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Seth Meyers
Hi, Bashi.
Nick Kroll
Hi, Sufi.
Seth Meyers
How's it going?
Nick Kroll
Good. How are you?
Seth Meyers
I'm doing really good. Had a really fun walk to school today with Addie. Addy does not stop talking the entire time we're walking. And what's really fun is it's basically just a monologue. She's saying my name a lot, but doesn't need me to interject or add anything. And it's so loud and like, she never takes a breath that people, passersby, sort of clock what's going on. And it's very nice to watch them smile like, oh, this little girl doesn't. Is like, doesn't need to hear anything from her dad. She's just gonna. Just talk nonstop.
Nick Kroll
Yeah. Real good chatterbox.
Seth Meyers
And there's a real. You know, there's a fun thing in New York City where you're walking and like, obviously, you know, it's true everywhere where people converge on a school from different sides. And the minute she sees any of her friends, she screams louder than anyone. Anyone in New York is capable of screaming.
Nick Kroll
That's great. I mean, I always get excited when I see my friends meeting up.
Seth Meyers
Oh, yeah.
Nick Kroll
And I still get that excitement. And I feel like sometimes we. I feel like your wife and sister in law are sort of like, why are you guys hugging each other all the time?
Seth Meyers
Oh, yeah.
Nick Kroll
And we love it.
Seth Meyers
We're big huggers. Yeah. Love a big greeting. Love throwing my arm around the people I love.
Nick Kroll
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
Addie did tell me today that everyone's allowed to touch her but me, which.
Nick Kroll
I thought was, like, pretty super mean.
Seth Meyers
And then Axel, Axel's not feeling well. He's a little under the weather. And Axel said, I don't want anybody to touch me. And then Addie, for some reason mentioned one of our neighbors, like one of the people that lived in our building. And she was like, this person could touch you. And then Axel just looked at me like, with a face I'd never seen before. Like a real. I'm about to tell you something that'll blow your mind. And he goes, I don't want that. Cause she's a witch. He called one of her. He said one of her name. And I will say, I was like, oh, yeah, I get it. That's what. And like, by the way, nothing. This woman is. I've never seen her cast a single spell, but she does have sort of a haunting demeanor.
Nick Kroll
Witch vibes.
Seth Meyers
There's some witch vibes.
Nick Kroll
Yeah. You know, those workplace accident things that are like, we've gone, you know, 78 days without an accident.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nick Kroll
I feel like you should get one of those at your house. For how many days no one has been a little sick?
Seth Meyers
That's a great call.
Nick Kroll
And just see what you can get up to.
Seth Meyers
It would just be a funny sign to have in a house. Nobody's just a dry erase board. Or maybe we should make it fancier than that. But.
Nick Kroll
Yeah, cuz I don't think you're going to get above seven.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, that's a great idea. I'm going to order a sign. It's been blank days since someone's been sick.
Nick Kroll
Yeah, I think you might have something jammed in one of your teeth right now too, which is. Oh no, maybe not. Oh yeah, it is.
Seth Meyers
Yeah. I'll figure it out later. I will say Ash, Axel was like, here's the other thing about how often people are sick. Axel was like, I don't feel well. And like in everybody's. You're like, it's not possible. You're sick again. And then you like put a thermometer in his ear and he's blowing like a 102. You're like, oh dear.
Nick Kroll
Man, I wish we would have had an ear thermometer growing up.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Nick Kroll
Like throwing that thing under your tongue now that they can just like point a little gun at your forehead.
Seth Meyers
And it's just like that fast. They're like, yeah.
Nick Kroll
And it's like, what is this stupid dirty sick making thing that I got to throw under my tongue?
Seth Meyers
I'm obviously an incredible father and husband. I don't need to tell you that.
Nick Kroll
I'll give you that.
Seth Meyers
But the other thing is Axel came into our room at like 2:30, wanted to get in bed. And then I do it again. I do the solid of. Then I went and slept in the bottom bunk in my children's room. You know what I mean? So that's. That's my sacrifice. Yeah. And then he comes in at 5:45. So 2:45 he wakes us up. Then 5:45 he comes in and he's like, dad, let's go downstairs. And I'm like, dude, I'm so tired. I have to go back to bed. He goes, when do you think you'll be ready? And I go, I don't know. I just have to go back to sleep. And so I fall back asleep and my assumption is he's left the room. And then like, I don't know, 10 minutes later, I open my eyes and he's just sitting in a chair in his bedroom staring at me. And it was like, that moment where you come in. In a. Like, a noir movie and you turn on a lamp, and there's just someone sitting there. And so just my eyes open. And then I, like, in my head, I'm like, is that a stuffed animal? And, like, I open my eyes, and he's just sitting there. He's like, are you ready now? And then we played. Played three games of Uno. Actually, five games of Uno. And we played the Memory Game. It was just a. It was a long morning, bud.
Nick Kroll
Yeah, yeah, I hear you.
Seth Meyers
I'm gonna say something. And I bet this is true of Dad. I will not throw a game with my children.
Nick Kroll
Oh, yeah.
Seth Meyers
And I'm very happy to say that the Memory Game, now it's like, 50. 50. Who's gonna win it, really? I think his is getting better and mine is getting worse.
Nick Kroll
Okay. Yeah.
Seth Meyers
You know what old game mom brought. I love that. It's a game we played. We were kids.
Josh Myers
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
This is not. This is not what it's called. What did we call it?
Nick Kroll
Superman Matchup.
Seth Meyers
Superman Matchups. So Superman Matchups is basically a red board.
Nick Kroll
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
64 holes.
Josh Myers
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
Like.
Josh Myers
Like.
Nick Kroll
Yeah, little pieces.
Seth Meyers
You put tiles on them. So. Yeah, little, like, sort of tiles that.
Nick Kroll
Have, like, little hinges on the side so they can spin.
Seth Meyers
So you can spin the tile to flip it over. And it is. I'm guessing, whoever the most popular DC superheroes were from 1980.
Nick Kroll
Sure.
Seth Meyers
I mean, there's still the same ones, but sort of a mix of heroes and villains. And the one thing, of course, there was a way we played Superman Matchups when we were kids that obviously were not playing with my kids.
Nick Kroll
Right. There were little candies. Sixlets, they were called. And little chocolate candies. And sometimes they would be, like, a single sixlet in there, and you would sort of pepper them throughout the board before you laid the tiles down. So when you flip the tiles over, there might be three or two or one.
Seth Meyers
And if you made the match, you would be able to eat the sixlets. But I do think, like, mom literally just held a bag of cichlids over the board and just sort of randomly dispensed them. Yeah, yeah.
Nick Kroll
No, there wasn't a method to it other than getting chocolate.
Seth Meyers
But Alexi said she was like, I have an idea when the kids will get their sixlets when they graduate college. I was like, should we do the Six Litz way? She's like, maybe when they get their.
Nick Kroll
Diplomas, she's trying to put whole carrots in the little divots.
Seth Meyers
And I'm like it doesn't work. The tile doesn't go all the way down because the whole carrot. You know, sometimes I feel like the carrot and the stick works when, you know, the mute when you're trying to get like a donkey to move. But to a kid, a carrot's just a second stick.
Nick Kroll
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
Wow. A carrot. The carrot and the stick for a kid is a real lose, lose.
Nick Kroll
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Nick Kroll
It's like, I guess I'd prefer the stick. Thank you.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, I'll do a stick. By the way. My kids prefer a stick. The amount of sticks they have. I'm like New York City kids and they always have like some 3 foot tall stick they brought home from somewhere. Get that stick.
Nick Kroll
Yeah. They're you know their grandfather pa. Yeah. He brought that whale bone home.
Seth Meyers
Yeah. So that's my father in law. That's not Poncaeri would let us. Would let a whale bone stay.
Nick Kroll
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
Nick Kroll, one of the best.
Nick Kroll
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
Came with stories.
Nick Kroll
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
Did a lot of traveling, wonderful conversation. I also just did, you know, I want to shout out and we mentioned in the pod, but Nick has been essential in this wonderful charity event called Comedy versus Cancer which raises money for Memorial Sloan Kettering. He's been doing it for about 10 years and obviously he knows a lot of comedians and he gets a few of us together every year. And it was a wonderful event. Nick, myself, Amy Schumer, John Mulaney. Last Thursday and again, due to the generosity of people there, it raised a great deal of money for cancer. But shout out to Nick's generous spirit. Absolutely. Do enjoy the pod.
Josh Myers
Family trips with the M. Brothers. Family chips with the mice. Oh my God.
Seth Meyers
Oh yeah, my God.
Josh Myers
Okay, okay.
Nick Kroll
Hey, buddy.
Josh Myers
Alone. Hi.
Seth Meyers
How are you?
Josh Myers
Good. I love that Josh is in a void.
Seth Meyers
Uh huh. Yeah. He's a void. He a full void.
Josh Myers
He a full void.
Nick Kroll
Is your camera following you around? Is that one of those?
Josh Myers
It seems to be. Which is. It's upsetting and I don't know, it's.
Nick Kroll
Watching you all the time.
Josh Myers
I'm like, I don't know, it's. You can't get away with anything on this camera.
Nick Kroll
Yeah.
Josh Myers
I can't do my eat off the side of a camera like I normally do on zooms.
Seth Meyers
I want to start just so our audience knows you're a good person.
Nick Kroll
I'm going to see you because everyone's pretty convinced.
Josh Myers
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
No, well, I'm going to see you. I'm going to see you soon at this comedy event that you've been doing for years. Which is a fundraiser and speak to it because I know it's something you do with your family. And so it's a nice tie in.
Josh Myers
Yeah. It's called comedy versus Cancer and I've been doing it now in some form or another for about almost 10 years. And I believe, Seth, you were kind enough to do the first one. Even it's now specifically we do fundraising for Memorial Sloan Kettering, which is like an amazing cancer hospital and research center in New York specifically geared toward blood cancers. My sister in law, Nikki Siegel Kroll, had non Hodgkin's lymphoma about 15 years ago, along at the same time as Jen Rogers Carlock, who is married to Robert Carlock, who you guys obviously know. And okay. A casual shout out to Dunkin Donuts Coffee. Seth, never, never forget our New Hampshire.
Nick Kroll
Not a sponsor, Nick. Not a sponsor.
Seth Meyers
They don't have to. Why would you. Yeah.
Josh Myers
Why would you pay for it when you're getting the milk for free?
Seth Meyers
You know, somebody should do a long stand up bit about that.
Josh Myers
I know, right. About a first marriage. So. But we. Yeah, we. So we've been. So Robert Carlock, who's obviously was at SNL and has partnered with Tina Fey for a long time, they decided to bring us together and we. And we've been putting this comedy show together, which we've now done for so long. I think we've raised over probably about $8 million at this point of this year. Every year we, we do it every year. We raise at least 8 to 15 to 25 million dollars a year. I don't know the numbers. I'm not the numbers guy.
Seth Meyers
Well, I'm very. I'm looking forward to it. I'm also just in general looking forward to see you.
Josh Myers
I'm.
Seth Meyers
Been too long.
Josh Myers
Yeah, I really, I really. You've really done it a number of times over the years. I'm really grateful. And it's. It's a great. It's a fun show and it's a great night and. And it is a real family thing. It's a real. There's a. These things kind of always have so much more impact when you have this personal connection to it as well as like being able to reunite with old friends so you don't get to see very much.
Nick Kroll
So Seth can't do his like super blue material. Yeah.
Seth Meyers
Although I feel dirty set. I feel you have that nice ability, Nick, to be sort of charmingly blue.
Josh Myers
Yes.
Seth Meyers
It's more rascally. I think you're like. You're a Blue Rack.
Josh Myers
Yes. Thank you. And if I just quickly could shout out my new. My new special, Blue Rascal.
Seth Meyers
I can't believe it took me so long to come up with this. It was the title.
Josh Myers
I know. And this. Although I will say people are going to think it's a comedy special. It's Blue Man Group aging on Rascals. So they're doing their Blue Man Group, and they're sort of heavy, and they're on Rascals.
Seth Meyers
And the paint. The face paint is way worse than you remember.
Josh Myers
Yeah, I would say it's a real.
Seth Meyers
The makeup people are all also very old.
Josh Myers
Yes. It's.
Nick Kroll
They're, like, good enough.
Josh Myers
They're good enough.
Seth Meyers
They are good enough. They are good enough. Josh. Thanks for saying they're.
Josh Myers
They're.
Nick Kroll
No, I think that's what they say when they're doing the makeup.
Josh Myers
This is. This is good enough.
Nick Kroll
I'm good enough.
Josh Myers
This is good enough. Go get on your Rascal and. And scoot around Fort Lauderdale.
Seth Meyers
So Nick grew up in Rye, New York, and two older sisters and an older brother. Four of us and an older brother.
Josh Myers
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
And you. Did you guys. Did you go into the city a lot?
Josh Myers
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
I think of you as a New Yorker, and I sort of forget that you're from Rye.
Josh Myers
Yes, yes. We grew up in the suburbs. Town called Rye. Tough streets of Rye, New York. My little joke was like, you know, we didn't even have a tennis court growing up. It was pretty hard. So. But we did go into the city a lot. I know this is about. I don't know if it's about bad family vacations exactly, but I do remember a really sweet family vacation we did. One year we didn't go. Like, our one big trip usually was around Christmas, but one year, we didn't go away, and we did, like, three days in the city as a family, like a Christmas vacation. And we did like New York at Christmas. And it was a really incredibly sweet. It was one of my favorite holiday vacations, treating New York like a tourist destination. But I would go in all the time, especially starting in high school. But in growing up, we would go in a good amount. I remember going in to see with my family. This is a weird one, but I went in one night to see Starlight Express.
Seth Meyers
Oh, we've talked about that a lot on this podcast, Josh. And I also went to Starlight Express.
Josh Myers
Really?
Seth Meyers
Which is mostly. I will just clear the floor for you. Did you enjoy it?
Josh Myers
I did. I was probably, like, seven. I don't remember. But here's What I remember is we went into the city to see Starlight Express, which your fans, obviously, you guys, it's a. This is your. This is. I don't need to set it up. But it's also.
Seth Meyers
This podcast is also like a Starlight Express rewatch pod.
Josh Myers
Yes, of course.
Seth Meyers
Basically.
Josh Myers
Yeah. So it's like if. Hey, did you like cats? But you didn't think there was enough roller skates?
Nick Kroll
We've talked a lot about Cats.
Seth Meyers
I don't think there's any reason to say this. It's the cokiest idea for a Broadway show.
Josh Myers
Yes. Yeah. Everyone's on roller skates and they're going round and around, and it's lights and so it's disco.
Seth Meyers
It's trains.
Josh Myers
Yes. So I went. I remember weirdly going with my aunt because we got there. It was like one of those things when. You're kidding. You don't know, like, what's happening in your family. It was like, hey, you're going to go see this Broadway show tonight. Cool. With. With Aunt Leslie. Great. Are mom and dad coming? No. Mom's having a procedure on her uterus.
Seth Meyers
Oh, boy.
Josh Myers
What? You know, like, you know, that's like. You're like some. I was probably 7 or 8, so it wasn't like there was, like, weeks of discussion about moms, and I don't remember what the exact procedure was, but it was just like. But I remember going with my aunt and her boyfriend at the time, who was like a real New York guy. And I remember having a conversation with him before the show for some reason in an office cubicle. Like, I don't know where we were. And he was talking about Lou Reed. Like, I have a weird remembrance. It's just, like, weird. Anyway. I don't know.
Nick Kroll
Yeah, that's true. Parental sleight of hand. Like, mom has to have a procedure. Here's this show about the doctor. Think about trains.
Seth Meyers
The doctor even said, if there's a current Andrew Lloyd Weber, you might want to send your child to that in these trying times. Also, there's so. It's so funny that you said he was New Yorky, because I would say the most New Yorky thing is telling your girlfriend's nephew about Lou Reed.
Josh Myers
Yeah, totally.
Nick Kroll
In a cubicle.
Josh Myers
In a cubicle. It was. And I don't know why. It's. You know, you have those weird, specific memories that are attached to nothing that I don't think it was a very important thing. I guess because it was. My mom was having this procedure. I was probably have Some had some anxiety around it, but. But I do really remember him talking about Lou Reed, and I was like, seven.
Seth Meyers
Yeah. Yeah.
Josh Myers
I was like, oh, this is a man with no children.
Seth Meyers
Did you. Are you your youngest of the four?
Josh Myers
Yes.
Seth Meyers
Is it boy, girl, girl, boy, boy, girl, girl, boy? Yes. Okay. But you are certainly as adults, it strikes me that you're very close. Were you close as kids?
Josh Myers
Yes, we were. There's seven years between my brother and I, and then my sisters are in the middle. And my brother, who you've met, is like one of the love, like, truly sweetest men. She is. Guys, he's like a really lovely guy, but when we were kids, he was kind of brutal. Just a bit. Yeah. I don't. Did you. Were you guys. Did you guys ever have a. Were you guys fighters? I mean, I'm sure you.
Nick Kroll
No, not really.
Seth Meyers
Like.
Nick Kroll
Yeah, maybe like one and a half times.
Josh Myers
Right? Really?
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Nick Kroll
Yeah.
Josh Myers
Were you too genetically close to think of each other as different?
Seth Meyers
I think maybe we were also from a very. And this has continued through the entirety of my life, almost all my friends were friends with Josh, too. And so to fight with Josh was almost like a fight within a friend group.
Josh Myers
And frankly, they liked him better. And so it was like, certainly, if not then, now. Yeah. So you're like, I can't. This is. Is. I got a stronghold here. I gotta hold on here.
Seth Meyers
I had a two year head start on a lot of my male friendships, and I would say, like, about 15 years ago, Josh caught up, got the.
Josh Myers
Upper hand on all.
Seth Meyers
All of them.
Josh Myers
So, yeah, no, my brother and I were close. My mom tells me when we were really little, we were close. But he. Again, this. I preface this with saying he is the best, best big brother. He's an amazing husband. He's an amazing father, son. Like, he. I mean, this guy.
Seth Meyers
This is where your therapist is. Like, I. Nick, I understand. Yes, I understand. He's very nice now, but I feel like there's something you need to tell me.
Josh Myers
Yes, yes. So have you guys. Did you. If you hadn't done comedy, did you ever think about doing, like, brother therapy? Like, brother therapists together?
Seth Meyers
Yeah, brother therapist. Yeah.
Josh Myers
I would have. I would go to you guys. Yeah.
Nick Kroll
It costs twice as much as normal therapy.
Seth Meyers
Yeah. But also, seven years is. Is like, let's not bury the lead. That's. I mean, it's asking a lot for an older brother.
Josh Myers
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
I mean, you certainly don't have to be cruel, but, like, to want to hang out with somebody seven years younger than.
Josh Myers
Yes, yes. But there was a. There was a genuine cruelness, to be clear. Like. Like the story, the easiest one to tell is. Okay, so I had, like a. I was like, probably about five, and I had a balloon. You know, when you're that age, like, a balloon is a pretty big deal to have. And he took the balloon from me, and I asked him for it back, and he said, I'll give it back to you if you lick in between my toes. And then. And I did it. I licked in between his toes, and then he popped the balloon.
Seth Meyers
Oh.
Nick Kroll
Oh, man. And did he give you, like, the broken.
Josh Myers
Yeah, like the scrotal sack that was left over of the balloon? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I got that back. So it was sort of that, you know, it was like. It was somewhat. It was particular in its torture.
Nick Kroll
Yeah.
Josh Myers
And. And. And my sisters were lovely and awesome, and I. My sister Vanessa is a couple years older than me, who has gone on to become, like, a parenting expert. She's written a book about puberty, ironically, and. And was sort of like my boss. You know, my. Like, she was two years older than me. We were really close. She was kind of always my boss. And then my sister Dana is about five years older than me and was like a very sweet, very competent, athletic, kind character. So I had. I. I had a real, kind of. I had a real juxtaposition of. Of siblings.
Seth Meyers
The book is not that I hate. I know you didn't want us to promo your siblings work.
Josh Myers
How dare you.
Seth Meyers
But it is called this is so Awkward Helping to Navigate Puberty in Tween and Teen Years with Humor. So, you know, if you're listening and that sounds like something you'd love to do. It's.
Josh Myers
It really is. It's a great book. And it's. I mean, it's ironic that we sort of both ended up in this weird puberty space. I guess it's so formative, you know, in life. But it. So it ended up for both of us. Hers, I think she came at it more because she's now raised four kids who've come through all of that stuff, you know.
Seth Meyers
Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from Deleteme. Hey, Pashi.
Nick Kroll
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Nick Kroll
Yeah, because they're not just saying, oh, we'll work on it. They got the goods, they got the stats.
Seth Meyers
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Nick Kroll
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Seth Meyers
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Nick Kroll
Well, you can try to scrub that, but even delete me can't delete that.
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Nick Kroll
Hey Sufi.
Josh Myers
Old.
Seth Meyers
Old Father's Day's coming up.
Nick Kroll
Sure is. I mean young Father's Day too. It's just Father's Day.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, you know what, you're right. I don't want to make it about one age over any other age.
Nick Kroll
Right. Because otherwise if you make it just old Father's Day, then you're getting nothing. Although.
Seth Meyers
Well, I was just gonna say, as my son often reminds me, you know, you're the oldest dad in my class. That's a nice thing for him to tell me.
Nick Kroll
Yeah, yeah, congrats.
Seth Meyers
Thanks. And he told me the other day, you know what he told me the other day?
Nick Kroll
What's that?
Seth Meyers
He said I look good for 50. Could just say you look good, but there you go, I got a 9 year old. Who knows what 50 is supposed to look like.
Nick Kroll
Anyway, you know what you Have a lot of, I think.
Seth Meyers
What's that?
Nick Kroll
You have kind of everything. You're tough to gift.
Seth Meyers
So what do you get? What do you get the man who has everything?
Nick Kroll
Well, I think, you know, something that has been beloved in mom and dad's house, certainly in my wife's parents. Houses are aura frames.
Seth Meyers
Aura frames. You know where we have our aura frame right now?
Nick Kroll
Where's that?
Seth Meyers
In the boy's bedroom. Because Axel wakes up early and one of the we just constantly trying to find things for him to do to not wake us up. And so he just like takes out his aura frame and looks at pictures of him and his siblings.
Nick Kroll
And that was a request from Axel, was it not?
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Nick Kroll
That's amazing. Aura frames were named the best digital photo frame by wirecutter and it's easy to see why. There's unlimited storage so you can add as many photos, videos, funny memes as you can find. And it is so simple to set up. You just plug it in and share away.
Seth Meyers
And the photos look like real prints or frames have meticulously calibrated, high resolution displays. Unless you look really closely to see the photos transition, you'd never know it's a screen. I should note mom does watch the photos transition and every time it switches she goes, oh, aura has a great deal for Father's Day. For a limited time, listeners can save on the perfect gift by visiting or frames.com to get $30 off on their bestselling carver matte frame. That's a U R A frames.com promo code. Trips support the show by mentioning us at checkout. Terms and conditions apply.
Nick Kroll
When you would travel as a family, would you guys ever do road trips? Because it's a lot of, a lot of kids to get in a car.
Josh Myers
We did some road trips. My, my parents and my dad was not, is not like as much of a road. I have clear memories of like a grab, a grab to the back seat, a grab, a knee grab to the back of the minivan. I don't know if you guys had that where it was like, you know, like.
Seth Meyers
Like so ineffective. It is so ineffective.
Josh Myers
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
And yet I've done it as a parent.
Josh Myers
Oh my God. Yeah, it's so. We did some, we did some road trips. We were more of a, of a, like my dad's not much of a fixed stuff around the house or a road trip guy. He's more of a like let's go, let's get on a plane and go somewhere kind of person. We would, we would do some road trips. Like around the Northeast. But we never did like a cross country trip or anything like that. But we would do like, like, we, we would, we definitely would go to like as the. Everyone got older, my. Someone would be like studying abroad. Like my brother. My brother really changed. We. He. He studied in Italy, took a gap year between high school and college. He lived in Florence and, And I remember going to visit. We all went to visit him in Italy and in like around Christmas and he like hugged me and I was sort of like, what. What is this? Like, it really. And it was like he really. Something about that gap year being away from the family completely switched his like, his, his wiring to be like, oh, I love. I. Oh, I love my family. And. But we would. So we would, we would then have like a sprinter van that we would then like travel around Italy in as a family.
Seth Meyers
Did you. Do you feel like you had low. What. Do you remember your confidence level of your dad driving a van around? Because I think that there's a certain kind of dad. I would not confidence. Go into a trip to Europe with confidence if the plan was dad was going to drive the van.
Josh Myers
Very pretty low confidence. And frankly, ultimately my dad quickly and early understood, like, no, there's going to be a hired driver guide who is going to drive us around because. Because there was very little faith. A similar trip. We did a family trip to Morocco when it was. This is like, like we were all kind of. I was in college, my brother now brother in law, Roger Bennett, who you may know, of course, a men in blazers, podcast and television show and kind.
Seth Meyers
Of soccer bon vivant. Football bon vivant indeed.
Josh Myers
He's like a real, he's become a real really kind of impressive soccer media, American soccer world kind of impresario, even a bon vivant. And. And he had. He was not married to my sister yet, but they were like, I think had just announced their engagement. It was the first family trip with him and we went on a trip to Morocco, which was amazing. But we would go and we had a guy driving us again throughout the city. It was during Ramadan, so there was nowhere to eat during the day. And I ironically had brought a huge Hebrew national salami with me.
Nick Kroll
In like a unsliced.
Josh Myers
In unsliced. Yeah, like a massive.
Nick Kroll
I didn't even know you could buy. Buy those.
Josh Myers
It's a long story that I'll tell. No, no, but I had literally just brought it with me on the plane because I was like, I don't know what Morocco. I don't know What? And truly, luckily I had brought it. And we slowly made our way through a like massive Hebrew national salami while we were driving. Because it was Ramadan, so everything was closed. No food was available during the day. And we would go every city we'd go to. You know how you have those guides in every city that's like, we'll take you to the shook. We'll take you to the local marketplace and we'll show you around. And after like, we, I think we started in Tangier and by the time maybe went to Fez and by the time we had gotten to another city, it was like, we know the deal now. You're going to take us to a marketplace. You're going to then take us to the vendors that you have some deal with to try to get us to buy the carpets or rugs or tapestries in this particular marketplace. And after like two cities, it was like, don't take us to your guys anymore. And he's like, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And then he took us to a rug guy who then was like, I know how. I'll sell them. I'll take them back to the factory where these are made. And they brought us to a factory with like truly frightened looking 12 year old girls who were making the, making the cart, the rugs. And I was like, this is not a selling, this is not selling us on buying your market. Like hearing these poor, watching these poor like miners make carpets. Like, it's not like, yeah, let's get that one. Let's, let's fly that one back. But I remember specifically we took a weird van trip up to like a meal and it was like we were in the. I want to say I'm probably wrong, but like the Berber section of, of Morocco, like the. Where you're in the middle of Morocco in a mountain kind of town. And they brought us a meal and it was a meal to show us like how like grateful they were that we were there and they served us shark.
Seth Meyers
Wow.
Josh Myers
But we were like in the mountains in the center of Morocco and it was like, this doesn't feel like the freshest meal we could be eating. Like, I don't know, like this shark doesn't feel.
Seth Meyers
When you're starting from a place of. I already wasn't craving shark and now it's mountain shark, sweetheart.
Josh Myers
I'm stuffed to the brim with Hebrew national salami and you're bringing me shark.
Seth Meyers
That's the lobby. We. I remember once when I, I flew home from Christmas when I was Living in Amsterdam. And I did that thing. Leaving Amsterdam at their duty free. I bought, like, a sleeve of those rinded Dutch cheeses and a saw. A long sausage. And I remember I was bringing it home for just, you know, Christmas Eve dinner. And then dad picked me up at the airport at Logan, and we were driving to New Hampshire, and there was a car accident, and we were, like, stuck in traffic for, like, hour. And at one point I said, you know, in the trunk I got some cheese and sausage. And he was like, yeah, but what? You know, he goes, what are we going to cut it up with? And then he goes, hold on a second. And his keychain had a little Swiss army knife.
Josh Myers
Oh, God. A dirty little Swiss army knife.
Seth Meyers
Dirty little, like. I mean, just when he opened it, like rust pellets. But I was. It's truly. When I think about favorite meals I've had with dad, like, supping on cheese and sauce, I felt like we had beat everybody in the entire highway. It's like, we're in first place.
Josh Myers
That's really kind of sweet. And then Josh and your mom are waiting at home, starving.
Seth Meyers
We were.
Nick Kroll
We were mad that because we knew those cheeses in that sausage were gonna come with Seth.
Josh Myers
Is this a Gouda? Is this a Gouda cheese or what?
Seth Meyers
It's a total. It's a total Gouda situation. Thank you for being on top of it.
Josh Myers
Well, so I'll speak to another. This trip, this podcast is. I mean, my wealth is all over the Internet, so, like, there's nothing I could do about it. My family, my privilege is. It's there. So.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Josh Myers
But I'll just keep speaking to very, like, elaborate vacations that I've gone on with my family, if that's okay. Yes.
Seth Meyers
Thank you.
Josh Myers
So as an adult, I went. I was like a young adult, like, living. I was probably newly in the city, and I. My parents were like, we're going on a business trip to London and Amsterdam. Would you like to come? And I was like, yes. And I. This was. I remember in my 20s, like, really not all of a sudden, I stopped kind of like family vac. I stopped traveling. Like, I had a really privileged high school, college, like, period where I was traveling a ton because I didn't have. I was able to. And. But by my 20s, I moved to New York, and it was like, let's get to fucking work. And then this trip came up, and I was like, yes. So I went with my mom, and we had a great time in London. We went to Amsterdam, and I went to Amsterdam with my. It was weird to go to Amsterdam with your parents, because at that time, as. I mean, you guys live there, Amsterdam was a city that. Where it was, like, where debauchery was, like, possible, you know, Especially, like, this is before, you know, pot was legal in any way, and alcohol. So. But I. So I got to Amsterdam and all, but I was there as a tourist with my parents. I had been once when I was living in Spain. I went with two friends, and we. And I. And I. And I, like, we ate mushrooms and went to the. And then went to the Van Gogh Museum. But then there was, like, a tremendous. It was filled. Tourists, so I was on mushrooms. But there was a line for each painting, so I was just. It was truly maddening. And. But I went back and I went purely as a tourist, and we went to Delft.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Josh Myers
To.
Seth Meyers
Famous for their china. Their fine china.
Josh Myers
Their fine china.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Josh Myers
And. And then also went to Gouda, the city of Gouda. Famous for also for its fine china.
Seth Meyers
Yeah. Posh. Say it the way the Dutch people say it.
Nick Kroll
Gouda.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Josh Myers
Howdah. Howdah.
Nick Kroll
Yeah.
Josh Myers
Did you guys. Did everyone think you guys were Dutch?
Seth Meyers
I think they all thought Josh was.
Nick Kroll
Dutch until I got, like, two sentences in an interaction, and then they knew.
Seth Meyers
But Josh was, like, tall and looked like he was.
Josh Myers
Yeah. You have.
Seth Meyers
When Josh wore Dutch fashion, it looked right. Whereas I would look like a narc china. I was trying to bust up, like, a. I don't know, like a illegal clog factory.
Josh Myers
Can we speak. Can we speak to Dutch fashion a little more? Like, What?
Seth Meyers
I mean, late 90s Dutch fashion is a disaster, but Josh really embraced it.
Nick Kroll
Yeah. I mean, it was. It's still, to this day, it's a lot of, like. It's a lot of jeans with a lot of, like, details on them. Yeah. Like extra stuff sewn on or sort of like making your jeans into art. I feel like the acid wash never went out of style.
Seth Meyers
Right.
Nick Kroll
Amsterdam.
Josh Myers
Yeah.
Nick Kroll
But I was also wearing a lot of, like, like, borderline rave gear as my, like, every day.
Josh Myers
Like, like, strings hanging off of pants stuff.
Seth Meyers
You nailed it. You had some stringy pants.
Nick Kroll
I did not have stringy pants.
Josh Myers
Strings. The wrong word. Like, of fabrics or like, very flared.
Seth Meyers
Very flared.
Nick Kroll
That's what it is. Tight waist.
Josh Myers
Huge.
Nick Kroll
Like, you could hide your feet with the flares at the bottom.
Josh Myers
Yes.
Seth Meyers
Like a giant sort of like a sun on one thigh and the other thigh. Nothing.
Josh Myers
Yeah, yeah. A pacifier.
Seth Meyers
I will say it also, you know, we overlapped a little in Amsterdam, and then I left and I would say that's when Josh's rave gear really sort of.
Josh Myers
You've. As always, as always, when you left, Josh could bloom. Josh could finally flower.
Seth Meyers
I will say this was the most. When I first saw how he was dressed. It's the most I thought, I just can't leave him alone. This blooming has backfired in a way that I'm not okay with.
Josh Myers
Yeah, we. Oh, this is a separate. Okay, let me finish. Amsterdam. So. But I had one day free where I was like without my parents and I was like, I'm going to go get so much pot and. And then I'm going to walk around the red light district. And then I. So I was just like pretty drunk and high. And then I left the red light district and went to the Madame Tussauds by myself and toured it with like an old German couple. And, and, and this is pre smartphones, so I bought a digital camera. So it's just. There's like I have a roll of film of like me just like so frankly up with these pictures taken by this German couple of me next to like Elton John and like Prince Charles. Just like. And then I. Yeah, anyway, but I. So I'll skip to my. So then in that same period of time when I was living in, in Spain as a, as a like a 18 year old, I was living like within. I was living part of the first half of the year in San Sebastian in the northern part of Spain and with like all these like California kids who wanted to surf in San Sebastian. And it was great. But I just like spent all my time with like Americans. I was like, I don't think this is the point of this. And I moved to Barcelona and got an internship at an ad agency and. And I was like living. Oh yeah. So how was your Spanish? My Spanish is pretty good. My Spanish like leapt leaps and bounds by. Once I left the Americans, I was truly. I ended up living with these two women who were. One of them who worked at the ad agency who's a kind of a weird side note, kind of awesome is she was like a young. She and I. She was like a young copy copywriter. Her big client at the time was Barbie. It was Barbie Barbie. It was like she was making five minute Barbie TV shows, like including. There was like Barbie and then there was Shelly Piece. Piece. It was like this that, you know, like Barbie's little sister's learning to pee and Shelly pizza.
Seth Meyers
When you said peace pizz the first time, I assumed it was something else.
Josh Myers
So Anyway, she and I became good buddies. She's awesome. And then years later, I went back to Barcelona, and she was like, I'm working on some other stuff. And then years later, my wife. Now wife, went Lily. And she went to. And I connected them, and she was like, your friend Issa has kind of created this book series, and it turns out to be these. I don't know if you've seen this book series called, like, Little People, Big Dreams. It's like the auto. It's these biographies of every.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Where they have, like. Do they have, like, big heads on.
Josh Myers
The COVID Yeah, they kind of have big heads. It's like Gandhi or, like, you know, I was gonna say Maya Rudolph, but it's more like Wilma Rudolph or Maya King, Maya Angelou. All of it's like, all these great people in history. So she created this book series that has now become, like, tens of millions of copies of these books have been published worldwide. And it was just. It's amazing. This woman who I just randomly lived with when I was 18 in Spain has created, like, one of the biggest children book series in the world.
Nick Kroll
Wow.
Josh Myers
But anyway, my brother came to visit me in Spain, and we met up in Madrid, and I had. This is going back to you talking about, like, not being able to leave Josh alone?
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Josh Myers
I have, like, crazy skin. Like, really fucked up skin. And I always had eczema. And I had a finger. Like, it happens in my fingers, and I had a finger. It was this finger. It was like something. Like, something was happening to my finger, and I. And I was like. I didn't know what to do. I wasn't gonna go to a doctor. Like, I didn't. I just was like, oh, I've got. It's a little, like, crackly. And then I was like, maybe it's infected. So I was, like, soaking it in, like, salt water. But over time, it just kept getting worse and to the point where my whole finger looked like it was like. Like falling off. And my brother was like, you have to go see a doctor now, like, because I was, like, wrapping it in gauze. Like, I just had no. You know, you're, like, 18. You don't know what's anything. And so I went to a Austrian doctor in Spain who was then, like, telling me that he thought at first that I had lep. I thought I. I was understanding to understand that I had. That I had leprosy.
Seth Meyers
And he's certainly what you're describing, FYI, to his credit.
Josh Myers
So I. Eventually, my brother was like, you got to call our fam. Your. Your dermatologist in New. You know, like, in New York, and he's. This guy sweetly got on the. With me. It's like, it sounds like you have a terrible case of, like, eczema. And he prescribed over the phone, like, a. A cream. Like a. You know, like a steroid cream that immediately healed it. But it was, like, an example of being away with my brother and him now being, like, 25 and being like, you're like, you're not handling your life at all.
Seth Meyers
I do want to.
Nick Kroll
And he was right.
Seth Meyers
I want to shout out my younger brother looking out for me. When I was in Amsterdam, I had my tonsils removed, and I. You know, a big. When you have your tonsils removed, the thing you need around is ice. And no one in Amsterdam, I feel like, has the amount of ice you need post. Like, if you, like, every. Every. Every apartment has, like, one tiny ice tray.
Josh Myers
If you're like, yeah, yeah. Yes.
Seth Meyers
So Josh would bike to the theater we worked at. He would bike to Boom Chicago and just load up ice because they had a proper ice machine because they were a restaurant as well. And he would just load up ice and then bike it back.
Nick Kroll
Yeah, I had, like, a little. I bought a little trash can. Like, a little sort of bathroom trash can I'd fill with ice, and I'd, like, just hold and pedal. Pedal.
Josh Myers
Oh, that's so sweet.
Seth Meyers
It's very nice.
Nick Kroll
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
Brothers. Brothers look out for brothers.
Josh Myers
Yeah.
Nick Kroll
Mom also. Mom came out for when you had your tonsils out.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Josh Myers
Was your surgery free in Amsterdam? Like, was it a.
Seth Meyers
Yes, it basically was free. And the craziest thing I've always spoken to how this is so different. I got sick all the time. I was like, strep throat all the time. Bronchitis all the time. The first time I got sick in Amsterdam, I went to the doctor, they prescribed medicine, and then, like, three months later, I went back, and they're like, all right, well, we're not. They don't want to just keep treating you. They want to make it better so they never see you again. And so they basically were like, all right, so we'll do surgery now and see if we can fix this. And it was so crazy, but I have been so much healthier ever since.
Josh Myers
That happened that once it. Was it your tonsils?
Seth Meyers
Like, it was my tonsils. They were basically, your tonsils are infected. I can't believe you still have your tonsils. And. And they took out my tonsils. And. Yeah, I was all Better. The best thing about it was, I just remember. And also that very Dutch way, like, I shared a hospital room with another per. It was a woman. And like, she just kept getting up and walking around in like a hospital gown with like, you know, they got no asses, those hospital gowns.
Josh Myers
Or the frankly or the Dutch.
Seth Meyers
It's true. They don't. That's one of their one shortcomings.
Josh Myers
Yeah.
Nick Kroll
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Josh Myers
Here we go.
Seth Meyers
So if you had to say like be it again, I, I, you know.
Josh Myers
Am I doing this right? And I just said, and I want.
Seth Meyers
To say, you know, you mentioned your privilege. I also want to say like when I met you, and I mean, this is a compliment. No idea. You, when I met you, you were very much living like every other person in New York City who was Just trying to make it in comedy, which I think is a real credit to you. But do you have, do you have a favorite trip in memory of the places you went?
Josh Myers
We really. I have. I mean, we. We really got to travel a lot. And again, it was because oftentimes one of us eventually was living somewhere. But I have a. I have a specific memory, you know, where I. There was a period where. And I think you're in it, Seth, right now where you're like, now that I have little kids, where I'm like, oh, nice vacations to nice places isn't like, to cool places. Does not sound interesting at all to me. I'm like, I'm entering the, like, all inclusive time of life where it's like, I need to go to an easy place where my kid can get like buttered noodles. And. Yeah, like, I don't. I'm not interested in, like a massive sojourn.
Seth Meyers
You know, it's also really cool when your kids are in an age where they don't like pool. As long as there's pool. They don't. They. They do not judge a pool other than is there water in it.
Josh Myers
Yes, yes.
Nick Kroll
You don't need Mayan ruins necessarily.
Josh Myers
No, no. Mommy and daddy will go to Tulum midday to take mdma. But we'll be back. We'll be back by dinner.
Seth Meyers
I do real quick. I do want to loop back to mushrooms at the Van Gogh Museum. I do feel like there should be a fast pass line at museums for people who are just rolling on super high, you know?
Josh Myers
Absolutely.
Seth Meyers
You know, just like almost for the benefit of everybody else, which is you don't want to be in line with these people. They're on hallucinogenics. So we're just going to let them.
Josh Myers
And let's say in the Anne Frank house, there's a special part of the attic that for the people who are on hallucinogens, like, to, you know what I mean? Like, create safe spaces in safe spaces.
Seth Meyers
And let me just. Given the option of whether or not to do it for Anne Frank, I would say that's a hard pass.
Josh Myers
Sure. Yes. I think, I think we passed. We weren't. We weren't peaking at that point. You know what I mean? We were coming up. No, but I agree. I think so. So there was a period of time where we would go to like, Puerto Rico for like a family vacation. And one thing that happened every year on family vacation was it was my mom's birthday is at. Right around Christmas. I won't give the date great for safety for everyone.
Seth Meyers
Because she doesn't want cards.
Josh Myers
She doesn't want cards. But my mom's birthday always falls around Christmas almost every year. No, but my mom's birthdays and I think it was sort of a thing for her growing up. It's like people who have birthdays right around holidays, it's like, can be depending on the family, a little tricky, you know, because it's like, oh, it gets overshadowed or whatever.
Seth Meyers
I'm December 28th.
Josh Myers
So. Okay.
Seth Meyers
Living that life.
Josh Myers
And was that the case for you? What did it feel like a thing or.
Seth Meyers
No, the weirdest thing is it's just the only birthday you ever had. So it's just. You just get used to it at a young age. But yes, I feel like it doesn't. Sir, I will say more now. There's just no time for my birthday at all. But we used to like there would.
Nick Kroll
Always be, you know, parties you'd have friends over. We have pictures of like you in the dining room.
Seth Meyers
I think those are all photoshopped. I don't think any of that happened.
Josh Myers
Yeah, pretty badly. Your parents are really good at Photoshop.
Seth Meyers
Or they're even back then. Yeah, even back. And that was like X acto knife and taking a whole second picture.
Josh Myers
So we would go away and every year it was always a bit of a big deal that it was like we have to make a point to make something for mom's birthday.
Seth Meyers
Right.
Josh Myers
Because it falls in this like it was never quite acknowledged in the right way. And so my dad, one year, my dad is a really thoughtful guy and a wonderful father and husband, but also like not so great at some of that stuff. So he was like. One year was like we figured out, I figured out the great, the best thing for mom's birthday, we're going deep sea fishing. And so we were in port, we were at like a, a resort somewhere in Puerto Rico and we took like a, a a a A bus, like a family bus to like a, a a to get on a ship to go deep sea fishing. And they packed us like the hotel packed us like pre made like lunches, like tuna sandwiches. You know how like you know who makes. Obviously Puerto Ricans make the best tuna sandwiches. So we get our fishers.
Nick Kroll
Fishermen.
Seth Meyers
Yeah. At least you're near the water. Opposed to Moroccan shark.
Josh Myers
Yeah, yeah, of course Moroccan. You go to Morocco for the mountain shark and you go to, you go to Puerto Rico for your tuna fish salad. So we get on this ship and we get on this boat, just our family and these two fishermen. And we get out there and immediately we realize that it's going to be like a very choppy day. We found out later that a couple ships, like, ships had capsized in the Atlantic that day. Like it was a. So we're out there trying now to. To deep sea fish. None of us, by the way, none of us fishermen, no interest, real interest in deep sea fishing. And. And we're all now eating tuna sandwiches as we get out deep into the water and it is unbelievably choppy. And we all start to get ill. And my dad is sitting in the captain's chair, like, holding on for dear life, turning green as we all then start to just puke all over the ship. I don't. We definitely. I don't know if we ever even got out to sea to fish. Like, we just got out to sea, all puked our brains out, puked out like these tuna sandwiches and then just came back.
Seth Meyers
Now, I have a. My main question. Does your mom lord that over your father or hold it against him as you made a terrible choice?
Josh Myers
You know, I think around that time she did, but it stopped at some point. But it was definitely family lore.
Seth Meyers
It would never. If it had happened to Hilary Myers, it would never not be. She would introduce our father with that story. This is Larry. You know him from the deep sea fishing trip.
Josh Myers
Yes.
Nick Kroll
Because I love deep sea fishing.
Josh Myers
Yeah. And I want to share what I love with you.
Nick Kroll
Do you think on even the best day your mother would have enjoyed deep sea fishing?
Josh Myers
I don't think so. I think. But what I think is, and this is where the, like, the family lore goes. Like, it, it. It's a. Because. Because this is a somewhat consistent story of like, we tried to do something for my mother's birthday. It did not work. My mom was not like, did not love the choice, but at the end of the day, she loved that we were all together and that's really what mattered. And that's the circle. And it's true. Ultimately, it was this weird thing. It's like, oh, it's the holidays. My birthday falls during the holidays. But it also meant then that we were always together. And that's what she loved. And I don't know if that was the case for you, Seth, where it's like, you guys were always some, like, home.
Seth Meyers
We were always home. I. And again, like, I'm. I don't want to miss you guys. Would you miss my parents?
Josh Myers
Did.
Seth Meyers
They made my birthday feel special. And the nice thing about December 28th is it was sort of a. It sort of played the sweeper role. Whereas if you were. If you were deeply disappointed by not getting a present on Christmas, they had a couple days to, like, immediately make up for it.
Josh Myers
Yeah. Yeah.
Seth Meyers
And although I think I do recall a lot of times me being like, how did you forget I wanted, you know, the Hoth Han Solo and the amount my parents would be like, can you just wait three days?
Josh Myers
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
Have you completely forgotten there's a second wave of presents three days from now?
Josh Myers
Yeah. Did you guys share your toys or no?
Nick Kroll
Somewhat.
Seth Meyers
I feel we just had different interests in toys. That might be another reason we didn't fight. Is like, Josh and I, for our similarities, have very different interests. Yeah.
Nick Kroll
Like, Seth never wanted to play with my pogo ball.
Josh Myers
But no, it's what you call it.
Nick Kroll
It's fun. Fun for you all.
Seth Meyers
So many of my boys fights are just over. That's my. You know, like, I mean, Star Wars Legos.
Josh Myers
And sure, Legos are the most dysregulating. Like, my. It's my son is. It goes in ebbs and flows. But we've basically multiple times taken all the Legos away because you lose Obi Wan's, like, lightsaber, which is the smallest thing in the world. And so I'm like, they're gone. I'm taking them away.
Seth Meyers
I said, again, I've talked a lot about my failure to teach my children about consequences, because this morning, Axel was just being a maniac. And I said, that's it. I'm taking your Star Wars Legos away. And he just looks at me and just screamed like a siren on the. Just like.
Josh Myers
Ah.
Seth Meyers
And I'm like, all right, never mind. Never mind. You get to keep them, and I'll get you a new one. Stop yelling. Whatever. Whatever you want, buddy. Whatever you want. Yeah. It's relentless.
Nick Kroll
Real quick on holiday birthdays, I'm January 8th, so I feel like, oh, wow. Would definitely buy, you know, all the gifts kind of at once, and they would sort of stretch them out. But at some point, mom was like, I feel like you guys get kind of horked, which is a very Hilary Myers word. But you guys get horked by having your birthdays so close to Christmas. So I think we should start celebrating your half birthdays.
Josh Myers
Aw. Which was cool.
Nick Kroll
But she said this when we were, like, 32 and 30.
Seth Meyers
You missed.
Josh Myers
Yeah. That's so funny.
Nick Kroll
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
She's like, huh.
Nick Kroll
I just figured this out. Like, maybe we should do half. It was like, I'm 30 years old. I Don't need to do half birthday.
Josh Myers
You're like, I've. I've finally gotten you the. The Transformer ripoff that you never wanted. Yeah, I do remember that. Getting like, like, did you ever GoBots? Yeah. Yeah, I got a Gobot. I remember being like. And now I'm again, it's like now that you have. Now that I've got a boy. And like all of those things like Transformers particularly are still. Are. Are still a thing.
Nick Kroll
Yeah, they're genius.
Josh Myers
And they're. And like so. And I have a visceral memory of seeing a packaged Transformer. Like I have a visceral feeling of like, it's like sometimes when you see like Air Jordans, like there's something about certain items that like my, my. Some deep core like covetous desire comes through and, and I've now. And my. I remember knowing where my parents hiding place for the toys like presents were and going like pre wrapped and being like, I know it's in this like pantry closet. And I went in and found. And I was like, oh, I'm getting it. I can see the size of it. It's right. It's a Transformer. And then going in there and being like, it's a fucking Gobot. It's a fucking Gobot. And so it's like, how am I gonna. Am I gonna. Okay, all right. Let's like spend a week moving through my emotions about it not being right to then being sort of excited.
Seth Meyers
We. We got a Lego. You know, there's again, this was like his big present this year, which. And again posh. I promise we'll get off this fast. Cause this is not a vacation story. But you know, the big present was a Millennium Falcon Lego set.
Nick Kroll
Brand.
Josh Myers
Seth, stay on.
Seth Meyers
We gotta stay on Brand.
Nick Kroll
You can't with him.
Seth Meyers
And it turns out there's like multiple different millennium Falcons, you know. And so you get one and the speed in which he clocked it was the wrong one.
Josh Myers
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
And he's like. And then we just had a real good conversation. And again, this is. You know, his birthday's in March, so we've had some time six weeks ago. And I said, look, do you want me to try to return this or do you think ultimately this one will be okay? And he's like, I do think this one will be okay. And then literally last night I came in to say goodnight. He goes, I don't think I can do it. He goes. And he hasn't opened it yet, so it's still. He goes, I just. I I just. I can't come to terms with it.
Josh Myers
But good for him that it didn't get opened.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, no, exactly. Right. He's not trying to get a second falcon.
Josh Myers
No.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Josh Myers
No, he's not trying to. He's not trying to get it or. I mean, I just want to talk about Jeremy Renner now. I don't know why.
Nick Kroll
You'Re really catching that sun right in the teeth.
Seth Meyers
Right.
Josh Myers
Well, that's what I'm. So I'm. I'm. I. I don't know where you guys are in a controlled environment.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Josh Myers
Now. And now I'm not like. So I'm.
Seth Meyers
Now you're getting blasted by the sun.
Josh Myers
So now I can reposition.
Nick Kroll
Oh, yeah. A break in the windows, I think.
Josh Myers
Yeah. Is this bad? I mean, this is what it should have been. Because what you were dealing with with me for a solid 45 minutes was true. Like, gray cloud with no natural sun.
Nick Kroll
Yeah.
Josh Myers
And now I'm getting blasted by the sun with natural light, and it's overexposed. So now I'm playing a. Yeah, I'm playing. Exactly. I'm playing.
Nick Kroll
You're doing well right now, and it looks more comfortable for you, which is more comfortable for us.
Josh Myers
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
When you imagine back to vacation, like, let's say you're in Puerto Rico. Are the four kids alone on their own without your parents supervision, and do you hang out together or do you sort of split off and do your own thing?
Josh Myers
We. I'm trying to remember. I think it was it. Yes, I remember. You know what? I'm also just thinking about, like, I was thinking about this this morning, and I was like, man, I mean, that's the beauty of, like, a vacation where it's like you're at a hotel and, you know, like, that's. And now you're just, like, free. And as parents, I. Now I'm like. I mean, my kids are still too little to be free, but, like, I now watch my siblings with their kids because all of my siblings had four kids as well. And so I've. So I. I frankly missed a lot of those family vacations before I had kids. I was like, go, Hanks. Thank God. Go ahead.
Seth Meyers
Thank you, but no, thank you.
Josh Myers
Thanks. I'll catch you at Christmas. But. But now being, like, when you're in an enclosed place like that, it's like, such freedom that I think we as children had more freedom in the world than kids have now. Like, in a neighborhood where it's not like, you know, we grew up. You grew up on bikes. You had, like, freedom. Now, I think, like, there's so much more control over kids, but, like, going on a family vacation where you're like, no, it's an enclosed environment. Let the. We. Maybe kids have breakfast together. And then it's like, freedom through the day. And that's what I remember. And I remember being the youngest of four and just trying to keep up wherever the. My older siblings were going, that I was, like, just desperately trying to keep up. And it was that, like, I remember very much, like, just being on a. Like, I'm just trying to keep up with my brother as he, like, moves through the day.
Nick Kroll
So were you at, like, resorts where they were like.
Josh Myers
Yeah, yeah, I think so. We were at resorts, but we definitely also did. Yes, we were at resorts. And it was like, maybe there was a camp at the resort or something. The best. We never did it. There was a. There was a place. Now, it's interesting. Like, my brother is married to Nikki, who I mentioned earlier. Her family. We were never. My. We never went to the same place year after year. You know, those families that's like, oh, every year we go to. We went once to this place, Dorado. I think it was maybe that vacation in. In Puerto Rico that, like, where the. The fishing trip happened. But, like, every year, this family went to Dorado and there was, like, water slides. You know, like, there was, like, the vacations, and it was like. And you'd go back every year and you would reconnect with these families that you, like. They knew. Every year you're like, oh, we're gonna see this group of, like, Jews from Montreal who go. Who go every year to Dorado and Puerto Rico, and they create these, like, lifelong bonding experiences. My parents. My dad never, like, sort of who my family was. We were never like that. Weirdly, we had a lot of community, but we were actually not joiners. So it's like, you know, like the synagogue. We were there, but we weren't, like, all in. And it was the same with vacations. Whereas, like, these. I remember going to this Dorado vacation being like, oh, my God. These families come every year, and they're friends, and every year they reconnect with the same family. And it was kind of, like, awesome, because the older you got, it's like, then, like, they all, like, hook up with each other because they, like, know each other year after year. And my parents. My dad be like, we're not going back.
Seth Meyers
Like, you know, like, I think that's true of us. I think we were part of the reason I Think we weren't joiners is. We were so close as a unit.
Nick Kroll
Yeah.
Josh Myers
Had you all had started having sex with each other at this point or did that. Did that take a while longer?
Seth Meyers
I think. Remember mom said she thought it would be a good half birthday thing at 30.
Josh Myers
Look, I'm gonna get.
Nick Kroll
I don't enjoy this. I don't enjoy this line of questioning.
Seth Meyers
Josh saw the movie Spanking the Monkey with my mom.
Josh Myers
Oh, my God.
Nick Kroll
We stopped it. It was on VHS.
Seth Meyers
Once we figured out what was going.
Josh Myers
On with 10 minutes left, I do remember going to see my mom and I. This is like as we were getting older and I was like, maybe the only kid at home. I went and saw next of kin with my mom, Patrick Swayze. This is like a post roadhouse, like vibe. And I remember being like 10 and being like, I don't like this movie. And my mom being like, no, let's stay, just finish. And I was like, oh, my mom's like totally into Patrick Swayze, right?
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Nick Kroll
Well, who could blame her?
Seth Meyers
Yeah. Yeah, I think my mom would second that.
Josh Myers
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
100. Did you go to summer camp where.
Josh Myers
Yes.
Seth Meyers
Okay, so you had that as the built in. These are the people I'm going to grow up with.
Josh Myers
Yes. So we went to summer camp. Just going to. Sorry, I'm wiping. I'm wiping whatever you guys are hearing in my chest. I'm wiping that on a. A box where. Where I hold podcast equipment. I went to summer camp. And that was also like. Yes, I went to summer camp. We all went to camp in Maine. Near. This is. Look at this. Near New Hampshire. Yeah. Okay, cool. Cool trick.
Nick Kroll
I never realized Maine was close.
Josh Myers
Look at this. Yeah. And you watch this. And you guys are from New Hampshire.
Seth Meyers
Oh, wow. There's more.
Josh Myers
Yeah, I remember. I remember.
Seth Meyers
Yep.
Josh Myers
So summer was oftentimes like that. And you know, and because it was seven years over time, like, it was like spread. So, like years there was not like a big summer trip off because it was like my brother was at camp. And then, you know, it was like 14 years of summer camp in one capacity.
Nick Kroll
Were your siblings at the same camp with you?
Josh Myers
My. My brother and I went to the same camp, but he was gone by the time I got there. But my sisters went to camp together. I went to a camp called Wildwood, which is where. In a town called Bridgeton, Maine, 45 minutes outside of Portland, which is weird. And I'm. And weirdly on big mouth. They. The town that we are from is Bridgeton, because Andrew Goldberg and I oh, right.
Seth Meyers
You guys were camp friends.
Josh Myers
We were camp. We. We were. We were home friends who then became camp friends.
Seth Meyers
Got it.
Josh Myers
And. And then my sisters went to a camp called Walden in Maine nearby. It was like a sister camp, but we. So summers were rare. Were rarely a trip that we would take. Did you guys do a summer trip together?
Seth Meyers
No, we were at, like, home. I remember. I mean, the thing is, you know, when. Since we grew up. Look at this. Watch this. In New Hampshire, near where you went to camp. But, like, it felt campy. Like, we would, you know, we had friends at lake houses and you would maybe go with them for a weekend, but it was also like, it was summer in New Hampshire, so we would just sort of bike around there and I feel like, have a very campy existence in ourselves.
Josh Myers
Yeah. Like, you guys were trying to collect as many ticks as possible on your body, I would imagine.
Seth Meyers
Oh, my God. Yeah. And a lot of them are still with us, you know, coursing.
Josh Myers
Coursing through our veins.
Seth Meyers
Yeah. There was a real movement back in the day to remove him, but, you know.
Josh Myers
No. Okay. No. And this is a good opportunity for me.
Seth Meyers
Thank you. You have a lot to say about him. A dear friend. A dear friend of yours.
Josh Myers
A dear tick friend. A dear tick friend. Oh, a dear dick friend. See, watch this. Watch this. You. I mean, you guys must. Seth, you must be picking ticks out at a rate that is.
Nick Kroll
Sometimes he. Sometimes he doesn't. He missed one.
Seth Meyers
No, but the kids. A couple years ago, I did miss one on myself where I was like, huh, that's weird. Like, literally went to bed and was like, I don't know what. I don't know if I, like, hurt a muscle yesterday. And then morning, I woke up just like a giant tick.
Josh Myers
I'm like, yeah, boy, my boy. My armpit hair is so thick and filled with blood. I wonder if that's.
Seth Meyers
You know what? I. Certainly a problem that can wait until morning.
Josh Myers
Yeah. I'm getting better at pulling. Have you like, Like, I'm slowly now, like, getting. It's grow.
Seth Meyers
Well, we have those little, like, you know, those, like, like the spoon tick puller. Yep.
Josh Myers
I need to get one of those because I've been. I tried it with a tweezer. The tick wasn't happy about that. Held on for dear life.
Nick Kroll
Yeah.
Josh Myers
And now we're doing it with paper, toilet paper and paper towels.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Josh Myers
You don't want to scare the tick.
Seth Meyers
I was saying, you know what's a fun vacation? You know, it's a relaxing vacation. When you have to when you leave with a tick in a ziploc bag that you're gonna get tested.
Josh Myers
It's happening. So I'm so in that right now. It's fucking crazy.
Seth Meyers
We're gonna get like a bulk deal at the place that tests for Lyme. We're just sending ticks in so much.
Josh Myers
It's the Costco of tick testing.
Seth Meyers
Yeah.
Josh Myers
I a quick shout out to our sponsor, by the way. Costco tick testing.
Seth Meyers
Costco tick test.
Nick Kroll
Costco is suing them for the record.
Seth Meyers
Yeah, it's not that tough.
Josh Myers
No. Yeah. And at different costumes. Wait, just quickly. Speaking of family vacations, I will speak to a current family vacation this Christmas. And I think this is, I don't know if this is post Covid, if you guys have felt this more, but it's like all of a sudden families gather and just get hammered by a collective illness. So yes, we were, we were up with my wife's family and got here and having a lovely time and everyone all of a sudden. My son had never been sick before. Really. Like he's like four, he was about to turn four and he's just been like so fortunate and like woke up to my him puking his brains out at like 3 in the morning. He'd never really puked before. And so the shock of that and us waking up and cleaning up like kids vomit. And we cleaned him up, changed his bedding and then like three hours later, poor kid like just puked again. And so then we cleaned him up and then we found out that my brother in law had caught whatever my son had caught like at his, at his like also separately. And so Christmas then got kind of canceled. You know, it was like. Cause everyone what happened. And then because my father in law got it, he had. My father in law had been cooking short ribs for like a day and a half. And then we realized like we had norovirus was just like running through the family. So Christmas we pushed and my daughter, it was Christmas day, we were gonna do Christmas Eve that night and I was like giving my daughter a bath. And then I looked at her back and she had a massive tick in her back.
Seth Meyers
Oh.
Josh Myers
And then, so it was like, then can I like my year old daughter, can I pull a massive tick out of her? It was just. And then we went to urgent care cause I didn't think I'd gotten all the tick out. And so then we spent like three hours at urgent care on Christmas day. It was just one of those things where you're like, oh they don't.
Seth Meyers
They make bad pets. I'm just gonna say ticks.
Josh Myers
I know, but there's. But the kids. But the kids get so connected.
Seth Meyers
They do get so connected.
Nick Kroll
And that flea. Everyone says the fleas are good at a circus, but a tick circus.
Seth Meyers
Oh, a tick circus.
Nick Kroll
It's like the Cirque du Soleil of.
Seth Meyers
Of flea circuses.
Josh Myers
By the way, I do want to shout out another sponsor that this is your show. But that I. I have to mention.
Seth Meyers
Oh, you brought a sponsor?
Josh Myers
Yeah, I brought a sponsor. Cirque du Soleil oil of oil Olay. And this is a. A great moisturizer that you can use whenever you get a tick, you lather yourself it an oil of Olay. A very current product.
Seth Meyers
Very.
Josh Myers
That you're going to be able to moisturize your tick because your tick's going to get dried out. Oh, it's.
Seth Meyers
Oh, it's moisturizer for ticks.
Josh Myers
Yes, it's moisturizer.
Nick Kroll
It doesn't help you remove it or anything.
Seth Meyers
It just keeps them moisturizing.
Josh Myers
In fact, you should not put ointment on ticks. I've been told. But. But you to remove them. But you want to keep your ticks well hydrated.
Seth Meyers
It is always the best to talk to you. I'm very excited to see you at Comedy vs. Cancer.
Josh Myers
Yes.
Seth Meyers
I'm very excited to see more big mouth may 22nd.
Josh Myers
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
Incredible show.
Josh Myers
Thank you.
Seth Meyers
And before you go though, Josh is gonna speed round you some questions real quick.
Nick Kroll
Also, you got a lot of stuff to promote here. Adults on fx, a new show and.
Seth Meyers
I don't understand you. Is a really good family trips movie when you think about really is.
Josh Myers
It's me and Andrew Rannells married couple going on a vacation to Italy. And it truly goes off the rails in the most serious family trip way you can imagine. So it's a great family trip movie.
Nick Kroll
Great. All right, some quick questions here. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous or educational?
Josh Myers
Fuck. No, it's I want to fuck on family vacations. I know this is supposed to be a speed round. I would say now it's relaxing. It used to be adventurous and. And there was a period of time that it was educational.
Nick Kroll
All right, what is my answer? Sure. What is your favorite means of transportation?
Josh Myers
Oh, rickshaw. I want to drive it and I want to.
Seth Meyers
Oh, you want to drive it.
Josh Myers
I want to drive rickshaw. I want to drive just like obese German tourists around.
Nick Kroll
Odd choice. If you could take a vacation with any family Alive or dead, Real or fictional, Other than your own family, what family would you like to take a vacation with?
Josh Myers
Oh, the Kennedys. It's the Outcast. I want to take the outcast Kennedys on vacation.
Seth Meyers
Gotcha. You want third tranche Kennedys?
Josh Myers
Yes. Yes.
Seth Meyers
None of the ones that are invited on actual Kennedy vacations anymore.
Josh Myers
Yes, correct. Correct.
Seth Meyers
Right. Oh, that's really fun because that is like a dirty dozen. Like you guys should. Your vacation should be a heist.
Josh Myers
Yeah, it is. It's a current day heist of medical records, I think really more than anything else.
Nick Kroll
If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be?
Josh Myers
Oh, man, great question. No, let's see. I have a. Yeah, I have. I don't know how to. I don't know how to answer that. What would your guys have. You guys have answered this for yourselves. What's your answer?
Nick Kroll
I mean, I would. I would take my wife and smart.
Seth Meyers
I probably take, I guess Axel.
Nick Kroll
Okay. Yeah, yeah. All right, so now next I would.
Josh Myers
Take Axel or your. Or Josh's wife.
Seth Meyers
Oh, so you really were just using us to get answers.
Josh Myers
Yeah, I would take. Yeah, I would take. Right now, my little girl is like. Is just easy. Is the easiest hang. So I'm like, right now I'd be like, she's such an easy hang. I would go with her.
Seth Meyers
Great.
Nick Kroll
You're from Rye, New York. Would you recommend Rye as a vacation destination?
Josh Myers
Rye, New York, is home to a place called Playland, one of the, like, true OG amusement parks in the country. They shot Mariah Carey. Mariah Carey. Mariah Carey had a music video there with like.
Seth Meyers
She got shot there.
Josh Myers
She got shot there. Yes, by Jack McBrayer.
Seth Meyers
Oh, that's awful.
Josh Myers
Current, current, successful, unproblematic filmmaker Woody Allen shot Sweet and Low down there.
Seth Meyers
All right.
Josh Myers
As well as the, oh, the carnival scene from Big. You know, where Tom Hanks meets Zoltar shot at. So it's like an amazing, beautiful, art deco style amusement park with a dragon coaster. At least one person dies there a year. Still has every year for many, many years. It's truly one of the great old school amusement park. If you grew up in the tri state area, you took a class trip to Playland. I highly recommend that. It's a. It's a really beautiful place.
Nick Kroll
And Seth has our final questions.
Seth Meyers
Nick, have you been to the Grand Canyon?
Josh Myers
I've been to the Grand Canyon.
Seth Meyers
And was it worth it?
Josh Myers
I went on a. Yes, I went on a road trip around the country with My girlfriend.
Nick Kroll
Right.
Josh Myers
After graduating college in the first Prius. It's not a big deal. And we went to the Grand.
Seth Meyers
They ran on gasoline. The first one.
Josh Myers
Yes. Yes. They actually. Yes. They weirdly ran at that point on baby's blood. Oh, well, that's so.
Seth Meyers
Which. Everybody was like, you know, gas is better than that.
Josh Myers
Yeah. But, you know, it was. This was early Illuminati days. And so it was a.
Seth Meyers
Before they worked out the kinks.
Josh Myers
Yeah. Before you could realize you could just drink it and feel all powerful. So we went to the Grand Canyon. We had a great time, but I would recommend on that same trip, we went to the Badlands and camped out in the Badlands in South Dakota. Different than the Grand Canyon, but I would say an unbelievably beautiful. Oh, I also crashed a helicopter from Vegas into the Grand Canyon. I should mention.
Seth Meyers
Oh, that's great.
Josh Myers
I guess I buried the lead on that one.
Nick Kroll
Yeah.
Seth Meyers
And they buried it, the helicopter.
Nick Kroll
Right.
Seth Meyers
It's like as if it never happened.
Josh Myers
Yes, exactly.
Seth Meyers
What a delight to talk to you, buddy. I will see you very soon.
Josh Myers
Yes. Thank you for having me.
Seth Meyers
Love to you and your family.
Josh Myers
Yes. Thanks. And watch this, watch this. Hey, Seth. We're also doing some. While we're in New York, my wife, Lily Kwong, is opening. Has done a couple installations in Madison Square Park. She's opened these two special gardens that she's a landscape designer, and she's opened these special gardens, like a meditation garden and then like a children's garden. And we're doing some comedian story times where we're gonna read our favorite books to kids in the park. So I'm gonna.
Seth Meyers
Hit me up for that, too. That'd be fantastic.
Josh Myers
Hit you up for that. This doesn't have to go on the podcast, but I'm just asking you now because I love to ask you for favors, Seth.
Seth Meyers
I love to do them for you. They're always good causes. They're always for good people. And thanks for your time, buddy.
Josh Myers
Thanks, Josh. Thanks, Seth. Great to see you guys.
Nick Kroll
Nick came to the city for a jaunt, went to see a show with his aunt. She took him to Starlight Express. Little Nick was not impressed. He said, I thought that show was not great. Real piece of shit on roller skates. Thought that he would go and check out Spain. Itchy finger gave Nick some pain. Brother saw it. He was shocked. Said, you need to see a doc. It was nasty. Eczema to the extreme, but he healed it with some steroid cream. But still. Yeah, dad wouldn't go back to Dorado. So the family took a trip to Morocco. No Moroccan rugs got sold when the workers were just 12 years old. Nick says, hey, guys, that was pretty dark. And where'd you. Where'd you get your shark from? And the Moroccan guy said, oh, advice, it's culinary from a boy with salami in his carry on? Mountain shark, you say that it is gross you once licked between your brother's toes?
Seth Meyers
Oh, advice, it's culinary From a boy.
Nick Kroll
With salami in his carry on? Mountain shark, you say that it just grossed you once sleep between your brother's toes? Oh, advice this culinary?
Seth Meyers
From a boy with salami in his carry on? Mountain shark, you say that it's this.
Nick Kroll
Gross you want slid between your brother's toes?
Josh Myers
Sam.
Podcast Summary: Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers
Episode: NICK KROLL Had a Terrible Time at the Van Gogh Museum
Release Date: June 10, 2025
In this lively episode of Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers, Seth Meyers and Josh Meyers sit down with comedian Nick Kroll to delve into hilarious and sometimes disastrous family vacations. The conversation spans from childhood escapades and sibling antics to memorable trips abroad, all infused with humor and heartfelt moments. The episode not only entertains but also offers relatable insights into family dynamics and the unpredictability of travel.
The episode kicks off with Seth sharing a delightful anecdote about walking to school with his daughter, Addie. He describes her as a "real good chatterbox" who doesn't need any interjections, much to the amusement of passersby.
Seth Meyers [00:00]: "Addie does not stop talking the entire time we're walking... she's just gonna talk nonstop."
Nick echoes the sentiment, highlighting the vibrancy and energy that comes with having a talkative child.
Nick Kroll [00:39]: "Yeah. Real good chatterbox."
The conversation transitions to the brothers' relationships with their siblings and the playful teasing that comes with it. Seth humorously recounts how his children allow anyone but him to touch Addie.
Seth Meyers [01:36]: "Addie did tell me today that everyone's allowed to touch her but me."
Nick chimed in with a playful jab about the brothers' affectionate nature.
Nick Kroll [01:07]: "And we love it. We're big huggers."
This segues into tales of sibling rivalry and camaraderie, with Josh sharing a particularly gruesome childhood memory involving Nick.
Josh Myers [20:07]: "He took the balloon from me, and I asked him for it back, and he said, I'll give it back to you if you lick in between my toes."
Nick narrates his challenging experience at the Van Gogh Museum, exacerbated by being under the influence, which Seth humorously suggests should have a fast pass line.
Seth Meyers [51:10]: "I do feel like there should be a fast pass line at museums for people who are just rolling on super high."
The discussion then shifts to Nick's family trip to Morocco, where cultural interactions and unexpected situations unfold. Nick recounts the ordeal of being sold Moroccan rugs by young workers and a bizarre meal of shark during Ramadan.
Nick Kroll [29:09]: "They brought us a meal and it was like, we were in the mountains in the center of Morocco and they served us shark."
Seth comments on the unusual culinary choices, adding his own humorous take on the situation.
Seth Meyers [32:09]: "Oh, you’re bringing me shark while I’m stuffed with salami? That’s a lobby."
The brothers reminisce about their summer camp experiences in Maine, sharing stories of making lifelong friendships and the competitive spirit that comes with being the youngest sibling.
Nick Kroll [70:47]: "My sisters went to camp together. I went to a camp called Wildwood."
Seth Meyers [67:31]: "We were always home. We have a lot of community, but we were actually not joiners."
These memories highlight the blend of independence and togetherness that defines their family vacations.
A particularly memorable story involves a Christmas vacation where a norovirus outbreak disrupts festivities, leading to chaos and laughter.
Josh Myers [52:25]: "We have a terrible case of, like, we tried deep sea fishing and ended up puking all over the ship."
Seth reflects on the importance of family being together despite unforeseen circumstances.
Seth Meyers [57:42]: "In the end, she loved that we were all together and that's really what mattered."
The episode concludes with a light-hearted speed round where the brothers answer fun questions about their ideal vacations, favorite modes of transportation, and hypothetical scenarios like being stranded on a desert island.
Josh Myers [77:07]: "My ideal vacation? Fuck, no… I want to fuck on family vacations."
The humorous banter showcases the close-knit and playful relationship between the brothers, leaving listeners entertained and eager for the next episode.
This episode of Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers offers a blend of humor, heartfelt stories, and candid conversations about family life and travel mishaps. Nick Kroll's guest appearance adds an extra layer of comedy and relatability, making it a must-listen for fans of the Meyers brothers and anyone who enjoys reminiscing about family vacations gone hilariously wrong.
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