EXPLORING THE 196FT SUNKEN CITY (World Record Dive Pool) | Sunburnt Podcast Ep. 48

**Chip** (00:00:00:01 - 00:00:02:00): Scrubs and a hairpiece. **Thomas** (00:00:02:03 - 00:00:05:10): We're going to hypochondriac corner, Jeff. **Chip** (00:00:05:15 - 00:00:09:01): Once he did tell us a bit of a harrowing story about a vacation. **Thomas** (00:00:09:04 - 00:00:15:16): We've got a couple banger world records coming your way. Will Smith's. Pole to pole. **Chip** (00:00:15:19 - 00:00:16:13): Pole to pole. **Thomas** (00:00:16:13 - 00:00:21:11): Pole to pole. Yeah. **Chip** (00:00:21:13 - 00:00:39:11): This plan is simple. You may want to write it down. Okay. Take $15,000 from your IRA or for one K. Okay. Take those holdings. Transfer them to the crypto exchange that I'm going to send you. Then you can purchase and start moving as much product as you want. You can even go across state lines, even internationally if you want. And you get a 10% cut on every single case that you move. Okay. That means in under a month, if you hustle, you can make over $50,000. Selling Girl Scout cookies. **Thomas** (00:00:51:15 - 00:00:53:11): Can I only do the 15,000? **Chip** (00:00:53:13 - 00:00:56:12): You want to start with the 15 and then increment up more? **Thomas** (00:00:56:14 - 00:01:02:11): Monthly to this. Thank you so much. Absolutely. Oh, yeah. Actually we started. Oh. Started recording. **Chip** (00:01:02:12 - 00:01:02:20): Hey, everybody. **Thomas** (00:01:02:20 - 00:01:23:15): What up a burnt ones? This is the Sun Burn podcast, where two certified Ding Dongs talk about tropical travel. Woohoo! To my right, as always, is an unbelievable stand up comedian. You know him from Netflix and his standup special. Move closer. It's Philadelphia's own chip chantry. **Chip** (00:01:23:15 - 00:01:37:20): And over here to my left is Emmy award winning producer writer. He puts the fire in. I got so scared. I ran out of the theater during avatar fire and ash. Mr. Thomas O'Brien. **Thomas** (00:01:37:22 - 00:01:40:11): I don't like blue people. No, I don't. **Chip** (00:01:40:12 - 00:01:42:04): That comes from your Smurf it version. **Thomas** (00:01:42:06 - 00:01:46:02): Smurfs are Smurf is the most terrifying word in the English language. **Chip** (00:01:46:03 - 00:01:53:12): I'll say it on record right now. Thomas. Yeah. Never seen a minute of avatar. Don't have real any concept of it. I've seen. **Thomas** (00:01:53:14 - 00:01:53:19): Yeah. **Chip** (00:01:53:20 - 00:02:12:01): Clips of, you know, obviously I've seen the pictures. I've seen the blue people. Yeah. It just doesn't seem real. And I know that's crazy to say for a science fiction type fantasy film. Yeah, but, there's nothing grounded that I really was like, you know what? I need to. I need to take this in for two hours or so. **Thomas** (00:02:12:01 - 00:02:14:04): To James Cameron. Some people might say. **Chip** (00:02:14:04 - 00:02:22:16): Excuse me, does this chicken taste Cameron to you ever? Do you ever said anything back to an a restaurant? Because it's it's its taste to Cameron. **Thomas** (00:02:22:20 - 00:02:23:14): To Cameron. **Chip** (00:02:23:18 - 00:02:28:21): Yeah. This tastes this tastes like Terminator to. **Thomas** (00:02:28:23 - 00:02:32:01): You know, I like to send a dish back. Yeah. I love to send a dish back. **Chip** (00:02:32:01 - 00:02:52:19): Love to send a dish back because it shows you who's boss. He's like, yeah, this food that you took time, love and effort to prepare. And you also have 50 other plates to prepare right now. Yeah. Take mine back, make it better. And yes, I know you're behind closed doors and you have every opportunity to spit in it, but I want you to do better. Bring it back to me. **Thomas** (00:02:54:08 - 00:03:16:20): That's the part that I like. People that haven't worked in kitchens or in restaurants, are usually the ones that are the worst, you know. Sure. I think there are people with some means. They learned how to be ding dongs when ordering and interacting with servers and like, it's not a Scott if there's an honest mistake or something weird happened, fine, right? But like, if you'd ordered and you're being weird and you're sending it back and you're being rude, like there is no guarantee there's not going to be a big old Luke. Yeah. Mixed in your gazpacho, you know. **Chip** (00:03:29:23 - 00:03:37:15): Exactly. And that's 50% of what gazpacho is anyway. And then just to add to it, no, I don't need that. I don't need that at all. **Thomas** (00:03:37:16 - 00:03:52:12): I will say avatar two. Yeah it is I think it's called The Way of Water. It's set in a tropical island environment. Okay. There is some really beautiful, beautiful imagery that is, two gentlemen that host a tropical travel podcast. **Chip** (00:03:52:14 - 00:03:55:06): So you're saying that avatar two is a visual feast? **Thomas** (00:03:55:06 - 00:03:58:12): It's a visual feast for the eyes. It does taste a little camera. **Chip** (00:03:58:12 - 00:04:05:10): Okay, that's all right. But, you know, hey, it's a feast nonetheless. That was. I don't know if I ever told you this, but when I worked at a video store, me and my buddy Adrian. **Thomas** (00:04:05:13 - 00:04:06:04): Yo, Adrian. **Chip** (00:04:06:04 - 00:04:26:11): Yo, Adrian, we would make notes. Not just us, but like in the computer system for our small chain of video stores. I said our small chain, like, I was a part owner. I was a clerk. But there was like a screen that had notes about the customer. So when the customer would give you their phone number and get into your account and show you their history of, of their rentals. And then there was a note page. So it's like, hey, they disputed this late charge on July 25th, or they did this or whatever, and it was just to make sure because they people would always bring videos back late and then claim that they weren't late. And then it's like, hey, you've claimed this five times, you're screwing off it, right? **Thomas** (00:04:44:19 - 00:04:45:03): Yeah. **Chip** (00:04:45:08 - 00:04:54:05): And some people had like a secret code that they would use. They would have to tell you a secret word or you couldn't. It was the secrecy of the 1990s. **Thomas** (00:04:54:05 - 00:04:55:21): Thomas password. Yeah. **Chip** (00:04:55:23 - 00:05:03:22): And there was this one guy who was just just this pretentious dork. And he was he was also kind of a jerk, too. **Thomas** (00:05:03:23 - 00:05:04:21): Nice guy, though. **Chip** (00:05:04:21 - 00:05:12:22): Yeah. I believe he was a doctor. He would come in with his scrubs. He. Okay? He always wore two things. Scrubs and a hairpiece. **Thomas** (00:05:12:22 - 00:05:14:09): Oh, nice. Dude, I, too. **Chip** (00:05:14:09 - 00:05:16:13): That combo right there. Scrubs hairpiece. **Thomas** (00:05:16:13 - 00:05:19:08): Did you ever ask him how he would like to pay? **Chip** (00:05:19:10 - 00:05:25:21): How much you like to pay, sir? Boy, they're really going to scalp you for this one. But. **Thomas** (00:05:25:23 - 00:05:26:18): Oh, too late. **Chip** (00:05:26:18 - 00:05:46:19): But he was kind of a jerk. But then he would also just say pretentious things and be like, I forget what movie it was, but let's just say Terminator two be like, you know, the plot wasn't really there, but, man, the thing's a visual feast. You like, say stuff like that. So we would write stuff like, this dork has to pay and he says dumb like visual feast. And it we would just make notes about him because every time you would just do something dumb, say. And literally at one point I was working with a girl and she like, oh, she came in, she was waiting on him. She opened up his page and she started like she took her off guard. And she was looking at the notes and she started giggling and he got wind of it like he figured it out. He's like, why does everybody laugh when they open up my computer? I want to know what that says. What's I say? We're like, it doesn't say anything, sir. It's like exit, exit, exit. But, I'm sure that man, if he's still alive, would probably love avatar. Fire and Ash. **Thomas** (00:06:24:08 - 00:06:26:16): Oh, man, that guy's eating with his eyes. **Chip** (00:06:26:18 - 00:06:27:18): Visual feast. **Thomas** (00:06:27:21 - 00:06:31:19): Also, like, have you have you told this story to many people before? **Chip** (00:06:31:19 - 00:06:32:10): I don't believe so. **Thomas** (00:06:32:10 - 00:06:39:02): Because I Han hands to heaven. Dude, that's the exact plot of the Americans. **Chip** (00:06:39:04 - 00:06:43:05): Is it? Yeah, I will, I'll have to check that out. Just that. **Thomas** (00:06:43:06 - 00:06:44:08): Yeah, yeah. **Chip** (00:06:44:10 - 00:06:54:06): Speaking of the Americans, I, the missus and I just finished watching, and spitting in people's food. The bear. We just finished this season of the bear. **Thomas** (00:06:54:07 - 00:06:56:03): Nice house Carmy and the gang doing. They're doing. **Chip** (00:06:56:03 - 00:07:03:01): Good. Well, they're they're doing good. That, you know, they they have they have conflicts. And then they resolve them, Thomas. You know. **Thomas** (00:07:03:02 - 00:07:06:14): Oh, they create a little tension and then they release it. **Chip** (00:07:06:14 - 00:07:28:01): Yeah, I had heard and I could be wrong. I had heard a number of reviews about this fourth season that were fairly negative. People weren't enjoying it. Yeah, I really liked it, I enjoyed it. The last episode or two was a little a little overwrought. I think it had to be done below overwrought and went some places that I, I would have liked to see some other things happen, but, it'll be interesting to see what what next season brings. **Thomas** (00:07:28:07 - 00:07:32:03): Oh. That's great. Yeah. We, we couldn't get through that third season. **Chip** (00:07:32:06 - 00:07:35:11): That third season is a bear. **Thomas** (00:07:35:13 - 00:07:37:21): It's a bear in the woods. And you know what they do? **Chip** (00:07:37:23 - 00:07:38:14): They wear hats. **Thomas** (00:07:38:15 - 00:07:40:12): They wear hats because it's cold. **Chip** (00:07:40:14 - 00:08:00:23): By the way, I have to. I have to say something right there. Speaking of wearing hats, I'm wearing a hat, but I'm also wearing. I do feel a little disingenuous. I feel like I'm robbing the viewer of something, and I apologize. I want to state that I am 100% wearing my Aloha shirt here, but it is underneath a sweater vest. I'm doing. I'm doing the Mr. Rogers thing of coming in with a sweater, you know, changing sweaters, you know? Yeah. Putting a sweater on. I had to put a sweater on. A sweatshirt on it is 13 degrees in Philadelphia right now. We are under a foot of snow and ice. Yeah. And for the next at least fortnight, Thomas fortnight. That's two weeks. I don't I think one day we are going above freezing. **Thomas** (00:08:30:14 - 00:08:31:13): That's unacceptable. **Chip** (00:08:31:18 - 00:08:43:09): And there there's just piles and piles of ice and snow everywhere. I will not be moving my car for probably at least a week. And, even though I dug it, I like I already dug it out, **Thomas** (00:08:43:11 - 00:08:59:10): Just having to dig out a car just to dry. Like I am not used to it anymore. No, I live in Los Angeles. Yeah, it is chilly for me now. It's chillier than I care for it to be, but the the thought of having to dig out your car just to go somewhere. **Chip** (00:08:59:12 - 00:09:02:12): You went to the beach last week, Thomas. You went to the beach. **Thomas** (00:09:02:13 - 00:09:05:12): Pier and it was great. It was 80 degrees. Yeah. **Chip** (00:09:05:14 - 00:09:19:18): I dug out my car like I could drive it out right now because I am responsible and I got the snow away from it. And it was it was, heart wrenching, but I, I did dig out my car, but even if I dug it, drove it out, I would not be like that spot would be gone by the time I got back. And there are no other spots because there's just mountains of snow everywhere. And it's probably going to be like this for the next, the next at least two weeks. I'm going to say, yeah. **Thomas** (00:09:28:05 - 00:09:38:04): We got to just buckle it there. I there's been a lot of chaos. Yep. In the Gulf of Mexico. America. Yes. There's been a lot of turmoil in some of the Caribbean. We just gotta pick. **Chip** (00:09:38:04 - 00:09:39:16): We got to pick a place. We got to go. **Thomas** (00:09:39:16 - 00:09:40:08): Stop. **Chip** (00:09:40:08 - 00:09:40:19): I got it. **Thomas** (00:09:40:19 - 00:09:53:10): On the In Paradise tour because, like, when it's cold, this is when we need it. This is when we need to be planning this, when we need to be researching. This is when we need to be just living in that mental space we're going to be occupying. **Chip** (00:09:53:10 - 00:10:00:19): Because do I need a map? I need a thumbtack, and I need to put that thumbtack somewhere in a map. **Thomas** (00:10:00:22 - 00:10:03:03): Tic tac map tac. **Chip** (00:10:03:05 - 00:10:14:09): Give the dog a bone, even though it's a little chilly on your side and it is, frigid over here. You know what we should do before we officially start this thing? Yeah. **Thomas** (00:10:14:11 - 00:10:16:01): We got to get an old fashioned slather. **Chip** (00:10:16:02 - 00:10:24:19): Get an old fashioned slather going on here because, hey, you know, snow is reflective, and you can get, you can get a sunburn if you are not careful. **Thomas** (00:10:24:19 - 00:10:30:04): You can also get, you know, freezer burn on your old. **Chip** (00:10:30:06 - 00:10:31:15): Ding dong is what you're saying. **Thomas** (00:10:31:15 - 00:10:32:10): On your brain. **Chip** (00:10:32:11 - 00:10:34:19): Freezer burn on your Dan. God. **Thomas** (00:10:34:21 - 00:10:38:16): This dude. Okay. All right, I need a up. **Chip** (00:10:38:18 - 00:11:10:05): By the way, it was just over two. Well, two months ago. Exactly that. We were in Hawaii, which is beautiful and horrific at the same time. To think about that. Yeah, literally the night and day of what's happening and, what I'm feeling in the world right now. Like, I have to go out for some milk in just a little bit, and it's going to be nine layers, and I'm going to be freezing and falling all over the place, trudging, trudging to the grocery, not to the ABC store, I'll tell you that much. **Thomas** (00:11:10:05 - 00:11:17:14): Yeah, it's a different, different chain of stores. And you're still promised us a tell all exposé on the ABC store. **Chip** (00:11:17:14 - 00:11:32:04): You know what? Okay, sometime soon, I am going to dig in and let's do a little, little deep dive on the ABC store. I need to do that because I. I want to know. Yeah, the Piggly Wiggly of the Hawaiian Islands. I want to know the history. **Thomas** (00:11:32:05 - 00:11:42:15): Yeah. Can you imagine? I, we're so chilly right now. If we got on a plane tomorrow, we could be floating by noon. **Chip** (00:11:42:17 - 00:11:59:14): Just I that's the thing. I think I go, I two things that I go back to the most about Hawaii is just being on the beach. And seeing Diamondhead, like, just that, visual right there and then just floating on our little floats in the ocean. Just not a care in the world. **Thomas** (00:11:59:14 - 00:12:06:21): I could tell my dad was missing it. He called the other day and asked if I had any photos of him floating. **Chip** (00:12:06:23 - 00:12:07:16): No, I. **Thomas** (00:12:07:16 - 00:12:08:06): I was just. **Chip** (00:12:08:06 - 00:12:09:19): Like, do you. **Thomas** (00:12:09:21 - 00:12:13:20): Know, I mean, like, it's it's not. We don't bring our cameras down. **Chip** (00:12:13:21 - 00:12:30:08): Okay? No, I think I do have a photo of him floating. It would remind me after we finish recording. Yeah, I'm going to go into myself. It's not going to be a good photo, but it's. It's going to be a photo from eight stories and one hotel away. But I believe I might have a photo of you guys floating him included. **Thomas** (00:12:30:12 - 00:12:34:16): This is a photo of my father shaving. Yeah. What were you guys doing? **Chip** (00:12:34:16 - 00:12:36:17): This is. What is he wearing in this one? This is. **Thomas** (00:12:36:22 - 00:12:40:05): It looks like a Speedo that's got a a cartoon turkey. **Chip** (00:12:40:09 - 00:12:47:17): And why is he holding a martini glass and one of those, cigarets in the long plastic tip? That's what's happening here. **Thomas** (00:12:47:20 - 00:12:56:01): What was going on with the long plastic tip chip? I don't know anything about, smoking anything. But why were they getting that length on the tip? **Chip** (00:12:56:01 - 00:12:57:23): It was ritzy. It was cool. **Thomas** (00:12:57:23 - 00:12:59:21): It was fashion above function. **Chip** (00:12:59:21 - 00:13:15:16): Fashionable function, I would assume. Maybe it does. It keep it away from your, like, fancy dress or something like that. Oh, I'm going to look into that. I want to know what that long plastic tip. Because like the only time I ever really interacted with it was like in a, like a Pink Panther cartoon when I was. Yeah, exactly. You know, did did Batam have what do you remember, madam? The puppet horrifying part from from like the 70s and 80s. It was it was like it was, madam. It that was the guy's name, I forget. And madam was there. He was like a ventriloquist back in, like the 70s, early 80s, sort of what he called those, variety show days or, like, she'd be, like, on the Gong Show is like a, guess he's a judge or whatever, but she was like, this, like, horrifying looking lady, like, kind of old lady. I had a bath or sort of thing with this big long chin. And, had she used to, she used to frighten me because, like, when I was very little, like, I couldn't tell if she was a real lady or not, because, you know, you're three years old. You're like, is she's on an adult show and talking like an adult. Why am I very frightened by her? **Thomas** (00:14:06:21 - 00:14:08:18): No, I don't I don't know, madam at all. **Chip** (00:14:08:19 - 00:14:29:16): Look her up. She will horrify you. Matt, just look up, Madame puppet. But I think the plastic cigar. I think things ebb and flow are styles change, our needs change. So we had that for why it went away. Then you have, like, the little tiny plastic tip cigars. You know, the. You know, those little ones? My my grandfather used to smoke those little ones, right? **Thomas** (00:14:29:19 - 00:14:39:08): Yeah. The little ones make sense. It's like keeping your lip off the thing. The long ones. That's kind of what it reminds me of is a scuba for smoking. **Chip** (00:14:39:10 - 00:14:40:12): Like a cigar snorkel? **Thomas** (00:14:40:13 - 00:14:41:10): Yeah, a cig. **Chip** (00:14:41:10 - 00:14:58:00): Stark, like a Marlboro, a Marlboro scuba tank. Yeah, I think I think that's what it is. But I see things change. Like sizes change. Like, remember when, like there were, like, fake cigarets that you could smoke, like people try it generally like trying to cut down on smoking. **Thomas** (00:14:58:01 - 00:15:00:13): I remember the kids we had. **Chip** (00:15:00:15 - 00:15:14:19): Oh, candy cigarets, candy cigarets. They're like, here's a great one. Or see what we did. We knew that that was bad for you. We knew that candy cigarets bad for it. So what we would do is kids. We would chop them up into fine, fine powder and then snort them. **Thomas** (00:15:14:19 - 00:15:16:10): Yeah, we just had a candy vape. **Chip** (00:15:16:13 - 00:15:30:09): Just a little candy vape just that. Well, here's the thing. That's what I'm saying. We started a couple years ago with those fake cigarets. They looked like cigarets. But you would. They had like, that blue tip on them and you'd suck on them. And there was like, it was like, oh, there's vapor in there. You're like, oh, vaporized cigarets. Yeah. And then it became the vape pen. Yep. And then it's like now people have like. It's like the vape cartridge where they like, walk around with, like, it looks like a pack of cigarets with a nipple on it. And this is, it's like, Yeah. I literally saw the other day driving a car. A woman, it looked like she was sucking on a curling iron, a big purple curling iron. She was just had this thing. It was like, like it was. It was machinery, Thomas. That she was that she was, a vape in a way. On while driving. **Thomas** (00:16:03:22 - 00:16:16:13): Oh, what about this? What about a business where you, try and help macho guys stop smoking? And it's just in the shape of, a male. **Chip** (00:16:16:14 - 00:16:17:03): Ding dong. **Thomas** (00:16:17:03 - 00:16:18:05): Reproductive organ. **Chip** (00:16:18:05 - 00:16:19:06): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:16:19:07 - 00:16:25:02): It's. So if they want if they want to get a hit, they gotta hold the whole thing up to their mouth and take a big pull. **Chip** (00:16:25:02 - 00:16:30:09): And it also it it's like it's your phone is activated and it takes a selfie as you're doing it. **Thomas** (00:16:30:14 - 00:16:37:22): Yeah, yeah. Have you seen that there's a new Will Smith, series on like one of the streaming services? **Chip** (00:16:37:22 - 00:16:43:00): I thought you I thought you were going to say a new Will Smith cereal. And I was like, no, I gotta check that out, though. I'm sure it's. **Thomas** (00:16:43:00 - 00:16:43:22): Delicious. It's, **Chip** (00:16:44:00 - 00:16:46:19): It's got slaps. **Thomas** (00:16:46:21 - 00:16:50:01): Fresh slap as of Hudson Valley. So. **Chip** (00:16:50:01 - 00:16:51:16): Wait, he's got it. He's got a new series. **Thomas** (00:16:51:21 - 00:17:03:02): He's got a new, like, the discovery series or something. It's like a nature series of some kind. And the the name of it is Will Smith's pole to pole. **Chip** (00:17:03:02 - 00:17:04:20): Pole to pole, pole to pole. **Thomas** (00:17:04:21 - 00:17:07:11): Yeah. It sounds like such an innuendo. **Chip** (00:17:07:11 - 00:17:07:23): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:17:07:23 - 00:17:13:07): He's already had, like, a weird couple of years. Yeah. And then he comes out blazing with pole to pole. **Chip** (00:17:13:07 - 00:17:17:02): Yeah. Bienvenidos. Awkward is what I have to say. **Thomas** (00:17:17:03 - 00:17:23:16): Party in the city that will steal your soul. I'm going to meet you. Pole to pole. **Chip** (00:17:23:18 - 00:17:27:07): Which suit? Okay, so it's it's is he exploring? **Thomas** (00:17:27:09 - 00:17:32:08): I don't know, I think it's just like. It's like a different way of saying the whole world. **Chip** (00:17:32:08 - 00:17:32:21): Yeah, I get that. **Thomas** (00:17:32:21 - 00:17:34:14): But just pole to pole, it's, **Chip** (00:17:34:16 - 00:17:39:07): I would have gone with getting jiggy with geography that's branded. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:17:39:09 - 00:17:43:00): It invokes positive a more positive time in his career. **Chip** (00:17:43:00 - 00:17:44:10): Yep. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:17:44:12 - 00:17:47:14): But no, he's out there going pole to pole on television. **Chip** (00:17:47:16 - 00:17:49:20): God bless him. Philadelphia zone, Will Smith. **Thomas** (00:17:49:20 - 00:17:57:05): Oh, yeah. What's West Philadelphia race? To be more specific, that's only one, one direction away from where you live. **Chip** (00:17:57:06 - 00:18:10:22): He grew up adjacent, right around the block. Speaking of adjacent, should we, should we jump in? I mean, we've been going. We've been. Well, we've been hitting all cylinders on this chilly, chilly morning. Do we want to officially jump into this podcast ago? **Thomas** (00:18:10:23 - 00:18:32:03): We've been vaporizing here. We have this podcast so far. Yeah. Today we're getting into a Trouble in Paradise ship. We got another nice call, and you can tell us your Trouble in Paradise story. A call the number (310) 845-6038. We just want to hear your wildest or worst vacation stories. **Chip** (00:18:32:07 - 00:18:46:13): Or maybe even just an embarrassing story that you have that you want to share. You can do it anonymously if you want. That, asks us, do you deserve a vacation for going through this embarrassing situation in your work life or home life, or wherever it may have taken place? **Thomas** (00:18:46:13 - 00:18:48:00): Yeah, we're interested in you. **Chip** (00:18:48:01 - 00:18:48:06): Yep. **Thomas** (00:18:48:11 - 00:18:55:13): That's what we're trying. We're trying to be, great partners in this relationship because you have to listen to us all the time. Yeah. **Chip** (00:18:55:14 - 00:18:56:06): We want to hear you. **Thomas** (00:18:56:08 - 00:19:16:14): We're here to listen to you. We want to have some fun. We want to turn that frown that you had in the moment upside down. And, Yeah. So the number again, (310) 845-6038. It's voicemail box. Whatever you put on there, you're giving us the right to do whatever we want to with it on the podcast. And yeah, that'd be great. So we got that. We've got we're getting into the good book chair here. We've got a couple banger world records coming your way, and we're just going to have some fun, pretending we're in the sun because it is the dead of winter and we are just, in our mind, taking little mental vacations. Come along with us. Feel the sun, feel the sand. This is somebody podcast where we talk about comedy and tropical travel. If you think those two things should go together, stay tuned. **Chip** (00:19:48:08 - 00:19:55:00): Front desk. Hi, this is Mr. Chantry in room 308. I'll be having some guests over soon. If you could just direct them up to my room. **Thomas** (00:19:55:06 - 00:20:00:02): We saw the flier she posted. Do you have a petting zoo up in your room? **Chip** (00:20:00:04 - 00:20:04:07): No. I brought all these animals up here not to get. Pet, could you. **Thomas** (00:20:04:09 - 00:20:05:09): Please just put down some. **Chip** (00:20:05:09 - 00:20:07:06): Tarps? Absolutely. Chip. **Thomas** (00:20:07:07 - 00:20:15:19): Thomas, we need to reheat our trip to Hawaii. It's just tell me something that's drifted into your mind in the last week from the trip. **Chip** (00:20:15:20 - 00:20:34:19): It's those little moments. Okay, here's what I would suggest to people is when you're when you take a photo, I mean, you could take copious photos on your phone because, hey, there's no film anymore. No thing of the past. Take pictures like, don't just take pictures of, like, all the sightseeing spots and like, hey, let's position everybody on the beach and portrait selfie. That's great. That's wonderful. Take all those. But it's just like those little moments. Like, just one morning, Kim and I went down to Duke's for breakfast and they had a little breakfast buffet, and it was great. And we were just like, sitting there like I was. She got up first and walked to get her food, and then I went and got mine. But as she was there, I was just like sitting there looking over the beach with all the palm trees. There. And I just took a photo or two, like just from our table, like out to the beach. And it's just like just that little moment. It's like, oh, that'll warm me up in two months when I'm literally under a foot of snow and ice, which I am right now, and I can just pull that out like it. It's not the big moments. The big moments are great. Big moments are wonderful. But it's those little tiny moments or like that moment that, we were talking about before when we were at the, botanical Garden. Like, sure, taking it all in, but just like hanging out, getting just to be in the parking lot is being in the parking lot. The Botanic Garden is cooler than sitting under a foot of snow and ice right now. **Thomas** (00:21:43:12 - 00:22:05:10): Yeah, it's true, the, the little things, the little things matter. And it's what makes it so special. It's the compounded amount of just positive feelings and being there, it being warm, it being beautiful. It sounding fantastic, smelling fantastic. The wildlife being curious, being excited. **Chip** (00:22:05:12 - 00:22:07:00): Yeah, a little thing. **Thomas** (00:22:07:03 - 00:22:24:08): I mean that that's I, that's why I love doing this podcast. It's like it's just a little hit weekly where we come in and we kind of talk about these things, but now that we've experienced them together to a certain degree, it's also like, it's just so nice. Like it's great to have the next trip to look forward to. But at this point, you know, sometimes on the Apple TV or whatever, they'll be a nice just hit a pictures rotating, it's just like a screensaver type situation. And I sometimes it catches the corner my eye, I'm like, I can't believe that. That's my life. Yeah. When when you take all the high points and just put them back to back to back, it starts to feel pretty nice. And sometimes, especially when it's cold, especially when the world's a little scary. We forget that, man. You know. **Chip** (00:22:53:16 - 00:23:14:14): We don't take enough photos of the bad times, though. That's true. Just walk with me for a moment, all right? Not a lot of funeral pictures happening. No, there's not a whole lot of photos of you taking a selfie while you're crying with your boss who just fired you next to you, like, hey, okay, so I have. All right, so just a month severance. That's it. After all these years and you're kicking me out of the streets in this economy. Oh, and then you start crying, and then you're like, hey, can we just get a quick pic? And he's like, oh, sure. And then you just you take a picture and you're crying and he's just he's numb. Right? He doesn't care. **Thomas** (00:23:28:09 - 00:23:34:15): There's a lot of glow up photos okay. Not a lot of gout. Inflamed up photo. **Chip** (00:23:34:15 - 00:23:54:11): Yes. Is what what? I'm trying again. We have the gigs on our phone. Yeah, I feel like. What if you did have this? Yeah. It's okay. Here's the thing. It's kind of like waking up from a nightmare. Some people hate nightmares. And I understand that. Some people have nightmares. They have. They're haunted by things. That's horrible. And I feel bad. But just a general. Your average run of the mill nightmare. I love a nightmare because you wake up from it and you're not living that anymore. But like, imagine if you had just a carousel of those photos on Apple TV or what have you. Thomas. And you look and you're like, oh, there's the time that Melissa dumped me. And again, I'm crying in a Wendy's parking lot while she is, coming out of the restaurant with her new boyfriend, you're like, that's not me anymore. I've moved on from that boy. I feel so much better than that moment. **Thomas** (00:24:24:21 - 00:24:32:23): But, I mean, I think we we've been warned about this culturally for a long time. We know the recipe for the facts of life. **Chip** (00:24:32:23 - 00:24:33:20): Yes, we do. **Thomas** (00:24:33:22 - 00:24:38:15): And you've got to take the good and the bad. You take. Take the good pictures. Take the bad pictures. **Chip** (00:24:38:15 - 00:24:39:00): Yep. **Thomas** (00:24:39:02 - 00:24:39:14): And there you. **Chip** (00:24:39:14 - 00:24:40:01): Have the facts of. **Thomas** (00:24:40:01 - 00:24:53:13): Life. The facts of life. All right, Chip, we need to take a quick detour. This is going to be another quick trip. We're going to Hypochondriac corner, to talk about an experience I have. **Chip** (00:24:53:13 - 00:24:56:23): I hate work, I hate this already. Please go. Proceed. Thomas. **Thomas** (00:24:56:23 - 00:24:58:04): Chip and I both. **Chip** (00:24:58:05 - 00:24:59:16): I hate this. Go ahead. **Thomas** (00:24:59:16 - 00:25:19:01): Both famous hypochondriacs. And I know you'll understand this. I know you'll get it. I woke up unexpectedly, like, unexpectedly, completely unexplained, with a pain in, like, the toe next to my big toe. Sure. And there was no explanation for why. **Chip** (00:25:19:02 - 00:25:20:11): No stubbing, no nothing. **Thomas** (00:25:20:11 - 00:25:29:15): I want you to give me 2 or 3 things. You think, that ran through my mind that I thought might have been the cause of this as a hypochondriac yourself. **Chip** (00:25:29:15 - 00:25:41:03): Okay. Obvious blood clot. Yeah, okay. Of course. Blood clot that will cause death. Okay. Gangrene. The toes. **Thomas** (00:25:41:05 - 00:25:54:15): I didn't go get. I didn't go gangrene. But there was a point in time where I did think, you know what? Maybe this is a fungus that has come in through the nail and is writing my body inside out, right? Right. **Chip** (00:25:54:17 - 00:26:07:12): There's that. And then obviously there is. I mean, I can almost guarantee that if I took control of your computer, there would be a web MD search for toe cancer. **Thomas** (00:26:07:14 - 00:26:19:08): I thought about that. I thought about that, the other one that popped into my mind. And this is just, like, wild. And because I don't know anything about it, but I've heard that people can lose their feet from, diabetes. **Chip** (00:26:19:08 - 00:26:24:11): Oh. Oh, that's a big one. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Because you're like, oh, that's it. I have the sugars. **Thomas** (00:26:24:13 - 00:26:47:02): It's all. Yeah, I got the sugars. Yeah. So I did think about that too. And you'll be happy to know. Yeah. That this, this all went down on a Friday famously the Pickle boys play on Saturday. And I was thinking, like, you know, if I do have to get this foot amputated, that's going to really put a damper on the Saturday festivities. But I woke up Saturday. No pain at all. No. No clue what happened. No clue what was going on. But I really did like it. Was not even a big toe. **Chip** (00:26:57:00 - 00:26:57:13): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:26:57:15 - 00:27:15:01): It was just one of the other gangs in the bunch, and it was sore and my immediate train of thought was to be like, how's this going to kill him? Yeah. How is this? What? What takes me down? So that's been hypochondriac corner. **Chip** (00:27:15:02 - 00:27:15:07): There it. **Thomas** (00:27:15:07 - 00:27:17:22): Is. Thanks for joining us today. **Chip** (00:27:17:23 - 00:27:23:14): We're all going to die some day. That's. I think that's the nice little jingle that we have on there. **Thomas** (00:27:23:17 - 00:27:25:15): Yeah, yeah. Did it do. **Chip** (00:27:25:19 - 00:27:26:14): We're all going to die. **Thomas** (00:27:26:14 - 00:27:32:06): We're all going to die someday. Yeah. People love it when we do. When we say love. **Chip** (00:27:32:06 - 00:27:36:04): Hypochondriac corner I might be my new favorite segment. **Thomas** (00:27:36:06 - 00:27:39:22): It's it's, it's a segment that I knew you'd understand. Yeah. **Chip** (00:27:39:23 - 00:28:02:21): Actually, if we can reopen that corner just very briefly. Definitely had some a little chest pain while I was shoveling snow the other day. Oh, yeah. That's. Yeah, that's a fun time because you're like, this is this is not the way to go because you hear that? That's that is a thing of like, yeah, you can have a heart attack from shoveling snow because it's that muscle of like, whatever, not the youngest anymore. And I was like, I don't want to go this way. That was just I it was, I was I was more embarrassed than scared. Like, do you know, I was I was more scared of the embarrassment of like, oh, that's going to be in the open. Not that that's an embarrassing way to go, but it's like I was shoveling snow and the old ticker went and it turned out it was, I think heartburn and just a little strain. **Thomas** (00:28:22:06 - 00:28:30:13): Yeah. Any, any, soreness to the arms or chest is an automatic red flag for your body to be like, you're. **Chip** (00:28:30:13 - 00:28:32:00): Having a heart attack because you. **Thomas** (00:28:32:00 - 00:28:48:23): Probably need to go to the let's just go. And it's like, no, what happened was you tried to lift a, you know, 100 pound bin of, snow clothes into the attic on that old rickety ladder and were holding it at a weird angle. **Chip** (00:28:48:23 - 00:28:51:08): That's what happened. Yeah, yeah. Pulled a pec a little too far. **Thomas** (00:28:51:08 - 00:28:54:02): Peter pulled, pack of peppers? **Chip** (00:28:54:02 - 00:28:59:21): Yes. And then had to call his doctor or his pediatrician, or in this case, podiatrist. **Thomas** (00:28:59:21 - 00:29:07:03): If I would have gone a couple more days with that toe. Podiatrist would have got some of the sweet, sweet, anxiety money. You know. **Chip** (00:29:07:06 - 00:29:09:02): Some of that Thomas co-pay is what I'm saying to. **Thomas** (00:29:09:02 - 00:29:11:00): The copays ship, aren't they? Through the roof? **Chip** (00:29:11:00 - 00:29:14:04): Speaking of through the roof. These calls have been through the roof with embarrassing, embarrassing vacation stories. Should we, should we take one of these calls? **Thomas** (00:29:22:13 - 00:29:44:03): Let's take to this call. This is Trouble in Paradise segment. You can get on the action, too, if you have an embarrassing, vacation story. Hit us up at (310) 845-6038. Please do it. This is just fun. You can be totally anonymous if, you just want to throw one out there and and, get it off your chest. Unburden yourself. Talk to a couple of hypochondriacs that can probably relate to whatever you're going through. Just do it. Today we have, your old buddy. **Chip** (00:29:53:11 - 00:30:00:17): Right, chip? Jeff? Lifelines? Yes, from the old junk Miles podcast from. I mean, man, I'm a man of many podcasts. **Thomas** (00:30:00:19 - 00:30:01:02): Yeah. **Chip** (00:30:01:06 - 00:30:20:08): And, Jeff and I have been doing the Jack podcast for about a decade now. He he sprung that on me. I can't believe it. And, it started out as a running podcast where we literally would run while we podcast it. We literally would run with people. It was amazing. We've moved on from that. But, he also gone on to do something. He's gone on to do so many amazing things, but he's got a website that everybody should check out called Go Jeff, go that it's Jeff, not the absurd Geoffroy. Oh, no thanks. **Thomas** (00:30:32:18 - 00:30:33:07): Oh, thanks. **Chip** (00:30:33:08 - 00:30:52:23): Go, Jeff. Go, go! Jeff. Go. Dot com. Where he lists. He's a huge music fan like me. He, posts music facts, music stores and just cool, interesting facts about the world. That's all positive. That's all good. It's all good news. And, it's a nice escape from some of these times we're having. **Thomas** (00:30:53:01 - 00:30:54:00): That's great. Go, Jeff. **Chip** (00:30:54:00 - 00:31:04:20): Go! But, Jeff, I will say not all news is good news with Jeff, because he did tell us a bit of a harrowing story about a vacation that he had, a couple of years ago. **Thomas** (00:31:04:21 - 00:31:07:00): We were ready to, kick it off. Yep. **Chip** (00:31:07:00 - 00:31:11:01): Roll those tapes. All right. 00:31:11:03 – 00:31:39:04 UNRESOLVED – Hello, vacation boys. Jeff Lyons here from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I have a vacation story that's kind of embarrassing. More of, like, a semi ugly American embarrassing tale. Not really ugly. But anyway, my extended family and I were in Ireland for a big, fun vacation many years ago, and after a day of sightseeing and a long dinner, we went back to the hotel bar, knocking back many pints with my cousins and uncles. 00:31:39:04 – 00:32:00:22 UNRESOLVED – Just having a grand old time and it was getting very late and we were the only ones in the lounge in the bar area. And I went up to the bartender, whose name was Jimmy, and I said, Jimmy, how well, how long are you? You guys open for how long? How much longer? And he looked at me and he said, let me tell you, we're open as late as you are here. 00:32:01:01 – 00:32:22:18 UNRESOLVED – I'm like, well, he goes, I'm here as long as you're here. And I'm like, wait, you don't close until the last people have finished their beers? And he's like, yep. And I'm like, you don't even give a last call or you can't stay here. He's like, nope, that's not what we do here. And I was like, oh my God, this poor guy has been here serving us for at least an hour or two longer than he's used to. 00:32:22:20 – 00:32:45:17 UNRESOLVED – Didn't say a word and I apologized and he just laughed. And he's like, nope, happens all the time. So a word to the wise for, Americans traveling abroad, especially to lovely hotel bars in, Cork, Dublin, Galway cabin, you know, don't overstay your welcome. All right, guys, love the show. Talk to you soon. There he is, Jeff Lyons. There he is. Jeff Lyons. Just a it's such a nice guy. I mean, not even to the extent of he's a 13 year old boy trying to get his parents to take pictures of nude people on a beach like some other. Yeah, some other friends of ours. **Thomas** (00:33:05:02 - 00:33:09:23): Yeah. No, this is definitely the, the gentlemen's call. This is the gentleman that we've been waiting for. **Chip** (00:33:09:23 - 00:33:37:21): Yeah. But still, it still does ring up my, chill up my spine, though. I will say that. Yeah. I think to me, I think one of the worst feelings in the world in general, whether it's at a hotel bar in Ireland or in a restaurant or wherever you are at a party with friends, even in a relationship is overstaying. You're welcome. **Thomas** (00:33:39:04 - 00:33:39:15): Yeah. **Chip** (00:33:39:16 - 00:34:03:05): That's a that's something I think people don't necessarily talk about as much as being embarrassed or being heartbroken or being, you know, angry or whatever. Overstaying you're welcome. And realizing that you've overstayed your welcome is a, a horrific feeling. If you ever do that where you're like, I've done that, where like, I'm at a restaurant where it's like, you can kind of tell they're closing up. **Thomas** (00:34:03:07 - 00:34:05:01): And yeah, oh, do your. **Chip** (00:34:05:01 - 00:34:17:15): Friend, like, orders another drink and you're like, oh, I think we should. Let's get out of here. But like, they just take the time and like, we need to they're, they're sweeping the floors and putting the chairs on tables right now. We need to we need to move this along. **Thomas** (00:34:17:16 - 00:34:24:17): There's a very strong pull for me to get out of there when, you kind of just feel like everybody is, like, hoping you'd leave. **Chip** (00:34:24:17 - 00:34:25:07): Yes. **Thomas** (00:34:25:09 - 00:34:42:18): Is, Oh, I want to be gone before that. And then even more horrifying at somebody's home, a function, a party. Yeah. Like that. Just that feeling of like, did I not get the memo that this is only like, they're good friends that are supposed to still be here, right? **Chip** (00:34:42:18 - 00:34:49:11): Oh, yeah. Like that, that inner circle of like, oh, I was I was here for the 230 party. This is now the 7:00. **Thomas** (00:34:49:12 - 00:35:01:15): Yeah. It's like, oh, these guys all went to high school together. And I met, the host of the party a week ago, and it looks like everybody brought, like, sleepover bags. Is this, like a swinging fit? What did I walk into here? **Chip** (00:35:01:16 - 00:35:30:21): Hey, fellas, who likes card tricks? You're like, yeah. You just like, you're like, hey, oh. I see that you guys are all all know each other and a little bit of reunion. I just met Jason last week. Are the, the coats back in the bedroom? Yeah, they're in the guest bedroom. Okay. And then you walk in to the guest bedroom, and then you walk back out, not with your coat, but with a guitar that belongs to the host. You're like, hey, guys, I found this. Who'd like to hear a little song? **Thomas** (00:35:34:19 - 00:35:38:07): Yeah. You know who they call me? Steely Tom. **Chip** (00:35:38:12 - 00:35:41:11): Let's go into one entity. **Thomas** (00:35:41:12 - 00:35:50:00): The worst. And this is the phrase, this is how you know, you've overstayed. You're welcome. All right, man. So, you're good. **Chip** (00:35:50:04 - 00:35:51:16): That's a slap in the face right there. **Thomas** (00:35:51:16 - 00:36:04:05): That's a slap in the face. Anywhere that's at work, if your boss says you're good and there's, like, his boss or an important client or something around, you're just like, oh, here we go. Crawl into a hole. That'll be good. **Chip** (00:36:04:05 - 00:36:05:02): Yeah, that's. **Thomas** (00:36:05:02 - 00:36:05:23): That'll be good for me. **Chip** (00:36:06:00 - 00:36:28:12): That is, that's that's a rough one. Yeah. I like I'll even check in with people. Be like, are you still good or like I'll even do that. Are you good when I'm at a party, like, do you want us to leave? Like I would do that. I will say this. My grandfather, very, it's just he he was very set in his ways, very regimented. Yeah. No nonsense, but also, to a certain extent, non-confrontational as you will, as you will see, rather than trying to politely be like, all right, so the party's wrapping up or whatever, he would, there would be like a family function, like a birthday party or a what Christmas party or whatever he would lit. And this is still a running joke in my family. He would literally get out the vacuum and start vacuuming, like cleaning up from the party. Like people are just sitting there having some drinks, like talking. And he would start cleaning up. Because once you start to see the cleaning up like that is a sign, right? You're like, okay, yeah, they're taking the glasses, they're taking, they're put away and you can clean up during a party. But you could tell that there's that, hey, we're breaking things down for the night. But he would literally just pull out the vacuum and start packing with everybody's like, oh, I guess, I guess we can't hear each other, have a conversation. I guess it's time to go. And that was his, nonverbal cue to get the f out of my house. Now, parties. **Thomas** (00:37:21:01 - 00:37:50:04): Oh, that's. I mean, that's classic. Yeah. I am just putting it together now. There's this, like, family friend and older gentleman. He's, just turned 80, I believe. But, like, through his whole 70s, he's had this big policy. Like, if you go over to his house and try and wash a dish, you know, they had a bunch of people over, whether it's Thanksgiving or whatever it is, if you tried to wash a dish, he would literally screaming, oh, he would get furious. And I thought, like, you know, maybe a little OCD, maybe a little, you know, weird. We're getting weird in the kitchen for this guy. **Chip** (00:37:57:23 - 00:37:59:22): Sure. Getting getting jiggy with. **Thomas** (00:37:59:22 - 00:38:13:22): Dishes, getting jiggy with dishes. But don't, like, interrupt his flow. He likes to do things a certain way. Do not touch him. But maybe that's just it. He's like, if they start washing my dishes, they know they should have been gone 20 minutes ago. **Chip** (00:38:13:23 - 00:38:14:12): Party's over. **Thomas** (00:38:14:12 - 00:38:35:13): Baby, get out of here, baby. Hit the bricks. Yeah, dude, I have had a similar experience in Ireland. Not in the case that, like, I kept a bartender at a pub too long, but, like, I do think that they are nicer to tourists than they are to their own. **Chip** (00:38:35:15 - 00:38:36:23): Okay. **Thomas** (00:38:37:01 - 00:38:42:20): In Ireland, I had this experience. We got dropped off in front of, like, Temple Bar, I think like the big. **Chip** (00:38:43:00 - 00:38:44:02): Bar in Dublin. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:38:44:02 - 00:39:03:14): People go to and, the like taxi just kind of stopped. It was at a red light, but it was also right in front of the bar. And I thought we just stopped. Yeah. And we were supposed to get out. And I opened the door and a motorcycle slammed right into the open door. **Chip** (00:39:03:15 - 00:39:05:06): Oh, God. You door to. **Thomas** (00:39:05:10 - 00:39:15:15): Yeah, yeah. And so we were not supposed to be like, I just thought that's where you get out. It's like I'm in the passenger side. I opened it up and there was also like, it was a it wasn't a full lane. It was a weird lane. **Chip** (00:39:15:17 - 00:39:21:03): It's sort of like a back spat. It's almost like an alley street that the Temple Bar is on, if I'm remembering correctly. **Thomas** (00:39:21:03 - 00:39:37:09): I don't know if it was like right in front of it, but we were like close. And I was like, should, is this like where we get out? And the guy was like, yeah, we're close. So I opened the door. A motorcycle just boom, hits it. Like he didn't like flip over or anything, like he stopped it. It was kind of controlled, but it was like a for real impact. And I got out. I was with, my now wife, then girlfriend, and he just like, I was like, oh, dude, we're going to get any old fashioned Irish street donnybrook. **Chip** (00:39:48:13 - 00:39:49:10): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:39:49:12 - 00:40:16:02): A little donnybrook. The Irish, like, I know this guy, like, just fiery coals for eyeballs. Yeah. This dude is so furious. And he looked at me, he's like. And I was like, dude, I, I thought I was supposed to get out, like I didn't know. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to. And he looked at me and like, literally arm cocked back a little bit, like he's about to try and like, you know, hit me with what? I'm just like, dude. So it's like, almost kind of being like, yeah, I get it. This might as well. **Chip** (00:40:20:12 - 00:40:21:03): Yeah, yeah. **Thomas** (00:40:21:05 - 00:40:42:01): Lay it on. Yeah. Goodbye, faux pas. Yeah. If this is the price, this is the price. Just stay away from my girlfriend. And, the dude, like, literally leaned back and then just kind of drops it turns around, and then he goes and screams. The taxi driver. He's like, you can't let these people out here. Like, totally blames the guys. Like, you know what are you talking about? They're going back for them. **Chip** (00:40:45:00 - 00:40:45:20): Interesting. **Thomas** (00:40:45:20 - 00:41:01:07): And, he didn't even look back. He just screams, that guy got right in his face like, inch. The windows open. He's like an inch away from his face, just screaming at this man. The man's not backing down, and, we just kind of. While that's happened and walked into the bar. **Chip** (00:41:01:07 - 00:41:19:02): Yeah. Like, oh, I take care. And you got. And you got a free taxi right out of it because you didn't have to pay him because he was. You ditched him on the on the fare. And that's that's Thomas. That's Thomas O'Brien telling you how to get out of a taxi fare to steal from a taxi driver in Ireland. **Thomas** (00:41:19:04 - 00:41:22:15): I think. I think blue collar workers are who we need to be stealing for. **Chip** (00:41:22:19 - 00:41:28:23): Really they are. They are the ones that are ruining the economy. Absolutely, absolutely. **Thomas** (00:41:29:01 - 00:41:33:11): I'm like. I'm like Robin Hood, except I take from the middle class and give to myself. **Chip** (00:41:33:12 - 00:41:36:11): Yes, it's that's exactly that was the exact story of Robin Hood, I believe. **Thomas** (00:41:36:11 - 00:41:46:19): Now, we, we threw him a couple of euros, threw him a couple of euros, overpaid and, thinking maybe there's some damage to the car that needs to be addressed. Yeah. **Chip** (00:41:46:21 - 00:42:06:08): But in bring that up like that just kind of goes to show you how nice, in my experience, Irish people have been because, like, could you imagine that happening in the United States, like, just be like, oh, hey guys. No, we're a legally. But like, oh, stay open. Yeah. You will stay up until 5:00 m no, don't worry about it. Just, you know, keep keep the orders coming. We're here to serve you. I did look it up, actually. That, by law, it seems like this is just in general, I don't know how nationwide this is in Ireland, but, do you know what time the average bar closes? The average pub closes in Ireland, at least according to of the research. The quick research that I did. **Thomas** (00:42:27:05 - 00:42:29:09): A man I would guess like 11. **Chip** (00:42:29:11 - 00:42:51:04): 1130 on weekdays and 1230 on the weekends. See, that's. I'm such a fan of that. Yeah, I've, I've never been a real night out and I just, if I'm ever at a bar at two at like so in Philadelphia, bars close at two. So, what do they do? Where are they close in LA to two. Okay. **Thomas** (00:42:51:10 - 00:42:52:14): So I think. **Chip** (00:42:52:15 - 00:42:52:23): Okay. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:42:53:00 - 00:42:54:05): Unless they change who you think. **Chip** (00:42:54:05 - 00:43:15:21): Right. Because you don't know. Because you're not there at two. Like, if I'm ever there at last call, I, I can't picture time where I'm like, we have to go home now. It's like, I, I've been wanting to leave for an hour and a half, but my my buddies have held me hostage here. When those lights come on at 145, it is just the worst. And all I want. I'm like, I wanted to leave. I've already dozed off over my iPod. That's another thing, too, about overstaying your welcome. Where? Like, not even if it's like, if it's just getting late. Not even that. That bar's closing. It could be like, just after midnight. You still have two hours, but you think that it's winding down and it's like you're in your early 20s. Your buddy is the one who drove or like, you took an Uber, but you're going together. So there's like four people together, 5 or 6 guys, whatever. And then like, you're done, you're clearly have like, no, I stopped drinking for the night. And then if you guys order another round and you're just like, and they're the ones that are drunk and kind of amped up and talking the most. So therefore they're not putting it in their goal. It's. So you were just watching that slow, slow decrease of beer in their pints. It's the it is the longest. It's longer than any hourglass could ever be. Is that pint of beer that slowly, slowly diminishes and doesn't really. And you're like, this is going to be another 45 minutes here that I just want to go to sleep. **Thomas** (00:44:17:19 - 00:44:20:14): Yeah, I just I just go now. Yeah, I just go, yeah. **Chip** (00:44:20:14 - 00:44:27:11): If you could do that like Irish I you'd be sort of beholden to them. But now I'd be like, no, I'm. Hey take care. Enjoy the rest of that drink. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:44:27:17 - 00:44:44:15): It happened to me a couple weeks ago. It was like I was just I was tired. I went to a friend's birthday party. We had a delicious dinner. We moved to a bar afterwards, and we used to put them back together back in the day, but it was like literally, I didn't even get a drink at the bar. I like, showed up. We hung out for a little bit. People were ordering their second third, and I was just like, I want to sneak out the back of this bar. **Chip** (00:44:53:02 - 00:44:54:11): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:44:54:13 - 00:44:55:20): And it was the best move I ever made. **Chip** (00:44:55:20 - 00:45:00:02): That's you. You literally, if you will, Irish. Goodbye. I mean. **Thomas** (00:45:00:02 - 00:45:01:01): I Irish goodbye. **Chip** (00:45:01:01 - 00:45:03:13): It's the that that is the best. That's the best value. **Thomas** (00:45:03:14 - 00:45:13:19): It's my favorite kind of goodbye. I've been doing that since high school. Yeah, actually, I think I heard it was called The Irish. Goodbye. And I'm Thomas O'Brien. Yeah. It worked. So I was just like, I think I'm allowed to do this. Yeah. **Chip** (00:45:13:20 - 00:45:27:09): The Irish goodbye. Is it. I haven't it's a, it's a, it's a great. It's you just feel so good about it. And because you know you're, you're not bothering anybody. You're just you just get getting out. Second favorite. Goodbye. You you're my second favorite. Goodbye is. **Thomas** (00:45:27:11 - 00:45:27:14): What? **Chip** (00:45:27:17 - 00:45:36:12): Butterfly kisses. Given the hosts and butterfly kisses right on the cheek. That's second. That is second on my list. **Thomas** (00:45:36:14 - 00:45:40:07): Butterfly kisses. That's nice. That's cute. That. **Chip** (00:45:40:09 - 00:45:59:22): By the way. So, Jeff. So, so. And Jeff was is the hero in the story, I have to say, because he's the one that, yeah, I'm sure rallied up his cousins to be like, hey, guys, we got to get out of here. We just thought it was still going where Americans were used to later. Whatever. And I'm sure that the Lion's Clan, did that, did the right thing and got out of there. I will say, when the bar was kept open just because he was there. Yeah, that same exact thing has happened to me a number of times at Golden Corral. **Thomas** (00:46:13:15 - 00:46:16:12): They just keep bringing out the, macaroni and cheese platter. **Chip** (00:46:16:12 - 00:46:26:04): Just the tots. They just keep bringing them out, and they're like, well, we're here till you are, Mr. Chantry. I'm like, all right, sounds good. Let's get a let's get another round of roast beef. **Thomas** (00:46:26:06 - 00:46:48:07): Well, Jeff Lyons, the hero of the story, also the hero of this podcast, he called (310) 845-6038 left us that amazing voice message. Thanks so much, Jeff. We're glad you're traveling. We're glad you're a student of the world, learning and being courteous out there. It goes a long way and it's what we're all about. Yep. **Chip** (00:46:48:08 - 00:46:51:11): Yeah it is. Yeah it is all right. **Thomas** (00:46:51:11 - 00:46:54:15): It is time to move on to the good book. **Chip** (00:46:54:15 - 00:46:57:00): I got it right here, baby. Look at this. Boom! **Thomas** (00:46:57:00 - 00:47:02:22): We're going on 2026, baby. You know what? I think every time I open this bad. **Chip** (00:47:02:22 - 00:47:05:10): Boy up, Coldplay, because it's yellow. **Thomas** (00:47:05:13 - 00:47:08:18): It was all yellow. And it's just a visual. **Chip** (00:47:08:20 - 00:47:09:17): It is a visual shift. **Thomas** (00:47:09:21 - 00:47:23:01): Yeah. Isn't it? Yep. Every page is just like, a Ritalin fueled visual journey. Yes, there is a there packing a lot of pictures and colors. And each one of these pages, they really are. **Chip** (00:47:23:01 - 00:47:28:04): It is. It's like it's literary. Well, Where's Waldo is really what it is now. **Thomas** (00:47:28:05 - 00:47:29:11): That's exactly what it is. Yes. **Chip** (00:47:29:15 - 00:47:34:10): All right, Thomas, what is your world record for the week? **Thomas** (00:47:34:11 - 00:47:36:20): You know what everybody calls you? Shallow chip. Yeah. **Chip** (00:47:37:01 - 00:47:37:10): Of course. **Thomas** (00:47:37:10 - 00:47:46:06): Well, I found a pool. That is the exact opposite of you. This is the world record for the deepest swimming pool in the world. **Chip** (00:47:46:07 - 00:47:48:16): All right, I'm into this. That's spooky. **Thomas** (00:47:48:16 - 00:47:52:06): I like how deep g I might think she be. Chip. **Chip** (00:47:52:08 - 00:48:02:03): Okay, so I remember I had, a friend who had a ten foot deep pool when I was a kid. I just thought that was the deepest pool you could ever go to. **Thomas** (00:48:02:03 - 00:48:13:05): You get to the bottom of a ten footer, and it just. You feel the pressure on your head, chip. You're getting, like, some diving sticks or some diving rings, and that is putting a real squeeze on you even at ten feet. Right. **Chip** (00:48:13:07 - 00:48:17:20): I'm going to go I'm going to okay. I'm going to ten. Fold it. Let's say a 100ft chip. **Thomas** (00:48:17:20 - 00:48:49:13): That is so deep, dude. And it's just about half of the deepest pool we're going to do by to deep Dive Dubai, where they have a 14,000,000 liter freshwater diving pool that goes down, down and that, that 196ft and ten inches chip cheese. Can you even imagine that is 15 story building burrowed into the ground and then filled up with 14,000,000l of water? It's enough water to fill six Olympic sized swimming pools, and it's pretty much all straight down, dude. And, the coolest part, chef. Yeah, it's designed like a sunken city. It's like not just a pool. Like, it's a diving. Like a scuba diving pool. **Chip** (00:49:06:22 - 00:49:10:05): Obviously, you have to put on the tank and the the flippers and all that, right? **Thomas** (00:49:10:06 - 00:49:33:07): You put on the tank, you put on the flippers. They keep it at a balmy 86 degrees. I love that, but you're going in there and you can go down to 196ft, and the whole thing's themed. So like, it's an underground, like, underwater sunken city. It's like really, nice detail, I guess. There's like an old bar where they have, like, video games that actually work in there and stuff. **Chip** (00:49:33:07 - 00:49:35:11): With a bar with video games. **Thomas** (00:49:35:11 - 00:49:58:22): Yeah, like you can't drink in there. It's supposed to be a sunken, abandoned city, but, like, you can go down there and apparently and play Donkey Kong or whatever. Like that's wild. Yeah. You can you can play some video games, you can explore an abandoned apartment. Yeah. You can go sit in a submerged Mercedes because it's Dubai and they do it big, of course, but yeah, man, it's a post-apocalyptic underwater experience that goes down 15 storeys. And you have to be really careful, like coming back up from that kind of pressure being that. **Chip** (00:50:04:00 - 00:50:05:01): Low in the band, like. **Thomas** (00:50:05:01 - 00:50:18:16): The the term I kept seeing was, if you rise too fast, it does something with the oxygen in your blood and your blood can literally. Boy yes. Yeah, it sounds bad. **Chip** (00:50:18:16 - 00:50:39:03): You get bubbles in your blood and, yeah, it's it's called The Bends. Radiohead has an album about it, The Bends. And it's, it's a it's a difficult thing. You have to come up, readjust and then go up a little further. Readjust. And yeah, that's that is amazing and also horrifying. Like I can't imagine how like and I guess there's lights. I guess it's all lit up so you can see it like because I guess it would get pretty dark down there after 100ft. **Thomas** (00:50:43:23 - 00:50:51:18): There's definitely a little bit of lights here and there. It's like designed to be seen. But yeah, it looks really like striking and it looks really cool. **Chip** (00:50:51:18 - 00:50:52:17): I got to check that out. **Thomas** (00:50:52:17 - 00:50:57:20): The deepest swimming pool in the world according to the good book chip. **Chip** (00:50:57:22 - 00:50:59:03): Well done Thomas. **Thomas** (00:50:59:03 - 00:50:59:16): Thanks, man. **Chip** (00:50:59:17 - 00:51:00:23): You really dove into that one. **Thomas** (00:51:00:23 - 00:51:01:19): We went deep. **Chip** (00:51:01:23 - 00:51:02:09): You did? **Thomas** (00:51:02:11 - 00:51:03:16): Rolling in the. **Chip** (00:51:03:19 - 00:51:06:04): Deep. **Thomas** (00:51:06:09 - 00:51:17:16): Adele. By the way, I was watching a video the other day about the top selling albums of all time. Like, I think Adele has two of the top five selling albums of all time. **Chip** (00:51:17:16 - 00:51:23:17): I can see that. Isn't that wild? And she. She doesn't waste any, any time naming them. She just puts the age on that. She is basically like. **Thomas** (00:51:23:23 - 00:51:28:14): Yeah, she she puts the time into the music. She's. Yes. That's what you care about. **Chip** (00:51:28:16 - 00:51:31:05): Yeah, absolutely. **Thomas** (00:51:31:06 - 00:51:37:21): All right, Chip, tell me what you got into in The Good Book. What is your world record this week? **Chip** (00:51:38:02 - 00:51:39:06): Thomas? Do you like traveling? **Thomas** (00:51:39:10 - 00:51:41:03): I love traveling, I do a podcast about it. **Chip** (00:51:41:06 - 00:51:42:22): Do you like world class accommodations? **Thomas** (00:51:42:23 - 00:51:45:01): Oh, I love world class accommodations. **Chip** (00:51:45:01 - 00:51:53:09): Do you like waking up in the middle of the night in a strange bed, trapped under 30ft of water with virtually no escape from this aquatic tomb? **Thomas** (00:51:53:11 - 00:51:53:23): No. **Chip** (00:51:54:00 - 00:52:02:10): Okay, well, you're gonna hate Jules undersea lodge, the world's first underwater hotel. **Thomas** (00:52:02:10 - 00:52:04:12): Oh, my gosh, tell me about this trip now. **Chip** (00:52:04:12 - 00:52:33:22): Okay, I will say, not quite as deep as your swimming pool in Dubai. Okay, so I have to say that. But this was built years before that. I'm sure. Okay. Jules undersea lodge was opened in 1986, in Key Largo, Florida. Okay. It's formerly a laboratory beneath the, beneath 30ft of water in a lagoon. So it was like a research laboratory. **Thomas** (00:52:33:22 - 00:52:35:15): There's a functional reason to build that. **Chip** (00:52:35:15 - 00:53:00:17): Building, like. Yes. So it's not just like, let's make a hotel. There was a research lab under there, and they're like, let's turn it in to a hotel. So what you have to do is to get to your hotel is literally, again, don some scuba gear. Guests of this two bedroom former research laboratory dive 30ft down to the bottom of the Emerald Lagoon, which sounds like something from The Legend of Zelda. Yeah, and they enjoy, a hotel room with all of the amenities, beds, televisions and hopefully enough oxygen to last you through the night. **Thomas** (00:53:11:15 - 00:53:15:17): Oh my God, dude, that's wild. Would you do this trip? **Chip** (00:53:15:17 - 00:53:35:01): Well, first of all, I will say I'm gonna have to admit something. I'm a little jealous of your deep swimming pool. I am technically going back to, hypochondriac corner. I'm not allowed to scuba dive forever. Forever? Apparently, it's something I've never done. And I will probably never do. Yeah, because I had that collapsed lung a couple years ago. That random thing, that. Yeah, the one thing they kept saying is you're not allowed to scuba dive. You're not allowed to skip it. I was like, all right, well, I won't scuba dive. So. Yeah. So unfortunate I can't do that, but others can. Yeah. You swim down and then they, like, they somehow bring your luggage down to in some sort of capsule or what have you. **Thomas** (00:53:53:12 - 00:53:54:16): Yeah. There's got to be a way. **Chip** (00:53:54:16 - 00:53:55:05): And then it's. **Thomas** (00:53:55:05 - 00:53:57:19): A Jetsons style. Yes. Luggage mover. **Chip** (00:53:57:19 - 00:54:14:23): And it's basically, I think two rooms and, you know, you can rent one of the rooms and there's bunk beds and there's whatever you kind of couple people, and you're just underwater. You get to enjoy the sort of Life Aquatic Steve Zissou kind of situation. I will say that this was opened in 1986, in the Florida. **Thomas** (00:54:14:23 - 00:54:16:05): Wilds. **Chip** (00:54:16:07 - 00:54:35:16): Like, you know, that conversation that was happened. It's just like, you know, man, we got to open a hotel under the water like that. Yeah. They were just like, let's do this. And, apparently was a good idea. I will say, I think it's been a pretty successful venture. Guests have included former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. **Thomas** (00:54:35:17 - 00:54:37:04): They got Pierre, they got Pierre. **Chip** (00:54:37:10 - 00:54:42:18): And not only do they get Pierre, they got Aerosmith's own Steven Tyler. **Thomas** (00:54:42:19 - 00:54:43:20): Holy cow. Yeah. **Chip** (00:54:43:22 - 00:54:50:08): The, Steven Tyler was there. I mean, can you imagine being like, okay, it's like 1992. **Thomas** (00:54:50:10 - 00:54:51:02): And yeah. **Chip** (00:54:51:03 - 00:55:06:03): You are staying in the underwater hotel and you wake up in the middle of the night underwater to the sound of Steven Tyler making sweet love to three women on the other side of the hatch. That has to be surreal. **Thomas** (00:55:06:03 - 00:55:07:20): He had it. That kind of lived on the edge. **Chip** (00:55:08:02 - 00:55:26:10): Living on the edge. I was okay, by the way. I was trying to think of a living on the edge pun for this. For this entire one. I was like living in the, you know, lake, and it just didn't come to me. But I'm so glad that you had to bring it up. And because he does live on the edge, the edge of the ocean, really? **Thomas** (00:55:26:12 - 00:55:28:06): And you just gotta get a grip. **Chip** (00:55:28:08 - 00:55:33:03): Thomas. Now, now, now we're pumping it up, if you know what I mean. **Thomas** (00:55:33:03 - 00:55:33:19): Liv. Tyler. **Chip** (00:55:33:20 - 00:55:34:12): No more. **Thomas** (00:55:34:14 - 00:55:36:19): I'm just. We're just talking turkey here. **Chip** (00:55:36:19 - 00:55:39:00): No more. Yeah, no more deuce. **Thomas** (00:55:39:02 - 00:55:53:05): So that sounds cool. I'm just. I'm a little worried about the edge of the hotel at this point. Yes. 1986. That means this old bag of 40 years, you know, balloons has been there for 44 years. **Chip** (00:55:53:10 - 00:55:56:19): Plus, it was a research laboratory for years before that. So I mean, to win that. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:55:56:19 - 00:56:02:18): It's like, what's the what's the upkeep in the floor? What's to code for an underwater hotel? I bet there is an I've. **Chip** (00:56:02:18 - 00:56:07:14): Seen a couple hotels. You get a little moldy. Can you imagine the situation in in that hotel? **Thomas** (00:56:07:15 - 00:56:11:02): Where does the moist air go? Can you take a little shower down there? **Chip** (00:56:11:07 - 00:56:14:02): I believe they do. I believe they believe there's a shower. **Thomas** (00:56:14:02 - 00:56:20:12): Yeah. Steven Tyler in those three ladies. Just taking a four hour shower, steaming up the whole dome. **Chip** (00:56:20:12 - 00:56:21:08): On the other side. **Thomas** (00:56:21:08 - 00:56:24:03): You know you will. Yeah. This on the other side. **Chip** (00:56:24:03 - 00:56:28:15): Imagine a young Thomas, right? He's in his 20s. He's having fun. And key in Key Largo. **Thomas** (00:56:28:15 - 00:56:29:16): Ooh, he's doing well. **Chip** (00:56:29:16 - 00:56:49:09): He's at a bar. Probably a tiki bar, as we all know. He's single. He's. He's having fun. He meets a gal at the bar on vacation. One thing you know, the things are going great. It'd be like, hey, you want to go back to my place? Yeah. And then the next question has to be, you are scuba certified, right? Like, it's a fun experience. It's not the it's not the easiest, most convenient hotel to stay in. I will say. **Thomas** (00:56:55:02 - 00:56:55:07): That. **Chip** (00:56:55:08 - 00:57:00:05): No, it's not in walking distance to anything. **Thomas** (00:57:00:07 - 00:57:02:08): A buddy great episode. **Chip** (00:57:02:08 - 00:57:04:05): Man. We now I feel warmer already. **Thomas** (00:57:04:06 - 00:57:11:23): Stay warm in your heart. Stay warm in your mind. And most of all, everybody stay back. **Chip** (00:57:12:01 - 00:57:18:17): Front desk. Hi, this is Mr. Chantry in room 308. I'll be having some guests over soon. If you could just direct them up to my room. **Thomas** (00:57:18:23 - 00:57:23:19): We saw the flier she posted. Do you have a petting zoo up in your room? **Chip** (00:57:23:21 - 00:57:28:00): No. I brought all these animals up here not to get. Pet, could you. **Thomas** (00:57:28:01 - 00:57:29:02): Please just put down some. **Chip** (00:57:29:02 - 00:57:29:16): Tarps? **Thomas** (00:57:29:16 - 00:57:33:20): Absolutely, man. We're up. Krampus, when you are not there.