Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - BEST OF 2024: Looking Back at Listener's Favorite Episodes

Episode Date: December 31, 2024

What a year 2024 has been for Family Trips! We had some truly incredible guests on and we're so happy people have come on to the pod and opened up about their wild, silly, fascinating family trips and childhood memories! In this episode, Seth and Josh take a look back at a few listener-voted favorite episodes from 2024! Watch more Family Trips episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlqYOfxU_jQem4_NRJPM8_wLBrEEQ17B6 Family Trips is produced by Rabbit Grin Productions. Theme song written and performed by Jeff Tweedy. -------------------------Support our sponsors:NissanSo thanks again to Nissan for sponsoring this episode of Family Trips. Adventure calls in the first-ever Nissan Rogue Rock Creek. Learn more at NissanUSA.com AirbnbThanks to Airbnb for their support of Family Trips.  Visit Airbnb.com today and book a guest favorite.  These are the most beloved homes on Airbnb. BluelandRight now, get 15% off your first order by going to Blueland.com/trips -------------------------About the Show:Lifelong brothers Seth Meyers and Josh Meyers ask guests to relive childhood memories, unforgettable family trips, and other disasters! New Episodes of Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers are available every Tuesday Executive Producers: Rob Holysz & Jeph Porter Creative Producer: Sam Skelton Coordinating Producer: Derek Johnson Mix & Master: Josh Windisch Episode Artwork: Analise Jorgensen

This episode of Family Trips is brought to you by Nissan. Adventure calls in the first ever Nissan Rogue Rock Creek. Learn more at NissanUSA.com. Here we go. Hey Pashi. Hey Sufi. Guess what my first question is going to be about? My shirt.

Yes. 100%. And again, we're not just trying to drive traffic over to the YouTube channel, but I would say you are wearing a shirt that looks like it was handed out at a planetarium on opening night. It has some planet vibes for sure. I'm not a big fan of ugly Christmas sweaters.

But Mackenzie years ago bought me this, what can only be described as an ugly Christmas shirt. Oh. Yeah. Oh, God, it sucks. It's for, okay, let's see how well, like, it is a T-Rex. He's wearing a Santa's hat. And he's sort of marching in front of a Christmas tree, smokes coming out of his mouth. What kind of shoes is he wearing?

Are those just like? No shoes, there's just fire down there. Oh, got it. And yeah, it's a disaster, but you're wearing it on December, early December. Let's just be honest with our listeners. Well, I put it on because I knew we were recording our best of the year episode.

So I wanted to wear something celebr episodes. Oh, well then, yeah. I wanted to wear something celebratory. Okay, whereas I- I changed, I intentionally changed into this. It's heartbreaking to me that this current fashion is intentional. We're doing our best of the year. Been a good year, but it's our first full year of the pod.

We started in summer of 23, but this was 24. We knocked one out a week. What a delighted spin. Yeah. Real quick, I don't want to gloss over your wardrobe here as well. Shoot! You look like an extra in Fox Catcher.

Oh, cause it looks like I'm wearing a wrestling shirt. Yeah, it looks like you're like one of the guys who's not wrestling today. Oh, there you go. Yeah. Now you kind of look like, you look like you're like one of the guys who's not wrestling today. Oh, there you go. Yeah. Now you kind of look like, you look like you did in college. Yeah.

I wore a lot of beanies in college and filthy sweatshirts. Yeah. You and your good friend, Peter Gross, I don't think look anything alike, but you guys would both rock that look and then all of a sudden look very much alike. Yeah, I think that's a very nice way to describe how similar we were in style.

Best of the year. I feel like this will be a lot of fun. We're gonna listen to some guests based on you, the listener, and who you said were our best episodes of the year. Anything best of the year you wanna throw out? Maybe a movie, TV show? Yeah, I mean, movie for me, it caught me off guard,

but kneecap. Kneecap, you've been singing the praises of kneecap ever since you saw it. Yeah, it's sorta like, I wanna say, I don't know when Bottoms came out, but kneecap is my bottoms for. Kneecap is this year's Bottoms. Yeah. That's great.

Just a great, fun movie. Irish, correct? That I saw on a plane, and even watching it on a tiny screen, it was my favorite movie of the year. That's great. Also Irish, but I just finished Say Nothing on Hulu, which is based on a great book by Patrick Radden-Keefe.

And it is about a, at the time, an unsolved missing person during the troubles in Northern Ireland and a fantastic cast and very gripping show. So I highly recommend that. And we've put no prep into this. So maybe, you know what, maybe the week this comes out, we loop back and we have a few little bests of

that we drop in now. Yeah, I would say God of the Woods was my favorite book that I read this year. Okay. I couldn't tell you the author. That's probably heartbreaking for the author. But that's, it's a function of reading on a Kindle. Yeah, it is. I don't see the cover.

I don't see the cover, yeah. I will say James by Purcell Everett. Oh, just finished it. Just my favorite. And what'd you think? I loved it. It's great. Yeah.

It's a great book. I'm trying to think of other things I really liked. Usually there's not much for you. Did Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, the BBC miniseries come out this year? No, I think that was 80s. I think that was mid-80s. It was 81, but I did re-watch it again this year. Yeah.

And it holds up. Yeah, you're a sucker for that Tinker Tailor. I do like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. All right, so we're very excited about, oh, Sam's jumping in to say, this is a good one for you, favorite, Sam's jumping in to say, this is a good one for you, favorite show concert event you went to.

I've got one. I saw Oh Mary off Broadway before it went to Broadway. And it is, you know what? People throw this around a lot for stage shows, but Pashi, it was a triumph. Yeah, I feel like I need to rush out to New York because that's been extended, hasn't it? It has been extended.

Kola Skola, this is their brainchild. They star in it, they wrote it. It's truly special and it's about Mary Todd Lincoln and it's told in a way that is deeply funny and unlike anything I've ever seen before. What about you? You got a favorite concert you went to? I went to an LCD sound system show that I just loved.

I'd really have to, this is one where I'm going to have to loop back. I'm going to have to go into my calendar. But LCD, always a great show. Yeah. I mean, I've already got tickets to some shows next year that drives Mackenzie crazy when I buy a ticket to a show in like August of 2025. And she's like, what are you doing? And I was like, well, they went on sale.

That's you have to, now is when you have to buy these tickets. So. Hey, real quick, do you like my new haircut? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. It's, yeah.

Thanks, bud. I mean. It looks great. Yeah, no, I'm definitely, we're gonna put that quote on the poster. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I mean, again, you look like you're like a wrestling, it doesn't look like that hair has been washed today. Yeah, well guess what? Point for Poshie, cause you're right. One nothing if you're keeping score at home. Can you imagine? I shower for this podcast and I'm on the West Coast. Do you shower for this podcast?

Yeah, well I took a bath. Unbelievable. You took a bath, yeah. Yeah, you know me. Yeah, I'll I took a bath. Unbelievable. You took a bath, yeah. Yeah, you know me. Yeah, I'll, you know what? One billion downloads. That's the day I take a shower for this podcast. All right, Sam, lay it on us.

What's our first best of? And feel free to join us and chat with us about it. You know, I am gonna join you. Sam's here, Sam's here. All right, I like to do the best of the year episodes. I like to start them off with some facts. So what's your guess for our downloads from this year, our download numbers?

Just this year? Just this year. Ah, boy. And I will say, significant number. Can you tell us what last year was? Or is that unfair? No, I'll give you, it'll be, yeah, I'll give you a hint. So last year was-

And we started in like July of last year, right? Yeah. But anyhow, go ahead. Yeah, 4.2 million last year. Last year was 4.2 million, I'm really good at math. So if that was July, that was 75. I'm gonna say 10, 10 million. 7.3 million.

Oh! 7.3. Yeah, yeah, so we're just around 11.5 million downloads. All right, great. That's crazy. That's a lot, that's a lot. We were just celebrating one million downloads. We made a graphic, put it on social media. We overdid it.

We partied so hard at one million, we haven't had a party since. Yeah, we didn't do anything for 10 million. It's great, yeah. Yeah, it's long gone. And speaking of the theme of the podcast, I have to ask what your favorite trip was this year? Favorite trip this year?

I mean, for me it was my wedding, which was a trip. And yeah, I mean, there's no close second for me on that one. And don't be offended, Posh. Yeah, no, go ahead. I took a trip down to my corner CVS. Oh, you love that CVS. I was out of razors.

But then your wedding, it was also fun. Yeah, I mean, Pittsburgh was really special this year. Yeah, I also had, I talked about it, but I had like a very last minute trip to Oslo and Stockholm in the summer where I was three nights in Oslo and like five nights in Stockholm and it was just great. I would love to go to Oslo.

Yeah, and there's this like, not, you know, they're not paying me anything, but like Norse Atlantic Airways has very cheap, direct flights to Oslo and a couple other places in Europe, Rome, London, but that was sort of what made it all very possible to get a cheap flight over there. So, yeah. Gotcha. But if you were doing an ad for them, what would you?

Like give a tagline for it. North Atlantic Airways. It's cheap and you go to Oslo. That's really good. Go to Oslo for cheap. But is it scary like Spirit Airlines? That's my question. No, it wasn't scary at all.

Yeah. It wasn't scary. All right, gotcha. Yeah, it was nice. Yes, we do not have windows. No windows, but't scary at all. No, it wasn't scary. All right, gotcha. Yeah, it was nice. Yes, we do not have windows. No windows, but you'll get there. You'll go to Oshlo. Is that how they say it, Vash? Uh-huh.

They do say Oshlo? Oshlo. Oshlo, you go to Oshlo, no windows on the plane. I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, he was there. That's the thing, when you're actually in a place that nobody almost ever says it. Yeah.

Like the last place you hear New York out loud is New York. No one's ever walking down the street being like, hey, New York, baby. I don't know, there's that one guy. There's that one guy. Yeah. Okay, well, I think we just need to get right to it. We asked our listeners to weigh in

on their favorite trips of the year or their favorite episodes of the year. We have clips from four different episodes that we're gonna play and just chat about how fun it was having these guests on and how fun it was to- Even if it wasn't? Even if it wasn't.

Even if it wasn't. Well, this is actually, yeah, I'm actually testing how good your lying skills are. So that's what this is really about. I'm sure I enjoyed all these, but I'm actually testing how good your lying skills are. So that's what this is really about. I'm sure I enjoyed all these, but I'm excited. So, all right, I'm just gonna play our first one and we can chat about it after. And these are in no particular order, by the way.

These are not ranked one better than the other. So one of everyone's favorite episodes of the year was with Paul Scheer. Now, again, I am not actually smoking. I'm using it like one of those candy cigarettes, but it has actually like a lit cigarette that I'm like puffing on. Again, if anyone saw, I'm a kid in sixth grade

walking around the back of a hotel, smoking a cigarette, talking to myself. I look like I'm having a midlife crisis. You know, but instead I'm acting out this scene where I'm on the Roosevelt Island tram and I'm fighting and... I just like, yeah, they like, somebody hears you muttering about a cartel.

Yeah, like, God damn it, I gotta find out where those drugs are. They got my child. They got my child. They got my boy. Literally. And so like, I'm doing this thing and in disgust, I just kind of throw the cigarette, you know, throw it. And again, I'm in my own imaginary world where I'm just, yeah, I'm talking down a terrorist,

I'm dealing with cartels, and I just threw that cigarette like, oh, we're a part, this is all pretend. Not realizing, I just threw a lit cigarette into dry brush behind this hotel that we're behind. And I'm not thinking. Dude Ranch is famously full of dry brush. I was by a creek bed that looked like no water had been in it for decades.

It was just like, it was so covered over in like dry weeds and tumbleweed. Uh, if you could have tumbleweed in the East, uh, and, uh, and all of a sudden, you know, I'm like continuing to figure out, you know, how to get my kidnapped son back when I see this fire starting. And I'm behind our cabin, because we're in these two little cabins. And I freak the hell out because as a kid, we had people come into school and they teach you like, hey, if you catch on fire, stop, drop and roll.

I understood if I am on fire what to do. I didn't understand how to put out a fire. Like no one taught me that part of it. Really good. That was, I will say mom and dad, big fans of Paul Scheer as well. They loved that episode. I mean, it was one story.

It was one story the whole way through. And it was a good enough story that, yeah, that I feel like we were blessed in a way that I don't know that he's told that story in such great detail anywhere else. They had to kill my mic, of course, because during that one story, I kept muttering, talk about showbiz.

Why is this all about a trip? Did you ever do stand up? Well, we were your favorite rooms. Also, it should be noted, I think you were wearing the same sweatshirt in that. I mean, that's the- Do you just like keep that shirt in a trash can under the desk that you're sitting at right now?

I hang it, what I do is I hang it from the ceiling and I've got a little pulley system set up So I come in for the podcast. I just put my hands up and uh-huh drops off. It's very Wallace and grommet I think yeah reference everybody who get I'll put that on my year's best Wallace and grommet. Oh I have a problem with end of end of best of lists. That's know what's the problem with end of best of lists? That's what they call them, right?

End of best of lists. Yeah, what's that? Everybody's like, I'm gonna do it about this year. You know what? Wallace and Gromit, just as good this year. It makes my list. Yeah, I mean, I'm a big fan of Wallace and Gromit. Great.

So we're in agreement. We are, we are. Yeah, Paul Scheer. Thank Paul. What a delight, what a great story. Also great use of that blurring out the background effect. Yeah, well, he knows what he's doing. I should note, how did this get made is Paul Scheer's wonderful podcast as well.

And sometimes it do help to have a podcast host on your podcast. Yeah, you mentioned that. Thank you, Paul. A lot. I do mention it a lot. to have a podcast host on your podcast. Yeah. Thank you, Paul. A lot. I do mention it a lot. I think our listeners like my insights every time I say them.

Also in Paul Scheer's episode, I loved, towards the end of the episode, he talked about how his stepdad would capture possums, put them in cages, stack them, and wait for trick-or-treaters to come around Halloween. Yeah. I'm like, can you imagine? It's so funny too, because I feel like when you come home

and tell your parents, they're like, well, those weren't real possums, honey, it's Halloween. Yeah, I said, no, no. It was the Shears house. Yeah. Yeah, total winner. Yeah. Hey, we're gonna take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors.

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Drivers should always turn and check surroundings before driving. See owner's manual for safety information. Support for Family Trips comes from Airbnb. Hey, Pashi. Yes, Sufi. I went to your wedding and it was at a beautiful inn. And the people who stayed at the inn had a great time.

Sure. No complaints. But I got three kids. We stayed four minutes away at an Airbnb, an A-frame. I want to stress this, because ever since we left, my kids want to live in an A-frame. I just think they were blown away by the fact that a house could be shaped like a letter.

And it was so great for us because our kids all have different bedtimes. And Addie first to go down, and we just took her back, put her to bed, came back to the wedding. And then Axel fell asleep right before the dancing started, took him back, put him to bed, went back to the wedding. And then Ash made it onto the dance floor until about 9 o'clock at night, took him back, put them to bed, went back to the wedding, and then Ash made it onto the dance floor until about 9 o'clock at night,

took them back, put them to bed, and we got to have the full experience, and our kids had the most wonderful time, and it was so great not to think or worry about how loud it was gonna be in their room, or would they wander back down to the wedding because something woke them up and just perfect. Yeah and then Axel wants to go back to that Airbnb. Axel did say for his birthday

he wants to go back to that Airbnb in the Cascals and have everybody who was at your wedding come to his birthday. Great. Yeah and we keep saying sure and I feel like he's gonna remember and be super mad when it doesn't happen Well, if that happens, you should have him stay at an Airbnb four minutes away And then he won't be able to come back and tell you how mad he is. That's a good point Book your next awesome trip today at Airbnb comm All right, you ready for our second best of the year, yeah, please. Hey, our second best of the year again in no particular order, TIG Notaro.

TIG. I'm crossing my fingers you're wearing something different in this one Seth. Come on baby. Come on baby, different shirt baby. But as soon as I say I'm from Mississippi, people are like, oh, what was that like? What was it like being gay and from Mississippi?

What is your family? And I'm like, my family hosted the biggest gay wedding probably ever in Mississippi. Yeah, so step off, big boy. Where's your wife from? New York and California. Gotcha. And does she love it as well? She loves it.

And when we first, I tell this story in my HBO special, but when we first met and I told her I was from Mississippi, she was like, Mississippi. She said, I picture people barefoot there. And I was like, oh my gosh. I said, I get it. And yes, people run around barefoot there. And I was like, Oh my gosh, I said, I get at it. And yes, people run around barefoot, but they have jobs. My family is civilized. You know, they whatever, just

like other people's families. And then when Stephanie was coming out to meet my family, everybody rented one of those huge, like 16 passenger vans, and they all piled in it and drove from Mississippi to New Orleans. They spent the afternoon in the French Quarter walking around, hanging out, killing time until Stephanie's flight arrived. Then you can drink in your car there and you can open. Okay. So they brought a cooler in the van and, and, uh, we're in the French quarter. And I said, Hey, oh my gosh, Stephanie's plane is landing soon.

We got to wrap it up and go to the airport. So everybody gets back in the van and we drive to the airport. I drove to the airport, I was sober. And I pull up to right outside baggage claim and I said, okay, stay here. I'm gonna go in, get Stephanie and I will meet you right out here. And they were like, all right. I go in, I get Stephanie, I'm so excited to see her. We've been together, it's our first year together. She's about to meet my family and my family'm so excited to see her. We've been together, it's our first year together.

She's about to meet my family and my family is so excited to meet her. We walk out and we're just like looking at each other and she goes, is that your family? And I look over and they are right where we parked but they had pulled the cooler out on the sidewalk and they had taken their shoes off because we had been walking around

the French Quarter all day. So they're barefoot going, whoop! They're standing still! And just like 15 family members going nuts, screaming with the cooler. It's wonderful. That was of the destinations that were mentioned in the famous family trips question,

would you recommend your hometown as a vacation destination? That's the one I think I most wanna go to. Yeah, pass Chris Chan. Pass Chris Chan. And you know what makes her a good podcast guest posh? She's also a podcast host. Oh, where did you hear that nugget? Every time we have a podcast host on.

You say it, you comment on their mic. Are you also nervous that you're gonna be wearing that shirt in past episodes? No. I'm like disappearing into the wall. That's what's cool about this shirt. Yeah. Good night.

Your one man's cool is another man's question. Guy leaning against the wall. But she's wonderful, Tig's wonderful. That was a great story. And yeah, pass Chris Jam. One day. One day, we're gonna get there. Walk down that little main street, get a coffee.

Looking forward to it already. That coffee bookshop combo, I wanna say. Or maybe they're two different places. I don't know. I will confirm it once I go there. Yes, perfect. That was great. What do we got next?

I wonder. I wonder out loud. Okay, next we have definitely a fan favorite. People loved her, give you a clue. So funny, she's so giggly. That was something I remember even in the recording. You have any guesses of who it might be? Giggly.

Just talking to her, I feel like makes you laugh. Oh, Judy Greer. No, but that rings true for her too. Okay. I wouldn't call Tiffany Haddish giggly, but talking to her makes me laugh. Yeah. Not her, but it is.

Catherine Hawn. Oh, Catherine Hawn, the best. Yeah. Don't go in the pool. Don't take a bath and maybe bring your own fruit. But there was no real beach, even it was like just it was like centuries before those pebbles would turn into sand. Like, you know, I mean, walking on hot pebbles to get to the thing.

And then being like, hey. A pebble beach is a real, that's a rip kick in the teeth. It's a bummer. Did you go swimming in Lake Erie? Was that like one of the things you would do there? Of course, and Lake Erie is like, is beautiful, but there is definitely like a chance of a syringe floating up or a dirty diaper,

or I, you know, just used. Like it was like you definitely had to be like, take a shower afterwards. But I loved I loved those vacations. That's what I knew. That was I would hear like people talk about Hilton Head and Myrtle Beach and be like, God, that sounds like a vacation. Like that sounds like there's a boardwalk. You can get like sweatshirts that said like, you know, Myrtle Beach. And I like really wanted like a Hilton head like all

those sounded so rad. But we we made like, like Gary became awesome. My dad all okay, this is another tangent, all talking about my dad and like beautiful stories. He had a lot of outdoor or out, you know, those motors that you could put on the back of a boat. Yes. And he was always into just putting one in the trunk. My mom was like, no, thank you. And it was a car. The caddy would be like this, like it would just be leaning in the back.

It was so heavy. He would go. He would rent one of those like aluminum boats, like those tiny little shell boats, put his motor on the back. We would have to sit in the front to balance it. And then he would just take off straight into the middle of Lake Erie. Like he would just, he would just. And then we would. And then he'd like to have a little picnic in the middle of Lake Erie while we were like, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah,

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She, you know what? Sam did not undersell how wonderfully giggly she is and a real inducer of giggles for me. Yeah. Was also thinking again, not to just drive traffic over the old YouTube, but it is, I am really enjoying watching these guests tell their stories. Yes.

Catherine Hahn is very animated and so fun, so sweet. Also, it's a small world thing. I mentioned that LCD Sound System show I went to, and I bumped into Catherine's husband, Ethan, outside of that show. Fantastic. Yeah. A wonderful couple with wonderful children. It was really hammering home.

What a lovely season of guests we've had. Yeah. It's to be able for us to guess, like is this Judy Greer, is it Tiffany Haddish, and then it's not like, yeah, Catherine Hahn is also on that Mount Rushmore. I think that also you should, or I am cognizant of the fact that all my guesses

are within the last eight guests. Yeah. Because my memory is completely shot. Yeah. I told you, I might write a book, you know, and when you write a book, you gotta have memories. And here's how bad it is. I have a question for you.

Yeah. You're my only sibling, right? Yeah. That I know. There's a lot I don't know, but I do know. The Thanksgiving show, which is so much fun, you know, we double tape on Thanksgiving. And the show, so on Wednesday,

we tape the Wednesday show first, and then we tape you guys on Thursday. So you guys were there on Wednesday. James Acaster is one of my favorite guests on the show. Fantastic British comedian. Oh my God, yeah. He did text me and say, next Thanksgiving, I would like to come out

as your brother you guys never talk about. It would be a super fun bit. Yeah. Our British brother. Yeah. Peter. He had some dumb name for it. Like, that was not a comedy name.

I have a question for you guys, actually. I was thinking about this for Catherine. Yeah? Do you ever have something that you really want to ask her or maybe have some things in mind, but then she just, I feel like she made it so easy to, she goes off on these stories, then you ask her more things, then before you know it, you know, the interview's over. Do you ever leave feeling like, oh, I really, really, so many things I didn't get to ask her. I, you know, I think it was, I remember with Alex Edelman realizing,

oh, maybe we just scratched the surface. Like that was a real, we are a family, it's gonna travel. And every time we come home, there's gonna be seven family trips where the anecdotes. But I mostly just love when you realize, oh my God, it's been an hour, that went by so fast. And I never like kick myself that we didn't ask, I mostly just delight in the fact that it went so fast.

Yeah, and then if I have any sort of real world interactions like I know I mentioned to Katie Sakoff that I had seen her in the TSA line, but actually had no actual interaction with her, but it was exciting for me in the moment. So if I have things like that, I will want to bring them up to our guests. But yeah, typically I just am along for the ride

and see where it takes us. Yeah, and I guess those are the easiest kind of guests anyways, right? Where they make it an easy ride. Yeah. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. This episode of Family Trips is brought to you by Nissan. It's time to fuel your inner adventure in the award winning Nissan Rogue Rock Creek.

So Josh, tell me about a recent time you connected with your inner adventurer. Well, anytime it rains in LA, which isn't very often, I throw my gear on and I get out in it. And my dog Woody loves to get out there with me. And we'll start on a trail, on sort of a big fire road trail, but then we find those smaller trails where you need to crawl and get your hands dirty. And the wetter you get, the better you get.

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This is our final favorite trip and episode of the year, but it's a two-parter. It's a two-clip parter because this was our episode with Josh Gad, where you guys also went to the Grand Canyon. Ah. It was one of those things where like a lot of times I remember, especially when I was younger, we used to do staycations.

So we would go to like Marriott, the Marriott Beach on like in Fort Lauderdale and like just stay there and pretend to be like tourists ourselves. I'm not sure why my parents thought that that was the way to play it. How far was the drive from there to where you lived? It was like 20 minutes. Oh, that's just so weird. But my parents really gaslit me into thinking we were getting like a hell of a vacation.

Yeah. Yeah. They're like this, you guys, you have no idea. Were you gaslit? Do you remember that being something you were excited about when it was time to go to the Marriott? I remember I didn't know what the word gaslit was until 2016.

But I had this sensation. I had this sensation that I was being gaslit. You just didn't know what to call it. Right. Yeah, because my friends were going to the Caribbean and I knew they had to get on a plane. And instead, like, a 20 minute drive felt wrong compared to that. All that time they were on a plane though, you were sitting poolside sipping on a-

That's just like that. This is me trying to relive my childhood right here. He was wonderful. He was wonderful and he was sick and it didn't stop him. He had my favorite backdrop of the year. Like little mini bamboo palms behind him, which was great. Yeah, I'm still, his book is on my list. I don't know if his book has come out yet.

In GAD, we trust. Based on his stories, I'm deeply excited for it. Yeah. Yeah, he's just the best. Yeah, big fan. Not bad for a guy who doesn't have his own podcast. Oh man, if Gad had his own podcast, he'd crush us. Yeah.

Gabbing with Gad? Gad Gabs? Yeah, I'm sure he's not gonna use those because he feels like- Gad Gabs grab bag? Just use them all because then you can go after them for- Yeah, oh, right, right, right, right. I can sue him for using,

hey, it's time for Gad's grab bag. He'll probably come up with something else. Yeah, it's time to chit chat with John Gad. All right, I'm done with this foolishness. But yeah, this was a two parter. So Sam, you want to hit us with part two? Yep. Here is part two, probably one of the most anticipated

videos I think our listeners had been waiting for. Because they just, they all wanted to see your reaction to being in the Grand Canyon. So here we go. All right, so this is it? Yeah. Have you looked? I've looked.

Okay. Because you were taking too long in the car. Well, somebody had to get the gorp. We're passing a series of picnic tables and Seth is gonna walk to the edge of the Grand Canyon. Well, I mean, it's spectacular. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like a lot of our guests have said this, but it's really, it's massively big. And yeah, you do kind of have to be here to appreciate the size.

This is a tiny piece of it. You can see just across the way there, those hills, there's so much beyond those. Yeah, but at the same time, I feel like what I'm seeing is enough. You know what I mean? You, yeah. Yeah.

I'm really happy I'm seeing it with you. Yeah. Yeah. So here we are. Here we are. We're gonna go have our fantasy football draft with these dopes. We're gonna go for a hike and eat some gorp

and then have a fantasy football draft in the edge of one of God's great creations. Hey, we went to the Grand Canyon this year, buddy. Yeah. What a year. You know what? I can't believe we left that out for best trips, but knowing how to be about my wedding.

Everybody's on my wedding. Oh, my God. Get over yourself. At some point, it's to be about my wedding. Everybody's on my wedding. Oh my God, get over yourself. At some point it's like, get over yourself. I will say the similar thing from the Grand Canyon trip and my wedding is I'm learning that people are more afraid of rain than they have any reason to be. I love rain.

I do too, but everyone, as soon as it starts raining, people in our sphere have been panicking. Well, our friend Brian Stanchfield, who's having his worst fantasy football year ever, I have recently opined it's because he was so scared about lightning during the draft that he just took bad players. It's very possible.

It's very, just everybody, everybody lost their mind. Yeah. A little bit of rain. Little bit of rain or just the threat of rain. Like. Yeah. They remember when people are like, if there's enough rain, the canyon will overflow. You're being ridiculous. There was talk I saw in some of the chats,

the messages that people send to family trips that in the Gad episode, we had gone to the Grand Canyon and people were saying, well, like, maybe you need to change that last question. Yeah, yeah. We still need to discuss this, but because Josh Gad spoke so lovingly of Epcot, a place that neither of us has ever been,

there was talk about making that a question. And then maybe having that be something that pulls us down to Epcot, but I don't know. We'll have to discuss that. I mean, Epcot in, are you saying Epcot in 25? Is that your platform? We're gonna make the question Epcot? Maybe.

I mean, I wouldn't mind and I wouldn't mind checking out Epcot. Interesting. Interesting. Take it under advisement. Take it under advisement. Yeah. But I like that it sort of,

without the podcast, we definitely would not have had our fantasy football draft on the rim of the Grand Canyon. What about we replace, have you ever been to the Grand Canyon with you ever seen a dead body? Do you think that'd be a good question? I mean, it would be a good question

so long as it wasn't like, oh yeah, like my dad died and I was there. And it's like, oh, then that's, we're signing off. Well, I just know that true crime podcasts are like a big thing. So I feel like if we had a little element of that at the end where we'd be like,

you ever see a dead body? I mean, you know what it is? Maybe to avoid the my dad died thing is, have you ever seen a dead body from an unsolved case? So then that eliminates anyone where you just like, old age, you know, cause I think that would be the drag. Yeah. And then our buddy-

So how about this? You ever see a body in the woods? You ever see a rando body in the woods? Yeah. Dead body. Or no, or Epcot. That's fun. Oh my God, Poshy.

Why do you hate all good ideas that drive traffic? Then whoever wins our fantasy football league and has to have a draft host the draft next year is gonna be like, we gotta find a dead body in the woods to have a draft next to. What if we do a series of photos, it's you, don't say no right away. Okay. It's you, butt naked, but we can't see your face.

And we just, we take pictures of you lying in different places in the woods. And then we show our guests and we say, dead body or just sleeping. Why do I have to be naked? Well, cause I feel it. Well, that's true. I don't know why, why all,

I guess in my head, like dead bodies in the woods are often naked, but you're right. You are right. So some of them, but here's the thing. You can't do any in the shirt you're currently wearing because people would know right away. Well, I mean, that shirt looks like a shirt to find a dead body in.

I agree, I disagree. I feel like you might never find somebody if they were in the woods in this because it would like blend right into the underbrush. Yeah. Wear bright colors is the moral to the story. If you wanna be found. Yeah. Wear bright colors is the moral to this story. If you want to be found. Right.

If you're ever going on a shady first, that's what I call a first date where the person is shady. If you're ever going on a shady first, bright colors. This is, I think, gonna be catmint for the True Crime podcast listeners. Yeah. All right, I will end by saying this.

Posh, you ever been to Epcot? No. Well, I will end by saying this. Posh, you ever been to Epcot? No. Well, I should go. Do you wanna go? I do. Guess what? You know why Epcot's good? Cause you don't wanna go and I do.

Exactly, it's Grand Canyon all over again. I got no interest. Yeah. That's you, old curmudgeon. I mean, there's, I mean, again, the thing really, which I think most of our listeners know at this point, I barely want to go anywhere. Right.

Yeah. Yeah. You know what I like? A sweet, my sweet, sweet podcast room. Got my ring light. I got a back wall that almost matches my lucky sweater. Some muted colors. Got some mutes.

All right, Paji, well, congrats to another successful year of Family Trips, the podcast. Yeah, and happy new year to everyone. Happy new year to all of our producers over at Rabbit Gren. They keep these trains running. So yeah, to Rob, to Eric, to Sam, to Jeff. To Jeff gives us a hard time, but we do love Jeff. You know, I did just reach out and say, so the guys are thinking family trips,

unsolved mysteries for next year. And I'm not really sure how I thought. They just dropped us. They just dropped us as clients. They just dropped us into the top 10 list. And then just everybody check out my favorite movie of 2024, 2008's Imbruge. Happy New Year everybody.

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You'll often see the same Gross sweatshirt Maybe I should be telling his wife But that just feels wrong Instead I'll just keep ripping him and giving him grief And in 2025 he'll turn over a new leaf Yeah, okay, cheese I don't know what to do

I know he has nice clothes But there are times I wonder are we really pros? I'm gonna send you Chipoo And a couple of nice sweaters too And also a sweatshirt too I admit I sometimes throw my head in the sink I guess I shouldn't be such a snob Besides on episodes like this we just listen to clips from the pub

We listen to clips from the pub We listen to clips from the pub from the park. Take a shower, Sufi. Wash yourself, Sufi.