Iceland is Super Weird in the Best Way

[00:00:08] Malorie Mackey: Hello, hello, hello, everyone. Welcome back to Mallory's Weird World Adventures, the podcast. I'm your host, Mallory. [00:00:14] Michael Maldonado: And I'm your host, Michael. [00:00:15] Malorie Mackey: And we're here to show you just how weird this world of ours really is. We got back very recently from Iceland. [00:00:24] Michael Maldonado: Iceland. [00:00:25] Malorie Mackey: Iceland. [00:00:26] Michael Maldonado: Maybe it was a couple weeks ago. You, like, went other places. [00:00:29] Malorie Mackey: Well, that's fair. And then I had those hard book deadlines, so. [00:00:33] Michael Maldonado: Hard book deadlines. And I've been sick for three out of the last four weeks, courtesy of our daughter. [00:00:40] Malorie Mackey: Yay. But Iceland. We just got back from Iceland. [00:00:43] Michael Maldonado: That was the one week I wasn't sick. So it worked out well. [00:00:46] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, it was great. [00:00:46] Michael Maldonado: Last month. Womp, womp, womp, womp. [00:00:51] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, well, you know, Iceland is one of those places that everyone at one point in time has told me I need to go there. I feel like it's so mainstream and so many people go there, but it's also freakishly weird. [00:01:03] Michael Maldonado: It's really weird. [00:01:04] Malorie Mackey: It's really weird. For those who don't know, I guess it's kind of a volcanic wasteland for most of it. It's pretty, you know, just volcanic rock. [00:01:17] Michael Maldonado: The whole thing is basically like a series of active, semi active dormant volcanoes. Volcanoes, yeah. [00:01:25] Malorie Mackey: And there's like, you know, black sand beaches because, you know, volcano, volcano, volcano, volcano, volcano. And there's just like random weird patches of, like, pretty grass and trees, but, like, very, very, very, like, very little trees, though. Yeah. [00:01:42] Michael Maldonado: There's a lot of, like, scrubland looking. [00:01:44] Malorie Mackey: Yes. [00:01:45] Michael Maldonado: Stuff, but not a lot of foresty big tree area. Troubling. [00:01:50] Malorie Mackey: We spent the night in that one bubble and it was literally in this tiny patch of trees, like the only. [00:01:55] Michael Maldonado: Place did they manufacture that forest. You know, maybe it was so specifically in that area imperfect that it just seemed like maybe they planted these trees for the bubbles. [00:02:09] Malorie Mackey: I don't know. I honestly don't. It was interesting. But yeah. We rented a car because. Why, why wouldn't we? Right. And. Well, I mean, you have. It's one of those places you have to be able to get around. [00:02:22] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. Unless you were just gonna stay in. [00:02:24] Malorie Mackey: Like, downtown Reykjavik or, like, you're gonna stay at the resort and you're not gonna leave. [00:02:29] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. [00:02:30] Malorie Mackey: Cause like, resorts, a lot of times, like, I think they had a bus that would take you there, but you have to like, okay, well, I'm just gonna be here the whole time. So really, if you're going for, like, the experience, you need to rent a car. [00:02:40] Michael Maldonado: But they drove on the same side. [00:02:43] Malorie Mackey: As the U.S. yeah. [00:02:44] Michael Maldonado: And all this all the signs were in Icelandic and English for the most part. So it was pretty. [00:02:52] Malorie Mackey: It felt just like driving in Germany and Eastern Europe and everywhere else. And it was pretty easy until you. [00:03:00] Michael Maldonado: Got ran off the road. [00:03:01] Malorie Mackey: I got ran off the road by a bus. [00:03:03] Michael Maldonado: The worst driving I've ever seen. [00:03:06] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. Like the two cars in front of me passed a bus and the bus was like kind of being aggro. I should have just stayed back, but I don't like not being able to see and I had time to pass him. So I'm like, well, they're passing and let me just pass in the back. And he let the first two cars pass and then decided, no, I'm not gonna let this girl pass. [00:03:23] Michael Maldonado: This wasn't like there was like one lane and you're over in the other lane, like, you know, like on the oncoming lane. It wasn't like a one way each way street. [00:03:32] Malorie Mackey: No, no, no. [00:03:32] Michael Maldonado: It's like it was just a normal two lane main highway. [00:03:37] Malorie Mackey: Yes. [00:03:38] Michael Maldonado: And we were in the passing lane. [00:03:40] Malorie Mackey: And he sped up to keep me from getting in front of him to the point where the lane closed and I was trying to get over and he, instead of letting me over, just aggro, honked at me and ran me off the road. [00:03:50] Michael Maldonado: You were fully in front of him? [00:03:52] Malorie Mackey: I was fully in front of him. [00:03:53] Michael Maldonado: He literally ran. I've never seen anybody. He ran you into the oncoming traffic lane? Yes. [00:03:58] Malorie Mackey: Yep. Insane. [00:04:00] Michael Maldonado: I've never been boxed in like that. There was a car in front of you, a car behind you, and the bus would neither speed up or slow down, you know, enough to let something. [00:04:09] Malorie Mackey: Happen on one side of the bus and then proceeded to just aggro at me and sort of like do anything at all. And then the car behind him was like, oh. Oh my God. Like they slammed the brakes and let me over like. Like, oh my gosh. Like, couldn't believe it happened. It was scary. And Iceland is a place of mythical wonder. [00:04:30] Michael Maldonado: Mythical. [00:04:31] Malorie Mackey: It is. It has some of the strangest belief systems. [00:04:35] Michael Maldonado: You have to pardon my cough. [00:04:38] Malorie Mackey: It has some of the strangest belief systems. Strangest, Strangest. And it's in a weird place because it's partially under the Arctic Circle. And I think the north part is partially just above the Arctic Circle. Like it's in a weird layout. So they do have the full on polar night and midnight sun. So it got mildly dusky while we were there around 11pm and then the sun came fully back out at like 3 in the morning. 3. [00:05:10] Michael Maldonado: It was never fully Dark. [00:05:11] Malorie Mackey: Never. [00:05:11] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. [00:05:12] Malorie Mackey: So it's just this interesting world. [00:05:16] Michael Maldonado: Also, the animals didn't know what to do with that either. [00:05:18] Malorie Mackey: They did. [00:05:18] Michael Maldonado: There were birds up the whole, like, day or at night? 24. There was birds awake. Chirping. 24. Seven. [00:05:25] Malorie Mackey: Yes. [00:05:25] Michael Maldonado: And the last place we went, the bubble, we went past through the farmland to get there and there's just. It was. We got in at like midnight and it's not dark and the horses are just out grazing as it was, you know, midday. [00:05:40] Malorie Mackey: And. Yeah, it was bizarre. And our first stop was something I've always wanted to do for Weird World. He's laughing because it was. It was bizarre. I always wanted to go to elf school. [00:05:53] Michael Maldonado: Elf school. [00:05:53] Malorie Mackey: Elf school. So they have an elf school in Iceland, supposedly, where they teach you how to hunt for mythical elves and all the interesting things about elves and hidden people and like the mythological creatures of Iceland. And I just. I read about Icelandic mythology. Yes. I read about it and I had to do it. And so I set up this private experience with Magnus. [00:06:17] Michael Maldonado: Magnus. [00:06:18] Malorie Mackey: Magnus. And we get there and it's definitely just kind of like in his house. It was. I mean, it was in like a storefront up there, but there had a kitchen and they probably lived there. [00:06:33] Michael Maldonado: Yeah, it was hard to tell. [00:06:34] Malorie Mackey: It's hard to tell. [00:06:36] Michael Maldonado: But you could live there. It was livable. [00:06:39] Malorie Mackey: Yes. [00:06:40] Michael Maldonado: Where we were was like a library area. [00:06:43] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. It was like his office library. And it was him. And then his husband made us treats. [00:06:49] Michael Maldonado: Which were quite good. [00:06:50] Malorie Mackey: Really good. [00:06:52] Michael Maldonado: Also, he ate that, like crepe and One bite. One bite. [00:06:56] Malorie Mackey: Oh, yeah. He's like, crepey. [00:07:00] Michael Maldonado: You win. [00:07:02] Malorie Mackey: Oh, my gosh. And then they're a floofy little puppy who started out floofy and then went and got a haircut while we were there and then came back. [00:07:11] Michael Maldonado: It was two different puppies. [00:07:12] Malorie Mackey: It was by the time we left. And I think we both got there and thought, oh, my gosh, what have I gotten us into? What has Mallory gotten us into? It was a little interesting. And, you know, he's like, all right, well, let's do this. What do you want to know? So we just start asking him questions about elves on camera for two hours. And he had some good stories. He did. He was a very great storyteller and he did firmly believe in elves. And then he was talking to us about the different types of elves and, like, they had very specific size requirements. [00:07:48] Michael Maldonado: It was very fleshed out lore. [00:07:50] Malorie Mackey: Yes. And my favorite was the hidden folk because they're people sized elves, like Legolas. And they dress in old timey clothes and they appear to those who are psychic. So you can only see them if you're psychic, if you're attuned to the naturalism of Iceland. [00:08:11] Michael Maldonado: I did not see them. [00:08:12] Malorie Mackey: You did not see them. And Magnus has gone on trips with people who can see them, but he couldn't see them. [00:08:18] Michael Maldonado: So he's not psychic. [00:08:19] Malorie Mackey: He's not psychic. Yeah, he said he couldn't see them. So we had a very interesting conversation with him, which will be on the next season of Weird World Adventures. And he really had a crush on Michael. Well, he did. [00:08:33] Michael Maldonado: Don't blame him. [00:08:36] Malorie Mackey: And he liked to make ridiculous faces of the camera every so often for good measure. [00:08:41] Michael Maldonado: Breaking that fourth wall. [00:08:43] Malorie Mackey: He didn't really like that. I really liked the Yule cat. [00:08:46] Michael Maldonado: Yeah, he really hated the Yule cat. Very specifically, he asked you what you wanted to know and you kept going back. You had several things, but you kept going back to the Yule cat. [00:08:54] Malorie Mackey: Because it was the Yule cat. [00:08:55] Michael Maldonado: Because he did not want to talk about the Yulcat. [00:08:58] Malorie Mackey: No. [00:08:58] Michael Maldonado: He tried, like, the first one, just to kind of talk about the other stuff and just pretend you didn't say Yulcat, but you. You forced it. I want to know about the Yule cat. And he found out he's like the fucking goddamn Yule cat now that he wants to know so much about the fucking Yule cat. He was so angry about that Yule cat. [00:09:14] Malorie Mackey: He was. And it's funny because he didn't mind the Yule lads, but he sure didn't like that Yule cat. And Greela, he's all about. He's like, oh, yeah, she's great. I have her figurine up here. But not that cat. Not that damn cat cat. But yeah, that was our first day experience with Magnus getting in from the plane and Michael being really hungry and wanting sparrow very specifically. [00:09:42] Michael Maldonado: Well, we saw it. [00:09:44] Malorie Mackey: They wouldn't let us. [00:09:45] Michael Maldonado: We didn't have it. [00:09:47] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, you're so. Apparently, I've never seen this before, but they were very aggro about it when we were coming back, too. When you're in the airport in Iceland, you can only purchase anything if you are, like, about to depart the airport. You cannot purchase anything. [00:10:04] Michael Maldonado: You have to have a boarding pass. [00:10:04] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, you have to have a boarding pass. [00:10:05] Michael Maldonado: You have to get on a plane. We were like, got off the plane and that was not acceptable. So you're not going to let me buy a piece of pizza? [00:10:12] Malorie Mackey: Yes. You can't order anything if you're coming off a flight, you have to be only going on a flight. [00:10:17] Michael Maldonado: So it's one of those things where, you know, I haven't had a Sbarro, just big greasy slice of pizza in a long time. And then you see it and you want it and I want it. And they're like, you can't have it. Like, I have real money. What do you mean? I have US Dollars and I have Icelandic and I've got a bunch of credit cards and you're telling me I can't get a slice of pizza right? Of greasy ass. You know what you have? [00:10:43] Malorie Mackey: You had a Mallory moment. That's what happened to me in Shanghai Disney. [00:10:47] Michael Maldonado: Don't ever say I had a Mallory moment. [00:10:49] Malorie Mackey: Well, when I was in Shanghai Disney, only two restaurants in the entire park took foreign credit cards. Everyone in China at the time was paying on a QR code on their phone that was hooked up, like, through the government. Like, everyone had a full payment thing through their phone. And if you were not a Chinese citizen, you couldn't buy food. I mean, unless it was really two places. [00:11:16] Michael Maldonado: Because it's not like you're in a random restaurant in China. You're at Chinese Disney. Yeah, gonna be a lot of foreigners. [00:11:26] Malorie Mackey: And I mean, it took. I went to like three different food stalls for people to say, no, you can't. We can't take this. No. Before, I had to go to, like, the customer service help desk and just say, I'm hungry. Help me eat. Please just let me give. And it wasn't like there was a Starbucks outside of Shanghai Disney that I had just sat in because I got there so early before the park opened. So it wasn't like an everywhere thing. It was just a Disney thing. It was in the park. [00:11:49] Michael Maldonado: That's where you would want that rule because it's so many. Gonna be so many tourists visiting, they aren't gonna have their government swipey. Whatever, Whatever. The system is in place. [00:12:03] Malorie Mackey: It was very horrible. And I was so hungry and so hangry and I started getting in that weird, like, I'm gonna pass out if I don't eat food. So I went to the customer service. [00:12:10] Michael Maldonado: That's a daily occurrence, by the way. You act like that's uncommon. I regularly get home from work and you're just like, I'm gonna pass out. You can just eat. No. 1. There's food here. [00:12:22] Malorie Mackey: No one stops eating. Oh, no. Well, I was directed to one of two restaurants that took my credit card. And it was inside the pirates ride. It was pretty cool. And it was delicious. So it worked out. I got some noodles. [00:12:37] Michael Maldonado: Well, thank God. [00:12:37] Malorie Mackey: Thank God I didn't die. But, yeah. But, yeah, the Sbarro. And then to top it all off, there was a Sbarro on the way to the hotel, and it was also closed. [00:12:46] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. [00:12:47] Malorie Mackey: For the next couple hours. [00:12:48] Michael Maldonado: Just rub it in my face. I could not get that greasy piece of pizza. I will say. Other than that, at least, coming from the us, Iceland was very easy to navigate. [00:12:59] Malorie Mackey: Yes. [00:13:00] Michael Maldonado: They took both. I think they took US Dollars, cash, everywhere. They took euros, Icelandic krona, and all of our credit cards worked. I usually bring one of each because you just never know which one. But I think all of them had no issues. [00:13:17] Malorie Mackey: They expect us tourists. Everyone is very friendly. Everyone's very nice. It's just very weird in the landscape, the mythology and just kind of the people, but in a great way. Yeah, yeah. And then they're a little bit, like, crazy. [00:13:33] Michael Maldonado: Like you. You kind of crazy. [00:13:34] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, like me kind of crazy. Yeah. They're the right people. Yeah. [00:13:37] Michael Maldonado: And they like it. They lean into it. [00:13:39] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's good. Definitely. Everything we did, someone was crazy in a good way. [00:13:46] Michael Maldonado: Right. [00:13:46] Malorie Mackey: And then we stayed. We're gonna do a whole podcast on Hotel Ranga. But it was very cool, so we stayed there. [00:13:54] Michael Maldonado: It was very cool, very swanky. [00:13:55] Malorie Mackey: We'll talk about that next time. That gets its own. [00:13:58] Michael Maldonado: That gets its own. [00:13:59] Malorie Mackey: It does. And so, yeah, so we had Magnus, who was the crazy elf man, who was just great. And then we went to the hotel, kind of got stuff together, did the elf school, went back. We did a lot of driving. I like driving in other countries to kind of get a feel for everything. And then the next. [00:14:19] Michael Maldonado: It was an interesting place to drive. [00:14:20] Malorie Mackey: It was. [00:14:23] Michael Maldonado: Just. The landscape is very. It almost looks like you're driving on Mars or something. Yeah, for a lot of it. Also a lot of it. A lot of where we were and a lot of what's built up is along the coastline. Because I think the middle of the island is largely pretty. [00:14:37] Malorie Mackey: It's national park. [00:14:39] Michael Maldonado: National park and volcanoes. Right. It's not traversable terrain. Like, super easy to build on, usable terrain. [00:14:45] Malorie Mackey: No. [00:14:46] Michael Maldonado: So for a lot of it, there's like a main road that loops the entire circumference of the island, and there's just a lot. There's a lot of stretches where on one, to your left is ocean and to your right is a volcano, Right? [00:15:02] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. [00:15:02] Michael Maldonado: And you're just driving on the little flat area in between the water and the mountain. Volcano. Mountain. [00:15:08] Malorie Mackey: You saw a lot of that because that was also the Blue Lagoon day. When we went into Reykjavik a couple times, too, we took a different way, which is also distinctly weird and beautiful, in a totally different way, where it was like, just rocks everywhere and bizarre rock formations. [00:15:23] Michael Maldonado: There's just areas where steam's coming out of the ground because there's just active volcanoes. [00:15:30] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. They said that most geothermal water coming up. Most people in Iceland, they said, don't need hot water because they just, like, direct it out of the ground. Like, they don't heat it. Pull the water out of the ground. Yeah. [00:15:42] Michael Maldonado: Comes hot. [00:15:43] Malorie Mackey: It comes hot out of the ground. [00:15:44] Michael Maldonado: Was it 98%? It was something like that. It was just. Basically, all of it was just heated for you. [00:15:49] Malorie Mackey: Yes. Which was cool. And the second day, Mike did the interview at the penis museum. [00:15:57] Michael Maldonado: My big moment. [00:15:59] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. [00:15:59] Michael Maldonado: I finally made it your Icelandic teleological. I think this is gonna be my big break. [00:16:04] Malorie Mackey: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. And that guy, too, was weird in such a great way. His name was Thordor. [00:16:10] Michael Maldonado: If I had Thorder, if my name was Thordor and I was the head of the penis museum, every person would be getting my business card. [00:16:18] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. [00:16:18] Michael Maldonado: I don't care. If you didn't ask for it, you're getting it. [00:16:20] Malorie Mackey: And his email is thorderalus.org. [00:16:23] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. I mean, really. [00:16:24] Malorie Mackey: I mean, it was great. And he was just lovely. He had, like, a little bit of the man bun going on. He looked like, I know about penises. And he did. He sure did. [00:16:35] Michael Maldonado: He looked like a man that knows his radio on a dick. [00:16:37] Malorie Mackey: We were walking through. [00:16:39] Michael Maldonado: I tried that business card, by the way. I would. Sorry. I've put a lot of thought into this. I would. I mean, I would have it, you know, thor [email protected] or whatever you want to, like, have it be. But I would make the card a little too big. Like, not standard size. Right. So, like, people go to put it in their wallet, it just doesn't shift. It happens a lot around me. [00:17:05] Malorie Mackey: Still a little too big, huh? We thought a lot about this. [00:17:08] Michael Maldonado: I know. [00:17:10] Malorie Mackey: Well, they had many, many, many animal penises on display. And he told you about all of them in great detail. [00:17:17] Michael Maldonado: In great detail. [00:17:18] Malorie Mackey: He's like, this one does this special thing, and this one does this special thing. This one's got barbs to make ovulation happen. [00:17:26] Michael Maldonado: Is that how that works? [00:17:27] Malorie Mackey: That's what he said. [00:17:28] Michael Maldonado: No, I know. [00:17:29] Malorie Mackey: I'm asking you. [00:17:30] Michael Maldonado: You're the one with the. [00:17:32] Malorie Mackey: Apparently, humans used to do that. That's What? He said he knew so much, and I had so many questions. [00:17:38] Michael Maldonado: Humans used to do it. An ancestor. [00:17:42] Malorie Mackey: I know. [00:17:42] Michael Maldonado: It's not like we. It's not like Homo sapiens used to have barbed. [00:17:46] Malorie Mackey: I know. Humanoids. I know. [00:17:47] Michael Maldonado: Do you know? [00:17:48] Malorie Mackey: I do know. [00:17:49] Michael Maldonado: Okay. [00:17:49] Malorie Mackey: I do know. I was behind the. I was thankfully behind the camera for that, because I don't think I could have done. Would have been weird if he was mansplaining penises to me. It really was, like, the right move to have it to be you. You guys. It looked like two men, like, admiring. [00:18:05] Michael Maldonado: Just a really nice penis. [00:18:06] Malorie Mackey: Yes, that's what it looked like. And that was the much, much better. [00:18:09] Michael Maldonado: Version of, like, that penis. Almost as tall as I was. [00:18:13] Malorie Mackey: Oh, my God. That was crazy. [00:18:14] Michael Maldonado: That wasn't even the biggest penis. [00:18:16] Malorie Mackey: This sperm whale penis was pretty big. [00:18:19] Michael Maldonado: But that was only a part of it. That's the thing. It was as tall as I was, and it was only a part of it. [00:18:25] Malorie Mackey: And he said the elephant ones, there's, like, rumors they could use it as another leg. [00:18:28] Michael Maldonado: It was literally another leg. Like, the joke. The joke. Like a third leg. I get. You know, people don't. All right, all right, sorry. I mean, you let me lead the penis museum interview. This is going to happen. But, yeah, unironically, he was like, the elephants can use it. A fifth leg? [00:18:50] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. [00:18:52] Michael Maldonado: Is this just a third leg joke? But they have four. They walk on four. So it's a fifth leg joke. It's like, no, they do that. It's an actual. Just, you know, I'm just gonna lean upon my fifth leg over here. And there was an example of it. [00:19:05] Malorie Mackey: I believe it horrifying. What was your favorite? [00:19:09] Michael Maldonado: Did the elephant one look wood to you? [00:19:12] Malorie Mackey: It did. [00:19:12] Michael Maldonado: It looked wooden. I thought it was fake at first. I think it was, like, just partially, like, pets. [00:19:17] Malorie Mackey: That's solid, I think. And the owner of the museum, the original person that founded it, he just recently passed away, and he had himself cremated and put in a penis urn in the museum. [00:19:32] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. I wish I had met that guy. He seemed like an awesome. I did like that. It. It's set up to be very, like, informative now. It is, it is, but so I was like, is this, like, do we all know that this is a kind of funny thing? And I got the impression they did, because you go into the. Like, when you walk in, there's a bar and, like, a little restaurant and a gift store. It's all crazy, and it's, like, fun. Like, the gift store is fun. Right. So I was like, alright. [00:19:59] Malorie Mackey: Like they have to know. [00:20:00] Michael Maldonado: You have to know. But literally the first thing the guy says when we're interviewing him, he's like, so it started as a joke. I'm like, okay, good. Okay. So we all recognize that, like starting a penis museum is a joke, right? And he's like, yeah. The guy just liked making this joke. I guess so. Because it's a whole museum of this joke. And then he died, had himself cremated and put in a penis urn back in his own museum. So he committed to that show. That is. [00:20:29] Malorie Mackey: That is commitment. What was your favorite display? Yeah, penis. [00:20:34] Michael Maldonado: Their display. Oh, man. I mean, I identified with the whale room personally. [00:20:45] Malorie Mackey: Right, right. [00:20:49] Michael Maldonado: I mean, the whales were fun. They're so big. They're like comically big. They also don't necessarily look like penises. Like what you would as a human would think of. [00:20:58] Malorie Mackey: Well, they even had human penises. That didn't look like penises to me in the jar. They didn't. They didn't. Right. I mean, I'm not wrong. [00:21:09] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. It was crumpled maybe. [00:21:12] Malorie Mackey: I don't know. It was weird. [00:21:14] Michael Maldonado: I don't know. It was weird. The whale ones are just. I mean, who, you know, who's not gonna. They're the biggest penises. Obviously we're not gonna go. The giraffe one surprised me. Cause it was huge. And just all of a sudden, like, you turn a corner and there's just in the middle of the floor is this giant. Giant one. Let's see. I mean, which, which they had them kind of by like species or like kind of. Yeah, kind or. [00:21:42] Malorie Mackey: You know, they were thematic. [00:21:43] Michael Maldonado: They were thematic. There was like a group that were kind of sharp. [00:21:49] Malorie Mackey: Yes. [00:21:50] Michael Maldonado: They were like pointed. [00:21:51] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. That was alarming. [00:21:52] Michael Maldonado: Which group of animals was that? [00:21:55] Malorie Mackey: You know, something's with the sea life. Right. [00:21:58] Michael Maldonado: The sea life. There was a pointed area of the sea life and then there was a land area that was also pointed. They looked like the kind of thing that would hurt you. [00:22:06] Malorie Mackey: I mean, injure you. I like, I didn't. [00:22:11] Michael Maldonado: I mean, I did like that several of the species actually have penis bones, you know, so, you know, boner's not that far off. [00:22:23] Malorie Mackey: Right, right. [00:22:24] Michael Maldonado: There actually are types with bones. Penis bone. [00:22:27] Malorie Mackey: Right. I liked the mythological creature room. They had a room dedicated to mythological creature. [00:22:34] Michael Maldonado: Oh, God, you're right. I don't know why I didn't even think. [00:22:36] Malorie Mackey: Oh, the best. [00:22:37] Michael Maldonado: The last room is just a full joke. [00:22:40] Malorie Mackey: And it's, it's, you know, they like makeshift, like ridiculous. But my favorite One they had a jar for a hidden folk penis. [00:22:48] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. [00:22:48] Malorie Mackey: And because you have to be psychic to see the hidden folk. It was invisible. [00:22:53] Michael Maldonado: No, I saw it. [00:22:55] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. Yeah. [00:22:55] Michael Maldonado: I saw it just fine. [00:22:56] Malorie Mackey: All right, so you can only see it if you're psychic. But you said you couldn't see the hidden. [00:23:00] Michael Maldonado: I lied. I could see the dick. [00:23:03] Malorie Mackey: Okay. That one you wanted to see Fifth Dick Sense, right? [00:23:07] Michael Maldonado: Yeah, I really. That one I believed in. It's like a Christmas tree, you know, I can still hear the jingling of the bell. If you really believe you can still see the hidden fudge penis, I think it's the same story. [00:23:19] Malorie Mackey: Definitely. [00:23:21] Michael Maldonado: I mean, that room had, you know, a quote unquote troll penis. And he just. We go into that room and I know the whole thing is kind of a joke, but a lot of it is actually informative up till then. And you go into this room and this room is just clearly now a joke because it's fake penises about fake creatures. And he just doesn't break stride. [00:23:44] Malorie Mackey: No. [00:23:45] Michael Maldonado: And he's just. As if he's describing the giraffe penis, starts describing the troll penis. I think this is probably an adolescent troll penis. [00:23:54] Malorie Mackey: And he's so straight face. [00:23:55] Michael Maldonado: But we know that these aren't real, so straight face. [00:23:59] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, it was so. [00:24:00] Michael Maldonado: It was good. It was good. [00:24:02] Malorie Mackey: That interview is also going to be in Weird World Adventure season two. I don't. I don't know how much we can. [00:24:07] Michael Maldonado: Show on TV the four words that are allowed on tv. I don't know, but it wasn't crude. [00:24:11] Malorie Mackey: It wasn't crude. But I wonder, like, if you have to, like, blur it and then have like a special, like, watch it online, like, you know, to see the full experience. I don't. I don't know how that's gonna work. [00:24:21] Michael Maldonado: How am I gonna have my big break if. [00:24:24] Malorie Mackey: Well, it's all just gonna be blurred behind. [00:24:25] Michael Maldonado: You can't work under these conditions. [00:24:28] Malorie Mackey: I mean, I feel like maybe we just give it a rating. That's like this episodes are. There's a lot of penises in it. I don't know. I have to keep going through. But you will be able to watch the interview with the penises somewhere. [00:24:43] Michael Maldonado: Yes. [00:24:45] Malorie Mackey: And then we went inside a volcano. [00:24:47] Michael Maldonado: Well, I did get, also in the gift shop, a nice penis stein. I collect steins from all the countries I go to. And I was like, what better? What better stein for Iceland than Phallus Museum? Penis time. So it's right up there. [00:24:59] Malorie Mackey: It was pretty good. I liked your shirt. [00:25:01] Michael Maldonado: The shirt's good, too. [00:25:02] Malorie Mackey: Falafel. Yeah. [00:25:05] Michael Maldonado: You know, phallus. Phallicized. Phallosocizized. [00:25:09] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was good. [00:25:11] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. I do consider myself a bit of a philosopher. [00:25:18] Malorie Mackey: Then we went inside a volcano. [00:25:20] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. [00:25:21] Malorie Mackey: Which was also very. [00:25:22] Michael Maldonado: I'm really glad I did it. [00:25:24] Malorie Mackey: Yes. [00:25:25] Michael Maldonado: I gotta say. Oh, fuck. This is an explicit episode. I've just been dropping the F bombs and just launched into a tired. About dicks. So they're getting around this one, I. [00:25:35] Malorie Mackey: Think, at this point. No, no, this one doesn't get ads. This one's explicit. [00:25:40] Michael Maldonado: Oh, that ad. All that sweet, sweet ad money that we've been bringing in. [00:25:43] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, yeah. So this volcano, I remember. I distinctly remember them saying it's the only volcano you can actually go into. You thought they said, active. We're gonna have to look it up. [00:25:55] Michael Maldonado: I thought they said active. [00:25:56] Malorie Mackey: Now you have to look it up. But you talk about it. I'm gonna look it up. [00:26:01] Michael Maldonado: Okay. [00:26:02] Malorie Mackey: It's deeper down than the Statue of Liberty. I will say. [00:26:06] Michael Maldonado: I didn't need to see that height chart before we went in, so everything about that kind of caught me by surprise. I mean, I know you told me we were going into volcano, and I know you asked me ahead of time how I thought about it, but it was months and months before we drifted. So I'm just like, oh, whatever. Yeah, sure, whatever you want to do. Whatever, sweetheart. But I, like, guess I just zoned on, just the whole day. [00:26:30] Malorie Mackey: There's one volcano in the world that allows you to descend into its magma chamber in Iceland. I can't name you. I can't read the name of this volcano. [00:26:42] Michael Maldonado: I don't even know what those letters are. [00:26:44] Malorie Mackey: Pringha. Shingerschngur. [00:26:47] Michael Maldonado: I think you nailed it. [00:26:49] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. In Iceland. It is the only volcano you can go into in the world. [00:26:53] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. Well, despite Mallory's wonderful pronunciation of that, probably shouldn't. You probably won't have any trouble finding it by searching only volcano. Only volcano you can go into. But, yeah, we showed. We showed up at the place, and I just had nothing. I had nothing planned. Right. I just wore my, whatever, shorts and shoes, and we get there, and as we're walking, like, I was like, well, how. Like, how long? Like, four hours. You're like, four hours? Like, four hours? [00:27:21] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. [00:27:21] Michael Maldonado: I just. I just assumed we would, like, drive up to the volcano, go in and be out. I don't know, like a. Kind of like a Luray Cavern. [00:27:30] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. [00:27:31] Michael Maldonado: I don't know. Like, you go just. You just walk in. [00:27:33] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. [00:27:33] Michael Maldonado: I Don't know. I don't know what I had. I had nothing pictured. We show up, we're at like a hut in the middle of nowhere. I will say a lot of Iceland looks middle of nowhere. [00:27:43] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, it does. [00:27:43] Michael Maldonado: It's very cool. And you're like, it's four hours. I'm like, what? And I. It's near a bunch of volcano looking mountains. So I just figured one of the ones that's next to you are gonna be the one we're goin to. Yeah, it's like a two mile hike. Like what? Like where are we going? And it's just. We were hiking just through a national park. Through a national park. It's just volcanic wasteland. [00:28:08] Malorie Mackey: Which was very cool over the two tectonic plates. [00:28:12] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. [00:28:12] Malorie Mackey: You cross. [00:28:13] Michael Maldonado: There's a little bridge that you cross and you're crossing from the North American plate to the Eurasian plate, right? [00:28:20] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. [00:28:21] Michael Maldonado: Which is cool in and of itself. And you go out to another hut, that's the actual base camp. Two miles deep into the middle of the night. [00:28:30] Malorie Mackey: And you kind of go a little bit up. It was mostly flat, but a little bit up at the very end. Yeah. And they're like, okay, well now you're at base camp and you can sit here and have some coffee and hot cocoa and get ready to go into the volcano. And you get these suits on. Helmet. [00:28:48] Michael Maldonado: Yeah, I don't love heights. Like that's the thing I don't love. And we're suiting up and like we're gonna put you in these rappelling harnesses. And I was like, what is happening? Right? Like I'm not rappelling. This is. This has been repelled. You're not gonna rappel. I'm like, well then you're not giving me a lot of confidence by suiting me up in this thing either though. And then you hike up to the top of the volcano, which is, you know, the only like steep part of the. [00:29:12] Malorie Mackey: It's just like a two minute walk. And there's like a bridge over it. [00:29:15] Michael Maldonado: It's literally just a hole top of. [00:29:18] Malorie Mackey: This mountain with a bridge over it. [00:29:21] Michael Maldonado: A bridge is a very generous term for what that thing was. It was a scaffold, like just a metal scaffold that clearly was just kind of placed there and drilled into the, you know, the hole, the whole wall, the walls of the wall. [00:29:36] Malorie Mackey: And they make you secure your repel. Like you have to wear the repelling thing because you're securing yourself to. [00:29:42] Michael Maldonado: But I still failed. But it's not a bridge. Okay, yes, you're on. They secure you to the bridge while you walk again. Bridge, It's a scaffold. Like you're walking along a catwalk, basically. [00:29:54] Malorie Mackey: It had sides, though. [00:29:56] Michael Maldonado: But yeah, whatever. You walk out across this hole on this very narrow metal bridge and you're like, harnessed to it. And then you get to the elevator. Sure, if you call it that. It's another generous word for it. It's just another catwalk suspended on cables with the clearly visible motors that are running the thing. Like right there. [00:30:21] Malorie Mackey: I showed my friend a picture of it. I said, this is the elevator we went down. And she's like, that's a window washing. [00:30:25] Michael Maldonado: Yes, that's what it. Yes. [00:30:26] Malorie Mackey: Like the window washing. [00:30:27] Michael Maldonado: The window washing on the sky, hopefully. Right. That is exactly what it looked like. I mean, I probably was. That. Probably bought it from a company that sells those. Right. And they hook you to that. Like, they hook you. Which to me, I was like, in my head, I'm like, okay, wait, wait a minute. If this thing failed, like, if this thing die, you've now hooked me to it. In my head, there was like a 0.0001% chance to be back. Grab the. I grabbed the wall on my way down and him dangling. But now you've attached me to the thing that would fail. So, like, I'm definitely going down. [00:31:01] Malorie Mackey: If this goes down. [00:31:02] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. Like, this isn't hooked to anything different. [00:31:04] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, yeah. [00:31:06] Michael Maldonado: And I get on that thing. I was like, oh, fuck. Like, I don't know if I can, like go down on this thing. And then it's just too late. Like, you're going. And you're just standing there with. [00:31:16] Malorie Mackey: Eating other pizza. It kind of like sways well right at the beginning. [00:31:21] Michael Maldonado: Like, the tightest part of the hole is right at the top. And the guy, I mean, to his credit, did say, as we're going down, it's gonna bounce off the wall on the back or it's going to roll off the wall. They have like a section that's so tight that it just fits. I don't even know if you would have been able to keep your finger on the outside of it without getting it crushed between. And there was treads on the one side of it and it just kind of rolls like off those treads for that one small section. But then it's just swaying. I was like, I am just swaying. You can't see the body. You have no idea how high up you are. [00:31:58] Malorie Mackey: And that was kind of a blessing, though. [00:32:00] Michael Maldonado: I had a worse time Coming up. Because I knew how high. [00:32:03] Malorie Mackey: When you don't really know, it's not quite as bad. And I don't love things that feel, like, insecure. [00:32:09] Michael Maldonado: It felt very insecure. [00:32:10] Malorie Mackey: I didn't love it either. And I had the GoPro and I made the conscious effort of, well, I have two GoPros and one I'm gonna hold in my hand and point down. So it's filming going down. I don't have to look at all. And then I'm gonna look straight ahead the wall. [00:32:23] Michael Maldonado: I also took the camera, the good camera, and just pointed it down. [00:32:27] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. [00:32:28] Michael Maldonado: Hopefully this is getting something. Cause I'm not looking at what it's getting. [00:32:31] Malorie Mackey: Look at this. Yeah. It was a real adventure. [00:32:36] Michael Maldonado: I mean, I'm glad we did it. [00:32:37] Malorie Mackey: Like, it was very cool. [00:32:38] Michael Maldonado: And when you're at the bottom, it is really wild. [00:32:41] Malorie Mackey: The rock formations are, like, in all the different types of rocks they were telling us about. And they're explaining how they see the lava blast. [00:32:47] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. You can see where it exploded. [00:32:50] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. And then they have a little track down there. You can walk this little path around the circle of it. [00:32:56] Michael Maldonado: It's fairly well lit down there. They had it pretty well set up. [00:32:59] Malorie Mackey: But the. The path was difficult. It was. It was. It involved some scrambling to kind of get around, they said. [00:33:07] Michael Maldonado: I just figured, like, the inside of a volcano would be way better paved, Right? [00:33:12] Malorie Mackey: Definitely. Well, they gave us 30 minutes. It took, like, the whole 30 minutes to kind of get around. [00:33:16] Michael Maldonado: We took our time. [00:33:17] Malorie Mackey: We did. [00:33:18] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. But yes, it was. Yeah. [00:33:20] Malorie Mackey: And then some people just sat there. I'm like, I don't know why you would just go all the way, go. [00:33:23] Michael Maldonado: Through that to see there were, like, half the people that went down just sat at the bottom. I was like, yeah, why are you down here? [00:33:30] Malorie Mackey: Right. I mean, you might as well committed this. [00:33:32] Michael Maldonado: I'm not trying to feel like an idle bit. Like that was the scary part. Right. Don't even walk around. [00:33:37] Malorie Mackey: Right. You walked two miles. Yeah. [00:33:39] Michael Maldonado: You walked two miles. Went down the black swaying hole in a window washer scaffold. [00:33:46] Malorie Mackey: Like, higher. You went deeper down. And the Statue of Liberty is tall, like. [00:33:50] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. I mean, it would be if you took the window wiping scaffold on the Statue of Liberty over the top of the Statue of Liberty. Yeah. [00:33:57] Malorie Mackey: So you did all that and then I'm just. [00:34:00] Michael Maldonado: Now. Now I'm gonna sit here. [00:34:02] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. [00:34:03] Michael Maldonado: It was weird, like, at the bottom and not move. [00:34:05] Malorie Mackey: It was weird. [00:34:06] Michael Maldonado: And then get back on and go back up, like, two miles back. [00:34:09] Malorie Mackey: Going back up Was way scarier. [00:34:11] Michael Maldonado: Yes. [00:34:11] Malorie Mackey: Because then you knew how. [00:34:12] Michael Maldonado: We also, like, watched the thing go back up and get new people. [00:34:15] Malorie Mackey: And I was like, wow, that's. Mm. Yeah, it was. It was going back up. I was definitely. [00:34:23] Michael Maldonado: I'm really glad I did it. I don't know if I would be able to do it again, like, now, you know. [00:34:27] Malorie Mackey: Now that you know. [00:34:29] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. [00:34:29] Malorie Mackey: It was very cool, though. And again, you went inside the only volcano you can actually go in in the world. [00:34:34] Michael Maldonado: Yeah, yeah, that volcano. [00:34:38] Malorie Mackey: That one. And it was also cool because at the base camp up at the top, they served everybody soup at the end. [00:34:43] Michael Maldonado: Yeah, it was really good. [00:34:44] Malorie Mackey: It was. [00:34:46] Michael Maldonado: You saw arctic foxes. Were they Arctic fox? [00:34:48] Malorie Mackey: Two arctic foxes, yeah. They had a white one and, like, a fluffy gray one. And they've been feeding them. I guess they relocated them there, they said, and they were feeding them, and so they. They kind of came over and would. They would eat from the people there. So she'd make this noise, and it would, like, come out and come over. [00:35:06] Michael Maldonado: The meaning stuff. Noise. [00:35:08] Malorie Mackey: It was so cute. It was unbelievably fluffy. It, like, popped up and we're like, what is. Look how fluffy it is. [00:35:16] Michael Maldonado: It's a volcano rat. [00:35:18] Malorie Mackey: He kind of did look a little mean. Looked a little ratty, but, I mean, wild animal. He was cute, though. He was super cute. And they didn't get along. The white one, like, intimidated the other one and scared it away. I know nature. They're all jerks. [00:35:33] Michael Maldonado: They were all, like. They were all bros, bros, bros and hoes. [00:35:37] Malorie Mackey: I like the. They had a shirt in there, too. You got your penis shirt and your penis. Steinheim. [00:35:43] Michael Maldonado: Mm. [00:35:44] Malorie Mackey: I got my. It was a picture of the volcano, like, the chamber, and it just said, like, volcano, and then me at the bottom. I like that shirt. That was a good shirt. [00:35:54] Michael Maldonado: It's a good shirt. I think we know who got the better shirt. [00:35:59] Malorie Mackey: Also. Iceland just has a divide in it from the two tectonic plates, and it goes through more of it than I was thinking because it's. We went to one corner of the continent, basically, right there, the island where it was the bridge between two worlds, where it was like the beach where you could actually get the sand. In between that, you can sit between the seats and sit in it, which was cool. And then they had a bridge there in that park where it also went through. And it was more like rocky, and there was water and some caves. And then if we kept going further towards the center of the island, they have that place where you can dive between the trees. That's in the center. It's in the center. [00:36:42] Michael Maldonado: I had it pictured, like, off the coast. [00:36:43] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. It was, like, further up and out. [00:36:46] Michael Maldonado: Okay. [00:36:47] Malorie Mackey: And you can walk it, but then they also. You can swim it or snorkel it, but the water is so cold. They were saying a lot of people, they've had multiple fatalities. [00:36:58] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. I mean, I wouldn't say a lot of people, but yes, people have died. [00:37:01] Malorie Mackey: Yes. You hear anything about fatalities for it, and you're like, oh, boy. [00:37:07] Michael Maldonado: Because of cold water, like, scuba diving is. [00:37:10] Malorie Mackey: It's dangerous. [00:37:11] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. [00:37:11] Malorie Mackey: I will say, if I knew. If I had not scuba dove before I got certified and saw how wonderful it was, like, in a good place, like, in Honduras. Honduras is the number two place to dive in the world. Has the second largest barrier reef next to Australia. Beautiful, wonderful experience. Had I not done that, I would have probably, like, really thought about quitting certification, because the entire certification is, well, this is how you could die. You can also die like this. You could also die like this. If we teach you this, you might not die. When this happens, I mean, it's so aggressive. And I know you have to be, because it is dangerous, but the entire course is just. These are all the ways in which you could die. And here is what you could do to maybe not die. [00:38:00] Michael Maldonado: Maybe not die. We don't guarantee. No guarantees are made about the not dying part. [00:38:05] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. And they make you face a lot of fears. Like, you go in, and it's basically, okay, we're gonna take off your mask, and you're gonna be blind, and you're gonna have to find it and put it back on and push the water out of it all underwater while you're under the water. So you have to do these things that are scary. So if you put your two hands above the top here, just blow out. It'll blow the air out. [00:38:29] Michael Maldonado: Okay. [00:38:30] Malorie Mackey: And then that's how you do it. And then you get the air out. Got it. I mean, you get the water. It blows the water out. You can actually drink oxygen out of water through your respirator. So you take the respirator out at a point and, like, press it and, like, sip oxygen. Like, sip the bubbles out of that. You sip the bubbles, you can breathe. It's like. There's cool stuff like that, too. But then a lot of it is just. [00:38:51] Michael Maldonado: You know what I used to like to do? I know this is not scuba diving, but I used to like to go into, like, a pool and get, you know, like, a floating raft or something. And Trap air underneath it and just stay underwater for like as long, you know. [00:39:05] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, it's cool. [00:39:06] Michael Maldonado: Just get a giant bubble of water and just kind of just hang out down there. And every time I would need air, I would just, you know, you have got like the umbrella of bubbles. 15, 20 minutes just chilling at the bottom of the pool. [00:39:18] Malorie Mackey: It's cool. It's very cool. It was, it was really intense. And then when you get certified in Los Angeles, the water's cold. It's. The Pacific is much colder than Atlantic. It's like at least 50 degrees in the summer. And the visibility, the day I had to. Because you do two shore dives and then you do like. We did a fun dive day, like off at a dive park, which was way better. And our two beach, our two beach dive day, the visibility was five feet, so I could see my partner's like, ankle in front of me. It was horrifying. I mean, like, really and truly horrifying. But I'm glad I did it because I've dove in some great places, but LA was not one of them. And getting certified is scary. [00:40:09] Michael Maldonado: Yeah, I'm not certified. [00:40:11] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, I know. We got to get you certified. Yeah, we definitely need to do that because then we can go diving in Silpha, where you can go between two tectonic flights and maybe die. And maybe die. And I guess the last thing, the last day. So we filmed all these great interviews and cool experiences for Weird World. And then the last day we're like, nah, we're gonna go to Blue Lagoon. [00:40:33] Michael Maldonado: Hey, it was good content. [00:40:35] Malorie Mackey: It was great. So we spent the day at Blue Lagoon. [00:40:37] Michael Maldonado: You have to go to Blue Lagoon. That's like the famous. [00:40:40] Malorie Mackey: It's the famous tourist trap. Everyone I know that's been to Iceland has been to Blue Lagoon. Like, oh, yeah, it's just the place you go. And it's just these thermal pools. Like, it's a big thermal pool at the kind of the foot of an active volcano. [00:40:54] Michael Maldonado: Well, yeah, it's. [00:40:54] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, it's heating it. And they have, you know, bars for drinks and like green smoothies and all this stuff. And then they have a face mask bar. And if you get your premium ticket or whatever, you get your three face masks throughout the day. And it's just a really fun place to like, sit and hang out. [00:41:17] Michael Maldonado: It's very cool looking because the water is blue. That like very minerally blue. [00:41:23] Malorie Mackey: It's like whitish mineral blue. Yeah. And then there's like that white residue it leaves on everything. [00:41:30] Michael Maldonado: Is it silica? Is that what the white stuff is. [00:41:32] Malorie Mackey: Silica was the mud for them. So maybe. [00:41:35] Michael Maldonado: I don't know. [00:41:35] Malorie Mackey: The mud mask was silica stuff up. And we. We got a massage. Yeah, well, you know, they said there weren't any massages available. And somebody walked into a massage hut and said, is this where I go for the massages? And I'm like, I don't know. I'm gonna go see if they have one. And I just walked right in. And apparently, I guess it was part of the hotel. And I just went right up and said, I really want to get a massage. But, you know, I wasn't. I couldn't, you know, get one booked before. Is there any way to make that happen? And the guy was just like, okay, like, it happen. Yeah. And I think he tried to call the friend of the hotel and realized that, like, he couldn't find my name. And then figured it out and booked us the massage. So. It was great. But. It was great. But it was like, you're not laying on your stomach. Like, you'd think for a massage, you're laying on your back floating on this, like, floaty in the mineral water with a blanket over you. [00:42:27] Michael Maldonado: Raft with the. Yeah, like, blanket, towel. [00:42:30] Malorie Mackey: It's, like, wet on purpose to keep. [00:42:32] Michael Maldonado: You warm and kind of in the. [00:42:34] Malorie Mackey: Water every so often to make sure that you're warm. And for me, my. My ears were under the whole time. [00:42:41] Michael Maldonado: See, I. I don't know if I would rather have that. I don't know. They. He offered me stuff, and I, like, just accepted all of it. I wasn't sure exactly what he was offering because my ears were kind of wondering. He's like, you want this? And this? I was like, yes, I'll take the stuff. [00:42:54] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. [00:42:55] Michael Maldonado: And I was. So. I was above. It was like a pillow. My ears were out of the water. [00:43:00] Malorie Mackey: It reminded me of floating, like those sensory deprivation, because I was just completely, like, my ears were under. So I. You know, it's like you're floating in the water and you can't hear anything. And so I couldn't hear him. He was trying to talk at one point. I'm like, I can't hear anything that's happening up there. [00:43:15] Michael Maldonado: And do whatever, man. [00:43:17] Malorie Mackey: And then he's. You know, like, they massage you from underneath. [00:43:21] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. [00:43:21] Malorie Mackey: It was really weird, but it was cool. It was nice. Then we're just floating, and they, like, floated us together in a little, like, area at the end. Like, here you go. [00:43:28] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. They have a little, like, float pod. Like a little lane. [00:43:31] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. [00:43:32] Michael Maldonado: And we're just gonna park you here in the lane and just float there as long as you want and leave. [00:43:36] Malorie Mackey: Mm. It was nice. [00:43:37] Michael Maldonado: It was nice. [00:43:38] Malorie Mackey: It was a really cool experience. So that was our fun. Everyone has to do this. Their skincare is great. Cause we got the skincare. Michael got me the skincare for my birthday and they had a serum that came with it. [00:43:50] Michael Maldonado: I know. You were raving about it last night. [00:43:52] Malorie Mackey: It's great. I mean, I've been using it every day and my skin is glowing and just like nice and even. And I'm like, wow, this is actually really great stuff. So it is worth it. I mean, it's great for your skin. [00:44:03] Michael Maldonado: I'm scrubbing my face with that volcano. [00:44:05] Malorie Mackey: Ah. Yeah. It was very nice. Highly recommend. Really cool. Awesome looking thermal pools. Just, you know. [00:44:13] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. I mean, it's definitely like a tourist trap. But I don't know how you would go there and not do it. [00:44:18] Malorie Mackey: And it's worth it. [00:44:19] Michael Maldonado: It's worth. It's cool. [00:44:20] Malorie Mackey: It's very cool. And then we hit up the medieval fishing village on the way back that night too. [00:44:26] Michael Maldonado: That was definitely Skelendagar worth. Well. [00:44:30] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. Are you gonna say it? He's gonna say it. No, no. I was just coughing. [00:44:35] Michael Maldonado: Say what? [00:44:36] Malorie Mackey: I had to go to the bathroom. [00:44:38] Michael Maldonado: Oh, well, I got. I wouldn't have said it. You brought it up. Oh, we definitely have to talk about it now. [00:44:43] Malorie Mackey: I had to go to the bathroom. [00:44:45] Michael Maldonado: We were gonna. You found a gps, do it and you turn on that road and it was. It was not undrivable. It was undrivable in the car we were in. We weren't in, you know, like a. [00:44:56] Malorie Mackey: Jeep or a. I don't even. It would have been hard in a. [00:44:58] Michael Maldonado: Jeep, but it was undrivable in the car we were in to where we only drove in. I don't know. [00:45:04] Malorie Mackey: It was. I thought it was farther than it was and it was not. We drove in maybe 0.01 miles. [00:45:09] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. Very little. [00:45:10] Malorie Mackey: And we're like, okay, well, the car is going to break on this road 0.6 miles away. We'll just walk 0.6 miles. [00:45:16] Michael Maldonado: It was 0.6 miles from the end point. [00:45:18] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. [00:45:20] Michael Maldonado: We walked several miles to. [00:45:21] Malorie Mackey: Oh, we did. We did. [00:45:22] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. [00:45:23] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. [00:45:24] Michael Maldonado: So we just parked. We just pulled the car over and then walked the rest of it. [00:45:27] Malorie Mackey: Yep. [00:45:27] Michael Maldonado: And it's also very unclear where it is. It's just ruins. We weren't sure what we were looking for. [00:45:32] Malorie Mackey: Well, there was a parking lot and it's ruins made out of volcanic stone. In just a vast, desolate wasteland of, like, volcanic stone. So you're like, well, I don't know what. [00:45:45] Michael Maldonado: Yeah, like, on the beach. [00:45:46] Malorie Mackey: I don't know where it is. And. And then I had to. And I pulled up Google, like, my maps, and it was also not exactly accurate on where it was in Google. So I'm like, well, it says it's supposed to be here and it's not. And eventually, if you kind of keep walking down this road that you're on, you get to it. And then we once we, like, got to the big. Okay, well, there's a sign here, and we went through the little path, and then we walked through. [00:46:06] Michael Maldonado: Yeah, we did find it, but it was unclear where it was supposed to be for quite a while. [00:46:12] Malorie Mackey: But it was, like, old medieval volcanic stone huts just in the side of the beach. [00:46:21] Michael Maldonado: But, yeah, Mallory got all the way out there and then was like, I have to go to the bathroom so badly. I have to poop so badly. [00:46:26] Malorie Mackey: I wasn't sure I was gonna make it. [00:46:29] Michael Maldonado: I wasn't sure you were gonna make it either. [00:46:30] Malorie Mackey: And there was a point where I. [00:46:31] Michael Maldonado: There was a point where you, like, ran away. Like, I'm not gonna make it. I don't know what that means. We're literally in a waste. We're in a. There's not even leaves. Like, you know, like, they're. You know, like the joke of, like, wiping. Wiping yourself with leaves. Like, in the woods. There's no trees. It's literally just a barren volcanic wasteland. Like, what are you going to do? Wipe yourself with some volcano rocks? [00:46:52] Malorie Mackey: I was going to figure the bungalow. I was going to poop in the sand like a cat. [00:46:57] Michael Maldonado: It's a good podcast. [00:46:58] Malorie Mackey: I mean, I didn't. I didn't. I didn't. [00:47:02] Michael Maldonado: That's the real weird world adventure. [00:47:04] Malorie Mackey: I made it. [00:47:05] Michael Maldonado: That's also in season two. [00:47:07] Malorie Mackey: No, we left that part out. Although. Michael, hunting for hidden folk. [00:47:12] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. [00:47:13] Malorie Mackey: With our thermal imaging camera. [00:47:15] Michael Maldonado: Thermal imaging camera. Oh, my God. [00:47:17] Malorie Mackey: Great stuff. [00:47:18] Michael Maldonado: It only captures heat from, like, three feet away. You just have this. You just wanted an excuse to buy a thermal imaging camera. [00:47:26] Malorie Mackey: I really did get you from, like, 20ft away. [00:47:30] Michael Maldonado: No. [00:47:30] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, no, I did it in this house. I did. [00:47:32] Michael Maldonado: I don't believe that for a second. [00:47:34] Malorie Mackey: Okay, I'll prove it. [00:47:35] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. [00:47:35] Malorie Mackey: But, yeah, it was. It was pretty wonderful. Very cool sight. It was. It was something. It was unlike anything I've seen before. [00:47:41] Michael Maldonado: It was very cool. [00:47:42] Malorie Mackey: Yes. So that was definitely worth it. And then we. Our Iceland trip was. Was. [00:47:48] Michael Maldonado: Well, then we stayed in a bubble. [00:47:49] Malorie Mackey: We did stay in the bubble. [00:47:51] Michael Maldonado: Finished in the bubble. [00:47:52] Malorie Mackey: We did. The bubble is so great. It's. It was just literally like a bubble tent. [00:47:58] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. It's kind of glamping. [00:48:00] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. It's not. It's not like. Because I had stayed in Kalkslauten before, and they were glass, so it had, like, a lock on the door. This was like. It's a tent. [00:48:10] Michael Maldonado: A plastic tent bubble. [00:48:11] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. And there's. There's no key. You just walk in. Because I'm wondering, how do we get our key? And, like. Oh, no. We just walk right in the bubble. [00:48:17] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. It's in the middle of nowhere. [00:48:18] Malorie Mackey: It's in the middle of nowhere. Yeah. It's not like you have to worry about, but. Yeah. And it was just this big plastic bubble. But they did a good job because it was in this, like, random forest just that happened to awkwardly be there. And it was perfectly covered by trees, so it wasn't like, anyone's gonna see you. [00:48:35] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. There was, like, eight bubbles, maybe. And you couldn't see the next bubble. [00:48:38] Malorie Mackey: Yeah, no, they were very nicely covered by trees. So that was. And I think the same people have another property. Yeah. My music. I think the same people have another property. [00:48:53] Michael Maldonado: Okay. [00:48:54] Malorie Mackey: And it also bubbles. Also bubbles. But I didn't like it as much because it's like a vast field of bubbles. And so you're right up on the next bubble, but there's a room behind it, so it's like a room. So you have your own room and toilet and that whole stuff. But then the bubble comes out like the bedroom. But I still just. I don't. I feel weird sleeping. Weird. Other bubbles. I didn't like it as much. I like being hidden in the woods. [00:49:19] Michael Maldonado: I just have a problem sleeping in my bubble. In your other bubble. [00:49:22] Malorie Mackey: Exactly. But Iceland was wonderful. As you can tell, it was quite weird. We had some very strange experiences. It made my dreams of Weird World season to come true. Because those are things I've been conceptualizing since the beginning. [00:49:38] Michael Maldonado: When you sold me weird World Season 2, when you first gave me what your list of ideas was, you led with Elf School. [00:49:46] Malorie Mackey: Yeah. [00:49:46] Michael Maldonado: Like, that's what I like remembering in the Penis Museum. Well, yeah, I was on board for the Penis Museum. That didn't take any selling. [00:49:52] Malorie Mackey: No. But I did sell you on Elf School. [00:49:54] Michael Maldonado: Yes. [00:49:55] Malorie Mackey: So, I mean, it's just been on the bucket list forever. So it was very cool. And while we couldn't dive in between the tectonic plates necessarily, this time, we did get to. We sat between them. Yeah. Sat between them and collect some nice sand. Yeah, yeah. [00:50:08] Michael Maldonado: And you had a Prosecco. [00:50:10] Malorie Mackey: I did have a tectonic plates. My drink of choice. [00:50:15] Michael Maldonado: Yeah. [00:50:16] Malorie Mackey: All right, well, that's everything we have for you guys today. Next time, we will talk about Hotel Ranga. [00:50:22] Michael Maldonado: Hotel Ranga. [00:50:23] Malorie Mackey: Very, very amazing and deserves its own podcast. Yes, yes. But until then, I'm your host, Mallory. [00:50:32] Michael Maldonado: And I'm your host, Michael. [00:50:34] Malorie Mackey: And until next time, everybody stay weird.