Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - Listener Episode #11: Picnic In a Prison & A California Sneaker Wave

Episode Date: March 27, 2025

Seth and Josh are back with the monthly listener episode! This week they hear about a scary “sneaker wave” that caught one family by surprise, what happened when a mom accidentally missed an important check point, what a AAA triptik is, and more! Plus, they answer a few listener questions you won’t want to miss! Support our sponsors: Nissan Family Trips is brought to you by the All-New 2025 Nissan Armada. Take your adventures to new heights. Learn more at NissanUSA.com DeleteMe Take control of your data and keep your private life private by signing up for DeleteMe. Now at a special discount for our listeners. Get TWENTY PERCENT off your DeleteMe plan when you go to join deleteme.com/TRIPS and use promo code TRIPS at checkout. Maker's Mark This episode of Family Trips is brought to you by our friends at Maker's Mark. You too can celebrate the spirited women in your life with a free personalized label to go with a bottle of Maker's Mark. Head to makersmarkpersonalize.com and fill in the details in order to create and mail your custom label. MAKER'S MARK MAKES THEIR BOURBON CAREFULLY. PLEASE ENJOY IT THAT WAY. Maker's Mark® Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whisky, 45% Alc./Vol. ©2025 Maker's Mark Distillery, Inc., Loretto, KY.   Helix Go to helixsleep.com/TRIPS for 20% Off Sitewide Want to submit your family trips story for our next listener episode? Or send a question in to Seth and Josh? Submit your voicemail to speakpipe.com/familytripspod!Executive Producers: Rob Holysz & Jeph Porter  Creative Producer: Sam Skelton  Coordinating Producer: Derek Johnson  Mix & Master: Josh Windisch  Episode Artwork: Analise Jorgensen

This episode of Family Trips is brought to you by the all-new 2025 Nissan Armada, because going big never goes out of style. Learn more at NissanUSA.com. Hi Pashi. Hi Sufi. You know, mouth and ears get a lot of attention in the podcast world, because they're kind of the money makers. Oh yeah. Can we talk about eyes for a second?

Sure. So I've crossed the threshold makers. Oh yeah. Can we talk about eyes for a second? Sure. So I've crossed the threshold into needing reading glasses. Yeah. And I thought it would be one of those things where I just use them here and there. So my question to you is, what do you think is easier to use one time,

reading glasses or crack cocaine? I think I could do crack once and walk away from it. But now, just, I mean, I think by the fifth time I use reading glasses, now I can't see anything. Everything looks like it's a million miles away. I don't generally like slippery slope arguments. Yeah. But man oh man, that's the case with glasses.

Because you just realize right away like, oh, I can see so much better. Right, and so what is the, I don't know, what are you trying to prove, right? Right. So, you know, part of me is like, I don't need you. Me and these two peepers have been fine for years, and it's just a mess.

But of course the other thing is, and I'm asking, because you've been in the game longer than me, at what point do you just get better at not losing them every two days? Ooh, not yet for me. Okay, so you're still losing. That makes me feel a little better. As you notice, I've got them here. I've started doing that a lot.

Yeah, if there's a sponsor out there, if someone knows how to keep glasses clean, then come on. Come on, boy. With glass cleaners. I've got all these spritzes. I got all these little towels, these little, you know, those soft microfiber, whatever.

I got all the right gear and nothing. That makes me feel better about, because I just assumed mine were super smudgy because of old, you know, grease fingers, Jones over here. Yeah, it was always gonna be the way for you, but yeah. Cause the crazy thing is, Axel got glasses when he was basically three years old. And I just went into this white hot panic of,

oh my God, the entirety of my life is gonna be looking for his glasses. But I think when a kid gets glasses at that age, he never loses his glasses. I mean, he breaks them at that age, he never loses his glasses. I mean, he breaks them, but he never loses them because they're just such an important part, they're just like an extension of him at this point. And so that has been a relief.

Yeah. Do you think dad, based on every story mom tells us, do you think dad is good at knowing where his glasses are? No, but I wonder if he like, I wonder how angry he gets when he can't find them. I'm sure he's chill. The, what was the, was it Clash of the Titans where it was the three witches who were like, give me the eye. Cause they had one eye between them.

That's kind of how mom and dad are at a restaurant. Yeah. The gray sisters, I believe they were. No. Nice poll. This is, if any listeners have stayed through the reading glasses segment of the show, I'm excited to tell you that it's a listener episode. Yeah. And we have stories from you,

we have questions from you, and we're going to turn it over to the essential Sam, who is going to start loading them into the hopper. Oh, and real quick, I mean, maybe we cut this out, but I talked to Dad yesterday. Oh, great. And you know what he wants out of the listener stories? Oh, God. He has notes for listeners. Yeah, he does.

Okay. Now, that is basically like, this is just to establish what we know that our dad doesn't. This would be like, if you walked into a grocery store, someone stood there and said, here's what we need from you. Yeah. Before you do your shopping experience. I think dad has maybe forgotten that the listeners

are in many ways the customer. Yeah. Who is historically always right? Right. As the saying goes. Yeah, it could be argued. Okay. What does dad want from them?

He wants them to have better stories. Well, yeah, I mean, the man is to the point. Yeah. He's pretty succinct. Yeah. Well, yeah, I mean, the man is to the point, it's pretty succinct. Yeah. I mean, so we should make it clear that the people we're gonna listen to today have not received that incredibly constructive note.

Yeah. So the next round, the next round we'll be able to tell. Yeah, yeah. Just have better stories. I mean, in a nutshell. I didn't like that one. Yeah. Just have better stories. I mean, in a nutshell. I didn't like that one. Yeah. I think they need to have better stories.

Yeah. It's like, Dad goes to a basketball game when they get somebody from the stands to try to get a half court shot. Yeah. It's like, they should try to get a guy. I mean, he wasn't, it was like he'd never even played basketball professionally.

All right, well. He was wearing jeans. Oh yeah, he would not be happy if somebody was wearing jeans. Well, that's a real dad for you. I think that hopefully at least informs what our childhood was like. You're better. Your friends, your friends could be cooler. Yeah. You know what your friends need? Your friends could be cooler.

Yeah. You know what your friends need? They need to be a bit cooler. But you know, when I took Axel back to New Hampshire, once again, hung out with my childhood friends who were just thick as thieves with mom and dad. Oh yeah. Our friends were cool enough.

That's not a legit Larry Meyers ding on our pals. But our friends are so cool that mom and dad and Hendo and Bubba, yeah, we had friends growing up whose nicknames were Hendo and Bubba. Hendo and Bubba and mom and dad just fully started talking about people I've never met. Oh yeah. And here I am with my son,

who I've flown for the purposes of meeting them. Yeah. And they're like, yeah, no, he just opened a new car dealership in Franconia. I'm like, what is this? Why are we talking about this? Because they have a frame of reference. I was distracted because Axel, there was a basket of reference. I was distracted.

I was distracted because Axel, there was a basket of rolls and Axel was taking one bite out of every roll. So I was trying to fend that off. All right, let's get into it now. Let's get into it. Hi guys. My name is Michelle and we love the show. I come from a core four family from Virginia

and my dad was working in Texas. His project ran way longer than expected. So my mom who loves a road trip decided to drive us to see him. My older brother was probably around five or six and I was around four years old. She would wake us up early and drive until about midday and would use her AAA trip tick

to find a cute town, grab lunch or groceries for a picnic, and ask a mom at the store where to find a nice playground. She'd take us, let us play and eat lunch, and then after lunch she'd drive a few more hours and find a roadside motel with a pool to spend the night at. So we were probably on day three of our trip, somewhere way down south. She pulled off the highway and was looking for a grocery store and drove past the most beautiful park with a huge playground, slides, swings, big sandpit

with toys in it, big, big grassy area with picnic tables and lots of shade and families already there picnicking on blankets and playing ball. All enclosed by a beautiful decorative wrought iron fence. So my mom thought perfect, great park and other kids to play with and we couldn't run off. So she found a store, grabbed us lunch, but didn't ask anybody about the park because she already found it. My mom drove through a gate behind another family and she said it was right behind a station wagon

that had the kids facing the back waving at us. We parked next to them and as I was the youngest, I ran off and grabbed the last swing. My older brother, always more responsible, helped my mom grab our food. When a police car came right behind her with the lights on, the policeman jumped out of the car and said, ma'am, you have to leave right now. You cannot be here. My mom looked around at all the cars and families and full

picnic benches and thought, well, maybe he wants us to leave because we have out of state Virginia plates. So she tried to tell the officer we wouldn't be there long. But then the officer explained that when we drove through the gate, we didn't stop at a checkpoint. And then once through the gate, we had entered a maximum security state prison. And today was family visit day. At that point, my mom looked around and saw that with each family group was a man in a bright orange suit. She immediately looked around for me

and saw me on the swing, yelling at one of the men in the orange suits to push me higher and he obliged. My mom looked at my brother told me to go get me tell me that the park was full and we had to find another one and we went on our way. My mom was so proud to tell us this story years later about the day she took us to jail. Anyway, thanks for all the stories, guys. It's really, I mean, it's so funny

when someone tells you you're in a prison and you look around and it's the opposite of the end of usual suspects where it's all stuff you shouldn't have noticed until the story is told. But this is all the fact that it was a family and every adult male was wearing an orange jumpsuit. Well, orange is such a happy color.

Yeah, the jumpsuit though, I feel like is awesome. Also everyone had a cake with a nail file baked inside it. everyone had a cake with a nail file baked inside it. I mean, it must be a rarity for like a playground to be attached to a prison that looks like a perfect, idyllic spot for a picnic. Yeah. I'd like to think that they all have something like that, but this really sounds like it was, you know.

The fact also that it was, you could just drive through the checkpoint. I feel like this might be a prison that had a lot of escapes over the years. It was just like one poorly attended checkpoint. That is a very good story to tell your kids though. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, my kids, if I, you know,

if I could tell them that story now, I would imagine when you first retold the story to your kids, like a thousand follow-up questions. Yeah. What was the man who pushed me on the swing? What was he in for? Yeah. I mean, just for fun, I would definitely be like,

it was mostly kidnappers. Some murderers. Yeah, it was sort of the federal kidnapping prison, but it was all kid crimes. Anyway, I'm sorry I brought you guys there. I do also just love the little detail of the AAA triptych. So the triptych, I think for, you know,

people don't remember, mom would do a triptych. So the triptych, I think for, you know, people don't remember, mom would do a triptych. Yeah. Have you done a triptych? So the triptych used to be, you would basically tell AAA where you were going and they would mail you a map. Yeah. That would like, it was sort of a long rectangle

and you would flip it open and it would have basically like your route on it. It was like a map quest before map quest. Yeah, like maybe suggested hotels and whatnot and things, ideas of things to do along your way. I think you can do it now and get it on your phone. So if you're still a trip away person, they're doing trip take. And it's a nice way to have it on your phone.

Although I think we all have maps on our phone, but maybe they do add those other things of like, these are good hotels. This is a playground not attached to a jail. Yeah. You know? There's always, and they have like nice little, you know, what are they, just little icons to help you know. Like, so like there's a gas station thing,

and then sometimes there'll be a tree for a park, and then there'll be a tree behind bars, and you know that's a playground at a prison. Yeah. A prison forest, it was a tree behind bars. I'm gonna admit something, because of course a triptych is also like a piece of art that's like three panels.

And I sort of always thought there was something about the AAA map that there were only three of them. Like they would plan your entire trip and put it on three pieces of paper. But it turns out the trip in this case does not refer to triple as I understand it, or it does refer to the triple and AAA. But it's basically just this is a trip. Right.

And this is your ticket. Yeah, it does double duty that word word trip in the trip tip. Did you ever have to use dad's AAA card? No. You know my story. Yeah. Have I ever told my story on the podcast? No, but this one's legit good.

I am gonna try and tell it fast because now dad's in my head, but long story short, I was driving back from Vegas and I was, our friend, John Rosenfeld, Pep Rosenfeld, I should say. It was his car that he left in LA. And this was before pre-SNL when we were just like barely eking out in existence as young actors. And something happened to the car

that felt like very final. It didn't feel like this was a fixable moment. This felt like the last. You were in Baker or Baker's Field? Baker, California. Which was a real, like the beginning of a film noir. This is the town where when your car breaks in Baker, you're about to like meet a beautiful woman

who's got like bad, in a bad situation. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This movie, by the way, is not as good as the movie that starts when a mother drives her children into a kidnapper's prison. So anyway, I called, I guess I had a cell phone, I called dad and he said,

here's my AAA number, but you have to tell them you're me. Right. Dad trying to game the system. Yeah. To help his son. Tell him it's on. And so a pickup truck came and I got in the cab with the guy because he had to tow me.

And he said, wait, what's your name? And I said, Larry. And then he looked at, I think he looked at the card and then he looked back at me and said, your name's Larry? And I said, and I panicked. And I said, no, my name's Seth. Uh-huh.

My dad's name is Larry. And he said, I asked you what your name was. And I was like, oh, a lot of, my nickname is Larry. I was just very quiet. And again, very quiet. And this is why in a film noir, based on how quick I think on my feet, I would not live past act one. Yeah, no, you would hear a gunshot noise and then you would see you laying a skew on the ground. Yeah, they would steal my belt.

Yeah, and so did you end up, did you have to pay for that tow? Like- I think I paid for that tow. And then I also, the car was fully dead. And I remember Pep, our friend Pep lived in Amsterdam and I got in touch with him and he basically said, let it go.

Yeah. I've left the States, I live in Amsterdam now. Yeah, good advice. And so, and I think maybe they paid me enough for the parts of the car to cover the tow. Mm-hmm. So I maybe broke even there, but then I took a bus and I will say nothing sadder.

I remember maybe Ike picked me up at the bus station. Yeah, Ike and Stassen or maybe just Ike, but yeah. But it was like, I remember getting in the car and being like, I'm gonna make it in Los Angeles, California. Cause didn't you also have to put all your stuff into trash bags from the car? Right, cause of course anybody who knows me

knows that I do not keep a clean car. So I basically had every, my existence and I didn't have a suitcase. And so the guy at the the towing place gave me two hefty bags. So I showed up at a bus station with two hefty bags. And Eichenstassen were as happy as they've ever been with. I like the visual of how bad showbiz was going for me is getting off at a bus station with two trash bags full of... Yeah.

They're like, let me guess, do you want us to drive you off at the Paramount lot? I, all right, so let's say, I, you and I have to decide now after every story, I think dad will be fine with that story. Yeah, I agree. Hey, we're gonna take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors.

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chased by a water moccasin in a lake in Kentucky, ended up with a three-month limp and a six-inch scar after a mountain bike and crash in Colorado. My parents were offered a punch card in an emergency room after their third visit in one week, and my sister got chicken pox during our only childhood trip to Disney World. But this one trip I considered to be the catalyst of all the chaos. My sister and I were four and six years old, respectively, and we were on a two-week road trip out west with our parents, grandparents, uncle, and a handful of close family friends. We saw Las Vegas, hiked in the Grand Canyon. We saw Mount St. Helens, Greater Lake. We stayed in a hotel, which we later learned employed an active serial killer. We saw Yosemite, Death Valley, had a snowball fight on the mountaintops, and at this point

we were on the coastline off of Redwoods National Park and my sister and I begged to jump into the freezing ocean. Our parents gave and we grabbed our swimsuits and we splashed around in shin-deep waters. We were holding hands, jumping the little waves as they reached the shore when suddenly Our parents gave and we grabbed our swimsuits and we splashed around in shin-deep waters. We were holding hands, jumping the little waves as they reached the shore, when suddenly and simultaneously we were down. Our parents were stunned as we rolled like two 7-Eleven hot dogs out into the Pacific Ocean. All the adults took off after us.

Our dad reached my sister first and pulled her up out of the vacuum of the waves now at about waist-deep water. And our grandmother was the first to reach me. She managed to grab me and pull me up, and even though she's a very strong lady, I was a large child and almost at her height already. Another wave pushed us both back underwater. Our dad got my sister to the beach and came back for me and my momo. We were almost in chest-deep water at this point but we made it out and up to the shore. We were fine, we were just a little rattled, and our swimsuits were absolutely full of wet sand. We found out we were caught in a notorious California sneaker wave which kills roughly four

people a year. I was very excited to return home with that statistic and to tell all of my friends of my near-death experience. I thought it would make me the coolest girl in school. It did not. But we still love the ocean. My sister and I are both very strong swimmers, but we remind each other frequently to beware of the sneaker waves. Thanks guys. Very good. I will say sneaker waves sounds like something mom would complain about all the time. Yeah, absolutely. I don't wanna go in the water,

the bad sneaker waves are gonna get me. I was on a trip a couple of years ago in Oregon in Manzanita, which is on the coast, beautiful, like big, wide, long beach, and was up there with some dudes who live in Oregon, and they were sort of like warned everyone about these sneaker waves. And like, I've seen videos, they are terrifying

because the ocean will just look totally normal, and you'll be on a nice walk and then one big wave out of nowhere can come up. And if you don't sort of keep clocking the ocean here and there, you can get taken by them. They're gnarly. Shout out to the scientists who just decided to name this thing what it was.

Oh my God, yeah. They did not get, you know what I mean? They didn't get complicated. They're like, let's just call it a sneaker wave. I mean, what would, I think if mom could call it, what do you think? I feel like she would have a slight amendment. A sneaker, peeker wave.

Or maybe I was thinking a sneaker up, a sneaker up or wave, yeah. Sneaker, peeker. Well, I think a peeker wave is one that like it comes up and you think it's a sneaker and then it just goes back down. It goes down. Just take it a look. Sort of like a water moccasin.

Yeah, by the way, if I got chased by a water moccasin in the water, goodbye water forever. For at my last, you know what that would be? My last lake. Yeah, so the water moccasin story was followed up by a three month limp. Yeah limp from a mountain biking accident. But I thought the limp was gonna be from the water moccasin. Like you got bit.

Cause then I was like, you didn't get chased. You got caught by water moccasin. I was very happy to know, I liked, you know what I liked? Staying in a hotel with an active serial killer. A lot of these, I feel like most everybody's left a message so far. And I know it's only two people. Gonna get a call from Netflix to try to buy your life rights for a true crime. I like an active serial killer.

Because it's not like he was a reformed serial killer. No, he was like in the midst of it. Yeah, he was in the midst of it, not caught. Because you know, that's a reformed serial killer. No, he was like in the midst of it. Yeah, he was in the midst of it, not caught. Because you know, that's the thing we always forget. You know, we always rush to like, what is he, who's he and like, he's a serial killer. It's like, no, that's what he does on the side. That's a hobby.

Everybody do it, cause you'll get paid for that. You gotta have a job too. And nobody realizes how hard it is. You know, gotta stay one step ahead of the law. Meanwhile, also, you know, person in 12 Gs, like bummed out because the toilet's not working right. It's hard to work at a hotel and also be a serial killer. Yeah, I wonder which one it was.

Oh yeah. Yeah, and how you discover that later. Like, maybe are you, did Kayla, was she watching a true crime documentary? Yeah. And they were like, and you know, whatever, Bill Richmond was working at the mountaintop motel. And she was like, that's what we were there then.

Yeah, we were there. I didn't know, how do you know for sure? And that's what a bummer for that serial killer that the wave was the scariest thing that trip. Or the water moccasin. The water moccasin. I do love kids that at four and six want to go in the, I mean, this one obviously didn't work out,

but like I would be very psyched as a parent if in the freezing ocean my kids wanted to go in. Cause you do want kids who love the water. Yeah. And by the way, congratulations to you. At the youngest I ever was, I never had a grandparent who could pull me from the surf. Yeah.

Our grandparents were always, I think I, my grandmothers, by the time I was born, the best they could do with their frail bones would be wave goodbye from the sand. Yeah. Addie would have done it with, she would have looked great. Oh God, that's Addie, our grandmother, not Addie, my daughter, who also.

Yeah, she would have looked amazing. She would have been, you know, certainly not in a swimsuit. Yeah. Or if she was, she would have had some like, like robes, some beautiful robe. Yeah. Can I side story about my Addie real quick?

Yeah, go for it. So Addie likes to, someday as I take all three of them and I drop the boys off and then I double back and drop her off. And then today, Lexi wanted to bring the boys so I was gonna bring Addie. And that means we leave about 20 minutes after the boys but she really likes going down in the elevator with the boys.

So, you know, she gets in the elevator with Alexi and the boys, and she presses the button, and it goes down. And I basically am just waiting in the apartment. I'm getting her stuff together to go. And then I sort of realized it's been like five minutes. And I go down, and Addie is just hanging out with the doorman. And he has a little chair that has sort of like the, you know, the nine box cameras

as kind of the place where he can chill. And she's just sort of sitting in his chair with her feet up talking to him. Yeah. And she, and people are feet up, talking to him. Yeah. And she, and people are coming down and talking to her. And then she tells them to go outside cause she wants to see him on the camera. And everybody's just in the best mood.

And it was a real, I love my New York city kids. Yeah. Yeah. Cause you also, your building used to only have elevators that the doorman would have to operate, and you just got one that you can get in and press the button. So it's a new thing for your kids

that they can do it on their own. It's incredible. I completely missed how it would be independence for them. Yeah. That they are not abusing, but although, did I tell you about Axel racing Tolya? No. So, Tolya's my brother-in-law and Axel said, because Axel's been running down the stairs.

Oh. And like, it's not, you know, it's not, we're on like, you know, the 12th floor. Yeah. No, it's no small thing for him to run down the stairs. Yeah. And, uh, so anyway, Axel says, I'm gonna beat you up the stairs. And Tolya's like, you can't beat me up the stairs, Axel. And they go into the elevator together.

Mm-hmm. And then Axel hits every button. And then says, I'm gonna beat you. And runs up and beats Tolya by like seven minutes. Because Tolya had to stop. And Tolya, Tolya walked into the apartment. He's like, I want to kill him. Yeah. But you can't really want to kill Axel.

Yeah. That's like a, that has shades of like a magic trick where like an early in a magician's act. They're like, you know, I'm gonna pick up this glass without touching my hands and they just like use their mouth or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, right, right, right. Little trick like that. Yeah, good for Axel, smart. You know this one, this is his, why you say smart.

This one he asks me all the time. Are you smart? Here's his answer, are you smart? Yeah. Spell it. S-M-A-R-T. Now spell it I-T. Yeah.

Yeah. So, got me. Next time you see him, pretend like I didn't tell you. Yeah, I'll go I-T and he'll go, whoa. Whoa. No, he won't. He'll go, who told you? Daddy. All right, what do we got next?

Seth and Josh, this is Ben Burchuck from Larchmont, New York. Longtime listener, first time caller. I grew up with two younger brothers, so lots of your stories and overall sibling-parent dynamics resonate with my family as well. We were fortunate to visit lots of memorable places as kids, but this story was inspired by a recent family trip that happened in our adult years. A few years ago, my dad, my two younger brothers Jake and Sam, and our three wives took my mom to Italy on a surprise trip for her 60th birthday.

Our second day of the trip happened to be on Easter Sunday. Realizing that the Italians probably take Easter quite seriously, we had designated that Sunday as a free day for relaxing and getting over the jet lag. Enter my brother Jake, who had to find a place to watch the English Premier League in the tiny town of Improneta where we were staying outside of Florence. No, he didn't want to watch the Chelsea-Manchester United fixture, with title implications that afternoon, but the equally titanic West Bromwich Albion versus Liverpool mid-table clash. Unsurprisingly, there was only one restaurant open in Imbrunetta on Easter Sunday. It did have a TV, but alas, did not have the required Sky Sports

package to show the Liverpool game. Jake's wife Caroline gamely kept up the search and inquired at a nearby hotel if there were any bars in the area that did carry Sky Sports. She was then directed to a place called Casa del Popolo and took off down an alley in pursuit as kickoff was mere moments away. Did I mention yet that Jake and Caroline had packed their matching Liverpool jerseys for this occasion and were both running around town in what we affectionately call full kit wanker attire? Breathless, they arrived at the Casa del Popolo and somehow managed to communicate a desire to watch their beloved Liverpool game. The rest of us caught up moments later to find them being led into a back room at what appeared to be an Italian community center or VFW

Hall, past the stairs of numerous puzzled elderly Italian gentlemen. Not only did the Casa del Popolo have Sky Sports, it had a giant high-definition projector screen and surround sound. The rest of us, though Premier League enthusiasts, didn't want to waste a beautiful Tuscan afternoon in a dark room and set off for the one open restaurant where we had a fantastic lunch. We returned nearly two hours later to catch the final 10 minutes of the game as my brother demonstratively celebrated Liverpool's 1-0 win and terrified the lone geriatric local man who had been brave

enough to share the room with these bizarre Americans. We later learned the history of the Casa del Popolo while telling the story to some Italian friends. Evidently these houses of the people, or the left-wing socialist political centers, founded in early 20th century Italy and are quote, not often visited by tourists, unquote. Yet they certainly still serve a vital purpose, remaining open even on Easter Sunday and showing foreign sporting events. Because of this adventure,

Seth's stories about watching the NFL Draft and only emerging from the resort hotel room to announce the Steelers picks really resonated with my family. So my question to the two of you is, outside of the NFL draft and Steelers Super Bowls, what are the greatest lengths you've gone to watch sports while on vacation or a family trip? Bonus points for the amount of aggravation it caused for your significant other, family, and friends. Thanks guys from the entire Birchuk family.

Well, that's fantastic. And I know exactly which one comes out. Although, you know, we have a lot of history of being in foreign countries when important sports are happening. Yeah. But the worst one, I think that Alexi would say, and probably Mackenzie would join,

is when we were on our tour Mont Blanc hike in the Alps. Yeah. And desperately wanted to see the Holland Mexico game in the 2014 World Cup. Yeah. And we were walking through the most beautiful field of flowers I've maybe ever seen, and they both wanted to take pictures.

And it was like, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on. You know, it's only a couple hours in a trip to watch a game, like particularly a soccer game or a football game if you're that kind of person. And if you're able to thread that needle and figure out where to do it, then it's just the best thing in the world.

And you can get right back to what you're doing. Did you just spill coffee all over the place? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, we've certainly gone to some lengths. I've downloaded some like weird websites that promise to give you like free access from foreign lands to be able to watch sports. I almost feel like the best thing,

you're gonna disagree with me on this, but the best thing that can happen to you is for you to not be able to find the game. But know it before you have to waste time looking. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like almost to be in a place where there's no service, you know, you're not running around like, you know,

the ice station zebra or something, like you guys have. So yeah, I agree with that. But with that said, that trip was maybe one of the best trips because of that added element. We were on like the most beautiful walks. We would have the most lovely lunches. And then like, right, also because the time zone,

I think the games are sort of happening in the evening, which so rarely happens here in the States. And- Yeah, I don't know if that, was it a Euro Cup or a World Cup, but if it was in Europe, because those games were sort of at prime time. Like I remember, like crossing the border, you know, from Italy to France, and then like being in France in this little French town

and having a Switzerland game beyond. 2014 was Brazil, so maybe it was that thing of like we were seeing day games, but they were just sort of airing later there. So that was maybe the nice thing. It wasn't in the middle of our hike. Yeah. And maybe Posh, you have to find the video

of us watching the penalty. We watched the penalty kick where I believe Ari and Robin got fouled and maybe Wesley Snyder scored. And we were in a restaurant where the game was on, but it was very quiet. Yeah, it was not a sports bar. And we did not want to, you know, be those sort of obnoxious Americans who were yelling.

We're consummate gentlemen. Yeah, and we celebrated by hugging each other so tight. They're like, any volume that we would have had to our celebration was transferred into how tight we held each other. Yeah, and it maybe would have been just less distracting if we screamed instead of watching two grown men stand up and just like squeeze each other in dead silence.

But yeah, it was so exciting. I remember, I mean, I used to go on those, when we were in college, there would be ski trips. And I remember once almost ending a friendship because somebody needed to get back early. We had two cars and one car was leaving early and somebody had to get back early to like study for some massive final.

But I had to get back early to watch a Steelers game and I refused to give up my seat in the car and just a real long fight. I used to be. I'm a lot healthier now. I have been your brother running around an Italian town trying to find a TV screen and I feel like those days are over

and I feel a lot better about it. Yeah, yeah. But I mean, also given the opportunity, I suppose if the game's available and you can take two hours out of a, you know, four-day, five-day trip to watch a game, then that's a good two hours. You can mix it up. You're allowed.

I also remember that thing of watching a game in a beautiful foreign country in 1997 when I was living in Amsterdam, going to the Rembrandt's Pline, which is the sort of square with a lot of these bars and Andrew and Saskia were with me and we went, because again, it was like so late at night, maybe at 10 PM this game started, but it was the AFC championship game

with the Broncos and the Steelers. And Steelers came back and couldn't quite win the game. And I was so upset. Again, this is sort of peak me being so upset about things. Yeah. And so upset. And then I walked out and it was just Amsterdam, you know? And I was like, you know what?

And you know, when you walk home from the Rembrandt's Ply, and it's like over those beautiful bridges, it's sort of those beautiful bridges, it's sort of peak Amsterdam as well. So peak me being a jerk also peak Amsterdam. And I walked out, I'm like, you know what? If I can't be happy being in Amsterdam, I don't know what's wrong with me.

And I swear to God, a block later, I'm like, well, it didn't work. Something's wrong with me, cause I'm not happy. Well, hopefully you're better now. I think I am. Yeah. I know who the quarterback was for the Steelers in 1997, and I don't know who our quarterback is next year,

but that's for a different podcast. That's for a different podcast. All right, thank you, Ben. Thank you, Ben. The only thing that would have been, the only thing would have been funnier about that story is if his brother and sister-in-law had been West Brom fans.

All right, you say so. Yeah, well, I was just saying, when they said it was a Liverpool-West Brom game, I immediately was like, well, they're obviously Liverpool fans. No West Brom fan is in Italy being like, we gotta go watch ourselves get our ass kicked by Liverpool.

Yeah, they only lost by one. That's true. Yeah. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. This episode of Family Trips is brought to you by our friends at Maker's Mark. Hey, Pashi. Yes, Sufi?

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This is your childhood bed. New Hampshire bed. Yeah. And this is not a terrible mattress that you had. Mm hmm. I, you know, it wasn't like, you know, burlap sack filled with hay or anything. It was a nice mattress. Right. But I slept there, first time with Addie, had a terrible night's sleep.

A little bit, I would say, as a mattress. The other, as Addie, like, slept on my head like she was a hat. Mm-hmm. But then, you know, and look, I'll be honest, it was because of the podcast sponsorship. Got our hands on a Helix mattress. Oh yeah. You mentioned it to mom and dad, and they said, oh, we'll replace your mattress.

So the next time I go back with Axel, I get to sleep on the Helix mattress in total game changer. Huge leap. Huge leap. It's, I also, I mean, I don't even wanna guess how long that mattress has been around that is in the childhood bedroom, but it was time. It was time, yeah. And the Helix mattresses, they're such a wide selection, and there's a sleep quiz that you take on their website.

You know, are you a back sleeper, side sleeper, stomach sleeper? I wouldn't even think that's a good idea, but some people are, I guess. And they've got mattresses of varying firmnesses, and you sort of go through this, you know, easy series of questions, easy because you know you. Yeah, don't think you're going to flunk the sleep quiz. Yeah, no, don't be. I think some people hear quiz and they panic, but don't worry, you're gonna be fine. Right, don't be intimidated by it, because it's gonna find you the perfect mattress

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Yeah. Go to helixsleep.com slash trips for 20% off site wide. That's helixsleep.com slash trips for 20% off site wide. Helixsleep.com slash trips. 20% off site-wide helix sleep.com slash trips. What's next, Sam? Now we're going to go into a couple of questions. And our first one is a perfect segue. You were just talking about Amsterdam and we have a question about Amsterdam for you guys.

Great. Hey, good afternoon. I know this is a long shot, but I'm going on spring break with my two teenage kids to Amsterdam and just wondering if Seth and Josh had any recommendations as where to go, what to do, that kind of thing. And I do have a great family trip story to I'll call in next time and share that and maybe even create a new one in Amsterdam, but enjoy the show. Thank you very much. I love prioritizing and saving the story for next time because this is important.

You know, I will, I mean, again, I think Boom Chicago, especially with teenage sons, if they like comedy, I think that'd be a great place to stop by. It's a very cool theater and a very cool part of town. Yeah. It is one of the great, you know, obviously it's a famously, you know, a biking city,

but it's an incredible city to walk around in. Everything is very close. The nine stratches, the nine streets is a wonderful sort of shopping area to get to. And what are the bridges called, that little bridges area? I don't know. Yeah, maybe they're not called anything.

The Jordaan is an incredibly beautiful neighborhood. Yeah. And then, so again, it's tricky, cause I don't even know how to recommend getting on one of the smaller boats. I do. Okay, listen, this is the most important thing you're gonna hear.

Yeah, and I've recommended these guys before, but those, I think it's those damn boat guys, like dot com, just Google those damn boat guys. And they run these little boat tours on these small, maybe 12 person, 14 person boats. You can bring some snacks on there, couple beers if you want, although I feel teenage boys, I don't know, are they about

ready to have a beer? But it's such a good way to see the city. Also Vondel Park is a beautiful park that's just like nice to ride bikes through, nice to walk through, nice to get a picnic and go sit in there. Across the, I guess it's a river that's right behind Central Station, the I, spelled IJ. You can take a ferry over there and that's where the film museum is now. And there is the Amsterdam Tower, the Amsterdam Torren, I think. And on the top of that, there's a restaurant.

There are also these two swings that I've not gone on. But if you're a thrill seeker at all, these swings sort of go out over the edge of this tower and they look terrifying, but that could be fun. I got shivers even with you saying it. Yeah. But the boat ride I think is great. If you have it in you to go outside of the city,

the Efteling is an amusement park in the south of Holland. That's pretty special. Couple hours to get there. Couple hours to get there. But it's, it is a incredible amusement park. Yeah. And the thing about the tour boats is look, there are these sort of covered tour boats.

You'll see them everywhere. They're very long. I will say never been on one, but they look a lot less fun. They look a lot more sterile than the experience we're talking about, especially when you're going, oh, what do you think, Kokenhof, yea or nay, Posh?

I love it. I love flowers. I love plants. I would think for teenagers, maybe not. The Kokenhof is a tulip festival that happens in the spring, and it's also outside of the city. But you will walk around and see real life tulips

in the ground like you didn't know could exist. Yes, there are fields of tulips, but there are also these like manicured gardens of flowers in this like forest. It is a very popular destination for very old people. Yep. But we used to go as well and I've never regretted a trip to the Kochenhof.

And you cannot, you could like- You hear a lot of the tour guides say, who wants to see a tulip before they die? You can take a bike on a train and then ride from the train station to get out to the Kockenhof. That's, I feel like the coolest way to do it. It's a lovely ride. And yeah, I'd say those are-

You can rent bikes, but just be aware, you're biking with commuters. You know what I mean? Like, so, do you think people, like, I mean, obviously we go back, we rent bikes, cause we know how to bike in Amsterdam, but like, would you recommend just jumping into the bike world?

I would. I mean, I think, I think if you're a teenager that's,'re a teenager that lives not in an inner city, you probably know how to ride a bicycle pretty well. Yeah, that's true. You just sort of fall in line. You do fall in line. It might even be more dangerous to walk in the city and just be unaware of the fact that like the bike lanes

there are like freeways. Yeah. What else are I gonna say? Josh might disagree. I mean, I know he's gonna disagree because of just on veganism alone. Fabo, F-E-B-O. Yeah.

Food in a wall, coin operated, food in a wall. I don't, I'm not gonna sit here and tell you it's good. Yeah. But get a croquette from Fabo. It's basically a deep fried gravy. Gravy and some meat bits in there. Does that appeal to you? But it is a unique experience.

It's a very Amsterdam Dutch thing. Fabo started on the Ferdinand Bolstrat was the first one and now they're everywhere. And people do say, you know, also I'm a vegan, but people say the fried chicken is excellent at Fabo and you have to go talk to one of the employees to get that fried chicken. I was at the last Boom reunion.

I realized there was a Favo next door to Boom and it was the middle of like a reunion party and I snuck out to the Favo and then I didn't want to bring it in because I was embarrassed. And so I was standing in an alleyway eating a piece of fried chicken and Rob plored, Rob Anders plored,

turned his bike around the corner. He saw me and he just went, aw. All right, well, thank you. I hope if you even do one of those, we would be incredibly flattered. Yeah, have a great trip. And when you call back with this follow-up story, we'd love to know how it went.

Hey guys, this is James from Wisconsin, and I have a question that Josh might not like but we always hear about Seth's SNL stories, but I was more of a mad TV fan But yet we never get to hear any mad TV stories from Josh.

You guys have a good day and I love the pod. All right, it's a good question. And I apologize that, you know, I hope I haven't been the reason we've been avoiding it. Yeah, I mean, we haven't, like Ike Barinholtz, I guess is maybe the only Mad TV alumni we've had on here. Yep. I will say, I mean, there's a bunch of them, but the one that, you know, Ike sort of stands out to me

because we were cast together. But on our first show, first live show that we did, Ike and I were very excited. We were very nervous to be on television. We were nervous with the live studio audience, but also we had come out of Boom Chicago semi-recently. Boom Chicago has a Friday night, everybody from the cast plays called Heineken Late Night, sponsored obviously

by Heineken. And so, and we were drinking a lot of Heineken back then. So to celebrate our first live show, we bought a six pack of Heineken. We had it in our dressing room. We shared a dressing room, I think. Or maybe it was just my dressing room that we kept these beers in. And before the show, we opened two beers, two long necks, we toasted each other, and we had those just to sort of settle our nerves, but also because it was so exciting for us. And we had a great show. Ike was so funny that night. And when it was all over, and we sort of like waved goodbye, we went back into the dressing room and I went to go grab another beer. But Ike was so funny that night and when it was all over and we sort of like waved goodbye, we went back into the dressing room

and I went to go grab another beer, but Ike had drank all of the beers. He had polished off the six pack. And I was like, what are you doing? He's like, I was nervous too, bro, I was nervous too. And so between every sketch, he was just going back and sucking back another long neck. every sketch he was just going back and sucking back another long neck. Yeah. But those were pretty fun days.

That's pretty fun. I mean, you had a great time and you met a lot of lovely friends over there. Yeah, absolutely. I just went to a surprise birthday party with Mike McDonald and Nikki Sullivan actually called me up and she's like, hey, my husband can't make it to this. Do you want to be my plus one? And I saw so many of my old buds from there, Steph Weir, Mo Collins. Yeah. Yeah, it was really touching. It was nice to see everybody and reminded me of those good times.

So thanks for the question, James. Great question. Also, you know, not a sponsor would love them to be, Heineken, right? Oh, yeah. Irrational connection to the brand because of the fact that they sponsored that late night show. Also, I think their non-alcoholic beer is really good. Yeah, we've been doing some non-alcoholic beer too. Once we did Dry January, and then we keep some NA beer in the house now.

I think the Heineken, whatever 0.0 it's called, I mean, I'll get it right when they start paying for ads, but I do a la cop. And we'll do stuff like, just like that super wordy, hey Poshie, are you ever feeling like you just need a little more energy? Anyway, whatever, it's a good beer and I'm saying it authentically.

Also, these guys could sponsor us too. Yeah, Seth is holding up the Dunkin' Donuts cup as he's talking about Heineken beer. I mean, these are maybe the two brands I care the most about. Like if there was, if brands were like, well, there's a war now, it's not countries anymore, it's brands.

You'd go with those. You'd be running with Duncan and then relaxing with mine. We would make an international pact with Heineken. Yeah. All right, last question. Lasty. Here's the lasty. Nathan, originally Kinkakee, Illinois, then Chicago, and now East Tennessee. I really just wanted to thank you both for sharing your lives, your family, your friendship,

and those of your friends and guests with all of us. It's been a bright spot for me in a difficult season. We moved down to Tennessee right before COVID started and then had kids and work, got more busy and have not had as much time to spend with friends as we have in the past. And so while I'm busy working and taking care of little ones and going about my day, being able to listen to your podcast and have that joy and friendship kind of come through has been a real blessing for me. So thank you for sharing that in such a fun and entertaining and wholesome way and keep up the good work. It's helping those of us juggling multiple things

and stretching the day and stretching the dollar to have some moments of sunshine and laughter. So appreciate that, appreciate you both. My God, that was just lovely. Yeah, that's really, I don't know. I don't know what to say about that. I don't wanna like pat ourselves on the back, but it's- I know, I almost wanted him to end

with a question that made me like him less, you know? He's like, and my question is Josh, are you really just a vegan to act like you're better than people? What if it's just like a big right turn? But that is, I mean, you know, I think sometimes I'm having so much fun talking to Josh and talking to our guests and listening to your stories that I do sometimes forget that people enjoy listening as well.

You know, because again, this is, this doesn't feel like work talking to my brother. So it's so lovely to hear that. I love when I'm out and about. It's even more special when Josh and I are together and people tell us they like the podcast. And so, thank you, thank you for saying that. And we look forward to continuing to be in your headphones. And, you know, it is.

This is, even though we've never met, this is hanging out with friends. So, thank you for being a friend to us. Yeah, I was walking into a Trader Joe's the other day and was parked sort of in the subterranean level. And as I was walking in, someone had dropped something or there was like something gross on the ground. And I sort of noticed it last minute and did a quick little duck and dive to get around it.

And then this girl behind me who was, had parked and was coming in, she was like, oh, like good move. And I was like, oh, thank you. And then we're on the stairs together and she goes, are you Poshy? And it's just so crazy to me that like so many people now will just know me as Poshy and that I can get recognized.

And she's like, I hope that's not too, you know, inappropriate or whatever. I'm like, oh no, it's fine. Like, that's great. Of course it's not inappropriate. You're Pashi. Like the people who call you Josh are the ones that are putting on airs.

I, another nice moment. So Axel has a wallet, like just like a make believe, you know, he doesn't carry anything in it, just every now and then he's like, where's my wallet? And he has. He did tell me recently, you owe me three monies. But one of the things he has in his wallet is a expired global entry card,

used to get in and out of the country. And anyway, he was going to school the other day. I had Addie, so I'm strolling Addie, two kids, we run into another family that has a kid in their class. And so the kids are just scream running through the streets of New York. By the way, they do not, they're very good, like stopping, they don't run into the street or anything.

Although that's not true, like three days ago, Axel saw his cousin and almost got hit by a bike because he saw her and screamed into the street or anything. Although that's not true. Like three days ago, Axel saw his cousin and almost got hit by a bike because he saw her and screamed around the street. But Axel was waving his wallet around because he was pretending to be a police officer. And then we get there and he's like, oh, my card is not in my wallet.

And I'm like, yeah, because you waved it around and it fell out. And he's like, go back, retrace your steps. So I do, because I want to find it, right? Sure. I mean, we don't need it technically, but I'm walking back the same way anyway. So I've got my eyes on the ground, don't find it.

Get an Instagram message from someone saying, hey, I know this is weird, but I think I found your son's global entry card. And so I connected with this person, which is so nice. And they were like, I'll leave son's global entry card. So I connected with this person, but just so nice and they were like, I'll leave it with my doorman. Then when I went and picked up, I put together a tote bag with an SNL coffee,

not an SNL, sorry, late night mug and hat and stuff to thank her. But when I went in, I was with the boys and we walked into this building and the doorman sees me and he goes, oh man, you and I, we're the only two people. And I'm like, what? He goes, Steelers Red Sox.

And I'm like, oh man, that's amazing. And we're talking and then he goes, well, that's cool, man, thank you for stopping by. And I was like, well, that's not why I'm here. that's cool, man. Thank you for stopping by." And I was like, well, that's not why I'm here. And I just liked that this doorman just thought like somebody got word out. Yeah, that I'm the other one.

And so he came, you know what, you know what? Who's a good guy? Seth Meyers. Heard we liked the two favorite teams, stopped by, said hi. But anyway, I got my global entry back. But acts of kindness, which that last message was. So thank you for that.

Real quick story also, we were at the LA Arboretum this last weekend. There was a barks and brews event. You could bring your dog and there was like a beer tent. Mackenzie's mother was in town. So we went out there and we were sitting in the grass having a beer with our dogs at some point. And these two parents and their kid are walking around just sort of like scanning the grass. They've clearly lost something. And Linda, Mackenzie's mom's

like, what are you guys looking for? And she, this woman goes, Porsche key. And it's like, you didn't have to say Porsche. You could have just said car key. If you said car key, I might've wanted to help you. When you're like- You say Porsche key if someone's looking through a giant bowl of keys. Yeah, just say car key. Cause it's not like, oh, we saw a Buick key,

but that's probably not yours. Yeah, and like, look, I don't root for anyone to like lose their car key, but if anyone has to lose it, part of me hopes it's the person who's got the Porsche. We had to, we were at one of the kids friend's house and Addie lost this little bracelet. And this is, you know, this is a year ago, so she was two. And are you guessing how old she was a year ago? I'm just doing math.

But, uh, again, I'm just saying she's two. Not a lot of numbers. Because then Alexi was like, I've had that bracelet since I was four years old. And so we had to get, like, a metal detector. We did, by the way, we did, this does not have a happy ending. We didn't find it.

But, like, I know the amount I wanted to be like, so maybe this precious artifact shouldn't have been on her two year old's wrist. In the middle of like, I think it was like fall. It was just leaves everywhere. Yeah. And then there's this thing of where, did you see where she went?

Like, and I'm like, what? You mean like, can I family circus a dotted line across this lawn? No. Well, thank you again for all the stories. Thank you for the questions. I feel like Larry's gonna be fine with it, which is his highest score.

It's fine. It goes all the way up to fine. It goes from massively disappointed to fine. If you want to send a story or a question- I just hope we can get it out of him. What do you thought? Okay, go ahead Pashi, fill him in. Yeah, if you wanna send a story or a question in

for next time, head to speakpipe.com slash family trips pod at speakpipe.com slash family trips pod. We would love to hear your stories, your questions, your names so I can reference them and songs. And yeah, thanks everybody. Thank you. ["Picnic Meal"] I think it's fair to say mom was confused.

Found a lovely park for a picnic meal. I found a lovely park for a picnic meal Eventually noticed all the orange jumpsuits Started to feel like what's the deal Oh, gimme a break, mom, can't you see You brought your kids to a penitentiary on family day? Gather your things and your doctors like the one on the swings with the kidnappers be on your way Kayla and her sis were four and six years old In the national park of the great red Splashing in the water that was freezing cold Where they stood, it wasn't good Oh, you gotta look out girls and be aware

Or else you could both get a mighty scare from a secret wave Big ups to grandma for jumping in faster than a watermackerel to save the day. I hope that these stories will win the approval of Yerry. I think you all came through and kept it to trips unlike our Sufi. All the burr-a-chucks got on a plane Jake and his wife supportin' Liverpool Needed a place where they could watch the game Dressed up like fools, not super cool. Oh, travel to Italy with your fam, then ditch them because you're a soccer fan on Easter day. In their defense must have been a thrill, beating Westomwich I'll be on one nail if you say so if you got family and you took trips got stories and think we might want to hear

that shit then let us know Leave us a message of where you go Then maybe you'll be on our next episode, listener episode If you've got family and you took trips, got stories you think we might wanna hear that shit then let us know let us know Ring up speed pipe you gotta let us know