Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - BEST OF THE YEAR: Reflecting on 2025, Listener Q&A, and more!

Episode Date: December 30, 2025

As 2025 comes to a close, we’re reflecting on an incredible year of Family Trips. We’re so grateful to our guests and listeners for sharing stories that were hilarious, heartfelt, and sometimes downright unbelievable. In this end-of-year episode, Seth and Josh play "Guess that Guest" with Producer Sam and revisit favorite moments from previous episodes. Plus, the guys also answer listener submitted questions! Here’s to more trips, memories, and laughter in the New Year. We can't wait to hear your family trip stories in 2026! Support our sponsors: ShiptDownload the app or order now at https://shipt.comRulaRula patients typically pay $15 per session when using insurance. Connect with quality therapists and mental health experts who specialize in you at https://www.rula.com/trips/ #rulapodCashAppDownload Cash App Today: https://capl.onelink.me/vFut/4aafc4yf #CashAppPod. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. See terms and conditions at cash.app/legal/us/en-us/card-agreement. Promotions provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures.HuelGet Huel today with this exclusive offer for New Customers of 15% OFF with code TRIPS at https://huel.com/trips (Minimum $75 purchase) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Family Chips with the Mice Brothers. Family chips with the Mice brothers. I'm good. Last night I went to the L.A. Premier of the L.A. premiere of the the housemaid, and it was really fun. Oh, wow, that's fun. Yeah, really fun. And I blew it. You know, I've not met Paul Feig in person. Oh, I see. And he was there, and I was just like chatting with a lot of people, and then he was gone by the time I sort of made a play to go talk to him, which was dumb. You blew it. You got to always go to the family trips guests first. Yeah, I know.

But it was really fun, and he, you know, in the intro, he's like, you know, this is not a church, feel free to, like, react to things on screen. Like, a lot of it is, like, very dramatic. A lot of it is very funny. And it is, like, there is a great sense of humor that he obviously has, that he brings to something that isn't, I feel like, isn't always a humorous situation. But it was really fun and really fun night.

Was Amanda Seifred there? Yes. And she's so good in the movie. They're all so good. And, yeah. She's growing into one of my favorite late-Nab-Meyer's guests. Yeah, you mentioned that. And I don't know if she was at the party, but I know she was there at the screening or at the premiere, and I was going to tell her that.

But again, I'm just trying to wonder who you did talk to. Well, there's a gal that lives in our building who, like, we've not seen socially ever, this girl, Allie, who came up to McKenzie and I and had a nice time talking to her. And then there's someone else who, this girl who wrote a movie that our friend Amber Ruffin might be in. So I was chatting with her and her husband. So, yeah, there's lots of... I'm going to go, I'm going to go see our friend, Aik Berenholtz, in a Broadway show today.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, very excited. He's doing Simon Rich's new play, which I think is called All Out. The last one was called All In. All In. I think this one's called All In. I'm very excited to see Ike. Yeah. Very excited to hit Broadway.

Yeah. Speaking of theaters, a friend of ours, Christy Bush, her boyfriend is an actor right now, and she sent me, she's like, we're at the Soho Playhouse, and we just met this cat. Do you know anything about this? No. Do you want to guess what the cat's name is? No. Seth Myers.

Soho Playhouse, where? I think London, because I know there's one in New York, too. Yeah, well, we did pickups and hiccups at the Soho Playhouse. There is a cat there named Seth Myers. I was like, wait, what? That's insane. Yeah. I'm like, I don't quite know how to react to this news.

Yeah, let's see. The funniest thing would be if it's a... Oh, no, that's a coincidence. It has nothing to do with you. Yeah, that's a little blurry. But that's... There you go. That's Seth Myers, the cat.

I mean, now I might be back in London in February. Maybe I'll go check out. Seth Myers the cat. I almost went by the Soho Theater. I also almost walked by the German Street Theater where we did a run of Boom Chicago shows. Yeah. I was just a little busy,

but I'm not ashamed to go pop my head in a place worth of old memories. Stompin grounds. The old stomping grounds is the same. This is the most you and I have ever looked like the Proclaimers. Well, yeah, you threw your glasses on, which is very rare. I wanted to just put them on because I'm wondering and beep it out, Sam, because I don't want to

give free promo to a glasses company if they're not gonna pay the freight of being a sponsor. Who makes your glasses? Okay, gotcha. Yeah. Beep that, Sam. Don't let them hear it.

Who makes your glasses? Beep that, Sam. I guess bleep. We've actually had an argument at the show. I guess it's technically you bleep it, you don't beep it. Okay. Yeah. Do you know, what would you spell what,

How would you spell what the Roadrunner says? Oh. Is it a meep or a beep? It is a meep. I think technically it's a me. Well done. Yeah. One little bit of housekeeping, because I'm pretty sure this is going to come out

after a holiday listener episode. We talked about Andra a lot. She had her story about Shmada, and we kept referring to her as Andra, and her name is Andra. Oh, apologies, Andra. So the number of times we said it, I feel like, she'll be like, come on. First, my shmada.

And it was such a killer, killer story, too. Yeah, for you're right. First your shmada, and then we just pile indignity on indignity. Yeah. So, Andra, everyone, and we apologize. Andrea. End of the year, Sufi. End of the year.

I talked to mom and dad today. Oh, yeah? You know, just to timestamp this for people when we're recording it, the Steelers won last night, and that means I can call. our parents. Yeah. Monday night football against the Miami Dolphins.

When they lose, I just, it's like, you know, nobody wants to talk to anybody. Yeah. Although, there was,

there's a text chain of dad's, you know, childhood, best friend, best friend at their wedding, Denny, friend of ours.

Denny. Yeah. And so there's a text chain with the four of us and then Denny. And, you know, there's some,

always some, like, here we go, Steelers. Yep. Texts that blast through. And then mom just totally throws dad under the bus. She's like, your father decides to go to a Celtics game with his cousin.

So I'm here watching the game. There's at least one Steeler fan here. Yeah, she threw him right into the bus. He's at the Celtics game. Although even dad, though, he had a chance to just be like, hey, I met the Celtics game. But then he copped to the fact that he thought the Steelers were playing Sunday night, which is at that point, that's a little bit. Come on, man. Yeah.

And he texted it together. And he texted this morning and said, like, I'm going to watch it. watch the game this morning and I'm excited and it's like well but you know what happens but I guess he's retired no I mean I don't put I don't blame anybody for that yeah there was something else oh I one of the things I talked to them about they're very excited they're already talking about how they're going to go see Marty Supreme with you on Christmas day yeah yeah and I just interviewed Gwyneth Paltrow and because I did that I got to watch Marty Supreme I'm very excited for you guys oh so am I yeah mom also asked do you think I'd like sinners

What do you think the answer to that question is? I think she would, I think she'd like sinners. I think she will too. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think it's more for her than it is for dad. Yeah.

I don't think dad would like sinners. Yeah. I think the safe bet for anything concerning dad is to just a bet the under. Yeah, so I'm very excited. I've started doing this thing where I'll get alerts for when movies are going to go on sale tickets. And I was in New York for Thanksgiving when the Marty Supreme Christmas Day tickets went on sale. And I just feel like I had that three-hour jump on the West Coast because I was with it because they go on sale at like 6.30 in the morning. So 9.30 a.m. New York, I was just like, I'm buying 10 doing it.

Wow. Another Christmas Day movie, I think, is that Anna Con. movie with paula and jack black and uh i had jack black on as well and it's very exciting to see jack black always because it's jack black but uh the kids like love jack black first they didn't quite know why they loved him because he's you know kung fu panda and then we saw that minecraft movie yeah then they watched the jimonges okay and because of that i said hey i think it's time to watch school of rock oh my gosh which is really just a perfect

film. It's amazing. And it was so fun. And also, the movie works the way his character works in the movie, which is the movie introduces your kids to, like, ACDC. Yeah. And because of that, we've been listening

to a lot of ACDC ever since we saw School of Rock. So it's a total. It's the biggest win-win of all time. Oh, that's great. Jack Black's like, I mean, we obviously you know, we were big tenacious D fans. Yeah. And sometimes with actors, they, you know, they are performers and they will have this, like, skill that unless you really tap into it, unless you give them a stage on which to show you what they, things they might have been doing in, like, high school and college, like, Jack Black has just an amazing voice.

And if I can refer to one of your SNL alums as well. Well, last year this time, I saw an Anagostair holiday show, and it's just like, oh, wait, you, like, have this other level voice that it's just like I'm always so impressed. Yeah, I love. Fantastic. Love her performer. Yeah. Love her. I mean, yeah, the fact that her and my Rudolph were on a cast together.

Yeah. Just nuts. Oh, also, by the time you listen to this, I will, my day drinking with Sabrina Carpenter. Oh, yeah. And I am just going to tell you now, Pashi, I got a little inebriated and thought it would be good if she and I sung together. And it's funny, like, when you hear your terrible voice

next to a person with a perfect voice, it is really just like, oof, worse than I thought. It wasn't like, was it her and Paul Simon at the 50th? Yeah, it wasn't about 50th. It was not that. Yeah. But I'm taller. Well.

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Well, this game is very creatively named Guess That Guest. Oh, okay. That is good. That's good. Yeah. So I have a single quote from guests of this year only, so only from 2025. Yeah, okay. And you have to try to guess who it is.

And then I'll play a little clip once you guys get it or I tell you who this. Don't get it. Yeah. Gosh, I wish I had a list of all our guests. There's so many, Sufi. There's so many. I actually can. I have them right here. If you want me to paste the whole list so at least you know who you're choosing from, I think we go blind. I think we go blind. Let's go blind. Yeah. Okay. I think let's go blind and do badly. Yeah. The thing that's going to be trouble is if you say it and I'm like, oh, it's the woman who's in this, this, if you mom it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I got a tendency to mom it. Well, we can always add the names in later if you guys need it. Right. Right. Also, we have to point. out that we're wearing,

Josh and I are wearing our latest family trips. Yeah. Family trips. A sweatshirt. Still not available in stores. But one of these days we're going to get it together.

Yeah. Maybe we do that in 2026. Yeah. Maybe we set up a little merch shop. You don't have to do it, Seth. I can tell with your yeah, that you were like, that's a bad idea. Yeah, no, let's do it.

All right, you guys, ready for the first quote? Yeah, please. Okay. First one is. I delivered my second in the front seat of the car. It's a woman. I think. Or somebody who was a pizza delivery guy?

Yeah. I delivered my second. I don't know. I might need that list. I'm very surprised that I can't remember someone's harrowing story about delivering a second in the front seat of a car. It'll come back to you. There are all some guesses.

Leanne Morgan. Nope. Okay. I will give you one hint. It is a man. Oh. Okay. So posh through me.

Yeah. Well, I give up. Yeah. I don't. What do you got, Sam? Patrick J. Adams. Patrick J. Adams. Oh, yeah.

Our first guest of 2025. Our first guest, yeah. Yeah, very unfair for you to start with the farthest away. Well, Seth, I thought you would remember it because of you guys talked about Lobby Baby. I know, but I buried those memories. I suppress all memories of Lobby Baby. Well, I will remind you right now of your conversation. I'll play a little clip.

Oh, great. I delivered my second in the front seat of the car where you were in the lobby? We were in the lobby, so we hadn't even made it to the Uber. But you're in L.A., so you're in your car. Correct? Yes. We're in our car. I had been shooting in Toronto.

I got this job, and it was during COVID. And so no one was working. And I got this film in Toronto. We asked the doctor, can we do it? He said, you could probably get away with it. So anyway, I went up. She was very pregnant. The night I got home, I got home at midnight from Toronto.

And she went into labor at 4 in the morning. Wow. But our first labor was like 26 hours. So we kind of were very lazy. We were like, we'll take the morning. There's no rush. Oh. And, you know, we spent about three or four hours at the house.

And then we were like, it's probably time to go. And then we got to the parking lot of Cedar Sinai. And that's how far we got. Wow. Do they still charge it? Do they still, is there still a bill? I love it. I love that you asked that question.

They did. They did. Very good. I can't believe I didn't remember. I guess I didn't remember because it's just, I mean, not quite as thrilling as a The lobby? Yeah. Because he was in the parking lot of a hospital.

Yeah. Well, something was wrong. Someone's going to come out. So you're basically there. Yeah, that was a fun one. All right, Sam. We're 0 for one. Oh, for one.

All right. Quote number two. And this is challenging because I think we had a few people that like to go water skiing. But the quote is, we had a ski boat for most of my childhood, and we would go water skiing rain or shine every weekend. I know. She lives, she grew up near L.A., near, like, Long Beach or grandparents. Oh, we're nearby.

Wendy McClendon Covey, and my guess is Patrick J. Adams. Josh, you are correct. Yes. Yes. Oh, my God. Pashi takes a one-nothing lead. Let's hear from her. Let's remind ourselves of what your conversation was about.

We had a ski boat for most of my childhood, and we would go water skiing, rain or shine. every weekend. Wow. So we were, you know, just a couple minutes away. But I hate water skiing. Did you always hate it? I've always hated it. I like watching other people.

I like pulling in the rope and holding up the flag, but I didn't like to ski because my dad would get so impatient with us. Like, come on, come on. And it was like, well, I don't want to do this to begin with. So you can just get. Take my turn if you're in such a hurry. Did he want you to reach a certain level to like compete? Was it something like that?

I think he just wanted me to get up at all. Okay, I see. You know, but I hated it. I absolutely hated it. I don't blame people for hating water skiing. You don't blame people for hating one of the things your wife is best at in this world. That's right. There was, some people, someone wrote in and said, like, real missed opportunity,

because I know she talked about like Baz Skaggs and there was a lot of yacht rock chatter. And I could have done a yacht rock track for that one. It was really served up to me, but I did a parody of EU's Debutt, which is one of my favorite. One of your favorite songs of all time. Yeah, because she used to shooting the duck was what the song was called as she was a roller skater. and she could shoot the duck and that just that reminded me of EU's debuts

Sufi sexy sexy yeah that was if you know Pasha if you knew Pashi back in the day you would know Debutt by EU was one of his favorites yeah they named the European Union after him

DOSBut of course Yeah dustbut That's my favorite German submarine movie Dust butt Yeah All right All right. Well, nailed that one. We're batting 500, too, fee, which is a pretty good batting average.

You're batting 500. I'm not doing great. But I feel very good about the next one. Yeah. All right. Okay. Our next one says, it turns out that there's a huge market for somebody who trashes their mother-in-law. Oh. Oh. Zarnigar. Yeah. Yes. She was... I've seen her doing it. Yeah, seen her doing it. It is where she butteres her bread. And she ain't wrong.

She ain't wrong to watch. A fave, one of the faves of Larry Myers of the year of Larry and Hillary Myers. One of our faves. I was laughing through this whole episode. We had a clip of her, Sam. Yep. It turns out that there's a huge market for somebody who trashes their mother-in-law. This is an evergreen topic.

It's evergreen. It crosses all ethnic, all-ethnic, all- All financial strata. It actually even crosses generations because a lot of times I get teenagers. You know, I'm a TikToker, right? And teenagers tune in because they know the drama that their grandmother and mom are going through or whatever. So you would think why would the kids care? But they care.

They get involved all the time. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like my mother-in-law who considers herself more of a mother-outlaw is what she prefers to be called. But she's more active on social media than I am. So I feel like if I started trashing her, she would just destroy me. The thing is, it never works that way because generally the mother-in-laws are good to their son-in-laws. The tension is always the other way.

The tension is always between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law. I do this in my live shows. When we do crowdwork, I'll go around and ask about people's mother-in-laws. Invariably, all the men are like, my mother-in-law is great. But it's not a coincidence. It's always like that. It's always the women that are getting into little catty situations. I also think my mother-in-law, who I often make jokes about, sees it as an act of love.

She's very happy that I'm on stage choosing to use my time to discuss her. I think that's very true to this day. And I just did stand up in New York City on Sunday, and my in-laws came. Oh, that's nice. They're very supportive. Although I don't have much in my current act about burning them. Yeah. The closest I have is, and you'll know this to be true about my in-laws,

which is I think about them every day when I see their profiles on my streaming account. And that they have different tastes. I thought you're going to say, I think about them every day when they're sitting in your living room. Yeah, yeah, that's so close. But the other thing is, oh, they have different tastes, which is, My mother-in-law likes to watch documentaries in foreign films, and my father-in-law likes to watch literally anything. He's the only guy who watches YouTube just on a loop.

Like, whatever YouTube plays next, he's like, oh, right. Hey, do you guys know how they fold milk cartons? They got a machine. Like, okay. Zarnigar probably had my favorite response to, if you had to be stranded on a desert island. I don't know if you remember, who would you bring?

Who was it? Her husband, because she would cook him and eat him. He would provide her the most sustenance for the longest period of time. She immediately thought of who is the biggest person I related to. Yeah, what a delight. I hope to see her somewhere along the road in 2026 and beyond. All right, we're doing better than I would have expected here. Yeah.

Two out of three. All right, we have one more. And we do have some listener questions that we should get to after this. But the last one is, the last one says, we kind of found out that one of our cousins there was a gangster. Oh, Hassan. Manage. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Fuck. Yes, it is Riz. But you got it. I think getting it wrong, I think getting it wrong immediately means I don't have Riz. It is Riz, but I don't have Riz. Yeah.

Yeah, both great guests, I thought. Yeah, fantastic. Yeah. Riz so cool. Riz is so cool. Yeah, awesome cool, too. But they're real cool. All right.

Well, that was fantastic. Thank you for the game. Are we going to hear this clip? Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, let's hear the clip from Riz. Yeah. We kind of found out that one of our cousins there was a gangster. And he was, we should have kind of worked it out because when we'd be sitting with him just hanging out at the local cafe,

there'd just always be a steady stream of people pulling up in a car, getting out, respectfully asking him for something, shaking his hand, like, you know, kissing his hand and then bouncing we were like friendly guy honestly this guy's popular and then I remember why we were in pizza heart um and him and his friends got a call he went be right back this is actually quite dark and he left and he came back pretty sure they had blood on their shirts yeah we were like yeah I think he's definitely I think something definitely going on I will say, I like to think that he's a gangster, but he was so excited that his whole family was visiting from England,

he was like, I don't have time to go change into a new shirt. These people, they're only here so often. Family guy. This thing about gangsters, family guys, they prioritize family. So great. Yeah. I would really like to go. I would like to travel with Riz.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Although if you traveled away his moving fan traveled, then that would have been. No good. He's moving in. He lost all this stuff. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from shipped.

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Give 15% off your first order at huel.com slash trips with code trips. That's code trips. Minimum $75 purchase. I'm very excited to hear questions. Yeah? And hopefully our A's will satisfy you. Hi, Seth and Josh. This is Lexi from Fresno, California.

Since doing the pod, what is a trip or destination you've heard of that you've put on your bucket list since? Mine is Tignitaro's hometown. She's sold me on that one. Love the pod. Thanks. You've mentioned that before, that you would love to go to TIG's hometown? Yeah. Past Christian.

Past Christian. Yeah, that's the name of that town. Yeah, I would love to go there. I'm trying to think there was, I feel like, was it Zarnah also was talking about, there's some town that I think you've been to as well that has just like amazing museums. It might also be in Arkansas. Yeah, that sounds right. Yeah. Oh, yeah, was it Crystal Bridges?

That sounds right. Yeah. I've been there, and you should go. That's awesome. That whole little town is great. Yeah. Um, I like that, um, uh, you know, in the, um, Alexander Scars Guard was talking about just one of those, like, tiny little Swedish islands. I would like to be on a little, I would like to be on a little island. You have to take a boat too. And then you're just kind of there. And, uh, they're so small that your family can't fit on them. Just like, I'd like to go to a little one, just a one person island, I think would be really cool. Um, and Phil Cogan still has me thinking about New Zealand. Uh, despite what Lewis Blackmun. say about the flight i uh you know who i wait i think we talked about it right that i met uh jacinda ardern

no i don't think i met the uh the uh the former prime minister in new zealand i did uh the uh graham norton show in london yeah yeah and she was uh she was one of the other guests oh that's fabulous delightful i bet just a delightful human being yeah so yeah um yeah uh so yeah those are those are Those are on my list. But I feel like I always, you know, anytime it's like at the tail end of the Julia Louis Dreyfus episode with her sons, Henry and Charlie, they were talking about how they did rafting in the Grand Canyon. And that's a trip that they would do again. Yeah, that's that. I mean, I know.

I have to step out of my heel persona, but that also does sound pretty good to me. Yeah. So, yeah, thanks for those. Thanks for that question, Lexi. Thank you. Hi, Seth and Josh. My name is Mary, and I'm from Prince of Rhode Island, Canada. My question for you is whether there were any other topics you considered covering for your podcast before you settled on family trips. And if not, what are some other topics that you could imagine covering for a podcast together? I also had a second, more obscure question for Josh. Josh, you mentioned at one point, like a long time. ago, that you got a lot of cow-themed t-shirts as a kid, and I was wondering if it's possible

that they came from cow's ice cream, which is an East Coast chain that originated in my home province. Their t-shirt designs are pretty distinctive and feature wonderful, terrible cow puns. So if you go to their website, you'll either recognize the designs right away or not. Prince of Rhode Island is a pretty small place, so it's always kind of thrilling to hear I mentioned in mainstream media. Love the podcast, and best to you and yours for the holidays. Bye.

I'm looking up cows ice cream But to the first question Yeah, it was always family trips We didn't really have any other ideas We were trying to find something that nobody else was doing We wanted to talk about something that was family related Due to our relationship But I think now having done it for a while

I think probably the podcast Josh would rather do Is me interviewing people about SNL While he tries to change the subject It would be called the Not Ready for This Conversation Players. Oh, yeah, yoy. Yeah, I don't know what else we would do. It was going to be something, I mean, like, you know. It was going to be a family-based thing.

Family-based thing. And we also wanted to make sure it was, you know, Kate and Ollie Hudson have one where they interview other siblings. And it's great, but we, even they have admitted, like, you run out of siblings pretty fast. And scheduling becomes harder when, you know, it's bad enough that we've got to figure out our schedule. So it's nice to have one guest as opposed to always looking for a pair. Yeah.

Yeah, but it's been fun. And also, I still, I mean, I know we've said it before, but I just feel like it is a subject that our guests aren't often or ever asked about. So it is a new trove of information and stories and, yeah, that they can tap into. And it's that little nostalgia nugget. Yeah, it's nice. And it's a good way to find out about people's families. And, yeah, it's worked out really nicely. I don't think my cow stuff was from cow's ice cream.

But I don't know But nonetheless, if you are in... Prince Edward Island, fucked again. Once again. I was going to say You should go usually if you're up there You should go to cow's ice cream. Oh, so you weren't going to say fucked again.

I thought we were saying it at the same time. Once again, I'm misread old poshie. All right, well, thanks for the question, Mary. Thank you, Mary. Also, Prince Edward Island is a place I would like to go, for the record. You know what they, do you like, you don't like oysters, though. No. Yeah.

That's what I remember the morning. I think I first saw a long time, I didn't realize, like, P.E.I on an oyster menu meant that that's what they were from Prince Edward Island. Yeah. But they is. They is. Also, oysters are good. Well, to each his own. Actually, I didn't mind oysters back in my oyster eating days.

Oh, you won't eat oysters anymore. right right yeah because there as you always say are people too although there is there's a subset of vegans that will eat oysters because they don't have a central nervous system and uh they're these like oysters don't no the oysters uh and they are uh they're oyster farms that really uh help to clean up the ocean are very beneficial all right but not you not me you're like fuck that you're in charge of cleaning up the oceans now do we have any more questions sam yeah here's our next one hi there i'm paul i'm originally from maryland and i want to ask seth and josh what is your favorite national park i mean right now i think it's probably yosemite

for me but i've done uh i did a couple great hikes and rocky mountain National Park and then another like just sort of epic hike and glacier but I feel like Yosemite is the one that that keeps calling to me to get up there but I kind of I kind of love all of them I feel like if you have a number two you could just say that's mine you well we went to Acadia National Park when we were kids loved Acadia yeah and then that's the last one you've been to? I don't know.

I mean, I guess, well, Grand Canyon, right? That's a national park, isn't it? Oh, yeah. Sure is. Count that. Yeah. In general, I do think they should just be opened up for drilling. I'm not going to apologize for that.

Whether there's oil there or not. There's something under the air. Yeah. There's something under the ground, and we can only find it from drilling. I was just talking to a gentleman who works on a board that sort of works on preservation in the Everglades National Park. Nice. And I've never been on one of those airboats.

No, thank you. No, thank you for you? Those fan boats? Yeah. Oh, no. They seem so loud. They're deaf loud. But I would love to do it.

There's hardly a national park that I wouldn't be interested in doing a little time. I also feel like I'm just always worried somebody's going to put their hand in the fan boat. Oh, yeah. It doesn't seem like anybody gets up to any good in a fanboat. I think they get up to lots of good. They get up to having good times, making memories?

I think they're smuggling or on the lamb. No, you've just... Historically... You watch that bloodline show, and that's what you're thinking. Bloodlines. I feel like I'm not sure, but it feels like Ozark had probably a fan boat at some point. I might have. I don't recall.

Yeah. So, yeah. You know what? Speaking of Ozark and Jason Vavin, I saw Zootopia 2 in theaters. Oh, yeah? The kids. Delightful.

And it was Ash, Axel, Addy, me. Mm-hmm. Half hour into the movie, Addy goes, Daddy. And I leaned over. I go, what? She goes, I don't want to sit next to you. I was like, who do you want to sit next to?

She's like, I want to sit between the boys. And I was like, all right. And I made Axel switch with her. so she could sit between her brothers. That's great. Very hurtful. Pretty much everything she says to me is hurtful these days. Do you remember what kind of animal Kiwi Kwan was?

Yeah, he was a snake. Oh, nice. Yeah. He's, by the way, he's fantastic in it. I can't imagine anything less. And Sandberg's in it, too. Oh, nice. Yeah, that's great.

Nice one. All right, we got one more question, I think. Let's hear it. Hi. My name is Whitney, and I have a question for Larry. If Lynn Manuel Miranda is a friend of Andy and Seth's, does that mean Lynn's dad knows Seth's dad? Does Larry know Luis? I think they would get into absolutely positive havoc.

They would have great conversations, and I think they would have a lot of fun together. So it was just a thought, and I just, I adore friendships. So thank you for every wonderful conversation we've had. Thank you for every smile, giggle, and laugh. laugh out loud moment. You guys are awesome. Larry has not met Lynn's dad, but I can tell you from having met Lynn's dad, they would absolutely hit it off. Yeah, but also I feel like dad might be living that no new friends policy. I think dad wouldn't make a new friend. You think dad wants new friends? I think he wants

to talk to people like they're his friend. I don't know if he wants to put the work in to be a friend. Yeah. Can I say something about Lynn Manuel, Miranda, who is one of the nice people in the world. On Thanksgiving, that guy texted me, hey, I know how hard the holidays can be right after you lost a pet. So sweet. Yeah. And did Sandberg send you a similar message? He said, I'm so thankful this year that your dog is in hell.

Where she belongs. All right, Pete Frizz. All right, Pete Frizz! Happy holidays, everybody. Happy holidays. Maybe you're listening to this while you're on a trip with their family or by yourself to go see your family. And wherever you're listening,

we just want to say how happy we are to have done a whole other year of this show and how excited we are to get started in 2026. And I resolve to have Seth not wear such tawdry sweatshirts. That's such a bummer. And I was, today was like, oh, yeah, go change. But you know what? I'm going to change for the next one. We have a guest.

But this is a bad. Yeah. This is from a... Oh, yeah. I mean, that's a good sweatshirt. It's a fantasy football sort of... It's a fantasy football sweatshirt we got one year of the draft from our buddy Stradley. And in Latin, do you remember what it says in Latin?

Yes. I know what it means, but... It's non-poopy brachis. The one rule of our fantasy football league is no poopie pants. No poopie pants. complain. Yeah. And so he made us, he made a seal of the fantasy football league in Latin that says non-poopy brakus. It says non-poopy brakas, which my difficulty with the sweatshirt is, I have a hard time wearing a piece of clothing that says poopie on it. I think it's written

subtly enough that it's not the headline. Yeah, but if someone's... I've worn it a lot around, for example, Alexi, who is incredibly tuned into small details and she's never noticed. Yeah, okay. Well, yeah. She hates it for other reasons. The sort of the loose rolling neck. Yeah, the fraying fabric. But that just speaks to a well-loved garment. Yeah, I love it. I love you.

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