Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - D'ARCY CARDEN Went Glamping in Bordeaux

Episode Date: March 17, 2026

D’Arcy Carden joins Seth and Josh on the pod this week! She talks all about meeting her husband at Disneyland, growing up in Danville, CA, being second of four siblings, her father’s Turkish/Greek roots, houseboat trips to Lake Shasta, summers in LA at the Oakwood, her three-week England/France trip, and so much more! Plus, she chats about her comedy series, SUNNY NIGHTS and upcoming series THE FIVE-STAR WEEKEND! Watch more Family Trips episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlqYOfxU_jQem4_NRJPM8_wLBrEEQ17B6 Support our sponsors: Text BROTHERS to 64000 to get a FREE pocket pivot and their 10-pattern sprayer with the purchase of ANY size Copper Head hose. Message and data rates may apply. Find your forever cookware @hexclad and get 10% off at https://hexclad.com/trips #hexcladpartner Head to https://Superpower.com and use code TRIPS at checkout for $20 off your membership. Unlock your new health intelligence. 100+ biomarkers. Every year. Detect early signs of 1,000+ conditions. #superpowerpod Go to https://DRINKAG1.com/TRIPS to get an AG1 Flavor Sampler and a bottle of Vitamin D3+K2 for FREE in your AG1 Welcome Kit with your first AG1 subscription order! Only while supplies last IQBAR is offering our special podcast listeners twenty percent off all IQBAR products—including the Ultimate sampler pack—plus FREE shipping. To get your twenty percent off, text TRIPS 64000 . See terms for details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, buddy. Hey, Suv. How are you doing? I'm good. Yeah, I'm good. You're in the closet today. I am in the closet. We're getting a new roof on our building.

Yeah. I've sort of... There's no quiet roof installations. Yeah, I mean, they had moved to a different part of the building, but today they're really right over the top of where I would normally record. And it's not bad in here. All right, that's good. You were worried you were going to get a little hot and sweaty,

but you seemed to be looking all right. You hold up pretty well. Yeah, I'm okay. You're busy because you've been traveling a lot for your other podcast, California now. Yeah, I went to, we're doing two episodes on the FIFA World Cup locations here in California. So, went to SoFi, went to Levi Stadium, and then some, like, cool bars in San Francisco, and got to interview Kobe Jones of the LA Galaxy and the U.S. men's national team at the LA Galaxy Stadium. So, yeah, it's been cool. You also, we haven't actually talked.

I called you when you were in a car with somebody else. You were on Kimmel and Jimmy Kimmel Live, and you did your exceptional Gavin Newsom impression right next to the actual Gavin Newsom. Yeah, met Gavin, which was really fun. You know, I was all, I'd gone through hair and makeup before he got there. So I was in my dressing room,

and I wandered out just to see if he was there yet, two of his security detail were there, and they definitely double-clutched because those people are supposed to know sort of where their principal is at all times, and they saw me. So they were like, oh, we're about to get an earful because we... Yeah, we're like, you know, we know he's pulling up in 10 minutes, but he's standing right here, somebody's dropped the ball. So, and then I went back in my dressing room, and they called me out when he got there, and both of us were sort of like, whoa.

Yeah. because it was, you know, it was, it's... Height-wise, about the same, too? He's taller. He's definitely taller. Yeah, he's a tall dude. But he's, you know, he's a politician. He's made it.

His, uh, he's figured out how to be approachable and easy to talk to. He also did a great move on camera, which I was going to talk to you about. He leaned into your impression of him. Yeah. Which is a really fun thing. to watch. Because if you can tell when a politician does the other move, which is this is a cartoon version of me, so I'm going to just be the straight one. Right. No, he was having fun with it. And also he had done, you know, three segments. So I feel like he, if I don't imagine that

guy has any nerves for going on a talk show, I think he's always out in public. But I think you get your looser in your third act than you are in your first. Sure. And the audience is on your side. Yeah. And also, you know, I will say all the script for that bit was, you know, my bits were scripted. Jimmy had some scripted lines. But all of, you know, Governor Newsom's were just like, just react naturally in the moment. So anything he said was just off the cuff. Yeah. It was very, it was really good. Newsom-tusum. Really enjoyed that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, it was fun. I, yeah, I hope to meet him. again down the line here but it was pretty exciting uh very cool very cool to work we had our last um last ski day of the season and uh it's a real accomplishment to get through ski season yeah as you know i'm i've had a lot of opinions about skiing over the years very few of them are positive and yet here i am you know i ski once a week i was texting with our friend kevin cohen who's like

huge skier. He's like, you know you ski more than I do now. Yeah. And Addy did not want to take a lesson this week. She wanted to ski with me. And I will say truly, with no exaggeration, greatest three hours of skiing my life. Oh, amazing. Because just go up with Addy, chatterbox on the lift, and then she is just such, she is so dutiful compared to my sons. Yeah. Where I'm like, we're just going to go down and, uh, I'll do turns and you just follow me. And she just, like, I just do big ass turns all the way down. She's just right behind me.

Just so fun. And then she wants to go straight down at the bottom, like, you know, whatever, the bottom fifth. I'm like, okay, now you can just go straight down. Yeah. She just, like, barrels down. Let a rip. Yeah. You said big S turns, not big ass turns.

Yeah. No, but they were big ass turns. They were big ass turns, yeah. Yeah, I don't know if we talked about it here or not. we talked about you going to Montana and skiing with the boys, but there is a video that I forget if we referenced it here, but great video of your three kids and you pan across, and there's sort of like, there's a little track that the kids are skiing in and, you know, there's an instructor there, so it's like follow us kind of through these gates.

Yeah, so think about it. It's like a little bit of like, yeah, like almost like a little bobsled track type thing. Right. It's like kind of carved out of the snow. It's not like an actual metal track, but they're just going through a path. After you pan past your eldest, who's, you know, going pretty quick through this little track, then Addie, who's a little slower, then you see your middle boy Axel, who's not in the track at all, but tries to cut across it. And his skis hit the sort of edge of the bank that if he were in the track, he would be, you know, no trouble. But instead he hits it, and his skis just stay right where they are, and he goes launching forward.

It's really great. He both, it shows you how, like, good the bindings are, because he literally launches out. Also, he's coming down, and, like, he's the only one who always, he's just always yelling something that is not in line with the kind of ski he is. He's like, Kawabunga! And then just, like, click, click. Goes flying. Yeah. I think it was, like, the third video I took that I had to stop because he had fallen.

Oh, wow. Yeah. And just, like, always some weird thing where he was just overconfident. Yeah. And I also think he's like, I don't know, his natural state is to be just lying in a pile. Yeah. So I think he's like, oh, we made it. But of course, he wants to watch it.

I mean, he's made us watch it like a hundred times. Yeah, that was a great video. Yeah, that's a great video. Great fail. We just wanted to say real quick, rest in peace to Eric Dane, the actor. We had him on this podcast. He was a fantastic conversation. He was a great actor.

He passed away. a couple months ago and we're just really lucky we get to cross paths with him. Yeah, such a cool guy. You know, just talking about his sort of water polo

career and how, like, even in later years, he still sort of had that fire to be like, no, if I got in there, I'd want to, I'd want to like sprint after someone to try to take him down. Yeah, he was such a joy. And, yeah,

terrible loss and we certainly feel for his family and are lucky that we yeah got some time to chat to him our friend Darcy Cardin is our guest today and we are lucky to know her and her husband Jason very well and you're about to be very lucky to hear about her really she just it seems like she just came from a great family yeah yeah good trips a lot of siblings and and enjoy Chips, brothers Am I here? Yeah.

We're here? The love brothers, the brothers. Hello, friend. Hi, guys. We're just going to start off Darcy by saying we know you well. We know your husband very well. And yet I did not know that you guys met at Disneyland, which seems very fitting for the theme of this podcast. Yeah, that's right.

That is such a weird. fact that whenever anyone says it, I'm like, well, no, no. Like, it makes us sound like full Disney adults, which we are not. Yeah. But you're not full of Disney adults. You just met the love of your life at Disney as an adult. And we probably go once a year. Disney adults aren't bad people.

No, they're not. And the people that are listening to this podcast that are daily adults, we love you, and we thank you for your patronage. Right. Yeah. Yeah, we did, we met at Disney. I was visiting friends in L.A. I lived in New York, and he was in the group of friends of the friends I was visiting,

and they were going to Disneyland for the day. And so I was like the out-of-town friend going to Disneyland and like the odd man out. And he was really nice to me. I will say it does sound like a nice place to meet somebody. Like you're walking around all day, you're doing rides. Yeah. You're like standing in line. You're kind of getting to know each other.

It's not alcohol-fueled. Yeah, that's right. Or is it, or was it? I don't know. There's that secret bar that you hear about. I don't know if it's more accessible now than it used to be, but there was always chatter of the secret bar at Disney. Right. I've never indulged in alcohol at Disneyland.

I think I, I like, ate weed one time when I was later. We've all eaten weed in the same part. But it was sweet. And, you know, can you imagine, like, there's this moment where, you know, when you when you're at a theme park, you have to like couple up to go in a ride together, you know? And there was like, and I think I was often riding with my friend's daughter, okay, who was like four. And there was like one ride where Jason was like, right with me. And all of a sudden I was kind of like, hoo-hoo.

Okay. Like a little bit of a flutter. Wow. Yeah. That's really nice. What ride was it? Mr. Toad's Wild ride. Yeah.

And what is marriage, if not Mr. Toad's wild ride? Wow. That is, if you go back and watch that movie. Yeah, Mr. Toad was very big in our household growing up. It was? Oh, like the movie. Or the books and the books. I know, I'm like, what is it?

What is it? The wind and the willows. The wind and the willows is the book. But the movie's great. It's one of those, by the way, now the sound off in the comments, Disney adults. I feel like the movie is like the head. It's not a full movie. Okay.

But it's not like a little cartoon either. I don't know what I went. I think it was like maybe a thing they showed before like Bambi. Okay, okay. That totally sounds right. And I feel like it was darkish. It was like a little, a little, it wasn't bright and happy Disney. It was like a little bit.

No, but it's awesome. It is. Yeah. I remember loving it. Yeah. Also, Headless Horseman, a bit of a crush of mine. Ooh. Iqabod Crane.

I was always like, yeah, this dance is not doing a lot to disabee. use those who call you a Disney adult. And who's calling me that? Met my husband on Tozweil Ride. Not a full Ichabod cream, but close enough. He's giving full Iqabod. Where? So you went to, obviously, you got your,

with schooling in New York and then in early theater stuff? You know what? I got my schooling in Ashland, Oregon. Oh. But then moved directly to New York. Got it. So my, I grew up in the Bay Area. Got it. That's where I was going to ask word, Danville, California.

Danville, California. We all know Danville, California. Sure. We didn't just read it for the first time in your bio. Yeah. And depending on where you're from, some people say Danville. Okay, good to know. But nobody in California does. And then, yeah, went to school in Oregon in like the southernmost little town in Oregon, which is very popular for its Shakespeare Festival and good little theater school. And then, yeah, moved to New York directly after college and lived there for a decade or so.

But you've got three siblings? Correct. I have three siblings. Lainey, Will, Miranda. Where do you fall? I'm the second, which I always say is like in the middle, but it is in the middle. Yeah, it's the middle. Miranda was a little bit of an afterthought child.

She came nine years after me. We still haven't figured out the right way to say this. I know I like that you didn't use a mistake, but after. I thought also doesn't feel like the warm embrace. What we call it in our family is A team and B team. The two oldest are the A team and the two youngest are the B team, which they don't love. What's the gap between two and three? Is that the gap between two and three is like five years.

Okay. I mean, that's no small thing either. What are you guys, two years? Two years, yeah. My sister, Laney and I are like 16 months or something like that, you know, really close. And that was so close, they were like, we got to give it a full half a decade. This is too much. So, yeah, the oldest two girls are really close in age.

And then little brother was how we were for a long time. And then Miranda came along and brightened up our lives. So Miranda is like a full, you were almost in college by the time she came around? I was, you know, I was only nine when she came. So, I mean, in a way that's almost in college in the grand scheme of life. Yeah, yeah. If you're looking at full life. Sure, sure, sure.

Yeah, it's a blink. But yeah, so she came late, but it's, you know, I think some people have the type of, when there's a big gap in siblings, you're, especially if you are almost in college, you're like, well, I didn't really live with them very much. But Miranda, she's the light of our lives. That's great. She came, she came along and she was ours. She was like, my older sister and I was like, this is our baby. That's, yeah. Yeah.

I feel like my oldest boy is nine. My oldest child, too. He's happy to be a boy. But I think he would embrace a young child if we had one now. Yeah. He's very sweet. Yeah, do it. And he'd have to, yeah, all right, all right.

Yeah, just do it. Yeah, okay. He works it. Come on. That's all it took. That's all it took. I'm looking at your mother's name, and I love it. And I feel like I've never seen it before.

Okay, her last name. I don't know. Englefried? Yeah, that's her maiden name. Oh, gotcha. Oh, my gosh. It listed as her first name, which was very excited. Very exciting.

Wait, on like Wikipedia or something? On our family trips. Family trips has a new AI that's pretty shaky. No, this is great. I thought her first name was Englefried and I was going to be like, amazing. Chat F.T. It's not the best. Well, it's still in like its early stages.

Give it some time. Yeah, so this is just a normal name, Lori. But then Englefried is a strange, you know, I've never heard it before other than my whole but, you know, outside of this family. Yeah. But she goes by my maiden name, which is Eriken. Did you know that I had a maiden name? No, that's so weird.

Did you think that Jason and I were siblings? Well, I felt like you have so much in common. You're both Disney adults. Both, both gardens. Wait. So wait. She goes by, okay, wait. I know.

There's too many fucking names. And by the way, it's simple. It's my family all goes by. Eriken. Okay. But then when Jason proposed to me, how good does Darcy Cardin sound? It's very good. Yeah.

And Eriken is a great last name, but has never been pronounced correctly once in my entire life. How do you spell it? E, R-O-K-A-N. Oh, yeah, that's awesome. There's just so, there's so many different ways you can do it. Totally. And this is like something I feel like you guys will understand. Imagine, like, every time my name was, every time I was introduced at UCB, the theater,

that I came up in in New York where I knew these people like family, it would be like, and welcome to the stage, Darcy, Errigan, like just so stressed out about how to say it. So I kind of welcomed the cardin. I can't but Englefried does sound like,

I'm surprised it wasn't used in at least one 80s movie about like the nerd in the back. Like Engelfried does seem like what you'd call. But so Erickin is. is Turkish. Turkish. And I feel like that would be, I feel like nobody. So very few people know how to pronounce Turkish names.

It's a tough one. And also my grandpa made it up. Oh, so it's even harder. It's even harder. I mean, it means something. Yeah. So even Turkish people are like, this isn't one of ours. Don't pin this on us.

Yeah, yeah. But Engelfried is, my mom has a big old family, seven siblings. a lot of Engelfried's in my life. So your dad from Turkey, from Istanbul? Yeah. And he came, how old was he when he emigrated? He was really young. He was like three or four. Oh, wow.

Yeah, really young. Okay, but to California? To Boston for a while. They're Greek and Turkish, actually. Half Greek, half Turkish. Great. So all of the Greek family lived in Boston, which I think is popular, right? A lot of Greeks in Boston or Massachusetts.

and then moved to the Bay Area when he was maybe in, like, junior high, met my freaking mom, got freaking married, had four freaking kids. Wow. Wow. In junior high? Yeah, really young. 12 and 13. You can do it, though.

Was Turkey part of his life? Did he go back to Turkey? No. Okay. Interesting. Yeah. And we've always sort of been like, what the hell, man? Yeah.

Take us there. Yeah. We, yeah, we, um. And it's, was he from Istanbul as well? Yeah. Yeah, that's like a bucketless city for me too. I'm, me too. I know.

I got to get to the bottom of this, actually. What? Yeah. There was, okay, there was something like, there's some, my family will be listening to this right now and they'll know the answer. By the way, I'm going to say the fact that your grandfather made up a last name, there might be some legal issues. That's right. I honestly, honestly, there is something, this, my family knows the story so well and I don't. Yeah.

because I guess I'm a self-centered actor. But it's like... Our story began when I was cast in a good place. We all know it well. But my grandma was Greek and my grandpa was Turkish, and they weren't allowed to really live in either of those places together. So there was like a bit of a... Get out of here.

A bit of a flea, a bit of a... You must leave now. So there might be some like residual, like, resentment. I don't know. Like, you didn't want us. I mean, my dad has never said that, but my siblings and I have discussed. And there was also something about, like, he could be put in the army until pretty late if he went back. What am I talking about?

It would be funny if you went back and somehow you owed conscription for both your dad and your grandfather? No, you're doing a full eight. You have to. Welcome. Yeah, yeah. So we haven't been, but I'd like to. I have been to Greece. Okay.

But, damn, would really like to go to Turkey. Have you seen family in Greece? Well, only in the face of every freaking woman I pass by. Sorry, sorry, sorry, you spit up. Truly, it was wild. I didn't expect that. But every Greek woman that passed, I was like, hello, grandmother. But I didn't.

I went with, we all know it, the good place took me there for the finale of the show. Everybody knows. No, nobody knows this. But we shot a bit of the finale in Greece, so we got to go. And it was just three of you, right? Or was it ever, yeah, it was just you and. It was truly like, it was Kristen and William Jackson Harper and an absolute bone thrown to me. Is that what you say?

They threw me a bone, which is like, I had like one line. A man, as a man who's caught many bones that were thrown by muchurer over the years. Yes. I know how it goes. Yeah, is a great bone to catch. So it was truly like, yeah, we can put you in the scene. Great. Yeah, it rules.

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siblings came around? Were you doing big group trips once everyone had arrived? I was thinking about, you know, preparing for this. I was thinking about... And then decided, yay, or nay? I was thinking about preparing and I decided that. No, I was thinking about this. Dot, dot, dot. Yeah. Got it. You little smart asses. You little brother bullies. I'm a little snarky. We were going to call it the snarkers right now.

Originally, what's going to be the name of it? Yes, you are in a closet. But great. No, there's roofers on my roof this morning. Oh, where else would they be? Well, Seth, you're kind of being a bully. I can snark any way I want. Josh, we have to snark on him at some point. Oh, good luck.

I'm snark-proof. Yeah. So we did do a lot of trips. He's shower-proof, too, also. Oh, boy. He's shower-proof. Got me. I put down my guard.

You got me. Yeah, we both showered. I mean, your hair looks like it's, you know, you've done something. to yourself today and Seth has put on a sweatshirt. Sorry. Okay. Are you saying that Seth didn't shower today? Yeah, that's what you're saying.

But did you know that fact fact? I mean, you can just tell. Yeah. I would say growing up with me, like he knew where to put the money. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I am very proud of myself. I did spend the five minutes before we started one of my, the ties of my thing was in the hood. That's not an easy task.

No, yeah, I got it out. Kind of had to do like an ur-e-ur-e-e-re-e-er-k. It's real slow. I feel real proud of myself. I'm sorry, I interrupted you, but. No, no, no. So we took a lot of trips, a lot of, you know, growing up in the Bay Area, there's so many places to go by car, you know. There's growing up in California, really.

We did a lot of houseboating trips on Lake Shasta, a gorgeous lake. Yeah. We did a yearly or twice yearly trip to L.A., where sometimes we would stay. in L.A. for the whole entire goddamn summer. Wow. Where? I know. Okay. I don't know if this will mean anything to you guys because you are, no, no, no, this might mean. Okay. Do you know what the Oakwood Hotel is? Only from actors saying. Yeah. Yes. So we would, I also calling it a hotel. I've never said hotel in my life. Oakwood residents, I think it's what it is. Yeah. It's like a long-term apartment. The one on Barham? Yeah. Long-term, short-term. You guys.

So we, for our listeners, this is like if you are like young actors, particularly, like someone lives in New York and they like book a job in L.A., like maybe a summer movie. And they would like last minute be able to like book a residence at the Oakwood. At the Oakwood. This is not flashing, probably. It's furnished. It's not flashy. And also, you know, young actors, but specifically like child actors. Like, like, I believe there's like a child actor wrangler that is there. Like, you know, like a, not more than a babysitter, but somebody that's sort of like, the children come with me.

So my dad worked in the Bay Area but had an office in L.A. And so he would come to, he would come to L.A. for the summers and we would join. You know, he would like work in the L.A. office. Yeah. Got it. So it wasn't, it was not, but was the plan, like, would he have had to go to L.A. anyway? Or was he like, you know what, I'll work out of the L.A. office because that's a better place for my kids to spend the summer. No, I think it was, I mean, he was the, sorry to brag, boss. Oh. The CEO.

Oh, wow. The editor-in-chief. Oh. Okay. Of a magazine. Of Erdekon importers. And I don't know what they did. And I still don't know.

And I don't ask. Don't ask any questions. Erdicon, great. Yeah, he had magazines in the 70s, 80s and 90s. And the music magazine, Bam, magazine was, had a big L.A. office. Got it. You know, big L.A. music scene in the A. And were you, would you look forward to a summer in L.A.? Totally. It was, I mean, it's

funny thinking back on it because I don't remember like big tearful goodbyes with friends or anything. Right. I think because we had so many siblings and L.A. was really fun. We, you know, we would like go to the beach a lot and go to Disneyland. And it was such a work summer for my dad. And it was like such a vacation summer for my mom and the kids. mom, I'm sure she's like, Jesus Christ, got to cart these kids all over L.A. Because I would say, right, Oakwood to the beach is not close. Not close, but also, like, you know, when you don't, like, live here, you do things like that. Does that make sense?

Yeah, and when I, I mean, by the way, like, we in New Hampshire, when we go to the beach in the summer, probably more than an hour, right, Bob? Yeah. I mean, it was about an hour. But also, I mean, if you're at the Oakwoods, you're sort of right on the highway there. So if you do it at the right time. At the right time. And, like, I'm guessing you make a day of it if you're...

You make a day of it. There were two summers of these many summers that we stayed at the Oakwood in Marina del Rey. That was, like, on the beach. That was, like, walked to the beach. Anyway, so the L.A. summers were really fun. What was, not to go back, but Lake Shasta. Yeah. Where is Lake Shasta?

Lake Shasta is north. So, north, north, North, California. I mean, I think of the... When I say northern California, I always think of the Bay Area. And then there's, like, more northern California. There's a lot more. There's so much more. Again, kind of making it about myself.

Yeah. And it's up near, you know, like on the way to Oregon. Yeah. Got it. North. North. I'm being scared. It's in the shadow of Mount Shasta.

Yeah, it is. Yeah. Was your family outdoorsy? Was that, like, when you would go to Lake Shasta? This was kind of the extent of the outdoorsy. And we would go with a couple other families who were probably more outdoorsy. We did it. We loved it and did a good job of being outdoorsy. But, like, I wouldn't call my dad, like, Mr. Outdoorsy.

Right. Would you call, were you guys super outdoorsy? I was the most outdoorsy of us. We spent a lot of time outside, but we weren't super outdoorsy people. Yeah. I feel like we camped, like, once or twice. Yeah, and I wouldn't call my dad Mr. Outdoorsy only because he was already Mr. Screams his head off. And it would be like, who are you talking about?

They wouldn't know. The mailman wouldn't know where to. Right. Like, who's this guy? Yeah, exactly. Screams his head off. I did not have a scream. My dad isn't screams his head off.

Oh, yeah. My dad is like, like, I'm disappointed. And what, so if you were on a houseboat, were you on a houseboat with other families? Or did you, did every family have their own? Yeah, that's, okay. So I think they were like four families and I think we would get two houseboats. and we would sort of like, you know, travel, a sail, float, boat together next to each other. And then when we would dock, we would, like, tie the boats up together.

So it was kind of like a double, a double boat. And that was really fun. This was with, like, you know, four of us, four families, everybody had kids, a lot of, it was just, it was, I think, like, I think of houseboating is like a luxury vacation. And it's because of these trips. Like I have suggested to friends that we go houseboating and everyone's like, huh? Hmm. Do you sleep on the boat? You sleep on the boat.

You sleep on the roof under the stars. There's, it's like a little, have you ever been on a houseboat? Yeah. You know, it's like there's rooms and there's a kitchen and there's a living room and you can sleep in the rooms on like in the bunk beds. But everybody would sort of pile onto the roof and I think we'd like go in August when there was a meteor shower. It was just kind of magical and fun. It was just... Again, it seems like this is another one

based on what you're talking about it that you looked forward to. Totally looked forward to it. Like Chasta. Yeah. It was like... It was probably our outdoors-e-est. So it would be like, let's go in a hike

or let's go jump in that waterfall or like, you know, or swim in the dam lake. I do remember, you know, this is like 90s. I'm picturing my brother, who's three years younger than me, Will, who was definitely like, like, punk, emo. I wouldn't even say goth,

but he was, my man was wearing black and metal. He was wearing black. He was wearing things with studs in it. So this was not like his area. I remember, you know, like being in the sun all day,

like hiking around. I remember there was... Yeah, you never hear people dress like that being like, love the outdoors. Exactly, exactly. I love when the metal gets hot. I'm picturing this one day that he was like in,

there was like a little, top nook of the of the houseboat. So like on the roof there was like a little nook that you could go in I guess for I don't know, I don't know, there would be a shade. It was like imagine a little cave on top of the roof and he would go in there to read and like draw.

And there was one day that like his little feet were sticking out and I think he fell asleep in his and for the rest of the trip. He just had absolutely red top of featsies. Just burnt to a crisp. Josh had some real embarrassed. like sunburns over the years. Yeah.

Like I, but Josh is always like shopping for a sunburn because he's so pale. And does a great job. And I should say like as an adult, you've done a great job, Josh. You take your skin health very seriously. Yeah. I mean, I think multiple skin cancer removal things. Yes, that'll do it. Well, change a man.

That'll ring the bell, the alarm bells. Yeah. But as a kid, you're like, get SPF the hell away from me. Or like a sun hat, right? You're just like, I want to play in the sand. The red, The Red Foot of Shame is a big thing. The Red Foot of Shame. Would you go to sort of different places on land?

Would you bring the boats to sort of, would you swim off and then go hike in the woods? Yeah, we would like a lot of hikes. I don't remember ever like, you know, stopping to go like into town or anything. We wouldn't like dock and like go to the local, you know, restaurant or whatever. It was very much contained into these two boats. So we would dock, we would like barbecue. A lot of cards were played. It was a lot of, like, different aged kids, like teenage boy, down to, like, a couple little kids.

And everybody got along really well. It was sweet. It was sweet. It was really sweet. Yeah. Nobody was making out. And when you've got the boats tied together, is it just sort of like your footprint has just gotten that much bigger? And you can just hop boat to boat if you want to hang out with the older kids. You're over there.

And the younger kids are on that. Yes. In fact, I think there was like a little swinging gate thing that you would open. And so it was all one, basically. You know? Yeah. There was no, it was no, there was no, there was no, like, distinction almost on whose boat was whose. It was all one big, big old, big old square. Yeah. But it was really fun, really sweet. Like, I, I truly would like to do that again.

Yeah. I don't know if anybody wants to do it with me, but I want to do it again. Did you, did your parents, four kids, that's a lot? Yeah. Were they sort of, a stressful travelers? Were they laid back travelers? They were, you know, I feel like this is common that, like, dad was, um, he was like, he was like a commander, you know what I mean? Like, especially if it was an airport situation. But even with packing and, oh, wow, I just, oh, it's so fun when a little memory flashes. Like, I was, I am realizing in this moment, I was like his good little soldier.

You know what I mean? I was like, oh, help you with the bags, dad. Like, like, I'm your, I'm your best son. And he would like compliment me on like, good, God, you're so strong. And I'd be like, God, this is going to fill me for weeks. That's so, I, that's my oldest is this real, he wants to be a helper and he wants to be strong. That's so cute. We were leaving the ski place the other day.

And there were like two bags and all these skis. And so I had one bag. He had another bag. And then we have another kid named Axel who could care less. And I was like, I'll go get the car. You can just set the things down so we don't have to carry him. And Ash is like, no, give me the bag. I'm not going to let him touch the snow.

And I'm like, they're waterproof bags. You're not. This is not. And he's like, I got him. And he's like, ugh. And then I like, you know, took me like 10 minutes to pull the car around. He was just standing there. And meanwhile, like, Axel's just like leaning against the snow drift who care less.

I love it. I love that. And all he wants is for you to be like, God, you're so strong, buddy. You're so strong. Yeah. Did you give it to him? Oh, 100%. Okay, good.

Yeah, I look, the fact that any of my children want to be helpful, they get a lot of positive fear. Yeah. I remember also, like, you know, being at airports at the baggage claim. And the way, like, a dad would be like, you guys sit back there. You know, you guys, like, hold a spot and I'll grab that. I would be right next to my dad being like, I got this back, Dad. No, no, no, I got it. I got it. It, like, takes me out. It is that thing that kids don't realize.

I'm like, it's a bad look to the other parents when you're. You're like, Oh! Ouch! I, um, we, so many of these trips were, were, we would drive to them. But I'm thinking, okay, so thinking about the baggage claim, I do remember a trip. This was a rad trip. We went to Phoenix, Arizona to go to the A's spring training.

Wow. What? Yeah. This was like 90. 90-ish, 89, 90. Absolute freaking Bash Brothers ass. Like, I mean, my grandma Anita, my Greek grandmother was a gigantic AIS fan. Canseco was like her man.

I think she had like a framed picture of him on her wall. That's great. And she really wanted to go to spring training. In the right light, Jose Canseco looks a little Greek. Yeah, for real. Probably helped Anita. Totally. Like a Greek.

God, truly. Yeah, really, truly. Yeah. There's multiple statues in Athens really. I think that's Kansako. Is that Kansako? So we went to spring training and I don't know why we did this. I mean, it's great that we did this, but how do we do this? We stayed at the same hotel that they stayed at. Wow. Wow. So we, we like, I'm remembering like morning breakfast buffets just being in between these, like, gigantic baseball players. My brother remembers that Konseko ate like a dozen eggs a day. I don't know if that's true, but I think it is. I think that's very believable.

That sounds very believable. Did you – so I was going to say, like, wow, A's Spring Training with two older – like, the two girls are the oldest. And it seemed very dad-driven, but was this Anita's idea? Was this like – oh, that's fantastic. I know. She was like the reason that we were all A's fans. I don't know why that happened.

It wasn't like a lifelong thing. of hers. It might have been because of the, that excitement of that time on the A's. Yeah. The 88, 89, 90, whatever that arrow was. She just loved Dinger's. She was like, I don't care. And then it was just like Dinger Central in the old Coliseum. And she's like, I'm in on this. Tell me more about what are the rules of this game. If there was a bandwagon to be on, that was a pretty good one. Yeah. And she would get angry if they lost. And it was like, it was really, really important to her. It really became

like her thing. And so we all just jumped on with her. And weirdly, the town I grew up in Danville had a lot of A's players lived there. Kinseko lived in Danville. Wow. Dennis, Zach, Gersley, Walt Wise, all these guys you'd like see them at the local,

I don't know. So is the Lonely Islands Bash Brothers Comedy Special, like a seminal work for you? It literally, it literally brought tears to my eyes. Yeah. Like, it was, I mean, it's so goddamn good. good and funny, but I was like, when I, did it come out during COVID? Yeah, I think it was.

Okay. So we're, we are all emotionally on the edge. Exactly. Yeah. But I remember watching it with Jason and having tears in my eyes and I was like, I feel like they wrote this for me. Like I knew every reference. It was, it just, and Jason and I listened to that a lot. We listen to it a lot.

Yeah. It's great. It's a great album slash Netflix special. Yeah, it is. Also, I've, I've been to. Arizona during spring training for like, you know, guys golf trips, but we've never gone to those games. They're like, the stadiums are tiny or they're so much more accessible. Totally.

Yeah. So were you seeing a lot of games? Seeing a lot of games. Seeing a lot. It was like, yeah, I'm sure we would go to a game a day. I mean, also, I don't remember. You know when you're like a little kid, these trips, you're like, did we go for the weekend? Did we go for a month?

Yeah. Yeah. That's the way these L.A. trips feel, too, where I'm like, we went for months to, like, we live there. But, yeah, I'm sure we went to, like, three games or something, but the big excitement was the hotel, like, going to, I remember being in the hot tub with my older sister lady and Mark McGuire just dropped his gigantic body into the hot tub with us. And we were like, holy shit. By the way, it speaks about, like, how much more money is in sports. now? Like, I guarantee you, Erin Judge is not sharing a hot tub with a couple of kids. A hundred percent. A couple of kids. Right. Right. It wasn't a fancy hotel. It was like a very

average hotel. Yeah. That's unbelievable. Yeah, I wonder what the hotel is. Are you, do you feel, do you feel any abandonment over the fact? It's very sad that the A's have left Oakland. I do, but more, my sister, Laney, my older sister lives still in the Bay Area and is a big, she's a huge, She's a huge baseball family. Yeah. Make it make sense. They are a huge baseball family. My nephew Dash is like an incredible baseball player and I'm sure will go on to be a damn A.

So they call A's. It's singular A. Yeah. Yeah. It is fun. I wonder for guys. It's always been my dream to be an A. An A.

I guess that's how you say it. Yeah. I'm an A. And we are A's. So they are so upset. Like, they know all the ins and outs and who to be mad at and everything. I'm more just like, oh, I want to see more games in Oakland. But I am, like, such a, the sports that I love, I love them from, like, the time that I loved them.

I have never stuck with a, with a, we were like really into the Warriors, too. And now I should, but back when they, like, weren't good when it was, maybe they were good, but it was like Chris Mullen and Tim Hardaway. Yeah, they were interesting. They were great, but I don't think they won a lot. Yeah. No shade. Chris Mullen, I find him in my DMs. He's like,

run TMC. Yeah, run TMC. Yeah. Can you name the TMC and run TMC push? There's no way. Well, I'll ask you, Darcy. No, no, no. Josh won't be able to.

No. There's no way. The M is Chris Mullen. No. Oh. The C is Chris Mullen. Okay. T.M.

No, I can't. This is a fun game. Tim Hardaway, yes. Chris Mullen. Josh, people love this. Wait, Mitch Richmond. Yes. That was great.

And everybody in their cars right now is clapping. And they're like, oh, my God, I'm so glad Josh didn't derail that before she got it. Josh, who was your – were you into basketball? Not enough, apparently. I mean, we were Celtics fans, but I'm not – That does it. Anyway, I was not like some giant – I just remember there was a run TMC poster. Yes.

And I think that one of my friends had it. That's my reason to know it. Don't you remember it so well? I do. I mean – Like it had graffiti all over the wall. Is that the one? Yeah.

It's like a lost thing. Maybe it's not, but I feel like posters are a lost thing. Freaking posters. Freaking posters. I don't know. I bet posters are still around. Posters are, you're not in the demo for posters anymore. I bet if you go to like a mall, they got poster shops.

And if you were of a certain age, you'd be buying posters. You know what, a demo? My kids are never going to be in a demo, which is a mom who's not Alexi. There ain't nobody. Posters going up in her house. It is a poster-free. Yeah. When they go to college, their dorm is going to be poster.

Oh, the amount of posters. Every single inch will be plastered. Did young Darcy have a poster? Was there a... Yeah, I had post... You guys, listen to how cool this room was. Imagine this. One of my entire walls from floor to ceiling was cork board.

Oh, wow. So if I didn't have a poster on it, it would... I mean, it was covered. It was like... That's super cool. Not cool at all is like... Like all four of my walls were cork board. Yeah.

We live in a cork house. Yeah, I know. And also it sort of has to be a kid's room or maybe an office. But like that's not for everybody. And my older sister only had half a cork wall. Sorry, Lane. Oh, man, that's the best. So what kind of posters were up there?

It was like a lot of pictures of Eddie Vedder. Sure. A lot of like, you know, just plastered in like grunge music and maybe like a Keanu Reeves here and there. And yeah, a lot of music, a lot of music. Then a giant, I had this shirtless Iqabod crane. Oh, yeah, Iqabod. Don't get me started on my freaking crane posters. If you said it's like, posh, I'll let you answer this question.

Let's see if the trivia can get a little easier for you. I'll make it about the house you grew up in. If you had to say what's the most seminal poster in my room growing up? Poster. Well, I mean, I can do another hand. A movie poster. A movie poster. Yeah.

Give you one more hand. I'm going to do the pose. I'm going to do the post. Oh, oh. Whiskey business? Yeah. Ferris Bueller's Day off. Okay.

Yeah. I had a Ferris Bueller's Day off poster. Like, literally the first thing I was see in the morning when I woke up was Matthew Broderick. And then I made the mistake when he was on the show telling him that. How did you feel? Oh, all right. He's like, summer. Okay.

I feel weird. He was young, too. Yeah. We're a couple young guys just in hanging out of my bedroom. That's right. I also like a lot of, you know, like movie tickets. It just was a cool. It was kind of like a preteen teenager dream to just be like sticking things to the wall.

Would you swap it around very often? Yes. I would. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That's important, I think. Yeah, it would be.

Yeah. I was also like really into. changing like the furniture in my room, which just means bed and dresser, I guess. But, you know, like once a year or something being like, today's the day. I'm going to face the other way when I sleep. Yeah. Yeah. This will be huge.

McKenzie's been pitching, switching sides in the bed. Oh, interesting. I don't know. Just try it. Because we used to be on different sides, but then, like, our last dog got old, and he was, like, wandering around on the side of the bed. And I was like, I'll go to that side. so I can like, you know, deal with him.

And now, based on sort of like nothing, we like switched one night when we were at a friend's house in New York and she's like, I think it's better to be switched. But like, I don't know, all her stuff's on that end table. Josh, you can do it. Do it. You can do it, Josh. Yeah, you can do it. I have a question. Do it.

This is a question for you and Jason. When you travel, do you stay on, do you sleep on the same side as when you were at home? We, like, the, what we end, what we always end up doing is that Jason wants to be closer to the door, to the door of the hotel, to stop a murderer from killing me. Oh, good man. Yeah, good man. So we always sort of end up doing that. I sleep in the closet because I'm worried about the murderer. Maybe they won't find me here.

And I put a pile. Well, I put a pile of pillows on my side of the bed, so it looks like something's my goal. And that's close to the door because my hope is they come and just stab that. A bunch and then leave. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't come out and get them over the head while they're... No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Maybe Alexi does?

No, no, no, that gives away. You know, she's... She's got an eye mask, your plug. She barely knows that. Anybody's in there? We, mine is she, wherever we go, Alexi wants to be closer to the bathroom. So the side switch is based on that for us. I know, that does seem important to, to, like, it'll be eight steps to go pee instead of ten steps.

It's like it doesn't matter. It's, I think the crazy, I think it's a crazy choice for her. her because I she's a way lighter sleeper sleeper than me and to give me more things to bump into oh yeah yeah yeah it's a it's very short-sighted yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah we're gonna take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors support comes from superpower superpower superpowers fantastic poshi mm-hmm superpower sends a licensed professional to your home or you can visit a nearby lab and with one simple blood draw you're gonna get over a hundred biomarkers is way more than what you usually get.

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There was like, we, it's, I mean, just thinking under the umbrella of trips. I don't remember a ton of trips with them. We would, you know, like one family lived in Washington and one family lived in Oregon, so we would do a Washington trip in an Oregon. Would there be, would there be? times where the entire family would get together? Like, all meet at one house for a reunion of sorts? Definitely, like, most holidays, like, you know, Christmas or Thanksgiving or any excuse for us all to get together. And, yeah, and we'd often, we'd like look around and be like, this is everybody. We did it. That's great. Yeah, it's cool. It's cool.

Were you driving up there to Oregon and Washington? I feel like the, I feel like it was like a, okay, but. answer is no, because I feel like we would do seven hours. I feel like we never did more than that. Okay. That was your, like was that a stated sort of limit? I always feel like my parents would say from the Bay Area to L.A. was seven hours. It's not seven hours. It's like five hours, but probably with four kids at seven hours. Yeah. So that was the big thing is like, we got seven hours in the car guys, like, like get your coloring books ready or whatever it was. And, and, but I don't remember ever driving any more farther than that. Like, we flew to Arizona. We flew to Oregon. Right. How were your

car dynamics on a drive to L.A., on a sizable drive? Like, it was good. We, we, we, we, very, like, I'm going to say musical family, but what I mean is, like, really into music, really into the same music. So we'd be like, put on Paul Simon, wow. Yeah, we were a big Paul Simon family. Yeah, like, let's listen to the whole Traveling Wilburys album or whatever. We were here. Another one. Yeah, You're throwing fastballs right now. I think it just speaks to the quality of those albums. Yes, totally, totally. And sometimes we'd be like, can we listen again?

Yeah. A Fleetwood Mac album, I guess it would be which one? There's one where there's like kind of a horny song on it that I'd always be like, I'm sleeping. Like where they're sort of making like oo and ooze and awes. What is it? I mean, I'm not going to do them for you guys. So stop asking me to do them.

But it was just like a little. little bit of a horny song, and I remember being really embarrassed by it. But yeah, a lot of music, I remember listening to like one, is there a book called like Prince Caspian or something like that? C.S. Louis, maybe. Okay. I remember trying to listen to a book, a book on tape or something, and we were like, this is not working. We need music. Would you sing along if you were listening to these things? Especially my dad and I, with just full voice, maybe harmony. And do you think you were locked in on the lyrics or were you sort of mumbling through it? Well, I think I was locked in on the lyrics, but do you guys find that like albums like

this, like maybe Graceland or something, when you listen to as a full adult, every once in while you'll catch yourself singing something that you're like, well, that's certainly not the lyric. That's the lyric I thought it was for 30 years, but that's not what it is. I have a bunch of those where like maybe I'll hear Jason sing it or something and I'm like, wait, what is it? For our down 70th, Josh and I went home and we ended up back at the house. He had, there was a party, and then it was just the four of us. And John Prine, the first John Prine album was like the most listened to album.

Okay. And we were, we put it on, and we were laughing so hard at how confident we were, we knew every word. Yes. And how much, like, just like full-throated mumbling was in there. Mumbling, yeah, a lot of mumbling, a lot of, yeah, just kind of the vibe, the vibe. But I think I, this is another thing. I'm such a little, like, adult pleaser. I would love to, I would love it when, like, my dad was.

would be like, wow, you really know this song. God, you know every word. Oh, that sounds great, Dars. I'm like, oh, thanks, Dad. Yeah. Yeah. I will say, when they know lyrics, it's amazing how little they have to do for you to be like, God, you guys are crushing it.

Absolutely. Especially when it's like your music, I imagine. It's not like K-pop Demon Hunters. No shade. But I mean, like when it's something. By the way, full credit when they know that. Although they've got this awful thing now, like one of the K-pop songs, and it speaks to the popularity of the film.

There's like a, like, it's not like a recorded version, but like the schools, it's somehow permeated through society that there's a version where you like switch golden to toilet. And they all know, so they all know like this like Weird Al version of Golden. Oh, that's great. Oh, my God, Weird Al, get on it. Get on it. It's now or never.

Yeah. Did you ever, so even though you had a parents with like European roots, did you ever as kids go, you flew to Europe? Great question. Because the answer is yes. Okay. But we're, okay, so we, I mean, okay, great question. You read my mind.

We did one big, gigantic, gorgeous vacation vacation. This is when I was about to be a sophomore in high school. We went to England and France for three weeks. We did a week in London, a week in. Bordeaux? Wow. We went to this like and it's hard to explain

like a camping, it's like a camping place with airstreams. It's sort of like glamping, but this is so long ago that I don't know of what that was. And then it was pre-glamping.

It was just fancy camping. It was just fancy camping. It was just fancy camsia. I guess. Good job. That was really good. That was really good. Did you come up with pre-glampsia before you?

No, you said pre-clampsia. camping to set it up? Yeah, yeah. Or pre-glamping. You said pre-clamping to set it. I mean, don't, don't, you know, don't go back. Okay, sorry. Cut this out. Cut this out. Cut this out. Cut this out. I did. No, no, keep it and keep in. But yeah, that's what I did. I came up with and then I laid in pre-glamping and then made it sound like I just came out with it. This is inspiring, truly. Yeah, it was, it was that. It was pre-clampsia. And then we did a week in the English countryside, a place called Tring, which is where we have family. We have, so this is not our, obviously, like, our Greek and Turkish family. This is our, this is our white and British family. We have, we have like a, um, a cousin, a very, a very loved, beloved cousin, um, who has six children and they live in England. And so we would, we would, we would, they'd come to America a lot. And so this time we were like, let's go to you guys. And we had a great, a really special, amazing, like, bonding. It's kind of like before that my, my,

my older sister, Lane and I were like, I want to kill you. Sort of that vibe. I want to fucking kill you every day. And then after that, we were like best friends. It was like a very bonding trip for us. If you could go back to one of those three locations, which one would you, do you feel like you have the fondest memories of? The glamping in Bordeaux was incredible. It was amazing.

Also, I was like, what would that age be? Like, 15. Yeah. There was a bunch of families there. We sort of became friends with these, like, cool teenagers that were from England. And they were older than us, and they took us under their wing, and we got to, like, drink with them. And it was, like, you know, fun family time during the day. And then because it was, I mean, we were under age as hell, but I guess drinking age is 18 there.

And it was just. And if it's wine. I think it's like 13. Yeah, exactly. I remember it was something called a snake bite. That was the drink that I remember we would drink a lot, which I think is bad. Yeah. I think it was like.

When they try, when they don't even bother to try to make the name sound good. A snake bite isn't a snake, I feel like a snake bite's a like a Guinness with like, it's not a black and tan with a harp, but it's like cider. I think it's cider and Guinness or something. In my mind, it's like cider and wine. You know, this is way better than I thought. In my mind, a snake bite was like a, like, served in one of those little fireball. Yeah.

No, it's a little, like, classier than that. But I think, yeah, it was, it was really fun. It was, like, I don't know, they were just cool. There was, you know, there was like maybe a little makeout here or there. I don't know. I don't remember it. I don't remember every single second. And nobody has to.

It's Bordeaux. It's Bordeaux. Who remembers Bordeaux? Who can remember their first and last name? I can. Were you traveling around or were you kind of just like, this is our glamping site and we're going to just explore that? We did one amazing canoe day down the river, the one that we all know in Bordeaux. And it was stunning, gorgeous.

Like, I would like to go back there. I feel like I appreciated it as a 15-year-old, but you know the way you don't really appreciate anything when you're a kid? Not really. Things like this where you're like, now I would just want to take in the view in a way that I don't know I really fully appreciated. I think it was just like stunning views, you know? Seth, do you remember the French word for River? Mitch Richmond.

Mitch River. Mitch River, Miss River. Yes. Close. What is it? I think it's River. Well, that's gone on. That seems not.

Oh, I believe you, John. It's 100% not that. I'm surprised you can't remember the French word for River. I know, me too. I bet it might just be river. Yeah, it's a Riviera. Riviera. Yeah, that's where it comes from.

Yeah. Yeah, but it was really great. It was an amazing trip. You know, like the London Week was, it was just all great. It was just like a really, it was the kind of perfect. I think when you have four kids and the ages were probably like 16, 15, 15, 12, and like four or whatever, the math is there. That's stressful to bring them to a different country. it was like such a smooth, fun, wonderful trip.

I think everybody has such fun memories of that trip. You got to put so much. I mean, you got to put so much planning into it. Yeah. So shout out to your parents for that. You got to have good vibes. You have to like, you know, be like, hey, there's like a zenness, I think, to be a parent on vacation. But also, I mean, again, I think if you have, you guys, you were probably pretty hungover from the sounds of things, too.

They had to put up with that. Yeah, but yeah, even that. get hungover when you're 15? Maybe not. You're just like, I just got, I've processed that so fast. Exactly, exactly. But that was a great one. And, yeah, even, I can even remember like the, yeah, just, we were kind of talking earlier

about the vibes of the parents when traveling. And dad was like, like, you know, get organized, get there early, kind of quiet. Like, I don't want to talk about things. I just want you to follow my lead or whatever. And my mom was a little bit more like organized, but dad was just in charge when it came to, like, the travel part. I just remember the traveling to Europe and back was, like, really smooth. It was all great.

It was fun. Yeah. It was fun. Well, I mean, shout out to your parents. I feel like they did a fantastic job. They really did. I mean, we only know you, but they've raised at least one person. Yeah, they're so great.

Josh, did you meet my parents at the birthday show this year? No. No, I didn't. Shout out to your birthday show. By the way, I went two years ago to Darcy. And were your parents at two? They weren't there at the first one. Okay, gotcha.

Yeah. But your birthday show is one of the most exceptional things. Oh, that's so nice. Your birthday is January 4th. Yeah. You are a fourther. You and your friends, the twin sister. Katie and Allison Crutchfield, yeah.

Yeah, both excellent musicians and singers. And you host this concert that the first one, was the second one billed as a Sweet 16 as well? Yeah, yeah. Okay, so it's Sweet 16. So you have guests sing songs. that were important to them when they were 16 and there's a little banter back and forth

and it's a lot of people you know and it's some musicians, it's some comedians. And people come out and explain, it's so wonderful, you know, I can't remember the last time I've been at a concert. Josh is so good at concerts, I'm not good at all. And I just had the best time because it was like,

a different person would come out, they'd talk about themselves at 16, then they'd sing a song. I would say I knew, you know, 60% of the songs the other 40-a-old. It was like, you're banging, everything, and I was like, oh, I got to, you know. And so you have so many friends who are talented musicians. You had an awesome band that you put together.

This band would just, like, learn all these songs. Yeah, it was, I was kind of, oh, you guys, this is the sweetest thing. It's kind of like my favorite, my favorite day of the year. It's becoming my, the thing I, like, look forward to the most. It's really special. And then, you know, like having all these fun actor comedian friends do songs, but then, like, Jeff Tweedy and, you know, I mean, it's really like, it's, I can't even. It kind of is overwhelming. Sam Richardson, to me, was a revelation this last year.

Truly. What song did he do? He did overkill by men at work. And when there's a key change later in that song, when it's like, I can get to sleep and like just hits it. It's so impressive. Yeah. The band was like when he came and did the like, you know, the rehearsal the day before. And he just kind of like had his hands in his pockets and just kind of like, yep, let's do it. And he did it.

And the bands, all of their jaws just hit the floor. Like, his, he was perfect. Because it doesn't really matter how good you sound in this show. It's like everybody sounds fun and good, and they're all trying their best. And it's pretty great. But nobody is. Sam was like a professional singer. He sounded incredible.

Yeah. Oh, Carrie Brownstein, bringing the damn house down. Oh, what did Carrie do? She did a Sonic Youth song, cool thing. Oh, my God. And just truly, like, it just was special. Anyway, all this is to say my parents were there and I wish you had met them, but maybe next year. Yeah, but you never were able to have a great birthday because it's so close to Christmas and New Year's and the holiday season.

So now January 4th, you've reclaimed it. Exactly. And yeah, maybe there's going to be another show next year. So check it out if you're in L.A. You can also check out Darcy in a couple of shows that are coming out very soon. Yeah. Later this year, five-star weekend. Holy shit.

Incredible cast, Chloe Sevenier, Jennifer Garner, Regina Hall, Gemma Khan, and also Oliphant, right? Yeah, Oliphon. Yeah, Agent of Chaos, Timothy Oliphon. An absolute agent of chaos, yes. It comes up a lot on the pot. I bet. Yeah, yeah. And then Sunday nights with their friend Will Forte.

Yeah, the best. That comes, that's, that's. That's like, imminent. That's out. Oh, it's out? It's out when this airs. By the time this airs. By the time this airs.

But I have not seen it yet because it's not. officially out and I have to go through the awkward thing that happens every time a Will Forte show comes out, which is it's the only comedies my wife will watch because he is her favorite comedian. I love that. I love that. We will immediately be binging Sunday nights on Hulu. Great.

And we didn't get to it, but you shot it in Australia. So you've had some real trips. Yeah, I'll come back again. Josh is going to take you through our speed round, Darcy. All right, here we go. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation, relaxing, adventurous, or educational? Hmm.

I think relaxing. What is your favorite means of... But I love adventurous. Sure. Okay. What is your favorite means of transportation? I love a road trip. I love to drive.

Love it. Great. 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? There is one family that just popped into my head and I have to honor my truth. Hmm. The Huxstables. Great. You honor your truth.

You know what? A lot of people would have backed off that in 2026. And, uh, yeah, obviously, that's not hit. That's a different guy. That is a different. That's a different. It's a whole family. It's a whole family.

And that family is great. That is a great family. That is a great family and you cannot take that away from me. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? Jason Grant Cardin. Yeah. Love that, dude.

Yeah. What is your dream destination for a family vacation? Hawaii. I want to go there with my whole family. We've kind of talked about it for years. Yeah, we've got to do that. You are from Danville, California. If you had to get more families to come visit Danville, what would you tell them?

I'd say, come to Danville. It's green as hell. It's green as Ireland. The hills are beautiful. And go to Domenico's deli and get a turkey sandwich every day and you'll be happy. It'll be worth the trip. Great. Great.

The specificity will be appreciated. Yeah. And then Seth has our final questions. Darcy, have you been to the Grand Canyon? I have. And was it worth it? A few times. It is worth it.

Great. Seth. Okay. Have you gone yet? Yeah, we looked over the side. Okay. Wait, is that since the podcast started? Yeah, we went, my friend burned me and we had our fantasy football draft there, so I had to go.

And did you, looking over the side, were you, were you, what, how do you feel about it? It looked, everything was exactly what I had pictured in my head. Okay, God damn it. So it has, like, I think it just like, look, if it just opened. Yeah. I think I'd be blown away. But I think due to the fact that it's just, like, it's been there. It's been around too far.

It's like a little bit like if somebody, you know what I mean? like you want to see a movie the week it comes out. Otherwise, everybody talks about how awesome it is. And by the time you see it, you're like, oh, okay. Can I tell you a cute little Grand Canyon story? I've been a few times. But the last time I went was during the pandemic, Jason and I went on an amazing, incredible cross-country RV trip.

And, you know, during COVID, it was like the perfect way to get out and not stay at hotels and not have to be around anybody. But anyway, we also, two friends who you guys know, Beck Bennett and Jesse Hodges, were also doing a big road trip as well. And because the damn world was our oyster in time meant nothing, they were like, we think we're going to go to the Grand Canyon in like two days. And we just like turned around wherever we were.

And we were like, if we do, yeah, we would make it at the same time. So we met at the Grand Canyon. We hadn't like been near each other in so long because of COVID. One night we watched the sunrise. went back to our little RVs, slept in our RVs. And then, wait, I said one night we watched the sunrise. Sunset, the next day we watched the sunrise. We had our dogs with us.

It was like the most, it was one of my favorite COVID memories. It was really a cute little, it was worth it, so to speak, Seth. It was worth it. That's fantastic. All right. Well, you didn't convince me, but I'm so proud of how hard you tried. It's so great to see you, Darcy, you're the best. I adore you guys.

Thanks for having me. We love you. Love, love you. And we'll talk to you soon. Give our love to Jason. I will. Bye, please. I met dad in junior high.

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