Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - NICK KROLL Had a Terrible Time at the Van Gogh Museum

Episode Date: June 10, 2025

Nick Kroll joins Seth and Josh on the podcast this week! He talks all about growing up in Rye, New York, what his extravagant family vacations looked like when he was younger, what happened when he visited the Van Gogh museum, how his father’s idea to go deep sea fishing turned out, the salami he brought to Morocco, and so much more! Support our sponsors: DeleteMe Keep your private life private by signing up for DeleteMe. Now at a special discount for our listeners. Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to joindelete me.com/TRIPS and use promo code TRIPS at checkout. Aura Frames For Father’s Day. For a limited time, listeners can save on the perfect gift at AuraFrames.com to get $30-off on their best-selling Carver Mat frame when you use Promo code TRIPS CashApp Download Cash App Today: https://capl.onelink.me/vFut/4aafc4yf #CashAppPod Uplift Desk Elevate your workspace with UPLIFT Desk. Go to https://upliftdesk.com/trips for a special offer exclusive to our audience.

Hi, Pashi. Hi, Sufi. How's it going? Good. How are you? I'm doing really good. Had a really fun walk to school today with Addie. Addie does not stop talking the entire time we're walking.

And what's really fun is it's basically just a monologue. She's saying my name a lot, but doesn't need me to interject or add anything. And it's so loud and like she never takes a breath. Yeah. People passersby sort of clock what's going on. And it's very nice to watch them smile like, oh, this little girl doesn't need to hear anything from her dad. She's just going to talk about stuff. Yeah. Real good chatterbox.

And there's a real, there's a funny thing in New York City where you're walking and like obviously, it's true everywhere where people converge on a school from different sides and the minute she sees any of her friends, she screams louder than anyone in New York is capable of screaming. That's great. I mean, I always get excited when I see my friends meeting up.

Oh, yeah. And I still get that excitement. And I feel like sometimes we, I feel like your wife and sister-in-law are sort of like, why are you guys hugging each other all the time? Oh, yeah. And we love it. We're big huggers.

Yeah. Love a big greeting. Mm-hmm. Love throwing my arm around other people I love. Yeah. Addy did tell me today that everyone's allowed to touch her but me, which I thought was like pretty mean. Super mean. And then Axel, Axel's not feeling well.

He's a little under the weather. And Axel said, I don't want anybody to touch me. And then Addie, for some reason, mentioned one of our neighbors, like one of the people that lived in our building. She was like, this person could touch you. And then Axel just looked at me, like with a face I'd never seen before,

like a real, I'm about to tell you something that'll blow your mind. And he goes, I don't want that, like a real, I'm about to tell you something that'll blow your mind. And he goes, I don't want that, because she's a witch. He called one of her, he said one of her names. And I will say, I was like, oh yeah, I get it. That's what, and by the way, nothing, this woman is, I've never seen her cast a single spell, but she does have sort of a haunting demeanor.

Witch vibes. There's some witch vibes. Yeah. You know those workplace accident things that are like we've gone 78 days without an accident? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like you should get one of those at your house for how many days no one has been a little sick.

That's a great call. And just see what you can get up to. It would just be a funny sign to have in a house. Just a dry erase board, or maybe you should make it fancier than that. Yeah, cause I don't think you're gonna get above seven. Yeah. That's a great idea.

I'm gonna order a sign. It's been blank days since someone's been sick. Yeah. I think you might have something jammed in one of your teeth right now too. It's just, oh no, maybe not. Oh yeah, it is. Yeah.

I'll figure it out later. I will say Axel was like, here's the other thing about how often people are sick. Axel was like, I don't feel well. And like everybody's, you're like, it's not possible you're sick again. And then you like put a thermometer in his ear and he's blowing like a 102.

You're like, oh dear. Man, I wish we would have had an ear thermometer growing up. Yeah. Like throwing that thing under your tongue. Now that they can just like point a little gun at your forehead. And it's just like that fast. They're like, yeah.

And it's like, what is this stupid, dirty, sick making thing that I gotta throw under my tongue. I'm obviously an incredible father and husband. I don't need to tell you that. I'll give you that. But the other thing is Axel came into our room at like 2.30, wanted to get in bed. And then I do it again, I do the solid of then I went

and slept in the bottom bunk of my children's room. You know what I mean? So that's my sacrifice. Yeah. And then he comes in at 5 45. So 2 45 he wakes us up, then 5 45 he comes in and he's like, dad, let's go downstairs. And I'm like, dude, I'm so tired.

I have to go back to bed. He goes, when do you think you'll be ready? And I go, I don't know. I just have to go back to sleep. He goes, when do you think you'll be ready? And I go, I don't know. I just have to go back to sleep. And so I fall back to sleep and my assumption is he's left the room. And then like, I don't know, 10 minutes later I open my eyes and he's just sitting in a chair

in his bedroom staring at me. And it was like that moment where you come in in like a noir movie and you turn on the lamp and there's just someone sitting there. And so I just, my eyes opened and then I, like in my head, I'm like, is that a stuffed animal? And like I opened my eyes and he's just sitting there, he's like, are you ready now?

And then we played three games of Uno. Actually five games of Uno. And we played the memory game. It was just a, it just a long morning, bud. Yeah, I hear you. I'm gonna say something, I bet this is true of dad. I will not throw a game with my children. Oh, yeah.

And I'm very happy to say that the memory game now, it's like 50-50 who's gonna win it. Really? I think his is getting better and mine is getting worse. Okay, yeah. You know what old game mom brought? That it's a game we played when we were kids. Yeah.

This is not what it's called. What did we call it? Superman matchup? Superman matchups. So Superman matchups is basically a red board, 64 holes. Yeah, like, yeah. You put tiles on them, so yeah, little like sort of,

yeah, half circles. Tiles that have like little hinges on the side so they can spin. So you can spin the tile to flip it over. And it is, I'm guessing, whoever the most popular DC superheroes were from 1980. Sure. I mean, it's still the same ones, but sort of a mix of heroes and villains.

And the one thing, of course, there was a way we played Superman matchups when we were kids that obviously were not playing with my kids. Right. There were little candies, sixlets they were called, and little chocolate candies and sometimes they would be like a single sixlet in there and you would sort of pepper them throughout the board before you laid the tiles down so when you flip the tiles over there might be three or two or one. And if you made the match you would be able to eat the sixlets. But I do think like mom literally just held a bag of sixlets over the board

and just sort of randomly dispensed them. Yeah. No, there wasn't a method to it other than getting some chocolate. But Alexi said, she was like, I have an idea when the kids will get their sixlets when they graduate college. I was like, should we do this sixlets way? She's like, maybe when they get their diplomas. She's trying to put whole carrots in the little divots. Yeah, and I'm like, it doesn't work. The tile doesn't go all the way down because the whole carrot. You know, sometimes I feel like the carrot and the stick works when you're trying to get like a donkey to move. But to a kid, a carrot's just a second stick.

Well, the carrot and the stick for a kid is a real lose-lose. Yeah, yeah. It's like, I guess I'd prefer the stick, thank you. Yeah, I'll do a stick. By the way, my kids prefer a stick. The amount of sticks they have, I'm like, with New York City kids, and they always have like some three foot tall stick they brought home from somewhere. Where'd you get that stick?

Yeah. Their grandfather, Pa, he brought that whalebone home. Yeah. So. That's my father-in-law, that's not. Pankajerry would let a whalebone stay. Yeah. Nick Kroll, one of the best.

Yeah. Busy, busy man. And he came with stories. Came with stories. Yeah. Did a lot of traveling, wonderful conversation. I also just did, you know, I want to shout out, and we mentioned in the pod, but Nick has been essential in this wonderful charity event called Comedy vs. Cancer, which raises

money for Memorial Sloan Kettering. He's been doing it for about 10 years, and obviously he knows a lot of comedians, and he gets a few of us together every year. And it was a wonderful event. Nick, myself, Amy Schumer, John Mulaney, last Thursday, and again, due to the generosity of people there, it raised a great deal of money for cancer. But shout out to Nick's generous spirit. Absolutely.

And do enjoy the pod. Family Chips with the Myers Brothers. Family Chips with the Myers Brothers. Here we go. Oh my god. Oh yeah. My god. Okay. Okay. Hey buddy. Hello. Hi. How are you? Good. I love that Josh is in a void. Uh huh. Yeah, he's a void. He a full void. He a full void. Is your camera following you around? Is that one of those?

It seems to be, which is, it's upsetting and I don't know. It's watching you all the time. I'm like, I don't know, you can't get away with anything on this camera. I can't do my, eat off the side of a camera like I normally do on Zooms. I want to start just so our audience knows you're a good person. I'm going to see you soon. Because everyone's pretty convinced. Yeah.

No. Well, I'm going to see you soon at this comedy event that you've been doing for years, which is a fundraiser. And speak to it, because I know it's something you do with your family and so it's a nice tie-in. Yeah it's called comedy versus cancer and I've been doing it now in some form or another for about almost ten years and I believe Seth you were kind enough to do the first one even. It's now specifically we do fundraising for Memorial Sloan Kettering, which is like an amazing cancer hospital and research center in New York, specifically

geared toward blood cancers. My sister-in-law, Nikki Siegel Kroll, had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma about 15 years ago, along at the same time as Jen Rogers-Karlok who is married to Robert Karlok, who you guys obviously know and okay, a casual shout out to Dunkin Donuts Coffee, Seth, never forget our New Hampshire roots. Not a sponsor, Nick. Amazing. Not a sponsor. They don't have to be.

Why would you pay for it when you're getting the milk for free? Somebody should do a long stand up bit about that. I know, right? About a first marriage. So, but we, yeah, we, so we've been, so Robert Carlock, who's obviously was at SNL and has partnered with Tina Fey for a long time, they decided to bring us together and we've been putting this comedy show together, which we've now done for so long. I think we've raised over probably about $8 million at this point of this year.

Every year we do it. Every year we raise at least $8 to $15 to $25 million a year. I don't know the numbers. I'm not the numbers guy. I'm very, I'm looking forward to it. I'm also just in general looking forward to see you. I'm too. Been too long. Yeah, I really, I really, you've really done it a number of times over the years. I'm really

grateful and it's, it's a great, it's a fun show and it's a great night and, and it is a real family thing. It's a real, there's a, these things kind of always have so much more impact when you have this personal connection to it. As well as like being able to reunite with old friends you don't get to see very much. So Seth can't do his like super blue material. I feel though. Dirty, dirty set.

I feel you have that nice ability Nick to be sort of charmingly blue. It's more rascally. I think you're like a blue, you're a blue rascal. Yes, thank you. And if I just quickly could shout out my new special blue rascal. I can't believe it took me so long to come up with that since it was the title. I know and this, although I will say people are gonna think it's a comedy special, it's Blue comedy special,

it's Blue Man Group aging on rascals. So they're doing their Blue Man Group and they're sort of heavy and they're on rascals. Yeah. And the paint, the face paint is way worse than you remember. Yeah. Cool.

Yeah, I would say it's real. The makeup people are also very old. Yes, it's really good enough. They're good enough. Oh, they like good enough. They're good enough. They are good enough. They are good enough, Josh, thanks for saying that. No, I think that's what they say when they're doing the makeup. This is good enough, right?

They're like, I'm good enough. This is good enough. Go get on your rascal and scoot around Fort Lauderdale. So, Nick, grew up in Rye, New York, and two older sisters. And an older brother, four of us. and an older brother for an older brother Yeah, and you did you guys did you go into the city a lot? Yeah, I think of you as a New Yorker and and I sort of forget that you're from Rye. Yes Um, I yes we grew up in the suburbs town called Rye tough streets of Rye, New York

My little joke was like, you know know we didn't even have a tennis court growing up it was pretty hard so um but we did go into the city a lot um i know this is about i don't know if it's about bad family vacations exactly but i do remember a really sweet family vacation we did one year we we didn't go, like our one big trip usually was around Christmas, but one year we didn't go away and we did like three days in the city as a family, like a Christmas vacation and we did like New York at Christmas. And it was a really incredibly sweet, it was one of my favorite holiday vacations, treating New York like a tourist destination. But I would go in all the time, especially starting in high school, but in growing up, we would

go in a good amount. I remember going in to see with my family, this is a weird one, but I went in one night to see Starlight Express. Oh, we've talked about that a lot on this podcast. Josh and I also went to Starlight Express. Really? Which mostly, I will just clear the floor for you. Did you enjoy it? I did. I was probably like seven.

I don't remember, but here's what I remember is we went into the city to see Starlight Express, which your fans obviously, you guys, this is your, this is, I don't need to set it up, but it was also, this podcast is also like a Starlight Express rewatch pod. Yes, of course. Basically. Yeah. So it's like, if, Hey, did you like cats, but you didn't think there was enough roller skates?

We've talked a lot about cats. I don't think there's any reason to say this. It's the cokiest idea for a Broadway show. Yes, yeah. Everyone's on roller skates and they're going round and around and it's lights. And so... It's disco, it's trains. Yes. So I went, I remember weirdly going with my aunt.

Because we got there, it was like one of those things when you're kidding, you don't know like what's happening in your family. It was like, hey, you're going to go see this Broadway show tonight. Cool with with Aunt Leslie. Great. Our mom and dad coming. No, mom's having a procedure on her uterus. What? You know, like, you know, that's like you're like some I was probably seven or eight, so it wasn't like, there was like weeks of discussion about moms, and I don't remember what the exact procedure was, but it was just like, but I remember going with my aunt and her boyfriend at the time, who was like a real New York guy, and I remember having a conversation with him before the show, for some reason in an office cubicle. Like, I don't know where we were.

And he was talking about Lou Reed. Like, I have a weird remembering. It's just like weird. Anyway, I don't know. Yeah, that's true parental sleight of hand. Like, mom has to have a procedure. Here's this show about... The doctor even said...

The doctor even said if there's a current Andrew Lloyd Webber, you might want to send your child to that in these trying times. Also it's so funny that you said he was New Yorkie because I would say the most New Yorkie thing is telling your girlfriend's nephew about Lou Reed. Yeah, totally. In a cubicle. In a cubicle. And I don't know why, you you know, you have those weird specific

Memories that are attached to nothing that I don't think it was a very important thing I guess because it was my mom was having this procedure I was probably I have had some anxiety around it But but I do really remember him talking about Lou Reed and I was like seven. Yeah. Yeah I was like, oh, this is a man with no children. Did you, are you're your youngest of the four? Yes. Is it boy, girl, girl, boy?

Boy, girl, girl, boy, yes. Okay. And but you are certainly as adults, it strikes me that you're very close. Were you close as kids? Yes, we were. There's seven years between my brother and I and then my sisters are in the middle and my brother who you've met is Like one of the love like truly sweetest menchiest guys. He's like a really lovely guy, but when we were kids He was

kind of brutal Just a bit. Yeah, I don't did you were you guys did you guys ever have a, were you guys fighters? I mean, I'm sure you've been. No, not really. Like, yeah, maybe like one and a half times. Really? Yeah. Were you two genetically close to think of each other as different?

I think maybe we were. Also, from a very, and this has continued through the entirety of my life, almost all my friends were friends with Josh too. And so to fight with Josh was almost like a fight within a friend group. And frankly, they liked him better. And so it was like- Certainly, if not then, now. So you're like, I can't, I got a stronghold here.

I got to hold on here. I had a two year head start on a lot of my male friendships and I would say like about 15 years ago, Josh got up. At the upper hand. All of them. So yeah, no, my brother and I were close. My mom tells me when we were really little, we were close, but he, again, this I preface this with saying he is the best big brother. He's an amazing husband. He's

an amazing father, son. Like, I mean, this guy- This is where your therapist is like, Nick, I understand. Yes. I understand he's very nice now, but I feel like there's something you need to tell me. Yes. Yes. So, have you guys, if you hadn't done comedy, did you ever think about doing like brother therapy, like brother therapist together? Yeah, brother therapy, I have an idea.

I would go to you guys. It costs twice as much as normal therapy. But also seven years is like, let's not bury the lead. That's, I mean, it's asking a lot for an older brother. I mean, you certainly don't have to be cruel, but like to wanna hang out with somebody seven years younger than you. Yes, yes, but there was a genuine cruelness.

To be clear, like the story, the easiest one to tell is, okay, so I had like a, I was like probably about five and I had a balloon, you know, when you're that age, like a balloon is a pretty big deal to have. And he took the balloon from me and I asked him for it back and he said, I'll give it back to you if you lick in between my toes. And I did it. I licked in between his toes and then he popped the balloon. Oh man.

And did he give you like the broken, like the scrotal sack that was left over of the balloon? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I got that back. Um, so it was sort of that, you know, it was like it was, it was, it was somewhat, it was particular in its, uh, torture. Um, and, and, and my sisters were, uh, lovely and awesome. And my sister Vanessa is a couple years older than me, who has gone on to become like a parenting expert.

She's written a book about puberty, ironically, and was sort of like my boss. She was two years older than me. We were really close. She was kind of always my boss. And then my sister Dana is about five years older than me and was like a very sweet, very competent, athletic kind character. So I had a real juxtaposition of siblings. The book is not that I hate, I know you didn't want us to promo your siblings work.

How dare you. But it is called This is So Awkward, helping to navigate puberty in tween and teen years with humor. So if you're listening and that sounds like something you'd love to do, check it out. It really is. It's a great book. I mean, it's ironic that we sort of both ended up in this weird puberty space. I guess it's so formative in life, but it ended up for both of us.

Hers, I think she came at it more because she's now raised four kids who've come through all of that stuff. Yeah. You know. Hey, we're gonna take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from Delete Me. Hey Pashi. Yes, Huthi. You know, we have been singing the praises of Delete Me for a while, but I sometimes feel like people don't quite understand what it does. Obviously, it is designed to get your personal information off the web, but the thing I really like since I've started using it is designed to get your personal information off the web, but the thing I really like since I've started using it is it sends you personalized privacy reports at regular

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Hey, Sufi. Old, old Father's Day is coming up. Sure is. I mean, Young Father's Day too. It's just Father's Day. Yeah, you know what? You're right. I don't want to make it about one age

over any other age. Right, because otherwise, if you make it just Old Father's Day, then you're getting nothing. Although, you're an old man. I was just going to say, as my son often reminds me, you know, you're the oldest dad in my class.

That's a nice thing for him to tell me. Yeah, congrats. Thanks, and he told me the other day, you know what he told me the other day? What's that? He said I look good for 50. Could just say you look good, but there you go. I got a nine-year-old who knows what 50's

supposed to look like. Anyway, you know what you have a lot of, I think? What's that? You have kind of everything. You're tough to gift. So what do you get? What do you get? The man who has everything.

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We did some road trips my my Parents and my dad was not is not like a as much of a road. I have clear memories of like a Grab a grab to the back seat a grab a knee grab to the back of the minivan I don't know how I had that where it was like, you know like I don't know if you guys had that where it was like, you know, like Like so ineffective it is so ineffective. Yeah, and yet I've done it as a parent. Oh my god Yeah, it's so we did some we did some road trips We were more of a like my dad's not much of a fixed stuff around the house or a road trip guy He's more of a like let's go. Let's get on a plane and go somewhere kind of person.

We would, we would do some road trips like around the Northeast, but we never did like a cross country trip or anything like that. But we would do like, like we, we would, we definitely would go to like, as everyone got older, someone would be like studying abroad, like my brother, my brother really changed. He studied in Italy, took a gap year between high school and college. He lived in Florence. And I remember going to visit, we all went to visit him in Italy and In like around Christmas and he like hugged me and I was sort of like what? What is this like it really and it was like he really something about that gap year being away from the family Completely switched his like his his wiring to be like, oh, I love I oh I love my family

like his wiring to be like, oh, I love my family. And so we would then have like a Sprinter van that we would then like travel around Italy and as a family. Did you, do you feel like you had low, what do you remember your confidence level of your dad driving a van around? Because I think that there's a certain kind of dad. I would not go into a trip to Europe with confidence

if the plan was dad was gonna drive the van. Pretty low confidence and frankly, ultimately, my dad quickly and early understood like, no, there's gonna be a hired driver guide who is going to drive us around because there was very little faith. A similar trip, we did a family trip to Morocco when it was, this is like, we were all kind of, I was in college, my brother, now brother-in-law Roger Bennett, who you may know. Yeah, of course.

A Men in Blazers podcast and television show and kind of soccer. Bon Vivant? Football Bon Vivant? Indeed. He's like a real, he's become a really kind of impressive soccer media, American soccer world kind of impresario even, a bon vivant. And he was not married to my sister yet, but they were like, I think had just announced their engagement was the first family trip with him.

And we went on a trip to Morocco, which was amazing. But we would go and we had a guy driving us again throughout the city. It was during Ramadan, so there was nowhere to eat during the day and I ironically had brought a huge Hebrew national salami with me. On the plane. Like an unsliced? An unsliced, yeah, like a massive. I didn't even know you could buy those.

It's a long story that I'll tell. No, no. But I had literally just brought it with me on the plane because I was like, I don't know what, Morocco. I don't know what. And truly, luckily, I had brought it and we slowly made our way through a like massive Hebrew national salami while we were driving because it was Ramadan. So everything was closed. No food was available during the day. And we would go every city we'd go to, you know how you have those guides in every city that's like, we'll take you to the shook.

We'll take you to the local marketplace and we'll show you around. And after like we, I think we started in Tangier and by the time it maybe went to Fez and by the time we had gotten to another city, it was like, we know the deal now. You're going to take us to a marketplace. You're going to then take us to the vendors that you have some deal with to try to get us to buy the carpets or rugs or tapestries in this particular marketplace. And after like two cities, it was like, don't take us to your guys anymore. And he like yes yes yes yes yes yes yes and then he took us to a rug guy who then was like I know how I'll sell them I'll take them back to the factory where these are made and they brought us to a factory with like truly frightened looking 12 year old girls who were making the rug, making the cart, the rugs. And I was like,

this is not a selling, this is not selling us on buying your market, like hearing these poor, watching these poor, like miners make carpets. Like it's not like, yeah, let's get that one. Let's, let's buy that one back. But I remember specifically, we took a weird van trip up to a like a meal and it was like we were in The I want to say I'm probably wrong but like the Berber section of of Morocco like the where you're in the middle of Morocco in a mountain kind of town and They brought us a meal and it was a meal to show us like how like grateful they were that we were there. And they served us shark. Wow.

But we were like in the mountains in the center of Morocco. And it was like this doesn't feel like the freshest meal we could be eating. Like I don't know like this shark doesn't feel... When you're starting from a place of, I already wasn't craving shark. And now it's mountain shark. Sweetheart, I'm stuffed to the brim with Hebrew national salami. And you're bringing me shark. That salami, we, I remember once when I, I blew home from Christmas when I was living in Amsterdam

and I did that thing, leaving Amsterdam at their duty free. I bought like a sleeve of those rinded Dutch cheeses and a long sausage. And I remember I was bringing it home for just, you know, Christmas Eve dinner. And then dad picked me up at the airport at Logan and we were driving to New Hampshire

and there was a car accident and we were like stuck in traffic for like an hour. And at one point I said, you know, in the trunk I got some cheese and sausage. And he was like, yeah, but what, you know, he goes, what are we going to cut it up with? And then he goes, hold on a second. And his key chain had a little Swiss Army knife. Oh God, dirty little Swiss Army knife. Dirty little like, I mean, just when he opened it, like, rust pellets. But it's truly, when I think about favorite meals I've had with Dad,

like, supping on cheese and sauce, I felt like we had beat everybody in the entire highway. It's like, we're in first place. That's really kind of sweet. And then Josh and your mom are waiting at home starving. We were mad that because we knew those cheeses and that sausage were going to come with Seth. Is this a Gouda? Is this a Gouda cheese or what? It's a total Gouda situation. Thank you for being on top of it. Well, so I'll speak to another this trip. This podcast is

I mean, my wealth is all over the internet, so there's nothing I can do about it. My family, my privilege is, it's there. But I'll just keep speaking to very elaborate vacations that I've gone on with my family, if that's okay. Great. Yes, thank you. So as an adult, I went, I was like a young adult living, I was probably newly in the city and my parents were like, we're going on a business trip to London and Amsterdam. Would you like to come? And I was like, yes. And this was, I remember in my twenties, like really not,

all of a sudden I stopped kind of like family, I stopped traveling. Like I had a really privileged high school college, like period where I was traveling a ton because I didn't have, I was able to and, but by my 20s I moved to New York and it was like, let's get to fucking work. And then this trip came up and I was like, yes. So I went with my mom and we had a great time in London. We went to Amsterdam and I went to Amsterdam with my, it was weird to go to Amsterdam with your parents because at that time, as I mean you guys live there, Amsterdam was a city that where it was like where debauchery was like possible, you know? Yeah.

And especially like this is before, you know, pot was legal in any way and alcohol. So, I got to Amsterdam and all, but I was there as a tourist with my parents. I had been once when I was living in Spain, I went with two friends and we ate mushrooms and went to the Van Gogh Museum, but then there was like a tremendous, it was filled tourists, so I was on mushrooms, but there was a line for each painting. So I was just yeah it was truly maddening and but I went back and I went purely as a tourist and we went to Delft yeah to famous for their China their fine China their fine China yeah and and then also went to Gouda the city of Gouda famous for for also for its fine china. Yeah.

Hosh say it the way the Dutch people say it? Gouda. Gouda. Gouda. Yeah. Gouda. Did you guys, did everyone think you guys were Dutch? I think they all thought Josh was Dutch.

Until I got like two sentences in an interaction and then they knew. But Josh was like tall and looked like he was Dutch. When Josh wore Dutch fashion, it looked right, whereas I would look like a narc. I was trying to bust up like a, I don't know, like a fucking illegal clog factory. Can we speak to Dutch fashion a little more? Like what?

I mean, late 90s Dutch fashion is a disaster, but Josh really embraced it. Yeah, I mean, it was, it's still to this day, it's a lot of like, it's a lot of jeans with a lot of like details on them. Yeah. Like extra stuff sewn on, or sort of like making your jeans into art.

I feel like the acid wash never went out of style. Yeah. In Amsterdam. Yeah, it went from- But I was also wearing a lot of borderline rave gear. That was my everyday. Like strings hanging off of pants stuff? Nailed it. You had some stringy pants. I did not have stringy pants.

String's the wrong word. Like of fabrics or like... Very flared. Very flared. Very flared. That's what it is. Copy that, yeah. Tight waist, huge, like you could hide your feet with the flares at the bottom. Yes.

Like a giant sort of like a sun on one thigh and the other thigh, nothing. Yeah, yeah, a pacifier. I will say it also, you know, we overlapped a little in Amsterdam and then pacifier. I will say it also I will you know We overlapped a little in Amsterdam and then I left and I would say that's when Josh's rave gear really sort of You've as always as always when you left Josh could bloom Josh. He could finally flower I will say this was the most when I first saw how he was dressed. It's the most I thought I just can't leave him alone This blooming has backfired in a way that I'm not okay with. Yeah, we... Oh, this is a separate... Okay.

Let me finish Amsterdam. So, but I had one day free where I was like without my parents and I was like, I'm gonna go get so much pot and then I'm gonna walk around the red light district. And then I, so I was the red light district and then I so I was just like pretty drunk and high and then I left the red light district and went to the Madame Tussauds by myself and toured it with like an old German couple and and and this is pre smartphones So I bought a digital camera.

So it's just there's like I have a roll of film of like me just like so frankly fucked up with these pictures taken by this German couple of me next to like Elton John and like Prince Charles just like and then I yeah anyway, but I so I'll skip to my so then in that same period of time when I was living in in Spain as a as a like a 18 year old I was living like within I was living part of the first half of the year in San Sebastian in the northern part of Spain and with like all these like California kids who wanted to surf in San Sebastian and it was great but I just like spent all my time with like Americans.

I was like I don't think this is the point of this and I moved to Barcelona and got an internship at an ad agency and I was like living. Oh yeah. So, How was your Spanish? My Spanish is pretty good. And I was like living, oh yeah. How was your Spanish? My Spanish is pretty good. My Spanish like leaps and bounds once I left the Americans.

I ended up living with these two women, one of them who worked at the ad agency, who's kind of a weird side note, kind of awesome, is she was like a young copywriter. Her big client at the time was Barbie. It was Barbie TV. It was like she was making five minute Barbie TV shows like including there was like Barbie and then there was Shelly Peas Peas. It was like the, you know, like Barbie's little sister who's learning to pee. And Shelly Pe I was wondering... When you said, peace, peace, the first time I assumed it was something else. So, anyway, she and I became good buddies.

She's awesome. And then years later, I went back to Barcelona. And she was like, I'm working on some other stuff. And then years later, my wife, now wife, went, Lily, and she went to... And I connected them and she was like your friend Isa has kind of created this book series and it turns out to be these I don't know if you've seen this book series called like little people big dreams it's like the auto it's these biographies of every yeah yeah where they have like do they have like big heads on the yeah they

kind of yeah it's like Gandhi or yeah like you know, I was going to say Maya Rudolph, but it's more like Wilma Rudolph or Martin Luther King. Maya Angelou. All of it's all these great people in history. So she created this book series that has now become like a tens of millions of copies of these books have been published worldwide. And it was just, it's amazing. This woman who I just randomly lived with when I was 18 in Spain has created like one

of the biggest children book series in the world. Wow. But anyway, my brother came to visit me in Spain and, and we met up in Madrid and I had, this is going back to you talking about like not being able to leave Josh alone. Yeah. This is going back to you talking about like not being able to leave Josh alone Yeah, I have like crazy skin like really fucked up skin And I always had eczema and I had a finger like it happens in my fingers And I had a finger it was this finger. It was like something Something was happening to my finger

And I and I was like I didn't know what to do I wasn't gonna go to a doctor like I didn't I just was like oh I've got it's a little like crackly and then I was like maybe it's infected so I was like soaking it in like salt water but over time it just kept getting worse and to the point where my whole finger looked like it was like falling off and my brother was like, you have to go see a doctor now. Because I was like wrapping it in gauze. I just had no, you know, you're like 18, you don't know what's anything. And so I went to an Austrian doctor in Spain who was then telling me that he thought at first that I

had leprosy. I thought I was understanding to understand that I had leprosy. And he was like- It's certainly what you're describing, FYI. Yeah, it's great. So I eventually, my brother was like, you got to call your dermatologist in New York and this guy sweetly got on the phone with me and it's like, it sounds like you have a terrible case of eczema and he prescribed

over the phone a cream, like a steroid cream that immediately healed it. But it was like an example of being away with my brother and him now being like 25 and being like, you're not handling your life at all. I do wanna- And he was right. I wanna shout out my younger brother, looking out for me, when I was in Amsterdam, I had my tonsils removed.

And when you have your tonsils removed, the thing you need around is ice. And no one in Amsterdam, I feel like, has the amount of ice you need post. Like, every apartment has like one tiny ice tray if you're lucky. Yeah, yeah, yes. So Josh would bike to the theater we worked at. He would bike to Boom Chicago and just load up ice because they had a proper ice machine because they were a restaurant as well.

And he would just load up ice and then bike it back. Yeah, I had like a little, I bought a little trash can, like a little sort of bathroom trash can. It'd fill with ice and I'd like just hold and pedal home. Oh, that's so sweet. It's very nice. Yeah. Brothers look out for brothers.

Yeah. Mom also, mom came out for when you had your tonsils out. Yeah. Was your surgery free in Amsterdam? Like was it a- Yes, it basically was free. And the craziest thing, I've always spoken to how this is so different.

I got sick all the time. I was like strep throat all the time, bronchitis all the time. The first time I got sick in Amsterdam, I went to the doctor, they prescribed medicine. And then like three months later, I went back and they're like, all right, well we're not, they don't wanna just keep treating you. They want to make it better so they never see you again.

And so they basically were like, all right, so we'll do surgery now and see if we can fix this. And it was so crazy, but I have been so much healthier ever since that happened. Was it your tonsils? It was my tonsils. They were basically, your tonsils are infected. I can't believe you still have your tonsils.

And they took out my tonsils. And were basically, your tonsils are infected. I can't believe you still have your tonsils. And they took out my tonsils and yeah, it was all better. The best thing about it was I just remember and also that very Dutch way, like I shared a hospital room with another person. It was a woman and like she just kept getting up and walking around in like a hospital gown with like, they got no asses, those hospital gowns. Or the frankly, or the Dutch.

It's true. They don't. That's one of their one shortcomings. Big tall people. No butts. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from Cash App. Hi Poshy. Hey Sufi.

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And I want to say, you know, you mentioned your privilege. I also want to say, like, when I met you, and I mean this as a compliment, no idea. You, when I met you, you were very much living like every other person in New York City who was just trying to make it in comedy, which I think is a real credit to you. But do you have a favorite trip in memory

of the places you went? We really, I have, I mean, we really got to travel a lot. And again, it was because oftentimes one of us eventually was living somewhere. But I have a specific memory. You know, there was a period where, and I think you're in it, Seth, right now, where you're like, now that I have little kids where I'm like, oh, nice vacations to nice places isn't like

To cool places is not does not sound interesting at all to me. I'm like I'm entering the like all-inclusive Yes, uh time of life Yeah Where it's like I need to go to an easy place where my kid can get like buttered noodles and yeah Like I don't i'm not interested in like a massive Sojourn, you know, it's also really cool when your kids are in an age where they don't like pool. As long as there's pool, they do not judge a pool other than is there water in it. Yes, yes.

You don't need Mayan ruins necessarily. No, no, no. Mommy and daddy will go to Tulum midday to take MDMA, but we'll be back by dinner. I do, real quick, I do want to loop back to mushrooms at the Van Gogh Museum. I do feel like there should be a fast pass line at museums for people who are just rolling on super high, you know. Absolutely. You know, just like, almost for the benefit of everybody else. Which is, you don't want

to be in line with these people. They're on hallucinogenics, so we're just going to let them. And let's say in the Anne Frank house, there's a special part of the attic for the people who are on hallucinogens. Like, you know what I mean? Like, create safe spaces in safe spaces. And let me just jump into say... And that's a bad museum to lean into.

If given the option of whether or not to do it for Anne Frank, I would say that's a hard pass. Sure, yes. I think we passed... We weren't peaking at that point. You know what I mean? We were coming up. But I agree. I think so... So there was a period of time where we would go to like Puerto Rico for like a family vacation. And one thing that happened every year on family vacation was it was my mom's birthday is at right around Christmas.

I won't give the date. Great. For safety for everyone. Because she doesn't want cards. She doesn't want cards. But my mom's birthday always falls around Christmas almost every year. No, but my mom's birthdays, and I think it was sort of a thing for her growing up. It's like people who have birthdays right around holidays, it's like can be, depending on the family, a little tricky, you know,

cause it's like, oh, it gets overshadowed or whatever. I'm December 28th, so I live in that life. And was that the case for you? What did it feel like a thing or no? The weirdest thing is it's just the only birthday you've ever had. So it's just, you just get used to it at a young age. But yes, I feel like it doesn't.

Sure, I will say more now, there's just no time for my birthday at all. But you know, you can't. But we used to like, there would always be parties, you'd have friends over, we have pictures of like, you in the dining room, blowing out. I think those are all Photoshopped, I don't think any of that happens.

Yeah, because your parents are really good at Photoshop, or they're active. Even back then, yeah. And that was like, exacto knife and taking a whole second picture so so we we We would go away and every year it was like it was always a bit of a big deal That it was like we have to make a point to make something for mom's birthday, right? like because She it falls in this like it was never quite acknowledged in the right

way. And so, my dad one year, my dad is a really thoughtful guy and a wonderful father and husband, but also like not so great at some of that stuff. So he was like, one year was like, we figured out, I figured out the great, the best thing for mom's birthday, we're going deep sea fishing. And so we were in, we were at like a resort somewhere in Puerto Rico and we took like a bus, like a family bus to like San Juan to get on a ship to go deep sea fishing. And they packed us, like the hotel packed us, like pre-made lunches, like tuna sandwiches. You know how like, you know who makes, obviously Puerto Ricans make the best tuna sandwiches.

So we get on the fishers. Yeah. At least you're near the water. Yes. Opposed to Moroccan shark. Yeah, of course. You go to Morocco for the mountain shark. And you go to Puerto Rico for your tuna fish salad so

we get on this ship and we get on this boat just our family and these two fishermen and we get out there and immediately we realize that it's gonna be like a Very choppy day. We found out later that a couple ships like ships Had capsized in the Atlantic that day. Oh, like it was a so we're out there trying now to To deep-sea fish none of us by the way, none of us fishermen, no interest, real interest in deep sea fishing. And we're all now eating tuna sandwiches as we get out deep into the water and it is unbelievably choppy. And we all start to get ill. And my dad is sitting

in the captain's chair, like holding on for dear life, turning green, as we all then start to just puke all over the ship. I don't, we definitely, I don't know if we ever even got out to sea to fish. Like we just got out to sea, all puked our brains out, puked out like these tuna sandwiches, and then just came back. Now I have a, my main question. Does your mom lured that over your father or hold it against him as you made a terrible choice?

You know, I think around that time she did, but it stopped at some point. But it was definitely family lore. It would never, if it had happened to Hilary Meyers, it would never not be. She would introduce our father with that story. This is Larry. You know him from the deep sea fishing trip. Yes, because I love deep sea fishing. Yeah. And I want to. Because I love deep sea fishing. Yeah. And I want to share what I love with you.

Do you think on even the best day your mother would have enjoyed deep sea fishing? I don't think so. I think, but what I think is, and this is where the like the family lore goes, like it's a, cause this is a somewhat consistent story of like we tried to do something for my mother's birthday. It did not work. My mom was not like did not love the choice. But at the end of the day, she loved that we were all together.

And that's really what mattered. Mm hmm. And and it and that's that that's the that's the circle. And it's true. Ultimately, it was this weird thing. It's like, oh, it's the holidays. My birthday falls during the holidays. But it also meant then that we were always together. And that's what she loved. And I don't know if that was the case for you, Seth, where it's like, you guys were always home. We were always home. And again, I don't wanna give it up. Because you guys would do Christmas.

My parents did. Yeah. They made my birthday feel special. And the nice thing about December 28th is it sort of played the sweeper role. Whereas if you were deeply disappointed by not getting a present on Christmas, they had a couple days to immediately make up for it.

Yeah. And although I do recall a lot of times me being like, how did you forget? I wanted, you know, the Hawthorn Solo and the amount my parents would be like, can you just wait three days? Yeah. Have you completely forgotten

there's a second wave of presents three days from now? Yeah. Did you guys share your toys or no? Somewhat. I feel like we just had different interests in toys. That might be another reason we didn't fight. It's like Josh and I for our similarities have very different interests.

Yeah, like Seth never wanted to play with my pogo ball. No. It's what you call it. It's fun for you all. So many of my boys fights are just over that's my, you know, like, I mean, Star Wars Legos and. Sure. Legos are the most dysregulating.

Like my son is, it goes in ebbs and flows, but we have basically multiple times taken all the Legos away Because you lose obi-wans like lightsaber Yeah, the smallest thing in the world and so I've we've just I'm like they're gone. I'm taking them away. I said I Again, I've talked a lot about my failure to like teach my children about consequences because this morning Axel was just being a maniac and I said that's it. I'm taking your Star Wars Legos away And he just looks at me and just screamed like a siren on just like I don't like I never mind never mind you get to keep them and I'll get you a new one

Nevermind, you get to keep them and I'll get you a new one. Stop yelling. Whatever you want, buddy, whatever you want. Yeah, it's relentless. Real quick on holiday birthdays, I'm January 8th, so I feel like mom and dad would definitely buy, all the gifts kind of at once and they would sort of stretch them out. But at some point mom was like,

I feel like you guys get kind of horked, which is a very Hilary Meyers word. You guys get horked by having your birthdays so close to Christmas, so I think we should start celebrating your half birthdays. Which was cool, but she said this when we were like 32 and 30. You missed. Yeah. Your key years. that's so funny.

Yeah, she's like, huh, I just figured this out. Like, maybe we should do half birthday. It was like, I'm 30 years old. I don't need to do a half birthday. You're like, I've finally gotten you the transformer ripoff that you never wanted. I do remember that getting like, did you ever? GoBots? Yeah.

I got a Go-Bot. I remember being like, and now I'm, again, it's like now that I've got a boy and all of those things, like Transformers particularly are still a thing. Yeah. They're genius. And they're, and like, so, and I have a visceral memory of seeing a packaged Transformer. I have a visceral feeling of like, it's like sometimes when you see like Air Jordans, there's something about certain items that some deep core covetous desire comes through and I have now, and I remember knowing where my parents hiding place for

the toys like presents were and going like pre-wrapped and being like, I know it's in this like pantry closet. And I went in and found and I was like, oh, I'm getting it. I can see the size of it. It's right. It's a transformer. And then going in there and being like, it's a fucking go-bot. It's a fucking go-bot. And so it's like, how am I gonna, am I gonna, okay, all right, let's like spend a week moving through my emotions about it not being right

to then being sort of excited. We got a Lego, you know, there's, again, this was like his big present this year, which, and again, Posh, I promise we'll get off this fast because this is not a vacation story. But you know, the big present was a Millennium Falcon Lego set. Stay on brand, Seth. Stay on. We got to stay on brand. You can't, you can't with him.

And it turns out there's like multiple different Millennium Falcons, you know? And so you get one and the speed in which he clocked, it was the wrong one. Yeah. And he's like, hmm. And then we just had a real good conversation. And again, this is, you know, his birthday is in March. So we've had some time, six weeks ago.

And I said, look, do you want me to try to return this or do you think ultimately this one will be okay? And he's like, I do think this one will be okay. And then literally last night I came in to say goodnight. He goes, I don't think I can do it. He goes, and he hasn't opened it yet. So it's still, he goes, I just, I just, I can't come to terms with it.

But good for him that it didn't get opened. Yeah, no, exactly. Right, he's not trying to get a second Falcon. No. Yeah. No, he's not trying to get it. I mean, I just want to talk about Jeremy Renner now. I don't know why.

You're really catching that sun right in the teeth right now. So I don't know where, you guys are in a controlled environment and now I'm not. So I'm now- You're getting blasted by the sun. So now I can reposition- Oh my god, you're breaking the windows I think? Yeah. Is this bad?

I mean this is what it should have been, because what you were dealing with with me for a solid 45 minutes was true gray cloud with no natural sun, and now I'm getting blasted by the sun with natural light and it's overexposed, so now I'm playing, yeah, I'm playing exactly, I'm playing. You're doing well right now. And it looks more comfortable for you, which is more comfortable for us.

Yeah, ultimately. When you imagine back to vacation, like let's say you're in Puerto Rico, are the four kids alone on their own without your parents supervision? And do you hang out together or do you sort of split off and do your own thing? I'm trying to remember.

I think it was, yes, I remember, you know what I'm also just thinking about, like I was thinking about this this morning and I was like, man, I mean, that's the beauty of like a vacation where it's like, you're at a hotel and you know, like that's, and now you're just like free. And as parents, I now I'm like, I mean my kids are still too little to be free, but like I now watch my siblings with their kids because all of my siblings had four kids as well. And so I've, so I frankly missed a lot of those family vacations before I had kids.

I was like, go ahead. Thank you. Thank you, but no thank you. Thanks. I'll catch you at Christmas. But now, being like when you're in an enclosed place like that, it's like such freedom that I think we as children had more freedom in the world than kids have now. Like in a neighborhood where it's not like, you know, we grew up, you grew up on bikes, you had like freedom now.

I think like there's so much more control over kids. But like going on a family vacation, we're like, no, it's an enclosed environment. Maybe kids have breakfast together and then it's like freedom through the day. And that's what I remember. And I remember being the youngest of four and just trying to keep up wherever my older siblings were going that I was like just desperately trying to keep up. And it was that. Like I remember very much like just being on a, I'm just trying to keep up with my brother as he moves through the day.

So were you at resorts where they were like, yeah. Yeah, I think so. We were at resorts, but we definitely also did, yes, we were at resorts and it was like, maybe there was a camp at the resort or something. The best, we never did it. There was a place, now it's interesting, like my brother is married to Nikki who I mentioned earlier. Her family, we were never, we never went to the same place year after year. You know those families that's like, oh, every year we go to, we went once to this place, Dorado. I think it was maybe that vacation in Puerto Rico that like, where the fishing trip happened. But like, every year this family

went to Dorado and there was like water slides. You know, like there was like the vacations and it was like, and you'd go back every year and you would reconnect with these families that you like, they knew every year you're like, oh, we're going to see this group of like Jews from Montreal who go every year to Dorado and Puerto Rico and they create these like lifelong bonding experiences. My parents, my dad never like sort of who my family was, we were never like that. Weirdly, we had a lot of community, but we were actually not joiners. So it's like, you know, like the synagogue we were there, but we weren't like all in and it was the same with vacations where it's like these I remember going to this Dorado

vacation be like, oh my God, these families come every year and they're friends and every year they reconnect with the same family. And it was kind of like awesome because the older you got it's like then like they all like hook up with each other because they like know each other year after year. reconnect with the same family and it was kind of like awesome because the older you got it's like then like they all like Hook up with each other because they like know each other year after year and my dad be like we're not going back like I think we were Part of the reason I think we weren't joiners is we were so close as a unit. Yeah Had you all had started having sex with each other at this point, or did that take a while

longer? I think, I remember mom said she thought it would be a good half birthday thing. At 30. Look, I'm gonna give you guys a... I don't enjoy this. I don't enjoy this line of questioning. Josh saw the movie Spanking the Monkey with my mom. We stopped it.

We loved VHS. Once we figured out what was going god. We stopped it. We stopped it. We stopped it with ten minutes left. I do remember going to see my mom and I, this is like as we were getting older and I was like maybe the only kid at home, I went and saw Next of Kin with my mom, Patrick Swayze. This is like a post Roadhouse like vibe. And I remember being like ten and being like I don't like this movie My mom being like let's stay. Let's just finish. I was like, oh my mom's Like totally into Patrick Swayze. Right? Yeah. Well who could blame her? Yeah. Yeah, I think my mom would second that

Yeah, did you go to summer camp? Yes, okay, so you have that as the built-in these are the people I'm gonna grow up with yes, so Sorry, I'm wiping I'm wiping whatever you guys are hearing in my chest I'm wiping that on a box where I hold podcast equipment wiping that on a box where I hold podcast equipment. I went to summer camp and that was also like, yes, I went to summer camp. We all went to camp in Maine near, this is, look at this, near New Hampshire. Cool. Cool trip.

I never realized Maine was close to New Hampshire. Look at this. Yeah, and you guys, watch this. And you guys close to New Hampshire. Look at this. Yeah, and you guys are from New Hampshire. Oh wow, that's smart. Yeah, I remember. I remember. So summer was oftentimes like that and you know, and because it was seven years over time like it was like spread so so years there was not a big

summer trip because it was like my brother was at camp and then it was like 14 years of summer camp in one capacity or the other. Were your siblings at the same camp with you? My brother and I went to the same camp, but he was gone by the time I got there. But my sisters went to camp together. I went to a camp called Wildwood, which is where in a town called Bridgeton, Maine, 45 minutes outside of Portland, which is weird and weirdly on Big Mouth, the town that we are from is Bridgeton because Andrew Goldberg and I went to-

Oh, right. You guys were camp friends. We were camp. We were home friends who then became camp friends. Got it. And then my sisters went to a camp called Walden in Maine nearby. It was like a sister camp. But we, so summers were rarely a trip that we would take. Did you guys do a summer trip together? No, we were at like home.

I remember, I mean, the thing is, you know, since we grew up, look at this, watch this in New Hampshire, near where you went to camp. But like, it felt campy. Like we would, you know, we had friends at Lake houses and you would maybe go with them for a weekend, but it was also like, it was summer in New Hampshire. So we would just sort of bike around there,

and I feel like have a very campy existence in our city. Yeah, like you guys were trying to collect as many ticks as possible on your body, I would imagine. Oh my God, yeah. And a lot of them are still with us, you know? Coursing through our veins. Yeah, you know, there was a real movement back in the day to remove them, but you know. But, you know, he built up.

No, RFK, and this is a good opportunity for me to talk about my politics. Thank you. You have a lot to say about him. A dear friend. A dear friend of yours. A dear tic friend. A dear tic friend. Oh, a dear tic friend.

See, watch this. Watch this. You, I mean, you guys must, Seth, you must be picking tics out at a rate that is... Sometimes he doesn't. He missed one. No, but the kids. A couple years ago. I did miss one on myself where I was like, huh, that's weird.

Like literally went to bed and was like, huh, I don't know if I like hurt a muscle yesterday. And then the morning I woke up just like a giant tick. I'm like, oh, I really... Boy, my armpit hair is so thick and filled with blood You know what I was certainly a problem that can wait until morning I'm getting better at pulling have you like like I'm slowly now like getting that it's gross Well, we have those little like, you know, there's like like this spoon tick puller

Yeah I need to get one of those cuz I've been, I tried it with a tweezer. The tick wasn't happy about that. Held on for dear life. Yeah. And now we're doing it with paper, toilet paper and paper towels. Yep. You don't want to scare the tick.

I was saying, you know what's a fun vacation? You know what's a relaxing vacation when you have to, when you leave with a tick in a Ziploc bag that you're going to get tested. Yep. It's happening so, I'm so in that right now it's fucking crazy. We're going to get like a bulk deal at the place that tests for Lyme. We are just sending ticks in so much. It's the Costco of tick testing.

Yeah. I, a quick shout out to our sponsor by the way, Costco tick testing. Costco tick test. Costco is suing them for the record. No, no, no. And that different costs. Wait, just quickly. Speaking of family vacations, I will speak to a current family vacation this Christmas. And I think this is I don't know if this is post COVID, if you guys have felt this more, but it's like all of a sudden families gather and just get hammered by a collective illness. So, we were up with my wife's family and got here and having a lovely time and everyone

all of a sudden, my son had never been sick before really. He's like four, he's about to turn four and he's just been so fortunate and woke up to my him puking his brains out at like three in the morning. He'd never really puked before and so the shock of that and us waking up and cleaning up like kids vomit and we cleaned him up, changed his bedding, and then like three hours later, poor kid like just puked again. And so then we cleaned him up.

And then we found out that my brother-in-law had caught whatever my son had caught, like at his, like also separately. And so Christmas then got kind of cancelled you know it was like because everyone what happened I think because my father-in-law got it he had my father-in-law had been cooking short ribs for like a day and a half and then we realized like we had norovirus was just like running through the family so Christmas we pushed and my daughter, it was Christmas day, we were going to do Christmas Eve that night and I was like giving my daughter a bath and then I looked at her back and she had a massive tick in her back. And then I was like, then can I, like my year old daughter,

can I pull a massive tick out of her? It was just, and then we went to urgent care, because I didn't think I'd gotten all the tick out. And so then we spent like three hours at urgent care on Christmas day. It was just one of those things where you're like, oh. They make bad pets. I'm just gonna say. Ticks, I know, but the kids get so connected.

They do get so connected. And then flea, everyone says the fleas are good at a circus, but a tick circus. Oh, a tick circus. It's like the Cirque du Soleil of flea circuses. By the way, I do want to shout out another sponsor that, this is your show, but that I have to mention. Oh, you brought a sponsor. Yeah, I brought a sponsor.

Cirque du Soleil Oil of Olay. And this is a great moisturizer that you can use whenever you get a tick. You lather yourself up. An Oil of Olay, a very current product. Very current. That you're going to be able to moisturize your tick because your tick's going to get dried out. Oh, it's moisturizer for ticks.

Yes, it's moisturizer for your tick. It doesn't help you remove it or anything. It just keeps them moisturized. In fact, you should not put ointment on ticks, I've been told, but to remove them, but you wanna keep your ticks well hydrated. It is always the best to talk to you. I'm very excited to see you at Comedy Versus Cancer.

Yes. I'm very excited to see more Big Mouth, May 22nd. Yeah. Incredible show. Thank you. And before you go though, Josh is gonna speed around you some questions. Real quick also, you got a lot of stuff to promote here.

Adults on FX, a new show. And I Don't Understand You is a really good family trips movie when you think about it. It really is. It's me and Andrew Rannell's married couple going on a vacation to Italy and it truly goes off the rails in the most serious family trip way you can imagine. So it's a great family trip movie. Great. All right, some quick questions here.

You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous, or educational? Um, fuck. No, I want to fuck on family vacations. I know this is supposed to be a speed round. I would say now it's relaxing, it used to be adventurous, and there was a period of time that it was educational. All right. What is your favorite means of transportation? Oh, rickshaw.

I want to drive it and I want to drive. Oh, you want to drive it. I want to drive rickshaw. I want to drive just like obese German tourists around. I want to drive a rickshaw. Odd choice. 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, the Kennedys. It's the outcast. I want to take the outcast Kennedys on vacation. Gotcha. You want third tranche Kennedys. Yes. None of the ones that are invited on actual Kennedy vacations anymore.

Yes, correct. Correct. Oh, that's really fun. Because that is like a dirty dozen. Like you guys should, your vacation should be a heist. Yes, correct. Correct. Oh, that's really fun. Cause that is like a dirty dozen. Like you guys should, your vacation should be a heist. Yeah, it is. It's a current day heist of medical records, I think really more than anything else.

If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? Oh man um I great question. Let's see um I have a yeah I have I don't know how to I don't know how to answer that what would your guys have you guys have answered this for yourselves what's your answer? I mean I would I would take my wife and Shit smart. I probably take I guess Axel Okay. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So now Nick I

Would take Axel or your or Josh's wife? Oh, so you really were just using us to get an answer. Yeah, I would take Yeah, I would take right now, my little girl is like, is just easy, is the easiest hang. So I'm like, right now I'd be like, she's such an easy hang, I would go with her. Great. You're from Rye, New York. Would you recommend Rye as a vacation destination? Rye, New York is home to a place called Playland, one of the like true OG amusement parks in the country.

Um, they shot, uh, Mariah Carey, Mariah Carey, Mariah Carey had a music video there, uh, with like, she got shot there. She got shot there. Yes. By Jack McBrayer oh that's awful um current current successful unproblematic filmmaker Woody Allen shot sweeten the lowdown there all right as well as the yo the the carnival scene from big you know where Tom Hanks meets Zoltar, shot at...

So it's like an amazing, beautiful art deco style amusement park with a dragon coaster. At least one person dies there a year still, has every year for many, many years. It's truly one of the great old school amusement park. If you grew up in the Tri-State area, you took a class trip to Playland. I highly recommend that. It's a really beautiful place. And Seth has our final questions. Nick, have you been to the Grand Canyon?

I've been to the Grand Canyon. And was it worth it? I went on a, yes, I went on a road trip around the country with my girlfriend right after graduating college in the first Prius. It's not a big deal. And we went to the grand... They ran on gasoline, the first one. Yes, yes.

They actually, yes. They weirdly ran at that point on baby's blood. Which everybody was like, you know, gas is better than that. Yeah, but you know, it was was this was early Illuminati days. And so it was it was before they worked out the kinks. Yeah. Before you could realize you could just drink it and feel all powerful. So we went to the Grand Canyon. We had a great time.

But I would recommend on that same trip, we went to the Badlands and camped out in the Badlands in South Dakota. Different than the Grand Canyon, but I would say an unbelievably beautiful... Oh, and I also crashed a helicopter from Vegas into the Grand Canyon. I should mention that. Oh, that's great. I guess I buried the lead on that one. Yeah.

And they buried it, the helicopter, right? It's like as if it never happened. Yes, exactly What a delight to talk to you buddy. I will see you very soon. Yes Thank you for having me love to you and your family. Yes. Thanks and watch this watch this. Hey Seth. We're also doing some While we're in New York My wife Lily quong is opening has done a couple installations in Madison Square Park. She's opened these two special gardens that she's a landscape designer, and she's opened these special gardens, like a meditation garden and then like a children's garden, and we're

doing some comedian story times where we're going to read our favorite books to kids in the park. So I'm going to... Hit me up for that too. That'd be fantastic. Hit you up for that. This doesn't have to go on the podcast, but I'm just asking you now, because I love to ask you for favors, Seth. I love to do them for you. They're always good causes. They're always for good people.

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