Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - HEATHER MCMAHAN Took a Month-Long Trip to Scotland

Episode Date: October 6, 2026

This week on the pod, Seth and Josh welcome comedian Heather McMahan! Heather talks about growing up in Atlanta, taking family trips with her pilot dad to Hilton Head, Turks and Caicos, Scotland, and ski destinations, and making memories on family cruises. She shares stories about moving back to Atlanta from New York and Los Angeles, living in her childhood home with her mom during COVID. Heather also talks about her early comedy break after leaving a DVD for Jeff Foxworthy and the success of her podcast Absolutely Not, which recently reached 400 episodes. Plus, she discusses her new Hulu special By a Thread, out Oct 16th on Hulu! 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 Meyers 06:43 Meet Heather McMahan 09:55 Europe Summers and Honeymoon Ethics 14:08 Atlanta Roots and Family Vacations 32:43 Golf Rivalry Marriage 33:47 Quitting Competitive Golf 35:47 Standup Big Break w/ Jeff Foxworthy 40:01 Baggage Claim Love Story 48:21 Scotland Clan Kilt Trip 54:00 Ole Miss Tailgate Culture 58:19 Touring Food Fan Chaos 01:01:52 Speed Round Questions ------------------------- Support our sponsors: Cologuard If you're 45 or older and at average risk, talk to your healthcare provider about screening for colon cancer and ask if Cologuard Plus could be right for you. You can also request a Cologuard prescription online today at https://Cologuard.com Audible Audible. Stories that speak to you. New members can start listening with a 30-day free trial at https://audible.com/trips Ethos Get your free quote at https://ethos.com/trips Mint Mobile To get your new wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month, go to https://mintmobile.com/trips. Cut your wireless bill to 15 bucks. That’s it there’s no catch. Upfront payment of: $45 for 3-months, $90 for 6-months, or $180 for 12-months, plan required, $15 per month equivalent. Taxes & fees extra. Initial plan term only. Greater than 50GB may slow when network is busy. Includes up to 20GB hotspot. Capable device required. Availability, speed & coverage varies. See Mint Mobile dot com. ------------------------- Family Trips is produced by Rabbit Grin Productions. Theme song written and performed by Jeff Tweedy. ------------------------- 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. ------------------------- Executive Producers: Rob Holysz, Jeph Porter, Natalie Holysz Creative Producer: Sam Skelton Coordinating Producer: Derek Johnson Video Editor: Josh Windisch Mix & Master: Josh Windisch Episode Artwork: Analise Jorgensen #familytrips #sethmeyers #joshmeyers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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My wife has been out of town for a week. Yeah, I saw her. In Los Angeles. Yeah, we had brunch. We're not usually, McKenzie and I, we're not usually brunch people. If we have a weekend morning that we can just get up and hang around the house, that's what we want to do. And we knew a lot of. Lexi was here, so we reached out, and she's like, how's 8.30 in West Hollywood? And we were like,

ugh. But you get out, 8.30. That's because that was just so early for you. Yeah, it was just earlier than we wanted. That's getting up at 7. Yeah, of course. Getting the dog out, getting showered on a morning when you could theoretically sleep in. But it was so lovely, like, it was a gray morning. The sun hadn't come out yet. Beat the crowds. Lovely brunch. So nice to see her. It was really, it was great. And I just got us out. of the house. It sort of gave us a day that we wouldn't have had otherwise. I had, because she was gone, I did not have a single night without one of my children in bed. Like they just kind of rotated through. Yeah, because you don't got those boundaries. We don't got those boundaries, but I will tell you,

buddy. I couldn't. I'm actually sad. It's over. She's getting back tonight. And it was just so nice. Like, I'm just realizing, like, they're not going to want to do it forever. And I'm like, this is the best. And they all are different. Like, it's mostly Addy and Axel. Like, Ash is, you know, I think he's kind of, you know, he wants to be the big kid and he doesn't want to do that. Yeah. He whines a little bit about the fact that he keeps forgetting that he could have done it. And, but Axel wakes up so early and then just for an hour tries to wake me up while pretending he's still asleep. So he's just a lot of like, oh.

Cartoon noises. Cartoon noises. Then, like, kick in me a little bit. Then I'll be like, good morning, Axel. He's like, huh? What? Oh. Hey, good morning, dad, dad.

I'm like, you little asshole. You little liar. And then Addie, she wakes up and then just will like lie on her side, thumb in her mouth and just staring at you. And so when you open your eyes, she is just like, and it's just you can't ask for sort of a better tableau. Yeah, that's seeing that. And I will say it was the longest Alexi has been away.

And the kids were just so good. I mean, I think they knew, like, if they counted on me, it's going to be a disaster. So they were all like, let's just do, let's just take care of what we need to take care of. That's great. Yeah, it was very, very rewarding. And I'm very proud of them. On my way home from that brunch, I had to stop one of the producers for my California Now podcast had grabbed my AirPods case that I had left on a recent shoot in Northern California. And I told your wife, Alexi, this.

And she's like, oh, do you want to see Seth's find my? I was worried about that. And she scrolled through, and there's like Seth Myers AirPod's 9 or something like that. And I'm like, nine, she's like, this is the second time through. This is 18 because it goes up to 10 and then it re-racks. Apparently, you got a problem. I got a real problem holding on to my ear pods. and I'm okay with it.

You know what I mean? And part of it, though, so look, I need earpods, right? Yeah. I also, the same thing would happen if I had sunglasses, and so I don't wear sunglasses. Do not own a pair of sunglasses. No, but I just because I know what will happen, right? Right.

Like even reading glasses now, I found a cheap pair I like, and I have 20 pairs of them. Yeah. All about. With sunglasses, our good buddy, Brian Stanchfield, Stanch, he's always rocked the crokeys. He has a rockies.

He has rocked the crokeys. Yeah. And apparently your son Axel wears crokeys with like multiple buoys on them. Yeah, he wears summer crokeys. He wears booed. Because again, Axel has some very, very heavy prescription lenses in his glasses that are not easy to replace. Right. So we buoy him up hardcore.

But you could go, you could rock some crokeys, particularly in the summertime. I think weird if you're just walking around New York City. I'm almost to the point. I think I might just go like the kind of chains that our grandmother Addy wore. Oh, yeah. McKenzie's bought those for me and she like really wants me to wear him. And I'm like, I'm not. I know.

But I'm closer to that than I am like a cool croaky dude driving around a boat. Yeah. Okay. I might just be that. Fair enough. You know what? We are who we are, Poshy, and there's no need to fight it. Yeah, that's true.

Great conversation today. And I'm very excited for everybody to hear our guest. This is the first time I think either of us had talked to her. Yeah, Heather McMahon. She's got a great podcast, absolutely not, that just hit 400 episodes. She's got a new special by a thread, which is out October 16th on Hulu, not her first special, but her most recent. And yeah, she does it right when she, after she shoots a special. She's got a plan that she talks about a way that she treats herself and her husband to a little time off.

And it's very admirable. So we hope you enjoy it. We certainly did. And thank you, as always, for listening, everybody. Family Chips with the Mice brothers. I'm good. How are you guys? We're good.

We're, I think, coming up on our 200th episode, and then I just looked and you just hit 400. Is that true? Yeah. Yeah. And it feels like I did 10,000. So I'm good to know. Congratulations. Yeah, it is both like, I can't believe we're almost at 200.

And I'm also like, how's it not a thousand? Yeah. Yeah, and like, how have I not run out of everything to talk about? And then, like, people will come up to me on the street and, like, hey, you talked about this on your podcast? I'm like, did I? I should have never said that out loud. Why, like, I'm just, like, word vomiting every week. It's terrible.

Yeah, no, we're learning that as well. It's lovely, though, when you find out that there are people in the world who know more or remember more about your life than you do. 100%. Yeah. Yeah, it's scary. And I'm like, how do I know you? And they're like, oh, you told me your deepest, darkest secret on your very public podcast. Thank you so much for sharing that.

And you're like, great, cool. What got you into the podcast game? Because it seems like you were fairly early into it. Yeah. You know, I don't know, just self-indulgence. And, like, my, I don't even have a co-host. My podcast is like a solo once a week. I guess I just like to hear myself talk.

You know, as a stand-up, it's like, I guess the stories keep coming. But I have, like, a hotline where people call in and then I give them, like, horrific, unsolicited life advice. So it was originally an interaction with my fans. And then, you know, your publicist call and they're like, yeah, you maybe should get some guests on this thing. So now it's ebbed and morphed since then. But it's been fun. But I've been doing it for like, you know, for years.

It's crazy. As a young person, were you the kind who would give unsolicited advice? Yeah, every day. I was always the kid who wanted to hang out with the adults. Like, if you had a stepmom who you were a little suspicious about, I was hanging out with Kathy while she smoked menthols during the sleepover. You know, that was, I was always an adult kid. I don't even know how to explain it. I never got Disney.

I'm like, I want to watch Sally Jesse Raphael and Ricky Lake and soaps and I want to know the tea. Yeah. Yeah. That's very good. Well, you're in the right, you're in the right space then. Good, good. And congrats on your new special dropping on Hulu on October 16th. Yeah, very exciting.

Yeah, that's awesome. Do you have that window of time between when you film it and when it's out in the world? Do you find that the most uneasy time of a special? Yeah, and I'm panicked because then as soon as it drops, like I know in October, I have to start from scratch. So I'm like, you know, you work on this for like a year and you tour and you do all these things and then you sit with it. And then when it's released, you're like, well, okay,

I've got to absolutely start from scratch again. And that's an exhausting, thrilling, exciting time in your life. But you're like, all right, here we go. Back to the, back to square one. Have you been on the road in between where you're sort of saying farewell to the material? your last run with it? No, absolutely not. I take the summers off.

I don't touch comedy for like a month because I feel very strongly. You have to go live. I go to Europe with my husband for at least three weeks. And then we obviously get into some sort of fight while we're there. And that's how I have at least three new minutes. Exactly. Exactly. Where?

How many years have you guys lived by the spend the summer in Europe or three weeks in Europe, I should say? I mean, we've only been able to afford living in Europe in the summer for like the last. you know, six years. That's pretty good, though. Yeah. Did you have, was their favorite destination over the course of the last six years? Yeah, we're big Italy people.

I got married in Italy. I studied abroad in Italy. It's just, it always calls to me. That's where, you know, I've got Italian roots. So does my husband. That's just where we go and thrive. Like, if I have an April's spirits. I had a feeling McMahon was Italian.

It's on my mom's side. But there's something about getting like a fresh Coke zero with a lime, you know, in Italy. and then I smoke a vacation sick, and I'm just a whole person. That's what I need to really take off the edge. Where did you study in Italy? Florence. So did my wife.

I've still never been. We're married, and we still haven't taken our honeymoon, and that's sort of the Dolomites, Florence, and Venice is our plan, and we just need to find the time to go. Heather, I'm going to reach out real quick for some unsolicited advice here. How many years after your wedding is it no longer a honeymoon? it's just a vacation. Because Josh is coming up on two years married.

And I appreciate how hard it is to schedule something. But if it's like five years after they got married, is it actually a honeymoon? Yeah, no, I do think this is we're just in vacation territory. Yeah. Which is fine. I think a vacation with someone you love very much, that's great. I will say, if I may, just because this is my life,

we, at our wedding, we asked for, like, a honeymoon funds. So we have an account with money in it that is like dedicated for the honeymoon. So it will be probably more than we would spend on a typical trip. And it is only because it is our honeymoon. You didn't want a crock pot. We didn't need a crock pot. And you guys have it in a high-yield fund right now. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, what's the, yeah, are you? Josh, I'm fine with all that. I'm just saying if it's three and a half years after get married, I don't want to hear that you guys are getting a free piece of cake at dinner because you're telling the waiters it's your honeymoon. You, well, you might have to hear that. I don't have to worry about your gentle soul about hearing about my wife and me getting a piece of cake. I just feel like you are, in most things, you are highly ethical, and I feel like this is stepping on the line of ethics.

Well, I have to admit, my dad died 10 years ago, and I still use that my dad just died to get free stuff all the time. And I always tell women, yeah, go to a makeup counter. Like, go to Chanel, right? It's super expensive. You go in there, you look a little sad. You say, hey, my dad's dead. I need to get some makeup for, like, the service. You walk out of there with hundreds of dollars worth of free samples.

And it's not technically lying because they're dead, you know? But I use that to my advantage all the time to get free things. Do you think your dad would approve? Absolutely. Okay. Then I approve. In a way, he's still giving you gifts. If your dad was the kind of guy who liked this, how crafty you're being, then I think that's okay.

Yeah, 100%. He'd be like milk it for as long as you need to. Yeah. That's fantastic. So you grew up. You're from Atlanta? Yeah. Okay. And grew up there, like born and raised. Born and raised, grew up there, moved back there recently. Like my husband and I lived in New York. We lived in L.A., but no, now I'm back. I'm back in Atlanta. And I just moved out of my child at home. So for the last six years,

Since COVID, we left our apartment in New York City. I moved back into my child at home with my mom, and we just moved out into our first, like, real, like, adult home. And we've been married for five years. And we were living our honeymoon phase in my mom's house. Yeah. That's right. How does your mom feel about your departure? She's devastated, hates it, is at my front door at my new home every 15 minutes, you know, trying to rearrange furniture, telling me I have horrible decor style.

So, yeah, she's appalled. How far away? How far away did you move? We moved 15 minutes away, and I'm this close to buying the ranch house next door so that she can be next door, but not in my home. Yeah. You should insist on decorating the ranch house next door, much to her great dismay. Yes, I will. I absolutely will.

Is this how you thought it would go when you moved out? Were you aware, based on your relationship with your mother that she'd be over? Yeah, without a doubt, 100%. And I miss her, and my husband, we have, we don't have kids yet. have like four guest bedrooms upstairs. And he's like, she's not moving in. We need at least a year. Because we didn't get to live out our honeymoon phase.

I was in my childhood bedroom. And I'm on the road touring all the time. So it kind of worked. Like my husband and I would have these like sexy rendezvous. We'd meet, you know, somewhere on tour. But it is hard to have sex in your childhood home with your mother like four doors down. And at one point, my financial advisor was like, Heather, you're not doing bad. Let's just buy a home.

Or at least a different bed. A different bed. Yeah. Because that was my wife and I spent basically like the first 10 summers where a couple together at my in-laws summer house and her childhood bed, which was like a real creaky, squeaky thing. Just not okay. Do you, when you're on the road just logistically, does that mean your husband is in your childhood home with your mom, just the two of them staring at each other waiting for you to get back? 100%. And it's kind of the relationship of like Leah Remini and like the King of Queens with his dad.

had like kind of that vibe, but they're their best friends. But here's the funny thing. My mom is from Boston. My husband's from New York. So they speak in a very like Yankee language together that as a southerner, I'm like, why is everyone screaming? And they're just having the time of their lives. But my husband's the best. He'd take my mom to Korean barbecue and all these fun little dates. But now that we are out, we're having our new honeymoon phase. I was like, I can walk around my house naked. You know, we've been doing the sex in all the places. Like, we're back in a honeymoon phase. and we've been together a very long time. So we're having fun. Great. I think there is something very nice about how different people from Boston and New York would say they are. But if you put a third person in the room from Atlanta,

they're like, we're the same. We're 100% of the same. There's no difference at us. What were we ever talking about? Everyone's screaming. Everyone's fighting. But they're not fighting, but they're happy, but they're also kind of sad.

Like, I can't ever read the room. And as a comic, I feel like I'm really good at reading the room. And I'm like, I don't know if you guys are getting along. or want to kill each other. And they're like, we're having the time of our lives. Leave us alone. I'm like, fine. Like, all right, bye.

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off-brand video game where they didn't get the licenses. So we're going to go see the Pittsburgh Football Men. Yeah, we're big fans of the Pittsburgh Football Club, and we're going to go see them on an annual trip, and it's just, it's the best. Yeah, and again, look, the thing about when we go see the football men play, you can be happy, you can be sad based on the outcome, which is why the part of the trip that is always the nicest, the most consistent, is when we're in the house that we booked on Airbnb because then we just get to be a family again. We get to have our little kitchen. We get to have dad's pretzels.

Mm-hmm. And, you know, he's very fussy if he doesn't have his pretzels, so it makes for a better trip. Yeah. Mom has a gin and tonic because we've bought the stuff. Dad has his pretzels. Maybe there's a late football game on that we want to watch between San Diego football men and the Denver football men.

The Arizona birds that are red. And the Kansas City leaders of a plan. You are at home, which is what you want. What were your childhood vacations like? Was your dad from the South? Yeah, my dad was from the South. So just picture physically, my dad looked exactly like the dad from Fresh Prince of L.A. but white.

Okay? Great. So I had white Uncle Phil. Great. It was Kyle McMahon. Now, we were the family that most people on vacation hated because we had so much fun. Like, my nuclear family, my sister, and my mom, my dad, and I, we would sit at dinners even when we were little and, like, close the place down. Like, we were the loudest table because we were having the most fun.

Now, in the South, there was like two places you could go. Sea Island, Georgia, a Hilton Head, South Carolina. And if you don't think the McMans had a condo in Hilton Head, South Carolina, you must not know it. And my dad was a private pilot for fun. So we had this tiny little Cessna airplane. And on Friday afternoons, he'd pick us up from school. We'd have a tiny little duffel bag. It was like a four-seater airplane.

We'd hop in the airplane. We'd fly an hour and a half down to Hilton Head. And that's what we did every weekend. Wow. So we were never like a road trip family because when your dad's a pilot, you just get in, you know, you grab a duffel, you get in and you go. Yeah. Yeah.

Did you ever have any hesitation of getting in the plane with your dad? Or did you just grow up having faith in him as a pilot? Had full faith. in him, and this is really wild. My grandfather was chief pilot for Delta for like 20 years, and he won the Dadellian Award for Safety and Aviation. He saved this plane that almost crashed at LAX. So my grandfather was a pilot, my dad was a pilot, like, that's all I knew. It was just like I felt very comfortable. The tinier, the plane, the better. Like my 13th birthday, this is so nerdy. I'm such an aviation nerd. I got in a biplane, and I was dressed like Amelia Earhart, and I got in an

open airplane. And that was my 13th birthday ride. Like, cheesy. So nerdy. But awesome at the same time. I mean, cheesy, but also fantastic. I imagine the pictures from that birthday must be off the charts. Yes, epic. Chubby little Heather with my, you know, little leather bomber jacket on. Yeah. But it's funny because, you know, growing up or when I got older, my dad would fly to college and pick me up. And then we'd fly off somewhere and go to lunch. And my friends could not believe it. I'm like, that's just what I know. I have a friend with eight-year-old twins, and he took them on like this sort of state fair by plane ride

because they really wanted to do it. And he said that before each, he went up twice with them, and before each time he had to go into a porta potty because he thought he was going to crap himself with fear. And he said, and then he was, I was hoping the first one would hate it so much that when we came down,

they would like tell the second one like you don't want to do it. And instead they were like, it's the best. And he was like, be right back. And I just go grab myself a second time. Yeah. I feel so comfortable in little planes. And, you know, my dad always said because I have friends that are afraid of flying. And I say the pilots and the crew want to get there just as safely as you want to get there.

So that's what I constantly remind myself. I also, you know, you know, for me, it's so much of the fear when I do little plane stuff. as weather. And that's when I remember, I'm like, they also don't want to go down in a storm. Right. You know what I mean? Yeah. They don't care about my vacation that much.

Yeah, exactly. Also, I get very territorial over gate agents. Like, I am their security, like, protect them. The amount I travel, when I see somebody yelling at a gate agent because something's delayed because of weather, I'm like, they can't control the hurricane. What is wrong with people? Yeah. Like, stop yelling at the gate agent.

They're just delivering messages. Yeah. I'm a psycho about weather and because, you know, when you're flying in a tiny Cessna, the bumps, you really feel them. So, yeah. We, a dear friend of ours, her parents retired to Hilton Head Island and she would go visit them and bring her kids. And she says it's just amazing because you can just cut kids loose there. And there's like bike paths and like you don't, there's no fear of like, are my kids going to. to be okay. So were you just like free wandering kids? Yeah, we maybe shouldn't have publicly just

said that. So now all the perves are going to show up to Hilton Head this weekend. How are they going to get those vans off the island? Yeah, great. And these bike paths, are they sort of off? Can you see them from the road? Yeah, it's behind Palmetto Dunes. No, Hilton Head was the wildest place. You know, and as a chubby little eight-year-old, I would hit the outlet malls. Like, they have the most epic outlet malls If you don't think that my little grubby, chubby fingers were trying to, you know, get some sweaters 50% off at the J-Crew outlet. That was a perfect Saturday to me. Then I'd get Froyo and go play golf with my dad in the afternoon wearing his golf outfit because at that point we're basically the same size.

So, yeah, Hilton Head was just this free place. It was insane. Just the best. And one time when we were down there, I was very little and there was a bunch of boogie boarders. and this guy starts to boogie board and my dad realizes he's like, okay, this guy can't see me because I was tiny at the time

and my dad jumped in front of me to save my life because I was about to get decapitated from a boogie boarder. Boogie border runs in the back of my dad's kneecap, you know, breaks his knee, the whole thing. My dad's being drug onto the sand

by a lifeguard. I'm waiting for the news crew to show up. Like all I care is about getting on on camera and being a star at, you know, six years old. But yeah, so I've almost died in Hilton Head. Thank God my dad had the foresight to jump in front of this guy or I would be headless.

What a hero. Yeah, what a hero? You know, I feel for the headline writer who has to describe how somebody got decapitated by a boogie board. It's obviously very serious, but you still got a right boogie. Boogie. Your sister, older or younger? Older. Okay.

Three years older. Were you guys buddy-buddy when you would go down to Hilton Head? Oh, yeah. Buddy, buddy. We would tear up the kids club at the pool. Yeah, we were all these getting in stuff. And we were also big cruise families. So growing up, you know, when your parents worked in the airlines, you got amazing discounts

on cruises. So we would do a lot of the celebrity in Disney cruises and, like, run the kids club. And my sister kind of acted as my agent manager early on in the day. Like, there was one particular Disney cruise we went on. We were doing the kids club, big performance at the end of the week. It was a little mermaid. They wouldn't let me be the starfish. And my sister said, the McMahon sisters will not perform unless my sister is the starfish.

And that was my first taste of being like, okay, somebody has my back. You deserve your 10%. Yeah. Yeah. That's great. What, where were your favorite places to go on cruises? I mean, those Disney cruises I've heard are something else for kids. And for, like, parents, parents, I've, friends of mine have gone and they were like, I was

kind of shocked at how great it was. The Disney cruise in particular is amazing for parents because the food's great and it also has great entertainment for adults. Oh, well, you know, talking about safety, you could just let your kids run amok, whatever private island, which now, that sounds sketchy as it comes out of my mouth, but all these cruises had like their private little island for the day. So you knew nobody could get away, you know. Yeah, those are my favorite stops.

We're also a big Turks and Keiko's family, though, too. So we've been going down to the Turks. You've cacost? Hell yeah. We've cacos. We have cacos. Do you prefer Turks, right, Posh? I'm a Cacos guy.

Yeah, I'm a Turks. I'm a Turks guy. Can I ask about, like, the one thing about Hilton Head, how far is Hilton Head from Savannah? And it seems like those are two very different vibes. Like if you're driving, like an hour and change, a hour and a half. Did you ever do Savannah? Oh, yeah. You always stop at Savannah.

You get lunch. You get your first shrimp po boy. Great. You know, and then you maybe go on a quick pirate tour and then you head back down to Hilton Head. Yeah, that was always the point where you were like, I know, I know we're almost there. Is Savannah fancier than Hilton Head or are they both sort of touristy? Savannah's now had a moment. Savannah's got some Michelin-style restaurants down there.

No, Savannah's cool, old southern Georgia and South Carolina is kind of, you know, Hilton Head to South Carolina. It's kind of wild. Like, you just, once you get on the island. It went through like a weird phase where it was a lot of retirees. And now like all these rich people from L.A. are buying houses and Hilton Head. It's very bizarre. It's having a moment.

I feel like I went for one bachelor party a long time ago. To Hilton Head? Yeah. Like 30 years ago? Maybe. 25. 25. But there was a lot of like t-shirt shops.

Like that's kind of what I remember. Yeah. Yeah. The Salty Dog Cafe. You had to get a T-shirt there. Yeah. I mean, that was the guy who got married love t-shirts. That's why we went.

When you guys would go to the Turks, the one thing I would say of someone who's been there is there's not like, there's not a lot to do other than like where you are. You kind of like, we went to like a nice restaurant somewhere, but it was a long drive and it was, it's kind of like where you are is where you are. Yeah, you went to Aminjara. That's where you went. I think we did. Yeah. Yeah. And it was amazing. It was beautiful, but it was a pain to get to.

So what were you guys doing down in the Turks? What you need to know about the McMahon family as a whole is we're not activities, people, okay? When we go somewhere, we sit our asses in the sand. It doesn't matter what age you are. I have a, if I was, you know, 13, I had a virgin Pena, Colada, and I was sitting doing nothing, baking in the sun. So that's why we love the Turks. And we would fly in, we'd stop in the Bahamas, refueled, and fly down to the the Turks. We've been going to the Turks since there were like limestone roads. And then my dad ended up developing a hotel down there. So that was like our thing. But yeah, you go down there, you eat a bunch of conk and you drink rum runners and you don't do anything. That is my perfect vacation.

So your dad would fly to there, he would fly down to Turks as well? Yes, he would fly to the Turks. When you're in one of those little planes, are you and your sister, are you guys reading books? Are you talking? It's a little bit louder, right? Yeah, we're doing, you know, makeovers in the back so that when we show up to vacation, we're ready for the fish fry. Like, yeah, we would read books. She would read more than me. You know, I was never a great reader. But we would play games.

And it's really like four and a half hours to get down there. So you would stop in the Bahamas refuel, then land of the Turks. And the cool thing about the Turks is once you land, you're on the beach in 10 minutes. It's not like customs is easy. Yeah, and you're living your best life. But yeah, we would do all sorts of stuff in the back of the plane. Was your dad a golfer? Big golfer.

Gotcha. Would he golf and the Turks? They just now got a golf course. But my sister and I both played competitive golf growing up. So that's one of the reasons why we always went to Hilton Head. But then I quit playing golf because when I had to play, like at a varsity level in high school, my dad would be hiding in the bushes. I wouldn't let him come to any of my tournaments. And I always knew where he was because I would hear a Diet Can Coke crack open in a bush.

And I'd be like, Kyle, get out. You're banned for my tournaments. Why? So did you just feel like you would be stressed out if you knew he was there? Yes. He was a pain in the ass. He had two daughters who were playing his favorite sport golf. And then I thought I could maybe go somewhere with it and I quit.

I was like, this is not fun anymore. I feel so bad for your dad. That's like a monkey paw curse where you wish for your daughters to be good at golf and then they won't let you come. He was a nightmare. So I just got to pay for clubs. Clubs? Yeah. Yeah.

And I won, like, a junior club championship at my country club. I mean, I was really dialed in. And then it quit being fun. And I was like, I'm going to go to do comedy. And then he died. He was like, well, if my dream is over, then I shall die. Enjoy it as a free makeup. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, I quit playing in high school because then, you know, when you're playing varsity, it's like you're either going to go to college and try and be the LPGA. And my golf coach was like, I developed late. And he's like, my boobs got really big. It messed up my swing. I was like, I'm out of it, you know. And now I play with my husband just to, you know, ruin the one thing that brings him joy, which is to be out playing golf.

I could get there. If I put in enough time, you know, I don't know. Somebody has to go on tour and make some cash. So, yeah. Is he golfing with your mom? Does your mom golf? Yes. He has not been golfing with my mom recently.

Okay. But I did have a bet with Jeff last year. I said, I need about nine months to get really good again. And then if I beat you, you have to give up golf for one year. And then his friends were like, well, then you're not even going to want to live with him because he's going to be such a miserable monster. So I said one month, you can't watch a YouTube video. You can't get in the simulator. You understand my husband is so obsessed with golf.

He has three different coaches. He plays in tournaments. He thinks he's going to be on like the senior tour. I'm like, you're 38. Relax. Yeah. Yeah, it's embarrassing how dialed in he is for not making any money. money at it, you know. Did your sis, I like by the way that you ended up going on tour, just not the LPGA, just the comedy tour. What is your, did your sister play longer than you or did she give up around the same time?

She gave up around the same time too. We were both like, this is absolutely miserable. We are not professional athletes, nor do we want to be. And like, we're done. Yeah. Josh stuck it out. I mean, did you play high school golf pot? She did, right? I made the high school team. I'm in the yearbook and the picture, but I never played in a, um, I didn't. a tournament. Because you weren't in the top, whatever? No, I just like, I think I like, I was in a play and I just was like, yeah, like, and the coat, they would have taken the picture again, but they had already taken the picture. And it was like, yeah, right, right, right. It wasn't worth it. But, yeah, so I made the team. And it's tough when you, when you ride the fine line of being a theater kid and an athlete, because I did the same thing. I was like, I've got a one-act competition play this weekend. I got to go. Yeah. Yeah. I can't imagine, like, being a kid these days and just the way

the sports work and the focus and the amount of time and the off season and the travel schedule. And it just seems so much gnarlier than it used to be. Yeah, it's been a real blessing watching each of my kids show no coordination. Although my boys go to like a real shaggy tennis camp. Like real shaggy. And it's sort of end of the summer. And I just dropped them off today and I was kind of watching them hit balls. And I'm like, all right.

Yeah. Like, not, like, better. But, like, kind of, like, a fun recreational thing as opposed to, like, because, again, I think too many parents now, you know, and to no fault of their own, think, like, oh, this will help pay for college. And you just realize, like, there's just not enough slots at these schools for all these high school kids who are spending a fortune to play high school sports. And also, I'm like, is college going to be a thing in, like, 10 years?

You know, like. It might just be for sports. College might just be a very expensive place. I send kids to do sports. Yeah, because then they can make money and pay for their tuition. Right. Exactly. For NIL.

I went to the University of Mississippi, okay? Like, it wasn't like I was trying to get into Harvard. And I'm like, I know what I'm going to do. I'm going to go to the University of Mississippi. I'm going to party. I'm going to join a sorority. And then I'm going to go do stand-up. Like I was, I said, don't pump the brakes.

So you knew at that point, like college you knew? Stand-up would be in your future? Yeah. The first time I did stand-up was actually at my, junior senior prom and I roasted the senior class. And then I lived in the same neighborhood as Jeff Foxworthy and I burned a DVD of my stand-up and I dropped it in his mail. And he called me one day and he was like, hey, this is really funny. Like, you've got tenacity. Not really thinking I'd go anywhere with it. And then he gave me my first internship because he was shooting the blue color comedy tour.

They had like a sketch comedy show in Atlanta. And I got to be a writer's assistant and a PA for the summer. And now, like, you know, I see him all the time, which is so sweet, but he gave me kind of my first break. But I was like 16 in my school uniform putting my little mixtape in his mailbox. It like seems like a stereotype that the way you get your break as a Southern comedian is you put a burn DVD and Jeff Fox were these mailboxes were mailbox. Yes, without a doubt. And I had to wait on Larry the Cable Guy and his fans were psycho. These women would drop off like envelopes full of their underwear and they'd be like, can you get this to Larry? And I'm like, yes, sure, I will.

You know, so I deliver like a chick-fil-a party platter and, you know, some woman's underwear. And I'm like, here you go. The fans love you. Yeah, it was bizarre. It was the wildest first job. That's fantastic. I mean, it's just real fun to know there was a period of time. And maybe it's still ongoing.

I don't mean to cut it off or anything that Larry, the cable guy was a sex symbol. Yeah. Which just speaks to how expensive cable was and, you know, what people were willing to do. Yeah. You know, this is before the time where, you know, people were cutting the cord. So you had to have people. Right. It was nowhere that we had to. I get the vibe that with going from, you know, some, you know,

fufu cocktails that were maybe virgin cocktails, then moving into rum runners. I get the vibe that as a family, you were maybe like having cocktails together when you were a little bit pre-drinking age. We were the same way. Yeah. I don't know if I'm right. about that, but like, was that, I imagine that just opens up so many good times. I'm not fully endorsing. Like, everyone drink with your kids before they're allowed to. But it was, yeah, like, we would definitely sit around and have some beers or have a cocktail. And, uh, yeah. Did you,

I don't know about you all, but like, when I found out my dad smoked weed, because my dad didn't really ever drink. And so I was like, oh, dad, you know, but he's like the most fun guy. And every, all my guy friends in high school wanted to come to my house after a football game. And I was, to hang out with my parents because they were so cool. And finally, one day, my sister was like, Heather, you're an idiot. Like, he's stoned all the time. He always just had a one hitter that looked like a cigarette. And I was like, oh, okay, that's what that is.

So my dad was just the chillest, most hysterical, cool guy. And then my mom was hitting a red wine at like 4 p.m. You know, the Bostonian blood, she's like, I got to have a drive more low exactly when it turns four. Yeah, we were always having a good time with our parents. They were cool. They're like, do it in front of us. so we know what you're up to.

And then when I got to college, I think I was normal because I wasn't trying to like burn the candle at both ends. I was like, I've been doing this since I was 15. Y'all relax. I also think our parents were clocking that we had had alcohol.

Like they weren't like introduction to alcohol. I think they were more like, okay, you guys have crossed the pressure. But I think you would come home from college and like if you were watching a game, they'd be like, do you want a beer? And it would be like, okay. But it is, I definitely like,

I'm finding out more things about your dad that would make me less excited to fly with him. I do want to go out of four guys. Always had a one-hitter. But that was the thing. That was the thing. When he was on vacation, and as a pilot,

you don't do anything from like, you know, 12 hours, it's like 24 hours before. And he would hang out with some of these pilots. And he was like, don't ever fly with that. Like, my dad was like, that guy drinks too much. Nope, nope. The guy with the 17 margaritas,

you're not getting on that flight. Like, you don't do it. How did your parents meet? Did they meet in the travel industry? Yeah, they met in Miami International Airport at baggage claim. They were both working. So because my grandfather worked for Delta back in the day, they had the nepotism clause where you couldn't hire, you know, anybody in your family. So my dad had to get a job with Eastern Airlines.

He flew the lavatory truck. My mom was working baggage services. She said he walked in. He had a hat on. She just remembers he was super cute. And he came to introduce himself because he heard there was a new. hot redhead working at Easter. So, fun fact, my mom is 11 years older than my late father.

So she was like the original Cougar. Great. So the next day, she finds out what department he's working in calls. And he said, when he answered the phone, they're like, Kyle, there's a woman looking for you. He's like, my mom doesn't even know what department I work in. And it was my mom saying, like, you were cute. Let's go to lunch. And the rest is history.

Wow. Yeah. So they both worked for Easter. Mm-hmm. That's fantastic. Yeah. Love a baggage claim Cougar. Baggage claim, Cougar.

Yeah. And the wildest thing is so they were working in my, my mom was living in Miami, my dad was in Fort Lauderdale, and she said they've been dating like a month. She comes home to her apartment. She's like, the place has been ransacked. I have none of my eastern uniforms here. What's going on? She calls my dad and he's like, if you want a clean uniform, you better come to my apartment. He had moved her into his apartment while she was like on a work trip to Brazil.

That nowadays would be like, you're a stalker. You're insane. Yeah. That's crazy. That's like the head of Eastern HR is like, hey, Kyle. I mean, this one's not on the line, bud. This got no, no written all over it, my man. Like, what?

I said, Mom, did you not call the authority? She's like, no, it's romantic. I loved it. And they were happily married for 30 plus years. I mean, that's it. You roll the dice. I feel like, you're like, look, it's either going to be fully over today or, you know, I know I know I got somebody who's at the exact same level of enthusiasm about me that I am about them.

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Hey, Sufi. Coming up, our annual trip to Pittsburgh where, uh, for legal reasons, we're not allowed to say, uh, the name, uh, of the team that we want to see. But the, yeah, it's like, it's like an off brand video game where they, We can get the licenses. So we're going to go see the Pittsburgh Football Men. Yeah, we're big fans of the Pittsburgh Football Club, and we're going to go see them on an annual trip,

and it's just it's the best. It's the best. And again, look, the thing about when we go see the football men play, you can be happy, you can be sad based on the outcome, which is why the part of the trip that is always the nicest, the most consistent, is when we're in the house that we booked on Airbnb, be because then we just get to be a family again. We get to have our little kitchen.

We get to have dad's pretzels. And he's very fussy if he doesn't have his pretzels, so it makes for a better trip. Yeah. Mom has a gin and tonic because we've bought the stuff. Dad has his pretzels. Maybe there's a late football game

on that we want to watch between San Diego football men and the Denver football men. The Arizona birds that are red. And the Kansas city leaders of a plan. You are at home, which is what you want. Did you and your family ever get on a plane together that wasn't flown by your father?

Yes, but oddly enough, my family, when we would go on like a ski trip to Park City or something, we would sometimes split up. Okay. For the safety of it all? For the safety of it all. And I was not ever allowed to fly continental. That was one thing. My grandfather and my dad were like, you're allowed to even touch on American, but we were obviously, I'm wildly Delta loyal. Like, it's in my blood.

Yeah. I am, that's my airline. But it works out. I mean, also being an Atlanta girl, like Delta is. Yeah. Yeah. You live in that hub life. I only live in hubs.

I've lived in New York, L.A., Atlanta. I only kind. Every like five years, I travel around to a new hub. So, yeah, Salt Lake City's next. We're so spoiled being a hub people. Three hubbers. Three hubbers. Three different hubbers.

We can really, like the amount I can wait till, like, Josh and I are having a college reunion weekend and I still haven't booked my flight. And one of the reasons I haven't booked my flight is like there's just no rut. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I have so many options leaving your city. You're like, I'm good. I'm good. I'm going to get it. Yeah.

I mean, I have the highest level at Delta. Like, I'm in this secret club called 360. and I had to fight tooth and nail because living in Atlanta, they don't give a lot of people. They were like, if you move to like Tampa, you'll get it. And I'm like, the amount of money

that I spend every year, I want to be in the secret club. And I begged for it. And then they finally gave it to me. I went and did a corporate gig for them. And I did stand up. And I, like, razzed all of their, like, call center employees.

And then they came out with this giant banner and they're like, you're 360. Wow. Most like, C-suite. level execs just get an email that's like, congratulations, you're 360. No, they brought out Pyro, Sparklers, the whole thing. Ed Bastion's there and I'm like, wow, I've been this desperate to get to this exclusive level where I just get more global upgrades, you know? Whatever it takes and you got it. So, yeah. Yeah. What a dream, what a dream come true.

It just must be the best thing in the world to have the highest. I mean, there was a time where I used to dream about that and that dream is dead. I don't travel. I don't travel. I don't travel. enough now that I have children. Now that you have children. I mean, I travel with them, but it's not like, I know, I can't be a road dog. Also, no one's going to be like, hey, we're going to give you credit for bringing these three little monsters on play. No one's looking to give you more.

I'm like, do I earn miles when they travel? They're like, actually the opposite. Yeah. A little bit of miles away from you. Yeah. So you do ski trips, occasional ski trips. Any other places you guys would go? Yeah, we would go skiing.

a year. I mean, I haven't skied probably in 15 years because the knees are clicking. You know, I think the cartilage has gone there. Yeah, we would go on ski trips. We did a lot. We would go to Europe. Our big, we did it one month in Scotland one year. With your family? With my family. It was just my nuclear family, my mom, my sister, my dad and I, my dad took us all over Scotland. He went on like this braveheart retreat and just really was really trying to get in touch with his like highland roots. And of course, we found out, Our family's from like Donnie Gall, like Northern Ireland and then went to Scotland. So, yeah, we all had kilts.

We learned about our clan. It was a whole thing. And it was the middle of July and it was cold, wet, and rainy and rained every day. And we were all drunk in a pub by noon because there was nothing else to do. I mean, I will tell you, and Josh will know where I'm going with this. Sounds like the greatest vacation of my life. Yeah. Like, first of all, I think Scotland is really beautiful and really green.

and it really pops when it's raining. Yes. And also it's got that pub life. I mean, hub life, pub life. It's very hard to say which one's better. But yeah. I'm very into the pub life. I agree.

But we were like, I was a freshman in college. My sister was a senior. We're like, can we go to Greece? Like, what are we doing? Yeah, I will say. No, nobody goes back to, I mean, I will say, like, I would imagine a sorority in University of Mississippi is not psyched when one of their sisters comes back from like a month of pub life in.

Scotland. Girl, girl, girl. You have no color. You literally have no color. Have you just been eating fish and chips? Yeah. In the rain?

This is, we need better from you. No, I had to really get a full makeover before Rush. It wasn't great. They were like, let's get a spray tan and some hair extensions. Like, you look unwell. And my dad wanted to buy a castle in Scotland. And he said he was, he should have done it. And this is kind of one of my dreams to like buy it.

I'm so happy. He should not have done it. He wanted to buy it. He said he would move to Edinburgh somewhere outside of Edinburgh if he could have a castle and then a waffle house next door to it. That's all he needed in his life. And so he was somehow nine. Yes. He had two children in college, but he was a nine-year-old boy.

Yes, exactly. I'm going to castle. He had a little plane to a little airplane. Yeah. He was like, I'm going to a castle of my plane and a waffle house. I'm going to take it. I'm going to fly my plane to my castle. that about have waffled?

Yeah, we, Josh and I've talked about this. We stayed in a real damp castle in Scotland a few years ago. And I would say, you know, it's like a boat. Have a friend with a castle, don't have a castle. Fully agree. Yeah. But a month is such a long time to be spending. Were you moving around a lot?

Were you doing two days here, two days there? Where you plunk down? We went everywhere. And my dad's driving. and now we all have matching family Kilt, our Christmas card that year. My dad was in like our clan, you know?

And in the South, like, I don't love Klan. You know, but he's in our family, Clan Matheson, Kilt. And then we, my mom, my sister, and I got just the Burberry print because we're like, we're not wearing this. So our Christmas card that year was just like him

sitting and he wore like, you know, the coin purse, the socks, the dagger, the whole thing. And my dad was a portly guy. And then we're all standing around in our little matching burberry kilt. It was mortifying. But yeah, we traveled all over. And my dad would cry everywhere we went. He was just like so emo the whole time because he felt his ancestors there.

I'm like, oh, my God, Dad, this is mortifying. But we had a great time. We had a great time. How old was your dad at the time? I mean, like, 40s? Maybe, yeah, 40s. I would say it's something very funny about a 40-year-old man getting emo because he saw. braveheart.

Yes. I mean, did you not get emo when you saw Braveheart soup? Dude, if I was, if we had Scottish blood, I would have been full emo over Braveheart.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm not, no judgment. I just like the fact that he's like, I can't take away my freedom. Yeah, we went to,

and growing up in the South, too, my dad would take us to all these, like, battle sites. And, you know, it would be the middle of August, and we're in Beaufort, South Carolina, on our way home from Milton Head.

And he'd be like, we got to check out a piece of history. And I'm like, can we go to the mall? I'm 11. Like, I don't want to be here. What are we doing? He was a history buff. But yeah, we would go on these long-winded trips and tours. And I told you, we're not activities people.

So it was only to indulge my dad. You know, I'm like, I don't want to do this. It seems like, I mean, despite the resistance you're showing now, though, it seemed like you guys were pretty dutiful daughters. It felt like, you know. We were. And one of the fun things we did do in Scotland is we went on every like whiskey distillery tour and like Scotch and I came back to Ole Miss being like, who'd like a McCallin 18? You know, they're like, Heather, what are you doing?

So Josh and I did a whiskey tasting. My takeaway is like, I don't really, I can't really tell the difference. I mean, like I can tell the difference, but I'm kind of like, it's all fine. Yeah, but it's like, I don't know. I think a lot of those distilleries are beautiful and then you just get a little buzz on and that's just nice. I have no, I'm not anti-whisky tasting, scotch whiskey tasting. I'm just, at the end of it, I'm never like, this one for sure. Were you guys, I mean, I just know sort of with the South and SEC, did college football play into your childhood at all?

Oh, yeah. And listen, my dad and my sister went to Georgia Tech, but when I went to Ole Miss, this was like, truly like the Wild West. And my dad, you know, in Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi, we're known for like the best tailgating in the world. It's a whole other level. You dress in your Sunday best. People have chandeliers hanging from their tents. It's fine. China.

You've got a seafood tower. We don't mess around. And my dad flew. He had a king air at the time. He had upgraded from the Sesson of the King Air. So he flies into this our little college town. And he shows up and I pull up with one of my sorority sisters. She's driving a Porsche Cayenne.

And she pulls up to the little private airport. And my dad gets out of his king air. and it's Gulfstream, Gulfstream, these giant jets. My dad lets down the stairs from his airplane. He's like, we're the brokeest people here. He's like, who are all these people in Mississippi with this money? I'm like, honey, they're oil tycoons from Dallas and their daughters are all in my sorority. And meet one of them right now.

This is Michelle and her daddy, you know, her daddy gave her a Porsche when she graduated high school. And it was such culture shock for my dad. He was like, this is insane that everybody here has so much money and it's just so opulent. and it's the best. Yeah, I remember, so Josh and I went to Northwestern outside of Chicago, and it was some November, and we'd gone to our tailgates, which were the opposite of what you've described, just like freezing rain and just, like, gray hamburgers.

Also, people wearing, like, flannel pajama pants. Just grotesque, yeah. And then we kind of all rolled back, like, pretty, you know, already getting hung over from how hard we've gone at the tailgate, And there was an Ole Miss game on TV. And we were just watching these beautiful people in the sunshine. And we were like, why did we, what have we done? Why did we come to school here?

Why did we do this to ourselves? My husband, born and raised New Yorker, went to Penn State. He's always like Big Ten guy, Penn State, the whiteout, the whole thing. He now owns a home in Oxford, Mississippi. He came down for his first game. He's like, we got to put roots down here. This is fantastic. You know, I mean, just he thinks.

He's a Southern Bell. We were just in Oxford. And he's like, I got to live here, run for mayor. He is obsessed. I would love it. That's a place I've never been that I would love to go. Incredible. We always talk, Josh, about that there's got to be a year where the 12 college buddies are going to go to a SEC game.

Yeah. Because we've just not done it. And it's got it. It looks different. It looks like it hits different. Yeah. It hits so different. Did your, was there any sense that your, did your dad care that you weren't going to Georgia Tech?

Was he? that kind of dad? I think once he saw my SAT scores, he just knew, like, that wasn't going to really happen for me. Now, he did try and, like, pay my sister to take my SATs for, like, the fifth time. Swear to God. And she, my sister and I looked nothing alike. And she was like, yeah, no, I'm not going to do that. Also, I'm already, like, a sophomore in college. Like, I'm not going to take Heather's SATs. And I was real, like, I was student body president. I was head of all the clubs. So I knew how to like work the system. I was very presidential. But I was like, we'll figure out the back end with the grades and the test scores. And I did show up to

Ole Miss. I hadn't even visited. It was like my last option for college because I thought I was going to go to Pepperdine and do theater. And I didn't apply to anywhere else. So I find out I don't get into my dream school, which is Pepperdine, two weeks before graduation. The only two schools that still had rolling admission that had theater departments were Alabama and Ole Miss. So I visit Tuscaloosa. I called my dad and I said, pick me up in the Cessna. You couldn't pay me to stay in Tuscaloosa. And I said, looks like I'm going to Ole Miss. And I showed up the first day of orientation, never having even visited the college. And I arrived and it was like the gates of heaven opened up and somebody ran over and they're like, do you want some Permanagh cheese?

And I was like, this is God's country. And then I never left. What a great result from such a such poor planning. Yeah, truly. Horrible planning. Yeah. Wow, that's awesome. And do you Are you someone, when you tour, when you do stand up, are you someone who takes advantage of seeing the world? Or are you someone who just like shows up, you know, sort of bears down, thinks about the show all day and hotel rooms it and then goes and does your thing? So a little bit of both. Like obviously with touring, I've gotten to see the world, New Zealand, Australia, we're out and about. We're doing the most. But, you know, it's like I've been to Cincinnati 65 times.

You know, it's one of my favorite places to perform, but we've seen it. And if one more person's like, you've got to go get, you know, the chili spaghetti. I'm like, you know what? You're not supposed to eat before you perform? Yeah. Chili spaghetti. Like, what are we talking about? Or after you perform or, you know.

Yeah. And then you're on your next flight to like Kansas City with just horrific acid reflux at 7 a.m. the next morning. I also love Cincinnati, no shade. But that is one of those things. And like Josh and I are from our dad's from Pittsburgh. and I feel like this is spaghetti and chili thing is a little bit like the French fries on sandwich.

Like really fun one time. But like there's a reason other cities haven't picked up on it. Yes, 100%. Like Buffalo did, you know, Buffalo wings and everybody does it now. You know what I mean? They were like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, we can do this too. We can do this. People can put French fries on sandwiches, but they're like, we don't let them do that when they visit you.

It's wild before all my shows. I'll get, you know, tags from, because my audience is like really strongly female. And they're like, girl, we're across the street ripping shots. Like, come by. I'm like, I have to do a performance. Like, I am a professional thespian. How dare you think that I'm drinking on the job? You know, maybe a white wine spritz before.

But after a show, it's also weird where you're like, I don't know. Yeah. I mean, the answer is I don't. But it is funny. Like, if you want to come, we're doing it. And I'm like, in what to what end? Yeah. Yeah.

I get invited on a lot of like Bachelorette party buses. Yeah. I was doing a show actually in Indianapolis. I walk off stage. I'm changing out of my costume because I like to wear glitter and feathers and really, you know, dress up for the occasion. Some woman somehow got backstage. So I am totally naked. She opens my dressing room door.

She got past security. She's dressed in head-to-toe cheetah print. So security was just like, oh, this is like one of, you know, Heather's friends. And she just goes, I found you. And I said, let me cover myself. I said, you sure did. Can I help you? And she's like, don't worry.

I'm not going to touch you. And I'm like, that's the second thing you don't want to hear. Like, I'm not going to touch you. She's like, I just want, she's hammered. She's like, I just want to see if you want to come on our party bus. We got 50 girls, you know, going to the club after this. I'm like, I'm good. Let me put on a bra and then we'll chat.

Thanks for coming by. Hold on. I'm not done. There's 10 more details that make it worse. 100%. Uh-huh. Congrats on the new special. Can't wait to see it.

It's been so lovely talking to you, Heather. Absolutely. Y'all are the best. Thank you so much. And this was kind of, this is really warm and endearing. This has set my day up for success to go down memory lane and think of all the wonderful wild things that I did with my dad. And shout out. A shout out to your husband, Jeff.

I feel like, you know, a New Yorker in Atlanta, being a good son-in-law, I really hope he makes it on the senior tour. I feel like his wife isn't. supporting him and that. But I think he can do it. And all my love to Jeff. Thank you. He will so appreciate that. Thank you. Before you go, Josh has our speed round questions. Let's do it. Okay, 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? Jet. Very good. If you can 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? I'd like to bring Joan Rivers back from the dead, and I would go on vacation with her, because it'd be fabulous. It sure would. Can I tell you real quick? I had Joan Rivers on my show once, and I just enjoyed telling me the story,

which is, you know, sometimes you have guests on your show, and, you know, you ask them questions, it's a conversation, whereas Joan Rivers was literally, like, just say, like, how's your family? Or, like, have you tried? traveled recently. And the inside of her arm, you know, again, she was older.

It was like memento, the amount of like keywords she had. And hit it the whole time, like, knew it. But like just the amount of glancing and never slowed down. Her pace was as ratatat as it always was. And I was just like, I love that you love this so much that you were going to use every, you're like a pitcher who lost their fastball and it's just junkball, like whatever you need to do. It's like Vaseline on the hat. And it was just, it was something about...

Iconic. The best. Good choice. I love that. Truly. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? It would be my husband. Great.

Yeah. What is your dream destination for a family vacation? Ooh, I want to take my whole family back to Japan. I just did it in March, and it completely changed my life. I think Asia is the greatest place on the planet. So I want to take everyone to Japan. Great. Great.

You are from Atlanta. If you had to get more families to come visit Atlanta, what would you tell them about that city? Oh, well, Atlanta's full, so we don't want them at all. Please don't come. We're done. Like, everyone's moved to Atlanta and, you know, there's a 10-year waitlist at our country club. So please don't come. What would I tell them, though?

It's the, to me, it's the greatest place on the planet. It has Southern hospitality. We have great entertainment. The best food and our airport's insane. So you can get anywhere in the world that you want to go. Great. Yeah, good sales bitch. And sorry for the wait list.

Seth has our final questions. Heather, have you been to the Grand Canyon? I haven't. Do you want to go? Not really. This to me is like I find such warmth for people who have no hesitation about it. They don't feel bad about themselves. You and I are two of the same.

I love this. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you for that. That was the last question. That's the last question. And you answered it right. So you are going to send you a sweatshirt.

That's the best question on the planet. A lot of people get it wrong. A lot of people, the worst answers are people like, yeah. Yeah. I do. You know, you don't. Just doing this one podcast. And I don't want to be on a road trip with my family going to see those sites in that part of the country.

I'm good. I'm great. Yeah. All right. Thank you, Heather. Continued success. And just did a like talking to you. Hey, so nice to meet you guys.

Thank you so much. I appreciate you. Bye. Have a great day. Bye, all.