Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - Listener Episode #14: Pikes Peak Mishaps & A Dog Left Behind

Episode Date: June 26, 2025

Seth and Josh are back with the monthly listener episode! We hear a few hilarious stories from listeners including the time one woman’s father dropped the family off halfway up a mountain, what happened when one family accidentally left their dog behind, and one listener’s recounting of her family’s first time on a plane! Plus, Seth and Josh answer some 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!" 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. ------------------------- 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, Pashi. Hi, Zuzi. Sometimes you take a family trip and it's lovely and it creates memories. And other times you are just you. All by yourself. And you just have a disaster travel day. We're catching you at the end of 11 hours. I mean, it's longer than that, all told.

It's closer to 20, I think, all told. But- 20 hours to get from, you were in Kathmandu. No, I was in Western Massachusetts. I was in beautiful Shelburne Falls in Western Massachusetts, Mackenzie's hometown. We were there for her dad and stepmother's 30th anniversary party, which was lovely, up in Brattleboro, Vermont. Gotcha.

Spent some time with Mackenzie's mom. We went for some dog walks. Her mom and I watched the end of the French open, which was very exciting. Did some weeding in the garden, hung up this bird feeder with a camera. Oh my God, this is the most boring vacation. I'm sorry.

For our listeners, I was trying to be polite to get to Josh's disastrous travel day, but once he starts talking about hanging up a bird feeder. A bird feeder that mom and dad gave to my mother-in-law for Christmas that we finally put up because it has a camera in it and it sends alerts any time there's movement so you can see the birds and every three minutes she gets an alert because there's a squirrel just totally pillaging

this bird feeder and they're definitely going to wreck it within a week. Okay, so that's good. So it was wasted time. Yeah, although I mean it's sort of a burn on mom and dad. It's a burn on dad, I think. I mean, it was a great idea for a gift, but anyhow, so yesterday we're flying back through, we fly to Bradley, which is in Hartford, Connecticut.

We got a layover. I never liked taking- So wait, you fly from Western Mass to Bradley? No, you drive down to Bradley. It's like an hour drive. Yeah. And Mackenzie loves her parents as, you know, you do. Feels like there's a big old butt coming.

She always finds it very difficult to say goodbye. And so as a result of that, she sort of hangs out for a little bit longer than one should hang out when you have a flight to catch. Yeah. And I sort of am always, I know this ends badly and I'm still stressed. Well, I'm the bad guy because I'm like, hey, we got to go. Hey, people who listen to the podcast, who hear Josh constantly tell me to get back to talking about trips, are you surprised to hear he's the bad guy?

Sound off in the comments. So her dad drives us down to Bradley, and Mackenzie has a big piece of check luggage that her mother had borrowed last time she went back. We had some stuff from our wedding that we were bringing back, so we had to check a bag. We get there. I'm already checked in. Mackenzie has said, for whatever reason, she wasn't able to check in online.

She goes to the kiosk. We are one minute too late to check her bag. Okay. And if you thought I was the bad guy before, you're really gonna think I'm the bad guy now. Because I gotta get back to do not only this podcast, but to get our dogs flying Yeah. Flying through Philly. We're like pretty late to this flight as it is.

Like if your bag can't go on, the flight's gonna leave soon. So they're like, we can't get you on this plane. We can route you through Chicago and you'll land in LA at around one in the morning to Mackenzie. And they say it like, we have one seat on this flight. We can get you a seat.

So I'm like, well, I should go. Like, I'm sorry, but I, you know, I'm gonna go to Philly and I'm gonna get home. I'll be home by 8.30. Tough sledding for you. So we have a sort of tearful goodbye. I get on my plane, get to Philly no problem. I get an update from Mackenzie that says,

actually she can fly through Charlotte and she'll probably be home at 10.30. I'm like, great. I get on my next plane, I'm ready to take off. We're sort of taxiing and they're like, actually one of these engines is being finicky. So we're gonna pull back into the gate. We just need to wait for a gate.

So we wait for a gate, get in there. They run it and they're like, we think we fixed the problem. We're gonna be on our way here in a minute. I'm like, great. And they're like, actually, no, this plane's no bueno. We're gonna, everybody's gotta get off. We're gonna find another plane.

So get off, wait around for a good long time. Then they get us on another plane. They're like, hey, here we go. You know, you're probably gonna get home around, you know, 10 30. So Mackenzie and I are like, oh, we'll, you know, we'll ride home together. This will be great.

Yeah. Mechanical issue on that plane. They're like, we think we can fix it. They fix it. And eventually they're like, well, the crew has been working too long, so we can't fly tonight. So you got to go to a hotel. It's 1230. My new flight is going to be at five in the morning.

So they say they've emailed us all these vouchers to go to hotels. It'll be very simple. I'm looking, I got no emails. I call this number. I don't know why. I'm one of the few that doesn't have an email. They tell me they've sent it again. They sent it to this other email account that I have that I never use. I'm not getting them. I have no idea. I'm getting other emails. I go up to talk to the woman at the desk who's been dealing with a bunch of angry people and she's like, it says that it's been texted to you. And I'm like, texted? And I look and I do have a text,

but I've been getting texts from the airline all day saying your flight's delayed and they just keep moving back a half an hour. So I haven't been paying attention to those. I go, I had my choice of two hotels. I picked the one that was closer. So it was a mile away. But that's maybe as the crow flies, it feels like it's about a 20 minute drive to get there.

And I get there real dirty carpets in the hallway, real sketchy. I get into my room. There is a bug on the wall that looks like a thumb with a thousand legs on it. Oh, that's not good. Yeah. Man, it really had me freaked out. So I was freaked out. I don't like to kill a bug.

Yeah, I usually like to like get it under a glass and get it outside. Sounds like this bug might've been like hoping for someone to end their sweet misery. Yeah, well, that's what I did. Okay, good. Yeah, so I took the bug down with like, I grabbed a little face towel and then I was like,

no, I need a full-size towel for this. Like I don't- That, no, wow. Yeah, because I didn't want it to fall. I didn't want to miss it. Sure. And then after I killed that bug, I tried to like sleep for an hour and a half,

but I turned the lights off and I was just thinking about that bug the whole time. Yeah, because they tend to not to travel solo. Solo, no. like sleep for an hour and a half, but I turned the lights off and I was just thinking about that bug the whole time. Yeah, cause they don't, they tend to not to travel solo. Solo, no. Yeah. You were like, I bet at this point, the thumb bugs might be sending out a surge party.

Yeah, so I couldn't sleep. I turned on a 30 for 30. I watched a very good 30 for 30 on the Orlando Magic. Okay. Which was fun, I guess. And then, yeah, 5 a.m. flight. So I didn't sleep for like 20 hours and then I slept on the whole flight here which did not have a chair that tipped back.

And I walked in the door maybe 25 minutes ago. So I feel like that, you know, I'm hoping we have like this breakthrough where people in the travel industry recognize you as someone who has a travel adjacent podcast. Yeah. Treat you a little nicer. Yeah. I mean no one was being treated nicely.

Yeah, yeah. There was a lot of, yeah. It's a tough situation. I will acknowledge that, but. Was it, was the hotel called a, was it a Motel 6000 Legs? I think it was called the Microtel, which is also not like, not a huge name that you, oh, we love our microtels. And I also, I sort of brag that I'm,

that Mackenzie will be skittish about, you know, a weird hotel room with like a weird blanket. And I'm like, I can sleep anywhere and I cannot sleep at this place. Also, I thought, you know, Mackenzie might learn a lesson for more of this that like we got to the airport late, you had to fly on a different thing. She got home last night around midnight. She got to on a different thing. She got home last night, around midnight.

She got to sleep in our bed. Totally normal life. Yeah. So if she had made our original flight, she would have been getting home with me right now. Yeah. And probably living in the same sea of bug nightmares that you are gonna have to deal with the rest of your life.

Yeah. There was a woman who was like, why are you even going to a hotel? Like, to just stay at the gate. Like, it's 1230, you have to be back here at like three. And I was like, if I could lay in a bed for two hours, I'm going to lay in a bed for two hours. Yeah.

And I was really jealous of that woman and all the people, all my friends that I saw sitting around the terminal when I got back in there. Yeah. Because I can sleep on a terminal floor. And I don't think there are huge bugs there and there are people there and it's safe. I'm impressed they let, because I remember we talked to Kristen Bell about the fact or Dax, I can't remember who told us the story about how they cleared out Logan Airport.

Oh yeah. They had to wait. So, you know, I think the very fact that they were letting you chill at the Philly airport, I tip my cap. Yeah. I mean, TSA didn't open till 3.30. Part of me wanted to go right back when I got to the hotel, but they weren't, I wasn't going to be able to get through TSA.

So I was just going to be in that like check-in area, which doesn't have like carpeted floors. Not that those carpets are, you know, totally what you want to be sleeping on. Well, I'm sorry, Pashi, thanks for hustling back to do the podcast. Yeah, I'm gonna get a big nap after this. I'm having my first cup of coffee in a long time and yeah. And I'm excited to listen to some listener stories.

Yeah, I was gonna say, we needed to get you back at this time because we had a guest schedule, but of course we don't. It's just listener stories and we really could have done this at any time. we had a guest schedule, but of course we don't. It's just listener stories and we really couldn't have done this at any time. But here we are. Can't put the genie back in the bottle. Your schedule's not that easy to work around.

You're a busy man. That's true. That's true. I got a kind of busy day today. Oh, you know what I'm doing today? Who's that? Oh, I'm gonna brag a little bit about what I'm doing today. Okay. So, you know, I grew up,

I enjoyed my baseball cards back in the day. Oh yeah, I sure did. And there's a new kind of baseball card called Allen and Ginter. Nerd alert. And, yep, totally. Ring the bell. And they sort of look like old,

if you're watching this on YouTube, I'll show it. They look like sort of old cigar cards, see them? Oh yeah, that's cool. And they do non-baseball players. And so I'm gonna have a card in the set this year. Wow. And today I'm gonna go to the offices, the Fanatics offices who owns Tops,

and I'm gonna sign a bunch of my cards because they insert signed cards into random packs. So I mean, obviously a lot of people now are pausing the pod to pre-order the Allen and Gunter set for the chance to get one of my autograph cards. But I'm very excited. Are you gonna wear like an old timey baseball uniform? No, they already, they picked a photo.

I don't know if I picked the right one or not. I obsessed over it. It's just like me in a sweater at the desk. Okay, so there's not like- In action. Yeah. Do you think there are some kids out there who are going to be less than psyched to pull a Seth Meyers card? Yeah.

We, Alexi gave, Alexi gave the commencement at her old high school. I think I've talked about this. Yeah. But she did a bang up job. And it was a really cool thing, which is there was this kid, I was sitting in the front row,

and one of the graduates, I'll brag on behalf of him, he was valedictorian. Okay, yeah, bravo. But I noticed him notice me. I like his eyes lit up when he saw me in the front row. And so then at the end of the event, he came over with his family and asked for a picture. And I was like, of course, dude. And then he was like, oh man,

I couldn't believe you were here. And I was like telling the people next to me, I'm like, that's Seth Meyers. And they were like, who? Oh my God, I need that part of the story. I feel like it was pretty cool that you recognized me. I don't think we have to talk about how you're an outlier. Yeah.

But he's in the know. He's one of the cool kids. He's got a- Yeah, and based on his grades, you know, I might just say, you know, the future's a little bit brighter if you engage with later. All right, so we got some listener stories.

Great. Let's hear it. Let's get him. Sam, roll them. Hey guys, Chris here from Massachusetts. So when I was maybe in third grade, my dad got his hands on a sweet red 1973 VW camper, which dictated our family vacations for years to come. So my parents, my younger brother and sister and our elderly golden retriever and I would pile in and we'd drive all the way from Massachusetts to Colorado. These weren't what you would consider quick trips as we'd kind of trek along at a cool 35 miles an hour across the country.

We'd stop midway in Iowa to meet our cousins at Clear Lake, which is where Buddy Holly's plane crashed, which has nothing to do with the story, but we love taking that boat out, going tubing. Our golden retriever Shanti loved to swim and wait around. Well, one year as we continued to Colorado, we stopped for gas before the camper took on the task of climbing way up into the Rocky Mountains, which in that VW was kind of like a box turtle ascending a ladder, not fast going up there. But we gassed up, we let the dog go to the bathroom, grabbed some snacks, and then we set off. It was slow going, but the VW was getting it done. The roads were

steep and narrow and winding. If you look out the window, there were just cliffs right out the passenger side. But after what seemed like a few hours, we made it to the peak and we took in an amazing view and then immediately realized that we'd left our dog at the gas station. You might wonder how we didn't notice that she was gone. Look, we loved her, but she was old and quiet. And somebody had bought a beige duffel bag and it was easy to confuse the two. So we got back in the VW and we headed back down the Rocky Mountains to go fetch our dog. It was then, due to the altitude, that the brakes stopped working. We were free careening down the mountain. If my dad pumped the brakes a little bit, he had some resistance, but there was really no stop in the VW. We were free careening down the mountain. If my dad pumped the brakes a little bit,

he had some resistance, but there was really no stop in the VW. We were basically on a marble run. It's amazing that we didn't clean off the edge and go airborne. But being the oldest child, a seasoned and mature third grader, my parents instructed me to be in charge of distracting my little brother and sister who were scream crying about the missing dog. My parents needed to keep focused on keeping us all alive on this impromptu rollercoaster and it was my job to distract the kids, being a kid myself, but I made my stuffed rabbit Snuggie Bunny dramatically fight himself over and over again and that worked pretty well. As a side note, the cousins I mentioned before would always ridicule me for my stuffed animal

being named Snuggie, because that's what apparently they call wedgies in the Midwest. Kind of like a soda verse pop thing. I remember their version of Dr. Pepper was Mr. Pib, which was obviously inferior. I don't think Mr. Pib even attended medical school. But anyways, your listeners are probably good infers who can figure out that we did not plummet to our deaths since I'm leaving this voice note.

And once we got to a lower altitude, the brakes started working again. And we got to the gas station, our old golden retriever Shanti was just sitting there, exactly in the same spot we'd left her. And this might've scared most families off from getting into this death trap and taking it to the Rockies ever again, but we continue to go back every single year.

Wow. Thanks for listening and I love the podcast. Bye. Now, I have a theory, Josh, and you know dogs better than me. Yeah. What are the chances that Shanti was smart enough to be like, I think these brakes are gonna give out

in the altitude. They do sense things. Dogs can smell things. They sense things. It was just like, I'm gonna stay here. Yeah. I don't, I mean, I certainly, I'm not a car guy, but I can't imagine what it is about altitude that makes your brakes stop working.

Yeah, that feels like maybe a lie the rental place told afterwards. Oh yeah, you can't take it up in altitude. What a trip. What a good dog. I love that thing of an older sibling having to make other siblings calm down. And the boys often take it upon themselves when Addie's crying to try to calm her. Uh-huh. By making her laugh. And the only downside is their immediate go-to is show her their butts.

So if Addie's like, if Addie like skins her knee and she's like, they're like, Addie, Addie, look! And they just like dance around with their butts. So if Addie's like, if Addie like skins her knee and she's like, they're like, Addie, Addie, look. And they just like dance around with their butts out. And I will say works 95% of the time. Yeah. I mean, it is, you just need something. You need a Trump card you can just pull out and play and your butt is, if you know it's working. And they are, you know, their butts are full comedy right now. You know what I mean? They're just sort of, they're fresh butts.

They're fresh butts that have not been damaged by time and sadness. And they're just like a good, they're just good funny butts. Yeah. Yeah. Funny little boy butts. Yeah. I do love a car that can only go 35 miles an hour across the country.

Yeah, so funny. Yeah, you just, you're definitely in that far right lane and someone's probably still mad at you. I remember once my sister-in-law was dating a guy who was a pilot. We knew how to fly, he wasn't like a full-time pilot. Right. But I remember once he, I said like, I found't like a full-time pilot. But I remember once he said,

I found this little plane I want to buy. It's got room for bunk beds in the back. And he showed me this old 1950s little plane that was bigger than you think of when you think of a little plane. It was big, high ceilings. I'm like, that's amazing. I'm like, what's the downside? If he was like, it goes basically as fast as a car. I'm like, that's amazing. I'm like, what's the downside? If he was like, it like goes basically as fast as a car.

I'm like, oh, that's not good. Thank you for that great story. I'm glad you and your family are okay. I'm glad you found your dog. Yeah. Yeah, that would have been a major bummer. Yeah, dogs need to learn a lesson though. You can't just do that.

You can't do that. I think the duffel bag thing is, do you think the dog also was like, stay, stay, stay still? Maybe they'll think the bag is me. And now we're gonna take a quick break to hear from one of our sponsors. Support comes from Uplift Desk. Hey, Bashi.

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It's only available through our link. All right, let's hear the next one. Hi, y'all. My name is Jana, and I've wanted to do this ever since y'all started this podcast. And I found out you had listeners episodes. You probably can tell I'm from Texas, because you know the y'all thing. Specifically the Bay Area, like the Bay Area of San Francisco, but the Bay Area of the Gulf Coast. We were a family of five, me being the well-rounded middle child. I had a fabulous older sister and an annoying but cute younger brother. We went on family trips every summer in a station

wagon pulling a pop-up camper. This particular year, 1963 I think, my little brother was probably three so I was eight, my sister ten. Our camper, we called it the Tilton Hilton, had an axle that year, pretty much into the beginning of the trip. Too far to turn back, so we left it at an auto repair shop and loaded all our stuff on top of the station wagon. I don't remember where the final destination was. It was all about the journey anyway, but we stopped at Pike's Peak in Colorado along the way.

As we ascended toward the top of the little road, which was very curvy and had severe drop-offs, the station wagon began to crap out. Well, my dad was having none of that, so he pulled off. We found a spot and we unloaded everything off the top and hid it in some bushes. From there, we continued our set. Eventually, the wagon started to crap out again. That sent my dad off the rails. He stopped in the middle of the road because by then there was nowhere to pull off and unloaded the whole family. He left us and continued toward the top of Pike's Peak. We continued also walking. He was gone a long time. He went all the way to the top. He said to turn around. I think he took some time to cool off, but I'm pretty sure he was also enjoying the view. I assume there was a view. We never made

it to the top walking. He finally came down and picked us up. Then we went to where our things were stashed and loaded it all back on top of the car. And we went on and continued our family's trip. Amazing. I mean, the only, again, I'm happy for Jana, but it would have been the funniest ending if she had said, and that was the last we saw of him. And we realized the whole thing had been planned

as a way to abandon us. And then a family of bears had all of our luggage and clothing. I like the Tilton Hilton. I'll tell you, you know why they had an axle problem? What's that? Altitude. It can't go up these.

You can't take cars to elevation. No, you can't do that. That's what planes are for. You know when I've had an axle problem on a trip? When anytime you bring your middle son? Yeah. I would say we almost every trip at some point we're like, we have an axle problem.

Yeah. Yeah. Axle was very excited to find out that there's a part of a car that shares his name. Oh, I bet. Does he know about Guns N' Roses yet? No. Okay.

Yeah, that'll be exciting for him. Yeah, that'll be very exciting for him. Yeah, because he seems like he'll be into that sort of butt rock. Oh, totally. And then Ash, who whines about everything, is gonna say, why didn't you name me after a rock star? And you know what I'm gonna tell him? What was that?

We did, Ashley Simpson, go enjoy. There's a musician named Ash right now. I think it's just a ASHA. Oh yeah, yeah. Ash has been on my show. Ash is actually really dope. Yeah. So there you go.

Yeah, you know what? You're right. I don't know why show. Ash is actually really dope. Yeah. So there you go. Yeah. You know what? You're right. I don't know why I'm giving Ash a hard time. I should, I don't remember the song, but maybe twice, but yeah, really fun time. It is great to think of a father who has a goal in mind of we're gonna reach this peak

and is willing to leave everything behind. Well, that's right. You said his goal was we're going to reach the peak. Right. We found out his goal was I'm going to reach the peak. I'm going to reach it. Yeah. Cause I'm not going to, what's he going to just give the car

over to his wife and say, you drive it. I'll, I'll hang back. I will say I I've definitely been guilty of that thing of, you know, like go run an air, like we need toilet paper, go to the store and like I'll, you know, run in, I'll get the toilet paper, then I'll just sit in a, in a grocery store parking lot for five minutes, staring at the windshield.

Oh yeah. Just before I like rush back. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So I can imagine how once you're at the peak of a mountain, this is really so far, I would say if anybody, if there's a takeaway of this listener episode so far it's like just don't drive up mountains. Mountains are doing everything they can to tell you they're not for you and take the note from the mountain. Yeah, yeah. But I do think

I mean when it's when it's you got to run to the store and you're running errands and you're sort of doing that when you've taken on that role, I think you've earned five minutes in the parking lot. Yeah, you've earned five minutes. To gather your thoughts. When you're on a road trip with your whole family, I don't think you've earned having everyone get out of the car and drive it away without them.

Especially if they're like, you know they're trying to walk to the top. Right. All righty. Let's hear the next one. you know they're trying to walk to the top. Right. Alrighty, let's hear the next one. Hi, Seth and Josh. My name is Autumn and I live in Sarasota, Florida now, but I grew up amidst the fertile fields of Northwest Ohio. Most of my family still lives there in the same village

my Swiss-German ancestors settled in nearly 200 years ago. A little stealer's fun fact, Big Ben Rathasberger grew up nearby. His stepmom even ran the rec center in my town. So here's my family trip story, which I'm technically not in, but I was the destination, so I hope it counts. In 2012, soon after I moved to Florida, my parents and my younger brother, he's my only sibling, we were a core four family, came to visit me here on the beautiful Gulf Coast. Anytime we traveled, which was not that often, except for an annual trip to Gatlinburg, Tennessee, we always drove. For this trip, however, my family opted not to spend 18 hours in a car barreling down I-75. They were going to fly. And this would be my brother's first time on an airplane.

He was 22. He showed up to the airport with a knife, a can of dipping tobacco in his cargo shorts, and one severely bloodshot eye. He worked at a lumber yard and had been accidentally hit in the face with a two by four. At least that's what he told us. He knew enough about air travel

to put the knife in his check bag, but he figured he could surreptitiously dip on the plane because it wasn't the same as smoking. He thought wrong. The flight attendant quickly spotted him expectorating into a plastic bottle and reminded him that tobacco use of any kind was prohibited on the aircraft. They had a layover in Atlanta and ate some lunch. My brother took this

opportunity to reunite with his beloved dip. They boarded their next flight, setting their fast food cups on the floor while they buckled in. Mom reached down, grabbed what she thought was her cup, and took a hearty drink. Well, she had accidentally grabbed my brother's cup, which he had turned into a portable spittoon. Immediately realizing her mistake, Mom summoned all her strength and swallowed. She quickly reached for her original cup to wash it down. Not realizing that, in the intervening a minute, my brother had managed to defile that cup as well. Down the hatch went another full swig of swill.

Now years of working as a nurse had given my mom a superhuman tolerance for disgusting sights and smells, but never had she had to stomach anything quite like this. She managed not to projectile vomit like that street fair scene in the movie The Sandlot, and she also managed not to wallop my brother, who to his credit felt terrible and kept apologizing. Also, the altitude and pressure from the flight had made his bloodshot eye swell and bulge, so perhaps that was his punishment. They made it to Florida and we had a great time while they were here. I'm happy to say that my brother no longer dips on land or in the air and he is respectful of all airline rules and regulations. But that

trip was the first and last time my family ever flew together. Thanks guys. I love the podcast. By the way, your mom's Chex Mix recipe sounds just like the one my mom makes. I'm jealous though, because mine only makes hers during the holidays and your mom seems to love you enough to make it year round. Must be nice. Thanks. That was unbelievable. What a great story. Dipping is such a thing. We've got buddies who, you know, they'll still dip. It's so disgusting. Yeah. And we did like, because it's typically at our fantasy football draft.

So we'll be together and there's a lot of beer bottles around. There's fewer beer bottles than there used to be. We're drinking a lot of canned water these days. Yeah, it's true. We're really crushing waters. But all these bottles and things become perfect receptacles if you're a dipper. And inevitably, they just get sort of left around. And if you, you know, if you think this is my long neck beer and if it's, you know, has any opacity to it, whatever, you could go down a real bad road.

Yeah. And also even like the best version, the one time I did try to dip, I definitely threw up a long time. So even like not doing it accidentally, I find it disgusting. Yeah, I used to live with our good buddy, Ike Barinholtz and Hayes MacArthur,

and we were having a party one night with our good buddy, Ike Barinholtz and Hayes MacArthur. And we were having a party one night and Hayes did this where he took a sip of the wrong drink. And Hayes also was a dipper at the time and he threw up. And then Ike heard about it and heard about why he threw up. And then Ike threw up just from hearing about it. Yeah, it's bad news. Uh, a movie, ref, Sandlot. Have you ever seen it?

I have never seen the Sandlot and people love it so much. Dude, I'd never seen the Sandlot and just watch the Sandlot with the boys. Yeah. And here's the thing, it's fantastic. Yeah. It has, it's the thing, I thought if the kids, if you took your kids to a baseball game or showed them baseball on TV,

they'd wanna play baseball, it was watching the Sandlot. Now all they wanna do is go play baseball in the backyard because it's watching kids their age play baseball and have fun. And so it's, I can't believe that upside of it, which has been gigantic. But it's, I can't believe that upside of it, which has been gigantic. But it's a great movie. The funny thing is, it's a kids movie,

but it's still, it's a little pervy. Okay. And that, you know, again, it's like, I don't even know how, I'm sure it's in the movie, 10, 11 years old in the Sandlot. But there's like a scene where, you 11 years old. Okay. In the fan lot. Yeah. But there's like a scene where, you know, three kids are standing on the street

and like the cute girl who's like 13 walks by. And you know, it's like, it's the 50s. And so like everybody's dressed like super respectable and everything. And she like looks at them and smiles and they're all like gagagugu. But then she like walks across the street and like the camera just like lingers on her butt.

Which I guess like a kid that age is looking at the butt. But the problem is, is you as an adult know that a cameraman who was an adult was pointing it at this 13 year old's butt. Right. That was maybe they brought in like a young female cinematographer for that. But there's also another scene that is,

there's one kid with like big glasses and every time he shows up, Ash was like, Axel, it's you. And he's the pervious kid and Axel loved it. Every time they're like, it's you Axel. He was like, so happy. But it's great. It's so fun.

And we've been playing, and we've been playing a lot of Wiffle Ball the last few weeks But it's great. It's so fun. And we've been playing, and we've been playing a lot of Wiffle Ball the last few weeks and it's been a blast. Great. I did go to, when I was just back East, Mackenzie's nephew Oscar had a game. So we drove down to the game and checked it out. And it was like that level of baseball

where somebody's sitting on a bucket, like a coach, and they throw you five balls and if you don't hit any of them, they just put it on a tee and they're like, here, give it a whack. And like kids are running around the bases like waving at each other, like the short stops, waving at the kid running from second to third. If you get tagged out, you just keep going. There's a lot of like people, kids picking up ground balls and just running it to the base

because a throw is like, it's never. Of course, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was really super cute because these kids are excited and don't really know what's going on. But. That's great. All right, thanks for the story.

And we're glad your mom's okay. I mean, that dip, man. I'm a little bit, I guess, I mean, I don't wanna say like, you should be able to dip on a plane, but. It's weird, I didn't think you were going there. Yeah, I get that you can't smoke on a plane, but I guess now there's also all those spitless tobaccos so people are doing that.

I think better to not be spitting. I think they are, you should not be allowed to spit into a cup on a plane. Things have already been a little gross, but I would like to just admonish men in general. Guys go into like bathrooms at like, they're always spitting. I think it's like they go to spit,

the urination is just like, you know, the excuse. So much spitting. There's so much spitting. There's so much spitting at urinals. And I, you know, I secretly hope every time I hear it that someone's accidentally gonna spit on their own wiener. Okay. Interesting. Do it again.

Really some shockers here from you today. I feel like it would be real comeuppance. Do you think that when it happens, are you hoping for a moment where someone's like, No! Damn! My wiener! Didn't mean to spit on my wiener. I gotta clean this off. I'm gonna miss my flight. Why do you need to spit? It's like gentlemen, please.

Do you think her mom wanted to be angrier at her son for spitting into her drink, but then remembered as soon as they landed, he would be able to get his knife? No, I don't think she was afraid like that. That sounds like a nice wholesome family. It does sound like a nice wholesome family. And it does seem like, you know, I think't think she's afraid like that. That sounds like a nice wholesome family. It does sound like a nice wholesome family. And it does seem like, you know, I think very, very good to know that the sun got right. Yeah.

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This is Lindsay from Pittsburgh. I love the show. So I want to say that I agree with Seth that I believe the Grand Canyon is overrated. Thank you. But this does come from someone who went to the Grand Canyon when she was 14 with her grandparents, so take that into consideration. Okay. So my question for you and specifically Seth is, if you feel this way about the Grand Canyon,

what are your thoughts on Niagara Falls? Do you feel like people should go see Niagara Falls or is that also overrated? Thanks for taking the time to listen to this. Bye. So, yeah, I don't think you need to see it. But what I like about Niagara Falls, what I like about Niagara Falls, I've seen it a couple of times

because I've done shows near there. Yeah, also we went. Yeah. I like that, unlike the Grand Canyon, there's not a second thing to do. You know how people will say, oh yeah, did you just look at it, or did you go down, did you spend a week there, did you kill a snake, did you eat a snake,

did you live off snakes? Whereas I feel like with Niagara Falls, like, you know, you can take whatever, what is it called? Lady of the Mist? The Maid of the Mist. Maid of the Mist. And so you can do that part, but I ultimately think if you say you've seen Niagara Falls,

no one is pressing you to have done more with it. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, well, you know, you do know and I know. I think all of these things are worth seeing. There's something about these natural wonders, these things where the scope and the scale of them is, somewhat beyond comprehension until you see it.

You could look at it on TV, you could watch a great Ken Burns documentary about the national parks, but then going there and sort of seeing these things is a different deal. Yeah. I mean, if you're- I believe that. I believe your thesis is a false chemist.

Next question. that I believe your thesis is a false premise. Next question. Hello. I'm a huge fan of the pod and I was wondering about the role of food in your family trips. Some families are more live to eat versus eat to live, but I'm curious, you know, how much of your trip centers around food and any traditions that you guys might have. Aside from your mom's Chex Mix, which I know is a fan favorite.

But anyway, we'd love to know about your must haves, your road trip snacks, anything you and your family participate in that is tradition or that you look forward to. Anyway, thank you, I love the pod. I'll tell you when we travel now, Alexi will make a sleeve of eight sandwiches and they're really good. And it's really nice to, we just sort of, again,

we're, you know, at this point, if we're traveling with my brother-in-law, you know, we're three and then an aisle and three, and there's a lot of passing of the sandwiches. And, you know, the bread is toasted, mustard pickle, salami turkey, very strong sandwich game. Yeah. I like that. So she'll toast a sandwich

and then you might eat it a couple hours later. Yeah. Wrap it up, toast it, but it still has that crunch to it. So I love her sandwiches. Here's the thing I despise. Sometimes if we have to leave really early in the morning to drive somewhere, maybe before the kids have time to have a proper breakfast, we'll give them a hard boiled egg in the car.

Oh, what an idea. Just kids eating hard boiled eggs, no to the thank you. Are they already shelled or did they shell them? They, we shell, they're, they are shelled, no they're not. They have shells on them, then I think we're shelling the eggs and then handing the unshelled egg to them. Yeah. I don't hate eating a hard boiled egg, but I think hard boiled eggs,

here's, I think the proper way to eat them. You have to take it and go into an empty bank vault, and then you've locked the door so that no one has to watch you eat the egg. You should probably turn the lights off just in case. Yeah. My first day on that 70s show, there was a table read and and there was sort of this like brunch laid out at this table in the sort of lobby before we went into this room to read it.

And I got there early because I was nervous, and the next person there was Tommy Chong. And Tommy Chong grabbed a hardboiled egg from this table, and it was like it broke into the smallest pieces imaginable. And I feel like I watched him for 20 minutes just take the tiniest piece of eggshell and like just build this little sort of hill just trying to get to a hard-boiled egg. It was really the best possible way to meet Tommy Chung. I feel like eggs and oranges you know right away if you've got, if you're in for it. Oh yeah, oh an orange for sure. When you get a bad orange, you're like,

God damn it, I'm gonna be here all day opening this fucking orange. I love the, that's the second shout out from a listener to mom's party mix. I know, yeah, I'm glad that's gone national. But I would say, again, I do remember the excitement of any place where you could order food at a pool as a kid. And again, never ordering much beyond a hamburger

and french fries, but I remember that being sort of thrilling. Yeah. And I think we've talked about, what was the Rocky Beach in Marblehead? There was Crocker Park and then there was, oh gosh. Wasn't that. Prescott?

Maybe Prescott where they had a Lime Ricky's was the drink you could get. And then the hot dogs, they sort of, again, grilled hot dog bun, the hot dog had been cooked so that it had like sort of split down the middle with that kind of hot dog. Yeah. So, you know, there are like vacation foods

that I remember from specific places. Yeah. And we weren't like, we weren't built around like a foodie culture back then. No, but I do think now if we go somewhere, I think you more than anyone else will sort of, you know, particularly if we're doing like an adult trip, you'll find some good restaurants. Yeah, we, there was a TEPCA was the vegan.

Polish place in Pittsburgh. Polish vegan restaurant and Pittsburgh, that sort of made the New York Times list of the 100 best restaurants in America. And it was very exciting to know that I was going to Pittsburgh with you and, and it was amazing. Yeah.

So yeah, we do, you know, there's a little bit of foodie tourism, but I'm definitely more eat to live. So yeah. I live to eat. I will say that I think I'm lived to eat to live. So yeah. I live to eat. I will say that I think I'm lived to eat. Yeah. Yeah.

But you know, your way is fine too. Thanks man. Let's hear our next question. Hi Josh and Seth. My name is Casey. I'm from Georgia, huge fan of the podcast. Today I have a question for you guys. I'm wondering what is your significant other's favorite

slash funniest family trip memory? So Seth, what is Alexi's favorite memory? And then Josh, what is Mackenzie's? I love hearing the core four stories from when you guys were growing up, but I think it would be really interesting to hear from their perspective what some more recent family trip memories are that they have. I know they might not necessarily want to be on the podcast, but I don't know if they would be

willing to relay that through you guys. I just think it would be neat to hear from their perspective. Huge fan. Thanks so much. I will tell you, Alexi's new favorite, did I tell you what happened to me when we went on the Rio Grande in kayaks? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So again, sometimes it's just exactly what the guy who thinks the Grand Canyon's a waste of time would do, which is we went on the Rio Grande in kayaks, we were in New Mexico, it was a beautiful day,

we get on these kayaks. The only person who didn't have their own kayak was Addie, who sat in Alexi's front, you know, in her lap on her kayak. But Ash had his own, Axel had his own, and it's just sort of lazy river vibes. And I would say six minutes into a two and a half hour kayak ride, I hit the only tree in the whole river and fall out and lose my phone. And everybody's like, oh my God, what happened?

I was like, and here, can I tell you a lie I told? Yeah. Like three minutes before it happened, Alexi said, get a picture of me and Axel. So I took my phone out to take a picture of them. But then I still had it out because I wanted to look at my phone. So when it happened, I said, and I was like,

by the way, I fell over and like, I fully was out, but like, it was not, it's not deep. It's like up to your waist. And it was a hot day, so I wasn't like cold or uncomfortable. And my phone like it was not, it's not deep. It's like up to your waist and it was, it was a hot day. So I wasn't like cold or uncomfortable. And my phone, it was also the good news. The river was moving so quickly

and the water was so, you know, dark. It was immediately gone. There was no like, let's find it. Right, right, right. Which that was nice. That sounds super nice. I was, everyone's like, what happened? I was like, oh, I just took a picture of Alexi and Ash

and then my phone fell and they were like, oh my God, that sucks. But it was not, I was like fully like. Yeah, you know what that's like? That's like trying to spit into a urinal and hitting your wiener. And getting a little bit on your wiener. And the only other thing I'll say about,

one of my favorite things about our wedding is, cause this is why I wanna get my father-in-law on the podcast to talk about family trips that he took with my wife and then have her on to rebut his memory because his toast at our wedding started with, we've had so many great memories I'll never forget when we went to Barcelona and my wife fully heckled him

and said, we've never been to Barcelona. And he was like, what? No, all righty. And then just like moved on. It's like, what a weird choice to like reference a trip that was like, maybe we did? Yeah. I don't know.

I mean, I feel like Mackenzie would be happy to jump on this podcast, but I know that she and her mother used to always take an annual trip to this place called Cook's Cabins on Cape Cod. Say that three times fast. Yeah. And it was just like these sort of like little beach cabins and the same people would be there sort of every year

on that particular weekend. I feel like it was right after Labor Day. And there were these big sand dunes and you just sort of like hang out with the people that you sort of knew from year to year and hang out at the beach and those girls liked to sunbathe and sit in the sand. And so I know that has a soft spot, Mackenzie's heart. But I bet her favorite trip is the time you ashamed her for having a big old suitcase

and then you had to go to a hotel in Philly with a big old shame bug. I didn't shame her for the size of her suitcase. She made us late. Will you say, say this three times fast again? Say this three, say that three times fast. That, that, that. Go on. I mean it would have been better if I'd done it when you first said it. Yeah, no, that's,

it's nice to tee up. It's a good thing, I think everybody, everybody can do that for the rest of their lives. Yeah, that, that, that. Do it again. Say that three times fast. That, that, that. That's the best, it's still fun. I already did it, it was still super fun to do. Well, thanks everybody. Thank you. Those are great stories.

Yeah, I feel like we almost had a puker in there, but it wasn't a puker. It's nice to get through these without a puker. Without a puker. Yeah. Alright. Love you, Pashi. Love you, Sufi.

Thanks for the questions and stories, everybody. Yeah, love you, listeners. What's with these listeners going on trips? Two ladies and a dude. Having some issues whenever they get up into high altitudes. Ooh, ooh. Whether in a car. Ooh, ooh.

Or up in a plane. Ooh, ooh. That's where problems come. Oh, baby, that's what pop-yums do Chris the Mask had a VW Camper And a dog that I guess looked like a bag She got out to Peter gas station Stayed till they got back The family car was flagging. Family stayed behind.

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