Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - MELISSA FUMERO Ran Around a Cruise Unsupervised

Episode Date: April 15, 2025

Melissa Fumero joins Seth and Josh on the pod this week! She talks all about growing up in New Jersey, how her parents trusted her to go into the city as a teen for dance classes, meeting her husband on a soap opera, taking a cruise vacation, traveling to Cancun and the Dominican Republic, and so much more! Plus, she chats about her new show, Grosse Pointe Garden Society on NBC! Support our sponsors: Nissan Family Trips is brought to you by the All-New 2025 Nissan Armada. Take your adventures to new heights. Learn more at NissanUSA.com Visit Baltimore Baltimore is just a short drive or train ride from New York, Philly, and D.C. Plan your visit today at Baltimore.org Baltimore: You won’t get it ‘til you get here!” Quince For your next trip, treat yourself to the luxe upgrades you deserve from Quince. Go to Quince.com/TRIPS for 365-day returns, plus free shipping on your order Blueland Celebrate Earth Month and make the switch today! Get 15% off your first order by going to Blueland.com/trips.

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That's one of my favorite texts from dad this week. It's just a picture of a pair of sweatpants laid out on the kitchen floor. It says, one of you left these here. Whose are they? Now those sweatpants, they live there. I like those sweatpants, but they're not my faves. And sometimes when I'm going back and forth to New Hampshire, I'll bring some things that I just can't bring myself to let go of. Oh, this is fascinating. You sort of, okay. Yeah, so I give myself a sort of a wardrobe in New Hampshire,

you know, just some select pieces that I want to get back to. And there's a chest of drawers in my bedroom and sometimes I'll cycle some things out. I'll say, you can donate this stuff. I'm going to move some new stuff in here. So those sweatpants live there and it was, I guess, very troubling to father. Well, look, this is the new reality

as we've established during the show. If there's anything in their home now that they don't know what it is, they just want to get it out. They want to throw it away. Yeah, that attic's empty. That was probably all our stuff. So yeah, they just don't want it anymore.

But you did say, like, just put it in my drawer and don't worry about it. But obviously, Dad's lying awake at night because he hates that those sweatpants are there. I had a, two weeks ago, I had a dream and I don't like people talking about their dreams, but you will appreciate why I'm telling you this dream. Sure.

You know those transom windows over doors? Uh-huh. So I had a dream where I was being chased, and I was trying to squeeze myself through a transom window, okay? Okay, yeah. And then I woke up, and my neck was all fucked up. Huh.

So I'm now, I've reached the age where something can happen in a dream and I'll hurt my neck from that. Yeah. So I think I must've just been like wiggling around in bed trying to squeeze through that window. Yeah. And then like two days later, my neck was fine,

but now I just like feel like I have nerve damage in my arm. Huh. So it's a hell of a way to go, but when people say what happened to your brother, he like, he did it in a dream. Yeah, I dreamed it. I wish I dreamed it. I've been trying to figure out how to sleep on my back more.

I think it's gonna be good for my neck. And I mean, I haven't been trying to figure it out. I've just been trying to fall asleep on my back. I'm not like, sitting there with the- I told you about it. We're taping our mouths. We've talked about that, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, we're doing so much sleep stuff, it's nuts. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I inevitably, I start on my back, but then I'm just such a side sleeper. Sometimes I get down onto my stomach and that's just like terrible for your back, I've read. Yeah.

We were out a bunch this week and if I'm out at a dinner and Alexi is home, Axel will fully sleep on my side of the bed until I get home. It's non-negotiable. He just feels like if there's an empty spot in the bed, that's his to take. Yeah.

And so that I get home and I've got to move Axel back to his room. And I would say Axel's probably a, I'm gonna guess a 51 pound kid. Okay. Who carrying him is like a 200 pound bag of sand. And so he's the sweetest, like when I come home and I see him, I have this like moment of light of,

oh my God, I have the sweetest boy in the world. And then I'm like, because I got to pick him up. No help. Yeah. No help at all. Yeah. But, Qtpie.

Qtpie. His, and it's, yeah, we've talked about how it's birthday season, but his birthday is in like four days from when we recorded this. Next up, yeah, we have Ash, total success. Alexi, total success. We had a great party for Alexi, which was wonderful. And then Alexi doubled up yesterday at a show. So it was not Ash's technical birthday,

but she party bussed 10 kids to New Jersey to go to like a go-kart track. Whoa. So Ash and his bros got to full go-kart. Yeah. Were there any like teenagers or adults on the track just bumping them out? I wasn't there, but it did seem like they would tell me

cause Ash is a full, he loves the drama. And in fact, Ash FaceTime me right before my show cause he wanted me, he was like so proud of the party bus and he was so proud of like being with all his bros and I was like, oh, he's being so mature right now. And while he was talking to me and kind of showing off how much fun he was having, Axel ran up behind him and just sort of clipped him

in the ear to say hi to me. And then Ash was like, muah! This is fully reverted to like three. The one thing that was the bummer was it did come with an adult stripper. And so that was the most awkward thing. Yeah, well.

I feel like in, you know, when I think about party bus, I think about like sort of no one's belted in, you're like standing up and there's music playing and probably some like lights changing color. But I feel like with a bunch of, you know, eight turn to nine year olds, there is a certain level of security. Or is everyone sort of, is it just a party

in terms of that it looks different and then everyone's got seat belts on? Are you? I mean, to be honest, in the hopes that the statute of limitations for this is like a day and a half, I don't know if they were fully belted. I definitely saw some pictures where it did seem to have a party atmosphere. Oh, great.

Yeah. And then Axel's next up. I mean, so this is, I mean, for real, the first time we've thrown a party for our kids. And by that, I mean, we live very close to their cousin, we have a lot of family around, and usually what the kids ask for is they want to have just a family dinner. So historically that's what we've done.

It's not like we've been denying them a party, but coming up on nine, it started to dawn on Ash that you can have a party with your friends. So, and then Axel said, I mean, the speed at which Alexi comes up with stuff, Axel was like, oh, I want to do a party. And she's like, no, you first, everybody's first party is when they're nine.

And he was like, oh, okay. And Addy's like, when do I get a party? She goes, when you're nine. And she's like, okay. And I'm like, God, the speed, the confidence she said it, the kids fully bought in. Yeah, also I'm pretty, I bet Axl will get his first party at nine and then Addie will get hers at seven.

Yeah, I bet the rules. Whatever she wants. Yeah, it's her world. It's her world. All right, buddy. We've got a fun podcast, everybody. Melissa Famero, she's fantastic. And thanks, everybody, for being with us.

Family trips with the Myers Brothers Family trips with the Myers Brothers Here we go. Ah! Hello! Yeah, oh, that was so in sync. We're really getting, we're syncing up our hellos. Yeah, you're not the, I mean, two guests in a row now

have mentioned something about our. It was lovely, it was even like pitch perfect. Yeah, that we say hi in unison. We're equally, it just, genetically, we are the exactly same amount of excited to see you. Aw, I'm excited to see you guys too. How are you, Melissa? I'm good, how are you, Seth?

It's been a minute. Very well, it has been a minute, but it is lovely to see you again. And it is lovely to see, but we've had a lot of guests who have grown up in New Jersey and this is true of you as well. Yes, it is. Yeah, Jersey girl.

Where in New Jersey did you grow up? I grew up in a small town in Bergen County called Lindhurst. It's really, really close to like the Metal Land's giant stadium. I forget what it's called now. Yeah, that area. Yeah.

So close to the city. Very close to the city. Just across the river, yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's like a commuter town. My dad worked in the city and commuted every day and yeah. And were you the kind of kids then that went to the city a lot, not socially, but with your parents when you were little?

Yeah, we did. All of my extended family, my cousins and aunts and uncles, they lived in like Queens and Long Island. So growing up actually every Sunday, almost every Sunday, we would go to my great aunt's house in Sunnyside, Queens. And we would like spend the day and the family would be there and just like hanging out, cooking food and you know, and they had like one of those, so they had, they owned the whole house because they lived there forever. And they had this long driveway that went down. So it's like the house next door to them. And that's where we would like play off the wall and the kids would be out there like just you know causing a ruckus trying not to break windows. And as a kid did you look forward to Sundays with your entire extended family? I did. I did. My great aunt gave these like painful bear hugs. So I remember every time we would go into the city like on the way there

I'd be like does Tia have to hug me though? And they'd be like, yes, you have to take it. Respect your elders. That really does bring me back as a, for me, I think there were certain people in our family who had a very unique smell that I wasn't looking forward to. And then it was usually on the embrace you had to like get through that smell

and then the rest of the trip was fine. She smelled good and she was a tiny woman. I still to this day don't understand how she hugged us so hard. Like you felt like your bones were going to break. She would just like grab you and lift you off the ground. And she was like five foot one and like tiny. Were they long hugs as well? Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

It was like just as you were like about to pass out because you couldn't breathe, she'd let go. I thought you were gonna say, did she have long arms? She was like a tiny woman with very long arms. They would wrap around three times, it was crazy. It was like a boa constrictor. Now this is an extended Cuban American family? Yes, yes. Cuban American, although all my cousins married not Cubans,

so there was like a lot of Italians there and some Irish, and it was like a mixed bag, yeah. And you never knew who was going to be there every time we went. But how many people, like how many people are showing up to aunt Diaz? Man, sometimes it was a smaller group, but sometimes it'd be like 20 people. Oh, wow. Yeah, and they had this great basement

and all the adults would be in there gossiping and shooting the shit. And then the kids would be outside playing off the wall. And yeah, and then they'd scream at us to come in and eat dinner. And then we'd go home. And I also, the other funny thing I remember too about those trips into the city,

this would be like late 80s, early 90s. So when we would go through Lincoln Tunnel, there was always the moment right before we exited the tunnel when my dad would lock all the locks on the car. And he'd roll and he'd tell you to roll up the windows. He'd go roll up the windows, then you hear click. And it was like, oh, we're going we're going into the city because yeah, Times Square was a different vibe back then. That, it really does speak to,

what was New York like in the late 80s? People would pull you from your cars. Yeah, yeah. Was like, don't make strong eye contact with anyone outside the car until we get to the Queensborough Bridge. I mean, it really speaks to how bad it is that you would, it was so,

it was actually okay to have your windows down in the tunnel. Yeah, in the tunnel it was fine. That's good air. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This happened in the tunnel, windows up, doors up. Would you ever take the train or would that, was that sort of not how you guys would roll? No, not till, my dad did.

So my dad commuted into the city for work and he would take either the bus to the subway, like into Port Authority, or sometimes he would take the train to Hoboken and then the path. But I didn't really take the train until I was older. But a wild thing that my parents did, looking back as an adult now with children,

I'm like, I can't believe they did that. So I was a dancer growing up. So when I was 15, they let me go into the city by myself to take dance classes. Wow. That must have felt so cool. So cool. And my dad just like very matter of factly was like, here's the bus you're going to take. And then you're going to get off of Port Authority and take this train up to Steps on Broadway or Broadway Dance Center and your classes at this time, okay, so then you should be back. And he would just like map out the trip for me.

And I didn't have a cell phone, so I would also just like, when I'd get to Port Authority, I would call on the payphone, call collect and do the like, I'm on the 535 bus and then hang up and then they would pick me up and it was, yeah. Wow. I mean, I would say like a payphone at Port Authority is where the creeps hang out. Right.

I mean, their dream is a 15 year old solo dancer. Yeah. But now this is interesting because you have children now and that was great, right? You can admit now as an adult, it is great that your parents gave you that freedom. Yes, 100%. And yet, would you give your kids the same freedom?

Yeah, it's so different how it is. My son just turned nine, and I told my husband, I think this summer maybe we can let him start to ride his bike alone, like in the neighborhood. Like we'll give him a, I think this summer, maybe we can let him start to ride his bike alone, like in the neighborhood, like we'll give him, my parents did that, like give him a little parameter, he can't like leave, you know, this street to this street. And he was like, are you crazy?

Absolutely not. He was like, do you see any other kids riding their bikes around? He's like, they'll call the cops on us. It's- I like that he's not worried about anything happening to your kid, he's just worried about him having to go to the big house. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, just like CPS showing up to our house.

Because again, like, you know, for however dangerous things are now, like living in New York, and again, I would say New York is worse than it was five years ago, but a hundred times better than it was in the 70s and 80s. Right, yeah. And yet, you know, I don't know, at some point I'm like, yeah, you know, it's like we have about a mile walk to school. And at some point I'm just gonna be like, all right, off you go. And it's gonna feel like the craziest thing in the world,

but my kids have grown up in New York City and you gotta give them that freedom. Yeah, and I think it is. It's so good for their independence, for their confidence. Like I was, when I moved to the city, I knew my way around. I felt so confident around the city and being on the subway and like I'd already had all this experience

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Yeah. We're going back to... We're going to Amsterdam. Oh, boy. No, I think overtalk is good. Let's just both tell our listeners what we're doing at the same time and see how much of it syncs up. Look, we're going to Amsterdam in June. In June.

Our friends are renewing their vows. And when they got married the first time, Andrew and Saskia, these are our friends who started the theater boom in Chicago, first time they got married, I was emceeing, or maybe just giving a toast, and Saskia's two, her niece and her nephew kept running on stage and interrupting me.

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So, and then you went to NYU, correct? Yes. So, I mean, I'm sure there's a lot of New Yorkers and New York adjacent people at NYU, but did you feel so much cooler than the kids that were coming from other parts of the country? A hundred percent.

Yeah. A hundred percent. The days that I would like meet my dad for lunch, I'd be like, excuse me, I'm just gonna go downtown and meet my dad for lunch, cause like he works in the city. I live near NYU and I feel like I can tell based on, well, first of all, here's, I have a theory.

Anyone wearing an NYU sweatshirt didn't grow up in New York? 100%, absolutely correct. That's how I know they're like, that's some Ohio shit. Yeah, if they're wearing the swag, they are from out of state 100% because us locals would never. I have one NYU t-shirt and it's a pajama shirt and it has holes in it.

You only wear it in your, yeah. Yeah, only in the comfort of my home, yeah. Real quick, you just mentioned off the wall a couple of times. Was off the wall a game? Oh yeah, that was like a tennis ball. I don't even really remember how to play it, but it was like a tennis ball game that you had to throw it against the wall

and then you either had to like try to hit someone with it, like dodge ball style, or the other person had to like also had to throw it against the wall and then some, you either had to like try to hit someone with it, like dodge ball style, or the other person had to like, also had to catch it and then throw it. And it's like, whoever dropped it first loses. But I just remember being pelted with tennis balls a lot. It is funny, Josh and I grew up in, you know, the suburbs, but we also enjoyed the wall as a game accompaniment that we used to drive to our school.

Or bike, we would bike, I guess. We were at the age where we would bike down to our middle school because it had a real good wall. Yeah, a good wall. And then you can just like make shit up too. You just make up games. You got a tennis ball and a wall, endless entertainment. I'm bad.

My wife recently pointed out that it's when sometimes the kids and I will be making up a game and she will say, you know, I think it's more important to let the kids make up the rules than for you to try to impose your rules on them. Because a lot of times they'll be like, no, and if it bounces twice, I'm like, no, no, no, just this way first. Yeah, I think you're right. Thank you. Seth.

Thank you. I will say. Because they're just going to make up nonsense rules. Dumb rules. Yeah, I think you're right. Thank you, Seth. Thank you, Seth. Because they're just going to make up nonsense rules. Dumb rules, yeah. Yeah, dumb rules. We call them dumb rules. So what about how your brother is older or younger? Older.

Okay, how much older? Four years older. Okay, gotcha. Were you guys close when you were growing up? No. We got closer when I, I think when I got older, when I got into like high school, my mom describes our dynamic as like two people that genuinely didn't like each other. That's pretty clean.

Yeah, that's a clean way to describe it. How would I describe them? Two people who don't like one another. That's my, that had less nuance than I was expecting. Yeah. Yeah. We fought all the time. We beat the shit out of each other.

And then I was like that annoying little sister every time he was like having a party with his friends in the basement. I would sneak down like totally being a little shit. And I would find the group of girls in the party and be like, hi. And like be all cute. And then my brother would get so mad that I was down there. And of course the girls would be like, no, let her stay, she's so cute.

And I'd look at him like, ha ha, gotcha. Did you ever date one of his friends? Oh God, no, no. I felt like, yeah, no, that was, that would have been too scary to do. I did have, I feel like my first couple of boyfriends in high school were a bit older than me, and my brother definitely pulled the like,

oh yeah, I know that guy, you know, and then would definitely do the big brother thing of calling him or something. Do you think he ever talked to those guys? 100%, yes, yeah. Yeah, oh wow Oh, wow. I mean, in a way that you reflect back and respect him for,

or you still think he was just meddling in your business? No, I think it was sweet. It was like sweet older brother protecting his little sister. Don't hurt, you know, if you hurt her, I'll kill you. And then when I first started dating my husband, David, who is 10 years older than me, so he's older than my brother,

my brother like tried to do that with him. And also my husband's like very fit, so it was just hilarious to see my brother to this like older, super, way more fit than him, dude be like- I like the idea that David would turn around and be like, and if you ever hurt her, I'm gonna pound you. I'm gonna pound you, bro.

I'd like to see you try. Did you, when you were young, other than, obviously you had your weekend trips, were you a family trips family? Were there places you guys went, the four of you? We were, we were. So my dad would get his two weeks vacation every year. And most summers we went to Miami, where my grandparents lived and some more

like extended family. And we would go for two weeks in Miami. And then there were some years when I was between the ages of like eight and maybe 11 that we went on these big group trips with like four or five other families. And so we went on a cruise ship, we went on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship. And we went to the Dominican Republic and we went to Cancun. There was three different summers that we went on these big group trips and it was awesome. How was your cruise ship experience? Oh my God. The cruise ship was amazing. I think I was like eight or nine and I basically didn't see my parents the whole trip.

It was amazing because every time we were on the ship, it was just like, bye. They were like, be at dinner. They did not care. And I think they had like a kids club or something that sometimes we would pop in. But I just remember running around the ship with these other kids and being completely unsupervised and thinking it was the best thing ever. Yeah, it was amazing. And then there was one night where there was like a storm

and I learned, that's how I learned I get seasick. So there's hilarious pictures, group pictures from that night where everyone's like smiling and me and my dad, because my dad also gets seasick, are just like green in the face and like staring at the camera. And the other families we were with, they were doctors mostly. So it was like my dad who worked in a jewelry store and then like all these doctors. It was like a very odd mix, but I think a couple of them were high school friends of

theirs. And so we got this, they put this like patch thing behind our ears for the seasickness. And that worked. It did work. Yeah, it worked. I felt great. Somebody put a patch on me once and I did not feel like it was effectively working. It might've just been a random patch and not one. Maybe it was like a placebo and they were like, good luck, bro. It was an iPad.

Yeah. Yeah. Maybe it should be, you could have put it on yourself too. Yeah, that's true. I don't know why I let somebody else put it on. Someone once put a patch on you. But that, is that your only cruise experience? You've never gone back?

I've never gone back. Yeah. I do feel like eight, like in that eight to 11 era is kind of like prime time for love and a cruise. Yeah, total freedom and you can just like do all the fun stuff. And like, I literally did not see my parents. I did see my mom drunk for the first time on that trip.

Oh, why was it like? Cause I, I remember, I feel like I remember the first vacation drunk I saw. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was, well, I was going, I talked to my mom last night to like go through all these vacation stories and try to, you know, remember more stories. And so I said, Oh, I remember on the cruise, that was the first time I saw you drunk. She was like, we were drunk lots of nights on that cruise ship. But my memory is that I went, I was going to their room or something, and all I saw

was them putting my mom in the shower and like turning on the water. Like she was still, that kind of, she was still in her clothes and they were like putting cold water on her. And I was like, what's going on with mom? And then she gasped and everybody said, she's alive, she's alive. It's good, it's good, we're okay. We're good, we're good. I was like, you guys good? we're okay, we're okay. We're good, we're good, we're good.

I was like, you guys good? They were like, get out of here. If dinners were all together, were there like shows and things? Were you? There was a kids talent show I participated in. Get out of town. So you had that kind of confidence as a young person.

She was going into the city and dancing, although that was at 15, so yeah. I did, they were like, we're gonna have a talent show. I was like, sign me up. I'm gonna do a dance solo to Paula Abdul. Do you remember how you were received? You know what?

I got some good applause and there is a video of it. My dad does have a video of it. And I remember, I didn't even like, I think I choreographed video of it. My dad does have a video of it. And I remember I didn't even like, I think I choreographed some of it. So the rest of the time just like making up moves on the stage and sometimes I'm just like vamping, like step, side, step, side, because I don't know what to do.

But I was just like a confident little shit up there. And then we did a group number to Beach Boys, and there were so many kids on the stage, and we're doing some sort of like hula move, and I fell off the stage. Because I just got, was so crowded that I just got pushed off the stage and then just like climbed back in. Usually that's when people decide

they're not gonna be a dancer. So I really appreciate it. You know, you fall off the stage once and a lot of kids are like, it's not for me. So I really appreciate, you know, you fall off the stage once and a lot of kids are like, it's not for me. So I'm very impressed that you redoubled your efforts. Now, how many people, and that must have been the most people you'd ever performed

in front of at that point? Yeah, probably, yeah. I would imagine a kids talent show on a cruise ship is quite a lot of people. Yeah, but I think, you know, the audience was probably all full of parents. Everybody was like, laughing. Yeah, I don't think everyone on the ship

has to be there for that. Yeah, because then you'd want your money back. Yeah, I don't think the kidless guests were like, let's go check out the kids talent show. Well, that's another way to get on a watch list. Where you're like, which one's your kid? It's like, I'm just here to check out the talent. Usually I'm at Port Authority.

That little girl just went down off the stage. Let me go help her up. And then Miami, so you said grandparents were there? My grandparents were there, yeah. And when I got older, we would stay at my grandmother's place, but before that, we would kind of stay all over. We stayed even on, there were a few years that we stayed on Ocean Drive in one of those like Art Deco hotels before they all became like really fancy.

They were just kind of like affordable. They were also not in great shape, like they were so pretty and they were right on the beach. And I feel like I have a memory of like being in the hotel room and my dad being like, oh my God, they're shooting Miami Vice across the street on the beach. And we were like, oh.

And it was. I mean, huge deal. Yeah. I mean, huge, huge deal. I'm deeply jealous that you were in the vicinity of the filming of Miami Vice. Yeah. That just like, I just have seen a lot of like, faded aqua on stucco is what I think. Yeah, aqua, like a lime green, like a yellow, coral pink.

Was there some shuffleboard? Was there any shuffleboard going on down there? No, so my parents are like big beach people and they still to this day will do this. It's like, get on the beach with the umbrella and the coolers and stuff, find a good spot and fucking park there all day. Like you're there for 10 hours. Where and what kind of beach would your parents be at now?

Do they still go to Florida for their beach time? They do. They've retired to Florida. So they're close to Fort Lauderdale. The beach they live by is gorgeous. The water is warm. It's so clean. And they still, you know, my dad now that he's retired, his favorite joke is that it's his office. So he'll be like, we just got back from the office.

What are you doing? Do you work today? Sorry, we can't talk. We're going to the office. Were your parents born in Cuba? They were. They immigrated as teenagers. Unbelievable.

And so, uh, obviously that was not a place you could go back as a kid. born in Cuba? They were, they immigrated as teenagers. Unbelievable. And so obviously that was not a place you could go back as a kid. Did they still have family there? They do. My mom, they both do. My mom has more family there. She has an uncle who just turned 106.

Oh my gosh. In Cuba. And this man looks amazing. I've only ever seen pictures of him, but every year the family in Cuba like sends the birthday picture. He's usually always at the beach. He was again this year.

And I mean, the man doesn't look a day over 80. It's incredible. He's also known for his hugs. Everybody's like, they're like, be careful with the hugs. And they're like, well, I wouldn't hug a 160 year old man. They're like, no, you be careful. No, you. Because he's gonna break your ribs. Yeah, he's gonna break your ribs. So be careful with the hugs. And they're like, well, I wouldn't hug a 106-year-old man. They're like, no, you be careful, because he's going to break your ribs. Yeah, he's going to break your ribs, so be careful.

But also hug him, because you got to respect your elders. Yeah. Have your parents ever gone back? No, no, they haven't. No interest? I've talked to some people who, and there's some people who just have no interest. Yeah, it's no.

I think until the country is more of a democracy or free, I think there's fear in going back. It's like complicated emotions. Yeah, I can't even imagine. Yeah, it's hard even for me to imagine. Yeah, the times I've brought it up, I can see there's a little bit of a longing to maybe see it again, but just like, no, that chapter's closed. And yeah, it's a painful thing.

Your husband is also Cuban American? Yes, he is. He immigrated when he was eight in the 80s. Oh, wow. So he was born there. Yeah, he was born there. He and his family came over shortly after the famous Marielle Boatlift. They came over right after that.

And did he come straight, was he in New York or was he in Florida? Where was his upbringing? They were actually in Jersey at first for a couple years, and then they moved to Miami, and that's where he had his teenage years. So that's like where he considers he's from and where like his OG best friends are from. But then he moved to New York when he was like 19 or 20 and was in New York the longest of all the cities because he was there on and off for like 20 years. Gotcha. Yeah. So he's a New Yorker too. Wait, you said you also went to Cancun. Oh yeah. We also, we went to Cancun and we went to Dominican Republic with this big group. And those, were you staying in hotels or renting big houses? We were staying in hotels.

Yeah, yeah, we were staying in hotels and in the Dominican Republic, my mom reminded me of this one time, the group had rented a bus to take us all on a little tour. I guess there were these two stragglers at the hotel that were looking to join a tour and the hotel convinced one of the doctors, a part of our group, to let them join and they were like, no, we don't want to take two strangers. We don't know these guys. We got kids here.

Anyway, we ended up taking them. And exactly. So the first stop was to these natural pools that were really amazing. I remember there was three of them. There were these three huge circles. They're all rock formed and we were swimming and jumping. And one of those guys jumped in and like sliced his leg and needed stitches. And so then we had to take them to a clinic,

which was just a house with like two beds. And so the doctors in the group were like, what is this? Like they can't stitch him up in here. Like what are we doing? But they did. And like someone came out and like stitched him up. And then they were like, all right, well, we're going to figure out and get you back to the hotel because we're going to going on our tour. So, bye.

Oh, gross. We went, we were just on vacation and we got some people suggested this hike to these like tide pools. And then we went and there were all these sea urchins. Oh, my. And like right before we got in the water, someone said, hey, just remember those, like don't go near those

because the stings really painful. And I immediately was like, well, I'm not going in the water then. Like what, there's water everywhere. Why do we gotta go in the water with the things? And then my wife was mad because my son immediately said, yeah, I'm not going in either.

I'm like, right, of course. And she's like, we hiked all the way here. Why do you have to be such a wuss that now he won't go in? Yeah. I mean, I get it. It's the urchin's fault. It's the ur the way here. Why do you have to be such a wuss? That now he won't go in. Yeah. I mean, I get it. It's the urchin's fault. It's the urchin's fault.

It's not your fault. Why are the urchins in there in the tide pools? Why don't they move? Yeah. Yeah. Go out deeper where no one wants to be. Yeah. Except scuba divers who are covered

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Okay, how old are they now? They just turned five and nine. Oh, great. So we're very, my boys are nine and seven. Yes. How are they as travelers? They're great. They're great. Have they always been good?

No, no. No. No. I feel like traveling with kids is more like training yourself to deal with it. That's a very good way of looking at it. And then eventually, like your kids get better at it. But my older son,

we also just, I think, because we're actors and then all of our families on the East Coast, we've just traveled with them at least a couple times a year since they were babies. And but my older son would not sleep on planes. And we were those parents with like a screaming, crying child very often, like when he would get overtired

and refuse to sleep on the plane. And there were a couple of times, my husband almost got into it with a couple of passengers and was just like, do you not see us trying to get this baby to stop crying? Yeah, I'm like, I get it if like a parent's just like sitting there maybe and like not doing anything, but we were actively shushing and bouncing

and trying to do all the things and yeah. Yeah, what are you supposed to do? There is a real, I find one of my favorite things now is like if there's a baby in the robe, you know, having a hard time near me. And like sometimes the parents are very apologetic. Yeah. And it's so nice to be like, dude, been there.

Been there. I'm the last guy you need to worry about, bitch. Yeah, yeah. Let me try to make some funny faces at your baby and see if it can help. Like, yeah, that is. But now they're great. I haven't been there, but I also am smart enough

to buy a pair of noise-canceling headphones, which don't do everything you need them to do, but they do a lot. They're pretty helpful, yeah. They're pretty helpful. I mean, that's my beef too. I'm like, it's 2025. Everybody's got headphones.

You can raise the volume on your little movie that you're watching in your seat, like just carry on. Like this is not the olden days where we didn't have technology on our side and you had to listen to my kids scream. Like you have options. You have options. I'll just put on like a rain, if I wanna sleep,

it's like a white noise thing or just a rainstorm that just runs on a loop and then I don't hear anything. My noise machine is a stranger's baby on planes. So for me, I just fall asleep. Yeah. You search that on Spotify. You're like a stranger's baby screaming on planes. I remember when we just had our first

and he was maybe one and a half, we were on some plane and he wanted to look out a window. We'd booked a flight late late and so Alexi and I were both aisle seats in the same row. So we were, you know, we had a gap between us. And the woman next to Alexi was like, you know, cause he wanted to look out the window. She goes, you know, I remember when we had a little one,

if you want us to hold him, and like couldn't even finish the sentence before Alexi just gave this baby to these strangers and then fell right asleep. Yeah. And they loved having it. Yeah. Oh my God.

We were like, see, we'll see you baggage claim. Yeah, thank you. You gotta get them off the plane. If you take them, you gotta get them off. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not responsible for that. But what a power group. How did, did you and your husband meet

working on something together? We did, we met on a power group. How did, did you and your husband meet working on something together? We did, we met on a soap opera. It was my very first job, One Life to Live, up on 66th Street at the Armory Building. So how old, were you right out of college? Yeah, right out of college. Like 21 had just graduated. It was my first job.

And then he had been off and on the show and about a year into my run there, they brought him back for like a three month storyline. And that's when we met and started dating. Did your storylines cross? No, we were cousins. Okay, gotcha. Yeah, yeah.

We were part of the Latin family on the show. So, you know, we were all the Latin actors were related. How when you were doing, pardon my ignorance, but when you do one of those soap operas, how many weeks a year is one of those gigs? It's year round. And that's what I thought. It's like, there's no, there's no hiatus except for two weeks like your dad did. No. Oh, wait, no, we did. We got two weeks vacation and we just had to put it in and like submit a form and then we get it approved and then you could take your vacation.

And so you had to submit it long enough ahead for the writing staff to be able to figure out where you would... Yes. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But otherwise, yeah, otherwise, aside from holidays, it was year round and it was crazy. And you'd do a crazy amount of pages every day. We'd shoot six episodes a week.

It was insane. How many years did you do it? I did it for four and a half years. Wow. Wow. Yeah. How many takes? It's usually like one take or two takes, right? One or two. I once watched an actress who couldn't remember her lines do 13 takes,

and I remember watching it going, oh no, she's gonna get fired. And she did. Never, never saw her again. Like, gone, like the next day, gone. Like, they just like rewrote her. You just can't have it though. Like, the pace of the shooting is like, you can't have it. Yeah, no, it's like jumping on a speeding train and just like trying to hold on until you get to the end. It must've been such an education. 100%, yeah. It's shot like a multi-cam.

Right, yeah. So it's the same setup. So you work with, you know, three to four or sometimes five cameras, but it's all that very much line blocking and it's a big cast. So you learn how to deal with a lot of different personalities. And also like, yeah, because it's just like one or two takes

and it's so fast paced. Like, I mean, they don't really care if the acting's good. You know what I mean? Like you said the words. Story, story, story, story. You said the words were moving on. Like, yeah. Were there time, were you,

over the course of your four and a half years, how often were you not in an episode? Was it? Oh, pretty often. I probably only worked like, if I, you go through phases where you're in a bigger storyline and maybe you're there five days a week, but I would say the average was like three days a week,

more or less. So that's not bad. I mean. It wasn't bad. No, it was a cushy schedule. Are you kidding? I was in my early twenties living in the city, making money.

I was having the time of my life. That does sound pretty awesome, I will say. Also, would you shoot in the afternoon? Yeah, I feel, I mean, sometimes our days would go late, but I feel like I can't remember it being like a crazy, when you were there, it was a long day, but like you weren't there every day, so it was fine. Was there a lot of camaraderie on the set?

Like, would you go out with cast and crew after, if you like, if you wrapped at eight, would it be like, let's go grab a drink over at the Bunsie Mons or whatever? Depending on who you worked with that day, sometimes. Yeah, big cast, as you said. Yeah, yeah, sometimes it was running for the door. Okay, bye.

So you got your education at a show where you only had one take and you had to memorize multiple pages. Samberg, the entirety of his time at SNL, he's reading a cue card. How much better were you on Brooklyn Nine-Nine at remembering your lines than Samberg? Like, I mean, you know the answer, like so much better. Bro, you don't know these yet?

Yeah, sure, I'll run lines with you answer. Like, so much better. Bro, you don't know these yet? Yeah, sure, I'll run lines with you. Also, he strikes me as someone who's real particular about each take of his own performance. Yeah. I bet he was a lot of, you know, had a lot of vanity takes from old Sam. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Can I get one more? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can I have a different doofy face that I have? I've got two more faces to make. Just run a quick series real quick. Can you get the doofy from this side and then... That's fantastic. And then have you, your parents, you mentioned are in Florida now. Do you, have you taken your kids to visit them? Is that one of your annual trips? Yeah, we go, yeah, we go every summer and my husband's family's also in Florida. So we go for like three weeks or a month every summer and kind of split the time between the two families,

which is nice because my in-laws are in Key Largo in the Keys. So that's very like fishing and boat and sandbars and there's a cute little community pool with like a water playground and that my kids love. And then with my parents, it's like beach. Like we just go to the beach every day and do that kind of stuff. And yeah, so it's fun. They love it.

Is Key Largo, I feel like we went there once Posh, to the Keys. Yeah, I remember we stayed on Duck Key. Oh yeah. Yeah, that's one of the smaller Keys. I just remember the traffic. That was one of the real traffic vacations of our life. Yeah, you gotta time it right.

We try not to drive in or out around a holiday ever. And then, yeah, we kinda confer with the family that lives down there about what times are good. But usually, yeah, early morning is usually better. It's sort of like a one way in one way out situation. Well, yeah, it's like the seven mile bridge is just like one lane each way. So if that's traffic, you are screwed. Yeah. Yeah, you're gonna be there for a minute. I'm really proud of you, Sue, for realizing it was one way and one way out on the Florida Keys.

I'm kind of like a map guy. Yeah, yeah. Kind of like an amateur geographer. Mm, mm, mm, yeah. And are your kids good with like a full day on the beach if it's with your parents? Yeah, they are. They seem to find things to do.

The beach that we go to with my parents has like great shells. So that's like a, that'll take up a good hour or so is filling a bucket with shells that then I have to hide and figure out how I'm getting home. We have so many fricking shells in our house. I try. It is so fun. The amount of times I will put my hand into my pocket

and there'll be three acorns that a kid gave to me and said, save these. And then I realized it's been a month and I don't have to save them anymore. But I still, that moment where I throw the acorns in the garbage, I am panicking that tonight's the night my son Axel's gonna be like, do you have those acorns? Oh yeah, there's still like a box in their little playroom

that's just full of rocks from when Enzo was like four and five and just was, and they're all, they're ugly rocks. They're not even pretty rocks. They're just all like gray. Hey, eye of the beholder. Or what? Oh, there's the beholder. Or what? Yeah. Yeah.

Seth's son Axel did make for my wife and I, after our wedding, these two little like sort of cutouts, but they're decorated with like some sort of lace and like some yarn for hair. And we have the one that is my wife and we can't find the one that is me. Here's my wife right here. It's beautiful. Oh my goodness, it's beautiful. But Axel has asked me, he's like, oh, he's asked to see this.

And then he's also like, where's yours? I'm like, oh, it's around here somewhere. You brought it to the office. It's at your office. Oh yeah, it's at the office. He knows I don't have an office. I don't think I realized, Seth, that your son's name is also Axel.

My younger son's name is Axel. You've got an Axel as well? That's fantastic. Will Ferrell also has an Axel. Oh, really? Yeah, and I feel like there's at least one other, it's a very hot name for celebrities' children. Amazing, I didn't even realize.

I have to ask, whose idea was Axel, you or your husband? So we were really stuck on the second name when I was pregnant, and so we had a list, and we were looking at all these names and then my husband said, well, let's look up the meaning of each name. And when we got to Axel, the meaning is father of peace. And my older son is like literal tornado. And my husband quickly was like, that's it. That's what we need. That's what we need in this house. That's the name. We, I guess we have a different spelling

because our Axel is an agent of chaos. Oh. Yeah, I would not describe him as father of peace. He did have, I feel so bad for my oldest Ash made. So my wife's birthday is April 1st. And so they each made her cards based on the fact that it's April Fool's Day. And so my son, Ash, who's older, it said,

the front said, you're the worst mom in the world. And then she opened it up and it said, April Fool's, you're the best. Honestly, it's actually- Axel's card is so, it's, he's got the most unique sense of humor. The front just said, when is your birthday? And then she opened it and it said April Fool's.

It's like, it both doesn't make any sense and perfect sense. And I felt so bad for Ash, cause she laughed so much harder at that one. Really good though. It really good. You just needed to workshop it a little bit more. I was not, it was Alexi's idea for Axel and I was so not sold.

And yet I love it so much as a name. Yeah, it's a great name. Although have you noticed when Axel was like a toddler that it's a hard name for other toddlers to say and what it sounds like when they yell his name across the playground? Asshole! Asshole! Asshole!

And then your kid's like, that's me. That's me, yes, you called. The other problem is my other son's name is Ash. So it's just, it's just ass and asshole. Oh, look who's at the park now. It's ass and his brother. Oh, is his brother better? No, his brother's an asshole.

Do you have any memories of the Cancun trip? Any specifics from that guy? The Cancun trip. Let me look at my notes real quick. I will say, I really appreciate that you, I'm flattered that you called your mother to discuss this. That also warms my heart that you had a conversation with your mother specifically in preparation for this.

And I just, I'm now, you know, although it does like kind of, is a burn on your mom that you were like, then I told them the first time you were drunk. Yeah, yeah, thanks for your help. I feel like the phone call, she's like, hey, leave out the shower story. I don't remember, no.

Oh, the only thing she said about Cancun was it was the first time I had my own room with two of the other girls. I was like about 10 years old and that was a very big deal. And I feel like I have a memory of my brother getting in trouble for sneaking out with another teenage boy and going to like one of those foam parties at a club. And then like, he totally got caught. And when he got caught, he was just like covered in foam and like,

probably drunk. And I remember he got big trouble. And yeah, that was all I remember from the Cancun trip. Real good. I mean, get covered in foam. It's really funny to pretend like you weren't at a party and then just come home covered in foam. Just come home. And you're like, I got lost in a car wash. I was here, I was here.

I just went for a walk around the hotel property. This is very exciting by the way, to have you back on NBC and Gross Point Garden Society. Thanks, it's nice. It's nice to like get to keep working with the familiar faces. I know, right? Yeah.

And like again, just a big old cast show, which are the most fun things to be a part of. Yeah, it really is. It's such a good group of people. I've been having so much fun with it. And I do, I've learned that I really love the ensemble dynamics of just storytelling and shows and getting to bounce off a lot of different people.

And it's just, it's so fun. We're having a great time. We wrapped this Friday. Oh nice. Yeah, and it's been a really great run and it's a fun show. I'm really proud of it. And that's Atlanta, isn't it?

Aren't you down there? We're in Atlanta, yeah. Yeah, how's that? Have you sort of gone out to explore what's around Atlanta or are you just working? I mean, I'm mostly just working and then I've been flying home when I can, so I haven't done too much exploring,

but I will say I've never been to Atlanta and I've never worked here. It's a beautiful city. It's really green. There's like parks everywhere and the food is amazing. Oh, that's good to hear. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. If you guys are ever down here,

I'll give you my restaurant list. It's like every meal I've had has been incredible. So that's like one fun thing we've done is just like do a lot of cast dinners and try different restaurants and it's been really fun. But yeah, it's a it's a dope place. So if you were on One Life to Live and thought that Melissa just never went to cast dinners, she does. It was you. You never went to dinner with her. It was because you it was because you couldn't get it done in one take and she wasn't gonna waste her dinner on somebody

who couldn't one take it. It's so lovely to see you and talk to you as always. It has been too long. And before we let you go, Josh is gonna ask you the questions we ask all of our guests. Okay. Okay, here we go.

You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous, or educational? Ooh, relaxing. Great. What is your favorite means of transportation? Oh, I mean, I wish I could teleport everywhere. Oh, that's great.

Yeah. No, we're gonna let you have that one. Great, you know. I think someone else has said teleport. Yeah. I think we've had one other guest who said teleport. I like that when you say teleporting, you basically are completely disavowing the old

adage of like, it's the journey, not the destination. Like if you're a teleporter person, you're like, no, it's the destination. No, it's the destination. Yeah. Like, yeah, it's not the journey. No, it's the destination. If you could take a vacation with any family, alive or dead, real or fictional, other than your own family, what family would

you like to take a vacation with? Oh, gosh, that's a fun one. Let's go on vacation with the Starks from Game of Thrones. Oh, great. Seems like that's really putting your life in your hands. I know. When you're with the Starks, you're like, you're not like, there's not like every other person trying to kill you guys, right?

Not when you're on vacation. Yeah, we're looking for some thrills, you guys, you know, we're looking for some adventure. Who do you think is the hottest Stark? The hottest Stark? I mean, yeah, it's Jon Snow, right? Great. Love it. He's a bastard. That handsome, he's a handsome bastard. And Great, great. Yeah. Love it. Is a bastard.

That handsome, he's a handsome bastard. And I'm using bastard in that his parents were. He was, yeah, he was a bastard and he was a handsome one at that. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? Oh, that's an evil question. Yeah.

My dog. Great. Okay. That's an very evil question. Yeah. My dog. Great. Okay. That's an evil answer. You are from Lindhurst, New Jersey. Yes. Would you recommend Lindhurst as a vacation destination? Probably not.

No, not really. We got a great diner. We do have a great diner, Lindhurst diner. We've been to a lot of places. What diner is it? Is it the Lindhurst diner? The Lindhurst diner. We do have a great diner, Lindhurst Diner. We've been to a lot of places. What diner is it? Is it the Lindhurst Diner? The Lindhurst Diner, just real straightforward. And yeah, and it's great.

Okay. And then now Seth has our final questions. Melissa, have you been to the Grand Canyon? Yes. Is it worth it? Yes. Who'd you go with? My husband and our dog.

It was when we moved from New York to LA, we drove, and that was one of our stops. Were you a little mad your husband was there? And it wasn't just you and your dog, like that desert island? I mean. I didn't say you said it. Now, I feel like that's a very good,

like early in a relationship, a trip to the Grand Canyon, I feel like that, like, I think if you can get through that, I think you're good to go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was also like a quick stop, so we didn't like super do the Grand Canyon, but it was enough to see it. It's amazing.

Yeah. This became a far softer endorsement of the Grand Canyon the more we talked about it. And you're like, I mean, we didn't stop, we didn't drive by. I mean, we didn't like hike it or anything. Maybe it wasn't the Grand Canyon. We just, yeah, I mean, but didn't stop, we drove by. I mean, we didn't hike it or anything. Maybe it wasn't the Grand Canyon. We just, yeah. I mean, but it was beautiful.

We were like, look at this, this is amazing. Our minds are blown. All right, where are we getting dinner? Yeah. It is always so lovely to see you. Thanks so much for making the time for us today. Oh, likewise. So good to see you guys.

Thanks for having me. Thank you. All right, bye, Melissa. Bye. Bye. Bye. Stories to share on Lency and Arrow. Trips with the fam of Melissa Fumero. Melissa says she grew up in New Jersey

on weekends drove to Queens and her dad had locked the doors when they got into the city and the family would gather, kick it Auntie Dee she was small but her hugs had big intensity tiny lady with massive squeezing so tight cut off all your breathing by the end come out of it wheezing woman would nearly break your bones royal caribbean took a trip out on the ocean. Melissa flexed and crushed it at the talent show. And she was all aglow and fell off the stage.

Didn't see where she was going. Was the only time she took a cruise. And she found the whole damn thing so amusing. But also confusing was the first time she saw her mother boozing On a cruise, always half the hour Probably hitting those whiskey sours So tipsy they put her in the shower Hopefully she skipped the clam chowder

Grandpa and Grandma me Live down in Miami Through hit the phone party Vacation to the Keys Axel's fire, they're a beast, has ugly, rocks to keep Dad says the beach is his office