Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - Temple Mishaps, Rafting with Mr. Darcy & A Sacre Bleu Moment: Listener Episode #21

Episode Date: February 26, 2026

Seth and Josh are back with the monthly listener episode, and it's a very special one because THE Hilary Meyers subs in for Seth this month! Josh and Hilary listen to hilarious stories from a temple visit gone wrong, to one woman's recounting of her father telling the kids to prepare to jump out of a moving car, and we even hear the podcast's first poem submitted by a listener! 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 https://speakpipe.com/familytripspod! Watch more Family Trips episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlqYOfxU_jQem4_NRJPM8_wLBrEEQ17B6 Support our sponsors: Cheers Same night out — way better morning with Cheers. For a limited time our listeners are getting 20% off their entire order by using code trips at https://CheersHealth.com #Cheers #ad Warby Parker Our listeners get 15% off plus free shipping when they buy two or more pairs of prescription glasses at https://WarbyParker.com/trips — using our link helps support the show. #WarbyParker #ad Superpower Take the guesswork out of getting healthy in 2026. Get full body testing that goes 5x deeper than an annual physical and a personalized action plan that tells you exactly what to do next. All for just $199. Go to https://Superpower.com and use code TRIPS for $20 off your membership this year. Hexclad Find your forever cookware @hexclad and get 10% off at https://hexclad.com/trips #hexcladpartner Kachava Go to https://kachava.com and use code TRIPS for 15% off your first order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Family Trips Brothers. Hey, tripsters. We've got a listener episode for you today. And this is a very special listener episode because Sufi is once again, he's out on the road. He's traveling. He didn't have time for you. He didn't have time for me. So we are joined by none other than my mother, Hillary Myers, also known as Mommy Girl, but most often known as Hurry.

Hi, Harry. How are you? Hi. Good morning. This is very exciting. I know. Thank you for stepping in. I got to say, the listener episodes of all the episodes we do, they're the most relaxed for us. So I think this is a good entree for you. How are you? All good. All good. Living in a winter wonderland here in Bedford, New Hampshire. Yeah. You guys are getting slammed, aren't you? Well, the snow has since Christmas, the snow's been on the ground, great big piles of it. It's so beautiful. I just love it. No melting. I can play shit. Yeah, and you like to go out and play in the snow, right?

Make the odd snow angel, yeah. You do have a dog that is, like, perfectly suited to the weather with Albert, the old English sheep dog. He just loves it, yeah? He loves the romping, yes, yes, yes. And he's camouflaged in the snow, so it's tricky to find him sometimes. He's predominantly white, whitish, grayish. Yes.

He is one of the things I love when I'm home is daddy will tend to get up before you. And Albert certainly gets up as soon as dad gets up and wants to go outside. But then Albert will come up and just join you in bed and sleep with you until you decide to get up. Well, he comes up around quarter to seven because he knows he gets his father up at seven. So he lays between us facing his father. because I don't like to get slubered on in the morning. That would be, yeah, slobbery, slubri. But when his father wakes up at seven, the two of them leave,

and then Albert will come back and get me at eight. He knows that is my wake-up time. And that's when the bedroom is awash in what I call poshry rainbows, the little prism that you gave me that goes in my window and covers my ceilings on a sunny day with beautiful rainbows. So it's a nice way to wake up, a big sheepdog, rainbows. It's a good way to start your day. It's a great way to start your day.

It is. Really like the prism that I got you is not, you know, it's not an expensive thing, but it sort of it really delivers in terms of bang for your buck. If you're looking for a gift, if you know of someone who has a window that gets some sun in it, they're so nice. We have one hanging in our window. and when, you know, when the living room gets all rainbowy, there's something that's just magical about it. Yeah. I bought them for a bunch of my friends.

And, yeah, they're like $5 or $6 each. I mean, it's nothing. You put a little wire string on them, heavy string. And yeah, they're fabulous. Yeah. Just talking about trips real quickly. You mentioned that you maybe had a trip story that you wanted to tell. So I want to give you the floor.

Yeah. I'd only told ones about. our immediate family, but my sisters, I'm one of four sisters and my mother. We started an annual reunion about 25, 30 years ago, and we went on a trip every year for a week. We went all over the world, Bermuda, Quebec, Amsterdam, all over the United States. It would be a week. We do have two brothers. They were never invited. The husbands were never invited. It was strictly the girls. Yeah. And one year, a friend of mine at school said, we just took a penny shet down a canal in France. And I thought, wait a minute, what is a penny shed? And what's the deal? Yeah, I think everyone listening also had the question, what's a penny shed? And we're all glad that you swung back around to it.

So it's like a little mini houseboat slash barge, because it goes down canals. So you go through locks and stop in all kinds of little towns where there's a winery. get free wine, walk in the little towns. And it's very little traffic on the canal, so it's kind of ideal. But this friend of mine had gone with her husband, and of course we have no men in our group. And you think of a skipper of a ship as being a man, at least I do. But then my sister Alex famously learned to be quite the sailor in Marblehead, Massachusetts growing up, and taught sailing in North Carolina when she lived there. So I thought, well, she can maneuver this boat.

How hard can it be? And of course, she could maneuver. It was no problem. They showed her the maps and she said, I got it. So we just floated down these canals for a week. And at night, you would tie up to a pier. And usually there would maybe be two other boats at the most. And you'd go into the town and have dinner or do whatever you wanted to walk about.

So one night, we all got dressed up and went into the town. And we came back. And there's a Frenchman at the end of the pier. saying, madame, madame, sacre bleu, mon dieu, mon dieu, that must be your boat. So our boat is floating down the canal. And somebody had not fastened it tightly. I believe I was put in charge of that job. Why were you put in charge of that? Because she can't do everything. She threw up her hands and said, I can't do everything here. So I said, well, I'll tie it up. Well, apparently not well. So we're watching the boat go away with all of our belongings.

And, you know, what do we do? So my sister Alex, no problem, takes her dressed off, pulls it off over her head, and is wearing, of course, a very attractive set of black lace bra and panties, dives off the boat and swims to the boat. It was not close. Swims to the boat, jumps up on it, and brings it back to the pier, at which point the Frenchmen that are standing there clap and clap and, yes, a big hats off to my sister Alex

who saved the day. Yeah, who also, I mean, not to, I guess it's strange to talk about your aunt's breasts, but she would have had no trouble with buoyancy. She was what is known in our family and around the world, I think, as a va-va-va-voom. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, she's something else.

I also love how stereotypical that Frenchman is, unless maybe that is what they all say. They would all say sacrableau. Americans, we like to think that. Yeah. You also, you were shooting a video on like a camcorder, I believe, on that trip. Because at the time you were still a French teacher at the junior high school. You were my French teacher. You were Seth's French teacher.

And you sort of, you made a video to show. show in class where you're speaking French. And I found that tape a few years ago. Oh, no way. I didn't remember that. Oh, yeah, yeah. And I haven't converted. I mean, it was one of those gigantic ones and I'm all shaky. Yeah, I don't think it was a great teaching aid. The video that you eventually brought to those people. But it really sort of shows what your days were like. And yeah, it was great. Yeah. So Sam, I think we've got some stories, I believe? Yeah, we do. We have a few stories. We have a question. We have a poem. So we have a lot of fun stuff. Oh, boy. Very good. Well, let's hear our first story. Hi, Seth and Josh. My name is Jean from Manchester, New Hampshire. Huge fan of the podcast. Been listening since week one. This family trip includes myself and my uncle. A bit of a backstory. My uncle was adopted at the age of 10 from South Korea in the 1970s. I'm now in my 40s and as I have grown into an adult, my uncle and I have been very close. We both love traveling.

He's the most well-traveled person I have ever met, from safaris to climbing Mount Kilimanjaro a few years back. I've also done my fair share of traveling, including being a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador and gallivanting around South America. My uncle and I had talked for years about how cool it would be if I went back with him to Seoul to meet his biological siblings and see where he grew up. It finally happened in April of 2025, so many emotions, so many memories. I wanted to fully engage in the South Korean culture, so we tried all the food. Ten out of ten recommend any and all seafood you can get your hands on, took a bus tour across the country and learned about historical places and people, went to so many open-air markets and explored multiple Buddhist temples.

This is the backdrop for our family trip mishap. We arrived at the temple and entered without our shoes, which is customary. We sat on pillows in silence. I was enamored with the ornate statues of Buddha, the aroma of incense, and the passion of those worshipping and praying. Unbeknownst to us, there was a service beginning in a few moments. People began showing up, picking their pillows, kneeling and praying. I was truly transported to a spiritual place as an observer to this part of the Korean culture. Suddenly, two monks walked in and took their places toward the altar.

My uncle and I made eyes. as we were now in a service, and we had no idea what to do. We telepathically spoke to each other. How long will this last? And what should we do? As the service began, people started kneeling. Some were bowing. We were definitely fish out of water. I should also mention that I'm five foot nine. There's no way around looking completely out of place. I continue to savor the moment when the kind man next to us began to motion when we should stand or sit or kneel. He would knock on the floor if we needed to change our positions to meet that of the crowd. Our embarrassment turned to semi-comfort.

That was until I looked at my clock and realized that we were supposed to be meeting up with my uncle's friend for lunch and a tour of downtown Seoul. We again spoke telepathically that we should walk out of the temple as respectfully as possible. We stood and bowed toward the altar and the rest of the people toward the door, which was not the door that we had entered through. Once through the door, we thought we were good. we would simply walk out the door, gather our shoes back at the entrance. Boy, were we wrong. We were staying in an electrical closet that also posed as an emergency exit.

The doors to the outside had a big red X on them. We panicked. The only way out was back through the entire temple. So we took a deep breath and walked back through, bowing again toward the crowd and the altar to the entrance door. We were sweating bullets and laughing together as only my uncle and I can't. That's great. That's a great one.

Boy, she could sure paint a picture, Arjean. Nice job. Yeah, exactly. That's those situations where you have to get up and walk out of somewhere and you know every eye is going to be on you. It's just the worst. We saw, I don't know if you remember the musician Suzanne Vega, but McKenzie and I saw her earlier in the week at Largo, this great little venue in Los Angeles. and I was in the front row on the left-hand side,

and I just had to go to the bathroom. And I was like, she's so cool. And I knew that if I got up, she was gonna see me. And I told McKenzie, I was like, I have to go, but I don't wanna go because I don't want Suzanne Vega to think that I'm like, disson her, because she's so good. Right. Yeah, but a religious ceremony as well

is a different level of something to have to walk out of. Yeah, and I thought for sure, when you went out that other door, I was thinking, uh-oh, their shoes aren't going to be there. Yeah, I thought, like, well, they certainly weren't where the shoes were, but I, with that red X on the door, I thought that they were maybe going to set off a fire alarm and have the whole place have to do that. Oh, my gosh, I didn't even think of that.

Yeah, fire alarm would have been the worst. Yeah. Well, the good thing to know is that if, I think Buddhists are pretty forgiving. Yes. There's Zen. There's a, they can deal with distraction. They can handle it better than, uh, I think. Better than Daddy, I would say.

Better than most of us. Better than most of us. What a great uncle to have. Great experiences. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. And I feel like that's the kind of trip that you just have to say, we have to do this.

Yeah. And yeah. I mean, particularly, I mean, going somewhere where someone's from when they have real history, it's, they can be such good tour guides. And then if you have, you know, old friends, old family that you can meet up with, those trips, those trips are amazing. Yeah, yeah. Great story, Gene. Yeah. Thank you, Gene.

And, like, you've got some cousins in England that came on that trip when you and your sisters and your mom came to Amsterdam. Yes. Jane and the two Janes. The two Janes. The two Jane's. Yeah. No. It's wonderful.

so nice to have people that you are connected to that you don't really know that well, but there's there's something that there is a glue there. There is. Yeah. A lot of cases, they call it family. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

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We had a bar mitzvah in Austin, Texas, and we were trying to find a hotel to stay at. And then we realized, you know what, we'll be nice, is if we, have sort of a home base where maybe other people can stop by. And we had a lot of friends and family that were there. And it was so lovely to have a beautiful lawn on a gorgeous day where people would stop by and hang out with us. And it was all because we booked through Airbnb. Well, that's just terrific, Suf.

Yeah, we played football on the front lawn. A little wiffle ball on the front lawn. When was the last time you played a wiffle ball in front of a place you stayed that wasn't booked on Airbnb? I could not tell you. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, hotels are great, but they're not going to let you play a wiffleball.

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I had extremely idealistic views of what love was. So you can imagine we felt madly and deeply in love very quickly. so quickly that in three months' time, he invited me to go on a trip with his parents to a camp and go whitewater rafting near West Virginia at a place with the unfortunate name of Ohio Pile, a town in the middle of nowhere. Fun fact, it's the location of a little film called Silence of the Lambs. Because I was in this stage of relationship where I wanted to sound cold, I said, that sounds great, even though it did not sound great.

But this guy, let's call him Mr. Darcy, was a rugged-up. outdoorsmen, love nature, thought nothing of throwing a backpack on and hiking the Alicany Trail for a week with his dad. On the drive down with his parents, Mr. Darcy was explaining that there are three levels of whitewater rafting. The one-two rapids were for people who didn't know what they were doing. The three-four rapids were for people who could navigate their way through a river. And the five-six rapids were for people who basically had a death wish. He told us, I sign the four of us up for the three, four rapids because Dad and I know what we're doing. But as we were walking up to the riverbank the morning of, Mr. Darcy led us over to the line of

the five, six rapids. When we all looked at him confused, he said, oh, they were out of room in the three, four rapid group. So I decided we'd just push ourselves and do the five, six. It'll be fine. Well, Mrs. Darcy is in her early 50s, and Darcy Sr. was in his late 60s, but, you know, I'm here for the ride. So our guide told us that this three-hour tour would culminate in this incredible rapid that they called the double hydraulic, which is as awful as it sounds. It's like one wave hits you, then another one just smacks you back again. We watched as other boats got through the rapids, unscathed, and then it was our turn.

It's as if the river were saving up all its rage just for the Darcy family. And when we started going into the first hydraulic, the first wave hit our boat up, halfway, then the second wave knocked us all the way over. Darcy Sr. was tossed out of the boat, flew through the air, and landed in the boat behind us with his glasses broken on top of his head. Mr. Darcy, the cute guy, fell under the boat and couldn't come up for air, which was fine with me at this point. Mrs. Darcy hit her ankle on a rock. I heard the crunching sound from the fetal position that I was in where I was questioning my life choices at this point. So on the way to the campground, when we're all asking, why were we on a five, six river that we had no business going on, Mr. Darcy chuckled and said,

funny story, there really was room on the three, four rapids, but I thought it would be good for us to challenge ourselves. I'm sure we'll all laugh about this someday. Dead silence. His dad turned around from the front seat and said, are you kidding me? His mom holding her ankle just glared at him. And I'll be damned if I'm not in the back seat with him and I think, nope, he's still cute. So the next day, Mrs. Darcy goes to the doctor and finds out her ankle is broken. But you know what's not broken? The spell this guy has cast on me because 33 years and two kids later, Mr. Darcy, my husband Craig, continues to take me down adventures pass but knows I will never go whitewater rafting with him again.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I mean, if you were already married, that's grounds for divorce. Yes. Yeah. I thought for sure you were going to say you cut him loose. Yeah, of course. Of course.

That's like my old man, we'd go on ski trips, and he always, I used to nickname him, Mr. Map, because he always had to get out the pictures of the slopes and which. which runs of go where, which one shall we choose? And I always said, do not be going near those black diamonds. And you'd say, oh, I made a little miscalculation. A black diamond. I don't want to risk life and limb ever. Yeah.

Ever. Yeah. That's a crazy story. For the Darcy Sr. to be launched from one boat to another boat. Into the other, I know. And his mom to break an ankle. I mean, I wonder if Eileen's in-laws, you know, still hold that against their son, Craig, for doing that to them. I love that you call him Mr. Darcy. What a great addition to the story.

Yeah. I mean, that's young love. I fear in that. That is. That is. That held on. If you're in that Austin phase. Wow. Well, some people say they want to, they don't want to go through life straight. They want to have ups and downs and ups and. So you had a great big up, up in the air. Yeah, yeah. Ohio Pile, was that the name of the town? Silence of the lambs. I thought she was going to say deliverance. That would have been scarier.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, they're both pretty scary when it boils down to it. Oh, great story. Oh, my gosh, I can't even imagine. Also, just the double hydraulic is that you're like, oh, this is our root. that's such an intimidating name. I remember we used to, before we lived in New Hampshire, we would go visit New Hampshire

and we would drive around and do sort of all the touristy things up in the north of the state. And there were, what were those caves called? The polar caves, I think. The polar caves. And, you know, some of those were, I know there was like a lemon squeezer. I was going to say the lemon squeezer.

You had to be thin enough to get through there. Yeah. But they sort of, there would be some names that would be like, hey, do you really want to do this one? The lemon squeezer, because I was a very skinny, awkward little boy, I could get through there. But I don't think, I don't know if anyone else, any of the rest of you could.

But, yeah, double hydraulic is not something I would have any interest in going down. I can't, yeah. That was a scary, scary story. My heart was in my mouth. Thank goodness I wasn't on that boat. Yeah, no. I think we're all glad you weren't on that boat. Thank you so much, Eileen.

And yeah, I mean, there is also something to be said for, you know, going through something with someone does make you closer. Yes. Yeah. And the memory. You'll always have that memory, certainly. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Great story. I'm glad you guys made it through that. Made it through two kids. I'll bet the two kids seemed like a cakewalk after a start like that. Childbirth was nothing after that. Nothing. Yeah. Not after the double hydraulic. No. Thank you so much, Eileen. Sam, I think we got another story. Hi, Josh and Seth. My name is Andrea. I live in Spokane, Washington. And I really enjoy listening to your. listener story episodes, and I thought I would share one from my own childhood. I am the youngest of five. I have four older brothers, and my parents were a real country mouse, city mouse marriage. My mother, who was from rural farming country in Nebraska, and my father, an immigrant kid from Brooklyn, New York. We grew up in a western suburb of Chicago and spent a lot of time in the car going between these two parts of the country.

We spent many summers on our grandparents' farm in Nebraska. One summer, when it was just my next older brother and I, we were driving from one side of Nebraska to the other side to see relatives. As you can imagine, there are long stretches in Nebraska that are very desolate. That is where we were, when our father, who was driving, ran over a piece of tire, and it punctured the gas tank. I can remember looking out the back window of the Pontiac sedan we were driving in and seeing gas pouring out onto the highway. Even as a 10-year-old, I knew that was not a good sign.

Our father, who was not a very mechanically minded man, also knew this was not a good sign. In his wisdom, we kept driving at speed down the highway, and what made a big impression on me was when our father said, children, put your shoes on in case we need to jump. We didn't jump. There were no explosions that day. I don't really remember how this story ended, except I have a vague memory of riding in a tow truck cab with my mother. I love the show, and I love remembering my own family adventures.

Thanks. Oh, my gosh. Just be ready to jump. Jump out of a moving car? Is that what the implication is? I think the implication is, is if what if this thing catches fire? And if it catches fire, then there could be an explosion right on the heels. And if that's the case, we're going to have to jump.

You need your shoes on for this. Yeah, it's a good idea to have your shoes on. It's actually, it's a great idea to have your shoes on. Oh, my gosh. Dripping gas. I thought she was going to say the tire blew out, which is bad enough. But dripping. Oh, my God.

Yeah. Yeah. Disaster averted. Yeah, thank goodness. Yeah, driving across a highway when something goes wrong with your car, like on a long, on a long desolate drive is a very uncomfortable place to be in. Yeah. I remember when we drove, we went to Vegas from California. Yeah.

And that drive, and I thought for so long you don't see another car and you think, geez, if we run out of gas here, what happens? It's kind of terrifying. And I'm sure that road in Nebraska was similar. Yeah. There's in Iceland, I believe it's like a law that says if you see a car on the side of the road, you have to stop. Because there are so few cars in some of these roads. So if you're, you know, if you're broken down or no one has to know what your situation is, they just have to check and see, hey, are you okay? They need to check on you.

That's a great good news. neighbor rule. Yeah. Well, also, they're all related over there. That's true. That's true. Sven is brothers with Finn and yeah. Yeah, to keep it on the family trips thing. Every trip is a family trip in Iceland. That's true. That's true. No matter where you go. Great story. Great story. Thank you, Andrea. All right, Sam. What's next? We have another story? Yes, we do. I want to play that right now. Hi, Josh and Seth. My name is Whitney. A fun fact about my family is that my children will go to the same high school as Bob Hodingirk. And I only learn that fact because I listen to your conversation with him. I've listened to every conversation of this podcast on the day of release because I adore you too. I respect your parents and how they raised you. I'm thankful for your emotional intelligence and communication with each other. I didn't grow up with a family like yours, but I wish I had. And your family gives me hope that my family can grow to be like your family when my kids are grown.

I feel like I'm already a lot like Hillary because I talk a lot. I'll say a little, and I drink gin and tonics if I'm not drinking old-fashioned. Getting to the point, my comment today is about the Alberts. Your dad calls every dog Albert, and I call every female red squirrel I have a friend, tum-tum. I've lived in my house for 12 years now. The original tum-tum would cool off by spreading out her tummy and cool objects like a shaded stone or a treeline. I did my best to befriend her. But she's passed on and I continue my attempts to befriend all her children. I assume I'm on my third tum-tum. My daughter and I are now determined to befriend any squirrels possible and I figured Josh being in

nature lover would appreciate this story. I appreciate his nature stories, even ones about helping slugs. In another timeline, I'd like to think we'd be friends. Thank you for giving me so much joy week after week. Thank you for every smile, giggle, and laugh out loud moment. Oh, Whitney, that's... Oh, my gosh. That just warmed my heart. Another gin and tonic fan that's French speaking. I was going to say what warmed my heart is that she liked our family. family, but I know. I guess gin and tonics. Yeah.

Oh my gosh. Yeah, we've, it's, Albert is not the first animal that we've had the same name for. I think it all started with our frogs. Yep. They were all jimmies. They were all jimmy because we, we would catch a frog out in the woods and we would make a little box for it. And then I don't know if the frogs would die.

I'm guessing that would be what would happen or maybe you guys would just be you guys don't need a frog anymore and it would be released. They had another life to live. Yeah, so we would always say Jimmy ran away and then any frog we found moving forward regardless of size, color, whatever,

maybe it was a toad, we weren't that particular but we always said Jimmy came home. He came home, yeah, it was always a good story. And then also all of our the chipmunks all have the same name Seth had a name Seth wanted to call them Rufus

and I said we should call a chipmunk Fabi because they are babies so all of the chipmunks were Rufus Fabi which is a which was really disappointed Seth but it sort of sticks in our mind

Yeah it does It does Yeah there's something to a consistency of a name of a single kind of animal. Yes. That's comforting. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Because a lot of times with these animals, you can't build a long relationship, but if you just keep stringing them together, it can be your whole life. That's right. That's right. Oh, yeah. Well, I hope one day maybe you and a tum-tum can really connect, Whitney. I'm sure you will.

Just keep at it. Keep at it. Whitney, thanks for all the kind words. Thank you. Very, very touching. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from Kachava. Hey, Trippsters, Pashi here.

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Hi, wondering if you guys ever considered doing some awards called The Joshies. The songs are so great. I thought guests could nominate their song. and maybe listeners could vote on the top three. I feel like Josh puts a ton of work into them and maybe doesn't get all the recognition he deserves and curious how they're received by the guests. So thanks and thanks for great listening.

Really appreciate it. Go Steelers. Oh, gosh. Go Steelers. The songs are unbelievable. Just from a mom's point of view, they are so great. look forward to them. Yep. Yeah, we, I will say, you know, in this world of AI, I imagine there's a way that I could use

AI to make this all easier on me. I still have not and I don't, I really don't want to. You know, there's something I feel like that would be lost in that, but it does take sometimes a lot of time. Sure. And as I get busier, you know, I have. like a second podcast now, this California Now podcast. And then I have life and I have, you know, other jobs that crop up. Sometimes these songs really, uh, really are a challenge for me. But I do enjoy it. And, um, we do send the songs to the guests, uh, in a thank you email afterwards. They don't have my email address. I'm not connected to everyone that we, we talk to and we sort of, I think we communicate through our people, as you say.

But, you know, occasionally someone will reach out and say, oh, that was really something else. They're like your signature songs. They have your signature on them and it wouldn't be the same if you did a AI thing. Yeah. Like your father, when I did a book review on a pod sets late night lit, podcast and I always run them by him and he'll edit them and whatever, put commas in. I say, I'm reading this. I don't need a comma. Well, you need to know when to pause. Maybe. But anyhow, I type this one and then he brings it back to me and it's totally different. And he said, I think this one's better. So I read it. I said, well, it's totally different.

What is it? He said, it's AI. I just put it in there and it's much better than yours. And I said, no, it's not in my voice. It's not. It's pretend. I'm not. And the late night lit people said, no, we're not, Hillary has a certain style and it's staying there. So your songs are your songs. They're signature posh. Yeah.

So, yeah, I mean, maybe we'll come up with something where people can vote for their faves of the year. That's a great idea. Great idea. I love it. Yeah. I also another thing, you know, another thing I was thinking of doing,

which would just take. some time because we've done, I don't know, we must be coming up on a couple hundred episodes, but I kind of want to put together just a public Spotify playlist of all the songs that inspire the songs. Yeah. I feel like that would be a good thing to have because sometimes people are like, I don't know that song, but if you could just go check on Spotify or something like that. Did you start from the very beginning? Was there a song in the very first one? I can't remember. Yeah. Yeah. Because I did these songs, I do these songs for our for fantasy football draft weekends.

And, you know, it also, it started because, you know, Seth's friends, who are also my friends, but guys and Seth's here, they would do original songs for weekends when they would get together. Hot Dog the Weekend is a classic. You know, just sort of silly songs that hit for a very, very targeted demographic, which is this group of 12 guys. Right. And then I started working with our friend Doug Stradley and Jake Miller to sort of do songs. And then at some point I just sort of, yeah, I would do one every year.

And then Seth said once we were starting this podcast that I should maybe do a song for each episode, not, I guess, realizing that we would be doing hundreds of these. So, yeah, we will take that under advisement to have the Joshies, or maybe the Poshies, I guess, makes more sense. But great suggestion. Thank you for that. Sam, do we have anything else? Yeah, we have one more thing. I'm going to go ahead and move to for you.

Hi, Josh and Seth. This is Jen from Boston. I love your podcast. And I was trying to think of a family trip story that I could. share, but I didn't have any funny ones. So I decided to do something that I don't think any other listener has done, which is to write a poem about the podcast. So here it is. I have to give credit to Jimmy Kimmel on Strike Force 5 for talking about family trips, although he didn't talk about the podcast for long. He did mention that Seth's brother at the end of each episode would sing an original

song. Seth Myers has a brother and they have a podcast. I thought, that's fun. So I set out to listen to them one by one. At first I was confused as to who was Josh and who was Seth. I almost thought it was a game. Because when you first listen, you will hear that these brothers sound exactly the same. They chat before the guest comes on and catch up on each other's lives. talks a lot about his kids, but there's not as much talk about their lovely wives. They talk about their parents, Larry and Hillary, and even though they are all super close, Seth jokes that their parents, without a doubt, like Josh the most. They've had so many guests in the podcast, some I didn't even know, Timothy Oliphant, Ayakash,

Josh Homi, and Paul Dano. Some guests talk about family trips and other. will say, we never went anywhere, and I don't have any stories to tell. This makes Larry furious. This is called family trips. No vacations, no trips? What the hell? Seth is very quick with the jokes and great at chatting with guests old and new.

But sometimes it's hard to tell. Is this a podcast about family trips or the old SNL crew? No. Occasionally they listen or stories where some read from the kids. the page and others ad lib if they're able. One of my faves is the mother who got carried into the house on a picnic table. No matter what kind of episode they have, Josh writes a song for each, and they are all amazing to hear. I'm not sure how he continues to come up with great songs year after year. Thanks Josh and Seth for making a podcast that's interesting and super fun.

I love it so much. In my book, your podcast, is number one. Oh, my God. And I hope it is Larry Myers approved. Thanks, bye. I'm sure it will be. Bravo, Jen. Thank you.

And that is not been done before. So we really appreciate that. Also, I think of all of us, hurry, you are our most literate, not literate in terms of you can read and write. But you're the most literary-minded. Probably, yes. So for a poem to come in here on an episode. When I'm the guest host, it's wonderful, yeah.

Yeah. Beautiful job. Very flattering. I love that the listeners are such loyal listeners. Yeah, yeah, we do too. Yeah. That Strike Force Five song, I do think that was a very good song. But I, you know, Jimmy asked if I would do one.

and I did one to, it's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday by Boys to Men. And then Seth was like, I don't think this is the right vibe. So I had to do two songs for that one. The Suf was like, yeah, that one's, and it was really good, but it was just like slower. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. And, yeah. So there is, there's a hidden track out there, everybody. Yeah, but maybe we'll. throw that up someday. Maybe if there's another strike and Strike Force Five comes back. There we go. Cool. Very cool. I'll give it on that. Well, hurry, this has been so lovely to host a podcast with you, and it's been nice. Sufi hasn't been here to talk about SNL. Yeah. Yeah. Or stand-up. I appreciate the invite, and I appreciate being on my own.

So I can, I don't have to, yes, out-talk your father, which is difficult. It's very difficult. Yeah. Yeah, that's why you can just go take a nap. Well, you have your chair up in your room where you go to read a book. You call it Gray Gardens. That's right. You can always just sort of pull the rip cord and float up to Grey Gardens with a book.

I do. I spend a lot of time there. A lot of quiet time. Reflecting time. Yeah. All right. Well, I enjoyed myself. This was so much fun.

Yeah. Yeah. You were wonderful, Harry. Thank you so much. And thanks to all the listeners with your stories and your questions and your poem. Jen, really brought it home. We love you, listeners. Thank you.

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