Upper West Side Turkey & A Sea Sick Thanksgiving: Listener Episode #18 in Pittsburgh!

Summary

Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers — Episode Summary

Podcast: Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers
Episode: Upper West Side Turkey & A Sea Sick Thanksgiving: Listener Episode #18 in Pittsburgh!
Date: November 25, 2025
Hosts: Seth Meyers & Josh Meyers
Special Guests: Family members (Larry, Hillary "Hurry", Pashi, Ash, Axel), Plus listener stories

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Main Theme & Purpose

This episode takes the Meyers family tradition of Thanksgiving in Pittsburgh as its backdrop. It features candid family banter, reflections on travel memories, and listener-submitted Thanksgiving disaster stories. Recorded in person with multiple generations, the show is warm, irreverent, and packed with stories of minor catastrophes—both Meyers' own and those from listeners—centered on Thanksgiving trips gone awry.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Pittsburgh Thanksgiving Tradition

• Annual Return: The Meyers family has returned to Pittsburgh for a decade for a football game, this year bringing the next generation (Ash & Axel).
  • [00:31] “For the 10th year, we’ve come to Pittsburgh.” – Pashi
• Kids’ Excitement: Axel's intense anticipation for the Fort Pitt Tunnel, and seeing the stadium from the air and car.
  • [01:45] “Now, this is what I call Pittsburgh.” – Axel, via Pashi

2. Amusement Park Adventures in Holland

• Efteling Park Memories: Discussion of a family trip to Efteling amusement park, with comments about the beauty, classical music, heat, and the perils of the “flux.”
  • [04:24] “It was the most exciting place I think I’ve ever been... but it was hotter than Hades that day.” – Hillary
• Family Banter: About questionable ailments ("the flux") and inappropriate clothing for the weather.

3. Bread and Bakery Antics

• Gags about Hillary wanting only “a couple slices” of bread from the bakery, leading to Larry and Axel bringing back two slices in a bag for $4.
  • [07:34] “Nobody sells bread by the slice.” – Seth
  • [08:02] “Here's your bread.” – Axel, delivering with pride

4. Turkey Cupcake Experience

• Bakery trip story where Axel lobbies for, and succeeds in acquiring, an extravagant turkey-shaped cupcake.
  • [08:50] “Turkey, turkey, turkey, I’m gonna eat you. Turkey, turkey, turkey, yum, yum, yum!” – Axel [55:58]

5. Listener Questions

• Destinations the boys begged for and were denied? None; the family always made it happen, provided they showed interest.

  • [09:36] “There was never anything you asked that I wouldn’t get from.” – Hillary

• Dream Destinations:

  • Seth: “The graves of my enemies.” (joking) / Tokyo (serious)
  • Hillary: Grand Canyon / New Zealand
  • Larry: The animal migration in Africa (Serengeti)
  • [15:09–16:17] “I want to go somewhere that’s very far away, because I’m imagining that you snap and you’re there.” – Pashi

6. Listener Family Thanksgiving Stories

a) The Upper West Side Traveling Turkey

• Story by Kimberly [21:45]

  • Catastrophic oven failure in a classic NYC apartment forces the family’s chef to roast a turkey 15 blocks away and taxi it back, suited up and bourbon in hand.
  • [24:02] “As we entertained small children in a packed apartment ... he sent selfies with his feet up, bourbon in hand.”

• Meyers Reactions:

  • [24:05] “...the chef was wearing a coat and tie while he was cooking, sitting there drinking a bourbon, coming back in the cab. But he was properly dressed for Thanksgiving.” – Larry
  • [24:15] “He had the best Thanksgiving of anybody!” – Seth

b) The Dog & the Turkey Carcass

• Story by Melissa [26:59]

  • A pandemic Thanksgiving; while the family is out, the dog pulls the turkey carcass from the counter and tries to devour it.
  • [30:33] “Don’t trust your Australian shepherds. They can reach the counter and they have no qualms about finishing off your turkey dinner.”

• Meyers Connection:

  • Multiple stories of their own dog, Belle, surreptitiously licking or eating neighbor’s turkeys, pies, and dinner rolls.
  • [33:10] “That house was like a ghost house. Now nobody ... they went crazy. It was like a zombie movie.” – Seth, joking about potential rabies transmission

c) The Sea Sick Costa Rican Thanksgiving

• Story by James [44:25]

  • First meeting with partner’s father in Costa Rica is ruined when James suffers a debilitating illness on a six-hour deep sea fishing trip and spends the rest of the week in bed, hallucinating, and comforted by binging this very podcast.
  • [45:58] “I’m hallucinating. I’m seeing the ocean disappear as the sun sets... I never leave my parents for holidays… I listened to Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers. It really meant a lot.”

• Meyers Response:

  • [48:44] “James, the first thing is Thanksgiving is coming up in about a week... but not your boyfriend, who doesn’t seem to be as attentive as he should be.” – Larry
  • [49:13] “What a—using a tragedy for comedy... you had a Family Trips-worthy, more than worthy story.” – Seth
  • Reflections on the perils and empty promises of deep sea fishing and whale watching.

7. The Youngest Generation: Ash & Axel Myers Interview [53:11–59:48]

• The boys describe their excitement and anxiety about their first Pittsburgh game, the Terrible Towel surprise, and their (unique) Thanksgiving food wishes:
  • [55:36] Ash: “Sushi that looks like a turkey.”
  • [55:45] Axel: “Another one of those big turkey cupcakes.”
  • Axel sings his “turkey” song to win the bakery cupcake.
• Family story recounted by Axel about encountering a rattlesnake in New Mexico and a classic dad/travel exhaustion story:
  • [58:53] “So my dad was so tired… he looks down at the stroller and he said, where’s Axel? And my mom, Alexi, said, ‘you’re holding him.’”

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Axel’s Anticipation:
  • [01:45] “Now, this is what I call Pittsburgh.” — Axel (via Pashi)
• Thanksgiving’s Family Spirit:
  • [09:43] “...if we had begged for it. Hurry would have thrown the doors open.” — Seth
• Classic Family Roasting:
  • [13:23] “Those are the two names you least want a white dad of your age to attempt.” — Seth, ribbing Larry for “Chase Sweewanders” and “Ke Huy Quan”
• Perfect Summary of the Podcast’s Ethos:
  • [14:20] “Some people are just wonderful storytellers.” — Hillary
• Why Listeners' Stories Are Compelling:
  • [49:13] “What a—using a tragedy for comedy... you had a Family Trips-worthy, more than worthy story.” — Seth
• Axel’s Cupcake Song:
  • [55:58] “Turkey, turkey, turkey, I’m gonna eat you. Turkey, turkey, turkey, yum, yum, yum.” — Axel

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Time | Segment | |----------|----------------------------------------------------------| | 00:19 | Family gathering intro: Pittsburgh trip context | | 01:45 | Axel’s Pittsburgh tunnel excitement & “Now this is…” | | 04:24 | Recounting the Efteling amusement park in Holland | | 07:34 | “Bread by the slice” bakery gag | | 08:50 | Turkey cupcake saga | | 11:10 | Airbnb foosball story and morning routine | | 12:03 | Favorite podcast guests discussed | | 15:09 | “Snap-your-fingers” dream destinations | | 21:45 | Kimberly’s Upper West Side oven/turkey listener story | | 26:59 | Melissa’s dog/devoured turkey carcass listener story | | 44:25 | James’s seasick Costa Rica Thanksgiving listener story | | 53:11 | Youngest Myerses: Ash & Axel interviewed | | 55:36 | Dream Thanksgiving food: sushi-shaped like turkey, etc. | | 55:58 | Axel’s “turkey” cupcake song | | 58:53 | Axel: Dad, stroller, and Uruguay story | | 59:40 | Steelers song by Axel, wrap up |

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Tone & Style Highlights

• Banter is self-deprecating, familial, and affectionate.
• Stories seamlessly blend humor, absurdity, and warmth.
• Family traditions and mishaps are celebrated as badges of honor.
• Listener participation weaves into the family’s own narratives, making the show inclusive and communal.

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For New Listeners

This episode is a pitch-perfect snapshot of Family Trips: a celebration of messy, memorable, and heartfelt family travel stories, loaded with sharp wit, sibling rivalry, and the chaos of every family’s best-laid plans. Even if you’ve never met the Meyers clan, you’ll recognize your own family in their gags about burnt turkeys, runaway dogs, and the never-ending quest for the perfect trip. The inclusion of listener stories cements the sense of shared experience, while the interplay between generations keeps things fresh, unpredictable, and funny.

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End with:
“Here we go, Steelers! Here we go!” — Axel [59:40]

Transcript

[Seth Myers]

Family trips with the M. Brothers. Family trips with the Myers.

[Larry Myers]

Brothers.

[Narrator/Interviewer]

Here we go.

[Seth Myers]

Hey, everybody. We got a very special episode. We are in the burg, and we're all here in person. Sound off.

[Larry Myers]

Hey, this is Larry.

[Hillary Myers]

This is Hillary. Or hurry, I should say.

[Pashi Myers]

And this is Pashi. And we're back. We're back. For the 10th year, we've come to Pittsburgh. Yeah, for a game.

[Larry Myers]

10Th year.

[Pashi Myers]

For a game. And we have some. Some guest stars.

[Hillary Myers]

Some guest stars. Instead of my little boys, Sufi and Pashi, there's other little boys here.

[Seth Myers]

Yeah. Who do you got downstairs?

[Larry Myers]

We got Ash and Axel Myers redo.

[Pashi Myers]

We're.

[Seth Myers]

Yeah, we're doubling up. We got the Bios brothers.

[Larry Myers]

This time it's serious.

[Seth Myers]

Yep. And how do you feel about having them in your ancestral homeland?

[Larry Myers]

Oh, it's great. I. They seem to be so excited to be here. They don't know anything really about Pittsburgh or football, to be honest. And it started out great at the airport when you came into the Airbnb with Ash.

[Seth Myers]

And your expectation was that I would, of course, have Axel with me as well.

[Larry Myers]

I would have Axel. And so I come down the escalator, and I see Josh, and he has a very large suitcase. And he comes up, and he starts walking toward us. And then popping up from behind the suitcase, charging across the floor is Axel. It was such a surprise.

[Pashi Myers]

I don't know if a kid ever says as many times as Axel did how excited they are for the Fort Pitt tunnel. And where's the Fort Pitt tunnel? And are we at the Fort Pitt tunnel? And how many minutes to the Fort Pitt tunnel? And he was so excited. And then we go through it, and you come out, and the city just, like, bursts in front of you.

[Seth Myers]

Goosebumps. Every time I see it.

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah, it's spectacular. And it was a spectacular day. Coming through it. And I was videoing, and Axl was almost, like, drooling how hard he was breathing and looking around, and I pointed out the Pittsburgh plate glass building, which looks like a castle.

[Seth Myers]

And.

[Pashi Myers]

And he is just. His eyes were wide open and his mouth was wide open, and he was really, like, almost hyperventilating. And he was like, now, this is what I call Pittsburgh.

[Seth Myers]

Which is interesting. Cause I'm wondering what he was calling Pittsburgh before the reveal.

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah, I feel like it's kind of like the way dad talks about Pittsburgh, and he's like, now, this is Pittsburgh.

[Seth Myers]

It's such a funny syntax for a kid to learn. Now, this is what I call. You're like, where did you learn that it's like. Cause I feel like they don't see. See commercials anymore. And that seems like such, like, a tagline from, like, an old commercial.

[Larry Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Myers]

But, yeah, we have this now. This is what I call Pittsburgh again. The anticipation for the boys was really something. And for them to fly. This is their first football game, and for them to fly into a city where you could see the stadium from the airplane, and they were definitely disobeying. Bang.

[Pashi Myers]

The.

[Seth Myers]

You know, please fasten your seatbelts. And Axel was shuffling back and forth in our row trying to see it. And then a woman said, it's the yellow one. She was helpful. And then the minute she's like, the stadium's yellow one. And they were like, are you going to the game? Are you going? We're going. And then Axel, who just knows how to be funny, she goes, oh, who are you rooting for? He goes, the Cincinnati Bengals, like, really loud. And everybody on the flight was like, oh.

[Larry Myers]

But the other thing that Axl did is when we came through the tunnel, if you look to the left, right across the river, you can see the stadium very clearly. And I said, look, right over there is the stadium. That's where we're going tomorrow. He goes, I already saw it.

[Seth Myers]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's old news. Yeah. What else? Oh, we haven't had you guys on. We talked. We did. Obviously, the last time you guys were on the podcast live was in Amsterdam, but we had a special. You know, we've talked about it a little bit on the pod, but you guys got to go to the Efteling amusement park in Holland for the first time, and that was with Ash. You've heard us talk about the amusement park a great deal over the years. What was your take, having seen it for the first time?

[Hillary Myers]

Oh, it was the most exciting place I think I've ever been. It's not like a. Like you would expect a typical amusement choir because they're playing classical music. There's all kinds of beautiful walks with greenery everywhere, beautiful trees. It was so serene. Parts of it, it was hotter. Hotter than Hades that day. And Paji stopped and said, mom, I checked the weather, and I'm not sure you should go, because in the heat, I'm known to get a condition called the flux.

[Seth Myers]

The flux? Yes. We've talked about the flu.

[Larry Myers]

Google it.

[Seth Myers]

There's no results.

[Larry Myers]

Yeah.

[Hillary Myers]

But anyhow, I was a little nervous, and I didn't bring the right clothes, so I was wearing black pants and.

[Seth Myers]

A black sleeveless shirt and a parka.

[Larry Myers]

Boots, gloves and a scarf. People were looking at you. They thought you were the most interesting thing there.

[Hillary Myers]

Went on a log fluming kind of thing and spun you in the water. And everyone else, you got soaking wet. Which, if you're wearing white, see through, is not a good look for an old woman. So wearing black, I came out looking like a princess.

[Larry Myers]

By the way, we don't want to see any see through on old women, irrespective of color. Blowing just white, black, blue, green.

[Seth Myers]

I think that was about the shirt, not about the actual.

[Larry Myers]

The other thing. I remember when we finished, there was a bus taking us back to Amsterdam. And we had walked to get out of that ballpark. Not a ballpark, that amusement park. They have a huge lake with these great fountains and a water display at the end. It's really something to see at the end of the day. But it was, as Harry said, it was really, really hot. And we got to the place where the bus was supposed to be, and it wasn't there. And there was like some electrical unit and I just sat on that and said, I'm not moving another step until that bus comes to get me. Because we had been walking all day. Yeah, all day in that heat. Yeah, it was.

[Hillary Myers]

I remember you boys talking about when you were there, sometimes you were on a hallucinogenic type of medication.

[Seth Myers]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Prescribed. It was prescribed. Yeah, yeah.

[Hillary Myers]

So that. I guess that. That would have scared me to death if I'd done anything like. Because there were a lot of scary.

[Seth Myers]

Yeah, we. That's. We were pretty. That's why we were not pushing you towards that choice.

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Myers]

On the day, we also just based on your day to day hurry, I feel like you might have it inside you. I do.

[Hillary Myers]

Everything for me is an enhanced experience.

[Larry Myers]

Sometimes you just think she's hallucinating. Anyway, it's like this morning, she said we didn't. Where we're staying. They were very nice and brought some supplies, but there was no bread. And she wanted some toast for breakfast. And I said, well, there's a bakery right up the street. I'll go up and go to the bakery and get some bread. And she said, I don't want too much bread. And I said, well, what do you think? They sell it by the slice, you know? And she said, yeah, I just want a couple slices. So of course, nobody sells bread by the slice.

[Seth Myers]

Nobody. She was acting like you were gonna come back with so much bread.

[Larry Myers]

Yes. Like a wheelbarrow full of bread of all kinds.

[Seth Myers]

Like a giant, what they call them Miches. They're giant sourdough Miche.

[Larry Myers]

So what we did instead, we got a loaf of bread, and that had the lady put two slices in a bag.

[Seth Myers]

This is you and Axel pulling this bag.

[Larry Myers]

Me and Axel. And then. So Axel comes in and says, here's your bread. And there was two slices in the bag, and it took her a minute.

[Hillary Myers]

You said it cost $4 for the two slices, and I was shocked.

[Larry Myers]

She says, how much? But. So sometimes you think she's hallucinating.

[Seth Myers]

Anyway, look, I knew what you were going to be up against, because you said, I'm going to go to the bakery, and Axel wanted to go to the bakery, and you even said, there's going to be muffins and Stu. And I said, yeah, just get one thing for the boys to share. Don't let. Don't let Axl bully you. And so in my head, I'm like, it's gonna be a muffin or a scone or a croissant. You know, I was like, that'll be the worst. And you guys came back, and Axl pulls out of a bag fully, just like a turkey cupcake. A cupcake looks like a. It's all icing. It's all frosting. It was. I had to cut it in quarters. I'm like, you have to eat this over the course of two days.

[Larry Myers]

Well, we were looking in the display case there, and I said, everything on this side, because the other side was like, pies and cakes. And so I said, pick whatever you want. He goes, oh, scone. And then I said, okay, we'll get a scone. And then he just looked to the left and down in the corner. Were these turkey cupcakes. He goes, oh, are the turkeys.

[Seth Myers]

The best is when you come home and explain what happened. I'm like, yeah, no, I know. He saw it. Yeah. Hey, we do have some questions, some listener questions and a few listener stories.

[Listener Kimberly]

Okay.

[Larry Myers]

All right.

[Seth Myers]

Question for Hillary, and I don't know if there's an answer here. Hurry. So feel free to. And if there's not one, what destination did the boys beg to visit that you absolutely refused?

[Hillary Myers]

Oh, gosh. There was never anything you asked that I wouldn't get from.

[Seth Myers]

Yeah, it seems weird. And I don't really think of a place we baked. There wasn't really anything. No.

[Hillary Myers]

Like, you never said, I want to go to Hawaii or something like that.

[Seth Myers]

And we never were like, Europe. The idea of going to Europe as kids was. Had never dawned on us. I don't think we. I don't we think we knew a single kid who had ever gone to Europe.

[Larry Myers]

No. Yeah.

[Hillary Myers]

And even, like, Disneyland. You never talked about that, like, the place you really wanted to go.

[Seth Myers]

Yeah.

[Larry Myers]

I mean, we went to Disneyland and Disney World once, but it wasn't a begging. No. No, it wasn't. We weren't. We weren't real into it. You didn't seem to be that into it either.

[Pashi Myers]

I could see. I can't think of a specific example, but I could see us wanting to go somewhere that you just thought would have been, like, dirty, that maybe you wouldn't have been into. Although we went to, like, arcades and. Yeah.

[Seth Myers]

There was no. There was really nothing. And I think the real takeaway here is if we had begged for it. Hurry would have thrown the doors open.

[Hillary Myers]

Exactly. Yeah, exactly. And notice how that was a question for me. But your father managed to say a few things.

[Seth Myers]

Yeah, he really did kind of get in there pretty quickly. Yeah.

[Hillary Myers]

So, yeah.

[Listener Kimberly]

Okay.

[Seth Myers]

And I didn't. And the wording was question for Hillary and Hillary only, please, before you ask it. And I was like, he'll know. And I'm sorry. Apologies to Lena S. I should have read the entirety of it.

[Larry Myers]

I'm going to go downstairs with my grandsons now.

[Seth Myers]

We also were staying at an Airbnb, and it's lovely. And I'm sleeping in a very nice basement room. Yeah, yeah. And it turns out, you know, nice and cozy and. But there's also a little mini. What do you call them? Foosball table.

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah, it's like a multipurpose game table. It has a pool table underneath, and on top of that snaps a foosball table. It's about maybe three feet by one and a half feet. It's little.

[Larry Myers]

The smallest one.

[Seth Myers]

Axel famously wakes up too early, and so he Woke up at 4:30 this morning. And then I let him listen to a story on this little story box he has. And then he said he was bored and he wanted to watch a movie, and I said no. And he goes, okay, I'm gonna go quietly play foosball. And it was so. This is like. If you could imagine, this is what it sounded. And I lost my mind.

[Larry Myers]

Here, watch a movie.

[Seth Myers]

All right, here's one. Larry, you got a question here. And I won't say I notice what we try to notice the modeling we're doing.

[Pashi Myers]

Dad, who is your favorite guest of 2025?

[Larry Myers]

On the. On the.

[Pashi Myers]

On the pod.

[Seth Myers]

Yeah.

[Larry Myers]

Of 2025, there's two that I really liked a lot. One is I won't Remember her name. She's a woman. She's from Michigan.

[Pashi Myers]

Chase Sweewanders.

[Seth Myers]

Oh, yeah, Chase. We wonder.

[Larry Myers]

She was great. I mean, her story is about her family trying to go on vacation to the most remote place, someplace in Alaska, someplace out of the Pacific where these islanders live and eat fish and nobody ever goes there. She was fascinating. Plus, then she went to Harvard. She was a hockey player. And she didn't look like a hockey player. She looked very slim and everything else.

[Seth Myers]

All her teeth. You kept saying all her teeth.

[Larry Myers]

That was the thing that really sold me on her. She was great. And then more recently, I listened to the gentleman who won the Oscar, KE Hui Quan. KE Hui Quang, who also his story, his family story was Vietnamese immigrants, one of nine, spent two years in some sort of a refugee center. And just a totally charming, interesting guy. And those are two that I really, really enjoyed a lot.

[Seth Myers]

And those are the two names you least want a white dad of your age to attempt. So I really appreciate, in both cases, it was a real restraint there.

[Larry Myers]

I thought Leslie Bibb was good, too, but the name was too easy.

[Seth Myers]

Too easy. Yeah.

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah. And just because, I mean, it's right here. Hurry. Any faves that you had from last year?

[Hillary Myers]

Oh, my gosh. The. The. The guy that sings in a group that I'd never heard of.

[Pashi Myers]

Maybe Queen or Queens of the Stone Age. Josh Homme.

[Seth Myers]

Yeah.

[Larry Myers]

Yeah. He was very good.

[Hillary Myers]

Wonderful stories.

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah.

[Hillary Myers]

He was the one that had the mother. That's a flight that.

[Pashi Myers]

His grandmother, I think, was the first woman to fly a plane.

[Seth Myers]

Yeah, yeah. Not somewhere.

[Pashi Myers]

Maybe in Texas, in Montana. Yeah. It wasn't. She wasn't.

[Larry Myers]

Yeah.

[Pashi Myers]

What's her name?

[Seth Myers]

Amelia Earhart.

[Hillary Myers]

Great story.

[Larry Myers]

She's the one they found. Yeah, she's the one they found.

[Hillary Myers]

And the interesting thing is, you know, you've never heard of these people necessarily in my. Yes. World. But then they start talking, and some people are just wonderful storytellers.

[Seth Myers]

It is. It really speaks to the value of the promotional value of being on family trips and that all your favorite guests. The way you have started is like, I'm not gonna remember their names, but I am gonna start listening to their music. Queen, was it?

[Hillary Myers]

Queens of the Stone Age.

[Seth Myers]

Yeah, you got it. They were all. Those are all great picks. Nicely. Nicely done.

[Pashi Myers]

Let's see if you could. I think we can all answer these. John M. Asked this. If you could snap your fingers and visit anywhere in the world, where would it be?

[Seth Myers]

The graves of my enemies.

[Hillary Myers]

The Grand Canyon.

[Larry Myers]

No way. See if he can't answer that. Because he can't snap his fingers.

[Seth Myers]

Oh, man. This is the kind of burn that I. I'm glad you did this while my kids weren't here. But I can whistle, right, Pasha?

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah.

[Larry Myers]

Give it a shot.

[Seth Myers]

That was better one than usual. Oh, my God. When the lights are on, I really came through.

[Pashi Myers]

I feel like, for snapping your fingers, I want to go somewhere that's very far away, because I'm imagining that you snap and you're there.

[Seth Myers]

I would say Tokyo for me. My real answer is I would very much like to go.

[Hillary Myers]

Oh, New Zealand for me.

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah, I think New Zealand is mine, too. Just because I. I worry about the. The length of getting there. Or Patagonia. What's the. Where did you go?

[Seth Myers]

Yeah, we went down. We were in the Chilean side of Patagonia.

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah, but that. That would be great for me.

[Hillary Myers]

Yes.

[Larry Myers]

Well, I'm already here. Yeah.

[Seth Myers]

Oh, yeah.

[Pashi Myers]

Pittsburgh.

[Larry Myers]

Yeah, I'm already here. But no, seriously, I'd like to go to, you know, the. The part of Africa where they have that great migration of the animals. I'm not sure if it's Tanzania or whatever, but I'd like to go there at that time. I'd like to see that.

[Pashi Myers]

That's a good call.

[Seth Myers]

And you want to be there and. But also be, like, a little. You want to be a little, like, sassy to the animals. Like, that's right. On your way. Keep it moving, Keep it moving.

[Larry Myers]

Okay, enough of the Wilde. Yeah, let's get the hippos. Come on.

[Seth Myers]

Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from Airbnb. Hey, Baji.

[Pashi Myers]

Hey, Sufi.

[Seth Myers]

We used Airbnb to book ourselves a very special home on our trip to Pittsburgh.

[Pashi Myers]

It was so good. It was so great.

[Seth Myers]

You were upstairs?

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah, I was in the locker room, which I got to say. I had my own couch. I had my own desk. I had my own bathroom. I had my own closet.

[Seth Myers]

It was.

[Pashi Myers]

It was great up there.

[Seth Myers]

We were also in the heart of the neighborhood dad grew up in, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He. I heard him say to maybe 135 people that he used to work on that street at a pharmacy that's no longer there. Also this year, we did something special. We took a family photo. It can be hard when you travel to get that perfect shot for the whole family. So we decided to book a photographer on Airbnb. They have a new feature for services like a private chef, personal trainer, photographer you can book while traveling to make your trip even better. It's a great picture, Paschi.

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah. I mean, so many good pictures. You might think, oh, we'll take some good pictures with our phones. And then this photographer really sort of illuminated that. That kind of thinking is wrong.

[Seth Myers]

Also a great photographer because we did some, like, pose family photos. But also the boys were sort of playing catch in the back alley behind the house. And she just sort of got some action sh including a great moment where Ash threw the ball, hit Axel square in the face and he covered his face. And she literally got the moment where sort of a nerfy football hit Axel in the face.

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah, but it's.

[Seth Myers]

That's fun for me because his glasses cost like a billion dollars.

[Pashi Myers]

Well, a picture, pictures, pictures worth $1,000 with which you can buy one more pair of glasses.

[Seth Myers]

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[Pashi Myers]

Hey, Sufi.

[Seth Myers]

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[Narrator/Interviewer]

Sure.

[Seth Myers]

Extra helping. Microplastics. No, thank you.

[Pashi Myers]

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[Seth Myers]

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[Pashi Myers]

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[Seth Myers]

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[Larry Myers]

No.

[Seth Myers]

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[Pashi Myers]

Yeah. The rest of the questions we have are for the boys. Yeah, I can play the stories.

[Seth Myers]

Yeah, let's play a story. Who we got first?

[Pashi Myers]

I gotta open this Dropbox.

[Seth Myers]

This is real. Like now these people said in these stories not realizing that dad would be here listening in real time.

[Larry Myers]

I was just gonna say I hope they're good cause I'm going to be honest about them.

[Seth Myers]

No, I think that's kind of what it's a little bit like going to a Don Rickles show. You kind of want to get I think roasted.

[Listener Kimberly]

Really?

[Seth Myers]

We'll find out, you know.

[Pashi Myers]

All right, here we go. This is from Kimberly. Thanks for this Kimberly.

[Listener Kimberly]

This is a family Thanksgiving story that takes place in Manhattan with a lot of out of town family members. My father in law lives on the Upper west side still in the same apartment where my husband grew up. We were all coming into town for Thanksgiving and my husband and I were taking on the role of organizer host, basing everybody out of the Upper west side apartment. Like any true New Yorker, my father in law barely uses his kitchen and being a widower, he really doesn't use his kitchen. But we assumed that while unused, it would be in working order. Food orders were delivered everything from eggs to salt and pepper to the Thanksgiving turkey and ingredients for the sides. We were going to cook it all from scratch as we got all the kids and parents up early and out the front door to the Macy's Day parade on Central Park West. I went into the kitchen to turn on the oven, make bacon and eggs for the hungry paradegoers. That's when I learned that the stove top worked, but not the oven. 12 people counting on a Thanksgiving meal and no oven and one very large raw turkey breakfast was pulled together. But a plan for the turkey had to be made. We packed the turkey and its accoutrements into a large roasting pan and my brother in law selflessly volunteered to take it all in a taxi to our cousin's apartment. He's a trained chef, so we felt confident he'd have it under control 15 blocks away. As we entertained small children in a packed apartment and cooked what we could on the stovetop, he sent selfies with his feet up, bourbon in hand, While he watched the turkey roast in our cousin's lovely apartment, my brother in law called us to say the turkey was ready. He's from Louisville, Kentucky, and I don't think he was prepared for the adventure of taking a turkey in a hot roasting pan through the city. Now, dressed in his jacket and tie and carrying the turkey precariously in the roasting pan with drippings and tinfoil over it, he hailed a cab and delighted the cabbie with his accent and delicious smelling turkey and arrived like a hero to the apartment with no oven. Now, I know we probably could have found a cooked turkey at the last minute in the city, but then we wouldn't have had this great memory of a turkey that's made its way up and down the Upper west side.

[Seth Myers]

That was a. I mean, that was a great story, wonderful story.

[Larry Myers]

The thing I like the best is that the chef was wearing a coat and tie while he was cooking, sitting there drinking a bourbon, coming back in the cab. But he was properly dressed for Thanksgiving.

[Seth Myers]

I also, I think she alluded to it initially, a hero until you realize, like he had the best Thanksgiving of anybody. I mean, just leaving a house full of kids to go like cook a. You know.

[Larry Myers]

And also her notion that it would be easy to find a cooked turkey on Thanksgiving morning when everybody is closed. I think she's very, very lucky that.

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah, I think New York might be good like that that you could find. Yeah, I don't know.

[Larry Myers]

I don't think so.

[Pashi Myers]

I'm never going to find out.

[Seth Myers]

I will tell you guys, I'm vegan.

[Pashi Myers]

I don't need it.

[Seth Myers]

The amount that I would. The amount of like Saturdays where I would love to say I'm going to go 15 blocks away and cook a turkey. Just like.

[Pashi Myers]

I'll be back in, like, four and a half hours.

[Seth Myers]

I'm actually using a new brine. It might be five and a half.

[Hillary Myers]

The part of that that I thought was so cool was with his feet up with a bourbon in his hand.

[Seth Myers]

Now, I think all three of you could attest that I have often lived in apartments where it would not surprise you if you came over. And I had no idea that my oven didn't work.

[Hillary Myers]

We went for a trip to life. It was parents weekend, and I was in charge of the cooking, and I cut up little roasted potatoes, and everything's ready to go in the oven. Same thing. The oven didn't work. So it's hard to roast a potato in a toaster oven.

[Larry Myers]

And you had planned. We had planned this, and Seth was a part of the plan.

[Seth Myers]

Oh, this was.

[Larry Myers]

This was in college.

[Hillary Myers]

This was at Northwestern.

[Seth Myers]

Okay, Northwestern.

[Larry Myers]

And you had lived in that apartment for like a year more and never.

[Seth Myers]

No, the oven.

[Larry Myers]

Nobody had ever turned on the oven, and so he just assumed it worked.

[Seth Myers]

Well, you're supposed to.

[Larry Myers]

You put the. You put the thing. You put the stuff in. As I remember, I did.

[Hillary Myers]

I put it in.

[Larry Myers]

Turn it up to 350.

[Hillary Myers]

And it was a long wait.

[Larry Myers]

It was a long wait.

[Seth Myers]

And then Josh found out that his shower didn't work. Washing machine. Yeah. Really fun. By the way, in the future, if you're in Manhattan and you don't have an oven, you can also just. If you just hold a turkey over a subway grate, everybody's rotated every time.

[Pashi Myers]

I like that the taxi driver seemed charmed by it. I would imagine a taxi driver would be like, you're getting in here with the turkey and, like, drippings.

[Hillary Myers]

I know.

[Seth Myers]

I think I still. I have a place in my heart. I think that there's the Christmas in Thanksgiving. I think most taxi drivers would be cool with a turkey. I think, like, you know, look, a June turkey, you're gonna get some sidelong glances and probably some sass.

[Larry Myers]

Fourth of July turkey. No.

[Seth Myers]

I think I do truly believe in their heart of hearts. New Yorkers, like, anytime they're part of a New York story.

[Hillary Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Myers]

Like, one worth telling. Like that they can go home and be like, hey, this gumbal. They all talk like that.

[Pashi Myers]

All right, all right. We've got another story here from Melissa.

[Listener Melissa]

Hi, my name is Melissa, and I want to give an account of Thanksgiving either in 2020 or 2021, back when the pandemic was happening. And we had Thanksgiving with just our immediate foursome at home. And the next day we had decided to take apart the turkey to separate the meat, because I often like to use the, the bones in the carcass to make a turkey broth over the, the next day or so. So my husband decides to, to start to debone, take all the meat off so we can do other things with it, you know, pot pie and whatnot. We get a text from our next door neighborhood who has tickets that they're not using to this like, drive through Christmas display thing. It was the city's way of kind of having this outdoor activity, but safe within people's cars. They could drive through and see these light setups. So we decided to take up on it. By the way, we have a dog, so we'll get back to the dog in a minute. So he kind of pushes the carcass up towards the island. He separates the meat, puts it on a plate, puts that in the fridge. Everybody bundles up. We get the tickets from our neighbor and drive out to this light display event. It's very lovely for what is normally an in person activity. But we're driving through it, right? Come back home maybe an hour later, and we get into the kitchen and I look at the kitchen island and I'm like, something's different. And then I look out into the living room beyond and I see this mound on the floor and our dog is nowhere in sight. And I get closer and I realize it's the turkey carcass. He has pulled it off of the counter and has started to gnaw on it. Now, you know, two thoughts go through your head. One is, how dare this dog do this? And two is, oh my God, he's eating poultry bones and dogs cannot eat chicken or turkey bones. And so I'm toggling between upset and worried about him. So my husband goes to find the dog, make sure he's okay. Did he swallow any bones? I had to go look at the turkey. Like, how much did he break apart? It looks like he didn't get too far. So maybe he, you know, held out, sat by the front door, waited to see if we were coming back. Is now a good time? Should he try now? I don't know. What's that noise? Debated whether he was going to take a chance and grab this turkey off the counter. So he must have waited a long time before he dared try to grab it. So it didn't look like he got very far. He nibbled on some pieces. We kept an eye on him, but it wasn't bad. So I'm glad that we did not leave the turkey intact on the counter so we could save a lot of that meat that was safely put away in the fridge. But just goes to show, don't trust your Australian shepherds. They can reach the counter and they have no qualms about finishing off your turkey dinner. Thank you. Love the podcast.

[Larry Myers]

Well, I think that dog, as soon as they left, she assumed that the dog was patient. That dog, when the door slammed, that dog was pulling that carcass off.

[Seth Myers]

Here, you do the door slam again, and I'll be the dog.

[Larry Myers]

And I just think, no offense, but I just don't think he liked it.

[Seth Myers]

It.

[Larry Myers]

Yeah, probably Justin like it. He probably had, you know, maybe there was some sage or some other spice on that had worm.

[Seth Myers]

That's a real problem.

[Larry Myers]

Yeah. And he just didn't like it.

[Pashi Myers]

And I think all of us. This probably tripped off one particular memory of us and a dog and a turkey.

[Seth Myers]

Yeah.

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah. Who was it?

[Hillary Myers]

Do you remember baby Belle?

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah. Belle, who was our first of three great Pyrenees. And this is before we had an invisible fence and the dogs would just kind of wander. And one of our neighbors had a turkey resting in their garage, and Belle had sort of wandered off.

[Larry Myers]

No, I was taking her on a walk. We were walking.

[Pashi Myers]

Well, I mean, please.

[Larry Myers]

So we were walking on a street near ours, which is a loop, and there was no traffic. No traffic on that loop, typically. Anyway. So she's not on a leash, but it's Thanksgiving, so there's really no traffic.

[Hillary Myers]

She goes down the driveway to get out the driveway.

[Larry Myers]

It's very hilly where we live, and on one side of the street, houses are up on a terrace, and the other side, you have to go down the driveways. So she's pretty good. Sticking with me. And all of a sudden, head goes up and she starts bolting down this drive. And the garage door is open, and I'm calling her. She doesn't come. And so I go down there, and they, like you say, they had the turkey sitting out, resting or cooling in the garage. And I got there just as she was. She was just licking it. She hadn't taken. There was no teeth marks yet.

[Seth Myers]

Oh, that's. Thank God.

[Larry Myers]

But she was just licking it. And so I stuck a leash on her as quietly as I could, and we walked out back up.

[Hillary Myers]

Just got out of Dodge.

[Larry Myers]

Yeah. We admitted to nothing.

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Myers]

Yeah.

[Pashi Myers]

That family had a turkey that had been licked by a great period. Was to be a finishing.

[Seth Myers]

Were they the family that all got rabies.

[Pashi Myers]

I can't remember.

[Seth Myers]

I know somebody on our street, like, in like early December, late November, got rabies one year.

[Larry Myers]

Yeah, that house was like ghost house. Now nobody.

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Myers]

Nobody goes. Yeah, they went crazy. It was like a zombie movie.

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah. Well, thank you for that. Dogs are. You know, we. We had a Christmas one year at our house, and our dog Debbie, who is not athletic, to say the least. We had started, we had finished, and we had all moved away from the dining room, which is just two steps up from the family room. And we were down, sitting on the couches. And then we're wondering where Debbie was. And we looked up and she was standing on top of the table. She'd clearly gone floor to chair to table. And there were still some dinner rolls that had been unconsumed. And she had her head in that basket and was just inhaling rolls, which. She looked very much like a croissant to begin with.

[Seth Myers]

I will say, if I walked in your house and saw Debbie on a table, I would think an intruder was there. That's how the idea of, like, Tebi, even if there was like a dog staircase, I still would be like, she didn't do this on her own.

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah.

[Larry Myers]

Well, there was a. That happened when you guys were young with the same dog with Bill. And she was a great Pyrenees. She weighed about 120 pounds. And you had. It was somebody. Some kind of a party. And there were pizzas.

[Seth Myers]

Yeah, I remember that.

[Larry Myers]

Seth's birthday on the dining room table. So. And you guys went downstairs to play after you ate the pizzas. There were still pizzas up there. And we heard this rustling and we went in there and she was standing on the table, full on the table, eating all the pizza pieces that were.

[Seth Myers]

And she was at her fastest. I would describe Belle as lumbering.

[Hillary Myers]

Yes.

[Seth Myers]

And yet when food was involved, if you turned your head for a second, she was. She was also the only dog we had who literally used her paw to open doors.

[Larry Myers]

Or her nose.

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah, or nose.

[Larry Myers]

Or her nose.

[Seth Myers]

She was. There was a good chance, looking back, that Belle was a person in a dog suit. She was a ninja.

[Hillary Myers]

She had ninja like qualities.

[Larry Myers]

We had two different kinds of screen doors. One which you pushed with your thumb and one in which you had to pull the handle down. And she was always leaving. And she could open both screen doors and just go. And then the way we would get her back again, this is before we had the invisible.

[Seth Myers]

We had to put a full turkey in our garage.

[Larry Myers]

That's how we got her back it was expensive. But now what she would do is she would wander around and then she would go sit in somebody's front lawn. They had this big, beautiful white dog and they would. She had a collar that had a phone number on it and she had a tag. So either they would. If they were intimidated, they would call the police, and if they weren't, they'd come out and they'd see the phone number and they'd call us. Either that or the police would see the tag and they. They would call us.

[Hillary Myers]

Well, she was a frequent flyer, too. So the police knew.

[Larry Myers]

Police knew who she was. Yeah, they, you know, they told us they were going to find us if we didn't and take better care of our dog. But anyway, she knew how to get home. All she had to do was when she was tired, she would sit down.

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah.

[Larry Myers]

Somebody would arrange to get us to come and get her. Yeah. And then she did it all the time because she was an escape artist.

[Seth Myers]

Yeah, she really was. And you think they're supposed to be big mountain dogs that are lookouts. And that's how you get it. She was like.

[Hillary Myers]

She was a lookout.

[Seth Myers]

Yeah, but she was. She was more like a convict. Yeah, she was a lookout. What do you got? You got another story for us?

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah, we got one more.

[Seth Myers]

Oh, I have one more. This is what I was trying to think of, which is that thing about if Belle had taken a bite out of it. This is a total left turn. But I must have seen it with you guys because there was a John Candy sketch and I always thought it was an SNL sketch and I could never find it. And then I recently found out it was the new show, which was Lorne Michaels, sort of short lived show that didn't work. And John Candy played a food repairman.

[Larry Myers]

That's a great idea.

[Seth Myers]

I remember he was just like a guy. It was like, you know, it felt like one of those old, like, TV repairment places with all the, like electronics on the wall, but it was food. And I remember, I think it was Paul Simon came in with a bag of pretzels. And it was just really dryly written. And it was Paul Simon saying, yeah, this is in the back of the car. And I don't know if we went over bumps or stuff, but all the salt came off the pretzel rods. And it was just John Candy, like being like a car mechanic's like, oh, well, this is gonna be. I mean, look, I could go back through it and. And reattach each piece of salt. But in the end you know, it's gonna be. This is gonna cost you more than a new bag of pretzels. And it was just Paul Simon being so disappointed. Like, oh, God, I really hoped. And he goes, you look, I could do it for you. I'm just telling you, you know, it's. You know, it's gonna take a few days. By the time you get it back on, I just go by. Oh, all right. Well, just think of you bringing a turkey and being like, I gotta get this turkey back on the carcass for my neighbors. Really.

[Pashi Myers]

Hey, we're gonna take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors.

[Seth Myers]

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[Pashi Myers]

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[Seth Myers]

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[Pashi Myers]

Or he just gets to, like, some basic numbers.

[Seth Myers]

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[Pashi Myers]

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[Seth Myers]

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[Pashi Myers]

No. There was very nice people, little blood draw, very easy, very painless. And then I got all this information about me specific to me with some advice for steps I can take to improve some numbers that might be questionable, some suggestions of supplements I could take to get those numbers in better places. And it's just a way to try and be healthier and be smarter about your health, because it's never a better time to be healthier than right now.

[Seth Myers]

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[Pashi Myers]

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[Pashi Myers]

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[Seth Myers]

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[Pashi Myers]

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[Seth Myers]

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[Pashi Myers]

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[Pashi Myers]

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[Seth Myers]

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[Pashi Myers]

Yeah, we've got one in our kitchen and it is a constant source of joy. We have ours set to sort of change every 10 minutes. You can adjust that. You can sort of have a new picture every 30 seconds if you want. But I, I really like to let a picture breathe and to spend some time with it and it's just great. They're such good frames. The quality is so good and it.

[Seth Myers]

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[Seth Myers]

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[Pashi Myers]

One more story. This is from James.

[Narrator/Interviewer]

Hi, Seth. Hi, Josh. This is James from Los Angeles. So my family trip happened last year, last Thanksgiving, and I went to Costa Rica with my boyfriend to meet his father. We'd been dating for four years at this point. I had never met his dad, never FaceTimed, never talked to him on the phone, nothing. He's sort of old, like kind of old fashioned. So he was just like, I'll meet her when I meet her in person, you know. So there was a lot of anticipation for this trip and I was really excited to go to Costa Rica and spend time with his dad. So we get down there, we have one nice little dinner, and then we go to sleep. We wake up super early to get on this fishing boat. And his dad had booked a fishing boat for the whole day. I'd never been in a boat in the open ocean. I was so excited because it was the Pacific Ocean and that's my ocean in la. So it felt really meaningful. We get out there, we put down the fishing lines, and it's really far away from the coast. I wasn't expecting to be, like an hour away from land, but we were out there and I start feeling a little bit warm and then a little bit cold. And I realize that I have the chills. And so it really just gets worse and worse. And we're on this rocking boat, and I kind of think it's seasickness, but it's.

[Seth Myers]

It.

[Narrator/Interviewer]

It isn't. It seems to be kind of like flu, like, symptoms. And so I'm sort of trying to keep my cool because I don't want to interrupt this fishing trip. And, you know, everyone's having a good time, so I just keep. Keep calm. And we're out there for six hours. I was not expecting such a long time on the open ocean. So every hour that passes, I'm like, we just have to be going back to land at some point. This has to be over soon. I can't eat the lunch that they bring us, like, these, like, really good burritos. I can't eat them. I'm just feeling so sick. And his dad, again, having never met me, probably is just thinking, like, okay, this girl is actually really weird and standoffish. But I was also just trying not to get too close to him because I didn't want to get him sick. And as soon as we get off the boat, the sun has set. At this point, I'm hallucinating. I'm seeing the ocean disappear as the sun sets into what is no longer water, but the bottom of the ocean. Full on. We step off the boat and I say to my boyfriend, you need to hold my hand. I'm actually gonna pass out. And he couldn't believe it that I had faked it for six hours. He had no idea. And so we ride this little golf cart or whatever back to the hotel, and I say, oh, you know, I'm gonna just rest for a little bit before dinner. I go into the room, go into the bed, and I'm fully talking to myself, like, completely high fever, everything. And I don't get out of bed for the entire trip. I'M there in bed across over Thanksgiving for five days. And the whole time what I did to fill the time was listen to family trips with the Myers brothers. I had seen the podcast and wanted to listen. I just hadn't gotten around to it. And it was so nice to be able to listen to these stories about other people's families. And it really meant a lot because I actually was quite homesick. I'm an only child and I, I really never leave my parents for holidays because it's just the three of us, so I really miss them. And it was actually just so comforting to get to hear your guys dynamic and hear everyone else's stories. So actually really thank you for making the last Thanksgiving bearable for me in my flu state. And I got through it, I got home and I'm still a listener. So thank you so much. Much.

[Seth Myers]

That is just an a story.

[Larry Myers]

Yeah, yeah, that's, that's tops. The first thing. Well, her name was James.

[Pashi Myers]

Yes.

[Seth Myers]

Yeah.

[Larry Myers]

Yeah. So, James, the first thing is Thanksgiving is coming up in about a week. We want to invite you to come and have Thanksgiving with us, but not your boyfriend, who doesn't seem to be as attentive as he should be.

[Seth Myers]

I actually think she should probably have Thanksgiving with her parents who, who it's very likely poisoned you when they heard that you were not going to join them for the first time.

[Larry Myers]

Otherwise, otherwise we could invite them too.

[Seth Myers]

I, I gotta say, like, what a. Using a, A tragedy for comedy. I mean, not a full tragedy obviously, but I like that you were listening to family trips and you also appreciated during listening that you had a family trips worthy. More than worthy story.

[Hillary Myers]

More than worthy story.

[Larry Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Myers]

Yeah.

[Pashi Myers]

I, I mean.

[Hillary Myers]

Stuff was scary.

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah.

[Larry Myers]

The other thing I thought about in that story was, you know, you're, you're deep sea fishing, you're. You're way away from land and it's. Especially if you're not experienced fishermen, the chances of you getting seasick are up in the 90%. And then they have burritos.

[Pashi Myers]

Yes.

[Larry Myers]

Taking it up to 98.

[Pashi Myers]

I think deep sea fishing, unless you really, really want to do it, sounds like one of the worst things you could, could ever do in the world.

[Seth Myers]

Sometimes people will say to us in the summer, like, you, you wanna, you should bring your boys out fishing with us. And I'm like, do you go out for five minutes? Like, what are you, what are you talking about? Like, them, like, they get bored so fast. I wanna be on a boat with them rocking side to side. And we went. My buddy Lazaro. We weren't at that wedding, but it was in Orlando and there was a deep sea fishing trip the day before the wedding. And I remember 12 guys came out. We went out on about 12 guys. We brought 48 beers. We came back with 47 beers. People were so seasoned and we literally were like, we have to go. I was like, we can't come back with two full cases. So we were all just passing around like a Kurzai. Take a little sip.

[Larry Myers]

Look, I know that people love deep sea fishing and all kind of fishing. I get that. So to those who love fishing, please don't be offended by this but nothing thing promises more and delivers less than a day on a boat. To me, if, if you're driving the boat, maybe it's different, but if you're just on the boat, whatever you're doing on the boat, it's just, to me, it's, it's, it's a very long day. And, and to that end, you guys may remember once we went whale watching.

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah.

[Larry Myers]

Okay. And you go out for about an hour on a fairly large boat with quite a few people.

[Seth Myers]

I'm pretty sure I was. It was whale waiting.

[Larry Myers]

No, no, no. It. First hour, it was whale waiting. And then you see like on the horizon, a fluke of a whale. Everybody runs to, to that part of the boat to be able to take a photograph of something that looks like a, you know, an eraser. And then you get up to the whales and they're all around the boat. Okay. But the boat just stays there and rocks for about an hour and a half. Okay. And you've seen all the whale you want to see for your whole, whole life. And then it's an hour back. It is a long four hours. So whale watching. Good experience to see the whales once. It's a once in a lifetime.

[Pashi Myers]

I went last year with Mackenzie and her dad and it was, it was fun.

[Seth Myers]

Right? You. But you've been on a boat with my father in law when he talks about how Jaws was filmed on Martha's Vineyard, that surely was worth it.

[Larry Myers]

I've been on the boat with your father in law and he's talked about that every time.

[Seth Myers]

Every time. It's true.

[Larry Myers]

Room. Yeah, well, he's right. You can see the wreck of one of the boats.

[Pashi Myers]

Didn't we have like a marlin on the wall in our basement in my.

[Seth Myers]

Yeah, we had like. We did, but I feel like that's all like that, like liquor store detritus.

[Larry Myers]

Oh, yeah, that came from the liquor store.

[Seth Myers]

Yeah. Our uncle at a Hurry's, Uncle Kurt had. And Eric had a liquor store. And we would just get like, things that I feel like were promotional. I think it was a promotional market.

[Pashi Myers]

It wasn't a real fish for like.

[Seth Myers]

Harpoon IPA or something like that, but.

[Hillary Myers]

But then historically too, you hate being on any kind of a situation where you can't get off.

[Seth Myers]

Yeah, I'm kind of like Belle that way. I want to see 3 exits.

[Narrator/Interviewer]

Here.

[Seth Myers]

Go, Pasha. You want to ask him the question?

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Myers]

All right, boys, first of all, introduce yourselves.

[Ash Myers]

Hi, I'm Ash. Hi, I'm Axel.

[Pashi Myers]

All right, great. Well, these are the youngest Myers boys. There is a younger Myers girl, but she's not here with us on this trip. This is just a boys trip. But what's the rule about the boys trip?

[Ash Myers]

A old girl could be a young boy.

[Pashi Myers]

An old girl can be a young boy.

[Ash Myers]

That's hurry. An old girl.

[Seth Myers]

What? All right, all right.

[Pashi Myers]

Well, that's nice.

[Seth Myers]

This is how we realized it could be a boys weekend, is that an old girl can be a young boy.

[Pashi Myers]

So what was your first thought? We'll start with you, Ash. When you heard that you were going.

[Ash Myers]

To Pittsburgh, I was excited and nervous at the same time.

[Pashi Myers]

What were you nervous about?

[Ash Myers]

It was my first football game and there was gonna be like a lot of people.

[Seth Myers]

Uh huh.

[Ash Myers]

But then my dad told me we were gonna be in a box and that made me kind of feel a little bit better.

[Pashi Myers]

Oh yeah, It's a really top shelf and it. Axel, what did you think when you heard you were going to Pittsburgh?

[Ash Myers]

I'm gonna be on the podcast. I'm so excited.

[Seth Myers]

Thank you for your enthusiasm.

[Pashi Myers]

There was a video of. Of you guys finding out you were coming to.

[Listener Kimberly]

Yeah.

[Seth Myers]

How did you find out you were coming?

[Ash Myers]

These were these little envelopes that like gave us surprises and.

[Seth Myers]

And then who's sent the envelope?

[Ash Myers]

Panchayeri. Well, him and her. Yeah, the young man.

[Pashi Myers]

So Panchayeri and Ponka hurry sent you guys envelopes that you had to open in a certain order and eventually the end of it. You heard you were going to see a Steeler game.

[Ash Myers]

Yes.

[Larry Myers]

What was in the last envelope?

[Ash Myers]

Oh, Tailboat Towers.

[Larry Myers]

That's right. But you have to have those to go to a Steeler game. That's right.

[Ash Myers]

I already have.

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Myers]

So now you have a new one. You brought two terrible towels, right?

[Ash Myers]

Yes. We forgot my other one. It's like an American flag.

[Pashi Myers]

Yeah.

[Ash Myers]

Last question.

[Hillary Myers]

Fair.

[Seth Myers]

Fair.

[Pashi Myers]

That's fair. All right, Diane, that was a good question. We Appreciate it, but we're moving on to Alba's. What if you could have any food at Thanksgiving, what would it be?

[Ash Myers]

Sushi. That looks like a turkey. All right, I have another one of those big turkey cupcakes.

[Seth Myers]

Oh, the turkey cupcake came up earlier.

[Larry Myers]

Yeah, we talked about that.

[Seth Myers]

Axel, can you say real quick what happened when you went to the bakery with Pontieri? Come a little bit closer and tell us. So did Pontieri say you could have one thing?

[Ash Myers]

He said I could have one thing. And first I wanted a scone, then I wanted a pumpkin cupcake, then I wanted the turkey one. And I sung a song and said, turkey, turkey, turkey, I'm gonna eat you. Turkey, turkey, turkey. Yum, yum, yum.

[Seth Myers]

Very hard to say no to somebody who sings a song that good.

[Pashi Myers]

I will say he was singing that song when he walked in. So they walked to the bakery, and. I don't know. Did he sing it the whole time?

[Larry Myers]

Every inch of the way back.

[Seth Myers]

What about you, Ash? What's your dream Thanksgiving food?

[Ash Myers]

I just said it. The turkey cupboard.

[Seth Myers]

Oh, the turkey cup.

[Pashi Myers]

Axel wanted the sushi that's shaped like a turkey.

[Seth Myers]

Yeah. What would be in the sushi shape like a turkey?

[Ash Myers]

Avocado, cucumber.

[Seth Myers]

Okay, great.

[Larry Myers]

That's good.

[Pashi Myers]

Lovely. Well, we're so excited to go to this game with you guys and so excited to be here in Pittsburgh with you. It is a true family trip.

[Seth Myers]

I have a real quick question, Axel. Can you tell the story about when you were in New Mexico and saw a rattlesnake?

[Ash Myers]

I would love to. Okay, silencio.

[Seth Myers]

Silencio. Okay, go ahead.

[Ash Myers]

Once upon a time, I went to a desert, and I heard about these caves.

[Larry Myers]

So.

[Ash Myers]

And I was the first one to go there. And I sat down in the middle of the cave, and I looked next to me, and I saw a rattlesnake. And a rattlesnake was inching towards me, so I ran out and said, rattlesnake. Oh, wait, wait, wait. I had just climbed, like, a huge rock, like 15 of these tall, and when I heard. I heard it from up there, and I was like, oh, no.

[Seth Myers]

You heard Axel scream rattlesnake?

[Ash Myers]

Yeah.

[Seth Myers]

Okay.

[Ash Myers]

So I immediately started climbing down, and Agnes was halfway up, and I passed her and was like, get down.

[Seth Myers]

Agnes is their niece or my niece, their cousin. And so. And now the rattlesnake is totally fine, right?

[Ash Myers]

Yes. But then.

[Seth Myers]

Wait, is the rattlesnake fine?

[Ash Myers]

No.

[Seth Myers]

Okay, so what happened to the rattlesnake?

[Ash Myers]

So a cowboy cut off the rattle, and I Kept it.

[Seth Myers]

Okay. And the rattlesnake lived.

[Ash Myers]

No. And the cowboy killed it with a.

[Seth Myers]

Okay.

[Ash Myers]

I shared about the rattlesnake. I shared about the rattlesnake at my school, in my class in third grade last year. And my whole class was chanting, shake it, shake it, shake it. Because I brought the rattle.

[Seth Myers]

My last question for you, Axel, is, do you remember the time when you were a baby and we were going to Uruguay and I was so tired?

[Ash Myers]

Yes.

[Seth Myers]

So tell them that story.

[Ash Myers]

So my dad was so tired and he was pushing a stroller and he looks down at it and he said, where's Axel? And my mom, Alexi, said, you're holding him.

[Seth Myers]

I was so tired. I didn't even know you were in my arms. I just looked down and saw an empty stroller. Right? Yes. Axel, do you think you're a good traveler?

[Ash Myers]

So. So can I go back to watching? Can I see?

[Seth Myers]

They can't see it. Well, they can see a little bit.

[Ash Myers]

Over there, but this is a teeny mate.

[Seth Myers]

Oh, boy. Nobody cares about that. All right, so guys, can you come over and. Well, first of all, can Axel, can you sing the Here we Go Steelers song?

[Ash Myers]

Here we go, Steelers. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go.

[Seth Myers]

All right, thank you boys for joining the podcast.

[Ash Myers]

Oh, and by the way, we're watching kicking and Screaming.

[Seth Myers]

Okay, great, great. Shout out. Kicking screaming. Make sure to catch. In theaters November 2004.

[Pashi Myers]

Thanks, everybody.

[Hillary Myers]

Thanks for listening, everybody.

[Larry Myers]

Happy Thanksgiving.

[Seth Myers]

Here we go, Steelers.

[Larry Myers]

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.

[Narrator Summary]

It was a Manhattan Thanksgiving complete with all the fixings. Kimberly was done to have no oven. Where would they cook the turkey? Brother in the in dapper garments went to their cousin's apartment, let the turkey roast sent up bourbon toast. He cooked the turkey by himself. Was a tricky situation because he needed transportation Flagged a taxi down to take him uptown. He brought the turkey by himself. Melissa's family was in her husband was deboning a turkey day had cooked before they went to look at a local driver light show. They were out a little while and the carcass was up high on the island. But when they returned, the bones were in a pile. The dog had pulled it down, hadn't really gone to tear out But I have my doubts that he held out. How could he resist the smells?

[Seth Myers]

Uh uh oh.

[Narrator Summary]

Resist the smells. How could you tell? Oh, our heart goes out to J Ames who hopped up for to play to meet the boyfriend's dad. Couldn't be that bad. He got a boat for the whole day. It was a six hour trip right away was feeling sick, saw a burrito, said that's a no. Had to get back to the hotel. The boyfriend had to help change his talking to themselves. So if it's Thanksgiving and you go fishing? You're having dizzy spells and you're not feeling well. If you hallucinate, you think you're losing it. Time to listen to Fan buddy trips, Fan motherly trips. Fan buddy trips, Fan buddy trips. Fan buddy trips, trips, trips, trips, trips, trips, trips, trips, trips, trips, trips, trips, trips, trips, trips.

[Seth Myers]

Sam.