22] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:56:22] Speaker A: And then they.
[00:56:23] Speaker B: Wait, did we have Fred and a Frederico?
[00:56:25] Speaker A: No, it wasn't Frederico. It was like. It was something else.
[00:56:28] Speaker B: I don't remember Fernando. Fernando.
[00:56:30] Speaker A: No, it wasn't Fernando. Because I would have sashed you about Fernando. Cause it's an ABBA song.
Anyway.
[00:56:35] Speaker B: Anyways.
[00:56:36] Speaker A: Wow, you forgot your turtles name. Marissa. Yeah, Fred, Marissa. Done.
Exactly.
And then we had a nice dinner, like kind of out towards the beach and the nice area by there. And they did like a culinary tour of the area.
[00:56:51] Speaker B: Yeah, it was cool.
[00:56:52] Speaker A: With a tequila tasting, which was dangerous. I mean, they poured these gigantic, like wine sized glasses.
[00:56:58] Speaker B: Yeah, they were the tall flutes you.
[00:57:00] Speaker A: Would use for champagne. But they filled them like halfway. It wasn't like, here's a taste of it. It was like, here's a half glass. This is just a pour of tequila. And there was three of them. And everybody was a little bit like, ooh.
No one was like, totally fine after that first sip of tequila. Everyone's a little bit like, oh, my goodness, have we not eaten yet? It was before we ate, so everyone was like, o.
And it was good though.
[00:57:22] Speaker B: Honestly, the last time I had like, had Tequila was college. And that was the kind of thing where, like, you know, when one of my friends would show up with, you know, a bottle of tequila's like, it's gonna be a bad night. Yeah, it's gonna be a bad night.
[00:57:35] Speaker A: I don't drink tequila. I don't even like the taste of it. Like, it was. I like, again, immersing myself in the experience. I did the tasting. I'm like, oh, okay. But it just tastes like kerosene to me or something.
[00:57:45] Speaker B: It has a very distinct.
I don't really like the taste of liquors.
[00:57:49] Speaker A: I don't either.
[00:57:50] Speaker B: And tequila has a very distinct, it's.
[00:57:53] Speaker A: Too much liquor taste. It tastes like kerosene to me. I'm like, this is kerosene.
Maybe.
[00:58:00] Speaker B: What's your comparison?
[00:58:01] Speaker A: What kerosene smells like, what it tastes like to me?
[00:58:04] Speaker B: Look, I'm just saying, you seem like the kind of girl who maybe drank.
[00:58:07] Speaker A: Some kerosene when she was younger, maybe.
And then we went. They. It was like nine courses. It was a lot of substantial amount of courses and everything was traditionally appropriate for the area. And they had the girl that worked at Marriott that was like from the area.
Yeah. And explained each other.
[00:58:27] Speaker B: Yeah, it was very cool.
[00:58:28] Speaker A: Yeah, it was very nice. It was wonderful. That's an experience people can get at the Marriott. So that's like a good thing to add on when you're there.
And then we got to relax in our swim up room.
[00:58:39] Speaker B: Yeah, you do need to make a specific mention that we were in the swim up room.
[00:58:43] Speaker A: Yeah. Part of the renovation. They have like this side now and all of the. All of the rooms on the downstairs, on the side building have this pool outside and like five rooms. It's like clusters of five rooms. Each have their own little swim up pool.
[00:58:59] Speaker B: Right.
[00:58:59] Speaker A: So like this little pool out in front and your patio just opens up and you can just walk right into the water. And you have your kind of your own little semi private pool there, which is great.
And right now there was just the two groupings on the side, but they're also doing beachfront ones, which will be really nice.
So they'll have the beachfront ones available too in the not too distant future. And the rooms were really nice.
They were spacious enough. They were very chic and modern and new. And then having just your curtains open to. Here's my beach patio.
And Cool. That I can just walk into was really special. And they did a special breakfast that last day where they came in and put out this nice catered breakfast on the Patio. Like we have to put it on the patio. And I was like, okay. And they put it on the patio. It was a gorgeous picture. I'm like, I get exactly why you're doing it at 8am and I'm putting it here. This is a great picture. I'm taking this picture. It was beautiful. It was really nice at that time to be able to sit out and have some of it because then it got a little too hot after. It was like the perfect, like sun's just starting to come up and I'm sitting out here nice on my little like patio by the pool and I'm gonna enjoy this green juice. And yeah, it was very, very nice.
[01:00:13] Speaker B: The green juice was pretty good. It looked like the kind of thing I was not gonna like, but I tried it. I was like, okay.
[01:00:18] Speaker A: I love green juice.
It's like vegetables and fruits. It's a little bit salty and I like that it's a little bit salty.
But all in all, it was a wonderful experience. We want to go back to the Marriott.
[01:00:31] Speaker B: Yeah, I was going to say we're already making plans to take the, like take our whole family.
[01:00:34] Speaker A: Yes. It's a beautiful resort. They have an open air lobby. There's a plethora of activities you can do.
[01:00:40] Speaker B: There's a kids.
There was building a water park. Yeah, we mentioned the adult pool, but there's also a kids area. And they're building a water park.
[01:00:48] Speaker A: Yeah, like a little water park for kids. And Lazy River.
[01:00:51] Speaker B: Oh, yeah.
[01:00:52] Speaker A: Which is going to be great.
So it's gonna be, it's already wonderful. It's gonna be even more wonderful. The food there is great. They have something for everyone. I like that. You can get their traditional Mexican food, but also like, there's other things if you're like not feeling safe about that.
[01:01:07] Speaker B: What'd they say their target restaurants were when they're done? Was like 20 restaurants.
[01:01:12] Speaker A: It was like 20 restaurants. It's a lot.
[01:01:14] Speaker B: Did they say the ETA and when they're hoping to be totally done?
[01:01:17] Speaker A: They didn't, but I'm assuming it's relatively soon.
[01:01:21] Speaker B: Yeah, like within a year.
[01:01:22] Speaker A: Within a year.
And I also want to go back to like really get in there for Day of the Dead and get to like see the parade and see the cemetery at night.
[01:01:31] Speaker B: It was a good time to go, like, especially.
[01:01:33] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:01:34] Speaker B: Coming. We're Virginia based, so it's, it's, it's fall. We're solidly in fall now.
[01:01:39] Speaker A: It's freezing here. It was nice freezing.
[01:01:41] Speaker B: It's freezing for you. It's it's cold. Yeah. The nights are cold.
[01:01:44] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:01:46] Speaker B: But it was just 80, 90. I mean it was just full summer, like beach weather. So a great time to go because one, you get to see the Day of the Dead and two, you get to kind of escape.
[01:01:56] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:01:56] Speaker B: You know the weather in the U.S. yes.
[01:01:59] Speaker A: So we have to say thank you to the Marriott down there in Puerto Veyard. That was wonderful. And thank you to diamond pr.
We really appreciate you guys inviting us down for Weird World Season three. So you can watch all of this in our Day the Dead except experiences and all of that in Weird World Adventures Season 3, which will be a little bit off, but we'll have some content out on the website in the
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[01:02:25] Speaker B: Yes.
[01:02:26] Speaker A: Thank you guys for tuning in today.
[01:02:27] Speaker B: Took hundreds and hundreds of pictures so there will be some good stuff.
[01:02:30] Speaker A: He did a lot of pictures. Yep. Yep.
[01:02:32] Speaker B: My new. Got some new lens and stuff to play with.
[01:02:35] Speaker A: Yeah, I did take some wide angle ones the first time. Okay. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty great.
[01:02:39] Speaker B: It was right around my birthday, so I had some new toys to play with. So check out the pictures and the articles.
[01:02:43] Speaker A: Yep. And until next time, everybody stay weird.
