Trouble in Paradise, Las Vegas Granny's, and Fireworks at the Beach 😂🌴 | Sunburnt Podcast Ep. 45

**Chip** (00:00:00:00 - 00:00:01:22): Boop boop boop pow pow pow. **Thomas** (00:00:02:00 - 00:00:21:02): I do declare what up burnt one's. This is the Sun Burnt podcast, where every episode is a little tropical vacation with your buds. To my right, as always. You know him from Netflix. You know him from his stand up special and move closer. It's Philadelphia's own chip chantry. **Chip** (00:00:21:04 - 00:00:34:23): And over here to my left is Emmy Award winning producer writer. He puts the force in 1990 Nine's Forces of Nature is my favorite Sandra Bullock film. Mr. Thomas O'Brien. **Thomas** (00:00:35:01 - 00:00:36:20): I love Sandy on film. Dude. **Chip** (00:00:36:21 - 00:00:44:04): Sandy's great. Sandy's great on the beach. End up on the silver screen. Shoot from the hip. Don't even. I don't generally say favorite Sandra Bullock movie. **Thomas** (00:00:44:04 - 00:00:45:16): Go Miss Congeniality. **Chip** (00:00:45:21 - 00:00:51:06): Okay, love potion number nine. I went for a deep cut. An early one. **Thomas** (00:00:51:08 - 00:00:54:03): I think the obvious one. Speed. Right? **Chip** (00:00:54:05 - 00:00:59:06): Yeah, yeah. So I've only ever seen speed once or twice, but, I mean, it does the job, right? **Thomas** (00:00:59:11 - 00:01:03:21): Yeah. I mean, it gets it done. And you seen Love potion number nine more. **Chip** (00:01:03:21 - 00:01:08:03): Oh, I've seen Love Potion number nine many times. Are you familiar with this film? **Thomas** (00:01:08:07 - 00:01:09:02): No. **Chip** (00:01:09:04 - 00:01:28:20): Early 90s. She's like, very young, very new. It's also a nerdy guy. I forget his name. He's been in other stuff. But the reason it played on cable, I want to say Comedy Central. Like when Comedy Central didn't have a lot of programing. Right? Like today, where, like in the mid 90s. Like, it was just. I just a cheap movie, I think. And, basically these two nerdy scientists. **Thomas** (00:01:33:13 - 00:01:34:04): Yeah. **Chip** (00:01:34:06 - 00:01:54:07): The guy develops this. Or maybe, I guess they both develop this basically love potion that if you I guess if you drink it and then you talk to somebody, you just utter some words to somebody, they fall madly in love with you. And then he, they go off and see if see if it works. And it does and wacky hijinks ensues. But then, of course, I believe spoiler alert, I think they come together at the end and realize that they were the ones for each other. And that's true love, Thomas. **Thomas** (00:02:04:21 - 00:02:09:10): That is true love, because you can't take those shortcuts and get the real thing. **Chip** (00:02:09:12 - 00:02:10:06): No. **Thomas** (00:02:10:08 - 00:02:15:23): No, I like that, I like that. Unless of course, it's today and you have I. Then it's all a shortcut, baby. **Chip** (00:02:16:00 - 00:02:17:23): Then why would you need a potion in the first place? **Thomas** (00:02:18:03 - 00:02:20:17): We're in a potion society, if you think about it. Yeah. **Chip** (00:02:20:17 - 00:02:22:15): Potion in the ocean, baby. Oh, man. **Thomas** (00:02:22:17 - 00:02:24:16): How's the weather? Dude, it's chilly here. **Chip** (00:02:24:16 - 00:02:39:06): Yeah. It is, it's very chilly. It's. It's actually a balmy 33 today. It's. Which is a lot warmer and less windy than it has been the past couple of days in Philadelphia. So, I'm feeling I'm feeling pretty good. I might actually get outdoors today. **Thomas** (00:02:39:07 - 00:02:42:01): You're on the right side of freezing. I'll tell you that I am. **Chip** (00:02:42:01 - 00:02:42:23): How about you? **Thomas** (00:02:43:01 - 00:02:56:02): I'm shy. Dude, I don't like it. Yeah. One of the baby's favorite things to do is look at pictures. And we went through some Hawaii pictures last night. She was, you know, a lot of shout outs to you. **Chip** (00:02:56:08 - 00:03:07:06): So she remembers it, like, I know she's. I mean, she's on this side of two. Yeah. So, like, when you show her a picture of, like, the Moana Surfrider. Like she has memories of that. **Thomas** (00:03:07:08 - 00:03:12:15): Yeah, I wouldn't know that. But she definitely knows you and cam. She's like Chase Kim. **Chip** (00:03:12:17 - 00:03:16:06): Nice. Grampy. That's the. That's the important part. Thomas. **Thomas** (00:03:16:10 - 00:03:20:07): Yeah, yeah, she she knows stars when she sees them. **Chip** (00:03:20:09 - 00:03:35:08): Yes, yes she does. She, no stars in the sky. She knows the constellations and she knows the star power of Chip Chantry, famous from his Netflix. It's, his YouTube. Sorry, I don't even know my own credits. That's that's how. That's how big of a star I am. Thomas. **Thomas** (00:03:35:11 - 00:03:36:19): You've got people for that chirp. **Chip** (00:03:36:19 - 00:03:43:13): I have a comedy special on YouTube, and I it's I call it my love potion number nine. **Thomas** (00:03:43:15 - 00:03:47:13): You whisper sweet nothings to the masses and they are fallen head over heels. **Chip** (00:03:47:14 - 00:03:48:12): Head over. **Thomas** (00:03:48:12 - 00:03:55:14): Heels. When it comes to star power of tropical entertainers, it is Chip Chantry, only edged out by Morgana. **Chip** (00:03:55:14 - 00:03:59:20): And the late great Dawn ho. I have to say, Don Howe. **Thomas** (00:03:59:22 - 00:04:04:07): There is a very fun picture. Actually, we took a picture with Don. How? **Chip** (00:04:04:09 - 00:04:07:19): We took many pictures with Don ho in that mall kind of situation. **Thomas** (00:04:07:19 - 00:04:10:20): It was not on my phone. Chip, you got to share. You got to share that baddie. **Chip** (00:04:11:01 - 00:04:24:20): Oh, I thought I share that okay, did I that's okay. Did I put you. Don't we need to do we should make a public album that people can see all of our photos. I know we shared a bunch, but like that we can share some. But yeah, I guess I didn't. I guess I didn't share those photos of the app. **Thomas** (00:04:24:20 - 00:04:27:07): What's the longest post you can do on Instagram? **Chip** (00:04:27:07 - 00:04:28:22): Like 15 or 20 pictures? **Thomas** (00:04:28:22 - 00:04:32:00): We have more pictures in that, so Instagram might not be the answer. **Chip** (00:04:32:00 - 00:04:35:12): Maybe we just give them to a little bit at a time. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:04:35:14 - 00:04:47:15): And when it's cold, I could just. You know what it is chilly. Let's let's get our head right. Let's start this little vacation. We're taking the day right here. It's so, so fun to be doing this. **Chip** (00:04:47:15 - 00:04:55:00): Because this is my first time, slathering it up in the new year in 2026. Happy new Year, by the way. To you and all the burnt ones out there. **Thomas** (00:04:55:06 - 00:04:55:22): Happy New Year. **Chip** (00:04:55:22 - 00:04:56:14): Bit. **Thomas** (00:04:56:16 - 00:05:05:10): And this is actually like we took last week off. This is the longest I've been away from this podcast in a year, man. **Chip** (00:05:05:12 - 00:05:07:20): Now we're back. We're rusty or than ever. **Thomas** (00:05:07:20 - 00:05:15:18): Like a well-worn lawnmower blade rust here than ever, but ready to get back to business. But ready? **Chip** (00:05:15:18 - 00:05:16:23): Start chopping. **Thomas** (00:05:16:23 - 00:05:18:04): It's a fresh start. **Chip** (00:05:18:04 - 00:05:36:06): Speaking of fresh start, we got a lot of fun stuff on this episode, so tell the burnt ones what they are going to experience first hand in 3D. I don't even know. This is, we did upgrade our memberships to all of our platforms as well as our equipment. This is the, first time we are doing this podcast in 3D. **Thomas** (00:05:36:09 - 00:05:54:07): We've got a lot of, visual tricks. Yeah, but it only works for people. With our premiere package, you've got to be signed up to the Patreon, the YouTube subscription, the whole deal, and you're going to see these mugs, these limbs and a couple of quick punches. **Chip** (00:05:54:10 - 00:05:55:23): Boop boop boop boop boop. **Thomas** (00:05:55:23 - 00:06:02:18): Boop in 3D, baby. That's the way you want your vacations. You want them three dimensional. **Chip** (00:06:02:20 - 00:06:07:05): I just want action. And I want people poking at me. **Thomas** (00:06:07:07 - 00:06:10:03): I. Well, you've always loved a nice poke. **Chip** (00:06:10:05 - 00:06:12:02): Love a nice poke. **Thomas** (00:06:12:04 - 00:06:26:03): All right, Pillsbury doughboy. We got something new this week. New for 20, 26. We just got back from Chip Gentry's Thanksgiving in Paradise, but we've got a new segment called Trouble in Paradise. **Chip** (00:06:26:03 - 00:06:26:14): Yeah, we do. **Thomas** (00:06:26:18 - 00:06:35:20): Where burnt ones call in or send us emails, telling us about their worst vacation moments. **Chip** (00:06:35:22 - 00:06:50:00): Yeah, those embarrassing moments. Those crazy moments. Those moments that, when, everything went, topsy turvy. Where you're in Paradise and then all of a sudden you get sand kicked in your face, either physically or emotionally. **Thomas** (00:06:50:01 - 00:06:56:16): And it's moments we're just talking about the worst moments, because no matter how bad it gets, you can still turn a vacation around. **Chip** (00:06:56:17 - 00:06:58:23): I've seen the great outdoors. **Thomas** (00:06:59:00 - 00:07:04:23): God, a lot can be overcome, especially if you got a John Candy attitude. **Chip** (00:07:05:00 - 00:07:08:16): Yep, just have an old 96 year and you're good. **Thomas** (00:07:08:18 - 00:07:33:00): If you want to tell us your trouble in Paradise, your vacation story, give us a call at (310) 845-6038, and you can leave a voice message there. Anything you put on there, you're giving us free use to put on the podcast to do whatever we want with it, to, to have a little fun, to give a little advice, to do some reactions. You're offering it up for the podcast benefit. **Chip** (00:07:35:17 - 00:07:38:19): So, leave your name, tell us who you are, or just go anonymous. **Thomas** (00:07:38:20 - 00:08:05:07): Oh, you can go as anonymous as you want, and you can really call and let us know anything. Yeah. Specifically bad vacation moments. And the other thing we're, we're here for for advice ship. We are if you want a little advice about something, if you're going through something, if you've got something big coming up that's weighing on your mind, if if it's running on that hamster wheel in your mind, you just can't get a circular thought out, let us know. Drop a voicemail. We'll talk about it. But just fair warning more often than not, our advice is going to be, you probably need to. **Chip** (00:08:13:00 - 00:08:18:21): Take a vacation. Take a vacation. That's probably going to be the advice, but maybe we'll find something else. **Thomas** (00:08:18:21 - 00:08:23:12): Yeah, maybe. Maybe you should take a vacation if your problem is I've taken too many vacations. **Chip** (00:08:23:12 - 00:08:26:07): Yeah, there will be. There will be a few exceptions to the rule. **Thomas** (00:08:26:07 - 00:08:39:03): So we got trouble in Paradise coming up. We've got world records. We're getting back to the good book 2026. The good book stays the same. And then we're talking. We have this new idea. It's a new year. **Chip** (00:08:39:08 - 00:08:40:04): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:08:40:05 - 00:08:47:04): We're thinking maybe we might change the way we do some things, set some goals. Yep. It's a brand new concept. **Chip** (00:08:47:04 - 00:09:05:13): So you okay? This is pretty big. And, Thomas, you had brought this to me the other day, and I thought I was like, this is crazy. So it's the new year. It's almost like you're resolving to be a different person, start different habits, become better. It's almost as if you are setting some resolutions in this new year. **Thomas** (00:09:05:18 - 00:09:09:04): Yeah, and we've got a great name for it. It's called New Ease. **Chip** (00:09:09:06 - 00:09:09:17): Yep. **Thomas** (00:09:09:17 - 00:09:11:06): New Neues. **Chip** (00:09:11:06 - 00:09:12:02): Neues. **Thomas** (00:09:12:04 - 00:09:18:06): And it's, when burnt ones, are resolute to do something new in the new year. **Chip** (00:09:18:08 - 00:09:29:03): Maybe you could do it with us. Maybe that's a thing that you can do for the first time ever since it is the new year, maybe you can have these, quote, new ease or resolutions just like us. **Thomas** (00:09:29:03 - 00:09:35:08): This is the sunburnt podcast where every episode is a mini tropical vacation with your buds Chip and Thomas. **Chip** (00:09:35:08 - 00:09:38:08): We're going to gently kick some sand in your ears. **Thomas** (00:09:38:10 - 00:09:42:19): Some sandy ballocks. Stay tuned. Front desk. **Chip** (00:09:42:19 - 00:09:46:23): Hi, this is Mr. Chantry in room 308. I was calling down about the number of towels I have. **Thomas** (00:09:46:23 - 00:09:49:09): Oh, I can send some more towels up right now. **Chip** (00:09:49:11 - 00:09:57:13): Oh, no, no, no, I want fewer towels. Fewer towels? Yeah, I like to air dry. Just air dry naturally. Just right out on the balcony. **Thomas** (00:09:57:15 - 00:10:01:22): We've been getting calls about, you know, Champ Thomas. **Chip** (00:10:01:22 - 00:10:03:02): So happy new year. **Thomas** (00:10:03:02 - 00:10:16:22): Happy new Year, man. I know we're going to be talking about new eyes later. Yeah, but I had a quite like. What would it take for you to get very invested and learn the steel drum? **Chip** (00:10:16:23 - 00:10:19:04): Oh, I would 100% be in. **Thomas** (00:10:19:06 - 00:10:19:13): Yeah. **Chip** (00:10:19:17 - 00:10:21:21): First of all, I'm trying to get my one neighbor to move out. **Thomas** (00:10:21:21 - 00:10:22:08): Yeah. **Chip** (00:10:22:08 - 00:10:31:08): So there's a help right there. Good for the steel drum people. I feel like I would you. I feel like you have to have. Look, I know it's steel is in the name. **Thomas** (00:10:31:08 - 00:10:31:22): Yeah. **Chip** (00:10:32:00 - 00:10:57:02): But I feel like if you hit it too hard, it's going to dent it then changing the tone. But I guess they're just softer mallets. Softer mallets is one of my favorite bands. From the 20 tens. But this. I get the mallets, I guess. Don't warp the, the drum at all, you know what I mean? I'm saying because it's like they're banged out to be, like, different tones, but it's steel, I guess. **Thomas** (00:10:57:04 - 00:11:08:03): I guess that's it's like. That's the same logic. Did you ever have this friend? Did you ever had this friend, like, in college or whatever that, like, was like, not the most muscular person. **Chip** (00:11:08:03 - 00:11:09:01): Had a lot of those. **Thomas** (00:11:09:01 - 00:11:17:07): But like multiple times over, your relationship was like mentioned that they, they don't want to lift weights because they don't want to get too muscular. **Chip** (00:11:17:09 - 00:11:22:07): Oh, that's a fun that's a that's a fun cop out. Right? I knew like. **Thomas** (00:11:22:07 - 00:11:23:21): Five of those guys in college. **Chip** (00:11:23:21 - 00:11:49:04): I will say this that, our tennis coach, because I play tennis in college. Yeah, our tennis coach told us not to get too muscular because you definitely want more of a more of a whipping sort of lanky motion, you know, when, but when you're a string bean, like I was, I mean, you I couldn't afford to put on 20 or 30 pounds of pure, pure muscle. **Thomas** (00:11:49:06 - 00:11:59:21): Yeah. I guess the other option is, that the other way of looking at it is I encountered so many of these people because I asked so many folks to lift weights with me that didn't want to. **Chip** (00:11:59:23 - 00:12:09:23): Maybe that's that's what it was. Yeah. You're like, if you would have said, hey, do you want to go to Taco Bell with me? And then we're like, hey, we're trying to keep lean. **Thomas** (00:12:10:01 - 00:12:10:09): Yeah. **Chip** (00:12:10:15 - 00:12:13:13): The common denominator is they just don't want to spend time with you. **Thomas** (00:12:13:17 - 00:12:14:10): Yeah. **Chip** (00:12:14:12 - 00:12:15:01): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:12:15:03 - 00:12:19:13): Because everybody wants to lift weights and go to Taco Bell. **Chip** (00:12:19:15 - 00:12:21:02): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:12:21:04 - 00:12:23:02): Do you want to lift weights? **Chip** (00:12:23:04 - 00:12:24:22): No. **Thomas** (00:12:25:00 - 00:12:26:02): All right. **Chip** (00:12:26:03 - 00:12:28:18): No, I do not, Thomas. Not with you. **Thomas** (00:12:28:20 - 00:12:29:17): What? Hey, what if. **Chip** (00:12:29:17 - 00:12:45:10): We lifted weights together on zoom? I just we were each at our respective gyms. Yeah. Bicoastal. Lee, and we're just zoom, and people are like, oh, this dude's trying to be an influencer. I'm like, no, just lifting weights with my pal. **Thomas** (00:12:45:12 - 00:13:01:06): Yeah, or my trainer. I think that's how you get around the social trainer. I it's with my trainer and we, I mean, we're some of the highest paid trainers and the virtual training game, we each pay each other $2,000 per session. **Chip** (00:13:01:08 - 00:13:10:17): Yeah, that's how I got to be honest. Let's up it for the new year. I think you're worth it. I think I'm worth it. Let's charge each other 3000 for each session. **Thomas** (00:13:10:18 - 00:13:19:02): Oh my God, dude. Weird. I mean, now we're getting into the upper echelon of trainer Bezos. Where are you at? You want to get jacked? **Chip** (00:13:19:04 - 00:13:20:10): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:13:20:12 - 00:13:21:21): Holler at you boys. **Chip** (00:13:21:23 - 00:13:22:03): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:13:22:03 - 00:13:31:22): Only three, I mean, and if somebody wanted to do a joint session with both of us on a three way. Yeah, it's only $5,000 an hour. **Chip** (00:13:32:00 - 00:13:35:20): That's all it is. That's a $6,000 value. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:13:36:01 - 00:13:45:07): And we don't walk the walk. We talk the talk. So, I mean, you're going to look even better than us because we don't do any of the stuff we preach. Oh. **Chip** (00:13:45:09 - 00:13:52:18): Yeah. And I will be honest with that. $5,000 or at least my cut of it, I'll be able to afford those cigarets I've had my eye on. **Thomas** (00:13:52:23 - 00:13:55:01): Ooh. That's nice. **Chip** (00:13:55:01 - 00:13:57:18): So I can smoke some cigarets while I'm training people on zoom. **Thomas** (00:13:57:21 - 00:14:18:02): You know, it's wild. I bet there is, like, probably not cigarets. Those are. Those are pretty toxic. But I bet there is, a handful of people in these United States who's New year, who's new. We know, they don't, you know, I think a lot of people are thinking in this way, but they haven't had a word for it till we get it right. I think they're new is to smoke more cigars. I bet there's dudes out there who's just like, I just need to smoke a couple more sticks this year. **Chip** (00:14:26:17 - 00:14:39:16): Oh, absolutely. There's a cigar bar. Not too far from me. And we're just the gentlemen. Just sit out front, and they just smoke it. Still, guys. And, I mean, they've been living the 2026 life for decades. **Thomas** (00:14:39:18 - 00:14:45:09): Yeah, that is. That's great. Yeah, it's it's something to do with your your boys. **Chip** (00:14:45:11 - 00:15:01:08): Yeah. Yeah. There is like it's it's almost like. Yeah. Your boys don't want to lift weights with you. They don't want to go to Taco Bell. But it's like, hey, do you want to do this sort of weird thing where we just smoke cigars together? Yeah, it's it is sort of a it's because it's kind of like drink. Hey, hey, do you want to do something to make our breasts smell bad? But we're not going to get drunk. **Thomas** (00:15:07:12 - 00:15:08:06): Yeah. **Chip** (00:15:08:08 - 00:15:11:12): But I'm just I. I'm just selling this. **Thomas** (00:15:11:14 - 00:15:14:10): There to the sickest I've ever been. Was from a cigar. **Chip** (00:15:14:10 - 00:15:14:22): Really? **Thomas** (00:15:15:03 - 00:15:19:17): Yeah. Sicker than I've ever been from, you know, maybe being overseas. **Chip** (00:15:19:23 - 00:15:23:05): How? Why were you, like, inhaling it too much? Because you're not really supposed to inhale it. **Thomas** (00:15:23:06 - 00:15:36:23): I have no, I have no clue what I was doing. I was at a bachelor party in Vegas. It was 104 degrees outside in the middle of the night. And, somebody busts out the cigars like a cigar guy, of course. And, the. **Chip** (00:15:37:01 - 00:15:40:09): The cigar guy, I I'm picturing him right now. Yes, I've. Go ahead. **Thomas** (00:15:40:11 - 00:15:43:03): I've never had one before. **Chip** (00:15:43:05 - 00:15:43:16): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:15:43:18 - 00:16:01:17): And, we're, you know, we're at this. God. We're we're it was like a lounge area for some reason. We're sitting outside. I think that's where we could get in. And, they there had some girls had been met and they were kind of at the table, and, I I'm just puffing away on this thing. I do not know what's going on. And all of a sudden I feel so ill, and I start I mean, I was already sweating, but I start, like, unnaturally sweating, probably. Yeah. My stomach starts churning. I, like, have to quickly exit to the bathroom and I just, like, can't come out. I'm like, dizzy. I'm, nauseous. Yeah. And, I, I needed a nice, 20 to 30 minutes in that bathroom, to let the cobwebs clear, to start feeling a little better, start feeling like I can walk around, and then I come out and just like there was this this woman at the table, who could not let it go. She's like, what were you doing in there? **Chip** (00:16:45:11 - 00:16:46:22): Oh, God. **Thomas** (00:16:47:00 - 00:16:49:20): And then started guessing what I was doing in there. And I was like, this. **Chip** (00:16:49:21 - 00:16:53:17): It's not none of none of those guesses can be, good. **Thomas** (00:16:53:21 - 00:17:06:20): No, it's like it's like you you throw up. And I was just like, I, you know. No. Yeah, yeah. What, were you on the toilet? Well, you're on the toilet. Like, I mean, I was catching my breath. **Chip** (00:17:06:22 - 00:17:11:02): Yeah. You need to cut her loose. That's that's it. That's a Debbie Downer right there. **Thomas** (00:17:11:02 - 00:17:12:04): That's a dingleberry. **Chip** (00:17:12:06 - 00:17:24:13): It is a it is a dingleberry hanger on. She and she just like, she's just bringing a, God, that's that's the word. Because she's making you feel worse. Probably physically. Yeah. You want to move on, but you can't. **Thomas** (00:17:24:15 - 00:17:50:05): I know this isn't a great look. I know, I know, what I just did isn't like, inspiring and, exciting to, the the fairer sex. But, like, I'm just trying to get over it and feel. Okay, and, just very pretty loudly, keep centering the group's conversation back to like, what was T-Bone doing in the men's room? **Chip** (00:17:50:07 - 00:18:01:16): What an awful human being. That's just, Yeah, I I'd get up and just leave. At that point, I think I'd head back to my hotel, be like, all right, boys, this is. This is the worst. Wow. Sounds like you had a little trouble in Paradise. **Thomas** (00:18:01:18 - 00:18:25:02): I did have a little trouble in Paradise. What a segue. Ooh, that was my trouble in Paradise. Because that was a very fun trip. Otherwise, yeah. So. Trouble in Paradise, new segment. We're, we're we're interacting with, you the burnt ones. And we got a first message here, from somebody who's telling us just a harrowing vacation moment. Chip Chantry, would you take it away? **Chip** (00:18:27:20 - 00:18:39:19): I love nostalgia, okay? So, like, setting us back to when we're more youthful, back in our. I can't even think of the word, you know, just our formative years. **Thomas** (00:18:39:19 - 00:18:42:19): Yeah, a Stranger Things time. **Chip** (00:18:42:21 - 00:18:51:02): By the way, we need to talk about that later on. Just just watched, just watched the finale last night with the wife of stranger Things. Amazing. You have not watched it yet? **Thomas** (00:18:51:02 - 00:19:07:14): I have not watched it yet. I, I just finished episode four of the current season, but don't worry, I did watch a 30 minute YouTube video on the guy who made the Stranger Things opening with, oh, there's floating around and stuff. **Chip** (00:19:07:16 - 00:19:08:05): Okay, **Thomas** (00:19:08:07 - 00:19:10:12): I could not, of course, captivate it. **Chip** (00:19:10:14 - 00:19:30:06): I, I would watch that. I would actually watch that. Now, I don't want to spoil. I'm not going to spoil it for you, Thomas, but I am going to tell you how it ends. Here we go. Okay. So now, Mike. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I love nostalgia. That's why I love Stranger Things. Let's take a little walk back, to a stranger thing on vacation right now. When this poor man, a buddy of mine, Graham, a burnt one, was, I believe, nine years old. All right. And Zorn. **Thomas** (00:19:39:07 - 00:19:39:14): Formative. **Chip** (00:19:39:16 - 00:19:49:11): Years. Family. He wrote in you can call in you can you can write it. He wanted to write. He wanted to put pen to paper. Thomas. Via email. **Thomas** (00:19:49:13 - 00:19:54:05): Jerry's chip Chantry war. His hell. **Chip** (00:19:54:06 - 00:20:06:09): What is hell? Please tell Elizabeth I said so. Okay, so this is Graham's story. This is our first our very first trouble in Paradise. Thank you. Graham, for sending this in. True. Burnt one. Here we go. **Thomas** (00:20:06:10 - 00:20:07:14): Just the tip. **Chip** (00:20:07:16 - 00:20:32:12): Just the tip. Just a tip. Just the trouble in Paradise. Speaking of just the tip. Here we go. All right, so this is Graham's harrowing story. The very first Trouble in Paradise story he wrote in. Thank you. Graham. Okay, this is Graham story. When I was nine, we watched The Crying Game for some reason as a family, for some reason like this is 1992, The Crying Game. At the beach during a hurricane. We knew the hurricane was coming, so I have no idea why we even went to the shore at all. But we rented a movie because we knew we couldn't go outside. I mean, that that all tracks. **Thomas** (00:20:47:07 - 00:20:55:21): That makes it all tracks. Except they knew the hurricane was coming. They obviously didn't know one specific scene was coming. **Chip** (00:20:55:23 - 00:20:59:22): Right? Yeah, yeah, we knew there's a natural disaster. We didn't know there was going to be another natural. **Thomas** (00:20:59:22 - 00:21:03:08): We like to call this the storm before the storm. **Chip** (00:21:03:09 - 00:21:23:17): Yes. By the way, I love going to the beach during a hurricane. It's like the hurricane is coming. Let's get to the tides as quickly as possible, you know? Yeah. Let's get to the lowlands. But they're at the beach. They're they're hurricanes coming. They're like, well, we can't go outside. Got to rent a movie as as he did back in the day. So my aunt had. Okay. Problem right there. My aunt? **Thomas** (00:21:27:14 - 00:21:28:21): Yeah. **Chip** (00:21:28:23 - 00:21:53:23): Trouble in Paradise immediately. Yeah. Okay. My aunt had just told my mom about how good the crying game was, and my mom decided to, to do zero research about it and just dived right in with me again. He was only nine, and my brother, who was like 11. And the dad. So you got the mom, you get the dad, you get the boys who are nine, 11. Just unlucky numbers right there. Okay, okay. The big pickle reveal happened. The only sound of that room was the roaring storm outside. A few hours later, after everything had passed, we went out to the beach. The water had receded, and all of these shells and starfish and crabs had washed up, washed ashore, it added just such a surreal vibe. It was the single strangest experience I've ever had watching a film in my life. And probably the weirdest vacation to. Thank you Graham. **Thomas** (00:22:29:00 - 00:22:33:16): Thank you Graham. That is some trouble in Paradise. Chip. **Chip** (00:22:33:18 - 00:22:56:11): I mean, I think we've all had those moments, vacation or otherwise, where you're watching a movie with the fam and a scene comes on. Yeah, that's a little lurid, by the way. Again, not to be to, make a big social statement, but never any real like, gory scenes or like war scenes where people getting murdered. It's like, yeah, go ahead and watch that. **Thomas** (00:22:56:16 - 00:22:57:06): **Chip** (00:22:57:08 - 00:23:02:11): But a little sex. Yeah. And it's like, everybody gets nervous, right? Oh, it's outside. **Thomas** (00:23:02:13 - 00:23:03:17): It's nerve wracking. **Chip** (00:23:03:17 - 00:23:18:09): But like, I've had those experiences. I think there was a scene in Dirty Dancing. We were watching like, yeah, I was just on and it's like, you get it was a thing I don't out of your parents did this, but like instead of like turning off the movie, they would just send us out of the room. So it was just like we were. It's like we were in trouble. Well, like we were sequestered, which made it even all the more, like, alluring and, you know, dirty. I remember watching I think it was Do the Right thing with my parents. I was probably 14 at the time, and it was like there was a sex scene and it was just you just keep eye contact with the, the, the TV. You don't you just don't move your you don't make any eye contact at all. I mean, it's horrific. **Thomas** (00:23:46:10 - 00:23:48:10): Definitely very uncomfortable. **Chip** (00:23:48:11 - 00:24:10:12): There was one time when my grandmother, my nana, was over straitlaced sweet lady, just very straight, like, you know, of course she's a Nana. And it's me and my brother who would probably like, probably around Graham's age at the time, and then my parents and then my grandmother, and we were. That might have been Dirty Dancing, I forget. But there was an sex scene in at times and my dad sends us out of the room. But I'm just realizing now that he was in the room with his mom. **Thomas** (00:24:22:03 - 00:24:22:21): Yeah. **Chip** (00:24:22:23 - 00:24:29:05): Like he's a he's a grown man, but he's still in the room with it. So that's just he's being sandwiched right there. **Thomas** (00:24:29:05 - 00:24:30:22): Just generational trauma. **Chip** (00:24:30:23 - 00:24:36:06): Right. But he's also he could have gone outside at any point because there wasn't a hurricane happening. **Thomas** (00:24:36:08 - 00:24:44:18): Dude, the speaking of grandmas, it sounds like you had a normal grandma. Yeah, I had, I had a Vegas grandma. **Chip** (00:24:44:20 - 00:24:46:02): Oh. **Thomas** (00:24:46:04 - 00:25:11:15): My grandma lived in Vegas who loved to play the slots. Yeah, loves to gamble. Somebody that said had an issue with it, but, I was at her place one time. A woman of, truly Vegas tastes. Yeah. And, turned on her TV and, it was like you know, a Michael Jackson impersonator. Okay, really going for it. Sparkly, clothes and whatever. And, the the jacket starts coming off, the clothes start coming off. Oh, full hog out pretty quickly on this thing. Oh, I literally thought it was Michael Jackson. TVs were a lot blurrier than she had some kind of. **Chip** (00:25:30:12 - 00:25:32:05): So was Michael Jackson. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:25:32:07 - 00:25:54:11): Just a hunk cable channel she subscribed to or something. There was kind of like a Michael Jackson beat. Dunt Dunt, kind of like just took, took off her thing and there's just screamed get naked. And there was like, kind of some lady hands going up in the air that you can see at the bottom of the frame. And, her, her, I don't know, I was just remember being like, this is weird. **Chip** (00:26:01:03 - 00:26:04:15): I was was she in the room with you or. No. **Thomas** (00:26:04:15 - 00:26:13:20): Yeah. She wasn't there. It wasn't like we were watching TV together. She was doing something else. I just turned on her TV and it was on this channel? **Chip** (00:26:14:01 - 00:26:14:13): Yes. **Thomas** (00:26:14:15 - 00:26:26:22): And, I, like, thought it was Michael Jackson. I was like, Michael Jackson's cool. I had seen Michael Jackson at the circus. Oh, I'd been in the same tent with Michael Jackson before my way. **Chip** (00:26:26:22 - 00:26:29:05): Michael Jackson played in the circus. He was in the circus. **Thomas** (00:26:29:09 - 00:26:39:22): He was at the circus because he had bought out half of the seats for, like, the local Boys and Girls Club. So he was surrounded by, children, which is problematic now. **Chip** (00:26:40:00 - 00:26:40:07): Here. **Thomas** (00:26:40:07 - 00:26:43:11): Nor there. It was in Santa Barbara, very close to Neverland Ranch. **Chip** (00:26:43:11 - 00:26:45:21): Neverland ranch. So he was just watching the circus. So he was not. **Thomas** (00:26:45:21 - 00:26:49:22): He was watching the circus. And he had, you know, it was doing a nice thing. Brought all these kids there. **Chip** (00:26:49:23 - 00:26:53:03): Was he fully clothed at the time or did the clothes start coming off? **Thomas** (00:26:53:04 - 00:27:14:11): He was fully clothed. But, you know, this guy was dancing. He had on sparkly clothes. It was kind of a Michael Jackson vibe to the beat. And, when I realized things were getting trashed, Ray was when he started screaming, get naked to, like, you know, the same part of the song every time. Disrobing, and just, Yeah, I think grandma finally was like. Looked over and was just like, oh, yeah. Very embarrassed of Gary. Embarrassed, I think, at that point. **Chip** (00:27:25:10 - 00:27:27:23): But he told you to beat it? Probably. **Thomas** (00:27:27:23 - 00:27:39:06): Yeah. And I was just like, you wish, lady. Yep. Wow. I'm not one. I'm not one of your hunks. On the pay per view. **Chip** (00:27:39:08 - 00:27:43:16): I can't wait for the Purple Rain one to happen. **Thomas** (00:27:43:18 - 00:27:49:03): The. It's just much lighter movement. So much data. Your gentlemen on stage, I think. **Chip** (00:27:49:05 - 00:27:53:06): Yeah. Wow. That's a that's incredible. **Thomas** (00:27:53:08 - 00:28:01:21): Yeah. I mean, is this is living up to the promise of the podcast. A mini tropical vacation with your buds. **Chip** (00:28:01:23 - 00:28:02:15): **Thomas** (00:28:02:17 - 00:28:07:06): This is this is the kind of. This is the kind of boss talk we got up for horny grandma. **Chip** (00:28:07:06 - 00:28:13:00): Yo, this is exactly where I want to go with this. This is. This is. This is amazing. I'm feeling good about this. I feel very good about this. **Thomas** (00:28:13:04 - 00:28:14:16): But back to gram. **Chip** (00:28:14:17 - 00:28:15:14): Back to gram. Okay. **Thomas** (00:28:15:15 - 00:28:16:14): And so first of all. **Chip** (00:28:16:15 - 00:28:45:00): Let's let's talk about if you I don't I again just like stranger things I don't spoil anything. But there is a and it was I mean it was all over the, the Zeit coast of the early 90s of like The Crying Game. It was a big reveal. Yeah. And that reveal, was, as gram, I believe, very eloquently put the pickle reveal, the pickle comes out and, it is, it is a shocking scene. You're you're led to believe one thing the entire movie. And then something else happens and all of a sudden, there's a there's a wheelie that comes out and, but just also, like, Full Frontal is what's happening on screen. Yeah, sure. Like that's something that you don't unless. Unless you get a grandma who lives in Vegas, you're not generally seeing. **Thomas** (00:29:06:14 - 00:29:13:04): No. Now, if you don't have, granny's special cable de scrambler box. **Chip** (00:29:13:06 - 00:29:36:22): And it's not like, I don't know, I don't I never saw this movie, but I don't know that this happens, but, like, let's say it's the full Monty, and you see something, right? Okay, so, like, you're at least expecting it, like, this is very entrenched in secrecy, and it's like the big twist and like, this is M Night Shyamalan before M Night Shyamalan. **Thomas** (00:29:37:00 - 00:29:38:23): This is M Midday Shyamalan. **Chip** (00:29:39:04 - 00:29:42:05): This is M High Noon Shyamalan. **Thomas** (00:29:42:07 - 00:29:44:04): Still there had. **Chip** (00:29:44:06 - 00:29:49:11): And the twist was not that he was dead the whole time. Yeah that he was a dude the whole time. **Thomas** (00:29:49:13 - 00:29:54:16): Yeah. Which was like, you know, I think clearly more shocking back then. **Chip** (00:29:54:18 - 00:29:55:20): Back. Oh, yeah. Back then. **Thomas** (00:29:56:00 - 00:30:06:17): People weren't expecting it. It was something that was shifting or. But even today, yeah, nobody thinks this party got better because a willy showed up. Nobody wants to see it. Yes. **Chip** (00:30:06:17 - 00:30:19:02): And you're watching a movie with your children. Yeah. And all of a sudden there's a, there's a dog on the screen. It's like, that's not something necessarily that, you know, you're excited for. **Thomas** (00:30:19:06 - 00:30:27:01): Yeah. And, you know, the classic doorbell sound. There was no ding before the dog. There was no warning. **Chip** (00:30:27:03 - 00:30:35:12): Yeah. You know there there there wasn't. And that's, that's the beauty of the movie. And and again I'm blaming this ant to say. **Thomas** (00:30:35:15 - 00:30:49:12): Okay, this is the problem. Ants who aren't moms are a problem. Oh, not going to relay the proper information. If that ant was also a mom, she would have been like a no answer with the kids. **Chip** (00:30:49:14 - 00:30:56:08): Yeah, and don't if it's like, oh, it was an incredible film. Because like you, I think you said you learned it won an Oscar. **Thomas** (00:30:56:08 - 00:30:59:07): Nominated for Best Picture, won best Screenplay. **Chip** (00:30:59:09 - 00:31:00:11): Won best Screenplay. **Thomas** (00:31:00:12 - 00:31:04:16): And then. And Ingram's, beautiful letter. **Chip** (00:31:04:18 - 00:31:05:20): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:31:05:22 - 00:31:12:20): He said my mother chose to do no research, but to that I respond. What research was there to do? **Chip** (00:31:12:22 - 00:31:15:10): Graham? It's pretty well, yeah. **Thomas** (00:31:15:11 - 00:31:52:00): And, also famously, the advertising campaign for the movie was there's a shocking secret. Don't spoil the ending. Don't spoil the ending. It was like the, you know, maybe one of the first cultural like, spoiler alert moments where the advertising was an ending. So shocking. Don't spoil the movie. And then there was like, kind of nothing in the advertisement to lead you to even think this was going to be like a big, you know, sexual type of vibe. **Chip** (00:31:52:02 - 00:31:52:13): Right? **Thomas** (00:31:52:19 - 00:31:56:13): It was like an action movie. It was, a thriller. **Chip** (00:31:56:15 - 00:31:58:01): Forest Whitaker's in it. **Thomas** (00:31:58:03 - 00:32:10:15): Forest Whitaker, it was, the billed as prestige. It was supposed to be a lot of things that would lead you to believe that there would, you know, be it would just be a mainstream thriller. **Chip** (00:32:10:17 - 00:32:27:07): And so the mom's thinking, hey, we're in Wildwood, by the way. Grab this definitely happened in Wildwood, 107 of Wildwood, new Jersey. There's no other town that this happened in, I guarantee it. I would love to hear, What, if I'm right or not, I guarantee it happened in Wildwood. Yeah, but. **Thomas** (00:32:27:10 - 00:32:32:11): But I we should clarify. There was no Wildwood in the Crying Game. **Chip** (00:32:32:13 - 00:32:33:17): No. No, there was not. **Thomas** (00:32:33:21 - 00:32:37:23): There was a loose sock. It was an elephant's trunk. **Chip** (00:32:38:01 - 00:32:40:16): Yes. That's all it was. It was, Lucy the elephant. **Thomas** (00:32:40:18 - 00:32:43:00): It was a wizard's sleeve. **Chip** (00:32:43:02 - 00:33:05:10): Yes. There's actually, Lucy the elephant is actually a thing in at down at the Jersey shore, down by, Atlantic City. It's this giant elephant that you can climb in the structure and, there you go. But. Okay. Away from elephants. So it's like, yeah, in the mom's defense, it's like she's like, all right, hey, we got to watch something. Let me culture these boys. We're not watching Rambo. We're not watching Police Academy for, citizens on patrol again. **Thomas** (00:33:15:03 - 00:33:18:02): We're not watching meatballs one through three. **Chip** (00:33:18:04 - 00:33:22:00): Right? Yeah, yeah, we all know Who framed Roger rabbit. **Thomas** (00:33:22:06 - 00:33:23:07): This is the government. **Chip** (00:33:23:09 - 00:33:41:22): But let's find something a little more culturally uplifting that you can go back at the end of the summer and tell your school friends that you're a little bit more cultured. But also, I saw and an Oscar winning screenplay movie. This movie was nominated for Best Picture. **Thomas** (00:33:41:22 - 00:33:47:17): But like just from the title alone, you're like, what are the kids going to like? It says the word game in it. **Chip** (00:33:47:19 - 00:33:51:04): It does that game. Kids love games. **Thomas** (00:33:51:06 - 00:33:59:17): Kids understand crying cry. It just. Yeah, it sounds like, in hindsight, it's 2020, but it does not sound like a great. **Chip** (00:33:59:18 - 00:34:06:15): Nobody ever like I'm assuming there's no crying game board game. **Thomas** (00:34:06:17 - 00:34:09:11): Oh, there might not be yet. **Chip** (00:34:09:13 - 00:34:13:20): Like all. That's all I'm saying. One of my new this year. **Thomas** (00:34:13:20 - 00:34:15:14): Yeah. Maybe this is a new way for you. **Chip** (00:34:15:16 - 00:34:26:16): Is to create a brand new board game called The Crying Game. Because I mean, by the way, here's the thing. It's been 30 years plus since this movie's out, almost 35. **Thomas** (00:34:26:22 - 00:34:27:19): **Chip** (00:34:27:21 - 00:34:53:06): The new generation doesn't really know about this. The parents might forget or not even know about it. I think it's the opportunity to start getting this back out there, get the if it's not already, get The Crying Game on Netflix and Hulu, get the merchandizing out there, get the kids lunchboxes, the Crying Game lunchboxes out there. I think it's ready for, for for a revamp. **Thomas** (00:34:53:06 - 00:34:59:09): It's like Chutes and Ladders. It's upped. All the slides have been replaced. **Chip** (00:34:59:11 - 00:35:26:23): Yeah, yeah, there are no more slides. Yeah. And the slides go up now, which is interesting. But, like, you can just you can just feel like, that's why Graham is such a great writer. There's the tension in the house where, like, that scene happens. It's just silent with the four family members, and you just hear the storm brewing outside, knowing that there's a storm lurking inside as well. **Thomas** (00:35:27:01 - 00:35:49:10): The thing that strikes me that would be so confusing for a young mind to process, I think was everything was fine. We started watching this movie, the world got angry, and after I saw this shocking thing with my family that nobody's talking about, nobody's explaining. I go outside and all the sea creatures are dead. And on the beach. **Chip** (00:35:49:12 - 00:35:59:07): Yeah, yeah. This is a 2012 apocalyptic kind of situation here in in again, Wildwood, new Jersey, I'm guessing. **Thomas** (00:35:59:07 - 00:36:03:21): Yeah. 92, baby. 92. **Chip** (00:36:04:02 - 00:36:11:13): So I mean, I just, grim, I mean, first of all, congratulations for getting past that and moving on. **Thomas** (00:36:11:15 - 00:36:12:02): Yeah. **Chip** (00:36:12:07 - 00:36:13:19): That's a that's a that's a tough one. **Thomas** (00:36:13:19 - 00:36:17:15): He went on from there. He was nine. **Chip** (00:36:17:17 - 00:36:18:14): Yet nine years old. **Thomas** (00:36:18:16 - 00:36:23:11): He went on from there. And we can already tell learned to write. **Chip** (00:36:23:11 - 00:36:26:08): May I think he's going to win best screenplay someday. **Thomas** (00:36:26:11 - 00:36:27:03): Yeah. **Chip** (00:36:27:05 - 00:36:35:01): So I think this is a win win. I want to I'm turning it around. I think the mother and the aunt, they did a great job. **Thomas** (00:36:35:02 - 00:36:35:16): **Chip** (00:36:35:18 - 00:36:39:17): They did it. They did a great job influencing his writing with such. **Thomas** (00:36:39:19 - 00:36:40:16): **Chip** (00:36:40:16 - 00:36:44:03): Cultural touchstones such as this film. **Thomas** (00:36:44:05 - 00:36:45:01): Yeah. **Chip** (00:36:45:03 - 00:36:54:17): And, I, honestly, I blame Graham. I, I, I blame Graham in this the nine. I blame the nine year old in this situation. **Thomas** (00:36:54:19 - 00:36:55:16): Yeah. **Chip** (00:36:55:18 - 00:37:24:16): For not leaping up and having a conversation be like, hey, Mom and dad and older brother, I think we should all talk about this now as a family. What we just saw. But he did not. He just sat there in his The Indiana Jones Last Crusade t shirt, just probably hyper color t shirt at this point. He just he Graham's just sitting on the floor in his, burrows and hyper collared t shirt. **Thomas** (00:37:24:18 - 00:37:25:05): Yeah. **Chip** (00:37:25:05 - 00:37:33:09): With his with his many slap bracelets on his many, many slap bracelets on them. And he said nothing where he could have just started a dialog with his family. **Thomas** (00:37:38:15 - 00:37:39:09): Yeah. **Chip** (00:37:39:11 - 00:37:58:19): I mean, throughout the reveal scene of the crime game, to find it, this fourth grader, almost. He's probably going into fourth grade. Yeah, he's been through third grade. He knows cursive. He knows his times tables. He knows about life. And he doesn't open up to his parents and say, hey, I think we should talk about what we just what we just saw. **Thomas** (00:37:58:19 - 00:38:07:08): He didn't even turn the conversation because it could be about art, and we don't have to be uncomfortable at all. Art. He could have said, pause it. Yeah, pause it right. Pause it. **Chip** (00:38:07:08 - 00:38:11:07): Right there. Puzzle right there on that. Pause it right there on that frame. **Thomas** (00:38:11:09 - 00:38:20:01): Yeah. And then and then say, you know what, guys? I think we could be uncomfortable, but this is art. Yeah. This is beautiful. This is beauty. This is the human experience. **Chip** (00:38:20:03 - 00:38:41:21): He could have foreseen if Graham did his homework, he could have foreseen. He's like, you know what, guys? This has been a great movie so far. Have you noticed the screenplay? Have you noticed the dialog, the plot? I think this is going to be an award winner. And as he as he motions up to the steel frame of the reveal, he's like, this is going, this is going to be in the Oscars next week. **Thomas** (00:38:41:22 - 00:38:45:23): And then he does one last point. He goes, it's bigger than dad's. **Chip** (00:38:46:01 - 00:38:46:19): Right? **Thomas** (00:38:46:20 - 00:38:48:10): And then he takes a seat. **Chip** (00:38:48:12 - 00:38:54:03): Yeah. Sits down quietly and, continues his jigsaw puzzle or whatever he's doing. **Thomas** (00:38:54:03 - 00:39:00:10): Yeah, yeah, yeah. No. Yeah. He could have saved the day here. He could have made he could have cut the tension. He could have made it a lot less awkward. **Chip** (00:39:00:12 - 00:39:01:19): Yes. But the nine year old. **Thomas** (00:39:01:20 - 00:39:08:06): Yeah. You know, oftentimes when there's problems in a family unit, it is the child's fault. **Chip** (00:39:08:11 - 00:39:13:05): And that's the twist ending of our little deliberation. It's the child's. **Thomas** (00:39:13:05 - 00:39:15:14): Fault. And now that Graham knows that. **Chip** (00:39:15:16 - 00:39:16:14): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:39:16:15 - 00:39:30:23): I can anticipate, you know, there might be 1 or 2, nice shower cries as he deals with the shame and embarrassment of having not saved the day. Yeah. What I'm guessing was 1993. **Chip** (00:39:31:01 - 00:39:32:08): Yes. **Thomas** (00:39:32:10 - 00:39:38:01): The movie was still fresh when it came out in 1992. Yeah. But it was fresh to video. **Chip** (00:39:38:03 - 00:39:48:13): Yeah. Color me bad. No color you bad. Graham. Ooh. That guy with a mustache always freaked me out. **Thomas** (00:39:48:15 - 00:40:05:18): There was a guy in that band who I was like this Kenny G, right? He kind of looked like he had that. He had the curly white hair, and I was like, this guy can do it all. He can play smooth sax, sax and sing the high parts. I will let me back you up. Yeah, yeah. Oh yeah. That would have been a nice crossover. Let's look it up. Let's look up who that guy was. Not now. **Chip** (00:40:11:08 - 00:40:15:00): But we'll talk about it at some point. Maybe he'll write in someday. Maybe he's got an awful. **Thomas** (00:40:15:01 - 00:40:36:23): Oh yeah. Curly hair guy from Color Me Bad. Do you have a, Trouble in Paradise type story? If you would like to, you can leave a voice message for us at (310) 845-6038. And it might be featured on the sunburnt podcast, where every episode is a mini tropical vacation with your boys. Chip and Thomas. **Chip** (00:40:37:01 - 00:40:59:00): So. And again, thank you. Graham. I think you've learned a hard lesson. Yeah. But I think we're better friends for it. And you're better burnt one for it. And I, I just k I am just going back to Graham's nine year old. Like, just the horror of just being at the beach in this house. Just the storm raging and just having having to deal with that. It's. Yeah, that it's it's an amazing moment. And I, I think a great way to kick off our trouble in Paradise segment. So, Hazel Graham five stars. **Thomas** (00:41:10:18 - 00:41:19:00): Five. Thanks, Graham. Thank you very much. Graham. What a what a hero. I think people who submit Trouble in Paradise stories are the real heroes. **Chip** (00:41:19:05 - 00:41:29:19): Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Not nine year old Graham. That kid is just a loser. But adult Graham, you're the winner on this episode, buddy. **Thomas** (00:41:29:21 - 00:41:37:18): Yeah. Here we can walk Through the fire. Came out a stronger person. He did. And, once he recovers from the shame, it'll be all good, baby. **Chip** (00:41:37:18 - 00:41:42:17): And you're a winner in this game. The crying game. **Thomas** (00:41:42:19 - 00:41:44:16): You're the winner of the crying game, Graham. **Chip** (00:41:44:16 - 00:41:51:08): Yeah. So I think let's let's get a board game out. I think let's get, Hasbro or Milton Bradley on the horn. **Thomas** (00:41:51:10 - 00:41:52:03): Yeah. **Chip** (00:41:52:04 - 00:41:53:13): It's the crying game. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:41:53:15 - 00:42:00:14): Yeah. The one thing we need to figure out, it has to be waterproof because cardboard and tears is a bad mix. **Chip** (00:42:00:20 - 00:42:02:11): That is a horrible, horrible mix. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:42:02:13 - 00:42:06:07): All right, well, speaking of huge accomplishments. **Chip** (00:42:06:09 - 00:42:06:20): **Thomas** (00:42:06:22 - 00:42:24:01): Speaking of heroes, our heroes trip, it's time to turn to the good book, baby. It's the first time in 2026 we're digging in some world records. And boy, do I think you have one. I don't know what it is, but you have one that's apropos because it involves the New year. **Chip** (00:42:24:03 - 00:42:30:00): Please don't use French. But yes. Is that French? Apropos. I think it's French, right, I don't know. **Thomas** (00:42:30:02 - 00:42:32:01): Yeah, whatever. I don't even know what it means. **Chip** (00:42:32:03 - 00:42:34:16): This isn't the French podcast. This is the, the summer podcast. **Thomas** (00:42:34:16 - 00:42:37:11): It could be the French Riviera podcast. **Chip** (00:42:37:11 - 00:42:51:14): Someday, someday 2027. Let's let's do it. Let's book it. Ooh. Okay. My Guinness record for today is the longest nonstop fireworks display. **Thomas** (00:42:51:16 - 00:42:59:21): Holy cow. Okay, I like this, I like this. We saw one famously in Waikiki up. **Chip** (00:42:59:23 - 00:43:12:17): We did. And I will say one of my favorite things about it. Do you know, one of my favorite things about it was, let's hold off. Let's hold off on that. Hold off on that. I want to tell you about this one, because this was not in Hawaii. **Thomas** (00:43:12:17 - 00:43:16:20): Let's hear it. So the longest firework display, continuous firework display, continuous. **Chip** (00:43:16:22 - 00:43:40:00): Fireworks display happen. So here's the thing. I was researching it and it happened at, it was the I think the Church of Christ in, in the Philippines. And yeah, in 2016. And then it updated. It happened this year. It got beat. This is breaking news, Thomas. This is less than a week old New year's 2026. **Thomas** (00:43:40:05 - 00:43:40:21): Yeah. **Chip** (00:43:40:23 - 00:43:48:16): Set the record. The Zayed Festival in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. **Thomas** (00:43:48:17 - 00:43:49:12): **Chip** (00:43:49:14 - 00:43:56:17): Had the longest ever fireworks display, continuous fire display, 62 minutes long. **Thomas** (00:43:56:19 - 00:43:59:00): Holy cannoli. **Chip** (00:43:59:00 - 00:44:05:17): An hour and two minutes. The old record that the one that we're talking about was 61.5 minutes. They beat it by 30s. **Thomas** (00:44:05:17 - 00:44:07:01): Yeah, they had the stopwatch out. **Chip** (00:44:07:01 - 00:44:12:11): Do you know what an hour and two minute fireworks show is? What it what it's called. **Thomas** (00:44:12:11 - 00:44:13:16): Probably a. **Chip** (00:44:13:18 - 00:44:19:11): War. Yeah, it could be considered a small war. Or it could also be called unnecessary. **Thomas** (00:44:19:11 - 00:44:27:11): Completely unnecessary. I, I like I like a nice ten, maybe 50. It ten minutes is a lot of fireworks. **Chip** (00:44:27:11 - 00:44:33:19): That's exactly what I was going to say. My favorite thing about. I think maybe we caught the end of the fireworks show. Do we catch the end of it or do we see the whole thing? **Thomas** (00:44:33:20 - 00:44:35:16): We saw the whole thing. It was like ten minutes. **Chip** (00:44:35:20 - 00:44:55:14): Brevity, brevity is what it's about. Spectacle, 62 minutes. Who is that for? There's no there's a reason for that. It's kind of like back in the day, back in like 2007 eight, when Dane Cook and Dave Chappelle were like, jockeying for the longest set ever, where they were do like 6 or 7 hour sets. Yeah. To try to one up each other. Who's that? Nobody wants to sit through that. Yeah. Like, okay, stand up comedy, fireworks. They're like jazz sex or high school reunions. After 25 minutes, I got the gist, and I don't need to do it anymore. Who is it for at that point? There's. There's no reason to go any longer than that. Oh, by the way, I will say, I believe that this, fireworks display was sponsored by the good people at Dog Prozac. So, the good people dog Prozac sponsored this. If there were any dogs that weren't crazy in the United Arab Emirates before, 20, 26, they are all just lose. Just losing it right now. **Thomas** (00:45:38:05 - 00:45:49:21): Yeah. So you as far as this long fireworks display, we always appreciate somebody dedicated enough to get into the good book. Yes, it's a feat. Yes, it did the thing. **Chip** (00:45:50:01 - 00:45:50:17): Congratulations. **Thomas** (00:45:50:21 - 00:45:55:15): You think this puts the boo in? Abu Dhabi? **Chip** (00:45:55:17 - 00:46:15:06): I believe. I believe it does. Yeah, I it's again, it's a great feat, but it's like I don't need to see that for that long, you know what I mean? It's like it's it's it's like the, it's like the most spaghetti in the world. Like, I don't need the most spaghetti. I just need the right amount of spaghetti that I want to eat. You know what I mean? Yeah. Like, it's like, who can, who can scream for the longest? That's that's not something that I want to. I want to be around, you know, it's it's. Congratulations to them. **Thomas** (00:46:27:00 - 00:46:27:13): Yeah. **Chip** (00:46:27:15 - 00:46:48:13): But, you know, I will say, hypocritical of somebody who lives in South Philadelphia. Yeah, the fireworks display in South Philadelphia. New year's started on December 27th and finished just about last night. Oh, yeah. Any time for some loud. Thanks so much. So, actually, that my dog Franklin will not, He does not like doing his nighttime walks. It's going to be probably another week or two until he really feels comfortable going outside at night again, because he gets like. And he's not like a super freaked out dog. But like, this year especially hit him, I think because it. **Thomas** (00:46:59:05 - 00:47:16:15): Just, no dogs like fireworks. But I think in Philadelphia, from my perception, it's nice when you put works with the fire because I've also seen a number of videos and photographs you sent me where there just seems to be, you know, flames. **Chip** (00:47:16:17 - 00:47:29:08): Yeah. We had, we had a little bonfire there. So they do a bonfire at the one intersection. But my buddy in South Philly where everybody just kind of comes out on new at midnight on New Year's, and, throws their, Christmas tree out because you got to get rid of the Christmas tree at some point. **Thomas** (00:47:29:11 - 00:47:30:12): You do, you. **Chip** (00:47:30:12 - 00:47:34:11): Throw it out into the intersection and, we will there will bonfire. **Thomas** (00:47:34:13 - 00:47:35:12): It's right in the street. **Chip** (00:47:35:12 - 00:47:38:18): There we are, Abu Dhabi West. **Thomas** (00:47:38:20 - 00:47:59:05): Well, I do think that to move that many fireworks around because fireworks are not light. No, I do think you have to be, fairly strong women and men to be moving those fireworks. So, putting a feeler out there. If anybody in Abu Dhabi wants to lift weights with me. Yeah, wants to get in a couple of sessions. **Chip** (00:47:59:07 - 00:48:00:20): Only $3,000 an hour. **Thomas** (00:48:01:01 - 00:48:11:09): $3,000 an hour. If you want the training or, free if you offer me the company and give me a spot. Because I sure would love to lift weights with another human being. I think that'd be great. **Chip** (00:48:11:11 - 00:48:12:05): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:48:12:07 - 00:48:12:19): Hard to come. **Chip** (00:48:12:20 - 00:48:19:04): Speaking of, another human being. What? What's your Guinness world Record? Thomas, I want to hear. **Thomas** (00:48:19:07 - 00:48:40:13): I wanted to do something inspirational for the New Year chat. Love it. Love something that that shows us kind of. You can go from, you know, 0 to 100 if you put in the effort. Sure. This is the record for the highest annual earnings for a film actor in one year. **Chip** (00:48:40:15 - 00:48:42:23): Highest annual earnings for a film. Okay. **Thomas** (00:48:43:00 - 00:48:45:10): All right. Do you want to venture a guess? **Chip** (00:48:45:10 - 00:48:48:04): Well, I was, but my guess is, is this actor American? **Thomas** (00:48:48:06 - 00:48:53:09): He's an American. And, it was set in 2023. **Chip** (00:48:53:11 - 00:49:02:23): Oh, wow. 2023. Man, I if he if you said 1993, I'd be able to do it. I just yeah. List the cast of The Crying Game. **Thomas** (00:49:03:03 - 00:49:04:03): **Chip** (00:49:04:05 - 00:49:08:22): Sorry to go I should is it the rock? No, no. **Thomas** (00:49:09:00 - 00:49:11:19): But somebody much more near and dear to your heart than the Rock. **Chip** (00:49:12:00 - 00:49:17:03): To my heart. Wow. Forest Whitaker? **Thomas** (00:49:17:05 - 00:49:22:23): No, it's the Sandman, baby. Adam Sandler. **Chip** (00:49:23:01 - 00:49:23:23): Really? **Thomas** (00:49:24:03 - 00:49:34:20): Yeah. And, 2023 homeboy, according to Forbes, brought in an estimated 73. Million dollars. **Chip** (00:49:34:23 - 00:49:36:06): In a year. **Thomas** (00:49:36:08 - 00:49:47:01): And one year. It was a year. He had four movies. It was part of an exclusive deal with Netflix. He made Murder Mystery two, The outlaws in the animated movie A Leo. **Chip** (00:49:47:03 - 00:49:48:19): Good for him. Wow. **Thomas** (00:49:48:21 - 00:50:08:11): Good for him. He holds such a special place in my heart. He does it like, you know, when my wife was recovering from the birth, we watched everything in the sand. Lovers. We watched all of his movies from front of the catalog to the very back of the catalog. And, most I mean, it's just like, an absolute delight. **Chip** (00:50:08:13 - 00:50:13:08): Yeah, it's to this day, I still I'm big fat Hubie Halloween, my favorite Halloween movie nowadays. **Thomas** (00:50:13:08 - 00:50:21:22): I, I mean, they all have a little magic in there, but yeah, Hubie had, so much to offer, and he did it. Well, you know, he's a comedy guy. **Chip** (00:50:22:00 - 00:50:23:05): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:50:23:07 - 00:50:25:10): He does not dress like a movie star. **Chip** (00:50:25:11 - 00:50:26:14): No, he does not. **Thomas** (00:50:26:16 - 00:50:39:19): It's a it's really a he must just work really hard. So I think if effort equals dollars chip, if we just try twice as hard, if you do the algebra, you will make as much money as Adam Sandler. **Chip** (00:50:39:23 - 00:50:42:04): 73 million this year. I'm ready. **Thomas** (00:50:42:08 - 00:50:49:13): I'm tired of making, $36.5 million a year. **Chip** (00:50:49:15 - 00:50:51:21): I know I want to I want to double that. **Thomas** (00:50:52:00 - 00:51:00:16): I want to double it up, get to that 73, and then finally be able to be comfortable and maybe, you know, make some more liberated choices. **Chip** (00:51:00:17 - 00:51:06:22): No offense, but I don't need to be hanging out with my $30 million friends anymore. Those lowlifes. So everybody be. **Thomas** (00:51:06:22 - 00:51:26:03): Inspired. If you really buckle it down, throw on a pair of baggy basketball shorts. You know get a little stubble going. Throw on a golf a golf shirt. Yeah. And wear to formal events. Yeah. You could be on that $73 million gravy train. **Chip** (00:51:26:03 - 00:51:29:20): Just words to live by in 2026. So inspiring Thomas. **Thomas** (00:51:29:20 - 00:51:38:10): I know dude I know it's going to be a big year. It's going to be a big year. Which leads us to our noise. **Chip** (00:51:38:15 - 00:51:39:07): Let's talk about. **Thomas** (00:51:39:07 - 00:51:47:17): Him. Let's talk about some new. He's, coming off of a big back to back years, 2024. We got your special out to the world. **Chip** (00:51:47:18 - 00:51:49:05): Move Closer now available on. **Thomas** (00:51:49:05 - 00:51:51:22): YouTube. And it's a delight. **Chip** (00:51:52:00 - 00:51:52:17): It is solid. **Thomas** (00:51:52:17 - 00:52:18:08): And then 2025 was the year of the podcast launch. And the year of chip channel trees. Thanksgiving a Paradise our first. Yeah. Destination tropical comedy event. And we got to spend the weekend, Waikiki together after spending a whole year getting up to that point. And yeah, goals have been good to us, buddy. We've had a lot of fun. It's like, you know, generally the funnest part of my work year are the things we've done together. **Chip** (00:52:23:09 - 00:52:24:07): Yep. **Thomas** (00:52:24:09 - 00:52:29:00): And this year we're heading into it with some new news. **Chip** (00:52:29:02 - 00:52:43:19): Let's do it. Let's do let's let's do the new, buddy, what are what are your new is this year? But new is this year. If we if we if we can say, what are you resolving to do? What is your resolution or your new. **Thomas** (00:52:43:23 - 00:52:49:09): It's due in 2025 over again. Bigger and badder baby. **Chip** (00:52:49:09 - 00:52:50:06): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:52:50:08 - 00:53:16:16): It's really putting some more focus into the podcast, into the clips, into this digital space. It's putting, you know, doing more tropical destination comedy events than we did last year, which we got to get to two hoping for three. We have some stuff swirling around in, the, Golf of America slash Mexico, whatever you want to call it. That seem a, it's a little challenging to pin down what's going to be safe and what we're going to be able to do at the moment. So, we had some things kind of upended in the last week due to that. **Chip** (00:53:28:17 - 00:53:30:22): We're like, maybe we're not going to go there. **Thomas** (00:53:30:22 - 00:53:33:02): Yeah, yeah. Or maybe it's yeah, yeah. **Chip** (00:53:33:02 - 00:53:36:02): It's like raucous comedy festival might not be happening like we planned. **Thomas** (00:53:36:02 - 00:54:01:03): Yeah. So things are still up in the air, but it's it's something we were shooting for, something want to do. And, then also having a big fitness push, it's time to get back into it. I was underwater completely last year with this, and, you know, a technology project I had going on was developing, some software stuff. And that is largely in the rear view in terms of, of ours. So going to have some more time to. **Chip** (00:54:08:18 - 00:54:11:14): To improve your rearview if to improve. **Thomas** (00:54:11:14 - 00:54:26:23): My rearview. Yeah. It was just like, you know, it was it was podcast. It was comedy show. Yeah. It was this monstrous project that was kind of a new area for me. That just, you know, it was. **Chip** (00:54:27:01 - 00:54:33:15): And congratulations. You like without saying too much it it's amazing and I'm very excited for, for the world to see it. **Thomas** (00:54:33:17 - 00:54:55:07): Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And it's going to, it's going to be exciting and I like it. It also does dovetail in with a bunch of the stuff we've been doing. So yeah, launching that technology product out into the world, more events getting fit and then really fine tuning what this is. Yeah. Connecting deeper with the audience, getting, you know, more meaningful. We just want this to be fun. We want this to be a safe space. The world can be a little challenging at times and best cases. A lot of people kind of feel like that. And a lot of people, I think, you know, post pandemic and everything, feeling a little separated. So we just wanted to do something that's fun, funny. We're buddies. We talk all the time anyways. But like, if we can invite the world into that to have a little fun doing something positive, that would be the goal. And we just want to keep getting better at it and keep getting up to more and more people and, developing this community where we can get more and more people to come to the events, to come hang out with us in person and just be like that positive thing you know, that we're setting up events, we're setting a podcast that people can hopefully look forward to, can enjoy spending their time there. And, yeah, giving them a place to focus outside of the chaos, outside of the darkness. So yeah, that's that's basically it. And to continue to be a good dad, good husband. That's it in a nutshell. How's that for succinct chip? **Chip** (00:56:01:05 - 00:56:03:05): Incredible. **Thomas** (00:56:03:07 - 00:56:06:17): What about you, man? You got any news? Any news that you're just burning? **Chip** (00:56:06:17 - 00:56:26:11): So first of all, to get in shape. One, two. It's like, I feel like I was underwater last year to a certain extent, and then I just got lazy, too. And it's like, this year I'm really going. I'm eating better. Working out, we're going to be we're just going to be jacked. I'm going to say by June you're gonna look at this package and you're like, these dudes are just bursting out of their Hawaiians, just. **Thomas** (00:56:26:11 - 00:56:27:19): Jacked by June. **Chip** (00:56:27:19 - 00:57:00:14): That's right. You write that down. Write that down, Jack, by June. So, yeah. And really, my other goal is like, I have specific things that I won't get into all the weeds, but I just want to be more productive. I want to put more stuff out there in the world this year, I have I have so many ideas brewing, and I have a couple of them that I just want to get out there and let the world see and, including this podcast and just, you know, again, getting out there, doing more stand up, getting out there and maybe in a tropical location to do more standup, to get more of these out, more shorts out. And I gotta say, so it's I'm focusing this year. I'm trying to focus more on the process than the end. Like, I have some goals, but it's like just my day to day process of like eating better, working out. But then also, I think I told you, I got that this is not a plug. I it's a plug, I guess, but it's free. This is not an advertisement. I got that thing. That brick thing? **Thomas** (00:57:20:08 - 00:57:20:14): Yeah. **Chip** (00:57:20:14 - 00:57:45:05): Did I tell you about that? That little magnet thing for my phone that, like, locks you out of social media? I started it a couple of days before the new year. I already feel different. Like, I feel like I don't waste nearly as much time anymore. I'm not, like, scrolling through my phone and all that stuff, and I just, I feel like I'm, like, putting more stuff out rather than just, like, sitting there, taking it all in and not taking garbage in either, like I'm. I'm reading, by the way. Oh, don't think I'm reading. I'm reading more. I'm reading a great book right now called The Elementals. Check it out. I wish I a is it Michael McDowell? Mike McDowell I think I could be get the 1981. It is a horror movie for a horror, book from 1981, but it's set in some vacation times. Thomas. It's set on the Gulf of Mexico. These three creepy old Victorian houses that are right on the Gulf of Mexico, secluded from everything else. The, in Alabama, the Gulf Shores. And it's great. And it's I'm having so much reading it rather than scrolling through my, my phone. **Thomas** (00:58:24:12 - 00:58:41:07): And that's another thing about doing this podcast is we kind of shot a flare out into the universe of like, yeah, what? We're into what we like, and, there's a couple people just come up to it. But that book is a recommendation based off of people knowing what you're into. And that sounds right up your alley. You're saying it's good? I got to check it out. The elementals? Yeah. I would love to read more. That would be great. But, the other the other one that pops of mind is, going loco in Acapulco. **Chip** (00:58:53:03 - 00:58:54:08): Acapulco? **Thomas** (00:58:54:10 - 00:58:56:13): That was that was brought up to us. **Chip** (00:58:56:15 - 00:58:57:08): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:58:57:10 - 00:59:02:22): Brian Craig, solely because of the podcast. Yeah. And, it's it's become a hit around my house. **Chip** (00:59:03:00 - 00:59:14:08): It's it's a great one. It's a great one. Yeah. All right. So 2026, this is our year. This I'm going to say it right now. This year you're Thomas. This is my year. This is Graham's year. **Thomas** (00:59:14:09 - 00:59:20:21): Graham's going to pull out. And I think we're all going to have our own pickle reveals this year. **Chip** (00:59:20:22 - 00:59:25:23): You know? Yes, I think that's whether we like it or not. It's it's it's going to happen. **Thomas** (00:59:25:23 - 00:59:27:02): And that's the deal. **Chip** (00:59:27:02 - 00:59:29:22): Yes. **Thomas** (00:59:30:00 - 00:59:46:05): All right. Well, we're our that's our time. Yeah. I had the best time. Dude. What a what a fantastic little mini trip, man. We'll be back next week with another episode of the Sun Burn podcast. Until then, stay bright. Front desk. **Chip** (00:59:46:05 - 00:59:50:09): Hi, this is Mr. Chantry in room 308. I was calling down about the number of towels I have. **Thomas** (00:59:50:09 - 00:59:52:19): Oh, I can send some more towels up right now. **Chip** (00:59:52:21 - 01:00:00:23): Oh, no, no, no, I want fewer towels. Fewer towels? Yeah, I like to air dry. Just air dry. Naturally. Just right out on the balcony. **Thomas** (01:00:01:01 - 01:00:04:09): We've been getting calls about, you know, boop. **Chip** (01:00:04:09 - 01:00:06:03): Boop boop boop boop boop. **Thomas** (01:00:06:05 - 01:00:07:15): I do declare.