COLBY MINIFIE Grew Up Busking In Central Park

Summary

Podcast Summary: Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers

Episode: Colby Minifie Grew Up Busking In Central Park
Hosts: Seth Meyers & Josh Meyers
Guest: Colby Minifie
Release Date: May 5, 2026

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Overview

This episode centers on actor Colby Minifie, best known for her work on "The Boys." The Meyers Brothers invite Colby to share vivid childhood memories and hilarious family stories, ranging from Manhattan upbringings and rural New Hampshire summers, to impromptu musical performances in Central Park and a fateful gelato-fueled trip to Italy. Colby’s quirky, multi-talented family—especially her opera singer father—takes center stage, with tales about New York City life, busking, and extraordinary travel misadventures. The conversation is laced with warmth, self-deprecating humor, and a shared love of performance.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. New York Upbringing and Summers in New Hampshire

• Colby was born and raised on the Upper East Side, in a rent-stabilized apartment her mom moved into in 1977 (11:00).
• Every summer, her father (one of six siblings) and family rented a rustic cabin in Randolph, northern New Hampshire (07:58).
  • These trips were split among the families; sometimes they overlapped, sometimes not.
  • Colby learned to ride a bike there and socialized with local kids.
• Colby admits to “smoking some weed” with local teens in Randolph (“probably shouldn’t say… family podcast” 12:25).

2. City Childhood and Family Traditions

• Biking through Manhattan as a child: her dad rigged a car seat to his bike so Colby and her sister could ride along (10:11).
• Question of where to learn to bike in New York: “Where do you teach your kids how to ride a bike in New York?” (09:52).
• Observations on being a New York City kid; realization of the city’s uniqueness in middle/high school, especially walking through Times Square (11:19).

3. Family Trips and Gourmet Adventures

• Her mother worked for Gourmet Magazine for 32 years; on her 25th work anniversary, they received a family trip of their choice—selected Rome and Venice (16:48).
  • First exposure to MTV in an Italian hotel room: confusion and excitement over “SexyBack” by Justin Timberlake (18:06).
  • Daily gelato at Giolitti; upon returning as an adult, Colby finds that “childhood memory held up” (20:30).
  • Notable moment: Colby’s opera-singing father serenades a Venetian canal, followed by Colby and her sister performing. Her sister receives a kiss from a stranger in appreciation (26:20–29:44).

4. Busking in Central Park and Family Performance

• Her opera-singer father frequently biked the family to the Central Park boat pond to busk (27:36).
  • “He would put his helmet out, and he would sing… then he’d be like, ‘okay, kids, get up and sing.’ So it was always part of the deal with us.” (27:36–28:38)
  • Story of being upstaged: “My dad was singing, and…some guy in the park said, ‘Let the kids sing. We want to hear the kids.’ And my poor dad was like, ‘okay, it’s over for me.’” (30:51)
• Singing was a continuous theme in her family—not just for busking, but at home, on holidays, at Thanksgiving, and around the piano at Christmas (58:17).

5. Family History – A Colorful Cast of Relatives

• Dad’s family lived in the Grace Church rectory: a 40-room mansion on 10th & Broadway, NY (46:09).
  • Anecdote about the changing city ("You wouldn't go to Union Square unless you wanted to die") (46:43).
• Frequent gatherings with “about 18 cousins”—trips to the Berkshires (MA) and Newport (RI) ([45:18], 47:48).

Notable Cousin Story: The Frozen Horse Incident

• At a Christmas in the Berkshires, a horse’s penis froze “open” due to extreme cold. Solutions included socks and duct tape. Her father wrote a story titled “Christmas and the Frozen Penis” (53:38–54:43).
  • Quote: “We look over and there’s a horse with like this huge penis with like 12 socks duct taped to the penis… My dad… wrote a story that year called Christmas and the Frozen Penis.” – Colby (54:00)

6. Theatre Beginnings & Performing Arts School

• Attended Professional Performing Arts School in NYC, where many classmates already had Broadway credits by age 11 (39:51).
  • “I remember going home and sobbing, being like, I’m behind. I need to get an agent. My career is suffering.” (39:51)
• First professional job was as an understudy for “Pillow Man” on Broadway at age 13 (35:45).
• Reflections on the quirks and pressures of being a working child actor.

7. Family Philosophy on Performing & Learning

• Father encouraged performance everywhere: “He just wanted to instill in us the idea that we could do this anywhere, that this is such a cool thing…” (30:02).
• Family belief in doing what you love, singing as self-expression vs. singing for money (57:00).
• Mom: more private and shy (had a childhood stutter) but a brilliant cook and artist (59:13).

8. Other Travel & Memorable Mishaps

• Motion sickness plagued many early flights, including a memorable trip to France (34:21).
• Recalls the chaos of a transatlantic flight full of Italian teens en route to a Model UN (49:50).

9. Reflections on Cities: New York vs. LA

• Colby has “never moved” from NY, though she’s worked in LA and enjoys the food and weather there. Finds New York’s unpredictability and sense of community more grounding (43:28–44:26).
• Encouragement: New Yorkers may not be “nice,” but they’re fiercely kind and will help in a pinch (65:07).
  • Quote: “We are supportive and kind, but not nice…If you’re in trouble, we will help you, but we’ll do it very quickly.” (65:07)

10. Lightning Round / Fun Questions

• Dream vacation: Japan (64:51)
• Ideal vacation style: Adventurous (62:09)
• Dream “other” family to vacation with: The family from “Running on Empty” (62:25)
• Stranded on an island: would choose one of her strong, capable female cousins (64:13)
• Grand Canyon: Yes, and hiked it rim-to-rim in a day, singing her way through with a friend (69:36–70:33)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On busking in Central Park:

  “He would put his helmet out, and he would sing…then he’d be like, ‘okay, kids, get up and sing.’ And we would sing, too. And so it was always part of the deal with us.” – Colby (27:36)

• On family musical embarrassment:

  “Everybody, like, quickly dispersed. Because they were like, what the hell is this now?” (After Colby followed her opera-singing sister with “Don’t Fence Me In” on a bridge in Venice) (29:29)

• On being a city kid:

  “I started realizing it was unique…I was going to school in Times Square and having to walk through all the tourists…I need to get to school!” – Colby (11:28)

• On neighborhood pride:

  “Are your parents still there?”
  “It’s a rent-stabilized apartment…they pay like nothing for a three bedroom, two bath on the Upper East Side.” (11:04)

• On New Yorker hospitality:

  “We’re not actually mean. We are supportive and kind, but not nice…if you’re in trouble, we’ll help you, but we’ll do it very quickly.” (65:07)

• On the quirky Christmas in the Berkshires:

  “We look over and there’s a horse with like this huge penis…with like 12 socks duct taped to the penis…[Dad] wrote a story that year called Christmas and the Frozen Penis.” – Colby (54:00)

• On singing everywhere:

  “At Thanksgiving, he’ll be like, I’m gonna break down into song, everybody ready? And he brings his pitch pipe with him everywhere…” (57:10)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Opening banter—parenting & New England roots: 00:36–04:07
• Introducing Colby Minifie: 06:45
• Colby's NY and NH family background: 07:58–12:20
• Central Park busking stories: 27:36–31:09
• Italy trip with family & MTV awakening: 16:48–21:10
• Venice bridge singing/kiss incident: 26:20–29:44
• Unique family & cousin stories: 45:05–54:43
• Performing arts school reflections: 39:51
• Quick-fire (speed round) questions: 62:02
• Grand Canyon hike story: 69:36
• Colby asks about the podcast’s end-of-episode songs: 71:34

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Tone & Takeaways

• The episode is playful, candid, and deeply familial—anecdotes switch seamlessly from profound to absurd (“Christmas and the Frozen Penis”).
• Colby’s affectionate, hilarious stories are grounded by a real sense of gratitude for her eclectic upbringing and supportive family ethos.
• The episode serves as both a love letter to families who sing, perform, and don’t take themselves too seriously—and to New York’s peculiar blend of toughness and camaraderie.

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Final Note

Colby Minifie’s episode is a testament to the powerful, unpredictable magic that family traditions and oddball adventures can have on a creative life. From choirboy mansions in Manhattan to New England cabins, and from backyard arias to international gelato pilgrimages, her stories are warm, weird, and wonderful.

Transcript

[Colby Minifie]

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[Seth Meyers]

Hi, buddy.

[Josh]

Hi, SUV.

[Seth Meyers]

How's it going? Good.

[Josh]

How are you?

[Seth Meyers]

I'm good. What are you up to?

[Josh]

Yeah, I don't know. Beautiful day here in la.

[Seth Meyers]

Beautiful day here in New York City as well. We finally got spring. It was a long time coming. Yeah. Very exciting development that I think is your kids. Also. I can't quite remember what it was like to be 3, 4, 5 years old. So I feel like oftentimes I'm observing my children and I'm like, I don't know if I ever acted like that or did that. But now that they're like 8 and 10 especially, especially the boys, I'm like, oh, this feels like being poshy. They really like playing baseball on the weekend. And the only downside is I think we usually only make it like one, one and a third innings before Axel quits.

[Josh]

Ah, that's tough.

[Seth Meyers]

That's tough. But dad got him one of these nets where you, you know, has like a yellow square and so you can throw the ball in the net and it'll bounce back. Oh, yeah. So it works really good as a. It's a backstop. When you're playing baseball, we can call balls and strikes. And then also if they want to go out and play by themselves. So we're playing like, we had this beautiful day of playing basketball and then the worst thing happened, which is they also got. Somebody gave them these, like, plastic bow and arrows and. Which I have. I have something else to say about that, which is, yeah, they had these pl. And they decided, oh, we can play the Hunger Games. And so the Hunger they made, they put the bow and arrow and then a bunch of sticks and just like weapons in a pile. I don't know if you know how the Hunger Games works, Posh.

[Josh]

I. I will admit that I don't.

[Seth Meyers]

So in the Hunger Games, the book and then the film, everybody there's a circle around this, like, weapons cache.

[Josh]

Okay.

[Seth Meyers]

And on the on go, everybody, like, runs to the middle and grabs a weapon. Gotcha. So they played Hunger Games. And now would you bet that somebody or didn't get hurt when my kids Started playing the Hunger Games.

[Josh]

I mean, as soon as you said plastic bow and arrows, I thought one of your kids was in the hospital.

[Seth Meyers]

And the best thing about the old Hunger Games was ash going, like, I got hurt and I'm like, at the Hunger Games. So. But it was. I was still, you know, beautiful day. Kids outside, you know, they do mountain biking. They're very good. I'm pretty proud of. I'm proud of them for how much they're outside on the weekends.

[Josh]

Yeah, gotta be. It's beautiful out there. You know, I've been watching Ken Burns, did a Henry David Thoreau. It's not Thoreau, I guess.

[Seth Meyers]

Thorough. Interesting.

[Josh]

Yeah. Yeah. And I've been watching that and it like all of the stuff around Walden and all of, you know, the nature stuff that he was sort of very, very well known for. They show these, you know, beautiful images of New England in these paths, in these lakes and the mountains. And, you know, that's where your kids are essentially, like, it's very close to there. That's where they're spending their. Their time outside. And it's just beautiful. And if you don't take advantage of it, then, yeah, you're missing out.

[Seth Meyers]

When we moved to New Hampshire, I think like the I. Because we moved mid year and I remember that. I think the first thing we did when I moved was like a thorough, like, unit. I think I was a fourth grader. Does that seem right? Maybe a little younger. No, Maybe fourth. I can't remember younger than fourth. But I remember reading about it, like how our teachers were like, really hammering home how lucky we were to live in New England like that. This is. I'm sure kids who grow up everywhere and correctly so are told that where they live is special. I think that's a good thing to get across.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Can I tell you my new least favorite things the kids do on the walk to school?

[Josh]

Yeah, please.

[Seth Meyers]

They each guess what time we'll get there. So I tell them what time we leave the door. It's like 25 minutes.

[Josh]

They each guess and do they just leave it?

[Seth Meyers]

That's how. That's how the game is fun is they just leave it. And we get to the thing and then. But they. Ash now has been cheating because I didn't realize he's got a little digital watch. So all of a sudden I look, I'm like, why is he half black ahead? I'm like, oh. And then Axel's like, it's not fair. He has a watch. And so it just. It's a. Yeah.

[Josh]

I. I was a real watch person and then my watch broke like four months ago now, and I just haven't replaced it. And it's kind of nice.

[Seth Meyers]

I've never been a watch person and the only reason I'm kind of thinking about, like, watch life is just, you know, like health apps, like a health track. I don't never care. Obviously. Yeah. What time it is. But yeah. So anyway, I might watch it up as well. Fantastic conversation today with Colby Minifie.

[Josh]

Yeah. This. I don't think either of us. She hadn't been on your show. You didn't know her.

[Seth Meyers]

No.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

So it was that delightful first time meeting on the old pilot.

[Josh]

Some good stories. So a little New Hampshire.

[Seth Meyers]

Little New Hampshire.

[Josh]

Little New Hampshire way up there and like.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh]

That hardcore northern New Hampshire. Little tip. Yeah. Really enjoyed this conversation. Really enjoyed hearing about her sort of path in the theater world is fascinating.

[Seth Meyers]

She's a great story, great parents. Hey, Posh, do you mind if I use this time real quick to shout out some stand updates?

[Josh]

Yeah, no, go for it.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm gonna be in Denver on Friday, May 8, doing a couple of shows at the Paramount Theater. I think a 7 and a 10, 7:30 and a 10. And then in Albuquerque at the Route 66 Casino. I'm gonna be with our very good friend Brooks Whelan, who's hilarious. And do check it out if you're thereabouts in the area.

[Josh]

Great.

[Seth Meyers]

You can go to sethmeyers.com for tickets. Posh. How about that?

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. There you go. All right. Enjoy, Colby. And thanks for listening, everybody.

[Narrator]

Family trips with the Miles brothers.

[Colby Minifie]

Family trips with the. My best brothers.

[Seth Meyers]

Here we go. Hello, hello, hello.

[Colby Minifie]

Oh, look who it is. I'm good. How are you?

[Seth Meyers]

Good. So nice to see you. To meet you. To all the things.

[Narrator]

Yes.

[Colby Minifie]

See you. Meet you all the things. You guys look exactly the same.

[Seth Meyers]

That's what we hear. And I'm not even wearing when I put my glasses on. Oh, man. See?

[Colby Minifie]

Oh, it's your twins.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Colby Minifie]

How far apart are you?

[Josh]

Two years.

[Colby Minifie]

Oh, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

So I'm always. I just want to start by saying I'm very happy to meet New York. New York City.

[Colby Minifie]

Raised New York City, born and raised.

[Seth Meyers]

So I'm very happy because, like, we're obviously, we're like suburban New Hampshire kids, and I'm raising New York City kids. And so anytime I meet one that's like sort of a well adjusted, good person, it gives me faith, so. But we don't know that. Don't blow this.

[Josh]

We're about to find out.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, yeah. You know, I'm actually a nightmare if this goes.

[Seth Meyers]

If you ever hear that I moved to the suburbs. No, it's because of this interview.

[Colby Minifie]

There's so much riding on this interview.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Colby Minifie]

Wait, where? Suburban New Hampshire. Where are you guys from?

[Josh]

Bedford, New Hampshire.

[Seth Meyers]

That's right next to Manchester, New Hampshire.

[Colby Minifie]

Manchester, yes, I know, exactly. I spent every summer in Randolph. So like northern. Northern New Hampshire. Close to Berlin and Gorham way up there.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And was that camp time?

[Colby Minifie]

Not so much camp, no. My dad's whole. My dad's one of six and all of his siblings bought this cabin in the woods in this tiny little town. I'm getting a UPS delivery right now, so if you hear that, that's what's happening. Okay, gotcha. You can't. You never know when they're gonna come. And so they bought this little cabin in the woods and we would all go up there. An eight hour drive from New York City. So that's where I spent every summer. But we would drive right through Manchester.

[Seth Meyers]

So an eight hour drive and you would go. Would you really go for the whole summer?

[Colby Minifie]

No, two weeks. And then we'd go home and then we'd come back for another week and then we'd go. Or it was. Sorry, one first week was one week and then we'd go home and then we'd come back for two weeks.

[Seth Meyers]

And was that because there were too many people there or it was like your parents, like, we have to go back to the city for work or was it.

[Colby Minifie]

It was a Cher. It was probably work related. And then also we had to like. We'd be like, well, Ned gets this week and then Chad gets this week.

[Seth Meyers]

Gotcha.

[Colby Minifie]

And we get these weeks and you know. Yeah.

[Josh]

Could you do two families simultaneously or was it really.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, sometimes it was because there were two. Two houses. It sounds grand, but they're really, really old. They're like built in the 18. I'm probably butchering that date. My dad is gonna be really mad. Cause he's told me this story a million times. There were really old cabins that were built out. And then there's a tiny little cabin on the side that's like very cute, that has enough space for one of those 17 inch stoves and tiny little kitchen. So oftentimes we'd be like, oh, Ned's gonna stay in the little house and we get the big house. Then we'd switch or you know, that's.

[Seth Meyers]

And did you look forward to this? Were you excited to go oh, yeah.

[Colby Minifie]

Oh, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. I learned how to ride a bike up there. I mean, learning. This is the thing. Where do you teach your kids how to ride a bike in New York?

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

By the way, my wife is like, on the street. Like, she's like, I have a fearless wife who will be like, let's take a bike ride. I'm like, in this city. And she's like, yeah, yeah. I mean, by the way, a different city now. More bike paths.

[Colby Minifie]

Way more bikes. I used to bike to and from high school every day. And that was before a lot of those bike paths were put in and I had to go through Columbus Circle. And you know, my. Because my dad, I grew up, my dad biking in the city. That's how he got around. He had like a little thing on the back of it was. It was like a car seat that he like took apart and put on the back of his bike. And then he had a. One of those. Just a seat that he put on the crossbar for my sister. And so I was in the back, bungee corded in and then my sister was on the front crossbar. And that's how we got around. So biking has always been safe. But learning how to ride a bike, where do you do that?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, you're right. Where did you. What part of the city did you grow up in?

[Colby Minifie]

Upper east side.

[Seth Meyers]

Great.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, I know.

[Seth Meyers]

Are your parents still there?

[Colby Minifie]

It's a rent stabilized apartment. My mom moved from D.C. into that apartment in 1977 and has never left. And so they pay like nothing for a three bedroom, two bath on the Upper east side. Wow, that's crazy. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Were you aware growing up in New York City that it was a unique upbringing? Or was it only after you left and met people who didn't grow up in New York City that you realized that?

[Colby Minifie]

I started realizing it was unique, I think, um, when I was going to middle school and high school in Times Square and having to like walk through all the tourists and be like, why are you taking these videos of a billboard? I need to get to school. Like, and like, you know, and then I was like, oh, people like, like this place. This. This is a cool zone to grow up in. Yeah. Yeah. Josh, do you live in the city?

[Josh]

No, I live in Los Angeles, but it's a city.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. And you have kids?

[Josh]

I do not.

[Colby Minifie]

Do not have kids. Yeah. Cause that's a unique. That's also a rare thing. Having kids that grow up are born and raised in la. Born and raised in New York. I feel like.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, and we know a lot of them. If you're in this business, you get to know a lot of them. And anytime they turn out normal, you're very impressed.

[Colby Minifie]

It is rare.

[Josh]

Would you meet and hang out with local kids when you would go up to New Hampshire?

[Colby Minifie]

Yes, there were some kids I used to smoke some weed with, which I probably shouldn't say. This is a family podcast.

[Seth Meyers]

Family podcast. You heard it was a podcast.

[Josh]

That's why you wanted to come on.

[Colby Minifie]

Exactly.

[Josh]

You're like, yeah, I got stories.

[Seth Meyers]

Right before we went live, you were like, oh, no, no, no, no.

[Colby Minifie]

A pod. It's a podcast. No. Yeah, there were some kids. We would hang out with some local kids. But I do think there is that thing, you know, of the city and the local people. And the local people were very welcoming to us. But I think there was that. Like, who are these kids coming through? Who are.

[Seth Meyers]

Who do you think? Like, were you. You know, I don't want to make this too weed centric, but, like, were they, like, more weed forward than you were? Or were you like, that kid who showed up like, hey, I'm from New York. Who's got the drugs around here?

[Josh]

Real quick, Colby. This is the second podcast we've recorded today, and Seth used that voice in the last one, but I used it

[Seth Meyers]

for Olympic swimmer Mark Smith.

[Josh]

Yeah, it was his impression of Mark Spitz. But anyhow, please, you need the good voice.

[Colby Minifie]

We have to have the voices here.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Maple tree. I gotta tap to get some of the good stuff.

[Colby Minifie]

You gotta get. That's where all the good maple syrup comes. Yeah, I. I will be doing this whole thing in a Brooklyn accent just for fun. Um, no, I'm trying to remember how that went. I feel like it was. I was really into weed in high school, so it was probably me. Yeah, it was probably me.

[Seth Meyers]

It's good that you weren't so into it that you don't have the memory for it. That's true. Couldn't have smoked that much.

[Josh]

Was it lake living? Was it lake life up in Randolph?

[Colby Minifie]

It was. There was a lake. There was a very cold lake where the water would melt off the White Mountains and be extremely cold. And then we dip in that. And then there was a man made lake right close by that we would dip in. That was warmer, but it was hiking. It was mainly hiking. Yeah. And my parents.

[Seth Meyers]

And you were a kid who was like, I feel like that's very. That speaks well of you, that you were a kid who was like, oh, my God, a vacation where we're Gonna go hiking. But you liked that. You would get excited.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, I would. Yeah. Yeah. I realized, like, halfway through high school that I. Even though I grew up in New York City, I felt like I knew nothing and then proceeded to travel as much as humanly possible. Cause I was like, I don't know anything about nature, really. Like, I remember, I. This is really embarrassing, but I bought a house recently in the Hudson Valley, and after the first winter, you know, I had such a hard time mowing my lawn. I was like, I'm not gonna make anybody mow my. I'm not gonna pay for that. I'm gonna do that. And I. I let it go for, like, four months and then tried to mow it and then broke this rider mower and then had to get it. I mean, it was, like, such a. I really didn't know what I was doing. And I remember after the first winter, I had some pest people looking at my house, and I was like, I don't know who's been mowing my lawn, but, like, it's so. It's still short. Like, it's been short for months. And they're like, well, the grass doesn't grow in the winter. And I was like. I was like, oh, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

So you're like. And I look back, and I. I should not have gone to that town meeting and said, we have a ghost mower. While you're all hanging your Christmas decorations,

[Colby Minifie]

I want to know who's been mowing my damn lawn without giving consent.

[Josh]

Pilgrims had a very similar first winter in New England.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Colby Minifie]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

Were you guys a trip family outside of your, like, sort of summer in Randolph? Would you guys travel a lot?

[Colby Minifie]

Not really. We were. We were. Yeah. It was like my parent. I think my parents traveled a whole bunch before they had kids and after they had kids, they had kids later in life. And after they had kids, they were like, yeah, I think we like comfort. We. This is too much. But we did do. We did have this one. Magical. This is. When I heard about this podcast, I was like, I know exactly what story I'm gonna tell.

[Seth Meyers]

Very excited. We love. We love this person. Bring it up. Who shows up with this story?

[Colby Minifie]

Who shows up? My mom worked for Gourmet magazine, which is now defunct. It closed my senior year of high school, but she worked there for 32 years. Wow. And this was back when magazines had, you know, money. And my mother's 25th anniversary of being at this magazine, they said, we're going to gift you a trip anywhere you want in the world with Your family? And my parents picked Rome and Venice and Italy. And this was, like, our big, fancy trip. And there were a few things that happened on this trip that were really spectacular. One is, I wasn't. I didn't grow up watching tv. My parents, like, I didn't even know how to turn on the TV growing up. My dad did, like, put the remote behind his back and, like, snap his fingers when we wanted to watch a movie. We would get, like, a movie a weekend. And so we were like, this magic box. How does it work?

[Seth Meyers]

And by the way, this is. I'm going to tell you something. I'm less and less surprised you didn't know about grass in the winter.

[Colby Minifie]

Is that what they teach on tv? I didn't know. Wow. Oh, now I really am learning a lot. Is that what they taught on, like, Arthur? Yeah.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Our third yard. Vark was basically like, don't embarrass yourself.

[Colby Minifie]

This is what happens with grass. This is how grass grows. Yeah. No. Yeah. So we got to Rome, and we were in this hotel, and my sister and I put on the tv and there was mtv and we were like, what is this thing, this MTV thing? I was 12. My sister was 14. She's two and a half years older. She's probably 14, going on 15. And we. Justin Timberlake. What is the song where he's like, I'll have you naked by the end of this song. You know that song?

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, God, yes. Is it Sexy Back?

[Colby Minifie]

I'm bringing sexy back.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Colby Minifie]

Thank you. See you.

[Josh]

Yes, it is.

[Colby Minifie]

No. You guys were raised in the world. I was raised in some tv, barren land.

[Seth Meyers]

You were raised in a family of magicians who would snap their fingers.

[Colby Minifie]

And so we had. We watched this. This music video over and over again, and we were like, oh, my gosh, this is so fun. And my sister was like. I was like, this is, like, you know, risky. Like, he's saying naked. What is this? He's saying, like, ooh, Hayden. Like, he's saying naked. And my sister was like, he's not saying naked. He's saying, I'll have you naked by the end of this song. And she was so adamant about him having said naked instead of naked to, like, save the embarrassment of watching this.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, she was. She was. She was embarrassed on her own behalf. Perhaps she had to make it naked.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, Yeah, I think so. I think she was like, yeah, we're not. It's. This is not, like, a sexy song. This. Even though it's called I'm Bringing Sexy

[Seth Meyers]

Back, this Is, by the way, every parent's dream when they first bring their children to Italy.

[Josh]

This is the culture we want them to get.

[Colby Minifie]

Exactly. It's Justin Timberlake, really, is what we want in Italy. Yeah. And then we. I remember we went to this gelato place every single day called Giolitti, which we just had our boys Rome premiere, like the premiere of the last season in Rome. And I went to Gialidi as much as humanly possible to kind of relive that trip.

[Seth Meyers]

Did you. Are you the kind of, like, cast mate who's like, hey, guys, Giulides came as a kid. Gonna blow your mind. Everybody with me?

[Colby Minifie]

Yes. But nobody came with me. I was like, you have to go to this place. And they were all like, great, great, great. See you later, Colby.

[Seth Meyers]

Did it hold up?

[Colby Minifie]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I even compared it to some other place, because there's only one, you know, And I compared it to some other places where I couldn't get to Giolitti's and was like, I have to go, you know, try some more gelato, because we're here in freaking Italy. We have to go. And wasn't nearly as good. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

So it's so nice to know that your childhood memory held up.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Josh]

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[Seth Meyers]

Here we go. Have you guys done multiple in sort of sorry, international premieres for the boys over the years?

[Colby Minifie]

We have, but I haven't. This is the first one I've been to.

[Josh]

Nice.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. Because I was doing a play. They did some tour of London and Paris and they did some like, big multi city tour. And I think like 90% of the cast got Covid. And I was doing a play, so I didn't get to join and get the special Covid.

[Josh]

Sounds like maybe that was for the.

[Seth Meyers]

Maybe dodged a bullet on that.

[Josh]

Covid. I mean.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, yeah, but. But yeah. So then we went to Venice. And I remember this one night we were, you know, we were also eating the best food because my mom was doing. She was like, I'm. I have to research. Like I have to do this research trip. So we were eating.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, right.

[Colby Minifie]

Unbelievable food everywhere we went. And, you know, it was considered research, so it would go on the gourmet tab, as far as I remember. And we were at this really nice restaurant that was overlooking a canal in Venice. And the windows were open in the restaurant and there was this Italian guy with like, you know, his shirt buttoned down, three or four buttons, and his chest hair popping out, smoking a cigarette out the window of the restaurant. And my parents were like, oh, God, why does he have to smoke? So annoying. You know, my dad, who used to smoke, being like, oh, man, I hate

[Seth Meyers]

this now in Italy, of all places.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, yeah. And my dad's an opera singer. And the most amazing thing about him is that he will just sing wherever he goes. He's just like. It's like he'll be mowing the lawn. Cause he understands lawns. And he will just start singing in the middle of mowing the lawn. He'll just stop mowing and it'll just, you know, break out in an aria. And that's, I think, the most. He just shares himself everywhere he goes, which is really spectacular.

[Josh]

And not quite. Like, opera singers aren't known for singing really. I mean, unless it's truly sotto voce. But I'm guess.

[Colby Minifie]

Is he.

[Josh]

Is he belting when he's out on the.

[Colby Minifie]

Oh, he is full. Yeah. Full voice everywhere. Everywhere he goes. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And this was never. There was never an age where this was cause for embarrassment for you.

[Colby Minifie]

It was always about this age. Yeah, I mean, probably it was like

[Josh]

now or this age. When you're in Venice.

[Colby Minifie]

No, no, in Venice. I mean, I feel like even at that time, probably, you know, I don't think. I actually don't think maybe when I was like a little older, 17, 18, I started getting embarrassed. But then I realized, like, this guy's so special. Why? You know, this is so Cool and unique.

[Seth Meyers]

And that's good. I'm glad you realized that before.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, well, it was part of our culture, too, growing up. Like, we would. He would go busk at the boat pond in Central park where they would sail. There's, like, two boat ponds. There's the restaurant, and then there's the one where you sail those rental boats in Central Park. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. And he would put his helmet. We would bike there. He would put his helmet out, and he would sing. And then he'd be like, okay, kids, get up and sing. Sing a song. And we would sing, too. And so it was always part of the deal with us. So, you know, when he breaks out in song in Italy, we're like, yeah, this is normal. And he sings this Italian aria. And then he says to my sister, he had taught her omeo bambino caro. So he's like, go. Oh, so sorry. Where he's singing is on this bridge that is right outside that goes over the canal that's right outside the restaura. So he's like, I just want to sing right now. So he goes outside to the bridge, and we all follow him. I don't even know if we paid our check yet. We were just like, we're just gonna do this, and we'll come back. And so he's singing on this bridge, and then he gets my sister to go up and sing Omio bembino caro. And she is an amazing voice. My sister's, like, very skilled and super talented. And it's this beautiful Italian aria that she's singing. And there are people in gondolas, like tourists and gondolas, that are going under the bridge on the canal. And they're recording my sister thinking that she's this Italian opera singer at 15, 14, 15. And the guy who had been smoking in the restaurant comes out of the restaurant, goes up to my sister, places his hands on either side of her face, and gives her a big kiss on the lips. And my sister. I think this was my sister's first kiss. Like, this is. And it was this, like, epic moment. And then, of course, the only songs I knew were like, don't Fence me In. Like some old cowboy clown song. Cause that's the only kind of singing I do. And dad was like, go up and sing your cowboy song. So I did that, and everybody, like, quickly dispersed. Cause they were like, what the hell is this now?

[Seth Meyers]

What is. When your dad's like, go sing. Is he like, go sing? Because it's fun. To sing? Like, what did he. Or is he, like, we're having fun and you're. Part of your fun is singing, I think.

[Colby Minifie]

Oh, so great question.

[Seth Meyers]

Or is it, like, I wanna, like. I want you to learn, like. Like, the performance chops of, like, just doing it right now, like. Cause obviously it paid off, right?

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, well, yeah, I guess it did. Yeah. I mean, I think he. I think he just wanted to instill in us the. The idea that we could do this anywhere, that this is against. It's such a cool thing. Yeah, it's a really. I really value it now. I think at the time, I was like. Like, at the. Not at that time, but a little bit later, I was like, I just.

[Seth Meyers]

Ooh.

[Colby Minifie]

Like, I don't feel comfortable.

[Seth Meyers]

When you would go to the. Like, would he say, like, hey, we're gonna go to Central park and, like, dad's gonna sing a little? Like, would you know that was what you were going for?

[Colby Minifie]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it would be fun.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh]

And how long is that? Like, a bike ride into the park? Some busking. Is that, like, you're there for an hour?

[Colby Minifie]

Probably a couple hours. Yeah.

[Josh]

Okay.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. And at one point, some guy. I remember distinctly, there was this. My dad was singing, and then he had us sing, and then he came back to sing, and some guy in the park said, let the kids sing. We want to hear the kids. And my poor dad was like, okay, it's over for me.

[Seth Meyers]

He's, like, hoisted on my own batard. I forced them to sing, and now I've been replaced.

[Colby Minifie]

Oh, yeah, Exactly.

[Seth Meyers]

Fortunately, there's probably, like, six good opera songs about that exact feeling.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Being replaced by a younger. Yeah.

[Colby Minifie]

Taking precedence. The All About Eve of opera.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Did Gourmet fly, you guys? Do you remember if he flew first class or.

[Colby Minifie]

Oh, definitely not. Yeah, we flew economy. Yeah. They were like, we'll do this, but it's. Yeah, you're gonna throw up on the plane. For sure.

[Seth Meyers]

They were also like, we're gonna pay for all your food. No apps.

[Josh]

Was that the first. Was that the first time you flew anywhere?

[Colby Minifie]

No, I think we had flown to see family out in Tacoma. Out in. Where were we? Actually, Northern California, where they had orange trees, which they have all over California, but I remember a distinct orange tree in this family's backyard. Where was that? That was. Starts with an S. Sacramento. Sacramento. It was Sacramento.

[Josh]

Capital.

[Colby Minifie]

Oh, yeah. I knew that.

[Seth Meyers]

State capitol.

[Josh]

Well, I'm out here, so.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. Yeah. I've never been to California. No.

[Seth Meyers]

How Long was this trip? How long do you guys did you go for?

[Colby Minifie]

I think we went for, like, 10 days or something.

[Seth Meyers]

That's a really good trip.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, it was a great trip.

[Seth Meyers]

Did you like. Do you remember liking Rome more than Venice or vice versa?

[Colby Minifie]

I remember liking all of it. My dad hated Rome. He was like, it's too busy. There's too many Vespas. They go by you loud. And my dad used to drive a motorcycle, so I don't know why he.

[Seth Meyers]

Right. Seems like your dad, like, if there's one takeaway, it said he's a huge. It seems like your dad's a huge hypocrite. Like, that hated this guy smoking. He quit yesterday. Would tool around his motorcycle everywhere, and the first time he hears a Vespa, he's, like, covering his ears.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. He's like, oh, that singing is so loud. Why are they singing?

[Josh]

What did.

[Seth Meyers]

Did what did. I would imagine it's a weird sensation to be mad at a guy for smoking and then moments later, he's just fully giving your daughter a kiss. How did your dad react to that moment?

[Colby Minifie]

He was like, oh, cool. Must have done a really good job with the singing there, Hayden.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, I guess that's like, there is something funny about, like, an opera singer being like, there's no higher praise than being so good that a stranger has to come and kiss you.

[Colby Minifie]

I do think. I do think that was. Yeah, he was like, that's what I've always wanted.

[Seth Meyers]

Right in my life.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. Yeah. And my mom, meanwhile, is not a performer, and she used to stutter as a kid, so she's like. She was quite shy, and she. I remember sitting. She was sitting on the bridge looking at us just like, I can't believe I made these children. These children. Like, how. How did that happen? But. Yeah. Yeah. That's the big, crazy trip story we did. I'm just remembering we did go to France once, but I don't remember when that was.

[Seth Meyers]

Gotcha.

[Josh]

Okay.

[Seth Meyers]

Do you remember where in France you went?

[Colby Minifie]

I think Paris. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Got it.

[Colby Minifie]

I think that might have been after.

[Seth Meyers]

When was that? Do you remember it fondly?

[Colby Minifie]

I do. I remember I threw up a lot. I get motion sickness. Motion sickness. Yeah, a lot. And I would. I remember throwing up, like, consistently on the plane and then after.

[Seth Meyers]

Do you and your sister travel well together? Like when you were young?

[Colby Minifie]

Would. We did. Yeah. Yeah. But we. I. We don't. We haven't taken a family trip in a really long time. Yeah, really long time. Yeah. When I was filming in Toronto A lot. They would. They came to visit Toronto a couple times. And my sister came with her ex boyfriend and we would. We like, you know, went and ate everywhere and, you know, and that was really fun. But we haven't been. I would love to go on a family trip with them.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Colby Minifie]

And they. My dad. Where my dad wants to go is to. He lived in London for nine years and he would love to go back and see how it's different and go to like, you know, our family. There's a small town called Honiton that supposedly our ancestors are from that. My dad would like to go.

[Seth Meyers]

Was he singing then? Was that what he was doing in England?

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, he was. Yeah. He's always wanted to be an opera singer. And he was there. He played Henry VIII for eight months at a theater and doing that. I know. Isn't that cool?

[Seth Meyers]

You. I'm gonna diverge because I believe, if your bio's right, you were in a show that I to this day, kick myself. Cause I didn't see it on Broadway, which is Pillow Man.

[Colby Minifie]

Oh, yeah. My bio is correct. Although I was never on stage in Pillow Man. I was an understudy.

[Seth Meyers]

Gotcha. But you were there. How old were you for that?

[Colby Minifie]

I booked it when I was 12 and I think I started when I was 13 or turned 13 when that was happening. But I had the gift of getting to watch it.

[Seth Meyers]

I can't imagine.

[Colby Minifie]

For six months. Yeah, yeah. Billy Crudup, man.

[Josh]

Yeah, we had him on. He was talking about it.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, I heard that episode. I was like, oh, my God.

[Josh]

Oh, my God.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, my God.

[Josh]

His father.

[Colby Minifie]

His father.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. I'll name drop London and a pretty cool. I just was in London and I had dinner with Martin McDonough. Yeah.

[Colby Minifie]

Is he still as hot as he was when I was 13?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. I mean, I'm only saying that. Cause I don't think that. Yeah. I don't think it's possible that a person could be hotter than he is now.

[Colby Minifie]

So.

[Seth Meyers]

He still is hot.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, he was. He. I remember meeting him. He's got that great, like, Gap tooth thing.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Colby Minifie]

That I borrowed.

[Seth Meyers]

You inspired you early on.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. Yeah. That's why I didn't wear my retainer. Yeah, he. I remember meeting him once. Cause I came on so late. You know, the understudies come on in tech. I remember being there my first day and when they were teching the show and being like, who is this man that wrote all these children killing stories? Like, what is this? And I remember just being enamored with Him. And yes, it was Billy. It was Jeff Goldblum. It was Michael Stuhlbarg and Zhelko Ivanik. That's crazy. And I understudied all of the kids. So there was a boy that was supposed to be young Billy Crudup, and then Madeline Martin, who played three different kids. And because I was prepubescent, you just put a wig on me, and I looked like a young Billy Cruddup. Some eyebrows and a wig. I looked exactly. Yeah, like a young Billy Crudup. And I just remember watching that show as much as possible and loving it. And for Halloween that year, I was a girl who committed suicide. Because. Because I was like, oh, this is a dark show. I'm a dark person now.

[Seth Meyers]

Like, it is really funny, though. It's like every parent's nightmare about letting their kid do that play. Yeah.

[Colby Minifie]

Oh, yeah, yeah. They're like, oh, my child will be really into blood and guts and gore. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Was that your first.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, it was my first job.

[Seth Meyers]

And so what was that life like, when you're that age and you're obviously still going to school? And was it exhausting, or did you just figure it out right away how to manage it?

[Colby Minifie]

I was so into it. There was no. I also went to a middle school and high school that was made for kids who worked, so it's called Professional Performing Arts High School. And so you, like, they would take attendance, and there would be a kid that would be on tour with the Lion King, and they'd be like. They'd call her name out, and we'd say, she's on tour in the Lion King. She's not here. But we never met her. But they would send her work to the tour, and you'd had to have a tutor required by the union there, and you'd have to have, like, three hours of tutoring. So I was in school, and then on Wednesdays, I'd go to the theater, leave school early and go to the theater. And the school was right on 48th, between 8th and 9th. So it was right there. So I'd walk through. I had, like, my path through the Edison Hotel to get to the theater at the booth. And

[Josh]

you say your commute to work must have been, I mean, like, nothing.

[Colby Minifie]

It was nothing. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

How young were you when you enrolled in that school?

[Colby Minifie]

11. Got you. So, yeah, I got to that school and I met all these kids who had been in a bunch of Broadway shows at, like, five Broadway shows before the age of 11. Like, there were multiple kids who had that Resume already. And I remember going home and sobbing, being like, I'm behind. I need to get it. I need to get an agent. Like, I need to do this. I was just like, my career is suffering.

[Seth Meyers]

Did it help to have, you know, a dad who'd, you know, been in that professional world and understood the ups and downs of it? Like, was he like, when you had that feeling? Because again, like, I mean, it's amazing how young kids are when they think they're behind in anything, like sports, you know, everything. They're just like, so clocked into their peers. So I can imagine how real that felt. Was your dad like, no, it's. Everybody succeeds on their own.

[Colby Minifie]

I think he was. I think he was just excited that I had direction and wanted to do this. And I think it was a conversation that they had my parents of like, is this something we want to do now? And I do think they were like, well, let's see this agent that one of her classmates, mom said, rep's kids. Like, let's have Colby go and talk to this person. It probably won't work out, and we'll just have to console her, and that's fine. And then the agent was like, no, I'll rep her, but if she doesn't get a callback, she's signed with me and she's trapped here. So it was like this, like, weird first agent that I had, but they didn't. Yeah, they were like, let's just see what happens. And I think it just kind of surprised them, but I don't. My dad has taught me a lot in that he's always looking at things as a learning opportunity. So when I was, you know, even now, I'll be like, I don't know. I got this audition for this thing, and I'm not sure it doesn't just. It's not really hitting the thing I want to do. And he's like, well, you could learn something. Yeah, you should do it. Just do it. It's a learning opportunity. And there are times I have to quiet that voice sometimes.

[Josh]

You know, there are those. There are those parts for children. And it's like, well, a child is gonna play this. There's always something striking about a very young child coming out on stage.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah.

[Josh]

And a Broadway show, any show, really. And it's like, oh, right. Like, yeah, there's a. This play has a five year old in it or whatever. And it is. It sort of always strikes me in the moment as an audience member when. When one of those kids comes out and it's like if you're not auditioning for it, there's another 11 year old who's gonna audition for those things and do them.

[Colby Minifie]

Exactly.

[Josh]

And why not you?

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. And also it got me in the union immediately and that was really helpful. And I also think like, it's like dogs and babies and children coming out on stage. It's like that's the only thing that people then can watch. Cause they're like, oh my God, there's like a real life thing that doesn't know it's on stage.

[Seth Meyers]

Like what's happening?

[Colby Minifie]

Like what's gonna happen with this dog? Yeah, but I didn't start as like, you know, there was some Jez Butterworth play where there was like a 8 month old baby on stage. There was this. I can't remember the name of that play, but I remember I was like, I didn't. That's crazy. Like, that's wild. I did not start that.

[Josh]

What's that audition process like?

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. Does it cry on cue?

[Josh]

What if you pinch it?

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, yeah. Will it stop crying?

[Seth Meyers]

So have you stayed in on the east coast for most of your career? Did you ever. Have you ever. You did. Well done.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, I never, I've never moved. I've worked in LA twice, two, two or three times maybe. And I really like it out there working. It's really nice. But I also am worried. I have a really great group of friends out there and I think that's the key with LA is finding a great group of friends. But I, I would be worried about my mental health if I wasn't working out there. Just. Cause what I like about New York is that if you're in a terrible mood, you're on the train and something will happen and you have to get shoved out of whatever mental state you're in.

[Seth Meyers]

Right.

[Colby Minifie]

You know, Whereas in la I feel like if I were to get in my car and you know, you're kind of. I mean, it depends, maybe I just haven't spent enough time there. But that you're in your house, then you get in your car and then you go to wherever you need to go and you get back in your car. There's not enough being shoved in your face to change your sense of being alive.

[Seth Meyers]

Very good way of putting. I do feel like, yeah, it's less incumbent upon yourself to figure out a way to like shake yourself out of a funk. Now, of course, you can often get shaken or shoved into a worst funk in New York.

[Colby Minifie]

Very true.

[Seth Meyers]

I just, I. Yeah, Josh and I are very close. And feel very differently about our home cities.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do. Like when I am in la, I'm like, oh, you can just go on a hike in the middle of the city and it's right there. And you don't have to get in a car. You don't have to drive anywhere or take a very long train. And the food is amazing and the air is incredible. It's just. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Last time Josh and I. Last time I was there, Josh took me on a hike. And I will say I saw the appeal. It was a wonderful way to spend the day. You mentioned your dad was one of six siblings. Did you guys. Was cousins a big part of your upbringing?

[Colby Minifie]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay. Did you like your cousins on the whole?

[Colby Minifie]

Oh, yeah. I don't think there is a cousin I don't like. Let me think about that.

[Josh]

If you come up with one, maybe just don't say it.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, yeah, I'll say it publicly. Yeah, this is good. No, I don't have any Cosmic Bill.

[Josh]

No one likes Bill.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, we don't have a Count Bill. Yeah. But no cousin of mine knows he's cousin by blood only.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, no, they, they. I have like 18 cousins. I have a lot of them and they're all so interesting and have done. My, My family is a kooky family man. Like, my dad grew up with those six siblings in Grace Church, which is on 10th street and Broadway, downtown New York. They moved there in 1959. My grandfather was the minister there.

[Seth Meyers]

They lived in Grace Church.

[Colby Minifie]

They lived in the 40 room mansion. That's the rectory attached to Grace Church. And like. Yeah. And so there were these six kids, like running around downtown New York. Like my dad was a flower delivery boy, like stealing random stuff that he found on the street. Like they did all kinds of stuff. And so they are very unique people. And my other.

[Seth Meyers]

That's right, by the way, we live right down there. I walk by that. I cannot believe people live there. In my head I'm like, well, nobody lives there.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, it's crazy in there. I went there. I haven't been in there in a really long time. I've been in the church just to take a look. There's a plaque of my grandmother and grandfather in there. My dad's name is up on the head choir boys plaque area. And but they. Yeah, they. The rectory. You enter the rectory and there's this huge red staircase that goes all like, goes. It's like in the center of the room and it goes up and then there's a balcony up at the top. I mean, it's wild in there. And my dad, my grandfather one time, I remember this story of him. You know, New York was so different back then and much more dangerous. My dad said, you wouldn't go to Union Square unless you wanted to die, and you wouldn't go to the Bowery. You know, there were just certain areas that are now totally like. They're like Disneyland, you know? And my grandfather woke up in the middle of the night one night and a man was standing over him with a hammer in his hand. And my grandfather was such, like, an imposing presence that he got up out of bed and said, you're gonna leave my house right now. And the guy left, like, didn't do anything, didn't steal anything. But yeah, that was the kind of place they grew up in. So I have. My uncle Ned had a farm when we were growing up in the Berkshires in Massachusetts. So we go up there a lot for Christmas. We'd spend a lot of Christmases up there after my grandmother died. And when my. My grandmother was living actually in Newport, Rhode island, until she. Until she died, and we would go and stay in a Howard Johnson's hotel in Newport, and we would take over the hotel, like as many cousins as we could get to get up there. And we would. I mean, I'm sure they. Every time they saw us coming, they were like, oh, my God, not these people again.

[Josh]

Did it have like a little diner attached or was there.

[Colby Minifie]

There was an Applebee's. An Applebee's attached to. Yeah, that'll work.

[Seth Meyers]

We were just on a. My son, this winter had like a school skiing trip where it was at a hotel and the parents stayed and the kids stay and like that thing of like a group of kids taking over a hotel and just like running down hallways, which is absolutely the worst thing that could happen for anybody who's not connected to that group of kids.

[Colby Minifie]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Because we showed up the second night and all the parents were like, get ready for a phone call. They were like literally calling around every room and being like, get your kids out of the hallway. But it's so. It's a kind of freedom that is just impossible. It's so narcotic.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. There's no. When you're a kid and you have free reign like that, you're in like a new space like that. There's nothing to stop you. Yeah. Speaking of which, the plane that I took back from Rome just a couple weeks ago, it's like a 10 hour flight from Rome to New York, and there were about a hundred lawless Italian teenagers that were coming for the UN Debate. Something in New York.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Colby Minifie]

I have never seen a plane like this. I was like, how is this not affecting how the plane is flying through the air? They were running down the hallway, just standing in the hall. You tried to, like, get past them in an aisle, and they. You'd be like, excuse me. Like, scusi. And they would just not move whatsoever. I was like, how is this?

[Josh]

How old were these Italians?

[Colby Minifie]

Like, 15 through 17, probably.

[Josh]

Yeah. So you don't want to mess with them.

[Colby Minifie]

No. Yeah. They had. And they must have had the best time of their lives. The best time.

[Seth Meyers]

I love that. The minute they, like, flew into, like, U.S. airspace, they were like, let's be the real stereotype of what people think the worst version of us is. He's not a Urisle. I'm a Marcus Spitz. I'm a little of the Marcus Spitz.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah.

[Josh]

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

[Seth Meyers]

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[Josh]

Hey, Sufi.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Josh]

Also, when you started this, you said, you, mom is so great, and I was gonna be like, well, she's your mom too, right?

[Seth Meyers]

I was talking to our listeners, not you. But your mom is so great, and it would be nice if you ever expressed that to her.

[Josh]

I do, all the time. I. Yeah, she's just amazing. And if you're looking for a good gift, if you have an amazing mother, you want to get her something that she's really going to love, you might not do better than an aura frame because it brings memories right into your house. Every picture you take, you can just upload them from afar. You could preload an aura frame so that it arrives with some of the best pictures you have of her or of you, you and your children, whatever it is.

[Seth Meyers]

And if you are worried, like, oh, but how am I going to pick which ones to put on? Like, just put all the good ones on. There's free, unlimited storage. You can download the free Aura app, or you can text photos straight to your frame from your phone. It's incredible. And by the way, even if you have a. If your mom was terrible, like, this is a good thing to get her. And then you could just like upload photos of you giving the middle finger and stuff.

[Josh]

Well, if you do that, there's a nice feature, something that I like on the aura frame. Every now and again there are a picture that I put on and it's like, oh, it's actually not that great of a picture. You can delete a picture right from the frame. You don't have to go into the app or anything. So.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, so you. I've preloaded it with my photos and now you have it and you're like, I don't like that one. You. They can take the control right back.

[Josh]

Yeah, exactly.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Colby Minifie]

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[Seth Meyers]

Here we go.

[Josh]

Christmas in the Berkshires. Was that a bunch of families getting together or was that just like you and that uncle and his, his three kids?

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, it was mainly. It was mainly Ned and us. And there is. They had about 13 horses up there and there was one Christmas where one of the horses went to pee. And I think they like extend their penis when they pee.

[Seth Meyers]

And it got Nature's show offs.

[Colby Minifie]

Nature, exactly.

[Seth Meyers]

The show offs of the animal kingdom.

[Colby Minifie]

Nature's footlong. And the horse went to pee. And it was so cold that winter that his penis got frozen, open, elongated. And so we showed up in our car to the house and we look over and there's a horse with like this huge penis with like 12 socks duct taped to the penis. And my dad, who finds a story in everything, he just. He'll write. He'll write a story about any little thing he finds. He wrote a story that year called Christmas and the frozen penis, which I

[Josh]

have to find because my wife is an equestrian and I can't wait to ask her about this.

[Seth Meyers]

But can they get frozen open? It's very like. That seems like a thing. That seems like a thing at like, I don't know, like a skeevy horse is like telling the cops, like, no, man. Get frozen open.

[Josh]

I can't. I can't put it away. I can't look.

[Seth Meyers]

They're like, hey, man, there are cults out here. He's like, I know, I know. It's freezing cold.

[Narrator]

Yeah, yeah.

[Colby Minifie]

It's just. No, it's not my fault.

[Seth Meyers]

Officer.

[Colby Minifie]

Officer.

[Josh]

There you go.

[Seth Meyers]

Look at this.

[Josh]

I wonder if MacKenzie's gonna say, like, yeah, what you do for that is you just take a bunch of wool socks.

[Seth Meyers]

Wool socks.

[Colby Minifie]

He's just wool socks. And duct tape them. Duct tape to the horse.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Colby Minifie]

She's an equestrian.

[Josh]

Yeah, yeah. She's an inventor and a trainer.

[Colby Minifie]

What?

[Josh]

Yeah, that's her deal.

[Colby Minifie]

How does she. Where? I guess.

[Josh]

Well, she grew up near the Berkshires, like, just sort of western Massachusetts.

[Colby Minifie]

Yes.

[Josh]

Shelburne Falls, but grew up riding there.

[Colby Minifie]

And I know that Shelburne. We were. They were in. Yep. Can't remember. Springfield. Close to Springfield.

[Josh]

Yeah, kind of close to Springfield.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Yeah. But it's the bridge of flowers. If you have been to Shelburne Falls, you would know the bridge of flowers.

[Seth Meyers]

The bridge of flowers feels like a very good place for your dad to break into song.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, yeah. We need to get him there asap. The bridge of flowers sounds so lovely.

[Seth Meyers]

It is.

[Josh]

It is. I proposed on the bridge of flowers.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, it's that Lovely.

[Colby Minifie]

Well, that was a good spot.

[Josh]

Yeah. I wasn't the first, but.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, yeah.

[Josh]

But that was the right call.

[Colby Minifie]

Those flowers are like, we've seen so many proposals.

[Seth Meyers]

Here we are.

[Josh]

All right, move on, Move along.

[Seth Meyers]

Was like. So I'm starting to go back to this because I'm so fascinated by the logistics of, like, your dad bikes you guys to the Central park busks for a couple hours. Helmet. Bike helmet now. Like, cash in the bike helmet.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, yeah. Lots of bike helmets. My mom wouldn't let him leave the house without a bike helmet.

[Seth Meyers]

But then he, like. He, like, just piles the money out of the cash. The cash is in the helmet. Cash.

[Colby Minifie]

Oh, cash is in the helmet. And then it goes into his pocket. Probably.

[Seth Meyers]

Gotcha. And is it like. Yeah. And was there. Was there a real, like, good job, everybody. Like, look at us.

[Colby Minifie]

I think it was like. I mean, he would sing all the way home, too, on the bike. Like, he would sing at the. So there was. It never stopped. There was no, like. And the show is done. It's like, Right.

[Josh]

And it wasn't like, only sing for money. I sing. Cause I sing, and if sometimes I get money for it, it's really great, then. Great.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, it is like, do what you love. I mean.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he loves it. It's his favorite thing. And he'll. He'll. At Thanksgiving, he'll be like, I'm gonna break down into song, everybody ready? And he brings his. He brings his pitch pipe with him everywhere, and they'll be like, whoa. It's really. It's really spectacular. Yeah.

[Josh]

Do people ever sing along? Would he take kindly to that? If you.

[Colby Minifie]

Yes.

[Josh]

If he was singing a classic, you know, is it typically Italian, what he's singing? If he's singing opera stuff, and I'm

[Colby Minifie]

assuming, yeah, he's moved on to some cabaret stuff. So I think if people join, he's like, hell, yeah. I think he comes from a. From a place of loving people singing together of, like. That was a time that he. I mean, that people don't really do that anymore, you know?

[Josh]

Yeah. Do you sing around Christmas? Is there, like, if you were.

[Colby Minifie]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay.

[Colby Minifie]

He plays the piano. So he starts singing a. He'll just sit down at the piano and start playing a hymn. And my sister and I will come run. Even if we're helping mom in the kitchen, we'll come running around the piano and we'll, you know, join in on. On stuff.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, it must be like. That must be a dream come true that, like, you guys love it as much as you do.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, I think it is.

[Seth Meyers]

That's really awesome. How did your parents meet?

[Colby Minifie]

Blind date. Believe it or not, they had their first date on the TV show.

[Josh]

On the MTV show.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, that's right. It was actually Love is Blind.

[Seth Meyers]

And they were like, we're gonna be so embarrassed if our kids ever find out about this. And they'll be like, we just won't let them watch tv. They'll never know.

[Colby Minifie]

And then they took us to Rome, and we found flashbacks, and they're like,

[Seth Meyers]

of all places, we let our guard down in Rome.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, that would have been really great.

[Seth Meyers]

But she was never. Your mom was never in the arts, right? She just went on a blind date with them.

[Colby Minifie]

No, I mean, she's an artist in her own right, with the cooking. She's, like, unbelievable. But she did art in school when she was, you know, in college. She did ceramics, and she was. She studied art history. So that's. You know, they've all got this making brain. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.

[Josh]

Where was their blind date?

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, blind date was at Faselka, and they had Borscht, and then they went, I think, to McSorley's. And, you know, the Lorre side was totally different then. And my dad lived in a loft that he had renovated. He was squatting in this loft that he had renovated. And my mom was like, oh, move into my apartment when it's time to get married. Because she was. I mean, it was very different, you know, back then. And then.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. I was gonna say, what do you call an opera singer who squats in an apartment? I feel like it's the opposite of a catch.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, like, who set her up on this blind date? She's like, what's your type?

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. Just a man who sings and squats. Singing. Squatting while singing.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, he sings, he squats. He's got everything he wanted.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. I do think there was. I mean, he did. He started a business renovating people's apartments all over. I was gonna say America, but no, just Manhattan to a lot of New Yorkers.

[Josh]

That's it.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Yeah. You were born there, you didn't leave.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, yeah.

[Josh]

That's the world.

[Colby Minifie]

The entire world is there. Yeah. So he was making money that way. But I do think there it was. I do think it was a thought for a second of like, oh, is this. Is this, huh? My mom was, you know, she had such a great job that it allowed her to marry for love.

[Seth Meyers]

Love and music. Love and song.

[Colby Minifie]

Love and song. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

That's fantastic. It's so. It's so nice to meet you. And congrats. The boys is such a fun show. Such a good show. Isn't it fun? It seems like the people who work on that show are just lovely.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, we have such a blast. I mean, when you have exploding. This one, this penis wasn't frozen. But when you have an exploding 10 foot high penis, you have to be able to laugh easily. And so that's the kind of people you have on that show. Everybody works so hard, so it's sad for it to be ending.

[Seth Meyers]

I know. You've done it. You've done it all.

[Colby Minifie]

I know.

[Seth Meyers]

I can't wait we get to see it. But you've done your part.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah, I know.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, thank you for your service.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. Oh, you're welcome. Yes, it was such a hardship.

[Seth Meyers]

But before you go, Josh is going to give you our speed round questions.

[Colby Minifie]

Ooh, speed round.

[Josh]

Okay, here we go.

[Seth Meyers]

Good luck to you.

[Josh]

You can only pick one of these Is your ideal vacation. Relaxing, adventurous or educational?

[Colby Minifie]

Adventurous.

[Josh]

What is your favorite means of transportation?

[Colby Minifie]

Train.

[Josh]

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?

[Colby Minifie]

First thing that pops in my head is the family from Running on Empty.

[Seth Meyers]

That's insane. Choice. Literally. I mean, it's inspired, but I'm like, you want to be. So you want to go on vacation with a family literally on the lam?

[Josh]

No matter what they do, it's a vacation.

[Seth Meyers]

They can't rest.

[Colby Minifie]

They were creative.

[Seth Meyers]

They were creative. That was a movie where it's. They're like Weather Underground, right?

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

They're like radicals and they're on the run. And I remember, did River Phoenix have, like. He had a little piano, like, but, like, the. The rollout, like, fabric piano.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. It was made of wood, but it had no sound, so he'd practice without sound, which. I mean, how do you even do that?

[Seth Meyers]

I know. Well, look, it sounds like a great vacation.

[Colby Minifie]

They would know how to do some stuff, though.

[Seth Meyers]

They would know how to do some stuff. Yeah, yeah.

[Colby Minifie]

And they're scrappy. Like, they don't need a lot.

[Seth Meyers]

They were very much in love, too. It's a great movie.

[Colby Minifie]

Oh, yeah. They. They. They also knew, like, value systems were really high. Them singing in the kitchen to Fire and Rain is, like, one of the greatest scenes of all time. And they attract people like Martha Plimpton, which, I mean, what could be better?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh]

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

[Colby Minifie]

If I have a boyfriend, but we're not legally wed. Does that count?

[Seth Meyers]

No.

[Colby Minifie]

No. Okay. Reject it.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I gotta break up with family. I don't think I've ever said no, so I was like, I'm try this out. No.

[Colby Minifie]

Okay. No boyfriend. I would say my cousin's Hart. Or Hannah.

[Josh]

Okay.

[Colby Minifie]

Both of them grew up on that farm. They are really strong women. Hannah was on the rugby team. She can do anything. Hart was on the trail crew in the White Mountains at the Appalachian Trail Crew. She's super strong. I would take either of those.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, good choices.

[Josh]

What is your dream destination for a family vacation?

[Colby Minifie]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

[Seth Meyers]

You can bring your boyfriend to this one.

[Colby Minifie]

Oh, thank God. Oh, that changes everything.

[Seth Meyers]

I felt bad about that. He got left out of the last trip.

[Colby Minifie]

Thank you. I would say Japan, probably.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Yeah, that might be mine. It's a great option.

[Josh]

You are from New York City. If you had to get more families to come visit New York City, what would you tell them?

[Colby Minifie]

We're not actually mean. We just are. We are supportive and kind, but not nice.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Colby Minifie]

Like, we're not gonna, like, be like, you know, I don't know what night the difference between nice and kind. But, yeah, like, we're gonna, like, if you're in trouble, we will help you, but we'll do it very quickly.

[Seth Meyers]

We're busy.

[Josh]

We might not invite you up, but we'll make sure you're okay.

[Seth Meyers]

I think that's a very, like. We're, like, very. We're very busy, but we're also nice.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. And we're not gonna leave you alone, stranded. Like, you ask us how to get to where you're going, and we will take you there.

[Seth Meyers]

There's a great new collection. I think it's old essays, but a collection of Zadie Smith essays. And she has this great essay about New York City. Cause she lived here for a long time and doesn't anymore. About a woman falling and how, like, this throng of street people all, like, stopped what they were doing and, like, came and, like, got her on her feet, made sure she was fine, and then just dispersed again. And she was like, that is kind of New York at its finest. Which is like this, like, throbbing mass of people that are all going about their thing. They will come to your rescue. And then everybody move on. And, like, nobody is gonna be like, whoa, that was crazy.

[Colby Minifie]

Just like, keep it moving. Yeah, we do. We do. We really show up. I do think it's that, like, you know, I mean, it's like when that plane went down on the Hudson river, the amount of boats and fishermen and barge tugboat people that were like, here, we're making this. We're getting there, you know? Cause it's so hard living in this city.

[Josh]

I got this tugboat. I'm not gonna not use it right now.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. I mean, if I had a tugboat, I would use it every day.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Colby Minifie]

To get where I needed to go. Yeah.

[Josh]

Wherever. Wherever it needs to go.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. Schleppen.

[Seth Meyers]

There's a book that we were just talking about. There's this children's book called the Fireboat, and it's about this old decommissioned fireboat in New York City. And I was reading it to my son a few years ago. He's nine now, so he's like, six. And I'm reading this book, and I had no idea that this is the story was about. This was a decommissioned fireboat that, like, came back into action on 9 11. Like. Oh. And so you don't realize, like, halfway through the book, there's, like, you know, it's an illustrated book of, like, a plane flying in the Tower. And I like, gasping, oh, my God. Because. And then I was like, sobbing through the end of this book. Cause it's like the Little Engine that Could. But it's about this thing that I lived through, and I was like. And my son's like, wait, what happened? I'm like, don't worry about it.

[Colby Minifie]

Oh, my God.

[Seth Meyers]

Jeez. Yeah. But a great book, A really true book.

[Colby Minifie]

Were you guys in the city for?

[Seth Meyers]

I was. I just. Just moved here. You must have been here.

[Colby Minifie]

I was here. I was in fourth grade.

[Seth Meyers]

Wow.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. But I remember. I remember getting. Now we're talking about nine, 11.

[Seth Meyers]

We got there. We got there.

[Colby Minifie]

We need to get there at some point now. I remember every kid got pulled out of class throughout the day, and I would. I remember going. I was just left in school. And I was like, going up to the teachers, like, why is everybody leaving? And they were like, oh, there's a transportation issue. So, you know, students want. Parents want to make sure their kids get home safe. And I was like, well, Ali Greenberg just got, you know, sent home, and she lives across the street from me, so what the hell is going on? And I remember leaving school when at the end of the day, and the streets were. Were full of people and my parents were there, and they're like, this is what. This is what happened. And then, you know, my God, we went down there actually really soon after and saw the rubble, which is like a weird kind form of tourism, you know, Very strange.

[Seth Meyers]

It did, like. It felt like it was bearing witness, I think.

[Colby Minifie]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

Cause I did the same thing.

[Josh]

I mean, it's like, people will go check out Altadena and all the stuff that fires in the Palisades out in LA now just to sort of of wrap their heads around it.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm just glad that when every kid. When every kid left and you were like, what happened? They didn't say. They. They got cast in a play. You're the only one that would have actually. Why did they leave?

[Josh]

Touring.

[Seth Meyers]

They're touring.

[Colby Minifie]

Super upsetting.

[Seth Meyers]

They got touring Thoroughly Modern Millie, and you're so far behind. You're so far behind, you're never going to catch up. And so that way, I would have

[Colby Minifie]

had a hard time coming back from that. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Wait, Josh, maybe.

[Josh]

No, Seth, you've got. Seth has the final question.

[Seth Meyers]

Have you been. Have you been to the Grand Canyon?

[Colby Minifie]

Yes, I have. I have hiked down and up in a day, which. In a day, they have signs everywhere saying, we do not recommend doing this in a day. But I did it with my friend Annie Funkybone together.

[Josh]

If there's someone to go with.

[Colby Minifie]

I mean, you gotta go with the funky bomb.

[Seth Meyers]

You gotta go seem like if that. By the way, if that's your friend that's telling you we're gonna be fine.

[Colby Minifie]

Exactly. She did all the research. I just. We started at five in the morning and we got. It was. You know, it's like 7,000ft of elevation or something. It's like 26.

[Seth Meyers]

Wow.

[Colby Minifie]

I'm wrong on all of these numbers. It's like 26, 27 miles. And we did it. I remember. I mean, talk about singing. We got through the whole thing. She's a great actor and a great singer and has been on Broadway a bunch in musicals. And she. We sang our way all the way through that. And that really got us through.

[Seth Meyers]

It's amazing. Right? Well, that's perfect.

[Colby Minifie]

Have you been to the Grand Canyon

[Seth Meyers]

to peek over the side?

[Colby Minifie]

Oh, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Colby Minifie]

It's scary down there.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, I'm impressed. You did it.

[Colby Minifie]

You got to look. It's. It's scary down when you're in it. When you're in there, it's not scary, but looking down, I think it's way. It's way scarier.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. Cuz. How did that happen?

[Seth Meyers]

We kind of went there. We were. Had a weekend nearby. Yeah.

[Josh]

I've Dr. I've driven by it and like, stopped with a dog, but I couldn't take the dog below the rim. You're not allowed to do that. So I still haven't been below the rim. Yeah.

[Colby Minifie]

Now they don't allow that. Why?

[Seth Meyers]

I don't know.

[Josh]

National parks. National parks aren't great with where you can bring your pets.

[Colby Minifie]

Oh, boy. That's making me second guess. Getting a dog.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, you don't want to. Cost you the canyon. You love the canyon Too much. I could throw it away for some dumb dog.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

No, never. This was a delay.

[Colby Minifie]

Can I ask you a personal question? Please. Who writes the songs at the end of your episodes?

[Josh]

I do. Yeah. That sounds.

[Seth Meyers]

Isn't it amazing? How lucky are you?

[Colby Minifie]

Did Josh you do that?

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

By himself. Every week. Sometimes two in a week.

[Colby Minifie]

Oh, my God. That is so cool. I was like, who does this? This is amazing.

[Josh]

It's me. I've not used any AI yet, so. Wow. But I do buy like, a karaoke track. I'm not writing the music, but I'm writing the lyrics and recording it in a closet.

[Seth Meyers]

Are you excited? Does that mean you're excited to hear yours?

[Colby Minifie]

I am. So I won't I'm gonna. I'm not excited to listen to myself talk, but I'm. Skip to the end. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Great.

[Colby Minifie]

Yeah. No one needs to hear.

[Seth Meyers]

It's very exciting to know that someone's looking forward to it. Cause it's an incredible gift. That's true.

[Colby Minifie]

It's amazing. I heard it and I was like, well, they surely don't do this for everyone.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, no.

[Colby Minifie]

And then I listened to Billy Cridups,

[Seth Meyers]

and by the way, my. I burned him. It was my idea when we started this, because Josh. I know Josh has skill. Josh just did it for a friend's

[Josh]

birthday, a friend's 50th, who loves Les Mis. And I did One day More. At the end of every night, when you're hanging out with my friend Molly Kloss, she's always like, should we have one more drink? And it's just like her refrain. She just wants to keep hanging out. She loves friendship. Like, she loves friendship more than just about anything else. And so she was having this weekend in Ojai, which was great, and we had kind of taken over this hotel, but we had like a 40 person dinner, and I had recorded all the parts, rewritten the lyrics, cast it out. I reached out and I was like, if anyone wants to participate. So we had just like great people who stepped up to, you know, I had two Mariuses. I had.

[Seth Meyers]

Did you sing it live or was it a recording?

[Josh]

No, we sang it live. We did it live at dinner. And afterwards she said that might have been the greatest moment of my life. So I was really happy with how it. How it shook out.

[Colby Minifie]

Did you record it?

[Josh]

Yeah, eventually it was recorded.

[Colby Minifie]

You recorded it?

[Josh]

Yeah, but I like, I recorded every part. And then if you wanted to do it, I would send you a version where it was me singing all the parts I would sing. I would have your part boosted and I would send you a version with your part eliminated so you could practice however you saw fit.

[Colby Minifie]

So you made it easy for everybody to participate.

[Josh]

I tried to make it as easy as I could, and it worked. Like people really. People cursed on their own. They showed up and they were ready and they wanted to deliver, and they did so.

[Colby Minifie]

Unbelievable.

[Josh]

My compliments to everyone who was part of that performance.

[Seth Meyers]

It was great.

[Colby Minifie]

Wow. That's a move right there. One day more. One more drink.

[Seth Meyers]

He's a real your dad when it comes to singing.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Colby Minifie]

You just have to share it.

[Josh]

It's my new niche. I found my niche. So I hope now we've talked about it.

[Seth Meyers]

So much.

[Josh]

I really hope I deliver on your song. Colby, you deserve nothing less. You've been a wonderful guest.

[Colby Minifie]

So thank. Yeah, it better be amazing now.

[Josh]

It's.

[Seth Meyers]

You know what? Just to burn you, I'm going to do yours, and I'm going to put very little thought into it.

[Colby Minifie]

Perfect. Thank you. Thank you. That sounds fitting.

[Seth Meyers]

Giant frozen horse. Dad.

[Colby Minifie]

Singing for no money.

[Seth Meyers]

Wrap it up with socks now. So great to see you and talk to you.

[Colby Minifie]

Great to meet you guys.

[Josh]

You, too.

[Colby Minifie]

Thanks. This was really fun.

[Josh]

And congrats on the boys. By the time this comes out, the fifth season will be out.

[Colby Minifie]

Oh, my gosh.

[Josh]

On Prime Video, so.

[Narrator]

Wow.

[Colby Minifie]

Good luck to everybody. Hope they have their therapy session scheduled.

[Seth Meyers]

All right, great. Thank you so much, Colby. Great.

[Colby Minifie]

Great meeting you. Bye. Nice to meet you. Bye.

[Narrator]

Family trips with the M. Brothers.

[Colby Minifie]

Family chips with my.

[Seth Meyers]

Here. We.

[Narrator]

Spent part of the summers in Randolph, New Hampshire. The drive took eight hours. They were singing. Singing for damn sure. Dad had a cabin with his siblings. They each got a couple weeks. Colby kicked it with local kids. You know, she brought the weed. City girl out in the country. What a word. But even back in the city, they were a family who biked. Colby right on the back, her sister up on the handlebars, and they go sing in the park, make some good cash. In a couple hours, thanks to mom and Gourmet magazine. They went to it, got the world's best gelato. It holds up at G. O. D. Kissed her sister on the mouth. Sam. His daughters rush right to his side. Could there be anything better for her father sisters like Omeo and Beanocaro. But when Colby is singing, it's don't fence me. Go see Grandma on Rhode Island. Check out the beach

[Colby Minifie]

ho.

[Narrator]

Jo's full of cousins. No doubt they'd hit up the Applebee. Pulling into the Berkshires, a horse had pulled it out wrapped up in dick knitwear. What's all that about? Frozen. Frozen horse penis. But one they just fall off. You summed up tape at the top.