The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast - Family Trips: ANDY SAMBERG Had a Closet for a Room

Episode Date: May 8, 2024

Check out Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers wherever you get podcasts or by going to apple.co/familytrips.Lifelong brothers, Seth Meyers and Josh Meyers ask guests to relive childhood memories, unforgettable family trips, and other disasters! New Episodes of Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers are available every Tuesday.On this episode, Seth and Josh welcome their pal Andy Samberg to the pod! He tells them tales of how he was always the one to throw up on a roadtrip, his encounter with seal pups, what his spirit animal is, what he really thinks of his hometown. Produced by Rabbit Grin ProductionsExecutive Producers Jeph Porter and Rob HolyszLead Producer Kevin MillerCreative Producer Samantha SkeltonCoordinating Producer Derek JohnsonCover Art by Olney AtwellMusic by Greg Chun and Brent AsburyEdit by Cheyenne JonesMix and Master by Jason Richards

Hello, Lonely Island podcast listeners. This is Seth, and I have another podcast. I do it with my brother. It's called Family Trips with the Myers Brothers, and we've been lucky enough to have Jorma on, and we've also been lucky enough to have Andy on. And we wanted you to give that episode a listen. It's a lot of fun.

We hope you enjoy it. And if you do, why don't you head over to Family Trips and subscribe to that. Akiva hasn't done it because he is an asshole. Hi, Poshy. Hi, Sufi. We've talked a little bit about Costa Rica. The boys still talking about Yosef Santiago.

Shout out to those guys who get our kids on the boards. Nice. Now, Posh, Alexi loves to surf. The boys love to surf. Baby Addy even went on the front of the surfboard a few times when ash was surfing i should note the water was very shallow so yeah she did roll off but then immediately stood up so i don't want people to worry about my daughter's surf you know she's she's good in the water she's good in the water good in the water

now so we that's it four out of five like like surfing. What do you think? Where do you think I land? I bet. I'm going to say you didn't even try. Oh, okay. So I did better than that. Well, you're probably, I mean, I wasn't there, but I'm guessing you were no, you know, Laird Hamilton on the board. I'm guessing you didn't get the rush. No, that's true. I think there's another thing that's happening to me, Posh. What's that? You're getting old. I'm getting old.

I think that my floor and my ceiling are incredibly close for surfing. You know what I mean? How much better am I going to get starting where I started? Well, that's one way to look at it. And the other thing, and this is going to be more positive than maybe people are used to hearing from me. You know what? Here's where the rush is. Watching my boys surf.

That was a rush. Genuinely. Standing there, Addie and I, when she wasn't on her brother's board, we would just sort of lounge about, sort of waist deep water, two of us sitting there having a grand old time watching the kids surf. And it was great. Now, do you think, you know, your kids aren't at a place yet where they could like, you know, throw a baseball back and forth with any regularity? They could not for a billion dollars throw a baseball back and forth. But regularity. They could not, for a billion dollars, throw a baseball back and forth. But that time will come.

Do you think when that time comes, you're going to be like, yeah, let's have a catcher. You're going to be like, I'm going to sit in a chair over there. Oh, no, I would love to play catch. In general. You guys throw it to each other. I'm going to sit over here. Hold on.

My floor and my ceiling. I'm just going to be under the floorboards of this house. How dare? You know me better than anyone on earth. What does the thing you just described have that surfing doesn't, water skiing doesn't? You stand in the same place. No, a ball.

I like a ball. I've always liked things where a ball is involved and you can keep score. And that is why I would love to play catch. Axel and Nash and I played soccer this weekend. Yeah. All the best games, I feel like, I feel like the games that dad got really into when we were little, he would be stationary.

Yeah, he would even say standing in one place games are his favorite. Yeah. And he would be all-time quarterback. We played, what was that sock catching game? Knee football. Well, knee football,

but then there was one where it was just like you would just go out to make catches, but it was still, it was in the family room. He would sit in the corner of the couch.

Oh yeah, and he would just throw socks to us. Maybe just sock balls. A lot of shagging flies. We would go out to the Little League field and he would just hit balls. He would stand at home playing and hit balls, but that was a lot of fun. I like shagging flies. We would go out to the Little Leaf field and he would just hit balls.

He would stand at home playing and hit balls. But that was a lot of fun. I like shagging flies. Yeah. I mean, my kids, again. They're not great with balls yet. And that moment might not come. I do feel.

Come on, it's got to come. Well, no. I mean, did it ever come for me? Would you say, oh, Seth's really good with. No, but you were serviceable on catch, on playing catch. Thank you, Pocky. So nice. You won most serviceable.

I did. I did. The Little League team, didn't you? Yeah, unless it was tennis, because then they said, we don't want to call you serviceable, because that might lead people to think you know how to serve. Yeah, so anyway, it was good watching them surf. I liked it a lot.

The other thing is, I mean, again, I wish I'd learned how to surf when I was eight or six. I think they've got a bright future ahead of them. Oh, absolutely. The other thing that happened is we were flying a little plane to the main airport to then go home uh-huh and as we were flying it smelled really bad on the plane and there was a a sense that maybe addy you know had had an accident or maybe one of the boys had just like blown some gas in the plane and we also posh do you know what our kids call it when they have gas poopoo gas poopoo gas our kids say poopoo gas we've disabused them of ever saying fart and i do highly recommend poopoo gas it's great

all of a sudden smelled so bad that the pilot had to get on and tell us it was the smell of the volcano because i think the pilot could tell that there was maybe going to be a riot on the plane yeah with the amount of finger pointing that was going on it was the earth farting the earth was farting the earth was having poopoo gas there will come a time in your in your kid's life where they're gonna have to switch to fart yeah it's already starting. You can't be in high school and be like, oh, who poo-poo gassed in here? Yeah, no, you can't do that.

Especially if you don't know how to throw a fucking ball. Oh, but the other thing is, I was sitting next to Axel, and the pilot comes on and goes, if you're wondering what that smell is, it's a volcano. And I said, Axel, good news, it wasn't anybody.

It was, we're smelling the volcano. And Axel said, also, I poo-poo-guffed. So, Axel even given the chance for having to blame it on the volcano. Yeah. He's a good dude. Yeah. I'd never thought about that. But yeah, that makes sense.

Yeah. There you go. That's a little bit, we had a little bit of a geology lesson here today. Uh-huh. Not one I think you could take with you and apply to anything, but worth having in your back pocket. Sure. So my friend, our friend, Andy Sandberg.

We went on a vacation with Andy Sandberg once. Didn't even talk to him about it during today's interview. Yeah. That was a miss. The two of us, Andy Sandberg and Colin Jost, went to Copenhagen, Helsinki, Amsterdam. Correct? Yeah.

Wonderful trip. Summer of 09. I was actually just last night. The day we got to Copenhagen, we went to a bar, and there were these cute Danish girls, and we were like, hey, what should we drink? What's a good Danish drink? And they, and I can't believe

we didn't talk to Colin about this, but they were like, oh, Fishmans. Yeah, Fishmans. Which I still don't know what Fishmans is, but Colin sent me a bottle of it after that trip. Yep. This trip is how long ago do you think? 08, it is 08.

08, so it is 24. I have more than half of the bottle of Fishmans left. It's terrible. But I had a glass of it last night. No way. Yeah. You had a glass of Fishmans? Were you out of everything else?

No. I started watching a Norwegian show, and I wanted to drink something that was... Thematically. That was, yeah. And I had started, I wanted to watch this movie, Magritte, Queen of the North. Yeah. About this Danish queen in the 1400s.

And the only thing Amazon has is a dubbed English version. So I fired up my Fishmans and I fired up Magritte. And then at the beginning, I was like, what in the world? Who watches a dubbed movie? More like dud. Dud. More like.

The other thing we should have talked about, Joe, we were in Helsinki. We were going to go to Tallinn, Estonia. Decided we were too hungover, especially Jost, it should, decided we were too hungover, especially Jost, it should be noted, was too hungover to get on a ferry. Yeah.

And then we went, we flew to Amsterdam instead, and we're going through customs at the Helsinki airport, getting our passports checked. And we were, the four of us were in a line, and the three of us went through, you, me, and Andy, and then the guy went on break right before Jost got there. And Jost was so hungover, he just stood there in front of an empty kiosk. And I had to scream at him to go one line over.

He was also weirdly sick. He had like flu of the brain. Yeah, he had brain flu. But anyway, one of our favorite people, Andy Samberg, is joining us today to talk about his family trips. But first, let's listen to Mr. Jeff Tweedy. The Myers Brothers, family trips with the Myers Brothers, here we go. Ooh. Oh.

Hey, pal. Hello. Hello. How are you? Not like not a day has passed, Josh. Here we are with Andy Samberg. Now, Andy, you and I have a different podcast from this one. It premiered yesterday.

It's called The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast. And one of the things you say in almost every episode is how little you respect the art form of podcasts. That's right. You don't care for them at all. No. You low-key hate that you're doing one. At all times.

And you're super bummed to be a guest on this one. Correct. Across the board. But I'm glad to be lining your pockets, Myers brothers. You also, it should be noted, texted me an hour ago. So wait, do I have to talk about a trip? Yeah, and no response, by the way. Just fully throwing you to the wolves.

We were recording another one. With whom? FYI. With whom I'd like to know. Oh, Julie Andrews. Holy shit. Oh my God. Podcasts have really taken off.

Yeah. I should have been oh excuse me excuse me Dame Julie Andrews I have to talk to one of my oldest friends who's less prepared for my podcast than you Dame Julie Andrews are look I looked up the titles of all the other ones

and saw that like you know Mulaney had a mishap or something I don't know what you guys call these thanks for looking at the titles like, you know, Mulaney had a mishap or something. I don't know what you guys call these. Thanks for looking at the titles. Yeah, like, you know, Ike Barinholtz clogged a toilet. I don't know. Now I'm just guessing, but...

Look, here's... Oh, we're gonna start with this. Okay. One of the things I like about you, and I genuinely think it's made you kind of what a solid dude you are. Two older sisters. True.

How much older? True. Three and six years older. Okay. Now, that's a pretty decent age gap, but did you guys, were you close? Yes. I mean, my eldest sister, the six years older, was going through teen years and college years and stuff

when I was still kind of a dinky doodle. I think that's the medical term, a dinky doodle. So we connected a lot when we were little kids, and then she was sort of off doing her own thing, and then we have connected more now as adults with kids. And then the middle child, my sister Dara, she and I were very close pretty much for the duration because of our proximity in age.

You are, I feel, obviously I'm on this podcast with my younger brother. I feel like you sort of have a consummate younger brother vibe to you. Yeah, and I think that's probably what has made our friendship flourish, right? Yeah, I think it's good. I think you never really outgrew dinky doodle hood. But were you sort of an irritating younger brother? Yeah. Yeah.

I would say so. But did they think you were funny? Because I will say this. My first take when I met you, I've often talked about this, was irritating. Yeah. And then I had a real like, oh, but I like it. But that's that youngest sibling. You're like, I'm so irritating, but you're noticing me.

I exist. Yeah. Josh, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, that's pretty much, those are my moves. You're so much more like stoic than me, though, as a younger sib. Is it because there's just two of you guys? You had like more of a firm place in the universe. I think that's true.

I don't know. Perhaps. I mean, I was very much a, like I was a, I was a crier. I was a, I'm going to run up to my room because what's going on

right now is making me upset or I'm being teased perhaps or yeah, something. I don't like the state of the world. So I'm going to run up to my bedroom

and cry it off. He was a real drama king. I think you can say state of the world, so I'm around to my bedroom and cry it off. He was a real drama king. I think you can say that these days. Yeah. This is going to sound like a bit, but there was a split second when you said you were a crier. And I was imagining, like, a town crier. Where you were, like, the guy who was like, six o'clock and all is well.

Well, that's... I was like, what? Where did you guys grow up? This is... But this is a true story. Josh also... I'm not also doing a bit. My dad's nickname for Josh was the town crier

because Josh used to also run into a room and announce a thing he'd just seen. He was a little rat. He was usually a little rat, but my dad was like, he's the town crier.

Josh was just... I was also called Radio because I would, I think, also just report on things that were going on. And the movie Radio is based on you. Yes. Cuba Gooding Jr., I mean, he does a great music video.

It was very unkind. I think when you look at Josh now and you see how he played Radio, I think it was unkind. Wait, so just to backtrack, you would see a mouse? Like, did you guys have mice? We had mice. But the sort of announcements, yeah. There would be a lot of like, he would run in and say, like, I tipped something over.

Narc would have been a better nickname for Josh than Town Crier. But a self-narc. No, narcing on me. Oh, you knocked something over. Yeah. Right. Seth did something bad and I'm going to go. He was called Radio Silence when he knocked something over. So he'd be like, 1025 AM and Seth knocked something over. Yeah. Right. Seth did something bad and I'm going to go. He was called Radio Silence

when he knocked something over. So he'd be like, 1025 AM and Seth knocked something over. What's new? Yeah, he would do it and he was like,

this is Josh on the fives. Oh, he's like a shock jock. He was, he was, he was baby shock jock. If anyone's wondering if my old brother Seth got into some trouble this morning, the answers are resounding yes.

We're going to fling this in some Limp Bizkit. Maybe blast Limp Bizkit. Yeah. Now, all right, so you grow up in the Bay Area. Oh, my God. Andy's taking the longest sip of coffee. You grow up in the Bay Area. Did you get your coffee?

Those are two-handing a mug was two-handing a mug. Two-handing a mug. You are like a soap opera girl who just got pulled out of a river. The mug is a special gift for my dear friend Akiva. Oh, that's lovely. Skywalker what? Sound. Skywalker Sound.

He got to go up there to mix Rescue Rangers. Did you take, were you a family trips family? We would do some trips, not a ton. We weren't exactly flush. Your dad was a photographer, your mom a teacher? That's right. Sounds like you would have been rolling in it. Shout out mom and dad.

Love you guys. Love you guys. Thank you for all that you did i know it wasn't easy but we made it hey that was a big old cup of job here we go again uh yeah we would do i grew up in berkeley, Berkeley and Oakland, and we would sometimes go to Stinson Beach for the summer, which is over Mount Tamalpais, which, and it's now impossible to go there because of Silicon Valley stuff. The prices have skyrocketed, but it is, that was a lovely place to go. And you'd go for a whole summer?

Would you get like a little, a little cabin, a little spot on the beach? A little cabin. It was literally called Uncle Bob's Cabin. Great. And, you know, you get your boogie board on. You go to the Parkside Cafe, get a little burger, get a little hot dog. You know, you go to the local library,

read every Garfield book they had five times over. Would you check it out or would you just read in the library? Well, it started off as in the library. And I realize now my mom is smart. She'd be like, there's a little piece of trash. I'm just going to sit him down in the library. He's going to read Garfield for the next three hours straight on the floor like an orphan. I do remember being like, we rented a house once, and there were old comics, like, old uncles,

like Scrooge McDuck comics, which are really great. Because there are a lot of, like, they're like Tintin comics. There's a lot of, like, world traveling, and it felt like Indiana Jones-y. And I just would sit in a hot room in a beach house and just read comics all day i would those tintin books i also got into on these exact same trips garfs and tintins and looking back on it tintin is like is it for kids i don't know if it's for kids i will say i loved it very much and i think maybe 20 probably don't have a super problematic drawing.

Exactly. You definitely want to— Count of three favorite character. One, two, three. Captain Haddock. You didn't say anything, but I assume that's what you're going to do. Yeah, of course it's Haddock. Of course it's Haddock.

You definitely want to read the Tintin books where he stays in Europe, if you can guess what I mean. Yeah, I wasn't a comic guy. Seth would be reading his comics. I'd be off digging around in the dirt for worms or looking for cool stuff. Tintin, though, is Tintin's more of a graphic long book? Yeah. It's so tall.

More so than Garfield, for sure. But I will say those, I remember... There are some special Garfields. I went to get a Scrooge McDuck book for the kids, and I picked it up, and it was way more Tintin than Garfield. Those books as well. There are a lot of...

Like, the voice bubbles are super dense. Got it. A lot of plot. You're talking about the novelization of the movie Scrooge. Yeah. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors.

Hey, do you remember the story about when you played Scrooge McDuck at Update? What's the story of it? You did Scrooge McDuck, and at Dress, you had a joke about diving into a pile of money that worked. And in air, it's the biggest gap between how a joke went. It was radio silence.

It was to call back. Oh, it didn't land. It didn't land at all. And I was expecting it to land. It was so quiet, I heard your gasp of realizing it. You, like, said, you're dressed like a fucking duck you're like here comes the clincher

and you're like it's a pile of money and it was like I think I did Australian do Scrooge McDuck give me a cold read of your Scrooge McDuck when I'm with my nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie. I can't believe it didn't work.

That's my guess. So, all right, so you're in the library. You're reading. And are you excited when you guys go on these trips? Are you the kind of kid who's like, yes, vacation? Oh, yeah. Super psyched to go to the beach. Knowing it's going to be like a free-for-all.

I'm going to get my garf on. I'm going to watch Captain Haddock just cuss his ass off. Knowing that our dog Mel is going to roll in at least three dead seal carcasses. Bring that back into the house. How did Mel travel? Were you guys, I feel like you were a station wagon fam. We had a Volvo station wagon. I mean, I would barf every time.

Windy Road there, and we had the Volvo station wagon way back seat that faces backwards. Yep. And I notoriously would get nauseous. Still, by the way. Yeah. And I think at a certain point,

they were like, Andy's going to throw up no matter what, so let's put him in the by the way. Yeah. And I think at a certain point they were like, Andy's going to throw up no matter what, so let's put him in the barf seat. Yeah. And sure enough, I mean,

they would just check in periodically and hope to get me out of the car before it happened. But it was pretty much every time we drove over the hill I would have to throw up.

How long a drive? Like six minutes. No. I want to say from home to there total or just the hill part no though from the home to there i want to say 45 to an hour yeah now was it so ominous your knowledge about the upcoming barfing that you dreaded that part of it or did yes okay yeah yeah but not so much that i didn't want to go because I

knew once we were there, I would be happy. Yeah. And you also said like you'd go for the summer, would you sort of drive that 45 minutes and you wouldn't go back to Oakland or Berkeley for the rest of the summer? Maybe you would skip those trips for the obvious reason. To me, the whole summer was, it was probably two weeks. But for me, you know, when you're young, that seems like 10 years. Was there any fear in the water that those seals would be bumping into you? Well, it's funny you should ask. They don't bump into you, but I've had like multiple instances, some of the greatest moments of my life,

of like floating on a boogie board as the sun was setting and then like a little seal pup pops its head up and stares right at you from like four feet away and you're like hi wow and it's like what a beautiful and magical universe and then it like pops back down and it's honestly uh feels like a bluey episode or something yeah i think of any i mean best possible animal to make eye contact with seal seal probably yeah and i've been told by multiple people they think that's possibly my spirit animal is the seal i would i would seal you i would i would go seal you've talked to multiple people who said yeah seal is your yeah

where are you coming across these people? Berkeley. Well, they're mostly seal experts. I was going to say, my stereotype of Berkeley is that's mostly what people are talking about. Yeah, like who your spirit animal is. Oh, my God, Seth. You would get so banked on at my high school. You have no idea.

Oh, my God. I hope banked on is good. You'd be coming through there just like, here are my thoughts. And they'd be like, get the fuck out of here. You'd be like, oh, Berkeley's not nice. Oh, right. That is important to note.

I do think of Berkeley as hippy-dippy, but you guys went to a hardcore school. Yeah. I would say in moments, hardcore. Yeah. In moments. Certainly compared to experiences of some of my friends that I've talked to, I didn't realize it at the time.

But yeah, there was a lot of fighting and stuff. I was waiting for you guys to finish talking because I didn't want to interrupt you, but I had something to say and then we kind of moved on away from the big hill. So I'm just going to go back and be impressed like I came up with it at the time. So on those drives to the beach, would you say your mantra is, got to barf to get to the garf? Can we cut that in? We can take that piece and cut it back in.

No, we're going to run it the way it showed up. Hey, how much of the comedy You've written over your life Would you say What percentage of it Is barfing and diarrhea I would say like 5% 4 and a half

Oh I would have thought higher I mean In my defense At the show A few of my barf things Were not written by me Yeah

I could see Wanting to write something That's barf based And being like Who are we gonna put in this? True. And then like, well, Samberg. I had sort of made it clear I was down to clown in that regard.

Your spirit bodily fluid is barf. Hmm. Hmm. Comedically. Got stoned. Got stoned hard by both dudes. I really don't like actually barfing or actual barf at all. Like, it bums me out. You don't? No.

There's something in my brain where I can separate it. Sorry, I know you were being sarcastic, Josh, but... Yeah. I just want to make it clear, though, because since I do, you know, deploy it for comedy as Seth hates, there's something about seeing it

in, like, you know, Monty Python or something that doesn't give me the squicks the same way comedy, as Seth hates. There's something about seeing it in Monty Python or something that doesn't give me the squicks the same way real barf stuff does, if that makes sense. The cartoony version of it I find funny, but no other version. Every time Ash, my oldest, has seen someone barf, he's barfed.

It's like a stand by me. He can't, yeah, he really is. He's just, and so when you gotta barf not that i barfed in front of him but my wife did when she was pregnant with the baby yeah and so she she basically had to like it was the worst thing because she was this wildly pregnant woman who then had to like get out of her eyeline of her oldest to not start a barf domino when's the last time you threw up seth i feel like you never throw up no i haven't thrown up in forever like you drink well you used to now we don't have time but you would drink a lot you would sleep for three hours then wake up and work

out and then i would see you like 20 hours later i've thrown up from being sick but i've never thrown up from drinking right josh oh yeah yeah younger yeah yeah we're sensitive it's also like i was uh yeah you're gonna it's a good it's a good move it's how you get better it's how you're not gonna feel so terrible you gotta get some of that stuff out of you. First time I ever got drunk, I threw up. Yeah, same. Boons, Strawberry Hill. That'll do it. That'll do it tomorrow. If you drink that.

It was pretty good, though. When you go on your summer trips, you have two older sisters. Where do you stay? Do you get your own room because you're the soul boy? No. There was a bunk bed. There is a story that is famous within the five members of my family, which is I was on the top bunk of the bunk bed.

I think this is pretty common, but at the time we thought it was insane. Where I was sleeping on the top bunk of the bunk bed and apparently in the night rolled out and fell hard from high up off the bunk bed with my blanket and was still asleep i never woke up and my mom came in in the morning and saw me just on the floor and she's like how the fuck did he get on the floor my sister was like oh yeah i heard a i heard a big thump in the night. Yeah. Was your sister in the lower bunk as that was happening? Yeah.

Yeah. It's, I mean, it's the same thing as being in a station wagon facing backwards. That is not okay. The fact that there were bunk beds without rails. Oh, yeah. Is nuts. Also, and when you're the youngest and the smallest, just proven over and over, you kind of get just like shoved into whatever corner is available.

Yeah. Like at a certain point, I moved out of, we were all three in one room together. And at a certain point, they were like, hey, we don't want him in our room anymore. He's a boy. And I was like, what? And they gave me my own room.

I'm making air quotes, which I was so hyped about. And then I realized years later was a closet. But when you're small, there's something to be said for a closet. I was stoked. I was in there with my hamster and my Tintins. You traveled with your dog when you would take him out to the beach? Yeah. Are you going to ask if he would get like a bright pink boner in the backseat?

Because yeah, he did. I feel, knowing you, Seth, I was like, here it comes. And would we all go, eww, and scream and laugh? Yeah, of course. And did we laugh so hard that we farted? Undoubtedly. Isn't it just being a child? I feel like you're just describing being a child.

These are your words. It's amazing. For somebody who doesn't like podcasts at all, you're doing a great job of hosting and being a guest at the same time. I'm telling you, it's this jivity job, man. This hot java. I heard Yorm didn't record his audio. He got some of it.

He got some of it. Was he good? Was he a good guest? What kind of dog did you guys have? No clue. Really? Yeah. He had black hair

and he had one ear that went halfway up and then hung over. Mel? Did you say his name? Mel, yeah. Okay. Was that his whole name

or did he have like a longer name? Was he Melvin? Oh, no name? Mel, yeah. Okay. Was that his whole name or did he have like a longer name? Was he Melvin? Oh, no. Just Mel. Gotcha. I thought you meant like Mel Torme or something. Did you have? That also would be a longer name.

One word. Did you have more dogs or was Mel the only dog you guys ever had? Mel was the only one. Got it. But I have a lot of issues around Mel because I loved Mel, but I was, again, the youngest. So I sort of was born into a life of taking care of a dog that I had no choice in getting. Yeah. And then at a certain point, my sisters were gone and me and Mel remained.

Was Mel already part of the family when you were born? I think they got Mel when I was a baby. So we kind of came around the same time. But you didn't, you never felt like he was your dog. Exactly. That's the same thing with Mike because we had,

and I'm loath to bring her up, but we had Frisbee first. Our dog Frisbee. The kids, I mean the kids are far more Andy on their take with Frisbee than they are. They align with you pretty well, I would guess. Gotcha. Yeah.

They think Frisbee's like rotten. They just kind of think she doesn't bring much to the table. And they think that she looks like sort of like the middle of that fast motion raccoon carcass video from the Nine Inch Nails video. Like sort towards the tail end of the decomposition. Yeah. They most, my kids almost describe everything in regards to that Nine Inch Nails video. Is it a raccoon or is it a fox? I think it's a fox.

Is that the impression Fred Armisen does an impression of a fox decomposing? Oh, really? Of course he does. Of course he does. That's how Fred gets impressions that aren't well-trod. How great to have a friend who'll be like, hey, this is a fox decomposing.

You're just hanging out. It's not for anything but you. So did you guys ever take any, did you fly anywhere ever? Do you have any trips that you recall? We flew to Florida. We flew to Florida. Was that Disney based? To see grandparents.

No, no Disney. My family never Disneyed. All right. I didn't Disneyland in LA until I was in high school and I went with friends. So grandparents in Florida, whereabouts in Florida? Sarasota, I want to say. And were those trips fun? They were pretty fun.

I mean, that's when I first learned about Publix with an X. The supermarket chain. The grocery store chain? Yeah. That was pretty much the main takeaway, I think. I will say, I do also remember that

about going, like when you went to somewhere other than your home and went to a grocery store, it was weirdly exciting because you felt like, you're like, why isn't it Safeway?

But also, you got to build the food from ground up. You got to be there with your parents and just say, I know we're only here for a few days, so let's just get the chips I like. I promise to eat them before we go. Cookie crisp. Yeah.

Was there a sweet cereal you guys were allowed to have? We had Frosted Flakes. Yeah, but I don't like cereal to this day. Yeah. Rice Krispie is not really sweet cereal. No, I want to say. Yeah, but I don't like cereal to this day. Yeah. Rice Krispies, not really sweet cereal. No, that's a joke. Yeah. I like those.

I feel like we'd go to camp and we'd get those little boxes. Those like, there's some corn pops, some Frosted Flakes, the Cocoa Puffs. But Seth didn't even like them. So you just get everything you wanted. Yeah. Seth would just have English breakfast tea. And then, you know,

and then rashers. I liked a few rashers. In general, it's just an English, a full English breakfast. Yeah. You're like, I want the big,

messy, grilled tomato. Yep. My mom, God love her, figured out how to make blood pudding at the campsite. Were you a camping family?

We camped a few times. I remember it being good. I don't have a lot of really distinct memories of it, though. Did you have like a big tent that you would all be in or multiple tents? I feel like we had to have had one big tent. And did they install a small tent closet for you? They just put me in the cooler. I feel like I have a very distinct memory of my dad trying to put the tent together and muttering under his breath.

Yeah. Fuck it. Jesus shit. I think most children have his breath. Yeah. Fuck it. Yeah. Shit. I think most, I think most children have that memory. Yeah. And then now, you know,

when I try and put a tent together, I realize what he was going through and I have a lot of sympathy. It sucks. It sucks a lot. You, and I bet it's, I bet it's easier for us than it was for them based on tech improving. Yeah.

No YouTube videos back then. Exactly. Yeah. I also, when I get to a campground now, I will set up a chair first, and I will sit in the chair, and I will look at the instructions for the tent,

and I feel like most mistakes are made because people just launch right into it. Yes. And that's just a great way to make a mistake. But I've been there with Josh, and what he's leaving out is when he sets up the chair, he's like, ah, fuck. The chair.

The chair's a tough setup. The chair's a really tough setup. The chair's got a bunch of moving parts. You know, you asked if we ever would fly. We did fly to New York. Both my parents and their families are from New York. So we went to New York as well

a few times. To the city? To the city. Yeah, that's exciting as a kid. It was crazy. And in fact, I do have an anecdote, which is we went to, I want to say we spent the day with my uncle and cousin and my dad.

And I think we went to the Natural History Museum and we were up around that area. And then we realized we were starving and we all had to pee. So we just walked into some random bar restaurant and walking to the bathroom, I must've been like 10, 12 years old, at the bar, Bill Murray. Get out of town. Wow. And at that age, I mean, that was 100% the first famous person I'd ever seen. Yeah. We were big Murray heads, as you probably could have gathered based on my novelization of Scrooge reference. And we all were like freaking out.

Did you talk to him? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Okay. But I remember being like, he's just at a restaurant bar. Just like, shouldn't he be in some fancy place? And he was, you know, there he was just kind of at the posted up, just chatting with people. Yeah. Yeah. I went to a Northwestern Yukon basketball tournament game. I think that's a basketball tournament game. I went to the NCAA tournament in Brooklyn, Northwestern, my almaon basketball tournament game. I think that's a basketball tournament game. I went to the NCAA tournament in Brooklyn. Northwestern, my alma mater, played Yukon.

And they were cutting around people in the stands. And I was like, here it goes. They're going to cut to me, Mr. Celeb. And then they cut to Bill Murray. And I'm like, oh, so I guess I'm probably not after him. That's probably their closer. So if they haven't cut me, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, my God.

We've been through that. Me, Keith, and Jorah went to a Dodger game kind of recently. And they were like, we're going to cut you guys. We were like, awesome. And then we realized, like, not only were we early in the order of who they were cutting to, but, like, there was, like, three other times out of commercial that they cut to bigger and bigger. By the time it got to Will Ferrell and the whole stadium went fucking ape

shit. We were like, Oh man, we were pretty early in the rundown. Top of the second. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Did you ever go to like summer camp?

Oh, yeah. Okay. Did you have like a regular one that you went every year? Yes. Well, I started off, before that I went to a sleepaway one-week soccer camp. One of the most embarrassing moments of my childhood was I arrived there with a friend of mine, and there's a little rules and regulations manual for the campers.

And they were like, for the first big assembly in the gym, everyone wear your camp uniform. And it was like this dumpy t-shirt and the shortest short shorts you can imagine. And we were like, oh man, we don't look cool, but those are the rules. And we showed up and we were literally the only two kids in the whole place wearing those damn short shorts. And everyone was actively unapologetically laughing at us. And so, yeah, it took a couple days to climb back out of that hole. Do you have that picture?

Is there sort of a welcome to camp picture that you're just... I'm sure it exists somewhere. But if I ever had it, I'm sure I burned it. Yeah, if anyone listening has a copy of it and knows that you were at camp with Andy Sandberg, please send it our way. You probably didn't. Maybe you don't even, you didn't even know it was Andy

because he was just a kid then, but now you're thinking, wait, I got a picture where it's everybody and there's two dinky doodles wearing short shorts. They're taking out their magnifying glass right now and being like, holy shit, that is Andy Samberg.

Yeah, yeah. Everyone who went to a soccer camp for one week in the Bay Area and they have dinky doodle aged photos. They open up their folder in their files labeled dinky doodle age. That's tough to get off to a bad start at a week long camp.

And it was co-ed too. So we were definitely crushing on girls and stuff. And it was like, oh yeah, you guys are the fucking losers. The shorts guys. Well, at least you made a name for yourselves. Yeah, we were like, rules and regulations, everyone.

And then after that, you went to a more, like a real summer camp camp. Yes, a more traditional sleepaway camp in Yosemite near Bass Lake. Oh, man. And I started off as a camper there. I was a camper for five years, starting at, I want to say, age 12.

And then I became junior staff, and then I was a full counselor there as well. So I have a question for you. You loved camp then. Loved it. Do you still have friends from camp? I do. I feel like that's true of everybody I know who goes to summer camp two or more years. My question to you is, would you support the idea of your kids going to a summer camp?

Because everyone I know who went loves it. Everyone, every parent I know who has kids who go say they love it. And yet I can't imagine wanting to let my kids go away in the summer because I love having them around so much. I see. I don't imagine wanting to let my kids go away in the summer because I love having them around so much. I see. I don't know. Yeah. If my kids really wanted to, I wouldn't want to deprive them of that because it was so formative for me.

Like, I really feel like I was able to figure out who I was outside of, like, the intensity of public school. Yeah. of like the intensity of public school and that dynamic, what going to summer camp and being like, oh, and when I'm here just kind of on my own and with people, I find people I get along with, and this is who I want to be. And a lot of that was by the way, performing, you know, I ended up being obnoxiously prolific around the campfire time, You know, I would write stuff and perform stuff and meet up with people who wanted to do that kind of thing too. And et cetera. That's great.

Was that like a four-week camp or was it all, was it eight? Was it? Four. Yeah. And then I always have this impression of like counselors is like, obviously you're a little bit older, but you can fuck around a bit more. Or there's like rumors of that. So how does it evolve from just a little dinky doodle camper to coolest shit counselor?

I think a lot of the stuff that was going on is not happening now. Like, I think just like insurance-wise and that sort of thing, like we were still on the tail end of the sort of 70s and 80s version of summer camp. It was right before the major legal shift happened. So like the counselors were partying. Yeah.

I remember having that revelation when I went from camper to counselor. I was like, oh. Like, the reason this camp is so chill is because everyone's all high and drunk. And how wonderful. I actually think I don't, haven't been properly taught canoe. Definitely not. Is that where you had your strawberry boons? Was it a camp?

No, no, that was junior high. That was just around my neighborhood strawberry boons? Was it at camp? No, no, that was junior high. That was just around my neighborhood. What were the counselors drinking at camp? I want to say schnapps. Great. There was like peppermint schnapps in hot chocolate thermos stuff happening. That's good. That's good camp cloth.

Still yummy. Yeah. But then you're sitting around a fire with some probably campers and you're like, I'm just sipping on this and you can't crack a beer. Yes, yes. Yeah, drink some spiked. Yes, I do want to say I think most of the drinking and stuff happened when counselors were not on duty. Like, even if it was like, oh, the kids are all asleep in the cabin. Now I'm going to go do it.

Or I have my one day off a week. So we're going to go rage by the lake. Right. Um, you know, we were coming from the Bay and some of my friends in there were from LA. So, and it was the early nineties.

So we were like, let's go get forties. Like, that's pretty much all we did for so long, which is hilarious to think about now. But it's inexpensive and you want to just drink and be like your favorite rapper. It is funny how I feel like the downside of where we grew up

as far as rules and regulations was that we were driving around without seatbelts and rolling off the top of bunk beds. But the upside is that we got to rock and roll at things like camp. There was definitely SoCo also. Oh yeah, SoCo, yeah. A lot of SoCo. That's a bad, that's not something I'd order today.

No, a lot of acoustic guitar and SoCo. I remember one of the first times a couple of my buddies drank, an older sister of theirs bought them stuff and made a list of all these drinks they could make with these ingredients. And one of them was a slow, uncomfortable screw. And it had Southern Comfort Slow Gin.

Orange juice, probably. Yeah, I don't know. But it was like both of those dudes couldn't stop throwing up. It was a terrible, terrible scene. It was called a slow, uncomfortable screw. Yeah, the drink was called a slow, uncomfortable screw. What a nightmare.

And Matt Coburn and Chuck Lansbury had a rough go of them. Now, Andy, did you, because I feel like you have a, I've always had very good radar for things that suck. Thank you. And my question is, did you at even a young age know that it sucked when someone took out a guitar at a campfire? I would say it was song dependent. Okay.

You know what I mean? Like there was a lot of like, Steve Miller. Right. And you love him to this day. I had, obviously had a year in high school

where I loved Steve Miller band. I mean, best is Steve Miller. I would argue I probably had a two-year run where I listened to it almost all the time.

Or like, a lot of Leave It On A Jet Plane. Yeah. Cat Stevens' Father and Son. Mm-hmm. Like, a lot of leave it on a jet plane. Yeah. Cat Stevens' father and son. Like a lot of that stuff. I would say

I was kind of in it. I was kind of in it. I just sort of gave my snobbiness over to the vibe of summer camp stuff. I will say there's no, again, if I could give any advice to people that age, I would say just turn your snob off.

Just turn your snob off. Just turn your snob off. Turn your snob off. Save it. Save it for later in life. Just squeak close that snob faucet. No girl at the campfire wants to hear you explain why this thing she likes actually stinks. It's true, although now because of Barbie,

playing guitar at a campfire correctly is kind of lame. And I just saw some commercial ripped it off. Yeah. Which, again, so annoying when commercials do that. They just straight up take a thing from a thing and go, look at this thing we came up with. Like, we all saw Barbie. Like, we just all saw it.

You have another podcast where you go at commercials pretty hard, right? The one that I just do alone. Yeah. Yeah. No guests. No guests. Just me ranting on commercials. But you don't have the rights to any of the commercials,

so you have to describe them. You can never play them. Exactly. Yes. It's a hard listen. And she's like, where's the beef? And I'm like, da fuck? Anyway, thanks for tuning in or whatever this is. where's the beef? And I'm like, da fuck? So you go, anyway,

thanks for tuning in or whatever this is. The real bummer is it's almost impossible to get ads for your podcast because everybody's like, I feel like he's just

going to crap all over us. And then every time I try and read one, I end up sort of deconstructing it while I'm reading the thing. Have you taken your parents on any trips as an adult?

I haven't taken them specifically. I did that PBS show, Finding Your Roots. Yeah. You know this well. Shout out to Henry Louis Gates. Hey-oh, that's the guy. Professor Henry Louis Gates. And my mom was adopted,

and they found out who her parents were. Sicilian. And we found out my mom was half Sicilian, yes. So recently, our entire family, my sisters and all extended family, went to Sicily. And me and my sisters and my mom and dad went to the village town where her family originated from. So I didn't pay for their tickets, but I, I did foot a lot of the bill if that's what you're asking.

It was, it was, all the questions was about the bill. I mean, you asked, did you take them on a trip?

I feel like the implication is like, now that you're a grown up and you have jobs. I should have, you're right, I should have said, did you go on a trip with your,

so this is, I want to say, and it's a really, my episode is super boring, your episode of Finding Your Roots is really exceptional. And your mom had no sense that she was half Italian because she was adopted. And I would imagine, I mean, talk about a family trip. Was it emotional for her when she went to Sicily?

Yes. I mean, when we went to the town, especially. Did you encounter any family? Were you trying to sort of find connections? Not any relatives, but people who knew members of our,

I was going to say her, but I'm her son, so our family. Yeah. And like showed us where her family had lived. You know? How young was she when she was adopted? Baby. Yeah, so that's crazy. What a thing. In New York. How young was she when she was adopted? Baby. Yeah, so that's crazy. What a thing.

In New York. And this was the thing, I mean, I think it's very cool. She never, ever would have known that if you hadn't done... Yeah, and it was the only reason I did the show. As you know, I don't like to talk about too much. I mean, I'm doing this podcast, so I'm cooked. But traditionally, I would always be like, I don't want people to know too much about what's going on with me and my personal stuff and then when I got asked to do that I asked her if she would want me to do it if there was any chance even though there's a chance it would be like

on tv that we find out something terrible about yeah you know who she was related to and who her parents were and stuff and she was, I just really want to know. So I just did it. And it turned out to be incredible and a huge relief. And then I found out our great uncle Joe was the Zodiac Killer. No, you did not. I still think, Josh still thinks, yeah,

but I'm like, it would have come up. He was weird. He was a weird guy. And he always wrote notes in weird codes. It would have been incredible if their finding your roots finally cracked. Yeah, when you got a card from Uncle Joe, you were really like, I don't want to open it. Yeah. I felt like if anyone was going to figure out who it was, it'd be Gyllenhaal.

Yeah. Yeah. You know what I mean? That would have been a real, if Gyllenhaal did it and found out he was related to the Zodiac Killer, that would have been real. Talk about a twist ending. Oh, yeah. He'd be like, yeah, I just felt drawn to this part.

I just really, I needed to know. My father. My real father was a bouncer. Oh, shit. Now that's Roadhouse. Yeah, we switched to Roadhouse. Yeah. How many times did you see the first Roadhouse?

I'm going to say at least 10. I think that's right. I would say 10. It was on cable a lot when I was younger. Yeah. I had a college roommate, and we think Roadhouse made him go crazy because he watched it so many times in a row, and it was right before finals, and he just just disappeared and he

withdrew from school and had to like retake his senior year and we think roadhouse broke his brain we couldn't like he really was watching it like on a loop and do you think he just loved the movie or was he just like sitting there waiting for the bone scene a bit of a little from colin a little from colin i think i know he told i know he told the dean he just kind of couldn't stop watching it but we think yeah it was for the boner so we should call the dean is what you're saying i think let's check in and now it's time for a new segment checking in with the dean look everyone takes for granted now that we know about all the different ways to do crazy Check in. And now it's time for a new segment, Checking In With The Dean. Look, everyone takes for granted now that we know about all the different ways to do crazy sex.

But when we were younger, Roadhouse introduced the concept to a lot of people of having sex up against a wall. Yeah. That's true. I think at our age, we only thought of walls as sort of ways to divide rooms. Mm-hmm. And then all of a sudden, we're like, whoa, hello. Yeah, not something to, like, smash on while your knees get all shaky. Well, yeah.

Unless you're as strong as Swayze. Swayze has no trouble. He didn't have shaky knees. But trust me, if they had panned down on Swayze, those knees were knocking for us. But it wasn't Swayze, right? Swayze wasn't wall-pound. No, Swayze was wall-pound. Yeah. We're talking face-to-face on the wall.

Oh, right. I'm thinking of a different scene. You're talking about from behind in the closet with all the kegs and stuff. I was thinking about that. Which I didn't. The double douche. I didn't know that. Closets. That was the first. I didn't know that. Closets.

That was the first time I saw closets that way. You must have been hard for you, Andy. You saw them blowing in a closet and you were like, that's a child's bedroom. Yeah, that's my house, dude. Also, then he gets fired. He fires him for having sex on the job. Yeah, he does. You can't do it in a way.

This is turned into a reel. But again, at least we're spoiling the old one and not the new one. Yeah. I'm sure it has all those scenes though, right? It's not like a reboot. It's super fun. I will say.

New Roadhouse, super fun. I do want to see it, yeah. It's a good time start to finish. All right. I feel like we should ask Andy his questions. Yeah, we got some questions for you. We ask everybody, so don't feel like you're getting grilled or anything. Okay, this is like the questionnaire of your thing.

Yeah. You can only pick one of these. What's your ideal vacation? Relaxing, adventurous, or educational? Relaxing. What is your favorite means of transportation? Train, plane, automobile, boat, bike, or educational? Relaxing. What is your favorite means of transportation? Train, plane, automobile, boat, bike, walking? I love a train,

but generally that's not a viable option to go where you want to go. If a train's available, I'll go train. If not, I think plane. Great. If you could take a family vacation with any family, alive or dead, fictional or real, other than your own family,

what family would you like to take a vacation with? The Royals. Perfect. Thank you. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? My immediate family or my new family that I've created?

Either one. Yeah. anyone that i'm related to at all correct yeah would i know that someone is taking care of the kids yes and that they're happy yes yeah then my wife we lied your kids don't know you're gone and they're losing their shit oh man we abandoned them. Sorry, dude. Well, that was your mistake. Trick question. Should have done more research.

And your hometown, you consider it Berkeley or Oakland? What do you consider your... Berkeley, yeah. Most of my life, my childhood in Berkeley, yeah. Would you recommend Berkeley as a vacation destination? Oh, yeah. A short vacation. Yeah, I've never been. I'd like to go. There's a lot of beautiful stuff there, Tilden Park,

and especially if you're a foodie, there's incredible food there. All right. And then Seth has our final questions. Andy, have you ever been to the Grand Canyon? No. Do you want to go? Yes. Oh, interesting. Josh wants to go. I don't. I think it'd be cool. Do you think of that? Yes. Oh, interesting. Josh wants to go.

I don't. I think it'd be cool. Do you think of that as a thing? Are you the kind of person now who thinks, I'd like to bring my kids there? Yes. I think we will. Okay.

That's really nice. Seth thinks his kids are going to fall in. I do. But his kids are real tippy. Their kids are tippy. They have to jump so far. I don't know, man. I will say Addie's not tippy at all.

Our daughter is very... She's the sturdiest of the kids. Yeah. Would you like to bring Frisbee to the Grand Canyon? I mean, I think you know where this is going. Well, you know what? I think I know where Frisbee's going. Don't name a gross dog something you chuck.

If you don't want it. I can't believe you're finding new ways to burn Frisbee. You've been burning Frisbee the entirety of your life. You named it thing. God, don't name a gross thing something you chuck. All right, well, I love you despite your cruelty for my dog. I love you. Thanks for doing this. Thank you, Andy.

One more quick plug. If you want to hear Andy and I talking more, sans posh, check out the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast, which is already the new episode. The first episode just came out yesterday, and it's a lot of fun. And what's it about, Seth?

We talk about the digital shorts. Those are the things that Andy and Akiva and Jorma made when they were on SNL. They're really good, some of them. Some stink hard. But we talk about those, too. And we talk about SNL. It's a lot of fun. Yeah.

And also stuff that Seth was up to, thus the title of the podcast, which I just was... I kind of feel like I also am just sort of facilitating. Nothing makes me happier than talking with you guys. So it's a fun to do, and it's a fun listen. And this is a lot of fun, too. Thanks for coming, bud. My pleasure. Great to see you guys.

Thanks, Andy. Thanks, buddy. When the school year was finally over And he hung up his book bag He was just a little dinky doodle And he hopped into the station wagon Then head to Uncle Bob's cabin Got to drive over the hill

Hope to see a sea light on the water Bob's Cabin. Got to drive over the hill. Hope to see a sea light on the water. That's a spirit and a mill. On the road to Stinson Beach, get your bar found. Nail in the back seat, get your czar found. At the library, get your gar found. The cat hates Mondays, but he loves lasagna.