Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - Seth Can’t Swim, Mr. Irregular, & Horseback Kidnapping: Listener Episode #26

Episode Date: July 30, 2026

This week on the pod, Seth and Josh are back for the monthly listener episode! They hear from one listener whose family was unexpectedly surrounded by horseback riders on a remote road in Mexico, another whose dad’s camping constipation led to an unforgettable bag-of-prunes disaster on the Buffalo River, and a couple who accidentally attended a funeral in a tiny Swiss church after mistaking it for a local cultural event. Plus, Seth and Josh reminisce about old family jingles and share a few of their own camping stories along the way. Watch this episode on the Family Trips YouTube or Spotify, or listen wherever you get your podcasts! Want to submit your family trips story for our next listener episode? Or send a question in to Seth and Josh? Submit your voicemail to speakpipe.com/familytripspod! Watch more Family Trips episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlqYOfxU_jQem4_NRJPM8_wLBrEEQ17B6 ------------------------- 00:00 Introduction with Seth Meyers and Josh Meyers 01:17 Jimmy Kimmel - Josh's Gavin Newsom And Hit Improv 07:05 Swim Across America Disaster 15:04 Boat Camp And Life Jacket Punishment 21:52 Susan Mexico Road Trip 23:07 Horse Ambush 24:22 Not Kidnapped After All 30:34 Becky Canoe Trip Chaos 40:15 Swiss Funeral Crash Finale ------------------------- Support our sponsors: Quince Make your summer wardrobe easier. Go to https://quince.com/trips for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too. Fitbod Get 25% off your subscription or try the app FREE for seven days at Fitbod.me/TRIP. CashApp Download Cash App Today: https://capl.onelink.me/vFut/4aafc4yf #CashAppPod Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App's bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. Cash App Visa® Debit Flex Cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC, and The Bancorp Bank, N.A., pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. See terms and conditions for the Sutton prepaid card at cash.app/legal/us/en-us/card-agreement, for the Sutton debit flex card at cash.app/legal/us/en-us/debit-flex-card-agreement-sutton and for the Bancorp debit flex card at cash.app/legal/us/en-us/debit-flex-card-agreement-bancorp. Savings and Offers provided by Cash App, a Block Inc. brand. Offers may not be affiliated with third party merchants. Parents and legal guardians can open a managed account for kids 6-12. Cash App will pass through a portion of the interest paid on your savings balance held in an account for the benefit of Cash App customers at Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., Member FDIC. To earn interest on your Cash App savings balance, you need to have sponsor approval. Exceptions may apply. Savings yield rate is subject to change. Visit cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. ------------------------- Family Trips is produced by Rabbit Grin Productions. Theme song written and performed by Jeff Tweedy. ------------------------- About the Show: Lifelong brothers Seth Meyers and Josh Meyers ask guests to relive childhood memories, unforgettable family trips, and other disasters! New Episodes of Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers are available every Tuesday. ------------------------- Executive Producers: Rob Holysz, Jeph Porter, Natalie Holysz Creative Producer: Sam Skelton Coordinating Producer: Derek Johnson Video Editor: Josh Windisch Mix & Master: Josh Windisch Episode Artwork: Analise Jorgensen #familytrips #sethmeyers #joshmeyers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chips with the mice brothers. Hi, Sufi. How's it going, Pashi? Okay, I've had a lot of medical over here. Oh, no. Yeah, well, I had this, like, little skin cancer thing on my face. I'm wearing a little scar sheet. But I will say, I think my surgeon, my doctor, my guy, Dr. Garavi over at Cedars did a really nice job.

I thought it was just going to be like a couple stitches And then as it happened It was like nine And also my face was all like iodined up So it was all a different color And McKenzie took a picture of me And it looked very Frankenstiney

But then I got the stitches out And it's a doctor did a very nice job So Dr. Garavi Dr. Garavi Were you as a vegan? Is it hard to have a doctor whose name is so close to gravy. I found my way through.

Okay, that's good. And then I had the delight of doing another Gavin Newsom on Jimmy Kimmel Live, but sitting in the chair for Kimmel was our dear friend, Ike Berenholtz. Yeah. Yeah. And then Ike and I used to do something in our live two-person show that we called HipProv, which one of the classic tenets of improvisational comedy is you agree with your partner. Yes.

You keep the scene moving forward. Yes, and. There it is. And we devised this clever game where we would intentionally disagree and to solve the disagreement we would physically fight. Yeah.

It was no heads, no nuts, no knees was our sort of rule of thumb. This has been, you guys developed something that no other two improvisers have adopted. Well, it's a bad. Hip-Prov started and ended with you guys. Yeah. And we did our live show six times before we got on Mad TV, I want to say.

And three fights per show. And I was 0 in 18. Wow. Yeah. I was taking some taekwondo at the time. You guys fought on stage three times a show because the other. improv thing you developed was diminishing returns, the value of diminishing returns?

So yeah, I was 0-18 over the lifetime of that, but then, you know, he was sitting in for Kimmel and we did a newsome, and the writers had seen that. Oh, they had seen hip-prow back in the day? I think so. I mean, I have to imagine, because in the script, it says then Gavin Newsom and Ike fight for real.

And so that was how we sort of, it, you know, bled out into commercial. And we were, I don't know, I don't think actually he hit me with a shot that sort of hurt my ribs in a way that they still hurt now. I also had a mic pack in my left breast pocket. And I think that's sort of what did it. So either he hit it into me or I think when I, I, I think when I, was all over and it was commercial, I went to give him a hug, and he just gives like such great big hugs.

Yeah. And we're coming out of like, we're both pretty jacked up because we've been fighting. And so there's that added bear hug quality of it all. And I think the mic pack just got jammed into me. And I got some x-rays and my ribs are not broken. But I- You had to get it.

You had to actually get x-rays for this. Yeah, I was in so much pain. Like, increasing levels. of pain, like four days later, I could, like, barely move. Gosh, you know what? I'm starting to reassess. Maybe hip-prov is bad. It was a hit.

It was a hit. I will say it was a hit. And I highly recommend everybody go and watch Josh and Ike. First of all, Ike did a fucking fantastic job, fill it in for our friend Jimmy Kimmel. Yeah. Obviously, no surprise here that Ike is an incredibly affable host and a wonderful watch. Also, shout out to you and the makeup team because this was fresh off your surgery.

Oh, yeah. And they came up with a very, very good idea that Gavin Newsom would be wearing. What do you call those under-eye patches? I don't know. I mean. There's sort of the thing like makeup people wear. It's like what? Sometimes I'll walk into someone's green room before they're getting ready for my show.

And dudes have these under their eyes to just sort of like get rid of the bags. Oh, yeah. I don't know what you call those. But that's what you were wearing is Gavin Newsom. Yeah. Yeah. And it was, it certainly was in line with the way you play, Governor Newsom, is that he would be wearing those things. Yeah.

It was a lot of fun to watch. And, yeah, I mean, I love seeing you guys together. Guillermo also, you know, I know him and I saw him on set before I came out. And he's like, this guy who's hosting, he's really good. He's really, like, funny. And I was like, oh, I know. I know him. He's like, but he's like, he could read all the monologue stuff.

and he was just like yesterday, he was so good. And I was like, I know him. Ike is one of those. I think a lot of the reason that people love working with Ike is one, he executes every time. And so everywhere he shows up. And he's fun and he's a big laughter and he's given. But his secret sauce is that he's also a hundred times smarter than he looks.

So everybody, like Guillermo, everybody like Guillermo is like, hey, I think I just discovered someone. because you can't believe how good this dummy is. I think that's how we won Celebrity Jeopardy just lulled the other contestants into a false sense of security. Yeah, yeah. But he's the sharpest knife at the door.

He's the best. I'm always a little wary of repeating a story that I told on my other podcast. So for the Venn diagram of people who are in the middle. I really should have saved this story for Pashi and so hopefully you'll forgive me for telling it. If it's any consolation, I don't listen to your other podcast.

That is so clear. You left a voice note for the last podcast, and it was really, yeah, people really enjoyed that your disdain was palpable. I don't think I, I didn't throw shade. You had the very, you were like, quaint army, right? But that was just being yorma. That was almost a yorma. It was enjoyable. So did I tell you about how Alexi sign me up to swim a mile for like cancer awareness?

Nope. Also, I know about cancer without you swim on a mile. Well, other people though, their eyes are open for the first time. So, you know, obviously our friend Mike Lazaro, my dear friend, Dave Lynn and his wife, Jennifer Goodman, Lynn, rest in peace, started this incredible organization called Cycle for Survival, which is. spin bikes, raising money for cancer. It's incredible. That raises money for rare cancer. This one is called Swim Across America.

It's a very similar organization insofar as you have dedicated people who bring communities together. This was the inaugural Swim Across America in Martha's Vineyard. And Alexi said, I signed you up to swim a mile. Now, I run a lot. Yeah, lots of miles. I feel pretty fit. Yeah.

In my head, I'm kind of thinking, all right, I could do a mile. You know, how hard can a mile be? I mean, I think it could be hard, but right, like, is it five miles hard? In my head, I'm thinking swimming's a fifth, or so I should say five times harder than running. So it's open water, though. It's the ocean. And probably about 200 people. And when I show up, I realize that you could do a quarter mile, a half mile or a mile.

So the fact that Alexi signed me up for the longest. I mean, I'm not going to. Dad full on was like, you know this is her trying to kill you. So they even say, she says, you can switch. But, you know, if she just said a half a mile, I would have stayed a half mile. But I didn't want to be like, yeah, no, I can't do a mile. Also, they make you wear different swim caps based on your distance. So you didn't want to wear the...

Yeah, you know. Yeah. So... I want to belittle yourself. So you also, the thing about the ocean, even in the summer, so cold. Mm-hmm. And I get in the water and I do three freestyle strokes and I think this is the worst thing I've ever done. I'm going to drown.

And I just, I don't know how to swim. That was the real thing that came. Like, I know how to, I know how to float, and I know how to, like, swim in a pool. Yeah, we were never on the swim team. We did swim lessons, and we did, like, a morning thing at the town pool, but we were not. No. Yeah. I did a few swim races at our town, at our public town pool, and it was always a disaster.

Mm-hmm. Now, are you wearing, like, are you wearing, because it is so cold, are you just in a bathing suit? I wear a swim shirt. I wore a swim shirt. All right. And then you're wearing like some speedos on the bottom or you got some your classic baggies. Just classic baggies. Yeah.

And I think that drag might be why I finished dead last. Or at least it would be if there weren't so many other dudes and baggies and ladies. So I'm just, it's two loops to do a mile. Okay. And I'm pretty quickly locked into the idea that I'm just going to be a one loop dude. Right. And even that. I have to switch to breaststroke almost immediately just from the amount of water I'm swallowing.

Yeah. Did you go out too fast? No, I never had any speed at all. I never, all that happened was me. I just constantly was getting passed by men, my age, men younger than me, women, 20 years older. At one point, I was like in a pod of women in their seven. And I thought, just stay with it. Just stay with this group.

Yeah. Couldn't do it. Couldn't do it. And then I was like, just, all right, you know what? It's just about finishing at this point. Just get your half mile. So I, and by the way, I would say in the last quarter of my first half mile is when I started getting lapped by people who were now finishing.

Oh, yeah. So there were definitely the people who did the mile the fastest, absolutely finishing. absolutely finished it before I did half a mile. Now, I get out. I'm actually feeling my whole body is aching and shaking. I was cold for two hours after this. I walk out, and I'm still like, this is good. The one thing about when you swim in open water,

and I guess any time you do a race, whatever, you're chipped, right? I'm wearing a Velcro thing around my ankle, and you kind of go through an archway that has sensors, and that starts your time, and when you come out and end your time. Yeah. There's no chip that says you are at halfway or a full way. It's out of the, end of the water, out of the water.

Yeah. I did not think about this. Anyway, a buddy of mine sends me a thing and he's like, dude, congrats. You won your age group. Now, the issue here. There's the color cap you were wearing. Yeah, and I did a half a mile. And so it's a real, I emailed the race website, but it's not like specific to that.

you know, race. It's like one of those, like, race at large websites. Right, because it's not just 200 people in Martha's Vineyard aren't going to swim across America. It's happening at multiple places. You know what? I think it was just that one that day, but I think ultimately the website that does the Times,

you, like, farm it out. It wasn't like there was somebody local who was like, oh, right. It did look strange. It did look strange to us. Yeah. Anyway, I feel like we should probably post who did win my age group.

Yeah. But, yeah, I would just say, good cause, bad time. Yeah. Yeah. Real bad time. I could have seen, I feel like it's very in character for you if you were thinking of the cap to just like yell to someone there like, give me a yellow cap. Like, here's my blue cap. Give me the yellow.

The problem, what, who do you yell to? You're in the ocean. Yeah, but when you come out and come under an archway, like if there's someone there. Oh, but you'd entered earlier, right? I see. computer had me in for a mile. Gotcha. So at that point, the cap was...

Yeah. The cap was a thing you wear if you were trying to lie. Everything I was doing looked like a guy who was trying to lie about how he finished. Right. Because, again, I didn't win the race, as we've established. Like, I finished like 14th because of all the people who passed me. Yeah. So it wasn't even suspicious.

You know what? For anybody listening who does want to win their age group, this is how I'd do it. Did you get... Did you get like kicked in the face? Was it like... No, there weren't enough people to get kicked in the face. All right. But it wasn't like you felt like chum in the water and...

No, it was interesting that a few times I watched as people were just sort of got off. Their straight line was a little angled towards me. And they were getting really close in the last minute they'd veer off. And what I was realizing then is they were not looking where they were going. Because when you swim fast, you don't look up the whole time like I was doing. So I was the guy who was like going slow being like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Slow down.

It's not a race. It is a race. So you did a lot of talking out there too. Oh, a lot of chatter. A lot of chatter. I tried to. There's so many people on kayaks and paddle boards like working for the race. There's so many safety people that you don't go on a road race.

It's great. But it is a reminder that you're not supposed to be out there. parents. Well, congratulations. Well, thanks. What else? I'm trying to think if there's any other news. Oh, Ash went on a, he did a camp on a boat for a week.

Yeah. And he had the best time ever. That's great. You know, Axel, we asked Axel we wanted to do it. He didn't want to do it. Axel now has FOMO. He definitely wishes he had done it. Yeah, well, live and learn, kiddo.

Live and learn. But we're also a little relieved because I think it was more special for Ash. Yeah. Because Axel wasn't there. Yeah. And I think it's like if you had done something when we were little and then I went the next year with you, I feel like you could have sort of Mr. Mayered me around. And I know the ropes. But we would get pictures every now and then from the camp.

And there would be like nine kids on the deck of the boat. and two of them would be wearing life jackets, but not buckled up. Uh-huh. Just imagine a loose. And so we said, why were some kids wearing life jackets? Did they not pass their swim tests?

And Ash said, no, if you cursed, you had to wear a life jacket for an hour. It's like, that's the best punishment. That is the best, like, you know what I mean? Like, if you're 10 and a 19-year-old counselor's, like, yeah, you got to wear the life jacket for an hour. You just have to walk around like flappy straps. Yeah.

Looking like a kid who can't swim. So good. They also, Ash, he shared a little cabin with three other dudes. And he said, we were like, how did you go to bed and I? He's like, well, if they caught you talking, they would just come in and unscrew your light bulb. It's like, everything about this is like great. It's a real. Yeah.

Captain Barbosa. Yeah. was in charge. Yeah. That's fun. And then he, I like that he immediately had a catchphrase, which is every time Addy or Axel have irritated him in the last five days, he said, ugh, get me back on the boat, please.

Like now. Yeah, he's a boat guy. Maybe I'll get him a pillow that says that for Christmas. Yeah, give me back on the boat. Yeah. It was also cool because it was not, and there were, like, you know, he's 10, and there were, I think it was like 8 to 15,

so it wasn't just this age. And they kind of all intermingled. And like, the amount of Ash is like, Dad, I love being around teenagers. They make me laugh so hard. Great. Well, it's coming. It'll be one.

You guys have done a lot of listening to us today, which is fitting because it's a birthday to a listener episode, right, Pasha? Yeah. Let's us do some listening, Suf. It was a pretty good transition from you old, from old Seth there. Yeah. Congrats again.

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We got some stories to listen to, yeah. Hi, Josh and Seth. Love the pod. My name is Susan, and I live in Denver, Colorado. Something we have in common is that my mom was also a French teacher, but she was also a Spanish teacher as well. My parents were both public school teachers, and so we traveled the majority of the summer, and most of those trips were road trips. I still have yet to be on a plane with my parents. As you can imagine, I have lots of family trips that are stories to tell, but this one is one of

our favorites to laugh about and retell. Every few years, after we have, had forgotten about the foibles from the previous trip, we would drive from our house in Littleton, Colorado, down the entire length of Mexico. We had an old diesel car, and back in the 80s, diesel was ridiculously cheap. I verified this with my dad who said diesel was about 20 cents a gallon, which of course made my frugal dad happy, so we would pack up the entire family and head out. I was about 10 years old when we went on this particular trip. My dad likes to see a see everything and often gets off the beaten path. No senior frogs for him. We are bumping down a dirt road, not on the Fromer's map, looking for the church that was split by a volcano. This was in the

middle of Mexico, not touristy by any means, especially in the 1980s. As the road began to deteriorate and we had to go slower and slower, my dad kept looking in the rearview mirror. He looked like he was on high alert. We all began to notice that there were a lot of of men on horseback, close to 12, that were running alongside the car. It was like something out of a movie. We couldn't go faster because of all the potholes on the dirt road and because the men on horseback were getting closer and closer. They had us surrounded. The five of us were looking around at each other. It was unsettling to say the least. There were men on horseback in front of the car stopping us from moving forward, and we were surrounded on all sides. Suddenly, my car door opened and I was

pulled out of my seat and put up on one of the horses. I was freaked out, but I also loved horses, so I was kind of excited. My mom jumped out of the car and started shouting at the men in Spanish, what's going on? What do you think you're doing? But only one man spoke broken Spanish. The rest of the men were Tarascan Indians, or the native indigenous people of Michua Khan. Finally, the man who spoke some Spanish explained to my mother that the men wanted us to rent their horses and they would take us to the volcano that split the church. And whichever man got the rider on their horse got the money, which is why I was simply grabbed out of our vehicle and put on a horse by a strange man in the middle of Mexico. My dad turned off the car, the rest of my family got out, and they all got up

on the horses. And then the men led us to this historical site. My family loves to joke about me getting kidnapped and put up on a horse and that none of them seemed not fazed by it. I look back fondly on that insane day because I got to ride a horse all day long to a pretty cool place, and it was better than sitting in the back of a smelly diesel car. There you have it the day that I almost got kidnapped, but not really. Thanks, fellas, keep up the good work. Oh, and Josh, your songs are incredible. Over and out, Susan. Susan. Oh, Susan, wow. Susan, delivered. Yeah, maybe Susan. Maybe Maybe some of our guests could take a page from Susan's book. Yeah.

But also, maybe not take a page from Susan's parents who were like, you know what? Those people that just grabbed our child from a car have a business offer. We could take them up on it. Oh, you know what? I think we were too hasty to judge when a passing horseman pulled our daughter from a car. Let's do go to the volcano with them. I mean, that is, that's like, that is a scene out of a movie.

out of a video game. It is to be pulled from a moving car onto a horse is exceptional. To be surrounded by men on horseback is awesome. Yeah. I mean, you know, again, do I think mom, our mom, would have enjoyed that? Well, because she, I think,

you know, Mrs. Karkin, the Spanish teacher from our junior high, I think she would have been cooler with it. Mom just wouldn't have known what to say because she only did the French. I think, I mean, let me clarify that if at any point, and this is a standing offer, if at any point Daniel Day Lewis wants to ride by on a horse and pluck our mom away from Larry. Yeah. She's into it.

She is down. She will be wrapping her hands around a Daniel Day's waist. Yeah, that would be a Be Still my beating heart from hurry. Yeah. Be Still My Be Be Steering Heart is a good hurry catchphrase. The, we have like, she sits on, I think we've talked about this, our mom sits on the porch. Our screened in porch.

It's in the woods. Yeah. Regular woods. Yeah. And she will often tell us that she daydreams of Daniel Day Lewis from the last of the Mohicans coming, emerging from the woods. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. And then, you know what, dad whispers to me? What's that? He goes, I have the same dream. He says, he goes, Daniel Day takes her and then it's just pretzels all day. Oh, I thought his same dream was that he would be swept away. No, no, no, he wants her out of the house. He wants it, yeah.

He says, when Daniel Day is riding her away, he goes, just have her back. Time to make dinner. I love going off the beaten track, kind of anywhere. And I love that Susan's father just sort of threw caution to the wind. But seeing, I mean, a church split by a volcano is definitely something I'm going to be Googling later. Diesel, shout out to Diesel getting, you know, nice advertisement for diesel. Yeah, although, you know, McKenzie, she's got a diesel truck. I can speak from a diesel owning household.

Modern day diesel. Diesel not cheaper anymore. Oh, okay. And I don't know if... You know what's a healthy snack, by the way? What's that kids really like? Diesel nuts. Such a forced deez nuts joke.

But that's... I feel like you don't get the one. By the way, we've spent a lot of time together, and I think that you still are a fantastic audience for my very obvious I have a joke coming moments. Oh, yeah, yeah.

It's not Alexi no can do. Yeah. Alexi the other day said to someone like, can you really not tell him when he's just teeing up a joke? And I'm like, honey, honey, don't take the magic away. I was telling McKenzie a story yesterday, and then she, like, someone texted her, and she was like, keep talking. I just have to reply to this. And it's like, well, no, now you're texting.

My story. And the whole end of my story fizzled. I finished telling it, and she was finished texting. And she was like, oh. And it's like, yeah. Yeah. The Brooks Wheelon has a really good joke about just, like, how people who just, like, made conversation look at the. phones.

And he's like, it would have been like if like 50 years ago, you're like, keep talking. I just got to look at this book. I just got to read this book for a few minutes. If I don't read this book, I die. That was a fabulous story, Susan. That was really, yeah, A-plus. Really, really fun. And yeah.

And yeah, I don't know if, I don't know if, yeah, I would say like you should fly somewhere with your parents because you haven't done it yet. But it sounds like you go to some pretty cool places. That's life. Yeah, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Yeah, congrats to you and your whole family. You guys obviously know what you're doing. Thank you for that fabulous story.

What's next, Sam? Hey, Seth and Josh, this is Becky. You might remember me from a few years ago. I called in about a outhouse in Vermont. And I'm here to tell another family trip. This one takes place on the Buffalo River in Arkansas. This was a very special trip because my dad is a canoe enthusiast and often from the time I was probably six,

would take me on these river trips. And this trip was special because my mom came with us. And it was off to a great start, except for the first night I was running around barefoot as, you know, a wild child from Vermont with no indoor plumbing wood and got a two-inch-long thorn in my barefoot. But that didn't stop me too much, you know, being that age.

The second day we were taking off And my dad and I were at the front of the canoe, pulling it into the water, and my mom was picking up the back of the canoe and kind of dragging it to bring it into the river. And I guess when she moved the canoe underneath it was a very dangerous snake with a triangle head. My dad would know exactly the name of it, but all I remember from that time was that it was supposedly very dangerous. So we were a little bit on the edge after that. We had a few more beautiful, wonderful days. But as the trip went on, my dad continually was unable to go to the bathroom. It might have been from all the dehydred camping food that we were eating.

And I guess my parents are in their 70s, and there was a commercial from the 1960s that used to talk about Miss Irregular. And it was maybe an advertisement for prunes where it would say something along the lines of, are three enough, are six too many? And we would start to call my dad Mr. Irregular. And then by night six, I think he got kind of. kind of fed up with it, and he decided to eat an entire bag of prunes. To this day, my family will still say, are 10 enough, are 16 too many? Because the answer was certainly that 16 or more were far too many.

I remember about an hour later seeing my dad take off with a trowel and start to dig a hole a little bit over a bankment. Oh, my God. Now, this night that we were staying on this particular camping spot was just a sandbar, so you could see the entire circumference of the area that we were staying on with almost no privacy. Luckily, there is a little bit of a hillock. But when my dad took off and started digging, we knew it was not going to be good. And it wasn't. He reported back later on with the hole that he had time to dig was certainly not deep enough for what was to occur.

We were pretty much privy to every wave of Peristalsis that came with the 16 or more prunes that were consumed. As a young child, it was probably the most hilarious thing that could have happened for me. My dad came back looking like he would never be the same again, the expression on his face, I'll never forget. And it's something that we often refer back to in our family anytime that someone's struggling with a little bit of irregularity. We had a great time the rest of the trip, and this is something that for the rest of my life and the rest of their lives for sure will be something that we refer back to. I absolutely love your show.

Me and my dial listen to every episode. And I hope you guys are well. Wonderful. Yeah. I think a great visual as to how bad the bathroom emergency is, is someone grabbing a shovel. A tiny shovel. There's a tiny little trowel.

You're going to get to work. I do know what the name of that. diamond-headed snake is. I don't know if you do, Suef. The diamond-headed snake. Yeah. Greg. Oh, Greg. You know them personally. Yeah, that's Greg.

That's great. Also, when something that felt familiar to me, Posh, is knowing an old commercial slogan that you never heard because your parents still say it. Uh-huh. So mom and dad would always say brush up, brush up, brush up, brush.

With the new Ipanah. Yeah, the new Ipanna. So the Ipanah was the company, I guess, that made a toothbrush. Yeah, it was like the Colgate of their time. And so the entirety of our childhood was them singing that song while we brushed our teeth. Yeah. I hope whoever owned Ipanah got bought out and just made a ton of money. Yeah.

Which would have been at the time like 100 grand. You know the other one is what does mom say when she says the color green? Greeny stickum caps? Greeny stickum caps. So greeny stickum caps was another. They're like Mattel shooting shells. Oh, those are a real thing too. Greeny stickum caps, believe it or not, it sounds like the most mom-coded nonsense.

But greeny stick-em caps were a real thing. And of course, the minute mom heard it, she was like, oh, I'm going to, you. use that to represent the color green for the rest of my life. Forever. I kind of think of there are other ones, but I feel like it is a really fun thing. And again, I'm a, I lament the loss of monoculture every day. And while also appreciating that, you know,

there's a wealth and diversity of options and creators right now, which is better. But I feel like slogans and, and, and, uh, jingles are lost. I don't know if my kids will ever. know a jingle. Yeah. Also, like, like theme songs to TV shows that everyone watches.

Yeah. Those are kind of gone. There was a very nice, somebody wrote an article about how the best thing about the World Cup was it felt like the monoculture again. Like, everywhere you went, people are like, did you see that? And there's something nice about, did you see that?

Yeah. Yeah. You and your friends did sort of a canoe trip. Yes. And just to be on Becky's theme of, you know, from one, from outhouses and her last story to digging a trowel. But you guys had one of the greatest sort of word combinations. Yeah. We would, every time somebody went off into the woods to do their business, someone else would sneak after them with a,

disposable Kodak photo and take a picture of them squatting over a hole and that person was called the pooperazzi and so you would try really hard to sneak away from the campfire without the pooperazzi knowing that you had left but it was real it was real hard yeah and the best thing about the pooperazzi photos which we have saved to these days is um it's just the sort of side flank You know what I mean? Right. These are not pornographic photos. No, not graphic in any way, but certainly catching someone when they don't want to be caught.

Right. And like there's no, nothing about it is gross. You would look at these photos and you would just see the white sort of hip flank of a guy crouching. And the best pooperazzi photos is you always, you waited to take a picture until they saw you. So they were always looking at the camera. Yeah. It's that, it's almost like the, gosh, I'm going to forget the name of it. but the video of Bigfoot.

Yeah. When he turns and looks, it's that freeze frame. It's a real defeated look because the thing about squatting over a hole is there's no quick, like, cover up. Yeah. So, yeah, the pooperazzi was, lives on. Yeah. It lives on in our memory. Yeah.

Thank you very much, Becky. And thanks for circling back. Yeah. I love that. Second, two stories. So, hey, everyone out there, if you haven't called in. Yeah. If you haven't put your stories together, Becky's showing you it's possible.

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sisters were from and popping into little churches where important events had happened in their lives like marriages and christenings. These places were way off the typical tourist routes in rural areas and we were getting lots of chances to use our rudimentary German skills, which we greatly enjoyed. As we were walking up to one of these tiny churches in eastern Switzerland, we heard what sounded like harpsichord music from inside and thought this would be a great chance to hear some local traditional music. We went in for the concert. As soon as we entered, an usher usher ushered ushed ushed us into the third row from the back and then sat down herself on the aisle end of the pew. Things that struck me right away were that this church was tiny, like 70 people at max capacity, and we had just filled seats 69 and 70.

It was tiny and packed. The harpsichre chord music was really lovely, and we noticed that the musician was fully decked out in Laterhosen and the feather cap and everything. We thought we had totally lucked into this authentic local cultural gathering. Then we started to notice that it wasn't just the musician in traditional Swiss garb, something like half the audience was dressed that way too, and the rest were in their Sunday best. When the song ended, a preacher came up to the pulpit and started to preach in Swiss German. We noticed that a good portion of the audience was in tears. Just as my wife was pointing out some lovely flowers at the front of the chapel,

they projected the image of a kind-looking older gentleman onto the screen at the front of the chapel, with his full name and two dates under it. This is when it dawned on us that we were uninvited guests at a stranger's funeral in rural Switzerland. We immediately started looking at our escape options, but the pews were really narrow, and we were boxed in by the usher at the end of the row. We were also hesitant to just get up and leave because we figured we'd already been disruptive enough by bursting cheerfully into a funeral in the middle of a musical number in our shorts and T-shirts. so we decided we better try to stick it out until there was a more opportune moment to bolt.

After the preacher sat down, the congregation stood to sing a hymn. A normal person might have used this as the chance to get out past the usher, but we are church-going folk and have experienced singing from a hymnal, and we thought, we could read German, let's do this. We didn't know the song, but it was very high and very slow. At some point during the song, the reality of the song, the reality of, what was going on hit me in a way that was making it very hard not to laugh. My wife and I were sharing a hymnal, and she noticed that my hands were shouting a shake,

and she thought I might be crying, because I am a crier. Shout out to all the criers on the pod. When she saw that I was stifling laughter, she started to discreetly kick and elbow me and to whisper, Stop it! Stop it! That made it even harder to keep it together. As soon as the hymn ended, we seized the opportunity to slip out past the, usher before she sat back down. Once outside my wife told me her mind had been racing trying to figure out how to explain to the other attendees how we knew

the deceased. She'd been trying to figure out how to say we are as friends from America in German. We sprinted all the way to our car and didn't feel safe to laugh until we got there. Once we did, we laughed until our sides hurt. So that's our story of crashing a Swiss funeral. Thanks again for having us on. We love the pod. So great. Yeah. Such an A-plus story. Yeah.

I mean, I'm not a religious person, but I do love going into churches. Like, I would always, I'm always sort of drawn to them because the architecture is amazing. And, you know, I have a natural sense of reverence for them. So I would 100% have been sucked in there. But then to get pinned in by the usher. And like, if you go and then you're there for longer than you want to be, and for a reason you don't want to be. I like any time American tourists, though, do something

that is not one of the stereotypical things that we get burned for. So I just like now that there's this Swiss town, we're like, see, the Americans, they wear say flip flops, and they're T-shirts, and they come to the funerals of strangers. You know the Americans, they love a funeral of someone they've never met. Pretty good. I think that's how they all sound.

Yeah. That's your Swiss, German. Swiss German. Yeah, I assumed, I assumed, yeah, I assumed we were in the northeastern corridor there. Yeah. It is a lot of fun also to just be the people who are confidently like, we'll do the him. Like I like that they were like, we got to get out of here. And then they're like, hold up.

We can do the him. I mean, if I learned anything, In mom's French classes, it's how to sing in French. Yeah. Yeah. True. So. That's fantastic.

What a great story. I also, you know, and again, I remember going to the, it was the Kennedy Center honors a few years ago, and Lauren Michaels was honored. And so a lot of SNL people went, and I sat next to a polar. And Keenan Thompson was the row behind us. And, you know, over the course of the night, very little of the night was actually focused on Lauren. There were a lot of other people. And so just Amy and I were like whispering jokes to each other all night long. And then at the after party, Keenan said, you guys were your shoulders were shaking.

You looked like kids in church. And I always like stayed with me. Because that thing about like laughing in church, I do think it gets pretty contagious and pretty hard to suppress. Yeah. when you're on a role. Yeah. Yeah, because anything that's funny is funnier because it's not supposed to be there. Yeah.

Yeah. I know. And you know what? The one thing I'll say is, based on everything I know about the Swiss, whoever the deceased was, probably had a great sense of humor. Great story. Great story is all around. Thank you.

Great stories all around. I was a real good one. And yeah. And hey, everybody, if you listen to these stories and thought, oh, I have stories as good as those or better than those stories, then we want to hear them. And we would love to play them on next month's listener episode or any of our future listener episodes. So if you have these stories, please go to speakpipe.com slash family trips pod and give us your stories. All right, well, thank you to all our listeners. Thank you guys.

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