Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - MOLLY GORDON Is Obsessed with Ice Cream Around the World

Episode Date: July 22, 2025

Molly Gordon joins Seth and Josh on the pod this week! She chats all about growing up in Los Angeles, forming a theater group when she was young, her journey to New York City as a college student, wha...t vacations looked like with artist parents, her obsession with ice cream, and so much more! Plus, she chats about her movie, “Oh, Hi!” 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: Visit Baltimore Baltimore is just a short drive or train ride from New York, Philly, and D.C. Plan your visit today at www.Baltimore.org Baltimore: You won’t get it ‘til you get here!” Mint Mobile Get this new customer offer and your 3-month Unlimited wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month at www.MINTMOBILE.com/TRIPS Upfront payment of $45 required (equivalent to $15/mo.). Limited time new customer offer for first 3 months only. Speeds may slow above 35GB on Unlimited plan. Taxes & fees extra. See MINT MOBILE for details. Fitbod Get in shape this summer with Fitbod. Join Fitbod today to get your personalized workout plan. Get 25% off your subscription or try the app FREE for seven days at www.Fitbod.me/TRIP. ------------------------- 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

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, buddy. Hey, Sufi. How are you? I'm great, how are you? Good, I just had a nice weekend with the Poncas. Oh yeah. Yeah, really fun. The way you said yeah didn't really sound like it was fun.
Starting point is 00:00:15 It was great, I don't know why I said it like that. An interesting thing happened with the nomenclature of Poncas, because in my head I would say that dad is Poncaieri and mom is Poncahurry, but somewhere along the lines, now she's just hurry and he's Ponky. Okay. Yeah, so Axel's like, Ponky!
Starting point is 00:00:37 And it's pretty great. Like I just, how it's all changing is very fun. Yeah, and also hurry has always been Hurry. It fits. Even to us. Yeah, it's real good. And I like it. And we had a lovely time with them. They were very happy to see them.
Starting point is 00:00:53 Their favorite thing to do, because we have a guest room for them above the garage. And 8 a.m., the three kids are so excited to run upstairs. And they go up there and they jump in bed, and then they all have a bowl of cereal and a bunch of blueberries, and then they do something much to the chagrin of Alexi. And do you know what the last thing they do?
Starting point is 00:01:21 Dad gives them some toothpaste to eat. And like, look, sometimes Alexi has, you know, some rules where I'm like, oh, honey, please, it's grandparents, you just gotta let him do stuff. With that said, I don't know how dad decided to start feeding him toothpaste. He never fed us toothpaste. He never fed us toothpaste. He never fed anybody toothpaste. It's crazy.
Starting point is 00:01:48 And then he also, if like there's a thing with kids where you kind of hope they'll forget. Right. Like even on mornings where they don't ask, he's like, oh, everybody come get their toothpaste. It's like, like it's some medicinal value to like sucking on dad's tube of Crest or whatever the fuck it is.
Starting point is 00:02:07 I feel like they used to be like Toms of Maine people, which at least would be- They might be Toms of Maine. I shouldn't, I shouldn't, you know. You know what? We'll just, if any, we'll get a toothpaste sponsor. We'll just dub it in. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:21 And since, you know, since I talked to mom and dad when they got back, was that cereal, I'm guessing it was BYOB? Oh, definitely BYOC. Yeah, but- No, BYOB. BYO- Got to bring your own bowl up there. No, I think we did, we had bowls for them up there.
Starting point is 00:02:40 Okay. Yeah. Did they say they didn't have bowls? Yeah. I heard no bowls. I mean, well, it's not, I mean, by the way, they don't have a full kitchen up there. It's just a counter. Yeah, but you know. By the way, I went out of my way this time.
Starting point is 00:02:54 I had gin, I had tonic, I had two kinds of pretzels. Oh, that's good. Hummus. Yeah. I had spin drifts up there. Great. I mean, I did my best. I'm sorry they had to BYO these.
Starting point is 00:03:09 I mean, just, you know. You know what they could do for me? LYOCs, you know what that is? Leave your own crest? Complaints. Oh. License your own complaints? I leave was good. You got that, yeah, leave your own complaints. Oh. License your own complaints? I leave was good.
Starting point is 00:03:25 You got that way. Yeah, leave your own complaints. Okay. Yeah, but anyway. The real takeaway is the kids, I mean, you could eat off their teeth right now. Yeah, well, that's nice. I feel like kids generally might have some pretty
Starting point is 00:03:42 janky stuff going on in their teeth. I will tell you Axel, you know, he's got, at this point I'm like, I don't think the adult teeth are coming in. He's losing baby teeth. And then it's just, I mean, you could fly a small plane through the gaps in that dude's teeth.
Starting point is 00:03:58 Yeah. While you were hosting mom and dad, I was in the city of sin, Las Vegas this last weekend. For our good friend, our good friend had a bachelor party. Yeah, Brendan Hunt's bachelor party. It was so much fun, truly 10 out of 10. We went to NBA summer league, which was great. And I gotta say like, before this weekend was even a thing,
Starting point is 00:04:24 before I was invited to this thing, before I knew it was happening, Michael Urie was a guest on our podcast. The best. Excellent. And he was talking about the Sphere. Yeah. And he's like, I can't wait, you know,
Starting point is 00:04:37 I'll see anything at the Sphere. He's like, I'm excited for like the Backstreet Boys. Now, coming out of the pandemic, I feel like I've talked about it here. I bought tickets to see the Backstreet Boys. Now, coming out of the pandemic, I feel like I've talked about it here. I bought tickets to see the Backstreet Boys at the Hollywood Bowl. And I thought like, this is gonna be fun for Mackenzie and I to go to.
Starting point is 00:04:52 And it was so much fun. It was great. You loved it. I loved it. And so after talking to Yuri, I was home with mom and dad, we're playing golf on the eighth tee. and my mom's like, you're up. I'm like, I need a minute.
Starting point is 00:05:08 Tickets just went on sale at the Sphere for this Backstreet Boys thing. So I buy tickets to the Backstreet Boys for August. Then I get invited to this bachelor party and in the sort of planning and the back and forth and the big text chain, somebody at some point's like, hey, should we go see the Backstreet Boys at the Sphere? And I'm like, no way. It's like nine dudes going to Vegas is like, are the Backstreet Boys at the Sphere going to be a thing? Yeah, does not seem like a classic bachelor party move.
Starting point is 00:05:39 Not at all. But like, I'm going to do what the group's going to do. And we go to this thing, I've seen them and I like them. So I'm excited. A lot of people I think are like, I'm gonna do what the group's gonna do, and we go to this thing. I've seen them and I like them, so I'm excited. A lot of people I think are like, we're doing what now? And to a man, everyone was blown away. If you think you might like this show, you gotta see this show. It's like, it was my first time in the sphere, so very impressed with the technology,
Starting point is 00:06:05 but just so impressed with them as a group that's been doing it for so long. How long was the show? It's like, I don't know, it felt like it was the perfect length of a show. It was maybe like two hours. Like Vegas, they don't- No opener, opener or no?
Starting point is 00:06:20 No, no opener. Yeah, I like that too. Also like when they're playing music before they come out, guess who is on their mix? Backstreet Boys. Yes. Yeah. They got enough stuff. They don't need anybody else. So they're playing stuff they're not going to do in the concert.
Starting point is 00:06:38 Yeah. Great. And Mackenzie, before I went, was like, look, like we don't, we can sell those tickets. we don't have to go. And I was like, well, we already have the flights booked and we've got the hotel and I think we should go. And as soon as it was over, I was just so excited that I'm gonna get to see it again and that I'm gonna get to bring Mackenzie.
Starting point is 00:07:00 Yeah. Fantastic. I'm thrilled, I'm thrilled. I knew you liked the show because mom and I called you and you told us you liked the show and then We hung up and then dad came down He was in the bathroom and he came down and mom told him word-for-word everything you'd said about the show So I got to hear it twice. Also, while we were FaceTiming with you, I was trying to feed the kids and I kept saying to mom, take the phone,
Starting point is 00:07:32 take the phone. And she just couldn't comprehend what I was asking. And does it mean that I brought this up? Yeah, but so's the bowl thing. You don't want to get that poshy? I'm gonna get two little dog bowls, because they're a couple of dirty dogs. Oh.
Starting point is 00:07:48 Yeah. I FaceTimed with mom and dad the other day, and dad was holding the phone for a while, and then I guess his arm got tired, and he gave it to mom to hold. And she was holding it, and her other arm, her elbow, she kept reaching her arm behind her head, and her elbow was an inch away from dad's face.
Starting point is 00:08:07 And I kept saying, you're gonna elbow dad, and he's also not moving his head. And it didn't happen, but it was, it's amazing that it didn't happen, and it was a very slow motion car crash kind of situation. I will tell you this, because I feel like I gotta get some praise in there. Dad looked good.
Starting point is 00:08:24 Daddy looks good right now. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He looks good. Actually, I just saw a picture from our live show of him on stage, just holding his hands out, like soaking in the praise and it's just great. I'm about to crush.
Starting point is 00:08:40 Great shot of Ponkey. Yeah. This was a wonderful conversation with shot of Ponkey. Yeah. This was a wonderful conversation with our friend Molly Gordon. Yeah. I'd only met her once in passing and it was very, I really enjoyed our conversation with her.
Starting point is 00:08:56 Yeah. She played on the bear. She got a new movie called Oh Hi. And then again, we opened with me showering her with praise about her movie. She stars in with Ben Platt called Theater Camp, which I highly recommend. And let's sing a little Backstreet Boys as we go out here.
Starting point is 00:09:13 That I don't go breaking my heart, breaking my heart. Cause it's the only one I got to. Now I feel like I don't need to go. Cause it's the only one I got back, yeah. That's off the newish album. Oh, great. I thought you were gonna say it's off key. Oh, and off key.
Starting point is 00:09:32 All right, who's not off key? Jeff Tweedy, take it away. With the Myles Brothers family chips. With the Myles Brothers. Here we go. Yeah. Guys, it took me 45 minutes to turn this on, but we're here. Oh my God. I didn't even know what that was.
Starting point is 00:10:05 That looked like the original vape that you just tell them. It looked like a taser. It looked like a police taser. So are we- I had to get super stoned before I- Yeah, I'm really fucked up. Are we to glean from this, Molly, that you're maybe not crushing it with tech?
Starting point is 00:10:21 I don't understand tech at all. Okay. Theater kid. Theater kid, man. Yeah. There you go. They definitely, they divide you early on in the theater world, either on stage or tech. 100%. No, when I got this stuff, I hadn't opened it yet. And then last that I opened it, I was like, oh, this is really bad. So you just saw it and knew it was going to be a disaster.
Starting point is 00:10:43 Immediately. Like, the SD card threw me. I was like, I don't think this is going to be able to bring it to the shop. So you just saw it and knew it was going to be a disaster. Immediately. Like, the SD card threw me. I was like, I don't think this is going to be able to go in my computer. I need it. It's like it's not going to go in your computer. It's going to go in the recorder. I was like, there's a recorder. I didn't understand. I thought this was—
Starting point is 00:10:56 It's heartbreaking when there's little letters on it that you don't even know what they stand for. No. They're like, you need an SD card. And you're like, I don't even know what those are for. I'm just like, don't you think this is the stuff we should be taught in school? Like, what was the point of school
Starting point is 00:11:10 for me not to know this type of stuff? Well, it changes so fast. I, not to date myself, but I remember, I went to film school in the late 90s, and I feel like they taught me how to edit on a machine that when I graduated, they were throwing in the garbage. Yeah, we were physically cutting film and taping it together.
Starting point is 00:11:27 And so I can't even imagine how fast it's turning over now, but I think the podcasters of tomorrow, they are figuring it out at a much younger age. A hundred percent. Josh, so it's any consolation when Seth shows up somewhere with his gear, it is all plugged in, like in a suitcase, and it has little pieces at the end of each cord. It tells you where you're supposed to put it.
Starting point is 00:11:51 It's very, he's not learned anything. What were those, granimals? Those like, where it would tell you like which, it was like underpants for kids. Like they would tell you like where to, you would match up a giraffe with a giraffe to know you were wearing the right thing. And I wear those actually.
Starting point is 00:12:07 Yeah, good. And yet you couldn't figure out your tech, weird. Josh Menger, I just want to open because I feel like, you know, lest somebody late in the podcast has something to do, I want to shout out Theater Camp because it is such a good movie. And I just, I know you co-wrote it and co-directed it,
Starting point is 00:12:27 and it's so well realized and such a delight. And I feel like it's a great summer movie, if people are looking for something to watch. That means the world coming from you, and I'm such a big fan of the podcast. Thank you. And both of you and Seth, your show I watch religiously, so I'm such a fan. That's so sweet. I think you're like the two people that have seen it, so it means the world.
Starting point is 00:12:50 No, it's universally beloved in the circles that I run in. It really is. So if you've somehow missed it now, this summer, I think is a great time to pick it up. I also think, and know, and again, obviously we all want our work to be like huge box office hits and stuff. It is very cool to make something that will be good whenever anybody watches it. And I feel like that's what theater camp is.
Starting point is 00:13:16 Because I think for anybody who's experienced anything like that or met people like that, it is just so well observed. And then I wanted to ask though, because he, you were friends with Ben and Beanie forever. That is you in the footage with Ben. Yes. That's so, again, not to give too much way, but there is a opening.
Starting point is 00:13:41 Don't give it away. No. Yeah. Two years later, like. Being like, dude. Don't give it away. No. Two years later, like, being like, dude. Don't! But there's footage of you guys as kids together, you and Ben Platt at theater camp. And he looks exactly the same,
Starting point is 00:13:54 and I asked because you look different. But Ben has looked like Ben Platt. You're like, you've got work done, Ben hasn't yet. So in time, Ben will be unrecognizable. Yeah. Yeah, Ben and be unrecognizable. Yeah. Yeah, Ben and I have this, have so much footage. And we've, we know, we're the kind of people that are like, come over and watch videos
Starting point is 00:14:15 of us as children. Everyone's like, no, I thought this was like a drinks thing. And so we made a film that we could actually put it into. But yeah, I mean, he, he was that talented at five years old. His voice is, he has one of the best voices in the world. And I was more finding my way. So if that video had any sound, you would see that I wasn't ready yet. He was already like a professional actor at that time, but we met at community theater when we were three and four.
Starting point is 00:14:52 Wow. So you are LA kids. Yes. How young were you when you guys met Beanie Feldstein? Beanie came into the fold when my friend Matisse and I had an idea to, if we were going to do theater, we had to give back, obviously, through our theater, which was a beautiful want, but then we decided to create a group called the Theater Geeks of America. Great. And which, you know, and I, no one was interested in me romantically at the time.
Starting point is 00:15:25 Now I look back on it and I understand it. At the time I was very confused. Yeah, if you give yourself the title theater geek. Yes. And Ben, we asked Ben to be a part of it and then Ben was like, can my friend Beanie, who goes to high school with me join? And that's where I met her and I was like,
Starting point is 00:15:44 you're incredible, you're more nerdy than I am, more into this. And we performed at the Roxy, a night of musical theater songs and Beatles medleys. Oh, great. And it's actually horrible. Ben sounded bad that night. It's like, it just is not.
Starting point is 00:16:01 It was so bad, Ben sounded bad. Ben sounded bad. So it is a weird LA thing. Like, I've got friends who have, like, kids who have started bands, and they will, like, they'll play a place like The Roxy or, like, The Key Club. And I feel like LA really supports kids that want to, like, put on shows, and then you can play, like like a legit famous club on the strip and like everybody comes out for it. Or I don't know if you had everyone come out for yours
Starting point is 00:16:33 or if it was under attended. It was very much attended, but I think it's also that like people don't see live shows as much, so they were like, oh, we can actually have people come because it'll be like parents that want it. We can fill a room with these children. Great. Play at the Roxy. You know, so fun. Yeah. Now, you do not have siblings. Is that correct? No, I'm an only child. Yeah. So you've definitely found your way into a community as quickly as you could.
Starting point is 00:17:01 Yeah. I mean, I think that my parents putting me in that community theater program was like life-changing and I found such kindred spirits. And my parents did a really good job of like having family friends be family, but I was still like a lonely weirdo. Freak. Were they in the business at all? Yes. So let's just get Nepo out there.
Starting point is 00:17:28 Let's just bring it into the space. Oh, yeah. Great. I love it. Let's throw it in. Yeah. I mean, my parents are both, they both, they started as actors, weren't getting that much traction in that space.
Starting point is 00:17:44 My dad was working more in commercials. He said that he was like the guy that wouldn't take the like, he wouldn't take the product for hair commercials and they'd show his hair and be like, this guy hasn't taken the product. This guy has. He was the before picture. He was the before picture. And my mom did a little theater, a little bit, but it wasn't finding its way. So both of them started writing and directing. And yeah, so they've had many years
Starting point is 00:18:17 of success and then many years of it not working. And it was just, I feel like growing up it I don't know I always think like what the leg up that I have is obviously access and all these things but they they knew how to spin so many plates because they knew that most things weren't gonna work out and so I just remember like my mom like moving to New York to do a movie and then like it fell apart and like coming home and being like who how am I gonna get get another job? And like, oh, I have this other thing I'm writing. Like, they just never have just one thing at a time. Yes. Yeah. It must be so valuable as well to, you know, it's a part of like, NEPO that people sort of ignore, which is
Starting point is 00:19:00 like you want you see failure. Yeah. Because, you? Because I think the scariest thing about having kids who get into this business is the ones who have no sense of exactly how hard it is, because of course, from the outside, we only see the successes. So I would imagine probably a hard thing to see as a kid, but so valuable now that you're actually doing it as a career. Yeah, also, I was just talking to my mom about the rotten tomatoes of it all, and she was like, it as a career. Yeah, also like I was just talking to my mom about like the rotten tomatoes of it all and
Starting point is 00:19:27 she was like, it was so funny like I remember getting a horrible review for a film and dad going to like the local newsstand and buying all the papers because it was like going to be one bad day in my life of these reviews and And now it's like, it's public and it's like, it's this number that comes out. It just wasn't this thing, but it was still obviously painful. But now she's like, it's way more painful because you can't escape it.
Starting point is 00:19:54 Right. Yeah. I mean, you could just not read it, but I guess everyone knows it. Yeah, that's the problem. And it follows you around. Well, the number, they like announced the number, so it's hard. Yes, I see, yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:08 Yeah. The numbers, no, it's not great to have a number. I will say the same is true of like, a great review used to mean more too. Yes. Because the most exciting thing is when you, and again, I would imagine, certainly the bear, but I knew about Theater Camp
Starting point is 00:20:28 because it did make a lot of year-end lists. And I don't know if I would have been predisposed to see that movie and then I read about it. And there's something so special about a person who sees your work and actually writes about it in a way that is as thoughtful and as considered as you were when you made the work. And so that's a bummer too when it gets, you know, like it's more fun to read
Starting point is 00:20:49 a great review than hear 88. You're like, Oh, yeah. Also con you know, you guys know from comedy, like comedy gets fucking shot on like they're literally like, Oh, you want it to make people laugh? How dare you? Like- Oh, it's the worst. Yeah. So for a theater camp to have people, you know, it's, I'm so proud of the heart and the, yeah, and like the specificity of the film, but it's also a stupid, you know, there's a lot of silly stuff and for anyone to talk about it in a serious way, it was so meaningful to not, yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:22 Cause I've been in comedies where they've been like, literally how dare these people make this film? Yeah. I know. And then like a middling horror movie is like, oh, that's an 82. Yeah, they're like, 82, someone dies, someone dies, and then someone do too. Like bad superhero movie audience score is like 106,
Starting point is 00:21:39 like out of 100. I say this as a big old fan. Josh will tell you, I read comic books. I love the superhero movies when mainstream. It's the best. I just saw the new Superman in theater. It was a joy. But it is crazy how there was like ten years where like every superhero movie was like 94. I'm like, I think you all scared.
Starting point is 00:21:56 I think you all scared of superhero fans. And you should be ashamed of yourselves. They are, yeah. They will fight and kill for their people. For Thor. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from Mint Mobile. What's up, Boshie? Nothing much, Sufi. You know what doesn't belong in your epic summer plans, Boshie?
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Starting point is 00:26:17 Did you, were you a family trip family? Well, this is what is, was fun about, I'm actually with my my parents right now and And when I told them I was doing this podcast we When I do anything, but I've had to have to go into the writers were with my family and you know We're great. We appreciate that we appreciate anybody. Yeah, you know does the work? I You know, they're like, what's the bit? Have you worked on it? You know, I'm like no, it's more of a conversation They're like, okay, have you memorized it?
Starting point is 00:26:47 I'm like, no, I haven't yet. And then I'll tell the story and they're like, that angle is not working. Hold on. I don't need to enable. Are they writing to you? Like, oh, bail, bail. Yeah, my dad's like, it's not working. It's not working.
Starting point is 00:27:02 But we, because my parents are artists and freelance, trips were like interesting. Like I was always, you know, growing up in LA, I think I went to a school with, that, you know, that had such immense wealth compared to my family and everyone would be going on family trips and I would be like, why are we not going on a trip? And my mom would be like, "'Cause I might be getting a job, I don't know." And now I understand that because I know that in a week, my whole life could change and, you know,
Starting point is 00:27:34 I might have to move to Korea, but I might not do anything. And people are always like, can we plan something? And I'm like, well, I don't know, this might happen. And so my parents both had that. So we would plan stuff kind of the week before. And my mom is really scrappy and she would like lie, lie to get because we wouldn't, you know, it would be more expensive. So lie to get we'd always be staying in like a hotel room that was like, for a couple that just got divorced that was like, that was like
Starting point is 00:28:03 supposed to stay in that room, or the room was like a little fucked up, but they were letting someone stay in it for a discounted price. It was just a weird, it was always last minute. And I think I didn't understand why until I started working more. Yeah. It is such a fear, like, you know, as someone who came to LA like 22 years ago, you're always like, I just don't, I can't book anything because I might book something. And then when you do book a trip, that's when you do book a commercial. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:28:32 Or you mostly just don't book anything, but it's like you live in the fear of that. Yeah. And you're like, well, I had an appointment the week I was supposed to be gone. So I don't know, maybe I had to be here for that. I think the biggest kind of trips that we would take, Seth, bringing you into the space, are to Martha's Vineyard. Oh really? Yeah. So...
Starting point is 00:28:56 All the way from the West Coast. So my dad in the 80s went to this magical place called Martha's Vineyard that wasn't what it is now. It wasn't rich. You know, it was like rugged and magical. And he kind of hipped his friends to it that now have property there and all that stuff. My parents didn't buy, but we, so many of the friends, my dad will always be like, you know, you got this house because I took you to the
Starting point is 00:29:25 land. Right, right, right. And so we would go there every summer, even though it was, you know, across the country. And that's like the most consistent trip that I can remember. That's fantastic. So how and when you would go, how long would you go for? We would go for like two weeks. That's fantastic. And yeah, I mean, I just remember
Starting point is 00:29:46 so many, like I've had such, like, I've had so many experiences there that have shaped like who I am. Like I went, there was like Lucy Vincent. Yes. Yeah. Each there was like a little creek kids could swim in, but we had to walk through the nude beach. Yeah. And I saw. I've seen some old, old wieners on that beach. Yeah, that I should say, I feel like that's kind of,
Starting point is 00:30:17 you don't see that as much anymore. By the way, I first started going like in like 2008, and there were a lot of old wieners. Yeah. And then I feel like maybe part, like me too slash Epstein, they were like, I think we should not have our dicks out on a beach with children.
Starting point is 00:30:31 On a beach that kids are walking through to get to the nice creek. Yeah, you know what I mean? And I think everybody was like, yeah, that's good. Cause the worst, I don't know if you ever saw him like this Molly, hopefully this isn't traumatic. The thing I hated the most, there were a lot of old guys in T-shirts and no bottoms.
Starting point is 00:30:49 I agree. It was like, you want me to see, it's like, you want me to just see that. Yeah, but not all of it. You just want to see like the lower two thirds. Which is the worst part, I kind of think. Yeah, the most ugly part, not a wreck, dare I say, just out of context. Sure, either way.
Starting point is 00:31:09 We're not taking this personally, we totally agree. Yeah. But I was talking to my parents this morning and I was like, well, I'm gonna tell that story and then my dad's like, don't say whose penis you saw though. And I was like, why can't I say this guy?
Starting point is 00:31:22 And he's like, I just don't want you to get, it's like a whole thing. But you, it's like a, you know. By the way, now that you said it, Molly, I feel like I saw the same one. And I feel like I saw the same one. I feel like- All right, so on the count of three, we're gonna beep it out.
Starting point is 00:31:36 It's not gonna be in the podcast. Okay, great. All right, on the count of three, we're all gonna say it. One, two, three. One, two, three. BEEP One, two, three. ****** ******
Starting point is 00:31:46 ****** ****** ****** I was thinking of a different one, I couldn't think of the name, but man, for those By the way, I just want to first of all, shake your dad's hand for me and be like, you're totally right sir, Seth agrees that was not for the podcast. I will say, you know, because my wife started going in the 80s when she was very young,
Starting point is 00:32:08 and her entire summers were spent out there. And it is, you know, her friendships there are so much more intense than anywhere else. I think it had a camp-type vibe for her. Totally, I think, yeah, you, it kind of, my parents used to say like, you know, this is what it was like for us, you don't have to lock the doors, you know. And then we got, no, I'm like, nothing happened, but we don't lock the doors. Yeah, the kids could kind of run around and for these LA kids, it's like, so rugged, like
Starting point is 00:32:46 the most beautiful, pristine places. But I just love East Coast summers. I love, there's a magic and the vineyard like, yeah, I remember smoking weed there for the first time and swimming across a pond and with my parents and having to like laughing so hard, but pretending I was just laughing at the pond. Yeah. Did you stay in, because there are like some towns where there's like a lot of shops and things going on
Starting point is 00:33:15 or did you stay in the sort of more, you know, rural sort of- I think she was Lucy Vincent. She was probably in the- Yeah. But if you were there, so you were staying where you had to drive most places to get... Yes. Yeah. And listening to music and kind of the freedom of getting your license, then being able to
Starting point is 00:33:34 drive on the Vineyard was such a big... I would stay with the Davids and it was like a... It was... Yeah, it just was... I don't know. It felt like this other world and this other life and also a nice way for my parents to have a vacation without the stress of because we were staying with friends, it's like, but we can leave if anything pops up.
Starting point is 00:33:56 Yeah, right. Yeah, that's great. I also think there was an influx in the 80s of like artists and, you know, maybe if the 70s was like a music influx, like the 80s was like sort of film and TV people. And it's a very cool place. I love the video. There's amazing videos of James Taylor and Carly Simon singing like together on the venue. Yeah, I feel like it would have been amazing to be there at that time before it's become what it's become.
Starting point is 00:34:30 It's still a wonderful place. But now I drive by things with my dad and he's like, could have bought that for $100,000. It's now $20 million. I'm like, great. That's what I always say the meanest thing your neighbors in New York can do is tell you. Like we have like a, like across the hall neighbors, like either late 80s or mid 90s, and all she does is tell us what you paid for the same apartment as us. I'm like, keep it to yourself.
Starting point is 00:34:55 Yeah. Nobody wants to hear about how cheap it was in 1963. It just hurts everyone. Yeah. I don't understand it. Um, and then the other big trips that I remember through, we took trips that weren't connected to work, but it's mostly like, and it was cool to have a trip connected to my mom working. I think that was just really amazing to see
Starting point is 00:35:17 as a young woman. But if there was like, my mom, we went to London for her to shoot a movie and then we would take trips from there. But it would be connected to the movie and my mom would bring me with all these adults all the time. Like I wasn't with the kids and I would be at like a Michelin star, like dinner in Barcelona on a press tour because my mom needed to go on it and I was like five and kind of joining the conversation. Were you precocious at that age? Do you feel like you fit in well with parents as a kid? Yeah, I think so.
Starting point is 00:35:57 I think, yeah, I feel like I've always, it's not until actually in the last few years that I've realized I don't know anything. I think that's getting older. Right, right. Is realizing you just don't know anything, but totally. I think my, I've always felt like an old soul and, and yeah, I feel like I, my parents always felt like I had something to bring to a conversation and never made me feel like I didn't know anything.
Starting point is 00:36:28 And I'm sure it was very annoying. Very annoying. Would your father go on that? Like, would your father go to London too? Yeah, he, they did a really good job of like, we won't work at the same time. And, and yeah, so he would come and then I would kind of have more time with one of them. But yeah, we, in that kind of London time, I remember we did like a Euro summer of going every weekend to like a different place.
Starting point is 00:36:57 And you know, when you're an only child and you're as close to your parents as I am, the photo shoots that you have, like we all look like lovers. Like it's just, like it's just the collages that we have of kind of the kissing photos in Paris and Barcelona, like it's just we're so close, but I sometimes I'm like this, yeah, the photos were are strange, but they would bring me everywhere, romantic, like, I'm kind of like, did you ever have alone time? And like, yeah, but I actually don't know if they did. I feel like the slideshow at our wedding, because Alexi is intensely close with her
Starting point is 00:37:37 parents in the way that I am intensely close with mine, like all the pictures, like at the end people were like, so I don't know if they're in love with each other, but they definitely love their parents. BOTH LAUGH It sounds like that might be a problem at your slideshow, too. 100%. No, I mean, people always say, like, you, right,
Starting point is 00:37:52 they're like, oh, that guy, like, he's gonna be hard to be in a relationship with, because he has, like, a hard relationship with his mother. But it's like, that's all, it's also hard when you love your parents too much. Oh, yeah. I mean, by the way, the amount that my, I love my father-in-law, but he let his
Starting point is 00:38:09 daughters walk all over him. And I'd like, I'll just take him aside sometime and be like, hey, thanks for standing up to him. I'm in this alone. Just so you know. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Really, really good work. Teaching them about consequences. Are you both as close to your, by the way, me being asking a question you would never want to talk about publicly. Are you both close to your parents? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:38:35 Oh my God, yes. Yeah, yeah. Josh definitely not having kids, Josh, like we just went on a vacation in Amsterdam where we both used to work. And our parents came and Josh's wife came and Josh's mother-in-law came and my son Like we just went on a vacation in Amsterdam where we both used to work. Oh great. And our parents came and Josh's wife came and Josh's mother-in-law came and my son came. And Josh definitely like was on parents duty
Starting point is 00:38:53 because I was on. I was, and so Josh sees, I feel like you probably see them a little bit more. Yeah, maybe. I mean, I'm West coast, so it's... But we do, we meet in the middle or... Yeah. I find a way to get back there. They definitely both like Josh more,
Starting point is 00:39:10 which I'm totally fine with. I just wanted to know who they like more. Yeah, and it's, by the way, like, I do too, so I'm not like... More than what? Than yourself? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I think you're a better person. I'm like... Like, if I had to choose who to hang out with and there was another me, I'd definitely hang out with you.
Starting point is 00:39:29 100%, 100%. Would, if your mom was going to set in London, would you always go to set or would sometimes would you and your dad go do like touristy London things? We did, this is also speaking of the lover photographs, we did all the touristy stuff and look, yeah, look like lovers. And we went to the, yeah, all the museums, all the castles, all the, I have a thing, I've sent you guys some photos.
Starting point is 00:39:59 I am like obsessed with ice cream. It's like an addiction that I have. And I, when I was young, I was seriously considering writing a book on ice creams of the world from my point of view, because I try, it's like a thing in every place I've been. I have an ice cream every day, like, and I really care about it. And I feel like, I genuinely think that when I'm like,
Starting point is 00:40:27 when I'm having ice cream, like I am okay. Like it's just. It's good to have a place that you can go to where that. And I'm lucky it's not drugs or alcohol. Like, look, like, but it's definitely like, it's just another land. And I, if I'm like in a bad mood, everyone's like, oh, Molly's okay now.
Starting point is 00:40:46 And it's because I've had ice cream. So your favorite vacation spot is ice cream. Ice cream. Wait, now I am kind of fascinated that we have this self-proclaimed expert. So, because I bet you're gonna say it's good everywhere, but where do you have a couple of places, like a couple of countries or cities
Starting point is 00:41:05 where you had ice cream that stood out? I will just jump in and say, I love a hot dog. And I was with Josh and had a hot dog at the Copenhagen airport that I still think about all the time. So that would be an example of an outlier surprising place. Better than average. That makes sense for Copenhagen, right?
Starting point is 00:41:23 Yeah, totally. It was the guy who gave it to you hot, too. The people there don't make sense. It was also electric pink. Yeah. And also, he was wearing no pants and a T-shirt, and he lowered it. Which I didn't care for that, but it was delicious.
Starting point is 00:41:44 Copenhagen translates to T-shirt, no pants. T-shirt, no pants. Which I didn't care for that, but it was delicious. And we like in the summer you like jump into the water and I was like and we all go and like the crew and Jeremy and we're all and it we're like oh they just jump into the water like I wonder who's there. It's like the most beautiful like people are taking off their it's it's the most beautiful thing we just watched them like it was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my entire life. And we all couldn't do it for a day. Because we just, and it's like,
Starting point is 00:42:30 Jeremy, you're a Calvin, you can do it. But we just couldn't do it yet. They also, I feel, look that way and don't look like they work out. They don't? No, it just looks god given. They just bike and, I don't know, catch fish with their hands or whatever they do.
Starting point is 00:42:46 I'm sure that's. Yeah, it's insane. But back to ice cream. Okay, so in Boca Raton, Florida, I had the best mint chip of my life. When I was visiting my grandmother, I had a religious mint chip at 12, but I have it written down. It's its own chapter? When the book gets written, it'll be its own chapter?
Starting point is 00:43:13 Great. Well, it's kind of like you're having a heart—sorry, my vape just is going down. If visiting the grandma, you need, you need something out. If they, you know, it's a complicated relationship, you, you, you have the mint chip. And my thing is I love a medicinal mint chip. Okay. Which not everyone loves with thick, uh, thick dark chocolate. And then I had, I would say across from the Vatican, there's this gelato place that has
Starting point is 00:43:47 the best yogurt flavor. That was incredible. And when my mom was on a press tour for a film, we had a driver who took us to this place and he was like, this is Martin Scorsese's favorite gelato. And at like 13, I was like, okay, okay, and what does he like about it? And that was one that I loved. And then I'm upstate right now, I would say Fortune's Ice Cream, or upstate, their dark chocolate is really giving right now.
Starting point is 00:44:21 Fortune's Ice Cream. What town is Fortune's Ice Cream in? It's in Tivoli, New York. Great. Okay. This is wonderful. Back to Copenhagen in a lot of ways. Yeah, I really, we both.
Starting point is 00:44:31 And we're circling back to Tivoli Market, yeah. Do you get a tip on like, you have to try the yogurt flavored gelato or are you just lucking into landing on, because I imagine there's a lot of options and to try yogurt, I feel like is a bold choice. Yeah, I will look it up or ask people. And then I'm also the person that's holding up the line,
Starting point is 00:44:54 like trying a bunch of- Gotcha. I was gonna turn this around and say, like, it doesn't sound like you're the most fun person to be behind. No. I have an issue. I feel like you would at least be good at this.
Starting point is 00:45:06 I think there's certain places where you can tell that the person behind the counter wants to share with you what's good and what's not. I can't stand when someone asks a teenager who very clearly is on its second day, like, what's good here? Like, what would you recommend? Like, I feel like you have to clock, is the person serving me a recommender or are they just like a dead-eyed teenager who's just waiting for their shift in? A hundred percent.
Starting point is 00:45:30 Yeah. I just was in London working and I'm going to shout out another ice cream that I had at ToePath, this amazing restaurant on a canal and it's gorgeous and they had an amazing soft serve, but it was like a weird flavor that I honestly can't remember. It was just not a usual ice cream flavor. And I was like asking a teenager, can I try it? What do you think of it?
Starting point is 00:45:56 And she was just like, I don't know. We only have one flavor. And I was like, can I try it? She's like, you just gotta be brave. You just gotta be brave. But it's actually like she's right. She's right. I respect that I like that as well But how this connects to family trips because I am saying is that when I go on a family trip with my mom She doesn't get an ice cream and she thinks that we're sharing and that's oh
Starting point is 00:46:21 That's not it. That's a hard thing. I actually love everything about my mother except for that. It's just like, get your own. Yeah, especially like, you know, when you're traveling and getting ice cream, that's very much a time to each get your own. 100%. Yeah, our father pulls the same thing with our mom who always would love to share something.
Starting point is 00:46:43 And he's like, no, just let's each get one if that's the deal. Although he's being more accommodating these days, which is nice, which no one's out coming. But he does. He does like to tell everybody, I got ice cream money. That's a big thing. Oh, that, yeah. He's like, I got that ice cream money. Yeah. I got that ice cream money.
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Starting point is 00:48:24 for seven days at fit bod Dot me slash trip. That's FIT bod a dot me slash trip Summers what you make of it and Tim Horton's fruit crunchers have something for every mood So choose from a variety of fruity flavors in sparkling frozen or lemonade order yours on the Tim's app today at Participating Restaurants in Canada for a limited time. Were your parents excited when you chose this life? There was a glitch. Were they excited? I think they just wanted me to be happy and I think they just wanted me to be happy. I wasn't good at school. I was good at English and history, but math was so hard for me.
Starting point is 00:49:13 I think finding theater in a place where there wasn't one right answer was such a gift for me, and owning my intelligence as a person. So they were just happy that I loved that and loved music and all these things. And then, you know, people had asked me to audition for something when I was like 13 or something,
Starting point is 00:49:35 and my parents were always like, no. So I'm just, I'm grateful that they weren't like, you love this, let's make it a professional thing. Right. I apologize for my ignorance here, but when you go to a theater camp and you do a big production, do your parents get to see it? Do they come out at the end of the term
Starting point is 00:49:51 and get to see the shows? Yes, they come to see it. And yeah, it's like parents' weekend and you get to show them your friends. But it was a very like special thing when they would come to see the shows, but the shows were all not fantastic, so I apologize that they had to sit through them. I bet they loved it. I went, my seven-year-old, who does not go to a theater camp because it's like a day
Starting point is 00:50:22 camp, told me there was a play, and he had three different parts in it, and I was so excited. And then his first part was just to walk across stage holding a sign that said, one hour later. I was like, oh boy. I'm starting to think these other two parts aren't leads either.
Starting point is 00:50:40 I mean, hey, I never got leads at theater camp. I never got into, like there there was a thing at, um, stage door, which is the camp I went to, which the movie's based on. Yeah. Um, there was a thing that, like, all the best kids got into a cabaret, and then at the end of the camp, they would perform for all the bad kids, I guess. And, uh, and I never got into that.
Starting point is 00:51:01 I never got a lead. And look, I'm a working actor, so... So, take that stage door. But you still enthusiastically went back every summer. Yeah, I loved it. And I've just always... not cared about that kind of stuff. It's interesting, the movie that I have coming out,
Starting point is 00:51:23 is the first time I've been the lead of a movie, but I didn't even think. So I'm doing a lot of these interviews and they're taking it very seriously and being like, so this is your first lead. How does that feel? And why do you think it hasn't happened yet? And I just am like, oh, I don't, for me, it's always been about the piece and getting to work with amazing people and getting to be a part of this ensemble,
Starting point is 00:51:50 which I think maybe comes from my theater and improv background. A lot of my friends do stand up. I would never do that. I would never be up there alone. For me, it's about working off of other people. Obviously, I want a good role. I want to come in and give a laugh or something I don't want nothing but I just I don't need it to be all about me
Starting point is 00:52:11 you co-wrote this movie as well correct yeah I just did the story my friend and my friend Sophie wrote it um but yeah I I love to like collaborate in so many different ways like I I think I don't know, it's funny, people that are so, there are obviously amazing art tours, but I think if you don't wanna collaborate, you shouldn't work in this industry. It's the most collaborative medium. So it's funny when people are so,
Starting point is 00:52:40 just wanting it to be about their voice. It's like, well then maybe make a paint, like paint, cause that's just you. Yeah. That's true. Nobody ever sees a painting and they're like, who else helped with this? Who did you bring in to help you?
Starting point is 00:52:52 Did you do the horses too? You did the horses? You did all of this? Wow. I could tell you did the trees, but wow, horses too, man. Did you co-paint this? Would you do any like quick getaways from LA? Would you go down like out to the desert
Starting point is 00:53:08 or to Yosemite or Big Sur, any of the? So no, and I, it's, I don't, for me, it was always about going to New York. Like I want, New York was just like the North star for me of my life will start when I live in New York and I Want to get to New York every weekend so I think if if we took a trip it would be these like quick little New York trips where we would see like three shows in a weekend and
Starting point is 00:53:37 Walk and be in this place that I like I know that I would want to live in and and um So I think they would save up for like these big theater trips, yeah. That's really cool. Would you go see a lot of shows? Yes, I would see, that's like, yeah, I saw everything as a kid and that was the best. And I feel like also being an only child,
Starting point is 00:54:03 you get movies and theater, you get brought to things that are inappropriate at a younger age and the parents do this, which just doesn't, let's unpack this. Like I just, it's like- Molly's covering most of her face, but leaving one eye. One eye. For those of you who just listening.
Starting point is 00:54:19 I always felt like mom did us a real solid cover, which is like, I'm gonna give you, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I guess that was some of my first schlongs as well. Yeah. But yeah, I got to see some amazing productions growing up, like that production of Death of a Salesman that, what is it?
Starting point is 00:54:44 Philip Seymour Hoffman? Philip Seymour Hoffman? Philip Seymour Hoffman. The Mike Nichols one, yeah. Yeah, that was astounding and like so many things that yeah, were so inspiring to me. And I don't know, theater also wasn't what, it's crazy what it is now. I feel like every ticket's like $1,000.
Starting point is 00:55:01 Yeah, it's been a crazy, this New York season more than any, I feel like people are talking about that in a way that something has to change. I know. Because people are both excited about shows and also deeply bummed out about how it's going to be. I feel like it's like back from the pandemic in a great way, but also, yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:20 But yeah, we would do that. And then I'm trying to think of any, what other like little, yeah, we would do that. And then I'm trying to think of any. What other like little, the, the other, yeah, we would do, we would do New York and then we did like Mexico, you know, some, some of those types of things, last minute edition and, um, and, but my mom doesn't love a resort, but my dad and I do. So it's, that was a funny, she's like, I wanna see the city. I wanna see life. And we're like, we wanna be completely away from a city.
Starting point is 00:55:51 And lay and be brain dead, yeah. How is there a vibe together? There vibe together? It's great, my parents are so different. My mom's brain works a mile a minute and my dad is the slowest person in the entire world. But he's so funny and timing is amazing, but he's from he goes at it. He's from Delaware and I call it, from Dover, Delaware, and I call it Dover, Delaware, Dover, Delaware dad. And it's like, he's so, it's just a slower, it's Jabayitin in a way.
Starting point is 00:56:33 We're slower. Yeah. Yeah. So if you're, if you're at a resort and your mom wants to get into town, I imagine she's ready to go and your dad's dragging his ass around the hotel room. He's lost everything. Yeah. His new thing is like he loses his phone and then we have to do the beep to find it and like yeah, you got it.
Starting point is 00:56:53 But it's not an age thing. It's like that's been that way. Yeah, I feel like that's like a really unfortunate thing for people who get older, who start like that is people like, oh, they're slipping. And then the people who know them are like, no, been like this. Actually pretty, actually like maintaining at a level that's kind of really impressive. Getting better, dare I say. Getting better.
Starting point is 00:57:15 Yeah. But yeah, no, they would get along on vacations. And I think it was just we, with three, it's hard because you gang up on one. But like, it's hard not having that other person sometimes when deciding what to do. But yeah, and I feel like what's the looking back, thinking about coming on this podcast, the pictures from the trips, like, I would always, like, do something, I would always come back from a trip with, like, an injury or, like, I got a comb stuck in my hair and I had to have, like, bangs that were this long. Like, I'm
Starting point is 00:57:59 just one of those kids. Like, it's like I... Do you also want to ask a follow-up on getting a comb stuck in her hair? Yeah, yeah. I mean, okay. Yeah. Did you like put it in your hair and then glue it there? So I just like, I shouldn't be given stuff. Like when I'm given stuff, I just like try things with it and I break it or whatever.
Starting point is 00:58:19 But there was a trip to Mexico that I took with my mom and some of her friends. And I got, my mom like was on a phone call and I was like dancing in the hotel room just to something. Probably like Cheryl, like I was doing Cheryl Crow. And then I found like a comb and I wanted to like do, put my hair into it and curl it with a comb, which you can't. And then I got it stuck. And then my friend, wasn't there a show like called The Nanny or something? Yeah, the Frank Drescher show. Is that what you meant?
Starting point is 00:58:57 So there was The Nanny and then there's called The Midwife. Yeah. No, there was like a reality, obviously The Nanny. There was a reality show about a nanny. And somehow at this hotel, the nanny, there was a reality show about a nanny. And somehow at this hotel, that nanny was there. And she... This is what I mean.
Starting point is 00:59:14 It's like, the stories are just weird. And she, we got the hotel involved because I really didn't want to cut my hair. And this nanny, she couldn't even figure it out, and she was on a reality show about being a nanny. So she couldn't fix it. Yeah. No one could. She couldn't fix it.
Starting point is 00:59:30 So we cut it, and then I have, I think I shared a photo, like really wispy baby. Baby bangs are now like hot. It's like hot girl, which I want to unpack with as straight men. I'm just interested Is it like cuz you're a baby like why yeah, I'm nothing that starts baby is like
Starting point is 00:59:51 Works for me. Yes I also think that like baby bangs that you do as a choice or hotter than ones you have done because you got a comb Stuck in your yeah If you're like, oh, I like your bangs. And it's like, thanks, I got a comb stuck. And in reality show, Nanny couldn't get it out. I'm happy to say that I'm unaware of like, what baby bangs even are. And I don't know if I've seen them.
Starting point is 01:00:15 I don't know. You got to Google, you got to Google baby bangs. But don't do it on your computer. Once we're off here. Don't do it on your computer. Don't let your wife see it. Oh, God, it's bad. But yeah, then I had baby bangs for a chapter and then yeah, getting like rashes, sunburns
Starting point is 01:00:35 that are insane. I like sprained my, you know, I would slip. I've sprained my arm a bunch of times. Yeah. I'm clumsy. I'm clumsy. I'm clumsy. I think like I'm a character in a bad rom-com. Right.
Starting point is 01:00:51 Yeah. But. With your makeshift baby bangs and your sprained ankle. Yeah. Yeah. I, it's just not, I had an interesting thing happen. This has nothing to do with the trip, but I was with my mom but I spilled hot tea on my lower region when I was like 21 and
Starting point is 01:01:12 I had to go to the I had to go to the hospital and It's we're all fine There's no nothing's but they were like I had had to have like an adult male doctor like look into it and I was like sobbing and it was horrible. And he was like, I've never seen this. Yeah, he was like, I've never seen this. He's like, people do this to their lovers
Starting point is 01:01:34 when they're like, they've cheated, but I've never seen someone come in that had done this to themselves. Yeah. I feel like keep that to yourself, man. Yeah, I was like, okay. It's like, yeah. This is like, if someone else had done this to you, man. Yeah, I was like, okay. It's like, yeah. This is like, if someone else had done this to you,
Starting point is 01:01:48 they'd be in jail. 100%. Yeah, I just, I hurt myself a lot, but I'm trying to work on it. Well, this has been such a delight. It is so lovely to talk to you. And I'm such a fan of yours, and I'm very excited for your movie, Oh Hi, which comes out July 25th. The trailer is very funny.
Starting point is 01:02:12 Yeah. Have either of you ever wanted to force someone to be with you before you found your wonderful wives? Yeah, this is a movie about someone who makes a psychopathic choice. So I do, you should all watch the trailer to know the context of it. I watched the trailer and initially I was totally
Starting point is 01:02:30 on your team. You were with it, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then I was like, oh wait, no I'm not. But I don't know, I haven't seen the movie yet. The minute somebody doesn't wanna be with me, I'm out. Historically. Okay. I feel like I'm real good that way. Yeah. That's fantastic. That's amazing. Circling back to your parenting, that's great. Yeah. Josh has been a psycho like seven times.
Starting point is 01:02:55 Josh made some real psycho choices. No, but not only to hurt myself, I feel like. Yeah, yeah. Totally. Yeah. 100%. If you've done it, but it's only sent you into your own ego death, then it's completely fine. Totally. Yeah, totally normal. Josh would love to be just staring wistfully out a cliff.
Starting point is 01:03:16 I feel like that's his vibe post-breakup. It's just like wistful. But those days are over, you guys. They're over. He got one. He bagged it. He good. I don't know that Mackenzie would appreciate the term But those days are over, you guys. They're over. He got one. He bagged it. Yeah. He good.
Starting point is 01:03:26 I don't know that Mackenzie would appreciate the term that I bagged it. I think it's good. Wasn't that in her vows? I can't remember now. No, I married a wonderful woman. I wouldn't say I bagged her. She's like, what an honor to be bagged by you. I maybe remember a different wedding. She's just getting ready to go to work and she's just like, what? All right, wait, before we let you go, Molly, you have to answer the speed round questions,
Starting point is 01:03:52 courtesy of Josh. I'm ready. Okay, you'd only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous or educational? Adventurous. What is your favorite means of transportation? Ooh, a train.
Starting point is 01:04:06 A train. 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? Some like, what do you want to take a vacation with? I completely short- That's just such a good question. Yeah, it's not an easy one. Like the Briers family or the Dawes's? The Dawes's, yeah.
Starting point is 01:04:36 The Dawes's. But also, thank you for getting the new name right. Yeah. Is it Dawes now? It's Dawes now, yeah. Really? It's Dawes and they've, Mackenzie actually was just saying, they just changed all their... Is that Hagen got me tooed, right?
Starting point is 01:04:51 Hagen was still out on the beach with his D out. What's so funny is that I don't have enough followers to get any like SponCon things, but like, I keep being like, is any ice cream, like would anyone be interested in doing a collab? Cause like you saw Bradley Cooper does Talenty. Yeah. And I'm like, anything.
Starting point is 01:05:12 And they're just like, we're not getting yeses here. I'm sorry. I've been trying to get my own Ben and Jerry's flavor like for like five years, like fully just begging them. Cause like Fallon has one, Colbert has one, nothing. No messages. You should 100% get one, Colbert has one, nothing. No messages for free. You should have 100% got one. I know, it's crazy.
Starting point is 01:05:27 Okay. All right. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? Probably my mother, sorry to my dad, but we need pace. Yeah, yeah. And then you're from Venice, is that where you are from?
Starting point is 01:05:43 Yes. In LA, would you recommend Venice as a vacation destination? I mean, it's kind of ruined now. It used to be like that on Main Street, you couldn't have a shop that existed in another place. And now it's like, it's every single shop that we all know. But Venice is great.
Starting point is 01:06:03 Yeah, I would say just try to not go to, you know, but it funnest is great. I, yeah, I would say just try to not go to, you know, the Warby Parker kind of just, kind of try to be more original with your choices. Yeah. And Seth has our final questions. Molly, have you been to the Grand Canyon? I haven't. Do you wanna go?
Starting point is 01:06:21 Yes. Okay. I don't know if it's gonna be a fit for you, just based on the comb, the comb story. I just think, but you know. I like to water raft. Can you whitewater raft? Yeah, you can do that. Okay.
Starting point is 01:06:35 All right, great. Do that. I did not expect that as a closer from you that you like to whitewater raft. I thought it's going to be like, because we're going today. Packing back. While you've been talking. This recorder has a ticket inside of it. We have talked to your parents. They have packed a suitcase.
Starting point is 01:06:52 When you walk out of this room, it will be ready for you. Yeah. Your dad is still packing. Thank you, Molly. This has just been a delight. Oh hi, and theaters. And you know, go back. It's only a couple years ago.
Starting point is 01:07:03 Theater camp. It's fantastic. So thanks so much, theater camp. It's fantastic. So thanks so much, Molly. Appreciate you both. Have a great day. Thank you. Bye. Bye.
Starting point is 01:07:10 Bye. When Molly was younger, she wasn't the best student. When Molly was younger she wasn't the best student Math in particular didn't agree with her But she was artistic just like her parents And gravitated to the theater Her time on stage planted the seed Would go to summer camp for a handful of weeks Started a club for American theater geeks But regardless she was never the lead Went out to the vineyard back in the early days Smokin', weedin', swimmin swimming across the pond photo shoots with her parents on their getaways looked like she was in a relationship with her dad and mom Lucy Vincent walk along the sand To where little kids would go play in the creek
Starting point is 01:08:52 But sometimes you might encounter a man Who was covering his torso But not his dick How you not gonna cover your dick? Don't you know they call that porky pig an ant? No one in history ever wanted to see that ship

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