0:00

Hey, Pashy. Hey, Sufi. How

0:02

are you? I'm great. We're

0:05

speaking the day after Father's Day.

0:08

Yeah, happy belated Father's Day. Thank you

0:10

very much. I did reach out to

0:12

you on Father's Day proper. You did.

0:14

I should point out. And can I say,

0:17

I like when a non-father

0:19

wishes me Happy

0:22

Father's Day. Because

0:24

when I get a text from another father, I

0:26

have to write back, same to you. Right.

0:30

You don't even have to reply to me. Yeah, exactly.

0:32

Or I can say thanks, but I don't, for

0:34

me ultimately, as a father on my special day, I

0:37

just wanna receive praise. I don't wanna give it. Right.

0:40

I'll give it to my father, which I did. Yeah.

0:44

But yeah. So how's that as

0:46

a pet peeve? Is that an irritating one? No,

0:48

that's okay. I think that's right in

0:50

the pocket. I also

0:52

had a lot of travel this weekend. And

0:56

so I just filmed an hour

0:59

long special. And we'll

1:01

plug it when it's available to watch, but

1:03

I'm very excited. Congratulations, yeah. Thank you. I

1:06

went to Chicago. I filmed it at the Vic Theater, which is

1:08

one of my favorite comedy theaters in the world. Obviously,

1:11

we got some roots in Chicago, so

1:14

a lot of our old friends were at the show. Yeah,

1:17

I mean, we used to go to the Vic a lot.

1:19

Like the Vic used to have Brew and View. Brew

1:21

and View, which was, yeah, like sort

1:23

of a precursor of the Alamo Drafthouse

1:26

experience. And we

1:29

have a lot of our friends, and obviously listeners know

1:31

we share a lot of friends. And

1:34

so afterwards, there

1:36

was a party at a bar. And

1:39

I finished

1:41

my special. I'm kind of

1:43

ready to receive my accolades. And all

1:46

the buzz, you know what all the buzz was at the after

1:48

party? What's that? Poshy's wedding. Oh

1:51

yeah. Under stolen. Nobody

1:54

wants to talk about Mr.

1:56

Comedy. Everybody's so excited

1:58

for Poshy's wedding. Yeah. I mean, well,

2:00

I will point out that

2:03

twice in the very short, like we've

2:05

been talking for under three minutes, you've

2:07

talked about how you like getting accolades.

2:10

You say you like it for Father's

2:12

Day and you also want it for

2:14

your show. So

2:17

maybe it's comeuppance that... Yeah, I know

2:19

you're right. This is a very,

2:22

as far as like a Greek tragedy goes, this is

2:24

a very short one. This is

2:26

a one actor. Yeah. Also,

2:29

you know, it was late when your show ended.

2:31

I know that for a

2:33

fact, because I hear you really

2:35

overordered on the tuna tacos. Yeah.

2:37

Our dearest friend, Jill Benjamin, who

2:39

is my comedy

2:41

partner, my first comedy partner, Jill

2:44

is the party planner extraordinaire. Yeah.

2:47

I mean, she will throw a party together. And

2:50

she will also send multiple emails

2:52

about the details of this party.

2:54

Now, you, I think, know

2:56

this about myself. My headspace pre the

2:59

taping was only jokes, right? Yeah. And

3:01

I didn't want to make a lot

3:03

of decisions about the party. I should

3:05

say she picked a wonderful place. It

3:07

was on the corner from the theater.

3:09

We could all just walk right over

3:11

there. Everything about the space

3:13

was great. The staff was great. But I

3:15

kind of ignored her ordering.

3:17

And yeah, there were like two

3:19

towers of Aji tuna tacos, like

3:22

three, a three tiered tuna, Aji,

3:25

Aji tuna taco tower. And again, it was

3:27

11 30 on a Saturday

3:29

night, the hour where no one is like, I

3:32

could crush some again in a

3:34

city Chicago that has maybe some

3:36

of the best late night. You

3:39

know, we're talking pizzas. We're talking burritos.

3:41

We're talking hot dogs. We're talking Italian,

3:43

any of that. And then the thing

3:45

you're like, if you're in Chicago, and

3:47

it's almost midnight, you

3:49

gotta have a

3:51

tower of tuna tacos.

3:54

But everybody was sort of standing around the

3:57

towers, talking about how excited they were for

3:59

your wedding. Yeah. Here's a little

4:02

question for you. Our mother's a

4:04

French teacher, so I think you're going to get

4:06

this. Do you know what RSVP stands for? I

4:10

know the SVP is

4:12

Sivou Play, and so I think the R must

4:14

be like respondé. Respondé, that's

4:16

correct. So you send out an

4:19

invitation and you ask

4:21

for the courtesy of a response. Yeah. We

4:24

send out our save the dates digitally

4:29

over an email. Still waiting to

4:31

hear from you if you're going

4:33

to make it. I didn't get it. You

4:35

didn't get it? I 100% didn't get it. Oh,

4:38

okay. I did not. I

4:41

mean, yeah, no way, man. Okay. I

4:44

would have responded. Okay. All right. Well, I'll get

4:46

it out. I'll get it out later. I mean,

4:49

not to turn the tables because obviously

4:51

this is a bit of miscommunication. I

4:53

have been sitting here being like, how

4:56

dare he assume? I

4:58

don't know. I'm just a yes. Okay. I'll

5:00

get it to you. Yeah. You know what ASVP

5:02

stands for? What?

5:07

Ask a Sivou Play. All

5:09

right. What is ask? Dementé?

5:12

I think... I'm

5:14

going to send you a DSVP. Yeah. I

5:16

don't think it's Dementé. Hey, I

5:18

got it. It sounds like it should be right. I took

5:20

it out in the end. I took it out of my

5:22

act because it wasn't really playing and

5:24

I don't think... I

5:27

had a bit in my hour

5:29

about how I hate how my kids eat

5:31

chocolate croissants. Uh-huh. And you know,

5:34

because they'll just eat the little chocolate stick out

5:36

of it and they won't eat any of the

5:38

croissants. And multiple friends of ours who listened to

5:40

it said, first of all, it sucks

5:42

how you pronounce croissant. Because

5:45

I guess they say croissant? Croissant?

5:48

Yeah, croissant. And... But would

5:50

you ever say croissant? No,

5:53

I'd probably say croissant. Yeah. And I mean...

5:55

And then if I were in France, I would say croissant. Croissant.

5:58

But I guess... And I hope

6:00

that everybody who's listening now is judging us

6:03

one way or the other. But

6:07

I feel as when you have a mom who's a

6:09

French teacher, you can't be walking around saying croissant. And

6:12

then I said to one of our friends, do you

6:14

think if I changed it to croissant, it would work

6:16

better? And they said no, because in the end, it's

6:18

also just douchey that you give your kids chocolate croissants.

6:22

So it was like a double. It

6:24

was doubly a problem. So we just took

6:27

it right out. Yeah. Well, here's another

6:29

bit of comeuppance that I feel like for

6:32

anyone that's listening and thinks we're

6:34

jerks. Here's a story you'll like. I

6:38

play golf on Friday with three of

6:40

my buddies who all went to

6:42

Michigan. We went

6:44

to Northwestern, so it's a nice little Big Ten group.

6:47

We play maybe every four months or so. And

6:50

I'm in a cart passenger

6:52

seat. My

6:54

buddy Dave is driving. He

6:57

drives past our friend Andrew's ball about

7:00

like 100 yards past it to look for

7:02

his ball, which is like you should probably

7:04

stop when you get to the first guy's

7:06

ball. Yeah. But he drives past it.

7:09

Then he sees that we've passed my

7:11

ball as well and makes a hard

7:14

turn left sort of into the fairway.

7:17

And the guy who was 100 yards

7:19

back is now hitting. So

7:22

I look up. I

7:24

got Dave sort of to my left. So

7:26

he's in between me and this ball. And

7:29

this ball, the only word to describe this

7:31

ball is screaming at us. Dave

7:35

turns away from it. It glances

7:37

off of his back and

7:40

it hits me clean in the side. I've

7:43

never been hit by a golf ball.

7:45

And for a guy to hit two

7:48

of his friends with a golf

7:50

ball is amazing. And

7:52

it was shocking.

7:55

And I'll just show you now. If you're listening,

7:57

you're not going to see this. I

8:00

mean, if you've ever been wondering whether or not

8:03

to go watch us on YouTube, this

8:07

might be the time to check it out.

8:09

It hit me right in the like, you

8:11

know, the love handle section of my side,

8:13

which is the best possible place to get

8:15

hit. Best possible place, but it did leave.

8:18

I would say it left the mark of

8:20

10 golf balls. Yeah. Yeah,

8:25

and hopefully, you know,

8:27

I don't want to name it because we're not,

8:29

obviously this is not sponsored, but if anybody who

8:32

works for the underpants company Josh is wearing wants

8:34

to throw a little scratch our way. Could you

8:36

show some underpants there? Yeah, you could read the

8:38

label. Oh, yeah, those are just jockeys.

8:41

Don't say it. Just jockeys. But

8:47

did you scream? No,

8:49

we were dead silent. Oh,

8:52

wow. Dave slumped over the

8:54

steering wheel. I just rolled out of the

8:57

cart and laid on my back. We were

8:59

both holding our backs and we were silent.

9:01

Like I was just taking stock of, I

9:04

didn't know how badly I was hurt. It

9:06

stung like crazy. And then we had

9:08

a second Andrew with us who drove

9:10

down and he's like, what happened? We

9:12

were like, Andrew just hit both of

9:14

us. And then second Andrew could not

9:17

stop laughing. Well, of course that,

9:19

yeah. Because we were okay, it was

9:21

incredible. And the guy that hit us

9:23

bought lunch, felt terrible. He

9:25

felt worse than either of us who got hit by

9:27

the ball. That

9:29

is, I mean, I guess when you, when

9:32

they're writing a golf etiquette book, it seems like

9:34

this would be, if they were showing it the

9:36

way they show videos in sort of driver's ed

9:38

classes, this would be a video they would show

9:41

as far as like how not to

9:43

turn. Yeah, it's very much like when

9:45

a plane crashes, it's like 11 things

9:48

have gone wrong. Like there were a lot of

9:50

things that went wrong there. And

9:53

we paid the price, but

9:55

we're okay, just a little bruised up. That's

9:57

great. Yeah. When

10:00

we're in the body of doing our show and

10:02

talking to our guests, it's completely

10:04

stress-free. But I will say in the

10:06

lead-up to an episode sometimes, just like any, you know, my show,

10:09

you're like, oh, wow, you know, we're going to talk to this

10:11

person. I hope it goes well, that sort of thing. But

10:14

today, these are the easiest

10:16

ones. I have no stress about our

10:18

listener episodes. Yeah, I like these.

10:21

So we just want to thank you because it

10:24

is so lovely to know that we are going to

10:27

listen to stories for the first time that our producer,

10:29

Sam, has compiled. And it's

10:31

so nice to be able to do the show with you,

10:34

people we have never met. Family

10:36

chips with

10:39

the Myles Brothers.

10:42

Family chips

10:45

with the

10:48

Myles Brothers.

10:52

Here we go. Speaking

10:55

of Sam, she's going to join us right now. Hi.

10:59

I have some exciting news that I don't

11:01

know if you guys remember or not, but

11:04

guess what's in 10 days? Is

11:06

it our anniversary? It's our one-year

11:09

anniversary. Wow, that is, you know what,

11:11

that's such fantastic news because that

11:14

makes sense. This was a podcast born of

11:16

the writer's strike and it's so nice to

11:19

be in such a better place now than

11:22

I was emotionally then. And yet to

11:24

have the wonderful silver lining of the

11:26

strike was that we got to start

11:28

this. Yeah, not bad.

11:30

And we're now also officially at

11:32

8.3 million downloads, which is

11:34

crazy because I feel like we were just celebrating

11:36

one million. So that's amazing. You've

11:39

come a long way. And if you

11:41

take out Larry and Hillary, it's like

11:43

low sevens. Yes,

11:47

they do. In fact, they've made up most

11:49

of our listener questions today. Oh no, no,

11:51

no, no. No,

11:54

I'm just kidding. Have we talked

11:56

about the rebuttal episode? We do

11:58

have to do the rebuttal episode soon. This

12:00

was a request of our

12:02

father. Have

12:04

we talked about it, but that he

12:06

wants to officially rebut everything that we've

12:09

said about him. I

12:11

think in honor of our dad, we told

12:13

you something we've already told you. We

12:18

would love to have Larry on. We all

12:21

love to have Larry on. We're

12:23

gonna have Larry on. It's

12:25

actually gonna be just

12:27

Meyers Guys podcast from starting

12:29

now. Larry's gonna come on

12:31

every week. Oh really, it's not the Meyers brothers, it's the Meyers

12:34

guys. This

12:36

is a everybody loves Larry story, but Brooks

12:39

Whealen, he's a very funny comedian who opens

12:41

for me on the road and he opened

12:43

for me my last special, which

12:45

was five years ago. And

12:48

we had breakfast. My dad came to see the

12:50

show in Pittsburgh, said to mom, and we had

12:52

breakfast the morning after and in the most dad

12:54

way possible, Josh, you will appreciate. He was telling

12:56

me the bits that he thought didn't work. Breakfast

13:00

and Brooks kind of couldn't believe it. And Brooks

13:02

and one boy goes, oh, I

13:04

like that bit. And my dad said,

13:06

well, you're wrong and I got notes for you too. But

13:12

Brooks was very disappointed that dad was not

13:14

at the show this weekend. He even despite

13:17

that, he was like, I love Larry, where

13:19

is he? Yeah, it's like

13:22

he comes out of a world

13:24

of performance reviews and people

13:27

wanna get better and they want, yeah, they want some

13:29

on. It's true, he does come from

13:31

a corporate world where they're like, wait, you don't wanna hear the

13:33

honest take? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well,

13:36

I want Larry's feedback then about the podcast overall.

13:38

So I can handle it. Oh my God,

13:40

Sam, I feel like if you got him on the phone and

13:42

Josh and I weren't here, he would just have a field day.

13:46

Hey, I appreciate the tough love, I can

13:49

take it. Okay,

13:51

we have some really great listener stories. So

13:53

I think we should hop into that. All

13:56

right, let's do it. Hi guys, love

13:59

the podcasts. thought I would

14:01

share this story about a family trip that

14:03

I took when I was younger. My father

14:05

was a pilot, so our family trips in

14:07

the 70s and 80s were filled with a

14:09

glamour of air travel, which you both probably

14:11

recall. The time when the predominant sense memories,

14:13

the smell of jet fuel and cigarette smoke

14:15

inside the cabin. And as people may also

14:17

know, airline employees got low-cost travel. Back then,

14:19

it was $5 for coach, I think $10

14:21

for first class taken directly from my father's

14:24

paycheck, which is an amazing system I can

14:26

highly recommend. And in return, I had to

14:28

make the Faustian bargain of flying standby, which

14:30

meant you can travel on a whim, but

14:32

also means you have no idea if you

14:34

would get a seat on a particular flight,

14:36

or if you might need to connect somewhere

14:38

unanticipated to letting that extra air of uncertainty

14:40

that airline travel would otherwise lack. So with

14:42

that backdrop, when I turned 16, I

14:45

found myself with a free weekend, a freshly minted driver's

14:47

license, and no parents around, so I decided to go

14:49

to Puerto Vallarta. I took one of the blank tickets

14:51

my father kept at his desk, filled out the airport

14:54

coach for the trip, and off I went. I

14:56

had a surprisingly easy trip down, and I got down

14:58

there and realized once I was there, I

15:01

had no place to stay, so I spent an afternoon on

15:03

the beach. And I spent the night also

15:05

on the beach, which as they say in Mexico

15:07

was no problemo. Next day, I boarded a flight

15:09

home, which required a connection. So as I walked

15:11

to the terminal, I ran into my

15:13

older sister. We both stopped down

15:15

our tracks, and she said, what are you doing here?

15:17

And I looked at her and said, what are you

15:19

doing here? We were having a,

15:22

I think what's known as a Mexican standoff. It

15:25

was right at that moment, as we stood staring at each

15:27

other, my father walked by in

15:29

his pilot uniform. He was on a trip, and

15:32

he stopped, and he looked at us both, and then he

15:34

just shook his head and said, don't tell your mother. And

15:36

then he just kept walking. My

15:38

sister and I stood there for another beat, and

15:40

then we walked off in separate directions to catch

15:42

our flights without saying another word. I literally still

15:44

have no idea where my sister was going, and

15:47

she never asked me either. And

15:49

my mother never found out, so it was

15:51

just a win all around. Anyway, thanks again

15:53

for the podcast. Lots of fun to listen

15:55

to. Jared Polin This is what an amazing

15:58

family where people are just- just grabbing

16:01

tickets out of a desk drawer and

16:04

going, filling it out. And also,

16:07

did I hear that right, Posh? Did he go

16:09

to Puerto Vallarta for a day just to sleep

16:11

on a beach? I think he maybe was there

16:13

for a couple days, but. Okay, gotcha. Yeah,

16:17

but the first night was spent on the beach.

16:19

Gotcha, okay, good. Yeah, not

16:21

super clear, but that's the impression

16:23

I get. Just what a fabulous

16:26

confluence of family

16:28

members in an

16:31

airport, and what

16:33

a cool dad. Yeah.

16:36

To just know exactly what's, not exactly what's

16:38

going on, but enough of what's going on,

16:40

and to have the trust

16:42

in his children to be like, you're

16:44

gonna get home. Yeah. You

16:47

don't look like you're an extremis here, and

16:51

yeah. I think

16:53

you are aware of the fact that I am married

16:55

to someone who is the kind of parent

16:58

that would need to know exactly why their

17:00

kids were in the airport, exactly where they

17:02

were going. And there is a

17:04

great value to having that kind of parent. I do, I

17:06

mean, again, once my kids get a little bit older, I

17:08

do think I could be the kind of parent who's like,

17:12

see you at home. Yeah. Live your

17:14

life. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's

17:17

so great, because also, what they did wasn't,

17:21

I mean, maybe the father has a certain, I

17:23

would imagine, I would hope, like a love

17:25

of travel and a love of flying, and

17:27

maybe that's what brought him to that job,

17:29

and that his kid sort of took

17:32

some of that from him. And

17:35

maybe he was like, yeah, this is,

17:37

if I had this kind of

17:39

access when I was your age, then

17:42

I would have done it too, and

17:44

maybe there was some, maybe there was

17:46

more pride. I also picturing, I'm also

17:48

picturing like a kickass, full pilot's uniform

17:51

when I see the dad. You know what I mean?

17:53

Not me backing that. Yeah, it

17:55

looks a little military, and

17:57

just mad men, but planes. Yeah.

18:02

Oh, that's great. I

18:04

think we've told this story, but we had... Who

18:07

was our American Airlines connection? And was our cousin?

18:11

Yeah. We had a cousin

18:13

and you, when you came and visited me in Amsterdam

18:15

when I lived there, and you went

18:17

back and forth to the airport for like four

18:19

straight days, because you were doing that standby thing

18:21

and you kept knocking on planes. Yeah. It

18:24

is where you're like, oh my God, $10 for

18:27

first class. What's the

18:29

catch? You're like, here's the catch. Right.

18:32

That dude could have been stuck down

18:34

in Puerto Vallarta for eight days. Yeah.

18:37

And then by the way, his pilot dad, the

18:40

mom would be like, have you seen him? And he's like, oh brother. Yeah.

18:43

Yeah, he was in Puerto Vallarta. It's not like

18:45

eight days ago. He was with our daughter. Our

18:47

daughter! All right, thank you for sharing that

18:49

with us. Oh, by the way,

18:51

I do, the only thing I'll say about

18:53

that story, was it hard for you when he said

18:56

the part of, what are

18:58

you doing here? And then the sister said, what

19:00

are you doing here? Because that is a quote

19:02

from the SNL sketch Californians. Were

19:04

you like, oh my God, even our listeners are bringing

19:06

up to Californians? I'm

19:09

okay with that. Are you? I'm

19:11

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right, next story, Sam. Hi,

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Josh and Seth. I love the podcast, Keep

22:46

Up the Good Work. My name is Jim,

22:48

and I'm one of six siblings. We're

22:51

from the suburbs of Detroit. We're

22:53

all fairly close in age, and in our 20s, when

22:56

we moved all over the country, got

22:58

married, and started having kids, we decided

23:01

we needed an annual vacation together to

23:03

keep in touch. So

23:05

every summer, we plan a long four or

23:07

five-day weekend at a campground or rental

23:09

cottage in Western Michigan. Part

23:12

of the reunion is always a all-day

23:14

canoe trip down the Muskegon River. Now,

23:17

before I tell you about our most infamous

23:19

canoe trip, you need to know two details

23:21

about our family. First,

23:24

everyone in my family agrees that

23:26

the brownies I bake are the

23:28

most outstanding fudge brownies on the

23:30

planet, and they would absolutely

23:32

disown me if I ever showed up to

23:34

a reunion without a big

23:37

Tupperware container filled with a

23:39

quadruple batch. Secondly,

23:41

my sister Jan, while working as a secretary,

23:43

fell in love and married her boss, who

23:45

was about a dozen years older than the

23:47

rest of us. Mr.

23:49

Webb was a successful businessman, much

23:52

traveled a real man of the world. A

23:55

kinder, gentler, more generous Southern gentleman is

23:58

not to be found. siblings and I

24:00

all working class stiffs that we are

24:03

all loved and respected him and we looked up to

24:05

him literally because Mr.

24:07

Webb is about six foot five and weighs 250

24:09

pounds. He always

24:12

treated my sister like a princess, which

24:14

frankly she is always dressed

24:16

to the nines with perfectly coiffed hair,

24:18

even on canoe trip. So this one

24:20

year we launched our 12 canoes, my

24:23

parents and one, the siblings and

24:25

their spouses and six others and the

24:27

12 grandkids ages three to 12 divided

24:30

in a few more and we set off

24:32

down the river. Since

24:35

most of us like to splash each other and jump

24:37

in and out of our canoes, we

24:39

made sure the brownies and other snacks

24:41

were in Webb's canoe because we

24:43

knew Jan didn't want to get her hair wet and

24:46

Webb, like the chivalrous captain of a

24:48

sea-going frigate, would keep both

24:50

his princess and the brownies safe.

24:53

This went well until we hit a patch of white water.

24:56

For some reason, Webb, of all people,

24:59

was the one who lost control of his canoe and

25:02

ran right into a big rock in the

25:04

middle of the river. He

25:06

hit it so hard that my sister Jan

25:08

was thrown into the water where she splashed

25:10

about screaming my hair, my hair. Webb

25:13

was so stunned by his mistake that

25:16

like a captain going down with his

25:18

ship, he just sat there, bolt upright,

25:21

until the canoe filled with water and

25:23

he slowly went under all the way

25:25

up to his neck. Panicking, all the

25:27

grandkids started screaming and crying, they're going

25:30

to drown, save Aunt Jan, save Uncle

25:32

Webb. But my

25:34

other sisters and brothers and I noticed

25:37

that the brownies had spilled out of the

25:39

canoe and were racing down the

25:41

river in their Tupperware container. So

25:44

we started shouting, save the brownies,

25:46

save the brownies. And we all took

25:48

off paddling like mad to retrieve them.

25:51

We did save the brownies. And

25:53

eventually the rest of us paddled back upstream

25:55

and got the grandkids to stop crying and

25:58

help the Webb's empty out their canoe. and

26:00

get them safely aboard again. The

26:03

webs looked like drowned rats for the rest of

26:05

the trip. Jan

26:07

just muttered about her hair and Webb just

26:09

kept apologizing to his princess for his

26:11

bone. The rest of us snickered a

26:13

good deal at their expense and drank beer

26:16

and ate brownies the rest of the way. Webb's

26:20

humiliation was not quite over

26:22

after his dunking because

26:24

when we got to the end of our

26:26

trip and beached our canoes and walked up

26:29

to our cars to make the trip back

26:31

home to our campsite, Webb

26:33

reached into his soggy pants, pulled

26:36

out the key fob, which was

26:38

of course waterlogged, and he

26:40

couldn't get into his car. And of course,

26:42

since he's the older responsible one, we had

26:44

all locked our purses and wallets and keys

26:47

in his car. So

26:49

nobody was going anywhere. Webb

26:51

just stood there pressing the button on that key

26:54

fob over and over again, as if by

26:57

some magic that would make it work. But

26:59

of course it didn't. Looking

27:02

at that poor, exhausted, defeated man standing

27:04

there pushing on that fob should have

27:07

moved us all to pity. But

27:09

instead my parents, us siblings, and

27:11

all the grandkids started laughing. And

27:14

we laughed so hard that some of us were

27:16

crying and holding our guts and rolling around in

27:19

the dirt. Once

27:21

we realized our dire situation though, I

27:23

mean this was before cell phones, which

27:25

probably wouldn't have worked out there in

27:28

the woods anyways, my

27:30

sister-in-law Annie finally came up with a

27:32

plan to take the key fob and

27:35

walk down the dirt road until she found

27:37

a cottage with someone at home who would

27:39

let her in and let her use a

27:41

hair dryer to dry off the fob. During

27:43

the hour she was gone, the rest of

27:46

us finished off the beer and the brownies.

27:48

We continued to laugh until even Jan and

27:50

Webb cracked a smile. Annie

27:53

returned, the fob worked again,

27:55

and we all got back before dark. That

27:58

trip was 30 years ago. Sadly,

28:00

Webb died young and is no longer

28:02

with us, but most of

28:05

us still gather each summer for a weekend

28:07

and a canoe trip. The

28:09

grandkids are now grown and married, and

28:11

now there's a slew of great grandkids

28:13

to add to our canoeing flotilla. But

28:17

each year we retell the story of

28:19

the infamous trip where the Webb's got

28:21

a dunking, the key fob got waterlogged,

28:24

but the Brownies were saved. Bravo,

28:28

that was like a Lake Wobegon

28:31

quality story. Yeah, Jim spent

28:33

some time on that. Jim wrote that. I

28:35

appreciate that. That was really beautifully done. Beautifully

28:37

done, Jim. And a rest in peace, Mr.

28:40

Webb. What a character. Yeah,

28:42

but what a great way to

28:44

be remembered in a lot of ways. Yes.

28:46

I just like to think of this tall

28:48

southern gentleman older than everybody

28:51

there just in his

28:53

head being like, these Michiganders think they're better

28:55

than me. These

28:58

blue collar Michiganders. I

29:01

was just sitting on a canoe as it just

29:03

sort of slowly sinks as

29:05

a wonderful image. I'm

29:07

glad he, I mean, I did have a

29:09

fear because Jim was speaking of Mr. Webb

29:11

in the past tense, so I had an

29:13

awareness during the story that he was likely

29:15

no longer with us. And I'm just relieved

29:17

that that wasn't the story where he passed

29:19

away. Jim didn't say. And

29:22

then we got the brownies and when we

29:24

paddled back, Mr. Webb had indeed drowned. Yeah,

29:28

that's not the kind of story we're

29:30

after here. No, no, that was exactly

29:32

the kind of story we're after. Yeah.

29:36

An annual trip is

29:38

so underrated. It is so

29:42

wonderful that Jim and his family

29:44

still do this. There's

29:46

a lot in the world you can go see,

29:49

but to have sort of a standard place that

29:51

you go is just great. An

29:54

annual trip because also I think, you know, look,

29:57

vacations when you

29:59

can anticipate. to participate without

30:01

the stress of something new, it

30:04

is one of the great gifts, to just

30:06

know that you have that point

30:08

in the year. And again, we're lucky enough, we've talked about

30:10

it. We've got a couple of those. We've got one with

30:12

our buddies, we got one with our parents, and like having

30:14

those in place is so delightful.

30:16

Yeah. If

30:19

dad had locked the

30:22

keys in the car, or if dad's

30:24

fob didn't work, what do you think

30:27

his solution would be? I'll

30:30

tell you what a solution wouldn't have been,

30:32

mom walking an hour to bail him out.

30:35

To go find a hairdryer? Oh my God, I

30:37

think she would have walked, I think she might

30:39

have tried to walk an hour to a bar.

30:44

What do you think dad would have done? I

30:48

mean, I certainly don't think anyone who

30:50

knew him would have

30:52

laughed real hard. Well,

30:56

I think the answer is he'd break the window. I

30:59

think he'd break the window. Yeah, the whole time I

31:01

was thinking about it, I certainly don't, there was no

31:03

Annie in our family who would have said, I think

31:05

all of us would have been break

31:07

the window. Yeah, and that's

31:09

the way I was hoping it was, I

31:12

mean, I was guessing it was going. It's

31:14

great that they didn't take the

31:16

more destructive approach to it. But

31:18

I do think a group of 12 to 15 people

31:20

standing around trying

31:23

to figure out how to break the window of a

31:26

car in the woods would be pretty fun. Like who's

31:28

throwing that rock, that big rock at the, Well,

31:30

here's my thing though, right? I

31:32

don't have confidence that dad could break the window

31:34

without making it worse. He'd

31:39

throw a rock and cut his finger simultaneously. Or

31:41

he'd throw a rock and it would hit the

31:43

door and put it down in the door. So,

31:47

at some point I might just, I

31:49

think I would argue, let's just sit here for

31:51

eight hours and wait for the key to dry

31:54

naturally. Yeah. I

31:57

do think that if dad had done that, mom would

31:59

be cool. I'm supportive. Josh,

32:04

you just laughed so hard and you blew out the

32:06

Zoom. I couldn't even hear you. Hey,

32:10

I do have, I didn't make it two things.

32:12

One, when Jim was talking about how their families,

32:15

the splashing, right? And I was thinking, you know,

32:17

Mr. Webb, the very fact that it was called

32:19

Mr. Webb was maybe my favorite detail of the

32:21

story. And in Jim's short story collection, when

32:23

he writes it, I do believe this story should just be

32:25

called Mr. Webb. So, you

32:28

know, Mr. Webb probably came from a family

32:30

where they weren't splashing each other with canoe

32:32

paddles. And there is that interesting thing

32:34

where, you know, when you marry into

32:36

a family, you got to deal with the nonsense

32:38

they do. And I'm obviously not saying our family

32:40

doesn't bring nonsense to the table, but my

32:44

father-in-law and my brother-in-law, Tom Antolia,

32:47

have taught our kids this thing.

32:50

And here's what it is. I'm walking

32:53

with the boys to school the other

32:55

day and Axel says, have you met

32:57

my sidekick? And I said,

33:00

no. And then he just kicked me in the

33:02

side. And

33:06

I had this real son of a gun. What

33:09

an insane thing to teach my children. Especially

33:12

Axel, who I don't think has a lot

33:14

of control over how hard he's going to

33:16

kick you. Yeah, I know he kicks hard.

33:18

Yeah, he's a wild man. And

33:22

then the other thing is the special brownies.

33:24

What does mom make? What does

33:26

mom make homemade that is my favorite thing in the

33:28

world? Chex party mix. Chex

33:31

party mix. Our mom makes Chex party

33:33

mix. It's like an old school

33:35

recipe that I think used to be on

33:37

the side of the box. Yeah,

33:40

heavy with Worcestershire sauce. Worcestershire

33:42

sauce and so much butter.

33:45

Yeah. And it is

33:47

so much better

33:49

than Chex mix in a bag. Not

33:54

even close. Yeah. Yeah, no,

33:56

it's baked, it's seasoned. It's, you get

33:58

those like. those harder sort of like

34:00

bits that are stuck together. Yeah, it's

34:02

almost like because the way she bakes

34:04

it in a cookie pan, it's almost

34:07

like the outer edge is like crust

34:09

on a pie. Yeah. Anyway,

34:13

this is by the way, a story where

34:15

my brother-in-law who's out there teaching my kids

34:17

sidekick is the hero of this story. Um,

34:22

so mom and dad visited a couple

34:24

weeks ago. Yeah. And I

34:26

should note the reason, sorry, when I eat mom's

34:28

Chex Mix, if I eat a serving that I

34:30

want to eat, which is all of it, everything

34:34

about me is hard to be around for like the next 48

34:36

hours. I would just say like, I'm

34:39

sort of on a breath and sort

34:42

of amid its smells level. It's

34:44

no, I'm no party to be around. Okay. You

34:47

pay a price for mom's Chex Mix. Okay. And so

34:49

because of this,

34:51

I sort of don't, like, you know, I've said to

34:53

her like, yeah, don't even bring it. Cause I can't,

34:55

I can't stop myself. And it's just a, it's just

34:57

a bad scene. So mom

35:00

leaves and she goes, Tolia

35:02

has something for you. Oh. And

35:06

so then a couple hours later, Tolia

35:08

comes over and he hands me three,

35:10

not a full zip lock, like sort of a half

35:12

zip lock. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. Like

35:15

for that you give kids snacks in. Yeah.

35:18

Three of those packed full

35:21

of Chex Mix. And it was like, the

35:24

only thing I wish is that he'd had him like

35:26

taped to his stomach, like a drug mule. Right.

35:29

Trying to get on a plane. And

35:31

he handed them to me and

35:33

Pashy, I was so happy. Because

35:36

I've said to her, I can't resist, don't bring it.

35:39

But the fact that she just brought it on her

35:41

own. Yeah. I

35:43

felt no guilt. Yeah. And

35:45

it was, I ate two of

35:47

them immediately.

35:50

Again, okay. And I was like, you know what? You can crush

35:52

them. Yeah. And I'm like, I'm not gonna

35:54

eat the third one. And I put it in my computer bag and

35:57

I completely forgot about it. And

35:59

then. And a week later, I found

36:02

it, and it was the greatest

36:05

feeling. It

36:07

was the greatest feeling in the world. I mean,

36:09

that's like money under your

36:12

pillow from the tooth fairy. It's just like

36:14

magic. Yeah, but like from

36:16

a tooth you lost like 30 years

36:18

ago. It's

36:22

the best. And again, you know what I'm, you

36:24

know, again, I know mom's listening, you know, don't

36:26

overdo it because it was, you know. Yeah.

36:29

You already did say that Tolia was the

36:31

hero of this story and mom's probably like,

36:34

wait a minute. She knows. Mom

36:37

knows who the hero is. Yeah. I

36:39

also, oh, but I

36:41

did, they left. So

36:43

they drove off, and I think I'd eaten the first

36:45

two bags like 12 minutes after they left. And

36:49

I did call them in the car. And I was like, oh.

36:52

And they go, what's wrong? I'm like, I

36:54

already ate two bags. I think mom

36:56

was very happy to know. Yeah. I'll

36:59

quickly put him down. But

37:01

thank you so much for the Mr.

37:03

Web story. What a delight.

37:06

Do you like a canoe, Posh? I love a canoe. I

37:08

haven't been at a canoe in so many years. I love

37:10

a canoe. Yeah, canoe's good.

37:12

And that sort of Midwestern canoe, that's

37:15

the way to live, man. Yeah.

37:19

Sure the South has a lot of great canoe areas, but

37:21

yeah, for sure. Yeah,

37:23

I'd love a canoe trip in my future. Yeah.

37:26

All right. Shall we hear our next? Hi,

37:29

my name is Tracy. And I

37:32

love everything you folks do. I

37:34

wanted to share a weird paranoid

37:36

family tradition that I

37:39

grew up with and that I'm now passing

37:41

down to my own child. I

37:43

grew up in a core four family. And

37:46

when we would go on vacation, if

37:48

we needed to take a taxi to the airport, my

37:51

parents would do the routine to

37:55

make the taxi driver think that our

37:57

house would not be unattended while we

37:59

were gone. because it would be

38:01

clear to the taxi driver when we loaded up

38:03

the suitcases in the trunk and

38:06

went to the airport that maybe the

38:08

house would be unoccupied and ripe for

38:11

thievery. So

38:14

my parents would say

38:16

to each other, oh, I think

38:18

Danny's arriving later today and oh yeah, it'll be

38:21

good to have him at the house and do

38:23

a little routine, a little extra loud to make

38:25

sure that the taxi driver could hear. And

38:28

I remember thinking that this was really funny

38:30

and also a little bit scary as a

38:32

child. And now I do

38:34

the same thing with my daughter. When we leave

38:36

the house in an

38:39

Uber or Lyft to go to an airport with a

38:41

bunch of suitcases, we say, oh,

38:44

Susan's going to be at the house later and won't it

38:46

be weird to have a dog in our house? There's never

38:48

been a dog in our house. It'll be, I can't believe

38:50

a dog will be in our house for a whole week

38:52

with Susan. And

38:54

our friend Susan doesn't know we do this, but

38:56

that's who we usually use. And

38:59

when I was growing up, my parents always said Danny

39:01

and Tiffany. That was some people we knew and those

39:03

were the ones who would supposedly take care of the

39:05

house while we were gone, guard the house while we

39:07

were gone. And my daughter has

39:09

gotten really into the fun of this. And the

39:12

last time we had to go through this routine,

39:14

she said, and also the parrot, won't

39:17

it be interesting to have a parrot there? And

39:19

I started to get really nervous because I

39:21

was ready for the Uber driver to say

39:23

that he had a parrot and want to

39:26

compare parrot notes. And I don't have any

39:28

parrot notes. I was trying to remember in

39:30

my head different possible breeds of

39:32

parrots and what our parrot was named and what

39:34

our parrot would like to eat. And

39:36

I told my daughter later that she needs to stick to

39:38

the script a little bit better, but she thought it was

39:40

pretty funny. And I

39:43

don't think that this does anything to protect

39:46

your house from thieves, but I do

39:48

recommend it as a fun beginning

39:50

of vacation tradition. Thanks folks.

39:54

Thank you, Tracy. That was outstanding. And let

39:56

me say, I agree. The

39:58

value of that is the fun. of play acting

40:00

with your kids. Yeah. Because

40:03

it has no... Because you just know it. You have a scenario

40:05

and it's just, yeah, here we go. Because

40:07

there's no value in

40:09

the way that it's intended. And I would

40:11

say the more you talk about your house

40:13

sitters, your make believe house sitters, the more

40:15

the taxier your Uber driver knows. Nobody's gonna

40:17

be there. Nobody's there. It's,

40:20

there was that old Saturday morning

40:22

cartoon or that little song about,

40:25

like when you tell a lie, it

40:27

leads to another. Then you tell two

40:29

lies to cover each other. And

40:32

it's a bit of that. It's like once a

40:34

kid's like, okay, we can work cool

40:36

to lie here. And then you just keep

40:38

spinning that yarn out. Yeah. And then you're

40:40

like texting a friend being like, hey, can

40:42

you call me? I'm gonna put you

40:44

on speaker. And can you make a parrot noise? I

40:49

think the Uber driver's on to us. Yeah.

40:55

That would be a fun game to just play all the way

40:57

to the airport. Just keep spinning it out. A

41:00

crazier and crazier story. And I also

41:02

just love when you, yeah,

41:05

when you're just asking for it

41:07

when you are teaching your kid how

41:09

to lie. Right. Because

41:12

the idea that they don't know where the line is

41:14

for how far to take the lie, that's on you.

41:16

Yeah. Yeah. Did I

41:19

tell you about how Axel very in

41:21

line will always, he loves to blow

41:23

up a lie in front of

41:25

strangers. And sometimes

41:27

when I'm walking, the kids down the street, we're in a

41:29

hurry. I'm either taking them to school or running to get

41:32

a train. And there are sometimes

41:35

these acidic Jews on the street who wanna

41:37

perform a prayer for you if you're Jewish.

41:39

And they sort of hang out on Fridays

41:41

more often than not on the street. And

41:44

they'll just like ask people as they pass,

41:46

like, are you Jewish? And

41:48

it's very nice that they wanna do this. No

41:51

judgment, but obviously we don't have time for it,

41:53

right? Right. And so I was walking down

41:55

the street with the two boys And

41:58

I go, no. And Axel goes, we are. And

42:03

then he looked at me, the part

42:05

that was the best is he looked

42:07

at me with this big smile like,

42:10

I know you didn't want that. Like

42:12

it wasn't even like he was drawn

42:14

in to be honest. He just wanted

42:16

to be a little stinker. Yeah. And

42:18

then does Axel get into a 45-minute

42:21

conversation? Oh, yeah, I just

42:23

grabbed him. We just keep moving. Yeah. Which is

42:25

easy with Axel because he's usually on a scooter

42:27

that he's just making me like using me as

42:29

a toe rope. Yeah. So yeah, he

42:31

generally has a cape on and he

42:33

generally cape. He's dressed like yeah, a

42:35

wizard. Yeah.

42:38

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we go. So we

45:46

once had a trip planned to

45:48

go to see Yellowstone. We were

45:50

going through Wyoming and

45:52

my parents had booked this really nice

45:54

hotel that had

45:57

horseback riding and different activities.

45:59

kids and I have two other

46:01

brothers and we were supposed to go there but we got

46:04

there so early in the day on our road trip that

46:06

my parents couldn't even check in. So

46:09

we decided to just keep driving for a little bit

46:11

to find something to do until we could check in.

46:13

But we ended up getting so far and so

46:15

distracted from coming back that we

46:18

were like an hour and a half out

46:20

of the way. So my parents either had

46:22

to cancel the hotel that we

46:24

had and get somewhere in the

46:26

town we were currently in or

46:29

drive an hour and a half out of the

46:31

way just to get back to the hotel they

46:33

originally booked. So they decided to cancel it before

46:35

checking that there was a vacancy in any hotel

46:37

nearby us. So we went

46:40

to all these different hotels and sketchy,

46:42

grungy hotels and they

46:44

finally settled on a really

46:46

crappy motel with an

46:48

M hotel and one king

46:52

bed in a smoking room left.

46:54

It was the only thing available. My

46:57

parents took it, we had to sleep on

46:59

the floor, my parents got the bed and

47:02

it smelled so bad that we went to

47:04

Walmart and bought Febreze and just doused it.

47:06

Of course it only made it smell even

47:08

worse. So we were

47:10

sitting there in a motel smoking

47:13

room laying on a cot with

47:15

mites probably and when

47:18

we went to Walmart we also got to pick out one movie.

47:21

So we brought the portable DVD player

47:23

into the smoking room and

47:25

watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail while

47:28

my dad laid in the king bed

47:30

regretting every decision he had made. I

47:33

look back at that too, this was so

47:35

long ago and I can't think of Monty

47:37

Python or watch Monty Python and

47:40

the Holy Grail without thinking of a motel nor

47:42

can I go to a motel without thinking of

47:44

Monty Python and the Holy Grail and how pissed

47:46

my dad would have been. Well

47:50

I mean it's the perfect movie because I would

47:53

say it's the one movie you could watch anywhere and it

47:55

would still work. Yeah. One

47:57

of my all time favorites. Yeah,

48:00

it is so great

48:03

and it also could maybe, maybe make

48:05

you forget about some of those other

48:07

things. About the smoking room and

48:09

that. Do you ever, all right,

48:11

I'm gonna tell you a true thing about me. Okay.

48:13

And I think, I don't know if I always felt this

48:16

way or just felt this way after

48:18

I have like a family and kids. Sometimes

48:20

I drive by like one of those little

48:22

dingy motels, you know, with

48:24

all the like, you know, the doors on the outside of

48:26

all the rooms. And I think it

48:29

would kind of be nice to be on the

48:31

lamb. Yeah,

48:33

I mean, I haven't thought of that, but I also,

48:36

I will say that I am, I'm

48:39

probably more okay in a lower

48:42

end motel than

48:44

a lot of people are. Yeah. I'm

48:47

never like, oh, these sheets and like, oh,

48:49

like what's happened on this comforter?

48:51

I'm like, nothing's gonna seep into

48:53

you. Yeah, I guess if there's

48:55

like bed bugs, but if there's

48:57

bed bugs or, you know, actual

48:59

things that are biting you, I bet

49:01

they take measures to correct that, I

49:03

would hope. Yeah,

49:06

I mean, obviously I'm never gonna, on a

49:08

family trip, stay at one of those little

49:10

motels. Right. But

49:12

yeah, there's something, I always just kind of think about like,

49:14

I don't know, would it be cool to be in one

49:16

of those little

49:19

motels like while I'm like putting peroxide in my hair

49:21

to make it all blonde, you

49:24

know, using the sink, maybe like growing

49:26

out of mustache or something. Yeah. And

49:28

I got like a duffel bag full of maybe, I

49:30

don't know, cash. Yeah. And

49:33

I'm just doing that thing where like, I'm sort of like pulling them,

49:35

you know, I do it a lot like

49:37

pulling the little blinds away, looking to make sure everything's in,

49:39

that's an all clear situation. Yeah, so

49:42

you fantasize about that? I

49:44

fantasize about that a lot. Like

49:47

I watched No

49:49

Country for Old Men recently, there's

49:51

a lot of that, like there's a lot of like hiding in

49:53

motels and like using the air duct to

49:55

hide stuff. And I just kind of watch it. I'm like, that

49:57

seems so nice. Yeah.

50:01

I mean, but if you're running for something,

50:03

you eventually get somewhere. So I don't know

50:05

where you, I don't know what your... No,

50:08

usually they get you before you give it anyway.

50:10

No, I know. In this story, I

50:12

don't like, it doesn't add, I

50:14

just like that moment, like before I get caught, but

50:16

I also don't, you know, yeah. But when you get

50:18

caught, you're probably like, oh, I don't like these motels,

50:21

thank you. Just take me to prison, please. Well, I

50:23

feel like I have that thing where like, yeah. Wait,

50:25

yeah, yeah, exactly. All

50:27

right, let's hear our next one. Hey

50:29

Josh and Seth, I'm Katie from California. Love

50:32

the podcast. Here's my sibling story. In the

50:34

early 90s, my family went on a road

50:36

trip up to Oregon and Washington to visit

50:38

family and go sightseeing. We were

50:41

a core four family with my mom, my dad,

50:43

and my older brother, Brian. At

50:45

the time I was 11 and my brother was 16.

50:48

My brother and I got along quite well growing

50:51

up and still do. We had a

50:53

lot of differences and a big age gap, but

50:55

we shared the same sense of humor. We're

50:57

big corrections fans, Seth. Sorry,

51:00

Josh, I'll go back to my family trip. While in

51:02

Oregon, visiting my aunt and my uncle and

51:04

cousins, we decided to cool off on the

51:07

hot day and go swimming in

51:09

the Willamette River, which was just about

51:11

a 15 minute drive from my relatives house. The

51:14

Willamette River isn't huge, but it does have

51:16

a spot where there's a ferry to get

51:18

across the highway. And earlier in

51:21

the week, a truck transporting cherries tipped over

51:23

on the ferry and spilled cherries into the

51:25

river. Now these cherries were ones

51:27

that had been bleached and were going

51:30

to be dyed to become maraschino. I had not heard

51:32

the story of the cherry truck tipping over, but

51:34

my brother had. So we were happily

51:36

splashing around in the river, having a great time when

51:38

all of a sudden I spotted something floating in the river.

51:41

I went closer to examine it and it was, I

51:44

was immediately grossed out. Ew, it looks like an

51:46

eyeball. I think I shouted to my brother. And

51:49

that's when he got the idea to play the prank on me. Yeah,

51:52

it kind of does, he says. And

51:56

then another one came floating by and

51:58

he said, I really do think. I think

52:00

those are eyeballs. I started to panic and

52:02

looked his way. He was about waist

52:04

deep in the water and pretended to slip on something.

52:07

I asked him if he was okay and he said, I

52:09

think I just slipped on the head. I

52:12

ran screaming out of the river terrified. We

52:14

had found bits of a dead body. When

52:16

in fact, it was just two wrinkled bleach cherries

52:18

and a rock. My brother

52:20

thought it was hilarious. Really

52:24

great. I mean, shout out to the brother.

52:26

I also think there's nothing funnier

52:28

than, yeah, there's

52:30

nothing funny. Posh, you know where I

52:32

stand. There's nothing funny about a dead

52:34

body in a river. Yeah.

52:37

There's something a little funny about saying

52:39

the head. Yes. But

52:44

also, I mean, I just had images of Indiana

52:49

Jones and the temple of doom with the chilled

52:52

monkey brains. And

52:55

when those eyeballs pop up, it is such

52:57

a, yeah. It's such a

52:59

scary freaky thing and for an 11 year

53:01

old in a river. With

53:05

a couple, yeah, eyeball things floating down.

53:07

It's also very funny to think that

53:10

you would be lucky enough in a river with

53:12

a current to find both

53:14

eyeballs. Yeah. You know what

53:17

I mean? Like somebody could find, I

53:19

think when you find the second eyeball,

53:21

that actually disproves the first one was

53:23

an eyeball. Yeah. I

53:27

was really expecting to have just so

53:29

many eyeballs eventually coming down. Yeah, the

53:31

eyeball track. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And also,

53:34

I love

53:36

the corrections with Jonathan Franson. That's what she was

53:38

talking about. Great

53:41

book. How dare you? Great

53:43

book. Yeah,

53:47

no offense. No offense. Yeah, no offense

53:50

taken. Yeah, I will, a lot of

53:52

fun river stuff today. Yeah.

53:55

Makes you want to get, makes you want to jump into a

53:57

river. Yeah. I

54:00

was telling McKenzie, I've never really been

54:02

on a proper float. And

54:05

it's in my want category. I

54:10

desperately want to go on a nice big trip. You

54:13

know, why don't you try for once in

54:15

your goddamn life to win the fantasy football

54:17

league, and then you can schedule, you

54:20

can make the trip that it's a float. We

54:23

were gonna do a float one year when we were

54:25

in Boulder, Colorado, but there was so much rain. And

54:29

the float people were like, like two to

54:31

three of you will die if you go

54:33

in here. I

54:36

mean, so who would you, a perfect world, which

54:38

of our 12 friends, who are the two

54:40

or three that you would love to?

54:42

Yeah. Well,

54:48

those are great listener stories. This is

54:50

always just such a delight. And Sam,

54:52

we open it up for you to

54:54

bring us our listener questions. Yeah,

54:57

so we, as you guys know, we get

54:59

so many questions from our listeners. A

55:02

lot of them send in voicemails, a lot of them sending

55:04

questions on social media. So today we thought we'd

55:06

pull some from our social

55:09

media. So our first question

55:11

is for Josh from Natalie.

55:14

Josh, tell us more about your songwriting process.

55:16

Do you do it right after each interview?

55:18

Would love to know more details. I

55:22

get a sort of the

55:25

cut of the show as soon

55:27

as our editor has it

55:30

in good shape. They'll send it over to me and

55:32

I listen to it at double speed and I take

55:34

notes on the whole episode. And then

55:36

I just sort of look at those notes and

55:39

wait for a song to pop into

55:41

my head. And then I grab a

55:45

karaoke version of that. I

55:47

make sure that there is a karaoke version

55:49

of that because I'm not a musician. And

55:52

then I write out some lyrics and

55:54

I have a three

55:56

by four foot coat

55:59

closet. in my

56:01

apartment and I pull all the

56:03

coats out and it's

56:06

a little sort of recording studio in there.

56:08

Is it upstairs? Is it the guest room

56:11

closet? No, no, no, it's the front hall

56:13

closet. Oh my God. Yeah, so I

56:15

lay all the coats on the dining room table and

56:17

I go in there and it's very hot. And

56:20

there are some days where I'm like mad that I

56:22

have to do it, but then it's like, well, this

56:25

is like kind

56:27

of a job and I'm pretty

56:29

lucky that this is what I

56:31

get to do. And it's

56:34

fun going in there, but it takes me a while.

56:37

It can take me a while and I'm a bit of a

56:40

perfectionist with it and I'm sure some of you, some

56:43

of the listeners will be like, well, those

56:45

aren't, they're not perfection and they're not, like

56:47

I'm not an amazing singer. I

56:50

wanna thank Natalie. This is a great question

56:52

because this is a conversation that I'm very

56:54

happy we're having. I have some questions, some

56:56

follow-ups. Yeah. What

56:58

is the, can you remember

57:00

and maybe you can't and maybe you can think about

57:02

it for the next time we do this, but do

57:04

you remember the song that popped in your head the

57:06

fastest as far as the inspiration for what

57:09

it would be? The Pamela

57:11

Adlon was pretty fast. Okay. Yeah,

57:14

which was a take of

57:16

Wet Legs, Shezlon.

57:19

Yeah. And it just sort of, I

57:21

had been hanging out with

57:23

a friend of Mackenzie's and her daughter

57:25

and we were listening to that song

57:28

and I knew we had the Pamela Adlon coming

57:30

up but I hadn't gotten a cut of it

57:33

yet. And I was like, oh, that fits in

57:35

there and that's a fun song. It's a fun

57:37

song. Yeah. We had them do it on

57:39

our show? Oh yeah. Yeah.

57:41

Nice. That was one of those, it's fun when you

57:44

hear a song and you're like, oh, I would like

57:46

to see that live up close. Yeah. Do

57:48

you remember the one that was the longest, that took the longest

57:50

time for you to crack? Hmm.

57:54

I don't know. I mean, the listener episode ones

57:56

take longer because I feel like you have to

57:58

steal a little something I

58:00

want to do a stanza or a verse about

58:03

everybody. So

58:06

I need a song that... Mr.

58:09

Webb and me floating down in a

58:11

canoe Gonna give those brownies

58:13

and bring them back And

58:16

then he's gonna get water in his keys Mr. Webb... See,

58:20

I don't think it's hard. Yeah, I'm not saying it's

58:22

hard. Sometimes it takes

58:24

a while. And

58:26

then sometimes I'll start writing one And

58:28

it's just not working and I'll switch

58:31

But pretty much I go with the first thing

58:33

that I come up with I will

58:36

make it work. Alright, that's a guy. I do think there's... I

58:38

think, yeah. I mean, that's hopefully

58:40

our improviser blood Because we used

58:42

to do... You make up songs

58:44

about audience members on stage Yeah.

58:46

In improv shows And

58:48

so sometimes you just have to

58:50

take the inspiration And jam ahead

58:52

with it. Yeah. Great

58:56

question, Natalie. Thank you. Okay,

58:58

our next question. You

59:00

know, Seth, hopefully if your

59:02

daughter grows up And decides to

59:04

come listen to this specific episode

59:07

We should rephrase this in a

59:09

nicer way. Okay. But

59:11

Jackie wants to know, Seth, how did

59:13

you know That you wanted to ruin your core

59:15

four And add your daughter to the fam? Okay,

59:17

gotcha. Well, first of all, I do want

59:19

to say I really enjoyed in two of

59:21

our listener's stories today Core four

59:23

was used and I'm very happy with that.

59:26

And I was actually thinking during a story Oh, I should

59:28

come up with one now that I'm no longer core four

59:30

I don't know if we're live at five

59:32

Or, Poshy, maybe help me try to figure out

59:35

What we should call a core

59:37

four plus one Yeah, which I also want

59:39

to just point out I don't think we

59:41

spoke of ourselves as a core four family

59:43

When we were growing up. No. Yeah.

59:46

No, Dev, it's been something that we're

59:49

reflecting back But I think we also

59:51

felt pretty good about being four. Yeah.

59:55

Oh, for sure. As

59:57

for why we decided

59:59

to roll the dice. I

1:00:02

thought we were done. My wife is

1:00:04

a fiver. And so there

1:00:07

was always a chance that

1:00:10

she would want a fifth. I don't know if

1:00:12

we would have, if there

1:00:14

hadn't been a pandemic, to be honest. I think there was

1:00:16

a pandemic and we, like a lot of people, you

1:00:19

know, we're spending time almost

1:00:22

exclusively with each other. And,

1:00:26

you know, we were just at some point, you

1:00:28

know, we got so bored with everybody that

1:00:32

we thought, what if we had a fifth person to talk to? Right,

1:00:34

at least gives you a break from-

1:00:37

Just a break, yeah. And

1:00:39

I also, Ash, our oldest, really wanted a

1:00:43

sister. And

1:00:47

to the point that I remember joking,

1:00:50

if it's a boy, he's

1:00:52

gonna drown it in the bathroom. That's

1:00:55

a fun joke. Yeah, it's a fun joke. And

1:00:59

he, the day we told him it was

1:01:02

a girl, we

1:01:07

have a video, it was really wonderful. He

1:01:09

was sitting on the couch and he just

1:01:11

sort of collapsed back in happiness. Oh, that's

1:01:13

great. And I

1:01:16

mean, it's impossible to imagine what it

1:01:18

would be like without her. And

1:01:21

it's everything. Everyone

1:01:26

is their best self around

1:01:28

her. Like

1:01:30

the boys, the most irritating things

1:01:32

about the boys they do not

1:01:35

do when they're around her. Like

1:01:37

they take, there's a real responsibility

1:01:40

they have to be them best selves with

1:01:42

her. And it's, although I will say she's

1:01:45

also so smart, and Alexia will

1:01:47

always say to the boys, like don't, when

1:01:49

you talk badly around her, she's

1:01:51

learning those bad words from you.

1:01:55

And then the other day Ash said, like, see

1:01:58

his brother like, Axel, you're being so stupid.

1:02:00

And she said, Ash, that a

1:02:02

bad word. And so I said to Alexi,

1:02:04

she's actually not learning them from her. She's learning from

1:02:06

us that they're bad. I

1:02:09

think she's like taking stock of the situation and she's like,

1:02:11

I'm not going to learn anything from these two. But

1:02:16

yeah, so and you know, again, you know,

1:02:18

we never, I never had a sister.

1:02:20

I've never been around a little girl in my life. Yeah.

1:02:23

And it's just, I

1:02:26

would never have said there was anything missing in my

1:02:28

life because our relationship is so great.

1:02:30

And yet you have this little girl and you're

1:02:32

like, oh, so. Yeah,

1:02:35

I feel like that girl. She's a little magic.

1:02:37

So let me just say that if we'd had

1:02:39

a third son, I'm sure we would have ruined

1:02:41

it, but we didn't. And so we made it

1:02:43

better. Okay,

1:02:45

so this is a funny one from

1:02:47

Lydia. Josh, if you

1:02:50

wanted to trick Seth into going to the Grand

1:02:52

Canyon, how would you do it? Oh,

1:02:55

I mean, maybe I

1:02:59

would have to say that. I

1:03:05

have to say like the Hold Steady is doing a show,

1:03:07

doing a small show. Yeah, but see, then that's not tricking

1:03:09

me because then I got to go to the Grand Canyon.

1:03:12

Like, I think you got to somehow get me there without me knowing

1:03:14

at any point that that's

1:03:16

where I am physically. Yeah. I

1:03:20

mean, well, I don't know how you do that. Yeah,

1:03:23

how do you do it? Outside

1:03:25

of tying you up and putting you in a

1:03:27

bag and putting you in the back of a van. Yeah, that doesn't sound

1:03:29

like trick. That's like a trick. I think the way

1:03:31

you do it is a helicopter from Vegas. Yeah.

1:03:38

Oh, that's it. Because I think that can be done. And

1:03:41

so I think I would find a time that we were in

1:03:43

Vegas, which is not often. That

1:03:49

happens, I guess. And I would

1:03:51

say like, you know, somebody got me

1:03:53

this like kick ass hella. helicopter

1:04:00

tour of something and I wouldn't say what.

1:04:02

Like we're gonna like swoop the Hoover Dam

1:04:05

and we'll be right back. And

1:04:08

you wouldn't know like this isn't the way to

1:04:10

the Hoover Dam. Right, right. It

1:04:12

would have to be like for me to though agree

1:04:14

to go on a helicopter ride, which sounds like a

1:04:16

bad idea. Right. You would have to

1:04:18

maybe, it would maybe have to be like your birthday weekend. Uh-huh.

1:04:21

I think this is my bachelor party. Right.

1:04:25

Oh, that's interesting. So maybe

1:04:27

it's like you're right. Today

1:04:29

is my bachelor party. And

1:04:31

then one of your other buddies, you'd have

1:04:33

to be in on it with him. Yeah.

1:04:36

Like Ike. Ike would have to say to me like, I got a helicopter

1:04:39

ride, trust me. And Ike could be like,

1:04:41

you're gonna hate it, but just do it for posh-y. Right.

1:04:44

And then I'm like. He somehow really wants this. Yeah,

1:04:46

he just wants it, all right? You ruin everything. Just

1:04:49

have fun for once. And then

1:04:51

you get me there. And then the helicopter drops us off. Yeah.

1:04:54

Drops us off at the bottom of the canyon and we have

1:04:57

to hike out and you're furious. Oh. So

1:04:59

mad. Don't

1:05:02

put these ideas in his head. Yeah.

1:05:05

But the stories, but the stories we'd get from

1:05:07

him. The stories. Soof. The

1:05:09

stories. Okay,

1:05:12

we have our last two questions. So

1:05:15

this one is from Emily. Seth, would you

1:05:17

let Josh take your kids on vacation without

1:05:19

you and Alexei? And if so, Josh, where

1:05:22

would you take them? I

1:05:24

100% would let Josh do that. I

1:05:27

think that they would need a few more years

1:05:29

for them to be fair

1:05:32

to Josh to send him off with them.

1:05:34

But yes, I would 100% trust

1:05:37

Josh with my children. Yeah.

1:05:40

Yeah, I would like to take them. I'd

1:05:42

like to, I'd probably take them camping. Like

1:05:48

Yosemite or Joshua Tree, probably

1:05:50

Yosemite. But

1:05:53

somewhere like that. Somewhere spectacular where

1:05:57

we could just have our sort of tent

1:05:59

set up. and our home base and we

1:06:01

could always hang out there or there would

1:06:03

be a tent for the kids to hang

1:06:05

out in if

1:06:08

they ever needed some time alone or

1:06:10

whatever, but there would be activities

1:06:12

aplenty and I feel like that's what I would

1:06:15

do with them. I would do Joshua Tree, but

1:06:18

I do it soon because they might be dumb enough

1:06:20

to think it's your, that

1:06:23

you own it. Right, yeah. I

1:06:27

don't know if dumb enough is the way I'd

1:06:29

phrase it, but yeah. All right, well, I'm gonna say whatever you

1:06:31

want. Mr. Joshua, who,

1:06:34

what movie is Mr. Joshua from? Mr.

1:06:38

Joshua, I can't remember. He's a bad guy. Yeah,

1:06:41

I can't recall offhand. Lethal

1:06:43

Weapon. Okay. Got

1:06:46

me. Yeah, I

1:06:48

think that's right. I think it was Gary Busey

1:06:50

in Lethal Weapon. Is this fun for the listeners?

1:06:53

No. Def

1:06:56

not. Sam, do you have anything else for

1:06:58

us to get us out of this? Yeah,

1:07:00

I'll save you, Josh. Yeah, thank you. But

1:07:02

keep Googling it, Seth. It is, you guys.

1:07:04

Mr. Joshua. He had the famous line, you

1:07:06

can call me Mr. Joshua. Well.

1:07:10

Thank goodness. If

1:07:12

you're writing movies, have your

1:07:15

characters reference themselves.

1:07:17

Yeah. And then they'll be

1:07:19

memorable to- Well, nobody would call somebody Mr. Joshua unless

1:07:21

the guy said, call me Mr. Joshua. Yeah,

1:07:24

okay. All right, Sam.

1:07:27

Our last question is anonymous from Bill

1:07:29

Wall. Oh, Bill Wall. Yeah,

1:07:31

and they want to know, what

1:07:33

are your cross country flight essentials? Do you have

1:07:35

to bring a sleeping mask? Do you have to

1:07:37

pick up a certain kind of candy? What

1:07:40

are your essentials? I mean,

1:07:42

I need, I gotta have

1:07:45

a book. I'm

1:07:48

gonna have a water bottle. That's

1:07:51

kind of all I need. I was,

1:07:53

I did have a big flight recently and I

1:07:55

was nervous that I was gonna be cold. I

1:07:58

get cold on flights and. I

1:08:00

have this camping blanket, but

1:08:02

it took up so much room in my backpack,

1:08:05

but I had a full-on blanket. But

1:08:08

I didn't need it, so it's not

1:08:10

an essential. For me,

1:08:12

it would be fully charged AirPods.

1:08:16

I sometimes just forget how charged

1:08:18

they are, and that's sort of a

1:08:20

disaster when they conk out. Yeah, I do have

1:08:22

little earbuds. I

1:08:27

don't use AirPods because I would

1:08:29

lose them. I use like

1:08:31

$30 things because I lose

1:08:33

them. But then I also have a pair

1:08:36

of noise-canceling headphones that also

1:08:39

can plug into something. So

1:08:42

I've got the wireless, and then I've also got the

1:08:44

plug-ins. And the

1:08:46

noise-canceling thing is just to have, I'll wear

1:08:48

them when I'm not listening to music or

1:08:51

watching anything, just to sort of drone out

1:08:55

the possible noise of like a screaming

1:08:57

kid, which

1:08:59

I am never really, maybe

1:09:02

I'm disappointed with that kid, but I'm not

1:09:04

mad at that kid or at those parents, and

1:09:07

I feel like people should do. But

1:09:10

you do go over and say, I'm

1:09:12

not mad, I'm disappointed. Yeah.

1:09:16

Like other people are mad, I'm just disappointed.

1:09:21

But I think it's sort of incumbent on everyone

1:09:23

who's getting on an airplane. I

1:09:25

feel like you should have something that can

1:09:27

dampen or eliminate as much of

1:09:29

the noise as possible, especially if you're going to be

1:09:31

the kind of person that's going to be like, this

1:09:35

person's too loud. It's like, well, now they make

1:09:37

things. They

1:09:39

make little foam things that you can stuff in your

1:09:41

ear, little earplugs, and you just

1:09:44

get some of those. Wrap your head in

1:09:46

Josh's camping blanket. Yeah. I

1:09:51

got some snacks, I got some snack stuff

1:09:53

going on in my bag. You always, you're

1:09:55

king of snacks. The one great, not the

1:09:57

one great, one of the many great things

1:09:59

about Josh. Josh, back in the

1:10:01

day, we used to go see movies together when

1:10:03

we lived in Amsterdam. Josh

1:10:06

would have sort of a full

1:10:08

bag of, you sort of had like

1:10:10

a banana-shaped bag, is that fair? Yeah,

1:10:12

it was a skateboard bag, I believe.

1:10:14

I think you could put like an

1:10:16

old, long, like

1:10:19

banana skateboard in it. And

1:10:21

it was well known that sort of

1:10:23

a few minutes into a film, Posh

1:10:26

would sort of hand out a much

1:10:28

higher level of snack than you were

1:10:31

used to in a cinema. A lot

1:10:33

of crackers with sort of spreadable cheese.

1:10:37

Any number of nuts. There

1:10:40

was some chocolate in there. It

1:10:42

was really, it was, and there's some weird

1:10:44

Dutch snacks that are very near and dear

1:10:46

to my heart. Spicy

1:10:49

Pindas. Yeah, there's like peanuts.

1:10:51

There's sort of peanuts. Yeah, like

1:10:53

sort of peanuts that have like a deep

1:10:56

fried, yeah,

1:10:58

like shell. Like shell, but

1:11:00

it's also like, I want to

1:11:02

say like a Middle Eastern spice to it,

1:11:04

maybe like a Turkish spice. I'm not entirely

1:11:06

sure where those come from, but yeah. Very

1:11:09

good when Josh would bring a bunch of

1:11:11

beers. It was definitely against a lot of

1:11:13

the rules, but look, it was the high

1:11:15

flying 90s in Amsterdam. Again,

1:11:18

not everybody's watching this on YouTube, but a

1:11:21

reminder, one, to watch it if you want

1:11:23

to see what Josh's side looked like when

1:11:25

he got hit with a golf ball and

1:11:27

to just an exceptionally good hair day. Sometimes

1:11:29

I think, sometimes I think, you know

1:11:31

what? I'm having a good hair day

1:11:33

and I just should remember not to see you

1:11:35

on those days. Have

1:11:38

you showered today? Well,

1:11:40

I don't feel like that's a, you know, this

1:11:43

is listener Q and A. You

1:11:45

know what I mean? Like it's not, I'm not here to

1:11:47

answer your questions. I'm here to answer your questions. But you

1:11:49

have, you are in the office, so you will arrive at

1:11:51

the office unshowered. Again, if

1:11:55

you want to write these in for the next listener episode.

1:11:59

The thing. The thing is, I'll

1:12:01

just say, I'm not gonna answer your question,

1:12:03

but I'm gonna answer a different question. I

1:12:05

shower before the show, you know?

1:12:08

And so hypothetically, how many showers is a guy

1:12:11

supposed to take in a day? Well,

1:12:13

I mean. Cause at some point your skin dries

1:12:15

out, you know what I mean? If you're just

1:12:17

like spending, also life, you know, life's happening all

1:12:20

around us. And you know, when you're in a

1:12:22

shower, the amount of things you miss. Sure,

1:12:26

like you go, and again, like this is the difference.

1:12:28

And Josh is like, I'm gonna take a full bath.

1:12:31

The amount you've missed in

1:12:33

your baths. I missed? Yeah,

1:12:35

cause life's going on while you're just in there.

1:12:37

That's golden hour in there. That's like. No, that's

1:12:39

what I keep hearing. Yeah. Yeah.

1:12:42

Taking a bath. No, thank you. Yeah.

1:12:45

I did take a shower this morning, I will say. Oh,

1:12:48

that's nice. Well, again, it's paying off.

1:12:50

You look fantastic. Thanks. She's

1:12:53

giving it a try. Thank you to,

1:12:55

again, stop. Thank you

1:12:57

to all of our listeners

1:12:59

for their stories, for their

1:13:01

questions. This is a delight

1:13:04

to do. And

1:13:07

yeah, thanks for listening in general. It's

1:13:09

really exciting. And that we're, we've

1:13:11

been doing this just about for a

1:13:13

year now. And we really, we really

1:13:16

love that you guys listen and we love that you're engaged

1:13:19

in this way. And yeah, it's

1:13:22

so much fun to do. And

1:13:25

it wouldn't be the same if people weren't listening. It

1:13:28

would just be sad. Would just be a couple of weird

1:13:30

dudes. Yeah. All right. Thanks

1:13:33

everybody. Thank you. Oh. Leslie,

1:13:38

valley, gold. Yes.

1:13:45

Darkapse. Those

1:13:48

are real good, fine.

1:13:51

Yeah. His

1:13:53

dad, you know, he was a pilot.

1:13:57

He had discount

1:13:59

valedict. He took a

1:14:01

voucher for himself, yeah,

1:14:04

Flew down to Mexico, he

1:14:07

probably hoped it'd be sexical

1:14:10

But it was just probably Mexico

1:14:12

On the way home

1:14:15

he had layover In

1:14:19

the terminal he saw his

1:14:21

sister Were

1:14:24

you doing here? Then

1:14:28

there's his daddy Says

1:14:31

don't you go tell mama

1:14:35

Hey, you're wet there,

1:14:37

separate ways And

1:14:42

then there's Jim Annual

1:14:45

trip on the musky again

1:14:47

now, Sufi Take a turn

1:14:49

at the mic if you

1:14:51

please Yeah

1:14:55

Mr. Web and me

1:14:58

floating down in a canoe Gonna

1:15:02

get the frownies And

1:15:05

I'm bringing them back And then he's gonna get water in

1:15:07

his keys Battle for those

1:15:10

sweet treats Brave

1:15:12

and the wide water patch Wasn't

1:15:14

just a couple frownies

1:15:19

It was a quadruple batch

1:15:22

Tracy takes a taxi Tell

1:15:26

the driver about daddy and

1:15:28

Tiffany But with

1:15:30

her daughter it's Susan and

1:15:32

her dog Oh

1:15:35

so Susan has a parent

1:15:38

That's right, her

1:15:40

parent's gonna stay

1:15:43

In the house with Susan and

1:15:45

her dog And they will teach their

1:15:47

bird to say Mr.

1:15:50

Web and me floating

1:15:53

down in a canoe Gonna

1:15:56

get the frownies And

1:15:59

I'm bringing them back I'm back and then he's gonna

1:16:01

get water in his keys. Out

1:16:03

in old Wyoming, some

1:16:06

parents cancelled their hotel

1:16:09

before anybody checks to

1:16:13

see if there were any vacancies.

1:16:18

Or there any vacancies

1:16:21

that were no

1:16:23

vacancies. No

1:16:25

vacancies. They

1:16:30

checked into a motel. Yuck!

1:16:34

There was only a smoking room.

1:16:36

Parents slept on a big king

1:16:38

bed. Couple kids

1:16:41

on a metal car. They

1:16:44

sprayed for breeze and

1:16:46

it only smelled like

1:16:48

chemicals. But they

1:16:50

ready to film. Holy

1:16:53

grail! Quite the tale, never

1:16:55

fails. Mr.

1:16:58

Web and me

1:17:00

floating down the canoe. Gonna

1:17:04

get the brownies and

1:17:07

I'm gonna bring them back. And then

1:17:09

he's gonna get water in his keys.

1:17:12

Katie from California took

1:17:14

the swim in the world and

1:17:16

the river her bro said Fleescheries

1:17:18

were eyeballs at home.

1:17:21

He thinks he just found

1:17:23

a head. Mr. Web

1:17:25

and me floating

1:17:28

down the canoe. Gonna

1:17:31

get the brownies and

1:17:34

I'm gonna bring them back. And then he's gonna

1:17:37

get water in his keys. Thank you for the

1:17:39

stories. We

1:17:41

couldn't get to everyone so if

1:17:43

we didn't get to yours then

1:17:47

please send one when

1:17:49

we ask again. Mr.

1:17:52

Web and me got

1:17:56

the best listeners.

1:18:00

See, I don't think it's hard.