Key West Glow-Up, Underwater Yoga & Vacation Rules 😂🌴 | Sunburnt Podcast Ep. 30

**Thomas** (00:00:00:00 - 00:00:15:07): Burnt ones. What up? This is the Sun Burnt podcast where we talk about comedy and tropical travel. To my right. You know him from Netflix and his amazing stand up special, Move Closer. It's Philadelphia's dirtiest dog, Mr. Chip Chantry. **Chip** (00:00:15:09 - 00:00:23:03): And over here, to my left is Emmy award winning writer, producer and fastest widower. His side of the Mississippi, Thomas O'Brien. **Thomas** (00:00:23:04 - 00:00:25:09): I was until the carpal tunnel chip. **Chip** (00:00:25:09 - 00:00:28:20): Now the carpal tunnel. That's the one that goes through the Rockies, I believe. **Thomas** (00:00:28:20 - 00:00:34:21): No, it's the one that makes it squeak. Like, I need an oil can. When I move my right wrist, it's my whittling hand. **Chip** (00:00:34:21 - 00:00:41:00): Dude, let's just say this. It was your whittling hand. It was to get not to get to Roy Hobbs on you. But it is now. **Thomas** (00:00:41:00 - 00:00:53:19): I miss it, but I can still do the balsa. I can do the soft woods chip. Nice for making a whistle. Nice for making a train whistle. Nice for making a, little figurine of a squirrel. **Chip** (00:00:53:19 - 00:01:02:09): I'm also good at making the soft woods. Oh you see I like take to take to camera right there. That's a lot of fun. **Thomas** (00:01:02:09 - 00:01:07:18): That's a trip to the Blue Chew king of Philadelphia. **Chip** (00:01:07:20 - 00:01:10:08): It's very two and a half men of me right there, I think. Oh, my. **Thomas** (00:01:10:08 - 00:01:10:18): Goodness. **Chip** (00:01:10:18 - 00:01:18:01): We should do a thing. Literally. When I was a Cub Scout, a Cub Scout, I was in the fourth grade. I believe I'm going to call it the fourth grade. **Thomas** (00:01:18:01 - 00:01:19:21): We're taking you back. Way back. **Chip** (00:01:19:23 - 00:01:41:10): They gave us, like, little like the. What are the knives like? Yeah. Not as much. An army knife. Pocket knife? Yeah. They would give us a pocket knife. And then they taught us how to whittle with a bar of Ivory soap. Oh, we will soap, because it was soft. So it's just like, could you imagine today just giving a bunch of nine year olds just a bar of soap and a blade. **Thomas** (00:01:41:10 - 00:01:41:19): Yeah. **Chip** (00:01:41:19 - 00:01:43:03): And just let them have at it. **Thomas** (00:01:43:03 - 00:01:48:23): Well, I think the good news there is, if they do cut themselves, you're very close to being able to wash the wound there. **Chip** (00:01:49:04 - 00:01:53:19): There's no germs out there, baby. It's just the the ivory is taking it, washing it away. **Thomas** (00:01:53:19 - 00:01:58:12): When was the last time you got your hands on a bar of soap? I'm not. I have no bars of soap in my house. **Chip** (00:01:58:12 - 00:02:05:19): You're bar. Okay. That's interesting. We are. I'm going to say we're a bar family. We are a we're an Irish Spring family. **Thomas** (00:02:05:21 - 00:02:06:17): Oh, really? **Chip** (00:02:06:19 - 00:02:22:00): Yeah. We have that bar soap, and we still do the thing. Like my wife is definitely got me into, like, you know, hey, let's not waste not whatnot. Yeah, we do the the the spooning of the when the new bar comes in, the old bar is still just that little marriage. **Thomas** (00:02:22:02 - 00:02:23:14): The Osmosis Jones. **Chip** (00:02:23:14 - 00:02:34:18): Yeah. Osmosis Jones yet you stick them together. Yeah. The little one right in the big one. And and then you, you have to kind of make it so it's, you know, so it sticks together and then the two become one. **Thomas** (00:02:34:18 - 00:02:51:08): Thomas, I was just going to say that the Spice Girls song two become one. It's a soap miracle. And not that anybody needs to know this, but I was on that Irish Springs when I was a kid and had to stop. Gives T-Bone a rash. **Chip** (00:02:51:10 - 00:02:52:10): Really? **Thomas** (00:02:52:12 - 00:03:04:09): Yeah. There's something in Irish Springs, and I'm an Irish man. Yeah. You figure that those would be the safest springs for my kind to dip in, and, gives me a little skin irritation. **Chip** (00:03:04:11 - 00:03:14:20): I apologize, buddy, that's, that's a shame. That's, when when you come to visit next time, and stay over, we'll make sure we have some sort of body gel ready to go for you, my friend. **Thomas** (00:03:14:20 - 00:03:25:05): Yeah, well, and now that I'm remembering it, I think every time I've left your house, I am, about 15 pounds heavier, with waterway bright red everywhere. **Chip** (00:03:25:05 - 00:03:28:15): And maybe that's where the scabies, that scabies. That's everybody who, **Thomas** (00:03:28:17 - 00:03:34:04): Okay. Okay, okay, okay. I thought maybe it was from the Irish Springs, but. But it seems like it might be the scabies. **Chip** (00:03:34:09 - 00:03:38:02): It's escapes me. Yeah. Sorry. And again, sorry about that. **Thomas** (00:03:38:04 - 00:03:59:19): I am not sorry about the episode we have coming up, but we are dipping into we. We teased it last week. But we are going to be talking about the new luxury traveler. We're talking about Key West southernmost marker, the famous southernmost marker. You've been there. You may even have a picture from there that we might show folks. It's getting a makeover, a long overdue makeover. **Chip** (00:04:03:10 - 00:04:05:09): A monumental makeover time. **Thomas** (00:04:05:09 - 00:04:06:11): Oh, but that's. **Chip** (00:04:06:11 - 00:04:26:09): How I'm going to talk from now on. I think I'm going to talk like a morning coffee table. Local news show. Just like, just going to give it a tease. I'm just going to slip that vibe into every one of my conversations and either win over friends left and right, or just alienate myself from everyone else who still actually speaks to me. **Thomas** (00:04:26:09 - 00:04:33:04): All right, let's let's try another one. Let's try another one. Okay. This is not a tease, but this is just, chip working out. **Chip** (00:04:33:05 - 00:04:42:07): Picture like local Cincinnati. Yeah. Channel seven morning news. They're they're talking about what? They're gonna talk about their little magazine show. Go ahead, Thomas. **Thomas** (00:04:42:07 - 00:04:51:05): And then later on, Chef Robinson is going to stop by and show us how to make some Thanksgiving treats you've never thought of before. **Chip** (00:04:51:07 - 00:04:53:17): Monumental treats. **Thomas** (00:04:53:19 - 00:04:54:21): This is perfect. **UNRESOLVED** (00:04:54:23 - 00:04:55:15): See. **Chip** (00:04:55:17 - 00:05:08:21): I think I have it down, I think I literally have it, and I can get you. I'll come back. I could, because, like, I'm an improv guy, I do. Let's do one more, do one more real quick. Just do one more. And I know I'll work in a word that goes along with that topic. Go ahead. **Thomas** (00:05:08:23 - 00:05:15:23): Okay. And we're going to show you how to put together a firework display that will have your neighbors dazzle. **Chip** (00:05:15:23 - 00:05:20:17): This fourth a monumental fireworks display. I think I've got it. **Thomas** (00:05:20:20 - 00:05:31:21): I think I think, the wild card energy you bring, a lot of times it's completely being neutralized by this new by this new take on conversation. Right. **Chip** (00:05:31:21 - 00:05:35:15): Okay. Yeah. Because and for improv that that really works for you. Because you know what I'm going to say already. **Thomas** (00:05:35:20 - 00:05:38:02): Yeah, yeah. And let's try one more. **Chip** (00:05:38:07 - 00:05:39:12): Okay. All right. Okay. **Thomas** (00:05:39:14 - 00:05:47:23): And coming up later, we're going to be talking to Keith Morrison. The number one monument maker in America. **Chip** (00:05:48:01 - 00:05:51:00): A monumental monument maker. Nailed it buddy. **Thomas** (00:05:52:22 - 00:05:54:06): Nailing it. **Chip** (00:05:54:08 - 00:05:54:15): You feel. **Thomas** (00:05:54:15 - 00:06:04:09): Beautiful. Son of a god. Yeah okay. So we're talking about the southernmost marker. And then we're going to get into a new segment. Chip I'm very excited about it. We're going to be talking about vacation rules. **Chip** (00:06:04:09 - 00:06:13:19): You're going to be learning something. You're going to learn what to do and what not to do on vacation. That makes your vacation and everyone else's vacation around you that much better. **Thomas** (00:06:13:19 - 00:06:27:12): Don't be a fool. Stick around for the vacation rule. We're talking about world records. We're getting to the good book, the Guinness Book of World Records. Cracking. I like to just dive deep into what humanity and the world can do at their extremes. **Chip** (00:06:27:14 - 00:06:27:22): **Thomas** (00:06:28:01 - 00:06:49:18): And we're following it up with the man we're talking about, Mr. Jimmy Buffett. Chip and I are huge fans. We know you are too. We've done an incredible amount of research every week trying to unearth little nuggets from his life that we can share with you. And we've got two more and might I say maybe the juiciest Jimmy Buffett facts we've ever had. **Chip** (00:06:49:19 - 00:06:51:06): Squeeze in that juice. **Thomas** (00:06:51:08 - 00:06:59:11): This is the tease. This is what you're supposed to do on the podcast, on YouTube. You gotta make it feel like the most important things are going to happen the way you. **Chip** (00:06:59:11 - 00:07:03:20): Are missing out. If you do not check out these facts, this specific episode. **Thomas** (00:07:03:20 - 00:07:07:21): You won't get the juice. These are juicy Jimmy Buffett facts. **Chip** (00:07:07:21 - 00:07:08:12): Yeah, this. **Thomas** (00:07:08:12 - 00:07:15:13): Is the sunburnt podcast where we talk about comedy and tropical travel. If that is up your alley, stay tuned. **Chip** (00:07:15:15 - 00:07:18:19): Monumentally. Stay tuned. **Thomas** (00:07:18:21 - 00:07:19:15): Front desk. **Chip** (00:07:19:18 - 00:07:29:20): Hi, this is Mr. Chantry in room 308. I was wondering, did you happen to see in the lobby a man in a gorilla costume and roller skates carrying a bunch of silly string and some water balloons? **Thomas** (00:07:29:22 - 00:07:31:22): Can't say that I have, Mr. Chantry. **Chip** (00:07:32:00 - 00:07:37:23): Okay, good. If he does show up, tell him he can just head back home. I decided not to propose tonight. Chip. **Thomas** (00:07:38:00 - 00:08:03:02): Tommy, it's episode 30 of the sunburn podcast. We are sitting at 76 days away from Chip Chantry. Is Thanksgiving in Paradise? If you're doing the math, that's only ten more episodes. Intel. We're gonna be there in Waikiki and Honolulu on Oahu and Hawaii. Just having the week of our lives. **Chip** (00:08:03:07 - 00:08:20:19): Yeah. I'm so excited. And it's not too late for you guys to come if, if you want to book those tickets, you don't have to go home for Thanksgiving. You don't have to go wherever you go. Friendsgiving. Have a Friendsgiving with us. And, just come enjoy the tropics and, we're going to we're gonna have a great week. You just went on your first run for a while, I think. Get ready for that five K. **Thomas** (00:08:24:18 - 00:08:47:22): Yeah, yeah. I've, daddy moved most of his training indoors. I've been riding that bike. I've got a peloton. Not to brag. A pandemic purchase for sure, but, since I had the kid, like, I, I just, I stay in the house, I do the peloton so I can hear the baby if I need to. But, yesterday, my wife was just like, you're going to be doing this thing. Practice outside. I'll give you an hour to go. Go hit the streets and hit the streets. I did. Chip, I am excited about it. I can't wait to be doing. And I was listening to a fun island playlist when I was running. **Chip** (00:09:00:12 - 00:09:01:16): It's motivation right there. **Thomas** (00:09:01:16 - 00:09:18:15): It's so beautiful here in Southern California right now. Like, yeah, you can't beat September weather in southern California. Really. So it's beautiful. It's shining. I've got some good tunes going in my ears, and I'm just beating the streets with my feets. **Chip** (00:09:18:16 - 00:09:21:11): Beat in the meets with the streets in the sheets. **Thomas** (00:09:21:16 - 00:09:24:01): Street. Me, it's in the sheets. **Chip** (00:09:24:01 - 00:09:38:00): I went for my first run in a couple of weeks yesterday too. Yeah. Also gorgeous in, Philadelphia right now it's just the the weather has finally broken. It's down to, I was running at, like, 58 degrees yesterday. It was. **Thomas** (00:09:38:00 - 00:09:38:22): Just. Okay. Yeah, we're. **Chip** (00:09:38:22 - 00:09:54:04): Just. And then got up to, like, you know, the 70s was great, but, Yeah. Just a morning run around the, citizens Bank Park, around the old stadium. The baseball stadium. I go run around, do my five K, and, Yeah. Feel good. I need to stretch more, though, buddy. That is that is a goal between. But by the time we get to Waikiki, I'm going to be able to put both legs behind my head like Weird Al. **Thomas** (00:10:02:16 - 00:10:14:14): The human pretzel. I mean, you've got to chip at this point. What excuse do you have not to stretch it on out? Zero? I'm literally not allowed to play pickleball unless I've stretched for half an hour. My wife clocks me. **Chip** (00:10:14:16 - 00:10:15:07): Really? **Thomas** (00:10:15:07 - 00:10:30:06): Yeah. She's like, we don't need you pulling a hammy or limping around, when it's about an hour before I have to be there, she starts poking around and being like, he's stretching you stretching yet? Have you stretched yet? It's time for you to stretch. Good. Do you have enough time to stretch and then get out of here? **Chip** (00:10:30:08 - 00:10:50:20): We should also say that she's not only your wife, but your personal pickleball coach. And she is under the very false misconception that in the next few Olympic cycles, pickleball will be a sport and that you, a middle aged man, will be one of the top competitors in the world. **Thomas** (00:10:50:21 - 00:11:04:21): She is really put together a tremendous training program and a nice pathway for me to follow. But I do think that, Father Time is is running at me faster than, she anticipates. **Chip** (00:11:04:22 - 00:11:10:05): I will say my wife has done the same thing for me. She's a little more focused on the Winter Olympics. **Thomas** (00:11:10:07 - 00:11:11:11): Okay? **Chip** (00:11:11:13 - 00:11:28:18): And I'm not going to tell you which sport she has me training for, but let's just say it involves me in all Lululemon tight gear, a bicycle helmet, and a refrigerator box at the top of our stairs. **Thomas** (00:11:28:19 - 00:11:32:17): Do you ever go downstairs and, like, a laundry basket when you were a kid? **Chip** (00:11:32:19 - 00:11:43:14): Oh, I think I still have scars from that. Like, yes, all the time. And here's the thing. Like, we lived in a ranch house, so, the only stairs we had were to the basement. **Thomas** (00:11:43:20 - 00:11:44:08): Okay. **Chip** (00:11:44:11 - 00:12:02:03): And they were sort of carpeted, but it was old carpeting, so it was shag carpet. It was also it wasn't super padded. And then it just went straight down to the bottom. I think it was like 12 steps. Just like the program that, you know, people don't talk about. Now, I don't talk about these 12 steps that I used to do too often. So this is a very special thing, but it would go straight down and then just into a wall, like, because you get to the bottom stairs, you have to turn the corner. So there was just wood paneling in front of us that our heads went through numerous times a month. **Thomas** (00:12:16:15 - 00:12:20:01): They made wood paneling pretty, pretty forgiving back in the day. **Chip** (00:12:20:04 - 00:12:26:12): I will say yes. Yeah, you could go through a little pine and then not not feel to it wouldn't ring your bell quite as hard. **Thomas** (00:12:26:14 - 00:12:31:02): Oh god, I can't even hear about pine without wishing I could get my full whittle on. **Chip** (00:12:31:06 - 00:12:32:07): Sorry, it's easy there. **Thomas** (00:12:32:09 - 00:12:37:12): But I can't. Well, Chip, are you feeling like one today? Man. **Chip** (00:12:37:14 - 00:12:40:23): I am feeling. I'm feeling like one. Let's do it. Let's make it. **Thomas** (00:12:40:23 - 00:12:46:03): Happen I love it. I was feeling like one this week. I, got back down to the South Bay. **Chip** (00:12:46:04 - 00:12:48:12): Oh, I saw some photos. Yeah, he sent me a. **Thomas** (00:12:48:12 - 00:13:18:04): Couple of photos on the sunburnt pod. Instagram at Sunburnt Pod. And, Dude, it's it's just the premier weather. A lot of the tourists have gone home, so it's just kind of mostly locals. And we showed up at the beach at about, 10:00. Okay. Got got parking. I mean, we were parking 40, 40 steps away from the sand. **Chip** (00:13:18:10 - 00:13:20:00): Beautiful. **Thomas** (00:13:20:01 - 00:13:44:00): Without searching for it and just walked right out of the beach. I dragged my wagon all the way down to the shore. Plenty of places to sit. Just completely, completely less crowded. And the weather was perfect. Yeah, the weather was absolutely perfect. It was a flawless trip to the beach. I applied the right amount of sunscreen. The baby just went ham in the sand and the sea. **Chip** (00:13:48:14 - 00:13:51:11): Is she still running? Like, full steam into the ocean? **Thomas** (00:13:51:11 - 00:14:05:11): But it was. It was unbelievable. I took her down to the ocean like we're right on the shore. She is trying to run into it. I've got, like, the the iron claw. Dad grips on her hands and forearms. **Chip** (00:14:05:11 - 00:14:06:00): Sure. **Thomas** (00:14:06:02 - 00:14:25:16): But the water is like, breaking pretty close to shore, and she's not scared of any of it. And she's like, keeps trying to run further and further into the break. And I'm just, like, holding her back. And I did let some water, like, come pretty quickly and like, hit her up to her hips maybe. Okay. And some of it splash up in her face. And I was like, ooh, I wonder if she's not going to like it. She just started laughing. And when the water pulled back, she kept trying to run further and further. And, mama was on the, on the dryer sand freaking out a little bit. But, she had a great time. And once again, when, when we it was time to take her out of the water and head back to the, the umbrella and the blanket, she was not having any of it. She's. She's a water baby. **Chip** (00:14:50:11 - 00:14:59:09): No, I'll say it. She's a little mermaid. And when I say little, little with the apostrophe as to not get any copyright infringement issues. **Thomas** (00:14:59:11 - 00:15:02:09): Yeah. We don't we don't need Disney back up in our business. **Chip** (00:15:02:09 - 00:15:10:13): No, we finally, got them off our backs after that Flubber episode. We did. And man, I'm glad that's that's behind us. **Thomas** (00:15:10:13 - 00:15:17:10): Talk about the juice not being worth the squeeze. No. You were you were also, at a large body of water this week in which chip. **Chip** (00:15:17:12 - 00:15:19:20): Not quite as large as the Pacific Ocean. **Thomas** (00:15:19:22 - 00:15:20:19): I mean, what, as. **Chip** (00:15:20:19 - 00:15:38:14): I was a little lake in, south in South Philadelphia, South Philly Lakes, FDR Park, or as or the lakes, as the locals call it. And, we're down at the Southeast Asian market getting our getting our food. Get that just like the greatest food in the world, super cheap. And it's right next to the water. And my wife and I, we just sit. We have our spot. It's two lifeguard chairs that are right at the foot of the lake, and it just overlooks beautiful lake. Some of the leaves are starting to change just a little bit in Philly and like just gorgeous 75 degree weather again, we're in the shade, but looking over the sunshine, counting the ducks and, just watching life passes by. And it is it's it's literally my wife and I were talking about. It's like it might be our favorite spot in the city. Philadelphia is like those chairs, right there. And like, most of the city doesn't know about it. It's like a little hidden secret now, but. And by the way, we're dealing with the opposite of you're dealing with. I'm very jealous that down at the beach, it's like the tourists have all gone home for the summer. All of the tourists are back in Philly like they were all gone for the summer. Every like Philadelphia goes down the Jersey shore. Now they're all back. So it's a little more, a little more shoulder to shoulder here. But we're dealing with it. We're dealing with it. **Thomas** (00:16:33:07 - 00:16:39:01): Well, I love it, buddy. Yeah. No, it's it's it's so fun to, to get buy a body of water on the weekend. **Chip** (00:16:39:02 - 00:16:59:11): Yeah, I think it's something that needs to happen more often. It's just like that staring off. I still think about you watching the live feed every morning when we go to work. And just to be able to see those, what is it called, like the fractals? Do you? I'm talking about now, I don't want to get to new agey here, but, like, you know, a fractal, like, looking at, like, just taking in. Yeah. Looking at, like, the water or looking at, like the trees. Like being in nature. Like seeing the leaves in the trees. It just does something. It. Yeah. Literally resets your brain a little bit. And, let me tell you, my brain needs a little reset. And every now and then. **Thomas** (00:17:15:01 - 00:17:34:08): Oh, yeah, for sure. I'm. I'm just primed for it. You and I'm so excited. We're going to Hawaii. It's the, the next trip on my docket. I don't really have anything between now and then, so it's like all eyes on that. And, this weekend, dude, I had a couple of hours in the evening, by myself. Everybody else was asleep, and I got on the YouTubes and watched this guy called. I think it's Hawaii. Hawaiian Hammer's maybe. Okay. He's like this spear fisher that, lives in Hawaii and just takes you underwater, and, like, I, he must be able to hold his breath for just ever. Because he is down, like, 100ft. Yeah. On the ocean floor. **Chip** (00:17:59:03 - 00:18:00:17): Free diver. Sounds like. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:18:00:17 - 00:18:02:01): Doing his fishing thing. **Chip** (00:18:02:01 - 00:18:08:01): So where is he? Spearing fish at the bottom of the ocean? Yes. So he's going into their house? **Thomas** (00:18:08:02 - 00:18:08:18): Yeah. **Chip** (00:18:08:20 - 00:18:15:12): And doing that, like breaking and entering, not just waiting for them to come up to surface and try to spare him. He's going down there. **Thomas** (00:18:15:14 - 00:18:24:05): Well, and it's like breaking a entering. It's if you. He narrates the whole thing and it's, done in a very respectful way. Okay. That makes sense. He's like I. **Chip** (00:18:24:05 - 00:18:30:23): Get yeah, I didn't I don't disparage in that. But like he's he's taking it to their to their house and doing that. It's it's impressive. **Thomas** (00:18:30:23 - 00:18:46:11): He's hunting under the water and do it is but it's always like he's got a chef with him and there's always like some other thing, like we're going camping for four days. Everything. Most of what we eat. I'm going to go catch. And then this chef is going to prepare it. And we'll show you how he does that. And then we'll taste it and everything. It's a whole experience, but it is a great way to just spend a little time in Hawaii, spend a little time under the ocean. The soothing, just visuals and sounds. It's, it's a really good time. And, it just tickled my brain again. **Chip** (00:19:05:09 - 00:19:07:16): It resets it. I think that's I think that's what it does. **Thomas** (00:19:07:16 - 00:19:09:01): Puts me in a nice spot. **Chip** (00:19:09:01 - 00:19:25:04): By the way, speaking of hunting at the bottom of the ocean, I have an uncle, very wealthy guy. I don't see him very often, but. Great guy. A couple months ago, maybe about a year ago, he actually went down in this little submarine to look for the Titanic. **Thomas** (00:19:25:06 - 00:19:26:00): Oh, no. **Chip** (00:19:26:01 - 00:19:36:02): I'm not sure if he found it yet. I don't again, I don't see him. We missed him at things at Thanksgiving, a Christmas this year. So, But hopefully he found it and reset his brain. **Thomas** (00:19:36:04 - 00:19:38:17): Yeah. **Chip** (00:19:38:19 - 00:19:39:11): Fun things. **Thomas** (00:19:39:13 - 00:19:45:19): Yeah. We, I actually like, after the podcast. I gotta have something to to talk or talk to you about. **Chip** (00:19:45:21 - 00:19:48:17): Something monumental, I bet. **Thomas** (00:19:48:19 - 00:20:02:05): I mean, maybe monument worthy if he was wealthy enough, maybe monument worthy. Okay. Well, Chip, speaking of that, that's like a pretty luxurious thing to do for a trip going down to the bottom of the ocean. **Chip** (00:20:02:05 - 00:20:03:23): Yeah, like. **Thomas** (00:20:04:01 - 00:20:10:16): There is a breed of new luxury travelers that have emerged on the scene. **Chip** (00:20:10:16 - 00:20:25:11): There's been some articles out and I think it really is. It's a movement and it's just a cultural thing. It's a shift. We don't need to do the same things we did 20, 30, 40, 70 years ago. Now, the Ritz-Carlton apparently is really taking the helm on this, of course. Height a luxury. **Thomas** (00:20:25:11 - 00:20:27:02): The Ritz-Carlton love the Ritz-Carlton. **Chip** (00:20:27:02 - 00:20:46:16): They have wisely seen that younger travelers, the newer generations, are people that age. They don't want luxury like that. Like I always thought it was weird to. I will say this back when I was a kid, like in the 80s and 90s, like luxury was. Like stretch limousines and like big fancy mansions. Yeah. And all of that seemed very fancy, but it didn't seem fun at all to me. I was like, this is this is like weird old people stuff, you know, like the Butlers. And it just like, it seemed everybody's dressed nice, like, I don't want to be dressed up all the time. That doesn't sound fun at all, but it was expensive and whatever, that's what they were. They were doing. But nowadays, what the Ritz-Carlton is seeing, they're not seeing the same people that want this five star, classic five star service with the white gloves and the China and the fancy formal dinners. Yeah, they instead of that, they're seeing younger generations, they, they're seeing, they want I think they call it authentic cultural immersions. They want, you know, intuitive service and, you know, just like a more realistic experience, like they rather than something fancy rather than a thing or a space, they want a real experience, a cultural experience that, that they won't forget. And so that's what, that's what they're trying it. So instead of doing that white glove service with the butler and the whatever, it's like, no, we'll give you you are you're out there in the world, you're a little more casual. You want to see the world as it is rather than going to a resort in a foreign land and then just staying in that resort in a fancy place, it's like, no, we want to go out and see what the people, what the with the floor, with the fauna is all about and really get that experience. I think that's really cool that I do. You know who I credit for for a big shift of this. **Thomas** (00:22:24:09 - 00:22:25:06): I'd love to hear. **Chip** (00:22:25:09 - 00:22:43:08): I think it's an Anthony Bourdain thing. The late Anthony Bourdain. Yeah. Rather than like, hey, lifestyles of the Rich and famous Robin Leach back old school stuff of like, you know, these buffet. He's like, look, no, here's the best food in the world. It's street food in Thailand or or whatever it is, you know, go to Vietnam and just some, like little village. And that's what people want now. And they're willing to pay for it because people see how some of these people have the money, which, hey, good for them, God bless him. Yeah. But instead of that fancy treatment, they were like, no, we want to get out there. And, and really experience, where we're traveling to. **Thomas** (00:22:58:21 - 00:23:11:12): That feels spot on with, I mean, at least my learnings. Not that I'm the biggest luxury travel guy in the world, but yeah, when it comes down to it, what I really want is a very comfortable room. **Chip** (00:23:11:14 - 00:23:12:11): Yes. **Thomas** (00:23:12:13 - 00:23:17:17): And then I want to see and experience some stuff. I'm not going to see an experience. Oh that's it exactly. **Chip** (00:23:17:22 - 00:23:18:06): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:23:18:06 - 00:23:22:19): That's it. That's that's a very, very nice thing to do. **Chip** (00:23:22:20 - 00:23:40:19): It's like going on a cruise. Okay. This is what I was saying. Let's go back to the cruise idea. Yeah. That we've never been on. But it's like going on a fancy cruise that has like five stops in the Caribbean, let's say. Right, but just never bothering to get off the ship. That's kind of what it's like. But it's like, no, get off the ship, go see the world. Let's see how this happens. And by the way, there is a, a woman for the Ritz-Carlton. It's the Ritz-Carlton is owned by Marriott International. Yeah. And they quoted Tina Edmondson, big. **Thomas** (00:23:54:05 - 00:23:54:20): Ten. **Chip** (00:23:54:20 - 00:24:01:22): Big teen. Shout out. She literally has the greatest job title I've ever heard in my entire life. **Thomas** (00:24:02:01 - 00:24:02:18): What is it? **Chip** (00:24:02:20 - 00:24:08:10): Tina Edmondson is the president of luxury. Oh, wow. I mean, that's. **Thomas** (00:24:08:10 - 00:24:10:13): Right up there with the president of show business. **Chip** (00:24:10:15 - 00:24:33:22): He is. Exactly. Yes, yes, I am the mayor of sunshine. I am the CEO of Chocolate Fudge Lake. It just. I don't even know what that means. But she is apparently the president of luxury for Marriott International. And she's like, yeah, luxury is changing. It's not about this fancy, stuffy stuff. It's about getting out there and really experiencing the culture. I think that's cool. **Thomas** (00:24:34:14 - 00:24:36:22): Less Robin Leach, more Robin. **Chip** (00:24:36:22 - 00:24:39:22): Hood. Look at you, Thomas. That's exactly. It's exactly what. Is. Less Robin Quivers and more Robin Williams. See, doesn't make sense. But it's two Robin's that I know. **Thomas** (00:24:46:13 - 00:24:49:04): Yeah I mean that's a Robin Givens. **UNRESOLVED** (00:24:49:06 - 00:24:51:14): That boom. **Chip** (00:24:51:14 - 00:25:17:21): Thomas boom. Here's what I would do I, I think you and I can get on this bandwagon and maybe some of the burnt ones here. Maybe we set up our own tourist travel company, travel agency that takes these seem to be very wealthy people. They still want a five star experience, but it's a different type of experience. But really immerse them into the culture more, but give them a real life experience. **Thomas** (00:25:17:23 - 00:25:25:12): For me, I don't think it gets any more real than doing a couple shifts as a local police officer. **Chip** (00:25:25:14 - 00:25:34:22): That's what it is like. Just put on the uniform, give them a whistle and a gun. Yeah, and let them direct traffic in downtown San Pablo. **Thomas** (00:25:35:00 - 00:25:54:06): Yeah, I think you got to work. I think you got to work, and you got to deal face on with some of the local problems, you know? Yeah, because anybody can. You can swoop in. You can have somebody get you a nice reservation at a delicious meal. We've got delicious meals all over the world from all kinds of cuisines. What you need to do if you want to really get your fingers in to a community, to a culture, is deal with their most problematic people. **Chip** (00:26:03:14 - 00:26:07:11): Yet on face to face. Here's like I have a couple examples. **Thomas** (00:26:07:13 - 00:26:08:18): Okay, hit me. **Chip** (00:26:08:20 - 00:26:13:07): Okay. Instead of a Sunset Harbor yacht cruise. **Thomas** (00:26:13:09 - 00:26:14:06): That sounds nice to me. **Chip** (00:26:14:06 - 00:26:34:14): Actually ship it does sound nice. Yeah, but it's a little fancy. Could be a little hoity toity, depending on how it is. Okay, instead of the harbor yacht cruise, you could go on an expedition where we. Here's what we do. We blindfold you, we throw you in the back of a van and drop you off in a small village 30 miles outside of town. **Thomas** (00:26:34:20 - 00:26:35:05): **Chip** (00:26:35:09 - 00:26:50:17): Where you don't need shoes on, no wallet, no phone. And you have to make your way back to the hotel. It's like. It's like the opposite of an escape room. You see these, like, luxury safaris that people go on really? **Thomas** (00:26:50:17 - 00:26:57:05): White glove service. They're out there on the Sahara. Yeah, in a nice jeep. **Chip** (00:26:57:07 - 00:27:02:20): What about this? Okay. I think you're getting a more again immersive experience. **Thomas** (00:27:02:21 - 00:27:03:21): **Chip** (00:27:03:23 - 00:27:07:06): Instead of being on that hoity toity safari. **Thomas** (00:27:07:10 - 00:27:09:02): Yeah. **Chip** (00:27:09:04 - 00:27:18:06): You are sold to a group of poachers who tie you to the back of their jeep and drag you through the Serengeti as rhino bait. **Thomas** (00:27:18:06 - 00:27:19:20): That's an authentic experience. **Chip** (00:27:19:23 - 00:27:28:01): You're being dragged behind a jeep. There's rhinos literally chasing after you. How do you taste the culture? More than that. **Thomas** (00:27:28:01 - 00:27:34:13): Yeah, dude, you got to be on the tip of that horn before you really experience what it's like to be a local. **Chip** (00:27:34:13 - 00:27:56:18): It's running with the bulls or being dragged with the rhinos, I think. Yeah, I think being dragged with the rhinos is going to be the new running with the bulls. I think we can I think we can make that happen. And then finally, I think this one requires a lot more skill on your part, and the odds are just as good that the stakes okay, instead of going to see a polo match. **Thomas** (00:27:56:20 - 00:28:00:22): Yeah. Okay. Men on horses whacking balls with mallets. **Chip** (00:28:01:00 - 00:28:03:01): Right. And who doesn't love that? **Thomas** (00:28:03:03 - 00:28:03:12): Yeah. **Chip** (00:28:03:14 - 00:28:23:14): You're airdropped into a secluded tribe of cannibals, and you have six hours to convince them that you're not human and should be eaten, but that you are the rain God that should be worshiped for the upcoming flood season. And you have six hours to convince this tribe that does not speak English, that you are the rain God. **Thomas** (00:28:23:20 - 00:28:26:01): Now that's a real authentic experience. **Chip** (00:28:26:01 - 00:28:26:10): Isn't. **Thomas** (00:28:26:10 - 00:28:33:09): It? Not traditional luxury. Yeah, but it's exciting. Yeah, it's it's mentally satisfying. It's stimulating. **Chip** (00:28:33:09 - 00:28:38:01): It's hands on. You are your hands on your work. You're rolling your sleeves up with this. **Thomas** (00:28:38:01 - 00:28:50:09): I think it's also connecting you to a higher power too, because when you have six hours and you need to prove that you can make it rain, you need a little help from whoever actually makes it right. You know what I mean? **Chip** (00:28:50:12 - 00:28:52:12): You need to dig deep. **Thomas** (00:28:52:16 - 00:29:03:23): As always, you need to claim that trademark. It, trademark these ideas. TM because we do know that the president and I'm assuming there's a vice president of luxury. **Chip** (00:29:04:03 - 00:29:04:19): **Thomas** (00:29:04:21 - 00:29:15:03): Are listening to this podcast. Yeah. The whole travel industry does especially on the higher end. Yes. It really is their water cooler talk in the industry. **Chip** (00:29:15:03 - 00:29:23:14): Could you imagine the water in that water cooler. How nice that water is. Ice cold. Probably got bubbles in. **Thomas** (00:29:23:16 - 00:29:24:20): It with gas. **Chip** (00:29:25:01 - 00:29:28:08): I think it's a bubbly cooler. It's literally called a bubble or some places. **Thomas** (00:29:28:08 - 00:29:29:03): That makes sense. **Chip** (00:29:29:08 - 00:29:53:07): I'm feeling that could be over. And maybe, you know, for any companies overseas that do this instead of the president of luxury, maybe you are the prime minister of opulence. Same thing. We're willing to sell our package to you, to bring these, these young upstarts with the means to be drugged behind a Jeep as rhino bait. And by the way, when you yelp, review that you're. Nobody's given anything less than five stars. **Thomas** (00:29:59:21 - 00:30:12:10): We should mention that there's no ratings. Like nobody's been able to rate it. Like, I think you need thumbs to rate. And a lot of people have been doing the Rhino drag. The rhino bait treatment. **Chip** (00:30:12:11 - 00:30:12:23): Yes, **Thomas** (00:30:13:01 - 00:30:17:17): Are kind of laid up for a while in a local hospital. Really experiencing that end. **Chip** (00:30:17:17 - 00:30:28:09): The local medical system. That's what we want to show you. And that's what you'll be able to do with our with our program that we're starting. I'm into it. Sharks. What do you think? **UNRESOLVED** (00:30:28:15 - 00:30:31:05): **Thomas** (00:30:31:06 - 00:30:35:15): I love that the sharks do watch, too. Yeah. Mark. Mark Cuban's a huge fan of us. **Chip** (00:30:35:16 - 00:30:38:18): Loves loves the, the summer podcast. **Thomas** (00:30:38:23 - 00:30:48:02): He likes the mixture of comedy, tropical travel. He's a big fan of tires. And your stand up exact. It's, really his perfect storm. **Chip** (00:30:48:04 - 00:30:48:21): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:30:48:23 - 00:30:56:16): Yeah. Well, speaking of perfect storms, let's head on down to Key West, where there is a little renovation going. **Chip** (00:30:56:16 - 00:31:04:19): That's exactly what it is down in Key West. It's the. I should have gotten this right. I think it's the southernmost point of the continental United States. **Thomas** (00:31:04:19 - 00:31:05:23): And I think that's what it is. **Chip** (00:31:05:23 - 00:31:23:11): By latitude. And it's if you go down there, I was I was down there. I'm 99% sure everything's a blur, back then. But I think when I was in high school, I think I was down there and I think I did see this monument. And I'm sure you've. I've seen it before, like, it's, it's a it looks like a giant oversize Bui. Yeah, but it's, I would assume concrete. It's probably 15, 20ft tall. So I, you know, and it's this giant thing and it says, basically says southernmost point in the continental U.S. and you get your picture taken of it. It's like, right, the bottom of the last road, like at the end of this, like pier, I guess. Yeah, I remember that's where it is. And people get their picture taken. It's kind of cool. It's the, the yeah. You're at the southernmost point. You're at 0.0, you know. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:31:49:20 - 00:31:50:22): It's iconic. You can see. **Chip** (00:31:50:22 - 00:32:14:09): It right now. This year they're doing a bunch of renovations to that pier. And there's some seawalls that are being, repaired. And then this actual concrete structure is being repaired due to the winds, the hurricanes, the the ocean crashing upon it and such. So, it's going to be doable. So what they've done is they've actually made a smaller version. It's like a Russian nesting doll of this boy where you can still get a photo while they're doing the renovations. And, so they're not sure exactly if it's going to look exactly the same, if they're going to keep both of the monuments together, they might move the other one somewhere, just as a little fun, throwaway thing. But, but, yeah, it's, it's getting a makeover and, I'm off. I'm all for it. I think, I think there you could do other things, though, rather than just a Bui like, I think they're going to keep it with the iconic movie. I love the history of it. I love keeping it as it is. Yeah. You know, if it ain't broke, literally. Although I think it might be a little broke. **UNRESOLVED** (00:32:52:15 - 00:32:55:11): Don't fix it. **Chip** (00:32:55:13 - 00:33:18:19): I think there could be other things they could do at the end of that. You know, that pier, that road that's just at the very end, the bottom of the United States? The end. I think a fun thing to do instead of the bui get rid of the whole Bui yeah, itself. And I think it would just be fun just to get a big wall and just draw it, make it look like a bridge. And just draw a tunnel under the bridge that looks like you're going through it all. Roadrunner and coyote style. So then you just have a pile up of cars that are just crashing into this wall with a fake tunnel at the bottom, a Key West. I think it just has excitement. Again, going back to the cultural immersion, what is more immersive than going to the bottom of the United States and driving full speed into a wall at the where the where America stops? **Thomas** (00:33:52:17 - 00:34:00:00): Yeah. And what's more American than the art form we pioneered, which is the slapstick comedy cartoon. Right. Meet me. **Chip** (00:34:00:00 - 00:34:00:23): It's like jazz. **Thomas** (00:34:00:23 - 00:34:19:03): It is. It's very free flowing. Yeah, I think I think that could work. I think that, I mean, I not to take anything away from the Bowie, but a little boring. Yeah. Bowie's go. I mean, Bowie's have some natural motion to him. That's the whole deal. This one's kind of cemented in place. **Chip** (00:34:19:05 - 00:34:20:10): Literally. Could use. **Thomas** (00:34:20:10 - 00:34:22:02): A little action, a little motion. **Chip** (00:34:22:03 - 00:34:24:03): Make it a little more fun for the for the kids. **Thomas** (00:34:24:08 - 00:34:40:04): I just love that this, this renovations happening on the southernmost point. They're fixing things up. They're setting things right. They're making things pretty. It just reminds me of the renovation. I got done a couple of weeks ago on my southernmost point, when I got a pedicure. **Chip** (00:34:40:05 - 00:34:48:12): I really saw the parallels there. I think Florida is going to walk better. Yeah, they're going to feel a little spring in their step. **Thomas** (00:34:48:15 - 00:34:49:17): Yeah. **Chip** (00:34:49:19 - 00:35:03:00): Those those shoes aren't going to be as tight down to the bottom key West. Although I'm going to be honest with you, down in Key West, I don't think I saw anybody who wore laced shoes once the entire time I was down there. **Thomas** (00:35:03:02 - 00:35:08:02): That's what I love about it. It's like, why are you lacing it up? Unless you're doing a little exercise? **Chip** (00:35:08:04 - 00:35:30:10): I don't want to give away any secrets or project, but, hey, maybe it's manifesting. It's. What is it called? The the plan, the secret. That's that book where you just envision you put your vision out there. Maybe, maybe next year we're going to we're going to Hawaii this year, maybe it's Key West next year. I will say when I was I was down there again once when I was in high school, very briefly. I don't remember much of it. But then when I spent some time there last year with my brother when he was performing down there, it's a different world. It's, you know, say what you will about Florida and the lifestyle down there, but it's like you cross that bridge, then into the keys, and then you finally get down to Key West. And I mean, it is a journey. It's not just like, yeah, oh, hey, we're in Miami now. We're in Key West. It is like a I think it's like a three hour drive. I know. **Thomas** (00:35:54:19 - 00:35:56:06): Just are all bridges. **Chip** (00:35:56:06 - 00:36:16:11): Right. Just bridge, bridge, bridge into the into the towns, into the islands. Another bridge, another bridge. And, it's just like people like, have just they're they're just in a different country. It's it's kind of like, remember when you were in high school, you'd be like a junior senior high school, and a friend of yours came back from college to visit? **Thomas** (00:36:16:13 - 00:36:16:18): Yeah. **Chip** (00:36:16:18 - 00:36:31:15): And was like, oh, yeah. Yeah. None of this is real. Like, don't worry about I feel like that's what everybody in Key West is like, looking northbound to the rest of the United States and be like, oh yeah. Oh, that's yeah, we don't really deal with any of that more. Those rules don't apply. **Thomas** (00:36:31:17 - 00:36:33:17): Yeah. It's Narnia, it is. **Chip** (00:36:33:19 - 00:36:34:09): It is. **Thomas** (00:36:34:09 - 00:36:53:15): I don't see a version of 2026 at the moment where we don't end up in Key West for a little bit. Yeah, we got to get down there. I want to be mindful of hurricane season. I don't want to f with hurricanes. Yeah, we got to get down there. You know it noted home to the Jimmy Buffetts of the world. Many an author the Hemingways. It's just a yeah. Creative tropical boozy Paradise. Yeah. And, I, I think I'd fit in well chip. **Chip** (00:37:06:05 - 00:37:07:21): Hand in glove. Thomas. **Thomas** (00:37:07:22 - 00:37:09:15): We'll bring a little comedy down there. **Chip** (00:37:09:15 - 00:37:11:17): Manicured foot in flip flop. **Thomas** (00:37:11:17 - 00:37:24:23): We will definitely get our, get our sweet tootsies down there. And why don't we go? You know, it's going to be part work because we're bringing some comedy. Yeah, but it's also going to be part vacation. Yep. Yeah it. **Chip** (00:37:24:23 - 00:37:25:02): Is. **Thomas** (00:37:25:02 - 00:37:48:16): We're getting into a new segment. It's called Vacation Rules. And you and I have each prepared a nother rule that I think people can take to the bank. These are solid gold. They will help you have a better trip. They will help you get along with your travel companions better. They will make your time away from your home as beneficial as possible. Yeah, I pity the fool that don't listen to these vacation rules. **Chip** (00:37:52:11 - 00:37:58:06): These vacation rules rule vacation rules. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:37:58:08 - 00:38:03:18): All right, new segment. We're going to be hitting you with these every week. Chip, what's your vacation rule? This for this. **Chip** (00:38:03:18 - 00:38:23:09): Week? Vacation rule 135. If you're traveling with a group and you're in charge of planning the meals for the trip, take everybody's budget into consideration. We didn't all get a settlement from a scooter accident. Just you did. Let's just get a corndog every once in a while and everyone will be happy. **Thomas** (00:38:23:09 - 00:38:25:10): A PB and J in the room. Chip. **Chip** (00:38:25:12 - 00:38:26:03): Beautiful. **Thomas** (00:38:26:08 - 00:38:27:23): I think that's very, very smart. **Chip** (00:38:27:23 - 00:38:31:09): You don't have to go to a five star steakhouse for breakfast every day. **Thomas** (00:38:31:09 - 00:38:38:00): No, no. Yeah, you can have you can have a cow and granola on a gondola. Yeah. I mean. **Chip** (00:38:38:02 - 00:38:50:03): Well, let's watch our language. But yes, I think you can. By the way, I think that rule goes along with the new luxury traveler. Yeah. They don't need that fancy dish every day. They want they want some street food. **Thomas** (00:38:50:03 - 00:39:06:16): It's true, it's true. Yeah. You got to get the highs and the lows. You don't need it. Steak steakhouses every day at home. Why do it on a trip like you get 1 or 2 and if that's your thing. But, run the gamut, man. Try it. Oh. **Chip** (00:39:06:18 - 00:39:07:08): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:39:07:10 - 00:39:28:20): Try it out and be respectful of your travel mates. There are like there was an episode of friends about it. Sometimes when you get into friend groups, people don't talk about money, they don't think about money. And there are like, you know, pressures that people can get into sometimes because everybody just assumes that we're all in the same situation. That couldn't be further from the truth, especially on vacation, especially when traveling. **Chip** (00:39:33:15 - 00:39:34:15): It's the bridesmaids. **Thomas** (00:39:34:15 - 00:39:36:14): Principle. Tell me about the bridesmaids principle. **Chip** (00:39:36:19 - 00:39:53:09): From the movie bridesmaids, where, our main character, she just didn't have the funds to take that bachelorette party to Vegas. But then was forced upon her, and she had a rough time and took some Xanax or whatever on a plane and got them all in trouble. **UNRESOLVED** (00:39:53:11 - 00:39:54:08): And. **Thomas** (00:39:54:10 - 00:39:56:11): Got wacky on some zanies. **Chip** (00:39:56:13 - 00:39:59:21): How about how about you, Thomas? What's your vacation rule for the day? **Thomas** (00:39:59:21 - 00:40:27:14): This vacation rule is hard learned. I don't think I really believe anything more than this vacation rule. It is a fundamental truth about travel. It's vacation rule number 114. And it is the fact that you don't have to buy souvenirs on your vacation for your friends and family. You can wait till you get home. Go on Amazon in order of there, and no one will ever know. Just because you're going on vacation doesn't mean you have to stop lying to your family and friends. **Chip** (00:40:34:02 - 00:40:45:02): I love it, Thomas. It's so smart. You're on vacation. Then you, like, have to spend a half day at least. Like running around getting something for and and, And whoever. **Thomas** (00:40:45:04 - 00:40:45:13): Yeah. **Chip** (00:40:45:14 - 00:40:56:21): You're your boss's boss, and it's like, I want to be enjoying myself, so. Yeah, just get home, hop on that Bezos machine, and let him send him something from, from Paraguay. **Thomas** (00:40:57:00 - 00:41:00:20): And I love shopping on vacation, I really do. I love hitting the markets. **Chip** (00:41:00:20 - 00:41:02:02): I love these fun trinkets. **Thomas** (00:41:02:02 - 00:41:04:07): I love getting strange food. **Chip** (00:41:04:07 - 00:41:15:17): I got a new hat. I don't know if I know if I told you. I think I mentioned it in the last episode, after years of literally years looking for a new baseball cap that I liked, I got one on vacation up in Portland, Maine last week. **Thomas** (00:41:15:18 - 00:41:21:20): Oh, yeah. You know, you did mention that I'm a new mask watch. Yeah, on the, Maine flag. **Chip** (00:41:21:20 - 00:41:23:14): You got it, baby. You got it. **Thomas** (00:41:23:18 - 00:41:27:13): That's beautiful. I love doing it. But, like, here's the thing. Do it for yourself. **Chip** (00:41:27:15 - 00:41:28:07): Yes. **Thomas** (00:41:28:09 - 00:41:51:23): If you're going to be lugging this stuff across state or country lines, make sure it's something that you want for yourself. Focus on you and your family. And then when you get home, man, just just buy the, the Portugal socks on Amazon, have them shipped to your house, and then bom bom bom bom bom. Hand them out when you see your family. When you see your friends. If that's the kind of person you are, you bring some keepsakes for everybody. You don't have to do it there and they'll never know the difference. They'll never know the difference, especially if they look like something you saw when you were walking around those markets. **Chip** (00:42:07:04 - 00:42:25:12): Exactly. By the way, I, I think this is the perfect opportunity to, announce our, our newest sponsor, Portugal. Socks go to Portugal. Socks.com backslash sunburn pod for a 10% discount on any and all Portugal socks throughout the month of September. **Thomas** (00:42:25:14 - 00:42:43:22): And we do get a little taste when you buy from Portugal. Socks.com. So no, this is, you know, a little a little bit of an ad, but, we believe in them. They're the only socks we wear when we want to celebrate Portuguese heritage. And, please, please, please, help, support us by supporting them. Portugal. **Chip** (00:42:43:22 - 00:42:44:23): Socks.com Portugal. **Thomas** (00:42:44:23 - 00:42:47:01): Vox.com personal tax.com. **Chip** (00:42:47:04 - 00:43:04:19): Hopefully they learn. So I think that's a good takeaway that we've given that we've been on vacation many a time. And we just want to, instill in people some things, some shortcuts, some things, some do's, some don'ts to make your vacation, the vacation, everyone else around you a little bit better. **Thomas** (00:43:04:21 - 00:43:09:17): Yeah. And and keep coming back because we're going to have gold like this every week. **Chip** (00:43:09:22 - 00:43:10:21): **Thomas** (00:43:11:17 - 00:43:21:00): So that's it for vacation rules. Right now we are moving into something that is equally as exciting, equally as global. **Chip** (00:43:21:00 - 00:43:33:15): What is that? Wait, what does that do. We do. I'm sorry. Do I hear something? Wait. Do you hear something? Is that is that the. Is that. Hold on. Is that the cracking open of the good Book? Is that what I hear? **Thomas** (00:43:33:16 - 00:43:48:19): Oh, the good book, the Guinness Book of World Records. We're getting into it. Chip, hit us with your world record for the week, man. **Chip** (00:43:48:20 - 00:44:27:13): I'm taking you all back to a land and a date far, far away. July 3rd, one day before our country's independence. July 3rd, 2020. We are in the thick of the pandemic. People are holing up there, buckling down. But not this guy, Thomas. India's Kamal Killjoy broke the record for the most consecutive yoga positions underwater. **Thomas** (00:44:27:15 - 00:44:29:13): You see, this is important. **Chip** (00:44:29:15 - 00:45:02:00): This is important stuff. We as a culture need to come together as a nation. Society is a planet. Need to come together and do the important work. Like, come on, Aloy. Okay. What he did was on July 3rd, 2020, he he's, from India, but he did this in Vietnam for whatever reason. He went he held his breath, went underwater, and in one breath, he did 21 consecutive yoga poses underwater, holding each pose for at least five seconds. Oh, they do at least five for the. Yeah, it took him just under four minutes of holding his breath underwater and was doing all the pose. He was doing the poses like Thomas underwater, mind you. **Thomas** (00:45:13:04 - 00:45:13:13): Yeah. **Chip** (00:45:13:16 - 00:45:33:14): Without breathing. He was doing downward facing dog, cow pose, cat pose. Help me. I need air pose. No, seriously, I'm blacking out. Pose. And of course, he ended up with the floating face down pose. **UNRESOLVED** (00:45:33:16 - 00:45:35:19): So. **Thomas** (00:45:35:20 - 00:45:43:04): Could you check in there and see if he ever did? The Home Depot's. **Chip** (00:45:43:06 - 00:45:47:20): He he what? I will say he was very orange by the time we got him out of the water. **Thomas** (00:45:47:22 - 00:45:50:07): But he did make it, I think. I think that, yeah. **Chip** (00:45:50:12 - 00:46:12:14): He 100% made it. And, lived to see the day and set the world record, for it. I honestly, I'm going to say one of the most important life altering records that we've talked about or in the book in general, the most consecutive yoga positions underwater. And I will say it, he's inspired me. Kamala inspired me. Thomas. **Thomas** (00:46:12:19 - 00:46:13:11): Yeah. **Chip** (00:46:13:13 - 00:46:21:16): I think I have a record I can set. I think I have one in my sights. We were talking about the most people wearing Hawaiian shirts that I. Yeah, we can do someday. **Thomas** (00:46:21:21 - 00:46:26:05): I think we do. I think we're, we're a couple years out from that, but we're we're targeting it. **Chip** (00:46:26:07 - 00:46:55:20): Yeah. Yeah. But one that I think I'm going to try is the most amount of excuses given for not doing yoga underwater. So it literally just be me. Kind of like floating underwater saying things like, I don't have a good time. I don't have anything. You know, I think I did something to my back yesterday, baby, you know, I look terrible on those 30 minutes, you know, or just like something like, you know, just. And again, this was just rattling them off one after another. I'm just saying them underwater, you know, like the instructor, Justin told me, $30. And it's getting awkward when I see him. And I think I just come up with the most amount of excuses to not do yoga and just rattle those all off underwater at one time. I think we have a world record. I've been practicing for years. Above water. Yeah, I know I should be doing yoga. We were just talking about stretching before, the podcast started, and I know I need to do it and I just don't. And it's and I've come up with a lot of excuses and I think I'm, I think I'm ready to, to get my name in the good book for that. **Thomas** (00:47:36:13 - 00:47:54:16): Yeah. No, you've been practicing for this your whole life, apparently. I think I think it would be a disservice to yourself and his service to the Good Book. Quite honestly, to not test this out, not try and make it happen. So we'll figure it out. We'll get what do we need? We need the elements. We need a pool. **Chip** (00:47:54:18 - 00:47:55:13): Yep. **Thomas** (00:47:55:15 - 00:48:00:12): We need you. And a whole, you know, dry bag full of excuses. **Chip** (00:48:00:15 - 00:48:01:04): Yes. **Thomas** (00:48:01:04 - 00:48:17:23): And then I think we need somebody from the Good Book to come officiate. Make sure that you do say more excuses than anybody else. And I'm curious in your mind, I think I know the answer here, but he did those yoga poses underwater. **Chip** (00:48:18:01 - 00:48:19:16): Yes. **Thomas** (00:48:19:18 - 00:48:33:05): To the lack of his comfort and to the threat of his life. Will you be doing all these excuses on one breath, or will you kind of just be bobbing up and down? **Chip** (00:48:33:09 - 00:48:40:03): I think let's just say if you see the video, there's going to be some edits. That's all I'm going to say. That's all I'm going to say. **Thomas** (00:48:40:03 - 00:48:42:03): But unlike the Epstein videos. **Chip** (00:48:42:05 - 00:48:43:16): Yes, **Thomas** (00:48:43:18 - 00:48:45:16): We'll call an edit and add. **Chip** (00:48:45:16 - 00:48:47:18): It. Absolutely, absolutely. **Thomas** (00:48:47:22 - 00:48:48:23): Well, I love that, buddy. **Chip** (00:48:48:23 - 00:48:59:21): And I just want to say right now, Epstein didn't do yoga himself. Speaking of which, Thomas, you got a world record for us. **Thomas** (00:49:00:00 - 00:49:04:15): Dude, I've got a world record. And let's just say it's hot chip. **Chip** (00:49:04:16 - 00:49:05:19): All right, all right. **Thomas** (00:49:05:23 - 00:49:11:15): It's hot. So my world record is for the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth. **Chip** (00:49:11:17 - 00:49:15:13): Oh, okay. The hottest temp ever recorded on Earth. **Thomas** (00:49:15:13 - 00:49:20:22): I think we can all agree 100 degrees is absolutely sweltering. **Chip** (00:49:21:00 - 00:49:31:12): As Bobby Brown said at the end of the movie, too hot to handle, too cold to hold. They call the Ghostbusters and they're in control. So go ahead. **UNRESOLVED** (00:49:31:14 - 00:49:33:10): Okay. **Thomas** (00:49:33:12 - 00:49:38:07): So on July 10th, 1913. Oh, I mean. **Chip** (00:49:38:07 - 00:49:38:17): Okay, we're. **Thomas** (00:49:38:17 - 00:49:42:02): Going back there. This is a century. **Chip** (00:49:42:04 - 00:49:43:07): Plus plus. **Thomas** (00:49:43:10 - 00:50:00:12): Health record. The temperature reached 134 degrees. And Greenland Ranch, which has since been updated, to the much more appropriate Furnace Springs, California and Death Valley. **Chip** (00:50:00:14 - 00:50:02:10): I was going to say it had to be Death Valley, but. So. **Thomas** (00:50:02:10 - 00:50:08:16): Okay, Death Valley, it's where the hottest of the hot but 134 degrees chip. Do you know how hot that is? **Chip** (00:50:08:16 - 00:50:11:20): I mean, it's it's a that's it's it's. **Thomas** (00:50:11:20 - 00:50:22:16): Hot in that temperature. It only takes 45 minutes to bring a Susan Sarandon up to a Susan Boyle. **Chip** (00:50:22:17 - 00:50:23:21): That is hot. That is, Susan Boyle's is hot, as you can get. That just bubbling all over that pot. **Thomas** (00:50:30:20 - 00:50:37:12): That reference is only slightly newer than the record itself from 1913. **Chip** (00:50:37:15 - 00:50:40:17): It maybe was 2013. I don't know. **Thomas** (00:50:40:18 - 00:50:53:22): Also on the flip side, the coldest temperature was almost as cold as the record for the high as hot. It was -228.6 degrees. **Chip** (00:50:54:00 - 00:50:54:13): What? **Thomas** (00:50:54:15 - 00:51:01:04): That said, on July 21st, 1983, at a research center in Antarctica. **Chip** (00:51:01:06 - 00:51:08:10): Say that again. -200 watt, -128.6 degrees. Oh okay. I thought you said 200 okay. **Thomas** (00:51:08:15 - 00:51:09:10): I sorry I have. **Chip** (00:51:09:10 - 00:51:22:22): Okay. -128 degrees. Yeah I don't even know what that like when you're at zero degrees it's like I can't feel anything. Yeah. So then go 128 degrees less than that. **Thomas** (00:51:22:22 - 00:51:31:06): I just want to throw this reminder out to everybody with these extreme temps. Like, you don't have to be there. There's places on Earth where the temperature's perfect. **Chip** (00:51:31:08 - 00:51:31:23): No. Go to. **Thomas** (00:51:31:23 - 00:51:32:19): Those places. **Chip** (00:51:32:19 - 00:51:36:02): Yeah, absolutely. Go to those places. West, come. **Thomas** (00:51:36:02 - 00:51:51:08): With us and experience it in Waikiki this Thanksgiving. Yes, or go to San Diego, California. The weather's pretty great there all the time. If you are above 120 degrees or below zero degrees, you got to move. **Chip** (00:51:51:10 - 00:51:55:08): It's chi. I feel like it's kind of your fault if you're at that temperature. **Thomas** (00:51:55:08 - 00:52:18:03): It's 2025 and you're just sticking there. I mean, I, I know that, yeah, I enjoyed my time living in New York City, but there was certain points throughout the, the winter and the summer when I'm just like, why, why, why is anybody still here? Just keep going. There's just keep, keep going east, keep going west. **Chip** (00:52:18:05 - 00:52:41:20): Go west, young man. But go south. What you did then, what you did, Thomas, in that freezing cold and that hot, hot heat, you're like, yeah. You bundled up or slider down, and you because you are a true soul and a, a grounded man. You pulled yourself up by the bootstraps, you walk down to that. Store in Times Square. Yeah. And you filled the order that you needed to for the week. And I applaud you for that. **Thomas** (00:52:48:06 - 00:52:52:14): In that kind of heat you just are thankful for a thin candy shell. **Chip** (00:52:52:14 - 00:53:01:23): I would love to have a thin candy shell over my body at all times, or at least just to be. What if I was just stuffed with nugget? I don't think the cold would bother me as much. **Thomas** (00:53:01:23 - 00:53:03:19): It's chocolate chip Chantry, everybody. **Chip** (00:53:04:01 - 00:53:04:22): It is. Yeah. That is crazy. **Thomas** (00:53:07:22 - 00:53:12:11): The world's got a lot of different temperatures. Yeah. Get to one that suits you. **Chip** (00:53:12:14 - 00:53:25:18): Yeah, right. What about like, there's no. There's no world record for, like, the most perfect temperature. Do you know what I mean? Like, oh, it was 76 and sunny today. Like somebody should get that award I think. **Thomas** (00:53:25:20 - 00:53:31:07): Yeah. I mean, I think, I think living in that temperature is a reward in itself. **Chip** (00:53:31:11 - 00:53:31:22): It is. **Thomas** (00:53:31:22 - 00:53:51:09): But I do think, like we talk a lot about living a life that you choose, you know, being able to do things on your own terms, being the, you know, once one of the best forms of freedom you can have as a human being if you're wired that way and searching that out. But for me, temperature is a big deal. Like when I moved from Oregon, I didn't even realize I was a seasonally depressed person. **Chip** (00:53:57:23 - 00:53:58:03): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:53:58:04 - 00:54:19:05): Like Oregon truly is beautiful and it's great, but it's got just a couple of months where the weather agreed with me. A lot of times it was gray, a lot of times it was scorching hot and I was, I was down here for maybe three months before I realized, like, those little blues is aren't really dance tap dancing around this head. I think, the constant sunshine, the warm temperatures really did help me out. Get to get to where you belong, chip. You got to figure out where you belong. **Chip** (00:54:28:12 - 00:54:33:16): Figure out where you belong. And you belong with us this Thanksgiving in Hawaii. **Thomas** (00:54:33:18 - 00:54:55:11): I just I just I'm so excited about it. I can't even wait. And, Oh, good. You can get tickets to, sunburnt podcast.com. We have a little ticket section you can click on that. Or you can go to Blue Note hawaii.com and get them directly from the box office there. Those are the only two places you should be getting tickets to Chip Chantry Thanksgiving in Paradise. It is crazy how many reseller websites there are charging insane prices for the tickets. **Chip** (00:55:06:15 - 00:55:09:20): I got to be honest, I'm outraged and also feel a little bit special. **Thomas** (00:55:09:22 - 00:55:32:01): No. It's great. It's great to see that tickets have moved. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like it's great, but I do know, at least a certain amount of them are resellers. So just go to our website to those websites before it's too late. Yeah. It's much more reasonable than, you know, anything on StubHub or whatever right now. Go to those websites, get the tickets. And we did have our best week of ticket sales ever last week. **Chip** (00:55:39:17 - 00:55:40:13): It's happening. **Thomas** (00:55:40:15 - 00:56:04:14): So especially if you're interested in the Early Show, go check it out. Go scoop them up right now. It's the day before Thanksgiving and it's in Paradise. You know, especially the Late Show, too. That's after the sun's gone down. There's not really anything else going on. Yep. You can come have a world class night of comedy. Chip's going to be running his new hour. And you'll be around a lot of people that are freaking pumped to be in Hawaii. Celebrate some comedy, have chosen to leave the cold and the dishes behind and do something new this year. **Chip** (00:56:16:03 - 00:56:19:00): Yeah, we're doing it. All right, check it. **Thomas** (00:56:19:02 - 00:56:29:09): And you know who? Who really is the archetype for carving your own path? For living a life that nobody else chose for you, but you chose for yourself. **Chip** (00:56:29:09 - 00:56:34:09): He is a man that we all know. His name starts with Jay. **Thomas** (00:56:34:11 - 00:56:34:19): Yep. **Chip** (00:56:35:00 - 00:56:39:15): And he has a very powerful message to teach all of us about living a good life. **Thomas** (00:56:39:15 - 00:56:43:10): It's true. We're talking about Mister Jimmy Buffett and here are. **Chip** (00:56:43:10 - 00:56:46:17): Oh that guy. Oh that one okay. Go ahead go ahead. **Thomas** (00:56:46:18 - 00:56:49:21): You're trying to do Jimmy Kimmel again. **Chip** (00:56:49:23 - 00:56:50:15): Yes. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:56:50:15 - 00:56:55:13): That's yeah I mean great. Also a pretty great life. I'd have to imagine. **Chip** (00:56:55:19 - 00:56:58:08): Sure. I was thinking Jesus, but go ahead. **UNRESOLVED** (00:56:58:10 - 00:57:02:09): Oh, okay. Okay. **Thomas** (00:57:02:10 - 00:57:05:11): I forgot how devout you've become recently, Chuck. **Chip** (00:57:05:13 - 00:57:08:20): Yeah. It's, you need something to do on Sundays this time? **UNRESOLVED** (00:57:08:20 - 00:57:10:07): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:57:10:09 - 00:57:13:21): That's true. Yeah. There. There's nothing going on on Sundays this time of year. **Chip** (00:57:13:22 - 00:57:19:22): Before. Yeah, it's before 1 p.m.. You can't watch a football game. So what are you going to do? **Thomas** (00:57:20:00 - 00:57:27:11): It's true, but we're talking about Mr. Jimmy Buffett. We got some Buffett facts. Chip, hit us with your fact for this week. **Chip** (00:57:27:16 - 00:57:39:10): Here's my Jimmy Buffett fact. If you sync up any one of Jimmy Buffett's albums with The Wizard of Oz, that which in those monkeys seem way more chill. There it is. There's my fan. **Thomas** (00:57:42:11 - 00:57:45:13): That's that's 100% true. **Chip** (00:57:45:15 - 00:57:57:06): It doesn't necessarily sync up with anything, but they just seem like they're just. Those monkeys are flying around having a good time. That which is just. She's just looking for a mark, you know? **Thomas** (00:57:57:08 - 00:58:01:17): Yeah. I think I think the original song like for that it's like did that did not do that. At. 99. **Chip** (00:58:03:01 - 00:58:04:06): It's all steel drums now. **Thomas** (00:58:04:07 - 00:58:19:14): Yeah. Dude can you imagine it with just a little coral reefers riffing going on in the background? Those monkeys are just having a completely different experience. That which, I mean, maybe this is just an old form of zinc. You know. **Chip** (00:58:19:18 - 00:58:21:04): I, I think the green. **Thomas** (00:58:21:04 - 00:58:31:04): Might just be some sun protection. You got a foundation. And the, the gale force winds kind of just seem like an ocean breeze. I think that's real nice. **Chip** (00:58:31:06 - 00:58:38:07): Dorothy. Gale force winds. Yeah. How about you, Thomas? I think you've uncovered a very interesting Jimmy. **Thomas** (00:58:38:08 - 00:58:56:22): Oh, yeah. I've. I've really unearthed, some new information about one of his most popular songs. So here's my Buffett fact. Okay. Jimmy Buffett song Margaritaville wasn't originally about the town of Margaritaville. Fighting the cops on. **UNRESOLVED** (00:58:56:22 - 00:59:02:05): Long Island iced Tea town. **Chip** (00:59:02:07 - 00:59:04:19): It sounds like a horrible place in a beautiful song, Thomas. **Thomas** (00:59:04:19 - 00:59:09:10): It did have some darker thematic elements than Margaritaville. **Chip** (00:59:09:10 - 00:59:13:05): More back alleys, more corruption, less sunshine. **Thomas** (00:59:13:05 - 00:59:22:06): Yeah, it was grittier, for sure, but I'm so glad he pivoted to Margaritaville because I think that really put his whole vibe in the trajectory that we know it to be today. **Chip** (00:59:22:06 - 00:59:43:06): I mean, could you imagine if he made a name for himself as the Long Island Iced Tea Town guy? Like instead of 20,000 people having a great time drinking Margs, wearing Hawaiian shirts, living their best lives, he would go town to town, attracting 20,000 people, drinking Long Island's and just fighting each other. **Thomas** (00:59:43:07 - 00:59:52:18): Long Island Iced Tea Town is no joke. I mean, that is that's 15 different kinds of liquor and just as many kinds of trouble. **Chip** (00:59:52:18 - 00:59:56:20): It's the type of town where Morgan Freeman would be the new school principal. **Thomas** (00:59:56:22 - 01:00:03:07): Oh, you know, you know, you're in a lot of trouble. And Morgan Freeman has to come in and principal your school. **Chip** (01:00:03:09 - 01:00:10:21): I mean, could you imagine going to Long Island Iced Tea Town High? That is a that's got to be a tough high school to get through. **Thomas** (01:00:10:21 - 01:00:17:16): It's a tough way to come up. All right, well, Chip, that's all the time we have. **Chip** (01:00:17:16 - 01:00:20:11): We shoved a lot of vacation into a little bit of time. Today. **Thomas** (01:00:20:13 - 01:00:24:08): We crammed a five day trip into a three day itinerary. **Chip** (01:00:24:08 - 01:00:31:22): We shoved a summer's worth of European travel into one carry on bag. **Thomas** (01:00:32:00 - 01:00:40:03): I mean, and it feels good. It feels good because we didn't bring any souvenirs back with us. Yeah, we ordered them on Amazon. Thank you, Jeff Bezos. **Chip** (01:00:40:05 - 01:00:40:17): Yes. **Thomas** (01:00:40:17 - 01:00:56:07): All right, everybody, this has been the sunburn podcast where we talk about comedy tropical travel. Please get your tickets to Chips and Trees. Thanksgiving and a Paradise. If you're going to be in a Waikiki this Thanksgiving, if you're not, just book that trip and come with us. You will not regret it. **Chip** (01:00:56:09 - 01:00:57:01): Absolutely. **Thomas** (01:00:57:03 - 01:01:01:20): Until next time, stay burnt. Front desk. **Chip** (01:01:01:22 - 01:01:12:02): Hi. This is Mr. Chantry in room 308. I was wondering, did you happen to see in the lobby a man in a gorilla costume and roller skates, carrying a bunch of silly string and some water balloons? **Thomas** (01:01:12:04 - 01:01:14:03): Can't say that. I have Mr. Chantry. **Chip** (01:01:14:04 - 01:01:19:09): Okay, good. If he does show up, tell him he can just head back home. I decided not to propose tonight.