SURVIVING THE 86FT WAVE: 8-Story World Record Breakdown | Sunburnt Podcast Ep. 47

**Chip** (00:00:00:01 - 00:00:02:06): It's just Waymo's with arms. When was the last. **Thomas** (00:00:02:06 - 00:00:04:06): Time you got your hands on a nice pinball. **Chip** (00:00:04:06 - 00:00:09:02): Machine? Dave Shay, very funny comedian. It literally blew up in his face. **Thomas** (00:00:09:04 - 00:00:13:06): Ding ding. Then he. **Chip** (00:00:13:08 - 00:00:41:00): So he puts the fire out. But the cops are still chasing him, obviously. And they're going in and out of rooms from the hallway, like Keystone cop style. Like he runs out of one room, they run into the other. You're kidding me. Right in the middle of that. This again. I'm just telling you. A very well-endowed woman in a bikini comes walking out of the kitchen carrying a multilayered birthday cake with candles and starts singing Happy Birthday. But then a guy in a gorilla outfit jumps out, knocks her back with the cake, goes all of her, goes all over the kids. Okay. He runs up to the roof. The cops run up to the roof. He jumps off and there's like 30 people just running up to the roof, and they all jump off the roof. Freeze frame. Thomas. Spoiler alert. That is how this season of the pit apparently ends. **Thomas** (00:01:10:21 - 00:01:15:03): Oh my gosh. And you, you have, like, firsthand knowledge of this. Yeah. **Chip** (00:01:15:05 - 00:01:17:06): The I know a guy who writes for it. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:01:17:08 - 00:01:35:08): Oh my God. Actually we started. Hey what up everybody? Hey everybody. It's the sunburnt podcast where we talk about comedy and tropical travel. To my right, as always, is my illustrious co-host. You know him from, his stand up special, you know, from Netflix. He is Philadelphia's own chip chantry. **Chip** (00:01:35:10 - 00:01:44:12): And over here to my left, he is Emmy Award winning producer writer. He puts the ding in happy ending. Mr. Thomas O'Brien. **Thomas** (00:01:44:15 - 00:01:48:04): Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding. I can turn, pretty much any back alley into a pinball machine. **Chip** (00:01:52:09 - 00:01:57:07): Chip, you really can't. It's all about the tilt, baby. It's all about the tilt. When was the last time. **Thomas** (00:01:57:07 - 00:01:59:15): You got your hands on a nice pinball machine? **Chip** (00:01:59:18 - 00:02:14:04): There is a pinball. I think they refer to it as Pinball Museum. It's basically just a large pinball hall in Asbury Park. Starting place of, Bruce Springsteen, the street band. I was up there. Yeah, I enjoy good. Good pinball machine. How about you? **Thomas** (00:02:14:04 - 00:02:16:07): If I had the time, Chip, it'd be nice. **Chip** (00:02:16:08 - 00:02:20:03): Do you ever have that kid who, like, had a pinball machine in his house? **Thomas** (00:02:20:04 - 00:02:21:17): No, I didn't have that kid. **Chip** (00:02:21:18 - 00:02:33:11): I didn't have that. I my but here's the thing, okay? I feel like I. So my little brother, very gregarious, very, he was just a scamp of a kid. **Thomas** (00:02:33:12 - 00:02:34:09): Well, his name is Greg. **Chip** (00:02:34:09 - 00:02:40:00): Yes. For for purposes of this. Exactly. And he's very he's areas. **Thomas** (00:02:40:02 - 00:02:41:03): Gregarious. **Chip** (00:02:41:05 - 00:02:56:16): He always had. I feel like not always, but like he would make these friends, like, from school and like, my mom would drop them off to, like, have, like a we didn't call them play dates back then, but they would just like, drop them off. And it would always be like rich kids houses. Oh. This is crazy. So again, we ran around. They had like pinball machines, this and that, and like, my dumb friends never had any of that. Like, yeah, it's like I just said, oh, all right, I guess we'll watch TV again. Nothing wrong with that. Oh, you have a VCR. Great. **Thomas** (00:03:09:01 - 00:03:15:00): Okay, my friends just let me feed their snake one of my mouses. It was a real bad deal. **Chip** (00:03:15:05 - 00:03:34:18): Yeah. That's. It doesn't work out. Well, I will say to date myself, I remember it was, I think, his eighth birthday. I had two friends in the neighborhood to the friends like that were my age in the neighborhood and the one turned eight years old, a month after I did, and his birthday party consisted of they they had a pool. **Thomas** (00:03:34:18 - 00:03:35:10): Not bad pool. **Chip** (00:03:35:10 - 00:04:08:00): Party, pizza. And then the dad, somehow I think he had back alley connections. He was the type of guy he was, but he had he rented, I believe it was two video arcade games to come to the house. Oh, that's that you could play without putting the quarters in. So it was like, I think it was like Pac-Man and Donkey Kong or whatever, but like, it was a it was like we just got to in his little dumb little like foyer or whatever, because the only place it could fit, we like got to play like full arcade video games. I mean, it was it was amazing. Yeah. But, never, you know, never a full time pinball, pinball owner there. **Thomas** (00:04:15:06 - 00:04:21:18): I can imagine the version that one of my friends would have owned. And it wasn't like Pinballs are real solid machines. **Chip** (00:04:21:18 - 00:04:24:04): There's a lot of real estate involved. It's a large. **Thomas** (00:04:24:04 - 00:04:35:02): Yeah, yeah, you got to have the space, but they're sturdy. They're well built, their tanks, and I think, at the at home version, unless you go super high end is going to be a little rickety. **Chip** (00:04:35:02 - 00:04:52:08): Yeah. It's like a, like a treadmill. You got it. You got to go height you. There's certain things that, like, you know, I'm, I'm not the richest man in the world. I try to be thrifty, but, like, yeah, if you're going to pay for something, it's. There are certain things where you just have to get the good version of it. And like a treadmill. Treadmill. Okay, here we go. I got it. Treadmill, pinball machine. Like hybrid tread. **Thomas** (00:05:02:08 - 00:05:03:01): Ball. **Chip** (00:05:03:03 - 00:05:16:13): Tread ball, tread ball show. Tread ball. You you run. Right. But that also powers the Dukes of Hazzard theme or Knight Rider pinball machine. **Thomas** (00:05:16:18 - 00:05:17:08): Yeah. **Chip** (00:05:17:10 - 00:05:22:13): And then you get to play pinball as you're running. It motivates you to play, to run. **Thomas** (00:05:22:15 - 00:05:27:00): Your gamifying cardio. Yes. I think this is a big business. **Chip** (00:05:27:00 - 00:05:37:05): For the first time ever, for the first time in history, I've gamified cardio. They never once before has anybody. Has anybody invented a game that involves running. **Thomas** (00:05:37:05 - 00:05:37:13): Yeah. **Chip** (00:05:37:19 - 00:05:38:18): Or jumping. **Thomas** (00:05:38:18 - 00:05:41:23): If you get turn running into a contest, everybody would do it. **Chip** (00:05:42:01 - 00:05:42:17): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:05:42:19 - 00:05:54:15): I'm gonna I'm going to not name names to spare, anybody embarrassment. But when I was a young gun chap, somebody we. Somebody we both have worked. For at, different times in our careers, who is much wealthier than both of us. Much higher up on the old totem pole. Of the entertainment industry, sold a young PA level. Thomas O'Brien a treadmill. **Chip** (00:06:15:03 - 00:06:15:22): **Thomas** (00:06:16:00 - 00:06:26:16): And I had to go to their mansion. Yeah, pick it up, bring it back to my apartment, and, it had no work. It did not work. Are you kidding me? I spent, like, 200 bucks. That I probably didn't have brought home a gigantic treadmill, and, they. I set it up, and it, you know, it would turn on, but when you stepped on it, the belt slipped. So what, you you just. All you could do is hurt yourself. I ended up having to pay somebody $30 to take it away. It was, $230 fiasco. **Chip** (00:06:55:20 - 00:06:57:02): Lemon of a treadmill. **Thomas** (00:06:57:02 - 00:07:06:08): Robbed me of a Saturday, and, I'm pretty sure he knew it was not in full working order. **Chip** (00:07:06:09 - 00:07:15:09): Wow. I okay not to put the blame on the young PA, but you should have done a couple, a couple of laps on that thing. That's what I would have done. **Thomas** (00:07:15:11 - 00:07:29:22): Yeah, you would have showed up at your boss's house and said I'd been, like, pitching you on this treadmill for two weeks and said, yeah, right. It's it's amazing. It's like, exactly what you need to get your runs knocked out before work. Yeah. You would have, you would have gone into. **Chip** (00:07:30:02 - 00:07:33:18): I would have taken it happily, just like you I had out let it just accumulate. **Thomas** (00:07:33:18 - 00:07:42:14): Dust. I had a hobo bindle on. I walk in his mansion and I was just like. I don't know, sir. Yeah. Could I run a couple kilometers on here? **Chip** (00:07:42:14 - 00:07:46:08): You get some bodyguard for that? For that barrel that you were wearing? **Thomas** (00:07:46:10 - 00:07:46:15): Yeah. Yeah. **Chip** (00:07:47:10 - 00:07:52:07): Dude, there are a lot of splinters when you run on a treadmill while wearing a barrel with suspenders. **Thomas** (00:07:52:08 - 00:07:59:19): Yeah, but I will tell you when the weight starts to come off and you're in that same barrel. Boy, can you see the results? **Chip** (00:07:59:19 - 00:08:01:16): The barrel feels roomier. **Thomas** (00:08:01:17 - 00:08:02:03): Yeah. **Chip** (00:08:02:04 - 00:08:02:23): Really does. Yeah. Can you believe this? Used to be. **Thomas** (00:08:05:18 - 00:08:07:02): My old barrel? Yeah. **Chip** (00:08:08:21 - 00:08:26:12): The belly was touching. What if he sold you? Okay, what if he sold you a. I mean, it wouldn't be any worse. Yeah, but what if he sold you a treadmill and he had it, like, delivered to your house, right? So you didn't have to. He's like, look, you give me the 200, I will have somebody bring in trash, and they will set it up for you. Right. And this is this is deal of a lifetime. And they do that. You're not there. It's your roommate at the time, is there? They set up and you walk in and instead of a treadmill, it's just one of those old exercise machines with the belts that, that vibrate. You know, they just wear that. It that would be I mean, I think actually, that would be actually a better scenario than what you were strapped into. **Thomas** (00:08:49:23 - 00:08:55:11): Yeah, no, that would be better. Same guy. Do you know who this person is? **Chip** (00:08:55:13 - 00:08:56:06): I have a guess. **Thomas** (00:08:56:06 - 00:09:19:11): Yeah. Guy. Okay. Same guy, hooked me up with one of his friends. Another dude, like, huge. This guy is like, a real big fish, like, sold his company. I mean, many, many millions, millions of dollars are publicly known that this guy has. Anyways, he was moving, and, the same guy sent me a picture of his couch in his living room. **Chip** (00:09:19:12 - 00:09:20:05): Okay. **Thomas** (00:09:20:06 - 00:09:24:19): And it was just like, did you want to. Do you want a couch? 700 bucks? **Chip** (00:09:24:21 - 00:09:25:10): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:09:25:12 - 00:09:44:05): And I was like, yeah, yeah, I want that couch. It looks sick. I knew who the guy was. I'm going to have like, this millionaire's couch. Like, that's awesome. It looks great. And I got there and I didn't ask any of the questions I should have. I didn't ask like, how big is it? Which was the big one? So I showed up with a normal size U-Haul, like a U-Haul that's supposed to be able to. 00:09:49:10 – 00:09:50:10 UNRESOLVED – Move. A one bedroom apartment by itself just to get a couch. And I show up at this guy's house and it's it's so gigantic, I can't really even put in words how sprawling this estate is. Right? So I pull in through the gate, which is already like, okay, this is pretty sick. Pulling through the guy's gate, he's not there. There's like just some people cleaning up the rest of the house, and the living room is empty, except for this couch that I'm supposed to pick up and get. And what I had no reference for in the photos was that this house was absolutely gigantic. Like the, you know, the ceilings were like 15ft tall. **Chip** (00:10:34:16 - 00:10:35:07): Right? **Thomas** (00:10:35:09 - 00:10:46:03): And just the way the perspective look, it looked like a normal size couch. This couch was 15ft long on one portion of the aisle. **Chip** (00:10:46:05 - 00:10:52:03): My guess is that that your small apartment is not going to hold this couch at all. **Thomas** (00:10:52:05 - 00:11:00:10): My apartment building went up the scout ship like I could not close. That was 50ft on one side of the aisle, like. And it was also like oversize. So like, if I leaned back on it. **Chip** (00:11:05:08 - 00:11:05:22): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:11:06:00 - 00:11:13:09): My head was still below the back of the couch. I thought it was a normal couch that came mid back based off of the photos. **Chip** (00:11:13:11 - 00:11:16:18): Yeah. So I show up to my apartment building. **Thomas** (00:11:16:20 - 00:11:21:11): I cannot get this thing in the lobby. No, I can't get it in the lobby. **Chip** (00:11:21:11 - 00:11:23:02): I'm surprised you got it in the U-Haul. **Thomas** (00:11:23:03 - 00:11:27:15): I didn't I couldn't close the door. I got it in there. And then I had to tie it, and there was like. Six footer for. The couch hanging out the back. **Chip** (00:11:30:08 - 00:11:34:01): And, so now I just have this couch. **Thomas** (00:11:34:03 - 00:11:41:17): And, it's like, right by the, what do they call the, building supervisor or a building manager? **Chip** (00:11:41:17 - 00:11:42:05): Yeah, yeah. **Thomas** (00:11:42:07 - 00:11:51:20): He's like, he has a little office where he, like, leases things and, like, does some work out of. And, there's just this huge couch, basically blocking the door to that room. **Chip** (00:11:51:22 - 00:11:52:11): Fire hazard. **Thomas** (00:11:52:16 - 00:12:08:22): Yeah, it's a fire hazard. He's a no, I it needs to get out of there quick. And, I can't take this couch back and, like, $700 was a lot of money to me at the time. That's like two weeks take home. Sure. Because, they don't pay you a lot of money when you hit the bottom. **Chip** (00:12:09:04 - 00:12:09:22): No, not. **Thomas** (00:12:09:22 - 00:12:19:08): That those jobs even exist anymore. I don't know if. I don't know if there are people in Hollywood running around. Yeah. Being overcharged for gigantic couches by their bosses anymore. **Chip** (00:12:19:12 - 00:12:22:03): It's just Waymo's with arms. That's all it is. **Thomas** (00:12:22:04 - 00:12:28:11): Yeah. Waymo arms out. They're way less employees. Waymo cars. **Chip** (00:12:28:14 - 00:12:30:12): So it's stuck in the lobby. **Thomas** (00:12:30:12 - 00:12:45:02): It's stuck in there. And basically I have to take an owl. It's on Runyon Canyon dude. Yeah Franklin and Fuller, right? Yeah. It was the best apartment building was super sick. I loved living there, but it can't take no 15ft l couch. **Chip** (00:12:45:03 - 00:12:46:01): No. **Thomas** (00:12:46:02 - 00:13:05:11): So, Yeah, I basically that that was another thing. I had to fire sale that he's like, you have 24 hours to get this out of here. I'm going to start like this. Right. New up went on old Craigslist and, I had somebody there within half an hour. And then they had to go get their own truck and haul it away for like, 500 bucks. I was probably out another 250 that day, probably out between the truck and the thing. **Chip** (00:13:12:18 - 00:13:18:15): And just the fact that you're going to what I would assume is a multi multi-millionaires house. **Thomas** (00:13:18:16 - 00:13:20:11): It was sick that it was like he. **Chip** (00:13:20:11 - 00:13:24:10): Just can't give you the couch. **Thomas** (00:13:24:12 - 00:13:32:01): Like, no, in the way. So the way that guy operated, I, I bet he did get given the couch. **Chip** (00:13:32:03 - 00:13:34:09): Oh and then the middle man hook. 00:13:34:14 – 00:13:35:03 UNRESOLVED – Yeah. **Thomas** (00:13:35:05 - 00:13:48:16): Nobody nobody ever got, a great deal from that. He was just like one of those people who just wakes up in the morning, takes a deep breath and is like, oh, did I just make $2,000? **Chip** (00:13:48:18 - 00:13:49:04): Yes. **Thomas** (00:13:49:07 - 00:13:55:05): Like they just they just have a knack for it. Do you feel like you have that killer money instinct, chip? **Chip** (00:13:55:07 - 00:14:05:22): Oh, I have a, I have a killer pain in my knee when I wake up in the morning. That's pretty much. It's as close as I get to that killer money making neck. **Thomas** (00:14:06:00 - 00:14:13:22): I just think of every decision I made, my first two years in town, and, like, it's just a Rube chip. **Chip** (00:14:13:23 - 00:14:21:12): It didn't help that you were just wearing a pair of overalls the entire time. Yeah, no shoes, just overalls. **Thomas** (00:14:21:16 - 00:14:22:23): There wasn't even a look. **Chip** (00:14:23:01 - 00:14:23:15): Now. **Thomas** (00:14:23:16 - 00:14:30:08): The thing I like about overalls is it goes over all of it. You know, you can wear it with anything. **Chip** (00:14:30:10 - 00:14:39:12): All of. Okay. Speaking of it, I know if I've told you this story before, you stop me if I have to. This is a, a famous story that happened at our fraternity house at my college. **Thomas** (00:14:39:14 - 00:14:43:11): I, I've heard very few famous fraternity house stories. **Chip** (00:14:43:13 - 00:15:06:18): Okay, so it happened like a year or two before I was there. So, like, I was I was not a part of this. But it gets passed down and like, this is I knew the people, some of the people up. So this one kid, one of one of like a guy in my fraternity who I had never met this guy before, but he wasn't a drinker, didn't really drink much, which, you know, he's in a fraternity, but, you know, he's just there for the camaraderie. Thomas. Yeah. And apparently he. So he turned 21 when he's in college, and his mother apparently sent his roommates. There was, like, four guys who lived in this, like, two rooms together, basically. Yeah. And sent them, like, 150 bucks, which back then a lot of money. It was like, take them out, show them a good time for my first birthday. Yeah. So they take him out and they used to do I luckily can do this because my, my, my birthday's in the summer, but we would do like if somebody's birthday you would do 21 shots for 21 birthdays. It's just like it's just an excuse to go to the hospital like that. Yeah, that is right. **Thomas** (00:15:43:05 - 00:15:48:01): I'm trying to think like eight. That's doable. 21 shots. People can do 21 shots. **Chip** (00:15:48:03 - 00:16:05:06): I've seen it done. But like you're not conscious by the end of it. Like it's just there's no reason for. And I'm so glad that I did not experience that myself because it's just not everybody did it. But like a decent amount of people, like it is 21st birthday, we're going for 21 shots and everybody would buy you a shot and you would do two. That's it's a lot. **Thomas** (00:16:07:04 - 00:16:10:05): If you were going to do 21 shots, what alcohol would it be? **Chip** (00:16:10:07 - 00:16:13:08): I mean the worst part is it would be a mix. **Thomas** (00:16:13:08 - 00:16:14:21): No you can't do a mix. **Chip** (00:16:14:23 - 00:16:31:23): It that that's the worst. But like people buy here's a shot of Jagermeister. Here's a shot of Jack Daniels. Here's like a fun, you know, here's a kamikaze shot or like a fun little whatever. So it would be a mix. I mean, that's the most I think I would do. Are you asking, like, hypothetically, what I would do? **Thomas** (00:16:32:01 - 00:16:35:19): Yeah. **Chip** (00:16:35:21 - 00:16:39:22): I mean, this isn't good, but, like. I get maybe tequila. Yeah. Like I because, like, like a, like a white tequila. Because, like, my go to drinks when I'm not doing 21 shots is maybe like some sort of tequila, based drink. **Thomas** (00:16:52:22 - 00:16:53:05): Yeah. **Chip** (00:16:53:05 - 00:17:03:02): Or a whiskey based drink. I know I sound like number one, but right now. But, like. Yeah, yeah. Whiskey or, or or tequila, probably. How about you? **Thomas** (00:17:03:04 - 00:17:23:12): I we're in the same category. Probably tequila or like you know, I guess if you can pick any shot. I haven't had a ton of them, but they do have some, like, you know, novelty shots, like a slippery nip, a buttery nipple, and oozing nipple. Right? Yeah. It's a lot of aerial content. **Chip** (00:17:23:14 - 00:17:32:04): Yes. Right. And you make. Because then that's half just just half sugar and half whatever. Yeah. I do have a friend who, And again, not to name names, but he was apparently I had heard the story second hand because it was like a friend of mine. And then he became friends with other guys. He went to, like, school, and I think it was like, you know, he went to grad school or whatever, and they're hanging out with these dudes and they're like, it's like a bro situation, kind of. It's not the bro. **Thomas** (00:17:50:15 - 00:17:52:02): This guy bro in the town. **Chip** (00:17:52:04 - 00:17:53:22): And he wasn't a big drinker either. **Thomas** (00:17:54:00 - 00:17:54:16): Okay. **Chip** (00:17:54:18 - 00:18:04:23): So they're like, we're doing shots. Were two shots. What he do and somebody were doing Yeager shots. Yeager shots I'm doing whiskey whatever. It's like, what are you doing? And he goes, Alva, purple hooter. And it didn't go over well. It did not go over well. Yeah, I. **Thomas** (00:18:11:02 - 00:18:14:06): Know a drink. I know a drink. I'll say the drink. I know I'll take. What, the purple hooter. Yeah, I, I, I didn't start drinking until very late. I was, post-college when I had my first alcoholic. Really? **Chip** (00:18:26:11 - 00:18:28:12): I didn't how did I not know this about you? **Thomas** (00:18:28:18 - 00:18:30:07): Because you didn't know me when I was 23. **Chip** (00:18:30:11 - 00:18:35:23): Well, yeah, but, you know, you think so? Wait, so you went all through college? You were not a you're not a drinker. **Thomas** (00:18:36:01 - 00:18:36:12): Not a drink. **Chip** (00:18:36:15 - 00:18:54:22): Well, let me ask you this. What did. Okay. Because I will say this. I did not become a drinker until college, like my second night of college. Had my first beer, second at college, and then, like for a couple of months, I would have, like two beers or something like that, but like, never got. The first time I got drunk was like second semester, freshman year. And then it was kind of all downhill from there. Like it was just a lot of drinking. I look back on my college days and not that I didn't have fun, and I certainly didn't have fun doing what I did. But like, I remember there were times where it's like, well, everybody's drinking tonight. I have to drink again for the fifth night in a row. Yeah. And I'm just like, you know, let me get off this ride for a little bit. And, I think I would have, I think I would have done other things and have been more productive and maybe even gotten into comedy a little bit more. Whatever. Not drinking rather than just hanging out. What did you it describe your life, your weekend at a college when you're not drinking? **Thomas** (00:19:32:23 - 00:19:36:01): Well, I just like didn't have any money. **Chip** (00:19:36:03 - 00:19:36:23): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:19:37:01 - 00:19:53:17): So it was like it was a real nice tapestry of, like, I was just busy all the time. I had, like, three jobs, and, I had to keep, like, I had to keep, like, a 3.8 GPA to keep, like, my scholarships and stuff. So it was. **Chip** (00:19:53:17 - 00:19:55:14): Like, yep, I feel yeah, I was there just. **Thomas** (00:19:55:16 - 00:20:00:21): There was not a there was not a ton of like time if I wanted to, to like be checked out. **Chip** (00:20:00:23 - 00:20:04:09): Yeah. Yeah. No, that's that's good for you man. Because yeah I. **Thomas** (00:20:04:11 - 00:20:22:22): I probably would've rather had fun, but like, you know, it also like, I think, I think a lot of people I had like a hard time with college and I was like, it was a little bit on easy mode, the academic part for me, because I was like, you know, it was just schedule. The schedule was hard coded. I didn't have a lot of choice. Like, I, I woke up, a couple of my jobs were work study so I could study while I was working at the old science library. **Chip** (00:20:31:05 - 00:20:32:08): Always. Always good. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:20:32:08 - 00:20:51:09): Rushing at the science library, in the morning, I worked at a TV station where I would show up at, like, 4 a.m., and I would like, there was all these satellites, and I would hit record on the program. So we're going to be airing that night as they get the feeds came in. Yeah. And then I would keep like two different local TV stations running in the morning. That's right. And then at night I went to the old Olive garden buddy. **Chip** (00:20:56:23 - 00:21:00:03): Look at you. It was. It was quite. **Thomas** (00:21:00:05 - 00:21:01:00): A time to be. **Chip** (00:21:01:00 - 00:21:02:23): Alive slinging those sticks of bread. **Thomas** (00:21:03:01 - 00:21:20:03): Yep. Sling those sticks of bread. So, Yeah. Yeah. I didn't have a ton of time for comedy or boozing it up, but. But boy, did I make up for it later. But, I mean, this this is the tangent episode. Chip, I don't think we've talked about anything we meant to talk about. No, we keep going. But all that to say, I was the first time I drank was at a work function. And like, my first grown up job out of college, and it wasn't even, like, early on. **Chip** (00:21:32:03 - 00:21:32:13): Yeah, it. **Thomas** (00:21:32:13 - 00:21:45:11): It, it was a with a sales team. And we had like this big kind of like year end meeting or whatever where everybody got awards and rah rah rah rah and I won highest gross profit. Yep. **Chip** (00:21:45:13 - 00:21:47:01): Good for you. Congrats. **Thomas** (00:21:47:04 - 00:21:51:13): I know, I know, the and the sales world, that's where you get you're not. **Chip** (00:21:51:15 - 00:21:55:14): Because you weren't a degenerate booze out. You were out there pounding the pavement. **Thomas** (00:21:55:17 - 00:22:16:04): Yeah. So I was at that. And, some of my coworkers were just like, you serious? Seriously. Never drank before. I was like, yeah. And my buddy, who was a good dude, good dude, former military guy, loved this dude. He was looking out for me. He's like. He's like, I think I think people who are having their first drink, it's normally this. He got me a Malibu and Coke chip. Oh, a Malibu Coke. So I ended up having a rum. **Chip** (00:22:22:16 - 00:22:23:09): And Coke. **Thomas** (00:22:23:11 - 00:22:27:23): Two Malibu, but like a Coke and at very low alcohol. **Chip** (00:22:27:23 - 00:22:29:06): Like. Yes, it. **Thomas** (00:22:29:06 - 00:22:47:22): Is a, you know, traditionally, a younger lady's beverage of choice. Sure. If it's going to be something. And that's all I, I didn't, like go all in or anything. It's just like, you know, every once in a while, if I was going out some friends, I'd have a cocktail or two, Malibu, a Coke. And then I went to New York. Big New York trip when I was, towards the end of being 24 and, met some people. We were at this cool bar. This girl's like, what are you drinking? And I said, Malibu and Coke and she said, that's not going to work. **Chip** (00:23:05:04 - 00:23:05:10): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:23:05:10 - 00:23:06:19): And I was like, okay. **Chip** (00:23:06:19 - 00:23:07:13): She said, yeah, right. **Thomas** (00:23:07:19 - 00:23:13:04): Yeah. And then she was like, your drink is whiskey and seven up. **Chip** (00:23:13:05 - 00:23:14:05): Seven and seven. **Thomas** (00:23:14:07 - 00:23:18:14): That a seven and seven. And that became like became what I rolled with for like two years. **Chip** (00:23:18:16 - 00:23:21:20): That I'm a 7 or 7 guy myself. Like 7 or 7. **Thomas** (00:23:21:22 - 00:23:25:15): This New Year's Eve, somebody asked me what I wanted to drink. I was like, oh, I have a 7 to 7. **Chip** (00:23:25:17 - 00:23:31:15): It's a, it's a, it's a perfect it's a perfect drink. It's it's sort of classy. I think anybody can drink it. **Thomas** (00:23:31:17 - 00:23:33:05): There's no stigma one way or the other. **Chip** (00:23:33:05 - 00:23:50:14): It's old school. Yeah. It's an old school drink. 7 or 7. It might be the perfect drink. I do love a like a whiskey ginger ale. Like to give it that little extra thing, but a 7 to 7 man Thomas that. I mean, I'm a mighty guy now because I love my my taste, but love my time. That's a special occasion. Drink to a certain. **Thomas** (00:23:52:17 - 00:24:03:14): It's also such a hassle. Drink like if you're if you're at somebody if somebody, if you go to somebody's house and they're like, you want something to drink, I can. And you're like, yeah, I'll take a bite. I they'll punch you in the face. **Chip** (00:24:03:20 - 00:24:23:14): Yeah, you'll, you will get a, my right in your tie and you don't need that. But a 7 to 7 boom bing bing bang bang. And I feel like a, it's the okay, I'm going to say seven and seven. The functional alcoholic drink. Do you do any like I think that should just be their, their slogan because it's like, yeah, I can do this. And I can also, operate some heavy machinery that I probably shouldn't. And that's okay. **Thomas** (00:24:28:20 - 00:24:31:00): Yeah. That's okay. **Chip** (00:24:31:02 - 00:24:37:09): Speaking of. Okay, Thomas, should we, should we get started with this more than okay episode? **Thomas** (00:24:37:11 - 00:24:57:06): I think we should get started more than okay episode. Oh. It's chock full chip. I'm gonna keep it just to the minimum here. We have a call in. We have another call that's coming up. Very funny comedian Dave Shea giving us a scenario, and we're going to let him know at the end of that if he deserves a vacation or not. How fun is that? **Chip** (00:24:58:07 - 00:25:19:10): A lot of fun, by the way. Feel free to call in for us as well. If you have a an embarrassing or harrowing vacation story that you would like to share with the podcast, or maybe it's just an embarrassing situation that you were in where you want us to decide if you should deserve a vacation, to get away from that situation. Or hey, maybe it's just advice and we'll tell you to go on vacation or we'll we'll give you some actual advice. Thomas, hit him with that number one more time. **Thomas** (00:25:26:20 - 00:25:40:20): It's (310) 845-6038. The phone lines are open. It is a voicemail box. And by leaving a message there, you're letting us do whatever we want with this voice message. We have to say that for we. **Chip** (00:25:40:21 - 00:25:41:16): Do. **Thomas** (00:25:41:18 - 00:25:47:03): All kinds of reasons. So we're doing that. We've got, we're getting a good book. Yep. **Chip** (00:25:47:05 - 00:25:49:20): I got a great, good book. One this. **Thomas** (00:25:49:20 - 00:25:50:19): Time. I think mine is. 00:25:50:19 – 00:25:52:04 UNRESOLVED – Pretty spicy too. **Chip** (00:25:52:07 - 00:25:54:12): Okay. Spicy meatball. **Thomas** (00:25:54:14 - 00:26:08:21): And I feel like for algorithmic reasons, I have to mention, Hilary Duff just had her first concert she did in almost two decades last night. Good for her in London. And, by all accounts, it really, really well congratulations, Hilary. **Chip** (00:26:09:03 - 00:26:10:09): HD. **Thomas** (00:26:10:11 - 00:26:13:17): And listen up algorithm. We're talking about what's trending. You know what I'm saying? **Chip** (00:26:13:23 - 00:26:14:13): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:26:14:15 - 00:26:18:01): We're on the fun side of trending of send us to the moon. **Chip** (00:26:18:02 - 00:26:19:18): We're duff heads, baby. 00:26:19:20 – 00:26:20:08 UNRESOLVED – We're. **Thomas** (00:26:20:10 - 00:26:21:08): We are duff heads. **Chip** (00:26:21:08 - 00:26:43:08): I don't know who she is. I'll be honest with you. Like, I know the name. I can picture somebody, but it's like, kind of like it's that post. Like I knew who Britney Spears was. I knew who Christina Aguilera was, right? And then a couple years after that, there was I just feel like a a sort of flock of, like, blond actresses that were young singers, actors. A lot of them had to do with the Disney Channel. I think. **Thomas** (00:26:46:21 - 00:26:47:16): Yeah. **Chip** (00:26:47:18 - 00:26:53:06): So then and like that is kind of that era of where it's like it all becomes a blur to me. **Thomas** (00:26:53:08 - 00:27:05:05): I appreciate your candor. I appreciate your willingness to talk about, not being hyper aware of famous young women. I will say, though, for Hilary Duff, especially because we are duff. **Chip** (00:27:05:05 - 00:27:06:09): Heads, big duff heads here. **Thomas** (00:27:06:12 - 00:27:14:18): Her big sister, I don't remember her name, but was the girl that Napoleon Dynamite liked and. **Chip** (00:27:14:20 - 00:27:16:02): Yeah, okay, I thought that. **Thomas** (00:27:16:05 - 00:27:16:13): That was. **Chip** (00:27:16:13 - 00:27:24:13): Touchstone. Yes, that's the touchstone for me. I, I learned that, and I couldn't have told you that. I'm going to say Hayley Duff. **Thomas** (00:27:24:15 - 00:27:25:10): Is that. Yeah. **Chip** (00:27:25:12 - 00:27:33:19): Let's just get Hayley Duff. I think it might be, but yes, I do remember that. It's like, oh, she is like sort of a name because she is sisters with another famous. **Thomas** (00:27:33:21 - 00:27:43:13): You know, actor performer. Yes. It might be like, I don't know why it's ringing. I think I think Duff might be a stage name. I think her name actually might be Hayley's comment. **Chip** (00:27:43:13 - 00:27:50:20): I think that's what it is. By the way, speaking of speaking of Halley's Comet, I went to see Napoleon Dynamite in the theater. **Thomas** (00:27:50:20 - 00:27:51:16): Hell yeah. **Chip** (00:27:51:18 - 00:27:55:00): It was me and the purple hooter guy. **Thomas** (00:27:55:02 - 00:27:58:18): Did you think he had a hooter or two? I think for the show. **Chip** (00:27:58:19 - 00:28:14:20): And I too, it was me and the purple hooter guy. And, like, six other people in the entire theater. Okay, he and I laughed our asses off the entire, like, just the entire movie. Just loved it. Laughed it. Everyone else. Stone faced the entire movie. **Thomas** (00:28:14:20 - 00:28:21:22): Yeah. That's it was either for you or it wasn't. And, was was Paul Chantry your father just standing there being like. It's not that funny, guys. **Chip** (00:28:21:22 - 00:28:23:15): It's just funny guy. Don't do not. Do not do not. It's. Why are you doing this? **Thomas** (00:28:27:14 - 00:28:34:02): Lamas don't eat ham. Chip, this isn't funny. All right. This is the sunbird podcast where. We talk about. Jollity and tropical travel and. Whatever we've been doing here, we've been having fun. If you think those two things should go together, if you like that combination, Stay tuned. Front desk. **Chip** (00:28:50:11 - 00:28:58:14): Hi, this is Mr. Chantry in room 308. I need some clarification. Isn't it the person who booked the room that gets to sleep on the top bunk? We don't. **Thomas** (00:28:58:16 - 00:28:59:19): Have bunk beds. **Chip** (00:28:59:19 - 00:29:14:05): Here. Oh, but hold on. Wait a minute. Hey, this is our hotel. This is. This is not our hotel. I'm sorry. We're in an Ikea right now. Jeff. Oh, why do you always do that to me? Thomas. Bill. Ticker. You're going to get it one of these days. **Thomas** (00:29:14:07 - 00:29:18:12): I hope not. Don't say that. We're too. We're too close to the heart problem agents. **Chip** (00:29:18:12 - 00:29:26:11): We are, we are. But that's, we're we're both 28 years young, and, we're going to be 30 soon, so I don't want to think about it. **Thomas** (00:29:26:13 - 00:29:31:10): Oh, you only get so many seven and sevens before the old ticker stops unbeaten. **Chip** (00:29:31:11 - 00:29:38:13): It really does speak. Speaking to seven and sevens. You know what we need to do? We need to get a shot. Shot of sunblock right here. **Thomas** (00:29:38:13 - 00:29:44:10): By here? Yeah. Slather it all out there, buddy. It becomes even more important in the winter months, Chip. **Chip** (00:29:44:12 - 00:30:07:01): It really does. It's, by the way, this, it is it is a hot 18 degrees right now in Philadelphia. And, I am I'm making sure I don't get sunburned. It is, it's freezing out. Even my dog is like, screw this. Like, usually he's he doesn't care. We put him in a little sweater, and he just he loves the cold weather. And today he was like, no, we went around the block and he's like, we usually go for a nice, a good solid half hour, 45 minute walk in the morning. And it was about 12 minutes. We were out there. That's that's all he could take. And I was I was happy for it because he's a good boy now. **Thomas** (00:30:22:22 - 00:30:27:10): He is a good boy. Shout out Franklin. Dude, this weekend. **Chip** (00:30:27:10 - 00:30:28:21): Was. **Thomas** (00:30:28:23 - 00:30:34:22): I mean, it was my first beach trip of 2026. Very nice weekend. **Chip** (00:30:35:00 - 00:30:43:08): Okay, so I'm I'm sitting here, I was literally shoveling snow and scraping ice off my car. You went to the beach? **Thomas** (00:30:43:13 - 00:30:54:15): Yeah. So, like, Southern California does have its advantages. Jet. Yes. It's, But, yeah, it was beautiful on Sunday, so we just loaded up the baby, headed down to Manhattan Beach. **Chip** (00:30:54:17 - 00:30:56:14): Yeah. Did you the water at all? **Thomas** (00:30:56:16 - 00:30:58:04): No, no, no. The what? I mean. **Chip** (00:30:58:06 - 00:30:59:03): That's too cold, right? **Thomas** (00:30:59:03 - 00:31:17:17): I, I don't go in the water. Really? In California, even in, in the summer anymore. I used to, but it's like I got the kid now. It's like it takes some getting used to it. It's cold all the time, at least compared to some of the the locations we've been able to dip our. **Chip** (00:31:17:19 - 00:31:20:03): So we've done our floating. Yep. **Thomas** (00:31:20:05 - 00:31:30:03): Yeah. I used to kind of you can't really forget what that feels like. And then going to a much, a much chillier, and, you know, in a lot of ways a much more feces filled body water. **Chip** (00:31:30:05 - 00:31:37:03): Yeah. It's true. That is true. The it's, that is, that's a matter of fecal that we, that we have to deal with. **Thomas** (00:31:37:03 - 00:31:56:22): I don't care to deal with it. I don't care to deal with it. And I also don't care to look into it. But, I've heard some pretty horrific things about, like, what can happen to, you know, local surfers who spend a lot of time, splashing around in that chop. There can be, some, some health deterrents going on there. Let's. But health deterrence wasn't a problem I had this week. Chip. Breaking news here from the world of sports. **Chip** (00:32:04:08 - 00:32:05:12): Did it did it did did. **Thomas** (00:32:05:18 - 00:32:12:06): The pickle boys. My pickleball crew won the championship. **Chip** (00:32:12:10 - 00:32:13:06): What? **Thomas** (00:32:13:08 - 00:32:35:05): Yeah, yeah. After league play in the, West Side Pickleball League. After league play, we had risen to high enough in the bracket that we made the top four. And, last Thursday night, we went down to, Pickle Pop. Pickle pop in Santa Monica. Is. **Chip** (00:32:35:05 - 00:32:36:05): It literally called Pickle Pop? **Thomas** (00:32:36:09 - 00:32:41:06): I think that's the store. There's a store connected to some courts. I don't know if there actually is. **Chip** (00:32:41:06 - 00:32:42:05): It indoor or outdoor? Outdoor. Outdoor, outdoor. **Thomas** (00:32:44:09 - 00:33:07:20): Yeah. The weather cooperated the week before. Was bitter cold chip bitter cold for a normal league play. But there was a tournament, for the top for our one, you know, seeds. We were the second seed. I believe we play the third ranked team won. And then we went on to play the first ranked team. Took took down the house, but it was a real smashing. And it ended up having the visual impact of four men in their 40s who were taking it very seriously, playing against two women who I'm guessing were in their early 20s, who largely showed up for social reasons and to have some fun. And, we. **Chip** (00:33:25:14 - 00:33:32:21): Maybe they maybe they thought it was going to be like, a single thing. Hey, I'll meet a guy. Instead, they met four middle aged men. **Thomas** (00:33:32:21 - 00:33:39:23): They met four married men who did not want to be friends, who all needed to get back to their kids. And just like, this is all we got. **Chip** (00:33:40:01 - 00:33:44:03): This is all we know. That might be the worst case scenario for them. Yeah. So like. 00:33:44:04 – 00:33:44:10 UNRESOLVED – This. **Thomas** (00:33:44:10 - 00:33:45:14): We really wanted it. **Chip** (00:33:45:16 - 00:34:01:01): As much as I want to give you kudos and congratulations for your well-earned victory. Yeah, this is not your story to be told. It is these two young ladies of what they had to go through. So okay, first of all, now let me ask you this. Pickleball. There's two of them. There's four of you. **Thomas** (00:34:01:04 - 00:34:01:14): Yeah. **Chip** (00:34:01:14 - 00:34:03:20): Are you rotating in or out? Is that what's happening? **Thomas** (00:34:03:20 - 00:34:10:13): Yeah, we're rotating it. It's like they they had more people on their team. They just didn't show up. They didn't all want it. You know what I mean? **Chip** (00:34:10:15 - 00:34:14:13): Oh okay. So they were the only two. So they had to play the entire time. **Thomas** (00:34:14:15 - 00:34:31:02): They had to play the entire time. And not not really a cardio issue like we do for most of the league games. We only brought two people. We all shut up because it was the playoffs and we thought it was fun. But it is boring to show up to a pickleball game if you're not playing the whole time. **Chip** (00:34:31:04 - 00:34:33:00): It has to be. That'd be horrific. **Thomas** (00:34:33:02 - 00:34:42:04): Yeah, it's a especially because, like, you know, it's not in your backyard. You got to go all the way to Santa Monica from wherever you're at to be in this specific league. I've heard. **Chip** (00:34:42:04 - 00:34:45:14): This. I've heard the Everclear song. Yeah. They mention pickleball. Yeah. Go ahead. **Thomas** (00:34:45:15 - 00:34:53:15): Oh, yeah. Yeah. The, Everclear has been on top of every trend. They were on top of the leaving your family as a father trend. **Chip** (00:34:53:17 - 00:34:55:05): Yes. Yep. **Thomas** (00:34:55:07 - 00:34:59:11): They're on top of, high grain alcohol. **Chip** (00:34:59:13 - 00:35:00:18): Yeah, absolutely. **Thomas** (00:35:00:18 - 00:35:02:14): You know, they were leading the way and everything. **Chip** (00:35:02:14 - 00:35:03:18): And garden. Leave it. Gardening gardens. **Thomas** (00:35:06:19 - 00:35:13:13): I can't believe I did not remember that their their pickleball reference but yeah they were on top of it. **Chip** (00:35:13:14 - 00:35:15:15): On top of it. Yep. **Thomas** (00:35:15:17 - 00:35:16:00): Yeah. **Chip** (00:35:16:00 - 00:35:28:07): So you can live beside the ocean, leave the world behind. Play in a pickle back a pickleball tournament and, Yeah, yeah. Something. Something behind. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:35:28:09 - 00:35:38:21): By the way, first concert Everclear headlined my first concert ever saw. Yeah, it was them. Fastball. Where were we going without ever knowing the way? One hit, wonder way. **Chip** (00:35:38:22 - 00:35:41:11): Keep going, keep going, keep going. Who else was on there? **Thomas** (00:35:41:12 - 00:35:43:09): Marcy playground. **Chip** (00:35:43:11 - 00:35:45:20): Great band. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:35:45:22 - 00:35:54:16): Keep going. There was one other band that is escaping me. Maybe it was just the free. Okay. Yeah, it was definitely. **Chip** (00:35:59:03 - 00:36:02:19): I'm going to say that this was 1998. **Thomas** (00:36:02:21 - 00:36:11:21): I had to be earlier than that. Okay, maybe a little earlier in that, like, Everclear. Portland band. I don't know if they were crushing yet. **Chip** (00:36:11:22 - 00:36:12:12): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:36:12:14 - 00:36:16:00): Okay. But, maybe it was. Maybe it was like. Okay. **Chip** (00:36:16:00 - 00:36:32:17): Well, the reason, the reason being is because I saw fastball and Everclear, because I was going to say I was like, I've never seen Everclear. I did catch a little bit of their set and I caught a little bit of fastballs. The the 1990 8Y1 hundred Festival says with a Z. **Thomas** (00:36:32:19 - 00:36:34:03): There's like a like, hats. **Chip** (00:36:34:03 - 00:36:35:10): That was always like their thing. **Thomas** (00:36:35:12 - 00:36:38:22): Then I thought it might have been in homage to that 70 show. **Chip** (00:36:39:00 - 00:36:54:02): Maybe, maybe, but yeah, they would always it was always like a package tour that would come from town to town. Yeah, that was the one. And that year it was Everclear was on it, fastball. The big ones were, Ben Folds Five, who has a Big Ben Folds Five fan? **Thomas** (00:36:54:02 - 00:36:55:12): Yeah. Big time brick. **Chip** (00:36:55:14 - 00:36:56:14): Green day? **Thomas** (00:36:56:16 - 00:36:59:03): Yep. **Chip** (00:36:59:05 - 00:37:08:07): Wait, was Ben Folds Five, I think painful, so I was it. Yeah. Green day, because I've seen Ben Folds a couple times. Green Day, Cherry Poppin Daddies closed it out. **Thomas** (00:37:08:07 - 00:37:10:00): Wow. Well, Zoot suit riot. **Chip** (00:37:10:04 - 00:37:26:16): Zoot suit riot, and, and then on the side stage, I saw the specials, which is like Seminole Scar Band. Yeah, I saw the band fuel, which they were more of a sort of a local. They're a Pennsylvania band. So I saw fuel. I also saw fuel, remember? Fuel shimmer and. **Thomas** (00:37:26:19 - 00:37:28:05): Yeah, shimmer. I was gonna say shimmer. **Chip** (00:37:28:05 - 00:37:53:06): Yeah. And hemorrhage, I think was the other one that they had a little while later. That was like a very high rate rate of play. I saw the band fuel. Speaking of drinking too much, I saw the band fuel with four other people watching them, sitting on an old couch outside at Ben for bash at my college, which was just this like, you know, every spring they would do this, like kind of party where the sort of carnival kind of whatever. And there was four of us at two in the afternoon on a Saturday watching this band trying their hardest. And I was like, these guys are pretty good. It was the band fuel. **Thomas** (00:38:01:17 - 00:38:02:19): Nice stone. **Chip** (00:38:02:21 - 00:38:09:01): Yeah, but a Everclear and fastball. Yeah, I saw them, saw them together on that. On that package. **Thomas** (00:38:09:03 - 00:38:12:14): Yeah. I mean, they were the small fish on that show. **Chip** (00:38:12:16 - 00:38:13:06): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:38:13:08 - 00:38:17:07): They were the top dog on the, the show I saw as they. **Chip** (00:38:17:09 - 00:38:21:18): As they should have been. They sparkled and then they faded. That was the that was the name of the album. **Thomas** (00:38:21:23 - 00:38:23:06): Yeah. **Chip** (00:38:23:08 - 00:38:28:09): So. Okay, back to you. Congratulations. What does this mean now in your life for pickleball? **Thomas** (00:38:28:14 - 00:38:40:13): Well, it was bizarre. It was bizarre. Like we were just, We want it. We we snapped a couple of pics. Yeah, and then we kind of looked at each other. We're just like. **Chip** (00:38:40:15 - 00:38:41:21): Yeah. Where where do we. **Thomas** (00:38:41:22 - 00:38:42:13): Where do we go? **Chip** (00:38:42:13 - 00:38:46:09): We are on top of the mountain. Yeah. It's only we can only walk down now. **Thomas** (00:38:46:09 - 00:39:01:16): Well, I'm just like at this age, I'm just like, I don't this doesn't feel like a ton. And I don't know that there's, like, a lot more athletic achievement ahead of me. Like, sure interest. It's like, I guess the gift is just being able to play now, you know? **Chip** (00:39:01:17 - 00:39:11:14): How was the the girls reaction to you winning? Were they gracious losers? Were they did they just hit it and run? Was there handshakes that happened? **Thomas** (00:39:11:16 - 00:39:14:16): Yeah. You tap you tap paddles. **Chip** (00:39:14:22 - 00:39:17:01): You tap paddle taps. Apologies. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:39:17:01 - 00:39:41:22): They were they were very nice. They were actually really, really good. They were really, really good. Really sound very technical. They stole one game off of us. Which, didn't happen in the previous game, but now they were just good. They're actually a workplace team. Okay. From, Snapchat. Snapchat, back to a couple of, teams in the old league, and we'll chat. **Chip** (00:39:41:22 - 00:39:42:20): Snappers over. **Thomas** (00:39:42:20 - 00:39:49:00): That chat snapper. So, you know, they played their game and as their ought to do, they they disappeared. **Chip** (00:39:49:02 - 00:39:56:06): Yeah. But and then you you run are is so are you going to be defending the title next season. **Thomas** (00:39:56:12 - 00:40:10:13): No no we just need to take a break because, as fun as the league was, it was really expensive. Yeah. And it was Thursday night, and we just have a we play on the weekends. We play on the weekends? **Chip** (00:40:10:18 - 00:40:11:10): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:40:11:12 - 00:40:26:01): We set up our own tournaments. It's just, like, much cheaper, more convenient. And, a couple of them nights, there were nights, to paraphrase Celine Dion, when the winds were so cold. **Chip** (00:40:26:03 - 00:40:28:01): Yeah. Can't have that. That was a. **Thomas** (00:40:29:04 - 00:40:32:02): I was out there freezing, freezing. **Chip** (00:40:32:04 - 00:40:41:19): And I don't care where you are. Yeah. Like playing pickleball again, to quote Celine Dion. Near, far, wherever you are. Yeah yeah. **Thomas** (00:40:41:21 - 00:40:49:18): Yeah. No, no, they you can get a little chilly. So now we're, we're back to, hitting the mean streets of Beverly Hills on the weekend. **Chip** (00:40:49:20 - 00:41:05:16): I feel like you guys are sort of like the the end one tournament. Yeah. Of the pickleball NBA. Like, you're the you're the badass, you know, kind of the. You are the hustlers. You are the white man can't jump. Yeah we are. **Thomas** (00:41:05:18 - 00:41:16:03): And instead of trick shots and fancy passes, we we consider a real fancy move, to be what we don't do. **Chip** (00:41:16:05 - 00:41:17:10): And it's like jazz. **Thomas** (00:41:17:12 - 00:41:26:17): It's like jazz. It's the notes you don't play. And, the notes we're trying not to play are rolled ankles and pulled hamstrings. Those are the two big ones. We're trying to stay away. **Chip** (00:41:26:19 - 00:41:28:14): There's the two big moves that you guys do. **Thomas** (00:41:28:14 - 00:41:37:00): Yeah, yeah. It's just it's so bad. Have you ever been a grown up out with a bunch of dudes playing a sport and hurt yourself? **Chip** (00:41:37:01 - 00:41:51:23): I will tell you this. When I turned, it was roughly around 30. So again, I wasn't a super old man, but it was the time that I felt the worst. Yeah, I was I was playing kickball, adult kickball. **Thomas** (00:41:51:23 - 00:41:53:04): Adult. So full nude. **Chip** (00:41:53:04 - 00:41:57:18): Oh, total. Full frontal. Yes. Full, full frontal. Kickball is what I meant to say. **Thomas** (00:41:57:19 - 00:41:58:20): Yeah. **Chip** (00:41:58:22 - 00:42:17:23): And I. Okay. This is so dumb. We got a bunch of guys together. We got the ball, we started playing, and it was on this, like, playground in Philadelphia. And the ball popped almost immediately. So we're like, we we had to play with something and we're like, okay, there was this old basketball lying around and we're like, let's play with the basketballs. **Thomas** (00:42:17:23 - 00:42:19:13): Can I have some more heft to it? **Chip** (00:42:19:15 - 00:42:38:15): Somebody, I think broke a toe. I didn't want to break the toe. So I did like the instep kick. Yeah, the sidekick sidekick and screwed my back up because it was just like, you know, when that's coming, when it's pitched to you and it's coming quick, and then you stop it with that. It just wrenched my back and it was the first time I ever really hurt my back. And then my other friend, like, slipped and hurt his knee or something like that. There was like three of us that went down and we're like, oh, we are. We are now old men at 30. **Thomas** (00:42:46:23 - 00:42:48:07): You gotta have a. **Chip** (00:42:48:10 - 00:42:50:10): Humbling, humbling day. **Thomas** (00:42:50:12 - 00:43:19:00): You're playing kickball with a bowling ball. It's like, there's going to be some consequences. I, the most embarrassing moment of my athletic career, happened in a kicking sport as well, during the pandemic. Three, actually, a couple of the pickle boys were involved. But we didn't know each other nearly as well. A lot of the golf courses around here opened up, kick, kick golf courses where it's like. **Chip** (00:43:19:00 - 00:43:20:07): Oh, like like soccer. **Thomas** (00:43:20:11 - 00:43:23:11): It's a soccer golf kind of. Yeah. You have like a soccer ball. **Chip** (00:43:23:14 - 00:43:26:08): I'm into it. I've never played, but it sounds fun. Go ahead. **Thomas** (00:43:26:08 - 00:43:32:03): Well, it was the second kick. The second kick of these dudes I don't know very well. **Chip** (00:43:32:05 - 00:43:32:14): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:43:32:14 - 00:43:51:01): And I just full on pull the pull the old hammy. So now I'm like walking. We still have eight holes left of kick soccer and I am limping behind everybody trying. Trying to figure out how to. **Chip** (00:43:51:03 - 00:43:53:01): How to how to hide the tears. First of all. **Thomas** (00:43:53:02 - 00:44:12:18): How to hide. Yeah. It was just like just like, how do I come out of this? Not just feeling like the weakest, the biggest loser on the planet. And there was nothing I couldn't like? There was nothing objectively I could do. I just felt that way. I'm around a bunch of dudes. We came here to do this sport thing that's not physically demanding. It's not straining. And I can't even do that. **Chip** (00:44:17:10 - 00:44:25:05): And and the worst part is in golf, you can't just step off the court and be like, I'm going to take a breather. Like you're in the wilderness. **Thomas** (00:44:25:07 - 00:44:26:02): No. Yeah. **Chip** (00:44:26:04 - 00:44:27:20): I had to limp. **Thomas** (00:44:27:22 - 00:44:31:10): Around for eight more holes while not kicking the ball talking. **Chip** (00:44:31:10 - 00:44:34:14): Were they aware that you pulled your hamstring or did you try to hide it? **Thomas** (00:44:34:19 - 00:44:43:05): No, no, no, I told it like I just wasn't. I couldn't play anymore. When you have no hamstring. Yeah, yeah. You're doing a sport that's only kicking like. There's there's no way that's true. **Chip** (00:44:45:10 - 00:44:47:16): That is true. **Thomas** (00:44:47:18 - 00:45:08:06): But, Yeah, dude, that's that's rough. And it's it, it comes to do with age. The, you know, playing basketball back in the day, if you rolled your ankle, if you pulled a hamstring, whatever. We're all warriors out here. It didn't happen on the first shot of the game we've played before. We'll play again. We understand the rules of pickup basketball and the big city, baby. Yeah, you take it. Yeah, you make it, you take it. But but yeah, dude, being in your 40s and it's like, you know, just it's weird getting new dudes together. Anyways, at this age, I. **Chip** (00:45:20:23 - 00:45:25:17): I will agree with you. It is weird getting new dudes together. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:45:25:19 - 00:45:32:07): Yeah. And then to go out there and feel physically diminished, it is so de masculinity body. **Chip** (00:45:32:08 - 00:45:42:17): Yeah. Speaking of emasculating. Yeah. Should we get into our, our calling for the day? **Thomas** (00:45:42:19 - 00:45:45:09): I love it. I love this segment. **Chip** (00:45:45:11 - 00:46:03:17): Oh, by the way, before we do that, congratulations once again. Oh, chat champion pickleball. You are. Okay. I will say I and I need to start sporting mind again. You are wearing your medal from our five K. You are a decorated athlete now like you are not just. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:46:03:19 - 00:46:05:05): I'm not screwing around. I'm playing. **Chip** (00:46:05:05 - 00:46:12:04): Did you. What. Do they present you with something or will they present you with something for the for the tournament. **Thomas** (00:46:12:06 - 00:46:18:19): Funny you should ask. We don't know. Okay. We don't know. The person who was running the tournament was sick that day. **Chip** (00:46:18:21 - 00:46:19:05): Okay? **Thomas** (00:46:19:09 - 00:46:33:02): And his friend showed up to, check everybody in, make sure everybody was legal to play, because Chip, you you could not bring in a ringer for the championship. It had to be somebody from the original roster. **Chip** (00:46:33:04 - 00:46:33:21): Okay. **Thomas** (00:46:33:23 - 00:46:45:23): Only only on the court. So there was somebody there monitoring that. And at the end where it was like, do we get a trophy or anything? He was like, honest to goodness, I wish I knew, no clue. **Chip** (00:46:46:01 - 00:46:48:13): Yeah. No, but he's got the mumps. He will let you know. **Thomas** (00:46:48:15 - 00:46:53:02): Yeah, yeah. The measles, mumps and rubella. Rubella. **Chip** (00:46:53:04 - 00:46:54:12): Let's do it. **Thomas** (00:46:54:14 - 00:46:59:01): The, Rubella. What's rubella? **Chip** (00:46:59:03 - 00:47:11:21): It's, it's a it's a young southern girl who, is very ornery, and her mother's always yelling at you. And if she bites you, you get a, disease, and she's. **Thomas** (00:47:12:03 - 00:47:13:09): She's infected. **Chip** (00:47:13:10 - 00:47:17:03): Yeah. Rubella, you get back in the house. Yeah. Okay. **Thomas** (00:47:17:05 - 00:47:21:19): Oh, yeah, I did. Did I tell I saw 28 weeks later, bone temple? **Chip** (00:47:21:21 - 00:47:23:22): Oh, you mentioned it. How was it? **Thomas** (00:47:23:22 - 00:47:27:23): If you like full male frontal. **Chip** (00:47:27:23 - 00:47:28:14): Count me in. **Thomas** (00:47:28:18 - 00:47:32:18): If you are into a zombie apocalypse. **Chip** (00:47:32:23 - 00:47:33:06): Yep. **Thomas** (00:47:33:09 - 00:47:42:19): And if you want to see what it feels like to spend time, with literal Satanists. Okay, in that environment, you've. **Chip** (00:47:42:19 - 00:47:45:15): Checked my three boxes of of cinema. **Thomas** (00:47:45:17 - 00:48:03:04): I mean, yeah, I, I went and there was not to say it was completely devoid of interesting things. There was some interesting things, but like, if you had a cocktail, this is the opposite of the seven and seven, you know, seven and sevens for everybody. This one's for almost nobody. Like, you. Know, honest to God, if I didn't have to drive all the way over to Century City to watch it with some buddies, or no Century City, it was in, Universal City was the universal CityWalk. Yep. Oh, so. **Chip** (00:48:14:08 - 00:48:16:05): You in the valley for this one? **Thomas** (00:48:16:07 - 00:48:39:00): I had to go to the valley for this one. And then deal with that parking garage. It was a whole thing. If I hadn't paid a great cost to get there, I would have got up and walked out. About five minutes in, I would have been five minutes in. And, you know, he I love a dark horror movie. Yeah, I really do. And this one was just a bridge too far. I was like, I feel gross and yucky all the time. I don't need to sit in here, but I did. Yeah, there was there were some moments. There was also like just the the biggest jacked, just zombie guy. And like it was cool because he, his hog was out. Right. **Chip** (00:49:00:12 - 00:49:02:09): The whole I'm sure zombie. But like. **Thomas** (00:49:02:12 - 00:49:06:20): It wasn't just long, it was also real wide. **Chip** (00:49:06:22 - 00:49:07:17): Oh wow. **Thomas** (00:49:07:17 - 00:49:08:21): And I thought the. **Chip** (00:49:09:01 - 00:49:13:06): I think that's because he was a zombie. Is that part of it? I don't know, yeah, I don't know. **Thomas** (00:49:15:06 - 00:49:27:02): I guess like if you if you're saying the comparison is like I am not a zombie and he looks different than me, then yes, maybe that was the contributing factor. Okay. But I think he was just like a big dude beforehand. **Chip** (00:49:27:06 - 00:49:28:23): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:49:29:00 - 00:49:41:02): I think he was a big dude beforehand. But man, they were to borrow and always sunny phrase really Thunder gun in it throughout the series in a fun way. **Chip** (00:49:41:04 - 00:49:48:08): Yeah. All right. That's. Yeah. Y'all bought that one. Maybe. Maybe that's the pick to avoid this week. **Thomas** (00:49:48:10 - 00:49:56:23): It could be. It might just be. But anyways, this is this is the podcast to not avoid. This is the opposite of Bone Temple. **Chip** (00:49:57:01 - 00:49:57:19): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:49:57:21 - 00:50:02:19): This is, flesh condo. **Chip** (00:50:02:21 - 00:50:05:21): The flesh canal. Another great name we could have had, Thomas. **Thomas** (00:50:05:21 - 00:50:28:15): But which is the flesh? The flesh kinda. Here on the sunburnt podcast, we're more of a flesh condo than about temple. And we have a, call in line. You know how innovative this is. Do you know how technologically driven and advanced we are? You can call the number 3108 4 or 5 6038, and you can leave us a message telling us anything you want. What we're requesting is horrible vacation stories, embarrassing stories from your real life. Or if you need any advice, if you're going through something, want to ask a couple of Ding. **Chip** (00:50:43:04 - 00:50:45:16): Dongs or a woman. **Thomas** (00:50:45:18 - 00:51:06:02): Who are willing to make a wild assumptions and give you just the perspective of two older gentleman who have, really only figured out one thing in this lifetime, and that's that they like comedy and hanging out with each other. Yeah. And I guess our families, yes, we have built our families. We like our families. Right, right, right. Almost as much as comedy and hanging out with each other. Give that a reading. A dinghy, one brave soul, hilarious comedian. Dave. Shag. **Chip** (00:51:16:16 - 00:51:18:01): Dave. Cher. **Thomas** (00:51:18:03 - 00:51:22:19): Called in the number and chip. Do you, do you what do you want to set this baddy up? **Chip** (00:51:22:21 - 00:51:43:03): All right. Dave Shay, very funny comedian. Also, was a teacher for a long time, and I. I can't remember if he still is or if he if he moved on from that, but he, he had, he, he turned a positive into a negative, unfortunately, he was, he was going for, a healthier lifestyle. Yeah. He wanted to eat, eat better, more nutritional foods. And it literally, literally blew up in his face. All right, let's, let's play the tape. **Thomas** (00:51:55:03 - 00:51:58:14): Right. This is, David boy. **Chip** (00:51:58:16 - 00:52:07:11): Hey, Chip, it's your old buddy Dave Shay here. And, little anecdote from a few years ago that happened to me. You can tell me whether or not you think I need a vacation. **Thomas** (00:52:07:11 - 00:52:15:14): Hold on a second. Here. So what accent am I detecting here? Is this straight up Philly? Is there a little twist to it? **Chip** (00:52:15:16 - 00:52:25:10): I believe he's a, new Jersey guy, so. New Jersey, I don't know if he's. I can't remember his from there originally. I would guess so, but yeah, I, I'm, I'm saying new Jersey. **Thomas** (00:52:25:12 - 00:52:26:02): All right. Continuing it was probably 2012 2013. **Chip** (00:52:32:10 - 00:52:55:10): By the way. Stop it again. I detect no, I, I detect no accent whatsoever. That's that's how ingrained in the culture I am to you on the other side of the country, probably. You're just like you're trying to get every single word in. You're like, I don't understand this guy at all. But, that's that's what makes us in, Philadelphia, South Jersey, very special. We understand each other, but, go ahead, Tom. **Thomas** (00:52:57:15 - 00:53:11:02): That's a funny thing about accents. It's just like when you hear one that's not your own. Yes. Go like I can't stop myself. I say something about it like, yeah, heaven forbid there's an Australian person around, like, oh, yeah, I'll be like. Wow, you talk like that. **Chip** (00:53:14:07 - 00:53:34:08): Yeah. Wow. Did I tell you this is this is the honest truth, and I would not. I'm not making fun, I make it. This is on me. I, I was in actually Portland, Oregon a couple of years ago. Okay, doing some shows, and I was just sort of like, by my. It's like, when you're on the road, you're by yourself, like, you're not interacting. And like, I can find myself, especially my older years, like, not as sociable as I used to be. And like, I even, like, in a store. Like, I just kind of keep my head down or whatever I was like. And people in Portland are so much so nice. They just talk to you. And I was like, I want to be more open and just like, talk to strangers, you know, like like just be more lively and like, just hospitable and friendlier. I don't want to be that jerk from Philadelphia that everything, because we actually are very nice people. But, like, sometimes you close yourself off. And I was at target. Yeah. And there was a young woman who was the cashier. As I'm checking out with just a couple items at target, and we had just a few quick words. Yeah. And she had a really interesting accent. It didn't feel like a Portland accent. Yeah. And I was literally just about to say, oh, that's an interesting accent. Where are you from? Because I was going to be open. And she turned her head, and that's when I noticed that she was wearing hearing aids. And I was literally was about to say something and I was like, oh, no, you should never talk to anybody ever, ever again. Because what you're going to say is going to come out offensive and you're going to hurt somebody's feelings. So, that was the day that I started and stopped talking to strangers. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:55:00:07 - 00:55:06:10): And then you did a quick pivot, and you're like, I'm not gonna talk about that accent. I'm going to congratulate her on being pregnant. **Chip** (00:55:06:12 - 00:55:07:23): Yes. Yeah. When's the baby due? Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. So I yeah I haven't, I haven't spoken to anybody in public since that day. But go ahead I'm sorry Dave Shay with this, crazy new Jersey accent. **Thomas** (00:55:20:06 - 00:55:20:21): Let's go do it. **Chip** (00:55:21:00 - 00:55:28:17): And I was trying to lose weight. I was, you know, at work eating a salad, and I was at one of the shared work computers. **Thomas** (00:55:28:21 - 00:55:39:04): All right, here's the thing. Like, any time you're trying, you've been trying to do anything. You've increased your vulnerability tenfold. **Chip** (00:55:39:04 - 00:55:42:06): You have. You're you're you're entering new waters. **Thomas** (00:55:42:09 - 00:55:42:16): Yeah. **Chip** (00:55:42:16 - 00:55:44:18): You're you're out of your safe zone. **Thomas** (00:55:44:18 - 00:55:51:05): No matter what comes next. It's already higher than if this just happened on a regular day. You know what I. **Chip** (00:55:51:05 - 00:55:55:19): Mean, right? Yeah. So I was eating a hamburger. Yeah. That's not the stakes aren't high. **Thomas** (00:55:55:20 - 00:56:01:21): The stakes are actually ground up and put into a patty. And that scenario, they 100% are. The stakes are high, baby. Let's go. 00:56:02:03 – 00:56:16:01 UNRESOLVED – Now, this is an area in a public school where teachers are kind of coming and going. There's, refrigerator and sink and, couches and bathrooms. Well. It sounds like a classic teacher's lounge. **Chip** (00:56:18:18 - 00:56:33:20): It's a teacher's lounge. I mean, that's what it sounds like to me. Also very high stakes as somebody who's spent many, many a lunch, for almost 15 years, in a teacher's lounge, it it can be, there's a hierarchy. **Thomas** (00:56:34:01 - 00:56:34:20): Yeah. **Chip** (00:56:34:22 - 00:56:47:03): There are assigned seats, basically, you know, really in the wrong place. I not assigned, but, like, somebody will let you know if you're sitting in there. Yeah. And they don't want you to, Yeah. It's, it can it can be very, very high stakes. **Thomas** (00:56:47:03 - 00:56:50:03): Who's the top dog in the teacher hierarchy? **Chip** (00:56:50:05 - 00:57:02:04): Oh, it was always like it would always be like that. Like one. Like kindergarten. It was always a primary teacher, like kindergarten to second grade, who had been there for like, 30 years. **Thomas** (00:57:02:05 - 00:57:03:02): Right? You rule the. **Chip** (00:57:03:02 - 00:57:05:10): Roost and like, you kneel down before them. **Thomas** (00:57:05:12 - 00:57:07:22): So it's a seniority thing? Largely. **Chip** (00:57:08:00 - 00:57:08:20): Yes. Yes. **Thomas** (00:57:08:20 - 00:57:11:10): Followed probably closely by aggressive personality. **Chip** (00:57:11:10 - 00:57:18:01): It's, Yeah, I would say. Yeah. It's just it's it's all about aura and putting out that vibe. It's all about vibe, Thomas. **Thomas** (00:57:18:05 - 00:57:22:00): Goddamn it. It's all a vibe. Check. This whole world's a goddamn vibe. Check. **Chip** (00:57:22:02 - 00:57:22:18): It's all it is. **Thomas** (00:57:22:18 - 00:57:24:07): All right, all right. 00:57:24:09 – 00:57:50:17 UNRESOLVED – The, the shared computer that I was on is facing the wall. And perpendicular to me was the bathroom. Now, I had always been, like, the heavy guy at work, and I probably had a reputation of ordering the, chicken fingers and fries, from the cafeteria or pizza more often than salad. Right. But I was trying to turn over a new leaf in January. 00:57:50:19 – 00:58:15:15 UNRESOLVED – This lady comes out of the bathroom right as I'm biting into a grape tomato. Now, just to add a little context to the story, the lady that came out of the bathroom is this hyper fit wellness wholeness had like three kids and then got skinny immediately after each of them. Takes her lunch breaks walking outside the track. 00:58:15:15 – 00:58:40:13 UNRESOLVED – Just a a super tight fit lady. And I was embarrassed by what happened, which was when I bit into the grape tomato. I didn't close my mouth around the front of it carefully enough, and, the, the grape tomato exploded forward all over the like, shared work computer that all of the staff members are allowed to use. 00:58:40:18 – 00:59:18:17 UNRESOLVED – And it happened right at the moment when she is coming out of the bathroom at me sideways. So she gets the most perfect cinematic view of me, absolutely. Munging this grape tomato onto the shared computer at work. So just, you know, as if I was trying to turn around my reputation as like, you know, the kind of slob coworker right here I am enjoying my first salad that they've ever seen me eat, and I am absolutely, disgustingly spraying grape tomato all over the work computer with my mouth. This was 2012 2013. Maybe. I still think about it every day. **Chip** (00:59:25:23 - 00:59:34:23): It's rough that that is that is rough. Okay, okay. First of all. It's a telltale sign that you have not been eating healthy recently. **Thomas** (00:59:40:01 - 00:59:40:22): Yeah. **Chip** (00:59:40:23 - 00:59:44:13): When your salad has to come with an instruction manual, no. **Thomas** (00:59:44:13 - 01:00:01:12): Matter if that's true or not, you got to feel that way because, like you, you're trying to make this change. Yep. You're already doing that. And here here's like how crazy. Where as human beings like, you think about yourself ten times more than anybody else ever could possibly. **Chip** (01:00:01:14 - 01:00:09:14): Right? And this this woman's coming out of the bathroom. She's probably a little vulnerable, thinking hopefully everything. You know, nobody thinks, oh, what I was doing in there. **Thomas** (01:00:09:19 - 01:00:34:11): This, this, this is what I was thinking, like for me personally, I'm ten times more worried that somebody would even think of me in the context of using the bathroom, right? Than whatever, whatever could happen with a salad. Yeah. So yeah, there's definitely that. But what I'm saying is, just setting it up, you feel like everybody's looking at you like they're evaluating your choices. Like they've been judging you harshly for, like, what you've been eating for lunch. **Chip** (01:00:39:09 - 01:00:39:23): Yes. **Thomas** (01:00:40:00 - 01:00:50:23): And they are shocked and surprised when you order a healthier option. Nobody's thinking about you or what you're eating for lunch. That's the reality. But that's not how it feels. **Chip** (01:00:51:00 - 01:01:13:13): Yeah, that's not how it feels. And then to go an extra step and show everybody what you're eating all over the computer, that's so okay. So, Dave, here's the thing. Yeah. And again, he knows now he's learned this lesson. But yeah, a grape tomato is something that you eat totally inside your mouth. Yeah. There are certain things. Marshmallows, jelly beans. Yeah. Nine volt batteries. Whatever they are, you put it fully in your mouth. Yeah. And you let the dirty work happen inside the lips. Yeah. And you know, he knows that now. He learned the hard way. **Thomas** (01:01:27:15 - 01:01:36:19): But the things he mentioned before. Pizza, chicken fingers, fries, those are all you can eat him. Half in, half out. Right. Chop a hunk. **Chip** (01:01:36:19 - 01:01:50:21): Off. It is very embarrassing, Dave. But the good news is you were doing something right. Like, at least it wasn't a ding dong. Yeah, like where she walks out and he. She's like. He's like, boom, Twinkie comes out. And then just like, shoots out all over the. **Thomas** (01:01:50:22 - 01:01:52:01): Yeah. And then your. **Chip** (01:01:52:01 - 01:01:53:18): Chair healthy option. **Thomas** (01:01:53:20 - 01:02:11:10): Yes. I'm thinking in reality, is as fit as she is as as many protein bars as she had just excreted. She walked out of that bathroom, saw him just. 01:02:11:12 – 01:02:13:18 UNRESOLVED – To just. Give a facial to the old screen there. Yeah. And if she was going to verbalize anything, if her thoughts just came out in that moment, she'd be like, I wasn't just in the bathroom. Right. Everybody's always thinking about themselves. **Chip** (01:02:32:08 - 01:02:45:19): They're just thinking selves. Yeah, yeah, that's what it is, I think. Okay, here's what I would have done. Maybe if I was Dave and I don't know what he said or what his. If he just pretended like it didn't happen. Yeah. I have a couple saver lines for him. **Thomas** (01:02:46:01 - 01:02:46:23): Oh, I gotcha. **Chip** (01:02:46:23 - 01:03:11:00): First of all, he could have just looked at her and said, hey, you know what kind of computer this is, a marinara. You know, like, just throw that in there, maybe like, oops, I got the keyboard awkwardly, you know, he could have got a little snarky and just been like, you should have seen what I did with a cucumber. You know, and then, you know, he could he could have also said something like, you know, I say tomato and then just, like, let that hang there as he. Yeah, start starting to clean it up. Or then I think also what the saver like could have been is to him sort of throwing himself at her mercy. **Thomas** (01:03:31:19 - 01:03:32:18): Yes. **Chip** (01:03:32:20 - 01:03:52:03): Guru of health. Where he shoots it out, it gets there's a moment, and then he just sets the rest of the salad down and maybe even gets on his knees or. But just has this puppy dog look helpless, look on his face, and he just looks at it and says, show me how. **Thomas** (01:03:53:16 - 01:03:54:21): I like that. A plea. **Chip** (01:03:54:21 - 01:03:56:16): A plea, I think would be a good way to go with. **Thomas** (01:03:56:16 - 01:04:03:06): It. My ideal response would have been, make direct eye contact for a little too long. **Chip** (01:04:03:08 - 01:04:03:22): **Thomas** (01:04:04:00 - 01:04:16:09): And then go, I'm not going to tell you why, but people around the office have been calling me salad shooter. **Chip** (01:04:16:11 - 01:04:21:13): That's the way to go. And then he gets a new nickname. Yeah. Hey shooter. And it sounds like a cool name. **Thomas** (01:04:21:19 - 01:04:28:20): I'm telling you, dude, all I want is a cool nickname, and I want somebody to come lift weights with me. Dude, these are my two goals. **Chip** (01:04:28:22 - 01:04:29:12): Yeah. **Thomas** (01:04:29:14 - 01:04:32:20): Why is it so hard? It's tough. It's tough out there. **Chip** (01:04:32:22 - 01:04:38:22): When you're on, when you're on top with the pickleball world. You know, you know. Yeah. Well, it is lonely at the top. **Thomas** (01:04:39:00 - 01:04:41:10): Pretty much professional athlete. **Chip** (01:04:41:12 - 01:04:44:15): So embarrassing situation. But you were doing something good. **Thomas** (01:04:44:18 - 01:04:46:01): Yeah. **Chip** (01:04:46:02 - 01:04:50:18): Does this deserve a vacation? Thomas? **Thomas** (01:04:50:20 - 01:04:54:04): I'm going to say. Yeah, I'm gonna say ten out of ten. This is a vacation. **Chip** (01:04:54:04 - 01:05:07:15): Eight out of ten. You deserve a vacation. And guess what? We here at the summer podcast, Dave, we're sending you on an all inclusive vacation to the Thousand Islands. **Thomas** (01:05:07:17 - 01:05:10:04): You're going to love the Thousand Islands, Dave. **Chip** (01:05:10:04 - 01:05:12:09): Dressing optional. 01:05:12:11 – 01:05:14:17 UNRESOLVED – Get. **Thomas** (01:05:14:19 - 01:05:21:11): It a you're going to enjoy the lovely off white tones of the Thousand Islands shores. 01:05:21:13 – 01:05:23:11 UNRESOLVED – Ooh. That is. I never thought about it. That's got to be the most tropical salad dressing. **Chip** (01:05:28:04 - 01:05:33:17): I mean, there's many islands. Yeah, it's a little creamy. It's some that's sometimes for like, because you don't want it to get in the hot weather. But yeah. **Thomas** (01:05:38:10 - 01:05:47:22): You got to keep it cool. You got to keep it cool. But, Dave, you're getting you're going to enjoy it. And you, you especially because it's compounded with interest. **Chip** (01:05:48:00 - 01:05:48:10): Yes. **Thomas** (01:05:48:10 - 01:05:52:07): It's been running around in his mind since 2013. **Chip** (01:05:52:08 - 01:06:11:00): I think that's because I wonder if, okay, if he could go to this woman, if he still works with her, he could track her down and be like, do you remember that day that it happened? Yeah. I would love for him to come back and let us know. Like, was that a thing that like, she she is kept in the old noggin since, you know, since 2013. **Thomas** (01:06:11:02 - 01:06:24:06): And then you gotta you also have to deal with at that point time has passed like and then you're like, do I weigh more now than I did when I was worried about this 12 years ago? **Chip** (01:06:24:07 - 01:06:40:05): Right. Have I slimmed down, have I right I don't know and it's like also like that computer is probably long gone now. Outdated. Like he probably he probably had to do the cleanup. The cleanup probably had to happen. Of course he's a good man. He would have he would have cleaned it up. And that can be a little dicey. You're in there between the keys and everything like that takes. That might take a little time and effort. Like you don't want a sticky keyboard left behind. **Thomas** (01:06:46:21 - 01:06:51:01): Yeah, no sticky keyboards left behind. That's in the teacher's motto. **Chip** (01:06:51:01 - 01:06:51:17): Yeah. **Thomas** (01:06:51:19 - 01:06:57:05): But I think, like, even the idea of a shared work computer, that's probably of the past, right? **Chip** (01:06:57:05 - 01:07:06:13): Yeah, yeah, we got laptops. We're not doing that. We don't have to worry about that. So it is a thing of like, that's kind of like saying, you know, like I spilled my carrots all over the steam engine. 01:07:06:15 – 01:07:07:22 UNRESOLVED – It's okay. We don't, you know, we don't have to worry about steam engines as much anymore. **Thomas** (01:07:11:15 - 01:07:16:19): Actually, steaming is a great way to get a carrot. Ready for that? Yeah. Right. Okay. **Chip** (01:07:16:20 - 01:07:32:19): That's what I'm telling you. I dropped my cauliflower all over the mimeograph machine. See, it's not it's not that big of a deal. But again, the real estate that it's taken up in your mind, Dave. 100%. You are getting vacation. You deserve a vacation. **Thomas** (01:07:33:01 - 01:07:37:08): And not only that, you deserve it. It's prescribed. This is what's going to cure you. **Chip** (01:07:37:10 - 01:07:37:16): Yeah. **Thomas** (01:07:37:19 - 01:07:49:06): Of thinking about this anymore. Yeah. I don't think going back you can't make amends. There's nothing to say you're sorry for. No, you just got to get out there. Get a little sun on those bonds. **Chip** (01:07:49:07 - 01:07:51:13): Yeah. Make your face look like a grape. Tomato. Make your face look like a grape. Tomato burn. Burn the crap. Out. **Thomas** (01:07:57:12 - 01:08:20:01): Of your your mug. And, let's move on with it. Let's not spend time in this negative place. Let's spend time in a great place. You on them thousand islands. All right? If you would like to know if you have a moment in your life that is vacation worthy. That number again is (310) 845-6038. Thank you so much, Dave. That was awesome. What a vulnerable story. We really appreciate it. **Chip** (01:08:24:08 - 01:08:37:19): Oh, and make sure you follow Dave at Dave Shay. She at Dave Shay underscore for, some of his hilarious stand up, etc.. I mean, maybe there'll be more exploding vegetables. We don't know. **Thomas** (01:08:39:01 - 01:08:45:00): With Dave, you kind of do. He's the, he's the farmer's market Gallagher a lot. **Chip** (01:08:45:03 - 01:08:47:14): He really is. He's mouth Gallagher. **Thomas** (01:08:47:16 - 01:08:51:17): He's he's mouth Gallagher three. 01:08:51:19 – 01:08:53:04 UNRESOLVED – Chip. What an incredible segue. It's time to get into the good book. **Chip** (01:08:56:04 - 01:09:06:04): The good book, baby. We got our new edition. Oh. Mine's upstairs. I should have brought down, thank you for sending me the new edition. The 2026. Good book. **Thomas** (01:09:06:04 - 01:09:12:22): I don't keep current on a lot of things. Is my car a 2026? No. Now, was my house built this year? No. **Chip** (01:09:12:22 - 01:09:16:16): Is your pickleball championship from 2026? Well, yes, it actually is. **Thomas** (01:09:16:16 - 01:09:26:23): It certainly is. I've got a couple of things, chip. We did the Turkey Trot, which I won. Yeah. Which is why I the most that's, I, I want my fantasy football league. **Chip** (01:09:27:01 - 01:09:27:15): No way. **Thomas** (01:09:27:15 - 01:09:29:22): This year. Congrats. That just came down the pike. **Chip** (01:09:29:22 - 01:09:32:13): I came in second place in my pool this year. **Thomas** (01:09:32:15 - 01:09:39:06): Oh, but, you told me you were doing fantasy football and you didn't like it, and you didn't want to do fantasy football. **Chip** (01:09:39:08 - 01:09:54:08): I didn't want to do it with you, is what I'm saying. I think that's what it is. And I will say it's not exactly fantasy for it's a football pool. So it's just it's my family that does it. Like, it's like cousins and stuff. And I just take four minutes to, like, you just pick the team so you don't have players. You just like go down the the each that the lineup that week and be like all right I pick the Rams, I pick the the Eagles, I pick the whatever. And and we tally them up. That's all we do. **Thomas** (01:10:06:15 - 01:10:14:14): It's a it's good to get a nice tally. It would be nice. You know maybe someday we'll do something like that together again. We remember we used to be in Wayne's bargain league. **Chip** (01:10:14:16 - 01:10:36:17): Wayne's bargain league I think I still get, we actually. Okay, I'm going to be honest. We may still be in Wayne's bargain league. Fantasy football league, because I was in it for a few years after I stopped doing it. That was with our buddies at the, at the show up in Connecticut. And I did it, and I was, like, really interested in. And then, like, I just thought it was over, and you maybe did for, like, another year, but, like, I just. I never heard about it again. So I was like, God. And then at one point I was like halfway through the season, it's like you're in third place. I'm like, I'm not playing this year. But somehow, that was. **Thomas** (01:10:50:04 - 01:11:03:08): That league did go by the wayside eventually. But, we were all actively playing except for you that I remember talking to you being like, you didn't play a quarterback last week or something like that, and you're just like, **Chip** (01:11:03:09 - 01:11:05:21): Yeah, I did not. I did not know you were. **Thomas** (01:11:05:21 - 01:11:09:09): Unaware that the season had just continued going. **Chip** (01:11:09:11 - 01:11:11:12): Yes. Yeah. **Thomas** (01:11:11:14 - 01:11:13:13): All right, Chip, let's get into this good book. **Chip** (01:11:13:15 - 01:11:14:12): Make it happen. **Thomas** (01:11:14:12 - 01:11:18:00): But what do you what do you got for us today, buddy? **Chip** (01:11:18:02 - 01:11:28:20): All right, well, congratulations to Thomas O'Brien for winning his pickleball tournament. And congratulations to the island of Burma. **Thomas** (01:11:28:22 - 01:11:31:07): Ooh. Tell me about Burma, **Chip** (01:11:31:09 - 01:11:41:18): Burma, has a world record. It's located off the northwest of the Yucatan Peninsula in the Gulf of America. **Thomas** (01:11:41:20 - 01:11:46:19): Okay. **Chip** (01:11:46:21 - 01:11:58:01): It's owned by by the the nation of Mexico. Burma was first noted by Spanish cartographer Alonzo de Santa Cruz in 1539. **Thomas** (01:11:58:03 - 01:12:00:02): Where does he rank on your cartographer? **Chip** (01:12:00:02 - 01:12:01:11): Rating number. **Thomas** (01:12:01:11 - 01:12:06:18): Two. Number two. After Magellan. Guy. **Chip** (01:12:06:19 - 01:12:09:23): I like John cartographer himself. That who they named dapper. **Thomas** (01:12:10:01 - 01:12:10:17): Okay. Yeah. **Chip** (01:12:10:19 - 01:12:14:14): The OG John cartographer. I believe he was a German man. Yeah. **Thomas** (01:12:14:16 - 01:12:15:18): So that precise. **Chip** (01:12:15:18 - 01:12:29:06): He's my favorite. Yeah. So Bermejo was first noted, Spanish cartographer. Found him in 1539. That's a while back. Okay. It continues to be shown on maps until about 1921. **Thomas** (01:12:29:08 - 01:12:31:08): Okay, okay. **Chip** (01:12:31:10 - 01:12:55:03): Here's the thing, Thomas. Burma, like your high school girlfriend who lived up in Vancouver, doesn't exist. What? Burma isn't real. Congratulations to Burma for getting the world record for the longest lived phantom Island. **Thomas** (01:12:55:05 - 01:12:56:08): That's unbelievable. **Chip** (01:12:56:08 - 01:13:18:00): It's out for over 382 years. People were like, oh no, it's there somewhere. It's on the map. It's it's there somewhere. And they're like, oh, okay. It wasn't, it wasn't Thomas. It was just means never there. Now there are some conspiracy people who think that the island sunk into the ocean because of an earthquake or something like that. Yeah, but generally they're just like, no, Santa Cruz heat and. Oh, what he's talking about, he just had another island, or he just miscalculated. But for a while, for hundreds of years, it was on maps and even Mexico was like, yeah, but here's the crazy part. The Mexican government laid claim to the island of America as recently as 2009. That's the year that Parks and Recreation debuted from 1539 till 2009. They're like, yeah, no, that's our island. There was never an island there. It just it was. It's just it's just fake Burma. Thomas. It doesn't exist like Atlantis or Oz or Rhode Island. It's it's a fake, fake place that's just on a map that doesn't actually, that doesn't actually exist. And that's that's why that's why I love it. But just like Dave Shay, here's what I want to do. Here's the special part to commemorate this achievement. Thomas, I haven't passed this by you, but, we have a new contest that we are going to be running. Sunburn is having a big contest. One of you lucky viewers or listeners is going for a six day, seven night, all inclusive paid vacation to the island of Burma. Five star accommodations, fine dining, a huge swimming pool, and every single room in the resort has a view of the ocean. So enter today for a free trip to the fake island of Burma in the Gulf of Mexico. **Thomas** (01:15:06:02 - 01:15:10:06): For legal reasons, I've had a have to say that's that's not that's not happening. **Chip** (01:15:10:10 - 01:15:13:14): Also, for legal reasons, I will say it doesn't exist. **Thomas** (01:15:13:14 - 01:15:31:02): There is a lot of like, historical back and forth about what actually happened there. And one of the leading, theories that scholars kind of lean back on is that he was not a cartographer in the traditional sense. He was more of a photographer. **Chip** (01:15:31:04 - 01:15:32:08): Okay. **Thomas** (01:15:32:10 - 01:15:37:16): And he kind of just drew circles around places that smelled funny to him. **Chip** (01:15:37:18 - 01:15:40:17): See, that makes a lot more sense. Yeah. He was. Photography was a talker. Is is it's a, it is, it is a, a skill that has gone by the wayside. Unfortunately, you don't hear about them as much anymore. Yeah, but but someday, someday, I think. I think we'll be back. Oh, by the way. And last thing, to put a button on this fake island in the Gulf of Mexico. You sent me a text the. That last night, you purchased the same book that I was reading. 01:16:08:22 – 01:16:09:20 UNRESOLVED – About. The elementals. **Thomas** (01:16:10:21 - 01:16:11:01): The. **Chip** (01:16:11:01 - 01:16:25:04): Elements you don't have to get into. I don't know if you started yet or not. You don't have an Ivy, correct. Takes place on the opposite end of the Gulf of Mexico, on the north end at the, the very bottom panhandle of Alabama, looking out into the beautiful Gulf of Mexico. **Thomas** (01:16:25:04 - 01:16:32:05): I'll be reading with wide eyes, looking for any characters who may or may not be having any phantom smells coming in. **Chip** (01:16:32:06 - 01:16:37:03): I think you might find something. There may or may not be a character called Burmese out there. **Thomas** (01:16:37:05 - 01:16:56:13): Per maha maha there. There's certain words or names that, you kind of have a visual image of with who that person is. Yeah. And Maha is not a beautiful person, I don't think. It's not what you name a beautiful person. **Chip** (01:16:56:14 - 01:16:57:23): It's not. It's not what you it's. **Thomas** (01:16:58:04 - 01:17:02:18): You're going to have a look. It won't be for the cover of magazines. You know what I mean? **Chip** (01:17:02:18 - 01:17:15:04): Okay. I can see that. I think that could be a good, like a drink. Maybe we do. We, create a tropical drink called the Burmese. Like. Oh, what can I get you off of a seven? A seven and a Burma. **Thomas** (01:17:15:06 - 01:17:16:21): A Burman soda? **Chip** (01:17:16:23 - 01:17:23:21): Yeah, I had soda. And you know what a Burman soda is? What? It's literally just soda because Burma doesn't exist. **Thomas** (01:17:23:21 - 01:17:35:13): Doesn't exist? Oh, maybe that's like an Na code. You can drop it like a bar. You're not trying to get boozed up, but you want to close a big business deal with an alcoholic. So you're like, yeah. **Chip** (01:17:35:13 - 01:17:40:14): I'll have a he'll have an old fashioned. Yeah. And I'll have a bourbon Coke a Burma. **Thomas** (01:17:40:16 - 01:17:44:08): On the rocks. Yeah. And they just throw a snowball at you. **Chip** (01:17:44:09 - 01:17:47:12): Yeah. Oh that's all right. **Thomas** (01:17:47:14 - 01:17:48:10): I love it. **Chip** (01:17:48:12 - 01:17:54:13): I love, Thomas, what is your, what is your big, good book record. **Thomas** (01:17:54:15 - 01:18:06:15): Buddy? We're going big. Go big, we're going big. And I'm going to tell you right now, Chip, the largest wave ever surfed is going to blow your mind. **Chip** (01:18:06:16 - 01:18:12:09): Well, all right, I've seen some videos. I don't know if it's the record or not, but I've seen some big waves. **Thomas** (01:18:12:12 - 01:18:19:10): You seeing some big waves. But I mean, we're going to get technical. That's what the good book does. It gives us the specifics to put it into context. **Chip** (01:18:19:15 - 01:18:20:05): All right. **Thomas** (01:18:20:07 - 01:18:27:03): I need you to guess for me. How big do you think the ocean's final boss is? **Chip** (01:18:27:05 - 01:18:33:08): Like the wave that the biggest wave form. Is it, like 50ft? I don't know, buddy. **Thomas** (01:18:33:08 - 01:18:38:15): You are a little over halfway there. It is 86ft. Yep. **Chip** (01:18:38:19 - 01:18:44:03): She's. That is. That's stories. Stories high. **Thomas** (01:18:44:05 - 01:18:45:02): That's that's. **Chip** (01:18:45:07 - 01:18:48:03): That is that is surfing the side of a factory right. **Thomas** (01:18:48:03 - 01:19:00:21): There that is roughly eight stories high chip. And it's moving at basically the speed of light and can kill you three ways. Yeah. It can crush you. It can drown you. It can feed you to a shark. **Chip** (01:19:00:23 - 01:19:06:21): If if somebody it can it 100% can feed a shark. Thomas, you. **Thomas** (01:19:06:21 - 01:19:09:02): Ever been swamped by a wave chip? **Chip** (01:19:09:04 - 01:19:10:19): I got Walmart a couple times. Yeah, I've been. **Thomas** (01:19:10:19 - 01:19:26:09): Warped by, like, a three foot wave. It put me in what they call the washing machine, and you just kind of. You don't know what way's up. You're swimming into the sandy bank, and, I'm not a strong swimmer. Okay, so I guess the ocean can pick on me. **Chip** (01:19:26:11 - 01:19:26:21): Sure. **Thomas** (01:19:27:00 - 01:19:32:22): But, this guy, Sebastian Stoner. **Chip** (01:19:33:00 - 01:19:35:20): The the late Sebastian Suiter, I'm assuming I. **Thomas** (01:19:35:20 - 01:19:36:22): Know he's still kicking. 01:19:36:22 – 01:19:37:06 UNRESOLVED – He's still. **Chip** (01:19:37:06 - 01:19:38:18): Crazy. Okay. All right. **Thomas** (01:19:38:20 - 01:19:39:19): But just barely. **Chip** (01:19:39:20 - 01:19:43:10): This is not a point break situation, Swazi. Point break. Okay. **Thomas** (01:19:43:10 - 01:19:58:14): In 2020. Okay. Sebastian. Student. Her student was in na Zara, Portugal. Oh, home of a massive underwater canyon that turns normal waves into behemoths. Chip. **Chip** (01:19:58:14 - 01:19:59:06): Whoa. **Thomas** (01:19:59:06 - 01:20:05:21): He didn't paddle into it. He had to be jet ski towed into it. You can't paddle into these bad boys. **Chip** (01:20:05:21 - 01:20:06:14): Yeah, I would say. **Thomas** (01:20:06:14 - 01:20:27:09): Yeah, it would just be impossible. The pressure at the bottom of ways, like this can break bones and knock you out. So, like, all these big wave surgeries have to train like astronauts do. They, like, go through all these specific trainings to help them hold their breath, to help them be ready to be rescued, to do all this stuff. And, you can't just crash on one of these big waves to get in the good book, you have to actually ride it. **Chip** (01:20:35:16 - 01:20:36:08): Okay. **Thomas** (01:20:36:09 - 01:20:42:15): So like, I mean, he is I don't it probably doesn't go all the way to the crash. He's probably not that high up. **Chip** (01:20:42:16 - 01:20:44:03): He's taking the elevator halfway up. Yeah. **Thomas** (01:20:44:03 - 01:20:58:12): If he is halfway up, that is four stories off of like the bottom of the wave. And you have to barrel it down and maintain enough control to get like a ride that counts. **Chip** (01:20:58:14 - 01:21:00:23): I mean, what goes through your mind at that point? **Thomas** (01:21:01:01 - 01:21:15:00): It can't be anything. It can't be anything. It's just like I. I have to imagine that we have a certain amount of the, like, ability to shut your brain off. That helped us, like, get on stage the first couple of times, you know? **Chip** (01:21:15:00 - 01:21:15:10): Yes. **Thomas** (01:21:15:11 - 01:21:34:05): It's like you just can't think about it. It's just like, there is something like wave like about it. It's like, you know, early on especially, you know, you're going up in like five hours and you just for me, I'm just like on my board at that point. And I'm like, this is going to happen no matter what I do. Like, I just I'm just going to keep waiting. And then the thing is going to happen and then it'll be over. **Chip** (01:21:40:14 - 01:21:44:06): Right? Right. And maybe I will never breathe again. Yes. **Thomas** (01:21:44:12 - 01:21:55:00): And maybe I'll never breathe again. Except, the worst case outcome I ever had getting on stage was people not laughing as much as I'd care for. **Chip** (01:21:55:02 - 01:22:02:07): Right where people were like, I'd prefer someone else rather than being crushed by the ocean. **Thomas** (01:22:02:09 - 01:22:06:11): Yeah, that's a real that's a real rough game to play. **Chip** (01:22:06:13 - 01:22:11:16): A good shot for Sebastian. And that is. Yeah, I will say this I picture Sebastian is never done improv. **Thomas** (01:22:11:16 - 01:22:20:12): No. It's like, who's braver, Sebastian? Surfer or Sebastian Maniscalco? Better go. **Chip** (01:22:20:14 - 01:22:24:18): I mean, that guy has. He gets waves of laughter. I will say that he does. **Thomas** (01:22:24:18 - 01:22:31:19): And he makes bold choices. He does big movements. He talks in a very syncopated manner. **Chip** (01:22:31:21 - 01:22:35:14): I'm sure he has to learn how to breathe in a certain way. Like an astronaut. **Thomas** (01:22:35:15 - 01:22:45:03): Yes. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's imperative to what he does for a living. So, you know, I, I think this is like, shout out Sebastian's. **Chip** (01:22:45:03 - 01:22:53:21): I think to all Sebastian's the Belle and Sebastian the band. Yeah. The, you know, just I that's the only Sebastian I can think of, but that's. **Thomas** (01:22:53:21 - 01:22:55:14): I think the crab from Little Mermaid. **Chip** (01:22:55:14 - 01:22:57:15): The crab from Little Mermaid. That was the other one I was going to go to. **Thomas** (01:22:57:16 - 01:23:05:05): Congratulations. Hats off to, you know, the invisible islands and the very real waves. **Chip** (01:23:05:05 - 01:23:06:08): And the very real waves. **Thomas** (01:23:06:08 - 01:23:10:12): Shout out the ocean. To whom is the founder of both of these? **Chip** (01:23:10:13 - 01:23:16:02): Huzzah to you. The ocean. Great. Great job. Portugal down south, down old South America way. **Thomas** (01:23:16:04 - 01:23:20:05): Who is our motto? Yes. All right, well, you got anything else? **Chip** (01:23:20:05 - 01:23:36:12): Should make sure you call. And if you have, if you have that embarrassing or harrowing crazy, vacation story, or if maybe it's just an embarrassing story where you would want a vacation and you want to think if we if you deserve a vacation call in, let us know. You can do it with your name. You can do it anonymously. And, check that out, but just check me out at Chip Chantry. Check at the summer podcast. Follow us. Subscribe to YouTube. This upper pod and, yeah, that's it for me. **Thomas** (01:23:49:03 - 01:23:58:04): Then tell your friends we're hanging out here every week. Thursdays. This is the Sunbird podcast, where two buddies talk about travel. Kind of, if we get around to it. Yeah. We try. So next time, stay burnt. Front desk. **Chip** (01:24:07:05 - 01:24:14:19): Hi, this is Mr. Chantry in room 308. I need some clarification. Isn't it the person who booked the room that gets to sleep on the top bunk? **Thomas** (01:24:14:19 - 01:24:16:22): We don't have bunk beds here. **Chip** (01:24:17:01 - 01:24:24:23): Oh, but hold on. Wait a minute. Hey, this is our hotel. This is. This is not our hotel. I'm sorry. We're in an Ikea right now.