How To Reach Hawaii WITHOUT An Airline?! + Pickleball Insanity 😂🌴 | Sunburnt Podcast Ep. 39

**Thomas** (00:00:00:04 - 00:00:15:19): Burnt Ones. What up? This is the sunburnt podcast where we talk about comedy and tropical travel. Vibrating to my right. You know him from Netflix, from his amazing stand up special Move Closer. It's Philadelphia's own chip chantry. **Chip** (00:00:15:21 - 00:00:28:23): And over here to my left is Emmy Award winning writer producer. He puts the chief in Belgium is the chief exporter of frozen horse meat, Mr. Thomas O'Brien. **Thomas** (00:00:29:01 - 00:00:31:05): It doesn't work when you export the hot stuff. **Chip** (00:00:31:05 - 00:00:32:20): Chip, you got to freeze that horse meat. **Thomas** (00:00:32:21 - 00:00:36:14): You gotta freeze it. If you want to get it across state lines or country lines. **Chip** (00:00:36:15 - 00:00:54:08): Country lines? They export, to a variety of places. According to, the internet. And, they are the if you want frozen horse meat, Belgium is the way to go. Apparently, I don't want any. I don't specifically want any. I don't I think that's a little I don't know, I don't want to eat a horse. **Thomas** (00:00:54:08 - 00:01:01:19): I do think your time spent on meat a pedia where you found out the information about the frozen horse meat would indicate you've at least been thinking about it. **Chip** (00:01:01:20 - 00:01:05:10): That is true. I do. I do have, a meat Google. **Thomas** (00:01:05:10 - 00:01:11:00): Alert, and you constantly are talking about. I want to eat the fastest food. Yes. **Chip** (00:01:11:02 - 00:01:15:21): The I live literally, if I can, if I get my hand on some cheetah steaks. **Thomas** (00:01:15:22 - 00:01:17:09): Ooh, Jesus steaks. **Chip** (00:01:17:09 - 00:01:34:21): I do eat some meat. I've actually scaled back over the years. I don't want to say I'm vegetarian by any stretch, but like, I've definitely cut back. I ate very little red meat or pork. My wife is basically a pescatarian. She doesn't need any meat. I, I occasionally, you know, I eat chicken and I occasionally have some other, other things, but I try to curb. But man, if if somebody was like, hey, there's a place that opened down the street. We have some cheetah burgers. Yeah, I try to eat a burger, that's all. That's all I would say. **Thomas** (00:01:43:08 - 00:01:46:02): That's the fastest food on the planet. According to the Good Book. **Chip** (00:01:46:02 - 00:01:52:15): I think the restaurant would just be called spots with a Z. Right? Spots. Cheetahs have spots, right? Not stripes. **Thomas** (00:01:52:15 - 00:01:54:00): Yeah, Cheetahs definitely have spots. **Chip** (00:01:54:00 - 00:01:55:13): That's what probably makes it so delicious is the. **Thomas** (00:01:55:13 - 00:02:01:00): Spots you like your food to be spotted, I think. I think that goes without saying. **Chip** (00:02:01:00 - 00:02:10:23): Yeah. There's, spotted dick, I believe is a food. In the other is. I know that King Ralph. I've looked it up a number of times, but it's called spotted Dick. It might be a dessert. Do you know about this? **Thomas** (00:02:10:23 - 00:02:12:07): I think it's a sausage. **Chip** (00:02:12:07 - 00:02:14:13): Is it a sausage? That's what it is. Okay, I don't know. **Thomas** (00:02:14:13 - 00:02:18:22): Do you remember that? Like, there was a movie called King Ralph. **Chip** (00:02:19:00 - 00:02:37:06): Yeah, yeah, that's the reason is because of King Ralph. And of course, it was just a big joke because it's like 1990 or whatever. And it's like, yeah, you want some spotted dick? And yet that's that was the big joke of, the John Goodman vehicle King Ralph. Yeah. There's really only two things I remember from that movie is the very beginning, when the entire. Do you remember how the entire royal family dies? **Thomas** (00:02:40:12 - 00:02:41:05): No. **Chip** (00:02:41:08 - 00:02:59:06): They all come together, I guess, like, basically, maybe at, like, what's Buckingham Palace or whatever, you know, like some big lawn and they're getting a, like, professional photo done of, like, 50 people in the royal family. Yeah. And they're all, they're smiling and it rains and they all run off because it's a quick rainstorm. But then they all come back. But then, of course, because it rains, there were some puddles. And the photographer takes the photo, zaps them all, so they all die. And then King Ralph John Goodman is, I feel like he's like a Vegas lounge singer or something like that. And he has ties to the royal family. He becomes the king of England. **Thomas** (00:03:15:00 - 00:03:22:17): Well, we've been talking about taking on a new writing project together. Yeah. What about you and me taking a crack at King Ralph, too? **Chip** (00:03:22:17 - 00:03:31:01): Yeah. The reboot, I think it's. I think it's time for that because it wasn't a great movie. I got love, John Goodman judgment, one of my favorite actors. **Thomas** (00:03:31:01 - 00:03:32:06): Not really bad in anything. **Chip** (00:03:32:07 - 00:03:54:04): Never bad in anything. He was great in this movie. I still am angry that he did not get an Oscar nomination for The Big Lebowski. I mean, one of the greatest characters of all time, Walter, but I, I think it's ripe for a reboot because it's I again, I hate when they make they remake great movies. There's no reason. Yeah. Remake a kind of crappy movie. **Thomas** (00:03:56:11 - 00:04:00:03): That nobody wants. Yeah. That's the yeah, that's the way to go. **Chip** (00:04:00:03 - 00:04:02:00): Remake it all. You need the sequel, maybe the sequel. **Thomas** (00:04:02:00 - 00:04:03:18): Let's get Ralph back in there, dude. **Chip** (00:04:03:20 - 00:04:10:03): Okay. Is there? I'm trying to think right now is can you think of a sequel that's better than the original? **Thomas** (00:04:10:04 - 00:04:12:01): I think Terminator two is pretty. **Chip** (00:04:12:01 - 00:04:12:18): It's pretty good one. **Thomas** (00:04:12:18 - 00:04:13:18): Pretty renowned if. **Chip** (00:04:13:18 - 00:04:24:16): Anybody's if anybody's, watching along live or just you're listening and just drop it in the comments. What is what's a sequel that's better than the original? **Thomas** (00:04:24:17 - 00:04:27:06): I think I like avatar two better than avatar one. **Chip** (00:04:27:07 - 00:04:28:14): Never saw an avatar. **Thomas** (00:04:28:14 - 00:04:33:17): I think it's mostly because the second one delves into a lot of beautiful island imagery. Chip. **Chip** (00:04:33:22 - 00:04:35:13): Oh, Tommy, there it is. **Thomas** (00:04:35:13 - 00:04:55:08): Which is something we do here on the podcast. We evoke beautiful tropical images, which we will be doing today when we discuss alternative means of getting to Hawaii. It's not a given that you're plane tickets going to get you this year. Not this Thanksgiving. No, not at least at the time we're recording this. **Chip** (00:04:55:08 - 00:05:02:17): But this is why you're listening. Because we have the vital information that you, the viewer, the traveler, needs. **Thomas** (00:05:02:17 - 00:05:08:14): Stay tuned till the end. The most important piece of information is the very last thing we'll say. **Chip** (00:05:08:14 - 00:05:15:20): It will keep your children safe. It may save your life. Like now. We're just doing like that. The 11:00 news teasers. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:05:16:02 - 00:05:20:06): Is your popcorn going to kill your family? Yeah, we'll let you know at 11. Do you. **Chip** (00:05:20:06 - 00:05:21:03): Have sunny tea in the. **Thomas** (00:05:21:03 - 00:05:25:20): Fridge? Then you might have your sunny in the morgue watch. **Chip** (00:05:25:22 - 00:05:29:06): Do you have spotted D in the fridge? **Thomas** (00:05:29:08 - 00:05:34:01): Then you might have a Ralph in the monarchy. **Chip** (00:05:34:03 - 00:05:42:00): I can't believe we both pulled, like, spotted Dick. And it was. That's the only reason we know it's both. Because it's from. I thought I was gonna have to explain King Ralph to. **Thomas** (00:05:42:00 - 00:05:46:12): You know, you did tell me the whole plot, but you did not have to tell me where spotted Dick was from. **Chip** (00:05:46:12 - 00:05:48:16): Yeah. Now. **Thomas** (00:05:48:18 - 00:06:10:04): After that, we're getting into the good book. We've got some juicy Guinness Book of World record facts we're talking about. We are talking about vacation rules. We are taking a vacation very soon. We're going to talk about that, on the other side of the opening here. And we're talking about the man, Mr. Jimmy Buffett. We've got some more Buffett facts. This is the Sun Bird podcast, where we talk about comedy and tropical travel. If you think those two things should go together, stay tuned. **Chip** (00:06:19:02 - 00:06:24:07): It may just save your family. Front desk. Hi, this is Mr. Chantry in room 308. I'm sitting here watching the sunset from my balcony, and I noticed that sir. **Thomas** (00:06:30:13 - 00:06:32:19): Chantry 308 doesn't have a balcony. **Chip** (00:06:32:23 - 00:06:37:14): Oh, it does now, you won't believe what I can do with an ironing board and some duct tape. **Thomas** (00:06:37:16 - 00:06:41:09): Mr. Chantry, do you need me to call the fire department again? **Chip** (00:06:41:11 - 00:06:45:13): Yeah, that's probably a good idea, champ. Yes. **Thomas** (00:06:45:15 - 00:06:49:10): It is. Episode 39 of the sunburn podcast, if you can believe it. **Chip** (00:06:49:10 - 00:06:52:20): Just like the kids are saying. Just like the kids are, say. And three, nine, three. **Thomas** (00:06:52:20 - 00:06:53:10): Nine. **Chip** (00:06:53:10 - 00:06:53:19): Three. **Thomas** (00:06:53:19 - 00:07:01:15): Nine and we are sitting at 13 days, which ironically, is if you add six and seven together, 13 days. **Chip** (00:07:01:15 - 00:07:02:03): Yes it is. **Thomas** (00:07:02:07 - 00:07:08:18): We are 13 days away from Chantry Thanksgiving Paradise. I truly can't believe it. This is blowing my mind, buddy. **Chip** (00:07:08:18 - 00:07:26:11): Yeah, just little over a week in. I guess. Eight days from now we'll be flying out or I'll be flying to LA, spending the weekend in Los Angeles and then heading to Hawaii. Yeah, I by the way, I want to say, I just want to say this because I am somebody who is can get very down on myself. There's a lot of comedians. Do you know, this is times. Yeah. You get self-conscious, you get down on yourself. You and I co-produced my special last year, Move Closer by Chip Chantry, and when you're done, I've mentioned this before, but when you're done, especially, you kind of start from scratch. And it's it's tough in those first couple months where you're just, at least for me, like feeling out, like, all right, I don't have these crutches of these jokes I've had for the last, you know, 2 or 3 years that I could, you know, so it's like it's an uphill battle. I had a couple of shows this week where it's just like, I'm so excited to do this material. It's like, it's really this new hours, just like coming together. If you come to the Blue Note, on the 26th, it's the night before Thanksgiving in Honolulu. I have an hour now, that is it's just I it's just a lot of fun. And I'm really enjoying it now, so it's it's like, I feel like I'm in that zone, so very excited about it. For the for the, not for the first time, but like, it's just like, I mean, this phase now where it's like, all right, it's fine. It's finally all coming together and couldn't have happened at a better time. **Thomas** (00:08:32:08 - 00:08:49:15): Oh man, I love it when you peek right before the big the big deal. Right before the race, right before the Super Bowl of comedy. That's what people are calling this, right? Yes. The Super Bowl of comedy. And I want to point out that it wasn't just, like, hard for you. You know, you were starting over your head around a lot of jokes. I've been sitting here having to just hope that it comes together. And I hope so hard. **Chip** (00:08:55:09 - 00:09:07:01): Chip. Yes. You're you're in Mission Control. I'm up there about to orbit the moon. Yeah. And you're just like well I guess I'm just going to sit here with my skinny tie and my dumb shirt with short. **Thomas** (00:09:07:01 - 00:09:14:13): Sleeves and my flat top haircut. You can set your watch too. I provided a lot of thoughts and prayers to this whole shebang. **Chip** (00:09:14:14 - 00:09:31:18): And you've provided a lot more to you have done the, the bulk, the, the yeoman's work if you will, of this podcast of putting it all together, producing, editing things that I can't, I just show up. I just put on a flowered shirt on, every once in a while and just and talk to you. **Thomas** (00:09:31:19 - 00:09:38:09): Well, we all know what what gets the ratings. And I think it's that pretty face, surrounded by florals. **Chip** (00:09:38:10 - 00:09:39:20): **Thomas** (00:09:39:22 - 00:10:03:04): But, dude, I am frigging fired up. We're going to we're going to do the show, but then we're going to have like a week in Hawaii, man. Yeah, this is awesome. We, we were even texting way too late last night. Yes. Or for the night before. We're doing the podcast about, some things we're going to do with the fam, some places we want to see, loose scheduling for the week's events, like it's, it's game time. **Chip** (00:10:03:04 - 00:10:03:20): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:10:03:22 - 00:10:19:10): It is game time. And I'm so excited and, yeah. Like, to the point where we're we're on this journey together. We've been doing the podcast for 39 episodes. We're going to squeeze in one more, before we head out to Hawaii next week. **Chip** (00:10:19:11 - 00:10:21:13): We'll have a nice round, 40 episodes. **Thomas** (00:10:21:13 - 00:10:39:02): We'll have 40. And from episode one, we knew we were going to be doing this show. Yeah, at the Blue Note. That's 40 weeks of looking forward to it. And then you know, it's it's 13 days till the show. We're heading out there a little early. And, this thing we've been looking forward to for 40 weeks. Yeah. Obsessing about thinking about talking about why I've been putting together the show, figuring out what this podcast is all about. We've been looking forward to this one event, and it is right around the corner. And we're even taking the same flight from Los Angeles to Hawaii. So it starts then. Our metaphorical journey has been going for a long time, but that physical journey is starting and a little over a week. And, in addition to being probably my favorite thing I get to do every year, spending Thanksgiving in Hawaii, doing it with a buddy, putting, something we love so much. Comedy show in the mix. This is going to be an all time. Man, I'm freakin fired up. **Chip** (00:11:21:10 - 00:11:38:00): I'm psyched. And it's just like I have this nervousness, a this anxiety about just any time of going to a new place, especially for work. But like, it's now, it's kind of clear. You sent a bunch of the places we want to go, things we want to do, and it's just becoming so much more real. So it's like, I can't, I can't, I can't wait. **Thomas** (00:11:38:01 - 00:11:42:00): Go revisit that first episode of, the Bradys in Hawaii. Did I think. **Chip** (00:11:42:00 - 00:11:42:10): I'm going to. **Thomas** (00:11:42:11 - 00:11:45:02): You're going to see exactly what we're getting into. **Chip** (00:11:45:03 - 00:11:55:08): By the way, during our little break when we did the cold open or the the end, it's not cold open. It's the open. I looked up spotted Dick. It is a pudding. Which is. **Thomas** (00:11:55:08 - 00:11:57:18): Is this what you were doing when you said hold on? **Chip** (00:11:57:18 - 00:12:07:11): Yes. I needed to know, Thomas. I needed to know what's spider dick was. It is a pudding which I think is a general term for desserts. In in England, across that other pond, the Atlantic. **Thomas** (00:12:07:11 - 00:12:07:22): **Chip** (00:12:08:00 - 00:12:24:23): And it's so it's. Yeah, it's basically like, kind of like a I'm going to get this wrong, but basically gelatinous kind of thing, using suet, which is kind of like, I guess, like animal fat or whatever. And then there are dried fruit in it, like spots, like almost like a gel, like like a jello mold kind of situation where they put like fruit in it. And those and spots might be raisins, currant. Yet, you know, it's there's other little fruits in there. And that's what, as I say, that's what spots the dick. **Thomas** (00:12:39:07 - 00:12:45:07): Well, it's good to know. I mean, you want to know what those spots are? Yep. It's always important to know. **Chip** (00:12:45:09 - 00:12:47:23): Yeah, it's it would save me a few trips to the doctor. **Thomas** (00:12:47:23 - 00:12:48:20): You can say that again. **Chip** (00:12:48:21 - 00:12:54:21): Those Teladoc's do not like those zoom meetings. I'll tell you that much. **Thomas** (00:12:54:23 - 00:12:59:13): I mean, I I'm sure there's 1 or 2 that it's their favorite kind of meeting. **Chip** (00:12:59:17 - 00:13:01:15): Yes. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. **Thomas** (00:13:01:15 - 00:13:06:00): Do. What'd you get into this weekend? Anything I, I know you did a couple of shows. Get anything else? **Chip** (00:13:06:02 - 00:13:22:10): Yeah. We were we were actually supposed to go up for a six year old's birthday party. My nephew's birthday party. But then it got rescheduled for some reason. So we kind of had last minute, kind of day off. So we just had his gorgeous day in Philly. So we just, we went out, had a little, little brunch. I don't I'm not a year thing. I know, I know, I said we did not have brunch. We had breakfast, which is, which I, I'm not a brunch person necessarily, Thomas. Maybe on occasion, but I'm a breakfast person getting up early, beaten the crowds. Yeah. Getting in. We started our Saturday at a diner for breakfast like that. We ended up the day at a second different diner for dinner. I mean, it's the perfect day. And then in the middle, we took our dog down to, the Philadelphia Navy Yard, which is literally right down Broad Street from where we live. Thomas five minute drive. And it's it's basically at the southern tip of Philadelphia. The spotted Dick of Philadelphia, if you will. And it's, it's still owned by partially by the U.S. Navy. And there's like, all these, like, ships there that you can walk past and see, like, it's really cool. And then it's also like, are you familiar with Urban Outfitters? Is that a thing on the West Coast? **Thomas** (00:14:15:19 - 00:14:16:12): Yeah, yeah. **Chip** (00:14:16:15 - 00:14:34:01): Urban Outfitters, it's like, I think it's their national headquarters, or it's at least a headquarters is in this campus, the Navy Yard, and it's, it basically feels like a college campus. And it's on the water. It's on the Delaware. Yeah. And we just took, took Franklin down for a walk, and, it was like, we were talking a lot about Hawaii when we were there. It was like a little pre vacation staycation. And then I had, then I was stuck indoors. Luckily, it was raining. All day Sunday, I was stuck indoors. I taught my standup class in the morning and then stayed at the club to do the graduation show for the standup class and had had a great time. Again, I got to do a set and to close out the show and had so much fun with my material and, it was great having a great week. **Thomas** (00:14:58:01 - 00:15:08:20): I didn't have as much fun with my material well, but I had a lot of fun. I went and saw the new predator with somebody. Yeah, it's such a such a fun time at the movie theater, chip. **Chip** (00:15:08:22 - 00:15:09:19): Oh, of course. **Thomas** (00:15:09:21 - 00:15:29:11): And talking about it's not quite a sequel, it's. It's many iterations beyond that. But, this one flips the script, and you're not, like, running from an alien. You are one of the aliens. Oh, and you follow his hero's journey as he, like, becomes who he wants to be among his alien people. **Chip** (00:15:29:11 - 00:15:42:08): Talk about, like, remaking King Ralph. I know predator, that movie, from what I would call it, 1986, something like whatever it was. Yeah. And then turning it into Shakespeare, like, that's what we need to do. It's like King. **Thomas** (00:15:42:08 - 00:15:43:05): Ralph, too. **Chip** (00:15:43:05 - 00:15:43:18): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:15:43:20 - 00:15:46:01): From the perspective of the spotted Dick. **Chip** (00:15:46:01 - 00:15:47:12): I think that's what it is. **Thomas** (00:15:47:14 - 00:15:48:17): Yes, that's what it is. **Chip** (00:15:48:17 - 00:16:14:02): And it's kind of like the predator. You can kind of see through it. It's scary looking, you know what I mean? I yeah, I think, I think that's, that's the, that's the play. I mean, if, if we could, if somebody could in the comments, if you could, mail this episode to yourself. So we have the official copyright of King Ralph two from the perspective spotted Dick. **Thomas** (00:16:14:02 - 00:16:15:01): I think that'll. Yes. **Chip** (00:16:15:04 - 00:16:41:08): By the way, I saw a movie, a neon picture, I believe, presents from, I think maybe the 20, 23, 24. Yeah, I watched that this week. Great weird horror movie that is. I think you can give give it away. Basically. It's like, yeah, it's it's the, the conceit of the movie is like, it's from basically what you assume is the ghost perspective in this house. Like there's a ghost in the house this family moves in, and then you are sort of this voyeur watching all of these things unfold as like, maybe you're the ghost. So it's, it's it's, it was it's kind of great. Great movie. **Thomas** (00:16:55:20 - 00:17:18:21): Unbelievable, dude. Well, that was Saturday night. And then Sunday night, my wife and I went out, did a little date night, went to Mother Wolf. This really, really top notch Italian restaurant in Hollywood. And then saw Moulin Rouge. Oh, and, you know, the Pantages stage, which is kind of like our, our big theater in town. **Chip** (00:17:18:21 - 00:17:28:22): I was just listening to a podcast. There were they were talking about going to see Haiti's town at the Pantages. Wait. Moulin Rouge. Is that like a musical? Is that like a live? Not like the movie. **Thomas** (00:17:28:22 - 00:17:55:08): Broadway version of the movie? That was. It was really fun. Yeah, some really amazing performances, but it's just fun to be at the theater. Dude, you forget there just are a lot of people who are interested in the arts. Yeah, it's like really inspiring to me, always just to see people show up for folks who are came together, rehearsed a thing, and are showing it as, a collective, as a group to a bunch of people, like, I don't it just fires me up, man. **Chip** (00:17:55:09 - 00:18:00:11): I think I mentioned this last week, but did I tell you that Kim and I are, for the first time ever, we're going to the opera this coming year. **Thomas** (00:18:00:11 - 00:18:01:19): Oh, really? **Chip** (00:18:01:21 - 00:18:02:10): We I know. **Thomas** (00:18:02:10 - 00:18:05:15): I mean, I know you played the opera house earlier this year. **Chip** (00:18:05:15 - 00:18:15:00): Yes. And I played the met, Sarah Silverman. And it was. Wow, that was almost a year ago. I can't believe that. It's crazy. Time flies. Thomas, when you're going. **Thomas** (00:18:15:00 - 00:18:15:16): It really does. **Chip** (00:18:15:16 - 00:18:34:09): That's all I got to say. Yeah, but yeah, the, Yeah, we went to I think I told you, we went to see, a silent movie last week. We went to see The Cabin of Doctor Caligari, and it was brought to you by the Philadelphia Opera. And they do this deal now, where the Philadelphia Opera sells tickets. See, this is the way to do it. Because it's like, why would I go to the opera? I'm not a cultured gentleman with a monocle. **Thomas** (00:18:39:14 - 00:18:40:09): Yeah. **Chip** (00:18:40:11 - 00:19:07:01): I don't know about the opera. I don't dislike the opera, I just don't. I'm not in that world. Instead of selling tickets for $500 like you would to go see Sabrina Carpenter, whoever they sell tickets, it's $11 or what you want to pay. Philadelphia Opera Company was apparently the only opera company in the country last year that sold out every performance because they made it accessible to the masses. Yeah. And so now Kim and I are going, she bought tickets. We're like, let's go to one. It's $22 total. And then she was like, oh, there's another one that looks kind of interesting. So twice, early next year we're going to see the opera and we are going to be those. Really? I don't say I'm better than you, Thomas, but by next year, I'm going to be a lot better than you. **Thomas** (00:19:24:20 - 00:19:34:12): You've been trending that way for a long time. And thanks for clearing that up, because when you said, I'm seeing these silent movies, I'm going to the opera. I thought chipper came into a lot of cash. **Chip** (00:19:34:16 - 00:19:35:12): Yeah, I thought. **Thomas** (00:19:35:12 - 00:19:41:04): There was a big income disparity between us all of a sudden that you were doing all these fancy pants things. **Chip** (00:19:41:04 - 00:19:52:12): Now this is the movie. The silent movie was free. Yeah. And we're going to to $11 operas. So that's $44 total for all of those events that I just talked about. **Thomas** (00:19:52:14 - 00:19:57:21): Yeah. So they they're it's like a blue starched collar event. **Chip** (00:19:57:23 - 00:20:05:04): Yes. That's exactly what kind of collar it is. It is a fancy, fancy collar of blue. **Thomas** (00:20:05:06 - 00:20:06:07): I like it, though. **Chip** (00:20:06:08 - 00:20:08:11): Speaking of fancy fancy collar, should we, we. **Thomas** (00:20:08:11 - 00:20:13:18): Got gotta jump into it. We got to jump into it. This is so timely. Have we ever done anything more timely trip? **Chip** (00:20:13:23 - 00:20:18:13): I mean, we did we did do five minutes on King Ralph just, earlier in the episode. **Thomas** (00:20:18:13 - 00:20:42:00): We did do a three episode arc on a television show from the 70s. Yes, earlier in the run. So, yeah, I think I think cutting edge isn't always where we spend most of our time. It's not where we get our mail, but we find ourselves here today because, there is some trouble in travel land and we are traveling very soon. Yes, a lot of the flights have been throttled back due to the ongoing government shutdown. And I say this is timely knowing that we record, a couple days before we release this thing. And this may not be an issue by the time this comes out. **Chip** (00:20:56:17 - 00:21:15:09): Even if this shutdown is over by the time, because now there's by the time we're recording this, full, full disclosure, if we pull the curtain back, there is now rumblings that this shutdown might be over soon. We don't know. But they did say that even if if it does shut down, it's like there's going to be the ripple effect where it is going to take a little time to get things. Okay. Totally up and, you know, back up and running. **Thomas** (00:21:18:06 - 00:21:51:21): So right now we've got flights booked. We're getting out to Hawaii, but about 10% of flights, it seems, from the airports that we will be using are getting called. Yeah, they're getting canceled. It's kind of on short notice. You find out your flight's just not there. So we've gone through. And when I say where this was, ship has gone through and found alternate routes to get yourself to Hawaii to get yourself to Chip Chantry is Thanksgiving in Paradise, November 26th. The Blue Note, Hawaii and Waikiki. If you find yourself in a situation where your flight gets canceled and you're like, I gotta get to the show, what do I do? I've got to get to the island to celebrate Turkey Day. We've got the hottest alternatives, on the books. And, Chip, take it away, man. Let it let us know what you do. If you find yourself in a situation where that plane ticket is better used as toilet paper. **Chip** (00:22:21:02 - 00:22:24:18): So I went on this website. It's called, ChatGPT. **Thomas** (00:22:24:18 - 00:22:25:14): ChatGPT. **Chip** (00:22:25:14 - 00:22:27:18): Yeah. Have you have you heard of. It's like a travel site. **Thomas** (00:22:27:20 - 00:22:34:16): No, I do, I spend most of my time on the internet where you were earlier this week on meet a PDF. **Chip** (00:22:34:17 - 00:22:35:23): Okay, okay. **Thomas** (00:22:36:01 - 00:22:37:11): Here's a PDF. Okay. **Chip** (00:22:37:11 - 00:22:59:04): So this is, site. It's a newer site. It's called, ChatGPT. And basically you can ask it questions, you can talk to it. It gives you it almost has like this intelligence that is artificial. Wow. Okay. So it's c cat GPT okay I'll. **Thomas** (00:22:59:04 - 00:23:03:16): Have to look it up Chuckles all right. Yeah I'll take your word for it man. It sounds smart. **Chip** (00:23:03:17 - 00:23:22:09): Right. So I asked ChatGPT. If money were no object. Can't take a commercial jet plane to from I just said from California to Hawaii. Okay. How how do we get across that stretch of an ocean over 2000 miles? **Thomas** (00:23:22:09 - 00:23:26:18): Let's do it. Because money is not an object. Yeah, I don't even know if it's real. **Chip** (00:23:26:18 - 00:23:33:09): We're obviously rich podcasters. I told you how well I'm doing. I'm going to the opera twice in 2026. I can afford a 26. **Thomas** (00:23:33:09 - 00:23:36:16): Holy cow. Yeah, I mean, that's big time. All right, so. **Chip** (00:23:36:16 - 00:23:42:05): So you can't get you can't get on that private American Airlines whatever. Okay. Or that, that, that commercial. **Thomas** (00:23:42:06 - 00:23:42:19): Commercial the. **Chip** (00:23:42:19 - 00:23:56:13): Commercial, the commercial. We're first of all right over the plate. You book a private jet charter a jet, a PJ, a PJ, meet PJs. It's going to it's going to take you about the same amount. Time is going to take you 5 to 6 hours. **Thomas** (00:23:56:13 - 00:23:58:01): I like that, I like that. **Chip** (00:23:58:02 - 00:24:16:02): It's going to cost anywhere from about according to this, anywhere from 60 to $120,000, 60 grand, 120 grand. And you can charter a private jet to Hawaii from from California. So, hey, let's say you really wanted to see my show. **Thomas** (00:24:16:03 - 00:24:16:13): Yeah. **Chip** (00:24:16:19 - 00:24:40:00): Everything's closed down. You're like, I want to spend over 60 grand just to get there. Yeah, I will tell you that. Okay. I'm going to tell you this. I don't like to make offers. I don't want to make us lose money. But I will say this, Thomas, if anybody if anyone here takes a private jet to Honolulu from the mainland. Yeah. Shows me your receipt, because I'm sure they give you a receipt. You got it? Yeah, I got a receipt. **Thomas** (00:24:45:01 - 00:24:46:15): Oh, you got to get a receipt. **Chip** (00:24:46:19 - 00:24:51:21): $5 off ticket to cheap. January's one match to cheap January's, Thanksgiving in Paradise. **Thomas** (00:24:51:23 - 00:24:53:04): Okay, now that's a deal. **Chip** (00:24:53:09 - 00:24:56:11): So that's private jet charter, private jet, 60 grand, 60 grand. **Thomas** (00:24:56:11 - 00:25:04:17): So that's on the low end? Yes. Do you have any, like, any idea about, like, how many people. Because that's for the whole jet I. **Chip** (00:25:04:17 - 00:25:06:19): Guess that's for the whole shebang. Yeah, it's for. **Thomas** (00:25:06:19 - 00:25:31:06): The whole shebang. So when you get a PJ, it comes with a certain amount of seats, a certain amount of luggage. Yeah. So, like, I don't know, I've always been fascinated by the idea of renting a private jet to do something, just to find a method where it would, like, kind of equal enough people buying commercial tickets. **Chip** (00:25:31:09 - 00:25:53:16): This is where you and I are different leagues. Because you were thinking, how could I charter private jet? Yeah. And make it sort of worthwhile cost and everybody a couple thousand dollars. My, my friends and I a couple of times try to figure out how much it would cost to rent a catering bus to tailgate at the Eagles game in South Philly, where it would cost us each, like, 40 bucks. **Thomas** (00:25:53:18 - 00:25:54:14): Yeah, same. **Chip** (00:25:54:14 - 00:25:56:03): But different. **Thomas** (00:25:56:05 - 00:25:59:18): It is. It is, but I think it's a similar mentality for sure. **Chip** (00:25:59:19 - 00:26:01:11): If you want to go a little fancier. **Thomas** (00:26:01:12 - 00:26:03:08): A little fancier than a private jet. **Chip** (00:26:03:09 - 00:26:18:14): And you have the time. Okay. I'm talking 100 grand, up to half a mil. Wow. So if you got 100 to 500 grand and you have a little more time to spend, if you've a couple of days to get there. **Thomas** (00:26:18:16 - 00:26:19:02): Yeah. **Chip** (00:26:19:02 - 00:26:22:06): Three words. Luxury motor yacht. **Thomas** (00:26:22:12 - 00:26:23:12): Yeah. **Chip** (00:26:23:14 - 00:26:27:05): So you basically get your own yacht. Your own super yacht, a motorized yacht. **Thomas** (00:26:27:05 - 00:26:28:01): Okay. **Chip** (00:26:28:03 - 00:26:29:18): A Jeff Bezos kind of situation. **Thomas** (00:26:29:19 - 00:26:30:18): Holy cow. **Chip** (00:26:30:23 - 00:26:40:16): It would cost you about 100 grand to half a mil. Okay. Take you a couple of days, you know, several days to get. Yeah. From there. But you're doing it in style. You're basically on your own. Yeah. Private Love. **Thomas** (00:26:40:16 - 00:26:42:04): Boat. You're on cruise. Yeah. **Chip** (00:26:42:04 - 00:27:02:22): I mean, it kind of great. Now, if you want to go a little less expensive, this is actually probably the one of the, cheaper end of it. Okay. You're going to need a little more time. Anywhere from as low as $2,000. That's not much more than a commercial plane ticket, if you think about it. **Thomas** (00:27:02:22 - 00:27:05:06): It's it's really not 2000. **Chip** (00:27:05:06 - 00:27:12:10): Up to 20,000, you know, so there's a range and you have anywhere from ten days to maybe like three weeks. **Thomas** (00:27:12:11 - 00:27:13:08): Yeah. **Chip** (00:27:13:10 - 00:27:17:05): Private sailing yacht. So not the motorized I feel like I said. **Thomas** (00:27:17:05 - 00:27:20:16): Oh, okay. And that, does that count with somebody who knows how to sail. **Chip** (00:27:20:19 - 00:27:24:01): I yeah, I believe so. I believe so you even that's. **Thomas** (00:27:24:05 - 00:27:25:16): That's interesting. **Chip** (00:27:25:18 - 00:27:50:20): Because and that's almost along the lines of our boy Oliver. You remember Oliver, the sailing with Phoenix guy, the guy who went from Oregon down to there. That's basically what what he did. So there's a way to do it, and he's going to be, continue his journey, soon. I think. Okay, this next one might be my favorite if I had to choose. On the cheaper end, again, about seven grand. Okay. One way cargo ship, passenger. **Thomas** (00:27:59:13 - 00:28:02:21): You can get on a cargo ship as a passenger. **Chip** (00:28:03:00 - 00:28:30:13): I don't know how aboveboard it is. Literally. It could be. Yeah, but, I guess you can pay. Like, obviously the workers, they have bunks. Yeah. So maybe you just want to, you know, kind of join them. There's not going to be much entertainment, but like, you can just, I would assume like, sort of like sit or stand wistfully along the railing and just watch the ocean pass you by. **Thomas** (00:28:30:15 - 00:28:32:04): It's seven grand. **Chip** (00:28:32:06 - 00:28:32:21): Apparently. **Thomas** (00:28:32:23 - 00:28:35:15): Yeah. That sounds like some real black market stuff. **Chip** (00:28:35:15 - 00:28:36:15): That's why I like it. **Thomas** (00:28:36:18 - 00:28:46:05): That's pirate stuff. It's like nobody pays seven grand to sit in a cargo hold unless they want it. Right. They can't be on a manifest. **Chip** (00:28:46:05 - 00:28:58:02): Dude, I would hope that you would have, like, free reign of the boat. Like where you can walk around. Maybe not everywhere, but like, there are places you can go to. Sit, like on the deck, to the mess hall. Yeah, obviously, for your meals or whatever. **Thomas** (00:28:58:02 - 00:29:00:06): I mean, you're describing a prison, basically. **Chip** (00:29:00:06 - 00:29:02:17): Yeah. It is a floating prison for 7000. **Thomas** (00:29:02:17 - 00:29:14:06): Floating prison that's harder to escape from. And, I do think I don't know how big of an issue this is in Hawaii, but I do know in Oregon, if you are on the run. **Chip** (00:29:14:08 - 00:29:15:03): Okay, you. **Thomas** (00:29:15:03 - 00:29:20:13): Get you get to Hawaii because Hawaii doesn't extradite to Oregon, or at least they didn't when I was growing up. **Chip** (00:29:20:13 - 00:29:21:05): Interesting. **Thomas** (00:29:21:10 - 00:29:36:13): All right. Yeah. So if you can get in one of these ships, get there undetected, show up in the island there. You're getting a tan. Now you're eating pineapples. Now you're hanging out on the beach, which a lot of people prefer to jail. **Chip** (00:29:36:14 - 00:29:41:14): Most people do. I would, I wouldn't say everybody, but I would say a lot. A good number of people. **Thomas** (00:29:41:16 - 00:29:52:03): A good chunk of people that, flee to Hawaii to escape imprisonment, do I think? Yeah. But yeah, you could get on there. And that's a did you ever watch the reboot of Hawaii Five-O? **Chip** (00:29:52:04 - 00:29:53:08): Never did. **Thomas** (00:29:53:10 - 00:30:16:23): Okay, so I think I think you might want to. Okay. After you see what the place is like, it's, it's a lot more adventurous then you're going to see in Honolulu. Hopefully. Yeah, but you just get a taste of everything, and it's so over the top. The criminal situations they find themselves in, of course. And I feel like this could be straight out of one of those plots. I like buddy books. Passage on a cargo ship lives in one of those little containers for a month, next to, a whole bunch of, Fiats. **Chip** (00:30:28:06 - 00:30:29:04): **Thomas** (00:30:29:06 - 00:30:34:21): And gets off there at, Honolulu Harbor and rolls right into their brand new life. **Chip** (00:30:34:22 - 00:30:38:17): And they just got a gunny sack and in it and some dreams. **Thomas** (00:30:38:22 - 00:30:42:12): Yeah, yeah. It's not right on the rails. It is right in the sails. Yeah. **Chip** (00:30:42:14 - 00:30:47:02): Man. Showing up to Hawaii with a bindle over your shoulder. I mean, **Thomas** (00:30:47:04 - 00:30:48:21): I mean, it's all you need. It's the way. **Chip** (00:30:48:21 - 00:30:49:07): You do it. **Thomas** (00:30:49:10 - 00:31:00:12): A couple of Hawaiian, some flip flops. Yeah. Stick a deodorant. Yep. And let's not forget it. Holy cow. You probably want some of this. **Chip** (00:31:00:14 - 00:31:01:02): Yeah, we got. **Thomas** (00:31:01:04 - 00:31:02:20): Probably want some of this in your bundle. **Chip** (00:31:02:20 - 00:31:06:07): We got to get this going a little bit of, **Thomas** (00:31:06:09 - 00:31:07:03): Late in the game. **Chip** (00:31:07:09 - 00:31:10:03): Sunblock, but I'll take it I love it. **Thomas** (00:31:10:05 - 00:31:23:11): A part of the reason this is coming late is, I needed a little help getting going this morning. And, I just popped a couple of. You know, I didn't put any on, but I sniffed it. I did a couple. Oh, just. **Chip** (00:31:23:16 - 00:31:24:04): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:31:24:05 - 00:31:33:23): Okay, so that would do. Sunscreen would be in my bindle. That's what I'm saying. But okay. The cargo this is this is breaking ground, chip. I never even thought about that. Right. **Chip** (00:31:34:01 - 00:31:47:20): And there's also something romantic about it, too. I think there's I don't think it was necessary. I forget, I think they call it a steamer ship, which I don't even. I should look that up. I'll look it up. I did spot a dick after this, but. Yeah. Do you remember the beginning of one of my favorite movies, The Royal Tenenbaums? Richie Tenenbaum, played by Luke Wilson, was just sort of adrift on that ship, you know, and he was sort of like by himself. And it was like, that seems kind of great. Like, sure, there's no waterslides and there's no limbo contests, but there is just something that just seems, you know, beautiful about that. So yeah, I was I. **Thomas** (00:32:06:09 - 00:32:17:10): Was talking with somebody about this this weekend as a grown up. There's just one day where you get to the point where you're like. It might make sense for me to own an ownership. **Chip** (00:32:19:23 - 00:32:20:15): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:32:20:17 - 00:32:27:23): Yeah, to own a boat, to have that freedom, to be able to head out into the ocean. Jimmy Buffett felt that call. **Chip** (00:32:27:23 - 00:32:32:03): So did Truman from the Truman Show. See where that got him? **Thomas** (00:32:32:03 - 00:32:43:11): I think it's a universal feeling. Dude. Just one day you think I should be completely in control of something. And maybe if it's not going to be my life, maybe it can be a seafaring vessel. **Chip** (00:32:43:11 - 00:32:47:15): I'm right there with you. I'm right there with you. Speaking of seafaring. **Thomas** (00:32:47:16 - 00:32:48:13): Yeah. **Chip** (00:32:48:15 - 00:32:59:09): This next one's a little crazy. Okay. If you have a number of days to spare and half a mil to $1 million as I put my pinky to my mouth. **Thomas** (00:32:59:09 - 00:33:00:22): Holy cow. **Chip** (00:33:00:23 - 00:33:02:10): Private submarine. **Thomas** (00:33:02:10 - 00:33:04:06): A private sub. That makes sense. **Chip** (00:33:04:07 - 00:33:07:04): Let's go under the water. Come on. Right. **Thomas** (00:33:07:04 - 00:33:13:22): I could not imagine what would cost $1 million one way. That almost seems like a steal. **Chip** (00:33:14:00 - 00:33:21:18): Yeah. Could you imagine? Although I don't think I. I'm too claustrophobic. I think for a submarine. **Thomas** (00:33:21:18 - 00:33:25:09): Oh, I wouldn't, there's no way you're lock me in that tube. **Chip** (00:33:25:10 - 00:33:26:01): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:33:26:03 - 00:33:28:17): For a whole trip to Hawaii. That would be terrifying. **Chip** (00:33:28:19 - 00:33:54:00): Yeah, I know a guy who went into the Navy. He actually played football for Navy. For the Navy, like in college, and then was in the Navy and was on a submarine. Actually, I even saw a picture of, like, he was at the North Pole, which is, like really cool, but it's really quaint. He like, basically like, had this, like, I forget exactly what it's like, horrible, like ear infection or whatever. And they just said it was, oh, it's just whatever. But like with that plus the pressure, like the air pressure that goes in, he's like partially deaf. Now because like, his ears got so messed up. It's like I give me the cargo ship, I'll take the cargo ship. No offense. Yeah, I'd rather drop seven K, sit on a cargo ship for, you know, two weeks rather than getting on that submarine. **Thomas** (00:34:18:21 - 00:34:32:02): You know, I believe. Yeah. No, I'm completely with you, but it does from what I know about submarine travel, a million sounds about right in the sweet spot. It's like if you're if you're going on Google Subs. **Chip** (00:34:32:04 - 00:34:32:14): Yes. **Thomas** (00:34:32:14 - 00:34:33:17): Google sub trips. **Chip** (00:34:33:17 - 00:34:34:16): Substack. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:34:34:16 - 00:34:40:12): When you see that $1 million one way to Hawaii, it's going to say fares are lower than usual. **Chip** (00:34:40:12 - 00:34:47:03): Yes. So low it's under the water. I want to go the opposite direction right now. Thomas. **Thomas** (00:34:47:04 - 00:34:48:05): Okay. Let's go. **Chip** (00:34:48:06 - 00:35:03:01): Again. If you have half a mill up to $5 million. Perfect. Now we're really good. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but you only want it spend less than an hour. Less than an hour getting from California to Hawaii. **Thomas** (00:35:03:03 - 00:35:04:00): Yeah. **Chip** (00:35:04:02 - 00:35:08:15): The old SF, the suborbital space flight. **Thomas** (00:35:08:17 - 00:35:09:11): Okay. **Chip** (00:35:09:13 - 00:35:19:16): You want to take one of those, like, 11 minute, you know, Jeff Bezos, William Shatner kind of Katy Perry kind of situations. Where then it just, I guess just drops you off. **Thomas** (00:35:21:22 - 00:35:22:10): Yeah. **Chip** (00:35:22:10 - 00:35:34:08): In Hawaii. So shoot. Shoots you up, flies a little bit for about an hour. You're floating a little bit and then it just drops you down. That's how that works, I guess. I mean, look, I, I did minimal research on this. **Thomas** (00:35:34:13 - 00:35:41:07): Yeah. No, I get it, but that's inspiring. I didn't I didn't think of the implications of getting outside of the atmosphere. **Chip** (00:35:41:07 - 00:35:46:05): Right. It's just suborbital. So like obviously you're not up in orbit but you're. **Thomas** (00:35:46:05 - 00:36:01:02): Not in orbit. But you're outside of the atmosphere. Orbit orbits a gravitational pull thing. It means that you're circling around it. I think I think you're in a very reduced to almost no atmosphere before you're in orbit. **Chip** (00:36:01:03 - 00:36:03:13): Ask me something. Yeah, it has to be. Yeah. Partially reduced. **Thomas** (00:36:03:13 - 00:36:16:18): So you get outside of that and then you can just motor, you can go like, you know. Yeah. It's what that would have to be like I think a normal flight is 600 miles an hour or 500 miles an hour or somewhere around there. **Chip** (00:36:16:18 - 00:36:17:18): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:36:17:19 - 00:36:26:09): That's a 5 to 6 hour flight. So on the low end, that's 3500 miles, and you can cover that in a little over an hour. **Chip** (00:36:26:11 - 00:36:27:15): Under an hour, actually. **Thomas** (00:36:27:15 - 00:36:28:13): A little under an. **Chip** (00:36:28:13 - 00:36:30:16): Hour. Yeah. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:36:30:18 - 00:36:32:11): That is interesting. **Chip** (00:36:32:13 - 00:36:36:23): You would be just like Katy Perry who went up in space like a firework. Honestly. **Thomas** (00:36:37:01 - 00:37:02:03): Yeah, yeah. And, and everybody would hate you when you landed for some reason. Oh, I think that's that's true. I also did some quick head math, so this might be off, but on the higher end of the suborbital flight, you could roughly go to the Philadelphia Opera 500,000 times. You could absolutely for the same cost. **Chip** (00:37:02:05 - 00:37:06:18): And I think you would get a little a bunch of pairs of those little binoculars to, to come along with it. **Thomas** (00:37:06:18 - 00:37:08:06): So, yeah, you. **Chip** (00:37:08:12 - 00:37:13:11): I'll let you decide which one's the better deal. **Thomas** (00:37:13:13 - 00:37:18:04): I, I like the two hour flight to hell. I though that that would be a game changer. **Chip** (00:37:18:06 - 00:37:19:10): Now, this next one's fun. **Thomas** (00:37:19:12 - 00:37:20:11): All right. **Chip** (00:37:20:13 - 00:37:42:10): Middle ground of what we're talking. Price rise 200 to 500,000. Okay. And amphibious seaplane. So, I guess, like one of those planes that can, like, land on the ocean. And I'm assuming you would have to refuel at certain spots, because I did see something about, like, a plane. You know, when money's no object, like a plane getting refueled mid, mid flight or like, maybe there would be some sort of ship or something like that, that would somehow I would assume I don't. I mean, I don't know, the, the, the, the technical implications, but yeah, that okay. But this next one. So amphibious seaplane, you know, you drop down boom boom. Yeah. It, it said it would take a number of hours. **Thomas** (00:37:54:15 - 00:37:55:17): Okay. Yeah. **Chip** (00:37:55:19 - 00:38:05:19): This next one. One of my favorites. Okay. If you got 1 million to $5 million. All right. And you have a number of days to spare. **Thomas** (00:38:05:21 - 00:38:06:12): Okay. **Chip** (00:38:06:13 - 00:38:20:08): We sort of looped all these together. Airship, balloon, Zeppelin. So hot air balloon, blimp, Zeppelin. Go in style. As long as you don't Hindenburg it. **Thomas** (00:38:20:10 - 00:38:22:12): Yeah. **Chip** (00:38:22:14 - 00:38:31:09): Spend 1 million or 2 and hop aboard a, a blimp to go across the ocean. That's that's old school and awesome. **Thomas** (00:38:31:09 - 00:38:34:02): I like the branding opportunities. Ship, right? **Chip** (00:38:34:03 - 00:38:41:21): Yeah. Goodyear. I mean, cause you come coming in a blimp. Hey, everybody, check out ship trees. Thanksgiving, a Paradise this Wednesday, man. **Thomas** (00:38:41:21 - 00:38:44:15): CC tap, November 26th. **Chip** (00:38:44:15 - 00:38:47:17): That's it right there. CC tip, baby. **Thomas** (00:38:47:19 - 00:38:51:07): That might be the thumbnail. Yes. This is, the big blimp behind us. **Chip** (00:38:51:07 - 00:38:54:18): CC tip brought to you by spotted Dick. **Thomas** (00:38:54:20 - 00:39:05:15): Just the CC tip. Yeah, I believe the the boy band mogul that started like Backstreet Boys and N Sync Lou Pearlman. Yeah, I believe he was in the blimp game. **Chip** (00:39:05:15 - 00:39:06:03): I mean. **Thomas** (00:39:06:03 - 00:39:14:07): Part of his, fortune that allowed him to launch these boyband careers. And the businesses around them, came from blimp money. **Chip** (00:39:14:07 - 00:39:17:01): And, from all accounts, seemed like a great guy, by the way. **Thomas** (00:39:17:01 - 00:39:18:20): Seemed like a real salt of the earth. **Chip** (00:39:18:20 - 00:39:31:11): Real sharpshooter, straight shooter, you know, just, just. Yes, he seems like a really good, good gentleman. So, I mean, if you get in the blimp game, you got to have. Yeah, you got to have some integrity because. **Thomas** (00:39:31:11 - 00:39:36:11): Of the speed, because it's a little slower. That's got to be the smoothest ride in the skies. **Chip** (00:39:36:13 - 00:39:36:19): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:39:36:19 - 00:39:37:23): Just let's go ahead now. **Chip** (00:39:37:23 - 00:39:45:04): Okay. I have I did my own research or I came up with a couple other ways on my own. **Thomas** (00:39:45:06 - 00:39:52:16): We always encourage this on the podcast. Do your own research. Do it. If it matters to you, do a little research. **Chip** (00:39:52:16 - 00:39:56:23): This next one. Yeah, this one could cost you potentially $0. **Thomas** (00:39:57:02 - 00:39:57:22): Okay. **Chip** (00:39:58:02 - 00:40:03:21): It might cost you a little bit more. Okay. Stow away on a freight ship. **Thomas** (00:40:03:23 - 00:40:04:09): Right. **Chip** (00:40:04:09 - 00:40:13:05): Or a cruise ship I guess. No cruises going out to why though. I don't think that's really a thing, because I think it just takes too long. Gets. It's not like. Right. It's not like a Hawaiian cruise. Is that something that happens? **Thomas** (00:40:13:08 - 00:40:18:01): I don't know, I mean, there's definitely Hawaiian cruises, but I think you might fly there. **Chip** (00:40:18:01 - 00:40:27:16): To Hawaii and then you sort of cruise around that. I feel like that's a shorter distance kind of situation. But I think being a stowaway. Yeah. Like riding the rails of the waves. **Thomas** (00:40:27:18 - 00:40:28:09): **Chip** (00:40:28:11 - 00:40:39:18): I think that's the way to do it. So that's one, one way cost you potentially your house. Maybe it costs you 50 bucks to slip to the guy to let you on. Would you know there could be. Yeah. You know some glad handing there. **Thomas** (00:40:39:19 - 00:40:40:18): Get that access. **Chip** (00:40:41:00 - 00:40:50:01): This next one will cost a decent amount of money. But if you can't get to Hawaii. Okay. Build a soundstage of Hawaii, just like the moon landing. **Thomas** (00:40:56:02 - 00:40:57:15): Yeah, that makes sense. **Chip** (00:40:57:15 - 00:41:02:10): We all know that the moon landing was faked. Yeah, it was done on a soundstage. **Thomas** (00:41:02:10 - 00:41:03:01): Kubrick. **Chip** (00:41:03:01 - 00:41:14:00): So just instead of the moon, just build sets of Hawaii. Not unlike the luau scene at the end of the Brady Bunch. Yeah, and then it's like you're there. **Thomas** (00:41:14:00 - 00:41:38:15): Yeah, that's exactly what I was saying. That's exactly where my head. When was the last episode of the three hour trilogy? The Brady Bunch is in Hawaii. Yeah. There was, it seemed pretty clear to us we were speculating, but the last what I was saying, and all of the scenes with Vincent Price were probably shot on a soundstage right here. And the, the good old state of California. **Chip** (00:41:41:17 - 00:41:44:23): Yes. And finally Thomas. **Thomas** (00:41:45:01 - 00:41:45:13): Okay. **Chip** (00:41:45:19 - 00:41:53:10): The last one, I think is very creative. I think you're as soon as I start this, I know you know where I'm going with this. **Thomas** (00:41:53:15 - 00:41:54:06): All right. **Chip** (00:41:54:08 - 00:41:58:05): Are you familiar with the movie up? **Thomas** (00:41:58:07 - 00:41:59:07): Yes. **Chip** (00:41:59:09 - 00:42:14:03): Okay. The Pixar or whatever it is, the animated movie up. I think we all know where I'm going with this. Here's what you do. You take 200 crates of Blu-ray copies of the movie up. You tie them together and make a raft. **Thomas** (00:42:14:05 - 00:42:14:23): Yeah. **Chip** (00:42:15:01 - 00:42:16:19): And sail on out to yourself. **Thomas** (00:42:16:20 - 00:42:25:15): It's counterintuitive, because part of it you think is not going to be eco friendly. All of those microplastics. Yes, but what you're really doing is recycling. **Chip** (00:42:25:15 - 00:42:27:15): It's a win win win. **Thomas** (00:42:27:18 - 00:42:32:19): You've got yourself and up and up and up yacht. You are. **Chip** (00:42:32:19 - 00:42:35:05): Upcycling. You are literally upcycling. **Thomas** (00:42:35:05 - 00:42:39:09): But just like from in the movie, you gotta let your wife die first. **Chip** (00:42:39:11 - 00:42:48:00): There's going to be sacrifices, Thomas. There are going to be sacrifices. But if you really got to get to Hawaii, you got to get to Hawaii. **Thomas** (00:42:48:02 - 00:42:49:06): That's true. **Chip** (00:42:49:07 - 00:42:50:11): That's all I'm saying. **Thomas** (00:42:50:13 - 00:43:13:01): It's true. Well, Chip, that was fantastic. What an education. So you guys aren't high and dry. If you find yourself with a ticket that's worthless, do you pick one of these options that fits kind of your budget and your time frame? And you did a great job at letting those all hang out and, just do it. We're not about excuses. We're about execution. And I think, this is just a masterclass in how to do that. **Chip** (00:43:17:17 - 00:43:30:08): And again, this is not just an educational or an entertaining podcast. This is an educational podcast. We have given real hard facts, information that again, you may need to survive. **Thomas** (00:43:30:08 - 00:43:32:23): I'm just so fired up that we're going to Hawaii. So so. **Chip** (00:43:33:00 - 00:43:34:09): You know what I'm fired up about right now. **Thomas** (00:43:34:09 - 00:43:35:15): Thomas, you let me know. **Chip** (00:43:35:16 - 00:43:41:04): I am fired up about cracking open the good book, the good. **Thomas** (00:43:41:04 - 00:43:41:17): Book. **Chip** (00:43:41:17 - 00:44:06:22): The good book, the the the animals that we have on our desks. Thomas and I, the most important book out there, the Guinness Book of World Records. Every week we do it. We each look for some human or worldly achievements. That have set people and places and animals apart from others that make them the best, the greatest, the fastest, the strongest. The Guinness Book of World Records Thomas Jung starts off absolutely. **Thomas** (00:44:11:10 - 00:44:26:06): My record this week is so close to my heart. And I'll tell you right now, shout out pickle boys. This is the record for the longest pickleball rally of all time, champ. **Chip** (00:44:26:06 - 00:44:58:16): Okay, I love the I because, you know, I played tennis all through college. Yeah, just a long rally is. I think it's one of the greatest achievements in sports. Like running the, you know, a hundred yards for a touchdown, you know, for, you know, Roger Bannister breaking the four minute mile, but like, just the physical and mental and emotional toll that a long rally takes on you in a tennis match, I'm sure pickleball match, too. Oh, yeah. It just goes on forever. And it is. It is a test of endurance. It is a test of agility. And it is a test of, grit and determination. **Thomas** (00:45:08:06 - 00:45:27:08): And I think it's just such a mental sharpness. Yes. An iron. Well, yes. To stay focused, to set this kind of record. It was set October 10th, 2021. Oh, my twin brothers watch Low and Atari. Rosetti. **Chip** (00:45:27:14 - 00:45:28:07): Oh, nice. **Thomas** (00:45:28:07 - 00:45:35:16): I think you need that kind of that kind of connection. The twin thing. To have this type of rally chip. **Chip** (00:45:35:16 - 00:45:46:22): It's like in Arrested Development, when George Bluth and Oscar Bluth, the twin brothers, would fight each other. They knew each other's blocks and moves and their their physical fights would last forever. **Thomas** (00:45:46:22 - 00:45:52:22): That's exactly what we're talking about. And I'm going to kind of throw you out there to the wolves. **Chip** (00:45:52:22 - 00:45:53:20): Okay? **Thomas** (00:45:53:22 - 00:46:03:23): I'm going to ask you to guess how many consecutive shots do you think they made back to back to back. **Chip** (00:46:04:01 - 00:46:05:15): So it's going to be a lot like 100. **Thomas** (00:46:05:20 - 00:46:17:03): No no no. Let me let me rephrase this. Let me give you the duration of how long this one single rally lasted. Okay. Six hours, 11 minutes. Jeff. Oh my God. In that crazy. **Chip** (00:46:17:05 - 00:46:27:09): That is okay. That's something. That's something special. That's like the. That's like my surfer from last week. Like the guy who surfed for that one way for eight hours on that river. **Thomas** (00:46:27:10 - 00:46:38:18): Yeah. It's these guys. I mean, you got to keep that rally going. You can't be eating Top Ramen or whatever he was doing. No, you've got to be in this to win this with your twin brother. **Chip** (00:46:38:19 - 00:46:40:13): How many hits in six plus hours? **Thomas** (00:46:40:13 - 00:46:46:08): Six. 18,000, 46 consecutive shots. **Chip** (00:46:46:09 - 00:46:51:16): Wow. Sit it out. It hasn't been broken. 11 minutes. Yeah. Four years. So that's a no. **Thomas** (00:46:51:19 - 00:47:03:00): Yeah. I don't think it'll be broken any time soon. Yeah. They averaged roughly 2590 shots per hour. **Chip** (00:47:03:02 - 00:47:10:08): I can't do the math on that. But that's not just like two guys standing there hit bouncing it back and forth like they're going for it. **Thomas** (00:47:10:10 - 00:47:28:22): Yeah. You got to be you've got to be doing something. And I mean, it could be bouncing back and forth like you got to think pickleball courts a little more compact balls a little less bouncy. You're going to want to give controlled easy shots to handle. But you're doing it for six hours, man. Yeah. You can't take a restroom break. **Chip** (00:47:28:22 - 00:47:30:02): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:47:30:04 - 00:47:45:01): And keep a rally going. Yeah. So hats off to the brothers. And it wasn't a surprise to people in the racket sports world that these brothers were up to the pickleball wax, because it's not their first record. Chip. **Chip** (00:47:45:02 - 00:47:47:09): Oh, okay. Lay it on me. **Thomas** (00:47:47:09 - 00:47:54:20): They hold another record for the most tennis volley rallies. **Chip** (00:47:54:22 - 00:47:56:00): Really? **Thomas** (00:47:56:02 - 00:48:16:20): And this one is almost even more impressive. 30,576 volleys and five hours and 28 minutes. They did this ten years ago, 2015. And, have been challenging the limits of racket, endurance ever since. **Chip** (00:48:16:23 - 00:48:20:16): And the endurance of people who are waiting for the court next. Can you imagine being there? **Thomas** (00:48:20:18 - 00:48:21:17): Exactly. **Chip** (00:48:21:17 - 00:48:24:20): They're just standing there with their tennis bags like. **Thomas** (00:48:24:22 - 00:48:25:09): Yeah, hey. **Chip** (00:48:25:09 - 00:48:26:21): You guys almost finished. And they're like, yeah. **Thomas** (00:48:27:02 - 00:48:29:03): It's like we booked the court. **Chip** (00:48:29:05 - 00:48:33:09): Yeah. I mean, I think those people should also get a world record. **Thomas** (00:48:33:10 - 00:48:35:00): A world record for patients. **Chip** (00:48:35:00 - 00:48:38:11): The most patient tennis goers. Yeah, for my money. **Thomas** (00:48:38:13 - 00:48:47:15): Two, two records of this nature. These are the, best twins in the world at whacking it. **Chip** (00:48:47:17 - 00:48:50:00): Hats. Hats off to them. **Thomas** (00:48:50:01 - 00:48:52:03): Hats off to them. Hats off to them. **Chip** (00:48:52:03 - 00:48:57:22): Send them a big spotted dick. The Rossetti brothers. Rossetti brothers? **Thomas** (00:48:58:00 - 00:49:04:09): Yeah. All right. Yep. What inspired you? What dazzled you this week from the good boy? **Chip** (00:49:04:09 - 00:49:17:03): I mean, I'm dazzled from that pickleball record right now, but, I actually look back a little bit. I did a little more research and I was in that zone of, like, how do I get to Hawaii from California, right? Alternate routes. **Thomas** (00:49:17:03 - 00:49:17:14): I like. **Chip** (00:49:17:14 - 00:49:20:03): That. So I just did the old switcheroo. **Thomas** (00:49:20:04 - 00:49:20:23): Okay. **Chip** (00:49:21:00 - 00:49:31:04): And I found the world's first solo flight from Hawaii to North America to the mainland. **Thomas** (00:49:31:06 - 00:49:32:08): Really? **Chip** (00:49:32:08 - 00:49:46:13): That's interesting. Do you want to take a guess? How long ago was the first solo flight in an airplane from Hawaii to North America? And who set the record? Who who was the first to do it? **Thomas** (00:49:46:18 - 00:49:52:05): So it's not it's notably not the first flight from the mainland to Hawaii. **Chip** (00:49:52:07 - 00:50:00:14): So yeah, I guess so. Yeah. It doesn't seem like I, I don't know if anybody did it and I should look more. I was starting to read, but but this is from Hawaii to the mainland. **Thomas** (00:50:00:16 - 00:50:07:12): Okay. I'm going to guess 1927. **Chip** (00:50:07:14 - 00:50:07:22): Okay. **Thomas** (00:50:07:22 - 00:50:14:08): And I'm going to guess, some kind of military. **Chip** (00:50:14:09 - 00:50:28:23): Okay. Transport not too far off. Okay. With a year. He said 1927. Just a couple of years later, 1935. Okay, okay. 1935, January 11th, 1935. **Thomas** (00:50:29:00 - 00:50:30:03): My goodness. **Chip** (00:50:30:05 - 00:50:33:00): 111 1935 never forget. **Thomas** (00:50:33:02 - 00:50:33:13): Yeah. **Chip** (00:50:33:15 - 00:50:58:18): And now you said 1927. In the time leading up to this, I don't know the exact time frame, but ten other aviators attempted this apparently very dangerous flight path across the Pacific Ocean. Ten died, failed to make it solo across. Wow. **Thomas** (00:50:58:18 - 00:51:01:06): So it was that recently? **Chip** (00:51:01:06 - 00:51:11:07): So it could have been like 1927 maybe when people started cooking before that, I don't know. But ten aviators perished trying to make this flight so. **Thomas** (00:51:11:07 - 00:51:14:02): They would take a ship out there. **Chip** (00:51:14:07 - 00:51:19:08): Okay. It could also be they could have flown out, like with a passenger, you know, with a copilot or whatever. **Thomas** (00:51:19:10 - 00:51:39:19): Oh, so this is solo. Solo? Well, I'm thinking, because from the island to the mainland is with the jet stream. Yes. So it would make sense. I it takes like a full extra hour to go from the mainland to Hawaii now then thinking about it. So that is like the easier road to hoe. Yes. So 1935. **Chip** (00:51:39:19 - 00:51:44:17): 1935, ten aviators perished trying do that until your girl. **Thomas** (00:51:44:20 - 00:51:45:16): Was. **Chip** (00:51:45:18 - 00:52:01:02): Amelia Earhart really set the record. She was the first solo aviator to fly from Hawaii. She started and Wheeler, I think it was Wheeler Field, I believe it was go. Yeah, Wheeler field in Honolulu two. **Thomas** (00:52:01:03 - 00:52:01:20): Holy cow. **Chip** (00:52:01:20 - 00:52:05:07): Do you want to take a guess where she landed, Thomas? **Thomas** (00:52:05:09 - 00:52:06:19): San Diego, a. **Chip** (00:52:06:21 - 00:52:14:00): Little further north. You would think that you would go that. But for whatever reason, Oakland airport in Oakland, California. **Thomas** (00:52:14:02 - 00:52:16:13): Hot dog. Look at you. Yeah. Amelia. **Chip** (00:52:16:14 - 00:52:27:04): Amelia. It took her just over 18 hours. Yeah, to travel the just over 2400 miles. 24. **Thomas** (00:52:27:05 - 00:52:29:09): Not quite suborbital ship. **Chip** (00:52:29:11 - 00:52:43:01): I mean, sub suborbital, like, very suborbital. And she was in her plane, her Lockheed Vega five B, which has the greatest name of a plane ever. Do you know what her plane's name was? Thomas? **Thomas** (00:52:43:03 - 00:52:44:03): No. **Chip** (00:52:44:05 - 00:52:57:11): Her plane's name was Old Bessie. The fire horse. Old Bessie the fire horse. Great name for a radio head. B-side. Terrible name for a penis. **Thomas** (00:52:57:13 - 00:53:03:16): It's bad. It's also the, you know, spiritual opposite of frozen Horse. **Chip** (00:53:03:16 - 00:53:11:22): Maybe it really is. See, that's why we're. We're taking this. We've taken this podcast episode to every possible angle, every direction. **Thomas** (00:53:12:01 - 00:53:22:17): Yeah. All the temperatures, all the heights, all the below waters. Yep. We're going up, down, left, right. Dippity do John and also Amelia. What, like a bad ass? **Chip** (00:53:22:19 - 00:53:28:10): I mean, she was she was wild. I mean, she did it. I mean, ten dudes failed and she was like, nah, I can do it. **Thomas** (00:53:28:10 - 00:53:33:12): And they but it wasn't. They failed. It wasn't like they got an F. Yeah. They perished. **Chip** (00:53:33:12 - 00:53:35:13): They died doing so. **Thomas** (00:53:35:13 - 00:53:40:14): Like everybody else who's ever tried this died. And she's like, all right, I'm next. **Chip** (00:53:40:16 - 00:53:45:10): And then of course, unfortunately for her, two years later, 1937 is when she. **Thomas** (00:53:45:10 - 00:53:46:08): Faked her own. **Chip** (00:53:46:08 - 00:54:07:22): She faked her own death in the middle of again, the South Pacific trying to fly around the world. So, yeah, a crowd of anywhere from 5 to 10,000 people gathered in Oakland at the airport to watch her land. Which just goes to show you. Yeah, how little there was to do in Oakland, California in 1935. **Thomas** (00:54:08:00 - 00:54:13:19): You're flying to Hawaii, right? And you're actually coming from way further than Oakland. You're coming from Philadelphia? **Chip** (00:54:13:19 - 00:54:17:15): Yes. Breaking it up. But I am flying. Then to California. But yeah. Go ahead. **Thomas** (00:54:17:15 - 00:54:25:05): Do you think there will be roughly 5 to 10,000 people that show up for Chantry Thanksgiving in Paradise? **Chip** (00:54:25:07 - 00:54:29:06): Slightly suborbital than that. Slightly. Slightly less. **Thomas** (00:54:29:07 - 00:54:31:10): More in the atmosphere got. **Chip** (00:54:31:12 - 00:54:36:23): Yeah. There will be a lot of floating people around. I think that'll the the atmosphere will be good. I'll say. **Thomas** (00:54:36:23 - 00:54:38:03): That. We'll count the floaters. **Chip** (00:54:38:04 - 00:55:03:18): We will count the floaters. And now part of the reason probably why ten other people tried this before her is that she was gifted $10,000 for completing this. She won $10,000 from what they call commercial interests in Hawaii. So with that I think it's like, all right, air travel is becoming more popular. It's the 30s. **Thomas** (00:55:03:20 - 00:55:04:05): Yeah. **Chip** (00:55:04:11 - 00:55:20:19): We're trying to get people to come out to why Hawaii's not yet a state. Yeah. In the union. And I think they're trying to maybe like, hey, here's somewhere you could fly to and come to vacation. So I think they wanted to kind of make it a thing. So they gave her she won $10,000 for in 1935. In today's money, that's roughly about a quarter million dollars or six Bitcoin, I think. I don't know, I don't know. **Thomas** (00:55:31:09 - 00:55:34:07): I don't know about the bitcoins, but that's that's wild dude. **Chip** (00:55:34:09 - 00:55:37:10): Porterville for 18 hours. Come on. **Thomas** (00:55:37:12 - 00:55:39:12): That's pretty good. That's pretty good hourly. **Chip** (00:55:39:14 - 00:56:17:08): Now here's the thing Travis, have you ever done this? Because I was thinking about it. Let's say we lived back then or whatever. You know, there's some like. Yeah. Have you ever thought to yourself, you know, okay, so she's flying across the Pacific all alone, 18 hours, over 2000 miles. Okay. Have you ever thought to yourself, oh, my God, I would never do anything that dangerous, that death defying, like making that arduous journey and in a plane that's not very comfortable, you know, and and of course, very dangerous, but at the same, in the same token, I just need a little me time. Oh, yeah. Right. 18 hours by yourself. Just. All right. Yeah. I can just pump on some tunes. Oh, apparently, that's one thing she did. She was actually listening to, like, orchestra or even opera. We're talking about operas. It was like some sort of classical music as she was getting close, I guess there's a radio in there, and she was listening to it like as she got close, like in California, and she was listening to classical music on the radio as she was, coming in for the descent. **Thomas** (00:56:40:13 - 00:56:45:23): That's great. That's something they did cross on the line. I was like, you're doing that without podcasts? Are you crazy? **Chip** (00:56:45:23 - 00:56:59:20): Yeah. I mean, dude, can I do if there's no Marin to listen to? Yeah. So that is the world record. Amelia Earhart, 1935. The first solo flight from Hawaii to mainland North America. **Thomas** (00:56:59:22 - 00:57:00:23): Great job. Amelia. **Chip** (00:57:01:02 - 00:57:02:23): Good job, great job. **Thomas** (00:57:03:01 - 00:57:09:17): That's big. That's inspiring. I like that she got to, before the tragic end that she got to spend a little time in the islands. **Chip** (00:57:09:19 - 00:57:10:05): Yes. **Thomas** (00:57:10:05 - 00:57:21:13): That sounds nice. Now, Chip, that's the good book. Yeah. That is a travel world record. But we are talking about vacation rules. Next. **Chip** (00:57:21:16 - 00:57:22:12): Yes. **Thomas** (00:57:22:12 - 00:57:31:04): We've come up with some rules, some ironclad non-negotiable rules for your best travel life. **Chip** (00:57:31:04 - 00:57:31:21): Yep. **Thomas** (00:57:31:23 - 00:57:37:05): It's vacation rules chip. What's your vacation rule this week. **Chip** (00:57:37:07 - 00:57:40:19): Vacation rule 53. Bring your running gear on vacation. It's something we're going to do. We're running A5K. **Thomas** (00:57:46:23 - 00:57:48:11): Time. It's. Yeah. **Chip** (00:57:48:13 - 00:58:21:04): Yes. Vacation is meant to be relaxing, but you will discover so many great sights, neighborhoods, back roads when you strap on those sneakers and that under armor shirt and those short little short shorts and just run through the town, the area where you are, it's like taking a walking tour, but you're getting there twice as fast, and you're going to probably make some left turns that maybe a regular tourist wouldn't do. And you find so many great places do it in the early morning before it's too crowded, or maybe right around sunset where it's nice and beautiful. I've done it so many times. On vacation from just the Jersey Shore to Maine, North Carolina, Vermont, Los Angeles, Portland, Oregon, running across all of those bridges. You know, all those bridges. Thomas. Yeah, it was zig zag. Some of those bridges, maybe. My favorite and least favorite run was in a land far away called EIR Land, in a little town called Dingle on a misty, rainy morning. You've been there time. **Thomas** (00:58:58:14 - 00:58:59:23): What they call morning. **Chip** (00:59:00:01 - 00:59:20:13): Where these young Irish guys saw me coming out of the hotel, right on the water. And like they saw me, my running gear like, oh, you want to run? Go through this field and chop this fence here and just there. And I could see there was a path like, worn in the. And I got in this meadow and I crested it and started walking. And then there's just all of these, these cattle, like, right there. **Thomas** (00:59:25:20 - 00:59:28:03): Like the fuzzy ones. **Chip** (00:59:28:05 - 00:59:30:13): Like like like cows. **Thomas** (00:59:30:15 - 00:59:31:07): Yeah. **Chip** (00:59:31:09 - 00:59:52:07): And I'm like, oh, like, oh, I don't think I'm supposed to be here. And if I run, like, am I going to create a stampede? Are these towns going to run away from me or run at me? And it's like, it's basically like all of these cows, this little running path, like a little wooden fence, you know, like a, you know, like there's old school fences and then just a cliff that drops off into the ocean. And it was like, are these dudes messing with me? Like, do they want to see me die? So I made it about a quarter mile and I just turned back and I ran like, ran back. And they were still standing there, like, what are you doing? And I was like, are you? And they're like, what are you afraid of? The cows? And I was like, well, I didn't know if you were allowed to. The right. They're like, no, you can do it. So I ended up, I decided to run back. **Thomas** (01:00:16:15 - 01:00:19:02): You were shamed into going back into the cattle field. **Chip** (01:00:19:02 - 01:00:36:08): I was shamed into going back. And then it was legit. They were legit, like telling me the right thing. Because, like Kim and I, and we saw a bunch of other tourists, like, just walking through this meadow just right next to the cows to get up to these great cliffs to see, you know, look over dangle and. Yeah, but still, I would have never done that if these guys hadn't done it. But like, I was so glad that I got to explore that area because I don't think Kim and I would have like, hiked through that meadow then if I didn't go for that run. So again, vacation 153 bring your running gear, go for a little jog. It doesn't have to be anything too major, and you're going to see your vacation destination from a whole new vantage point. **Thomas** (01:00:56:09 - 01:01:09:17): I've actually spent so much time running around kind of Waikiki over the years that, everybody calls me Forest Frump. **Chip** (01:01:09:19 - 01:01:20:20): I mean, hey, you have to get down some some way, you know? Yeah, you have to. You have to get known with the locals. Forest rum run forest, right. I think it's great. **Thomas** (01:01:20:22 - 01:01:56:03): He just keeps walking. I'm not the fastest, but I do enjoy it. Yeah, for forest frump in the flesh. My vacation rule this week is vacation rule 134. Put on your big kid pants and stay up till your normal bedtime local time on the first night. Jet lag isn't real, okay, but sleeping through your whole first day of vacation is just do it. Just stay up. Just stay up until it's time to go to bed. That's how you recalibrate that clock. **Chip** (01:02:02:04 - 01:02:13:06): So you're saying stay up like so if you're flying to Hawaii. Am I staying up later than I should or am I going to bed like normal Hawaii time. **Thomas** (01:02:13:08 - 01:02:19:09): You're going to bed normal Hawaii time. Like go to sleep. The time you would normally go to sleep at home. **Chip** (01:02:19:09 - 01:02:29:22): Yeah. So if you go to sleep at 10 p.m. go to sleep at 10 p.m.. Hawaii time. Because for me that's going to be like 4 p.m. Hawaii if it like yeah. **Thomas** (01:02:30:00 - 01:02:31:07): Yeah. 4 p.m. your local time. **Chip** (01:02:31:07 - 01:02:53:10): That same trip that I went to Ireland, we also were visiting friends in Prague in the Czech Republic. Yeah. And that was one of the worst nights of my life. I don't say worst night we went to this beautiful beer garden that. Oh, up on this mountainside that, like, overlooked Prague. It was beautiful. But the guy like our friend who was like our tour guide, was like, forced us. And he was like. And he's like. And we're we're kind of like, we just wanna go home. He's like, you're not going home. You're going to stay up. You're going to drink these beers. And I was so tired. So exhausted. Yeah. And I was miserable. But I stayed up till, you know, like 10 p.m. or 11 p.m. Prague time. And then he was like, basically lose an extra day of sleep. But then I was I was on the schedule. **Thomas** (01:03:16:01 - 01:03:17:03): Yeah. You're on the schedule. **Chip** (01:03:17:04 - 01:03:18:02): Totally agree. **Thomas** (01:03:18:02 - 01:03:20:01): It's the way to do it. It's the way. **Chip** (01:03:20:01 - 01:03:20:11): Of the world. **Thomas** (01:03:20:12 - 01:03:38:10): Sometimes you can't. Sometimes you're just like that. That sleep buttons to two appealing. Sure. Or if you had a layover or it's been like a, extraordinarily long flight or whatever. Yeah, but if you can't, that's that's the way there's there's no secret apps to stay up till it's bedtime. Yeah. And then go to bed. That and now you're on. Now you on schedule? **Chip** (01:03:39:06 - 01:03:41:17): Two very solid vacation rules this week. **Thomas** (01:03:41:20 - 01:03:48:04): It's too close to game time to be throwing out garbage rules. We are leaving. And a handful of days show. **Chip** (01:03:48:08 - 01:03:48:15): Yep. **Thomas** (01:03:48:20 - 01:04:01:10): All right. Well it's time to wrap it up, man. We've got one more thing to do. It's talk about the man. Mr. Buffett carved his own path through this thing we called life came out the other end. A billionaire for following his bliss. **Chip** (01:04:01:11 - 01:04:02:09): **Thomas** (01:04:02:10 - 01:04:13:05): Not a bad outcome, if you ask me. Chip. We've been obsessively researching this man's life. What did you find out about Mr. Jimmy Buffett this week? **Chip** (01:04:13:05 - 01:04:26:10): Jimmy Buffett, of course, loved the beach, but he never built any sand castles. He built sand franchises. That's, that's how business and pleasure was this man's game. He built sand franchises. **Thomas** (01:04:32:22 - 01:04:44:01): Oh, my gosh. I've read a wise man does not try to build things on the sand, but good gravy. Did Jimmy Buffett prove him wrong? **Chip** (01:04:44:03 - 01:04:44:23): How about you, Thomas? **Thomas** (01:04:44:23 - 01:05:03:06): Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefers, tropical rock rendition of No More Monkeys jumping on the bed single handedly ended the pediatric monkey CTE crisis. **Chip** (01:05:03:08 - 01:05:08:02): The man was a hero to people and apes alike. **Thomas** (01:05:08:02 - 01:05:21:23): When you've got Jimmy Buffett and the doctor both saying, no more monkeys jumping on the bed, the message gets through and it's it's through. By the end of the first verse, you don't even need to keep going. **Chip** (01:05:21:23 - 01:05:28:14): When Jimmy Buffett says jump, you say how high? And when Jimmy Buffett says, don't jump, you don't jump. **Thomas** (01:05:28:16 - 01:05:31:06): It's true. That's how it works. Thems is. **Chip** (01:05:31:06 - 01:05:33:18): The rule. Them's the rules. Yeah. **Thomas** (01:05:33:20 - 01:05:39:00): Them's is the rules. Well, dude, Great episode. Thanks so much for doing this, man. **Chip** (01:05:39:01 - 01:05:43:08): Thank you. I can't believe how close we are. We have one more episode to go. **Thomas** (01:05:43:10 - 01:06:12:15): We have one more episode to go, and, yeah, I next week, we're just going to kind of be tying up some loose ends. We're going to talk about the trip. Just a couple of buddies getting excited for the trip they're taking. Unless some something else comes up newsworthy. But we're going to be talking about getting around Hawaii, the things we want to do when we're there outside of CC tap trip, Chantry Sanctuary in Paradise November 26th at the Blue Note, Hawaii. And, yeah, this is the summer podcast. We talk about comedy and tropical travel. Until next time, stay burnt. Front desk. **Chip** (01:06:22:20 - 01:06:28:05): Hi, this is Mr. Chantry in room 308, sitting here watching the sunset from my balcony. And I noticed that. **Thomas** (01:06:28:05 - 01:06:30:15): Sir Chantry 308 doesn't have a balcony. **Chip** (01:06:30:19 - 01:06:35:10): Oh, it does now, you won't believe what I can do with an ironing board and some duct tape. **Thomas** (01:06:35:12 - 01:06:39:05): Mr. Chantry, do you need me to call the fire department again? **Chip** (01:06:39:07 - 01:06:40:13): Yeah, that's probably a good idea.