Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - Listener Episode #12: Skipping Out on The Pope & Getting Run Over By a Camper

Episode Date: April 24, 2025

You know what time it is… it’s listener episode time! This week, Seth and Josh dive into your wildest stories, from someone ditching a chance to see the Pope for a painting, to a dad who got run over by a camper, to a ski accident survivor with a name that haunted him. Plus, they answer some of your best listener questions! 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! Support our sponsors: House of Atlas Get 15% OFF The House of Atlas Razor Kit + Before and After Set with the code TRIPS at https://www.houseofatlas.com/TRIPS! #houseofatlaspod Ancient Nutrition Right now, Ancient Nutrition is offering 25% off your first order when you go to AncientNutrition.com/trips Visit Baltimore Start your culinary adventure at Baltimore.org slash dining. Baltimore is just a quick drive or train ride from New York, Philly, and D.C. Plan your visit today at Baltimore.org

Hi Pashi. Hi Sufi. I think for those watching on YouTube, it's pretty easy to distinguish when it is a on week for Late Night with Seth Meyers and when it is an off week when I have been away from a professional hair and makeup team slash wardrobe professionals. Yeah. Slash razor. Yeah.

I mean. Yeah. You're a real Grizzly Adams this morning. Yeah, it's a bad scene. So I do apologize. I mean, fortunately, most people are listening and not looking, but for those who are doing us the courtesy of looking, I'm sorry. Yeah.

Have I mentioned that I took the boys to see the Minecraft movie? Has that come up? No. Yeah, we went and saw the Minecraft movie. How was that? Look at there, Buddy Jack Black, who I've never met, we went and saw the Minecraft movie. How was that? Look at there, buddy Jack Black, who I've never met, but I feel like- Joyous.

I have such fondness for Jack Black that it feels like he's a friend of mine. I went in with a great amount of fondness and have even more fondness for him, having seen the movie, because you just realized you were putting him, sorry, you're putting your children in his hands for two hours. And he's just a joy bomb. And what is great about him is a great to people of all ages. And I would venture to say,

Jason Momoa has got a little bit of that too. Oh yeah. And so the two of them together, I mean, and again, I cannot stress enough. I do not comprehend what Minecraft is even a little bit. Having seen the movie, I understand Minecraft maybe less than before. I've watched friends of ours,

I've watched their children play Minecraft, I don't understand the appeal. None of this is judgment. This is if anything I'm judging myself. Yeah, maybe if you had like, if you had a totally free afternoon with an Xbox or a PlayStation and we're like, all right, fire up Minecraft.

Maybe you'd enjoy a few hours on it. I have no, I've never played it either. My fear would be I've enjoyed so much that that would be all I'd wanna do. For the rest of your days. I have a fairly, you know, I don't think I have an addictive personality for substances, but I've certainly gotten hooked

on things that I would have preferred to spend my time doing. Other things. Yeah. But it was super fun. He sings like a 45 second song called Hot Lava Chicken, that it's amazing. The boys heard once

and now just walk around singing it. It's great. Super fun. And then I will say I immediately made a mistake. I'm like, oh, let's, I think it's gonna be a fun Tenacious D song. And every Tenacious D song basically starts with like a beautiful chord. Yeah. And then,

it wasn't motherfucking long time ago. Immediately. And they of course gasp and giggle and run off. And I'm like, no, don't tell anybody. Yeah. Oh, that's great. Also over this weekend, I will say Mackenzie was away at a horse show and she got back Sunday night.

But as we're recording this, the weekend was the weekend of the Masters. And so Sunday, I just had to be home and watch the Masters, which was one of the best or most exciting rounds of golf I've ever seen in my life. People who say golf is boring are fools. Fools. It can be boring, but when there's, you know,

when the leaderboard keeps changing, and, you know, Rory McElroy ended up winning. I had a Guinness in the fridge that when there were like four holes left to play, I was like, I'm going to have this Guinness for Rory to celebrate this. And then it went to a playoff and I was sick to my stomach. And I had like one sip left in my Guinness when he had to make this very short two foot putt to win the whole thing.

And I held the Guinness so the liquid was touching my upper lip as he putt that. Cause I was like, it's gotta be now. And then I called mom who had been watching. Sure. She was on a little bit of a delay, which is not a good idea for the finish of the- In general, she's on a bit of a delay.

This isn't that she's watching it. But that's also, I feel like it's dad's influence. Dad sort of, he's really leaned into the taping sports. Yeah, he thinks he's Oppenheimer, because he came up with the idea that if you start sports late, you don't have to watch the commercials. Yeah. And so she finally, she actually texted me, she's like, just finished and it was maybe 10 minutes after. Okay. But then we called and we're

talking about it. And when you win the Masters, you go to this little place called Butler Cabin at Augusta and you get interviewed in this little room. It's a little bit awkward because there's just four people in this room and it's very quiet and it's a tradition to have this little interview and that's where you get the green jacket. And it was so emotional for Rory to win this match, you know, to complete the career Grand Slam. And I was asking, Mom, I was like, Did you watch that Butler cabin because I was crying in the Butler cabin thing. And she's like, Oh, no, I

just, she's like, I just I watched enough golf. So we just flipped over to 60 minutes. And I was like, How can you not watch that? And then she, she back 60 minutes. And I was like, how can you not watch that? And then she backtracked and she's like, I think we still have it, we're gonna go watch it now. But I feel like that's the emotion, that's the stuff. When they ask him about his parents and the sacrifices they made, and it just like, his answer catches in his throat,

it was like, it was amazing. Well, I have a pretty cool treat for you. Yeah, he's actually here right now. Oh, hello there, Josh. I just want to thank you. Rory. I want to thank you on behalf of your superstitious ways when you drank that Guinness and kept it right up

to your lips until I sank the putz. I do believe that was, you know, we are superstitious people as the Irish on account of all the leprechauns. We do appreciate it very much. And you know, it's catching in my throat. I mean, as is my way. I do want to thank you one last time. And oh, could I leave you with one little secret? Please, please. When in the future you're watching sport on television, can you do yourself the favor, start a little bit late.

Pause it, go around the house, do some chores, and then when the actual match begins, you can skip right through the adverts. Yeah, but what if right through the adverts. Yeah, but what if, like, then it ends and the world knows it ends and I'm behind and a bunch of people start texting me. Are you living your life for the rest of the world? May I ask you that, Pachi?

Or are you living your life for yourself? Yeah, but I feel like the rest of the world, it's sort of a spoiler alert. The rest of the world, my phone starts blowing up and I- May I tell you something? May interrupt to tell you something? Yeah. Here's a spoiler alert.

The only one who can spoil your life is yourself. Well, okay. Wise words. Thank you, Roy. I've got to run. I'm off to my next... Because they say practice makes perfect. And I do believe, you know, because again, I had some janky holes there at the end.

Yeah, you sure did. I do think I've got a bit of work to do. It's great to talk to you, Pashi. Last year, a couple of years ago, we were in- What a good guy. What a good guy. Yeah. A good guy.

We were in Ireland. We went back with mom and dad or went back. We went, it was my first time in Ireland to go see a Northwestern football game. But mom and dad and I golfed for a little bit before you got there for like three or four days. And we played this course and in the middle of this hole, there was a little plaque in the middle of the fairway. And it said like, in some, you know, tournament, Rory McElroy, I was about like 240 yards out, like he, you know, laced this ball and sunkroy, I was about like 240 yards out.

Like he, you know, laced this ball and sunk it and for a double eagle or whatever. And it's sort of just this commemorative thing. And on the same hole, I was about a hundred yards out and I hit this beautiful chip shot and it goes in. And I, you know, throw my arms up in the air. And then I look at mom and dad who are both in front of me, and both of them are looking for their balls in the brush. Nobody saw it. Yeah.

So it was quite the celebration. I thought there was a non-zero chance dad was looking at his phone doing Wirtle. Yeah, when he's on, trust me, when he's on a golf course, he's looking for a golf ball. Yeah, he's looking for a golf ball. Yeah, he's looking for a golf ball. In anywhere it's supposed to be. On the golf course, his first word will guess is slice.

Hey, it's one of our, we got a listener episode. For those who haven't joined us for one of these before, we're going to hear some stories. We're going to get some questions. All thanks to our producer, Sam. And Sam, if you would do us the courtesy of playing the first story now. Hi, Seth. Hi, Josh. This is Amy from Los Angeles.

I feel really lucky because my family took lots of family trips together when I was growing up. My family was made up of my mom, my dad, my sister Colleen, who is three years older than me, my brother Patrick, who is one year younger than me, and me in the middle. Our first trip to Europe was in 1983 when I was 14, and while that was a great age to go to Europe, I don't think I fully appreciated everything I saw because I didn't know that much history at the time. But then in 1990 we traveled around Italy for four weeks. Now I was 21 and had just finished my junior year of college.

I'd spent a semester studying Italian Renaissance art and architecture, so I was chock full of knowledge. I plotted out what we needed to see in each city we were visiting, even obscure things, or especially obscure things. Fortunately, my family also loves art and architecture, so I didn't have to drag them anywhere. They were all up for the adventure. However, when we were in Rome, I really wanted to see a piece of architecture and a fresco that were kind of off the beaten path. The only day I could see it was the day we were supposed to go see the Pope. Now, back in 1983, our mom got us

tickets to see Pope John Paul II at the Vatican. So when we returned in 1990, I didn't really feel like I needed to see him again. My 21-year-old self felt like my 14-year-old self had the Pope visit pretty covered. So while my mom, dad, and sister went to see the Pope again, I wrangled my brother into going with me. The first thing I wanted to see was a fantastic piece of architecture called the Tempieto by Bramante. The second was a beautiful fresco by Rafael called the Triumph of Galatea, located in the Villa Farnesina. And when I looked for them on a map, I discovered they were they were really close to each other and all we had to do was walk through a park to get from the Tempieto

to the Galatea. When my brother and I told the taxi driver that we wanted to go to the Tempietto to the Galatea. When my brother and I told the taxi driver that we wanted to go to the Tempietto, he seemed confused. Maybe it was because we didn't speak Italian or maybe he'd never heard of this thing before, so he dropped us off in this random place. But there it was, this magnificent little temple. After getting an eyeful of the Tempietto, we followed the map to the park

that would lead us down to the Villa Farnesina. It was an easy 10-minute walk through a lovely park, but as we got closer to the exit, we saw that there was a guard shed at the entrance. Turns out, it wasn't a public park. It was actually the botanical garden of Rome, and we had entered it illegally from the back. And if we'd entered it from the front like we were supposed to, we would have had to pay money to get in. Suddenly, a guard started yelling at me and Patrick in Italian, clearly telling us that we owed him money. And for some reason, we didn't just pay the man. I checked, and in 2025, it's only five euros to get in. So it couldn't have cost a lot of lira back in 1990.

But instead of giving him money, we booked it out of the garden before he could catch us. Dashing out the entrance, we quickly ran across the street to the Villa Farnesina. We entered the building expecting to see a place to buy tickets. After all, we weren't going to make the same mistake twice. But we didn't see any other tourists or even an information desk. We asked someone where the Galatea was and they casually pointed to a room. Patrick and I entered and were surprised to see a group of people at a large table having a business meeting. Behind them on the wall was the fresco of Rafael's Galatea. We pointed at it and they nodded and they continued their meeting. So while we would have liked to have stayed longer to appreciate the fresco,

it was really weird to be looking at it over these people's heads as they were trying to work. So we left, a little deflated, first having been chased out of a garden and then having interrupted a business meeting. Still, if I had to pick between seeing the Pope a second time or going on this random adventure, I choose the adventure every time. Love it. I love running from an Italian guard. You got a pair of series gardens. It's not a free. Don't look at the flowers.

It's weird, because they do grow on trees. Yeah. Yeah. It does remind me of one of my favorite movie, Imbruge, a great Martin McDonough movie. It's a great scene where basically there's just one of those, I'm gonna guess in this case, like sort of a Belgian guard at a tourist trap

who's very insistent upon getting his money. Yeah. And yeah. Yeah, I don't like, my wife doesn't care for this about me, but I don't. By the way, tough edit right there. Cause I could take that, you said, I don't like my wife, literally that was,

so I could snip it and you'd be in the dog house. Oh, right, I see, I see. No, I love my wife. I don't like breaking rules. Sometimes she's- Neither do I. Yeah, but sometimes she's like, come on. And I'm like, I just don't like breaking rules. Yeah, you're not. Neither do I. Yeah, but sometimes she's like, come on. And I'm like, I just don't want to, it's just not worth it. It's like, you know, there's,

we live very close to Griffith Park, this big park in Los Angeles, and there's this one trail that sort of like loops you into this camp that is a, it's a private camp. And sometimes she's like, oh, let's walk through the camp. And it like, when no one's there, but I'm like, I don't know that no one's there. Like maybe there's a caretaker there

and I don't wanna walk through there and be yelled at. And she's been yelled at before. And I'm just like, oh, it would just make me so uncomfortable. Oh yeah. Being told, when someone tells you you broke a rule and you know you broke the rule and the rule was so clearly posted that you have two choices, which is either

I'm dumber than a box of rocks. Or you just are like, I know, I'm sorry, I don't, but I hate it. Yeah. I will say. My wife sees this as a little bit more of a gray area. It's also, I mean, that's one of the things with Italy, which is so old and there's so much classic art

is that it can, like a famous piece of art can become just sort of background noise to like a work session. Or like it's now it's just an office. Yeah, there's no every, like their water bubbler is oftentimes a fresco. Yeah. Do you remember that vampire weekend song, Step? Yo, yeah.

The remix? With Danny Brown? Yeah, and Heems. Do you remember what did they rhyme with Frescos? I had to look it up during the show. I couldn't tell you. Westco. She lived in Westco and she studied Frescos.

That's a great line. It's a great line, Pashi. Great line. Also, great version of that song. Yeah. What else was I gonna say about, oh, we were getting off a flight, middle of the plane.

This is coming back from spring break. And two suitcases. I mean, Alexi packs a tight, for five of us, she does an incredible job. I mean, the number of times you've said how good your wife is at packing. Well, we've, you know, the data shows that that's what people are coming to the podcast for.

All right, point being, two rolling suitcases. She has a backpack, I have a shoulder bag, one backpack for the boys. That's it. Okay. I could've done it in four bags. Also, a bag of sandwiches. Uh-huh. That we were sort of eating during the flight,

but we still had a lot of time had been put into making these sandwiches. And we had half of them left. Okay. So let's say, but like four sandwiches. And a lot of time was put into making them? I mean, mustard. Just four sandwiches. And a lot of time was put into making them? I mean, mustard. Just think through this, Pachi.

Take the mustard out, unscrew the mustard. I mean, again, just already, that's what it is, 15 minutes. You make some good points. So, I get two rolling suitcases in my shoulder bag. Boy has one backpack, Alexia has her backpack. And again, I'm front and she's herding three children as well. We get onto the jet bridge.

She says, we forgot the sandwiches. And I said, they're gone. Right? We're not, there's a sea of people coming off the plane. What are we gonna do? Wait until every single person gets off the plane for four sandwiches? Yeah, because also you're not like really allowed

to reboard that plane once you disembark. Yeah, I mean, I think they have a carve out for sandwiches. I think legally if you have a sandwich on a plane, you're allowed to go back. Laptops, no, but sandwiches. But the sandwiches, because those go bad. Yeah, also consider the amount of work that went into making it.

Well, that's the thing. Once I explained, you know, hopefully the flight attendants wouldn't be such assholes about it the way you are. Calling me out when I was like, you don't understand the time it went into them. The mustard. We make, you know ships in a bottle?

Yeah. Well, that's what we do with our sandwiches. We make a full know ships in a bottle? Yeah. That's what we do with our sandwiches. We make a full sandwich, but it's inside like a jug. So you're going back for your sandwich jug. Anyway, we didn't go back. I, and then, which was the right call. And yet I feel like it's been, you know, it's been three weeks and there's been a lot of talk

about like, oh, the sandwiches. Do you think someone found those sandwiches? Someone who was like tidying up the plane and was like, ooh, free sandwich. Obviously my fear is like one of the sandwiches I had had a bite of and put it away. So there is a chance people have my saliva DNA, will I be cloned?

Yeah. You know, that's obviously the fear. Well, if they take a look at sort of the bite pattern and how your teeth go, I don't think anyone's gonna clone me. That one ain't gonna clone me. That's a good point. Hey, we're gonna take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors.

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I'm nine and my brother is 12. And we're looking forward to what I think is going to be our best trip ever. Instead of the usual enriching vacations where we see a historical site, go hiking or visit extended family, my family is finally taking a trip that is about straight-up fun. We're going to Adventureland in Altoona, Iowa. It's not the fanciest amusement park, but it is close. The thing to know about our family is we never stayed in hotels. We traveled with our pop-up camper that my grandpa salvaged as part of his hobby running a junkyard.

The camper was a little beat up and musty, but was a vast improvement from the tent we used when we were younger. In preparation for the trip, my dad notes that the camper needs to be hosed down. The problem is he has to get it out of the garage and safely positioned on our steep driveway. He could hitch it to the station wagon and bring it down that way. However, as an engineer, he devises what he believes is a better plan. He gives my brother a block of wood. My dad then pushes the camper out of the garage and tells my brother to place that block of

wood in the path of the wheel halfway down the driveway. My dad also had a block of wood and intended to run around the other side of the camper to do the same thing. What could go wrong? Well, I'm about to tell you. As the camper rolled down the driveway, my brother quickly realized that placing that block of wood was not safe. The camper rapidly gained steam,

and to stop it from plowing into the house across the street, my dad ran around the front of the camper and got pinned underneath the front wheel. In other words, my father was run over by a pop-up camper. Fortunately, hearing the frantic yells of my brother, my mother and our neighbor were able to lift the camper off my dad's chest. He was taken to the hospital and only suffered minor but painful rib sprains.

The police officer who answered the call visited my dad at home a few days later. He admitted that he laughed out loud when he heard the report come over the radio. As a kid, I was so impressed that this police officer came to our house, but on reflection, I also think it's possible he just stopped by to roast my dad. In case you were wondering, we never made it to Adventureland, not that year or any year after that. As far as my brother and I can recall, we started staying in hotels and the camper was sold one to two years later.

My brother and I are both parents now, and when I asked my brother for details about this event, he told me that he uses this memory to comfort himself when he makes bad parenting decisions. Our parents are really good parents. And if our dad can make a mistake like this, it makes us feel better about our own. That's fantastic. I mean, I get not going to adventure land.

What could be more of an adventure? Than getting rolled? Than watching the camera roll over your dad. Yeah, there are those moments where you think your body is just a, I don't know, like an obstacle you can throw in front of something. Also to salvage a pop-up camper and then have that camper try to kill you seems very, you know.

It was to save the neighbor's house. Oh, that's true. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's, I mean, again, it's so funny because you're like, what's more embarrassing, dying from a pop-up camper or rolling it through, you know, the front door of your neighbor's house? I could see preferring death by camper.

Yeah, there's a Jeep up the road from me in this driveway that is on a steep driveway and it has blocks of wood under its tires. And it just, every time I walk by it, I'm like, this thing's going to just roll over those blocks and come knock me and a dog into the street. Also, you know, obviously you come from a state that has, you know, shakes a little bit every now and then. Yeah. Yeah. Also, you know, obviously you come from a state that has, you know, shakes a little bit every now and then.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're not gonna help you very much. They have like tiny little black, tiny little blocks. Yeah. That's, I love her brother also being like, this isn't gonna work and just like bailing. And then just, yeah, dad. Yeah.

What a, yeah. It also made me think of- What a. Yeah. What a, yeah. It also made me think of- What a bad plan. What a bad plan. Do you remember that in Salem, the witch museum, it talks about the Salem witch trials, and the guy, there's a guy who, I think to, they kept loading rocks on top of them.

Like they put a piece of wood on them, and they kept putting rocks on top of them to get them to confess to being a witch. And do you remember what he kept? Cause he wasn't obviously, none of them were. At least that's what they tell you. But do you remember what he said? And this is like one of these like weird,

like I feel like built in the seventies, like weird. It's like a diorama, but full-size people that look gross. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't recall what he said. More weight. That was his way. If I can keep putting rocks on me, I'm not gonna admit to being a witch.

Yeah. Sounds like it really haunted you. It did, I kinda can't believe it. Yeah. I mean, nothing stays with me, but that does. Yeah, we have family that live in Salem, Massachusetts, and it's right next door to Marblehead where our mother's from.

So we would go to Salem a lot growing up. Yeah. And man, it is tough getting in there in October. Tough, yeah. The sort of the witch tourism is, whenever they built that Salem witch house It's paid off. Oh, yeah, they made they made their money back. Yeah I wonder if like

You know, we were talking to someone and they were talking about the Matterhorn at Disney and how they have They redid the Yeti or the Abominable Snowman. Oh yeah, somebody told us this. And it's way scarier now. And it's way scarier now. I wonder if like, if they ever think at the Salem witch house, like we need to change,

mix up the more weight guy. So I will say there was an Adam Sandler movie came out a few years ago called Hubie Halloween on Netflix. Took place in Salem and fully shot a scene there, it's exactly the same. So that just, they have not had that revelation. As of 2020, that revelation had not occurred to them. Yeah, I think it was Patton Oswalt who said that to us.

All right, shall we hear our next story? Sam. Please. Hey, Josh. Hey, Seth. Eric here, long time, first time. Currently living in Dallas, Texas, but grew up in Lafayette, Louisiana.

I've been really enjoying the podcast and it's really inspired me to look back on family trips. Most were very ordinary and successful, but there's one trip I will never forget. Let me start by saying my parents named me after one of their college friends Most were very ordinary and successful, but there's one trip I will never forget. Let me start by saying my parents named me after one of their college friends who passed away in a skiing accident. Despite that, in 2006, during my junior year in high school, my parents decided to take

a skiing in Winter Park, Colorado during Mardi Gras break. I wasn't particularly interested in skiing as I'm afraid of heights, but was at least excited to see some snow. Midway through the trip, things had been going fine. I was getting comfortable skiing and was honestly having some fun. We were sticking to greens and blues, but we got to a point where the only practical way down was on a blue-black trail called the Mary Jane. Looking down, it made me pretty nervous.

It was steeper than what we had been doing before and had a few moguls and a patch of trees in the middle. My family was encouraging, saying I could definitely handle it. So I went forward along with them and quickly realized they were wrong. I lost control and dropped onto my side in an effort to stop myself. Unfortunately, I was going too fast and slid straight into one of the trees, back first. The collision knocked me out for a couple seconds, but when I came to, I remember touching my snow boots together, proving to myself that I wasn't

paralyzed. What a relief. Shortly after, I was put on a sled and taken back to the resort and then to a hospital. At the hospital, they confirmed I had four tiny broken bones in my lower back, called transverse prostheses. Fortunately, this isn't anything super serious and with some physical therapy and pain meds, I was back to normal in a few months. I was disappointed to have missed some sports seasons that year, but so, so relieved that there was no permanent issues with my back or legs. It was even nice getting some special treatment and attention

back home while I recovered. To this day, I'll never miss an opportunity to tell someone I broke my back and the doctor just told me to walk it off. I haven't been skiing again and have no plans to. If there's one lesson I would impart to parents who hear this story, it's that if you name your child after someone who died in a skiing accident, don't take them skiing. Thanks guys, love the pod. Thank you, Eric.

Yeah, that's a really interesting lesson. Yeah, it's a very specific lesson. But I feel like if you're a listener, if you're a listener and has also been named after a person that's happened to, let us know if you've run into any trouble. We were skiing when we saw a bad collision. Oh yeah.

At Mohawk. We saw two dudes crash into each other. Yeah, it was sort of our, this is a very small mountain, charming mountain in Connecticut called Mohawk. And it was sort of our last run of the day. And, you know, we're going along and then like one guy's on his back and it's maybe the steepest run on the mountain. One guy's on his back and he's just like flying.

There are skis and poles everywhere. I stop and you pull up next to me and I was, you were like, what are you doing? I was like, I'm gathering, you know, skis and poles. And then you skied down to, you know, check in on this guy who had been on his back and was flying down. And as I gathered things up,

but I picked up two, three skis and two poles to return to two different people. So who were way farther down the mountain than where their skis came off. Yeah. It was kind of nuts. And it wasn't like a crazy black diamond. They just collided in a way that they went flying. Yeah.

And then when I got down, the two dudes were talking. Yeah. And it was a lot of like, hey, yeah, sorry about that. Yeah, no, that's okay, that's okay. And then you brought down the first two skis and one guy skied off. And when that guy skied off, the guy that was still there was like,

guy fucking plowed right into me. Like, and he was, he needed to tell someone how he had been, I appreciated that he had not started a fight on the mountain, because clearly he had been wronged. But I also liked that we were the vessel for his anger. Yeah, I was also, I was skiing earlier in the year with a couple of buddies of mine, Josh and Alex. And near the end of the day,

they ran into each other. Two guys that know each other that grew up together and Josh cracked his helmet and neither of them could explain how it happened. But they were definitely showboating. Yeah, they were showboating. Yeah, hitting a tree is, they don't move. No, they don't move. Yeah, they don't move at all.

So that's a gnarly. I think I told you that I just got, I fully buried myself when we were skiing in Colorado. Like got, like we ended up in a weird like in between the trees type thing by accident. Yeah. got like ended up in a weird like in between the trees type thing by accident. Yeah, and then just like sort of ended up going I mean again, I'm not skilled like you are just ended up in real deep snow. Yeah, it kind of just sunk into it and it was a real like I might just stay here. This might be where it all ends. Yeah, I think Eric made the right move to never get back to the mountains. Yeah.

I do remember when I was seven and broke my leg on a ski trip in Colorado, it was the first day, second run, that I broke my leg. And I remember being in the hospital and you came up to me in the hospital bed and you had already heard from the doctor who I think told mom and dad like, yeah, he broke his leg.

And you like put your hand on me and said, I think it's broken. And I just started to cry. But you brought me the news. But then I like, we got a babysitter who brought over like an Atari, I wanna say. And also MTV had just started, like just started. And I fell in love with Pat Benatar.

And that's all she wrote, the rest of his history. You guys had a, it was up and down. Yeah, I mean, I was only seven and she was a famous rock star. It was weird. Yeah. Yeah, but thank you Eric. Glad to hear your transverse processes are back in biz.

And I think we have some questions too. No, good, good. Hi, Josh and Seth. It is Carol Catherine from Allegan, Michigan. I'm a radio DJ here in West Michigan. And I want to know what was your first album you each got as kids, either bought yourself or received as a gift. Thanks so much for your podcast. It has made me laugh during some long car rides here in the frozen tundra.

Love you guys. Keep it up and I may be sending in some family trip stories myself. Thanks. Thank you. We love you too. That is a great radio voice. That's a great radio voice. Yeah. Yeah, I believe her. Do you know your first one? I mean, I know the first like CD I bought, but I was older then,

but it was Young MC's Stone Cold Rhymin. Yeah. It was my first CD, followed very quickly by Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation. Yep. I remember both those CDs being in your room. Cause your room had the CD player. I bought like a five disc changer. Yeah, I mowed a lot of lawns

and I was just like jamming in my room. And I didn't need anybody anymore. And I didn't mow shit. But then when you were out doing lawns, I just go sit in your room and listen to tunes. Um, the, uh, I will, I was gifted, I was dating someone in, you know, early high school.

Mm-hmm. Who bought me a cassingle. Uh-huh. Do you remember cassette singles? Yeah. And it was, uh, in excesses excesses, Never Tear Us Apart. And I remember it was when she gifted it to me, I realized like,

oh, I think you're more serious about this than me. Yeah. I might, my marriage might be getting torn apart Pachi. How, whoa. I don't like to, you like to look at texts during, while we're recording, but I feel a responsibility to look at texts when they come through from my wife, right? Okay.

Raising three kids. Yeah. I've taken Axel to the dentist a couple of times in the last month. He's getting, he had a pallet expander, kept breaking it. You know, it's Axel. Yeah. So it was on the calendar today.

So I go and I booked the next one. And so it was today, this morning. And we had this podcast this morning. So I had to say to Alexi, like, I'm so sorry, can you take Axel? We have a podcast. And very sweetly, she was like, of course. I just got a text.

I put the wrong day in the calendar. So it wasn't today? No. So Alexi took Axel to midtown Manhattan for a dentist appointment that's tomorrow. And should he have been in school tonight? Yeah. So she pulled him out of school. Which, by the way, he ain't crushing.

He ain't crushing like a palette expander. So she pulled him out of school. So I mean, again, I know this is a listener episode and it's not about my problems, but thank you for listening. Also, somebody told us, his teachers told us, Axel, somebody bit Axel, according to Axel, somebody bit Axel at recess. The minute I heard this, I knew what had happened. That Axel had bitten someone first?

That Axel had bitten himself. And I knew this because like last year, Axel said to me, Ash bit me and I said, show me where? And he said, I'll be right back. So we knew. And so they were like, yeah, Axel said, and they were like, again, they're educators.

They're following the correct protocol. Yeah. They're like, Axel, the thing is the person Axel said, bit him, doesn't strike us as the kind of person who would do that. And they say they didn't do that. I'm like, oh no, he definitely bit himself. Also, then I said to Axel, I'm like, who bit you?

And he goes, I couldn't see, cause my arm was behind my back. And I'm like, oh my God, stop it. So anyway, that kid should definitely be in school, but instead he was going to a dentist appointment. That's tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah.

Let it go. I also just, it popped into my head. I feel like Billy Joel's Greatest Hits, volume two was a tape that I had. It was an early tape that I definitely wore out. It's good. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

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Here we go. Hey Seth and Josh. my name is Charles. I'm out in Pacifica, California. That's up in Northern California. I have a question regarding the songs. Do you ever hear back from your guests that they've listened to Josh's incredible songs that he essentially makes for them,

and the listeners, of course? Thanks. Hope you guys are doing great. Yeah, we've heard back from some, although I think sort of at the end of last year, we sent out sort of a holiday message to all of our guests from the course of the year and attached the songs to that, because I feel like a lot of people don't know

that there's a song and you don't tend to listen to podcasts that you're a guest on, I think for most of these people. I think that's correct. They've done it, yeah. So I think, you know, some people know that they're coming and make a point of listening, but I think we probably need to send out that, not wait till the end of the year

and then I think we'll get more feedback because I think also to people that do an episode in February, if it takes until the next holiday season to get that email, they'll be, they will have kind of forgotten and been like, oh, okay. But people do like rad songs. People like it and yeah. There you go.

Great question though. What are you doing right now? It looks like you're like. Trying to see if I can find another dentist. I'm gonna see him today. Sorry I'm spitting out. Yeah, I was kind of double clutching on that story cause I thought you were like looking for,

oh, this person sent me an email saying how much they liked the song, but you're just looking for a dentist. Yeah, here's Dr. Gepler. He liked, did you do a song about Dr. Gepler? No. Oh, okay, maybe I'm a little distracted. Do we have any more questions, Sam?

Yep, two more questions, Sam? Yep. Two more questions. All right. Great. Hi, Seth and Josh. My name is Adrienne. Love the podcast. My family and I recently had to say goodbye to our sweet doggy, Ellie.

She was almost 10 years old. We had our dogs before we had kids, so our daughter has been so happy to hear all of Ellie's stories and travels throughout her life. So I was wondering, do you have any funny stories or memorable trips with your pets past or present that stands out? Thanks so much, guys. Take care. You probably travel with pets more than we've ever traveled with pets.

Yeah, I'm just trying to think of good stories. I drove cross country with my last dog, Pickles. That was a real, it was a great thing. He was a great traveling companion and- He just sat beside you in the front seat? He sat beside me and he sat on my lap for a lot of it as well. But he sort of had like the whole back seat was a bed

if he wanted to do that. And the passenger seat was a nice bed as well. But a lot of times he'd sit in my lap. Would he just sort of over the course of a drive, just wiggle over to you? Yeah. And then he might like fall asleep for a while. But I'm trying to think.

I'd say we've probably forgotten Frisbee seven to nine times. You've like, you've left an island and she was still on it, right? Yeah, we left an island. Now she was with our in-laws. We didn't leave her alone. Right, right, right. But it was, and now, you know, we always tell the kids, like, remember, don't let us leave without Frisbee.

But we did leave it, and it's because of this time we left without Frisbee. And I wasn't, I'd already left, so this one's not on me. I was back in New York, it was the end of the summer. Yeah. And by the way, you know, we got it back. But I guess like on the way to the, they were on the plane flying home and Alexi realized it.

And the kids who could care less about this dog all started scream crying on the plane about a dog I've literally never seen any of them interact with. Well, in their defense, that dog exists under a blanket, like on a couch somewhere. Frisbee is fully in her under the blanket ears. By choice.

So I was alone in the apartment the other day, and Frisbee is under a blanket in our guest room. And I had to do a podcast at home because I had to record one late at night, one of the Lonely Island podcasts. And so I was in the guest room and there's a desk in there and there's a chair. And I did not realize that the chair was broken and there were only three of the four legs of the chair. Now, why the chair was still there?

Yeah. What I've heard since is that the chair was about to be fixed and so, you know, like the story, but at the same time, like, you know, I'm the one who mis-scheduled the dental meeting, so maybe I deserved what I got. I sat down in this chair, it broke, I hit the ground so hard,

like I really thought I was gonna have a crazy bruise on my hip. Like it was a cartoon chair collapse. Yeah. And I was just lying. And again, like alone in the apartment, I feel like I didn't scream. You know, when you, there's no one to scream.

If a tree falls in a forest or if a dad falls on, you know, in an empty apartment, does he make a noise? I didn't really, but I was like, oh, oh, oh. And Frisbee just poked her head up. And it was somehow like more embarrassing to have the dog staring at me. I was like, oh, oh, oh. But it was nice that she popped her head out

to look at me. Yeah, when I drove, when I drove cross country with Pickles, it was because I had to be, I was working in New York for a little while and it was the winter. And so I got this little sublet and it was so cold. I remember there was a day, it was like four degrees outside and I had bought Pickles this jacket

for just such an occasion. I put it on him and we went outside and he wouldn't walk. And I was like, oh no, is it too cold? And then I took the jacket off and he went running around. He was so happy. He was just like, I'm not wearing, I don't want clothes. Yeah. I don't need clothes, I'm a dog.

I got a jacket, it's called my coat. Yeah. Frisbee had a lot of jacket years, but she has the very, she has way less fur than Pickles had. Yeah, she's also a real shiver me timbers kind of dog. Yeah. So, yeah's also a real shiver me timbers kind of dog. Yeah. So, yeah. Little crab. Oh, good dogs. Good dogs. What do we got next? Hi, Josh and Seth. My name is Maggie and growing up, my family made the 12 hour drive from Illinois to West Virginia multiple times a year. And every single time the snack my mom packed

was Nutri-Grain Bars, sliced cucumbers, and peeled hard-boiled eggs, always packed in the same green cooler. By the end, the Nutri-Grain Bars were totally smushed and everything smelled and tasted like hard-boiled eggs. So my question for you is, what was the Myers family go-to road trip snack? Such a good question.

I know that we will, if we leave early in the morning, say for a super early flight and we don't have time for breakfast, we will hard boil egg in a car. And it is, you don't obviously being New Yorkers- We don't hard boil it in the car. We is, you know, and obviously being New Yorkers. You don't hard boil it in the car. We do, we do. We bring a generator.

No, we drive in the car and of course, you know, being New Yorkers, we're always taking, you know, a taxi or an Uber and I always feel like the amount you have to over tip when you have kids eating eggs in a car. You can't over tip enough. You can't ruin their car. Sometimes I will even say,

I will even give them two hard boiled eggs as a gratuity. Normally I do one. No one else is tipping for the rest of the week in that car. That's the thing, right? You got to cover everybody's. That person's starting to get one star reviews. They can't figure out why. I don't feel like we did a ton of eating in the car.

I mean, we must have on long trips, but my memory of the long trips, which were so far afield, I'm not crystal clear. I mean, definitely Chex Mix, Mom would make Chex Mix, that was the thing, but I feel like that was almost more at home. Adam Pally was just talking to us about this, about how the notion of like car snacks

was not really a thing. I mean, that's a 12 hour drive that Maggie's talking about. So I get it. You gotta pack some stuff. Power of Alexi's will, our kids eat cucumbers, which I don't think you and I went near a cucumber. Mom would buy that Hidden Valley Ranch, like powdered little packets that you stir

it into sour cream. And so I would use cucumbers and carrots as a sort of delivery mechanism, as a utensil to get that dressing. Yeah, I feel like maybe Chuckx makes it in the car, but that's a disaster because just about the crumbling pieces. Yeah, and we couldn't, we never traveled with sandwiches because it was just too much work to make them.

Too much work to make them and then you forget them and then it's just a loss. Anytime you ever ask mom for a sandwich, she'd be like, who has that kind of time? Although, you know, mom did make way better sandwiches than anybody. Mom made fabulous sandwiches. I mean, I always felt like a king in the cafeteria

when I unwrapped like mom's chicken Kiev sandwich on marble rye. Yeah, which she also, mom was a big fan of Durkies. Do you remember Durkies? It's like a sandwich sauce. It's kind of a mustard, mayo mix, I wanna say. And it was like so unique because it wasn't just mustard and it wasn't mayo.

Well, a lot of moms in the late 70s and early 80s were settling for the basic condiments. Mom was out there taking risks. She was getting honey turkey, Havarti. Havarti, oh, the straw me turkey. Like if there was a new, any curve ball they were throwing at the deli, mom was down for. Yeah, yeah.

And we were the benefactors of that for sure. Yeah. There was, I mean, I know we're getting into, we've certainly veered off course, but there was a while in high school, maybe it was just at the beginning of high school that mom decided like, I'm just gonna like give you lunch money and you can just buy lunch.

And then my buddy, Craig Bouchard, his mom was still packing him a lunch every day. And I wrote his mom, Michaelene Bouchard, a note. And I was like, hey, these lunches look so great. I just like my compliments to the chef or something. And the next day Craig brought me a lunch that his mom had made. And then mom got wind of that and was mortified

and packed me a lunch every day for the rest of high school, I feel like. Wow. Yeah. And then you would sell those lunches out of the back of your trunk. And that's actually how you bought the five disc changer. You never mowed a lawn, running a scam. Thank you everybody. I mean, I know we're done, I'm running a scam.

Thank you everybody. I mean, I know we're done, but I'm just so worried that once I get off, I'm going to have to deal with the fallout on this whole dentist thing. Well, we'll record some ads or something just to Hey, oh, I'll do this. If you want to submit your story or question for a future listener episode, head to speakpipe.com. That's S-P-E-A-K-P-I-P-E.com slash family trips pod. It is always lovely to hear your voices. Thank you for your stories.

And to hear your names. Everyone was so good today with their names. Everyone was so good with their names. And yeah, I wish I was as good with my calendar as you all were. How do you mess that up? By the way, also, all morning, I've had in the back of my head,

I hope the day's right. But how do you check? It was the first appointment. Like nobody's even, I don't know. Do you know what day would be the actual appointments for? A year and a half from now. Like nobody's even, I don't know. I mean obviously. Do you know what day would they be actual appointments for? A year and a half from now. A tomorrow. Okay.

I mean, look, there's no making up for this, but at least I will be able to take them tomorrow. Yeah, yeah. There's that. Good luck with that. By the way, it's not my fault his teeth are all fucked up. Also it definitely is if you saw my teeth. Genetically, this is if there's nothing he inherited more from me than this.

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