Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - AMY RYAN Loved a KREE-MEE

Episode Date: September 10, 2024

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This episode is brought to you by Airbnb. Here we go. Hi, Bashe. Hi, Sufi. We ate it pretty hard the other day. Yeah, but I don't know. It was in the fly. We did.

You know, we said the Fosters were our first siblings, Erin and Sarah, and we forgot the Himes sisters. Maybe it's because there were just three of them. I think it was because there were three of them. I was just trying to think of pairs of siblings. Yeah, I also, I mean, I guess this is an excuse, but I have a terrible memory. Yeah, I do too.

So, you don't. I feel like you deserve more blame for this than I do. I feel like everyone would expect me to forget and you would be like, oh, no, no, no, this happened. You know, here's, I have a good memory for something. I'm almost certain a minute ago, I told my son Axel that I needed 10 minutes. Yeah, Axel.

We'll talk if you're gonna talk, be here, talk. Say something. Yes, yes, I'm here. You don't have to talk that loud, Axel. If you wanna be here, you have to say something interesting. Okay. All right, Axel, this is a,

we're talking about family vacations. Tell Tasha. Are you talking about the wedding? No, we're not talking. Oh, you want, are you excited to go to Pashi's wedding? Yeah. What are you gonna do there? I don't know.

You gonna dance? How many teeth are you gonna do there? I don't know. You gonna dance? How many teeth are you missing right now? One. Just one? It looks like it's a big one. It looks like it's a significant tooth that you're missing. No, there's a big gap already. Oh yeah.

Well, your father once had 11 teeth pulled out of his mouth at one time when he was getting his braces on. All of them. I had like, I had what's known as a shark's mouth. Do you look scary? I did look scary. How scary, like this?

Yeah, scarier than that even. That's pretty scary. I don't know if he than that even. That's pretty scary. I don't know if he looked that scary. That was Axel, everybody. So yeah, so we blew it on first siblings. We just shouldn't even say that anymore. Now that we know we've had married couples, we blew that for the record. when we said first married couple,

we were wrong about that. We said first siblings. We just shouldn't even try to... We should stop, yeah. We should stop with no research in real time trying to make broad pronouncements about the podcast. Yeah, yeah, because also what's to be gained? Yeah, I'm pretty confident that's the first time

Axel has totally derailed an intro to one of our podcasts. I don't know. Yeah. I'm not willing to say. Yeah, I'm not willing to say either. So there's something I loved this week that I just wanna bring up. He's from our neck of the woods, a hero of ours.

Adam Sandler has a new Netflix special. Oh, I haven't watched it yet, but I'm excited about it. I, there was a part where I laughed so hard, Addie came into the room crying because she thought something was wrong with me. And that's really, that's a pinnacle comedy where you're just laughing so hard that a child thinks, you know, you're being attacked

or you're having some sort of respiratory attack. Yeah, I have not an entirely dissimilar thing, but my dog Woody, when I sneeze a lot and our father, huge sneezer, huge sneezer, I'm a big sneezer, big loud sneezer, but my dog Woody will cry when I sneeze. Really? Yeah, and just look at me like what is happening to you?

I'm gonna tell you what just happened to me. I can see out a window and I just removed Axel from the room and I locked the door and I just saw Axel from the room and I locked the door. And I just saw him run by the window. And then I saw him run back by with a pair of pliers. Which means that right now I have a six-year-old, I know for a fact, is using a tool on a lock.

Probably damaging it pretty badly. Well, good luck with that. Yeah. The important thing is I'm the only parent. You know, I'm, there's not a second parent for these three children. Who could during my podcast keep them away from the tools. Well, that's the danger.

You guys, your stepfather lives next door there. And- Father-in-law, my father-in-law. Father-in-law, father-in-law. Yeah. And that guy's got some tools laying around and likes to show the kids how to use them. So now they're probably just dipping into his kit.

I do at this moment feel as though I'm trying to finish a podcast. It would be like if Shelley Duvall's character in The Shining was doing a podcast in the bathroom while Jack Nicholson was axing the door down. And by that I mean, while I'm keeping my cool, I do feel as though it's best right now for us to transition into the episode.

Sure. Which we recorded earlier at a simpler time. Yeah, we sure did with someone that we both love, been big fans of for a long, long time. Yeah, her name's Amy Ryan. She has a lot of names, but Amy Ryan's the one you know her best as. And now, I'm having a real, I'm having a mental breakdown right now.

He's now screaming outside the window and he has a hose. And now he's spraying water against the window. Maybe we should just get to the episode, too. Let's get to the episode. And you know what, Jeff Tweedy, calm me down. Family trips with the Myers Brothers. Family trips with the Myers Brothers. Here we go. Hello. Hi there. Hey, Seth. That is good.

Here we go. Hello. Hi there. Hi, Seth. How are you? Hi, Josh. Good. Thanks for having me on.

No, thanks for joining us. Wonderful to see you. Same here. I'm so sorry I won't get to see you in person next week. Oh, it's totally fine. Are you East Coast or West Coast right now? East. Good.

You're one of our favorite East Coast actors. I don't feel good when you're in LA. And I'm gonna venture you don't feel good when you're in LA. I am not my best self when I'm in LA. Same here. I'm better in my skin over here. Josh thrives as a West Coaster. I'm better in my skin over here. Josh thrives as a West coaster. So it's not-

I do. I feel like I thrive anywhere that I am, but- Oh, what's your secret? I don't know. Just- Or not a secret. What have you published about this? Yeah, I've published nothing, but I don't know.

I just try to make the best of whatever situation I'm in, but I do enjoy Los Angeles. I'm not, I've never. You were raised well. Yeah. I don't know about you. Raised in the woods of New Hampshire, so. Oh, there you go.

And you're Queens. You grew up in Queens, Amy? I grew up in Queens, but I also feel like I grew up not far from you guys because I spent every summer in southern Vermont. My mom and dad would drop us off at my aunt's house and we got to run free for the entire summer. So this is fascinating.

They said they wouldn't spend the summer at your aunt's house. They just dropped you off. Yeah, because they worked. My parents both worked nine to five. I don't know, they didn't have much time off. So it was like the sprinkler on our six by eight inch lawn, six foot by eight foot lawn, or our neighbors above ground,

which was pretty fantastic. Figure eight, aluminum sided pool. Wow. That every kid in the neighborhood swam in. Yeah. That was summer or go to Vermont. So Vermont seemed a better choice. And it was you and two older sisters?

Two older sisters, yeah. And so the three of you, and with this, you would all pack into a car? We'd pack into my parents' Lincoln Continental. Ooh, we had a Lincoln Continental. Fancy, right? Yeah, I thought it was like two couches. Lincoln Continental was like what I thought,

that's what I thought wealth looked like. Same. Same, it was fancy and no seat belts of course because that was the 1970s and but lots of room and yeah we would we would be we'd ride up to Vermont four hours felt like it took forever and then summer started. That's amazing and were you all equally excited about this trip, you and your sisters? Oh, for sure. Yeah. Because, you know, yeah, they had horses, they had dogs, they had chickens. And then when we were teenagers, my aunt and uncle bought the local Creamy Stand. Oh, God.

And so there were fast food burgers and soft-serve ice cream, and we all worked there. And so there were fast food burgers and soft served ice cream and we all worked there. And so it was, you know, we really, we really thought we hit it big up there. Is that still in the family, that creamy stand? No, everyone's gone from Vermont. I think it's a gas station now. It's so sad. My fiance is from Western Massachusetts and I had never heard the term creamy until I started going there.

I find it very disconcerting. I don't think I, so I didn't, so I was thinking Creamy Stan was a branding, but that is just a type of ice cream place. It's soft serve. It's soft serve and it's, you know, I hate, I don't like when places advertise and they misspell on purpose. Cars for kids drives me crazy. It drives everyone crazy. That's part of the idea.

And I don't know if creamy is a real word, but it was spelled K-R-E-E-M-E-E. That's incredible. What? Why. Is that a real word? I mean, yeah, no. I don't know, but I don't know if it's spelled with a C is a real word either, so. Do you think the hope there is that kids will, kids who are learning to read will know how to say creamy if it's that spelling earlier than if it has the Y?

Because I feel like the branding is like, you want your kids to scream creamy and then you may force it. Or it's yeah, creamy. Yeah. Creamy, I don't know. Cream-eye, I feel like the kids said that. Yeah, that's no good.

Perhaps, perhaps, but. That seems like a, so, course of the summer, if you spend a whole summer working at a creamy stand, I'm assuming you're having a fair share of soft serve yourself. Are you sick of it by the end of the summer? You're sick of it, yeah. Yeah, you're sick of it and you've, you know,

you put on 10 pounds as a teenager and a face full of zits and then you go back home to school. They say the problem is the end of the summer, they can't get you out the door of the creamy stand. Did you work there as well? I worked there. It's actually the only other job I've had other than being an actor.

Which were you, which was your calling? Oh, you did both. You did both. It depended what customer, someone would pull up and they'd go to the ice cream window or they'd go to the burger window. Gotcha. So you know, left or right, left or right, what's it going to be? Yeah, we all worked there. It was fun.

What's the age gap with you and your sisters? I'm the youngest of the three of us and my middle sister's three years older and my other sister's five years older. Then our cousins align in the same ages as well. That's a pretty big gap. Did you guys get along well? I think with three, the triangle keeps shifting.

There's a time when you in the middle are closer in interests, and then I got kicked to the side as my middle sister was more of a teenager and hung out with my older sister. But now it's all leveled out. In our 50s, it all levels out. Was there ever a time when the middle sister was left out and you and the eldest were tighter?

That's a good question. No, I feel like she was always the connective tissue. Yeah. I mean, the middle has to get something. That's funny. You do, at some point you're like, I am, yeah. Being a connective tissue is underrated as a nice thing for a middle to have. Yeah. Our time in Vermont was, you know, we were left kind of room free, but that really

wasn't our vacation. Vacation time was, and maybe because we had to work, we worked at the Kremie, but we would go, we would go, my mom, I'm kind of jumping, so sorry, forgive me if I shouldn't be doing this. My mom was a nurse and she wanted to travel. At one point in her life, she thought she'd be a flight attendant, but you couldn't be married and have kids then,

which is an insane rule back then. So my mom took her nursing degree and applied to American Airlines at LaGuardia Airport where there's a little infirmary. I think it's still there. It was just for pilots and other American Airlines staff. But that would give her a travel allowance. And she could take a family of five, plus her parents who live nearby,

and we'd go to the Caribbean or Mexico every spring break from school. But this time always fell over my birthday. And so I was always irate that I couldn't stay home and Queen's have a birthday party. My 10 year old self is like, why are we going to St. Croix? Why are we going to Bermuda? But it would cost, I asked my mother recently, she said it only costs 20 bucks per person.

Wow. And she did this specifically, she was thinking ahead of the game, I will be a LaGuardia nurse for the purposes of these travel vouchers. I think, well, I think she did enjoy nursing very much, but that was definitely a job perk that was a total win for her.

So she loved to travel. So, you know, she would take off when she could, but when it was a family affair, we would go and get sunburned beyond belief with our, you know, bandesalé number four, I think it was. Yeah. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support for Family Trips comes from DraftKings. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors.

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And does he regret that? Is he mourning friends? So mad. So mad. So do you celebrate his birthday a week later? No, we tell him if it didn't happen during school, it doesn't count. It just doesn't go away.

He's still zero years old. So you know that's fair. Yeah, he's still zero years old. Or you're going to have to bring the friends with him. That'll be the next one. So when you guys would go to the Caribbean, would all the girls share a room? Oh, I think the whole family shared a room. It wasn't that much of a perk of a job.

It's like $20 for the flight, and then on the rooms, we're gonna try to make $20 as well. There's two beds we could fit. Yeah, I'm sure it's the three of us and maybe my grandparents. But I remember this one place we went to, I think it's still in operation, but I saw it, talk about like feeling fancy

with the Lincoln Continental. We stayed at this hotel in Mexico, in Acapulco, called the Princess Hotel. And there was this giant pool, or so it felt giant when I was a kid, and you swam through a waterfall. Oh, yeah. And then on the other side of the waterfall was a bar. It was like a bar with stone stools and they were somehow on dry land, which always blew my mind. I couldn't figure out how that was possible.

But we would swim through and you'd just order Coca-Cola's all day long. And honestly, I don't think we ever got out of that pool, but I know we were hopped up on a lot of soda, so I'm sure us along with every other child in that pool... Right, exactly. ...was, you know, peeing away. But that was such a spectacular place, and I wonder what my daughter would think of it now,

going back, or, you know, if it is as magical as I thought it was. I do love just the design that goes into making something like that and realizing that so many people from places like Queens or anywhere where there are no waterfalls, loves the idea of going under one to a bar, and that that will be the thing that they will take away from a trip. And it's just really lovely.

Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah. That it's that innovation. And that's something you show off when you go home. Not, yeah, you're right. Not the culture and not the different food you ate, but that you can get a Coca-Cola while swimming. You never have to get out of your bathing suit and dry off to go get a Coca-Cola.

Oh my God, yeah. Were you mostly pool people when you went on these trips or were the beaches also a draw? I would, both, but to this day, I look at the ocean and I go in ankle deep or maybe knee deep because my ocean experience as a kid going through the washer, tumble dry. We had swimming lessons in Vermont, but nothing prepares you for an ocean.

As a kid, you just think, you just dive right in. You pay the price. But I was turned upside down. So I'm pretty, I like to say I'm respectful of the ocean and that's my way of hiding the word that I'm terrified of the ocean. So I respect Mother Nature's ocean, so I'm going to stand back here and marvel in her awe. Yeah. No, I'm not, I'm not, I like a good calm Caribbean sea.

I like pools. Yeah. A lake. I like lakes. I would assume Vermont was probably pretty lake-forward. Lake-forward, cold, but clean. And you can't see the bottom, but still, you know, there aren't sharks there. No sharks in the lake.

Which parents would come, was it your mom's or your dad's parents that would join you guys? My mom's parents. My mom's parents lived five blocks from us. So we would see them more often than my dad's parents, who also lived in Queens, but they were further out. We would see them more often than my dad's parents who also lived in Queens, but they were further out. Were they, as you got older, was that just a house you would be able to stroll over to on your own? Yes. Well, we would go once a week for dinner,

and it was on the way home, walking home from school, so you'd stop into grandma and grandpa's. and my grandparents. And it was, yeah, it was a very, it was, my grandparents were both really fun. Their basement was, again, these, you know, well, look, it's these bars, oh my God. Suddenly, I hear a theme coming into my,

my parents, my grandparents' basement, they refinish it in all this wood paneling. They had a pool table. They had rattan furniture. They had a bar. It would look amazing in some 1950s retro magazine, a photo shoot of it. So it was, so we would go there and play pool, just kind of play in the basement. There was darts, things like that. So they were a big social outgoing. I am set a grand fan. Yeah, how to say.

I feel, I'm gonna guess this was, you know, sounds like maybe a middle-class family. Is that a fair guess to guess this was, you know, sounds like maybe a middle class family. Is that a fair guess to say? Yeah, definitely. Yeah. I think if you have a bar in your basement, you're living like a king. It is just royalty. And I feel like you've, I just feel like you've hacked the code.

And I recently was doing a show in New Mexico and a friend of mine lives in Santa Fe from college. And I went over to his house afterwards and he had a show in New Mexico, and a friend of mine lives in Santa Fe from college. And I went over to his house afterwards and he had a bar in his basement. And I just thought, this is nicer than the Ritz-Carlton. Like to be in a basement with a bar is just the best. A basement and a bar. And I don't know where my grandparents came up with that,

because I don't even think they were big drinkers. I think, I know my grandmother was happy to have her youngest son and his friends. This is, you know, This is the 60s. She wanted them in the basement doing whatever they were doing. And I don't know what she was really looking out and observing and taking care of,

but just knowing it was somehow contained. But they would also, I feel like my mother, my mother's, I mean, she was in her 20s and certainly my grandparents, they would dress up a lot to go out to dinner. You see those old photographs from like a souvenir photo from the restaurant. But they would dress up to go to the basement. There are photos of my grandparents, like, done up.

I mean, that's a marvel to me, but they just took me out of pride in their appearance. And did their hair. It's so funny to think of a parent saying, you're going to the basement dressed like that. Yeah. Would they have friends over and entertain? Like would it be like a couple couples are coming over?

They would have, yeah, there were parties. There were, I'm just, cause I see photographs, you know, on like family albums, there are, you know, Halloween parties and all, you know, costumed parties. But when we went over for, funny, when we would go over to her house for like a Christmas or something, I don't think we went to the basement though. Suddenly that was now family time and we're in the little living room sitting next to the tree.

I don't have memories of just family events in the basement. Did you ever, when you became of drinking age or whenever you maybe started drinking, I started before you were allowed to, but would you have friends and bring them over to your grandparents basement or was that sort of that would be crossing a line? No, I definitely didn't do that. I did have in the fifth grade, I had a dance party, which, and then the winner got a 45.

I handed out a 45. I mean, how, how? I feel like for our maybe younger listeners, that's an album, which sounds more like, in this day and age, it sounds more like you gave someone a handgun. That's an album which sounds more like, in this day and age, it sounds more like you gave someone a handgun. Or like, was it Cult 45?

Yeah, right. Yeah, I gave them a, oh my God, yeah. It was a record that played two songs, two sides, two songs, but that was the prize. I think I was host and judge of the dance party. As is only fair. Yeah. It's your grandparents bar.

You get to make the rules. Yeah. So Ryan is not your last name. No. Can you pronounce it for me? Because I'm looking at it and I can see why you switched it to Ryan, for the purposes of being an actor.

Yeah. It's Jiewinkowski. Okay. But I met someone once whose grandmother was Polish and they said, tell my grandma your last name. And I said, Jiewinkowski. She says, no, Jiewionkowski. I'm like, well, sure.

I find Polish names when you look at them written out, you're like, well, sure. I find Polish names when you look at them written out, you're like, this is gonna take forever to say, and then someone says it and it's like, oh no, it actually, it comes right out. Yeah, I had someone once say to me, they go, you need to get your ass on Wheel of Fortune and buy yourself a vowel.

It's all consonants, all consonants. It's almost like Polish is existing to just make a home for all the lesser used consonants. I think so. That and lesser used deli meats, kabosy, of parodied kabosy. Was it a, but I guess that's your dad's side. Was your mom's side?

My dad, yeah, my dad's side, my dad is, we had some doozy of names. My dad is Polish and Irish. His grandmother was a hussy, so I guess I could say my grandmother was a hussy. Yep, technically. Technically. And my mother's side is Irish and English. They came from the Isle of Man, London. Oh, great. Did you, was, how did you land on Ryan? Ryan is my mother's name. So great, now you know my banking code. This is really excellent. This is really excellent. Yeah. Now, I knew I didn't want to,

it felt odd to me. We had names like, because our name was so impossible growing up, but I'm the third of two older sisters, so my time going through school, the teachers knew my name by then. That was no problem. But on our block growing up, everyone teachers knew my name by then. So that was no problem. But

on our block growing up, everyone knew our long name, but nobody wanted to deal with that. And so my dad just picked a new name for us. We were known as the Parkers. I'm Amy Parker. I'm Amy Parker to a large group of people. I'm Amy Jimichalski to schoolmates. I'm Amy Ryan as an actor. And I'm Amy Slovin, you know, my husband, Eric Slovin. Yes, yeah. So I have many alter egos going. That's really, so the Parker, when was the decision made? Like how old were you when he decided we were gonna be the Parkers?

He had an aunt that he really loved and her last name was Parker and he just took that. I was, you know, as young as I can remember walking and talking. We were both. Wow. We were both, yeah. I guess it helps as an actor, probably helps to have like at an early age be basically presenting as three different people.

Exactly. Just trying it all. You did know young that this is what you wanted to do. Did your parents see it in you and support it? I knew young. I didn't know what it was, but I knew I liked, well, probably just getting attention at the dinner table,

making everybody laugh or, and yeah, they were. My mother was really supportive. She liked theater and she liked going to dance class herself. But we didn't have any reference for it growing up. There was no one else in our family or our neighborhood who did it. There were a few along the way, like my sixth grade teacher went to the high school performing arts when she

was a kid. So I started hearing things along the way of my mother as well. So they didn't certainly push me into it. They didn't pull me from it. They were just like, okay, let's see how this goes. So after my career at the Creamy, that wasn't going to take off. Would you ever go into the city and see shows? Oh, yeah, all the time. We'd go to the TKTS booth and we'd see mostly musicals, which I liked,

but I knew I had no place there even as a young kid. I was like, I can't do that. But I don't know, something connected there, something, it was kind of, it's hard to understand, but I knew I didn't want to do anything else. So that's what I, that's what when I'm asked now, younger people say, you know, they want to do this. I'm like, well, what else can you think of you might be good at?

You know, if anything else, do that. And if not, try this. I don't discourage people because I'm so grateful I wasn't discouraged. Every once in a while, do you ever, maybe younger or two, earlier in your career when you weren't recognized, I would be on a flight somewhere and maybe I was flying business or first class because I had a job suddenly and I'd ultimately be stuck next to some business guy who would, oh, what do you do? You're an actor. Immediately, they would say, oh,

that's such a tough job. That's such a tough industry. Everything was so negative about it. Yeah. I would just say, whether it was true or not at the time, I was like, oh no, I got to tell you, it's great. I said, I get to travel. I make a lot of money.

I meet interesting people. I like, you know, and these are times I'm dead broke, I have no job, but I was like, fuck you. Don't tell me this is the worst thing in the world. What are you doing? You're flying Ohio. It's so true. You would never, you would never say to someone,

like, I'm in finance. You would never be like, oh, tough job. Tough job. It seems like a lot of numbers. All that cocaine. All those hot women trying to date you. Oh, it must be terrible for you. Yeah, so I always enjoyed like, you know,

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Like Greece is a family affair. Sure. Yeah. You know, Doug Henning, the magic show, it's a family affair. Ha ha ha. Chorus line, that was for me. I loved that. So it was, it was, it was, it was a little haphazard but it wasn't you

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You know, the Pittsburgh Steelers schedule comes out and we just immediately, you, me, mom, dad, start trying to find our weekend. Yeah, we look in that calendar and then, yeah, we sort of throw our marker down. And then once we throw our marker down, our next stop is Airbnb because we, last year, famously all stayed together under one roof

in a wonderful home in Pittsburgh. Years before we'd done hotels and it just was such a nicer way to do it. Yeah, it's nice to wake up, come downstairs, make a pot of coffee and then have mom and dad roll out and have that coffee ready. Have some bagels. Just be able to sit around and have breakfast and feel almost like it would feel if we were in our own home. And you know what we had that was really special? We had a porch swing. Uh-huh. We took photos in a porch swing. Yeah.

Can I say something? Every one of them worse than the last. And I will say porch swings are wonderful. They take worse photos than you think. I think porch swings are good to take photos of children. I think for adults, it's just all thigh. Hmm, yeah. You know what I mean? It was a real meaty, like a lot of meaty thighs in that photo. I think I was standing off to the side.

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But my mother, she took my sister to Rome when she was 13. And again, I just like these images of my, you know, in the photo album with the plastic sheet over it, you know, protecting the, but yeah, she took my older sister. No, we were strictly, you know, strictly Caribbean. Do you, you and Eric, and I should note, your husband Eric Slov.

I was lucky enough to work with Eric at SNL. He's wonderful. And please give him my love. But do you guys travel as a family well? The three of you? Do we travel well? Yeah. Yeah, Eric is amazing at the planning of trips.

Oh, he's the planner. He's the planner. He's the deep dive internet guy on where to stay, what to see, what to do. So I happily let him take that lead and sometimes we'll travel through work and then we'll tack on stuff like something after that. But he's amazing at that.

He's really good. And you're comfortable sort of turning it all over or you presented a list of options? No, he'll run stuff by me, but I trust his taste. He's got really good taste. And I'm so happy for him to take that over. Teenage daughter. So my question is, have does she still like hanging out with you guys?

If you take a trip? Yeah, she does. You know, we, we just, we just have one. And I think, I think we get along really well. I mean, she's still, sometimes we'll take friends or her cousins with us. We did a trip out west riding horses and one of my nieces came along. But she still likes us, I think. I think she thinks we're kind of cool, but we're definitely annoying, that's for sure. I think every parent's annoying and not all parents are cool.

So I think in the end, that's a win. Yeah. Then definitely we're on track. We're on track. She's a great traveler. She does an adventure camp every year and the destinations are getting more and more, you know, longer trips, like she wants to go to South Africa next summer and this summer she just, she got back from Belize and Costa Rica. I was like, this is, this is not Vermont. She's having, she's having a great childhood so far, I think, in terms of, she's... How long is adventure camp? How long do you go? She only goes for a couple of weeks.

The next day, and as you get older, maybe goes edges into like three weeks, but she loves traveling. She's not afraid to fly. She likes meeting new people and being outside her school world. And so that's amazing. I don't think I had that at her age, that curiosity, but I also had a built-in,

you know, sisters, cousins, kids on the block, you know, playing. That, even though we live in the city, we don't have that old world of go out and play, you know, come home at dinner. So she's with us a lot, but she's also, So she's with us a lot, but she's also, you know, has these other worlds of travel and then school friends and she plays sports, so she's got that group. Yeah, when you take a horseback riding trip out west, my fiance is like, that's what she does professionally is ride horses. And I always think like it would be good to do a trip like this, but I would worry about my physical, like getting on a bike two days in a row when you're not riding a bike can be painful. Like, so when you go on a horse trip, how is it getting on a horse the second day? Yeah. You're definitely walking funny. Yeah, we did a few years out Montana, this kind of family camp is, I mean, it's so staggeringly beautiful out there. And again, in Georgia, she rode horses, she had more experience than me or Eric, and she wasn't afraid. So she'd be off in the faster group.

Eric and I would do like the walk trot. Walk trot club. And she was off with the younger kids, you know, galloping or something. Do they just kind of clock you when you walk into the ranch? Do they like, cause I will say I love Eric, but Eric, the first time I laid eyes on him, I would have said, you're a walker trot.

I think trot's your ceiling. Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. Eric, I could ask him. He's in the kitchen. I hear him. He's a walker. He does not look or sound like he came from horse people. He did not come from horse people.

But one thing I think is a nice surprise about Eric is that he's very athletic. Yes, he is. He is a really good athlete. And so he can navigate that horse pretty well. I think there's a, he's actually, there's a kind of New York guy that he is, that I feel like he grew up in an area

where there was a lot of like sports outside, like that neighborhood thing you were talking about. Yeah. And they're guys that are surprisingly better at things like basketball and baseball. Baseball was his thing. They present, yeah. Yeah, did you guys play sports growing up?

Yeah, but like, I think like suburban little league where it was already like, the bar of entry was so low that you kind of feel like, yeah, I played baseball and then you like actually play with people who are good at baseball and you realize. Yeah, I played JV baseball and then when it came time to maybe move up to varsity, it was like, oh no, this isn't gonna happen for you.

You know when your parents would talk about things like, oh, I had to walk five miles to school, and you know, uphill in the snow to get to school both ways, or one of those stories. Eric's version of that is when we were driving anywhere throughout the city, especially up the West Side Highway, he's like, I played baseball there, my team played there, but there was no grass. It's all there was no grass. It's all, there was no grass. It was full of rocks, it was full of needles. And it was, you know, that's his survival,

five feet of snow. But he did, he would play all over the city, because his high school team, but he loved baseball, loved it. I think there's that thing, like you have to really love, to play baseball in New York City, you have to really love it. Whereas like to play baseball in the suburbs,

it's so easy. Like your parents drive you, you go to a field, well-manicured, you play to pick you up. Whereas like, again, he had to go to like Needle Park. He's gonna really love baseball. He got mugged going and coming. Right. Took his lunch.

You had to keep a dollar in your cleat. You know, just cause you got mugged. Exactly. I think his father, I You had to keep a dollar in your cleat. You know, just cause you got mugged. Exactly. I think his father, I told him to always have like extra money in case you get mugged. It's so, that thing of when people, you know, cause you know, obviously like the national news will do it too, but it's like, you know,

New York's very unsafe right now. And like, I'm like, literally everyone I know who grew up here is like, we used to like have two wallets. I'm like... Oh, my God. When I got out of high school and I started going on auditions in 1986 and down to Playwrights Horizons and I was so excited to audition for a play

and I had to walk down 42nd Street and, you know, sick of the crack epidemic. You know, it was scary. It was so scary, you know, thick of the crack epidemic. It was scary, it was so scary. I mean, I also find it kind of equally as frightening because it's so crowded now, like what's worse? Like, you know, but yeah. And so you were how, so how old were you when you got your first big job?

Because you went to performing arts high school, right? I went to performing arts, which is now LaGuardia. I was 18. It was a few months after graduation. I started working mostly in theater, theater and all those beginning years. Then that was that. I was hooked. I was going to go to, I was enrolled in NYU and I got that job of

Biloxi Blues, Neil Simon play. And then I just never went back to school. Someday, maybe I will. Plenty of time. Someday, maybe I will. Plenty of time. This is our parents, which they were really great, because again, we grew up in New Hampshire, but they would bring us to Boston to see shows. And I remember seeing the trilogy of Brighton Beach memoirs. And then I think we came to New York to see Biloxi Blues.

And it was so exciting how they kept us interested in that sort of thing. Obviously, both professionally but just as an audience was so exciting. Yeah, Boston's a great town for theater and obviously music. Yeah, and seeing things before they go to Broadway was so exciting. Yeah. Did you guys grow up in a rural area or were you in a town? Yeah, pretty rural. I'm gonna say our town is now 30,000 people, something like that, but it wasn't that at the time. So, I mean, it wasn't tiny, tiny, but it was woodsy and.

We were close to a farm. It wasn't our farm, but you know. We were a mile from a farm. Even near Lake Winnipeg? No, we're southern New Hampshire. Yeah, but yeah, we know all about it. To Lake Winnipeg people, we lived in a bustling metropolis. Yeah.

Wow, okay. Do you still travel with your sisters? Do you get together with your family? Do you guys do any family reunion kind of stuff? Or does Eric have siblings that you guys get together with? Not really, I mean, we do for holidays, but mostly here in Brooklyn, Thanksgiving and things like that.

My mother still travels. My mother right now, my mother's almost 83 years old and she's at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival right now. Get out of town! She's with her pal, Patti, and they're taking in some shows. That's amazing. Yeah, she's like, she's the one, she has a really serious travel blog. Now, is that her, is it her or Patti that picks the Edinburgh Fringe Festival?

Her, it's my mom. Wow. And she heard about it? Did she just? Yeah, yeah, she reads and she follows. What a fantastic thing to end up on her radar as an 83 year old. I know, I mean, I haven't been yet. Josh and I both performed at the Fringe back in the day.

I will say this, I hope it sounds like your mom is as Hale and Hardy because I will say Edinburgh is one of the hilliest places to walk around. Yeah, my mom is a cancer survivor not that long ago. She battled cancer last year and this is not like I can't say she's hardy but I would say she is just determined determined but optimistic and you know she's really just excited still by life and what she can do in it.

And so no Hill in Scotland's gonna stop her. That's fantastic. Is it her first trip to Edinburgh or is this a regular thing that she does? No, it's first. It's so great. Yeah. Oh man, I'm jealous.

Did you guys, did you enjoy as much as, did you have to like do that thing where you're, Eric told me this when he and Leo were there all the years ago, like you'd stand out all night long and try to get your audience in. Promote your own show. Yeah. Yeah. I imagine that's kind of almost as fun as performing it. It was... You know, this is a festival for...

I don't know, there's all these shows, all this stand-up, all this theater, and it's so much competition for audience that basically, even though people are all in town for the festival, everybody with a show stands with a handful of flyers about their show and just tries to self-promote. And it was just, for me, so devastating to say to people, no, it's definitely worth it. And then my fear would be I'd see their face

during the show that I was doing, and I'd register that they didn't think in the end it was worth it. That I lied to them. What's the smallest amount of attendance did you have? I feel like we kind of kicked ass with our ticket sales. Like we filled houses. We were though, we were part of this theater boom Chicago.

So we had like a bit of a promotion arm behind us. I'm like, I'm sure when Sloan and Alan were there, they were just, you know, a self run organization. And that was, I mean, I once did a show in Chicago for seven people and with me and my partner Jill, and five of them were blood relations. So, yeah. But we also are, the guy that ran the theater that we worked for,

is and was such a good salesman, and so he would sort of come up with a script that we would tell people on the street. And it would just work. He would say like, do you want to see a five-star show if we had like a review already from the Scotsman and we could show them that. We would have tickets on us that a lot of shows would say like go to the box office, but we would buy tickets and then sell them to people on the street,

which I don't know if you were supposed to be doing, but it all comes out in the wash. And- You guys are the creative scalpers there. Yeah. And he would say like, do you want to see a great show? Like, if you like it, you can buy me a beer. If you don't like it, I'll buy you a beer.

Which sort of would stop people because everyone wanted a beer. And his argument too is that no one will actually collect on that. No one will actually say after a show, I didn't like it, buy me a beer. My mom's probably collecting on that now. Yeah.

The Myers brothers told me I could get a beer. Yeah. I didn't like your show. I didn't like it. And I want a beer. Well, I hope she has a wonderful time. Good honor for getting out there. It's a good reminder that age should not be a barrier Well, I hope she has a wonderful time. Good honor for getting out there. It's a good reminder that age should not be a barrier

to seeing new and cool things. Absolutely. By the way, very excited that you're finally working with Clooney and Pitt, the three of you. I figure if, you know, this whole, I feel like the whole, there's such a shift going on in film and TV world. So if this is my last hurrah. It will not be your last hurrah.

But I will say the trailer, the movie is called Wolfs. The trailer looks really delightful. I hope it was fun to make. It was so much fun to make. It's a funny, tightly woven script. I expertly put together John Watts, our director, writer is amazing. And he did those two, I think two terrific Spider-Man films.

Spider-Man and this really beautiful independent film he did starring Kevin Bacon called Cop Car, which really recommended. Oh, I saw Cop Car. Yeah. Yeah, it's great. Yeah. And so, yeah, we had a blast making this film, shot primarily in New York City and, and yeah, puts those two gentlemen back together and they know what they're doing. How happy are you, how happy are you when it's a New York movie?

I'm thrilled. And I'll tell you a funny thing, though. All my stuff are interior scenes, and I got flown to LA. I'm sorry. I know. A costume designer also lives in New York and she texted me, she's like, we're about to go to LA. Do you want me to do your fitting in New York so you don't have to come out sooner?

I was like, yeah, that's a dream. Thank you. Yeah. But I actually, I enjoyed, I enjoyed, when did you get to LA? Most of my friends have moved out there. So it's a great time to catch up with them. And then when the work is fun, I don't mind being there. Well, I can't wait to see it. We're going to let you go.

Thank you. But first, Josh has some questions for you that we ask everybody on the podcast. Okay. Some quick questions here. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous or educational? Relaxing. What is your favorite means of transportation?

Train, plane, automobile, boat, bike, walking? Train. Train. 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 trip with? The Brady Bunch.

Brady Bunch, great. Great. I don't know. No, that's excellent. Just because I wanna be on an episode. Yeah. I wanna eat beans out of a flashlight. If you had to be stranded on a desert island

with one member of your family, who would it be? It would not be Eric. And I say this all the time because he doesn't understand portion control. I like you ate all the blueberries. Why don't you add? It's definitely not Eric as much as I love him. I have a Eric story based on food.

Oh, sorry. It's more of a Will Forte story. But ask Eric later if he remembers this. Forte, Leo and Eric were working on a sketch. Probably The Falconer, which is a great SNL sketch that the three of them did. And Eric had ordered food, I think Chinese food, and it was taking forever to come. And he was complaining about how hungry he was and how long it was taking. And he kept checking with the interns,

and basically Forte and Leo told me he was just incessant how upset he was that the food was taking so long. And he was sitting at the computer, and then the food came, and the intern handed it, and Forte took it and walked right over to the window, opened the window, and dropped it out. And what floor are you on?

Yeah, what floor? The 17th floor. And there was a, it didn't, there was a, on the 11th floor, there was a landing. And it was late, so there was no fear that somebody would be out there. But he just, it was, yeah, it was a real, Forte would always raise the stakes higher than anybody.

Thought it was appropriate. But I just, I remember their impression of Eric after he dropped it out was one of my, made me laugh harder than anything, which was just, just could not believe that he complained for two hours about his food and then Forte dropped it out the window. All right, so no Eric.

So no Eric, so who do you wanna be on that desert island with? Oh gosh. Probably my mom. She'd figure a way off that island with us. Or she'd keep it fun, yeah. And you're from Queens, correct? Correct.

Would you recommend Queens as a vacation destination? Well, yes, to get to one of the airports in order to leave it for sure. That seems like a real, that seems like a real involvement. Yeah, no, there's such a, I'm from Flushing, Queens, so you have to like square your shoulders when you tell people, you know, it's a bad joke.

Like, you know, oh, did you ever hear of Flushing Queens? Yes, sounds like a good idea to me, you know. But, you know, I even looked up like, oh no, it's actually Vlissingen, which is the Dutch for salt meadows. You know, like the name is Vlissingen. No, but I, since I've, I left Queens, Queens is amazing now. I mean, the most languages spoken in New York are spoken in Queens. It's a foodie destination.

I think you can go to some pretty exciting like day spas. But I think there's a lot to do there. But if you're coming to New York for a very brief visit, yeah, maybe go there for food and hit the museums in Manhattan. How's that for maturity? Excellent, well played. And then Seth has our final questions.

Amy, have you been to the Grand Canyon? I have not. Do you want to go? Yes, I do. Okay. Are we going? Is this an invite? Are we getting a family camper?

You've entered a raffle by saying yes. It's going to be me or Bobby Conavale get the raffle. By saying yes. It's going to be me or Bobby Cannavale get the raffle. One of you. One of you. We're definitely bringing a legendary New York actor. It's going to be one of you. Okay, fantastic. Okay.

I hope I wouldn't. So lovely seeing you as always. Same. Thank you so much for having me here. Give my love to your whole family. I will. And congrats with Wolves. Thank you guys.

Appreciate it. Yeah. Amy Ryan used to spend her whole summer leaving Queensland heading up to Vermont Horses, dogs, also chickens are plenty worked at the creamy stand owned by her aunt But the big trips were all thanks to her mother When she utilized her chosen vocation She became a nurse for American Airlines For twenty bucks each she could take them all on vacation Acapulco Swim under the waterfall That's where you can get yourself a nice Coca Cola And if you ever feel the need to go to the bathroom Then you can just pee in the pool Like a princess