Trouble in Paradise: A Family Beach Trip Goes Very Wrong 😂🌴 | Sunburnt Podcast Ep. 46

**Chip** (00:00:00:00 - 00:00:01:11): Wham bam. Thank you Hulu **Thomas** (00:00:01:11 - 00:00:02:23): daddy likes to snack. **Chip** (00:00:03:04 - 00:00:06:02): Here is the vacation disaster story from Blake Wexler. **Thomas** (00:00:06:03 - 00:00:07:04): You take a vitamin chip. **Chip** (00:00:07:04 - 00:00:12:02): Mom, take a picture of me. I'm posing like Hulk Hogan. **Thomas** (00:00:12:04 - 00:00:29:05): What up burnt ones. This is the sunburnt podcast, where we talk about comedy and tropical travel. You know, it's a little vacation with your buds, Chip and Thomas. To my right, as always, is the aforementioned Chip. Philadelphia's own, you know, from Netflix and his own stand up special chip Chantry, everybody. **Chip** (00:00:29:09 - 00:00:41:13): And over here to my left is Emmy award winning producer and writer. He puts the air in bathing suit area. Mr. Ryan, how are you, buddy? **Thomas** (00:00:41:15 - 00:00:54:06): I'm doing well, man. I'm doing well. Yeah. It is, it's an important topic to talk about. Bathing suit areas. There's, Oh, my gosh, it's so apropos to what we're going to talk about today on the podcast. **Chip** (00:00:54:06 - 00:01:01:23): Yep. It really is. And you know, in, I mean, I love that we landed on sunburnt podcast. That was your idea for the name. **Thomas** (00:01:01:23 - 00:01:03:20): I actually think that might have been my wife's idea. **Chip** (00:01:03:20 - 00:01:08:05): Oh, will it shout out, shout out to your wife. Let's let's give her full credit where credit is due. **Thomas** (00:01:08:05 - 00:01:13:03): I really wanted vacation pigs. But you're allergic to success and money. **Chip** (00:01:13:03 - 00:01:28:14): Yes. So vacation pigs, I decided. Yeah, I decided, let's go a little bit less. Porky and I, but we really were thinking about a name for it. And how did bathing suit area not make the shortlist? That's. **Thomas** (00:01:28:14 - 00:01:29:13): Oh, that's. **Chip** (00:01:29:15 - 00:01:35:05): Real. Hey, that starts podcast over again. Well, let me, let me. Can I do it? Like, if this was the rule. **Thomas** (00:01:35:05 - 00:01:36:09): Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like if it was. **Chip** (00:01:36:09 - 00:01:55:10): Yeah. What's up guys? Welcome to the bathing suit area. I'm your host, Chip. And over here is my co-host, Thomas. I see that it rolls off the tongue, the bathing suit area. So maybe that's a maybe that is a, a segment like, like people have, like, corners on their pocket, like, oh, it's time for listener corner or whatever. Maybe it's, All right, it's time to go to the bathing suit area. Maybe it's a place where you have to go if you do something wrong. It's like, all right, five minutes. Five minutes to the bathing suit area. **Thomas** (00:02:07:11 - 00:02:13:13): Can I ask you a question? Where where do you think the term bathing suit area is used? **Chip** (00:02:13:18 - 00:02:17:17): Oh, it's it's when we're talking about our our private parts. **Thomas** (00:02:17:19 - 00:02:19:19): To to what specific demographic. **Chip** (00:02:19:23 - 00:02:22:01): To like little children. **Thomas** (00:02:22:03 - 00:02:27:10): Yeah. Yeah. I mean, two grown men using the, the, the it's pedophile verbiage. **Chip** (00:02:27:10 - 00:02:28:11): Yeah. It is, it's like. **Thomas** (00:02:28:11 - 00:02:34:12): Yeah, it's like nobody's allowed to touch you in your bathing suit areas. Right? Look at your bathing suit areas. **Chip** (00:02:34:12 - 00:02:37:01): Exactly. Yes. So that's. **Thomas** (00:02:37:01 - 00:02:45:07): Hey, everybody. Everybody, welcome to the Epstein Island podcast. Yeah. Where me and Chip Chantry talk about all things that happened on the isle. **Chip** (00:02:45:08 - 00:02:55:14): And, this episode is entitled Show Me on the doll. Where they touched you, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's that, doesn't it doesn't roll off the tongue. I think we should have stuck with vacation pigs. There you go. **Thomas** (00:02:55:14 - 00:03:02:12): Vacation pigs? Yeah. Ooh. But if you were a vacation pig like, can you imagine that bathing suit area? **Chip** (00:03:02:16 - 00:03:08:13): That'd be a rough one, buddy. Speaking of vacation pigs, your boy over here, has dropped 5 pounds this week. **Thomas** (00:03:08:13 - 00:03:10:04): A 5 pound week, baby. **Chip** (00:03:10:05 - 00:03:26:14): It feels more like a 5 pound strong, I will say that, but it is a 5 pound week, and, Yeah, you know what I want to get make that bathing suit area look good in a bathing suit. At some points and, you know, trying to do and dry January. Try to eat. Right, try to exercise a little bit and, down 5 pounds this week. So I'm feeling feeling good. **Thomas** (00:03:28:12 - 00:03:31:00): Tell me. I mean, it sounds like you cut out the. **Chip** (00:03:31:00 - 00:03:45:06): Booze, which, by the way, by the way, I just want to disclaimer here. I cut out the booze. It's not like I. I'm a booze hound or anything like that, but, like, you know, you have a couple drinks every once in a while, and it's those, there's the there's a little sugars add up, buddy. **Thomas** (00:03:45:09 - 00:03:46:18): They're not calorie free, chip. **Chip** (00:03:46:18 - 00:04:03:20): I will say like a handful of nights a week. I'll have a drink or two, you know, maybe, like, even, like two nights a week, three nights a week, whatever. You know, my wife and I go out to dinner, have a drink or whatever. If I get a little, a little buzzed, we get back or whatever. I'm like, oh, I want a snack now. **Thomas** (00:04:03:20 - 00:04:04:06): Oh, yeah. **Chip** (00:04:04:06 - 00:04:14:06): So I use the justification in my head that like, oh, I got a little booze in the old tummy. If I throw some cupcakes in there, it's going to absorb it. And I'm not going to feel as bad in the morning. **Thomas** (00:04:14:06 - 00:04:17:14): I think it's right though. I think that's I think that's how the math works out. It's how. **Chip** (00:04:17:14 - 00:04:20:04): Science works. Science and math. Thomas. Yes, but we. **Thomas** (00:04:20:04 - 00:04:32:07): All know, famously, Andy Dwyer went from nearly 300 pounds to, a leading man, Chris Pratt. Yeah. Just by cutting out beer, according to Parks and Recreation. **Chip** (00:04:32:07 - 00:04:33:16): That's all you gotta do, buddy. So. **Thomas** (00:04:33:16 - 00:04:35:20): Yeah. All right. So. So you cut out the booze? **Chip** (00:04:35:20 - 00:04:39:05): Yeah. The snacks to the snacks. It's. That's a tough one. You know it. **Thomas** (00:04:39:05 - 00:04:41:05): It's tough. Daddy likes to snack. **Chip** (00:04:41:05 - 00:04:42:17): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:04:42:19 - 00:04:50:13): All right, well, congratulations on being 5 pounds down. If you continue this weekly clip, you will be 0 pounds and no time. **Chip** (00:04:50:13 - 00:04:56:14): Daddy, I. That's what I'm. That's what I'm hoping for, Thomas. That's. I'm hoping to just sort of disappear. 00:04:56:16 – 00:04:58:02 UNRESOLVED – **Thomas** (00:04:58:04 - 00:05:21:03): Well, keep doing this podcast and that'll also happen to, our career and relevance very quickly. All right, well, this is the sunburnt podcast, despite what you've heard earlier, where it's a little mini vacation with your buds, Chip and Thomas. Today we're going to be talking about trouble in Paradise. Chip? Yes. We've got, just a banger of a call in. Yes, a tricky situation. Somebody got into in their team. Chip. Yeah. A little island excursion in their teens. **Chip** (00:05:31:19 - 00:05:33:12): Yes. Tween years, baby. **Thomas** (00:05:33:12 - 00:05:45:06): And we're also gonna be talking about world records and everything in between. Sunburn podcast. Stay tuned. Front desk. **Chip** (00:05:45:08 - 00:05:50:06): Hi. This is Mr. Chantry in room 308. Are there any rules about clothing in the swimming pool? **Thomas** (00:05:50:06 - 00:05:53:20): Well, sir, it is a family area, so bathing suits are required. **Chip** (00:05:53:21 - 00:05:58:17): Oh, that's no problem. What about eight people swimming around wearing full mascot outfits? **Thomas** (00:05:58:17 - 00:06:01:13): Just as long as you skim the pool after you're done. **Chip** (00:06:01:14 - 00:06:04:06): Oh, I plan on it. Jeff Thomas. **Thomas** (00:06:04:06 - 00:06:07:16): It's episode 46 of the seven. Part podcast. **Chip** (00:06:08:17 - 00:06:12:18): What are we going to do for 50? I think there has to be a just a major blowout. **Thomas** (00:06:12:18 - 00:06:15:17): It's the, bicentennial or the half centennial. **Chip** (00:06:15:17 - 00:06:17:17): Yeah, the half centennial. It's the half. **Thomas** (00:06:17:17 - 00:06:20:02): The podcast has to start using Centrum. **Chip** (00:06:20:02 - 00:06:29:10): Silver. Honestly. Yeah. I mean, they should start getting, getting checked. And, yeah, have those one two days, maybe that that's how old this podcast is. **Thomas** (00:06:29:11 - 00:06:31:02): Look at us. You take a vitamin chip. **Chip** (00:06:31:03 - 00:06:32:10): I take a number of vitamins. **Thomas** (00:06:32:10 - 00:06:33:20): Really? **Chip** (00:06:33:20 - 00:06:46:03): I go right through the alphabet. I do a B12, I do a C, I do a D pieces and DS. It's it's kind of like my report card in 11th grade, just Bzees and DS. **Thomas** (00:06:46:05 - 00:06:53:01): I, watching the pet with the wife. Oh, yeah. Have you seen the pet? No, you're not a pet guy yet. You will. **Chip** (00:06:53:01 - 00:06:54:19): Be. I'm aware of it. Yes. **Thomas** (00:06:54:21 - 00:07:02:18): Yeah. You like to store up. You're streaming on one platform and just. And then you get it for a month. Knock it out. Get out of there. **Chip** (00:07:02:18 - 00:07:04:03): Wham, bam! Thank you. **Thomas** (00:07:04:04 - 00:07:23:18): Hulu on the pet, though. First episode of the season, they're setting up the 4th of July day. A lot going on every season is one day in the pet, of course. And, this dude, it's just so annoying. This dude is sick. He's got kind of, like, a weird thing going on, and, the doctor's asked, do you take any medications? And his wife pulls out 4 or 5? Just like freezer gallon bags full of, what one's medication. But the rest are just all supplements. Yeah. And the doctors are just like, God damn it, I need to figure out which one of these 9000 chemical compounds is causing whatever's going on in the sky. Yeah. You just see him go. Oh, no, it just. **Chip** (00:07:47:17 - 00:07:58:12): I just just drop it. Just stop taking him for a couple of days. Let's let's let that let that ivermectin just wear out of your body and start. Yeah. Start from scratch. **Thomas** (00:07:58:14 - 00:08:01:10): Yeah, yeah, yeah, I find neutral. Yes. **Chip** (00:08:01:11 - 00:08:02:02): Exactly. **Thomas** (00:08:02:02 - 00:08:09:12): I wonder how much weight he would drop if he's not eating. I don't know, roughly pound and a half. Supplements every day. **Chip** (00:08:09:15 - 00:08:19:11): I think some of that vacation weight would come off him. You know. Of course he wouldn't get his folic acid or whatever, but, you know, I think he can deal with that at it for a little bit. **Thomas** (00:08:19:13 - 00:08:22:07): But, a 46 sunny episodes. **Chip** (00:08:22:11 - 00:08:23:08): 46 of a baby. **Thomas** (00:08:23:08 - 00:08:31:09): Of the sunburn podcast, including a couple of ones we ditched at the beginning. Yeah, because they weren't good enough. **Chip** (00:08:31:11 - 00:08:32:18): No, not at all. **Thomas** (00:08:32:18 - 00:08:40:09): And then a couple we ditched due to technical difficulties. This might be the 200th episode we've recorded of the sunburn podcast. **Chip** (00:08:40:09 - 00:08:45:16): So, congratulations. Happy anniversary. Thomas, on our 200th episode. That never happened. **Thomas** (00:08:45:18 - 00:08:54:06): Yeah, yeah. Thank you very much. I'm a proud papa. Well, should we jump into it? Should we get in some trouble in Paradise? Yep. I'm. **Chip** (00:08:54:08 - 00:08:57:11): I'm so excited about this one. **Thomas** (00:08:57:13 - 00:09:00:03): All right, this is the Trouble in Paradise segment. **Chip** (00:09:00:05 - 00:09:07:16): And, we want to keep this segment going. So tell them tell the listeners in the viewers how they can help this segment ago. **Thomas** (00:09:07:17 - 00:09:38:12): Absolutely. So we want to hear about your worst vacation moments. And you can do that by either sending us an email or calling at (310) 845-6038. We have a voicemail box set up there. If you want to leave a message that we can play here on the podcast and you're giving us permission to use it however we see fit, put it on the podcast, by leaving a message there. Do it, do it. We had a great one last week. We've got another winner this week, and we want to keep this, segment going. So don't be shy and. **Chip** (00:09:46:20 - 00:09:52:23): Use your first and or last name or keep it anonymous if you want to. Either way is totally fine. 00:09:53:01 – 00:09:53:16 UNRESOLVED – Yeah. **Thomas** (00:09:53:18 - 00:09:58:09): We don't care who you are. No, we just want that. We just want that juicy story, baby. **Chip** (00:09:58:09 - 00:10:06:07): That embarrassing, that crazy, that wild, that horrible vacation story that you came out the other side of. **Thomas** (00:10:06:09 - 00:10:20:06): Yeah. And or if you, want any advice if you're going through something, we're also here for that. But mostly we want to hear about your bad vacations. Yeah. So hit us with that. Chip, do you want to set up, the call in today? **Chip** (00:10:20:08 - 00:10:40:19): All right, so this one is, as the listener will hear, because we actually get the last time our, my friend, Graham had wrote in and he wrote in and he, he gave the great story about the crying game we learned all about with that twist reveal. And, the reveal this week is that my friend and very funny comedian Blake Wexler. Check him out on all of his socials. And antisocial Blake Wexler shared a story, via voicemail, that we're going to play in just a moment. And it is. It's one from his childhood, his tween years, those formative years. So, he's going to get in a little. He actually is not going to get in trouble. But maybe, cumulatively later on, he will get in trouble for this. So, here is the, here is the vacation disaster story from Blake. **Thomas** (00:11:13:02 - 00:11:26:11): Wexler, who had the freaking beans. Yeah, to call (310) 845-6038 and leave this beautiful voice message. All right? This is a trouble in Paradise, baby. Here we go. **Chip** (00:11:26:13 - 00:11:29:19): Here we go. **Thomas** (00:11:29:21 - 00:11:52:05): Hey, guys, it's Blake Wexler. So I was just visiting my parents, and we're going through some old photos at their place which remind me of this. This vacation story. So I must say, I think I was, like, 13 years old, and I was visiting the Virgin Islands, which were named after Chip. And they so I was going through these photos, and I remember, like, there was just a ton of photos of me taken on the beach, and I would never, ever. It just wasn't really a thing I would do to ask my parents to take photos of me, which. Okay, that right there is very real. There's no 13 year old boy that's like, let's get a bunch of photos in there. **Chip** (00:12:12:20 - 00:12:18:22): Yeah, just me and my trunks and as a as a tween on the beach. Ready to go. **Thomas** (00:12:18:23 - 00:12:28:23): Yeah, that's an awkward phase. Yes. You're not being like mom, turn the camera on me. Yeah, I'm here on the beach with my parents, so something's awry. Yes, yes. **Chip** (00:12:28:23 - 00:12:33:15): Yes, something is off in the islands of virgins. **Thomas** (00:12:33:17 - 00:12:34:09): Continuing. So I thought that was, like, very strange. And then I was looking at the photos and I realized that I had asked my parents to take so many pictures because we were on a nude beach, and which was like just I think there were just nude beaches there. I don't think my parents were planning on. This is the day our son becomes a man. 00:12:55:22 – 00:13:02:02 UNRESOLVED – I think they just wanted I think that was the only beach available, and you didn't have to be nude. I do have to say that. All right, so, I mean, it depends on your parenting style, but I think, like, that's, I mean, a horrifying revelation, probably. Right? That's, like, uncomfortable. **Chip** (00:13:15:21 - 00:13:18:13): What revelation? That you're on a nude beach or that. **Thomas** (00:13:18:13 - 00:13:20:09): You're just, like, brought your child to a. **Chip** (00:13:20:09 - 00:13:37:17): Nude beach? Oh, as a parent? Yeah, absolutely. But what if that was instead of the talk that, that's what, like, the boy becomes a man today, but, like. All right, son. Yeah. We're we're going to Disneyland. No we're not, we're going to a beach where everybody's gonna be naked. You're going to learn about those birds and those bees. **Thomas** (00:13:37:19 - 00:13:53:01): Yeah. Go out there, see what you see, and never bother me with it. No. Okay. I like that you're taking two completely different lands. You're setting him in a learning environment? Yeah. Without, spoon feeding it to him. **Chip** (00:13:53:04 - 00:14:14:10): Imagine being on a family vacation. A beautiful family vacation as a 13 year old to the Virgin Islands. Like you're excited, you're bragging to your friends about it, and it's just a ruse to sit you down and tell you about how sex works. And we're being, like, just ruining that fake. That vacation. Like, it's just like, that'd be like. Like that. Be like taking somebody to the Bahamas to tell them that grandma died, you know, like, it's. Just. It's not it's not fun. So, yeah, I, I would assume knowing Blake's parents, I would assume that this was sprung upon them. They were not. They were caught unawares as well. **Thomas** (00:14:31:11 - 00:14:34:12): But you kind of I don't know you here, Virgin Islands. **Chip** (00:14:34:12 - 00:14:35:04): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:14:35:06 - 00:14:43:19): That's in the, that's in the sexual, vocabulary. Right. You know, there's something going on in them islands. **Chip** (00:14:43:21 - 00:14:47:12): Yeah. As we've seen in the news. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:14:47:14 - 00:14:48:14): All right. Continuing. **Chip** (00:14:48:14 - 00:14:48:21): Okay. So my 13 year old boy trick was to be like, hey, will you please just take as many photos of me as possible this time? I guess I thought it was fun. Oh, it was with me. It naked people without their consent in the background. I don't even know if this is usable. I apologize if it's not, I was clothed. I do need to say that. Okay? This wasn't some long term entrapment scam where I would eventually call the police and, report my parents for having weird media. I'm really sorry. This may actually not be used, but I. It's fine with me. I would love for you to use it, but it's not okay, and I completely understand. Thank you for, like. **Thomas** (00:15:33:01 - 00:15:34:13): Wow, thank you for, like. **Chip** (00:15:34:15 - 00:15:49:13): This is, I mean, just just the scheming mind of a 13 year old Blake Wechsler just being like, I'm going to get some boobies in a picture. Mom, take a picture of me. I'm posing like Hulk Hogan. **Thomas** (00:15:49:15 - 00:15:50:04): Yeah. **Chip** (00:15:50:05 - 00:15:54:02): Make sure you get the foreground and the background. Get all the grounds. **Thomas** (00:15:54:04 - 00:15:55:02): Yeah, he. **Chip** (00:15:55:02 - 00:15:58:07): Should use this as his headshot. I think this should be his current. **Thomas** (00:15:58:07 - 00:15:58:23): Oh, yeah. **Chip** (00:15:58:23 - 00:16:10:14): Just like him. Like posing as a 13 year old with. Just like an Italian couple behind him. Just in, just letting it all hang out. **Thomas** (00:16:10:16 - 00:16:12:00): Natural, baby. Yeah. Like. **Chip** (00:16:12:06 - 00:16:13:20): Hey, mom. **Thomas** (00:16:13:22 - 00:16:19:05): Look, I didn't rub my sunscreen in all the way. Take it. Take 12 shots of me facing this way. **Chip** (00:16:19:06 - 00:16:21:21): Now. This way. Now, let's get the sun's angle over here. **Thomas** (00:16:21:23 - 00:16:25:22): Yeah, and unless your parents are legally blind, they know what you're doing. **Chip** (00:16:25:22 - 00:16:31:04): Oh, they he they are 100% nude. They're like, all right, let's indulge this a little pervert. **Thomas** (00:16:31:06 - 00:16:39:10): I know exactly the the verbiage. My family, what he used. It's like, do you really want a picture? Are you doing this to be silly? **Chip** (00:16:39:12 - 00:16:40:13): Oh, silly. **Thomas** (00:16:40:16 - 00:16:49:16): Silly. That's a silly. Was the term that of instead of having any conversation around those areas. Or are you being silly? **Chip** (00:16:49:18 - 00:17:00:06): I mean, what a great what a great Oregonian term to use be like. I went to the prom and then got silly in the back seat of that car, you know. 00:17:00:08 – 00:17:02:15 UNRESOLVED – Oh, wow. **Thomas** (00:17:02:17 - 00:17:08:12): What are all those gentlemen doing in a gentleman's club? Well, they're being as silly as silly gooses can be. **Chip** (00:17:08:12 - 00:17:15:01): They're being silly. Silly? I know you spent a short time in prison. How did that go? It was very silly. **Thomas** (00:17:15:03 - 00:17:19:14): A lot of it was scary. And, even scarier, a lot of it was silly. **Chip** (00:17:19:14 - 00:17:34:08): It was very silly. But, yeah, his parents did it. Or maybe they. Maybe they didn't. But it's just. Just that scheming. By the way, if that was today, if he was 13 years old, like today, he would currently have five gigs worth of selfies on his phone. Right? **Thomas** (00:17:34:10 - 00:17:37:05): Yeah. Well, actually, Chip, I've got an update. **Chip** (00:17:37:10 - 00:17:38:11): Oh. Do you. Okay. Go ahead. **Thomas** (00:17:38:12 - 00:17:49:19): Blake, thanks so much for sending in that story. That's unbelievable. I don't know exactly how old Blake is, but in the early 2000. **Chip** (00:17:50:01 - 00:17:52:17): Which I think this is where this would have happened, probably. **Thomas** (00:17:52:17 - 00:18:00:10): About, early 2000. They're phasing out. They're phasing out nude beaches in the Virgin Islands. **Chip** (00:18:00:12 - 00:18:04:09): Oh. So he he got kind of like the last gasp of it. **Thomas** (00:18:04:11 - 00:18:25:17): He got the last gasp of it. Like starting in the early 2000s, maybe even a little earlier than that, the late 1990s. Okay. There was a movement. It was never legal to be nude in the Virgin Islands. That was never. It was always against the law. They just look the other way on certain beaches. And as a matter of fact, the locals find it very offensive. Wow. Nude on their beaches. They don't like it. **Chip** (00:18:28:08 - 00:18:33:18): Well, I'll. I'll, by the way, I'll tell you who did not look the other way. Blake Wechsler. **Thomas** (00:18:33:20 - 00:18:35:02): Any 13 year old. **Chip** (00:18:35:02 - 00:18:38:01): And he's not looking way at all. **Thomas** (00:18:38:02 - 00:18:45:07): Did you see that? I think it was Saturday Night Live. It was a sketch about, like, the 13 year old consultant they had on the Game of Thrones. **Chip** (00:18:45:07 - 00:18:47:11): Yes. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:18:47:13 - 00:18:52:16): Just like. And maybe there'd be another dragon and some more boobies over here. **Chip** (00:18:52:18 - 00:19:08:08): By the way, Blake's seventh grade. What I did on my summer vacation collage must have been awesome that year. That must have been so. So he's like, he is Blake. Blake 13, was literally buzz from Home Alone. Like. That's who. That's who he is. **Thomas** (00:19:11:11 - 00:19:12:18): He had a tarantula. **Chip** (00:19:12:20 - 00:19:14:03): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:19:14:04 - 00:19:16:16): He had some, some sensitive pics. **Chip** (00:19:16:16 - 00:19:35:10): He he, I hope Blake at some point did that thing, like, when, like, like a girl will get a picture taken on the beach at sunset, and she does the thing where she, like, holds the sun up, you know? Yeah, but it's just boobs, you know, like, he's just, like, here, mom, look, I'm pretending to hold an award, you know? And it's just, you know, over this way. To the left. To the left. You got. You got to be right there. You got to be right next to me. Yeah. Be right next to me to make it look real. I just, I just, like, I imagine somebody though, like this, I guess is in a photo album somewhere. A number of these pictures. Because Blake found them. **Thomas** (00:19:53:21 - 00:19:54:11): Yeah. **Chip** (00:19:54:13 - 00:20:19:13): Imagine someone comes across this photo album years from now, like a tangential family member just somehow gets lost, and it's at a yard sale somewhere, and somebody's just flipping through and they're like, what is this? It's just like it's, oh my God, it's it's three dozen photos of a beach full of naked people in a husky 13 year old boy in space jam, swim trunks with an erection. This is an a. I need to turn this over to the authorities, I think. **Thomas** (00:20:22:11 - 00:20:25:09): Yeah, it's your chance. Do the dance at the Space Jam. **Chip** (00:20:25:09 - 00:20:45:20): That does remind me of a story. When I was, I was about seven, so I was about. I was about half of Blake's age at the time of seven years old. My parents and our friends down the street rented a house together in Wildwood, new Jersey. Class down in new Jersey. And we, we got this house, and it was like. He was like renting it. He was like subletting it from. It was like, what? A guy that, like, worked for him was like a young guy in his 20s, you know, a couple buddies had the place for the summer, I guess, and then they were going to be gone and then, like, rented it to us then for like the week or it was something like that. And we walk in. So you could just imagine, like just a couple twentysomething, probably college aged dudes had a house, they were gone. We get the house for the week. We walk in. I still remember this the first day we walk into the house and in the living room are two posters. One is of a Lamborghini and one is just of a woman with like a cut kind of, Flashdance cut sweatshirt with. **Thomas** (00:21:25:03 - 00:21:26:00): Just classic. **Chip** (00:21:26:01 - 00:21:48:18): One boob out. Just a boob hanging out. Just. That's the one. Just the one. And we just all had to pretend that it wasn't there the entire week. Like it was just hanging up in our vacation house for a week. But like, it was myself and my little brother and my, my friend and his older sister, who were all ages like 5 to 12. And we just all pretended like that, that X-rated photo was not there. **Thomas** (00:21:54:00 - 00:21:56:15): Oh, wow. What a decor choice. Yeah. **Chip** (00:21:56:15 - 00:22:07:01): By the way, I just realized, okay, I just realized something. I met Blake when he started doing stand up at age 15. **Thomas** (00:22:07:03 - 00:22:12:16): Oh, so he was two years off of this. This is this. This was just been a silly boy. He's been a silly boy. **Chip** (00:22:12:17 - 00:22:32:12): This is like. I'm picturing, like, Tiny Blake. This is like, 18 months before I met him. He's. He's still living off the fumes of this as he's starting stand up comedy. This is a. Oh, wow. This is a a just a destructive, devilish, devilish little 13 year old Blake Wechsler. **Thomas** (00:22:32:14 - 00:22:57:13): Yeah, that puts a whole new context on it. Another thing, another use for those photos, another way those photos might show up and I can't wait for it to happen, is, one of those ancestry TV shows, where, like, somebody shows like a celebrity or a C-list celebrity, right? There some family secrets they have revealed through DNA and research at Ancestry.com or whatever. And, just like it is the photo of your long lost grandma, the only one known in existence. And she's nude. Yes. And just little Blake Wechsler. It's just Doubleguns and the. And then they just keep going. Every photo they have of your grandma, your biological grandma is on a nude beach with some kid giving you, like, a WWE pose. Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's that's what I like. That's why. I think. **Chip** (00:23:30:10 - 00:23:43:01): That's grandma. Why is she naked, wiser, pasty kid doing the Stone Cold Stunner in front of her? Why is this happening? Why are you showing this to me? This is off. Please take. Please take that away. I don't want to look at this anymore. **Thomas** (00:23:43:03 - 00:23:48:03): Well, that's a young stand up comedian, Blake Wechsler. **Chip** (00:23:48:05 - 00:23:56:22): You know, it would have been great if, God forbid, and it didn't happen. But let's say 14 year old Blake Wechsler gets kidnaped. **Thomas** (00:23:57:00 - 00:23:57:06): His. **Chip** (00:23:57:06 - 00:24:21:04): Parents are frantic, and they're just like, we have we have to alert the police. We have to get it out there. And they just make hundreds of fliers. And there's just picture. It's just a picture of him on the beach with just three naked aunts behind him. You know, just, you know, ladies from Kentucky or whatever, just naked ladies, but just but like, they're so distraught and they just have to get here. This is the most recent photo we have of them. Get it out there. Let him be like missing boy. And it's like, oh, apparently the last time he was seen, he was in Paradise. **Thomas** (00:24:30:23 - 00:24:39:02): Dude, that's so funny. Like the idea of, like, a limited photos. Yeah, for a missing person photo. **Chip** (00:24:39:02 - 00:24:49:12): Yeah. Oh. This one? Yeah. This one is him on the toilet. This one is him with, three naked men from Portugal. We need to find him. We need to find Blake. Yeah. Here's the thing to like. I mean, not that it was. I guess it wasn't specifically a nude beach, because this weren't sanctioned, but, like, imagine having the camera out, like, I guess I guess people were on a nude beach. Probably wouldn't care too much if they're already naked on nude beach, but, like, I. **Thomas** (00:25:08:16 - 00:25:20:23): Think it's the opposite. I think it's the opposite. I think, there's like a I just reading about this for this segment, not because I, I enjoy, not not because that's my lane. **Chip** (00:25:20:23 - 00:25:23:03): You enjoy Naked City? Yeah. **Thomas** (00:25:23:08 - 00:25:26:10): The naked city, yeah. Is what I celebrate. Yeah. During the. **Chip** (00:25:26:10 - 00:25:28:12): Holidays. Yeah. You naked idiot scene. **Thomas** (00:25:28:12 - 00:25:57:22): But I guess socially, there's social norms. Like, if the culture is strong enough where a nude beach persists even though local authorities don't allow it. Yeah. Then that means that the social, culture is pretty strong. Okay. And in those nude beach scenarios, cameras are a no no. Okay. To the point where even like law enforcement, if they were around, would probably say, hey, knock it off or escort you out. If you were taking pictures of people without consent. **Chip** (00:26:01:02 - 00:26:02:13): Right. Snapchat snaps. **Thomas** (00:26:02:13 - 00:26:20:15): Yeah, I think in proper the United States, I think anything you do in public can kind of be captured on video, right? Unless you're in a space that you can reasonably expect privacy. But if you're just out in the open on public land, right. There's no such expectations. **Chip** (00:26:20:15 - 00:26:22:03): Blake's in the clear as what you're saying. **Thomas** (00:26:22:09 - 00:26:30:03): I think Blake's in the clear, but I think he also. It would have been very likely if people thought he was being silly. **Chip** (00:26:30:05 - 00:26:31:00): Yes. **Thomas** (00:26:31:02 - 00:26:46:18): From the culture, right from the, natural, community. Then he, he might have been asked to leave, maybe had a little social stigma, but, you know, they're nudists. They know what 13 year old boys do. He's just being silly, Chip. **Chip** (00:26:46:19 - 00:26:51:05): He's just being silly. Silly? Blake Wexler, he's. **Thomas** (00:26:51:11 - 00:26:52:10): He's. **Chip** (00:26:52:12 - 00:26:56:21): He's silly. His way into getting canceled in 2002. 00:26:56:23 – 00:26:58:10 UNRESOLVED – **Thomas** (00:26:58:12 - 00:27:03:18): Before, puberty fully set in, he was canceled. What? 00:27:03:20 – 00:27:04:21 UNRESOLVED – Ahead of his time, some might say. **Chip** (00:27:06:23 - 00:27:14:18): Yeah, I I think so, yeah. I mean, the guy was a trailblazer, **Thomas** (00:27:14:20 - 00:27:19:23): With Clyde Drexler and Terry Porter, Portland trailblazers. **Chip** (00:27:20:04 - 00:27:22:09): Really? Yeah. **Thomas** (00:27:22:11 - 00:27:28:14): All right, well, dude, that is, that's it for trouble in Paradise. Please hit us with your trouble in Paradise. These are a lot of fun. **Chip** (00:27:28:14 - 00:27:42:00): And thank you for Blake Wechsler, for for saying that. And thank you, Blake. And, Blake, next year, when you go on a family vacation to another new beach and you get your friends to take photos of you, send that story into us. We'd love to hear that. 00:27:42:02 – 00:27:42:11 UNRESOLVED – Yeah. **Thomas** (00:27:42:16 - 00:27:49:09): It's just like, after 4 or 5 years, it becomes hard to do the. Oh, shucks, we didn't mean to find a nude beach. **Chip** (00:27:49:09 - 00:27:59:17): Yeah, yeah, just a just a 35 year old man doing the Roger rabbit like. Mom, take a video of me real quick. I'm doing the Roger rabbit. **Thomas** (00:27:59:19 - 00:28:13:02): We were we had no idea what it was. We ended up at hedonism, too, with with the parents, and, Wow. Did we get some, just some photo book classics. **Chip** (00:28:13:04 - 00:28:20:22): And, like, mom is still just, like, begrudgingly, but, like, she wants to make a nice scrapbook, so she's begrudgingly pasting all these photos. **Thomas** (00:28:21:00 - 00:28:26:02): Just doilies. Doilies behind some ranch. **Chip** (00:28:26:03 - 00:28:41:16): Or she gets one of those. What's the, it's like Shutterfly, the Shutterfly book. Like you can get this book made where it's like a story book, like my mom will do one for like the year or for like, yeah, we go on a big family vacation. She'll get it. Like, just this is a storybook he can just share with his children someday. Like, look, this is, this is your son being silly at 13, you're. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:28:46:08 - 00:28:48:06): How's the quality on those Shutterfly bucks? **Chip** (00:28:48:11 - 00:28:49:23): They're pretty good, because. **Thomas** (00:28:49:23 - 00:28:54:21): I got a Walgreens photo book made for my wife for Mother's Day. **Chip** (00:28:55:01 - 00:28:56:14): Oh, I think you told me about this. **Thomas** (00:28:56:14 - 00:29:21:12): And it was an abomination. Some thing was such thumbs down. And, I mean, it was a very reasonable price. And they could make it in an hour, so I don't know what I expected. Yeah. But like I tried to order it four times and it kept like saying like it'll be ready in two days and then, I would show up and they'd be like, sorry, it's not. The machine's having some trouble. Right? And finally, I just had to send it to a different store. And that machine was having. So it was just look like a zebra. There was like, discolored, discolored lines going through it. Yeah. The front cover was printed on an angle and also blurry, of course. So let's just say that, like, what I thought would be the big sentimental hit, like, I spent, like, hours getting pictures, putting them into a layout. Yeah, I wanted this to be nice, of course. And then, when I finally saw it, because it took so long and I went through so many false starts, by the time I actually had it in my hands, it was like the day before Mother's Day. **Chip** (00:30:01:20 - 00:30:02:14): **Thomas** (00:30:02:16 - 00:30:10:19): And, I realized that my big sentimental portion of the gift, was, unusable. **Chip** (00:30:10:21 - 00:30:15:21): Yeah, I would go I think it was Shutterfly that my mom used and they, they make very nice books. **Thomas** (00:30:15:21 - 00:30:16:22): We might have to do one for. **Chip** (00:30:16:22 - 00:30:25:17): Hawaii I know. Right. Just a, just a nice bound copy. And if Blake, if you wouldn't mind, send us a few of those photos in. We'll include those with our Hawaii pics. **Thomas** (00:30:25:17 - 00:30:28:18): With tasteful black bars. **Chip** (00:30:28:19 - 00:30:29:03): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:30:29:05 - 00:30:33:18): We're not getting in trouble for smut again. You. No we're not. I ain't going back there. **Chip** (00:30:33:22 - 00:30:47:07): No we are. So Blake Wexler. Thank you Blake, make sure you check them out on all the social media is Blake Wexler. He's got specials out there, albums out there. Very funny guy. So. And, a very, I'll say it, a very silly guy. **Thomas** (00:30:47:07 - 00:31:01:08): I hope that's what carries around from here, because it does fit with his personality, his stage presence. Yes. This is a silly Billy. Yeah, he's in the funnest group, most grown up way. All right. From trouble in Paradise, from bad vacations to good books. **Chip** (00:31:07:10 - 00:31:09:00): Ship with a good book. **Thomas** (00:31:09:01 - 00:31:28:22): We are revisiting the good book, the Guinness Book of World Records. Just just finding the outliers. The people and groups of people and sometimes natural elements. Yes, that have pushed beyond anything ever done on this planet before. **Chip** (00:31:29:00 - 00:31:35:20): They're doing the work. These are the greatest specimens on planet Earth right now. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:31:36:00 - 00:31:46:12): Exactly. And we're celebrating each week chip and I pick one, share it with each other. And you chip this week. What is your Guinness World Record. **Chip** (00:31:46:18 - 00:32:02:09): I got, I got a Guinness World record for the ages. Thomas. Ooh. All right. Okay. This week this is the longest television segment directed while blindfolded. **Thomas** (00:32:02:11 - 00:32:09:05): Okay. So directing, directing a largely visual perfection. **Chip** (00:32:09:06 - 00:32:10:04): **Thomas** (00:32:10:06 - 00:32:19:12): I mean, we're listening to. But, All right. Yeah. Well, I'm gonna need a little more, context on this. **Chip** (00:32:19:18 - 00:32:39:06): So picture this. Thomas, you've worked in television. You've worked in television a lot more than I have, but we've worked there. But everybody has seen, like, the, I don't know if it's considered Video Village or the, the control room of where they're directing a, a major TV show. Not like a, like a sitcom. Like this would be like a, picture it. This was actually, we'll get into it, but this was a game show with a number of contestants, so like a like a big America's Got Talent, kind of that, that type of thing. Right? Yeah. And so it just picture this guy in a control room with like 12 different camera angles that he's looking at on the different monitors. And you, you see that guy in the booth, like with the with the mic on and the headset, he's like, all right, throw the camera three. All right. Rolling. Camera four, go to camera six, back to camera one. Wide angle on camera two. And he. So he's like calling those out. And then there's the guys that are you know putting making that happen. And then you can see the cuts of the show where it's like here's the wide camera angle. Here's the close up of this guy. Here's this. All right. Cut camera two. Camera six, camera whatever. So that's what he's doing. **Thomas** (00:33:24:21 - 00:33:26:01): Do you know if it's live? **Chip** (00:33:26:01 - 00:33:39:02): It feels like it is. Because if it seemed like it was, I mean, it seemed like it was because, like, why would he be doing that? Like, you can then take the time to go back and edit it. So I would I would assume. **Thomas** (00:33:39:04 - 00:33:56:14): Those shows they have, like they do have cuts that come out, they call the cameras if it's going live, that's live like sports or whatever, or a pageant sometimes is live those kind of things, but you just want to get it as close as you can on the day, but you give it to the editors, they still have all the footage. **Chip** (00:33:56:14 - 00:34:02:21): So it's just like mowing the lawn. You want to get as close to the edge as possible, so you don't have to spend that much time weed whacking. **Thomas** (00:34:02:21 - 00:34:07:00): That's what I'm talking about. You want to minimize your time whacking that? **Chip** (00:34:07:02 - 00:34:09:01): Unless you're being really silly like Blake Wexler. **Thomas** (00:34:09:01 - 00:34:12:22): Unless you're a silly Blake Wexler. Yeah. So. **Chip** (00:34:13:00 - 00:34:24:13): So this is the record. So picture. I think we've all seen that sort of situation. This happened on May 3rd, 2019. The good old days. Wow. **Thomas** (00:34:24:13 - 00:34:26:16): Yeah, yeah, this is this is pre-COVID. **Chip** (00:34:26:18 - 00:34:30:13): Pre-COVID in Italy. This happened in Rome. **Thomas** (00:34:30:15 - 00:34:37:11): Okay. So I imagine this is a smoky, control room. I would these guys are banging darts. **Chip** (00:34:37:11 - 00:34:38:11): Yep. **Thomas** (00:34:38:12 - 00:34:44:23): Calling cameras. And it's like, I don't even needed to see it. **Chip** (00:34:45:01 - 00:34:47:21): Suck it in that nick having some espresso. **Thomas** (00:34:47:23 - 00:34:49:18): Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So he's jittery. **Chip** (00:34:49:21 - 00:34:59:13): He's just blah blah blah blah, blah, blah blah. Oh and he looked jittery too, so on May 30th that's 19. Your boy Roberto Sensi I believe I'm saying that right. Sensi it from. **Thomas** (00:34:59:13 - 00:35:00:18): In no sense. **Chip** (00:35:00:20 - 00:35:23:21): By the way, looks like if. Okay, everybody close your eyes right now. If you're listening, you're watching. Unless you're driving, don't close your eyes. Button picture Italian television director Roberto Sensi right now. Picture him in your mind. Okay, good. He's exactly what you think of. He is this man in his 50s who is. He's kind of sweaty. He's got, sort of a big pop belly, and he's wearing a tight white button up shirt that is unbuttoned the exact amount of buttons down that you're expecting it to be. It's just wide open, showing that chest, er, he's got his headset on and he's wearing a black blindfold and it's the opening. What looks like the opening segment of the game show shall Darwin. 00:35:54:03 – 00:35:54:17 UNRESOLVED – Which. **Thomas** (00:35:55:06 - 00:35:57:20): So Chow Chow means hello, goodbye. **Chip** (00:35:57:20 - 00:36:17:05): Hello, goodbye. Yes. And, Darwin, you know. Of course. And apparently it's like I looked up the game show, and apparently it's this game show that almost. By the way, you said pageant, which is very interesting because all of its 100 contestants and they're all filing in as if it was like a beauty pageant. So very much that vibe. And it's and there's, there's also song and dance going on. It's the big opening number. There's audience shots, and all of these hundred people are walking in and apparently everybody's smoking. **Thomas** (00:36:26:13 - 00:36:29:16): Everybody. Everybody smoking cappuccinos. **Chip** (00:36:29:16 - 00:36:41:14): Yes. Yeah, they all have a lot gelati in their head. And they for three minutes and 36 seconds. That is the record. Three minutes. **Thomas** (00:36:41:16 - 00:36:43:02): 36 seconds. **Chip** (00:36:43:04 - 00:36:47:14): That is a long. That is a long, TV segment, by the way. **Thomas** (00:36:47:19 - 00:36:48:12): It is. **Chip** (00:36:48:14 - 00:37:06:14): This man is just, watching these people come in and so apparently the game show is it's very much like we have some of that I think are similar, like the floor and that type of thing. But it's 100 people, and apparently it's like two different groups of 50. And they fight doing like it's like trivia, silly games or whatever. And then they get eliminated one by one, kind of Darwin style until I guess one winner or whatever. But that is that his name is show, but so. **Thomas** (00:37:14:09 - 00:37:15:22): It's survival of the fittest, it's. **Chip** (00:37:15:22 - 00:37:52:20): Survival of the fittest, and but they're all coming into this big song and dance number, and there is video footage of this. You can watch Roberto Sensi. He is facing the camera. The person that's videoing him, he's got his back to all of like the 12 or so monitors. He is also blindfolded and you can hear the feed coming in the music and you can see all the pictures, and then in just in Italian, whatever these Italian numbers are, he's like camera one, camera six, four, seven, six, two. And then he would like, hold, you know, and then there'd be a certain song back to one, you know, but all and spit and he's just yelling this. And by the way, it looks pretty good from what I'm seeing you, because then you can kind of see the feed and it looks pretty good. But then I'm thinking to how precise does it have to be if you're just sort of it's this opening number and you're just showing different things, people walking in wide anxious like it might not be as tight as, like if you're doing a sitcom or, or something. Maybe when there's more action on the actual show rather than just the beginning. But he did this thing for three minutes, 36 seconds. It is. He is videotaped pointing this out, calling it out. And it is, it's it's pretty good. I think it's I think it's right. Although I will say. Oh, and he also, by the way, he is apparently a premiere director in Italy, premier television director. He also does the show and like this was like big news on like when I was reading this apparently is a big show I guess. I think it's called Low Show Day record in Italy, which I guess is a big show, which is also sort of like a talent show, but it is in cahoots. You ready for this? It's in cahoots with the Guinness Book of World Records. So he directs another TV show that where, like, people might set world records. So I bet they were like, hey, I bet you could set a record. So that's where it came from. But, **Thomas** (00:39:17:00 - 00:39:26:08): They're like, this guy phones it in so hard. Yeah, he doesn't even really look at the screens. I mean, we could we could get him to get a record on some other show. Right? **Chip** (00:39:26:14 - 00:39:29:07): What? What's Italian for shoehorn? Yeah. **Thomas** (00:39:29:07 - 00:39:35:18): Yeah. I mean, not like I can just imagine, like, afterwards. Just, What do you mean you're reducing my salary? Yes. Yeah. **Chip** (00:39:36:18 - 00:39:51:21): You're not. You're not doing that. Well, that's the thing to it. It just said it's the. It's the record for the longest television segment directed while blindfolded. It doesn't say it was directed well by blindfolded person. So it's not. Yeah. Anybody that's. **Thomas** (00:39:51:21 - 00:39:52:15): Subjective. **Chip** (00:39:52:20 - 00:40:14:15): I would, I would direct like an hour long TV show where I'm just blindfolded the whole time, like go to camera six, go to camera two. And it would just be ridiculous. But like, it would, it would just. But I get the record for like an hour. I think it would end up looking like Jamie Kennedy's 2013 first night bash. 00:40:14:17 – 00:40:15:22 UNRESOLVED – **Thomas** (00:40:15:23 - 00:40:17:12): You're unfamiliar. **Chip** (00:40:17:14 - 00:40:20:02): Oh, you haven't seen oh, Thomas. **Thomas** (00:40:20:04 - 00:40:21:06): First night bash. **Chip** (00:40:21:06 - 00:40:49:14): Today. I always thought it was a New Year's thing, but I think it was like a New Year's Eve. You know, like program, Rockin Eve kind of thing. But, yeah, I believe it's first night, so I guess I'm assuming it was like, you know, New Year's Day or whatever. They sometimes do a celebration, whatever. But Jamie Kennedy hosted and I believe, like, produced this television like live special that was, you know, coming live from LA. And I think it was like on a local Los Angeles station, but like, it's this party and now we go to like, Macy Gray was one of the musical guests in 2013. All these other things, you know, so it was basically like that. But it is one of the craziest, most amateur, like screwed up. These people are just cursing into it. There's like the wrong camera angles. There's basically a brawl and a spoiler alert. There's a brawl at the very end of it, but it's on YouTube. You can watch clips of it or you can watch it in its entirety. Please watch Jamie Kennedy's 2013. I think it's called First Night Bash. It is amazing. And, again, I believe Roberto Sensi could have done it better blindfolded, but like, that's what you don't do. Like, could you imagine doing that at your job though? That wasn't TV directing. You're just like, I don't know, I'm an accountant or I'm a, you know, like, oh, yeah, I'm just I'm a nurse. Like, hey guys, watch me. I'm going to go do this next one blindfolded. Like, yeah, don't do that. I'm going to do Mrs. Anderson's tax long form, with my eyes closed. They're like, no, that's unprofessional. Please, please don't do that. Although I will say this, Thomas, we do have you do a great job, Thomas. You do the the technical work, the editing, the creative genius behind this podcast. We have a couple of camera angles that we can have. We have your camera angle. My camera. Camera angle. There's kind of the wide split screen with the two of us. **Thomas** (00:42:20:13 - 00:42:21:05): Yep. **Chip** (00:42:21:07 - 00:42:31:10): What I would like to do right now, Thomas, this is the first. All right. I would like to attempt a world record. Okay. I don't think anybody's ever attempted this before. **Thomas** (00:42:31:12 - 00:42:31:22): Okay. **Chip** (00:42:32:03 - 00:42:43:14): I'm going to direct the longest videoed podcast segment while blindfolded. **Thomas** (00:42:43:15 - 00:42:56:16): Oh my God. Okay, I will tell you this. Yeah, or just a friendly, helpful hint. Yes. Camera one is me. Okay. Camera two is you. Okay? The split screen is three. Okay. **Chip** (00:42:56:18 - 00:43:07:19): All right. Here we go. I'm going to do this. I brought, I brought my little makeshift blindfold here, so I'm going to kind of make it right now. I think we might be making history. This is literally just an old t shirt. **Thomas** (00:43:07:21 - 00:43:08:23): Mamma mia. **Chip** (00:43:09:01 - 00:43:11:05): I'm going to blindfold myself. Okay? **Thomas** (00:43:11:05 - 00:43:11:23): Okay. **Chip** (00:43:12:01 - 00:43:24:00): Okay. And I'm just going to hold it here because. So I don't have to tie it because I got all my stuff. Now I just want to make sure I'm okay. I think I'm into the, my. Let me just make sure I'm right into the mic. Okay. Timmy Thomas. All right, all right, hold on just a second. And we're going to podcast, but I'm going to direct this podcast totally blindfolded. I cannot see. All right, here we go. You tell me when to go, Thomas. You tell me you want to start directing this podcast. Okay. **Thomas** (00:43:36:08 - 00:43:39:13): On the count of three. One, two, three. All right. **Chip** (00:43:39:13 - 00:43:41:16): Camera one, camera one. **Thomas** (00:43:41:18 - 00:43:42:15): Okay. **Chip** (00:43:42:16 - 00:43:44:03): Camera two. **Thomas** (00:43:44:05 - 00:43:44:21): Yep. **Chip** (00:43:44:22 - 00:43:50:20): Back to one. Yeah. Wide shot over three. Camera one. **Thomas** (00:43:50:22 - 00:43:52:08): Yep. **Chip** (00:43:52:10 - 00:43:53:14): Camera two. 00:43:53:16 – 00:43:54:11 UNRESOLVED – Picture of a goat. Camera one. **Thomas** (00:43:58:11 - 00:43:58:21): Yes. **Chip** (00:43:59:02 - 00:44:14:03): Picture of Blake Wexler okay. Camera three. Hold on. Camera three. Hold on. Camera three. On camera three put an inset of a bag of Skittles. Okay. Back to camera one. **Thomas** (00:44:14:04 - 00:44:15:02): Yep. **Chip** (00:44:15:03 - 00:44:18:12): Camera three. Camera one. **Thomas** (00:44:18:14 - 00:44:20:02): Yep. **Chip** (00:44:20:04 - 00:44:28:22): Picture of Maury Povich. Camera one. Camera three. And we're done. We're out. **Thomas** (00:44:29:00 - 00:44:33:15): Wow chip that was 50s. **Chip** (00:44:33:17 - 00:44:34:21): Wow. **Thomas** (00:44:34:23 - 00:44:43:15): 50s. Dude that was good. That was good. I think that's a step up from, the general know director ness that we have on this podcast. **Chip** (00:44:43:16 - 00:44:53:22): Hey, you know what they say, in the, in the land of the blindfolded, the, the no director is king. I believe that's how they say. **Thomas** (00:44:54:00 - 00:44:57:06): Yeah, yeah. So no director is king. **Chip** (00:44:57:07 - 00:45:18:03): So congratulations to Roberto Sensi. By the way, I will say this, before that, the last time an Italian director did his job blindfolded was in 1990 when Francis Ford Coppola directed Godfather three. Godfather three. That's it. Shots! **Thomas** (00:45:18:05 - 00:45:19:13): Shots fired! Francis. **Chip** (00:45:19:13 - 00:45:21:17): There we go. **Thomas** (00:45:21:19 - 00:45:24:00): Apocalypse. Then. **Chip** (00:45:24:02 - 00:45:24:15): Apocalypse. **Thomas** (00:45:24:15 - 00:45:30:21): Wow. Well, apocalypse. Wow. I can't see anything. Yeah. Through this blindfold. **Chip** (00:45:30:23 - 00:45:31:23): **Thomas** (00:45:32:01 - 00:45:32:22): Stupid. **Chip** (00:45:32:23 - 00:45:39:04): Thomas, what is what is your what is your Guinness record for this week? **Thomas** (00:45:39:04 - 00:45:40:06): It's very tropical. **Chip** (00:45:40:11 - 00:45:40:20): Good. **Thomas** (00:45:40:22 - 00:45:53:07): The world record for the most people snorkeling simultaneously. Whoa. Chip, you want you gear to guess how many people got together and snorkeled in the Indian Ocean? **Chip** (00:45:53:09 - 00:45:54:09): 200. **Thomas** (00:45:54:11 - 00:46:10:00): Chap. You're a third of the way there. Oh, on October 18th, 2025, exactly 623 people gathered in the Maldives submerged together to promote a high stakes ocean conservation initiative. **Chip** (00:46:10:02 - 00:46:11:02): Nice. **Thomas** (00:46:11:04 - 00:46:34:09): The crowd wasn't just tourists. It, also involved people from all the surrounding islands. Like 13 of them. Okay. And people that worked at different luxury resorts all to come together to, support this Unesco biosphere reserve. And I don't know what that means, a Unesco biosphere reserve, but I think it means it's important and it's endangered. **Chip** (00:46:34:11 - 00:46:42:20): I can tell you that one time when I was a kid, I had the video store reserve a copy of biodome. **Thomas** (00:46:42:22 - 00:46:45:23): Oh, maybe that's what this is. It's a Steven Baldwin initiative. **Chip** (00:46:45:23 - 00:46:47:12): Yes, I believe so. 00:46:47:14 – 00:46:48:07 UNRESOLVED – **Thomas** (00:46:48:16 - 00:46:52:11): And they were very worried about freeing mahi mahi, which also. **Chip** (00:46:52:13 - 00:46:53:04): **Thomas** (00:46:53:06 - 00:47:22:05): May have implications here. Okay. There was a specific no touch rule to make the world official. The Guinness rule said that participants could not just float. They had to be in full gear. Okay, masks, snorkel and fans. And nobody was allowed to touch the sea floor or a boat during the official counting period. Okay. And everybody had to be under at the same time for five minutes for it to count, with nobody coming up. **Chip** (00:47:22:07 - 00:47:26:04): Nobody coming up for air. So this is snorkeling. So this is not scuba, this is snorkeling. **Thomas** (00:47:26:06 - 00:47:32:19): It's not scuba. It's snorkeling. I'm much, a much easier apple to bite. **Chip** (00:47:32:21 - 00:47:33:18): Yeah it is. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:47:33:18 - 00:47:34:11): The snorkeling. **Chip** (00:47:34:11 - 00:47:58:09): Yeah. Without all those tanks, etc.. Yeah. So have you ever been snorkeling, chip? I mean, I've put a I've used a snorkel in a swimming pool before. That's. No, actually one time I did, and I again this is very this is not this is just step up from that. But there was a thing down when I was like 18, I was down in like Disney World or like one of the resorts down there and they it's like you could swim with the sharks. We're like, oh, okay. You swim across this pool and there's like little sharks below you and you, you basically just snorkel across that. That's that's as close as I've gotten. **Thomas** (00:48:05:20 - 00:48:07:06): How about you love snorkeling? **Chip** (00:48:07:06 - 00:48:08:02): Yeah, really? **Thomas** (00:48:08:02 - 00:48:18:11): It turned out to be like me and my wife's favorite hobby. Like, I really, really like getting on the water and and checking out what's going on. Underneath the ocean surface. **Chip** (00:48:18:11 - 00:48:21:11): Underneath it all. That's great. What's what's one of the coolest things you found? **Thomas** (00:48:21:11 - 00:48:48:03): Dead body. No. It's it's it's, you know, there's just actually, it's poipu. Poipu is like the southern tip of Kauai, okay? And just unbelievable snorkeling, man. Yeah. You see, just hundreds of different types of fish. It's, it's really wild. There's, like, long needle fish. There's, like, fish that aren't just like, colors. You'd think nothing in nature would be. Yeah, just like that. Neons and, the tropical, like, pinks and blues and yellows, and they're just, they're just chilling all around you, dude, they don't care. You're in their world. **Chip** (00:48:59:20 - 00:49:01:20): Oh, Tommy Cousteau over here, I love this. **Thomas** (00:49:01:20 - 00:49:16:03): Yeah, yeah. No, you just get out. And it's like, in poipu. It's like it's. Or you're literally just like, right off the beach. You could be in, like, you know, 4 or 5ft of water and there's just kind of these rock formations around. A lot of turtles come up on that beach to make sure you got a steer. Steer clear of them. **Chip** (00:49:17:03 - 00:49:18:13): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:49:18:15 - 00:49:28:18): When I was there, there was this big, like sea lion or seal one time that came, like, romping through the snorkeling area. And you got to stay clear of those. It's a wild animal. Madness. Bomb. Russia, baby. **Chip** (00:49:28:19 - 00:49:30:05): Of course. **Thomas** (00:49:30:07 - 00:49:34:03): But yeah, man, I love a nice warm water snorkel. **Chip** (00:49:34:03 - 00:49:40:01): Love it. And, you and 599 of your friends could. Yeah. Set the record again. Maybe. **Thomas** (00:49:40:02 - 00:49:48:03): Yeah. It's one of those things, like, we we've talked about records we could potentially set. Right. There was the hockey game that set the record for Hawaiian. **Chip** (00:49:48:05 - 00:49:49:01): Shirts. **Thomas** (00:49:49:03 - 00:50:03:02): In one spot. I think we could do that. There's something that feels slightly irresponsible about encouraging hundreds and hundreds of people to snorkel in the same environment. It just feels like it might not be good for the fish. **Chip** (00:50:03:08 - 00:50:03:19): **Thomas** (00:50:03:21 - 00:50:21:01): Somebody is going to be a knucklehead. Touch the coral. Not supposed to do that. Somebody might use, you know, not a mineral based sunscreen. Maybe they're out there in with the bad stuff on, it just, you know, it. I'm sure it can be done. Well, right. But it seems like it would be a lot harder to do safely. And, you know, that ocean is something I care about, buddy. **Chip** (00:50:23:23 - 00:50:24:19): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:50:24:21 - 00:50:52:02): Trying to keep it in check, so I applaud them. And apparently, the whole thing was to show that you can do this kind of stuff and support the environment. So, like, it seems like it would be, opposed. But like, the whole point of the thing was to be like, hey, listen, we can you can, like, have people out here enjoying this, but also respect and even help, preserve the, the ocean, ecosystem here. **Chip** (00:50:52:04 - 00:50:54:01): Good for them. Good for the Maldives. **Thomas** (00:50:54:01 - 00:50:57:18): I didn't know anything about the Maldives. They literally are just right below India. **Chip** (00:50:57:19 - 00:51:00:15): Just rapidly. India. Yeah. Like in the the northern Indian Ocean. **Thomas** (00:51:00:15 - 00:51:07:17): They're just the tropics. You you go around that circle and, there's just a lot of beautiful islands out there in the world. **Chip** (00:51:07:17 - 00:51:13:05): Better. And we're going to get some more, maybe do some comedy on some of those very remote islands still. **Thomas** (00:51:13:05 - 00:51:30:00): And I mean, we're we're not going to talk about the broader scope of what's going on in the world now, but let's just say we're still in a holding pattern. Yeah. On on what, tropical events we're going to be doing in 2026, just until things settle down a little bit, like flights start resuming at the where our. **Chip** (00:51:30:00 - 00:51:34:08): Caracas Comedy Festival just going to be pushed back a few months, I think. **Thomas** (00:51:34:09 - 00:51:45:02): Tough, tough stuff, but I'm very excited to get back out there when it's responsible and when it's safe. And, that'll be great. Well, man, I think that's all we have for today. Do you got anything else? **Chip** (00:51:45:03 - 00:51:58:18): This was, this was a fun one, man. I, I think I'm just going to, I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to go around looking for a nude beach to take some selfies. I think that's my, that's the plan for the rest of the day today. **Thomas** (00:51:58:20 - 00:52:02:23): I love it. I think, I think I'm going to be just as silly as you. **Chip** (00:52:03:00 - 00:52:03:15): **Thomas** (00:52:03:17 - 00:52:09:08): We're going to go get some, some, stimulating selfies. **Chip** (00:52:09:10 - 00:52:11:14): Stimulating some, some silly selfies, if you will. **Thomas** (00:52:11:14 - 00:52:16:07): Some silly, silly selfies. Don't send in your silly selfies. Yeah. **Chip** (00:52:16:08 - 00:52:18:22): Please do not. Let's keep it audio only. **Thomas** (00:52:19:00 - 00:52:38:23): We don't need that. But do please call (310) 845-6038 and leave us your trouble in Paradise stories on the voicemail there. This is the summer podcast. We talk about comedy, tropical travel. Until next time, stay burnt. Front desk. **Chip** (00:52:39:01 - 00:52:43:23): Hi, this is Mr. Chantry in room 308. Are there any rules about clothing in the swimming pool? **Thomas** (00:52:43:23 - 00:52:47:13): Well, sir, it is a family area, so bathing suits are required. **Chip** (00:52:47:14 - 00:52:52:10): Oh, that's no problem. What about eight people swimming around wearing full mascot outfits? **Thomas** (00:52:52:10 - 00:52:55:06): Just as long as you skim the pool after you're done. **Chip** (00:52:55:07 - 00:53:00:03): Oh, I plan on it. Mom, take a picture of me. I'm posing like Hulk Hogan.