Speaker 1: Oh you shuck on my toe. I would love it
Speaker 1: if the sequel actually had merit. That's the Ben and
Speaker 1: Skin show. He's Gavin, he's Piste.
Speaker 2: Allard with Epan with our show. You're going ruling in you,
Speaker 2: except with similar sweet pursuing it, puddled out shaw shank
Speaker 2: through the sewer, Kid, Now what chill in at the eagle?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: We doing it, three o'clock on the dock. Got a
Speaker 2: habit for my house, a goat status. Howard starting to
Speaker 2: get craddic shows that up multiplied like a rabbit tuned in,
Speaker 2: zone out.
Speaker 1: Crank it up, beat the habit I won.
Speaker 3: I hang out with her friends, rocking it on the radio,
Speaker 3: my home by skinkin talking on the radio.
Speaker 1: It's time to to just falls again.
Speaker 3: Oh here we go, all radio friends. It is good
Speaker 3: to be back with you. Last time I saw you, guys,
Speaker 3: it was at BFD. Damn, Oh my god, that's right.
Speaker 1: A long time.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I immediately after BFD, I took my family on
Speaker 3: a vacation and I had heard Skin for years talk
Speaker 3: about turks and kkos. For a while I worked at
Speaker 3: the embassy there, so turks and kkos. How would you
Speaker 3: describe where it is. It's you know, on the far
Speaker 3: eastern edge of I don't know if it's technically the Caribbean.
Speaker 3: I think it is, but it's kind of the northeastern
Speaker 3: part of the Caribbean.
Speaker 1: Say I would describe it as. So I've never done
Speaker 1: anything like that. You know. Look, I have three kids,
Speaker 1: and it's hard to travel with all those kids.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't. I don't think God wants you to
Speaker 3: take kids on vacation. I talked to him about this
Speaker 3: sort of thing. It's expensive too, but you know, like
Speaker 3: we'll go to We're not rich, and so we'll go
Speaker 3: to like Port Ransas. We'll drive nine hours to the
Speaker 3: Texas beach, you know, to a Texas beach, and we'll
Speaker 3: look in at brown water with all the seaweed on
Speaker 3: the shore.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you can drive your cars and trucks on
Speaker 3: the beach. Look, kids, it's the Gulf of America, the
Speaker 3: sewer of the water world. You're sitting right next to
Speaker 3: a pile of stinky seaweed and yeah, it's one hundred
Speaker 3: and seventeen degrees and someone's f one fifty is parked
Speaker 3: within three feet of you. As you look out at
Speaker 3: the beautiful brown water.
Speaker 1: That's amazing. Man, I want to go there right now,
Speaker 1: beautiful brown shark infested waters. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And you know, so I was like my kids though,
Speaker 3: as they got older, they don't care. They don't you know,
Speaker 3: they don't, they don't know. They're just like, this is great.
Speaker 3: We're at the beach. I can build a sandcastle or whatever,
Speaker 3: but we're my nicest place. I can look at my
Speaker 3: phone and yeah, exactly. In my mind, I was like,
Speaker 3: I wanted them to experience like that beautiful blue water
Speaker 3: that you see in movies or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: And so that's what they have in Turkey. Kicko.
Speaker 3: So I was hosting a charity event and they were
Speaker 3: doing one of those auctions and one of the auctionable
Speaker 3: items was somebody's airbnb at Turks and Caicos.
Speaker 1: Amazing.
Speaker 3: And so I was like, man, I've been at a
Speaker 3: million of these auctions. Sometimes I'm hosting them, and you
Speaker 3: see these incredible things go up for auxy. This was
Speaker 3: for a Cornerstone, an awesome charity in the Northern Urbs,
Speaker 3: and uh, I was like, nobody's bidding on it, right.
Speaker 1: So I kind of look out in the audience.
Speaker 3: I'm on the stage, you know, and I look at
Speaker 3: in the audience to my wife, I'm like give her
Speaker 3: the look like, hey, we should bid on this. It's
Speaker 3: like pudging that chalkdaw commercial looking at the way trishy
Speaker 3: guys are doing that.
Speaker 1: Are we doing this?
Speaker 3: And you do the fingers down And I kind of
Speaker 3: step over to the side. I maybe even text her
Speaker 3: and said let's win this, like let's go get us.
Speaker 3: And so we bid on it and we got it.
Speaker 3: Just because I'd heard Skin talk about Turks and Caicos.
Speaker 3: So the day after BFD or whatever, they're in short
Speaker 3: order thereafter, I jumped on a plane with my family
Speaker 3: and we went to Turks and Caicos. Now, when we
Speaker 3: got there, uh you know, I mean immediately. My two
Speaker 3: youngest kids are seventeen and fourteen, and I thought maybe
Speaker 3: they would start to mature, like my oldest son who's nineteen,
Speaker 3: who's just a pleasure to be around because he's like
Speaker 3: an adult. Yeah, but they're not there yet, right, and
Speaker 3: so they're sibling rivalry. They're fighting with each other. It
Speaker 3: just seems like a blood feud. Is your son did
Speaker 3: he just finish his junior year and your daughter just
Speaker 3: finished her ninth grade year?
Speaker 1: Eighth grade. Eighth grade, she's going to ninth grade.
Speaker 3: So is high school out in Solina is yet twelve,
Speaker 3: and so they'll be in high school together. They will
Speaker 3: be in high school for one year, okay, and he's
Speaker 3: already resenting that he might have to take her to school.
Speaker 1: Everyone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but anyways, I'm like, there were some also some
Speaker 3: interesting things about this. So my wife is super frugal.
Speaker 3: God bless her for that, because I'm the opposite of that.
Speaker 3: But you know, she grew up her family. I've mentioned
Speaker 3: this before. I have so much love and respect for her.
Speaker 3: Sweet mom, Rest in peace. She's past, she's no longer
Speaker 3: with us. But she raised three kids does a single
Speaker 3: mom in Oklahoma City. And her my wife's dad was
Speaker 3: a pos. He left their family and go started a
Speaker 3: new family on the other side of town. And so
Speaker 3: her mom just had to figure out a way to
Speaker 3: get these three kids through life by herself. And you know,
Speaker 3: she would take them to happy hour and they just
Speaker 3: go eat Nacho's at a bar. The kids would have
Speaker 3: a great time. They had no idea, they were poor.
Speaker 3: And then her mom would say, on the way out,
Speaker 3: let's see who can steal the most rolls of toilet
Speaker 3: paper with that kid caught. You know, they would do
Speaker 3: like things like that, go to eat dinner. All right,
Speaker 3: But my mom had a wonderful childhood she never realized.
Speaker 3: But because of that, she's very frugal and thank god,
Speaker 3: or we'd be completely broke because I'm the opposite. Do
Speaker 3: you guys ever go steal toilet paper from like the
Speaker 3: brass tap up there and prosper?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 3: I believe it much like your dad's skin. The great
Speaker 3: Jerry Wade who says, look, you can't save money on vacation.
Speaker 3: It's not a good investment. I mean, a vacation is
Speaker 3: not a good investment no matter how you slice it.
Speaker 3: Like you guys have gone in big vacations. You went
Speaker 3: to Italy, absolutely right, And it's like you go to Italy,
Speaker 3: that's incredible, but you can't figure out a way to
Speaker 3: do it on a cueony.
Speaker 1: You just got to commit to spending a bunch of money.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, yeah, because that's I mean, you don't want
Speaker 3: to have to stress about money.
Speaker 1: You're supposed to enjoy where you are, enjoy all these
Speaker 1: new experiences. Just don't think about the money. Think about
Speaker 1: that later, maybe five years later. There's no return on
Speaker 1: that other than fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so the second that you're spending money that
Speaker 3: is not well spent, then it's like, well, there's no
Speaker 3: sense in trying to like, you know, nickel and diamond,
Speaker 3: because then you're actually wasting the money more than you
Speaker 3: would if you went all in. So that's logic, that's
Speaker 3: exactly right. And so my wife and I, you know,
Speaker 3: we just look at this from different angle points. And
Speaker 3: you know, me, I get busy with stuff and I'm
Speaker 3: not focused on the details of this. She you know,
Speaker 3: she handled every aspect of it. She planned everything, okay,
Speaker 3: and so that there's a way that she tried to
Speaker 3: save money on this trip that almost broke my back.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: So at one point she says, I make the bold
Speaker 3: proclamation that I'm like, uh, you know, I'm just bringing
Speaker 3: ten black T shirts in a bathing suit. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: that's fine. I don't need to even I just don't
Speaker 3: need to take very much at all. I don't even care.
Speaker 3: We're not they're not doing anything fancy. We're not even
Speaker 3: going to dinner in a nice place or anything. I'm
Speaker 3: just T shirts and a bathing suit. And she goes, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's the plan. Like, we're all just going to go
Speaker 3: carry on, and I go, okay, great, we're going to
Speaker 3: carry on, so we're not going to check bag. So
Speaker 3: it's going to be a cheaper way to go, right
Speaker 3: And so I'm like, okay, So she's saving money, but
Speaker 3: I'm on board of this.
Speaker 1: So she goes, I got you a backpack for the trip?
Speaker 1: Hell yeah? And I'm like okay.
Speaker 3: And I see it and it's literally a suitcase that
Speaker 3: you can wear on your back like in high school
Speaker 3: and you'd put your entire locker in a backpack and
Speaker 3: hurt by the end of the day. It looks like
Speaker 3: a slightly above average sized suitcase that has backpack straps
Speaker 3: on it. And so I'm like, all right, well, yeah,
Speaker 3: why not? Are you sure this is carry on size?
Speaker 3: I don't think the airport will let me carry this on?
Speaker 3: And she's like, yeah, yeah, you can carry this on.
Speaker 3: And so coming up next, I'm gonna tell you exactly
Speaker 3: what happened as I took the largest backpack in the
Speaker 3: history of mankind into airflight. And I'll tell you that
Speaker 3: in just about three or four minutes. Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 3: The second half of the story is next