It's the Cinco de Mayo Spectacular! Emmy Award-winning Producer Thomas O'Brien and Netflix Comedian Chip Chantry are investigating the Mexican cartels squeezing your lime supply, defending Hawaii's poke from mainland chickpea crimes, and uncovering why the National Park Service wants YOU to become a lighthouse keeper (despite the serial killer Venn diagram).

This week on Episode 59:

• A Palos Verdes resort hires a 1970s-era falconer to chase seagulls
• The narco-economic manipulation of your Cinco de Mayo margarita
• A four-time Grammy winner playing nightly under a 100-year-old banyan tree in Maui
• Hootie and the Blowfish make their Stagecoach debut and bring out Public Enemy
• Saint Kitts deliberately sinks an airplane into the Caribbean
• A beach resort founder in Aruba gets knighted by an actual Dutch king
• Buffett Facts: Why Jimmy skipped TV for a third daiquiri machine
• Fish of the Week: The Achilles Tang and his terrifying BUTT KNIVES
• A 14,991-pound guacamole world record (five hippopotamuses worth)
• A man with 1,136 hotel keycards who swears he's not having affairs

Grab a float, put on your earphones, and drift away.

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Episode 58 of the Sunburnt Podcast — the #1 Tropical Travel Comedy Podcast on the planet — with Emmy Award-winning Producer Thomas O'Brien and Netflix Comedian Chip Chantry.

This week the guys go FULL tropical chaos. Chip pitches hot sauce sunscreen (a multi-million dollar idea that may also attract seagulls), confesses to smoking cigars as a three-year-old, and recaps a wild speakeasy comedy show in his 1965-era basement bar. Thomas reports back from a back-alley underground comedy club called Jam in the Van and survives a sinusitis saga so foul it changed him.

In the news:
• Chef Alan Wong's legendary Honolulu restaurant reopens after 6 years — already booked solid for 2 months
• Air New Zealand installs bunk beds in economy class on their 17-hour NYC-to-Auckland flight
• Americans are cutting restaurants and cable but protecting their vacations at all costs
• The $6.2 million taped-banana artist stages a 400-person silent gala
• Grand Hyatt opens on Grand Cayman with 71,000 sq ft of event space
• Bluegrass phenom Billy Strings snaps his leg skateboarding backstage before an encore
• Phish takes over the Sphere in Las Vegas

Plus: Fish of the Week is Deborah the Yellow Stripe Wrasse (she's beautiful but she crazy), and The Good Book covers a 139.8-mile fin swim through shark-infested French Polynesian waters AND Brazil's 158-mile beach visible from space.

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Episode 57 of the Sunburnt Podcast — Emmy Award-winning producer Thomas O'Brien and Netflix comedian Chip Chantry are back with another tropically unhinged hour.

This week: Royal Caribbean unveiled a treehouse suite on a cruise ship that costs $200,000 per week. A 74-year-old kayaker in Norway gets his boat capsized by a 5,000-pound walrus and lives to tell the tale. There's a beach bar in Martinique serving rum punches at the foot of an active volcano. The Super Bowl of hula dance is streaming free from Hilo, Hawaii. Coachella kicks off and you can watch six stages for free — so why go?

Plus: the guys pitch a trick-or-treat-scented candle business, discover that canned mai tais are secretly 2.5 drinks, and debate whether an ABC Store could survive Philadelphia. Hypochondriac Corner features a collapsed lung scare from The Pitt and Chip's real-life collapsed lung story. Fish of the Week introduces Howard the spotted box fish — a poison-oozing, harem-running, reef-peeping little cube. The Good Book cracks open for the world's largest underwater wedding (303 scuba divers in Poland) and a Malaysian resort with 643 individual swimming pools.

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Episode 56 of the Sunburnt Podcast is here, and hosts Thomas O'Brien (Emmy Award-winning producer) and Chip Chantry (Netflix comedian) are fully locked in on spring chaos.

Chip opens with a kindergarten egg hunt story involving blood, grass stains, and a second-place finish. Then the guys dig into the Cayman Islands breaking visitor records by advertising what they DON'T have — no seaweed, no crowds — plus new direct flights making it more accessible than ever.

Things get gross fast: hotel coffee makers are testing positive for bacteria, mold, and mildew, and some guests are literally using them to wash their underwear. 92-year-old Hollywood legend Kim Novak publicly roasts Sydney Sweeney's looks over a biopic casting. The guys explore nine celebrity homes on Airbnb including Frank Sinatra's Palm Springs compound and the Fitzgeralds' party pad.

Americans rank Paris as Europe's most overrated food city — Thomas shares his actual Paris dining experiences including baby-bottle wine service at a fondue restaurant. Hypochondriac Corner returns with Chip's workout pains and Thomas's fake doctor ads. Fish of the Week introduces Gerald the fantail filefish — shy, colorful, and terrifyingly aggressive.

World records close the show: Los Cabos hit 437,900 international visitors in January, and South Korea's Positive Space 566 holds the world's largest cafe record with 2,190 seats.

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Episode 55 of the Sunburnt Podcast with Thomas O'Brien and Chip Chantry is here and it's a loaded one. Chip kicks things off by melting a shopping cart with a car battery at Gelson's, then unveils his increasingly illegal April Fool's Day prank suggestions — from ketchup buckets to LinkedIn hacking to an actual kidnapping scheme.

The guys dive into the Matador Network's new guide to drinking rum across Puerto Rico, the official Rum Capital of the World. Thomas casually reveals he's been in a civil tree dispute with his neighbor Ryan Gosling, then raves about Project Hail Mary crushing at the box office. A Hawaii Magazine article leads them down memory lane to Kahuku Farms on Oahu's North Shore, where they once had the greatest iced tea and banana bread of their lives.

Other highlights: the Gen Z food war between Boy Kibble and Girl Dinner, a comet named MAPS that might be the brightest in years (unless the sun destroys it first), and Don't Work Unless It's Fun Day on April 3rd.

Fish of the Week spotlights Leonard the Peacock Grouper — a neon blue invasive species terrorizing Hawaiian reefs since the 1950s who travels with a personal harem. The Good Book delivers a man who spent 111 days living in a banyan tree and the fastest grave ever dug: two hours flat in a Cleveland cemetery.

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Episode 54 of the Sunburnt Podcast is here, and hosts Thomas O'Brien and Chip Chantry are fully unhinged. This week: the 125th anniversary of Waikiki's first hotel (which was built on a malaria swamp), NASA's $11 billion Mars rock named "Dough-to-night," and the shocking story of how the U.S. literally burned Japan's first gift of cherry blossom trees.

The guys break down why 22 million Americans are choosing cruise ships for spring break, reveal Forbes' highest-paid actors list (Adam Sandler takes the crown at $48 million), and deliver a Saint Patrick's Day Jimmy Buffett fact check involving shamrock margaritas.

Fish of the Week introduces Barnaby, a 4,000-pound giant oceanic manta ray who looks like a goth girl's kite and forms 30-male mating trains. Then Chip takes us to Tristan da Cunha — the most remote inhabited island on Earth — where 250 people share 7 last names and the nearest neighbor is a 7-day boat ride away.

Plus: Outrigger resorts expanding to the island from The Beach, the $10 billion astro-tourism boom, and the 57 alternative uses for Heinz ketchup.

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Episode 53 of the Sunburnt Podcast is here, and hosts Emmy winning producer Thomas O'Brien and Netflix comedian Chip Chantry are swinging for the fences. This week: Travel & Leisure dropped a list of the 20 best Caribbean beaches and Pig Beach somehow made the cut — the guys have questions. The LA Marathon gave out medals at the 18-mile mark because it was too hot, and Thomas calls it "global softening." St. Patrick's Day celebrations span from Dublin to Buenos Aires, but nothing compares to Philadelphia's infamous Erin Express pub crawl.

In tech news that nobody asked for, ChatGPT is now roasting users based on their perceived insecurities, and Thomas reveals he built his own AI program to torch people's LinkedIn profiles. Carnival Cruise Lines just opened a $600 million private island in the Bahamas with Shaquille O'Neal as their Chief Fun Officer. The Hypochondriac Corner features Chip dodging a coughing stranger at a wedding brunch.

Fish of the Week introduces Clarence, the Hawaiian Scorpion Fish — a venomous, algae-covered curmudgeon who can eat prey almost his own size. The Good Book cracks open two records: a Danish doctor who swam 202 meters underwater on a single breath, and Dunkin's 276-gallon iced latte containing 3,200 shots of espresso.

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Spring Break travel is about to hit record levels — and somehow that leads us to thousands of Smurfs, a toxic reef fish, and one of the weirdest entries in the Guinness World Records.

Welcome to Episode 52 of the Sunburnt Podcast, where Emmy-winning producer Thomas O'Brien and comedian Chip Chantry take a weekly comedy vacation through tropical travel news, absurd world records, and beach-side nonsense.

This week we break down the massive Spring Break travel surge (2.8 million passengers per day), dive into another Fish of the Week, and discover the small town in France that gathered 3,076 people dressed as Smurfs to break a world record.

Along the way we also hit Hypochondriac Corner, where a pickleball injury sends Thomas into a full-blown medical paranoia spiral.

In this episode:

• Record Spring Break travel numbers and airport chaos
• Hypochondriac Corner – the pickleball injury panic
• Fish of the Week: the Golden-Striped Soapfish, a reef fish that releases toxic foam when threatened
• The return of the Guinness Book of World Records
• The town in France that gathered 3,076 Smurfs to break a world record
• Another bizarre Guinness entry involving a giant mango

If you love tropical travel, ridiculous ocean creatures, weird world records, and comedy that feels like a vacation — you're one of the Burnt Ones.

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