The Olympic "Quad God" Meltdown, Hawaii Mystery SOLVED & Chip's Wild Lent List! ⛸️🌴 | Sunburnt Ep 50

**Chip** (00:00:00:00 - 00:00:02:14): Today is a big day in general. It's our 50th episode. **Thomas** (00:00:02:19 - 00:00:06:07): Feeling a little tropical baby. We are both. **Chip** (00:00:06:07 - 00:00:09:04): Hypochondriacs. We're going to do this. We're going to be strong. **Thomas** (00:00:09:05 - 00:00:13:23): We had had multiple people figure out what my mystery receipt. **Chip** (00:00:13:23 - 00:00:14:10): From The Mona! **Thomas** (00:00:14:10 - 00:00:21:16): From 2017. At the Moana surf rider was. Yep! No it is time for the fish of the week. Get a slather going with us. **Chip** (00:00:21:16 - 00:00:26:03): Slather it up. Ten Thomas Jefferson, nine Warren G. Harding. Six Ronald Reagan. **Thomas** (00:00:31:05 - 00:00:32:08): That makes sense. **Chip** (00:00:32:10 - 00:00:50:18): Then you have James K Polk, Grover Cleveland, Dwight Eisenhower, John Adams. Yeah, number three, Martin Van Buren, number two, John Quincy Adams. And number one, Gerald Ford. And, those are the top ten most ticklish presidents in history. **Thomas** (00:00:50:18 - 00:00:54:23): I can't believe your grandfather tickled every one of those presidents. **Chip** (00:00:55:02 - 00:00:56:10): He's got those magic fingers, baby. **Thomas** (00:00:56:13 - 00:01:11:19): Oh, actually, we got started. What up everybody? What up? Bert ones is the sunburnt podcast where we talk about comedy, tropical travel. Mike, this is Chip Chantry. You know, from Netflix. You know him from his amazing stand up special Move Closer. **Chip** (00:01:11:21 - 00:01:22:14): And over here to my left is Emmy Award winning producer writer Thomas O'Brien. He puts the loon in Lunar New Year. How are you, buddy? Thomas O'Brien. **Thomas** (00:01:22:14 - 00:01:26:23): Doing good. It's my time. It's my time. It's the Lunar New Year, baby. **Chip** (00:01:26:23 - 00:01:32:11): How would that moon baby? It's the year of the Tomcat. That's what I gotta say. **Thomas** (00:01:32:13 - 00:01:35:08): Does that coincide with a full moon or no full moon? **Chip** (00:01:35:08 - 00:01:39:20): You know, that's a really good question. Is it a new moon or for I would I would hope it's full. **Thomas** (00:01:39:20 - 00:01:42:07): You'd hope it's full, but I guess it's new because the. **Chip** (00:01:42:07 - 00:01:45:09): New moon is no moon. That's what they call. It's like the opposite. **Thomas** (00:01:45:14 - 00:01:46:08): **Chip** (00:01:46:10 - 00:01:54:19): We're going to have to do a deep dive next week. I will do a deep dive by literally googling one question. **Thomas** (00:01:54:21 - 00:02:04:01): Yeah, I love it. That's what that's what a deep dive is these days in in the the realm of AI and all that stuff. It is googling one question. **Chip** (00:02:04:02 - 00:02:05:02): And then it just gives you the. **Thomas** (00:02:05:02 - 00:02:21:19): Rest. All right, well, dude, we're coming in with a hot episode today. We are talking about Fat Tuesday. We're going to dig a little more into that Lunar New Year. We're taking you to Hypochondriac Quarter. We're go. We've got a big reveal on the mystery receipt from last week. **Chip** (00:02:21:19 - 00:02:28:00): I'm so I'm so excited about I cannot I've been lying awake thinking about it for a week now. **Thomas** (00:02:28:06 - 00:02:44:07): I know, dude, the burnt ones got out there. They figure it out multiple people found the answer. The exact answer, like to the the variety of the item that was purchased. And I'm still kind of flabbergasted how they did it. I don't I don't understand. **Chip** (00:02:44:07 - 00:02:47:19): I would assume they each did a deep dive. That's my guess. **Thomas** (00:02:47:21 - 00:03:02:19): Yeah. Not unlike that, Dubai swimming pool. We talked about a couple weeks ago. And the record. Now, that's a deep dive, baby. We're coming in hot with another fish of the week. Another sunburnt fish of the week. Chip, can you believe it? **Chip** (00:03:02:19 - 00:03:05:19): I'm so excited for this fish of the week. This little guy. **Thomas** (00:03:05:20 - 00:03:27:22): We're jumping into the good book, Guinness book of World Records. And then I just want to remind you guys, you can go ahead and call in if you've got a bad vacation story. We want to hear it. You can send us a video, or you can call the number, (310) 845-6038 and leave us a voicemail of your story. And if we use it on the podcast chip, we're going to be sending them or one of these bad boys. **Chip** (00:03:35:17 - 00:03:36:07): Right here. **Thomas** (00:03:36:12 - 00:03:41:08): The, a whole Hawaiian Tropic shear touch. **Chip** (00:03:41:10 - 00:03:43:21): The old baby, the old chip. **Thomas** (00:03:43:21 - 00:03:46:02): Let's just go ahead and get a slather going right now. Let's get. **Chip** (00:03:46:02 - 00:04:00:02): A slather. And by the way, I will say, if you do call in, you leave a message or whatever, you will be getting one of these, Hawaiian tropics, and you will be receiving the SPF of our choosing. **Thomas** (00:04:00:04 - 00:04:01:19): Oh, yeah. I was, I was going. **Chip** (00:04:01:19 - 00:04:26:11): To decide what the SPF level is for you. Depending on how hot your story is. See, most most prizes, most awards. It's like you get the prize of your choosing. We're we're we're leaving that choice to us. We're we're taking all the the grunt work out of it for you. We choose your SPF level and send it to you. **Thomas** (00:04:26:11 - 00:04:28:03): We're really calling the shots on this one. **Chip** (00:04:28:03 - 00:04:30:14): We're really invested in your skin care. **Thomas** (00:04:30:14 - 00:04:51:23): Yeah. Oh, God, it smells so good. Chip, it is so chilly. It's the middle of winter. This is a bright little spot in my day, Colin, with those stories. So you can get a slather going with us. Slather it up. All right, well, this is the sunburn podcast where we talk about comedy and tropical travel. If you think those two things should go together, stay tuned. Front desk. **Chip** (00:04:52:20 - 00:04:57:22): Hi, this is Mr. Chantry in room 308. I'd like to make a complaint about the people in room 307. **Thomas** (00:04:57:23 - 00:05:00:03): Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Chantry. Are they being too loud? **Chip** (00:05:00:03 - 00:05:07:09): No, they're too quiet. I've my ear to the wall and I'm barely getting a word in. Could you call and ask them to speak up or at least enunciate? **Thomas** (00:05:07:10 - 00:05:08:23): I can't do that, Mr. Chantry. **Chip** (00:05:09:04 - 00:05:11:15): Learn to project people. Chap. Thomas. **Thomas** (00:05:11:15 - 00:05:20:00): Dude, episode 50 of the sunburnt podcast. Can you believe we've been hooking a crook and away at this for 50 episodes? 50 sun soaked episodes? **Chip** (00:05:20:01 - 00:05:27:19): Yep. I mean, I'll be honest, I think we split the work. So I've done the hooking. You've done the crooked, but still 50 big ones out there. **Thomas** (00:05:27:20 - 00:05:31:16): I'm getting world classic creaking. These fingers were made for crooked. **Chip** (00:05:31:16 - 00:05:42:18): Yeah. They were, yeah, for 50 episodes. Thank you for today. Thank you for going on the vacation with us, dear listener and viewer, for those 50 episodes, we we truly appreciate it. **Thomas** (00:05:42:20 - 00:06:04:07): We truly appreciate it. And like, honestly, to hand to heaven, this is my little slice of respite every week. Dude, I love coming into this place and just thinking about being on an island, hanging out with my buddy, kind of blocking out all the B.S. that's going on there. Anything that might make me feel bad is not allowed on this podcast. **Chip** (00:06:04:07 - 00:06:22:02): Dude, no, you shall not pass. Yeah, it's it's a big day. It's today is a big day in general. It's our 50th episode. Yep. I know this will be dropping it in a day or two. So it's a day or two late. But I'm sure some people are still enjoying it. Is the Lunar New Year. **Thomas** (00:06:22:04 - 00:06:23:00): Yeah. **Chip** (00:06:23:02 - 00:06:28:08): It is Fat Tuesday right now. And it is Michael Bay's birthday. **Thomas** (00:06:28:10 - 00:06:29:11): Get out of here. **Chip** (00:06:29:13 - 00:06:41:08): I mean, the amount of streamers and liquor I have to purchase for each. Each one of those three things is crazy enough. It's just all coming to a head. **Thomas** (00:06:41:13 - 00:06:45:00): I mean, all three just masterclasses in excess. **Chip** (00:06:45:02 - 00:06:49:08): I've. I've never seen a full Transformers movie because I can't take it all in. **Thomas** (00:06:49:10 - 00:06:53:11): No, it's too much. It's a feast for the eyes. As some might say. **Chip** (00:06:53:13 - 00:07:03:17): It is a visual feast. I, I take it in. 30s. At a time. That's all I can do. I've been watching the last Transformers movie. Slow, slowly but surely over the last six months. **Thomas** (00:07:03:19 - 00:07:04:11): Yeah. **Chip** (00:07:04:13 - 00:07:07:23): And it's it's all. It's all these little eyes and ears can take it. **Thomas** (00:07:08:01 - 00:07:37:12): Dude, I keep thinking about how funny it is that you used to work at a video store. Yes. And to mess with each other, you guys would put notes and customers profiles that were just, that wouldn't, make you a gift. That would make you laugh. And just how, like, rude that is for kids to be making fun of adults in a way that's in a way that they can kind of tell, like something like even said, one guy's like, what's in there? What's in my account? Well, everybody laughed when. **Chip** (00:07:41:04 - 00:07:45:18): He picked up on it. His his toupee twisted around, like. **Thomas** (00:07:45:20 - 00:07:47:09): He got up and went woo woo. **Chip** (00:07:47:09 - 00:08:10:12): Woo. Oh. And then there was this, then there was one. There was this, there was this gal that I went to high school with. I can't for sure. She was like a year ahead of me, a year below me. Whatever. Yeah, but, like, we didn't know each other, and, I was not friendly with her, and, like, she seemed to have an attitude, so she would come in and rent movies, and this was like a few years I was in. We were in college at the time, so it's like a few years after high school. So she would come and rent movies, but her parents set it up where, because they thought that people were renting movies under their name and not. **Thomas** (00:08:23:00 - 00:08:23:19): Yeah, like. **Chip** (00:08:23:19 - 00:08:42:04): It wasn't theirs. So they wanted an extra level of security. So they had a password. Yeah. So they had to give a password. So usually you just ask me like, oh, can I get your phone number? You type in the phone number and then that pulls up your account and that's who you are, right. And you, you would ask them for their name, but like that was pretty much it. Right. So they wanted an extra thing. So I still remember that their password was I think it was Skittles because that was the name of their cat. **Thomas** (00:08:53:14 - 00:08:54:02): Yeah. **Chip** (00:08:54:02 - 00:09:13:01): So it was Skittles like candy, right? So they had to say the word Skittles. So I, I would have to be like, oh, what's the password? And they'd be like, Skittles, right? Yeah. So some people did that and I got to know people pretty well. So like I wouldn't always ask them for the password because like, we knew each other by that point. Yeah. And they were cool with that. But with this girl, I still remember there'd be like a line of people and it would just mortify her, and I would just pretend not to know who she was. And I'd be like, because we did. We didn't really know each other. Yeah. And it was like, you have a password on here, can I get the pen? And she would be so angry. Just so she was like, Skittles. And I was. What's that? Skittles. Skittles. I'm like, all right, here, here's a copy of As Good as It Gets. **Thomas** (00:09:43:09 - 00:10:04:19): The the paranoia. And also like the idea of, like that. Dude, this is not an internet establishment. This is a real life brick and mortar place making mortar baby. So like, the only people who could possibly use your account nefariously are at the one place, the only place you say that password out loud. **Chip** (00:10:04:21 - 00:10:06:23): Yes. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:10:07:01 - 00:10:23:11): So so ineffective. Paranoid. And I love that you tormented, that, seemingly self-conscious girl. Because. Yeah, when you are, you know, 17, 18, 19 little things can stick in your head, dude. **Chip** (00:10:23:13 - 00:10:24:03): Like, oh, yeah. **Thomas** (00:10:24:03 - 00:10:37:13): Having to say an embarrassing family password. You can be mortified. You can be sitting there in line, like, actually, just like, is this even worth trying to see? Why? Donnie. So Darko. **Chip** (00:10:37:16 - 00:10:39:12): Is exactly. **Thomas** (00:10:39:14 - 00:10:41:17): Dude, what a wild job. I love that you had that. **Chip** (00:10:41:17 - 00:10:43:11): Do you ever take the Rocky two story? **Thomas** (00:10:43:13 - 00:10:44:04): No. **Chip** (00:10:44:04 - 00:11:01:07): Okay, here's the rocket. You see, this is. This is my favorite. This goes back to my buddy Adrian, who I may have mentioned on the podcast before. He's actually doing a little standup comedy again, which is great. Wow. He is one of the guys. It was actually because of this job that I sort of took another step towards standup comedy. I didn't do it for another year or two, but my buddy Adrian, who we met, working on this at this video store, he let me borrow the George Carlin book Brain Droppings. And he told me because he was going off to LA to be an actor, which he did, and he started a movie and a bunch of other things. And but he was like, you should do standup comedy. You really need to do it. You should start writing down jokes. And then he gave me that, and and we just screwed around like he was the one that would write the comments about, you know, the customers and whatever. We we made a deal with the girls at Starbucks next door to us. They would give us free frappuccinos and we would give them free movies. **Thomas** (00:11:37:06 - 00:11:37:13): Yeah. **Chip** (00:11:37:14 - 00:12:01:04): And we would just have like, we didn't understand how caffeine worked at 19 years old. We just have like, yeah, we'd go in and have like three frappuccinos a night and just be bouncing off the walls. Yeah. So, you know, a video store set up where it's just like the videos are on the walls, and then, you know, they have those little aisles where the, you know, the little walls are like, maybe like five feet high. Yeah. Walk around, you know? Okay. So it's getting late at night. There's nobody else in the store. This old man comes in. **Thomas** (00:12:08:05 - 00:12:08:21): Yeah. **Chip** (00:12:08:23 - 00:12:17:09): I was at the register. Adrian was out. Like, he was like, cleaning, you know, dusting the, the stands, you know? **Thomas** (00:12:17:14 - 00:12:19:00): Yeah, working the floor. **Chip** (00:12:19:05 - 00:12:36:19): Working floor. And this old man comes in, he's like. He looked around for a little bit, and he comes up. Here goes. Hey, you got Rocky two. And I knew for a fact. I mean, this is back in the VHS days. Yeah, I knew for a fact that I had just rented out our one copy of Rocky two, like an hour beforehand. I was like, oh, we do have it. Unfortunately, it is rented out. But it'll be back in like two days or whatever. Yeah. And he's like, you sure? You sure? It's right. And I was like, I yeah, I was like, I literally 45 minutes ago I, I personally rent it out to somebody and he goes, well can he double check? And I looked in the system. I was like, sir, it's not, it's it's here. It. Yeah it's it's rented out. And he was what could you look on the floor. You know and he's he needs to get Rocky too. **Thomas** (00:13:03:04 - 00:13:05:00): He's got a fever dude. And there's only one. **Chip** (00:13:05:03 - 00:13:34:23): Scripture and the only, the only prescription is Apollo Creed. And Adrian gets wind of what's happening because, again, he's the only other person in the store is like, like 10:00 at night. Ages of the mystery guest Chip, I'll check for you. Let me look downstairs. And then he literally. The man turns around, looks at him, and Adrian literally does the thing behind the aisles where he walks down the face. **Thomas** (00:13:35:01 - 00:13:35:15): Yeah. **Chip** (00:13:35:17 - 00:13:37:08): Yeah, he walks down the fake stairs. **Thomas** (00:13:37:08 - 00:13:38:05): Oh, classic. **Chip** (00:13:38:05 - 00:13:48:10): And he has a paper towel roll because he's dusting. And so he's like, laying down on the floor and through the paper towel roll, he just yells tripped. **Thomas** (00:13:48:11 - 00:13:49:09): Yeah, sorry. **Chip** (00:13:49:11 - 00:14:16:03): Nothing here. And then walks back up the fake stairs and keeps cleaning. This man just stares at him and I was like, sorry, sir, we're all out. And for literally another 25 minutes, this old man walks the floor looking for the staircase down to the basement. Like, just be like, what? How did this just happen? Yeah, it was amazing. Good times, good times and video ready? You don't do that anymore when you get it off a streaming. Come on streaming. Have a little more fun. **Thomas** (00:14:23:08 - 00:14:32:02): Yeah. Streaming has got no artificial basement. Yeah, they keep them all there on the floor. They call him tiles Chip. He can just flip through them. **Chip** (00:14:32:04 - 00:14:34:03): Here's something that I don't want to say out loud. **Thomas** (00:14:34:03 - 00:14:35:12): Oh, Chip, say it out loud. **Chip** (00:14:35:14 - 00:15:03:02): Let's say this I never, ever view movies or television shows via an illegal streaming service that might be free. That's probably not copy written or whatever, right? Let's just say that, yeah, let's just say I don't have some sort of back channel thing where I can just look up a movie and it comes up sometimes for free. Sometimes it's in like Turkish and you can't watch it, but whatever. Let's just say that streaming service that didn't have literally just shut down for whatever reason very recently. So now I don't even have that service anymore. So, okay, if anybody out there doesn't know or doesn't have it, you know, a back channel streaming service, it's free where you can just watch whatever you want. Don't let us know. **Thomas** (00:15:26:12 - 00:15:32:01): Chip ear, once again, you are inviting elements of the dark web on to the podcast. **Chip** (00:15:32:04 - 00:15:37:06): The Dark Web. **Thomas** (00:15:37:08 - 00:15:40:11): If you could watch anything right now, what would you watch? **Chip** (00:15:40:13 - 00:15:43:18): I would watch this podcast. That's how much fun I'm having. **Thomas** (00:15:43:20 - 00:15:52:15): That's the right answer. I would watch this podcast and then I'd watch Forgetting Sarah Marshall. I've been thinking about it. Dude, I want to spend. Let's spend a little time back on that island, baby. **Chip** (00:15:52:15 - 00:16:12:19): Oh, I gotta tell you this. I got a good friend. I'm not going to name her right now, but I have a good friend who listens the podcast sometimes. And she heard about our podcast. She has a she's got a son. She, she's no longer with her husband. She's single. The son was going to be with, like, the husband or whatever for the week. She decided to take a couple days off work and just on a whim, just went to Hawaii. Is in Waikiki as we speak. Get out of here. Yeah. And, took the advice on the first day. Got a float. And said it was the greatest decision she's ever made. **Thomas** (00:16:30:12 - 00:16:31:17): You got a float? **Chip** (00:16:31:19 - 00:16:48:03): And so this is probably day three, maybe, 3 or 4 for her in Waikiki. She's never been. And she, she stay. And I want to say the if it's the Hilton or the Marriott, I think so like a little bit. She's like, up closer to where we ran our five K. **Thomas** (00:16:48:08 - 00:16:48:23): Yeah. **Chip** (00:16:48:23 - 00:16:54:07): She's like right around there and yeah, she is. She was loving it. The last time I talked to her it was like two days ago. **Thomas** (00:16:54:10 - 00:17:21:04): Dude. That's unbelievable man. Really good for her. And once again, one of the stated goals of this podcast to take mental vacations to the islands to celebrate living lives. We don't need vacations from. Yes. And then the third stated objective to detox and give out the locations of single moms and exact their exact whereabouts. **Chip** (00:17:21:04 - 00:17:23:22): Yeah, maybe. Maybe we'll beep that part out. **Thomas** (00:17:24:00 - 00:17:46:13): And, she'll be back by the time this is up. Yeah, I just thought it was funny. Dude, that's so exciting, man. I keep thinking about it. Like, Saturday morning woke up, me and the baby were hanging out, and I was like, do you want to look at some photos of Hawaii? And she said, yes. We sat down, put on some tunes and just played through the shared album we have. You know, I've just all the photos we took in Oahu and, you know, it's just a little baby girl going, there's Chip Kim, Chip ocean, Moana. It's, just a really good time to it. I just, I love having that experience of being able to just, just step back there in my mind every once in a while, though. **Chip** (00:18:08:10 - 00:18:25:20): It's it's a special place. Even my wife, I will say this was visiting. She went visit a friend, a former coworker first. They're very good friends now. Out of state yesterday, she, took a little, took a little quick trip, came back, and, she spent the day with her, and they had a great time. And she has two young children this year. This gal. **Thomas** (00:18:26:14 - 00:18:28:03): And what's her address? **Chip** (00:18:28:05 - 00:18:42:22): Her address is get up, get a paper and a pen, everybody. But, my wife doesn't watch a lot of children's movies, you know, why would she? But they watched a movie. I think it was. It's like Encanto. I think it is. Yeah, yeah. **Thomas** (00:18:42:22 - 00:18:44:18): Yeah, the kid plays the guitar. **Chip** (00:18:44:20 - 00:18:55:23): Right? So. And she. She enjoyed it, but she was very disappointed because right before she got there, the kids just finished watching Moana, Genki, Moana and really wanted to see Moana. **Thomas** (00:18:56:00 - 00:18:57:10): Have you guys not seen Moana? **Chip** (00:18:57:13 - 00:18:58:12): We have not seen Moana. **Thomas** (00:18:58:16 - 00:18:59:04): You gotta. **Chip** (00:18:59:04 - 00:19:01:13): Watch Moana. Yeah, I guess we'll watch it at some point. **Thomas** (00:19:01:15 - 00:19:19:09): Yeah. It's great. My, my brother in law, who is a no nonsense gentleman, had a very short review for Moana. He said, it's beautiful. Good music, good story. That's a pretty that's a pretty good review. **Chip** (00:19:19:11 - 00:19:21:04): I mean, what else do you need? **Thomas** (00:19:21:06 - 00:19:51:23): It's, it's all encompassing. I was like, that's so succinct and so positive, and I agree with every word of it I am now. Oh, God, I would I would have to guess, nearing my maybe 400th watch of Moana. Wow. And the luster has started to wane a little bit. But if you keep it under, 80 viewings, okay, let's say in a calendar year, I think you're really going to enjoy it. **Chip** (00:19:52:05 - 00:20:01:05): You can really lock in then. Okay. All right. So we'll try to keep it under 80. We've never watched it once in our life, but we'll try not to watch it more than 79 times. **Thomas** (00:20:01:05 - 00:20:21:09): Just an old it's just an old. Pro tip. That's what I would kind of recommend. And then, you know, you can also there's more 1 or 2 which, in no way kind of lives up to the first, but it's got a couple of bangers on there, too, in their own right. And, it's pretty and nice and honestly, it gets too scary. So I haven't finished it. I've seen maybe the first 30 minutes. **Chip** (00:20:26:18 - 00:20:31:23): I know you told me that some people in your household were a little scared by the movie elf. **Thomas** (00:20:32:01 - 00:20:32:14): Yeah. **Chip** (00:20:32:16 - 00:20:33:12): Understandable. **Thomas** (00:20:33:12 - 00:20:34:06): Yeah. **Chip** (00:20:34:08 - 00:20:36:21): So I could see where Moana, too. Would be a little shocking to you. **Thomas** (00:20:36:21 - 00:21:03:12): Yeah, yeah, there's. There's some time in a monster underworld that just, the baby doesn't care for. And then there's these little coconut pirates who shoot blow darts at you. And, if they hit you, you pass out their sleepy darts, and they don't have good intentions. Ship. So those are also too scary. We haven't made it past them, but, dude, we we have listened to the soundtrack many times, and, 000. And speaking of island related things, I just saw randomly scrolling the recipe for the monkey pod. Mai tai. **Chip** (00:21:12:00 - 00:21:13:21): Oh, you said that to me. **Thomas** (00:21:13:23 - 00:21:14:12): Sent that to you. **Chip** (00:21:14:12 - 00:21:16:13): I am so excited about this. **Thomas** (00:21:16:13 - 00:21:41:23): So now I mean that that only leaves the Moana. That only leaves them a part of Mai Tai is the one we don't have because we have the. For everybody out there who hasn't listened. When we came back from Waikiki, we gave each of our definitive rankings of our top three Mai Tais and their rundown. And for me, it was the Duke's Mai Tai, which is also served at the Hula Grill. Yes, the Duke's Mai Tai, and then the Mona mai Tai, then the monkey pod. Mai tai chip. I believe your order just switched or switched the Mona and the Duke's? Yes, the monkey pod. And the third. Not to say that the monkey pods. Bad. Unbelievable beverage. It just happens to be both of our thirds, because I think it's a little less sweet. **Chip** (00:22:06:21 - 00:22:21:08): And it's a little different. Like, it's it's kind of like a, maybe, maybe if you want to call it, like, elevated, you know, like there's, like elevated food where it's like, oh, this is an elevated burger. And it's like, I just want a burger. You know, I think that might have something to do with it. **Thomas** (00:22:21:08 - 00:22:21:20): Yeah. **Chip** (00:22:21:23 - 00:22:24:23): It is. It was it was delicious though. It was. **Thomas** (00:22:24:23 - 00:22:28:05): Delicious. It's got a little a koi foam on top. **Chip** (00:22:28:07 - 00:22:44:09): Yeah. I think that almost throws me off a little bit. The foam is great, but I don't know if it's like necessary for, for that. Do you know what I mean? Like it's still really good, but it's, it's also like I don't need all the, the bells and or whistles. **Thomas** (00:22:44:11 - 00:23:09:22): Yeah, but we found the Duke's ones very searchable. They put out a video of, like, one of their master bartenders showing you exactly how to make it like that. So you can Google that. The monkey pod. I bought the Miriam Ants cookbook. Who is the chef behind Monkey Pod? Yes, also the chef behind measurements. And, oh. Did I tell you I made the biggie tacos we had? **Chip** (00:23:10:00 - 00:23:11:21): Yes. And you said they were amazing. **Thomas** (00:23:11:22 - 00:23:20:22): Very, very nice. I like, so I tried them with steak instead of pork. I think I'm going to have to go back and do the exact version we had. And there was. **Chip** (00:23:20:22 - 00:23:21:15): A. **Thomas** (00:23:21:17 - 00:23:33:08): Remark a couple of like, you know, you're supposed to put like some Apple matches or sticks on there or something like that. I didn't I didn't do everything. I just kind of marinated some beef. **Chip** (00:23:33:10 - 00:23:33:23): **Thomas** (00:23:34:01 - 00:23:50:14): Cooked it up the way you're supposed to. And when I say I did my wife did all that. She's a very good cook. But anyways that was delicious. That was from the cookbook. That was from Monkey Pod. They don't have the drinks in there. A lot of, a lot of cookbooks from restaurants will have the drinks. Like if you get the Dishoom cookbook from, Dishoom restaurants, the Indian franchise in, the UK, they've got the the whole bartending section of it. Okay. And most of those drinks take the minimum a month to make. You got to make, like sirups and concoctions. And then you have to, age in specific bottles in specific places and temperatures and stuff. **Chip** (00:24:18:08 - 00:24:19:22): Daddy just wants a shot of Yaga. **Thomas** (00:24:19:22 - 00:24:36:04): In the coming season. Daddy wants a shot. Let's get started now. But, Yeah, dude, it was, it was fun to come across that just in the wild. I wasn't searching for it. Just showed up in my feed, and I was just like, sometimes these algorithms get it right. **Chip** (00:24:36:10 - 00:24:38:04): They know what's what. **Thomas** (00:24:38:06 - 00:24:43:08): You know what? Can we jump into a little something we like to call for the algo. **Chip** (00:24:43:08 - 00:24:45:21): For the algo? Can I jump into something? Yeah. **Thomas** (00:24:45:23 - 00:24:47:16): Jump into something for the algo, please. **Chip** (00:24:47:16 - 00:24:49:10): Speak in a sweet, sweet treats. **Thomas** (00:24:49:10 - 00:24:51:01): Yes. Oh, I love sweet treats. **Chip** (00:24:51:01 - 00:24:52:05): Today is Fat Tuesday. **Thomas** (00:24:52:10 - 00:24:53:12): It really is. **Chip** (00:24:53:14 - 00:24:57:16): It is the Lunar New Year. It is Michael Bay's birthday. **Thomas** (00:24:57:18 - 00:24:59:00): It's B-day. **Chip** (00:24:59:02 - 00:25:04:20): It is B-day, baby. It's baby. I believe it's also Joseph Gordon-levitt's birthday and maybe Michael Jordan's birthday. **Thomas** (00:25:04:20 - 00:25:08:06): So Michael Jordan's in a little hot water. Do you see that video? **Chip** (00:25:08:08 - 00:25:14:17): Yeah, I saw just a very brief clip of it, but yeah, it looks like, there was some inappropriateness, right? Is that what happened? **Thomas** (00:25:14:18 - 00:25:20:02): The best case scenario is that it's a bizarre video where something weird was happening. **Chip** (00:25:20:04 - 00:25:20:11): Okay? **Thomas** (00:25:20:11 - 00:25:33:09): It just feels yucky and wrong and a little weird. Is there could there be an explanation? I don't know, I can't think of what it is, but like it, it makes you feel weird when you see that video. **Chip** (00:25:33:11 - 00:25:38:01): Okay. All right. Yeah, I yeah, I don't know if I'm going to go back on it or not. Go back and watch. I'm like, no. **Thomas** (00:25:38:01 - 00:25:39:15): No, you don't need to. I just might. **Chip** (00:25:39:15 - 00:25:41:15): Move forward with my life. Yeah, yeah. Let's just. **Thomas** (00:25:41:15 - 00:25:43:21): Move forward. Sorry. Sorry to bring that up, MJ. **Chip** (00:25:43:21 - 00:25:45:21): And a little, little, little. **Thomas** (00:25:45:23 - 00:25:58:00): MJ and some foul play. I think that's, if I had, you know, like a rag, if I had a tabloid magazine, I think my headline would be MJ Foul play. **Chip** (00:25:58:02 - 00:26:00:01): Yeah, that's what it is right there. **Thomas** (00:26:00:03 - 00:26:03:02): That's great. But to air is Jordan to forgive. **Chip** (00:26:03:02 - 00:26:07:18): Is Michael so okay, Scottie Pippen hasn't done anything wrong, to my knowledge. **Thomas** (00:26:07:19 - 00:26:13:15): I mean, so he hasn't done anything wrong, but he has mismanaged tremendous finances. **Chip** (00:26:13:17 - 00:26:26:02): Yeah, I will say that. Maybe that's that's not the greatest thing in the world, but, I want to manage my personal finances both financially and intrinsically as a human being. **Thomas** (00:26:26:06 - 00:26:26:16): Yeah. **Chip** (00:26:26:16 - 00:26:43:22): So since today is Fat Tuesday, I'm going to enjoy. I'm going to have some. I'm going to party it up like it is Mardi Gras, like we do every Tuesday here. Yeah, okay. However, I, I've decided I've made a definitive list. I'm not necessarily a churchgoing man anymore necessarily, famously Lutheran. **Thomas** (00:26:43:22 - 00:26:44:23): Right. **Chip** (00:26:45:01 - 00:26:52:19): But I have decided this year to observe and give a few things up for lent this year, starting tomorrow, Ash Wednesday. **Thomas** (00:26:52:21 - 00:27:01:22): Wow. So that's a 40 day period where you go without to remind us, **Chip** (00:27:02:00 - 00:27:06:16): Just of the, you know, of of the sacrifice. That's some some have given. **Thomas** (00:27:06:20 - 00:27:09:12): Okay. Great great great great. **Chip** (00:27:09:14 - 00:27:18:03): And to reflect and I have given up if I actually made a list, I thought it's a couple of things that I, I decided, you know what? These are some things that I love. **Thomas** (00:27:18:07 - 00:27:19:04): Yes. **Chip** (00:27:19:06 - 00:27:31:21): But for 40 days, I'm going to eschew them, to, to to to to pay. To pay. Sort of my respects. So here we go. Here's what I'm giving up for lent this year. Starting tomorrow. Thomas. **Thomas** (00:27:31:21 - 00:27:36:10): Wow. Okay, so you got one day to get him. You're giving up chocolate? **Chip** (00:27:36:12 - 00:27:44:20): Giving up chocolate. Hey, besides, by the way, it also has a benefit. It's daddy. Once you get that beach body. Yes. You know, let's. Let's give something up. **Thomas** (00:27:44:22 - 00:27:46:11): Chocolate, chocolate. **Chip** (00:27:46:13 - 00:27:52:12): I'm also giving up diet soda. Diets only get a drink. The real thing from now on, baby. That's the real thing for next 48. **Thomas** (00:27:52:13 - 00:27:54:06): Okay. **Chip** (00:27:54:08 - 00:28:09:19): Third thing. I'm giving up foaming soap. I'm to. I'm lathering it myself. I don't need a contraption to prefer my soap. I'm going to lather that soap myself. I'm not touching any pre-formed soap. Famously, famously. **Thomas** (00:28:09:19 - 00:28:20:09): You are a bar soap, man in the shower. Yes, we've covered this. This has been. Yes. And when it gets when it gets worn down, you use it to a bigger bar. **Chip** (00:28:20:09 - 00:28:21:21): Absolutely. Chemistry. **Thomas** (00:28:21:22 - 00:28:25:15): So you're taking you're taking the soap out of the tub and into the kitchen. **Chip** (00:28:25:17 - 00:28:29:13): Yeah. Basically. Or like, let's say I'm in a men's room somewhere. **Thomas** (00:28:29:13 - 00:28:29:23): Yeah. **Chip** (00:28:29:23 - 00:28:42:08): And there's like a foaming soap option, but then there's something else. I'm going with the other option. You know, it's like, oh, I am go. I don't I don't need a machine to foam my soap. I am going to put the work in just like our ancestors did. **Thomas** (00:28:42:08 - 00:28:58:07): Yes. This is Oregon Trail behavior and I love it. I think you're going back to the basics. You're eschewing the technological advances in hygiene and taking it back. I appreciate it, dude. I think that's going to going to offer you some time of quiet reflection and diligence. **Chip** (00:28:58:09 - 00:29:11:16): Thank you. Thank you. Something else is getting me a little time for reflection for the next 40 days. Yeah. I am not going to call women tweets for the next 40 days. Just out on the street. Hey. Oh, well, I'm not going to do it. **Thomas** (00:29:11:16 - 00:29:14:01): But behind their back. **Chip** (00:29:14:03 - 00:29:16:11): Oh, yes. To their face. I'm not doing it behind their back. **Thomas** (00:29:16:14 - 00:29:25:17): Okay okay okay. This makes sense. This read I was going to say like that was the first one or I was like, you can't do it 40 days without Chip Chantry saying thoughts? **Chip** (00:29:25:19 - 00:29:31:09): Yeah. Tickets to a woman. No. Next thing, I'm giving up Frazier reruns. **Thomas** (00:29:31:11 - 00:29:33:04): Come on. No, Niles. **Chip** (00:29:33:06 - 00:29:43:07): Self-explanatory. No. Niles. No. Eddie, no. Radio call in psychologist from Seattle for the next 40 days. **Thomas** (00:29:43:09 - 00:29:48:17): But what are you going to do with those tossed salad and scrambled eggs? **Chip** (00:29:48:18 - 00:29:51:16): They are just going to rot on the counter. **Thomas** (00:29:51:18 - 00:29:54:11): It's going to be, stinky cleanup. And for you. **Chip** (00:29:54:13 - 00:29:55:23): Sorry, Roz. **Thomas** (00:29:56:01 - 00:30:04:22): That's all I got to say. Sorry. Right. Is that the t shirt? Separate podcast? Sorry, Roz. Sorry, Roz. **Chip** (00:30:05:00 - 00:30:07:08): I think that's it right there. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:30:07:10 - 00:30:10:22): All right, so you're giving up more than Frasier? **Chip** (00:30:10:23 - 00:30:16:06): Yeah, more than Frasier giving up the whole thing. The next thing I'm giving up for the next 40 days. **Thomas** (00:30:16:06 - 00:30:16:21): Yeah. **Chip** (00:30:16:23 - 00:30:21:00): Shouting obscenities at people who are trying to parallel park. **Thomas** (00:30:21:02 - 00:30:30:09): This feels like in order for you to accomplish it, you will have to figure out a way to minimize the people you see trying to parallel park. **Chip** (00:30:30:11 - 00:30:56:22): Because when I see somebody difficultly trying to parallel park, I will just scream and heckle them, hurl some of the most vicious words they have ever heard as they're trying to concentrate back in that car, into the space, and I will just scream at them, just, oh heartedly unrepentantly I do it. But for the next 40 days, if you want a parallel park in my neighborhood, you get a free pass. **Thomas** (00:30:56:22 - 00:31:04:22): Between the chocolate reduction and the rage reduction. Your blood pressure is going to be real nice. **Chip** (00:31:05:00 - 00:31:15:12): Well, here's another thing. It's going to bring that blood pressure down. I'm also giving up marmalade. Whoa. Not a single clump of marmalade this entire next month and a half. **Thomas** (00:31:15:14 - 00:31:18:22): Well, what are you going to eat on a sandwich with peanut butter? **Chip** (00:31:19:00 - 00:31:29:21): Oh, just going to eat a lot of mayonnaise. I think it's going to be mayonnaise. I'm to switch it. Yeah. Let me tell you, this is totally honest thing. I am, not a menace guy. Don't enjoy the mayonnaise. **Thomas** (00:31:30:00 - 00:31:31:00): I don't either. **Chip** (00:31:31:02 - 00:31:31:22): Gross. **Thomas** (00:31:32:00 - 00:31:39:15): Yeah, it is necessary. It is gross. I think we have both ordered burgers before it said. And, And no mayonnaise. **Chip** (00:31:39:15 - 00:31:55:14): Hold the mayo. Yeah. It's just it's not. Here's something you could do, I think, because sometimes you want something, you don't want it to be too dry. Switch that mayo with a little mustard. Mustard? It gives it a little, little more of a, a zip to it, but, yeah, I think you can. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:31:55:19 - 00:32:04:17): Mustard. I'm a dry dog. Maybe. Okay. Give me that meat on some dry bread. Do you know how mayonnaise is made? **Chip** (00:32:04:21 - 00:32:06:17): It's. There's eggs involved. It's. **Thomas** (00:32:06:19 - 00:32:12:09): I think it's literally eggs and oil. You just kind of whip it together until it's somehow mayonnaise. It really is. **Chip** (00:32:12:09 - 00:32:26:11): Enjoy eggs. I enjoy oil, but you put those two things together, I just don't I don't understand why. It just doesn't. It's not horrible. I don't I don't totally dislike it, but it just it's never added anything. **Thomas** (00:32:26:13 - 00:32:27:00): Yeah. **Chip** (00:32:27:00 - 00:32:27:09): Positive. **Thomas** (00:32:27:09 - 00:32:34:00): For me, the one place I will and need it is in a nice potato salad chip. **Chip** (00:32:34:02 - 00:32:35:03): Okay, sure. **Thomas** (00:32:35:05 - 00:32:45:01): And a nice potato salad. Which is odd because growing up, I detested mayonnaise. Hated mustard, but you put them together in a potato salad, and I. It's one of my favorite things. **Chip** (00:32:45:03 - 00:32:56:01): I do like a potato salad. I will say this. Or egg salad, you know, for example, or a, macaroni salad. It has to be light, though. Light mayo. Oh, I mean, I super creamy, I. **Thomas** (00:32:56:01 - 00:33:00:00): Wouldn't you I wouldn't even know. Like I think by the time it's in there, it's all in the sauce. **Chip** (00:33:00:00 - 00:33:16:05): And I'm just saying like less mayo, like not a, not not a saucy. Yeah. Potato salad. Like, I want to I want to see the the guts of the potato. I don't need a whole lot of potato soup there. It's just like. **Thomas** (00:33:16:10 - 00:33:16:20): You like. **Chip** (00:33:16:20 - 00:33:17:14): Your coat. It. **Thomas** (00:33:17:17 - 00:33:22:03): You want your potato salad adjacent to bone dry? **Chip** (00:33:22:05 - 00:33:25:14): Yes. But. Yeah. So just a little mayo in there. Just. **Thomas** (00:33:25:14 - 00:33:36:10): Yeah, it's really dry. Yeah. I really I really lean on a pickle and a potato salad. That's what. That's how it makes it for me. I need it to be the right kind of pickle. You know? **Chip** (00:33:36:10 - 00:33:37:19): Absolutely. **Thomas** (00:33:37:21 - 00:33:39:11): Okay, okay. Let's keep go. **Chip** (00:33:39:13 - 00:34:05:00): Anyway. Thomas, the things that I'm giving up for lent for the next 40 days, starting tomorrow, are chocolate, diet soda, foaming soap, calling women to its Frazier reruns, shouting obscenities at people while they try to parallel park marmalade. And finally, the tattoo studio that I run out of my basement for the next 40 days. The tattoo studio that I have, let's just say, illegally been running out of my body, shutting down for the next 40 days. **Thomas** (00:34:05:00 - 00:34:21:20): That's a blow to the community. And that is just, what's it called next and above. You only do visible neck and face work. Yep. And, you know, once again, famously, you're not necessarily known for your artistic hand. **Chip** (00:34:21:22 - 00:34:31:04): No. Or my patience, or my dexterity. Even my keen eye for color. **Thomas** (00:34:31:08 - 00:34:32:11): Yeah. **Chip** (00:34:32:13 - 00:34:34:07): My spelling ability. **Thomas** (00:34:34:09 - 00:34:36:09): Yeah. **Chip** (00:34:36:11 - 00:34:51:22): All of which are on display around the city, Philadelphia. And it's, it's, surrounding suburbs of people who just have very lackluster tattoos. But for some reason still come running back. **Thomas** (00:34:51:23 - 00:34:58:07): Well, I think it's your price point, chip. Not a lot of people are out there given free ink. **Chip** (00:34:58:09 - 00:35:01:14): Free ink, baby. It's like you get what you pay for. **Thomas** (00:35:01:17 - 00:35:08:06): You get what you pay for. And, you know, I think I would be worried otherwise. A lot of people say I'm shutting down my business for lent. **Chip** (00:35:08:08 - 00:35:08:14): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:35:08:18 - 00:35:34:12): And I'm just like, well, how are you going to pay rent? How are you going to make that mortgage? Yeah. And this is a business you've been running for no profit for years. Yeah. So you're just kind of taking a little vacay and might I put this little bee in your bonnet? Okay, since you're taking no appointments, there's nobody saying you can't just hop back on that plane, get your wife, maybe take the dogs, head back on to Oahu, do it. **Chip** (00:35:34:18 - 00:35:36:05): Or maybe go explore. **Thomas** (00:35:36:05 - 00:35:37:09): Another island, baby. **Chip** (00:35:37:12 - 00:35:39:10): Exactly. **Thomas** (00:35:39:12 - 00:36:00:13): Explore another. Oh, fudge. Do I want to be on vacation so bad right now? I want to be on a beach right now. It's, Dude, well, thanks for sharing. What's going on with lent? I'm going to just jump into a couple more algo things. Yeah, quick. It is raining cats and dogs here in Los Angeles. Dude. **Chip** (00:36:00:21 - 00:36:01:14): Is it, **Thomas** (00:36:01:16 - 00:36:10:16): We're having floods. I'm getting the. I don't even know if they bother on the East coast for you, but I'm getting those Apple alerts. Flash flood warning, hazardous weather. **Chip** (00:36:10:16 - 00:36:12:12): Oh, yeah. The every once in a while we get those. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:36:12:13 - 00:36:14:20): Got a couple of those bright and early yesterday. **Chip** (00:36:14:20 - 00:36:31:05): I know it's not a pleasant situation, but I do love the name they give for what do they call that? It's like the, atmosphere. The river. Yes. What is it? What is spirit River? I that is a great. It's just it's it sounds like a Dave Matthews album that I don't want to listen to, but I still love. I still love the, the the idea of an atmospheric river. **Thomas** (00:36:34:12 - 00:36:44:19): What it is, is it's just our, our towns getting coated with water, which is good. We need it. I think this is the first time California has officially been out of a drought, like maybe in my lifetime. **Chip** (00:36:44:19 - 00:36:47:22): Are you seeing things are a little more lush or a little more lush out there? **Thomas** (00:36:47:23 - 00:37:15:15): Yeah, you could really see, like if you drive through the canyons and stuff, if it didn't get burnt this summer, if it did get burnt to the ground and, just ashy it is green and lush, but it's also just like a reminder of what we're doing to our environment and the ocean. When it rains in Los Angeles, just the, the water that gets swept off of our ground and into the ocean is so toxic that you can't go swimming for a while. Like, it is that bad that after a big rain is when, like, you can't go in the ocean because it's just whatever we're doing in Los Angeles to the water is just polluting everything. **Chip** (00:37:28:01 - 00:37:32:05): Yeah, I, I don't want to go swimming. And whatever has been thrown on the sidewalk in Eagle Rock. **Thomas** (00:37:32:10 - 00:37:53:20): No, no no no you don't. That's some hipster stuff. So flash flooding in Los Angeles, a lot of people got backed up. There's certain places where there's just if it rains, there's going to be like, parts of the freeway that flood, and you'll see the same angle. It's always the same place. It's like, fix that drain. **Chip** (00:37:53:22 - 00:37:54:11): Sure. **Thomas** (00:37:54:13 - 00:38:07:03): Just like it's going to rain and nine more months. Fix the drain before. Yeah. They won't and they shan't. And there'll be a big puddle on the freeway and we'll get the same news coverage making it look like an apocalypse. But it's just in that spot for the most part. **Chip** (00:38:07:04 - 00:38:08:05): Insane in the drain. **Thomas** (00:38:08:05 - 00:38:10:06): That's insane. And the drain. **Chip** (00:38:10:08 - 00:38:12:05): **Thomas** (00:38:12:07 - 00:38:19:09): Dude, the next thing I want to talk about a little Winter Olympics news. Chip, have you been watching the Winter games? **Chip** (00:38:19:11 - 00:38:27:07): Hit me with it. I have watched almost no Winter Olympics this year. I feel kind of bad. I feel a little guilty. I've seen almost nothing. **Thomas** (00:38:27:07 - 00:38:35:09): I think a lot of people are in your boat because America ain't got no stars this year. Yep. **Chip** (00:38:35:11 - 00:38:42:05): Yeah, I don't I couldn't name a single like a figure skater. Okay. Yeah, I, I don't know a single name. **Thomas** (00:38:42:07 - 00:38:42:14): Okay. **Chip** (00:38:42:14 - 00:38:47:19): Well, I, I actually know, I do know one name, Lindsey Vonn. And you know how that turned out. **Thomas** (00:38:47:22 - 00:39:05:12): That did. And, cheer credit after what happened with Lindsey Vonn happened. You said, you know what? I know her name. And she had a terrible outcome, right? Out of respect for the United States, out of respect for the athletes, you weren't going to learn anymore. **Chip** (00:39:05:14 - 00:39:10:02): It's disrespectful. If I did, it's dangerous. Absolutely. **Thomas** (00:39:10:02 - 00:39:20:23): So I'm going to not use any names here. Okay. But I will use the nickname. A young man who I believe calls himself the quad. God. **Chip** (00:39:21:00 - 00:39:21:09): Okay. **Thomas** (00:39:21:09 - 00:39:44:08): Supposedly a generational talent. All right. A figure skater so transformative that at 21 years old, he has changed the game. A skating trick that was outlawed in the 70s was put back into competition because of his ability to perform it. The backflip. Yep. **Chip** (00:39:44:10 - 00:39:47:23): I saw I did see a clip of this and it's incredible. **Thomas** (00:39:48:04 - 00:40:07:06): And my baby saw that clip. It was the first figure skating she's ever seen. And every time she saw figure skating after that, she would just scream at the TV with this hand motion to go flip, flip, flip. Oh, so he's ruined figure skating for it's never going to get back. **Chip** (00:40:07:06 - 00:40:08:07): So disappointed. **Thomas** (00:40:08:10 - 00:40:19:03): But this guy's a marvel. He destroys everybody. His ability to do tricks people can't do at a high level just puts points on the board that people can't even catch up to. **Chip** (00:40:19:05 - 00:40:20:00): He's that American. **Thomas** (00:40:20:00 - 00:40:22:09): Is he? He's American. He's oh, yes, he is. **Chip** (00:40:22:13 - 00:40:23:01): He was he. **Thomas** (00:40:23:01 - 00:40:49:13): Was on you know, he's basically the face of our winner games leading into it, a guaranteed gold medal. Yeah. It just he puts points up on the board. They're so high that like, even if somebody did the routine perfectly, just his garbage points for the things he tries eclipses what they can do on a perfect run. So in the bag, gold medal after the first program he is in first place. So he's going to go last, I believe and the long program. And then he just has to, you know, finish that out, put a bow on it and get his gold medal. This dude and his second program, which I believe was the fourth overall because he competed in the team competition, his fourth program, the one that's for his individual gold medal. He bombs it. Dude, he absolutely crapped his pants on the ice. And he did it. I'm not. I'm not saying pride cometh before the fall, but his name is Quad God. The quad God, because he could do quads four spin on a thing. And he's like, supposedly the best at it. He's wearing a shirt, his own merch leading up to the games that says Quad God everywhere. He's naming himself a deity. And then this is not a joke. You know how the figure skaters pick a song, they got a tune they skate to? **Chip** (00:41:52:14 - 00:41:53:20): Sure. **Thomas** (00:41:53:21 - 00:42:00:18): So his tune and the first time I saw it, it was in the team competition. I was watching my wife. I was like. **Chip** (00:42:00:20 - 00:42:03:22): I. **Thomas** (00:42:04:00 - 00:42:26:18): Music starts playing and then a voice comes on and it's like, you are, you are something you are definitely not nothing. You know, like almost inspirational quotes or some of the quotes just to get you to ponder life or some of the quotes are like, you know, the it's the darkest moment before the light. **Chip** (00:42:26:18 - 00:42:29:00): And is this being sung or this is like. **Thomas** (00:42:29:02 - 00:42:55:04): This is being spoken word. Okay. And I've seen enough interviews with this kid, 21 years old. I was like, babe, I think the spoken word is this skater. I think he put his own voice on this thing, kind of giving artistic or inspirational quotes. Yeah. And she's like, there's no way. And I was like, okay about it. But like, I heard the interviews, whatever. And then when it comes back to, the gold medal round, the last thing he's doing the same program again where he has that song and it comes up on the screen like they're saying who? The song they're going to be skating to his by. And it was like whoever wrote the instrumental music and that it's his name again as the spoken word. So he is out there to his own voice saying like quasi inspirational quotes. After wearing his quad God merch on the way in and that he just jump after jump, I think he fell twice straight up. He like started to jump and then just didn't spin like he was supposed to a couple of times. Like the dude just had a complete meltdown on the ice, and it was on the backdrop of some things that are like, pretty, you know, there's some might say a little high on your own supply, potentially. **Chip** (00:43:52:04 - 00:43:53:04): Sure. **Thomas** (00:43:53:06 - 00:43:56:01): And I don't want to get too, too hard on the kid 21 years ago. **Chip** (00:43:56:01 - 00:43:59:16): But yeah, he pulls a Richie Tannenbaum out there. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:43:59:18 - 00:44:10:15): Exactly, exactly, exactly. And I do think like it is made more challenging and he put more pressure on himself by having these other elements in there. Dude, it was really hard. **Chip** (00:44:10:18 - 00:44:11:01): We were. **Thomas** (00:44:11:01 - 00:44:17:13): Very disappointed. We felt bad for him. We also felt bad for America. Dude, this was this is the one we had the bag, baby. **Chip** (00:44:17:15 - 00:44:20:16): This was like a Dan and Dave situation. Do you remember Dan and Dave? **Thomas** (00:44:20:17 - 00:44:27:06): Danny. Dave the, the improv. No no no no, that Dan O'Brien, the, the. Oh, yeah. **Chip** (00:44:27:07 - 00:44:29:12): Oh that's right. His name was Dan O'Brien. Yeah, that's. **Thomas** (00:44:29:12 - 00:44:30:10): My little brother's name. **Chip** (00:44:30:15 - 00:44:36:11): That's your little brother's name. And they were like the, I don't know, it was like pentathlon or they even just. **Thomas** (00:44:36:12 - 00:44:39:22): Have the best athlete in the world. They had events. Yeah. **Chip** (00:44:40:00 - 00:44:58:01): Ten events, the decathlon. Okay, so the decathlon, where they were, they did all those Nike commercials beforehand. Who's the best in the world, Dan or Dave? They were both Americans. They were going to do the decathlon together in the Olympics and see who won. And then one of them, whether it was Dan or Dave, did not make the cut for the Olympics. And, **Thomas** (00:44:58:19 - 00:44:59:22): That's real tough. **Chip** (00:45:00:00 - 00:45:09:01): All that money down the drain. But I think he did a nice job. He did a nice job of showing humility and like, hey, this is this is the way it is or whatever. Yeah. So yeah. **Thomas** (00:45:09:03 - 00:45:17:00): And that's not to be confused with all the people giving up caffeine for lent who are doing a calf a lot. **Chip** (00:45:17:02 - 00:45:23:22): Right? Yes. No. That is that is a decaf a lot. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:45:24:00 - 00:45:43:00): It really is. And then, dude, did you hear about the, lovers arch collapse? No. Okay, so there's this place in Italy. It's called the Lovers Arch. It's like this beautiful arch on the coast. You could picture it like. It's almost like on Portugal's Algarve or something like that. It's just like there's these cliffs, the oceans underneath. And they have hollowed out little caves that, like, leave arches and okay formation. So a beautiful spot, an absolute beautiful spot called the Lover's Arch, like the home of countless weddings. First kisses. Romantic photograph sessions. This, this. **Chip** (00:46:00:05 - 00:46:02:21): I believe there's a Wendy's location there. Is that correct? **Thomas** (00:46:02:23 - 00:46:06:21): Oh, that's something else I saw on the news. Did you hear about your. Wendy's are closing? **Chip** (00:46:06:23 - 00:46:07:22): No. **Thomas** (00:46:08:00 - 00:46:13:21): Yeah. Just, it's tough time in the economy, dude. People can't afford those square patties. **Chip** (00:46:13:23 - 00:46:17:09): Yeah. First Bahama breeze, now the square patty. All right, all right. **Thomas** (00:46:17:13 - 00:46:22:01): I mean, we can't afford square meals in this country anymore. And that's why Wendy's. **Chip** (00:46:22:01 - 00:46:24:08): It's hard to square me on a square. Deal is what we need. **Thomas** (00:46:24:10 - 00:46:26:01): What we need a square deal. **Chip** (00:46:26:06 - 00:46:41:08): Sorry. This is getting so political, guys. We're really getting it. We're getting deep into politics. Speaking of the algorithm, we're getting deep into politics this week. We're talking about ice skating. We are talking about square hamburgers. We were talking about arches in Italy. Yeah. So? So anyway, so so, yeah. **Thomas** (00:46:41:10 - 00:47:11:22): So, it's been ravaged by storms. There was 50ft waves on the sea that day. Chip. And in a twist of irony, on Valentine's Day. No, no, this lover's arch catches a one too many stray waves, one too many drops of water eroding in the wrong spot and collapses. This place that for centuries has been a destination for romantics, just wiped out in one fell swoop, dude. But it happened on Valentine's Day. **Chip** (00:47:13:14 - 00:47:15:15): Isn't that on Valentine's of all days? **Thomas** (00:47:15:16 - 00:47:18:00): Of all days? **Chip** (00:47:18:02 - 00:47:21:02): It's not a good sign. It's not a good sign for love, is what I got to say. **Thomas** (00:47:21:03 - 00:47:24:13): Maybe love's out. Maybe love's on the way down. Maybe that's what. **Chip** (00:47:24:13 - 00:47:26:23): Love. Rock n roll. Actually. **Thomas** (00:47:27:01 - 00:47:40:13): It can't be. Yep. That's what we're gonna. That's what we're clinging to here at the sunburnt podcast. We believe, and above all things, not unlike Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! We believe in love. **Chip** (00:47:40:15 - 00:47:48:17): Yeah. Not unlike, not unlike U2's song God Part two. I believe in love. **Thomas** (00:47:48:19 - 00:47:52:18): Not unlike The darkness, a song I believe in a. **Chip** (00:47:52:20 - 00:47:59:20): Thing called love. Just listen to the rhythm of my heart. This is. **Thomas** (00:47:59:22 - 00:48:08:01): Oh, man. Did you ever want to be able to shred a guitar or sing falsetto? More than the first time you heard I believe in a Thing Called Love. **Chip** (00:48:08:01 - 00:48:11:05): What a rockin song. What a fun, rocking song. **Thomas** (00:48:11:07 - 00:48:19:18): Yeah, but it was different, dude. It was kind of putting these elements together that you hadn't quite heard put together in that way. At least I had it because it was like. **Chip** (00:48:19:20 - 00:48:21:09): Throwback to that hair metal day. **Thomas** (00:48:21:09 - 00:48:25:09): It's classic hair metal, but with real pop sensibilities, baby. **Chip** (00:48:25:11 - 00:48:44:20): Yes. Yeah. And that's what that's what I liked about it, because I was never a hair metal guy. Yeah, but hearing that, it's kind of like I hair metal was the Mona of my childhood. Yeah, it was just being played over and over and over again and I couldn't get away from it. Was not interested. But also everyone's. Why? You see, Mona, years later, you're like, oh, wait, this is actually pretty good when it's done correctly. **Thomas** (00:48:50:05 - 00:49:00:22): When it's done correctly. But I also think, like the true hair metal version of that song would be called I believe in a thing called Disrespecting Women in general, right? **Chip** (00:49:01:00 - 00:49:08:23): Yes, yes, I'm wearing tights and full makeup and I'm going to say why women are bad. **Thomas** (00:49:08:23 - 00:49:12:21): And women are disposable. So shoutout darkness for putting that twist on it. **Chip** (00:49:15:08 - 00:49:16:05): Yeah. Darkness. Thanks. **Thomas** (00:49:16:05 - 00:49:17:14): I feel like we're cooking. **Chip** (00:49:17:16 - 00:49:20:01): We are. We are moving. **Thomas** (00:49:20:03 - 00:49:24:21): Feeling a little tropical baby. Feeling that heat a little. **Chip** (00:49:24:21 - 00:49:27:15): Hot, a little heat. Two little chefs over here. **Thomas** (00:49:27:15 - 00:49:31:00): Okay, dude, now it's time for hypochondriac corner. **Chip** (00:49:31:01 - 00:49:39:09): Oh, no. Just when we are cooking, we're going to get through it together. Thomas. Yes, we are both hypochondriacs. We're going to do this. We're going to be strong. **Thomas** (00:49:39:09 - 00:49:50:04): I've had a good week, but. But I will say hypochondriac corner in the short term has been turned into things I saw in the pit this week that bothered me. Okay? **Chip** (00:49:50:06 - 00:49:52:05): I mean, hey, go for it. **Thomas** (00:49:52:07 - 00:50:08:23): We're bringing one story full circle. A couple weeks ago, a woman bust into the ER. Only one piece of information is given to why she might be on death's doorstep. And it's that she had chilaquiles for lunch. One of my favorite foods. **Chip** (00:50:09:00 - 00:50:10:17): Your favorite meals? **Thomas** (00:50:10:17 - 00:50:36:14): If I go to a restaurant and there's chilaquiles on the menu, even though I know I have light IBS and it might cause me problems later, I will order the chilaquiles. Yes, in the tropical tie it is the. I first experienced it on a tropical travel supply. Escondido, where I spent my honeymoon. And they had, you know, this amazing chef at the resort and chilaquiles. Man, I got it the first day, and I got it every day afterwards. I loved it so much. I ordered all the time. And now the pit is telling me it might be the source of why I end up in an emergency room with a potentially life, risking ailment. **Chip** (00:50:53:19 - 00:50:56:11): Yeah, it's. It might murder you from the inside out. **Thomas** (00:50:56:11 - 00:51:15:08): And I made a promise to you. You're like, I need to find out. As this story progresses, what happens is, like, I'll tell you. And we are two episodes past that at this point. They haven't mentioned it once. This is this is a person not going to be a storyline they're pursuing. They just wanted to get T-Bones head and say, you know what? For no reason at all, just to get from point or K to scene B, we are going to destroy in your mind a food you love and millions around the world love to, I'm sure. **Chip** (00:51:27:10 - 00:51:28:03): Of course. **Thomas** (00:51:28:05 - 00:51:30:15): They were just kind of playing fast and loose. **Chip** (00:51:30:15 - 00:51:37:08): Man, with your emotions. Thomas, can I ask what have they? Have they gotten any closer to diagnosing this lady? **Thomas** (00:51:37:10 - 00:51:51:17): No, no, they haven't talked about her once. I think it was just a throwaway line. And they're just like, let's ruin one food dish. What food dish should we ruin, Marcy? Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. No, I love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. **Chip** (00:51:51:19 - 00:51:52:03): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:51:52:08 - 00:52:07:17): Can. Mayonnaise? No. Too many people already hate mayonnaise. Let's go with something that's, like, kind of an off brand header. Something that, like, if you know, you know, and you really love it, let's ruin something like that. **Chip** (00:52:07:19 - 00:52:15:01): Yeah. What's wrong with this guy's back? I don't know, he's wearing a quad god t shirt. Ooh. Just like throwing something like that in there. **Thomas** (00:52:15:01 - 00:52:26:02): Yeah, yeah, I mean, that might be coming up. Appears to have a bruised. Took us. We're in a car. Quad God shirt. Who? What could have happened? **Chip** (00:52:26:04 - 00:52:28:04): Well, took for us. **Thomas** (00:52:28:06 - 00:52:42:09): Okay. And then. And now we have a new one. Now we have a new one. I think it's in the same vein. I had a hand to God. I think there is somebody. Somebody in that room, maybe your friend who told us how season two is going to end. **Chip** (00:52:42:09 - 00:52:43:07): Right? **Thomas** (00:52:43:09 - 00:53:03:15): The spotlight might be just coming after t bone personally, because there was a there was another one. It was off screen somebody what like just was like giving a doctor a heads up that a new patient had arrived and he needs to go see him so he can get off screen in this scene and whatever. Keep coming here. **Chip** (00:53:03:17 - 00:53:04:13): Sure. **Thomas** (00:53:04:15 - 00:53:11:22): Pickleball player in room 17, torn Achilles tendon. **Chip** (00:53:12:00 - 00:53:15:20): I mean, just hitting you hard, but, boy, this guy does not have a chill Achilles. I will say that. **Thomas** (00:53:15:21 - 00:53:23:11): He does not have it. Yes yes yes yes yes. They are anti Achilles over there. They don't like Achilles. They don't like Achilles tendons. **Chip** (00:53:23:14 - 00:53:24:19): No. **Thomas** (00:53:24:21 - 00:53:47:06): But like that literally that day, one of the pickle boys, one of the famed pickle boys. Yeah. Texted the pickleball channel and said, hey guys, out this week. I've been having some Achilles tenderness. This is not a joke. This happened that this happened the day after I watch the episode where, where where I heard that phrase and I just, like, texted the group. I was like, I think it's good that you're not showing up this week. I think the universe is saying, Achilles are in danger. You know, you're feeling a little Achilles noise. You got a listen. **Chip** (00:53:56:23 - 00:53:58:01): In that pickle. **Thomas** (00:53:58:03 - 00:54:02:01): You can't ball the pickle if you're going to Achilles the heel. **Chip** (00:54:02:03 - 00:54:04:02): No. **Thomas** (00:54:04:04 - 00:54:07:18): Wow. So that's it for a hypochondriac chord. Do you have anything, chip? **Chip** (00:54:07:20 - 00:54:15:17): I've been pretty. I feel like I've been pretty good with hyper Hypochondriac Corner in recent days, so I don't want to jinx myself, but. **Thomas** (00:54:15:18 - 00:54:16:08): I love it. **Chip** (00:54:16:10 - 00:54:19:12): I'm sure there will be something for, for next week. **Thomas** (00:54:19:12 - 00:54:39:00): Yeah, well, yeah. I mean, you did Dry January, and it sounds like you've continued those habits, pretty much into February. I do think that, hypochondriac, feelings and just any, regular alcohol consumption kind of go hand in hand, don't you? **Chip** (00:54:39:01 - 00:54:41:01): Oh, I think they do. Yes, they 100% do. **Thomas** (00:54:41:01 - 00:54:43:04): It's a correlated response. **Chip** (00:54:43:05 - 00:54:50:15): Yeah. And I haven't boosted it up that much. I've had a, a bevvy or two but yeah. But yeah I've been trying to keep it relatively dry. **Thomas** (00:54:50:16 - 00:55:02:22): Yeah dude. Me too. It's been it's been a fun season. It doesn't mean I don't think about a Dukes my tie. It doesn't mean that I'll won't tell the whole world. When I see a mighty recipe on the internet. **Chip** (00:55:03:00 - 00:55:04:16): It becomes our tie, then. **Thomas** (00:55:04:18 - 00:55:11:09): It becomes our tie. And really, a shared problem is, you know, something we don't have to keep in the dark. **Chip** (00:55:11:11 - 00:55:12:16): Right? **Thomas** (00:55:12:18 - 00:55:32:23): Okay. Oh, dude, speaking of shared problems, Chip, I know I've kept it a secret from you, but the burnt ones have spoken. We had have multiple people figure out what my mystery receipt from 2017. From the moment a surf rider was. Yep. **Chip** (00:55:32:23 - 00:55:33:20): No. **Thomas** (00:55:33:22 - 00:55:35:13): Yeah, I got what I got. **Chip** (00:55:35:13 - 00:55:41:17): 30, $0.30 and $0.30. I think it was 37. I've been okay. All right, I. **Thomas** (00:55:41:20 - 00:55:52:04): Cut it and a two. My wife's credit. She ultimately settled in on thinking it was something else, but she's like, did we get, like, a postcard or something? **Chip** (00:55:52:06 - 00:55:53:19): Oh, postcard would have been a good. **Thomas** (00:55:53:19 - 00:56:01:23): Well, but I was like, it was 2017. It wasn't 1917. Postcards weren't $0.30. **Chip** (00:56:02:01 - 00:56:03:07): No, that's true. **Thomas** (00:56:03:09 - 00:56:20:15): Chip. It was a postcard. No, it was a postcard. And apparently there's this barcode on here, and you can put it, do a search on it, and they could find the exact postcard, which is so bizarre because, like. **Chip** (00:56:20:15 - 00:56:22:04): The picture and everything. **Thomas** (00:56:22:05 - 00:56:39:18): It had, it had the picture and everything, I was like, I recognize that postcard, but it made no sense because we were in Oahu. At Waikiki, we had only done Oahu things, and apparently we brought bought two postcards that said Road to Hana, which is something from Maui. **Chip** (00:56:39:20 - 00:56:40:04): Right? **Thomas** (00:56:40:08 - 00:56:45:14): And maybe we just thought we had done The Road to Hana by driving around. **Chip** (00:56:45:14 - 00:56:48:01): Oh, you were newbies at the time. You know, we were newbies. **Thomas** (00:56:48:06 - 00:57:24:10): So like, yeah, at the moment a Surfrider. We bought two postcards. My wife had another idea. She was like, okay, we bought these on our last day. The four. We went home. So it's like, you know, that's the last thing we did before we went to the airport. Basically, we had like a kind of a redeye flight coming out of Honolulu or going back to Los Angeles, and this was a 5:12 p.m. she was like, I bet what we did was we went to the front desk and asked them to print out our boarding passes, because that was still happening back then. Okay. And they gave us a 30 cent surcharge per boarding, press, print. **Chip** (00:57:28:14 - 00:57:29:14): I could see that. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:57:29:16 - 00:57:45:02): So I thought that could have been reasonable. But no, it's like, some heroes, some burnt ones on the internet. So many people took the time to go do the research to figure out what this was. And, it's just thank you so much for solving that mystery for us. The road to Hana, baby. **Chip** (00:57:45:03 - 00:57:47:20): Sun burnt sleuths, we salute you. **Thomas** (00:57:47:20 - 00:58:03:06): I, I appreciate the people took the time. It really turned into a thing. And, multiple people came up with the answer. So, Good. Good on you, sunshine. And thank you so much. Another sunburnt mystery solved. **Chip** (00:58:03:06 - 00:58:06:09): I can sleep a little soundly tonight for the first time. **Thomas** (00:58:06:09 - 00:58:19:13): Yeah, and talking about sunburn mystery. Did I tell you about the book? There's a, true book about a murder at the moment, a surf rider? **Chip** (00:58:19:15 - 00:58:21:09): No. **Thomas** (00:58:21:11 - 00:58:22:04): Yeah, it goes. **Chip** (00:58:22:04 - 00:58:25:07): Like a ghost. Is it is it a novel or a no? **Thomas** (00:58:25:07 - 00:58:28:21): It's a book. It's a it's a it's a factual book about. **Chip** (00:58:28:21 - 00:58:31:17): So it's so it's, it's nonfiction. Okay. **Thomas** (00:58:31:23 - 00:58:52:22): Yeah. It's nonfiction. And, it's about, I think, like the wife, of the head of the Stanford University endowment was sent to Hawaii because, like, before they had medicine, it was like, oh, you're very sick. Maybe some a different climate and some. **Chip** (00:58:52:22 - 00:59:00:12): Nice, some fresh salt air. Yeah. It's like for the. Yes, we'll heal you up in the hills for when you had the, what was the lung disease. Yes. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:59:00:14 - 00:59:23:21): Yes. When you got the gunk in your lungs. So she was, put on a freighter, put on a steam boat, and moved out to Hawaii, where she stayed at the Mona Surfrider. Ended up, passing under circumstances. And they kind of looked into what was happening there politically in her life. Why somebody might have wanted to take her out, who was staying there at the time? Fascinating. I'm going. **Chip** (00:59:26:00 - 00:59:29:08): To get. I want to get. Don't don't don't spoil it, I think. Oh, I get this book. **Thomas** (00:59:29:08 - 00:59:48:10): Well, I, I, I honestly read it in 2000 and probably 18 when I got back from that first trip, maybe even late 2017, because this was in October and, I haven't revisited it since. So the the details are a little cloudy, but just so you said sunburn mystery. And I was like, that's a sunburn mystery. **Chip** (00:59:48:10 - 00:59:50:11): Do you have the do you remember the title of that book? **Thomas** (00:59:50:14 - 00:59:51:09): I'll find it. **Chip** (00:59:51:11 - 00:59:54:23): Okay. Yeah. Find it. Let's share it. Because I would 100% read that book. **Thomas** (00:59:55:05 - 01:00:14:22): Yeah, well, we could dig into that, but maybe. Chip, I mean, it is time to get excited. Yeah, it is time to get excited. We're moving on to probably, I don't know, my favorite segment of all time. Yep. Chip, it is time for the fish of the week. Fish of the week. **Chip** (01:00:15:00 - 01:00:16:11): I doubt fish of the week. **Thomas** (01:00:16:12 - 01:00:23:07): I get so fired up for fish of the week. Every week we single out one saltwater superstar to be our sunburnt fish of the. **Chip** (01:00:23:07 - 01:00:25:03): Week, our hero of the deep. **Thomas** (01:00:25:03 - 01:00:33:20): And this week's fish is Melvin, Chef Melvin. He's an ooh hot bullet head parrot fish. Look at that bad boy dude. **Chip** (01:00:33:21 - 01:00:36:21): He looks like 1991. That's what he looks like. **Thomas** (01:00:36:22 - 01:01:01:03): When you're snorkeling. And you see one of these parrot fish, you're in another world, man. It just you're you're covered in this warm water. You got the mask on, you're underneath the deep. And you see one of these beautiful bad boys rocking by. And the colorful ones like Melvin, they're males. They're they're they're. And this is how they let everybody know they are ready to mingle. **Chip** (01:01:01:03 - 01:01:02:03): Hot stuff. **Thomas** (01:01:02:03 - 01:01:13:23): Like all parrotfish, Melvin helps contribute to beautiful white sand beaches by eating little pieces of dead coral and taking big, fat dumps they end up washing on shore. **Chip** (01:01:13:23 - 01:01:16:01): Wow. Just going through the system right there. **Thomas** (01:01:16:01 - 01:01:19:11): You're not going to get those white sand beaches without that kind of erosion. **Chip** (01:01:19:11 - 01:01:20:19): No, you're not parrot. **Thomas** (01:01:20:19 - 01:01:32:23): Fish like Melvin. Go in there and they're eating algae off of the coral and they just chew it up. They adjust it. It pops out the other side, white sand sized. And that's like what you lounge on. **Chip** (01:01:32:23 - 01:01:37:06): You're just laying on, Melvin's waist. And I love that. I love that for us. **Thomas** (01:01:37:06 - 01:01:55:11): Melvin is also, just white hot for another reason. He sleeps in a slime sleeping bag that he makes himself. Oh. Before resting, he takes 30 minutes to secrete a transparent mucus cocoon that masks his set from smell based predators. **Chip** (01:01:55:11 - 01:01:56:12): I love this. **Thomas** (01:01:56:12 - 01:02:04:13): Dude, and I think this also solves the mystery of why your wife bought you that transparent Mucus Cocoons for dummies book this Christmas. **Chip** (01:02:04:15 - 01:02:08:05): I totally understand it. It checks all the boxes now. **Thomas** (01:02:08:08 - 01:02:10:07): She might be a small base predator. **Chip** (01:02:10:08 - 01:02:12:22): Maybe. And she's trying to save me preemptively. **Thomas** (01:02:12:22 - 01:02:26:18): By all accounts, he's a hell of a fish. But it would be irresponsible to give him fish of the week without mentioning. He has appeared in the Epstein Files a number of times, and the context is not good. Ship. **Chip** (01:02:26:18 - 01:02:30:20): The coral reef is a little too close to the island, so let's just say that yes. **Thomas** (01:02:30:20 - 01:02:40:19): Yeah, the Epstein Island did have some white sandy beaches. And, there may have been some, unsavory extracurriculars that are alleged. **Chip** (01:02:40:21 - 01:02:42:08): Alleged is the important part. **Thomas** (01:02:42:08 - 01:03:00:17): So even though parrotfish are very social in nature, he's not allowed within 300ft of a school at the moment. So, Melvin, we hope you're innocent and will be vindicated over time. Until then, congratulations on being sunburnt. Podcast. Fish of the week. **Chip** (01:03:00:23 - 01:03:01:13): Fish of the. **Thomas** (01:03:01:13 - 01:03:04:14): Week. God, Melvin, what a superstar dude, **Chip** (01:03:04:16 - 01:03:05:05): Melvin. **Thomas** (01:03:05:06 - 01:03:13:07): Fish of the week. Week's over. That historically means one thing. It is time to hit the world records, buddy. What do you got this week? **Chip** (01:03:13:08 - 01:03:31:07): Good book. We delve into the good book, the Guinness Book of World Records for the B best, the fastest, the loudest, the longest in the entire world. Whew! I have a very fun one today. Mine's the lowest. It's the smallest. We're going smallest this time. **Thomas** (01:03:31:07 - 01:03:35:00): Wow. You're going granular. Like a piece of white sand. **Chip** (01:03:35:06 - 01:04:06:13): Piece of Melvin's waste. My record for today. Yes. Is the capital city with the lowest population. Now, there are capital cities out there, Thomas. Like Paris, London, Washington, DC, Mexico City that are wildly populated. Many, many people. Yeah. This one is the capital city with the lowest population. Do you want to take a guess how many people live in this capital city that I'm going to share? **Thomas** (01:04:06:15 - 01:04:10:03): So the least populated capital city of any country. **Chip** (01:04:10:03 - 01:04:18:03): Yeah, yeah. Yes. This is actually technically a territory. It's not officially a country. Okay. But it is a territory, so. **Thomas** (01:04:18:06 - 01:04:26:08): Okay. So territory. I'm going to go. We're talking Guinness World Records. Yeah. Capital city. I'm going to go 3576 people. **Chip** (01:04:26:10 - 01:04:36:19): That is a great guess, Thomas. That is a great guess. The capital city of Plymouth. Plymouth in the Caribbean island of Monserrat. **Thomas** (01:04:36:21 - 01:04:39:15): Oh, okay. A great font. **Chip** (01:04:39:17 - 01:04:42:22): A great font, right. Great island as well. **Thomas** (01:04:43:03 - 01:04:44:06): **Chip** (01:04:44:08 - 01:04:55:07): The capital city of Plymouth on Montserrat has officially zero inhabitants. Population zero. **Thomas** (01:04:55:13 - 01:05:00:07): Chip, this has vibes of that island that disappeared. That fake island off the coast of Mexico. **Chip** (01:05:00:07 - 01:05:24:17): Fake island. Exactly. This is real. For better or worse, it is real. So, Monserrat, a British territory in the West Indies. Yeah. And in 1995. Thomas. So Plymouth was the capital? Yeah. There were people living there. I mean, it's not a super highly populated island, but, you know, there's there's there's people there. There was a population. And in 1995, Thomas, there was an explosion. Why? I'm not talking about the O.J. verdict. **Thomas** (01:05:29:04 - 01:05:31:08): Which was famously 1995. **Chip** (01:05:31:09 - 01:05:59:00): The long dormant Soufriere Hills volcano erupted, dude, and went a little Pompei on Plymouth. Wow. And over the course of like the next two years, there were like different, maybe like over between, I think it was like 95 and 97. Yeah. These different eruptions or whatever. And now most of the city has been entombed under several meters of rock and mud. **Thomas** (01:05:59:02 - 01:06:00:13): Oh my gosh. **Chip** (01:06:00:15 - 01:06:26:16): It's basically a ghost town. So, and, I mean, it's the government now kind of runs the people so that luckily they were able to evacuate most people out over time. And the government basically runs out of a town on the northeastern side of the island. But the official capital is still Plymouth Y. And it is a government ghost town. It I will say this. It's really I mean, it's it's sad, but it's also amazing looking because you just see the tops of these houses, like roofs of houses all over the place, are like half houses that are like three quarters of the way covered with rock and mud. It's pretty. **Thomas** (01:06:43:23 - 01:06:47:14): Bizarre. That's wild. I have to take a look at some of those videos. **Chip** (01:06:47:14 - 01:06:51:13): Here's my thing. Yeah, I think we need to bring tourism back to Plymouth. **Thomas** (01:06:51:16 - 01:06:52:04): Yeah. **Chip** (01:06:52:04 - 01:07:03:13): And like, you just start building up on there, it's like, hey, yeah, I'm on top of it. I'm going to live in this just roof of this house because that's all we can get into. Yeah, like, I think it'll be fun, almost like a Smurf kind of village situation. You know. **Thomas** (01:07:03:15 - 01:07:06:22): That could be a misleading RV. It'd be a dude. **Chip** (01:07:07:00 - 01:07:31:08): It could be a very misleading Airbnb. But for fun, you know, I think it's, a lot of it's made out of mud. Hey. Yeah. Maybe we can make t shirts that just say, sod God, sod God, you know what I mean? Like, welcome. Welcome to Mount Serrat, home of the sod God. And, I honestly, I will say I think it still has a better accommodations than the fire festival. So I think we bring tourism back to Plymouth and Monserrat. **Thomas** (01:07:36:15 - 01:07:41:23): You can find worse, worse island accommodations, that's for sure. **Chip** (01:07:42:01 - 01:07:48:08): So there is the capital city with the lowest population. Population zero. Plymouth. Montserrat. **Thomas** (01:07:48:10 - 01:07:52:04): That's wild man. That's really. I'll have to check out that island. **Chip** (01:07:52:06 - 01:07:58:05): It's, there's some wild pictures. I would I would check it out. Some videos. Yeah. How about your record, Thomas. **Thomas** (01:07:58:07 - 01:08:09:13): Buddy, I found an Olympian who is cold bowled and covered in gold. Whoa. I'm talking about the world record holder for the most Winter Olympic gold medals. Yep. **Chip** (01:08:09:14 - 01:08:15:04): All right, we're in it. Okay. The most amount of Olympic gold medals. A Winter Olympic gold medals. Okay, here's. **Thomas** (01:08:15:04 - 01:08:25:00): The question I'm going to pose to you, chip, how many gold medals do you have to win before even Doctor Evil starts going? Wow, this guy really likes gold. **Chip** (01:08:25:02 - 01:08:27:01): It it has to be quite the amount. **Thomas** (01:08:27:02 - 01:08:39:15): Well, it is, and I'll tell you. On February 15th, Norwegian cross-country skier Johannes Holst Splott Clay Bo won his A ninth career gold medal. Chip. **Chip** (01:08:39:17 - 01:08:40:22): Nine of them, baby. **Thomas** (01:08:41:01 - 01:08:52:09): Yeah. Now, I mean, that is so many at being the best in the world. Like. And it's not like swimming, right? Like we've heard of Michael Phelps and all those, like, swimmers or divers, like they have multiple events where they can do. **Chip** (01:08:52:09 - 01:08:54:10): Events where they can win five in a year. **Thomas** (01:08:54:10 - 01:09:24:05): Where they can win five in a year. No such luck in the Winter games. And this guy is just cross-country skiing like a mother. By winning the team relay chess just this week, basically, yeah. In 2026, he officially surpassed the three way tie of eight golds held by other Norwegian legends. Wow. And now I also understand why Norwegian three way keeps showing up in your search history. **Chip** (01:09:24:09 - 01:09:26:06): Because you're a huge cross. **Thomas** (01:09:26:06 - 01:09:28:19): Country skiing fan. **Chip** (01:09:28:21 - 01:09:31:22): Yes. Absolutely. Absolutely. **Thomas** (01:09:32:00 - 01:09:45:14): He is now the undisputed Goat of the Winter games. Clay Bo is only 29 years old, has a thriving social media business and can believably blame shrinkage every single time it comes into question. **Chip** (01:09:45:15 - 01:09:46:20): That is a very relevant. **Thomas** (01:09:46:20 - 01:09:59:01): Yeah. Hats off to you clay ball. The Winter Olympics Golden boy, 29 years old. You got the world on a string. And you know what? I think that makes him a certified bird. One. **Chip** (01:09:59:07 - 01:10:01:19): Yeah, a little freezer burn, but burnt nonetheless. **Thomas** (01:10:01:19 - 01:10:13:10): Burnt none the less. Huzzah! Huzzah! Indeed. This has been the Sun Bird podcast. We talk about comedy and tropical travel. Until next time, stay bird. Front desk. **Chip** (01:10:13:10 - 01:10:18:13): Hi, this is Mr. Chantry in room 308. I'd like to make a complaint about the people in room 307. **Thomas** (01:10:18:13 - 01:10:20:18): Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Chantry. Are they being too loud? **Chip** (01:10:20:18 - 01:10:28:00): No, they're too quiet. I've my ear to the wall and I'm barely getting a word in. Could you call and ask them to speak up or at least enunciate? **Thomas** (01:10:28:01 - 01:10:29:15): I can't do that, Mr. Chantry. **Chip** (01:10:29:18 - 01:10:31:05): Learn to project people.