Shaq's $600M Island, AI Roasts Your LinkedIn & Scorpion Fish 🏝️😂🦂 | Sunburnt Podcast Ep. 53

**Thomas** (00:00:00:00 - 00:00:02:10): Aruba seems like a gd Paradise. **Chip** (00:00:02:10 - 00:00:04:19): Buddy. That's why the Beach Boys started that song with it. **Thomas** (00:00:04:20 - 00:00:07:20): I once saw Keanu Reeves there. Speaking of action movies. **Chip** (00:00:07:21 - 00:00:11:12): Happy Saint Patrick's day. Here's why you suck at business. **Thomas** (00:00:11:15 - 00:00:15:21): Maybe my head is 95% forehead. **Chip** (00:00:16:03 - 00:00:16:16): Okay. **Thomas** (00:00:16:18 - 00:00:21:02): It is time for fish of the week fish of the week. **Chip** (00:00:21:03 - 00:00:29:09): I'm feeling burnt today man I'm feeling burnt for the first time in a, It's been a long, cold winter. For about three months now, I've had this team of tweens and senior citizens working at. Quite honestly, below minimum wage in shifts around the clock, just processing these things. Okay, we take 50% of the profits to purchase more, and then we take the other 50% to raise money to have the actual office space rental. Okay. So we can lease that. Once we get the lease for the office, then we can just really turn up production. And that's how we're going to make our first million doing scratch off lottery tickets. **Thomas** (00:01:00:00 - 00:01:06:08): I'm never one to like, throw shade at a business idea, and that's going to keep going on. This is a winner, dude. **Chip** (00:01:06:13 - 00:01:07:11): Thank you, thank you. **Thomas** (00:01:07:12 - 00:01:10:11): I would have put a quarter right in your little belly for this one, but. **Chip** (00:01:10:12 - 00:01:12:17): Scratchy, scratchy it off. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:01:12:19 - 00:01:16:06): You know what? Actually, we already started recording. Oh. **Chip** (00:01:16:08 - 00:01:17:00): Hey. **Thomas** (00:01:17:01 - 00:01:24:19): What up? Burnt ones. This is a number one tropical travel comedy podcast on the planet. The Scentbird podcast. **Chip** (00:01:24:19 - 00:01:27:20): We are the you know, we're number one timers. **Thomas** (00:01:27:20 - 00:01:35:07): It became official this year. We're literally starting year number two of this journey. It was made official, last week. **Chip** (00:01:35:07 - 00:01:39:21): Still not confirmed if there are any bigger than us on the dark web. **Thomas** (00:01:39:23 - 00:01:42:17): No, that's the thing about the dark web chip. **Chip** (00:01:42:23 - 00:01:51:06): You don't know. You don't know if there's any podcast dedicated to comedy, travel, travel on the dark web. None that I've seen so far. So that's good news. **Thomas** (00:01:51:08 - 00:02:05:22): Yeah. And a step beyond that is a black hole. And we really don't know what kind of podcasts are going on in there. It is a, force so dense that not even light itself can escape chat, much less, podcast. **Chip** (00:02:06:00 - 00:02:08:11): I think I've been a guest on some of those podcast before. **Thomas** (00:02:08:12 - 00:02:19:21): Absolutely. This is the sunburnt podcast to my right, as always. You know, I'm from Netflix. You know, I'm from a stand of special move closer. It's Philadelphia zone chief Chantry. **Chip** (00:02:19:23 - 00:02:32:22): And over here to my left is Emmy award winning producer and writer. He puts the I ran in. I ran A5K this Thanksgiving in Waikiki. Mister Thomas O'Brien. **Thomas** (00:02:32:23 - 00:02:35:11): Yeah. That baby. Look at him. **Chip** (00:02:35:13 - 00:02:48:07): He's got his medal. He wears that. I from what I understand, he showers with it. It has not left his person since July. July, November 27th of 2025. Is that right? **Thomas** (00:02:48:09 - 00:02:59:23): Yeah. And, if you don't believe me, take a whiff. You're going to hit notes of Irish Spring and a, off brand coconut shampoo I get from target. **Chip** (00:02:59:23 - 00:03:09:22): That's. It. Smells like metal is what it does. By the way, speaking of speaking of running five case, did you see the, la marathon happened in your town? Do you see the end of the the Los Angeles Marathon? **Thomas** (00:03:09:22 - 00:03:13:14): I was nearly part of the end of the Los Angeles Marathon. **Chip** (00:03:13:15 - 00:03:15:20): You've you've ramped up your running. Is that what you're saying? **Thomas** (00:03:15:23 - 00:03:30:20): No, no no no no no, I, I got caught in traffic right at the end of it. I didn't see anything that happened. But, you know, as a true athlete, my wife and I and the baby were going to eat it. Didn't. Tai Fung chip, you familiar with Din Tai Fung? **Chip** (00:03:30:21 - 00:03:33:16): I mean, I am now tell me, tell me all. Tell me all about it. **Thomas** (00:03:33:16 - 00:03:37:13): It's at the Century City Mall, which is one of the nicest malls in the planet. Do you want to take a guess? **Chip** (00:03:37:13 - 00:03:43:18): The only thing that I know, or at least that I think about when I hear Century City 100 years. **Thomas** (00:03:43:20 - 00:03:46:04): One century, the time period. **Chip** (00:03:46:04 - 00:03:50:02): You know, I think of, I think of a specific movie. Do you want to guess the movie? **Thomas** (00:03:50:02 - 00:03:56:07): Oh. Is it it's got to be, the Christmas one. **Chip** (00:03:56:08 - 00:03:57:20): Is it is it a Christmas one or. **Thomas** (00:03:57:23 - 00:04:00:20): Is it a Christmas a what is it? What is it? It's not a Tommy Plaza. **Chip** (00:04:00:20 - 00:04:02:04): I know what you're talking. Tell me. **Thomas** (00:04:02:06 - 00:04:04:09): Why is it not coming to you, Bruce Willis? **Chip** (00:04:04:09 - 00:04:05:01): Die hard. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:04:05:02 - 00:04:15:19): Die hard. I think I'm just, like, out of my die era, dude. I'm just like. I'm just so full of life, so full of positive vibes. I couldn't even conjure the word chip. **Chip** (00:04:15:19 - 00:04:17:16): You're living soft, is what you're saying. **Thomas** (00:04:17:18 - 00:04:20:08): Yeah, I'm. I'm a Pillsbury doughboy. **Chip** (00:04:20:10 - 00:04:20:19): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:04:20:19 - 00:04:21:21): Heart wise. **Chip** (00:04:22:01 - 00:04:43:02): Yeah. I'm me, too. I'm getting there. And, I will say I have never been. And I want to get back to your restaurant for a second. This started with marathons. Then we went to restaurants. Now we're talking about action movies. I mean, it's just the the breakneck speed of this podcast, and I appreciate it. I just want to say that I, I've never really been an action movie guy. Not really my thing. It's like, okay, I'll take a car chase every once in a while, maybe a shootout at the okay corral. But man, die hard. I can watch that. **Thomas** (00:04:51:22 - 00:04:53:01): Yeah. Diet sector. **Chip** (00:04:53:03 - 00:04:53:18): Anytime. **Thomas** (00:04:53:18 - 00:05:11:18): I used to have a buddy who would rent out a room and Nakatomi Plaza, the building that it was shot, and the building that it's represented on screen. And throw his Christmas party there every year for his company. Come on. It was sick. It was sick. They'd give like, they'd give, Die hard tours of it. It was a lot of fun. So now we're going to reverse Russian nesting doll. This story. So we're getting back from Die Hard. We're going back to Century City. Yes, I'm back to Din Tai Fung. Excellent dumplings. First place I ever had dumplings. And truly understood it's about. I also believe it's the number one. For 2025. Number one, like, however, they rate how popular restaurants are in terms of, like, how much money is spent there. The number one in money spent volume restaurant on the planet. **Chip** (00:05:41:12 - 00:05:42:06): No way. **Thomas** (00:05:42:06 - 00:05:46:16): They do big business. I once saw Keanu Reeves there. Speaking of action movies. **Chip** (00:05:46:16 - 00:05:50:18): Keanu Reeves action movies like Parenthood. My own Private Idaho. **Thomas** (00:05:50:19 - 00:05:52:17): Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. **Chip** (00:05:52:21 - 00:05:56:17): So okay. Was it was it like packed with people? **Thomas** (00:05:56:17 - 00:06:15:21): The traffic was untenable, Chip. Especially when you got a kid like you got a couple of hours to be out of the house, and we're pulling up to this place we think's going to be 15 minutes away, and we spent 25 minutes in traffic, and we just see all these people tired, limping, wearing medals. Some might even say bigger than this one. Bigger than A5K Turkey trot from Waikiki. And, the idea we just got caught in the mix. But once we got inside the parking garage, all of the, people were kind of clearing out. It was like literally the end of the marathon was at the cross streets of this mall. I had no idea what we were driving into. So like, I think it had just finished up like the, the larger portion. But I believe you're talking about the actual finish line. So we're going to take one step back. We're putting on another piece of the Russian doll, and we're getting to you telling me about the end of the marathon. **Chip** (00:06:53:16 - 00:07:13:20): You know what I wish I wish I had more to say about it, because I feel like I was going to offer you information. I was going to ask you. I thought you might have known about. It was so basically it was like the guy, like he was, I think, ahead basically the entire race. Right? And was coming in and some dude just at the end, like photo finish. **Thomas** (00:07:13:22 - 00:07:14:06): Yeah. **Chip** (00:07:14:06 - 00:07:36:00): Rent just came out of nowhere. And I think what happened is he even like with just a couple hundred yards to go, the, the leader like went the wrong way, like oh no. And had to like double back a little bit. Like he just went around some gates the wrong way and that had to like double back. And he ended up losing I think I think he lost by like literally milliseconds. To a guy that just came up from the rear after 26 months. But I think the thing I think I did read about this, that for I think the first time the L.A marathon was offering metals, if you hit the 18 mile. **Thomas** (00:07:51:20 - 00:07:53:11): Mark, everyone gets a trophy. **Chip** (00:07:53:11 - 00:07:58:15): Because it was going to be like 80 degrees or so in Los Angeles. **Thomas** (00:07:58:15 - 00:07:59:09): City Angels. **Chip** (00:07:59:09 - 00:08:13:10): Baby. So they were just like, we don't want people just keeling over left and right. If if you make it 18, instead of the 26.2, we'll give it to you. And, I mean, it's global warming. That's what's happening, Thomas. In our world. **Thomas** (00:08:13:15 - 00:08:15:14): It's also global softening chip. **Chip** (00:08:15:19 - 00:08:37:19): It's global softening. I think I will say that is sort of a burnt one move. And I kind of liked it. They're like, yeah, go ahead. You know what I mean. Yeah. Let's let's relax those last eight miles instead. Yeah. Let's instead of really running and maybe passing out from heat exhaustion, let's just stop stroll grab in my tire too. **Thomas** (00:08:37:19 - 00:08:40:14): I love getting in a situation where you can enjoy it. Chip. **Chip** (00:08:40:16 - 00:08:42:03): Yeah, exactly. **Thomas** (00:08:42:06 - 00:08:46:16): I will say though, the the five K Turkey Trot, we did chip. **Chip** (00:08:46:18 - 00:08:47:10): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:08:47:12 - 00:08:55:12): They weren't handing out medals at the three kilometer mark just because it was 75 degrees on November 26th when we ran. **Chip** (00:08:55:14 - 00:08:58:03): You do every single one of those K's. **Thomas** (00:08:58:07 - 00:09:06:06): You at least had to promise that you did all the cars, because I think it would have been pretty easy to slip back in that line and just do the, the walk around. **Chip** (00:09:06:06 - 00:09:09:09): I think I would have just, hit up in that banyan tree. **Thomas** (00:09:09:09 - 00:09:09:20): Yeah. **Chip** (00:09:10:02 - 00:09:25:20): That beautiful, beautiful tree. You just you do one loop, hop up in the tree, take a little snooze hairstyle like a tortoise in there. Hop on down, and then you just cruise across that finish line, and I think you and I are both going to turkey dinner with some gold medals. **Thomas** (00:09:25:20 - 00:09:54:18): Gobble, gobble. And I also think getting back to this la marathon, I think, oh, what a wonderful opportunity to have a commercial for your, direction, app. Right. You can say this guy was you was in ways I was using Google maps, Google maps. Yeah. He led the whole thing, took a wrong turn. I came straight down the finish line thanks to Google Maps. **Chip** (00:09:55:00 - 00:10:02:06): I don't know, I think that's it. I think that is a yeah, that is a sponsorship waiting to happen and there's money left on the table. If not. **Thomas** (00:10:02:08 - 00:10:04:02): Google. What up. **Chip** (00:10:04:04 - 00:10:06:07): Come on guys, let's let's get with it. **Thomas** (00:10:06:09 - 00:10:13:15): Trevor we got I, we got to get to it. We are we are talking I love chat with you but what a huge episode we have. What a huge episode. **Chip** (00:10:13:15 - 00:10:17:12): We I got to stop talking to you so I can start talking to you. **Thomas** (00:10:17:12 - 00:10:26:05): This episode is jam packed ship. We've got a new list of top Caribbean beaches, and, the results are, let's say, suspect. **Chip** (00:10:26:07 - 00:10:26:21): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:10:26:23 - 00:10:50:09): Saint Patrick's Day is coming up, and apparently New Jersey has been ready since January. ChatGPT is turning users into cartoons and we are not looking pretty. Carnival cruises just opened up a $600 million island in the Bahamas, and Shaquille O'Neal is part of the deal. New Yorkers are waiting for hours in line to get dinner and calling it a good time. We're going to hit the hypochondriac corner. We got a fish of a week, fish of the week, and Clarence has been hiding in plain sight his whole life and is absolutely fine with you not knowing it. The good book, champ. We're going to crack it open. Somebody made a drink so large it has its own beach and we are visiting the Trouble in Paradise hotline. You can leave us a voicemail at (310) 845-6038 and let us know, your wildest, craziest, most embarrassing, funniest travel story. We'll, play it here on the podcast. You can call that number, you can shoot us a video telling us the story, and we'll, if we play it here on the podcast, we're going to send you a tube, a Hawaiian Tropic chip. **Chip** (00:11:38:07 - 00:11:41:12): Who? Beautiful, beautiful wine. Travel. Let's, starts to enter. **Thomas** (00:11:41:13 - 00:11:58:22): This tube right now. Yeah. We're going to get an old fashioned slather on. You can slather with us with the very the very sunscreen we use that hits the nostrils, man. Oh, I was looking at that. That article of the top 20 beach is dead. **Chip** (00:11:59:00 - 00:12:00:03): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:12:00:05 - 00:12:07:22): It puts you in a good mindset, I'll tell you that. Just kind of like a little visual slather. **Chip** (00:12:08:00 - 00:12:12:15): Yeah. This visual slather is my favorite. Third eye blind out, by the way. **Thomas** (00:12:12:16 - 00:12:13:19): Oh my goodness. **Chip** (00:12:14:00 - 00:12:20:17): After, after audible marmalade I think of marmalade. Was there second one. **Thomas** (00:12:20:19 - 00:12:37:16): They're all about the senses. It's a sensory band. All right, everybody, this is a sunbird podcast. We talk about comedy, tropical travel, the number one tropical travel comedy podcast on the planet. If you think those two things should go together, stay tuned. Front desk. **Chip** (00:12:37:16 - 00:12:43:03): Hi, this is Mr. Chantry in room 308. I'm going to need about a half. Doesn't drop cloth sent to the room. **Thomas** (00:12:43:03 - 00:12:46:23): I don't believe we have. Why do you need drop cloths? **Chip** (00:12:46:23 - 00:12:53:07): Look, I'm getting ready for the Saint Patrick's Day parade, and these donkeys are getting spooked by the paint rollers. So if you want green paint all over your room. **Thomas** (00:12:53:07 - 00:12:55:11): We'll send the class right off. **Chip** (00:12:55:12 - 00:12:57:10): Chip Thomas, buddy. **Thomas** (00:12:57:10 - 00:13:00:07): Episode 53 of the sunburn podcast. **Chip** (00:13:00:12 - 00:13:00:23): Big time. **Thomas** (00:13:01:00 - 00:13:07:11): The weather is feelin mighty fine. I know you're having a big week in Philly. The the temperatures turned. **Chip** (00:13:07:11 - 00:13:23:04): Baby dude Sunday morning woke up. I was at a wedding, out in the suburbs, but we got a hotel room. It was about an hour outside the city, so we got a hotel room for the weekend. A little chilly the day of the wedding, and then woke up the next day to go to the brunch and didn't need a jacket. For the first time in months. **Thomas** (00:13:24:23 - 00:13:26:05): Spring had sprung. **Chip** (00:13:26:11 - 00:13:43:14): It sprang all over, baby. And, yesterday in Philadelphia, I was walking around in shorts and a t shirt. It was, Franklin and I, the dog. We went, yeah, went for a nice long walk. He knew what time it was. He was like, this is. This is why we're doing this. And we were out for about an hour. It was great. So, yeah, I, yeah, I had a great time with the wife, and I walked down to the diner last night like we do. We haven't done that in quite a while. Yeah. Had a great time. So. Yeah, it's. I'm. I was telling you, I, I'm feeling burnt today, man. I'm feeling burnt for the first time in a it's been a long, cold winter. But as the Beatles once said, hey, Jude, here comes the sun. **Thomas** (00:14:09:12 - 00:14:10:04): Oh, yeah. **Chip** (00:14:10:09 - 00:14:14:16): Hey Jude, look at the sun. By that fool on the hill. **Thomas** (00:14:14:17 - 00:14:17:16): Yeah, I mean, one thing is clear. Jude didn't understand whether Jude. **Chip** (00:14:17:16 - 00:14:19:21): Don't touch the sun. Just let it be you. **Thomas** (00:14:19:21 - 00:14:23:20): Jude. Stop looking directly at it. Jude. **Chip** (00:14:23:21 - 00:14:28:08): If you don't stop touching that sun, we're going back to the USSR. That's what I'm. **Thomas** (00:14:28:08 - 00:14:35:02): Saying. I think this might be the missing piece. I wasn't, calculating when I couldn't figure out interstellar chip. **Chip** (00:14:35:03 - 00:14:36:07): Maybe that's what it was. **Thomas** (00:14:36:07 - 00:14:42:20): Yeah, Jude was just up there knocking the sun around like, pinata. **Chip** (00:14:42:22 - 00:15:01:15): Did you ever. Yeah. Do you remember where you were? Maybe it's here. Maybe we'll get it caught live on video. But, do you remember where you were when you found out that the sun was not solid? Like you couldn't stand on the sun? It was just a ball of fire and gas. **Thomas** (00:15:01:17 - 00:15:04:12): No, I that's not a moment that really stuck with me. **Chip** (00:15:04:14 - 00:15:22:00): It's. I don't remember exactly where it was, but I just remember being shocked and and a little disappointed just a little bit. It's like, oh, you can't get up there and walk around. If we can get a vehicle up there, it's just a slop of of energy and new. I think nugget is with it. **Thomas** (00:15:22:02 - 00:15:31:08): Yeah, but you you must have been so excited when you realized that the moon was exactly that. Yeah, I a place you could get up there and and, you know, kick, kick rocks, baby. **Chip** (00:15:31:10 - 00:15:35:14): It's just green cheese all over the place. That's all it is. And that man up there. **Thomas** (00:15:35:15 - 00:15:39:23): Did you hear? That's where Musk is pivoting to pivoting from Mars to the moon. **Chip** (00:15:40:03 - 00:15:41:23): Really? I know I did not know that. **Thomas** (00:15:42:04 - 00:15:42:17): Because it's. **Chip** (00:15:42:17 - 00:15:46:02): Doable. Yeah, I mean, we've done it. Yeah, we. **Thomas** (00:15:46:02 - 00:16:04:06): Can get there in, his big plan is, at least the last time I read is to put, the, energy, energy factories or whatever, like, get a bunch of solar going or whatever. Use that as a base for harvesting the energy we're going to need to power our AI overlords. **Chip** (00:16:04:08 - 00:16:08:05): All right? I mean, sounds good. And God bless him, those AI overlords, that's it. **Thomas** (00:16:08:05 - 00:16:13:10): I mean, they're going to put the man on the moon out of a goddamn job. Yeah, it's going to be the robot in the moon. **Chip** (00:16:13:10 - 00:16:21:00): I like it, I like it. All right. Speaking about burnt, I imagine not burnt. You'd be up on the moon. You know. **Thomas** (00:16:21:02 - 00:16:37:08): It's a real nice cocktail of some place. You haven't been before. That's about the biggest trip you can take as a human being. And our collective experience, and it's just beauty. And there's a sea of tranquility. So there must be a beach right next to it. **Chip** (00:16:37:08 - 00:16:42:07): You know, there's got to be. If there's not a beach of tranquility, I will be irate when I get to the front desk. **Thomas** (00:16:42:07 - 00:16:49:14): What's the point? Yeah. You can leave a comment card for Mr. Musk if there's no beach at the Sea of Tranquility. That's our burnt promise. **Chip** (00:16:49:14 - 00:16:52:17): That's it. Food. Stamp it right now. Guaranteed. **Thomas** (00:16:52:19 - 00:17:00:13): All right, Chip, it's time to get cooking. We got too much to talk about. We're getting into for the algo por the algo. **Chip** (00:17:00:15 - 00:17:02:13): Speaking of our AI overlords. **Thomas** (00:17:02:18 - 00:17:10:02): Yeah. This is a segment where we talk about things so computers will like us. And like this podcast and get them in front of you. **Chip** (00:17:10:03 - 00:17:13:14): We're doing this for you computer. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:17:13:16 - 00:17:24:18): First thing up. Travel and leisure just dropped a list of the 20 best beaches in the Caribbean and Bahamas. Just in time to plan in that plan. That spring break, 2026 trip. **Chip** (00:17:24:18 - 00:17:27:11): Chip, where are we going? What's what do they list? And here's. **Thomas** (00:17:27:11 - 00:17:29:21): Three. That caught my eye because they didn't really list. **Chip** (00:17:30:00 - 00:17:33:22): Because I say Caribbean. You say Caribbean? Yeah, it's tomato. Tomato. Right. **Thomas** (00:17:33:22 - 00:17:35:00): Let's call the whole thing. **Chip** (00:17:35:00 - 00:17:40:12): Off a beach is a beach is a beach is a beach. Not according to this, not according to this article. **Thomas** (00:17:40:12 - 00:17:40:23): They all have. **Chip** (00:17:40:23 - 00:17:41:17): Pirates. Oh. **Thomas** (00:17:41:17 - 00:17:57:15): That's true. Let's be clear here. They, like, kind of, phoned in the rankings. Okay. And it's like it's a it's said it's going to be the 20 best beaches, but they really just kind of gave them their own subheadings like the best tourist destination beach. **Chip** (00:17:57:18 - 00:18:01:09): Oh, okay. Like the best beach to propose the best food beach. **Thomas** (00:18:01:14 - 00:18:02:01): Yes. **Chip** (00:18:02:05 - 00:18:03:03): The best. **Thomas** (00:18:03:04 - 00:18:04:19): Food beach. I'd go to food beach. **Chip** (00:18:05:00 - 00:18:05:14): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:18:05:15 - 00:18:09:18): Got a food beach right now I could use, like a breakfast beach burrito. **Chip** (00:18:09:19 - 00:18:11:16): That'd be great. **Thomas** (00:18:11:18 - 00:18:17:02): Best tourist destination. Pig beach in big major K, the Bahamas. **Chip** (00:18:17:04 - 00:18:17:23): Okay. **Thomas** (00:18:18:01 - 00:18:19:21): Have you seen Pink Beach before? **Chip** (00:18:19:23 - 00:18:22:10): I've heard of it. Is are there actual pigs there? **Thomas** (00:18:22:11 - 00:18:27:13): There's so many pigs there. You can, like, swim with them in that crystal clear water tub. **Chip** (00:18:27:13 - 00:18:29:21): I love it. And pigs are pretty good swimmers, too, I believe. **Thomas** (00:18:29:21 - 00:18:42:17): Yeah, yeah. No, they can they can kick some laps in your face. One of my brother in law's, he went there and, they give you, like, little apples. You can feed the little piggies in the water, don't they? Come right up to you. It'll apple out of your hands. Isn't that nice? **Chip** (00:18:42:19 - 00:19:03:09): Yeah, I mean, what? Okay. And again, I'm sure they were probably just there, but, like, who is the guy that was like, all right, we got beaches, all right. Yeah. What do we got? We got frisbees. We got boogie boarding. And then it's like, let's get an ice cream man there. Let's build a carnival on a walk made of boards. **Thomas** (00:19:03:09 - 00:19:03:19): Yeah. **Chip** (00:19:04:01 - 00:19:10:16): And they, they've done all of that. And then they're just like, we got to reinvent the wheel here. We need I got it, pigs. **Thomas** (00:19:10:17 - 00:19:14:19): No, I think it literally was, created as a tourist attraction. **Chip** (00:19:14:22 - 00:19:16:02): It's just to bring. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:19:16:02 - 00:19:22:07): To bring? Yeah. There's just like, how do we differentiate every every island's got island stuff. **Chip** (00:19:22:07 - 00:19:38:11): What if it was just a really misguided, entrepreneur developer that was just like, just call it a pig beach because it's like, have you seen the people who frequent this shore? Look, these pigs. **Thomas** (00:19:38:12 - 00:19:39:22): Just grotesque pig people. **Chip** (00:19:40:03 - 00:19:51:00): Pig people that just say, oh, you're not a pig beach. Look, look at them. And, yeah, that's no way to treat, the the people who are frequenting your resort, sir, if you need. **Thomas** (00:19:51:02 - 00:20:07:07): Workout motivation to get it tight before your next trip, before the summer comes. Just trying to avoid being the person who gets the beach or standing on, to be named Pig Beach. That's pretty strong motivation. Where I come from, Chip. **Chip** (00:20:07:11 - 00:20:09:10): It's like the opposite of Muscle Beach. **Thomas** (00:20:09:12 - 00:20:25:23): It is the opposite of Muscle Beach. Also, Arnold Schwarzenegger in the news, yesterday he did kind of like an event where he showed up at one of his Arnold Schwarzenegger, like, I don't know if it was for his app or a book he's doing or whatever, but dude is looking his age finally. **Chip** (00:20:26:01 - 00:20:26:13): Is he. **Thomas** (00:20:26:19 - 00:20:49:15): Okay? Yeah. And he they tried to do this joke. He was walking through a door like the audience is straight in front of him. He's walking through this doorway in the set to get to the place where he's going to do whatever he's doing. And he, kind of does a thing where he, like, hulks out a little bit and pretends like his shoulders are too broad to fit through the door, and then he, like, kind of does a crab shuffle, turns sideways and locks the door sideways. And, it was supposed to be a joke, but just like he looks so fragile. **Chip** (00:20:54:04 - 00:20:54:14): Just looks. **Thomas** (00:20:54:14 - 00:21:00:17): Hobbled instead of being like, oh, that's funny. I guess the audience response was like, we're pretty worried about this guy. **Chip** (00:21:00:21 - 00:21:05:15): Yeah. How old do you think Arnold is? I mean, it's. **Thomas** (00:21:05:16 - 00:21:07:05): The 60s, 70s. **Chip** (00:21:07:11 - 00:21:09:17): Somewhere in there I'm going to say 71. **Thomas** (00:21:09:21 - 00:21:12:19): I do it. Can you believe Arnold 71, if that's. **Chip** (00:21:12:19 - 00:21:27:15): I mean, The Terminator, the Terminator never rusts, but still, I mean Commando, he is, I believe it's, instead of the, the Running Man. It's now going to be just called the Swiftly Walking Man. **Thomas** (00:21:27:15 - 00:21:32:20): There was nothing swift or fluid about the walking he was doing in this video I saw. **Chip** (00:21:32:21 - 00:21:38:13): All right, got it right here. Let's take a guess. How old is Arnold Schwarzenegger? You people at home. Let's let's play along here. **Thomas** (00:21:38:17 - 00:21:39:17): 72. **Chip** (00:21:39:19 - 00:21:51:08): 72. Dude, he's this July, this July 30th coming up. Wow. Arnold will be 79 years young. **Thomas** (00:21:51:14 - 00:21:57:22): You see, it's a he he's doing great for 79. For 71. It's a little boring. **Chip** (00:21:58:00 - 00:22:00:20): But you just always assume that Arnold's just going to be Arnold. **Thomas** (00:22:00:23 - 00:22:10:11): Yeah. And he's still sharp. He's got it all going on. Very, very enviable life. Yeah. But, Dude. Yeah, the the walking through the doors, it was not looking smooth. **Chip** (00:22:10:13 - 00:22:12:13): Yeah, it's it's a little hobbled. **Thomas** (00:22:12:15 - 00:22:16:03): But still, you don't look at Arnold on any beach. You go big beach. **Chip** (00:22:16:05 - 00:22:18:01): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:22:18:03 - 00:22:24:18): All right, back to the less underrated hidden gem, Caracas beach and Puerto Rico. **Chip** (00:22:24:19 - 00:22:28:01): See, I love a hidden gem. I will go to any gem that is hidden. **Thomas** (00:22:28:04 - 00:22:30:08): You do not like a well known gem? **Chip** (00:22:30:08 - 00:22:40:08): I will say that is a difference to a certain extent between you and me. And by the way, no offense. This place sounds great. The, the the dumpling place that you went to. Right. **Thomas** (00:22:40:09 - 00:22:41:07): **Chip** (00:22:41:09 - 00:22:59:12): And you're like, it's it was like the number one restaurant whatever. However you, you state that and to me and again I'm not saying I'm right, I'm wrong in this. I'm just like oh that's where everybody is I don't want to go there. I need to find I need to go find some underground place where I can sit alone. Oh, that. It's just like me and the owner's daughter doing her homework at the back table. Do you know what I mean? Like, it's like, yeah, that's the vibe that I. You know me. You know me in the spotlight, you know, rubbing elbows. **Thomas** (00:23:12:14 - 00:23:18:00): Yeah. And you also famously love getting the squirts. Love it, love it. **Chip** (00:23:18:02 - 00:23:23:03): I mean, it's part of my weight loss that, you know, you know the the it's the, it's part of the journey. **Thomas** (00:23:23:08 - 00:23:27:20): The Hershey, Pennsylvania squirts. I would. **Chip** (00:23:27:22 - 00:23:30:03): Have you ever been to Hershey, Pennsylvania? You've never been to Hershey? **Thomas** (00:23:30:05 - 00:23:33:17): No, but I know that you're from Pennsylvania. I've been to Philadelphia. **Chip** (00:23:33:19 - 00:23:35:20): I've been to Hershey many times. Well, a. **Thomas** (00:23:35:20 - 00:23:37:12): Lot of chocolate going on there. A lot. **Chip** (00:23:37:12 - 00:23:59:11): Of chocolate. It's. It is such a it is a chocolate themed amusement park. So I mean, the whole town is, it's built around, hurt. Hershey, Milton Hershey, I believe, built this town around the factory, made the chocolate, that delicious, delicious chocolate. And then many years ago, there was an attraction. It's a whole Hershey Park. It's a whole, theme park. Amusement park? Yeah. Dedicated. And then adjacent to the theme park is the chocolate factory. The quote unquote chocolate factory, which is this, like, basically tour that you can take. And it's like this a little ride, like a slow moving ride that shows you like the history and how the chocolate is made and all that. But and then they just sell like you go into the, the gift shop and they sell t shirts and, stuffed animals or whatever. But then they sell obviously chocolates and like, they will sell like they have these like novelty, like oversize, like 3 pound chocolate bars, you know, like it and it's like, you know what I want nothing more. Then after a long day of being in a hot, hot sun doing loop, the loop rides. **Thomas** (00:24:47:15 - 00:24:48:00): Yeah. **Chip** (00:24:48:05 - 00:24:50:11): Is 4 pounds of milk chocolate. **Thomas** (00:24:50:13 - 00:24:56:22): That is a recipe for a little tummies to be a mighty sick. **Chip** (00:24:57:00 - 00:25:11:13): You know, I haven't ever noticed that before, but that has to be, like, worked into their budget like more than any other, more than Disney, your great adventure or whatever. Any other theme park. Like there has to be a vomit budget. **Thomas** (00:25:11:19 - 00:25:17:22): Oh yeah. Yeah. No, there's there's a sanitation department that deals with, bile. **Chip** (00:25:17:22 - 00:25:22:00): I think my wife and I, when we, I think it was the first summer we started dating. **Thomas** (00:25:22:00 - 00:25:22:20): Speaking of bile. **Chip** (00:25:22:20 - 00:25:23:11): Speaking of bile. **Thomas** (00:25:23:16 - 00:25:25:02): **Chip** (00:25:25:02 - 00:25:45:12): The the the. Yes. Marriage itself. The, we went and it was like the first year we were dating. We were young winter Hershey Park. We had a great weekend. There's a lot of fun. Yeah. Went on all the rides. Was great. Couple years later, I'm going to fast forward, maybe, like, seven years. We're like, let's go back. Yeah. And we go back. We get all excited. We're like, let's plan it out. We're it's like this big new roller coaster. We're like, we'll go there first. You know what kind of right when the gates open, we'll go stood in line still for like 45 minutes. But we got on this ride and it was great. It was just boom, crazy, wild, upside down, loop de loops, the whole thing. And we both got off and we were both just walking to like basically the next ride. And we're just like both kind of quiet all of a sudden and just kind of. Yeah. And then we just look at each other. We're like, are you okay? And she's like, no. And she's like, are you okay? I was like, no. And just we hit that age. I think of like they say at a certain point, the, I guess it's the fluid in your, inner ear that controls your, balance. **Thomas** (00:26:29:22 - 00:26:31:01): Turns to dust. **Chip** (00:26:31:01 - 00:26:40:01): It just turns to dust. And we were just dizzy the rest of the. We did not go on a the only other ride we went on the entire day was the monorail. **Thomas** (00:26:40:03 - 00:26:40:14): Yeah, we rode. **Chip** (00:26:40:14 - 00:26:49:20): Around on the monorail. And then the rest of the day, we just walked around and enjoyed ourselves, but didn't go on any more rides because we're just like, I guess we have aged out of this. We cannot do it anymore. **Thomas** (00:26:49:21 - 00:27:13:22): I went partway down that journey here. We have Six Flags Magic Mountain, one of the best roller coaster parks in the planet, and if you're a local, you can get what they call a thrill pass. At least you could 1015 years ago, when I was a, a new comedian coming on to the scene and, you know, my friends were like, you know, broke so we could get these passes for real cheap. And then, like, if somebody would drive you there, you like a free, free day of events. Yeah. So we'd go on all these roller coasters and just loved it. Loved it, loved it. And like year 4 or 5 of having the thrill pass that my thrill pass crew, just a bunch of bros, we kind of magic Mountain and not spend money and ride these roller coasters. It was fantastic. And, I remember we, got on the Batman ride this just, like, real tight. It wasn't on the normal, roller coaster circuit for us. It's kind of like off to the side a little bit. Yeah. Sleeper roller coaster. And we got on there, and I came off being like, I don't think I can do this anymore. I don't think I have any more, coasters left in me, potentially, because I remember being a child. I remember being 16 years old and my uncle taking me to Six Flags Magic Mountain and him riding that roller coaster, and it was the last roller coaster he ever rode. **Chip** (00:28:10:14 - 00:28:13:03): It's like the Widowmaker of the O'Briens. **Thomas** (00:28:13:05 - 00:28:28:16): It is, it is. So I put that in my noggin and I was like, maybe it's just this roller coaster. Maybe this is just turning and cranking too fast, too hard. Maybe the other ones. I'm still good with Chip. I got back on that horse. It turns out the other ones I'm still good with. **Chip** (00:28:28:18 - 00:28:41:02): Really. It's just that it was the baby one. The one? Because there was one, Six Flags great adventure in new Jersey. Where is it? The one where you dangle from it rather than, like, being on it? Or was it just a regular. **Thomas** (00:28:41:02 - 00:28:43:09): I want to say that's true. I want to say that's true. **Chip** (00:28:43:10 - 00:28:43:16): That one. **Thomas** (00:28:43:16 - 00:28:44:23): I think your legs kind of. **Chip** (00:28:45:01 - 00:28:52:03): I think I remember being shocked and jolted on the weekend of, 1994. Yeah, yeah. **Thomas** (00:28:52:05 - 00:28:56:07): Yeah. Oh, you'll never forget your first time on prom weekend. Chip. **Chip** (00:28:56:09 - 00:28:58:17): Let's say more than one shocking ride that weekend. **Thomas** (00:28:58:18 - 00:29:02:14): When you get very intimately close with a bad man. **Chip** (00:29:02:16 - 00:29:05:08): With a with a man, it's a bet. **Thomas** (00:29:05:10 - 00:29:14:13): Okay, so the best beach for families. Flamingo beach in Aruba, chip. Aruba seems like, gd Paradise, buddy. That is on the list. **Chip** (00:29:14:16 - 00:29:18:19): That's where the Beach Boys started that song with it. It wasn't just alphabetical. **Thomas** (00:29:18:19 - 00:29:22:03): A first in the alphabet. Also first in their hearts, potentially. **Chip** (00:29:22:09 - 00:29:22:21): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:29:22:22 - 00:29:29:16): I think that's what's going on. But, talk about someplace where circling eventually for the In Paradise store. **Chip** (00:29:29:18 - 00:29:35:15): Yeah. I don't want to tip, you know, tip or, whatever you tip, it's just it's not our hats. **Thomas** (00:29:35:15 - 00:29:38:15): Well, we're certainly not tipping servers. We're done with. **Chip** (00:29:38:15 - 00:29:40:09): That. Could you imagine? **Thomas** (00:29:40:11 - 00:29:44:06): Yeah, we're done with. We're done with tipping service workers. **Chip** (00:29:44:06 - 00:29:46:02): We're just a couple. Steve Buscemi's over here. **Thomas** (00:29:46:05 - 00:29:46:20): **Chip** (00:29:46:22 - 00:29:51:06): Not symbolized Steve Buscemi. Steve Buscemi's character in Reservoir Dogs. **Thomas** (00:29:51:06 - 00:29:53:20): A couple of Steve Buscemi. **Chip** (00:29:53:21 - 00:29:54:07): Yes. **Thomas** (00:29:54:07 - 00:30:03:16): Buscemi's the pushing buscemi's. That sounds like an Irish Buscemi. Saint Patrick, we're gonna talk about that in a man. **Chip** (00:30:03:17 - 00:30:24:16): Bring a sheep dog. Yeah. Do you think, Steve, I bet you Steve Buscemi is an extra good tipper. Like, he has to be extra good because his. That character was sort of, you know, defining character for him. And then. So I think he has to, I would assume most actors hopefully out of the goodness of the hearts, if they're well-to-do, they are chipping well. But I feel like he has to go a little bit above and beyond. **Thomas** (00:30:28:10 - 00:30:51:11): Yeah, yeah, especially in this town. Like, you know, the the server to actor pipeline is healthy historically in this town not a lot of people are making the jump these days. Right. But, growing up coming up like you had to take care of those servers because they were going to end up as the younger costar with you sooner or later. **Chip** (00:30:51:13 - 00:30:52:07): Could you imagine? **Thomas** (00:30:52:07 - 00:31:11:20): Yeah. If you stiffed them, you're gonna have a little bad blood on set. And also just people. People run their mouths, buddy. They talk about poor tippers. Yeah. So here's the thing. We've got this list of beaches. We said it's backed up in the Tees. Yeah. Who's put together this list? And how do you make the top 20? It's got to be so arbitrary. Chip, can you think of just for you personally? Not less. Much less. You suggesting to the world your favorite three beaches of all time? **Chip** (00:31:21:04 - 00:31:26:01): I mean, that be a tough thing to do I think. You know, I think I would have to give each one a subcategory. **Thomas** (00:31:26:03 - 00:31:31:16): What if you could not give a subcategory? Just give me just give me three of your favorite beaches of all time. Hit me with it. **Chip** (00:31:31:20 - 00:31:41:19): Okay. I'm going to say kill in New Jersey. Okay. I'm going to go off on a, on a limb, the, the rocky beach in, in on the coast of Maine. **Thomas** (00:31:41:21 - 00:31:42:19): Love it. **Chip** (00:31:42:21 - 00:31:45:20): And then. Yeah, obviously, you got to go, Waikiki. **Thomas** (00:31:45:21 - 00:31:53:14): I mean, there you go, buddy. We've we overlap by one. I'm going to Waikiki. I'm going Manhattan Beach. **Chip** (00:31:53:14 - 00:31:55:13): I'm going to say Manhattan Beach. That was my guess. Where it. Yep. **Thomas** (00:31:55:13 - 00:32:09:23): And then North Shore, North shore, Oahu. Yeah, yeah, there's many in there, but I don't want to name any. Yeah. They don't they don't like it when you name the individual beaches because people go looking. Yeah. That's it for the top 20 beaches in the Caribbean Bahamas. **Chip** (00:32:10:01 - 00:32:19:16): You know you said who do you think is putting these lists together? I'm going to say right now I think I know pigs. I think it was all I think a pig wrote this. **Thomas** (00:32:19:18 - 00:32:23:10): Yeah. How else does pig how does this pig beach get to be number one? **Chip** (00:32:23:10 - 00:32:28:04): You know what they say. Pigs are very intelligent. Yeah, and they're they're good with listicles. **Thomas** (00:32:28:04 - 00:32:30:22): And you're talking about disgusting people, not the animal. Right? **Chip** (00:32:30:22 - 00:32:32:04): Yes. Yes. These. **Thomas** (00:32:32:05 - 00:32:35:21): Yeah, these vacation pigs. You remember when I wanted to the show to be vacation? **Chip** (00:32:36:01 - 00:32:37:18): Vacation pigs? Yeah. **Thomas** (00:32:37:20 - 00:32:44:10): We are not cruise like I'm having a good time, but boy, are we. We're one for the al. Go in. **Chip** (00:32:44:10 - 00:32:45:10): Yeah, one. **Thomas** (00:32:45:12 - 00:32:48:12): All right, buddy, Saint Patrick's Day is coming up. **Chip** (00:32:48:13 - 00:32:49:01): Here we go. **Thomas** (00:32:49:05 - 00:32:52:18): Saint Patrick's Day is coming up. Top of the morning to you. **Chip** (00:32:52:19 - 00:32:56:09): Top of the morning, Mr. O'Brien. **Thomas** (00:32:56:11 - 00:33:15:02): It's top of the morning. Means dealing with the nine day hangover. Yep. Travel and tour world is reporting that the best places to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day around the world are Dublin, New York, Boston, Chicago, and, naturally, Buenos Aires. Oh, wow. **Chip** (00:33:15:04 - 00:33:25:14): Okay. If you gave me a list of 100, like 100 guesses of cities, I would. Okay, so I would have said Dublin. I would probably said New York, maybe Chicago. Was there another oh, Boston of course. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:33:25:14 - 00:33:30:02): Buenos Aires has one of the largest Saint Patrick's Day celebrations outside of Ireland. **Chip** (00:33:30:05 - 00:33:31:07): Really? **Thomas** (00:33:31:09 - 00:33:38:20): Yeah. You haven't lived until you've tango on a belly full of Argentinean corned beef chip. **Chip** (00:33:39:00 - 00:33:40:17): I guess I guess not. **Thomas** (00:33:40:17 - 00:33:45:17): Do you know, anything about Argentinian leprechauns? Shit. **Chip** (00:33:45:19 - 00:33:48:01): I don't lay it on me. **Thomas** (00:33:48:01 - 00:33:54:08): They want your swear to charms. This article was all about the best places to celebrate. But why not talk about another place to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day? The Garden State chip? You know anything about Garden State Saint Patrick's Day? **Chip** (00:34:05:08 - 00:34:13:06): Dude, I'm going to be over in the Garden State tomorrow before Saint Patrick's Day. And then I'm getting out of town. I will say that. **Thomas** (00:34:13:08 - 00:34:13:23): Yeah, dude. **Chip** (00:34:14:03 - 00:34:16:23): They do it up. They do. All right. In new Jersey. **Thomas** (00:34:17:00 - 00:34:19:21): You're going to be there in the middle of Saint Patrick's season. **Chip** (00:34:19:21 - 00:34:24:13): And I think that's the operative word, is not Saint Patrick's Day. It's Saint Patrick's season. **Thomas** (00:34:24:13 - 00:34:45:02): That's what I'm saying. They have a shocking number of parades and celebrations according to nj.com. Various towns across the state are hosting festivals throughout March. And that begs the question, how many weeks do you think Saint Patrick's Day should be? **Chip** (00:34:45:04 - 00:34:49:12): It's I feel like it should be less than Christmas, but it's not. **Thomas** (00:34:49:14 - 00:34:56:19): It's a real dangerous, slippery slope, like a Saint Patrick's Day kind of has to be one night, in my experience. **Chip** (00:34:56:21 - 00:34:59:03): Right? Like Halloween to a certain extent, right? **Thomas** (00:34:59:03 - 00:35:04:13): Yeah, exactly. It's like you can't eat a pillowcase full of candy nine days in a row. **Chip** (00:35:04:15 - 00:35:07:02): Well, I can, but most people can't. Chip. **Thomas** (00:35:07:04 - 00:35:11:07): You have to disclose. That's why you get online cavities. **Chip** (00:35:11:07 - 00:35:12:10): Yes. **Thomas** (00:35:12:11 - 00:35:15:14): That's you can do it. But you pay the price. **Chip** (00:35:15:14 - 00:35:17:07): I 100% do. **Thomas** (00:35:17:09 - 00:35:20:12): Yeah. And then if you go on a roller coaster you have tummy troubles. **Chip** (00:35:20:14 - 00:35:33:20): I forget, I forget that it Saint Patrick's Day sneaks up on you. Oh yeah. Because we have something in Philadelphia called the Aaron Express. Are you familiar with this concept? **Thomas** (00:35:33:23 - 00:35:35:03): No. **Chip** (00:35:35:05 - 00:35:39:10): Okay. Thank. Thank you. Swear to stars. **Thomas** (00:35:39:12 - 00:35:41:23): Charms. **Chip** (00:35:42:01 - 00:36:07:20): That you don't know this because, what it is. And I will say I did, to certain extent partake in this when I was a 23 year old. Probably. Yeah. But what it is, is they basically buzz in a bunch of people, generally from the suburbs, and they just take them on this, like sort of bus, pub crawl. Yeah. So it's just like. But it's like the two first Saturdays basically in March. So it's not if it was Saint Patrick's Day, it's like, okay, great, just do your thing. But it's the two I don't want to say two Saturdays before Saint Patrick's Day. And they just take these people from the suburbs and they just go hog wild speaking. My gosh, just hog wild. Just vomiting, fighting. Passing out. It's just it's it's it's it's crazy. I've, I've written extensively on and online about my just dislike of the air and express as a lot of people have it because it's just, it's craziness. I the thing that I, I posted a few weeks ago was that I said that, I think the last stop on every Aaron Express should just be an Army recruiting center. Just get them in the pipeline and, out of here. **Thomas** (00:37:01:18 - 00:37:05:15): Yeah, yeah. No, I mean, maybe maybe they'd be good with a little discipline, you know? **Chip** (00:37:05:17 - 00:37:06:17): Maybe that's what it is. **Thomas** (00:37:06:19 - 00:37:08:18): Get them. Get them turned around. **Chip** (00:37:08:23 - 00:37:15:01): But new Jersey is like, they are just. Are they? It's like every day of the month. They get something going on for Saint Patrick's Day. **Thomas** (00:37:15:01 - 00:37:28:06): Apparently they do, man. And and hats off to them. I think it's fun. It's at least it's it's festive. Yeah. It's, it's. Yeah. Celebrating a good time. Like go for it. You have our blessings. New Jersey. **Chip** (00:37:28:07 - 00:37:28:15): Yes. **Thomas** (00:37:28:15 - 00:37:31:10): Stay burnt. Newark, new Jersey. **Chip** (00:37:31:10 - 00:37:32:16): Swear day. Jersey. **Thomas** (00:37:32:18 - 00:37:33:15): Lucky jersey. **Chip** (00:37:33:15 - 00:37:34:05): Lucky jersey. **Thomas** (00:37:34:06 - 00:38:21:15): All right. Yep. ChatGPT is now roasting its users. If you put a picture of yourself in the ChatGPT and ask it to make a couple of tweaks, it kind of is learning facts about you. It like, learns little nuggets about you as you use it, as you use its massive AI mind. It was pick it up things and if you ask it to do a caricature of you, it will use things it knows about you perceived insecurities to spit back out a photo of you that might look innocuous to other people, but it has figured out what you don't like about you and puts it right in your face. **Chip** (00:38:21:17 - 00:38:27:21): They're really coming for us. They're they're coming for our our bodies and our souls body. **Thomas** (00:38:27:23 - 00:38:28:16): They really are. **Chip** (00:38:28:17 - 00:38:33:16): What do you think your picture would look like if you put if you gave it that prompt? **Thomas** (00:38:33:17 - 00:39:01:00): Maybe I'm holding a broken pickleball paddle, right? Maybe my hand had is 95% forehead. Okay, maybe my nose is the other 5% of my face. And maybe I'm like, wearing a barrel with inside out pockets. And it is presenting to the world like I am poor and have no assets. Maybe that. **Chip** (00:39:01:02 - 00:39:02:19): I, I get you, I think. **Thomas** (00:39:02:19 - 00:39:13:01): I don't know what about you Chip. What's the what's your worst case scenario. What's it, what could it what could it single out on you and be like, this is going to get this guy's go. **Chip** (00:39:13:03 - 00:39:25:02): I think it would just basically be a seventh grade version of me, doing a pre-algebra problem in math class with an erection. Do you know what I mean? Like that? I think that's the, **Thomas** (00:39:25:04 - 00:39:36:16): Pre-teen version of Chip Chantry. Yeah. Doing a stand up comedy set to an empty room with an erection. And there is a camera in the corner live streaming it to the internet. **Chip** (00:39:36:18 - 00:39:42:22): I think you just nailed by my worst nightmare. I think that's it. I think I think that would be the caricature. **Thomas** (00:39:42:22 - 00:39:50:03): All right. And now that I say this, we've hit our three correction word limit for the episode. We chance. **Chip** (00:39:50:05 - 00:39:51:00): Congratulations. **Thomas** (00:39:51:00 - 00:39:56:07): Woohoo! Yeah. Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding. Oh yeah I like get. **Chip** (00:39:56:07 - 00:40:08:02): What I'm doing there I did it I just I just threw in a shooing at. Can I throw a showing in. Yeah that doesn't go over the the limit does it. Lil Wayne's World style. **Thomas** (00:40:08:02 - 00:40:24:09): You can you can swing here all you want. Dude, speaking of, like I roasting, I came up with this idea. I had this fun idea to myself to come up with a little, a little business where you could give me $5. **Chip** (00:40:24:10 - 00:40:24:18): Okay. **Thomas** (00:40:24:22 - 00:40:30:11): Share your buddy's LinkedIn profile. **Chip** (00:40:30:12 - 00:40:31:03): Okay. **Thomas** (00:40:31:05 - 00:40:39:18): And then you would get emailed back a very professional looking assessment of their LinkedIn profile. **Chip** (00:40:39:19 - 00:40:40:05): Okay? **Thomas** (00:40:40:05 - 00:40:43:10): And it just roasts it. That's. **Chip** (00:40:43:12 - 00:40:47:11): So there's really no constructive criticism? **Thomas** (00:40:47:11 - 00:41:01:10): No, it's all constructive. No, it's all constructive. But like, I have them say it in the most offensive way possible but straightforward. It's direct and not like I, I worked with it for like a couple of hours. I built the whole program like it works. **Chip** (00:41:01:16 - 00:41:02:00): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:41:02:00 - 00:41:19:06): I just like instructed it on how to give these points but like to to put a sharp edge on them instead of a dull edge. Yeah. And it just reads is so offensive. And I also put a couple of things in there like the profile picture gets absolutely roasted, not allowed to be above a four out of ten. **Chip** (00:41:19:08 - 00:41:19:20): And I get. **Thomas** (00:41:19:20 - 00:41:29:10): All you do is take what they were obviously trying to do, call that out, and then say it's bad. **Chip** (00:41:29:12 - 00:41:40:06): I, I think there is something to be said for that. I think there is something to be said for humiliating somebody out of a bad behavior. **Thomas** (00:41:40:08 - 00:41:59:18): Well, if it's a bad behavior, I started I started to get into all these ethical dilemmas. It's like ChatGPT roasting. It's like it's indiscriminate and it's like the reason I thought it would be funny on paper. And I knew this going in is because it's so personal. Your LinkedIn profile is this you're telling the world, this is who I am business wise. **Chip** (00:41:59:18 - 00:42:03:17): These are my passions in life. This is what I studied all for years to do. **Thomas** (00:42:03:17 - 00:42:12:00): Yeah, this is what I present myself as. This is the how I see myself to a large extent, and how I'm presenting myself. And I want you to see me this way. **Chip** (00:42:12:00 - 00:42:15:06): This is the most polished turd that I have out there. **Thomas** (00:42:15:11 - 00:42:40:08): Exactly. And I was thinking it was funny to me how insulting it would be, unprompted for your friend to have bought you like this evaluation. So I ran it on a buddy of mine who like I, I run a lot of like business ideas. He's like a very, it's so successful, so smart. When it comes to these things. But he also like is a dude like he gets dude businesses and like he's really thrived in those places. So I was like, I called him and I was like, can I run something by you? I had this idea. I made this thing. It generates it like people. It's just it doesn't cost that much money. It's almost instantaneous. They just need to, like, I came up with a real frictionless way for people to upload the photos. Yeah. And he was like He's like, it sounds mean. He's like I don't know that I would do it to my friends. And I was like, yeah. And I was like, I actually did it for you. Do you want to see it. Oh no. Do you want to see it? And he was like, yeah sure. We like took a look through it and like he yeah, he's so successful and like accomplish it does not matter. But like and he he didn't flinch. He didn't bat an eye. But like later on in the day I was just like, did I really just like, torch this guy's LinkedIn to him while I'm pitching my stupid. **Chip** (00:43:39:11 - 00:43:41:15): This gentleman's LinkedIn. **Thomas** (00:43:41:15 - 00:43:52:08): That's the thing I was I in my head, I was like, he's so successful, this won't matter. Or at least that's the perception. And it's like, easy to see that, you know, this isn't one of the more vulnerable people. **Chip** (00:43:52:08 - 00:43:57:02): Meanwhile, he's just at home crying in the fetal position, eating a 3 pound Hershey bar. **Thomas** (00:43:57:03 - 00:44:16:06): He said a couple of times, and he was like, listening to that or reading through the feedback. He's like, he's like, this is true. But I did this on purpose. And I'm just like, yeah, of course you did your thing. It's good. Yes. But like, what the program does is takes what it knows you tried to do and say, that's bad. So, yeah, the, gift he got for helping me validate if this business was a business was, for me to torch his. Like, I could have showed him my LinkedIn. **Chip** (00:44:30:05 - 00:44:32:19): Right. I think that's the way to go. Yeah, yeah. **Thomas** (00:44:32:20 - 00:44:38:03): No. Crap. Fuck. **Chip** (00:44:38:05 - 00:44:44:06): Happy Saint Patrick's day. Here's why you suck at business. And that's why you're doing a travel comedy podcast with me. **Thomas** (00:44:47:17 - 00:44:53:21): Chip, the number one tropical comedy. The number one thing on the planet. Yeah. Your Netflix subscription. Your tree. **Chip** (00:44:53:22 - 00:44:58:06): Yeah, yeah, your your Emmy Award winning producer, Thomas O'Brien. **Thomas** (00:44:58:12 - 00:45:05:02): And I mean, we're we do tropical trips where we perform, bring comedy to travelers and locals alike. **Chip** (00:45:05:02 - 00:45:06:19): I can't wait to go to Pig Beach. **Thomas** (00:45:06:19 - 00:45:11:21): Any beach this guy's on with all eight nips out. Yeah. My speedo. **Chip** (00:45:11:23 - 00:45:12:07): Yep. **Thomas** (00:45:12:11 - 00:45:13:15): Oh, pig beach. **Chip** (00:45:13:16 - 00:45:15:18): Pig beach in it, baby. **Thomas** (00:45:15:20 - 00:45:33:13): Okay, this is this is a big wide ship Carnival cruise opens a $600 million celebration key in the Bahamas, according to travel wires. Carnival just spent more money on an island than I'll make in 600 lifetime strip. **Chip** (00:45:33:15 - 00:45:35:16): $38,000. **Thomas** (00:45:35:17 - 00:45:47:17): $38,000. With interest over time. Still not going to catch up. Carnival Cruise Lines, along with their chief fun officer, Shaquille O'Neal. You knew Shaq got in this business. **Chip** (00:45:47:19 - 00:45:48:18): Shaq's the CFO. **Thomas** (00:45:48:18 - 00:45:52:12): Now he's the chief fun officer of Carnival Cruise Line. **Chip** (00:45:52:17 - 00:45:58:07): I hope that Shaq has business cards that say Carnival Cruise Line CFO. **Thomas** (00:45:58:09 - 00:46:16:21): I'm sure he does. But like I, I get it, I get it. He's a fun guy. He's trustworthy. He's super successful. He's super likable. Yeah, if I know Shaquille O'Neal is going to take a dump on a boat, I'm not getting on that boat. **Chip** (00:46:16:23 - 00:46:18:19): Here's my car. Do you think. **Thomas** (00:46:18:21 - 00:46:21:11): It's a chip? **Chip** (00:46:21:13 - 00:46:22:04): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:46:22:06 - 00:46:25:02): That's a that's a big movement, man. **Chip** (00:46:25:04 - 00:46:36:02): Yes it is. And it's just a big man on a boat. Like, I just it's it's just a lot like I'd be like, is is he port side now? Where is he? Is he on the stern. **Thomas** (00:46:36:04 - 00:46:39:04): Yeah. Oh it's the it's the Shaq tilt. **Chip** (00:46:39:06 - 00:46:54:20): Yeah. How bad would you. Let's say you had a business. Like a business. Let's say that torches people's LinkedIn. Yeah. It might be. And you went to Shaq to ask him if he if you could hire him to be a in your commercial. **Thomas** (00:46:54:22 - 00:46:55:10): **Chip** (00:46:55:12 - 00:47:00:09): And he said no. How bad would you feel about your idea. **Thomas** (00:47:00:11 - 00:47:22:21): I think I think Bill Burr I don't know if he put it on anything. I heard he has a bit about Shaquille O'Neal and he was just like, I realize this guy was overextended when, I was watching TV at four in the morning and Shaquille O'Neal shows up on the screen is like, do you think you're paid too much for printer ink? And then, at some point, he calls him a seven foot two whore. But but you don't get to the C-suite without cracking a couple of eggs. No. **Chip** (00:47:38:08 - 00:47:42:23): So I get to be chief fun officer of Carnival Cruise Lines. **Thomas** (00:47:43:01 - 00:47:47:23): Yeah. No. And and beyond. Because they got the celebration key. It's not even a celebration cruise. **Chip** (00:47:48:04 - 00:47:49:20): So they're building their own island. **Thomas** (00:47:49:20 - 00:47:51:23): They've built their whole all their whole island. **Chip** (00:47:51:23 - 00:47:53:14): Spent 600 million on. **Thomas** (00:47:53:14 - 00:48:18:08): It. Yeah, in the Grand Bahama Island. The new port is designed to be a perfect beach day destination, offering something for every type of traveler. The Starfish Lagoon, a family friendly zone with a 275,000 square foot lagoon, splash pad, sports courts, and gigantic urine filtration system that. **Chip** (00:48:18:10 - 00:48:22:05): I am so glad that the Starfish Lagoon is a family friendly one. **Thomas** (00:48:22:11 - 00:48:23:13): I know I. **Chip** (00:48:23:13 - 00:48:24:23): Would not want to know if it was not. **Thomas** (00:48:25:01 - 00:48:31:07): That's. Yeah, named by, limp biscuits. Fred Durst. Fred Durst is a triple entendre. **Chip** (00:48:31:12 - 00:48:35:12): Yeah, he is the CSO, the chief starfish officer. **Thomas** (00:48:35:18 - 00:48:47:00): The chief starfish officer, everybody. I mean, everybody has to treat themselves as their own CSO. You are the chief officer in charge of your own starfish. **Chip** (00:48:47:01 - 00:48:49:10): Yes, that's true. **Thomas** (00:48:49:12 - 00:48:52:02): Or else things can get dicey. **Chip** (00:48:52:03 - 00:48:55:13): Be the starfish you want to see in the world. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:48:55:15 - 00:49:33:04): They also got Calypso Lagoon, an adult focused retreat with a second 275,000 square foot lagoon, a deejay island and the world's largest swim up bar with 166 and water seats and a gigantic urine filtration system chip is tremendous. And then there's Pearl Cove Beach Club, the largest adults only cruise retreat featuring an 11,000 square foot infinity pool, luxury cabanas, super villas, upscale dining and that chemical your uncle put in his pool that turned purple if you peed. So you guys watch out on Pearl Cove Beach Club. **Chip** (00:49:36:08 - 00:49:37:15): You know, they really know what they're doing. **Thomas** (00:49:37:15 - 00:49:47:09): They do. And they didn't spring for the filtration. Would have been nice, but I think three would have. I mean, we're talking now. We're talking about a $650 million, project. **Chip** (00:49:47:09 - 00:49:48:13): You got the purple dye though. **Thomas** (00:49:48:16 - 00:49:59:00): That's okay. So a celebration key is expected to host over 2 million guests annually at launch, with capacity projected to double to 4 million by 2028. **Chip** (00:49:59:01 - 00:50:01:19): I wonder if they have, like, if they need a comedy island. **Thomas** (00:50:01:20 - 00:50:06:03): Ooh, yeah. I mean, no urine jokes, though. **Chip** (00:50:06:09 - 00:50:08:22): Oh, that's what I would say. I was like, I would filter those all out. **Thomas** (00:50:08:23 - 00:50:28:17): Yeah. So I mean, I don't know, dude. It's like we've talked about it. A lot of people have a stigma against cruises. Maybe this, portion that's just on an island is, another, you know, feather in the cap, a reason to go, a reason to experience that, that you get to have this other experience, too, but it just sounds to me like it's all in the name of good fun. And if you get on with the right attitude, you're going to have a good time. As long as you don't get that norovirus. No, you don't want that. **Chip** (00:50:37:23 - 00:51:05:00): I don't know why they did this, but, Princess cruise lines. Actually, I was just reading, off the coast of the Bahamas. They have, norovirus island. Oh, wow. It's just it's norovirus themed. You go. There is a, there is 160 seats. Swim up infirmary. And, I mean, there's fun to be had, but it's a different kind of fun. Thomas. **Thomas** (00:51:06:06 - 00:51:08:01): It's not the pit. It's the pool. **Chip** (00:51:08:02 - 00:51:11:03): It. Yes, it is. It's the pit of my stomach. **Thomas** (00:51:11:05 - 00:51:33:08): All right, baby, and the last, last for the ago we got here. Dude, the New York City residents are waiting in line, baby. They are waiting in line. There's a new trend where people at restaurants are doing away with the old reservation system. Okay, if you want to get into the hottest restaurants, you got to show up and wait two hours. And people are having no problems with this. It's so funny, I, I, I picked this because I knew it would be, an affront to your basic standards, but you already brought it up earlier, right? When we were talking about identifying so people. **Chip** (00:51:48:17 - 00:51:51:00): Are people are down with this. They're excited about this. **Thomas** (00:51:51:00 - 00:51:54:21): I don't know if they're excited about it, but they have no other choice and they're willing to play along. **Chip** (00:51:55:00 - 00:51:56:06): Yeah, well, it's true, I guess so, yeah. **Thomas** (00:51:56:07 - 00:52:08:02): Din Tai fung, you know, there's different locations for it, but the one at Century City, I've never. You can't do reservations, and I have never had a wait time of less than an hour and a half. **Chip** (00:52:08:04 - 00:52:09:11): Really? **Thomas** (00:52:09:13 - 00:52:14:12): But wait, it's a what do you do. Well you put, you put your time in when you get there. **Chip** (00:52:14:16 - 00:52:15:10): Yeah. Oh and then. **Thomas** (00:52:15:10 - 00:52:21:23): You just shop, you do whatever you're going to do anyways. And then they say they send you a text when it's time to walk over and you just do it. **Chip** (00:52:21:23 - 00:52:26:06): That's okay. That's great. That's I, I love that idea. **Thomas** (00:52:26:06 - 00:52:34:08): But there's a couple of restaurants that, I want to I, I would get, I would butcher the name. It was in Venice. Me and my wife tried to go. **Chip** (00:52:34:09 - 00:52:35:08): MacDonalds. **Thomas** (00:52:35:12 - 00:52:51:00): MacDonald's. I knew it was Irish, but they, they do have a limited amount of reservations. Very a very small number. And then everybody else just has to wait in line. And the line is two hours long every time. And you cannot do that. You put your name and then you kind of have to hang out and you just go on. It's on this little like the beaches here. And then there's a little side street and the restaurants up here, and this whole side street is just full of people waiting to get into that restaurant. **Chip** (00:53:02:11 - 00:53:26:11): I will say, I, I'm thinking the last time I waited for a table at a restaurant was at Monkey Part, I think. Oh, really? Okay. Right. Yeah. Okay. But yeah, but they did offer, first of all, there was sort of a sort of a shopping area was the, the, the hotel shopping area. So there was that and then there was the beach that I could just hang out on the beach. Yeah. And what basically watch the sunset. **Thomas** (00:53:28:12 - 00:53:47:15): We, I remember we did a little, sunburn photoshoot. We did, waiting, waiting for it right there on the beach. And then we got, both of our number three ranked Mai tais and Waikiki. For the most part, my tie with a little a quite firm. And we also had probably the best taco I've ever had. Man. The gogi taco. **Chip** (00:53:50:15 - 00:54:12:18): Yeah. Jess. And it. We had it. And it was worth the wait. And the wait was very polite. Okay, let me ask you this. And you're not allowed to say monkey pot. I guess you could, but yeah. Is there another waiting experience? For a restaurant that was the most enjoyable because I actually have one, what? It would be neck and neck with monkey bite. But was there is there another waiting experience that you've had that you actually enjoyed? **Thomas** (00:54:17:03 - 00:54:24:13): The waiting was the gift. Yeah, I am having a hard time pulling you tell yours. I'll keep that. **Chip** (00:54:24:13 - 00:54:44:00): Okay. When my wife and I were on our honeymoon, we went to. We went down south and one of the places we stopped was Savannah, Georgia. And the night, the first night we were going to stay in Savannah, we had a hotel, hotel reserved for a couple days, but we got it there a day early, so we stayed about eight miles outside of town. So you're sort of in the sticks of Georgia. **Thomas** (00:54:47:09 - 00:54:48:03): Here, right? Yeah. **Chip** (00:54:48:08 - 00:55:04:11): And somebody was like, oh, you got to go to the seafood restaurant. It's like we were literally saying it like a super eight or whatever, right? And they're like, you know, buy a Walmart and they're like, oh, there's a seafood restaurant. You got to check it out. And it's big seafood. We go and it's just kind of in the middle of nowhere and pickup trucks everywhere. It's this like giant like warehouse looking plate and we're like, oh, this is I again. We're not in for the fancy, but like, we're like, this is do we belong here? Like, this is a little rough. We walk in and it was actually you would like it. A bunch of burnt ones in there. Thomas. **Thomas** (00:55:19:09 - 00:55:20:22): Oh, I love it, I love it. **Chip** (00:55:20:22 - 00:55:42:16): Just kind of tropical themed. You're in Savannah, Georgia, but it's sort of this indoor outdoor kind of place. Seafood themed, like, I'm like, okay, we're into this is a big bar. Got it. And but the woman was like, oh yeah, it'll be about a I think she said a 30 to 40 minute wait. And again, we're just like, we could just literally go to Pizza Hut or something like that, you know, like we're not waiting. She's like, you could go to the bar. She's like, there's a little deck out back. And we're like, okay, we're here. Yeah, we get a drink, we just get a Corona, I think, and we go out to the back deck and there is this little lake out there. This is like manmade pond. Yeah, that had baby alligators swimming around. **Thomas** (00:56:03:15 - 00:56:04:15): What. **Chip** (00:56:04:16 - 00:56:08:16): Just swimming around these baby alligators. Because we're in we're in the marshlands of Georgia. **Thomas** (00:56:08:19 - 00:56:09:15): Yeah. **Chip** (00:56:09:17 - 00:56:18:08): I think you could even, like, feed the baby alligators. Where? Or at the very least, just take photos. No. And they're just these little alligators swimming all over the place. **Thomas** (00:56:18:08 - 00:56:19:12): That's so fun, dude. **Chip** (00:56:19:14 - 00:56:43:21): It only took, like, 20, 25 minutes to get our table when they called us and we were like, damn it, we want to stay and just watch alligators, baby alligators swim around a little bit more. And it was the most enjoyable wait for table ever. And then Thomas, one of the greatest, I think one of the classiest, moves I've ever seen. This was great. We got seated, and, you know, you're getting all the lobster, crabs, shrimp with it. You know, it's all of the stuff. **Thomas** (00:56:50:19 - 00:56:52:20): Everything the alligators can't touch. **Chip** (00:56:52:22 - 00:57:08:06): Every table had a hole in the middle of the table. Yeah, with a trash can underneath it. They just throw your garbage right in that right in the table hole right there. Yeah. To get rid of all the shells and all that stuff. **Thomas** (00:57:08:08 - 00:57:11:05): I mean, that classy is how I would describe that. Classy. **Chip** (00:57:11:05 - 00:57:11:15): Classy? **Thomas** (00:57:11:15 - 00:57:13:14): That is a black hole. **Chip** (00:57:13:16 - 00:57:16:11): At your restaurant. You're right. Did they have a dumpling hole? **Thomas** (00:57:16:13 - 00:57:17:08): No. **Chip** (00:57:17:10 - 00:57:18:07): Okay. **Thomas** (00:57:18:08 - 00:57:31:10): No. Just, it's a bio dumpling hall, if you know what I mean. Okay. All right. And then also, you have to be your own, CSO there, too. **Chip** (00:57:31:12 - 00:57:34:06): Yeah. I mean, Shaq can't do it all. **Thomas** (00:57:34:08 - 00:57:57:15): That's where you're wrong. He's a seven foot two whore. Yes, according to Bill Burr. All right, buddy, now it's time for the, hypochondriac corner. Hypochondriac horror. We keep it moving, buddy. Chip and I both famously hypochondriacs. Yeah. And, weekly, if there's something to update you on, we update you in the hypochondriac corner this week. Chip, do you have anything? Anything to touch on I. **Chip** (00:58:01:00 - 00:58:03:10): Okay, sometimes, as you know. **Thomas** (00:58:03:15 - 00:58:04:12): Yep. **Chip** (00:58:04:14 - 00:58:09:04): Sometimes our hypochondria will bleed over. Hopefully not too bloody. **Thomas** (00:58:09:04 - 00:58:11:05): If we're really bleeding. That's a tough week. **Chip** (00:58:11:10 - 00:58:16:22): It's a tough week. It bleeds over into our social lives, which isn't always good. **Thomas** (00:58:17:00 - 00:58:18:09): Not great. **Chip** (00:58:18:11 - 00:58:20:00): I went to a wedding this weekend. **Thomas** (00:58:20:01 - 00:58:20:13): **Chip** (00:58:20:15 - 00:58:31:11): Great wedding. Yep. So much fun. I think we were out in the suburbs and we, we stayed for the wedding and then everybody was invited to the brunch the next day. **Thomas** (00:58:31:15 - 00:58:32:06): Yeah. **Chip** (00:58:32:08 - 00:58:47:18): At the same location at this big venues, beautiful venue. And I have to say the as great as the wedding was, your nerves were amazing. Dinner was great. Such a fun time. Had a band. The brunch might have been the high point. **Thomas** (00:58:47:18 - 00:58:55:02): I love a nice brunch and it's something that you can scale. You can bring a brunch places a bunch of people can eat. It's going to be great. **Chip** (00:58:55:04 - 00:59:08:18): Yeah, and they just had all these and it's this big, beautiful ballroom open. It's like windows everywhere. It's just bright. And they just had all these stations over they two omelet stations. They had like a yogurt parfait station. They had. **Thomas** (00:59:08:18 - 00:59:10:01): Sony PlayStation. **Chip** (00:59:10:03 - 00:59:23:10): That Sony PlayStation. They had Power Station, the Duran Duran, Robert Palmer 1980s band playing there. Wow. I'm not even a bacon fan necessarily. I don't really. **Thomas** (00:59:23:10 - 00:59:24:10): I didn't know that about you. **Chip** (00:59:24:10 - 00:59:33:06): I love the smell of bacon. I don't need the taste but it's it's great. It's fine. Like I'll have it. But it's like people just go so crazy over bacon. **Thomas** (00:59:33:06 - 00:59:34:18): I'm like calm down, they got bacon. **Chip** (00:59:34:18 - 01:00:02:02): That's but literally they had a like bacon dangling from these like it was basically close lines of bacon. Yeah. And they like chocolate chocolate dipped bacon and the maple bacon, all the stuff. But like, you just pull it off the clothesline a bit. It was crazy. Anyway, I was standing in line waiting for my delicious omelet. And this woman, another wedding guest, was standing next to me. I put her at about 60 or so. Yeah, she's somebody's aunt. I don't know who she was. **Thomas** (01:00:09:17 - 01:00:10:10): Yeah. **Chip** (01:00:10:12 - 01:00:32:05): But she's standing directly next to me, and she just starts coughing like, just open. Like coughing. Like. I think maybe she was covering her mouth a little bit, but it was for show. It wasn't. I want a full vampire. Exactly. Yes, I want a Transylvania back during the pandemic, obviously, that was a much higher stakes back then, right? **Thomas** (01:00:32:05 - 01:00:33:07): We all lost our minds. **Chip** (01:00:33:07 - 01:00:55:03): Exactly. I would like I would make it a point to, like, walk away from somebody and, and sometimes even let it be known that I'm walking away from them. You're like, all right, we're getting out of here. Like the stop being a jerk I am. Yeah. Remove myself. I, I wanted to do this to this lady, but I didn't want to hurt her feelings at the same time, even though I was like, yeah, she just lived. And, but I just I tried to do it very subtly, and I just sort of like, sidestep, like three steps over, you know, because, yeah, we're kind of in this open area. So it wasn't a big deal. And she just, she just looks at me because she goes, I have asthma. And then I felt like a jerk. **Thomas** (01:01:12:00 - 01:01:12:09): Yeah. **Chip** (01:01:12:09 - 01:01:17:16): But I was like also you can you can have asthma cover your mouth too. **Thomas** (01:01:17:18 - 01:01:18:16): You know. **Chip** (01:01:18:18 - 01:01:27:22): But I was I thought I was very subtle. I didn't think she would notice what I was doing because, like, it wasn't like a tight line. But apparently she noticed and I, I felt kind of bad. **Thomas** (01:01:27:23 - 01:01:28:12): Yeah. **Chip** (01:01:28:14 - 01:01:35:13): But I will tell you, it did not dampen the delicious fluffy omelet that I had. I will say. **Thomas** (01:01:35:15 - 01:01:38:14): Yeah, because you didn't order it with a side of germs. Yep. **Chip** (01:01:38:15 - 01:01:39:14): No. **Thomas** (01:01:39:16 - 01:01:42:15): You got that clean omelet this week. I actually pretty well check. **Chip** (01:01:42:19 - 01:01:43:11): Yeah. **Thomas** (01:01:43:13 - 01:01:49:08): And it's weird. It's like I was actually sick. I was pretty sick. I was down for the count 1 or 2 days this week. **Chip** (01:01:49:10 - 01:01:49:18): Yeah. **Thomas** (01:01:49:18 - 01:02:00:05): And it's it's what's going around. Yeah. You know, I know what it is. So I'm fully sick. I know exactly what it is. And it's like almost a reprieve. **Chip** (01:02:00:07 - 01:02:11:15): See? Oh, absolutely. I love when that happens. Like, I mean, I don't love being sick, but like, when you know what it is, you're like, all right, I got it going to be a couple days. It's going to be a couple days if you if you can rest up. I know, you know, you're busy people. You got the kids. Yeah. But it's like, if I can have a day or two to just chill out, it's like, okay, got it. Boom. Done. Yeah, yeah. **Thomas** (01:02:16:13 - 01:02:25:11): So sometimes it works out and it, works out in ways you don't expect. You actually get sick. And it's the only time I'm not worried about getting sick. **Chip** (01:02:25:13 - 01:02:26:08): Exactly. **Thomas** (01:02:26:10 - 01:02:39:07): So, Yeah. Yeah. And we're we're on the swing off. It was a quick one. I recovered quicker than I even anticipated, and here we are at it. But, Hypochondriac Corner is slowly getting a rounded edge. **Chip** (01:02:39:07 - 01:02:42:01): It really is. I, I think we're going to see that. Yeah. **Thomas** (01:02:42:05 - 01:03:07:11): Yeah, but can you feel can you feel what's coming next? Chip? Can you feel the vibrations? I can you feel the ocean. Can you feel the coral? Sandy floor chip. It is time for fish of the week for sure. The work. Every week we single out one saltwater superstar to be our son. Burt fish of the week. Our hero of the day. **Chip** (01:03:07:11 - 01:03:11:13): Of the deep. Thomas. I want to introduce you to our fish of the week. **Thomas** (01:03:15:05 - 01:03:17:00): Oh, I can't wait. **Chip** (01:03:17:02 - 01:03:19:18): Clarence, the Hawaiian scorpion fish. **Thomas** (01:03:19:18 - 01:03:22:05): Oh, that's a scary looking dude. **Chip** (01:03:22:05 - 01:03:34:19): Check out this bad boy for those of you who can't see it. And just to give you a better an audio with the visual. Thomas, let me describe Clarence, the Hawaiian scorpion fish to you. **Thomas** (01:03:34:22 - 01:03:36:11): You gotta hear about this thing. **Chip** (01:03:36:17 - 01:03:48:20): Just like Luke Skywalker learning the force. I don't want you to use your eyes. I want you to use your ears. Close your eyes for a second, and I want you to think of your least favorite uncle. **Thomas** (01:03:48:22 - 01:03:50:14): Okay? **Chip** (01:03:50:16 - 01:03:52:07): That's Clarence. That's him. **Thomas** (01:03:52:07 - 01:03:53:09): Right there. **Chip** (01:03:53:11 - 01:03:59:22): Clarence is grizzled, old looking, hardly moves, and is just a big shark. **Thomas** (01:04:00:00 - 01:04:01:09): What a sourpuss dude. **Chip** (01:04:01:15 - 01:04:02:12): Amy in the in. **Thomas** (01:04:02:12 - 01:04:03:17): The best possible way. **Chip** (01:04:03:17 - 01:04:12:04): I in the best way. And that's what we love about him. Clarence lives solely in Hawaii on the coral reefs of Hawaii. **Thomas** (01:04:12:06 - 01:04:13:09): Can't beat that. Put him in. **Chip** (01:04:13:09 - 01:04:13:17): A good. **Thomas** (01:04:13:17 - 01:04:17:08): Mood. Yeah. Cheer up. Clarence. There's worse things he doesn't. **Chip** (01:04:17:09 - 01:04:33:12): He doesn't like that his body is covered with what looks like algae. It's these, like, little conical things that just look like growths and algae and. And then actually real algae starts just growing over him. So he blends into the reef that he's hanging out on. **Thomas** (01:04:33:12 - 01:04:34:13): Oh, nice. **Chip** (01:04:34:15 - 01:04:44:17): He's like. He's like, if Jim Henson saw the first mock up for Oscar the Grouch, it was like, he's got to be more sad and racist. **Thomas** (01:04:44:22 - 01:04:46:08): That's what I like. **Chip** (01:04:46:09 - 01:04:48:03): That's what I have that that's not. **Thomas** (01:04:48:03 - 01:04:49:04): A vibe about him. **Chip** (01:04:49:09 - 01:04:51:15): And Clarence would come out okay. **Thomas** (01:04:51:21 - 01:04:53:00): **Chip** (01:04:53:02 - 01:05:07:17): Not only does he have that, that algae looking stuff and actual algae all over him camouflaging himself. He is covered with tons of these poisonous, venomous spines. All of his body. **Thomas** (01:05:07:19 - 01:05:10:09): He's a bad boy, Chip. You're bad boy. Clarence. **Chip** (01:05:10:15 - 01:05:22:15): He's bad to the bone. And those bones are filled with venom. And what happens is. So if you. Thomas, if you were out there walking around near the reefs of Hawaii, which you shouldn't be doing, you want to leave those reefs alone? **Thomas** (01:05:22:16 - 01:05:25:01): We don't touch them. Reefs, ship or titles? **Chip** (01:05:25:01 - 01:05:50:04): Reefs. If you stepped on Clarence and that little spine came through, you're a little fuzzy. Okay. Yeah. It would give you the. What would they say is possibly the worst pain that you have ever experienced, Thomas. Second only to when you went to see the Love guru in the theaters. **Thomas** (01:05:50:06 - 01:05:52:03): Mike Myers stinker. Dude. **Chip** (01:05:52:05 - 01:05:58:14): So, literally just like your uncle, Clarence basically has a Don't Tread on Me t shirt. **Thomas** (01:05:58:16 - 01:05:59:14): **Chip** (01:05:59:16 - 01:06:00:13): Literally. **Thomas** (01:06:00:15 - 01:06:03:22): Oh, with with freaking punishments for treading. **Chip** (01:06:03:22 - 01:06:25:17): Now, here's why I love Clarence so much. He's just so anti everything. Yeah, and I love it. This fish, Clarence, the Hawaiian scorpion fish, doesn't even have a swim bladder. Okay, so most fish, most bone, the fish have this this bladder that makes them float, at the very least, makes. **Thomas** (01:06:25:17 - 01:06:26:23): Them lighter than water. **Chip** (01:06:26:23 - 01:06:45:23): They're lighter than water. And then they can swim around freely. He doesn't even have one of these. He just basically sinks the. But he is a rock with a mouth. Basically. And he doesn't care. He just state chills down on the bottom. And here's the thing. Barely swims. He just chills out. Okay. **Thomas** (01:06:46:01 - 01:06:47:16): Oh my god, Clarence. **Chip** (01:06:47:18 - 01:06:59:11): Hours, even days. You're like, how does he eat? How does he hunt his prey? He just waits for it to come. Just like your uncle waiting for the Uber Eats driver to bring that Papa John's along. **Thomas** (01:06:59:13 - 01:07:00:20): Okay. Oh. **Chip** (01:07:01:01 - 01:07:06:05): Literally just sits there, waits for, like, a little fish or a little shrimp to swim past. **Thomas** (01:07:06:06 - 01:07:06:15): Yeah. **Chip** (01:07:06:15 - 01:07:13:18): And then, boom. Just like a Thanksgiving dinner. He opens his mouth and something terrible happens. **Thomas** (01:07:13:20 - 01:07:14:23): **Chip** (01:07:15:01 - 01:07:36:00): He houses, he has these little his little dorsal fins, and then apparently, they even get these little growths underneath it. He just sort of, like, moves quickly with these creepy little fins across the water and just. But he just waits for these little fish to go right in front of because they just think he's a rock and boom, grabs and has a here's, here's why you're your least favorite. Uncle Thomas sucks and so does Clarence. Literally. He can make his mouth a perfect circle, which is, the perfect suction shape, as we know, and just will suck in these poor, unsuspecting creatures. He even has just like your uncle's beer belly. Thomas. **Thomas** (01:07:56:11 - 01:07:57:08): **Chip** (01:07:57:10 - 01:08:13:18): Clarence has a stomach that can distend. So far, he can literally eat a creature that is almost as big as himself. He just opens it up like a like a pelican's beak, and just his whole body just takes it in. **Thomas** (01:08:13:20 - 01:08:15:15): So that'd be like me eating a chip. **Chip** (01:08:15:15 - 01:08:34:12): Chantry eggs? Yes. Yeah. Could you imagine just boom. And I just. I'm like, Thomas, can you let me out here like, no. Now here. And the last thing I'll say about our, our new favorite hero of the deep and deep is, by the way, he grows to be about 20in, long. **Thomas** (01:08:34:14 - 01:08:35:23): Oh, nice. That's a nice length. **Chip** (01:08:36:04 - 01:08:47:07): Yes, he's a big, big guy, and he just stays down there on the ocean floor, on those reefs. And, here's the craziest part. That gross skin that he has. **Thomas** (01:08:47:09 - 01:08:49:06): He. **Chip** (01:08:49:07 - 01:08:54:19): Regrows and sheds. That skin basically molts every two weeks. **Thomas** (01:08:54:21 - 01:08:57:22): We I was brand new Clarence. **Chip** (01:08:58:00 - 01:09:21:16): He sheds that old skin and starts a brand new one. Thomas, just like your uncle. Yeah. Every two weeks he's got, like, a new identity. Oh, my God, he's like, I'm a truck driver, I do drywall, I sell cutco knives. You're like, all right, stop. Reinvent yourself. Uncle Mike, this is Clarence. And every two weeks, he gets to reinvent himself. But why would he? I don't know why Clarence has to reinvent himself. Because I just love him the way he is. **Thomas** (01:09:26:16 - 01:09:27:18): Oh, now he's loving. **Chip** (01:09:27:18 - 01:09:34:20): The way you are. Clarence. You're Clarence, the Hawaiian scorpion fish. You are our official fish of the week. **Thomas** (01:09:34:21 - 01:09:38:05): Clarence, what a star. Come on, let's hear it for Clarence. **Chip** (01:09:38:05 - 01:09:39:18): Clarence. **Thomas** (01:09:39:20 - 01:09:49:00): Scorpion fish, baby. Scorpion fish. What a curmudgeon. What a beautiful. But it's like he he's kind of a jerk, but he's our jerk. **Chip** (01:09:49:02 - 01:09:53:13): He's he's a lovable curmudgeon. He is. He's the Dabney Coleman of the ocean. **Thomas** (01:09:53:13 - 01:09:58:09): Based on everything you know about Clarence, a Kim Chantry all star. **Chip** (01:09:58:11 - 01:10:01:07): Oh, she would love Clarence. Yes, absolutely. **Thomas** (01:10:01:09 - 01:10:02:23): Just one thing she's looking for in. **Chip** (01:10:02:23 - 01:10:05:23): A just an old man. Just a crunchy old man. Yeah. **Thomas** (01:10:06:05 - 01:10:22:01): Oh, that's absolutely unbelievable. Clarence, our hero of the deep fish of the week. Yeah. Chip. Yeah, the fish of the week. Just raft. You know what it's time for, dude. Let's get into the good book. The good book, or at least that are mine. I love it. **Chip** (01:10:22:01 - 01:10:32:18): I love it, Thomas, I need you, I need some, I need some greatness in the world. Yeah. I need you to lay on some Guinness Book of World Records for me right now. **Thomas** (01:10:32:22 - 01:10:41:13): Well, just like the internet films you watch, it involves a Danish doctor with a very large chess chip. **Chip** (01:10:41:15 - 01:10:43:13): Boy, somebody's been on my search history. **Thomas** (01:10:43:13 - 01:11:02:23): I know, but the only difference is this guy can hold his breath forever. Chip, I need you to guess. The longest distance swam underwater in the open ocean on just one single breath. It's going to be in meters, buddy. **Chip** (01:11:03:01 - 01:11:04:19): I'm going to go 200m. **Thomas** (01:11:04:19 - 01:11:20:02): Chip. That's unbelievable. That is unbelievable. The record is 202m, buddy. No way. Yeah. Yep. 202. So close without going over. Price is right rules. You've locked it in. Whoa. But for context, to show me. **Chip** (01:11:20:04 - 01:11:30:12): So first of all, 200m. I'm thinking two. Like I'm, I'm terrible with, like, first of all, the metric system. And, like, eyeballing that distance. That's a long, long. **Thomas** (01:11:30:13 - 01:11:34:21): I'll break it down in terms you can understand. Break it down. That's over two football fields. **Chip** (01:11:34:21 - 01:11:41:00): Chip in the open ocean. So you're not even just in a swimming pool where you're dealing with all the tides and the dust. **Thomas** (01:11:41:02 - 01:11:57:07): And so you are you are out there. So, so visualize this. If he was in Philadelphia. Yeah, he'd swim from the end zone of Lincoln Financial Field through the parking lot. And halfway into the Wells Fargo Center without taking a single breath. **Chip** (01:11:57:09 - 01:11:59:11): That's that is gigantic. **Thomas** (01:11:59:11 - 01:12:13:21): So is this guy's lungs. Yeah, it's a Steig Severson, a 47 year old Danish doctor with a PhD in medicine, hit the Mexican coast in 2020 to tell Covid you're no match for these lungs. **Chip** (01:12:13:23 - 01:12:14:19): No, no. **Thomas** (01:12:14:22 - 01:12:23:18): To hit his mark, Stig had to train for nine months in a pool, dodging Marco Polo hours before attempting the distance in the unpredictable ocean currents. **Chip** (01:12:23:23 - 01:12:24:13): Wow. **Thomas** (01:12:24:13 - 01:12:34:08): Steig has a literal biological advantage. His lung capacity was measured at 14l, 14 leadership. One breath he can take in 14l. **Chip** (01:12:34:08 - 01:12:36:23): That's seven bottles of soda. **Thomas** (01:12:37:01 - 01:12:41:08): Well, it's almost exactly double the size of a normal human beings lungs. **Chip** (01:12:41:08 - 01:12:44:02): How is that? Where is he? Is he a gigantic man? **Thomas** (01:12:44:03 - 01:12:50:17): No normal size man. But it's kind of how you have double the breath capacity of a normal person. **Chip** (01:12:50:19 - 01:12:54:18): Yes, I see what you're. I see where where you can. **Thomas** (01:12:54:20 - 01:13:01:20): Take in more gas and, pass. More gas. Pass. Just like anybody I've ever met in my whole life. **Chip** (01:13:01:20 - 01:13:03:02): Sure, sure. **Thomas** (01:13:03:03 - 01:13:21:17): Paradoxically, Steig grew up as a kid with severe asthma, and he actually started breath holding because he found that not breathing was the only thing that made his lungs feel better. Isn't that horrifying? That is. Yeah. It's like a superhero origin story. It gave. **Chip** (01:13:21:17 - 01:13:21:22): Him. **Thomas** (01:13:22:03 - 01:13:25:05): Credible power, but like, he had to go through some crap to get it. **Chip** (01:13:25:08 - 01:13:28:22): And where's he he's from he's from, from Denmark. Right. So what he said. **Thomas** (01:13:28:22 - 01:13:31:07): Yeah. Just like your films. Just like your internet film. **Chip** (01:13:31:07 - 01:13:31:16): That's right. **Thomas** (01:13:31:16 - 01:13:54:16): Despite being a literal superhuman medical doctor, Stig admits that every time he does this, he feels the exact same primal panic and burning desire to scream for his mommy that I feel when I watch that part in Titanic, where the tail goes up and they both go down into the deep, and then, like in that time when they're in the water, I always hold my breath, right? Like when I watch it on screen, hold my breath to see if I could survive this. And it freaks me out and I can never do it. They go way longer than you're comfortable with. But, like, he still feels that that feeling, he just fights through it. **Chip** (01:14:09:04 - 01:14:10:08): Maybe good for him. **Thomas** (01:14:10:11 - 01:14:23:04): And there is a persistent legend that Steig was actually conceived on a boat, which he uses as scientific explanation for why he's more comfortable at 60ft deep than he is at a Starbucks. **Chip** (01:14:23:06 - 01:14:32:09): I will say good for him to be underwater trying to set a record, thinking about where his parents did it. **Thomas** (01:14:32:11 - 01:14:43:23): Yeah, yeah. And like the old scientific saying goes, if this boat's a rock and don't expect that baby to be full of is. Congratulations, Stig. There is nothing awkward about the way you move through that water, buddy. Stig. Dude, I. **Chip** (01:14:53:20 - 01:14:57:06): Am not holding my breath for a better record. I will say that. **Thomas** (01:14:57:08 - 01:15:05:05): 202m. Wow. Underwater. One breath in the ocean. Dude, that is wild. **Chip** (01:15:05:06 - 01:15:06:04): That's incredible. **Thomas** (01:15:06:06 - 01:15:08:21): That's wild. Double the lung size. **Chip** (01:15:08:23 - 01:15:10:03): Congratulations, Stig. **Thomas** (01:15:10:03 - 01:15:15:00): Yeah, and congratulations on your, wild butt breath capacity. Chip. **Chip** (01:15:15:05 - 01:15:18:05): Thank you, thank you. Someday we'll be documented. **Thomas** (01:15:18:07 - 01:15:28:15): Yeah, yeah, if you if you, set a record with it. All right. Chip, that's my what's your, what's your world record this week. What do you got from the good book buddy. **Chip** (01:15:28:17 - 01:15:34:14): Well Thomas, this podcast we're getting closer to the end. **Thomas** (01:15:34:16 - 01:15:35:16): Of the episode. **Chip** (01:15:35:20 - 01:15:47:05): Yes. Of this episode's getting the end of this episode. I'm going to be honest with you, Thomas. I think you're fading just a little bit. Yes. It's totally understandable. Yeah, a little sleepy. You're a little tired. **Thomas** (01:15:47:11 - 01:15:49:09): We bring the energy. This whole podcast. **Chip** (01:15:49:13 - 01:15:51:19): I have a pick me up for you right now, too. **Thomas** (01:15:51:23 - 01:15:54:09): That's what I'm talking about. You might. **Chip** (01:15:54:10 - 01:16:00:00): I have the world's record for the world's largest iced latte? **Thomas** (01:16:00:01 - 01:16:02:11): Oh, you know, I love an iced latte. **Chip** (01:16:02:13 - 01:16:05:04): How? We used to get those all the time at the bucks, baby. **Thomas** (01:16:05:06 - 01:16:13:08): We used to get the bucks. And also my favorite coffee in Hawaii, the Honolulu Coffee Roasters. Hawaiian latte, iced Hawaiian latte. **Chip** (01:16:13:08 - 01:16:19:08): I can still taste that latte standing in that little, in that little coffee shop in the Moana. **Thomas** (01:16:19:10 - 01:16:21:20): Yeah. And I always get it with a little cookie. **Chip** (01:16:21:20 - 01:16:29:07): Oh. Come on. Oh, yeah, I know the little cookies. Great. Well, imagine if it was about 5000 size. It's the size of that. **Thomas** (01:16:29:09 - 01:16:34:19): That's 5000 times the size. Dude, I am here for it. Tell me about this gigantic latte chip. **Chip** (01:16:35:00 - 01:16:40:04): All right. We're going back about two years. March 20th, 2024. **Thomas** (01:16:40:06 - 01:16:41:05): We're taking a way back. **Chip** (01:16:41:09 - 01:16:47:05): Dunkin. We're talking about Dunkin, not Dunkin Donuts. Can't say Dunkin Donuts anymore. No, because it's just Duncan. **Thomas** (01:16:47:11 - 01:16:48:09): Sure. **Chip** (01:16:48:11 - 01:16:52:09): Which I believe you have a few of those creeping up in Los Angeles. **Thomas** (01:16:52:09 - 01:17:13:18): Right? I just saw one the other day. I was coming back from Costco on Venice Boulevard. Yeah, or Washington Boulevard. Maybe it's Washington Boulevard. I take it back to Washington Boulevard. Dunkin Donuts. Nobody was in there. I, like, literally really? Yeah. I was like, I wonder if they're in trouble on the West Coast because we drove by it, like, normally a coffee place, that kind of location going to have a line around the block. I thought it might have been closed. I had to look in there to see if anybody was behind the desk. But, you know. **Chip** (01:17:21:03 - 01:17:21:12): Out here. **Thomas** (01:17:21:12 - 01:17:26:07): On the West Coast, people are a little more hesitant to get it. A sweet and light, you know. **Chip** (01:17:26:08 - 01:17:28:03): Well, you don't have to get a sweet like you get a black. **Thomas** (01:17:28:03 - 01:17:29:17): But that's how it comes. **Chip** (01:17:29:19 - 01:17:50:19): Yes. You have to tell them otherwise or it's sweet. Like I will say Duncan is one of my favorite coffees. Yeah. Because I, my palate is I have the palate of an angry police sergeant. Like that's like police precinct coffee is. That's exactly my diner coffee. That's what I want done. **Thomas** (01:17:50:19 - 01:17:52:15): 7-Eleven. Naked gun. Shout out. **Chip** (01:17:52:15 - 01:18:02:21): It just tastes burnt. You know what I mean? That's. I don't need anything fancy. Although I will say, the Hawaiian, the Moana. Yeah, taken that one. Take that. **Thomas** (01:18:02:21 - 01:18:04:05): One. I'll take it all back. **Chip** (01:18:04:07 - 01:18:19:16): So anyway, let's get back to it. Duncan teamed up with Celebrity Chef and at the time, nine time world record champion. This guy is a celebrity chef chef. And he sets records all over the place. Nick Giovanni. **Thomas** (01:18:19:18 - 01:18:20:13): Okay. **Chip** (01:18:20:15 - 01:18:32:22): They team up in canton, Massachusetts, which, let's face it, it's basically Boston. Yeah, because it's Dunkin. It has to be, right. So they're in Kent, Massachusetts to erect eight, by the way. Just set a record for the final. And I hope that's all right. **Thomas** (01:18:32:23 - 01:18:35:16): Yeah. And, we left the shun off. So we're going. **Chip** (01:18:35:18 - 01:19:02:13): That's the John will shun the shun. Okay, good. They got together to erect a living, living shrine to caffeine. Okay. Yeah. This latte. What? I like to call a heart attack in a tank, holds 276 gallons of chilled, unadulterated energy, 276 gallons. That's one beverage, Thomas. **Thomas** (01:19:02:15 - 01:19:05:05): Imagine you can imagine your production. **Chip** (01:19:05:08 - 01:19:17:00): When we were working on our TV show, one of the TV shows out in L.A. The last one we worked on. If it was a Friday morning, you came in with a 276 gallon iced latte. **Thomas** (01:19:17:02 - 01:19:23:21): Yeah, yeah. No, I mean, I, I was coming in with 30oz, which is significantly less. **Chip** (01:19:24:02 - 01:19:24:23): It is significantly. **Thomas** (01:19:24:23 - 01:19:26:13): Less than the 200 mark. **Chip** (01:19:26:15 - 01:19:38:01): Well, speaking of 30, speaking of 30, this beverage, this iced latte contains 3200 shots of espresso. **Thomas** (01:19:38:03 - 01:19:41:02): 3200 shots. That is. And that's down. **Chip** (01:19:41:04 - 01:19:52:00): Okay. That is equivalent just to, for the for the viewers. That is equivalent to two Monster Energy drinks. **Thomas** (01:19:52:02 - 01:19:55:02): Yeah. That's like doubling up on a monster energy. Insane. **Chip** (01:19:55:07 - 01:20:14:18): It's crazy. Okay, so, 276 gallons. It had three, 30, 200 shots of espresso, 100 gallons of milk. Okay, yeah. And to put that in cartons, since that is 200 missing children of milk. **Thomas** (01:20:14:18 - 01:20:16:17): My God. **Chip** (01:20:16:19 - 01:20:21:16): Then they throw in 1,200 pounds of ice. **Thomas** (01:20:21:18 - 01:20:23:00): That's a lot of ice. **Chip** (01:20:23:02 - 01:20:26:14): That's one frozen water buffalo of ice. **Thomas** (01:20:26:16 - 01:20:27:19): That is. **Chip** (01:20:27:21 - 01:20:34:22): It's what it is. Okay. It took a team of 20 people, over 24 hours to make. **Thomas** (01:20:35:00 - 01:20:37:02): Oh, how does that work with the ice, though? **Chip** (01:20:37:03 - 01:20:39:06): I mean, can you imagine the drive through back up on that? **Thomas** (01:20:39:11 - 01:20:42:14): Oh my gosh. Yeah, you be furious now. **Chip** (01:20:42:14 - 01:21:01:15): I will say it took them 20 people 24 hours to make, but then once they were actually there on site and with everything, it only took about 15 minutes to actually create. Got you the the giant drink. Okay, this dunk it. They put it in a Dunkin Cup with a lid and a giant straw. It was over eight feet tall. Oh, it is a little over eight feet tall. **Thomas** (01:21:04:17 - 01:21:06:21): Shaquille O'Neal is looking up at this thing. **Chip** (01:21:06:23 - 01:21:10:14): Is he 100% is is like, how can I. **Thomas** (01:21:10:16 - 01:21:12:14): That's a that's a big ice coffee. **Chip** (01:21:12:14 - 01:21:18:06): With his eight foot tall, cup. The Uber Eats driver was not happy. **Thomas** (01:21:18:09 - 01:21:23:08): Oh, no no no no no no, they had it. Especially if the lid is a little faulty, a little off. **Chip** (01:21:23:08 - 01:21:27:23): I mean, that is just going to drench his, Toyota Celica. **Thomas** (01:21:28:02 - 01:21:28:20): Yeah. **Chip** (01:21:28:22 - 01:22:05:23): Okay. I will say that now that it is official, congratulations to celebrity chef Nick Girardi and Duncan. Duncan is actually offering this size. The eight foot, 260 gallon iced latte. You can purchase it. You can just go in next time you go into that, Duncan, that's that's not busy. Go in. Thomas, and you can order a when it comes to lattes, a small, a medium, a large, an extra large or a gronk's casket, of latte we like, what size iced latte you want to be like? I'll have the gronk's casket. And then they'll give it to you. **Thomas** (01:22:10:04 - 01:22:10:22): Yeah. **Chip** (01:22:11:00 - 01:22:40:06): I will say once again, congratulations to Duncan. And to now, ten time, world record holder Nikki Giovanni. But I will say, after he constructed that eight foot tall, 260 gallon iced latte world record setter, he immediately set an 11th world record, for finding the world's closest toilet. **Thomas** (01:22:40:08 - 01:22:41:13): You got to. **Chip** (01:22:41:15 - 01:22:42:17): You really have to. **Thomas** (01:22:42:19 - 01:22:48:23): There's there's no way you can't. Well, congratulations, Nick d congratulations, Danko. **Chip** (01:22:48:23 - 01:22:53:16): I think you're thinking of Donnie Darko. The, the time traveling coffee salesman. **Thomas** (01:22:53:16 - 01:23:17:06): Yeah, that's it for the good book. That's it for the episode. Really? I just want to thank everybody that reached out and shared kind words with us for the, the one year anniversary. Like the ones that, shared a message. It really, I don't know, I, I, I wasn't expecting any and to get like, a ton coming through was, I don't know, I it just hit me so very grateful for everybody that's going on this ride with us. We have the most fun doing this. We hope it's a bright spot in, what can be sometimes, dark and weary world. **Chip** (01:23:24:19 - 01:23:29:23): We want to be that pig beach in the, that that where the sun opens up. **Thomas** (01:23:30:03 - 01:23:49:11): We want to be that solid sun warming your world in the sky. That's not, hydrogen reactor, right? It's just a place you can visit. It's warm, it's tropical, and, Yeah. Keep your head at the beach, baby. This is the sunburn podcast. Until next time. Stay burn. **Chip** (01:23:49:12 - 01:23:59:17): Stay burn. Front desk. Hi, this is Mr. Chantry in room 308. I'm going to need about a half dozen drop cloths set in the room. I don't believe we have. **Thomas** (01:23:59:18 - 01:24:01:04): Why do you need drop cloths? **Chip** (01:24:01:04 - 01:24:08:00): Look, I'm getting ready for the Saint Patrick's Day parade, and these donkeys are getting spooked by the paint rollers. So if you want green paint all over your room, we'll. **Thomas** (01:24:08:00 - 01:24:09:17): Send the cloths right up.