HOLIDAY HANGOUT with Timothy Olyphant, Ike Barinholtz, & Surprise Guest!

Summary

Podcast Summary: “HOLIDAY HANGOUT with Timothy Olyphant, Ike Barinholtz, & Surprise Guest!”

In this festive episode of Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers, Seth Meyers and Josh Meyers dive into a lively discussion filled with holiday memories, humorous anecdotes, and warm family interactions. Joined by guests Ike Barinholtz and Timothy Olyphant, the episode offers listeners a blend of heartfelt traditions and comedic exchanges, all wrapped up in the spirit of the season.

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1. Holiday Traditions and Family Dynamics

Seth and Josh Meyers kick off the conversation by emphasizing the importance of spending quality time with loved ones during the holidays. They discuss balancing scheduled activities with moments of relaxation, such as sitting around the fireplace and enjoying each other’s company.

Sufi Myers shares her approach to the holidays, highlighting the significance of unstructured time:

“It is important to sort of schedule some time that's just like hanging out on the couch, turn on the fireplace or actually start a fire if you live in a place where that's what you do.”
[00:45]

Ike Barinholtz reminisces about his family’s dual celebration of Hanukkah and Christmas, balancing traditions from both sides:

“We were primary Hanukkah, but every holiday we would go to Ohio to see my mom's non-Jewish families and get our dose of Christmas time there.”
[03:23]

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2. Snowy Adventures: Rural vs. Urban Winters

The discussion shifts to winter experiences, contrasting the serene snow-covered landscapes of Ohio with the chaotic snow in Chicago. Ike Barinholtz paints a picturesque image of running in snowshoes in Ohio:

“In Ohio you wake up and it's just like big fields where the snow is completely smooth. You get out there and you're running and you got your snowshoes in.”
[07:19]

Conversely, he describes the harshness of city snow:

“In Chicago it's just like you're running to get on the bus and you slip and you fall face first and just like yellow brown ice slush.”
[07:49]

Josh Meyers humorously questions Ike’s snowshoeing experience:

“Can you imagine poshy Ike in Ohio used to put on my snowshoes? That's such a lie.”
[08:28]

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3. Skiing, Snowshoes, and Playful Banter

The brothers delve into winter sports, with Josh expressing his love for skiing while Ike admits he doesn’t ski but appreciates his family’s enthusiasm:

“Do you guys ski? Do you guys ski?”
“See, I don't ski, but my family loves skiing, so we'll go to a ski holiday, but I won't ski.”
[08:44] - [08:46]

Ike jokes about his reluctance to participate in snowshoeing:

“Every time I'm like, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna rent some snowshoes. And then I end up just going to the fitness center and looking at my phone on a bench press.”
[08:48]

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4. Celebrity Jeopardy and Humorous Exchanges

A playful segment unfolds as Josh quizzes Ike about Hanukkah traditions and candelabra, leading to comedic misunderstandings and witty retorts:

“Oh, a hanukkiah. Yeah. Gotcha.”
[02:43] - [02:46]

The banter continues with Josh referencing “Celebrity Jeopardy”:

“This proves how deeply anti-Semitic that show is, that obviously there are no questions about Hanukkah.”
[02:37]

Josh teases Ike about his participation in pop culture Jeopardy, sparking laughter and friendly teasing.

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5. Gift-Giving Stories and Family Humor

The conversation transitions to the challenges and humor of holiday gift-giving. Josh shares a relatable story about his children’s gift reactions:

“[Axel] was on chapter 18 of a book... and he hears somebody in the story say, 'bullshit.' And she's like, what's going on?”
[35:04]

Ike discusses his experience with giving practical but initially unappreciated gifts:

“I got her sweatpants and a sweatshirt...she wears those like two to three days a week. So I'm just like, yeah, you hated it at the time. And we're like, mad that we got married. But you love it now.”
[40:22]

Timothy Olyphant adds his perspective on gift appreciation:

“I can't remember the last time I had to pretend to like a gift.”
[42:51]

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6. Memorable Holiday Cards and Funny Anecdotes

A standout moment involves Timothy Olyphant recounting a humorous incident with Josh Duhamel, leading to a unique family holiday card:

“We had a photo with Josh Duhamel... our family's looking and kids were smiling. It was amazing.”
[70:15]

This story highlights the blend of celebrity encounters and family traditions, adding a personal touch to the episode’s festive theme.

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7. Special Guest: Video Message from Amy Poehler

Adding an unexpected twist, Amy Poehler delivers a heartfelt video message:

“A holiday ritual that I've started as an adult that I hope to continue is the New Year's Day Polar Plunge... Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah.”
[50:28]

Her message encourages embracing adventurous traditions and offers warm holiday wishes, enhancing the episode’s celebratory mood.

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8. Closing Thoughts and Holiday Wishes

As the episode draws to a close, the Meyers brothers and their guests share final holiday plans and well-wishes:

“We're going to the Getty. We're gonna do the Getty for a little bit. We're gonna have lunch up there... Happy holidays to your families.”
[58:54] - [84:44]

The conversation wraps up with laughter, shared stories, and a collective celebration of the holidays, leaving listeners with a sense of warmth and community.

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Notable Quotes:

• Josh Meyers on Holiday Timing:
  “Cause my parents. My dad's always like, I feel like you should check beforehand to find out, you know, what their trip situation is.”
  [19:13]

• Ike Barinholtz on Snowshoes:
  “Do you guys ski? Do you guys ski?... I rent some snowshoes. And then I end up just going to the fitness center and looking at my phone on a bench press.”
  [08:44] - [08:46]

• Timothy Olyphant on Gift Pretending:
  “I can't remember the last time I had to pretend to like a gift.”
  [42:51]

• Amy Poehler on Polar Plunge:
  “...it's a New Year's Day Polar Plunge. I jump in the water with the rest of the crazy people...”
  [50:28]

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This episode of Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers successfully blends holiday traditions with humor and heartfelt stories, making it an engaging listen for anyone seeking festive cheer and relatable family moments.

Transcript

[Josh Meyers]

This episode of Family Trips is brought to you by Nissan Adventure calls in the first ever Nissan Rogue Rock Creek. Learn [e-mail] Here we go. Hi, Bashi.

[Sufi Myers]

Hey, Sufi.

[Josh Meyers]

This is our holiday spectacular.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

And all it is is you and I and two of our favorite guests and then a video message from our third, who's another favorite guest. And I would mostly just say it's a freewheeling shit show.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah, I think that's fair.

[Josh Meyers]

But I loved it, and it made me feel like the holidays, because for me, the most special time is when you're just sitting with people you love and having a good old time.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah. I mean, you do ask me in this episode sort of what my holiday plan is with all of the activities I have planned for mom and dad and Mackenzie and Mackenzie's mom Linda, who are gonna be out here. But it is important to sort of schedule some time that's just like hanging out on the couch, turn on the fireplace or actually start a fire if you live in a place where that's what you do. But we've got a little gas fireplace and sitting around chatting. It's hard to beat.

[Josh Meyers]

Hard to beat. So this is a real chat fest. Please do enjoy it. And you know what? It's not a holiday song, but listen to this anyway.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Family trips with the Mice Brothers. Family chips with mice.

[Sufi Myers]

Brothers.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Here we go.

[Josh Meyers]

It's very exciting. Posh. We're doing a holiday spectacular. And to make it spectacular, we have two guests. One is joining, but we're starting with Ike Barinholtz. Hi, buddy.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Morning, boys. Happy, happy holidays.

[Josh Meyers]

Oh, nice save. Hey, Ike, did you know the difference between a nine branch candelabrum in the Jewish menorah tradition and a seven? Menorah's seven. Do you know what it's called when it's nine? So just point it out to me, Memora.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Like there's more of them.

[Josh Meyers]

I think you could also just say, I don't know.

[Sufi Myers]

We're not a 9.

[Ike Barinholtz]

A. I know a couple things, buddy.

[Josh Meyers]

Son of a.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Celebrity Jeopardy.

[Josh Meyers]

It's bummer to see a celebrity jeopardy. By the way, this proves how deeply anti Semitic that show is, that obviously there are no questions about Hanukkah.

[Sufi Myers]

It did take me a minute to see that you were tapping your Jeopardy thing and not a menorah behind you.

[Josh Meyers]

Is it a hanukkiah, I think it's called.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Oh, a hanukkiah. Yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. Okay, gotcha.

[Ike Barinholtz]

That makes sense. Anyway, but if you ask me any other question about Judaism, I will know It.

[Josh Meyers]

Are you bummed that there's a pop culture Jeopardy Now? Because if you go on it, it will seem like you're being thirsty. But you also think you could win that too.

[Ike Barinholtz]

No, I think it's good. I think there should be jeopardies for every category. I think there should be specialized Jeopardy. I think there should be Pittsburgh Steeler Jeopardy.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Like I, I want every type of. Of jeopardy out there. I'm. I'm for expanding the Jeopardy. Universe.

[Sufi Myers]

I forget also, did you guys celebrate Hanukkah in the Barinholtz house or were you a.

[Ike Barinholtz]

We were primary Hanukkah, but every holiday we would. Our trip was we would go to Ohio to see my mom's non Jewish families and we would get like our dose of Christmas time there. So we got a little bit of best of both worlds.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah. As kids, were you. Did you favor one over the other?

[Ike Barinholtz]

I mean, Hanukkah was so great. You get eight presents most years. Some years you only got a couple. I'm a. I'm very staunchly. You guys know this about me. I'm very pro latke. Yeah.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I have been my whole life. I'm a sour cream man. So I loved that.

[Josh Meyers]

You. You love any. Any food that's accompanied with sour cream.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Oh, yeah. Pierogies.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I mean, I started. Oh, baked potato. A loaded baked potato.

[Josh Meyers]

Don't even get me started onas memoras, which is a bigger baked potato because there's more of it.

[Ike Barinholtz]

But I also loved going to Ohio. You know, it was like cold and snowy and. And you know, we would, we would get a couple presents and then we would go to miam aunt's house and we would like 47 people would stand around while my uncle did like the world's longest prayer, Christian prayer. And then we would eat. And so I, I would, I would give. I would. When I was younger, I would give Hanukkah the edge. But now that I live in a house with four Christians.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Or one Christian and three. Whatever children, they have no religion.

[Josh Meyers]

Four shit.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Four shicks. Four shit. Hold on real quick. Siri set a Netflix pitch called four shixes. But I gotta say, I'm very. I'm a big embracer of Christmas time now. Like, our house is so Christmas fied. I'm wearing a red hat.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah. It's not a MAGA hat.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It was because I supported him in 2016, but I do not support him any longer. So I had it refurbished to say, Amy Poehler's production company.

[Sufi Myers]

I know you like your brother Johnny, three years younger than you. Four years.

[Ike Barinholtz]

No, he's six, six, six years younger than you.

[Sufi Myers]

So when you would go down to Ohio, were there a lot of other kids your age or were you guys.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, it was, that was the kind of the best part about it was it was cousin country. Like we had like, my mom had five siblings and they pretty much all had kids. So we would go down there and just hang out with my cousins and you know, we would, you know, watch Ohio State football with them. And then I would like bring a copy of Trading Places and like put it in the VCR and like my aunt would be like, there'd be a scene with like Jamie Lee Curtis is like having sex or something and she'd be like, what is going on in here? But it was.

[Josh Meyers]

And then your uncle would be like, well, I guess next year the prayer is going to be longer because you're obviously not listening.

[Ike Barinholtz]

You're watching this sinful movie.

[Josh Meyers]

I definitely know you. Josh knows you as a, One of the great reasons you're a perfect friend is you were a ringleader, you're a good time guy. Were you that at a young age with your cousins?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yes. Yeah, definitely was always looking to get into like fun trouble with them. And they're just, I'm still like friends with them. They're, they're, they're, they're wonderful people. Mostly Ohio based, but wonderful, wonderful folks.

[Josh Meyers]

You mentioned snow. You grew up in Chicago, which also gets snow.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yes.

[Josh Meyers]

Can you just talk about. Because you experience both the difference between how lovely country snow is versus how shitty city snow is.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's, it's, it is night and day. It's just. Yeah, yeah. You know, in Ohio you, you wake up and it's just like big fields where the snow is just, it just looks like completely smooth. And you get out there and you're running and you got your snowshoes in. You come in, mom's made some hot cocoa and you go back out there and in Chicago it's just like you're running to get on the bus and you slip and you fall face first and just like yellow brown ice slush.

[Josh Meyers]

The speed in which it's yellow brown is heartbreaking.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like at like at like 4:18am in Chicago, it snows and by like 6:45, just like seven dogs have pissed their like tire tracks that run over it. And it's, it's not, it's, it's very sad snow in Chicago.

[Josh Meyers]

I'm really proud of myself for not Cutting you off and calling bullshit. When you said you used to run in snowshoes, can you imagine poshy Ike in Ohio used to put on my snowshoes? That's such a lie. You can't fucking move in those things. By the way, I'm cursing so much because Ike is here and it's. Ike's not cursing. I'm cursing and I apologize. I'm gonna stop.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I'm gonna be honest. I don't know what snow shoes look like. Like, I think I do, but I don't. I've never seen it.

[Josh Meyers]

They are the worst. You've done it posh.

[Sufi Myers]

I've only done it once, and there wasn't enough snow, so it was sort of like, yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

Not ideal. It's bad.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Do you guys ski? Do you guys ski?

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Sk.

[Ike Barinholtz]

See, I don't ski, but we, my family, the four Shicks, love skiing, so we'll go to, like, a ski holiday, but I won't ski. And every time I'm like, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna rent some snowshoes. And then I end up just, like, going to the fitness center and looking at my phone on, like, a bench press.

[Josh Meyers]

I think an anagram for shiksas is has skis.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I think you're literally right.

[Josh Meyers]

I think I might actually be right. This is my first on the fly anagram, and I feel good about it.

[Ike Barinholtz]

That was very impressive, I gotta say. Damn.

[Josh Meyers]

I was just gonna say one more thing about city snow, because I think in New York, certainly, again, we're talking about 30 years of climate change, but the snow kind of lands and it's gone very fast in a city. My memory of the years I lived in Chicago, if it snowed, it would almost be three or four days of there are cars you cannot get out.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yes.

[Josh Meyers]

And it is incredible to look back at how upsetting it was when there.

[Sufi Myers]

Was snow like that.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's also like, it accumulates and just stays the whole winter. So by like, mid March, it's just like, you're walking down the street, there's just like a black wall next to you. Just like pushed up, frozen, iced out dirt snow.

[Josh Meyers]

It's not.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's not. Yeah. So snow since. No.

[Sufi Myers]

When you would go to Ohio, was there a lot of outdoor activity? I mean, I've been there and it was pretty flat. I don't know if there was a place to go sledding.

[Ike Barinholtz]

No, there was outdoor activity, but it was not perpetual motion based. It was like. It was like, let's Go out and walk around the barn and look at the frozen cow patties. But it was beautiful. I mean this in a wonderful way. Summertime in Ohio was a lot more. More like, let's play wiffle ball. Let's do this. But winter time was more just like, strap on the snowshoes. Just take the crampons. Just kind of bind it to your legs.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

You know, run shoes work.

[Josh Meyers]

Just run. Put on the snowshoes and run.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Go for it. I would run the mile. I would run a mile or two in the snowshoes because they're. They're.

[Timothy Olyphant]

They're.

[Josh Meyers]

They're.

[Ike Barinholtz]

They're bound to your foot. And you lock your lot. You guys. Now, snowshoe. I'm not gonna talk to your audience about how snowshoes work.

[Josh Meyers]

You know what they call you if you're in. In snowshoes and you have to run from a bear?

[Ike Barinholtz]

What?

[Josh Meyers]

Dead. They call you dead. You're a dead person. Hey, we have another special. We have another special guest, and I'm gonna call this out. Wait, you're a special guest? Ike and.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Oh, yeah, I was told I was the only guest today, but go ahead.

[Josh Meyers]

Ike's wearing a hat. I'm going to gamble that our next guest is also wearing a hat because he's one of the great. He's one of America's great hat puller offers. Show me hat.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I'm a gambling junkie. I'll take the under. No hat.

[Josh Meyers]

No hat. Okay.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I'm not a gambling junkie. I'm a gambling.

[Josh Meyers]

You still like your bets paid off in dogecoin, right?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Preferably, yeah. Or the Hawk Tua coin. I put all my money in hawktua. Yeah.

[Sufi Myers]

Oh, yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

God, no hat.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yes, yes, yes. That's my boy.

[Sufi Myers]

It's a vampire.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I can go get one. I can go get one.

[Josh Meyers]

No, no, no, no.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's. But no, no, it's better that you're not.

[Josh Meyers]

I lost 200 bucks. I had money. I had all my money on hat.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Oh, Ike went with the hat.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's a holiday hat. Timothy.

[Sufi Myers]

Timothy Olyphant, everyone.

[Josh Meyers]

Yes, Timothy Olympt is here, and I think so. Tim, I feel like you pull off a hat, unlike a lot of people. You've had two great hat roles yet. Go. Maybe the first time I saw you in Go, I spent the whole time being like, that's an incredible head of hair. So it just goes to show you, you can. You can win on both. Both columns.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Oh, start.

[Ike Barinholtz]

That's a good head of salad right there. Mine is Mine's not. I, I basically, this is a three hour process. So, yeah, I have my team and.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Where are we now? We're right. Where are we? Like in the middle of it. Did you do the whole process? And that's what this is.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I've been up since five. We had to take a break. It's three people. It's one person to just kind of apply the glue. The industrial glue.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

One person to kind of strap it all on. And then I need someone to kind.

[Josh Meyers]

Of hold my hand. And you showed them a picture of a Russian hat. A Russian winter hat.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, yeah. That was kind of the style I was going for. I wanted to buy a hat from the guy and he's. I. He gave me a new hair, so it worked out for everyone.

[Josh Meyers]

Not that we're just trying to push people to our YouTube channel, but I'd like to spend a lot of time talking about Tim's current setup. You do look like a vampire. You do look like you have lowered the curtains to keep the sun out.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I was instructed to lower the curtains for light. And then I turned the computer and I said, look at. I'm like in a Hitchcock film.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Where's my. You guys sent a dp. Did you guys not get the dp?

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah, no, we didn't get a dp.

[Timothy Olyphant]

You didn't get a. Because I see what you guys. You just got the flat and then.

[Josh Meyers]

You'Re doing another podcast next called Talking Bordello's talking with Seth Meyers.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

I mean, obviously you don't do other people's podcasts.

[Timothy Olyphant]

How many of you got now, Seth?

[Josh Meyers]

This is. Well, what, you know, when Strike Force 5 is retired. So only two active podcasts. Tim, are you back from Finland?

[Timothy Olyphant]

Is that. I don't believe that for a second. Two. Only two is because you do corrections.

[Sufi Myers]

As a pod also.

[Josh Meyers]

Oh, yeah. I take it back. I think I have four. Two of them are just repurposed you.

[Timothy Olyphant]

And it doubled. That's amazing.

[Sufi Myers]

I pressed you to three and you went to four.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Right.

[Josh Meyers]

I think the show's got a podcast too, but I don't think that's exactly my point. That's just chopped up.

[Timothy Olyphant]

And then you've got that one with Martha Stewart and Snoop coming out with. With Seth Meyers.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Right?

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. That's the one where they keep saying, but why are you here?

[Timothy Olyphant]

You're the glue. You hold it together. You're the center glue gun. You know what I mean? Sorry, you had a question. I'm really just here to listen.

[Josh Meyers]

I Have my first. Well, I'm gonna turn my question around to Ike. All right, so, Tim just shot in Finland. Ike. Yeah, I actually don't know the answer to this. Have you ever shot abroad? Now, I'm not counting Canada, and that's not.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Not a woman. He means.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, I was about to say one time in Vegas in 2000. I want to shout a memory of it.

[Josh Meyers]

No, no, no, no, no, no.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I once shot abroad.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, I shot abroad. All right.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Shot abroad and got away with it. Goes with the noir, goes with the look. Right? See what happened there?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, you look like a gumshoe who's about to hand me photos of my wife having sex with my business partner.

[Timothy Olyphant]

You're welcome.

[Sufi Myers]

Also, just for the listeners, real quick, I want to say that it is four dudes right now. And we did invite some ladies, and they all turned us down.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah, well, they said. They said, are you going to do that classic shot abroad bit? And we were like, yeah, just to.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Be clear, we're not misogynist. We just have no female friends. Fucking chill, guys.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Hold up. You want some ladies? Give me a second.

[Josh Meyers]

This is Josh's nightmare. Josh's. Josh's Family Trips podcast has turned into four Dudes chat, by the way.

[Timothy Olyphant]

What do you.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Can we.

[Sufi Myers]

Can we just.

[Timothy Olyphant]

And I want to get back to the shot abroad question, so it won't take long, really. What is this that we're doing?

[Josh Meyers]

Oh, good question. And let me just say I continue to be impressed by how enthusiastically you join projects where you have no idea what it is or what your purpose.

[Timothy Olyphant]

There's Myers.

[Sufi Myers]

You said the same.

[Timothy Olyphant]

That's all I heard.

[Sufi Myers]

Same question on the first day of Justified.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. What is this?

[Timothy Olyphant]

It's like working with. This is like working with Bruce Willis every day, God bless him. Every day on the set of. Every day on the set of. What do you call it?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Die Hard.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Work. Every day we'd show up and we'd start looking at the sides, and he'd be like, are we shooting this today? And this was on the call sheet. I can't say this.

[Josh Meyers]

Oh, that's great.

[Timothy Olyphant]

It's great.

[Josh Meyers]

Number one on the call sheet. You can be surprised.

[Timothy Olyphant]

It's amazing.

[Josh Meyers]

This is the family trips holiday special, and we decided to join up with some of our most special guests. And so that's what we're doing.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Thank you.

[Ike Barinholtz]

That's it.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I knew family trips, and I knew something about holiday, and then everything else is a surprise, which is lovely.

[Sufi Myers]

And I was listening back to your episode, Tim, and when we Started talking about family trips, you very quickly said, we never took any.

[Josh Meyers]

Immediately.

[Sufi Myers]

So I don't expect you to have any holiday memories to share, but maybe some occasional. First of all, barbs.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I honestly thought. They're calling it family trips, but it's a celebrity interview thing. That's. We all know what it is. But I'm a big fan of the show. I don't listen to it, but I read the transcripts.

[Ike Barinholtz]

They're amazing.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Josh, at the end there, that little poem, have you thought about putting it to music?

[Ike Barinholtz]

My question, but what I've noticed, all the fonts on fire.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I've noticed, is that people are talking about trips on your show.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I had no idea they were gonna go for it.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah, they're going for it. And I'll tell you this.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I want another swing at it. You know what I mean?

[Josh Meyers]

Hillary and Larry Meyers are outraged when people come on without trips. Outraged.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Listen, you invite me back on the. I don't know if we talk about trips on the holiday special, but I'll talk trips. I'll talk trips first. We want to hear about what the Ike shot abroad.

[Josh Meyers]

I will say real quick before we get to it. Cause I'm really excited about this answer. The longer we wait, the longer we wait, and it's gonna be no. But my parents. My dad's always like, I feel like you should check beforehand to find out, you know, what their trip situation is. And I'm like, oh, yeah, that's good. I'm trying to add steps. You know what I mean?

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Wow. I didn't know, Dad. I didn't know you produced podcasts.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Wow, dad, I've got four of these. Come on.

[Josh Meyers]

All right, here we go.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yes.

[Josh Meyers]

Oh.

[Sufi Myers]

Oh.

[Ike Barinholtz]

My first film ever was a movie in Holland.

[Josh Meyers]

I don't know if I'm gonna count this because you didn't travel for it.

[Ike Barinholtz]

All right.

[Sufi Myers]

Was it the Burt Reynolds one?

[Ike Barinholtz]

No, it was down Dick Moss. So there's a Dutch director named Dick Moss who is like. He's. I would say he's like the Dutch. Not the Dutch Spielberg, but the Dutch Michael Bay, maybe?

[Josh Meyers]

Sure.

[Ike Barinholtz]

He made a famous movie in 1980 in Holland called the Lift about a haunted elevator. And then he remade his own movie. And I played Edward Herman's assistant, and that was. I did not travel for it, but it was shot in a country.

[Josh Meyers]

Did you die in the haunted elevator movie?

[Ike Barinholtz]

I did not. I was just like a frazzled assistant. I was like, oh, sure. I don't know. I'll call the police.

[Josh Meyers]

How Many. And I know. Oh, Josh is so mad. But I do think this is a fun question. Ike and Tim, for both of you. How many times have you died in a movie? I feel like 2.

[Timothy Olyphant]

2. 2.

[Josh Meyers]

Suicide Squad.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I don't know the answer to this.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah, that's a hard question.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I don't know to just know the.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Hunt in a movie called Bright.

[Sufi Myers]

Oh yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

Oh yeah, the Hunt. I feel like really fun. The funny thing would be if I asked him how many people he's killed and he knew the exact number.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I don't know how many times I've died, but I've killed 78.

[Sufi Myers]

Calendar on the wall, but he has a body count number.

[Josh Meyers]

I've done a lot of movies. I don't know how many times I killed 171.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Let me just, let me, let me count my arm.

[Timothy Olyphant]

2, 3, 4, 5. 31 projects killed 78 people.

[Josh Meyers]

I mean, I bet Tim, don't you think you're. I mean I've near a hundred for a kill count.

[Ike Barinholtz]

He's at 100 for sure. Between Deadwood.

[Timothy Olyphant]

My kill count.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah, I don't know.

[Ike Barinholtz]

He was. He was in a movie called.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Is it on the Wikipedia page? By the way, if we come up with a number, it'd be great if it got to the Wikipedia page before we ended the pod.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Speaking of, Tim, I've been doing some editing on your Wikipedia page. Can I ask you a couple quick questions? Did you ever win the Pillsbury bake off in 2002? You did not.

[Timothy Olyphant]

No.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Shit. Sorry guys, I need. Can I take up a five minute break to do a quick little edit?

[Josh Meyers]

Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. This episode of Family Trips is brought to you by Nissan. It's time to fuel your inner adventure in the award winning Nissan Rogue Rock Creek. So Josh, tell me about a recent time you connected with your inner adventurer.

[Sufi Myers]

Well, anytime it rains in la, which isn't very often, I throw my gear on and I get out in it and my dog Woody loves to get out there with me. And we'll start on a trail on sort of a big fire road trail, but then we find those smaller trails where you need to crawl and get your hands dirty and the wetter you get, the better you get. And yeah, that's what we like.

[Josh Meyers]

I love it.

[Sufi Myers]

What about you? Have you connected with your inner adventurer recently?

[Josh Meyers]

You know those squirrel suits where people jump off the sides of cliffs?

[Sufi Myers]

Oh yeah, yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

I just watched one of a YouTube video of that. My tummy it made my tummy feel weird.

[Sufi Myers]

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[Josh Meyers]

Up on Rogue Rock Creek, she sends me, right?

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah, we don't have the right.

[Josh Meyers]

We probably can't clear that. So thanks again to Nissan for sponsoring this episode of Family Trips. Adventure calls in the first ever Nissan Rogue Rock Creek. Learn [e-mail] intelligent ground view monitor cannot eliminate blind spots and may not detect every object. Drivers should always turn and check surroundings before driving. See owner's manual for safety information. Support for family trips comes from Airbnb. Hi, Paschi.

[Sufi Myers]

Hi, Sufi. Airbnbs are exceptional. We've stayed in Airbnbs in Pittsburgh with the family, but also at my wedding. I know we've mentioned that it was at a hotel, but at the same time we couldn't have everyone stay there. But there were all these fabulous Airbnbs in the area. And one thing that just warmed my heart to no end is I had a group of friends from New Hampshire, childhood friends who came, and they all stayed in one Airbnb. And I was getting pictures throughout the weekend texted to me of them getting ready of my friend Randy Suazo and his West High half shirt, which is just a classic thing in our childhood from our youth. And to think that my marriage got that group of people to stay together for a weekend in an Airbnb, something they probably would never have done otherwise, just made me so happy, even though I never went there. And I know that they had just the best time. And that's the kind of experience you won't get if you're not in an Airbnb because you get to have your meals together, you get to get up and you get to have your coffee together. You get to sit around in a living room together. And it was really special. And even as someone who wasn't there, it is one of my favorite things about my wedding.

[Josh Meyers]

Well, that's so lovely to hear. Book your next awesome trip [e-mail] Here we go. Ike, are you going somewhere? Are you traveling? Are you going on a family trip this year?

[Ike Barinholtz]

We're going on a little mini trip just to like a, like a horse ranch. That's like an Hour outside of la. But last year we did the big trip. We went to England and did all that in Paris and stuff. And I'm excited this year to pretty much stay local and just. I like, during the holidays, like, every from Jan. Dec. 21 to, like, the 28th, you know, when you go to, like, a liquor store and they have, like, the. The. The. The beers that have, like, a friar who's, like, dancing with an elephant or whatever. Yeah, I like to drink one of those every night. Like a giant thick beer that's like 10 alcohol and watch movies. So I'm very excited to do that.

[Timothy Olyphant]

You're taking the kids to the horse ranch? You got kids?

[Ike Barinholtz]

I've got. The kids are staying home. I'm just gonna go solo a little bit of. How old are you? Horses.

[Timothy Olyphant]

How old are the kids?

[Ike Barinholtz]

6, 8, and 11.

[Timothy Olyphant]

All right, fun story. You can tell them when you get there. You say. You say, hey, kids, my friend Tim. You can say Jorma, too, right? You can say my friends Tim and Jorma. They were in Finland this year, and in Finland, they eat the horses.

[Sufi Myers]

That's a fun story. And also show him a picture of Tim with his current lighting. This is our buddy.

[Timothy Olyphant]

By the way, the sun is shaking. I mean, it feels.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah. I'm just gonna send my therapy build.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Up to family trips I might bring down. I could bring that. I could get rid of the lighting. I know most people watch this on YouTube, right? They don't listen to it, I think.

[Sufi Myers]

I think we're more listeners, but it's. It's starting to move over because of things like this. I think you're doing.

[Timothy Olyphant]

That's where the money is.

[Josh Meyers]

I have. I have very exciting news.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Oh, here, let's go.

[Josh Meyers]

There's a. I had. There's a Timothy Oliphant Wiki with your list of deaths.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, I'm just gonna.

[Josh Meyers]

I'm just gonna jump around. Scream tour.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I want to say. I do want to say, because my father's been very upset about this, but it's technically Oliphant.

[Josh Meyers]

I know. I'm sorry. I keep. I keep.

[Timothy Olyphant]

No, I know. It's. I don't know what to do about it, but I know that when the. When my own kids said it wrong and my dad looked at me like, what the fuck? Whatever. Yeah, Oliphant.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah, Oliphant. All right. Seven. Scream two. Seven.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Whoa.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Seven. Yeah. You were a real.

[Josh Meyers]

Only. Only three in the first season of Deadwood. None in the season two. This is fun. Just. I mean, there's Not a big Live Free or Die Hard 22. That was a big one for you.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah, yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

Well, hold on. Hitman as Ike was very wise here. 155.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Wow. Wow. Genocidal maniac.

[Josh Meyers]

You got your life right in Rango. None Love Rango. Two in Deadwood, the movie, and then two in Amsterdam. Total kill count, according to your wiki, is 191.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Wow. You want to know my fun? Amsterdam's movie, his story. Yeah, I'll try to keep this really quick.

[Josh Meyers]

Not shot in Amsterdam.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I talked to David Russell for probably a year on and off, text exchange. But it was never quite clear what the part was or the screen. He never wanted to give any. He's very withholding of the script. But it was always like, there's this guy, but he's a bad guy, very bad guy. And I don't know if you're interested in that, but I feel like he should have bad skin. And I was like, great. You know, there's a lot of cryptic conversations about this role or possible roles, but I just knew that he was going to be a bad guy. And then we decided bad skin. And my. Changed my eye. I show up the day before, two days before. I'm a shoot. Got all the prosthetics, the fake nose, the eye contacts. I show up on the set. David wants to prove my look, and I look so bizarre. I told him. I was like, you know, David, you could have just hired someone who looks this way, you know? But then I said, look, I just want to make sure we're clear. I still haven't read a script. And he goes, are you okay with that? And I said, yeah. I told you, you know, I'm here. You send me a call sheet, I'd show up, but I just want to make sure that I don't show up on set tomorrow. And then you're like, what do you mean you haven't read the script? And he said. He said, are you okay if I just tell you what to say? And I said, it's very copy. He loves to do. And I said, perfect. Great. So we're good. So I show up the next day, and I show up on set, and we immediately start shooting. As soon as I get on set and he's looking at me and this light, and he's like, why aren't we shooting this? We should be shooting this, right? And. And immediately we're rolling. I. I know I've done a bad thing, and I know that I'm. I'm. I'm getting Ready? This goes back to you. So he's like, you know, you, you could be, when you come up to the car, you're looking around, where are they? You know, where, where, where, Looking around and, and then your partner's in the front seat. You could be saying, you could be saying, you're not driving. I'm driving. You know, you're not driving. You, you could be saying that. I was like, do you want me to say it? He goes, you just, you could be saying it. Anyway, we do a take. I come up, I'm looking around, I tell the guy, get the out. You know, we're an organization, we got to stay organized. And you can't drive. I'm driving, you know, and I get in the car and we drive off. Cut. I come back and he goes, that was amazing. That was great. But remember, you just killed somebody. So.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Good note, good note, good note.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I'll make. Adjust accordingly. That was my first day on that movie.

[Josh Meyers]

David O. Russell, a genius filmmaker. It's very funny him being like, we gotta keep my script under wraps. Cause it doesn't seem like he writes the kind of movies that people are looking to steal. It's not like a Marvel script where.

[Ike Barinholtz]

You know, Midnight Shyamalan.

[Sufi Myers]

All right, family trips, everybody.

[Josh Meyers]

Oh, boy.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Oh, let's go on some trips. You want to talk trips? We'll talk trips.

[Ike Barinholtz]

What is Christmas in Finland like?

[Timothy Olyphant]

Oh, they're really into it.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Huge. Yeah, they got to be really into it. They're really like created Santa and Bro.

[Timothy Olyphant]

First of all, they skip Thanksgiving.

[Sufi Myers]

So they save it up.

[Timothy Olyphant]

They go straight to Christmas.

[Sufi Myers]

So it starts early and they're probably eating some reindeer, I would imagine.

[Timothy Olyphant]

And they got the reindeer and apparently Santa lives up there. I think a couple people have claimed Santa and they're one of them. So they're very into. They're very into their Christmas. And they got the Christmas town. They got the Christmas and they light. And they got a lot of lights because it's so dark.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah, yeah.

[Timothy Olyphant]

So they're really into their lights. Nice.

[Josh Meyers]

Do you feel a pang of missing it now that you're gone?

[Timothy Olyphant]

Pang. I like the licorice, by the way. Cold and dark and depressing when you're inside looking out. But when you get out, it's lovely.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

That's a good way of putting it. You have to go out in sub freezing weather to be happy.

[Ike Barinholtz]

But they gotta be all be just walking around how happy they are that they're in NATO now. They're just like, oh, we're in NATO.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah. That's the biggest Christmas gift Finland is getting this year.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Thank you.

[Sufi Myers]

Answer, Tim, growing up, would you guys have a lot of people over for the holidays?

[Timothy Olyphant]

No.

[Sufi Myers]

Or were you insular?

[Timothy Olyphant]

Insular? Well, yeah, it was insular. It was. Yeah. Christmas in Modesto. It was.

[Josh Meyers]

Was your dad like. Was your dad like. We're not having people over. You guys don't even know how to say our fucking last name.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Hey, real quick, do you guys mind if I plug my Hallmark holiday movie, Christmas in Modesto? It comes out tomorrow morning. Tomorrow morning. So, yeah, I play a young Tim in the.

[Josh Meyers]

Oh, I have a. I have a true story to tell you guys. So we have decommissioned iPhones, so no service, but our kids have them, and we load up stories on them, and so they can listen if one of the kids. The boys share a bunk bed, and if one of them wakes up early, they just put on headphones to listen to a story. So Alexi, the other day, realized Axel was on, like, chapter 18 of a book called the Christmas Tree Farm, and it has, like, an animated box in the. And then his headphones are out, and she hears somebody in the story say, bullshit. And she's like, what's going on? And she goes, axel, what's this book about? And he goes, oh, it's so good. It's about a woman who owns a bookstore. And then a guy comes back to visit his brother, and they fall in love, and then he buy the Christmas Tree Farm. But then there's also. They have to find a dead body in a farm. And we're like, it's. And then we look. It's like a romance novel. And she played it, and at one point, it's like. It's literally like her breasts were heaving, and he knew they did not touch. And we're like. I'm like, chapter 18. So he's just fully six years old, FYI.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Can you imagine?

[Sufi Myers]

Can you take it away from him? Or do you have to let him finish? Because he's so pot committed, we had.

[Josh Meyers]

To take it away. Cause this teacher said that he kept coming into class and ripping open her bodice.

[Sufi Myers]

Tim, back to your Christmas. Christmas and Modesto.

[Josh Meyers]

Nobody comes over.

[Ike Barinholtz]

What's the holiday meal? What are you guys cooking? Are you guys doing, like, a turkey in the. In your house? Are you doing what? What are you doing?

[Timothy Olyphant]

You know, my wife asked me that. I don't remember what we ate. I remember. Here's what. Listen, here's what I remember. There's only a couple things that really. I mean, Visually, you really remember those, like going out and what seemed like crazy amount of gifts under a tree. Remember when you're little, remember those? And you also, those were the. You you saw, like there was like a bicycle, you know, like, remember, like, just like coming out and seeing a bicycle. That was the most exciting freaking thing in the world.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah.

[Timothy Olyphant]

And we had a Christmas tradition which we kept up here at the Oli house. We would line up shortest to tallest before we could go out. Anyone else? Anyone do that?

[Sufi Myers]

Before you could go outside?

[Timothy Olyphant]

No, before you could go see, you weren't allowed. We woke up, we could not go into the living room where the tree was and the gifts were. That's great, right? You're not allowed. You could. And so before we could go into that living room area, we would line up and all go in together. And it was always smallest to tallest, which. Which we did with our kids when they were little. We'd, you know, go downstairs, but you could not go in the living room until we lined up. And then we'd all go in and.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Gets first crack at it.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Smallest gets the first. Smallest gets the first look. It's just smallest gets the first look. Everyone else is taller. And over the years, the lineup shifts, right?

[Sufi Myers]

Cause you were the middle of three boys.

[Timothy Olyphant]

It was the middle of three. And so it always started out right. You'd have my youngest brother, then me and my oldest brother, and then my mom and my dad. But slowly mom would move towards the front. Right? Right. When you get to that point where.

[Sufi Myers]

Mom would she act surprised when she was first looked, she's like, oh my gosh.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I think at that point it's not the giddiness that you had when you were little, but it's still the tradition. But ye, we did that here with our kids, right? We would line up, we'd all line up and then we'd all go in together.

[Sufi Myers]

I like that.

[Josh Meyers]

Are your kids coming home, Tim? Do they. Do you see them?

[Timothy Olyphant]

Yeah. This year they're all coming. Well, two live here in town, one's here in the house. Jesus Christ. Can we all talk about that? Somewhere along the line, my wife fucked up because it's not me. I mean, come on.

[Josh Meyers]

No, nobody thinks it's you.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I've said an ex.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I'm in Finland. How could it be my fault I'm in Finland with your money.

[Timothy Olyphant]

If I'm in Finland working my ass off eating horse?

[Josh Meyers]

I mean, it's not horse. I think is the first memorable meal you've ever had. Every time we ask you what did you have for Thanksgiving? I don't know.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I don't know.

[Josh Meyers]

What was Christmas? No idea. How about Finland? Horse. So much horse.

[Ike Barinholtz]

You ever had horse carpaccio? It's.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Yeah. But then the youngest who's in New York is. She comes home next week.

[Sufi Myers]

Great.

[Ike Barinholtz]

That's great.

[Sufi Myers]

When you're opening gifts, I assume there's still a lot of gifts under the tree. Do you go one at a time, or are people tearing through gifts simultaneously? Same to you. Same question to you, Ike.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Again, my kids are older now, so we're throwing it back when I'm going down memory lane. You guys. You guys all have young little kids.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Timothy Olyphant]

What's going on? I mean, my kids are in their 20s. What the fuck happened? And I'm like, you had them earlier.

[Sufi Myers]

I'll explain it to you.

[Timothy Olyphant]

It doesn't. I mean, my kids. My kids, they're almost old as I am now.

[Sufi Myers]

Do you get, like. I mean, do you get. Do you get the same number of gifts or has the amount of gifts under the tree diminished?

[Timothy Olyphant]

Diminished. Big time.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Now.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Oh, geez. No. Yeah, listen. No, now it's just like, here's some slippers. Yeah.

[Sufi Myers]

If anyone in your family gets a gift that they don't really like, is it. Is it the thing that you say, like, I love it, or do you say, not for me.

[Ike Barinholtz]

You could give me, like, a bag of flaming dog. And I'm. I'm so adverse to conflict. I'd be like, great. Thank you.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I've been wanting to step on something like this for a while. Awesome.

[Josh Meyers]

I do remember that, like, every time you tell me, oh, my God, this movie's so good. I'm like, I saw him once be so excited about Funny New Dog.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's just crazy. I mean, for our kids, it's pretty calm. I mean, we give them, like, this year, we got them all, like, Bill O'Reilly's newest book.

[Sufi Myers]

He's got a new one.

[Ike Barinholtz]

He's got a new one.

[Josh Meyers]

Killing.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Killing Jefferson. I was like, I thought he died of natural causes. He's like, no, he was murdered. And then Yankee candles. So it's pretty cut and dry. No, I mean, it's. It's. It's. It's bedlam. They are tearing through their gifts, and my wife.

[Sufi Myers]

It's not one at a time.

[Ike Barinholtz]

No, it's just. They just kind of go crazy. We try to do some law and order with it, but they. They just. Yeah.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Do you have the. Read the card first. You got to read the card.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's you don't even know who it's from. You don't even know who it's from.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah, Serious question. What. How much effort do you put into a gift for your spouse at this point in your marriage?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Oh, God damn.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Wow.

[Josh Meyers]

We're kind of at. I will say, like, Alexi and I have decided just in the thick of kids, it's not going to be a thing.

[Ike Barinholtz]

We made the same decision, too, but I think it really came from me just being terrible at getting her gifts.

[Josh Meyers]

I'm really into.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah. And, like, the thing that pisses me off, too, and is, like, there's a clothing store that's not too far from where we live. It's, like, casual clothing for men and women. And I was in there getting a sweater for myself. I think, actually this sweater, no joke. And I saw they have, like, matching.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Like, was it on tribal? It was.

[Ike Barinholtz]

This was. No, no, this. This was full price. I paid full price. I actually paid a. I paid a little more. I liked it.

[Timothy Olyphant]

But it will go great with the red cap.

[Ike Barinholtz]

They said that that was part of the whole marketing of it. But I got her, like, sweatpants and a sweatshirt, and I remember when she opened it, she was like, oh, thank you. Like, clearly throwing shade at, like, the lame gift. She wears those sweatpants and that sweatshirt like, two to three days a week. So I'm just like, yeah, you hated it at the time. And we're, like, mad that we got married. But you love it now.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

That's why I got Alexi water, and she drinks it fucking every day.

[Ike Barinholtz]

A bottle of smart water.

[Josh Meyers]

I did get.

[Sufi Myers]

I did actually get Alexi a water bottle one year. That was one of the best gifts I ever gave her that she always uses.

[Josh Meyers]

This is a true story, Tim. Back in the day, when I first started in snl, I remember Ike once visited me and I had a Brita in my fridge, but there was no filter. It was just. Do you remember this, Ike? Yeah. At, like, some point, I'd lost a filter, but I still was using the Brita. And I remember you took it out and you're like. And this works.

[Ike Barinholtz]

More ceremonial.

[Josh Meyers]

It was a Brita filter. Champagne and mustard was, at one point the only thing I had.

[Ike Barinholtz]

My fridge.

[Sufi Myers]

So, Tim, back to this. Do you have to pretend that you like a gift even if you don't like a gift?

[Timothy Olyphant]

No. You know, I can't remember the last time I had to pretend to like a gift. No, no. I mean, the only times you have to do that. Right, is if the person's in the room with you. Right, Sorry. Then later. Go ahead. Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Tim, real quick. I'm just. Your lighting has changed. Where is the Maltese Falcon?

[Timothy Olyphant]

Okay.

[Josh Meyers]

A broad stone in front of me.

[Timothy Olyphant]

No, no, hold on.

[Josh Meyers]

But I got plans for.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Talk amongst yourselves. Talk amongst yourselves.

[Sufi Myers]

All right.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I liked it, by the way. I wasn't.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah, no, it was great.

[Ike Barinholtz]

You never see that in podcasts. There's a moderate medium.

[Josh Meyers]

That'S cool.

[Ike Barinholtz]

This could be a call center in Bangalore.

[Josh Meyers]

Did you have. All right. Did you have a kid of your three kids, each of you that was easier over the years to buy gifts for, like, someone that was specific in what they loved?

[Timothy Olyphant]

Yes, for sure, right? I think so. There's certain. Certain people, they're so easy to buy gifts for.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Right?

[Timothy Olyphant]

Well, first of all, it's always great when somebody has, like, that's their thing. They like, blah, blah, blah. Right. Like, that's such a help. Right?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah. Our middle kid, Peyton, loves Legos, like, any kind of Lego. So that's just like, a home run. And she will literally, like, open it and while we're still doing gifts, like, go into the dining room and start, like, assembling it. Like, that's a. That's an easy home run. The other two kids, I don't get along with them very well, so I don't.

[Josh Meyers]

Sure. Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

But her, she really is good.

[Josh Meyers]

Don't you think? For the price point, Legos should take five times longer than they do? Because I'm so excited when they start building Legos, and I'm so bummed how quickly it's over.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Have you guys. I don't know if you've ever been to Legoland.

[Josh Meyers]

I've never gone yet. Is it great?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah. If you're a kid and you love Legos, it's great if.

[Josh Meyers]

Hey, Josh, Josh, jump. Jump in on this, because this is a family trip, so get your teeth in.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah, no, go ahead. Yeah, I'm enjoying this so far. Thanks for cutting them off.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Legoland is rough. If you're an adult, not a Lego enthusiast, it's just. It's like Disneyland. But instead of the dozens and dozens of beloved characters from 100 years of movies and TV shows, it's just Lego. So it's just like, oh, oh. Instead of. You could be like, whoa, my God, there's Darth Maul fighting Goofy in Legoland. It's like, oh, my God, look at that square.

[Josh Meyers]

Right? I guess the problem with this Ike is that you're like. The cool version of you is the one at Disneyland who's super psyched to see Goofy and Darth Maul. You know how when you're adult with your kids and you're like, oh, yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I'm a Disney adult, I'm not a Lego adult.

[Josh Meyers]

We went to Disney with my dad and mom and I remember like, dad, do you remember dad started dancing with Snow White.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

And it was just, you know, it was, oh, no. You know, and just. And I feel, I remember feeling so to my bones, embarrassed. And now my oldest is. He just has so much embarrassment for anything I do. Whereas my middle could care less. But it is funny to watch. I deeply remember. Oh, don't stop dancing with Snow White. I remember for you.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I remember when my daughter went to school one day, I was walking her to school and the headmaster at the time was a jovial fella and he was just kind of looking at the kids and he goes, there's a bright golden haze on the meadow. And I go, there's a bright golden haze on the meadow. And my daughter looked at me like if I was, if I was her Menendez brothers, like, dead shot.

[Sufi Myers]

We don't know, they were sort of justified.

[Josh Meyers]

They.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Oh, no. I want, if there's one thing I want to come out of this podcast is that those boys are free this holiday. But, yeah, it was very embarrassing for her.

[Josh Meyers]

There was a time not to brag, and this is not a sponsor, but Cecily Strong and I did some Verizon ads and there was one kid who every day dropped off Ash for like three months and he would go, hey, Verizon. And basically, I remember at some point I literally muttered to like a seven year old, like, I do other stuff. This is like a very small part of what I do.

[Timothy Olyphant]

There's nothing better than a seven year old. I, I once dropped off my kids, went to this progressive school and I think it was Larry Charles's kid, you know, the daddy. Yeah, Larry.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Timothy Olyphant]

His kid was like, but we're. This is kindergarten through sixth grade, so he's not above sixth grade. He. I think that kid at the time might have been in third, third or fourth. And I was on campus dropping my kids off. And he goes, you're really great in Deadwood, man. I was both, I was like, this is. I'm both concerned. And I also, for that point forward, I was like, that kid's cool. That kid's cool. Yeah, it's cool.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Until he went all swearing at one of his classmates and called him a filthy.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah, I said this. I think I said this. On the podcast. But I went to pick up Ash at. Sorry, Axl, the middle one, at camp this summer, and a kid came up to me, and he goes, is it true? And I go, it's what true? He goes, did you write the song the Final Countdown? And I was like, why? And I was saying to Axel, like, why I do stuff that. Why? You don't have to make up a thing.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Wait, the Europe song, the Final Countdown?

[Sufi Myers]

Yes.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I'm telling his dad. Yeah. My dad's the frontman for Europe.

[Josh Meyers]

My dad wrote in the mid-80s. My dad wrote the Final Countdown.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah. My dad's 78 years old.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I love that you pulled Europe right there. You were right there.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Ding, ding.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Don't make me tap the sign.

[Josh Meyers]

Celebrity Jeopardy. Do you know that? Do you know that about Ike, Tim?

[Timothy Olyphant]

No.

[Josh Meyers]

Ike won Celebrity Jeopardy.

[Sufi Myers]

He won Celebrity Jeopardy. And then he was entered into the Tournament of Champions and made it through a couple rounds of that. Of Reg. Jeopardy.

[Josh Meyers]

J Jab, Right?

[Ike Barinholtz]

They call it Red Jeb.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Ask me any question, Tim. Ask me any question.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Huh? How do you live with yourself?

[Sufi Myers]

Did you ever.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Was that a question on Celebrity Jeopardy? Was that a question? Was that a question on Celebrity Jeopardy?

[Ike Barinholtz]

They didn't give that one, by the way.

[Timothy Olyphant]

By the way. Just. New podcast with me and Seth.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Timothy Olyphant]

How do you live with yourself?

[Ike Barinholtz]

How do you live with yourself with.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Tim Oliver and Seth Meyers? You're in on that, right, Seth?

[Josh Meyers]

I'm in. Nothing but time to do podcasts.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Someone to hold the center. I have celebrity guests on. And then we'll just ask him how they live with them.

[Josh Meyers]

I know my brother. He's going to try to get it back. Here you go.

[Sufi Myers]

But I'm going to try to. Like, we have. We have one more. We have a video message.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Sufi Myers]

That I think is going to help to get us back on track.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Go ahead.

[Josh Meyers]

I'm just saying you're putting a lot of confidence in our next guest to get us back on track.

[Sufi Myers]

Well, I think our guest will talk about holidays, and then we'll get back to holidays, But I think we need sort of a reset, and this is gonna. This is gonna do it.

[Amy Poehler]

Hello, Myers brothers, Amy Poehler here wishing you a very happy holiday and checking in with you on your holiday podcast of family trips. I don't have any holiday stories about going away for the holidays. My family always stayed in the Boston area for Christmas, and just. We just like, kind of drove from town to town visiting various relatives, but we never went anywhere warm or anywhere cold or anywhere. Anywhere so. So I've been kind of racking my brain to think about what to add to your podcast. But I will say that a holiday ritual that I've started as an adult that I hope to continue is the New Year's Day Polar Plunge. And I don't do it just because it's my last name. I do it because I feel like the cold water has cleansed me of my previous year's sins and get my head straight for what's ahead. So I go to Coney Island, I jump in the water with the rest of the crazy people, and I'm going to be doing that again this year. Jan 1st. So that is. It's not really a trip. I mean, I guess it's a trip and then it takes your mind to crazy places, man. I mean, it's kind of an existential trip. Have you guys ever thought about talking about trips a different way? You know, trips where you don't even leave your couch. Family trips where you all go to a different dimension. Anyway, Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah. I know you don't celebrate Hanukkah, but. Well, actually, you probably do, right? I don't know. I'm not sure. But either way, happy holidays to you both. I love your podcast. I love you, and I hope you have a wonderful End of the year, beginning of the next.

[Josh Meyers]

Back on track, baby.

[Sufi Myers]

There we go. Plunge.

[Josh Meyers]

I'm gonna jump in. Has anybody here ever done a polar plunge?

[Timothy Olyphant]

I've done like, I just got back from Finland. That's all we did.

[Josh Meyers]

But didn't you just. Did you go in ice cold water?

[Timothy Olyphant]

Yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

Okay.

[Timothy Olyphant]

What other kind of water they have there this time?

[Josh Meyers]

That's a good point. Like saunas and stuff.

[Timothy Olyphant]

You do the sauna and then you go out and jump in the. You jump in the lake.

[Josh Meyers]

Oh, wow. So you were doing a full lake. God love you. Was it great?

[Timothy Olyphant]

Amazing. Highly recommended.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Isn't it more of a fjord.

[Timothy Olyphant]

What? How do we feel about this? That's the thing to do, right? Can I just keep my arm like that? Is that a problem?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yes. Jim. In the back. I've never jumped in a cold lake, but I recently started when I'm done with my shower, I turn the cold all the way and it gets cold. And for like 20 seconds, I let it hit my face. For 20 seconds, I let it hit, like, this side of the lymph nodes. Then 20 seconds, this side of the lymph nodes. And again. Sorry, I'm just gonna say it. And then the last 20 seconds, turn around. Pull apart my butt. Let it all. I do. I'm being serious, and I feel good about it.

[Timothy Olyphant]

That's a daily. That's a daily thing.

[Ike Barinholtz]

That's a daily routine. Now it's part of my daily routine. I'm keeping my hands cold.

[Sufi Myers]

I was at a party two or three weeks ago that Ike was at, and I was trying to leave. I was like, I had to get home. I had stuff to do the next day, and I walked.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Two saddest words in the English language. I'm thinking them right now.

[Sufi Myers]

It was a dining room table. And Ike was telling a story about his process of going from bath to shower. And it was taking so long. And I found a gap in the story where I was like, hey, I'm gonna take off. And he's like. And then I go from the tub to the shower. I was like, brother, I gotta go. I gotta get out of here. He was holding court, talking about, like, I get in a tub, I put in like a half a bag of Epsom salts. Hot as you can. Hot as you can.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Baking soda. Throw some soda.

[Sufi Myers]

Little bit of baking soda. Little bit of baking soda.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Everyone's just down there.

[Sufi Myers]

I go underwater. I hold my breath for as long as I can. And I was like, goodbye. Goodbye.

[Josh Meyers]

Then somebody else walked in and Ike was like, oh, I'll start from the beginning.

[Ike Barinholtz]

All right. So get naked. Turn the water on. Jesus.

[Josh Meyers]

Hey.

[Sufi Myers]

We're gonna take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors.

[Josh Meyers]

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[Sufi Myers]

Hey, Seth.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Sufi Myers]

Tell me about your inner adventure. Are you a rocky trails guy or more of a snow roads bird?

[Josh Meyers]

I'm a snow roads bird. Like to go up my snow roads, maybe pull over at one point, pop off a couple snow angels back in the car. Keep on rocking.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah. I was gonna say, your snow angels are some of the nicest snow angels I've ever seen.

[Josh Meyers]

They look as though an angel fell from heaven and just splatted into the snow.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah. One thing I will say a note on snow angels.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Sufi Myers]

You don't have to do them face down.

[Josh Meyers]

What? This is gonna be a game changer. What about you? Posh rocky trails or snow roads bird?

[Sufi Myers]

Well, I mean, I'm a bit of both. I do love when you're in a vehicle that can handle some rocky terrain. I like driving slow and feeling a big old tire sort of creep over a rock and sort of waggle you back and forth. And that's the kind of feeling that you can get with some confidence in the Nissan Rogue Rock Creek.

[Josh Meyers]

And I would say a lack of confidence in the car we drove in high school, which was a Renault look car and if it was even a little bit rainy you wouldn't go outside.

[Sufi Myers]

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[Sufi Myers]

Yeah, Sufi?

[Josh Meyers]

You know the deal. You sign up for something, forget about it after the trial period ends, then you're charged month after month after month. Yeah, subscriptions are there. You're not using them. I do this all the time. Maybe there's an article I want to read, maybe there's a fantasy football advice columnist that I feel like is going to help me out on draft day. And then I forget that all of a sudden it's April, there's no football happening and I'm still paying this month to month fee. And Rocket Money is a personal finance app that helps you find and cancel these unwanted subscriptions, monitors your spending and helps lower your bills so you can grow your savings.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah, the one that gets me is a lot of times I'll sign up for like a free trial, there'll be some station or some something and I want to watch a movie and it's like, well, just get this free trial and then you're all good. And then years later I realize I've been paying 19.99amonth. Didn't even know I had that station anymore, but I did, and I've been paying for it. But with Rocket Money, it's not going to be like that anymore because you can easily create a personalized budget with custom categories to help keep your spending on track, see your monthly spending trends in each category, and know exactly where your money is going.

[Josh Meyers]

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[Sufi Myers]

Yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

And one of the things they always applaud you for is how well scheduled their time is with you. So can you tell us like two or three things you have on the docket for mom and Dad's?

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah, we're gonna go to the Getty. We've been to the Getty, but only briefly.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Which one?

[Sufi Myers]

The one on the 405. The Getty 405.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Timothy Olyphant]

What day? What time?

[Sufi Myers]

Well, this will air, I think afterwards.

[Josh Meyers]

But Christmas Eve, nobody listened to you when you said what party? And now you're just moving on to like which museum? Where, when?

[Sufi Myers]

So we're going to the Getty. We're gonna do the Getty for a little bit. We're gonna have lunch up there.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Might see you there. On the call.

[Sufi Myers]

Great. We're coming back.

[Timothy Olyphant]

It's a good call.

[Sufi Myers]

We're doing Christmas dinner on Christmas Eve because on Christmas morning we're going to get up and we're going to do Christmas here. We're going to do presents. We got the steelers on at 10:00am out here.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Wow, wow, wow, wow.

[Sufi Myers]

In the 3:00 hour on Christmas day. We're going to Genghis Cohen.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yes.

[Sufi Myers]

We're going to do a big dinner the 26th. We're gonna go see the Bob Dylan movie.

[Josh Meyers]

Great.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah. Hoping for a lot of that out of our.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I was up in the part. I lost it to Timothy and I wish him the best.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

Hey. Oh, hey, thanks for coming in, Ike. If you could just slate yourself and then just do a little bob for us.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Ike Barinholtz, six foot three. Pete Tiggin.

[Josh Meyers]

You know, the impression's great. Six foot three is a giant problem.

[Ike Barinholtz]

I can play much smaller. I can play much smaller. I'm excited to see that movie.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I'm excited to see those Hobbit movies. Those. Those guys weren't that big.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Those. No, dude, shout out.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Those guys weren't that normal size.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Normal size.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Those are normal sized people.

[Ike Barinholtz]

You think Jim McKellen's fucking eight feet tall? No forced perspective.

[Josh Meyers]

So you. They were like, we're either gonna go with Chalamet and we gotta have a regular size guitar or we go with Ike and we just Gotta get a real big one, they said.

[Ike Barinholtz]

James Mangold said the budget would be too big to build these giant guitars for me. And don't even get me started on the harmonica.

[Josh Meyers]

Oh, my God, the harmonica. Was the budget on the harmonica? Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Too much. Too much.

[Josh Meyers]

Looked like a carburetor. So. All right, so you got the movie. That's great.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

I mean, what's the best? Over the years, you've taken mom and dad to a lot of holiday movies. Like around this time, what was the best one? Where you guys walked out and you were all in a really good mood.

[Sufi Myers]

Well, last year. And we can't do it again because we did it last year. I mean, you could do it again, but we went to the Walt Disney Concert hall and saw the La Phil playing along to Home Alone.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Oh, wow.

[Sufi Myers]

And Home Alone's so good. It's so fun. And I was worried in the middle of it. I sort of looked over and I was like, is dad enjoying this? Cause I know Mom's enjoying it. And I was worried about dad. And then afterwards, he was like, that was great. That was so impressive. Well, your dad.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Your dad hates burglars.

[Sufi Myers]

He hates burglars.

[Ike Barinholtz]

So he was happy.

[Sufi Myers]

He hates most things.

[Josh Meyers]

He might hate most things. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Is that true? The Myers, he's a curmudgeon kind of a thing?

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah, I mean, like, he likes what.

[Josh Meyers]

He likes curmudgeon.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah, he's.

[Josh Meyers]

He loves Shameless. He loves Showtime. Shameless. And. And if you. If he ever says to you, have you seen Shameless? It doesn't matter what your answer is. He'll explain what it is. There's no way for him to not explain the premise of the. The show Shameless to you.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Seth. Where are you guys going?

[Timothy Olyphant]

What are you doing?

[Josh Meyers]

We're gonna go.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Are you acting right now?

[Sufi Myers]

He's shooting a David O. Russell movie.

[Josh Meyers]

Your arms up like that Bruce Springsteen, Born in the USA pose. That's what I like.

[Timothy Olyphant]

This is how I went to most junior high dances. I was like, I just want to make sure this doesn't fall.

[Josh Meyers]

I am going to be happy to dance, but this.

[Timothy Olyphant]

This could come down any second. So I'm just going to stay over here and hold this wall.

[Ike Barinholtz]

A New Mexico Christmas.

[Josh Meyers]

New Mexico Christmas.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Wait, you're going to New Mexico?

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah, that's where my wife's from. So we're going to go to New Mexico, which is lovely, but a little.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Bringing the three kids. We're going to bring them up to Nashiba.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. I will say the Thing that's very nice about Albuquerque, New Mexico, if you are a New Yorker. Gene Hacker is everything is easy to get to and there's parking everywhere. So when you go to the zoo, you park like right next to the front door. And then it's a real good zoo. So that's nice. It's just by like day five, you've been to the zoo three times and the science museum five times and you want to kill yourself. Anyway, can't wait to see my in laws.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Christmas morning, you guys do like a seven hour immersive tour of all the Breaking Bad locations.

[Josh Meyers]

We do, we do. And we, we give a little. We cast it. So you know, my daughter, she's Jesse.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

And then Axel.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Axel, you're Chuko this year we give.

[Josh Meyers]

Him a little bell.

[Ike Barinholtz]

You want some more potatoes? Bing, bing, bing, bing.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Do the kids like, do they have a whole, like, they love to go to grandma and grandpa's.

[Josh Meyers]

Love it. Love, love, love it. It's the best. And I really, my in laws are.

[Ike Barinholtz]

They're a good grandma and grandpa.

[Josh Meyers]

Good fine people. And so it's lovely. And I will say, love New Mexican food. It's a little bit like going to Italy for two weeks where by day four, you wish there was a second cuisine. But it is exceptionally good food.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, I like it.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. Well, Josh, do you want to wrap up how disappointed you are?

[Sufi Myers]

Well, I just think, you know, maybe we prep a little bit more for this next year.

[Josh Meyers]

That's good.

[Sufi Myers]

I feel like Tim's got a lot of stuff sort of still in his back pocket.

[Josh Meyers]

What do you mean? Why do you think Tim. Every time you ask Tim a question, he's like, we didn't do anything. I don't know what we ate. And yet it's over.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I got stories. What do you want? I can give you a story. You want a travel story? You want a holiday? What do you want?

[Josh Meyers]

Do you want travel story? Yes.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah. No, I just feel like we. I feel like we. Every time we got close to a story, we got cut off by some bit. Again.

[Timothy Olyphant]

We got cut off by a bit. Yeah, that's what the stories are.

[Josh Meyers]

Well, really, it was very special that you guys joined us on this holiday spectacular. You know, obviously we may reconsider the name based on how it turned out.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I was about to say, has this been it?

[Josh Meyers]

Don't undercut it.

[Sufi Myers]

And re listening to your first time around the block with us, Tim. It was maybe like 22 minutes into the episode where you said, is this the podcast?

[Timothy Olyphant]

Nothing has changed. Nothing has changed. Oh, wow.

[Sufi Myers]

I would like to say that in our family, we've always been able to say when we don't like gifts. And it's something that I've held onto, which is tricky with my wife and her family, because they're not of that mind. But I think that it's a good way to be. To be.

[Ike Barinholtz]

They're not of that mind, AKA polite.

[Sufi Myers]

It's not impolite. You can say. It's the thought that counts, to not hold on to something that you know that you dislike because you're afraid of offending someone.

[Josh Meyers]

And my thoughts count, too. And I'm currently thinking I don't like this gift.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

So why are my thoughts. Why are my thoughts worth less than.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I will keep this about the holidays and the. Is it about the trips or the holiday. It's the holidays.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Holiday trips.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Okay. Oh, yeah. Cause cards are a big deal for us. I feel like. Yeah, we love the cards.

[Sufi Myers]

Wait, like Christmas cards or playing card games?

[Timothy Olyphant]

No. Yeah. We are big into. And I feel like I've kept them all, but I feel like encouraging the kids to write, like, really good cards, you know, is, like, so. So wonderful. Like, that's been a big stress throughout our holidays over the years and still is, I think, even with our kids being much older.

[Sufi Myers]

Oh, that's nice.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Nothing better than. And it's super great when they give each other car. Like, those things are pretty big, Tim. More so than gifts.

[Josh Meyers]

I feel like I've heard this story about Josh Duhamel. Are you in his Christmas card one year?

[Timothy Olyphant]

No, he is in our. He was our Christmas card.

[Josh Meyers]

So did he pose with your family?

[Ike Barinholtz]

I liked it.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I was like, wait, what? I. I think I can pull it up. So, you know, for years, I'd been hearing. I mean, that, you know, that one. I remember the first time I was playing pickup basketball with a bunch of buddies, and they're like, have you met this guy Josh Duhamel? No.

[Ike Barinholtz]

You guys could be brothers.

[Timothy Olyphant]

You guys look so alike. And then over the years, I've, you know, you go into a cafe, and some girls behind the counter are giggling, and I make some dumb comment to my wife, like, look at this. I can't go anywhere anymore. And then my wife goes up to the counter, and they're like, is that really Josh Duhamel? Like, I got a lot of. And then. So I got a lot, over the years mistaken for Josh Duhamel and would be, you kind of know. And I. And we had, like, friends in common that he was Being mistaken for me a lot over the years. So we're at a Dodger. Clayton Kershaw had this charity event out Dodger Stadium, and. And someone's like, you know, josh Duhamel's here. And I'm like, oh, my God, please let this be. As soon as I saw him, we'd never met. We both just started laughing. I mean, it was just as soon as we saw each other, we started laughing. And while he and I are talking, Mookie Betts goes up to Josh and says, are you gonna do another hitman? And he looks and says, not me, buddy. And he points. He goes, this guy? And then Mookie man's like, oh, it happened right in front of me. It was amazing. So we literally have had this thing. So it occurs to me, no Auschwitz here. I say. I was like, dude, I got my whole family here. And he goes. And I said, would you take a picture? And so he said, sure. Not only did he take a picture, so it's he and my wife, three kids. Right before we snap it, he puts his head over on my wife's shape. He puts his head over. And Alexis, he grabs my son and pulls him in really tight. So this is amazing photograph of Josh Duhamel, my wife and three kids, and my daughter's looking at. I mean, they're.

[Ike Barinholtz]

All.

[Timothy Olyphant]

The looks on their face is amazing. And we sent that out as our holiday card.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Oh, my God.

[Timothy Olyphant]

And just said, you know, happy holidays from the elephants and. And Josh. And we put it just sort of small on the bottom. But the punchline of this whole thing is that my brother was at my mom's house. He called me. He's like, dude. I was like. He was. You know, mom always puts up all the holiday cards on the refrigerator. And he goes. I literally just go. I said, how about Tim's? He says, I just said to mom, how about Tim's card? And she goes, I know. Don't they all look great? And he said, mom, you know that's not Tim, right? She said, what are you talking about? You know, she goes, that's not Tim. And then she goes, what? She goes, oh, my goodness. She goes, you know, I thought he looked taller.

[Ike Barinholtz]

All these years, your mom has been telling people my son's the star of the TV show Las Vegas.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Yeah. So anyway. Yeah, so he was. That was a. A memorable holiday guard. And he and I, we have exchanged cards since. Ever since then.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Wow. I want to make that my holiday card.

[Josh Meyers]

Who would you Ike? Who is. Who would yours be for the Lookalike card.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Well, I mean, it's. It's always been Mark Wahlberg, but as I get older, it is becoming Chris Cooper. Yeah. People are always saying to me, like, why were you so mean to Jason Bourne? Why did you approve Treadstone? But, yeah, so I would do one of those guys, maybe.

[Josh Meyers]

I like that you're only approached by people who also don't understand that actors aren't responsible for what their characters do in movies.

[Timothy Olyphant]

That's right.

[Josh Meyers]

Why didn't you want Jake Gyllenhaal to be good at rockets?

[Ike Barinholtz]

You're a tulip expert, right?

[Josh Meyers]

Pashi, do you. What's yours?

[Sufi Myers]

I don't know. I don't know who my doppelganger is.

[Ike Barinholtz]

What about our governor?

[Josh Meyers]

Oh, yeah, speaking of our governor.

[Sufi Myers]

Our governor Newsom, I threw Seth Newsom. Gavin's sister reached out to see if I would record a birthday message for him, which I did. It was, like, four days before my wedding, and I was stressed out, but I got this request from the governor's sister, and I was like, I gotta do it. And so I recorded this thing. And then just yesterday, Seth forwarded me a thank you that Governor Newsom recorded for me. And it's great. It's so good. He's doing my impression of him back to me.

[Josh Meyers]

It's really. That's the part that's really impressive. He's doing Josh's newsome. And of course, it's. Yeah.

[Sufi Myers]

And then, like. And Mackenzie, my wife, was watching it with me, and she said, you sound just like him. And I'm like, he's doing me, doing him. And halfway through the message, he drops the impression and he's just himself. And she's like, oh, okay. Okay.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Now, in that story, when you said you were stressed four days before the wedding and doing it, were you stressed about the wedding or having to record that message for the governor?

[Sufi Myers]

I was stressed because I had a lot on my plate. And then he entered into my to do list, was, hey, can you. Sort of. And if I'm sending a message to Newsom, I want it to be good. I want to sort of write something.

[Timothy Olyphant]

So did the toast at the. At the rehearsal dinner. Did it. Did it Was not quite up to par?

[Sufi Myers]

No, no, no. Everything like.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Honey, I had to work on something.

[Ike Barinholtz]

God damn it. It's the governor.

[Josh Meyers]

Ike crushed it at the wedding.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Crushed it.

[Ike Barinholtz]

You want me to read the whole speech right now? Got it on my phone.

[Josh Meyers]

Here we go. First. First you get the bath hot.

[Sufi Myers]

It finished with him singing. We didn't Start the fire.

[Ike Barinholtz]

At my wedding, Josh and Jordan Peele and Rob Benedict, our friends sang Billy Joel's for the Longest Time to my wife. And then with you. You with me with the lead.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah.

[Ike Barinholtz]

And. Yeah. And then I sang. We didn't start the fire for you.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I'm gonna give you guys a. Here's a proud moment. Keep in mind I got married at 22. I guess I just turned 23. Feel like that's relevant to the. To the joke. At the rehearsal dinner, I made a toast, and I said to my future father in law that while I'd only known him a short time, I wanted to know that I found him very wealthy. And I.

[Josh Meyers]

That's really great.

[Ike Barinholtz]

You're very wealthy.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I find you very wealthy. And I've always liked that about you. Yeah. So there you go. I was proud of it. Yeah, I was proud of it. I ran it by my buddy, my best man, the night before. I was like, hey, what do you think of this? I was like. Literally from the shower, I'm like, hey, what do you think of this? He's like, are you fucking serious? I was like, it's gonna play, right?

[Sufi Myers]

I think it holds up.

[Josh Meyers]

I've always. I've always said, and I've road tested this a great amount of times at charity fundraisers that I've hosted in New York City. Rich people, never mind jokes about them being rich.

[Timothy Olyphant]

This one's tricky, though, because underneath it is. I want some of it.

[Josh Meyers]

It's true. It's different.

[Timothy Olyphant]

It's a little tricky because there's an implication there.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah. When you're at one of these charity functions, ostensibly, you are not gonna sleep with all of their daughters.

[Sufi Myers]

That's true.

[Timothy Olyphant]

You see, this does run. Runs a little bit of a.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's a different bit of a cut there.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. Did your wife like it at the time, do you recall?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I mean, there was a. As I recall, it really was a. There was a. There was a silence there for a good, like, 1,000. I don't know who laughed first, but it definitely wasn't. It was a bit of a. Josh.

[Josh Meyers]

I feel like maybe because you got married a little bit later in your life. No awkward speeches, would you say?

[Sufi Myers]

Oh, I don't. Yeah, no, no awkward speeches.

[Josh Meyers]

Did you have anything at yours, Ike?

[Ike Barinholtz]

No, no, it was all good. Yeah. No, no, no. Nothing weird or bad from what I remember. At least. I had a few beers, but from what I'm.

[Josh Meyers]

And I, of course, had Chris Kattan, which was a full disaster.

[Ike Barinholtz]

So good. But then you Had Will Forte come in and give the funniest.

[Josh Meyers]

Next time you're here, Tim, Next time you're in New York, I will show you Will Forte's wedding toast.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's the funniest speech I've ever seen at a wedding.

[Josh Meyers]

I can't email it because it, like, multiple people would just be, like, ushered out of show business. But it's really funny.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I look forward to that evening.

[Josh Meyers]

All right, well, what do you think, Josh? I gotta kind of check in with my bro here to make sure he.

[Sufi Myers]

Feels like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think we wrap it up. We let everyone get back to their holidays, and. Yeah, thanks, fellas.

[Josh Meyers]

I feel like right as we hang up, Tim's gonna be like, I once took a Christmas train across the country.

[Sufi Myers]

Tim just had that great. He had a great Christmas card story about Josh Duhamel. I bet we would have gotten to that early.

[Timothy Olyphant]

He took a. We took a train.

[Ike Barinholtz]

You want to say we met Santa. Oh, I forgot Santa Claus at my family.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Listen, I'll give you a train. I'll give you a train. You ready?

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Let's say it was around the holidays. We were up in Northern California visiting my brother, and we decided we'd take the train to Modesto. And we got my wife. We've got our French bulldog, Bruno, because she's like, we gotta take Bruno. So. But she's like, we really want to take the. We're gonna have a fun take Amtrak down through the Central Valley to Modesto. And as my brother takes us over the train station, we're. We're sitting there on the platform, and as we're just. As we're starting to wait.

[Sufi Myers]

Oh.

[Timothy Olyphant]

And my brother's given us the. The vest. The. The. Was it not a service dog vest but a. Oh, yeah. What's it called? You gotta.

[Ike Barinholtz]

For your dog. You put the thing on your dog.

[Timothy Olyphant]

What's it called? Not service. The one that's. What's the one that's like. It's helping the person. Like, it's like.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Oh, social anxiety. The.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Yeah. What's that called?

[Sufi Myers]

Emotional support.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Emotional.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Thank you. So, okay, so it's a. We gotta say it's an emotional support dog.

[Josh Meyers]

Okay.

[Timothy Olyphant]

That's important to this story.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Tighten that part up, would you?

[Sufi Myers]

No, that was good.

[Timothy Olyphant]

So we're there on the platform. The dog is in this vest that's way too big for it, but it's an emotional support dog vest. And just before the train arrives, it occurs to me, our buddy's got a beach house in Carpinteria and the train runs right behind it. And whenever we stay in the back guest room, the train goes by. Bruno freaks out. And I was like, you know, Bruno freaks out whenever that train comes by. And we're like, oh, fuck. Well, I don't think that's gonna be an issue.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Right.

[Timothy Olyphant]

If we're on the train. Right, right, right, right. That's different. Right, right. Because it's different if you're on the train than a train passing by.

[Josh Meyers]

Sure, sure.

[Timothy Olyphant]

And we're like, okay, so. And just. We gotta keep him sort of busy while the train approaches that. As long as we do that and we get on. So sure enough, as the train arrives, Bruno starts freaking out. And freaking out is the dog starts panting and starts going like. He really starts shaking and freaking out. And so we walk onto this train, we're like, it's gonna be fine. We just get on the train, and once we're on the train, the vibrations. It's gonna be fine. And we ride that train for at least 45 minutes. And throughout, it doesn't not only improve, it just continues to get worse and worse. And Bruno is like, we're starting to get like. I feel like the dog might have a heart attack, you know? And so I just. I just want you to know that at one point, my wife is on the train, walking up and down the car holding the dog that has an emotional support vest on. And she's going, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay.

[Josh Meyers]

She should have put the vest on.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I said, honey, you want to put the vest on?

[Josh Meyers]

She's like, oh, no, I'm emotional support for animals. Yeah, I see the confusion.

[Timothy Olyphant]

We had to get out of the fucking dream. We got off the train in Stockton and called an Uber.

[Josh Meyers]

Wow.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Now, you know, you can cut it out. It's fine. I'm just saying, it's a train. There was a trip involved. You said, you want a train, I can tell you. You want trip stories, we give you trip stories. You know what I mean?

[Sufi Myers]

He's got them, you guys. He's got them. You also.

[Josh Meyers]

I feel like I'm just gonna, like, flip through a Richard Scarry book and just yell out cars and see if Tim has a story about those too.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Let's go.

[Sufi Myers]

I got cars.

[Josh Meyers]

A pickle car.

[Sufi Myers]

I also. I was. When you were telling that story, you were leaning in so much. I was really getting flashes of the David lynch weather report. Very much the King.

[Timothy Olyphant]

He and I did that together, you know, on the radio here in la. I did the sports. He did the weather. You know that.

[Sufi Myers]

No, yeah. Really?

[Ike Barinholtz]

For.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Yeah, a few years on, there was an indie punk station here in LA.

[Ike Barinholtz]

131.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Yeah, 131. Thanks, Jack. And I did the sports.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah, I love it.

[Timothy Olyphant]

And when my claim to fame was. I'm taking way too much time, you know, my sports. David lynch weather story.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It's funny, I did. They did that. I did the traffic. I was, you know, I got my chopper and I would just kind of fly around the city and get flash traffic.

[Josh Meyers]

But your chopper, it was a motorcycle.

[Ike Barinholtz]

It was, yeah, yeah, it's a Harley. I'd be driving up and down the 405. It looks. Looks pretty up out here.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah.

[Timothy Olyphant]

You guys need a sports reporter on your family trips. I'll just come in and do the sports. You let me know.

[Josh Meyers]

Hey, I just realized you're wearing a late night shirt, Ike. Thanks for the support.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yeah, 34% of my clothing is late night with Seth Meyers base.

[Josh Meyers]

Thanks, bud. So we got good shirts.

[Ike Barinholtz]

We got the brand.

[Josh Meyers]

Do you guys want family trip sweatshirts?

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yes.

[Josh Meyers]

Okay, we'll get them out.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Yep.

[Josh Meyers]

Great.

[Sufi Myers]

That was it.

[Timothy Olyphant]

All right.

[Sufi Myers]

It seemed like it was a no from. From Tim.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Tim, I'm going to ask question again.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I don't like a lot of clutter. You know what I mean? No. I was just wondering if I should. If I wanted a gift wrapped, you know, size medium, I guess. Medium snow. What color is it? What color is it?

[Josh Meyers]

I'm going to wait for Josh to say goodbye because I feel like, you.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Know, I feel like he's going away happy. I feel like he's.

[Josh Meyers]

I do too. Now.

[Timothy Olyphant]

This put him in the holiday mood.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah. I usually like to keep him an hour. We probably went an hour 20 here, but I think the last 20 was where we really hit our stride.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Time to go.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Sweet spot.

[Sufi Myers]

Yeah.

[Timothy Olyphant]

I got swim practice at 10, guys. I gotta go.

[Sufi Myers]

All right, thanks.

[Josh Meyers]

They always call Tim to set an hour before they start shooting. Cause they realize it takes them a full hour to remember what he's doing there.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Now remember, you just killed someone.

[Sufi Myers]

And on that note, happy holidays, everybody.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Happy holidays.

[Josh Meyers]

Happy holidays.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Gentlemen, it was a pleasure. Just a pleasure.

[Sufi Myers]

Thanks, boys.

[Timothy Olyphant]

Thanks for having me.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Bye, guys.

[Sufi Myers]

Here comes Barinholtz. Isaac Barinholtz joining us on the pod. Says he used to run in snowshoes. That sounds pretty odd. Cause I know iken boy, I like him. He's my favorite cohort. But I doubt he runs about in any kind of snow sport. Now comes Tim's Oliphant. Timmy Oliphant with stories to tell. A family photo Christmas card that featured Duhamel lined up to go see the tree in order short to tall. And if there were 191 bad guys, Tim would kill them all. Oh, then there's Polar Amy Polar takes a polar dip, goes to Coney Island. So we're calling it a trip. Ike does something similar. He turns his shower to gold. Then something about his butt. It's a story that shouldn't have been told. Happy holidays to your families from every everyone over here wishing you great memories and a fantastic new year. Do some thinking while you're drinking on this holiday break. Find time in the calendar for a trip you'd like to take for a family trip to town.

[Ike Barinholtz]

Sat.