Speaker 1 00:00:03 Those two of the 50 50 of Spanglish podcast. This is your house, Jesse.
Speaker 2 00:00:06 And this is Jessica
Speaker 1 00:00:08 In this episode, <inaudible> on the, about the trip highlights that we went to. We've gone places this year. Yeah. Seeing Betty animals. Mm-hmm <affirmative>, we're gonna talk about the highlights, the things that we noticed culturally and out of those places that we've been to S more home,
Speaker 2 00:00:23 They say more
Speaker 1 00:00:24 Thumb up. And once again, everyone BI Bon those two, the 50 50 of ish podcast is your host,
Speaker 2 00:00:37 Jesse. And this is Jessica,
Speaker 1 00:00:39 You know, now that we're officially back and we've been back for like a long time. Now I wanna say that two episodes in
Speaker 2 00:00:44 Let's talk forever. It's a long time. Let's talk a long time. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:00:46 Yeah. You know, um, <laugh>, it's funny. Because last episode they get, you know, we started the business and we started talking about how, um, you know, we're trying to get everything rolling. And at the same time, keep our head above water
Speaker 2 00:00:57 And not die
Speaker 1 00:00:58 And not die,
Speaker 2 00:00:59 But also live life. Ah-huh
Speaker 1 00:01:01 <laugh>. And I went in full Yolo like moment. Okay. Looks like I am not gonna die this year. Mm-hmm <affirmative> it's gonna let's go.
Speaker 2 00:01:09 Yeah. Bumbles. We bought an RV. We bought
Speaker 1 00:01:11 <laugh>.
Speaker 2 00:01:12 We, we went dry. Let's dry camping.
Speaker 1 00:01:14 We did.
Speaker 2 00:01:16 Um,
Speaker 1 00:01:16 We spent the entire summer, yeah. Up in S solo mm-hmm <affirmative>. That was nice.
Speaker 2 00:01:20 That was amazing.
Speaker 1 00:01:21 Get out to some family members that I have. I'm not gonna say their names, you know? Cause I don't wanna know if she wants no, that's fine. Shout out to peaches and the 5 million kids that she has
Speaker 2 00:01:28 Are babies.
Speaker 1 00:01:29 They're not really kids anymore, man. They're not,
Speaker 2 00:01:30 They're old. The twins turned 11,
Speaker 1 00:01:32 The twins turning 11. One of them wants to start dating. I don't even know if I wanna say that because like what if they break up? You know, <laugh> what if they, what if like after this episode comes up and they're not even dating anymore, you know, anyways, they're old, they're getting
Speaker 2 00:01:45 Old, then we're gonna, we're gonna snip this and tag him <laugh> oh yeah,
Speaker 1 00:01:48 Yeah. Tag him and be like, Hey man, just let you know that. Eh, too was to bad you to make it. You didn't make the cut the final draft
Speaker 2 00:01:55 <laugh> but, but yeah, we were out there and then Jesse almost died. We had to come home. So we drove an RV. Uh, how many hours? Three hours down a mountain that was fun. Up a mountain down a mountain. That was fun. Couple
Speaker 1 00:02:07 Times I enjoyed that last time
Speaker 2 00:02:08 Day, uh, Jesse didn't die. And then we got invited to go to Cancun.
Speaker 1 00:02:13 That was interesting. So very Interesting. The guys that I was working with, you know, I mentioned last time gay. I was, you know, I, as I was trying to learn how to run my business, the biggest thing, and that is how to market it. And of course they started working with some guys that do precisely. Yeah. They do social media marketing
Speaker 2 00:02:26 And they have a yearly. Right. They wanted to start like a yearly like event.
Speaker 1 00:02:32 Yeah. So I mean, it's interesting cuz at first I, they said the, the company will do yearly retreats, but he actually was doing some masterclass that he was gonna do in person. Right. Mm-hmm <affirmative> and I was like, okay, that sounds cool.
Speaker 2 00:02:46 But you had declined mm-hmm <affirmative> because we were gonna be with our family. Yeah. For the whole summer, basically IGO. We didn't really have the money.
Speaker 1 00:02:55 No, no. Cause
Speaker 2 00:02:56 For that kind of trip.
Speaker 1 00:02:57 Yeah. Cuz he was just like saying, Hey man, if you can buy your ticket there, then you know, since it wasn't a work retreat or anything, um, it was more of like his own class that he was gonna be hosting or whatever. He's like, Hey look, if you want, you can, um, you know, buy the plane ticket. You've almost died. And I was like, okay, cool. Appreciate that. Right. Mm-hmm <affirmative> uh, however, after I almost died, I think he felt bad. Me. No, he, oh yeah. I think, I think Billy felt we
Speaker 2 00:03:20 All
Speaker 1 00:03:20 Did. <laugh> he's like, Hey, um, do you just wanna come <laugh> yeah, that was sweet. That was really nice of him. Billy did not have to do that, but I appreciate it. And I got to meet everybody there. So we were in Cancun.
Speaker 2 00:03:34 No you, I mean the people know,
Speaker 1 00:03:36 People know like guys, the
Speaker 2 00:03:37 Most
Speaker 1 00:03:37 Mexico are the Mo level. Like we go to Mexico right here,
Speaker 2 00:03:40 You know? I mean mm-hmm <affirmative> and our passports.
Speaker 1 00:03:44 Oh that's right. Our passports
Speaker 2 00:03:45 In so plan. We were like, we can't go to Guadalajara and then like a month later Cancun. Yeah. That's not in our budget. <laugh> so no, no. But then our passports weren't here. So then we were like, well then we're not going anywhere. Passports are taking forever. The week that we had that you got sick that we had to come back into town is GU and our passports were here. Mm-hmm <affirmative> so it was just too many things that we were like, let's just go, let's just take advantage of the hospitality. Yeah. The sweet gesture. Yeah. That's it TA you were, you were so healing. You were still recovering.
Speaker 1 00:04:25 Basically. I was, yeah.
Speaker 2 00:04:26 I WASK.
Speaker 1 00:04:31 Yeah. And at first, no. Yeah, it was so interesting because it was, it was exactly that the mentality way from, oh, it's not the right time, you know, to like
Speaker 2 00:04:44 Yeah. In your port are
Speaker 1 00:04:46 Here. Yeah. So like, okay, here's this opportunity where it's all covered essentially. Mm-hmm <affirmative> what's up
Speaker 2 00:04:53 And noted though. I'm still gonna go to Guadalajara cuz that's where my part of my roots are. And I wanna go
Speaker 1 00:04:58 No. Yeah, for sure. For sure.
Speaker 2 00:04:59 But this was like our first deep Mexico experience. Yeah. And by deep Mexico, we mean geographically speaking.
Speaker 1 00:05:05 See? Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:05:06 Yeah. Not really like
Speaker 1 00:05:07 Culturally <laugh> culturally
Speaker 2 00:05:10 G is interesting.
Speaker 1 00:05:12 It is man. It's funny because um, I keep from the states and yeah, we left literally like the moment we said yes, that very same day. We
Speaker 2 00:05:20 TW 24 hours. Not even 24 hours later,
Speaker 1 00:05:23 We were already at the airport. So
Speaker 2 00:05:24 We said yes, Kamala last 90 mm-hmm <affirmative> one day. And we went to target from bras, toilet trees, uh, swimwear, actually, you know what? I didn't pack a bathing suit.
Speaker 1 00:05:38 No, cuz like
Speaker 2 00:05:39 I didn't have one.
Speaker 1 00:05:39 You were gonna be a good sport. First of all, you don't like water that much, but you were also gonna be
Speaker 2 00:05:42 A good sport. No was I wanted to be like by the water, you know, attire eat like bathing suits and a target. So I found nothing. Mm-hmm <affirmative> I ended up just with the bare minimum and we got home packed it all up. No mm-hmm <affirmative> uh, we drove to San Diego, arrived at the airport, like at three, 4:00 AM and our flight was leaving at
Speaker 1 00:06:08 Six super wild. <laugh>
Speaker 2 00:06:10 The
Speaker 1 00:06:10 Morning. Super, super wild.
Speaker 2 00:06:11 You
Speaker 1 00:06:12 Do the math. We did a connecting flight. Um, I think in like in Florida or something like that, I don't remember no me, but I think it was Florida. I think it was Florida. The point is, oh yeah. It was funny because like everybody that was there on the plane was like in party mode.
Speaker 2 00:06:22 I no, no, no. It was Texas. It was Texas. Yeah. It was
Speaker 1 00:06:24 Texas. Everybody was in party mode. Like everybody that was gonna go to Cancun
Speaker 2 00:06:28 Was ready, was ready. Everybody had a bathing suit <laugh> except me.
Speaker 1 00:06:31 They had like, like damn west dude. Like they had like the little straw hats. They had the bathing suit. They had like, there was this whole entourage.
Speaker 2 00:06:38 Everybody was already, uh, alcohol. Is that a word?
Speaker 1 00:06:43 Yeah. Like Thrun
Speaker 2 00:06:44 Ya. One is an airport. It was a fun flight.
Speaker 1 00:06:48 It was, it really
Speaker 2 00:06:48 Was interesting enough though. Mocos Mexicans mm-hmm <affirmative> from the GetGo at the gate. You know
Speaker 1 00:06:55 What I'm saying? From like from Texas, like that's where the amount of Mexicans started dwindling. Yeah. So weird. Cause like from, from Arizona to Texas, like there was Mexicans there, you know, from Texas to Congo. Yeah. But
Speaker 2 00:07:06 We, we flew from San Diego.
Speaker 1 00:07:08 Oh SI. As the middle,
Speaker 2 00:07:09 As the middle. Yeah. To Texas. And there was plenty of Hispanics. I remember the little boy that looked like he was like DACA or something.
Speaker 1 00:07:16 Oh that's right. Broke my heart. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's where we met that one person. That man who had just like literally gotten out from the, from the de um, detention center. Mm-hmm <affirmative> yeah. She was nice too. I hope she's doing okay.
Speaker 2 00:07:27 Um, but all, it was like very, very different arriving in Texas mm-hmm <affirmative> and there was like, you could tell there was like bachelorette parties.
Speaker 1 00:07:36 Yeah. Yeah. Cuz there were like
Speaker 2 00:07:38 A girls trip.
Speaker 1 00:07:39 Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2 00:07:39 Yeah. Boys trip, family trip. Mm-hmm <affirmative> and then you and me <laugh>.
Speaker 1 00:07:46 Yeah. And then you and me, and it was funny because like again, like so Mexico and all we know about Mexico honestly is LOD quarter, quarter makes sound like Mexico is like about a blow up, you know, at all
Speaker 2 00:08:07 Times. I know. And then we live in a border town, so it doesn't help that we have a lot of like
Speaker 1 00:08:11 Headlines that are not so good.
Speaker 2 00:08:13 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Illegal. I mean, not to guess, like, is that the word now?
Speaker 1 00:08:18 I would say so. Sure. Why not
Speaker 2 00:08:19 On our parents Uhhuh, but we've been pushing, I think ever since we started this podcast, we've been pushing to like explore our Mexican roots more. Yeah. The chiquito, like we were just talked talked. Is that the word? Yeah. Um, no, that's not the word. Oh that's
Speaker 1 00:08:37 We were,
Speaker 2 00:08:38 We were always hearing like Nova is more dangerous. And when we told them that we had plans to go to Guadalajara, they were all dreading it. Yeah. They were
Speaker 1 00:08:51 All
Speaker 2 00:08:51 Worried. Like they were worried Bowels for sure. Yeah. Manto but then when the plants fell through, she was like, I'm so happy. <laugh> on. And I was like, mom, like mom, I'm so tired of just watching Ford Quarterman, explore Mexico, like NA and we've never been and we don't know it and we want to, and it's like gringos know Mexico more than we do. And that's not cool.
Speaker 1 00:09:21 Yeah. No for sure.
Speaker 2 00:09:22 For sure. It doesn't sit right with me a hundred percent.
Speaker 1 00:09:24 No. And, and the fact is if
Speaker 2 00:09:29 Anything, yes, you're inspiring me.
Speaker 1 00:09:31 Exactly. It's like, it's like, what's our
Speaker 2 00:09:33 Excuse. I wanna be there. I wanna do that. Exactly.
Speaker 1 00:09:35 Like if he's living his best life, what's my excuse to like go. So like everything seems like the airport scene is pretty, pretty straightforward. Pretty similar because we've been in the Philippines. We've been like in the Dominican Republic
Speaker 2 00:09:49 Very much, uh, owed to the third world country. Airport.
Speaker 1 00:09:52 Yeah. Like, you know, like here and there, like, oh, like that guy who's pointing to the taxi man. Ke
Speaker 2 00:10:06 I think that might have been our, our most genuinely tradit, culturally typical, typical experience. The only experience we had like that in Cancun was the taxi drive the taxi drive because we had pre prearranged it
Speaker 1 00:10:23 Yeah. Pre already friend. Yeah. Well, you know, Billy had everything already planned.
Speaker 2 00:10:27 No, no. We made those arrangements.
Speaker 1 00:10:29 Oh the transportation to the,
Speaker 2 00:10:31 The transportation to the Airbnb. When we first got there Uhhuh, um, they were friends of a friend and Jehovah's witness sweet people, our people mm-hmm <affirmative> and just the conversation was so nice.
Speaker 1 00:10:44 It was, it was really like
Speaker 2 00:10:45 He knows and all these things. So I was super hype. Yeah. For like the Mexican Yucatan experience. Maya river experience.
Speaker 1 00:10:57 Yeah. No, you know, everything like river had offer, you know, like the places like it sounded really, really nice. That conversation yeah. Is true. It did kind of like hype us up for like, okay, great. We're really gonna we're
Speaker 2 00:11:10 In for it.
Speaker 1 00:11:11 We're in for it. Beto. What was interesting and kind of disappointing. It's a circumstances of where
Speaker 2 00:11:17 We're at. We need to go back, but yeah.
Speaker 1 00:11:19 Is that, and I don't know when we get there, it's like LA looks like Mexico, but then everything else it's blocked by the best way that I can describe it would be a
Speaker 2 00:11:32 Paywall it's it's very commercialized
Speaker 1 00:11:34 A paywall. Like you can't go in here unless you have a membership to it.
Speaker 2 00:11:39 And I had heard people talk about like an Mexico, you know, like Elmo has taken over and I didn't understand it until I was there. Mm-hmm <affirmative> I was like, oh, this is what you mean. Mm-hmm <affirmative>
Speaker 1 00:11:50 Yeah,
Speaker 2 00:11:51 This is, it was so interesting.
Speaker 1 00:11:53 Like we were hoping for more of a Pueblo that was not it
Speaker 2 00:12:02 With our own plants. Mm-hmm <affirmative> we were attached to this work event. Yeah. You know, worked by other people. I mean, they were Americas, right.
Speaker 1 00:12:13 That like were Greeno we're there. Like
Speaker 2 00:12:16 We, most losts like we were plan D you know what I'm saying? Yeah. So we couldn't get picky. I felt like I couldn't get picky. I was just happy, big being there. And honestly, like, it was, it was a good experience. It was, but it wasn't the, the ultimate,
Speaker 1 00:12:30 It wasn't Mexico,
Speaker 2 00:12:31 Mexican like experience, but like an experience let alone,
Speaker 1 00:12:37 It was now to kind of dive in into the experience itself. It's it was very luxurious. Right? Like, I mean, if anything, shout to Billy, cuz he did go all out in this. Oh yeah. I mean the Airbnb was this like mansion looking thing with its private beach access in this part of Nora in
Speaker 2 00:12:54 A gated community.
Speaker 1 00:12:55 Nora,
Speaker 2 00:12:57 We drove like 20 minutes from the
Speaker 1 00:12:59 Airport. What mm-hmm <affirmative> and I mean, absolutely sunny. Gorgeous. Yeah. Beautiful. And we obviously enjoyed the hospitality, BK. Right. Catering, everybody who was catering that was, you know, offering
Speaker 2 00:13:14 That staff was all Mexican. See <laugh> so, so that was cool.
Speaker 1 00:13:18 We definitely felt catered too. Especially the moment we spoke Spanish and then we're like, Hey, give, you know, like they,
Speaker 2 00:13:24 They hooked me up Uhhuh the whole time.
Speaker 1 00:13:26 Everything was fancy. Mm-hmm <affirmative> from the dinner we had. I've never had a Tomahawk steak in my life. Yeah. We had Tomahawk steak there under the Starlight. So like no watch
Speaker 2 00:13:35 Cat by the, by the water,
Speaker 1 00:13:36 By the water. Like I'm not gonna sit here and be like underwhelming. It was absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 2 00:13:42 It was, it was great.
Speaker 1 00:13:44 Right. Yeah. And we got to meet, uh, we got to meet all kinds of different people, younger people too.
Speaker 2 00:13:50 Mm-hmm <affirmative> Santa. We were like the older
Speaker 1 00:13:52 Ones that we were. Right. We definitely felt that way.
Speaker 2 00:13:55 And I wasn't 30 yet. <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:13:57 Let
Speaker 2 00:13:57 The record show.
Speaker 1 00:13:58 I mean, put it out there. Let the record show Sheila not 30 yet. Um, Ben like definitely younger, younger crowds that were all trying to be entrepreneurs or our entrepreneurs
Speaker 2 00:14:06 Hustlers motivated, driven, creative mm-hmm <affirmative> people that I was like, so happy to meet, cuz I, I didn't quite understand what you wanted to do with our business <laugh> but when I, when I was sitting there, uh, Rico in the <laugh> in the bar area, listening into the seminars, into those speakers, I was like, okay, this, this is making sense now. Yeah. Because it's such a new way of making, uh, a living created by like typical, you know, driven young people who are not really satisfied with the college life or the typical education system. Yeah, exactly. Making, making paving way to something so innovative and new. And I think, I just didn't understand you because you don't really explain things to me very easily.
Speaker 1 00:14:59 No that's to be, yeah. That's kind of my fault to be honest. Uh huh.
Speaker 2 00:15:03 Was that whole, how was it a three day thing? Yeah. Um, then I was like, oh my God, like this, these, they know what they're doing <laugh> we just have to, you know, I implement it. Yeah. And it was so different from like obviously corporate like seminars that we've been to and stuff like
Speaker 1 00:15:18 That. Yeah. It was, yeah.
Speaker 2 00:15:19 It was, it was a lot more lively and relaxed and chill, but nonetheless, um, focused and driven. Yeah. With, with a lot of, you know, focus on content creating. And like I got to see that side, like, oh, they they're working. They're here having fun. But they're working, everything's planned out. Everything is planned out. Everything is content. And I was like, okay, this is, this is how we have to do things. Yeah. If we want to go that way.
Speaker 1 00:15:43 Right. Right. And it's, it was interesting because at first I'll be honest. At first I was a little worried about the vibe. Yeah. I thought I was gonna be like two young, two college bros, like party,
Speaker 2 00:15:54 Party, party, party, honestly thought that I was gonna walk into a frat
Speaker 1 00:15:56 House. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I was worried about that too.
Speaker 2 00:15:58 I was a little scared. I was like, but I was happy like where the event was happening so we could like detach. Right. If right. If things got a little too uncomfortable
Speaker 1 00:16:08 For me, but it never got to that
Speaker 2 00:16:09 Point. No, it never did. And then we were the older ones. So I felt like people like, ah, it's fine. You know, if they don't wanna us be, do this or do that they're yeah.
Speaker 1 00:16:16 Cuz those who wanted to like, they went and looked for like, you know, parties out of their own on
Speaker 2 00:16:20 Their own way. Yeah. Way. This ways, uh,
Speaker 1 00:16:21 Yeah. This place. Yeah. But it'll like talking to them itself. It was nice. We did,
Speaker 2 00:16:26 We did the typical thing your parents do, which is what, which now I think now, now I'm gonna ask my parents and your parents, if this is what they're doing, just to get out of things,
Speaker 1 00:16:33 What do,
Speaker 2 00:16:34 What we kept saying? Like, we're just, we're we're too old for this.
Speaker 1 00:16:37 <laugh> like,
Speaker 2 00:16:38 Oh yeah. They still wanted to like after the event, like do things and we were like, no, we're just, we're just in our thirties now. We're
Speaker 1 00:16:49 Like
Speaker 2 00:16:50 Old, you guys, those vehicles, you guys go have fun and stuff. But um, yeah, no I'm wondering <laugh>
Speaker 1 00:16:57 I mean,
Speaker 2 00:16:58 We can't blame it on kids. That's never gonna be our excuse.
Speaker 1 00:17:01 No, I
Speaker 2 00:17:01 Mean, I'm just like, yes. I'm almost like UCKK,
Speaker 1 00:17:04 You know, I mean, but I mean 11 is late. Yo <laugh> 11. You like 11 o'clock is
Speaker 2 00:17:09 Not late that's and the time difference I got to me. Yeah. And then you had just gone outta surgery and like
Speaker 1 00:17:14 Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:17:15 All that stuff. So three hours ahead. I was not sleepy.
Speaker 1 00:17:17 Yeah, no sad.
Speaker 2 00:17:18 I said the, we had not slept punches punches, and we were like, nah, we're gonna go
Speaker 1 00:17:24 To bed. We're gonna to bed. That's it.
Speaker 2 00:17:25 We connected to the meeting that night.
Speaker 1 00:17:27 That's right. <laugh> yeah. Yeah, we did.
Speaker 2 00:17:30 Ella's like Dizel Noche and we connected. I don't remember. I think I fell asleep probably towards the end, but it was so funny.
Speaker 1 00:17:37 Yeah. And, and, and overall it was professional talking to like, you know, a bunch of younger dudes that they were not only trying to hustle for the sake of hustle, like a like living life. Like I see gloriously or muu OSA, if anything, they just wanted a means to an end and sure. There's a lot of money to be made, but more importantly, yeah. They were trading it for living on that term. Cuz there was people that actually lived in play at the academy. There was people that actually live in that slower pace of lifestyle and they were able to,
Speaker 2 00:18:07 And younger than us and like single like solos. Yeah. Like
Speaker 1 00:18:11 ATO and they were able to achieve it by the businesses that they started through. E-commerce through, you know, content through social media marketing said, you need me mm-hmm <affirmative> and it was nice getting that exposure for sure.
Speaker 2 00:18:22 Yeah. And I thought it was so cute. I mean Lauria, I don't know why, but statistically Lama and boys,
Speaker 1 00:18:28 They're all white boys, dude.
Speaker 2 00:18:29 They're all boys. Um, and I thought it was so cute because a lot of them, when they were speaking, they were talking about how they just wanted to buy their mom, their house. Yeah. Like that's their, that's their core motivation is so sweet and pure and it really made me feel like that's just like what we're all trying to do. Yeah. You know, like it's just, what we're all trying to do is, is do good for the people that we love with the things that we love to do.
Speaker 1 00:18:56 <laugh> so I think it reminded me the um, when Billy did his, his portion cuz you know, it was different speakers, different coaches, different everything. Yeah. And when Billy did his, he mentioned the reason why he started his own business is because he wanted to be always, he wanted the ability to always get guac at Chipotle
Speaker 2 00:19:13 <laugh> It's about the small things in life guys,
Speaker 1 00:19:19 You know, which is cool. Because again, typically when you see this space, especially online with all these folks who wanna start their businesses, you see the photos that K the Lamborghini, you and this and that, and it's kind of tired. Right. That, that image gets tired. So seeing people that K just want more guacamole from Chipotle mm-hmm <affirmative> I'm I'm all about that. Yeah. I'm for that. So again, great, great trip. Um, we did a lot of things that were touristing like,
Speaker 2 00:19:46 Was it Anot though?
Speaker 1 00:19:48 I think,
Speaker 2 00:19:50 I think San was the, the, what was promised, but then lost in translation.
Speaker 1 00:19:55 Yeah. It was like kind of
Speaker 2 00:19:56 Like, and when I say lost in translation, I mean, they didn't ask for our help. So that's why it got lost because we were probably the only Spanish speakers there. Yeah. That's true. So we were stuck translating a lot, a lot guys like a lot, trying to keep one guy from not dying from his allergies
Speaker 1 00:20:11 Was almost dying over there.
Speaker 2 00:20:12 Somebody did end up needing an EpiPen cuz they were had a peanut allergy and nobody told the staff and they mole <laugh> and they had Mo they had served mole. We were not there the day they served moles. So we were like, we could have avoided this dude, but OPPA, he survived he's okay. But all okay. A lot of, a lot of menos have a lot of, uh, allergies. <laugh> so, and it's scary when you're somewhere where you don't know the language or you can't express your language though. Mm-hmm
Speaker 1 00:20:38 <affirmative> so it was like more like a float down. I guess
Speaker 2 00:20:41 We, you guys need to be proud of me. I went not scuba
Speaker 1 00:20:45 Snorkeling,
Speaker 2 00:20:46 Snorkeling.
Speaker 1 00:20:46 Yeah. That's what we did.
Speaker 2 00:20:48 Um, I had a little mini panic attack before cuz nobody told me that that's what we were doing.
Speaker 1 00:20:53 <laugh>
Speaker 2 00:20:54 But IK, what happened though? The, we were supposed to end up at a yacht bro, but it was too windy.
Speaker 1 00:21:00 The yacht was too windy. So they said no, no to the yacht, but then
Speaker 2 00:21:04 So they scrambled this last minute experience.
Speaker 1 00:21:06 Yeah. And we went to Ste
Speaker 2 00:21:07 And we no baby, we didn't go
Speaker 1 00:21:09 To it. Wasn't a Ste. It was like, it was yeah. By the beach snorkeling experience, I guess
Speaker 2 00:21:13 Snorkeling. Yeah. So then all of a sudden
Speaker 1 00:21:15 Like, hold on to be fair. There was also skydiving, but we said no to the
Speaker 2 00:21:18 Skydiving please. No <laugh> um, but then all of a sudden, like maybe don't goggles and like a life jacket mm-hmm <affirmative> life Fest. And I was like, I don't do water. <laugh> like, what are you guys? What are we doing? And because everybody was so down, I felt like good peer pressure. They could like, I'm not gonna be the baby that gets stuck behind.
Speaker 1 00:21:37 I see for,
Speaker 2 00:21:38 You know, so then I, I tried that, get through it and then MEA life jacket. And then it was like so tight and I was like, oh my God, I'm gonna pass out. Um, subpar, I didn't enjoy it. I could have gone without it
Speaker 1 00:21:49 Really. They didn't, they didn't like any of the fishes that you saw.
Speaker 2 00:21:53 They looked like, they looked like the sad part of Nemo
Speaker 1 00:21:57 <laugh>
Speaker 2 00:21:58 So to me it was like, okay, I saw a Dory once
Speaker 1 00:22:02 I was looking for the Barracuda.
Speaker 2 00:22:03 I didn't wanna say a bar.
Speaker 1 00:22:04 Cause like the bar, like Barracuda, like it'll kill you. Right. Like,
Speaker 2 00:22:09 Well kind of, but I don't think it would
Speaker 1 00:22:10 Kill you. I say that it would attack you, right?
Speaker 2 00:22:13 Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:22:14 Yeah. They're like, oh, like, like be careful to not look at the Barracuda. And they're like, what if it looks at you? Like <laugh> yeah. You know, it was like, uh, but overall man, yo, that, that trip itself, I wish that I had more of authentic to some degree. Yeah. It's not a bad thing per se. It definitely didn't feel like Mexico. Yeah. Like Del Carmen did not feel like Mexico. In fact, the main strip of Carmen felt more like Europe more than anything. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:22:50 Like by where the mall is, is
Speaker 1 00:22:52 To Isto but it's basically
Speaker 2 00:22:55 Los we ended up in tum yeah. After the event, we did our own thing with the, your small group of
Speaker 1 00:23:02 Yeah. Yeah. My immediate team
Speaker 2 00:23:03 Coworkers. Yeah. And that was fun because we got to get a moped ourselves mm-hmm <affirmative> and do what we wanted at whatever time we wanted, whenever we wanted that's when you had chilaquiles mm-hmm <affirmative>, which was like the only en we had tacos at, which were like, um,
Speaker 1 00:23:16 Okay.
Speaker 2 00:23:17 They were fine. Yeah. But surprisingly and URA, we had the <foreign>, which was the best oh yeah. Which was like what I wanted to taste, because that was something so typical I eat, you know? Yeah. But yeah, we have to go back.
Speaker 1 00:23:30 We do, we do we have to go and more
Speaker 2 00:23:32 And plan our own thing,
Speaker 1 00:23:32 Our own thing. Exactly. Again. No, no, I don't take anything away from that experience itself. It was honestly, I believe once in a lifetime, I don't think dude. Yeah. I don't think I would ever be in a situation where I was out. Well,
Speaker 2 00:23:42 We wouldn't, first of all, we wouldn't be able to afford yeah. A mansion. Yeah. We wouldn't be able to afford the Airbnb that we stayed at. No. Which was beautiful. Yep. The plants guys. I died. There were so many plants everywhere and
Speaker 1 00:23:55 Yeah, absolutely. I mean, it was absolutely beautiful. And what to say, it's just that as much as we enjoyed it, as much as I enjoyed it, as much as I love taking that picture under the Palm tree and with my laptop and making it look like, oh my God, look how, how cool I am working remotely, I think is just, it's not us, you know, to some extent. So, um, we have to go back I think, to explore for sure. Yeah. At least for us. Yeah. So there's definitely parts that we can explore, um, in, because surreal, surreal is we are coming up to one of the gated communities, you know, in Puerto that we're gonna stay in mm-hmm <affirmative> and we saw a bunch of Mexicanos walking in a single file, seeing to the bus stop. And I asked like, what's going on? Oh, well there's shift this over. Mm-hmm <affirmative> and it was so weird seeing Lahane how do I say this? It's weird. Seeing people in super Bais working for a place that they could probably never, ever afford mm-hmm <affirmative> and,
Speaker 2 00:25:04 And for others.
Speaker 1 00:25:05 And they're back to the reality of what Mexico is to their circumstances.
Speaker 2 00:25:10 Yeah. It definitely feels like, like Cancun is very
Speaker 1 00:25:13 It's haves and haves
Speaker 2 00:25:14 Nots. It's uh, it's very Americanized in that way. Like, is this Mexico? And because
Speaker 2 00:25:25 Yeah. AKI because you know, mu or, or yes, the staff is Hispanic, Latinos, Mexicanos, whatever Spanish speakers. And, but when you go to Mexico, like AKI, Mexico, no. And like it does, it's not really like that. It's like Mexicanos the same it's equal to me, obviously like Los K Parak, you know, I feel sad. We see that too. But when you actually cross over to Mexican and San Louis and all that stuff, it's, it's the same. Right. It's it's even like, I don't feel it's more like alos, mm-hmm <affirmative>, you know, mm-hmm <affirmative> it's like ALO is like medium where like, okay, the consumer is America And is very much like that. Yeah. We live here, we work here and the consumer is tourism. So
Speaker 1 00:26:27 Except that they, the consumer in this case in Cancun gets to stay by the beautiful peaches and yeah, no. Yeah. That, and that's like, and that's what I mentioned from like, for example, here in the border trans like in San LMOS. Right. We see people that right. They're walking to the bus stop and then when it's time to leave, they go back to Mexico, their country, Mexico. Yeah. And, and it felt weird seeing that same scenario play out there
Speaker 2 00:26:56 When you're in Mexico, when you're already. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I see what you're saying. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:27:03 It's not that we didn't like it. It's just that we're all about that.
Speaker 2 00:27:07 Yeah. It's beautiful. The weather is amazing. Mm-hmm <affirmative> like, and like warm mm-hmm <affirmative> like Rico is so okay guys. <laugh> I don't get in the ocean much, but I tried it and it it's something that we constantly see on social media that there's just so much more to do there. So yeah. We want to go back.
Speaker 1 00:27:31 Absolutely Beto. Do we recommend Cancun to loom hundred
Speaker 2 00:27:36 Percent? A hundred percent. Absolutely. Everybody should experience it. No experience one time.
Speaker 1 00:27:41 Uh, you know, it's, it's, it's, it's a lot to see and ultimately in those places, um, you make whatever it is that you want out of it. And we cannot wait until then as always, thank you all for listening
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Speaker 2 00:29:01 You're calling yourself super.
Speaker 1 00:29:02 I am. I am super.
Speaker 2 00:29:03 That's kind of cool.
Speaker 1 00:29:03 Right? I think I would say, I can say that. Yeah. I can say that man can, um, I, I mean GTO, but I couldn't because I still had like a scar that was kind of healing. Yeah. Yeah. But the beach is beautiful. I, I loved how clear the water was. I love how relaxing it is.
Speaker 2 00:29:21 I think I was just, cuz I'm not a beach person. I'm not a tropical person, but I was so happy to be alive. Alive. Yeah. With you. Yeah. Next to you. Uh, because you like two days before we left, you were like on the verge of dying on me. Mm-hmm <affirmative> and so I think I was just like finally relaxing, finally feeling like I could breathe and what better place to be at than by the water.
Speaker 1 00:29:46 That's true. It was a very, we, we didn't realize, I think how much we needed a trip like that.
Speaker 2 00:29:51 Yeah. After, after, after, uh <foreign> after an experience or an event like that, that was so stressful. Mm-hmm <affirmative> and then like we were between solo and here and somebody was house sitting for us and we didn't wanna kick them out. So you had your surgery, we were with your parents. And all of that was just like, we just felt, I felt like a little Noma, you know, like I didn't really have my things and my space and my people around me because like I had left Chu and the kids, my mom was in a different place, you know? And I was like, Jessie's not here. Oh, because guys a BU fun fact because of COVID I wasn't able to be there.
Speaker 1 00:30:30 Oh yeah. We totally forgot. Imagine
Speaker 2 00:30:32 Though. So I was just like trying in the hospital. Yeah.
Speaker 1 00:30:35 You couldn't be in the hospital.
Speaker 2 00:30:36 No, I couldn't be in the hospital. So I was just trying to like, not freak out because I was with your mom and your mom. I'm thinking your mom was trying to not freak out because I was there too. Like we were just stressed and trying to support each other emotionally, which was nice, but it was kind of hard to like, feel like I could feel all my feels cause you know how I am.
Speaker 1 00:30:55 Yeah, no, no. I think so. Being able to have that moment, just take a
Speaker 2 00:30:59 Break. Yeah. Like, oh, we dodged that bullet.
Speaker 1 00:31:01 Okay. Yeah. Like, yes, it was a work event bit. My job wasn't really, um, involved other than just enjoying the event and helping some people away translating and just connecting with others, you know? Um, so we had a lot of time to just unwind.
Speaker 2 00:31:17 Yeah. And because we didn't really know anyone, like nobody was really attached to us. Mm-hmm <affirmative> we could really be with each other. Yeah. We didn't feel like at least I didn't feel, yeah. I had to be a guy, you know,
Speaker 1 00:31:30 We weren't hosting the thing. Yeah. That we don't have to like be on and attend to everybody. Mm-hmm
Speaker 2 00:31:35 <affirmative> we were just going with the floor wherever they had planned. Okay. Okay. They had everything planned.
Speaker 1 00:31:42 That was really nice of Billy. Cuz like, I mean he could have made me like or asked me at least, you know, to do more, but he, Eli, legit just said enjoy the trip back. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:31:51 Wait.
Speaker 1 00:31:51 Yeah. So yeah. Um, honestly man, thanks a lot. Uh, we loved it, Ella. We took a lot from it and it's interesting to know just at what time it needed. And it was a much needed time that we needed some type of break, especially in after <laugh>, after nearly dying as it is.
Speaker 2 00:32:07 Well, let's less let's let's explain a little bit of that because we're not being dramatic for the sake of being
Speaker 1 00:32:13 Dramatic. No, no. I mean, I would love to, I would love to just be dramatic for the sake being dramatic,
Speaker 2 00:32:17 But know, I mean, we hear a lot of people whose birth whose appendic burst. Right. That's fine. Yeah. And sometimes they're already at the hospital. Sometimes they're near hospital. Sometimes they're in their hometown. Mm-hmm <affirmative> uh, we were not in our hometown. We were, we were not near our doctor mm-hmm but we were obviously like around the hospital and stuff, but it just feels different. E by the time you got seen and were advised to come back to Yuma, we drove back, you got denied twice
Speaker 1 00:32:49 To get tested
Speaker 2 00:32:50 By two different PCPs mm-hmm <affirmative> and finally we decided to just wait for your fever to come back. Cuz you were feverish mm-hmm <affirmative> and since we had already rolled out COVID we didn't really know what was happening. And then when we got to the ER, like after three hours of waiting, the doctor finally saw you and he immediately told you it was appendicitis. Yeah. The tested he had not even done a test yet, but he just talked to you, listened to you.
Speaker 1 00:33:14 Oh, that's a big one. That's a key word right there.
Speaker 2 00:33:16 Oh my goodness. Yeah. Listen to you. And was like, yeah, it sounds like that, but I can't say anything until we, we, you know, do the CT scan, but they sit on L CT scan and turns out you're there was obviously your appendix look irritated.
Speaker 1 00:33:31 Aw man. And then so they were like SMEs Mo they hospitalized me. They tell me that the surgery was gonna happen early the next morning. Mm-hmm <affirmative> and by the way, because it's COVID Jessica, you gotta bounce.
Speaker 2 00:33:41 Yeah. Sunday was like the last day that I could, I could be there. So after your surgery, I was there. But then during your recovery, I was kicked
Speaker 1 00:33:48 Out. Yeah. That was it. And like, you know, the next morning rolls in, um, Jessica still wasn't able to allow to like she like until 10 until 10 and then shortly after that. Not at all. Right. Yeah. So it was purely for you to be allowed in, um, I go through the pre-op procedure, pretty standard stuff. I get put under, wake up. Right. Or at least that's what I think that happened. Unless this is a whole dream ever
Speaker 2 00:34:13 Since that don't start with your
Speaker 1 00:34:15 <laugh>
Speaker 2 00:34:16 Timely.
Speaker 1 00:34:18 So the doctor comes up man and says like, yeah, everything went well. Um, pretty interesting though. Um, your appendix had burst for a whole no,
Speaker 2 00:34:24 No, no, no, no. Let's go back. Let's go back. Okay. Because I was there. Okay. You were still in recovery.
Speaker 1 00:34:31 Oh, that's right. That's
Speaker 2 00:34:32 The doctor comes to me.
Speaker 1 00:34:33 He tells you
Speaker 2 00:34:35 For flat and then sweet eye. I forgot his name. And he's like, yeah. It turns out your husband's appendix bursted a week ago. And because he had all this scar tissue around it, it was able to encapsulate the poison. You didn't go jaundice. And I was like, excuse
Speaker 1 00:34:51 Me. That sounds pretty bad.
Speaker 2 00:34:52 But he told me super chill as doctors surgeons do. Yeah. And then I didn't ask questions.
Speaker 1 00:34:59 <laugh> cause that's
Speaker 2 00:35:00 Who I am. I was like, okay, he's alive. Buno to me. It's like, he's alive. He's
Speaker 1 00:35:04 Well, all matters. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 00:35:05 So then I, I go to your room and they wheel you in and we're talking to Petros and I told you, I'm like, the doctor told me that your, your appendix bursted a week ago and you and peaches were like, that's not possible. Yeah. That's not what he said, Jessica heard it wrong. And I was like, fine. Okay. Y'all I'm not gonna argue Jess's alive. I don't care. El surgeon, after you woke up and were like, fine, um, he explained it to you and you could not
Speaker 1 00:35:30 Believe <laugh>. And I, I really couldn't. I was like, wait, hold on, tell me again, what? And yeah, he explains to me, he's like, yeah, sure enough. It had already been bursted for a whole week. And if it wasn't for the scar tissue, it would've got him really bad. And it's like, wait, can can't this? Like, like couldn't this kill me? And he is like, oh yeah, for sure. Hurt. Mm-hmm <affirmative> yeah. Like it's and then he is like, it's so interesting. How like your scar tissue just did that. LOL.
Speaker 2 00:35:52 He was so tickled by it. He's just like, oh, it happens
Speaker 1 00:35:55 Like, huh? You know, like apparently your scar tissue like kept it all contained, even though it was
Speaker 2 00:36:00 Busted. Did you ever look up at how many people? Actually that happens a couple percent.
Speaker 1 00:36:03 He like, he, he just like said, oh, that was interesting. As in like, like Uhhuh,
Speaker 2 00:36:07 Like, like what a funny journey for
Speaker 1 00:36:09 You. Okay. Like he didn't say it like in wakeup. Okay. Like, oh yeah. That's usually the norm or
Speaker 2 00:36:13 That happen. Yeah. No, it's not normal, but he didn't, he didn't pull it out of proportion. Like, oh my God.
Speaker 1 00:36:18 Yeah. He was just like, isn't that funny? Uhhuh.
Speaker 2 00:36:20 Oh,
Speaker 1 00:36:21 Isn't you isn't that cool. You'll see like, uh, you guys like what? And I felt so mad cuz like everything that I was talking about the whole week prior throws is that wouldn't get me treated.
Speaker 2 00:36:34 Yeah. We weren't trying to keep your appendix person for a whole week. No, we were trying to get it done. Like within the day or two that you started feeling pain was
Speaker 1 00:36:40 Like, bro, like, let's go do the test. And they're like, no, you're just being hysterical. Mm-hmm <affirmative> and I was like, what
Speaker 2 00:36:46 Can we talk about how everybody thought you had diabetes?
Speaker 1 00:36:48 Everyone thought I had diabetes.
Speaker 2 00:36:49 It was so annoying,
Speaker 1 00:36:51 Sir. Do you have diabetes?
Speaker 2 00:36:52 No. Or like standing, like why do you always assume then I have diabetes
Speaker 1 00:36:56 And then I get up the chair and go <laugh> okay. It's the guy, the
Speaker 2 00:37:03 Plano he has to have, he
Speaker 1 00:37:04 Has to have, he has
Speaker 2 00:37:05 To have it.
Speaker 1 00:37:05 That is weight. Is that like a thing? Like a,
Speaker 2 00:37:08 I don't know, but I really there's definitely, it really rubbed me the wrong
Speaker 1 00:37:10 Way. There's definitely a stigma. We seeing people that are overweight and assuming that they have X, Y, Z, you know, we talked about this when it comes to one of the episodes
Speaker 2 00:37:16 Thing. Jesse is the healthy one. I am not. Yeah, but it doesn't look that way.
Speaker 1 00:37:21 Apparently.
Speaker 2 00:37:21 Apparently,
Speaker 1 00:37:22 According to society,
Speaker 2 00:37:23 According to all these Bordertown doctor,
Speaker 1 00:37:26 Ah, man point is I, I hate my PCPs. I fired them.
Speaker 2 00:37:31 We need new ones
Speaker 1 00:37:31 Guys. Yeah. I'll say new ones. And I'll even say their names. Dr. Sandoval and Sarah Derman here in the Yuma area. Just absolute trash.
Speaker 2 00:37:38 Don't don't say, well,
Speaker 1 00:37:40 I would say that Derman is not trash, but she is slow sometimes and noticing these things and ordering things and then backing up her
Speaker 2 00:37:48 Clothes. That was just our experience. But yeah. It's it was a, it was big an other guy big.
Speaker 1 00:37:53 Yeah. He suck.
Speaker 2 00:37:54 Suck big he's it was kind of infuriating.
Speaker 1 00:37:57 Yeah. Yeah. Don't go to him. Unless, unless he wanted like flirt with death, which is apparently what I did.
Speaker 2 00:38:01 He's very young. He's very new. So we were hoping that it was like, okay, he's gonna try everything. Email.
Speaker 1 00:38:08 <laugh> all he tried was his own mind that like, well, according to my experience of
Speaker 2 00:38:12 Two weeks, yeah. His young a doctor got in the way. Yeah. I will Beto any ho and yeah, we are keep alive. You're a tough cookie Uhhuh. I am not a widow at 29. No.
Speaker 1 00:38:22 Now that you're 30 now, now it's a good
Speaker 2 00:38:24 Time. Now. Now it's a good time. Yeah. Now it's okay. It's an even number. I can work with that.
Speaker 1 00:38:28 That's you got it. I'll do my best <laugh> but that was it, man. That, that was uh, a little bit of the near death experience that I had, I guess another one and a little, another one I know for real and another Congo trip tomorrow. Um, tomorrow, next week, we're gonna talk about the other trip, which you know, if you guys have been listening for this long, we'll just say it's it's Ireland. We're gonna talk about Ireland.
Speaker 2 00:38:49 They're probably sick of our Instagram anyways. No, sorry guys. Not over it. Europe trip is our next episode. So stick around,
Speaker 1 00:38:56 Stick around you can everybody thank you all for listening too.
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