Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - RORY SCOVEL Did Mushrooms in the Grand Canyon

Episode Date: February 17, 2026

This week Seth and Josh welcome Rory Scovel to the podcast! Rory talks about growing up in Greenville, South Carolina as the second-oldest of seven (with five half-siblings), family beach trips to Myrtle Beach, his dad’s ideal vacation at the beach, what his daughter thinks of his standup career now, taking his daughter to London, his favorite cities for shows like Amsterdam, Madrid, and Dublin, and reflects on how social media has changed international touring. Rory also talks about his comedy true-crime podcast series, “CrimeLess,” which is available now! CrimeLess is a production of iHeartMedia and Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network and SmartLess Media available weekly on Wednesdays on the iHeartRadio app, and everywhere podcasts are heard. Watch more Family Trips episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlqYOfxU_jQem4_NRJPM8_wLBrEEQ17B6 Support our sponsors: Mill Try Mill risk-free for 90 days and get $75 off at https://mill.com/trips and use code TRIPS at checkout. IQ Bar Text TRIPS to 64000 to get 20% off all IQBAR products, plus FREE shipping. Message and data rates may apply. Superpower Take the guesswork out of getting healthy in 2026. Get full body testing that goes 5x deeper than an annual physical and a personalized action plan that tells you exactly what to do next. All for just $199. Go to https://Superpower.com and use code TRIPS for $20 off your membership this year. Marley Spoon Use https://marleyspoon.com/offer/trips for 45% off your first order and free delivery. That’s right… 45% off your first order and free delivery. AG1 For a limited time only, go to https://DRINKAG1.com/TRIPS to get a FREE AG1 Flavor Sampler and AGZ Sampler to try all the flavors, plus FREE Vitamin D3+K2 and AG1 Welcome Kit with your first AG1 subscription order! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hey everybody. It's just Pasha this morning. Sufi is away. He's off because of the Olympics. And NBC has the Olympics. And so he always gets some time every couple of years. And he's doing some traveling, doing a little bit of work. And then he's going to go on a family trip that I'm sure we will hear about upon his return. So I just wrote some things down to talk about because I got to fill a little bit. of time here but the olympics i will say i'm a huge fan of the olympics um when the opening ceremonies were on i uh was bummed because i had plans that friday night and then i was at home and i realized that they were on at 11 in the morning and man oh man i just that whole day was gone for me because i started watching the opening ceremonies and i couldn't stop i think you might know this about me i'm a pretty emotional person when it comes to performance and art and I cried no fewer than five times at those opening ceremonies. If you haven't seen them and if that's the kind of thing you're into, I highly

recommend them. There's also some good things to chuckle at. It wasn't 100% things that were going to make me cry. But it's been great and I just love the Olympics in general. I just shot an episode from my other California Now podcast where we went up to Mammoth and we did a day on the mountain. And we did an afternoon at the cross-country ski facility out there, the Tamarack Cross-Ccountry ski center. And I was sort of my guide was this ultra-marathoner, this gal Olivia Amber. She runs for the North Face. And she was talking to me about Jesse Diggins. And I find that storyline fascinating.

I also was pretty good at cross-country skiing, I will say. But at one point, we were getting a shot, and I told sort of my guide, Olivia, I was like, why don't you go first and you go as fast as you can and I'll just come after you, and then that'll give a sense of how much better you are. And I can't even describe how fast she was so far ahead of me. To a point where our director said, well, can we do that again? But Olivia, you kind of looked like a jerk because you didn't wait for Josh, but it was all on me. And it was also proof of you can be much better than me at cross-country skiing.

My wife and I woke up on Super Bowl Sunday and watched the Lindsey Vaughn race, which unfortunately, you know, she had that big crash. and broke her leg. And we hope, obviously, she's okay. But I had checked the New York Times app in the morning just to look at the news in bed and scroll down and saw a headline that says Lindsey Von crashes. But I didn't want to give that up to my wife, McKenzie, because we were going to watch it together, and she was very interested in it. And so we watched it and we had breakfast.

and, you know, she crashes, and McKenzie was really like, oh, my God, and was, you know, sort of shook from it. And then we went to a Super Bowl party later in the afternoon, and we were talking about it. And McKenzie was like, I knew actually that she had crashed. And I also knew that she had crashed, but we didn't tell each other that we knew because we didn't want to spoil it for the other person. but it was a very charming thing to know that we would both withhold our knowledge and really play it up. But we sat there with our Sunday morning pancakes and acted like we knew nothing. But, obvi, we hope, Lindsay Vaughn is okay and just what an amazing career. And that's also just one of the best events at the Olympics.

And then also at the Super Bowl party, we have my buddy, Robbie Benedict, printed out. these like sort of fan duel sheets of these prop bets that everyone that was there filled in. And I would say that in the future, if you're at a party where they have these things, you should ask them to shred those papers. Because the number of times during the game, people were talking about this stupid pool that meant nothing was so tedious through the entire Bad Bunny halftime show. There was a prop bet that said, is he going to do more than 11 and a half songs or less than 11 and a half songs? And the number of times people were like, oh, is that six?

Yeah, yeah, that's six. He's up to six. It's the worst. We were also, we were playing for no money. We were playing for no pride. Like, I won. and it means nothing. So just enjoy the game.

In the future, that's what I'm going to propose. Yeah, and I really dug Bad Bunny as well. I don't know. Some people seem mad at it. I thought it was pretty fun. We have Rory Scoville on the show today. Big fan of this guy. Great stand-up.

He's done a lot of improvised stand-up that I've watched some of online, which is just that would make me so nervous. And apparently it makes him very nervous as well. And I get it. This is also an episode where you will hear Seth ask a lot of questions about stand-up. And he's not asking questions about trips because he's Seth. And he's selfish. And he wants to know more about stand-up because he does stand-up

than he does about family trips, which is what this show is supposed to be about. So you'll hear me trying to pull it back, and then you'll hear Seth talking more about, I don't know, who opens for you. It's a different show. It's a different show. But I'm trying, everybody. I'm trying. And here I am alone, just pulling this cart.

but Rory's great and Seth's great and I hope he's having wonderful travels I'm not traveling right now I'm just here I'm here for you but please enjoy this show and Sufi will be back next week family chips brothers oh

hey pal somebody's starting his own podcast because he has equipment guys look at my setup Look at that setup. What is that a two-prong outlet you got going on behind you? I got a two-prong going right there. As you can see, we're not quite at the level of needing both of those, but we're going to get there.

Once we have enough listeners, we're going to get something to plug in right over there. Rory, I had something happened this weekend that was thrilling for me. Oh. Which is my parents were visiting. And my dad, in particular, is a real stand-up comedian fan, listens to a lot of like the whatever the Netflix. comedy radio is. He's like that guy. Oh, sure.

And he's always telling me comedians that he thinks are good, like I've never heard of them and I always have. With that said. Right. You came up and I was playing on, I went to your Instagram and I was playing an Instagram real. And my nine-year-old who was like on an iPad in the corner never has done this. He's like, who's that?

Nice. And he was in. And so we had a real nice, I mean, I will say like I had to like watch him a couple times because you have a few in your last special way. They're not for children. I was like, oh, you were, I think it was on Fallon that you did the texting while driving. Yeah.

So I was like, oh, right, like he's got a parent. He's got late night network appearances where it'll be more safer. But he was in on it. Like, everything about your vibe, he was just like digging. Nice. That's so great. How old's your, you have a daughter?

I do, 10 and a half. Oh, yeah. So, right. I got a nine and a half her, so. Yeah. I thought only kids said the half. Well, I think that's why I say it Because I've heard them say it

So many times And like with great Like just great offense When you get it wrong When you don't get them credit for the half Yeah, it's funny how that goes away Because I People are like, how old are you?

I'm like, 45 just freshly, freshly into it barely. 44. Don't ask me about it. I have no take on it yet. I'm so new to it. I'm so new to 45. I mean, we might have. we'll just still say 44. I don't even know what I'm doing there yet.

And you, you grew up in South Carolina. That's right. Greenville. Love it. And a lot of siblings for you. Yeah. Yeah. One of seven. One of seven. Where did you fall on those seven? So I'm second oldest. And then the five after me are half siblings. We have a different mother. My older sister and I share the same parents. And then, yeah. Yeah, my dad had seven kids.

I know the Gaffkin joke where he just says Catholic at the end of that, but that joke is so accurate. Seven kids, Catholic. Were you, are you close to your sister, your older sister? I think I'm close in a way with all of them. But, yeah, my, you know, I feel like there is some sort of kind of bond that you do have in a situation like that with just having the shared parents. but yeah, our mother passed away

when we were very young. So there's never been a time where I looked at the other siblings like felt, didn't feel like it was like a full kind of relationship. I don't know why I'd use the word relationship. We can only have half of a relationship. It's a one-way street.

What was the gap between you and the next kid? I think it's eight, eight years. Oh, wow. Seven or eight years. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then my youngest brother is, it's an eight-year. year gap.

Wow. So I am essentially a weird uncle. Yeah. Were you and your full sister, were they, were you guys like babysitters to those kids? Because you were all the other? For sure. Oh, so much. So much.

Changing diapers, watching kids, taking care of kids for so much of my middle school, high school life. Did you hate it or did you not know you could hate it? I think I loved it. Yeah. Because I think I am so playful that I think my maturity was like, even now, I don't know that I've fully matured into anywhere. But I just had like, I liked it. I liked playing with kids.

I liked just being at the house and that. But as you get into high school, you're like, oh, man, I want to go out and see what's going on on that side of the curtain. And, you know, we would babysit a lot and kind of, it's not like I didn't go out. but I felt even more like when I would go out with people, I was just like, oh, I'm a guy that just went from playing hide and go seek in my house with my younger siblings to now drinking at a party.

And I was like, I am not both of these people. That is funny. Like, I could imagine like my kids, if my nine-year-old had a, if we had a baby now, I bet he would actually like it. Yeah.

Whereas I think it's like, you're right. Like 16 is when you're, you're like, what do you want me to do? No, you're like, what is this job? I say this is someone who, like, doesn't like it. You know what I mean? Like, as an adult and, like, made the choice.

But, like, even our, you know, because our daughter, who's four is, like, she's the one who's like, I want, she is desperate to have a younger sibling. And I'm like, it's not all that. It's a lot of work. It's a lot. It's a lot. Yeah, my daughter was like, you guys should have another kid. Even now, asked it 10 and a half. I'm like, you have no idea.

this gap. Like, you would not know each other at all. You would not even look at each other. Yeah. Do you, does your daughter know what you do and have any sense of what it looks like on stage? Yeah, it's kind of, that's, that's why this is kind of a fun age, because I can reveal that to an extent a little bit more and more.

But my daughter is very into acting and is going to be going to like a theater program I'm school. My wife is like incredible at like theater. And so my kid just kind of naturally has that interest because of us. And so I think now my daughter when I say, hey, I'm in something or look at, I can show you something on TV that I'm a part of. I think it's now a little bit more like, oh, that's actually kind of cool because I sort of do that. The stand-up side of it, I think kids at school have YouTube to me, which is wildly inappropriate. The school told us that they put my name on something where kids can't Google it to see what I talk

about. But I think because other kids have said something and my daughter has seen other parents talk to me. And I think every now and then when you get noticed or approached by someone who's a fan, I think that's starting to become interesting to my daughter now, whereas before it meant nothing. It was just two adults talking. But now it's like, oh, this stranger knows my dad from his comedy and i think it's now becoming kind of cool i think i mean i don't want to butcher the joke but uh i think it's from me last special because i showed it to my son this weekend about how you have a kid but you're still not sure that you want to be a parent yeah yeah yeah yeah still not entirely still not on fully on board yeah but my son watched that and he had this moment he's like

wow that's gonna be weird for his kid to watch and i'm like oh buddy you haven't seen my stuff Like, oh, you... And just as a caveat, I love you. Just know, I love you. Well, I'm like using you as the avatar. I'm like, I know Rory. He loves his kid. You would never. These are just jokes.

Yeah, just so you understand, us comedians do that. We sort of exist in a fictional space based on non-fictional material. Yeah, I think I was in Burlington, Vermont this summer, and my daughter was with me. And we, I went to the comedy club to do just a little... guest spot and they were with me and I was like, you know, I'm going to keep it clean. Do you want to sit in the green room? Would you like to go sit out in the show? I'm only going to be up there 10 minutes and then we can leave. And that was the first time my kids saw what I do and I just kind of made fun of local stuff and, you know, thought of a couple jokes that maybe kind of incorporate, you know,

them into the show and loved it. They loved it. They thought it was cool. They're like, they really thought you were funny. And I was like, this is what I do. This is the only job I actually confidently understand. We, Josh and I did, because we used to do work for this improv theater in Amsterdam, we were back there this summer, and I brought my son to take him to Amsterdam, and he came to his first improv show. And I just was having a thing of just, I knew where he was in the audience, and at times he looked bored.

And then, though, late in the show, he yelled out a suggestion, and it was the happiest. I was over the moon. that he was engaging in the improv show. What was his takeaway at the end of it? Was he like fully understood what it was? And do you think he fully understood your talent? He fully understood.

He's a little bit of a nark on society. And so he had a lot of like, I think it was too dirty for me. Like he was, I'm like, okay, man. Like, instead of enjoying like that he was somewhere where people were like throwing around F bombs, he's like, I don't know if I should have been here. I'm like, dude. But it was. there were so many people at this reunion who brought their kids back and like, you know,

Ike Berenholz's three daughters were there and our friend Jill Benjamin, her two kids were there. And it was, I think, for a lot of them, like, just seeing their parents do something that their parents used to do. Yeah. Like, and like coming up and it was just watching those kids' expressions was one of the best things about that show. Yeah, totally. I tried to say to my kid, the first time I ever showed my daughter, like, something that I was in, like a trailer or something. And I was like, that's me.

That's your dad. And my daughter was like, yeah, great. And I was like, my dad worked at the post office. This is absurd to me. I can't believe I'm in this. That's so funny that like we're getting choked up on there, but like pretending it's them. Yes. Like, this is crazy, right?

Yeah, right? Aren't you so proud of my accomplishments? It is very funny when you. you realize like, oh, right, it's not their job to be proud of you. And it's been their whole reality. There's nothing weird about your job. There's like, yeah, sure, that's an attainable occupation. You're like, it's not.

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Sign up at Disneyplus.com. Did you, I would imagine, so seven kids, like, were you guys going on vacations anywhere? Can you even fit that many Scovels in a car? You can. You know, the age gap was big enough to where there was never, like, that's another thing about my younger brother. Like, we never lived at home together ever. a picture of me in my dorm room freshman year holding him who's essentially like a newborn one year old i don't know but like a baby so there's no there was never traveling together like that but

i do feel like there was five of us for sure my older sister had already gone off to college and when i was still at home my youngest sister had been born but we would we did the minivan life we did that seven-seater captain seats there was a time when you could get the tiny TV plugged into the lighter to watch Disney VHS tapes. And that took that took us to a whole new. Yeah. We were like, this is how the other side lives. This is it. Where were you driving? Where were you guys rolling to? My, well, we'd either go to My dad's favorite beach, Myrtle Beach, we would go there for a week every summer, almost every

summer. I'm almost certain about a five-hour drive. Or we'd go see my grandparents and my aunt in Panama City Beach, Destin, Florida, Panama City Beach area. And that was like an eight-hour drive. Why did your dad like Myrtle more than Destin? Was it just a Myrtle was closer? He thought the waves were bigger. Really? He had an actual take. He would body surf. He liked catching waves, body surfing. Catching waves. And he's like, I just get a little more adrenaline, a little more dopamine kick from the Myrtle. beach waves than the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf of Mexico just didn't cut it from my dad.

I was talking to a grandfather of my son's friend on the beach last summer. And he was talking about body surfing and how it's like, he goes, it's the only thing I do now, which makes me feel like a kid. And I was like, oh, shit, this is like a lot. This is like a movie scene now. Right. He was like genuinely explaining. And I was like, oh, wow, okay.

I'm sorry. I was kind of drifting off. But that's a great point. Yeah, he was crying. You're like, oh. Oh, wow. He was crying because he was like, aren't you? And then he said, aren't you proud of me?

And I'm like, dude, it's not how it works. At my age, I can break anything. Was your dad doing like multiple hour sessions in the ocean? So my dad's, this is something now, my dad passed away in 2020, and this is something I now reflect on that I thought was, I don't even know. As a kid, I think I thought this was cool and weird at the same time. My dad loved the. beach so much that he would have a cooler. And this is like 8, 8 a.m. He's down there. He's not waiting for the family to get ready to join him at the beach. He's at the beach.

Meet me there. Yeah, meet me there whenever you're coming down. I'm not waiting. In a chair, Walkman, cassette player, a little handheld cassette player, Walkman, old school headphones, cooler. And we just sit listening to. you know, light jazz, light smooth jazz, or he'd be into some Michael McDonald or literally anything yacht rock and just staring at the water. And then for whatever reason, he would just sometimes get up, take that stuff off, go catch some waves, stay in there for a little bit, come back, sit in his chair, put his thing on. And this was his vacation for five straight days. That's all he did. He got so sunburn. Every picture we have, he's just got, his sunglasses have fully protected the tone of his

skin color around his eyes. I want to say, I have a deep jealousy of people who can have that attainable peace. Yes. I kind of always like, you know, I talk shit about the beach all the time because I don't like it, but like I want to like it. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like, I wish I could be that happy and like at 8 a.m. want to go someplace that I would be peaceful and happy for the whole day. I would love it. I would love I. I am the same way. I never really liked it. The sand. I didn't like how what it did to your skin. I was terrified of the sun just burning our bodies. I didn't care much about the ocean. It honestly kind of scared me. If it even slightly was pulling me. I was like, I'm dead. This is it. I'm going to die. I am. I but like you just said, I also

I'm like, God, I want to. I want to like it. A lot of people clearly do. But if someone's like, do you want to go into a mountain lake or go to the Caribbean? I'm like, no, I want to go to the mountain lake. And I almost, if you told me it's going to rain the whole time, I'm not even, I still would probably choose mountain lake. I prefer a mountain lake as well. That sounds nicer to me.

Yeah. Do you, would he keep his headphones on? Was it, was it something where you could talk to him if you wanted to and he'd take them off? Or was it like, hey, I'm off. I'm off. I'm in this world. now. The visual example I can give to you is that if you had just says something to me, my dad would go

what? Yeah, yeah, three o'clock sounds great. And then right back. Yeah. Yeah. Zero wanting to have a conversation. He's like, I work at the post office, guys. I'm here for five days at this beach. Do not even look at me. Would he want to teach

you sort of body surfing technique and the rest of your siblings? He was going out. He was going out into the water, that was your, that was your opportunity to go hang out. And he would show you how to catch waves and hang out in the ocean. And he'd be out there a while. He wasn't like in and out. But that was fun. When we were kids, he would do the thing where he grabbed your hands and like spun around over the, as the waves are coming in and then eventually let you go and you just fling off into the water, which was great. I have fond memories of that. Also being terrified. But this is the, I always say this might be the best example of like my childhood and growing up with Josh as my brother.

I remember once being at a beach and it was like freezing cold New England water and I didn't want to go in and my dad like picked me up and dragged me and like just threw me in the water. And then I said, are you going to throw Josh in the water now? And he said no, because he would like cry and the day would be ruined. So like Josh is like terrorized the family into just like doing whatever his like wishes were. Meanwhile, I'm getting chucked in the ocean. I also like that it was kind of to serve no purpose. It was like, all right, Seth, come on, let's go. You know what this is.

You know what makes me happy. I think it was like someone's going. We didn't come all the way for no one to go in the ocean. So someone's going on. That's the other element about the ocean. Someone just has to go in because you've made some great sacrifice to get there. Yeah. Well, you can't not go in.

Were you guys walking distance from the beach? would you stay at a place where you could like to stroll down? Yeah, we always stayed at like the beachfront, like condominiums that you rent for. I don't even know what that was. I reflect back on it how we rent stuff now and how I could literally go online and rent, you know, a place and go through several options. I remember back then you had to make phone calls. You had like the mail was involved to like get a receipt for a check that you sent to like reserve a thing. like the slow pace of that seems so absurd.

It also seems wildly delightful. Yeah. Like time would slow down somehow. We, in the late 90s, was when Josh and I, you know, moved over to Amsterdam and our parents would like, it was a big deal where my mom would like send letters to find, you know, like calls and like, but there was a amount.

I remember she was, and then she'd be excited because she'd get a letter from, with, you know, a weird stamp on it. Words that she doesn't understand. Yeah. Yeah. We were just, I remember we would go to a ski place in Michigan, just sort of like at a tiny little more of a hill than a mountain,

and stayed a really nondescript condo. And it was so exciting pulling up to a house that wasn't ours. Yeah. That had like nothing inside it. And it was just, I just remember like, this, wait, this place with a door, we have the key to a door that's not ours. Right. And it's not just like a hotel room.

It has like a kitchen. We have like our bedrooms. There's like a dining room. Yeah. Mom got chips. Yeah. That's the other element about those vacations is that the grocery, the rules of grocery shopping are out the window. Yeah.

It's all just endorphin. What was in your dad's cooler? Was your dad doing like breakfast beers or? Never beer. My dad was like wine coolers. Yeah. He loved. the sugary wine coolers, but he also would go, he'd go hard on rum, where you were just like,

oh, this is that proof that I can't even fathom. Like, it's too, like, rum for the most part, feels so G-rated as a liquor. Yeah. Until you go hard on it. And you're like, oh, God, oh, oh, my God. This is too much. This is way too much. That's what, I mean, and I think that was, I mean, he liked that anyways, but being at the beach, it was like added to it. That was his, that was his jam. He loved it. Yeah. It's a real time and a place kind of liquor and I feel like a beach is well, guess what though? I took, I went out to dinner this weekend with my three kids and our parents and dad, again, freezing cold New England night. Dad got a rum and Coke. I've literally never heard him order a rum. Yeah. That's weird. And I was just, you know, it's one of those things

are like, okay, is this, I guess this is what we're doing now? Yeah. Is he, like, in that phase where he's like, I'm doing Roman Cokes? I feel like maybe. Like, somebody, maybe he was somewhere. He's also like, if he has a good experience with something, he'll ride it pretty hard until, like, the wheels come off. Yeah, but he's not a big drinker. He's not a big drinker in general.

Yeah. But he'll, like, have a cocktail. My mom, our mom respects alcohol more than soda, so it might be the way he gets his Coke. Like if you ordered a Coke She'd think that's like he's just a bitch Yeah And she'd probably tell him Yeah

Spice it up a little bit I feel like I'm a little bit like that with old fashions I mean once I started drinking Old fashions now I'm I'm deep in it Like if I'm getting a cocktail I'm getting that or a paper plane Paper plane's a great example

Of my rum and Coke Yeah I'm on board till the wheels come up For sure Paper plane I would say those are perfectly matched as a summer and winter cocktail combination. Yeah, yeah, yeah. A paper plane is a great, hey, it's a summer afternoon.

Let's get a paper plane. I love a freezing New England night, and your dad's like, give me a margarita, half salt. Oh, half salt. Case halfway through, I don't want salt. What would make Panama City Beach sort of leapfrog, Myrtle Beach? Was that just like...

Yeah, family. That was just family. My grandparents moved from Greenville to Destin, Florida. And so we would go see them. And my aunt was a basketball coach in Panama City Beach. Shout out to my aunt Rooney Scoville, who is in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame for coaching. Has her jersey retired at the University of Florida.

Badass basketball coach. So she coached at the university there, the community college there. uh, uh, uh, uh, Juko and we would go visit. We would go hang out at Panama City Beach. And, you know, that was fun because Panama City Beach is very Myrtle Beach-esque in that redneck Riviera kind of vibe that it knows how to provide. And also going on like rides, go to the pavilion, go to the amusement park. Uh, most, I would say like, uh, thick, thick with t-shirt vendors, highest capacity, like, uh, yeah, what would you say? Like, did you guys ever do

where they take the photo of you. This is 80s. They take the photo of you. And then it's like 3D scanned lines, a picture of you that they could put onto a t-shirt or even like a little flag. I wish I kind of wish that was my merch, like a mock-up of that style t-shirt. But we would get one of those every summer when we got to Myrtle Beach. We'd go to the amusement park, sit down in the thing, get the photo taken.

That would then take so long. But then you wear a shirt of your own picture. And then you'd have a shirt where it's like, it's me and my sister. I mean, I think the first time I was covetous of going to the Caribbean, which was not a place we went, and certainly our early youth, was people, like kids coming back to school with a hard rock cafe t-shirt where it said, literally just set a place underneath it. And that was like the most exotic.

That was like a child's passport stamp of like, whoa. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I had that in high school with ski trips after the Christmas break. Kids were coming back with their winter coats with the ski tag on the zipper. And I didn't understand that.

I didn't understand skiing. I skied for the first time like two or three years ago. And I remember being, I just covetous of it, but also just like, these ski tags. Who do these people think they are? I will never be like that. skied one time three years ago. I was like, I get it. It's fun. I get it. You have a drink after. You sit by the fire. How'd you do out there? Yeah. I did all right. I took, I started with snowboarding. And so I snowboarded, took a lesson and was, we were there for about four days of skiing out here out at Beaver Creek in Colorado.

And it was fantastic. Loved it. The next year, I decided to try skiing so I could know which I liked more. And I think I leaned skiing. I actually can confidently stop. with skis. Snowboarding. I'm like, I mean, both of them, I honestly think I'm just days away from a horrible injury. And the moment we get off the ski lift, I'm like, if it could just be the chairlift, that was so peaceful. I would do that. If that was an ongoing loop and you could just get off at the next exit, that would be great. Do you, were people putting the safety bar down on the chairlift when you were there? That was me. I was like, guys, let's play by the rules.

I'm so pro safety bar and I've skied my whole life. I don't think I'm falling off but I can't stand this new, cool thing of like no, let's not put the safety bar down. It's like to what end? My wife and I were skiing

while my daughter was taking a class and so we were like getting onto the chairlift and my daughter was a part of a class and we go, oh, there's Elliot right there. And we like, yell out, we wave, we're in line, and we watched them take off,

and the guy just wasn't able to get their guard thing down in time. And we're a few chairs behind them. And my wife is like, they'll be fine. And I'm just staring straight ahead. And I'm like, okay, if they drop, am I able to do what I think I can athletically do? Can I drop out of my chairlift to help my child? Living in terror watching them. I, by the way, forget about the bar, because I go skiing with my boys.

And they like go ski with the class and then we'll ski for an hour. When I'm on a chairlift with them and the chairlift bar is down, I like still want to like put my arms and like hold the back. And they're like, get off of us. Because they're like, we've been skiing all day. Like we know we ride up without adults. And I'm like, I'm just not enjoying it. Like you let's just let's go ski different things. I'll ski alone, you ski alone.

But I can't watch you because it's just that, I'm like, I can't, do you understand, I can't be on the chair you fall off? I know, I know. It's just bad optics. It's not for their safety. It's just the optics.

There was that movie, you probably saw a job. There was like a horror movie about, like, people who get stuck on a chairlift. Like the entirety of the movie is like, they try to take one more ride and then the whole lift shuts down and the whole mountain shuts down. That's when you look it up

They're like their budget was $400 And And the people who made the movie Still say they lost money They won't pay the bonuses Right We were able to get 300 tickets $300 made back

Did your family Stay in Greenville? Is that where your parents are? Yeah, my older sister lives in Just outside of D.C. and then my sister just after me lives in Seattle. And then the rest of my siblings, the other four, are still in Greenville. Yeah, my stepmom lives in Greenville.

I've got aunts and uncles and cousins who live in Greenville, and I have some ants who still live in Panama City Beach. My dad's three sisters all live in Panama City Beach. Would the Greenville contingent get together when you live there? Would there be sort of big, you know, picnics or reunions or anything like that? Yeah, when we come to town, we try to do something. We did like a Thanksgiving where we got like an Airbnb and we tried to host like a big, get everybody out of their houses and make it feel like we all went on a trip,

even though technically it's a staycation for them. And do like Thanksgiving. We try to do that when we come to town and make like a thing of it. Does your daughter have a ton of cousins based on your sibling situation? Six, I think. Six total cousins. cousins. No, six, seven, eight, nine. So three on my wife's side and then six on my family side. Yeah. And their age ranges are all over the place. So it's, it's kind of great because my daughter kind of falls right into the middle of like the older kids and the younger kids. Where is your wife from? She grew up in Las Vegas. She moved around a lot as a kid, but they landed in Las Vegas when she was in high school. And so her parents still stay there, still live there. And yeah, that's her. That's her home base, which is absurd when you tell anybody that.

Because most people are just like, people live in Las Vegas. I'm like, I know what you mean. I know, like, of course they do, but I know why you would ask that question. Right. Yeah. Like, not everybody who works there flies in every morning. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Do you guys go to visit then? Yeah, we'll sometimes go on vacation to. We haven't been in a while, but we would go out. And it's very suburbia, Vegas, which is such a different flage. of Vegas. I'm already like not so

crazy about the strip so you can imagine how exciting it is to go into a neighborhood where all the homes look

basically the same. It's very cool. Very Tim Burton. But we yeah, we would go and there'd always be a night

where my wife and I who had no interest in going to the strip would be like, do we think your parents maybe watch Elliot and we go to

the strip just to do anything else that's different? I was going to say, do you feel the pull of the strip, even if there's someone who doesn't love the strip? You always feel just to go do something else. Do we just go look at the sphere externally for an hour? You must have, you've done shows in Vegas.

I have done a festival in Vegas, but I haven't really gone through to do the clubs or anything ever. I just don't see it being satisfying or financially. You know. I did that. There's like this, MGM, I used to go,

like the Terry Fetor theater. I can't remember. Yes. It's a good theater. Fader? Yeah. It's good theater. It's like very good.

It's like good sound and like, it is to though with that weird thing of like any casino show where you realize like some people are there because they're fans. Some people are there because they've heard your name. Yep. And then some people are just there because they were given free tickets. Yeah. And they are Jones and.

A show. Yeah. They are Jones and to get out of. there. They're there. The same reason you go to see the strip. I did open for Daniel Tosh one weekend, and that was great. That was like the most ideal.

Get on the jet. Land in Vegas. Check into your room. Do the show. Hang out that night. Hang out the next day. Do that show. And as soon as that show was done, 10 minutes before he got offstage, they already had me in the car.

They're like, he's going to sprint to the car. You guys will be wheels up in that plane before the last people have left this theater. And my God, that was so true. It was the fastest. And I was like, oh, if this was how I played Vegas, I would do this, you know. I would do whatever that contract is people have

where they play Vegas, you know, once a month or whatever it is. That's like why Barry Manilow was like living in Palm Springs and just flying and doing shows and back to Palm Springs. Exactly. Yeah. Super easy, breezy. He probably doesn't know about the suburb of your wife's family lives in or else he'd probably do that. Yeah. Oh, my God. A hundred percent. He would love it.

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Visit medcan.com slash moments to get started. Just because you have that traveling life, are you touring now? Are you on the road a lot now? Yeah, on the road now for this current tour, this new hour that I'm doing. And that started like mid-October. That's going to go to like mid-April trying to hit up as many, many spots as possible and see what happens. I always like to ask a touring stand-up, are you the kind of person who takes advantage of the places you visit

or do you just sort of stay in a hotel room all day? That's a, I will tell you what, that's a great question. Prior to COVID, I didn't want to do it. I was very reclusive. I didn't like want to do anything. I was just like in my hotel room. I think I had a certain. sort of nervous energy towards the show. And so it's kind of like in my head. Then when COVID

took stand up away, something I didn't think was even a possible outcome. I was living in a new reality. It was like, oh my God, this job goes away. Then when I started going on the road again, I now make at minimum, I'm going to find a coffee shop. I'm very snobbish about my coffee. So I will find a coffee shop that I can enjoy the coffee, but also sit in for an hour or two. I will look up art museums. I want to go see as many paintings. If there's galleries that are worth it, I want to go check them out. But mostly any kind of art museum I can go check out. I'll go check out.

But I'll do anything. If I have the time, I'm like, let's go to the restaurant, people say, to go to because what else are we doing? I'll now go to bookstores. Yeah. Even if I'm not buying anything, I'll just peruse. I think it's a good thing too because I have that same anxious energy on a show night. And I do believe it's probably better for the show to not sit in a room and think about it all day.

Yes, yes. Just go out and actually like to actually like engage with like other non-stand-up art is probably like just good for your brain. Yeah, yeah. I also find it's like, I don't know. I think that's why the green room is so important. That's why I think it matters who you tour with. All of that is stretching.

I mean, you know it too from not just stand-up, but from like improv too. You're like, if we're in the green room, even though we're conversing and just, having fun. This is all part of getting us into that space before we go out there. And to me, with stand-up, you're doing it all day. Also, I will gladly do as many local anything I can think of to open the show. I love it. I love trying to improvise any amount of local, just whatever. Yeah. And, you know, that's how you get there. If you're like, all right, let me go out. Let me hear what

people are saying what was your what was your special that was just they were you improvised the entire we did i did one in atlanta back in 2018 because i always wanted to just go with no material and see what happened so i this venue uh relapse theater let me do six shows and we just like did super cheap tickets i honestly thought it's just going to be a bomb i thought it's just going to be an experiment um and i told my buddy um j larsen about it and he was like oh you should film that he's like that's a documentary because that's really fun so we got some money from absolutely and then we shot it for a documentary my buddy came and directed it and we did the six shows and um i got addicted to it i was like man i really want to lean

into this i want to figure out how to do this and so i did 10 last january a year ago in uh brooklyn at union hall we did 10 in a row and we filmed all those and we're going to drop those But that was like, that's now, you know, whatever, seven years later was eye opening. It was so much fun. And it's not to like do crowd work. It's literally just to keep talking as though this is the act. And it's so, it's so much fun. It's so much fun to do.

Well, I think I didn't really. And I asked you, was there a bit with like a cape? You're wearing a cape. Yeah. Yeah. There was one of the shows. It was the Thursday night show. It's maybe one of my favorite shows I've ever done.

It was like that. We had done Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. and the Thursday night show was the revelation of like, oh, I have no material. I'm just up here. And the material is only derived from the amount of fun. And that kind of, whatever that energy is, I can exude. That's where the material comes from.

And I just grabbed, it was lightly attended. One of the tablecloths was on a table. And I just started messing around with it. Like I lived, I was like, I do you think everyone, anyone was like, I'm going to the tavern. And they put their, like, cape on. And then I told other people to put cap on. And then I told other people to put capes on,

like I was starting a cult, and people then started putting some of the capes on. My greatest joy is that sometimes people now show up at my shows wearing a red cape like they're in my cult. It's great. And I'm like, oh, my God, I love that so much. It's a dream come true because I loved it and assumed it had been, I thought it was material.

And even as somebody who loves improv, I always think, like, the problem with improv is, like, if you showed somebody an improv scene, they'd be like, oh, this sucks. Like, I know people liked it when they were, in the room. But I really, I watched it. It was like, oh, man, that fucking cape bit. It was so fun. That was like the light bulb going off of what you, in improvised stand-up, what you, how to like keep the beach ball in the air kind of thing. Is there a difference between

people who wear actual capes and purists who will wear tablecloths as capes? Because it's easy to get a cape on Amazon and, you know, you're not wrong. Yeah. You're not wrong. I actually from now on if someone comes up there, like, look, I got the cape. I'm like, you know, get out of here. Get out of here. You don't get it.

Red tablecloth. Cults don't work with like, yeah, anything goes. Yeah, you can't half ass it. What cult have you heard about where it's like, oh, yeah, we're loose? It's Kool-Aid. It's not power aid. We're not doing power aid. Have you taken a big trip with your daughter?

Have you like, have you taken our overseas yet? Yeah, we did this past October. We went to, I was over there doing shows. And my last show was in Manchester. And so I just took a train down to London and I met them. My sister-in-law lives in London with her daughter. And so we went and visited it. And that was the first time my kid had like traveled like that.

And it's so, I don't know if you guys are like this as being, as, you know, being entertainers and being in the industry of like creating entertainment but i feel such a massive pressure to like make the vacation entertaining even though i'm also a guest in the space and i think sometimes it ruins like vacations i get a little too into like hey are you enjoying it like i almost don't care if i'm enjoying it i just want to make sure my wife and my daughter are enjoying it but london was very much like that i felt a lot of pressure of like all right let's make sure we've got the schedule and we're doing fun things and, you know, it was great, though. My kid, like, loved it.

We, yeah, we either, you know, I brought my oldest day. I'm serving this summer because there was a reunion of sorts at our theater. And it was like, the amount of like, are you having, but you're having fun, right? And he's like, and because in the time, like, he was also like a little jet lagged and it was weird. But then, of course, when it's over, like, the amount he talks about it and loves it. And I have to realize, like, kids don't, like, they're, it's also exhausting for them to keep telling their parents they're having a fun time.

Right. Yeah, yeah. And they also, yeah, they, I think they're just because they're so good at telling you when they're not having fun. Right. That you're almost like, well, can you kind of throw the other side to me every now and then? You should just assume if they're not wailing about being miserable, they're happy. Yes, yeah, yeah. But we checked out some museums and we went to see Wicked.

Such a different experience with the British accent. You're really, you've really got to try it. By the way, I thought you met the movie, and I'm like, did they re-record? Did they... Even there. Those movies there, they make sure... With AI, now they can have the same actors, but real cocky. Same actors, AI, British, Ariana Grande.

What was your favorite European destination versus show that you did? This past trip, you know, I had to stop in Amsterdam, which I loved. You're talking about Boom, Chicago. Is that you guys? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I love Amsterdam. I love that as a city.

It's my favorite walking city. It's the best. It's not like I've been everywhere, but I love that you can walk into Amsterdam, especially at night, make directional choices, and kind of have no idea which direction you're facing at all. And the only thing you can do is kind of just keep walking

until you go, I kind of remember that. I kind of love that it's so easy to get lost in. When we first move that, the people who live there, when they gave directions, would say go and then go clockwise. Like it's the only, like, you know what I mean?

Like, they wouldn't go like turn right. Because like it is, like, just like, there's rain. And I was like, what, clockwise? Yeah. And they're like, you'll figure it out. Yeah. Because there's like a weird horseshoe in there. And it's like, yeah, it doesn't.

Yeah. Yeah. And you're like to try to map it in your mind of where you think you are is so ridiculous. I mean, it's great now with phones. I can't imagine what you guys were doing in the 90s of like. Just live in life. Yeah. But we live.

You know, we have friends. Not all of us made it out. Our friends that started the theater, Andrew and Saskia, their son, Finn, who's like 24 now, I would remember being with Finn in Amsterdam and you'd get on a bike and you'd bike like three minutes away from their apartment and he would have no idea where he was. Like he just, and he was from there. He just couldn't figure it out. Yeah. Yeah.

But I love it. I love those audiences. That was really fun. I played Madrid for the first time. How was that? It was fantastic. I was very nervous just about any kind of translation, any kind of language, anything.

But all I learned in all these cities was that social media has changed everything. I mean, for the convenience of travel, you're like, great. But just for the nature of things, you're like, oh, that's such a downer. Everybody is like, oh, we're just all speaking English now. You're like, oh, all right. But I've got to say for a show in Madrid, it's great.

It was a tiny little room. These comedians started this. space and I mean it holds maybe 80 people and they were like if you're if you have this time we looked at your schedule if you would come through and I was like oh I mean yeah I'd love to like go to sp I've never been to Spain this would be insane it's also nice to be invited it's nice to be invited and then also like you know it was small and we just did two shows in one night and then I just stayed in Madrid for a couple nights but the audiences were fantastic I've played Dublin a few times Dublin was probably one of my favorite shows I've done and and I don't even know how

how long, but yeah, it was crazy. That's great. I mean, I think that, yeah, anytime I feel like I haven't done a ton of shows overseas, like a handful, but it is thrilling to be in a different country and have it go well. It was a little bit of a revelation where I was like, I mean, people came to my show in Berlin and they were like, why didn't you come to Greece or why didn't you come to these other places? And I was like, honestly, I just kind of didn't even know I could. I didn't, I don't really understand what the infrastructure is over here. And I was like, oh, my God, you could just go to Europe and the UK and tour the entire year and not even play anywhere in the U.S. It kind of

really made me realize the longevity of an hour you put together. If you're so inclined to really press the gas and go for it, that you could. You could sustain it for a while off of one show, which is insane. How, I know not everybody counts, that your last HBO special, how many times do you think you did that hour? I don't know. I don't know what we did for that tour. I want to say maybe somewhere like 40 to 50 shows

just on the tour and then kind of getting it set in the clubs leading up to it a little bit. But I don't know. This is the first time. I mean, you know this. We were on this pace now where once you drop your special,

you better announce your next tour or you're getting left in the dust. And it's, I can't do that. I'm so slow. But somehow, this hour kind of just happened faster than any of the others that I've, I've ever done. And so, well, it's nice that you can supplement shows with shows that have no material. Yes. I mean, that's where a lot of it kind of comes from too. That's amazing. It's amazing. And chatting and then being like, oh, maybe that's kind of a joke later on. But, yeah, it's, uh, this one I think is like 50 to 60 shows. total on this tour.

It's too much. It's too much. And do you, other than, other than like Beaver Creek, if you and your sort of nuclear family now, will you carve out time to just take pure vacations? Yeah, I feel like we've never been good at it. Now that we've moved to Colorado, we kind of try to carve out some space to get back to L.A. to see friends and let my daughter kind of run around and hang out with their friends. So we've done that like a few times trying to see family. But I don't know. I honestly think, and I kind of regret this.

I don't know, maybe you guys are better at this than I am. I mean, that's the theme of the show, so probably. But I feel like I'm not as good at creating this consistent sort of vacation with my family that my dad always did. And I think part of it is because of this job, my interpretation of a year and time doesn't exist in the space of, I have two weeks off. It exists in the space of, you know, I don't really even know, like a moment where I think I have free time. You might get a guest role in something. And suddenly that's gone. Yeah. And you're, you kind of don't notice it because you're kind of excited that you got, you know, you got a job. So you're like, oh, it's always kind of just juggling. Last year we went to

Vermont. My daughter went to a summer camp. And so I just stayed in Vermont and my wife worked at the summer camp. And even though we were kind of separate, it truly, felt like the first time I'd take an actual vacation as an adult where I fully like recharged and actually relaxed. How long was the camp? My kid went for I think four weeks, but because my wife was going to be working at the camp, we had to get there like two weeks early. And then my wife is in the stock company at this camp. It's not just a theater camp, but that's one of the things they have. And because my wife was in the stock show, we stayed like another week. So,

I was shooting a show in L.A., so I would have to, like, go back to L.A., shoot. And then as soon as we were done with me, I was like, I'm on a plane right back to Vermont. It was pure heaven. Vermont in the summer made me realize I understand New England now. I get it. I get, what everyone's talking about. It's not just Boston. It's not. Not just slushy Boston. It's not just slushy Boston. Did you, did your daughter, who was the first, first person that was involved with camp, your daughter or your wife. My wife grew up in this summer camp and like loved it. And was your daughter like so excited in the run up? So like giddy has looked forward to this for years. My wife, you have to be a certain age. You have to have completed

the fourth grade and be at least nine, I think, to get to go. And this was that last year was the first summer my kid could go. And it was also the first time I spent that amount of time in Burlington. I've been through Burlington to play the comedy club, and it's fine and good. I was like, oh, yeah, Vermont seems great. This is the first time I was like, in nature. Every day I woke up, I would take my dog and we would go look for a river to sit in. My buddy, Lars, in town would take me around. Ryan Miller from Guster, he's up there.

He would show me all kinds of awesome. He'd be like, this is a river. You're not necessarily supposed to go in, but I know a way down through a path. Like, I was like, this is, I'm 12 again. This is bliss. By the way, everybody would like New England if they were hanging out with someone from Gustor. Oh, did you find the magic?

I thought we all got to. Yes, true. Most larger cities and towns in New England will have someone associated with Gustor. That's right. That's right. To show you about. To kind of host you.

We grew up like three hours away from Burlington and never went just because we lived in New Hampshire and we didn't go. And my wife went to school at UVM and we went there for a fourth of July one year. And I was like, oh my God. Like, this is incredible. And that, it's so great. That lake is just insane. And it's, uh, yeah, it's beautiful. And there's just kind of a calm. And I'm like, oh, my God, what if I, why did I get into this business? What am I doing? Like, why did I choose spoken word? To not even give it a fun title. Why did I choose professional speaking? Oh my God. What did your dad do? Spoken word is now what he's telling people?

spoken word. It's really sad. It's getting more and more about his feelings, which he says is discovering how to do real comedy. But you're also a podcaster now, Rory. That's right. Congratulations for joining the team. Yeah, crimeless. Tell us a little about crimeless. Yeah, crimeless is a lot of fun. It's if you are so inclined to know the deets of it, we're on smartless platform, I heart, big money players, all those, all those, all those, all those hot jam. are on board. But yeah, myself and Josh Dean, Josh specifically kind of reads to me

different crimes that have been committed throughout history and throughout the world by the most idiot criminals and their stories that I've never heard before. And so in the episode, I am learning about it for the first time, just like the audience is.

And I just provide kind of color commentary to it and we just riff on it. Is that another show that you have to do no prep for? It's another. You're starting to see what my style is. I admire it.

Yeah, when they say there's pre-production, I'm like, I'm out. I can't. I can't be involved. Yeah. I can't be involved in that. That's not my brand. So, yeah, I just sit there and he tells me a story and I kind of comment on it. And it's fascinating.

I mean, we know that there's dumb criminals, but that's Josh is very good at his job in finding stories that really are shocking. Dumber than normal. Just dumber than normal. Yeah, yeah. And especially when it's historic makes it even bad. You're like, oh, it makes you feel good. You're like, okay, good.

We're not devolved. We've been dumbed the whole time. We feel a constant dumb. Yeah. It is lovely to talk to you, buddy. You really are one of my favorite comedians. And now my son, Ash, as well. And that's what I was really aiming at.

Yeah. Before you go, we have to speed round you real quick. Yeah, great. All right. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous, or educational? relaxing what is your favorite means of transportation um airplane 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 the Jetsons great if you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family who would it be my wife uh what is a dream destination for a family vacation I mean, I love Burlington, Vermont. I think Vermont, anywhere in Vermont. Great. You are from Greenville, South Carolina. If you had to get more families to come visit Greenville, how would you sell that town? Barbecue, a mild shift in liberal thinking, but not enough to really notice it. And here they come. Yeah, a dedication to college football, like maybe you have an experience. experienced before colleges that no one around you even attended.

Just colleges to cheer for. But yeah, massive rivalry, Clemson, Carolina. And then Seth has our final questions. Rory, have you been to the Grand Canyon? I have. And was it worth it? It was very worth it. I went with a buddy and we took a trail that I don't think you're supposed to take.

And we stayed one night and we did mushrooms. And it had all the things. I thought I was dying. And then I thought I was really alive. You know what, weirdly, just in the beginning of that story, I felt like I could have predicted mushrooms were going to happen. It felt, when I said illegal path. Yeah.

I feel like it was like that. You don't do that unless, like, more illegal is coming. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's not the only illegal thing you're going to do is just, like, bust out a path. It's already an illegal trail. What else can we do? Oh, you did the mushrooms because you were already on illegal trail. That wasn't your plan.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's right. Thank you, buddy. I hope to see you soon in New York City, man. Yeah, congrats on the podcast. Appreciate it. Thank you. All right, buddy, bye.

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