Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - Camping in the Snow, Aussie Waterfalls, & A Trip With Zero Bear Sightings: Listener Episode #20

Episode Date: January 29, 2026

Seth and Josh are back with the monthly listener episode, and it’s the first one of 2026! From a bear trap story, to camping in the snow, all the way to Perth, Australia, our listeners showed up with funny stories to boot! Plus, we also hear feedback from one listener who wants everyone to reconsider Winnipeg’s food scene! Want to submit your family trips story for our next listener episode? Or send a question in to Seth and Josh? Submit your voicemail to speakpipe.com/familytripspod! Watch more Family Trips episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlqYOfxU_jQem4_NRJPM8_wLBrEEQ17B6 HexcladFind your forever cookware @hexclad and get 10% off at https://hexclad.com/trips #hexcladpartnerCashAppParents:Download 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 https://cash.app/legal/us/en-us/card-agreement. Direct deposit and promotions provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit http://cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures.AG1 Go to https://DRINKAG1.com/TRIPS to get their best offer… get 3 FREE AG1 Travel Packs and 3 FREE AGZ Travel Packs, plus FREE Vitamin D3+K2 and AG1 Welcome Kit with your first AG1 subscription order! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Family Chips Brothers Hey, Baji. Hey, Sufi. How is my brother boy? I'm great. We are, we're lamenting the end of the Pittsburgh Steelers season. We all saw it coming. We kind of saw it coming.

We got a little hopeful, but it came to a close. I had, you know, that unenviable task of telling the boys this morning. And they were pretty good. Axel came and woke me up at 540. And just said, did they win? And I said they didn't. And he went, oh, I'm going back to bed. So that was pretty great.

That was maybe the one upside is he was so bummed he didn't want to hang out with me at 540. Yeah. And then Ash, I have a couple things to say about Ash. One is we talked about it. And I said, you know, it's easier for me when they get blown out, you know, like the heartbreaking ones. The ones I still think about are the ones that turned on one play. And you certainly couldn't say that about it. We could have had it.

could have had it and then uh... Alexi's out of town so i got in the elevator this morning with all three kids and it was a pretty good morning and i said i'm going to give everybody their grades for this morning and Addie got an A and Asch got an A and Axel got an A minus because it took them a really long time to put his sweatshirt on oh yeah and then Ash goes I'm going to give you an A because you really kept your cool about the Steelers I was like oh my god how do you already know this How do you already know how much I'm fighting it? But the other great thing is my brother-in-law, Zach Heinzorling, he's from Houston.

All right. And the four of us were hanging out the other day. And Zach was saying, I asked him, I was like, are you a Texans fan? He was like, no, you know, because I was a Houston Oilers fan. And then they moved to Tennessee, and I was a Titans fan. And, you know, the Texans were never really like good. So I never really had a rooting interest in the Texans. And so then I wasn't with them.

But he dropped off. His daughter goes to the school with my boys. And he saw the boys. And he said, ha ha, I got you guys. And Ash said, oh, so now you're a Texan spanish. Which I really liked. Fair burn on Heisling. And then, you know, again, I posted it on Instagram because I will say, I'm going to take this season as a positive.

Because, you know, one, that Ravens game to end the season was so thrilling. And two, we went to the Steelers with the boys. Yeah. And it was one of the highlights of my year for sure. What would you give Dad as a grade based on the text chain thread with me, you, Mom, Dad, and Dad's best friend, Denny? I would say Dad was in the C-minus range. Did he, I mean, I think there was maybe an F word before he let us all know he was going to bed? Yeah.

He was going to bed also with like, it was conceivable that we, You know, it would be unlikely but conceivable that we could have turned it around. And then it just, I mean, it was the, it was like stepping on a muddy hillside how fast it went south after he sent that text. But there was still a chance. And I am sure. That was not the end of things. I agree. Right.

And I am sure mom was still watching and was like, I'm. Of course. Yeah. I'm here till the bitter end. Yeah. No, I bet it's pretty tense at the old, I was going to say our address, but. Yeah. Yeah.

I last thing I need is them getting more fan mail. That's my fear. That's why I'm not giving everybody my address. Also, we, well, you know, we podcasted from your house. Yeah, or I mean, we recorded an intro and then you podcast. Oh, that's right. Yeah, that's true. But then also, you know, so we talked about how we went on a nice big hike together, Los Angeles.

But then we recorded that intro before we went out to your birthday dinner. Which was awesome. It was a surprise. Again, like, you know, I sort of am seeing through these surprises, which is fine. The end result is I get a great dinner with some great friends. Right. You know, you kind of know what surprise is coming? Yeah.

That was saying. Well, one of the ways I knew a surprise was coming is I asked you what time is dinner. And you said 640. I fucked up. Which no one's ever booked a 640 dinner reservation. No, I seriously said it. I was like that. But I was like, you know what?

I kind of was like, yeah. Also, we went, I mean, you took us out a bunch of our great old friends, Ike Barronholz, Dave Stassen, Liz Kikowsky, Jill Benjamin, Betty Stassen. And it was at the Ivy, sort of fancy spot that I haven't been to in a good long time. But also, even the surprise of going to the Ivy, you were like, maybe it was a half hour before we left. You're like, into the Ivy.

I hope that's okay. And it's like, all right, yeah, well. Now I know that too. Yeah. Yeah. I guess I thought that it would be the people would be. I don't know. You know what?

I was handled poorly. But also, I was supposed to surprise you. We talked about this. And that also didn't land. But you didn't know who was going to be there. I didn't. It was all great. It was all fantastic.

Again, you know, one of the great benefits of my life is how many one chapters of my life I've shared with you. And because of that, how many friends we shared. So it wasn't like I was going out to dinner with friends of yours that I only know because they're friends of yours, even though those people are lovely. You know, it wasn't like I had to like dig up any numbers or anything. And it was really fun. And it was like a long, it was a very long three-hour dinner.

And it was just everything you wanted to be. And it wasn't too big. I will say that was the other nice thing. And I think we were like eight people. And so I kind of got a chance to talk to everybody, one of the first. on one as well. Yeah. Yeah.

I will say there's that thing now that I sort of, I mean, you know me about Instagram posting. Oh, interesting. Interesting for your take here. I think it's awful. And it's really helped the digital footprint of this show. Yeah, there was a bad picture. One picture was taken of us at that dinner. And then our friend Jill posted it.

And then so many other friends of mine were like, oh, you did something big for your 50th. And I was like, yeah, but I didn't know. And my brother came in and he surprised me. And, like, he organized the dinner. Like McKenzie didn't organize the dinner. He did. And so please. And people are like, oh, yeah, yeah, okay, okay.

But, yeah. Oh, right. And so ultimately, Jill fucked you. I mean, she did. Her gift was. Yeah, I guess, I guess. Also, like, except for Jill and McKenzie, everyone looks terrible in that picture, I think. Yeah.

Do you, would you have, if you'd known she was going to post it, would you have said, like, hey, maybe because it's my birthday? Because that's an interesting thing. I know exactly what you're talking about when people are like, oh, you, so you did do something. Yeah. Would you have said, hey, maybe don't post that? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Can I say something a note for both of us? Sure. We should have known she was fucking posting it. I'll tell you that much. You know what I mean? Like looking back. J'll be posting.

Jill be posting. J.B.P. as we call her. Jlby posting. Oh, can I tell you? I'm going to brag about a joke I told. On the show last night. But it was like a mid-interview brag. Okay.

So I had this actor, Lee Biong. He's in this terrific new movie, no other choice. Oh, yeah. I want to see that one. You know, by the way, his English is great, but it's also a second language. And he was a little concerned before the show. But then during the interview, everything was just going smashing.

And he was crashing and he was telling really funny stories. Incredibly charismatic guy. Great actor. But then at one point, he told the story, and then I made a joke at the end of the story. And he goes, may I ask? that you slow down a little because I want to make sure I don't miss anything

and so then I really slowly said what I just said was really funny and then he laughed at it. Not bad, I'm pretty proud of myself. Hey, have you, we all start, I mean, I know there's a listener episode we're going to get to it, but you have an interesting phenomenon happen.

Also, how do you feel about me wearing a late night sweatshirt, which is what I'm wearing right now? Like, do you feel like that's... Oh, I'm on board. I wear our family trip sweatshirts all the time. Yeah. So I...

We had this actor from heated rivalry on the show. Oh, yeah. By the name of Connor's story. So I will just say that Connor's story was not a name I knew three weeks ago. The first time I heard the name Connor Story was because my talent department said, this show's really big. We want to book this guy, Connor Story. I'm like, go for it.

we i receive more personal ticket requests for people to come to the show that connor's story was on than i have for anyone outside of taylor swift in like three weeks he is a big deal he's a big deal um and heated rivalry he did rivalry is a fantastic show it's about two uh hockey players uh who who fall in love and uh so you know it is based on some young adult books and it's a gay romance the likes of which i've never seen on tv um it's also very steamy posh i know you like a little bit of a warning when something's going to be steamy um but i was also trying to do my job as a talk show host to watch the show uh so that i could be informed before asking my questions to uh to mr connor story and uh and so i had it on my uh work computer and then i had to go

do something and so i paused it i just so happened to pause it mid steamy scene and then And Shoemaker, Shoemaker comes in, takes a picture of it on his phone, and just sends it to me. Yeah. And he writes, he wrote, typical. Yeah. It's always, it's always people who are like, oh, no, I'm happily married. I got this thing going on. And, you know, maybe they have some other inclinations.

No, I just look. It's like, it is, I will say it's nice when you got a talk show because you're like, this is just talk show stuff, baby. Yeah. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from Hexclad. Hey, Posci. Hey, Sufi.

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Do that, do that, do that with acrobat. Learn more at adobe.com slash do that with acrobat. All right, we have some listener stories. We're very excited as always. Thank you for sending them in. And now we're going to, first of all, Sam, have you seen the heated rivalry? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Whoa, yeah. So Sam, this is one of the things I'm really taken with is this shows a huge hit with the ladies. Yes. And I can't quite describe why. Do you think you can explain to me why you think it's such a huge hit with the ladies? I think it is just like we haven't quite seen this. on a show before? Like, I don't know.

Yeah. Like, two hockey players falling in love. Like, we've obviously seen gay romance, but maybe because it has to do with hockey and you just, you're so invested too. You're like, I don't know. It's, yeah, the hockey stuff is actually pretty good. Yeah.

The, I have another, I think it's really funny to watch it because there's no, it's the first rom-com I've, but it's not a rom-com, it's, but it's romantic. There's, but there's like no meat cute. Yeah. Like, Pashi, these guys, like if you're like I want to watch it but I'm not into like the hooking up stuff like enjoy the first seven minutes of heated rival like and I'm like I kind of like that too because like a lot of my gay friends are like that part was so refreshing that they were like we're not going to pretend like this is a heterosexual romance movie you know just like anyway and they did they shot to fame immediately they were like at the golden globes too I mean it's crazy like so much it's not for them immediately yeah yeah um yeah

So, shout out to both those guys. Just like a hockey game, it's a puck drop and then it's game on. The puck goes down, game on. All right, we are ready for our stories. I knew Sam. I knew Sam is a dirty dog. I knew she'd be like deep in it. Like, I was so confident.

She's a cultural maven. She needs to know what's going on out there. Same way you do. Yeah. Okay, let's hear our first story. Hi, Seth and John. This is Greta calling from Seattle. I just finished listening to your episode with Jim James,

and I was thinking, that's a fun idea for a listener feedback episode, maybe. Bear encounters, because who doesn't love a good bear story? In the spirit of Jim James, here is my bear encounter story. So my family is a core five family. A typical vacation for us was driving to a national park for a week, being typical kids, all we wanted was to see a bear. We'd seen a couple of black bears in Yellowstone, but they were more of those drive-by bears, the ones from your car.

When you're sitting in an endless line of cars, not exactly the kind of wild bear encounter we had envisioned for ourselves. Until the summer, we visited Glacier National Park, famous for grizzly bears. The first couple of days we were there, we did a couple of guided hikes. We all had to wear bear bells, and we were advised to sing. or talk to avoid surprising the bears we knew were just around the next bend, or the next bend, or the next bend. And though we saw evidence of recent bear activity through poop and claw and scratch marks on trees,

we never saw an actual bear on those hikes, probably because we were making too much noise. My older brother and I, we were probably around 10 or 12 at the time, we were allowed to go out and explore on our own as long as we stayed with an ear. shot of the cabin. And while wandering around, we discovered an old bear trap that was hidden in the woods. And it was what you would exactly imagine a bear trap to be in one of those big metal cages where you go in, there's a piece of meat hanging from a hook. So of course, we had to climb into the trap and poke around. And although we knew enough not to mess with it, for whatever reason, it didn't register with either of us that this was actually a live track. And after a minute or two,

we got bored and continued on with our adventures elsewhere. That night, it finally happened. A mother, grizzly, and two cubs went on a midnight rampage. They were digging through the garbage cans just a few feet away from the cabin, just feasting away and having a grand old time. The cubs were rolling around playfully with each other, playfully with their mother, who eventually wandered away, entered the trap, took the bait, and got herself caught. It was a everything we imagined our wild bear encounter would be and more if our parents had bothered to wake us up for it, which they didn't. When the opportunity presented itself in the safest way possible, did our parents think to wake us up? No. We heard about it the next morning from

everyone. It was all everyone, anyone was talking about, how the mother and a cubs had been raiding the garbage cans for weeks and were finally trapped and hauled up into the backcountry. To this day, we still haven't forgiven our parents for it. And they have never given us a logical reason for not waking us up other than they just didn't think to. Happy New Year and keep doing what you're doing. Thank you for that wonderful story. Thank you also for the idea of asking for listener questions for something specific like bear stories. Yeah, we do. We did want, like, in October, we were like, let's do Halloween stories. But I think, like, something like a bear encounter is a great prompt.

Yeah, because, like, every time we ask Jeff for ideas, he's like, Valentine's Day? What about Easter? I'm like, geez, we get it. We know the holidays, Jeff. I also get the sense that maybe this was in an era where, like, cameras weren't, like, free and easy. You know what I mean? Yeah.

Like, in this day and age, you would be like, I wouldn't have to wake up. The kids will just make a video of the bear thrashing around in the trap. Yeah, but still. Looking out your cabin window, you're not going to beat that with camera footage. That's good for showing people back in the city back when you get back to Seattle. Remember when we went to Iceland, they woke us up at the hotel because the Aurora Borealis were out. Yeah.

Although, I mean, you said, yeah, I think we've mentioned this, but you signed up at the front desk if you wanted to be woken up if there were northern lights but you got woken up by the stampeding feet on the stairs of everyone because someone got word or someone looked out their window I remember I was like is there any other stuff you might want to wake us up for and they were like what do you mean I'm like like if there was going to be like free nachos right yeah you can give me for that chicken fingers chicken finger yeah that's really the truth um um I was worried I was worried that something bad was going to happen to that mama bear when she got trapped. I'm glad to hear that she just got driven up into the backcountry.

I feel like our listener, like there was a sweet tone to her voice. I don't think she would have shared a dead bear story. Yeah. But you know what I mean. You never know, though. That might have been the twist. I mean, she didn't see it, I guess. Yeah, none of it was seen.

We don't know. So it's like, oh, yeah. And then they took the bear to the back country. That's where she lives with her cubs to this day. Day. Yeah. That thing about like missing out. So Ash last weekend went on a ski trip with kids from school.

And I wasn't, it was an overnight at a hotel. I wasn't there because I was with my brother. It was a four seasons. It was a beautiful four seasons. It was like a two seasons, having seen the inside of it. But I went and we, fortunately he had a parent, a mom of his friend. I had him. But I went up, but he hadn't stayed at the hotel with all the other families.

And so he skied on Saturday. And then I went and met him. And then we had dinner with all these kids on Saturday night. It was so fun. But the night before, it was sort of this like ramshackle, old, like, what is it, the Overlook Hotel from The Shining? Like, one of those. Like long hallways, you know, old in feeling.

And he had a lot of fomo because, like, I guess the kids had, like, all, like, woken up kind of with, like, sort of tacit parental approval because they heard it was a haunted hotel and so it was just like a bunch of kids marauding down the hallway like ghost hunting is what they were telling Ash they were doing and then the parents

told me because there was like a parental WhatsApp group that they got contacted by the hotel being like uh get chickens I don't know the parental WhatsApp group was going to be like we gotta someone's got to dress up like a ghost oh yeah that'd be better

Yeah. The perfect payoff of that story would be like, and then, well, we didn't know, hotel had a bear trap. Five of the kids. Ancles up. Ankle up. They just got taken to the back country. Oh, also, there was like a, it was this very fun thing where, like, hanging out with parents

in, like, a bar, which, you know, you never, like, socialized much with the parents from school. But, like, everybody was staying at this hotel. So, like, there was, like, a loose vibe that was really. fun with a lot of these parents. And I know from like pick up drop off and I'm big fans of, but getting hang out with them was really cool. Yeah. And then there was another like kind of playroom where like the kids were doing stuff. And in general, like I, you know, we keep an eye on like what Ash is like consuming. But like, like I didn't want to be like the one parent who was sort of hovering. Right. And, and we had like a, we had to drive home afterwards. So Ash got in the car and I'm like,

did you eat any sweets? He's like, I maybe had more cookies than you. You know, you. He's like, I maybe had more cookies than usual. And I was like, how many did you have? And he went eight to 15. Son of a gun. Because like, you know it ain't eight. And then like five minutes into our hour-long drive.

He's like, I don't feel well. I'm like, you roll down your window. You'll be fine. And then he puked. So many. He's like three full pukes. Oh my gosh. Yeah, three full.

And I will say, not to pat myself in the back. I did a fantastic job of not getting angry and like being like, all right, you okay? And like I pulled over to a gas station. Fortunately, since he'd had an overnight, we had a change of clothes for him. So I like got him changed. I cleaned it off. Like, you know.

And then he was like, oh, go, thanks, dad. I feel so much better now. I got to be honest. I think I ate too many cookies. I'm like, yep, no, that definitely was it. But we had a real nice, like, you know what? crisis, we're through it, doesn't matter. He's like, we maybe need to roll these windows down

because I feel like mom's going to be able to smell this. I'm like, we're definitely going to roll the windows down. We just drove home in the freezing cold. Those good times. Also with waking kids up in the middle of the night, I remember like wanting to buy your kids like things that would glow in the dark, like little glow in the dark rockets or like nerve rockets,

things like that. But I feel like for the longest time in your kids' lives, they didn't know what night was. They had never seen the world dark. And I sort of had to wait until they would either be awake early enough or go to bed late enough to even have a concept. And I feel like they learn that much later than... Yeah, they were aware of like, I would say like, yeah,

like we treated night like screen time. Don't give them money night. We're really trying to limit their night. Yeah, you did a great job initially. We did a great job. All right, thank you, Greta. Thank you, Greta. Great is an anagram of Greta.

All right, good one. Next story, please, Sam. I said that Josh, love the podcast. My name is Stephen, and I hail from the most isolated seeing in the world, Perth, Australia. And when I was a young boy back in the late 80s, early 90s, I would go on these awesome family vacations with my grandparents around our amazing but extreme large state of Western Australia. We had an old four-wheel drive. I think it's like a Nissan Patrol or something like that with a bed in the back and a caravan in tow.

We were pulling to deserted country roads or caravan parks when needed and to sleep and take breaks from driving and see the sides. These incredibly long trips that would take days and I can't stress how extreme large Australia is, driving would be extremely boring, involved lots of car sickness and laying in the bed at the back, which in those days, obviously a thing, but very unsafe. I read many comic books and when diary the trips and listened to the same tapes over and over. That would change when we'd pull into a town. My grandparents were involved in the local tourist industry, so they knew all the people. and we'd actually hear about the cool and interesting things to do that locals kept themselves

and went on the maps. That's printed maps. This one memorable time, we're at this amazing gorge in the middle of nowhere in the Kimberley region, and you really need to dig into tourist maps or local tourist centres to find out about these places back then. There was no signs of other people as per usual, so I went running down the path to where this apparently amazing waterfall would be. Back in this time, you hardly saw people at these amazing places, which now would probably be run over by influencers or blocked off for protection reasons.

Such an amazing experience to have. And I look back at now and think, wow, I really was lucky back then. So as I got close to the waterfall, I stumbled across probably the first naked girl sighting I've ever had. it was in the wild. I think there was two or three wearing nothing but a smile, quickly rushing with their clothes, which weren't exactly nearby. Back then, there wasn't exactly a camera and reached to even try a snap a photo, unlike today. We didn't have a camera, but it was limited to 20 shots, and you had to carefully pick them. Needless to say, I wasn't sure what to do, but I wanted to

see the waterfall, and they had high-tailed it out of there quickly. Funny enough, it was just like the other 20-plus ones I'd seen on the same frivolous. and many others. For that age, kids used to get excited easily, especially back in the days days without computers. These girls had disappeared by the time my grandparents got down there. No idea where their car would have been, but W.A. is big state. So yes, I would go to the Grand Canyon if I made it to the US,

but probably just a quick look, as I see many sites that are just as amazing, if not more. Also, Seth, bring John Oliver and come to Perth. And you can't do an Australian accent. Keep up. Keep up a good podcast. Steven.

Thank you so much. That is a fantastic story. I like that there was, he said the thing about the pictures, like, I had nobody had cameras, as if you and I were going to be like,

you get any pictures? Or can you just send them, just send them, DM those to the show? Yeah. Hey. Hey, you get it? I didn't think naked ladies was coming, did you?

No, I did not see naked. I thought he was going to maybe like just run off a trail and splash down, like run over the edge of a waterfall. Yeah. Naked ladies, always exciting for young gents. Yeah. Yeah. And you know what?

I don't think you grow out of it, Posh. It's funny. There's like, you know, we go, our fantasy. Football League, we get together once a year for our fantasy football draft. And I feel like there is a subset of guys that are just like still so like, oh, my gosh, boobs. And then there's like the other half is just like, yeah, no, they're great. They're nice.

But like, it's not something that we're all through the course of the day being like, oh, man, I was just thinking about. You know what just popped into my head again? But that was great. I will say like that, I would love to go to Australia, ever been. I'd love to go to comedy there as well. And Seth, if I might, I think that we've got better Australian accent.

Well, I've from now minds tweaking Kiwi, I think. You know, I don't think your problem is you going up your eye with yours? Yeah, I think that's right. I don't know. We knew a couple of Australia. We knew a couple of Australia. How's that, Stephen? Not bad.

Not bad. Yeah, yeah. I wouldn't shake a did you already do with that? Oh, that was not. That was not. Okay. I don't know. I feel like you were in the pocket there, Suef.

That was in the pocket, yeah. The pocket of Northern England or something. All right then. Yeah, what else you got for us, Sam? What else are Sam? Oh, wait, I just got a text from Jeff. Oh, yeah? What about Fourth of July?

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AG1 has over 50,000 verified five-star reviews and comes to the 90-day money-back guarantee. Go to drinkag1.com slash trips. To get their best offer, I get three free AG1 travel packs and three free AGZ travel packs plus free vitamin D3 plus K-2 and AG1 welcome kit with your first AG1 subscription order. That's drinkag1.com slash trips. Drinkag1.com slash trips. Hi, Seth and Josh. It's Anusha from New Zealand. My trip story is a family trip staple, one of memorable chaos. So I'm originally from India and moved to New Zealand in 2009. When I was still very new to the country, my husband and I, along with friends of ours, decided to cross off camping from our top adventures list. We had never been camping before, but we decided to, as the Kiwis love saying, give it a go. I was in charge of planning and the men

on our trip are going to share driving duties. Caching in on the group on craze, we decided to partake in some discounted adventures along the way to our camping destination. Being new to New Zealand, I decided to rely on Google to guide me on the best camping sites, and I decided to go with one that had an iconic mountain in the background. We finished our adventures on the way, and my friend, who was at the wheel, asked me for the address of our camping site. It was already late in the evening on that early November day. I gave him the address and he turned on the GPS and didn't really pay attention after that. We kept driving and driving and driving. My husband was getting concerned now as it was very late. We hadn't even set up our camps or had dinner and we had an early

start for a white water rafting trip the next day. I checked the address again and reassured them that we were on the right track and that it was going to be worth the wait as we were going camping at the foot of the mountain. My husband looked at the photo of the campsite and said, wait, is that a snowy mountain in the background? I said to him, yeah, but it's late spring now, so it'll be perfect. As we were setting up camp, which no surprise was so much harder than we expected, one of the fellow tourists wandering around looked at our cheap chain store tents and asked, are you going to be all right in these? It's going to snow tonight. Turns out, I'd set us up at the foothill of the famous Mount Tongariro Alpine Crossing, and it snowed there even during spring.

Much panic ensured as we were also travelling with two young kids, and we decided to panic rent some small cabins on site for the night, while our newly set up tents remained empty. It was the white, it was the wise, albeit less adventurous move, as it did snow that night, and while our tents were dry inside, I can't imagine it would have been anywhere as comfortable as our toasty cabins. Those young children are now in university, but they fondly recollect the trip even now for the unforgettable tale of camping or not camping as it were in the snow. Thank you, and love your pod. Thank you, Anusha.

Yeah, if you get to a campsite late is one thing, is it's such a bad, such a bad move. But late and then also, oh, it's going to snow here if you're not, if you're not prepared. prepared for that. It's cabin nine times out of ten, ten times. You know that that that thrill you get when I think a lot of people get it when like plans get canceled and you just get to stay home. Yeah. That would be how I would feel if like at the last minute instead of camping, we went to a hotel. Yeah. Especially if it was not my fault. You know what I mean? Like if somebody was like, you know, if like you and I were going camping, you're like, hey, Sufi, I took us to a snow mountain do you want to go in this kick-ass cabin instead they got some rooms available like that's

the dream i'm like oh credit for saying yes to camping and now i'm here yeah um and so i bet those kids were so psyched too yeah but kids are i feel like kids are more resilient in like the colds you could you can bundle them up better i feel like they they're better on harder ground than adults Their bones are still, you know, have some give. I mean, I would have probably wanted to gut it out, stay in that tent. But, yeah, also if it's late and there's a cabin right there, it's tough to say no to. And kids. Once you've got kids, you've got to be like, well, party's over.

Yeah. And then, like, if you wake up the next morning and there's snow on the ground, I feel like that's a real that bolsters your case for having. made the choice to go cabin. Absolutely. I do like the idea of going for a camping trip in New Zealand, though. Yeah. Love the reach of the pod, by the way, Posh. Oh, my gosh.

Yeah. Getting over there. Yeah. I mean, we have so many accents to perfect. I know. To make people be like, oh, you're bad at that. You're bad at that, too. Here's my, I'm now going to do an Indian woman who moved to New Zealand in 2009.

Can I ask that you don't? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, then not going to do saving again? Thank you, Anusha. Thank you, everybody. Now, Sam, you said we maybe have something that's less of a story and more of a follow-up. Yes, we do. One second. Sam was re-watching heated rivalry. She was a little slow.

Yeah. Another cool thing about heated rivalry posture? What's that? Everybody's super positive whole time. Because you think it's like, oh, gosh, a couple of professional athletes trying to keep their romance a secret. And everybody they meets like, just live your life, man. Live your truth.

It's pretty awesome. That's nice. And you think like at one point this guy's like, one of the guys is like, hey, they're at Sochi, they're at Sochi Olympics. And he's like, oh, my friend's a figure skater. We should go see him. And then you think one of the other hockey guys gonna make it like a joke about how he's gay.

Yeah. And he's like, wow, it's really brave that he'd be in Russia because, you know, they have some real draconian laws about that. Your friend's really cool. You're just like Canadian. Canadian shows are the best. Yeah, although there is also,

there's about to be a Canadian, it's like Canada Shore or Canadian Shore. It's like a Jersey Shore in some town in Canada. So I don't know. if every Canadian show is showing off Canadians in the best light. Yeah, I agree with that. Yeah.

All right, Sam, what do we got? Well, we're going to continue our talk about Canada, actually, with this listener, follow-up. Great. Hello, this is Andrew from Winnipeg. After the Bob Odenkirk episode, a lot of people of the city went, wait. His experience is not actually what the city offers. I think we're something like in the top 10 of restaurants per capita in North America. So my question to you guys is, when are you going to come here to correct Bob's experience?

Now, if you're coming here in the winter, let me warn you, it can be something between, you know, minus 15 to minus 40 Celsius. And when it's minus 40, it's basically the same in Fahrenheit. But we offer things like Festival de Voyager, which is an outdoor French festival at minus 20. Or where you can skate on the river where we put like fake trees and you can rent skates and it's like a couple of miles. Or you can come in the summer where there are pop-ups for beer and food trucks and music festivals and things like that. Come on down to Winnipeg. you'll really love it here, no matter when you come, even in minus 35. I feel like I would tilt summer.

Yeah, I would say the chances I would, the percentage chance I would go in the winter is also minus 35. I thought Odin Kirk gave a, I thought Odin Kirk really had a fondness for Winnipeg. I think he did. I think he maybe just kind of threw a little shade on the restaurant scene. Okay. Maybe, yeah. And by the way, like, I would love. love to go to Winnipeg.

I would love to go to Winnipeg to do stand-up. Yeah. It's one of my favorite things in the world, just to like go to a new city. And you know what? I'm going to try to reach out and make it happen. Yeah, I guess, I mean, it wouldn't take too much Googling

to figure out what theater up there you would play. Or where it is. Yeah. Like what part of Canada it is. I have, I do know, like, it is. I remember just reading Pittsburgh sports writers who would go up there

to cover Penguin's games. I remember one of them saying like it's the oldest place he's been in his life. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah, no, but I'd love to go to pretty much any Canadian city.

They're good. Canada's calling, Suf. Canada's calling. And are we going to pick up the phone? That's a real question, Pashi. Yeah. Did they remember to dial plus one?

first. Is that what we are? That's what we are, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, very good. I mean, it's always nice to hear from our listeners. Yeah.

And also to try and correct the record if someone... Yeah. And by the way, we're never looking to besmir- If you ever feel as though your city got a raw deal. If you feel besmirched. If you feel besmirched, unsmurched. Unsmurch it. Maybe we need a segment.

of the show called the unsmirching section. Or desmerching? The desmerching. The desmercification of your city. I'm just worried that if we say, you know, we're going to dismerch, people hear it as the smirfs. Oh, yeah. And they'll take, they'll be bummed then. There's no smurfs content.

Right. There's a lot of people that are just, they're just hungry. Do you remember buying like smurf, like little toy smurfs? Yeah. Oh, yeah. We were, we were into the smurfs. But that, it is still, it's amazing to watch, like, that's the never-ending scam of how, like, kids just want to, like, collect different chotchkes. Yeah.

Of a set. Mm-hmm. Well, that's the thing about smurfs, too. There's so many of them. So many smurfs. And then, I mean, the one thing I'll say is, like, we bought a lot of the smurfs. And then, you know, I recently sold them all and bought a castle in Ireland with the, I mean, they've kept their value. Oh.

Yeah. I see what you're saying. What'd you do with your Smurfs money? I donated it to charity. Oh, that's great. Yeah. Was it for people afflicted with Smurfism? Yeah, those people who ate too much of that colloidal silver and skin blue, those people.

Yeah. Blued up. But the best thing is they then all, everyone who became a smurf was also then good at one thing. They were either very vain. or a doctor chef Uh-huh This is a chef This is so funny

They were like all jobs With them It was just like the vain one He was the fashion one He was yeah He was yeah He was kind of He was probably

In haute couture Yeah All right thanks to our listeners Some good ones Some good ones Do we have any more comments Or are we Is this

Oh yeah Do we have any I don't want to rush out of here Sam No I know you do Because you want to That's it

All right Seth What was the end of that sentence. No, I'm just like, you know, let's just say things are about to get heated. Well, thank you, everyone. And we'll, yeah, we'll think about some prompts for some episodes this season. I think that's a good way to go.

So I appreciate Greta for sort of lighting that fire. Yep. And, yeah, we really appreciate all of you listening from all over the world, it sounds like. That's, yeah, it's very flattering and very nice. Yeah, we love everybody. And happy birthday again, Pashi. Thank you, Sufi. It was so nice of you to come out.

Oh, we did leave out that before this started, you said that I left a sweatshirt and a computer charger at your house. I did not stay at your house. I simply went over there for a few hours. Yeah. Your computer charger was plugged into a strange outlet in my kitchen. And at one point, I unpacked. plugged it and I rolled it up and I put it on top of your computer and then you left it plugged into a different weird plug that I like never used. Yeah, yeah, that happens a lot. I also left my

uh, uh, uh, uh, ear pods at the hotel. I, by the way, I was packed. I, I, you can attest, I couldn't have been packed lighter. Oh, no. I mean, it was a little shoulder bag. And so it's amazing. Like, I think I left my first, third, and fourth most important thing. Like, I brought nothing, and I left it all. But, you know, that's how it goes when you're Sufi. Yeah, it was a great birthday, and thanks again for that. And yeah, yeah. Love you, buddy.

Love you, too. Do we. Do we. nurse. Greta wanted to see a bear. Couldn't find... They found scratches and the trap. Wanted bears and not this crap.

Then at night a mama came with two cubs, they played some games. Greta's parents let her sleep through it. Man, that's insane. insane. Let's nurse, Let's nurse In Australia, Stephen told

of his old Nissan patrol With grandparents in the know They knew just where they should go Back then things were on the wraps Couldn't find them on the map the maps so when they parked at a porch Stephen went running off as his legs could take him surprise two girls were naked but cared more for the waterfall Litz nurse it's nurse decide to go camp but when someone someone

One saw their gear, they said, gee, bed would happen without that near by cabin, Anusha's family Lipsmoot.