Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - GERALDINE VISWANATHAN Had a Premonition About a Tsunami

Episode Date: April 29, 2025

Seth and Josh welcome Geraldine Viswanathan to the pod this week! Geraldine talks all about growing up in Australia (famously), memorable family trips to places like Phuket, Thailand where she bonded with an elephant named Pudgy, trips to the U.S. and attending a big movie premiere, what her first audition was like, and so much more! Plus, she chats about her upcoming movie Thunderbolts! Watch more Family Trips episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlqYOfxU_jQem4_NRJPM8_wLBrEEQ17B6 Family Trips is produced by Rabbit Grin Productions. Theme song written and performed by Jeff Tweedy. ------------------------- Support our sponsors: Nissan Family Trips is brought to you by the All-New 2025 Nissan Armada. Take your adventures to new heights. Learn more at NissanUSA.com Square Get up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at square.com/go/trips! #squarepod Visit Baltimore Baltimore is just a short drive or train ride from New York, Philly, and D.C. Plan your visit today at Baltimore.org Baltimore: You won’t get it ‘til you get here!” House of Atlas Get 15% OFF The House of Atlas Razor Kit + Before and After Set with the code TRIPS at https://www.houseofatlas.com/TRIPS! #houseofatlaspod Helix Go to helixsleep.com/TRIPS for 20% Off Sitewide ------------------------- 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.

This episode of Family Trips is brought to you by the all new 2025 Nissan Armada. Take your adventures to new heights. Learn more at NissanUSA.com. Here we go. Hi, Bashe. Hi, Suvi. How are you doing? I'm good. How are you? Good. I'm coming from recording another podcast as a guest.

I know. Sorry, bro. Yeah. That's okay. But you know what I liked about it? It was with family members. It was Jessie Ware and her mom Lenny, the pop singer Jessie Ware, has a wonderful podcast called Table Manners where it's essentially about food,

but it's just sort of a free flowing conversation. But it was funny because their producer was kind of the poshie. Oh yeah. In that we were- Like trying to get them on track. Yeah, just sort of waving a pencil around to get Jessie's attention off camera and then said, maybe a bit more about sandwiches.

Yeah, yeah. Because that's what that podcast, not knowing about the podcast, that's what it's about. That's what it's about. That's what it's about. With that said, I think it's a free flowing conversation with a focus on, maybe that's how we should introduce this, a free flowing conversation about life, love, and a bit about family trips. The thing I'll say is I really do like family vibes on podcasts, obviously. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah.

And also they had listened to this podcast. I appreciated the research they did because they had a lot of questions about mom's chicken Kiev sandwiches, which we just talked about on our podcast. So, you know, shout out to them for doing the work. I feel like also mom makes a chicken Kiev that is different than most chicken Kievs you'll encounter.

I feel like sometimes it's like, cause she would make like a filet and then like roll it up and other people like sort of like stuff things in. I don't know moms are the best. Yeah, the stuffing would be rolled into it as opposed to like, yeah. Not like inserted, which is just unnatural.

But downside, 35% of the time, you're gonna fully bite into a toothpick. Oh, toothpick. Yeah. Her little toothpicks are sometimes gonna like find their way into the folds and just wait for your big old mouth. But she also, I will say, she would use toothpicks,

or she will use toothpicks that are colored. Yep. Pink and green. Like, yeah, or like a blue. And so you would get a little bit of the dye from the toothpick would sort of signify like, hey, toothpick over here. Yeah. She wasn't using a, she didn't use chicken colored toothpicks, basically is what I'm saying.

Based on how much Alexi currently talks about red dye and how bad it is for our kids to eat, how do you think she would feel if I told her there was fully dye just in the chicken? She's probably anti? Probably anti. Toothpick dye, it's the healthiest of the dyes. You know, I think early on I was reflecting Probably anti, toothpick dye. It's the healthiest of the dyes.

You know, I think early on, I was reflecting while doing another podcast about our pack of us. But you know, I think sometimes maybe we use a bad language, but I feel as though without ever talking about it, we've drifted away from that. Wouldn't you say? Yeah, I think it sort of, I think it comes out, when it comes out, it comes out naturally.

We're not like growing out in a way that's like, trying to show off for other dudes. Yeah. I think in a way, authentically, when I'm talking to people, like I might curse a little bit more, you know, but almost like, I think I use certain words like a comma. So yeah, it's not filthy, but it is,

you know, not everybody wants to hear it on their podcast. So this is all a preface to the fact that I've decided not to say the name of this thing that my kids see every day, which is. Yeah. All right. You sent this picture this morning? Yeah.

Okay. So there's some artists in New York and I mean, it's everywhere. By the way, they tag it and it just goes to show you that sometimes people don't read the tags. They're perfectly drawn chalk circles. Like exceptionally drawn. Exceptionally drawn, like a perfect circle.

And inside very simply written, we'll say bad luck spot, good luck spot, there's a lot of those. Yeah. I'm not lying when I say we pass about 12 of them on our walk. Axel screams in mock fear every time he sees a bad luck spot.

Will he walk through a bad luck spot? No, no, no, walks around, fully walks around. They get really excited when they see a good luck spot. Anyway, a recent addition in Union Square, three circles in a row, kissing spot, hugging spot, and then a spot that starts with a F. And- F spot.

F with, and then a ing, then an F-ing spot. Yeah, but with the full word. Yes, the full word. And I've just decided I'm not gonna scold them when they say that word out loud. You know what I mean? It's full reading and every day they, with so much delight yell,

yay, it's the spot. Run over, stand inside it, do a little dance. And it's a real party for passersby. Yeah, I bet. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if street art can sort of lead to those other things, like, so that artist puts that down there, If street art can sort of lead to those other things,

like, so that artist puts that down there, your kids get a kick out of it. Yeah. And then other people see your kids getting a kick out of it and get a kick out of it. That is like, that's one of those art be getting joy. The only problem is if someone is distracted watching my kids and then all of a sudden they look down and they're right in the middle of the bad luck spot.

Oh yeah. That's tough. Took my eye off the prize. I saw you. We saw each other. It was really lovely. It was great. I saw you twice in two days.

Yep. Which is great. Which was also, it was amazing because you didn't tell me you were coming to Los Angeles. I almost never do. But you texted me. I thought I had, this time I thought I had. Yeah, you texted me from the plane and you said, hey, I'm landing at 1.30, you guys home? And I was like, landing where?

And you were coming to LA and it was perfect. You came over, you got to hang out, have dinner, watch a little basketball and night one and then the second afternoon, me and Mackenzie and our friend, Jill, met you for lunch at your hotel. It was great. Jill was a real star.

Oh my gosh. We're gonna try to have Jill on, we're gonna do a special podcast coming up this summer because we're going back to Amsterdam and we're gonna do a live podcast. Yeah. And we're gonna get Jill up so that everybody can hear Jill because she is truly one of our funniest, most unique friends. Jill and I were doing a two-person show when I got

hired for SNL. Jill also, for a very smart woman, says words wrong all the time and names, butchers names. And I keep telling people, this was my favorite part of lunch. How did she say the model Naomi Campbell's name? Naomi? Yeah, she said it in a way you should, she should have known from the face she was making to say it that that's not what it was. But she, and we know, we've known her so long that we didn't even correct her when she said, Naomi?

And then she told the story. And then later I said, you know, I met Naomi Campbell once and then you said, I think it's Naomi. And that was maybe my favorite moment of the weekend. And then Jill's like, wait, what is it really? It's insane. I also on the way to the airport,

stopped by to see friend of the pod, Ike Barinholtz. Oh yeah. It's a good stop by. Did he feed you? No, he had- Did he make you a drink? He did make me a very good old fashioned. Yeah.

And in that really great way when, when you have a friend like Ike, who when he makes you food or makes you a drink, while you're enjoying it, he also tells you why it's even better than you think it is. You know, you were talking about, we were having lunch, like, what did he do to his Negroni?

Oh, he like put it through an egg wash or something. Just like that. So he's like, did you taste the egg wash? He put an egg in and then he extracted the egg. And it's like, to what end? He had just eaten some takeout and there were cold French fries in a box. Would you be surprised that I just ate those?

Without asking? Yeah, that is like probably your favorite meal. Your favorite snack is cold leftovers that are sitting on a coffee table. For however many days, immaterial to me. He also, all three of his wonderful kids were there, all three of his daughters, and the two younger ones made a video for Ash,

because they're gonna meet Ash this summer. Great. And it's a really funny video where Ike basically says, tell them you can't wait, say you can't wait to meet him, and they say it like in terrible unison and we all laugh. And I will say this seven second video is Ash's new favorite movie, just big old, big old hearts in his eyes

while he's watching it. You know, it's funny watching, cause he just kind of can't wait to meet him, but also, you know, it's like, you shy, everything about it's great. But- That's amazing. Jill also, you know, it's like, you're shy. Everything about it's great. But- That's amazing. Jill also, her kids are gonna meet Ash,

and she suggested, let's do a Zoom. Let's have all the kids meet. And so I said to Ash and Alexi, I was FaceTiming them when I was in LA, and I go, Ash, all the kids wanna do a Zoom. And Alexi goes, oh, that sounds like it'll be an awkward Zoom. And Ash was like, yeah, that sounds so awkward. And then the next day I'm walking them to school,

he goes, hey, so are we going to do that awkward Zoom? And so I just like, that he like, he was like happy to like bully me with Alexi, but then he's like, that awkward Zoom sounds super rad. Can we get that in the books? Yeah. Yeah. Also, Jill, who put that together, which is a great idea for all these kids to meet virtually

before they meet in Amsterdam, but also included several of us who like don't have kids or aren't bringing their kids in this sort of text chain that just forces us all the way in. I know. She was like, we want to do a Zoom so the kids can meet everybody. I'm like, no, the kids just forces us all the way in. I know. She was like, we want to do a Zoom so the kids can meet everybody. I'm like, no, the kids are going to meet the other kids.

They don't have to meet. It was such a weird decision by someone with kids. If somebody without kids had said, this is a good idea. I'd be like, oh, you don't have kids. You don't know. Like the kids are going to be super shy. The only way it'll be fun is if it's just kids. Yeah. Although I think Mackenzie and I, we're going to be driving out to Mammoth, I think,

during that call. So maybe we'll dial in because we're going to be in the middle of a four and a half hour drive. I don't even know. I mean, again, there were so many people in that text chain, I immediately stopped paying attention. One of Mike Barinholtz's co-stars in the wonderful film Blockers is our guest today. Geraldine Viswanathan. That's right. Geraldine Viswanathan. She's wonderful. Do enjoy her and do enjoy Jeff

Tweedy. Chips with my brothers. Chips. You go. Hello. Hello. Hey guys, what's going on? How are you? I wonder if this is working. I don't know.

The way you're holding it, it feels like it couldn't possibly be working. I think the fact that you're using a microphone and pointing it at us is a bad sign. Does that, it's a microphone with a windscreen. Does that windscreen, was it designed for that microphone or is it just? The poof? Yeah, the poof seems oddly stretched. No, it doesn't fit at all. But they sent me like five of these.

So you're welcome. Thank you so much. Yeah, I'm going to be recording whatever I can. It's lovely to see you again, Geraldine. How have you been? You too, so good. Simply chilling. How about you?

So you, we're great. You're from Australia. Famously, yes. Famously from Australia, for those who were wondering, why is she using this strange voice? This is her natural voice. Yeah. So, and what part of Australia are you from? I'm from a beach town called Newcastle,

which is like three hours, two and a half hours from Sydney. And it's very beautiful beaches, very surfy, skatey. But yeah, it's changed a lot. It used to be kind of a bit scary. And now it's like people from Sydney, I feel like after COVID, people have sort of moved there. So it was sort of a scary beach town? What were the... Was it just rougher?

It was rougher. It was they used to call it in Sydney they'd call it a spew castle. Oh yeah. I was gonna ask was there conflict between the two and it sounds like based on that yes. Big time, big time. Um I would I would compare it to maybe like New Jersey, New York kind of thing. Gotcha. But like the Jersey shore. Because I guess when you think about it, that might back in the day have had a reputation for being rougher too. So that makes perfect sense. Yeah.

Were your parents like beach people? Were they drawn to it for that? No, I think that was sort of, it wasn't really their choice. I mean, my dad got a job there. He's a doctor. And then, but then he became a beach guy. He got into surfing. But it's, surfing's really hard.

Yeah, does your whole family surf? Do you surf? I have tried desperately hard to surf, but cannot get up there. There are two ways somebody could say surfing is really hard. One is somebody who's like a pro surfer and wants to let you know. And then the way you said it, which is you definitely aren't that good at it. Not a chance.

There are like formative memories of me like trying so hard to because that's obviously it was like skate park and like the beach is like where all the hot guys would hang out. So I'm like, this is this, we have to, um, enter this space. And uh, naturally it was, yeah. I mean, just the upper body strength that it takes. Um, I was just getting absolutely pummeled out there. Are the waves also, is there an easy like small place you can go for like, just like small little sets,

like easy beginner waves, or is it you had sort of were thrown into the deep end because the surf is so big? I think it's just the surf is so big. I went to like Costa Rica and the waves there, I was like, oh my God, this is nice. I'm not fighting for my life. Yeah. Yeah.

We took our, we went to Costa Rica and my wife took surf lessons, my boys took surf lessons. But even I, just to say how much I'm lined up with you, I thought it was really hard. Even with the little Costa Rica waves, I was like, this is a non-starter for me. I don't like it. Did you stand up?

Yeah, but then once I was up, I feel the same way about water skiing, which is once you get up, I don't feel like there's any reward. Really? You feel nothing. I feel dead inside. I've probably stood up on two waves in my life. I've only been surfing twice, but it is an insanely incredible feeling.

And that Seth feels nothing from it makes me feel like part of him is just dead inside. Yeah, that's a lot. I think we've established that. Yeah, no, that's... I mean, I'm not hiding from the part of me that's dead inside. By the way, like, I don't judge people who surf. Like, when I watched... I was thrilled when my boys got up. It made me so happy.

But also I realized that, you know, they obviously are lucky not to have the gene that I have, which makes me hate Joy. I hate Joy. Wait, did you have a, what is your sibling situation? I have one little sis. And is she better at stuff like surfing? She is, yeah.

How is that for you? It's so annoying. She's really small and could do... She grew up doing gymnastics and vaulting and yeah, she can hop up on a surfboard cause she's so tiny. And I was sort of, you know, monster on the beach. So it almost seems like you're, what you're trying to do here is establish. She does not deserve any credit or for having skills.

She's just a tiny person. Yeah. 100%. Small people have it so easy. No, literally, they can flip around and do anything. Yeah, vaulting, a little person vaulting, that's just, I mean, come on. Come on. What are you supposed to do? Yeah, standing ovation.

You look at the, you know, if you watch Olympic gymnastics, you know, those women are incredible athletes, but they're not, you know, six foot are incredible athletes, but they're not, you know, six footers. No, they're all small. Yeah. They're basically so small, they're already a little bit in the air.

That's right. They actually actually weigh them down. They gotta put rocks in their pockets to make it even. How much younger is your sister? She's six years younger. That's a pretty big gap. It's a big gap. Did you guys get along when you were kids?

I think I traumatized her, yeah. That's nice of you to own it. I think all older siblings do. It's this like insane kind of power dynamic. Were you aware at the time that you were torturing her? No, I don't think so. That's better. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's good.

You have perspective now as opposed to, no, I always knew I was evil. Yeah. I was trying to be evil, consciously. To be like, remember when you said that I had monkey arms? I think about that every day. And I'm like, oh my god, yeah, that was me just being an asshole

that like impacted your life. Monkey arms, I will say would stick. If somebody told me I had monkey arms. I would maybe never stop thinking about it for one second of any day. But it's perspective because you could also think like those are like really like live rangey capable Arms well, I meant Harry. Yeah

Fair enough, so never mind what I just said Did your sister need clarification at the time or was she well aware that you met? She wasn't like, oh do you mean live and wiry? No Did your sister need clarification at the time or was she well aware that you met? She knew what I was talking about. She wasn't like, oh, do you mean live and wiry? No. She was like, no, that's already an insecurity. I have, thank you so much. Where does your sister, where does she live now?

She lives in Sydney. Okay, and what about, are your parents still in Australia? Yeah, yeah. Okay. They're, yeah. They're in Newcastle still. How she grew up in? Yeah, how she grew up in.

Yep. But then I just got a little shop front in Sydney that my sister is now operating a shop from. She's out of town. What sort of shop? She makes clothes. Oh, great. She has truly all the opposite like skills to me. She's very like visual and crafty with those arms and- And it's called, it's called the monkey arms boutique.

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when you go home, how, I mean, obviously I've never been. Josh, you've never been, right? No, but we've got a friend who says we need to go over for her birthday in like two years. She's got a significant birthday. How often do you go? I go every Christmas. Great.

And how long do you go for? Like three months. Oh, yeah. That's just Aussies. That's how you roll. Certainly work must get in the way of it at this point or do you just tell your agents like, Geraldine is a no-go from December to February.

She's on the beach, sorry guys. I mean, no, last time I had to fly back to Atlanta for a shoot, which was really annoying. It's so far. Yeah. But you know, if I'm not paying for it, it's fine. But I do kind of, I feel like generally things slow down around that time.

That's good. Right? Like certainly in December. Yeah, cause everyone's- It's like after Thanksgiving, people are like, see ya. Yeah. Yeah. I agree with that.

So what were you, so you, I'm always curious about when people grow up in a beach town, like where do you go on vacation, since you are assumingly at a place where other people come for vacation? I guess like the city. Or like, I don't know, I feel like the mountains, people go to the Blue Mountains.

But did you go to the Blue Mountains? Yeah, people do, did you? I didn't. Yo, no you didn't. I didn't at all. We don't want you to talk about vacations you didn't go on. Yeah, we'll redirect this to you specifically. I don't even think based on the way you said it,

you know what the Blue Mountains are. That's said with zero confidence. No, I mean, we grew up going, honestly, my mom's from Switzerland, so we went to Switzerland. All right, there we go. That's great. How long would you go for that? We'd go, I mean, it depends, but like pretty much, yeah.

Every year, and I like went to school there at one point. It would be like, I lived there from like six to eight. Okay, where in Switzerland? In Basel. Okay. And also Switzerland? In Basel. And also Geneva. Great. It was really confusing because I don't speak French at all. Yeah. How was school? Do you remember? Like I would say a Swiss school sounds like, I

don't know, sounds pretty awesome. Um, I guess it was, it was like, um, when I, I went to like an, an international school, that was cool. Um, I remember I had a teacher called Mrs. Shirt. I looked bad. So it was a Roald Dahl book. Yeah. Um, but then Geneva was weird because yeah, I didn't speak French. But then there was like, so I didn't know what was going on.

And we did like, and I, but I would go to French classes, but we would just play guess who in English. I was really like, this is. Like all day for like your whole school? Like, yeah. Well, like kind of, yeah, for like your whole school? Like... Yeah. Well, like kind of, yeah, for like an hour each day. But you have incredible facial recognition. So you don't speak French,

but your guess who days, obviously. That's all right. The speed in which you're like glasses, mustache. Did you take advantage of the sort of, you know, the outdoor wonders of Switzerland when you were there? Were you skiers, hikers? Were the hills alive with the sound of music? You'd think. Well, I don't know. I mean, if the Blue Mountains couldn't get you.

Oh, I mean, we went skiing. Yeah. Yeah, no, I totally did go skiing, but it's again, hard. I was not a sporty kid. Have you become a sporty adult? Um, I know. I mean, I play tennis and that's something that is sort of surprising for myself. Um, cause there's a bowl involved, but I... Wow, actually I'm taking that in. Yeah, I've gotten better. I've gotten great. That's great. Yeah, give yourself, pat yourself on the back. Okay. And that's growth. Do you play tennis with regularity? Yeah, every Sunday. That's amazing.

What do you all play? Nothing. What? Yeah, I mean, I play a little golf. Yeah. I play some lawn games, but I played tennis here and there, but not with any great regularity. But a buddy of mine and I, Devin, will sort of try to dial up a court in Los Angeles every now and again, but it's been a minute. And I just run. Oh, wow.

Yeah. You're running the city. I just run in the city. I run from my responsibilities. Just. You also told me recently, Seth, that you kind of stopped running for a minute and you feel so much better.

I do. I think I was running too much for my old bones. And then- It's hard on the body. It is not good. Yeah, no doctors like, have you thought about picking up running? I was running too much for my old bones. And then it is not good. Yeah, no doctors like, have you thought about picking up running?

On the hardest cement that you can find? Yeah, ideally with bad pollution. So you get that in your lungs. Just like pound those knees and those lungs to no reward. You wear the toe shoes? No. Okay, just normal shoes. Just normal wear the toe shoes? No. Okay, just normal shoes.

Just normal shoes. Yeah, dress shoes. I run straight from work. I don't change. Just Mars in a Loker. My wife and I went on vacation maybe about 10 years ago to Switzerland, but we went in November when everybody says

this is the worst time to go, because it was like very rainy and gray. But I still really loved it because it was, I mean, I feel like we saw like five cities in two and a half days because it's not that big and the trains are so good. Yeah. That you can just like zip everywhere. And everything, it feels like sometimes you feel like you're in Italy, sometimes you feel like in Germany, sometimes you feel like in France. It's really kind of fascinating. And you like take a left and you're in France. Yeah, I loved it.

Hey, welcome to France. It's so fun. Were you bummed to move there and bummed to leave, or were you too young to have those kind of opinions about it? It was whatever. I mean... That's Switzerland Switzerland slogan. I don't know if I have the authority to do this.

We would love to get you as the spokesperson for VisitSwitzerland.com. That is the most like Australian in Switzerland ass shit. It was, no, it was cool. I mean, like I have cousins there and so that was, that was fun. And my, how does your, how did your Swiss mom find her way to Australia? Good question. She asked herself that to this very day. Um, she was doing musical theater, studying musical theatre in Paris. And my dad, who is, he was born in India, but he moved to Australia when he was six

and he had to be a doctor, no choice. No choice. Classic style. And so he was like, did his medicine degree and then was like, I did it. Look, you dad, I'm going to Paris and I'm going to study ballet and French. Get out. Whoa. Just like 25 being like, I'm going to give ballet a go.

And so he did. And that's they made a boarding house, like a international student kind of house doing French and ballet. So annoying and cute. I would imagine your grandfather absolute full nightmare. Yeah, true. I mean, you have a son go to medical school. Right. I know, you have a son go to medical school. Right, I know.

He was like, who's... Yeah, he's like, what are you gonna do with your medical degree? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is your father graceful? Not at all. Okay. Respectfully.

Yeah, no, yeah. I think there was maybe a time, but that was before I knew him. Okay. Gotcha. So your mother, musical theater in Paris meets a French speaking ballet student. Not even French speaking, but. French attempting. French attempting.

Trying, yeah, learning on the. Then wakes up one day and she's like, oh my God, I married a doctor who lives in Australia. Yeah. Yeah, fully. And now she's like, wait, what? What the hell? So fair. Was she excited when you showed an interest in the arts?

Yes. Big time. Both of them are. I think that's a big part of why they're so supportive. It's like, they're like, well, we couldn't, like, you know. Yeah, they both had the edge. They understood it. And they understood it big time. And like, yeah, are so excited about it

and love to kind of like vicariously live through me. CUTE. And you knew early? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, I mean, I'm curious how you feel because I was just yapping. I just like was because I feel like that's that's so much of what we do. And I just yeah, it was so like bubble, like just wanting to tell everyone everything. Did they steer you towards it

when you were just like yapping? Were they like, what if we get her on stage and she could yap at other people? Yeah, no, fully. Well, it was like, my mom was in, she was doing, she was in the chorus for Annie in Newcastle and then somebody, and she was like, I have this child who yaps.

And then they were like, oh, you should, because there was like, in my hometown, there was like, there's public schools, there's private schools, and then there's like public selective schools, which there was like the smart school and the performing school. Right. They say performing because dumb seemed mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dumb, yeah, bro.

So I went there, shockingly. And yeah, it was like, I auditioned when I was six. I had to pretend to walk a dog and nailed it, obviously. People still talk about it. Was pretending to walk a dog, is that like they wanted to see you like mime it? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah. I had to act that out.

They were like, we're doing a production of Annie, but we can't afford a Sandy. So we need a kid who can believably make it look like there's a dog there. So what was your first, what was your first gig? My first gig? Um, I did a Kodak commercial when I was like, little, I think I was like five, six. Um, like, yeah, for an yeah, for an ad for like a camera company and... Lines or just being a kid? Just being a kid.

Yeah. Big tails. Yeah. Real dog? Whoa. Yeah, you're like, I can't do real. I can act like it's real. We don't need this guy.

Say the dog in later. Edit the dog in later. But you'll you'll want to feel out this dog. But I remember we went to Sydney for it was very exciting. And do you remember those like in like the early 2000s, those things that would hang like in the door frame, those like beaded. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I got one of those as a present for being so good on set. Oh, wow. That's they gave you beaded curtains? Yeah, I guess that's what I, that's what I wish. Well, that is the strangest cast gift. Would you like take weekend trips? Would you guys ever go into Sydney for a weekend or would you go elsewhere in Australia? Yeah, definitely go to Sydney a lot.

I feel like in Asia so close to Australia. I mean, a lot of people go to Bali, but we went to like Thailand and Singapore and like Fiji. That's all the stuff that's close. Yeah, I mean, those are pretty cool places though. Yeah. Yeah, don't look down your nose at them just because they were close. Hey, I'm just saying.

What were those trips like? What would you guys do? It would always be like some kind of wildlife sanctuary. I remember going to like an elephant sanctuary and I sat on his head. That was pretty sick. Was that something that was available or was that just you doing your own thing?

Sitting on the head? Yeah. I think I just kind of went for it. Yeah. Yeah. Was that Thailand? Was that like- That was Thailand, yeah. Yeah, and then North probably.

We've got all those, that's where those sanctuaries are, up in like near Chiang Mai, I wanna say. Yeah. Josh, with a weird flex on knowing where they keep the elephants. Okay. Well, it's like I went to Thailand and I went south and I had a terrible trip and I always wish I had gone north. And the whole time they were like, you know, the elephants are up there.

Yeah. No elephants down there? Yeah. Not where I was, but yeah, it was not like the way Lotus, where I was. Oh. Yeah. What did you see? Anything?

Monkeys? No, I saw nothing. I got sick. I got ripped off. I got, yeah, cheated and mistreated. Yeah. But that's me. Back to you.

So, sorry, we just went to a dark place there, which, kicking himself all these years later. He's like, you know, yeah, is that up north where you saw those elephants? Yeah. I came close once, but went the wrong way. Let's just say. So these, so trips were more outdoorsy than cultural when you would go to those places? I guess so.

Yeah. Yeah, did we do anything cultural? Laughing at culture. Culture. No, thank you. But would you go to, like when you were young and went to Sydney, was that something where you're, would you go to, like, plays and things when you were a kid? Was that something your parents liked to take you guys to?

Yeah, I feel like we went to musicals. Yeah. I remember seeing, I was obsessed with Cats, the musical. Okay. We saw that in Sydney in, like, a tent. That was cool. Did you do musical theater as well? Do you have a good singing voice? It's okay. It's fine. It's good. I feel like what happened was I went to performing art school where there was really good singers. Yeah. Then you know right away.

I would always be like, hey guys, we should all sing together. And then sing and then it was very clear who was the weakest link. But it's like fine, like it was still, it was possible. But yeah, I was a little musical theater nerd for sure. Yeah, I'm sort of the same way. There were musical theater majors in college and then I got the lead in a musical and I could just feel the sort of anger coming from those musical theater majors and then when like the weekend, a show is, you know,

it premieres and closes in one weekend. There's like two Fridays, two Saturdays, one Sunday and that's it. That's all she wrote. And by the Sunday show, I couldn't sing at all, like, because I just blew my voice out because I didn't know what I was doing with my voice. And I feel like all those musical theater majors were like, ha ha. Like, serves me right.

I never told you this, Pashi. It was supposed to run for two weekends, but they closed it early as you were. Shame. No, I'm kidding. No. Tell everybody what show you were in, Pashi. Tommy, I was Tommy and Tommy.

He was Tommy and Tommy, because my bro's got star power. Wait, Tommy and Tommy? Yeah, the- Do you know what Tommy, the Who's Tommy? I don't know who's Tommy. Now it feels like we're doing Who's on first. Who's Tommy?

Yeah. Do you know the band The Who? Oh, sure, yeah. Yeah, they wrote a musical called Tommy. Ooh, oh, that's cool. Yeah. Literally right off the bat, you kind of can't explain what it's about because it seems so crazy. But yeah, it was a movie that Elton John was in, The Pinball Wizard, that song is from that musical. I don't know if you know that.

We could just be too much older than you. Yeah. I'm gonna look into this. This sounds- Yeah, see if we're just making it up. Just give it a couple minutes. Yeah, it does feel like this sounds like some weird long prank.

So do you have of those countries that were near you, the Asian countries, did you have a favorite when you were little? Yeah, we took a trip to Phuket and I established, I kind of had this beautiful relationship with this baby elephant named Pudgy. Okay. And that was like my favorite trip ever.

And I remember, I don't know if this is real, but I was like a bit of a psychic kid and I had a premonition about the tsunami. Oh, uh-huh. And it happened and I was like, told you. Which is what everyone wanted to hear. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Making good about myself. Really comforting in these dark times. But, and then I remember hearing that Pudgy like saved a bunch of kids on his back.

Wow. All right. Now, your relationship with Pudgy, I'd love to dig into this. How long did you know, what was the arc of your relationship with Pudgy? Was this a matter of days that he made this kind of impact on you? Well, yeah. So we would be at breakfast, Pudgy would come up to you at breakfast and you could give him your leftover watermelon. Okay. And I'm listening. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. And I just feel like, yeah, I think we were there for like a week and just throughout this week, like it was just all about getting to breakfast and giving him my watermelon. And yeah, and by the end of it, we were like running around in a field.

It was crazy. Do you know if Pudgy's still kicking? Those elephants live a good long time. How long do elephants live? I don't know, but I feel like- They don't tell you in the south of Thailand. I feel like an elephant could easily be 40. I'm guessing.

We're just going off of vibes. I think that in, you know, we want this podcast to both be about family trips and then just wild guesswork on the lifespans of animals. I think 40. Are you gonna look it up, Pudge? Yeah, I'm looking it up.

All right. 60 to 70. Oh, sorry, you weren't gonna guess? Yeah. I was gonna take the over, so. So Pudgey is probably still with us and probably wondering where the fuck you are. Yeah.

Yeah. It's like saves all these kids and doesn't even get a- Yeah. Yeah. Did you send him a letter? I need to go back. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, what the hell?

That's crazy. Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah. Wait, what the hell? That's crazy. Oh my God. I mean, he's a hero. We need him. Yeah. We need more people like Pudgy. Do your parents come and visit you in the States ever? They do. They have.

How did they feel when you first moved? I mean, obviously they knew it was based on probably work and being professional. Yeah, I think they were always like, that's, they were always supportive. They loved, they loved LA. Like we came when I was like 15 on a family trip and they had a great time.

They were like, but it was, yeah, things have changed here so fast too. They were like, everything's so cheap. And then my dad visited me like two years ago and he was like, what the hell? What happened? This is crazy. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. This episode of Family Trips is brought to you by Nissan.

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Here we go. When you went when you were 15, were there things that you wanted to do? Did you want to sort of, in terms of Los Angeles, did you want to do Hollywood-y things? Did you want to do the Universal tour? Oh yeah. Yeah. All of that stuff.

Yeah. I liked doing the Celebrity House tours and like, I was like looking up where premieres were happening and would just like show up and get autographs and like, um, which sometimes ended up being like the highlight of that trip was we got into the bridesmaids premiere. Oh, wow. How did that happen?

We were just waiting outside and I was kind of screaming and crying and they were handing out tickets. And so we all went in. It was crazy. It was like- I feel like I haven't had anything that cool happen to me. You just have to go on barricades. You just have to go on like, it was like, see the stars.com or something. Yeah. And you got in.

The whole family got in? All got in. I mean, for a young person who loves comedy, I have to imagine that was transformative. That's not in my life. I mean, come on. When you're screaming and crying to get tickets, is your sister screaming with you

or is she sort of rolling her eyes at you? She's like, I wanna- If you're 15, she's nine, so. Exactly, wow, oh my God, okay. Okay, cool. Josh went to the gifted school and I'll- I went to the gifted school, yeah. Yeah, completely. Jesus. Yeah, cool. Yeah, no, she was like, can I want to like, yeah, go home and like pretend to be a duck

or something, you know, like she was like, I don't know who are these people. Right. Oh, but we were obsessed with the IT crowd, that show. Oh yeah. And Chris O'Dowd was there. Of course. Both really excited to see Chris O'Dowd was there. Of course. I was really excited to see Chris O'Dowd. It's really good.

But no, Bridesmaids, she, I think it was like, it was someone crazy. It was like Jack Black or someone was like, you watched the movie? And like pointed out my little sister. And we were like, yeah, she had to close her ears sometimes. Ha ha. And then we were like, oh my God.

We just had a stunning interaction with Jack Black. I think I told this, I'm sure I did, but I was, last time I was in LA, I was gonna walk. I was like, oh, I'll walk. I was gonna meet somebody at the Beverly Hills Hotel. And I looked on the map and it was like an hour, sorry, a mile from my hotel. And I thought it's a beautiful day,

I'm just gonna walk in LA. And two different Star Tour buses went by and somebody screamed, hey, it's Seth Meyers. And I was just like walking, looking at my phone and in both cases I was like, oh, this is not that bad. In shorts and dress shoes. Shorts, dress shoes. Not, not in that's bad. In shorts and dress shoes. Shorts, dress shoes. Not, not my best moment. That would have really made their trick.

I hope so, but it didn't make mine. Right, well it's like now I'm caught up on the other side and I'm seeing how insane it is to like, to do that. To like show up to a famous person's house and be like, we love you or whatever. It's like, I hope they love that. But at the time, it's just, it's, yeah, it's a thrill. Well, I mean, the premiere is the best possible outcome

because you were seeing famous people at a time where they have elected to be seen. That's true. Yeah. They're in glam and yeah. That's true. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're in Blam and yeah. That's true.

But then, yeah, I would see, I remember also seeing like Matt LeBlanc at Ralph's. Yeah. That's pretty good. And that being really exciting. Yeah. You know, just raw every day. He was so nice. But. Oh, so that means you did approach him. Yeah. You know, just raw every day. He was so nice, but- Oh, so that means you did approach him.

I- Yeah. Yeah. I actually couldn't do it, but my dad did. Oh, great. On your behalf, did you have like an autograph book? Yes. Okay.

Do you still have that book somewhere? Yeah, it'll be in my childhood bedroom. Yeah. Yeah. That's amazing. What do you think, what's the best autograph you ever got? I remember getting one from Chris O'Dowd. I think Kristen Wiig maybe did one.

All right. Like pretty much all the Bridesmaids cast. I mean, it's pretty good. That's a very good start to an autograph book, the Bridesmaids cast. I mean, it's pretty good. That's a very good start to an autograph book, the Bridesmaids cast. Pretty epic. You know, you worked with one of our oldest friends. Who's that?

Ike Barinholtz. Oh my god. And, by the way, Anne Kate Cannon is one of our oldest friends. Oh my god, true. Is this like Chicago days? Chicago and then Amsterdam. Amsterdam. Because we all work together in Amsterdam.

Whoa. Yeah. Yeah. How long was Amsterdam? Two years for me, three years for Josh. Yeah. That's so freaking cool. It was amazing. It was an improv show in Amsterdam?

Yeah, yeah. There's an American improv comedy theater based in Amsterdam. And so it was me right out of college and Seth maybe a year after college, we moved over there. Yeah. We were just there with this incredible list of people,

Ike and KB and two of them. It was really awesome. Oh my God, that's heaven. And you're just like cracking up and then getting a bit. Yeah, truly. Truly that. And then just living, I mean, again, to live in another country and do what you love with this like incredibly tight-knit group of people, it was the best.

There was like weirdly less distractions because we were all like, all right, this is why we're here. Yeah. Right. Oh my God. It was the best. And that's a great movie, Blockers. Shout out to Blockers. Shout out to Blockers. Yeah. Super my God. This is the best. And that's a great movie, Blockers. Shout out to Blockers.

Shout out to Blockers. Yeah. Super fucking funny. You know, Aussies classically travel for months at a time. Would you ever do trips with like school friends where you'd go, we're gonna go for a month and just backpack around Europe or whatever?

Did you ever do any of that stuff? I didn't really do the backpacking around Europe thing. We did, have you heard about schoolies? Schoolies? No. Schoolies, it's this thing, it's like when you finish high school in Australia, everybody goes on schoolies, which is like a trip with your group of friends. schoolies, which is like a trip with your group of friends. And it's either like Gold Coast or feed.

We went to Fiji. People go to Bali, but it's like. And we went, yeah, it's just the trashiest experience of your life. And we went with like a it was, it was called Unleashed. Yeah. We went with this like a group that was called Unleashed and, um, went to Fiji and it was, we went to the cheapest island, um, which was a mistake. Cheapest for a reason. Cheapest for a reason. Cheapest for a reason.

And we could kind of see the other slightly more expensive, bigger island. And one of my friends' boyfriend was on that island and she was just the whole time crying being like, I wish I was on that island. But we, and we were just, it was like us, so like theater nerds and one other group from like a really dodgy school. Um, it was, it really was like, um, kind of nightmare scenario. Just like, yeah. But it was the idea with schoolies is just to like drink a ton and like, yeah. Okay.

Cause it's like pretty, yeah. Everybody's like 18 and school's over. Um, it's one of those great Australian slang words where literally no thought went into it. What are we going to call it after it was schoolies? Yeah, that's fine. Let's just go with that. Did you ever go on or have you heard of Contiki tours? Yes, yes.

When we were working in Amsterdam, every now and again, a Contiki tour would be coming through and they would come to a show. And there were like maybe 300 audience members at our shows. And like, there would be nights where 120 of them were Kantiki and it was a problem. Disaster. Yeah. Yeah. Because they had maybe one or two nights in Amsterdam

and they were ready to get their Amsterdam on and not great audience members. Yeah, not a great theater audience. Yeah. Oh my God. Right. They're like, I mean, because Amsterdam can be debaucherous. It's like, it's a party place.

I think if you're on a tour where you're going to a bunch of countries, you highlight that Amsterdam stop and you're like, well, we're going to go for it in Amsterdam. Lose our minds. Yeah. It was a real schoolies vibe. It felt comedy. Yeah.

Was it a lot of, it was like all Australia, is it all Australia? It was a sneaky tour. New Zealanders as well. Yeah. Oh. Which I know is different to you, but like to us. Yeah.

Yeah. But to us it's like, all right. Different place, yeah. Wait, can you do me a favor? All right. Can you do a New Zealand accent for me? Because I feel like if I hear an Australian person do a New Zealand accent, it might actually help me.

Yeah. Flush and chups. Yeah, that's the one we used to do on the stage. Yeah. Pinky and. Yeah, I feel like it's all to do on the stage. Yeah, penguins. Yeah, I feel like it's all a little bit clipped and shorter. Just a little bit up here. Look at all the penguins.

Look at all the penguins eating their fush and chups. All right, we just mentioned penguins, so now it's time on Family Trips where we guess how long does a penguin live? Quick round the horn, how long do we think a penguin lives? I'm gonna say four years. 16. Four. Yeah, I'm gonna say, I'll say 22. Okay, look it up Pashi. All right, keep talking. By the way, mine was eaten by a walrus.

That's why it's only four. Okay. You're allowed to also say, you guys are doing natural causes. I'm doing eating. Yeah. 15 to 20. Wow. All right. Well, shout out to you guys.

Some individuals live considerably longer. I don't know what that means. Considerably longer. Wait, can you do, can you one more time in a New Zealand accent talk about penguins? The penguins? Yeah. Penguins can...

Did you know? Did you know? No, fuck. Yeah. Penguins can live from 15 to 20. That's really good. This is very helpful. It's not bad.

Also, I need to have a word to help me get into an accent. And now forever when I do New Zealand, it'll be penguins. Yes. Like just backstage when I'm, you know, I don't know what I'll be doing. Doing some, what are the famous New Zealand plays? Penguins, penguins. That's the name of the most famous New Zealand play. That's true.

The penguins. Penguins. This has been so lovely talking to you. Before we let you go, Josh is going to ask you a lightning round of questions that we ask all of our guests. Okay. All right, here we go. You can only pick one of these.

Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous, or educational? Relaxing. What is your favorite means of transportation? Carriage. Carriage. Carriage. 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 family vacation with? Whoa, the Simpsons? Oh, the Simpsons. How great. Also, when you say carriage, does carriage mean car or does it mean like horse and carriage? It could, I just thought that was sort of like an umbrella term, like you say carriage, does carriage mean car or does it mean like horse and carriage? It could, I just thought that was sort of like an umbrella term, like horse and carriage or like, you know, like a rickshaw, like any commando.

By the way, they're all available because no one else has ever picked them. Right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever you want of those, yeah. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? Oh my God. Oh, everyone would be so useless.

Um, maybe, maybe my dad. Okay. And you are from Newcastle, correct? That's right. Would you recommend Newcastle as a vacation destination? I would actually. All right. You guys go, you should check it out.

Today, when you were growing up, maybe not. Well, that's yeah, exactly right. It's crazy that I, yeah, even can say that now, because at the time I was like, get me out of here. This is hell. But now I'm like, you can get a little coffee, sit on the beach. Like it's, you know, it's actually, it's cute. Yeah.

I think everyone goes through that phase where you're like, your hometown just feels like not the place you want to be. And then, yeah, then nostalgia kicks in later and you're like, Oh God, that was great. Yeah. Not for everyone, but for a lot of be. Completely. Completely. And then nostalgia kicks in later and you're like, oh, God, that was great. Yeah, totally. Not for everyone, but for a lot of us. Yeah. And Seth has our final questions. Geraldine, have you been to the Grand Canyon?

No. Do you want to go? Are you inviting me? Sure. Yeah, I would go. All right. That's different than want to. No, I totally... Yeah, interesting.

You don't totally. Don't try to sell us on totally after this answer. Yeah, no. I can't want to. No, I took, yeah. You don't totally, don't try to sell us on totally after this answer. Yeah, no, I, like, wait, I should go. Yeah, I guess I don't, it's not really on the top of my list, but. Yeah, doesn't sound like it.

You're going, right? Oh, you went? We went, we went last year, but just for like a few hours. So the softest, the softest of yeses from Geraldine. From Geraldine, yeah. We'll take it. The Grand Canyon, yeah. Yeah.

Also, if you could also do their sort of slogan. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Level? Yeah. You should go. I would go.

With a question mark. The Grand Canyon, I would go. Yeah, I would go. Question mark. The Grand Canyon, I would go. Yeah, I would go. Question mark. Um, Thunderbolts, May 2nd, it's really, first, first foyer into the Marvel world. That's right. Exciting.

It's a great cast. Yeah, you know, it's, it's crazy. I'm, I'm excited and scared, but excited. Well, we're very excited for you. I can't wait to see it. It's always lovely to see you. Please come back on the show soon. Oh, yes, with more, I'll come with more trips.

Great. Well, now you can come on my talk show too and we can talk about anything else too. Yes, please. I always, you, I mean, as you are, your name to read, I think is intimidating. And I always remember this for nothing. That's right.

You're the only man in town who can say it. But it's the best, it's the most helpful. I literally never, once you told me, it's like, just say it like this for nothing. I'm like, great, never forget it. But then the first name starts to become an issue. Great to see you. Thank you, Geraldine.

Thank you so much. Bye Thank you, Geraldine. You too. Thank you so much. Bye. Bye-bye. Be well. She'd go to Asia pretty much, cause it was close. Went to Phuket, where she met her father. She'd go to Phuket, where she met her father.

She'd go to Phuket, where she met her father. She'd go to Phuket, where she met her father. She'd go to Phuket, where she met her father. She'd go to Phuket, where she met her father. She'd go to Phuket, where she met her father. She'd go to Phuket, where she met her father. She'd go to Phuket, where she met her father. She'd go to Phuket, where she met her father.

She'd go to Phuket, where she met her father. She'd go to Phuket, where she met her father. She'd go to Phuket, where she met her father. She'd go to Phuket, where she met her father. She'd go to Phuket, where she met her father. She'd go to Phuket, where she met her father. She'd go to Phuket, where she met her father. She'd go to Phuket, where she met her father. She'd go to Ph pretty much cause it was close Went to Phuket where she met an elephant She'd feed him watermelon leftovers at breakfast And now Pudgy probably wonders where she went

Maybe she's off acting like a penguin Living life unleashed out on Fiji Hope she didn't book the cheapest island Four schoolies got recognition When she walked a dog in an audition A dog that wasn't real Living in Switzerland's whatever, yet it's okay. It was cool when she was taught by Mrs. Shirt.

But at the French school she just played a lot of guess who. Dark brown hair, blue eyes and glasses, that's Robert. And she kinda lives life like a penguin. Hopping continents just to grow. You invited her to the Grand Canyon I guess she'd go, this for nothing That's what rhymes with this for nothing This for nothing, yeah Bye!