0:00

Hey, so we have a fun food

0:02

heist today. We

0:06

have a delicious food heist. Oh good. My

0:09

favorite Caribbean food. Oxtail.

0:12

Jerk chicken? Oxtail. Okay.

0:15

Are you more of a jerk chicken guy than an oxtail guy?

0:17

I'll eat the oxtail, but I like the jerk chicken. Oh man.

0:19

Some of the best things I've ever eaten. I

0:22

love oxtail. So in Houston,

0:25

regular traffic stops, someone was

0:27

speeding, cop pulled them

0:29

over and did the process of writing a

0:31

ticket. Notice they had an unusual

0:33

quantity of raw meat in

0:35

their back seat. And

0:38

it turned out that they had a bunch

0:41

of oxtail and steak and shrimp.

0:44

So they were going to eat

0:46

well or whoever worked at their

0:48

restaurant was going to eat well. 46

0:51

packages of raw meat. So not a

0:53

huge heist. But it's

0:56

about the same monetary value as

0:58

the last one we did with the...

1:01

But it's a higher class sort of thing to steal, right?

1:04

Plus they made it out of the grocery store.

1:06

They did. And they were in their

1:08

car. They still don't get to go to a food

1:10

heist prison, but their application is duly noted. Yeah.

1:14

So anyway, they've

1:16

got a picture here of the cop

1:18

displaying all the packages of meat on

1:21

the hood of the car. Like

1:23

you got a cocaine bust? Yes. Oh,

1:26

that poor... Yeah, I just like that.

1:30

That cop's like, I finally got one. I'm finally

1:32

going to get in the paper. Like this is

1:34

going to be so great. It's going... That

1:36

it's just packages of meat. Packages of

1:39

oxtail. Almost all of it is oxtail. Anyway.

1:42

You guys can't see this or whatever, but it's not

1:44

just tails. It would have been nice if the picture

1:46

were a bunch of tails. No. They're

1:49

cross-sections of tails. I will

1:51

send this article to Adam so that we can link

1:53

it or something so everyone can see the cool pictures.

1:56

Yeah. What happens when you're that cop and you

1:58

go back to everyone? You've been in the paper.

2:00

And you've displayed your oxtails like you got a

2:02

cocaine bust Do they you

2:05

know I would use every

2:07

opportunity to bring it up Yeah, you

2:09

know like in Hudsucker proxy the lady

2:12

in there is constantly saying I want

2:14

a Pulitzer Yeah, that would be me

2:16

and my oxtail bust You

2:19

know they'd say I don't think we can put wells on

2:21

this assignment, and I'd say are you kidding I? Found

2:24

46 packages of oxtail see

2:26

I think it would go the other way I think

2:28

oh it would absolutely go the other we've got wells

2:31

We're doing a big drug bust we get the guys

2:33

were like all right send wells to check the fridge

2:35

See if they've got any contraband in there And

2:38

yeah, you'd be like all right. I found I

2:40

found ketchup. That's three years out of date Book

2:44

them Yeah, you

2:47

know this leads me to question What

2:49

do they do when they make

2:51

a food heist bust like this because

2:53

I have to assume that With

2:56

food safety laws in the US

2:58

they can't resell they can't stock

3:00

those shelves with an oxtail No,

3:03

what happened it has to be evidence for the trial

3:07

Do you got to like keep that meat

3:09

they got to keep it until they get

3:11

into court? Yeah? We

3:13

have to have the meat your honor.

3:15

I'll state presents into evidence 46

3:18

packages of oxtail Which

3:20

have apparently been kept unrefrigerated in the

3:22

back of a police station? Sorry

3:25

Houston police. We don't mean to be making so

3:27

much fun of you No, but you really should

3:29

refrigerate that stuff Especially

3:33

in Houston so as our

3:36

last episode brought up

3:38

I went to grain cayman or

3:40

came on yeah over the holidays

3:43

And so we thought we'd talk about Caribbean you

3:45

know trips there things Because I

3:48

had did you eat oxtail when you were

3:50

there. I did you have some oxtail yeah, Joel you

3:52

had some oxtail, too Didn't you yeah? Mac

3:55

and cheese you had oxtail mac and cheese oxtail mac and

3:57

cheese, and you didn't put that in the ice cream for

3:59

us So I had on this trip the

4:01

single best excursion I've ever done. Ooh.

4:10

Yup. Which one was this? So

4:12

there were 10 of us. And so

4:14

we just chartered a little boat and

4:18

it was with Captain Vernon, who I highly

4:20

recommend. Okay. He's Jamaican, but he's lived in,

4:22

drank, came in for 22 years as a

4:24

captain with

4:27

his own little boat, the Concord. Not

4:30

the Costa Cordia, but

4:33

he was a great character.

4:36

Oh, we have our, you're

4:39

interrupting my story with a picture of someone that's

4:41

proud to have meat on their car. This

4:44

is mid-journey AI again. Anyway,

4:47

I thought it was funny. It is pretty

4:49

funny, particularly with the car looks like it

4:51

might be made of meat itself. Yeah. The

4:54

AI wasn't sure where the meat ends

4:56

and the car begins. That

4:58

is like the white glove treatment. Yeah. Yeah.

5:02

So Captain Vernon, he

5:04

steered his boat. These

5:07

little boats, I mean, it had a little cabin down

5:09

below, but you know, one person

5:12

cabin. And so he had

5:14

taken apart part of the canopy above, what do you

5:17

call the place where you steer a ship? There's still

5:19

the ship's wheel. You can't, yeah. Ship's

5:22

wheel. The poop deck. I don't

5:24

know what you call it. You're supposed to

5:26

know stuff like this. You're like, why am

5:28

I supposed to know what ships are called?

5:30

History books and stuff. They don't take place

5:32

on ships. You've read

5:34

Aubrey. I have not. Okay.

5:37

I have seen master and commander. Okay.

5:39

But when it came out and not

5:42

since. Okay. But anyway, you know, you got a

5:44

little chair with your little steering wheel. Your ship's

5:46

wheel. The helm. Yeah. But that

5:48

sounds so grandiose because it really is just

5:50

like, you know, it's like calling

5:52

the... Still call it a helm. Yeah.

5:55

That's like calling the front of your car

5:57

the bridge. Right. But

5:59

regardless. He would stand up on

6:01

his seat, head and upper torso, out of

6:03

the top of the canopy that he pulled

6:05

him back, and he steered with his foot.

6:08

That's awesome. It was great. And

6:11

he turned on 80's easy

6:13

listening and songs I haven't heard in 30

6:15

years, but that were all very

6:17

nostalgic. And he took us

6:19

on a six hour excursion that actually

6:21

went seven hours. And

6:24

it was just really awesome. That's cool.

6:27

So you literally saw all the sites, the water

6:29

sites that Graham came in. So you

6:31

went to the Manta Ray place? So we

6:33

started at what they call the coral gardens.

6:36

It's just a nice little snorkeling spot,

6:39

which was a lot of fun. And

6:41

then he took us to the breakwater,

6:43

the barrier reef. And

6:46

there, there's a bunch of conks. I

6:48

always pronounced it wrong. I said conch, but

6:50

it's conch. That had

6:52

already been harvested. And

6:55

he said, you know, you can bring home the shells as

6:57

long as there's not an animal in it. And

6:59

there, a lot of them had already been harvested. And

7:02

we went diving and got those. And then

7:04

he like took a little ring, floating

7:07

ring, anyone who wasn't a strong swimmer could hold

7:09

onto that. And he took them out to the

7:11

barrier where the waves are stronger. And along that

7:13

were some of the different sea life was. Oh,

7:15

that's cool. Joel and I were swimming out there

7:18

with him. We saw a giant nurse shark hiding

7:20

there. He found it for us. So

7:22

I have swum in shark infested waters.

7:25

But I mean, it's a nurse shark. And

7:28

Joel and I dive and got some conks. And

7:32

he had some conks that had animals

7:34

in them, the conch itself. And

7:36

then we went to the stingray city, which

7:38

is a place where you've been there before,

7:41

where back like 100 years ago,

7:44

starting, that's where the fishermen would

7:46

clean their catches and dump

7:48

it into the ocean before coming in

7:50

to shore. And the stingrays there just

7:53

started. It probably wasn't 100 years, but like

7:55

50 years or so, the stingrays would come and

7:57

feed on that. And so low

7:59

sandbar. three feet of water and

8:01

the stingrays there became super tame. And

8:04

so you can go there, you can swim with

8:06

them, they'll come up on, you've

8:08

probably seen pictures online of

8:10

people going like this and there's a stingray

8:12

coming up to them and kissing them, probably

8:15

taking place at this place. At Stingray City.

8:17

My son and I went to Stingray City

8:19

on one of the riding excuses cruises. And

8:22

yeah, I got to hold a stingray and you

8:25

feed them and stuff. The

8:28

whole bay is like a

8:31

swimming pool. It's 10 feet

8:33

deep at the most and like

8:35

you say, in some places only three. And

8:38

so yeah, you can just get off the boat and walk around in

8:40

the water. But it's like an hour's boat

8:43

across. Hours ride. Hours

8:45

ride. I don't know. Journey. Journey.

8:49

There you go. An hour's journey across. So it's

8:51

a big, big bay. And it's like you said,

8:53

a magical swing pool that's just huge. I

8:56

do feel that I need to let the world

8:58

know the first time I ever

9:00

went to Grand Cayman was

9:02

with you and you

9:04

and I and our wives.

9:07

We got off the boat for the riding

9:09

excuses cruise and we went to a restaurant

9:12

that was right on the beach. There

9:14

was a little fishing boat that came up

9:16

and we watched them take the freshest possible

9:19

fish out of the boat straight into the

9:21

kitchen. And then Brandon

9:23

ordered chicken fingers. I did. I

9:26

might have ordered jerk chicken. You sure it was chicken

9:28

fingers? It was chicken fingers. You may not have had

9:30

the jerk chicken. I don't think they had jerk chicken

9:32

there because it was such a solid seafood place. Yep.

9:35

Nope. Not gonna, you're not gonna get me eating fish.

9:38

I have eaten a ton

9:40

of fish and I hated every bite of it

9:43

my whole life. You are welcome to

9:45

hate all the fish. I just relished

9:47

telling that story. It's a pretty good Brandon

9:49

story. You're gonna like this though. And Vernon,

9:52

he cut up those conks that he got

9:54

for us. The animals, not the shells. And

9:56

he let us feed the pieces to the

9:59

stingrays. Okay, so they would come up and

10:01

they have like Hoover mouth it like you suck the food

10:03

out of your mouth Yeah, and then he put out of

10:05

your hand. I assume you didn't feed them mouth to mouth

10:08

Although I would like Adam. Yeah,

10:10

he's asked mid-journey. I'm on my

10:12

way But

10:16

here's the part you would have loved okay, he

10:18

took the edible part of the conch for

10:21

humans Mm-hmm, and he made ceviche out of

10:23

it. That sounds awesome, right? Like he took

10:25

us to the next stop which was the

10:27

starfish point Where the kids could

10:29

collect shells and you see starfish and he

10:32

sound the boat and he made fresh ceviche

10:35

That Emily says was really good. You didn't try

10:37

any of that. I didn't try any of it.

10:39

Joel did. It was good Awesome.

10:42

So fresh conch ceviche

10:44

fresh conch ceviche. Yep,

10:47

this makes me want to eat ceviche

10:49

Hmm. Do you like snorkeling? Like what

10:51

you're feeling snorkeling? I have been snorkeling

10:53

three times Mm-hmm and the

10:55

first two times it was magical and

10:58

wonderful and then the third time I

11:00

had like a full-blown panic attack About

11:03

five minutes into it just right

11:05

off the bat. Mmm, and they

11:07

had to like Carry me

11:10

back to shore and I set the whole thing out.

11:12

So I don't know what happened there This

11:14

was before the panic disorder or maybe it

11:16

was an early morning shock of it But

11:19

yeah, I don't know in general I enjoy

11:21

it I should say I've gone snorkeling more

11:23

than that because Don and I have

11:25

gone a few times. Mm-hmm. It's fun I

11:28

enjoy it. I'm pretty good swimmer.

11:31

My son's pretty good swimmers. And so

11:33

I have not seen a shark Well snorkeling,

11:36

but I've seen a turtle. Yeah,

11:38

pretty big sea turtle like to feed him crust

11:41

Captain Vernon found a lobster, but I couldn't

11:43

see it. Joan were you there for the

11:45

lobster? Yeah, it went and

11:48

hit and so we didn't get to see the love not one

11:50

of these Giant like proto

11:52

lobsters. Yeah, it was in our to

11:54

exist in the bottom of the sea

11:57

little thing He said sometimes there's eels. There's

11:59

more eels and stuff but he was didn't

12:01

find those but if I'm gonna pick one going

12:03

down there and being like Three feet

12:05

from a giant shark. That's

12:08

a pretty good one. Yeah, my closest

12:10

kind of scary encounter while

12:12

snorkeling was we were

12:14

in North Shore of Oahu

12:17

okay in the little kind of

12:19

enclosed Kind of very

12:21

large tide pool snorkeling place. That's a

12:23

little is that west of Turtle Bay

12:26

Okay, I can't remember. It's called called

12:28

like sharp sharp things. Yeah, anyway It's

12:32

like the training wheels version of snorkeling But

12:34

it was just delightful is one and it's

12:36

full of anemones and I was going through

12:38

this kind of maze thing

12:41

of all these reefs and rocks and

12:43

looking at the different little anemones and

12:45

then came around a corner and saw

12:49

the flashiest like

12:51

Marty Graw sea anemone

12:54

Instead of just a little one with spines

12:57

it had the huge feathers coming up which

13:00

Absolutely signals. I am as poisonous

13:02

as I can possibly be don't

13:05

touch me and Where

13:07

I was in the little tunnel the

13:10

tide was pushing me towards it And

13:12

I'm like no it's gonna get me but

13:15

I managed to get away from the highly

13:17

poisonous sea anemone Venomous

13:19

or poisonous it may

13:21

have been both probably both I bet if

13:23

I bit it or if it and done

13:26

me I would be poisoned either way Oliver

13:28

My youngest son did step on a jellyfish.

13:30

Oh, and that was traumatic for him for a little bit. Did

13:32

you pee on him? No Did

13:36

anybody else pee on it nobody peed on

13:38

him. Oh, yeah fine I know

13:40

you have to say that because this is like public but

13:43

you can tell me for real later Captain

13:45

Vernon had vinegar. Okay. Well, that's

13:47

good Mm-hmm, and

13:49

it was funny cuz Captain Vernon's like yeah, those are

13:51

out there and He

13:54

treated like getting a mosquito bite probably about

13:56

as common or thing or where he is, but

13:58

my kids are like Like, umm,

14:01

there's, yeah, I can't do it. There's,

14:03

yeah, they were, they were freaked out. My two

14:05

youngest, Joel didn't care. Joel got stung too, but he

14:07

was just like, uh. Like, uh,

14:09

okay. Like a poison ivy, sort of feel. I

14:12

guess you haven't gotten poison ivy before. Oh,

14:14

it's like, you got scratched, then you got like,

14:17

pain sanitizer in it. Okay, felt like

14:19

that. Okay. That makes

14:21

sense. Then we went to dinner, because we had

14:24

to wait for it to get dark, because then we went to

14:26

the best part, that I bet you didn't get to do, because

14:28

you were doing it off of a cruise ship. Yeah, so we

14:30

were not there at night, and I know what you're

14:32

gonna say, and I've never done

14:34

it. Biolusinescent Bay. It

14:36

was the closest I've ever been,

14:39

like being in a fantasy world

14:41

in real life. My brain refused

14:43

to accept that I wasn't

14:45

looking through some sort of VR filter. It

14:49

was amazing. Just

14:52

like the water glowed when you moved

14:54

it, or? No, the water glowed when

14:56

I wasn't moving, because

14:58

I have lots of like hairs on

15:00

my arms, and the soft current would

15:02

brush them against my hands. If I

15:04

just floated, I was outlined

15:06

in light, my whole body. That's

15:09

cool. And it was pitch black, though

15:12

it's only like three feet deep. Yeah. But

15:14

it's pitch black, so you look like you're looking down into

15:16

infinity, and you're

15:18

glowing, like you have chi

15:21

powers. You got to be a radiant. I

15:23

got to be a night radiant, yeah. It's

15:25

seriously like, Joel did it too. The two

15:27

youngest kids wouldn't, because it was dark, and

15:30

it was totally fine. Captain

15:32

Vernon gave them a stick that they could

15:34

switch in the water, so they didn't have

15:36

to get in. But we got in, Emily

15:38

got in, and just, it's like you're glowing

15:40

with power. And then Joel and I did

15:42

Kamekameha's against each other, seeing who could get

15:44

the glowing radiance to go at each other,

15:46

and it was so surreal.

15:48

Really cool. Adam's gonna do it in

15:50

two weeks, a week? Yeah.

15:52

Roughly. So yesterday, we had a meeting

15:55

here in the office. And

15:57

Adam was saying, what can you tell me

15:59

about visiting? I was visiting Grand Canyon

16:02

and then Emily started describing reefs

16:05

and starfish and all these things and it

16:08

wasn't until she got to Stingray City that

16:10

I was like, oh, he said Grand

16:14

Cayman and I just heard Grand Canyon. I

16:17

was trying to figure out which part of Grand Canyon had a reef in

16:19

it and the

16:21

answer is the Caribbean part. Well, the Grand Canyon

16:23

probably had a reef in it at some point.

16:25

I mean, all those strata are the sediments of

16:28

an ocean that used to be here. I've

16:31

talked a lot about this experience, by the

16:33

way. Everybody go rent Captain Vernon's boat and

16:36

he was great. He was like

16:38

the patriarch of all the boat dudes. All the little

16:40

tour boat guys. They all knew him. They all kind

16:42

of made way for him and he'd been doing it

16:44

the longest. All the others were like in their 20s.

16:46

He's like in his late 40s,

16:49

maybe early 50s and just it's

16:51

been his thing forever. What

16:55

cool experiences? You've gone to the Caribbean way more than

16:57

I have. What cool experiences you've had?

16:59

Yeah, so the riding excuses cruise used to go

17:01

to the Caribbean every year. This last year we

17:03

went to Alaska instead. First

17:05

of all, very cool Grand Cayman

17:08

story. I

17:10

have always enjoyed

17:13

Bob Marley without really getting it.

17:15

I'm not from that culture. I

17:17

wasn't from the time period, but

17:20

driving, that is

17:22

the most attractive picture of Brandon Sanderson.

17:25

That's the closest thing I could make.

17:28

I don't think it knew what to do with that product.

17:31

Did you type in my name? I tried on some

17:33

of them. I will try on this one. This is

17:35

the experimental version of it. Okay, because it usually can

17:37

get me if you just type Brandon Sanderson because there's

17:40

enough photos of me online. Famous

17:42

author Brandon Sanderson, Frenching a Manta Ray.

17:45

No, so the story is that

17:47

it was in the tour boat

17:50

going on that hour long trip across

17:52

the magical bay and

17:55

the guy was playing Bob Marley

17:57

and Redemption song came on and just something

17:59

about it was so perfect that I was

18:01

like, oh, I get this now. This

18:04

is incredible. And

18:07

so it was very cool. I do have to say, people

18:10

talk about us being bougie.

18:13

Bougie ivory tower people. Yeah. Grain

18:16

came and is like the breaded

18:18

island. Like all the

18:20

food was like super high class and

18:22

tasty and kind of snooty. It

18:25

was delightful to stay there for a week. Okay.

18:27

Well, on the subject of food, here's my other

18:30

story. And this is not grand Cayman,

18:32

but the little Royal Caribbean route that

18:35

our crews used to do all the

18:37

time would go to Honduras. And I

18:39

can't remember the name of it. It's

18:41

the little cruise stop in

18:43

Honduras. And the

18:46

first year we went, we went to this thing

18:48

and we did it. And it was so boring.

18:51

So the second time we went to Honduras, I'm like,

18:53

this is the most boring stuff. I

18:56

didn't even get off the ship. I played role playing games

18:58

the whole time. But then

19:00

the third time we went, I

19:03

had Dawn with me again and she wanted to go do the zip

19:05

line thing. And we went and we did the zip line thing. And

19:08

then after I asked my standard

19:10

question, which is, hey, guy who lives

19:12

here, where do you eat lunch?

19:14

Because that's where I want to go eat lunch.

19:18

And he took us, you know, down

19:20

the block and around the corner to this place that

19:23

back to the beginning of the episode was

19:25

Stu Dox tail. One

19:27

of the best meals I've ever had in my entire life.

19:30

This experience happened after the episode we

19:32

recorded about the best meals we've ever

19:34

eaten, or this would have been on

19:36

it because it was just phenomenal. Honduras

19:39

has this kind of yellow

19:41

mustardy hot sauce with

19:43

chilies and then some mustard in it. That was

19:45

so good that we wandered around the little town

19:48

there for like half an hour trying to find

19:50

someone who was selling it. We did end up

19:52

getting a bottle of it. But yeah,

19:55

that's a top five meal experience for

19:57

me. Ivy

20:00

Place selling oxtail

20:02

stew to the locals. Adam,

20:05

you really like St. John's, right? Yeah,

20:07

St. John's was great. Mm hmm. That's

20:09

one I've heard you talk about. I've been briefly

20:12

because it was on a cruise stop.

20:14

So it was like the cruise didn't stop at St.

20:16

John's, it stopped at the one next to it. St.

20:18

Thomas. St. Thomas. Yeah. And then you could like go

20:20

over to St. John's briefly. And I know we did

20:22

that, but... Yeah, St. Thomas was nice. And then we

20:24

went to St. John's and it was snorkeling

20:26

wise. It was some of the best snorkeling I'd

20:29

ever done until that time. And then

20:31

I started scuba diving and that ruined everything.

20:33

Ruined snorkeling. Yeah. I

20:36

think I've done that snorkeling

20:38

tour out of St. Thomas. Cause

20:40

we rode a boat for like a couple of hours

20:42

to get to some other island and been snorkeling there.

20:45

I will say traditionally, I

20:47

have not been great at doing New Year's

20:49

stuff. That's why I like going to your New

20:52

Year's party or like why we had our one

20:54

last year. I'm like, let's actually have a New

20:56

Year's party. Because particularly when our kids were a

20:58

little bit younger, our New Year's consisted of staying

21:01

up with the kids, keeping them from

21:04

flipping out too much as they stayed up

21:07

until midnight. Particularly that era where

21:09

they're too young to stay up till midnight,

21:11

but they're old enough that they can tell

21:13

it's not midnight. That they can tell you're tricking

21:15

them. And so they stay up till midnight.

21:17

They're monsters. And usually it's like,

21:20

with our kids, give my wife a kiss. Now

21:22

stick these kids in bed. We're done. That's our

21:24

wonderful New Year's. This year is going

21:27

to be very tough to top because we had

21:30

a condo on the beach that had

21:32

doors that walked right out onto the beach.

21:34

Wow. And next to us, a

21:38

place had a set of a big New Year's

21:40

party, like out on a not a dock thing,

21:42

but kind of like a condo that had its

21:44

own little floating dance thing out in the water

21:46

that, you know, it's not like it was off

21:48

in the water. You just button a little bit

21:50

out. And there was a huge party going there

21:52

with the DJ, which was actually kind of nice

21:54

because this is one of the times where you

21:56

want to have music in DJ. And

21:59

those people. who had gone to

22:01

that had all paid for a boat out

22:04

in the water to fire fireworks at

22:06

midnight and it was

22:08

a fantastic firework display shot

22:10

like right out our door

22:13

who were we were standing on the

22:15

beach and watching it go off it was

22:18

pretty incredible and yeah yeah yeah we felt

22:20

like we were at like a real party

22:24

that's a far cry from the little

22:26

get-together-and-play magic kind of new year's parties

22:28

we typically do yeah though those are

22:31

way better than the alright

22:33

kids go to bed New Year's parties that if

22:35

you and I or if you aren't throwing

22:38

a party that I go to then it

22:40

probably turns into one of those so yeah

22:42

just to put the kids to bed one

22:44

mm-hmm the New Year's that we did last

22:46

year yeah we had famed fantasy author Steve

22:49

Argyle just running artists

22:51

that's what I meant to say running bar

22:53

tending yeah he and cat that

22:55

was pretty bad drinks was really

22:58

cool he's a great job yeah

23:00

non-alcoholic for those who

23:02

wanted non-alcoholic yep yeah

23:04

Stephen Katter fantastic and so that was

23:06

a good New Year's but it's

23:09

man but we got a beat grand caiman

23:11

for them yeah mm-hmm New Year's Eve end

23:13

of 24 I don't

23:16

know I think I mentioned before 2000 I was on the

23:19

mall at DC for 99

23:21

to 2000 I did not know that

23:23

you didn't know that uh-uh yeah Ryan

23:26

Dre from bridge for a

23:28

few people that he's from

23:30

Great Falls Virginia so

23:32

I went out and visited him kids by

23:34

then we graduated that was like the year

23:36

we graduated and he had gone back to

23:38

his family so I went out stayed with

23:40

him and we went out went to the

23:42

mall president Clinton spoke was

23:45

right at the reflecting pool and then a

23:47

bunch of fireworks right there there were a

23:49

ton of people and I got sprayed with

23:51

champagne but you know made it memorable that's

23:55

awesome mm-hmm very nice

23:58

what was I doing Had just

24:00

gotten married in May of 99 so

24:03

I was with dawn for that

24:05

first New Year's I Don't

24:07

remember what we did probably played magic

24:10

somewhere Had

24:13

a little board game night probably not

24:15

listening to the present getting sprayed by

24:17

champagne no I Feel

24:20

like we should not end this early we have something

24:22

we're supposed to say we're supposed to say what we

24:24

would take to it Right

24:26

this is when we were talking about

24:28

this episode Adam and Donald both

24:30

are like here's what you can do Our

24:33

production team is doing their job their

24:36

jobs, and I apparently forgot and or

24:38

ignored them This is good topic because

24:40

says something about us okay, so what

24:42

would you take? Their

24:45

category is this like I'm stranded

24:47

on a desert island I only have three

24:49

books I can read for the rest of my life something like that

24:52

We only have like seven minutes, so let's

24:54

do stranded on this island three objects that

24:56

you could Conceivably bring with you

24:58

right three objects, so it's not like you

25:00

can be like I am going to bring

25:03

a starship, and it can't be

25:05

like a boat to get off You know what

25:07

I mean, so we're gonna say these are not

25:09

escape things These are you have three things to

25:11

amuse yourself for the rest of your life one

25:13

of them can't beat the internet Okay,

25:15

I know internet. You could know

25:17

because that would get you off Yeah,

25:19

right, but you could arguably like bring a

25:22

copy of Wikipedia on an iPod could internet

25:24

access get you off a desert island Absolutely

25:27

if you were just like emailing the

25:29

Coast Guard playing hot and cold Yeah,

25:32

you saw their boat you can say I

25:34

am stuck on a desert island. I have

25:36

internet access somehow Internet

25:38

access tells you where you are

25:40

here's my ISP come get me

25:42

come find me yeah, okay, so

25:45

Nothing that could conceivably get you off of

25:47

the island Yeah, I mean Within

25:50

reasons like I don't think you can take

25:53

internet because you can't conceivably take the internet

25:55

right you could take a phone loaded with

25:57

something but yeah, okay, I I'm

26:00

gonna want... I

26:02

kind of want to save my wife, but then I'm stranding

26:04

her on a desert island. I

26:08

think she needs to stay with the kids. You could just

26:10

say your family. Strand them all. Strand them all? Count them

26:12

as one. Okay, we're going

26:14

full Swiss family Robinson. Okay. I

26:17

want my whole family with me.

26:19

Okay. And a giant treehouse and

26:21

an ostrich that we can ride around. Those are my

26:23

three things. Those are your three things? Yeah. Okay. Okay.

26:26

One of my three things. Also a copy of Swiss

26:28

family Robinson we can watch. On

26:30

the VCR that we build out of bamboo. I

26:34

definitely need like

26:36

some sort of device. Like I

26:38

need paper and a pen so

26:40

I can get some books written. Okay. Because

26:43

that'll entertain me, but I need like enough

26:45

paper and enough pens. I

26:47

don't think... You just want the solar powered laptop?

26:49

I think that... Or a typewriter? I

26:52

think a typewriter. Maybe

26:55

too mechanical if it breaks. Right. If it breaks.

26:57

If the computer breaks. Like I

26:59

need to go down in tech level because...

27:02

You're down a little? Yeah. Okay. I think

27:04

like a bale

27:06

of a thousand notebooks or something like

27:08

that with pens attached or something like

27:10

that. Right? Okay. So I can... you

27:12

can leave me there, you know, for

27:14

whatever 10 years I'm stranded and I'll

27:16

come out with a bunch of novels.

27:19

Very good. That's number one. Okay. Can

27:21

I take Steve Irwin? Or is

27:24

it impossible to take Steve Irwin because

27:26

he's passed away? You can

27:28

have his ghost. I suppose. No,

27:30

I need somebody like, you know... Somebody

27:32

who knows... Who knows... How to survive

27:34

on the island. But it's also interesting.

27:36

Yeah. It would be nice to talk

27:38

to. Okay. So... You can take a

27:40

resurrected Steve Irwin. A resurrected Steve Irwin.

27:42

Yeah. I mean, that seems the smartest. You've

27:44

got a tree house, but what are you gonna

27:47

do other than you've got a tree house? Right?

27:49

They have a phonograph in their tree house. Also,

27:52

I specifically said an off-bridge we could ride

27:54

around on. Yeah. So I get to ride

27:56

around on an off-bridge. I

27:59

would say you're stretching. to rules but I

28:01

have a resurrected fever wouldn't I? And

28:03

so therefore I think that you are

28:05

you are victorious. Okay. And

28:07

what's my third thing? Like I need something to

28:10

like help me. I'm gonna

28:12

take his tree house. After

28:15

it appears on his island, it's coming to

28:17

mine. Not a copy of it. Yeah, I'm

28:19

taking your actual tree house. And I thought

28:21

you were just gonna take Ethan. I

28:24

thought you said- Oh man, I could take Scar. You

28:26

said things you could conceivably have with

28:28

you and now you've got a thousand

28:30

notebooks and somebody else's tree house. You

28:33

took a house. So a thousand

28:35

notebooks is small as a house. I didn't take the house

28:37

with me. I built the house while there. You said it

28:39

was your three items. You said the house was one of

28:41

your three items. Well yeah, but they built the house out

28:44

of the crashed sailing ship. Okay. So

28:46

you can totally sail a ship there. And

28:49

then crash it. And then crash it.

28:51

And then build- Yeah. So you're

28:53

gonna build it yourself. You're gonna bring a

28:55

crashed ship. Not a house. When

28:58

I was just gonna give you a house that's magically there.

29:00

Well then you were gonna take it away. You know, you

29:02

didn't know that at the time. I

29:05

want you to have a nice house because I'm stealing

29:07

it from you. You build it out of rubble. I

29:09

have a very nice house. It's not a nice house.

29:11

It has a little water wheel made out of bamboo.

29:13

I will say that Daniel, sound engineer,

29:15

might have the best answer and his as a chef.

29:18

A chef, yeah. A chef. See,

29:20

I think Steve Irwin keeps me

29:22

alive better than your chef who

29:24

doesn't know what parts of, you

29:27

know. You need Captain Vernon. You

29:30

need Captain Vernon. Captain Vernon to make

29:32

you conch ceviche every day. Yeah. I

29:35

will say that I distinctly said as

29:37

we were traveling on this thing that

29:39

I was going to, in the name

29:41

of Steve Irwin, get vengeance upon these

29:43

stingrays by being super nice to them

29:45

and appreciating the wonder that is the

29:48

animal world just as Steve

29:50

Irwin would want. Okay. So I got

29:52

vengeance for him. Take that stingray. Take

29:54

that stingray. I appreciated your natural beauty

29:57

and what you provide for the world. because

30:00

of Steve Irwin. Mmm.

30:03

Alright then. You

30:06

know what else I would take with me on an island? Ben.

30:09

Ben. He's family. He would come

30:11

along. He doesn't know but he just magically appeared

30:13

there. I mean I have to take all Ben's

30:15

kids too. I mean it depends on how nice

30:17

you're being. I'm

30:20

also going to take a tub of that

30:22

really good ice cream from

30:24

last week. Which one? The

30:27

one that was the... Oh the almond one? Yeah the almond

30:29

crunchy one. Yeah. I'm

30:32

just going to have the sour mango

30:34

one. And be sad. And

30:36

be sad. You can sit in the hall

30:38

of your once nice treehouse. Just among

30:40

the ruined root system of my

30:43

stolen treehouse eating sour

30:45

mango ice cream. You can probably see my island

30:47

from across the way. I'm riding on stingrays you

30:49

dolphins. Yes outside of reach. I've got Steve Irwin.

30:53

Man. Alas. How's

30:56

that Ben? Enjoy your trip.