Waikiki Thanksgiving Playbook, Elevator “Crime Scene” & A Big 9.5 Quake 😂🌴 | Sunburnt Podcast Ep. 35

**Thomas** (00:00:00:00 - 00:00:16:06): What up burnt ones? This is the Sunburnt Podcast where we talk about comedy and tropical travel. To my right, as always, is my co-host. You know him from Netflix. You know him from his amazing stand up special Move Closer. It's Philadelphia's own Chip Chantry. **Chip** (00:00:16:08 - 00:00:24:15): And over here to my left is Emmy Award winning writer producer, and world renowned shallow sea diver Thomas O'Brien. **Thomas** (00:00:24:18 - 00:00:27:06): I can hold my breath for 14 seconds, Chip. **Chip** (00:00:27:07 - 00:00:31:19): You really can. And you know what? It's everybody's going for that deep sea glory. **Thomas** (00:00:31:20 - 00:00:33:21): Nobody talks about the shallows. **Chip** (00:00:33:22 - 00:00:35:13): You're covering that ground. **Thomas** (00:00:35:14 - 00:00:45:16): Find a place where people aren't. Where the good guys aren't trying to do their thing. And that's where I thrive. Baby I'm splashing around in the cream that has risen to the top. **Chip** (00:00:45:19 - 00:00:52:10): Yeah. Speaking about cream rising to the top, we have a creme de la creme episode. **Thomas** (00:00:52:11 - 00:00:52:15): Oh. **Chip** (00:00:52:15 - 00:00:55:05): It's frothy. It is frothy. It is whipped. **Thomas** (00:00:55:06 - 00:01:18:16): It's a latte. We've got a latte. Great stuff in here. Yeah. We did. We're talking about how to do Waikiki right over Thanksgiving. We're talking about a business that lets you go on a road trip with a celebrity impersonator. We're going to be jumping into more Guinness Book of World Records. We're going to be talking vacation rules and, Chip, you're never going to believe what we do last. **Chip** (00:01:18:16 - 00:01:20:18): Yeah, man, I can't lay it on me. **Thomas** (00:01:20:20 - 00:01:25:16): You've got to stick around to the end because we're doing some, Buffett facts. **Chip** (00:01:25:20 - 00:01:30:03): Buffett facts. Buffett facts. Buffet perks. **Thomas** (00:01:30:05 - 00:01:40:21): All right. This is sunburnt podcast. We talk about comedy and tropical travel. If you would like a sandwich with those two is the main ingredient. Stay tuned. **Chip** (00:01:40:23 - 00:01:51:23): Front desk. Yeah. Oh, that a buenos. No. Cheers, mate. Yamo. Memo. Did, the Buenos. No. Not me, Mr. Chantry. **Thomas** (00:01:51:23 - 00:01:55:04): Mr. Chantry, what do you need? **Chip** (00:01:55:06 - 00:01:57:19): Toilet broke again, dude. **Thomas** (00:01:57:21 - 00:01:59:11): I'll send someone up. **Chip** (00:01:59:11 - 00:02:02:04): Chip. Tommy. Episode 35. **Thomas** (00:02:02:06 - 00:02:07:17): Sunburnt podcast. The big 3535 is big. And that's why we're coming in. **Chip** (00:02:07:17 - 00:02:09:09): This hardship coming in hot. **Thomas** (00:02:09:09 - 00:02:10:00): We're coming in. **Chip** (00:02:10:00 - 00:02:10:23): Hot. Just like the. **Thomas** (00:02:10:23 - 00:02:19:02): Shores of Waikiki, where we will be in 41 days. It's 41 days. Is the countdown to Chip Chantry Thanksgiving in Paradise. **Chip** (00:02:19:03 - 00:02:42:01): Full disclosure to the to the listener. To the viewer, the, I'm not coming in hot. I'm coming in a little chilly today. It is. It's a little. It's a it's a little chilly and rainy. It's been raining all weekend here in Philadelphia. And, it's. I'm wearing jeans for the first time here during the podcast in a couple of months, and, the weather is starting to turn. It's great. It's beautiful, but it's all it. It was that beautiful, autumnal, kind of gorgeous golden time. And now it's just, like, getting cold and rainier. And, I am getting very excited to get out of here and hit those sandy, sandy shores. **Thomas** (00:02:59:16 - 00:03:15:03): It's important. It's important you got to go through the lows, mentally and temperature wise to get to the highs emotionally and also temperature wise. Yes. So, same thing here. Pouring rain in Los Angeles in LA. You believe the nerve chip? **Chip** (00:03:15:08 - 00:03:20:15): I mean, just the gall, the the the audacity. **Thomas** (00:03:20:17 - 00:03:44:15): The balls on the weather chip to dump just toxic water on me. I can't even imagine what's floating around. We had those horrible palisade fliers. We have. There's just all the cars, the smog in general, and it just gets liquefied and dumped on the sidewalks and faces and, and on the babies. Chip, think of the children. **Chip** (00:03:44:18 - 00:03:47:11): The rain babies is what you're saying? **Thomas** (00:03:47:13 - 00:03:49:02): The rain baby. **Chip** (00:03:49:06 - 00:03:59:14): We are going to be doing a fundraiser show, very shortly for the Rain Babies and, so keep an eye out for that. Go to WWE Dot Rain babies.org and donate or. **Thomas** (00:03:59:16 - 00:04:08:05): You're going to want to go, monthly because they're updating the site all the time. There's a lot of rain baby information you need to get to the bottom of. **Chip** (00:04:08:05 - 00:04:14:08): And we also have we have merch. We have merch. There's going to be rain, baby hats, rain baby t shirts, rain baby tote bags. **Thomas** (00:04:14:08 - 00:04:28:17): But also, we should disclose that Chip has changed his middle name to Rain Babies. Yes, and a certain portion of the proceeds may go directly to him and his, building out his basement, fundraiser. **Chip** (00:04:28:19 - 00:04:41:07): Yes. So that is that's a little bit of a different thing. And by the way, speaking of Rain Babies, you can also go to my website, Bane rabies, which is my new script for, Batman fanfic. 00:04:41:09 – 00:04:42:01 UNRESOLVED – Yeah. **Thomas** (00:04:42:03 - 00:04:48:01): Where where Bane gets rabies is even more aggressive, but also, often more tired. **Chip** (00:04:48:03 - 00:04:53:12): And it's it's extra scary because he's frothing at the mouth, but you can't see because of that gadget he's got on there. **Thomas** (00:04:53:13 - 00:04:57:23): Oh, yeah. That is scary. You don't want to see that gadget get filled with gunk. **Chip** (00:04:58:05 - 00:05:01:19): No, you don't. No, you do not. **Thomas** (00:05:02:00 - 00:05:12:09): But it is fitting. I just thought of this, and I think this is probably what you were intending in the writing of it, but, bats often carry rabies now that. **Chip** (00:05:12:10 - 00:05:26:16): Yes, the dots are being connected. See, this is why you always have a writing partner. You bounce somebody off that didn't even see that. So you're thinking that Christian Bale. I'm just going to call him Christian Bale. Christian Bale gave Bane rabies. **Thomas** (00:05:26:16 - 00:05:31:04): And his his first name is Bale, but he wants everybody to know his religion. **Chip** (00:05:31:04 - 00:05:37:20): Right. Yes. Yeah. That's why I usually go by Episcopalian chip. **Thomas** (00:05:37:22 - 00:05:39:03): Picky chippy. **Chip** (00:05:39:05 - 00:05:43:05): YouTube. Besides rainy how was your weekend? **Thomas** (00:05:43:06 - 00:05:50:11): Well, before we get into that but. Oh I think I think when it's rainy is the most important time to get a slather. Go. **Chip** (00:05:50:11 - 00:06:07:11): When it's raining, it's pouring. And you got to put some slather on just in case. Yeah, I think I told you. I think I told you this a couple weeks ago. I, I know I'm just becoming an elderly, elderly man because it was cloudy out and I was going out. I was going to be outside for a long time. And I put sunblock on and I said, I better put sunblock on, because on a cloudy day, that's when it gets here. I literally said that I was like, that's when it gets here because I am 83 years young. **Thomas** (00:06:23:11 - 00:06:37:17): I mean, it gets you when you're not looking, but it really does. I think that's true. It's it's not wisdom. It's mountain wisdom. You get up on the slopes, you're shredding, and if you didn't protect yourself from the sun, you can't even say you are burnt to a crisp. **Chip** (00:06:37:19 - 00:06:40:09): Yes, that's. That's what it is, buddy. **Thomas** (00:06:40:09 - 00:06:41:21): Why did you get into this weekend, man. **Chip** (00:06:41:23 - 00:06:58:08): I had a great show, out in the suburbs of Philadelphia at this, theater. I love doing a theater show. Theater shows are the best ever. Focus. Right. But I got to tell you about my, so I did, I did, I ran my hour. It's coming together. I'm really liking it. The crowd seemed to like it. I was very excited about that. And, I have to say, I had a favorite audience member, so my my wife and my mother in law came out to the show because it's it's in the home, too. It just happens to be in the hometown where my wife grew up. And so she wanted to go back to see the old, you know, the old stomping grounds and, yeah, get to see me do this little theater show and the doors, we're going to open it, let's say, I don't know, 7 p.m. and we were inside the theater, and then somehow the door got open and this older lady, this I would put her in her 70s. This lady kind of barged in by herself. **Thomas** (00:07:36:12 - 00:07:37:04): Yeah. **Chip** (00:07:37:06 - 00:07:45:05): She wasn't supposed to be in there yet, but I don't think realized it necessarily. And she comes up to the box office. She's carrying her own seat cushion. **Thomas** (00:07:45:06 - 00:07:47:04): Okay, busy. **Chip** (00:07:47:05 - 00:08:03:15): Because you never have enough cushioning. That's what I'll say, right? Yeah. And she just kind of, like, slumps up to the, the box office and she's like, what are these comedians like? Are these, are they going to be filthy? Is they're going to be filth. And I'm sort of overhearing this, but I'm like, I'm getting out of here. I don't need to be a part of this. I'm just you. But I was really just thinking. And she's like, are they going to be filthy? And dirty? Because I went to so-and-so comedy club recently and they were awful and filthy. And then she starts doing their act and let's just say, this 70 something year old lady was making the lewd motions that I'll just let you do the, because we're on YouTube here. The actions, the act outs that apparently these lewd comedians were doing, maybe with their mouth and a fake, I don't know, something. And she's like, and and they were doing this and then they were doing that. And then they were saying this, and I was like, that is disgusting. I don't want these comedians to do that. And like the box office lady, she's like, look, we don't police that, but I don't yeah, they're going to do that. So then the lady makes her way front and center, sits in the front row of like 100 seat theater. I love it. And in the middle of just dead center. And my. It just so happened that my wife she they usually like sit back, but they happen to be at the front. She and her mom and the lady decided she did want to split two empty seats, so she just sat directly next to my wife. Perfect. She then sit directly next to my wife and promptly fell asleep and slept through the entire performance. So much so like through the opener, through the feature, through my whole set. So much so that I just kept an eye on her, kept clocking her, to make sure that every, like two minutes she would sort of like jerk or move. So I knew she was still alive. **Thomas** (00:09:38:09 - 00:09:39:03): Yeah. **Chip** (00:09:39:05 - 00:09:52:22): And like, usually would call that out. Somebody's sleeping. But I was like, I this lady is going to scream at me if I do anything here, sexual or lewd or anything, even though she did a lot of it on the way in. So, I let sleeping dogs lie. **Thomas** (00:09:53:00 - 00:10:19:07): Well, if shouldn't call old lady dogs. Yeah, but I do have two thoughts. I do have two thoughts. And, thank you for sharing. Chip. This sounds like a challenging, conundrum to come across as a standup comedian. Two thoughts. Number one, in my sketch version of this, she finishes her tirade about filthy comedy and all the things she's heard and then brings the the the item you said she brought with her. Yeah. And she she goes. And in case you're wondering, this is just for the push him. **Chip** (00:10:26:12 - 00:10:39:18): Oh, by the way, I will tell you what she did. She did complain about that, then bought a ticket and then promptly went into the restroom for what was described to me as a half hour. **Thomas** (00:10:39:20 - 00:11:00:02): Man, the she she was getting ready to party. The other thing I want to say is, I don't think stamina is her big thing. I bet she falls asleep at a lot of these things. And I'm wondering, where are those comedians? Filthy. Or did she go see Nate Burke Gacy sleep through the whole thing and the filth she heard? She dreamt in her mind. Maybe she's got some hamster wheel spinning that are just churning out mind filth. **Chip** (00:11:07:16 - 00:11:15:04): She is just that, a Jim Gaffigan show. Dead to the world with some. Yeah, filthy, filthy night terrors. **Thomas** (00:11:15:06 - 00:11:19:13): And she's got a night Tourette's. Ooh, is that the name of something? **Chip** (00:11:19:13 - 00:11:21:11): Night Tourette's. That sounds like a. **Thomas** (00:11:21:12 - 00:11:25:07): That sounds hot. Dude, that sounds like something that would happen in LA, baby. **Chip** (00:11:25:08 - 00:11:27:23): It sounds like a Bob Seger album that was never released. **Thomas** (00:11:28:02 - 00:11:28:14): Bobby's. **Chip** (00:11:28:14 - 00:11:32:23): Besides Bobby's, besides Bobby's besides. **Thomas** (00:11:33:00 - 00:11:43:03): Dude, I love that. That's so funny. I had, I had an incident that was on the other side of the stage. I was in the audience. Oh, yeah. John Mulaney this weekend. **Chip** (00:11:43:04 - 00:11:45:09): Oh, somebody was in San Diego, I believe. **Thomas** (00:11:45:09 - 00:11:51:14): Yeah, I went to San Diego. It was, my four year wedding anniversary with my wife. We revisited the space. **Chip** (00:11:51:14 - 00:11:52:12): Happy anniversary. **Thomas** (00:11:52:12 - 00:11:55:19): Thank you very much. That you officiated our wedding in. **Chip** (00:11:55:19 - 00:11:57:20): I did. I officiated your wedding. **Thomas** (00:11:57:20 - 00:12:20:19): Yeah, we went back to the scene of the crime. You also committed many crimes. Couple he is a, you know, a wedding officiant. Also a very skilled pickpocket. Don't turn your back on this guy. Yep. And as part of the festivities, we went. Had a nice night out. It was at the Rady Shell. This incredible, a venue that doesn't look like it should even exist. **Chip** (00:12:20:20 - 00:12:23:16): No, it looks like it's from Futurama. **Thomas** (00:12:23:16 - 00:12:31:15): It is from Futurama. Okay. And it's so far in the Futurama, it's from a season that hasn't even been created yet. **Chip** (00:12:31:17 - 00:12:32:01): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:12:32:01 - 00:12:39:13): From my understanding, what some rich guy did was wanted to build an amphitheater in downtown San Diego. **Chip** (00:12:39:15 - 00:12:40:04): **Thomas** (00:12:40:05 - 00:12:47:14): But you know how amphitheaters are normally carved out of a natural formation that's already, shaped like an amphitheater. **Chip** (00:12:47:17 - 00:12:50:22): Yeah. An amp, an amp. You have to. Yeah. Kind of thing. You got to. **Thomas** (00:12:50:22 - 00:13:22:04): Have an amp to get an amphitheater. Yeah. He said, oh no, no, I'm going to build one right in the middle of the ocean. So you literally buy a bunch of yachts and stuff. It's surrounded by water on all sides and it's just a 10,000 seat amphitheater where no amphitheater should be. It's got this big futuristic dome over where the performer said, it's very, deeper than you think it should be from the outside, when you realize it doesn't cover any of the audience. It's a complete outdoor venue. And, it was incredible just to see. We had a beautiful dinner, then took like a ten minute walk right to the theater, got to our seats. Things were going great, the show was going good. And then maybe 20 minutes into the show that the only two empty seats for miles around get filled in by, two ladies that, that show up, and one of them is very alert and very with it. And another one of them is getting weirder every second we're there. **Chip** (00:13:59:11 - 00:14:01:15): Man. So you're getting two shows right now. **Thomas** (00:14:01:17 - 00:14:29:14): We're getting two shows. And, like, she sits next to my wife, and it's just like, you don't know, like, maybe this person has a learning disability or whatever. And one of the other woman was obviously the caretaker. So, like, I was like, maybe there is something like that going on. But as the night progressed, it just became pretty obvious that this woman had that, I don't know, I haven't been around a lot of like heavy drug users before, but I would imagine that's what was happening. And Jess degraded at such a quick level that, you know, there was a big no cell phones, no recording. Like, you will not be warned. You will be tossed out immediately if we see you doing that stuff. Yeah. So this woman is out on her cell phone. She's taking pictures. She's texting, which is annoying. All the worse. It's like everybody's here to do that, but she's wobbling and she's texting and then, like, she spills a whole glass of wine on my wife's leg, and, yeah, we're outdoors. It's chilly in San Diego at night now. And she's sitting there like, with a wet, wet, wet jeans. **Chip** (00:15:10:19 - 00:15:16:08): Yeah. And wet leg. Woman. Wet leg. Great band. Not a good situation to have. **Thomas** (00:15:16:09 - 00:15:19:03): Great band. Terrible experience. **Chip** (00:15:19:03 - 00:15:19:12): Yes. **Thomas** (00:15:19:16 - 00:15:36:17): You know, so the woman doesn't even apologize. I'm not sure she knows what's going on, but she is, like, getting more wobbly and more sporadic. And then she takes out her phone in the. This is like in the middle of we're firmly in the middle of Mulaney set now. **Chip** (00:15:36:21 - 00:15:37:09): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:15:37:11 - 00:15:45:04): And full blast. This is not a joke. Turns her cell phone up full blast and starts listening to voice messages. **Chip** (00:15:45:06 - 00:15:46:05): Oh my God. **Thomas** (00:15:46:10 - 00:16:09:12): And my wife is like, excuse me, can you stop doing that? And the woman's like, she's not even hearing her. She's just like, kind of like trying to huddle up in a ball, make kind of cover herself with her face, or cover her face with her hand and as like, she hears my wife, but she's not reacting. So me and my wife end up switching spaces like I trade seats with her to, to get in front of the crazy. Like we're trying not to let this rude, but it's like chivalrous gentleman. **Chip** (00:16:12:11 - 00:16:13:01): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:16:13:03 - 00:16:21:15): Being a really, annoying and inappropriate and also like, there's a wild card energy to it. You don't know what this person is capable of. **Chip** (00:16:21:15 - 00:16:24:01): And what's the energy the other lady. **Thomas** (00:16:24:03 - 00:16:33:05): The energy the other lady is she is trying so hard not to acknowledge that people around are complaining. She's looking straightforward and she's only like checking in and being like, are you okay? Are you doing. Okay? And like, you know, this is I would guess they're like in their 40s maybe. So then this woman just keeps progressively getting worse and worse and to the point where like she starts flailing against me, she starts like putting a lot of weight and trying to like kind of push me off of my chair. **Chip** (00:16:51:08 - 00:16:52:10): Oh my God. **Thomas** (00:16:52:12 - 00:17:11:10): It was very it was so weird. Yeah. It was so weird. And like, she just clearly was no longer there in person. Like, I don't even know what drug would cause she wasn't having a good time. She was having a terrible time. And I know what drunk looks like, right? I'm guessing it was part of it, but it wasn't the whole picture. There was something else happening and she was going downhill fast. And then finally, like, the woman is like, do you want to go? Do you want to go, sweetie? Do you want to leave? And, I she I couldn't hear anything. She said she was acting like a little child at this point and was like, staying very curled up, staying very tight. And, finally she was like, yeah, I want to go. And they got up and tried to, like, push their way through, like, there was only like six people between, you know, passed us to the aisle. Right. And she fell over three times on three different people. She couldn't stand up straight. **Chip** (00:17:46:05 - 00:17:47:17): Oh my God, it was. **Thomas** (00:17:47:17 - 00:17:55:17): Yeah, it was a very unique experience. I've never seen anything like that before. Very annoying. But it was so, so nice when she was gone, everybody gave a little golf clap around us. **Chip** (00:17:55:17 - 00:18:05:01): See, that brings everybody together then, too. It's like it sucks you have to go through it. But then at the end, you're just like, it just makes you appreciate her. Her not being there. **Thomas** (00:18:05:03 - 00:18:11:19): Yeah, we were good. And it was so, so hard. My wife's wet. She's cold like she reeks of piano grease. **Chip** (00:18:11:23 - 00:18:12:11): Sure. **Thomas** (00:18:12:15 - 00:18:29:09): So, hats off to her for pulling together. And, like, she did not miss a beat after that. There was, like, five minutes per, like, being a little upset that this woman spilled all over and then was being rude and whatever, but she got out of there fully recovered, had an amazing night. Oh, and we had one other incident. Chip. Oh, I totally forgot about this, till just now. But, you know, concert gets out where we're doing Uber. You got to give it a couple minutes. You got to find something to do. Yeah. So we walked into this hotel. It's very close. It's the Hyatt. It's actually where, my sister and brother in law had their wedding brunch the day after. So I've been there before, but they had this, this really cool rooftop bar area. It's like on the 40th floor. We went all the way up to the top just to see it kill some time before we call a car. And, on the way down, three elevator bars, hit the elevator, get inside. It was, like, already kind of going down, like, about to close. We hit the button, it opens back up. We go in there, there's two people in there, and they are acting bizarre. Yeah, like the dude has, like, a very frantic, weird energy. And the girl is kind of just checked out. Just a guy and a girl, clearly together. And there is like, weird, weird voices coming out of something. I don't know if it's the elevator or a phone or whatever, but, like, it sounds like a walkie talkie and somebody is like, talking about, like it's critical the police are coming, blah, blah, blah, that kind of stuff. And I'm just like, what? Did we just step into. **Chip** (00:19:54:17 - 00:19:57:06): A crime scene, I believe is what you just stepped into? **Thomas** (00:19:57:07 - 00:20:14:12): Yeah, potentially I don't know. Yeah. So it's one of those elevators where like, you have to pick where you're going before you get in. There's no buttons inside. So like, you, just you. We hit lobby and that door open back up. So it's going to take whoever's in there where they're going and then go back down to the lobby. **Chip** (00:20:14:14 - 00:20:17:07): Yeah. Trajectory. Yeah. You're just you're in it for the long haul now. **Thomas** (00:20:17:07 - 00:20:48:13): So I remember seeing they were getting off at 31. So it stopped at 31. I really didn't remember what they looked like. I just once, once somebody's acting weird. You try not to look and just. Oh, right. Best they got off. We didn't think anything about it. And we went to the lobby to call an Uber and wait there for a minute and while we're waiting, like two pretty well armed security guards come up and like, start grilling us. **Chip** (00:20:48:15 - 00:20:49:04): Really? **Thomas** (00:20:49:05 - 00:21:06:01): They're like. They're like, what were you doing in the elevator? And I was like, getting from the top floor to the bottom floor. And he was just like, did you see anybody else in there? And I was like, yeah, there was. There was a guy and a girl in there, and they got off on the 31st floor. **Chip** (00:21:06:06 - 00:21:06:23): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:21:07:01 - 00:21:19:00): There was like some weird talking going on. It sounded like a walkie talkie or so, like I told him that. And they were like. They were like. It was weird. They were, like, smiling. Like. But fake smiling. Yeah. Behind something very intense. **Chip** (00:21:19:02 - 00:21:20:03): Yeah, yeah. **Thomas** (00:21:20:03 - 00:21:40:03): I have no idea what was going on, but there's just like. So it was just you in them and you did not purposely tamper with the elevator to make it stop at a place it shouldn't stop. And like they were being very guarded, but asking all these very specific questions. Yeah. Like the tension in this conversation just went to its head. **Chip** (00:21:40:07 - 00:21:41:14): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:21:41:16 - 00:21:58:11): But behind these fake smiles, and I don't know, it was so bizarre. Like, I got the feeling something was off, but I still to this day, have no idea what was off. But, like, this was the security's security, like, at that hotel's ATM? This was not like, you know. **Chip** (00:21:58:11 - 00:22:00:04): Yeah. This is not just some pop up. **Thomas** (00:22:00:04 - 00:22:09:17): They were wearing different uniforms. They had, like, you know, they were they were armed up. It looked like. And something weird. We had almost gotten caught in the middle of it feels like. **Chip** (00:22:09:19 - 00:22:25:19): Do you think you like, do you think it's simple as the way that the security guard said you didn't tamper with the elevator? Like, do you think it was a situation where, like, it was just a couple? They, like, turn the elevator off and tried to, make a baby in the elevator? **Thomas** (00:22:25:19 - 00:22:27:13): Oh, it could be something like that. **Chip** (00:22:27:13 - 00:22:29:21): And then you caught them in the act somehow, or something like that. **Thomas** (00:22:29:21 - 00:22:37:08): Yeah, like they thought it was going to stop or whatever. And we, we shut up. Yeah. I mean, that's that would be a beautiful version, right? **Chip** (00:22:37:14 - 00:22:40:04): That's the nicest version I can come up with. **Thomas** (00:22:40:05 - 00:22:44:04): Yeah, yeah. I mean, I love a nice version, you know, man. **Chip** (00:22:44:09 - 00:22:54:13): Yeah. Do you ever you've seen that documentary about the the woman that ended up spoiler alert? It's a Netflix doc. She ended up in, like, the water tank. **Thomas** (00:22:54:13 - 00:22:57:09): Exactly what came to my mind at the Cecil Hotel here in the. **Chip** (00:22:57:10 - 00:22:58:10): Yes, yes. **Thomas** (00:22:58:10 - 00:23:10:05): Yeah, that was the first of Netflix's. We're going to show this to you in 18 parts. This could have been an hour. Oh, real strong, our documentary. Yeah, but you want 18 parts. You're going to get 18 parts, I think. **Chip** (00:23:10:05 - 00:23:24:00): Police blotters. I know you can look up stuff. Not that they were necessary of the police, but like, you should be able because you were a part of that. You should be able to get Intel. You should be able to call that hotel and be like, hey, yeah, I was in the elevator. I need to know what happened. Just for me. Just just for the story. I want to know what happened, you know, because you. Yeah, you had to go through it just like that lady. Like, I think you should be able to know who that lady was that dumped the wine on your wife and know what drug was in her system. I you should be able to find out. And then what happened to her the rest of the night? You should be. You should legally be allowed to know that. And with technology, we're following people all the times you. But you could track that. I agree you had to suffer some very interesting people. This this weekend, man, it. **Thomas** (00:23:56:07 - 00:23:57:06): Wouldn't be a problem, but. **Chip** (00:23:57:06 - 00:24:17:07): I'm so curious. That's the thing, too. It's like what? You would be a great, You know, cold crack, you know, cold case, detective, because you you're thinking. But instead of, like, who killed that boy in 1987? Yeah. What kind of nose drugs was this lady on that sat next to me at the John Mulaney concert? **Thomas** (00:24:17:09 - 00:24:19:06): Those are the cold cases I think about. **Chip** (00:24:19:08 - 00:24:26:08): And you have a wall in, like, your garage there with, like, you know, string to all the different pictures, you know, like one of those things just to this. **Thomas** (00:24:26:08 - 00:24:31:06): Just it's just a string from, h to booger sugar. **Chip** (00:24:31:10 - 00:24:31:22): Yes. 00:24:32:02 – 00:24:33:14 UNRESOLVED – That's, That's all it says. Question mark. **Thomas** (00:24:36:06 - 00:24:48:11): Question mark. There's so many more questions. And I do like that because these are these are questions. These are cases you're not going to take home with you into your everyday life. No. You know what I mean? It's like, I think you're trying to solve a murder. **Chip** (00:24:48:14 - 00:24:49:00): **Thomas** (00:24:49:02 - 00:24:56:23): Something like that. It's like it. This. This is a perfect case for the Larry David Detective Agency. **Chip** (00:24:57:01 - 00:24:58:16): Oh, Thomas. **Thomas** (00:24:58:18 - 00:25:00:23): Oh, Thomas. The LDC. **Chip** (00:25:00:23 - 00:25:17:17): Yeah. What would that be? Call not curb your Enthusiasm. But it would. But he is the detective. Like, just a hard boiled detective. He's like, it's he's in a noir. It's, you know, he's got one of those, like, offices that has, like, the frosted window with, like, his name on it backwards because you're seeing it from the inside. **Thomas** (00:25:17:19 - 00:25:23:03): Yeah. It's not Curb Your Enthusiasm. It is blank. Your curiosity. **Chip** (00:25:23:05 - 00:25:27:13): Yeah. Pique your curiosity. Yeah, but Saul saw it. **Thomas** (00:25:27:13 - 00:25:33:10): I think he's all about, nullifying it. Satisfy. Satisfy your curiosity. **Chip** (00:25:33:11 - 00:25:35:05): Satisfy your curiosity, and. **Thomas** (00:25:35:05 - 00:25:37:23): Then we can shorten it. I think it's just called satisfaction. **Chip** (00:25:38:01 - 00:25:39:04): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:25:39:06 - 00:25:40:22): Because it's going to be so satisfying. **Chip** (00:25:41:00 - 00:25:53:21): Yeah. And then. So it's just him just going over all of this, like, dossiers and stuff like that. And then, and then Jeff Garland just comes in, he goes, chief, I had a souffle and then walked out. **Thomas** (00:25:53:23 - 00:25:56:20): Nobody better in the business to do that than Jeff Garlin. **Chip** (00:25:56:20 - 00:26:00:12): They say that Jeff Garland taught me how to use an iPhone. **Thomas** (00:26:00:14 - 00:26:07:14): No, no, I didn't. I knew he had diabetes. I didn't know he had technical expertise. **Chip** (00:26:07:16 - 00:26:08:18): Expertise. **Thomas** (00:26:08:20 - 00:26:10:11): Type two expertise. **Chip** (00:26:10:13 - 00:26:29:13): Yeah. It was, yeah. He, Yeah, his, his agency was version three of the. I think he was at Helium in Philadelphia, and Todd Glass was there for the week, and I was hanging out and but just for the one night, it was like a Friday night. **Thomas** (00:26:29:15 - 00:26:30:16): Yeah. **Chip** (00:26:30:18 - 00:26:48:19): Jeff came in just for the night ahead line and Todd, their friends. And Todd was like, oh, so, like, I'll just feature, you know, we'll do, like, two man show or whatever, and like, you know, we'll do that. And so I went, I watched, I was like, oh, I'm going to go see Jeff Garland. And you know, I know Todd and saw him do a show. And then I went back and I don't want to bother him, but like, I wanted to see Todd and, he introduced me, and he was very nice, you know, and he goes, oh, you got there. It was literally the day I got my very first iPhone. Like, I had gotten it four hours before. Wow. And he's oh, that looks new. And I was like, yeah, just got it. Anyway. He's like, he was give it to me. And he sat there during the entire like lull between the two shows for like an hour and showed me like every app. He's like, oh, you can do this, you do this, you download this and it's out there, show me this. And it just got up on stage and, went and did another hour and then I never saw him again. So Jeff Garland taught me how to use an iPhone. **Thomas** (00:27:26:01 - 00:27:36:00): That is so funny. Jeff Garland. His, always been overwhelmingly delightful. And he's actually the reason I ended up at UCB. **Chip** (00:27:36:02 - 00:27:37:01): Really? **Thomas** (00:27:37:03 - 00:27:54:21): Yeah. That when I first moved to Los Angeles, I was dead broke, and he would do a show. I want to say it was like Thursdays, okay? And, he would charge a dollar and you would go there, and he would have. I mean, when I tell you he would have nothing planned. He would? **Chip** (00:27:54:23 - 00:27:55:20): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:27:55:22 - 00:28:07:18): He would have nothing planned. He knew who his audience was. It was broke people. Yeah. So the first part of the show, he would come out and just give away everything he got for being a rich person. **Chip** (00:28:07:20 - 00:28:08:12): Like amazing. **Thomas** (00:28:08:17 - 00:28:34:10): It was like golf club bags. It was box sets of things. He was just like, I already have money. People give me more stuff. I don't ask for any of this. I'm giving it away to poor aspiring comedians who are trying to slug it through Los Angeles. That's amazing. So he would come up for little games to give that stuff away, and then he would have on like, legitimately super famous or super funny comedians come to like, I think he called it the Jeff Garlin combo platter. Okay. And that was, somebody told me about it was the only reason I knew about the theater. And that's where I ended up getting involved and performing more. But, yeah. And he was just always super nice to everybody. And I have not really met anybody who had something bad to say about him. Of course, unless you read, anything in the trades? Yes. And then it looks like maybe he was having some troubles at work. **Chip** (00:28:58:16 - 00:29:11:04): I would say the first time I was ever at UCB on Franklin, but this is I'm just going to like 2006. Maybe I was out there for a bit and I went to see a show and it was it was still comedy death Ray at the time. So it was comedy death Ray. **Thomas** (00:29:11:04 - 00:29:12:11): Yeah. Before Comedy Bang! Bang! **Chip** (00:29:12:12 - 00:29:29:06): Yes. And Scott Ackerman was not there. It was, but Jeff Garlin was the headliner. But then there was a special secret headliner after Jeff, Mr. Patton Oswalt showed up. So I got to see that as well. And I still remember this day. The host was Josh fate, am I? **Thomas** (00:29:29:06 - 00:29:30:14): Yeah. Josh did as. **Chip** (00:29:30:14 - 00:29:51:06): A character, and, he wore a Superman suit underneath a quarter of a suit so you could see the Superman suit, like, sticking out. But he never referenced it, and he he was basically like a mister Rogers children's host kind of situation. And to this day is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. **Thomas** (00:29:51:08 - 00:30:08:09): A very dynamic performer. I did not see that act, but I do believe his profile picture on something was like a picture of him in a like garbage corduroy suit with this man poking underneath. Yeah, that's very funny. Yeah. You just want to know, like, what's he going to do with that? **Chip** (00:30:08:11 - 00:30:11:21): And then it just it never came to fruition. And it was it was great. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:30:11:21 - 00:30:18:09): It does not come to fruition. That is super funny, dude. Yeah. Well, enough about 2006. **Chip** (00:30:18:09 - 00:30:21:01): Yeah. Let's get into 2025. Let's get. **Thomas** (00:30:21:01 - 00:30:28:13): Into 2025. Specifically talking about Thanksgiving 2025, where we're going to be doing it and Waikiki chip. **Chip** (00:30:28:14 - 00:30:29:14): The Kiki, as I like to. **Thomas** (00:30:29:14 - 00:30:43:02): Call it. Yeah, here's the deal. I go to thank Waikiki every year for Thanksgiving. My family I have for four years. So I have a bunch of knowledge of how to go to Waikiki and have a great time as a tourist. **Chip** (00:30:43:03 - 00:30:57:13): And it's not that you just go, you've gone there for the last number of years, like in the meantime, you're obsessed with it. Like it's not just like, oh, I go, I've gone there, for time. It's like I go there and then all I do is think about it until I go back. **Thomas** (00:30:57:13 - 00:31:20:04): It's just such a great touchstone for me all year round. Yeah, I do think about it a lot. I may have even started a podcast or two where we just talk about tropical travel. I find it so enjoyable and so motivating to get a bunch of other things done, whether it's like fitness goals, whether it's work goals, whether it's whatever. It's like, I want to earn that vacation by the. **Chip** (00:31:22:07 - 00:31:22:22): Time you take. **Thomas** (00:31:22:22 - 00:31:47:17): It every year. So it just seemed like a very natural fit that this thing I think about all the time and want to talk about all the time, I would just expand and we would do the sunburnt podcast where we talk about comedy, tropical travel, travel and also anchor it with a kickoff event in Paradise the night before Thanksgiving in Waikiki. Because I'm always walking around and I, you know, obsessed with comedy, recently became obsessed with tropical travel when I was able to do it. So in order, we're throwing the show, the 26th, the night before Thanksgiving. Yeah. And, you know, people are going to be in Waikiki. I know you want to do it right. If you haven't been before, there can be some anxiety about planning a holiday in a unfamiliar location. **Chip** (00:32:17:10 - 00:32:20:01): You are describing me right now, by the way, Thomas. **Thomas** (00:32:20:01 - 00:32:20:17): I know. **Chip** (00:32:20:20 - 00:32:21:15): I've never been. **Thomas** (00:32:21:19 - 00:32:42:00): Yeah, you've never. You've never been. You're going there for a holiday, and, I just over the next couple of weeks, I'm going to lay out just everything I can to help you guys have a great time to relieve that anxiety and give you a little bit of a roadmap on the best way to attack Waikiki on Thanksgiving week. According to me, somebody who will be doing it for his fifth time this week, and hopefully it'll be useful information. But you're going to be in Waikiki. Hopefully you like Chip and I and want to come hang out with us and see the show. November 26th. We got one at 6:00, we got one at 930, and the 6:00 show is selling out fast. So if you want to see the earlier show, you're going to want to get tickets now and you're not going to want to go through resellers. If you just look up the event, you're going to get 200 websites that are reselling tickets at Crazy prices. There are still, face value tickets available at Blue Note hawaii.com. Go to November 26th. You'll see chips and trees, Thanksgiving in Paradise. Or you can easily get to that same web page by going to our website Sunburnt Cop podcast.com, and then just go to the tickets area. You will see the real tickets. They're everywhere else is selling them for incredible prices. But this week the little nuggets Simon be dropping are about the first day two days, three days. Getting to Waikiki physically and mentally. **Chip** (00:33:58:15 - 00:34:02:02): These are the key days. This is this is this sets the stage. **Thomas** (00:34:02:04 - 00:34:26:21): It sets the stage. But it's also the ones that have variability. The holiday days, the ones that you're getting ready for. And I'm going to take you right through Thanksgiving. All right. What you can expect, what you might want to do, what you might want to focus on, and just specifically the tips and tricks that I have found to just really ease into those first couple of days and then have a great Thanksgiving chip. **Chip** (00:34:26:22 - 00:34:40:07): This is a segment that Thomas likes. It's called just the Tips and Tricks with chips. With chips. I mean, I'm so excited. This is just like the lead up I. I walk me through it, buddy. **Thomas** (00:34:40:08 - 00:34:48:03): Get to start off at the very beginning. You've booked your flight, you've landed at the Honolulu airport. What's the best way to get to Waikiki? Yep. **Chip** (00:34:48:03 - 00:34:53:07): I'm saying a taxi, an Uber, up by foot. Just by foot. Hoofing it. **Thomas** (00:34:53:07 - 00:35:10:18): It's too far. It's pretty far. It's. You're actually dealing with, like, I believe it's over a 40 minute drive depending on traffic. Yeah, for my money, it costs a little bit more. There is a bus option. You can get a bus that takes you relatively closer to where you want to be in Waikiki. Yeah, but I've never done it. It seems like a hassle if you can afford it. Yeah, I think you just get the taxi. Okay? You walk out there, there's taxis lined up. I've done rideshares too. That's fine. It took a little time, and was roughly about the same cost. **Chip** (00:35:26:14 - 00:35:34:04): Rideshares from an airport. I always try to go for a taxi because the taxis or they're available. The rideshares always get wonky. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:35:34:06 - 00:35:37:15): Yeah, it gets a little wonky. And they've got lots of lots of nice big ones. **Chip** (00:35:37:15 - 00:35:43:00): When you say nice big ones, you're talking about the vehicle, you're talking about the vehicle is what you're saying. **Thomas** (00:35:43:00 - 00:35:56:11): No, it's, sumo culture, okay? And, the drivers are rated by the pound. Okay? So you're gonna want, big boy, a big boy or a big girl. Sure. That's how you're going to show that you're an important person on the island. **Chip** (00:35:56:13 - 00:35:57:02): Yeah, of. **Thomas** (00:35:57:02 - 00:36:20:23): Course I'm making that up. No. You know, I'm. I'm always going with my wife. We've got a little more luggage because it's a longer trip. I like a nice big taxi. Yeah, not the car I'm going to want, like, some kind of small SUV. If possible, if possible. So get in there. It's going to be a little touch and go a lot more traffic in Waikiki than you would think. But you're going to get there. You're going to get dropped off right at your hotel, and you're just not going to have to worry about any of the other stuff, which I think is important. After what is a minimum, a six hour flight. Yeah, this is where the fun starts. Now you're in freaking Waikiki. And if it's too early for you to check into your room, what you're going to do is change into your beach clothes and you are going to leave your stuff with the bellhop, okay. And then you're going to get your buns to someplace where you can grab a drink and a bite on the beach. **Chip** (00:36:57:22 - 00:36:59:15): And early check in, if you will. **Thomas** (00:36:59:21 - 00:37:16:10): An early check in if you will, as spelled out in our, what what do we call it, though? The world's craziest tropical drink contest. We tried to out crazy each other with tropical drinks a couple episodes back. Go check it out. It actually is one of the things people talk to us the most about. **Chip** (00:37:16:13 - 00:37:17:04): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:37:17:06 - 00:37:39:09): One of them was an early check in. Often you do not get early check ins, especially on Thanksgiving week. It is now a busy week. They are at capacity. You're going to have to bear with the staff to a certain extent. Not a lot of people checking out during this time, either. A lot of people checking in, very limited new rooms showing up. So sometimes it does take a little bit longer, but you can't let that get you down. You just got to look at where you're at. So you drop your bags off whether you get in the room or whatever, get your beach stuff and now you were going to go to, at the outrigger, the same hotel that the blue notes inside. You've got Duke's, and then upstairs from that, you got the hula grill. Okay. And then to the left of that, if you're liking the ocean, you're going to have the Moana Surfrider, which has a beach bar. And then a little to the right of that, you're going to have, the, Royal Hawaiian, which also has its own version of a beach bar. You're going to get to one of those four places or any of the other restaurants where you can see the sand, you can see the ocean. Yeah. You're gonna get a tropical drink if you're, you know, feeling like some booze is it's going to be a mai tai or a pina colada, of course. And if you are, you know, you can get a version. Version, a virgin. **Chip** (00:38:44:14 - 00:38:46:02): Version. Virgin version. Yeah. If you were. **Thomas** (00:38:46:02 - 00:38:49:03): A virgin, a virgin virgin, yeah, a virgin version. **Chip** (00:38:49:06 - 00:38:51:02): A four year old version. Yes. **Thomas** (00:38:51:04 - 00:38:58:09): Or I recommend a POG juice if you're going. No booze. POG is pineapple orange guava. **Chip** (00:38:58:09 - 00:39:02:08): I thought they were those, toys that the, kids would play with in the late 90s. **Thomas** (00:39:02:10 - 00:39:09:04): You know, you don't want to do that because actually, pogs are fine there. But slammers have been outlawed in Hawaii since 96. **Chip** (00:39:09:04 - 00:39:11:15): Yeah, because of the mongoose issue. Yes. Okay. Go ahead. **Thomas** (00:39:11:16 - 00:39:17:11): Because of the mongooses. And by the way, good poll had. Did you read about that? Mongoose is in Hawaii. **Chip** (00:39:17:12 - 00:39:28:07): I've heard about it. I've heard I read a book about, Tom Robbins book called Still Life with woodpecker, where it's just a it's a ridiculous book, but about. And he mentions about the snakes in the mongoose. **Thomas** (00:39:28:10 - 00:39:30:06): It's wild. They're like, they're, squirrels. **Chip** (00:39:30:06 - 00:39:31:21): So you see, mongoose is out and about. **Thomas** (00:39:32:03 - 00:39:35:16): Oh, if you go out and about, you're going to see some monkeys. Monkeys? **Chip** (00:39:35:17 - 00:39:39:17): Monkeys? Sure. Yeah. That's what I'm calling monkeys. Monkeys. All right. **Thomas** (00:39:39:17 - 00:40:02:03): So you're there. It's 80 degrees. You're sitting next to high 70s water. You can see the sand from some locations. You can see this big, beautiful, like, mountain range poking out. It's, called Diamond Head. Yeah. And it's this beautiful formation. It's a huge crater. It's right there on the tip of Waikiki. And you're having a meal. You're having a beverage, and you're just sinking in, like, this is the start of it, and you need to put some effort to getting there mentally. You're there physically, yes. But the first time I went, I didn't really get there mentally till like day three. I did not know that that was either something you had to prepare for. **Chip** (00:40:18:04 - 00:40:21:16): You're still in, mainland mode. You are. You are. **Thomas** (00:40:21:16 - 00:40:35:03): But you're here in the ocean. You're you're seeing this place that you can't even really believe exists. And then you're having a delicious burger and a beverage, and, you know, you're going to be here for days. This is your new reality for a while. **Chip** (00:40:35:03 - 00:40:37:00): Yeah, that's what it is. But I love it. **Thomas** (00:40:37:03 - 00:41:06:13): I love it, it's unbelievable dude. And then what I would recommend is, after that meal, you've seen the beach. Now go experience it. You know, you're going to get some, some towels from your hotel, lay them out on the beach, and you're going to get in that water as soon as possible. Yeah, it's. I can't even really explain what it feels like to come from, you know, normal November weather, especially if you're in someplace called. **Chip** (00:41:06:14 - 00:41:13:14): Guns N roses. The. There's a band in the 1980s and 90s called guns N roses. They wrote a song about it. That's all I'll say. **Thomas** (00:41:13:15 - 00:41:18:17): Oh, okay. I mean, I'll have to check it out. I don't. Unfamiliar, unfamiliar. **Chip** (00:41:18:17 - 00:41:22:15): Check them out on Napster. Yeah. Go ahead. **Thomas** (00:41:22:17 - 00:41:42:20): There's these things called ABC stores. Yep. Okay. And they are all over the place. Like, there are. They're like a convenience store. They have food, they have drinks, they have t shirts, they have hats. They've got like a little bit of everything. Yeah. And there are more of these stores than you can possibly imagine. They are all over the place. **Chip** (00:41:42:20 - 00:41:44:01): And they're called DC. **Thomas** (00:41:44:01 - 00:42:06:00): Stores, ABC, ABC like that. The letters. Yes. And what you're going to do is you can go there and get a floatie that you can use in the ocean. They're already blown up. I think they were like 12 or $14 last year. I don't know what they're going to be this year, but you go get them already blown up and now you've got a floatie that you can just kind of like lounge. **Chip** (00:42:06:00 - 00:42:06:13): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:42:06:13 - 00:42:07:06): Ocean with. **Chip** (00:42:07:07 - 00:42:08:03): Okay. **Thomas** (00:42:08:05 - 00:42:19:05): And you're going to use that for your whole trip. So go get it immediately. It's already filled up. And then you go right in the ocean dude. And the water in November is high 70s. **Chip** (00:42:19:05 - 00:42:19:17): Love it. **Thomas** (00:42:19:17 - 00:42:33:04): So I think you're talking about between 76 and 80 degrees on average. Sometimes it can be a little colder, sometimes it can be a little warmer. But the water is going to be most likely warmer than whatever you're coming from. The air is. **Chip** (00:42:33:06 - 00:42:33:23): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:42:34:01 - 00:42:52:10): So you're just you know, you've already had this great meal, this drink. You're in this beautiful place and now you're just floating, hopefully in a sunny ocean and really welcoming that vibe. And and you've only been in Waikiki for like three hours at this point, and you. **Chip** (00:42:52:10 - 00:42:54:20): Already got you in the Pacific Ocean. **Thomas** (00:42:55:00 - 00:43:06:04): All right? You're already in the Pacific Ocean. You're already like. I mean, it's the first time I was there, I was just blown away. I could not believe all this was happening, but it is happening, and you might as well enjoy it as soon as possible. **Chip** (00:43:06:04 - 00:43:07:07): Soak it in. **Thomas** (00:43:07:10 - 00:43:25:14): Also, I will mention right now the sun hits different by the equator. Yeah, it hits much different. So you want to get sunscreen up and you want to get sunscreen right? You don't want to kill the reefs or whatever. You want some reef safe sunscreen, and you're going to slather yourself up because you don't want to get burnt, ever. But you really don't want to get burnt. Day one. Yeah, you know what I mean? No. **Chip** (00:43:29:13 - 00:43:29:23): And then you're. **Thomas** (00:43:29:23 - 00:43:36:04): Just such a rookie move. You're not going to sleep well. You're going to itch the whole time and you're going to look like a freaking ding dong. **Chip** (00:43:36:04 - 00:43:37:17): Yes. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:43:37:19 - 00:43:40:13): Let's just it's not. A good luck. So sunscreen early? **Chip** (00:43:43:00 - 00:43:44:07): Yeah, absolutely. **Thomas** (00:43:44:07 - 00:44:00:16): Sunscreen early. And then, you know, you're going to at this point like for sure your room's going to be available. So go into your room, take it out. And then on that first day tired at times it's going to be weird, especially if you're coming from the East Coast. Yeah, you're going to be like six hours off. **Chip** (00:44:00:17 - 00:44:04:16): Yeah, that's that's going to be interesting because yeah, I'm going to be very far ahead. **Thomas** (00:44:04:16 - 00:44:32:17): It's probably going to be a little bit of an earlier night eat whenever you're comfortable. You're going to get tired earlier. But I will say if you can eke out an activity, and this is hopefully like Monday, Tuesday, you are going to want to there's, there's a couple different directions. I would take it. Yeah. I would say, clearly if you get there on Wednesday chips pantry Thanksgiving Paradise. **Chip** (00:44:32:17 - 00:44:33:11): Boom. Done. **Thomas** (00:44:33:11 - 00:44:51:13): You've you've got your new hour. You're running it there. I can't tell you. This is like born out of a dream I had. I just wish there was some world class comedy. Yeah, mixed in. I was like, what could make this better? And I was like, if there was a great comedy show, I think everybody would want to go see it one night. Because once the sun does go down, it's, you know, you can't see the ocean. Yeah, you can hear it. It's still great to be there. **Chip** (00:44:58:09 - 00:44:59:17): You can smell it. **Thomas** (00:44:59:19 - 00:45:19:16): You can definitely smell it. But I was just like, I would love to wander, right? And then when I saw the Blue Note, I was like, this is the place we've got to make this happen. Yeah. So go see that. It's going to be a really special time to spend all day on the beach, in the sand, and then just walk mere steps to the Outrigger Hotel and then go to the blue. Now, it's going to be really cool. If it's earlier than that, I would suggest two things. The first thing could be like a sunset cruise when you get there, if you see in any pictures of Waikiki, there's kind of like these, these cool look in, catamarans. Yeah, that pull right up onto the beach. Lower some stairs down and you can climb right off of the beach. In front of the hotels into a boat and then sail around Diamond Head, do a sunset cruise. It cost between 45 and $60 last time I was there. Okay. Depending on which one you take, you got book in advance. If you want the sunset, probably you can go online. Look, right now, we actually have one of them linked up in our Thanksgiving blog on the sunburnt podcast website. **Chip** (00:46:07:16 - 00:46:09:04): The flog, if you will. **Thomas** (00:46:09:05 - 00:46:29:04): The flog. Yeah. And you can take this boat with a bunch of other tourists. The one I took was Open Bar. Okay, so like, all the booze were included if you wanted to go that direction. Yeah. I mean, I'd never sailed before now, like, you just take a sail through Waikiki at sunset with all these people there blasting some fun music. It's a really good vibe. At least the one I was on. So, like, I think that that's a great move for day one. Really? Get there. **Chip** (00:46:35:23 - 00:46:36:09): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:46:36:09 - 00:46:56:06): The other thing you can do, and I recommend this every night if you can, it's just like walk up and down Waikiki Beach at sunset. There's so many different hotels. It is kind of like separated a little bit by price point. So like down on the southern tip of the hotel section is some of the more expensive hotels. And that normally comes with like, a little bit of a chiller vibe. But if you want to go see like a little more festive people there like, you know, getting after it. Yeah. And and, and more densely populated, you just walk a little north. **Chip** (00:47:08:22 - 00:47:12:15): Dude, what you're saying is, if you want to interrupt two people in an elevator. **Thomas** (00:47:12:17 - 00:47:31:04): Yeah, on the beach. Yeah. If you want to interrupt two people who are up to no good, you're going to want to move yourself around that beach to the perfect place. And. Yeah, hit every elevator. To and fro. But on the north side, if you walk up, that's where you're going to see the best view of the sunset. And like the sunset in Waikiki, is almost a religious experience. Like when it's coming, the whole place just comes outside and stands on the beach or stands in the little grass area and just enjoys it together. It's a really unique experience that I haven't found anywhere else. You're probably going to want to do that every night, but it's definitely available for you. Your first night. And then take it easy, dude. You're exhausted. Do not put pressure on yourself after you know, whether it's the show or your hike or a sale. Just go get some Zs. Go cork out in your room. You paid. **Chip** (00:48:09:06 - 00:48:11:10): For it. Sleep it off. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:48:11:12 - 00:48:24:14): Go get in there. And that leads us to the next day. Your first morning in Waikiki is going. You're going to feel like a super early riser. You're going to wake up at, like six, five. **Chip** (00:48:24:16 - 00:48:27:07): I love it. That's that's that's my M.O.. **Thomas** (00:48:27:09 - 00:48:35:22): It's really great. Like, I often wake up before the sun comes up. Yeah. And instead of just laying in bed or whatever, like, use it to. **Chip** (00:48:35:23 - 00:48:36:23): Do the time. **Thomas** (00:48:36:23 - 00:48:58:12): I will recommend if you are waking up on your first day in Waikiki, and it is not Thanksgiving and you like to do a little physical activity, I'm saying go hike Diamond Head. You got to go online. You got to reserve a time. It does cost a little bit of money. It's not much. I think it's like 4 or $5, something like that. But it's closed on Thanksgiving, so you cannot do this at all on Thursday. **Chip** (00:49:02:23 - 00:49:03:16): Oh, good to know. **Thomas** (00:49:03:20 - 00:49:28:16): Book a time to get there. If you want to do it that first day. That is great. You go in and it's this great park, and then you hike into the crater, and then you hike all the way to the top of the, the wall facing the ocean, the town. It's just this incredible view of Waikiki. It is not that challenging of a hike, but it is like, you know, a pretty significant uphill climb on a path and stairs combined. So, yeah, I, I don't know, it's just it's just a really unreal experience. And for sure in that park, I think you will be hard pressed not to see a mongoose or two if you're keeping your eyes open. I love it, even if you don't hike Diamondhead, you can just take a walk around Diamondhead. There is a, you know, road that goes all the way around it. It's one of my favorite things to do in the world. And, on the backside, it's. It's all ocean views. There's a great lighthouse. It's over there. You can see a lot of surfing spots. It's a really cool walks tag. And, it's just right there. And you can't believe it's so close to Waikiki. **Chip** (00:50:06:07 - 00:50:06:22): That's beautiful. **Thomas** (00:50:07:02 - 00:50:26:19): Yeah, that. So that's what I would do also. Or if you get there Wednesday, you know, you're gonna do chips and trees. Thanksgiving is Wednesday night, and then on Thursday you can join me and Chip. We are going to be doing A5K Turkey Trot. I tried it out in the morning. 00:50:26:20 – 00:50:27:23 UNRESOLVED – And. And, we do have the link for the sign up to the Turkey Trot on that same blog as well. Things to do on Waikiki Thanksgiving 2025 on the website. Yeah. So we're going to be getting after it, man. We're going to be getting after it, and then we're going to be doing a nice mix of physical activities, a nice mix of relaxing. But the truth of the matter is it's just the vibe there is so good, that it's all going to feed into each other and you're just going to be in a tropical Paradise doing all these different things. It's freaking awesome. **Chip** (00:51:01:23 - 00:51:05:19): It's. It's what we're building up to, man. I'm I'm so psyched. I am so psyched. **Thomas** (00:51:05:20 - 00:51:17:06): Which brings me to Thanksgiving Day. So we're going to do the Turkey Trot. I promise you, $1 million after the Turkey Trot, I'm going to want to do a float. **Chip** (00:51:17:08 - 00:51:18:01): Yeah, yeah. **Thomas** (00:51:18:03 - 00:51:26:05): So we're going to trot. We're going to float. We're just going to relax. And there are so many different options for Thanksgiving dinners. **Chip** (00:51:26:06 - 00:51:29:18): And by the way, what is from from the hotel that we're staying at to the beach. **Thomas** (00:51:29:18 - 00:51:30:00): You go. **Chip** (00:51:30:00 - 00:51:31:01): Downstairs. You're right there. **Thomas** (00:51:31:02 - 00:51:54:00): Yeah. So the blue Note is at the outrigger and yeah, literally the outriggers, you know, the outriggers on the sand. Yeah. Okay. The outrigger has restaurants right next to the sand. Okay. It's just step outside. That's it. Love it. Yeah. It's going to be frigging awesome. I'm so excited even talking about it. Yeah, but, Thanksgiving you're going to relax. I like to book a little bit earlier Thanksgiving dinner. Okay. You know, I'm like, more of a 4:00 type of guy. Nothing wrong with those spots. Go fast. But if you go to that same blog, things to do in Waikiki, I think it's, calendar of events. It. I've broken down, listed out a lot of the Thanksgiving specific meal options that are available. **Chip** (00:52:16:05 - 00:52:16:12): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:52:16:15 - 00:52:45:08): And I will say, like, you know, I've never had a bad experience at any one of these places. I, haven't been to all of them for Thanksgiving, but they all look pretty good, and I would I mean, for me, I like to see the water, so I would just prioritize someplace with some water. But, yeah, it's broken down all the places to have Thanksgiving specific offerings, whether it's a special menu or, a special buffet or whatever. If I could find it, I put it on that blog. There's a ton of things listed, so go check that out. But do book early because it's, you know, it's a big dinner. So things that are Thanksgiving specific will lose availability quick. Yeah of. **Chip** (00:53:00:17 - 00:53:01:01): Course. **Thomas** (00:53:01:01 - 00:53:25:07): And then yeah, after you have a nice Thanksgiving dinner, that is the one time every year I want to make sure, if I can, to get that sunset walk and watch the sunset with everybody on Thanksgiving Day. And let the sun go down, head back to, one of the outdoor bars that play live music. You know, I know the Royal Hawaiian does it. I know them want to. Surfrider does it? And, Yeah. Just just have a nightcap and, sit there, right next to the ocean, listening to an amazing, usually local musician play some music. And, that's how I recommend wrapping out Thanksgiving Day. Yep. **Chip** (00:53:45:16 - 00:53:50:17): I'm there. I am physically, I'm physically there right now. Not just mentally. **Thomas** (00:53:50:17 - 00:54:08:02): I love it, dude, I love it. Yeah. And we're going to be we're sitting here 41 days away from your, your show, and then we're going to be there actually a couple of days earlier and that. So we're really 39 days. Yeah. We are if you're going to be there or want to come out freaking come out. Yeah, just do it. We're going to be doing some hangs. We'll be around, if you know, that's you can always say, hey, we'll, if there's enough demand, we'll put out, like, you know, we'll do some beach hangs where we'll be going. We're going to be doing a surf lesson. We'll be doing a sale. You know, if you want to come join us for any of these things, let us know. We're we're we're there. I'm we're there. And we're going to be having the time of our life. But yeah, like, it's that point of the trip where, like, I can start feeling it. I just, I just know we're going to be there so soon. It's so fun that we're going together. Our families are going together, and we're going to do this thing. We're going to do the show right. In the coming weeks, I'll be talking about the next phase of the trip. I really am a big proponent of getting to Waikiki or any beach location and just sinking into it, like not doing too much, not straying too far from the resort or the hotel or the beach. Really just keeping it in that area until you've landed, until you've done the work to mentally relax in that space. And then I like to get a little more adventurous. So, you know, in the coming episodes, we're going to be talking about like day trips around Oahu, things you can do if you rent a car and want to go on some hikes, different food experiences. You can have. Oahu has some really amazing culinary options and also like some really surprising, reasonable eats that are like world class, like, you can go there's there's a supermarket where you can get, like, some of the best pokey in the world. **Chip** (00:55:41:12 - 00:55:58:17): There is nothing wrong with supermarket food, like, you know, cuisine fit. That's one of my favorite cuisine. And I've heard about you've told me about this a little bit, which sounds great, but you just go into somewhere where you're not expecting to have something great. And I get it's it's the greatest. It's five star restaurants. Fine. That's great. Something in a supermarket. Even better, even better. **Thomas** (00:56:02:07 - 00:56:25:04): And, you know, it's like getting towards the winter. So, the North Shore is known for its like, famous big waves. You can go see pipeline. We'll be talking about a lot of stuff as we move through it, but I think this is the most important part. Like everything after this is going to be gravy. If you can get there and you can nail the holiday and you can have relatively stress free holiday, which is the whole point. That's the reason, you know, we've left the, family gatherings and the cold and the traffic and the dishes and all that stuff behind is to go have this relaxing experience when you get through Thanksgiving and you've nailed all of these steps, then you can really do whatever you want in the island. You can't really lose. But there's some incredible things that you can see along the way that, you know, I'll just I'll just point out in the episodes to comment, beautiful beer. **Chip** (00:56:53:04 - 00:56:58:19): I mean, thank you for this. This. Every time I do, I hear it. I just get more more and more jazzed. **Thomas** (00:56:58:22 - 00:57:02:21): And the way to do it in Waikiki is you want to get Blue Note jazzed. **Chip** (00:57:02:21 - 00:57:07:12): You want to get Blue Note jazzed. On November 26th. **Thomas** (00:57:07:13 - 00:57:25:07): The Blue Note Jazz Club to see Chip Chantry. Thanks, Thanksgiving Paradise, and hopefully we'll put up some pictures and stuff. The club, it's so beautiful. And it's right there on the water. It really the whole scenario is a dream come true. So, so excited. We're doing it, buddy. **Chip** (00:57:25:07 - 00:57:28:09): Make it happen. It's not too late. Order your tickets. Go now. **Thomas** (00:57:28:09 - 00:57:36:05): Just come. Just come. Free can do it if you're in Waikiki already, just do it. Just. Yeah, just come hang out. At the very least, you'll make some. **Chip** (00:57:36:05 - 00:57:52:17): Friends. All right? Like I said at the beginning of episode, I just ran my hour. I'm having so much fun with it. Like, I don't want to say it's, like, great or anything, but, like, I'm just having so much fun doing it. I think you're going to have fun. Listen to me trot out this, this new our after move closer, has come out. Watch that, and then, Yeah. Check me out. Doing my new thing, jazzing it up. **Thomas** (00:57:57:17 - 00:58:22:10): That's your new thang, Chip. But now we're going to do our old thing. Yeah. We are jumping into the good book, the Guinness Book of World Records like we do every episode. And we are going to dazzle and delight with the pinnacle of achievement, from nature, from human capabilities, from, anything the good folks. Guinness track. We are celebrating it each week. Chip and I pick one quick record to go over. Chip, what's your record this week? **Chip** (00:58:27:21 - 00:58:50:07): All right, so this is a man named Barton Turvy of the United Kingdom. Okay, Martin Tubby actually has two world records and they are two of the most full circle world records I think that are humanly, even mystically possible. **Thomas** (00:58:50:09 - 00:58:51:07): I can't wait to hear that. **Chip** (00:58:51:07 - 00:59:07:00): So they're very related. The two, the two, records that he has, cousin records related. These records are not allowed to marry. I will say that Martin Tovey has the largest collection of Guinness Book of World Records. **Thomas** (00:59:07:02 - 00:59:08:05): What do you mean by that? **Chip** (00:59:08:05 - 00:59:27:13): Physical copies of editions, unique editions of the Guinness Book of World Records. This man, Martin Tovey, owns 816 unique editions of The Good Book, the Guinness Book of World Records. **Thomas** (00:59:27:15 - 00:59:34:11): That is incorrect. This. This man is such a fan of the book that he got the book by being a fan of the book. **Chip** (00:59:34:14 - 00:59:53:06): Yes, it started so, that get into the whole story, but, the Guinness Book of World Records, I believe their first edition was in 1955, and famous, as we know, is by the Guinness Beer Company to settle bets at bars. And that's what it was. So in 1955, I think, I want to say it was maybe like 1960. In the early 60s, he won a book from like a school contest. He won a great Guinness Book of World Records. He loved it so much that every year for Christmas, his mom would buy him the new edition. And then he just kind of became obsessed over the years and then started going around and trying to collect. There's these special editions, these different printings or whatever. So now he has 816 unique editions. So it's not just like copies of the same book, they're all different. Eight and 16 unique editions of the Guinness Book of World Records. His favorite edition was a 1960 edition with handwritten corrections by then editor Norris McWhirter. I believe his name is, by the way, Norris McWhirter. It's he sounds like a villain in a muppet movie, like Norris McWhirter. Like, that's. **Thomas** (01:00:48:14 - 01:00:52:04): Yeah, that's a hand. Handwritten corrections, handwritten connection. **Chip** (01:00:52:04 - 01:00:53:05): So he's just flying. **Thomas** (01:00:53:05 - 01:00:56:02): By the seat of your pants at the Good Book Factory going. **Chip** (01:00:56:02 - 01:01:18:06): For it. He he loves it. He also has it. He has a website where that he kind of keeps up track of this and that, like, other world records. And then his other, his other Guinness Book of World Records, he also owns the largest collection of Guinness Book of World record memorabilia. So any memorabilia that shirts get, board games that have come out, all these different things. He owns the largest collection of that as well. Now here's what I want to do, Thomas. **Thomas** (01:01:23:14 - 01:01:24:00): All right. **Chip** (01:01:24:05 - 01:01:30:12): I think this could be a good, even fuller circle record that you and I could set. **Thomas** (01:01:30:14 - 01:01:31:10): Okay. **Chip** (01:01:31:11 - 01:01:52:20): I want to start collecting and have the largest collection of Martin Tovey memorabilia. Oh, yeah. Of this man. So this man has the most Guinness Book of World Records memorabilia. I would have the most Martin touching that I would have Martin Tovey hats, Martin Duffy mugs, Martin Tovey pencils, Martin Tovey t shirts. Right. **Thomas** (01:01:52:20 - 01:01:54:03): Martin Tubby two tops. **Chip** (01:01:54:03 - 01:02:09:10): Martin Martin TV two taps, Martin Dempsey two taps and have all of those. And then we have the world's largest Martin Turvy collection, who has the largest Guinness Book of World record collection. I see, I think it comes in full circle. That's my plan. **Thomas** (01:02:09:12 - 01:02:14:07): I am a fan of the Good Book, but yeah, I don't hold a candle to Martin Tubby. **Chip** (01:02:14:12 - 01:02:15:19): No, not at all. **Thomas** (01:02:15:19 - 01:02:19:02): Dude, I love it. Great, great world record body. **Chip** (01:02:19:04 - 01:02:20:01): How about yours, Thomas? **Thomas** (01:02:20:01 - 01:02:24:21): Oh, mine am I in? This week is a doozy. It's a mover. It's a shaker. Yeah. **Chip** (01:02:24:21 - 01:02:25:06): It is. **Thomas** (01:02:25:06 - 01:02:29:01): It is the most powerful force potentially ever felt on Earth. **Chip** (01:02:29:06 - 01:02:30:11): That is love. **Thomas** (01:02:30:13 - 01:02:37:03): No no no no no. It's earthquakes. Baby. I found the world record for the largest earthquake in history. **Chip** (01:02:37:04 - 01:02:39:06): Whoa! All right. Okay, lay it on me. **Thomas** (01:02:39:06 - 01:02:53:13): It happened on May 22nd, 1960. And scientists are split on this. But it may have been caused by the inertia created when Martin Tubby got his first Guinness Book of World Records. **Chip** (01:02:53:13 - 01:02:56:10): I. There, there is something to be said for that, I will say. **Thomas** (01:02:56:11 - 01:03:08:17): So there was a direct pipeline potentially. Potentially. We're not sure of the cause, but allegedly a direct pipeline of energy from the UK all the way through to southern Chile. **Chip** (01:03:08:17 - 01:03:11:23): Across the pond to Chile. All right. South America way. **Thomas** (01:03:12:00 - 01:03:22:03): Yeah, across and down ship. This thing registered at 9.5 on the Richter scale out of potential ten. **Chip** (01:03:22:04 - 01:03:22:17): Wow. **Thomas** (01:03:22:22 - 01:03:24:05): And it shook the earth. **Chip** (01:03:24:05 - 01:03:29:05): I thought for nine. And that's crazy. Look at that. Just breaking. **Thomas** (01:03:29:07 - 01:03:31:15): Now. It's like, it's like the spinal tap. **Chip** (01:03:31:20 - 01:03:32:08): Yeah. **Thomas** (01:03:32:11 - 01:03:34:06): It goes to a these ones go to 11. **Chip** (01:03:34:07 - 01:03:35:00): All right. **Thomas** (01:03:35:02 - 01:03:41:12): So 9.5 in magnitude. And it shook for ten full minutes intensely. Can you even imagine. **Chip** (01:03:41:16 - 01:03:53:14): I've been involved in two earthquakes. One I slept through when we were in San Francisco. And one did happen in Philadelphia, where I literally felt a little shaken. And it was just for a few seconds and I was a little unnerved. Ten full minutes. **Thomas** (01:03:53:14 - 01:04:18:12): Ten full minute. I mean, I yeah, I it's there normally like just a quick jolt or whatever. Ten full minutes. The energy released was estimated to be 2.5 gigatons of TNT worth. So if 2.5 gigatons of TNT was ignited, that was the energy created, and it was roughly 1000 times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima. **Chip** (01:04:18:13 - 01:04:19:18): Wow. **Thomas** (01:04:19:20 - 01:04:31:04): So we are talking about serious energy. It is also 11,000 times more energy released than the San Francisco earthquake of 1989. **Chip** (01:04:31:06 - 01:04:32:11): How many more times say that. **Thomas** (01:04:32:11 - 01:04:38:14): Again, that it was a 6.9 on the Richter scale? The San Francisco earthquake? Yeah, it was 9.5. **Chip** (01:04:38:15 - 01:04:39:06): GS. **Thomas** (01:04:39:06 - 01:04:53:05): In, Chile. And the Chile earthquake was 11,000 times more energy being expelled, 11,000 times bigger than a 6.9 earthquake. **Chip** (01:04:53:07 - 01:04:55:15): That is a lot for a skinny little country. **Thomas** (01:04:55:16 - 01:05:10:10): It is. It is it is. And, it was such a strong jolt that it sped up the rotation of the Earth by 1.26 microseconds. **Chip** (01:05:10:11 - 01:05:11:08): No. **Thomas** (01:05:11:10 - 01:05:20:11): So every day has been shorter since this earthquake because of the vibrations. And it left reverberations through the. **Chip** (01:05:20:11 - 01:05:21:17): Whole. **Thomas** (01:05:21:19 - 01:05:35:02): Planet, through all of Earth going, for like many days afterwards. You could, like, measure it seismically that the whole Earth was reverberating for days. **Chip** (01:05:35:05 - 01:05:41:06): That is right around the time when Carole King wrote, I feel the earth move under my feet. **Thomas** (01:05:41:11 - 01:05:45:04): Absolutely, absolutely. I mean, it's all tied together. **Chip** (01:05:45:06 - 01:05:50:09): Her and Martin Covey and the rest of the world is dealing with these Chileans. **Thomas** (01:05:50:09 - 01:06:17:21): It caused many tsunamis. 15 hours after 35ft waves hit Hawaii. And then those same waves hit Japan. 22 hours later, it also hit the Philippines. New Zealand and the US West coast, recording damages in all of those places. The silver lining of this terrible earthquake and awesome show of force was it did inform how we understand earthquakes today. Like the Titanic. Titanic plates shifting. Yeah. And it like also put into place much of the information we have for tsunami protocols moving forward. So it was literally a moment that shook the whole world. Yes. 9.5 on the Richter scale. The biggest earthquake in history. Yep. **Chip** (01:06:40:01 - 01:06:56:09): Wow. Excellent work. Thomas. I still think my man from England, who has the most Guinness Book of World Records, is a little more dazzling. But, hey, a 9.5 Richter scale that changed the shape and speed of the earth. I think he did a good job with it. **Thomas** (01:06:56:11 - 01:06:57:01): Thanks, buddy. **Chip** (01:06:57:01 - 01:07:20:01): I again, my guy has 816 books. Thomas. That's true. I'm not trying to compare. I'm not trying to win. I'm just saying a man in England has almost 900 books. Yes, you're you're one shook the core of the earth and changed literally how we deal with time. But my guy does have 816 books. So that's all I'm saying. **Thomas** (01:07:20:01 - 01:07:25:19): As we said earlier, him getting that first Guinness book may be what triggered the whole thing in the first place. **Chip** (01:07:25:19 - 01:07:31:18): Martin Tubby that on the tubby scale, I don't think it should be the Richter scale anymore. I think it should be called the Tubby Tail. **Thomas** (01:07:31:20 - 01:07:42:10): All right. Mad. Well, that's world records. Yeah it is. Now we've got to scoot. We're running a little long here. We're into vacation rules. Yeah. Very self-explanatory. Chip, what's your vacation rule this week? **Chip** (01:07:42:14 - 01:08:12:14): All right, vacation rule 153. When you're on vacation, talk to strangers. Maybe you'll find a new best friend. Maybe you'll learn about a different culture. And maybe, just maybe, you'll meet a murderer without realizing it. And years later, you'll end up being interviewed on a Netflix true crime documentary called something Like Beach Towels and Betrayal The Disappearance of Tristan Plank. It's a win win win. **Thomas** (01:08:15:16 - 01:08:24:11): Oh I love oh, we're doing well, dude. That's, That's very true. That's very true. You got to talk to people. You got to experience it. But it's your quickest route to Netflix. **Chip** (01:08:24:15 - 01:08:25:01): It really. **Thomas** (01:08:25:01 - 01:08:31:04): It really is. You may always be talking to a murderer, and it's, you know, very unlikely they're going to murder. **Chip** (01:08:31:04 - 01:08:34:07): You if you're keeping them talking, if you're keeping them talking, they're not going to do it. **Thomas** (01:08:34:09 - 01:08:38:05): The average murderer talks to a lot more people in their lifetime than they murder. **Chip** (01:08:38:07 - 01:08:38:15): Hey, really. **Thomas** (01:08:38:15 - 01:08:44:23): I think that's safe to say. You can let the world know. You never would have expected it, right? Not from that guy. **Chip** (01:08:45:03 - 01:08:46:07): No. **Thomas** (01:08:46:09 - 01:08:52:08): The guy doing fireball shots at the bar. Yeah, he was a bad guy. Yeah, he had impulse issues. **Chip** (01:08:52:10 - 01:09:05:06): Yeah, he didn't seem creepy at all the way that he was doing snow angels in the sand and looking up ladies skirts and throwing my ties at people. No, he was completely. He was a completely upstanding gentleman. **Thomas** (01:09:05:08 - 01:09:11:11): The the upskirt stuff. The unwanted upskirt stuff. That's a dead giveaway. You got to stay calm. Steer clear of that guy. **Chip** (01:09:11:12 - 01:09:23:05): Yes, sure. Yes. He was sitting at the tiki bar wetting his own pants while murdering a cat. But other than that, he seemed like a good dude. We were going to get in a fantasy football league together. **Thomas** (01:09:23:07 - 01:09:29:12): Man. Do you think, do you think murderers are good at fantasy football? Chip? **Chip** (01:09:29:13 - 01:09:36:04): I, yeah, I think I because I think it takes a lot of plotting, and I think it takes a lot of guts. **Thomas** (01:09:36:06 - 01:09:37:06): Does take a lot of guts. **Chip** (01:09:37:08 - 01:09:37:15): Yeah. **Thomas** (01:09:37:18 - 01:09:43:04): Guts. Astro crowd. You remember last year, correct? Sure. Mike O'Malley, what a career that guys had. **Chip** (01:09:43:07 - 01:09:49:06): It was like triple dare. I like to call that show because it was. It was like double Dare with extra, extra stakes. **Thomas** (01:09:49:08 - 01:09:53:09): It was extra physical. And, mom and dad ain't coming on this trip. **Chip** (01:09:53:09 - 01:09:54:18): No, they're not two physical. **Thomas** (01:09:54:18 - 01:10:06:10): Two physical. All right. Well, dude, great. Great vacation role. Very true. Talk. Talk to folks. Talk to us. If you come to, Waikiki, we'll be there. Come say what up? **Chip** (01:10:06:12 - 01:10:07:03): **Thomas** (01:10:07:05 - 01:10:33:23): My rule this week is vacation rule number 71. Every trip needs a mom trip. Mom, step in and keep their friend sunscreen hydrated and on schedule. And yeah, they are very annoying while they do it, but they keep us healthy and safe. So to all the trip moms out there, we're sorry we told you to mind your own effing business in Cabo. And thanks for looking out for us, mommy. **Chip** (01:10:39:08 - 01:10:47:00): Those trip moms, whether it's, a lady or a man, that there needs to be a trip mommy to take care of the rest of us. The shepherd. **Thomas** (01:10:47:00 - 01:10:48:15): There's got to be somebody in charge. **Chip** (01:10:48:15 - 01:10:50:17): The shepherd herding the monkeys. **Thomas** (01:10:50:17 - 01:10:56:03): The inmates can't run the asylum. They cannot. Inmates do not like to not run the asylum. **Chip** (01:10:56:03 - 01:11:00:08): You had a vacation, mommy. Sitting next to you at the John Mulaney show? **Thomas** (01:11:00:09 - 01:11:02:09): Yes. Yeah, I definitely I mean. **Chip** (01:11:02:15 - 01:11:07:12): It seemed like she was sort of dropping the ball a little bit, but at least at least she. Mommy, her out of there. **Thomas** (01:11:07:14 - 01:11:14:16): She was protecting her vacation child. Yeah, she just wasn't protecting the other folks around, which is normally part of it. You got her. You got to. **Chip** (01:11:14:17 - 01:11:15:09): Call. **Thomas** (01:11:15:11 - 01:11:23:21): Her kids. You got to calm the masses. You got to calm the waters around your little, around your little tsunami. **Chip** (01:11:23:21 - 01:11:24:18): Absolutely. **Thomas** (01:11:24:23 - 01:11:41:13): All right. And now we're going to wrap it up how we wrap up every episode. Chip, we're talking about the man, Jimmy Buffett. He looked at life and said, I'm going to carve the perfect sculpture out of this thing. I'm doing my own rules. **Chip** (01:11:41:13 - 01:11:42:01): Yes. **Thomas** (01:11:42:01 - 01:11:55:20): Nobody's going to tell me what I should do. I'm going to follow my bliss and create the life I want. We're Eve. We're obsessed with the man. We, cherish his life and his career. And we've been doing copious amounts of research. **Chip** (01:11:55:20 - 01:12:01:03): Yes, we have just so much research in the annals of Jimmy Buffett digging through his. **Thomas** (01:12:01:03 - 01:12:01:18): Annals. **Chip** (01:12:01:18 - 01:12:03:21): His personal library. **Thomas** (01:12:03:22 - 01:12:06:11): His personal library, his letters. **Chip** (01:12:06:13 - 01:12:08:06): Do you letters? **Thomas** (01:12:08:07 - 01:12:12:19): Do I have letters? Yeah. There was an episode of Side Felt called the Cheever Letters. **Chip** (01:12:12:19 - 01:12:14:13): Okay. That's what I was, **Thomas** (01:12:14:15 - 01:12:18:14): And tremendous episode. Really? Really. I'm not going to spoil it for everybody. **Chip** (01:12:18:15 - 01:12:20:01): There's. But it's only there. **Thomas** (01:12:20:01 - 01:12:36:16): Are some revelations in those Cheever letters, I'll tell you that. Okay. But, every week we find a brand new fact that most people. But the hardest hardcore Jimmy Buffett fans don't know about. And we bring them to you, chip, what's the fact you've uncovered this week? **Chip** (01:12:36:18 - 01:12:49:03): Jimmy Buffett was a very skillful man. He knew how to tie his shoes, but he never had to lose. **Thomas** (01:12:49:05 - 01:12:54:12): Just stacking up skills that you don't need when you're living a tropical island lifestyle. **Chip** (01:12:54:14 - 01:13:03:10): Yeah, they said that Einstein took till he was about five years old to tie his shoes. Jimmy Buffett hasn't had to tie shoes since he was five. That's just the life he lived. **Thomas** (01:13:03:15 - 01:13:04:15): Tell me who's smarter. **Chip** (01:13:04:20 - 01:13:11:08): Yeah, I'm not allowed to say legally because he, The suit is still pending. **Thomas** (01:13:11:10 - 01:13:35:01): Dude, it's all it's about life style, design. He really designed this life. I'm jealous of it. I were chasing after it. Right now we're doing things in Paradise. Yes, cheap chances, things here in Paradise. Something we designed and we're making happen. All right, my Buffett fact this week, is in the same vein in that it's a Jimmy Buffett fact. **Chip** (01:13:35:03 - 01:13:36:10): All right? **Thomas** (01:13:36:12 - 01:13:56:04): Jimmy Buffett never practiced law professionally, but he did pass Florida's tiki bar exam on his first try. He did well too. He my tied with spuds Mackenzie for first in their class. **Chip** (01:13:56:06 - 01:14:00:17): I love it. **Thomas** (01:14:00:19 - 01:14:02:00): That's a silly fact. Yep. **Chip** (01:14:02:02 - 01:14:06:04): It's I love it. It's, I love it. Any any spuds Mackenzie reference? I'm in. **Thomas** (01:14:06:04 - 01:14:11:18): He's the only dog, as far as I know, that's synonymous with just partying, right? **Chip** (01:14:11:20 - 01:14:16:02): No, he. He is the party dog. He's the super party animal. His name is Buzz Mackenzie. **Thomas** (01:14:16:04 - 01:14:25:17): God, can you imagine the guys who create. Like. I imagine they were handsomely rewarded for being like. I think the bros are going to like this dog. The parties. **Chip** (01:14:25:19 - 01:14:29:03): Yeah. And man, it worked. **Thomas** (01:14:29:05 - 01:14:41:08): Okay, man. Well, we gotta get out of here. Thanks so much for staying with us. This is the podcast where we talk about comedy and tropical travel. Until next time, stay. Bern. **Chip** (01:14:41:10 - 01:14:52:11): Front desk. Yeah. Oh, lot a a buenos. No chase. Mae. Yamo. Memo. Did, the Buenos. No. Not me, Mr. Chantry. **Thomas** (01:14:52:11 - 01:14:55:16): Mr. Chantry, what do you need? **Chip** (01:14:55:18 - 01:14:58:07): Toilet broke again, dude. **Thomas** (01:14:58:09 - 01:14:59:22): I'll send someone up.