JUDY GREER Ate Shrimp For Breakfast

Summary

Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers: Episode Summary

Episode Title: JUDY GREER Ate Shrimp For Breakfast
Release Date: November 5, 2024
Hosts: Seth Meyers and Josh Meyers
Guest: Judy Greer

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1. Halloween Memories and Childhood Costumes

The episode opens with Seth and Josh reminiscing about their Halloween experiences growing up. Seth shares a humorous anecdote about his best Halloween costume:

Seth Meyers (00:43): “Somebody asked me recently my best Halloween costume and I couldn't remember were you or I a pile of garbage?”

Josh chimes in, recalling his own costume:

Josh Meyers (01:07): “I was in oven one year. It was pretty good.”

Their conversation highlights the imaginative and sometimes silly costumes they wore as children, reflecting on how their parents, especially their father, encouraged creativity during festivities.

2. Modern Parenting and Kids' Preferences

Transitioning from their childhood, Seth and Josh discuss the challenges of modern parenting, particularly concerning Halloween celebrations. Seth mentions the difficulty of coordinating Halloween parties as parents:

Seth Meyers (02:38): “Having kids who are bad at making decisions is so heartbreaking during Halloween.”

Josh relates to the sentiments, expressing his own reluctance to engage in costume preparations:

Josh Meyers (02:33): “I find it hard to care too. And I also now I'm at a point where... I'm like, I don't wanna have to put together a costume.”

They delve into their children's preferences, particularly Axel's unique choice to dress as an old lady, showcasing the diverse imaginations of their kids.

3. Guest Introduction: Judy Greer

The hosts introduce their special guest, Judy Greer, who joins the conversation to share her own family trip experiences. Judy provides insight into her upbringing as an only child and the dynamics of her family vacations:

Judy Greer (13:24): “I love it here so much. It's so beautiful and it smells really good.”

4. Judy Greer's Family Trips and Suburban Upbringing

Judy details her family's tradition of road trips to northern Michigan, emphasizing the simplicity and joy of these excursions. She reflects on her initial lack of exposure to more adventurous travels, such as trips to Disney or flying on airplanes:

Judy Greer (30:21): “We would take a week-long vacation and we would drive up north and they would rent some cabin on a lake...”

Her narrative underscores the value of familial bonds strengthened through shared road trips, despite the lack of glamorous destinations.

5. A Traumatic Family Trip: Near Emergency in Wisconsin

The centerpiece of Judy's story revolves around a particularly harrowing family trip to Wisconsin, which coincided with her 13th birthday. She recounts the terrifying experience when her father, suffering from low blood sugar due to diabetes, required immediate medical attention:

Judy Greer (51:17): “...my dad almost died. It was like, we were driving...”

She describes the chaos of waking up in the middle of the night to her mother's frantic instructions to seek help, leading to a frantic run to the main house and eventually the arrival of an ambulance:

Judy Greer (55:15): “And then the ambulance comes. I'm running. The ambulance is, like, following me as I'm running down the trail to lead them to my dad.”

The experience was rocky, culminating in a near miss with a deer and the emotional toll it took on her:

Judy Greer (57:16): “It was so traumatic, obviously. And it was, like, the worst family vacation.”

6. Reflections on Family Dynamics and Growth

Post-incident, Judy reflects on how the traumatic event impacted her and her family. She discusses the resilience her parents exhibited and how the experience taught her about responsibility and crisis management at a young age:

Judy Greer (58:01): “I was always hanging around with, like, some older second cousin. Like, it was always not. Not really that much.”

Seth and Josh empathize with Judy's experience, sharing their own perspectives on family dynamics and the importance of being present during emergencies.

7. Fun Q&A Segment with Judy Greer

Towards the end of the episode, Seth and Josh engage Judy in a lighthearted Q&A session, posing fun questions about her ideal vacations and preferences. Judy candidly shares her dislikes and loves, adding humor to the conversation:

Judy Greer (61:05): “I just drove across the country this summer with my friend who has the old kids and the baby... I checked that box and it was so cool.”

Her responses reveal her adventurous spirit and appreciation for family-oriented trips, contrasting with some of the challenges discussed earlier.

8. Closing Remarks and Final Thoughts

In their final moments together, Seth, Josh, and Judy reflect on the importance of family trips in building lasting memories, both joyful and challenging:

Judy Greer (70:06): “It's the great revealer. They say it's the Grand Canyon, but it's also the Grand Revealer.”

Their conversation wraps up with a heartfelt acknowledgment of the unpredictable nature of family vacations and the invaluable lessons learned through shared experiences.

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Notable Quotes with Timestamps

• Seth Meyers (00:43): “Somebody asked me recently my best Halloween costume and I couldn't remember were you or I a pile of garbage?”

• Josh Meyers (01:07): “I was in oven one year. It was pretty good.”

• Judy Greer (51:17): “...my dad almost died. It was like, we were driving...”

• Judy Greer (55:15): “And then the ambulance comes. I'm running. The ambulance is, like, following me as I'm running down the trail to lead them to my dad.”

• Judy Greer (57:16): “It was so traumatic, obviously. And it was, like, the worst family vacation.”

• Judy Greer (61:05): “I just drove across the country this summer with my friend who has the old kids and the baby... I checked that box and it was so cool.”

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Conclusion

In this episode of "Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers," Seth and Josh Meyers, along with guest Judy Greer, delve into personal stories and reflections on family vacations. From humorous Halloween memories to profound experiences during a near-fatal family trip, the conversation highlights the diverse and impactful nature of traveling with family. Judy's candid storytelling offers listeners a glimpse into the complexities and rewards of family dynamics, making this episode both entertaining and emotionally resonant.

Transcript

[Seth Meyers]

Hi, Bashi.

[Josh Meyers]

Hi Sufi.

[Seth Meyers]

Do you have trick or treaters?

[Josh Meyers]

Not really.

[Seth Meyers]

You live in a sort of walky area.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah, but people need to get into the building in order to trick or treat here. We have had them in the past, but it's very rare. It's almost like our New Hampshire situation, which is very different, but very similar in terms of number of trick or treaters. Right.

[Seth Meyers]

We were at the top of a cul de sac. You had to put a lot of work in to get up to our house.

[Josh Meyers]

Which is why mom always had full size candy bars for people who made the trip.

[Seth Meyers]

Yep. She appreciated the effort and would reward you as such.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Somebody asked me recently my best Halloween costume and I couldn't remember were you or I a pile of garbage?

[Josh Meyers]

I think you.

[Seth Meyers]

I think so too. And dad did an incredible job. Dad cut up strips of paper and. And made me look like a pile of garbage, which was a request I had made.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I know.

[Josh Meyers]

I was in oven one year. It was pretty good.

[Seth Meyers]

Good oven.

[Josh Meyers]

Good oven. I was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. I couldn't tell you right now which one I was, but. Yeah, you had some pizza.

[Seth Meyers]

You cared about them and I did.

[Josh Meyers]

Not about Halloween costumes.

[Seth Meyers]

No. About Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

It was weird. There's very few things where I think even that two year age difference, you caught the crest of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. I feel like now you've got kids, I feel like you didn't really care much for Halloween for maybe the last 30 years.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. And I would say I barely care now.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. I find it hard to care too. And I also now I'm at a point where I guess when I was younger, when I was more late 20s, I'd be excited for Halloween parties. Cause you know, it's like. Yeah, I don't know, it was just like more fun. Now if I get invited to a Halloween party, I'm like, I don't wanna have to put together a costume.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, we've got. We went to a friend's 50th that was costume based.

[Josh Meyers]

Uh huh.

[Seth Meyers]

And it was 80s costumes.

[Josh Meyers]

Oh, oh, right.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, that one.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And that was fun, but I was, I felt the burden of it. And then we're going to another 80s theme party for another friend's 50th in a couple of weeks.

[Josh Meyers]

Are you going to wear the same outfit?

[Seth Meyers]

No, I think because Alexi's going to go to this one. So we're trying to think of something we can do together.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah, that's good. Also, yours was inspired by the 80s at that 50th birthday party, but it wasn't 80s.

[Seth Meyers]

It was MacGruber, which technically is also MacGyver, but it mostly just looked like I was wearing a vest.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah, it was pretty bad.

[Seth Meyers]

Axel. Very exciting, because having kids who are bad at making decisions is so heartbreaking during Halloween. Just because Ash is going back and forth. Does he want to be a prince? Does he want to be a dragon? Does he want to be a knight? Like, it's all obviously in the same medieval realm, but he can't land on anything. Addy's kind of fine with anything, although she's kind of leaning into princess, which is great.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Axel, you know, he's the dreamer of the bunch. He's got the eye for flare. And Alexei the other day, took him into a Salvation army and said, just look around here and see if there's anything you think might be. And he found, like, a black pillbox hat with a veil on it, and he literally walked over, grabbed it. He's like, I'm gonna be an old lady, and. Ooh. So he's gonna be an old lady. And I think his cousin Agnes might be an old man. And if they actually stick with that, it's gonna be the best Halloween ever.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Cause he's like, I need a wig, I need a gray wig, I need glasses, I need a cane, and I will be an old lady.

[Josh Meyers]

That's really good. Do you think he has a good old lady voice?

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, interesting to be like, trick or treat. Trick or treat. I bet if you told him. Yeah, I think he can do that, and I'm glad you reminded me to do it.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. I think also they are familiar with Disney's Robin Hood, and Robin Hood has that old man voice when he's like, alms for the poor.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, tell them to watch that.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. For inspo.

[Seth Meyers]

We're about to get upon recording this in, like, an hour. I'm gonna get on the train with the boys, and this is their weekly screen time. They have two hours of screen time.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And usually they watch something together on an iPad, but recently they're having their split where Axl still wants to watch Paw Patrol, and Ash thinks Paw Patrol sucks, so I have to let Axel. I have to load up an iPad for Ash, and then Axl can watch Paw Patrol on my phone. But somebody just recommended, and I'm really hoping they like it, Phineas and Ferb, which I've never had any reason to watch, but somebody said, oh, that's Your kids are going to love that. So I'm kind of hopeful because I feel like they don't watch anything that's funny other than maybe Minions. And I really like when they laugh.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. The spongebob. Have they done spongebob?

[Seth Meyers]

It didn't quite take with them.

[Josh Meyers]

Okay.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

I don't. I mean, it was not my time for spongebob, but I feel like that was such a hit for so long.

[Seth Meyers]

And apologies to anyone on our train car because Axel does not. Cannot figure out that just because he's wearing headphones doesn't mean everybody can't hear him when he screams. He screams a lot when he's watching.

[Josh Meyers]

What does he scream for?

[Seth Meyers]

If there's like a surprise in a movie, he really screams.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Also download a great Mouse Detective. Do you feel like they'll like that one? Do you remember that one?

[Josh Meyers]

I don't know if I even remember that one.

[Seth Meyers]

It's like a Disney movie where it's like a Sherlock Holmes, but he's a mouse.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. I mean, it seems like it's in the wheels.

[Seth Meyers]

It's related to us, so we got that going. Also, I get pizza for the train. And I will say I look like a lunatic because I have basically, I've got my bag. I end up carrying the boys backpacks. I also have my niece with me, so it's three kids. I'm carrying a lot of shit. I also have pizza. I get a box of pizza. So I've got a. Which is unwieldy to carry.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And we're going to Grand Central. And I guess the other day I was. Ash told me I was running ahead of the three of them. And someone, he was very upset cause he heard someone say, like, oh, my God, that's Seth Meyers. And someone else said, why is he so far ahead of his kids? And I just think it. Ultimately, I have found my parenting style is like, make them afraid they're gonna lose you as opposed to herd from behind.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. Well, it's like ducks. It's like when you see ducks in a pond. Yeah. The mother's always out in front, and then the little ones follow. That's how they learn.

[Seth Meyers]

But, you know, the pizza thing works out really well. And the nice thing about pizza, you can just hand them a piece of pizza on the train. They eat the piece of pizza. And every week, you know, Alexia's. I've established an incredible mother. Puts health first, wants her kids to eat right. A little frustrated that they're having pizza once week and she Said, what if I made them soba noodles? And I just said, I think she could tell, like, the authentic pain on my face when I was like, I don't want to feed them noodles on the train. I don't want to be. They barely. Yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

They barely pay attention.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

To anything other than the screen right when they're watching. Yeah, yeah. The notion that they could also manipulate.

[Seth Meyers]

A fork in the necessary. This is 100%. This story is me in the seat in front of them, leaning back, feeding them noodles like they're birds in a nest.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

So I've held that P.O. also, I think when we first started doing it, I would get just like, you know, New York pizza. I would get some slices of New York pizza.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And then, you know, once again, I applaud her. Alexi found a healthier pizza place. But it's so funny. Cause, like, even the boys are like, what happened to that, you know, first pizza?

[Josh Meyers]

That garbage pizza?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, what did that happen to that garbage pizza? That was, like, good and salty and.

[Josh Meyers]

Are you doing full box? Are you doing a full box of pizza?

[Seth Meyers]

The current place we go are, like, little boxes. Like, if you think, like, they're like. So I get, like, three little stacker boxes. It's easier to carry than the. Than the New York. The New York pizzas. But.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And I'm going to tell you a little secret and maybe over order a little bit so daddy can have a pizza too.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. You know what I mean?

[Seth Meyers]

I let them have their first pass.

[Josh Meyers]

But do they give up the goat? Do they get to where you're going and tell Alexei how much food you've eaten?

[Seth Meyers]

As well, as you pointed out, they literally. I'm invisible. They pay no attention to me. Yeah. I could smoke a giant blunt. Speaking of giant blunts, I did watch what happens live the Andy Cohen show the other day.

[Josh Meyers]

Oh, yeah? Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And the other guest, Andy Cohen wasn't.

[Josh Meyers]

Smoking a big old blunt, was he?

[Seth Meyers]

No, the other guest was Snoop Dogg.

[Josh Meyers]

Oh, yeah, he was.

[Seth Meyers]

Snoop Dogg walked in. I've met. I've crossed paths. Is Snoop Dogg hosted SNL when I was there. Just an absolute gentleman. Great thing about Snoop Dogg as well. Huge Steelers fan. Loves talking Pittsburgh.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Loves talking Steelers. But he enters a room exactly the way you want Snoop Dogg to enter a room carrying a boombox. Now also has a giant team of people, any one of which I'm sure would be happy to carry the boombox for him. I think it means nothing to Snoop if he's not carrying the boombox.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Karrion Boombox playing his music. He's rapping along with it.

[Josh Meyers]

Mm.

[Seth Meyers]

And then he goes into his dressing room, and I just poked in to say hello, and I'm. You know. A cartoon joint.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Like a joint that if it was a Halloween costume, it would have to be inflatable. But what a great guy. And then his buddy, who's Snoop Dogg's unlikely best friend right now.

[Josh Meyers]

Oh, boy. I don't know.

[Seth Meyers]

Martha Stewart.

[Josh Meyers]

Oh, right, right, right.

[Seth Meyers]

And so Martha Stewart was our bartender. And what a night it was. There are times where, you know, obviously we've both been lucky enough to meet people whose work we enjoy on a creative level. But it is sometimes extra surreal when you're sitting with sort of an adult Snoop Dogg who is, like, thoughtful and reflective, and yet you also remember when that album came out, like, how the fun. The dumb fun you were having listening to it.

[Josh Meyers]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he is like, I've crossed paths with him a couple times. And I remember we were shooting this commercial, and he was, like, tied to a chair and was a hostage, and Julie Louis Dreyfus and Kumail Nanjiani were in the spot, and I had to give him an alternate line, and he had. His eyes were closed, and he was, like, fake tied to a chair. And I just whispered to him these couple new lines, and I came back, and the director's like, does he have them? I was like, I don't know. There wasn't much acknowledgement that I was even there. And I talked to him, and I don't know. And then you roll on the next take, and he delivers them perfectly. There are lines that have been written for Snoop Dogg to say, and there is no Snoop Dogg but Snoop Dogg. Like, he is so him.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

And that's what people love. Like, they don't want him to be anything other than what he is. And, man, is he what he is.

[Seth Meyers]

He really is wonderful. And he recently did a thing on the Today show, and some people at NBC said he came up with this really funny idea, which was to give the weather report, but just for cities that sounded like marijuana slang. So there's like, a blunt Missouri. And so he just was doing. And yeah, I mean, he's the best. It was really cool to see him. And happy Halloween, everybody. You know, I think this is gonna come out in the neighborhood.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And also spooky season. Full on a spooky season. And we'd love to put out before we get to the wonderful Judy Greer, another call out for listener stories. Submit your holiday listener stories, any holiday you celebrate from October through New Year's, to speakpipe.com familytrips or if you want to send your story via video for a chance to be on our YouTube channel, send that to familytripspodmail.com Happy Halloween, you spooky ghoul.

[Josh Meyers]

And here's Judy Greer.

[Judy Greer]

Family trips with the Myers brothers. Family chips with the mother. Here we go.

[Seth Meyers]

Look at. It's Judy Greer.

[Josh Meyers]

Hey, pal.

[Judy Greer]

Hey.

[Seth Meyers]

And Judy.

[Judy Greer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And you're in a new environs and you're really enjoying it.

[Judy Greer]

I love it here. I love it here so much. It's so beautiful and it smells really good. And the wallpaper that you cannot see that I am looking at that is in front of me is so cool. And as a compliment, I would like to say it reminds me of my grandma. And yeah, it's really nice and peaceful here at this studio.

[Seth Meyers]

This is Rabbitgren, who is our production company has invited Judy into their home.

[Judy Greer]

Because I cried when I got audio equipment shipped to me to do this at home.

[Josh Meyers]

You didn't ship it back. You're like, I just want to bring it to you. I want to put it in your hands and be done with it.

[Judy Greer]

I had such PTSD from the pandemic when I had to record things by myself when we couldn't leave the house. And I was like, can I just pay to go to a recording studio out of my own pocket so I don't have to set it up in my closet surrounded by sofa cushions and my bathing suit? And they were like, we can just send you to this. It's like, oh, okay.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, you. It's made a real difference because I feel like based on the way you're describing it, I would not want to be talking to bathing suit closet Judy.

[Judy Greer]

No, you wouldn't.

[Seth Meyers]

Did you? Well, we're so happy to be talking to you. You mentioned your grandmother. Were you close with your grandparents growing up?

[Judy Greer]

Ish. I mean, I was close to. So the William Morris wallpaper grandma, she actually recently just passed away. She was 95. But I think the super close stuff happened, like, as I was an adult. So I think, like, the last, I don't know, 20 years, we got closer because also she lived in Wilmington, North Carolina, or outside of it. And I shot so much stuff there, so I actually, like, physically was just around her more.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, that's a nice. I think that's a nice way to connect with a grandparent, like, to have an actual reason to be around them as opposed to I'm going to, I'm going to go visit you and I want to learn more about you. But if it happens naturally, I bet that's great.

[Judy Greer]

I think in general it's nicer to be around people in smaller doses than to force a week long visit. Maybe. I don't know, she was like pretty intensely independent and she. I remember her saying that she loved the pandemic because she didn't have to have anyone over anymore.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. That's nice. That's. I think that is maybe giving off a less classic grandmother vibe of my home as a warm and open place.

[Judy Greer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Which side of your family was she?

[Judy Greer]

Dad's mom.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay.

[Judy Greer]

Yeah. And it was. I remember saying something about my grandma to a friend of mine recently and he was like, you have a grandma? Like it is kind of. She was pretty old. Like she.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Judy Greer]

Anyway.

[Seth Meyers]

But yeah, I mean, I guess. Yeah, I mean I, I get. Well, you said late 90s, so that helps. But we haven't had a grandmother for years.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah, years. But our grandmother Addie made it to almost 100. She was 98 or 99. And grandma seemed like she was 100.

[Seth Meyers]

I think our other, my dad's mom, the first day I met her, I would have guessed she was 100. And even when you saw pictures of her on her wedding day, she looked like 80 and I think she's a 20.

[Judy Greer]

I thought my parents were 100 when they had me though. Like everyone seemed 100 when we were young, right?

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. But when I do the math of like where again, I had kids later too. So like when I'm like, oh my God, like my age now, like when I think about like where I was in my life and what my dad's age was, I'm like, oh geez, my kids. I'm an older dad at my kids school.

[Judy Greer]

Oh yeah. Well, my husband had kids before with this other lady. And if we had had our own child, he was like, it would be so weird because I would have gone from being the actual youngest dad at the school to being the oldest dad at the school.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. I have a buddy who just, he has kids. One of them's in college, the other one's like a junior in high school. And then he just had a baby with his new fiance and it's, I've got another friend and someone gave him a shirt that says dad or grandpa.

[Judy Greer]

Which is, wait, I need that shirt because my friend is 59 and just had a baby with his new and improved. Although I like the old one too. He Did a reboot with his reboot. And I mean, yes, he has three children from his first marriage, and the youngest is in college, and now he has an actual infant. I want to get the dad or grandpa T shirt so bad.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. I mean, it might have to be something that you just have, you know, made yourself, but I would imagine that. So a simple Google is probably.

[Seth Meyers]

By the way, if they sell it anywhere, it's in la.

[Judy Greer]

FYI, we, like, coined that. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Dad or grandpa was invented in la. My son, though, the other day, because I think he's clocked that the other dads are younger. He's very sweet, and he said, you know, you look really good for 50. And I was like, that's very sweet, but also, let's not talk about that.

[Judy Greer]

That's so cute that he said that, because in some way, he was like, somehow. I mean, he's already going to need therapy because he's, like, projecting and trying to take on your maybe feelings of that. Oh, that's really sweet.

[Seth Meyers]

It is, really. He's a very sweet kid.

[Josh Meyers]

He's going to give therapy no matter how.

[Judy Greer]

I'm a big fan of therapy. My husband is older than my dad was when my dad retired. But, like, my dad retired young. First of all, to be fair to my husband, he retired pretty young. But, like, my husband's older than that age. And I remember when my dad retired, and I was like, whoa, like, he's going to die soon. Like, he retired, but.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Judy Greer]

But now. Yeah. Husband.

[Josh Meyers]

Why did he. Why did your father retire early?

[Judy Greer]

Well, just because he could. I'm so glad you asked. This is actually what I wanted to talk about when I came here today. He was an engineer at Ford Motor Company, and it was like Don Draper times. When he started, like, every. Every man had, like, an assistant. Like a secretary, right? Like, they had. Like, each engineer had their own secretary. And then as time went on, it was like, oh, maybe you guys can. Like, maybe four guys can share one secretary. And, like, oh, maybe you guys could have, like, one secretary for the floor of engineers. And then it was like, actually, we're going to move you all out of your offices into this, like, big open space. And it was kind of, like, trending in that direction. And so things were just changing. And then they had a lot of young new engineers coming in, and so then they gave the older engineers these opportunities to retire early. And so my was like, I'll take it.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah, that's what our mom did that as a teacher. They were like, hey, there's like the first three of the sort of older set. If you're willing to walk out the door. We got like bonuses A, B and C. And if you're the first one, it's a bigger bonus. And I feel like.

[Seth Meyers]

And I'll tell you how that conversation goes. Josh, you be the administrator and I'll be mom.

[Josh Meyers]

Start the conversation. Well, we're offering a package.

[Seth Meyers]

Yes. What did your dad have? A robust post retirement life. Because our dad just retired very late and I think everybody, the two of us and our mom were all very concerned about how, what his life would be like without a job. Did your dad thrive in retirement?

[Judy Greer]

Yes, now. But at the time he had this big idea. It's sort of heartbreaking, but he had this idea that they he wanted to like do like he wanted a big wood shop and he wanted to like build things with wood with his dad who was at the time still alive. So my father takes early retirement. My parents move, move to this like house out in the country outside of Toledo, Ohio. And like to say like you would even think it was Spain. Listen to me and look at me. I like have to say Ohio. Like there's any chance in the world.

[Seth Meyers]

That I especially like. Where did you start? He was an engineer, a Ford engineer in Detroit. Which Toledo do you think I'm talking about?

[Judy Greer]

I think. Okay, so we are in Ohio, not Spain. Yeah. So then they buy this like country house and my dad has this huge barn that he turns into an amazing workshop. And he's like going to build wooden things with his dad, my grandpa Evans, who I loved so much. And then get it all set up. And unfortunately like my grandpa passes away and so now my parents are living in the middle of nowhere. They don't know anyone, they don't have a lot of friends. He has this big workshop. He's very depressed because he lost his father and now he's retired and he's dragged my mother out of her mind and she's like, you gotta get a job, dude. And so of course he gets a job at the local Home Depot. And so that becomes his like retirement. Hobby job. Hobby job, I guess.

[Josh Meyers]

Is he still working there?

[Judy Greer]

They have moved a second time to another town in Spain, I mean Ohio.

[Seth Meyers]

And he does move to Barcelona, Illinois.

[Judy Greer]

Yeah, they're in now town called Cary, Ohio. And he works at, at the Ace Hardware store there. So he just like.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, he couldn't shake it. He's a working man. He couldn't shake it.

[Judy Greer]

He loves it. Yeah. And it's good for my Parents to not be in the same house all day long.

[Seth Meyers]

I think that was the real fear, as much as mom said she was worried about, like, Dad's sense of purpose without work. It definitely was just him being around more.

[Judy Greer]

Yeah. That he's around. I know.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. Well, then our parents built, like, a little addition onto basically just their master bedroom. So now our mother has a chair where she can go read, and she calls it Gray Gardens. And anytime my father, I think, is bothering her, she just says, all right, I'm gonna go read. And our mother can read for four hours at a clip and just disappear into whatever it is. Yeah, it's pretty good.

[Judy Greer]

My mom reads one book every day.

[Seth Meyers]

Amazing. Wow. Yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

Our mother is prolific as well. She's not a book a day, but she tears through them.

[Judy Greer]

But I don't think my mom retains anything.

[D]

Mm.

[Seth Meyers]

That's. Am I well. So our mom writes down a grade for each book. And the great thing about our mom is it's a 1 to 10 grade, but based on the grades she's really grading from 8 to 10, it's so rare for anything. And I think that, like, speaks to what a lovely reader she is. She never wants to burn an author.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. And she will. I feel like an 8 if I'm looking for a recommendation. If she has eights on her list, she won't give those to me.

[Seth Meyers]

No. 100. When she describes an 8, she's describing a 2 or a 3. And then you say, what did it get? And she says, an 8. She's like, I didn't like the characters. It fell apart right away. Grammar was bad.

[Judy Greer]

What did she teach?

[Seth Meyers]

She was a French teacher.

[Josh Meyers]

A middle school French teacher, but yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Judy Greer]

Whoa. Does she, like. I mean, I would be so curious what her tens are. Do you know any tens off the top of your head?

[Seth Meyers]

That's such a good. I mean, they're constant tens. I'm gonna find out. We'll get you my mom's list of tens.

[Judy Greer]

I would really like. Yeah, the list of tens.

[Seth Meyers]

Hey, we're gonna take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support for family trips comes from Airbnb. Hey, Baji.

[Josh Meyers]

Yes, Sufi.

[Seth Meyers]

We got our Pittsburgh trip coming up.

[Josh Meyers]

We do. I'm fired up. And one of the reasons I'm fired up is because once again, we have booked an awesome Airbnb, and we're just going to be hanging out in one of Dad's old neighborhoods. Dad's old stomping grounds.

[Seth Meyers]

Look, we used to stay at hotels. It was Great. No complaints about it. But this is something special because we're a family. And I feel like last year at our Airbnb, it felt like the way we were family when we were growing up. We would all just meet downstairs, we would get some bagels from a local place down the street, brew some coffee, and we were just ready to face the day.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. And if you, you know, if we're out and about and we get home, you might want to just throw on the TV and see if there's a game on or play some Scrabble, play a board game and just be in that shared space and be together. Be in a home away from home.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Josh Meyers]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Josh Meyers]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Seth Meyers]

What were your sibling situation did you have?

[Judy Greer]

Not that I know of. No. I mean I've never done any of those DNA tests but.

[Josh Meyers]

But there were no siblings living in the house?

[Judy Greer]

No.

[Josh Meyers]

Okay. Because that would have been a dead giveaway.

[Judy Greer]

There was this other lady who was there. No, she. I didn't know if she was another mom or an older sister. No, there was just me and I wanted and still do, let's be honest, so desperately a sibling. And I used to lie to my babysitters and say I had this older sister, but my parents and her had falling out and that's why there's no photographs of her anywhere because they got rid of everything to do with her because they just hate her. And I mean my babysitters are like, uh huh, sure, yes, but yeah, no, some depending on who you ask and the time of day, I was an accident or they just didn't want any more than one.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.

[Judy Greer]

Does it.

[Seth Meyers]

And were you close with your parents?

[Judy Greer]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think we were really close. I mean therapy's undoing a lot of that, but. Right.

[Seth Meyers]

Therapy is teaching you that you were not in fact close. And it was all.

[Judy Greer]

Turns out I hated them. No, no, we were really close growing up. It was kind of hard not to be because it was just the three of us and my mom is very communicative.

[Josh Meyers]

Were you always dinner at the table together?

[Judy Greer]

We were breakfast at the table. Okay, so we did breakfast together almost every morning and then dinner was sort of haphazard. Often my mom is. I hope she doesn't listen to this. Was a lot of times microwave popcorn.

[Seth Meyers]

That was dinner.

[Judy Greer]

Working folks, you know.

[Seth Meyers]

So what age were you when you guys moved to Woodshop, Ohio?

[Judy Greer]

I was out. I was already out.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay, gotcha.

[Judy Greer]

So Woodshop, Ohio happened maybe a few years after I'd moved. I know I was living in la, so yeah, a couple years after I left the house.

[Seth Meyers]

And you were a suburban like you were near Detroit?

[Judy Greer]

Yeah, suburban Detroit. Yeah, I went to high school in a suburb called Livonia, which is like basic. It's like somewhere between Detroit and Ann Arbor, if that means anything to anyone. And yeah, it was, you know, pretty at the time, like blue collar, normal suburb.

[Seth Meyers]

And did you Guys, what would you do for. Were you a road trip family? Were you an airplane family road trip?

[Judy Greer]

I so rarely went in an airplane. And actually I was thinking about this when obviously getting ready to come here today because something that I, I bump, I'm like, I understand. And I didn't understand, like when I was little, we never, we always drove. So when you live in Michigan, there's like the Upper Peninsula, everyone just calls it up north. And so every summer my parents would take a week long vacation and we would drive up north and they would rent some. We would rent a cabin on a lake and the lakes in northern Michigan are beautiful. So we would rent a cabin on a lake and we would drive up to this cabin. So we're really 6ish hours in the car, something like that. Like near Traverse City, this place called Elk Rapids. Actually we went to quite a bit. But anyway, we would drive up north to a cabin on a lake or a house on a lake and we would stay there for a week and then we would drive home. And that was our summer vacation for the most part. But I never understood, I was like, why I've like never been to Disney. I have no ties to Disney anything. Like, my parents never took me there, we never went to Europe, we never got on airplanes, like ever, ever, ever. Like to go on an airplane was so bananas and, and now looking back on it, I was sort of resentful growing up because I was like, I haven't traveled anywhere. Like, I have never been anywhere that you couldn't drive to in a car. But now I like, as an adult, I just, I get it. Like it must have been, I mean, you're just tired, right? Like all the time. And the idea of having to go somewhere and like when you really travel, like when you take a trip and do stuff, like it's kind of exhausting, you know, like if you're a tourist and like I can imagine now, like I want to just go sit in a cabin on a lake. Like, nothing seems better to me than just sitting and staring at a lake for a week. But I didn't understand at the time, like why we couldn't go to more adventurous, exciting places.

[Seth Meyers]

But also, and just the idea of like a road trip sounds arduous, but it's so much easier than an airport.

[Judy Greer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And just like a six hour drive.

[Josh Meyers]

Is like try, try getting on an airplane to go somewhere and having your total time of driving to the airport, getting on the plane, getting off and driving to where you're going. If you can do that in under six. Like, that's a short time.

[Judy Greer]

You guys have to remember I'm like 80. And so that was back then. It was like, not an ordeal. Like, remember how there wasn't, like, there wasn't security at airport?

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, yeah, no.

[Judy Greer]

Like you would just like park next to the airport and leave your car there for a week and like walk to the gate and then get on a plane. So at the time it wasn't like the way it is now. Like now from Los Angeles to go to Phoenix. I'm never not, like, is it easier to fly or drive? Like, that one is a real toss up for me because we just had a wedding in Phoenix over the summer and I was saying to my husband, I was like, we should just drive. And he's like, what, you're mad? And I was like, no. Because by the time we go to the airport and we go through all this shit, can I swear?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Judy Greer]

To get on this fucking plane. And then we fly and then we get off the plane. I mean, like, Judy, calm down. Like, we get on the plane, you get off the plane. You have to get on the shuttle to get the rental car. It's like, I'm like, just drive. We'll just drive.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah, yeah. But then Josh, it's like an eight hour drive, I feel like from la.

[Judy Greer]

It is longer than I thought.

[Seth Meyers]

By the way, Josh just got married in the Catskills.

[Judy Greer]

Ooh.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. And friends of ours, like, the day, I feel like the day before, who lived in Cleveland, basically were like, I think we should drive from. I think it's a seven hour drive because there was no real near airport. So they could have flown to Albany and then done a drive. And so they drove from Cleveland and they were like, it was great.

[Josh Meyers]

Oh, I didn't know they did that.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, they just got in the car, like, listened to podcasts and said, and again, also, I think when you have children, doing a long drive without them is also like dreaming that's your Disney World.

[Judy Greer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

You know, that's.

[Judy Greer]

I just drove across the country this summer with my friend who has the old kids and the baby. We. After my grandmother passed away, we did a road trip. He met me in North Carolina after her memorial and I wanted some of her furniture. And so we rented a minivan and loaded it up with her furniture and drove it across country. Because he was like, I'm going to have this baby and I'm never going to be able to do anything again. And then I'm going to die. And so his New. The reboot wife was like, yeah, you can do it. You can drive across country with Judy. And so we did this road trip and I've. In all of my years, I've never done a cross country road trip. So I checked that box and it was so cool.

[Seth Meyers]

Were you ever bored or did you love the whole time?

[Judy Greer]

I loved it. I mean, I was never bored. It's like, really, there is something kind of like the monotony is. Is like meditative. But I think I'm at an age where I do enjoy just like that mellow, like staring out a window for two hours and just kind of then being like, oh, like it's been two hours. I don't know. I can, like, and meeting all the people and like, you know, where you stop and spend the night and seeing the country and like all that stuff. It's so much different than just like hurrying through airports all the time. It's like, it was really nice.

[Josh Meyers]

Did you have a plan of where you would stop and stay or did you kind of feel it out as you went?

[Judy Greer]

He planned everything, but then told me I could plan some things, but then didn't allow us to do the things that I planned to do.

[Seth Meyers]

What were some of your. What were some of your overlooked plans?

[Judy Greer]

Well, I like thrifting and antiquing, and there was one city where he let me go to antique stores. And also I was like, like, but we have a whole minivan and it's not even filled with furniture yet. But the problem was we were trying to make it. We were going to. We were going to hear a lecture by this meditation teacher in Florida and it kind of like messed everything up. And then when we were in New Orleans, he really wanted to get these shrimp that at a restaurant that like opened really late in the day. And so then we had to like, wait around. And then it kind of messed up like the drive from New Orleans to my friend's house because we were also stopping in San Antonio dog sit for my friend overnight because she needed a dog sitter. And like, her dog's kind of difficult. And so I was like, well, I'll be doing a cross country road trip, so I could probably be in San Antonio on that day where you need that dog sitter.

[Seth Meyers]

How did that conversation start? You're on the phone with a friend who lives in San Antonio and they basically say, like. And then I got this whole dog sitting issue. Like, how'd it come up?

[Judy Greer]

Well, because I wanted to see her. She moved to San Antonio a year ago. And I was like, hey, if I can make it through San Antonio, will you guys be there? And she's like, actually, we won't because we have other friends and we're going to Austin for the night. But I do need a dog sitter for Bowie. And I was like, oh, okay. She was like, you guys can spend the night at the house and then just like, dog sit for Bowie. So that's what we did. And, like, it drove my friend. He was like, incensed that we had to do this. And that was the one thing, though, where I really put my foot down. And I was like, no, we are going to babysit for Janet's dog. This is important to me. And I am. I need to be a good friend to her and I miss her. And this is like a way I can and love her and help her from Los Angeles.

[Seth Meyers]

I feel so terrible for you that you had one bullet in your chamber that you got to use and it was to babysit Bowie instead of going antiquing in any of the major, or I should say exciting American cities you came in.

[Judy Greer]

I did go antiquing in Uvalde, which is like, okay.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, that's funny.

[Judy Greer]

Not the most uplifting place to antique because the big antique store is across from a memorial.

[Seth Meyers]

Sure. Yeah, that's definitely. You definitely haven't seen Uvalde in many headlines where it says don't miss the antiquing. Did you. How did Bowie do the night you dog sat?

[Judy Greer]

You said, he's a difficult dog, only meaning that, like, Bowie can't be around other dogs. And since they had just moved to San Antonio, they didn't have someone like that they had in LA who could watch Bowie and spend the night with Bowie. And then my friend Janet's mother in law does watch, but then she just got a new cat and Bowie can't be around a cat. And the mother in law, I mean, didn't want to spend the night. I don't really know the ins and outs of why they didn't, but I'm assuming it's just because they're still kind of new in town and don't have like, you know, their people yet.

[Seth Meyers]

But friend of the year, I think you were friend of the year for. How were the shrimp worth it?

[Judy Greer]

They were actually really, really good. I was so pissed about waiting around for these shrimp too, man. I was like, are you kidding? And the restaurant didn't open until 11 or something like that. And we had to wait that way.

[Seth Meyers]

At 11 o'clock at night or in the Afternoon.

[Judy Greer]

Afternoon.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay, gotcha.

[Josh Meyers]

In the morning.

[Judy Greer]

That like really cut into our drive time. And then we did get to the shrimp place and then when we walked in and there was like people in there eating, I like gave him the dirtiest look. I was like, dude, we could have been here at 10 eating shrimp. Like it was open.

[Josh Meyers]

What was the name of this shrimp place that was.

[Judy Greer]

I'm gonna have to text it to you. Cause I don't remember. It was in the store.

[Josh Meyers]

Morning.

[Seth Meyers]

It's called Morning shrimp. It's the only restaurant in America.

[Judy Greer]

Shrimp foam. Like no r but shrimp faux breakfast. No, it's not.

[Seth Meyers]

I will say I would be very excited about a food based road trip where I was with a person who was very stubborn about needing to stop at weird places to get off time zone food.

[Judy Greer]

Need to drive across the country with Ajay Sehgal because he will do that with you.

[Seth Meyers]

Do you think you would have had a worse time with someone else? Was this the perfect person to drive with?

[Judy Greer]

Yeah, I would have had a worse time with a lot of other people. I think it was perfect. I learned a lot. And yeah, it's funny. Like to do. It was weird to do. Like we're. We've been friends for 20 years, like really good friends for 20 years, but we've never spent longer than like, you know, I mean, we've worked together, but set doesn't totally count. But like, like spending more than like three hours or like a lunch or meal together. You know what I mean? It was like, oh, do you get.

[Josh Meyers]

A hotel room with like two queen beds so you can chat at night.

[Judy Greer]

Or you guys go to your own separate rooms?

[Josh Meyers]

I don't know.

[Seth Meyers]

I guess you have the whole, the whole day in the car. You don't need to.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Judy Greer]

And it was. And we were. Yeah, we have the whole day in the car and we got separate hotel rooms. And thank God for that anyway. Yes. But it was interesting because like definitely on day one we were like, oh wow, we're really doing this. We're really like in a car together.

[Seth Meyers]

Doing so many of my like people in show business that I know I met in New York. And so for years we were just New York friends. And I was recently in LA and I had lunch with Andy Samberg and then he drove me back to my hotel. And it was this thing where I'm like, we've known each other I think 20 years. I've never been in a car with you where one of us is driving. Like we've been in the backseat of a taxi. And it's so funny to know because again, the people you know from high school and college are in cars with them all the time. And I was like, I didn't even know you could drive.

[Judy Greer]

Yeah, like, it's a whole side of you. I just drove my friend in Atlanta, my friend Lucky, we were in Atlanta and I was driving us a lot of antiquing. I'm noticing we were going to another antique store in Atlanta, and I was driving and like, Lucky was even just saying he's like, not only like, you driving a car, but like, I'm just never in a car that anyone else is driving. Like. Like being driven for him is like, so crazy. But yeah, it is weird when you know someone in one way and then you're like. Like, did you ever have, like, daytime friends? And then your dayt sometimes become nighttime friends and you're like, we've only. I mean, I think it might be a girl thing where you're like, let's go and like, hike in bronze and canyon. And it's like someone that you get coffee with or you work out with or maybe you get lunch with. But then, like, there is a shift into nighttime friendship. And that feels like, whoa. Like now we're like nighttime friends.

[Seth Meyers]

Is it dangerous? Is there a little bit of dangerous to it? It's like, I feel like the stakes.

[Judy Greer]

Get a little higher, you know, I mean, like, the outfits change, the venues change, the people change, food changes. Timing, obviously. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Do you feel like you. Do you transition well to nighttime friend? Do you think the people who make the leap with you are satisfied?

[Judy Greer]

Not anymore. I don't think so. I think.

[Seth Meyers]

Do you now when you meet people, are you at the age where you're like. And just so you know, we're not. This is not gonna shift into nighttime.

[Josh Meyers]

Or I'm gonna go home at 8:30.

[Judy Greer]

Yeah. I was thinking someone like yesterday, I was like, I like to begin the ascension, like the walk up the stairs of my. At 8:30. Like, the ascension begins at 8:30 and then like, lights out pretty early.

[Seth Meyers]

But our ascension, I think, is even earlier than that.

[Judy Greer]

Is it?

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Judy Greer]

We have such small children.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, the children. And they're just gonna. They're.

[Judy Greer]

They're gonna be when they wake up is not.

[Seth Meyers]

They do not care about when you ascended. Their mornings are not, basically, no.

[Josh Meyers]

I feel like the last time I crashed at your apartment, Seth, I, like, had just gotten to town and you guys were like, all right, we're going to bed. And it was 7:00. And I was like, I'm in, like, New York. And I'm like, staying here. I don't know what I'm gonna do with myself. But it feels weird for me to go to bed at 7pm When I've just arrived.

[Judy Greer]

And aren't you on the West Coast? So that's like 4pm Yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

I feel like I went out and walked around a little bit, but it was like, very cold and I had no purpose.

[Judy Greer]

Or you were like, I'm just. Like, I'm just gonna force myself to do a thing. Cause I'm here now.

[Josh Meyers]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Josh Meyers]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Judy Greer]

Woo.

[Josh Meyers]

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[Seth Meyers]

Did you. When do you remember the first time you were on a plane?

[Judy Greer]

I went with my mom. She took me. Her best friend Joan had a timeshare. Not to brag in Miami.

[Seth Meyers]

And timeshare was. I should say, like, that was the sexiest word when you heard people had timeshares.

[Judy Greer]

Yeah, I thought that's where grownups went to have sex. Like, that's 100%. When I was little and someone was like, we have a timeshare. And I'm like, what?

[Josh Meyers]

Go get.

[Seth Meyers]

You must have a lot of kids.

[Judy Greer]

Holy shit, you guys. But I also, like, timeshare is, like, such a thing of our generation, like, knowing what that is, even. But, yes, my mom's friend Joan, who was single, by the way, had a timeshare in Miami. And so for spring break, my mom and I flew to Miami. That might not have been my first time on the plane, but that's my first memory of being on a plane. And. And I just remember Joan sat in the back because she was a smoker.

[Seth Meyers]

Wow.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. And then what was. What was the Miami hang like?

[Judy Greer]

It was pretty great. I mean, Miami was awesome. And I. And she. Her timeshare was right on the ocean. It was. There was so many apartments everywhere. I also, like, don't even think I'd ever stayed in an apartment before. And I could stare at the ocean, and I would wake up early and just, like, look at it, and it was so incredible. And then one day, I remember this very vividly. I was looking out at the ocean from the balcony, and my mom was sitting on a bench in front of the ocean underneath a palm tree. And a coconut fell off of the palm tree onto the sand near her, which, at the time, I was like, whoa, that's crazy. And then I remember, like, fast forward to me being an adult and living in a shitty one bedroom here in Hollywood and, like, and having, like, yogurt that had facts on it. And, like, the fact on my yogurt of the day was that more people die every year from getting hit in the head with a coconut than a shark attack. And I was like, oh, my God. Like, I watched my mom escape death when I was little, and I had no idea that I could have seen my mom die. Like, I could have been watching my mom, admiring my mom sitting in front of the ocean, taking some time for herself, and then watched her get killed by a coconut or whatever thing. I mean, it's a coconut, right?

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Is it funny how you. If it had been. If she'd almost been killed by a shark, you would have remembered it, Whereas it took a yogurt container to tell you how harrowing that moment of it.

[Josh Meyers]

And if she had been killed, you almost would have rooted it for it to be a shark attack over a coconut.

[Judy Greer]

Yeah, 100%. Like, to, like, actually, I mean, I guess not for my mom, because that probably would have been really awful. Like, I guess if you were going to ask me, would you rather die by a shark? Attack or just have a coconut fall on your head, I guess.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, yeah, you'd rather coconut, but I think you'd rather tell people shark.

[Judy Greer]

I think when this is over, I'm going to text my inner circle and say, if I happen to die in a boring way near an ocean, will you please just say it was a shark attack?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, please. I think you can't tell a person, you know, my mom died from a coconut. And not. I think if you heard that, it's almost impossible not to make the sound effect in your head of what that.

[Josh Meyers]

Like, whatever.

[Judy Greer]

Like, the second.

[Seth Meyers]

Whatever the noise.

[Judy Greer]

She didn't know she survived. She's still with us. In fact, I talked to her right before this because I was asking her if I was allowed to share a story about my dad on a podcast. And then she's like, oh, the one where he blank? And I was like, what are you talking about? No, that happened, too. And she was like, yeah, that happened. And I was like, mom, oh, no, that's not my memory of it. No, I'm not telling that part of the story.

[Seth Meyers]

So, wait, so it was the same story, but she had a part that was even more farther afield of what you were willing to tell us?

[Judy Greer]

Yes. And do you have this with your parents? Parents, where you, like, things unfold as you age? Like, things that you were like, oh, remember when you were, like, walking me to school and that guy was like, hey, what's up? And then as you get older, you're like, oh, yeah. He had just exposed himself. Oh, yeah. Like, he was, like, a serial killer on the loose. Oh, yeah. After I dropped you off at class, I called the cops and they arrested him, and he'd been the one killing, like, all the people. Like, not that that ever happened to me.

[Seth Meyers]

I think that happens to everybody.

[Judy Greer]

I mean, I am from a suburb of Detroit, but they. But that, I feel like, is often the case with stories with my parents where I'll be like, hey, mom, like, can I tell the story of when we went to Wisconsin for that family trip? And yes, then she proceeded to share another piece of information about that that I didn't know. And I was like, so what was.

[Seth Meyers]

The first part that you were asking to share with us?

[Josh Meyers]

Well, because it sounds like that one's safe to tell.

[Judy Greer]

I wanted to share. Obviously, we're talking about family trips. And so since my family trips were, like, generally, like, drive up north and sit. We did have this one family trip that went really badly because my dad almost died. And it was like, we Were driving. I think our end game was like, a lake in Minnesota, so we weren't really veering far off of our units.

[Seth Meyers]

It would seem like that's a safe place to go. No coconuts?

[Judy Greer]

No coconuts in Minnesota.

[Seth Meyers]

No sharks?

[Judy Greer]

No, no, no sharks. Leeches, apparently. Weird water skiing accidents. But anyway, so we're driving to Minnesota via Wisconsin and some random. I shouldn't say random, but apparently a relative of mine either owned or worked at this sort of like Dirty Dancing kind of in my memory. Okay, my memory is. It is like a Dirty Dancing kind of style resort where it was like a big, huge, like, house and like, main building and then all these little, like, cabins, like, dispersed throughout the woods. And so we were going there for like, one or two nights to visit this cousin or second cousin of my dad's. And it was in Wisconsin, and it happened to be on my 13th birthday. And let me tell you, I was a very late bloomer, so it could have been my 10th birthday. If you saw a picture of me, like, you would never know. So I'm just like. I'm just like, actually praying to God that, like, I'll grow a boob or, like, a pubic hair or just anything at all. Like, I just want to be like a regular 13 year old. And. And this was a big deal trip because being an only child, it was always like the three of us in a hotel room, right? Like, always. And so on this trip, my parents were like, we have a surprise for you. We've got you your own little cabin. And I was like, oh, my God, it was just the greatest. I mean, to this day I remember just, like, thinking, like, I don't know if we can afford that, but I'm not saying a word about it. This is so cool. Not really putting together that, like, we were relatives with the person who owned the place. So probably, probably we weren't paying for any of it. But I got my own room. And that was so badass. And so it was like this dinner up at the big lodge building. And then it was after dinner and my parents and this cousin were, like, having drinks in the main dining room. And I was like, I'm gonna go to my room. And I brought, like, a stack of fashion magazines. And I just had the best night. Like, I took a bath and I was reading fashion magazines and, like, preparing for teenagehood because I was. Was 13 now and, like, everything was going to change. I was going to become popular and beautiful. It was like a movie. Like, I thought, this is what happens. Like, this is my makeover moment. And I had the best night of my life. I go and I like tuck into bed in my very own hotel cabin room. And I'm sleeping soundly and all of a sudden I'm like woken up and there's this banging on my door. And my mom is screaming like, open, open, open. And I open the door and my mom is there and she's frantic. It's not funny, I guess now it's been so long. And my dad is totally fine. My father is diabetic. He's like diabetic his whole life. So my mom's banging on the door. She gets me to open it. She's like, you need to run up to the main house. There's no telephones. Like, run up to the main house and scream for help. We need an ambulance. Your dad is sick. And I'm like, what? And I'm in a nightgown and I don't even know. And it's so dark and I'm like running up to where I think this big building is and I like open the door and I go in and I just start screaming like, help, help, help, help, help. And like, no one's coming and no one is. And I'm like, I don't know what to do. And I don't, I don't know how to do this. I don't know how to call an ambulance in the middle of the woods in Wisconsin. And I'm screaming for help. And then my mom runs in like a few minutes later and she just runs, like right behind the desk, the front desk where no one is. And she grabs the telephone and dials 911 and gets ambulance. And of course now I'm just like, oh my God, duh. Like, I'm so stupid. Like I am so stupid. I am not ready for adulthood. I didn't even think to like find a phone to call 911. Like I am an actual idiot. And so then my mom's like, wait here. And when the ambulance comes, show them where to go. I'm going back to your dad. I should also mention my mom's a nurse, so there's like a tiny bit more security in the situation. Knowing that she's.

[Seth Meyers]

And it makes sense why she would stay with him and send you.

[Judy Greer]

She's like a trained medical professional. So she's with my child.

[Seth Meyers]

I can do medicine. You do phone.

[Judy Greer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And yet it turned out you can't do phone.

[Judy Greer]

Can't do phone. Can't do phone. Don't have a life threatening Emergency around me. Anyway, the ambulance comes. I'm running. The ambulance is, like, following me as I'm running down the trail to lead them to my dad. They pack him up in the ambulance. They throw my mom and me in the passenger seat of the ambulance. I'm sitting on her lap. We're racing through the sort of woods in Wisconsin. And, like, out of nowhere, of course, comes a deer in the middle of the road. And the headlights are shining on the deer. And, like, we slam on the brakes and, like. I mean, I'm, like, hearing, like, a. Like a back of the ambulance. Like, have they not strapped him down? We don't hit the deer, thank God. We get to the hospital. They rush him in. I don't know what they do for him back there, but I hear him, and he is, like. He's, like, coming to. And anyway, this is, like, the messy part. And. And anyway, like, I'm just, like. Now I'm sitting by myself in the waiting room of the ER in this hospital in Wisconsin, and I'm, like, shaking. And I can't believe, like, I'm like, I almost killed my dad. Like, I couldn't even dial 91 1. And it turns out, obviously, my dad is totally fine, and he just, like, he just got really low blood sugar. And that happens to diabetics all the time. But it was, like, so traumatic, obviously. I mean, still traumatized by this. And it was, like, the worst family vacation. I mean, I know you've had some really crazy stories in my world. That was like.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, that's terrible.

[Judy Greer]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

You don't have to feel bad about saying that one's bad. That's bad.

[Judy Greer]

It was so terrible. And it was like. Also because I thought, like, we're pretty fancy if we're not even going to Michigan. Like, we're going to Minnesota this year. And I have my own room in one of our stops. So, like, things are really looking up for me. Like, I think actually, like, this might be the turning point in my life.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Judy Greer]

And it turns out that it was not.

[Seth Meyers]

Was it the end of the trip? Did you guys. Was it like, let's all head home after that? Did you make it to.

[Judy Greer]

No, I think we still went. We still made it to the cabin on the Minnesota lake. And I learned a water ski. And my dad was. We stayed in Wisconsin for a few extra days. I remember him being in the hospital for, like, a day or two and visiting him there. And then he was kind of okay. I mean, that's the thing. Usually, at least it was with my dad, he would sometimes have low blood sugar. Like, never that level of it. But usually, like, you get your shit together pretty quickly, and then you're like, okay, need to take care of that.

[Seth Meyers]

But anyway, what was being an only child on a lake? Would you find other kids your age to hang out with?

[Judy Greer]

I was always hanging around with, like, some older second cousin. Like, it was always not. Not really that much. And I never did camp. I did do camp one year, but I wasn't, like, a go to the same camp every summer kind of kid, which I, like, a lot of kids do now, which I think is really cool. I have some friends that, like, they go to camp reunions, like, more than their high school reunions, you know, like, yeah, like, camp is pretty cool. I didn't do that. And it was usually. One thing about trips with my family as an only child is I was usually allowed to bring a friend. But then they would say, but you have to bring, like, one of your cousins. And I'm like, well, it's not really like bringing a friend now, is it? But it would usually be an older cousin, because then, like, a cousin my age, which would have been my cousin Mandy, who was my best friend when I was little. And we're still really close. Like, she was, like, too young to leave home. So then I would have to bring, like, one of my older cousins that I was less close to so I could have a playmate, which at the time, I totally didn't understand, but now I get it, because my parents need a vain. And I was probably like, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys. So they were like, let's bring cousin Tracy.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

So what would. If you were up north, Upper Peninsula, on a lake there for a week, and if you have cousin Tracy, like, what would you. What kind of trouble would you guys go get into? Would you go into town? Would you go out on the lake on a little rowboat? Like, what's.

[Judy Greer]

There wasn't rowboats. My dad had a boat, which was always a source of potential divorce between my parents because the boat never really worked. But they would, like, drive it all the way up to this place and get it in the lake. And then it wouldn't start. And then my dad would be mad, and then he would be mean to my mom and me because he was just mad at the boat. And then it was like the boat was a whole thing. Don't get a boat. Just, like, no one get a boat.

[Josh Meyers]

Did the boat have a name?

[Judy Greer]

I don't remember. It Was in the garage for so long, and it would, like, Was always in the garage. And, like, being in the Midwest, like, you kind of want your cars in the garage, but the boat was in the garage, and it had to be, like, parked at an angle because of the. The trailer it was on. It didn't like. Anyway, so the boat. So it was usually the trouble we would get in. Like, we would beg to go into town. Like, mostly just, like, swimming around. I mean, I was so boring. Like, I wasn't really a troublemaker. My cousins kind of were a little bit more troublemaker, but again, like, we would be in these, like, remote places, so it wasn't like we could, like, we're gonna walk into town. Like, that wasn't really an option.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Judy Greer]

So I don't. I remember once I ate a whole jar of olives, and I was so thirsty for so many days. That felt crazy.

[Seth Meyers]

That does feel like. I don't know, like one of those exposes you see on local news where they're, like. They call it, oh, Oliving. Kids are eating entire jars and then they're thirsty for days.

[Judy Greer]

It's like, pretty much. That was a crazy one. I remember that pretty vividly. You should.

[Seth Meyers]

I know. Look, we're not kids anymore, but you should start a TikTok challenge called Oliving. Oliving, and just. Yeah.

[Judy Greer]

And then see how many can you get. Probably someone will die, and then I'll get sued.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Judy Greer]

There was a lady who died because she drank too much water trying to win, like, a Nintendo 60 something on a radio station.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Seems like a weird game to, like. What was the fun part of drinking that much water?

[Judy Greer]

I don't know. I don't know. I hate water. I have to force it down my gullet every day. But, like, I remember you've always hated water. Mm.

[Seth Meyers]

Interesting.

[Josh Meyers]

We have a friend. Our friend Saskia hates water too. She says it's so boring.

[Judy Greer]

So boring.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. And, like, sparkling water.

[Judy Greer]

She'll do.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. Oh, wow.

[Judy Greer]

I know. I know. I.

[Josh Meyers]

What are you drinking throughout the day, then?

[Judy Greer]

Water. But hatefully, just unhappily, I'm unhappily drinking water. I will put things in my, like, nourishment hole that I know I need in there. But, like, I'm not happy about it.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah, but if, like, if you had your druthers other than water, what would your drink of choice be?

[Judy Greer]

Like, burning hot coffee all the time, probably. I like coffee and I like iced tea. I mean, it's not like I'm like, I wish I Could just have Coke. Well, I do love Diet Coke. I'm not going to lie. Like, Diet Coke from a fountain with a lemon wedge. If, if, like, if I was invincible, that would be great.

[Josh Meyers]

If you go to a movie, are you getting a Diet Coke? Are you getting a fountain?

[Judy Greer]

Yeah, I like a Diet Coke, but I also will probably get water.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, it's really, it's nice that you've conceded to the power of water.

[Judy Greer]

Like, the Diet Coke is a real treat. And I do find when I'm working, I will have more Diet Coke on set. So then when I'm not working, I'm like, all right, just like simmer down with all the garlic.

[Seth Meyers]

Do you in general feel like you eat worse onset?

[Judy Greer]

Uh huh. Who doesn't?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, just the very fact that it's like, hey, we're going to put some gummy bears out.

[Judy Greer]

Oh, don't with the gummy bears. It's my kryptonite. But like, also I, I love candy in general. And I find being on set you just, you get so tired and so like, you're so tired you just want to like, eat food, right? Like, it's like, it's not that I'm hungry, it's that I'm tired. But then I want to eat candy and then I'm like, oh God, I'm eating too much candy. This is a problem. I'm eating way too much candy. But then like, people on set will see how much I like cand and then they'll start like hiding candy in my props and I'll like go and like walk up to my mark and there'll be like a pack of skittles on my mark and I'm like, oh. And so then, and it's like so sweet and it comes from a place of love. But then I'm like just eating candy all day long at work. Yeah, I did this miniseries called the Thing about Pam and all the whole camera department was hiding Skittles everywhere on set for me. And I felt like a child actor, but I didn't care. I loved, I loved it. I loved those people.

[Seth Meyers]

I like it. So funny as an adult to like candy so much that other adults will like hide it to surprise you.

[Judy Greer]

I mean, I am in my 40s and I would be delighted every time I would open like my legal binder because I was playing a lawyer like in the courtroom scene, and I'd be like, well, it says here, oh. Or go to like sit in my chair, be like, oh, you guys, Swedish fish. I love a Swedish Fish.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. You know what they call Swedish fish in Sweden?

[Judy Greer]

Swedish fish.

[Josh Meyers]

Fish. It is.

[Seth Meyers]

It's true.

[Josh Meyers]

It's true.

[Seth Meyers]

You're a stepchild. How old are your step kids?

[Judy Greer]

They keep getting older, and today they're 24 and 28.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, my God.

[Josh Meyers]

And how old were they when you got married?

[Judy Greer]

Oh, when we got married. When I met them, they were 9 and 12, so I guess.

[Seth Meyers]

So you must have taken trips with them over the years.

[Judy Greer]

Yes. In fact, interestingly enough, when I met them, neither of them had ever been out of the state of California or on an airplane. And I was like, I couldn't believe it. And I just was like, we have to fix this right now. Where can we go on an airplane that we can do in a weekend? And I was like, vegas, obviously. So I took the kids to Vegas. That was our first family trip, the four of us. And it's actually kind of a fun. If you do, like, the kid version of Vegas, it's, like, super fun. Like, yeah, the casinos are crazy. Like, walking on the strip and seeing all that craziness is actually, like, very interesting and weird and, like. And then we went and saw a bunch of Cirque du Soleil shows. We ate great food. We ate, like, you know, giant ice cream sundaes and. And we had, like, this big hotel room, and it was really fun. Like, it was actually perfect. And they got to check both boxes. They got into the state of Nevada, and they got to go on an airplane, and it was super, super fun.

[Seth Meyers]

I think every kid's dream for, like, the new mom is like, let's go to Vegas, like, right out of the gate. Vegas.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. We like her.

[Judy Greer]

We like her.

[Seth Meyers]

You, like, show up. You're like, they've never been to Vegas. 9 and 12.

[Judy Greer]

Come on. You're serious right now. You've never been to. I'm like, well, obviously we're going.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, you shamed them. You were like, okay, I think we better go to Vegas, or else we're gonna have nothing to talk about.

[Judy Greer]

Why don't we not talk until we've been to Vegas, and then we'll start our relationship? It did seem random, but it was great.

[Seth Meyers]

That's great. It is, Judy. It's the best decision all the time, always. Thank you. Before we let you go, you do have to answer Josh's questions.

[Judy Greer]

Yes.

[Josh Meyers]

Some quick questions here. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous, or educational today?

[Judy Greer]

Relaxing.

[Seth Meyers]

Great.

[Josh Meyers]

Okay, we'll take today. What is your favorite means of transportation? Train, plane, automobile, Boat.

[Judy Greer]

Automobile.

[Josh Meyers]

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

[Judy Greer]

Oh, my God. The only thing I can think of right now is like a. Like a National Lampoon situation, like the chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo. But I don't feel like that's my final answer. Any family? I can't answer it. Pass.

[Josh Meyers]

Okay, Pass. All right. For now, it's the Griswolds, but.

[Judy Greer]

Griswolds, that's the word I was looking for.

[Josh Meyers]

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

[Judy Greer]

Can it be my husband?

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Judy Greer]

Okay.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah. Great. And I think you said you're from Livonia. Am I pronouncing that right? Would you recommend Livonia as a vacation destination?

[Judy Greer]

Oh, man. Can I answer that after the election? I. No. I. With peace and love. No.

[Josh Meyers]

That's no. Lia, our hometown is a no.

[Seth Meyers]

For us, it's a no. And we love it.

[Judy Greer]

Isn't it Pittsburgh?

[Josh Meyers]

No, that's my dad. Bedford, New Hampshire. Pittsburgh.

[Seth Meyers]

You should definitely go.

[Judy Greer]

Absolutely.

[Josh Meyers]

Go to Pittsburgh.

[Judy Greer]

I would choose Pittsburgh. And, like, I love Pittsburgh.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Have you. Have you. Where you've shot stuff twice?

[Judy Greer]

Two movies. Loved it. Loved it, loved it, loved it.

[Josh Meyers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

It's the best.

[Josh Meyers]

And Seth has our final questions.

[Seth Meyers]

Judy, have you been to the Grand Canyon?

[Judy Greer]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

And was it worth it?

[Judy Greer]

Not with the person I went with.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, interesting. They were so. They could not. They ruined the canyon. Yeah. Can I venture a guess that this was a joke? Gentleman, you would be right. And I guess that's when you know it's the wrong cat when he ruins the canyon.

[Judy Greer]

If you're with someone that their energy, their negative energy overshadows the Grand Canyon. Here's a hot take. Don't stay in a relationship with them for two years if that's the first thing you do. And that is like, if that is more of the memory than the Grand Canyon. Like, how about don't buy a house with them? How about don't be in a relationship with them?

[Seth Meyers]

I think that's a great. I think an early canyon date is a great idea. Yeah.

[Judy Greer]

Yeah. It's like my diner.

[Seth Meyers]

Like, if you have any sense that there might have a negative energy, get him to the canyon.

[Judy Greer]

Yeah, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Great.

[Judy Greer]

It's the great. It's the great, like, truth. What's the. Like a truthsayer or.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, it's the great revealer.

[Judy Greer]

The reveal.

[Seth Meyers]

It's the Grand Revealer. They say it's. You know, a lot of people say it's the Grand Canyon, but it's also the Grand Revealer.

[Judy Greer]

Yeah, it's true. What are you made of? Let's go to the canyon and then we'll talk about this.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, it was just wonderful seeing you. Thank you so much, Judy.

[Josh Meyers]

Also, you guys, you can catch Judy in the best Christmas pageant ever. Coming out this November 8th. Very exciting getting everyone into the holiday spirit, I imagine, because it's not out there.

[Seth Meyers]

Remember, if you got a weird dog, Judy will drive to your house. If you have a weird dog, Judy is available. We love you.

[Judy Greer]

I love you.

[Josh Meyers]

Thank you so much, Judy.

[Judy Greer]

Thanks for having me.

[Seth Meyers]

Bye.

[Judy Greer]

Bye.

[D]

A girl with her own hotel room. It was more of a woodsy cabin affair. Was it too expensive? She didn't care. The birthday girl. That's right, Judy greer was turning 13, flipping through fashion magazines. It was her world. But then it all came under, unfurled. Her mother said, your father is unwell.

[Seth Meyers]

He's.

[D]

He's feeling bad.

[Judy Greer]

Run.

[D]

Run and go get. Get some help.

[Judy Greer]

I.

[D]

I'll stay with your dad. So Judy ran up to the main house. Help. Help.

[Judy Greer]

Help.

[D]

Was all she could shout. But no one came. How in the world was nobody home? Her mom ran in and called 91 1. Judy felt such was something wrong with her brain. Her dad was okay. His blood sugar was low and no one blamed young Judy. And to Minnesota they'd go where she learned to water ski.