Listener Episode #14: Pikes Peak Mishaps & A Dog Left Behind

Summary

Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers Episode: Listener Episode #14: Pikes Peak Mishaps & A Dog Left Behind
Release Date: June 26, 2025

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Introduction

In this heartwarming yet chaotic episode of Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers, hosts Seth Meyers and Josh Meyers delve into the unpredictable nature of family vacations. Balancing cherished memories with unforeseen disasters, the brothers share their personal travel woes and engage with listener-submitted stories that highlight the hilarities and hardships of traveling with loved ones.

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Josh’s Misadventures: Shelburne Falls to Philadelphia

The episode kicks off with Josh recounting a seemingly serene family trip to Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, celebrating his father and stepmother's 30th anniversary in Brattleboro, Vermont.

• Hanging the Bird Feeder
  [00:46] Josh describes a mundane yet frustrating task: installing a bird feeder equipped with a camera.

  "Every three minutes she gets an alert because there's a squirrel just totally pillaging this bird feeder, and they're definitely gonna wreck it within a week."

  • Challenge: Constant interruptions by squirrels sabotaging the feeder turned what was meant to be a delightful addition into a nuisance.

• Traveling Home: A Series of Unfortunate Events
  As the family begins their 20-hour journey back, complications arise that test patience and resilience.
  [02:10]

  "She always finds it very difficult to say goodbye. And so as a result of that, she sort of hangs out for a little bit longer than one should hang out when you have a flight to catch."
  Josh finds himself frustrated with Mackenzie's reluctance to leave, leading to missed check-in times and further delays.

• Flight Fiascos
  [03:14]
  The brothers encounter a cascade of flight issues:

  "We're sort of taxiing and they're like, actually, no, this plane's no bueno. We're gonna have everybody get off and find another plane."

  • Mechanical Problems: Multiple engine issues and crew fatigue prevent timely departures, forcing an impromptu overnight stay.

• Hotel Horror Story
  [06:08]
  Staying at a less-than-ideal hotel, Josh faces a creepy encounter:

  "There is a bug on the wall that looks like a thumb with a thousand legs on it. Yeah, man, it really had me freaked out."
  His efforts to peacefully remove the bug turn into a sleepless night, compounded by the stress of constant flight delays.

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Listener Stories: Tales of Travel Turbulence

1. Chris from Massachusetts: The VW Camper Catastrophe
Chris shares a vivid childhood memory of a road trip in a 1973 VW camper to Colorado, highlighting both the adventure and peril.

• Leaving Shanti Behind
  [13:09]

  "We took in an amazing view and then immediately realized that we'd left our dog at the gas station."
  The family’s oversight leads to a frantic return trip to rescue their beloved golden retriever, Shanti.

• Brake Failures in the Rockies
  [15:59]
  The situation escalates as the camper’s brakes fail amidst the treacherous Rocky Mountain roads:

  "We were basically a marble on a marble run. It's amazing that we didn't go airborne."
  Chris, acting as the eldest sibling, distracts his crying younger siblings to help manage the crisis, ultimately ensuring the family's safety and Shanti's retrieval.

2. Jana from Texas: The Spit-and-Dip Airport Incident
Jana recounts a 2012 family flight to Sarasota, Florida, where her mother's inadvertent ingestion of her brother's dip (tobacco spit) creates an unforgettable travel mishap.

• Tobacco Troubles on a Flight
  [19:02]

  "She had accidentally grabbed my brother's cup, which he had turned into a portable spittoon."
  In a moment of confusion, Jana's mother drinks from the contaminated cup, leading to a distressing yet humorous situation onboard.

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Hosts’ Reflections and Interactions

Seth and Josh engage in light-hearted banter, reflecting on the unpredictability of travel and the humorous side of mishaps. They discuss the resilience required during travel disruptions and the importance of family support in stressful situations.

• Josh’s Flight Struggles
  Josh laments the lack of courteous treatment from airlines:

  "No one was being treated nicely. There's a lot of... it's a tough situation."
  Seth empathizes, highlighting the shared frustrations travelers face.

• Seth’s Light-Hearted Anecdotes
  Seth shares his enthusiasm for baseball cards and his amusing experiences meeting a young fan, adding a personal touch to the episode's narrative.

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Listener Questions and Audience Engagement

The brothers address listener-submitted questions, further enriching the episode with diverse perspectives and advice.

• Grand Canyon vs. Niagara Falls
  [38:45] Casey from Pittsburgh questions whether Niagara Falls shares the overrated reputation of the Grand Canyon. Seth and Josh weigh in, acknowledging the awe-inspiring nature of such natural wonders while maintaining their viewpoints on their personal merits.

• Family Trip Traditions and Food
  Hosts discuss the role of food in family trips, sharing their own traditions and favorite road trip snacks. Seth highlights Alexi's impressive sandwich-making skills:

  "We just sort of... at this point, if we're traveling with my brother-in-law, you know, we're three and then an aisle and three."
  Josh humorously critiques the idea of handing out hard-boiled eggs to kids on long drives.

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Conclusion

Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers Episode #14 offers a blend of personal anecdotes, listener stories, and engaging conversations that illuminate the joys and challenges of traveling with family. From lost pets in VW campers to unexpected spills on airplanes, Seth and Josh Meyers showcase the unpredictable elements that make family trips unforgettable. Their relatable storytelling and humorous exchanges provide both entertainment and a sense of camaraderie for listeners navigating their own travel adventures.

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Notable Quotes:

• Josh on the bird feeder dilemma:

  "Every three minutes she gets an alert because there's a squirrel just totally pillaging this bird feeder, and they're definitely gonna wreck it within a week."
  (00:46)

• Josh on the plane’s mechanical issues:

  "We're basically a marble on a marble run. It's amazing that we didn't go airborne."
  (15:59)

• Chris on distracting his siblings during the camper crisis:

  "I made my stuffed rabbit, Snuggie Bunny, dramatically fight himself over and over again, and that worked pretty well."
  (14:00)

• Jana on her mother's accidental dip drink:

  "She had accidentally grabbed my brother's cup, which he had turned into a portable spittoon."
  (19:02)

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Timestamps:

• 00:00 - 02:00: Introduction and Josh’s initial trip frustrations.
• 02:00 - 07:55: Return trip flight delays and hotel stay woes.
• 13:09 - 16:00: Listener story from Chris about the VW camper and Shanti.
• 19:02 - 21:10: Listener story from Jana about the dip incident on a flight.
• 38:45 - 46:32: Listener questions on Grand Canyon vs. Niagara Falls and family trip food traditions.
• 46:12 - 51:33: Additional audience interactions and humorous exchanges.

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Final Thoughts

This episode underscores that while family trips can be fraught with unexpected challenges, they often become the very stories that strengthen family bonds and provide lasting memories. Whether dealing with mischievous squirrels or accidental spitting incidents, Seth and Josh Meyers remind us that a good sense of humor and flexibility are essential for navigating the unpredictable landscape of family travel.

Transcript

[Seth Meyers]

Hi, Baji.

[Josh Myers]

Hi, Zufi.

[Seth Meyers]

Sometimes you take a family trip and it's lovely and it creates memories, and other times you are just you all by yourself and you just have a disaster travel day. We're catching you at the end of 11 hours.

[Josh Myers]

I mean, it's longer than that. All told. It's closer to 20, I think. All told.

[Seth Meyers]

But 20 hours to get from. You were in Kathmandu?

[Josh Myers]

No, I was in Western. I was in beautiful Shelburne Falls in western Massachusetts, MacKenzie's hometown. We were there for her dad and stepmother's 30th anniversary party, which was lovely up in Brattleboro, Vermont.

[Seth Meyers]

Gotcha.

[Josh Myers]

Spent some time with MacKenzie's mom. We went for some dog walks. Her mom and I watched the end of the French Open, which was very exciting. Did some weeding in the garden. Hung up this. This bird feeder with a camera.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, my God, this is the most boring vacation. I'm sorry. For our listeners, I was trying to be polite to get to Josh's disastrous travel day, but once he starts talking about hanging up a bird feeder.

[Josh Myers]

A bird feeder that mom and dad gave to my mother in law for Christmas that we finally put up because it has a camera in it and it sends alerts anytime there's movement so you can see the birds. And every three minutes she gets an alert because there's a squirrel just totally pillaging this bird feeder, and they're definitely gonna wreck it within a week.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay, so that's good. So it was wasted time.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. Although, I mean, it's sort of a burn on mom and dad. It's a burn on Dad, I think. I mean, it was a great idea for a gift. But anyhow, so yesterday we're flying back, um, through. We fly to Bradley, which is in Hartford, Connecticut. Uh, we got a layover I never, like, take.

[Seth Meyers]

So wait, you fly from Western Mass to Bradley?

[Josh Myers]

No, you drive down to Bradley. It's like an hour drive.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh Myers]

And mackenzie loves her parents, as you know.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh Myers]

You do. As we do.

[Seth Meyers]

Feels like there's a big old but coming.

[Josh Myers]

She always finds it very difficult to say goodbye. And so as a result of that, she sort of hangs out for a little bit longer than one should hang out when you have a flight to catch.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh Myers]

And I sort of am always.

[Seth Meyers]

I know this ends badly and I'm still stressed.

[Josh Myers]

Well, I'm the bad guy, because I'm like, hey, we gotta go.

[Seth Meyers]

Hey, people who listen to the podcast, who hear Josh constantly tell me to get back to talking about trips, Are you surprised to hear he's the bad guy sound off in the comments.

[Josh Myers]

So her dad drives us down to Bradley, and MacKenzie has a big piece of checked luggage that her mother had borrowed last time she went back. We had some stuff from our wedding that we were bringing back, so we had to check a bag. We get there, I'm already checked in. Mackenzie has said for whatever reason, she wasn't able to check in online. She goes to the kiosk. We are one minute too late to check her bag.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay.

[Josh Myers]

And if you thought I was the bad guy before, you're really going to think I'm the bad guy now. Because I got to get back to do not only this podcast, but to get our dogs flying through Philly. We're like, pretty late to this flight as it is. Like, if your bag can't go on, the flight's going to leave soon. So they're like, we can't get you on this plane. We can route you through Chicago and you'll land in LA at around one in the morning to mackenzie. And they say it like, we have one seat on this flight. We can get you a seat. So I'm like, well, I should go. Like, I'm sorry, but I'm going to go to Philly and I'm going to get home. I'll be home by 8:30. Tough sledding for you. So we have a sort of tearful goodbye. I get on my plane, get to Philly, no problem. I get an update from MacKenzie that says, actually, she can fly through Charlotte and she'll probably be home at 10:30. I'm like, great. I get on my next plane. I'm ready to take off. We're sort of taxiing and they're like, actually, one of these engines is being finicky. So we're going to pull back into the gate. We just need to wait for a gate. So we wait for a gate, get in there, they run it, and they're like, we think we fixed the problem. We're going to be on our way here in a minute. I'm like, great. And they're like, actually, no, this plane's no bueno. We're gonna. Everybody's gotta get off. We're gonna find another plane. So get off, wait around for a good long time. Then they get us on another plane. They're like, hey, here we go. You know, you're probably gonna get home around, you know, 10:30. So Mackenzie and I are like, oh, we'll, you know, we'll ride home together. This will be great. Yeah, Mechanical issue. On that plane. They're like, we think we can fix it. They fix it. And eventually they're like, well, the crew has been working too long, so we can't fly tonight. So you gotta go to a Hotel. It's 12:30. My new flight's gonna be at 5 in the morning.

[Seth Meyers]

Oof.

[Josh Myers]

So they say they've emailed us all these vouchers to go to hotels. It'll be very simple. I'm looking. I got no emails. I call this number. I don't know why. I'm one of the few that doesn't have an email. They tell me they've sent it again. They sent it to this other email account that I have that I never use. I'm not getting them. I have no idea. I'm getting other emails. I go up to talk to the woman at the desk who's been dealing with a bunch of angry people, and she's like, it says that it's been texted to you. And I'm like, texted? And I look and I do have a text, but I've been getting texts from the airline all day saying your flight's delayed. And they just keep moving back a half an hour. So I haven't been paying attention to those. I go, I had my choice of two hotels. I picked the one that was closer. Said it was good call. That's what I would mile away. But that's maybe as the crow flies. It feels like it's about a 20 minute drive to get there.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay.

[Josh Myers]

And I get there, real dirty carpets in the hallway, real sketchy. I get into my room. There is a bug on the wall that looks like a thumb with a thousand legs on it.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, that's not good.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. Man, it really had me freaked out. So I was freaked out. I don't like to kill a bug. I usually like to, like, get it under a glass and get it outside.

[Seth Meyers]

Sounds like this bug might have been like hoping for someone to end their sweet misery.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah, well, that's what I did.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay, good.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah, so I took the bug down with like, I grabbed a little face towel. And then I was like, no, I need a full size towel for this. Like, I don't. That.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, wow.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah, because I didn't want it to fall. I didn't want. I didn't want to miss it. And then after I killed that bug, I tried to like, sleep for an hour and a half, but I turned the lights off and I was just thinking about that bug the whole time.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, because they don't. They tend to not travel. You know, solo.

[Josh Myers]

Solo. No.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. You were like, I bet at this point, the thumb bugs might be sending out a search party.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. So I couldn't sleep. I turned on a 30 for 30. I watched a very good 30 for 30 on the Orlando Magic.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay.

[Josh Myers]

Which was. Which was fun, I guess. And then. Yeah. 5:00am flight. So I didn't sleep for, like, 20 hours. And then I slept on the whole flight here, which did not have a chair that tipped back. And I, like, walked in the door maybe 25 minutes ago.

[Seth Meyers]

So I feel like that, you know, I'm hoping we have, like, this breakthrough or people in the travel industry recognize you as someone who has a travel adjacent podcast.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Treat you a little nicer.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. I mean, no one was being treated nicely.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh Myers]

There's a lot of. Yeah. It's a tough situation. I will acknowledge that.

[Seth Meyers]

But was it. Was the hotel called. Was it a motel 6,000 legs.

[Josh Myers]

I think it was called the Microtel, which is also not like, not a huge name that you. Oh, we love our Microtels. And I also. I sort of brag that I'm. That Mackenzie will be skittish about, you know, a weird hotel room with, like, a weird blanket. And I'm like, I can sleep anywhere and I cannot sleep at this place. Also, I thought, you know, Mackenzie might learn a lesson for this, that, like, we got to the airport late. You had to fly on a different thing. She got home last night around midnight. She got to normal life. Yeah. So if she had made our original flight, she would have been getting home with me right now.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. And probably. Probably living in the same sea of bug nightmares that you are going to have to deal with the rest of your life. Yeah.

[Josh Myers]

There was a woman who was like, why are you even going to a hotel? Like, just stay at the gate. It's 12:30. You have to be back here at like, 3. And I was like, if I could lay in bed for two hours, I'm going to lay in a bed for two hours.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh Myers]

And I was really jealous of that woman and all the people, all my friends that I saw sitting around the terminal when I got back in there, because I can sleep on a terminal floor. And I don't think there are huge bugs there. And there are people there, and it's safe.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm impressed they let. Because I remember when we talked to Kristen Bell about the fact or Dax, I can't remember who told us the story about how they make. They cleared out Logan Airport. They were, you know, they had to wait so, you know, I, I, I think the very fact that they were letting you chill at the Philly airport, I tipped my cap.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. I mean, TSA didn't open till 3:30. I, part of me wanted to go right back when I got to the hotel, but they weren't, I wasn't gonna be able to get through tsa, so I was just gonna be in that like check in area, which doesn't have like carpeted floors. Not that those carpets are, you know, totally what you want to be sleeping on.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, I'm sorry, Pashi, thanks for hustling back to do the podcast.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah, I'm, I'm going to get a big nap after this. I'm having my first cup of coffee in a long time and. Yeah, and I'm excited to listen to some listener stories.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I was going to say we needed to get you back at this time because we had a guest schedule, but of course we don't. It's just listener stories and we really could have done this at any time, but here we are. Can't put the genie back in the box.

[Josh Myers]

The schedule's not that easy to work around. You're a busy man.

[Seth Meyers]

That's true, that's true. I got a kind of busy day today.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, you know what I'm doing today?

[Josh Myers]

Who's that?

[Seth Meyers]

I'm going to brag a little bit about what I'm doing today.

[Josh Myers]

Okay.

[Seth Meyers]

So, you know, I grew up, I enjoyed my baseball cards back in the day.

[Josh Myers]

Oh, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And there's this, there's a new kind of baseball card called Allen and Ginter.

[Josh Myers]

Nerd alert.

[Seth Meyers]

And yep, totally ring the bell. And they, they sort of look like old. If you're watching this on YouTube, I'll show it. They look like sort of old cigar cards. See them?

[Josh Myers]

Oh yeah, that's cool.

[Seth Meyers]

And, and they do, they do non baseball players. And so I'm gonna have a card in the set this year.

[Josh Myers]

Wow.

[Seth Meyers]

And today I'm gonna go to the, to the offices, the fanatics offices, who owns Tops. And I'm gonna sign a bunch of my cards because they, they insert signed cards into random packs. So I mean, obviously a lot of people now are pausing the pod to pre order the Allen and Ginter set for the chance to get one of my autograph cards.

[Josh Myers]

Are you gonna wear like an old timey baseball uniform?

[Seth Meyers]

They already, they picked a photo. I don't know if I picked the right one or not. I obsessed over it. It's just like me in a sweater at the desk.

[Josh Myers]

Okay.

[Seth Meyers]

So there's not in action.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. Do you think there are some kids out there who are gonna be less than psyched to pull a Seth Meyers card?

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, we. Alexi gave. Alexi gave the commencement at her old high school. I think I've talked about this.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. But she did a bang up job.

[Seth Meyers]

And it was a really cool thing, which is there was this kid. I was sitting in the front row, and one of the graduates. I'll brag on behalf of him. He was valedictorian.

[Josh Myers]

Okay. Yeah, bravo.

[Seth Meyers]

But I noticed him notice me.

[Josh Myers]

Oh.

[Seth Meyers]

Like, his eyes lit up when he saw me in the front row. And so then at the end of the event, he came over with his family and asked for a picture. And I was like, of course, dude. And then he was like, oh, man, I couldn't believe you were here. And I was like, telling the people next to me, I'm like, that's Seth Meyers. And they were like, who? I'm like, oh, I didn't need that part of the story. Feel like it was. It was pretty cool that you recognized me. I don't think we have to talk about how you're an outlier.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah, but he just. He's in the know. He's one of the. The cool kids. He's got a. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And based on his grades, you know, I might just say, you know, the future's a little bit brighter if you engage with Layton. All right, so we got some listener stories.

[Josh Myers]

Great.

[Seth Meyers]

Let's hear. Let's get them. Roll, Sam. Roll them.

[Chris]

Hey, guys. Chris here from Massachusetts. So when I was maybe in third grade, my dad got his hands on a swim. Sweet red 1973 VW camper, which dictated our family vacations for years to come. So my parents, my younger brother and sister, and our elderly golden retriever and I would pile in and we'd drive all the way from Massachusetts to Colorado. These weren't what you would consider quick trips, as we'd kind of chug along at a cool 35 miles an hour across the country. We'd stop midway in Iowa to meet our cousins at Clear Lake, which is where Buddy Holly's plane crashed, which has nothing to do with the story, but we love taking that boat out going tubing. And our golden retriever, Shanti, loved to swim and wade around. Well, one year, as we continued to Colorado, we stopped for gas before the camper took on the task of climbing way up into the Rocky Mountains, which in that VW was kind of like a box turtle ascending a ladder. Not Fast going up there, but we gassed up. We let the dog go to the bathroom, we grabbed some snacks, and then we set off. It was slow going, but the VW is getting it done. The roads were steep and narrow and winding. If you look out the window, there were just cliffs right out the passenger side. But after what seemed like a few hours, we made it to the peak, and we took in an amazing view and then immediately realized that we'd left our dog at the gas station. You might wonder how we didn't notice that she was gone. Look, we loved her, but she was old and quiet, and somebody bought a beige duffel bag, and it was easy to confuse the two. So we got back in the vw and we headed back down the Rocky Mountains to fetch our dog. It was then due to the altitude that the brakes stopped working. We were free, careening down the mountain. If my dad pumped the brakes a little bit, he gets some resistance, but there was really no stop in the vw. We were basically a marble on a marble run. It's amazing that we didn't care off the edge and go airborne. But being the oldest child, a seasoned, immature third grader, my parents instructed me to be in charge of distracting my little brother and sister, who were scream crying about the missing dog. My parents needed to keep focused on keeping us all alive on this impromptu roller coaster. And it was my job to distract the kids, being a kid myself. But I made my stuffed rabbit, Snuggie Bunny, dramatically fight himself over and over again, and that worked pretty well. As a side note, the cousins I mentioned before would always ridicule me for my stuffed animal being named Snuggie, as that's what apparently they call wedgies in the Midwest. Kind of like a soda versus pop thing. I remember their version of Dr. Pepper was Mr. Pibb, which was obviously inferior. I don't think Mr. Pibb even attended medical school. But anyways, your listeners are probably good in furs who can figure out that we did not plummet to our death, since I'm leaving this voice note. And once we got to a lower altitude, the brakes started working again and got to the gas station. Our old golden retriever, Shanti, was just sitting there exactly in the same spot we'd left her. And this might have scared most families off from getting into this death trap and taking it into the Rockies ever again, but we continue to go back every single year.

[Seth Meyers]

Wow.

[Chris]

Thanks for listening and love the podcast.

[Seth Meyers]

Bye now. I have a theory, Josh, and you know dogs better than me.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

What Are the chances that Shanti was smart enough to be like, I think these breaks are gonna give out in the altitude.

[Josh Myers]

They do sense things. Dogs can smell things.

[Seth Meyers]

They sense things. It was just like, I'm gonna stay here. Yeah.

[Josh Myers]

I don't. I mean, I certainly am not a car guy, but I can't imagine what it is about altitude that makes your brakes stop working.

[Seth Meyers]

But yeah, that. That feels like maybe a lie the rental place told afterwards. Right? Oh, y. Oh, you can't take it up an altitude. What a. What a trip.

[Josh Myers]

What a good dog.

[Seth Meyers]

I. I love that thing of an older sibling having to make other siblings calm down. And the boys often take it upon themselves when Addie's crying to try to calm her. Uhhuh. By making her laugh. And the only downside is their immediate go to. Is show her their butts. So if Addie's like. If Addie like, skins her knee and she's like, they're like, add, daddy, look. And they just like dance around with their butts out. And I will say works 95% of the time.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. I mean, yeah, it is. You just need something. You need a. A trump card you can just pull out and play. And your butt is. If you know it. If you know it's working.

[Seth Meyers]

And they are. You know, their. Their butts are full comedy right now. You know what I mean? They're. They're sort of fre. They're fresh butts. They. They're fresh butts that have not been damaged by time and sadness. And they're just like a good. They're just good, funny butts. Yeah.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. Funny little boy butts.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh Myers]

The. I do love a car that can only go 35 miles an hour across the country. That's so funny. Yeah, you just. You're definitely in that far right lane and someone's probably still mad at you.

[Seth Meyers]

I remember once my sister in law was dating a guy who was a pilot, but he knew how to fly. He wasn't like a full time pilot, but I remember once he said, like, I found this, like, little plane I want to buy. It's got like, room for, like, bunk beds in the back. And he like, showed me this like, old, like 1950s, like, little plane that was like, like bigger than you think of when you think of a little plane. Like, it was like big, high ceilings.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I'm like, that's amazing. I'm like, what's the downside? And he was like, it like, goes basically as fast as a car. I'm like, oh, that's not good. Thank you for that. Great story. I'm glad you and your family are okay.

[Josh Myers]

I'm glad you found your dog.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, yeah.

[Josh Myers]

That would have been a major bummer.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Dogs need to learn a lesson, though. You can't just do that. You can't do that. I think the duffel bag thing is. Do you think the dog also was like, stay, stay, stay still. Maybe they'll think the bag is me. And now we're going to take a quick break to hear from one of our sponsors. Support comes from uplift desk. Hey, Bashi.

[Josh Myers]

Hey, Sufi.

[Seth Meyers]

I went to your house last time I was in la.

[Josh Myers]

Oh, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And you know what? I'm still talking about my desk. Your desk?

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I was kind of blown away when I saw it up close and personal. It was just. It's just a fantastic piece of apparatus.

[Josh Myers]

It's a fantastic piece of apparatus. It's also, it's beautiful. I don't know if it's improper to love a desk, but I love this desk.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, I think in this modern era we can love whatever. You know, people are falling in love with AI, they're falling in love with desks.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

You feel better? I think this is. Not only are you working better, is it safe to say you're feeling better thanks to your uplift desk?

[Josh Myers]

I'm definitely feeling better. And I've been so curious for so long about an upright desk, a standing desk, and it fits what I want in a desk. I'm standing up, I'm doing my work. I stand on this balance board that keeps my, you know, my muscles twitching, which just makes me less lethargic throughout the day. I am more active and I feel more productive. I feel more focused.

[Seth Meyers]

I got one of those lie down desks, which is a disaster. You lie on the floor and then they put the desk on top of you.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And I feel like, I mean, the speed at which I realized uplift desk has it figured out.

[Josh Myers]

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[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, that sounds good.

[Josh Myers]

To get the hammock. So, yeah, uplift desk. I'm a big, big fan.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Jana]

Hi y' all, My name is Jana and I've wanted to do this ever since y' all started this podcast and I found out you had listeners episodes. You probably can tell I'm from Texas because you know, the y' all thing. Specifically the Bay Area. Like the Bay area of San Francisco, but the Bay Area of the Gulf Coast. We were a family of five. Me being the well rounded middle child. I had a fabulous older sister and and an annoying but cute younger brother. We went on family trips every summer in a station wagon pulling a pop up camper. This particular year, 1963, I think my little brother was probably 3, so I was 8, my sister 10. Our camper called it the Tilton Hilton. Had an axle problem that year pretty much into the beginning of the trip. Too far to turn back. So we left it at an auto repair shop and loaded all our stuff on top of the station wagon. I don't remember where the final destination was. It was all about the journey anyway. But we stopped at Pike's Peak in Colorado. Along the way, as we ascended toward the top of the little road which was very curvy and had severe drop offs, the station wagon began to crap out. Well, my dad was having none of that, so he pulled off when he found a spot and we unloaded everything off the top and hid it in some bushes. From there we continued our ascent. Eventually the wagon started to crap out again. That sent my dad off the rails. He stopped in the middle of the road because by then there was nowhere to pull off and unloaded the whole family. He left us and continued toward the top of Pike's Peak. We continued also walking. He was. He was gone a long time. He went all the way to the top. He said to turn around. I think he took some time to cool off, but I'm pretty sure he was also enjoying the view. I assume there's a view. We never made it to the top walking. He finally came down and picked us up. Then we went to where our things were stashed and loaded it all back on top of the car and we went on and continued our family trip.

[Seth Meyers]

Amazing. I mean the only. Again, I'm happy for Jana, but it would have been the funniest ending if she had said and that was the Last we saw of them, and we realized the whole thing had been planned as a way to abandon us.

[Josh Myers]

And then a family of bears had all of our luggage and clothing.

[Seth Meyers]

I like the tilt and Hilton, I'll tell you. You know why they had an axle problem? What's that? Altitude.

[Josh Myers]

It can't go up these. You can't take cars to elevation.

[Seth Meyers]

No, you can't do that.

[Josh Myers]

That's what planes are for.

[Seth Meyers]

You know when I've had an axle problem on a trip?

[Josh Myers]

When? Anytime you bring your middle son. Yeah, Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I would say we. Almost every trip at some point, we're like, we have an axle problem.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Axel was very excited to find out that there's a part of a car that shares his name.

[Josh Myers]

Oh, I bet. Yeah. Does he know about Guns N Roses yet?

[Seth Meyers]

No.

[Josh Myers]

Okay. Yeah, that'll be exciting for him.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, it'll be very exciting for him.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. Because he seems like he'll be into that sort of butt rock.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, totally. And then Ash, who whines about everything, is going to say, why didn't you.

[Josh Myers]

Name me after a rock star?

[Seth Meyers]

And you know what I'm going to tell him was that we did Ashlee Simpson. Go enjoy. There is.

[Josh Myers]

There's a musician named Ash right now. I think it's just Ash.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. Ash has been on my show. Ash is actually really dope.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh Myers]

So there you go.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. You know what? You're right. I don't know why I'm giving Ash a hard time. I should. I don't remember the song, but maybe. Maybe twice. But, yeah, really fun time.

[Josh Myers]

It is great to think of a father who has a goal in mind of we're going to reach this peak and is willing to leave everything behind.

[Seth Meyers]

Well, that's right. You said his goal was we're going to reach the peak. Right. We found out his goal was I'm going to reach the.

[Josh Myers]

I'm going to reach it. Yeah. Because I'm not going to. What's he going to just give the car over to his wife and say, you drive it? I'll. I'll hang back.

[Seth Meyers]

I will say I've definitely been guilty of that thing of, you know, like, go run an air. Like, we. We need toilet paper. Go to the store and, like, I'll, you know, I'll run in. I'll get the toilet paper, and then I'll. I'll just sit in a. In a grocery store parking lot for five minutes staring at the windshield.

[Josh Myers]

Oh, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Just before I, like, rush back.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

So I can Imagine how once you're at the peak of a mountain, this is really so far. I would say if anybody, if there's a takeaway of this listener episode so far, it's like, just don't drive up mountains, like. But mountains are doing everything they can to tell you they're not for you and take the note from the mountain.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah, yeah. But I do think, I mean, when it's. When it's. You got to run to the store and you're running errands and you're sort of doing that, when you've taken on that role, I think you've. You've earned five minutes in the parking lot.

[Seth Meyers]

You've earned five minutes. You've.

[Josh Myers]

Gather your thoughts. When you're on a road trip with your whole family, I don't think you've earned having everyone get out of the car and drive it away without them.

[Seth Meyers]

Especially if they're like, you know, they're trying to walk to the top.

[Josh Myers]

Right.

[Seth Meyers]

Alrighty. Let's hear the next one.

[Autumn]

Hi, Seth and Josh. My name is Autumn and I live in Sarasota, Florida, now. But I grew up amidst the fertile fields of northwest Ohio. Most of my family still lives there, in the same village my Swiss German ancestors settled in nearly 200 years ago. A little Steelers. Fun fact. Big Ben Roethlisberger grew up nearby. His stepmom even ran the rec center in my town. So here's my family trip story, which I'm technically not in, but I was the destination, so I hope it counts. In 2012, soon after, I moved to Florida. My parents and my younger brother. He's my only sibling. We were a core four family came to visit me here on the beautiful Gulf coast anytime we traveled, which was not that often, except for an annual trip to Gatlinburg, Tennessee. We always drove for this trip. However, my family opted not to spend 18 hours in a car barreling down I75. They were going to fly, and this would be my brother's first time on an airplane. He was 22. He showed up to the airport with a knife, a can of dipping tobacco in his cargo shorts, and one severely bloodshot eye. He worked in a lumber yard and had been accidentally hit in the face with a 2x4. At least that's what he told us. He knew enough about air travel to put the knife in his check bag, but he figured he could surreptitiously dip on the plane because it wasn't the same as smoking. He thought wrong. The flight attendant quickly spotted him expectorating into a plastic bottle and reminded him that tobacco use of any kind was prohibited on the aircraft. They had a layover in Atlanta and ate some lunch. My brother took this opportunity to reunite with his beloved dip. They boarded their next flight, setting their fast food cups on the floor While they buckled in. Mom reached down, grabbed what she thought was her cup, and took a hearty drink. Well, she had accidentally grabbed my brother's cup, which he had turned into a portable spittoon. Immediately realizing her mistake, mom summoned all her strength and swallowed. She quickly reached for her original cup to wash it down, not realizing that in the intervening a minute, my brother had managed to defile that cup as well. Down the hatch went another full swig of swill. Now, years of working as a nurse had given my mom a superhuman tolerance for disgusting sights and smells, but never had she had to stomach anything quite like this. She managed not to projectile vomit, like that street fair scene in the movie the Sandlot. And she also managed not to wallop my brother, who, to his credit, felt terrible and kept apologizing. Also, the altitude and pressure from the flight had made his bloodshot eye swell and bulge, so perhaps that was his punishment. They made it to Florida, and we had a great time while they were here. I'm happy to say that my brother no longer dips on land or in the air, and he is respectful of all airline rules and regulations. But that trip was the first and last time my family ever flew together. Thanks, guys. I love the podcast. By the way. Your mom's Chex mix recipe sounds just like the one my mom makes. I'm jealous, though, because mine only makes hers during the holidays. And your mom seems to love you enough to make it year round. Must be nice. Thanks.

[Seth Meyers]

That was unbelievable. What a great story.

[Josh Myers]

Dipping is such a thing.

[Seth Meyers]

We've got buddies who, you know, they'll still dip. It's so disgusting.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah, and we did, like, because it's typically at our fantasy football draft, so we'll be together and there's a lot of, like, there's a lot of beer bottles around. There's fewer beer bottles than there used to be. You know, we're drinking a lot of canned water these days.

[Seth Meyers]

It's true.

[Josh Myers]

Like, we're really crushing waters. But all these, you know, bottles and things become perfect receptacles if you're a dipper, and inevitably they just get sort of left around. And if you, you know, if you think this is my long neck beer and if it has any opacity to it, whatever, you could go down A real bad road.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. I'd also even like the best version. The one time I did try to dip, I definitely threw up a long time. So even like not. Not doing it accidentally, I find it disgusting.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah, we. I used to live with our good buddy Ike Barinholtz and Hayes MacArthur and we were having a party one night and Hayes did this where he took a sip of the wrong drink. And Hayes also was a. Was a dipper at the time and he threw up. And then Ike heard about it and heard about why he threw up. And then Ike threw up just from hearing about it. Yeah, it's bad news.

[Seth Meyers]

A movie. Ref. Sandlot. Have you ever seen it?

[Josh Myers]

I have never seen the sandlot and people love it so much.

[Seth Meyers]

Dude, I'd never seen the sandlot and just watched the sandlot with the boys.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And here's the thing. It's fantastic. Yeah, it has. It's the thing. I thought if the kids. If you took your kids to a baseball game or showed them baseball on tv, they'd want to play baseball. It was watching the sandlot. Now all they want to do is go play baseball in the backyard because it's watching kids their age play baseball and have fun. And so it's. I can't believe that upside of it, which has been gigantic. But it's a great movie. The funny thing is it's a kids movie, but it's still. It's a little pervy.

[Josh Myers]

Okay.

[Seth Meyers]

In that, you know, again, it's like, I don't even know how. I'm sure it's in the movie. 10, 11 years old.

[Josh Myers]

Okay.

[Seth Meyers]

In the sandlot. Yeah, but there's like a scene where, you know, three kids are standing on the street and like the cute girl who's like 13 walks by and you know, it's like it's the 50s and so like everybody's dressed like super respectable and everything and she like looks at them and smiles and what, they're all like gaga goo goo. But then she like walks across the street and like the camera just like lingers on her butt. Which I guess like a kid that age is looking at the butt. But the problem is, is you as an adult know that a cameraman who was an adult was pointing it at this 13 year old's.

[Josh Myers]

But. Right. That was maybe, maybe they brought in like. Yeah, a young female cinematographer for that.

[Seth Meyers]

But there's also another scene that is. There's one kid with like big glasses and every time he shows up, Ash was like, axel, it's you. And he's the pervious kid. And Axel loved it. Every time they're like, it's you, Axel. He was, like, just so happy. But it's great. It's so fun. And we've been playing. And we've been playing a lot of wiffle ball the last few weeks, and it's been a blast. Great.

[Josh Myers]

I did go to. When I was just back east, Mackenzie's nephew Oscar had a game. So we drove down to the game and checked it out. And it was like that level of baseball where somebody's sitting on a bucket, like a coach, and they throw you five balls, and if you don't hit any of them, they just put it on a tee, and they're like, here, give it a whack. And, like, kids are running around the bases, like, waving at each other, like the shortstops waving at the kid running from second to third. If you get tagged, you just keep going. There's a lot of, like, people. Kids picking up ground balls and just running it to the base. Because a throw is like, it's never.

[Seth Meyers]

Of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Josh Myers]

But it was really super cute because these kids are excited and don't really know what's going on.

[Seth Meyers]

But that's great. All right. Thanks for the story, and we're glad your mom's okay.

[Josh Myers]

That. That dip, man. I'm a little bit. I guess. I mean, I don't want to say, like, you should be able to dip on a plane, but.

[Seth Meyers]

It'S weird. I didn't think you were going there.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah, I get that you can't smoke on a plane, but I guess now there's also all those spitless tobacco, so people are doing that. I think better to not be spitting.

[Seth Meyers]

I think. Yeah. You should not be allowed to spit into a cup on a plane.

[Josh Myers]

Things have already been a little gross, But I would like to just admonish men in general. Guys go into, like, bathrooms at, like.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah.

[Josh Myers]

They're always spitting spit.

[Seth Meyers]

I think it's like they go to spit. The urination is just like.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

You know, the excuse. So much spitting.

[Josh Myers]

There's so much spitting. There's so much spitting at urinals. And I. You know, I secretly hope every time I hear it that someone's accidentally gonna spit on their own wiener.

[Seth Meyers]

Okay. Interesting. Again, really some shockers here from you today.

[Josh Myers]

I feel like it would be real comeuppance.

[Seth Meyers]

Do you think that when it happens, are you hoping for a moment where.

[Josh Myers]

Someone'S like, no, absolutely.

[Seth Meyers]

My wiener didn't mean to spit my wiener. I gotta clean this off. I'm gonna miss my flight.

[Josh Myers]

Why do you need to spit? So it's like, gentlemen, please.

[Seth Meyers]

Do you think her mom wanted to be angrier at her son for spitting into her drink, but then remembered as soon as they landed, he would be able to get his knife?

[Josh Myers]

No, I don't think she's afraid like that. That sounds like a nice, wholesome family.

[Seth Meyers]

It does sound like a nice, wholesome family. And it does seem like, you know, I. I think very, very good to know that the son got right.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

You know. Yeah.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. And now we're going to take a quick break to hear from one of our sponsors.

[Seth Meyers]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Seth Meyers]

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[Josh Myers]

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[Lindsay]

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[Seth Meyers]

Here we go. You know what, Pasci? Enough stories. Let's move on to questions.

[Josh Myers]

Sure.

[Casey]

Hi, Seth and Josh. This is Lindsay from Pittsburgh. I love the show. So I want to say that I agree with Seth that I believe the Grand Canyon is overrated.

[Seth Meyers]

Thank you.

[Casey]

But this does come from someone who went to the Grand Canyon when she was 14 with her grandparents, so take that into consideration.

[Seth Meyers]

Great.

[Casey]

So my question for you, and specifically Seth, is if you feel this way about the Grand Canyon, what are your thoughts on Niagara Falls? Do you feel like people should go see Niagara Falls, or is that also overrated? Thanks for taking the time to listen to this. Bye.

[Seth Meyers]

So, yeah, I don't think you need to see it. But what I like about Niagara Falls. What I like about Niagara Falls, I've seen it a couple of times because I've done shows near there.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. Also we went.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I like that. Unlike the Grand Canyon, there's not a second thing to do. You know how people will say, oh, yeah, but did you just look at. You just look at it. Or did you go down Right. Did you spend a week there? Did you kill a snake? Did you eat a snake? Did you live off snakes? Whereas I feel like with Niagara Falls, like, you know, you can take whatever. What is it called? Lady of the Mist or the Maid of the Mistake Made of the Mist, and so you can do that part. But I ultimately think if you say you've seen Niagara Falls, no one is pressing you to have done more with it.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. I don't know. I mean. Well, you know, you do know, and I know. I think all of these things are worth seeing. There's something about these natural wonders, these things where the scope and the scale of them is, you know, somewhat beyond comprehension. Until you see it, you could, you know, you could look at it on tv. You could watch, you know, a great Ken Burns documentary about the national parks. But then going there and sort of seeing these things is. Is a different deal. Yeah, I mean, if you.

[Seth Meyers]

I believe that. I believe your thesis is a Falls premise.

[Josh Myers]

Next question. Hello.

[Listener]

I'm a huge fan of the pod, and I was wondering about the role of food in your family trips. Some families are more live to eat versus eat to live. But I'm curious, you know, how much of your trip centers around food and any traditions that you guys might have, aside from your mom's chex mix, which I know is a fan favorite. But anyway, we'd love to know about your must haves, your road trip snacks, anything you and your family participate in that is tradition or that you look forward to. Anyway, thank you. I love the pod.

[Seth Meyers]

I'll tell you when we travel now, Alexi will make a sleeve of eight sandwiches. And they're really good and it's really nice to. We just sort of again, you know, at this point, if we're traveling with my brother in law, you know, we're three and then an aisle and three. And there's a lot of passing of the sandwiches. And you know, the bread is toasted, mustard, pickle, salami, turkey. Very strong sandwich game.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah, I like that. So you'll. She'll toast a sandwich and then you might eat it a couple hours later.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, wrap it up, toast it. But it's still, you know, it still has that crunch to it.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

So I love her sandwiches. Here's the thing I despise sometimes if we have to leave really early in the morning to drive somewhere, maybe before the kids have time to have a proper breakfast.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

We'll give them a hard boiled egg in the car.

[Josh Myers]

Oh, what a bad idea.

[Seth Meyers]

Just kids eating hard boiled eggs. No to the. Thank you.

[Josh Myers]

Are they already shelled or did they shell?

[Seth Meyers]

They're. They are shit. No, they're not. They have shells on them. Then I think we're shelling the eggs and then handing the unshelled egg to them.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

I don't hate eating a hard boiled egg, but I think hard boiled eggs, here's, I think the proper way to eat them. You have to take it and go into an empty bank vault and then you lock the door so that no one has to watch you eat the egg. You should probably turn the lights off just in case.

[Josh Myers]

But yeah, my first day on that 70s show, there was a table read and there was sort of this like brunch laid out at this table in the sort of lobby before we went into this room to read it. And I got there early because I was nervous. And the next person there was Tommy Chong. And Tommy Chong grabbed a hard boiled egg from this table and it was like it broke into the smallest pieces imaginable. And I feel like I watched him for 20 minutes just take the tiniest piece of egg and like, just build this little sort of hill just trying to get to a hard boiled egg. It was really the best possible way to meet Tommy Chong.

[Seth Meyers]

I feel like eggs and oranges, you know, right away, if you've got if you're in for it. You know what I mean?

[Josh Myers]

Oh, an orange for sure.

[Seth Meyers]

When you get a bad orange, you're like, God damn it, I'm going to be here all day opening this fucking orange.

[Josh Myers]

I love the. That's the second shout out from a listener to Moms Party Mix.

[Seth Meyers]

I know. Yeah. I'm glad that's gone national. But I would say I again, I do remember the excitement of, you know, any place where you could order food at a pool as a kid and again, never ordering much beyond, you know, a hamburger and french fries. But I remember that being sort of thrilling.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

And, and, and, you know, I think we've talked about what was the rocky beach in Marblehead.

[Josh Myers]

There was Crocker park, and then there was.

[Seth Meyers]

Oh, gosh, wasn't that Prescott? But there was some of. There was maybe Prescott where they had lime Rickey's was the drink you could get. And then they. The hot dogs, they sort of, again, grilled hot dog bun with the hot dog had been cooked so that it had, like, sort of split down the middle. That kind of hot dog. Yeah. So, you know, those are. There are, like, vacation foods that I remember from specific places. Yeah, but we weren't like, we weren't built around, like, a foodie culture back then.

[Josh Myers]

No. But I do think now if we go somewhere, I think you more than anyone else will sort of, you know, particularly if we're doing, like, an adult trip. You'll find some good restaurants.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, we. There was a Tepka was.

[Josh Myers]

Oh, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

The vegan Polish place in Pittsburgh. Polish vegan restaurant and Pittsburgh. That sort of made the New York Times list of the 100 best restaurants in America. And it was very exciting to know that I was going to Pittsburgh with you. And. And it was amazing.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. So, yeah, we do. You know, there's a little. A little bit of foodie tourism, but I'm. I'm definitely more eat to live. So.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah, I live to eat. I will say that. I think I'm live to eat.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Yeah. But, you know, your way is fine, too.

[Josh Myers]

Thanks, man.

[Seth Meyers]

Let's hear our next question.

[Listener]

Hi, Josh and Seth. My name is Casey. I'm from Georgia. Huge fan of the podcast today. I have a question for you guys. I'm wondering, what is your significant other's favorite slash funniest family trip memory? So, Seth, what is Alexi's favorite memory? And then, Josh, what is Mackenzie's? I love hearing the core four stories from when you guys were growing up, but I think it Would be really interesting to hear from their perspective what some more recent family trip memories are that they have. I know they might not necessarily want to be on the podcast, but I don't know if they would be willing to relay that through you guys. I just think it would be neat to hear from their perspective. Huge fan. Thanks so much.

[Seth Meyers]

I will tell you Alexi's new favorite. Did I tell you what happened to me when we went on the Rio Grande in kayaks?

[Josh Myers]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Ugh. So again, it's. Sometimes it's just exactly what the guy who thinks the Grand Canyon's a waste of time would do, which is we went on the Rio Grande in kayaks. We were in New Mexico. It was a beautiful day. We get on these kayaks. The only person who didn't have their own kayak was Addy, who sat in Alexi's front, you know, in her lap on her kayak. But Ash had his own, Axel had his own. And it's just sort of lazy river vibes. And I would say six minutes into a two and a half hour kayak ride, I hit the only tree in the whole river and fall out and lose my phone. And everybody's like, oh, my God, what happened? I was like. And here. Can I tell you a lie I told you?

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

Like, three minutes before it happened, Alexi said, get a picture of me and Axel. So I took my phone out.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

To take a picture of them. But then I still had it out because I wanted to look at my phone. So when it happened. When it happened, I said. And I was like, oh, by the way, I fell over and, like, I fully was out. But, like, it was not. It's not deep. It's like up to your waist. And it was. It was a hot day, so I wasn't, like, cold or uncomfortable. And my phone. It was also the good news. The river was moving so quickly and the water was so, you know, dark. It was immediately gone. There was no, like, let's find it. Right, right, right. Which. That was nice.

[Josh Myers]

That sounds super nice.

[Seth Meyers]

Everybody's like, what happened? I was like, oh, I just took a picture of Alexi and Ash and then my phone fell. And they were like, oh, my God, that sucks. But it was not. I was like, fully like, yeah, that.

[Josh Myers]

You know what that's like? That's like trying to spit into a urinal and hitting your wing, getting a.

[Seth Meyers]

Little bit on your wiener. And the only other thing I'll say about, like, one of my favorite things about our wedding is because this is why I want to get my father in law on the podcast to talk about family trips that he took with my wife and then have her on to rebut his memory. Because his toast at our wedding started with, we've had so many great memories. I'll never forget when we went to Barcelona and my wife fully heckled him and said, we've never been to Barcelona. He was like, what? No.

[Josh Myers]

Alrighty.

[Seth Meyers]

And then just, like, moved on. It's like, what a weird choice to, like, reference a trip that was like, maybe we did.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. I don't know. I mean, I feel like Mackenzie would be. Would be happy to jump on this podcast, but I know that she and her mother used to always take an annual trip to this place called Cook's cabins on Cape Cod. Say that three times fast. And it was just like these sort of, like, little beach cabins, and the same people would be there sort of every year on that particular weekend. I feel like it was right after Labor Day, and there were these big sand dunes, and you just sort of, like, hang out with the people that you sort of knew from year to year and hang out at the beach, and those girls like to sunbathe and sit in the sand. And so I know that has a soft spot Mackenzie's heart, but I bet.

[Seth Meyers]

Her favorite trip is the time you shamed her for having a big old suitcase, and then you had to go to a hotel in Philly with a big old shame bug while she got up.

[Josh Myers]

Shame her for the size of her suitcase. She made us late.

[Seth Meyers]

Will you say, say this three times fast again?

[Josh Myers]

Say this three. Say that three times fast.

[Seth Meyers]

That, that, that.

[Josh Myers]

Go on.

[Seth Meyers]

I mean, it would have been better if I'd done it when you first said it.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah, no, it's nice to tee up.

[Seth Meyers]

It's a good thing. I think everybody. Everybody can do that for the rest of their lives. Anyway. Do it again.

[Josh Myers]

Say that three times fast.

[Seth Meyers]

Da, da, da. It's the best. It's still fun. I already did it. It was still super fun to do.

[Josh Myers]

Well, thanks, everybody.

[Seth Meyers]

Thank you.

[Josh Myers]

Those are great stories. Yeah. I feel like we almost had a puker in there, but it wasn't a puker. It's nice to get through these without a puker.

[Seth Meyers]

Without a puker.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Meyers]

All right. Love you, Pashi.

[Josh Myers]

Love you, Sufi.

[Seth Meyers]

Thanks for the questions and stories, everybody.

[Josh Myers]

Yeah. Love you, listeners.

[Listener]

What's with these listeners going on trips, Two ladies and a dude having some issues whenever they get up into high altitudes in a car or up in a plane. That's where Pa Chris from Mass had a VW camper and a dog that I guess looked like a bag she got out to be at a gas station stayed till they got back Jana from Texas had a Pamper 2 they pulled with a station wagon A centerpike speak a little too steep the family car was flagging Family's car dead behind and I can't condone dad told Autumn Family flew down to Sarasota her brother was told he couldn't dip mom reached down and grabbed the wrong beverage and she drank his spit his tobacco spit so gross I would have thrown up Brother Russell spit in the second cup not the greatest way to fly the gangster bro with the mud shot I breaks out Everyone stressed Snuggie as a wedgie in the old Midwest Snuggy bunny, snuggy bunny Looky over here. Little ones are screaming and they're full of fear Then the brakes came back the brakes came back R I B to the former Tilton Hilton Shout out to the cousins from Clear Lake. Big thank you goes out to all our listeners. We think you're so great we think you're so great we think you're so great we think you're so great.