Camping in the Snow, Aussie Waterfalls, & A Trip With Zero Bear Sightings: Listener Episode #20

Summary

Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers

Episode: Camping in the Snow, Aussie Waterfalls, & A Trip With Zero Bear Sightings: Listener Episode #20
Date: January 29, 2026
Hosts: Seth Meyers and Josh Meyers

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Episode Overview

This listener-driven episode features Seth and Josh Meyers reading and reacting to family trip stories submitted from around the world. Centering on childhood memories, close encounters with wildlife, travel mishaps, and the universal drama of missed moments, the brothers weave in their signature self-deprecating humor, sibling banter, and cultural references. The episode spotlights tales from Seattle, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada—offering a globe-trotting, nostalgia-filled ride punctuated by oddball asides (and some questionable accents).

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1. Meyers Brothers Catch-Up

0:17 - 10:59

• Steelers Season Recap:
  The brothers lament the end of the Pittsburgh Steelers’ season, with Seth recounting the humor and pain of breaking the news to his kids, especially the early-rising and football-absorbed Axel.

  • Seth: “Axel came and woke me up at 5:40 and just said, ‘Did they win?’ and I said they didn’t. And he went, ‘Oh, I’m going back to bed.’” (00:31)
  • Ash's surprising emotional awareness is highlighted: “Ash goes, ‘I’m going to give you an A because you really kept your cool about the Steelers.’ ...How do you already know how much I’m fighting it?” (01:17)

• Family Text-Chain Grades:
  Josh asks Seth to rate their dad's performance on the game night text thread—Dad gets a C-minus for dropping an F-bomb and going to bed early.

  • “I would say dad was in the C minus range. ...I think there was maybe an F word before he let us all know he was going to bed.” (02:57)

• Surprise Birthday Recap:
  They recall Josh’s birthday dinner in LA, including near-missed surprises, the accidental giveaway of dinner details, and the joy of mingling with shared friends.

  • “What time’s dinner?” “6:40, which no one’s ever booked a 6:40 dinner reservation.” (04:24)
  • Josh on Instagram and friend Jill’s unflattering group photo: “So ultimately, Jill fucked you. I mean, she did.” (06:58)

• Showbiz Anecdotes:
  Seth brags about a mid-interview “slow joke” for Korean actor Lee Byung Hun, and teasingly wonders about the appropriateness of wearing his own show’s sweatshirt.

• "Heated Rivalry" Fandom:
  Seth discusses the surprising popularity of Connor Story (from the show “Heated Rivalry”)—even causing his staff to field a surge in ticket requests:

  • “We received more personal ticket requests...for Connor Story than I have for anyone outside of Taylor Swift in like three weeks.” (09:50)

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2. Listeners' Family Travel Tales

15:00 - 39:55

Greta from Seattle: “The Bear Encounter That...Wasn't”

17:06 - 20:20

• Story: Greta recounts visiting Glacier National Park with family, obsessing over seeing wild bears, only to discover the excitement came while she was fast asleep.
• Key Moment: As a child, she and her brother discover a live bear trap. Later, a grizzly and cubs go on a cabin-side trash frenzy, the mother bear is trapped, but her parents don't wake the kids to see it.
• Notable Quote:
  • “They have never given us a logical reason for not waking us up, other than they just didn’t think to.” (19:41)
• Hosts’ Reactions: Sympathy for missing out, musing on how, with smartphones, parents today would film it all:
  • Seth: “In this day and age…we don’t have to wake up; the kids will just make a video of the bear thrashing around.” (20:38)

Seth’s Tangent: Kid FOMO on Ski Trips & Cookies

22:33 - 26:11

• Seth shares a side story on his son Ash’s “fear of missing out” at a haunted hotel on a ski trip—then comically details Ash’s overindulgence in cookies and subsequent car-sickness.
• “I was like, how many [cookies] did you have? And he went, 8 to 15. Son of a gun.” (24:38)

Stephen from Perth, Australia: “Waterfalls and Wild Surprises”

27:16 - 32:42

• Story:
  Long, wandering road trips with his grandparents across Western Australia, featuring endless open space, insider local adventures, cassette tapes, and...a surprise naked sunbathers incident at a hidden waterfall.
• Key Moment:
  • “As I got close to the waterfall I stumbled across probably the first naked girl sighting I’ve ever had and it was in the wild. I think there was two or three wearing nothing but a smile...” (29:11)
• Hosts’ Reactions:
  Seth and Josh joke about how the episode's narrative zigged ever so briefly into adolescent milestones, reminisce about their own reactions to nudity as preteens, and attempt friendly-but-terrible Australian accents.
  • “I didn’t think naked ladies was coming, did you?...Always exciting for young gents.” (30:52)

Anusha from New Zealand: “Camping...or Not Camping...in the Snow”

34:50 - 39:05

• Story:
  As a recent Indian immigrant, Anusha is designated family trip planner for a group camping trip, scoring deals via Groupon and relying entirely on Google Maps. She navigates them straight to a very scenic, icy, and unexpectedly snowy mountain campsite...in spring.
• Key Moment:
  • “Turns out I’d set us up at the foothill of the famous Mount Tongariro...and it snowed there even during spring. Much panic ensued...” (36:27)
  • They wisely panic-rent warm cabins for the night, leaving their fresh tents out in the snow for the memory books.
• Hosts’ Reactions:
  • This is peak relatable parent content. Seth: “That would be how I would feel if at the last minute, instead of camping, we went to a hotel. Especially if it was not my fault.” (37:50)

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3. Listener Follow-Ups & Extra Segments

41:13 - 46:47

Andrew from Winnipeg: “In Defense of Our City (and Restaurant Scene)”

41:18 - 43:43

• Context:
  After Bob Odenkirk’s visit cast shade on Winnipeg’s culinary reputation, Andrew calls to set the record straight, highlighting the city’s abundance of restaurants, vibrant French winter festival, and summer pop-up scene—inviting the Meyers brothers to visit, but cautioning: “If you’re coming here in the winter ... it can be something between, you know, minus 15 to minus 40 Celsius.” (41:26)
• Hosts’ Reactions:
  • Both express affection for Canada, delicately suggest a summer visit is vastly preferable, and joke about the unfamiliar cold.

The “Unsmirching” Segment

44:09 - 44:40

• Seth and Josh joke about starting a “desmirching” (unsmirching) segment to let listeners defend their hometowns if the podcast gives a city a bad rap:
  • “If you feel besmirched, unsmirch it.” (44:23)

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4. End-of-Episode Banter & Listener Song Recap

46:47 - End

• Prompting for Future Episodes:

  • The brothers express excitement about themed listener stories (“bear encounters” was a hit), with plans for more prompts.
  • Josh: “We’ll think about some prompts for some episodes this season. I think that’s a good way to go. So I appreciate Greta for sort of lighting that fire.” (46:32)

• Global Reach:

  • Celebrating submissions from around the world (New Zealand, Australia, Canada, US), and self-awarely butchering various accents.

• Sibling Nostalgia:

  • Reflections on childhood, Smurf collecting, and the eternal syndrome of “packing light but still leaving things behind.”
  • Seth: “It’s amazing. Like, I think I left my first, third, and fourth most important thing. Like, I brought nothing and I left it all.” (47:46)

• Listener-Generated Recap Song

  • The episode closes with a listener song summarizing the stories in whimsical rhyme (starts 48:14).
    • “Greta wanted to see a bear. Couldn’t find them anywhere...In Australia, Stephen told of his old Nissan Patrol...Anusha’s family might have frozen...”
  • (The segment is playful, wrapping up the major stories with wordplay and inside-joke references.)

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Memorable Quotes

• On Family & Disappointment:
  • “The heartbreaking ones, the ones I still think about are the ones that turned on one play.” (01:10)
• On Missed Childhood Moments:
  • Greta (Listener): “To this day, we still haven’t forgiven our parents for it. And they have never given us a logical reason for not waking us up.” (19:41)
• On Parenting Failures:
  • Seth: “It’s amazing. Like, I think I left my first, third, and fourth most important thing. Like, I brought nothing and I left it all.” (47:46)
• On Self-Deprecating Showbiz:
  • Josh, about posting Instagram photos: “So ultimately, Jill fucked you. I mean, she did.” (06:58)
• On Adventure Travel:
  • Stephen (Listener): “…But probably just a quick look [at the Grand Canyon], as I’ve seen many sites that are just as amazing, if not more.” (30:08)

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Highlighted Timestamps

• Early banter & Steelers talk: 00:17 – 03:40
• Birthday dinner/Surprise fail: 03:55 – 07:16
• Heated Rivalry celebrity surge: 09:07 – 10:59
• Greta’s bear story: 17:06 – 20:20
• Australia naked waterfall story: 27:16 – 32:42
• Anusha’s camping in the snow: 34:50 – 39:05
• Winnipeg tourism defense: 41:13 – 43:43
• Listener summary song: 48:14 – End

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Episode Tone & Style

Affectionately irreverent and self-aware, the Meyers brothers create a feeling of family warmth—even as they roast each other, their loved ones, and the quirks of human memory. They welcome listener vulnerability and oddity, keeping the tone upbeat, nostalgic, and genuinely enthusiastic about their fans’ worldwide stories.

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For First-Time Listeners

If you’ve never listened before, this episode is a warm welcome: you’ll get classic sibling banter, relatable parenting and travel fails, quick left-turns into the absurd, and a world’s worth of odd, memorable, and sweet family tales. The Meyers’ conversational chemistry is infectious—you’ll feel like you’re in the backseat for the family road trip too.

Transcript

[Narrator]

Family trips with the Mice Brothers. Family trips with the Myers.

[Josh]

Brothers.

[Seth]

Here we go. Hey Baji.

[Josh]

Hey Sufi.

[Seth]

How is my brother? Boy?

[Josh]

I'm great.

[Seth]

I'm great. We are. We're lamenting the end of the Pittsburgh Steelers season.

[Josh]

We all saw it coming.

[Seth]

We kind of saw it coming. We got a little hopeful. But it, it came to a close. I had, you know, that unenviable task of telling the boys this morning and they're pretty good. Axel came and woke me up at 5:40 and just said, did they win? And I said they didn't. And he went, oh, I'm going back to bed. So that was pretty great. That was maybe the one upside is he was so bummed he didn't want to hang out with me at 5:40. Yeah. And then Ash. I have a couple things to say about Ash. One is we talked about it and I said, you know, I will. It's easier for me when they get blown out. You know, like the heartbreaking ones, the ones I still think about are the ones that turned on one play. And you certainly couldn't say that about we could have had it. Could have had it. And then Alexi's out of town. So I got in the elevator this morning with all three kids and it was a pretty good morning. And I said, I'm gonna give everybody their grades for this morning. And Addy got an A and Ash got a A and Axel got an A minus because it took him a really long time to put his sweatshirt on. Oh yeah. And then Ash goes, I'm going to give you an A because you really kept her cool about the Steelers. I was like, oh my God, how do you already know this? How do you already know how much I'm fighting it? But the other great thing is my brother in law, Zach Heinzerling, he's, he's from Houston, all right? And the four of us were hanging out the other day and Zach was saying, I asked him, I was like, are you a Texans fan? He was like, no. You know, because we were. I was a Houston Oilers fan and then they moved to Tennessee and I was a Titans fan. And you know, the Texans were never really that good. So I never really had a rooting interest in the Texans. And so then I wasn't with him, but he dropped off. His daughter, goes to school with my boys and he saw the boys and he said, haha, I got you guys. And Ash said, oh, so now you're a Texans fan.

[Josh]

Which I liked. Fair burn on Hyzerling.

[Seth]

And then you Know, again, I posted it on Instagram because I will say I'm going to take this season as a positive because, you know, one, that Ravens game to end the season was so thrilling. And two, we went to the Steelers with the boys.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth]

And it was one of the highlights of my year, for sure.

[Josh]

What would you give dad as a grade based on the text chain thread with me, you, mom, dad, and Dad's best friend, Denny?

[Seth]

I would say dad was in the C minus range. Did he. I mean, I think there was maybe an F word before he let us all know he was going to bed.

[Josh]

Yeah, he was going to bed. Also with, like, it was conceivable that we, you know, it would be unlikely, but conceivable that we could have turned it around. And then it just. I mean, it was like stepping on a muddy hillside how fast it went south after he sent that text. But there was still a chance.

[Seth]

And I. No, that was.

[Josh]

Right.

[Seth]

That was not the end of things. I agree.

[Josh]

Right. And I am sure mom was still watching and was like, I'm.

[Seth]

Of course.

[Josh]

Yeah. I'm here till the bitter end.

[Seth]

Yeah. No, I'm. I bet it's pretty tense that the old. I was gonna say our address, but.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth]

Yeah. The last thing I need is them getting more fan mail.

[Josh]

That's my fear.

[Seth]

That's why I'm not giving everybody my address. Yeah. Also, we. Well, you know, we podcasted from your house. Yeah.

[Josh]

Or I mean, we recorded an intro and then you podcast.

[Seth]

Oh, that's right. Yeah, that's true. But then also, you know, so we talked about how we went on a nice big hike together in Los Angeles. But then we had. We recorded that intro before we went out to your birthday dinner, which was awesome.

[Josh]

It was a surprise. Again, like, you know, I sort of am seeing through these surprises, which is fine. The end result is I get a great dinner with some great friends.

[Seth]

Right. You know, you kind of know a surprise is coming.

[Josh]

Yeah. Well, one of the ways I knew a surprise was coming is I asked you, what time is dinner? And you said, 6:40, which no one's ever booked a 6:40 dinner reservation. Right away.

[Seth]

I was like, that tall, but I was like, you know what? I kind of was like. Yeah.

[Josh]

Also, we, you know, we went. I mean, you took us out a bunch of our great old friends. Ike Barinholtz, Dave Stassen, Liz Kakowski, Betty Stassen. And it was at the Ivy, sort of fancy spot that I haven't been to in a good long time. But also, Even the surprise of going to the Ivy, you were like, maybe it was a half hour before we left. You're like, into the Ivy. I hope that's okay. And it's like, all right. Yeah, well, now I know that too.

[Sam]

Yeah.

[Seth]

Yeah, I guess I thought that it would be. The people would be. I don't know. You know what? I was handled poorly. But also I was supposed to surprise you. We talked about this and that also didn't land. But you didn't know who was going to be there.

[Josh]

I didn't. It was all great. It was all fantastic.

[Seth]

Again, you know, one of the great benefits of my life is how many 1 chapters of my life I've shared with you and because of that, how many friends we shared. So it wasn't like I was going out to dinner with friends of yours that I only know because they're friends of yours, even though those people are lovely. You know, it wasn't like I had to like, dig up any numbers or anything. And it was really fun. And it was like a long. It was a very long three hour dinner. And it was just everything you wanted to be. And it wasn't too big. I will say that was the other nice thing. And I think we were like eight people. And so I kind of got a chance to talk to everybody one on one as well.

[Sam]

Yeah.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Josh]

I will say there's that thing now that I sort of. I mean, you know me about Instagram posting.

[Seth]

I. Oh, interesting. I think, interesting for your take here.

[Josh]

Yeah, I think it's awful and.

[Seth]

It'S really helped the digital footprint of this show. Yeah.

[Josh]

There was a bad picture. One picture was taken of us at that dinner. And then our friend Jill posted it. And then so many other friends of mine were like, oh, you did something big for your 50th. And I was like, yeah, but I didn't know. And my brother came in and he surprised me and like, it was. He organized the dinner. Like, MacKenzie didn't organize the dinner. He did. And so, please. And people are like, oh, yeah, okay, okay.

[Seth]

But, yeah, right. And so ultimately, Jill fucked you. I mean, she did.

[Josh]

Her gift was. Yeah, I guess. I guess also, like, except For Jill and MacKenzie, everyone looks terrible in that picture, I think.

[Seth]

Yeah. Do you. Would you have. If you'd known she was going to post it, would you have said, like, hey, maybe because it's my birthday? Because that's an interesting thing. I know exactly what you're talking about when people are like, oh, you. So you did do something.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth]

Would you have said, hey, maybe don't post that.

[Josh]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Seth]

Can I say something? A note for both of us? Sure. We shouldn't. We should have known she was fucking posting it, I'll tell you that much. You know what I mean? She like looking back.

[Josh]

Jill B. Posting. Jill b. Posting.

[Seth]

J. J.B. j.B.P. as we call her. Jill B. Poston. Oh, can I tell you, I. I'm going to brag about a joke I told on the show last night.

[Josh]

Okay.

[Seth]

But it's like a. It was like a mid interview brag. Okay. So I had this actor, Lee Byung Hun, who's in this terrific new movie, no Other Choice. And oh yeah, he want to see that one. You know, by the way, his English is great, but it's also his second language. And he was a little concerned before the show, but then during the interview, everything was just going smashing and he was crashing and he was telling really funny stories. Incredibly charismatic guy, great actor. But then at one point he told a story and then I made a joke at the end of the story and. And he goes, may I ask that you slow down a little because I want to make sure I don't miss anything. And so then I really slowly said what I just said was really funny. And then he laughed. Not bad. I'm pretty proud of myself. Hey, have you. We all stop. I mean, I'm, you know, I know this is a listener episode. We're going to get to it. But we had an interesting phenomenon happen also. How do you feel, how do you feel about me wearing a late night sweatshirt, which is what I'm wearing right now?

[Josh]

Like, do you feel like I'm on board? I wear, I wear our family trip sweatshirts all the time.

[Seth]

Yeah. So I. We had this actor from Heated Rivalry on the show.

[Josh]

Oh yeah.

[Seth]

By the name of Connor Story. So I will just say the Connor Story was not a name I knew three weeks ago. The first time I heard the name Connor Story was because my talent department said, this show's really big. We want to book this guy Connor Story. I'm like, go for it. We. I receive more personal ticket requests for people to come to the show that Connor Story was on than I have for anyone outside of Taylor Swift in like three weeks? He is.

[Josh]

It's a big deal.

[Seth]

He's a big deal. And Heated Rivalry. Heated Rivalry is a fantastic show. It's about two hockey players who, who fall in love. And so, you know, it is based on some young adult books and it's a gay romance the likes of which I've never seen on tv. It's also very steamy. Posh. I know you like a little bit of a warning when something's gonna be steamy, But I was also trying to do my job as a talk show host to watch the show so that I could be informed before asking my questions to. To Mr. Connor Story. And. And so I had it on my work computer, and then I had to go do something, and so I paused it. I just so happened to pause it mid steamy scene. And then shoemaker. Shoemaker comes in, takes a picture of it on his phone, and just sends it to me. And he writes. He wrote. Typical.

[Josh]

Yeah. It's always people who are like, yo, no, I'm happily married. I got this thing going on. And maybe they have some other inclinations.

[Seth]

No, I just. Look, it's like. I will say it's nice when you got a talk show. Cause you're like, this is just talk show stuff, baby.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth]

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[Josh]

Hey, Sufi.

[Seth]

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[Josh]

I do like to cook. You know what I love cooking on, though?

[Seth]

What's that?

[Josh]

It's a nice pot or pan.

[Seth]

Do you like the kind where everything sticks to it and it takes an hour to clean?

[Josh]

Nope.

[Seth]

Oh, interesting. I don't like that at all. Okay.

[Josh]

I prefer a non stick, but a lot of nonsticks. They're not all they're cracked up to be.

[Seth]

I agree with that.

[Josh]

Yeah, they can get scratched. They're not super durable.

[Seth]

They wear out fast. That's.

[Josh]

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[Seth]

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[Josh]

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[Seth]

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[Josh]

I don't even know if my oven gets up to 900 degrees.

[Seth]

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[Seth]

Here we go. All right, we have. We have some listener stories. We're very excited, as always. Thank you for sending them in. And now we're going to. First of all, Sam, have you seen Heated Rivalry?

[Listener Greta]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Josh]

Whoa. Yeah.

[Seth]

So, Sam, this is one of the things I'm really taken with is this show was a huge hit with the ladies.

[Listener Greta]

Yes.

[Seth]

And I can't quite describe why. Do you think you can explain to me why you think it's such a huge hit with the ladies?

[Listener Greta]

I think it is. Just, like, we haven't quite seen this on a show before. I don't know. Two hockey players falling in love. We've obviously seen gay romance, but maybe because it has to do with hockey. And you're so invested, too. You're like, I don't know.

[Seth]

It's. Yeah, this. The hockey stuff is actually pretty good. The. I have another. I think it's really funny to watch because there's no. It's the first rom com I've. But it's not a. It's not a rom com. It's. But it's romance. There's. But there's, like, no meet cute.

[Listener Greta]

Yeah.

[Seth]

Like, pashi these guys. Like, if you're like, I want to watch it, but I'm not into, like, the hook it up stuff. Like, enjoy the first seven minutes of Heated Rivalry. Like, and I'm like, I kind of like that too, because, like. Like, a lot of my gay friends are like. That part was so refreshing that they were like, we're not gonna pretend like, this is a heterosexual romance movie. You know, just like. Anyway.

[Josh]

And they did.

[Listener Greta]

They shot to fame immediately. They were, like, at the Golden Globes, too. I mean, it's crazy. Like, so much happens for them immediately.

[Seth]

Yeah. Yeah. So shout out to both those games.

[Josh]

Just like a hockey game. It's a puck drop, and then it's game on.

[Seth]

The puck goes down. Game on. All right, we are ready for our stories. I knew Sam. I knew Sa is a dirty dog. I knew she'd be, like, deep in. Like, I was so confident.

[Josh]

She's a. She's a cultural maven. She needs to know what's going on out there. Same way you do.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth]

Okay, let's hear our first story.

[Listener Greta]

Hi. Seth and Josh, this is Greta calling from Seattle. I just finished listening to your episode with Jim James and I was thinking that's a fun idea for a listener feedback episode, maybe bear encounters. Because who doesn't love a good bear story? In the spirit of Jim James, here is my bear encounter story. So my family is a core five family. A typical vacation for us was driving to a national park for a week. Being typical kids, all we wanted was to see a bear. We'd seen a couple of black bears in Yellowstone, but they were more of those drive by bears, the ones from your car when you're sitting in an endless line of cars. Not exactly the kind of wild bear encounter we had envisioned for ourselves until the summer. We visited Glacier national park, famous for grizzly bears. The first couple of days we were there, we did a couple of guided hikes. We all had to wear bear bells, and we were advised to sing or talk to avoid surprising the bears we knew were just around the next bend or the next bend or the next bend. And though we saw evidence of recent bear activity through poop and claw and scratch marks on trees, we never saw an actual bear on those hikes. Probably because we were making too much noise. My older brother and I, we were probably around 10 or 12 at the time. We were allowed to go out and explore on our own as long as we stayed within earshot of the cabin. And while wandering around, we discovered an old bear trap that was hidden in the woods. And it was what you would exactly imagine a bear trap to be. One of those big metal cages where you go in, there's a piece of meat hanging from a hook. So of course we had to climb into the trap and poke around. And although we knew enough not to mess with it for whatever reason, it didn't register with either of us that this was actually a live trap. And after a minute or two, we got bored and continued on with our adventures elsewhere. That night it finally happened. A mother grizzly and two cubs went on a midnight rampage. They were digging through the garbage cans just a few feet away from the cabin. Just feasting away and having a grand old time. The cubs were rolling around playfully with each other, playfully with their mother, who eventually wandered away, entered the trap, took the bait and got herself caught. It was everything we imagined our wild bear encounter would be and more if our parents had bothered to wake us up for it, which they didn't. When the opportunity presented itself in the safest way possible, did our parents think to wake us up? No. We heard about it. The next morning, from everyone. It was all everyone, anyone was talking about how the mother and her cubs had been raiding the garbage cans for weeks and were finally trapped and hauled up into the backcountry. To this day, we still haven't forgiven our parents for it. And they have never given us a logical reason for not waking us up, other than they just didn't think to Happy New Year and keep doing what you're doing.

[Seth]

Thank you for that wonderful story. Thank you also for the idea of asking for listener questions for something specific, like bear stories.

[Sam]

Yeah.

[Josh]

We did what, like, in October, we were like, let's do Halloween stories. But I think, like, something like a bear encounter is a great prompt.

[Seth]

Yeah. Cause, like, every time we ask Jeff for ideas, he's like, valentine's Day? What about Easter? We're like, jesus, we get it. We know the holidays. Jeff. I also get the sense that maybe this was in an era where, like, cameras weren't, like, free and easy. You know what I mean? Like, in this day and age, you. You would be like, oh, we don't have to wake up. The kids will just make a video of the bear thrashing around in the. In the trap.

[Josh]

Yeah, but looking out your cabin window, that's. You're not going to beat that with a. With camera footage that's good for showing people back in the city, back when you get back to Seattle.

[Seth]

Remember when we went to Iceland, they woke us up at the hotel because the aurora borealis were out. Yeah.

[Josh]

Although, I mean. Yeah, I think we've mentioned this, but you signed up at the front desk if you wanted to be woken up, if there were northern lights, but you got woken up by the stampeding feet on the stairs of everyone because someone got word or someone looked out their window.

[Seth]

I remember I was like, is there any other stuff you might want to wake us up for? And they were like, what do you mean? I'm like. Like, if there was going to be, like, free nachos. Yeah, you can give me for that.

[Josh]

Chicken fingers.

[Seth]

Chicken finger. Yeah. That's really the truth.

[Josh]

I was worried. I was worried that something bad was going to happen to that mama bear when she got trapped. I'm glad to hear that she just got driven up into the backcountry.

[Seth]

I feel like our listener, like, there was a sweet tone to her voice. I don't think she would have shared a dead bear story.

[Josh]

Yeah, but you know what I mean. Yeah.

[Seth]

You never know, though. That might have been the twist.

[Josh]

I mean, she didn't see it, I guess. Yeah, none of it was.

[Seth]

We don't know.

[Josh]

It's like, oh, yeah. And then they took the bear to the backcountry.

[Seth]

Yeah, that's where she lives with her.

[Josh]

Cubs to this day.

[Seth]

That thing about, like, missing out. So Ash, last weekend went on a ski trip with kids from school, and I wasn't. It was an overnight at a hotel. I wasn't there because I was with my brother. It's a four season. It was a beautiful four seasons. It was like a two seasons. Have you seen the inside of it? But I went and we. Fortunately he had a parent. Mom of his friend had him, but I went up. But he hadn't stayed at the hotel with all the other families. And so he skied on Saturday. And then I went and met him and then we had dinner with all these kids on Saturday night. It was so fun. But the night before, it was sort of this, like, ramshackle, old, like. What is it? The Overlook Hotel from the Shining. Like one of those, like, long hallways, you know, old in feeling. And he had a. He had a lot of FOMO because, like, I guess the kids had like all like, woken up kind of with like, sort of tacit parental approval because they heard it was a haunted hotel. And so it's just like a bunch of kids, like, marauding down the hallway. Like, ghost hunting is what they were telling Ash they were doing. And then the parents told me because there was like a parental WhatsApp group that they. They got contact by the hotel being like, get your kids.

[Josh]

I thought the parental wet app group was going to be like, we got to. Someone's got to dress up like a ghost.

[Seth]

Oh, yeah, that'd be better.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth]

The. The perfect payoff to that story be like. And then what we didn't know. Hotel had a bear trap.

[Josh]

Five of the kids, ankles up, ankle up. I just got taken to the back.

[Seth]

Country Y. Oh, also there was like a. It was this very fun thing where, like, hanging out with parents in like, a bar, which, you know, you never, like, socialize much with the parents from school, but, like, everybody was staying at this hotel. So, like, there was. It was like a loose vibe that was really fun with a lot of these parents that I know from, like, pick up, drop off that I'm big fans of. But getting to hang out with them was really cool.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth]

And then there was another, like, kind of playroom where, like, the kids were doing stuff. And in general, like, I, you know, we keep an eye on, like, what Ash is, like, consuming. But, like, I didn't want to be like, the one parent who was sort of hovering. Right? And. And then we had like a. We had to drive home afterwards. So Ash got in the car and I'm like, did you eat any sweets? He's like, I maybe had more cookies than usual. And I was like, how many did you have? And he went, 8 to 15. Son of a gun. Cause like, you know, it ain't eight. And then like five minutes into our hour long drive, he's like, I don't feel well. I'm like, roll down your window. You'll be fine. And then he. He puked so many. He's like, three full pukes.

[Josh]

Oh, my gosh.

[Seth]

Yeah, three full. And I'm. I will say not to pat myself on the back. I did a fantastic job of, like, not getting angry and, like, being like, all right, you okay? And, like, I pulled over to a gas station. Fortunately, since he'd had an overnight, we had a change of clothes for him. So I, like, got him changed. I cleaned it off, like, you know, and then he was like, oh, God, thanks, dad. I feel so much better now. I gotta be honest. I think I ate too many cookies. I'm like, yep, no, that definitely was it. But we had a real nice, like, you know what crisis we're through. It doesn't matter. He's like, we maybe need to roll these windows down. Cause I feel like mom's gonna be able to smell this. I'm like, we're definitely gonna roll the windows down. We just drove home in the freezing cold. It was good times.

[Josh]

Also with waking kids up in the middle of the night, I remember, like, wanting to buy your kids, like, things that would glow in the dark, like little glow in the dark rockets or like Nerf rockets, things like that. But I feel like for the longest time in your kids lives, they didn't know what night was. Like, they never seen the world dark. And I sort of had to wait until they would either be awake early enough or go to bed late enough to even have a concept. And I feel like. I feel like they learned that much later than.

[Seth]

Yeah, they were aware of, Like, I would say, like. Yeah, like, we treated night like screen time.

[Josh]

Don't give them. We really.

[Seth]

We're really trying to limit their night.

[Josh]

Yeah, you did a great job initially.

[Seth]

We did a great job.

[Josh]

Thank you, Greta.

[Seth]

Thank you, Greta. Great story. Great is an anagram of Greta.

[Josh]

All right, good one, Good one. Next story, please, Sam.

[Sam]

Hi, Seth and Josh. Love the podcast. My name is Stephen and I hail from the Most isolated city in the world. Perth, Australia. And when I was a young boy back in the late 80s, early 90s, I would go on these awesome family vacations with my grandparents around our amazing but extremely large state of Western Australia. We had an old four wheel drive, I think it's like a Nissan Patrol or something like that with a bed in the back and a caravan in tow. We would pull into deserted country roads or caravan parks when needed and to sleep and take breaks from driving and see the sights. These incredibly long trips that would take days and I can't stress how extremely large Australia is. Driving would be extremely boring, involve lots of car sickness and laying in the bed at the back, which in those days obviously a thing, but very unsafe. I read many comic books and would diary the trips and listened to the same tapes over and over. But that would change when we pull into a town. My grandparents were involved in the local tourist industry so they knew all the people and would actually hear about the cool and interesting things to do that locals kept to themselves and weren't on the maps that's printed maps. This one memorable time we're at this amazing gorge in the middle of nowhere in the Kimberley region and you really need to dig into tourist maps or local tourist centers to find out about these places. Back then there was no signs of other people as per usual. So I went running down the path to where this apparently amazing waterfall would be. Back in this time you hardly saw people at these amazing places which now would probably be run over by influencers or blocked off for protection reasons. Such an amazing experience to have. And I look back at now and think, wow, I really was lucky back then. So as I got close to the waterfall I stumbled across probably the first naked girl sighting I've ever had and it was in the wild. I think there was two or three wearing nothing but a smile, quickly rushing to their clothes which weren't exactly nearby. Back then there wasn't exactly a camera in reach to even try and snap a photo. Unlike today, we did have a camera, but it was limited to 20 shots and you had to carefully pick them. Needless to say, I wasn't sure what to do. But I wanted to see the waterfall and they had high tailed it out of there quickly. Funny enough, it was just like the other 20 plus ones I'd seen on the same trip and many others. By that age kids used to get excited easily, especially back in the day. Without computers they had. These girls had disappeared by the time my grandparents got down there. No idea where their Car would have been. But WA is big state, so, yes, I would go to the Grand Canyon if I made it to the US but probably just a quick look, as I've seen many sites that are just as amazing, if not more. Also, Seth, bring John Oliver and come to Perth. And you can't do an Australian accent. Keep up. Keep up with good podcasts.

[Seth]

Thank you so much. That is a fantastic story. I like that there was. He said the thing about the pictures, like how nobody had cameras, as if you and I were going to be.

[Josh]

Like, you get any pictures or can you send them? Just send them. DM those to the show.

[Seth]

Yeah. Hey.

[Josh]

Hey.

[Seth]

You get any? I didn't. I didn't think naked ladies was coming, did you?

[Josh]

No, I did not see naked. I thought he was gonna maybe, like, just run off a trail and splash down, like, run over the edge of a waterfall. Yeah, naked ladies. Always exciting for young gents.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth]

And you know what? I don't think you grow out of it. Posh.

[Josh]

It's funny. There's like, you know, we go. Our fantasy football league, we get together once a year for our fantasy football draft. And I feel like there is a subset of guys that are just like, still so, like, oh, my gosh, boobs. Then there's like, the other half is just like. Yeah, no, they're. They're great. They're nice. But like. Yeah, it's not a. Something that we're.

[Seth]

It is really the course of the.

[Josh]

Day being like, oh, man. I was just thinking about.

[Seth]

Yeah. You know, what just popped into my head again. But that was great. I will say, like, that I would love to go to Australia. Never been. Love to go do well.

[Josh]

And Seth, if I might, I think that. Oh, yeah, we're. We've got better Australian accents. Well, now mine's tweaking.

[Seth]

Kiwi, I think. You know, I think your problem is you're going a bit high with yours.

[Josh]

Yeah, I think that's right.

[Seth]

I don't know. We knew a couple of our. Oh, yeah, we know a couple of Australians.

[Josh]

How's that, Stephen? Not bad. Not bad.

[Seth]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wouldn't. Wouldn't shake a didgeridoo with that. Oh, yeah, that was not okay. I don't know.

[Josh]

I feel like you were in the pocket there, so.

[Seth]

I was in the pocket. Yeah. The pocket of Northern England.

[Josh]

Oh, all right, then. Yeah. What else you got for us, Sam? What else?

[Seth]

Oh, wait, I just got a text from Jeff.

[Josh]

Oh, yeah?

[Seth]

What about Fourth of July?

[Josh]

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[Seth]

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[Josh]

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[Josh]

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[Seth]

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[Josh]

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[Seth]

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[Josh]

Oh, yeah.

[Seth]

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[Josh]

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[Listener Anusha]

Hi Set and Josh. It's Anusha from New Zealand. My trip story is a family trip staple, one of memorable chaos. So I'm originally from India and moved to New Zealand in 2009 when I was still very new to the country. My husband and I, along with friends of ours, decided to cross off camping from our top adventures list. We had never been camping before, but we decided to, as the Kiwis love saying, give it a go. I was in charge of planning and the men on our trip were going to share driving duties. Cashing in on the groupon craze, we decided to partake in some discounted adventures along the way to our camping destination. Being new to New Zealand, I decided to rely on Google to guide me on the best camping sites. And I decided to go with one that had an iconic mountain in the background. We finished our adventures on the way and my friend who was at the wheel asked me for the address of our camping site. It was already late in the evening on that early November day. I gave him the address and he turned on the GPS and didn't really pay attention. After that we kept driving and driving and driving. My husband was getting concerned now as it was very late, we hadn't even set up our camps or had dinner, and we had an early start for a white water rafting trip. The next day I checked the address again and reassured them that we were on the right track and that it was going to be worth the wait. As we were going camping at the foot of the mountain, my husband looked at the photo of the campsite and said, wait, is that a snowy mountain in the background? I said to him, yeah, but it's late spring now, so it'll be perfect. As we were setting up camp, which no surprise was so much harder than we expected, one of the fellow tourists wandering around looked at our cheap chain store tents and asked, are you going to be alright in these? It's going to snow tonight. Turns out I'd set us up at the foothill of the famous Mount Tongariro alpine crossing and it snowed there even during spring. Much panic ensued as we were also traveling with two young kids and we decided to panic rent some small cabins on site for the night while our newly set up tents remained empty. It was the wise, albeit less adventurous move as it did snow that night and while our tents were dry inside, I can't imagine it would have been anywhere as comfortable as our toasty cabins. Those young children are now in university, but they fondly recollect the trip even now for the unforgettable tale of camping or not camping, as it were, in the snow. Thank you guys and love your pod.

[Seth]

Thank you.

[Josh]

Thank you. Anusha. Yeah, if, if you get to a campsite late is one thing is it's like, it's such a bad, such a bad move, but late. And then also, oh, it's gonna snow here. If you're not, if you're not prepared for that, it's cabin nine times out of ten. Ten times.

[Seth]

You know that, that, that thrill you get when. I think a lot of people get it when like plans get canceled and you just get to stay home.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth]

That would be how I would feel if like at the last minute, instead of camping, we went to a hotel.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth]

Especially if it was not my fault. You know what I mean? Like, if somebody was like, you know, if like you and I were going camping, you're like, hey, Sufi, I. I took us to a snow mountain. Do you want to go in this kick ass cabin instead? They got some rooms available. Like, that's the dream. I'm like, oh, credit for saying yes to camping. And now I'm here. Yeah. And so I bet those kids were so psyched too.

[Josh]

Yeah. But kids are. I feel like kids are more resilient in, like, the cold. You can bundle them up better. I feel like they. They're better on harder ground than adults. Their bones are still, you know, have some give. I mean, I would have. I would probably wanted to. To gut it out, stay in that tent. But yeah. Also, if it's late and there's a cabin right there, it's tough. Tough to say no to.

[Seth]

And kids. Once you got kids, you gotta be like, well, party's over. Yeah. Going inside.

[Josh]

And then like, if you wake up the next morning and there's snow on the ground, I feel like that's a real. That bolsters your case for having made the choice to go cabin.

[Seth]

Absolutely. Yeah, I would. I do like the idea of going for a camping trip in New Zealand, though.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth]

Love the reach of the pod, by the way. Posh.

[Josh]

Oh, my gosh. Yeah.

[Seth]

Getting over there.

[Josh]

Yeah. I mean, we. We have so many accents to perfect.

[Seth]

I know.

[Josh]

To make people be like, oh, you're bad at that. You're bad at that too.

[Seth]

Here's my. Now I'm going to do an Indian woman who moved to New Zealand in 2009.

[Josh]

Can I ask. Can I ask that you don't.

[Seth]

Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, then in that case, I'm going to do Steven again. Thank you, Anusha. Thank you, everybody. Now, Sam, you said we maybe have something that's less of a story, more of a follow up.

[Listener Greta]

Yes, we do. One second.

[Seth]

Sam was re watching heated rivalry. She was a little slow. Another cool thing about heated rivalry.

[Josh]

Pasha, what's up?

[Seth]

Everybody's super positive whole time. Because you think it's like, oh, gosh, a couple of professional athletes trying to keep their romance a secret. Like, everybody they meet's like, just live your life, man. Live your truth.

[Josh]

It's pretty awesome. That's nice.

[Seth]

And you think, like, at one point this guy's like, One of the guys is like, hey, am I. They're at Sochi. They're the Sochi Olympics. And he's like, oh, my friend's a figure skater. We should go see him and someone like. And then you think one of the other hockey guys gonna make it like a joke about how he's gay.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth]

And he's like, wow, it's really brave that he'd be in Russia because, you know, they have some real draconian laws about that. Your friend's really cool. You're just like, Canadian. Canadian shows are the best. Yeah.

[Josh]

Although there is also. There's about to be a. A Canadian. It's like Canada shore or Canadian shore. It's like a Jersey shore in some town in Canada. So I don't know if every Canadian show is showing off Canadians in the best light.

[Seth]

Yeah, I agree with that.

[Listener Andrew]

Yeah.

[Josh]

All right, Sam, what do we got?

[Listener Greta]

Well, we're gonna. We're gonna continue our talk about Canada, actually, with this listener follow up.

[Seth]

Great.

[Listener Andrew]

Hello, this is Andrew from Winnipeg. After the Bob Odenkirk episode, a lot of people in the city went, wait. His experience is not actually what the city offers. I think we're something like in the top 10 of restaurants per capita in North America. So my question to you guys is, when are you going to come here to correct Bob's experience? Now, if you're coming here in the winter, let me warn you, it can be something between, you know, minus 15 to minus 40 Celsius, and when it's minus 40, it's basically the same in Fahrenheit. But we offer things like Festival de Voyageur, which is a outdoor French festival at minus 20. Or where you can skate on the river, where we put, like, fake trees and you can rent skates and it's like a couple of miles. Or you can come in the summer where there are pop ups for beer and food trucks and music festivals and things like that. Come on down to Winnipeg. You'll really love it here, no matter when you come. Even in minus 35, I feel like.

[Josh]

I would tilt summer.

[Seth]

Yeah. I would say the chances I would. The percentage chance I would go in the winter is also minus 35.

[Josh]

I thought Odenkirk gave. I thought Odenkirk really had a fondness for Winnipeg.

[Seth]

I think he did. I think he maybe just kind of threw a little shade on the restaurant scene. Okay, maybe. Yeah. Which is. And by the way, like, I would love, love to go to Winnipeg. I would love to go to Winnipeg to do stand up.

[Sam]

Yeah.

[Seth]

It's one of my favorite things in the world just to, like, go to a new city. And I'm. You know what I'm going to try to reach out and make it happen.

[Josh]

Yeah, I guess. I mean, it wouldn't take too much Googling to figure out what theater up.

[Seth]

There you would play or where it is. Yeah. Like, what part of Canada it is. I have. I do know, like, it is. I. I remember just reading, like, Pittsburgh sports writers who would go up there to cover Penguins games. I remember one of them saying, like, it's the coldest place he's been in his life.

[Josh]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, but I. I'd love to go to pretty much any Canadian city. They're good.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Canada. Canada's calling. Suf. We gotta go.

[Seth]

Canada's calling. And are we going to pick up the phone? That's a real question, Poshy.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth]

Did they remember to dial plus one first? Is that what. Is that what we are?

[Josh]

That's what we are. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[Seth]

Well, very good. I mean, it's always nice to hear from our listeners.

[Josh]

Yeah. And also to try and correct the record if someone.

[Seth]

Yeah, we. And by the way, we're never looking to. Besmir, if you ever feel as though your city got a raw deal, if you feel. If you feel besmirched, unsmirch it.

[Josh]

Maybe we need a segment of the show called the unsmirching section or desmirching. The desmirch. The desmirchification of your city.

[Seth]

I'm just worried that if we say we're gonna dismerch, people will hear it as the Smurfs.

[Josh]

Oh, yeah.

[Seth]

They'll be bummed then. There's no Smurfs content.

[Josh]

Right. There's a lot of people that they're just. They're just hungry.

[Seth]

Do you remember buying, like, Smurf, like, little toy Smurfs?

[Josh]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Seth]

We were.

[Josh]

We were into the Smurfs.

[Seth]

But that. It is still. It's amazing to watch. Like, that's the never ending scam of how, like, kids just want to, like, collect different tchotchkes.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth]

Of a set. Mm.

[Josh]

Well, that's the thing about Smurfs, too. There's so many of them.

[Seth]

So many Smurfs. And then, I mean, the one thing I'll say is, like, we bought a lot of the Smurfs and then, you know, I recently sold them all and bought a castle in Ireland with the. I mean, they've kept their value.

[Josh]

Oh, yeah, I see what you're saying.

[Seth]

What'd you do with your Smurfs money?

[Josh]

I donated it to charity.

[Seth]

Oh, ok. Yeah. Was it for people afflicted with Smurfism Yeah.

[Josh]

It was people who ate too much of that colloidal silver and.

[Seth]

Oh, yeah.

[Josh]

Skin blue. Those people. Yeah.

[Seth]

Blew it up. They. But the best thing is they then all. Everyone who became a Smurf was also then good at one thing.

[Josh]

They're either very vain.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Or good at reduction.

[Seth]

This is so funny. They were like all jobs and then just like the vain one.

[Josh]

He was the fashion one. He was. Yeah, he was.

[Seth]

Yeah, he was kind of. He was probably him and haute couture.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth]

All right, thanks to our listeners. We're having some good ones.

[Josh]

Some good ones. Do we have any more comments? Are we. Is this.

[Seth]

Oh, yeah. Do we have any. I don't want to rush out of here, Sam. No, I know you do, because you want to.

[Josh]

That's it. All right.

[Listener Anusha]

What was the end of that sentence?

[Seth]

No, I'm just like, I, you know, let's just say things are about to get heated.

[Josh]

Well, thank you, everyone. And we'll. Yeah, we'll. Well, think about some prompts for some episodes this season. I think that's a good way to go. So I appreciate Greta for sort of lighting that fire.

[Seth]

Yep.

[Josh]

And, yeah, we really appreciate all of you listening from all over the world. It sounds like that's. Yeah, it's very flattering and very nice.

[Seth]

Yeah, we love everybody. And happy birthday again. Pashi.

[Josh]

Thank you. Sufi. It was so nice of you to come out and.

[Seth]

Oh, we did leave out that before this started, you said that I left a sweatshirt and a computer charger at your house. I did not stay at your house. I simply went over there for a few hours.

[Josh]

Yeah, your computer charger was plugged into a strange outlet in my kitchen. And at one point, I unplugged it and I rolled it up and I put it on top of your computer. And then you left it plugged into a different weird plug that I, like, never used.

[Seth]

Yeah, that happens a lot. I also left my earpods at the hotel. I. By the way, I. I was packed. I. You can attest, I couldn't have been packed lighter. Oh, no.

[Josh]

I mean, it was a little shoulder bag.

[Seth]

And so it's amazing. Like, I. I think I left my first, third, and fourth most important thing. Like, I brought nothing and I left it all. But, you know, that's how it goes when you're Sufi.

[Josh]

Yeah, it was great. It was a great birthday, and thanks again for that. And. Yeah, yeah.

[Seth]

Love you, buddy.

[Josh]

Love you, too.

[Seth]

Louie.

[Sam]

Louis.

[Narrator]

Lit snows. Lit snows. Lit snows. Listeners. Greta wanted to see a bear. Couldn't find them anywhere. They found scratches and a trap Wanted bears and not this crab. Then at night a mama came with two. They played some games. Greta's parents let us sleep through it. Man, that's insane. Let's nurse. Let's nurse. In Australia, Stephen told of his own old Nissan Patrol. With grandparents in the know they knew just where they should go. Back then things were under wraps. Couldn't find them on the maps. So when they parked at a gorge Steven went running fast as his legs could take him. Surprise. Two girls were naked but cared more for the waterfall Lip smoke. And the new Shabbo decide to go camping for but when someone saw their gear they said, you better not. Hate to think what would happen without that nearby cabin. Anusha's family might have frozen.

[Josh]

Middle.

[Narrator]

Family might have frozen. Let's win a be cash good restaurant. Let's.