Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Chapter 2: What are the Valentine's Day plans shared by the hosts?
So fly with fly me. But you want to be together no matter what on Valentine's Day. Not no matter what. But if if possible, like if someone's dying in the hospital, like no has to be drastic like that. Or yeah, something like that. Stage three. No. Stage four. Acceptable. But you can't it can't be work like keeping you from. What do you do for work? What do you do for work?
Unless you're playing in like the fucking all star game. What do you do for work? Look at the bar. It has to be like. No, I'm saying like, what do you do for work? What if he's a traitor and has to go to London? He's a what? Like a traitor, like a Wall Street guy. Wall Street guys don't have to go to London on. I've seen the Wall Street movie. They were in London for one scene. OK.
What if he works the lighting rig for like a group that's on tour? And they're like on the road during Valentine's Day. And it's like a concert that night. Where are we at? Fly me out there. Okay. So it's like you want to be there though. Yeah. Okay. All right. But if he's playing an all-star game, you don't mind staying home? No, I'll just be in the stands.
But technically, we're not spending it together. You're on the court. I mean, I feel like those friends and family tickets are tough at Valentine's Day. Oh, really?
Okay.
You can do anything to avoid spending time with y'all, bitch. Well, first of all, if you're comparing to gentlemen like me, I think it was two Valentine's Days ago. We were in L.A. to shoot all those My Commerce Beautiful. I flew her out, still did the whole Valentine's Day thing while we were working in LA. We were there for the whole week. Honorable.
Still did the, got my favorite masseuse in LA. He's a good man. Got a private chef. I did the whole Valentine's Day thing. He did. And still got to record Boss. My boy. I just feel like Valentine's Day is the same day every year. It doesn't change. It's not like Thanksgiving. It's the same day every year. You know when it's going to be. Not the same day of the week, though. Okay.
That's fine.
That changes things. Everybody's off for Christmas. Okay. Maybe I have something to do on a Wednesday. Okay. What do you have to do on a Wednesday? If you have to work on a Wednesday, what time do you get off? You get off at some point. I'm doing a double. You're doing a double? That was the day you picked to do a double? That's what's up. It's been on the calendar for a year.
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Chapter 3: How do the hosts feel about waterbeds and their experiences?
Was in a relationship, but I hadn't talked to none of them. But he caught me on that one day when I text them all like, hey, how you doing? Because he had pissed me off so bad. So those niggas that hadn't heard from me in years, but I sent them all the same text message.
boy he caught he the wrong when he asked for my phone i just naturally was like here and i was like wait never mind he's like nah shorty so he didn't see it he saw it oh okay he saw i tried to take it back he grabbed it kicked me out of his house i was crying yeah but 18 that's understandable yeah i was 18 i don't even i don't even count that as you being broken up with because in that forgiving cheating gray area who really knows what's going on
the relationship is on rocks right there she knew what was going on she knew exactly what was going on so that was the only time that you ever got broken up with and any other time after that and in your relationships it's been you doing the breaking oh no my ex broke up with me but not because I did anything wrong he broke up with me because he knew he was making me miserable that's nice of him he knew he was making you miserable so why not make you un-miserable why just leave you the world may never know the world may never know but yeah he knew he was making me miserable so he left me
All right. Well, happy Valentine's Day to all the lovers out there. Yeah. If you were recording this on Thursday, tonight at midnight, we get some toxic love music from one of our favorite Brent Fires. He's dropping some of his best toxicity tonight. And Peej was telling me, I didn't see. So if I get this wrong, please blame Peej and not me.
I saw some of the producers were Raphael Sadiq, Mike Dean. Who else did you say? Benny Blanco. Benny Blanco. I mean, Raphael Sadiq and Brent is an interesting. I like it. I like it. I like Brent and Benny too. Give me a little pop bop. Pop bop is very funny. I'm not mad at that at all. And Mike Dean. And when Mike Dean get in some of his dark bag. Yeah. I'm with that. Like, I love to hear that.
Those are the three. Oh, Chad Hugo is on there. Tommy Richmond is funny. But no, I think Tommy Richmond does actually like produce though. No, this looks great. Fave, I know Fave is dope. Yeah, these are all great. Is Berg, is that Hitmaker? No, I think that's probably just him. A different Berg? I'm sure it's Hitmaker. They would have put Young in front of it. This must be old Berg.
Okay, mastering and engineering Mike Dean. But when Mike Dean does that, he usually produces as well. So don't flame Peej. Mike Dean is still somewhat of a producer if he's engineering the entire project. I'm excited for this. We talked about it on our last episode. Now, I'd say we get the Jill Scott to Whom It May Concern album as well at midnight to balance out some of that toxicity. Oh, yes.
But some of y'all be forgetting that just because Jill Scott is over a Neal Soul beat, she getting her toxic bag too.
Yeah.
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Chapter 4: What are the challenges of dining out on Valentine's Day?
King. I'm nothing. I don't want to be outside amongst all these people fighting and competing for the same type of shit, right? We going out to dinner, everybody trying to get the same meal. We all fighting with our servers and shit. I feel like every time I'm going on a Valentine's day, it's ended in an argument or it's ended with me being upset at my service at dinner.
Or, you know, there's also little events out here in the West side and Cali, you can do some stuff, but man, I've never had an experience that I felt like was worth my money. Another thing, on the day, it's Saturday, they going to be taxing hell. So I'm going to get to the point.
Chapter 5: How can couples avoid the Valentine's Day rush?
My whole suggestion was, yo, let's just go out on Sunday. Saturday, we could, you know, we could kick back, do the thing in the crib. And then Sunday, let's, you know what I'm saying? Let's enjoy the day. Let's enjoy each other. She not fucking with that at all. And I'm like, from a woman's perspective, what the fuck is the difference? I'm going to keep it just to that. Peace.
To me, that's proper logic. I'm not going to say man logic because man logic is just actual logic. Female logic is we have to do it the same day as all the mother hoes. I mean, it's Valentine's Day, not the day after Valentine's Day. It's not Valentine's weekend. It could be. It could be. It should be. It should be.
with them the only way to escape this is try to find something creative where a bunch of people are not going to be but if you want to do the dinner date shit that is a real thing though especially if you're in a major city like nobody's trying to go out and do it like for what it's not even an enjoyable experience when you're on top of everybody I tell people all the time Valentine's Day and Mother's Day are probably the worst days to try to go out and get dinner reservations and it's everybody we love moms we love our you know our partners and all of that but
especially if you're in a major city it is like a lot to be moving around in that type of traffic like go to a restaurant you could have reservations but it's like you get there your table might not be ready on time for your reservation you have to wait then when you you know you do get your table the server is packed so the server is like you got to know get everything in now order everything now don't keep calling for the server because she's working 10 other tables like then the traffic like driving it is a lot to move around on those on those days so
Chapter 6: What creative alternatives can enhance Valentine's Day?
but how do we how do we get around that how do we say babe look all right we don't want to be out with the rush can we do the day before valentine's day can we do the day after valentine's day like there has to be uh you know i could we don't have to go out valentine's day but we'll do something nice at home whether it's flowers or you know maybe even try to go get a massage somewhere even though that might be a another thing too another headache but like dinner restaurants
We got to find an alternative to kind of try to avoid that rush and having to sit and deal with that traffic on Valentine's Day. So what I told my homeboy, because me and my homeboy had this conversation when he was talking about doing something special for Valentine's Day, he had the same issue as him. The day after is going to be just as busy. And so is the day before.
Like, let's just be fucking honest. So that's not avoiding anything. If you want to do something at home, you got to make it special. And this is where men's creativity or lack thereof can fail them. Because... Women love super cute shit. If she knew that in the house you were going to fucking decorate the house and make it look all types of crazy.
And then like you guys go and you go and pick up her favorite food or hire a chef to come and make her favorite food. There's ways around that. There's ways to make it special. But you have to put a lot of effort and like creativity into it and not just we'll go to dinner tomorrow. Like this sounds like a really respectable and amazing man. Speaking as one as well.
Sometimes it's tough when you do that on the regular. Cause now it's just another day.
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Chapter 7: What advice is given for dating multiple partners on Valentine's Day?
Like I've set up the house, I've cooked, I've done all that. Like just on a Tuesday. Yeah. Now it's Valentine's like now it's definitely my bad. And it's only for selfish reasons. So we don't need to leave. Pick me, pick me. I can't be picked. That's what it's really like. You know, I do that on a regular, you know. So, you know, that's light work for me. Yeah.
So that's where it gets tough when, you know, you're somebody as incredible as I am that it's hard to top just a regular day. Yeah. So, you know, it's either Turks or this. I don't even know. Yeah. Yeah.
sir feel that no but i'm dead i really have done like the set up the whole house cook like i do that shit not not on some pick me show some regular like when i'm in a relationship and someone's coming home from work like you know what let me let me set up the house let me let me get the uh the nerf guns together let me do like we did the naughty elf shit for christmas where you do all the the funny scenario like i'd like to do that type of stuff in general in the house
especially when you have a kid there's only so much you can fucking do yeah so that makes it even tougher when you have to get creative for the in the house setup type of thing like like i built a fort for amara's birthday just for you know because we built forts yeah can't build a fort for valentine's day You can. Sir, if you're thinking of what to do, fill the bedroom with balloons.
And when I say fill it, I don't mean four balloons. I don't mean 10 balloons. Fill the bedroom with balloons. Like, you know, when you walk in a balloon section, a Dollar Tree, and there's balloons floating to the ceiling. Do that.
put roses all over the house like go now make it yeah go now make it all over all make it a thing like make it what would look extra to y'all is the type of shit that girls would like make it a thing then put her gifts in the middle of the bed around the rose petals and buy her her favorite food go pick it up or make it like there's a way to do it without just yeah we'll just go to dinner tomorrow yeah there's no creativity in that sometimes it's staycation like
You could get a nice hotel for a reasonable price just for one night. That one night is not going to be Valentine's Day. I don't know if he's in the city. I don't know where he's at. Oh, yeah. For some places, yeah, you do like a staycation. He's in Cali. Well, I mean, it's like, what, the third biggest state? I don't know what that means. You got to go further out. You got to go further out.
Just find a hotel further out away. Is he in Barstow or is he in West Hollywood? Yeah, West Hollywood. You can forget about it. Yeah, no, for sure. And at that point, a staycation doesn't mean anything. But if you're in like a certain small town and want to drive 30 minutes, like. I think that's kind of cool. Yeah, that could be cool.
Find a hotel with a bathtub you may trust and, you know, get some rose petals and shit. That could only run you 300 bucks. Yeah. Get some nice takeout. I think that's a cool way. Yeah, it's a cool substitute. I'm not mad at that. And if you want to go to dinner the next day, just make sure for Valentine's Day, do something like...
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