Airport Divorces, Bungee Origins & Waikīkī Countdown 😂🌴 | Sunburnt Podcast Ep. 36

**Thomas** (00:00:00:00 - 00:00:14:15): What up Burnt Ones. This is The Sunburnt Podcast where we talk about comedy and tropical travel. To my right, as always, is my wonderful co-host. You know him from Netflix and his amazing stand up special Move Closer. It's Philadelphia's own Chip Chantry. **Chip** (00:00:14:17 - 00:00:22:14): And over here to my left is Emmy Award winning writer, producer, and founding member of Sha Na Na. Mr. Thomas O'Brien. **Thomas** (00:00:22:16 - 00:00:26:23): I was the one that, that wanted to add Na, at the end. **Chip** (00:00:26:23 - 00:00:36:16): It was just Sha Na. And then you were like, guys, guys, I came in and you just. You had this, like, whole plan. Like, it was like a whole, like, written out, like formula, like good Will hunting formula. **Thomas** (00:00:36:16 - 00:00:49:07): You know, they really just kind of went up to my all of my work that I had done to add the extra Na and kind of drew a triangle around it. And that's when I realized it was also a pyramid scheme. **Chip** (00:00:49:08 - 00:01:02:01): It always is. Thomas whether whether it is selling beauty supplies, kitchen knives from college children or, 50s throwback band. It's always a pyramid scheme. **Thomas** (00:01:02:02 - 00:01:10:00): By the way, we're looking for a side hustle. If you've got a nice pyramid scheme, you think would be good for the sunburnt podcast? Let us know in the comments. **Chip** (00:01:10:00 - 00:01:23:22): We'll promote it. We'll do the legwork. We we each have three friends. If they including each other, we would have to be each other's friends. That's. That's the only thing we don't each. We each have two friends and each other. But I think that would that would still support the base of the pyramid. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:01:23:22 - 00:01:32:13): And I think you want like a little bit of circulation, a little bit of, you know, churn at the bottom of that, that, that is just a closed loop. **Chip** (00:01:32:14 - 00:01:45:02): Yeah. You need a dark horse. You need a you need a maverick. Every every pyramid scheme needs a maverick is what I'm. So that's that's what the tribal tattoo on my lower back says. Every pyramid scheme needs a maverick. **Thomas** (00:01:45:02 - 00:01:48:06): What's the closest you ever got to being involved in a pyramid scheme? **Chip** (00:01:48:08 - 00:02:03:06): I think we've all been in a couple, like meetings with people where it's like, you get that phone call from that friend from high school that wasn't really a friend, but you're like, hey, I just want to catch up because we're both 24 now, and let's talk about baseball for a minute, even though I'm not really a baseball fan. And then you're like, oh, hey, by the way, I have this new cough sirup that I am selling and I would love, I would love to sit down and have have lunch with you to talk to you about it, and we'll go Dutch on the lunch. By the way, that's always a pyramid scheme thing too. They, they try to take you out to lunch and then you think, oh, it's like some business thing. Maybe they'll pay for it. You pick up the jar. They never pick up the check. That's pyramid scheme 101. So I've been to a I think I went to a lunch once where I was like, I thought I was catching up with somebody. Yeah. And he's like, hey, I want to tell you about this cool thing. I'm like. **Thomas** (00:02:34:05 - 00:02:36:10): Okay, do you remember what the cool thing was? **Chip** (00:02:36:12 - 00:02:56:08): I'm I it was definitely like some sort of, early days of the earliest days of the internet. Like, I'm talking like early mid 2000, kind of like e-commerce site kind of thing, like we're. Oh, well, we sell these things and I think it was cleaning products were part of it. Yeah. And like, oh, you do this. And then like he literally started drawing it on a napkin and I saw the shape of it. Thomas. Yeah, I saw the shape of it. **Thomas** (00:03:04:09 - 00:03:05:09): When you see that, it. **Chip** (00:03:05:09 - 00:03:13:15): Literally one of the first things you learn, you have a young child. You're one of the first things I know, I'm sure she has learned or is learning are her shapes. **Thomas** (00:03:13:17 - 00:03:14:08): Yeah. **Chip** (00:03:14:10 - 00:03:16:00): And one of those shapes is a pyramid, Thomas. **Thomas** (00:03:16:00 - 00:03:18:08): It's a pyramid. It's a classic triangle. **Chip** (00:03:18:11 - 00:03:20:16): How about you? Have you ever, how how close have you gotten? **Thomas** (00:03:20:16 - 00:03:28:03): Oh, where? Inadvertently, when I was a young guy and I almost started one. **Chip** (00:03:28:05 - 00:03:32:15): That's when, you know, you're really in deep. When you're really in trouble, where you don't realize you've started a pyramid scheme. **Thomas** (00:03:32:15 - 00:03:53:06): Well, I just didn't understand the concept, I think, like, I saw what it was online. I kind of, put the dots together, and it was like I. Somebody tried to get me to buy one online, and I was like, why would I do this when I could just start it like it was these series of booklets on how to be a successful person. **Chip** (00:03:53:06 - 00:03:54:10): Oh, yeah. Sure. **Thomas** (00:03:54:10 - 00:04:17:15): And so, like, yeah, there would be a list and you would buy book number one for $5 from the first person on the list. Okay. You would buy booklet number two from the second one, you signed all these people $5. And basically how it was supposed to work is like the person who started it. You would buy if you went to him directly, you'd buy all six books from him. **Chip** (00:04:17:15 - 00:04:18:03): Okay. **Thomas** (00:04:18:05 - 00:04:45:01): And then people underneath the person who started it would, sell them to the people underneath them. And the first five books at that point would go to the guy who started it. And the sixth book that could be your sale. And then as it got further and further down your your, each new name only got added once and they took off the the founding members spot one per. Does that make sense? **Chip** (00:04:46:00 - 00:04:46:08): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:04:46:08 - 00:05:03:12): Once you get seven rungs down, the founders no longer getting paid, but boy was he getting paid the whole time before. And I was just like, why not make me the founder? I can write books. Yeah. So I wrote some books on how to be successful. Like, I'm, I'm legitimately in fifth grade. Sixth grade at this point in time. **Chip** (00:05:03:12 - 00:05:04:06): Are you serious? **Thomas** (00:05:04:11 - 00:05:12:14): Yeah. And, and I was inspired. This is not a joke. You remember, mo money, mo problems. **Chip** (00:05:12:16 - 00:05:15:08): This is fascinating. Go ahead. Mo money, mo problems. **Thomas** (00:05:15:11 - 00:05:16:23): They were these shiny suits. **Chip** (00:05:16:23 - 00:05:17:06): Yeah, they. **Thomas** (00:05:17:06 - 00:05:21:11): Did, and I wanted to be able to buy those shiny suits for me and my buddy. **Chip** (00:05:21:11 - 00:05:23:11): Because you were sixth graders. You start in middle school. **Thomas** (00:05:23:11 - 00:05:46:06): You gotta look good. What are people in middle school going to think? Yeah, I wrote the books, and then I bought a bunch of envelopes and I need a little help with stamps. Sure. I had to ask my dad for help with stamps. And he was like, why do you need why do you need all these stamps? And, I told him and he was like, oh, that's that's a pyramid scam and that's illegal. **Chip** (00:05:46:08 - 00:06:09:14): That's I, I how have we gotten this far in this podcast and our relationship until I've heard this story, this is maybe my first of all, point number one that I have is I'm in. I want to let's go. I want to buy some books. All right. Number two, do you still have these books, or do you have any idea what these books look like or the content of these books? **Thomas** (00:06:09:14 - 00:06:12:02): I'm sure it wasn't top notch. Well, you're. **Chip** (00:06:12:02 - 00:06:14:12): A fifth grade sixth grader. Of course it wasn't top notch. That's the best part. **Thomas** (00:06:14:12 - 00:06:17:19): Remember floppy disks? Of course. So it's on one of those somewhere. **Chip** (00:06:17:19 - 00:06:21:01): And so who is your market? Where are you going to sell them to? Friends? No. **Thomas** (00:06:21:03 - 00:06:37:13): Internet. I was going to chat rooms. Okay. You can make all this money. You can do this, you can do that. And people are just like, really? Okay, okay, I'm in. But, like, I didn't want to, you know, give out the address and take any sales unless I was ready to rock because I didn't have a car. I couldn't get to the store. There was no Amazon. I couldn't just get the stuff I needed. I needed to get these things printed, too. You had to send a physical copy. It was all about selling the book chip. **Chip** (00:06:47:01 - 00:07:12:16): Okay, okay, here's the here's the best part. Can you imagine? Can you imagine being a lonely 32 year old man in 1998 on the internet? Yeah, you're surfing the web. You're doing that that way. You know, like that big noise. The dial up thing happens. Yeah. You're in these chat rooms. You're like, I think I need new direction. I'm working, as a night clerk at it. You know, it's whatever. And I need something. And you're like, oh, I found this guy. He is my business guru. **Thomas** (00:07:22:14 - 00:07:22:22): Yeah. **Chip** (00:07:22:22 - 00:07:40:10): And then he. You send away for the books, you're like, I'm going to read this book. And it's literally just like a book report from a fifth grader about how to make money, like, print it out, like there's just pictures of, like, Bo Jackson and Michael Jordan at the bottom. Do you know anything like. **Thomas** (00:07:40:12 - 00:07:41:08): Okay. **Chip** (00:07:41:10 - 00:07:55:21): You know what I mean? Just or just, like, race cars and you're like, oh, this is you could have and you could have just brought somebody like that could have been the final straw for somebody who's just a lonely guy sitting there like, yeah, they get the package, that manila envelope, and they're like, this, this is the answer. And then it's it's the ramblings of a fifth grader. **Thomas** (00:08:00:07 - 00:08:01:07): Dude, I had I. **Chip** (00:08:01:08 - 00:08:16:18): That's this is my favorite. This is a this is a movie right here. This is a movie script happens. I'm so I don't want to do this podcast anymore. Thomas I know we're supposed to start the podcast. I know we're supposed to talk about travel. Travel, this this is breaking news right now. I love this so much. **Thomas** (00:08:16:18 - 00:08:32:15): I think if people got the books, though, they would have been better off than most pyramid scams that were going on at the time. Okay, I will tell you that my dad had an acquaintance or some somebody sure that, pitched him on a laundry ball. **Chip** (00:08:32:16 - 00:08:33:02): Okay. **Thomas** (00:08:33:04 - 00:08:34:16): Do you remember the laundry ball? **Chip** (00:08:34:21 - 00:08:36:15): Yes. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:08:36:17 - 00:08:59:09): The laundry ball was legitimately just a ball. It was about the size of your fist, maybe a little smaller. It was filled with liquid. And you put it in your clothes washer and you're magically not supposed to need detergent anymore, right. It'll save you all this money on detergent. It costs 50 bucks. It uses science and. **Chip** (00:08:59:09 - 00:09:05:22): Using science is important. That's always the best part. It's like, you know, this this product. No, it uses science. Yeah. That's how you sell people on it. **Thomas** (00:09:05:22 - 00:09:29:14): Did nothing. Yeah. And like, he wanted my dad to buy one that he wanted my dad to Sam to all his friends. Like it was just like this pyramid scheme for a product that didn't work at all. Yeah. And I remember, like, knowing as, I mean, maybe even younger than that, that like, oh, this is this guy is trying to steal from us and then get right and get us to steal from other people. And then the other thing I didn't know about this back in the day, but I heard recently there was a dude who would put ads in, like newspapers and the back of magazines, how people used to buy stuff, and it was for a solar powered clothes dryer. **Chip** (00:09:45:01 - 00:09:46:00): Okay, I mean. **Thomas** (00:09:46:00 - 00:10:01:10): I think it cost like 50, 60 bucks, something like that. Yeah. People would send away for it, and what they would get in the mail is a piece of rope. He was selling them a clothesline, which is technically a solar powered clothes dryer. **Chip** (00:10:01:12 - 00:10:08:14): It's exact. It does exactly what it is. The man is brilliant by the way. Yeah. Next episode of the sunburn podcast. **Thomas** (00:10:08:16 - 00:10:09:20): Yeah. **Chip** (00:10:09:22 - 00:10:12:11): I'm not telling you what to do. I'm just suggesting you do this. **Thomas** (00:10:12:16 - 00:10:13:06): **Chip** (00:10:13:08 - 00:10:23:11): But I will not be wearing a Hawaiian shirt. The next episode, I will be wearing a lime green business suit with giant question marks all over. **Thomas** (00:10:23:13 - 00:10:25:16): It, getting some of that government financing. **Chip** (00:10:25:16 - 00:10:42:03): Getting some of that government financed just like that. I think the guy's name is Mark. Was it Mark? Something I forget, but question mark, the question, the question mark, I think it was question mark, with all the question marks. And he if anybody could sell the laundry ball, it would be him. He'd be able to figure out a way to do that. **Thomas** (00:10:42:06 - 00:10:51:18): Yeah. Like the man who answered the question, what if Bill Nye was a real big business guy? He had a lot. He had a big Bill Nye energy, didn't he? **Chip** (00:10:54:19 - 00:11:13:09): He had a great Bill Nye energy. But just like, a little to like, if Bill Nye was a little coked up and, owed a lot of back taxes, it built it. If Bill Nye was on a bender and owed a lot of back taxes, that's this question mark guy. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:11:13:11 - 00:11:13:19): **Chip** (00:11:13:21 - 00:11:16:09): Okay. I guess we should do our our vacation podcast. **Thomas** (00:11:16:09 - 00:11:18:03): Yeah, maybe we should do the vacation podcast. **Chip** (00:11:18:03 - 00:11:43:10): I feel like I've done the work already. I've done the work part, and I need the vacation part because I think I've learned about money. I'm going to say one thing. The one thing I would love to see is fifth grade Thomas O'Brien's views on life and how to be successful. Yeah, I bet you there are some really valuable, like looking back, some Marcus Aurelius style life advice from a fifth from a fifth grader. **Thomas** (00:11:43:10 - 00:11:52:16): Yeah, I'm sure it was good. And I think I also probably would have done the courtesy of including like a photocopy of maybe the cover of one of my goosebumps books. **Chip** (00:11:52:18 - 00:12:12:04): Right? I think yes. Yeah, like the Tarot of Halloween, you know, or and I feel like you have a lot of quotes in there you're gonna like, you know, there's a lot of, like, like, I, I'm sure I'm 100% positive that one of the chapters of your book was entitled. Yeah, baby. **Thomas** (00:12:12:06 - 00:12:17:02): The. Yeah, yeah, baby, the good life. What to do once you hit it rich. **Chip** (00:12:17:04 - 00:12:17:14): Right. **Thomas** (00:12:17:14 - 00:12:20:02): Very important chapter. That's the sixth book, Chip. **Chip** (00:12:20:04 - 00:12:27:15): Yes, I think it is. It's. I bet you there was a chapter on, how to be a private detective for pets. **Thomas** (00:12:27:15 - 00:12:28:19): The Ace Ventura method. **Chip** (00:12:28:19 - 00:12:30:00): Yes, I think there is. **Thomas** (00:12:30:02 - 00:12:31:11): How to get rich off exotics. **Chip** (00:12:31:11 - 00:12:55:18): Yes. Your idea for Mambo number six? You don't like. These are all the things that a fifth grader in 1998 is, is is thinking about. Yeah. And then like, if if you wait until the next year, maybe the next book would have been advice on how to live that life. The Locust style. Live that vida loca. **Thomas** (00:12:55:22 - 00:13:03:02): Well, we had to get into this podcast, man. We got to get into the travel delights that we have in store. **Chip** (00:13:03:02 - 00:13:11:16): For those of you listening, I feel like you've gotten, oh, you've already gotten lessons about money and business. You've done the work. It's time to vacation out time. **Thomas** (00:13:11:18 - 00:13:33:08): Yeah, you're financially sound. Let's talk about going on a trip this week. We're talking about a celebrity you can take a road trip with. We have teased this two weeks in a row. Haven't got to it. We're coming out of the gates hot with it. This time. We're talking about a new trend. Airport divorces. Chip. Yeah. What's an airport divorce? And why are people doing it? **Chip** (00:13:34:14 - 00:13:42:04): And we're also going to be doing Jimmy Buffett facts. We're going to be talking about the good book. **Thomas** (00:13:42:06 - 00:13:42:13): **Chip** (00:13:42:15 - 00:13:54:15): The Guinness Book of World Records. And I think we're going to finish up with some vacation rules. We've given you financial rules. Now it's time for vacation rules. **Thomas** (00:13:54:15 - 00:14:05:09): This is the December podcast. We're talking about comedy and tropical travel. If those two things sound like they should go together to you, stay tuned. Front desk. **Chip** (00:14:05:11 - 00:14:15:05): Hi, this is Mr. Chantry in room 308. How much longer is that Captain Crunch mascot going to be? Taking photos with kids in the lobby? Captain crunch? **Thomas** (00:14:15:07 - 00:14:19:16): Oh, Mr. Chantry, that's our bellhop, Henry. **Chip** (00:14:19:18 - 00:14:24:06): Oh, well, I thank him for his service. Chip. Tommy, it is. **Thomas** (00:14:24:06 - 00:14:35:14): Episode 36 of the sunburnt podcast, and I can't believe I'm saying this. We are 34 days away from Chip Chantry, Thanksgiving and Paradise CC tip. **Chip** (00:14:35:15 - 00:14:38:11): Just over a month to the CC tip. **Thomas** (00:14:38:12 - 00:14:46:05): And it's getting chilly here, man. I am, you know by sheer will. Not wearing a sweatshirt right now. **Chip** (00:14:46:07 - 00:14:56:17): Oh I'm ginned up right now. And yeah it is yeah. It's it's it's the, the chill the frost of of October has hit the Philadelphia region as well. **Thomas** (00:14:56:19 - 00:15:20:17): The weather's turning, and I just can't wait to be in those gentle 80s, high 70s, hanging out with my buddy, with our families, with the burnt ones that are coming out. Chip is going to be doing two comedy shows this year at the Blue Note Hawaii, right there in Waikiki in the Outrigger Hotel. And, if you're going to be in Hawaii for Thanksgiving. Come on out. Come on out to the show. Come hang out on us. We're going to be doing some hangs on the beach and stuff for burnt ones. Come out. It's going to be an amazing time. And I can't believe this is how we get to spend Thanksgiving this year. **Chip** (00:15:33:15 - 00:15:35:21): Yep, this is how we do it. Literally like my. **Thomas** (00:15:35:22 - 00:15:37:01): Montel Jordan. **Chip** (00:15:37:03 - 00:16:00:11): And yeah, I get to run my my hour a couple of times this weekend. I had a blast doing it, and, I'm really having fun with it. So I want, I want people to. It's one evening, it's kicking off the Thanksgiving holiday, Thanksgiving eve. You know, where you put out your stockings and you hope that the turkey puts just fills that sock with with stuffing and gravy. **Thomas** (00:16:00:11 - 00:16:03:10): The big gobbler. Yep. Stuffed your sock. **Chip** (00:16:03:12 - 00:16:10:07): Stuffed your sock. And, and I'll be the, the pre-show for that. So it's just it's going to be fun. I'm very excited. **Thomas** (00:16:10:09 - 00:16:26:23): Dude, it's going to be awesome. Tickets are on sale at Balloon Out hawaii.com. Or you can also find the link on sunburnt podcast.com. And go up to the tickets link on the top right. Dude, it's coming so quickly. What are you looking forward to the most. **Chip** (00:16:27:01 - 00:16:38:13): That first day that you've been talking about about like, if your room's not ready, like dropping off the your bags and then just stepping out onto that beach, maybe with maybe with a cold one in your hand. **Thomas** (00:16:38:15 - 00:16:53:12): Yeah. I'm hoping I haven't oversold it too much, but that was the first time I went. It was one of the most amazing feelings I've ever had. Just like realizing you can get on a plane and be in this, like, place that doesn't even seem real to me. It's just so perfect. **Chip** (00:16:53:14 - 00:17:07:09): And and again, this is my first time going to be in Hawaii, but and I'm doing the research and I'm looking it up and I was checking out some maps. It looks like this island is almost literally surrounded by water. **Thomas** (00:17:07:11 - 00:17:13:18): Almost entirely like the Rady shell we talked about last week. It is almost entirely surrounded by water. **Chip** (00:17:13:20 - 00:17:22:10): Wow. I know my geography. And the way the way I'm looking at it, I'm saying, like this island, it seems like there's water on all sides. **Thomas** (00:17:22:12 - 00:17:43:20): And it's delightful warm water. We talked about it before. Yeah, 76 degrees to 80 degrees on average during the November months. Going to be a beautiful, beautiful time to hang out with the families in the sun, get some relaxing and and mix it with some stand up comedy. Come on. Come on out. Come. We'll be having a great time. And in memory, in anticipation of what we're going to be doing, I think it's time to get a little slather going. **Chip** (00:17:50:10 - 00:18:01:15): But let's do it. Let's start out. We want to start safe. We don't want to get those rays on us too much, you know, ruin a good time. Let's put that sunblock on. **Thomas** (00:18:01:17 - 00:18:03:02): This. **Chip** (00:18:03:04 - 00:18:06:07): I'm slather up today. This? Yeah. This feels good. **Thomas** (00:18:06:13 - 00:18:18:12): We're also both signed up for the Turkey Trot. We're going to be Turkey Trot. And on Thursday, doing the five K. There's a lot of different, options there, but we're we're doing the five K around time and hat. It's going to be epic dude. **Chip** (00:18:18:13 - 00:18:42:06): So this is what we want you to do. We want you to spend the week with us, but especially that 18 hour period, basically where you come out, you see the show on Wednesday night, maybe have a cocktail or two, but then run that cocktail off the next morning with that turkey trot on Thanksgiving. Because, because it's it's it's on the somewhere podcast website where you can check out the link for the Turkey Trot. We signed up for it. It's for good. **Thomas** (00:18:43:08 - 00:19:05:14): Cause. It's a local marathon running club that helps people get up to marathons. It's, very healthy chap. It's very healthy and also on that same website, we've got, a list of all the Thanksgiving specific meal options that are kind of happening in Waikiki that week. It's, you know, we've put it together. Hopefully it's useful for you if you're going out there. There's direct links to, you know, book and all that kind of stuff. **Chip** (00:19:09:04 - 00:19:13:14): Our website, how many, how many stops do you think that shop has? **Thomas** (00:19:13:16 - 00:19:14:12): Stops. **Chip** (00:19:14:12 - 00:19:19:05): Yeah. How many stops does that shop have? Is it a it's a one stop shop. It seems like. **Thomas** (00:19:19:05 - 00:19:25:01): Oh, yeah. Yeah. You don't need to go to a lot of websites. If you go to the Sun Burn podcast.com. **Chip** (00:19:25:03 - 00:19:51:02): And also, if you click that. So, so there's the links for the tickets for Chip gentry woman for, Thanksgiving in Paradise. There's links to the Turkey Trot. There are lots of links to the Thanksgiving food items. The different restaurants right in the area that you do get your reservations now for that. And then finally, at the bottom, there is a link to buy, a series of books about how to live a successful life from fifth grade. Thomas O'Brien. **Thomas** (00:19:54:08 - 00:20:01:14): Published for the first time, made public for the first time. You can find out how to be as rich as I was when I was eight years old. **Chip** (00:20:01:14 - 00:20:21:10): How many times have I said, even in my adult life, when it's things are a little frustrating, the bills are coming in. You're worrying about, you know, just that neck is is a little tight and you're just like, guy. And you're like, I wish I was as rich as an eight year old boy in rural Oregon in the late 90s. **Thomas** (00:20:21:12 - 00:20:29:00): I mean, I don't think he can be much more rich in wonder. **Chip** (00:20:29:02 - 00:20:32:18): Oh, no. You you had a wallet full of wonder back then. **Thomas** (00:20:32:20 - 00:20:36:12): Yeah. The wallet. The wonder account was flush. **Chip** (00:20:36:16 - 00:20:46:11): Flush with wonder? Yeah, with wonder and pizzazz. You diversified. You you had pizzazz. You had Hotspur. You had wonder. **Thomas** (00:20:46:13 - 00:20:47:16): I had a wiffle ball bat. **Chip** (00:20:47:21 - 00:20:49:03): That's a portfolio, a happiness right. **Thomas** (00:20:49:03 - 00:20:54:13): There, we could argue. Was I happier then? Am I happier now? I have more money now. I have less. **Chip** (00:20:54:13 - 00:20:58:03): Wonder. I think we're going to get some wonder up next month in Hawaii. **Thomas** (00:20:58:04 - 00:21:03:22): That's why we go. And that's why we do this podcast to celebrate the wonder. We're going to get in some Guinness facts later. **Chip** (00:21:03:22 - 00:21:18:17): I want you to create a wall of wonder. Just just an entire wall of wonder. I'm trying to think of what we could call it. I'll workshop it, I can't think, but just like a, just a, just a wall of wonder. **Thomas** (00:21:18:19 - 00:21:20:11): Wow. Yeah. **Chip** (00:21:20:15 - 00:21:28:00): Wow. I'll think of. Yeah. There's got to be a name for that wall of wonder. I don't know, I'll think about it. **Thomas** (00:21:28:01 - 00:21:35:14): We should. We should really, think about it, man. I know you said you did a couple of shows this weekend. How, how how was your weekend, bro? **Chip** (00:21:35:16 - 00:21:40:21): I was great. I did some, shows. I did some don't tell shows. Are you familiar with Don't tell? **Thomas** (00:21:40:23 - 00:21:43:16): It's the one where they don't tell you who's going to show up. **Chip** (00:21:43:22 - 00:21:49:15): Yeah, yeah. Speaking of wonder, you literally have to wonder who the comedians are as the performer. **Thomas** (00:21:49:15 - 00:21:53:04): Do you know who the other performers are going to be, or is that a secret? **Chip** (00:21:53:09 - 00:22:18:08): You know, you sort of find out you'll get like, it's very it's very grassroots and very laid back, like, literally like a few days beforehand. I'll get an Instagram message with all of the comedians on it. So you're like, oh, okay. It's that person, that person. Hey, generally look generally local comics like I'm in Philly, so like sometimes they'll be some New York comics coming down, but generally it's people, you know, I was out in the suburbs of Philly for this one, but it was, it's fun apparently. Don't Tell is the largest comedy club chain in the country right now, but yet it doesn't have a single brick and mortar place. It's just it's these mailing lists, and you, you get on and they're like, hey, there's going to be a on Friday night. There's going to be a don't tell comedy show in this neighborhood in Philadelphia. And we're not going to tell you exactly where. We're not gonna tell you who's on it, but you want to go. And it's the speakeasy kind of thing. You buy a ticket, and then the day of you get the email and it's like, they still don't tell you who the comedians are, but they're like, yeah, it's going to be at this barber shop or in the back room of this bar or just, you know, like it in this grass hut that we built with, you know, whatever it is. And, it's always fun. So I did that. That was that was a lot of fun. Had two really fun shows. And then Saturday was also out in the suburbs, Philadelphia, with my with my new buddy who I met in Nebraska at the Great American Comedy Festival back in June, did two shows with, Yakov Smirnoff. Beautiful body. Just a legendary Yakov Smirnoff coming directly from Branson, Missouri, where he's got it. He's got it. It's the most one of the most beautiful theaters I've ever seen. You show me pictures of it. Video. He's a 2000 seat theater in Branson. **Thomas** (00:23:27:00 - 00:23:27:15): Wow. **Chip** (00:23:27:15 - 00:23:47:10): And that he's he's he's had it for about 30 years. And yeah, he's branching out more now. Like, you know, he's had this thing going in Branson for years where he basically just had his residency there and now he's getting out there more. So we did a couple good shows. He's doing Am Yakov Smirnoff is doing a movie with, the up in Boston with, I think Mark Wahlberg. And so it's a whole thing. Yeah. So, it was a lot of fun that had a lot of, a lot of fun shows and, Yeah. How about you? How's that? How's your weekend? **Thomas** (00:23:55:01 - 00:24:00:14): It's a great weekend, dude. Great weekend. I think that the most notable thing was went and got, my flu shot. **Chip** (00:24:00:18 - 00:24:01:14): Oh. How are you. **Thomas** (00:24:01:14 - 00:24:13:13): Feeling? I'm feeling good. Feeling good? Me and my wife went, and, had an interesting experience. Have you ever been waiting in line to, like, get something at the pharmacy? **Chip** (00:24:13:15 - 00:24:14:01): Sure. **Thomas** (00:24:14:01 - 00:24:26:09): And have the person in front of you turn around and very casually ask. So this is the vaccine line. What vaccine are you getting? **Chip** (00:24:26:11 - 00:24:28:06): What are you, the vaccine police? **Thomas** (00:24:28:08 - 00:24:42:22): I don't know, do we were just there for our flu shot, but there was one line for, like, everybody to get all the shots. And this guy just like, like, kind of, you know, a real jazzy personality, just turn around. Was like. So, what shot are you guys getting? **Chip** (00:24:42:23 - 00:25:01:02): Okay, I, I I'll tell you right now, I love a jazzy personality. I do do love a jazzy person out. But there are certain places I don't need a jazzy personality. And one of them is at at the pharmacy. When I'm about to get, to about to get a shot. **Thomas** (00:25:01:03 - 00:25:03:15): It was jazzy and intrusive. **Chip** (00:25:03:17 - 00:25:07:17): Write that down. That will be, the name of my next special. Jazzy and intrusive. **Thomas** (00:25:07:17 - 00:25:08:19): Oh, that's pretty good. **Chip** (00:25:08:20 - 00:25:15:08): I'm going to be doing a lot of crowd work. And I'm going to be asking very specific questions, but it's going to be with a lot of dazzle. **Thomas** (00:25:15:09 - 00:25:17:23): Don't let anybody from hip and now. **Chip** (00:25:18:01 - 00:25:21:01): Jazzy and intrusive, I, I like it. **Thomas** (00:25:21:03 - 00:25:22:12): Yeah. It was really funny. **Chip** (00:25:22:12 - 00:25:24:15): What's your social Security number? **Thomas** (00:25:24:15 - 00:25:28:14): Big cat? **Chip** (00:25:28:16 - 00:25:33:15): I just become Vincent Price and just ask people painful stories about their childhood. **Thomas** (00:25:33:17 - 00:25:35:18): Yeah. Have you ever. **Chip** (00:25:35:18 - 00:25:40:14): Seen your father naked? You know, she's she's like, what are you. What are you doing here? **Thomas** (00:25:40:15 - 00:25:42:17): Yeah, it was that one of his sticks? **Chip** (00:25:42:21 - 00:25:46:21): Oh, no. I'm just doing the Vincent Price effect. I mean, that would be. **Thomas** (00:25:47:03 - 00:25:52:17): Okay, because I only know of him from the three episode arc of the Brady Bunch. Where they go to Hawaii. **Chip** (00:25:52:18 - 00:26:01:05): Of course. Yeah. No, he was intrusive there. I mean, he tied three boys to totem poles inside a cave. I mean, that's that is a little intrusive. **Thomas** (00:26:01:05 - 00:26:11:06): It's intrusive. He also, like, basically stole some artifacts for his own personal gain from the Hawaiian Islands. He was an intrusive man. At least his character. **Chip** (00:26:11:06 - 00:26:45:16): Was starting to embrace some of the high points of I. Okay, I still have a I'm still morally pushing against whatever I want to see. And an hour special comedy special I developed comedy special of I Vincent Price, doing intrusive crowd work with who are very uncomfortable with him doing it. Yeah. Tell me the details of your divorce. You know, it's just like he's really, really getting intrusive, you know? What's your weight loss journey? You know, it's just like asking. Yeah, thanks. It's just doing it. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:26:57:07 - 00:26:59:19): Yeah. No, I, I think. **Chip** (00:26:59:21 - 00:27:02:11): Do you have any preexisting conditions? **Thomas** (00:27:02:13 - 00:27:28:19): I think it can be done. Have you seen or heard of the one where, like, somebody made something called Jason and it is the murderer from Friday the 13th movie is Jason? Yes. Doing his version of Seinfeld. It's like he's just wearing a mask. He's up on stage. Pretty well put together. This is like six months ago or something like that. **Chip** (00:27:28:21 - 00:27:39:12): Okay. Yeah, I could, I could see that where he. He's got a point of view that we haven't heard on stage. I'd like to hear it. I've seen the eye. Have you seen the I, Mr. Rogers? **Thomas** (00:27:39:14 - 00:27:41:11): Oh, there's been a lot of Mr. Rogers going. **Chip** (00:27:41:11 - 00:27:45:09): Around where he's, like, saying inappropriate things to Eazy-E. The late Eazy-E? **Thomas** (00:27:45:11 - 00:27:48:06): Yeah, I, I only saw the thumbnail there. I didn't click on it. **Chip** (00:27:48:06 - 00:27:58:22): That's a good one. That's a good one. So yeah. So I think, so for all the geniuses, I won our comedy special of the late Vincent Price doing intrusive crowd work. **Thomas** (00:27:58:22 - 00:28:00:01): Maybe it's was 51. **Chip** (00:28:00:01 - 00:28:11:12): 51 minutes is the new hour. Speaking of new hours, non-intrusive move Closer by Chip chantry, now available on YouTube. Written and performed by Chip Chantry. Produced by Thomas O'Brien. Chip Chantry. **Thomas** (00:28:11:15 - 00:28:21:13): Check it out. It's, I think it's a turning point in comedy. I think it will be remembered as before. Move closer after, move closer to the whole art form. **Chip** (00:28:21:15 - 00:28:32:14): Until the Vincent Price I crowd work special comes out. Yeah, and that's the watershed moment in comedy. But I think up until then, Move Closer by Chip gentry is yeah. **Thomas** (00:28:32:16 - 00:28:39:19): I mean, maybe maybe you do a Vincent Price. You know, there is that trend people do in characters taking shows on the road. **Chip** (00:28:39:19 - 00:28:53:21): Like somebody tells like Mark Twain. Right? You know, like something like that. Or Edgar, I have a I have a friend, great comic who, who does this Edgar Allan Poe show and he's he's amazing, you know, so it's, I think maybe it's Vincent Price. I mean, I think, Bill Hader has done Vincent. **Thomas** (00:28:53:21 - 00:28:59:21): Price the bill. Yeah. And he has a great story about, like, you know, Lorne Michaels significantly older than Bill Hader. **Chip** (00:29:00:02 - 00:29:01:06): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:29:01:08 - 00:29:15:09): Saw the first, like, version of one of the Vincent Price sketches. Yeah. And he. Bill tells a story. He's like, he came to me. He's like, I really like it. I like what you're doing. I think it's funny. But why now? **Chip** (00:29:15:11 - 00:29:17:16): Why two decades after the man's death? **Thomas** (00:29:17:16 - 00:29:24:15): Why now? With the Vincent Price? And we are ten years removed from Bill Hader being on the show. So. **Chip** (00:29:24:17 - 00:29:25:01): Yeah, I. **Thomas** (00:29:25:01 - 00:29:27:08): Mean, maybe it's time for it to loop back around. **Chip** (00:29:27:13 - 00:29:33:08): I think it's time the kids want to hear it. The new kids are ready for it. **Thomas** (00:29:33:09 - 00:29:39:05): All right, buddy, we got to get into it. Let's talk about this celebrity you can go on a road trip with. **Chip** (00:29:39:10 - 00:30:01:21): All right, so we're talking vacations. We're talking tropical vacations. If you're joining us for the tropical vacation lifestyle, we are a vibe. Is is that. But sometimes not every vacation is necessarily tropical. But I love this idea right here okay. Who doesn't love celebrity impersonators. Can I can I start with that. That would be my pyramid scheme. Like elevator pitch. Like just like again. Thomas, you and I went to high school together. We haven't seen each other in about ten years. Yeah, I have just made it a point to just bump into you outside of your office building because, yeah, it's like, hey, we've done the things. We're like, oh, hey, how you been? You married before our kids house, but Papa. Whatever. And then you're like, what are you up to? And Thomas, you're like, oh, I sell insurance and I do whatever. I'm like, oh, great. And now ask me what I do. **Thomas** (00:30:31:07 - 00:30:32:22): What do you do, Chip? **Chip** (00:30:33:00 - 00:30:45:05): Well, now, let me ask you this. You love celebrity impersonators, right? Like, that's the way that I would start every pitch. Because, see, I, I don't know why I'm not a better businessman because I feel like, well, I. **Thomas** (00:30:45:05 - 00:30:51:03): Teach you how to do, Ellen DeGeneres impersonation, and then you teach ten people how people. **Chip** (00:30:51:03 - 00:31:00:07): How to do it. And then all of a sudden, we have 12. Ellen DeGeneres I and yeah, it's. **Thomas** (00:31:00:09 - 00:31:10:19): And can you imagine, just like, being funny, dancing on camera and then also all of them adopting the dark side of Ellen, just the camera off version of Ellen. **Chip** (00:31:10:21 - 00:31:30:13): It's kind of like that, that, movie multiplicity with Michael Keaton, where they're just the the versions of the versions and it's just. Or it's like Gremlins. It's like gremlins, but degenerate, like all over and like, so there's that one that is the fun dancing one. And then there's the other ones that make our staffs sign NDAs, you know, whatever. Either way, it's fun for the whole family. And it's a Christmas movie. **Thomas** (00:31:35:09 - 00:31:39:05): It is a Christmas movie. There's no debate about it now. **Chip** (00:31:39:06 - 00:31:41:03): Oh, speaking of Christmas movie stars. **Thomas** (00:31:41:07 - 00:31:42:05): A nice segue. **Chip** (00:31:42:06 - 00:31:44:22): Let's get back to celebrity impersonators. **Thomas** (00:31:44:22 - 00:31:48:06): I think that you can take a road trip with. **Chip** (00:31:48:08 - 00:32:09:22): Yeah, who doesn't love a road trip now? Okay, so there is a guy named Tom. Did us from Lake George. Lake George, New York. He is a big cart car guy. Just loves to. He's just a he's a regular guy. He's not this. I don't believe he's a very wealthy man. I mean, I, I think he might have some money, but, like, you know, it's not like he's, but he just he's a he's a car guy. Thomas, you're. **Thomas** (00:32:10:12 - 00:32:17:00): Starting your intrusive crowd work already. Hey, you look poor, Thomas. **Chip** (00:32:17:01 - 00:32:30:20): But he he likes his cars. He likes his. Maybe muscle cars is fast cars. But for whatever reason, a number of years ago, he bought a Ford Country Squire station wagon. Okay. Like a big old 80s station wagon. **Thomas** (00:32:30:21 - 00:32:32:12): It's the one with the wood paneling, right? **Chip** (00:32:32:12 - 00:32:48:01): With the wood paneling. Picture in the 80s. And I think it's if some of you are figuring this out, you're like, oh, that sounds like the blank. Apparently he didn't realize this, but people were like, hey, that's the family truck ster from National Lampoon's Vacation. **Thomas** (00:32:48:03 - 00:32:48:08): Wow. **Chip** (00:32:48:11 - 00:33:08:10): The famous station wagon. And so he looks into he's like, oh yeah, this is basically because the family structure was this big ugly station wagon that they actually renovated. They put like extra front like lights on it and like there's a different grill. Like they had it wasn't just a regular off the lot car. Like they ready to make it look extra gaudy. So but it was, it was the model that they used to then make it extra body. So he's like, hey, I'm usually a sports car kind of guy, but I have this fun kind of thing. Let me do the work and change it into the family trucks here. So he has the vacation family trucks and he drives around and then he like he wanted to get another car. He saw another car that was kind of getting junk. He could get it for parts. So he's like, I'm going to get another station wagon and I'm going to use it for parts because that's cheaper than having to like get the old parts. So he does that, but then he just decides, I'm just going to ramp this one. Up to now he has a fleet, I'm going to call it a fleet. Are three of them, but he's got a fleet of three. It's a. **Thomas** (00:33:50:14 - 00:33:51:11): Full fleet. **Chip** (00:33:51:13 - 00:34:14:14): It's a full fleet. It's fleet is what that is. It is a full fleet. And, he has now has three family truck sitters, and he's leaned into it. He has vanity license plates for each one, one with, of course, some vowels missing of course. One says Wally World, one says Griswold class. And of course says aunt spelled A and T, which I love. And Ed was great. He even has like, he'll put luggage and a fake and dead and Edna, like with the blanket over on the roof and drives around. People love it. And the beauty is now, he it's not like a big business for him, but he does rent these out. So if you have a big event, you're going to the prom. You want to impress that special lady? **Thomas** (00:34:40:23 - 00:34:41:16): Oh, my. **Chip** (00:34:41:18 - 00:34:48:03): Dad of getting a limousine. You can rent Lake George, New York's Tom Dennis's family trucks there. **Thomas** (00:34:48:03 - 00:35:06:08): I love that it started, like, authentically cheap. I love that this wasn't something he set out to do. Yeah, that he saw an opportunity. He bought a car, realized it was like something from a movie. Did some modifications, saw another one, thought I'll get it for spare parts. And now he has a fleet. **Chip** (00:35:06:09 - 00:35:06:17): Yes. **Thomas** (00:35:06:20 - 00:35:22:19): Of celebrity lookalikes. That you can take on a road trip that you can take photos and that you can take to prom. Yep. That's it. Great idea. And it's just taking what's in your life and make put a little pizzazz on it. **Chip** (00:35:22:21 - 00:35:43:23): Put a little bit, get a little jazzy just like that man okay I, I don't like to duck. I don't want to condescend to you, Thomas. I don't want to embarrass you in front of the listeners. But what if that man in front of you at the pharmacy the other day was out in the car waiting for him? Was the family structure like he rented? Oh, the family trucks there just to go get his vaccine? **Thomas** (00:35:49:10 - 00:35:50:02): **Chip** (00:35:50:04 - 00:36:00:03): That's why he was so jazzy. So again, I'm not saying you're wrong to disparage the man, but I'm just saying he could have wheeled up in the Wally World mobile. That's awesome. **Thomas** (00:36:00:05 - 00:36:14:01): He might have it. I don't want to disparage anybody. No. You know, that's never been my my game. Yeah, but, the man did point blank to me, and my wife asked us about our personal medical information. **Chip** (00:36:14:03 - 00:36:17:20): Yeah, not that that goes beyond jazzy. That is. That's smooth. **Thomas** (00:36:17:20 - 00:36:33:09): Jazzy to wrap that up, when I told him, when we told him we were just getting our flu shots. Yeah. Visibly disappointed. He said something like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I, I already got that one. And, this one, this this year's works. I haven't got sick yet. **Chip** (00:36:33:10 - 00:36:34:19): Good for you, jazzy man. **Thomas** (00:36:34:19 - 00:36:40:08): And then he left without without, doing his, his appointment at all. **Chip** (00:36:40:08 - 00:36:58:17): By the way, I know we're talking a lot about AI. We're talking about, like, you know, like automation in the workforce. And, you know, people lose jobs because of it. So I will say this is a fleet of three celebrity lookalikes that are not humans. They are just vehicles. **Thomas** (00:36:58:20 - 00:36:59:12): **Chip** (00:36:59:20 - 00:37:17:02): But they are celebrity vehicles and celebrity lookalike vehicles. And so I think it is I think it's, I think he's doing it for the right reasons. And if you're in the, New York State area and you've ever think you see a family trucks here, it's probably Tom Davis and one of his fleets. **Thomas** (00:37:17:04 - 00:37:37:07): At this point in history, with everything we know about the family tractor. Yeah. And everything we know about, arguably the star of the whole franchise, Mr. Chevy Chase. Who would you rather go on a road trip with? The family structure, the family structure, or a Chevy Chase impersonator? **Chip** (00:37:37:09 - 00:37:49:09): Oh, okay, so not Chevy Chase, but the impersonator. That's interesting. Is. Okay, let me ask you, this is the impersonator Chevy Chase now or Chevy Chase, 1985. Because that changes a lot of things. **Thomas** (00:37:51:01 - 00:37:53:20): It's, it's, from the film. **Chip** (00:37:53:21 - 00:38:04:05): Okay. I, I might go with Chevy Chase 85 because before, I think a lot of us knew some of the demons, and I think he would do a lot more pratfalls. That would be funny. Like. **Thomas** (00:38:04:07 - 00:38:06:10): I would more physical comedy. **Chip** (00:38:06:12 - 00:38:17:09): I don't like to demean people or like, if I ever if someone is ever in my employ, I try to treat them with respect or dignity. A waiter, whoever it might be, you know, somebody. **Thomas** (00:38:17:09 - 00:38:20:01): I know you're good person. You're a man of the people. **Chip** (00:38:20:03 - 00:38:41:01): But if I had a Chevy Chase impersonator for a few hours, I am demanding that he falls down and hurts himself a number of times. And, honestly, I'm going to be honest. If I got it, if I got a 2025 Chevy Chase impersonator like an 80 year old man, I am still going to make him do some pratfalls. **Thomas** (00:38:41:03 - 00:38:42:14): **Chip** (00:38:42:16 - 00:39:01:00): It could be dangerous for him, but I'm. I'm still going to do it. But I would feel a little bad. So here's, here's my here's my pecking order. Chevy Chase 85 impersonator. Yep. Family trucks, jr. Impersonator. Chevy Chase, 2025 impersonator. How about you? **Thomas** (00:39:01:01 - 00:39:05:20): Exact same. I wouldn't change a hair on that order. **Chip** (00:39:05:20 - 00:39:08:00): No, I think I think I've nailed it. **Thomas** (00:39:08:00 - 00:39:14:08): It would be nice when we're in Hawaii if we could get one of the family tricksters up there to, tool around the island in. **Chip** (00:39:14:09 - 00:39:22:05): I think it would be pretty cheap. We just have to have it shipped over across the Pacific. I think we have something in our cheap chances. Thanksgiving Paradise budget for that. **Thomas** (00:39:22:07 - 00:39:25:08): Yeah, it's probably easy to get a car there quickly. **Chip** (00:39:25:09 - 00:39:27:10): Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. **Thomas** (00:39:27:12 - 00:39:38:19): We'll think about it. We'll think about it. Can you imagine the content? Yep. The very specific niche content for tropical island Heads that also love the movie Family Vacation. **Chip** (00:39:38:21 - 00:39:48:02): Yeah. I mean, it's wow. That I mean, it is a beloved movie, but yeah, that is a very that's a specific Venn diagram right there. **Thomas** (00:39:48:04 - 00:39:52:12): Yeah. If you're going to have a Venn diagram, make it specific. That's another rule I live by. **Chip** (00:39:52:17 - 00:40:15:15): And I will say in my childhood. Easily top five maybe the number one most watched movie by a young Chip gentry is National Lampoon's Vacation. Cat can recite it inside and out. My my best friend growing up. We can I can like, text him a line from the movie. Not even like it's just a line of exposition. It's not like a joke or anything like that. It would just be a line and he will immediately text me back. I do the same thing. My brother immediately texted me back with the response to that line that it's it's not even a joke, and they can do it. That's that's how often the young kids in our neighborhood watched National Lampoon's Vacation over and over again as children. **Thomas** (00:40:35:08 - 00:40:45:13): Honestly, I think I've only seen it once or twice. What made it into our rotation is Christmas Vacation. Yes, it's one we watch every year. **Chip** (00:40:45:16 - 00:40:46:08): Yes. **Thomas** (00:40:46:10 - 00:40:50:00): I've seen it at least 30 times. **Chip** (00:40:50:01 - 00:40:57:13): Oh, as have I. And I will say, I'm going to be honest. And I'm going to I'm going to step on some tape. This is going to be this is becoming a controversial podcast episode. **Thomas** (00:40:57:13 - 00:41:01:13): Hopefully it, juices the ratings shift. We need a little controversy. And our I. **Chip** (00:41:01:13 - 00:41:01:21): Know. **Thomas** (00:41:01:21 - 00:41:04:11): Laid back tropical podcast comedy Christmas. **Chip** (00:41:04:11 - 00:41:33:05): Vacation has grown on me. But I will say there was a long period of time where every time I watch and I by the way, I watch Christmas vacation every year and probably multiple times a year, like just if it's on, it's on, you know. Yeah. But there for a while, for many years, every time I watch Christmas vacation, I would then have to go back and watch the original because Christmas Vacation one makes me sad because I the original I think is so much funnier. So it's like it. I understand what Christmas vacation is doing. It serves a purpose, I enjoy it, it sets up the holiday very well. There are some very funny moments, but it just it has just a different vibe to it than the original. And like all the times I have to go back and watch the original just to cleanse the vacation palette. **Thomas** (00:41:51:13 - 00:41:53:18): It gets you warmed up and then you want the real thing. **Chip** (00:41:53:18 - 00:41:59:12): I get it, it's even better than the real thing. That's a that's a U2 song right there. **Thomas** (00:41:59:14 - 00:42:08:02): It really is. Well, ship from from cars. We're going to be taking a transportation shift. **Chip** (00:42:08:02 - 00:42:15:10): Speaking of, vacation cast member albums. Planes, Trains and automobiles. Mr.. John Candy, did you. **Thomas** (00:42:15:10 - 00:42:16:10): See that documentary? **Chip** (00:42:16:16 - 00:42:20:07): No, but it's on my list. I'm hoping to this week. I can't wait. Have you seen it? **Thomas** (00:42:20:09 - 00:42:23:19): I watched maybe, like 15 minutes. I've had loved it. **Chip** (00:42:23:21 - 00:42:29:11): And you're like, I loved it enough where I got it and I'm done. Or that was the only time you had and you're going to continue to watch it. **Thomas** (00:42:29:16 - 00:42:34:02): That's the only time I had. I don't know if I'll make it back. The free time is so limited. **Chip** (00:42:34:03 - 00:42:35:02): It is? Yeah. **Thomas** (00:42:35:02 - 00:42:37:05): We're getting ready for Paradise. **Chip** (00:42:37:07 - 00:42:41:09): You're getting so much vaccines, but not all of them. You're a busy man. **Thomas** (00:42:41:11 - 00:42:51:04): I'm getting a portion of vaccines available. Yeah, there's like vaccines. Like the lady was really pushing the vaccines. **Chip** (00:42:51:04 - 00:42:51:22): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:42:51:23 - 00:43:05:18): She was like, do you have the hepatitis? And I was just like, I think so. And she's like, well, there's a new one. And I was like, really? Yeah. Like a new habit. Now I think I'm good. She's like, you might just want to get it. I was like, I think I have it. I think I'm good. Yeah. Like I think she, you know, maybe she got, a little, upsell for. **Chip** (00:43:11:07 - 00:43:16:08): Was this in the pharmacy or was this a lady out in the parking lot of the pharmacy? **Thomas** (00:43:16:10 - 00:43:18:13): I mean, it was out outside of the store. **Chip** (00:43:18:13 - 00:43:23:21): Fresh air, sunshine. I don't see anything wrong with that. **Thomas** (00:43:23:23 - 00:43:29:23): I like to live a healthy existence. All right, that's about vaccines, chip. Let's talk about airports. **Chip** (00:43:29:23 - 00:43:35:19): As we know from the movie planes, trains and automobiles, air travel can be hectic. **Thomas** (00:43:35:19 - 00:43:36:11): Certainly can. **Chip** (00:43:36:11 - 00:43:55:12): And really, it's not even the air travel. Although we see those videos of some lady or some guy getting pulled off a plane. Whatever. It's the airport itself that can be very stressful, exciting, inducing. I don't want to miss my flight. I don't want to be pushed him with all these people. Oh my God, I lost my phone charger. Why are they charging $35 for a coffee. Whatever. It's by the way. Okay. Now let's go off on a tangent. Who's just saying it? Thomas? Who's buying coffee at an airport? I don't understand it. I don't get maybe you are, Thomas. Maybe you're one of those people. And it's a lot of people. I see everybody walking around there. Oh, let me get my coffee before I go on to the plane. That's a problem for me. **Thomas** (00:44:22:13 - 00:44:23:11): Okay. **Chip** (00:44:23:13 - 00:44:44:03): You're first of all, talk about being jazzy. Yeah. You're in a metal tube 30,000ft in the air for four hours. You don't need extra energy. It's fair. And second, there's, like, maybe two restrooms for the entire plane. And you're going to throw a quarter coffee in your face. **Thomas** (00:44:44:05 - 00:44:44:15): I. **Chip** (00:44:44:16 - 00:44:57:11): I I don't understand the logic. I don't get it. But anyway, that's just me. Maybe it's when you're getting off the plane. You're getting off the plane. Hey, let me grab a coffee because I'm going to go enjoy my life now. **Thomas** (00:44:57:13 - 00:45:03:18): Yeah, whatever it is, it's also bringing sand to the beach a little bit. Because they do serve coffee on the plane. **Chip** (00:45:03:20 - 00:45:06:11): They do, they do. So you could get it there. **Thomas** (00:45:06:13 - 00:45:08:13): Get a little shot of it. **Chip** (00:45:08:15 - 00:45:30:19): Yeah, yeah. So anyway, airports can be stressful times. That is a time, like, during the vacation, if you're traveling with a loved one, let's say your spouse, you have a spouse, Thomas, I new spouse, Thomas. You know, I'm sure there have been times I don't want to again, I want to be that jazzy, intrusive guy too much. But I'm sure there have been times with you and your wife where you've gotten into some disagreements, maybe some arguments, and I wouldn't be shocked if if it ever happened on vacation. It happened at an airport. **Thomas** (00:45:40:17 - 00:45:41:13): Yeah, for sure. **Chip** (00:45:41:19 - 00:46:00:11): And we all have our own special degree of anxiety or whatever when it comes to airports, and we all handle it differently to a certain extent. I am somebody I like taking an early morning flight. I like being like the first one at the airport, like getting up before the sun is up, getting that over to the airport. I'm the first one there. Maybe I even get some breakfast. Whatever. I'm there two hours early. There are some people who don't want to waste their time there. They want to roll in. They got the carry on bag and they're just like, boom, 15 minutes before that, that door closes, they're on and that's good for them. Good for them. I, I was at LAX one time Thomas. This was I think it was I was coming home for Christmas break when we were riding on that show in Burbank back in 2018. And I'm waiting for my I'm in the one terminal of LAX and it's going to Philadelphia. But, you know, it's not boarding yet, so I'm just waiting patiently because I'm there plenty early. And the very next like gate is like right there, you know, 15ft away is going to Austin, Texas. And like it's like last call, like they're about ready to close up. And I just see this dude walking down the hallway with just a backpack, and he just looks like the coolest guy in the world, a little bit older than me. Coolest guy in the world. No, no worries in the world. He just looks at me as he's walking past me and I look at him and I recognize him. It's l.a.x. times. **Thomas** (00:47:03:04 - 00:47:05:21): Yeah, yeah. Where the stars fly, baby. **Chip** (00:47:05:23 - 00:47:26:12): And I was just like, oh, hey. And I just kind of smiled. He recognized that I recognized him. I was I was trying to be close, like, oh, hey. And he goes, hey, man. And just very clearly walks past me, walks to the Austin Gate as they're like, closing the door. They all greet him like they know him. Yeah. And he just wings on and just goes in. And then they close up the door and it was just like he didn't have to wait for anything. Ship. **Thomas** (00:47:34:16 - 00:47:35:14): I'm dying. Who was it? **Chip** (00:47:35:14 - 00:47:46:12): It was the late, great Mr. Vincent right now. It was, Austin, Texas, his own lead singer of the one of my favorite bands, spoon. **Thomas** (00:47:46:14 - 00:47:47:14): Mr. Britt Daniel. **Chip** (00:47:47:14 - 00:47:57:03): So Britt Daniel from spoon. Great band. Just cool rock star, indie hero. And just, you know, he's taken that flight from LAX to Austin. **Thomas** (00:47:57:05 - 00:47:57:11): Yeah. **Chip** (00:47:57:11 - 00:48:11:08): Thousand times. He doesn't need to be there two hours early like I do. So anyway, there is a, new term flying around, called airport divorces. That sounds sad. **Thomas** (00:48:11:10 - 00:48:12:09): It does sound sad. **Chip** (00:48:12:09 - 00:48:36:21): It sounds like the end of something. It's really the beginning of something to a certain extent, an airport divorce. They say it. It's not a bad thing. But let's say you and your spouse, your travel partner have different. Hey, maybe you you experience the airport the same way. Great. Good for you. And then you do that. But there are some couples that deal with airports and want to do it very differently. So they say, all right, look, instead of trying to satisfy both of you and like fighting and arguing and being all nervous and getting in a fight on your way to vacation. Yeah. Divorce yourselves before that, go your separate ways when you get to the airport or even go separately to the airport. If you are the wife that wants to get there two hours early, but your husband doesn't want to show up until 45 minutes beforehand, maybe he'll leave for the airport later. And then you just do your own things. She wants to look at all the shops and grab the coffee. He wants to grab a quick candy bar and then go hide in the corner and read a book for a few minutes. Whatever. And then you just do your own thing, and then you come back on the plane reinvigorated. Yeah, he's done his thing. She has done her thing. And they're both they've dealt with that, that anxiety or that whatever stress. And then they come back and they get to sit next to each other and enjoy their flight free from the if I can use a plane words here, free from the baggage of, airport stress so that that is the airport versus they say 54% of people, apparently, according to this one study, say that their personalities change inside an airport that's over half people say. They say they change that. Like that's the way that, you know, so. So yeah. So, so. Yeah. And how are you do you think you would be at an airport, divorced guy. Now you have a kid too. So I think that makes it even more difficult. **Thomas** (00:50:07:21 - 00:50:35:14): I never would have been an airport divorce guy. Like, I find a lot more comfort than stress. And, like, my wife being around. Yeah, but 100%, if you have friction there, if you just are like different people who want to do it a different way, and it's already a heightened situation where there's extra anxiety and you can strip a little bit of that away by like just doing your own thing, moving as freely as you'd like to through the airport and doing it your way. I you got to take all the stress out of it. You can man. Yeah. So do it, do it. I'm I'm very pro this. If you're in a situation where that works, would you and Kim ever, **Chip** (00:50:45:16 - 00:50:48:10): You know, I travel a lot for work by myself. **Thomas** (00:50:48:12 - 00:50:50:00): So it's so much easier. **Chip** (00:50:50:01 - 00:51:10:06): It's easy, but it's also lonely, you know what I mean? So it is nice to have her there. And I think we travel fairly similarly. So like, we have the same sort of methods, which is kind of nice. So it's so it's sort of novel. So I don't think we travel enough together where it's like I always do that, but like, I can definitely see that I'm somebody who, like, especially when I'm by myself. I will, get there early, maybe grab a bite to eat if I if that's a thing. And then I need to go to my terminal, even if it's two hours early. I need to see there might even be another plane loading there. The other one is it? But it's like. All right, you know, B 38. That's where I am. So I get the visual on it. I got the 20. And then what I do is I just I walk, I get my steps, and I go the length of that terminal, all those term back and forth for an hour because like, I'm going to be sitting on a plane for four hours or whatever. I want to be as tired as I can. I want to see as much as I can. I don't want to be sitting, so, so I want to be up and around and I just, I pace. Thomas. That's what I do. **Thomas** (00:51:52:20 - 00:52:04:02): Oh, I love it. And I get an out a little nervous energy again some steps in really flaring up that plantar fasciitis right before you sit down for a nice 4 or 5 hours. **Chip** (00:52:04:04 - 00:52:08:10): And not being able to stretch it out at all. I mean, it's a beautiful thing. **Thomas** (00:52:08:12 - 00:52:15:01): Yeah. It's so interesting, dude. I've never seen you in an airport environment, but I will. **Chip** (00:52:15:03 - 00:52:15:23): Yes. **Thomas** (00:52:16:01 - 00:52:25:06): Thanks that we're actually taking the same flight from Los Angeles to Honolulu. You'll get to see my whole circus routine with the baby. **Chip** (00:52:25:08 - 00:52:26:22): It very excited. **Thomas** (00:52:27:00 - 00:52:29:12): I think my dad's gonna be on that flight, too. **Chip** (00:52:29:15 - 00:52:30:19): I love it. **Thomas** (00:52:30:21 - 00:52:36:20): We, we're really packing out that, that flight from LAX to Honolulu. **Chip** (00:52:37:02 - 00:52:37:10): Yes. We. **Thomas** (00:52:37:11 - 00:52:41:05): And, Yeah, it'll it'll be interesting to see. It'll be interesting. See how your wife does it. **Chip** (00:52:41:05 - 00:52:49:14): Our wives are going to meet for the first time. That's a that's a crazy concept. We've known each other for a decade. Yeah. And our wives have never, never crossed paths, yet they've. **Thomas** (00:52:49:14 - 00:52:51:10): Never been in the same place at the same. **Chip** (00:52:51:10 - 00:53:03:19): Time. My wife was unable because of work. She wasn't able to make it out to the, to to the wedding. Speaking of road trips, wasn't I make it up to the wedding? So. Yeah. So this is a this would be the first time getting the get the clans together. **Thomas** (00:53:04:01 - 00:53:11:10): Yeah. Dude. It'll be, I don't know, I, I, I have all these visions of it being absolute perfection. It's gonna be so fun. **Chip** (00:53:11:15 - 00:53:13:03): It's gonna be great. I can't wait. **Thomas** (00:53:13:07 - 00:53:18:03): Well, you don't have to wait much longer. Yeah, 34 days. So. Chips and trees, Thanksgiving a Paradise. **Chip** (00:53:18:06 - 00:53:29:22): Wow. I just got okay. I feel like this has been a decent podcast so far. It's it's been a good episode. I'm feeling good. Yeah, you're just feeling good. You just good. And then you just get that little extra zing. Extra zest. **Thomas** (00:53:29:22 - 00:53:31:07): Yeah, dude, a little lift. **Chip** (00:53:31:07 - 00:53:46:21): And it's. I think it's been going really well this episode, but I think something in the air, I just caught it. It's like. It's like when you're walking around in the fall and you just for that first time, and it's dark out and there's the breeze and then you smell, a campfire. **Thomas** (00:53:46:23 - 00:53:47:16): Yeah, a little bit. **Chip** (00:53:47:16 - 00:53:52:07): And you're like, oh, that's hurting me. Like, that's what I just got. Because. Do you know what time it's for, Tommy? **Thomas** (00:53:52:12 - 00:53:53:16): What time is it for chips? **Chip** (00:53:53:16 - 00:53:58:18): Speaking of smell, I can smell it right now. I just cracked open the good book. **Thomas** (00:53:58:23 - 00:54:00:06): The good book. **Chip** (00:54:00:06 - 00:54:12:09): The Guinness book of World Records. Every episode we we we highlight some people or some places or some individuals. Or maybe it's a plant or an animal. Maybe it's a mineral. **Thomas** (00:54:12:09 - 00:54:19:00): They all work in the good book. If they've set a record, if they've been world record worthy, we can get into it. **Chip** (00:54:19:00 - 00:54:20:09): Thomas, do you want to start with yours? **Thomas** (00:54:20:10 - 00:54:48:16): I would be delighted to chip my Guinness Book of World Records. The record I found it involves, airplanes, air travel, which we will be taking on our sweet trip to Hawaii. But this week I found the record for the longest inverted flight in history. That's upside down, baby. Oh, it happened in 1991. In Canada. **Chip** (00:54:48:17 - 00:54:57:10): Just to show you how long ago 1990 was. This is before Thomas O'Brien wrote his fifth grade manifesto of how to be a more successful person. **Thomas** (00:54:57:10 - 00:55:18:12): Classic gatekeeping then. Still, Chip, I had all this valuable info that I wasn't sharing with anybody. So July 24th, 1991, in Canada. And let's just say it is safe to assume that Bryan Adams song. **Chip** (00:55:18:12 - 00:55:19:10): Everything I. **Thomas** (00:55:19:10 - 00:55:25:10): Do, everything I do, was cranking because it was the number one song in the country this week. Yep. **Chip** (00:55:25:12 - 00:55:27:08): And if it was in Canada, can you only. **Thomas** (00:55:27:08 - 00:55:36:23): Imagine Canada's favorite son, Bryan Adams? Yes. Do you have any? Guess how long the record for flying upside down and ship. **Chip** (00:55:36:23 - 00:55:39:17): So like just a plane flying upside down. **Thomas** (00:55:39:17 - 00:55:41:17): Plane flying upside down. **Chip** (00:55:41:19 - 00:55:44:23): Like like a mile. **Thomas** (00:55:45:03 - 00:55:47:03): Oh well, like it's a time record. **Chip** (00:55:47:09 - 00:55:48:01): Oh a timer. **Thomas** (00:55:48:01 - 00:55:49:11): How long, how long? **Chip** (00:55:49:14 - 00:55:52:06): Oh, like two minutes. **Thomas** (00:55:52:06 - 00:56:11:10): John Oster Rude, a stunt pilot who was also the first commercial airline pilot. That's a female. Okay. Good for her for Alaska Airlines. Flew upside down for four hours and 38 minutes. And 10s Shep. **Chip** (00:56:11:12 - 00:56:12:14): Watt hours. **Thomas** (00:56:12:14 - 00:56:15:07): 38 minutes and 10s. **Chip** (00:56:15:08 - 00:56:19:02): Okay, so first of all, flying upside down for four hours is crazy. **Thomas** (00:56:19:07 - 00:56:20:05): Oh it's nuts. **Chip** (00:56:20:06 - 00:56:25:13): Just being upside down for four hours is crazy. Like, how do you not pass. **Thomas** (00:56:25:13 - 00:56:39:02): Out to train for it? She she mounted a seat, a chair to the ceiling of her garage and would you would just sit in it for hours? Dude. **Chip** (00:56:39:04 - 00:56:44:00): What's mom doing? She's out in the garage practice, said John. Jody. **Thomas** (00:56:44:02 - 00:57:11:04): I'm pretty said I practiced at I practice it for the record, take out the roast I'm practice at and in a not as funny, you know, a factoid out, her this was all in, part I think it was like to promote a air show that she was part of. She was stunt pilot. She was doing this big stunt to raise awareness for this air show she was going to be in. And, apparently, I think that worked at this time, but she later did have to retire from airshows after having a crash, in something called the Ring of Fire stunt. **Chip** (00:57:27:15 - 00:57:30:19): Oh, no. That sounds like a bad place to crash. **Thomas** (00:57:31:00 - 00:57:39:01): It does. She? She walked away safe, but, like, it spooked her enough where she just, retired from the air show circuit. At that point. **Chip** (00:57:39:01 - 00:57:41:22): She took down her upside down chair off the garage. **Thomas** (00:57:41:22 - 00:58:01:21): Ceiling. Or, like, like a fighter that takes the gloves off and leaves them in the ring. They just kind of take the seat belt off of the upside down chair in the garage and leave the chair there. She can't use it anymore. But there's their remembrance of the great thing she did. Yeah. What dedication, dude. I mean, I guess you're already a different breed if you're a stunt pilot. Somebody just like I'm not. Just, like, into flying. I want to do the craziest crap you can with an airplane. Yeah, I mean, upside down for 4.5 hours, handling, like a very sensitive machine, from my understanding. And air Force, in a way, it's not designed to work. I mean, this is, this lady's, batty. Dude, she is freakin. It's just, a macho person. **Chip** (00:58:31:06 - 00:58:33:00): It's just a Canadian baddie. **Thomas** (00:58:33:01 - 00:58:43:15): And I think almost by half an hour, maybe a little more than half an hour beat the previous record, which was set in 1933. Dude, it's. **Chip** (00:58:43:15 - 00:58:44:19): Like 60 years. **Thomas** (00:58:44:19 - 00:58:49:04): Yeah, since the 30s. And she went out there and smashed it by half an hour. **Chip** (00:58:49:04 - 00:58:50:11): Dude, good for her. **Thomas** (00:58:50:12 - 00:58:51:13): Joan Austin road. **Chip** (00:58:51:15 - 00:58:52:04): Joni. **Thomas** (00:58:52:04 - 00:59:04:19): Joni. Great job. Very impressive. And, you know, thanks for, thanks for hanging around upside down long enough to inspire the whole world. **Chip** (00:59:04:21 - 00:59:05:19): Has, **Thomas** (00:59:05:21 - 00:59:06:17): Has, **Chip** (00:59:06:19 - 00:59:09:07): Congratulations to you and her. **Thomas** (00:59:09:09 - 00:59:10:16): Hit me with your world record. **Chip** (00:59:10:18 - 00:59:15:17): Well, I don't have a world record, per se, to start out with as much as I do a question. **Thomas** (00:59:15:19 - 00:59:16:20): Okay. **Chip** (00:59:16:22 - 00:59:26:22): Thomas. You know, the direct link between yams and extreme sports, right? **Thomas** (00:59:27:00 - 00:59:27:14): No. **Chip** (00:59:27:16 - 00:59:28:19): Well, I'm going to tell you. **Thomas** (00:59:28:21 - 00:59:29:14): Okay. Please. **Chip** (00:59:29:18 - 01:00:12:08): We're going a little further back from 1991, 12 years, in fact. Wow. April 1st, April Fools Day. Although I don't know if they celebrated across the pond, but April 1st, 1979. Okay, April 1st, 1979. David Kirk of the UK tied himself to an elastic rope and jumped off a 76 meter suspension bridge in Bristol, United Kingdom. Okay. And he became on that day in 1975, the world's first bungee jumper. **Thomas** (01:00:12:10 - 01:00:13:23): Oh my gosh. **Chip** (01:00:14:01 - 01:00:28:08): Yeah, he is the world's first bungee jumper. He he did this because he was. David Kirk was the founder of Oxford University's Dangerous Sports Club. **Thomas** (01:00:28:10 - 01:00:29:08): So is he a student? **Chip** (01:00:29:08 - 01:00:45:07): I believe so wow. And apparently he was a part of a group called the Dangerous Sports Club, where they would do dangerous courses. He's like, I got an idea. Let's get this elastic band, tie it to me, and I'm going to jump off this bridge in a row. Whip me back. **Thomas** (01:00:45:09 - 01:00:46:08): Whoa. **Chip** (01:00:46:10 - 01:01:01:05): He was the world's first bungee jumper. Setting that record. He was the first, you know. Yeah. Wow. Here's the interesting part, though. Yes, yes, yes. 1979 UK's David Kirk. First bungee jumper. **Thomas** (01:01:01:06 - 01:01:02:00): Yeah. **Chip** (01:01:02:02 - 01:01:28:13): In a certain respect. But he was also inspired by a an ancient ritual that's still done to this day of called land diving by this tribe on, the, the island nation of Vanuatu, which was, I believe, a sort of I was the only, sir, I've only ever seen survivor like a few episodes of survivor. And this is back in the year 2000. Is it like, this was like, early on, and, it was Survivor Vanuatu. I still remember that they were on an island. It's in Oceania, like Oceania. Oceania, where they were caught, but, you know, out by like, Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, you know. Yeah, Samoa, all that. So it's a smile. And there are these, this there's one tribe where every year they jump off these. They used to do it out of trees, but now they they build these giant wooden towers, and they jump off of these giant wooden towers with vines wrapped around their ankles. And, they do it, for posterity and for a good yam harvest. **Thomas** (01:02:12:06 - 01:02:13:13): Holy cow. **Chip** (01:02:13:13 - 01:02:31:15): It's to sort of bring in the yam harvest. And if it and, I, I actually study this a little bit because I, I did this thing on this other show once where I was like, I found out about that. I need to know everything. And what you can see videos of it. And they do as they say where they jump and they land on the land like it's not overwater. They've basically like kind of made sort of like a, a playground situation. I'm sure that your daughter goes to where there's like wood chips or whatever down. Yeah. So it's like it's softer. Yeah. But it's still like I want to say a 30ft drop or so and they, they jump down and they do prepare these vines so that the vines do have some elasticity to them. Yeah. But it is it's a little more harsh. And I will say that they sometimes even have these kids do it. These boys who are seven and eight years old. **Thomas** (01:03:01:16 - 01:03:03:19): Dude, that's wild. **Chip** (01:03:03:21 - 01:03:27:08): And it's a rite of passage for the boys to sort of prove their manhood. And here's what happens to a lot of times right around the age of 7 or 8 years old, the boys in this tribe get circumcised, and then they jump off these towers and do a land diving thing in front of their elders at 7 or 8 years old to prove their manhood. So basically what I'm saying is, Thomas, in the nation of Vanuatu, second grade kind of sucks. **Thomas** (01:03:35:13 - 01:03:43:20): So, I mean, is it is it one after the other? Is it's part of the same ceremony. They chop it while they're still bleeding. They go jump off. **Chip** (01:03:43:22 - 01:04:01:06): I don't know. I don't I don't think that that's I don't think it's all on the same day. Maybe. I think that's I think they're separate entities, but it's, it's right around the same amount of time. But yeah, but then they and basically what they do the men, they kind of go off and they build these towers and then they somehow they do something. I think it's like they soak the vines or whatever. **Thomas** (01:04:03:20 - 01:04:04:21): You had to soak the vines. **Chip** (01:04:04:23 - 01:04:27:03): It's elastic, but it's not a bungee cord. It's they're still landing basically on the ground to a certain extent. It's so, it's kind of wild. And there is video of this too. So. And he was watching go YouTube Vanuatu Land. I think it's I believe it's called gol or NUG gol like nag gol or just gol is what they, they refer to this, this ritual as. **Thomas** (01:04:27:05 - 01:04:30:23): I'm having a little trouble picturing it. So the vines are wrapped around their legs? **Chip** (01:04:31:01 - 01:04:31:19): Yes. **Thomas** (01:04:31:21 - 01:04:35:16): The vines have a little bit of give, but they're still hitting the ground. **Chip** (01:04:35:18 - 01:04:36:07): Yes. **Thomas** (01:04:36:12 - 01:04:39:18): Are they just landing on their heads? Like, how does that work? That the. **Chip** (01:04:39:18 - 01:05:01:12): I'm trying to think I forget exact. I and obviously there have been some casualties and some horrible things happen but like, I'm, I'm trying to think how they land. I think they sort of maybe like sort of headstand, like kind of hit their hands, maybe like a handstand kind of situation, but I forget. Or do they? I honestly don't remember, but, go ahead. And I mean, you can look it up on YouTube and watch some land diving. It just sounds. **Thomas** (01:05:05:08 - 01:05:08:22): Like something that was cooked up by big wheelchair up. **Chip** (01:05:09:00 - 01:05:15:12): I think big Wheelchair did have a they do have a sponsorship every year land diving goal brought to you by big wheelchair. **Thomas** (01:05:15:16 - 01:05:20:23): Sounds so dangerous. Yeah. But obviously works for them as a society. **Chip** (01:05:21:01 - 01:05:43:06): Right? Oh, and by the way, apparently this ritual goes back to ancient times when apparently a woman did it and apparently a woman, a husband was being, I think this this tribal husband was being very, inappropriate with a woman. Many, many times. She had it and she ran out of the house. This is this is like this. The the the the tail she ran out of the house is like, I've had it, you know, runs out, he chases after, and she runs and runs and runs into the woods, into the forest, into the jungle, runs, climbs up a tree. He chases her up the tree, and then she dives off of the top of the tree. Yeah, and he dives after her. But what he doesn't know is that she had this plan all along, and she climbed to the top of the tree, tied these, these vines around her so she wouldn't hit the ground. He hits the ground. Doesn't make it. **Thomas** (01:06:15:02 - 01:06:15:15): Where. **Chip** (01:06:15:17 - 01:06:20:16): Problems are solved. That's what we call a Vanuatu divorce. Not an airport divorce. **Thomas** (01:06:20:16 - 01:06:21:10): Not an airport. **Chip** (01:06:21:10 - 01:06:22:04): Divorce. Yeah. **Thomas** (01:06:22:07 - 01:06:25:08): Then that year, the yams were poppin. **Chip** (01:06:25:13 - 01:06:27:18): The yams were up poppin. **Thomas** (01:06:27:18 - 01:06:31:06): You dry the correlation. And now we're still doing this on this day. Yeah. **Chip** (01:06:31:08 - 01:06:56:21): So, congratulations to, to. I'm looking for his name. David Kirk of the UK, 1979 world's first bungee jumper. And, of course, started a craze, of course, in the coming decades, you know, so he was the first official bungee jumper, but also also shout out to the, the tribes of Vanuatu for doing this land jumping for many, many, many years. **Thomas** (01:06:56:21 - 01:07:01:17): Well, dude, that's a that's amazing. That bungee jumping thing really took off. You ever bungee jump ship? **Chip** (01:07:01:19 - 01:07:02:10): Never have. **Thomas** (01:07:02:10 - 01:07:05:06): You know what? You know? No desire. **Chip** (01:07:05:08 - 01:07:11:02): It seems, unnecessary. I'm. I think the word that I'm looking for is unnecessary. **Thomas** (01:07:11:02 - 01:07:19:16): It's very unnecessary. I do enjoy a bungee cord, though. In the right configuration, you're in the car or something. You're going to secure something sliding around. **Chip** (01:07:19:18 - 01:07:22:01): Stuff down a lot of cord. **Thomas** (01:07:22:03 - 01:07:23:11): Don't need a bungee jump? **Chip** (01:07:23:11 - 01:07:24:08): No, not at all. **Thomas** (01:07:24:10 - 01:07:28:01): Well, buddy, it's time to get into some vacation rules. **Chip** (01:07:28:05 - 01:07:28:20): Let's do it. **Thomas** (01:07:29:02 - 01:07:30:12): What's your vacation rule this week, buddy? **Chip** (01:07:30:14 - 01:08:00:08): Vacation rule number 82. Do not live out of a suitcase, okay? We're travelers. Thomas. Okay, I've learned this. If you are staying in a hotel for more than a night or to unpack your suitcase, use the dresser. That's what it's there for. Organize your clothes. Take two minutes to do it, and then you just feel neat and organized. You feel more at home, and you're you're not just living it. You can put the suitcase in the in the in in the closet. So you have to worry about it. And then you also don't ever, ever, ever have to stand in a dark hotel room in a towel, hunched over a suitcase, rifling through for some underwear while your wife looks on and questions every decision she's ever made in her life. **Thomas** (01:08:31:00 - 01:08:34:04): It's so true that it's so true. **Chip** (01:08:34:05 - 01:08:43:11): If if you're staying in a hotel for more than a night, I would say unpack your suitcase, put it in the dresser, make it your home. **Thomas** (01:08:43:13 - 01:08:55:17): It is a deep bend to a suitcase lying flat on the floor, and there's some positions. A nude male body does not look its best in. Nope. **Chip** (01:08:55:19 - 01:08:58:20): No. In any light. In any light. **Thomas** (01:08:58:22 - 01:09:04:10): Well earned vacation rule, rulership. I love the convenience of it too. Just having all your stuff there. **Chip** (01:09:04:11 - 01:09:17:13): You can see everything you're not again, you're not like, how many more pairs of socks do I have? It's like they're right there in the drawers. By the way, I want to give a shout out to Mr. Chris Kosha. Very funny comedian. One of the first guys to ever take me on the road. You know, he's that road comedian. He's done it. He told. He told me he really showed me how to travel a lot. And he's like, now he's like. He's like, if you stay, if you're staying just for a night, you know, if you unpack. But he's like for the night take, take five minutes, unpack. You're going to you're going to feel a lot better. **Thomas** (01:09:31:01 - 01:09:37:19): Absolutely. And also like, you know, when I travel with my wife, there's usually three drawers, right? **Chip** (01:09:37:21 - 01:09:38:18): Yeah. **Thomas** (01:09:38:20 - 01:09:47:12): And, top drawer her I got middle drawer. Me third drawer. Yep. That's where the dirties go. **Chip** (01:09:47:14 - 01:09:49:07): Oh, that's a good idea. **Thomas** (01:09:49:07 - 01:09:51:03): Out of sight, out of mind. **Chip** (01:09:51:03 - 01:09:53:16): That's a really good idea. I like that. **Thomas** (01:09:53:16 - 01:10:00:18): They're all collected there. It's not mixing in because, you know, sometimes you just shove them back in your suitcase and hope you remember it or whatever. **Chip** (01:10:00:20 - 01:10:01:10): Yeah. **Thomas** (01:10:01:10 - 01:10:09:01): And then that's kind of. Yeah, separate it all out and then have a while drawer for the stuff that you don't want to deal with until it's time to leave. **Chip** (01:10:09:01 - 01:10:27:01): The listeners have come for Shannon, and they've stayed for a great, travel rule that I think that was a twofer, because you get unpacking, but then the drawer has a seam. That's another dimension that I wasn't expecting that I love. Yeah. Yeah, I think they've already gotten so many vacation rules, but let's give them an extra one, Thomas. Let's give them one more. **Thomas** (01:10:28:02 - 01:10:49:00): This is my vacation rule for the week. It's vacation rule number two 2 to 222. Cyber is your friend. Start taking it regularly the week before you leave. You don't want to get back and have your best story be about how many times you didn't go to the bathroom. No one wants to hear that story. **Chip** (01:10:51:04 - 01:11:01:11): No. It's gross. They don't want it on the postcard. They don't want Instagram posts about it, about, hey, look where I'm in Paris and look what I'm not doing. **Thomas** (01:11:01:12 - 01:11:09:23): It's not cute. You're talking about bathroom stuff, right? It's gross. You're making the listener and vision refuse. **Chip** (01:11:10:01 - 01:11:13:05): Yes. Don't do it. Yeah. Fiber is your friend. **Thomas** (01:11:13:05 - 01:11:34:08): Fiber is your friend. And it's. A lot of people do have, their bodies just know when they're going on trips. Yeah. And it tightens up, and it can be an uncomfortable sensation. And you don't want that to override the whole trip if you have that issue, if you've ever had it a week beforehand, start hitting that fiber and you're going to have a lot smoother trip in. **Chip** (01:11:34:08 - 01:11:35:03): More ways than one. **Thomas** (01:11:35:04 - 01:11:47:15): Let the relationships you make, the things you see, the good times you have, be, the stories you share and the stories you take with you. Not your 15th trip to the loft Pharmacy. **Chip** (01:11:47:16 - 01:11:57:10): Well done time. And so I think the moral of today's vacation rules is unpack. Yeah, empty it out. Whether it's the suitcase or something. **Thomas** (01:11:57:10 - 01:12:21:00): Else, it's a relief. And then if we go back to the airport divorce, we are minimizing anxiety. We are raising efficiency. We are just creating free space to have great times and create precious memories. And I'll just throw this out there, take some pictures, take pictures of everything. You don't want to forget this stuff. Oh, snappy, snappy. And make sure you're in them. **Chip** (01:12:22:05 - 01:12:23:09): Yes. Oh, I'm on trips. **Thomas** (01:12:23:09 - 01:12:26:08): I'm the guy that takes a lot of pictures. Not in a ton of pictures. **Chip** (01:12:26:08 - 01:12:29:18): Yeah, you got to remember whether it's selfie or get somebody else to take it. Going to be. **Thomas** (01:12:29:18 - 01:12:32:16): Better about demanding you get the big the big dog in the pic. **Chip** (01:12:32:16 - 01:12:33:04): Great role. **Thomas** (01:12:33:04 - 01:12:55:05): Thomas. Oh, thank you very much. Now it's time to celebrate the man, the life style, design, all star. He went out and carved a path where there was none for him to have the dream life of basically doing whatever he wanted to with a billion friends. We're talking about Jimmy Buffett. Chip and I have studied this man's life. We've turned over every stone to be turned to find out new facts that only the most diehard Jimmy Buffett fans know. **Chip** (01:13:05:09 - 01:13:05:23): **Thomas** (01:13:06:01 - 01:13:10:00): Chip, what is your Buffett fact this week? **Chip** (01:13:10:00 - 01:13:26:10): Jimmy Buffett once entered an escape room in Cleveland. 30 minutes later, he was spotted on a beach in Aruba. Oh, talk about escapism, Thomas. That's how good he was. **Thomas** (01:13:26:11 - 01:13:35:04): He was an escape master. That's true. Yeah. You got to think about it. It's like the maybe the king of modern escapism. **Chip** (01:13:35:04 - 01:13:35:19): Yep. **Thomas** (01:13:35:20 - 01:13:43:11): But to be to be the king of modern escapism, you have to be on such another level. He could really. **Chip** (01:13:43:13 - 01:13:47:12): Really escape from a strip mall in Cleveland. Knows how to do it. **Thomas** (01:13:47:17 - 01:13:49:00): Aruba looks like a lot of fun. **Chip** (01:13:49:04 - 01:13:54:07): It does that. Maybe that's our next, maybe that's our next comedy destination. **Thomas** (01:13:54:07 - 01:14:01:04): We shall see. I mean, it's on the list. Yeah, it's very high up on the list. All right, Chip, my buffet fact this week. **Chip** (01:14:01:04 - 01:14:02:00): Love effect for you. **Thomas** (01:14:02:02 - 01:14:15:05): Jimmy Buffett could navigate using only the stars. He knew he drifted off course. If you ever saw Charlie Sheen or David Lee Roth. **Chip** (01:14:15:07 - 01:14:17:14): Yeah, you know, you're off of pace there. **Thomas** (01:14:17:14 - 01:14:20:15): Yeah. He knew something was wrong. If he was running into those two. **Chip** (01:14:20:16 - 01:14:21:16): That is a great fact. **Thomas** (01:14:21:16 - 01:14:25:23): Thanks, Matt. Well, Chip, I think we're, we're running short on time here, buddy. This just flew. **Chip** (01:14:25:23 - 01:14:31:16): By. We did it all today. Speaking of taking taking vacations, we took a trip around the world today. **Thomas** (01:14:31:18 - 01:14:45:19): We really did. Well, thanks so much for watching. It really means a lot to us. This is the sunburn podcast where we talk about comedy and tropical travel. Until next time, stay alert. Front desk. **Chip** (01:14:45:21 - 01:14:52:21): Hi, this is Mr. Chantry in room 308. How much longer is that Captain Crunch mascot going to be taking photos with kids in the lobby? **Thomas** (01:14:52:23 - 01:15:00:02): Captain crunch? Oh, Mr. Chantry, that's our bellhop, Henry. **Chip** (01:15:00:04 - 01:15:02:16): Oh, well, I thank him for his service.