Jimmy Buffett Saved Colin Jost, A $50 Coffin Hotel & A Rooster You Sleep In | Sunburnt Podcast Ep 63

**Thomas** (00:00:00:01 - 00:00:23:19): You can taste the sweet, sweet joy of spending a night. A short walk away from the beach in Waikiki for just $50 in evening. There was a man watching a video on his phone at full blast of a crying baby. Colin Jost nearly drowned surfing four foot waves in Saint Barts. The man who saved him was none other than Jimmy Buffett. That's a real story. We're going to dig into it, buddy. It is a buffet. A 24 hour buffet. It's a Dracula buffet. It's sunny here in the studio, which I'm feeling good about. What up? Burnt ones. This is the sunburn 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 stand of special Move Closer. It's Chip Chantry. 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. Because it's great to be in the tropics with your boys. So Tony's sitting there in the kitchen, just at the table, just weeping. Oh, just like like full on body convulsing, crying. Oh my gosh. You hear the sirens outside. So you hear all the sirens. Yeah. There's a knock at the door. He goes running into the living room. The whole family's there. The police walk in, and just in a moment of desperation, Tony just lunges for the cops. Gun in his holster. Blackout. Wow. And that is how season three of Who's the Boss ended. Oh my gosh. I've never seen a lot of these older shows, but that sounds intriguing. Yeah, yeah, sounds like something people would talk about for a long time. It's really pretty amazing. Yeah. Oh, actually, we're already started, dude. Oh, hey. What up, burnt ones? This is the sunburn podcast, where we talk about comedy and tropical travel, and we got a heater of a show up. We have a space heater of a show. Let me tell you what we're getting into. Summer is right around the corner and ships going to walk us through some inspirational summer memories I have some. Waikiki has a brand new $50 a night hotel just steps away from the sand, and you won't love why it's so affordable. A Nerd wallet report says Americans are being priced out of the Caribbean. We disagree. We might just give NerdWallet a swirly. Scrounge the gouge. According to experts, this hurricane season will be weaker than chips free squat. **Chip** (00:02:27:03 - 00:02:30:19): These thighs are getting skinny.. **Thomas** (00:02:30:21 - 00:02:41:08): Researchers nearly 6000ft below the Galapagos discovered a golf ball size blue octopus and chip. The scientists who found it go absolutely ham. **Chip** (00:02:41:09 - 00:02:44:03): They go wild. **Thomas** (00:02:44:05 - 00:02:56:06): Colin Jost nearly drowned surfing four foot waves in Saint Barts and Chip, the man who saved him from that angry sea, was none other than Jimmy Buffett. That's a real story. We're going to dig into it, buddy. **Chip** (00:02:56:07 - 00:02:59:01): We're going to uncover that covered story. **Thomas** (00:02:59:02 - 00:03:00:11): We've got Buffett facts. **Chip** (00:03:00:11 - 00:03:02:05): Fish of the week. Fish of the week. **Thomas** (00:03:02:05 - 00:03:08:07): And we crack open the good book for some world records that will shatter your perception of reality. **Chip** (00:03:08:11 - 00:03:11:04): Time and space will no longer exist. **Thomas** (00:03:11:05 - 00:03:34:18): The Trouble in Paradise hotline is open. You can leave us a voicemail about your insane vacation. Your craziest vacation story. We want to hear it. We want to break it down. Call us at (310) 845-6038. And I don't want to, like, tell tales out of school, but you might be greeted by a very interesting slash familiar voice. **Chip** (00:03:34:20 - 00:03:36:12): I'm very excited to hear this. **Thomas** (00:03:36:12 - 00:03:40:17): And with that being said, ship, it's time to get things kicked off with an old fashioned slather, Bud. **Chip** (00:03:40:18 - 00:03:46:12): Let's slather it up, Tommy. Protecting. Protecting those bodies from the UV rays. **Thomas** (00:03:46:13 - 00:03:47:22): Oh, we got to. **Chip** (00:03:47:23 - 00:03:49:14): Slap it on that SPF. **Thomas** (00:03:49:17 - 00:03:51:01): How'd the shows go this weekend? **Chip** (00:03:51:01 - 00:04:00:23): Fun shows, man. Rainy, rainy, cold weekend in Philadelphia. But that pushed everybody inside to the clubs. And we had a lot of fun. **Thomas** (00:04:00:23 - 00:04:01:16): That's great. **Chip** (00:04:01:16 - 00:04:03:16): Dude, how was your weekend, man? You went to the beach, right? **Thomas** (00:04:03:17 - 00:04:11:20): Oh, yeah. Dude, hit up the beach. Had a nice little BBQ. No, no rain to speak of out here in a sunny Los Angeles. **Chip** (00:04:11:21 - 00:04:17:01): Very jealous, very jealous. But it's it's sunny here in the studio, which I'm feeling good about. **Thomas** (00:04:17:02 - 00:04:29:12): And it's sunny in my mind because we're taking that perspective. This is the sunburn podcast where we talk about comedy and tropical travel. If you think those two things should go together. Stay tuned. Front desk. **Chip** (00:04:29:13 - 00:04:37:06): Hi, this is Mr. Chantry in room 308. I saw the sign that says you must be wearing at least some clothing in the Jacuzzi downstairs. **Thomas** (00:04:37:08 - 00:04:38:00): Yes, that's. **Chip** (00:04:38:00 - 00:04:40:19): True, but I didn't notice a sign that said that on the treadmill. **Thomas** (00:04:40:23 - 00:04:45:21): It goes for everything in the hotel, Mr. Chantry. **Chip** (00:04:45:23 - 00:04:47:05): Bunch of puritans. 00:04:47:10 – 00:04:47:20 UNRESOLVED – Chip. Happy summer, Thomas. **Thomas** (00:04:49:00 - 00:04:53:00): Happy? I mean, it's not officially summer yet. It's getting close. It's right around the corner. **Chip** (00:04:53:00 - 00:05:00:00): I think this is my favorite time of year. Just as somebody who was obviously a student for many years and then a teacher for many years. 00:05:00:01 – 00:05:00:14 UNRESOLVED – Oh, yeah. End of June. Yeah. Once Memorial Day hits, obviously unofficial start of summer, but it's just like you feel the kids winding down in school, even though I'm not there and you still have the whole summer to look forward to. The weather's getting nice. Yeah. This is it's it's graduation season. It's it's wedding season. It's every everything's happening. Everything's in full bloom. Thomas. Yeah. All is right with. I mean, most things are wrong with the world, but all is right with summertime. Thomas. **Thomas** (00:05:29:01 - 00:05:40:20): Yeah. Everybody loves a little summer. Summertime. Famously, Will Smith from Philadelphia had that great tune about the season, I think. I think your whole community really embraces summertime. **Chip** (00:05:40:20 - 00:05:43:06): The place called The Plateau is where everybody goes. **Thomas** (00:05:43:07 - 00:05:43:20): Is that true? **Chip** (00:05:43:20 - 00:05:45:09): I've been there once or thrice. **Thomas** (00:05:45:09 - 00:05:47:08): Maybe not everybody goes, but everybody's been. **Chip** (00:05:47:09 - 00:05:49:00): We've been barbecue. And I will say that. 00:05:49:01 – 00:05:50:00 UNRESOLVED – Oh, Ben. **Thomas** (00:05:50:01 - 00:05:50:17): Barbecuing. **Chip** (00:05:50:18 - 00:06:08:18): If I had to pick, like, maybe my favorite aroma of all time. Like, think about the smell that you have. That is the weather. It's like a food or just something in nature. Might be that first strong charcoal grill smell of the season. It's got to be the best. **Thomas** (00:06:08:18 - 00:06:12:10): I prefer myself a little Hawaiian Tropic. **Chip** (00:06:12:14 - 00:06:13:20): Yeah that. **Thomas** (00:06:13:22 - 00:06:16:01): I mean I think I think that's it for me. **Chip** (00:06:16:03 - 00:06:16:19): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:06:16:19 - 00:06:35:02): Yep. We we grilled it up this weekend. We grilled it up strong. Yeah. Great to have a nice BBQ. The first the first one of the season. Feels good. Yeah I had burgers. We had sprats. We had spicy Italian sausages. Chips are a real sunburnt affair. We enjoyed the heck out of it, man. **Chip** (00:06:35:02 - 00:06:35:16): It's beautiful. **Thomas** (00:06:35:16 - 00:06:39:00): But summer is right around the corner, as you were saying. **Chip** (00:06:39:00 - 00:07:03:11): I just get so excited. Like I said this time of year and I was going down memory lane. Yeah, Google Maps took me there and I was just thinking about my summer memories. And I think that they're just I think every kid had these same memories and you forget about them unless you're put back in that place. And I think sometimes the rat race of everything we do, we don't think about those just long, slow dog days of summer that we just had. The the world was our oyster when we were kids riding bikes around for sure. So I just kind of want to go through some of my favorite memories as a kid. I'm sure you'll relate to this, but just just again, riding your bikes, playing baseball all day, your parents don't know where you are. You're just running around wild, you know, because we're kids at night catching fireflies, and your dad is just out in the shed for hours. You remember that shed that nobody else was allowed in? **Thomas** (00:07:29:23 - 00:07:30:11): Yeah. Yeah, yeah. **Chip** (00:07:31:00 - 00:07:54:15): You just be in there and or and just. There's no school ever. So there was no school nights so you could stay up late. Your friends would sleep over. Yeah, maybe a tent out in the backyard. And then your dad would bring a friend into the shed, and he'd be in there for a while. And then after a few hours, only your dad comes back out because he says that his friend is taking a nap and that he'll probably wake up and leave once you go to sleep. Remember those days? **Thomas** (00:07:55:20 - 00:07:58:20): I mean, not not that specifically. That's. **Chip** (00:07:58:21 - 00:08:20:19): Well, yeah, I mean, but I think I think in general maybe you didn't have that experience, but I mean, even just but there was also work. But you loved doing the work. You'd have to weed the garden. You'd mow the lawn. Dad would always be fixing up the house because it was time to do those home improvements. Like he'd be down in the basement for hours in the basement bathroom with the door closed, just running the table saw for hours because he's fixing the plumbing down. **Thomas** (00:08:20:19 - 00:08:23:18): There in the table saw for the plumbing. **Chip** (00:08:23:20 - 00:08:35:16): Kind of got to cut the pipes and stuff. So, I mean, just it just fun times, you know, or even. But dad wasn't all work. You know, you play games with you and your brother, he play pirate treasure. Do you remember playing pirate treasure when you're a kid? **Thomas** (00:08:35:17 - 00:08:36:13): Now tell me about it. **Chip** (00:08:36:14 - 00:08:52:11): He pretend to be a pirate. He'd be like, there's a treasure chest out there in the field behind the row of pine trees. How about you and your brother? Go dig a big hole and look for it. Hole about four feet deep, about six feet wide. And you'd. You'd look for a pirate treasure. And it never found anything. But it was just fun to dig that, dig that hole in the back. **Thomas** (00:08:55:19 - 00:08:57:16): And it had to be that size. **Chip** (00:08:57:17 - 00:09:10:19): I mean, it was a big chest, apparently. I mean, we we had to cut we had dug a lot of holes, but we never actually found anything. But it was just we're we're getting work, we're getting exercise in. And it was, it was it was excitement. It was summertime. **Thomas** (00:09:10:20 - 00:09:14:12): Yeah. Yeah. Like this. This is all sound a little bizarre. **Chip** (00:09:14:16 - 00:09:28:07): I mean, you grew up, you grew up on the West Coast. This is more of a, I guess, like an East Coast summer, you know? Well, I mean, you probably went you probably went fishing. You're definitely a good fishing. Yeah. I mean, you just go out on the boat with you and your brother and your dad, just, like, way out in the water. You have the boat, you have the rods and the tackle box, the the lunch that mom made, plus that heavy duty duct tape trash bag that your dad would bring that was full of what felt like turkey legs and blankets and you would throw it overboard to it would apparently attract the fish. **Thomas** (00:09:43:20 - 00:09:45:20): So something sounds off here. **Chip** (00:09:45:21 - 00:10:06:03): Well, I mean, you know, I mean, not everybody's a fishing fan, like I understand, but just. And I just remember the heat. I mean, obviously it's hot now, but back then we didn't nobody had central air back then. And it was just you just dealt with the heat and you only had those window units, the, the only room in the house for us that had air conditioning was my parents bedroom. And then that little room next to the bedroom where your dad kept all that, you know, all that random jewelry and those shoes and those old dentures that he sort of had displayed in that little room. You had to keep it air conditioned to make sure all the stuff was, you know, being kept. Well. **Thomas** (00:10:22:23 - 00:10:25:19): Chip, we. Were you ever scared of your dad? **Chip** (00:10:29:05 - 00:10:46:21): No. He's a great guy. He's a lot of fun. Had to go on a lot of business trips. Again, he spent a lot of alone time. It spent a lot of time reading newspapers, you know, crime reports and things like that. But, you know, other than that, he was around and it was just fun. But it was just that summer feeling. He would just do all of those fun things all summer long. And then and then every September, all good things must come to an end. You'd have to move to a new town. You would change your last name from like, Anderson to Jenkins, and then you'd start school. **Thomas** (00:11:02:19 - 00:11:05:21): I think. Dude, something's feeling off about your dad in these stories. Like, yeah, you every every summer, every year. You guys moved. **Chip** (00:11:15:01 - 00:11:34:12): Yeah. You would move, you change names, you get to pick a new name in the last name, and then you start a new school. Yeah. That's right. So anyway, happy summer, everybody. Those are my summer memories. I'm sure you have a lot of the same. And just good old times this time of year in the heat. Happy summer everybody. **Thomas** (00:11:34:14 - 00:11:41:07): Happy summer. Everybody. All right, Shep, **Chip** (00:11:41:09 - 00:11:43:17): Should we get right to it? Thomas? **Thomas** (00:11:43:19 - 00:11:53:20): Yeah. Let's get let's get to it. I'm going to change. Gotta. I gotta sage the room mentally. I'm going to take another hit here. Take another snow. **Chip** (00:11:53:22 - 00:11:56:02): Another. Another slather. Maybe I'll do that too. 00:11:56:02 – 00:11:58:12 UNRESOLVED – Just right. **Thomas** (00:11:58:14 - 00:12:08:00): Yeah. We're getting we're getting into a buddy. All right. Okay, I'm charging up. I'm firing back. **Chip** (00:12:08:03 - 00:12:09:03): Feeling good? **Thomas** (00:12:09:07 - 00:12:13:13): All right, everybody, this is a segment. We call for the algo. **Chip** (00:12:13:16 - 00:12:17:04): This is for the algorithm. **Thomas** (00:12:17:06 - 00:12:24:23): Where we talk about tropical travel and general news that we think the algorithm will like, but the burnt ones will like even more. **Chip** (00:12:25:00 - 00:12:26:00): Absolutely. **Thomas** (00:12:26:01 - 00:12:36:21): First story buddy. You can taste the sweet, sweet joy of spending a night a short walk away from the beach and Waikiki for just $50 in evening. **Chip** (00:12:36:21 - 00:12:38:23): Is that 50 Hawaiian dollars? Thomas? **Thomas** (00:12:39:00 - 00:12:47:14): The currency of the United States? These United States of America? 50 bucks, 50 bonds. The downside is you're basically sleeping in a coffin. **Chip** (00:12:47:14 - 00:12:50:01): All right. Okay, give and take. **Thomas** (00:12:50:03 - 00:13:13:00): The first Cabin International is Hawaii's first capsule hotel, a Japanese imported micro sleep format that treats your bed like a business class seat, not a room chip. Can you picture what I'm talking about? I'm talking about, like, picture a tour bus bed. You know, you got a little bunk. There is like, no, there's no door. There's just like a little curtain. There's no private bathroom, there's no nothing. But you are a short walk from the white sands of Waikiki for 50 bones and Evening. How are you feeling about it, buddy? **Chip** (00:13:24:10 - 00:13:29:08): I mean, I'm feeling pretty good, though. The wife's going to be a little snug in there. I think the two of. 00:13:29:08 – 00:13:30:00 UNRESOLVED – Us think so. I mean, if we don't have to split that, I mean, but, you know, maybe maybe we'd splurge and each get our own bunk. **Thomas** (00:13:35:03 - 00:13:40:00): I mean, wouldn't it be great to not sleep in the same space as your wife on vacation. **Chip** (00:13:40:00 - 00:13:52:10): In separate drawers? Basically, these are basically. These are basically drawers. Thomas. If I'm not if I'm not mistaken. Yeah. You are in Hawaii. You're in Waikiki or in Paradise, sleeping in a drawer. 00:13:52:12 – 00:13:53:08 UNRESOLVED – There's a. **Thomas** (00:13:53:10 - 00:14:11:07): There's an episode of Seinfeld where Kramer, like, has an oversize like a cabinet of drawers, and he ends up renting them out to Asian businessmen to sleep in one drawer of his, one drawer of his dresser. **Chip** (00:14:11:09 - 00:14:16:19): I mean, if there's anything we know about Kramer, it's. He's. He was the head of his time, business wise. **Thomas** (00:14:16:20 - 00:14:18:23): Also very delicate racially. **Chip** (00:14:19:00 - 00:14:19:22): You know, very delicate. **Thomas** (00:14:19:22 - 00:14:24:01): The man had his finger on the pulse. Really appropriate. And what? **Chip** (00:14:24:03 - 00:14:43:21): Really? Yeah, he he he saw what was coming down the pike. He I I'm kind of all for this. Yeah. Because if you can't get to Hawaii another way, you're in Hawaii. Why like, why spend time in your hotel room? You're in Paradise. Go out on the beach. **Thomas** (00:14:43:21 - 00:15:09:02): No, I think I think so. And I think that's the biggest barrier to entry to taking this trip. When you go to Hawaii, like, even if it's only a couple of days, oftentimes your number one expense is going to be lodging. It's going to be the hotel where you're staying at. And if you can be that close to the action for 50 bucks and you, you know that that is an important part of your planning, like trying to spend a little less money, like go have the experience. Yeah. The only thing I'm a little worried about is safety. Okay? There are no doors that lock. There is no nothing. It's just kind of like all these rooms have basically a sheet separating you from anybody else that's staying in the hotel. **Chip** (00:15:21:00 - 00:15:28:14): Kind of like in a sitcom when, like, people like brothers would get angry at each other and they would just put, like, duct tape down across. And then. **Thomas** (00:15:28:15 - 00:15:29:05): Yeah. **Chip** (00:15:29:06 - 00:15:40:13): I mean, that's. So you're basically staying with your angry older brother in a sitcom. I like, where where do you keep your stuff? That's one thing I worry about is they're like a locker for your for your suitcase. **Thomas** (00:15:40:13 - 00:15:44:04): There's a locker situation where you can wrap your stuff up a little bit. **Chip** (00:15:44:05 - 00:15:51:12): And also you have to I mean, it is Hawaii. You do have to hang that suitcase up high to keep the bears away. **Thomas** (00:15:51:13 - 00:16:05:21): Yeah. That's true. I did see another issue I saw was like one of the pictures had a TV in the room. Okay? And I'm just like, if there's no solid walls, like, what kind of maniac is listening to a TV, right? **Chip** (00:16:05:22 - 00:16:30:00): I mean, are you just. Yeah. Well, that's another thing too, because it's like, I actually appreciate the openness of just a curtain rather than literally sleeping in a casket. That's. I'm not a huge what's the word I'm looking for claustrophobic. I'm not a huge claustrophobic, but having a little open air. But then again, the sound barrier. Speaking of sound barriers, we need to discuss something real quickly. And I don't wanna get off on too much of a tangent. I was on the subway in Philadelphia the other day. Not too many people around, but there's. There's people in the subway. **Thomas** (00:16:38:22 - 00:16:39:13): Yeah. **Chip** (00:16:39:14 - 00:17:01:03): I heard a baby crying, and I was like, Now I'm. I'm literally on the set to get from my subway station where I live. Yeah. Two Center city, Philadelphia, seven minutes. It's a quick ride. It's it's nothing crazy, but I don't need a baby screaming baby crying in the same car as me. But it happens. I understood I was like, all right. And I look to see where the baby was. Thomas, there was no baby. There was a man watching a video on his phone at full blast of a crying baby chat. **Thomas** (00:17:16:02 - 00:17:18:07): This is unhinged behavior. **Chip** (00:17:18:08 - 00:17:36:11): That is that is that is psychopath behavior. The one sound that people don't want to hear that you don't have to have. And he's like, you know what? I'm going to bring this into this environment. There's no baby here, but I'm going to bring the worst part of a baby right here and let everybody else experience it. **Thomas** (00:17:36:11 - 00:17:50:22): In my mind, he is just smiling, kind of glossed over watching this video. And he's got like a matted nest of hair with a baby doll arm stuck in. I can see the nest that he can't quite get out. **Chip** (00:17:51:00 - 00:18:03:08): I, I feel like if I would have spent more time, that's what I would have seen, I think. I think you're true. So my my concern would be that I would be in Paradise right underneath crying baby guy. **Thomas** (00:18:03:09 - 00:18:27:14): That's the concern. And if you're talking about also I don't know how they vet this, but like the cheapest hotel in town is often where people who are having a real tough time rest their head if they can scrounge together enough money. So, you know, you mix, you mix some of that desperation with with a bunch of people that are just trying to maximize a trip, have as much fun as possible. I don't know, there's there's something about it. Like, I almost felt irresponsible if I was to come out here and only say glowingly positive things about this idea just because of the safety concerns. **Chip** (00:18:38:11 - 00:18:43:08): Absolutely. Like, I feel like I could bump it up just a little bit. **Thomas** (00:18:43:09 - 00:18:44:07): Pop up the jam. **Chip** (00:18:44:08 - 00:18:51:02): Pop up the jam, pump it up, shake that body for me. 75 bucks a night, I think. Okay. **Thomas** (00:18:51:03 - 00:18:56:01): This has a lot of six minute abs flavors that you're throwing me, right? Yeah. **Chip** (00:18:56:06 - 00:19:03:21): It really seven little chipmunks swinging on a branch, chewing on an acorn. All my uncle's ranch. You know that old. **Thomas** (00:19:03:23 - 00:19:18:12): Children's sail from the sea. You drop that in the episode last week. And I was just like, I actually went back and almost put that clip in the podcast. But he's not on camera when he says it. It's just been Stiller reacting. And I was like, that would be weird. **Chip** (00:19:18:14 - 00:19:18:23): But that. **Thomas** (00:19:18:23 - 00:19:23:07): Is that old children's tale from the sea. From the sea. Dude, that guy's the best. **Chip** (00:19:23:07 - 00:19:25:10): I think I could spend $75 a night. **Thomas** (00:19:25:13 - 00:19:26:05): You ready? **Chip** (00:19:26:07 - 00:19:41:01): Yeah. So I'm bumping it up just a little bit for 75 at night. I could bribe one of the workers at an ABC store to, like, just sleep in a back. I'll like, as they're closing down. **Thomas** (00:19:41:02 - 00:19:41:16): Yeah. **Chip** (00:19:41:17 - 00:19:50:08): Let's say 10:00 or whatever. I slip in and they're like, okay, Mr. Chantry, I think they inflate just a couple of floats for me that I could use as a bed. **Thomas** (00:19:50:10 - 00:19:53:16): Yeah, that's going to be an extra dollar, a dollar per float chip. **Chip** (00:19:53:17 - 00:20:13:05): A dollar per float. They would they would inflate it. And then for that 75 bucks, I think I'm entitled to not a free for all. But I can have a little snack or two. Yeah. Maybe a little beverage from the fridge. Maybe like a little, maybe some potato chips, maybe some peanuts, whatever. You know, you grab a little candy bar and I think that's part of it. 75 bucks a night, they're making out. I'm making out. Nobody's getting hurt. I think that's my next plan in Hawaii. Sleeping in the back of an ABC store. **Thomas** (00:20:22:11 - 00:20:40:05): Chip Chantry, the Honolulu rat. They call him because he. He lives his life like a rat would. Yes. Looking for ways into convenience stores to sneak a candy bar and keep a warm and dry. **Chip** (00:20:40:07 - 00:20:44:11): I am the North American bodega, Hawaii cat. **Thomas** (00:20:44:13 - 00:20:57:16): I like that done. That's fun man. So for for contacts like mid-range Honolulu hotels, like not even close to the beach. Just kind of the average price closer to like 300 bucks plus a night. **Chip** (00:20:57:17 - 00:21:02:23): At six. That's six times that little, that little shelf you're getting, you know. **Thomas** (00:21:03:00 - 00:21:08:09): It is. And like, you know, they've got a nice lounge there. You can chill out. They've got a little kitchen area there. **Chip** (00:21:08:10 - 00:21:09:07): Oh that's nice. **Thomas** (00:21:09:07 - 00:21:28:08): And I've seen the view. It's on the 14th floor of a business plaza okay. So like it's up there but it's got a beautiful view of just like you can picture this right where the Royal Hawaiian is. They're just looking at that pink hotel which was right next to the outrigger where you were staying, and. Yeah, dude, it's just right there. So I don't know, man. Like, I know you can probably get an Airbnb for, like, maybe 100, 125 bucks a night, like a little, a little like studio apartment that you can crash in. But if you're by yourself looking to just have an experience you might not otherwise be able to justify, I don't know, do pretty, pretty great option. I think it's interesting, too. It's a story to tell. You're sleeping a little coffin. **Chip** (00:21:52:04 - 00:22:09:12): Yes. And now going back to it, I will say that how would you play this? Now we are both happily married men. But let's say, let's say we were back in our single days. We decide to do this. Yeah. You meet a nice young lady down at the Moana. Down at the surf bar there? **Thomas** (00:22:09:13 - 00:22:10:07): Yeah. **Chip** (00:22:10:09 - 00:22:15:22): It's getting late. You're like, you know, things are going well. You're like, hey, want to come back to my shelf? **Thomas** (00:22:15:23 - 00:22:17:13): Want to come back to my drawer? **Chip** (00:22:17:16 - 00:22:21:20): Right. Do you wanna go back to my drawer? I can open the curtain for the for the both of us. **Thomas** (00:22:21:21 - 00:22:27:07): I think it would have about the same success rate as anything else I tried, right? **Chip** (00:22:27:09 - 00:22:34:05): Yeah. No, I yeah, I don't think I would have any other. Yeah, I would have any more problems than I, than I would have if I had a luxury room. **Thomas** (00:22:34:05 - 00:22:40:06): So dude, I was thinking about it. What hotel does Dracula stay at in Waikiki? Chip? **Chip** (00:22:40:07 - 00:22:43:00): I guess he would stay in one of those coffin rooms. **Thomas** (00:22:43:00 - 00:22:54:11): No, he likes private bathrooms. But he does go to the First Cabin International to eat. There's a there's a lot of unprotected necks. **Chip** (00:22:54:12 - 00:22:57:16): It is a buffet. A 24 hour buffet. **Thomas** (00:22:57:19 - 00:23:16:08): It's a Dracula buffet. Yeah, yeah, dude. Oh, this is fun. Like, I know you've traveled around a bunch. We've we've had, like, through comedy, our fair share of, like, maybe not the most premiere housing at certain points. When was the last time you slept in a really cramped spot? **Chip** (00:23:16:10 - 00:23:37:09): I don't know about cramped spot, but literally one time down in the Outer Banks in North Carolina, there was a club that put us up in their house. They were nice enough to open their home to us, and they had a larger house, almost a wing to a certain extent. That was sort of our our own. But there was one night a week where there was two sets of two comics there. There was like two different shows going on, and so I basically had to sleep. It was almost a crawl space under a house. It was sort of a patio, sort of a garage, sort of a crawl space. Didn't love it. How about you? Was the most cramped you slept in? **Thomas** (00:23:52:19 - 00:24:15:06): I was thinking about it, man. It was. I've been, you know, lucky as of late to not have to cram into too many places, but I think. I think it involves you, buddy. Over a decade ago, I came to visit you in Philadelphia, like, 3 or 4 places ago and slept in your little living room couch at the time. **Chip** (00:24:15:11 - 00:24:16:18): The little blue couch. **Thomas** (00:24:16:18 - 00:24:32:16): The little blue couch. Yeah. And I was just like, you were nice enough to let me stay there instead of making me get a hotel room, because I don't think that would have was really in the budge at the moment. But I was thinking, I think that's the last time I like, slept on something. I was like, woke up and I was like, that was a tight squeeze. **Chip** (00:24:32:16 - 00:24:35:11): Maybe the not so love seat man. **Thomas** (00:24:35:14 - 00:24:36:19): That was yeah. **Chip** (00:24:36:23 - 00:24:57:19): That okay, that couch, which was basically a love seat, let's face it. Yeah. Was tiny. It came with the apartment that was like two apartments ago before we bought our house. Yeah. And we just. We just kept it. It moved to the next apartment with us. It wasn't that comfortable. And we had it all through the pandemic. And, like, you know, things are crazy. During the pandemic, you couldn't sleep. I would go out and just lay on there and watch TV at night to try to fall asleep. I slept on that couch way more nights than I'd want to admit. We actually brought that tiny little uncomfortable, by the way. It was the flimsiest thing. Like, I could, like, pick it up and throw it over my shoulders. That's how big this thing we brought. We moved it to our new house when we moved in. We we have a giant sectional now, which is nice, but we thought, oh, maybe we put it in a side room or whatever. And then we decided to right away. We're just like, it was kind of torn up from the cats and just we just decided we're going to get rid of it. So we put it on Facebook, you know, like the by nothing group, like, yeah, it's free. Does anyone Thomas, this guy in Flip Flop showed up with two basically toddlers, like a three year old and a five year old in this little compact car and was like, sure, I'll take it. Thanks. And I helped him carry it out to his car with his feral children, just kind of running around on the sidewalk. And then he's like, yeah, I'm just going to throw it on the top of the car and like, do you have straps? And he's like, well, sort of. He I don't think he had straps. He literally just put this little couch on the top of his tiny little Honda. Yeah. With like the children loose in the back. And he just drove it with like, his hand holding that couch. And I was like, all I wanted was him to get out of sight of my new home and my brand new neighbors at the time just saw me do look like the furniture version of a drug deal. He only had about 15 blocks to to drive. Yeah, but I don't want to know what ever happened to the to that to that couch. **Thomas** (00:26:45:10 - 00:26:49:10): I feel like that's the kind of guy who's not seat belting in those kids to like. **Chip** (00:26:49:13 - 00:26:51:11): Oh, they were just they were feral. **Thomas** (00:26:51:12 - 00:26:57:11): He doesn't believe in restraints. He's maybe a thoughts and prayers type of guy like. **Chip** (00:26:57:11 - 00:26:58:09): Very much so. **Thomas** (00:26:58:10 - 00:27:02:03): Like holding it together through a cosmic force. **Chip** (00:27:02:04 - 00:27:03:22): Just a just a cosmic gumbo. **Thomas** (00:27:03:23 - 00:27:11:03): That cosmic. Yeah. Cosmic gumbo. All right dude. Well, I mean, I don't know. That sounds sick, dude. **Chip** (00:27:11:04 - 00:27:23:09): So I don't know. I again, you have to weigh the dangers, but if it's across, if it's a decision between not going to Y and going to Hawaii in a draw, I think I'm taking the draw. **Thomas** (00:27:23:10 - 00:27:26:19): I just know 24 year old me would have done this any day of the week. **Chip** (00:27:26:19 - 00:27:27:05): Oh yeah. **Thomas** (00:27:27:06 - 00:27:35:15): Absolutely. It would have been. And I'm pretty excited to do it too. I think the thing is an interesting story. And then once you get there, dude, you just walk outside. You're right there. **Chip** (00:27:35:16 - 00:27:36:17): You're in the sand. **Thomas** (00:27:36:18 - 00:27:44:10): You're right there in the sand. Yeah. You can go to the ABC store, get a float, step over a sleeping chip. Chantry. It'd be amazing. **Chip** (00:27:44:14 - 00:27:45:03): Absolutely. **Thomas** (00:27:45:04 - 00:28:01:13): All right, buddy, money is a theme today because despite record travel numbers to the Caribbean this year, some haters are saying those numbers, not unlike the dad from The Lion King, are about to fall off a cliff. **Chip** (00:28:01:14 - 00:28:03:08): Oh. **Thomas** (00:28:03:10 - 00:28:18:08): Hakuna matata. Islands is reporting for a nerd wallet that rising costs are pushing budget minded American travelers away from Caribbean destinations in 2026. Dude, this contradicts everything we've been hearing. **Chip** (00:28:18:09 - 00:28:23:11): Yeah, the first quarter, everybody's going to the Caribbean. Yes, and they're just up in the prices. **Thomas** (00:28:23:11 - 00:28:42:09): Yeah, dude. So this is coming from it's so weird the information relay these days. But this is Islands writing an article that heavily features a NerdWallet article from last month. Sure. And by the way, NerdWallet. Like, has there ever been a dumber name for her? **Chip** (00:28:42:11 - 00:28:51:16): I mean, it just I, I got to be honest, my my blog Dork Billfold really took a hit after after they opened up shop. **Thomas** (00:28:51:21 - 00:28:54:21): Money clip show writers. Yeah. **Chip** (00:28:54:23 - 00:28:59:00): Geek satchel. Are you while guy or money clip guy? **Thomas** (00:28:59:02 - 00:29:02:14): Thomas I'm a wallet guy, but I keep it slim and I'm a front pocket. **Chip** (00:29:02:15 - 00:29:16:17): Okay, I, I think I really need to adjust. People say that the biggest old man thing about me is my wallet. I do have a big ol thick wallet, and I think I really need to trim down because I almost never use anything. **Thomas** (00:29:16:17 - 00:29:23:01): In it. Yeah, in this day and age, especially with the tap, the phone like you kind of need your ID and that's it. **Chip** (00:29:23:03 - 00:29:24:01): Pretty much pretty much. **Thomas** (00:29:24:01 - 00:29:25:03): Yeah. ID and phone. **Chip** (00:29:25:04 - 00:29:53:20): I did see an advertisement for something that's completely hilarious, but it's just amazing. It is a device. You take your credit card, debit card, whatever. Yeah. And you place it, and it's like a big star. But it's like a princess. Like a wand. Like a magic wand that a princess would have. And you stick the your credit card inside the top of the star of the wand, and then you just bring the wand. You can't now. And the the cards totally covered. It's just a magic wand. And then you just tap your magic wand to the little readers, and it magically pays your price for it. It's amazing. **Thomas** (00:30:03:06 - 00:30:13:02): That's not bad. Yeah, I've seen other things where I guess you can just take off that little sensor on the card and put it on to anything, and it will work. Yeah, you can tap it. **Chip** (00:30:13:02 - 00:30:24:11): You can put you can put it on almost anything and tap it to a thing. I did have a little run in with the police last weekend. That's all I'll say. All I'll say. **Thomas** (00:30:24:12 - 00:30:53:12): Okay, so here's here's the big headline, dude. Nearly half of Americans are planning a trip between June and August, the traditional summer travel months. But a huge portion of those, like an uncomfortably large portion of those, admitted they are still paying off last summer's vacations. They're sitting there on credit cards, collecting interest. And you know when you have to look that down the barrel that, like, I still haven't paid off last year's vacation. I can see why some people would be like thinking again about how to spend their or what level of vacation or trip to take this year. **Chip** (00:31:03:06 - 00:31:09:11): Oh, absolutely. Are you going to downplay it this year, or are you going to go a little lower? Yeah, maybe. Day trips. Staycation. **Thomas** (00:31:09:11 - 00:31:34:06): That's not the numbers we've been seeing, dude. No, I think this article is referencing some probably like real consumer issues, but people are going, dude, people need that escape right now. We feel it. I think everybody else is feeling it. That's where they're going in droves. It's like, do I want a little bit extra debt or do I want to forget about everything that's going on in my life and have an escape for a little bit, and people are choosing the escape and I get it. I understand I would too. **Chip** (00:31:36:04 - 00:31:50:15): I if I could throw in a suggestion. Yep. Go down to the Caribbean, let's say Jamaica, I don't know, let's let's say Saint Kitts. Whatever. Yeah. And just stay in a drawer. **Thomas** (00:31:50:17 - 00:31:51:04): Stay in. **Chip** (00:31:51:04 - 00:32:01:21): A drawer. I think we need to. You and I need to go down to the Caribbean. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And open up an all drawer resort. **Thomas** (00:32:01:22 - 00:32:03:17): And open up a dresser. **Chip** (00:32:03:19 - 00:32:10:14): Yes. Just open up a giant dresser and charge people 50 bucks a night to stay. We'd make a heel on Thomas. **Thomas** (00:32:10:14 - 00:32:17:08): I think we'd make a killing. Not as big a killing as your father would make, apparently. But we would make a killing. **Chip** (00:32:17:09 - 00:32:21:05): He had a lot of friends over in that shit. **Thomas** (00:32:21:07 - 00:32:28:18): Specifically, Barbados is having the hardest time. Mostly food related. They don't grow any food really on Barbados. **Chip** (00:32:28:18 - 00:32:33:19): Right. So you have to you have to import all that food, which is just. Yeah, throws those prices way. **Thomas** (00:32:33:19 - 00:32:56:19): Up and keeps them from being competitive. They also don't really have public transportation. It's really limited. So if you're going to go there and you want to get around, you need to get a car. Yeah, the lodging is expensive, the food is expensive, transportation is expensive. It's kind of like a trifecta of expansiveness. Shout out Barbados! It's going to be tough for some of us to get there this year. And the Caribbean is losing ground, potentially to destinations that offer comparable beaches at a lower price point, like Mexico. I was just talking to somebody the other day who literally shifted their trip to Mexico from a different destination, largely for like price reasons. **Chip** (00:33:16:05 - 00:33:17:17): So you got we got to look for those deals. **Thomas** (00:33:17:18 - 00:33:33:16): Yeah, it's a nice look for the deals. But also it's just like, you know, some of those places are a little dicey right now too. Like there's a reason they're a little bit cheaper. It's like they're closer. Sure. Yeah. The flights are shorter, there's less fuel, all that kind of stuff. But I mean, there's some trade offs happening right now. **Chip** (00:33:33:21 - 00:33:35:09): There is what you get, Thomas. **Thomas** (00:33:35:10 - 00:33:41:03): Some trade offs. And you people look to you as a thought leader in the personal finance space. **Chip** (00:33:41:04 - 00:33:42:01): Absolutely. **Thomas** (00:33:42:02 - 00:33:52:06): What advice do you have for anybody that's eyeing a Caribbean vacation, but feels their finances are a little tighter than last year? **Chip** (00:33:52:08 - 00:34:00:13): All right, a couple things. So first of all, yeah. Find that drawer. Hotel. Yep. Stay in the drawer. **Thomas** (00:34:00:15 - 00:34:01:15): Stay in a drawer. **Chip** (00:34:01:17 - 00:34:04:04): And with your carry on. **Thomas** (00:34:04:06 - 00:34:04:18): Yep. **Chip** (00:34:04:19 - 00:34:06:00): Three things. **Thomas** (00:34:06:03 - 00:34:07:10): Yeah. **Chip** (00:34:07:12 - 00:34:10:11): Peanut butter jelly. **Thomas** (00:34:10:13 - 00:34:11:10): Yeah. **Chip** (00:34:11:12 - 00:34:12:10): A loaf of bread. **Thomas** (00:34:12:11 - 00:34:13:23): Okay. PB and J. **Chip** (00:34:14:01 - 00:34:27:06): PB and J. Nothing wrong with that. And I think you're set, so that just cuts some of those costs right there or go to the local market. Yeah. Get that PB and J get that bread. Then you have at least lunch for every day. **Thomas** (00:34:27:06 - 00:34:57:10): It's so much infinitely better to go than to not go. You know it's like if, if you're at a point where like the, the money's a little tighter, whatever. Do that version of it. But get out there. Don't, don't let like, you know I can't do the five star version of this thing. Shut you down. Like we have phases in life and for a lot of your life or for most people, the more common thing is having, you know, a little more time than money, you know, to, to get out there and go on vacation. **Chip** (00:34:57:10 - 00:35:20:12): And it's about life experiences, like, for example, right after college, I had some friends who went backpacking through Europe, even that I couldn't afford that. So I spent the summer fanny packing through Delaware. I just, I fanny packed my way through the state of Delaware, and I met a lot of friends and I got to say, Thomas, a lot of enemies. **Thomas** (00:35:20:14 - 00:35:24:09): Yeah. I mean, you got to take the good. Take the bad. You take them both in there. **Chip** (00:35:24:09 - 00:35:25:00): You have. There you. **Thomas** (00:35:25:00 - 00:35:26:11): Have it. The facts of. **Chip** (00:35:26:11 - 00:35:27:10): Life strokes. **Thomas** (00:35:27:11 - 00:35:52:18): So, buddy. Next story. Coming off the heel of these Caribbean prices being sky high, we're getting some good news, okay? About the Caribbean and everything. The Atlantic, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said 2026 hurricane season is shaping up to be a big nothing burger. **Chip** (00:35:52:23 - 00:35:58:07): You know what I have to say about that? What? No way. **Thomas** (00:35:58:09 - 00:36:00:19): N o a the acronym. **Chip** (00:36:00:20 - 00:36:03:05): Thomas, are you saying no hurricanes this year? **Thomas** (00:36:03:05 - 00:36:10:12): I'm saying low hurricanes this year. Low hurricanes. What I was able to extract from all the scientific. **Chip** (00:36:10:12 - 00:36:11:12): Talk ascertain. **Thomas** (00:36:11:12 - 00:36:16:15): Was 1 to 3 high intensity hurricanes are predicted this year. **Chip** (00:36:16:16 - 00:36:20:04): I mean, considering what we've seen in the past. Not bad. **Thomas** (00:36:20:05 - 00:36:31:23): Last year was pretty heavy. So yeah, it's like, they're reporting that 2026 Atlantic hurricane season is forecast to be below normal, which is actually like their lowest rating they. **Chip** (00:36:31:23 - 00:36:33:05): Have okay. Oh that's good. **Thomas** (00:36:33:06 - 00:36:55:18): It goes from below normal to above normal. Yeah. And I think it's like tied in with El Nino somehow I don't really know how any of it works. Yeah. And this year they're more confident than ever because they have new technology and they've been integrating a lot of AI into their forecasts. And they're like, really, really sure they feel like a 70% chance that this is the way it's going to shake down. **Chip** (00:36:55:19 - 00:36:59:05): That also could mean there could be a giant robot storm come August. **Thomas** (00:36:59:06 - 00:37:07:06): Oh, there could be a gigantic robot storm. If any of these robots or machines learn how to control the weather. We're all cooked, buddy. **Chip** (00:37:07:07 - 00:37:08:20): Oh, absolutely. **Thomas** (00:37:08:21 - 00:37:10:00): We're cooked through. **Chip** (00:37:10:04 - 00:37:21:23): Maybe it's also just Mother Nature saying, just looking at the news and being like, you know what? The US doesn't need any of this. We'll lay off them this summer. We'll lay off him just a little bit. **Thomas** (00:37:22:00 - 00:37:27:12): Is that something you think about when you're booking a trip? Like there might be a hurricane? Like maybe I shouldn't, maybe I should. **Chip** (00:37:27:14 - 00:37:49:01): Yes and no. I am a little affected by that. I'm much more affected by awards season. I don't want to be out of the country when the Tonys are happening and the Emmys are going on. Yeah, I want to be there, sitting in my house with the party and all of the the special cocktails I've made and all of the the appetizers. Nobody ever shows up. No. People usually RSVP. No, but at least I'm there, But yeah. No, I think that is something. If I was going to go to the Caribbean, I think, hey, I think maybe it it is a little cheaper and you roll the dice with it, but, you know, go into the middle of the Caribbean and let's say September might not be the, you know, you're rolling the dice a little bit, but it sounds like this summer the chances are a little bit more on your side. **Thomas** (00:38:15:14 - 00:38:36:13): Yeah, I'm of the believer of like, book it and they see these things coming I don't think. Right. There's been a situation where it's just like, everybody woke up and there was this hurricane they didn't expect. Like, I think, you know, you play it safe and if you need to back out, like if there was an active hurricane going to hit someplace, I probably be like, I'm going to leave a little early. **Chip** (00:38:36:14 - 00:38:38:16): Yeah, maybe some of that trip insurance. Yeah. 00:38:38:17 – 00:38:40:11 UNRESOLVED – Get a little trip insurance. And it's like there's a hurricane coming next week. Yeah. I'm not I'm not going to fly out there for for that. Having said that. Yeah. Having said that, I don't want to see anybody's vacation ruined. **Thomas** (00:38:51:16 - 00:38:52:00): Yeah. **Chip** (00:38:52:00 - 00:39:06:07): I don't want to see any injuries or, God forbid, deaths. I don't want to see any major catastrophes, you know, infrastructures, damage to buildings, whatever it is. I don't want any of that. But I do love a good big storm. **Thomas** (00:39:06:08 - 00:39:13:18): Oh, dude, a big storm. I, on my honeymoon, ended up feeling the outside rim of a hurricane. **Chip** (00:39:13:18 - 00:39:15:18): I am glad you said over hurricane. Keep going. **Thomas** (00:39:15:19 - 00:39:41:11): Yes. So yeah, we checked into Playa Escondida Escondido, there in Puerto Vallarta, like just north of it points a mean to, Sala Lita to be specific. So we we check in and it's just. Dude, the wind, the seas were angry. Dude, it is howling. It is whipping around. And me and my wife are, like, a little nervous. And then we ordered, a ice cream sundae, sure, to the room like a dessert. And when, when somebody shows up completely unworthy carrying you an ice cream treat, you realize you're probably going to be fine. **Chip** (00:39:57:01 - 00:39:57:17): Yeah, better. **Thomas** (00:39:57:21 - 00:40:18:03): Because these rooms, they have no windows, they have no screens. It's like an open air hotel and just the wind is whipping through the room. Dude. Just coming all over the place howling. It's like you have this canopy around your bed that just is like being tossed to and fro. And we woke up. There was so much crap that had blown in the room. **Chip** (00:40:18:04 - 00:40:18:23): Oh my God. **Thomas** (00:40:18:23 - 00:40:37:16): We went out for breakfast and by the time we got back, like, the staff had like cleaned it up real nice, you would never have known it happened. But dude, I remember I had this video of this, like, hanging lantern out on the patio. Yeah. And it's just it is banging back and forth to and fro. One of the wildest experiences, I loved it. My wife, understandably, was terrified, sure, but I thought it was like such an amazing experience. I felt like Lieutenant Dan up there. **Chip** (00:40:45:11 - 00:40:57:18): Of course, up in the up in the cap stand up there. Yeah, it's I will say this, I, it sounds to me like in your honeymoon not good for you. You stayed in the world's largest capsule hotel. **Thomas** (00:40:57:19 - 00:40:58:19): Yeah. It's true. **Chip** (00:40:58:23 - 00:41:00:00): The biggest draw. **Thomas** (00:41:00:00 - 00:41:03:13): If you want more draw. Playas Candido. **Chip** (00:41:03:19 - 00:41:09:07): Playas Candido is Spanish for more draw. I believe. If I remember my Spanish classes. **Thomas** (00:41:09:08 - 00:41:11:15): Yeah, and the Latin roots. It all makes sense. **Chip** (00:41:11:16 - 00:41:38:18): I have to say. Almost, almost. Zero regrets for our Hawaii trip. When we did a little comedy at the Blue Note and Waikiki. Yeah, life changing experience. One of my favorites. If I had any complaints. And boy, what a what a would a champagne problem to have. We did not see a single drop of rain the entire week we were there, which is amazing. I almost wanted one little thunderstorm to come through. Just to just to experience. **Thomas** (00:41:44:12 - 00:41:45:03): To experience. **Chip** (00:41:45:03 - 00:41:55:02): It, see the sea, to see that, see those clouds and the rain run through. But, hey, man, it's it to complain about perfect weather. Thomas. **Thomas** (00:41:55:02 - 00:41:57:10): Yeah. No, it means there's not much to complain about. **Chip** (00:41:57:10 - 00:41:59:05): The touchstone of a perfect vacation right there. **Thomas** (00:41:59:06 - 00:42:19:16): Yeah, dude, it was sick. We'll get there. We'll see some tropical storms, but, I don't know. It was one other thing. Especially with the baby being a dad. I'm like, you know, a little less adventurous. I'm a little more cautious. But when I read that, I was just like, dude, effort. Like, let's go. We're gonna it's going to be during hurricane season. We're going to be inviting you guys out soon to a cool destination. And it's it's less likely than usual to be interrupted by severe storms, which I think is sick, bro. **Chip** (00:42:31:13 - 00:42:32:10): Right, right. **Thomas** (00:42:32:11 - 00:42:55:01): I really dig it, man. Love it. All right, next story. Chip, what's golf ball sized? Bluer than a Smurf and causing a big stir on the internet. And I'll give you a hint, it has nothing to do with that picture. They snagged a view climbing the grease pole at the Italian festival. A little up. Short shot they got. **Chip** (00:42:55:02 - 00:42:59:18): Thank the sweet Lord Thomas. Thank the Lord. **Thomas** (00:42:59:18 - 00:43:03:06): But that is making the rounds on the internet. Correct? **Chip** (00:43:03:08 - 00:43:07:16): Way more than it should. The Reddit boards are blowing up with that photo. **Thomas** (00:43:07:22 - 00:43:11:05): It's the most viral thing you've ever posted online. It. **Chip** (00:43:11:07 - 00:43:15:00): Speaking of viral, people said I might want to get that checked out. **Thomas** (00:43:15:02 - 00:43:22:18): I can imagine, dude, if there I mean, that's a euphemism, but if they're really that blue, there's something to do. And it's called The Doctor. **Chip** (00:43:22:20 - 00:43:24:20): Yes, yes. **Thomas** (00:43:24:21 - 00:43:34:11): No, it's not that. It's a tiny blue octopus. Scientists found 5800ft under the water. And the Galapagos. We love the Galapagos chip. **Chip** (00:43:34:11 - 00:43:39:19): We love the Galapagos. Not only is it the birthplace of the Philly fanatic. **Thomas** (00:43:39:20 - 00:43:41:00): Oh, yeah. Yeah. **Chip** (00:43:41:01 - 00:44:12:12): It's a yeah. He's he's a he's from the Galapagos. Nice. It's just an underwater just haven an ecosystem on and off the island. Also the title of a great book by my favorite author, Mr. Carvana. Nothing wrong with the Galapagos out there off the coast of Ecuador. Just, And now and just to just to add on, just an extra little bonus, a little cherry on top are more, more, more likely the bottom. **Thomas** (00:44:12:13 - 00:44:13:03): A cherry on the. **Chip** (00:44:13:03 - 00:44:15:13): Bottom is a tiny little blue octopus. **Thomas** (00:44:15:14 - 00:44:36:01): Dude, this thing is one inch wide. Yep. And it is so cute. There is a cute thing in the. The reason this kind of went viral is there is audio from the EV Nautilus, which is like this big research ship and kind of like it's like Titanic. You know, they've got a guy up there controlling the joystick and there's these little underwater vessels. **Chip** (00:44:36:02 - 00:44:43:23): Plus there is an elderly woman climbing up on the back of the ship, throwing jewelry off into the ocean at all times. Is that right? **Thomas** (00:44:44:00 - 00:44:51:16): Yeah. As that song goes, every ship has its rose. Yes. If you want to get rich, I would put a little net right behind one of these ships. There's old ladies, Chuck, and jewelry like you wouldn't believe. **Chip** (00:45:01:04 - 00:45:04:17): Rubies, emeralds. **Thomas** (00:45:04:19 - 00:45:24:14): So they were on this expiration and it's going viral because there's audio of the scientists who are controlling the ship discovering this little blue octopus. And they are saying the cutest things. They're losing their mind. They're shouting he's tiny. It's blue. And then one guys like that thing has six more arms than me. **Chip** (00:45:24:19 - 00:45:29:18): Yeah. Yeah. He he crunched the numbers. Thomas. He is he is a scientist. **Thomas** (00:45:29:18 - 00:45:31:16): He's very data motivated. **Chip** (00:45:31:16 - 00:45:42:00): You think that scientists are stoic? They're all about the numbers and the raw data. But just to get that excited. And then, Thomas, I took a look at this little guy. **Thomas** (00:45:42:06 - 00:45:42:20): Yeah. **Chip** (00:45:42:21 - 00:45:44:13): Would have done the same thing. **Thomas** (00:45:44:15 - 00:45:45:02): Yeah. **Chip** (00:45:45:03 - 00:46:00:17): Don't think he's like, he's like, if you shoved Baby Yoda into an old glass jar of Vicks VapoRub, you know what I mean? Yeah, like just the big eyes. The. It was. It's adorable. **Thomas** (00:46:00:18 - 00:46:06:11): Yeah. I mean, you'd have to be a big bully, though, to put Baby Yoda in a Vicks VapoRub tub. **Chip** (00:46:06:12 - 00:46:07:02): You really would. **Thomas** (00:46:07:03 - 00:46:09:12): Yeah, I think it'd be bad for his little lungs. **Chip** (00:46:09:14 - 00:46:11:06): He would not. He would not like it at all. **Thomas** (00:46:11:09 - 00:46:33:14): Like it? What's biologically interesting about this octopus is like the the dark blue coloring. Like he or bright blue, I guess. Like, he's very cute, very blue. But octopuses are all about that camo in real life. They like to blend into things. And this is not necessarily biological advantageous for the little guy because he kind of sticks out. He's not camouflaged in anything down there. He's just he's just there. **Chip** (00:46:38:07 - 00:46:39:14): He's just being him. **Thomas** (00:46:39:15 - 00:47:12:05): Just being him. And I guess they found this guy like ten years ago. We're just finding out about it now because I think it just got like a new name. There's like a process of, like, discovering it, classifying it, giving it a name. So it's coming up now. But finding a new octopus like this is documented proof that the seafloor ecosystem around the globe Goes Islands is even more biodiverse than previously thought, and they're using this as a little fuel to put on the fire of trying to be more conservation minded with these spaces. Yeah. Which I'm I'm all for. **Chip** (00:47:13:19 - 00:47:16:22): Nobody wants to kill the little baby baby octopus, you know. **Thomas** (00:47:16:23 - 00:47:37:07): No. Nobody does. Nobody should. But they didn't even know it was there to worry about killing. Now that they're exploring it, the EV Nautilus is going out there. And that's basically what it does. Is it charts mostly unexplored areas? Okay. It's got like all the all the information and all the technology for doing that kind of stuff. They're doing great work. **Chip** (00:47:37:07 - 00:47:44:17): If I could quote one of my my favorite TV show of all time, or you crazy, are you blue? **Thomas** (00:47:44:19 - 00:47:46:09): I seem to have blue myself. **Chip** (00:47:46:10 - 00:47:49:14): I seem to have blue myself. **Thomas** (00:47:49:16 - 00:47:52:04): That he is very much that blue man group. **Chip** (00:47:52:04 - 00:47:56:08): Blue he he is blue man group blue. It is that sort of royal blue there. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:47:56:09 - 00:48:06:04): And also like, I don't know if it was straight up Galapagos, but Snake Island famously featured on sunbird podcast was off the coast of Ecuador two. Right. **Chip** (00:48:06:06 - 00:48:21:12): I want to say that was actually off the East coast. I could be wrong. Okay. I think I think it was off the east coast of of south south South America. Okay. But well, we can we can remember, man. Snake Island, that brings back memories. What a fun, scary, scary place. **Thomas** (00:48:21:12 - 00:48:31:00): We were so naive before that to not assume there was a Snake Island. And then there was a Snake Island, and I still have nightmares. **Chip** (00:48:31:05 - 00:48:35:03): I think it would be more fun to have nightmares about tiny baby blue octopuses. **Thomas** (00:48:35:04 - 00:48:42:16): Do you just have nightmares about the deep sea in general? Knowing your lung condition would never really allow you to suitably withstand all that pressure. **Chip** (00:48:42:17 - 00:48:45:04): Down there. It would just boom, pop. Done. **Thomas** (00:48:45:05 - 00:48:48:20): Oh, yeah. Yeah. I'm not letting you go in the deep blue, buddy. **Chip** (00:48:48:21 - 00:48:49:12): Thank you buddy. **Thomas** (00:48:49:13 - 00:48:51:22): I don't I don't care how much you want to see this little guy. **Chip** (00:48:52:03 - 00:48:54:03): I'm gonna swim down. **Thomas** (00:48:54:05 - 00:48:55:00): I got it, I. **Chip** (00:48:55:00 - 00:48:55:14): Gotta see it. **Thomas** (00:48:55:14 - 00:49:20:07): Gotta say it next door. Dude, this this sounds like it was made up in a a like a Wu-Tang name generator. But I love thing. The something that just makes sunburnt podcast stories. This is unbelievable. Jimmy Buffett saved Colin Joe's life after a surfing accident in Saint Bart's. This is a true story. **Chip** (00:49:20:08 - 00:49:25:05): It's literally comedy and tropical travel all in wrapped into one. **Thomas** (00:49:25:05 - 00:49:39:04): I saw this on a podcast recently and then saw like an article that cooperated. It's also apparently in his book that I will never read. Just being I don't know why I threw that in there. I guess it's just honest. I haven't read a book in like 17 years. Chip. **Chip** (00:49:39:05 - 00:49:44:01): Yeah. You can't you don't necessarily read and that's fine. **Thomas** (00:49:44:02 - 00:49:45:23): Yeah, I see clips, baby. **Chip** (00:49:46:00 - 00:49:46:12): Right? **Thomas** (00:49:46:16 - 00:50:15:19): I just get the algorithm feeds me things and I drink them down. Not unlike you. Find folks who are watching this wonderful content on the sunburnt podcast, right. He was sitting next to Jimmy Buffett at a dinner in Saint Barts, and apparently Joe's had no idea who he was at the moment. Like, you just don't expect Jimmy Buffett to be sitting next to you, even if there's people I know well, if I see them in a place I didn't expect to see them, I might recognize the face, but I'm not going to remember their name. **Chip** (00:50:15:20 - 00:50:26:08): Like if I'm at a T Fridays and I see a little tiny blue octopus, I'm not going to be like, oh, that's the guy that I met at the bottom of the ocean by the Galapagos. Like, you just don't put two and two together right away. **Thomas** (00:50:26:08 - 00:50:28:01): Not at first, at least. **Chip** (00:50:28:02 - 00:50:32:04): Just that baby octopus either. Just having, like, a having some wings. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:50:32:09 - 00:50:43:04): So he just heard, like, this very affable guy having a conversation and happened to to mention Margaritaville and calling just like, Holy crap. I'm sitting right next to Jimmy Buffett. **Chip** (00:50:43:05 - 00:50:43:21): To JB. **Thomas** (00:50:43:21 - 00:50:46:22): He either had just started doing Weekend Update or was about to start doing it. **Chip** (00:50:46:22 - 00:50:50:13): Yeah, I think it was about it was about like 12 years ago or so. It was like 2014 ish. Yeah. **Thomas** (00:50:50:14 - 00:51:11:05): Yeah, that makes sense. So he he's there talking to him and Jimmy Buffett is just believe it or not, the best guy. And he invites him out surfing. The next day they go surfing. Colin Jost describes himself as an okay surfer. I guess he can handle himself on a board, but Jimmy Buffett gives him a warning. He's like, hey, don't ride the waves all the way in. This beach gets a little rocky up towards the front. Stay back here. Just keep it in the barrel, baby. Be chill, be cool, relax. Have a good time. Just catches a wave. Rides it all the way in. Exactly against Jimmy's advice. And gets his leash which is attached to him and the board caught on a rock. He's struggling in the waves. **Chip** (00:51:34:07 - 00:51:36:03): He's Greg Brady, if you will. **Thomas** (00:51:36:04 - 00:51:43:11): Oh my gosh, Greg Brady took a big dump right off the shores of Waikiki. Yeah, yeah, we thought he was dead. That was a cliffhanger. **Chip** (00:51:43:12 - 00:51:44:15): Scary scary moment. **Thomas** (00:51:44:15 - 00:52:01:18): So this would have been a cliffhanger. Josh is tied up on this rock. He can't free himself. The the waves keep pounding him like there's. You know, this is how people drowned. It's really scary. Yeah, not to fear. Jimmy Buffett was watching him like a hawk the whole time. Saw him going too far and then got his guy. **Chip** (00:52:01:19 - 00:52:03:13): Jimmy Buffett got a guy. Of course he's got a guy. **Thomas** (00:52:03:16 - 00:52:28:07): Send him over there. Got him to cut Joe's free. And now Jost has gone on to continue his storybook life where he gets to marry a huge movie star. Gets to continue to do. We can update be wealthy for doing comedy. I mean, Jimmy Buffett is just not living his own dream. He's helping people stay alive long enough to live their dreams. **Chip** (00:52:28:07 - 00:52:32:04): He's changing their attitude, changing their latitude. Literally. **Thomas** (00:52:32:10 - 00:52:44:10): Specifically when it refers to latitude above sea level, because you got to keep at least a nose or mouth out of that agua, unless you've got other plans of breathing. **Chip** (00:52:44:11 - 00:52:45:09): 100%. True. **Thomas** (00:52:45:10 - 00:52:54:07): Do all famous people just, like, hang out, even if they don't know they're going to be like, how does that work? How is there such a small world that you go to Saint Bart's and you just sit next to Jimmy Buffett? **Chip** (00:52:54:08 - 00:53:11:04): I think everybody has that story because I don't know if you read read up on this. I mean, I did a little bit deeper search. And right around that same time, there was a story Frank Stallone gave Michael Che the high milk maneuver at a Pizzeria Uno. **Thomas** (00:53:11:06 - 00:53:12:14): Oh, wow. **Chip** (00:53:12:16 - 00:53:24:06): Saved his life. And I mean, if we if we if we didn't have Jimmy Buffett or Frank Stallone, we would never have a joke swap on Weekend Update. **Thomas** (00:53:24:06 - 00:53:52:20): That reminds me, Frank Stallone. That's funny. I was working at a production company that you ended up working briefly, but this was before your time. Yeah. Back in the day. And one of. I mean, somebody internally came up with the idea for a prank show hosted by Frank Stallone in the, in the vein of, like, Jamie Kennedy's you got axed. Sure. Or Ashton Kutcher punked, right? Called prank Stallone. **Chip** (00:53:59:19 - 00:54:02:01): I mean, it's right there where. **Thomas** (00:54:02:02 - 00:54:09:10): Franks alone would go do pranks on, like, unassuming celebrities. He theoretically would be able to blend in with. **Chip** (00:54:09:10 - 00:54:12:16): I have a feeling Frank Stallone can kind of blend in with anybody at this point. **Thomas** (00:54:12:17 - 00:54:17:20): I mean, I don't even know if he's the. The man's doing well and still around. I hope you're doing great, Frank. **Chip** (00:54:17:21 - 00:54:19:00): I think. I think he's okay. **Thomas** (00:54:19:01 - 00:54:26:03): Yeah. A celebrity is brother, right? I think if he's around and you're another celebrity, you're a little more at ease. **Chip** (00:54:26:05 - 00:54:26:22): Absolutely. **Thomas** (00:54:26:23 - 00:54:34:03): Then if just a regular random is, you're like, oh, this guy knows how to act and behave and doesn't need anything from me. He's got a brother he can need things from. **Chip** (00:54:34:03 - 00:54:36:02): He's probably met Carl Weathers. **Thomas** (00:54:36:02 - 00:54:39:16): Yeah, yeah, he's got a soup, got a soup brewing. **Chip** (00:54:39:17 - 00:54:40:16): Got a stew going. **Thomas** (00:54:40:17 - 00:54:46:10): Oh stew going. You can get a refill on any drink. It's a wonderful restaurant. **Chip** (00:54:46:10 - 00:54:55:07): It's a wonderful restaurant again. Thank you, Mr. Buffett, for saving the face of comedy over the last decade. **Thomas** (00:54:55:08 - 00:54:58:22): Jimmy Buffett, just the man. And that's it for the algo. **Chip** (00:54:59:00 - 00:54:59:18): For the algo. **Thomas** (00:54:59:19 - 00:55:21:20): We're moving right into talking about the man, Chip. We are. We're talking about the man with the legend. This is a Buffett facts. And every week that we can chip and I dig into the annals, we do the deep research that only the biggest Jimmy Buffett fans already know about to share with you in the world, and this week is no exception. We each found a buffet fact that we are going to deliver to you on a silver platter. And if you don't mind, Chip, I'd like to go first because it is apropos to things we've been talking about. **Chip** (00:55:34:15 - 00:55:35:19): Go for it, Thomas. **Thomas** (00:55:35:19 - 00:55:46:12): Jimmy Buffett chose to save Colin Joe's life for one simple reason. He liked weaken updates more than he liked weekday updates. **Chip** (00:55:46:12 - 00:55:50:01): So true, true words have never been spoken. **Thomas** (00:55:50:03 - 00:55:52:08): Chip, what is your Buffett fact this week, buddy? **Chip** (00:55:52:09 - 00:56:01:00): Jimmy Buffett never stayed up to watch the sunrise, but the sun would rise to see Jimmy Buffett. Oh, baby. **Thomas** (00:56:01:06 - 00:56:03:16): That's true. Dude. Everybody's got to see him. **Chip** (00:56:03:17 - 00:56:08:14): Got it. Gotta get a look. Because maybe he'll save. Maybe he'll save the sun's life someday. **Thomas** (00:56:08:18 - 00:56:32:10): It's so funny, dude. We've been doing these Buffett facts for a while, and you were talking about just like everybody has that story. Like Colin Jost has a story. Dude, so many people have stories that they've shared with us about Jimmy Buffett. Like last week, you did the dog one about like how he trained his dog. And a dude wrote in the comments, he was just like my cousin or something like that. Jimmy Buffett gave him a golden retriever puppet in Colorado. I was like, that is the wildest story. And just so many people have been like, my grandma knew him, my grandpa knew him. My dad was friends with him. Like he just touched a lot of lives. **Chip** (00:56:47:18 - 00:56:48:18): Dude got. **Thomas** (00:56:48:20 - 00:56:49:18): A lot of lives. **Chip** (00:56:49:20 - 00:56:50:18): Next it up, I love. **Thomas** (00:56:50:18 - 00:56:53:15): It, I love it. I mean, that's what we're trying to mix it up more. **Chip** (00:56:53:16 - 00:56:53:22): Yeah. **Thomas** (00:56:53:22 - 00:57:15:15): We are so, so positive. Just like drawing people to them with this lifestyle. I'm fired up about it. I keep thinking about it. He was a pilot and he could captain chips. Like, the older I get, the more both of those things start to make sense to me. It's like, yeah, be a pilot, be a captain. Yeah. Be something that can make one thing go from one place to another. That's not a car. **Chip** (00:57:17:04 - 00:57:18:11): So many activities. **Thomas** (00:57:18:11 - 00:57:20:23): So much room for activities. **Chip** (00:57:21:01 - 00:57:25:20): That might be the the line that my wife and I quote the most, which is just ridiculous. **Thomas** (00:57:25:22 - 00:57:48:05): It's so sick. So, so, so sick. Yeah. Jimmy Buffett, man of the sea. Speaking of I feel some splashing. I feel some splashing. Chip, you know what that means? Yeah. It's time for the sunburnt podcast, Vishal. The week, fish of the week. Our hero of the deep chip. Tell us about our fish of the week this week. **Chip** (00:57:48:05 - 00:58:02:06): I am so excited for this one, Thomas. Because we've covered a lot of fishes. This is just a little guy, but he is the biggest burnt one fish of the week that we have ever had in our entire lives. **Thomas** (00:58:02:06 - 00:58:03:19): The biggest burnt one. **Chip** (00:58:03:20 - 00:58:08:02): This is Toby, the Hawaiian white spotted Toby. **Thomas** (00:58:08:03 - 00:58:09:15): Oh my God, look at that guy. **Chip** (00:58:09:16 - 00:58:25:12): Not the most creative name. I mean, literally the Hawaiian white spotted Toby named Toby. But Thomas, this guy is a burnt one like none other. First of all, he lives in Hawaii. Yeah, in the warm, shallow reefs right off the coast of Hawaii. **Thomas** (00:58:25:14 - 00:58:26:14): Great choice. **Chip** (00:58:26:15 - 00:58:32:16): Loving it up. I mean, if you think about living in the reefs is like it's own capsule hotel of the ocean. **Thomas** (00:58:32:16 - 00:58:36:18): It is. And his whole life there is a float chip. Can you imagine if your whole life was a. **Chip** (00:58:36:18 - 00:58:41:03): Float just floating around? The life would be. Will be a beautiful, beautiful place. **Thomas** (00:58:41:04 - 00:58:41:21): Yeah. **Chip** (00:58:42:02 - 00:58:56:19): So little Toby lives on those shallow reefs. He loves the little nooks and crannies. He kind of hides in there again. Okay, just like those capsules. He spends his whole life just chilling there like a 24 over seven snorkeling expedition. I mean, that's just. That's all he's doing. **Thomas** (00:58:56:19 - 00:58:57:09): That's sick. **Chip** (00:58:57:09 - 00:59:16:11): Dude, when it comes to size, he actually does make that octopus look big, but he is only three inches long. He's a tiny little guy. But look at him. Look at him, Thomas. He's got this dark body with these all of these white, whitish blue spots that he's got these little dots. He's like a little magic eye puzzle. Look at him. Just, just he's like, if a he's like, if a goldfish went to Burning Man. I mean, he just sparkling with those little clear spots. He's he's like if if your freshman roommate Ethan painted the dorm room and for Loretta and got black lights because he thought that's what girls liked. But it didn't realize that blasting the Mars Volta on a loop 24 hours a day would be off putting to the ladies, but still, it's looking pretty good, I will say. **Thomas** (00:59:42:05 - 00:59:44:10): Yeah, yeah, it's a good look. At least. **Chip** (00:59:44:11 - 00:59:49:14): Now those dots are partially camouflage and partially because polka dots are in this season. **Thomas** (00:59:49:15 - 00:59:50:10): Oh, okay. **Chip** (00:59:50:13 - 01:00:05:00): Our Toby's Toby's all about fashion, but he's got that tiny little body. And I love if you look up on the front, that front door, he's got that tiny little beak like mouth. It's like a little beak sticking out with tiny little tooth's in there. He's got those little teeth. **Thomas** (01:00:05:02 - 01:00:05:18): Little chompers. **Chip** (01:00:05:19 - 01:00:18:08): Little chompers where he can crack through mollusks. He also eats algae and invertebrates, and he just loves to use that little beak to scrape along the reef for some food. Just a little a little scrape, scrape, scrape in there. **Thomas** (01:00:18:09 - 01:00:19:03): Yeah. **Chip** (01:00:19:09 - 01:00:27:02): I mean, he's just he's adorable. But just because he's a burnt one, Thomas doesn't mean that Toby is a pushover. **Thomas** (01:00:27:03 - 01:00:28:04): Oh, of course not. **Chip** (01:00:28:04 - 01:00:41:21): Because Toby, when Toby's in danger, he puffs up. He's the cousin of a pufferfish. He puffs up. He can puff up to be twice the size of his normal frame. **Thomas** (01:00:41:22 - 01:00:42:05): Really? **Chip** (01:00:42:07 - 01:00:58:15): First of all, yes, that's to kind of scare away the predators. It makes him look bigger, And, Toby, just like when your parents told you that you'd never make in comedy. Thomas. Yeah. It's difficult to swallow. **Thomas** (01:00:58:17 - 01:01:03:04): Yeah, because he's too big. I mean, that's a real mog. That's a frame. Mog. **Chip** (01:01:03:06 - 01:01:19:08): Thomas. That's exactly what I was just going to say. He literally puffs up and just mocks out those buoyant, buoyant boys that that are trying to predatory him down. I will say that just puffs up and mugs those mugs, those other those fish. **Thomas** (01:01:19:10 - 01:01:20:14): Take that other fish. **Chip** (01:01:20:14 - 01:01:47:06): He also emits neurotoxins which are poisonous to predators. And they know they're like, if I eat, you going to die too. So they stay away. But here is my favorite part I love the polka dots. I love all this puffing up, but this is the biggest burnt one move I think we've ever revealed on this podcast. Fish or otherwise. **Thomas** (01:01:47:07 - 01:01:49:11): I gotta know about it. Chip. Tell me. **Chip** (01:01:49:11 - 01:01:54:18): The Hawaiian white spotted Toby makes his own sunscreen. **Thomas** (01:01:54:19 - 01:01:55:14): What? **Chip** (01:01:55:16 - 01:02:04:15): His skin produces a mucus that protects him from the UV waste because he's up there in the shallow waters. Yeah, that sun cuts right through that water. **Thomas** (01:02:04:16 - 01:02:08:03): Yeah. Oh, those white spots, they would be burnt to a crisp. **Chip** (01:02:08:04 - 01:02:14:15): Exactly. So he has his own self slather of some sunscreen. **Thomas** (01:02:14:16 - 01:02:15:05): God. **Chip** (01:02:15:05 - 01:02:30:18): And that's what makes him the biggest burn whenever he never has to apply a just creates it himself. And Thomas that is Toby, the Hawaiian white spotted Toby, our psychedelic slathered up fish of the week caps. **Thomas** (01:02:30:18 - 01:02:31:18): Off to you, Toby. **Chip** (01:02:31:19 - 01:02:33:16): Caps off. Let's give this. **Thomas** (01:02:33:17 - 01:02:34:16): Oh yeah. **Chip** (01:02:34:17 - 01:02:39:23): Our own ceremonial slather in honor of Toby. Our fish of the week. **Thomas** (01:02:40:00 - 01:02:43:23): Fish of the week. I mean, we've never had a three slather episode before. Chub. **Chip** (01:02:44:01 - 01:02:48:17): I think we, We just had something new right there. Oh, groundbreaking. **Thomas** (01:02:48:18 - 01:02:50:13): Toby. Thanks for taking us there, buddy. **Chip** (01:02:50:14 - 01:02:50:19): Thanks. **Thomas** (01:02:50:19 - 01:03:00:22): BT creating a sunscreen brand out of your own gunk. Love it. That's forward thinking, dude. That is an entrepreneurial spirit, but in such a relaxed way. **Chip** (01:03:00:23 - 01:03:03:09): And that sunscreen is reef safe. **Thomas** (01:03:03:09 - 01:03:08:09): It's reef safe. It's not other fish safe. I assume it's probably got some of those neurotoxins. **Chip** (01:03:08:10 - 01:03:09:14): Little toxic little. **Thomas** (01:03:09:16 - 01:03:21:22): Yeah. You don't want to use that Toby juice if you ain't Toby. Nope. All right, buddy, thanks so much. What a great fish of the week, dude. Toby's a certified rock star. Yep. All right, man, now it's time to open the good book. **Chip** (01:03:22:02 - 01:03:22:22): Open it up. **Thomas** (01:03:22:22 - 01:03:39:06): The good book. We're talking about the highest, the biggest, the fastest. If it's in the good book, we'll cover it. But we have two piping hot World Records Guinness Book certified scorchers that we're digging into today. Chip, you want to go first? You want me to go first? What do you want? **Chip** (01:03:39:07 - 01:03:43:09): Go ahead, Thomas, I want to let's let's say that. Good book over to you. Crack it open. **Thomas** (01:03:43:10 - 01:04:04:10): Okay, Chip, I found the record for the country with the most islands. And I want to be clear about this chip, not the country with the most Epsteins. Thank God, just the country with the most certified, documented, honest to goodness islands. All right, let's start off with how many islands do you think it took to set this record? What's the record for the most island certified in any country? **Chip** (01:04:08:22 - 01:04:12:06): Is it like around like 100 islands? 200? **Thomas** (01:04:12:07 - 01:04:12:23): I mean, that would. **Chip** (01:04:12:23 - 01:04:13:20): Be a lot. Yeah. **Thomas** (01:04:13:21 - 01:04:27:18): That would be a lot, I think. So maybe we went on a scale back those expectations. We don't normally try to overshoot. We might have the I'm kidding. It's one it's 17,508 islands, buddy. **Chip** (01:04:27:19 - 01:04:29:20): What 17,000. **Thomas** (01:04:29:21 - 01:04:32:17): In the fictional land called Indonesia. **Chip** (01:04:32:18 - 01:04:37:08): I was gonna ask if it was Indonesia. I love it, love it. **Thomas** (01:04:37:11 - 01:05:03:20): 17,508 islands. That's not a typo. That's not a rounding error. That's not a fever dream. 17,508 Islands. Chip, if you visited one island per day for every single day, no holidays off, no sick days. It would take you 47 years and 11 months to visit all these mofo islands. **Chip** (01:05:03:22 - 01:05:04:18): Geez. **Thomas** (01:05:04:19 - 01:05:27:11): Indonesia is huge. I didn't know about. It's wider than the continental United States, just this collection of islands making it the most island dense nation ever certified by the good Book, right? Of those 17,508 islands, only 6000. Just only a mere 6000 are inhabited permanently. **Chip** (01:05:27:12 - 01:05:29:04): Okay. All right, so that makes sense. **Thomas** (01:05:29:04 - 01:05:35:22): But also Indonesia. Did you want to take a guess? This is just I find it fascinating, I guess. How many people call Indonesia home? **Chip** (01:05:35:22 - 01:05:43:10): I know it is surprisingly highly populated. Yeah, I is it is it like 10 million. **Thomas** (01:05:43:11 - 01:05:45:03): 270 million. **Chip** (01:05:45:05 - 01:05:47:01): I okay I'm just lay off today. **Thomas** (01:05:47:01 - 01:05:49:16): It's the fourth most populous country on Earth. **Chip** (01:05:49:17 - 01:05:51:03): Oh yeah. That makes sense. Wow. **Thomas** (01:05:51:04 - 01:05:57:01): Kind of a fun fact. Yeah. Some of these islands only exist during low tide. **Chip** (01:05:57:02 - 01:05:59:05): That's pretty amazing. They just show up? **Thomas** (01:05:59:06 - 01:06:11:07): Yeah, you just pop up when you feel like it. Yeah. Slink back down when you don't. I don't know, I, I have some qualms about if it's underwater part of the time. Is it an island that counts? **Chip** (01:06:11:08 - 01:06:12:11): Is it really an island? **Thomas** (01:06:12:11 - 01:06:26:11): And also another interesting fact, because Indonesia sits directly on the Pacific Ring of Fire that has roughly 127 active volcanoes, it's growing new islands daily. **Chip** (01:06:26:13 - 01:06:32:12): Oh, it's just it's it's kind of like how Toby's making his own sunscreen. They're just making their own islands. **Thomas** (01:06:32:12 - 01:06:34:13): They're multiplying like bunnies. **Chip** (01:06:34:13 - 01:06:36:02): I love it, dude. **Thomas** (01:06:36:02 - 01:06:42:16): So that's that's it. That's what I got for you. 17,508 islands in one nation. **Chip** (01:06:42:16 - 01:07:10:05): This could be a stretch, but do we do some stand up in Indonesia? I love it as a nation. I will say this, Thomas. We have not one, but two amazing Indonesian restaurants in our neighborhood. Really? We go all the time. We love it. I get the hottest spiciest chicken I've ever had. It is painful. It is a a hurtful, hurtful ordeal to go through a. **Thomas** (01:07:10:05 - 01:07:11:02): Hurtful hate. **Chip** (01:07:11:03 - 01:07:15:16): And I love it every time because it is also delicious. Chip. **Thomas** (01:07:15:16 - 01:07:17:02): You should go on hot ones. **Chip** (01:07:17:03 - 01:07:34:00): Yeah. And the ice and they have it's funny, they have this basically. I guess you could call it a mural. It is gigantic on the wall of the restaurant. The one restaurant. It is a wooden map of Indonesia where it's like pieces of wood for each island. **Thomas** (01:07:34:01 - 01:07:34:15): Wow. **Chip** (01:07:34:17 - 01:07:40:06): I will say, Thomas, there are not 17,000 little pieces of wood. I will say that. I'm going to say there's about 40 or 50. **Thomas** (01:07:40:08 - 01:07:52:08): Just if you ask me, before I'd come across this, before I dipped my toes in, if you were to ask me if there were 6000 islands that were inhabited on the planet, I would have probably said no. **Chip** (01:07:52:08 - 01:07:53:13): No, no. **Thomas** (01:07:53:13 - 01:07:59:12): But just in this one nation, 6000 inhabited. Yeah. The world is truly a marvel. **Chip** (01:07:59:12 - 01:08:05:22): If you're listening from watching from Indonesia, and you want us to come do stand up comedy, I'm ready to go. I'm ready to get on a plane. **Thomas** (01:08:06:02 - 01:08:23:18): We'll rep it. We'll be there. Just let us know if it's expensive. Yes. Or if it's hurricane season, because we we do take those things to consider, like most folks might. Yeah. All right, man, that's what I got from my world record. What are you bringing to the table today, chipper? **Chip** (01:08:23:21 - 01:08:32:17): Well, first of all, congratulations. What an amazing story. You have a great I mean, just it's the nation with the the greatest number of islands. **Thomas** (01:08:32:18 - 01:08:35:03): The fourth most populated country on the planet. **Chip** (01:08:35:04 - 01:09:04:14): It just shows you the just the the amazing feats and statistics that are out there. Yeah. And that's why we love the Good Book. It's we've talked about when we open up the Good Book each week, we've talked about the world's tallest man, the deepest oceans, the highest mountains, incredible feats of human, the fastest, the strongest, the most talented completing, requiring a lifetime of training, sacrifice and spirit. And today I got the largest building shape. Like a chicken. That's all. **Thomas** (01:09:09:13 - 01:09:10:15): Oh, wow. **Chip** (01:09:10:18 - 01:09:39:03): It's totally got. It is a building. Its large, it's shaped like a chicken. And it has the record for just that. We're not going to far from Indonesia. We're going a little northeast to the Philippines. Thomas okay. Yeah. The Philippines, which has given us Manny Pacquiao the thriller in Manila, and Lou Diamond Phillips, who in the Philippines, there is a building shaped like a chicken, more specifically a rooster. **Thomas** (01:09:39:04 - 01:09:40:08): A man chicken. **Chip** (01:09:40:09 - 01:09:59:14): A man chicken. It is 114ft tall. Wo 92ft long, 39ft wide. It was created by Ricardo Cano Guapo Tan at the Campo the at the Camp Weston Highland resort in Philippines. **Thomas** (01:09:59:15 - 01:10:00:08): Nice. **Chip** (01:10:00:09 - 01:10:18:00): It was designated on September 8th, 2020 for O, the world's largest building shaped like a chicken. Thomas, I have a question for you. Yep. Do you want to take a guess what the usage of this building is? What kind of building is it that shaped like a rooster? **Thomas** (01:10:18:00 - 01:10:22:04): I would man restaurant. Is it a restaurant? **Chip** (01:10:22:05 - 01:10:30:09): You're very close. Although, honestly, you might be correct, there actually may be an adjacent restaurant. There might be a restaurant involved. It is actually a hotel. **Thomas** (01:10:30:10 - 01:10:32:05): Oh, you can sleep in a rooster. **Chip** (01:10:32:05 - 01:10:56:14): You can sleep in a rooster if you want to. It is there are 15 rooms in this hotel. Some nice accommodations, unfortunately, Thomas, no windows in any of these rooms. Kind of like our little capsule hotels. There's. There's no rooms because. I'm sorry, there's no windows because they didn't want it to throw off the look of the rooster. **Thomas** (01:10:56:15 - 01:10:59:20): Because chickens or roosters in nature have no windows. **Chip** (01:10:59:20 - 01:11:20:14): That's exactly what I wanted you to come to, Thomas. Chickens don't have windows, so they wanted to keep it. They wanted to keep it real. I will say this, Thomas. Everybody. All 15 rooms, their wake up call comes at the same time every morning. It's at dawn. And let me tell you, it is loud. The continental breakfast. Thomas. You jam. Let's. I have, yeah, you have ever seen. And the best part about staying in a giant rooster hotel? Yeah. If you're on vacation, you're partying too much. You get too drunk at night and you can't remember where your hotel is. **Thomas** (01:11:36:04 - 01:11:36:18): **Chip** (01:11:36:20 - 01:11:39:22): Just look up for the giant chicken. **Thomas** (01:11:40:01 - 01:11:45:12): Yeah, for the the waddle on the head. Dude, that is tremendous. **Chip** (01:11:45:12 - 01:11:53:05): Here's what I think I would do if I was a rich person. Thomas. I might have that competitive edge to move to the Philippines. **Thomas** (01:11:53:06 - 01:11:54:07): Yeah. **Chip** (01:11:54:09 - 01:12:09:13): Build a building shaped like a rooster that is 115ft tall just to beat them out by a foot. So they have to say they're the second largest rooster shaped building in the world. **Thomas** (01:12:09:14 - 01:12:22:08): Yeah, but what happens when these two buildings cockfight each other, you know, to the death? It's like your building is going to be damaged, right? If it wins at all, that the other rooster might win completely destroy your building. **Chip** (01:12:22:08 - 01:12:25:07): We're going to give you some windows, whether you like it or not. **Thomas** (01:12:25:08 - 01:12:27:10): Exactly. A couple of beak windows. **Chip** (01:12:27:11 - 01:12:28:16): Beak windows, beak. **Thomas** (01:12:28:16 - 01:12:30:16): Windows. This is unbelievable. **Chip** (01:12:30:16 - 01:12:40:22): Dude, that is our world record for the largest building shaped like a chicken. Congratulations to the people of the Kempston Highland Resort in the Philippines. **Thomas** (01:12:40:22 - 01:12:48:13): Cock a doodle. Don't sleep on this resort. Don't you got to check it out? You can stay in the largest building shaped like a chicken ship. **Chip** (01:12:48:13 - 01:12:49:16): Why would you not? **Thomas** (01:12:49:17 - 01:13:11:08): Can you imagine? I mean, especially with your affinity for spicy chicken. You know you like chicken. All different kinds of way. As a hospitality chicken. That might be a whole different cock of the walk. And I love a rooster in a tropical environment. Man, I was just thinking the other day, walking around my dad, just being surrounded by all those chickens and roosters. **Chip** (01:13:11:10 - 01:13:20:21): They were. That was that was the one time I didn't like it because I literally thought they were going to. I thought they were going to your father in that Foodland parking lot. **Thomas** (01:13:20:22 - 01:13:41:01): I think I was just sitting there and like, just waiting for. I was like, why are we sitting here? And I know, you know, he was sitting down enjoying some food land, where's as you do at lunchtime and I, he just popped a squat right there on the curb in the parking lot. And these birds were on the prow. **Chip** (01:13:41:04 - 01:13:42:08): They were circling. **Thomas** (01:13:42:09 - 01:13:52:12): They were circling. And he was just undaunted. I think part of him was like, I'm significantly bigger than a chicken, right? Which is like probably the right frame of mind. Yeah. It's not where I went. **Chip** (01:13:52:13 - 01:13:53:13): These are just little chickens. **Thomas** (01:13:53:14 - 01:14:14:10): Dude, what a great memory. What a great memory of traveling around the islands. That was last year's Chip Chantries Thanksgiving Paradise. The Paradise tour is continuing this year. We're going to have some announcements pretty soon. But, everybody, this is the sunburnt podcast where we talk about comedy and tropical travel. And till next time, stay burnt. Front desk. **Chip** (01:14:14:10 - 01:14:22:03): Hi, this is Mr. Chantry in room 308. I saw the sign that says you must be wearing at least some clothing in the Jacuzzi downstairs. **Thomas** (01:14:22:05 - 01:14:22:20): Yes, that's. **Chip** (01:14:22:20 - 01:14:26:02): True, but I didn't notice a sign that said that on the treadmill. **Thomas** (01:14:26:04 - 01:14:30:19): It goes for everything in the hotel, Mr. Chantry. **Chip** (01:14:30:21 - 01:14:32:04): Bunch of Puritans.