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<v Speaker 1>She's interrational, quick triggered nuclear overreactor. He's a masterful storyteller

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<v Speaker 1>who consistently finds himself drouting in a sea of awkward.

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<v Speaker 1>It's time for no trund ain't bad.

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<v Speaker 2>So I want to talk summer vacations. I know a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of our listeners are planning vacations. We'll go on

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<v Speaker 2>vacation at some point. Or maybe you're lamenting it, maybe

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<v Speaker 2>you're worried about it, maybe you're worried about the budget

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<v Speaker 2>of it all. I get that I'm old, so my

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<v Speaker 2>kids are nineteen, seventeen and fourteen, and I look at

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<v Speaker 2>vacations differently now than I used to. I look at

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<v Speaker 2>vacations as I'm kind of buying memories here at the

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<v Speaker 2>end of the game, not really looking at it like

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<v Speaker 2>I'm about to die tomorrow.

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<v Speaker 3>I could.

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<v Speaker 2>My dad died at sixty three, and I'll be fifty

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<v Speaker 2>five in November, so.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm older than that.

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<v Speaker 2>So, you know, I don't know. But the point is,

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<v Speaker 2>my son is nineteen. You know, he's going into sophomore

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<v Speaker 2>year at college, and he'll pretty soon just have his

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<v Speaker 2>own house and get married and have his own kids,

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<v Speaker 2>and so here at the end of the parenting game.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm trying to create some magic and enjoy some moments

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<v Speaker 2>with my kids. And We've worked really hard over the

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<v Speaker 2>course of our career, and there's been times where I

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<v Speaker 2>couldn't afford to take my family on vacation, made a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of bad career decisions with you Skin yep, and

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<v Speaker 2>had a ton of kids.

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<v Speaker 3>Wanted God, how many plane tickets is that?

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<v Speaker 2>Definitely too many kids. But I've had some bad jobs.

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<v Speaker 2>I've been totally broke. I've gone to the ATM before

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<v Speaker 2>where the balance was negative. Like you know, there's the

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<v Speaker 2>Jerry Jones moments. Yeah, just not the other opposite end

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<v Speaker 2>of the Jerry Jones moment.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>I've made a lot of bad financial decisions too. But

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<v Speaker 2>I say that to say I'm now at a point where,

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<v Speaker 2>all right, I'm going to invest in this vacation.

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<v Speaker 3>Now.

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<v Speaker 2>I subscribe to the Jerry Wade Skin's dad of philosophy

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<v Speaker 2>on vacations and that you can't save money on vacation.

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<v Speaker 3>You just can't. It's not a smart investment. You just

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<v Speaker 3>have to.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like when I go to a casino, I love

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<v Speaker 2>to win. Like last time we all went, I won

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<v Speaker 2>big and.

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<v Speaker 3>That was great.

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<v Speaker 2>But the money I take to that casino, I'm prepared

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<v Speaker 2>to lose. I'm not counting on it to make rent.

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<v Speaker 4>Right, You're counting on it to have a good time

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<v Speaker 4>that night, and don't exceed that amount.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I feel that way about vacations, and so I'm

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<v Speaker 2>investing in a good time.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm creating memories with my kids. And for many years

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<v Speaker 3>we couldn't afford to go on vacation.

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<v Speaker 2>And my older brother's crazy high roller and super rich,

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<v Speaker 2>so he would just take us on vacation and we'd

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<v Speaker 2>go with him.

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<v Speaker 3>You know, it's beautiful.

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<v Speaker 4>I got a rich sister that has a house out

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<v Speaker 4>in Newport, and so we can go stay at that

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<v Speaker 4>house for free. And basically we're on a beach in

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<v Speaker 4>California with a free nice house.

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<v Speaker 2>We've got to pay for the way to get out there. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>it's crazy like it. It's a great thing to have

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<v Speaker 2>a rich sibling. And so, you know, then there was

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<v Speaker 2>vacations where we would go to the Texas coast. We'd

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<v Speaker 2>go to Port Ransas because our buddy Braun owns a

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<v Speaker 2>beach cart company there and it's an inexpensive way. It's

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<v Speaker 2>a nine hour drive go to the beach. There beach

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<v Speaker 2>is a brown covered in seaweed. People can drive their

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<v Speaker 2>trucks on the beach at Gordon. Not great, not great,

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<v Speaker 2>shark infested, you know, brown water. It's the parking lot

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<v Speaker 2>of beaches. Flesh eating bacteria. Yeah, it's great. So I'd

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<v Speaker 2>always heard skin talk about Turks and Cacos being a

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<v Speaker 2>great place. And I know a lot of celebrities go there.

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<v Speaker 2>So once you hear like Oprah or Drake or somebody's

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<v Speaker 2>going there, You're like, oh, that sounds pretty cool.

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<v Speaker 3>That's in my price range. Not in my price range.

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<v Speaker 2>But I did get a at a charity function. I

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<v Speaker 2>was able to buy an auction for an airbnb to go,

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<v Speaker 2>and so we were kind of pot committed at that point.

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<v Speaker 2>And so we went, you know, to Turks and Caicos.

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<v Speaker 2>But the whole time I was questioning whether I should

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<v Speaker 2>take my younger two on vacation.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh.

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<v Speaker 2>I love them, but I don't know that they can

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<v Speaker 2>really evaluate the difference between crystal clear blue.

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<v Speaker 3>Wattle water and brown water.

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<v Speaker 2>Right, I don't know if they care about that while

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<v Speaker 2>they're fighting with each other, right, you know, and on

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<v Speaker 2>their phones.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, and it's also I mean this is a long

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<v Speaker 4>time ago, but at that age I didn't want to

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<v Speaker 4>be with my parents anyway.

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<v Speaker 3>That's exactly right. They want no part of being around us.

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<v Speaker 4>Do you want to pay thousands of dollars to have

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<v Speaker 4>them in the next room full of spite?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>So we there was one night where okay, so you

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<v Speaker 2>know this from going to Turks and Kko Skin, there's

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<v Speaker 2>some places that are very expensive to go eat and

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<v Speaker 2>they're just kind of average.

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<v Speaker 3>Yep.

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<v Speaker 2>But it's hard to get supplies to the islands, so

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<v Speaker 2>it's understandable. And we had struck out a couple places

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<v Speaker 2>we went that this looks bad, this is not going

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<v Speaker 2>to be good, and so somebody said this restaurant is good,

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<v Speaker 2>so we'd go. And we walked into this one restaurant

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<v Speaker 2>and I could tell it was fine dining. No like

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<v Speaker 2>fine dining. Yeah, like there we had like six waiters

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<v Speaker 2>and I was like, oh, no, this is gonna be bad.

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<v Speaker 2>And it ended up being a crazy expensive dinner for

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<v Speaker 2>five of us. It was six hundred dollars. I don't

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<v Speaker 2>think my kids, my younger two, really enjoyed what they ate.

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<v Speaker 2>They didn't really eat very much, right, And so the

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<v Speaker 2>next night we were like, uh, My oldest son was like, Dad,

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<v Speaker 2>you know I sat there. I only want to go

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<v Speaker 2>to a nice restaurant if there's a great view, because

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<v Speaker 2>you're paying for the view, right. Otherwise, just go eat

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<v Speaker 2>a meal in Garland. Yeah you know there's no beach

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<v Speaker 2>there either, right, and so yeah, you want to go

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<v Speaker 2>to Garland and go to Garland and so so anyways,

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<v Speaker 2>I was like, we Max really wanted to go to

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<v Speaker 2>this meal, and he set it up and I'm like, dude,

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<v Speaker 2>this is going to be another high end.

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<v Speaker 3>It was nine hundred dollars.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think anyone enjoyed it, and nobody, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>it was like I couldn't even understand what was on

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<v Speaker 2>the menu. And I'm looking at that going this is

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<v Speaker 2>testing my theory on everything, right, that you can't save

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<v Speaker 2>money on vacation.

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<v Speaker 3>But it just felt like a waste to take those

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<v Speaker 3>younger two. I'm not a waste because it's a way

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<v Speaker 3>I enjoyed spending.

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<v Speaker 1>Time with you.

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<v Speaker 4>It's only that's why I usually my kids are different.

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<v Speaker 4>Now they're on a different curve than yours, because my

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<v Speaker 4>daughter's about to be twenty, my son's about to be eighteen,

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<v Speaker 4>and actually, like each other now so we can vacation

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<v Speaker 4>with him. But most of the time, dude, I was

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<v Speaker 4>just vacationing with my wife, and my kids are like,

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<v Speaker 4>hell yeah, our parents aren't here.

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<v Speaker 3>And my kids would rather just be at home. My

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<v Speaker 3>seventeen year old just.

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<v Speaker 2>Rather be at home, unbothered, ordering door dash and playing

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<v Speaker 2>video games without a job.

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<v Speaker 4>And I like the way this is going been all right.

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<v Speaker 4>I think the final verdict is leave your kids at home. Yep,

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<v Speaker 4>come on, man, all right. Coming up next and the

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<v Speaker 4>weekly weekday update. Some of you are not going to

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<v Speaker 4>be able to flush or shower this weekend. We'll tell

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<v Speaker 4>you who