Billy Strings Skateboard Disaster, Airline Bunk Beds & A Shark Swim 😂🦈🌴 | Sunburnt Podcast Ep. 58

**Chip** (00:00:00:01 - 00:00:05:01): Good for you. New Zealand. I mean, you give us Taika Waititi and now the bunk bed on the airplane. **Thomas** (00:00:05:02 - 00:00:09:13): You just shouldn't be bacon in the sun when you're shaking from a fever. **Chip** (00:00:09:13 - 00:00:14:00): But like, then there's the guys that are just, like up top here. Just like, let me just get it out. **Thomas** (00:00:14:01 - 00:00:17:22): Preschoolers say no to Stokes. **Chip** (00:00:17:23 - 00:00:19:03): Say no to Stokes. **Thomas** (00:00:19:07 - 00:00:22:06): Officially the week. This is the fish of the week. **Chip** (00:00:22:07 - 00:00:24:10): She is beautiful, but she crazy. **Thomas** (00:00:24:11 - 00:00:40:19): We apologize. We missed the episode last week. We had a couple of things going on. What up? Burnt ones. This is the sunbird podcast where we talk about comedy and tropical travel. To my right, as always. You know, I'm from Netflix on the series tires and his amazing standard special move Closer. It's Chip Chantry. **Chip** (00:00:40:19 - 00:00:51:22): And over here to my left is Mr. Thomas O'Brien, Emmy Award winning producer, writer, and my pal. Grab a float, put on your earphones and drift away. Grab them by tie. **Thomas** (00:00:51:23 - 00:00:57:03): Because it's great to be in the tropics with your boys. **Chip** (00:00:57:05 - 00:01:09:07): So then I told him in the last inning, if he struck out, I would buy him a snow cone. And that is how I won 1500 bucks betting on my nephew's little egg game. **Thomas** (00:01:09:09 - 00:01:13:23): Chip. And his name's really Jeffrey Epstein. **Chip** (00:01:14:00 - 00:01:15:18): Weird, right? Coincidence? **Thomas** (00:01:15:18 - 00:01:27:18): That story is weird, buddy. Yeah, we're already starting. What up? Bird ones? It is the sunburn podcast where we talk about comedy and tropical travel. The number one tropical travel comedy podcast on the planet. **Chip** (00:01:27:19 - 00:01:28:11): The. You know. **Thomas** (00:01:28:12 - 00:01:52:12): Chip, this episode is insane. Wild. Let me walk you all through what we're getting into here. We've got a legendary chef returns to Honolulu, and you have a better shot of winning the lottery than getting a table. Aaron, new Zealand is installing bunk beds in economy. What could go wrong? Americans are feeling poor and we are not willing to give up our vacations. The artist behind the $6 million taped banana has a new racket less racket. A new Grand Hyatt opens on Grand Cayman next May with 71,000ft² of event space. Bluegrass phenom Billy Strings snapped his leg on his way to an encore. Fish turns the sphere into a fishbowl. Our fish of the week dives headfirst into the sand. At bedtime, we crack open the Good Book to learn about long swims and even longer beaches. The Trouble in Paradise hotline is open, and you can leave us a voicemail at (310) 845-6038. And if we choose your story, your harrowing vacation story, the worst thing that ever happened to you on vacation. If we use it on the podcast in the relatively near future, we're going to send you one of these bad boys, a nice bottle of Hawaiian Tropic Shear Touch Baby, and you can get an old fashioned slather going with us, bud. Slather it up. I've needed this. **Chip** (00:02:58:20 - 00:02:59:14): Touch of sheer. **Thomas** (00:02:59:14 - 00:03:14:03): We have missed so few weeks on this podcast. Yep. Yeah, but last week it was not to be. We had technical issues. We had health issues coming at oh buddy, oh, I'm in it. **Chip** (00:03:14:03 - 00:03:15:20): That opens up the sinuses. **Thomas** (00:03:16:01 - 00:03:18:22): Guys, get a slather going. It's gonna change your perspective. **Chip** (00:03:18:23 - 00:03:31:02): All right. Here again, I think we did this last episode. I hate to I hate to downplay this podcast, but another idea is just come to me, okay. **Thomas** (00:03:31:03 - 00:03:32:01): Yeah, yeah, yeah. **Chip** (00:03:32:06 - 00:03:51:09): Another multi-million dollar idea that we should be doing. Okay. Sunblock with hot sauce in it. It's hot sauce. Okay. Yeah, it opens up those sinuses. So you just take it. It has the SPF, but then it also just really burns. That face just really gets a sting in there. **Thomas** (00:03:51:10 - 00:03:52:12): Yeah. It's for people. **Chip** (00:03:52:14 - 00:03:58:16): People who love to be on the beach, not get those UV rays and love to cry a lot. **Thomas** (00:03:58:18 - 00:03:59:18): Oh yeah. **Chip** (00:03:59:19 - 00:04:07:05): There has to be a market. Just you imagine, just like you've gotten sunscreen in your eyes before. Imagine if Tabasco sauce was also in there. **Thomas** (00:04:07:06 - 00:04:08:22): Yeah, it really is. It's like a. **Chip** (00:04:09:01 - 00:04:10:15): I think people would pay a premium for that. **Thomas** (00:04:10:16 - 00:04:23:05): It's kind of like the perfect alcohol list whiskey. It doesn't really exist. But you're talking about like, you know, you get all of the benefits of a sunburn, right? You get to feel awful. **Chip** (00:04:23:06 - 00:04:32:15): So it reminds you to reapply because you're like, oh, this hurts. And it's like, well, if I don't keep putting it on for the next three days, it's going to hurt like this. **Thomas** (00:04:32:15 - 00:04:38:01): But you're protected from like the cancerous rays. You're protected from all the stuff you don't want. **Chip** (00:04:38:01 - 00:04:43:04): Yeah, but instead you're just getting sweet, baby rays. Maybe because we have. Because we have barbecue sauce flavor. **Thomas** (00:04:43:04 - 00:04:51:03): As well. Of course you have barbecue sauce. What do you think is the biggest downside to barbecue sauce based sunscreen on the beach chip. **Chip** (00:04:51:08 - 00:04:59:04): I think a lot of dogs and squirrels are going to be chasing you. Fox kite coyotes. If you're out in California maybe a lot of. **Thomas** (00:04:59:06 - 00:05:10:15): These coyotes on the beach I think I think seagulls I think seagulls are going to want a sweet taste, especially if it's a premium sauce like sweet baby rays. **Chip** (00:05:10:16 - 00:05:15:23): Yeah, that's going to just come down. You're gonna get some chomps. You're chomps on the torso and the arms. **Thomas** (00:05:15:23 - 00:05:18:03): Your goal bait. **Chip** (00:05:18:05 - 00:05:19:01): Goal bait, baby. **Thomas** (00:05:19:02 - 00:05:36:09): Gary Goldman bait. You got to keep writing. You got to keep writing through it all. Chip. Yep. Well, buddy, let's just get into it. This is the sunburn podcast where we talk about comedy and tropical travel. If you think those two things should go together. Stay tuned. Front desk. **Chip** (00:05:36:10 - 00:05:41:17): Hi, this is Mr. Chantry to room 308. I'd like to reserve the pool from 1 to 4 p.m. today. **Thomas** (00:05:41:17 - 00:05:44:21): I'm sorry, you can't reserve the whole pool for yourself. **Chip** (00:05:44:22 - 00:05:50:20): Oh, it's not just me. I'm having four dolphins delivered at one. **Thomas** (00:05:50:22 - 00:05:53:08): Print up some signs. **Chip** (00:05:53:10 - 00:05:54:03): Great. **Thomas** (00:05:54:04 - 00:05:59:14): We apologize. We missed the episode last week. We had a couple of things going on. **Chip** (00:05:59:20 - 00:06:23:07): Yeah, I had a we had the the internet people coming to our neighborhood. Yeah, just the stormtroopers that they are against our will. Yeah. I decided to upgrade our internet services, which is great, which is fine, which is wonderful. But the whole neighborhoods internet was down last week when we were usually ready to record. So for a number of hours I had no internet. And the best part was they didn't finish the job. So my internet is still not any faster. **Thomas** (00:06:27:22 - 00:06:29:16): Oh, Chip, I'm so sorry, buddy. **Chip** (00:06:29:17 - 00:06:34:20): But you were also a little under the weather, so hopefully, hopefully the rest did. Did a body good. **Thomas** (00:06:34:21 - 00:06:54:08): The universe provides like I will do this podcast through almost anything. And if you're if we were able to technically do it, we would have done it. Sure. But it was the exact day I needed not to wake up at four in the morning and do a podcast. I was a little under weather. We'll get into that in the hypochondriac corner, everybody. Because I was sent to a tailspin. Chip let me tell you what the worst. And it's also so hard we've talked about this before but to be ill right when the weather turns. Yeah. And it's just beautiful and perfect. There is an extra kick in the beans when you start to feel the sniffles coming on. And it's it's beach weather outside ship. **Chip** (00:07:17:11 - 00:07:23:05): That's, it's, it's the worst because then you got the FOMO as well because everybody's out there having a good time and you are stuck indoors. **Thomas** (00:07:23:06 - 00:07:31:14): There's a mental version of yourself that's out there having a great time to, but you just shouldn't be bacon in the sun when you're shaking from a fever. **Chip** (00:07:31:15 - 00:07:32:18): Exactly. Shake and bake. **Thomas** (00:07:32:19 - 00:07:39:21): You don't want to shake and bake. No, you don't want to shake and bake. How have you been doing that? What did you get into this weekend, dude? Anything. **Chip** (00:07:39:23 - 00:07:50:10): Dude, this was a fun we. Oh, weekend of ups and downs. I'll say let's go backwards, okay? Okay. Saturday night I did a did a country club. **Thomas** (00:07:50:11 - 00:07:51:08): A comedy show at a. **Chip** (00:07:51:08 - 00:08:14:09): Country comedy show. At a at a country club. Yeah. And sometimes they're great and sometimes they're Saturday night. You know, it was I worked hard. Yeah. It just it's when it's not in a comedy club, sometimes it's hard, you know this, like where it's just. It's not said it's comedy has to be this conducive thing. And there was just there was a lot of extraneous things happening. People were this is funny. So there's usually the check trop spot. Are you aware of the check drop spot? **Thomas** (00:08:19:00 - 00:08:19:15): Of course. **Chip** (00:08:19:15 - 00:08:37:05): Yeah. It's that Lowell during the headliner set for about ten 15 minutes where they literally drop the checks on people's tables, and then drunk people in the dark have to do math and also listen to you do stand up comedy. Yeah. And so there's a lull. So what you do is you usually tell a story, maybe you do a little crowd work. You're not going to do your material during that time, but, you know, it's sort of a finite amount of time and they pay it. And then it's like, you see, it wraps up. You tell them to make sure you tip the wage, wait staff, of course, and then you move on and you go kill again, for whatever reason, the check drop spot with these people in this country club lasted the entire 45 minutes of my set. Like people were just paying their bills. I don't know what was happening. I, I swear there was a gentleman. And maybe this is what happened in country clubs. There are people with money they're willing to pay twice. I swear a gentleman paid his bill, did the math, did the whole thing with the credit card, sent it back, got about, signed it, did the thing. And then 20 minutes later, the same man did the same exact thing again. I'm like, what are you paying for? Twice? So it was just it was a very distracted crowd that I worked for. **Thomas** (00:09:26:15 - 00:09:32:11): Halfway through his set. He's like, you know what? I'm going to cover my wife's too. I'm going to cover my wife's. Do I think. **Chip** (00:09:32:12 - 00:09:47:18): That's what he decided? I guess we're not going Dutch. So yeah, but no, the guy who puts it on Jeremy is a great dude. Then I get to work with Colin Armstrong, goes on the show, he's a killer. So that was a lot of fun. So it was a good time. But highlight of the weekend for me. **Thomas** (00:09:47:19 - 00:09:48:08): Hit me with. **Chip** (00:09:48:09 - 00:10:12:18): It was Friday night right here in the room that I'm sitting in my basement. We did a super secret comedy show in my 1965 era speakeasy bar basement. We got about 25 people down here for a comedy show for comics. We raised a little money for Paul's, which is a which is an animal shelter in the area. **Thomas** (00:10:12:19 - 00:10:18:15): Also also check your legal first name. **Chip** (00:10:18:17 - 00:10:35:10): Legal first name is dog's foot baby. So when I say we're raising money for Paul's, it's just for me. But it was it was just a it was just like one of those times where you can do whatever you want. **Thomas** (00:10:35:11 - 00:10:36:01): Oh the best. **Chip** (00:10:36:02 - 00:10:56:13): The crowd is bought in there excited. So it's not like I'm not going to do that joke. That might be a little this or that or or whatever, like country club or whatever it might be. Yeah. And I was like, let's just have fun. And it was just a great vibe. We're throwing the drinks back. We did. There was me, David James married me, my buddy Carl, he hosted it and he was blast. It was just it was such a fun time. I will say though, last week and I've been saying this, this I know I've been crazy and I've been saying this and it still happening. Thomas, all week last week I want to say like Tuesday through Friday it was 80 to 90 something degrees every day in the city of Philadelphia. **Thomas** (00:11:19:14 - 00:11:20:00): Yeah. **Chip** (00:11:20:00 - 00:11:38:11): While I was in my basement trying to fix it up, trying to get all the chairs in, moving all the stuff, getting the studio moved out, getting the the show set up. Yeah. Then putting it back, sweating like crazy. Then we had 25 people packed in this basement on a hot. Luckily it was the tail end of it, so it wasn't the hottest, but it was still like 80 degrees. I had an air conditioning unit set up like for four hours before they came in, and then I had to take it out. **Thomas** (00:11:44:10 - 00:11:48:23): Get that nice baseline temp down. Yes. **Chip** (00:11:49:01 - 00:11:54:08): This morning, Thomas, for our podcast, it is currently 37 degrees in Philadelphia. **Thomas** (00:11:54:09 - 00:11:55:04): Oh Chip. **Chip** (00:11:55:05 - 00:11:59:22): It was 90 all last week almost. And it's 37 degrees again. **Thomas** (00:11:59:23 - 00:12:05:09): 37 degrees is what you set the the refrigerator to. Right. That's like classic refrigerator temp. **Chip** (00:12:05:10 - 00:12:10:18): Yeah. I can just leave my, I can just leave my leftovers outdoors and they'll be fine. **Thomas** (00:12:10:19 - 00:12:13:01): Your egg salad won't spoil. **Chip** (00:12:13:04 - 00:12:14:09): No, it will not. **Thomas** (00:12:14:10 - 00:12:18:18): Might attract some. Gary Goldman's it exactly. **Chip** (00:12:18:19 - 00:12:36:02): See Goldman's. I've been saying it for a month. I think Thomas said it was like, oh, we're finally over it. This is the last stretch. Yeah. And it's finally getting warm. I'm hoping that it's this week and it's going to get a little warmer after today. But man, it's just it's I don't think we've ever seen this type of weather. Like we always have a stretch of like a warm day or two. Yeah. I feel like usually in February, which is generally the coldest month, that'll be zero degrees. It'll be whatever. But in February, every once in a while we get a day that, like, pops up to 60 degrees every once 60. Yeah. And this is now we're in April, of course, but like 89 degrees for a stretch and then way back down. We just haven't had this fluctuation. Fluctuation I don't think ever in Philadelphia like this this much back and forth. So I'm saying I'm hoping this is the tail end of it. But I, I'm just I'm the boy who cried wolf anymore. **Thomas** (00:13:08:18 - 00:13:11:18): It's bipolar is really what the weather is right now. **Chip** (00:13:11:19 - 00:13:23:09): My dog is just Franklin is going nuts because half the time he's too hot to go outside and go for a long walk because it's literally too hot out. And the next time I take it for a walk, I'm putting his sweater on him. **Thomas** (00:13:23:10 - 00:13:24:03): Oh my goodness. **Chip** (00:13:24:03 - 00:13:43:20): It's crazy. So anyway, and then I was talking to somebody, my buddy Greg, who was here at the show. We're hanging out afterwards. He goes to Hawaii every year. His wife has like a a medical conference every year, actually, and they go every year at different islands on Hawaii. And we talked about how it's always the same temperature there. It's always comfortable. **Thomas** (00:13:45:09 - 00:14:00:23): It's always a perfect temperature there. And that is the fluctuations, the the discomforts really do allow you to get in a frame of mind to appreciate what a nice island vacation can bring your way weather wise. **Chip** (00:14:01:00 - 00:14:11:19): Exactly. But overall, I want to say the thanks to everybody who came out to the The Basement show. Yeah, it was it was a blast. It's one of the most fun nights I've had in a, in a very long time. **Thomas** (00:14:11:22 - 00:14:15:21): For the 1 or 2 of you that has not been to chips personal home. **Chip** (00:14:15:21 - 00:14:16:11): Right here. **Thomas** (00:14:16:12 - 00:14:41:01): This is it in your in your basement. Their amazing studio set up for the sunburnt podcast. Yep. Amazing setup for a comedy show. Yeah. Also a world class, like retro bar. Oh, yeah. You have a a full bar area. What were you doing with the bar area during the show? Were you were you serving up some Cocker's what was happening there? **Chip** (00:14:41:01 - 00:14:47:18): So this is a very underground thing. So I don't want to say too much. So we say that it's people brought their own stuff. **Thomas** (00:14:47:19 - 00:14:49:11): Yeah. It's just a party. You're not selling it. **Chip** (00:14:49:12 - 00:15:07:15): It's a party. Right. So but we also I wasn't shaking things up and making things the other night, but we just had a couple of nice buckets out there, a couple of nice display buckets with maybe some sodas, maybe some beers, maybe some seltzers. Right, right. People could just take and then people were sitting up at the bar because that's kind of like the back area. So they were the three bar stools watching over the crowd. And they're they're all folding chairs. Yeah. And yeah. So we, we we explored the space. **Thomas** (00:15:17:21 - 00:15:23:19): You did regret the make your own margarita blender station in the show area. **Chip** (00:15:23:20 - 00:15:47:04): Very loud. Very much. It's talk about the check drop spot just. Yeah. Going on again and again. By the way that is one of my favorite things, and I will I try not to make fun of it too much okay. Because like bars are trying to make money. Yeah, but like, you'll be in a comedy club or a, you know, like a show at a bar and there's that loud machine or much worse, I think. And again, bartenders are they're working hard and a lot of them, they're doing a nice job. They have to do their job, but they have the shaker, the silver shaker thing and they're making their yeah, shaking martinis. That's right. But there are definitely guys, bartenders I've seen who make it a show during a comedy show to I'm going to be as loud as possible doing this, and I will call them out on that, because it's just like you're passive aggressively saying you're the bartender. You usually get the attention in this room. Now you're not and you're sad. **Thomas** (00:16:21:15 - 00:16:22:13): So now you have to. **Chip** (00:16:22:14 - 00:16:25:11): You have to make that marg extra loud. **Thomas** (00:16:25:11 - 00:16:37:07): Extra long. Oh, dude, it's so funny. And like, when they're doing the shaking, like, you can't, you can't do the shake with your normal face. Like there is a second face that shows up at your face. **Chip** (00:16:37:09 - 00:16:42:21): Shake face. Yep, there is something you can also shake it. Not not to get too graphic with my visuals. **Thomas** (00:16:42:22 - 00:16:45:12): As Michael Jackson said, shake it, shake it baby. **Chip** (00:16:45:13 - 00:16:58:15): Shake it, shake it baby. You can shake and bake under the bar a little bit, so it's a little like. Then there's the guys that are just like up top here, just like, let me just get it out as much as possible with the world's loudest maracas. **Thomas** (00:16:58:17 - 00:17:01:17): Just lighting things on fire. Yeah. **Chip** (00:17:01:19 - 00:17:02:22): Doing body shots. **Thomas** (00:17:03:00 - 00:17:05:17): Shout out to all the bartenders out there. We know you work hard. **Chip** (00:17:05:17 - 00:17:07:16): You're working hard. Absolutely. **Thomas** (00:17:07:16 - 00:17:12:14): If chips do an art, keep the shaking to a dull roar, please. **Chip** (00:17:12:14 - 00:17:19:00): So how was your weekend? I know you're feeling better. We'll get into that later. Any any fun stuff this this weekend? **Thomas** (00:17:19:01 - 00:17:31:14): Feeling so much better. Very jealous that I didn't get to make it over to Philadelphia for your basement show. We'll be out there someday out there someday soon. But I did a country club a slightly different way. Chip. **Chip** (00:17:31:18 - 00:17:32:10): Oh. **Thomas** (00:17:32:12 - 00:17:58:02): Went to a friend's country club. Okay. They invited us for dinner, and then afterwards. It was so funny. These are, like, the the nicest, classiest people. And of course, they they know me and that I am hopefully very nice, but not the classiest person. So they invited me and my wife to like an underground, dirty comedy show. That was really a world that they were unfamiliar with. **Chip** (00:17:58:03 - 00:17:59:23): So you start at the country. **Thomas** (00:17:59:23 - 00:18:01:22): Club, we start at the country club. **Chip** (00:18:01:22 - 00:18:03:07): Then you cross the tracks. **Thomas** (00:18:03:07 - 00:18:27:18): We literally walked under the freeway, okay. And we go through essentially this back alley, deep, deep, deep. We get into this alley. There is a wonderful retro R-V in there. Love it. A bar that's like more or less outdoors that has two comedians who are like, you know, chilling out drinks for probably time later on or something like that. Of course, this is a world we know very well. It's a bar with like five handles just stacked in the back, and they're kind of like, do you want a double or a single? There's no measuring. **Chip** (00:18:38:12 - 00:18:39:09): No, no. **Thomas** (00:18:39:09 - 00:18:44:12): No no. But they got a two drink minimum called jam in the van. And this is maybe my new favorite place in town. **Chip** (00:18:44:12 - 00:18:46:21): Is this close to your your home. **Thomas** (00:18:46:21 - 00:19:14:22): It's so close. It's so close compared to any other comedy venue I'm aware of. Okay. They do music there and it's just so underground. It brings me back to like our 20s, dude, just running and gunning. It feels like a little spot on the east side was just transported right to the West side. And yeah, dude, we we just saw like there was an opening act that was very crass and I was hanging out with polished, sophisticated, smart people. **Chip** (00:19:14:23 - 00:19:16:02): Upper echelons. **Thomas** (00:19:16:03 - 00:19:21:18): Upper echelons who were just doubled over laughing so hard their tummies hurt. **Chip** (00:19:21:19 - 00:19:23:13): Oh that's great. See, that's good to know. **Thomas** (00:19:23:14 - 00:19:45:00): At just like s the most absurd thing opening act was a band called The Gentle Chose, and they did a whole set. You can look up online. I'm not giving anything away. They only sing songs about one of their friends private parts that happens to be very large. **Chip** (00:19:45:01 - 00:19:46:15): Hey, celebrate it baby! **Thomas** (00:19:46:16 - 00:19:57:15): These guys made it work. The crowd loved it. And then, Chad of Internet Frame, Chad and JT did his Ted talk on how to be stoked. **Chip** (00:19:57:16 - 00:19:58:18): That's a beautiful thing. **Thomas** (00:19:58:18 - 00:20:09:08): The venue though, dude, it just brought me back. It's just like an old rock n roll club or like a dive bar that plays music at night. It just had that smell. **Chip** (00:20:09:10 - 00:20:11:16): Oh, the the sticky floors. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:20:11:16 - 00:20:17:16): The folding chairs, I don't know, it made me nostalgic for a time that I didn't know I missed that much. **Chip** (00:20:17:17 - 00:20:27:12): There was a good times, man. There's. And again, it's just that wild energy. It's not corporate. It's, it's just kids doing making ridiculous art. **Thomas** (00:20:27:13 - 00:20:36:12): They're doing it right as far as I'm concerned. And I will definitely be back and pop in and check it out from time to time. When you get out here, maybe we'll throw a show there. **Chip** (00:20:36:12 - 00:20:37:10): Dude. Let's do it, man. **Thomas** (00:20:37:11 - 00:20:53:06): Yeah, I was really excited. I just didn't know that existed on the West Side period. Like it was it was really, really cool. And it wasn't like it was a big step up from like a backyard show, right? But like, still kept that vibe, that spirit. **Chip** (00:20:53:07 - 00:20:59:01): It's just us. There's no there's no club manager here. Nobody's in charge, really. **Thomas** (00:20:59:03 - 00:21:05:15): You know what I mean? And if they are, they were there products of the system that know how this is supposed to go and feel. **Chip** (00:21:05:18 - 00:21:06:06): Right? **Thomas** (00:21:06:07 - 00:21:24:21): Right. And everybody there, you know, the bartenders, the door people, you know, they're part of their compensation, at least in their mind, is getting to do some time at some point. It's just like, yeah, I just loved it, dude. I just loved it. And everybody there, I think it was because of the act specifically, not necessarily the venue, but everybody there. If you know Los Angeles, there's an East Side. There's a West Side, right. They different. **Chip** (00:21:31:04 - 00:21:32:10): Never the twain shall meet. **Thomas** (00:21:32:11 - 00:21:33:21): Well Chip. **Chip** (00:21:34:02 - 00:21:35:01): We gotta jump in, man. **Thomas** (00:21:35:02 - 00:21:48:18): We gotta jump in, man. Thanks for sticking with us. I hope you guys enjoyed hearing about our weekends, but now we're going to get to to to the meat of what you all wanted to see. This is a segment we call for the algo for. 00:21:48:18 – 00:21:49:19 UNRESOLVED – The go. Where we talk about things in hopes that computers will like it and show it to more people like you. Thank you so much for watching. If you're watching this for the first time, just you're going to have to subscribe. If you want to get more tropical news or hear about our weekends because the statistics are showing, if you don't subscribe, you will probably never see us again. **Chip** (00:22:12:15 - 00:22:16:15): Yeah, we are a blip on your radar. This this goes away forever. **Thomas** (00:22:16:17 - 00:22:22:10): Yeah, and even if you do subscribe, you know it's not going to keep you up to speed as much as you'd hope. **Chip** (00:22:22:10 - 00:22:41:11): I don't know if you saw there's a new CEO. I don't know if that's what they call it, but a CEO of Apple, Tim Cook. Oh, yeah. Yeah, there's a new CEO. Not not I'm not saying anything out of school, hopefully. But I just put a crisp $5 bill inside a hallmark greeting card. And I mailed it to that new CEO of Apple. So hopefully, hopefully we will be seen and heard much, much more regularly. **Thomas** (00:22:49:15 - 00:23:04:04): Yeah. So if you're listening on an Apple centric situation like Apple Podcasts. Yeah. You don't need to subscribe there. You don't need to follow because we're quickly going to rise to the top. We'll probably take over the charts pretty soon already. **Chip** (00:23:04:04 - 00:23:05:20): Grease the palms of the new guy. **Thomas** (00:23:05:21 - 00:23:08:01): Oh, God, that's what you're so good at. **Chip** (00:23:08:02 - 00:23:13:12): You don't take a ratty $5 bill. You take a crisp, a crisp $5 bill. **Thomas** (00:23:13:13 - 00:23:16:09): How do you keep it so it's crisp and so greasy. **Chip** (00:23:16:10 - 00:23:18:01): I have a door. **Thomas** (00:23:18:02 - 00:23:19:19): Oh, man. **Chip** (00:23:19:20 - 00:23:32:12): Okay, here's a very dumb question. I was somebody was talking about uma door the other day. Yeah. For, like, cigars. Right? Yeah. What does a humidor do? Does it keep it dry or does it humid? **Thomas** (00:23:32:14 - 00:23:35:12): I think it keeps it the right humidity. **Chip** (00:23:35:13 - 00:23:37:01): Just the right amount of humidity. **Thomas** (00:23:37:02 - 00:23:39:07): It's the Goldilocks level of humidity. Right? **Chip** (00:23:39:08 - 00:23:39:17): Okay. **Thomas** (00:23:39:18 - 00:23:42:07): All right. But if I had to guess, I would guess dry. **Chip** (00:23:42:08 - 00:23:45:03): Dry, right. I mean, yeah, yeah. You don't want to wet cigar. **Thomas** (00:23:45:04 - 00:23:53:11): Because there effectively leaves. Right. Yeah. Backer leaves rolled up. What happens to a leaf when it's wet? **Chip** (00:23:53:13 - 00:23:54:10): Yeah. It just. **Thomas** (00:23:54:11 - 00:23:58:02): It it decomposes, it folds, it shrivels. **Chip** (00:23:58:04 - 00:23:59:05): It's dry. Right? **Thomas** (00:23:59:07 - 00:24:02:20): Yeah. Yeah, it has to be dry, but maybe you don't want it to dry. I don't know. **Chip** (00:24:02:23 - 00:24:06:05): I told you, I smoke cigars when I was like two years old. Right. Did I tell you that story? **Thomas** (00:24:06:06 - 00:24:11:19): No. You told me you saw a kid smoke a cigarette in a tree house once. Yes. **Chip** (00:24:11:20 - 00:24:28:04): Yes, I do remember that. That was my first cigarette. But we started with cigars. I was like, 2 or 3 years old. And my next door neighbor, Mr. Krupp, is this old retired guy. Really? Kind of like gruff. Almost never smiled, but he was like a nice guy. Do you know what I mean? Like, yeah, it's like nice guy. And his. His wife was this this Lithuanian lady. She was a nurse. So like, whenever, like whenever me or my brother got, like, really banged up, like, fell off her bike and just like, like, we didn't really go to the emergency room. We would just go, like, go over to Mrs. Krupp and she would literally like, put, like, butterfly clips on us or just like, just like she was just the triage. She was the infirmary. **Thomas** (00:24:49:05 - 00:24:52:07): She was great, but she always had to shave the area first. **Chip** (00:24:52:08 - 00:25:09:20): Yep. Exactly. Shave it on down. So Mr. Krupp used to see he was just this retired guy, and he would just sit in his backyard and, like, our back, kind of, like, looked at their side yard so I could see him. And I was right there. I'd be, like, three years old, and he would just sit there like in the summertime. He would just sit there and his like, he would have like shorts on and just like his, his like his undershirt, you know what I mean? **Thomas** (00:25:19:08 - 00:25:20:12): Like just. Yeah, baby. **Chip** (00:25:20:14 - 00:25:24:01): Neck, you know, like a top. **Thomas** (00:25:24:02 - 00:25:28:10): Like like. Yeah. And at a white theater somewhere. **Chip** (00:25:28:11 - 00:25:43:06): Wife beater sat right. And he would just sit there and he would smoke his cigars and just look out into nothingness. And I had this little gruff voice. I'd be like, three years old, and I would. I would walk out of my house and just like, walk over to him. I am is a. Mr. Krupp. And I was like, give me a puff. I like, I would literally say, give me a puff. And he would take his sloppy cigar and just, I'm a I am a toddler. Imagine your daughter just a little bit older than your roughly walking over neighbor, and the neighbor just sticks a cigar in her mouth. And I would go, and I would like puff on it. I would blow on it. I would like little smoke, come out. And then he would just he would think it's funny and then just boom. And like, my parents thought that was just fine. He thought it was just fine. I was just smoking a tobacco product as a three year old, and I put my mouth on it, and then he'd take it back and just do it. And that was just that was just a thing I did on a almost daily basis as a child, as a as a three year old. **Thomas** (00:26:24:14 - 00:26:49:06): Yeah. Well, there's been no ramifications. The only thing I could even remotely think of was maybe the, the mystery collapsed lung or. Yeah, the fact that your father is six foot ten and you're like the height you are and or the fact that you only made it to D3 tennis, despite having all the God given skills and a mind for the game. **Chip** (00:26:49:07 - 00:26:56:15): Yes, I, I was smoking those stogies as a preschooler. Oh man, that might have had something to do with it. **Thomas** (00:26:56:16 - 00:27:00:17): Preschoolers say no to Stokes. **Chip** (00:27:00:18 - 00:27:01:17): Say no to Stokes. **Thomas** (00:27:01:17 - 00:27:06:08): I know it looks fun, but if you're smoking sticks. **Chip** (00:27:06:09 - 00:27:07:07): You're gonna get sick. **Thomas** (00:27:07:08 - 00:27:13:18): You're gonna get sick. Yeah. Oh, listen, we didn't know cigars were bad for babies. **Chip** (00:27:13:18 - 00:27:17:08): Yeah, we thought they were good. We thought they had vitamin C back then. Riboflavin. **Thomas** (00:27:17:09 - 00:27:23:00): And. And I think they are better than cigarettes. **Chip** (00:27:23:02 - 00:27:24:14): I think so, I think so. **Thomas** (00:27:24:15 - 00:27:29:11): I hear smoking is on the way up again. Chip. The kids, they aren't the kid. They're not drinking. **Chip** (00:27:29:11 - 00:27:30:06): They're not drinking. **Thomas** (00:27:30:07 - 00:27:31:13): A lot of them are smoking. **Chip** (00:27:31:13 - 00:27:47:09): I never smoked and I left because like a lot of people, I don't know if you like, a lot of people started smoking in college, like they're away from their families or whatever they're drinking. And so it's like I had friends or smoking. My one girlfriend started smoking. It was gross, nice, and I always just stayed away from it. I just didn't smoke cigarettes. It was the end of my senior year of college. I was like, oh, let me try one. And then I would, I would have a cigarette or two, like while I was drinking, you know? So like I never I don't think I've ever had a cigarette when I wasn't drinking alcohol. **Thomas** (00:28:02:04 - 00:28:02:21): Oh yeah. **Chip** (00:28:02:21 - 00:28:14:22): I would have a couple every now and then in my life. I purchased one pack of cigarettes. It was a pack of camels, and it was for the our 100 day celebration, where you have like 100 days left of before you graduate college. **Thomas** (00:28:15:01 - 00:28:15:18): Okay. **Chip** (00:28:15:19 - 00:28:22:16): We all go out to this bar or whatever. And I was like, I'm buying a pack of six because we're like, I would like bum them from people. And so that was the only pack I ever bought. **Thomas** (00:28:22:17 - 00:28:25:06): How many points did you get for that bad boy? **Chip** (00:28:25:08 - 00:28:31:05): Seven. And I got a sleeve of a windbreaker. I have one windbreaker sleeve. Wow. **Thomas** (00:28:31:07 - 00:28:34:03): With that old camel snout on it, I'm sure. **Chip** (00:28:34:05 - 00:28:50:09): Exactly. And so over the. Then I graduate college. And over the next year again, if I'm out at a bar because there were still smoking in bars, then, like, somebody had a cigarette, I would take one. I'd have like a cigarette or two, like, yeah, but I was never like a smoker smoker. But I did it and I wasn't proud of it. And then one night we were with some college friends. We were at this girl's house that was a friend of ours, and we were all crashing there the night like her parents were gone and we were just kind of having a party. She had a pool. It was beautiful and it was like four in the morning. I am wasted, I am wasted, and me and my my little fraternity brother, my little brother in the fraternity were sitting out there and I was like, I got an idea. Let's put cigarettes out on each other's forearms. **Thomas** (00:29:15:21 - 00:29:16:08): No. **Chip** (00:29:16:09 - 00:29:38:20): Like, brand each other. We'll brand each other. And we did it. And we took cigarettes. We put a cigarette out on each other's forearm. I woke up the next morning and I had a giant blister on my arm, and I said, oh, I'm not mature enough to handle cigarettes. And I never had one again. And I still have a I still have a scar from the cigarette burn on my forearm. **Thomas** (00:29:38:20 - 00:29:42:18): Oh my god, chef. Yeah, I mean, that's a story you can't forget. **Chip** (00:29:42:19 - 00:29:45:10): Talk about classy, classy classy nights. **Thomas** (00:29:45:11 - 00:29:51:16): It's classy, but you can cover up that scar with the sleeve from your seventh windbreaker. **Chip** (00:29:51:16 - 00:29:53:17): Arm wind breaker. Yep. **Thomas** (00:29:53:18 - 00:29:59:20): Yeah. All right, well, if you're still listening, algorithm. We're getting to the good stuff for you. **Chip** (00:29:59:21 - 00:30:01:02): You gotta get to that stuff now. **Thomas** (00:30:01:02 - 00:30:03:22): Yeah, we're getting to that stuff. You ready for this first story, Chip? **Chip** (00:30:03:23 - 00:30:05:08): Let's break it open. **Thomas** (00:30:05:09 - 00:30:17:16): A restaurant closed in 2020 and just reopened in Honolulu, and it's already booked for two months. Solid chip boom. We've had some amazing meals in Honolulu. **Chip** (00:30:17:17 - 00:30:19:01): Many, yes. **Thomas** (00:30:19:02 - 00:30:45:11): But this one sounds like it's pretty special. And we got to get back and try it sooner than later. Yeah. Chef Alan Wong reopened his legendary Honolulu restaurant named Alan Wong's, at the hotel and Resort in early April. So, like, this thing just opened after six years of being shut down. The hotel and resort is right on the other side of Diamond Head from Waikiki. So, like, if you could picture, like we're in Waikiki, you're looking at Diamond Head. If you go like just directly behind that, you get to this resort. It's like. **Chip** (00:30:54:10 - 00:30:55:16): A little more secluded. **Thomas** (00:30:55:18 - 00:31:12:10): It's it's very secluded. It's where like like, I'm pretty sure I've read that if you're Justin Timberlake and you want to go to Hawaii, stay in a Wahoo in a hotel, you're probably staying at the Kala Hala. **Chip** (00:31:12:14 - 00:31:15:02): And if you're Lance bass. **Thomas** (00:31:15:04 - 00:31:18:21): If your Lance bass, you stay wherever you want because you're a man of the people. **Chip** (00:31:18:22 - 00:31:23:02): You're a man of the people. You're probably just staying in downtown Honolulu. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:31:23:04 - 00:31:35:17): When I got to, we stayed Playa Escondida or Playa Escondido. One of the two is where I did my honeymoon with my wife. With my wife was a good person to your honeymoon with you would think. **Chip** (00:31:35:17 - 00:31:36:14): That would move. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:31:36:14 - 00:31:40:07): When we got there, we found out it's where Lance bass did his honeymoon. **Chip** (00:31:40:08 - 00:31:41:01): Really? **Thomas** (00:31:41:02 - 00:31:45:17): He's a man of the people. Down he go. He travels where you and I travel. **Chip** (00:31:45:20 - 00:31:46:22): What a what a good guy. **Thomas** (00:31:46:23 - 00:31:55:22): What? He seems like a good guy, by all accounts, a great guy. It's where a lot of celebrities go. Eight US presidents have stayed there. **Chip** (00:31:56:00 - 00:31:56:19): Really? **Thomas** (00:31:56:20 - 00:32:00:20): Current King Charles took Princess Diana there. **Chip** (00:32:00:21 - 00:32:03:20): Wow, wow. So the artist formerly known as Prince. **Thomas** (00:32:03:20 - 00:32:05:09): The King, formerly known as Prince. **Chip** (00:32:05:10 - 00:32:06:23): Right. So he vacation. **Thomas** (00:32:06:23 - 00:32:16:03): There famously. Some people in his lineage, like older than him in the early 1900s, stayed at the Moana Surfrider. **Chip** (00:32:16:04 - 00:32:20:19): Right? Of course, because it was the only it was the pine box. The only thing that was that was there. **Thomas** (00:32:20:20 - 00:32:27:07): Yeah. The first hotel. People take that steamship, get over there, spend some time and then listen to this for diversity of guests. **Chip** (00:32:27:07 - 00:32:27:23): Okay. **Thomas** (00:32:28:04 - 00:32:34:05): I'm going to give you two bookends here. If people who have stayed. The Dalai Lama okay. **Chip** (00:32:34:09 - 00:32:44:10): Which that can go either way. Because you would either he's going to stay at the most luxurious place, or he's going to stay in a yurt somewhere in the middle of nowhere. So that is a okay, that's a wild card. **Thomas** (00:32:44:11 - 00:32:54:14): On the other end. Oh, and by the way, in writing this piece, did you know that the Dalai Lama is not spelled like the animal? **Chip** (00:32:54:15 - 00:32:58:19): Yes, yes. Or the or the little girl's toy? **Thomas** (00:32:58:21 - 00:33:01:07): I got spell checked. Hard, baby. **Chip** (00:33:01:08 - 00:33:04:02): Yeah, yeah. That's gonna they're gonna throw that back in your face. **Thomas** (00:33:04:03 - 00:33:06:22): Yeah. They were just like you, you stupid. **Chip** (00:33:06:23 - 00:33:09:02): Which is not a very Zen thing to do. **Thomas** (00:33:09:03 - 00:33:11:16): Spell it like I know how to write it, right? **Chip** (00:33:11:16 - 00:33:12:02): Right. **Thomas** (00:33:12:02 - 00:33:19:00): Yeah. Help me be sent to so the Dalai Lama on one end, the king of pop, Michael Jackson on the other end. **Chip** (00:33:19:01 - 00:33:23:11): I mean, he's looking at the man in the mirror, and he is feeling good about himself. **Thomas** (00:33:23:12 - 00:33:28:23): I'm glad. And we talked about the man he was looking at, right. Not what he was doing with the child. **Chip** (00:33:29:00 - 00:33:32:01): No, no, you're not looking in the mirror then, dude. **Thomas** (00:33:32:01 - 00:33:54:06): So. So this restaurant is already booked for two months. Solid. Like you just can't get in if you're, like, showing up this week and you're like, oh, I heard this new place opened up. Yeah, you just can't get in. It used to be on King Street. Ran for 25 years and closed in 2020. I did anything happen that affected restaurants in 2020? **Chip** (00:33:54:07 - 00:33:57:13): Speaking of Kings, I believe Tiger King came out right. **Thomas** (00:33:57:13 - 00:33:57:23): That's it. **Chip** (00:33:58:00 - 00:33:59:22): So everybody was staying in or. **Thomas** (00:33:59:23 - 00:34:00:14): Everybody. **Chip** (00:34:00:16 - 00:34:02:14): Watching Tiger King. **Thomas** (00:34:02:14 - 00:34:14:00): And they didn't have a lot of takeout business at the time. The Tiger King sunk them. But nobody cares about Tiger King anymore. So we're referring up the restaurant, right? **Chip** (00:34:14:01 - 00:34:14:08): Okay. **Thomas** (00:34:14:09 - 00:34:37:20): Yeah. And he was one of the founding chefs of the Hawaii regional cuisine movement. Okay. The other, like a regional Hawaiian chef that I know about, who's very much like, let's make the food with the ingredients that are here on the island that are close to the restaurant is Chef Merriman, who runs the Merriman chain, but also the Monkey Pod kitchen, where you and I. **Chip** (00:34:38:08 - 00:34:39:18): Yeah, yeah. Oh, delicious. **Thomas** (00:34:39:19 - 00:34:47:04): So now there's kind of like, I think, like two big name chefs working right there in this little town. Dude. **Chip** (00:34:47:05 - 00:34:52:18): Friendly rivalry, hopefully friendly rivalry. Just raising the bar for everybody I love it. **Thomas** (00:34:52:19 - 00:35:03:09): Who's winning though? If you can't get into this guy's restaurant Wong's for two months, and you and I and our families were able to. **Chip** (00:35:03:09 - 00:35:04:17): Mosey on in. **Thomas** (00:35:04:19 - 00:35:06:23): We're able to walk into the monkey pot. Dude. **Chip** (00:35:07:00 - 00:35:19:05): Maybe monkeypox. More the man of the people. We don't know, you know? So what's it's going to be that, I like I like the rivalry. And I want to keep up with this. I want to see how they're each doing. So I think we keep up with every, every, every so often. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:35:19:06 - 00:35:40:01): Merriman has a cookbook. I've talked about it before where they teach you how to make things, from the Merriman restaurants and the Monkey Pod Kitchen and a couple of other restaurants he's involved in, but do like specifically some of the fish man, I'm not a fish guy, but like, they have that mac nut crusted fish. Did you have that? You had a fish sandwich or something? **Chip** (00:35:41:18 - 00:35:42:18): I did, yeah, it was very good. **Thomas** (00:35:42:19 - 00:35:43:23): Yeah. Do you remember what Kim had? **Chip** (00:35:43:23 - 00:35:45:11): I don't offhand, I wish I did. **Thomas** (00:35:45:12 - 00:36:05:10): I can't remember off the top of my head. But like the hitters. And then they had the bigger tacos. The tacos was the talking point of the meal. Of course, we had the monkey pod. My size. Not in the book, right. But they have the actual recipe for those tacos, and it's not as easy to make as you'd think. **Chip** (00:36:05:10 - 00:36:12:16): So you're saying it's not as easy to be one of the biggest chefs on one of the most beautiful resort places on earth? **Thomas** (00:36:12:16 - 00:36:14:05): I don't think it's that easy, Chip. **Chip** (00:36:14:06 - 00:36:14:15): Okay. **Thomas** (00:36:14:16 - 00:36:22:03): All right. It's. It seems simple, but, like, I use their exact recipe, and I messed it up, baby. **Chip** (00:36:22:04 - 00:36:23:04): Yeah, yeah. **Thomas** (00:36:23:05 - 00:36:40:02): All right, next story, buddy. Air New Zealand just announced bunk beds and economy class with a bookings opening next month. That's going to be a may available. Or I don't know if like they'll actually be available in May, but you could start booking them in May. **Chip** (00:36:40:03 - 00:36:41:14): You can't bunking it in May. **Thomas** (00:36:41:15 - 00:36:49:22): According to the Matador network, Air New Zealand announced the economy. Sky nest sky nest is a pretty good name for this. **Chip** (00:36:49:23 - 00:36:51:10): It is. It is fun. **Thomas** (00:36:51:11 - 00:36:58:05): Air New Zealand is the same airline that introduced the couch. The air couch. Have you heard of this? **Chip** (00:36:58:06 - 00:36:58:15): Yes. **Thomas** (00:36:58:16 - 00:37:06:04): Yeah, the air couch is where they let you pay a premium, get the whole row, and then kind of turn that into a bed. **Chip** (00:37:06:04 - 00:37:15:00): And I believe Spirit Airlines is the one they introduced the air futon. **Thomas** (00:37:15:02 - 00:37:26:14): So it's only available as far as I know, on the New York City to Auckland flight, which is 17 freaking hours long, buddy. **Chip** (00:37:26:15 - 00:37:30:20): Wait, so it's only offered up, like, what are they doing with the bunk beds on other flights? **Thomas** (00:37:30:21 - 00:37:42:18): Well, I think they just use those planes. I think these are the planes. They might expand it, but it's like they're like, let's take our longest flight, 17 hours in an airplane. What's the longest flight you've ever taken? Dude, can you remember? **Chip** (00:37:42:20 - 00:37:57:23): The longest I've been on a plane is the first time. When I was 12 years old, I flew to Los Angeles and there was delay of six. It was a six hour delay, and we were on the plane the whole time, and then another five hours out there. So it was like 11 hours. So I will say I was lucky. He was one of those giant planes like the ones that we flew to Hawaii on. Yeah. And the plane, thankfully it was a Thursday night and it was just a couple of drunk businessmen and then like, be my family. And so it was literally like at like a quarter capacity. So like each had our own row. We could basically just lay down and and sleep, which was kind of nice. **Thomas** (00:38:19:13 - 00:38:21:07): Why did they do that on the tarmac? **Chip** (00:38:21:08 - 00:38:42:15): Dode the navigator's chair wouldn't swivel correctly, and they thought that would be dangerous if the navigator up in the cockpit had to, like, swivel from one screen to the other. That was the cause of a six hour delay, because they had to fly a another chair down from JFK airport, and there was fog in JFK airport and they. Yeah, it was yeah, it was a whole thing. But okay, here's here's my question about so do you just get the bunk bed so there's no seat. Is that correct? It's just a bed. **Thomas** (00:38:55:19 - 00:38:59:08): That's my understanding. I had trouble parsing that information from the article. **Chip** (00:38:59:09 - 00:39:07:16): Part of me loves it because it's like I can just lay down for 17 hours. That's more comfortable than sitting for those hours, right? I don't know. **Thomas** (00:39:07:17 - 00:39:13:18): Infinitely more comfortable. And you have your own bunk, like, think, think like tour bus bed. You pull a sheet. **Chip** (00:39:13:19 - 00:39:14:16): Closed. **Thomas** (00:39:14:19 - 00:39:19:17): You're lying there flat. You can watch your screens. You know how I love to watch my screens? **Chip** (00:39:19:20 - 00:39:24:21): I would I I'm into that man. I want to go to New Zealand now. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:39:24:21 - 00:39:31:19): Yeah, yeah, I think I was thinking about it. I was like 17 hours lying flat and I was like, you can get up and walk around if you want to. **Chip** (00:39:31:20 - 00:39:34:00): Sure. Because you'd have to get the blood flowing a little bit. **Thomas** (00:39:34:03 - 00:39:40:00): Yeah. You got to get the blood flowing, but like I can I'm a lounge lizard, baby. I could. **Chip** (00:39:40:02 - 00:39:47:18): I could lay around for 17 hours. Yeah. I'm good for you, New Zealand. I mean, you give us Taika Waititi and now the bunk bed on the airplane. **Thomas** (00:39:47:19 - 00:39:50:00): The island that keeps on giving. **Chip** (00:39:50:01 - 00:39:51:07): Shep really does. **Thomas** (00:39:51:08 - 00:39:52:05): Yeah. **Chip** (00:39:52:07 - 00:39:54:16): What we do in the shadows of the third bunk. **Thomas** (00:39:54:17 - 00:40:02:02): We have been calling this one for a long time. Next story. We're living in pain. Cassian nation. **Chip** (00:40:02:02 - 00:40:03:05): Pancasila nation. **Thomas** (00:40:03:06 - 00:40:13:22): Americans are feeling poor. They're feeling the pain at the pump. They're feeling the pain at the grocery store. They're feeling the pain in their utility bills. **Chip** (00:40:13:23 - 00:40:20:09): If I can quote Dinosaur Jr, I feel the pain in everyone. **Thomas** (00:40:20:11 - 00:40:26:00): I asked you not to quote any more juniors, Chip. That's true. I want seniors, I. **Chip** (00:40:26:00 - 00:40:27:04): Want apologies all around. **Thomas** (00:40:27:05 - 00:40:46:19): I want trendsetters, not trend followers quoted on this podcast. People they're having to tighten their belts, they're having to make modifications to their life because the income and what they can afford with said income is not what it used to be. Baby. No. And Americans are still going on their luxury trips. **Chip** (00:40:46:19 - 00:40:50:13): We have priorities, and our priorities is to get out of dodge. **Thomas** (00:40:50:13 - 00:41:16:09): The hierarchy of needs is to vacation. Right now we need that escape. So people are literally like forgoing eating out at restaurants. They are cutting back on like cable, like their their entertainment options. They are the sum of the places you think might be the last for Americans to cut back. They are cutting back first in order to protect that week in Hawaii. Isn't that incredible, dude? Is that it is speaking to the power of what a vacation can offer. **Chip** (00:41:22:03 - 00:41:25:14): Of the recharge that it gives you and the extent, the life experience. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:41:25:15 - 00:41:35:00): And as we found out and have been preaching for a long time, it's not just the vacation man. When you are planning the vacation, the lead up to it can be just. **Chip** (00:41:35:02 - 00:41:36:08): Then it's the memories. **Thomas** (00:41:36:09 - 00:41:39:08): Gives you something to look forward to, gives you something to look back. **Chip** (00:41:39:08 - 00:41:41:21): On, motivate to get in shape for. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:41:41:22 - 00:42:13:18): It is just such a positive thing. People are knowing it. Omaha today is reporting that triple A public affairs specialist, Brian Ortner, says spring break and Easter travel numbers confirm trips remain a top consumer priority in 2026, despite measurable shifts in energy markets and gas prices. The analysis shows. Travelers are not canceling trips. They are significantly cutting spending in other budget categories to keep travel plans intact. **Chip** (00:42:13:18 - 00:42:17:12): If the Ortner saying it's true, I'm believe in the Ortner. **Thomas** (00:42:17:13 - 00:42:33:00): Yeah, dude. Brian Ortner noted specialist but I thought that was really exciting for us as the number one tropical travel comedy podcast on the planet that people are feeling what we're feeling. **Chip** (00:42:33:00 - 00:42:39:22): I will say the numbers in my Avocado Toast podcast way down these past few months. Way down. **Thomas** (00:42:40:00 - 00:42:46:20): Yeah, yeah. You don't. People are trying to save that green. And I'm not just talking about avocados. **Chip** (00:42:46:21 - 00:42:49:02): No, they're not just talking about that guac. Yep. **Thomas** (00:42:49:07 - 00:42:53:12): Because I mean, how long do those stay green anyways? **Chip** (00:42:53:13 - 00:42:56:17): Not as long as the memories of a Hawaiian vacation. **Thomas** (00:42:56:19 - 00:43:07:03): Okay, buddy. Next story. This is a weird one. That dude that charged $6.2 million for the banana tape to the wall. Do you remember this stunt? **Chip** (00:43:07:05 - 00:43:12:18): Yeah, he duct taped a banana to a wall in an art gallery. And then church. Six. 6 million for it. **Thomas** (00:43:12:20 - 00:43:15:20): Do we think that's art or a scam? How, what what do we feel about that? **Chip** (00:43:15:21 - 00:43:18:07): I think it's the art of the scam, and I appreciate it. **Thomas** (00:43:18:07 - 00:43:19:16): I think it's the art of the deal. **Chip** (00:43:19:16 - 00:43:20:17): I'm going to write a book about. **Thomas** (00:43:20:17 - 00:43:34:04): That might be the Art of the peel. It's what it is. But yeah. So this guy knows how to take how to extract wealth from which rich people, which I also think is an incredible skill. **Chip** (00:43:34:04 - 00:43:35:19): That's so much fun to do. Yes. **Thomas** (00:43:35:20 - 00:43:44:20): Can you imagine the satisfaction of having $6.2 million, but also knowing it's because you gave people a dollar piece of fruit taped with duct tape? **Chip** (00:43:44:21 - 00:43:48:12): The satisfaction alone is is worth every penny in the bank. **Thomas** (00:43:48:13 - 00:43:58:17): Yeah, but I will say, I think it's a one trick pony, and you might need to stop taping fruit to things. It's not like it's not saving, as you call it. **Chip** (00:43:58:17 - 00:44:05:06): I mean, I will say if I, if I got 6.2 mil for taping a banana, I'm going to try it at least once more, at. **Thomas** (00:44:05:06 - 00:44:05:17): Least. **Chip** (00:44:05:18 - 00:44:09:12): Even if a bombs. Hey, give it to the old college trash. **Thomas** (00:44:09:13 - 00:44:16:10): So Vanity Fair is reporting that conceptual artist. Mari Zio. **Chip** (00:44:18:04 - 00:44:19:08): Catalan.. Mario Batali. Mario Batali? **Thomas** (00:44:21:08 - 00:44:25:00): Yes, it's Mario Batali. Staged a 400 person silent gala for the Chicago Renaissance Society on Wednesday, April 9th, 2026. Framing the entire evening is a work of art. **Chip** (00:44:37:17 - 00:44:42:22): It's like fancy dinner. Yes and no sound. Everybody has to shut up. **Thomas** (00:44:42:22 - 00:44:44:09): It's got to be very quiet. **Chip** (00:44:44:10 - 00:44:48:22): First of all, what's he doing? You know, it's it costs a pretty penny to do this. **Thomas** (00:44:48:23 - 00:44:49:13): Yes. **Chip** (00:44:49:13 - 00:45:08:11): So he's getting the upper echelon of the Chicago elites. Yeah. And he's giving them a dinner, but he's telling them you have to shut your mouth. Yeah. Again, it's kind of like scamming a rich person out of 6 million for a banana. You're going to have this meal, you're going to sit there, you're going to shut up and you're going to eat it. **Thomas** (00:45:08:11 - 00:45:17:09): It's almost like, cosplaying as a loser in middle school lunch, right? You're surrounded by people. Nobody wants to talk to you. **Chip** (00:45:17:09 - 00:45:24:16): I've never had to pay for a quiet dinner after a really awkward moment in my childhood home. Do you know what. **Thomas** (00:45:24:16 - 00:45:25:07): I mean? **Chip** (00:45:25:09 - 00:45:32:17): Where you just. Yeah, some. Some strong words were thrown, and then everybody just sits there silently and finishes their meatloaf. **Thomas** (00:45:32:18 - 00:45:32:22): Yeah. **Chip** (00:45:32:23 - 00:45:34:05): And like. And I got it for free. **Thomas** (00:45:34:06 - 00:45:42:01): Well, why is it art when it's a diner and it's just commerce when that same options available in your Uber. **Chip** (00:45:42:01 - 00:45:42:12): Right. **Thomas** (00:45:42:12 - 00:45:45:05): I don't think if Uber's done it you can call it art. **Chip** (00:45:45:06 - 00:45:52:14): I think this guy plays what art is and that's the scam. And that's the art of the scam for him. And I just I love I love what he's doing. **Thomas** (00:45:52:15 - 00:46:01:20): It's the art of the peel. This dude also apparently is famous for one other stunt a golden toilet. He made. Chip. **Chip** (00:46:02:01 - 00:46:02:13): Yes. **Thomas** (00:46:02:14 - 00:46:05:20): I believe he sold a big old pile of gold. **Chip** (00:46:05:20 - 00:46:08:23): And did you? Did you see what he named that toilet? Do you know the name of it is. **Thomas** (00:46:09:00 - 00:46:09:20): No I don't. **Chip** (00:46:09:21 - 00:46:21:13): It's called America. It's true. It's amazing. I think we need to. I want to follow this guy more. I want to, I want to encourage him in all of his ways. **Thomas** (00:46:21:13 - 00:46:43:11): I love it. I love these out there shucking and driving. I love that he's doing his thing. But it is just like such a bold and interesting position to find yourself in, where you have manifested this belief that your ideas are so powerful and like, spread it out to other people where they're willing to follow you, right? Right. It's fascinating. I can't believe he separated somebody from $6.2 million. And I can't believe he got 400 people to go eat in silence and think that was a value add a prestige piece, that this was art. This guy is doing some big things, and it seems like he's only taking advantage of the wealthy, which great. **Chip** (00:47:07:07 - 00:47:11:23): I, I love it, I applaud him and I'm going to follow his works more closely now. **Thomas** (00:47:12:01 - 00:47:34:07): Huzzah! All right. This one's exciting. Dude. We've been talking about the Cayman Islands, and the Grand Hyatt is opening a new resort opening May 1st. This bad boy is staggering. It's got 71,000ft of combined indoor outdoor event space. **Chip** (00:47:34:12 - 00:47:35:04): Nice. **Thomas** (00:47:35:04 - 00:47:41:07): What would you even do with that much event space on, like a sick tropical island? **Chip** (00:47:41:08 - 00:47:43:23): I mean, first of all, pickleball right there. **Thomas** (00:47:44:01 - 00:47:46:04): Yeah. You got to play a little pickleball. **Chip** (00:47:46:04 - 00:47:51:07): Pickleball, roller skating rink. Bowling alley. Okay. **Thomas** (00:47:51:09 - 00:47:52:02): Yeah. **Chip** (00:47:52:03 - 00:47:56:11): Disco. Not a dance club, a disc, a 1970s disco. **Thomas** (00:47:56:14 - 00:47:57:17): I like it. **Chip** (00:47:57:17 - 00:47:59:02): That's the the big four. **Thomas** (00:47:59:03 - 00:48:03:01): It's kind of like the premise for that movie. Blank check. Do you ever see blank check? **Chip** (00:48:03:02 - 00:48:10:11): I'm aware of it. I think it was with the with the little boy from Family Ties. I think if I'm, if I'm correct. **Thomas** (00:48:10:12 - 00:48:10:21): It could. **Chip** (00:48:10:21 - 00:48:11:20): Be a little scamp. **Thomas** (00:48:11:20 - 00:48:27:02): I don't know the, the actors involved, but I do remember it's like a child ends up with a blank check and is able to, like, just buy whatever he wants. Sure. And I feel like that's essentially what's going on on some of these big hotels. **Chip** (00:48:27:02 - 00:48:30:11): They're not having to claim any of this too. So I think they're going to go hog wild. **Thomas** (00:48:30:11 - 00:48:34:18): Anything you could potentially think of just kind of shows up there, buddy. **Chip** (00:48:34:18 - 00:48:35:10): I'm into it. **Thomas** (00:48:35:10 - 00:48:56:12): And also like, I mean, we've talked about Grand Cayman, but like, it's just supposed to be so nice. I had a friend that went like a month ago clean, safe, a lot of like, things you think about sometimes, you know, there can be some islands that you're a little feel, a little you just don't know, maybe a little sketchy about. Maybe you've heard some reports, maybe crimes on the way up. That's not this place. And that's why the Grand Hyatt is doubling down on the experience they can offer there to people. And I, for one, I mean, I just want to go there. **Chip** (00:49:10:17 - 00:49:14:02): I'm ready to book my bunk bed seat and fly on down. **Thomas** (00:49:14:02 - 00:49:37:04): I just want to go there. We have started looking into doing it. Came in? Yes, in Paradise stop on the In Paradise tour. And dude, I'm hoping we can pull it together and make it make sense. It's not the closest island. No, it is a little bit of a jaunt. But what? You pay for that distance. I mean, I wish I could get a bunk bed flight out there. **Chip** (00:49:37:04 - 00:49:41:11): I just want to fly in a bunk bed. I mean, when it all boils down to it, that's what I want to do. **Thomas** (00:49:41:12 - 00:49:43:07): You've always just wanted to fly. **Chip** (00:49:43:08 - 00:49:44:16): You're sleeping bunk beds, Thomas. **Thomas** (00:49:44:17 - 00:49:50:08): Hell, yeah. Me and my little brother had bunk beds until we were in seventh grade. I think eighth grade, something like that. **Chip** (00:49:50:09 - 00:49:55:15): As did my brother and I, until. Yeah, I think we were in. Yes, six or seventh grade. Same thing. Yeah. Bunk beds. **Thomas** (00:49:55:16 - 00:50:12:01): It was sick, dude. Yeah. Like I didn't really appreciate the time. And even when I did get my own room, like, I moved out, got my own room, I still miss the bunk bed experience. Like, that was fun. And then you get to have it every once in a while. Like at camp, I went to the sleepaway basketball camp and there were bunk beds there. In the middle of the night, somebody was on the top bunk and just like, rolled over. Yeah. And I heard a little rough and it, like, almost happened in slow motion because like, some of his senses kicked in, but he's rolling over and he grabs the edge of the mattress as he's falling off, and it's just not quite enough to hold him there. And he just spins around. And then once the gravity was strong enough, just boom. And then the mattress lands on top of him out of a dead sleep. Dude, I can't imagine anything more jarring than hitting a dirty cabin floor in the middle of the night after. **Chip** (00:50:55:18 - 00:50:58:01): They had a mattress land on top of you. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:50:58:02 - 00:51:21:12): And then have mattress. Yeah. I was just like, at that point I was like, oh, who okayed these teeny tiny bunk beds? You want your bunk bed to be a little wider or have a strong rail system? This was a legitimately, maybe smaller than twin size mattress, right? No railing on either side. Just in the middle of a room, like there was three bunk beds. One that had a wall over here. Center one, no wall on the other side. That's where he was. Third one over here. Wall on that side. **Chip** (00:51:29:07 - 00:51:30:23): You need the wall. You need one wall. **Thomas** (00:51:31:00 - 00:51:42:04): You at least need the wall. And then a rail, baby. Yeah, we're all about bunk bed safety here at Air New Zealand. If you haven't figured this out, put a little safety baked in. **Chip** (00:51:42:06 - 00:51:43:17): Put a little love in your heart to put. **Thomas** (00:51:43:17 - 00:51:45:09): A little bake a little safety. **Chip** (00:51:45:10 - 00:51:46:20): Put a little big and a little safe. **Thomas** (00:51:46:22 - 00:51:49:21): Put the oven to 365 bacon a little safety. **Chip** (00:51:50:03 - 00:51:52:03): Make it a little safe chip. **Thomas** (00:51:52:04 - 00:51:58:10): This next one is one of our favorites. Billy Strings is in the news. Yep. Not for what you hope for. **Chip** (00:51:58:11 - 00:52:07:22): Sad news. Sad. Tragic. Tragic. Please. I hope the listeners, the viewers are sitting down right now. Yeah, because he is. **Thomas** (00:52:07:22 - 00:52:15:22): I dude, it's like this is one of the most remarkable things, dude. Billy Strings, bluegrass superstar. Like what? Maybe the best guitar player on Earth. **Chip** (00:52:15:23 - 00:52:16:19): Yeah, probably. **Thomas** (00:52:16:19 - 00:52:21:01): And like the dude in interviews and stuff, he just seems like the coolest dude. **Chip** (00:52:21:02 - 00:52:23:00): Yeah. Like, just everybody loves him. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:52:23:01 - 00:52:37:21): He he he was raised to be a bluegrass musician. He's like, he's very technical. He's very competent. He's a virtuoso on his instrument. But you have a different attitude when you're expecting to be a bluegrass star than a rock star. **Chip** (00:52:38:00 - 00:52:38:16): Yes. **Thomas** (00:52:38:19 - 00:53:05:10): This guy just seems chill as hell. Like you can hang out with him and he's very, very cool. And he's so good at music and he's also a big time skateboarder dude. Yeah. So he finishes a set. He's playing a frickin arena in Charlottesville, Virginia on April 19th. And you know, you know what artists do? They play a bunch of songs. They go away for a little bit, and they come back and play a couple more songs. The big ones, the ones you haven't heard yet. So he's in that time, and I guess he had a separate stage where he does his encore from so like, and he has to get to it behind the scenes. He brings his skateboard to get from stage to stage. So he's just cruising while he's cruising. It's a functional skateboard trip, but he's doing a couple of tricks. He does a backside 180, a trick. He says he's, you know, nailed millions of times, not even one of the ones he thinks about. Right. And he falls in over the sound of the audience, over the sound of the the he hears his leg snap. Chip. **Chip** (00:53:49:20 - 00:53:52:18): There's a there's a there's a noise right there that you don't forget. **Thomas** (00:53:52:19 - 00:53:54:01): Isn't that wild. **Chip** (00:53:54:05 - 00:54:00:02): That he is? Thousands of fans ready, pumped up, ready to go. Listen to him and he's on the floor. **Thomas** (00:54:00:04 - 00:54:04:19): Dude, I think it makes it so much worse that it's a trick he's done a million times. **Chip** (00:54:04:20 - 00:54:06:22): Of course, it's not like he's. This is not Evil Knievel. **Thomas** (00:54:06:23 - 00:54:16:14): Yeah. You're just like. You're just like, why? When you hurt yourself doing something that, like, feels like it should be simple. There's an extra level of how stupid you feel. **Chip** (00:54:16:15 - 00:54:17:09): Of course. **Thomas** (00:54:17:10 - 00:54:27:00): Yeah. And then the other piece of this story is that Dave Grohl, back in the day, broke his leg during a show, right? **Chip** (00:54:27:02 - 00:54:28:08): He had a big old thrown. **Thomas** (00:54:28:08 - 00:54:35:07): In the aftermath of that, he had the big old thrown. So he's already reached out to Billy Strings and said, hey, man, you want the throne? **Chip** (00:54:35:09 - 00:54:40:23): Here's here's the thing. Unfortunately for Billie, he's going to be laid up for a couple of weeks at least. **Thomas** (00:54:41:05 - 00:54:44:03): Oh, I mean months. Yeah, right. **Chip** (00:54:44:05 - 00:54:50:16): The good news for us is now he has nothing to do but sit around and noodle on the guitar. He's only going to get better. **Thomas** (00:54:50:17 - 00:55:02:08): In the man belly. We hope he get back to shredding every way possible. Real sound? Yes. Last story here for the algo. Dude. Fish is at the sphere, buddy. **Chip** (00:55:02:09 - 00:55:23:06): Dude, I got some buddies going. The band fish is playing the sphere in Las Vegas. It's. It's got to be wild. I've seen some clips from it. It's. And I mean, I've been to close to 25 fish shows. Yeah. I mean, I have friends who have seen hundreds, but I've been to. And you don't need the sphere to make it a great show. **Thomas** (00:55:23:09 - 00:55:23:20): No. **Chip** (00:55:24:01 - 00:55:32:04): It's a hat on a hat, but just two crazy, amazing hats. Like the experience has to be wild in there. **Thomas** (00:55:32:05 - 00:55:34:07): Would you go if we could figure out some tickets? **Chip** (00:55:34:08 - 00:55:38:20): Of course, but I they've been sold out, I believe, for a long time. And they are. **Thomas** (00:55:39:00 - 00:55:43:16): The good news about sold out sphere shows is it means there's going to be more severe shows. **Chip** (00:55:43:17 - 00:55:44:09): That's true. **Thomas** (00:55:44:09 - 00:56:02:01): That is you can't you can't not do it costs so much money to put the show together in the first place. And if it works, you got to keep doing it. You got to keep doing it because like millions and millions of dollars, it's the most expensive place to perform in the world, right? Because you have to have a bespoke visual. Yes, show behind you that that can only be used at the sphere. **Chip** (00:56:06:21 - 00:56:11:09): Right. And they are such an improvizational band that. **Thomas** (00:56:11:10 - 00:56:12:09): Oh that's interesting. **Chip** (00:56:12:09 - 00:56:28:01): So it's hard to like you're not going to be like, all right at this song, you're going to do this thing and this thing like it just goes off forever. And they have and I, I don't know if and I've been a little out of the loop rightly, but like, they're lighting guy. This guy, Chris Corona was their lighting guy for years. And I think he still is okay. But regardless of who it is, like he is almost as much of the band as they are because like, he plays the lights and all the stuff along with what they're doing. So if it gets really loud and crazy, he goes loud and crazy. If it brings it down, he brings it down so that he does that. So I wonder how much, if at all, that that he is doing or that he designed their lighting guy did with the sphere because obviously it's it's got to be a different, you know, it has to be a little bit more planned. So yeah. **Thomas** (00:56:59:03 - 00:57:09:06): I didn't think about that. But that's very true. It's like I think there's obviously things you can do that are going to be cool, that don't need to be exactly with like specific riffs or something. **Chip** (00:57:09:06 - 00:57:13:14): Right? Like I think you could just have lighting elements and design elements and that type. **Thomas** (00:57:13:15 - 00:57:34:15): Yeah. It's just like it fits the groove. They're going to get into fits the groove they're going to get into. I went and saw we talked about before Backstreet Boys at the Sphere. Yes. And you know, one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. Yeah. Just the what that what that venue can do. Just blew my mind. Dude, it was so fun. **Chip** (00:57:35:23 - 00:57:41:07): I gotta tell you, Thomas, have you seen Backstreet Boys of the sphere? You've seen fish at the sphere. It's the same thing. **Thomas** (00:57:41:09 - 00:57:41:19): Oh. **Chip** (00:57:41:23 - 00:57:46:01): They're the same band. They're actually the same. It's four of the five members. **Thomas** (00:57:46:02 - 00:57:47:03): A lot of overlap. **Chip** (00:57:47:04 - 00:57:54:10): It is a lot of overlap. It's them. They just put the instruments on and they go for it. So yeah, the. Yeah. Backstreet Boys and fish. Same. Same basic. **Thomas** (00:57:54:10 - 00:58:00:14): Band, same basic. Oh. So it's just a continuation of what's already working I love it. Hats off to you. **Chip** (00:58:00:16 - 00:58:01:19): You backstreet fish. **Thomas** (00:58:01:20 - 00:58:09:03): And the Madison Square Garden Group, which I believe owns the place. Well, Chip, that's it for for the algo. **Chip** (00:58:09:03 - 00:58:13:02): For the algo. Thank you, robot overlords. Hopefully you enjoyed some of that. **Thomas** (00:58:13:03 - 00:58:19:17): All right. Now it's time to take a quick trip to Hypochondriac Corner. I'll be quick because this one's a little gross. **Chip** (00:58:19:18 - 00:58:20:14): Lay it on me. **Thomas** (00:58:20:15 - 00:58:41:06): The hypochondriac in me felt a little. A little pain right here. And within a matter of hours, it grew to a big pain right there. That's rough, a throbbing headache, but it was just in one spot. It felt like I'd been almost like a gunshot wound size hole. Yeah, right in the head. I went to sleep that night in the middle of the night. The pain drifts over here. **Chip** (00:58:42:19 - 00:58:44:02): That is disconcerting. **Thomas** (00:58:44:02 - 00:59:04:02): It's disconcerting because I don't even know what's over there. Like, I, I'm just like, okay, it's probably a sinus thing, but if it's over here, I don't think the sinuses are over there. No. And then by the morning it had worked its way over here to. And like it hurts to the touch. It's super painful. I'm taking like a Sudafed. I'm taking flowing. I'm taking all the stuff you're supposed to take. And it's not helping at all. I get a little pain relief with Advil and of course, I'm running through my mind. What could this be? Is this a blood clot that's slowly working its way into my brain? Am I going to be. **Chip** (00:59:20:19 - 00:59:23:07): Those those floating tumors? They're talking about. **Thomas** (00:59:23:08 - 00:59:38:10): The floating cancers that move around. Just everything pops in my mind. Like, why is it traveling? Why is this? Why can I feel the pain moving from place to place? Why is it going high and low? It was hurting so bad that I was like shocked my vision was intact. **Chip** (00:59:38:11 - 00:59:41:07): Oh my God, that's that is. That is frightening. **Thomas** (00:59:41:08 - 00:59:56:12): Yeah. So I finally go to the doctor. They tell me after like 3 or 4 days of toughing it out, go to the doctor. My wife's like, you have to go. Yeah. And I find out I have sinusitis chip. **Chip** (00:59:56:13 - 00:59:58:00): Oh the the old itis. **Thomas** (00:59:58:01 - 01:00:24:10): A good old sinus infection. But like I'm telling her what's going on and how like my air passages are pretty much clear. Except I still have this pressure and the doctor keeps me in like, okay, okay, okay, okay. This is. Yeah. We're we're worried about. It's slipping into pneumonia. We're worried about, you know, an infection spreading because it can leave your sinuses and move other places if you don't treat it fast enough. Right. So I got put on some aggressive medications chip. Okay. And but like, my mind's running wild with all these possibilities that a professional has told me, can happen given my current situation. Right. So I'm taking all the medications and things don't get better at all. Two days heading into my third day, I wake up and I'm. I take a sniff in and I feel some movement. Something in there is ready to move. **Chip** (01:00:55:14 - 01:00:55:23): Okay, that. **Thomas** (01:00:55:23 - 01:01:07:12): Might take it. I take a sneeze, my first real sneeze in a while, a bunch of gunk falls out. Yep. And when I tell you it's the worst thing I've ever smelled. **Chip** (01:01:07:17 - 01:01:08:17): Oh, no. **Thomas** (01:01:08:18 - 01:01:12:00): It is the worst thing I've ever smelled. And it's emanating. **Chip** (01:01:12:01 - 01:01:13:18): Sneezed it out. You sneezed it out? **Thomas** (01:01:13:21 - 01:01:23:11): I sneezed out the first round, but it sticks out. And when something stinks inside your nose, like I can't even really explain it. It's nothing I ever thought could even. **Chip** (01:01:23:13 - 01:01:24:16): There's no getting away from. **Thomas** (01:01:24:16 - 01:01:41:12): It when the smelly thing is in your nose. And I continue to sneeze it out for like, or blow it out for the next, like, hour and a half. Two hours. Yeah, but it was so foul. But once it was out, dude. Yeah, I was pretty much pain free. And then I just had to deal with being feeling sick. **Chip** (01:01:41:14 - 01:01:48:10): That's why. Just like, that's like aliens type level of the little guy. Like, popping out of your chest. Do you know what I mean? **Thomas** (01:01:48:10 - 01:01:52:15): Like a little bit. Yeah. The facehugger to the chest burst. **Chip** (01:01:52:17 - 01:01:55:03): But but it worked its way out. That is. Well. **Thomas** (01:01:55:03 - 01:02:02:05): It works its way out thanks to the meds. And then once it happened, it did. But like, it's just. That's a funny idea to me. Yeah, that's. **Chip** (01:02:02:08 - 01:02:05:13): Just the worst smell inside of your nose. **Thomas** (01:02:05:13 - 01:02:13:17): It's almost a form of torture. Like putting something stinky, like deep inside. Somebody knows. Yes. So that's it. And I'm fine. **Chip** (01:02:13:18 - 01:02:18:09): Everything's good. Glad you're feeling better and going through that harrowing thing. It's very man. **Thomas** (01:02:18:10 - 01:02:42:18): I know. And I actually like, you know, I. We didn't do the podcast. I did relax a little bit. Like, I feel the most rested I felt in a long time. So silver lining. And you know, I'm always dreaming. I'm always dreaming about things we can do, cooking up some new ideas. And you're going to be finding out about some of the new ideas I cooked up while I was hopped up on medicine from a sinus infection. **Chip** (01:02:42:22 - 01:02:44:10): It's the wave of the future. **Thomas** (01:02:44:11 - 01:02:46:07): We start to feel a little splashing. **Chip** (01:02:46:13 - 01:02:47:02): Yeah. **Thomas** (01:02:47:03 - 01:02:54:04): We start to feel a little splashing. We start to smell a little whiffed of salt water because it's time for the fish. 01:02:54:04 – 01:02:57:00 UNRESOLVED – Of the week. This is the fish of the week. Our hero of. The deep. **Chip** (01:02:58:21 - 01:03:01:06): I come to you with a warning. **Thomas** (01:03:01:08 - 01:03:02:16): Oh. **Chip** (01:03:02:18 - 01:03:24:00): And a just just a just a some excitement, but just also words of wisdom for you. Okay? Okay. Hit me with Thomas. I know you're a married man, but if anybody here is single and in especially any fish listening out there, if you were in the pool, if you were in the dating pool. **Thomas** (01:03:24:06 - 01:03:24:21): Yeah. **Chip** (01:03:25:01 - 01:03:27:11): You might want to swipe left on this next one. **Thomas** (01:03:27:12 - 01:03:30:21): Oh, no. After Black Widow. **Chip** (01:03:30:23 - 01:03:37:10): Exactly. Is our fish of the week. Is Deborah the yellow stripe chorus. **Thomas** (01:03:37:12 - 01:03:40:13): Okay, doesn't sound so bad on the the surface. **Chip** (01:03:40:14 - 01:03:50:01): And she does. She's not too hard on the eyes either, but you may want to swipe left on Deborah the yellow stripe chorus. Because she is beautiful but she crazy. **Thomas** (01:03:50:03 - 01:03:51:16): Oh no. **Chip** (01:03:51:18 - 01:04:14:07): Okay, Thomas, much like your favorite sandwich, Deborah is a foot long. She has yellow stripes. Obviously it's in the name, but she's pink and orange. She's like a bumblebee at Mardi Gras. Thomas. She is just black and yellow stripes and just lots of other colors dappled in there wearing those beads. She's going crazy, but she's not in New Orleans. Thomas. She lives in Hawaii, but she is not in vacation mode at all. **Thomas** (01:04:21:07 - 01:04:23:06): No aloha vibes. **Chip** (01:04:23:08 - 01:04:48:08): Deborah's eyes this yellow stripe. Chorus. Her eyes are always moving day and night. 24 hours are always on high alert, looking for threats and also pray it's just darting around eyes. Thomas, if you were at a big Hollywood Hills party with Debra and you were talking to her, she would definitely be looking over your shoulder for that next big star to come in that Timothy Shalom. Or to put it in fish terms, maybe that Lance bass. She's going to be looking over her, her your shoulder at all times maybe flippers walking in. We don't know. Okay. Yeah. Now again, like I said, she's bright and colorful and she's also got a nice trim figure, but it's not from her diet. She eats like a animal, which she technically is, but she eats like a quiet animal. She's not just nibbling off of the the the little seaweed and stuff like that. She is eating sea urchins. Crappie will see her sea urchins, crabs, worms, mollusks. She's eating mollusks of every type. She crunches right through those shells. She doesn't give an F, and that F stands for fish. He anything that shells, she'll crack right through with those teeth and go right in. Okay? She also doesn't swim. She's a fish. Who decides I don't need to swim? She's gonna row. She just what? Rows around with her little pectoral fins or little oars? Just rowing around, just eating mollusks like there's no tomorrow. She is crazy. And at night, Thomas, you go on a let's say you do swipe right. You go on a nice date with her. Yeah. After she's done eating those mollusks and those sea urchins, she is just going to disappear on you. She's gonna ghost you. Because what these yellow stripe choruses do is at night, they just dive in headfirst into the sand and burrow themselves in there for the rest of the evening if they ever feel danger or just nighty night time, they literally bury their heads and the rest of their body into the sand. And she is not coming out. So the good news is, you don't have to drive her home because she just finds a home in the sand. And Thomas, that is Deborah, your yellow stripe. Chorus. Beautiful but crazy. **Thomas** (01:06:49:17 - 01:07:01:02): Oh my God. Yeah, she's crazy like everything you're saying. Munching through the glass or munching through the shells. That's that's like a crazy lady who starts eating the glass. **Chip** (01:07:01:08 - 01:07:02:08): Exactly. **Thomas** (01:07:02:09 - 01:07:10:09): And then this ghosting is just like a first date. Somebody locks themselves in the bathroom. The restaurant's closing. They're still not coming out, right? **Chip** (01:07:10:13 - 01:07:13:21): Oh. Spends 45 minutes in a men's room in Las Vegas. **Thomas** (01:07:14:02 - 01:07:15:05): **Chip** (01:07:15:07 - 01:07:16:19): Crazy behavior. **Thomas** (01:07:16:19 - 01:07:21:09): It's only a red flag if they haven't been smoking Stokes cigars. **Chip** (01:07:21:10 - 01:07:21:19): Right. **Thomas** (01:07:21:20 - 01:07:24:06): That's off our hero of the deep. 01:07:24:07 – 01:07:26:04 UNRESOLVED – Fish of the week, Deborah. **Chip** (01:07:26:05 - 01:07:28:06): The yellow stripe chorus. 01:07:28:08 – 01:07:30:01 UNRESOLVED – That's so exciting. **Thomas** (01:07:30:03 - 01:07:31:11): All right, now it's time for. 01:07:31:11 – 01:07:33:05 UNRESOLVED – The good book. The good book. **Chip** (01:07:33:05 - 01:07:38:22): Open up that good book. Thomas, what do the good people of Guinness have in store for us today? **Thomas** (01:07:39:03 - 01:07:53:02): Okay, Chip, the Good Book tells the tale of a man who swam into shark infested French Polynesian waters with nothing but swim fins for 47 overs. 01:07:53:02 – 01:07:54:09 UNRESOLVED – Chip. Whoa. Stephan Lehr, an Austrian, because apparently Austria breeds people who don't fully start living until they hit ocean water with only fins. No sleep in an open ocean off the coast of Moorea. I need you to guess the distance in miles. Chip that this Austrian, not so hungry man Finn swam without stopping. **Chip** (01:08:19:18 - 01:08:21:21): So for 48 hours is that we. Said. **Thomas** (01:08:22:02 - 01:08:25:14): 47 hours and in a miles. Chip. **Chip** (01:08:25:16 - 01:08:32:05): Yeah. I mean, you can't go that fast. You're swimming. I'm going to say like like 30 miles. **Thomas** (01:08:32:07 - 01:08:39:13): Oh, buddy. He went 139.8 miles. Chip. **Chip** (01:08:39:14 - 01:08:40:07): What? **Thomas** (01:08:40:08 - 01:08:48:23): That is going from Philadelphia to New York City and. Back three times. **Chip** (01:08:49:01 - 01:08:50:14): Oh my God. **Thomas** (01:08:50:16 - 01:08:54:19): In the ocean, in fins with sharks. **Chip** (01:08:55:01 - 01:08:59:20): Okay, in his defense, yes. If I was swimming with sharks, I would swim pretty fast as well. **Thomas** (01:08:59:21 - 01:09:30:23): Yes. No, you got to move when you're in there with the sharks. This happened in 2019 from November 7th to November 9th. Austrian swimmer Stephan Lehrer Fin swam 139.8 miles through open waters off the coast of Moorea, French Polynesia. We talked about it 47 hours and 30 minutes, supported by only a safety boat, shattering the previous record by almost double. Wow layer battled ocean currents, night swims in the open water and zero sleep for nearly two full days. The safety boat crew reportedly had to keep talking to him during the night hours to confirm he was still conscious, and not just fins up on autopilot. Yeah, mores waters are warm and beautiful and also full of reef sharks, lemon sharks and the occasional tiger shark chip. **Chip** (01:10:02:11 - 01:10:15:05): I gotta say, it would be embarrassing and I'm glad I would assume that he made it out alive. It has to be a little embarrassing to get eaten by a lemon shark. Do you know what I mean? It doesn't. It doesn't sound like the most dangerous shark. 01:10:15:06 – 01:10:15:14 UNRESOLVED – Out there. **Thomas** (01:10:15:14 - 01:10:20:14): It sounds like a shark that should just be used as a garnish to eat other sharks. 01:10:20:16 – 01:10:21:03 UNRESOLVED – Yeah. But he spent 47 hours just looking to all these sharks. Like a dark blob that was smuggling grapes. Just a little tasty snack. Yep. After approximately 30 hours of nonstop thinning hair support team noted that he had developed a fully involuntary kicking rhythm, meaning his his legs were just going on autopilot while his conscious brand was completely checked out doing something else. **Chip** (01:10:50:07 - 01:10:53:17): He literally restructured his wiring in his brain. **Thomas** (01:10:53:17 - 01:11:20:19): It was just going, going, going. And, Guinness fin fin swimming rules prohibit any propulsion assistance other than fins themselves, meaning he could not touch the safety boat. He could not hold a rope or draft in the wake at all, so his support crew had to follow him for 47 hours of swim fin pace, which is, you know, just just a really slow slog, dude. **Chip** (01:11:20:22 - 01:11:21:17): Yeah. **Thomas** (01:11:21:18 - 01:11:37:14): Hats off the hair. Yeah. 47 hours, 139.8 miles. Just swimming with his fins in the open waters through shark infested water. That is my new definition of masculinity, chip. **Chip** (01:11:37:16 - 01:11:39:13): Leave it to the Austrians. Man. **Thomas** (01:11:39:17 - 01:11:47:23): Did they get wild in the water. We've seen some Austrians set other records too. It's like insane. I think they love the ocean, baby. **Chip** (01:11:48:00 - 01:11:57:09): I think it is. Well, I think they are. I believe they are a double landlocked. No, I guess they're not double landlocked. But they are. They are a landlocked nation. So they want to get out there and. **Thomas** (01:11:57:11 - 01:11:59:19): They got something to prove. Yeah. **Chip** (01:11:59:21 - 01:12:01:07): Use it wisely, I love it. **Thomas** (01:12:01:07 - 01:12:05:18): All right, buddy? What did you find in the good book for us this week? **Chip** (01:12:05:19 - 01:12:16:18): All right, Thomas, my record is a lot more laid back than yours. Thomas. We all know that. You put it all over out there on the internet. You love long walks on the beach. **Thomas** (01:12:16:18 - 01:12:18:04): I love long walks on the beach. **Chip** (01:12:18:05 - 01:12:27:11): Well, buckle up, fella, because we are going to the Praia do Casino in Brazil, the world's longest beach. **Thomas** (01:12:27:12 - 01:12:31:21): Oh, come on a length, Lord, you were going by the ocean. **Chip** (01:12:31:22 - 01:12:38:06): You are gonna walk on a length Lord, if you go down to Brazil. Thomas. **Thomas** (01:12:38:08 - 01:12:38:17): Yeah? **Chip** (01:12:38:18 - 01:12:55:01): I want to ask you. I want I want you to guess how many miles long you think Praia do casino in Brazil is. And I will tell you not to blow up your spot. That Manhattan Beach in California is 2.1 miles long. **Thomas** (01:12:55:02 - 01:13:03:12): Oh, my God, that's exactly what I was thinking. Is the longest beach I've ever seen. So I'm going to go. You know what I normally triple. **Chip** (01:13:03:12 - 01:13:07:17): And so this is length. This is not depth of the beach but like yes shoreline. Yes. **Thomas** (01:13:07:18 - 01:13:07:23): Yeah. **Chip** (01:13:07:23 - 01:13:12:00): That makes the shoreline apparently of Manhattan Beach is 2.1 miles. **Thomas** (01:13:12:01 - 01:13:27:16): I normally triple. I'm going to quadruple for this. Like the I think of the longest thing I know about. And I add three times for my world records guesses I'm going for. So we're going to go it's going to bring us in. I'll go in even ten miles, chip. **Chip** (01:13:27:17 - 01:13:33:15): Ten miles, very close, 158 miles. **Thomas** (01:13:33:16 - 01:13:35:18): Long straight beach. **Chip** (01:13:35:20 - 01:13:41:08): Straight beach 158 miles. Do you know how many kilometers that is? **Thomas** (01:13:41:09 - 01:13:41:22): I have no. **Chip** (01:13:41:22 - 01:14:06:23): Clue either, do I? It doesn't matter. It's 158 miles long. The Praia do casino beach in in in Brazil. It starts at the Rio Grande seaport and goes all the way down the coast to Uruguay. Is Brazil on Brazil's South Atlantic coast. So you picture Brazil there sticking out. It's the South Atlantic coast goes. **Thomas** (01:14:07:00 - 01:14:09:17): That's absurd, dude, that's absurd. **Chip** (01:14:09:18 - 01:14:33:10): 158 miles. It also holds a record setting race. It holds the world's largest beach ultramarathon. They don't go the full length, but they go most of it 142 miles on sand. Thomas, can you imagine running 142 miles at a clip, but on sand, not on nice solid ground, terra firma? **Thomas** (01:14:33:12 - 01:14:33:23): **Chip** (01:14:34:01 - 01:15:10:18): 142 miles in sand. It's crazy. The pride du casino was certified by the Guinness Book in 1994, and since then, people are like, we gotta check this out. They have actually taken photos of it and they've seen it on space. You can see this beach from space. That's how big it is. So, Thomas, if you ever, ever on the Praia do casino, make sure you're wearing your nicest Speedo because the astronauts may be looking down at you from the International Space Station. Sun it on up in beautiful old Brazil at the Praia do casino, the world's longest beach. **Thomas** (01:15:18:19 - 01:15:20:02): All right, man. **Chip** (01:15:20:04 - 01:15:25:19): What a place to go. I would, I bet you on the 4th of July. It's still pretty crowded. **Thomas** (01:15:25:20 - 01:15:40:02): Dude. It's got to be. And just like this episode was very crowded. We gotta run. This is the sunburn podcast where we talk about comedy and tropical travel. Until next time, stay burnt. Front desk. **Chip** (01:15:40:03 - 01:15:45:09): Hi, this is Mr. Chantry in room 308. I'd like to reserve the pool from 1 to 4 p.m. today. **Thomas** (01:15:45:10 - 01:15:48:14): I'm sorry, you can't reserve the whole pool for yourself. **Chip** (01:15:48:15 - 01:15:52:12): Oh, it's not just me. I'm having four dolphins delivered at one. **Thomas** (01:15:52:14 - 01:15:56:07): It's a quorum pool. **Chip** (01:15:56:09 - 01:15:57:22): They don't like getting dirty either.