RORY SCOVEL Did Mushrooms in the Grand Canyon

Summary

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Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers

Episode: RORY SCOVEL Did Mushrooms in the Grand Canyon

Release Date: February 17, 2026
Guests: Rory Scoville
Hosts: Seth Meyers & Josh Meyers (“Paschi” when Josh is alone)

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Overview:

This episode of Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers dives into comedian Rory Scoville's childhood as one of seven siblings in South Carolina, unforgettable family beach vacations, bonding over generational stand-up comedy, the realities of touring life, the pressure of providing memorable experiences for family, and the story behind that epic (and psychedelic) Grand Canyon adventure.

True to form, the episode bounces between hilarious family anecdotes, the neuroses of parenthood, and honest ruminations on what makes a vacation stick. Expect stand-up shop talk, warm sibling rivalry, and a speed round culminating in the legendary Grand Canyon mushroom trip.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Sibling Chaos & Growing Up Scoville

• Rory is one of seven kids, raised in Greenville, SC; five of his siblings are half-siblings (different mothers).
  • “My dad had seven kids. ... Seven kids, Catholic.” (10:01, Rory)
• Parental loss at a young age united him and his full sister.
  • “Our mother passed away when we were very young, so there’s never been a time where I looked at the other siblings... didn’t feel like it was a full kind of relationship.” (10:15, Rory)
• Babysitting was a way of life: Rory and his older sister were always changing diapers and corralling kids.
  • “So much changing diapers, watching kids, taking care of kids. For so much of my middle school, high school life.” (11:13, Rory)

2. The Childhood Vacation Scene: Minivans, Myrtle Beach, and Dad on His Walkman

• Family road trips meant Myrtle Beach or Panama City Beach—long hauls in a seven-seater minivan, with tiny TVs hooked up to the lighter for VHS Disney tapes.
  • “That took us to a whole new—we were like, this is how the other side lives.” (26:42, Rory)
• Myrtle Beach trumped Destin for one reason:
  • “He thought the waves were bigger...My dad just gets a little more dopamine kick from the Myrtle Beach waves than the Gulf of Mexico.” (27:14, Rory)
• Rory’s dad epitomized beach bliss: Arrived at 8am, full cooler, Walkman playing soft rock, “yacht rock,” and would disappear into the surf to body surf or simply zone out in the sun.
  • “He would have a cooler...He’s in a chair, Walkman cassette player...He’s not waiting for the family to get ready...Meet me there whenever you’re coming down. I’m not waiting.” (28:17-28:57, Rory)
• Food rules and routines were out the window on vacation: Sugary wine coolers and rum were the order of the day for Dad.

3. Parent/Child Bonding over Performance and Comedy

• Seth shares how Rory's stand-up connects multiple generations:
  • “My dad in particular is a real stand up comedian fan...you came up...And my nine year old...never has done this, he’s like, who’s that? And he was in.” (08:03–08:25, Seth)
• Rory discusses his daughter’s evolving awareness of his career, and the growing “cool factor” as she gets older.
  • “Now...when I say, hey, I’m in something...that’s kind of cool. Because I sort of do that...the standup side of it, kids at school have youtubed me...the school told us they put my name on something where kids can’t Google it...” (13:08–14:14, Rory)
• Both hosts reflect on bringing kids to live shows and the emotional resonance of sharing that side of themselves.
  • “He yelled out a suggestion...it was the happiest...I was over the moon.” (16:00–16:26, Seth)

4. Modern Family Trips, Generational Shifts, and ‘Vacation Pressure’

• Vacation logistics have changed: Airbnbs, instant booking, more options — but a nostalgia for “mailing a check to get a receipt” lingers.
  • “Back then, you had to make phone calls, the mail was involved to get a receipt for a check...the slow pace of that seems so absurd. It also seems wildly delightful.” (33:53, Rory)
• Rory admits to feeling pressure to “entertain” on vacations as an entertainer and a parent.
  • “I feel such massive pressure to make the vacation entertaining...I almost don’t care if I’m enjoying it. I just want to make sure my wife and daughter are enjoying it.” (58:37, Rory)
• Vermont became a favorite recharge spot:
  • “Vermont in the summer made me realize I understand New England now. I get it...Every day I woke up, I’d take my dog and we’d go look for a river to sit in. ...I was like, I’m 12 again. This is bliss.” (67:45–68:57, Rory)

5. Stand-up Shop Talk (with Many Detours)

• Improvised Stand-up: Rory’s “no material” shows—improvising entire headlining sets, culminating in cape/tablecloth “cult” bits and recurring gags.
  • “I got addicted to it. ...It’s not to do crowd work, it’s literally just to keep talking as though this is the act.” (55:20, Rory)
• Touring now includes exploring: Art museums, bookstores, “snobbish” about coffee—Rory intentionally gets out rather than staying cloistered in his hotel room.
  • “At minimum, I’m gonna find a coffee shop...I will look up art museums...I want to go see as many paintings...But I’ll do anything if I have the time...bookstores...” (53:06, Rory)
• Traveling abroad for shows is easier and more fruitful than expected:
  • “You could just go to Europe and the UK and tour the entire year...the longevity of an hour you put together...you could sustain it for a while off of one show. Which is insane.” (63:41–64:23, Rory)

6. Notable Family Members & Traditions

• Aunt Rooney Scovel: Legendary basketball coach, in the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame, has her jersey retired at the University of Florida.
  • “Shout out to my Aunt Rooney Scovel...Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame for coaching...” (37:14, Rory)
• Thanksgiving as a destination: Family uses Airbnbs in Greenville for “staycations” to gather and simulate trips together.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

“He would have a cooler...He’s at the beach in a chair...Walkman...just staring at the water. ...For whatever reason, he would just sometimes get up, take the stuff off, go catch some waves, come back, sit in his chair, put his thing on. ...He got so sunburnt. … Every picture we have, he’s just got sunglasses...fully protected the tone of his skin color around his eyes.”
— Rory Scoville, (28:17-29:42)

“I want to like the beach. A lot of people clearly do. But if someone’s like, do you want to go into a mountain lake or go to the Caribbean? I’m like, no, I want to go to the mountain lake.”
— Rory (30:10–30:46)

“I got addicted to it. … I want to figure out how to do this.”
— Rory, on improvising hour-long stand-up sets (55:20)

“You have to realize, kids don’t like—it’s also exhausting for them to keep telling their parents they’re having a fun time, right?”
— Seth (59:38)

“We did mushrooms...and it had all the things. I thought I was dying, and then I thought I was really alive.”
— Rory, about the Grand Canyon trip (73:07)

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Memorable Segments / Timestamps

• Family dynamics & being one of seven: 09:35–12:46
• Minivan vacation logistics & Dad's beach routine: 25:41–31:23
• Parenting, stand-up legacy, and performing for your kids: 13:01–17:56
• Nostalgia for “classic” vacation logistics: 33:53–34:22
• Generational T-shirt envy / Hard Rock Café & ski tags: 38:41–39:42
• Stand-up shop talk—improv specials and cape bit: 55:14–57:22
• Touring mentality shift post-Covid: 52:45–54:29
• International shows & realizing the hour can live forever: 63:11–64:23
• Family speed round: 71:42–73:01
• The Grand Canyon Mushroom Story: 73:05–73:53

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Speed Round Highlights

• Ideal vacation? "Relaxing."
• Favorite means of transportation? "Airplane."
• Dream family to vacation with? "The Jetsons."
• Stranded on an island, pick a family member: "My wife."
• Dream destination: "Anywhere in Vermont, Burlington."
• How to sell Greenville, SC? “Barbecue. A mild shift in liberal thinking, but not enough to really notice it. ...A dedication to college football like you haven't experienced before.”

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The Legendary Grand Canyon Story

(73:05–73:53):
Seth asks if Rory has ever been to the Grand Canyon.

“I have. ...I went with a buddy, and we took a trail that I don’t think you’re supposed to take, and we stayed one night and we did mushrooms. And it had all the things. I thought I was dying, and then I thought I was really alive.”
— Rory

Seth immediately cracks up at how the story fits the episode:

“Just on the beginning of that story, I felt like I could have predicted mushrooms were gonna happen.”
— Seth

“When I said illegal path—”
“Yeah, it’s... you don’t do that unless, like, more illegal is coming.”
— Rory & Seth

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Tone & Style

The episode is warm, quick-witted, and riff-driven—riffing on childhood quirks, the anxieties/pluses of show business parenting, and the everyday absurdities of family rituals. There’s a blend of genuine nostalgia and wry self-awareness, with voices shifting easily from comic bits to personal reflection.

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Takeaways

• Family vacations are as much about the little routines, logistics, snacks, and parental quirks as the destination.
• Being a comic (or a “performer parent”) adds pressure and surrealism to modern family trips.
• The legacy of improv, experimentation, and just “going with it” shapes both stand-up careers and family enjoyment.
• The Grand Canyon is best appreciated from an illegal path—especially if some mushrooms are involved.

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For anyone interested in family comedy, stand-up shop talk, or the realities behind generational trips and traditions, this episode is gold.

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Transcript

[Paschi]

Hey, everybody. It's just Pashi this morning. Sufi is away. He's off because of the Olympics, and NBC has the Olympics, and so he always gets some time every couple years, and he's doing some traveling, doing a little bit of work, and then he's gonna go on a family trip that I'm sure we will hear about upon his return. So I just wrote some things down to talk about because I gotta fill a little bit of time here, but the Olympics, I will say I'm a huge fan of the Olympics. When the opening ceremonies were on, I was bummed because I had plans that Friday night and then I was at home and I realized that they were on at 11 in the morning. And man, oh, man, I just. That whole day was gone for me because I started watching the opening ceremonies and I couldn't stop. I think you might know this about me. I'm a pretty emotional person when it comes to performance and art, and I cried no fewer than five times at those opening ceremonies. If you haven't seen them, and if that's the kind of thing you're into, I highly recommend them. There's also some good things to chuckle at. It wasn't 100% things that were going to make me cry, but it's been great. And I just love the Olympics in general. I just shot an episode for my other California now podcast where we went up to Mammoth and we did a day on the mountain, and we did an afternoon at the cross country ski facility out there, the Tamarack Cross Country Ski Center. And I was sort of. My guide was this ultra marathoner, this gal, Olivia Amber. She runs for the North Face. And she was talking to me about Jesse Diggins. And I find that storyline fascinating. I also was pretty good at cross country skiing, I will say. But at one point, we were getting a shot and I told sort of my guide, Olivia, I was like, why don't you go first and you go as fast as you can and I'll just come after you and then that'll give a sense of. Of how much better you are. And I can't even describe how fast she was so far ahead of me, to a point where our director said, well, can we do that again? But Olivia, you kind of looked like a jerk because you didn't wait for Josh. But it was all on me. And it was also proof of, you can be much better than me at cross country skiing. My wife and I woke up on Super Bowl Sunday and watched the Lindsey Vonn race, which unfortunately, she had that big Crash and broke her leg. And we hope, obviously, she's okay, but I had checked the New York Times app in the morning just to look at the news in bed, and scrolled down and saw a headline that says, lindsey Von Crashes. But I didn't want to give that up to my wife, Mackenzie, because we were going to watch it together, and she was very interested in it. And so we watched it, and we had breakfast, and, you know, she crashes. And Mackenzie was really. Was like, oh, my God. And was, you know, sort of shook from it. And then we went to a Super bowl party later in the afternoon, and we were talking about it, and mackenzie was like, I knew, actually that she had crashed. And I also knew that she'd crash. But we didn't tell each other that we knew because we wanted. We didn't want to spoil it for the other person. But it was a very charming thing to know that we would both withhold our knowledge and really play it up. But we sat there with our Sunday morning pancakes and acted like we knew nothing. But, Avi, we hope Lindsey Vaughn is okay. And just. What an amazing career. And that's also just one of the best events at the Olympics. And then also at the super bowl party, my buddy Robbie Benedict printed out these, like, sort of fanduel sheets of these prop bets that everyone that was there filled in. And I would say that in the future, if you're at a party where they have these things, you should ask them to shred those papers, because the number of times during the game people were talking about this stupid pool that meant nothing was so tedious. Through the entire Bad Bunny halftime show, there was a prop bet that said, is he gonna do more than 11 and a half songs or less than 11 and a half songs? And the number of times people were.

[Rory Scoville]

Like, oh, is that six? Yeah, that.

[Paschi]

That's six.

[Rory Scoville]

He's up to six.

[Paschi]

It's the worst.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

We were also. We were playing for no money.

[Paschi]

We were playing for no pride. I, like, I won, and it means nothing. So just enjoy the game in the future. That's what I'm going to propose. Yeah, And I really, really dug Bad Bunny as well.

[Seth]

I don't know.

[Paschi]

Some people seem mad at it. I thought it was pretty fun. We have Rory Scoville on the show today. Big fan of this guy. Great standup. He's done a lot of, like, improvised standup that I've watched some of online, which is just. That would make me so nervous. And apparently it makes him very nervous as well. And I get It. This is also an episode where you will hear Seth ask a lot of questions about stand up. And he's not asking questions about trips because he's Seth and he's selfish. And he wants to know more about standup because he does stand up than he does about family trips, which is what this show is supposed to be about. So you'll hear me trying to pull it back, and then you'll hear Seth talking more about. I don't know who opens for you. It's a different show. It's a different show. But I'm trying, everybody, I'm trying. And here I am alone, just pulling this cart. But Rory's great and Seth's great, and I hope he's having wonderful travels. I'm not traveling right now. I just. Here, I'm here for you. But please enjoy this show. And Sufi will be back next week.

[Narrator/Singer]

Family trips with the Miles Brothers. Family chips with the My.

[Seth]

Brothers.

[Rory Scoville]

Here we go.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

Wow.

[Seth]

Oh, man. Hey, Val, Somebody's starting his own podcast because he has equipment.

[Rory Scoville]

Look at my setup.

[Paschi]

Look at that setup. What is that? Is that a two prong outlet you.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

Got going on behind you?

[Rory Scoville]

I got a two prong going right there. As you can see, we're not quite at the level of needing both of those, but we're going to get there. Once we have enough listeners, we're going to get something to plug in right over there.

[Seth]

Rory, I had something happen this weekend that was thrilling for me. Oh, which is. My parents were visiting and my dad in particular is a real stand up comedian fan, listens to a lot of like the. Whatever the Netflix comedy radio is. He's like that guy.

[Rory Scoville]

Oh, sure.

[Seth]

And he's always telling me comedians that he thinks are good. Like, I've never heard of him and I always have. With that said.

[Rory Scoville]

Right.

[Seth]

You came up and I was playing on. I was. I went to your Instagram and I was playing an Instagram reel. And my nine year old who was like on an iPad in the corner, never has done this. He's like, who's that?

[Rory Scoville]

Nice.

[Seth]

And he was in. And so we had a real nice. I mean, I will say, like, I. I had to like, watch him a couple times because you have a few in your last special room. You're not for children. I was like, oh, you were. I think it was on Fallon that you did the texting while driving.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah.

[Seth]

So I was like, oh, right. Like he's got appearance. He's got late night network appearances where it'll be safer and. But he was he was in on it. Like everything about your vibe, he was.

[Rory Scoville]

Just like digging nice. That's so great.

[Seth]

How old your. You have a daughter?

[Rory Scoville]

I do ten and a half.

[Seth]

Oh yeah. So right. He said I got a nine and a half or so.

[Paschi]

Yeah, we're only kid said that, the halfs.

[Rory Scoville]

Well I think that's why I say it because I've heard them say it so many.

[Seth]

And like with great, like just great offense when you get it wrong, when you don't give them credit for the half.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah, it's funny how that goes away because I. People are like, how old are you? I'm like 45, just freshly, freshly into it. Barely 44.

[Seth]

Don't ask me about it. I have no take on it yet. I'm so new to it.

[Rory Scoville]

I'm so new to 45. I mean we might as well just still say 44. I don't even know what I'm doing there yet.

[Paschi]

And you, you grew up in South Carolina?

[Rory Scoville]

That's right. Greenville.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

Love it.

[Rory Scoville]

Greenville, South Carolina.

[Paschi]

And a lot of siblings for you.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah, yeah. One of seven.

[Paschi]

One of seven.

[Seth]

Where did you fall on the seven?

[Rory Scoville]

So I'm second, second oldest and then the five after me are half siblings. We have a different mother. My older sister and I share the same parents. And then yeah, my dad had seven kids. I know the Gafkin joke where he just says Catholic at the end of that, but that joke is so accurate. Seven kids, Catholic.

[Seth]

Were you, are you close with your sister, your older sister?

[Rory Scoville]

I think I'm close in a way with all of them. But yeah, I feel like there is some sort of kind of bond that you do have in a situation like that with just having the shared parents. But yeah, our mother passed away when we were very young, so there's never been a time where I looked at the other siblings like felt didn't feel like it was like a full kind of relationship. I don't know why I would use the word relationship. We can only have half of a relationship. It's a one way street.

[Seth]

What was the gap between you and the next kid?

[Rory Scoville]

I think it's eight. Eight years.

[Seth]

Oh wow.

[Rory Scoville]

Seven or eight years. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then my youngest brother is. It's an 18 year gap.

[Paschi]

Wow.

[Rory Scoville]

So I am essentially a weird uncle.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah.

[Paschi]

Were you and your full sister, were they. Were you guys like babysitters to those kids? Because you were all for sure.

[Rory Scoville]

So much, so much. Changing diapers, watching kids, taking care of kids. For so much of my middle school, high school life.

[Seth]

Did you hate it or did you not know you could hate it?

[Rory Scoville]

I think I loved it. Cause I think I am so playful that I think my maturity was like, even now, I don't know that I've fully matured into anyone, but I just had, like, I liked it. I liked playing with kids. I liked just being at the house and that. But as you get into high school, you're like, oh, man, I want to go out and see what's going on on that side of the curtain. And, you know, we would babysit a lot and kind of. It's not like I didn't go out, but I felt even more like when I would go out with people, I was just like, oh, I'm a guy that just went from playing hide and go seek in my house with my younger siblings to now drinking at a party. And I was like, I am not both of these people.

[Seth]

That is funny. Like, I could imagine, like my kids, if my 9 year old had a. If we had a baby now, I bet he would actually like it.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah.

[Seth]

Whereas I think it's like, you're right. Like, 16 is when you're like, what? What do you want me to do?

[Rory Scoville]

I know you're like, what is this joke?

[Seth]

I say, this is someone who, like, doesn't like it. You know what I mean? Like, as an adult and, like, made the choice. But like, even our, you know, because our daughter, who's 4, is like, she's the one who's like, I want. She is desperate to have a younger sibling. And I'm like, yeah, it's not all that. It's a lot of work.

[Rory Scoville]

It's a lot. It's a lot. Yeah. My daughter was like, you guys should have another kid. Even now. Ass at ten and a half. I'm like, you have no idea. This gap. Like, you would not know each other at all. You would not even look at each other. Yeah.

[Seth]

Do you. Does she. Does your daughter know what you do and have any sense of what it looks like on stage?

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah, it's kind of. That's why this is kind of a fun age. Cause I can reveal that to an extent a little bit more and more. But my daughter is very into acting and is gonna be going to a theater program school. My wife is incredible at theater. And so my kid just kind of naturally has that. That's great interest because of us. And so I think now my daughter, when I say, hey, I'm in something or look at, I can show you something on TV that I'm a part Of I think it's now a little bit more like, oh, that's actually kind of cool. Because I sort of do that. The standup side of it. I think kids at school have youtubed me, which is wildly inappropriate. The school told us that they put my name on something where kids can't Google it to see what I talk about. But I think because other kids have said something and my daughter has seen other parents talk to me. And I think every now and then when you get noticed or approached by someone who's a fan, I think that's starting to become interesting to my daughter now. Whereas before it meant nothing, it was just two adults talking. But now it's like, oh, this stranger knows my dad from his comedy. And I think it's now becoming kind of cool.

[Seth]

I think. I don't wanna butcher the joke, but I think it's for me last special. Cause I showed it to my son this weekend about how you have a kid but you're still not sure that you wanna be a parent.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Still not entirely. Still not fully on board. Yeah, yeah.

[Seth]

But my son watched that and he had this moment. He's like, wow, that's gonna be weird for his kid to watch. And I'm like, oh, buddy, you haven't seen my stuff. Like, oh, you.

[Rory Scoville]

And just as a caveat, I love you. Just know. Yeah, I love you.

[Seth]

Well, I'm like, using you as the avatar. I'm like, I know Rory, he loves his kid. You would never.

[Rory Scoville]

These are just jokes. Yeah. Just so you understand, us comedians do that. We sort of exist in a fictional space based on non fictional material. Yeah. I think I was in Burlington, Vermont this summer, and my daughter was with me. And I went to the comedy club to do just a little guest spot, and they were with me and I was like, I'm gonna keep it clean. Do you wanna sit in the green room? Would you like to go sit out in the show? I'm only gonna be up there 10 minutes and then we can leave. And that was the first time my kids saw what I do. And I just kind of made fun of local stuff and thought of a couple jokes that maybe kind of incorporate them into the show and loved it. They loved it. They thought it was cool. They're like, they really thought you were funny. And I was like, this is what I do. This is the only job I actually confidently understand.

[Seth]

We, Josh and I did, because we used to do work for this improv theater in Amsterdam, and we were back there this summer, and I Brought my son to take him to Amsterdam and he came to his first improv show. And I just was having a thing of just, I knew where he was in the audience and he looked, at times he looked bored. And then though late in the show, he yelled out a suggestion and I was, it was the happiest. I was over the moon. He was engaging in the, the improv show.

[Rory Scoville]

What was his takeaway at the end of it was he like, fully understood what it was. And do you think he fully understood your character?

[Seth]

He fully understood he's a little bit of a narc on society. And so he had a lot of like, I think it was too dirty for me. Like, he was, I'm like, okay, man. Like, instead of enjoying like that, he was somewhere where people were like throwing around F bombs. He's like, I don't know if I should have been here, dude.

[Paschi]

But it was, there were so many people at this reunion who brought their kids back. And like, you know, Ike Barinholtz's three daughters were there and our friend Jill Benjamin. Her two kids were there. And it was, I think for a lot of them, like, just seeing their parents do something that their parents used to do, like, and like coming up and it was just watching those kids expressions was one of the best things about that show.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah, totally. I, I, I, I try to say it to my kid. The first time I ever showed my daughter, like something that I was in like a trailer or something and I was like, that's me, that's your dad. And my daughter was like, yeah, great. And I was like, my dad worked at the post office. This is absurd to me. I can't believe I'm in this.

[Seth]

That's so funny that, like, we're, we're getting choked up on there, but like pretending it's them.

[Rory Scoville]

Yes.

[Seth]

This is crazy, right?

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah, right. Aren't you so proud of my accomplishments?

[Seth]

It is very funny when you realize, like, oh, right, it's not their job to be proud out of you.

[Rory Scoville]

And it's been their whole reality. There's nothing weird about your job. There's like, yeah, sure, that's, that's an attainable occupation. You're like, it's not, it's not an attainable occupation. It's actually very difficult. It's absurd that I made it this far.

[Seth]

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[Paschi]

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[Seth]

Yeah, we played football on the front lawn. Little Wiffle ball on the front lawn. When was the last time you played a Wiffle ball in front of a place you stayed that wasn't booked on Airbnb?

[Paschi]

I could not tell you. Yeah, yeah.

[Seth]

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[Paschi]

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[Rory Scoville]

Here we go.

[Seth]

Did you. I would imagine so. Seven kids. Like, were you guys going on vacations anywhere? Can you even fit that many Scovels in a car?

[Rory Scoville]

You can. You know, the age gap was big enough to where there was never, like, that's another thing about my younger brother. Like, we never lived at home together, ever. There's a picture of me in my dorm room freshman year, holding him, who's essentially like a newborn one year old. I don't know, but like a baby. So there's no. There was never traveling together like that. But I do feel like there Was five of us for sure. My older sister had already gone off to college, and when I was still at home, my youngest sister had been born. But we did the minivan life. We did that seven seater captain seats. There was a time when you could get the tiny TV plugged into the lighter to watch Disney VHS tapes. And that took us to a whole new. We were like, this is how the other side lives.

[Seth]

This is it.

[Paschi]

Where were you driving? Where were you guys rolling to?

[Rory Scoville]

Well, we'd either go to Myrtle beach, my dad's favorite beach. Myrtle Beach. We would go there for a week every summer. Almost every summer, I'm almost certain about a five hour drive. Or we'd go see my grandparents and my aunt in Panama City Beach. Destin, Florida. Panama City beach area. And that was like an eight hour drive.

[Seth]

Why did your dad like Myrtle more than Destin? Was it just Myrtle was closer?

[Rory Scoville]

He thought the waves were bigger.

[Seth]

Really?

[Rory Scoville]

He would body surf. He liked catching waves. Body surfing, catching waves. And he's like, I just get a little more adrenaline, a little more dopamine kick from the Myrtle. Myrtle beach waves than the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf of Mexico just didn't cut it for my dad.

[Seth]

I had a. I was talking to a grandfather of my son's friend on the beach last summer and he was talking about body surfing and like how it's like, he goes, it's the only thing I do now, which makes me feel like a kid. And I was like, oh, shit. This is like, this is like a line. This is like a movie scene now.

[Paschi]

Right?

[Seth]

Like, he was like genuinely explaining. And I was like, oh, wow, okay, I'm sorry. I was kind of drifting off, but that's a great point. Yeah.

[Rory Scoville]

He was crying. You're like, oh, oh, wow.

[Seth]

He was crying. Cause he was like, aren't you. And then he said, aren't you proud of me?

[Rory Scoville]

And I'm like, I was crazy age. I could break anything.

[Paschi]

Was your dad doing like multiple hour sessions in the.

[Rory Scoville]

So my dad's. This is something now. My, My dad passed away in 2020. And this is something I now reflect on that I thought was. I don't even know as a kid. I think I thought this was cool and weird at the same time. My dad loved the beach so much that he would have a cooler. And this is like 8, 8am he's down there. He's not waiting for the family to get ready to join him at the beach. He's at the beach in a chair. Yeah. Meet me there whenever you're coming down. I'm not waiting in a chair. Walkman cassette player. Little handheld cassette player. Walkman, old school headphones, cooler. And we just sit listening to, you know, light. Light jazz. Light, smooth jazz. Or he'd be into some Michael McDonald or literally anything yacht rock and just staring at the water. And then for whatever reason, he would just sometimes get up, take that stuff off, go catch some waves, stand there for a little bit, come back, sit in his chair, put his thing on. And this was his vacation for five straight days. That's all he did. He got so sunburnt. Every picture we have, he's just got. His sunglasses have fully protected the tone of his skin color around his eyes.

[Seth]

I wanna say I have a deep jealousy of people who can have that attainable peace.

[Rory Scoville]

Yes.

[Seth]

I kind of always like, you know, I talk shit about the beach all the time. Cause I don't like it, but like, I wanna like it.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah.

[Seth]

You know what I mean? Like, I wish I could be that happy. And like at 8am want to go someplace that I would be peaceful and happy for the whole day.

[Rory Scoville]

I would love it. I would. I am the same way. I never really liked it. The sand. I didn't like how.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Rory Scoville]

What it did to your skin. I was terrified of the sun just burning our bodies. I didn't care much about the ocean. It honestly kind of scared me. If it even slightly was pulling me, I was like, I'm dead. This is it. I'm. I'm going to die. I am. I. But I. But like you just said, I also am like, God, I want to. I want to like it. A lot of people clearly do, but if someone's like, do you want to go into a mountain lake or go to the Caribbean? I'm like, no, I want to go to the mountain lake. And I almost. If he told me it's going to rain the whole time, I'm not even. I still would probably choose Mountain Lake.

[Seth]

I prefer Mountain Lake as well. That sounds nicer to me.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah.

[Seth]

Do you. Would he keep his headphones on? Was it something where you could talk to him if you wanted to and he'd take him off? Or was it like, hey, I'm off. I'm in this world now.

[Rory Scoville]

The visual example I can give to you is that if you had just said something to me, my dad would go, what? Yeah, yeah, three o' clock sounds good.

[Paschi]

And then right back, right back.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Zero. Wanting to have a conversation. He's like, I work at the post office, guys. I'm Here for five days at this beach. Do not even look at me.

[Paschi]

Would he.

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[Paschi]

Of body surfing technique and the rest of the.

[Rory Scoville]

He was great. If he was going out into the water, that was your opportunity to go hang out. And he would show you how to catch waves and hang out in the ocean, and he'd be out there a while. He wasn't in and out, but that was fun. When we were kids, he would do the thing where he grabbed your hands and spun around as the waves are coming in, and then eventually let you go and you just fling off into the water, which was great. I have fond memories of that also being terrified.

[Seth]

But this is the. I always say this might be the best example of, like, my childhood and growing up with Josh, as my brother is. I remember once being at a beach and it was, like, freezing cold, New England water, and I didn't want to go in, and my dad, like, picked me up and dragged me and, like, just threw me in the water. And then I said, are you gonna throw Josh in the water now? And he said no, because he would, like, cry and the day would be ruined. So, like, Josh. Josh is, like, terrorized the family into just, like, doing whatever his, like, wishes were. You know, I'm getting chucked in the ocean.

[Rory Scoville]

I also like that it was kind of to serve no purpose. It was like, all right, Seth, come on, let's go. You know what this is? You know what makes me happy?

[Seth]

I think it was like, someone's going. And we didn't come all the way for no one to go in the ocean. So someone's going.

[Rory Scoville]

That's. That's the other element about the ocean. Someone just has to go in because you've made some great sacrifice to get there. Yeah, that's. Well, you can't not go in.

[Seth]

Were you guys walking distance from the beach? Would you stay at a place where you could, like, just stroll down?

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah, we always stayed at, like, the beachfront, like, condominiums that you rent for. I don't even know what that was. I reflect back on it how we rent stuff now and how I could literally go online and rent, you know, a place and go through several options. I remember back then, you had to make phone calls. You had, like, the mail was involved to, like, get a receipt for a check that you sent to, like, reserve a thing. Like, the slow pace of that seems so absurd. It also seems wildly delightful. Yeah, like. Like, time would slow down somehow.

[Seth]

We. In the late 90s was when Josh and I, you Know, moved over to Amsterdam. And our parents would, like. It was a big deal where my mom would, like, send letters to find, you know, like, call. Send, like. But there was a. I remember she would. And then she'd be excited. Cause she'd get a letter from. With, you know, a weird stamp on it.

[Rory Scoville]

Words that she doesn't understand.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah.

[Seth]

We were just. I remember we would go to a ski place in Michigan. Just sort of like at a tiny little. More of a hill than a mountain. And stay at a really nondescript condo. And it was so exciting pulling up to a house that wasn't ours.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah.

[Seth]

That had, like, nothing inside it. And it was just. I just remember, like, this. Wait, this place with a door. We have the key to a door that's not ours.

[Rory Scoville]

Right.

[Paschi]

And it's not just like a hotel room. It has, like, a kitchen. We have, like, our own bedrooms. There's like a dining room. Yeah.

[Seth]

Mom got chips.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah. That's the other element about those vacations is that the grocery. The rules of grocery shopping are out the window.

[Paschi]

Yeah.

[Rory Scoville]

It's all just endorphins. What was in your dad's sliver was your dad. I mean, breakfast, beers or not, never beer. My dad was like wine coolers.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Rory Scoville]

He loved the sugary wine coolers. But he also would go. He'd go hard on rum where you were just like, oh, this is that proof that I can't even fathom. Like, it's too, like, rum for the most part. Feels so G rated as a liquor.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Rory Scoville]

Until you go hard on it and you're like, oh, God. Oh. Oh, my God. This is too much. This is way too much. That's what I mean. And I think that was. I mean, he liked that anyways, but being at the beach, it was like, added to it. That was his. That was his jam.

[Seth]

He loved it.

[Narrator/Singer]

Yeah.

[Paschi]

It's a real time in a place kind of liquor. And I feel like the beach is.

[Seth]

Well, guess what, though. I took. I went out to dinner this weekend with my three kids and our parents and dad. Weekend, freezing cold, New England night. Dad got a rum and Coke. I've literally never heard him order a rum.

[Paschi]

Yeah. That's weird.

[Seth]

And I was just, you know, it's one of those things. You're like, okay, is this. I guess this is what we're doing now?

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah. Is it. Is he, like in that phase where he's like, I'm doing rum and Cokes.

[Seth]

That's. I feel like maybe like somebody. Maybe he was somewhere. He's also like, if. If he has a good experience with something, he'll ride it pretty hard until, like, the wheels come off.

[Paschi]

Yeah, but he's not a big drinker. He's not a bigger. In general. Yeah, but he'll, like, have a cocktail.

[Seth]

My mom, our mom respects alcohol more than soda, so it might be the way he gets his Coke. Like, if you ordered a Coke, she'd think that's like, he's just a bitch.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah.

[Paschi]

And she'd probably tell him and.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah, spice it up a little bit. I feel like I'm a little bit like that with old fashions. I mean, once I started drinking old fashions, now I'm. I'm deep in it. Like, if I'm getting a cocktail, I'm getting that. Or a paper plane. Paper plane is a great example of my rum and Coke.

[Seth]

Yes.

[Rory Scoville]

I'm on. I'm on board till the wheels come off for sure.

[Seth]

Paper plane. I would say those are perfectly matched as a summer and winter cocktail combination.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Seth]

A paper plane is a great. Hey, it's a summer afternoon. Let's do a paper plane.

[Rory Scoville]

I love a freezing New England night. And your dad's like, give me a margarita. Half salt, half salt. In case halfway through. I don't want salt.

[Paschi]

What would make Panama City beach sort of leapfrog Myrtle Beach? Was that just.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah. Family. That was just family. Yeah. My grandparents moved from Greenville to Destin, Florida, and so we would go see them. And my aunt was a basketball coach in Panama City Beach. Shout out to my aunt Rooney Scovel, who is in the Women's Basketball hall of Fame for coaching. Has her jersey retired at the University of Florida. Badass basketball coach. So she coached at the university there, the community college there. She was juco. And we would go visit. We would go hang out at Panama City Beach. And, you know, that was fun because Panama City beach is very Myrtle beach esque in that redneck Riviera kind of vibe that it knows how to provide. And also going on, like, rides. Go to the pavilion, go to the amusement park.

[Seth]

Most. I would say, like, thick. Thick with T shirt vendors. Highest.

[Rory Scoville]

Absolutely.

[Seth]

Yeah. What would you say?

[Rory Scoville]

Like, did you guys ever do the T, like, where they take the photo of you? This is 80s. This is. They take the photo of you and then it's like 3D scanned lines. A picture of you that they could put onto a T shirt or even like a little flag. I kind of wish that was my merch, Like a mock up of that style T shirt. But we Would get one of those every Sunday. When we got to Myrtle beach, we'd go to the amusement park, sit down in the thing, get the photo taken. That would then take so long.

[Paschi]

But then you wear a shirt of your own. Of your own.

[Rory Scoville]

And then you'd have a shirt where it's like, it's me and my sister.

[Seth]

I mean, I think the first time, I was covetous of going to the Caribbean, which was not a place we went. And certainly our early youth was people, like kids coming back to school with a Hard Rock Cafe T shirt where it said. Literally just said a place underneath it. And that was like, the most exotic. That was like a child's passport stamp of like, whoa.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Rory Scoville]

I had that in high school with ski trips. After the Christmas break, kids were coming back with their winter coats with the ski tag on the zipper. And I didn't understand that. I didn't understand skiing. I skied for the first time, like, two or three years ago, and I remember being. I just covetous of it, but also was just like, fuck these ski tags. Who do these people think they are? I will never be like that. Skied one time three years ago. I was like, I get it. It's fun. Yeah, I get it. You have a drink after you sit by the fire.

[Paschi]

How'd you do out there?

[Seth]

Yeah, I did all right.

[Rory Scoville]

I started with snowboarding, and so I snowboarded. Took a lesson, and we were there for about four days of skiing out here out at Beaver Creek in Colorado, and it was fantastic. Loved it. The next year, I decided to try skiing so that I could know which I liked more. And I think I lean skiing, actually can confidently stop. That's good skis, snowboarding. I'm like. I mean, both of them. I honestly think I'm just days away from a horrible injury, right? And the moment we get off the ski lift, I'm like, if it could just be the chair lift. That was so peaceful. Yeah, I would do that. If that was an ongoing loop and you could just get off at the next exit, that would be. That would be great.

[Paschi]

Do you. Were people putting the safety bar down on the chairlift when you were there?

[Rory Scoville]

That was me. I was like, guys, let's play by the rules.

[Paschi]

I'm so pro safety bar, and I've skied my whole life. Like, I don't think I'm falling off, but I can't stand this, like, new cool thing of, like, no, let's not put the safety bar down. It's like, to what end?

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah, My wife and I were skiing while my daughter was taking a class. And so we were, like, getting onto the chairlift, and my daughter was a part of a class. And we go, oh, there's Elliot right there. And we, like, yell out, we wave. We're in line. And we watched them take off. And the guy just wasn't able to get their guard thing down in time. And we're a few chairs behind them, and my wife is like, they'll be fine. And I'm just staring straight ahead, and I'm like, okay, if they drop, am I able to do what I think I can athletically do? Can I drop out of my chair lift to help my child living in terror watching them?

[Seth]

I, by the way, forget about the bar. Cause I go skiing with my boys, and they go ski with class, and then we'll ski for an hour. When I'm on a chairlift with them and the chairlift bar is down, I still wanna put my arms and hold the back. And they're like, get off of us. Cause they're like, we've been skiing all day. We ride up without adults. And I'm like, I'm just not enjoying it. Let's go ski different. Then I'll ski alone. You ski alone, but I can't watch you. Cause it's just that I'm like, I can't. Do you understand? I can't be on the chair. You fall off.

[Rory Scoville]

I know, I know.

[Seth]

It's.

[Rory Scoville]

It's just bad optics. It's not for their safety. It's just the optics.

[Seth]

There was that movie you probably saw, Josh. There was, like, a horror movie about, like, people get stuck on a chairlift. Like, the entirety of the movie is, like. They try to take. They take one more ride, and then the whole, like, lift shuts down and the whole mountain shuts down.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah, that's. When you look it up. They're like, their budget was $400.

[Seth]

And they. And the people who made the movie still say they lost money. They won't get the bonuses.

[Rory Scoville]

Right. We were able to get 300 tickets, $300 made back.

[Seth]

Did your family stay in Greenville? Is that where your parents are?

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah, my older sister lives in. Just outside of D.C. and then my sister, just after me, lives in Seattle. And then the rest of my siblings. The other four are still in Greenville. Yeah, my stepmom lives in Greenville. I've got aunts and uncles and cousins who live in Greenville, and I have some aunts who still live in Panama City Beach. My three. My dad's Three sisters all live in Panama City Beach.

[Paschi]

Would the Greenville contingent get together when you live there? Would there be sort of big, you know, picnics or reunions or anything like that?

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah, when we. When we come to town, we try to do something. We did like a Thanksgiving where we got, like, an Airbnb and we tried to host, like, a big. Get everybody out of their houses and make it feel like we all went on a trip, even though technically it's a staycation for them, and do Thanksgiving. We try to do that when we come to town and make a thing of it.

[Seth]

Does your daughter have a ton of cousins, based on your sibling situation?

[Rory Scoville]

Six, I think. Six total cousins. No. Six, seven, eight, nine. So three on my wife's side and then six on my family side. Yeah. And their age ranges are all over the place, so it's kind of great because my daughter kind of falls right into the middle of the older kids and the younger kids.

[Seth]

Where is your wife from?

[Rory Scoville]

She grew up in Las Vegas. She moved around a lot as a kid, but they landed in Las Vegas when she was in high school. And so her parents still stay there. Still live there. And. Yeah, that's her home base, which is absurd when you tell anybody. Yeah. That. Because most people are just like, people live in Las Vegas. And I'm like, I know what you mean. I know. Like, of course they do, but I know why you would ask that question.

[Paschi]

Yeah, yeah.

[Seth]

Like, not everybody who works there flies in every morning.

[Rory Scoville]

Like, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Paschi]

Do you guys go to visit then?

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah, we'll sometimes go on vacation, too. We haven't been in a while, but we would go out and. And it's very suburbia Vegas, which is such a different flavor of Vegas. I'm not. I'm already, like, not so crazy about the Strip, so you can imagine how exciting it is to go into a neighborhood where all the homes look basically the same. It's very cool. Very, very Tim Burton. But we. Yeah, we would go and there'd always be a night where my wife and I, who had no interest in going to the Strip, would be like, do we think your parents maybe watch Elliot and we go to the Strip just to do any else that's different.

[Seth]

I was gonna say, do you feel.

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The pull of the Strip?

[Paschi]

Even if you're someone who doesn't love.

[Rory Scoville]

The Strip, you always feel it just to go do something else. Like, do we just go look at the sphere externally for an hour?

[Seth]

Have. You Must have. You've done shows in Vegas.

[Rory Scoville]

I have done A festival in Vegas. But I haven't really gone through to do the clubs or anything ever. I just don't see it being satisfying or financially, you know, I did that.

[Seth]

There's, like, this mgm. I used to go, like, the Terry Fittor Theater. I can't.

[Rory Scoville]

Yes.

[Paschi]

It's a good theater.

[Seth]

Theater, yeah, it's good theater. It's, like, very good. It's, like, good sound and like, it is, though, with that weird thing of, like, any casino show where you realize, like, some people are there because they're fans, some people are there because they've heard your name.

[Rory Scoville]

Yep.

[Seth]

And then some people are just there because they were given free tickets.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah.

[Seth]

And they are a show.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah. They are jonesing. Get out of there.

[Seth]

Yeah, they're there. The same reason you go to see the Strip.

[Rory Scoville]

I did open for Daniel Tosh one weekend, and that was great. That was, like, the most ideal. Get on the jet, land in Vegas, check into your room, do the show, hang out that night, hang out the next day, do that show. And as soon as that show was done, 10 minutes before he got off stage, they already had me in the car. They're like, he's gonna sprint to the car. You guys will be wheels up in that plane before the last people have left this theater. And my God, that was so true. It was the fastest. And I was like, oh, if this was how I played Vegas, I would do this. You know, I would do whatever that contract is people have where they play Vegas, you know, once a month or whatever it is.

[Paschi]

That's, like, why Barry Manilow was, like, living in Palm Springs and just flying in, doing shows and back to Palm Springs.

[Rory Scoville]

Exactly.

[Paschi]

Yeah.

[Rory Scoville]

Super easy breezy.

[Seth]

He probably doesn't. About the suburb your wife's family lives in. Or else. He'd probably do that.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah. Oh, my God, 100%. He would love it.

[Paschi]

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[Seth]

Here we go. Just because you have that traveling life, are you touring now? Are you on the road a lot now?

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah, on the road now for this current tour, this new hour that I'm doing and that started like mid October, that's going to go to like mid April. Trying to hit up as many, many spots as possible and see what happens.

[Seth]

I I always like to ask a touring stand up, are you the kind of person who takes advantage of the places you visit or do you just sort of stay in a hotel room all day?

[Rory Scoville]

That's a. I will tell you what, that's a great question. Prior to Covid, I didn't want to do. I was very reclusive. I didn't want to do anything. I was just in my hotel room. I think I had a certain sort of nervous energy towards the show and so it was kind of like in my head then when Covid took standup away, something I didn't think was even a possible outcome, I was living in a new reality. I Was like, oh, my God, this job goes away. Then when I started going on the road again, I now make. At minimum, I'm gonna find a coffee shop. I'm very snobbish about my coffee, so I will find a coffee shop that I can enjoy the coffee but also sit in for an hour or two. I will look up art museums. I want to go see as many paintings. If there's galleries that are worth it, I want to go check them out. But mostly art. Any kind of art museum, I can go check out. I'll go check out, but I'll do anything if I have the time. I'm like, let's go to the restaurant people say to go to, because what else are we doing? I'll now go to bookstores. Yeah. Even if I'm not buying anything, I'll just peruse.

[Seth]

I think it's a good thing, too, because I have that same anxious energy on a show night. And I do believe it's probably better for the show to not sit in a room and think about it all day.

[Rory Scoville]

Yes, yes.

[Seth]

Just go out. Actually, to actually engage with other non. Standup art is probably just good for your brain.

[Paschi]

Yeah.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah. I also find it's like. I don't know. I think that's why the green room is so important. That's why I think it matters who you tour with. All of that is stretching. I mean, you know it, too, from not just standup, but from, like, improv, too. You're like, if we're in the green room, even though we're conversing and just having fun, this is all part of getting us into that space before we go out there. And to me, with standup, you're doing it all day also. I will gladly do as many local anything I can think of to open the show. I love it. I love trying to improvise any amount of local. Just whatever. And that's how you get there is if you're like, all right, let me go out. Let me hear what people are saying.

[Seth]

What was your special? That was just where you improvised the entire.

[Rory Scoville]

I did one in Atlanta back in 2018 because I always wanted to just go with no material and see what happened. So this venue, Relapse Theater, let me do six shows, and we just did super cheap tickets. I honestly thought it was just going to be a bomb. I thought it's just going to be an experiment. And then I told my buddy Jay Larson about it, and he was like, oh, you should film that. He's like, that's a Documentary. He goes, that's really fun. So we got some money from. Absolutely. And then we shot it for a documentary. My buddy came and directed it, and we did the six shows, and I got addicted to it. I was like, man, I really want to lean into this. I want to figure out how to do this. And So I did 10 last January, a year ago in Brooklyn at Union hall. We did 10 in a row, and we filmed all those, and we're gonna drop those. But that was like, that's now, you know, whatever. Seven years later was eye opening. It was so much fun. And it's not to, like, do crowd work. It's literally just to keep talking as though this is the act. And it's so much fun. It's so much fun to do.

[Seth]

Well, I think I didn't realize. And I asked you, was there a bit with, like, a cape? You're wearing a cape?

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah, yeah, there was one of the shows. It was the Thursday night show. It's maybe one of my favorite shows I've ever done. It was like, that we had done Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. And the Thursday night show was the revelation of, like, oh, I have no material. I'm just up here. And the material is only derived from the amount of fun. And that kind of whatever that energy is, I can exude. That's where the material comes from. And I just grabbed. It was lightly attended. One of the tablecloths was on a table, and I just started messing around with it. Like, I lived. I was like, do you think everyone was like, I'm going to the tavern? And they put their, like, cape on? And then I told other people to put capes on. Like, I was starting a cult. And people then started putting some of the capes on. My greatest joy is that sometimes people now show up at my shows wearing a red cape. Like, they're in my cult.

[Seth]

It's great.

[Rory Scoville]

And I'm like, oh, my God, I love that so much.

[Seth]

It's a dream come true. Because I loved it and assumed it had been. I thought it was material. And even as somebody who loves improv, I always think, like, the problem with improv is, like, if you showed somebody an improv scene, they'd be like, oh, this sucks. Like, I know people liked it when they were in the room, but I really watched. It was like, oh, man, that fucking.

[Rory Scoville]

Cape bit, it was so fun. That was like the. The light bulb going off of what you. In improvised standup, how to keep the beach ball in the air kind of thing.

[Paschi]

Is there a difference between people who wear actual capes and purists who will wear tablecloths as capes. Because it's easy to get a cape on Amazon. And you're not wrong.

[Rory Scoville]

You're not wrong. Actually, from now on, if someone comes up and they're like, look, I got the cape. I'm like, you know what? Get out of here. Get out of here.

[Paschi]

You don't get red tablecloth cults.

[Seth]

Cults don't work with like, yeah, anything goes.

[Rory Scoville]

Like, yeah, you can't half ass it.

[Seth]

What cult have you heard about where like, it's like, oh yeah, we're loose.

[Rory Scoville]

It's Kool Aid. It's not Power Aid. We're not doing Powerade.

[Seth]

Have you taken a big trip with your daughter? Have you like, have you taken her overseas yet?

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah, we did this past October. We went to. I was over there doing shows and my last show was in Manchester and so I just took a train down to London and I met them. My sister in law lives in London with her daughter. And so we went and visited and that was the first time my kid had like traveled like that. And it's so. I don't know if you guys are like this as you know, being entertainers and being in the industry of like creating entertainment, but I feel such a massive pressure to make the vacation entertaining even though I'm also a guest in the space. And I think sometimes it ruins vacations. I get a little too into like, hey, are you enjoying it? Like, I almost don't care if I'm enjoying it. I just want to make sure my wife and my daughter are enjoying it. But London was very much like that. I felt a lot of pressure of like, all right, let's make sure we've got the schedule and we're doing fun things. And you know, it was great though. My kid like loved it.

[Seth]

We, yeah, we either. You know, I brought my oldest tam serving this summer. Cause there was a reunion of sorts at our theater and it was like the amount I'm like, are you having. But you're having fun, right? He's like. And because in the time, like he was also like a little jet lagged and it was weird. But then of course when it's over, like the amount he talks about it and loves it and I have to realize, like, kids don't like, it's also exhausting for them to keep telling their parents they're having a fun time, right?

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah, yeah. And they also, yeah, they. I think they're just because they're so good at telling you when they're not having fun. Right. That you're almost like, well, can you kind of throw the other side to me every now and then?

[Seth]

You should just assume if they're not wailing about being miserable, they're. They're happy.

[Rory Scoville]

Yes. Yeah.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Rory Scoville]

But we checked out some museums, and we went to see Wicked. Such a different experience with the British accent. You're really. You've really got to try.

[Seth]

By the way, I thought you meant the movie. And I'm like, did they re record. Did they even.

[Rory Scoville]

There. Those movies there, they make sure with.

[Paschi]

AI now they can have the same.

[Rory Scoville]

Accent, but real cocky. Same actors. AI British. Ariana Grande.

[Seth]

What was your favorite European destination for.

[Rory Scoville]

A show that you did this past trip? Yeah, I got. You know, I had to stop in Amsterdam, which I loved. You're talking about, boom Chicago. Is that what you guys. Yeah, I. I love Amsterdam. I love that as a city. It's my favorite walking city. It's an est that I've been to. It's not like I've been everywhere, but I love that you can walk into Amsterdam, especially at night, make directional choices, and kind of have no idea which direction you're facing at all. And the only thing you can do is kind of just keep walking until you go. Oh, I kind of remember that. I kind of love that. It's so easy to get lost in.

[Seth]

When we first moved that, like, the people who lived there when they gave directions would say go, and then go clockwise. Like, it's the only. Like. You know what I mean? Like, where they wouldn't go, like, turn right. Cause, like, it is just, like, there's rain. And I was like, what, clockwise?

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah.

[Seth]

And they're like, they'll figure it out. Yeah.

[Paschi]

Cause there's, like, a weird horseshoe in there, and it's like. Yeah, it doesn't. Yeah, yeah.

[Rory Scoville]

And you like to try to map it in your mind of where you think you are is so ridiculous. I mean, it's great now with phones. I can't imagine what you guys were doing in the 90s of, like, just living life.

[Seth]

Yeah. But we have friends.

[Rory Scoville]

Not all of us made it out.

[Paschi]

Our friends that started the theater, Andrew and Saskia, their son Finn, who's like, 24 now. I would remember being with Finn in Amsterdam, and you'd get on a bike, and you'd bike, like, three minutes away from their apartment, and he would have no idea where he was. Like, he just. And he was from there, he just couldn't figure it out.

[Seth]

Yeah.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah. But I love it. I love those audiences. That was really fun. I played Madrid for the first time.

[Seth]

How was that?

[Rory Scoville]

It was fantastic. I had no. I was very nervous. Just about any kind of translation, any kind of, like, language, anything. But all I learned in all these cities was that social media has changed everything. I mean, for the convenience of travel, you're like, great. But just for the nature of things, you're like, oh, that's such a downer. Everybody is like, ah. We're just all speaking English now. You're like, oh, all right. But I gotta say, for a show in Madrid, it's great. It was a tiny little room. These comedians started this space, and, I mean, it holds maybe 80 people. And they were like, if you have this time, we looked at your schedule, if you would come through. And I was like, oh, I mean, yeah, I'd love to, like, go to Spain. I've never been to Spain. This would be insane.

[Paschi]

It's also nice to be invited.

[Rory Scoville]

It's nice to be invited. And then also, like, you know, it was small and we just did two shows in one night. And then I just stayed in Madrid for a couple nights. But the audiences were fantastic. I've played Dublin a few times. Dublin was probably one of my favorite shows I've done, and I don't even know how long, but, yeah, it was crazy.

[Seth]

That's great. I mean, I think that, yeah, anytime I feel like I haven't done a ton of shows overseas, like, a handful, but it is thrilling to be in a different country and have it go well.

[Rory Scoville]

It was a little bit of a revelation where I was like. I mean, people came to my show in Berlin and they were like, why didn't you come to Greece? Or why didn't you come to these other places? And I was like, honestly, I just kind of didn't even know I could. I didn't. I don't really understand what the infrastructure is over here. And I was like, oh, my God. You could just go to Europe and the UK and tour the entire year and not even play anywhere in the US it kind of really made me realize the longevity of an hour you put together. If you were so inclined to really press the gas and go for it, that you could. You could sustain it for a while off of one show. Which is insane how.

[Seth]

I know not everybody counts, but your last HBO special, how many times do you think you did that hour?

[Rory Scoville]

I don't know. I don't know what we did for that. For that tour. I want to say maybe somewhere like 40 to 50 shows just on the tour, and then kind of getting it set in the clubs leading up to it a little bit. But I don't know, this is the first time. I mean, you know, this. We were on this pace now where once you drop your special, you better announce your next tour or you're getting left in the dust. And it's. I can't do that. I'm so slow. But somehow this hour kind of just happened faster than any of the others that I've. I've ever done and so.

[Paschi]

Well, it's nice that you can supplement shows with shows that have no material.

[Rory Scoville]

Yes. I mean, that's where a lot of it kind of comes from, too. It's amazing on stage and chatting and then being like, oh, maybe that's kind of a joke later on, but. Oh, that's. Yeah, it's. This one, I think, is like 50 to 60 shows total on this tour. It's too much.

[Seth]

It's too much.

[Rory Scoville]

It's too much.

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And do you. Other than.

[Paschi]

Other than, like, Beaver Creek, if you and your sort of nuclear family. Now, will you carve out time to just take pure vacations?

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah. I feel like we've never been good at it. Now that we've moved to Colorado, we kind of try to carve out some space to get back to LA to see friends and let my daughter, like, kind of run around and hang out with their friends. So we've done that, like, a few times trying to see family. But I don't know, I honestly think. And I kind of regret this. I don't know, maybe you guys are better at this than I am. I mean, that's the theme of the show, so probably. But I feel like I'm not as good at creating this consistent sort of vacation with my family that my dad always did. And I think part of it is because of this job. My interpretation of a year and time doesn't exist in the space of, well, I have two weeks off. It exists in the space of. I don't really even know a moment where I think I have free time. You might get a guest role in something and suddenly that's gone and you kind of don't notice it because you're kind of excited that you got a job. So you're like, oh, it's always kind of just juggling. Last year we went to Vermont. My daughter went to a summer camp, and so I just stayed in Vermont and my wife worked at the summer camp. And even though we were kind of separate, it truly felt like the first time I'd take an actual vacation as an adult where I fully, like, recharged and actually relaxed.

[Seth]

How long was the camp my kid.

[Rory Scoville]

Went for I think four weeks. But because my wife was gonna be working at the camp, we had to get there, like, two weeks early. And then my wife is in the stock company at this camp. It's not just a theater camp, but that's one of the things they have. And because my wife was in the stock show, we stayed like, another week. So I was shooting a show in la, so I would have to, like, go back to la, shoot. And then as soon as we were done with me, I was like, I'm on a plane right back to Vermont. It was pure heaven. Vermont in the summer made me realize I understand New England now. I get it. I get. I get what everyone's talking about. It's not just Boston.

[Seth]

It's not. Not just slushy Boston.

[Rory Scoville]

It's not just slushy Boston.

[Paschi]

Did you.

[Seth]

Did your daughter, who was the first person that was involved with the camp, your daughter or your wife?

[Rory Scoville]

My wife. My wife grew up in this summer camp. Fantastic. Fantastic. And loved it.

[Seth]

And was your daughter so excited in the run up?

[Rory Scoville]

So giddy. Has looked forward to this for years. My wife, you have to be a certain age. You have to have completed the fourth grade and. And be at least nine, I think, to get to go. And this was the last year, was the first summer my kid could go, and it was also the first time I spent that amount of time in Burlington. I've been through Burlington to play the comedy club, and it's fine and good. I was like, oh, yeah, Vermont seems great. This was the first time I was like in nature. Every day I woke up, I would take my dog and we would go look for a river to sit in. My buddy Lars in town would. Would take me around. Ryan Miller from Guster, he's up there. He would show me all kinds of awesome. He'd be like, this is a river. You're not necessarily supposed to go in, but I know a way down through a path. Like, I was like, this is. I'm 12 again. This is bliss.

[Seth]

By the way, everybody would like New England if they were hanging out with someone from Guster. Oh, did you find them?

[Rory Scoville]

I thought we all got to.

[Seth]

Yes, most. That was part of most larger cities and towns in New England. And we'll have someone associated with Custer.

[Rory Scoville]

That's right. That's right.

[Seth]

To show you about.

[Rory Scoville]

To kind of host you.

[Paschi]

We grew up like, three hours Away from Burlington and never went. Just because we lived in New Hampshire and we didn't go. And my wife went to school at UVM and we went there for a 4th of July one year and I was like, oh, my God. Like, this is incredible. And that.

[Rory Scoville]

It's so great.

[Paschi]

That lake is just insane and it's.

[Rory Scoville]

Beautiful and there's just kind of a calm. And I'm like, oh, my God, what have I. Why did I get into this business? What am I doing? Like, why did I choose spoken word to not even give it a fun title? Why did I choose professional speaking?

[Paschi]

Oh, my God.

[Seth]

What does your dad do? Spoken word is now what he's telling people.

[Rory Scoville]

Spoken word. It's really sad. It's getting more and more about his feelings, which he says is discovering how to do real comedy.

[Seth]

But you're also a podcaster now, Rory.

[Rory Scoville]

That's right.

[Seth]

Relations for joining the team.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah.

[Paschi]

Crimeless. Tell us. Tell us a little about Crimeless.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah, Crimeless is a lot of fun. It's. If you are so inclined to know the deets of it. We're on Smartless platform. I heart big money players. All those. All those. All those hot jams are on board. But, yeah, myself and Josh Dean. Josh specifically kind of reads to me different crimes that have been committed throughout history and throughout the world by the most idiot criminals and their stories that I've never heard before. And so in the episode, I am learning about it for the first time, just like the audience is. And I just provide kind of color commentary to it and we just riff on it.

[Paschi]

Is that another show that you have to do? No prep for.

[Rory Scoville]

It's another. You're starting to see what my style is.

[Paschi]

I admire it.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah. When they say there's pre production, I'm like, I'm out. I can't. I can't be involved.

[Paschi]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Rory Scoville]

I can't be involved in that. That's not my brand. So, yeah, I just sit there and he tells me a story and I kind of comment on it. And it's fascinating. I mean, we know that there's dumb criminals, but that's. Josh is very good at his job in finding stories that really are shocking.

[Seth]

Dumber than normal.

[Rory Scoville]

Just dumber than normal. Yeah. Yeah. And especially when it's historic makes it even better. You're like, oh, it makes you feel good. You're like, okay, good. We're not devolving. We've been dumb the whole time. We've. We've got a constant dumb. Yeah.

[Seth]

It is lovely to talk to you, buddy. You really are one of my favorite comedians. And now my son Ash as well.

[Rory Scoville]

So that's what I was really aiming at.

[Paschi]

Yeah.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

Yeah.

[Seth]

Before you go, we have to speed round you real quick.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah. Great. All right.

[Paschi]

You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing adventurous or educational?

[Rory Scoville]

Relaxing.

[Paschi]

What is your favorite means of transportation?

[Rory Scoville]

Airplane.

[Paschi]

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?

[Rory Scoville]

The Jetsons.

[Seth]

Great.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

If you had to be stranded on.

[Paschi]

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

[Rory Scoville]

My wife.

[Paschi]

What is a dream destination for a family vacation?

[Rory Scoville]

I mean, I do. I love Burlington, Vermont. I think. Vermont. Anywhere in Vermont.

[Seth]

Great.

[Paschi]

You are from Greenville, South Carolina. If you had to get more families to come visit Greenville, how would you sell that town?

[Rory Scoville]

Barbecue. A mild shift in liberal thinking, but not enough to really notice it.

[Seth]

And here they come.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah. A dedication to college football like maybe you haven't experienced before. Colleges that no one around you even attended. Just colleges to cheer for. But yeah, massive rivalry. Clemson, Carolina.

[Paschi]

And then Seth has our final questions.

[Seth]

Rory, have you been to the Grand Canyon?

[Rory Scoville]

I have.

[Seth]

And was it worth it?

[Rory Scoville]

It was very worth it. I went with a buddy, and we took a trail that I don't think you're supposed to take, and we stayed one night and we did mushrooms. And it had all the things. I thought I was dying, and then I thought I was really alive.

[Narrator/Singer]

Yeah.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

You know what?

[Seth]

Weirdly, just on the. Just in the beginning of that story, I felt like I could have predicted mushrooms were gonna happen.

[Rory Scoville]

It felt. When I said illegal path.

[Seth]

Yeah, it's. I feel like it was like, that's. You don't do that unless, like, more illegal is coming.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Seth]

That's not the only illegal thing you're gonna do is just, like, bust out.

[Rory Scoville]

It's already an illegal trail. What else can we do?

[Seth]

Oh, you did the mushrooms because you were already on illegal trail. That wasn't your plan.

[Rory Scoville]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right.

[Seth]

Thank you, buddy. I hope to see you soon in New York City, man.

[Rory Scoville]

Thank you.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

Congrats on podcast.

[Rory Scoville]

Appreciate it. Thank you.

[Paschi]

All right, buddy. Bye.

[Narrator/Singer]

Driving across South Carolina death thought nothing could be finer In a condo near the water Vacation down on Myrtle Beach Sunburned, getting circles round his eyes and with the cooler right beside him there were waves and he would ride them Vacation down at Myrtle beach.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

He'D take.

[Narrator/Singer]

Off as Walkman and from out of nowhere walk into the ocean body serve some waves in there after a sailor oh without much fanfare he would walk back to his walkman and sit back in his jail. Panama City beach and not the country Grandma and grandpa getting comfy basketball Aunt Rooney hitting from three Rory and sister Aunt a tea wife Grew up at a camp there Finding pathways to a river oh my God is a rad album by dust or Thanksgiving books Airbnbs stand up shows you got to see had so much fun with.

[Rory Scoville]

Rory.

[Narrator/Singer]

Want to have fun? Go hard and run or crack a wine cooler if you got some. Sam.