CHASE SUI WONDERS Participated in Native Alaskan Games!

Summary

Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers

Episode: Chase Sui Wonders Participated in Native Alaskan Games!
Release Date: July 15, 2025

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Amsterdam Adventures and Family Souvenirs

00:00 – 10:04

In the episode's opening, lifelong brothers Seth and Josh Meyers reminisce about their recent trip to Amsterdam. Seth shares the excitement of bringing back soccer jerseys for the kids, highlighting a memorable purchase for seven-year-old Axel:

Seth Meyers [01:09]: "He wanted the Ix, which is the Amsterdam soccer team. He wanted their home jersey, which is like that red fat stripe down the middle. And he wanted his name on the back, and he wanted the number seven."

The brothers also discuss their visit to the Efteling amusement park, focusing on a unique trash receptacle named "Papir Here." The whimsical design features a cherubic figure that humorously "calls for trash," complete with occasional farts, adding a playful element to their experience:

Josh Myers [02:08]: "He’s always hungry. He’s calling for trash."

A highlight from their Amsterdam adventures includes an adults versus kids Wiffle ball game in Vondel Park. Despite initial skepticism about finding suitable sticks in the woods, the game turned out to be a thrilling experience where the kids triumph by a score of 7-6:

Josh Myers [05:09]: "The kids won seven, six."

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Introducing Chase Sui Wonders: Unconventional Travels

10:07 – 16:25

The conversation shifts as Seth and Josh welcome guest Chase Sui Wonders to the studio. Chase, known for her unique travel experiences, shares insights into her family's adventurous spirit. Originating from Bloomfield Township, Michigan, Chase describes her family's preference for exploring the "least visited places in the world," showcasing their penchant for unconventional destinations.

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Exploring Nauru: The Least Visited Country

16:26 – 30:10

Chase delves into her remarkable trip to Nauru, emphasizing its status as the least visited country globally. She provides a detailed backstory:

Chase Sweetwonders [24:08]: "In the 1980s, it became really rich in phosphate mining...they had free healthcare, free taxes, free schooling, free transportation."

Despite its economic boom in the past, Nauru faced significant challenges due to overexploitation of phosphate resources, leading to environmental degradation. Chase recounts the quirky attempt by the Nauruan government to fund a grand musical in London, which disastrously failed on opening night:

Chase Sweetwonders [26:27]: "They flew out their entire population and the show closed within the first opening night."

Her visit included engaging with locals, including former presidents, and experiencing unique aspects of Nauruan life, such as a hibachi dinner hosted by an ex-president's house. The isolated island's charm lies in its rich history and tight-knit community:

Chase Sweetwonders [27:33]: "Because there's so much accountability, because everyone knows each other."

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Barrow, Alaska: Embracing the Extreme

30:11 – 36:09

Chase transitions to another extreme destination: Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost point in the continental United States. Traveling during New Year's, the family participated in the Native Alaskan Games amidst harsh conditions, including 21-hour flights and the ever-present threat of polar bears. Chase highlights the unique cultural immersion they experienced:

Chase Sweetwonders [38:32]: "We participated in the Native Alaskan Games... it was a real cultural immersion there."

The trip underscored the family's adventurous nature, balancing excitement with safety concerns, such as declining an offer to venture onto ice roads accompanied by a local armed individual.

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Family Dynamics and Personal Growth

36:10 – 48:00

Beyond travel tales, Chase opens up about her family's influential single mother, a dynamic and ambitious figure who instilled a love for exploration in her children. This upbringing fostered Chase's own adventurous spirit and her pursuit of unconventional vacations. Additionally, Chase reflects on her high school experiences balancing athletics and the arts, including a memorable yet harsh review of her performance in "Annie," which ultimately steered her towards film:

Chase Sweetwonders [53:42]: "Everybody hated me in high school... because I did both hockey and theater."

This honest portrayal of personal challenges adds depth to the podcast, highlighting the balance between embracing adventure and navigating personal growth.

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Notable Quotes and Moments

• Seth Meyers [01:09]: "He wanted his name on the back, and he wanted the number seven. Gotcha. Because he's seven years old and that's never going to change."

• Chase Sweetwonders [24:08]: "It's the smallest country in the world, least visited, but incredibly rich in history."

• Chase Sweetwonders [26:27]: "They invested $20 million on a musical that closed on opening night."

• Chase Sweetwonders [38:32]: "Native Alaskan Games was a real cultural immersion."

• Chase Sweetwonders [53:42]: "Everybody hated me in high school... because I did both hockey and theater."

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Concluding Insights

The episode beautifully intertwines Seth and Josh Meyers' lighthearted recounting of their Amsterdam trip with Chase Sui Wonders' enthralling stories of exploring some of the world's most remote and least visited destinations. Through their conversations, listeners gain a deep appreciation for the Meyers brothers' and Chase's shared values of family bonding, adventure, and embracing unique experiences. The rich anecdotes and candid reflections offer both entertainment and inspiration for those seeking to venture beyond conventional travel paths.

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Transcript

[Seth Meyers]

Hi, buddy. Hi, SUV it's been a week since we got back from Amsterdam. How are you feeling? Are you back in the swing of things?

[Josh Myers]

Yeah, I mean, still. Still tired. Still more tired than I would like to be.

[Seth Meyers]

You said you have not been able to call mom and dad and not have one of them be asleep.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah, it's usually mom. And yeah, she's. She's still pretty rocked from it, but I think they had a great time, so that's good.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, yeah, Ash had a great time. We brought back a lot of soccer jerseys for the other kids.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. I feel like every time I would see you in Amsterdam, you had just gotten back from another trip to the soccer store in the Lego store.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. I mean, the Lego store was just a place to go while they were ironing names on the back of the jerseys. Uhhuh. So that was. That was sort of. That was sort of what we were doing.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Because immediately, of course, I bought. I. I ideally would have taken one trip to the soccer jersey store. But then, of course, that night I called an Axel told me exactly what he wanted.

[Josh Myers]

Which is what?

[Seth Meyers]

He wanted the Ix, which is the Amsterdam soccer team. He wanted their home jersey, which is like that red fat stripe down the middle. Gotcha. And he wanted his name on the back, and he wanted the number seven. Gotcha. Because he's seven years old and he's. That's never going to change. So it's good to get it. It's good to get it iron on permanently.

[Josh Myers]

Well, that's great.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Also, the video that's been the biggest hit based on the trip is efteling. We talked about the amusement park. Huh. The trash receptacle. Oh, here, Here.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. So paper here is paper here.

[Seth Meyers]

So papir here means paper here. And it's just like a little. How would you describe a cherubic, like, carved into the rock sort of fella.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah, he's. He's big. A big fat guy.

[Seth Meyers]

Big fat guy with his round mouth that's big enough to take trash.

[Josh Myers]

And he's very hungry. He's always hungry.

[Seth Meyers]

And so if you walk by him, he's sort of going, porn P here.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

P here.

[Josh Myers]

And he's just. He's call. He's calling for trash.

[Seth Meyers]

He's calling for trash. And then it's also got like a light sucking from within.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

So if you put a paper there, it goes.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Gets sucked right up.

[Josh Myers]

And then he immediately thanks you for it. He goes, oh, Donkel, Donkel. And on maybe like every third piece of Trash that he takes in. He also has a pretty good fart.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh Myers]

Which.

[Seth Meyers]

And as amusement parks go, this one is kind of leaning into kids like farts. And let's not look down our nose at it. Yeah. So crush it. So we got a video of Papir here and the subsequent fart after three pieces of paper and Axel and Addie. I mean, it's like there's a pruder film as far as how many times they want to watch it, so. So it's real good. Yeah. We also.

[Josh Myers]

I mean, one of the highlights for me was we had a adults versus kids wiffle ball game.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh Myers]

In Vondel park, the sort of the Central park of Amsterdam. And our friend Jill brought wiffle balls. And she was upset is, I think, a. A gentle word to say, which she actually was. But when they told her, you, you can't bring a wiffle ball, Batman, she.

[Seth Meyers]

Got it to the airport.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. And then they were like, you can do this.

[Seth Meyers]

I always had a lot of questions as to how she intended to get a bat on a plane, because a wiffle ball bat does not fit in a piece of luggage. Right.

[Josh Myers]

I mean, I suppose if you checked a piece of luggage, but I don't even know if a wiffle ball bat would fit in a check piece of luggage. Unless it's like, a trunk.

[Seth Meyers]

A trunk. Or like, a big duffel. But did she try to bring it as a carry on?

[Josh Myers]

I think so. And they were like, anything that can be swung.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh Myers]

As a bat, as a weapon. So she had to leave it behind. And she was like, it's fine. We'll just go into the woods at Vondel park and get a stick. And I was like, all right. And then when we all met up at this field that we.

[Seth Meyers]

Let me just echo in saying that when I heard this plan, I was like, you're never gonna find a stick. Yeah. That's as good as a bat.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. And her son Jackson had gone into this, like, you know, these brambly little woods and pulled two of the best baseball bat sticks I've ever seen in my life. That felt good in your hand.

[Seth Meyers]

It was nuts. And by the way, sort of immediately like, I'm like, this isn't going to work. And Jackson went into the woods and, like, three steps in, he's like, got two.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. And there were a couple kids that were like, I don't want to use this thicker one. I want to use the thinner one. So we. That we had options.

[Seth Meyers]

We had two different bats, and we had a wonderful game.

[Josh Myers]

We Had a wonderful game. The kids won.

[Seth Meyers]

The kids won seven, six.

[Josh Myers]

And when you play baseball in Holland, like, passersby can't help but stop and be like, what is this game?

[Seth Meyers]

It's like how in American parks, if, like, a French family starts doing Cirque du Soleil. That's what it's like when you see, basically, baseball is the Cirque du Soleil of Europe. It's like, what is this? What is this foreign way to pass time?

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. And do they really play with sticks found in the woods?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. And we definitely look like a family from the 1950s. That is like playing with a stick.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. But that was. That was just great. And that was. That was just sort of like a couple hours in the park, grab some snacks and some drinks, and you got.

[Seth Meyers]

Me my favorite snack in the world. You brought it. And I showed some restraint because if I'd eaten the whole container, I'd still be working it off. But, yeah, spicy pendas. Yeah.

[Josh Myers]

The Ketgang Pettis, I want to say. And it's like an Indonesian spicy peanut.

[Seth Meyers]

It's a deep fried peanut. So imagine a peanut with, like, a deep fried shell.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And obviously it gets healthier covered in a very spicy mix. Yeah. And I could eat a billion of them, but I had, like. I had, like, five healthy handfuls.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. I was on the regular running to our favorite old, you know, Dutch grocery store, the Albert Hein. There was one very close to the hotel, and I used to get this, like, chicken curry salad.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh Myers]

This Kip Kerry salad that I was just such a fan of. And there was a vegan version, and so. Really? Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Vegan Kip Kerry salad, vegan egg salad.

[Josh Myers]

They got lots of vegan stuff in there. So I was. You know, every restaurant we went to didn't necessarily have a ton of stuff for me, but then my. The ace in the hole for me was I was gonna run to the grocery store on the way home and fill up on my old, old school snacks.

[Seth Meyers]

I have one criticism of the new Boom Chicago, our old theater where you will hear our live podcast recording. They don't serve Heineken on tap. And I know in Amsterdam, sort of Heineken on tap is considered sort of like the Miller Light of Dutch beers. Mm. You know, it's. It's pretty. Nobody thinks of it as fancy or good, but I love a Heineken on tap. And I don't care. I don't care, because basically every bar in Amsterdam has two beers on taps and that's it. Like, they don't have, like, bottles of other beers. So you just have the tap beer. Yeah. And I miss it.

[Josh Myers]

Well, I found that a lot of bars had more options than they used to. But I also don't like that because it used to be you just say like, can I get two beers? And they would bring you two beers. And now they are like, what kind of beer do you want? And I'm like, no, just the basics.

[Seth Meyers]

Two bears. Yeah, just two. I want to. I. I like beer and I want to give you a number.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. And it used to be the same with like, white wine and red wine. You'd say like, can I get two red wines? And they just bring you two red wines. Yeah, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Because I don't. Just be honest. I don't like being out to dinner with people who have a lot of questions about the wines.

[Josh Myers]

Uh huh.

[Seth Meyers]

Uh huh. All right. This is a real delight of a conversation.

[Josh Myers]

Oh, my gosh.

[Seth Meyers]

A friend of a friend. This is Chase Sweewunders who's on the studio with our dear friend Ike Barinholtz. And he had nothing but great things to say about her. And our friend was right.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. And she's in the new. I know what you did last summer, which is coming out, like, in days. Maybe it's already out. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

What a fun summer movie. I have a question about. Well, we're speaking of the summer movies. Our buddy Akiva Shaffer directed. The new Naked gun comes out August 1st.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm wondering if Ash, at nine years old, would he enjoy the first Naked Gun?

[Josh Myers]

I think it's worth finding out. And I think he would.

[Seth Meyers]

I think it's worth finding out. Yeah. Yeah, I think maybe that's something to try.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah, I think it's going to be right up his alley.

[Seth Meyers]

Maybe I'll watch it when mom and dad come. Maybe we'll do a movie night and watch Naked Gun.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah, that's a good call.

[Seth Meyers]

Right? All right, well, enjoy Chase Sweet wonders and enjoy this song. And thanks for listening, everybody.

[Josh Myers]

Family chips with the M Brothers.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Family chips with the money.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, hello.

[Josh Myers]

Hello.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Hi, guys.

[Seth Meyers]

How are you? This is very. This is very exciting for us.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

This is very exciting for me. After all, I've heard about you from our good friends Catherine and Ike.

[Josh Myers]

Oh, my goodness. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Friends. Friends of friends.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. To listeners of the show, we. I mean, Ike Barinholtz is a name that gets dropped so much here just because he is so much to us, but also, like, he just delivers. We just did a live show in Amsterdam that he was part Of. And he's just. He's so funny.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Ike is the funniest guy in the world. And also whip smart.

[Josh Myers]

Yep.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

And he's just the most unassuming. He's like, he's like a surprise every day.

[Seth Meyers]

He's right. Because he's the dumbest presenting smart person I've ever met.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

100%.

[Seth Meyers]

And by the way, like, I think it speaks to his intelligence that he realizes professionally his bread is buttered on people thinking he's a little bit dumb.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

He's a dummy.

[Seth Meyers]

He's a dumb.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Dumb. Yeah, 100%. But he also just has to sneak in who wants to be a Millionaire win and a Jeopardy. Win occasionally.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I think he's almost a little ashamed about winning Millionaire cuz he thinks it's a tier below Jeopardy. Totally.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

You know, 100%. But he has to clarify Charity. It was for charity. It was for charity.

[Seth Meyers]

It's for charity. Like, I had to do it with my dad. It was like a favorite for my dad to do it.

[Josh Myers]

Also, FYI, won Jeopardy. So.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. How are you?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

I'm good, I'm good. I'm coming at you from my childhood bedroom.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, that's so exciting. Josh has done multiple pods from his childhood bedroom. So that's very. So this is Bloomfield, Michigan. Bloomfield Hills.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Bloomfield, Michigan. Yes. Supreme Detroit. Bloomfield Township, technically.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay, gotcha. So I.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

And you guys are Midwest guys.

[Seth Meyers]

We're Midwest.

[Josh Myers]

We were Michigan for a little while. We were Oakmist Michigan guys.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

I'm not familiar with Oakmas.

[Josh Myers]

It's East Lansing. East Lansing.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Okay. Okay. Yes, yes, yes. Of course.

[Josh Myers]

Our mother was getting her master's at Michigan State when I was maybe 2 to 5.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

So you have fond memories.

[Josh Myers]

Very fond memories of the duck park. We love the duck park. Which was a park that had a different name, but not to a three year old.

[Seth Meyers]

To children. When you bring a loaf of Wonder Bread and just throw it at ducks, it's hard to remember what the actual name was. But it is Detroit. Like, do you. You are in the orbit of Detroit in Bloomfield.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

It feels very like the. It's the world and the culture here is centered around Detroit. I mean, it's 15 minutes away here.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, gotcha. So, so close.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

So 8 mile is like right over there. So I'm technically like 13 mile.

[Josh Myers]

Years ago we went to a Super bowl that was in Detroit and the hotel that we stayed in was in Troy that I believe is like right next door to you guys. And it was a five night minimum. That is insane to come in for The Super Bowl. And so we spent five nights up in Troy.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

That tells you how the Detroit economy is doing. They pressure you into five nights.

[Josh Myers]

Well, they got you by the whatevers on the Super Bowl. It's like, do you want to stay? Do you want to come for the super bowl or not? And it was fabulous. I will say Detroit, this was years ago, but Detroit rolled out the red carpet and they leaned on the Motown of it all, and it was a blast.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Detroit is, like, kind of really cool.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I mean, I totally. I last. Not this April, but the April before I did stand up in Royal Oak, Michigan, which my agents told me was Detroit. And it definitely wasn't.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

No.

[Seth Meyers]

But weirdly, the night I did stand up, my friend Tim Robinson was doing his I Think youk Should Leave live show, I think at the Fox Theater. Is that.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

And he's from here.

[Seth Meyers]

He's from there. But I. Walking around like the. There were multiple comedy shows in Detroit that night, all sold out shows in those giant, beautiful old theaters. And it's a really kind of crazy cool place because the architecture of the boom era in Detroit still seems intact.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah. It's all this art deco stuff, and it was one of the wealthiest cities in the country at one point. And so you have all this, like, history that you can see and a lot of stuff that is preserved. I went to the Edsel Ford, Henry Ford's house yesterday in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, if you're familiar. He's got the tourism activities in Detroit.

[Seth Meyers]

Did you do that because you knew you were on sort of a tourism based podcast the next day, and you were like, I gotta go.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah, I gotta get my trips in.

[Josh Myers]

Are we gonna talk about Edsel Ford for the next 45 minutes?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, by the way, I go home as well. Like, I've been in my. My childhood bedroom recently, but when I went home, I did not do anything of that nature. What brought you to go to the Edsel Museum?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Listen, so I have two nephews, okay. Who are. I'm very excited to be on this podcast because my family is. We have unconventional travel habits.

[Seth Meyers]

Ooh. Okay.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

There's basically no rest for the wicked in the Sweet Wonders household. So. And we're. We're looking for, like, off the beaten path, like, things that people don't normally do, so tourism. I mean, I would never. Going to the Essel Ford house growing up would be like, abs. What? Absolutely not.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

But there's, like, novelty of going, coming home and, like, taking advantage of what the surrounding area has to offer. We are going, we're going to stuff every day. We're going to like, like these, the duck ponds of our surrounding area and like treating it like it's like an exciting event, you know?

[Josh Myers]

How old are these nephews?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

They're 11 and 10.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, great. And they're all older. That's good car museum. Yeah, that's a good car museum. Age. So are these. How many siblings do you have and whose children are these?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

So I have two older brothers, one older sister, and I'm the youngest of four. And these are my oldest brother's kids.

[Josh Myers]

Gotcha.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay. Gotcha.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yes. Yeah. And my oldest brother still lives in Detroit, so he's, you know, he actually has explored, done the tourism of Detroit better than us all because he's lived here in his adult life.

[Josh Myers]

Right.

[Seth Meyers]

So had the. Had his children been to this museum before?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Honestly, the oldest one had. He had. He was giving us the tour, he was showing us around. He was kind of upset that we were returning to a place he'd already been before.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Josh Myers]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Josh Myers]

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Yeah, and I think we would sort of bear the brunt of that breaching.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Seth Meyers]

With the unconventional nature of the Sweet Wonders trips is this from the top down, like, who would you attribute it to?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Okay. So honestly, it comes from my mom.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

And this has been our entire life. So basically, you guys know Michigan. You know, it's all about the lake life.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

You know, and the summers are spent kind of like how you can. It's like keeping up with the Joneses of who has, like, the most bougie kind of lake life setup, whether you're on, like, Walloon or, like, Petoskey Harbor Springs. And my mom was just vehemently against that culture. She was like, if we're going to travel, we have to. I don't want you doing what all the other kids are doing.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

And just kind of joining this, like, monotonous lifestyle.

[Seth Meyers]

She famously said, I'm not raising lake people.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

No. No lake people. No. No swamp people allowed in my home.

[Josh Myers]

So what would you do in lieu of that?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

So, I mean, basically, like, if we clearly, like the whole family kind of gets off on the least visited places in the world.

[Josh Myers]

Right.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

So kind of top of the list has got to be the country of Nauru.

[Josh Myers]

Okay. Yeah.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Are you familiar?

[Josh Myers]

Well, you're the first guest in over 100 episodes who's mentioned.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Okay, well, I'm so glad, because I.

[Seth Meyers]

And now Nauru, if I remember correctly, you get through it. You enter a wardrobe.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yes. Yeah, sort of. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And Mr. Tumnus is there to greet you.

[Seth Meyers]

That's fantastic. So he is real. Okay, good. You hear people say, oh, those are just stories. But I'm glad to hear he's real.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

In the flesh and blood.

[Josh Myers]

Was there a season of Survivor that was on Nauru?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Honestly, I think there was one really close by. I think there was one really close by. I believe there was one in Fiji and surrounding islands in Micronesia. Basically. Nauru is very unique in that it is the least visited country in the entire world.

[Josh Myers]

Perfect for the Sway Bars family.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Perfect. Checks a lot of boxes for us. It's 200 nautical miles away from anything. And it is shaped like a donut. It's shaped like a donut.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm looking at it right now. It seems like it's very small. Is that.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

It's incredibly small.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm saying that based on the fact that based on the map, there's a restaurant that's about a third of the island.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yes. Capell and Partners has kind of a monopoly over the. Over the entire island. They own the hotel, they own the grocery store. They own several restaurants. And that is. Yeah, it's 12 miles around. No traffic lights. One traffic light on the Island. And that's simply so airplanes can land. They have to shut down the road so that airplane can land. Of course.

[Seth Meyers]

So it's basically like a railroad crossing, but the island's so small. It's for airplanes.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

It's for airplanes. It's for airplanes.

[Seth Meyers]

So. All right, so who. And so your mom was like, guys, we're going to Nauru.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Well, so this was kind of like a long standing joke throughout our entire youth. Like, what if we went to the craziest place ever? And it turned out to be. It was kind of like, yeah, just a long running joke that turned into a Memorial Day weekend. We spent four days on the island of Nauru.

[Seth Meyers]

And.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

And it is just to give you some backstory about this island. It was in the 1980s, it became the. It's the smallest country. It's the smallest republic in the world. Least visited. But in the 1980s, it became really rich in phosphate mining. And the Germans and British discovered that it was like this jewel of the Pacific. So it became the wealthiest GDP per capita of the entire world in the 80s, which is crazy because there's 10,000 people, and then just. They strip mine their entire island. So the entire interior of the island is this, like, strip mine phosphate. That's basically uninhabitable because the way you mine phosphate is you, like, dig deep in and then what's left are these, like, limestone pinnacles. So the beaches are. You can't really walk on the beaches because they're just like these phosphate pinnacles that are jutting out of the water.

[Seth Meyers]

You are doing a terrible job selling Nauru, okay. As a vacation destination.

[Josh Myers]

But hold on, hold on. She's not done.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

But wait, there's more.

[Seth Meyers]

I know, I know a lot of people like to walk on the beaches, but this one.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah. So these people have this, like, very rich history. At one point, they. The big, like, it's a welfare, like, haven because at one point, they had a 2. $2 billion national trust because of all the phosphate mines. So they had free healthcare, free taxes, free schooling, free transportation. People were driving around in ferraris, driving that 12 mile radius in Ferraris. It's like a fascinating anthropological place. But unfortunately, as many stories go, they made a series of bad investments. They bought up a lot of real estate. There was a sprinkle of corruption in the government there. And they put on. They were. You know that episode of the Simpsons where like, the guy comes in and is like, I'm gonna make a. He's like the monorail snake. Yeah, the monorail Snake oil salesman. So there was basically that kind of guy that said, we're gonna put on Leonardo the musical. It's a 20 million dollar investment and we're gonna put it on in London and the Nauru National Trust should fund it. So they put on this musical in London. They flew their entire population out on. They had like a fleet of Boeing 737s. Flew out their entire population and the show closed within the first opening night.

[Seth Meyers]

They didn't realize it wasn't even about Leonardo da Vinci. They had. It turned out that it was about the ninja or whatever. Yeah, the Ninja Turtle. There's.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah, exactly.

[Seth Meyers]

You know, it's so shocking because I feel like most stories where an island gets strip mined for phosphates by the British and the German have happy endings.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Right, Right, right.

[Josh Myers]

So wait, so the interior that gets strip mined, that affects the exterior beaches.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Well, the whole island. So basically the way phosphate is created also, I should say the reason I did such a deep dive is because there's not so much to do on this island. We made it our mission to learn every kernel of history. So I know like, about the founding of Nauru and my brother and I actually made a sort of travel documentary while we were there. And we, we met. It's so small that we met one of the Ex Presidents and had the first hibachi dinner on the island of Nauru at an ex president's house. This is the immersion that we did on this island.

[Josh Myers]

They must have been so flattered that you were there.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

No, I.

[Josh Myers]

And were curious and like, exactly.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

One of the president, he says to us, why no one just comes to Nauru? Why are you in now? Why Nauru? And so kind of the only people that come there are the people that are checking off every country in the world. So they stop there for a couple hours, but we were there for a couple days, but. So phosphate is formed from bird droppings over bird shit over centuries and centuries. And so the whole island was so rich with bird shit that the whole island, like was had to be mined for phosphate. It was just pump and dump and shipped away.

[Seth Meyers]

I like that. It was just birds were flying across the ocean and they just. They don't have any pleasure in shitting. Unless it lands on land.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah, exactly.

[Seth Meyers]

They shit in the water. It's like, means nothing.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

That's not for me. I'll hold it for 200 nautical miles.

[Seth Meyers]

Naru's the jazz. You know, I think there's no greater proof that you're a tiny country than knowing it's the first hibachi dinner. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, it's so small. You're like this. Definitely. No one here has this.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

This is historic. This is. It's a historic event. I will say a benefit to naru. It is. It has no crime because there's so much accountability, because everyone knows each other.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

So we were handed a whip when we first got there to ward off the feral dogs. They're very generous people. Pauline on the airplane, she said, you're gonna need this whip. Just give it to me before you leave.

[Seth Meyers]

It's so funny to me. Like, you're gonna love it here. There's no crime. You'll be very safe. Anyway, here's the feral dog whip.

[Josh Myers]

Return it. Return it.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Return it.

[Seth Meyers]

Return it.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

We know where you're staying.

[Seth Meyers]

The only crime on this island is, weirdly, theater fraud.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah, exactly.

[Josh Myers]

Do you.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

I'll shake it.

[Josh Myers]

So what would you do of an afternoon when you weren't hanging out with the former president?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Right. Freddie Pitcher. Great guy.

[Josh Myers]

You couldn't go to.

[Seth Meyers]

What was his name? Sorry? What was his name?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Freddie Pitcher. Freddie Pitcher. Freddie Pitcher. The current president is Baron Waka, and he was away on state business. So we.

[Josh Myers]

When was this that you were on this Island?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

This was 2018.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay, 2018.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah, I actually, we just. We. I was just working in Australia, and one of their bat. One of their investments was the tallest skyscraper in Melbourne called Nauru House. So they have a worldwide presence.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah, they're trying to come back.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

They're trying to come back. No, my brother is a very smart guy and he. The president actually asked, was like, brainstorming over the hibachi dinner, like, what kind of. What kind of things can we do to revitalize our country's economy? So we went fishing. That's one of their big industries nowadays, is they sell their fishing rights to surrounding countries. But the phosphate mining has created a bit of a drip off, so a lot of the aquatic life is dying. Right. Which is great. But honestly, it's really a beautiful place. I know I'm not.

[Seth Meyers]

So this is fascinating. So I guess my question was gonna be based on not being able to walk on the beach and, you know, basically that, you know, as you've described it, it's an island of bird shit. When your parents got there, was there ever a moment where they're like, oh, maybe this wasn't as funny as we thought it would be, or was everybody.

[Josh Myers]

Could have gone to Fiji.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, they do seem to have. I mean, based on the last 20 minutes. You seem to have an optimistic nature. Is this true of the. The whole Sweet Wonders family? Because everybody's like, this is rad.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yes. I think honestly, everybody was gassed to be there and like, explore every single corner, talk to the people. Like, they're so nice, these people, because they have like a very beautiful life. It's like real island time there. And kind of everybody. It's like the quality of life is quite good. And so we would. I mean, we went to the phosphate mines. We actually. Because, I mean, because like I said, it's a. It's a kind of. There's no crime there. It's very kind of lax. We got to drive one of the phosphate bulldozers, the caterpillars, the classic tourist activity. Yeah, one of the. Because there's still. There's like 5% of the island still has these phosphate mines that they can still eke out. Yeah, yeah. So we. One of the workers there, we were like, can we drive your caterpillar? And he was like, yeah, sure. So we have like bulldozing footage.

[Seth Meyers]

How old were you on this trip?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

I just graduated College. I was 21.

[Josh Myers]

Great.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, my God. And the whole family went?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

No, it was just me, my brother and my mom. But my whole family is so annoyed that they didn't come because we talk about this trip so often. So often.

[Seth Meyers]

So, I mean, it's also deeply funny to me that you went for four days because this is a million miles away.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah, yeah. The Travel time's about 21 hours. You have to stop in Fiji and then you have like a four hour layover in Fiji and then in Suva and then you take the. It's like a four hour, four and a half hour flight from Fiji.

[Josh Myers]

And you didn't tack any like, time on in Fiji to like.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

No, no.

[Seth Meyers]

And at the Fiji overrated Fiji airport, were they like, I think you're making a mistake 100%.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

I mean, the only people on that flight are people who live there. That's it. That's it. There's. There's really no one else. So I should also say an interesting thing about Nauru is because it's so far away and because the land is fast, it's strip mined. There's no place to grow anything, so everything's imported. And as a result, unfortunately, it is one of the most obese countries in the world. Yeah. And a lot of. Lot of diabetes going on there, so.

[Seth Meyers]

Great.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Which is. But honestly, great food. Great food in the world.

[Seth Meyers]

I don't know. It's kind of nice to know because I feel like obviously America has this reputation as this like wealthy obese country. And it's nice to know that Nauru's kind of. I mean, they're the ones driving it. They're the, you know, fatties and Ferraris.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah, exactly. They have a great life. They're all happy about it. It's definitely like a. A status symbol.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. It feels like maybe three generations from now aren't going to be loving Nauru. But it seems like the current crop.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

The current crop is having a great time. I mean we met a lot of the locals. We met the ex president's nephew who took us fishing. So everyone is like, really has a lot of pride for Nauru. And they're really happy to share it because they don't give visitors that often. So they're desperate to just like talk about their. Their. The history of this island.

[Josh Myers]

Do they have. Do you know, I'm such a fan of like the Olympics and I'll always watch that opening ceremony. Do you know, if they send athletes to the Olympics, I feel like they'd be one of those countries that like two people.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Oh my God. I. They. I don't think they do. But I do know the, the nephew, Kenneth Oppenheimer, who we met, he studied in New Zealand. This is like. These are like the nobility of Nauru.

[Seth Meyers]

The names are fantastic.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah. So he studied in New Zealand and he was. He was like on track to be a pro rugby player.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay. Okay.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

But they have kind of like. So a lot of them go overseas because it was on the government dime that they get. Their schooling gets paid for. So a lot of them go overseas to Australia and New Zealand to go to college.

[Seth Meyers]

Gotcha.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

And we're still in contact with these guys. I want to go back.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Yes. I was wondering when you left, was there a vibe of we'll see you guys soon?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

There definitely was. The country motto is Tomorrow will take care of itself. Which I think is a great motto. It's tomorrow will take care of itself.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, it's certainly.

[Josh Myers]

So let's not worry about it.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

So let's not worry about a single.

[Josh Myers]

Thing that's a tomorrow problem.

[Seth Meyers]

It's a good motto to have when you're signing away mining rights.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Exactly. Exactly.

[Seth Meyers]

So but now is this like an outlay? Like what's the next closest trip you took to Nauru? Or is.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Okay. It's not an outlier. Unfortunately, it does take the cake for kind of craziest place. But recently, I guess this was a couple of years later, for New Year's, we went to Barrow, Alaska, which is the northernmost point in the continental United States. Ever got a Barrow, Alaska on this show?

[Seth Meyers]

No.

[Josh Myers]

Nope.

[Seth Meyers]

Nobody. And I mean, imagine, like, just so much sunlight at New Year's.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Oh, yeah, exactly. Right on the money. Yeah. Not 24 hours of darkness at all. Not 20.

[Seth Meyers]

So whose idea was this one?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

This is also a collective. This is also collective. Also. We plan our trips really, really last minute. So if you're trying to plan a trip to the Caribbean on New Year's, those airline prices are not friendly. But if you're trying to plan a trip to Barrow, Alaska.

[Josh Myers]

Seats available?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Seats are available, yeah. Negative 20 degrees Fahrenheit. Also, very, very. The people on that plane are native Alaskans and the oil workers working at Prudaho Bay, which is a giant oil rig near Barrow, Alaska. So that's who we were traveling with. And there are polar bears are a big threat there, so you have to.

[Josh Myers]

So they give you a whip.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

No, we were gonna do, like, a pilgrimage out on the ice road out to, like, this, like. Like, the real, real northernmost point. And there was this guy who had a gun, Native Alaska. And he was like, I'll take you out there. We might see some polar bears. It might get a little dodgy. And we were gonna do it, but we kind of drew the line there.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Because, you know.

[Seth Meyers]

I guess if I was trying. If I had my druthers, like, taking an ice road to nowhere with a local who had a gun and a chance that polar bears are going to attack. So how many of you went on this trip to Barrow?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

This was me, my brother, my sister, and my mom. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yep. And we actually participated in the Native Alaskan Games. So to your question, Josh, about Olympics, they have their own kind of Olympics. They have these, like, Native Alaskan games. It was. It used to be a whaling village. So there are all these, like, whale carcasses everywhere. Again, very beautiful place.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah, I believe it.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

It's dark. You can't see much. But in the gymnasium, we participated. We were kind of scared, like, that they wouldn't be welcoming. But everyone was like, come on in. My brother's, like, doing the arm wrestle with this, like, giant native Alaskan. And. Yeah, so it's, again, a real cultural immersion there.

[Josh Myers]

What was the most unusual of the Games?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

There was one, like. There was one where you. Well, the arm wrestle is interesting in that you have to lay on your belly and it's got one hand behind the back, and you lay on your belly and you kind of like. It's kind of like half wrestling match, but you can only use your arm.

[Seth Meyers]

Yep.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah. And it all takes place, like, in this gymnasium. It's a lot of, like, agility stuff, like, but games you've never seen before. There's like, one with a string and a ball and, like, whirling it. It's. It's games that, you know, are clearly a product of being in the northernmost part of the continental United States.

[Josh Myers]

Sure.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

They were trying to, like, what's a good game that doesn't require light?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah, exactly, exactly.

[Seth Meyers]

So what's the. What were you eating in Barrow, Alaska?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Barrow, Alaska. Much like Nauru there. Everything is so expensive there because the only way in is an ice road that only fully freezes over in the wintertime, so you can only get things in via plane. So, like, toilet paper rolls are, like, $20. Everything is absurdly expensive. So we're cheapos in my family. So we went to a pizza place, and I think we got, like, one large pepperoni pizza, but it was like, $87.

[Josh Myers]

Did they just have, like, a lot of oil money up there?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

It's a lot of people who work on the oil rig, but a lot of native Alaskans get paid by the government to, you know, they get paid to have kids. So a lot of them have, like, 15 kids. So each kid is, like, a lot of money. So a lot of them don't necessarily work.

[Josh Myers]

Gotcha.

[Seth Meyers]

I can tell you from, like, how many kids I have and how much toilet paper they use. Fifteen kids is like a billion dollars worth of toilet paper. Based on. Based on what you have set as the price for toilet paper. That is a billion dollars worth of toilet paper.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

That's a lot of toilet paper. Kids don't really have discretion over how much toilet paper is used per bathroom.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. Hey, we're gonna take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Josh Myers]

Yeah. No, you don't look like you do.

[Seth Meyers]

Huh? Let's walk that back. So what did that mean?

[Josh Myers]

Nothing. Nothing, Nothing.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Just.

[Seth Meyers]

But I am about stuff that fits, right?

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

That's why I like quince posh. Yeah. Lightweight, layers, high quality staples. It's part of my everyday essentials. Yeah.

[Josh Myers]

I'm still wearing this crew neck, cashmere quint sweater that I have. It was what I just wore recently on the flight to and from Amsterdam because it gives me a very nice sort of layer. It's not only is it like soft, cozy, perfect for a plane, but also if I go out to a nice dinner and it's cool at night, then I've got a nice sweater to wear. You know, it's just looking at their summer stuff. They've got this organic cotton stretch poplin shirt that just. Normally to get sort of a nice shirt like this would be about 120 bucks. And you get it from Quince and it's like 30. Maybe it's 20, but it's. It's just. It's the same stuff, but they cut out the middleman.

[Seth Meyers]

Also, you know, it's the kind of stuff you actually wear on repeat. Do you think?

[Josh Myers]

Posh.

[Seth Meyers]

And be honest, do you think I'm the kind of guy who likes to wear stuff on repeat?

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

So, like, you've known me now for 49 years.

[Josh Myers]

Yep.

[Seth Meyers]

Off the top of your head, how many different shirts have you seen me wear?

[Josh Myers]

I mean. Yeah, four. I do think when we say that you wear things on repeat, we should clarify that at some point between wearings, you might want to wash them.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Josh Myers]

Which is not Sufi policy, but. Nah, I think that's good policy at some point.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, that's a good policy. Okay. But either way, you know, quints, you can wear them over and over again because they're so comfortable. So look, stick to the staples that last with elevated essentials from quince. Go to quince.com trips for free shipping on your order and 365 day returns. That's Q U I N C E.com trips to get free shipping and 365 day returns. Quints.com trips hey, Baji.

[Josh Myers]

Hey, Sufi.

[Seth Meyers]

We just did a live show at Amsterdam thanks to Airbnb and it was a delightful show. I can't wait for everybody to hear it.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah, it was a great trip. It was truly was a family trip. We had three generations of Myers there and it was so fun. And the live show itself really stands out as a highlight for me on the trip. And that episode's gonna come out on Thursday, July 17, and we're really excited for you all to hear it.

[Seth Meyers]

Multiple guests. The most guests we've ever had for a family trips podcast, which is exciting for us. Some you've heard before, some you'll be hearing for the first time, some you know, and some you literally have never heard of. And yet you will never stop thinking about them. Also, you know, Ash and I, first father son trip was we've ever taken together. We stayed in an Airbnb and had the most wonderful time. The best part was we, every morning we'd wake up and, man, we were on the go. The entirety of that five days, we were on the go. Yeah. And we also were dealing with the time difference. And so Ash and I would wake up and almost always had to be out the door in like 10 minutes. And it was so nice to just have a fridge with some yogurt, with some granola. I'd slop it all together in a big old bowl and I'd say, buddy, go to town. We gotta get going. And it was just a delight. And it was so nice not to be, say, waiting for what I'm sure would be very delicious room service, but oftentimes does not meet the urgency of the moment.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. And then mom and dad and I did an Amsterdam experience. We took a tour, the history of Amsterdam through a beer glass and went to some just amazing bars. Places that if you were looking for a handful of bars to go to on your own, you would not have put this collection together. Our lovely host, James, with some interesting history, wonderful chats, and great beers. It was really nice and really fun and a new. A new experience for me in a city that I know very well.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, it was just fantastic. So a great amount of gratitude for Airbnb for helping support our incredible trip, and even more importantly, what I believe is my favorite episode of the Family Trips podcast, which you'll be able to listen to on July 17th. This message is brought to you by Apple Card. Each Apple product, like the iPhone 16, is thoughtfully designed by skilled designers. The Titanium Apple Card is no different. It's laser etched, has no numbers, and earns you daily cash on everything you buy, including 3% back on everything at Apple. Apply for Apple Card on your iPhone in minutes, subject to credit approval. Apple Card is issued by Goldman Sachs Bank USA, Salt Lake City branch terms and [e-mail] Tell me, can you just give me like a. Like a personality sketch of your mom? Because, like, these are two very distinct places. Other than the fact that they are both dependent on natural resources, there's very little in common with these two places. They're remote.

[Josh Myers]

They're a pain in the ass to get to, I think.

[Seth Meyers]

Pain in the ass. Pain in the ass. And like rich and natural resources.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah, Honestly, more of the pain in the ass to get to the better, I would say. My mom is a very interesting woman. Single mom, raised four kids all on her own. And what, she's a real go getter. She is, like. She's very mysterious. I honestly don't even know much about her past. She worked in Mexico for 10 years.

[Seth Meyers]

Great.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

And all our godparents are Mexican, so she has.

[Josh Myers]

And she's not Mexican.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

She's not Mexican.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

But she worked there for 10 years. And so, like, all her. And that was, like, in her 20s, so all her friends are. Are Mexicans. And so we grew up going there a lot, too. But she is just, like. She's never tired. She's always, like. She's never sleepy. Intense energy, and I would say, very ambitious lady. And.

[Seth Meyers]

Gotcha.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

And not necessarily helicopter. Like, she would let us do anything. Like, anything. Like, we're climbing on stuff. Other people's parents would yell at us before she yelled at us. You know what I mean?

[Seth Meyers]

Gotcha. Yeah.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

And she would yell at other parents if they, like, scolded us, being like, I can take care of my kids. Meanwhile, we're, like, dangling, like, all the treacherous.

[Seth Meyers]

And what's the age gap between you and your oldest brother?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

My oldest brother is seven years older than me.

[Seth Meyers]

So she had four kids, like, within seven years.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Single mom. I mean, I can't. I mean, I guess that's the only way to do it is to never be tired.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Literally, never be tired. Yeah. I think. I mean, the way she describes it is you. You. The energy kind of, like, expands. Your energy levels expand. Do you feel this way?

[Seth Meyers]

No.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

No. Do you have kids, too, Josh?

[Josh Myers]

I don't, but I don't see it expanding.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

You have three, Seth.

[Seth Meyers]

I do. Yeah. I do. They're the best, but I don't. Yeah. As far as energy expansion, that's not my reaction. I would say my wife is. She sounds more like your mom. Like, she's sort of tireless and, like, loves. I think she gets a hit of giving her kids new experiences. So she's always like, let's go do this. We're here. Let's go do this. And whereas I'm always like, they're tired. I think they want. And, you know. And then you get them someplace new and cool, and they're thrilled. So.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah, exactly. That's. It's kind of built into our DNA. Like, my nephews now have adopted it, hence the Ford house. There was a tantrum yesterday morning, which meant we had to go find an adventure.

[Seth Meyers]

Does, since your brother's nearby. Is your mom, as a grandmother, is she a very active grandmother?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Extraordinarily active.

[Seth Meyers]

How many grandkids does she have right now?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

She has three. My brother has A third daughter, but she's. My brother lived in Hong Kong, so he. She's in Hong Kong visiting with. With the. His. My brother's wife's family.

[Seth Meyers]

Does.

[Josh Myers]

Is your mom. I imagine she's torn apart that you're in your childhood bedroom right now and she's not there.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Oh, she's at hockey practice with my nephews right now.

[Josh Myers]

Okay, so she is in Michigan.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

She's in Michigan.

[Seth Meyers]

She's still in Michigan. Okay.

[Josh Myers]

I thought you were saying she's in Hong Kong while you're there.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

No, no. Yeah. No. My niece. My brother's youngest daughter is in Hong Kong.

[Josh Myers]

Gotcha.

[Seth Meyers]

That's a real. That's a real. Like, tell me you're in Michigan without saying you're in Michigan. Which is July hockey practice.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

July hockey pract. The ice rink is the coolest place you could possibly go. The air condition over time. Did you guys grow up playing hockey?

[Josh Myers]

A little bit. I only played on. On ponds in New Hampshire.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

As real as you can get. Kind of.

[Josh Myers]

Kind of. But then like the first time I ever played on a rink was we went to school in Chicago and our fraternity is sort of a like rush thing. Would rent out the ice. We would get like midnight ice and we would go. And the first time I ever played on a rink, when the puck goes off the boards and doesn't go like down a little frozen stream or into a snowbank and just comes right back to you, it's like, oh, all that rest we used to get and sending like, you know, my buddy Chad, Rio's younger brother into the woods to go get the puck. Like we just sit around on the ice and eat some snow. It's like, no, that puck's in play still and you're still going and it's.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Exhausting and you're going to vomit after this.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. You played a bit of hockey.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah, I played a lot of hockey. Yeah, I played a lot of hockey. Yeah, I got. Hey, check it out.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, yeah. Oh, look at that.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Oh, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Chase is showing us an incredible photo, by the way. Impossible to tell if it's actually her in the hockey uniform. It is in her bed.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Impossible.

[Seth Meyers]

We can verify that she picked it up in her bed. If this really is her bed.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

I pre staged this. Yeah, it's a set.

[Josh Myers]

What does the little plaque say there on that?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

It says number seven, Chase B. Wonders Varsity girls hockey.

[Seth Meyers]

All right.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

But I was a state champion.

[Josh Myers]

Congrats. Really? I mean, in Michigan. That's. That says.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

It says a lot.

[Seth Meyers]

What sort of like, you know, There's. I don't want to. I don't want to dismiss this state championship at all, but, like, what level of school were you? A big school.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

I was a. We were a pretty big school. Like, I would say, honestly, the state. We eked it out, like, by the. By the skin of our teeth, because Grosse Pointe is the best at hockey in the state. And so we. Every year, we would go up against Growth Point north and Gross Point South. But I will say I was not carrying the team on my back. We had a lot of Red Wings hockey players, daughters. Got you on our team.

[Seth Meyers]

Helpful, helpful.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

So Red Wings would frequently come and, like, teach us, give us hockey practice.

[Seth Meyers]

So now, uh, I'm speaking on behalf of the Myers brothers here, who have never won a championship of any kind. Was that a seminal moment in your life? Do you remember when you won the championship? Was it a huge deal to you?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Huge, huge deal.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm very glad of that.

[Josh Myers]

And also that you eeked it out is, like. Is better if you.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

It's so much better.

[Josh Myers]

Oh, we won, like, 6:1 in the final. It's like, no, no, no. You want to eek it out. That's what.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

No, exactly.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

You're the underdogs at that point. No, like, it is huge street cred.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

The social capital.

[Seth Meyers]

I. Yes. It's like, I would give away, like, of certain, like, professional milestones I've been lucky enough to hit. I'd trade, like, three of them away to have won, like, one thing in high school.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Because it feels so big when you're in high school. Like, it feels. Yeah. And I, like, I did not have a lot of social capital in high school, but because I won that state championship.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

I was like, king of the hill.

[Seth Meyers]

Were you a theater kid at all at that point?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

So controversially, I was a theater kid. And the winter musical took place at the same time as hockey season.

[Seth Meyers]

Got it.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

So the only kind of smudge on my hockey career was the fact that I would go miss hockey practice sometimes to go to the play practice. And all the hockey girls thought it was the lamest thing ever.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

And all the theater kids were like, what are you doing hanging out with those douchey hockey girls.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

So it's so funny because, like, now, of course, like, no one is not impressed by the fact that you did both. But you forget that in high school, everybody hates you.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Everybody hated me in high school. Everybody hated me.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. They're like, pick a lane.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Pick. Pick a lane. You can't do it all. No, I was like the lamest. The lamest person on the hockey team on account of the fact that I was doing the school.

[Seth Meyers]

School.

[Josh Myers]

What musicals were you. Did you have good roles in these musicals?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Honestly? No. I was in it for the love of the game. I was in it for the love of the game. I was chorus. I was an orphan in Annie.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

But, yeah, I frequently would be like, why am I giving up all the hockey glory just to be in the background. You're never fully dressed.

[Seth Meyers]

It's very funny. Like, to say you were an orphan. And Annie, you're clearly not Annie.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Clearly not Annie.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, were you Annie? No.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

No.

[Seth Meyers]

I was one of the unnamed orphans.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Close. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

But my life was hard, too.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

The life was hard for all the orphans.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Really? Same origin story. I could have gotten picked instead of the orphans.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

I just didn't have.

[Seth Meyers]

By the way, that's the real story is all the orphans don't get picked.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

That's the tragedy.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Josh and I in college. We went to college together. And I remember. Do you remember? We auditioned for a play together. It must have been my senior year.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. I don't know. It might have been junior.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Maybe my junior year. Josh's freshman year, we auditioned for a play called Biederman and the Firebugs. Was that right?

[Josh Myers]

Yep.

[Seth Meyers]

And both got cast in the chorus.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Okay.

[Seth Meyers]

And then I said, I don't want to do it.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And I basically went. The director was like, you can't audition for a play and not do it. And I was like, can't go to.

[Josh Myers]

The callback and not do it.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. And I was like, yeah, I'm not going to do it. And he was like, yeah, this is going to reflect really badly on you. I'm like, I think I'm just not going to do plays.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

I think I'm good. I'm good.

[Josh Myers]

The real burn was I had auditioned for a play. It was a female director. I had auditioned for this play, Abingdon Square, and then this, like, Master's of Fine Arts grad student had seen my audition and stopped Seth and was like, hey, I saw your audition for Abingdon Square. You should audition for my play. And Seth's like, oh, I didn't audition for that. You saw my brother. And she's like, oh, my gosh, there's a part for twins in my play, so you should audition. And Seth was like, hey, this woman approached me and like, maybe we should do this thing. And it was not a part for twins. It was a part for A chorus, a six person chorus that looked something alike. And when cast, we looked nothing alike. So Seth had sort of been brought in under false circumstances, as had I. And there was a rule at Northwestern that said if you went to a callback, got cast and didn't do it, you were blackballed for a year and you couldn't do another play. And Seth was the first play I ever auditioned for.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm looking for twin parts. If there's no twin part coming up.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah, it's not for me. I mean, Northwestern is a. That's a theater school. Like, people take their productions very seriously.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Like, you could tell. I don't know if it's this way at other campuses, having only, you know, gone to school in one. You could just tell the way a person walked down the street whether or not they were a theater major.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Totally.

[Seth Meyers]

And not like, by the way, not a negative, like just a real, like, confident.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Stride. Like very much owning themselves in a way that I'm jealous of to this day.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Did you do. So you never. Did you, like, play club hockey or anything at college?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

I did play club hockey.

[Seth Meyers]

All right.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

I did play club hockey.

[Seth Meyers]

And held on.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

I held on. You could, you could rent out this, the ice and like, I would, like, skate around this stadium all by myself because I had keys to the rink. It was crazy.

[Seth Meyers]

That's the best.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah. But I also did theater. I also did theater and I also got blackballed because I got. I got on the main stage, which was like the big stage. And as a freshman, I was Irina in Chekhov's Three Sisters.

[Seth Meyers]

Well done.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Thank you. Thank you very much. I think I was like the fourth call. Like, I think, you know, but I was so happy. I was over the moon. But I did. The play review comes out in the Harvard Crimson and it says, chase we wonders is the nail in the coffin of this terrible play. And it is a slam piece against my performance. Like, I'm not even the lead at this. Rebecca Greenberg, remember her name. You'll always remember her name. Wrote a slam piece specifically targeting my performance.

[Josh Myers]

Wow. Was it. Was she. It was a student newspaper.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

That student newspaper.

[Josh Myers]

So student on student violence.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Student on student violence. And this is like the hot take of like the 18 year old who's trying to get a full time position on the newspaper. So needs, like a spin.

[Seth Meyers]

I hate it. And I also kind of love it.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

I love it.

[Seth Meyers]

I love it because I'm like, you know, it's. It's one of the things you're like, Everybody, you know, like, you don't go to a school like that and hope that it's just kids, gloves. You want to, you know.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah, exactly, exactly.

[Seth Meyers]

As long as she. Let me just say, as long as she genuinely believed you stunk.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Exactly, exactly. You know what that was? Freshman year, senior year, I was in a section with her, and I vowed myself that to go up and shake her hand. So I went, I said, rebecca Greenberg, Traceview Wonder nail in the coffin. Great to meet you.

[Seth Meyers]

And what was your reaction?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

She looked at me with so much fear. She looked at me with so much fear. She clearly remembered. So I like to think that she felt badly, but honestly, I think she was right. I think I was no good in that play.

[Josh Myers]

Well, it sounds like nobody was. It was already a bad production, just with a bad look.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

It's already a coffin.

[Seth Meyers]

I had, like, a Arya Stark from Game of Thrones type list in my desk at snl. Anytime anybody wrote something mean about snl, like a reporter, I would write down their name. And I had this, like, list in my desk. And for the same. I think for the same mental reason of just remember who you're gonna shake hands with. And I had the most wonderful thing happen, which is when I left SNL and I was, like, cleaning out my office, I came across the list and I just had this. It dawned on me that it was the pettiest thing in the world.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Have you ever encountered those people since?

[Seth Meyers]

You know what the craziest thing is? Some of them have, you know, like, because again, they weren't. It wasn't malicious.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Right.

[Seth Meyers]

They just, at the time, thought a thing I did was bad. And then later, because again, I don't think they think about it the same way. One of them wrote a lovely thing about, you know, the late night show. And I realized, like, oh, my God, thank God I hadn't gone up to this party, you know, in the interim between the bad thing and the good thing, and been like, hey, just wanted to say hi.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Look you in the eye and give you a firm handshake.

[Seth Meyers]

Just literally going to. Going to my handshake coach.

[Josh Myers]

So when.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

You probably don't even remember writing that. Of course not. No.

[Seth Meyers]

It did seem like Rebecca remembered, though. Rebecca recalls when you got.

[Josh Myers]

You said you got blackballed for a year. Was it just because someone said you were bad in that play or did.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

You know, I kind of blackballed myself, to be honest. Yeah, I. I never went to the comcasting again because I had. I did have a lot of shame, but Then I studied film, and I kind of was like, I'm going behind the camera. I can't act.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

So that's kind of when I chose my major of film for, like, screenwriting and directing.

[Seth Meyers]

That's what. I was a film major at Northwestern for the same. I was completely intimidated by the theater.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Element of it, so that's great. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I was like, I think this. I like this.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

It's a lot of people's origin stories, I think.

[Seth Meyers]

So give yourself time to develop without the bright lights of the flashing lights.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

The people calling your name. Wait, did you. Would you act in any of your short films or anything?

[Seth Meyers]

No, I didn't really. Oh, no, that's not true. A little bit. A little bit. And then. But we. Josh and I both did the Northwestern improv show, and that was kind of.

[Josh Myers]

Our real origin story.

[Seth Meyers]

Like, to do the improv troupe? Yeah. Wow.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

What was that like? Was that. Was that like a badge of honor kind of, or.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Cause it was. It was a. It was a cool.

[Josh Myers]

It was a cool show that would sort of cross over. Like, if you were doing, you know, the Cherry Orchard, it wasn't like your bros in the frat would want to come check it out, but if you were doing the improv show, kind of everyone from all different walks would come see it.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

And would you guys compete inter, like, interscholastically?

[Josh Myers]

No.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. I think. I mean, it was only a two year gap, but I think that was enough of a gap. Also, every time I left, like when I left high school and when I left college, like Josh, I was almost like he was waiting for me to leave before he dominated, just out of deference to his older brother. Like, the minute I left, I was like, you'll be all right, little guy. And he's like student council president or leading a musical. I'm like, oh, so you. So I was holding you back. Yeah. You just didn't want to embarrass me.

[Josh Myers]

Just needed some space. Just needed around.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

That's how I felt about my older siblings.

[Seth Meyers]

So what about, like, do you have. Do you think you'll go on another big family trip soon? It seems like you will. There's no reason to stop traveling with your mom.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

No, there's. There's never any reason. I will say now that I'm working. Like, I was just filming. I know what you did last summer in Australia. And I kind of like, casually said to my mom, like, hey, everyone should come visit me on set. And everyone came to visit me on set for multiple days. We're on a very tight shooting schedule, and everyone is like, it's funny. Have you guys seen the studio by chance?

[Seth Meyers]

Yes, of course.

[Josh Myers]

Yes.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

So my family is basically, like, Matt Remnick's characters. They're all being, like, cordoned off into their separate tent, and there's, like, a PA devoted to my family. By the end of these, like, five days of them visiting set, my brother was doing the Clapper. They were fully immersed. There are, like, violent scenes happening, and my mom is like, oh, to the other actors, you did such a good job as, like, they're trying to get in the headspace of, like, being, like, tortured. So they also came to visit the studio set. So honestly, my jobs have kind of turned into these, like, family vacations. Ike and Katherine have met my whole family.

[Seth Meyers]

Catherine, of course. Catherine's our Northwestern connection as well.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Exactly.

[Seth Meyers]

There you go. So give a shout out to our friend there. Shout out to Catherine. First of all, I know what you did last summer. Original. I'm very excited about this because the original is, like, I don't know, like, Pinnacle horror movie going years for me.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And so I'm very happy about it.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

1997.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah. That was. I mean, it was. It's. It's very exciting. I mean, it's exciting especially because the original cast is back. Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr.

[Josh Myers]

The original J. Lo.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

The original JLo, our JLo, the People's JLo. And she. They are amazing. And I think there have been, like, countless attempts to revitalize this franchise, and this is kind of the only one that they felt comfortable kind of signing on to. And so it really does a really good job at weaving in the OG as well as kind of, like, bringing this new cast in. And it was just. They're all just such cool people. Freddie Prinze Jr. Brought his whole family to Australia, so we're hanging out with, like, Sarah Michelle Geller and their kids. They're like, the ultimate, like, Hollywood couple. They're so nice.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

And so that part was, like. Was very special.

[Seth Meyers]

Can we also shout out? We're both big fans of Bodies, Bodies. Bodies. Oh, fantastic movie. That's awesome.

[Josh Myers]

I was at having breakfast with my mother. We were in New York for Thanksgiving and was having breakfast in the hotel, and sitting next to me was a woman who was speaking with a Dutch accent, and I had a mirror sort of on the wall. And I used to date a Dutch girl who was very good friends with Helena Rein, who directed Bodies, Bodies, Bodies. And I sort of like, I had to Google her very quickly to see, like, a picture. Cause I hadn't seen her in 10 years or something like that. And I just turned to her. I was like, are you Halina Rhine? And she was like, oh, Josh, Jesus Christus. And she had, like, just wrapped the movie. She was like, yeah, I'm not acting anymore. I just, like, directed my first film for a 24. And I was like, oh, great. And I sort of didn't think anything about it. I was like, you know, good for you. And then my wife and I watched Bodies, Bodies, Bodies at home. And at the end, like, her name comes up. And I was like, oh, yeah. Like, she told me. She's like, yeah, I made this movie. Bodies, Bodies, Bodies.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yes. She's so casual.

[Josh Myers]

So casual. It was so fun.

[Seth Meyers]

That's so funny.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. And there's so many.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

I know this origin story. Ike and Seth, you guys were in a theater troupe, right?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, in Amsterdam. In Amsterdam. Yeah. That's. We were all there. We were just back. We just saw Ike in Amsterdam at a reunion.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Oh, my God, that's so crazy.

[Seth Meyers]

I. This last year at the Golden Globes was flying back to New York, and I'm in the, like, lounge waiting for my flight, and the flight gets canceled. And again, I'm same, like, almost identical story to Josh. There's a woman sitting, like, two seats away from me, and our flight gets canceled. And she comes over and she's like, yeah, our flight is canceled, I think. And I was like, Helena. She's like, yeah, I didn't want to bother you. Literally, I hadn't seen her in 25 years. I'm like, you didn't want to bother.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Oh, my God.

[Seth Meyers]

Like, we're in a lounge waiting for a canceled flight. Like, Helena, you got to say hi.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

She got this reunion.

[Seth Meyers]

She wasn't at the rebound, but Ike brought all three of his daughters to Amsterdam. And I brought my oldest, who's nine. And I think he's just, like. He couldn't figure out which one of Ike's daughters to fall in love with.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

He was just like, they're amazing. They're so precocious and hilarious.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh Myers]

But, yeah, Helena, man made Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, and then wrote and directed Baby Doll last year, which is great, but she's the best with Bodies, Bodies, Bodies. And then, I mean, I haven't seen the new. I know what you did last summer, but I've seen the trailer, and it looks like there's so many people that you won't mind when they get killed.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Totally. Yeah. That's the joy of it.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah, it really is.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

No, that's.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. Perfect movie for the summer.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

It's. It's a good. It's a good summer movie. And it, like, it's fast. It, like, it's. It goes. And Jennifer Kaitlin Robinson, the director, is so smart and funny and is really, like, tapped in to Gen Z as well, you know, similar to Helena, I think. Yeah. There she. Helena can do no wrong. Helena's so funny in that when it. You know, she had first come to the United States when she started making Bodies, Bodies, Bodies. She's like, in. In Amsterdam, I'm a big movie star, but here no one. No one recognizes me. It's so weird.

[Seth Meyers]

And then just before we let go, also just shout out to the studio. It's fantastic.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Oh, my God. Thank you.

[Seth Meyers]

You're wonderful. And you guys are just such a fantastic ensemble, and it's so fun to watch.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

We gotta get you on season two.

[Seth Meyers]

I know. Although I can't. The problem is, like, I famously haven't made it work in Hollywood. I'm kind of like a New York. If you guys do an episode in New York.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Exactly, exactly. Then we'll call you in. You could also not play yourself.

[Seth Meyers]

Most people have found that in the end, it's better to just let me play myself.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

All right. Before we, like, this has been fantastic. It's so great to. To meet.

[Josh Myers]

I also feel like, you know, we might have you back in a couple years, because I know that there are trips.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I feel like it.

[Josh Myers]

There are trips that we haven't.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

There are trips up our sleeve.

[Seth Meyers]

I feel like we went from, like. Yeah. That we went. We only talked about your northernmost and southernmost trip.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Right, right. Eastern west.

[Seth Meyers]

I like that. The three things we talked about was the farthest point in Alaska, the island farthest away, and a museum five minutes from your house.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah, exactly. Gotta spread the love.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, Josh is gonna ask you some questions here.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Okay.

[Josh Myers]

All right, here we go. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous, or educational?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Only pick one. Yeah, educational.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah, that. That tracks.

[Seth Meyers]

We were going to call you out if you said something.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

You literally, like, your main takeaway is, like, the history of phosphate mining.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah, exactly.

[Josh Myers]

But that's relaxing for you.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Zero relaxing is done. I should say. Zero relaxing is done on our vacations.

[Josh Myers]

What is your favorite means of transportation?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Oh, boat.

[Josh Myers]

Boat. All right. If you could take a vacation with any family, alive or dead, real or fictional, other than your own family, what family would you like? To take a vacation with.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Oh my God, it's gotta be Clark. National Lampoon. Great European vacation. Yeah. That whole family.

[Seth Meyers]

The Griswolds. The Griswolds.

[Josh Myers]

If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Mm. Are we surviving or attempting to survive on this desert island?

[Seth Meyers]

It's however you wanna spend the time.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Okay. Okay. I would probably take my nephew, my 11 year old nephew Drake, because I think he would be very resourceful and also he would try to turn it into something very fun.

[Seth Meyers]

Got it.

[Josh Myers]

Great. Love it. Love that attitude. You're from. Did you say Bloomfield Township is the field Township? Would you recommend Bloomfield Township as a vacation destination?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Listen. Yes. If you are. Have similar travel patterns to my family, like some unconventional, less visited areas. You got Detroit, you got the Edison, the. Sorry. You got the Edsel Ford house. Right next door we have Coney dogs. Which are. You guys know about Coney dogs?

[Seth Meyers]

I feel like I should, but I don't. Tell us.

[Josh Myers]

But I also feel like they're probably from Coney Island, New York.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Well, I actually don't know the etymology of Coney, but basically every diner here is called a Coney Island. I don't really understand it. So the Coney dog is a hot dog slathered in chili. So it's basically every type of meat and cheese. So that's kind of the delicacy metro description.

[Josh Myers]

And that's bringing in the tourists.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

[Josh Myers]

At a huge scale. Well, great. Well, that sounds good. And then Seth has our final questions.

[Seth Meyers]

Have you been? It is. I'm reading about Coney dogs. It is invented by immigrants from Greece and the region of Macedonia. And they did. Coney island is. Is definitely where they began.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Okay.

[Seth Meyers]

But it also. It found their way to Michigan.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

So weird.

[Seth Meyers]

Have you been to the Grand Canyon?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

I've been to the Grand Canyon, yes.

[Seth Meyers]

Was it worth it?

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Honestly, I was 1512 or like 13 or something and I did not appreciate the scale of the Grand Canyon.

[Seth Meyers]

I have a theory though. It feels like you're not into anything that other people are at.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

That is correct.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

It's too crowded. Too many people.

[Seth Meyers]

I think you're like, this is. This is so. Normie, I feel like you were like, this is where.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Yeah, exactly.

[Seth Meyers]

Flattest. Boring as people go.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

I think. You know what? Everyone should see the Grand Canyon. Every American should see the Grand Canyon. I think a hack flying over the Grand Canyon.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

LA to New York. You fly over it every time. And it's beautiful. And it's really. It's cool to see it from that scope.

[Seth Meyers]

All right. All right. Well, I appreciate your honesty.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Thank you.

[Seth Meyers]

I think this is. I mean, this is a. What a gut punch for the Grand Canyon that somebody who's gone to Barrow, Alaska is like, eh.

[Josh Myers]

It was dark the whole time.

[Seth Meyers]

Literally, like, oh, there's this game where you put a ring on a string and try to throw it in a hole. I like that.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

That's my.

[Seth Meyers]

That's more fun.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Super freezing, dark, cold time. But you can fend polar bears off with a stick.

[Seth Meyers]

So you are. You're a chase. What a great.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Thank you, guys. Thank you for being so receptive, you know.

[Josh Myers]

Oh, please.

[Seth Meyers]

We heard good things. We heard good things.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Oh, my God.

[Seth Meyers]

And again, you know, because Ike is prone to exaggeration, but he told us you were the best. And in this. Oh, my God, he was. He was right on the money.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

So he speaks so highly of both you guys. So this was. This was very exciting.

[Josh Myers]

Well, enjoy the rest of your time at home.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, you too.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

I'll talk to you soon.

[Josh Myers]

All right, thanks.

[Seth Meyers]

Bye.

[Josh Myers]

Bye. Bye. In Michigan, people spend summer on lakes but chases fail Preferred unusual trips to take if it's hard to get there it climbs to the top of their list if other people say where the sea wonders cannot resist well, if it takes 21 hours just to get to the D Sweet wonders going to Nauru Sweet wonders going to Nauru Sweet wonders going to Nauru Least visited country.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

You.

[Josh Myers]

Might say so why won't you go where a wealthy gentleman GP and it shaped just like the Don.

[Seth Meyers]

They got.

[Josh Myers]

Five state minds courtesy of all the bird and they got no crime for feral dogs you get a with well, there's not a whole lot of stuff there for you did you chase it at all? She said you can she knows a lot about Nauru she knows a lot about Nauru 1real really hurt commerce.

[Chase Sweetwonders]

Someone.

[Josh Myers]

Impulse Dana Margo but wouldn't be much worse than when they put on Leonardo well, Chase makes the case it's worth going to But I don't know if I'll ever go to hell if I will go to Nauru got nicer Ferrari that's what they do on Nauru.

[Seth Meyers]

She.

[Josh Myers]

Try the stew in Nauru Mac the unusual so say reviews of Nauru but it is cute so bring your crew to Nauru yeah, it is beautiful. It's pretty cool on Nauru it is so beautiful. The sky is blue over Nauru.