Dwell Hello #408: A Soft Landing in a Thai Paradise

Summary

Podcast Summary: Watch What Crappens — Dwell Hello #408: A Soft Landing in a Thai Paradise

Hosts: Ben Mandelker & Ronnie Karam
Air Date: April 10, 2024
Episode Theme:
A hilarious, irreverent recap of a “House Hunters International” episode where a Swedish family seeks to buy and run a boutique hotel in rural Thailand. Ben and Ronnie use their trademark banter to dissect the episode’s questionable life choices, cultural shocks, and bizarre real estate options, all while riffing on Bravo-style chaos, family dynamics, and (terrifying) wildlife.

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Overview

In this episode, Ben and Ronnie journey through “A Soft Landing in a Thai Paradise” (House Hunters International, Vol 8 S176 Ep11), following a Swedish family—Oscar, Christine, their kids, and a three-legged dog—on their absurd quest to buy a hotel in Thailand. The hosts provide commentary filled with snark, affection, and pop culture shade, lampooning both the house hunters and the property finds, while revealing deeper truths about impulsive decisions and fish-out-of-water moments.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

The Setup: Meet the Swedish Adventurers

• Who are the buyers?

  • Oscar: Stay-at-home dad, amateur renovator, adrenaline junkie (skydiver).
  • Christine: Clinical psychologist, breadwinner, queen of sensible decision-making.
  • Kids: Hedvig (age 3) and sibling.
  • Daisy: Oscar’s three-legged dog.
  • "Christine seems like she is regretting so many life choices, but she’s in it. She’s in it for the kids at this point." – Ben (03:36)

• Why Thailand?

  • The family is tired of cold Sweden (cue stroller-in-the-snow jokes).
  • They want adventure, warmer weather, a “turnkey” business, and a new lease on life.
  • Their “impulsive” spirit immediately draws skepticism from Ben and Ronnie:
    • "This was an impulsive decision." – Christine via House Hunters (08:21)
    • "If this guy can run a hotel by sitting and doing nothing… we can do it too." – Christine paraphrased by Ben (14:52)

Cultural Clashes & Running Gags

• Danger to kids and general obliviousness:

  • The properties are routinely unsafe: pools with no lifeguards, bungalows on stilts over standing water, and zero childproofing.
  • "This couple is not afraid of their children drowning… There are literally 20 times where I’m like, your children are going to drown, and they’re like, oh my god, how fun!" – Ronnie (05:11)

• Lizard Terror:

  • Ben describes personal horror witnessing massive monitor lizards (“Baby Godzillas”) in Thailand, repeatedly warning that the house hunters don’t understand the risks.
    • “These people have no idea these creatures exist… their child is going to get eaten by a big lizard someday.” – Ben (05:29)
  • The lizard theme escalates with internet searches and live reactions to videos of giant lizards terrorizing homeowners and eating kangaroos. (30:26–33:36, comedic highlight)

• Oscar’s Skydiving Mishap:

  • Oscar once called Christine: “Don’t be mad, but I broke my back.” (11:55)
  • Family backstory includes Oscar’s accident and Daisy the dog’s related loss of a leg—exaggerated for comedic effect.

The Hotels: Three "Options," None Good

1. Riviera House (19:24)

• 11 rooms, small hotel vibe, pool, restaurant, not beachfront.
• Family quarters are a “maniacal dump”—gross, overrun by cats, smells terrible.
• "It is nasty. I don’t know what that owner was doing in here, but I can tell you this: it was nothing good." – Ronnie (23:06)
• Oscar is obsessed with it being made of concrete, which becomes a running joke.

2. Muklanta Resort (28:17)

• Raised bungalows over water, “resort style,” 24 bungalows, $210K.
• No pool, owner’s suite dysfunctional (toilet in the shower, one-bedroom, completely unworkable for a family).
• Potential lizard highway, dangerous to children and guests.
• "It’s almost like a linear floor plan: you have to go through one room to get to the other—terrible, I would never want to live in that bungalow." – Ben (34:40)
• Oscar loves it despite hazards; Ben obsesses over monitor lizard risk.

3. Lanta Lily (39:24)

• Concrete structure, significant pool adjacent to busy road.
• Tiny and inadequate owner’s quarters, suggestion of “building a room” on the deck is mocked.
• Pool feels unsafe, proximity to road adds another layer of danger.

Deliberations & Decision

• Christine worries about leaving financial stability and finds all options lacking.
• "If we were sensible, we wouldn’t be here, huh? Have a watermelon slice and a Bloody Mary. True dart." – Christine, mocked by Ronnie (44:43)
• Ultimately, they choose the “Muklanta” option, the dangerous but charming bungalows on stilts.
  • "Muklanta is the dream—it’s sustainable and has an owner’s quarters better than anyone else’s. Finally: shitting and showering at the same time." – Oscar quoted/satirized (45:54)
• Twist: They buy the hotel next door as well, finding an investor. Hosts are incredulous.

Where Are They Now?

• Ben and Ronnie check the hotel’s current website (Mook Lanta Eco Resort) and critique the suspiciously glossy photography versus likely reality (47:02–48:20).
• "One of the best art forms in our day and age is property photography. I have seen some real homes look like glorious mansions the way people are photographing these." – Ronnie (47:29)

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Notable Quotes & Comedic Moments

• On Parenting Choices:

  • "Here’s a crazy idea: Sell those kids and stop trying to roll a stroller in the snow. You’re welcome." – Ronnie (07:52)
  • "Talk about a man who doesn’t live for material things. It’s so attractive." – Ronnie (25:51)

• On Hotel Ownership:

  • "I thought, if this is all it takes to run a hotel—nothing—then I’m in! Get me a reservation." – Ben (14:18)

• Lizard Mania:

  • "You should write travel books—Ben Mandelker’s Guide to Why You Should Never Travel Anywhere." – Ronnie (30:05)
  • "Monitor lizard in a harness—he’s actually the cutest little lizard you’ve ever seen. Are we gonna go shopping today or whatever, get ice cream?" – Ben (33:19)

• On Real Estate and Amenities:

  • "Do you have anything with one pole in the middle that we can lean some plywood up against and then charge people for the privilege of staying under it?" – Ronnie (17:23)
  • "You know what I call pools? Babysitters." – Ronnie (20:20)

• On Decision-Making:

  • "If we were sensible, we wouldn’t be here, huh? Have a watermelon slice and a Bloody Mary. True dart." – Ronnie channeling Christine (44:43)

• Comedic Beat:

  • Daisy the three-legged dog: “She may not have one leg, but she does have opposable paw thumbs. So she was holding onto that Tom Yum soup.” – Ronnie (27:35)

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Important Timestamps by Segment

• [02:12] — Explanation of “Dwell Hello” concept, intro to episode’s location and premise.
• [03:16] — Introduction and assessment of the Swedish family.
• [05:29] — Monitor lizard horror stories and danger predictions.
• [11:55] — Skydiving injury and three-legged dog origin story.
• [19:24] — Touring “Riviera House”; cat-infested, dumpy quarters.
• [28:17] — “Muklanta Resort” tour; raised bridges, stilt bungalows, lizard-terror.
• [33:41] — Hosts descend into live monitor lizard video-viewing, escalating the lizard gag.
• [39:24] — “Lanta Lily” hotel; mocked for bad pool placement and family quarters.
• [42:16] — Deliberations on which hotel to buy, leads to finale.
• [45:54] — Decision to buy “Muklanta” (and hotel next door), wrap-up of family saga.
• [47:02] — Website-check and real-time critique of property’s current presentation.

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Flow, Tone, and Listener Value

Ben and Ronnie’s recap is fast-paced, irreverent, heavy on Bravo-styled shade, but ultimately affectionate toward the misadventurous family. Listeners who missed the original House Hunters episode will grasp not only the wild plot points, but also the emotional contours and comedic absurdity that reality real estate TV delivers. The podcast’s playful exchanges, real-life anecdotes, and recurring bits (lizard terror, concrete obsession, Daisy the survivor dog) elevate this beyond straightforward recap.

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Memorable Takeaways

• Sometimes “impulsive adventure” is just midlife crisis with better weather.
• Running a hotel may look easy until you meet monitor lizards, cat infestations, and dangerous walkways on stilts.
• Real estate listings online are works of fiction in themselves—buyer beware.
• “If we were sensible, we wouldn’t be here… true dart.”
• Always, always supervise your children around Thai wildlife.

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Recommended for: Fans of Bravo recaps, reality TV satire, and anyone who appreciates a blend of wit, property envy, and light existential crisis—lizard attacks optional.

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(All timestamps represent approximate times in the episode per provided transcript. Quotes attributed verbatim to Ben Mandelker (C) and Ronnie Karam (B) unless otherwise noted.)

Transcript

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[B]

Ding dong.

[C]

Ding ding Ding dong.

[B]

Well, hello.

[C]

Well, hello and welcome to Dwell.

[B]

Hello.

[C]

It's a watch of Crappin's House Hunters episode or show, I should say, where we recap. House Hunters, House Hunters International. We would even do House Hunters. Tiny houses. I think we did that once or twice. I'm Ben. That's Ronnie. Welcome to our show here on Wonder Plus. How's it going?

[D]

Great.

[B]

Just so glad to be here. God, I'd be happier if I was just running a hotel.

[C]

Wouldn't we all? Well, you know what? On our last episode, we went to Bangkok, Thailand, and this time we are going into the countryside. This is Dwell. Hello. I'm sorry, this is House Hunters International, Volume 8, Season 176, Episode 11 on max. The title of the episode, which is really what you should use to search for it, is a soft landing in a Thai paradise. And this was. This was a wild episode. This is one of those House Hunter international episodes where you say to yourself, how are these people going to. How are they going to live in these options? What are they gonna do?

[B]

Yeah. And it's also one of those episodes where the people actually know they're, but are just going along with it. Especially the wife. She's like, I married this man. I don't know why, but I did it. We're getting a hotel. I don't know why we had kids. Why? Why?

[C]

Yes.

[B]

I don't know, but we did it.

[C]

Yeah. She seems like she is regretting so many life choices, but she's in it. She's in it for the kids at this point. Because this husband of hers really not, I would say, not like, not a top tier decision maker.

[B]

I would say I think she loves the husband. I think she's totally into the husband.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

She just loves it. I think she's like, you know, I have important jobs, blah, blah, blah. Clinical psychology. A booty, booty, booty. Guess what? It's so fun being with an idiot. I love it. So stupid. This man. All he does is tinker around and fix things, but breaks them, but fixes them again. I love it. I can't wait to have more children with him. More confused children. Just. Are these even their children? They don't.

[C]

Look, I'm not sure.

[B]

They don't fit. They don't really all fit together.

[C]

Nothing in this episode fits together that goes from, like, doorways, relationships, anything. Kids, kids.

[B]

So this is recommended by Katie. Katie. Katie. Thank you for this recommendation. What a lovely. What a banger of an app this is. Okay, so we open up with the family on a boat, like a riverboat. And the dad's telling a kid you like to live in Thailand. And the. The wife is like, suddenly I felt it like this. This is the place. Was it the riverboat? I mean, was it the raging riverboat that your kids could fall off into and drown any moment? Let me tell you one thing. This couple is not afraid of their children drowning.

[C]

No.

[B]

Because There are literally 20 times where I'm like, your children are going to drown. And they're like, oh, my God, how fun. A pool with no lifeguard. Let's do this one with bridges over water.

[C]

I know, like, one of the options is just like the most perilous, perilous option we've ever seen.

[B]

Ever.

[C]

Okay, so I went to Thailand, and when I was in Phuket, I was at a little restaurant. I looked at the side and there was like, there was like a Baby Godzilla just walking along. It's something called like, a monitor lizard or a goanna. It's that they're these, like, really long, big lizards. Like, big. Like, they're like. Like they're dangerous. Like, you don't want those there. And like, you don't want to interact with them. You don't want to encounter one. Okay. It's scary. It's like watching a dinosaur walking by. And all I'm thinking is, these people have no idea that these creatures exist. And they're like, looking at all these places that are just so lizard. Like, giant lizard friendly. I'm like, their child is going to get eaten by a big lizard in the someday. I don't think they realize this.

[B]

Oh, yeah, I wouldn't surprise me. And they'd be like, well, guess what we did. We've never stopped hunting lizards. We will find that lizard because they're a very adventurous couple. So Linda is like, Oscar, Christine. Her name is Christine. And it's spelled. I'm sure how it's spelled where she's from all the time. But to us, it's spelled Kristen. So I keep getting confused. So if I call her Kristen, it's because I'm ignorant. Okay. Welcome to the show. So Oscar and Christine were on vacation with their kids to contemplate making changes to their hectic life in Sweden.

[C]

And it's just like, snow and strollers and children and like, nothing hectic whatsoever. Yeah.

[B]

Well, let me tell you, that stroller was not made for snow. Do they have strollers with skis? Because they show a stroller just in the snow. How are you doing that? You need skis or bigger wheels or something. I can see why the they wanted to move, I'll tell you that. Move somewhere with the sidewalk.

[C]

I feel like Swedes. If there's one thing Swedes know, it's snow. They like, if you're from Scandinavia, like, snow is just like. Snow is just like dust on the. On a cover. Just like, oh, yeah, like six feet of snow. Just put the stroller and we just go through it.

[B]

There would be like, strollers, but on skis or something. You know, you're just like kind of whooshing the baby through the snow. But I didn't know that people actually are like, mom, you know what's fine for us? We no snow. It's fine.

[C]

And that's when a crazy idea came upon them to have sex and propagate these two. Really? Wow.

[B]

Here's a crazy idea. Sell those kids and stop trying to roll a stroller in the snow. You're welcome. Okay. Some free advice. So a guy tells him so the realtor, he's like, so you want to open a hotel in Thailand? And they're like, yes. What? Where did this. How? This is how you know you've met your person when you look at each other and go, honey, I was thinking, I feel like opening a hotel in Thailand. I'm in. That's all I wanted. I was waiting for someone else to say it.

[C]

Yeah, let's open up a hotel in a random part of rural Thailand. It'll be great. So Christine's like, this was an impulsive decision. And then the realtor, he's like, they just changed their life and moved. I'm shocked. Which is funny because this guy's like, the realtor's kind of hot. And you can tell this is a guy who like, moved to Thailand to be a surfer. And like, on the side, he like, sells houses and he's shocked that they up and changed their life. When, sir, you gave up your life in Chula Vista and moved. Moved over to Thailand to catch waves. I don't know.

[B]

He is so a Chula Vista server too. I totally see that. So then we see shots of dumpy places and Oscar's like, oh, we have no idea what we're doing. Isn't it great? And then what looked like a duck walks through, like one of the rundown homes.

[C]

I thought it was.

[B]

And it was a cat. I found out later that that was actually a cat's tail moving back and forth, just sticking straight up in the air. So it's like, wow, there's a duck.

[C]

And then it goes. And then we see Christine saying, if we were sensible, we wouldn't do this. And Oscar goes. True that.

[B]

I love Oscar. Actually ended up loving this couple by the end. He's like, true that, huh?

[C]

True that. I'm Outtie5000 from Sweden.

[B]

Ding dong. Christine and I have been together for six years now. She's like, oh, no, six and a half. Almost seven years. Look at him trying to shortchange the years. We've been together six years. Six and a half. Six and three quarters years and two hours and a day.

[C]

Trust me, I count every single minute that I have to smell that herring breath.

[B]

I thought, why is she clinging so tight to her timeline? And then he goes, and Daisy and me, my three legged dog, we have been together for eight years now. And Christine's like, oh, well, you met Daisy one year before me then. Okay, great. So. So then you've been With Daisy for almost eight years, then it's like holding onto timelines.

[C]

If I. If I've been with Oscar for seven and a half years and Oscar was with Daisy for one year beforehand, how many years in total has he been dragging around that three legged dog?

[B]

Yeah, no, everybody, here's what I am. Am I a calculus major? No, I'm a clinical psychologist. There you go.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

Who does enjoy calculus as well? Is that calculus when you're like, a train is going 90 miles an hour in a plane is going 80 miles an hour, but if the plane is going backwards and the train is going in circles, who gets to Oklahoma first?

[C]

I think that's just simple addition and subtraction. So they have two kids, Hedvig. Of course they have a child named Hedvig. Hedvig, who is 3. And Christine.

[B]

Can we not set the kid up for a less embarrassing life? I mean, I know that there have been a lot of hedwigs who have done really great things in the world, and I'm sorry to be ignorant, but there is also Hedwig in the Angry Inch. And I feel like that one kind of trumps it. Yeah, that. That Hedwig trumps all the other hedwigs in the world. You want your child to be called the Angry Inch.

[C]

So Christine's like, so I'm a clinical psychologist. I'm actually educated and I have degree and I make money for our household. And Oscar's like, and I stay home and renovate house and I change diapers and I put them on the wall and I read fairy tale and then I do painting. Oh, and by the way, I jump out of planes for fun.

[B]

Yeah. He also loves skydiving. He's like, yeah, I've been skydiving in the industry for one way or another for another. Ten years or years and four months. Ten years and maybe five months. Eight months. Ten years and eight months. Liar. And I was at home one day and I get a call from Oscar. He said, don't be mad now, but I broke my back.

[C]

Music's very serious. He goes, yeah, it's happened mid air. We were too high. And then we see him like skydiving. And she goes, like, apparently he was going too fast and the, the cord opened up and like the, the whiplash broke his back and everything. And. Yeah. And that's why poor little doggy broke fall. Now he has only three legs. So then Christina's.

[B]

It's like, well, he fell on Daisy. Like, you can't even take your Dog skydiving anymore. I'm telling you, the world these days.

[C]

Well, you know, it speaks to my accuracy as a skydiver. Landed right on Daisy.

[B]

That's why we always make Daisy do squats. We got very good repel strings, very strong knees. Daisy.

[C]

Yeah, well, so unfortunately, Daisy can't help us with our furniture putting it together, which is too bad. Kind of IKEA Swedish tradition, but, you know, good little talk.

[B]

So they were showing this video of him skydiving. And, you know, it's like a typical video of someone with a GoPro when they're skydiving and they're, like, putting the camera in their own face, and their face is going, like, from the wind. And he looks all happy, and he's talking about, like, you know, how terrible it was as he skydived his almost death. And I'm like, is this the video? Surely they're not gonna make us watch him almost die. You know, I was scared for a moment.

[C]

I thought that's what was gonna happen, too. And Christine goes, you know, it's hard to support this activity when we have kids together. On a dog with three legs. Not the dog had four legs. We could probably do it, but three legs, I'm not sure. Just a little bit too hard.

[B]

So we decided to go take a trip to Thailand to do nothing because he needed to relax. So the hotel was run by the Swedish guy, and he just sat there and didn't run hotel as people with hotels do. And I thought, if this guy can do it, we can do it too. You just sit there. That's all we do. So I said, let's give it a try, Oscar.

[C]

God, I love hearing that from people who run a hotel. We just sit there.

[B]

I thought, if this is all it takes to do a hotel nothing, then I'm in. Sounds great. Get me a reservation at that hotel. They do nothing for you.

[C]

Can't wait to have my sheets changed once every three weeks. Yeah.

[B]

I can't wait to name my hotel. Make your own bed. Fucking.

[C]

The cockroaches are the maids.

[B]

So then. Yeah. So Chris Christ. Who's Christ? Christine is like. Suddenly I felt like this is the place. And it's also the only way to get Oscar out of skydiving.

[C]

Yeah, well, we're going to spend 90% of the time outdoors, so we just wanted to go. We just need somewhere to sleep, basically. Yeah. Because, like. But I don't want to live in a hotel room. Like, you're. You're buying a hotel, you're going to live In a hotel room, I hate to tell you.

[B]

That is where you're going to be sleeping. Enjoy that. Also, no, you're not going to be outside all the time. That's such a weird thing to say. This is where you're going to be living. You can't be. That's what people say on vacation. Like, well, we can stay wherever. We're just going to be outside the whole time. This your house?

[C]

They're giant lizards out there. You're going to want to go inside. So now we meet the realtor, Joe Alonzo, and they're in. They're at this island area called Kanta. And so he says, yeah, it's a rainy season now, and the storms can come in unannounced, bro. The vibe in Colanta is an island feel. There's, like, so many roads unpaved, and like, one. One strip of the island is like, has commercial activity, and then it's just like a great time to buy, bro. It's just been, like, grown in popularity over the years. There's, like, fives of people coming here.

[B]

You know what? Where's a great place to run a hotel? A place where nothing else is. Great idea. Great business decision. So Joe has lunch with the couple, and this is where he's like, so you want to buy a hotel? He's like, yeah, one big enough to sustain my whole family. Something turnkey, you know, I want to get up and running asap, which is why we came to a giant puddle. Please show us a giant puddle so we can purchase them. Literally, one of them looks like a puddle with wood shacks in the middle, and they're like, this is beautiful.

[C]

Well, you said you want a turnkey. Oh, I'm sorry. My English is not great. I had meant to say we want something turkey. Do you have any hotels for turkeys?

[B]

We're going to open the first turkey hotel. There are so many turkeys that run away from Thanksgiving. We want them to have a safe harbor, but also pay for the experience, you know?

[C]

Know, people don't realize that 45% of Amex World travelers are actually turkeys. They need places to stay.

[B]

So they're talking about turkeys. Oh, yeah. So then Christine's like, oh. But it has to be manageable because we'll also be living there and we want room for the kids. And I wanted to have a resort feeling, you know, like maybe little bungalows.

[C]

I wanted to feel like a resort, but kind of look like, you know, falling down and decrepit. Do you have anything like that in this island.

[B]

Do you have anything with one pole in the middle that we can lean some plywood up against and then charge people for the privilege of staying it under?

[C]

We want a resort where you come in and your mattress is leaning diagonally against the wall. And one of the pleasures is that you get to pull the mattress down and put it on the bed frame, but the bed frame is broken, so you have to repair that too.

[B]

Okay, here's what I'm envisioning. A Murphy bed, but with not the Murphy or the bed, just a mattress is stained and then it falls on a child who should have been out at the pool with no supervision. Does that make sense?

[C]

How about the Murphy bed where you pull the bed down, but it turns out the bed is actually just wall. And so you just pull the wall down and now you have open air coming in.

[B]

Plywood. It can be a wall or a seat.

[C]

What do you think? Like, we also want.

[B]

This is my dream. I'm just spitballing here.

[C]

So, you know, nice resort, like. So Oscar's like, well, people going to Thailand want a pool, so. And we have kids, so they'll love a pool. Can we have a pool? And the guy's like, yeah, sure. Okay, bro. Like, and how much do you want to spend? $45, perhaps? Is that possible?

[B]

And just like, okay, well, she wants bungalows, he wants a concrete building. I mean, this is gonna be hard. What am I gonna find? Concrete bungalows? What the heck is a realtor supposed to do? I'll tell you what, this realtor is catching waves. Waves.

[C]

What are we gonna do with waves today? Just you wait and see. Waves.

[B]

So.

[C]

So Christine's like, well, this is our first time here. And he's like, yeah, we started in Phuket. And Joe's like, great, man. Okay, cool. So this is the Riviera house. It's freestanding, has 11 rooms. It's got a pool, a restaurant. It's got quarters, actual quarters on the floor. You can pick them up, use them in America. It's also turnkey, sort of.

[B]

Yeah, it's kind of like a standard hotel. It's two minute walk to the beach. So, you know, look, if you are on the beach, it's sky high. But what's really important is that before you came here, you did the most important thing, guys, zero research. Okay? So this is. This is perfect. Come on in.

[C]

Now we understand.

[B]

Take a look.

[C]

This hotel isn't on the beach, but if you sort of squint at the puddles that are nearby, it kind of Feels like you're on a beach, right? It's kind of like a coastal look.

[B]

You're low. Your slogan could be not on the beach, but nothing else is either. So you. Okay, let's go take a look at it.

[C]

So there's like 11 rooms. It's like a very small hotel. And there's. But there's a nice little pool. And Oscar's like, oh, I love the atmosphere. And Christine's like, yes, the pool is a great area for kids. You know the, you know what the best is? Just leaving kids in a pool and going off somewhere else and, you know, seeing what happens with fate.

[B]

You know what I call pools? Babysitters. Just, it's best when you just leave your child there, possibly with a plugged in toaster and just go enjoy your life. That's what I say.

[C]

So they go to a room.

[B]

Can you hear the rain out there?

[C]

I can't.

[B]

It is a pounding. It's pounding here. It's pounding down rain. Guys. The storms, you sure do come unannounced. Sure do.

[C]

Like an eclipse. So they, the room is like, it's not what I would look for in a hotel room. So. And at first glimpse I'm like, this is not a good room. But then by the end of the episode, it looks like a luxury suite. Because at the room.

[B]

Well, that's how they get you. They just lower your expectations until you're like, you know what, that first one was amazing. Let's go back to that. So this one is. Okay. Oscar's like, oh my God, it's made of concrete. So well built. Let me tell you what, I love concrete. Like, we know Oscar, you're a huge concrete Stan. Okay, we get it.

[C]

So Joe, I almost made Daisy that concrete, but I decided to give them something softer name.

[B]

So they go to check out the family quarters and there, wait, no, they don't do that yet. So first they go see a restaurant, which they like. And he goes as. And Joe's like, as you can see, there's people dining because it's a restaurant. It's as turnkey as you can get. Or turkeys. You. They do serve turkey here. Look at that lady. Is she a swinger? She might be. Because there's this lady who's like, oh, really? You going to eat in the restaurant? You want to sit by me?

[C]

It's like all ladies. It's all like sturdy looking woman in there.

[B]

Yeah, there's like some sex trade going on here. And.

[C]

It came to Lady Dan, the restaurant. So it seems like It's a very sweet hotel.

[B]

Welcome to guilf. Welcome to Guilf Paradise. See, the new owners, I got some. I got some rules to teach you. I haven't seen any.

[C]

They say you wait around here long enough, Melissa. Melissa Etheridge walks in. I'm still waiting for that. So they. They think it's like a nice little hotel, but they go to look at the family quarters that they'll be living in, and it's a dump.

[B]

It's an absolute maniacal dump. So they hate it. And let's see here. What else is happening? Oh, the current manager lives there. And the current manager, let me tell you, not into personal grooming or cleaning at all. It's smelly. There's cats everywhere. No offense to cat lovers. This is not shaming the cats. It's a shaming the cat owners. And there's just furniture everywhere, clothes everywhere. It's gross in here. It is nasty. I don't know what that owner was doing in here, but I can tell you this. It was nothing good.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was. It was terrible. I mean, I appreciated the cats, but these definitely had the vibe of cats that came in from the outdoors that were just. Just heard there was food.

[B]

Not like, these are cats that, you know, you read the stories of, oh, my God, like, the owner died, and the cat ate its face off. These are those cats.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Because some people are like, oh, my God, that's not my cat. And then some people are like, oh, that's totally my cat. These are those people's cats. They will eat your face off when you die. They probably did. And that's why it smells so bad in here. It's like the set of the seven deadly sins in there.

[C]

Well, they are shape shifters. They shift from being cats to ducks.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

They have a very limited range of shape shifting, and no one understands why they shift into ducks, but they do it.

[B]

This is the one I thought was a duck walking through the room. So they're playing clown music because this couple is trying to make this place okay, but they can't, you know, because they're a very positive couple. So Christine's like, oh, you know, the bathroom is small, but maybe we could make it work. But I don't know. Cat eating face. Cat eating face.

[C]

She literally goes, it smells so bad. Can we go talk about this outside?

[B]

I don't want to leave. I do want to talk about it, but outside, where it's not so smelly.

[C]

I know we have a show to shoot, but can we do our discussions in the Open air, please. This is terrible. Terrible.

[B]

So Oscar's like, well, it takes all the boxes, Oscar. No, it doesn't. He's like, aha. Concrete. That's my box. My box was concrete. It takes the eight.

[C]

Just because it looks like a bunch of boxes and they're probably ticks in there does not mean it takes the boxes.

[B]

Hey, box, can I have a moment with you? I want to tell you something.

[C]

Consider yourself ticked that box only has three legs. It's very sad. So Christine's like, do we have any resort style? You know, something nicer? And he's like, john, something bigger. So Joe's like, well, if she wants resort style, I'll show her resort style, Joe style.

[B]

So can I just say something? This show is so funny to me. House hunters. It's this little town nobody's heard of, and there are three hotels available to buy in this town. How is that possible? And if that's true, you all need to not open a hotel.

[C]

Why are there so many hotels for sale?

[B]

Something bad's happening in this town, okay? There's not just gonna randomly be three hotels. There's one street with nothing on it but three empty hotels.

[C]

It's weird. So now they're on a beach, and Oscar's like, oh, we can take up scuba diving. And Christine's like, I've never met someone so interested in so many things, and none of them include making money. It's weird.

[B]

Talk a man who talk about a man who doesn't live for material things. Am I right? It's so attractive. So then they're taking a cooking class and learning how to make Tom Yum soup. And she's like, oh, my God, he even loves soup. It's crazy. Now, you should see the one where he tried to make a video of making Tom Yum soup while he was skydiving with a cat on his shoulder. Crazy times.

[C]

Oh, Daisy was never more upset than when he spilled an entire bowl of Tom Yum on his head.

[B]

That said, Daisy loves a good Tom Yum now, so I guess it worked.

[C]

Doggy's favorite soup. So. So, yeah, they're taking this class, and. But she's like, you know, we don't know what we want to do with the future, but we have kids, and we don't know what. That's. That's even worse.

[B]

That's what I. That's when I decided that I loved her. She's like, yeah, you know, we don't know what we're doing, but we didn't know what we were doing when we had kids either. Unless they're here. Look. Hello. Look at that body of water. Go sit in there and wait for mommy.

[C]

You know, everyone has their legs except for Daisy. So, you know, I think we're doing okay.

[B]

We're scoring seven out of eight. No, I'm sorry, that would be, let's see, two children, two adults, and one dog. So that would be how many legs? That would be five. That would be 10. We're scoring a nine out of 10 on the leg front.

[C]

Poor Days is still pretty rattled from her flight over from Sweden. They met her, made us put her in the. Under the. Under the plane. She was big enough to be in the. In the. In economy, but she just wouldn't let go of her Tom yum soup. But they said no soup unless you go into steerage. So you couldn't separate the two.

[B]

She may not have one leg, but she does have opposable paw thumbs. So she was holding on to that Tom Yum soup. By the way, I just did all that addition of the legs on the people. The dog. Was that calculus, yes or no?

[C]

Just addition. Just basic arithmetic.

[B]

Damn it.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

Why do I even try anymore?

[C]

Wow. The hotel was right up Oscar's alley. But Christine and Joe were concerned. He wasn't worried about her wishes. One of which is let's. Let's buy a place people actually want to come to. I don't know. Just thinking outside the box, which has been ticked, apparently.

[B]

So now they go to house number two. And it's a resort style. It's muklanta and it's by the other hotel. And the. We don't find that out till the end. So spoiler alert. But we've. We do know because they're both called lanta at the end. So they're in the same family. They're on the same hotel family.

[C]

Yeah. So it's like IHG or like Hyatt World of Hotels. You know, World of Hyatt. It's like Atlanta. Yeah. It's actually a lesser known part of Kimpton or like group.

[B]

So then Joe's like, well, Kristen, Christine might be intimidated by the size of this place, but let me tell you something. She is gonna be charmed. I mean, can't be that hard, right? Did you see the jackass she married? Enter Oscar. Oscar Enter. That was your line.

[C]

So we go to this place and there's like all these raised bungalows that are on stilts, and they're all connected by these paths that have no guardrails whatsoever. It's just these narrow paths. And the reason why is because during the monsoon season, I guess the whole area becomes like a raging river. So enjoy having your guests who will probably be drinking alcohol at some point and then get swept away when they fall off the bridge into the monsoon rivers.

[B]

Yeah, it doesn't sound safe, but you know what? Looks pretty, Looks like a fun place. It does look like there will probably be a lot of mosquitoes. I'm gonna go ahead and say that there's a lot of standing water.

[C]

A lot of water also. I feel like that's gonna be lizard highway. I think those giant monitor lizards are just gonna be down there below those bridges. It's gonna be like the moment you fall down there, a monitor lizard is going to come out from the dark and just grab you by the foot and drag you into its little cave.

[B]

You should write travel books.

[C]

I'm telling you, that monitor lizard, really.

[B]

You should have a travel book of just like, the horrible things from places like Thailand. Guys, I went to Thailand. Lizards. Let me tell you what I saw. Standing water and lizards. Watch out.

[C]

I feel like you don't fully appreciate how big these lizards are. I'm gonna send you a link right now.

[B]

I'm from a desert town in Texas, so lizards do not scare me, sir.

[C]

No.

[B]

Okay. No play with lizards. Actually, you know what happens in my house? Now that you're saying this monitor lizard, I'm going to open it. Holy. This thing's gigantic.

[C]

I know. It says the headline is Thai man almost loses home to monitor monster monitor lizard. It's a giant monitor lizard has, like, climbed up against this door. There's also a famous story. There's a video of like a monitor lizard that goes into a convenience store and then climbs up onto the shelves. I mean, these things are.

[B]

This thing is huge. Literally, it's enormous. And what it's doing in this picture, it is crawled. It's standing basically against the wall and the door. And it's trying to open the door with its turkey neck. Like, it's waddle. It's trying to open. It's breaking into the house. These are terrifying. And the headline says. You already said it. He almost loses his own to monitor lizard. And then the sub headline or whatever says ties also call the reptiles. Hiya. Which apparently means.

[C]

There's also. There's a YouTube video that says why the water monitor lizard is a misunderstood gentle dragon. So if it's a misunderstood and really gentle, that means that, like, honestly, most people think it's like a terrifying thing that's gonna kill you. So, yeah, I'm not gonna with it. I'm not gonna.

[B]

Yeah, but that's, you know. But it's articles by Alicia Tan that really hurt the monitor lizards because she's like, oh, my God. Guys, I'm gonna write one article about a monitor lizard, and then here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna show it breaking into a human home.

[C]

Okay?

[B]

And that's gonna be the PR I'm gonna give the monitor lizard. Now, I put this into the Google because I need more evidence. And there's a monitor lizard eating something. Oh, it's a video. Oh, God, these are terrifying. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

[C]

I'm telling you, that's where I saw the monitor lizard was.

[B]

They're eating a kangaroo.

[C]

Oh, really? Oh, my God. What have you clicked on? What did you click on?

[B]

I'm never gonna recover from this.

[C]

I have to say.

[B]

Yeah, stop watching it.

[C]

The monitor lizard that I saw was in, like a wet area, like this puddly zone under these bridges, which is why I'm like, I would not feel safe. That being said, I did find a photo of someone captured a monitor lizard and they put it in a bin and they put little harness on it. And when it's wearing a harness, it's actually adorable. Look, I'm going to send you this photo. I don't know.

[B]

Apparently there was. Okay, I'm just. I'm just fast forwarding through this video on YouTube. I'm horrified. Also, straight guys, stop wearing sunglasses on top of your hats. It's so disturbing. Sorry. Okay. I can't. Thanks a lot for ruining my life with this monitor lizard thing. I'm gonna. You're right, though, with the collar. He does look very cute with.

[C]

With like a little harness on. He's actually like the cutest little lizard you've ever seen. It's like, hey, guys, what's going on? Are we gonna go to go shopping today or whatever, get ice cream?

[B]

He's cute. But let me tell you, I just saw one eat a kangaroo and I'm never gonna be okay.

[C]

I don't know how you found that.

[D]

I don't.

[C]

I didn't see that in any of my searches.

[B]

It was literally the first. Here, I'll send it to you. No, I'm not going.

[C]

No.

[B]

Okay, so back to muklanta. Here we are. So this is the. Yeah, this is the place with all the little bungalows over the water puddle type things and the br. And stuff like that. And Christine's like, oh, my God, it's 210,000 for at least it's turkey. And now what they like is that it's gorgeous. Like this is the nicer one, but it's also terrifying. And it's so many bungalows, they're going to have to have a huge stack.

[C]

And also I think that they, I think they're drawn to the deal because it's $200,000 and they 24 bungalows. It's a huge sp expanse of property. Cuz like relatively speaking. And so, you know, and it's cool that it, that they are bungalows, but like the rooms are like shitty. I'm sorry. Well, first we see the, the owner's bungalow, which is strange. It's like, is this the one where you have to go through like the shower to get to the toilet? I think this was.

[B]

The toilet's in the shower.

[C]

Toilets in the shower. It's like, it's almost like a linear floor plan. You have to go through one room to get to the other to get to the other. It's like, I think it's terrible. I would never want to live in that bungalow. And you've also got a child. It's what's a one bedroom too, right? I think this is the one.

[B]

Yeah, it's a one bedroom. They're all gonna have to shack up. And the worst thing is the pooping. Especially because you have little kids who just don't care. Like you don't get any space with little kids anyway. But like pooping while the showering and that's just too much. Like, I just need, I need us. I need you, you damn kids to leave me alone, okay? Just let daddy poop. So they're looking around and Joe's not very helpful. The realtor is just like, well, the owner suite's not supposed to be fancy. Shut the up, Joe. Lowering my expectations.

[C]

We're not asking for fancy, we're asking for functional, okay? Like there's a toilet in the shower. There's no room for the children. There's not like the kitchen. There was like basically non existent. And they keep on saying, well, but there's gonna be a restaurant. Do you see how many people are at the restaurant from Uklanta? No one. Okay? All the ladies are at the other one, which means that this restaurant is shitty. You've got a shitty chef, so you better take those soup lessons because no one's coming to eat your food.

[B]

Also I was like, sorry, no, you just went off too. Well, I'm not going to do it. Georgia, that left me very satisfied. I'll just stick with that. Also, what I was going to say is, you know what people really don't want in their hotel restaurant? Their tiny hotel restaurant want for the owners to be in their day and night with their kids running around eating everything and food popping out of there. Because, you know Oscar eats with his damn mouth open. You can just tell. Oscar eats terribly. I can just see it happening. And I don't want to be in there with a guy who checked me in and his kids everywhere just making small talk with me because this life is so boring. Okay? I don't want.

[C]

Don't need it. Don't need it. And I don't want to have to, like, pretend like I care about his kids, because they'll be like, oh, yeah, this is Hedwig. Yeah. Helvig is, like, now entering first grade. Yeah. And here's Daisy. Daisy lost it. Okay, don't touch. Daisy's Tom Yum. She's very possessive. Okay, that's. Oh, I'm so sorry she bit you. Okay, well, hospital is 45 hours away. Good luck.

[B]

Oh, my God. Don't fall. Hold on. Let Daisy get under you.

[C]

Daisy. Oh, no. They found another monitor lizard. No, it's dead. It tried to eat Daisy's Tommy. I'm soup, and Daisy doesn't around.

[B]

Daisy can't walk because she just ate the monitor lizard who tried to eat her Tom Yuck.

[C]

Daisy lost a leg because Oscar landed on her, and now she's addicted to Tom Yum soup and will kill a monitor lizard if it gets close to it.

[B]

Daisy's a badass.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay, so this place was. This place is, you know, should be nice, but it's not. The owner suite is not great, but it's way better than the last owner's suite. Yikes. That one was literally like the sloth apartment in. In Southern Bentley.

[C]

They're still smelling it over here. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. So then there's a little. There's kind of a water view because they are close to the beach.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

But there's no pool, so they're. They're bummed by that. And there's a lot of maintenance, obviously, blah, blah, blah. Okay, so Joe is like, it's turnkey. And they're never gonna find anything better than this. You know what, Joe? My phone's ringing. It's Chula Vista. Go home.

[C]

Joe. It's called the Marriott. That's up the street. Yeah. They'll find something better, Joe.

[B]

Negative Nancy Joe over there.

[C]

So now it's Time to go to house number three or hotel number three, as it were. And Oscar is like, you know, people move to Sweden for the Social Security and the childcare, and we're moving away from that. Christine's like, yes, this was an impulsive decision. Kids do change your priorities, but we still want to have fun. Yeah. And the way to do that is that the whole family is have more fun. We've always had a stable income, and that goes away now. And not knowing if people will come visit us, that frightens me. If we run out of money, then what do we do then? And then it shows. Like this little crab in a shell walking across the beach. The crab's like, I don't know. Don't ask me. I'm a crab. I don't know what to do with your money. Why'd you move here? It's terrible. Look at me. Look at the life I live.

[B]

Yeah, well, luckily Christine can still clinical psychology somewhere, right? I mean, there's always people who need a clinical psychologist. Yeah.

[C]

Especially all those people are traumatized by monitor lizards in the neighborhood.

[B]

And listen, you're in a. You're in a different country than I'm used to, so I don't know what the laws are over there. I'm completely ignorant about that. But I'm hoping that there aren't child labor laws and you could put those damn kids to work. Okay. Think with your brain, sir, not your insecurity.

[C]

Yeah, exactly. So now they go to Lanta Lily. So they. They're gonna have. There'll be a little house there when there's a restaurant that's empty again, and there's a pool that's as close to the main road, and the beach has. Is two minutes away. So those are like the upsides.

[B]

Yeah. So now the owner's music, they start playing clown music for the owner's quarters because it's always terrifying. And this one sucks as well. There's one bedroom, it's way too small. And Christine's like, well, we need another room. And like, we can build it right here on this. On this balcony. No, you can't.

[C]

Can't just build.

[B]

I love when people see, like, they're like, look, it's a wooden deck. What a perfect place to put in addition onto the house. There's already wood there, you guys. You understand that it takes a lot more than a few planks of wood to make a room, right?

[C]

I forget what this one looks like. I don't know why. I. I sort of have a memory of the. I'M gonna sort of. I wonder if I can, like, go on to Max real quickly and get, like, a quick view of it, because I remember the first two. It's weird. I just watched this, but, like, it's like. I think I blocked this one out because it was so.

[B]

I remember.

[C]

I remember the pool was right up there against the road, right? Like, there was like a line of tr. It's like a hedge.

[B]

Well, this one was nice. This one's the one that's concrete. So what's. His buns is jizzing all over himself because he loves concrete. But yeah, it's also. There's a beautiful pool. Like, oddly beautiful.

[C]

Yeah, it was a big pool and.

[B]

It was real pretty. But yeah, it was right up against, like, the highway, you know, and. Which I thought, wow, that's not very relaxing. Also, way to make even a pool. Way to make a pool even unsafe. Even more unsafe. Like, wow. Not only are your kids going to be hanging out alone.

[C]

Sorry about that.

[B]

Not only are your kids going to be hanging out alone at the pool, but they could be run over by an errant truck or whatever while they're there.

[C]

Okay, so I'm looking at it now. Oh, God, this one was terrible. And I feel like the only good feature about this one was that there was like a giant flat screen TV Here, show me.

[B]

Put it up on that thing. Because you're right, I don't remember it either. It's not weird about House Hunters. I could watch it and then five minutes later, forget what everything looks.

[C]

You know what? It's not going to let me show because it's that thing where it's, like, protecting the DRM or whatever. It's. Okay, so I'll describe it.

[B]

Who are you protecting? House Hunters. I mean, DRM rights.

[C]

So the pool area is nice. Like, all the money went into the pool area. It's this big rectangular pool with, like, blue tile. There's a bunch of umbrellas. And it's just weird because it's like umbrellas up against some little baby palm trees. And then there's like a road behind it. But then everything else just looks like shit. It's just like a bit like a big red roof and like an empty restaurant that no one's at. That there's like one flat screen TV in. It's. It's garbage. We don't like this one.

[B]

It's poo poo. It's poo poo. So this is the one. So let's go discuss which one they're gonna get. So Kristen's like, you know, this country is perfect for you, Oscar, because you take it day by day, right? And he's like, yeah, I can live somewhere, anywhere, as long as it's financially sustainable. You guys are moving to a hotel without a tourist. You're moving. You're opening a hotel in a place without a tourist flow.

[C]

And also, by the way, just one last thing.

[B]

I.

[C]

When they were trying to, like, rationalize why this third one might be a good one, they were like, oh, we could catch a DJ for this pool. I'm like, this is not San Tropez. This hotel that you were not at.

[B]

Oh, my God, this is going to bring in so much money when people hear pool. And we can have DJ here. Freeway DJ, freeway DJ, pool, freeways, pools, DJs. Yeah, sounds. Sounds like heaven, guys.

[C]

DJ Daisy Three Leg Daisy is just spinning. Oh, no. Daisy's play who Let the Dogs Out Again. God, she needs more of a repertoire.

[B]

I'm looking at Soft Landing and Thai Paradise. Where are they now? I wish I had this. I need to know what happens to these people. I need this channel to have. Have more responsibility.

[C]

I looked up, actually, the hotel that they chose, and I looked at the website and they made it look, like, nicer for sure, but, like, I would still never stay there.

[B]

What's it called? Oh, well, let's get to that part because I want to look it up.

[C]

Okay. So they're doing the debates and everything.

[B]

I'm not proud to admit this because it's. I don't like being like this, but I'm rooting for these two.

[C]

Good.

[B]

There, I said it.

[C]

Well, so they. The house number three. They. They like it. Oh, actually, I'm sorry. The first one is the Riviera, and they like it. It's on budget, it's turnkey, but it's just not enough rooms to support the family. So they decide they're not going to do the Riviera Boutique and that. Which is, by the way, the best one, which was just sad, I think. And then they just are like, Christine's like, yeah. I just feel like Lanta Lily is, like, the logical choice because, you know, know it's like a pool but next to a high, high traffic road, which I think is, like, good for tourism, you know, because that way they could be sitting in the. In the chaise lounge and wonder, is car going to hit me now? No. What about this one? No. What about this one?

[B]

No. Yeah. He's like, I love the pool, but the family space is too small and we have to build a room. It's like, then take it off. I was like, whoa, Christine, two seconds ago. She's like, oh, my God, it's the best one. But room building, take it, ruin it, burn it to the ground. So then he says, well, for me, the Riviera is the most sensible. And she's like, oh, if we were sensible, we wouldn't be here, huh? Have a watermelon slice and a Bloody Mary. True dart.

[C]

We also died. Didn't we also miss that? They were. At one point, they were feeding watermelons to monkeys. I was like, did you not watch Real Housewives in Miami? Stop feeding the wildlife.

[B]

They were just throwing the. Yeah, the kids were throwing their food at the monkeys. I think it's different when they're like wild monkeys out in the river. Right? I think that was offensive because she was. Lisa was actually throwing chicken breasts at little shacks, like at little houses along the river. Like, you need food for your dogs.

[C]

Poor people.

[B]

Here's some chicken.

[C]

It's wild that that is something that happened on tv. So it really is.

[B]

I will never. I don't think anyone who saw that will ever forget that. That show is so fucking crazy.

[C]

So they decide, you know what? Muklanta. Oscar goes, muklanta is the dream. It's sustainable and has an owner's quarters better than anyone else's. Finally, shitting and showering all at the same time.

[B]

Coming soon to a bathroom near you. So Christine's like, it scares me, but I want it. He's like, oh, my God. That's what you said on my wedding day. She's like, I did. So they go. They figure they bought the right place and guess what? But he's in waiting boots already, because guess why they also got the hotel next door.

[C]

Yeah, they got a two. This I think the first time I've ever seen on House Hunters. Not two for one special. We got two of the houses, but.

[B]

They found an investor, which sounds odd. I think these hotels, they were just people selling their business, but part of their business or something. I don't know. People ready to retire. Okay, so what's this hotel called? I want to look it up.

[C]

M O O K. Space. L A N T A. And it's like an eco. Eco hotel. That's how they're marketing it at.

[B]

Well, that's one way to not offer air conditioning. Smart people. Ecosystem looks great.

[C]

You know, the website looks nice. There's not a lot of photos of the interiors, though. But they definitely made it look prettier than it is. In fact, there's no pictures of the interior.

[B]

I'm looking on Expedia. Should I have gone to a different site?

[C]

I had looked also on travel, whatever it's called. TripAdvisor.

[B]

Okay. So we're seeing the same thing. It looks pretty. I think they did a good job. Can I tell you, one of the best art forms in our day and age is property photography. I have seen some real homes look like glorious mansions. The way that people are photographing these homes now and these spaces. And this one is the same. I think they did just. The photography is great.

[C]

You know, a lot of the photos on TripAdvisor are from 2015. Oh, but here's one from December 2023. Yeah, I think they actually did a nice job. They cleaned up some of these rooms. I still think it's probably. It's definitely more like there's a nice photo from 2014, but it's 2014. Like it's. It's definitely more low budge than it. Than it seems to advertise. And they really need to update these photos. There's so many from 2000.

[B]

It looks nice. Do you see the photo down at the bottom with the pool where it shows a pool?

[C]

I don't. There's like. There's like two.

[B]

There's a monitor lizard in it. Spoiler alert.

[C]

Is there real for real?

[B]

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