Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - Upper West Side Turkey & A Sea Sick Thanksgiving: Listener Episode #18 in Pittsburgh!

Episode Date: November 25, 2025

We're back with our monthly listener episode and this time...we're coming at you live from Pittsburgh with two sets of Meyers brothers! Seth and Josh take Ashe and Axel to watch the Steelers game, along with (of course) Larry and Hilary! They chat about their weekend in Pittsburgh, getting turkey cupcakes, what the boys were most looking forward to on this trip, and more! Plus, they listen to a few listener stories and answer some questions. From an Upper West Side turkey, to a dog that just couldn't wait for a feast of his own, to one woman's sea sick holiday, this episode is a fun one!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! Interested in contributing to the Grand Canyon Fundraiser? Visit tinyurl.com/familytripsfundraiser Support our sponsors: BluelandStock up on sustainable cleaning products for yourself, or to give a beautiful, sustainable gift to your friends and family this holiday season, go to Blueland.com/trips and save up to 30% during Blueland’s holiday sale! Don’t wait! They only do this once a year!SuperpowerHead to Superpower.com and use code TAKE20 at checkout for $20 off your membership. Live up to your 100-Year potential. #superpowerpodMiracle MadeUpgrade your sleep with Miracle Made! Go to https://trymiracle.com/TRIPS and use the code TRIPS to claim your FREE 3 PIECE TOWEL SET and SAVE over 40% OFF.Aura FramesExclusive $45-off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/TRIPS. Promo Code TRIPS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Family Chips with the Maya's brothers. Family chips with the Myers brothers. We are in the Berg and we're all here in person. Sound off. Hey, this is Larry. This is Hillary, or hurry, I should say. And this is Pashi. And we're back, we're back for the 10th year we've come to Pittsburgh.

Yeah, for a game. 10th year, 10th year for a game. And we have, we have some guest stars. Some guest stars. Instead of my little boys, Sufi and Pashi, there's other little boys here. Yeah. Who do you got downstairs? We got Ash and Axel, Myers Redue.

We're, yeah, we're doubling up. We got bonus brothers. This time it's serious. Yep. And how do you feel about having them in your ancestral homeland? Oh, it's great. They seem to be so excited to be here. They don't know anything really about Pittsburgh or football, to be honest.

And it started out great at the airport. You came into the Airbnb with Ash. And your expectation was that I would, of course, have access with me as well. Axel. And so I come down to the escalator and I see Josh and he has a very large suitcase. And he comes up and he starts walking toward us and then popping up from behind the suitcase, charging across the floor is Axel. It was such a surprise. I don't know if a kid ever says as many times as Axel did how excited they are for the Fort Pitt Tunnel and where is the Fort Pitt Tunnel and are we at the Fort Pitt Tunnel and how many minutes to the Fort Pit Tunnel.

And he was so excited, and then we go through it, and you come out, and it did, the city just like bursts in front of you. Goosepumps every time I see it. Yeah, it's spectacular, and it was a spectacular day coming through it, and I was videoing. And Axel was almost, like, drooling how hard he was breathing and looking around, and I pointed out the Pittsburgh plate glass building, which looks like a castle. And he is just his eyes were wide open. and his mouth was wide open, and he was really, like, almost hyperventilating. And he was like, now this is what I call Pittsburgh.

Which is interesting, because I'm wondering what he was calling Pittsburgh before the reveal. Yeah, I feel like it's kind of like the way dad talks about Pittsburgh. And he's like, now this is Pittsburgh. It's such a funny syntax for a kid to learn, now this is what I call. Where did you learn that? It's like, because I feel like they don't see commercials anymore, and that seems like such like a tagline from like an old commercial. But yeah, man, this is what I call Pittsburgh.

Again, the anticipation for the boys was really something. And for them to fly, this is their first football game. And for them to fly into a city where you could see the stadium from the airplane. And they were definitely disobeyed, bang the, you know, please fasten your seatbelts. And Axel was shuffling back and forth in our row trying to see it. And then a woman said, it's the yellow one. She was helpful. Yeah.

And then the minute she's like, the stadium's yellow one. And they were like, are you going to the game? Are you going? We're going. And then Axel, who just knows how to be funny, she goes, oh, who are you rooting for? He goes, does Cincinnati Bengals? Like really loud, and everybody on the flight was like, oh, yeah. But the other thing that Axel did is when we came through the tunnel, if you look to the left right across the river, you can see the stadium very clearly.

And I said, look, right over there is the stadium. That's where we're going tomorrow. He goes, I already saw it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's old news. What else? Oh, we haven't had you guys on. We talked, obviously, the last time you guys were on the podcast live was in Amsterdam.

But we had a special, you know, we've talked about it a little bit on the pod, but you guys got to go to the Effinglingamusement Park in Holland for the first time, and that was with Ash. You've heard us talk about the amusement park great deal over the years. What was your take as having seen it for the first time? Oh, it was the most exciting place, I think. I've ever been. It's not like a, like you would expect a typical amusement park because they're playing classical music. There's all kinds of beautiful walks with greenery everywhere, beautiful trees.

It was so serene parts of it. It was hotter, hotter than Hades that day. And Pauzee stopped and said, Mom, I checked the weather and I'm not sure you should go because in the heat, I'm known to get a condition called the flux. The flux, yes. We've talked about the flux. Don't Google it. There's No results. Yeah. But anyhow, I was a little nervous, and I didn't bring the right clothes, so I was wearing black pants and a black sleeveless shirt. And a parka.

Boots, gloves, and a scarf. People were looking at you. They thought you were the most interesting thing there. We went on a log, flume kind of thing, spun you in the water, and everyone else, you got soaking wet, which, if you're wearing white, see-through, is not a good look for an old woman. So wearing black, I came out looking like a princess. By the way, we don't want to see any see-through on old women, irrespective of color.

I mean, just white, black, blue, green. Yeah, I think there was about the shirt, not about the actual. But the other thing I remember when we finished, there was a bus taking us back to Amsterdam, and we had walked to get out of that ballpark. Not a ballpark, that amusement park. They have a huge lake with these great fountains and a water display at the, the end. It's really something to see at the end of the day. But it was, as Harry said, it was really, really hot. And we got to the place where the bus was supposed to be, and it wasn't

there. And there was like some electrical unit. And I just sat on that and said, I'm not moving another step until that bus comes to get because we had been walking all day, all day in that heat. Yeah. I remember you boys talking about when you were there. sometimes you were on a hallucinogenic type of medication. Yeah, yeah, prescribed. It was prescribed. Yeah. So I guess that, that would have scared me to death if I'd done anything like

because there were a lot of scary. Yeah, we were pretty, that's why we were not pushing you towards that choice. On the day. We also just based on your day-to-day, hurry, I feel like you might have it inside you. I do. Everything for me is an enhanced experience. Sometimes you just think she's hallucinating anyway. It's like this morning, she said, we didn't, where we were staying, they were very nice and brought some supplies, but there was no bread. And she wanted some toast for breakfast.

And I said, well, there's a bakery right up the street. I'll go up and go to the bakery and get some bread. And she said, I don't want too much bread. And I said, well, who do you think they sell it by the slice? You know? And she said, yeah, I just want a couple slices. So, of course, nobody sells bread by the slice. Nobody.

She was acting like you were going to come back with so much bread. Yeah. Like a wheelbarrow, full of bread of all kinds. Like a giant, what they call them, mishes? It's like a giant sourdough mish. So what we did instead is we got a loaf of bread and that had the lady put two slices in a bag. This is you and Axel pulling this game.

And then so Axel comes in and says, here's your bread. And there was two slices in the bag. And it took her a minute. You said it cost $4 for the two slices and I was chug. She was so upset. She says, how much? But so sometimes you think she's hallucinating anyway. Look, I knew what you were going to be up against because he said, I'm going to go to the bakery.

And Axel wanted to go to the bakery. And you even said, there's going to be muffins and stuff. And I said, yeah, just get one thing for the boys to share. Don't let Axel bully you. And so in my head, I'm like, it's going to be a muffin or a scone or a croissant, you know? I was like, that'll be the worst. And you guys came back, and Axel pulls out of a bag, fully just like a turkey cupcake. A cupcake looks like a cake.

It's all icing. It's all frosting. It was, I had to cut it in quarters. I'm like, you have to eat this over the course of two days. Well, we were looking in the display case there. And he's, I said, everything on this side, because the other side's with like pies and cakes. And so I said, pick whatever you want. He goes, oh, scone.

And then I said, okay, we'll get a scone. And then he just looked to the left and down in the corner were these turkey cupcakes. He goes, oh, are the turkeys? The best is when you come home and explain what happened. I'm like, yeah, no, I know he saw it. Hey, we do have some questions, some listener questions and a few listener stories. Okay. All right.

A question for Hillary, and I don't know if there's an answer here, hurry, so feel free to, and if there's not one. What destination did the boys beg to visit that you absolutely refused? Oh, gosh, there was never anything you asked that I wouldn't get for you. Yeah, it seems weird. And I don't really think of a place we bet. There wasn't really anything. No, like you never said, I want to go to Hawaii or something like that. And we never were like, Europe, the idea of going to Europe as kids had never dawned at us.

I don't think we know. I don't think we knew a single kid who had ever gone. gone to Europe. No. Yeah. And even like Disneyland, you never talked about that, like the place you really wanted to go. Yeah. I mean, we went to Disney land and Disney World once. But it wasn't a begging. No, no, it wasn't. We weren't real into it. You didn't seem to be that into it either. I could see, I can't think of a specific example, but I could see us wanting to go somewhere that you just thought would have been like dirty that maybe you wouldn't have been into. Although we went to like arcades and. Yeah, there was no. There was really. There was really.

nothing. And I think the real takeaway here is if we had begged for it, a hurry would have thrown the doors open. Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. And notice how that was a question for me, but your father managed to say a few things. Yeah. He really did kind of get in there pretty quickly. Yeah. So, yeah. Okay. And I didn't, and the wording was question for Hillary and Hillary only. Please, before you ask it. And I was like, he'll know. And I'm sorry. Apologies to Lena S. I should have read the entirety of it. I'm going to go downstairs with my grandsons now. We also, we're staying at Airbnb, and it's lovely. And I'm sleeping in a very nice basement room.

Yeah. And it turns out, you know, nice and cozy. But there's also a little mini, what do you call it, foosball table. Yeah, it's like a multi-purpose game table. It has a pool table underneath and on top of that snaps a foosball table. It's about maybe three feet by one and a half feet. It's little. And Axel famously wakes up too early.

And so he woke up at 4.30 this morning. And then I let him listen to a story on this little story box he has. And then he said he was bored and he wanted to watch a movie. And I said no. And he goes, okay, I'm going to go quietly play foosball. And it was so, this is like, if you can imagine, this is what it sounded like. And I lost my mind. Here, watch a movie.

All right, here's one. Larry, you got a question here. And I won't say it work. Yeah, notice what we, try to notice the modeling we're doing. Dad, who is your favorite guest of 2025? On the, on the... On the pod, yeah. Of 2025, there's two that I really liked a lot.

One is, I won't remember her name. She's a woman. She's from Michigan. Chase Sweet Wonders. Oh, yeah, Chway Wenders. She was great. I mean, her stories about her family trying to go on vacation to the most remote place, someplace in Alaska, some place out of the Pacific, where, you know, these islanders, you know, live and eat fish and don't, nobody ever goes there. She was, she was fascinating. You know, plus then, you know, she was like went to Harvard.

She was a hockey player, and she didn't look like a hockey player. You know, she looked very slim and everything else. All her teeth. You kept saying all her teeth. That was the thing. it really sold me on her. She was great. And then more recently, I listened to the gentleman who won the Oscar. Kiwi Kwan. Kyi Kuan, who also his story, his family story was, you know, Vietnamese immigrants, one of nine, spent two years in some sort of a refugee center, and just

just a totally charming, interesting guy. And those, those are, those are. two that I really, really enjoyed a lot. And those are the two names you least want to white dad of your age to attempt. So I really appreciate in both cases. It was a real restraint there. I thought Leslie Bibb was good, too, but the name was too easy. Too easy, yeah, yeah.

And just because, I mean, it's right here, hurry, any faves that you had from last year? Oh, my gosh. The guy that sings in a group that I'd never heard of maybe queen or... Oh, Queens of the Stone Age, Josh Homme. Yeah, he was very good. Wonderful stories.

Yeah. He was the one that had the mother that's a flight. His grandmother, I think, was the first woman to fly a plane. Yeah, not somewhere, maybe in Texas. In Montana, I think it was. Yeah, it wasn't, she wasn't...

Yeah. What's her name? Amelia Earha. Great story. She's the one they found. Yeah. She's the one they found. And the interesting thing is, you know, you've never heard of these people necessarily.

I mean, somebody's in my, yes, world. But then they start talking, and some people are just wonderful storytellers. It really speaks to the value of the promotional value of being on family trips and that all your favorite guests, the way you have started is like, I'm not going to remember their name. But I am going to start listening to their music. Like, queen was it? Queens of the Stone Age. Yeah, you got it.

They were all, those are all great picks. Nicely, nicely done. Let's see. If you could, I think we can all answer these. John M. asked this, if you could snap your fingers and visit anywhere in the world, where would it be?

The graves of my enemies. The Grand Canyon. No way. See if he can't answer that because he can't snap his fingers. Oh, man, this is the kind of burn than I. I'm glad you did this while my kids were on here. But I can whistle, right, Pasha?

Yeah, go, give us a... They give me a shit. Hey, right. I was a better one than usual. Oh, my God. When the hot lights are on, I really came through. I feel like for snapping your fingers, I want to go somewhere that's very far away

because I'm imagining that you snap and you're there. I would say Tokyo for me. My real answer is I would very much like to go to. Oh, New Zealand for me. Yeah, I think New Zealand is mine, too, just because I worry about the... the length of getting there, or, Patagonia, what's the, where did you go? Yeah, we went down. We were in the Chilean side of Patagonia.

Yeah. But that, that would be great for me. Yes. Well, I'm already here. Yeah. Pittsburgh. Yeah. I'm already here. But no, seriously, I'd like to go to, you know, the part of Africa where they have that great migration of the animals. I'm not sure if it's Tanzania or whatever, but I'd like to go there at that time. I'd like to see that. That's a good call. And you want to be. there but also be like a little you want to be a little like sassy to the animals

like that's right on your way keep it moving okay enough for the wildebe let's get the hippos come on hey we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors support comes from Airbnb hey Bashi hey Sufi we used Airbnb

to book ourselves a very special home on our trip to Pittsburgh oh it was so good it was so good It was so great. You were upstairs? Yeah, I was in the loft. Yeah, which I got to say, I had my own couch, I had my own desk, I had my own bathroom, I had my own closet. It was, it was great up there.

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It's a great picture, Pashi. Yeah, I mean, so many good pictures. You might think, oh, we'll take some good pictures with our phones. And then this photographer really sort of illuminate. that that kind of thinking is wrong. Also a great photographer because we did some like Pose family photos, but also the boys were sort of playing catch in the back, the back alley behind the house.

And she just sort of got some action shots, including a great moment where Ash threw the ball hit Axel Square in the face and he covered his face. And she literally got the moment where sort of a nerfee football hit Axel in the face. Yeah. But that's fun for me because his glasses cost like a billion dollars. Well, a picture, pictures worth $1,000 with which you can buy one more pair of glasses. Book a service on Airbnb for your next trip at Airbnb.com slash services.

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This is real. Now, these people said in these stories not realizing that dad would be here listening in real time. I was just going to say I hope they're good because I'm going to be honest about them. No, I think that's kind of what. It's a little bit like going to a Don Rickles show. You kind of want to get, I think, roasted. Really? Well, we'll find out, you know.

All right, here we go. This is from Kimberly. Thanks for this, Kimberly. This is a family Thanksgiving story that takes place in Manhattan with a lot of out-of-town family members. My father-in-law lives on the Upper West Side, still in the same apartment where my husband grew up. We were all coming into town for Thanksgiving,

and my husband and I were taking on the role of organizers' hosts, basing everybody out of the house. the Upper West Side apartment. Like any true New Yorker, my father-in-law barely uses his kitchen, and being a widower, he really doesn't use his kitchen. But we assume that while unused, it would be in working order. Food orders were delivered, everything from eggs to salt and pepper, to the Thanksgiving turkey, and ingredients for the sides. We were going to cook it all from scratch. As we got all the kids and parents up early and out the front door to the Macy's Day parade on Central Park West, I went into the kitchen to turn on the oven.

to make bacon and eggs for the hungry parade goers. That's when I learned that the stovetop worked, but not the oven. Twelve people counting on a Thanksgiving meal and no oven and one very large raw turkey. Breakfast was pulled together, but a plan for the turkey had to be made. We packed the turkey in its accoutrements into a large roasting pan, and my brother-in-law selflessly volunteered to take it all in a taxi to our cousin's apartment. He's a trained chef, so we felt confident he'd have it undercarriage. control 15 blocks away. As we entertain small children in a packed apartment and cooked what we could

on the stovetop, he sent selfies with his feet up, bourbon in hand while he watched the turkey roast in our cousin's lovely apartment. My brother-in-law called us to say the turkey was ready. He's from Louisville, Kentucky, and I don't think he was prepared for the adventure of taking a turkey in a hot roasting pan through the city. Now dressed in his jacket and tie and carrying the turkey precariously in the roasting pan with drippings and tinfoil over it. He hailed a cab and delighted the cabby with his accent and delicious smelling turkey and arrived like a hero to the apartment with no oven. Now, I know we probably could have found a cooked turkey at the last minute in the city, but then we wouldn't have had this great memory of a turkey that's made its way up and down

the Upper West Side. That was a great story. I mean, that was a great story. The thing I like the best is that the chef was wearing a coat and tie while he was cooking, sitting there drinking a bourbon, coming back in the cab, but he was properly dressed for Thanksgiving. I also, I think she alluded to it, initially a hero until you realized, like, he had the best Thanksgiving of anybody. Yeah. I mean, just leaving a house full of kids to go, like, cook a, you know. And also her notion that it would be easy to find a cook turkey on Thanksgiving morning when everybody is closed. I think she's very, very lucky that he was there.

New York might be good like that, that you could find. Yeah, really? Yeah. I don't know. I don't think so. I'm never going to find out. I will tell you guys, I'm vegan. I don't need it.

The amount that I would, the amount of like Saturdays where I would love to say, I'm going to go 15 blocks away and cook a turkey. It's just like, I'll be back at like four and a half hours. I'm actually using a new bride. It might be five and a half. The part of that that I thought was so cool was with his feet up with a bourbon in his hand. Yeah. Now, I think all three of you could attest that I have often lived in apartments where it would not surprise you if you came over and I had no idea that my oven didn't work. We went for a trip to life.

It was parents' weekend and I was in charge of the cooking. And I cut up little roasted potatoes and everything's ready to go in the oven. Same thing. The oven didn't work. So it's hard to roast a potato in a toaster oven. And we had planned this and Seth was a part of the planning and you had potatoes dropping them up. This was in college. Chicago?

No, this was at Northwestern. Oh, okay. At Northwestern. And you had lived in that apartment for like a year or more and never, nobody had ever turned on the oven. And so he just assumed it worked. Well, you're supposed to. You put the thing, you put the stuff in, as I remember. I did.

I put it in. Turn it up to 350. And it was a long wait. It was a long wait. And then Josh found out that I had showered in work, watching machine. Yeah, really fun. By the way, in the future, if you're in Manhattan and you don't have an oven, you can also just, if you just hold a turkey over a subway grate. Everybody's rotated every time.

I like that the taxi driver seemed charmed by it. I would imagine a taxi driver would be like, you're getting in here with the turkey and like drippings? I know. I think I still, I have a place in my heart. I think that Christmas in Thanksgiving, I think most taxi drivers would be cool with a turkey. I think, like, you know, look, a June turkey, you're going to get some sidelong glances and probably some sass. Fourth of July turkey, no. I think I do truly believe in their heart of hearts.

New Yorkers like any time they're part of a New York story. Yeah. Like, one worth telling them, like that they can go home and be like, yay, there's gumbah, they all talk like that. All right. We've got another story here from Melissa. Hi, my name is Melissa, and I want to give an account of Thanksgiving. either in 2020 or 2021, back when the pandemic was happening. And we had Thanksgiving with just our immediate foursome at home.

And the next day, we had decided to take apart the turkey to separate the meat because I often like to use the bones in the carcass to make a turkey broth over the next day or so. So my husband decides to start to de-bone, take all the meat off so we can do other things with it, you know, pot pie and whatnot. We get a text from our next door neighbor who has tickets that they're not using to this like drive-through Christmas display thing. It was the city's way of kind of having this outdoor activity but safe with a, in people's cars, they could drive through and see these light setups. So we decided to take up on it.

By the way, we have a dog. So we'll get back to the dog in a minute. So he kind of pushes the carcass up towards the island. He separates the meat, puts it on a plate, puts that in the fridge. Everybody bundles up. We get the tickets from our neighbor and drive out to this light display events. It's very lovely for what is normally an in-person activity, but we're driving through it, right? Come back home, maybe an hour later.

And we get into the kitchen, and I look at the kitchen island, and I'm like, something's different. And then I look out into the living room beyond, and I see this mound on the floor. And our dog is nowhere in sight. And I get closer, and I realize it's the turkey carcass. He has pulled it off of the counter and has started to gnaw on it. Now, you know, two thoughts go through your head. One is how dare this dog do this? And two is, oh my God, he's eating poultry bones and dogs cannot eat chicken or turkey bones.

And so I'm toggling between upset and worried about him. So my husband goes to find the dog, make sure he's okay. Did he swallow any bones? I had to go look at the turkey. Like how much did he break apart? It looks like he didn't get too far. So maybe he, you know, held out, sat by the back, by the front door, waited to see if we were coming back. Is now a good time? Should you try now? I don't know. What's that noise? Debated whether he was going to take a chance and grab this turkey off the counter. So he must have waited a long time. before he dared try to grab it. So it didn't look like he got very far. He nibbled on some pieces. We kept an eye on him, but it wasn't bad.

So I'm glad that we did not leave the turkey intact on the counter so we could save a lot of that meat that was safely put away in the fringe. But just goes a show, don't trust your Australian shepherds. They can reach the counter, and they have no qualms about finishing off your turkey. dinner. Thank you. Love the podcast. Well, I think that dog, as soon as they left, she assumed that the dog was patient. That dog, when the door slammed, that dog was pulling that carcass off. Here, you do the door slam again, and I'll be the dog.

And I just think, again, no effect. fence, but I just don't think he liked it. Yeah. Probably just didn't like it. He probably had, you know, maybe there was some sage or some other spice on that had word. It was dry. That's a real problem.

Yeah. Yeah. And he just didn't like it. And I think all of us, this probably tripped off one particular memory of us and a dog and a turkey. Yeah. Yeah. Who was it?

Do you remember? A baby bell. Yeah, Bell, who was our first of three. Great Pyrenees. And this is before we had an invisible fence, and the dogs would just kind of wander. And one of our neighbors had a turkey resting in their garage. And Bell had sort of wandered off. No, I was taking her in a walk.

We were walking. Well, I mean, please. So we were walking on a street near ours, which is a loop. and there was no traffic in no traffic on that loop typically anyway so she's not on a leash but it's Thanksgiving so there's

really no traffic and she goes down to driveway yeah so the driveway you know it's very hilly where we live on one side of the street houses are up on a terrace and the other side you have to go down the driveways so

she's pretty good sticking with me and all of a sudden you know her head goes up and she starts bolting down this driveway and the garage doors open and i'm you know calling her she doesn't come and so i go down there and they like you say they had the turkey sitting out you know resting or cooling in the garage and i i got there just as she was she was has just licking it she hadn't she hadn't take a there was no teeth marks yeah oh that's thank god but she was just licking it and uh so i stuck a leash on her as quietly as I could, and we walked out and back up.

Oh, just got out of Dodge. Yeah, we admitted to nothing. Yeah, that family had a turkey that had been licked by a great Pyrenees. Was to be finishing. Were they the family that all got rabies? I can't remember. I know somebody on our street. Like in early December, late November, got rabies one year?

That house was like a ghost house. No, nobody goes out. They went crazy. It was like a zombie movie. Yeah, well, thank you for that. We had a Christmas one year at our house, and our dog, Debbie, who is not athletic, to say the least, we had started, we had finished, and we had all moved away from the dining room, which is just two steps up from the family room, and we were down sitting on the couches, and then we're wondering where Debbie was, and we looked up, and she was standing on top of the table. she'd clearly gone floor to chair to table and there were still some dinner rolls

that had been unconsumed and she had her head in that basket and was just inhaling rolls which she looked very much like a croissant to begin with. I will say if I walked in your house and saw Debbie on a table I would think an intruder was there that's how the idea of like Tebby

if there was like a dog staircase I still would be like if she didn't do this on her own Well, there was a similar thing that happened when you guys were young with the same dog with Bill. And she was a great pyramid. She weighed about 120 pounds. And you had, it was somebody, some kind of a party. And there were pizzas. Yeah, I remember that.

On the dining table. And you guys went downstairs to play after you ate the pizzas. There were still pizzas up there. And we heard this rustling. And we went in there. And she was standing on the table, full on the table, eating. all the pizza pieces that were allowed.

She was at her fastest I would describe Bella's lumbering. Yes. And yet when food was involved, if you turned your head for a second,

she was, yeah. She was also the only dog we had who literally used her paw to open doors. Or her nose. Yeah, or her nose.

She was, there was a good chance looking back that Bell was a person in a dog suit. She was a ninja. She had ninja-like qualities. We had two different kinds

of screen doors. One, which you, you, pushed with your thumb, and one in which you had to pull the handle down. And she was always leaving, and she could open both screen doors and just go. And then the way we would get her back, again, this is before we had the invisible. We had to put a full turkey in our garage.

That's how we got her back. It was expensive. But now what she would do is she would wander around, and then she would go sit in somebody's front lawn. They had this big, beautiful white dog, and they would, she had a collar that had a phone number on it and she had a tag. So either they would, if they were intimidated, they would call the police. And if they weren't, they'd come out and they'd see the phone number and they'd call us, either that or the police would see the tag and they would call us. Well, she was a frequent flyer too, so the police knew. Police knew who she was. Yeah. They, you know, they told us they were

going to find us if we didn't take better care of our dog. But anyway, she knew how to get home. All she had to do was when she was tired, she would sit down. Yeah. Somebody would, arranged to get us to come and get her. And she did it all the time because she was an escape artist. Yeah, she really was. And you think there's supposed to be big mountain dogs that are lookouts, and that's how you get her.

She was like, yeah. There's a lookout. She was more like a convict. Yeah. She was a lookout. What do you got? You got another story for us? Yeah, we got one more.

This is what I was trying to think of. Yeah. Which is that thing about if Bell had taken a bite out of it. This is a total left turn. But I must have seen it with you guys because there was a John Candy sketch. And I always thought it was an S&L sketch and I could never find it. And then I recently found out it was the new show, which was Lorne Michael's sort of short-lived show that didn't work. And John Candy played a food repairman.

That's a great idea. And I remember he was just like a guy. It was like, you know, it felt like one of those old like TV repairment places with all the electronics on the wall, but it was food. And I remember I think it was Paul Simon came in with a bag of pretzels. And it was just really dryly written, and it was Paul Simon saying, yeah, this is in the back of the car. And I don't know if we went over bumps or stuff, but all the salt came off the pretzel rods. And it was just John Candy, like, being like a car, McKinney's like, oh, well, this is going to be. I mean, look, I could go back through it and reattach each piece of salt.

But in the end, you know, it's going to be, this is going to cost you more than a new bag of pretzel. And it was just Paul Simon being so disappointed, like, oh, you know, I really hoped. And he goes, see, look, I could do it. for you. I'm just telling you, you know, it's, you know, it's going to take a few days by the time you get it back on. I just go by, oh, all right, well, just like you're just thinking you bringing a turkey and being like, too, you're like, I got to get this turkey back on the carcassum and neighbors, really. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from superpower. Hey, posh. Hey, Sufi. You know, you ever have to give

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IKEA, bring home to life. All right. We got in one more story. One more story. This is from James. Hi, Seth. Hi, Josh. This is James from Los Angeles. So my family trip happened last year, last Thanksgiving. And I went to Costa Rica with my boyfriend to meet his father. We'd been dating for four years at this point. I had never met his dad. Never FaceTime, never talked to him on the phone, nothing. He's sort of old, like kind of old-fashioned. So it was just like, oh, meet her when I meet her in person, you know. So there was a lot of anticipation for this trip.

And I was really excited to go to Costa Rica and spend time with his dad. So we get down there. We have one nice little dinner and then go to sleep. We wake up super early to get on this fishing boat. And his dad had booked a fishing boat for the whole day. I'd never been in a boat in the open open. ocean. I was so excited because it was the Pacific Ocean and that's my ocean in L.A. So it felt really meaningful. We get out there. We put down the fishing lines and it's really far away from

the coast. I wasn't expecting to be like an hour away from land, but we were out there. And I start feeling a little bit warm and then a little bit cold. And I realized that I have the chills. And so it really just gets worse and worse and we're on this rocking boat and I kind of think it's seasickness but it isn't it seems to be kind of like flu like symptoms and so I'm sort of trying to keep my cool because I don't want to interrupt this fishing trip and you know everyone's having a good time and so I just keep keep calm and we're out there for six hours I was not expecting such a long time on the open ocean. So every hour that passes, I'm like, we just have to be going back to land at some point. This has to be over soon. I don't, I can't eat the lunch that

they bring us, like these like really good burritos. I can't eat them. I'm just feeling so sick. And his dad, again, having never met me, probably is just thinking like, okay, this girl is actually really weird and standoffish. But I was also just trying not to get too close to him because I didn't get him sick. And as soon as we get off the boat, the sun has set. At this point, I'm hallucinating and seeing the ocean like disappear as the sun sets into what is no longer water, but like the bottom of the ocean, like full on. We step off the boat and I say to my boyfriend, like, you need to hold my hand. I'm actually going to pass out. And he couldn't believe it that I had faked it for six hours. He had no idea. And so we ride this little golf car.

or whatever back to the hotel and I say oh you know I'm going to just rest for a little bit before dinner I go into the room go into the bed and I'm fully talking to myself like completely high fever everything and I don't get out of bed for the entire trip and they're in bed over Thanksgiving for five days and the whole time What I did to fill the time was listen to family trips with a Myers process. I had seen the podcast and wanted to listen. I just hadn't gotten around to it. And it was so nice to be able to listen to these stories about other people's families.

And it really meant a lot because I actually was quite homesick. I'm an only child. And I really never leave my parents for holidays because it's just the three of us. So I really miss them. And it was actually just so comforting to, you know, get to hear your guys' dynamic and hear everyone else's stories. So actually, really thank you for making the last Thanksgiving bearable for me in my flu, in my flu state. And I got through it. I got home and I'm still a listener. So thank you so much.

That is just an A plus story. Yeah. That's, that's tops. The first thing, well, her name was James. Yeah. Yeah. So James, the first thing is, uh, Thanksgiving is coming up in about a week. We want to invite you to come and have Thanksgiving with us, but not your boyfriend, who doesn't seem to be as there was a tenth of as he should be. I actually think she should probably have Thanksgiving with her parents. Who, it's very likely poisoned you when they heard that you were not going to join them for the first time. Otherwise, we could invite them too.

I got to say, like, using a tragedy for comedy, I mean, not a full tragedy, obviously. But I like that you were listening to Family Chisholm. and you also appreciated during listening that you had a family trips-worthy, more-than-worthy story. Yeah. Yeah. The hallucination part of stuff was scary.

Yeah. The other thing I thought about in that story was, you know, your deep-sea fishing, you're way away from land, and especially if you're not experienced fishermen, the chances of you getting seasick are up in the 90% and then they have burritos.

Yeah. Taking it up to 98. I think deep sea fishing, unless you really, really want to do it, sounds like one of the worst things you could ever do in the world. Sometimes people will say to us in the summer, like, you should bring your boys out fishing with us. And I'm like, do you go out for five minutes? Like, what are you talking about? Like, they get bored so fast.

I want to be on a boat with them rocking side to side. And we went, I'm Brady Lazaro, we weren't at that wedding, but it was in Orlando, and there was a deep sea fishing trip the day before the wedding. And I remember 12 guys came out. We went on about 12 guys. We brought 48 beers. We came back with 47 beers when people were so. And we literally were like, we have to go. I was like, we can't come back with two full cases.

So we were all just passing around, like, of course, I'd take a little sip. Look, I know that people love deep sea fishing and all kinds. of fishing, I get that. So to those who love fishing, please don't be offended by this, but nothing promises more and delivers less than a day on a boat. To me, if you're driving the boat, maybe it's different, but if you're just on the boat, whatever you're doing on the boat, it's just, to me, it's a very long day. And to that end, you guys may remember once we went whale watching. Yeah.

Okay. And you go out for about an hour on a fairly large boat with quite a few people. I'm pretty sure it was whale waiting. No, no. No, it was for the first hour it was whale waiting. And then you see like on the horizon a fluke of a whale, everybody runs to that part of the boat to be able to take a photograph of something that looks like, you know, an eraser. And then you get up to the whales and they're all around the boat.

Okay, but the boat just stays there and rocks for about an hour and a half, okay? And you've seen all the whale you want to see for your whole life. Yeah, yeah. And then it's an hour back. It is a long four hours. So whale watching, good experience to see the whales once. It's a once in a lifetime. Last year with McKenzie and her dad, and it was fun.

Right. But you've been on a boat with my father-in-law when he talks about how Jaws was filming. I'm Martha's Vineyard. That surely was worth it. I've been on the boat with your father-in-law, and he's talked about that every time. Every time, it's true. Well, he's right.

You can see the wreck of one of the boats. Didn't we have, like, a Marlin on the wall in our basement? Yeah, we came this up. We did. But I feel like that's all, like, that, like, liquor store, Detroitus. Oh, good, good, good, back. Yeah, that came for the liquor store, yeah. Our uncle at a, uh,

Harry's Uncle Kurt and Eric had a liquor store, and we would just get, like, things that I feel like were promotional. I think it was a promotional, Marlon. It wasn't a real fish for, like, harpoon IPA or something like that. But then historically, too, you hate being on any kind of a situation where you can't get off. Yeah, I'm kind of like Bell that way. I want to see three exits.

Pasha, you want to ask him the question? Yeah, all right, boys. First of all, introduce yourselves. Hi, I'm Ash. Hi, I'm Axel. All right, great. Well, these are the youngest Myers boys. There is a younger Myers girl, but she's not here with us on this trip.

This is just a boys' trip, but what's the rule about the boys' trip? An old girl could be a young boy. An old girl can be a young boy. That's hurry. An old girl, what? All right, all right. Well, that's nice. That's sweet. This is how we realized it could be a boy's weekend, is that an old girl can be a young boy. All right.

So what was your first thought? We'll start with you, Ash, when you heard that you were going to Pittsburgh. I was excited and nervous at the same time. What were you nervous about? It was my first football game, and there was going to be, like, a lot of people. Uh-huh. But then my dad told me we were going to be in a box, and that made me kind of feel a lot of. little bit better.

Oh, yeah. It's a really top shelf in it. Axel, what did you think when you heard you were going to Pittsburgh? I'm going to be on a podcast, and I'm so excited. There was a video of you guys finding out you were coming to this. Yeah, how did you find out you were coming? These were these envelopes that gave us surprises. And then we put up.

Who sent the envelopes? Ponca Yeri. Well, him and her. Yeah. The young man. So Paukeieri and Pankajuri sent you guys envelopes that you had to open in a certain order, and eventually at the end of it, you heard you were going to see a Steeler game. Yeah.

And what was in the last envelope? Oh, terrible towers. That's right. But you have to have those to go to a Steeler game. I already have one. Yes, and now you have a new one. You brought two terrible towels, right? Yes.

We forgot my other one. It's like an American flag. Next question. Fair, fair. That's fair. All right, Diane, that was a good question. We appreciate it, but we're moving on to Alba's. What, if you could have any food at Thanksgiving, what would it be?

Sushi that looks like a turkey. All right. I have another one of those big turkey cups. Oh, the turkey company came up earlier. Yeah, we talked about it. Axel, can you say real quick, what happened when you went to the bakery with Pockieri? Come a little bit closer and tell us. So did Pankyiri say you could have one thing?

He said I could have one thing, and first I wanted a scone, then I wanted a pumpkin cupcake, then I wanted the turkey one, and I sung a song and it said, Turkey, Turkey, Turkey, I'm going to eat you. Turkey, turkey, turkey, yum, yum. Very hard to say no to somebody who sings the song that good. He was singing that song when he walked in, so they walked to the bakery, and I don't know, did he sing it the whole time?

Every inch of the way back. What about you, Ash? What's your dream Thanksgiving food? I just said it. The turkey cupcake. Oh, the turkey cupcake. Axel wanted the sushi that's shaped like a turkey. Yeah. What would be in the sushi shape like a turkey?

Avocado cucumber. Okay, great. That's great. Great. Lovely. Well, we're so excited to go to this game with you guys and so excited to be here on Pittsburgh with you. It is a true family trip. I have a real quick question. Axel, can you tell the story about when you were in New Mexico and saw a rattlesnake? I would love to. Silencio. Silencio, okay. Go ahead.

Once upon a time. I went to a desert, and I heard about these caves. So, and I was the first one to go there, and I sat down in the middle of the cave, and I looked next to me, and I saw a rattlesnake, and the rattlesnake was inching towards me. So I ran out and said, Riddlestnake! Oh, wait, wait, wait. I had just climbed, like, a huge rock, like 15 of these tall. Uh-huh.

And when I heard, I heard it from up there, and I was like, oh, no. You heard Axel scream rattlesnake? Yeah. So I immediately started climbing down, and Agnes was halfway up, and I passed her and was like, get down. Agnes is their niece, or my niece, their cousin. And so, and now the rattlesnake is totally fine, right? Yes. But then...

Wait, is the rattlesnake fine? No. Okay, so what happened to the rattlesnake? So a cowboy cut off the rattlesnake and I kept it. Okay. And the rattlesnake lived? No. And the cowboy killed it with a stick.

Okay. I shared about the rattlesnake at my school and my class in third grade last year. And my whole class was chanting, shake it, shake it, shake it, shake. get because I brought the rattle. My last question for you, Axel, is, do you remember the time when you were a baby and we were going to Uruguay and I was so tired? Yes. So tell them that story.

So my dad was so tired and he was pushing a stroller and he looks down at it and he said, where's Axel? And my mom, Alexi, said, you're hoarding him. I was so tired. Even though you were in my arms, I just looked down and saw an empty stroller, right? Yes. Axel, do you think you're a good traveler? So, so.

Did I go back watching? Can they see? They can't see it. Well, they can see a little bit over there. This is a TV mate. Oh, boy. Nobody cares about that. All right, so guys, can you come over and, well, first of all, Axel, can you sing the Here We Go Steelers song?

Here we go. Steve's here we go here we go here we go all right thank you boys for joining the podcast Oh and by the way we're watching kicking and screaming

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Happy Thanksgiving Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. It was a Manhattan Thanksgiving, complete with all the fixings. Kimberly was stunned to have no oven. Where would they cook for turkey? Brother-in-law and dapper garments. Went to their cousin's apartment.

Let the turkey roasts and a bourbon toast. He cooked a turkey by himself. It was a tricky situation because he needed transportation. He flagged a taxi down to take him uptown. He brought the turkey by himself. Oh, uh, uh, uh, oh. Melissa's family was at home and her husband was defoning.

A turkey day he cooked before they went. before they went to look at a local drive-to-light show. They were out a little while, and the carcass was up high on the island, but when they returned, the phones were in a pile. The dog had pulled it down, hadn't really gone to town, but I have my doubts that he held out

how could he resist the smells. Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh. Oh, breezes the smells, how could you tell? Ow! The heart goes out to James, who hopped aboard a plane. To meet the boyfriend's dad couldn't be that bad, he got a boat for the whole day. It was a six-hour trip right away was feeling sick. Saw a burrito said that's a no.

I took it back to the hotel. The boyfriend had to help. James was talking to themselves. So if it's Thanksgiving and you go fishing, you have them to busy spells and you're not feeling well that you're hallucinates You think you're losing it Time to listen to

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