Grandma Fight at Katy Perry?! + 69-Ft Sandcastle 😂🏖️ | Sunburnt Ep. 25

**Chip** (00:00:00:00 - 00:00:22:17): She's obviously intoxicated to everybody around her, and she starts yelling at Katie, Katie, sees her and starts like yelling back at her. Now it's like a scene. So like, the whole thing comes to a halt. There were a few chairs, I don't say thrown, but it got rough and we were asked to leave. And that is the last time I will take my grandmother to a Katy Perry concert. I mean, it was just it was really embarrassing. **Thomas** (00:00:24:15 - 00:00:41:05): Well, at least she kept her shirt on this time. We actually started already. Hey, everybody. It's a sunburnt podcast where we talk about comedy and tropical travel. My co-host to the right of me here, Mr. Chip Chantry. You know him from Netflix and his amazing stand up special. Move Closer. **Chip** (00:00:41:10 - 00:00:51:15): And to my left in this beautiful red Hawaiian shirt. Emmy Award winning writer and producer Thomas O'Brien. You know what we should do right off the bat, Thomas, before we forget. **Thomas** (00:00:51:17 - 00:00:55:18): Let's, Let's. It's time to slather it up. We gotta slather. Come in. Everybody put a. **Chip** (00:00:55:18 - 00:01:12:02): Little. Put a little sunblock on. It is it is toasty down in the basement today. It is humid, but I. So I just need that burst of, of sunblock, because I think it will be the first time in a basement that anybody ever does get sunburn. **Thomas** (00:01:12:04 - 00:01:13:08): Man, you. **Chip** (00:01:13:08 - 00:01:14:12): Got some color on you. **Thomas** (00:01:14:13 - 00:01:19:05): I do have a little color. This is, this is fresh from Disneyland. My man. **Chip** (00:01:19:05 - 00:01:19:20): That's beautiful. **Thomas** (00:01:19:21 - 00:01:44:21): Took the baby, took the family, and, you know, I haven't. I haven't been wearing this, Hawaiian shirt life for very long, but full on Hawaiian shirt tan. It's. You know, my wife called me out on the other day. She's like, whatever you're doing now, you have a a deep v tan right here, and some, you know, it's going way below the biceps on, on the arm. So it's a whole new tan line for me. **Chip** (00:01:47:12 - 00:01:49:12): You got an uncle Mike tan right now, buddy. **Thomas** (00:01:49:12 - 00:01:52:03): I do have that. I've got, like, tan. Do you have an uncle Mike? **Chip** (00:01:52:04 - 00:01:55:19): I don't, but that's who I used as a placeholder for most of my uncles. **Thomas** (00:01:55:23 - 00:01:56:08): I mean, I. **Chip** (00:01:56:08 - 00:01:58:20): Think so, so in a way, yes. I have an uncle Mike. **Thomas** (00:01:58:20 - 00:02:05:01): I have an uncle Mike. My baby has an uncle Mike. I think there's a lot of Mike's, going around becoming uncles. **Chip** (00:02:05:01 - 00:02:12:16): I think they are. That's that's what Mike's primary jobs are. I, by the way, I've realized this like I'm not a father. I'm not going to be a father that I know of. **Thomas** (00:02:12:16 - 00:02:14:16): To be clear, you have children, you know? **Chip** (00:02:14:16 - 00:02:37:19): Yes. But I'm. I'm not a father. I will say that much. No, I have three. There's not a, gender specific to, say, nieces and nephews, nephew. Nephi. You know, I have three. I have two nephews and a niece. And I feel like I'm just as engaged as an uncle as most fathers were back when we were kids. So in a way, I'm like a I'm an 80s dad. I'm an uncle to three. But in most cases, if this was 1982, I'm a father of three right now. I, I check in with them every week or so. I usually don't spend the night. I get angry sometimes, and they get a card every Christmas. 00:02:59:13 - 00:03:01:04 UNRESOLVED – **Thomas** (00:03:01:06 - 00:03:10:20): Yeah. No, you're you're a classic 80s sitcom, dad. Yeah. Didn't you go to something at a Phillies game or something? One of your, **Chip** (00:03:11:01 - 00:03:29:03): Last summer, my nephew, who is man 17 now? My oldest nephew. Wow. Is an amazing drummer. He's a he's a great musician. And his, like, high school marching band played the national anthem at the Phillies game last year. So we all went big. Family outing both sides of the family. And, got to see him. I'm actually going to go see. He was actually just last night I had a show, but I was going to go see him. He's in this like crazy drum like competitive drumline. There's a movie made about drumline about 20 years ago. And, that I think was probably modeled off of what he's doing now. But like, basically he's in, like, almost a professional level marching band right now where they like, travel the country. He's playing drums and, he's doing his thing, man. **Thomas** (00:03:52:01 - 00:03:52:13): Incredible. **Chip** (00:03:52:13 - 00:03:58:07): As an uncle who is an 80s dad, I am imagining that he's doing well. **Thomas** (00:03:58:08 - 00:04:06:01): It sounds like that fiver that's coming in the birthday card is working its way up to a ten, buddy. I think it might be. **Chip** (00:04:06:03 - 00:04:14:05): Speaking of working our way to attend, we, Should we get this episode off the air, off the ground, off here? I mean, we could just take it off the air. I'm going to be honest with you. **Thomas** (00:04:14:06 - 00:04:15:16): Like, if we just. We could pull the. **Chip** (00:04:15:16 - 00:04:19:02): Plug down from all platforms. We could. Or we could just get it off the ground. **Thomas** (00:04:19:02 - 00:04:42:21): You know what? Instead of pulling the plug, instead of canceling it, why don't we just do the episode? We've got. Yeah. Some really exciting news coming up. Well, first of all, we just saw Naked Gun. We single handedly saves the comedy box office. We'll talk about that real quick. We got some new TSA rules for all of us travelers out there. We love scooting around the country, and we get to do it a little differently now. We got, some buffet facts. We've got, we're we're going to revisit the Good Book, chap. The good book. **Chip** (00:04:54:19 - 00:05:02:01): That should be this the good book. I think I might make it a personal thing to put this book in every hotel room. **Thomas** (00:05:02:03 - 00:05:02:14): I travel on. **Chip** (00:05:02:14 - 00:05:06:07): So just in the nightstand, it'll be the Bible, the Book of Mormon. **Thomas** (00:05:06:09 - 00:05:07:15): And the Guinness Book of World. **Chip** (00:05:07:15 - 00:05:08:17): Records, Guinness Book of World. **Thomas** (00:05:08:17 - 00:05:20:06): Records 2025 edition. You know what? We could really get salacious because I think the the Guinness Book we read growing up, I think of it as the Old Testament. **Chip** (00:05:20:07 - 00:05:21:06): It 100%. **Thomas** (00:05:21:06 - 00:05:25:21): It is a lot, more brutal, I guess you would. **Chip** (00:05:25:21 - 00:05:49:23): Say it's more vicious. Yeah. It's more I feel like the new Guinness Book that they have is much more kid friendly. Yeah. It's uplifting. Yeah. It's fun. This was just. Here are some human freaks. Yeah. In this, in this thick paperback book that should not really see the light of day. That always smells a little bit moldy. It should scare you. **Thomas** (00:05:49:23 - 00:05:51:01): Yeah. **Chip** (00:05:51:03 - 00:06:11:04): And it's the the new Guinness Book of World Records is so much more inviting. Yeah. And I, I don't want to I don't take anything away from the good people of Guinness. But there is something about the old one that just makes it seem so much more of like a leather bound book of spells that Bruce Campbell should find in a cabin in the woods. **Thomas** (00:06:11:09 - 00:06:19:15): I don't even know who the current heaviest, heaviest motorcycle riding twins are in the world right now. No, nor do I. **Chip** (00:06:19:20 - 00:06:22:14): And that book should, should be telling us that. **Thomas** (00:06:22:14 - 00:06:47:20): Yeah. So I, I do think that's important. So we need to figure out the perfect gear to leave behind. And I think we can also get a discount, getting these second hand Guinness books compared to the the new hardback editions. Not a cheap book. But we spread that out. And then I also think is, you know, part of part of our ritual, part of our discipline, we should be memorizing. We should be memorizing out of the out of the new one. **Chip** (00:06:51:00 - 00:06:59:15): Yeah. Like, heaviest woman. Verse three. Yeah. You know, chapter three, verses one through four. **Thomas** (00:06:59:15 - 00:07:05:21): Yeah. Height difference between the tallest woman in the world, shortest woman in the world. Verses one through five. **Chip** (00:07:05:23 - 00:07:09:01): And we hold up those signs at baseball games. **Thomas** (00:07:09:01 - 00:07:14:13): Guinness, seven foot 11. Have you tried to explain to people what this podcast is before Chip? Yes. **Chip** (00:07:14:13 - 00:07:18:15): And I think I should be in the book of World Records for for doing it. **Thomas** (00:07:18:18 - 00:07:32:14): It gets, it gets it gets, pretty unwieldy pretty quickly. By the time you get to explaining that we're obsessed with the The Guinness Book of World Records, we love tropical travel. We've decided we mostly only wear Hawaiian shirts. **Chip** (00:07:32:18 - 00:07:34:18): For a mostly audio podcast. **Thomas** (00:07:34:20 - 00:07:55:10): Mostly audio podcasts. It it we're we're spiraling into a very fun but very strange world. And every week it's becoming more and more what we hoped it would be. At the beginning, we just didn't know what shape that was going to take, and I love it, buddy, and I'm glad to be doing it with you. Thank you so much for watching and joining along with this insanity. The world out there is a little weird. It always has been. We choose to bury our head in the tropical sand and just have as good a time as we can every day we're on this planet. Well, trying to accomplish some goals at the same time and keep our heads straight. So, yeah, this is the sunburnt podcast where we talk about all things comedy and tropical travel. If that's interesting to you, stay tuned. Front. **Chip** (00:08:22:08 - 00:08:30:04): Desk. Hi, this is Mr. Chantry in room 308. I was wondering if someone could come up to my room and take away the complimentary hotel horse. **Thomas** (00:08:30:04 - 00:08:33:21): Oh, we we don't give complimentary hotel horses. **Chip** (00:08:33:23 - 00:08:40:03): Then how did this, You know what? Never mind. Forget I said anything. Is there a service elevator? **Thomas** (00:08:40:09 - 00:08:45:03): Chip, episode 25 of the sunburnt podcast. Can you believe. **Chip** (00:08:45:03 - 00:08:47:22): It? We're halfway to 50, buddy. If I do the math. Correct. **Thomas** (00:08:47:22 - 00:09:12:06): Yeah, we're halfway to 51 away from a whole year of weekly or halfway from a whole year of weekly episodes. And, yeah, the the the shorts, the reels, all those things have really started to pop off a little bit. I think we're finding a really nice groove, and figuring out what it means to be a tropical comedy podcast. **Chip** (00:09:12:06 - 00:09:26:01): Yeah. And for the new listeners, thanks for, thanks for sticking around. Thanks for finding us. I know some people found us through those reels, and, we I think we've established, like, it's like, again, this podcast is not on, like, a deserted island. **Thomas** (00:09:26:02 - 00:09:26:15): Yes. **Chip** (00:09:26:15 - 00:09:41:15): We came. There wasn't much here. We took some coconuts. We took some bamboo. Yeah, we made some hammocks. And now us and the professor are, We're making it out, and it's a livable, thriving island. **Thomas** (00:09:41:18 - 00:09:47:11): Thank you for sharing the hammocks we've prepared for you with us. We really do appreciate it. **Chip** (00:09:47:11 - 00:09:48:06): So it. **Thomas** (00:09:48:08 - 00:09:56:19): Okay, we are 111 days away from Chip Chantry. Thanks. Giving in Paradise. **Chip** (00:09:56:19 - 00:10:22:01): I'm getting more and more excited. By the day, by the hour, we're going to Hawaii. That's including you. That's me, Thomas, our families and you, the listener. This Thanksgiving, you're taking a couple days off of work. Two, maybe three days off. Then you get a full week plus in beautiful Waikiki. I'm doing two shows at the Blue Note Jazz Club in Waikiki the night before Thanksgiving. And, we're just going to blow it out in a way we're going to have. I'm just very excited to see, like, when I see the list of people who are who are joining us, it's like, it's just like a nice, fun group of people who are. And again, it's not like we're going to be together 24 hours a day, but it's just like, we're going to be on the island together. We're going to do a couple things together, come see the show and then just go off, enjoy the sand, enjoy the sun. And, then I'm just I'm so excited. I got I have to say, I was keeping it tight to the vest, the chest, the vest. It's one of the s. **Thomas** (00:10:51:19 - 00:10:53:17): It depends on what you're wearing. **Chip** (00:10:53:19 - 00:11:13:15): I believe it's a poker term, but, my new hour. I'm really getting excited about. You know, we did a special came out. By the way, we're coming up on a year when it was from when it was released. I know I miss Thomas O'Brien, brilliant editor, producer. He, produced the, My Special Move Closer, now available on YouTube. And, you know, getting that new hour together is it's a little daunting because it's like you have I've had this hour and I had the hour for a little bit longer because it was sort of during the pandemic to where everything slowed down a bit. So I just had this really. I thought I was very proud of that hour. And then to start with basically nothing again, and you're like, oh man. And like coming back on. And then it's like, all right, Hawaii is coming up next November. Yeah, I got to have something good for that because like, man, time is ticking. And the last couple of weeks and months it's really starting to gel. And I'm, I'm really excited about this new hour. So if you come out to see, my show at the Blue Note Jazz Club night before Thanksgiving, I, I'm proud to roll this out, to five people. And if, by the way, if it goes terribly, we're still in Hawaii. **Thomas** (00:12:00:05 - 00:12:01:10): That's like, why not? **Chip** (00:12:01:10 - 00:12:10:03): Like, if you're going to have a show go terribly. If you decide to go to a terrible comedy show, why not go to a terrible comedy show in the most beautiful place on earth? **Thomas** (00:12:10:03 - 00:12:29:19): I really can't believe we're just going to lie with a bunch of friends. Hopefully a bunch of burnt ones. A bunch of people who found it through the podcast that decided, you know, to do something fun with their Thanksgiving. But yeah, without the show, I don't know, literally don't know how we would get the people we have going to Hawaii, to Hawaii with us. I don't know how we would get to Hawaii. Like, we'd really have to plan that out, get everybody's schedules aligned, like figure out a reason to do it. And like, this is it. This is the opportunity. It's just something we were able to say, yes to and offer it up to friends, family, loved ones, hopefully new connections to come out with us. It's just like, you know, that's part of that's part of like making something available and making something actually happen is putting a date and the time on it. And we did it. The shows November 26th. Waikiki Blue Note Jazz club. **Chip** (00:13:06:12 - 00:13:17:16): Get your plane tickets now. Book a hotel. I'm not saying you telling you to come out just for me. That would be hubris, but it's just come out to Hawaii and just hang out with us and then come see a show. **Thomas** (00:13:17:17 - 00:13:38:23): Yeah. No, it's going to be unbelievable. We'll do some beach hangers. And depending on how many people sign up, like, just message us, talk to us. If there's enough command, we'll get, you know, sunburnt boat trip going. We can go to Kualoa ranch, where they shoot Jurassic Park. It's like a really cool thing. Like, there's a lot of stuff we can do if we have numbers. If you're interested in doing more than just the show, let us know. And then also, yes, I do want to give everybody, a couple of warnings about some things we've seen, some confusion that's come my way from people trying to buy tickets, get tickets either through our website, sunburnt podcast.com, or the Blue Note Hawaii website. If you Google it. Trees, Thanksgiving, Paradise. There are already like 20 sites that are reselling the tickets and they are very, very expensive and I don't even know how legit all those sites are. **Chip** (00:14:13:20 - 00:14:25:20): Of course, anything I feel like you could just have, like your child's dance recital, put it up and there's going to be 20,000 new sites that are going to try to sell tickets to your child's dance recital. **Thomas** (00:14:25:20 - 00:14:33:08): I mean, I don't know about that. I think Chip Chandler is a pretty big name. It is. And also like, you know what's even slightly more famous than you? **Chip** (00:14:33:09 - 00:14:34:01): What's that? Hawaii. **Thomas** (00:14:34:02 - 00:14:56:14): The idea of Paradise and the holiday of Thanksgiving. Yeah, I think there's there's a real trifecta, a trinity of things coming together, to really get these ticket resellers and these other web or websites and the stub hubs of the world. Excited to put your tickets up there. But that also does bring up a point. There is limited tickets. We don't have a million tickets. Resellers have snatched up, some of them. So get yours now. Get yours early. So you can, you know, make sure you're there and not have to, get gouged by some resellers. **Chip** (00:15:11:04 - 00:15:37:11): And just to put a button on that. Yeah. Get your ticket either from somewhere podcast.com or, the Blue Note jazz jazz club do not purchase tickets from a man in a trenchcoat where he opens up the trench coat, and on the inside of it, he just has watches and tickets to my show. So if if that guy approaches you on a street, opens up his trench coat, watches and tickets to my show, yeah, don't purchase those. **Thomas** (00:15:37:11 - 00:15:57:15): Especially in Hawaii. That's not a trench coat environment. Now it's too warm. Something weird's going on there. Those tickets are going to be soggy. Those watches are going to be foggy. You know how when there's a little perspiration, you got a bunch of watches in your jacket? How the, the front of it, the case, the face of the watch can get a little foggy. Yeah. You don't want that? **Chip** (00:15:58:22 - 00:16:05:03): No, you don't want that. And that's what's going to happen if you try to buy it from, a two big criminal trial. **Thomas** (00:16:05:05 - 00:16:28:10): No, but seriously, I've got a couple. It just actually, yesterday I got a call, from a friend of a friend, and they were just like, hey, I tried to buy these tickets here. They were super expensive. And then it didn't feel too legit, and it certainly was much more expensive than the tickets actually are. And it was from a website I'd never even heard of before, so I don't know how legit that would have been in the first place. So we've got it. We've made it simple for you. Summer podcast.com or the Blue Note hawaii.com. I think that's what it is somewhere around there. And then just, navigate to November 26th. You'll see your boy, Chip Chantry, right there. **Chip** (00:16:42:16 - 00:16:49:16): Exactly. And by the way, I just want to hit it quickly, too. Speaking of going on outings with this, thank you to everybody who came out to see The Naked Gun across the nation. **Thomas** (00:16:49:16 - 00:16:50:14): Oh my God. **Chip** (00:16:50:14 - 00:16:56:01): Across Sunburnt Nation, all the burnt ones were out there. We had a great time. And, **Thomas** (00:16:56:03 - 00:17:02:13): Yeah, it was it was a blast. It was fun. Like across the board. We did, like a slightly earlier showing than prime time. **Chip** (00:17:02:13 - 00:17:03:11): That's the way to do it. **Thomas** (00:17:03:11 - 00:17:20:12): It's the way to do it. But like just watching those showings across the, because you can go on the website, like just click on the different theaters and see the different, you know, as long as it's, AMC or something like that where you do pick out your tickets, you can just see the seats getting out. And, I think we made a difference and had so much fun, dude. **Chip** (00:17:24:16 - 00:17:26:06): Yeah, yeah, there was a blast. **Thomas** (00:17:26:06 - 00:17:56:17): It was an absolute blast. So thanks for doing that. And also together to like, the together screenings were popping off as well on a Sunday. On a Sunday like those, those theaters would not have been filled. And if you looked at the couple of adjacent theaters, they weren't there. Yeah. The burnt ones came out. And I hope if you saw somebody wearing a Hawaiian shirt, you and ask them if they are one, they responded with, I am one, I'm one. And you guys had that connection. **Chip** (00:17:58:14 - 00:18:24:13): Okay, okay. Moving on to. Yes, Hawaiian shirts. Let's talk about this a little bit. Yeah I fully embraced it. Love them. Yeah. And I'm just it's again it part of it is when you think about something you see it everywhere. But in Philadelphia this summer, I'm just seeing Hawaiians everywhere. Just the aloha shirts. Yeah. I ran into my buddy Casey, who, who's part of, one of the local radio stations in Philadelphia. Great guy. And, Ben, he I saw him at the club the other night. He was there and sporting Hawaiian, and he's just like, yeah, it's just. Oh. And, he he's also a fish head, as am I or, you know, I, I was, but I went to the fish show a couple weeks ago, wore my Hawaiian to that. And he's like, oh yeah, I wore my Hawaiian to the fish show because there is such an overlap. We were actually talking goose to Wow because he's a goose fan, and it's, the people are out there, our guys are out there. It is a movement. You and I were talking about it earlier about how we might, for the first time ever, be on the cutting edge. 00:19:00:03 - 00:19:00:15 UNRESOLVED – Of a. Not only a fashion but a cultural movement of people were just sort of fed up, a little stressed out, just need to just have that vacation frame. Right? Man, I just, I put on one of these wines, and it's just, I just my blood pressure just drops about ten points just by by putting it on, buttered it up. Yeah. Hot all the way. **Thomas** (00:19:22:22 - 00:19:30:09): Of course, I don't know. What are we trying to do? Get a real job? God, I think people just need a little escape right now. **Chip** (00:19:30:10 - 00:19:48:21): Yeah, I think so. And I think Hawaii. And I could be wrong with this, but, like, I feel like Hawaiian shirts are at least like loud shirts, were popular in the 80s. Yeah. And, you know, it was the it started with like, do you remember jams? They were like, basically like the Hawaiian shorts. They were like shorts with, like, the big patterns on them. **Thomas** (00:19:48:21 - 00:19:50:20): No, I don't remember jams. **Chip** (00:19:50:22 - 00:20:12:22): I'm a little bit older than you have that. And and then there was like painter's pants. Everything was neon or whatever. And I think it was just the, the climate. We, we came out of the 70s, the whole nation's in hangover. And then things got really pretty, like just tight. Everybody was nervous. Everybody just. And then I think there was just people like, we just need to. We just need to chill out and have some fun. Yeah. And, let's just, I'm sure there was a little nose candy going around in the 1980s. I've. I've read stories. **Thomas** (00:20:20:01 - 00:20:21:07): Oh, yeah. **Chip** (00:20:21:09 - 00:20:34:06): But people just needed to chill and part, and they were like, you know what? We gotta start wearing these whites. And I think we're back in that 80s, timeline. We're back in Stranger Things, buddy, and we're wearing those whites. **Thomas** (00:20:34:09 - 00:20:34:16): Yeah. **Chip** (00:20:34:22 - 00:20:47:12): As does, Chief Jim Hopper, who's trying to be Magnum P.I. in Stranger Things. He and his wife. And if you want to be anybody, why not be Chief Jim Hopper from Stranger Things? 00:20:47:14 - 00:20:48:20 UNRESOLVED – Yeah. **Thomas** (00:20:48:22 - 00:21:12:09): I think that's what we all aspire to, being the chief, but. No, it's like every second that I'm focused on a colorful pattern, a beautiful shirt, worrying if everybody's going to think I'm an idiot or a fool for what I'm wearing. Is another minute. I'm not thinking about how I is taking all the jobs. I am just terrified of this. I trip. **Chip** (00:21:14:22 - 00:21:20:01): Yeah, I can't I can't wear a Hawaiian. They can't do it. You know, it's just. **Thomas** (00:21:20:01 - 00:21:37:07): It can't wear a Hawaiian. But you know what? It can make a delightful Hawaiian print it can it really can. Do you can you can ask for a Hawaiian shirt print of anything. You can ask it to be tiled. So it kind of matches together the way a fabric would. And, yeah, I don't know, man. It's all terrifying to me. **Chip** (00:21:37:08 - 00:21:55:16): Here's another thing, too. I, I've learned this. I, I've heard this. Yeah. Philosophy or this, this mindset thing of like, I'm going to get it wrong. Exactly. But it's like when you're in a room, when you're with a group of people, when you're out in the world at large. Yeah, you can either be a thermometer or a thermostat. **Thomas** (00:21:55:21 - 00:21:56:14): Okay. Right. **Chip** (00:21:56:14 - 00:22:00:08): So like you walk into a room, you see a bar. **Thomas** (00:22:00:10 - 00:22:01:08): Yeah. **Chip** (00:22:01:10 - 00:22:18:03): And you, if you're a thermometer, you sort of react to what's going on, the vibe and you're like, oh, it's kind of angry. So I'm a little maybe my shoulders up. Yeah. Hey, you know, people are a little wild. So it's like, well and you react to that. And I could be react like I can be reactive sometimes. Yeah. But they're like, no, don't be the thermometer to be the thermostat. You walk in the room, you're the one who sets the temperature and I'm going to be honest, I for the first, I really feel like ever since I started wearing these couple months ago, I walk into a room, I'm setting the temperature a little bit, and you know that temperature is Tommy. 82 and. **Thomas** (00:22:41:03 - 00:22:59:17): So yeah, it's 82 and sunny, a light breeze. You can hear the ocean going, dude, I just can't wait to be in Hawaii with you, buddy. That's going to be so fun. It's going to be so fun just floating around. The amount of time I spent watching, Webcams of Hawaii is literally insane. **Chip** (00:22:59:17 - 00:23:15:14): It's still my favorite thing that not realizing that when we work together, when you were running the show, that you would just really get intense. I thought you were in maybe, like a zoom meeting or just really crunching numbers every morning at 10 a.m.. Yeah. And from like, 10 to 10. 15. **Thomas** (00:23:15:14 - 00:23:16:10): That's exactly when. **Chip** (00:23:16:10 - 00:23:31:02): It was 10 to 1015. You would you would come in, we'd say our hellos, we'd get our stuff, you know, situated for the day and then you would just stare at the live feed from Hawaii of the beach, and you just you got that mindset man. **Thomas** (00:23:31:04 - 00:23:51:17): Yeah. Yeah. Kind of watch the sunrise over there. Yeah. It just it just helped me out to like after, after that first taste I had of it, I just kind of knew I needed more of it in my life and need to figure out how to make that happen. I do it through sense, I do it through visuals, and I do it through planning the next trip. So here we are, 111 days out. I have so much opportunity to think about Hawaii, to talk about Hawaii, this whole podcast. It's been real, real fun. **Chip** (00:24:04:03 - 00:24:22:08): So come with us. And then you not only get to spend the week with us, but the next hundred days plus, getting in that that's my favorite part is just the build up, the anticipation. Yeah. That's it. Yeah. Okay. Going back to your, the live feed, you zone out and I think that's that you would get that energy for the day. Yeah. Are you have you ever been. Are you a meditation guy? **Thomas** (00:24:25:23 - 00:24:29:16): Yeah. Yep. I, TM trademark. **Chip** (00:24:29:16 - 00:24:31:22): That's, that is meditation. You've trademarked. **Thomas** (00:24:31:22 - 00:24:48:15): I've trademarked meditation. So I've made millions of dollars off. Yeah, yeah. No, but, Yeah, I've. I've, not currently practicing. I don't have, the time in the day at the moment with, the baby, this, all the other work stuff I got. **Chip** (00:24:48:18 - 00:24:52:10): Some would say if you do meditate, you would have the time. **Thomas** (00:24:52:16 - 00:24:53:00): I mean. **Chip** (00:24:53:00 - 00:24:53:23): You see, I just turned that on you. **Thomas** (00:24:53:23 - 00:24:58:02): Yes. Some would say that they're wrong. I mean, I they're wrong. Yeah. **Chip** (00:24:58:04 - 00:25:00:18): They're wrong, but it sounds good. It sounds good, Thomas, doesn't it. **Thomas** (00:25:00:18 - 00:25:02:06): It does. It does sound, **Chip** (00:25:02:08 - 00:25:15:22): Okay. Like, just say like another thing. Like either, like taking out the garbage or like, just like a task you have to do, or just something very just random. Something that you have to do, but you don't have time to do. Maybe like a project around the. **Thomas** (00:25:15:22 - 00:25:24:04): House, fight the spiders. It's spider season. Okay, I have a specific broom for just whacking these gigantic, spiders around my house. **Chip** (00:25:24:06 - 00:25:25:11): But you just don't have the time for it. **Thomas** (00:25:25:11 - 00:25:34:08): I don't have the time for the outside. The inside takes precedent. No spiders allowed in the inside but the outside. They they get pretty vicious. **Chip** (00:25:34:08 - 00:25:49:00): But some would say that if you did whack those spiders outside, you would have the time. You see what I just did right there? You can. You could do that with any argument. And it's just like, it doesn't matter. Like I just I can turn it on anything. You, you don't have time to paint the house. Just tell me that. It's like, oh, I heard you want to paint your house, but. **Thomas** (00:25:51:11 - 00:25:55:08): You know, I, I don't I don't have the time to paint my house. Yep. **Chip** (00:25:55:10 - 00:26:02:15): Yeah, but if you painted the house, maybe you would have the time. Do you see what I'm like? You could just. I can turn that argument on. **Thomas** (00:26:02:17 - 00:26:03:20): Yeah. **Chip** (00:26:03:22 - 00:26:23:11): It works with meditation, but I think it just anything, and it's just it's very pedantic and it's very, annoying, but. Are you okay? Are you good? I see I'm not an argument. I'm not good at arguing it. I'm good at debating. In the moment I can think about things, but I'm not good at winning arguments and just. I feel like, obviously, it's the way of the world, but it's like it's not people who are right. It's people who can win arguments. Yeah, are the ones that have the upper hand, which just really annoys me. **Thomas** (00:26:32:23 - 00:26:40:11): Yeah, no, that's definitely true. It really annoys everybody. I'm incredibly good at winning arguments. If I want to be. **Chip** (00:26:40:15 - 00:26:58:06): You are. You are very good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I just don't. I don't have the, I think it's the killer instinct. I want to get to the truth of something, not to like. I just like there are some people who are just really good at having those rebuttals. And those, those. Well thought. I'm just in the moment. I'm not. Okay, well, you were an improv guy. I think that I think improv has something to do with it. You can think on your feet. I'm a stand up guy. Yeah, where I can. I can think of my feet a little bit, but, like, I'm a I'm a planner. I am a, homework guy. Yeah. I like to prep and, and then when I'm in the moment, somebody is like. **Thomas** (00:27:15:05 - 00:27:18:15): You should be allowed to, **Chip** (00:27:18:17 - 00:27:36:05): Get, you know, just, shoot puppies out of a t shirt can and whenever you want. And you're like, well. And it's like, it's for me to argue against that. I know it's wrong. Yeah, but to get those words together and argue against it, sometimes I don't. But here's the thing. When you're wearing Hawaiian, not too many people want a debate. You know, they get out of that debate, frame of mind. **Thomas** (00:27:38:10 - 00:27:58:09): They're not even trying. And yeah, it's, it's something I've had to work on. There's two things I've had to work on to be a functional human being with real grown up friends and relationships. And one is the the incessant need to win an argument. I had to turn it on. I cannot. Yeah, I know whether I'm right or wrong. I can win most arguments, and I had to turn that off because nobody wants to be around that guy. That's not a fun guy to be around to, to lose an argument when you're wrong or when you're right, that's like, that's not a good feeling. So like, I had to turn that off, especially with my wife. It's like she, I don't know. I've just grown to the point where I can be like, okay, I'm just arguing with technique or skill or whatever it is. We gotta shut that baddy down. **Chip** (00:28:26:07 - 00:28:40:17): See, I'm the opposite of that. Like, I will just. I can have somebody talking to me and saying the most batshit stuff to me and or just saying, all right. I'm like, okay. Oh, yeah, okay, I see what you do and like, oh, sure. And like, I'll just pacify that person and walk away and be like. **Thomas** (00:28:40:18 - 00:28:41:22): Oh, that ass. **Chip** (00:28:42:00 - 00:29:01:08): Yeah. I mean, like, it's just I and I and I will, I will rip that person to shreds to everyone else I know, but not to their face. Yeah, but I will I will let everyone else know how wrong that person was. But actually, in a confrontation, I'm like, I don't need to argue with you right now. It's not what I want to do. But I'll let everybody know that you're an awful human being, which is, I think, sowing the seeds of hatred among everybody else in the community much more effective. **Thomas** (00:29:10:16 - 00:29:12:02): It is a toxic trait, chat. **Chip** (00:29:12:07 - 00:29:13:15): Toxic and effective. **Thomas** (00:29:13:15 - 00:29:21:00): Yeah. Nothing's more effective than poison. Oh, the other thing I had to do to have, real world, grown up relationships. **Chip** (00:29:21:00 - 00:29:23:19): You had to kick the horse. I know you had to kick the horse. **Thomas** (00:29:23:21 - 00:29:44:09): I had to kick the horse out of the hotel room as we found out earlier in the episode. It just just turn off. Just turn off the comedy stuff, like, I, one of the ways that my brain works, it's very funny. And you too, you have this as well, is to be very, very mean. Yeah. And like, there's certain people you can do it with your comedian friends sometimes, but even comedian friends have their limits. And I, you know, I just have to turn that part of my brain off. It's like, this isn't great. This isn't going to strengthen the relationship. I had that very funny idea. I think it would hurt that person's feelings a lot. That's what makes it so funny to me personally. And that's a bad person to bear. So we shut that down, shut down the need to be right. And now I have three, four friends and a. **Chip** (00:30:10:16 - 00:30:24:08): Wife I think I'm known as. And I hope I'm not wrong about this, but I think I'm known as around Philadelphia and or at the comedy community at large as like, oh, he's a really nice guy, just like such a nice guy. And I try to be really nice people, especially people are like outsiders, maybe new comics or whatever. I try to be welcoming and nice and give them time of day, whatever. And just like, you know, be be pleasant to the staff at comedy clubs or wherever I sit, nice guy. And then sometimes when people I've had this conversation where people are like, oh, like a close friend of mine, I'd be like, oh my God, Chip gentry! He's like the nicest, sweetest guy in the world. And he's like, no, he's not. He's an awful human being. If you really get to know him, he's a terrible. 00:30:48:08 - 00:30:48:12 UNRESOLVED – Yeah. And they're both correct. 00:30:51:02 - 00:30:52:10 UNRESOLVED – They're both. **Thomas** (00:30:52:12 - 00:30:56:19): We contain multitudes, Chip. We we we really do. **Chip** (00:30:56:19 - 00:31:19:01): I, I try to be very nice. I try to do that. But, you know, there have been moments where. Yeah, I've had to, let's just say there have been moments where I've had to, replace the drywall in comedy clubs because things got a little heated. And, but I think I've also moved past that phase of my life as well. **Thomas** (00:31:19:01 - 00:31:23:18): It's all about moving past those phases. If you realize something that's not working for it, you change it. **Chip** (00:31:23:18 - 00:31:37:07): And you know what I've done recently? I've changed my shirt. Yeah, into into wines. And by the way, it is also a thing too I'm trying to get to. And again, I want this I want the listeners to do that. If you're out there wearing Hawaiian, you see somebody wearing Hawaiian shirt like be like, hey man, nice shirt. And it is a thing of like two guys that don't know each other to be like, hey, man, I really like your blouse. You know, like it is. There is a there is a vibe there that I don't want to like, but like, and you know, it's but it's like I've gotten past that where I just want to be like, hey, man, that's a great shirt. Yeah. Like and like and it's a vibe. And usually those people are like, yeah, it is. It's kind of like, it's kind of like my new concert t shirt. **Thomas** (00:31:59:18 - 00:32:00:19): Yeah. **Chip** (00:32:00:21 - 00:32:14:12): Like if I see it because I'm. I still wear a lot of concert t shirts. I have t shirts for my favorite bands. I was known for that for so long. They're like, Chip, you're a middle aged man and you're still wearing your Pixies t shirt, like, you know, stop it. But like, that's what I wore on time. And I kind of because it was sort of my identity. And then I would see somebody wearing, I'm like, oh, you're wearing a built to spill t shirt. They're one of my favorite bands. Let's talk about it. Oh, you got to hold steady hat on. Let's talk about. And then there's that relationship, which I still kind of do. But at the same time now I have that with, Hawaiian shirts. I'm like, so you got dude, great shirt and like, and especially Philly because, you know, there's an edge to it. Yeah. Sometimes we were like, oh yeah. Like they just they, they come into that beach vibe. **Thomas** (00:32:44:20 - 00:32:58:08): Yeah. No, I, I can see that in Philly. What I always said about it after visiting you was like, it, it is a whole city of people saying generally pretty nice things in a very aggressive way. **Chip** (00:32:58:10 - 00:33:06:23): And that's 100% what it is. We we look out for each other, we look out for people. It's Philly is filled with some of the nicest people in the world. **Thomas** (00:33:07:01 - 00:33:13:04): But if you just went on tone alone, you might not pick that up. Oh, I don't know. **Chip** (00:33:13:07 - 00:33:41:08): Oh we're angry. Well, it's like I still tell the story. I still remember one time I was at a Phillies game a couple years ago, and it was in the autumn. It was a little cooler and a guy was leaving for it like it was like eighth inning. It was sort of a runaway game. People were starting to head out and a guy left and it was him and his girlfriend, and he was leaving, and some guy that was sitting right by him that he did not know was like, yo, idiot. **Thomas** (00:33:41:10 - 00:33:44:06): You left your sweatshirt. **Chip** (00:33:44:08 - 00:33:56:23): And the guy instead of get he was like, oh, thank you, man. Like it was just like, yeah. And the guy was just so annoyed that this guy would be irresponsible enough to leave his sweatshirt. He could have stolen the sweatshirt. Yeah, you could have just let the sweatshirt sit there. He could have let that poor man go. That guy would have never seen the sweatshirt again. But he's like, yo. **Thomas** (00:33:59:13 - 00:34:00:10): Jackass, you. **Chip** (00:34:00:10 - 00:34:15:12): Sweatshirt. And it's like he's looking out for him. But we are everybody's big brother. Yeah, everybody's that big brother in Philadelphia where we're always on each other. But we'll also defend each other. We'll make sure you don't leave the baseball game without your sweatshirt. **Thomas** (00:34:15:14 - 00:34:18:14): It's good. And that way mommy won't be mad at you. **Chip** (00:34:18:16 - 00:34:20:10): Mommy won't be angry. **Thomas** (00:34:20:12 - 00:34:42:23): The other thing I was thinking about in terms of Hawaiian shirts is we have both kind of dialed it back on the bows. In our older age, I kind of feel like when you throw on that Hawaiian, if it's your concert shirt, if it's a go out shirt, that's kind of like starting it. One drink man. Yes. Yeah, man. **Chip** (00:34:44:02 - 00:34:44:22): It does take. **Thomas** (00:34:45:01 - 00:34:48:03): It's that it's it's that first cocktail. **Chip** (00:34:48:05 - 00:34:56:03): It's the new shower beer. Yeah. The the Hawaiian shirts that you put this on and you're like I have just a tiny buzz right now. **Thomas** (00:34:56:03 - 00:35:05:01): Yeah, it's flipped the switch. And then you go out there and you have one other drink. You only had one for the night, but you're operating on a two drink, kind of vibe. You know. **Chip** (00:35:05:03 - 00:35:14:19): There are a few Hawaiian shirts that I have where if I just put that shirt on, I'd be like, I should not get behind the wheel right now. Oh, I haven't had a sip of alcohol. **Thomas** (00:35:14:19 - 00:35:19:22): Yes, but I, I'm a little too funky for the road. **Chip** (00:35:20:00 - 00:35:23:22): A I'm a little. I'm a little too juiced for 76. Right. **Thomas** (00:35:24:00 - 00:35:42:23): I just got an email chip. Your big fun shirts, are at the office. They've landed at the. Very excited. Yeah. I'm going to get them. Get them, sent over to you ASAP. I haven't seen them yet, but I did, I was alerted that the package came. **Chip** (00:35:43:01 - 00:36:00:08): Well, I have seen them, as you know, because we have seen them, online. Yep. Because he posted like I it's. And again, I'm not a clothes guy. I'm not a fashion etc. by any stretch. But it was the first time I ever got to see a shirt that I'm going to wear be constructed. **Thomas** (00:36:00:09 - 00:36:02:23): It's like a pretty exhilarating process. **Chip** (00:36:03:01 - 00:36:07:09): Yeah, I was like, that's the pattern I picked out. Yeah, he is making it as we speak. **Thomas** (00:36:07:09 - 00:36:32:18): I didn't even think about that. I just thought the process sounded fun. I thought it would be cool to to order one. It's a small business. That him and his mom are building Stephan and his mom big fun shirt company, and, yeah, just out of nowhere, like I do. Follow him on social media and in their stories, he's, like, always selling shirts like he has, he really has a passion for sewing, but it just didn't connect to my mind, like, oh, those are actual people shirts. He's showing you how he's making them and the progress he's making on each one. And then when I knew it, I had picked out the fabric and I knew it was like coming up to be my turn. And he was posting pictures, making my shirt, seeing pieces of it. A little bit of a thrill trip, a little bit of a thrill. So, yes. But they're at the office, and I'll get them shipped over to you as, as soon as, I can get somebody to do it. **Chip** (00:36:57:06 - 00:37:01:07): Very excited, very excited. You know, I'm also excited about. **Thomas** (00:37:01:09 - 00:37:03:15): Let me hear it. **Chip** (00:37:03:17 - 00:37:10:16): I'm excited about the fact that. We can travel as a country right now. **Thomas** (00:37:10:18 - 00:37:12:15): Yes. **Chip** (00:37:12:16 - 00:37:17:04): And there is one less hoop that we have to jump through. **Thomas** (00:37:17:06 - 00:37:23:09): One less whoop for some chap. This is a little controversial to me. It's a little upstairs. Downstairs? **Chip** (00:37:23:11 - 00:37:26:08): Yes. Yeah. Do you want explain this, Thomas? **Thomas** (00:37:26:12 - 00:38:04:20): So the TSA, everybody's favorite airport security regime, has decided that you no longer have to take off your shoes and put them through the X-ray machine to, pass through TSA. Now, for TSA PreCheck members who went through a screening process and paid a small fee. We haven't had to do this for a long time. Yeah, but now, by process of everybody getting elevated to the leave your shoes on status, I feel like my status in this world has been lowered. Do you know what I mean? **Chip** (00:38:05:18 - 00:38:10:03): Finish because you are now closer to us peons. **Thomas** (00:38:10:05 - 00:38:18:02): And this is. This is something I don't understand. You don't? You are a traveling stand up comedian that does not have TSA PreCheck. **Chip** (00:38:18:04 - 00:38:34:20): No, I it's it is. It's one of the things that I don't have that I should. I just need to do the paperwork. I need to get it out there. I don't fly as much. Like, I'm a lot of play. I, I'm a driver, so I like to drive. I'll, you know, I could go for 12 hour drive, so it's like I don't fly as probably as often as I. It's probably I. **Thomas** (00:38:36:03 - 00:38:39:14): Should. Do you feel comfortable disclosing why? **Chip** (00:38:39:16 - 00:38:45:13): No reason. It's cheaper. It's, I will say that, like, during the pandemic, I didn't want to fly just because of all that stuff. **Thomas** (00:38:45:18 - 00:38:48:19): You had a major medical emergency on a flight. **Chip** (00:38:48:21 - 00:38:51:14): Oh, well, that too. Well, not on a flight. Oh, but. **Thomas** (00:38:51:20 - 00:38:53:12): But it was surreal. Okay. **Chip** (00:38:53:14 - 00:39:02:08): That was part of it. And this doesn't bother me anymore. Like I was never afraid of flying, but, I like flying. But right before the pandemic, I mean, this is crazy. **Thomas** (00:39:02:08 - 00:39:06:01): Yeah, I know if we talked about this now. Oh, no, you're on stage. You're on stage. I was on. **Chip** (00:39:06:01 - 00:39:24:14): Stage at the Borgata in Atlantic City, beautiful Atlantic City. I was on stage and I suffered a major collapsed lung, a collapsed lung. Thomas on stage did my entire set. It happened at the beginning of my 20 minutes. It did the 20 minutes. It was my best set of the seven nights. Was like the set of the week. Got off stage, and didn't realize it happened. I knew something happened, but when I pulled a muscle, my back, which is awful, didn't actually go to the doctor until the next day, to urgent care. And then they sent me right to the emergency room. Was the most scared ever. Been there? Like, you have a major collapse. I'm like, totally random. I'm perfectly healthy. Yeah. They're just like, it can happen sometimes. I was in the hospital for, like, two days. They fixed it up and sent me on my way. And again, did every test in the world. They're like, yeah, you're perfectly fine. It can just happen sometimes. And, and then the world shut down three days later because of a lung disease. March. Yeah. 20 and, but like, one of the things that I couldn't do was for, like, I think it was like, three months I was not allowed to fly in an airplane, because of the altitude and the air pressure. And there like that can cause, it to recur because I was like, were like, once you have a collapsed lung, especially in the in the months and even few years following, it's more likely to recur, more than like a, an average person. Yeah. And so, like, if you go up in a plane, it could happen. And then it's like, oh, what if I'm up in an airplane? People are still on edge. It's the height of the pandemic. We're not really flying. And then I have to go up on a plane and then all of a sudden I get a collapsed lung, and then they have to, like, divert the flight because I have a collapsed lung. And then I'm in Saint Louis by myself in a hospital. Like it was just like, what. **Thomas** (00:40:48:15 - 00:40:53:12): A worst case scenario, say, Saint Louis with a collapsed lung. Yeah. **Chip** (00:40:53:14 - 00:41:04:15): Can't even see the arch. Yeah. And, so, like, it, like, really messed with me. So I was like, I don't want to do that. And I was kind of nervous about it. And, I came out for your wedding. **Thomas** (00:41:04:15 - 00:41:04:21): Yeah. **Chip** (00:41:04:23 - 00:41:10:05): San Diego. And instead of flying, it was because that happened in 2020. Your was your wedding in 20. **Thomas** (00:41:10:05 - 00:41:13:14): One, 21 and 2110 1021. **Chip** (00:41:13:15 - 00:41:31:15): We, me and my buddy Mark decided my wife couldn't go out and we drove cross-country instead of taking a flight for two reasons I hadn't had Covid yet. I didn't want to get in an airplane and, I was nervous about flying with that collapsed lung. It only been a year, and we drove cross-country. By the way, one of the best decisions of my life. I always want to drive cross-country. If you haven't done it, if you. If you don't mind the sitting in the car, get a comfortable car. But, man, what a fun time. I would have spent more time on the road if I could have to see more sights, but we just all just this nation of ours. I do a lot of driving, but I never drove cross-country. It was great. But anyway, I've been on many a plane since. Everything's good, everything's fine. But I also. This is. This is what A is down to. Sometimes I like having control. Yeah. The situation. I'm not afraid of flying. Flying doesn't bother me at all. The crashing thing. None of that. I that that's never bothered me. **Thomas** (00:42:07:11 - 00:42:11:15): I just hate that that clip is going to show up if a tragedy does happen. **Chip** (00:42:11:15 - 00:42:12:12): You hate it. What? I'm sorry. **Thomas** (00:42:12:13 - 00:42:16:23): That clip of you saying I'm not scared of flying. I'm not scared of crashing. **Chip** (00:42:17:01 - 00:42:18:12): That's thrown back in my. **Thomas** (00:42:18:14 - 00:42:26:02): I know that's the first thing that comes up in the air. And memorandum section a exactly. **Chip** (00:42:26:03 - 00:42:38:14): But yeah, no, I just, I don't like I don't like being nervous that like, the flight is going to be delayed. It's going to be canceled. Yeah. I'm going to miss my connection, especially when you're working. You're like, I'm going to be I'm going to miss my shows. **Thomas** (00:42:38:14 - 00:42:38:23): Yeah. **Chip** (00:42:38:23 - 00:43:01:19): So if I can and then, you know, anymore, it's like you go to the airport, you spend a few hours at the airport going through security, waiting, flying, give it luggage, all that stuff. And so sometimes by the time it's like I could fly to Buffalo or I could drive to Buffalo, have my own car there. Yeah. Leave whenever I choose, you know, and it's just like, I, I just like having that, I'm a, I'm a little bit of a drifter. I'm a, not unlike the fugitive. Michael Landon. From highway to Heaven. I like to roam the highways and byways of this great nation of ours. But I still love flying. And I've done it a bunch recently, and I. It's. It is. It is nice to just be able to, like, hop on a plane of I will say this, I it might not be as easy in Hawaii, but like when I like times when I go somewhere, when I fly somewhere, it's for 48 hours, maybe three days, like it's like a quick turnaround. If I can show up with just a backpack, you can fly with just a. Oh, can I get you got you got the kid now, but like, yeah, yeah. When I can get on a plane with just a backpack, I walk on, I walk off. There's no checking bags. There's no even gate checking. None of that worry about overhead compartments. And it's. You're on that plane. You're off that plane. It's it's the best people fight to be in, like, Group one. **Thomas** (00:43:54:17 - 00:43:54:22): Yeah. **Chip** (00:43:55:00 - 00:44:03:01): To get on the plane early, I'm like, let me be in group eight. I'll just like, stroll onto that plane and then stroll. You know, it's just it's it's a great feeling. **Thomas** (00:44:03:01 - 00:44:09:11): It's a real flex if you can, if you can get away with the backpack, that that's a whole different type of travel. Yeah. **Chip** (00:44:09:13 - 00:44:16:17): Absolutely I did that. I mean it was train travel, but when I went to and fro, New York, when we did our tiki bar. **Thomas** (00:44:16:17 - 00:44:18:14): Crawl, Marcus. **Chip** (00:44:18:16 - 00:44:22:03): Just had that backpack for the weekend. And it's just it's liberating, man. **Thomas** (00:44:22:03 - 00:44:46:01): I rode that same train that you took from Philadelphia to New York, from DC through Philadelphia up to New York a couple of days earlier, and had, three suitcases, travel crib, a, a travel car seat. And stroller. **Chip** (00:44:46:02 - 00:44:48:18): And here's the weird thing. You didn't even have your baby with, you. **Thomas** (00:44:49:00 - 00:45:06:12): Know, this is just diapers for me. No, we had the baby with us, but it's just like that train. I had no idea that it was, like, mostly for business commuters. I figured there would be space to put the luggage. There was no space. No. I kind of had to, like, find little corners all over the train. And then right before we got to New York City, because it kept going after New York City, it wasn't like the final destination. I do sprint up and down that train to all the different like compartments in the different places. You could stash a stroller or whatever and gather it all by one specific door just so I could push it all, push it all out at the right time. **Chip** (00:45:26:07 - 00:45:29:08): It's the most high stakes Easter egg hunt you've ever had to do. **Thomas** (00:45:29:10 - 00:46:01:22): Yeah, because it's all my stuff. And like, we didn't bring anything the baby didn't need for the trip. It was like all stuff I would have had to buy if I couldn't find. So, And also, just like pulling three suitcases that are packed to the brim. Literally the way I got these suitcases once I got the baby was I went on Amazon, and put in the biggest dimensions that commercial airlines let you bring, and checked bags and they are just gigantic, packed to the brim. You have no idea how much, crap, you can even fit in a suitcase until you have to take a baby cross country or to Europe or something like that. It is a wild experience. I'm happy to have it, but holy cow. When we went to Vegas a couple weeks ago to see, Backstreet Boys for my wife's birthday, the baby didn't come with us, dude. And it was just. We were just carry on. And it was, such a a relaxing experience. Air travel used to be a little stressful for me. Now, if I don't have to take care of the baby and got all the baby stuff there, it's like, almost like a vacation. I can sit there. I read a book on the plane. When was the last time I read a book? It's been a long time trip. **Chip** (00:46:45:08 - 00:46:50:23): Encyclopedia Brown, I think, was the last one. Yeah. You really put that, **Thomas** (00:46:51:01 - 00:46:53:18): What was encyclopedias? Brown. What was his thing? **Chip** (00:46:53:18 - 00:47:12:17): He was a smart kid, and he was a detective. And he would solve little crimes around. And you could, like, I think it was a situation where you could, like. It might have been like. Like you could look at the answer in the back or something like that, where it's like, what were the clues that led to, you know, the hit, the missing sneakers? Okay. Hit on the middle school basketball team who stole his sneakers. And then Cyclopedia Brown would find this, you know, and he would solve this amazing case. **Thomas** (00:47:24:13 - 00:47:25:02): Sounds me. **Chip** (00:47:25:02 - 00:47:32:11): Okay. Speaking of saving cases, I so I apologize that you are now with the rest of our. **Thomas** (00:47:32:13 - 00:47:35:10): Oh, yeah, that pions. Yeah. **Chip** (00:47:35:12 - 00:47:49:21): I, I, I'm, to a certain extent excited about not having to remove your shoes for TSA. Yeah. Part of the I first of all, I don't think they should have announced it. I think you should have just shown up, and they're just like, yeah, now it's cool. You don't have to do that anymore. Like, they. 00:47:49:21 - 00:47:50:11 UNRESOLVED – Made a big. Thing where it's like, you don't have to take off your shoes anymore when you're going through airport security. **Thomas** (00:47:55:07 - 00:47:57:07): Week. **Chip** (00:47:57:09 - 00:47:59:04): They're asking people to do something weird. **Thomas** (00:47:59:04 - 00:48:09:14): What an opportunity just to make fun of somebody. Yeah. Hey, Phil, look at this guy. Took the shoot up. Hey. What's up? You know, you're in, polite society. Why don't you put them huffs away? **Chip** (00:48:09:14 - 00:48:11:10): Yeah, yeah. Yeah. What's up? Holy socks. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:48:12:21 - 00:48:13:16): **Chip** (00:48:13:18 - 00:48:16:10): I but I think they do need to replace it with something though. **Thomas** (00:48:16:10 - 00:48:16:19): Okay. **Chip** (00:48:16:23 - 00:48:31:20): They take it that would be okay. Because here is the thing. Look, look, I don't need Big Brother oppressive government or anything like that, but when you were flying, I think people do need before they go up into the stratosphere. They need to be brought down to earth, because there's a lot of entitled people who are flying these days that go on a vacation. That's true. I think they're amazing. And I think TSA is partially there to humble these people. I don't feel like I need to be humbled, like I feel like I go through I'm respectful, I'm ready, I'm focused, I'm ready to go. And you just get these jackasses that are like, you know, you know, I'm going on vacation, whatever. And or they're on business and they just think they own the place. And it's like, no, you do have to jump through some hoops before you get into this metal tube with a bunch of other people. You're not taking your shoes off on the plane. You're not, kicking the seat. You're not doing that. Like, I think there is a level of humility that has to be brought to see. Like, what is it? It's like instead of, like, taking off your shoes, it's like maybe like, hey, you got to give us a little flash. 00:49:14:12 - 00:49:15:15 UNRESOLVED – Just like show. Show us a little something, you know, real quick or, like, while you go through the, metal detector. You got to put this funny hat on, like, there's there's a series of hats that are just very silly and funny that aren't flattering. And for about a minute, you have to wear that hat in public. Or like, let's say you're wearing Crocs. **Thomas** (00:49:35:22 - 00:49:37:18): **Chip** (00:49:37:20 - 00:49:46:00): If you're going through TSA, you have to remove the crocs and throw them out immediately. I think that's what that's what should happen. **Thomas** (00:49:46:00 - 00:49:51:05): Does make sense. In order to go up you first gotta go down. **Chip** (00:49:51:07 - 00:49:52:13): You gotta come down. **Thomas** (00:49:52:15 - 00:50:03:09): I feel the other way. I want my prestige back. I want my privilege back. I think they need to give me a little extra treat now that everybody gets my leave your shoes on trip. **Chip** (00:50:03:09 - 00:50:03:22): You've paid. **Thomas** (00:50:03:22 - 00:50:17:16): For it. Yeah, sure. I think there should be something like fun. Like maybe. Maybe, like, instead of me getting patted down since I need to be out. **Chip** (00:50:17:17 - 00:50:20:06): You get, you get to pat other people I get to. **Thomas** (00:50:20:08 - 00:50:47:08): I get to pat down somebody from TSA if they look interesting, you know, or suspicious, like, I kind of get to play that card. Or maybe I now get to lay on my stomach like a penguin sliding on ice, go through the baggage X-ray, and the technician has to guess what I ate for lunch based off of an internal image. And, if they don't. **Chip** (00:50:50:11 - 00:50:53:17): I believe that's called ordering. I believe. Yes, that is. Yes. **Thomas** (00:50:53:17 - 00:50:57:02): Yeah, yeah. Well, ordering is when you go through on your back. **Chip** (00:50:57:04 - 00:50:59:03): Oh that's right, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. That's right. **Thomas** (00:50:59:03 - 00:51:00:03): And they watch you. **Chip** (00:51:00:08 - 00:51:02:04): Holding hands with, your significant. **Thomas** (00:51:02:04 - 00:51:05:21): Other. Yeah. And they watch you eat, snack off of your tummy. **Chip** (00:51:05:23 - 00:51:08:12): That's what I call my apologies. It's different. **Thomas** (00:51:08:12 - 00:51:10:13): Penguin is stomach. **Chip** (00:51:10:13 - 00:51:11:07): Penguin. **Thomas** (00:51:11:09 - 00:51:25:15): Penguin stomach first, head first, like Pete Rose. And they have to guess what you've already eaten. Ordering. You're on your back, you're next to your significant other, and they get to guess based off of the X-ray of the food that's actually going into your mouth. **Chip** (00:51:25:17 - 00:51:36:04): And speaking of Pete Rose, I believe as a TSA pre-check, you get to choose your legal name that's on your ID card and you have chosen Charlie Hustle. **Thomas** (00:51:36:07 - 00:51:47:12): I believe Charlie Hustle, consummate winner of Mr. Hustle awards through all of my sports years, where they give it to the person who tries the hardest and did the worst. **Chip** (00:51:47:14 - 00:51:52:15): Oh, you're talking to me. That was, that was my entire college tennis career. I was, I was Charlie Hustle. **Thomas** (00:51:52:15 - 00:52:08:22): I love that you, you one up. My story about maybe not being the world's best athlete with a story about how and your college level sports team, you weren't the standout of standouts. **Chip** (00:52:09:00 - 00:52:18:11): D3 at a very small school. And where most guys did bong hits before practice. Not. Not a brag. No. **Thomas** (00:52:18:13 - 00:52:26:14): Boy, to be to be 21 again and just hitting hitting some balls with the boys after ripping some box. **Chip** (00:52:26:17 - 00:52:54:16): Come on. And I you. By the way, I used to get annoyed at like, oh, I got to go to tennis practice. Do you know what kind of life I was living? Where I was 21, 20 years old? 19? Yeah, at a beautiful college, just surrounded by everyone my age, having the best time, a beautiful May afternoon, being like, I gotta stop all this and go to the tennis courts and play tennis. Man, what a what a rough life I live. **Thomas** (00:52:59:04 - 00:53:01:11): It's wasted on the young. **Chip** (00:53:01:13 - 00:53:06:19): It is. It is wasted on. Yeah. Last thing about the, removing your shoes. **Thomas** (00:53:06:19 - 00:53:08:19): Yep. **Chip** (00:53:08:21 - 00:53:15:07): I don't get too personal, but, are you a shoes off household? **Thomas** (00:53:15:09 - 00:53:32:05): Oh, I was never a shoes off household, so we had the baby, and we're not like, we're not a shoes off the whole household. But there are certain areas where the baby crawls around where it just. It just doesn't make sense to have the LA streets I brought in. Okay. Brought into the home. **Chip** (00:53:32:07 - 00:53:56:04): Yeah. Yeah. Because I was never a shoes off household. I have a feeling my wife and I haven't had this difficult conversation yet, but I feel like she has been moving towards being a shoes off house. But she hasn't brought it up to me. Yeah, she hasn't in in the not so distant future, when we've a little bit of money, when we make all this money for, cheap charity Thanksgiving in Paradise. **Thomas** (00:53:56:05 - 00:53:56:17): Oh my God. **Chip** (00:53:56:23 - 00:54:02:04): The summer podcast, when that gravy train comes rolling in, I think we will be getting new carpets. **Thomas** (00:54:02:05 - 00:54:02:16): Oh, okay. **Chip** (00:54:02:16 - 00:54:11:20): Maybe at some point. Yeah, the carpets are getting older. And her house, they're going to have to be replaced at some point. And I think I wonder if she's going to broach that subject with me. **Thomas** (00:54:11:20 - 00:54:18:22): That feels like a real grown up move. It's a real, move from Japan. Isn't that a Japanese household? **Chip** (00:54:19:00 - 00:54:20:00): It is. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:54:20:02 - 00:54:26:11): And I do think it's important when you hit a certain age that your carpet does match your drapes. **Chip** (00:54:26:13 - 00:54:29:13): You know, I think it's very important, Thomas. I think it's very important. **Thomas** (00:54:29:13 - 00:54:30:17): Yeah. So, I mean, and. **Chip** (00:54:30:17 - 00:54:32:15): I don't I don't walk on my drapes, that's all. **Thomas** (00:54:32:15 - 00:54:50:07): So these are all good things. And I think, you know, it's almost buying a ticket to chips and trees. Thanksgiving Paradise. Knowing some of it might help drape carpet alignment and chips and trees life. It's almost charity. It's all really. It's a donation you can't write. **Chip** (00:54:50:08 - 00:54:52:10): I'm not saying you can write it off on your tax. **Thomas** (00:54:52:10 - 00:54:58:17): Yes, but it's a good weekend. It's a good deed. Yeah. It is. Yeah. So come on out. **Chip** (00:54:58:19 - 00:55:09:05): Yeah. Speaking of. Come on and I, I think it's time to come on out with some new world records from The Good Book. **Thomas** (00:55:09:07 - 00:55:09:22): Let's get into. **Chip** (00:55:09:22 - 00:55:13:01): The from the Scripture of the people of Guinness. **Thomas** (00:55:13:03 - 00:55:33:06): It fires me. I don't know why. I don't know why, but like, every time I crack that book, it gives me a little bit of a smile. Yeah, I think it's. I think it's so absurd that we do weekly check ins on just world records we think are interesting, but I love it. Yeah, I would choose to do nothing else because we can do whatever we want. On this specific podcast, nobody can tell us what to do, and we choose to wear Hawaiian shirts. Talk about Jimmy Buffett and the Guinness Book of World Records. Let's get into the records we're talking about today. What what do you have to inspire, and entertain the world out of the 2025 Guinness Book of World Records? The good book, our sacred text. **Chip** (00:55:58:22 - 00:56:07:19): Well, this started out because I wanted to be I think we'll move into other realms, but to a certain extent, I'm trying to keep it relatively tropical. **Thomas** (00:56:07:22 - 00:56:08:03): Yeah. **Chip** (00:56:08:04 - 00:56:24:07): You know something about that tropical travel, about the beach, maybe. But it does go outside of that a little bit to start out with. But I saw it. I am talking today about the, the record for the world's tallest sandcastle. **Thomas** (00:56:24:09 - 00:56:26:17): Okay. I'm here for it. **Chip** (00:56:26:19 - 00:56:52:06): So on the beach, you're building a sandcastle, and all of a sudden you realize you've set the record for the world's largest, tallest sandcastle. However, when I dug a little deeper. Not at the beach, not in a tropical place. One of. If I had to give you a list of if 100 guesses to the nation where this took place. It's not Tahiti. It's not. It's not the Hawaiian Islands. It's not the Bahamas. **Thomas** (00:56:56:04 - 00:57:01:00): If I had to bet based off of numbers, sheer numbers of. **Chip** (00:57:01:01 - 00:57:01:20): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:57:01:22 - 00:57:11:15): World records set in this one country, and knowing they might have some sand that is not land or that's not water locked, that is. **Chip** (00:57:11:16 - 00:57:12:06): Like, anywhere you. **Thomas** (00:57:12:06 - 00:57:15:09): Go. I Pakistan. **Chip** (00:57:15:11 - 00:57:20:14): Pakistan. I think that's a great guess. We're going to go with Denmark. **Thomas** (00:57:20:19 - 00:57:24:23): Denmark. Denmark is why, **Chip** (00:57:25:01 - 00:57:40:00): The the was the home to the world's largest sand castle. Coming in at 21.16m, or 69ft, five inches, almost hit the 70ft tall, 70ft. **Thomas** (00:57:40:01 - 00:57:41:07): Tall? No. **Chip** (00:57:41:07 - 00:58:02:18): How 70ft? With the help of a lot. This is not just a guy on a beach. This is a construction project. There were those, like, cherry pickers and cranes and, scaffolding. I mean, it's like we don't know exactly how the pyramids were built. Yeah, but this is similar. **Thomas** (00:58:02:20 - 00:58:15:19): I mean, there does sound like some room for tomfoolery here. Chip, we're sure this Dutch side of a gun just didn't run up to the top of a sand dune and put, like, a couple of, flags and a turret at the top. **Chip** (00:58:15:21 - 00:58:25:21): No. And it's actually, it's actually much more serious than that, which is hilarious, because the Sand castle is one of the goofiest things in world, and they actually turn it into a very serious thing, which I think is hilarious. **Thomas** (00:58:25:21 - 00:58:27:15): Okay, hit me with it. **Chip** (00:58:27:17 - 00:58:37:00): So it's at it was found at the I don't believe it's there anymore. But it's at the, sculpture park in blockhouse. **Thomas** (00:58:37:02 - 00:58:38:12): That sounds right. **Chip** (00:58:38:14 - 00:58:50:23): Right in Denmark. It was completed in July of 2021. Yeah. The base is over 100ft across. Again, like I said, it's almost 70ft tall. **Thomas** (00:58:50:23 - 00:58:55:22): That's humongous. Dude, that's a seven story building, right? Ten feet per story, I believe. **Chip** (00:58:55:22 - 00:59:03:08): So, yeah, that's about that sandcastle. Yeah. Do you want a guess how many tons of sand? **Thomas** (00:59:03:09 - 00:59:07:13): I'm gonna guess 12. I don't know, I'm terrible. **Chip** (00:59:07:13 - 00:59:07:22): Tons of sand. **Thomas** (00:59:07:22 - 00:59:08:13): Terrible against him. **Chip** (00:59:08:14 - 00:59:11:20): Adding 6000 tons of sand. **Thomas** (00:59:11:20 - 00:59:16:19): Thomas and a ton is classically 2,000 pounds. **Chip** (00:59:16:20 - 00:59:18:08): Yes. Yep. So? **Thomas** (00:59:18:08 - 00:59:20:20): So 6000, 2000. **Chip** (00:59:20:22 - 00:59:34:08): 6002 thousand is at 120,000. Is that what that is? I don't know, 12. Yeah I think it is. Yeah. Something like that. It might be even more 6000 tons of sand. Now here's where I. There's a gray area here. Okay. It's made of. **Thomas** (00:59:34:08 - 00:59:38:04): Sand. It's a it's actually a light beige area. **Chip** (00:59:38:06 - 00:59:47:09): It. Yeah. Yes it is, it's yes it is. It's, a little of burnt Sienna. It's actually made of 10% clay. **Thomas** (00:59:47:11 - 00:59:49:03): Which. Okay. **Chip** (00:59:49:05 - 01:00:00:08): I guess the people of Guinness have allowed this. But it's 10% clay. There is also a layer. There's also a layer of glue on the like. They they've basically there's a sheen of glue. **Thomas** (01:00:00:09 - 01:00:00:17): All right. **Chip** (01:00:00:17 - 01:00:20:19): Just so it wouldn't blow away, you know, right away they wanted to keep it for a little while. So there's a sheen of glue on there. It's 10% clay. It is Denmark. The land where Legos were born. Yeah. I'm not saying there's not a whole bunch of Legos inside. I'm not saying I don't want to start any trouble, but I bet you there is. There's a little bit of a Lego base in there. That's my guess. I'm just. I don't want to cast aspersions, but I think the good people of Lego had something to do with this. Yeah. So it took over 30 sand sculptures. **Thomas** (01:00:32:01 - 01:00:34:12): Okay. Because that checks out. **Chip** (01:00:34:14 - 01:00:59:09): That's a job that you have a sand sculptor. They brought them all together in Denmark, and they're like, we're going to build the one now. Okay. So not only is it the height of 70ft, it was constructed in July of 2021, the height of the pandemic. Wow. Okay. It was to boost tourism in this town. They thought, all right, tourism has been shot. To heck. And not to use a Danish term, but, it was, they're like, if we build this thing kind of a stunt, it's like publicity. Maybe we can get people to come to town. Everybody's hurt, hurting. They do this, and I think, I think it worked. And part of me is like, all right, dude, just watch Tiger King. I make some sourdough bread. But they were like, no, we're going to do this. We're going to be sort of a burnt one. We're going to bring the beach to Denmark and build the world's largest sand castle. I think it stayed for a number of months. I believe it's not there anymore. I could be wrong about that. But here's the super serious part. This is the greatest part. If you look at it, it's this like, you know, almost Taj Mahal looking at, you know, sort of pyramid style. It's a sand castle, and there's like people around it. It's very ornate, but all throughout Inc, all throughout the structure, including the top of the structure, it looks what looks like to be maybe a beach ball, but it's much more serious than a beach ball. It's actually a sphere that is an actual coronavirus piece. Like virus, like the. **Thomas** (01:02:14:15 - 01:02:16:23): Actual like the virus, the. **Chip** (01:02:17:01 - 01:02:19:11): The microscope pick. **Thomas** (01:02:19:13 - 01:02:19:18): Yeah. **Chip** (01:02:19:23 - 01:02:39:22): Round virus. And the top one. So there's a couple throughout to show everybody how the world has changed because of the coronavirus, because of Covid and at the tippy top is a giant coronavirus like one with a crown on the top of it because, Covid was king king Corona that summer. **Thomas** (01:02:40:00 - 01:02:42:07): Yeah. What a king. What? Because. **Chip** (01:02:42:07 - 01:02:44:17): Corona is a crown, as we know. **Thomas** (01:02:44:19 - 01:02:58:06): Oh, well. Yeah. What a what a choice to, I guess not immortalized because sandcastles don't last. But what a choice to, really celebrate and give a stage to the coronavirus. **Chip** (01:02:58:08 - 01:03:20:21): I mean, just an image, I guess. But they were. They were also taking the power away from it, too. They're like, look, this is the king. But we are, we're taking it back. And then another record which was set. Okay. It was actually destroyed three quarters of the way through by, the record setting world's worst big brother. **Thomas** (01:03:20:23 - 01:03:21:04): Yeah. **Chip** (01:03:21:04 - 01:03:25:02): He came and knocked it over and made all 30 sand sculptures cry. **Thomas** (01:03:25:03 - 01:03:25:20): That'll check. **Chip** (01:03:26:01 - 01:03:28:16): Hold their mom. They had to start over again. **Thomas** (01:03:28:18 - 01:03:31:15): And you know what? That guy is going to grow up to be someday. **Chip** (01:03:31:17 - 01:03:32:17): What's that? **Thomas** (01:03:32:19 - 01:03:35:07): A fantastic uncle Mike. **Chip** (01:03:35:09 - 01:04:06:09): He's going to be great, uncle Mike. He is going to be an amazing I got. Speaking of uncle Mike. Okay, I gotta tell you this, we're we're going to, Ocean City this week. Ocean city, new Jersey city. It's really it's not exactly why, but, hey, it's the Jersey shore. And we are going with my wife and I and her brother, my brother in law and sister in law and their five year old son, my nephew, my other one, one of my other nephews and, his thing the last couple of years he enjoys when I, like, dig a trench for and like, we dig a trench. Yeah. And then, like, the water comes in, and then I also dig a hole, and we bury him in the sand. He likes to be buried like you like to his neck and sand. Whatever. So that's the thing. And here's the thing. I love manual labor. Yeah, just minus manual labor. It also gets me out of the house. What I'll do is they're all packing up, getting ready to do and around. I'm like, look, I'm going to go to the beach an hour early. I'm going to get started on this beach. 01:04:31:04 - 01:04:32:04 UNRESOLVED – I get to just go out there by myself in the sun and sand and just because, hey, who doesn't love being a ditch digger? And just like nobody's bother me, I'm just listening to the waves. And I'm just digging a ditch for my nephew to be buried in. Let me tell you this, Thomas. That is why the beach is one of my favorite places on earth. Because the beach is the only place on earth where you can dig a child sized hole, and nobody asks any questions. **Thomas** (01:04:59:12 - 01:04:59:20): You can't. **Chip** (01:04:59:23 - 01:05:15:03): You can't do that in suburban Philadelphia. No, they they are. They're going to call the authorities. You can't do that in Nebraska. You can't do that in Iowa. Just dig a child grave. And and people are like, oh yeah, he's just doing his thing. Let him go. He's having fun. **Thomas** (01:05:15:09 - 01:05:18:21): There's something so satisfying about digging a hole to. **Chip** (01:05:18:23 - 01:05:19:09): There really. **Thomas** (01:05:19:09 - 01:05:28:09): Is. I'm glad you found that outlet, because you're right. There's no there's no good reason to dig those holes. Butt holes are fun to dig. Yeah, and you can't get away with it at the beach. **Chip** (01:05:28:11 - 01:05:35:12): Maybe I'll try this year to dig the largest beach hole on Earth. Maybe I'll. Maybe I'll get the good book that way. **Thomas** (01:05:35:14 - 01:05:46:10): I mean, I think you would need, I mean, at least as many hole diggers as sand sculptors. Yeah. In the, Dutch, the Dutch sand castle record. **Chip** (01:05:46:10 - 01:05:47:14): The Dutch oven. Yeah. **Thomas** (01:05:47:16 - 01:05:50:19): Absolutely. The Dutch oven. Yeah, I don't know. **Chip** (01:05:50:19 - 01:05:59:21): So anyway, yeah. Congratulations to the people of Denmark with the. At 69ft, five inches, the world's tallest sand. **Thomas** (01:05:59:21 - 01:06:04:02): Castle, that truly remarkable in scope, that is. That's where I'm going to. **Chip** (01:06:04:04 - 01:06:09:09): I'm going to say some Danish burnt ones. Yeah, some burnt Danes, for sure. **Thomas** (01:06:09:11 - 01:06:18:03): For sure. Well, for my record, we are heading to Spain. Ship. Oh, we're heading to Spain, to Little South to find a. **Chip** (01:06:18:03 - 01:06:19:09): Little south from Denmark. **Thomas** (01:06:19:11 - 01:06:45:16): Just a little to find a burnt one who has pushed the limits and multiple ways of what the human body can accomplish. And he has done it with his own two feet, largely over mile distances. Am I talking about the fastest mile ever ran? No. Yes. No, I think that is two pedestrian, I think, and I think we already saw that on the Olympics. It's something that happens. It's been done. It's been done. People are competing at it like there's, you know, a whole structure to how you train for it. A global community of, competitors going head to head. This is different. Yep. This is the fastest mile ever ran while controlling a ping pong ball on a ping pong paddle the whole time. **Chip** (01:07:09:22 - 01:07:12:14): This is the Olympics that we need as a nation. **Thomas** (01:07:12:14 - 01:07:14:00): It really has a world. **Chip** (01:07:14:02 - 01:07:20:09): And I applaud this. So the the fastest mile run by somebody controlling a ping pong ball with a paddle. **Thomas** (01:07:20:10 - 01:07:24:11): Yeah. Care to guess? **Chip** (01:07:24:13 - 01:07:26:08): 20 minutes. **Thomas** (01:07:26:10 - 01:07:35:08): Oh, my. No, no, we're way off. We're way off. Six minutes, 4.41 seconds. Oh. **Chip** (01:07:35:10 - 01:07:40:10): Well, I can't run a mile without a ping pong ball that fast. **Thomas** (01:07:40:12 - 01:07:57:14): I certainly couldn't. I don't know that I could run a mile period right now. Well, yeah, we will. And that's something we'll talk about. Coming up in Hawaii, there is a little Turkey Trot in Waikiki, on Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, that we might. **Chip** (01:07:57:14 - 01:08:01:18): You know, come see the show on Wednesday night, get up early, do the Turkey trot, do a little. **Thomas** (01:08:01:21 - 01:08:14:17): I think it's I think there's A5K. There might be a ten K option, but just doing a blowing it out the day after a little run with the with the sun burnt boys and girls. Let's do it. That sounds let's. **Chip** (01:08:14:17 - 01:08:15:06): Make it happen. **Thomas** (01:08:15:07 - 01:08:30:12): Believable. Waikiki in the morning is a very special place. But yeah. So that's something that I'll probably need to do a little bit of training for. Well, we'll talk about it. What's that? You're, You've done a lot more distance running than me. Maybe. Maybe you'll put together a little program. **Chip** (01:08:30:14 - 01:08:31:12): Yeah, I can do. **Thomas** (01:08:31:14 - 01:08:31:17): That. **Chip** (01:08:31:17 - 01:08:39:13): Together. Nice. And program two. I will say this. A5K, A5K is a lot more attainable than most people realize. **Thomas** (01:08:39:15 - 01:08:43:13): Okay. Yeah, well, we'll get it going. This, **Chip** (01:08:43:18 - 01:08:46:12): And I'm not even going to involve ping pong balls. **Thomas** (01:08:46:14 - 01:08:56:04): I mean, you can, though. You're not. You're not saying you're not banning them. No, no, if we want to, I'm not just incorporate ping pong balls. We can. **Chip** (01:08:56:06 - 01:08:59:09): No. Okay. Yes. Yes, 100%. **Thomas** (01:08:59:09 - 01:09:09:02): Also, Christian Rodriguez also has one more record over a mile distance for fastest mile while dribbling a basketball. **Chip** (01:09:09:04 - 01:09:12:18): This guy has he's got all the sports. I mean, that's not, **Thomas** (01:09:12:20 - 01:09:14:12): And this this is mind blowing. These are two. **Chip** (01:09:14:12 - 01:09:16:02): Very different skill sets. **Thomas** (01:09:16:08 - 01:09:33:03): Oh, yeah. One's bouncing up. One's bouncing down. He is directional. He is playing gravity. A fool. Yeah. And he he accomplished the mile with the basketball four minutes 23 seconds. Wait what. Yeah. **Chip** (01:09:33:03 - 01:09:50:19): He ran a mile in four minutes. 23 I mean, just over 50 years ago Roger Bannister broke the four minute mile. I bet maybe a little bit longer. I forget exactly when, but, broke the four minute mile without a basketball, and this dude's doing it for 23 with the basketball. **Thomas** (01:09:50:21 - 01:10:00:16): Here's the world record I'd like to see you when. Fastest mile with a ping pong ball clenched between your buttocks. **Chip** (01:10:00:18 - 01:10:03:05): How do you know I haven't done it already, Thomas? **Thomas** (01:10:03:07 - 01:10:07:22): Well, it's not in the good book. I know, I know, you haven't set the record. **Chip** (01:10:08:00 - 01:10:12:07): Yeah, I have not. I've not publicly set the record yet. Yeah. **Thomas** (01:10:12:09 - 01:10:26:05): But I think that I think I think I what? I think that would really slow you down. It would because. Because free range of buttocks is very important for a any kind of gait. **Chip** (01:10:26:07 - 01:10:34:00): You need those glutes. Yeah. Yeah. And if you want to keep the structural integrity of that ping pong ball, that's also a difficult proposition. **Thomas** (01:10:34:02 - 01:10:46:23): Yeah. So it's like doing A5K is very attainable A5K1PPB. Right. Is a lot less attainable. That's a lot harder. **Chip** (01:10:46:23 - 01:10:52:22): Yeah. So I wonder with this guy like did he's obviously a great runner. **Thomas** (01:10:53:00 - 01:11:00:17): Oh yeah I bet he is a tremendous runner. But like if you're number three in the world you're not getting in any record books. **Chip** (01:11:00:19 - 01:11:02:12): No. So you need to do something. **Thomas** (01:11:02:12 - 01:11:13:00): You need to you need to add your own flourish. Put, a new color of paint on your house. If you can't be the biggest, you can be the pinkest. You know what I mean? **Chip** (01:11:13:00 - 01:11:13:11): That is true. 01:11:13:16 - 01:11:14:10 UNRESOLVED – And I. Believe. I believe Kesha said that. **Thomas** (01:11:17:14 - 01:11:21:08): She woke up in the morning feeling like P Diddy. **Chip** (01:11:21:10 - 01:11:23:09): Okay. **Thomas** (01:11:23:11 - 01:11:35:00): And she was also yelling temper. Those are two things I know about Kesha. Yes. And that's it. That is it. All right, man. So that's what I got for world records. Maybe that. **Chip** (01:11:35:00 - 01:11:37:00): Is it to you. That was a twofer, man. **Thomas** (01:11:37:01 - 01:11:46:11): It. Well, it was a twofer, but he's a twofer. Chris Rodriguez didn't stop at just one. He's like, I think there's more balls and more running to be done. **Chip** (01:11:46:13 - 01:11:49:02): Yeah, the man's got balls. That's all we know. **Thomas** (01:11:49:02 - 01:11:57:04): He's got balls. He's got bounces. Yeah. He makes them work together and he's got wheels. He absolutely has wheels. **Chip** (01:11:57:06 - 01:11:58:00): Yeah. **Thomas** (01:11:58:01 - 01:12:02:14): So keep pushing the limits. Keep striving for greatness. **Chip** (01:12:02:16 - 01:12:06:18): That's maybe someday we'll be talking about your world record that you have set. **Thomas** (01:12:06:19 - 01:12:25:04): If you set a world record and you've seen this podcast, we won't just talk about it. We'll talk to you. Yeah, if you want to. Come on. If you if you are a current holder of a world record, let us know. We'll bring you out of the podcast. We'd love to chat with you. And, I promise you, it's going to be positive. Because we don't do gotcha interviews. We. **Chip** (01:12:29:01 - 01:12:32:22): Although if we did, we wouldn't announce it. That's all I got to say. **Thomas** (01:12:32:23 - 01:12:37:19): Yeah. Oh, but what if we were trying to set the record for biggest gotcha interview. **Chip** (01:12:37:21 - 01:12:41:15): Biggest gotcha interview? Yeah. **Thomas** (01:12:41:17 - 01:12:42:07): This is gonna. **Chip** (01:12:42:07 - 01:13:00:19): Be world records for, like, the worst things that people have done. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, that I wouldn't want to celebrate, that I would want to chide them for, like. Yeah, you know, most elderly people swindled. Yeah. You know, like, why would we celebrate that? It is a record. It is an achievement. **Thomas** (01:13:00:21 - 01:13:11:20): Most burgers put in a KFC deep fryer. We're not celebrating that. But that record is out there. It's. There's somebody that's done that's done that more than anybody else. **Chip** (01:13:11:22 - 01:13:19:12): Yeah. Most tickets scalped from a cheap January Thanksgiving in Paradise show. Ooh. So the dark. **Thomas** (01:13:19:12 - 01:13:32:10): Web that guy or girl is on my list. Yeah they are on my list. Although as much as I don't enjoy the scalping thank you for buying tickets in the first place. You know what I mean? **Chip** (01:13:32:14 - 01:13:34:00): Yes, we do appreciate that. **Thomas** (01:13:34:00 - 01:13:45:09): We do. We do appreciate the revenue though. Yeah. So that's what I got for world records. It's time to move on. The Buffett facts, chip. Let's do it. Do you love. **Chip** (01:13:45:11 - 01:13:45:14): Me? **Thomas** (01:13:45:15 - 01:14:05:10): Love? Jimmy. He's a big inspiration for what we do here on the podcast. He really did live a life of his own design. Yep. I was doing a little reading up on him. He, started off as a musician in Nashville, wanted to be a journalist, started off as a musician in Nashville and just didn't buy into the Nashville bass. He, like, just felt like he didn't fit on and he didn't want to capitulate to what they were asking him to do. He wanted to carve his own path, stuck to his guns, did not care if he wound up penniless. And it worked out pretty gosh darn well for him. Yeah, he just, you know, lived the life that was true to him, followed the path he wanted. That's what we're trying to do here on this podcast. And we've been doing a lot of thinking, a lot of research, a lot of digging. And we have some facts about Jimmy Buffett that people didn't know. **Chip** (01:14:35:10 - 01:14:36:16): These are deep, deep fact. **Thomas** (01:14:36:17 - 01:14:48:09): These are deep, deep facts. Some of them uncovered publicly for the first time ever. So, each week we do the research, chip and I each, are going to tell you one. **Chip** (01:14:48:11 - 01:14:49:13): You want to you want to start us off? **Thomas** (01:14:49:13 - 01:15:00:03): Yeah. No problem. Jimmy Buffett once jokingly told a sea turtle they needed to come out of their shell, and that was how the first eel was ever created. **Chip** (01:15:00:05 - 01:15:03:15): The man was a doctor, too, little Tommy. That's incredible. **Thomas** (01:15:03:17 - 01:15:07:19): Yeah, he was a created species. Jim, I love it. **Chip** (01:15:07:21 - 01:15:09:10): All right, here's you. Ready for my fact? **Thomas** (01:15:09:10 - 01:15:11:04): Hit me with your facts. Yep. **Chip** (01:15:11:06 - 01:15:20:08): Jimmy Buffett never put ice in his drinks. He just picked up the glass and it got cool. **Thomas** (01:15:20:10 - 01:15:23:08): He did have that effect. He could make anything cool. **Chip** (01:15:23:10 - 01:15:24:21): He really could. He really could. **Thomas** (01:15:25:02 - 01:15:45:09): Yeah. What a man. What a life, what a career, what a couple of facts. Can you imagine, just having that much sway on the world and culture over. Physics over. Yeah. Physics over. Genetics. Yeah, over the. **Chip** (01:15:45:09 - 01:15:49:14): Galapagos. That's the tortoise of the Galapagos. **Thomas** (01:15:49:16 - 01:15:58:23): Kingdom species films, all of class. Class order. Kings play chess on French girls stomachs. **Chip** (01:15:59:01 - 01:16:05:02): Oh, I learned keep cool at all sporting events. Is that the right one? No, that's a different one. **Thomas** (01:16:05:02 - 01:16:10:16): Now it's kingdom phylum, class species or. **Chip** (01:16:10:16 - 01:16:22:13): Oh, yeah. Kings play chess. It's good sport, I think is what I learned. Kings play chess as good sport. Mine was not quite as risque as yours. **Thomas** (01:16:22:15 - 01:16:23:09): I mean. **Chip** (01:16:23:09 - 01:16:28:08): The the Oregon school system was a little bit more open about, about things. **Thomas** (01:16:28:09 - 01:16:39:05): Yeah, I remember the teacher, the teacher that, taught me that was like an Ivy League guy who somehow ended up teaching junior high science. **Chip** (01:16:39:08 - 01:16:41:03): And I've seen AP bio. **Thomas** (01:16:41:04 - 01:16:51:06): Yeah. Yes. Oh, they're. Yeah, it's the exact same storyline. The exact same storyline. Except I think he really enjoyed teaching. Junior high science. **Chip** (01:16:51:08 - 01:16:53:14): I mean, God bless him, I guess. **Thomas** (01:16:53:14 - 01:16:53:21): Yeah. **Chip** (01:16:53:22 - 01:16:56:08): Let's just hope there's not a dark side to that man. Yeah. **Thomas** (01:16:56:10 - 01:17:21:15): There there was a dark side. There was a cheating scandal. He was involved in. Oh, I was involved in it, too. Well, so is another person. Apparently a test came in. Test came back for my class, and somebody else had the same exact answers as I did. Thomas. And since he couldn't prove which one of us copied the other one. He failed us both. And Cho chip, I don't know if you know how I feel about rules, but I've literally never broken one, so it wasn't me. But I failed this test. I'm still a little rough. Still. That's awful a little chip, but I'm not going to fail the test on November 26th. Chip Chantry is Thanksgiving in Paradise. I know we're all busy. Yeah, I'll be acing it in Waikiki. **Chip** (01:17:47:10 - 01:17:49:06): As will I. **Thomas** (01:17:49:08 - 01:18:03:19): We'll do it. We gotta get it wrapped. I gotta get move, buddy. Yeah. This was a blast. Thanks so much. Enjoy your trip to the Jersey shore. Thank you. Buddy. Until next time, stay burnt. Front. **Chip** (01:18:03:19 - 01:18:11:15): Desk. Hi, this is Mr. Chantry in room 308. I was wondering if someone could come up to my room and take away the complimentary hotel horse. **Thomas** (01:18:11:15 - 01:18:15:08): Oh, we we don't give complimentary hotel horses. **Chip** (01:18:15:10 - 01:18:21:15): Then how did this thing. You know what? Never mind. Forget I said anything. Is there a service elevator?