Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - JIMMY TATRO Went To Japan For The Deaf Olympics

Episode Date: June 30, 2026

This week on the pod, Seth and Josh welcome Jimmy Tatro! Jimmy talks about growing up in Los Angeles in Venice, CA and the family trips that shaped his childhood. He shares stories from annual adventures to Sequoia family camp, long road trips to Colorado ski resorts, and the snowboarding accident that left him with a broken back. Jimmy also reflects on making early comedy and skate videos with his brother, the creative path that led to his career in entertainment, and what it was like working alongside Will Ferrell. Plus, he discusses a whirlwind trip to Japan to watch his brother compete in the Deaf Olympics, and he chats about his upcoming Netflix golf series, The Hawk! Get your tickets for Family Trips Live! 8/12 - Philadelphia: https://tickets.citywinery.com/event/family-trips-with-the-meyers-brothers-il7k6b 8/13 - Boston: https://tickets.citywinery.com/event/family-trips-with-the-meyers-brothers-iipsfk Watch more Family Trips episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlqYOfxU_jQem4_NRJPM8_wLBrEEQ17B6 Support our sponsors: Mint MobileTo get your new wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month, go to https://MINTMOBILE.com/TRIPS. 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 MINTMOBILE.com for details Whisker Take an additional $50 off bundles with code TRIPS when you shop https://whisker.com/trips Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey, tripsters. I know that we just did an episode where my wife sat in and she's here again. I'm back. You're back, but just for an intro. Back to save the day. Yeah. So that you don't have a grumpy intro. I do one intro alone. And I get some harsh comments.

And some of those harsh comments come from my wife. Well, we've got to keep the people happy. So you're very charming on your episode. You haven't heard it as we record this. And yeah, you were great. Thank you for sitting in. And thank you for sitting on this to keep me even keeled. Your mother is visiting us at the moment. And as a little wrinkle as we record this, she's sitting right there because she wanted to watch a podcast intro be recorded. So she's here. Linda's here. Linda in. Yeah. And you had you got an adventure picking her up at the airport yesterday. I had an LAX adventure. My good friend Britt had just come back from a family trip to Paris.

Oh, Lel-L-L-L-A. And she couldn't find her wallet and then realized she had left it on the plane and called Air France. They actually had it. And she was telling me this yesterday while we were working with the horses. And she's like, yeah, so now I just have to figure out when I can get to L.A.X, which is kind of far from where the barn is. And I was like, did you forget I'm going there today? I can pick it up for you. So I had like, I left early so I could park and walk to Air France and figure it out. And I actually succeeded in getting her wallet, which just feels like a miracle. Yeah. And they were probably pretty hardcore about needing some identification and some stats on your friend to hand over a wallet. Just had to FaceTime her.

I honestly don't think the lady even, like, looked at her license. And I, honestly, don't think the lady even, like, looked at her license. And I, did obviously have all the information, but I just facetived her. And she was like, yes, that's my wallet. Yes, thank you so much. And that's good enough. Yeah, and that was good enough. So that was like a big relief. And then walked back to Delta. I was waiting for my mom. And my mom and I, like, track each other so I can see, like, she walks dogs alone a lot out in the woods. And she likes to see me driving to work. Sometimes she'll call me. You guys are stalkers. You're stalkers for each other. She'll call me and be like, are you driving to work? I'm like, yes, I am.

So I was following her little blue dot through the airport. And then at one point, I was like, we should be able to see each other. And I couldn't see her anywhere. And I was like, oh, there's kind of a secret bathroom over there. And I walked in the bathroom and just went, Linda. And she was like, yeah. So, yeah, picked her up, made our way home. You had a nice dinner made.

And we also had, what was that drink called? Oh, I made a Hugo Spritz. A Hugo Sprits. Apparently the drink of the summer, everybody. Drink the summer. I can attest. It was delicious. Article in the New York Times saying it's dethroned the Apparal Sprits.

So maybe, maybe everybody. I thought it was delicious. Yeah, but I recommend you guys try. It's really, really fun. We've got some fun things coming up. I'm actually, in a couple weeks now, I'm going to Comic-Con, which is exciting. There's a Mad TV rewind panel, so I will be down at Comic-Con. is on July 25th, if you happen to be there.

I won't be there. Yeah, you won't be there. But yeah, me and a bunch of the old Mad TV cast will be there. We'll be there kind of Thursday through Sunday as well, doing some signings. So I'm looking forward to that. And then bigger family trips news, we've got a couple live shows this summer. We will be in Philadelphia on August 12th at City Winery. and then we will be in Boston the next day, August 13th, again at City Winery.

And if you want tickets for those, you can go to Citywinery.com. Exciting. Very exciting. I hope they don't run out of beer. I know. I don't think the family trips fans are quite like the full Scottish fans. But I don't know. We'll find out when we get there.

I've never been to Philadelphia. I'm very much looking forward to it. It always has struck me as a city that I'd be very into. You've got to do the steps. I got to do the steps. Yeah. I did the steps when I was there trying horses once and all my riding gear. Yeah.

Yeah. So it should be fun. If you're interested, please come out and see us. And then today's episode, we've got Jimmy Taitro. You might know him from theater camp. You might know him from your cordially invited. He is about to star alongside Will Ferrell in the Netflix series The Hawk. Honey, do you like Will Ferrell?

I love Will Ferrell. Yeah, I know. If you ever need a laugh, man, just watch that. Yeah, but Jimmy Tatro is a delight. American Vandal is kind of the first thing that I knew him from. He does, just one thing to call out in this episode, he does say he's been to Antelope Canyon and says that that's part of Grand Canyon, isn't it? And I looked it up after our conversation, and it's nowhere near it.

So, yeah. Well, good thing. Yeah. Good thing you looked it up so you don't get in trouble. Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, it looks like an amazing canyon, but it's not the Grand Canyon. So way it goes. But thanks again for sitting in, honey.

Sufi is going to be here with me with me for this conversation. And so this is going to do it for you if you want to say goodbye to all the listeners and trips to. Bye, everybody. Sure, I'll see you again. Family trips with my brothers. Big. How are you? I'm good.

Can you guys hear me okay? Oh my God. Crystal clear. Thank you. Yeah. A baritone. You're coming through full baritone. Yeah.

Yeah. Give me a little vibration. I'm very excited. I mean, you've already, we haven't seen it yet, but you've already gotten to work with Will Farrell. And I'm very excited about that. Yeah. Very happy for you that you got to do that. I know.

It was actually like fifth time. Really? Fifth time working with Will. Wow. One hasn't come out. I also a huge fan of American Vandal. I want to get that out of the way. Yeah.

Thank you, man. Same thing. I'm a huge fan of yours. Thank you very much. Yeah. You're from L.A. Yeah, I am. I grew up in L.A.

I grew up in Venice. I lived there until I was like 14, and then we moved to Westchester, kind of by the airport. Out here? Yeah. Westchester, L.A. No, no, Westchester, L.A. Oh, gotcha. We actually have a Westchester airport out here, so it was like...

There's a Westchester airport. Well, there's a White... There's a White Plains Airport, so... I knew... A lot of my family on the East Coast lives in Westchester. Yeah. And then my family in L.A. still lives in Westchester, L.A., so it's confusing.

Got it. And two siblings? Two siblings. Little brother, little sister. How much older are you than them? I'm 34 My sister's Like 32-ish

And my brother is I believe 29 Okay So I'm like, you know, two and five Were you a good older brother to them? I thought I was But I don't know

I mean, I don't know I think I just like was I think I was very like consumed with myself in hindsight. So yeah, I don't know. If anything, I was like a lead-by-example type of older brother. Oh, my God. That's a very funny way to talk about what you were doing after you admit,

like you actually weren't that good at it. You were like, I was doing my own thing and hoping they learned from it? Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I definitely got us into some funny, situations and I definitely created some funny moments and stuff. I mean, do you think they look back on it and they're like, you know what? He was a lot of fun and, you know, maybe he wasn't paying any attention to us, but it was a

really good ride. I like to think of it that way. Also, it has been interesting as I've gotten older to hear the way they recall certain things. It's totally different from my memory of certain things. Like, you truly do have like completely different experience. than people that you're in the same situations with. But it's nice because they can remind you of stuff

that you didn't even remember. And you're like, oh, wow, yeah. Yeah. We'd happen. Yeah, Josh, they're very lucky, I think, to have that shared memory. And also, we've stuck together all through, like, college and then even after college. So until we were, like, almost like 27,

we completely overlapped in every part of our life. Yeah. Really? You guys went to the same college? Yeah. We did. Yeah. So he was just two years ahead of me. And then I went there and then he moved to Amsterdam and then I moved there and then he moved back. And then we kind of like, we lived together one summer after we moved back to the States. And then we've been on like opposite coast for like 25 years. We like, I mean, barely. You're like a stranger to me now. Well, now we have this. Yeah, that's true. Wait, you moved to Amsterdam? Yeah. There was an American Improft Comedy Theater over there, boom Chicago.

And we both got hired. You've worked with our buddy, Ike Berenholt. Yeah? I don't think I have. Oh, I thought you did. I thought you were... No, he's like the guy that I just feel everyone's like, you know Ike, right?

Yeah. I'm like, don't. I still don't. It's going to be a fit. When you meet him, it's going to be a fit. I'm telling you that, Jimmy. I'm okay. Are you siblings in L.A. still?

My brother's in New York And my sister is still in L.A. Gotcha. My brother moved out there like five years ago. What did your parents do When you were a kid? Were they in show business at all? No.

My mom is an audiologist Like she works for LA Unified School District And gives kids hearing aids And my dad worked for L-A-X. Gotcha. All right. Childhood,

so not, not very showbiz. Yeah. What did your dad do at L-A-X? He was in noise management. He, you know, he's explained to me

what he does so many times. Our father, similar, I will say. 100%. No judgment. The Myers boys could not tell anybody

what their dad does. I try so hard to listen and, like, absorb what he's telling me. And I've like asked like with genuine interest. Like like like so explained to me like what are you doing like on a day to day basis. And then like about halfway through I'm like, I like I can't. I don't even know what you're saying. I don't even understand. And then my mom was like he's really bad explaining it. And then she explained it to me one time. And I was like,

okay. I get that more than everything he said. Yeah. Did, uh, I know that like people who have parents who work for airlines get, like, great travel perks. Do you get those perks if your dad works for an airport? We used to get... He used to be able to, like, walk us in. That was, like, the perk. That's a good perk. He could go with you the airport and, like, walk through security and, like, hang in there

with you. Right. Which is cool for you. I don't know how cool it is for him. Right. You're like, hey, I got two hours to kill. want to come like hang with me. Right.

But then I think his, his perks got really, they really decreased after 9-11. A lot of them were like being able to like get us through security lines quicker. And then after 9-11, it was, the perks were just for, just for him. They were like, this guy can't even explain what he does. We're going to let him just walk his family? I don't know, man. We've asked him what you do for the airport,

Ten minutes ago, and you're still talking. And you still have no idea. Look, I'm not saying you're shady. You just are coming off as shady. It's coming off very shady. I think, I don't know if it was noise management. And then there was environmental affairs. It had a lot to do with, like, the noise output of the airport and managing the way the communities dealt with that noise.

I mean, I will say for his failure to explain it, it, it does. seemed like he was providing a very valuable service. Like everything you're saying, I'm like, oh, I think this is, people would have been able to, would have really appreciated what he did if he could have explained it better. It seemed like everyone that he talked to was already coming in with a little bit of anger. I would have happened. You know, it wasn't like anyone was like, hey, we're loving the amount of noise that's coming in here and we just want to say, keep it up.

Nobody would ever come in and be like, we, my wife and I were talking the other day about, how we cannot believe we live this close to an airport and never hear it. And we just don't know who. And we just wanted to call you and we just wanted to say that. We don't know who. It was always people that are like, you know, it's expanding. At one point there was like a whole expansion thing he had to deal with where they were, they had to deal with like a type of like insect that was just going extinct.

And the expansion of the airport, that was, I think, the environmental affairs portion. Yeah. I feel like that's one of the. those things that I don't want to judge and I don't want to stereotype, I sometimes feel like the people who are like, we can't lose this insect. Low-key are just like, we feel like it's going to be super loud. And we don't.

And we know you won't stop. We know you won't stop because we think that. So we have a new best friend who is an insect. You might be on to something. I might be. Yeah. Yeah, we can't just complain about noise. So like, let's find some obscure animal that's endangered by this project.

Yeah. And they're always, there always so bummed. They can't find something cute. Like the crane mantis population has already been through enough. And this is really going to just put it over the edge. And they're always like, oh, why can't it be a lemur? Why can't it be something that was in an animated movie? Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from Mint Mobile. There are things in life that you don't want to be transparent, like your swimsuit or your search history. But when it comes to your wireless bill, transparency is everything. That's why MintMobil's wireless plans have no gimmicks and no

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did you guys travel a lot as a family? We didn't travel a ton And that's the end of this That's pretty tight A little Pretty tight We would go on like maybe like one There's like we would do like one big family

Trip a year And it was usually Disneyland And it was But then we started doing A family camp in Sequoia And that was fun And then, like, maybe once a year we would drive to my mom's college friend's place in Colorado, and we'd go snowboarding or skiing and stay with them. And they were all, like, ski instructors so they could hook us up with gear and stuff.

So that would be like, I really looked forward to that one, but it was like, that one was a bit of a slog because we would get in the car at, like, 2 a.m. and drive to Colorado in like one day. Wow. What mountain were you sort of based out there? We would do copper, Keystone, A Basin. I think we did Breckenridge like once or twice. Yeah. Did you catch the skiing bug?

Not the bug that the LAX expansion was going to crush the skiing bunch. Was that something you still do? That one is long gone. But no, I did. I definitely did. Because I grew up skating, you know, living in Venice. And so I wanted to, every time we'd go, I was like, it was like I had four days maybe the entire year to get as good as I could to last until the next season. So I always just like would get there.

I'd love it. And then I would be so jealous of like all the kids that would just, We're just out there all season getting so good. So you never, were you always based on being a skateboard or did you just know snowboarding was what you wanted to do? Did you ever ski as well? I wanted to be a pro skater until I was probably like 12, maybe 11. And then my sights shifted towards the NBA. To something, you all of a sudden found something less rational.

Yes. Yeah, I was like, I looked in the mirror one day and I was like, my frame is screaming NDA. That's so heartbreaking for parents when you finally give up on the skateboard dream and you're like, it's going to be basketball. And they're like, oh, no, no. Maybe you should get into, you know, the arts. Yeah, I know that's the funniest thing is like when you were like, I'm going to be an actor, they were like, thank God. I mean, it's not easy, but it's better than his previous two choices. For sure. They're like, it took you way too long to a ride at a somewhat rational idea of what you can do physically.

How much skateboarding do you do as a kid growing up in Venice? Like, was it like, was it an everyday thing for you? Yeah. It was every day, like probably four hours a day. Were you at, like Venice has that famous, you know, skate park right on the beach. Were you there? Were you in that bowl? They do now.

But that skate park was, there's like the skate park. And then there's this little thing on the outskirts that just like a little tiny ramp with like a rail that people just walk by now on their way to the skate park. That used to be the whole Venice skate park. Oh, wow. So it wasn't really that exciting. We were more street skaters. So we would just kind of mob around looking for spots. But like from age probably seven until 13.

It was like a four hour a day. And I actually started making like skate videos. And that was, I was like the guy that made the videos. And that was kind of how I got into, I mean, that's kind of how I got into this career ultimately. Because I started making them funny. It was in like the jackass era. So I started making it like comedy sketches. And then that just turned into like making sketches without the skateboarding.

And then that turned into making you. YouTube videos and then that turned into everything. Yeah. What was your gear for the earliest skateboard video you were making? Like, what were you shooting it on? It was this little, it was this little, well, first it was a bigger one that was like this big, this big black. Forget it was like a DV maybe, like a little. And it was hilarious because I didn't have it.

I didn't know how to like edit, you know, I was nine. So I would carry around this boom box And I'd hit play and record at the same time On the, you know To try to keep the same song going And I'd like stop recording and hit pause There would just be this like Super choppy Lincoln Park track

That would just be going in the background And shifting And then the credits would be You just write stuff on a piece of paper And just pan down it So those earliest videos was who was consuming it? Was it your friends that were fellow skateboarders?

Were you sharing it with them or were you putting it online? I know. It wasn't even online. This is, you know, 2002. Oh, God, yeah. Yeah, so, no, the views came from my like three or four friends that were in them and my family. And my brother was often a prop in a lot of these videos And he's stuck in early on

What sort of prop work was he doing in the video? Well, you know, like if I wanted to do a video You know, where I'm like dunking on an eight-foot hoop And jumping over Someone He would be in like sitting in a box Right You were leading by example

Or like just a little random sketches He was always like He was always like the victim in these like little sketches where it'd be like, he'd be like my stuntman, basically, in these comedy sketches. A willing victim? It seems like he would probably want to be a part of this. I think he was.

I think he actually, I think he actually enjoyed it. I actually watched a couple of these recently. It was one where I, like, made a sketch about, like, shooting someone in the neck with a dark gun or something. And he was like, and that was the whole thing. But he seemed pretty enthusiastic in the video. Yeah. He did move across the country.

Yeah, we should remember that. As soon as he found out, there was a different Westchester. He's like, I got to check that one out. He's like, I'm not leaving Westchester, but I didn't get out of this place. I'm going to go to a different Westchester. What was the car to drive out to Colorado? We, my, well, it used to be this, it used to be an explorer, Ford Explorer, and that was, you know, five of us in the Ford Explorer was a little tight.

And then I remember when I was like 11, my mom got the Toyota Sienna minivan. And we were over the moon. We were like, this is, we are we rich? This is insane. That car, so much space, we all had, the person in the back had their own little section. and then there was the two bucket seeds. And that really changed the game on the road trips. I also just remember them always eating red vines.

Like that was what they were, that's what would keep them awake on these long drive. Your parents? Yeah. Wow. I don't think I've ever heard about that as a sort of thing. I thought it would start coming up as I became an adult. Like I would start understanding the like red vine thing. and it just hasn't

and no one has heard of this they're like there's caffeine in red vines I was like is there it was before before Red Bull there was red vines right it's just it's also funny because you're like there's just so many other things

that have caffeine before you get to red vines and they landed they would get this big buck this big like yeah I know those buckets yeah a 2 a m or a 2 am.

departure, would they switch? Would they switch the driver? They would switch drivers. Gotcha. And it was funny, I would know a driver switch was coming, like, whenever my dad would be driving and you'd hear the like, boom, bum, bum, bum, of like going accidentally driving on the, uh, on the line for a little too long. I'd like hear the boom, boom, boom. And I'd like kind of look up like, uh-oh. And my mom'd like, do me, like, like, clockwork every time.

Do you need a switch? Yeah. And were you good? Were the kids just immediately conked out in the minivan? I mean, I would imagine you have to be. I think we would play games and stuff. Like, we would bring games to play in the car because it was like 16 hours. I think we'd sleep a little bit.

And then we, they got a portable DVD player at one point. Those little, like, those little things exist. So we'd watch a movie. I remember watching my mom in the backseat watching Borat when I was in high school. Because we did this all the way up until, like, my junior, senior year of high school. And actually, the last time we made this trip was I broke my back snowboarding. And that was the last time we did this trip now that I think about it. I mean, that's a pretty good reason to stop.

I guess, yeah. Josh Josh is a fellow brokenbacker So yeah Yeah Yeah Ropes course Zipline and Mexico

So Classic Yeah classic Really was Which part of the back L1 and L2 Which is kind of a good Kind of good ones to break

They're very low But not fully down at the tailbone I want to say Maybe it goes 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 And then it starts Counting other ones So

Yeah I know my was L1. Okay. L1 left transverse. Did you, and was it just a fall off an extreme jump, or was it just a regular fall? It was, my mom would say probably that it was completely my dad's fault, actually. Oh, interesting.

I will say that the only reason our mom has not blamed our dad for Josh is that he wasn't there. But I'm sure she tried. I'm sure she's still trying to figure out how was his fault. He did egg me on. He's never going to live this down, poor guy. He felt so bad. But it was, I was like going off this little jump.

I had found this little jump. And I was, you know, it was like the last, second to last day or something. And I was starting to get my confidence back. And I was like hitting this jump. And then I got like, on one of them, I felt like I got pretty high, which I would imagine if I saw the video,

it was nowhere near as high it felt. And I was like, I like, went to my dad, I was like, that was pretty high, huh? And he was like, it was high. But I think you could go higher. And I was like, oh yeah?

And on the next one, I went to go hit that same thing and I just, I would just fly. I just didn't even turn. And I just hit it going so fast. And immediately in the air, I find myself horizontal. And I was just like, oh no. I have no ideas about how to get out of this.

And I'm just flailing sideways. And I landed, like, I just completely cleared the landing and just landed on my side. And I was like, oh, I just laid there for like five minutes kind of seeing the stars. And after a second, I was like, all right, I think I can make it down. And I got up and proceeded to falling leaf down. the rest of the mountain. And I felt like kind of okay. But then once I unstrapped

my bindings and moved my foot like a little bit out of the locked in position, it was like my whole body just like throws up. I think that was where I like, I think because I was still locked in, it was like holding even though I fractured

something. And then once I moved, it all just like tore all my like hamstring stuff. Your first thought must have been like this is going to be such a fun 16 hour ride home. Oh my God. Yeah, that, that, that sucked. Did you, what did you do?

You just like, and even lying down sucked. And then they went, it was, I think that there was actually like one or two more days of snowboarding. And it was like Easter the next day. But I just remember like getting up to go to the bathroom. I had to like plan ahead because I was like, it's going to take me like 15 minutes. Just walk to the bathroom because you're doing. like the baby steps because if you take a big step it was like and it was just like inch inch inch and just where you headed jimmy i go to the bathroom we'll be back in 30 yeah oh what was uh what was the

family camp at sequoia like was that a bunch of families go to one sort of place it it was it was like yeah, it's like every family kind of got a cabin. And we did that for, I think we started going when I was 12. They still go. My parents still go over here. I actually still go. Like, I'll still come by for a few days if I can. Like this year, I'm going to go for like three days.

Do you know the other families? Did you go with a group of families that you all knew? We like got the first family, we found out about it through my, mom's family friend. And then we started kind of going and we'd hang out with them. And then they stopped going after like two years. And it was just kind of us. And then maybe 10 years ago, my mom's like one of my mom's good friends and her family started going and they've been going ever since. So now it's like that's kind of the friend family. But there was like a variety of different families that would come every now and then that would like we'd invite and they'd get their own cabin. And everyone stays

around this lake. And there's like five different camps that are all around this lake and everyone's kind of there at the same time. That's great. And you just do activities. And one of those things I definitely didn't appreciate as much as, like I went last year. And like I always thought the Sequoia trees were cool. But I didn't really appreciate it like I did last time where I was looking at these trees that or 2,000 years old. And I was like, oh, my God, this is, like, that branch right there. It's older than me, just that little branch. I like when someone is, like, who's younger than me, which obviously you are.

I like that when you are, you're now old enough to be, like, trees are old. We didn't used to have a skate park. I like that you're, like, going through this thing I went through where you just all of a sudden to be like, oh, man, kids these days don't understand. It's pretty much. I was walking through the Sequoia, the National Park, and I was like, man, I was like, Dad, like, did I care about the trees? Like, was I really appreciating these trees the way I should have been? And he was like, you thought they were cool, but, you know, you weren't, like, talking about them in, like, a deep way like you are right now.

That's true. And, by the way, that would be weird on a seven-year-old. If my eight-year-old stopped and was like, dad, just think about these trees for a second. I'd be like, what's going on? What's going on? Think about what these treaties have seen at? Would there be at family camp, would there be sort of different, would you group off and go like, this group's going to go to this hike today, we're going to go.

Yeah, they had like a sign-up sheet and they would do, there'd be like arts and crafts, there's a basketball court so you could play basketball. There'd be like archery. There's all kinds of activities going on each day and you could kind of bring each out. And there was always like, you know, there would always be that other. you know, that girl that you had a crush on or there was always a little some kind of because I used to bring a friend

and we would like go run off and kind of do our own thing but there was also there was this other family that like they were like this is our family camp called the belugas and they had like they had a flag that they'd fly in their little area They had like three cabins, and they'd bring like a big camper van,

and they had this flag, this beluga flag, and they'd wake up every morning at like 6 a.m. And go, balooga. And we hated them. We were just like, shut up. We're trying to sleep a little bit. You guys are waking everyone up so early in the morning. It's so cool that you, before you worked with him, met a Will Ferrell character in real life.

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That's an additional $50 off bundles with code trips at whisker.com slash trips. But that's great that you still travel with your family. I do. You guys are still close. We are, yeah. We went out to, we actually all went to Japan last year. Wow. My brother was playing in the Deaf Olympics.

Fantastic. In Tokyo. So we all went out and watched Deaf Olympic volleyball. Was that his first, was that his first? Was that his first Olympics? Or has he competed before? It was. Well, he played in like the world championships in Opinawa the previous year.

Amazing. To qualify. And we all went out for that as well. And then to Tokyo in November. And that was fun. That is my bucket list. Place I most want to go is Japan. With my family, they're probably, you know, the youngest one's probably a little too young for it now.

But was it is everything I wanted it to be? it is i loved it i also like i took a little i took a little bit of japanese in high school so i like feel like i can yeah i don't remember much but i'll like brush up on it before i go out there like i downloaded one of the one of the um pimsler uh like a what's the other one the popular one duolingo duolingo yeah it's like a yeah it's like that but i like was brushing up on my job. I did the cheaper of the two and, the cheaper, less popular one.

It says, on it it, it says, not as good, but still fine. Was it just the five of you that went, or did you, like, bring significant others? Like, how many people went over for the trip? It was, the first time, it was just the five of us. Uh-huh. And then the second time, it was supposed to be,

I was supposed to bring my fiancé, but she was working or something. So she had to bail. And then my brother brought his girlfriend and then our aunt and uncle came as well. Fantastic. So kind of a whole family affair. How many matches did you go to?

How many times did your brother play over the course of the Olympics? They played, so they, like, played like four pool play games and then like three or four playoff game. Maybe it was like seven total. But I was in the middle of shooting the show that I'm doing with Will. Yeah.

And I could, I got off, I think I got off Thursday and Friday. So Wednesday, I wrapped at like 6 p.m. I went straight to the airport and flew to Tokyo at like midnight. Landed at like 5 a.m. on Friday. I had all day, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. and then Monday I flew back to L.A. and I was shooting on Tuesday. So I did like a weekend.

I did a quick weekend in Japan. Yeah. You flew back and somehow landed an hour after you left. Like, that's how crazy that travel is. That is mind-blown. Because I thought about that the first time I did it and I was like, could you land like a couple hours back in time? Yeah.

And I was like, if we... If we keep going, is that time travel? That's that old Superman thing of reverse it. You know, I'm a big proponent of there's, it's worth long travel for like a short trip if the trip is the right reason. Like, you know, I remember flying to Europe once for basically 12 hours to go to a friend's wedding and turning it around and coming back. And I'm like, totally worth it. and I would imagine when, you know, obviously, not to put this on Josh, but I've never had a brother in any kind of Olympics,

so I've never had the opportunity to take a talk like this. That's really too bad. It's a major bomber. It's a bummer for me too, Seth. Yeah, sure. Well, I don't feel like that's fair for you to turn it around on me. How did they do? Did he come home with the medal?

They did okay. They got fourth. So they just missed. They just, there's just, you know, people in other countries are much, much different. Okay, got to. So he did lose on volleyball in the end of the medals are based on Japanese. But when it came to the hearing portion, I see. So the scoring, it's a different scoring system.

Oh, yeah. No, they did well. I got to see them win the first playoff game. Great. And then they lost. It was like the team that was supposed to be the number one team got upset. And they had to play against them earlier than they would have hoped. I see.

And they lost. Yeah, that's unfortunate. Yeah. But it was still, it was great. Does your family travel well? Are your parents, like, good in a foreign land? Um, I try to... take as much of the planning into my own hands as I can.

Yeah. My, yeah, they've gotten a lot better, I'd say. And my mom is good at like traveling in a certain way. She likes to stress out a little bit. It's like a necessary part of her process. That when I was a kid, I could kind of examine. resist below it and and I would like not really be privy to the stress that was happening on the decision making level. I was just kind of in the back minding my own business. But then now that

we're all kind of on the same, you know, wavelengths, it can stress me out from time to time. Right. But like in Japan the first time, I was like, let me just, let me just navigate. You know, let me, let me do the navigation. And then she all, you know, she all. also got out the navigation on her phone and would chime in from the back seat, even though I had it. And I was like, she's like, are we going left here? I'm like, we're going. I have the, you can close yours, actually. Yeah.

We put the same destination. That could never happen to us because our mom has literally no idea how to open a map on her phone. But that's kind of nice. I think it's great. It is kind of nice. Yeah. I mean, her daily screen time is maybe. One or two minutes, I think, total.

Yeah. She's holding on to sort of analog interactions and map work. That's kind of nice. It is good. I don't know why I'm making it seem like it's bad. But every now and then, like, my parents are coming to visit me, and I'm like, when do you think you're going to get here? And they're like, I don't know. And I'm like, oh, you don't, because if you do Google Maps, it'll tell you to the minute.

You know what I mean? I'm like, it'll literally tell you to the minute when you're going to be here. And they're like, after lunch, I'm like, after fucking lunch, what are you doing? They're like, what are your cross streets again? Oh, my God. Yeah, like, where do we get off? I'm like, you get off where the phone says to get off. Just ask the phone.

Just ask the phone. This isn't for me anymore. Were you, did you do Disney a lot when you were doing Disneyland? We did, yeah, because that was like, you know, we lived in L.A. And my mom would, like, get the annual passes, I believe were, like, pretty, pretty reasonably priced back in the day. Yeah. And you could go as much as you wanted. So that would be like, that was often, like, our vacation.

We would just go to Disneyland, like, once a month, do a little day trip. And then every, like, every, like, once a year we would stay at the Disneyland hotel. or the Grand Californian Hotel, which we loved. Okay. But my mom had the whole thing, like, all lockdown. Like, we would get there, we'd walk straight to Space Mountain, get your fast passes.

And then she had, like, the whole thing all figured out. And it was always... So, and we loved Disneyland as kids. It was... By the way, now that you're describing her, I'm kind of pro her having the maps open as well. Yeah, no, she, like... She, like, has her methods.

Her methods have always worked for her. Yeah. And we weren't always sure why. You know, she'd be like, if anyone asks, we're staying here. What? What do you mean? And we're, like, going to, like, and then I realized when I got older, I'm like, oh, we were sneaking into the Disneyland pool to just, we weren't staying there.

We would just sneak in, swim, and then go to Disneyland and then get out of it. We're, our family never, we were very, like, don't you think, Josh, we never went anywhere we weren't supposed to be? Yeah, but I would have to lie and say I was 12 occasionally to, like, be able to do something. Like, when we went whitewater rafting, I was not old. But we would lie up. We wouldn't, like, lie down to, like, save a buck. Oh, you would lie up. Well, just for access, just otherwise. Yeah, that's what I mean, though.

It was more like, we want to do a thing that 11-year-olds aren't allowed to do. Whereas, like, I'm married into a family where they will, I mean, they will cut every corner. Like, they are constant. like the amount of stress I feel just because we immediately everywhere we check in we're living a lie there's like

we have three more people that are supposed to be this like location you know it's all just like it'll work out and I'm like where does this confidence come from yeah there's part of me that if I was with your in-laws and we got kicked out of somewhere

where we weren't supposed to be I would just be so happy about it. Yeah. Getting kicked out. Because I'd be like, yeah, because we broke the rules. Yeah.

We deserve. We broke the rules. We deserved it. Yeah. My wife just told the story to the kids, which they loved, where, like, they were, when she was little,

she was, like, seven years old, and she had to go to the bathroom, and they were in Italy, and her mom just, like, walked her into a restaurant, which, by the way, I would do with a kid, too, and then, like, took her in.

And then when they came out, the waiter was, like, yelled at them, like, the bathrooms for customers. And like the kids are like, that's so mean, blah, blah, blah. And then I'm like, in my head, I'm like, it's also the bathroom for customers. I don't know what to tell you. It says it on the sign.

Yeah, says it on the sign. What else are they supposed to do? It's not a public bathroom. But like it works. So I think, you know, she always has had her methods and they've always, they've always worked for her. Yeah. Well, that's great. When people have their methods, you can't take it away from them.

I'm very excited to see the hawk. When did you finish shooting it? We finished January. We like took a little, we had like one day of, in January where we shot at the TGL Golf League in Palm Beach. And that was, that was cool. How good a golfer are you? In the show? Well, yeah.

In this show, I'm like really, really good. You know, I'm one of the best. So how, how, I guess my question is, how good do you have to be to be able to look really good in a show? With, like, obviously, there's editing and body doubles if they need, I'm guessing they didn't use that. But, like, you've got to be a certain level of good. Yeah, I mean, I, the second I booked it, I immediately was like, I need to get my swing. My swing needs to look good enough to be a professional golfer. And then we can have a swing double

And I was like, I don't want to, I don't want to, I want to be able to like look good enough that you don't need a double. Yeah. So I like crammed a bunch of lessons in and completely changed my whole swing in like the four weeks leading up to the show. And then when you went to Japan, they just brought in that swing double for three days and just like shot the shit out of them, right? Exactly. They never told you. But I'm like watching the show. I'm like, damn, I look really good.

It paid off. You're like, it paid on. Really paid off. But no, I think you've got to know what you're doing. But then I, like, my swing completely changed and it started looking good. But there's that time period when you change your whole swing. You're going to be a little worse for a little bit. So that first, like, month of shooting, I was not.

Not good, but the swing looked okay. But some of the hardest acting I've ever had to do is when I would line up and they're like, you're hitting a real ball, but they're like, even if you shank it, act like it goes straight. And I didn't realize how hard that would be. But like as an actor, that was some of the hardest acting where I just like shank this ball and it just goes like into the bushes. but I'm just holding my follow through, like, looking, like, so pleased with myself and not even letting a little bit of emotion cross your face

of, like, was really hard. I believe it. Yeah, yeah. Did you grow up playing that, I've played that Westchester course, and then there's that great, like, par three course in Venice. Penmore, yeah. I play that now, because I play that,

I play both with my dad all the time. But I didn't grow up. I didn't grow up. I didn't grow up. I didn't golf until I was like 20, like in my 20s. Okay. I never even touched a golf club. Yeah.

So it doesn't come naturally to me. It's not like golfing has never really come natural to me. Well, that will make us all the more impressed when we see you play a very good golfer. Hey, thanks so much, man. It's really cool to talk to you. I've been a fan for a long time. And before we let you go, Josh is going to hit you up with our speed round. All right.

Okay. Here we go. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous, or educational? Adventurous. What is your favorite means of transportation? Car or train. I'm going to say train. Okay, very good. If you could take a vacation with any family, alive or dead, real or fictional other than your own family, what family would you like to take a vacation with? Probably the Flintstones. Great. Perfect answer.

If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? Probably my brother. He's very resourceful, and I feel like he could figure some stuff out. Yeah. What is your dream destination for a family vacation? That's tough. I mean, somewhere maybe Sequoia, it's somewhere that has, like, activities where you can do stuff. All right.

Very good. Great. Seth has our final questions. Have you been to the Grand Canyon, Jimmy? I have, yeah. And was it worth it? 100%, yeah. Did you go with your family?

I didn't go with my family, no, but I went to... Lake Powell is like, that's Grand Canyon, right? Yeah. The Antelope Canyon is part of Grand Canyon, I believe, right? Well, I don't know. You're going to allow it. Yeah. but not we're not gonna i'm not gonna i'm not gonna i'm not gonna i'm not gonna i'm not gonna

i'm not gonna i'm not gonna you here it sounds like you know your canyons i actually don't i'm like just kind of going along with it because i feel like i'm gonna catch a lot of heat from our listeners based on because i i'm personally kind of not a canyon guy and uh you know yeah i would i've definitely been it's definitely i would say worth it all right good to know and if you're gonna catch a lot of heat for that i'm gonna catch a lot of heat from Venice. Yeah.

Well, I mean, yeah. Antelope Canyon, I will say, not a national park, so I don't think it's in Grand Canyon. But there's a picture of it, and it's, I mean, looks incredible. I mean, it looks like a coyote, roadrunner and coyote cartoon. I thought it went through. Like, I thought it went, there was a part of Anilope Canyon that passed into Grand Canyon, but maybe I'm, maybe a mark.

Yeah. I mean, it could be upriver. Yeah. Well, we'll never know. There's no way to find out. There's no way. Canyonheads. Let us know in the comments how wrong we were about all this. And Jimmy can't wait for The Hawk. And it's great to talk to and meet you. And I hope I see you in person soon.

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