Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - TARAN KILLAM Did A Silent Disco in Snowy Canada

Episode Date: January 27, 2026

This week, Seth and Josh have Taran Killam on the pod! Taran talks about growing up in Big Bear, California and what it was like for his family to move to Los Angeles from a small ski town, childhood trips to Rosarito, Lake Mojave, and his first trip to London! He also shares funny stories about owning a camper-truck, participating in a stage reading of Star Wars, his fond memories of the Grand Canyon, and so much more! Plus, Taran chats about his NBC show “STUMBLE” and ABC show “HIGH POTENTIAL” out now! Watch more Family Trips episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlqYOfxU_jQem4_NRJPM8_wLBrEEQ17B6 Support our sponsors: Mill Try Mill risk-free for 90 days and get $75 off at https://mill.com/trips and use code TRIPS at checkout. DeleteMe Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to https://joindeleteme.com/ TRIPS and use promo code TRIPS at checkout. Super Power Take the guesswork out of getting healthy in 2026. Get full body testing that goes 5x deeper than an annual physical and a personalized action plan that tells you exactly what to do next. All for just $199. Go to https://Superpower.com and use code TRIPS for $20 off your membership this year. AG1 Go to https://DRINKAG1.com/TRIPS to get their best offer… get 3 FREE AG1 Travel Packs and 3 FREE AGZ Travel Packs, plus FREE Vitamin D3+K2 and AG1 Welcome Kit with your first AG1 subscription order! Marley Spoon This new year, fast-track your way to eating well with Marley Spoon. Head to https://MarleySpoon.com/offer/trips for up to 25 FREE meals! " Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi, Baji. Hi, Sufi. I had a guest on my show this week who said, she runs into you all the time. Who's that? Sarah Silverman. Oh, yeah, it's true. And I will say, incredible dog name recall.

Oh, yeah. She's a dog lady. She's a dog babe. Because she goes, yeah, I always see him with his dog. Janet, nope, Debbie. And I'm like, Janet is such a funny. Like, that is like right in the realm of, Janet and Debbie.

Well, I believe she has a Mary. Oh, funny. Yeah. She's got a little old girl named Mary. It was very sweet. Debbie is an old girl. Yeah. Yeah.

And I did say to Sarah, because she goes, I saw it. I see him with Debbie. And I said, oh, yeah, Debbie's getting old. And she goes, yeah, I see him. Like, I like that she's like, that she wasn't like, what? Not my, not that, Debbie. Yeah. They also, she's got like a big sort of rowdy dog that will run up on Debbie and Debbie doesn't know what to do about it.

But she's not mad at it. Debbie sort of, when she encounters a dog with big puppy energy, she sort of is like a bit rattled but then also like it doesn't snap at some of those dogs, which is nice. Yeah. She's also she, you know, her boyfriend Rory nominees. Who you see? Do you see him when you could do Kimmel? Sometimes there and sometimes he'll be in the park also with Sarah and the dogs. She, in her special, has a very funny joke about how she's been dating him for a long time and still can't quite say Rory right. And Axel also has a really good friend named Rory.

And as you can imagine, Rory is a real hard for Axel. Yeah. Woewee. Woe. Hey, I'm going to. on the road this weekend. When does this one air? I think next Tuesday. All right, so it'll be too late.

I think, yeah. I think Tuesday the 27th. Okay, so I will have just been in Charlotte and Durham. So if you live there, you missed it. But maybe, could I use this time, Posh, to say a few places I'm doing shows? Sure, yeah, go for it. I feel like, you know, for the trippers, they might want to I'm going to be in March, March 13th

at the Agua Caliente Resort and Casino and Rancho Mirage, California. I'm going to be at the Talking Stick Resort on March 14th in Scottsdale, Arizona. Oh, yeah. April 10th, the factory in Chesterfield, Missouri. April 11th, the Midland Theater in Kansas City, Missouri.

And May 8th, I'm going to be at the Paramount Theater in Colorado and May 9th, Route 66 Casino Hotel and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Now, you obviously know that, and probably our listeners at this point, or well aware that my wife's entire family is from Albuquerque.

And you'll like, you'll be happy and also not surprised to know that after my May 9th date was listed, my mother-in-law wrote and said, could you do it on a different date? Because she understands how showbiz works. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty psyched to be in New Mexico without them, though. Oh, yeah. Well, they might find a way to get there.

Knowing them, there's a chance. Yeah, they're always looking for a reason to go back home. That's true. Yeah, Route 66 turns 100 years old this year. Does it? Oh, yeah, that's right. You're doing a special. Have you done your episode on California Now about it?

Yeah, California Now video episode, which also is just a regular podcast, but did that. And it's, I learned a lot about that highway when we did it. It goes from Chicago all the way to Santa Monica. Classic Road. Yeah. You know who would love to talk to you about it? Tom Ash? Yeah, my father-in-law.

I can't believe he, by the way, you got to send it to him and tell him you did a video podcast episode about Reach 60. Yeah, but then he might like want to call and talk about it. He might want to follow up. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. Did I tell you, I told you in person, but not on the pod, that he sent me a really interesting thing about some breaking news in late night vis-a-vis the current administration's unhappiness with it. Oh, yeah. He said, this is worth watching.

And it was the most AI-generated news story I've ever seen. And I had to break the news to him that he had sent me a thing that was not real. Yeah. Well, get used to it. Tom and you. Oh, man. I mean, by the way, get used to it is right. Yeah.

It's only getting better. AI's only getting better. Old people only getting older. Me included. Yeah. I don't know what I can believe or can't believe. Yeah. I mean, for all I know right now, you're a bot.

Could be. That would be exactly what a bot would say. Try to be blasé about it. That's funny, Seth. Taryn Killam. Were you going to say to cut you off by you? Well, I was just going to say it was my wife, McKenzie. It was her birthday.

Last, I don't know, Friday. Did she keep the streamers up from your birthday to hers? Yeah. And then the next day, I ripped them down. Yeah. But we went to the Huntington Garden with her dad. And we went out to lunch at the rose tea house, which is a lovely sort of like high end. You get high tea, sort of a stack of silver things in a tower with like all these little finger sandwiches.

and like these four little desserts. And you think that this isn't going to be enough food. But when you get like six tiny sandwiches and four little tiny desserts, that's tons of food. More than enough, yeah. More than enough. But it was really lovely.

And we had a great trip with her dad out here, who's an easy-going guy. So, yeah, we said goodbye to him last night. That was a great trip. And happy birthday to my wife. I said it on the day, but happy belated. as you're listening to this, my darling. Also, if you're listening to this,

I don't agree with keeping the streamers up that long. There's too much time between your two birthdays. I do think for my birthday next year, what I want for my birthday is to not have streamers up and for me to be able to put them up for her birthday. Oh, that's nice. Yeah. Because it makes it sound like you want to do a nice thing for her,

but what you're really saying is you don't want 10 days of streamers. Yeah. Yeah. Taryn Killam, a lovely guy. He's on a great new show on NBC. It's called Stumble. Friday nights, 8030. It's very fun when there's a new sitcom

that is actually working on television, so I'm so happy for Taryn. His voice is pretty wrecked in this episode. Oh, yeah, he's real raspy from football, but he's real happy right now, because he is a L.A. Rams fan. Once again, by the time you're hearing this, the Rams will either be in the Super Bowl

or they will be out, But certainly, Taryn, as of this recording, was in a pretty good place. Yeah. Also, I believe in this episode, we talk about how you and I and our now wives hiked half of the Tour de Montblanc. Yeah. And you're like, I think it's just Tour Montblanc. I did say that confidently. It is Tour de Montblanc.

Well, don't I feel like a doom, doom? You are a doom-dum. but enjoy this episode with our good buddy time. Bye. Family chips with the mice brothers and chips. Tadda. Well, I was hoping this was going to be a happier Monday for all of us. I know.

Thank you for thinking of us. I was going to, you know what? I was going to even be like, oh, look at Mr. Ram still in the playoffs. But then you opened with empathy and I should have just been happy for you. This is such a classy move. I have so much gack on either side of the computer of Rams celebratory gear. And I didn't do it. I don't do it.

You just, you zoom super close. You have to go super close to get Ram's stuff out of the game. I forgot. You love Headspace. I forgot your Headspace Myers. Hey, I asked Josh, because you're from Big Bear. And I said, was that where you ski? And he goes, no, I ski a mammoth.

Big Bear's not worth it. And then he said, I'm not going to say that, obviously. And then I said, well, I'm opening with it. Nothing, nothing he said is infactual. Big Bear is convenient. Big Bear's nice. You can, like when they say in California, you can surf in the morning, you can ski at night. That's what Big Bear's for.

Mammoth is an actual ski resort. Yeah. And I married a Canadian. So, like, my heart's in Whistler. When it comes to like winter recreation, I'm going to Whistler, which puts all of it to shame. So you basically go somewhere that makes mammoth look like Big Bear. Correct. Yeah. Correct. Because I'm a small man. I'm a small man. But I believe to, not to nitpick here, but I believe that Whistler is pretty low elevation wise. And mammoth, mammoth gets up to 11,000 feet. And so, I don't know. For people who hate breathing,

yeah, mammoths is the way to go. But people who like low, wide mountains. Yeah. Low, wide, endlessly traversable, freshly fallen snow, Whistler's Were you, was it a very outdoorsy life growing up in Big Bear? Definitely, definitely. So like age zero to six was Manhattan Beach. So we were beach people first and then snow. And Big Bear was like second grade to ninth grade. It was hiking in the summer.

It was like, you know, boating on the lake. And then, yeah, my mom worked at Snow Summit, the shitty ski resort that Josh Hates. And so we got to go for free. We would ski all the time. We would go like after school, basically. So what is like a family trip life for a family that basically lives at a place where other families come? It's a wonderful question. We would go to the desert.

We were not a family of means, but we were a big family. I have four siblings. And so we would go to Lake Mojave every summer. And we would get up at three in the morning and we'd drive. you know, it's like a three-hour drive to Arizona. It's right on the border of Arizona and Nevada. It's like Loughlin and then another 15-minute drive north. And you rent the boat, or we had friends with boats,

and you camp out on the beach of the lake. Like, it's desert camping. So you're in swim trunks the whole time, and you live in the water because it gets as hot as like 120 degrees. It's like cooking. It's cooking. So you have to go full extreme. If you're,

if you have nature accessible, in your backyard, you go even more extreme. Would you like start to drive out of town while tourists are coming in and you like do simps? You flatlanders, you dumb flatlanders. Where did you, do you sleep on the boat? Is it like one of those Lake Powell kind of things? Some do. Some who can handle it because it gets quite windy.

So it'll knock you back and forth on the boat. you really stick down your tent and you just on a cold night you're piling blankets but then it can switch like that it can be it can be exhaustingly hot um and if it gets really bad then you rent a room in loughlin and you go to the buffet and you you know if you're of age you go to the casino if you're a kid like me you go to the to the arcade and spend $50 in 30 minutes what's your game what's your game what was your game ex-men the X-Men game was huge And I like to play as Nightcrawler. Is that one of those where there's like four different players?

Or is it just two? Yeah, it was a big console, is a big rounded console. Sunset Riders. Do you remember Sunset Riders? I don't. I don't. I don't. You were four different cowboys.

Did it also have like the Zoltar machine from Big? And is that where you wished to marry someone in the Marvel universe? Yeah, exactly right. All my dreams came true. I wish for the Rams. I wish for the Rams to win a Super Bowl five years coming back to LA. Oh, so you got Multa. Multiple wishes on your Zoltar.

Yeah, nobody's going to Wafelette. That Zoltar was so needy. He's like, please. Ask another one. Ask another one. You want to be on SNL? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll do that. Amat TV?

Have them both. Have them both. Do another sketch show produced by Nick Cannon. I know that sounds crazy, but you can ask for that. Was this a trip? How long was the drive? Did you say? It was like a three and a half, four hour drive from Big Barry, I think.

And now was this a trip that you and the other Killam kin were excited about? Of the four siblings, of the five siblings, including myself, I think three loved it and two were like, I'm good. Were they just more indoor cats, or do you just think it was too extreme? It's column A and column B, and I think by the time we started going as a family, they were already in their teens. And they're like, can we like go somewhere cool? and not a place where you have to check your shoes for scorpions. Yeah. I think there's an age where, like, if there's no element of, like, shopping,

I don't mean, like, shopping in the sense of, but, like, just you want to be, you want to go somewhere where you can, like, at least go, like, buy your own burger with a little bit of independence. And I think the social game there is bad, because you're trapped. It's, it's just you guys. And you have to take, like, a 10-minute boat ride back to the dock to get to a street. Yeah. So, yeah, I think it was a bit of a hostage situation. Desert people? Are you saying there's not a lot of socialism? A lot of vagrants. A lot of...

Are you also, are you also not of means? Hooded hermins. At night we go underground. Were you, when you would be camping, were you cooking over a campfire? Yeah, you bring like little boilers. You bring propane. Okay. There was no live flame. No life flame. I don't think that that was allowed. Because too windy, I think you'd probably set people's tents on fire.

Exactly. Exactly. You'd kill people. There was one year. I took the trip over once I was like, once I was in college, I brought all my college guys and it changed the dynamic of the trip. Dramatically, it went from like a nice family trip where the kids are in the water to just debauchery. And then once I had children of my own, I was like, I'm going to, I have to up the stakes even more. So I got a houseboat. And it was a bad idea because it is hard to stake, you know, I'm going to guess a five ton house. boat into soft sand with high wind. It was impossible.

Every morning we woke up and it had drifted around the bend and was like across the, I had to swim across like this bay of the lake to retrieve the houseboat one morning. That's why they ultimately decided just to just do to houses. They were like, why are we putting these on boats? We went water first. Yeah, we should just. Because bear with me. What if these just were on land?

Yeah. And then we had a different thing. We just would call those boats. Then how do you just split these up? Then how do you get to other houses? Oh, you can't. You're not going to believe it. You're just like walk or drive.

Huh. Where do you fall on the birth order? I don't think I knew, I got to be honest, I don't think I knew you had four siblings. Yeah, I'm in the middle. The older two are eight and ten years older. Okay. And then it's me. And then I have a younger sister and the baby is the brother.

Gotcha. Does he mind being called the baby? Do you all still call him the baby? Yeah. I mean, no choice. I'm trying, I'm trying to work on it. I'm trying to work on it. Yeah.

But I think there's probably some spite. I really feel if you have three kids or more, you're all, the little one's always the baby. I mean, I'm always the baby. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Well, that's based on behavior. But you're more, you're more like a baby.

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Please make sure to mention this podcast and support the show. Do you, uh, uh, that's a funny gap to have like two kids wait eight years and then do three more. Yeah. Uh, different biological father got it all right there you go yeah yeah but all raised under the same the same roof yeah that makes total sense and uh were you close with your younger ones then the ones below you great all all of them really like like the older sisters were very cool

older sisters like gotcha all my comedy um education came from my older sister rachel she knew like kids in the hall and and monty python and she was really hip and so like and And then my older sister Aaron was like the music one. She was like Guns and Roses. And they both were pretty good at music. Like I remember Rachel introduced me to Nirvana, like probably slightly earlier than what the demo was. You know, I think I was, I think I was in like third grade. But yeah.

So I benefited from my older siblings and love them and we're still very close. But the younger three. It's amazing. Like when I see my son with someone who's exactly the same age, And if that person, if that kid has two older siblings and Ash has two younger's, like they look like they're, like, socially they're like almost three-year age gap. Right, right. Because the one with older siblings knows everything.

Like, they're the ones that are like, you listen to Nirvana? And he's like, nah, I'm going to K-pop. Have you heard about K-pop? Yeah, I'm golden for days. Yeah. We have a big gap with our daughters. It's five and a half years. And I was a little like, I don't know.

I don't know. You're supposed to be like two years apart. And it's been beautiful. It's great because they each have their own lane. And the older one looks out for the younger one with a healthy amount of like, get out of my face. And a little one worships the big one with a healthy amount of like, you're not the parent. Don't boss me around. It's worked out really nice. That's great.

By the way, your daughter came the last time you were on my show. And sometimes I forget because I've worked in the same building for the entire person. my career. Like, I forget the passage of time is happening. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Until someone I met when they started with a baby is like, here is a full grown human. I know, I know. We're doing college stuff now. It's great. It's crazy. Unbelievable. Her life experiences are starting to happen where I still vividly remember my own. Yeah. You know what I mean? She's at the age where I'm like, I remember filling out my UC application form very well. Well, I always like, Alexi, I was bus on me because sometimes when I see people on the street with like Northwestern sweatshirts,

I'm always like, hey, go cats. And they're like, go cats. And I'm like, when did you graduate? And she's like, stop. They, none of them graduated with you. So dangerous. Such a dangerous question. None of them, like none of them are even in the zip code of when you graduated. Yeah. We, I have adult. I have adult fellow employees that graduated this millennium. Like not, not 18. I have, I have, I have, I have, I have employees. peers who can rent a car without buying extra insurance. You are, so that was, you would do desert times. Yeah, yeah.

And on the drive. So was that a seven, was that a seven-person drive? Yeah, my dad was in construction and had a truck. And then in the early days, he had like a camper that you'd hook on to the back. And that was so fun. Because it was like, was that? You would, like, haul it or it would turn the, The bed into, okay, you'd haul it.

Yeah, it was a full hauler thing. And you get up at 3 a.m. And so you, like, crawl out of your bed and you get into the camper truck. And you try to sleep until you get to, like, like, Baker's Field. And then you stop for donuts. And it's like, it's the freshest donut you've ever had in your life. They just came out of the friar. And then you watch the sunrise.

Like, driving California is a beautiful state, you guys. It's really spectacular. And driving east through the desert as the sun rises is some of like the most spectacular visuals I've ever experienced in my life to this day. Yeah. That's fantastic. And it is, I mean, it is kind of crazy also that Kobe, your wife, is from one of the other most beautiful places in the world. Yeah. Yeah. It's wild. It's wild. We have a, we have a place now like three hours north of Vancouver, like even beyond Whistler. And it's, it's my happy place. I wish to be there all the time.

How often are you, is it a place you only go during, I would imagine, vacations from school for the kids? Big summer breaks, like we try to do six weeks in the summer, but we just did our first Christmas there. And it was, we got a Christmas snow. We did one of my gifts, I love a silent disco. Yeah. And so Kobe got me my own silent disco set. And the four of us had a silent disco dance party in the snow Christmas night. Wow.

It's like my new favorite Christmas memory all time. I remember when a silent disco was a very new thing, and I hope it's not crazy to feel like we need to explain it to people. Does everybody know what a silent disco is now? Because it's the greatest invention of all time. Show of hands. Show of hands. Well, yeah, I mean, we do.

I know exactly where I was the first time we encountered it. Seth and I were in Scotland and Edinburgh. We were in this old church where you couldn't play, like if you tried to play music in there, it would echo all through sort of in different places. And I don't know if your silent disco would have competing DJs. We have channels, yeah. Yeah, two channels.

So we went and two DJs and two different parts of the room and you could set your headphones to like a green light or a red light. And that way you could look at someone else and know what channel they were listening to. Or you would see that a bunch of people were dancing to a different rhythm than the music you were listening to. And what's happening here? and click over, and then you can, you know, pop your headphone off and be like, hey, I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'll be right back at that volume and have a conversation. It's like stepping into a different dimension because taking the headphones off, suddenly everybody's zompefied.

Like, they're all moving at slightly different rhythms, even if they're on the same channel anyway. They're probably like just off pace anyway. But it's so, I love it because it is that thing, too, where. Like, I've hosted a few where I curate the playlist, like the different playlist, and you see, like, you try to beat yourself on each song. Oh, yeah. And watch the wave of color shift as people are like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Shout. Shout is on Channel Red. Shouts on Red. Shouts on Red. I was going to say there is that Josh being like when you realize you're dancing to the wrong rhythm and you switch, I think I'm the kind of person that would think that was the problem.

Right. And then switch and be like, oh, now I'm even further. What's up with these headphones? Is there a yellow? Am I maybe on a third option? It's great when it's a really exciting song and you take the headphones off and you hear, you know, however many people are together,

go, a little bit softer now, a little bit louder now. I distinctly remember when we were in Scotland half of the people in the room going, Brim full of ash only 45. Just like, but like mumble singing it, sort of that like the way you do. Yeah, that's a song where people I think know way less of the actual lyrics.

Yeah, only chorus. And then just silence. That's like that, that, that SNL sketch, like, it was like a compilation CD, but only singing the parts of you like Margaritaville. Yeah. Whiskin away again and Margaritaville. Were you there for fringe?

Were you in Edinburgh for French festival? Yeah. That's so cool. What a great. What was your first adult brother trip? Oh. Like just us or like, because we took trust to you. Oh.

I don't know. We lived in Amsterdam together, so that kind of felt like a trip. But adult trip together. We, I mean, I don't know if it's our first, but we did a hike with Seth and his then-girlfriend, now-wife, my with my then-girlfriend now-wife, to... And a third woman who failed to win either of ours. That reality show should have been picked up. That was a great pilot.

We did half of the Tour de Mont Blanc. which is a big hut-to-hut. Tour Mont Blanc. I didn't know. You're making it at the Tour de France. It's just Tour Montblanc. I don't want you to get shade. It's just Tour Montblanc?

It's not the tour of Montplanc? All right, well. There are lots of tours out there, and how do you know where it belongs? Exactly. We did have a moment on one of our hikes where, remember we had to cross a road that there was an actual bike race on?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's like, to watch a actual European bike race is to make you wonder why anyone would do it. We just were watching literally like 100 people come up like what seemed like the craziest hill. Yeah, yeah. And then we're with backpacks and then you just kind of wait for a moment and then just

like kind of run across the road. When you first brought it up, I pictured it was like a flat like speed, things flying by. But you're just watching guys go, just grunting. Just like a real, just a real parade of quads. A lot of quad energy. But we would sort of naturally, I mean, kind of self-select and Seth and I would be hiking together for a bunch of it and McKenzie and Alexi would be hiking together and that's awesome Alexi and McKenzie were probably speaking thousands of words and Seth and I would

maybe say a hundred words over the course of three hours yeah um yeah very contemplative when you're with your other are you um when you bring your kids because they're teenagers the girls right yeah she's 16 joel is 11 so when you how do they do on like a six-week summer trip. Do they love it? Our youngest is okay with it. She likes solitude anyway. She likes to listen to a book on tape and like knit.

She's a knitter. The 16-year-old hates it. But we got her a job. She loves to bake and there's this beautiful little local bakery up in, up where our house is. And so she wake up every weekend at like 5.30 a.m. and go and work for eight to ten hours. So that was awesome.

That was really good. And not something I think she could have done with as much care here in the city. Yeah. Like it was very intimate. And does she appreciate like a hard-earned buck? Because I feel like that's a thing that like it's very important when still in your kids. And we talk about it.

A hundred percent. Yeah. Yeah. It waffles between like, does she realize how good her life? life is and she is such a like control is very important for her and being at the at the helm of her own destiny matters to her like so that's how she operates so every every dollar she earns is a diamond yeah yeah and then has no problem ordering four things from from a boba delivery place on our credit i feel like my kids appreciate how good their life is or at least i hope they do

based on how many times I scream, Do you know how good your life is? It helps them. So I would like to know, I would like to know it's at least getting through a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. I think when they mockingly repeat it back to you,

is that a good sign that it's getting through? Uh-huh. Repetition. When they say, or when they ask me, they're like, do you know good year and life? And it's just like,

they were so good on your show. They were so good on your show. Oh, thanks, no. Yeah, they really were. It's kind of crazy. They were special. You'd been building up their legacy, too, I feel like on the show for so many years. And all three of them just like said, like, they just delivered exactly what you had promised.

Yeah, I didn't even think of that. You're right. Like, I definitely oversold them. And so if they'd come out and been like sort of three charismaless blobs, people would be like, oh, this dude. Well, I was backstage watching it with my parents and we were about to come on. And it was, you know, pre-taped from the day before. And you could see my mother just fearing. the replacement that was coming.

Yeah. She's like, oh, like, well, here they come. And also, we have to follow that. We got to follow that. Impossible. Impossible. They say that's a true grandmother when you're like, I got to follow this shit.

You know what that reminds me of is I had the great honor of being, attending your wedding, Seth. And I witnessed the best wedding speech of all time. Yeah, you did. When your father went up. your father went up and I was like, that's the best wedding speech I've ever seen. No one will ever top that speech.

That is perfect. And then Josh went up. And it was even better. It was even better. Josh's is still to this day. Do you know my dad's famous line about that? No. Which is someone came up to my dad at the end of the night and said,

oh my God, during Josh's speech, I was crying. And my dad said, I was crying too because before he gave it, I was the best speech you'd ever heard. It's so true. It's so true.

His was good, too. It was great. It was very good. You know, I just, in the last two months, watched both of them for the first time since that night. Wow. How was that? It was great.

It was like, exactly. It was, and I'd given it enough time where, like, it was kind of, you know, I remember the gist of it, but not. the wonderful details. So it was a real joy. Yeah, beautiful, beautiful, special, very special night. I also want to say that I think that you're, it feels like you have the cold I had yesterday.

I know. So let's address it. None of this story will surprise you, Seth. But on Saturday, I went from feeling so confident at halftime at that Rams game. I was like, we got it. No problem. into the most unnecessarily heart pounding, exhaustive back and forth

against the Carolina Panthers. And I, you know, I was losing my mind. I was losing my mind and priming my voice to be lost. Yeah. Maybe even cooler, I then went to a staged reading of Star Wars, the Force Awakens. Where I played General Hux, the Domnall-Gleason role.

And he has that very famous scene where he's screaming over the stormtroopers. Yep. And so a combination of a harrowing but ultimately happy Rams playoff game into screaming Domnall Gleason has led us to where we are today. The best is, I think, 80% of everyone you've ever met would guess who lost their voice, doing that if you just gave them one of those two? Yeah, yep, yep. And 150% of you said, yeah. I've cultivated a very specific brand for myself.

They're like, hey, Terran's gonna be here in a minute, but just FYI, he played General Hux in a stage reading last name. So no voice? Yeah, no voice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, scratchy, scratchy. How did that come about? Is it the kind of reading where they do other movies, or was this sort of a standalone?

This is, you know, Patrick Cot-Noir? He was an S&L intern for years. And now he's like... And doesn't he do the George... Is he involved with the George Louis Show? Exactly. So he's this prolific producer now and he does a lot of... He's done a series of Star Wars staged readings.

And they did the originals and then they did the prequels and now they're into the later sequels. Where did you do it? Dynasty typewriter. Oh, great. Have you been... It's a great theater. Yeah, great theater. It's so fun.

It's one of the best L.A. theaters, yeah. Yeah. Who, uh, give us a three other. castings? Vic McAilis was Ray and was wonderful. Lorraine Newman was there. She was Maz Kanata.

She was Captain Fasma. And then our Han Solo was Kevin Smith. Great. Which was really cool. Really, really fun. Really awesome. You know, you're saying you drove

everywhere. Did you guys ever fly anywhere as a family when you were younger? No, no. We, my first, the first time I was on a plane was like a school, a school trip to, um, D.C. And that was very exciting. And then my freshman honors English class, we went to London. And that, that trip changed my life. We were in London.

We did the London dungeon. Do you know that wax? That wax me. It was the best. My first night, my first night in, oh no. My first night in London. I'm sorry, you guys. I just didn't, I didn't want to cancel.

No, no. By the way, if we were still at S&L, the sketch I would write is General Hux on a podcast. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And everybody's, he's like, I'm sorry, this Stormtroopers, I had this thing. It's sort of trying to go for like an SS, you know. Yeah. We went the first night in London, my parents gave me my first ever ATM card and like $500 cash. And I blew all $500 at Sega World.

which was in Leicester Square. First night, $500. Just playing video games. Can't be trusted. Can't be trusted with money. Not good with money. Thank goodness for my daughter. And then I went to use the ATM card.

It didn't work. It wouldn't transfer the stupid Big Bear ATM card. And so I had to like borrow money, but basically just ate like free, free short bread for the rest of the trip. Like, oh, damn it. each hotel we'd go to would have like free shortbread, you know, on the bed pillow,

and I would collect them. And in my backpack was just like 20 packages of shortbread. And I came back 30 pounds heavier. That is really, that does feel like a made up cliche about London, which is like if you're, and if your ATM doesn't work, you will be able to subsist on free short bread.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I felt like Frodo and Sam, you know, on length of spread. It's like hard tack and shortbread. Yeah, exactly. We went to Edinburgh at the end of that trip, and that city was just magical. It is one of the most magical places on earth. And I will say, like, landing, I always said, like, in August when you land in Edinburgh, like when you look out the window, it feels like it's the whole country looks like a well-manicured golf course in the most beautiful way.

Just like the color green. You're like, oh, this is like the kind of green. It's happening naturally, and people spend so much money to make their lawn look like this. Yeah. And occasionally, there'll be like a field of yellow wild. flowers too. So it's just like it like just nature's chessboard. It's beautiful. How did that trip to London? You said it changed your life. Like was it a perspective thing or was there, did you see a show that did something? What was it? Understanding how small my world had been. You know, like a kid from at that point, Big Bear and just, you know, culturally very isolated. And the independence was amazing. The idea that like, I'm, I'm on the other side of the world now. My parents, my parents are 5,000 miles, like literally on the other side of the planet.

And then the history of London, of the UK, and just understanding how new the U.S. is in comparison to the rest of the world. You know, it really hit me on that trip. There's that, do you know what I'm talking about Posh right by the Tuchinsky Theater in Amsterdam? am like right on the turn of the Roken. There's like a building that like has 1601 on it because that was when it was built. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm always, it is just so funny when you look and you're like, huh.

Like when you think about what your country looked like when they were building this house and you're like, okay. That's good to remember. Yeah. It's a, we did Greece this past summer. And that was. Yeah. Similarly like, oh, we're so small. We're all just visitors.

We're so lucky to be alive. Are you the kind of dad, do you think, when you are in Greece with your kids? Do you feel like you over-talk about the history? Or do you think you allow them to take it in? Or maybe it's the exact amount they want? I try to take my shots. I try to, like, wait, let them tee it up, you know? Like, maybe like Kobe go, what'd you think?

and then it's older than Jesus. That building you are standing on is older than Jesus. I love it. I love it. They don't care for any guidance from me in terms of like pop culture, history. You know, oh, God, I thought I'd make it, you guys. And now it's getting worse. Oh, no, it's fine.

It's getting worse. Sorry. Did you, so you did some time in Athens when you were in Greece, it sounds like. Yeah, it was amazing. It was amazing. And then did you, did you island hop? Like, what was your? A little bit, a little bit, just like a day trip.

Okay. Amazing. It was beautiful, beautiful. Loved it. Like, went to their version of Catalina, which is, um, atheists, Athos. Athias. Athos. It's beautiful.

It's based on atheists who don't care if it was older than Jesus. When you say, when you tell down there like, Where's the proof? Where's the proof? Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from AG1. Hey, Pushy. Hey, Sufi.

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How far over the border is Rosarito? Only like 45 minutes. It's pretty, it's south of T.J. Yeah. And it's on the coast, isn't it? Yeah, yeah, it's a nice beach town. It's where Titanic was shot. Really?

Yeah. That's where James Cameron built these big soundstages for all the water stuff. for Titanic. Huh. And was that an exciting trip? Was that a regular trip if your grandmother had a times show down there? Was it just here and there? We mostly did it when I was very young.

And my memory was always the most exciting part was coming back over the border with all the merchants because like merchants come up to your car. And I had this bitch in like piggy bank, this panther that was like, you know, like plaster panther standing on a rock that. And when I opened, I waited until I couldn't put a coin in. And it was like, it was like three feet tall. And I waited until I couldn't put a coin in. And I think it was like $42.

You had to break it to get the coins down? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, wow. Yeah. It was a big day. It was a big day. It was significant.

And I was like, here we go. Rolling in it. Here we go. $42. Couldn't even get the video game I wanted. You're like, why did I use pennies? there are these like i think it's like coin star or something like that now if you want to like change your coins and you go to a like grocery store and you dump your coins in there and they take like

10% of your money um yeah yeah it's like it's such a bad deal but i guess saves you from rolling up all those uh rolls yeah one of the first things alexie and i did when uh we first started dating is my that shitty apartment i had on bleaker street push uh i had a junker street push uh i had a giant jar that I had had for like 12 years that I had just put every coin in. And I was working on SNL, so I was getting a lot of coins. But we took it to a coin star. And it was like 700 bucks. Wow.

Wow. When you think about it. And it was really, I mean, yeah, dumping it, it was a wonderful feeling to get. Oh, satisfying. It's very satisfying. And I didn't have to break a Mexican artifact. Oh my God, so sad. So sad.

Manizuma, I could hear the soul of Monizuma. I was in South Africa. It was, you did release the soul of someone who had been captured, so it was actually good. Yeah. I'm free! I went to South Africa and I was at like this market and I remember, uh, I like that the soul was Larry from sit and sleep. Yeah.

He was like, why is I go to Mexico? go. So I bought this wooden hippo, this carved wooden hippo because I knew my mom would love it. It was so heavy.

And then I had to have it in my luggage for the rest of my time in South Africa. And then I was living in Amsterdam. So then I had to bring it back to Amsterdam

and I had to bring it back to America. And I gave it to mom for Christmas. With that said, Posh. She still has it. Loves it. Yeah.

Loves it. Still on display. 20 years in, the wooden hippo is maybe one of the best presents I got her. Yeah. Did you have to

Haggle? I'm not a good haggler. Yeah. Same. I just am like, what do you? What do you? I'm like, you know what I mean? What do you want it to be? That's why, but I will say, I'm rolling in jars of coins. What do you want? I, it's, it's actually been a benefit to me because Alexi is so, like, she's such a haggler that because of my inability to do it. And it is like, I think you're either wired to do it or not. And like, they can tell if you don't have real haggler eyes.

Yes. You know what I mean? You're paying full for eight. You have to learn it before the age of five or you do. But she's always like, I'll do it. Like she'll never send me to do any sort of, you know, transaction with anyone. Yeah. No trust. So that's why I like, I never have to do anything. That's why you have so few hippos. Yeah, I just have the one.

Well, but I paid so much for the first one. I could never even before. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Would you guys, did you find yourself in Los Angeles from time to time? Yeah, frequently, frequently. We went back and forth. And then when I was 15, I auditioned for the arts high school here in L.A. So we moved. We moved back when I was 16 to Manhattan Beach.

Gotcha. And was that, was it hard to leave Big Bear? Was it hard to say goodbye to friends at that age? At the time it was. I felt like, oh, I'm leaving my whole social life. But thank goodness. Thank gosh, I did. Thank gosh.

because, yeah, I mean, that decision put me on a path that has led to, you know, all the Zoltar wishes coming true, basically. And did the sibling, did your siblings, were they like, were doing this because Taryn wants to go to high school? It was really hard for them. Yeah. Yeah. It was really tough.

And ultimately, I think they're happy for it, but it made for a turbulent middle and high school experience. for sure. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry, babies. Have you as an adult taken a trip with your parents, all your siblings? Have there been big kill them trips?

We were supposed to do Norway and then the pandemic happened. Yeah, we had one planned for our parents' 50th anniversary. Where were you going to go? We were going to send them with you to Norway. Oh, right. Right, I remember now. I remember. We were going to do Lake Placid we were going to do.

Okay. With the crocodile. Huh? What? Oh, from the film, Lake Placett? Is that the Oliver Platt, Betty White joint? It might well be. Oh, Betty White.

You're right. Lake Placid. Betty White was in Lake Placin. That was kind of like before I feel like everybody appreciated Betty White was like a national treasure. I would argue it brought her back in a little, like it kind of. It was a reminder. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

No, no big, they went to Hawaii when I was an adult and I think I was working and couldn't go. And I've always been a little envious of that trip because it was a real family bonding trip. And they'll be like, ah, remember Maui? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, oh, oh, you got that in Maui, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was special. After we had that really important talk. Yeah, that was beautiful.

And I'm just like sitting there. Well, I was on Mad TV. Yeah. You were. Yeah. You left UCLA. How early did you leave UCLA? After one year.

I only made it one year. And I loved, I loved UCLA. I was one of the best years of my life. And still my closest friends are the friends I made that year. In your freshman year, get out. Yeah. Yep. And did you leave because you got on Mad TV or did you leave?

Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And how did you as a freshman and how did that audition even come to pass? Through Keenan. Like Keenan and I were repped by the same manager and Mad called inquiring about Keenan. They're like, would he ever consider? And my manager said, no, Keenan, Keenan's sort of fielding other offers because it was the year before he got S&L. Yeah. And they said, take a look at this kid. This kid is, this kid's full of beans.

Wow. All right. Taryn, we're going to let you go because your throat is we're going to let you rest it, but we're going to make you do the speed round. Okay, great, great, great. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous, or educational? Relaxing. What is your favorite means of transportation? Driving a car myself. If you can 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?

I mean, Michael, Michael Yuri said me on this podcast, so I want to return that favor. Yeah. So maybe Michael and Ryan or the Kelsey's. Yeah, that's good one. The Colesies would be really fun. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? My wife. Dream vacation destination.

A Nile River Cruise. Ooh, excellent. That's great. On a houseboat. Yeah, back to the houseboat, but I'm not captaining it. Yeah, yeah. Do you consider yourself being from Big Bear? Yes.

If you were trying to get more families to come visit Big Bear, how would you sell it? Beautiful nature, fresh air, two hours from L.A., and the Performing Arts Center is a wonderful facility to see live theater. Great. I will say, you know, I said earlier on not worth it, but I have gone in other months, not skiing months, and it is like there's some incredible hikes around there. Yeah. It's beautiful. Too little too late. Yeah. Great, great elevation. Great elevation. Yeah, great. decent elevation. We get up to eight.

Seth has our final questions. Taryn, have you been to the Grand Canyon? I have. Was it worth it? It absolutely was. Yes, it was beautiful. Have you gone just once? You feel like a guy who maybe has gone multiple times? I only went once when I moved from New York to L.A. We rented an RV and we drove cross-country.

Amazing. And so all four of us got to experience it for the first time together, which was awesome. What did you, did you go into the canyon or did you stay? Northside. We were up. We're up high. And we came from the north side. Yeah. It was awesome. We saw the buffalo in the, you know, roaming in the fields. It was magical. Well, it is always so lovely to talk to you. I love you so much, buddy.

I'm very excited. We obviously have a great many friends from Chicago, but I'm happy to know that no matter who wins, I will have a friend who is happy. Good people will celebrate. Good people will celebrate. I'm not for the pod, but I don't look at my phone during podcast, but it did explode just a second ago.

Mike Tomlin has resigned as the coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Oh, no. Wow. Wow. I mean, it's the way, I'm so happy it ended like that on his own case. That they didn't fire him. Yeah, yeah. 19 years never had a losing record. Incredible. Incredible. My favorite Tomlin story is when they're at the Super Bowl and he brought all the guys into his room the night before and played Phil Collins in the air tonight. Do you know this? No. He brought the team in to his hotel room and he dimmed the lights and he said, I want you all close your eyes. And I want you all to think about what we're playing for. And I want you all to listen to this and play in the air tonight. And it's so long before that drum beat happened. Oh, so long.

It's so slow. I just, I can't imagine like all those 250 pounds, 64 guys just. And then they talked for a long time as to whether or not it was a hoax that that kid died. Yeah. We're wondering if it was a silent disco and they could change He was like everybody. He goes, everybody goes, everybody goes to which side of the room? If you think that story's true.

And as soon as the drums break, you just meet in the middle. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Love you, buddy. Well, congrats. Love you very much. Love to Kobe. Love to your kids. It's great to see you, man.

Thanks, buddy. Good to see you guys. Thanks, pal. Bye. Thank you. Taryn first night spent