Ryan Gosling Tree Feud, Kidnapping Pranks & Vicks VapoRub Fish 🌴😂 | Sunburnt Podcast Ep. 55

**Chip** (00:00:00:04 - 00:00:04:08): It'll be a picture of a corkscrew, and it's like it's 1:00 somewhere. **Thomas** (00:00:04:10 - 00:00:06:23): Ha ha ha ha. We got to go to Puerto Rico. **Chip** (00:00:07:00 - 00:00:09:08): It's on the list. I got some April Fool's rules right now. **Thomas** (00:00:09:09 - 00:00:17:00): I have been having a civil, dispute with a neighbor of mine that happens to be a celebrity. 00:00:17:02 – 00:00:19:18 UNRESOLVED – Fish of the week cause of the work. **Chip** (00:00:19:20 - 00:00:22:22): He looks like somebody put a bottle of Vicks VapoRub in the microwave. **Thomas** (00:00:22:22 - 00:00:28:12): A little vacation for the mind, champ. **Chip** (00:00:28:14 - 00:00:32:02): All right, so I hook the car battery to the cart. So, like, positive positive, negative, negative. **Thomas** (00:00:32:02 - 00:00:32:16): That's how you do it. **Chip** (00:00:32:16 - 00:00:50:21): But instead of the motor turning. Yeah, it just starts throwing out smoke, and the entire cart just melts all over the floor of the aisle. What? People go running and then they're like yelling yeah, not only am I out of car battery, yeah, I'm no longer allowed to shop at Gelson's. **Thomas** (00:00:50:21 - 00:00:54:18): And this was the loophole you found to win Supermarket Sweep? **Chip** (00:00:54:18 - 00:00:58:22): Yes. Yeah. I was going to be the first, back to back champion. **Thomas** (00:00:59:04 - 00:01:02:13): Well, actually, Chip, we got to get going. We've already started here. **Chip** (00:01:02:15 - 00:01:03:13): Oh, hey. **Thomas** (00:01:03:15 - 00:01:17:07): What up? Burnt one. This is the Sun Burnt podcast where we talk about comedy and tropical travel. To my right, as always. You know, I'm from Netflix. You know, I'm from his unbelievable stand up special. Move closer. It's Philadelphia's own chip chantry. **Chip** (00:01:17:09 - 00:01:38:00): And over here to my left is Emmy award winning producer and writer, tap dancer extraordinaire, and every major studio and streaming service has turned down his pilot script for a show called The Gilmore Boys because they say, quote, they can't show that much nudity on a sitcom. Mr.. Thomas O'Brien. **Thomas** (00:01:38:02 - 00:01:46:06): I'm persistent. I am persistent. If I have an idea like the sunburnt podcast, the Gilmore Boys will be a thing. **Chip** (00:01:46:06 - 00:01:53:09): Not a full frontal nudity. Though I don't understand. I mean, I get it. I mean, it works as part of your script. Well, well. **Thomas** (00:01:53:09 - 00:01:56:19): Imagine if the Gilmore Girls were Gilmore Boys. **Chip** (00:01:56:21 - 00:01:57:19): Right? **Thomas** (00:01:57:20 - 00:01:59:08): It'd get raunchy. **Chip** (00:01:59:10 - 00:02:00:12): I hope you lead with that. **Thomas** (00:02:00:13 - 00:02:07:16): It would get raunchy where the Gilmore Girls was cozy. This is pure ranch. I love. **Chip** (00:02:07:18 - 00:02:10:21): I don't know why this hasn't been picked up by every major streamer. **Thomas** (00:02:11:03 - 00:02:16:07): I don't know, it's, Man, I've got a lot of cease and desist. **Chip** (00:02:16:09 - 00:02:25:09): Yeah, yeah, yeah, you also have that. You have that beautiful, beautiful ankle bracelet. Now, that turns different colors when you try to leave the house. **Thomas** (00:02:25:09 - 00:02:44:14): If you thought the rights holders to the Gilmore Girls didn't have pull in this town, like I did, you'd be mistaken. I, I am all kinds of house arrested. Yeah, dude. But we just got to get into it, man. This episode is two chock full. **Chip** (00:02:44:15 - 00:02:46:03): It's a heavy, heavy episode. **Thomas** (00:02:46:06 - 00:02:50:06): April Fool's Day is coming up. We've got some April Fool's rules. **Chip** (00:02:50:06 - 00:02:50:21): We do. **Thomas** (00:02:50:23 - 00:03:14:22): Puerto Rico's got bad bunnies and good rum. We found a whole guide to drinking your way through the country properly. Ryan Gosling's new space movie is crushing at the box office. It turns out that Maui has an ancient tea farm culture, and somehow we knew nothing about it. Someone on the internet officially declared a don't work unless it's fun day. **Chip** (00:03:14:23 - 00:03:15:18): I'm into that boy. **Thomas** (00:03:15:18 - 00:03:20:08): Kibble versus girl dinner. What the f are kids talking about? **Chip** (00:03:20:13 - 00:03:21:18): No idea what's going on there. **Thomas** (00:03:21:23 - 00:03:37:10): The brightest comet of the year is headed our way. Unless the sun eats it first. Yep. Some intergalactic drama. I do it, we've got a buffet. Fact, we got fish of the week. Leonard has a full face of electric blue spots and a rap sheet. As long as your arm. **Chip** (00:03:37:10 - 00:03:38:05): He's a bad boy. **Thomas** (00:03:38:08 - 00:04:03:23): We're getting into the good book. We've got a big tree foot. The Trouble in Paradise hotline is open. You can leave us a voicemail at (310) 845-6038 and tell us your travel story full of trials, tribulations, or humor. And, you know what? If we pick your story and put it here on the Senate podcast, we're going to be sending you a bottle of this stuff. Hawaiian Tropic chip. It's time to get a get slather going on to. **Chip** (00:04:07:01 - 00:04:08:22): Get a little slather up, baby. **Thomas** (00:04:09:00 - 00:04:14:21): Send us your story. You can do a slather with us. This is, what, a cleansing ritual down an old fashioned. **Chip** (00:04:14:21 - 00:04:17:13): Feels good. Smells good. I got to say, Thomas, **Thomas** (00:04:17:14 - 00:04:19:01): It gets me going, buddy. **Chip** (00:04:19:03 - 00:04:40:06): It just makes me feel good on a cold, cold March morning. Even though it is officially spring now, I feel like I'm lying to you, but I. But you have to trust me. Literally. Yesterday, it's like. It's like it never happens. It's like the warm weather in Philadelphia is like Snuffleupagus over here. Yeah, it's like the adults never see it. Yesterday. I'm sorry. Two days ago. Two days ago, I was wearing shorts and a t shirt. Wrap it around town. **Thomas** (00:04:47:07 - 00:04:47:21): Yeah. **Chip** (00:04:47:23 - 00:05:07:01): It is currently 35 degrees in Philadelphia right now. Freezing. So, I think you're always catching me on the coldest mornings, but, it's. Yeah, it was beautiful and sunny this weekend. Crazy, crazy rain yesterday. And now just back to the cold for a little bit. I'm sorry, but this, dude, the Hawaiian Tropic. **Thomas** (00:05:07:01 - 00:05:16:04): A little vacation for the mind check. That's. We're down. They say sunburnt comes to those who need it the most. Yeah. This week it might be you, buddy. **Chip** (00:05:16:06 - 00:05:18:03): I I'm hoping so. I'm hoping so. I, **Thomas** (00:05:18:07 - 00:05:42:03): I'm actually fighting off a sunburn right now. Dude, are you between the pickleball and the Disneyland trip for my daughter's birthday, we really, got exposed to some sun, and the weather's just fine over here, buddy. Well, if that's not a big enough tears, this is the sunburn podcast. We talk about comedy and tropical travel. If you think those two things should go together, stay down. Front desk. **Chip** (00:05:42:22 - 00:05:46:02): Hi, this is Mr. Chantry in room 308, and it's spring break. This is the best spring break ever. **Thomas** (00:05:48:21 - 00:05:52:14): Mr. Chantry, did you throw your back out again? **Chip** (00:05:52:16 - 00:05:59:17): Yes. I'm on the floor of the bathroom. If you could send Ronald or Jeff up to move me to the bed, that would be swell. **Thomas** (00:05:59:19 - 00:06:00:17): I'll send him right up. **Chip** (00:06:00:17 - 00:06:03:12): Jeff Thomas. Buddy, how. **Thomas** (00:06:03:12 - 00:06:08:18): Are we doing? Episode 55 of the sunburnt podcast. We're really cruising here to the double nickel. **Chip** (00:06:08:18 - 00:06:22:20): I'm feeling good. I'm ready for warmth. Like I said, it's 3030 something degrees right now, and, Yeah. Ready to get warm. And this, this, this episode is going to do it. It's going to be a trick. How about you? **Thomas** (00:06:22:23 - 00:06:25:06): Yeah, dude, I feel an unbelievable man. **Chip** (00:06:25:06 - 00:06:32:06): You're in short sleeves. You get the Hawaii. I got my Hawaiian. Under my, sweatshirt because it's, freezing, but very jealous I love it. **Thomas** (00:06:32:06 - 00:06:42:09): We are back, baby. But I was thinking about it. This is kind of like, where we would have been doing episode three of the podcast last year, and I could see my breath. **Chip** (00:06:42:11 - 00:06:45:09): There's no reason to do a podcast in the Arctic like that. **Thomas** (00:06:45:12 - 00:06:57:23): I know, dude, but, but that's just shows you different year's different temperatures. Yeah, we're I think we're in some kind of heat blister or heat bubble or whatever they want to call it. We're doing nice and fine for a march. **Chip** (00:06:58:01 - 00:07:00:00): You're on the atmospheric river bank, the. **Thomas** (00:07:00:00 - 00:07:02:16): Rivers, beach, getting a little sun, maybe. **Chip** (00:07:02:18 - 00:07:03:07): Yeah, yeah. **Thomas** (00:07:03:08 - 00:07:05:06): You get into anything this weekend, but. **Chip** (00:07:05:06 - 00:07:17:01): I threw the old backpack on through some. Did a little rucking, if you will, if you want to call it that. If you want to beat that tackle, I just put, I just put a bunch of books in a backpack and carry them around town like I'm Ben Franklin in the 1700s. **Thomas** (00:07:17:07 - 00:07:17:23): Yeah. **Chip** (00:07:18:01 - 00:07:37:10): Did you know that? Did you have Ben Franklin used to take his lunch hour in Philadelphia, where he lived? He. During his lunch hour, he would literally take a wheelbarrow. Wheelbarrow full of books and just hastily walk them around town. Just so people would think that that's how smart and busy he was. **Thomas** (00:07:37:13 - 00:07:38:20): That he needs a wheelbarrow. **Chip** (00:07:38:23 - 00:07:49:22): He needs a wheelbarrow full of knowledge. So, yeah, I, I didn't do that, but, Yeah, man, it was great. It was just beautiful to be outside, get a little sun. Kim and I threw a couple cocktails and some solo cups, walked down to the diner. **Thomas** (00:07:49:22 - 00:07:51:16): Wow. Like you do. **Chip** (00:07:51:16 - 00:07:59:09): We are just the classiest South Philly beach couple. And, that's what I like to, that's. I like to refer it is? Yeah. How about you? **Thomas** (00:07:59:10 - 00:08:05:06): Big weekend birthdays all over the place. A friend had a birthday party on Saturday. Like a grown up birthday party. **Chip** (00:08:05:10 - 00:08:08:06): Wow. What's that like? What happens there? **Thomas** (00:08:08:08 - 00:08:08:14): **Chip** (00:08:08:18 - 00:08:12:02): It's weird. I haven't been to a grown up birthday party in a very long time, I don't think. **Thomas** (00:08:12:04 - 00:08:37:23): No, I had it. It was like a proper event. Like they rented out this, room at a very nice restaurant. Invited, like, more couples than I thought a human being could be friends with. Right. Just like there was a lot of people from different walks of life, different parts of their, their world. And it was like an opportunity for me to put into practice something I've been trying to bring, from my learnings with my daughter. **Chip** (00:08:37:23 - 00:08:40:12): Dude, conversation skills, it's it's close. **Thomas** (00:08:40:12 - 00:08:57:11): I mean, she can say, like 4 or 5 words short a time, and she's getting better at talking, for sure. But the thing that she does just naturally and I think you've experienced this, is she gets fired up for every new person she comes into contact with. **Chip** (00:08:57:13 - 00:08:57:22): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:08:57:23 - 00:08:59:13): She gets fired up. So, like, so she. **Chip** (00:08:59:13 - 00:09:02:04): Doesn't get scared. She doesn't get scared. She gets, like, excited. **Thomas** (00:09:02:05 - 00:09:23:13): She can have her moments. But most of the time, especially if she's seen you before, like, she's, like, excited you're there and let you know about it. And I think about coming into a party environment, into a work networking thing, into any kind of like, grown up social situation and how how that can feel awkward, a little scary for some people or just boring or whatever. But if there's one person there who's like, really excited to see you, I think it can really elevate the whole room for it. **Chip** (00:09:30:19 - 00:09:37:18): It turns the tide for you. Yeah. You walk in, you got a little more confidence then a little little pep in your step a little. Yeah. Well zing in your swing, if you know what I mean. **Thomas** (00:09:37:21 - 00:09:49:05): Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. So like, I, I try and bring that to the people. Now, my daughter showed me, how cool that can be. The other thing is, she has a better. Like, she has a better memory than me. **Chip** (00:09:49:07 - 00:09:49:21): Okay. **Thomas** (00:09:49:23 - 00:10:09:06): So, like, she remembers, people who go together, right? Like. Right. I will probably forget your name if I just met you. Yeah. My daughter will remember you and your wife. So that's. It's still so still to this day. Like, if she sees the podcast on or something like that, she goes, Chip. And then she'll look at me. She's like, Where's Kim? Right. Let's get Kim on there. **Chip** (00:10:12:05 - 00:10:14:07): Let's see, let's let's get her. Let's get her in front of the camera. **Thomas** (00:10:14:07 - 00:10:19:06): Yeah. If grandpa answers a FaceTime and there's no grandma, she's like, where? Grandma? **Chip** (00:10:19:07 - 00:10:20:14): Yeah, just cheap out there. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:10:20:15 - 00:10:29:10): All of it results in people feeling welcome. Yeah, I, I tried to bring that to a part. I think it worked. I think it worked. It was a lot of fun. We had a blast. An old fashioned birthday party. **Chip** (00:10:29:10 - 00:10:31:12): But without revealing too much, how old was the person? **Thomas** (00:10:31:12 - 00:10:33:17): Somewhere between 30 and 56. **Chip** (00:10:33:17 - 00:10:36:06): 30 and 32. Somewhere between there. **Thomas** (00:10:36:09 - 00:10:47:08): But dude had the most fun there. And then it was a week of birthdays, so a yes or a Monday was my daughter's birthday. She turned to yes, took her to Disneyland. **Chip** (00:10:47:08 - 00:10:49:08): What do you think her favorite moment was? **Thomas** (00:10:49:08 - 00:11:05:23): There we did the Minnie, and friends brunch. Of course, she got to take a picture with many who's, like, been on the way up at her house. Dude. Yeah, been on the way up big time. And she has this sizable t shirt, that says bestie vibes on it. **Chip** (00:11:06:01 - 00:11:06:04): Okay. **Thomas** (00:11:06:07 - 00:11:09:11): And it has Daisy Duck and Mini on there. **Chip** (00:11:09:13 - 00:11:09:21): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:11:09:21 - 00:11:15:07): And it's the most. It's the most requested shirt in the arsenal. It's like, what do you want to wear today? She's like bestie. **Chip** (00:11:15:07 - 00:11:20:22): Vibes. If, if I had that shirt, that would be the number one on my rotation tip. **Thomas** (00:11:20:22 - 00:11:23:21): That's an odd shirt for a grown man to be wearing. **Chip** (00:11:23:22 - 00:11:27:20): Especially when it's a toddler size two. That that doesn't bode well. **Thomas** (00:11:27:20 - 00:11:50:00): Well, yeah, that's a nice belly shirt. That's like a Will Ferrell, sketch character shirt. I like that a lot. But dude, I will say, two things. So she she enjoyed the character brunch. She got to meet like a mouse from Cinderella. She got to meet Tigger. She got to meet Daisy. She got to meet Pluto, and she, you know, you think they. You're worries that she's going to be terrified of these people. And she's, like, cautious at first, but once she slaps a high five dude, just all. She loved it. She was. **Chip** (00:11:57:23 - 00:11:58:18): That's great. **Thomas** (00:11:58:18 - 00:12:17:00): Freaking obsessed with it. But this is the other thing I will say about Disneyland on this particular Monday. I don't know if they were having a tall woman convention. Oh, there were I and I want to be very clear here, multiple women over the height of six six, at least over. **Chip** (00:12:17:00 - 00:12:17:21): Six six. **Thomas** (00:12:17:21 - 00:12:29:15): Over six six. They weren't together. But like over the course of the day, I was just looking at these, just a tall, proud, evergreen trees. **Chip** (00:12:29:18 - 00:12:34:04): There's kind of like a WVA tournament or college basketball tournament. **Thomas** (00:12:34:08 - 00:12:36:07): I have I have no clue, dude. **Chip** (00:12:36:12 - 00:12:43:15): I have. Well, it is okay, so it is March Madness. And then there's like, the women's tournament is, is there something going on, like in the Anaheim area? **Thomas** (00:12:43:15 - 00:12:50:04): Maybe I could be these these were not, college age athletes. I will tell you. **Chip** (00:12:50:04 - 00:12:50:20): Okay. **Thomas** (00:12:50:22 - 00:13:01:06): Okay. I'll tell you that. And they weren't that like I said, they weren't together, were spaced out over the park, but I was just like, yeah, when you see a woman that tall somebody that's just towers over you. **Chip** (00:13:01:08 - 00:13:02:04): You take notice. **Thomas** (00:13:02:04 - 00:13:17:07): Not a big deal, but you clock it, you clock at once. You're like, wow, wow, it's a woman's here. You clock it twice. You're like, oh, boy, this I mean, wow. And then the third time I was like, this is, this is, an elevated experience. **Chip** (00:13:17:12 - 00:13:20:16): Could it have been. Yeah. Go with me here. **Thomas** (00:13:20:17 - 00:13:21:18): Yeah, I'm here with you. **Chip** (00:13:21:23 - 00:13:30:13): The same exact tall woman doing multiple costume changes. Wig, sunglasses. **Thomas** (00:13:30:15 - 00:13:37:11): That's. That's true. Maybe a different Disney adult at every turn. Yeah, that's what I thought of it. **Chip** (00:13:37:13 - 00:13:54:07): That's what I'm going with. That's, that's the much more plausible explanation that instead of a dozen or so separate, very tall women in the same general area, that one woman decided to pull a prank on you. **Thomas** (00:13:54:09 - 00:13:55:04): Yeah. **Chip** (00:13:55:06 - 00:14:02:12): And just do a costume change every half hour and then walk past you again. That's, That's got to be the answer. **Thomas** (00:14:02:12 - 00:14:13:18): Yeah, yeah, it probably just really focused on me, too. Really? Yeah. Expanding my mind over the course of the trip. But dude, the weather was perfect. The vibes were good. Everybody's there to have a good time. **Chip** (00:14:13:20 - 00:14:14:04): Love it. **Thomas** (00:14:14:08 - 00:14:36:02): Which is where I thrive regardless of how silly. Her weird things might be I want to be around. People are trying to have a good time and going out of their way to do it. So it was perfect dude. And we got out of there before we had a toddler meltdown. Like we timed it just perfectly. We got back to the car, she took a little snooze on the ride home, and we were we were, free and clear. Dude. It went perfect. There was no meltdowns. There was no problems. We just. **Chip** (00:14:39:19 - 00:14:40:12): Rocked. **Thomas** (00:14:40:12 - 00:14:40:23): It. **Chip** (00:14:41:01 - 00:14:43:04): And you did not meltdown either at any point? **Thomas** (00:14:43:06 - 00:14:45:19): No, I didn't meltdown. I didn't even come close to melting down. **Chip** (00:14:45:20 - 00:14:50:06): Like after the fifth Amazon lady you saw. You didn't just really just lose it. **Thomas** (00:14:50:11 - 00:14:52:09): Yo, what's going on? What's going. On? I don't want to do this anymore. **Chip** (00:14:55:15 - 00:14:56:23): Did you have a Hawaiian on? Yeah. **Thomas** (00:14:56:23 - 00:14:57:07): Oh, yeah. **Chip** (00:14:57:07 - 00:15:07:19): I got to put one on. Just walk into the diner the other day. I was like, you know what I'm throwing on? Yeah. It's that time of year. That time of year, that weather. And you get smiles. **Thomas** (00:15:07:21 - 00:15:15:17): Yeah. No, people like it. People like it. But, Disney, you're not the only one. There's so many burnt ones that. That's true. They're just like cruising around. **Chip** (00:15:15:19 - 00:15:16:20): Absolutely. All right. **Thomas** (00:15:16:20 - 00:15:30:01): Enough about a children's trip to Disneyland. Although it does count as good fun in the sun. They don't chip. April Fool's Day is coming up. It is. Some people are high on it. Some people are low on it. **Chip** (00:15:30:01 - 00:15:32:04): I love it so much. **Thomas** (00:15:32:05 - 00:15:38:13): You you do have some, I don't know what would be kind of tips for for, **Chip** (00:15:38:15 - 00:15:40:16): April Fool's rules. I got some April Fool's rules. Right? **Thomas** (00:15:40:16 - 00:15:41:19): April Fool's rules. **Chip** (00:15:41:19 - 00:16:00:21): Okay, let's get to it. Just a couple sure fire pranks that you can play on your friends and loved ones that will just get tons of laughs from those being perpetrated, those watching you. It just everybody's going to get a big laugh from. Okay, I'm a little skeptical. **Thomas** (00:16:00:21 - 00:16:17:19): You know, I, I've been the butt of some pranks in the past. Maybe not my favorite, but I know some people like to have this kind of, friendly, friendly prank environment. Right. So you're gonna you're kind of kind of give us the guardrails, show us how to do it. Right? Right, right. **Chip** (00:16:17:19 - 00:16:32:18): You can't go too far over. You can't go too far under. You have to do it right in that sweet spot. And I think these are you. Okay, so the first one, this is classic. You and your buddies are hanging out watching the football game. You're watching, you know, an old episode of friends. I don't know what you. I don't know what you and your friends do besides play a couple times, but you're all there. Whatever you're watching. Okay? Yeah. You're watching some back episodes of iCarly. I'm sitting there. You're having a good time. There's the classic will be cushion. **Thomas** (00:16:45:11 - 00:16:47:01): Yeah. Okay. Yeah, we all. **Chip** (00:16:47:01 - 00:17:00:16): Know the movie cushion. Here's what we do. I'm going to take the wheel because you just to just do a little bit of a different level. When your buddy goes up to use the bathroom, go get a drink or whatever, he comes back to sit down instead of the old whoopee cushion. You slip under his seat right there. Is he sitting there on the couch? Slip underneath there a bucket of ketchup? Just a big bucket. He just sits in the ketchup, It gets obviously all over his pants. It splashes all over the sofa, all over the floor. Probably some people within sitting distance. And there's just ketchup everywhere. And everybody starts laughing and having a great time. They're like, it's a it's April, happy April, everybody. **Thomas** (00:17:26:11 - 00:17:27:13): I get it. **Chip** (00:17:27:15 - 00:17:28:03): Yep. **Thomas** (00:17:28:05 - 00:17:37:20): And the the the stance that like it's messy and unexpected. It I mean this one does seem like it might ruin some clothes, might ruin some furniture. **Chip** (00:17:37:21 - 00:17:40:05): But there's the laugh. I, you know. Okay, okay. **Thomas** (00:17:40:05 - 00:17:45:16): Yeah. I mean no, I get okay, I get it, I get it. That's funny, that's funny. Let's, What what's another one? **Chip** (00:17:45:21 - 00:18:05:08): Oh, dude. Okay, so you know how you can do a really funny impression of one of your friends like that? You know, they have it a little idiosyncrasies. Yeah, it's foibles that they have. Or maybe their voice is a certain way. You can. You can do their voice, and you make fun of me. Maybe you even call another friend and pretend to be that person or just in front of that person. Be like, hey Jeff, here's what you sound like. And then you do his voice and everybody laughs. And Jeff has a good sense of humor. Okay, it's just like that. This is the online version of that. Okay, okay. Instead of doing, let's just say Jeff's voice. **Thomas** (00:18:17:12 - 00:18:18:14): Yeah. **Chip** (00:18:18:16 - 00:18:46:20): You hack into his LinkedIn account, and you send very graphic, awful messages to everyone in his contacts list, in his, in his LinkedIn, because they think just like the impression they think it's him sending these horrific, horrific, lewd messages filled with, photos that are inappropriate and they're like, oh, this is just Jeff being Jeff. But it's to everybody in his LinkedIn. **Thomas** (00:18:49:02 - 00:18:50:04): Yeah. **Chip** (00:18:50:06 - 00:19:03:04): I mean, I think that's a fun one. And then they they look at the this horrific material that you're sending. Yeah. And they're like, why is Jeff setting this. And then probably the thinking, oh wait, it's April Fool's Day. This is his friend Thomas. Probably behind. **Thomas** (00:19:03:04 - 00:19:24:11): This. It sounds like a key component is, is that you know Jeff so well that this is like written in his exact style of writing with just like some more lewd behavior. But it's like so specific to the way he actually communicates in general that they, they won't be able to, like, really blame a bot. **Chip** (00:19:24:11 - 00:19:26:06): It's in his cadence. Yes. **Thomas** (00:19:26:06 - 00:19:30:12): This one also sounds like maybe there's some, professional and legal ramifications. **Chip** (00:19:30:18 - 00:19:32:17): But some professional legal laughs. **Thomas** (00:19:32:17 - 00:19:36:09): Making your friend seem, inappropriate. It's funny. **Chip** (00:19:36:11 - 00:19:45:22): It's great. Yeah. It's hilarious. Yeah, it's what you're getting at, I think. Yeah. That's great. Okay, here's another one. Speaking of the internet, you're familiar with Rickrolling, aren't you? **Thomas** (00:19:46:00 - 00:19:51:21): Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Where, they the. You think it's going to be one thing, and then it's just this guy singing a song from the 80s. **Chip** (00:19:51:23 - 00:19:58:23): Sure. It's. You think it's a puppy video or something serious? And then all of a sudden Rick Astley comes in singing, you know, they're going to give. **Thomas** (00:19:58:23 - 00:20:01:00): You up and you got him. That was a funny thing. **Chip** (00:20:01:00 - 00:20:16:18): That was so funny. You got Rick Roll okay. Yeah okay. Same exact thing. So you're gonna love this one. This is the same exact thing you make a YouTube video of, like, let's say some cute puppies, and you're like, hey, Jeff, let's look at this. And then you're watching the cute puppies, and then he gets Rick rolled. But instead of a video of Rick Astley singing that song from the 80s, it's just footage of his of Jeff's parents making love. **Thomas** (00:20:27:07 - 00:20:28:23): Okay. **Chip** (00:20:29:01 - 00:20:48:14): Just, just a video camera in their. In their bedroom. In the bedroom, in the house that he grew up in. And it's his parents. In the sweet act of making love, he thinks it's a puppy video, but it's a puppy. It's a video of his parents, engaged in, intercourse. **Thomas** (00:20:48:16 - 00:21:04:20): Chip, this is, funny, right? It's it's, it's funny, you know, funny. It's it feels like we're pushing a boundary here, though. Greg. Feels like we're really getting outside of the lines of what's appropriate, I think polite society. **Chip** (00:21:04:21 - 00:21:16:03): Right. And that's what. That's what gets laughs. So, you know, just it's just it's all in good fun. And Jeff's like, wait a minute. This isn't here's what you do though. Yeah. After about 7 or 8 minutes. **Thomas** (00:21:16:05 - 00:21:17:01): Yeah. **Chip** (00:21:17:03 - 00:21:23:03): Footage of his parents engage in the act of love. Then you put the Rick Astley video on. **Thomas** (00:21:23:05 - 00:21:23:10): So. **Chip** (00:21:23:10 - 00:21:28:17): Then it's really. It's like it's sort of a hat on a hat, but it's two very funny hats on top of each other. **Thomas** (00:21:28:19 - 00:21:32:01): It's a Rick. On a Rick? Yes. **Chip** (00:21:32:03 - 00:21:50:18): Yeah. All right. Next one. Okay. This one is a little more classic, I think. I think maybe I lost you just a little bit. Although I know you're really on board with the internet stuff. Let's go, let's go a little more classic, toilet papering. Somebody's house. They're trees. Like on Mischief Night the night before Halloween. You know, April Fool's Day. You take a bunch of toilet paper, you throw around their house, their lawn, their trees, whatever. Yeah, we are in the 21st century. Let's get rid of the toilet paper. You want to ruin the environment? **Thomas** (00:22:01:22 - 00:22:03:17): Yeah, I get that, I get that. **Chip** (00:22:03:19 - 00:22:24:18): Take a bidet and then just throw it through their picture window. Just right through their front window. Take a bad day instead of the toilet paper. Take the bidet. Heavier. All right. No. Just as hard. You can whip it right through their front window smashing into their living room. And then they're like oh my God, a bad day and all this broken glass. Thomas. It must have been here. April fools on me, Joe. It's a new twist on the toilet paper. Classic. **Thomas** (00:22:33:15 - 00:22:36:21): The. This is just, assault. **Chip** (00:22:36:23 - 00:22:39:01): Funny, funny assault and destruction of battery. **Thomas** (00:22:39:01 - 00:22:50:09): Yeah, we we we we are not encouraging anybody to do any of these things. This is okay. This is legally dangerous. And it's inappropriate and, and hilarious. **Chip** (00:22:50:11 - 00:22:50:21): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:22:50:23 - 00:23:00:05): No. Okay. Chip, let's let's let's keep it moving. I feel like I know where these are going. Let's, let's let's see if we can find a fun one. **Chip** (00:23:00:07 - 00:23:01:06): Right. **Thomas** (00:23:01:08 - 00:23:04:07): That's like, people could do and maybe not go to jail. Yep. **Chip** (00:23:04:09 - 00:23:12:22): Okay, so this last one, this is the last one. Simple. Okay. Easy. You you have to start early though. Okay. This one is about setting the tone so you don't you can't just start on April Fool's Day. This is a couple weeks beforehand. You just start. Okay. You start making mentions around your friends about oh do you hear about this kidnaper. That's out and about. Yeah. In the, in the community. Okay. You can even give him a name the Long port, you know, snatcher or whatever, you know, and they hold you. Hey, hey this guy, you know, kidnaped another person, right? And then they're like, oh, wow, I didn't see this, so. Oh, you know, maybe even make up, like, a fake headline. You send it to him, they think it's real. And then on the night before April Fool's Day. Yeah, you kidnap his sister, okay? And that's it. **Thomas** (00:23:57:16 - 00:24:02:09): That's the whole prank. So actually, you're an actual kidnaping, right? **Chip** (00:24:02:10 - 00:24:16:20): You're actually kidnaping. But then once he realizes he gets the ransom note at the bottom of the ransom note, it says, by the way, lol, Happy April Fool's Day. Yeah, yeah. **Thomas** (00:24:18:13 - 00:24:34:15): So don't do that either. Don't kidnap anybody. Maybe don't start, neighborhood or community panic about, people being in danger. You're like, I just have to ask, like. Did somebody do something to you on April Fool's Day? **Chip** (00:24:40:03 - 00:24:44:13): Yeah, there's a long story. I'm going to start it now. You might want to edit this out. **Thomas** (00:24:44:15 - 00:24:44:23): Okay. **Chip** (00:24:45:04 - 00:25:00:08): But when I was eight years old, on April Fool's Day, this kid in my neighborhood, he. And then. I've loved April Fool's Day ever since. Wow. So, that's I it's a long story. I know that was, like, 20 minutes, but a long story about what happened to me that day on April Fool's Day. **Thomas** (00:25:00:10 - 00:25:15:21): Yeah, for a lot of reasons. We're going to edit that out. But, I'm sorry. And I guess I understand where your April Fool's Day humor comes from. And, I'm just going to have to let this be a quirk about my friend. **Chip** (00:25:15:23 - 00:25:19:20): Yep. And happy April Fool's Day to everybody out there. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:25:19:20 - 00:25:20:21): Happy April Fool's. **Chip** (00:25:20:21 - 00:25:25:02): Day, from all of us to all of you here at the Sun Burn Podcast. **Thomas** (00:25:25:06 - 00:25:32:21): Don't go too wild. But we do enjoy a good laugh, baby. All right, that's it for April Fool's. Rules. **Chip** (00:25:32:21 - 00:25:33:14): Everyone's rules. **Thomas** (00:25:33:20 - 00:25:36:18): Now we're moving on to for the Al go. **Chip** (00:25:36:18 - 00:25:38:15): It's for the Al go. **Thomas** (00:25:38:15 - 00:25:47:17): A segment where we talk about things so computers will like us and hopefully you'll like it too. Chip. We're getting going hot and heavy with a tropical story here. **Chip** (00:25:47:17 - 00:25:49:00): Chip we. **Thomas** (00:25:49:00 - 00:25:55:01): Are. If you're planning a trip to Puerto Rico, they know you've been drinking rum. All wrong, chip. **Chip** (00:25:55:01 - 00:25:59:12): I didn't know there was a wrong way to do it, but apparently apparently there is. **Thomas** (00:25:59:12 - 00:26:29:06): There's a refined way to do it. There's an aspirational way to do it. And then there's just being drunk as a skunk at the bottom of a rum bottle. But the Matador network has dropped a full guide to rum tasting across Puerto Rico this month. This is fresh off the presses just in time for spring break. It talks about distilleries, bars, cultural history, and the full backstory of why the island holds the title of rum Capital of the world. I love it this guy grew from a simple like, here are some bars concept into a deep cultural excavation. **Chip** (00:26:36:22 - 00:26:38:05): Almost like a tiki bar crawl. **Thomas** (00:26:38:05 - 00:26:48:16): We have been really, working here on this podcast about elevated tiki bar crawls. We did our first one. Oh, speaking of sucking Harbor Club, right. **Chip** (00:26:48:16 - 00:26:50:00): Where are the second harbor? **Thomas** (00:26:50:02 - 00:27:05:09): Brooklyn's own baby. Really? This has been on the way up to it. I really, really, really enjoy it. How do you feel about this? Like the tastings culture? We've talked about it. You have an amazing bit. If you guys haven't seen it, go look up Chip Chantry. Wine drinkers. **Chip** (00:27:05:11 - 00:27:25:17): You see wine drinkers, they even have like, there's like, matching t shirts with, like, cute little puns about how much wine they drink. Like, it'll be a picture of a corkscrew. And it's like it's wine o'clock somewhere. Harbor. Hit me, baby. One more wine. You're just a drunk. That's all that is about. **Thomas** (00:27:25:17 - 00:27:35:05): Like how, yeah, the wine drinkers have taken this, like, elevated stance of how they view their imbibing of wine. **Chip** (00:27:35:06 - 00:27:36:08): Of getting wasted. **Thomas** (00:27:36:08 - 00:27:39:09): Putting a fancy outfit on, getting hammered. **Chip** (00:27:39:14 - 00:28:00:01): I do like it, though, because I think that wine gets too much of the focus of the tastings. And, they get that pass where I think other spirits should be allowed to do a little rum tequila. That's how it's like, yeah, let's get fancy with it. Why not dress it up a little bit? Thomas. **Thomas** (00:28:00:03 - 00:28:08:10): Have you ever had a nice rum? Like, like some of these, kind of presented to you as this is, like, an aged thing or. This is like a special concoction. **Chip** (00:28:08:12 - 00:28:11:11): I've had it presented to me with Coke. **Thomas** (00:28:11:13 - 00:28:23:23): Is that how I love more of goat? Yeah. No, there's, there's a high end liquor store near me that has, like, some of the fancier rums during the pandemic. I read rum Diaries. **Chip** (00:28:24:01 - 00:28:24:16): Okay. **Thomas** (00:28:24:18 - 00:28:50:04): Hunter S Thompson. Yep. The only thing I think he ever admitted to being fully fictional. Piece of work. It just got me. It got me thinking and like, you know, it was during that time where where in Los Angeles especially, we weren't leaving our houses. We were stuck inside. And I did kind of like after reading that, that deep dive into some of the, the, the islands rum situations and some of the elevated stuff. **Chip** (00:28:50:04 - 00:28:56:19): And how funny would it be? Instead of you going the rum direction you got really into diaries? **Thomas** (00:28:56:21 - 00:28:57:23): Well, I did that, too. **Chip** (00:28:58:00 - 00:29:09:04): Like classic diaries of people and. Yeah. Hey, do you want to. Do you want to see this diary of Franklin Pierce? You're like, no, I'd rather just drink some cool rum. Yeah. No, it's the diary part. That's the. That's the that's the fun. **Thomas** (00:29:09:04 - 00:29:12:08): That's that's where the gold is. The diaries. **Chip** (00:29:12:10 - 00:29:13:20): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:29:13:22 - 00:29:33:08): So, I went down that road, but, like, there is, you know, you can taste it if you, if you want to go down that rum, that road, that road, that rum road, that rum road and get really into it, like you can see those different notes, find the subtle variations and the good stuff does taste a little better. **Chip** (00:29:33:09 - 00:29:34:19): I love it, I mean, I'm into it. **Thomas** (00:29:34:21 - 00:29:49:11): We got to go to Puerto Rico. It's on the list. The Matador Network's rum guide available, and go check it out if you want to, to to see what we're talking about. This, the rum capital of the world, they're doing it better than anybody else. **Chip** (00:29:49:15 - 00:29:52:03): The Rumplestiltskin of the world. **Thomas** (00:29:52:05 - 00:30:03:18): Next story hits a little close to home. You know, I have been having a little bit of a civil, dispute with a neighbor of mine that happens to be a celebrity. **Chip** (00:30:03:20 - 00:30:04:16): Yes. **Thomas** (00:30:04:18 - 00:30:08:08): He is in the news right now. And, like, honestly. **Chip** (00:30:08:08 - 00:30:17:17): I know that. I know that this is just for the for the viewer. The for the listener. This is this is hard for you to get through. And I do really appreciate you mustering the courage. **Thomas** (00:30:17:19 - 00:30:37:21): Well, we got to talk about it. And also like I will say, like as difficult as this has been, like this is part of celebrity culture, I think what I'm going through, it's like a very common thing. There's like a dispute. We have some trees, in common on our property and like, we're trying to resolve it, but like, you know, I, I will take my share of the blame. It's just like when you don't when you're not willing to give and take, these things can get a little heated and especially, like, you know, it's not even really us anymore. It's more just, like, legal representation going back and forth. But anyways, dude, Ryan Gosling's new movie is crashing at the box office. **Chip** (00:30:59:08 - 00:31:01:18): See, that's nice of you to be able to say that in a positive way. **Thomas** (00:31:01:21 - 00:31:08:10): Yeah, no, I don't have any ill will towards them. It's just kind of like a who's going to flinch first situation with these trees. You were. **Chip** (00:31:08:10 - 00:31:09:14): The guys. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:31:09:16 - 00:31:22:09): Yeah yeah yeah. And it's like I said it's mostly representatives at this point. And actually like been pretty cool about it. It hasn't got heated. It hasn't been whatever. It's just like nobody's backing down. Right. **Chip** (00:31:22:11 - 00:31:23:13): Right. **Thomas** (00:31:23:15 - 00:31:41:00): But I will say, and I'm also excited to see it, like, I think he's literally saving the cinema by going out there. Project Hail Mary. I try and keep my ears closed for spoilers when there's a movie I know I'm gonna go see. I'm actually going to go see it this weekend. Yep, it's on the docket. It's, the tickets have already been purchased. The AMC A-list, and my entourage have filled up a row, and, we're going to be going to see it this weekend. But, dude, I'm just so excited to have a big movie back in the theater that people are buzzing about. The people are talking about. It's already setting records. Opening weekend was $140.9 million globally. **Chip** (00:32:05:20 - 00:32:09:15): That's, that is a that's a big box office, for day and age. **Thomas** (00:32:09:17 - 00:32:17:00): It's a it's a big box office for this day and age, especially for like original IP. A big movie and it's. **Chip** (00:32:17:02 - 00:32:22:20): Well, I mean original IP, Hail Mary, I did read about that in the Bible. **Thomas** (00:32:22:20 - 00:32:23:22): Just, **Chip** (00:32:24:00 - 00:32:26:01): I'm just saying, I'm just saying Thomas. **Thomas** (00:32:26:01 - 00:32:29:12): But go ahead. The title may have borrowed from some religious text. **Chip** (00:32:29:13 - 00:32:30:02): Sure. **Thomas** (00:32:30:04 - 00:32:34:15): But it is it's based off of a book, but it's like, you know, it ain't it ain't Spider-Man 17. **Chip** (00:32:34:19 - 00:32:42:01): No. That's what I'm so excited about. And again, God love you if you're a superhero, comic book fan. **Thomas** (00:32:42:03 - 00:32:42:07): Yeah. **Chip** (00:32:42:09 - 00:32:51:18): Movie fan. It's just not something that, tickles my tummy, if you know what I'm saying. I just, it's not for me. And, I'm glad that there's something. **Thomas** (00:32:51:18 - 00:32:57:06): Else out there, but I'm here for this. And also, like, dude, his, his essentials are really fun. **Chip** (00:32:57:07 - 00:33:02:20): They're perfect. They're classic. The, speaking of space, the alien ones, the alien abductions, the ones that he's in is great. **Thomas** (00:33:02:20 - 00:33:05:14): Yeah, well, he he did the first one, and I was actually there. **Chip** (00:33:05:15 - 00:33:07:17): Oh that's right. Yes. **Thomas** (00:33:07:17 - 00:33:15:00): Me and my my now wife. We're we're guests at that episode of SNL was the first one I ever saw in person. **Chip** (00:33:15:01 - 00:33:16:06): That was amazing. **Thomas** (00:33:16:08 - 00:33:34:10): It was really fun. Really fun to see, and it was fun for my wife to be in the same room with Ryan Gosling. Of course. Now we're heading back to the islands. Yeah. We are. This is actually an article from, Hawaii Magazine just came out about Maui's ancient tea culture. **Chip** (00:33:34:13 - 00:33:35:23): Okay. I'm excited about this. **Thomas** (00:33:36:03 - 00:33:46:18): Article is all about how they have this incredible ancient tradition of teas. And it's the only place in America, really, where any meaningful amount of tea can be grown, climate wise. **Chip** (00:33:46:18 - 00:33:47:14): Oh that's true. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:33:47:15 - 00:33:52:23): So they have all these pockets. It's kind of the same as coffee, except tea is a little bit further behind. **Chip** (00:33:53:01 - 00:33:53:07): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:33:53:08 - 00:34:18:16): And it just like dates back to pre tourism. Pre like a lot of people being able to freely come in and out days like it's a true ancient tradition that they're kind of like continuing on and bringing back up. And I will say, Chip, I just want to put this little tickle on your brain because I think you may have forgot because it was a food heavy day, but we had my favorite tea of all time. It's an iced tea. **Chip** (00:34:19:19 - 00:34:22:11): Oh, the iced tea. Oh, that's true. That is certainly true. Yes. **Thomas** (00:34:22:12 - 00:34:23:14): When we're at your shore. **Chip** (00:34:23:19 - 00:34:30:10): I'm sorry. Yes. Which was it? Maybe my favorite iced tea of all time, too. Yeah. Incredible. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:34:30:15 - 00:34:32:09): Kahuku farms. **Chip** (00:34:32:11 - 00:34:33:01): Up on the North. **Thomas** (00:34:33:01 - 00:34:43:13): Shore. Yeah. It's like, a great little, farm situation where they can. They have this, like, food truck, basically like an elevated, like, food system or some ramps. **Chip** (00:34:43:13 - 00:34:45:06): There are some ups and downs like. **Thomas** (00:34:45:06 - 00:35:02:22): Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it was great. And then there's just this big open area where they like, grow a lot of the, the produce there. They have this farm they can do a walking tour of and, the stuff I believe all this stuff, they make there is, like, either grown on their farm or like one of the neighboring farms. Okay, so, yeah, they just have this unbelievable iced tea and, **Chip** (00:35:08:23 - 00:35:13:18): Yeah, I also have the banana bread. Not to get off topic, but the bat bread and a little ice cream. Right. **Thomas** (00:35:13:19 - 00:35:24:14): Banana bread and the ice cream. That's the other thing. If you guys are going to Kuku Farms. Yeah. Have the banana bread and the ice cream and have the plantation iced tea. It's just unbelievable. Think. **Chip** (00:35:24:15 - 00:35:30:05): And what was. Yeah. Like, do you remember what was in that iced tea specifically because it was just delicious. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:35:30:07 - 00:35:43:00): So like it's it's the iced tea made from whatever tea they make it from. And then I think they put a splash of pineapple juice in it. Yeah. I think that's what makes it plantation. But it's so free to sit there. **Chip** (00:35:43:02 - 00:35:50:14): And then if you remember, my wife and I had to get back. So we left a little bit early, but we just had our iced tea and our little Mini Cooper. **Thomas** (00:35:50:19 - 00:35:51:07): Yeah. **Chip** (00:35:51:07 - 00:35:52:13): Driving down the coast. **Thomas** (00:35:52:18 - 00:35:54:01): Dude, what's better than that? **Chip** (00:35:54:04 - 00:36:02:16): Sipping on our tea, looking at those waves. I mean, what a what a beautiful enchanted afternoon that was. Do it. **Thomas** (00:36:02:17 - 00:36:19:20): I you can't beat it. You can't beat it. Kahuku farms is like one of the things I do every time at during the pandemic, like, or it was actually like kind of our honeymoon, we were going to go to Hawaii, and then they, they shut it down, right? Like they were asked people not to come because of Covid. And we respected that. Like the we just, like, changed our plans and went somewhere else. **Chip** (00:36:25:05 - 00:36:25:09): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:36:25:09 - 00:36:42:19): But a couple months later they opened back up and we had some time. So we went and, do it. It was like it was wild. Like they had really stronger Covid protocols than most places did at the time. But we went to Kahuku and it's just because it's outdoor. **Chip** (00:36:42:19 - 00:36:44:07): Everything's outdoor. So you're good. **Thomas** (00:36:44:10 - 00:37:11:17): You could be good. You were totally spaced and they just like, let you take chairs and set up like your own eating area wherever you wanted to on the property. So we went way far back. We had like all our delicious treats and just like spent three hours there, like watching kids play soccer and, just like, you know, just things, the signs of life we hadn't seen in a while, but just sat under one of those beautiful trees we, like, walked and looked at all the different, like, orchards and stuff. It was an unbelievable time. I'll never forget that specific instance. And it was all the same delicious food. But we just had this very peaceful, beautiful place to hang out. For a couple of hours. And it was perfect. **Chip** (00:37:23:16 - 00:37:41:11): So, you know, it's. And that is like a perfect memory. And, like, just going back to this is like, I was thinking it was very cold the other day, and for whatever reason, I don't know what made it pop up in my head. But was that same day, that morning walking around that little town before we got the shaved ice? Yeah, nothing crazy, but I went into the grocery store. We walked around a little bit. We got we got an iced coffee at that little shack by the bridge. Yeah. Just walking up and out. Just that little. Nothing crazy going on, but man, what a what a gorgeous day. **Thomas** (00:37:55:22 - 00:38:02:16): Yeah. And then we had, you know what we had I believe like a 930, 10 a.m.. Shave ice, maybe. **Chip** (00:38:02:16 - 00:38:04:11): 10 a.m. shave ice. **Thomas** (00:38:04:13 - 00:38:04:19): About. **Chip** (00:38:04:20 - 00:38:15:06): Us with that, heavy cream in there. And one of my favorites. That was one of my favorite desserts ever had that especially at 10:00 in the morning. **Thomas** (00:38:15:08 - 00:38:18:22): I know, and then, not too long after that, we were at Foodland. **Chip** (00:38:19:00 - 00:38:19:17): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:38:19:19 - 00:38:20:01): We. **Chip** (00:38:20:04 - 00:38:27:18): Had the biggest bowl of Poké and best bowl poké I've ever had. Yeah. Sitting in a parking lot with your dad and some roosters. **Thomas** (00:38:27:20 - 00:38:43:15): And then, maybe, like an hour after that, we're at Kahuku tasting those. Where. So it was a food heavy day, but, like, just the fact that we could have tasted that much and ate that much and still been so fond of all of it, I think that speaks to the quality, dude. **Chip** (00:38:43:15 - 00:38:44:16): Absolutely. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:38:44:18 - 00:38:56:09): All right. We're gonna keep it moving, baby. We, April Fool's Day. Noted. Holiday. It's been around. I've always known about it. There are some more French holidays show. **Chip** (00:38:56:11 - 00:38:57:19): As I like to call it. The jesters. **Thomas** (00:38:57:19 - 00:39:21:17): Christmas the jester. Yeah, yeah. The jokesters, Yuletide. Yes. And, dude, we got one coming up and this, like, I normally ignore these things. I think it's a little silly, but this one feels especially sunburnt. Okay. According to just the the dominant web presence, the the go to de facto authority on all things. This is coming from web cal dot guru chef web. **Chip** (00:39:26:02 - 00:39:27:11): Cal dot guru. **Thomas** (00:39:27:13 - 00:39:28:22): Oh. **Chip** (00:39:29:00 - 00:39:31:07): It's where I get all my news and hot, hot links. **Thomas** (00:39:31:07 - 00:40:04:05): Yeah. You want some hot links. So web cal dot guru. But they, I guess it's a place where you can go and just anybody can make up a holiday and really try and pump it up. But this one, this one's getting a little bit of traction. April 3rd, 2026 is officially don't work unless it's fun day. Okay, I'm it's a global initiative aimed at trying to get people to only to the parts of their job that are fun for one day to really just like, I guess, focus on and celebrate the parts that you like. Yeah, maybe. Hopefully. So you remember at the rest of the year, or to point out that you don't like any part of your job and you really need to change your life around. **Chip** (00:40:11:05 - 00:40:14:23): I say we really go with this one. I mean, it's just don't work unless it's fun day. **Thomas** (00:40:14:23 - 00:40:18:07): I think we kind of have been chip, is this like kind of our life? **Chip** (00:40:18:08 - 00:40:33:17): Sun's out, guns out. I only want to do the fun stuff. I don't need to, focus this camera, set up this microphone. I'm just gonna. I'm just going to tell jokes about fish. That's all I want to do on Friday. All right? And it is lent. So it is only appropriate to tell jokes about fish. **Thomas** (00:40:33:19 - 00:40:36:04): Yeah. Because you can't eat them. But you can poke fun. **Chip** (00:40:36:06 - 00:40:36:16): It's right. **Thomas** (00:40:36:16 - 00:40:38:17): Is that what you can't do? You can't eat fish. **Chip** (00:40:38:20 - 00:40:40:07): You can only eat fish on Fridays. **Thomas** (00:40:40:07 - 00:40:42:15): You can only catch. Okay. **Chip** (00:40:42:15 - 00:40:47:09): Yeah. You can't eat meat, so you can't eat meat on Fridays. But fish apparently is not meat. They enjoy. **Thomas** (00:40:47:09 - 00:40:47:22): The fish. **Chip** (00:40:48:01 - 00:41:02:08): Catholics as Pope, I believe it was Xavier. The second said, yeah, it's okay to eat fish because fish don't have any feelings. Wait, that was Kurt Cobain? Yeah. Something in the way. That was Kurt Cobain. **Thomas** (00:41:02:14 - 00:41:06:05): Not a lot of people get getting Kurt and the Pope mixed up these days. It's the. **Chip** (00:41:06:05 - 00:41:07:07): Old switcheroo. **Thomas** (00:41:07:08 - 00:41:12:19): The old switcheroo, Tony. But now this feels like a very sunburnt concept. It feels like, very slight. **Chip** (00:41:12:19 - 00:41:33:23): I I'm into this. I think we should get behind this. We have a we have a little bit of time now. I mean, it's getting it's getting close. But April 3rd, I think we put out. So some dates don't work unless it's fun day. Yeah. Do the fun stuff in your job, like enjoy yourself. Pick out those if you if you're so lucky, pick out those activities that are like, oh, this is the fun part of it. Yeah, I'm going to skip the gross part today and get that on Monday. **Thomas** (00:41:37:03 - 00:41:43:15): Skip the gross part. And to a larger degree, what this podcast is about is, is living a life. You don't need a vacation from. **Chip** (00:41:43:15 - 00:42:00:16): Chip. Yeah. By the way, wait a minute. Isn't April 3rd I think is Good Friday? If going back to the Catholics, if that's so, a lot of people will have off anyway. So I think that's the. Yeah, that's the time to do it because it's that day, you know, that Friday in the office where you're just. Yeah, some of the crew isn't there. And you're just like, okay, let me slack off today. Yeah. I'm, I'm right there with you. April 3rd. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:42:09:23 - 00:42:12:11): Go all in on the things you like. Find out what you love. **Chip** (00:42:12:13 - 00:42:12:23): Yes. **Thomas** (00:42:13:03 - 00:42:19:21): And then if there's nothing enjoyable about what you do, it's time to think about making a change. **Chip** (00:42:19:23 - 00:42:20:08): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:42:20:08 - 00:42:21:11): You have some agency. **Chip** (00:42:21:16 - 00:42:22:04): Yes you do. **Thomas** (00:42:22:09 - 00:42:26:08): You can figure something better out. You shouldn't hate all day, every day. **Chip** (00:42:26:10 - 00:42:28:03): No. **Thomas** (00:42:28:05 - 00:42:39:20): All right, now, this is something that's been taking the internet by storm. According to our producer, it's, boy Kimball versus girl dinner. Chip. **Chip** (00:42:39:22 - 00:42:43:18): All right, I'm. This one is. It hits home. That's the Chantry household. **Thomas** (00:42:43:21 - 00:43:01:20): It does, it does. So, like, Gen Z TikTokers have been split into two warring food tribes in 2026. Boy kibble, which is snack like meals, marketed specifically to man and girl dinner. Chaotic. Throw whatever together meals for women. **Chip** (00:43:01:22 - 00:43:02:14): Okay. **Thomas** (00:43:02:16 - 00:43:33:10): So, boy kibble allegedly started as dudes posting their Totino's Pizza Roll gas station taquitos and protein bar arranged like dog food. Okay, so like they were putting all these elements together and saying, this is dinner, which is I'm sorry, Gen Z, if you think that's new. Men have been eating like animals for ever, for centuries. And that girl dinner is evoked from the 2023 charcuterie board era, but stripped of all pretense. Yes. Now it's just like a pickle and shredded cheese from the bag. And a couple of olives. And you eat this concoction while standing in front of the fridge right. So. **Chip** (00:43:45:10 - 00:43:46:22): But it sounds fancy, so I'll take it. **Thomas** (00:43:46:22 - 00:44:03:12): Girl, girl, dinner is fancy, but, Chip, like, have you ever had, like, like, do you remember just any of your go tos that might not pass the, social standards test of sign eating as an adult from your your high school college years. **Chip** (00:44:03:15 - 00:44:06:16): I mean, I don't have to go back that far, Thomas. Let's face it. **Thomas** (00:44:06:18 - 00:44:08:06): **Chip** (00:44:08:08 - 00:44:19:14): The two big go tos, and these aren't even. These are even a little bit more whipped up. But if I could eat just some foods for the rest of my life. Yeah, throw in a PB and J any time. **Thomas** (00:44:19:14 - 00:44:20:15): Oh, yeah? Yeah, just. **Chip** (00:44:20:15 - 00:44:22:02): Slap together a PB and J. **Thomas** (00:44:22:05 - 00:44:22:18): **Chip** (00:44:22:20 - 00:44:40:02): I am good. That's it. I'm done. Or a bowl of cereal and just a bowl of cereal. Nothing more exciting than that. Those that. Yeah, those are the ones that I, that I like to do. Yeah. Other than that, it's like, oh, I just, I mean, picking up a hotdog at the 7-Eleven is just. **Thomas** (00:44:40:07 - 00:44:40:16): **Chip** (00:44:40:16 - 00:44:41:14): You know, a on the. **Thomas** (00:44:41:14 - 00:44:42:14): Go. **Chip** (00:44:42:16 - 00:44:44:02): On the go. How about you? **Thomas** (00:44:44:02 - 00:44:53:21): I was famous for a scramble that I've put things. Okay? I put things scrambled with eggs that, like most people, would be like. That's not. That's not great. It's like. **Chip** (00:44:53:21 - 00:44:55:01): Give me a, for example. **Thomas** (00:44:55:01 - 00:45:19:02): Any Chinese food you have, like leftovers. You dump that in a couple of eggs. Okay. If you've got, like, a couple of Doritos left, you crushed that. Okay. All right, throw those in there. There could be a string cheese. There could be, I don't know, like leftover rice. Yeah. If you had, like, a little bit of steak, you didn't finish. Yeah. Chop that up. And I would just, you know, it's basically like anything that I think might be sketchy to eat tomorrow, but is on the edge today is going out there with the egg. **Chip** (00:45:29:06 - 00:45:30:06): Scramble it up. **Thomas** (00:45:30:06 - 00:45:36:00): We're going to make that happen. That's going to be a slightly more protein rich version of these leftovers. **Chip** (00:45:36:00 - 00:45:46:00): Dude, I might throw this out to you right now. This is something that my wife and I started doing during the pandemic. We did the exact opposite of that or just did the the the photo negative of that. **Thomas** (00:45:46:05 - 00:45:47:02): Okay. **Chip** (00:45:47:04 - 00:46:06:20): We would take our leftovers because we would get for example, on Fridays we would get Indonesian food from this Indonesian restaurant. They were the nicest people, the best food. These this chicken in these thick noodles. Kim got tofu with them. It was. Yeah, they were. It was so delicious. But it was such a big serving that you would have half of it on Friday night. And then Saturday morning I would fry up a couple of sunnyside up eggs and just throw an egg on top of the leftovers. Okay? Eat up the leftovers. Yeah. Throw an egg or two on top of those. Yeah. So you're having the base of the eggs and then you're throwing some leftovers in. Yeah, I would take the leftovers. Just throw a little bit of egg on top of it. Delicious. So I'm 100% I'm 100% on board with what you have done. **Thomas** (00:46:32:05 - 00:46:42:04): What you're describing is very human. Dude, that's that is like, you partied too hard last night. Yeah. Instead of washing your hair. Yeah. Throw on a hat. **Chip** (00:46:42:06 - 00:46:42:14): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:46:42:14 - 00:46:44:09): You are throwing that egg hat on there. **Chip** (00:46:44:09 - 00:46:47:14): If I can quote Portlandia, put an egg on it. **Thomas** (00:46:47:14 - 00:46:48:18): Put an egg on it. Yeah. **Chip** (00:46:48:18 - 00:46:50:19): Classic egg becomes before the bird. **Thomas** (00:46:50:19 - 00:46:55:01): Yeah, yeah, but it's like, what sketch came first? Put an egg on it, put a bird. **Chip** (00:46:55:01 - 00:47:07:01): Under the egg. Right. And we I think we know. So. Yeah. So you just, you put a little fried egg on there and it's just, it just makes it, it's on. And then you just hit it and like the egg, the yolk kind of runs down into the noodles. **Thomas** (00:47:07:03 - 00:47:27:22): Perfect, perfect. I also, I don't know, this, this whole like a girl dinner thing, like just it just makes me picture. I want to see the sketch where, somebody somebody gets this wrong. Some, some girl just runs wild with this idea. It's just like it's cute. It's girl dinner. It's just way over the top. **Chip** (00:47:28:00 - 00:47:28:14): I think we do. **Thomas** (00:47:28:14 - 00:47:31:19): That trip saying he's volunteering. He's going to dress up as girl. **Chip** (00:47:31:23 - 00:47:32:05): Yes. **Thomas** (00:47:32:05 - 00:47:37:20): And he is going to eat some garbage and make fun of girls and how girls eat. I think this is going to be good. **Chip** (00:47:37:21 - 00:47:40:18): I'm going to be a TikTok star by Thursday. **Thomas** (00:47:40:19 - 00:47:53:10): Oh, right. Man. Moving on from, a micro examination of how we eat to a macro examination of the whole universe, we got a comet coming through. **Chip** (00:47:53:12 - 00:47:54:11): Just the cosmos. **Thomas** (00:47:54:11 - 00:48:13:18): The cosmos. Scientists are saying it might be as bright as Venus to the naked eye when you got a big old comet coming through that's visible with the naked eye. That's a fun time to be looking at the sky. And also, another fun thing. This may have been created by Michael Bay because there's worries it's just going to explode. Chip. **Chip** (00:48:14:03 - 00:48:29:17): I mean, get getting the old Bay comet out there. I'm. I'm into it. It's it's not the Hale-Bopp. I mean, the we all we all know what happened with heaven's gate, but I think we get a Michael Bay spin on Heaven's Gate on this one. And just we all jump in. **Thomas** (00:48:29:18 - 00:48:37:08): So this comment is nicknamed maps, okay? And it will become visible to the naked eye as early as April. **Chip** (00:48:37:10 - 00:48:39:11): Okay. Oh, so it's coming soon. All right, but. **Thomas** (00:48:39:11 - 00:48:42:22): Only if it survives a close pass by the sun. **Chip** (00:48:42:22 - 00:48:47:21): First. So a little Icarus action might might fly a little too close to the sun. **Thomas** (00:48:47:21 - 00:49:09:01): So this thing is going to come. It's going to be a beautiful phoenix in the night sky. If it can make its trip around the sun first because it's got a slingshot around the sun like comets do, and come back this way, it'll be the brightest comet that's been in the sky for years, but only if it doesn't explode and go boom around the sun first. **Chip** (00:49:09:01 - 00:49:26:02): I mean, if that's not the most 2026 comet situation, is just like, this is going to be great or it's going to explode and we don't know. And either way, we're like, all right, okay, great. We're yeah, we're sort of either way it could go. We're just ready for it. **Thomas** (00:49:26:04 - 00:49:30:16): This might as well happen is kind of the the feeling of the age. **Chip** (00:49:30:18 - 00:49:36:10): This is going to be the one for the burnt ones, or it's literally just going to become a burnt one. **Thomas** (00:49:36:12 - 00:49:40:01): Yeah. Yeah. It might be the ultimate burnt one. It might be a burnt up one. **Chip** (00:49:40:02 - 00:49:40:17): Exactly. **Thomas** (00:49:40:18 - 00:49:48:01): The night sky, the cosmos. It's always been so fascinating. I think we keep leaning into it. Yep. **Chip** (00:49:48:03 - 00:49:49:23): I think we do it. I love it. **Thomas** (00:49:50:03 - 00:49:51:01): I love it. **Chip** (00:49:51:03 - 00:50:01:00): You know, that's why my brother does for a living. He's a, he runs a planetarium. I it's just so cool. The sky and the shore, they're all intertwined. They're they're a lot closer than you think. **Thomas** (00:50:01:01 - 00:50:08:12): There's just something so, peaceful and exciting about the massive. Yes, the understandability, but also the mystery. **Chip** (00:50:08:14 - 00:50:08:21): Yep. **Thomas** (00:50:08:21 - 00:50:21:01): I like a nice tropical trip. Being in the sun all day, getting a beautiful, maybe slightly different peek at the sky. Yep. During the night to her. All right. That's it for for the algo. **Chip** (00:50:21:05 - 00:50:22:08): Or the algo. **Thomas** (00:50:22:10 - 00:50:48:07): And now we're switching gears. We're talking about the man, the myth, the legend, the one and only Jimmy Buffett. We we love the man. And whenever we get a chance, we do deep research. We toil, we get into the annals, we find out little nuggets that people don't know about it. And this week, a chip. You have a heater of a Jimmy Buffett fact for us. Hit us with it. **Chip** (00:50:48:23 - 00:51:02:13): But Jimmy Buffett would rent office space in Tucson, Arizona for two weeks every spring break just to get away from having the most chill life ever. **Thomas** (00:51:02:15 - 00:51:05:08): Sometimes you need a vacation from your life on vacation. **Chip** (00:51:05:12 - 00:51:18:06): You really do. You really do. That was his spring break. He would just sit in an office in the middle of Tucson and, and just, you know, push some papers, pencil, Joe, just be a pencil pusher. Just for a little while. That was his break. **Thomas** (00:51:18:06 - 00:51:21:01): During spring break. He would live like the rest of us. **Chip** (00:51:21:03 - 00:51:21:09): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:51:21:12 - 00:51:27:17): What a superstar. And speaking of superstars, Chip, do you hear that. Do you feel that rumbling. Do you feel that swishing. **Chip** (00:51:27:19 - 00:51:29:11): Those bubbles that are churning right now. **Thomas** (00:51:29:16 - 00:51:31:17): Oh they are everybody. It's time for. 00:51:31:17 – 00:51:33:22 UNRESOLVED – The fish of the week version of the. Work. Our hero of the deep. Every week here at the Sunbelt Podcast, we take a look at one saltwater superstar that stands out above the rest this week. Chip, let us hear it. Who is our fish of the week this week? **Chip** (00:51:48:16 - 00:51:54:13): Our fish of the week. I'm so excited about this one. This is Leonard the Peacock grouper. **Thomas** (00:51:54:16 - 00:51:57:05): Oh my gosh, look at that thing. **Chip** (00:51:57:08 - 00:52:01:06): Get him up there on that screen. Take a look at this specimen. **Thomas** (00:52:01:11 - 00:52:04:11): Oh, look at that. Get the little freckles. **Chip** (00:52:04:14 - 00:52:14:04): The Lenny's got it. He's got a brown body covered with gorgeous neon blue spots. He looks like somebody put a bottle of Vicks VapoRub in the microwave. Just popping all over the place, I love it. **Thomas** (00:52:14:04 - 00:52:15:00): Oh, Peacock. **Chip** (00:52:15:00 - 00:52:35:00): And then he's got those vertical stripes on the back of me. You see those vertical white stripes on the back? It looks like Adidas made a lava lamp. I love this, he looks beautiful. Just take a moment just to suck in that beauty of Leonard the peacock grouper. I mean, he just. He looks like a painting at a dentist office, doesn't he? I mean, just the beauty. It's like. It's like Andre Agassi would wear him to Wimbledon in 1991. Just look at that color scheme right there. I love it. Now Leonard is going to grow to be about 24in long. **Thomas** (00:52:50:05 - 00:52:51:16): That's a big fish buddy. **Chip** (00:52:51:22 - 00:52:55:06): That is two feet of underwater mayhem. **Thomas** (00:52:55:06 - 00:52:59:22): What a looker, dude. Girls like a bad boy. That's why Leonard smokin hot. **Chip** (00:52:59:23 - 00:53:08:13): Speaking of bad boys. Yeah, he is beautiful, but trouble. He's like a little Jordan Catalano swimming around down there. **Thomas** (00:53:08:15 - 00:53:11:20): This fish looks like he should have a dangly earring. **Chip** (00:53:11:20 - 00:53:29:16): Yes, like one dangly earring and just a chip and a chip on his shoulder. And trust me, he does, because these peacock groupers like Leonard, they're beautiful. I'm going to say it. They're sexy and they're dangerous. They are. Leonard is like, he's. He's like Adam Levine after the tattoos, but before The voice. **Thomas** (00:53:29:17 - 00:53:31:15): Oh, he's a Japanese nice. **Chip** (00:53:31:19 - 00:53:50:18): Peacock groupers like Leonard. Their natural habitat is, the Indo-Pacific. They're kind of all over. But here's what happened. Thomas. Okay. Back in the 1950s, some human beings decided to be a great idea to drop Leonard and his buddies on the reefs on the coast of Hawaii. **Thomas** (00:53:50:19 - 00:53:54:19): Sounds like a nice trip for these peacock groupers. What's the problem here, Joe? **Chip** (00:53:54:20 - 00:54:01:07): Here's the problem, Leonard. And his boys have been wreaking havoc on the Hawaiian Islands ever since. **Thomas** (00:54:01:07 - 00:54:04:02): This is why tourists get a bad name. It's Leonard. **Chip** (00:54:04:02 - 00:54:27:14): It's Leonard's fault. Okay? Leonard. His boys, they eat mostly other fish. Okay, okay. And since the 50s, these gorgeous pimps are dominating Hawaii. They are everywhere, okay? They're like, if ABC stores could kill you, that's. That's what these things are. They are just havoc on the ecosystem of Hawaii. They're eating all the other fish for decades. They're going nuts. They thought it'd be a nice thing and they ruined it. Spear fishermen are out there looking for Leonard. So. Leonard, watch out if you're listening. Spear fishermen are going around spearing these groupers so they can stabilize the ecosystem. Yeah, because they are so vicious, these monsters. Because Leonard's buddies are going all the purge on the coast of Hawaii for the last couple of decades. Yeah. And here's why I said that Leonard is a pimp. Because he's got a bright, colorful outfit on, and he literally travels with a harem. Whoa! **Thomas** (00:55:03:12 - 00:55:04:06): Oh, Leonard. **Chip** (00:55:04:06 - 00:55:13:11): Come on. Leonard and other male peacock groupers, they have about a half a dozen lady groupers. Or, I like to call them groupies. **Thomas** (00:55:13:13 - 00:55:14:13): Guppies. **Chip** (00:55:14:15 - 00:55:32:06): So he's got his own little harem, and he's got his own little. He's got his own little, territory. And he and his ladies, they all swarm around, guard the place, doing the, doing the heavy lifting and he comes around and just kind of gives them a little, little sugar every once in a while. So that is our fish of the week. Leonard, the peacock grouper. If you're in Hawaii, look up, Leonard. But I have heard rumors that he is spending his summer at an ayahuasca retreat in French Polynesia with Jared Leto and Timothy Shalom Leonard. Hats off to you, buddy. **Thomas** (00:55:48:12 - 00:55:54:12): That's a couple of troublemakers in French Polynesia. But thank you for giving the Hawaiian reefs a break, Leonard. **Chip** (00:55:54:14 - 00:55:55:21): Yeah, man. **Thomas** (00:55:55:23 - 00:56:04:00): What a notorious fish, dude. What? I mean, a great fish of the week. People need to know about them. But, wow. Mostly so they can watch out. **Chip** (00:56:04:00 - 00:56:05:00): Yeah, absolutely. **Thomas** (00:56:05:00 - 00:56:09:14): All right. Yep. That's fish of the week. Now it's time to crack open the good book. **Chip** (00:56:09:14 - 00:56:29:05): The good book, the Guinness Book of World Records. Every week we dive in, we each find a record that shows just the humanity, the greatness, whatever it might be in this world. Thomas, you want to kick us off? What is your good book? Guinness Book record of the week. Chip, have you ever. **Thomas** (00:56:29:05 - 00:56:35:08): Had a sobering look at your life and or career and that effort? I'm just going to go live in a tree. **Chip** (00:56:35:10 - 00:56:38:05): Honestly, I'm doing it right now. Thomas. **Thomas** (00:56:38:07 - 00:56:44:14): But picture in your mind, okay? Got to go up and live in this tree. What kind of tree are you thinking about? **Chip** (00:56:44:14 - 00:56:47:20): I mean, it might be a banyan tree. I got to say that, you know. **Thomas** (00:56:47:22 - 00:56:52:22): Jeff, I'm glad you said that, because the good book providers. **Chip** (00:56:53:04 - 00:56:53:16): Know. **Thomas** (00:56:53:16 - 00:57:02:13): My record is for the longest time spent by a human being in a tree. And. Buddy, this guy picked a banyan tree. **Chip** (00:57:02:14 - 00:57:03:21): No. **Thomas** (00:57:03:22 - 00:57:12:10): Yeah. This man spent more time writing the proverbial pine than you on your junior high basketball team. **Chip** (00:57:12:11 - 00:57:13:18): That is. That is true. **Thomas** (00:57:13:18 - 00:57:26:00): How long do you think this master of the altitudes spent in a tree consecutively? We're talking about a days. How many days? Jeff? **Chip** (00:57:26:02 - 00:57:30:06): I'm going to say. I'm going to say a fortnight. Two weeks, 14 days. **Thomas** (00:57:30:08 - 00:57:47:05): Whoo! Buddy. Liu gang, a Chinese man with a plan. And it sounds like probably a fantastic balance. Spent 111 days, 24m up in a and tree and tin zoo. China. **Chip** (00:57:47:07 - 00:57:50:20): A third of a year, basically six months. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:57:50:22 - 00:58:11:12): Wow. Yeah. Dude, that's a long time. He went up September 12th, 2014 and didn't come down until New Year's Day 2015. Wow. Up there, he did it. He had a bed, he had a toilet and he had solar power. Oh, he was not like doing a survival thing. This was like something else. **Chip** (00:58:11:12 - 00:58:14:15): So he was living the good. Like my question is, why did he come down? **Thomas** (00:58:14:16 - 00:58:23:03): I could not answer that for you, but, dude, for we know how big Banyan Tree is. Can get. This tree was 24m tall. **Chip** (00:58:23:05 - 00:58:23:21): Geez. **Thomas** (00:58:23:21 - 00:58:35:21): Which is like around 75ft tall. Like six seven storeys up his commute to get to the bathroom was vertical. He had to, like, go up to use the toilet. That's trouble. **Chip** (00:58:35:23 - 00:58:38:07): That's that could be difficulty. **Thomas** (00:58:38:09 - 00:58:47:00): The middle of the night. When you do not want to walk down the hall to go to the restroom because you're like a little sleepy, just imagine you're in a friggin trade zone. **Chip** (00:58:47:01 - 00:58:49:18): You got it. You got to go up an altitude that's rough. **Thomas** (00:58:49:18 - 00:58:54:13): His meals were hoisted up by rope every single day. He had accomplices to help get this done. **Chip** (00:58:54:13 - 00:58:57:22): Whenever some hoisting being done. You know, you got some help on the way. **Thomas** (00:58:57:23 - 00:59:12:17): Also, there was more hoisting. He kind of puts us to shame. He kept a physical fitness regime up there where he used the branches and his bodyweight for working out. He did branch cardio. He did some tree yoga. **Chip** (00:59:12:17 - 00:59:14:04): Good for him. He did it. **Thomas** (00:59:14:04 - 00:59:23:03): Just about everything you could do for physical fitness and a tree. Wow. Which, you know, kind of kind of just takes teeth out of any excuse. We have for not working out. **Chip** (00:59:23:03 - 00:59:26:13): We don't have any excuse. We're not currently in tree hats. **Thomas** (00:59:26:13 - 00:59:34:07): Out to you, Leo. What a, what a way to stay elevated and ring in 2015. **Chip** (00:59:34:09 - 00:59:35:15): Way to branch out, buddy. **Thomas** (00:59:35:15 - 00:59:40:05): And way to branch your way onto the good book, my man. **Chip** (00:59:40:07 - 00:59:40:15): **Thomas** (00:59:40:16 - 00:59:43:03): That is my record. What do you got cooking today? **Chip** (00:59:43:04 - 00:59:57:19): This is a fun, silly one, but you got to be in the mood. Do you have your party hat on Thomas I do you have your sunken harbor. Okay. All right. So get ready. Strap in, put on your hardy party hat, Thomas, because this is the world record for the fastest time to dig a grave. **Thomas** (00:59:57:19 - 00:59:59:13): Oh, what a fun one. **Chip** (00:59:59:15 - 01:00:24:01): The fastest time to dig a grave happened on October 20th, 2018. This is three years after our boy got out of the tree. Different guy, different guy. Okay. Yeah. This is Jose Luis Rivera. He was in Riverside Cemetery in Cleveland, Ohio. Because if you're going to dig a quick grave, do it in Cleveland. **Thomas** (01:00:24:02 - 01:00:25:06): Do it in Cleveland. **Chip** (01:00:25:08 - 01:00:33:07): Right. He had to dig the official size of the grave, which is eight feet long. Three feet wide. **Thomas** (01:00:33:13 - 01:00:34:04): Okay. **Chip** (01:00:34:06 - 01:00:35:08): Six feet deep. **Thomas** (01:00:35:11 - 01:00:37:03): That's a big old hole chip. **Chip** (01:00:37:04 - 01:00:52:22): Just him and a shovel eight feet wide eight feet wide. If he long three feet wide, six feet deep. He actually ended up digging it a little bit deeper. A little bit bigger. Do you want to take a guess of how long it took him to dig? Just with his own hands. **Thomas** (01:00:53:02 - 01:00:55:08): With his own hands? Tools. But like Joe. **Chip** (01:00:55:10 - 01:00:57:17): Yeah. Like, you know, motorized anything. Yeah. **Thomas** (01:00:57:19 - 01:01:02:08): Gosh, I don't know. I'm going to go. **Chip** (01:01:02:10 - 01:01:05:08): 12 hours. It's a great guess. Thomas. **Thomas** (01:01:05:08 - 01:01:06:09): Yeah. **Chip** (01:01:06:11 - 01:01:08:06): Two hours flat. **Thomas** (01:01:08:07 - 01:01:09:09): That's impossible. **Chip** (01:01:09:09 - 01:01:13:23): Dude, two hours. Zero seconds. Zero minutes. Two hours on the notes. He did it. **Thomas** (01:01:13:23 - 01:01:23:18): I tried to dig a hole before. Chip. It's nearly impossible. Yeah. You like, you get a foot down and it's just like nothing doing anymore. And he went six feet deep by eight by three. **Chip** (01:01:23:21 - 01:01:42:07): He actually tried to set the record in 2016. Yeah. He got 90 minutes in and he hit concrete and shale and he was just like I he's like, I can't do this. He literally stopped because it was he was like, it's not that it wouldn't set a record because he this is actually a brand new record. Nobody's done this before. So he wanted to be the one to set the like set the standard. Yeah. He realized that it not that it would just take too long, but that it would take longer. Then the battery in the, in the camera allowed, of him videotaping him doing this. **Thomas** (01:01:58:10 - 01:01:59:11): Yeah. **Chip** (01:01:59:13 - 01:02:15:09): For to have the official record so they can, you know, so they can verify it. Yes. It took this long. He's like so so he had to unfortunately to give up. But he, he decided to go. Go again to the 18. That's when he did it in two hours flat. I am going to be honest that no offense to Jose. Yeah. But I am sure I am positive there are a lot more shallow graves dug off the Atlantic City Expressway that were dug much faster than that. **Thomas** (01:02:27:01 - 01:02:35:02): Yeah, it's kind of like NASCAR started off as like, criminals swooping up their cars to outrun the cops, right? They've got that head start on them. **Chip** (01:02:35:02 - 01:02:43:06): I'm assuming that this is the record for the fastest grave dug during the day. Let's let's just say that. **Thomas** (01:02:43:06 - 01:02:45:11): For non nefarious purposes, right? **Chip** (01:02:45:16 - 01:03:05:09): He and he. But he dug in a cemetery the official eight by three by six. So he's the one that does it. He's hands down got the record by the way. He was no spring chicken. He had been digging holes for utility companies like sewer companies, water mains and stuff like that for 29 years. **Thomas** (01:03:05:10 - 01:03:06:13): Oh my gosh. **Chip** (01:03:06:15 - 01:03:29:04): 29 years he's been doing it. So obviously he's a pro. He's also a former, light heavyweight boxing champion. So this guy's got some get some guns. He's ready to do it. Yeah. And he said this is really nice. He said he wanted to set this record to raise money, for an organization called water for lives that provides, communities that needed sustainable water, systems. So he did it not just to show off. He said he likes a challenge, but he wanted to do it for a good reason. And I will say this, that when he set the record, in the Riverside Cemetery, it was the biggest. When he finally did it and finished, there was a crowd around him. It was the biggest celebration in Riverside Cemetery history since Edna Rafferty, age 93, was buried there in 1988. Real nightmare of a woman. Real, real nightmare of a lady. So, congrats, Jose Luis Rivera. **Thomas** (01:04:04:08 - 01:04:05:01): **Chip** (01:04:05:02 - 01:04:06:04): I dig what you're doing. **Thomas** (01:04:06:08 - 01:04:08:10): What an exceptional digger to see. **Chip** (01:04:08:11 - 01:04:11:16): Your guy went up in a tree. Yeah, mine went down on the ground. **Thomas** (01:04:11:20 - 01:04:15:17): Down to the ground. There's roots involved in both of these tasks. **Chip** (01:04:15:19 - 01:04:16:09): Yeah. **Thomas** (01:04:16:11 - 01:04:23:10): Everybody, that's it for the podcast this week. If you want to leave us a voice message on our Trouble in Paradise hotline, you can call. **Chip** (01:04:23:10 - 01:04:24:03): Hit him that number. **Thomas** (01:04:24:03 - 01:04:47:14): Thomas, (310) 845-6038. Tell us anything. But specifically, we're looking for bad vacation stories. And if you're going through an interesting time in life, tell us about that. We'll let you know if you need a vacation or not. Probably. Yeah, that's that's what we're qualified to help people out with. This is the subject podcast where we talk about comedy and tropical travel. Until next time, stay burnt. Front desk. **Chip** (01:04:52:03 - 01:04:55:07): Hi, this is Mr. Chantry in room 308, and it's spring break. This is the best spring break ever. **Thomas** (01:04:58:01 - 01:05:01:19): Mr. Chantry, did you throw your back out again? **Chip** (01:05:01:21 - 01:05:08:23): Yes. I'm on the floor of the bathroom. If you could send Ronald or Jeff up to move me to the bed, that would be swell. **Thomas** (01:05:09:01 - 01:05:09:22): I'll send him right up.