Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - Family Trips: Live! In Philadelphia

Episode Date: August 25, 2026

This week on the pod, Seth and Josh take the show live for the first time at a sold-out City Winery in Philadelphia! They share family updates, including Comic-Con autograph chaos, their parents’ confusing porch TV setup, the legendary Albert dogs, and their kids’ impressive 5K results. They’re joined by Philly traffic and entertainment reporter Sheila Watko (also a previous Late Night with Seth Meyers Photo Researcher) who talks about growing up in Glenside, frequent Disney World trips, working at Disney’s Jungle Cruise, and a memorable family trip through Italy and Germany. Plus, the audience gets involved with questions about matchmaking, SNL tickets, family-trip mishaps, and travel advice. Watch this episode on the Family Trips YouTube or Spotify, or listen wherever you get your podcasts! Watch more Family Trips episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlqYOfxU_jQem4_NRJPM8_wLBrEEQ17B6 00:00 Introduction with Seth Meyers and Josh Meyers02:39 Philly Heat Banter04:17 Comic Con Shame21:05 Sheila Joins In31:47 Mom Can’t Play It Cool33:01 Pool Hopping Secrets33:30 Skipper Sheila Stories39:31 Sisters Disney Jobs01:02:19 Family Vacation Picks01:03:01 Philly Hidden Gems01:04:27 Grand Canyon Fears01:06:37 Audience Q&A Finale Support our sponsors: IQ BarText TRIPS to 64000 to get 20% off all IQBAR products, plus FREE shipping. Message and data rates may apply. Hero BreadHero Bread is offering 10% off your order. Go to https://hero.co and use code TRIPS at checkout. SquareGet up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at https://square.com/go/trips #squarepod About the Show: Lifelong brothers Seth Meyers and Josh Meyers ask guests to relive childhood memories, unforgettable family trips, and other disasters! New Episodes of Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers are available every Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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it was from the audience. Oh my God. Just walking on stage, it was so exciting. Because you see a room before anyone's in there and you're like, I don't know, I hope this is all right. Yeah. And we walked out and it was just great. Yeah, we did back to back, and there'll be a forthcoming episode that we did in Boston, equally great audiences. And so just thanks to the trippers who showed out. Yeah. And a great, great guest, unexpected guest probably for a lot of our listeners. Someone who used to work for you.

Yes. Her name is Sheila Waco, and she was a photo researcher at Late Night, and she left us to go be the local traffic reporter at NBC 10. Traffic and entertainment at NBC 10 in Philadelphia. And she's a fantastic conversation. I was not surprised at all based on how we worked

with her. Fascinating. Disney adult. She's got some Disney adult, unabashedly, unashamedly, Disney adult. And it was great. We did a Q&A. That was a lot of fun. So let's dig into it. But again, thanks to everybody at City Winery.

Thanks to everybody who showed up. We had a blast. Absolutely. Thanks, guys. Family Chips, brothers. Fantastic. We are so... This is the first time

we're doing a live show. Yeah? And we had no idea how it would go or if people would care about or if people wanted to see it. And we just want to thank Philadelphia. It sold out right away. And, yeah, we're just so excited to get started.

And cheers, Posh. And cheers everybody. Cheers. Here we go. So happy to be a city brewery? That's right? What's our beers? City winery?

Oh, well, we obviously ordered terribly. Yeah, we blew it. But I did go yinling. I did go yinling. It feels right. It's great to be with all of you. And what a, I mean, this is the time to come to Philly, like 92 degrees. Who's here?

Is there anybody in Philadelphia on vacation right now? Okay, a couple of you. Right. They were like, your travel agent was like August. You want to go out. No. I want to say something, though, and I mean this genuinely posh, which is I love a northeastern heat in a city. I was very happy.

I walked here from the hotel. Yeah. And I was just delighted in the wall of heat. You grew up on the East Coast. You're a trader. You moved to California. Yeah. I like a dryer.

Yeah. You move. You act like the governor all the time. That's what you love it over there? I do. And, but did you, were you turned on by this heat today? were you like, ooh, this is nice? No, no, no, no. No, no.

I mean, I'm thrilled to be in Philadelphia, but at no point was I like, this is nice. Yeah. I had, like, a little gap of time where I was like, where are those Rocky stairs at? And it was like, it's a 28-minute walk from where you are, and then I checked the temperature, and it was, yeah, it was like, yeah,

I'm not going to see those stairs. If Rocky Ababa had done the running up the stairs in this heat, he would have died. Yeah. I would have been no, Rocky would have been 45 minutes, and then you would have been like, yeah. Yeah, done you. We've got to find another fighter.

That guy, remember that lefty? He's dead. We also have both been, I mean, obviously, I live on the East Coast. You've been back on the East Coast. We have both recently visited home. Yeah. We visited Mom and Dad, and how was your visit home? It was good.

I mentioned it on the podcast. I recently went to Comic-Con. I got suckered into going and signing all. autographs at a table and people did not want those autographs. Yeah. I spent a weekend of my life being embarrassed and feeling bad about myself. Just a big old stack of headshots.

Big old stack. The guy that sort of suckered me into going, and I was like, I don't know, how many headshots do I bring? He's like, to be on the safe side, I'd like print 1,000. I was like, okay, I sold 12. And it's also a weird deal to like sell a headshot to a person who's right in front of you. Yeah.

Everything about it made me feel bad. Yeah. However. Did it feel, what did it feel like when you were storing 98 headshots? I'm just, my wife, McKenzie hasn't asked what those boxes are yet, and I don't want to tell her. That would be like, you remember in The Shining where she finally sees his manuscript and it's just like all work and no play? Like when she opens it up and she's just going through it, it's just like headshot after headshot. Yeah.

So I was there, it was like a mad TV rewind thing. And so he was like, well, print up some Mad TV things. And then when you sit at one of these tables, they create a banner that says your name and it has your headshot. And then it had like a picture from that 70 show and a picture from Red Oaks and a picture from Mad TV and something else. And it's a big banner. And it was sort of evidence of my own shame to have to bring it home. Yeah. And but then in our basement in New Hampshire, Seth's done a lot of stuff and he's done a lot of shows.

and sometimes those shows have posters involved that they might put outside of a theater. And the walls are peppered with pictures of Seth. Yeah. And I love it. And I'm represented, but not I'm sort of blown out of the water by you. But I have this big thing. And I was like, oh, I'll bring it home to mom and dad

and I'll start to take back the basement. Yeah, good idea. So you have a big banner. Big banner. And I show it to dad. And he's like, oh, yeah, you can hang that in the basement. if you want. And I was like, well, Seth has all these things up,

and he's like, yeah, but I don't look at those either. How did this end up being a burn on me? I don't know. It was a burn on both of us. And then even worse, Dad was like, also, I have these 12 headshots of you I don't need. Yeah. If you're trying to complete a set. We both, we were remarking to each other

because we only briefly overlap, but during the day we were not home. We did not share a night at home. Correct. Mom and dad have a screened-in porch, which is where they spend 95% of their time. As long as it's not too cold, that's where they live. And I was recently, it just dawned on me.

It's a great shame to you and I how shitty their TV is. It's bad. We've let them down. I mean, I have ordered them a new television, but it is laughable. Yeah. It's like I had to measure it because I was getting them a new TV, and I wanted to know how big this one is,

and a single ruler would do the trick. Yeah. Like, it's like, is this a 40-inch? And it's like, well, this ruler pretty much does it. And it's like... They got it at worst by. And it sits in the corner of a screened-in porch, which is open to the element,

so it's always getting rained on, and it's like dusty. The one thing, I think one of the reasons they keep it is, you know, they've had it for a long time, and they, you know, obviously the remote, they have no idea how it works. They have two remotes. They have to change the TV input.

Yeah. They lose the remotes. It's, uh... Yeah, they try to... When dad tries to fast forward, it, like, goes, like, three days into the future. By the time he stops, like, it's literally... If he starts fast-worting, like, a godfather,

by the time he stops, it's Godfather 3. He's, like, jumped ahead two movies. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Um, the other, uh, takeaway that I had when I was home is how nerve-wracking it is to pull out of our driveway with their dog, Albert.

He's a thing. So, maybe, for listeners to the podcast, you might know this, my parents have an old English sheep dog. His name is Albert. This is their sixth old English sheep dog. They've all been named Albert. This is because my dad believes in his bones that all sheep dogs are named Albert, and only he's smart enough to know that.

Yep. If he sees another sheep dog, sheep dog and somebody tells him what name it is, he gets close and whispers Albert in their ear. And they're, you know, they have, but they have hurting instincts. Like Albert basically doesn't like, even when we were kids, because the first Albert, I think we were like seven and five when they got Albert one. Yeah. And it was the funny thing, because if you went to different parts of the house, Albert would just like walk, he would just like do, like, it was like a cop walking the beat. He would just walk in your room, look at you, walk into another room, look at it. Like, he just, he was only happy when everybody was in the same room. Yeah. He was like one of those guys that

checks off in the bathroom. Like, clean this room. Yep, yep. Clean this room. Every time we washed our hands, he would check it. Yeah. But this is, he, when you pull out, and obviously our parents are now very used to this, he doesn't like the car to leave.

And so he acts as though it is a sheep trying to make a run for it into the Pyrenees or whatever. Yeah. And this is my impression. You pretend like you're driving the car, and I'm going to be Albert. Okay. Ah! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! In the rear-view camera...

Yeah. He's a blur. He keeps coming... You're in reverse, and you keep seeing him buzz by. It's so disconcerting. You really don't want to kill the dog. You really don't want to kill the dog. Yeah. But, you know, you do take solace knowing they would just immediately replace it with another one. Right. Josh, when the last Albert, rest in peace.

passed away because, you know, Albert is a giant dog that like pulls on a leash. Yeah, when you walk him. And Josh Wisely, you know, our parents live on the top of a hill and a part of the country that gets icy and cold. And you were worried about mom's well-being with the dog just like pulling her

basically on skates down the hill. Yeah. And you did a lot of research into smaller dogs. Yeah. That were a better fit for old people. Yeah, I've had smaller dogs. They're great. They're great.

By the time you finished putting together, document, there was another Albert. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like, that's how little they considered waiting for you to, like, fill them in. Yeah. No, they're set in their ways. They're very set in their ways. Oh, I was going to ask,

because I was thinking about Dad, who's seen The Odyssey? Make some noise if you've seen some odds. You haven't seen it yet. I have not. I, you know, there's a lot of think pieces about The Odyssey. It's a wonderful film. I highly recommend it. But, and again, I don't feel like you can spoil.

the Odyssey? No, no, it's been a book. Good book. Good book. It's a good book. But basically the whole, like, the whole problem with The Odyssey, as far as Odysseus and his men are concerned, is like, the war ends, and he's like, he's like, dad.

He's like, I think I know a better way to go home. Literally the entirety of, he's the asshole the whole time. I know it's like Matt Damon, you're rooting for him, but you're like, this asshole should have just followed the other boats. He's like, no, I got a better way to go.

I'm good. So it's real dad vibes. And it's a real family trip movie. It is a real family trip movie. You know, it really is. Our dad of Larry, Larisius, what would you call him? Yeah, I think that works. Larisius?

Is like Odysseus, except he, instead of, like, getting mad at, like, cyclops as he gets mad at, like, inanimate objects. Also, I was with my kids this weekend, and I wanted to talk to you about your nephews and your niece but obviously boys 10 and 8 I got a little girl who's 4 and I have a problem and I'm apologizing in advance because I am going to use

some profanity here my 10 year old he curses all the time and it's a problem we're really worried about it now we have not heard that it's something he does at school but like other parents who like see him like socially are like whoa yeah

and the real issue though is he is great at it. Oh. Like he curses like really, he curses like a Boston sports fan or like a Philly sports fan. I'm sure I don't know you as well, but yes.

But you curse. You curse. Yeah. But like I feel like there's that way that kids curse where they're like, you're an ass. Or like penis head. And it's just like kids. His cursing is so adult.

And we were, my father-in-law has a boat, you know, and he was pulling the 10-year-old, Ash, my oldest, and Addy, the four-year-old, the girl. And they were in an inner tube behind and pulling. And Addy was crying. And we were actually not even paying that much attention to them

because we were just pulling them behind the boat. We were going fast. We were like going from one place to another. And it's nice to have a break. It's nice to have a break. But Adi is screaming. Adi is screaming. And then all of a sudden we just hear Ash goes,

hey, stop the boat. And we also stopped the boat. And he goes, I'm not riding with this ass anymore. She scratched my fucking back. It was so good. It's exactly like Bill Burr. Yeah, yeah.

And then the problem was it was so good. And then we have the eight-year-old is on the boat with us. Because of course it's that moment where it's so good that you want to laugh. And the eight-year-old almost knows. So he hears it. and then he's got these big glasses that just like his eyes are so magnified

and so he hears it and then he just immediately looks at us like because like even the wrinkle of a smile he is just going to be is over the moon oh that's great yeah yeah yeah good at cursing yeah dad's good at cursing he is yeah he always said it's it's overused you need to do it well yeah and it's good that your kids are doing it well

yeah yeah it's good well done well done dad yeah I mean we're really hopeful oh the other thing is We did a road race. I went with 5K. And the 10-year-old wanted to do it. And we're really happy that he did. He did it with a friend. And, you know, bad.

He did bad. He's 10. He's never run. I think he was really excited. I don't think he realized that 3.1 miles is a lot of time to run. Sure. But then the 8-year-old also wanted to do it. And we were like, oh, because you don't want to tell your kid, like, you can't.

Right. Like, you're not good enough. to do it. Yeah, that's good parenting. Yeah, but we were like, you should do it. Great, you should do it. And he,

I love him so much. I think out of 1731 runners, he finished 1730. No, again, he's eight. Yeah. I think he might have stopped for like multiple, I think he might have, like,

stopped at the water table for a good long time. Do you think he wants to know who 1731 is so he can go rub it in? Oh, yeah. Knowing him, he probably would. He probably waited at the finish line.

It was like, yeah, eat my dust. Oh, so one other thing is we're going to bring out a guest real quick. We're also, when we finish with that, we're going to open it up if anybody has any questions. We're going to have somebody come around with a microphone. We'd love to hear anything you have to ask. Also, maybe you'll say, I don't have a question, but I have a family trip story. We'd love to hear that too. So we kind of leave it up to you if you want to hear about that.

And do, quick caveat, like, if you have a good family trip story. Yeah. If you have a good story and you can keep it kind of tight, think like 90 seconds, two minutes. Yeah, if you've been on a trip, that's not enough. Right. Yeah. I think the expectation is that we kind of all have. Yeah, we want those stories that are like, oh, we talk about this story years later because it was so good.

Right. This is lore. Yes. There was somebody, actually during the road race, for real, somebody ran next to. to me and he was like running with me and he goes, hey, my wife called in a family trip to a listener episode. And I'm just like, not now. He did meddle, he meddled in his age group.

I did technically metal. I finished top five, top five, top five. Top five in my age group. Right. Let's know, that's, that's all right. I was saying that I've learned the trick to finally having athletic success is just, just wait for the herd to thin.

Just get older. It turns out a lot of guys my age just don't want to run. Yeah. Yeah. And that's how I win. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. This episode is brought to you by IQ Bar, our exclusive snack, hydration and coffee sponsor. IQ Bar, Protein bars, IQ Mix, Hydration Mixes, and IQ Joe mushroom coffees.

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And now she works for NBC10. She left our show to come work for her local news station to be a traffic reporter and to also be an entertainment reporter. And she's one of our favorite people. Please welcome Sheila Watko, everybody. the bake couch. Kick back.

Oh, I had a plan in my head. I was going to sing along with the theme song, and I got too excited. That's okay. Now, for anybody who doesn't believe that Sheila is actually from Philly, we're going to let her talk for a second. Did you guys get your water backstage? We did. Thank you.

So, Sheila, what part of Philly are you from? I'm from, okay, I'm fake. I'm from Glen'side. So it's Montgomery County. Okay, it doesn't seem like it's that face. G side, G side, let's go. Okay. So I'm like a suburban girl.

Okay, you're a suburban girl and you grew up in the Philly area. Yes. And you have two siblings. Two siblings. I'm the oldest of three girls. Okay. Yes. Celine is here tonight, I believe.

She's the middle sister. The youngest one is, oh, yeah, there she is. The youngest is Grace. So she'll have Celine and Grace, and Grace is in California right now for a wedding. Okay, gotcha. Loved growing up with two sisters. And was Philly a place you would come, would you come visit Philly from where you grew up? Yes, but it was a very special occasion.

So now I live in Center. city. But when I first moved here, I was almost 29 years old. And really, like, we would come down to see a show, like, twice a year and get dinner and go back home. Or maybe come down for, my mom was big on Christmas cards. So, like, art museum steps. We'd run up the steps like Rocky. And it would say, like, I hope your Christmas rocks or something. Oh, you would come in, you would take your own. Who would take the photo if your whole family had to be in it? My mom, she would not appear in it. She would make us do a whole photo shoot. And we dreaded that day every year. Okay. So, but, so your dad wasn't in either. It was like a kid's photo shoot. It was a kid's photo shoot. Okay, gotcha. Now they've

added themselves in. Gotcha. Were you dressed in a way that you were happy about in those Christmas cards? Yeah. A lot of gap kids that was big in the Watko household. I feel like usually matching or a t-shirt in different colors, but the same design. Gotcha. Yeah. Do you think your parents lived here because they knew Sheila Watko would be just the most fun thing to say with a Philly accent? Actually, when I first started at NBC10, my news director, the time wanted me to change my name. Really? And then he said, what's your middle name?

And I said, oh, Irene. And he was like, well, think of something. But I argued to keep my name because I'm the only one. You wanted you to switch out Sheila? Sheila Wachco. He didn't like Wachco or Irene. But I'm the only one on Facebook, so I like Sam, the only Sheila Waco in the world.

Yeah. That's fantastic. I just, it's such a funny point of view to have that somebody's like, they're not going to want to hear traffic from a Shila Wachco. And real quick, just for anybody who's wondering, what are your, hours being a traffic reporter. Yes. So we start at 3.30. That's when we have our first meeting. That's in the morning. That's in the morning. Yes. And then I usually work until around 1130,

sometimes 12, sometimes earlier. Sometimes I'll work later or earlier, but usually 3.30 to 1130. Okay, gotcha. Yeah. That sounds so fun. It's not good. And I guess the wonderful thing would be at that hour, no traffic. No traffic. And you know what? Just get right into the office. I actually don't drive. So I'm the traffic reporter, but I don't drive. I don't have a car. Oh, really? And one time my old boss said, don't ever say that, but. Yeah, well, now you guys know.

So you worked at late night, and then you were like, I bet I can go later. Exactly, exactly. And so, but so real quick, you were working for us. You were a photo researcher at late night. And it is, it was, I just remember when you hear like, oh, you know, Sheila, who works for us? I'm like, of course. They're like, she's leaving to go do traffic back in Philly. It's so funny when somebody leaves to do a job that is so specific.

But how did it come about that you did it? So I was working at late night, and that was Monday through Friday. And on weekends, before I worked at late night for a year and a half, I worked at 955 PLJ in New York. It doesn't exist anymore. So then I got a job on the weekends at New 102.7.

So when I was working for you, on the weekends, I would do that just for travel money because we had great vacation time at late night. And that would be my vacation money. And I learned to do traffic on the radio. And I was supposed to be the fill-in for Foxxie. Fox 5, New York, it didn't pan out.

They were like, we don't have a green screen. We're not going to make a demo. It was very weird. So I was like, I'm going to take matters in my own hands. And there was a position open on the NBC internal careers website. And I applied, like, kind of as a joke and then got it. I was like, oh, I don't think I want to move. I love working here, but I did.

And I do miss it. I loved working at late and I was awesome. The team, all my friends are there. I made so many of my best friends. It's a great team. Well, we miss you, but we're very happy you're here. Thank you. The Waco's growing up.

What were, where did the WACOs go on family vacation? Great question. So we did. And probably one that you knew was coming. Some of our guys seem surprised by it. Some of our guys are shocked. And they're like, oh. We would do a few.

My grandparents, my dad's parents had a shore house, and that's a thing in Philly. You go down the shore. We would do that sometimes. But other than that, our main thing, we're a Disney family. Okay, gotcha. So World or land? So World.

Okay. World. And we are Disney Adel. but the normal kind. The cool kind. Is there such a... Make some noise if you're a normal Disney adult. Yay!

Make some noise if you're a Disney adult and you know it a little weird. Yeah, you know, you know. You're like, yeah, I'm not trying to be normal. I'm a Disney adult. Okay, but we've talked a lot about this in the pot of my kids, but like, do you remember how old were you the first time you went? So, my dad's in the...

He's not in the Navy anymore, but he was in the Navy for 30 years. So we lived in Pensacole. Pensacola briefly, and I believe I was taken a few times as a baby. The first time I remember was first grade. Okay. It was first grade, fourth grade, eighth grade, then every other year. Gotcha. Would you always stay in the same place? Yes. So there is, this is why we were able to go so often. There's shades of green. It's the military hotel. Air five, my friend. Yes. Oh, she didn't do it. Air five. So you two don't know each other. You just confidently yelled out shades of green. So the military has a hookup at Disney.

On property. And you get the best discounts. You can get like five or six days of park hopping tickets for like $300, which at Disney is a very good deal. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And how long has Fields of Green existed? That's, okay, that's a good question.

Shades. Shades of Green. I would just go let a show. Disney adults. You're right, Fields of Green is an idiotic name. That's a really good question. I want to say it's existed in some form since like the 70s. I think it used to be called the Disney Villas,

but as a military resort, I think 90s and 2000s. Okay, gotcha. Yeah. And so you would go to shades. Shades. Of green. And so how, and was it a multi-night of those extravagant? Okay.

Usually a week. And we had so much fun. We loved it so much. The thing about the shades of green is one of the perks, it's directly across from one of the deluxe resorts, the Polynesian. Really nice. and you used to be able to walk across the road and use the monorail.

Okay. Which was a really nice part. They have since shut that down, which I think is a slight on the military families, but that's just me. Disney adult, I'm so sorry. But yes, you used to be able to walk across the road. And when we did, you would walk through different room blocks.

And they had different names like Tonga, great ceremonial house, and you'd walk past the pool. Now, the shades of green has two pools. They are perfectly lovely. Standard. the Polynesian pool, there is a volcano slide. It's zero entry, so it looks like it's the ocean.

And we were like, we want to go to that pool. What is zero entry? Zero entry is when it starts like this as it gets deeper, so it's like you're walking into the ocean. And they had sand on the floor. Oh, my gosh. So my dad was like, well, we could pool hop. Now, something about the Watco girls,

we are goody-to-shoe nerd rule followers. Yes. Because our mother is a goody, shoo nerd rule follower as well. So she was horrified. She said, you can't pull hop. That's against the rules. That's terrible. It's impossible. And then my dad got more

excited. And we were like, this is the coolest thing ever. Our dad's going to let us pull hop. It's not that big a deal. But we thought, this was 2006. We thought it was groundbreaking. My mom's like, you can't, you can't. She was trying to convince us not to. And she was like, well, what if they ask what room you're staying in? Without a beat? My dad goes, Tonga 26C. Great.

And we're like, we don't even know if that's, That's the format. It's usually not two digits. It's usually not a letter. I think that's like how they did the phone board on Mad Men. It's like, hello, Tonga 26B. She was horrified. So my dad said, okay, well, it actually follows the rules of the reasonable man theory.

And we're like, what is this? He made it up. And he said, there's three postulates to the reasonable man theory. First of all, if it's not hurting anyone, it's probably okay. Okay. Okay, yeah. If it's not inconvenience anyone, it's probably okay. And three, there's always usually a way around the rules.

And with that, that convinced us... I love how unreasonable the reasonable man theory is. It's very, very debatable. You feel like the reasonable man theory should end with everybody here going like, uh-huh, huh. And instead you're like, whoa, what? Even more questions. And we did it. We pool hopped.

It was awesome. Our mom did not. She stayed at the shades of green pool and read her book. But in the years since, we pool hopped every time since then. What's the moment like when you walk in? Is there like you throw, you just walk by lounge chairs and you throw towels down and you just get in the pool and it's like disappear? So you wear your clothes over your bathing suit so no one knows what you're up to when you're walking across that street into the other property. And you walk right in, you claim a chair, you just act like you own the place.

Yeah. That's probably also part of the reasonable man. And then we would get a drink. Like they have these non-alcoholic peanut peonacoladas for kids. We would get those. Yeah. It was fantastic. and every, no mom does join us now,

but she stresses out every time. Yeah, every single time. And, wait, this is an active crime? Oh, yes. This isn't something you retired years ago, you're just going to admit it on a podcast? I will say, too, the youngest one in our family is 29 and a half,

and we are still loving this and get a thrill. Yeah, also that you're still saying 29 and a half. 29 and a half. That's the reasonable woman theory. Yeah. You round down. Yeah. I like that, Seth.

I like that. that. I like to think of your mom just being so nervous at the Shades of Green Hotel without her family sitting, reading a book, and anytime somebody walking by her just yelling out a cover story nobody asked for. I just being like, I don't know where they

are. I think the park. We also make her like sneak into movies. I'm 36. I don't need to be sneaking into a movie for $13. But we make her and she can't. She says, oh, good morning, good morning. To everyone, we're like, Mom, you've got to play it cool. But she's not, she doesn't

to play it cool. She says good morning to people in a movie theater? Oh, to someone over working at the popcorn stand? Good morning. We're like, mom. Oh, just be friendly. I just want, because I feel like you don't know. Like, it sounds like your mom's like the only like,

just like the only real member of society. And your family. Like, I mean, it's all like at some point, somebody's got to follow norms. And then so my sisters and I all ended up also working in Disney. And like I would, on my days off, pool hop. And they've made it hard. Now, in theory, you can't pull up.

That's all I'll say. There's only one resort you literally can't because they check your IDs at the gate. Gotcha. That's the beach club. Gotcha. All right. Boo. Boo. So wait.

Did you say your sister worked at Disney? All three of us did. Oh. Where did you work? So I worked on the jungle cruise. I was Skipper Sheila. Okay. Great job.

That seems like a really good job for you. It was a great job for me. One time someone came up and they were like, you know, you really should work on SNL. And I was like, thank you. It's a script. I didn't write it. And I was just like, oh, my God, thank you so much. And it gave me such a high, but I didn't write any of those jokes.

But there is so, but the jungle cruise is a very tightly scripted. Yes. And it is, they're comedic moments. Yes. It's a 10-minute cruise through a fake, four fake jungles. And there's fake animals. A lot of people get upset. They're like, these are plastic.

And I'm like, yes, for the next. 10 minutes and I'm so sorry you waited in that line. Yes. We couldn't get a real too can to do what we wanted it to do on cue. Exactly, exactly. We had to build them. So can I just ask a question? So how many

jungle cruises would you do in a given day? Yes. Okay, my record was 32. Whoa. And that was in a 16 hour shift. We were paid minimum wage, which in 2012 was like $7 in Florida. And they would just be like, can we extend you? And

I'd be like, okay. And they have extra magic hours, so you're there until 2 a.m. And the fun thing is later in the night, it's mostly just adults. So on my break, I could ride someone else's cruise if I had time to change,

and some of them get bold, and they would make it like jungle after dark. I didn't. I'm a pretty two-shoe rule follower. So I'm sticking to that script. But would you ever ad lib? You would go off script. I had two jokes I was really proud of.

Could you tell them? In 2012, remember there was like the meme? It was like, Ginger's don't have souls. I'm so sorry to any redheads. But that was very funny to millennials. I was 22 years old at the time.

And there's a scene where you go past two alligators and you say, oh, wave high to old smiley, that's his girlfriend, Ginger. Watch out, Ginger snaps. She's a real tough cookie. Sorry, I'm just milking it. You say that every time, every 10 minutes. But I would add, oh, also, Ginger doesn't have a soul

and millennials loved it. As comedians, you're probably like, oh, God. But as millennials, they loved it. And then also Hunger Games movies were out. at the time. And when the fireworks went off, this didn't always happen, it didn't line up with your crews. But if you were in the jungle and you couldn't see the fireworks and they were going off, I would be like,

oh my God, the poor tributes. Because it sounded like the cannons. Thank you. I was really proud of that one. Everything else, I was very on the script. Did, I mean, were you ever, I mean, doing it 32 times at a day, was that pushing you towards the cusp of a mental breakdown? Yes.

There was a point in the ride where you get to this elephant pool. it's towards the end, and very often I would just, and you're in the temple and you come out, and in the temple you're allowed to not talk for like 60 seconds. And then I would come out and just be like, if you look over there, there's the elephant, his name is Donald Trunk,

and like, it was 2012, it was 2012. Simpler time, that was one of the scripted jokes, but I would just be like a thousand yards stare. But it was overall looking back a fun experience. How, so a fun experience, was that a ride, Jungle Cruise, which I'm sure I did once in my life.

I think that's the appropriate amount of times to do it. And, you know, I don't really have a memory of it, but did you feel like, was that a ride that people were ultimately happy to be on? Do you think that that was a fun one? That's a very good question, because Disney fans love it. People who don't know what it is do not.

And I'd say more often than not, I am playing to a boat of you fit 40, 35 to 40 people on the boat if you load it properly. I was good at loading it. And usually everyone's just like, And maybe one person's giving a really nice pity laugh. Yeah. And then sometimes you get old skippers who would whisper the jokes punchline before you get to it.

And that was really irritating. Oh my God. Now when I ride it, I'm like, I know the feeling. Yeah. Do you think when someone is giving a jungle cruise and someone's reacting like that, they just know they're like, oh, they used to have this job? The only people that react like this used to have this job. They know what it's like. They feel the pain.

I brought my son on a duckboat ride. Anybody down the Boston duck boat ever? Really fun and there was just like an old salt Boston guy with like a Boston accent. His comedy was he was wearing a Boston Bruins jersey and he's introduced himself as

Bobby Orr but the back of his jersey was spelled O-A-R. Kids love that joke. Kids love that. They love wordplay. Kids love just Bobby Orr stuff. They just love Bobby Orr stuff. Right, that's the thing. Like no point of context to Bobby Orr. Then he like literally, literally,

I'm literally looking at my 10-year-old. He's like, you know the famous picture of Babiore? My son's like, I have no idea what anything. But the best thing in that ride, because I feel like, you know, it was less, I think he had his scripted jokes. I did not think his script was like all the duck boat jokes, which is, I remember that thing where like there was a guy in the boat who said, he said, anybody here from Boston, and a guy said, I went to Harvard, and then the rest of the boat ride, he called that guy Harvard.

And before everything, he's like, now in 1787, why do you tell us what happened to you, Harvard? And it was just the best comedy. And I was like, oh, there's this great thing in Boston. We're like, if your name, last name's Sullivan, your nickname's like Sully. And if you went to Harvard, your nickname's Harvard. Yeah. Like, just like across the board.

There's one of our favorite amusement parks is in the south of Holland called the Efteling. And there is like this lazy boat ride. And there is something nice about, in a day of going on sort of thrill rides, just taking a break. And getting on a boat and just being pulled around. But that, I will say, and this is where I have empathy for you, like that boat ride, you don't have to, like, watch a performance. No, you're just being pulled around.

Yeah. But it's lovely. I sometimes just get stressed out when I feel like I have to watch performance. Yeah. Yeah. But after 32 times in a day, you're probably pretty good at. Yeah, I would imagine. So, and what did your sisters do at Disney?

So, Celine was. friends with some characters. Okay, okay. You know what that means? Is that like you're like, hey, we got to get you out of here. Yeah. No, I think it means that, like, for example,

Goofy. Is there an age limit in the room? Okay, I just don't like to ruin it for kids. Yeah, yeah. Okay. I'm very, you can't ruin the magic. But kids will listen and you'll ruin it. So basically they're friends with Goofy because Goofy is goofy.

I see. Goofy is goofy. Right, yeah. Celine was Celine, but she was friends with Doc McStuffins, and she was friends with Mike Wazowski and the Chipmunks and Jake the Pirate. Great. Jesse. How, did her friends ever tell her how hot their heads got?

Yes, yes. However, if you're friends with a character, you also get a really good break schedule. It's like 30 on, 30 off, where I would get a 15-minute break in a eight-hour shift, and my break room was outside. Got it. So you don't have to feel that bad for them. They have a nice little room where they can stretch it looks like the dance to do. But would you have traded places?

So it's a little point of contention because I did audition three times. She got it on the first try and I never got it. You were not offered a job being a friend of a character. What do you think you were doing wrong? I think I was trying too hard in the dance audition and I wasn't that great. Yeah. Where Celine embraced it and there was a double pirouette that I was trying and failing and she instead did like a little like a Russian jump thing. Yeah.

They loved it. Yeah. So then done. So their basic takeaway was like if kids saw one of these characters moving the way that you were moving, it would be disconcerting. Like their experience would be lame. It is not worth the Disney ticket money. My daughter and I were somewhere where there was a, somebody who was in a shark mascot costume. And we went over to get a picture and the shark held Addie's hand.

And then when it was over, she goes. and she goes, I think there's a person in there. And I said, why? And she goes, I felt fingers. Real Sherlock. It was great, but it was like, I liked that she was like, I don't know if we should tell everybody else, but that's a person, dad.

That's not a shark. So I respect the, you know, not giving away. And then, so you had one friend, and then what was the other? And then Grace worked at the bippity-bop-di-bop-a-boutique. Okay. So she would do little girl's hair and nails. Every single day, there was at least one case of lice, she told me.

Wow. They did a whole thing. They'd be like, oh, let's put your hair up like Ariel. And they were checking for lights. Let's do a braid down the middle. Like, and they're checking for lights. But she really enjoyed it and they had very cute costumes. Yeah.

That's when they need the friend you thought it was that escorts people out. Yeah. That's exactly. Oh, my God. You're so cute. What's your name? Amanda? Amanda, we got a special place in the bibbidi-ba.

And then they just walk you out of door. and you're in the parking lot. What is... So like when you would work there, though, how long would you work there? Would you work there the whole summer? So I worked there. So I did the Disney College program.

That's what we all did. But I did it the semester after I graduated. So I worked there for seven months. June through January. So you kind of got every season. It does get... Your body acclimates, I guess. But in December, I would wear like four turtlenecks

and put hand warmers in my hands and my shoes and my bra and everywhere, just to like stay warm because it did get cold back there in the jungle in the jungle it's a man-made river and one time tom cruise came on the jungle cruise and i helped him and surrey in the boat and do you guys remember the band carman they sang broken-hearted yeah i'm wait okay i was going to sing it for you so okay you saved everyone the more you sing the more we're agreeing with where disney landed hey you wanted you made the cruise the jungle cruise is great they wrote my boat and they were really nice now she goes like

Queen Herbie, I believe. But, yeah, they were really nice. And I was, like, staring at them and just, like, I knew who you are. Now, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Tom Cruise was a very giving audience on your jungle crew. I bet he was, too. So he was, my friend Sienna was his skipper, but I did help them step into the boat. Because you, every two boats, you get out and you work a land position. Okay, gotcha.

But he was, I will say, they did two trips around. It was just him and his daughter. But he waved to everyone in line. He smiled for pictures in line. Like, he seemed like a nice. He knows the job. He knows the job. And I kind of appreciated that, like, people were excited to see him.

He knew that. And Liam, oh, RIP Liam Payne from One Direction. I saw him there. Got some 1D fans. There was definitely other people who came through, but it was always exciting. Do you think Tom Cruise was disappointed they weren't real animals? Definitely, yes. It was the best job.

It was so fun. And I will say, my parents are here, too. The reasonable man himself. Yes, yes, yes. And the actually reasonable woman. Great. And they're great. And she's a really fun theme part, buddy.

She just gets very stressed to pull hop. Yeah, fair enough. I am a rule follower. My wife is not a rule follower. You were a rule follower. And my wife is not a rule follower. Okay, so me, Alexi McKenzie, we'll do a little girls day. Yeah.

Think about not being married to someone who does not follow the rules. It's incredibly stressful, but then you often like reap the rewards. Yeah. But you feel weird about it. You feel weird about it, but like, my wife is also just, like, stubborn and, like, it just, like, won't take no for an answer. And the amount of times we're, like, at a restaurant where I'm like, just, this table is fine.

And then she'll just, like, wear down this. She's one of those. She's one of those. But then, like, we end, it's like, I get the best of both worlds, because, like, I end up at a fucking kick-ass table. But I also get to look at the waitstaff and be like, oh, my God, I know, right? And, like. And they're like, oh, that must be.

be hard. I'm like, it is hard. And then I'm like, this view is amazing. When you, we can stay on Disney, but also when you would go to the shore. Yes. What were those? That's, by the way, just something we've learned is when you're talking to a Disney adult, you need to make sure you say things like we can stay on Disney.

We promise. Because a Disney adult if they feel as though you're changing the subject, before they're done talking about Disney, they sometimes can get aggressive. Yeah. So feel free. You can push back. You can pushback here and you'll get no pushback for me. But when you would go to the shore, what shore is that?

We would go down the shore. We went to sea aisle growing up. And then I think they sold the house maybe when I was like 14-ish. And we've been to Ocean City for day trips a few times. We're also a Margaritaville family. So once a year we usually go to the Margaritaville and AC. Just then we go for lunch and come back. And we take my grandma.

She likes the drink called the Incommunicado and it's like a Long Island iced tea. Great. So we put in a wheelchair. I'm hoping a grandma only does one incommunicato? usually does two, but we drive her. Okay, gotcha. And we push the wheelchair or the walker to help her out. She comes to Disney too.

I'm not just going back to Disney. We're going to stand the show. No, no, no, no. She does come home to. Oh my God, this is so shocking that we're back here. Oh, yeah, we used to go the shore. And then my dad, being in the Navy, growing up, he only retired 10 years ago. But we used to go, he would be in the reserves for most of his career, and he would be stationed in Virginia Beach. So we went there a few

times. We went to Annapolis, the Naval Academy. Most, and then mostly Disney. My sisters and I, we like to travel together. I actually like traveling with my family, my sisters, so much that otherwise I really only solo travel. I've done a few trips with Emily Rodas from Seth Myers. We went on a trip together. A few of my other friends. I'm trying to think if I went with other Seth friends.

I don't think so. But a few different other friends. Usually I travel solo if I can't go with my sisters. So I'm guessing just based on the reaction, a lot of people, here in this audience will know what a shore vacation is. I don't feel like we quite know. And feel free to hiss and boo if she gets it wrong. But what is, when you say the shore,

because I think a lot of us, like, you know, we probably have like, you know, we know about the Jersey Shore for like all the wrong reasons. Yes, yes. But what is a, what was a Jersey Shore vacation be with you and your family? I will say, so I think like, when you think of Jersey Shore, you probably think of like Northern Jersey, like Seaside Heights. Maybe they call it Central Jersey.

I might get yelled out for that. The South Jersey shores, are they're more chill. It's honestly, don't get mad. It's not super my style, because a lot of it is sitting on the beach. I burn very easily. I don't like the water because I'm scared of sharks. But the boardwalks, boardwalks are a thing. A lot of those sharks are people.

Yeah. A lot of the sharks. I felt the hand. There's a lot of the news right now in New England. They're like, I don't know. There's a lot of sharks. If you can get close enough and grab a fin, the only downside is if you don't feel fingers at that point, game over.

Yeah, swim. You're way too close. You've basically done their job for them. Yeah. Otherwise, it's like, I feel like you just go. I guess people, when you're older, I don't really go as an adult, but like probably drink with your friends on the beach. A lot of it is the same people go time and time again, so I think there's a camaraderie.

It's like seeing your shore neighbors. You rent the same house or in the same street. So it's a very sweet tradition. We just, I never really fully did it because we would hang out with my grandparents. They would take us to, like, their favorite restaurants. It was really cute, but I just only did it as a kid, really. Gotcha. So I'm basically the worst person to ask.

But no, I want to go back to the incommunicado. Because I remember when you talked about two, we once went on a trip to Bruges in Belgium. Yes. And there was this brewery where the beer was so, the alcohol content was so high for the beer. Yeah. That they would only serve you two beers.

And that was it. You were cut off after two. And it was, by the way, he would take these crazy steps to get up there. And they were like old, like slippery rock because they'd just been like worn down over years. It was like an old monastery. And mom was so mad when they cut her off. Yeah.

She was bullshit. She was bullshit. What you say about mom that she's bullshit when she's mad? Because she's like, what are you talking about? And then she made, do you remember because dad only had one beer? She's like, order your second. She made dad order a second beer. And like, by the way, the waiters saw what she was doing.

And it was just at this point, he's like, what can he do? Yeah. And we played hearts. We were a big hearts family. And so we were playing hearts there And then there was a Salvador Dali exhibit And there was some famous sculpture in a church Something like that

And we wanted to go to the Dali And they wanted to see the sculpture And we got up to leave and we're so wobbly Yeah Like we kind of didn't know what was happening Because we were just playing cards And then when we stood up it was like oh Yeah

This is problematic Meanwhile mom's going down the steps two at a time Yeah But then I was I mean Then we went and looked at this Dali stuff And, like, I mean, everything's melting anyhow. And that added on top of the Belgian monk beer. Yeah, yeah.

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Captain Ed Waco, very proud of him. My, Celine had just graduated college, and Grace had just graduated high school. So, like, let's do a family trip. My mom and I were just like, yeah, let's go. Just along for the ride. So we went to, it was our first time overseas as a family. We went to Italy and Germany. And we had so much fun.

My mom is very, she's so sweet. She's very polite. This is why she gets stressed out about breaking the rules. She's very bad at ignoring the street vendors. Oh. Yes. So in Rome, there's so many street vendors. She came home with fake purses, with these little, like, things that you fling in the air

and they light up. And I remember there was a guy selling a scar. and he's like so beautiful, Bella, Bella, like you need a scarf. And she's like, oh, we're going to dinner, but we're going to be back in one hour. Bye. And he's like, no, no, please. And she's looking at us and she's giggling. So then we're giggling.

And my dad is like, and she's like, no, we can't. But thank you. But it's, oh, let me look. Oh, it's so pretty. She walked away with a $5 fake burberry scarf. Oh, my God. This is so heartbreaking. She wasn't at Comic Con when Josh was trying to sell these shots.

Yeah. What a dream. What a dream. He did not get a single Mama Waco that whole day. No, Mama Wachco. Oh, she would have bought the whole thing. She feels so bad. She loves, she's not good at not talking to people.

So, like, you're nice to her. Her big thing is, oh, they seem, she'd probably say about you guys. They seem nice to moms. If someone's nice to moms, that's, like, the highest kind of couple. I've always, my demo has always been girlfriends' mothers. Yeah. The girlfriends haven't always liked me, but their mothers sure have. Yeah.

How did you get from place to place, Italy and Germany? We took the train. It was beautiful. I guess we took the train from... We went to Rome, Florence, and Venice. And then I think we took the train to... It was... Oh, actually, it's a callback.

Oh, my gosh. You took a jungle cruise. The shades of green, the military hotel, there's actually four of them. Orlando, Disney property, Hawaii, South Korea, and Garmish Parton Kierkin. And that one's called Adelweiss. So we stayed at Adelweiss, the military hotel.

That's great. And we were like, oh, my God, it's the German shades of green. We were really excited about that. And oh, my gosh, they had, sorry, I'm just taken away. No, please. You're our guest. Once a week, they have karaoke night at this place called Zuggie's bass camp. And I am not a good singer, but I love karaoke.

But my family doesn't really do it. But they're like, we'll watch Sheila. My parents are like, and so I did karaoke. And the man hosting it, I'm guessing he was retired. And this was like his fun job based on his age, which is great. But he was very into karaoke. He took it very seriously. Most people were doing ballads, which isn't always the karaoke vibe.

If it's like Celine Deanna sing along, but it was like Blue Bayou. So I was like, I'm going to knock their socks off and sing goodbye Earl. by the chicks. And I'm not going to lie. Like, it kind of brought the house down just because it was boring before that. So the man was like, Sheila, we need to do a duet.

Do you know meatloaf paradise by the dashboard light? And I said, actually, that's another go-to. It's just so long that I don't usually pick it. So we sang it, and there's that long interlude in the middle with all the baseball analogies. Yeah, yeah.

Oh, no, right. It's like a baseball announcer, right? So he, I'm not a sports girl. He was like, all right, come here, come here. And he, like, ran me to a closet off stage. And he's like, all right, mess up your hair and, like, fix your buttons. And he was not creepy.

I cannot stress enough. It was wholesome, because he was committed to this performance. Yeah. He took the art of karaoke so seriously. And we did it. We were in character as Meatloaf. I forget the woman's name who sings it, but yeah. It is so funny to think if this had happened

in a workplace setting. Just like a man saying, to HR, like, it wasn't creepy. I take karaoke very seriously. This was a... Do you know the song? I think if you listen to the song, you'll understand this was not creepy.

That's fantastic. So how long was that trip? That was two weeks. And actually, Celine left. I sound so annoying. She left halfway through to do the Disney College program. So she was not with us in Germany, just for Italy. Right.

And in Rome, also, we had... had this amazing Airbnb. It was called Pantheon in the window. Jean Luca, lovely host. And it looked at the pantheon. But before the pantheon there was this little rooftop and there were these little chubby birds. We love animals.

So we just loved the little chubby birds every day. They were like playing with each other and rolling around. And when we left Rome, we were going around like, what's your favorite part of the trip? And my mom said, my favorite part of Rome was the little birds. She's very wholesome. Yeah, that's great. And then it was a little bit less funny when she opened her suitcase

and she'd brought home multiple little birds. Her favorite of the souvenirs. Who were not native to this part of the country and have been a real problem. TSA is like, is it a problem with that? That's fantastic. So, wait, what was the other question?

Oh, what about your trip to Annapolis? Tell us about that. Oh, I was little. We went with my parents' friends, and I remember they had two little boys who were younger than us, and they were very, very cute, and the one, like, loved all of us

and wanted to hold her hand, and he was, like, three. He was so cute. Peyton and Spencer. But I remember we went to the Naval Academy and we just thought it was so cool and I think we were confused. We're like, did Dad go here? No, but he was in the Navy and like we didn't really get the rules

but we liked the trip. Virginia Beach I remember I was very scared because the year before there was a news story about like a shark attack so I was very scared. This comes back to this this is a real issue for you. Yeah. It's a recurring theme. Yeah. And then Celine and I well Grace and I too but Celine and I actually went to Bruges because you had said once your favorite movie is in Bruges I love the movie in Bruges.

I don't know if anybody's seen in Bruges. Mark McDonough. Celene won't watch. She still hasn't watched it. She's like, I'll get to it. And we went to Bruges and she hadn't seen it. So you have to tell her to watch it. Celine, watch it.

It's a good movie. Watch it, Celine. Celine. See, was that good enough? Yeah, that's got to be good enough. That's good. That's great. I will say, I don't know if anybody,

it is my favorite movie in Bruges. It's great. And I went to, I dragged my wife to Bruges. Because I wanted to go to Bruges after the movie in Bruges and we got in the train station, we got in a taxi and the speed in which the taxi driver clocked me as a guy who was only there because he liked the movie in Bruges was so embarrassing because I think from like 2009 to 2013 there were just like a lot of dudes who

looked and acted like me being like, oh, this is from this scene. And there's a moment where somebody falls off the clock tower. And then they land on the ground and they are able to give a dime. declaration to the you know and this you know

Belgian cab drivers like I would tell you this much I've seen a couple people fall off that

clock tower you would not be able to say anything they did not they did not have any final words

and I was like I bet that's right when I actually saw it I'm like yeah I don't think you like landed or like

one more thing these are just absolutely fantastic thank you Leave it up for Sheila Waco, everybody. Thank you. Wait, can I be annoying and say two fun facts?

Yes. This time last year I was preparing because August 13th, I came to Studio AG and interviewed you. That's correct. Yes, you did. And when I left Seth Myers, I don't know if you remember this, I went to say bye to you in the office. And I told you as a joke. So at late night, I feel like if people cancel last minute, you had some friends. Like, I feel like Wolf Blitzer was a friend who would come in and do a last minute thing.

And I said, as a joke, Seth, if you ever need a last minute guess and you want a local traffic reporter. So when you invited me to do this, I was like, oh my God, seven years ago, my wish came true. Well, it couldn't have gone better for us, and it was fantastic, but you still have to go through

the speed round questions that Josh is going to ask. Oh, yeah, that's right. Oh, I like the speed round, okay. Okay, let's see. You would think I would know these by now. All right, you can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation, relaxing, adventurous, or educational? Ooh.

Educational. What is your favorite means of transportation? Train. If you could take a vacation with any family, alive or dead, real or fictional, other than your own family, what family would you like to take a vacation with? Oh my gosh.

I feel like the first one that comes to mind is like Raven Baxter's family from That's So Raven. Okay, great. I feel like that the Baxter's would be fun. Yeah, yeah. By the way, that answer is so Sheila. If you had to be, stranded on a desert island with one member

of your family, who would it be? Probably Grace, right? Because she's not here. She's not here. My dad probably has the survival skills. Oh my God, yes. Captain the Navy? I don't. You'd be very annoyed with me. Oh, okay. But I'm going to go with the Navy the Navy Captain. You're the first person

who's ever answered that question of thinking about it from the other person's perspective. Nobody's ever like, oh, I would definitely bring this person. They would not like it. He would be the MVP. He'd be like, how do I ditch this girl? I don't care that she's my daughter.

What is your dream destination for a family vacation? Oh, for a family vacation? I studied in England, probably England, Newcastle and London. Great, I agree. With my whole family. Great. You're from Glenside? Yes.

If you had to get more families to visit Glenside, what would you say about it? I would say they have the best chai tea latte I've ever had at Keswick coffee. And the Keswick Theater where, Seth, you've performed. Yep, love the Keswick. As did I, as a... elementary schooler. Great theater.

They have great guests, clearly. And it's really cute. The train goes right there. It's easy to take public transport, and it's safe and cute. Great. And then also just because we are here in Philadelphia, everyone here is from Philadelphia.

What's a good thing to do in Philadelphia that's not one of the classic tourist things? Because there's so many tourist things, but what's something you love to do in Philadelphia? Okay. Well, Josh and I were talking actually backstage. There's awesome vegan food scene. Awesome, if you are vegan or vegetarian,

or just vegan curious, delicious vegan food. Well, you said we had to go to a place that Josh and I actually went this afternoon. Monster Vegan. Yes. Josh and I went to Monster. My brother is a vegan, and when I go to a different city, I want to go to a cool restaurant, but I also love my brother, so I'm like,

I will go to a vegan restaurant. And I looked for best vegan restaurants, and there's one, I mean, hopefully people here know, Monster Vegan, where it is like a horror-themed vegan restaurant, which for me is perfect because I'm horrified. That's not true. It was delicious. I had a Philly cheese steak. I knew I wanted to have a Philly Cheesesteak.

And you had a vegan, a Philly Cheesesteak. But it was great. So that was wonderful. They project like the Twilight Zone on the walls. Yeah, we were watching Carrie. I feel like that's what you want to watch while you're having lunch. But it's vegan, so it's okay. It's made of plants.

It's a great place. And I always recommend either the Mooder Museum or a ghost tour. Because everything's like, Ben Rinklin haunts this place. And it's like, does he haunt all six of these buildings? But it's fun to learn some. I mean, he did a lot of traveling. He did. He walked around quite a bit.

And actually, I believe he was vegetarian. Okay. Yeah, I learned that yesterday. Seth has our final questions. Sheila, have you been to the Grand Canyon? Oh my gosh. No, I haven't. Because they don't have shades of green.

Exactly. Or a Margarita Bell. Can you believe it? But I enjoy your stories about the Grand Canyon. But would you want to go? I would. Actually, my sister tried to go as a family trip one time. And my mom was like, no.

because a lot of couples go there and push each other off. And Salim was like, well, I'm not going to push you off. Are you going to push me off? So we have not been as a family. I would like to go. I think it would be fun. It's very funny for your mom to say to her children, like, I don't want to go anywhere where there's like a ledge.

But it also sounds so something like what our mother would say. People are always pushing on each other off of that place. Yeah. Just like no. you're like, can you just, I'll give you an hour with your computer. Find me one pushing story. I do think Hillary and Connie. This is very

similar to me. Like, I have always said I remember my dad for like his whatever birthday, really his dream was to go up in a hot air balloon with all of us. And I would not do it. And my reasoning was if anything went wrong, because I feel like you would just know you were going to die

for too long. Like, you know, as you're falling and that whole time would be my mom saying to my dad like, you went to fucking going. Like, it was just too much. I was like, I'm happy to die in a hot air balloon, but just not with you guys, like, fucking. There we go.

You guys, this is Sheila Waco. Thank you guys. I'll stick around. Yeah, stick around, Jill. This is the coolest thing that's ever in my career, so thank you guys. Sheila's the best. And now, so I think Jeff, our producer, Jeff,

is with, is going to come out, or maybe he's already in there. Where, yeah, Jeff. Jeff, make some noise. Jeff. All right, Jeff's back there. Put a hand up. There's one up here, Jeff.

If you can work any way down here. He might have found someone all right. Maybe, oh yeah, I don't mean to. Someone with a hand up. So yes, put your hand up. Great, yeah, and Jeff will find you and he's coming. There we go. I have lots of questions for you guys.

You really made my drives back and forth to Billy just the best. And wherever I drive. Thank you. Really, you're just so. You're just so quick and so funny. But anyway, I don't want to blow your heads up here. My question is for Sheila. Great.

Great. Great. What was your first name? My first name? Yeah. Oh, Barbara. Oh, hi, Barbara. Are you single? Yes.

Yes, I am. So I have a 39-year-old. Great. Disney, son. Great. Tell me more, Barbara. If this is how this happens, oh my goodness.

It's going to be our last live show. How are we ever going to top it? We'll have to have a wedding on the show, on the podcast. Well, no, we're going to have the wedding at Disney. I think that's... At the Polynesian. No sneaking in. No.

By the way, it's like we're all... The weddings are the Polynesian, but here's the thing. We're not staying there. Staying across the street. Just like, just walk in like, you know... Like, walk in like you're there. Because Seth, if it's not hurting anyone, It's not your reasonable man.

You're a reasonable man. And the thing is, is that he takes me on all these Disney trips. So I want out. You want out. Barbara wants out. She's got to find this is your, this is your, it's like a monkey paw. You got to find, it's like the ring. You've got to find somebody else to watch the video.

So he works in the business, not. not what you do. Okay. Like he's in the film business. I was so worried he works in traffic. Is he my competitor? He's a producer. Okay, okay.

I guess I could say he's NFL films. Oh my gosh. Very good. Oh my God. Wow. Wow. So it's not like he's just a loser Disney adult. Gotcha.

He's a cool Disney adult. No, yeah. He's that and other things. Yes. He's so much more. What's your mother's name? I'm a Connie. Connie.

Okay, well, I think Connie's over here, so maybe you need to talk to Connie. Connie's dream is to set me up. And this is amazing. By the way, very hard. Barbara, thank you so much. It's going to be very hard to follow. Wait, okay, Barbara has more.

I do come and take up. Yeah, no, I think you have to turn it over. I think you used it. You used your time for matchmaking, and we respect it. You did great. We did really. He can DM me. DM me.

At Sheila Wachco. There you go. Don't forget. Well, how can you forget Sheila Wacko, everybody there's only one one one one one of one and my niece is from glensai right a glensai girl all right fantastic that was one jeff take the microphone i love her i love her i feel that she wasted her question on me but i love it uh anyone else what way can i write in to try to get SNL tickets every year with that it's over right now yeah what is your best advice i wish i had any and let me

stressed, like my own personal pull to S&L tickets has dried up way faster than I thought I would. Considering I still work in the building and technically Lord Michaels is my executive producer. But yeah, it is the hardest thing in the world. I wish you the best of the luck in the lottery. I wish I had a trick for you. And yeah, I will only say like if you're ever lucky enough to go, it's a very, you know, this goes without saying. It's a very cool thing to happen live, see live. I was lucky enough. I was in the audition. process and I got to see it one time before I worked there and I'm so glad I got to see it with those eyes

before I became jaded and sad but when he was working on that show I had a lot of friends who were like hey can your brother could I get tickets to your brother and I had a standard response and it was no it was just too hard it was too hard

it was too hard yeah Barbara I also worked in NFL films oh that's fantastic I wish we had Barbara had said her son's name so we could ask that guy to vouch for him.

Although I'm guessing based on Barbara, he knows Barbara's son. Over here? Hi, I'm Margo and I was on listener episode 15. Yeah, thank you, Margot.

What was your, can you remind us of your story? So what I thought was funny about the story is I told the story and you put Guido in Greece as the title of the story. Oh, yeah, yeah.

It was like you ate something. It was a... Oh, it was a terrible trip. Okay, yeah, yeah. But those are good. Those are good for the story. Bad trip, good story. Yeah, yeah.

And the thing you liked best about the story was my cat spooks meowing. If you remember, and I said, Basta. Oh, yes. Basta. Yeah, yeah. In the middle of your message, the voice message. Exactly.

Yeah, the voice. So I have an update. Spooks is dead. Well, Basta. Yeah. Sorry for you lost. Oh, she was awful.

That's the spirit. Yeah. Sorry for those who just ate. Yeah. Or those who like cats. And then the other update is, I wrote a book and I wanted to welcome you to Emily and give you both a book.

Okay, great. Jeff, when you come back, will you grab the books? and thank you so much. And, you know, I'd say rest in peace to spooks, but it feels like we're pretty happy about it. She can still get a rest, though.

All right, Jeff is moving around. These are great. Thank you, everybody. Oh, Jeff started moving fast. Oh, yeah, he did. That's the first time I've ever seen that. Jeff, I've never seen Jeff move that fast. Righteous Caleb?

I wanted to ask you, I grew up with a sister, and so I relate to a lot of what you talk about. But we always wondered what, like, My family name is Rose. What a Rose brother would be like? Like, would be cool? Would you try to make my friends?

We'd be a big nerd. What would a Meyer's sister have been like? It's such a good question, and it's so fascinating to watch because, you know, we have, my sons are the exact same, a year and day apart, two years, 11 days as Josh and I. So we're the exact same. And so I felt like I was watching just this carbon copy, and then we threw in a Myers girl, right? which was the thing I never had. And I am so, again, obviously, you know, any, I think, you know,

any siblings' dream is to be close enough with the other one to have a podcast. So we're doing fine. But I am jealous of it. I am jealous that they are getting to spend time with a, you know, a girl at a younger age. And I just feel like they're so sweet with her. And so I don't know.

I would say like birth order obviously matters, but I feel like a younger Myers sister, if Addy is any indication, would be like sort of tough as nails, very funny, but also, you know, not like, you know, she's also very much like a little girl. Like she likes her, you know, there's times where she wants to do what the boys are doing, and there's other times she's like, I think it's the most boring thing in the world. But I think all of their lives are fuller for the fact that they, you know, they have brothers and sisters, which is

great. Yeah. We talked about it when we were younger and we thought that we would have been pains in the asses to guys that would try

to date our sister. But it was all, it's all very theoretical. Yeah, I think. But Addie is so sharp. Yeah. And she kind of like rules the roost over there.

Yeah. Addie's latest was she was driving the car. No. Driving? She was driving the car and that was two days ago? We don't know where she is.

No, she was in her car seat, and we were driving down our road, and she goes, can I unbuckle? And I said, you cannot. And then she goes, can I say something about bad language? And I said, okay, what do you want to say about bad language? She goes, when I said, unbuckle, I wanted to say fuckle. But I stopped myself.

And it was just, I'm like, good work stopping. yourself. Yeah, she had a bit. She's doing bits. We got another one. All right, my name is Bill. Hi, Bill. And I have one of five kids.

Oh, yeah. So I have a question for the brothers. And it's pretty simple. Do you guys, when you went on your trips, have pissing contests? Literally, more figures. Gotcha. I mean, in terms of, like, not a contest,

but we did do a thing. with our father, if you were ever, like, at a urinal, like a baseball stadium, we would simultaneously pee into the same urinal or into the same toilet. And any time you did it, what would Dad say?

Pals forever. And it was just, like, such a bonding thing. And I still think about Pals Forever all the time. Yeah. We say, I say Pals Forever with my boys all the time. Yeah. It's like sometimes, too, you would like go out and you'd all,

like, you'd run home, and like, two of you, you would, like, run into the bathroom with him. Yeah. And, like, you would just, like, pee into the same toilet at home. Right. And you'd just be, like, pals forever. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. It was, yeah. It was our version of, like, yeah, like, a spitting in your hand. You were mentioning, you were telling me something else that one of the nice details of the screen and porch in regard to that. Oh, yeah. If you're, like, if you're sitting out there, which is a beautiful screen in porch, you're really, like, in the woods,

and you've got the TV in the corner. But every now and again, our dad will just like saunter out around the sort of, you can see him go along the little wall, and then he just goes to the edge of the deck and just whizzes off into the woods. And he's like right behind the TV, so... Yeah, yeah.

You hope the crickets can drown out the noise. Yeah, and not that they're being drowned. Right, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's one... You could just pass the mic one over. Hi, I have a story. I just wanted to say,

I told all my friends I was going to tell you, I don't love you so much. I'm a huge man who watching you from SNL from day one, watch your show every single night and I love nothing more than Thanksgiving with your family. Oh, it's the best. Thank you. You got a lovely, your children are bored for you. Thank you.

It's really, you know, it was sort of borne out of necessity, not really, but we, you know, it's hard to book Thanksgiving shows because obviously people with their family and my producer was like, What if we have your family on as guests for the Thanksgiving show? And so it is now a tradition and it's whatever, 12th year, 13th year. I don't know how long you've been doing it. Yeah, I know. Your show. This would be 13.

So this will be our 13 Thanksgiving. But the other thing is our Thanksgiving show is every year it is the highest rated show we have. Now, the reason it's the highest rated show we have is that. Hold on, hold on. Yeah. NBC has a Thanksgiving football game at 8 o'clock at night. 60 million people watch that game. And then because of that,

we have the highest rating of the year because people just forget to turn their TV off. Or they fall asleep. Yeah, like just like the turkey and then it just like stays on. So it's very, very clearly about the NFL and try telling that to my parents. No, my other way, Larry and Hillary are like,

I don't think so. But they're very happy about the fact that they are every year together. And by the way, I will say I'm very happy. It's incredible for me to have Josh and have my parents on. I love that it's something people look forward to outside of me. And then, yeah, this last year, my children were on and did a great job. They were all the best versions of themselves, which doesn't always happen.

So. And then here's. Go for it. Hi, I'm Linda. Hi, Linda. I grew up in Chutney on at Lundon at Lus Park. I'm not real happy about Chutleyon right now, but it was good about. So, a couple of things. One is, we have a fabulous, if it doesn't work out, Barbara,

this young lady at our table is fabulous and she's looking. Hey. He has two dates. Is he even here? He's not even here. That's why you can do this. Yeah, yeah. Okay, great, great.

Okay, so being back to 1960s before you were born. Yeah. Okay, well, it's hard to think. It is. Yeah, about. Okay, so three kids in the back, mom, guy that brought up a big ewelectra to 25 and we'd go on road trips and my dad would invariably in the middle of the highway go you kids in front of room back there and we're like what if we

don't like who we're going to get rid of? There you go. I love you guys. Thank you. Thank you, Linda. Thank you. And here comes Jeff. You guys have some shirt.

Oh. Make lying wrong again. There you go. Great. Thank you. All right. Here comes Jeff. These have been great.

Hi. Hi there. Big fan. Great Army. Reeous Kill. I have a family trip story. Emma can't hold that. Emma says Rachel's Hill every time.

You are not. I'm sorry, Amy. I was sorry to call you out. But yes. I have a family trip story. My family's from the Philly PA area. We went to California for like this awesome family trip. About the second day in, my mom got helicopter airlifted out of the Pena Canyon because of

dehydration because my dad said were going on a nature walk. We weren't. We went like two miles down into a canyon with no water. So she needed a helicopter. Oh my god. So wait, how... So... all right, so it's so bad that how many of you, other than your parents, it's you and how many other people? Two other siblings. Okay, gotcha. And who was the first one who actually thought, like, we might need to call for a helicopter.

So we, me and my siblings are like, we'll go back and help. Parked last, MD. so that it's just my parents out there. And my, there's no service either. Finally my brother gets a hold of my dad, and he's like, mom's not making it. And we,

parking a lot of, filled with, like, fire trucks, and police, like, cars, and he drew, like, a helicopter. And then finally, my dad came down alone. We're like, what's going on? And so then he's like, yeah, a helicopter got her.

Now, did he, did your mom punish him for this? Like, no. Okay. She usually gets through somehow. Gotcha. Topeka cany also, it's pretty heavily populated. Yeah, I don't know what we were doing, but like...

Yeah, me neither. Yeah. But it's awesome. We did see people hiking, like with us, and they had like packs of water. Yeah. We had two little boxes the hotel gave us. Was it hotter than a normal day? No, but we're like used to humidity here.

So like, it wasn't a huge to humidity here. was humid, so we didn't even realize. And then it's all downhill. And so we had walk back uphill not realizing it was like, we were hot. Do you think that they get this so much that they were like, we got another Philly lady in the canyon? Yeah, she thought it would be humid

and she brought a tiny box of water. Was she revived quickly? Was she like, you know, discharged from the hospital the same day? Yeah, we picked her up at the hospital. We got in and out. Yeah. That's a great LA. experience. When you picked her up, did she, like, give shade to the fact she was in a car? She's like,

this is so boring. Compared to a helicopter, this is so boring. Well, that's great. What a great story. Thank you so much. Thank you. These are all wonderful. You're doing a great job, Jeff. You were a little bumpy at first. We're really getting a lot better now. I feel like he's not planning this out well. Hi. Love this podcast. This has been amazing. So my family story is that I married someone from Massachusetts,

and people from Massachusetts love the king. I'm from Philly. I'm from South Florida. And so we go up there every other year because we were going up there every year. And I can't do that drive. Because driving through Connecticut is the worst. Yeah. Everyone agree.

It's no work. It's the work. You think New York going through New York part is bad, but, oh, no, it's the Merrick Parkway. It's just part. And then it's the whole thing. So coming back this time, and my son, we always try to make sure, like, before we get on a parkway, we've got to go to the bathroom. My son's eight, so you know how the story's going to go. So we're on the Merritt Parkway.

All right, let's stop. We don't want to eat at Dunkin' Dunn because also driving through Connecticut, it's only dumpy donuts in subway. And so it gets there, it's like, no, no, no, no, you know. Five minutes later, I gotta go. It's like, we're in a parkway, the next one is about 15 minutes away, then it's crappy, because there's always cracking. And then it's like, all right, you gotta pee in a bottle, because that's all we have right now, because we have.

I've never peed in a bottle before, how do you do it? And it's like, you just do it. You're gonna be, when it comes time for the birds, and the beast talk, you're going to be great. Like, you tilted, you stand up, he managed to the feeder out, and then he's like, how do I close the bottle? And we're like, oh, geez.

And it's like, I don't want to close it for you because it's warm at this point. It's like, I got to do it, I don't want you to spill it. And it's like handed it back because he only had his own cup holder. And so it's like, just put it in the side and just hope you don't spill it on the way out. So that is our family trip story.

That's fantastic. That is fantastic. Hi. Hi. My name's Karen. Hi, Karen. And I have to talk to you about my perhaps unrealistic expectations about family trips, thanks to both of you. Oh, no. So I have two adult children, and they're like 19 and 23. Okay. And we're at that stage where I still want the family

vacation. They're on the fence. I didn't vacation with my parents when I was a adult child, but I look at your family and I think that's what I want. So like, where do we go? Do I, let you go? Do I up the game and make the vacations like so great that basically bribe them? Gotcha. This is a great question. Yeah, I mean, we started doing some trips that were a little bit bribe maybe, but like we went to Rome and Positano with mom and dad. It's just like, well, this is going to be cool. Or we did a trip when we were like mid-20s to Bermuda. And it was just sort of understood like, hey, we're going to do this.

We would love it if you, like they, our parents would say to us, we love it if you'd come. And then you're like, yeah, why not? This would be great. Yeah, they hadn't, they didn't try to plan it as a family trip. They planned a trip to Bermuda and then invited us, which actually worked out better. I think that puts less pressure on it. Now, that was a cool trip for you. It was less cool for me because what was my issue in Bermuda? Seth can't...

In Bermuda, there aren't a lot of cars. They're like taxis, and then it's Vespas or mopeds. And Seth can't drive a moped. Correct. He has tried, and he has knocked them down. I am not... I can't pass the test. Where you go do a circle and come back.

And they, I swear to God, they want to rent you the scooter so bad. Like, these are not, like, safety officials at NASA. They wanna fucking get you out of there. And they, like, the amount of times they've looked at me, and they're like, yeah, you can't have it. And I think you maybe had yours for a day, and I felt great. I also, I feel abject fear on a scooter, motorcycle, moped, anything like that.

Right. That's my shark. And I'm cruising the island. Like, it's great, it's fun. And then the next day, I got him on the back, holding me around the waist and it's just like, it's lost some of the luster. Yeah, but I feel like, I think that also, it was a time, and I don't know how your kids are doing financially,

but we sort of were like, we couldn't sort of afford those trips. So our parents would be like, we'll fly you to Bermuda or we'll fly you to Rome or something like that and we'll get the places. Bribery. Bribery. Bribery. So bribery works.

Yeah. Unrelated follow-up, dropping my daughter off the pit next week. Oh, yeah. So I've been to the French farm place, not a big fan, any other recommendations. Yeah, you know what? I get that.

I get what you're saying. What's the other record? There's a great vegan Polish place called Apteca. Apteca, yes, which is a genuinely great. It was in New York Times, like top 50 restaurant. And it's a great, highly recommend, apteca. Yeah. Yeah.

The Andy Warhol Museum's great. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, that's great. Okay, thank you. Hey, you guys, we're going to wrap it up here, and I just want to say this has been beyond our wildest dreams, how much fun this has been to be with you. Thank you, Philly.

May they all be this much fun. One more time for Sheila Walker. Thank you. Guys, this is literally a dream come true. Thank you so much. Thank you, Philly. Thank you, City Winery. We really appreciate it, guys.

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Sheila had some dance moves Turned out they were weak So they made her a skipper scripted but she'd add a couple jokes Her passing meal once did 32 trips in a day Now that is an ordeal She wants help the embarkation of Surrey and Tom Cruise.

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