Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - Listener Episode #13: Alpine Slide Death Traps & A Doomed Waffle House Visit

Episode Date: May 29, 2025

We’re back with our monthly listener episode! On this week’s episode, Seth and Josh play the “Guess that Guest” game, plus we hear stories from listeners! From stories about an alpine slide mishap, to what happened after one woman ate at a Perkins Waffle House and got sick…on the way to meet her pen pal, and finally one Irish listener gives Seth and Josh a talk about their Irish accent attempts! Watch more Family Trips episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlqYOfxU_jQem4_NRJPM8_wLBrEEQ17B6 Family Trips is produced by Rabbit Grin Productions. Theme song written and performed by Jeff Tweedy. ------------------------- Support our sponsors: Uplift Desk Elevate your workspace with UPLIFT Desk. Go to https://upliftdesk.com/trips for a special offer exclusive to our audience. Get Soul Right now, Soul is offering our audience 30% off your entire order! Go to GetSoul.com and use the code TRIPS ------------------------- About the Show: Lifelong brothers Seth Meyers and Josh Meyers ask guests to relive childhood memories, unforgettable family trips, and other disasters! New Episodes of Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers are available every Tuesday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi, Paji. Hi, Suvi. How's it going? Good, how are you? You're back home. I am back home. Mother's Day show off. Yeah, well, you saw her on the beginning of Mother's Day.

I did, this was a nice, mom and dad came to New York City because our kid's school has a Grandparents Day. And they got to go to Grandparents Day, which is very exciting. They saw Axel perform some songs. Uh-huh. What songs? Like, what's, uh... It's a great question.

I feel like Here Comes the Sun. Okay. Crowd-pleaser. Yeah, crowd-pleaser. Especially for grandparents. Now, dad made the observation that clearly the kids had sort of hand choreography as well as, you know, learning the words. So if you can imagine, here comes the sun,

there's a bit of like, you know, make a sun, rise up. Yeah. Yeah. He said Axel never did both at the same time. If he did a hand movement, he immediately closed his mouth, and if he started singing, he'd get his hands dropped to his side. So, yeah. That's certainly where we're at. I think that's what they call a bad sign,

if you're hoping that your child might be a professional. I think it could be a sign of just like exceptional focus. That's true. Yeah. Maybe not exceptional execution, but exceptional. Sure. Exceptional focus. Yeah.

And then we took the train on Friday after school with me, the Poncas, as they were referred to the entire weekend, Axel, Agnes, his cousin, me and my brother-in-law told you. So there were a lot of us. We were a group of six. Four adults, two kids. I was coming from somewhere else. I took the subway to Grand Central. They took a taxi, met me. Raining in New York, and also, you know, dad's got his foot. Yeah. He only has the one. It makes it hard to move around.

No, so, although dad's moving around really good. I want to shout out to him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, can confirm. Can confirm. So anyway, I'm just, you know, Tolya is incredible, my brother-in-law. Sometimes we'll maybe miss exactly what you're asking him to do. I was a little unclear.

I said, we were so early for the training, they had not announced which track it was on. Uh-huh. So I said, meet me outside track 25. Cause that's usually around where it is. Okay. So I'm standing there, standing there, standing there, standing there,

standing there, standing there. All of a sudden he texts, we're in car one. And I'm like, get off that train. Like they had, he had just gone to track 25, gotten on a train with everybody. And if you can imagine the amount of like mom and dad taking off coats, umbrellas, bags, and that train was about to leave.

So they all had to get off that train. Lickety split. Lickety split. It's a little bit of, I think a flustered would be a good word to describe the proceedings at this point. Mm-hmm. Yeah, no, I've heard from mom's perspective this story. Oh, so okay, good. Now I did say, does anybody need a drink or anything? No, was the answer. Okay. Five minutes pass.

Now our train's almost here. Mom says, I do think I'll get a drink. Yeah. So we go to get a drink. Now did mom tell you- Do they not have drinks on the trains? No. You're thinking of a way nicer train

than the train we're on. Okay. There's no cart going down the center aisle. Okay. So did mom explain her frustration with going to buy a drink? No. Okay, so here's the thing.

Mom's going to buy a drink. She only explained things that maybe painted you in a lesser light. Okay, and I would like to get to that because this is not my finest light. So then she goes, I'm gonna go buy a drink. But here's the thing, I know for a fact that the Hudson News at Grand Central,

it's all like scan and pay. Oh yeah. She's not gonna. She ain't tapping. She ain't tapping, she ain't figure it out. I'm thinking she's gonna come back frustrated with no drinks. So I say to Tolia, you take my dad and the two kids,

go about halfway down the train, get a seat, text me what train number it is, what car number it is. Because every, you know, train. So then of course Axel's like, I want to go with you, which I don't want, but I'm not going to fight it now. Also, tick-tock because mom waited

five minutes to decide she was going to be thirsty over a two hour train ride. So now I go in and- She famously says like people bring in water everywhere they go. My apologies to the children listening, but those people are, that it's bullshit. Yeah, she thinks it's bullshit

how much water people drink. Anyway, I go in, she's mid fluster trying to scan a couple of things. I help her out. Now it's me, her and Axel. By the way, this has taken a full five minutes. I'm wondering why I don't have the car number from Tolia yet.

Yeah. Now me, Axel, mom are walking down the entirety of the train. This is like a 15 car train. This is no joke. And again, in mom's defense, she's already boarded a train, gotten off a train. Now we're walking all the way.

We get literally to the last train and told you, text me, we're on the first car. I'm so angry. Yeah. This is where dad comes out of you. This is not, that was not the assignment. We missed them both. So now we have to walk all the way back.

The reason I like to go about halfway down is twofold. One, the farther down you go, the more space there is. Sure. Every sucker gets on the first car. Yeah. And part of the reason I want space is not to stretch my legs out. It is just that, you know, children are a little bit routier than adults. And I'm just trying to minimize the amount of people

who might be, by the way, our kids were great on the train. It was not an issue, but that's what I'm trying to think about others. Yeah. The second bigger point is that our stop that doors don't open unless you're in the middle cars. Right, because the platform's only so long. It's not a 15 car long platform.

So now I know, now I'm walking mom all the way back. We're gonna go sit on a train. Now we have to sit because we've wasted our advantage of time. Are you close to missing this train? We're not that close to missing the train. But this would have been a third time of making everybody get up.

So we just sit, but I basically say, bad news, we're gonna have to move mid train ride. I'm assuming this is the part mom was most upset about. Well, she said you were sort of like Yosemite Samming it when you had to walk back to the first car and that you were like, rabble, rabble, shrabble, rabble. I was pretty rabble shrabble. Yeah. I think that's accurate.

It's such a drag. I don't know why I got to use somebody's salmon. You're just rooting, tooting mad. Everybody just did exactly what I wanted them to do all the time. This would never happen. But then... But yes, the next part you're getting to is, I think, Key and Mom's... Mom put on a real show about how hard it was to walk down an aisle of a moving train.

She's put on that show multiple times since I've been home. Yeah. Oh, oh. By the way, it's not like going over the Alps. It's just a regular train. Not even moving that fast, not a bullet train. But then you gotta open the doors.

And like some doors have these nice buttons where they slide right over. And other ones, you know, there is a bit of a crank and we just couldn't figure out where to put mom. You couldn't put her first, cause she couldn't open the door. You couldn't put it last or else the door would close on her. Also you got to be, you know,

but also you got two little kids. So you're like, I can't be away from them when you go in between trains. Yeah. So it wasn't, it wasn't my best. Yeah. And then I hear it was just like pouring, pouring rain when you got off that train and it was, yeah.

Yeah. It was a thing. It sounds like it was a real journey, but then it sounds like there was a lovely- The rest of the weekend was really good. A lovely weekend to be had. And then it was Mother's Day. We had a lovely Mother's Day brunch

and then they departed from there to go see you. Yeah, and I had landed early that morning. Went and saw the neighbors, Franz and Linda. I went to Trader Joe's, got some stuff. I made dinner that night. Did you? Yeah. Is it weird being in our home without them? Cause I can't remember.

It's kind of good because you sort of, I don't feel a responsibility to be sort of around anyone all the time. So I, you know, I took a walk around the house. I found a few years ago, I had bought a couple pillows that I sort of, I wanted better pillows on my bed and I could only find one of them, but it was on your bed and it has now been placed back on my bed.

Yeah, that's good. You're obviously in the question zone now because you're within your shadow mom. Yeah, but- We might have got to have an all timer from mom. Oh yeah? You know, as we've established, she has a condition where,

and if she doesn't ask a question every 30 seconds, she dies. We're watching Peppa Pig with Addy. Three episodes in, mom looks at me and says, so this is a British show? Just crazy. To answer her is an insult to her own intelligence. She wants to keep the conversation going.

I will say her and Tolya are a perfect match. They've talked forever. Yeah. I hear they got hushed up by you one night when they were chatting in the kitchen. Well, oh, they got hushed up because kids were sleeping. That was, yeah. They, oh my God, it's really all got back to you. Oh yeah. What do you think happens?

That's true. The other thing is we were having a brunch where we were having all our friends over. Moms met most of them before. Yeah. Dad and I sitting in chairs, her and Toley on a couch. And she just was like, now who else is coming? And so I had to tell her the names of everybody. And then she had to go through the names again. And then, fun point, I said, why are we doing this?

It only helps when you see them. Like when they show up, I will lean over and tell you who it is. It doesn't, it only helps when you see them. Right. Like when they show up, I will lean over and tell you who it is. Or I will say loudly, mom, you remember person's name, but I feel like you're studying for a test wrong. Right. Then at one point she did say,

and this was where dad hushed her a little. She goes, well, now what do you think Jessica will be wearing? And both dad and I were like, oh, we both yelled like the way you would if there was a bad, like a bad drop. You do a very nice thing at your show, which is where the whole staff,

everyone has a photograph. There's a big wall of framed photographs that are essentially like headshots. They're not all like professional headshots, but they're pictures of people. Well, they're all taken by our photographer. They're all taken like professional headshots, but they're pictures of people. Well, they're all taken by our photographer. They're all taken by lawyers, so they're professional. Okay, yeah. I mean, they're good.

Yeah. But it's more of an identifier, I feel like, than anything else. And it's helpful for me, who I'm not there that often. I don't know everyone. It's nice to sort of look at her. So maybe you need a wall like that of your friends that mom encounters that she can just go through and peruse.

I'd like, this is all a very good idea. And then you remember that every single time one of us calls her, she guesses it's the other one first. This might not be fixed by pictures. Sure. Hey, it's a listener episode. Oh, unless you have anything to add, I feel like I've dominated trying to give you

my side of the story. No, I mean, we played golf at this charity tournament yesterday for Delta Dogs, which dad's on the board of. So he's a real muckety muck over there and was doing a lot of schmoozing and glad handing. And yeah, it was a great day. Got to play this golf course I'd never played before, which is only like 25 minutes from home and we're going to go play their course today. And yeah, it's just been nice.

And I just, I wanna say real quick to mom, I was rootin' and tootin' a little bit and I wanna own my piece of that, which was, it was not, I'm sorry I made you walk down the middle aisle of a train. Yeah, well. But it was really, it was totally his fault. Well, if we either also, if we got our rootinin and Tootin from anywhere, we got it from Dad,

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Sam is going to interject to tell us how we are going to proceed. Okay, so we're going to play this game called Guess That Guest. Guess That Guest. Yes, correct. And basically, you guys are going to guess the title of the podcast episode. I'm going to say blank and then the title of the podcast episode because we always do fun titles Yeah, the episode we put out this is gonna be titles from the past six months and you guys will Trade off saying that to the other person. Okay, great So the first one I have Josh I will put the name of the podcast episode in the chat for you

Guess I will put the name of the podcast episode in the chat for you. And you can make that guess. Okay. So Sufi, here we go. Guess that guest blank ate shrimp for breakfast. Oh my God. I have no idea. Shrimp for breakfast. It was on a road trip. Yeah. It was, it was one of our guests was with a friend of theirs. Jay-Z.

No. Was with a friend of theirs and they had to stop, I remember to take care of a dog, a dog that was kind of a problem dog. In like San Antonio, I wanna say that was. Yeah. I wanna say from like Florida along the- It was a woman.

It was a woman. Okay. It was- And this guest's friend- Annaleigh Ashford. No, good guess. No. All right, I give up.

That was Judy Greer. Judy Greer, great answer. right, I give up. That was Judy Greer. Judy Greer, great answer. Yeah, great answer. I also think that happened to Ashley Ashford. Oh really? I'm gonna just double down and not. Judy Greer, all right, good one.

I'm worried about how much better you're gonna be at this because you get to write the songs. All right, heard whales sing in Maui. Oh boy, we could be really, we could be really bad at this game. Heard whales sing in Maui. Do you remember anything else about the episode? Is anything bad for you? I'll tell you this person spent a lot of time Do you remember anything else about the episode?

Is there anything that popped for you? I'll tell you this person spent a lot of time by the water, just where they lived. Okay. They lived, their home was California and still is California. Okay. They live near where they grew up.

Yeah, none of this is helping, but Wendy McClendon Covey, you got it. You're the killer. Nice, you're the king. Well done. All right, this one. I think you're gonna get this one. Okay.

This guest got their knees stuck at the Tower of London. Oh, yes they did. Also a girl, Zosha Mammoth. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. Nice, so good story. Good story, good hang.

Good Zosha story. Good hang with Zosha Mammoth, yeah. You know, our dad, David Mammoth, Glenn Gary Gunn Ross, I just saw it on Broadway. Oh yeah. That's fantastic. Nice. Proposed in Vietnam. Oh yeah, that's fantastic. Nice. Proposed in Vietnam.

Oh, Ronnie Chang. Nicely done. Yeah. Now we're rolling. We just need to like shake out the cobwebs a little bit. Yeah. Ooh, this guest was Argentina's Hannah Montana. That was either Issa Gonzalez or Jay-Z.

Issa Gonzalez. We'llZ? It's either Gonzalez. We'll give it to you on the first one. Jay-Z really should come on the podcast. He should come on the podcast. I'm kind of trying to like seed it by saying it a couple times. That's usually how people get him on their podcasts. Okay. Okay, and then this is our last one.

Oh, this is the last one. Yeah, just a little quick fun game before we get to some listener stories. This, by the way, this game, I think our listeners will agree, is taking the podcast world by Breeze. Pashi, who almost got trampled by elephants? Geraldine Viswanathan? No. No. First name could also mean luck.

First and last name start with the same letter. I just want to try to think about the story again, because I know Geraldine had gone, had like ridden on an elephant. She had a real relationship with an elephant. Maybe she was riding on the elephant when it almost trampled this other guest. Yeah.

Boy, oh boy. The breeze continues, eh, everybody? The breeze continues. Boy, oh boy. The breeze continues, eh, everybody? The breeze continues. Uh, uh, what favors the brave? Oh, Fortune, Fortune, uh, Feimster. Yeah, nice job. Hey, uh, uh, speaking of, uh, Geraldine Viswanathan,

I saw, uh, Thunderbolts. Uh-huh. Uh, with the, with the boys. Yeah. It's been a long time since I've seen a Marvel movie. You know what I mean? Because it's, you know, I don't have a lot of time to see movies and the kids are too young for it. So much fun. Oh, great. So much fun. A client who rides with my wife, Mackenzie,

edited that film. Oh. Client Angie. I have no small feet to edit a film like that. No small feet. Yeah, she's an amazing editor. She edited that... The Predator sort of movie. Predator Universe movie, Prey. Oh yeah, Prey's a good movie. Prey's real good. Yeah, and so yeah, I feel like Marvel took note of that and tapped her for Thunderbolts, which yeah, Mackenzie went and saw

with a big group of her people because of Angie having cut it. You have to say people when you say Mackenzie because otherwise people think she went with horses. Right. And they're like, what? Mackenzie went with her friends, people are horses. You can't say friends.

Yeah, that's great. The kids like it? They did. You can't say friends. Yeah. That's great. The kids like it? They did. You know what is interesting to me is like Florence Pugh sort of has this, she's both the heart of it, but also she's funny. But it's really like she does like this dry flat Russian accent. And it's just funny to me that kids get that that's supposed to be funny.

Oh yeah. Which is like, are you kidding me right now? And they're just like, that's so much funnier the way she's saying it. And it's really- Are they doing little Russian accents? They're not. At all? And I will say, I'm very disappointed.

I was hopeful that Addie would start doing a little bit more of a British accent because of Peppa Pig, but maybe she's just bad at accents. Yeah, could be. Could be. All right, I think we got some stories here. Yeah, let's hear them. Hey Myers brothers, Katie from Wisconsin here. Real quick, Seth, I saw you do stand up in Milwaukee in 2011

and the photo you were kind enough to take with me after is still my contact photo on my dad's phone. Speaking of my dad, this is one of my family's most famous dad stories. It's June 14th, 2005. My dad almost lost an ear, my six-year-old sister was party to light fraud, and we ruined my aunt's 30th birthday slash honeymoon. I was 13. I was with my parents, my little sister, grandparents, my uncle and his brand new wife. We were in Colorado for their wedding a few days earlier and stayed for a few days to make a trip out of it.

Today we're celebrating her 30th birthday. We headed up to Winter Park Resort, but since it's not ski season and we're not skiers, we're there for the Alpine slide. It's this concrete luge going back and forth down the side of the mountain. Hailed as Colorado's longest Alpine slide, you take the ski lift to the top, hop on a plastic sled, and then hang on for dear life. The first go around, they tell my little sister she has to ride with an adult. She goes with mom, has the time of her life, and wants to go again. This time, Dad goes up with us. I get to the bottom first, and then we see my sister fly down alone. She says they wouldn't let dad ride with her, but he's right behind her. Yeah, he's not. The slide only takes a couple minutes, so

after about 10 we know something's wrong. And then we see him stumbling down the side of the mountain. He makes a beeline for the med tent. Turns out he was worried about my sister by herself and tried to speed up to keep an eye on her So he leaned into a curve the thing they specifically tell you not to do and he flipped out of his sled He slid down the mountain on the concrete had road rash on the tops of his hands and all over his face Mom could barely sit across from him at dinner later Holes in the knees of his jeans his windbreaker sleeves were shredded Literally melted in some places from the friction. And the pièce de résistance, his ear. He needed seven stitches to reattach it. And

here's the kicker. While they're at the on-site urgent care, the doctor was making small talk with my sister as he's sewing my dad's ear back on and asked how old she is. And she says, actually, I'm six. But today we're pretending I'm five. Kids five and under got in free. He just laughed and figured we got in our karma for lying so he didn't bust us. In a few months, we're taking a family trip to Nashville to celebrate that same aunt's 50th. Fingers crossed there are no mishaps. Wonderful story. I can attest they cannot lie like that, kids at that age. And the amount I say to Alexi, like,

it's not worth the $6. I feel like Alpine slides. Do you think everybody knows him? I don't know, but we definitely have some firsthand knowledge. Yeah, I will say mom and I think firmly land on the side of their death traps. Yeah. You probably super love it.

Yeah, I mean, I think they're fantastic. They're, you know, there needs to be, and I think there are now some safety mechanisms that it sounds like there weren't in 2005. But yeah, you can fly down those things. They're sort of like a little, like a picture like what? It's like a roller coaster, basically. So there's rails and you're in a like cart,

like a hard luge cart with one sort of- Not really a roller coaster because it doesn't do loops or anything. It's more just like, it goes down a ski mountain. So you go to a ski mountain in a non-ski type of the year, time of the year, and you go to the top and it's basically like, all I remember is that there was just like, sort of like,

if you picture it like scooter handlebars, that if you pulled down was the brake and otherwise it was just gravity taking you as fast as you could. Yeah, and gravity is pretty good. It's going you down. Undefeated, really, at being good at getting people moving fast. I always, my fear was both, one, I was worried I was going to fall off and two,

I was worried I was going to be the kid that everybody else hated because at some point you have to slam on the brakes if the person in front of you is not enjoying the ride through their hair. Yeah, also the notion of a father speeding up because he was worried about his daughter, like what are you gonna do? I will say I get it though. That instinct of you just wanna have eyes on. Right.

You just feel better. And I guess to be able to talk to them as well and be like, just pull up the brake honey, pull up the brake. Or just like just to see them and know they're not, you know, in the woods. Yeah. You would go very fast down an Alpine luge.

What would, how would mom describe it? I mean, she- Poshi is a- Speed demon. I would have said speed burner. Speed burner, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, he was the speed burner. Yeah.

Because speed demon other humans have said. Yeah. Don't do mom dirty by saying that she's like sharing her parlance with the hoy-polloy. Yeah, that Adatash is a mountain in New Hampshire that we would go to. That's the first place we encountered an alpine slide. And they are like, they're good things for the off months for ski mountains.

But yeah, I feel like safety, new safety measures have probably been implemented. Certainly since 2005, I can't even imagine how crazy it was back in our day. Yeah, yeah. Pretty much every middle school in America had at least one kid who never came back from an Alpine slide. Cause they, Alpine died. Or they just went missing.

A lot of kids would just get thrown out. Just like off into the woods. Yeah, and then they, the assumption is they were raised as woods people. This isn't a tragedy. Many think that that's a fuller life. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from Soul. I love going out with friends, but I don't always want to drink.

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at the weekends. So if there ever was a match on during one of our spins, he would play the commentary on the radio. Just to note, football commentary back in the 80s wasn't as exciting at sports coverage today. It was usually a man with a very dull, monotonous tone describing what player had the ball. Great stuff. Now did I mention that I also had horrible car sickness back then?

So as a child fighting for my life trying to overcome the nausea in the backseat of the car, the soundtrack to my pain was a very boring man droning on about football. Still to this day, if I hear a man's voice covering football on the radio, a ripple of nausea goes through my stomach. So that's my wee family trip, flash childhood trauma memory for you guys. On another note, I had a chat with the entire nation of Ireland and they agree with me. Please stop attempting the Irish accent. No, I knew it! Oh, bad. But I love you guys, so honest for him. Love to your mom and dad too.

I love to hear all about their antics. Bye! First of all, Melanie, I'd like to say that it's always been Seth who's been attempting it. That is true. Grab a walk. I wrote down how much I liked grab a walk. We were very lucky and continue to be lucky, but we, everybody should have an Irish friend.

We have an Australian friend who spent a lot of time in Ireland, Josie O'Reilly. And she also, she performed as part of a trio called the Nualas who are very Irish and she's, you know, she's, she could dial it in. She also thinks our Australian accents are terrible. Yeah, she just has a bad ear for those sort of things. She was also, she lost it on an Alpine slide. They couldn't save her, her ear for accents. Grab a walk is lovely. It is, can I just confirm, and here's, you'll love how I can confirm this posh. You know there's nothing I like more than watching a British television show from the 70s or 80s.

Oh, yeah. A lot of spy stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Spycraft and sometimes there will be a moment in these sort of grainy BBC spy shows where someone is either watching a football match or listening to it on the radio. And I can confirm it's a lot of like and Douglas how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how about a how speak in Ireland. It's been announced. Yeah. Our Pittsburgh Steelers are playing the first

professional NFL game in Ireland on September 28th. I know. I have a wedding in Dublin on September 20th, but Mackenzie's schedule will allow us to go for the week before and sort of- But not after. And not after. So I think it would be very tough for me to stick around for another week in Ireland. Not that I wouldn't love to. Not that I wouldn't love to either. I actually have to go to a wedding that weekend.

On the 28th? Yeah. Oh, gotcha. But yeah, man, and I actually, our plan is to go get some of the, like get a walk, grab a walk. We're gonna try to grab the West Coast of Ireland, which I've not seen before. So maybe we'll be an old Sligo. Yeah.

Yeah, that's really funny. When I used to live in Amsterdam, I would want a lot of afternoon naps. And if you turn the BBC on for golf, if golf happened to be on, they would always have a British, a Scottish, and an Irish commentator. It was just the most wonderful collection of

smooth-speaking, nap-ready voices. It was the best. I loved it so much. It wasn't legal to be excited in England until like the late 90s. It was Robbie Williams, I think. Yeah, he was the one who was like, what are we doing? Did I tell you I met Robbie Williams and how excited it was? No. It was the best.

I bet. I mean, Robbie Williams, I think everybody knows who Robbie Williams is, but massively popular in England and Europe. Yeah. Especially when we were living there. Yeah. It was a huge deal. Yeah.

And I was at the Golden Globes and I went over to say hi, I'm sorry, I'm name dropping, but it's all good. I went over to say hi to Kieran Culkin and then the guy he was talking to said like, oh, hey, hey Seth, I'm Robbie Williams. And it was that really funny thing where you get hit with, I kind of didn't think they were famous people who could surprise me with how excited I was to meet them. Yeah.

Yeah. I've heard his movie, Better Man is fantastic. I mean, it is the craziest concept. Yeah. But God love him. Basically, animated film where a monkey is? It's not animated. It's like a CGI monkey is playing Robbie Williams. Everything else is people. It's just real. But it's the people that made the greatest showmen.

Somebody made a really interesting observation, which was, and again, he was super popular, and then his first album that sort of was, tried to make him go mainstream here in the States. And again, he's a very handsome fella. And he was sort of a heart, known as a heartthrob. His first album that came out here is him wearing like a roll neck, turtle neck, that's like pulled up to his eyes.

So it's like taking away his bread and butter. It's like, yeah, you know, you're going to be. But I kind of think that maybe speaks to why there's a great, great much more depth to him that's probably radically incorrect, based on the fact that he was also like, no, I think in the movie I should be a CGI monkey. Or like, oh, I think I've covered this, I should pull a turtle neck up. I think he's like, let's make the more interesting

choice, which is we need more people like that. Yeah. But thank you so much for that story. And, you know. Sorry for our accents. We probably won't completely can them, but yeah, they're gonna sneak back in. But when you're in Ireland, make sure you go sit in the car

and eat ice cream with the windows rolled up because it's too cold outside. So this is our last story for the day. And Pashi, when we're done, will you just, I mean, I am like spinning out a little bit about my rooting and tooting. So just go and tell mom that like she was asking for it.

I'll also say between our two rounds of golf on this trip that I'm on, yesterday it was a scramble, which means, you know, you're playing with four people and you just play the best ball. So if you have a bad shot, it doesn't affect your game necessarily. So that format really cuts down on dad's rootin' and tootin'. Oh, is he good? Well, yeah, because he doesn't have to play a ball if he, you know, carves it off into the woods. But today, everyone's playing their own ball. So let's see if he's back to form. So put on the old noise canceling.

Yeah. I did leave out, we went to, we also had an awesome dinner on Saturday night. Again, Ash was under the weather, so we went to a restaurant and it was mom and dad, myself, my other brother-in-law, Zach, his daughter, Agnes, Addy and Axel. And we went to like a pretty nice restaurant and the kids came in way too hot.

And you felt like everybody in the restaurant be like, oh boy. And then I think they were just so happy to be with the Poncas, they just calmed right down. And every mom asked Axel for a bite of his pasta. And last time he wouldn't give her any and this time he gave her two rigatones. Which is all she needs. I mean, she's like a bird.

But it was very sweet. And both, it's funny, Agnes, who is no relation to Pankajeri at all. But she like calls him Pankajeri. That's the best thing about him not being grandpa. Right. Like, cause kind of at some point, anybody can have Pankajeri.

Yeah. And it's really funny how much she wants to like, I want to sit next to Pankajeri. Yeah, she's a big fan. She wants to take a trip to New Hampshire. Yeah. Yeah. All right, let's hear our last story. Hi, this is Rhonda Colling from Merrimack, New Hampshire. Yes, the town right next to Bedford.

So if your parents would like to go for lunch at the Copper Door, tell them to let me know. Also, we have more in common. I was born in Pittsburgh. My whole family was born in Pittsburgh. They're all from Squirrel Hill. I spent a lot of time in Pittsburgh growing up. So ghost dealers. I'm calling to tell you about a family trip that I took in 1981 of the summer when I was 15 years old. It was the summer between my freshman and sophomore years of high school. So my father had accrued six weeks of vacation and personal days and sick days. So we had saved those up and we were going to

drive to California from New York State. So I really did not want to go on this trip. I really did not want to go but I have to tell you that now I really appreciate it. It's a beautiful country. We saw so many parks. We saw Yellowstone and Zion and Bryce Canyon and the Redwoods. Oh my god they were so beautiful and the Painted Desert and Mount Rushmore and everything and I do really appreciate it. We have a beautiful country but at the time I was 15 I didn't want to leave my friends. I didn't want to be in a station wagon with my younger brother and sister.

So at the time I had had this pen pal that I met at a bar mitzvah in Philadelphia, this cute boy, and we had been writing back and forth actual letters. There was no email. And I had convinced my parents that we should visit him and he lived in Kalamazoo, Michigan. So my mother agreed for us to detour slightly north to Michigan to see this boy for one day so that I would stop complaining. Now the morning of the day that we were going to go visit him was a very long driving day. It was going to be a 10-hour day to get from our previous destination. And that morning we ate at a Perkins Waffle House and I had a

strawberry waffle with whipped cream. And about an hour after we started driving after breakfast I got terrible food poisoning from this waffle. And I have to say that the smart thing to do would have had my parents pull over to one of those roadside motels and just hole up in there for me to be sick for the next few hours but my mother would not be deferred from her glorious purpose and all of her reservations that she had made from New York all the way to California along the way. So needless to say I threw up for 10 hours in tuckler bowls, in Ziploc bags, whatever was available, sometimes on the floor, it was a nightmare. So we pull up

to this boy's house in Kalamazoo, and this is after I had been throwing up this whole time. I was so sick. And all this boy wanted to do was take me out for pizza, and all I wanted to do was go to sleep. But anyway, we went out for pizza, and after pizza he wanted to go somewhere quiet and try to make out with me because we were 10 pails and we were 15 and he was cute. I couldn't even stand for him to touch me. The whole thing ended up being a bust. And so I would just say that the moral of the story is, do not go on a very long trip after you've eaten at a Perkins Waffle House.

But afterwards, we did not really stay pen pals anymore. It is definitely, definitely worth seeing this beautiful country that we have. It is just amazing. And the people are so nice. Even in these divisive times, please go see the country. Just don't see it in a station wagon with your brother and sister when you're 15 in the summer after you've eaten a strawberry waffle. I really love the pod.

Thanks for all the laughs. Take care. That is. I mean, I got to kind of back up that 15-year-old dude who saw his moment, right? That window wasn't open again. He had to get that make out that day, right? Yeah. I mean, really threading a needle to even have that opportunity. Right. Also, like somewhat a guy you met at a bar mitzvah, not to sort of pigeonhole the Jewish population,

but I feel like they there are camp going people. Yeah. There's people making out at camp. Yeah. And some girls come in across country to see you. And you've been prepped for this by letters. Yeah. Epistolaries.

Yeah. Good old epistolaries. Good old epistolaries. That is, I mean, it really does, I mean, again, I think a lot of times we are now reaching the age where like, ah, letters. But it is really cool to think about that time where you would get a letter from someone,

especially at that age and just save it. Yeah. I mean, very cool. And I like, by the way, I do feel like it was a little unnecessary how quickly. She was like, I never saw that guy again, but this country is so beautiful. You should definitely see this country. It's like, all right, I get it. He came out a little too strong.

You know, I know we definitely ate some garbage for breakfast as kids in particular, but it is, it surprises me that we're giving our kids like waffles with whipped cream and strawberries. And it's like, that's dessert for breakfast. It's great, yeah. And it's not gonna set you up for a great day. Although I have a question for you. Yeah.

Don't you think if you were gonna have a piece of cake every day, don't you think it'd be better to have it for breakfast than right before bed? Oh yeah, I suppose you're right. I mean, again, in a perfect world, no cake. Right. As far as like what's- And I'm also like not a cake guy, so-

I'm not a cake guy either. But I was saying that like nobody offers me cake in the morning, and I do every now and then, you know, get offered cake at night. And that's the cake I always regret. Yeah. Maybe next time they offer you cake at night, you should have a little cake box, and you say thank you. Save it for the morning.

You can have it in the morning with your coffee. Save it for the morning. Oh my God, that's such a good idea. A few years ago, Mom and I were in Amsterdam for our friend Saskia's 50th. And we went to this little coffee shop on the corner. We sort of didn't want to have breakfast at the hotel and we wanted to do something sort of, you know, cuter, smaller, dutcher. And there was like a coffee and cake combo. And we ordered one of those and it was like this, you know, beautiful little cup of coffee and then a giant piece of apple cake.

Like it was the biggest thing. I couldn't believe it. Yeah, we did not get all the way through that cake, but the Dutch are doing it. Panacokin. You know, we're getting very excited for Ash, my son, to have his first Panacokin in Amsterdam. Yeah, Dutch pancake. Dutch pancake. And I think he's gonna go with the Barenholds girls. Oh, great.

My friend Ike's three daughters have made a couple videos saying how they're excited to meet Ash. Great. And Ash watches him. It's like three witches have cast a spell on him. He just like, just stares at him. He's like, I want to watch it again. Is he younger than all those girls?

No, he's right in the middle. He's like basically lined up with the one in the middle. Okay. So he's going to be the best. Awesome. Yeah. And I'm very excited. Okay. So he's gonna be the best. Awesome. Yeah. And I'm very excited. We're gonna do a show named, I know we mentioned that,

but I'm gonna keep plugging away at it. A live one. A live one. Yeah, our second live show. Yeah. All right, well, thanks to our listeners once again. Yeah, thanks everybody. I was just gonna say, I have a new sign off,

but now I'm worried about doing it based on one of her messages. Okay. Okay. This has been Family Trips. Me all fine, you're padded gold. So maybe, and that was, I pre-wrote that, but now I'm- Yeah.

We'll see you next time on Family Trips with the Myers brothers. Bye everybody. Bye. ["Family Trips"] Bye everybody. Bye. In Winter Park, came upon an alpine slide, such a cool ride. Gettin' so much fun, they decided to take another run. To take another run Katie's sister in high gear

Dad pullin' up the rear Leamed in and tried to steer They had to sew on his ear And Melanie, her stomach was complaining, eating ice cream while it's raining. Stuck inside the car, wanted to grab a walk, but the play my play was drowning. Car sickness had a morning Sportscast is boring talk And now I'm honing A better Irish accent Rhonda from Merrimack Met a pen pal at a bar mitzvah Took a road trip Had some waffles that made her feel sick She didn't know what to do in Kalamazoo That boy he was cute, hope he liked girls who Tongue with a little lip lock, but up a westin's inlocks were all that she could build. She knew you could not belong, asked her parents for some patience, but her mom had reservations. She saw the nation, thinks everybody should too Thanks for watching!