Paco In the House - episode 4

By Paco Arespacochaga

Getting Marc Tupaz to guest on my show, Paco In the House (episode 4) was indeed a “no brainer” for both of us.

When Marc visited me in Los Angeles late in November of 2009, we both knew that I was bound to spend my Christmas holiday with my wife and kids in the Philippines. Of course, as crazy as we are, we initiated to maximize my stay in Manila by creating a concert.

My expectation was that Marc was going to get everything up and ready by the time I flew in on December 9, 2009. I was wrong! We decided to get everything up and running and ready a couple of days ago. Fortunately, there were a lot of friends and loved ones that were willing to see this show come to fruition.

Another good friend of ours, Drummer Bryan Elazegui, coined the title of the show “One Night Stand… with Paco & Wency” Featuring Shamrock. Now I do not have any problems with any show title however, when I saw the poster and tickets, it had a photo of me in a suit! What the heck was that all about!?! I am not Richard Poon! But anyway, it doesn’t matter.

Now, taping for the show was a fun. First of all, this is the first time the cast and crew of Paco In the House had gone out and shoot on location. We were at Dezato Café in Quezon City Philippines. The people at the café were very gracious enough to accommodate us and even participate as “studio audience”.

Overall, the vibe of Paco In the House episode 4 is light and loaded! Feel free to watch it on:

www.introvoys.tv and my facebook accounts.

Paco In the House - episode 3

By Paco Arespacochaga

Doing an episode of Paco In the House is always fun. And I mean “fun” in every way! First, it’s very spontaneous. Second, it’s very spontaneous and third…did I mention that it’s very spontaneous? I guess you pretty much get it!

Every episode of Paco In the House is unique in a sense that the show is evolving as it moves along. On episode 1, I was just ranting about what I witnessed on HBO’s 24/7 showing of Pacquiao-Cotto. It generated enough page views on www.introvoys.tv to make me want to do episode 2. Episode 2 featured Indie Model, Jomar Yrastorza and photographer, Tune “clickrhappy” Jardinazo. It turned out to be an “okay” episode that I began receiving email comments (pacointhehouse@gmail.com) in regard to an episode 3. It took awhile to follow up the show with episode 3 but last week, we aired Paco In the House episode 3 with an unlikely guest, my son Heaven Arespacochaga.

I mentioned early on that every show is spontaneous. When I asked Heaven to guest on my show, he candidly said, “yes” without any clue of what we were going to talk about. Just like what I did on the previous episode, I simply hit the “record” button and off we talked we did! And boy was I proud of every word that came out of my 13-year-old boy’s mouth! Forgive me for the nepotism slant but my son was an awesome guest on the show!

My audience was impressed! I was impressed.

Needless to say, I decided to “can” as many episodes as I possibly can. We just wrapped up episode 4 featuring Marc Tupaz of the band Shamrock and episode 5 featuring Geneva Cruz.

Again, I am inviting all of you to stay tuned and feel free to send in your comments all day long so we can deliver the show quality you want!

Winning... A New Perspective

by Paco Arespacochaga

I had a very engaging conversation with my 13 year old boy, who was really hell bent on trumping my point of view with his. And so I let him be. No wait! I was getting impatient and ticked off. I was viewing him as being too imposing and cocky. He was provoking my thoughts with his insights. Yes, his viewpoint on the matter was correct. And he was making sure I knew that. And I did! I even acknowledged it. However, when I started talking about my own point of view about the subject matter we were discussing, he would intentionally not pay attention. He would cut me mid-sentence and at times, go on a tangent.

Of course I wasn’t really intimidated by him because I can always use the “I’m your daddy… and I’m right!” card and end the conversation immediately but that would be unfair! However, I needed him to understand an important aspect of interaction. I wanted him to understand that being right doesn’t make another person wrong. I wanted him to realize that there are multi-layers of understanding and perspectives. I wanted him to fully understand that hearing someone else’s opinion will benefit your own opinion ten folds!

This is what I want you to understand. You are in competition with yourself. Period! Let others compete with themselves. Listen to what they have to say and try to learn from their perspectives too.

Winning doesn’t have to be a lonely “I am the only one!” scenario. Wouldn’t it be nice if everybody can be a winner at nobody’s expense except one's own experience? Think about it...

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