Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - SAMARA WEAVING Is From "Radelaide"

Episode Date: March 31, 2026

This week on the pod, Seth and Josh welcome Samara Weaving! Samara chats all about being born in “RADadelaide” and what her global upbringing was like, moving to places like  Singapore, Fiji, In...donesia, and more. She also tells stories of life with her younger sister, living in Florence for six months, visiting the Grandmother who thought they were the “Devil’s Spawn” and so much more! Plus, Samara discusses her new movie Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, in theaters now! Watch more Family Trips episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlqYOfxU_jQem4_NRJPM8_wLBrEEQ17B6 Support our sponsors: Shipt Go to https://Shipt.com/offer and Use code ""podcast"" to get a year of Shipt for only $49 – HALF OFF the regular $99 price. Terms apply Mint Mobile Get 3 months of premium wireless service from Mint Mobile for 15 bucks a month.Shop plans https://MINTMOBILE.com/trips. Upfront payment of $45 for 3-month 5 gigabyte plan required (equivalent to $15/mo.). New customer offer for first 3 months only, then full-price plan options available. Taxes & fees extra. See https://MINTMOBILE.com for details. FitBod Level up your workout. Join Fitbod today to get your personalized workout plan. Get 25% off your subscription or try the app FREE for seven days at https://Fitbod.me/TRIP. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hi, Bajie. Hey, Sufi. How's it going, buddy? Good. I've, uh, McKenzie's away and I'm, I got a lot, but I'm trying to do a bunch of stuff around the house. Uh-huh. Just running into roadblocks, man. It's just.
Starting point is 00:00:14 Oh, stuff's getting in the way. Life's getting in the way? Not life's getting in the way. Like, I think that I'm good at, like, being a Mr. Fixit and I'm not. Oh, right. Yeah. Because, like, some jobs I'm like, all right, so I got to, I'm putting up these new curtains. That'll be easy enough.
Starting point is 00:00:31 But then you look, and the old curtain rod's like ripping out of the wall. So it's like, oh, that has to be replaced. Yeah. So then you've got to take the old rod down. You've got to patch and spackle and fill those holes. Then you've got to repaint. Then you got to redrill. And like the repainting, the old white paint is much brighter than the white on the wall.
Starting point is 00:00:51 So now it's like, do I have to paint everything? Like, I just wanted to put up new curtains. And it's a series of things like that. So a couple things. you know I would never even attempt to any of this. No, yeah, absolutely. No one. Mostly because I am in constant, to me,
Starting point is 00:01:08 the modern day David Copperfields are any craftspeople who can come to your home and do anything, right? Yeah. Like, I have put no time in my life into understanding, for example, how electricity works and how you can change a lamp fixture. I think you know that if given my druthers, nothing would change in my home
Starting point is 00:01:28 due to the fact that I cannot perceive that there's a better version of anything. Yeah. So I'm amazed when people come over, you know, people who have built these skills. It's not that I think that I'm, like, too good for them or anything. It's more that I just feel like I'm incapable of them. And there's a little bit,
Starting point is 00:01:46 I catch a little bit of grief every now and then for being the kind of man who doesn't know how to do shit. Yeah. But I don't. And I don't want to learn. Yeah, no. You shouldn't. like you shouldn't learn.
Starting point is 00:02:02 And, but I feel like I'm sort of right on the cusp of being good. And then I get deep into something. And it's like, oh, I'm not that good. And I've spent all this time and someone else could have done it probably for not that much money. And I could have had all that time to go, who knows? Live your life. Live my life. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:22 Yeah. Also, you know, we've established on this podcast. One, my father-in-law, incredibly handy. my brother-in-law, incredibly handy. And again, I walk in sometimes. The man has a tool belt on. He's, you know, on one of them little ladders. I wouldn't even know where that.
Starting point is 00:02:41 If you told me to go buy a little ladder, I'd look for a smaller, like a little ladder store. Like, it would be a tiny little parking lot. You'd have to have a mini-cooper smaller to park there. And, you know, he's going about his business. And I'm just in awe of it. And you know what I mean? Like, what am I supposed to do?
Starting point is 00:02:59 Stand there and ask him questions so the next time I can, you know, attempt and fail and then have to go get him. Yeah. But again, I'm just, I'm so jealous of it while also realizing like that time has passed. And again, not to burn him because he's probably, you know. Although, you know, mom and dad, they're very social right now.
Starting point is 00:03:16 I feel like they're very behind on our podcast, so it could be months until he hears this. Well, what do you want to say? What's your burn? Well, I think a lot of my hesitance to becoming a handyman was how dad how dad reacted to his own efforts
Starting point is 00:03:31 to be a handy man. Yeah. I never, while we were watching dad, for example, you know, hang a curtain rod. I never thought,
Starting point is 00:03:39 there's a man who's finding peace by working with his hands. Yeah. My father-in-law as well also like incredibly handy. Yeah. So,
Starting point is 00:03:51 yeah, I don't know. I just, I see it working in other situations. and I'm like, I want this to happen. Also, I don't think they're ever going to try to be a sponsor, especially now. But I live so close to a Home Depot.
Starting point is 00:04:05 And I'll be like, I just need these like wall anchors or something. And I go down there. And in the commercials, there's always someone in that little orange apron. Super helpful. It's got their name written on the front. To find one of those people who actually knows anything is, Which is not real. It's not a real.
Starting point is 00:04:29 The apron people are maybe playing a little bit of hide-and-seek with Pashi. Is that what we're getting at? Inevitably, when I'm in Home Depot, I just, like, stand in the middle of an aisle and start yelling. Uh-huh. So that's, yeah, it doesn't sound like sponsorship is a fit. I mean, it would be if they were there for me. It would be if they would show up. But, you know, they got to do their part.
Starting point is 00:04:54 We're not just to hang it out. Yeah, also I feel like me being handy would, I don't know, would run in direct conflict with the persona that I've worked so hard to craft in my home, which is off-brand. That I'm a worthless piece of shit. Like, you know what I mean? Like, I feel like that's the one thing my wife and kids kind of, you know, that's what they rally around. And so if I were to actually add value, I feel like they'd be like, who's this guy? Who's this interloper? Right.
Starting point is 00:05:28 Soft brand. Yeah, soft brand. But again, it's not like, you know, again, somebody comes over the other day, like a water issue than just some, I mean, we're Aquaman himself to walk in the door. I'd be less impressed than these guys who come in and just like, then they're like, the water's back. And I'm like, God bless you, one and all. Yeah. You didn't even know that those people are called plumbers. No, he's a water guy.
Starting point is 00:05:55 See, what a man. I got, by the time, well, I don't know, by the time it's very likely that I'll have a 10-year-old. Oh, yeah. And cannot believe it. Yeah. Cannot believe it. I also, when Ash was born, so weirdly, again, I was driving the boys the other day, and I was like, what do you want to listen to? And Axel, of all people, said the Hamilton soundtrack.
Starting point is 00:06:21 I wasn't even aware that Axel knew that Hamilton was a thing. or an existing soundtrack. And Ash has done enough colony work in his school as a fourth grader that he had a lot of thoughts after each song talking about who. It was fun. Has done enough colony work?
Starting point is 00:06:36 Like learning about the colonies, like the 13 original colonies. Yeah, got it. Sorry. Ash colonized. Ash has colonized a small corner of Soho. So, you know, we're listening to Hamilton. And when Hamilton, I'm sorry,
Starting point is 00:06:53 When Ash was born, P. Campbellton. Yeah. I'm talking about like, you know, whatever, 2016, maybe even a little bit late for P. Campbellton. But I told him, I was like, oh, the Skyler sister song, you know, look around, look around, how lucky we are to be alive right now. New York, greatest city in the world. I held Ash up when he was a day old.
Starting point is 00:07:16 And I sang that to him, looking out the window. Yeah. I told Ash, I tried to tell this to Ash. in the car and I could not stop crying. To a part that was like disturbing, disturbing for the kids. They didn't enjoy it. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:32 And then when the song... You can almost see it in your eyes right now, I'll say. Well, I think I'm actually doing it. And then when the song was actually playing, I was like just wheezing. But like trying to keep it from them because they're not like, oh, dad. Right.
Starting point is 00:07:47 Look at you. Feeling your feelings. But I can, then I'm really just excited realizing, Oh, soon the day will come where I'll take them to see that show. Yeah, yeah. I mean, such an enduring show that... Such an enduring show.
Starting point is 00:08:01 You were a little anti, because I feel like I played it too much right when it came out. We went and saw it, and then I overplayed it. I love that. I mean, I loved seeing it. Just we're a little over soundtracked out. Yeah. It was just a little... I was listening to a podcast about Evita.
Starting point is 00:08:19 Uh-huh. Like Evita prone, like a history podcast. the rest is history and uh love it that was a sound we listen to that soundtrack all the time mom and dad really did like blow out um Broadway soundtrack so that was a big part of our upbringing yeah so yeah we did i mean cats cats was big we listened to a lot of cats yeah didn't care to get them as no yeah no um can we say something real quick about our uh uh Samara Weaving is our guest today. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:55 Sure. Who tells us at some point during the podcast interview that she's very pregnant. And she's like, I won't stand up because it's like, you know, her words, it's like, she was obscenely pregnant. Yeah. She was on a red carpet this week with like wearing a dress with like a cut out belly. Oh, wow. And she was not, she was not lying. Oh, by the way.
Starting point is 00:09:19 She's still like, you know, it's like a stunning portrait of motherhood. Yeah. Because she's like beaming and glowing. But it is like, I was like, oh my God, thank God. This was not, this podcast did not require standing for an hour. Yeah. I did, since speaking to her, I went, her movie came out, ready or not, here I come. And went to go see it with our friend Jill and her kids.
Starting point is 00:09:44 Really fun theater-going experience. Also, it's a movie that. it's a movie about a game, like games that this family makes you play. And there's so much stuff that happens in the movie that's so like, wait, what? But it's all rules-based. Like, there are rules, and you and I feel like we're so, we like rules. A game with rules is kind of essential. Yeah, otherwise, what are you doing?
Starting point is 00:10:15 What's the play? And I really enjoyed the sort of the rules-based. nature of ready or not here I come uh we had uh Sean Hadesi on our show uh from the pit who's also in that movie mm-hmm he's a Sarah Michelle Geller's brother oh yeah yeah yeah who also worked with our buddy your buddy more than mine but uh Speedman yeah on the joanna kingdom yeah and it was really funny to talk to him about Speedman backstage oh I bet because like a lot of people he is both uh love Speedman and think he's one of the crazy speed man.
Starting point is 00:10:50 Same. Yeah. Same here. It's like how I know a person's a normal person. When he worked with my buddy Speedman, he's like, oh, man, Speedman. He's like, great. RJ Decker. RJ Decker is what, his name?
Starting point is 00:11:06 No, that's a, that's, uh, Speedman's new show on ABC. Oh, that's right. Yeah. I didn't know it was called R.J. Decker and I see a big old, um, billboard of it. He plays a private detective on ABC, right? Yeah. I think it's an ABC show. I think so, yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:22 So this is a wonderful conversation with Samara Weaving, who is about to add to her family, as you will hear over the course of this podcast. And she's just a great chat. Yeah, she really is. I feel like that's how an Australian would say it. It's a great chat. Just a good chat.
Starting point is 00:11:37 Oh, good chat. All right. Let's take a listen. Hello. Hello. Hi. How are you? Oh, better now that I'm seeing two angels.
Starting point is 00:12:12 Oh, we'll take it. Tomorrow, I have a, this is, I have two podcasts, and you get talked about a lot of my other podcasts because I do it with Yorma Tocone. Oh, that's why you guys have a little pod. Yeah. Most of my friendships are via pod. It's a good way to just have a. a gas bag with your friends, isn't it? It really is a good way to connect with your friends, but I'm very excited.
Starting point is 00:12:37 I know Ready or Not, too, Here I Come is, it will be in theaters a lot sooner, but the trailer for Over Your Dead Body is fantastic, and I can't wait to see that. So fun. How's Yomah doing? He's doing well. Oh, Samara is referring to the fact that my friend Yorma fell off a ladder. He's actually doing great. He's doing, okay, his, like, attitude is, like, inspiring.
Starting point is 00:13:02 All we talk about is how of the four of us, I mean, I know this is a terrible thing to say, the right guy fell off the ladder. As far as like how he bounced back, like none of us, I mean, Andy would have just fallen into his own grave. Yeah. Well, he didn't exactly bounce today. He sort of brought up. That was maybe the issue. That was the issue.
Starting point is 00:13:23 But you're not like he was sending me videos from the hospital being like, they'll never take my mind. Like you're just like. He's good vibes. Just being able to joke and giggle about it is amazing. He's like mother in the corner crying. I'm going, what are you doing? He was immediately good vibes. He was just immediately good vibes.
Starting point is 00:13:46 First of all, I'm very excited. You are from Adelaide. Yeah, born there, yeah, for sure. Which is also my daughter's name. So let's just get that right that name. Rattelade. Yeah, Rattelade. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:13:59 I never even thought to call her that. Radalade. First, it was our grandmother's name and then passed on. Do you guys call it Rattelade? Yeah. Oh, my God, that makes a lot of sense now that I hear it, but I'm so excited to call her that. Yeah. We're from right near Manchester, New Hampshire, and people call it Manch Vegas, which is not as easy.
Starting point is 00:14:21 Yeah, a natural. That seems a bit forced. Is it like Vegas? Yeah, does it? Yeah. Is it vagus-y or no? Nope. Nope. Not at all. I mean, but that's kind of a joke. Yeah, I think it's a very ironic name.
Starting point is 00:14:36 Oh, they're not fun at all. Is Adelaide Rat at all? It can be. I actually, you know what? I was born there and then like whisked away pretty quick. Where'd you get whisked too? Oh, just all over the planet. It does, I will say your bio makes it seem like you've lived an incredible upbringing of Singapore, Fiji, Indonesia. Are these all true? Yeah, many lives. So who, what was the purposes of this travel? Was it parental work?
Starting point is 00:15:05 It was parental work. Listen, I don't know. I don't know. I think the, okay, I'll just tell you what my dad tells me. Great. And you decide. I think it's very true that a lot of our parents tell us lies and it's not our job to go check whether or not they were true or not. Me and my sister as we get older are going, what?
Starting point is 00:15:26 Wait a minute. Okay. He says he was a business consultant. Yeah, we got one of those as a dad. Yeah. Okay. We're traveling to all these places that are like, have had some history in the Commonwealth. He's British.
Starting point is 00:15:43 Yeah. And then we end up in the capital of Australia. Yeah. And then now they quickly had to rush to another country. They had to go to China really quick. When was that? When did they last rush? Like a year ago.
Starting point is 00:15:59 Wow. So. Yeah. Okay. So they had to bounce. They had to bounce from Australia to China for some unspecified reason. Well, now he's a lecturer. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:16 These are all the cover jobs from like a John La Curee novel. Okay. This is, I'm suss. I'm real suss. But I think it's good that I'm talking about it publicly. I'm sure you'll love it. Because you're, well, because you're therapy, you won't even talk to your therapist about it. And they're like, Samara, it's time to talk about what your dad did.
Starting point is 00:16:38 And you're like, I'll do it on a podcast with a couple guys. I barely know. I think I'll just, yeah, out him. So were you somebody? And do you have one sibling? I do. I have a younger sister. Are you guys close?
Starting point is 00:16:51 Really close. I mean, we sort of, you know, two girls. You get to like teenage years and your nemesis, aren't you? Yeah. Well, we were stealing clothes and, yeah, we were fine. Yeah, the boys are fine. Yeah, we've never had a hiccup. Yeah, we've always been fine.
Starting point is 00:17:11 You just bash each other and then you're... Right, you're right, that's physical, it's physical assault, nothing mental. Yeah, we play, you know, mind games. Yeah, more dangerous, some would say. What's the age gap? Like nearly two years. Okay, so just like us. Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:31 And so where was the first place you were whisked to? Fiji, where my sister was born. Okay, gotcha. She was nearly called Suther, which is pretty cool. I would have been called Adelaide and she would have been called Siva. Oh, yeah, if they were based on the places. It seems like maybe, I don't know, I don't want to say a bullet dodged. But if you had one Adelaide and one Souva, you'd be like, what's going on here?
Starting point is 00:17:56 No. Who would win? The Radeade? Yeah. Yeah, Rattle is a winner. Yeah, Browell is a winner. And then how long were you in Fiji? I think like two or three, two or three years.
Starting point is 00:18:11 Then we went over to Indonesia and then Singapore and then back to Indonesia. And then we went to Italy for a spell. Wow. And then Sydney and then Canberra. And then I could make my own decisions. and left. And when you got to make your first decision, was it, was Sydney your destination? Is that where you got?
Starting point is 00:18:37 Yeah. Okay, got you. Yeah. And that's where your career started was in Sydney. Yeah, but I was still living in Canberra when I was working. Got it. And how far away are those two? Like two hours on the bus.
Starting point is 00:18:53 Oh, that's not bad. Would you take, were you an actor who was taking the bus to work? Yeah. Yeah. Were you really? Well, yeah, I would get an audition. And my dad would obviously, like, they were so supportive and sweet, and he would drive me a lot. But sometimes I think as a 16-year-old, I'm like, I'll do it.
Starting point is 00:19:12 Yeah. And he's like, I have a lecture anyways. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And if I don't lecture to these people, I'm going to be in a lot of trouble. Daddy owes these people a lot of lecture. The world depends on this lecture. Okay. So, yeah, I'd get the Murray's bus from Canberra down to Sydney.
Starting point is 00:19:35 Took two hours with learn my lines on the bus. And then, yeah, go do an audition or go to work. Yeah, it was fun. That's fantastic. When was your first full-time job? How old were you? Or are your first job? Not full-time.
Starting point is 00:19:48 There's no full-time jobs in acting. No, there's no full-time jobs in Australia, I don't think. That's why you guys travel for months at a time. Yeah, no, true. I remember my American agent being so annoyed at my Aussie agent, because they'll just take 10 weeks off. You know? Like, why can't we get a hang of them? I'm like, yeah, they don't.
Starting point is 00:20:12 They don't, they have holidays, man. They're like, it's a Saturday. We can't get them on the phone. I'm like, yeah, they're at the beach. I got bad news about Monday, too, my friend. Yeah. I started working, I think I was like 13 or 14. And was it was it a?
Starting point is 00:20:29 Soap opera? Was that your first thing? My first one wasn't a soap. That came after this. The first one was like a crime. Okay. Crime show. And I played like, essentially myself, just like a brady teenager who was like, dad. Was your dad, like, was the dad the detective who had a big case and he had also juggled that he had a brady kid. Yeah, he was a lecturer. Do you really play yourself?
Starting point is 00:20:58 Yeah. Yeah. It's based off my life. No, the dad, it was like the dad, it was sort of a side storyline. Our dad was the boyfriend of one of the suspects. Oh, got it, got it. Very fun. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from shipped. Hey, Bashi. Hey, Sufi. You know, there's a lot of grocery services that'll, you know, you can go online.
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Starting point is 00:24:37 I would love to see them try. I mean, I feel like, you know when the cops catch them? Yeah. When they're bickering before they even get to the heist. When they're in a crawl space, they're like. Yeah, oh my God, mom and dad in a crawl space? No, thank you. Catch, Dan Levy, and big mistakes on April. Ninth only on Netflix. Like where, where are your best childhood memories from, or your,
Starting point is 00:25:02 or your richest childhood memories from? Yeah, I mean, there are just so many. And I think the older I get, the more grateful I am for having this, like, quite unique upbringing, just in terms of we were just surrounded by incredibly different cultures and just so immersed in it. in a way with like a child's brain. So there was no sort of, I didn't know any different. Does that make sense? So like going to all these multicultural schools and going to Anka Wat and Vietnam and going to Nepal,
Starting point is 00:25:41 it just all felt very normal. Yeah. And now I'm realizing, no, that's not normal at all. That's actually incredible. But I like that they have a sort of nostalgia for that. as an adult. I, yeah, I love that. But it was, yeah, it's, like, impossible to replicate.
Starting point is 00:26:02 Like, just even, like, on a financial level, you could never take trips like that before. No, no, not at all. And we were just right there, so everything, you know, you could go to Bali for the weekend or you could, everything was just accessible in, it was within Asia. It was, like, so, so much fun. And did your, and it seems like your parents took advantage of,
Starting point is 00:26:24 of where you were based to see everything around. Yeah, they travel so much and they're really, I, just, their lives seem so exhausting. I'm like, why are you always running around? Like, they just went to some Russian ice festival, and I'm like, why, though? And they're like, we just wanted to check it out. And they're, like, in minus 40 degrees
Starting point is 00:26:48 looking at these, like, ice artwork going, Mom nearly like froze her fingers off. I'm going, okay. It takes me a lot to get out the house, but sure. It's so funny because you, I think, like, historically you think of, like, the actor who, like, leaves home as being the wild one. But it turns out, like, you just wanted to get into acting because it had some stability to it. Comparatively. You're like, the nice thing about acting is, like, if it's under 40, they don't work that day.
Starting point is 00:27:19 It was the most stable job I could think of. What, and so were they always, they were, they're just both wired that way. Are they, are they, are your parents the same kind of travelers? Are they just like, come on, girls, we're going, like, adventure ahead? Yeah, they're very, they're both really curious and love adventure and would just, and I think, incredible. They're not fearful or. put off by the news or what, like, they don't have any preconceived notions of a certain place. They'll just go check it out and have a great time.
Starting point is 00:28:00 My wife and I have never once traveled out of the country without her mom finding the most troubling news article to send us. Yeah. Literally, you know, you're like, it's just like the minute you book a trip, it's like, oh, she's going to find something about Zika. I know. It's quite funny, isn't it, when you're like, yeah, but you live in America. The news is crazy. That's what I should do. I should just, every time she does that, I'll email her back the front page of the New York Times.
Starting point is 00:28:26 Yeah, right. I'll be like, be careful while we're gone. Seems like a real shit show. Exactly. Were you, when you would travel, would you do very sort of adventurous things? Would you be, you know, pushing the envelope of what was sort of maybe recommended for children of a certain age? Dude, I was thinking about this podcast going, there's so many burns, so many injuries, what were we doing?
Starting point is 00:28:55 What were we doing? Like, not suitable for children, I don't think. I think I have, I don't have any memories of other kids being there. Do you know what I mean? Like, we were in these places, like these huts in the wilderness of Lao, and we'd often have another family with us, with kids our age, So we would sort of have something to do because it was, you know, before Game Boys and that. But, yeah, we just were like in the wild.
Starting point is 00:29:29 We were in the wild. We were the wild thornberries. That's fantastic. And what were you, like, what kind of things were you doing? Were you hiking? Were you ziplining? Were you rafting or spearfishing? Yeah, we would definitely some boats.
Starting point is 00:29:44 I think we would just, my mom's, um, an art curator for children's programs. So we'd go, and she loves art. So we'd go to a lot of galleries and such. And sort of then just like wander around the villages and go and see the temples and sort of do touristy things. But I think because it was the mid-to-late 90s, it's not as curated to tourists as it is now. And were you, I mean, again, it's all you knew, it sounds like, but were you guys, Were you and your sister like gung-ho?
Starting point is 00:30:19 Do you think looking back that you were the right kids for your parents to have for these trips? My sister was. Okay, gotcha. My sister's really adventurous, like way more extroverted and carefree. And so she would be taking full force and be putting herself into whatever it was we were doing. I was a big scaredy cat shy kid and I didn't want to leave my little house. So it took a lot of convincing for me to get out. But my dad, I think, very cleverly.
Starting point is 00:31:01 It was clever. And would sort of, because he knew I liked to act and play make-believe. he'd interview me at, you know, a certain ruin or in a gallery and ask me what my sort of, we'd do like a pseudo-David-Adamra style, you know, like, would he shoot those? Would he be filming those? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he'd be filming them. We've got them. They're quite, they're sweet. Yeah, I bet. It is so funny when you, I mean, I think that says a lot about being a good parent when you see, realize your kids need two different things. And you're like, one of them is adventurous and the other one is, I mean, don't. take those wrong. Vane. I'm going to interview you on vacation. And one of them makes it all about themselves. Okay.
Starting point is 00:31:56 Your mother is from Malta? Yeah. She's, well, her dad was first generation Australian, so he immigrated over when he was like 14. And then. Gotcha. So did you have family in Malta or no, not at that point? We did. We did. We went to Malta when we were in Italy, and I had a great grandmother who was still alive there. And my mom... You're telling this like it's the beginning of a horror story.
Starting point is 00:32:28 Just FY you're crazy. Your tone is completely shifted. No, because we're two young kids. We were cute, man. We were like little blonde, blue-eyed little cuties. My sister was so small. Short us. Anyway, the grandmother didn't want to meet us because we weren't baptized.
Starting point is 00:32:50 She was like their devil, their devil children. Oh, my God, really? Yeah. And so did you not meet her? My mom had to convince her that we were not spawn of the devil. And was the grandmother, did your mother have a relationship with the grandmother from Malta? Like, did she know her enough to be like, I can vouch for these kids? I don't know if she was like close.
Starting point is 00:33:14 I don't think they, I don't think, no, I don't think so because I, mom can't speak Maltese and the granny couldn't speak English. But I think somehow got across like, they're here and you should, their children and it should be fine. And I don't know, maybe a passing nun was like, you should see the children. I don't know. But yeah, I do, yeah, we did have, I do. I remember, like, being the thing where you're like, you could tell when you're little, like, when old people aren't bad, are bad with kids, right? Like, you're just like, oh. But this seems way worse.
Starting point is 00:33:54 Like, I don't think I ever met an old person who was like, I think they might think I'm the devil. Was it then, I mean, did you know this before you met her? Was it like, hey, we're on the fence whether or not you're going to be your grandmother. No, I think Dad was probably interviewing us. We probably weren't aware. Yeah, the granny, I mean, she probably would really hate my movies,
Starting point is 00:34:19 considering that's a lawyer. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, by the way, if she saw your movies, I think she'd be like, knew it. Knew me, but called it. Called it. Told you. I can't imagine when you finally did meet
Starting point is 00:34:34 that it was a highlight for any. Yeah, I think we were both forcibly saying being polite. And I was just a bit afraid. Sure. What are we doing here? Yeah. It was a great-grandmother or just a grandmother? Great.
Starting point is 00:34:54 So my mom's granny. So that much older. Yeah. Yeah. Scary old lady in a bed, I remember. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I was going to say.
Starting point is 00:35:02 So for whatever reason, and I know I'm stereotyping, When I heard a great-grandmother in Malta, I wasn't thinking smoke show. Yeah. No. And then we met her and she was so beautiful. Damn. Beautiful. And now she's my stepmom.
Starting point is 00:35:22 I feel like we met because our grandmother remarried and our step-grandfather was like our grandfather. Yes. But we only met our maternal grandfather once. Do you remember anything about it, Posh? No. Yeah, I mean, we went down to Florida. Like, I think our mom felt it was, like, important. They did not have a good relationship, but she thought it was important that we met.
Starting point is 00:35:43 Like, was I felt like it was like a little bit like just bringing you to Malta to meet an old lady in a bed. But that was my memory is like, I don't remember what he looks like or anything, but I do remember. Like, the vibe was like he wasn't that psyched. We were there. Yeah. Yeah, we were checking a box. And we were pretty cute, too, back in the day. I mean, come on.
Starting point is 00:36:02 We had a lot going for us. Yeah, we had a real bowl cut. that were crushing bowl cuts. Just teeth going everywhere, big old teeth, zgging and zagging. People being like, are these girls or boys? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you want. That's what you want for the ladies. Little tweed coats.
Starting point is 00:36:21 And then did you have grandparents in, I mean, I guess you traveled around so much. Like, did you actually see your regular grandparents ever? Yeah, my, they would come to us. They would come to us. Oh, I guess that. to us for holidays. So not that often, you know, we didn't have a childhood where it's like you see your grandparents every weekend, but it was like once or twice a year, they would stay for a while.
Starting point is 00:36:46 And it was really exciting. And they would come to the exotic locations you were currently living in? Yeah, yeah. My parents would like force them to be like, you want to go trek Nepal with us? But I mean, that is that thing about Australians, right? Like you were, I don't feel like anyone in Australia is hesitant to travel because if you don't, you never see anything. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:37:05 Yeah. So even like all, I mean, I would imagine even grandparents in Australia are like, yeah, we'll get on a plane for nine hours. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Absolutely. Because anywhere is so far away. Did you have family in England that you would ever go visit? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:22 I still, we still have a lot of family over there. Lots of cousins and second cousins. And we would go, we have a big, we had like a Scottish family reunion. We have like a tartan, a weaving. My grandma's name was Wallace, and so there was a, I remember being in Scotland and a lot of drunk people dancing around. Yeah. So you're a little for that. Little for that, yeah.
Starting point is 00:37:54 But I went back, I go back to, I go to the UK a lot for like work and stuff and it's always fun to see. I know you shot your Yorma movie in Finland That was wild, yeah And it's so funny to me Because it takes place in upstate New York But it was actually cheaper to shoot in Finland Which is so funny to me Although I will say because it's Yorma
Starting point is 00:38:17 I'm like, are you sure? I agree I think he just wanted to go to Finland Yeah, did you enjoy Finland? Did you enjoy Finland? I did, I really did But do you know what? I've been to Estonia and Finland and all these places in, like, eastern Europe.
Starting point is 00:38:38 Wait, is that right? Yeah, I mean, northern eastern. But Estonia is eastern. Yes. Yeah. Estonia, I would say. I would Finland, Scandinavia, Estonia would be the Balkans? No.
Starting point is 00:38:51 Yeah, Balkans, but old school eastern block, I feel like. But I've only been in winter where it's quite miserable. Yeah. The sun is around for four hours and then you have to go inside because you'll die. That's right. It was winter that you were in Finland. I want to go back in summer because it just looks stunning. We were in Helsinki in the summer, Josh and I once, and it was outstanding.
Starting point is 00:39:15 But you really booze because the sun stays up so late. Yeah. What are you booze? You can like day drink till midnight. Yeah, yeah. So it's a real. That's a good time. I'd say like my Finland hangover was like one of the worst hangovers I'd ever have.
Starting point is 00:39:31 Did you sauna? That'll be good for it. We didn't sauna. Seth ran a marathon. That's why we were there. Yeah. You boozed and then ran a marathon? No, I boozed after the marathon.
Starting point is 00:39:43 And then I, that's maybe I woke up like super hungover and also my legs were on fire. Do you know what? My husband did the Paris Marathon. Yes. He boozed the day before. It's hard. I mean, I won't. Why would you do that?
Starting point is 00:39:57 You trained. You ran from running into Beverly Hills and back every day. And then you just drink French wine until they go tell you going to start running. But he also wrote cocaine bear, didn't he? So, I mean. Who are we going to do? What are we going to do? Tell this guy how to live?
Starting point is 00:40:17 You want cocaine bear in theaters? Don't tell this guy to live. You're absolutely right. You're correct. I will, but even Josh and I, like, we made a trip of it. And like, I remember the front of the trip was most of our travels. So we were in Copenhagen and they were in Stockholm. And then it was, you know, we ended in Finland.
Starting point is 00:40:33 And I, if I had just, if I had run a marathon in the States, I wouldn't have had a drink for seven days. But like, you're all of a sudden you're in a cafe in Copenhagen. You're not going to have like a beer outside. You got to. It's hard. Yeah. So, I mean, that's why I think it was not. I didn't hit my target time.
Starting point is 00:40:49 Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to pin it on that. Yeah. Any standout trips. that you can recall from growing up, either weekends away or sort of big trips
Starting point is 00:41:02 that you guys took as a family? I mean, really, I was thinking, like, what will we do? It was just the amount of injuries we would get. You said burns. How did you burn yourself? And it was always my sister. Oh, Josh was always the one who got hurt. Like, once we were,
Starting point is 00:41:27 we were jumping off a pool at some resort in Bali, and my sister whacked her chin on the side of the edge of the pool, yeah. Yeah, that's awful. And the thing is, we're in these countries that you're not thinking where the hospital, they don't really have hospitals. They're just, we're sort of winging it. Like, you know, we're in the wild. and mom's trying to find any sort of doctor, like her child is gushing blood everywhere,
Starting point is 00:42:04 and she's running. Finally, we find this dentist, I think. And the dentist is like, oh, okay, I'll numb the chin and then put stitches. It's not that bad. And mom, so he gets the needle ready to numb the chin. He's like, I am going to stitch it up with floss. Yeah, you, by the way. That's the only thing we have.
Starting point is 00:42:26 Yeah, this is all trying to be translated through someone. It's all really confusing and strange. But he's got this needle and this screaming child in his hand, and then mum faints on him, and he injects his own. So then he can't stitch her up because his hand is numb. Just absolute disaster. Just things like that, yeah, we were doing baritaking in Indonesia, which is this art form they use where they put hot wax on fabric and then dye it and then they take the wax off and it's got this cool effect.
Starting point is 00:43:14 And mom was like, let's get all the kids to do it. Kids love hot wax. We've got this like vat of hot wax and it just goes all over. My sister, and we're in this little village, and we don't know what to do. So all these, like, old ladies start putting toothpaste on to try it. They think that's what's going to help. The burn, I don't know. I like that everything, the amount of oral care that came to your rescue.
Starting point is 00:43:44 Yeah. Yeah, everyone has really great teeth over there. By the way, I had a lot of it. I was like, oh, my God, your parents are so great and so adventurous. But, like, I'm not okay with your mom fainting. I know. Because I'm like, look, you've got to be have a stronger resolve. You're bringing your kids into the, you know, into the wild.
Starting point is 00:44:02 Got to be made of sterner stuff. Come on, look sharp. Yeah. Our mom would have been the same. Our mom wouldn't have done well as. But mom would never have, like, you know, she wouldn't have gotten off the plane. Right. Right.
Starting point is 00:44:15 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I think traveling around to all these amazing places is I realized Santa Claus wasn't real. Because all our Christmas gifts were from the place we would go. That's a very funny way to put it together. I would be like, wait, but if Santa, like, is in the North Pole and knows what I want, he could get them from anywhere anywhere. Why are they from such a specific?
Starting point is 00:44:51 You're like, I ask for a Barbie and I got a woven doll. Yeah. Why is everything cams? When I'm in Cambodia. Why is it, you know? Yeah. It's like Amazon warehouses. Like, Santa has stuff.
Starting point is 00:45:04 Like, he can't bring it. He, like, he flies in and he grabs stuff locally. He shops locally. Yeah, he has his constituents that find everything. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from FitBod. Hey, Paghi. Hey, Sufi.
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Starting point is 00:49:11 Sydney, would you like family come and visit you there? Yeah. That's great. Well, and my family, my close family lives in Sydney, so we all sort of together a lot, which is nice. That's great. Yeah. And your sister is still in Australia full-time?
Starting point is 00:49:32 No. She's actually strangely in San Francisco. She's the smart one, and she went to be a researcher at Stanford. Wow, that's some very divergent paths. I know, yeah. Did you know, at what age did you know your words, she was the smart one? Yeah. Do you know what?
Starting point is 00:49:58 I think it wasn't that I knew she was a smart one. I knew that I would be the like one that didn't go to university. You were like, I'm lazy. I'm going to go be on a soap opera. Do you think that's what it is? Do you think on your first day on a soap opera you're like, oh, I'm not the smart one? Yeah, that's when it dawned on me. You were looking around and like, I don't think any of us.
Starting point is 00:50:24 Yeah, I'll be the rich one. You can be the smart. You know what? And in the end, and in the end, that's when you realized you were the smart one. Did you, how many years did you do on a soap opera? Like three, three years. Is it like the one all of us, it wasn't, what was your, I feel like I've heard of it, but it's not neighbors. Yeah, there's neighbors and then there's Home and Away.
Starting point is 00:50:50 And Home & Away is cooler, okay, because it's on the beach. Neighbors is just on the street. Yeah. How many years? As Home and Away, though, that show's been around forever, right? I think like 30 years now. Still going? Still going.
Starting point is 00:51:06 Yeah. Ray Mar, who plays Alf, I think he's still on it. He was on Day Dot. We, Josh and I lived abroad. We both worked for a theater in Amsterdam right out of college. And so, like, the only English language channel was the BBC, and the BBC had neighbors on probably Home and Away at the time. Maybe not. But it was very.
Starting point is 00:51:26 Eastenders as well was a big one. We spent a lot of time doing derisive impressions of people and neighbors. Can you do one for us? Josh probably can. Oh, yeah. There's something out in the back yard. I don't even know what it is. I think Graham probably dropped it off about five hours ago.
Starting point is 00:51:49 It's disgusting. It's such a funny way to get a look into a culture. It's really good. No, it's really. Correct. What is with our voices, though? We sound so silly. Like, have you ever watched an Australian, like, dramatic movie? It's quite hard to get past. I just saw a great one. Yeah, that's a good ones. You know what I just saw? I literally then just ran into him and I never met him. I saw this movie called Limbo with Simon Baker. Sure. And it's great. I highly recommend it. Did it take you a minute to adjust when they're like, hey, how are you? We found the body. And you're like,
Starting point is 00:52:26 Okay. All right. Maybe don't check because you all sound crazy. Yeah. It might not be a body. Check to see if it's dead because you guys all sound crazy. Turns out it's a surfboard. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:39 Who, damn it. I will say, I can't, every time I even do a joking Australian accent on my show, the YouTube comments are littered with Australian people begging me to stop. Oh. We have a dear friend, Josie O'Reilly, who has left. Us and a lot of other people that we worked with in Amsterdam, a long voicemail, imploring us to never do an Australian accent again because they're not good and we think they're good and we sort of get a kick out. But here's what I think she sounds like, oh, hey guys, it's our Josie here.
Starting point is 00:53:13 Can you all please stop doing your Australian accents on television? It's just, it's unbearable. Yeah. They're all so bad. Like everyone's just so bad at it. Yeah. It is the hardest accent to get. But you, so what was the first time?
Starting point is 00:53:31 Because again, everybody from Australia, England, we've established great at American accents. Do you just write that off as that was what you guys watched growing up? You had a lot of American culture? Yeah, I think that. And then also when you know you're going to be the dumb one and you're going to have to act, when he realized that, you know, oh, if we're going to be successful, Or like, that's the wrong word. But if you want to work in the States, you should maybe learn an American accent.
Starting point is 00:54:04 Yeah. What was the first time you had to do one? I think for an audition, I came out here. I think when I was like 19 and for when pilot season was still, for that whole rigmarole. Yeah. And I would go and do these auditions and do an American accent. I thought it was good. It probably wasn't very good. Did you ever think, like, I'm going to pretend,
Starting point is 00:54:31 like, I assume you walk into the edition and you're using your regular voice, would you ever pretend to be American the whole way to just kind of hope they thought? I did once, but, and people do that on sets, and I really, I admire that when I work with actors who just stay in the accent the whole time. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:54:50 I get so self-conscious. I just feel like a dick. I get it. You feel like you're acting in a regular accent. Or like your life. lying to the people that you're working with because if you're just talking as yourself and it's like, but this isn't me. Unless you preface it with, I'm doing this because it'll help me. Yeah, there's something. It makes me feel like I'm attention seeking and being weird, but you're not.
Starting point is 00:55:15 Like, if that's how you need to get your job done, then go for it. I just, it like makes it worse for me. Not me. Every time, every time I see Daniel Day Lewis, which is often, I'll be like, You're not Abraham Lincoln. Mm-mm. Yeah. Stop acting like it. Can you tell it? Someone should tell him.
Starting point is 00:55:34 Calm back. Does your, how often has your husband gone to Australia? When we first started dating, he had to pretend that he liked it. So we would go a lot and... What's a lot? Like, so you're dating now and you're like, hey, you should come. Because again, that's like, I've never been and I love traveling. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:00 You've never been to Australia? No, and I would love to go. But, you know, like, it's where does it fit in when you're busy, you know? Right. Yeah, you have, I reckon go for Christmas. Okay. Because it's so hot and so nice. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:56:13 It's surfing Santa's. It's the best. You have a barbecue on the beach. It's excellent. So we'd go for Christmases and then maybe once more that you would go. like twice a year. We haven't gone in a long time actually, but yeah, he's like allergic to the outside. Oh, wow. But I guess that is you are, you're sort of, I guess, a bit of a outsider Australian in that you like to be inside. We love, no, I like to be outside. Okay.
Starting point is 00:56:50 I want to be in the sun and with, like I open all the windows in our house. and Jimmy's like but I'm so allergic to the wind he's like truly allergic I think like just pollen he's so pale he'll burn in an instant
Starting point is 00:57:09 and I was like we go to Australia and he'd be like what are we doing today and I'd be like you're looking at it we're sitting on the beach friends will come through get a good book sunscreen and he's like I hate it like we had to lie
Starting point is 00:57:24 he was trying to convince me he was cool, you know? And so he'd be like, no, this is totally chill. He's sand everywhere and everything he hates. When I love that the entire courtship was a lie. When did he own up? Like, or could you sense it at all? Were you like, I don't think he really? Because there is something sweet about like, he doesn't like this, but he likes me.
Starting point is 00:57:47 And that's kind of cool that he's doing this. Yeah, I think by like hour six on the beach, Of the first day. And he's red. And he just started going like, um, is there anything else we should be doing? You know,
Starting point is 00:58:05 like in this really sweet way being like, can we please do anything other than this? And, uh, yeah, that's when I clocked on. He's an air-conditioned boy. It's all right. They're allowed.
Starting point is 00:58:18 I'm one of those too. He's an inside boy. Yeah. I have a lot of inside boys like me, me beautiful outdoor ladies. and we're living a very full life. It's wild, though, because there was like a trend. I think in the States, there's a lot of inside boys and inside girls,
Starting point is 00:58:34 because there was this trend that was happening in the States of people saying, oh, you've got a, they call it burping the house, which essentially meant just open your windows. Right. And all the European countries and Australians and everyone else was like, this is just how we live every what do you mean we just have our windows open it's not people don't know no have an open window here no it's true i mean i like to okay we've got one yeah but yeah i mean as in new york city i think opening windows just like turning on the loudest
Starting point is 00:59:15 speaker in your house you're not wrong um you said you lived in Italy? Yeah, we spent six sweet months over there. Where were you in Italy? In Florence. Is that a great? I've never been to Florence. Is it amazing? It's so good. You should go quickly now. Yeah, it's on our sort of honeymoon list. I've gotten married about a year and a half ago and we still haven't gone on our honeymoon. But my wife, thank you. My wife studied abroad in Florence and hasn't been back since then. And so that's one of the places we're hoping to hit when we get our act together. But for your experience, what's Florence like? It's so nostalgic now because it was such a, it was, I was like 12 in a hot, like nearly, I was like looking down the barrel at puberty, you know.
Starting point is 01:00:07 So it was like, I still had this like whimsical, childish wonder. And we hadn't started high school yet. And it was, my parents thought, oh, let's just homeschool them for six months in Florence. So it was interesting me and my sister talk about this. There was no influence from other kids or sort of like high school culture or school culture of you've got to be this and fit like that and fit in. So we could just sort of be whoever we wanted to and wear what we wanted to and do whatever we were. And there was no social media yet. So it just felt like really freeing in a sense.
Starting point is 01:00:53 And we would just run around Florence looking at all these sick things and eating the best food ever. And it just was such a dream. And then because then you go to Australia and it's like, we only wear skirts that like don't touch our knees actually. You know, and you're going, oh, shit, okay, quick, I've got to grow up. So it was this like really nice time, you know, before mean girls happened. Yeah. Could you run around, like when you were running around Florence with your sister, was it just you? Or would you always have a parent with you?
Starting point is 01:01:37 Or you could do it just as young girls running around? We'd have a parent with us. Okay. But, yeah, it was just awesome. Who was the better teacher between your mother and father? Would they hand off? Oh, both of them were useless. They tried.
Starting point is 01:01:59 Well, one's a lecturer and what does your mother do again? She's an artist. She's an art curator. But they were both in, they were also in Florence. They didn't want to sit around looking at a science book. They wanted to go out and see stuff. So mom then got to the point where she was like, just if you do, just do me a page. painting a day and we'll say that's good.
Starting point is 01:02:26 Now I'm painting a day. That seems like she's running like a sweatshop. Yeah. She sort of is. She's still, to this day, is like, where's my painting? Every time. Do you still, do you guys have art skills, you and your sister? Somewhat.
Starting point is 01:02:42 My sister's really good. I do, like, cartoons, really. Thank you for your honesty. Yeah. Very excited for your movie. Congratulations. It's been a while since the first one. When did you know you were going to do a second one?
Starting point is 01:02:59 There was sort of conversations that had been starting for the, I want to say the past like four years, but nothing set in stone. Then it was just like a series of conversations and then one day we're all in Toronto filming it and I still don't quite know how it happened. Congratulations. It's very cool. I made, I don't want to call it a mistake, but I made the last. less good choice of seeing ready or not one just at home. And it feels to me like it's a good movie for the theater, a good movie to see that opening weekend with a packed house. Yeah, because I could certainly sense where all the, you know, all the big laughs would have
Starting point is 01:03:39 been, the sort of theater-wide laughs. And then, yeah, some good, some good spooks. Some good old spooks. This one's a bit more laughy, less spooky. Okay. Yeah, but that's also great for an audience. I feel like if my memory serves from when you were on my show, you are also, you scare pretty easily. Are terrified, yeah. Yeah. Like, it's really great that you're making the sort of movies that would torment someone like you. I had to really train myself because it doesn't come naturally.
Starting point is 01:04:14 Is it, are you having fun when you're shooting those movies? Oh, yeah. They're certainly, okay, because there are days where. where you have to go there. Yeah. I say this, though, it's not like I haven't read the script, do you know what I mean? Like, it's not like I get there and I'm like, what? It's cold and I'm covered in goo.
Starting point is 01:04:37 What do you mean? You know? Yeah, yeah. I know what I'm getting into. So there's a level of acceptance I sort of practice or try to practice before and then just really try and have a good, silly time. Yeah. Because otherwise, it's. Well, I'm looking forward to it.
Starting point is 01:04:51 Yeah. Thanks. Thanks. Before you go, though, Josh is going to ask you our speed round questions. Okay, hit me. Let's go. All right, here we go. You can only pick one of these.
Starting point is 01:05:01 Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous, or educational? Relaxing. What is your favorite means of transportation? A car. 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 devil granny. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:05:26 Give her a second, second crack at it. I was wrong about you, kid. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? Oh, my sister, Morgan, yeah, the smart one. What is your dream destination for a family vacation? Oh, fuck. Florence, yeah, let's do that again. All right.
Starting point is 01:05:55 What is your hometown? Los Angeles. Los Angeles. If you had to recommend Los Angeles to get more families to come visit, how would you pitch the city as a family destination? It's not one. It's not one. I live here too.
Starting point is 01:06:16 I think it's very much a family destination. Okay. Talk to Josh there. All right, that would be your advice. And Seth has our final questions. Have you been to the Grand Canyon? No. Do you want to go?
Starting point is 01:06:32 Sure, okay. You want to go? Yeah. I will say, Seth always asks these questions, and when he poses that, do you want to go? It does seem like an invitation. Okay, got to. Yeah. Well, all right, but you know what?
Starting point is 01:06:47 I said it the wrong way, and now we got to go. I'll own that I went to Niagara Falls there but I went in between scenes shooting ready or not and I got there got there realized I'm covered in blood
Starting point is 01:07:05 oh wow and I got out of the car and Tim the driver just left me there and said you'll be right and I was running around in a trying not to scare the sweet people at Niagara Falls because I must have looked. I have a selfie of me at Niagara Falls, just head to in fake blood.
Starting point is 01:07:30 I mean, I feel like that would have been very good for the Niagara Falls tourism if a couple of like those like Bigfoot type photos got out of like that. Just like that, you know, there was a woman who was washed away years ago and now she's back. It was just such a weird feeling of I'm scared of scaring someone else. Yeah. Anyway. So it's no... At a place that's also a little scary.
Starting point is 01:07:54 There's a lot going on. No Grand Canyon. No Grand Canyon. Pretty good. Thanks so much for being here. It's lovely to see you again. Thank you, you too. Nice to meet you, Josh.
Starting point is 01:08:05 Absolutely. We'll see you soon, I hope. I think so, yeah. Great. Thanks, so you've had the Grand Canyon. Baby Samara, born in Rattelay, so she's Australian, but that's not where she stayed. Went to Indonesia and Fiji, six months stint living in Italy. To wander, wander, wander.
Starting point is 01:09:36 A great grandmother practically fossilized, afraid of these children who were not baptized. Mom said Granny, we came to Malta, The night's spawn of Satan, I can promise you. To see, the figure on the bed it was the devil granny. Cannot hide, lose some sleep, She haunt your dreams forever, it's the devil granny. One time in Bali, sister cut her chin. Oh hospital, so where to begin?
Starting point is 01:10:36 The dent is shot to numb the pain Injected himself when her mom had a feign His kids on two fabrics Sister got burned boss her sister would get pumped and bruised While tomorrow was taping fake in her that's what she'd do Just out in front of a temple

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