JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS & Sons Went Crazy Over The Abominable Snowman

Summary

Podcast Summary

Podcast: Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers
Hosts: Seth Meyers & Josh Meyers
Episode: Julia Louis-Dreyfus & Sons Went Crazy Over The Abominable Snowman
Date: December 9, 2025

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Main Theme & Purpose

In this lively episode, Seth and Josh Meyers welcome iconic actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus and her sons Henry Hall and Charlie Hall for a heartfelt, hilarious conversation about the Hall-Louis-Dreyfus family’s most memorable and disaster-prone vacations. Together, they reminisce about chaotic Thanksgivings, adventures from Scotland to the Serengeti, sibling rivalries, celebrity encounters, and the infamous "Abominable Snowman" meltdown.
The episode shines as a celebration of family dynamics—how travel mishaps and traditions become legend, and how warmth, wit, and a little madness make for the best stories.

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Episode Breakdown

1. Family Traditions & Pre-Guest Banter

[00:00–05:32]

• Seth and Josh chat about their own Thanksgiving routines, prepping for their annual family show, “fakesgiving” with friends, and family game nights.
• Observations on their parents’ evolving talk show chops—mom’s “barbs” and dad’s confidence.
• Set up: Julia and her sons are a dream “mom and two sons” combo for the podcast, all with deep ties to Northwestern (prompting plenty of college improv troupe “Meow” references).

Notable Quotes

• Seth: “We’ve had mother-daughter, married couples, sisters. This is a new combo for us. Maybe my favorite combo we’ve ever had...” (04:03)
• Josh: “When the mom is Julia Dreyfus, c’mon now.” (04:07)

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2. The Dreyfus-Hall Musical Tastes & Family Dynamics

[05:54–13:44]

• Henry Hall composed the theme music for Julia’s podcast; the creative process is playful, with honest feedback.
• Musical DNA: Dad introduced the kids to The Smiths, Paul Simon, and above all, The Beatles (except Julia’s father and Seth’s father, who both oddly disliked the Beatles).
• Family art obsessions: Henry is as passionate about The Simpsons as his dad is about The Beatles.
• Grandfathers’ tough love approach; the merits of having one hyper-supportive and one brutally honest parent.

Notable Quotes

• Henry: “My dad knows as much about the Beatles as I do about the Simpsons, which is saying something.” (08:37)
• Julie: “My dad…thought [the Beatles] were not just bad, but awful.” (12:06)
• Seth: “It’s nice to have one of each: a mom who thinks everything you do is great, and a dad who only gives you credit for the very top tranche.” (12:52)

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3. Julia’s Childhood Family Trips

[13:44–18:19]

• Grew up in NYC and DC; most trips were to “humid ski resorts in August” on the East Coast (“Trying not to get bitten by mosquitoes” and “trying to find boys”).
• Epic family trip to Scotland at 18—nonstop rain, culinary distress (“my sister needed to be hospitalized because she was so gaunt”), living only on “Cadbury vanilla ice creams with a chocolate stick.”
• Seth’s ill-fated Scottish castle auction: breezy, inedible food, and regrettable bidding.

Memorable Moment

• Julia: “We…went to ski resorts in the humid month of August. …Another activity was just trying to find boys, which I never seemed to find.” (14:30, 15:57)

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4. Disaster Thanksgivings & “The Sick Family”

[19:06–22:48]

• Thanksgiving in DC: family-wide illness, gelatinous gravy, undercooked turkey, toddler cousin with an epic “accident” that led to a comical but traumatic clean-up scene.
• Henry jokes his dad “still carries [him] like that to this today.”
• Parallel with Meyers family core “just the four of us” vacations.
• Safari in Tanzania: leader warns “no running—you are prey.” Both boys sick by midway (“We carry around a plague wherever we go.”)

Notable Quotes

• Julie: “It felt like a bomb had gone off…He’s taking her across the room, and she’s like, this, terrified.” (20:26)
• Henry: "We carry around a plague wherever we go." (22:56)

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5. Road Trips, Sibling Rivalry, and “Lighthouse College”

[30:02–33:38]

• Family road trips were rare (“Yosemite was a drive!”).
• Henry and Charlie’s five-year age gap: little tolerance when teens, but close now.
• “Lighthouse College” home game: Henry as mean wrestling coach, brotherly roughhousing channeled into elaborate imaginary university lore.
• Julia’s dry wit: “We shouldn’t have had Charlie.” (jokes about second-child trauma).

Memorable Moment

• Henry: “The funding at Lighthouse College was really thin…most of the professors had two jobs.” (32:35)
• Julie: “To be honest, we shouldn’t have had Charlie.” (33:29)

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6. Surf Trips & Competitive Brothers

[33:44–38:25]

• Henry just returned from a surf trip in Indonesia with dad; it’s their favorite “father-son time.”
• Charlie’s self-assessment: “I’m too tall for surfing” and too competitive to lose, so “I did the math… and went, basketball.”
• Julie never surfs, but supports from the sidelines and admits being “terrified” when she’s tried.

Notable Quotes

• Charlie: “I just think my center of gravity is too high. I’ll just…” (37:17)
• Henry: “Charlie is highly competitive… He did the math in his tiny brain. And he went, basketball.” (37:47)

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7. Travel Mishaps: Tarantula Nightmares & Jungle Dangers

[39:00–43:41]

• Jungle in Peru—worry about “fish that swim up your urethra,” constant warnings to boys.
• Encounter with a massive “pink toe tarantula” that landed on Brad’s back; quick, shirt-ripping response averts disaster.
• Julia: “If a pink toe tarantula bites you, it can cause impotence.” Endless family jokes about the abundance of private-parts-related travel threats.

Memorable Moment

• Julie: “If a pink toe tarantula does bite you, it can cause impotence.” (42:34)
• Josh: “A lot of dick stuff.” (42:40)

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8. Special Family Moments: Meeting LeBron, Mother’s Day Surprises, and Basketball Mania

[43:47–52:46]

• Hall brothers once surprised Julia in NYC for Mother’s Day (“I kept yelling 'Mom!' outside the door so I didn’t scare you!”).
• Julia took the boys to Portland to see LeBron James (“I would die for LeBron,” Charlie admits).
• The boys nearly missed a once-in-a-lifetime chance to meet LeBron due to nerves; dad Brad rallies them to seize the moment.
• Henry and Charlie deeply invested in college basketball, including Northwestern’s historic run (“We are trying to do this!”).

Notable Quotes

• Charlie: “I love LeBron in a way that’s certainly unhealthy. No question about it… The moment was too big for me.” (46:33–46:58)
• Charlie, about Northwestern’s victory: “That game… was the game where we realized that we were actually good.” (50:10)

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9. Holiday Chaos: Thanksgiving and the Core Four

[57:23–61:22]

• Thanksgivings sometimes feature 24 guests, with “Granny” at a mafia-style round table (“Godfather situation”).
• Julia confesses: “I’m not a huge fan of Thanksgiving—so much work for a 15-minute meal.”
• Notorious “sneeze on the pumpkin pie” incident: after a disastrous Thanksgiving, young cousin “covers” the one perfect pie (“You’ve never seen adults more mad at a six-year-old.”)

Notable Quotes

• Julie: “I’m not a huge fan of Thanksgiving. It’s an enormous amount of work for what is probably about a 15-to-20-minute meal.” (59:41, 60:28)
• Henry: "He sneezes all over the pie. Snot on the pie." (62:04)

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10. The Legendary “Abominable Snowman” Meltdown

[64:32–67:34]

• Y2K New Year’s story: after being denied staying up to midnight, tired 7-year-old Henry erupts in rage after his dad dismisses belief in the “Abominable Snowman”—threatening “I’m gonna kill you," sending toddler Charlie into a scream of “Don’t kill my daddy!”
• Julia, helpless and hysterically laughing, relives family’s greatest meltdown.

Notable Quote

• Julia: “Henry goes, ‘Don’t… I believe in the Abominable Snowman, Daddy…and that means you think I’m crazy. I’m gonna kill you.’ He starts screaming. At which point, Charlie…starts to scream hysterically, ‘Don’t kill my daddy!’…It was the worst New Years of our life.” (66:49–67:34)

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11. Speed Round & Closing Laughs

[69:08–76:16]

• Vacation preferences: Henry and Julie pick “adventurous,” Charlie chooses “relaxing.”
• All cite “feet” as favorite transportation (with some flip-flopping for effect).
• Imaginary family trips: Julia, "the Simpsons;" Henry, "the Griffins," Charlie, "Coach Taylor’s family from Friday Night Lights."
• Stranded on a desert island: mutual rejections and motherly revenge (“So fuck you guys… I’m going with my sister Lauren.” (72:40)
• Infamous NYC dog poop era revisited; Julia pitches the city as having “less dog shit now than when I was little.”

Memorable Moments

• Julie: “Can I redo my pitch for New York? There’s less dog shit now than there was when I was little. I think that’s a selling point.” (74:46–75:01)
• Josh: “It’s sort of like people smoking and then just throwing their cigarette butts on the ground that…”
• Seth (riffing): “It looks like a cupcake with a birthday candle.” (75:47–75:54)

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Standout Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “We went to ski resorts in the humid month of August… Another activity was just trying to find boys, which I never seemed to find.”
  — Julia Louis-Dreyfus (14:06–15:57)

• “We carry around a plague wherever we go.”
  — Henry Hall (22:56)

• "If a pink toe tarantula does bite you, it can cause impotence."
  — Julie Louis-Dreyfus (42:34)

• “I love LeBron in a way that’s certainly unhealthy. No question about it… The moment was too big for me.”
  — Charlie Hall (46:33–46:58)

• “Henry goes, ‘Don’t… I believe in the Abominable Snowman, Daddy…and that means you think I’m crazy. I’m gonna kill you.’ He starts screaming. At which point, Charlie…starts to scream hysterically, ‘Don’t kill my daddy!’”
  — Julia Louis-Dreyfus (66:49–67:34)

• “So fuck you guys. I’m going with my sister Lauren.”
  — Julia Louis-Dreyfus (72:40)

• “Can I redo my pitch for New York? There’s less dog shit now than there was when I was little.”
  — Julia Louis-Dreyfus (74:46–75:01)

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Engagement & Tone

The tone is witty, playful, and unvarnished—with the Meyers brothers riffing and improvising alongside Julia and her sons, whose own dry humor and sibling energy fit perfectly. Julia’s candor, especially about parenting now-grown sons and enduring holiday chaos, keeps the conversation both relatable and riotous.

If you love family lore, generational gags, or just want to feel better about your own vacation disasters, this episode delivers warmth and laughter in abundance.

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Family traditions & intro banter: [00:00–05:32]
• Musical DNA, creativity, and The Beatles: [05:54–13:44]
• Julia’s family vacations & Scotland mishap: [13:44–18:19]
• Sickly Thanksgivings & safari woes: [19:06–22:48]
• Sibling rivalry & the saga of Lighthouse College: [30:02–33:38]
• Surf trips and Hall family competitiveness: [33:44–38:25]
• Peru adventure—tarantula panic!: [39:00–43:41]
• Meeting LeBron & basketball mania: [43:47–52:46]
• Thanksgiving mayhem (“snot on the pie”): [61:25–62:22]
• “Abominable Snowman” meltdown: [64:32–67:34]
• Lightning round & closing hijinks: [69:08–76:16]

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Closing

The Hall-Louis-Dreyfus clan proves that the best family trips are dictated not by flawless execution, but by togetherness, humor, and the willingness to turn any disaster into a cherished story.

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End of Summary

Transcript

[Seth Meyers]

Hey, budgie.

[Josh]

Hey, Sufi.

[Seth Meyers]

So we're recording this before you come out and do the Thanksgiving show with mom and dad? Yeah, it's an annual tradition. I guess this is the 12th year or the 11th year. Must be the 11th year. I don't know.

[Josh]

So however many years you've been on.

[Seth Meyers]

The air with that show, no way to know.

Do you. Do you look forward to this tradition, Pashi?

[Pashi]

I do.

[Josh]

I mean, I do get nervous.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh]

There's. There's always an element of nerves around it.

[Seth Meyers]

And I forget, like. I mean, you guys are so good for people who don't do this show every night, because even, like, you know, celebrities who come on talk shows who do other talk shows get nervous. It's a. It's a whole different thing. It's not a normal thing.

[Josh]

Yeah, I have. I know of, you know, a celebrity who would sort of Is a household name who has a couple beers before every talk show appearance, and it just sort of, like, eases them into it. And so I think. I think that's a wise approach, and maybe I'm gonna do something similar.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, we always hope we have a.

[Josh]

Drink on the show.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, we've drink on the show, but I think you can have a drink before the show at this point in our process of doing it. Yeah, mom and dad are probably gonna come with stories.

Mom, you know, mom's been red hot the last couple years.

[Josh]

Yeah. I mean, they're both so practiced at this point. Dad's like. Dad's classically growing up. You know, he was the storyteller.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh]

But mom has. She's got an edge that, you know, she has such a sweet appearance, but then she throws out some barbs.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, she's got, like, barbs.

[Josh]

It's a good way of putting it. I feel like the audience always appreciates that. I certainly do.

[Seth Meyers]

She. Dad is, like, so confident. He's surprised he hasn't been booked on, like, other talk shows.

That's kind of dad's vibe. Yeah, I'm very much looking forward to it. I think we're gonna try to get you guys to do a skit again.

[Josh]

Oh, great.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, that's a. That's an extra special part for me. And. And then we're gonna have our. Our fakesgiving.

[Josh]

Yeah, we've, you know, for years and years, we would have Thanksgiving with this family from Amsterdam, the Moscoses, first with just the parents, and then they had two boys who are now, I don't know, 23 and 21, something like that. We've been Doing it for a long time. And they have started coming to New York so we could have a pseudo Thanksgiving dinner that we do on Tuesday night.

[Seth Meyers]

Tuesday night. And I think we're 20 people strong this year.

[Josh]

That's amazing.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, it's a really good group, and I look forward to that. And it's very fun to be at a. At a Thanksgiving dinner that's a fake Thanksgiving dinner, because that way I don't have to invite my children. And at no point while I'm enjoying my dinner does someone say to me, like, try to get Axel to eat his green beans.

I like that.

[Josh]

I've also, you know, we've always played games with this family also, I should say, you know, my mother in law will be there, my wife will be there. But I have sent you a couple games which are arriving today. Okay. So just keep those on hand because Wednesday we, you know, we tape the show on Wednesday and then we go back to your house for sort of a double dip and we get some Chinese food and we hang out and play games. So hopefully that game night's gonna be a fun one.

[Seth Meyers]

Very, very much looking forward to it. We have had a lot of different accommodations of guests. We've had.

Mother, daughter. We've had married couples. We've had sisters.

This is a new combo for us coming up. Maybe. Maybe my favorite combo we've ever had.

[Josh]

Yeah, Well, I mean, the top of this pyramid is tough to beat.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

So you got. You got. We got mom and two sons already. Great. When then the mom is Julie Dreyfus. Come on now. Yeah, come on now.

[Josh]

And her two sons, which it's also, you know, one of them played basketball at Northwestern, which was huge for us. We were clearly rooting on.

This young man while he was at Northwestern, and that was very exciting. I do want to say as well, we mention meow in this episode, and I don't know if we ever are very clear about what it is.

[Seth Meyers]

Great.

[Josh]

But meow is the sound a cat makes.

Also, it's the college improv troupe. It's the Northwestern improv troupe that Julia was a member of and both of us were members of when we were there.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh]

And, you know, we certainly talk some Northwestern, but.

Julia and her husband, both Northwestern.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh]

And Charlie, mom and dad, both Northwestern.

[Seth Meyers]

A lot of Northwestern in this one. So if you. If you went to University of Illinois.

[Pashi]

Might not be for you.

[Seth Meyers]

We don't really have a rival. I was trying to think of, like, what Northwestern's rival is, and we don't really. Yeah. When you're not a juggernaut in sports, you don't really end up with. Yeah, it's who we play last every year, so I feel like that's the closest you can come. Yeah. Do please enjoy it. Thanks for listening, everybody.

[Narrator/Poet]

Family trips with the M.

Brothers.

[Seth Meyers]

Family trips with the M.

Here we go. Oh.

Hello, Henry. Hello, Julia.

[Henry Hall]

Hey, guys.

[Pashi]

Hi, friends.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm so happy to see you guys. I'm really. Josh and I are both hoping this will lead us to getting booked on your podcast, Julia, so just FYI.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yeah. Cause you're both 70 year old women, is that correct?

[Josh]

Have a lot to share.

[Seth Meyers]

Heart.

[Pashi]

I mean, I love your podcast.

[Josh]

As a approaching 50 year old man, I feel like I have a lot.

[Pashi]

To learn from these women as well, and I.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Well, you do, Josh.

[Pashi]

I do.

[Henry Hall]

Not me.

[Seth Meyers]

Has that ever occurred to you?

[Henry Hall]

I got nothing to learn from them.

[Seth Meyers]

Interesting, Henry. Interesting. And you feel like because you already know it or because they're just spreading lies. Which one?

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, you know, a little from column A, a little from column B. Yeah.

[Pashi]

And Henry, did you write the song.

[Josh]

Did you write the theme song to that?

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, yeah, I wrote all the music for it. Yeah. And recorded it with some friends of mine.

[Seth Meyers]

What is that process like, Julie, when you're getting first drafts of music from your son? Do you guys have a good back and forth creatively as far as, like, notes?

[Julie Dreyfus]

Well, I'd actually like Henry to answer that question. Do we.

[Henry Hall]

Honestly? Yes, absolutely. You've good. You have good taste in music.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Mom, are you bullshitting right now?

[Charlie Hall]

A little bit?

[Henry Hall]

No, no, no. I. I did my. I did my sarcastic bit about. About the wise old women. I don't think I want to double down.

[Seth Meyers]

You said that for. You knew you had one bullet. You just immediately walked into the saloon and just fired it into the ceiling.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, yeah. Just buckshot all over the podcast.

[Seth Meyers]

Did you, as a. Were you a family. As a musician, were you a family that agreed on music when you were growing up, Henry?

[Henry Hall]

Yes, my dad.

Luckily.

You guys showed me they should. You know, my dad showed me, like, the Smiths and, you know, the generation. It's not like my parents were listening to, like, Benny Goodman and.

[Seth Meyers]

Although Benny Jolson is good.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, yeah. No, no, no. Benny Goodman is good. Of course. But. But there's.

[Seth Meyers]

But again, remember, she talks to a lot of very old women. Yeah, right, right, right.

[Henry Hall]

But my dad was like, you know, check out the Smiths and check out Paul Simon and all this music that is. No matter what, you know, it's Evergreen.

[Josh]

Was there, like, an artist that was like the family artist? Like, for us, it would have been John Prine, probably.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Was there sort of.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Who were your touchstones?

[Charlie Hall]

Beatles.

[Henry Hall]

Beatles, Without a doubt. Yeah. My dad is like an. You know, he knows as much about the Beatles as I do about the Simpsons, which is saying something.

[Seth Meyers]

Right.

[Henry Hall]

And I'm a big Simpsons fan. And.

Yeah, Beatles.

Like a lot of that. Like, North England.

You know, early 80s. Joy Division.

Smiths, you know, Factory, like, music stuff. Bonnie Ray.

[Josh]

Bonnie Raitt.

[Pashi]

Yeah, Bonnie Ray.

[Seth Meyers]

Bonnie Raitt was the one person at the SNL 50th my wife wanted to meet and get a picture. With good reason. And with good reason. And it was one of those, you know, don't be your heroes. And if it's Bonnie Raitt, go right ahead.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yes, without question. Without question. I remember years and years ago. I don't know if you remember this, Henry. We went to some sort of a fundraiser and Bonnie was sort of headlining it. And, Henry, you came and she played guitar for a long period of time. And your jaw was on the ground. Do you kind of remember that or not really?

[Henry Hall]

I have to be honest, I don't remember that.

[Julie Dreyfus]

So, anyway, a huge influence in his.

[Seth Meyers]

I feel like that's. I mean, I would imagine, like, due to the life your parents have left, you got a lot of incredible experiences that would have resonated with a lot of other kids that just went, you know, in one ear, out the other.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, I hope so.

I hope I lack perspective. That's all I can really.

[Julie Dreyfus]

I will say something, that Henry.

Did a show in LA and a couple of the writers from Veep went to the show, one of whom was in Maxtone. Graham. I don't know if you guys know him.

[Seth Meyers]

Famous Simpsons writer as well.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Exactly.

[Henry Hall]

Bingo.

[Julie Dreyfus]

And he's actually a big fan of Henry's music. And he came and met him that night. And then afterwards, everybody was sort of hanging out. And I go up to these guys and all they're doing is. Is recounting Simpson episodes to one another. It was the most extraordinary thing to witness. It was so. It's charming, really, because Ian was enjoying the conversation as much as you were, Henry. Cause you were just, like, reciting Simpson scenes back and forth to one another. Do you remember this?

[Henry Hall]

Absolutely. We were being completely antisocial.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yes.

[Henry Hall]

And, you know, saying whatever.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, my dream is to be at a party and sort of a young, talented person just wants to talk about my work.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally, totally.

[Charlie Hall]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

It's funny, you Mentioned the Beatles because famously, our dad doesn't like the Beatles, which is just an incredible position to hold.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And I remember my best friend from college, Pete Gross, who was in Veep.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Oh, yes, of course.

[Seth Meyers]

And I remember we did an improv show once, and my dad was there, and he might. Dad was underwhelmed. He's also a real straight talker, and he sort of gave us the notes about how he was underwhelmed. And. And then my Pete goes, we do have to keep in mind, he also doesn't like the Beatles.

[Henry Hall]

Wow, that's awesome. That's an incredible safety net.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yeah. By the way, I had the same experience. My dad did not like the Beatles.

[Henry Hall]

Is that true, Mom? I didn't know that.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yeah. Big Pa was always telling Brad that he was wrong and that the Beatles were not just bad, but awful. Yeah, he thought they were awful. Yeah.

[Josh]

Did your dad also have some harsh notes about the Meow show?

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yes, as a matter of fact, he had harsh notes about the Meow show. He had harsh notes about snl. He had harsh notes about. He had very pleasant notes for all the other people I was working with.

[Josh]

Yeah.

She'S good.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, she's good. He's a genius.

[Julie Dreyfus]

That guy can. That guy knows what he's doing.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Julie Dreyfus]

That kind of stuff. It was really.

It was very healthy.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Well, it's good. I mean, again, there's a. I mean, I've always said, like, my mom was the one who was supportive of everything we did, no matter how bad. And then our dad only ever gave us credit for the very top tranche of work we did. And I do think it's nice to have one of each.

[Julie Dreyfus]

I guess. So. I mean, like, what is he like that you've done?

[Seth Meyers]

Well, you know, it's early in my career, so.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah. This is what, Year two, Seth.

[Seth Meyers]

Year two.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I think he was happiest. Much like I think a lot of viewers. I think he was happiest. When I found my way to the update desk. He was like, no more sweaty sketches for me, please. I'd like you just sitting in one place.

He's like, I like when I could tell you're reading stuff other people wrote.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Oh, God.

[Henry Hall]

It's proof that he's complimentary.

[Josh]

He's complimentary in the right. For the right thing.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Right.

[Josh]

I mean, we do. Charlie is going to grace us with his presence, I believe, but. So we'll get to some family trips that include all of you. But before he does, Julia, what were your family trips growing Up. Where would you guys go?

[Seth Meyers]

Where.

[Pashi]

Where did you grow up first? And then where would you go?

[Julie Dreyfus]

Well, I grew up in New York city and Washington, D.C. both.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Julie Dreyfus]

And we primarily went to Baltimore. Yeah. We primarily went to ski resorts in the humid month of August.

On the East Coast.

This is what I remember.

[Pashi]

Yeah.

[Josh]

No, please.

[Julie Dreyfus]

And then my parents. This is my mom and my stepdad, they.

Put together a really big trip for us to take when I was 18 and with my two younger sisters, and we went to Scotland, and it rained the entire time we were there. And.

My sister, who was nine at the time, my little sister Lauren, she refused to eat anything because, you know, it was like, scotch eggs and haggis and everything freaked her out. So by the end of the trip, she looked like she needed to be hospitalized because she was so gaunt. The only thing we could get her to eat were those ice creams, those Cadbury vanilla ice creams with the chocolate stick coming out of it that they do in Europe. So she ate a lot of those, but that was kind of it.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yeah, that's.

[Josh]

And these. The sweaty ski mountains that you would go to, what were the activities? Were you there to hike or just to enjoy?

[Julie Dreyfus]

Well, to try not to get bitten by mosquitoes. Yeah, that was one activity. And another activity.

Was just trying to find boys, which I never seemed to find.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, they were. Did they ever tell you they're here in the winter?

You should try. In the winter.

[Julie Dreyfus]

There was nobody. I mean, I remember watching Sonny and Cherry in a rental cabin. I remember watching the Sonny and Cher show, and that was really fun. That part of it.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, it's good to have highlights.

[Pashi]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

We. I will say, you know, and again, I'm sure it's bad Scottish. The Scots are not known for their cuisine, and hopefully they will not take offense.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Well, I'm sure they have taken offense, FYI. And I think this. I've been to Scotland subsequently, and they've upped their cuisine game without question.

[Seth Meyers]

The dumbest thing I ever did at a charity auction was I was the first bidder on a week at a Scottish castle. And I had been. I was a little. I'd had a couple of drinks and was feeling a little frisky and raised my paddle kind of, and it was a real high starting bid. But I assumed, like, in this. You know, this room full of Tony people, but it felt like it was a trap and bid, because as soon as I raised my paddle, they were, like, going once. Going till I sold. Like, I was like, oh, no. And Josh was with us. We went to the castle.

[Julie Dreyfus]

And how'd it go?

[Seth Meyers]

It was a lot of Scottish castles. It turns out. Upkeep hasn't been a big part of it.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yeah, that's not a priority.

[Seth Meyers]

It was a. I would say it was very. It was a breezy castle and. But I remember the first meal, it felt like the chef at the castle was maybe 17 years old, and they rolled up cold cuts. It was like a thing of turkey and a thing of cheese and a thing of ham, and they rolled it into little, like, tubes.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Oh, that sounds clever.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, it was. Alexi was early pregnant with our first, and she still, to this day, says it's the worst trip of her life.

[Henry Hall]

Awesome.

[Josh]

We did some cool stuff, but, like, there was. There were chicken breasts that were, like. The breading was corn flakes.

[Seth Meyers]

Like, cereal. Cornflakes. Yeah.

[Unknown/Interjection]

Yeah.

[Josh]

So, yeah, it wasn't. It wasn't the best food on that trip.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Did you. Did you know your grandfather well, Henry? You seem surprised that he didn't know the Beatles. Was he a part of your life growing up?

[Henry Hall]

He was a part of my life. That. That detail was left out about not liking the Beatles, but he liked other stuff. He liked the New York Jets.

[Seth Meyers]

Did you have a. Were grandparents a big part of trips for you guys growing up?

[Henry Hall]

We. Let's see. Yeah, kind of. We did a lot of nuclear family.

Trips, though, I would say not a lot of.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yeah, I mean, we would go to visit grandparents.

[Seth Meyers]

That's right.

[Julie Dreyfus]

I mean, in other words. But we wouldn't go.

Well, with the exception of going to Wyoming when you were younger.

[Henry Hall]

That's true.

[Julie Dreyfus]

We wouldn't really go on trips with them.

[Henry Hall]

It was. We went to Thanksgiving a few times in D.C. and stuff like that.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yeah, right.

[Henry Hall]

Classically had our most chaotic, worst Thanksgiving in Washington, D.C. with our.

[Josh]

Well, sleep. What happened?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, sure. It is the season.

[Charlie Hall]

Indeed.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah.

We all congregate in D.C. for Thanksgiving, and we're all cooking and everything. A plague descends upon the entire family. Everyone is deathly ill the entire time. Really, really, really sick.

Then on top of that, every dish is ruined in some way. The gravy is, like, gelatinous.

[Julie Dreyfus]

It looks like a volcano.

[Henry Hall]

The turkey's undercooked. It's, you know, the weather's really bad.

[Seth Meyers]

Everything.

[Henry Hall]

Everything.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Wait, and I have to interject, there was one moment in which your cousin, who was like three at the time, she had gotten particularly ill and violent diarrhea and vomiting, and she. I just remember she had had a terrible accident, and her dad, your uncle.

Was carrying her, like, with her arms out like this, and telling her to keep her arms straight.

And not move while he carried her under the armpits sort of across the room because she had just had some explosion happen, and he was telling her not to move. And we're trying to try to put together this family meal as this sort of like. It felt like a bomb had gone off, and he's taking her across the room, and she's like, this terrified. Anyway, carry on.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, my dad still does that to me to this day.

[Josh]

Don't you get stuck in doorways, though, if your arms are just.

[Seth Meyers]

You just go through.

[Julie Dreyfus]

No, you just go sideways.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah. Yeah. You got to take your losses honestly. Otherwise, it's a really good thing to do.

[Seth Meyers]

You know what doesn't work? I found with my three young children, anytime you tell them don't move.

You know what I mean? Like, it just immediately, they feel as though that's a toddlers. Yeah, we are. We always refer to our family as a core four, which is what you guys are. Same thing. Two boys. And. And that's Josh and I, our family. But we took a lot of vacations, just the four of us, and we would the same thing. Like, we would visit grandparents, but mercifully never had them, like, on an airplane with us, which I think is a way better life to live.

[Julie Dreyfus]

We definitely didn't do that. But it's funny you say that about all boys, because when the kids were little, we took them to Tanzania, and we were on safari, and we got there, and I'm gonna say Charlie was 7, maybe, and Henry was 12. And the leader of the group, I.

[Henry Hall]

Was, like, 16, and Charlie was 12, for the record.

[Julie Dreyfus]

And so we get there, 16 and 12, and the leader of our group says. Starts to say, sort of the rules of camp. Cause it wasn't like we were staying in a resort. We were staying in tents out in the bush, you know? And he says, okay, now, the first rule of camp is no running.

And I remember thinking, oh, my God, this was a huge mistake. I have two boys who are being told not to run because they are prey here out in prey.

And that was. We got sick on that trip, too, hen.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Everybody got really sick on that trip, too. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Is this just coincidence that it's the first two, or are you just kind of very sickly? As a family.

[Henry Hall]

We carry around a plane wherever we go. Yeah, we try to.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, nothing's worse than the moment where the first one gets sick. And, you know, it's Coming for everyone.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Everyone. Yeah, that's true. God, is that the truth?

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, you got no choice.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Pashi]

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[Julie Dreyfus]

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[Seth Meyers]

Here we go.

So what about. Did you guys ever. I mean, imagine, look, you are your family, you live in Los Angeles. Did you ever. Were you ever in a road trip? The four of you? Did you guys ever drive anywhere?

[Henry Hall]

We drove to Yosemite once.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yeah, we drove to Yosemite. We didn't take long, long car rides.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Did we?

[Henry Hall]

How about that for an answer?

[Seth Meyers]

No, but Yosemite's a drive.

[Josh]

Yosemite's a drive.

[Pashi]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've done that drive.

[Henry Hall]

We actually, we stayed. We stayed at the place where the hotel where the Shining is like that. The set of the Shining is sort of based off of didn't we? Or we visited there or something like that. It was spooky.

[Josh]

Is that in Estes park in Colorado or Is that in where Yosemite is?

[Julie Dreyfus]

No, Henry's.

[Henry Hall]

The second I said that, I realized that's not true. That's made up.

[Charlie Hall]

What?

[Julie Dreyfus]

I just said it's made up. But it looks like it. It was the.

[Seth Meyers]

Sure.

[Julie Dreyfus]

It was that fancy. It was that Aani Hotel.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah. Sorry.

[Seth Meyers]

Do you think at this point there's a chance, though, your parents just lied to you on that drive and now you're. You're having, like, a seated memory.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, my parents lied to me a lot.

[Seth Meyers]

So were you. That's a. You have a bit of a age gap with Charlie. Were you guys close growing up?

[Henry Hall]

Yes, we. We were close. We're very close now.

[Seth Meyers]

I thought you were going to say we were.

[Josh]

And now it's.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, there's a reason. Let's just say there's a reason. He's late to the podcast.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah. He's waiting for me to log off. No. Yeah, we. Five years. You know, when. When I was, like, what, 15 and he was 10? That was not. I did not like him very much.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Did he want to be just all up in your business?

[Henry Hall]

No, he was honestly completely fine. I was just. I just unloaded all of my. Anything. You know, he was the. My punching bag. Metaphorically.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Well, and in fact.

[Pashi]

And.

[Henry Hall]

And in for real, too.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. They.

[Julie Dreyfus]

When you were a little younger than that, they used to play a game called Lighthouse College.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah.

[Julie Dreyfus]

And they would both be going to a Lighthouse College. And usually Henry was the wrestling coach.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, I was a wrestling coach. And. And I was a really. I was a nasty professor, too.

[Seth Meyers]

Who.

[Henry Hall]

If Charlie was. If Charlie wasn't paying attention, I would throw. Throw books at him.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Or you would beat him up and him as the coach. And that was essentially Lighthouse College.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Henry Hall]

You know, Lighthouse. The funding at Lighthouse College was really thin. Huge issue. Yeah. Most of the professors had two jobs.

[Seth Meyers]

By the way, this really speaks to what a showbiz family are. Most kids just wrestle. And you guys built this, like, the world building that went into it.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, we did.

[Seth Meyers]

Lighthouse College, they don't have a lot of money.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, yeah. Here's the elevator pitch.

[Seth Meyers]

The wrestling coach probably has failed at previous schools. This is his last stop.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he's working for scale.

[Seth Meyers]

And then you just. Then you just wail on each other like any kids would.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Did you were there years where you and Brad were aware, Julie, of, like. Oh, my God. The strain that Charlie is causing Henry with just being, like, younger and.

Irritating, or is it just like. Yeah. Yeah. Were you ever aware of the trauma you inflicted on him.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yes, finally. Exactly. By having a second child. Yeah, we should. I mean, to be honest, we shouldn't have had Charlie.

[Seth Meyers]

It was a mistake.

[Charlie Hall]

Oh, finally someone says it.

[Josh]

Jeez.

[Charlie Hall]

Jesus.

[Henry Hall]

Finally.

[Seth Meyers]

Have you guys. As you've gotten older, do you still go on family trips, the four of you together, or has life gotten too fast for that?

[Pashi]

Yeah, we.

[Henry Hall]

Well, actually, I.

[Pashi]

We.

[Henry Hall]

I don't know if this. I got back less than 24 hours ago from Indonesia with my. My dad and I went there together on a circle.

[Seth Meyers]

Wow.

[Henry Hall]

So I'm. This is me. I'm. I'm running on fumes.

[Seth Meyers]

What brought. What was the. The impetus for you and your dad taking a two man trip to Indonesia?

[Henry Hall]

Good question. We are surfers, so. Grew up surfing my whole life. Yeah. Yeah. And Indonesia is sort of the number one destination for surf in the whole world. So this is our second time.

[Josh]

Is it aggressive surfing? Like, how big are these waves? How good does one have to be to go where you went?

[Henry Hall]

I would say.

Sort of like back being able to go in the backcountry, skiing. That's a sort of similar. That's a comparison.

[Josh]

People.

[Henry Hall]

You're gonna run into a lot of people, though, who shouldn't be out there, though.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Henry Hall]

Unfortunately, it's become very, very crowded and stuff.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Well, I'm gonna interject and say Henry is being humble. He's a very good surfer and he competed when he was younger. And so that's me, his proud showbiz family.

[Henry Hall]

My mom is also my publicist and momager.

[Seth Meyers]

Now that you've done that, though, how good is Brad really?

[Julie Dreyfus]

Brad can't surf.

[Henry Hall]

He rips.

[Seth Meyers]

He's one of the people that Henry was politely saying probably shouldn't be out there.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How old were you when you started surfing? Was that something that happened out of like a vacation or just from being a west coaster?

[Henry Hall]

That's from my dad being from Santa Barbara.

[Seth Meyers]

Got it.

[Henry Hall]

I would say. Yeah. He pushed me into a wave for the first time when I was four. Four years old. Yeah. So it's in the blood.

[Seth Meyers]

So it's such a bummer when you hear, like, your kids are already older. Like when it starts for, like, really good surfers, I mean, I'm sure they could pick it up now, but of course, you start that young and then. Was it something. Would you ever take trips built around the fact that you and your dad wanted to surf?

[Henry Hall]

Absolutely. Multiple times. Did we forego the comfort of my brother and mom in order to get good wave somewhere.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, so. Because they wouldn't. It wouldn't be. You would never wanted to. Were you not invited, Julia? Or was it like, I don't want to go to a surf town.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Well, I'm invited if there's something for me to do. But I don't surf. I've tried a couple of times, and I found it to be terrifying. So, you know, they have that excursion for the most part on their own. But I've been to a few places with you guys, and then, you know.

[Henry Hall]

We went to Peru. Oh, look who it is.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Hi, honey.

[Charlie Hall]

Hopefully you guys were in a conversational flow that I've ruined.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, you've shut up. Just in time. These guys were both kind of running out of steam.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, perfect.

[Charlie Hall]

They tend to do that.

[Henry Hall]

Wait, but we were talking a lot of.

[Seth Meyers]

Are you not a surfer, then?

[Charlie Hall]

Charlie, we're talking about a surfer. I used to be kind of a surfer. Sort of. But no, Henry's the surfer.

[Seth Meyers]

Did you did from the very beginning, did you kind of know, like. Like, I. This. I'm. I can do this, but I don't really love it the way my dad and my brother love it.

[Charlie Hall]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Charlie Hall]

I was. I'm, like, too tall for surfing.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Yeah. And also, isn't that sort of an expression as. Charlie, don't surf.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, Charlie don't surf. Yeah.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I also. I like that. It's like, I'm just, like, too handsome. I'm too handsome to surf. Like, too tall and handsome and strong.

[Charlie Hall]

I just think my center of gravity is too high. I'll just.

[Henry Hall]

It is true. I'll say this. This, too, about Charlie. Charlie is highly competitive and to the point where he'll hedge his bets on something. So I think he, at a young age, saw that my dad and I just inherently had, you know, X amount of years of experience surfing over him. And he was like, okay. He, like, did the math in his tiny brain. Yeah.

[Julie Dreyfus]

And he went, basketball.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, I'm gonna play basketball. Instead of.

[Seth Meyers]

I do. Your dad is famously tall, Charlie. I feel like. And he. Yet he's managed to figure out surfing that is correct. Not to. Not to undercut your defense.

[Charlie Hall]

Now I feel like an idiot. But, yeah. There's also a rigamarole to surfing. Like, you gotta, you know, you have to, like, change in and out of things. You have to bring a lot of stuff. It's like, Sandy, there's, like, things about it that. That I don't totally.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, that's the way I feel about skiing, which Josh and my dad love. And I was. I again, it was just the gear is oppressive.

[Charlie Hall]

It's gnarly. Yeah, there's a lot of it.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Wait a minute, Seth, you don't ski?

[Seth Meyers]

I do ski, but I just don't like it.

And I will say, like, now that my boys ski and my daughter, like, we. They ski every weekend in the winter. We take them to like a little sort of shitty east coast mountain in Connecticut. And I love being on the mountain with my kids. But like when I was younger, Josh and my dad would take ski trips and I would always be like, I think I'm good.

[Josh]

Or we would go out and then it would get cold and Seth and my mom would be like, we're gonna go to the lodge and we're gonna tap out.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yeah, got it.

[Josh]

On this Peru trip was. Were you on that as well, Charlie? Did you go to Peru?

[Charlie Hall]

I absolutely was.

[Josh]

And so you and your mother would go off and do something else, I'm assuming. Or would Julie, would you sort kick him into some kids camp and then.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yeah, I would just give him to whatever babysitter I could find.

I'm trying to. I mean, we did sort of. It was a real sort of. Oh, that's right. We went to. We did. We did the standard, you know, looking at Machu Picchu and stuff like that. But then we did take the guys and we went into the rainforest and that was.

Miserable, if I could be so bold as to say it. I mean, this was right before Brad and Henry were gonna go off surfing and we were in the rainforest and we were getting, once again getting out of the water, the boat to sort of go to this Echo lodge in the middle of the rainforest. But you had to walk in the water a ways. And this was. Yeah, this was the river where they have those fish or something that can swim up your urethra.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, yeah, those.

[Josh]

Yeah, yeah.

[Henry Hall]

That means.

[Josh]

Yeah, every. Every guy knows about those fish. As soon as you learn about them, you never know.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Those are real fish. Those are real.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah.

[Julie Dreyfus]

And I just remember being panicked with the boys and just saying, you know, keep. Keep your crotch out of the water.

[Henry Hall]

And by the way, though, that you were saying that the, you know, don't run thing was, you know, that's not a deterrent for little kids.

[Pashi]

Right?

[Henry Hall]

Don't put your crotch in the water because a little fish will swim up your penis. That actually worked.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yeah, yeah, that was a straight up deterrent. But then we had this experience where I was really freaked out because there was stuff in the forest there, that was lethal. Like.

Snakes. And a certain kind of snake that if you got bit it would kill you instantly sort of a thing.

And they had really big tarantulas and stuff all over this place. And Brad and I, it was like the night before, we were headed out of there and we were walking back to our room where we were staying and it was dark and I felt something sort of go on me and I sort of went ugh, like that. And he knew that I really didn't like it there. I said, geez, that was awful. He goes, it's okay. It's like we're leaving tomorrow, don't worry about it. I'm like, okay, fine, whatever. And we get into the room and we go into the bathroom and we're brushing our teeth and Brad sort of bends over the sink and there is a tarantula on his back this big. Okay. It's called the pink toad tarantula. Have your listeners look it up, you'll see. And I screamed, oh my God, there's tarantula on your back. And without.

Within a nanosecond, Brad took his T shirt and just went and ripped it apart. And the tarantula went flying across the room. And it was a pink toed tarantula and it was big. It was a male pink toed tarantula. And we found out later that, that they're usually very docile, but. But if a pink toed tarantula does bite you, it can cause impotence.

[Pashi]

Wow.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yes, yes.

[Henry Hall]

A lot of like, yeah, private parts stuff.

[Josh]

A lot of dick stuff.

[Julie Dreyfus]

And that would have been, I'm married to a man, I've got two sons.

[Seth Meyers]

The bummer is that was if it had happened because like the most turned on you ever were was when he ripped his shirt off. And then if that at the same moment he'd become impotent, what a bummer that would have been.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yeah, totally.

[Seth Meyers]

The irony.

[Julie Dreyfus]

The irony is thick. And it could have been an absolutely rambunctious evening of close your ears, boys, sexual satisfaction, but it was not.

[Seth Meyers]

We were in Costa Rica with my boys and there was just this line of the reddest ants you've ever seen carrying leaves from an animated film, watching these ants work together. And we were just leaning down so watching them and it was just this beautiful moment in nature. And then the guy came over and was like, those are fire ants if they bite you. And basically was like, God, what is the point of being out here? This isn't a vacation.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yeah, I hear that. I don't disagree with that.

[Seth Meyers]

Did you ever have either of the hallboys who are on this ever gone on a vacation with just your mother? Just the two of you?

[Henry Hall]

We surprised her for Mother's Day.

[Charlie Hall]

Yeah, that's where my brain went, too.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh]

Where'd you take her?

[Henry Hall]

We went to a restaurant.

[Charlie Hall]

Well, we were. Yeah, we were in New York.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Okay, well, wait a minute.

[Seth Meyers]

Hold on.

[Julie Dreyfus]

I was in New York by myself, working.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Julie Dreyfus]

And it was late at night, and.

I'm in. I'm all by myself. I'm in the bedroom, I'm watching a movie and I. Watching it, and all of a sudden the kid in the movie sounds so much like my son. I feel like I hear this kid go, mom.

[Charlie Hall]

Mom.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Like that. God, that kid sounds like Charlie.

[Charlie Hall]

Yeah. I didn't want to scare. I can't. My flight got delayed. I was supposed to get in earlier and my flight got delayed, so I ended up getting in at, like, midnight to New York. And I was so terrified that I was gonna scare you. And so I was yelling, mom, Mom, I don't wanna scare you. It's your son. I don't wanna scare you. And your door was closed, and I was yelling outside for. For literally no exaggeration, like, five minutes. And you didn't. You couldn't hear me?

[Julie Dreyfus]

I couldn't hear maybe. And I didn't want to open the.

[Charlie Hall]

Door because I thought I'd, like, give you a heart attack.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Well, you did give me a heart attack, by the way.

[Seth Meyers]

There you go.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yeah, I took you guys to Portland once to see a basketball game.

[Henry Hall]

Oh, my God.

[Josh]

Of course.

[Henry Hall]

That's the number one.

[Julie Dreyfus]

That's the number one.

[Seth Meyers]

Just the three of you?

[Henry Hall]

Just the three of us. Yeah. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Was this an interesting time to go to a basketball game? Game in Portland? You seem to have a specific memory of it, Henry.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, we. There's this guy, he's sort of like in and out of the G League.

Who we got to meet, this LeBron something.

[Pashi]

What's his last name?

[Charlie Hall]

James.

[Seth Meyers]

Is it James, but spelled with a G? Yeah, yeah, that one. Yeah.

[Henry Hall]

We got to go to Portland and we see a Miami. This is. This was in the Miami Heat days.

[Seth Meyers]

Wow. But so you lived in la, so there obviously. You famously have a couple basketball teams. Was it special to go to Portland and see LeBron play?

[Charlie Hall]

We.

[Henry Hall]

My mom's best friend works for Nike, so we had a whole Nike thing.

Set up for us, which was unbelievably special.

[Seth Meyers]

How old were you when this was happening? Were you was this, like, peak age to go to a sporting event?

[Henry Hall]

Yes. Any age is peak age for us to go to a sporting event.

[Charlie Hall]

We're also like, I would die for LeBron.

[Henry Hall]

Like, Charlie's the biggest.

[Charlie Hall]

Absolutely no hesitation. Take a bullet. Like, truly.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah.

[Charlie Hall]

And so doing that was incredibly special, and it ended up being an amazing game. Chris Bosh hit a, essentially, buzzer beater. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Did you meet LeBron?

[Henry Hall]

Yes, LeBron.

[Charlie Hall]

But we almost didn't because I was so scared. I, I, he's so. I, I love LeBron in a way that's, like, certainly unhealthy. No question about it. And as a result, like, the moment was, like, too big for me. I don't know how old I was, but I was too anxious, and I was almost pulled the plug on the whole operation. I was like, I don't think I can do this.

But thankfully, I think actually dad, sort of. We called dad, right?

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yeah.

[Charlie Hall]

He was like, guys, what are you talking about? You gotta go meet him.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yeah, right. Well, it was late at night. They were inviting us to go to dinner with a bunch of the plays, but it was late, you know, and I didn't know, well, should I take the boys? And what's going on? And, you know, and we called dad and he said, brad. And he said, oh, who cares what time it is?

[Seth Meyers]

Go.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And in the moment, Charlie, did you rise to the occasion? Do you feel like you comported yourself when. Well, when the moment came.

[Charlie Hall]

It's a good question.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Charlie Hall]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Yes.

[Charlie Hall]

I mean, I was enough to, like, you know, words came out of my mouth. I was like, hi, nice to meet you. So that's a win, right?

[Pashi]

How old were you?

[Henry Hall]

I don't.

[Seth Meyers]

It was, it was.

[Julie Dreyfus]

You guys were teenagers?

[Charlie Hall]

Yeah, I think I was maybe in middle school.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yeah.

[Charlie Hall]

Yeah, I was.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, maybe I was. I was in college.

[Julie Dreyfus]

You were Henry.

[Henry Hall]

Pretty sure.

[Charlie Hall]

I, I remember we. I wasn't sitting next to LeBron once we got there, and I was.

[Seth Meyers]

Ha.

[Charlie Hall]

I was actually really relieved at that fact. Like, I had.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yeah, but I was.

[Charlie Hall]

I know you were, but you can handle it. I can't. Like, this is, you know, I couldn't handle it.

[Henry Hall]

It is like meeting God.

[Charlie Hall]

Yeah. 100%.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah.

[Charlie Hall]

100%.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And at that point, Right. If fully. He's a guy.

[Charlie Hall]

Sorry.

[Henry Hall]

By the way, just quickly, We're. We're saying LeBron. We were talking about LeBron James.

[Charlie Hall]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Yes.

[Josh]

King James.

[Seth Meyers]

I just took my dad's from Pittsburgh. Huge Steelers fans. I just took my nine and seven year to their first Steelers game.

[Charlie Hall]

That's awesome.

[Seth Meyers]

And it was the best. It was such a fantastic weekend. Josh was there as well, and we met some of the players, but they have. They're not at the place. I think it was easier for them because they're not huge fans. Like, they haven't built up a fandom that you had for LeBron at the time. So they were just meeting larger people than they were used to.

[Henry Hall]

There is a.

[Charlie Hall]

There's a Northwestern Wildcat on the Steelers.

[Josh]

Brett Scronick.

[Charlie Hall]

That's exactly right. Good, good, good. Buddy in.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, great.

[Charlie Hall]

Yeah. I love Ben.

[Josh]

Yeah. Apparently he reps Notre Dame, but we said we still come rep him as Northwestern.

[Charlie Hall]

100%.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I will say nothing to do with me and my children, but Julia, you and yours. I remember going and seeing you, Julia, at the. Was it 2016 when you guys beat Texas in. At the Barclay Center?

[Charlie Hall]

Yep, 2016. Jared Allen. Jared Allen was on that team. That was a good. That was a great game.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, that was fantastic. And also, like, it happened for me when I was in college when football wasn't good. And then all of a sudden they were good. Like, my friend and I went to that game just because. Oh, my God. Well, how can you miss Northwestern when they're in New York? Didn't go with a lot of expectation that Northwestern would win. It was so exciting and that it was so. We were so happy. And then the extra. There was the extra bonus of. Then we. We actually ran into you guys.

[Charlie Hall]

So fun. That's the thing about coming from, like, a kind of, you know, historically losing program is it feels a lot better when you win.

[Seth Meyers]

And was that the. That was the first tournament.

[Charlie Hall]

That was the tournament year. And that game, that Texas game, ended up kind of being the game where we realized that we were, like, actually good. We had our suspicions, like, you know, over the summer. I was like, huh. We. I think our players are good. And then we beat Texas and we're like, oh, wow, we are trying to do this.

[Henry Hall]

Brian McIntosh had a amazing game, that game. Didn't he charm?

[Charlie Hall]

I think Scotty played really well, too.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I had that year. Josh went to Salt Lake.

[Charlie Hall]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Nice for the first round. And I had a very young. I think my Alexi was pregnant with our second and Ash was two. And it was just one of those things where I couldn't make the argument why I had to leave and go to Utah. But then I was so grumpy in a petulant, childish way. And she, at one point Was like, what's wrong with you? I'm like, everyone I know is in Salt Lake City. Never happens. She's like, ugh. She was like, no, sim. Because she's like, oh, my God, grow up.

[Josh]

But also like, we didn't. You didn't know where your team was going to play when tickets went on sale. And Seth had bought like a block of tickets to in like North Carolina, which is, you know, where. Where some of the games were. And they were great games that he ended up having tickets for. And then Northwestern won their first game, and Seth sold those tickets in North Carolina. And then for the four that were in Salt Lake, he's like, I'm gonna buy you guys tickets for the next game. Which was a great sort of turnover.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm assuming you were there, Julia. You went out for that?

[Julie Dreyfus]

You betcha.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Must have been such an exciting time.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Oh, it was unbelievable. I just. I'll never forget that goaltending situation and.

[Josh]

Then the coach getting thrown, you know, and.

[Pashi]

Yeah, rightfully so. He was furious for good cause.

[Josh]

How do you miss that? That there was a. There was a goaltend through. Through the rim.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yeah. And by the way, Gonzaga.

[Henry Hall]

Right.

[Julie Dreyfus]

And Charlie, wasn't it true that after the fact, the. The National Ref association made some comment about it was.

[Charlie Hall]

Yeah.

[Henry Hall]

They issued a.

[Charlie Hall]

They do a thing where they. In the final X minutes of every game, they go through the calls and then if the two minutes, if there's any errors, they like, they release, you know, a document of the errors and they released it as an error. And I think even like the NCAA like issued an apology or something.

[Seth Meyers]

And then you get. Your team gets ref bucks that you can purchase purchases that you can then spend. Yeah, concessions.

[Henry Hall]

I'm still living off the merch, actually. Yeah. So I pay my rent.

[Pashi]

Hey, we're gonna take a quick break.

[Josh]

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What about toys?

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[Seth Meyers]

Here we go. When will you guys. Will you all be together for thanksg?

[Henry Hall]

Oh yeah.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yes.

[Seth Meyers]

That's fantastic. Is that historically every year, has there been an exception where you don't have the whole family together for any reason?

[Julie Dreyfus]

No, we've. No, but we've.

[Charlie Hall]

We've had weird Thanksgivings a lot.

[Henry Hall]

Or we're not in.

[Charlie Hall]

In at home because for me, when I was playing basketball, we always had to. They always had to come to me because I didn't get it off. And then we also went to. When Henry was shooting his show in London, we went to. We had Thanksgiving in London.

[Henry Hall]

Oh yeah, I did.

[Seth Meyers]

Josh and I used to live in Amsterdam and my parents would come over there for Thanksgiving. And I think Thanksgiving in a foreign country that doesn't celebrate Thanksgiving is outstanding.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, it's cool.

[Julie Dreyfus]

It's outstanding. It's just an opportunity for a great meal elsewhere.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you also. Nothing. Nothing's closed. So you like go out and the city is like still like a cool city.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Completely. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

When you do Thanksgiving at home, do you have other people over or is it ever just the four of you?

[Julie Dreyfus]

No. When it's at home. We have extended family and friends, which is what we're having this year.

[Seth Meyers]

How big can it get?

[Julie Dreyfus]

I remember one year it was 24 people.

[Seth Meyers]

Gotcha.

[Josh]

Does it get out of hand? I don't remember.

[Julie Dreyfus]

That's too much. Yeah. Remember we had a table outside and we had a table inside and we used the round table for Granny and Because, remember? And then we. And then everybody. We did moving of seats, rotating around.

[Henry Hall]

We had a circle.

[Julie Dreyfus]

That was too much.

[Seth Meyers]

I just wanted to picture Granny alone at a very small round table.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it was more of a Godfather situation. Like each person would go off and have their conversation with grandma.

[Seth Meyers]

Is this your side Granny or Brad's side granny?

[Julie Dreyfus]

Brad's side granny. Who's still alive. She's 97.

[Seth Meyers]

Gotcha.

[Julie Dreyfus]

And she has.

Pretty acute dementia. So I think this year she will not be joining us. However she's been joining us. I mean, she's with us every holiday in some form or another. Yeah, this year we're gonna bring her some stuff. But yeah, this year it's not quite as many. I think we're about 13 this year, which is much more manageable.

[Charlie Hall]

24 is insane.

[Henry Hall]

24 is insane.

[Julie Dreyfus]

It's too many. It's too. Believe me. You know, to be honest with you guys and these guys, my boys know this. I'm not a huge fan of Thanksgiving. Just not.

[Charlie Hall]

Not.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, okay.

[Henry Hall]

It's all the Thanksgiving.

[Charlie Hall]

Right.

[Julie Dreyfus]

I just.

[Josh]

I think she's ungrateful.

[Julie Dreyfus]

I am ungrateful. And I'll tell you what.

[Seth Meyers]

Famous, he said, maybe if I ever have something to be thankful for, I'll get this. I'll understand what.

[Josh]

TikTok World.

[Seth Meyers]

I had a. It's my favorite. Thanks. It's my favorite holiday before. And I was saying to Alexi, I'm like, why? My wife, like, why don't you get more excited? She's like, cause I do everything.

[Julie Dreyfus]

She's like, thank you.

[Seth Meyers]

She goes, you love Thanksgiving because you, like, would go and sit on the couch and like watch football while your mom cooked. And now I'm the mom and it's not a good holiday.

[Julie Dreyfus]

It's an enormous amount of work for what is probably about a 15 to 20 minute meal. And it's days and days of cooking and you know, you can, you know, and then. But anyway, whatever. I'm still happy everybody's coming. Cause I like. I am actually. Cause I like all this shit beforehand. It's just that once the meal's here, it's like, eh, whatever.

[Josh]

Does Anyone go too hard at Thanksgiving? Does anyone like really tie one on? We sort of. We famously had a bunch of neighbors over and some family one time and set up tables and like.

There was way too much wine being drunk and some of it by a gal who certainly was not of age yet but was finding some half drunk glasses that she was polishing off. Which adds an element of excitement to a holiday.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yeah, I don't think. Has anybody misbehaved you guys?

[Henry Hall]

Not really. I mean, well.

The end of the everyone being sick story that one Thanksgiving. Oh, that's right, everyone's sick. Everything's going terribly. All the food is getting messed up and everything. And then the one thing that made it through all that vitriol was a pumpkin pie. It came out perfect, like dead perfect. Comes out steaming. You know, just the most delicious, delectable looking pumpkin pie you've ever seen in your life. Gets put on the counter and my little cousin comes over to it and he goes, oh man, that looks good.

He sneezes all over the pie. Snot on the pie.

[Julie Dreyfus]

So that was.

[Henry Hall]

You've never seen adults more mad at like a six year old.

[Seth Meyers]

They started booing.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Henry Hall]

It was insane.

[Seth Meyers]

Do you remember the first time.

Vacation or at home, like the first time you had drinks with both of your sons? Julia? Cuz obviously Henry has a head start but like the moment where you're like we are now a family where the children, you know, are old enough to also have wine at the table.

[Julie Dreyfus]

No.

[Seth Meyers]

Do you remember the first time you.

[Josh]

Got drunk with me?

[Narrator/Poet]

Me?

[Charlie Hall]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

You immediately. I like that. Your tone immediately went back to your tone of during day drinking.

[Julie Dreyfus]

I do remember that. That was insane.

[Seth Meyers]

That was. I always tell this story because it's like such a perfect Julia story that. Cuz I say it to every time we do day drinking. I always say to the guests, I'm like, hey, just FYI, like you, you don't have to drink anything you don't want to drink. We can switch to water and you were the only one and you went, yeah, I know.

Like the amount have to drink. Yeah. I'm not trying to prove anything to you.

[Julie Dreyfus]

I remember when I was in college once. Oh doing like meow or whatever and there was some improv night. And before that night we had gone out and gotten drinks and I'd had a gin and Tom and I remember then getting on stage and realizing, oh my God. I mean I wasn't like drunk but I felt it and it was this terrifying feeling. And I stood at the back of the stage and did not contribute because I was terrified of, you know, it just felt like such a. It was so risky. And so when I did your show. I can't believe you do that show. I can't.

[Seth Meyers]

We only do it twice a year. We are very aware there's a tipping point where our audience collectively says sir, you're 51.

You have children. Sir, you have children at home.

[Henry Hall]

No, do it more. That's when I love the day drinking show.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Please do it more.

[Henry Hall]

Not to enable me.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean it never doesn't work work, but it is. You know, there's, there's a huge, there's a, a. There's a medical cost.

[Julie Dreyfus]

There is a medical cost. You know, there's what? There's one vacation story that I have to tell you guys about with these boys that is in our part of our family history. And it was around.

New Year's, the Y2K year.

So that would have made Charlie 3 and Henry 8 and. Is that right guys?

[Henry Hall]

No, that's.

[Charlie Hall]

I can't do math.

[Julie Dreyfus]

I don't know no 2 and 7. Cause it would have been 1999 going into 2000.

[Henry Hall]

Wow, Mom, Einstein over here.

[Pashi]

Good math.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Thanks honey. So anyway, I don't know if people remember but that year there was all of this like you gotta do something. It's New Year's, we're going into this whole. Into 2000. It's going to be unbelievable. And so we opted sort of to not do a whole hullabaloo for New Year's. And we went, we were skiing and some friends had invited us over to their house for a New Year's party. And we decided because of the importance of this particular date we were going to bring the boys and let them stay up late. And so we got to their house and we're having a nice time. And it gets to be about 11 o' clock and it's become quite ev that each of the boys has got to go to bed. It is way too late for a 2 year old and a 7 year old to be up. So I say to Brad, we gotta get outta here. I know staying up till midnight, but we just can't do it. It's ridiculous. So Henry was disappointed we put him into the car. But the kids are wigged. Okay, wigged, tired, wigged out. We put em both into the car, Charlie's in the car seat, we're driving back to this hotel. It's snowing like crazy and it's dark. And.

Henry says to Brad, daddy, do you Believe in the Abominable Snowman.

Understand? Everybody's tired. And Brad says, no, I don't, honey. And anyone who does believe in the Abominable snowman is crazy. And Henry goes.

Don'T. Well, I believe in the Abominable Snowman, Daddy. And that means you think I'm crazy. I'm gonna kill you. He starts screaming. At which point Charlie in the car seat starts to scream hysterically. Don't kill my daddy. And they are going, but I mean, screaming like he really thought his 7 year old brother was gonna kill his own father. And they are screaming hysterically. And it is the worst New Year's of our life. And I become. It is so outrageous that I become hysterical laughing. And then the kids see me laughing and they get more crying. And Brad is like, jules, shut up. Shut up. Anyway, that was our. That was New year's.

[Henry Hall]

Oh, God.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Y2K. That's my story.

[Seth Meyers]

Thank God he didn't kill Brad. Cause just telling the story of why.

You know, it's never looked, you know, patricide, I believe I never called for. But just because of the Abominable Snowman.

[Charlie Hall]

That's tough.

[Julie Dreyfus]

I know. You really would have to get a real good lawyer. You'd really need the lawyer what wears the cowboy hat, right?

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, Simpsons reference, by the way. A different time, thanks to YouTube. But I remember a couple years ago, our kids wanted to stay up till New Year's. And I'm like, they're never gonna make it. And Alexi was like, they're not gonna make it. And then she just went on YouTube and played the previous years, like put on YouTube TV and played the ball dropping at like 8:45. And I was like, I'm married to the smartest woman.

[Charlie Hall]

Wow, that's really smart.

[Julie Dreyfus]

That is stone cold genius time manipulation.

[Seth Meyers]

She's like, we also. You guys made it.

[Josh]

We've been in Seth's wife's from New Mexico and there are some casinos nearby and they celebrate New Year's Eve at noon. And if you're in the casino at noon, they like pass out champagne and there's a hole to do. And so we've definitely popped down for New Year's Eve.

[Seth Meyers]

And it's really cool. Cause then the cool thing is the rest of the day you smell like cigarettes. That's perfect.

[Julie Dreyfus]

And booze.

[Josh]

There's still smoking in there.

[Pashi]

Just.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

You don't want to be in an Albuquerque casino on New Year's Eve.

[Henry Hall]

I'm just going to say you don't, huh?

[Seth Meyers]

I know. It's Shocking. This has been so lovely to talk to you guys, but we do, before you go, Josh is going to ask you all our speed round questions. And you all have to answer every question. Question.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Also, before you do, I'm taking a family photo. Everybody smile.

[Charlie Hall]

Yes.

[Henry Hall]

Take it with your phone.

[Julie Dreyfus]

I am, honey.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay, good.

[Henry Hall]

Good.

[Seth Meyers]

Also, I'm going to just ask because you guys are straight talkers. Tacky or cool that I'm wearing a sweatshirt from my own show?

[Henry Hall]

Super honestly.

[Charlie Hall]

Cool.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay.

[Charlie Hall]

Because.

[Seth Meyers]

Because I don't love it.

[Pashi]

All right.

[Julie Dreyfus]

You know, when I was 7 years old and we were in. We were in Rome staying at some hotel, and Ed Sullivan was staying there at the same time. And didn't he come down to the pool wearing a hat that said Ed Sullivan?

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, that's awesome. I wouldn't do it in public. I wouldn't do it in public, but still.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Well, you're in public right now.

[Seth Meyers]

It's true. Yeah.

[Pashi]

He's on Zoom.

[Josh]

For a thing that's being taped to.

[Pashi]

Be put out into the world.

[Seth Meyers]

You got me dead to rights. It's in public. I take it back. Me and Ed Sullivan are the same.

[Charlie Hall]

I won't name names, but I once saw it on. On Abbott Canyon in la. I saw an NBA player one time wearing a shirt with his face on it.

[Henry Hall]

Wow.

[Charlie Hall]

Which I thought was a super interesting choice. Kind of. Actually, I kind of loved it.

[Julie Dreyfus]

I kind of love it, too. But can't you tell us who it was?

[Charlie Hall]

No, I don't want to. I don't know why, but I don't want to.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Julie Dreyfus]

All right.

[Charlie Hall]

I'm scared.

[Seth Meyers]

Just tell us who was on the shirt. Yeah, okay, fine. D'.

[Charlie Hall]

Angelo. Russell.

[Henry Hall]

Oh, love, Russ. I was once at a party with someone related to Ernest Hemingway somehow. And we're all chatting and someone's talking, going through something in their lives, extolling some issue they were having. And this person who was related to her same way goes. Oh, wow, that's. You know, you should check out this book. It's called the Sun Also Rises.

That's awesome.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Henry Hall]

And she had already said that she was related to. She was like, recommending her.

[Charlie Hall]

Whatever.

[Henry Hall]

He was. Great uncle's book. Yeah, yeah. No, we know the son also, right?

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, obviously not as well as me because I'm related to him, but a lot. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

[Henry Hall]

Anyway.

[Seth Meyers]

All right.

[Josh]

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

[Charlie Hall]

Relaxing.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Adventurous.

[Henry Hall]

Adventurous for me, too.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay, Relax.

[Josh]

What is your favorite means of transportation.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Car.

[Seth Meyers]

What?

[Charlie Hall]

Plane.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Feet. Feet.

[Seth Meyers]

Feet. Oh, yeah, feet.

[Josh]

Feet.

[Charlie Hall]

Wait, I changed mine to feet. Great call Mom.

[Seth Meyers]

Gotcha.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Okay, thanks, honey.

[Josh]

If you could take a vacation with.

[Pashi]

Any family, alive or dead, real or.

[Josh]

Fictional, other than your own family, what family would you like to take a vacation with?

[Charlie Hall]

Coach Taylor. Friday Night Lights.

[Seth Meyers]

His perfect answer.

[Henry Hall]

Nice, Charlie.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Oh, Henry. I know who you're going to say.

[Josh]

Yeah, I think I do, too.

[Charlie Hall]

What?

[Seth Meyers]

The. The Hemingways. The.

[Josh]

The Sims.

[Pashi]

The Sim.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, the.

[Josh]

Maybe I don't know your answer.

[Pashi]

The Griffins.

[Henry Hall]

The Griffins. I'll zag.

[Seth Meyers]

As in Family Guy.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Well, I'm going to say the Simpsons.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay, great.

[Charlie Hall]

Okay, great nightmare vacation, but okay.

[Julie Dreyfus]

I know. I'm just trying to be clever.

[Josh]

All right, this one could get. Could get sticky with three family members here.

[Pashi]

If you had to be stranded on.

[Josh]

A desert island with one member of your family, who would it be?

[Charlie Hall]

No offense. Mom, I'm going. Henry.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Henry.

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, I'm going. Charlie. Mom.

[Julie Dreyfus]

So you know what? I'm going with my sister Lauren. So fuck you guys.

All right.

[Josh]

Julie, you're from New York City. If you had to pitch New York City to get more families to come visit, how would you do it?

[Julie Dreyfus]

Central Park. Yeah, there's something there for everyone.

[Pashi]

True.

[Josh]

And then, boys, you're both la.

[Pashi]

You're both from Los Angeles.

[Josh]

If you had to pitch Los Angeles to get more families to come visit, how would you do it? Henry? First.

[Henry Hall]

Okay.

I would say.

The Ripley's Believe it or not wax music.

[Josh]

Yeah, we have that. All right, Charlie, can you beat that?

[Charlie Hall]

My zoom cut out for a second, but I would say Ripley's Believe it or Not.

[Henry Hall]

Good choice. Yeah, good choice.

[Charlie Hall]

Tar. What was your answer, Henry?

[Henry Hall]

Dude, it was actually Ripley's Believer or Not.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I mean, can you believe it?

[Josh]

When is the last time either of you has been to the Ripley's Believe it or not museum?

[Charlie Hall]

We went this morning.

[Henry Hall]

This morning.

[Josh]

You guys got right back from Indonesia.

[Seth Meyers]

You were like, I gotta.

[Josh]

I gotta.

[Charlie Hall]

We actually do have to get out. We have a hard out. Because we're going back.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

You guys are the Norm Peterson of Ripley's Believe it or Not.

[Narrator/Poet]

Hey, Charlie.

[Josh]

And then Seth has our final question.

[Seth Meyers]

Have you guys been to the Grand Canyon?

[Henry Hall]

Yes, we have.

[Seth Meyers]

Was it worth it? It.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yes.

[Henry Hall]

Oh, yeah, big time.

[Charlie Hall]

That was one of.

[Pashi]

We.

[Charlie Hall]

Yeah, we went. That was probably. That's a. That's a top tier. Top three, probably family trip ever for us was. We did. We did river rafting down the Grand Canyon and it was how many.

[Seth Meyers]

Was it a multiple day trip?

[Henry Hall]

Yeah, week one.

[Seth Meyers]

It was a week.

[Charlie Hall]

Two weeks. A week?

[Henry Hall]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, my God, yeah. Yeah. Fantastic.

[Julie Dreyfus]

We did. We did the top half, the canyon and. Or the river, and it's a trip that we would want to go back to, by the way.

[Seth Meyers]

All right. It's very. A resounding support.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Can I redo my pitch for New York?

[Josh]

Yeah, please, sure.

[Henry Hall]

Ripley's Believe it or Not Wax Museum, New York.

[Julie Dreyfus]

What? No, there isn't one there. Otherwise, of course, I would use that.

There is less dog shit now than there was when I was little. I think that's a selling point.

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Yeah, that's it.

[Seth Meyers]

I once had David Byrne on the show and I was like, tell me about, like, is New York in, like, the late 70s, early 80s, as cool as I wanted to be? And the one thing he said, he. It was awesome, but it smelled. There was so much dog shit.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Well, can you believe that people didn't pick up their dog shit?

[Seth Meyers]

It's crazy.

[Josh]

I can't believe anytime it ever happens and it happens around where I live all the time. And my wife just, like, is furious and wants to set up cameras everywhere. And I'm not. I'm kind of with her.

[Julie Dreyfus]

It's sort of appalling. But I mean, it's sort of. It's kind of like people smoking and then just throwing their cigarette butts on.

[Charlie Hall]

The ground that I like.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Oh, you do?

[Josh]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I like when they can throw it with their aims Good enough. They can make it land in the dog shit.

[Charlie Hall]

Yep.

[Seth Meyers]

Like when it sticks up so the flames go. The smoke's coming up.

[Pashi]

Yeah.

[Josh]

So it looks like a cupcake with a birthday candle.

[Henry Hall]

Aw.

[Seth Meyers]

That's what the kids. It's a teen thing. It's called Cupcake in. Where you try to throw a lit cigarette into a dog shit.

[Henry Hall]

And then with my cousin's sneeze on it too. I know a cousin who could give a good sneeze to that cupcake.

[Seth Meyers]

Thank you, guys. Check out season four of Wiser Than Me. And gentlemen, it was great to see you both. This was just wonderful.

[Henry Hall]

Thank you guys so much.

[Julie Dreyfus]

It was fun to talk to you. I hope it edits together good.

[Josh]

Oh, yeah, there's no edits. No edits.

[Julie Dreyfus]

Oh, sorry. Yeah, for that. All right, well, sorry. Okay.

[Josh]

All right.

[Seth Meyers]

Go cats. Go Cats.

[Charlie Hall]

Go cats. Baby.

[Narrator/Poet]

Sat snowman.

[Pashi]

Went to Africa for fun.

[Narrator/Poet]

Told the boys they couldn't run Cause they got big cats.

Should have thought about that.

Went to a rainforest with tarantulas where fish swim up your urethras better than Thanksgiving it doesn't DC when a plague descended on their family oh it knocked them down just like dominoes.

Everyone was sick uncles and aunts the three year old cousin their pants oh only bright spot was the pumpkin piece was just pristine perfect and hot until his knees covered it with snot no if you want bad let's talk new years.

When the boys were really Young.

[Josh]

Was.

[Narrator/Poet]

The Y2K year.

With the total lack of cheer Julia saw that it was clear.

Had to get these boys out of here.

Do you believe in the abominable snowman.

Brad said I don't and if you do then you have probably gone cuckoo Brad and wrest said I do so that means.

You think I'm crazy which I can't stand so now I gotta kill you dead o that made little Charlie cry.

He thrashed and kicked in his car seat scream demon don't kill daddy oh for some reason Julia just left.

A case of giggle she had caught Brad said stop but she could not know.