Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - JAY DUPLASS Went On a Jamaican Puke-A-Thon

Episode Date: October 21, 2025

This week, Jay Duplass joins Seth and Josh on the pod! He talks all about growing up in Louisiana, a disastrous family vacation to Jamaica, and childhood trips to Florida and the Grand Canyon. He also talks about working with his brother Mark growing up and navigating their creative partnership in Hollywood today. Plus, he discusses his latest film 'The Baltimorons,' available now to watch! Support our sponsors: UpliftElevate your workspace with UPLIFT Desk. Go to https://upliftdesk.com/TRIPS for a special offer exclusive to our audience.Laundry SauceMake laundry day the best day of the week! Get 20% off your entire order @LaundrySauce with code TRIPS at https://laundrysauce.com/TRIPS #laundrysaucepodHuelNew customers receive FIFTEEN PERCENT off your purchase with our exclusive code TRIPS at www.huel.com/TRIPS. BluelandGet 15% off your first order by going to Blueland.com/TRIPS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, buddy! Hey, Zubi. How's it going? Great. How was your... You had an anniversary. First anniversary. Unbelievable.

Yeah, it was great. We, you know, we've both been super busy and been traveling a lot, and we went to... Both have multiple fairs, right? Yeah. No. But we were, we took our friends, Clay and Elizabeth, to a concert a couple of weeks ago. a week ago um and they were like what are you doing for your anniversary and we were like yeah i don't know like we're just so tired and we're you know just beat up and they have a house in palm

springs and they were like just go why don't you go out to palm springs like go use our place and so yeah and we brought the dogs and uh it was just beautiful it wasn't like too too hot but it was still you know it was in the 90s it was still palm springs and uh this beautiful little neighborhood, took the dogs to the park, and just kind of like, McKenzie's much better at this than me. She'll, like, she wants nothing on the agenda. She's like, I just want to be here. And, like, our first night, I was like, should we go grab a drink? Like, there's this place that we've been that's, like, kind of walking distance. And she's like, can't we just, like, be here? And I was like, yeah, all right. So, like, that's, for the most part what we did. We went out for

dinner for our anniversary and that's the one time we sort of went out without the dogs and for the rest of it we were sitting around we did um we were like let's just watch a movie that first night and we started watching the substance which is not terrible choice super romantic zero zero zero is the grade you got for that decision and then we you know we got tired so we only watched the first half of it in the next day in the afternoon we were like well let's finish this movie it's really yeah neither of us

had seen it and I sort of had intentionally not been like watching any trailers or things and it was

it's a real gross out it's a real gross out great movie we we rose burn is in a wonderful new film

called if I had legs I would kick you and I had a link to it because she was on my show and then Alexi was like oh can we watch it together

and I was like it's not for before bed you know what I mean Like these, you know, we're at the point where, like, sleep is too precious to us as, you know, as parents of three. I'm like, that can't be the reason you can't fall asleep. Yeah. You've already got three reasons. We can't fall asleep.

You can't add a movie. We had a, we got a perfect, there was a, nothing we'd know in the West Coast, but there was a lot of talk of like a Nor-Easter. Oh, yeah. I mean, huge storm here right now. Oh, well, I take it back. Tough guy. So, yeah. I take it back.

And, but it ended up, an artist, by the way, didn't end up being that bad. But it was a rainy Saturday. And we decided to watch a movie. The boys, we've been showing the boys baseball movies. They watched the sandlot. They watched Rookie of the Year. And it's interesting because all it takes is they watch a little bit of baseball and they want to go out and hit wiffle balls all day.

Yeah. Which is, of course, a dream come true for me. Genuinely. I say that with no exaggeration. But the other day, Alexi was like, we should watch, sorry, a league of their own. A league of their own is so good. Yeah. Also, Alexi and I both basically just cried for two hours.

Every moment, there are so many moments of humanity and people finding their best selves and sports and goosebumps. There might not be crying in baseball, but there is definitely crying in a league of their own. And there's so much laughing. The crying a baseball thing made the boys laugh so hard. Addie was a little different. An hour into it, she just got off the beanbag and goes, can I watch a Peppa Pig on your iPad? Because this is a little boring.

Yeah, well, Peppa Pig brings the fire. But the boys, yeah, it was so good. John Lovitz shows up as a baseball scout and is literally just crushes to audiences of all ages. Yeah. But it's great. Real quick, just as a sort of closing departure thing on our anniversary weekend, we were like, we should, like, they've got all these cool cactuses in their yard and these like just cool plantings. And so we were like, well, let's take some, you know, pictures before we leave, like try to get like a portrait of all of us.

And I set up my phone on this little tripod and we take these pictures. I don't know if any of them are good because as we're leaving, I bump into a cactus. Great. And then I hit my hand on my shoulder, and then I have cactus needles all in my hand, and we have to go inside and find tweezers, and McKenzie's pulling them out of me. And they're so small that so many of them you can't see. And then, like, for the whole drive home, I'm, like, grabbing the steering wheel. And, like, I'm getting poked, or one of the dogs sort of crawls up and sits on the center island thing, and I go to pet them. And then, like, I just keep getting poked. getting poked, McKenzie has some in her. It was really, it was the absolute last thing we did before we, like, hit the clicker to close the gate and get out of there.

I mean, that is, it's also absolutely what you deserved. Why do I deserve it? When you're like, hey, we're about to go, should we get a family portrait next to the cactuses? Give me a break. These dogs have been. What, tell me about the dogs. They've been walking around these cactuses the whole time, sniffing, loving it.

I've been walking around the cactuses. I haven't bumped into them yet. You turn into a cheech and chong character giving me a hard time about it. I'm sorry, man. Give me a break, man. Don't take a picture by the cactus, man. I didn't bump into it in the photo. I was walking to the car, stepping over a hose.

I mean, hopefully listeners at this podcast will know that I think cactuses are nature's way of saying. I'm saying, go elsewhere. Well, yes, that's true. I don't deny that. Take it inside. By the way, all our boys have bumped into cactuses in New Mexico. Oh, yeah. My old dog Pickles, when we were in New Mexico, he, like, went headlong into a cactus,

and we had to take him to a vet, get him, like, knocked out so they could pull him all out. Mostly what vets do in New Mexico is take needles out of dogs, I would guess. Yeah, they're probably pretty well trained in this I feel like I have a lot more to tell you about the movie Field of Dreams of Noah I think so it was a league of their own Oh yeah, I keep getting the name wrong So, anyway, this was

What a delightful conversation you're about to hear From the Jump. From the Jump, Jay de Plas And it was interesting Because we end up talking to him a lot about Sometimes watching movies with your family is a vacation in its own right He directed a new one called Baltimoreans

Which is receiving fantastic reviews It is kind of a side What would you say? Like not quite a Christmas movie But happens on Christmas So it technically is Yeah, the way that people say Yeah, that's a Christmas movie

You could say this is a Christmas movie And I feel like we need We need some new Christmas movies And this is one for everybody to enjoy Yeah You also maybe know I'm from Transparent He was on Transparent. He was on the Mindy Project.

Yeah. And, yeah, he's a wonderful guy, and he's got some great stories, and we hope you will enjoy them as you listen to them, which is going to happen right now. Family Chips with the Mice Brothers. Family Chips with the Mice Brothers. Here we go Yo-ha Yes How are you?

I'm uh I just I've been doing three jobs And I just finished two of them So I feel like I just got paroled Oh man Does it But it has to feel like

You're coming out the other side of it Yeah I mean it feels fucking great How many of those jobs Were you Like also the creative force behind where you were like writing directing that part one of the two yeah and that's the one where

i lose the money and then the other one is where i make the money right i uh yeah i'm acting on this tv show in the moscoka lakes north of toronto which i didn't know anything about but it's the woman um megan park who made my old ass that movie a couple years ago great yeah it's cool it's kind of like the tv show version of that um and And then I just released the tiny movie, The Baltimore Ons, which first thing I've directed, original thing I've directed in 14 years, first one without Mark. So that was a huge, that was a big deal. And I was the entire marketing and advertising campaign, just me going around to different cities, old school.

I got to say, I watched the trailer for that. And I'm always sort of on the hunt for a new Christmas movie. I feel like I've seen what's out there. And I have like a list. And this just looks like it's bumping right to the top of my Christmas list for this Christmas, this holiday season. I hope, I hope you enjoy. It's pretty cool. It's, it's, I didn't even think about that.

It was mostly just like a backdrop for Baltimore because Baltimore is dark and scary and like I just wanted like twinkly lights back there. so yeah it's fun you have no roots in Baltimore you just you saw the wire and you're like I think that place

deserves a Christmas movie absolutely I think I should go there with 15 people and walk around in the middle of the night with an expensive camera in my hand

now the guy who it's a little a bit of a Sean Baker kind of like construction because I backed the movie

into this guy's life so the origin story of the movie is it's actually about a ground-length comedian and ex-groundlings comedian. So it's about a sketch comedian

who fell on hard times and then figures out how to come back and do his thing. Yeah. It's cool. It's fun. So when you say two jobs ended and this was one of them, were you doing marketing and advertising

at that point while you were working on you the other thing? Yeah, yeah. It was like kind of flying back and forth from Toronto to different cities to do the theatrical sort of promotion so you know

like I did the old school way where I like I went to Chicago and did the we showed it the music box and did a Q&A and you know

did press with all those awesome Ebert people there so you know it was fun it was like I was going to say exhausting but probably

somewhat rewarding to watch the movie with people and then talk about it very rewarding very like old school feeling and it's when you see it it's it's it's it's it's an old school kind of movie it's you know it's like a

it's like a adventure caper movie inside of baltimore that's a it's a romance but it's also a comedy about like uh sobriety and menopause and it's you know it's like it's just a very like old school movie with like new topics and it has been amazing because it's also a tiny movie with no stars and it got it went to 500 screens theatrically so it's just like that's amazing people have been like i actually this is what i want to see in a movie theater just not there anymore you know it just that's not what's happening theoretically yeah it's so rare to watch anything these days where uh you don't after the first five minutes you still don't know where it's going to go oh it's so it's so true and it's like at best i feel like what we get is like

okay, it's either going to go this way or this way at the end, much less, like, whoa, every turn is something different. So that was kind of the goal. And people, it's, it was nice. It was like, people really loved it. It was cool to just, like, travel around and see people come into one room to watch something and stick around for a Q&A. That was amazing. So the whole thing was cool. Because you and your brother, obviously, went into filmmaking together, were you, the family, that watched movies together? Like, were your parents? Okay.

Yes, we were, even though we are Catholic as well, like we had the one-two punch on Christmas where we went to Mass and then we went to a movie right after. Oh, yeah. You know, I mean, like, that was the real church. The Mass was for my mom and the movie was for the rest of us. Do you remember any Christmas Day movies that just knocked your socks? Oh, yeah, yeah. And one leads to a family trip.

Oh, great. Well, take us there, if you would. 1994, we go to Mass. It was a particularly boring mass. And, you know, on Christmas, of course, the load in and the load out is insane, you know? How do you drop the ball for Christmas Mass? I just got, I mean, we're not religious, but I feel like...

Father Ralph is how you drop the ball. It's on Father Ralph. It's on Father Ralph, whose nickname was Marblemouth. Because you couldn't understand a goddamn word he was saying. And it was just, I feel so bad for my mom, because my mom's like the, you know, Italian, Catholic religious one who was just like, so, it meant so much to her. And, man, we just ripped Father Ralph incessantly after. but we went to dumb and dumber

we went to go see dumb and dumber in the movie theater no matter what father Ralph did he was going to be up against it probably 500 seats not I mean just fully fully packed

and it was I really I have to say it was like a formative experience for me I mean even though I don't really make those movies.

Like, it's, like, the amount of joy that was pumped into us over the course of an hour and 45 minutes with those laughs, just ruckus, just mind-blowing laughs. Yeah. And Mark and I have only recently come to terms with what this movie did to us.

We, we we after we got home mark and i decided and i don't know how conscious it was we gathered feeble camping equipment you know like a tent and one sleeping bag and some granola bars was essentially it and you're from new orleans right you're coming from new orleans we're in New Orleans. We drove straight to Gatlinburg, Tennessee, which is the closest thing to a mountain that you can get in the south, right? We drive to Gatlinburg, Tennessee to a ski resort. I can't believe this actually happened. And we went camping in the mountains during winter, like we walked we parked at a trailhead there was snow we walked into the mountains and we set up a tent

and we set up our sleeping bags and we almost fucking froze to death that legit happened um i mean i think that movie was formative for a lot of people i think you guys are the only two who went who used it as inspiration to go on an underthought camping trip deeply underthought camping It's like we, because they get trapped in the mountains and they go camping and, you know, there's that whole joke where one of their hands is freezing and he's like, I got an extra pair of gloves. You want one? He's like, you had an extra pair of gloves the whole time? He's like, yeah, we're in the Rockies. I, I, we were literally trying to recreate the most painful moment of that whole movie, which was a farce, by the way, where if you actually experience those things in real life, you die. I mean, I really honestly haven't unpacked it yet. And I was like, I'm just not going to think about it too much. I'm just going to tell these guys that we did this idiotic fucking thing.

It's so great that you guys saw that movie and weren't like, we should make comedies. You were like, we should also be dumb guys. We should be dumb guys. Oh, my God. Freezing to death in the woods for no reason whatsoever, for no guys. good reason we were literally holding on to each other and like shivering i mean it's it's really like when i think about it okay so 94 i'm 21 and mark is 18 we're not children no we are we should know better i definitely should have known better yeah you can't pin this on your parents at all like if

you guys get in the car it's not their job to be like don't go camping no and you know there was no cell phones there was no um there wasn't anything you know we didn't tell them where we were going i mean this is you know that's how we grew up right it's like you didn't need to tell your parents where you're going we're just like yeah we're going somewhere and then if we're not back and mom's gonna be super upset we'll call from a pay phone at some point along the way um so we got out of there and i think we went to we went to like we went over to memphis and had some ribs and stayed in a deeply unsafe neighborhood. How long do you think you were in the mountains for?

We were in that mountain, probably for about seven hours. I think we walked in at night at 10 p.m. And I think we were out of there. Absolutely. Absolutely. Also, like, you know, we just had like Oreos and shit with us. We were just like, you know, and of course you start thinking the bears are coming for us. Of course, they were intelligently asleep and in a warm, safe place more than...

It's like, one, I've never had the instinct, we've got to go camping. Two, I've certainly never had the instinct. We've got to go camping right now. Right now. Like, we don't have time to think. Yeah, you know what, when you're saying that, you know what it made me realize, is it made me realize, I think what we were just trying to do is, like, ride the end. insane high that we had from Dumb and Dumber.

Like, we were like, we left the movie theater. It was like we were on heroin, basically. We were just so fired up, and we just wanted that adventure to keep going, you know? Yeah. And I guess we were just like, well, we just get in a car and we just keep it moving, you know. It's hard. That thing of a hard comedy being in a, you know, an audience. full of people.

Yeah. You know, I'm trying to think back to like, I mean, definitely like Wayne's World was a huge moment for me. It's so thrilling. Did you ever have your... Do you have kids? I have kids and

it's interesting because I just told this story yesterday to a friend. I live in L.A. near Viti, it's the, it's kind of getting, it's a you know, boutique movie theater, but it's like for dorks, you know, and last summer

they showed Bestin's show in the big theater it's probably 400 seats and I took my kids kicking and screaming because they don't want every time I try and make them watch a movie they're just like it sucks dad I know it was great for you but we've

moved on entertainment has moved on it's not Deadpool you know that's my daughter she's 17 she's like sorry it's not Deadpool I'm like okay she has a genre of film she's not interested in which which is not dead dead pool yeah it's like it used to be marble and then marble not even good enough it's just like just deadpool just Deadpool and all the deadpools um so i brought them

to best and show and i it's like i went back in time to how we grew up i it was a packed theater and people were laughing so loud and so hard that we were missing jokes i was upset because I have seen it 20 times and I was just like we're missing incredible jokes like you Michael mckey is talking everybody needs to buckle down on their laughter you know um but my kids it was pretty cool they were I guess last year they were 12 and 16 their minds were blown they because they had never had that experience of a fully packed hard comedy laughs just wall to wall laughs and you know investing emotionally too you know which is i think what dumb and dumber was for me is like it they had my heart as well as like my my inner 13 year old

you know what i mean um so that was a that was a super cool experience and that's kind of like what i mean that movie theater is doing like you know it's doing like independent film releasing but they do a lot of calendar house you know re-releases And, man, it's, it reminds me of, like, what I've always felt, which is, like, you know, for $15, maybe $20 at most now, the bang for your buck is astounding. You know, it blows a sporting event out of the water in terms of what you pay and what you get. Same with, like, Disney is, like, so insanely expensive, you know. also i always think like the alternative to sports is you have a good time like you know what i mean there's not one out it's not this binary outcome that could

like ruin your day i fully agree it's a binary outcome especially if you're like i know there are some people um who were like um you know fine with whatever happens i don't know those i mean Yeah, I don't think those, yeah, I don't want to know them. I don't want to know. I don't know. I know. Why are they at a game? Why are they at a game? I know, I think, I remember when the Saints played the Bears and we won our only Super Bowl and, or was it, was it the N.

Colts? Oh, yeah. Maybe it was the NFC championship. One of our Chicago, it might have been, like, Eric Barronholz was like, you want to come over and watch the game? I was like, no, dude. I can't. Yeah. That would be a very Ike thing to do.

I know. Ike seems like very at ease about the whole thing. And Mark and I were just like... Oh, he's definitely not. Yeah. He's definitely not. Okay. It speaks to his warmth as a friendship that he forgets that he will be unpleasant to be around.

Unpleasant to be around. And also that Mark and I would be having a traumatic experience no matter what happens because the saints are in the, are getting close to going to the Super Bowl. I was like, there's no way. I just told him straight up. I was like, I can't handle it. I'm like, you're a bigger man. that I am. I can't fucking handle.

I don't want to go to your house and cry or break some of your shit or like celebrate too hard in a way that you don't want to be friends with me anymore. Josh and I are Steelers fans and we went to college together

in the 95 Super Bowl where the Steelers. Did you guys grow up in Chicago? No, we were born there but grew up in New England but our dad's from Pittsburgh. I see. But I remember we watched the first half with like all our college friends. and the Steelers were losing. And we were just like, we're out.

Like, nobody did anything. Nobody behaved badly, but we're just like, enough of all of this. There were no Cowboys fans among them. It was like, everyone would have been rooting for us. It was just not, you're like, it was just this sense of like, none of you understand the magnitude of this. Right, yes. And what's going on inside of my body right now.

And it's weird to be witnessed in, like, that vulnerable of a moment, too. right it's just like they're just drinking and having snacks and you're like you know this is a life-altering event this is a pivot point in my life here it is like being Bruce Banner and being like I'm definitely going to turn in the Hulk tonight so that is yeah so you're not going to like me when a football's on real quick and then I'm going to let Josh take over but I would say I don't know if any of these movies are I think our holiday movies, posh, and maybe you can echo it. Go ahead. Christmas

story. Number one. Yeah. Great holiday. The ref is a movie that I is a Christmas movie. We enjoy. The ref is a Christmas movie. Yeah. It is a Christmas movie. Yeah. Yeah. And then it's a Thanksgiving movie, but of course and the top of this list is planes, trains, and automobiles, which I

feel like maybe my, our boys are 9 and 7, our daughter's a little young, but I feel like that might be the year for this one. that's a great win i that one for us is strictly thanksgiving like i don't know if does do they end up at christmas or no it is thanksgiving you're right yeah okay okay yeah um yeah die hard is a big one for us we wrap presents and watch die hard um that's like a a big thing how do you wrap presents while watching a movie is it do you not have gifts for other people that are watching or does everyone stay in their own quadrant and it's like don't look at

in their own quiet we have also seen it so many times you know and nobody really wants to see him walk across glass um but yeah it just kind of like gives you that because you know um usually the morning of christmas eve you're like desperately wrapping 50% of the gifts you know and it's just stressful and it's not fun anymore so it's just like the adrenaline of die hard i think like puts you over the edge you know um Whatever it takes. Which is also incidentally a Christmas movie, right? Yeah. It's like, yeah.

Yeah. That's a great one. Yeah, I haven't done Gremlins in a long time. I don't know if it holds up, but that's a Christmas movie as well that I feel like might be worth a revisit for me. Yeah, I liked Gremlins a lot as a kid. And then, you know, it was getting pumped in over HBO like just incessantly, right? and there was a moment and I don't know if you guys had this

where I got started to get real grossed out by gremlins you know because there's all that fucking liquid and shit they're microwaving living beings you know what I mean there's just pus and blood and ooze

and I just had a moment where I was just like I've had enough of fucking gremlins like I can't I had to cut it off and it was visceral I remember mark would be watching gremlis, I'd walk through him, I'd be like, oh, gross. I like that the director, Joe Dante, would be like, you weren't supposed to watch it 50 times. Truly.

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You know what I mean? Yeah. There's no, like, chilling about New Orleans. It's like, if you're not sucking crawfish heads and getting hammered every weekend, people are mad at you, you know? And my dad was, like, a marathoner and, like, was a really healthy guy.

And so it, so, but also, like, you know, the Saints, you know, being a fan of the Saints is a very punishing experience, you know. We had the bagheads and we had the aides and it broke, I think, my parents so many times that, you know, and Mark and me too. I think by the time they won the Super Bowl, it was just like a fucking relief more than a celebration. It was just kind of just like, oh, got this monkey off of our back finally, you know. Would you ever travel for games? Did you ever go to another city?

Never traveled for games. did record some games and okay so my dad my dad is a huge LSU and Saints fan and he has been known to record games find out what the outcome is and then watch the game oh that's great I mean you know that protective mechanism where you're just like I cannot suffer and I even have it I mean I'm not from LA but you are I'm there I'm there this too Yeah, I'm fully... Oh, you find the outcome and then you watch? Or, like, over the course of it, like, this last Sunday, like, I was with my kids and did not, like, step away to watch the game and was kind of following, and it seemed like...

I mean, they won. But then in the next day, like, I'll watch, like, the 30-minute condensed game. But I will not... If they lose, I would not spend a second... No, no, no, no, no. Yeah, I couldn't even watch the highlights. Just to know what your guys went through, right? Just to be able to talk about it with other, you know,

you know, degenerate Steeler fans. Absolutely. With a level of intelligence. This is wild that you said this because last night, we were having dinner, our family. It's Jen and me and our two kids, Mimi and Sam. And we're having dinner, and the Dodgers are on. And I have slowly warned, I mean, I've been in L.A. 20 years now. So I have slowly, resistantly warned to rooting for the Dodgers.

and New Orleans doesn't have a baseball team. So I realized the extent to my dysfunction around the Dodgers when the Dodgers finished batting for an inning and I instinctively reached over and I turned the volume off and I dimmed the screen a little bit for when the Brewers were batting. Because that was when something bad could happen. Something bad could happen.

I needed the whole fucking, I needed the whole volume and the visuals. I needed the whole sensory experience to just come down. And Mimi was like, what are you doing? And I'm like, I just like don't want to be, I don't want to deal with it. And she's like, you don't want to be traumatized by me. And I was like, yeah, I don't want to be traumatized by like if somebody, I don't want to hear the Brewers fans like gloating. if there's a hit I can't

it's yeah what is that what is that it's just like we got rewired the wrong way and yeah

we got wired the wrong for those of you listening that was game one of the National League championship series which the Dodgers

almost gave up in the ninth it was a we almost gave up we almost I mean that was such a weird game

and such a wild thing with that we were basically an inch away from a grand slam And that's, like, not an exaggeration. The first 862 double play in baseball history. In baseball history.

Yeah. Yeah, the fielder basically hit the ball with his glove. The ball fell, bounced off the wall, came infield, and then he caught it, and then there was a double play. But, I mean, after I saw that, my nervous system was just... Okay, so, wait. So, Josh, are you as into the Steelers as Seth is? I am not as into I've sort of I feel like I've I'm a bit like Seth will read like the Pittsburgh Post Gazette and like I have a subscription to a newspaper in a city I don't live in right and if you want to like drill down on like you know the whole the whole team and you know I couldn't name everyone on the team doesn't mean I don't love them but Yeah. Seth will get mad about things that I sort of am like, I don't even know what you're talking about. And I'm okay with that. And do you guys get angry with yourselves? Yes. For the amount of personal, like, what is the word, like personal capital that you burn? Yeah. Well, I like, I didn't get the ticket this year. I didn't get the Sunday ticket.

for like the first time in ages. And was that a conscious decision on your part? It was conscious and it was also like, I'm traveling a lot and I didn't think we were going to be good this season. We have a very good record right now. I still don't believe necessarily that we're as good as our record is, but I'll, you know, time will tell. That division is so goddamn hard.

It is just, it's unfair. Well, not this year. Not this year. Not weirdly, not this year. but in general. I'm so embarrassed by the personal capital. It's like one of those things where, like, it's too embarrassing to tell your therapist.

Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah, because you know your therapist will buckle down on your ass right away. And then I'll be mad at my therapist if they're like, well, let's not get caught up in that. I'm like, oh, you're one of them. Let's not get caught up in excellence, shall we say?

You just like going to the game to see, what, athletic fineness All right Josh is going to get us back on track So you drove to the woods with your brother on an ill-advised trip What about your whole family going away When you were growing up

Would you guys take trips? Yes, we did Okay, so when you grow up in New Orleans You go to the Florida Panhandle And that's just what we did In the early days It was like you go to the Florida Panhandle You go to like Panama City

Or Destin, Florida are one of these places, and you go for a long weekend, and you go to like a crab shack one night, you go to the beach the first day, you all burn so terribly, dangerously bad. You peel the next day, and then you hide inside, and then you go to the main strip, and you get an airbrushed t-shirt with your name on it,

and a guy holding a surfboard. That, okay, that happened 20 times. 20 times. Nothing changed. Nothing, nothing was ever different. But the first time we ventured beyond that was the trip to Jamaica. Great.

Which we call the Pukathon. So we, we, nobody has passports. Nobody's ever left the country before. We all get passports. And I think they had instituted a one-way flight from New Orleans to Jamaica. It must have been super close. It was probably like an hour and a half flight, right? And everybody's talking about how they're going to Jamaica.

And, you know, of course, my parents are like, well, we can go to Jamaica. Like, why can't we go to Jamaica? Everybody else is going to Jamaica. But there's definitely like a feeling of just like, well, Florida's great. Why don't we just go back to Florida? We could just do that, right? So we fly to Jamaica and we get to the hotel and it's raining hard. And the guy who checks us in says,

Because don't worry, it never rains two days straight in Jamaica, right? So we're like, great, we go to the restaurant. I had banana cream pie for dessert. I never had it. It was pretty damn exciting. And I wake up in the middle of the night, just projectile vomiting banana cream pie. just painting the wall with banana cream pie. I've only had banana cream pie one time in my life.

The association is so extreme. I can never... I have that with... At this age, not that I would, but flavored vodkas. It was a one and done for me. Yes. Which flavor was it?

I feel it was like absolute citron. Citron. Oh, that sounds like... The tron. Absolutely. It had a moment. It had a real moment. Yeah, it had a moment.

Yeah. It did. It did. Okay, so I puke. We wake up the next day. I'm nursing. I'm just puking. Can't stop.

I think, and they think, it's food poisoning from banana cream pie. Right. You're in a resort, I'm guessing? We're in a resort. Yeah, it's like a Hilton kind of thing, you know? Wake up the next day, it's pouring, raining. guy goes down my dad goes downstairs

guy says never rains three days in a row in jail it's we're just playing board games I'm isolated I mean but you know this is an old school you know middle class vacation where it's all four of us

in one hotel room to queen beds yeah of course right that's how we rolled and of course the next night, Mark wakes up in the middle of the night and project all this. Had he had any banana cream pie?

He had, he had no banana cream pie. And so, if you read encyclopedia brown, we know banana cream pie is off the hook. And what is on the hook is there's a virus in this room. You're on the hook, basically. I'm on the hook. I may have brought, you know, this virus. from St. Clement, a Rome Catholic school. And now it's like

how we're going to take care of... My parents are like, how we're going to take care of these two kids and not get sick. And it's one of those virus... I'm still puking and now Mark's puking. Let's not get into the gremliny, gory details of it. What ends up happening is my mom gets it the next night. Never rains four days of the street.

in Jamaica. And on that night, my dad, I mean, to give you an idea, yeah, the four of us are sharing a hotel room, you know, like, we got a package deal. My dad starts looking into flights back to Jamaica and early, because we're, I'm sure we're, back to New Orleans. Yeah, back to New Orleans. We're going to get out of here. There are no flights back.

We're set to be there for a week. And I'm sure my dad's thinking, like, if I go down, what's going to happen? I mean, like, then we're in, like, you know, where the doctors are coming. They're giving us stuff. We don't know what they're giving us. We don't know what's happening. But it's really devolving to, you know, it's a pukathon, you know. It's just like we're fighting over the toilet.

You know, people are, like, fighting over who gets access to shit. or puke in this toilet. You may have to cut this whole story. In the interim, are you just, like, fetal position on the bed, or are you guys still trying to, like, play board games or just watch TV? No, I mean, I was fetal, and then Mark became fetal, and then, you know, we're just watching movies, and we're just trying to, like, trying to keep it going.

Also, like, watching movies in a hotel room in that era, not a wealth of options, right? This isn't, like, put on your iPad and, like, watch what you want to watch. Unless there's, like, you pay, like, those pay-per-view kind of things whatever that was it was pre-paper view it was just whatever's coming over the pipe and you know as you guys know back in the 80s like HBO was just piping in you know there's a lot of nudity it was a lot of R-rated movies you know we're we're watching just like hard like Kramer versus Kramer like a hard-hitting divorce drama like it was

they say if you go to Jamaica the two things you've got to do banana cream pie Kramer versus Kramer in your hotel room. If you're lucky, a little silk stockings at night. Yeah. Seriously. No, yeah, it's like Red Shoe Diaries is on at night. It's just, but to your point, you're right. Like, you couldn't curate a good vibe.

You know what I mean? It's just like if, if deliverance is on, you're watching deliverance. That's what's happening. You know, you just got to take it. So my dad can't get us a flight home. He confessed to us. a few years ago that he actually looked into

chartering a plane. Wow. Now, this would not have been a 747. This would have been a six-seater, like a pilot and the four-of-up kind of situation. Still, for a middle-class dad to be like, we might have to... Dude, yeah.

We might have to charter a plane and fly over, fly internationally. You know? I thought you were going to say he looked into just getting a seat for him on a plane. He's like, good news, bad news. No one would have blamed him. But, um, so my dad somehow did not get it and nursed us all back to health.

We slowly came around. And, and then, of course, as soon as we landed back in New Orleans, my dad just started barfing as soon as we touched down. Like, it's just like, there is something about a parents' will to just like not, like, not, get anything like it was clearly in him and he was just like nah i'm not releasing the hounds you know what i mean like i will not i got to get my parents on terra firma i mean my kids on terra firma and then i can you know go to hell would your dad like leave the hotel room for parts of the day and be like oh yeah yeah he went on runs during the day and he he also confessed

that those runs were not safe you know because like you know you know Kingston was like not super safe back then but you know he was you know he was like the kind of guy was like he had to get his five to ten miles in every day no matter what but I think he was also just needed that space to like get away from it definitely I would rather run 10 miles through a bad neighborhood than hang out in that hotel room oh my god even people who don't run would prefer that oh yeah yeah absolutely yeah uh did you have you ever been back to Jamaica? I've never been back to Jamaica and I can safely say I'll never go back to Jamaica.

I mean, it's interesting, like I, a really close friend of mine is from there actually and and I have had a thought of just like, thank God he's already married so I don't have to go to Jamaica and go to his wedding because I don't, I just don't think I can handle it. You know what I mean? Yeah. We, when our oldest was a baby, he wasn't even two. We went to Morocco. And on the way back, we had 24 hours in Madrid, and I got hit with something.

And so I've only been to Madrid once, and I literally never left. I was the airport hotel room, airport. Yeah. And but I remember, too, saying, like, I wonder what it was. And Alexi, my wife was like, there are seven things you ate in Morocco that this could get them. like you took you took no precautions you ate you ate chicken like all the street meat like you just

they said this was pigeon pie and you were like when else am I going to try it and it was bad it was a real bad could you pinpoint what it was she again like in my head I still can't pinpoint what it was but uh but then it was a little bit you know what looking back then because our our little one got sick too So it might have been a thing where she was trying to pin it on the banana cream pie and then time showed that it was it was actually not my fault, which is rarely the conclusion to arrive at.

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Mark and me From going to Senior Frogs I was gonna say Senior Frogs I've been to that Senior Frogs Yeah That was all on us Did you have Did you get a shot glass

That you wore around your neck With a necklace? I cannot remember But I definitely bought merch and I am not proud of it do you still rock your oh yeah I mean

what I really wish you had is the like this series of 20 airbrush airbrush oh god I wish I had the series of 20 airbrush my mom was definitely that person

it would just like go through your drawers and throw things away that she didn't want her friends seeing you wearing right yeah so that shit went went astray i mean the only other um really adventurous vacation we took was we did this is nuts that i'm saying this right now i'm just realizing there's a pattern here with us me and mark going to the mountains after dumb and dumber which that movie would be like yeah don't

do that it's going to be bad um we went to the grand canyon We drove a brown station wagon to the Grand Canyon. Probably, what year was National Lampoon's family vacation? 80. I would say 86. If I was guessing, I'd say that. Okay. So, definitely, within a year or two of that, we...

83, 83. Okay, so probably 86, 87. we drove from New Orleans all the way to the Grand Canyon in a brown station wagon almost to tempt fate in a weird way

because that vacation was a freaking nightmare you know and ends with you know Chevy Chase pulling a gun on John Candy but that we did that

vacation and it was three weeks it was a gargantuan trip and i think we were all by the time we got to the grand canyon you know you're halfway done i think we were all cooked we were like why are we doing this like yeah and i haven't talked to my dad about it but i'm sure in his mind he was like should i just sell this car in phoenix and we fly home you know because we were freaking done Mark and I were like fighting a lot in the back seat and they I do remember this they resorted to bribes we would get like a nickel every hour if we would shut the fuck up and I'm pretty sure those words were used if you shut the fuck up for one hour and Mark and I we also I'm remembering now we developed our own language that we wrote down on paper so that we could communicate behind their backs.

And as a parent now, what I realize is, like, that was a joy to my parents to not have to listen to what we were saying. I'm sure they were thrilled to, like, not... Yeah, it's easy to tune out of language you don't speak. Absolutely. That's right. That's right. I'm trying to think if there was anything crazy that happened on that trip.

I don't know, but... I'm just so nostalgic for a day where I could get my kids to try. Shut the fuck up for $0.5 an hour. Oh, God. That way you talked about it, I think I'd be down like $2,000. Two grand, easy. Oh, yeah, worth it?

Oh, I'd pay $2,000 for them, yeah. Totally worth it. I mean, just to experience the power trip of just, like, coming over the top. It would be, like, people see me walking in my car. It looks like I'm going to a strip club because I just got, like, a stack of ones. I'm like, oh, no, man, I just chuck these in the back seat. Yeah, just keep throwing them back. The one thing that we did, I mean, two things come to mind on that trip is Mark and I thought that our station wagon sucked because it didn't have wood paneling.

It was just a big, brown, dark brown metal, you know, space shuttle of a vehicle that we called the mule. because it just hauled everything. And the other thing that I remember from that trip is that the last stop, and this is super interesting, like to me at least, maybe to nobody else, but the last stop was Houston,

which is, you know, kind of like a nothing going on city, and we stayed at a hotel that was attached to the Houston Galleria, which was one of those first big indoor malls, right? Yeah. and this mall was enormous like three stories like front to back was probably a half a mile long and we stayed in this hotel and everybody it was every man for himself after that it was just like

you just do whatever the hell you want and this is back in a time where you'd let like a 13 year old and a 10 year old like wander around a mall by themselves which is insane to me now but you know everyone was just released upon their own recognizance and we had two days at that mall and we all had the best time ever we still had dinner together we had dinner together and every once at all we'd see each other in the malls like what's up you know what i mean you might like see somebody at sparrow and by somebody i mean someone you're related to and mark and i did some stuff together you know we'd go to record stores together we'd go to movie we'd do stuff but we did stuff separately too and that became our vacation from then on out until mark and i went to college

is we would and it was it it it was a vacation entirely based on defense you know it was like we get in the car in new Orleans the drive to houston is five hours we leave after traffic we get there we all post up anybody can do whatever the hell they want that is what the duplos family vacation became is just like laissez-faire like you can do whatever you want the only thing that's expected is we go to a restaurant at 6 p.m. in the mall and everybody can show up and it was kind incredible because now the first time you ended the trip at houston there was no expectation that this was going to be a forever vacation so at what point on the first mall vacation did everybody collectively decide this is this is it i mean the first day it will

was we're going to go to AstorWorld, right? That was the plan. It was going to be that whole thing where you have your activities planned. And I think Mark and I came to my dad and were like, did you buy the tickets yet? You know, which is hilarious because my children would never care

about whether I had already pre-purchased tickets. But, you know, I mean, I feel like our generation was just very conscious of the family money. You know what I mean? What is being spent? Absolutely. What things cost?

What things cost are huge. Like, you know, there was, always like a pregame in the parking lot of wherever you were going to go. Even if you went to Chucky Cheese, it was just like, okay, this is what we got. You get 10 bucks. That's it. And like, if you don't have to spend it all, don't spend it all. You know what I mean?

That kind of thing. So we went to my dad and we were like, did you buy the tickets to Ashworld yet? And he's like, no. We're going to wait in line. And Mark and I were like, can we just do nothing? Can we just stay and not go, and like, I can still remember the smile on my dad's face when he's, when he realized that he was being released from having, he didn't want to go to Asher World. That's his goddamn nightmare. You know what I mean?

Yeah. And so my mom realized that she could go shopping in the mall. My dad realized, like, he could just do whatever the hell he wanted, and Mark and I could, too. I think after that moment, like, something was born. which was freedom you know what i mean it's like the because i think i don't i'm curious because you guys are doing this podcast you know i think what um what probably a lot of the stories of just like vacations gone wrong comes from the forced march and the um jim gaffigan does it so well in his disney bit he has that four minutes on disney right here he's like you know

it was either this or send you to college You know, it's like where the desire and the need to have a peak experience is at a fever fucking pitch. And so sometimes you get it and sometimes you get the opposite. You get the Jamaica Pukathon, you know? Yes. Yeah. And it was so devastating for my parents to have spent so much money on Jamaica and for it to have just become like, you know, just this awful experience. I'm just kind of curious because we turned that corner there.

We were like, we are not forcing anybody to do anything anymore. Vacations are now about sitting around and just having food together, and people can do whatever they want. I'm just kind of curious what you guys have learned in doing this. Well, my one question I have is, when did you turn the corner on the Jamaica story being like a funny family story that you enjoyed talking about? It took about a year because it was so traumatic.

It was pretty good. It was pretty good because it, and it, I think, think we probably went right back to Florida. I'm pretty sure we went right back to Florida. And when we got there and we realized everything was going to be okay, we started ripping on Jamaica. Right? Yeah, first we had to villainize Jamaica, right?

You know what I mean? As if this like island paradise is somehow this like, you know, island of Dr. Moreau now, you know, We villainized it, and then we started just laughing about just how horrific the whole thing was. Well, that's where you get your money back. That's the investment coming back. Yeah, and we've told that story so many times. I mean, it's, you know.

Yeah. It is. I mean, it's interesting. I feel like, you know, ultimately, like, the one consistent thing is, like, it ultimately doesn't matter where you go. And, but nobody's ever said in all this, right, Posh? Like, no one's ever been like, and then our trip to Disney was the most memorable trip we ever took. You don't know, like, we did all the rides. Yeah.

I feel like that's not. I mean, I remember, like, for us, I know we went to Disney, but Bush Gardens was a bigger deal because there was a hurricane and I got left behind. And like that, I'll always remember Bush Gardens more. When you got left behind. Yeah. Jesus Christ. And it's just you too. I think there's also, like, I think when you, one of the issues with, like, Disney is as soon as you do it, you know everybody else has done it.

Like, there's nothing you need. Like, nobody, nobody wants to hear your story about, like, what Space Mountain was like to you. That's true. That's true. The kids on the playground, I think, it has some cachet there. Right. Otherwise, it's like, okay, man. But it's more the fomo of not being the kid to do, you feel bad if you haven't done it, but you don't feel that good if you have.

that's very true it's only like a negative impact basically well that was the thing I remember the first time I because I feel like we went to Disney later than most of our friend group and so I very much remember the end of Space Mountain being like

huh that was it well that tracks for you in general did not change my life in the way I am not an astronaut you're telling me I'm not an astronaut

I'm not going straight to NASA Did I believe I was in space Or on a mountain And My one I have one before we let you go Like because I have It's a

It's family trip-ish Because another thing we have in common Or you and I Is that we went to college And I think then Our younger brothers Followed us to the same school Yes

Yeah So how many grades behind Was your brother Mark was four grades behind Oh so you weren't at the same time We were there Did he get held back he i did an extra year where i was like okay i'm going to do movies now um and he was there

freshman year but i also lived in austin the whole time he was in college because i was like i just thought i was going to be a broke artist you know distributing my art on my front lawn which is what people in austin were doing in the 90s um yeah and we were in bands at that time together so we were very much just like doing our du plas brothers thing from the minute he got there Do you think that, like, pretty early on in high school, he knew he would go where you were? Yeah. Yeah. There was, because it was like, basically, if I had a long weekend, I would try to go home to New Orleans.

And if he had a long weekend, he would fly. You could fly on Southwest Airlines for like $65 round trip. It was unbelievable. this is when southwest was more of like a spirit air kind of vibe you know um so he would come on a long weekend or if he had a week off he'd just come um to austin and you know it was a cool time it was austin in the early 90s so it was um you know it was like the hotbed of white boy funk Yep Which we were doing

Apologies to everybody This is before it went You know nationwide Absolutely absolutely There's only one band That ever pulled it off And that was the Red Hot Chili Peppers And then

And then it But it was also like The Hotbed of DIY filmmaking At the time Because Richard Link later was there And Robert Rodriguez had just made El Nariachi And you know

There were just two guys who, you know, wore t-shirts and were walking around town and had made movies for $20,000. And so it was a pretty, it was pretty, it felt pretty special. And Mark was definitely just like, yeah, just, more than anything, go ahead. No, I was just saying the same thing for,

I think comedy in Chicago when we were there, which was the 90s as well, is that you were just like, oh, hey, that's like, you know, you see like a young Tina Faye who would then like the next year be on SNL and you're like, oh. Oh. This is a place where you are where the next thing happens.

The next thing happens, yeah. And how long were you in Chicago before you went to New York? Well, we both had a weird path because we both moved to Amsterdam for this comedy theater called Boom, Chicago. That's where we met Ike. Oh, that's so cool. Yeah, so the Chicago guys who started a sort of Second City type theater in Amsterdam. But Josh and I was Chicago for a year, year and a half after school? Not even a full year.

but he used to you know he was in chicago i was at northwestern which is up in evinston and he'd come up and have lunch with me once a week yeah we still hung out all the time yeah that's sweet it's very like we're very lucky to have uh siblings that we both love that we like collaborating i know yeah i know you really know you can like it's uh i'm always surprised when the when the ones collaborate and then you find out they didn't like each other you're like whoof i know i know i know it's really um yeah i mean but it's it's really um yeah i mean but it It is part of that immigrant mentality, I think, too, which is just like two heads. You know, and even though I hate your guts, like, you're, you got my back and, like, we're going to get stuff done.

I mean, Mark and I definitely had to have, like, a little bit of a breakup in terms of, like, you know, because we originally, like, very lockstep, like, arm and arm. We're going to make movies like the Coen brothers. And we did that for a while. And then, you know, it kind of took us a long time to figure out that I really want to make. movies and mark are really want to direct movies and mark is really more into like producing and acting you know so that's good to know that and it's nice that it's not a flat overlap like i think yeah and it it it unburdened us a lot but it was like a hard breakup in a way you know it was like hard to figure out what was happening and what would happen and um you know the dGA made us like

have almost like a ceremony where we broke up because they're very fixated on part directing Yeah, so this is the Directors Guild will basically, if you direct, if you co-directed, they then just start treating you like one director forever. Yes, and you have to, like, promise that you'll only do that. And then if you break up, they're like, you'll never direct together again. And we're like, this feels punitive. We're just trying to, like, support each other doing the shit that we want to do. Also, we're brothers, so does they not a loophole? I feel like, you know, I feel like a similar thing is always in the air for, like, the lonely island guys or whatnot.

And I think, like, the rule should be, like, if you met your co-director before you were 18, you can just go in and out. That's a great rule. That's a great rule. Yeah, anybody, if you were, like, if you were siblings or you, you know. But, like, at some point, you've got to be like, yeah, no, I, we're different. It's weird. Yeah, we're different. It's weird.

Yeah. And, by the way, you can't have met in L.A. Like, I think that's, like, so you, like, you met. Yeah, because that's not real and that's not going to last. Yes, we know that. That's been proven. I mean, yeah, it is, do you guys ever go to a party by yourself without your brother? And people see you and they're like, hey, where's your brother? I think less so.

Yeah, we also like look, we like are more similar in appearance as you guys. And so it's more that like if I'm in L.A. at a party, a lot of people will just assume I'm Josh and vice versa. Oh, that's interesting. Because we also like, you know, we haven't actually lived in the same place for like two decades. That's wild. Yeah. That's wild. Yeah, I definitely get a lot of that.

I have to like buy for myself and be like, I'm actually a whole full person and it's going to be fine, everybody. This is fantastic. Jay, what a delight to talk to you. Thanks for having me, you guys. Baltimore. They're fun. Is it available for people? people to watch it.

Yeah, it's on VOD now. Certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. 92% baby. Going strong. You know, because they say reviews don't matter, but also they do and they're really nice to read

when they're good. Yeah, they do when they're good. Yeah. And especially when somebody, you know, and I feel like a lot of reviewers are like, you know, they're good writers that like movies.

And when they write thoughtfully about something you did and you realize they got it, it's a great feeling. Yeah, I love it. I love critics because I generally have good critical reviews. And if I didn't, I wouldn't love critics. That's really what it comes down to.

They say that's how most people land. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. All right, before you, we let you go, Josh is some speed round questions. All right, here we go. Speed round. What's the favorite funk band name of a band that you were in with your brother? Thunder Chicken.

You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous, or educational? relaxing What is your favorite means of transportation Electric bicycle 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 National Ampoons family vacation There you go, Griswolds If you had to be stranded on a desert island With one member of your family Who would it be? Wow That is a true.

tricky one. I feel like I need to say my wife. That's okay. All right. She'll love the way you phrased that. Yeah, yeah. But probably my 13-year-old son because the entertainment value would never end. I mean, he's just 60 pounds of full blast entertainment at all times.

Yeah. Great. You are from New Orleans. if you were the head of the Board of Tourism in New Orleans, pitch that city to get people to come visit real quick. This isn't a fun pitch, but it's a genuine pitch that I do, which is it is a more fun Vegas. It's the best three-day weekend vacation.

It's more fun than Vegas. There's actually things to do other than games. gamble and get, you know, and overeat. You can overeat. That's one of the things you can do. But it's just like a beautiful cultural place where you can have a great three-day weekend. And I highly recommend it.

You don't need a car. You don't need anything. You just go there. Great. I also can't imagine three nights in Vegas. But I can imagine. Well, I feel like Vegas has an evolution. Like, first time you go, you go for three days.

And now if, like, if one of us were to go to Vegas, it's because we're, you know, it's a layover. That's the only reason I would ever be in Vegas now. I used to do stand-up more in Vegas, and I now, I think the last time I did it, I'm like, can I get a red eye? Can I like fly

in the day I've finished my show and get back to the important time to get home? And you probably can. They probably have those lights. I'm sure it flies nonstop to everywhere in the world at this point. Yeah. And then Seth has our final questions, which we kind of know. Yeah, the question was, have you been to the Grand Canyon? Yes, you

have. And the follow-up was, was it worth it? And I feel like that's also maybe a no. A yes and a no. At the age of 13, I think it was a no. Yeah. You know, I think it was just like, I don't even know what this is. This means nothing to me. But I have gone back.

I have gone back and it is worth it. All right. Oh, great. We will take the amendment. We will take the amendment. Great talking to you. Thanks so much. This is awesome.

I hate to ask this now after you said. But where is your brother? I don't know I am not my brother's keeper I mean look I love I mean you're sort of known the Duplas brothers are a thing you're known as that but it's

you have had this little little breakup and you know And I just want to say transparent I know it's a way back but it's such a fantastic show fabulous and then you just directed this movie on your own so you're your own person

on my own person go see for sure yeah see if you can validate me online I'll be reading thanks buddy

thank you thank you really appreciate this is great thank you wonderful appreciate it y'all thank you

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oh yeah A Christmas Day bummer was Father Ralph's lacklust of mess. But they saw dumb and dumber so good, which delivered some gut-busting laughs. He and Mark were so excited. They drove to Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Turns out their plans were so misguided. Underbrobed and they were freezing Yeah, they were shivering and shaken

Holding on to each other And after seven hours, Chase said to his brother, Maybe we should leave this mountain Get ourselves some barbecue So they drove themselves to Memphis Because midwinter camping is not something And Duplice boys ought to do.

No take two. Big Miss Kew. On a trip down to Jamaica, where it never rains two days in the row. Family watch, Kramer vs. Kramer, because out of their room they couldn't go. See, Jay was sick, he was wretching. He was wretching.

Then his brother got it. It was full on. Mom was the next one to catch it. Oh, she caught it. It was a classic Bucathon. Yeah, they were sweating and curled up in the fetal position and Dad had to nurse them.

It was worse than deliverance. Plus, it freaking kept on raining. Dad checked on me. Dad checked on a chart of lights. The whole vacation was so draining. So if you go to Jamaica, don't you get the banana cream pie? That crepe pie? No crepe pie.

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