A Grand Canyon Mishap, "Rain" in Ireland, & an Airport Disaster: Listener Episode #28

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I think we're 21 years into our fantasy football draft trip. Before you roll your eyes at the fact that we take a trip for a fantasy football draft, that is the least, it has grown into the least important part of the weekend. Yeah. And it's the most disliked part of the weekend. Yeah. I mean. The actual draft. The actual draft where we have to sort of stop doing all the things we're doing. We have to stop talking to each other because we're so easily distracted now that sometimes you think you're waiting for somebody to make a pick. And it turns out they're just fully in a conversation with one of their oldest friends and have paid no attention to where they are in the draft order. Yeah. So it becomes very frustrating. So that is, but that is, you know, we sort of have planted this flag in the ground with our families. And this is the weekend we do it. And. Yeah, it's two decades. And these are me and Pashi and 10 other guys that we have known since we were 18 years old. And it's, it's pretty amazing. We were on Diamond Lake in Michigan, which was just lovely. Our friend Freshy is married to Claire and it was Claire's parents' house. And big shout out to the Hammuses who. Thank you very much. Thank you for having us. An incredible. They have a pontoon boat. Is that the correct terminology for what we're? Party boat, pontoon boat. Every night, three nights in a row. Just a lazy pontoon ride around Diamond Lake. 12, 11 of us, I guess, this year. 11 gentlemen sitting around looking at the sunset over a beautiful lake. A little yacht rock occasionally mixed in. A little yacht rock. And Pashi was on the tunes. It was really nice. A lot of lawn games. Yeah. There was a cornhole. Mm-hmm. A little badminton. Mm-hmm. You bought a new, what was the new game? A new game. I mean, these, these people are going to be thrilled when I just give a glowing review of their game. QB 54. QB 54. Hit of the weekend. It is, it is like two canvas folding chairs. Clearly someone has adapted. Took some chairs and was like, let's make a game out of this. So the chairs, like the back folds off and in the sort of back posts, you put a goalpost. Like a field goalpost. You're given a goalpost. Yeah. Yeah. In the seat of the chair is a net, like a basketball net. So if you throw a ball and it goes into that net, that's a touchdown. That's a football. Throwing a football. It's a football. Trying to drop it in to a little basket in the seat of the chair. And you're just like chucking. Chucking mini footballs back and forth. If you hit the chair, that's a, you know, that scores. If you get it in the actual bucket seat net thing as well, that's touchdown. You can catch a ball. If it bounces off, right. If I throw a ball, it bounces off the chair and Poshy catches it. Interception. Three points for Poshy's team. Yeah. I will say you need to know how to throw a football for this game to work. Poshy, I feel like now's a good time for you to jump in and say who was by far the best of everybody who played. I mean, I had one game that was lights out. Poshy, I threw seven touchdowns. I don't think anybody came close. Well, I didn't really play against you. I don't know. By the way, for our listeners, because that was obviously resoundingly disappointing to me that Poshy didn't jump in. I was by far the best. Not even fucking close. And by the way, I'm surprised I was the best. I was surprised I was the best, but I was the best and that's it. We always have somebody who ends up, kind of historically, with a little injury and our buddy Bagarore had to go to the emergency room, get five stitches on his finger because he fell off a hydrofoil. Yeah, our buddy Adam Bennett has a hydrofoil, which is like a remote control. It's not remote control, but it's a surfboard essentially. It kind of comes out of the water. It has a big old motor on the back of it. It has a motor and you hold sort of the joystick or whatever, the controls in your hand, and that is your gas. And if you get good. If you're going fast enough, you elevate out of the water. It's really. It looks very space-aged. Fun to watch. Never was even considering doing it. I was. I was 100% going to do it. And was Bag's injury the reason you didn't? 100%. Yeah, once it was like, hey, it's safe, it's fun. And then the second guy who tried it, other than the guy who owned it, had to go to the hospital because he cut his finger. Yeah. And also the guy who owned it, Adam Bennett, is Dr. Adam Bennett. He's Dr. So he was the one who got out and Bag's was like, I think I'm okay. And the doctor was like, yeah, no. Yeah. We got to go to the hospital. Yeah. Then you, I mean, again, we're just giving a lot of hashtag not an ad reads here. But you know what? These are great games for families. Although this one's a little intergenerational, might be tricky. Yeah, I don't know. I think you're not giving kids enough credit. Although I haven't played with someone who's younger than us. Yeah, but by the way, kids would know the last time. You're a lot better than I did. So what's the name of this game? This game is called Hitster. Yeah. It is a musical chronology game. You sort of, you get the app on your phone. You scan a QR code on the back of each card and it plays through a Bluetooth speaker that you have a hit song, an undeniable hit song. Could be from the 1920s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, up to maybe like 2024. It's amazing how quickly. You can just list off decades. I know, I know. And so you're given your first card and then you just have to, each person is given a card individually. It's not like people sort of just call out the year. And then you have to place the card for the song that everyone's listening to chronologically in the line in front of you, trying to get 10 cards in a row. And it's just great to hear music, like great music, snippets of music. You could listen to the whole song if you're linked to Spotify, just saying. And then it's funny to watch guys sort of dancing around to stuff they know, might not know. And yeah, and so I, but I dominated. It was great. You were, oh no. It's interesting how quickly you remember who dominated Hitster. Well, that was a game everyone was there for. I don't know your games of QB 54. Yeah, I couldn't, I was, I didn't do great. Hitster, 'cause my arm was sore from dominating QB 54. I did also, I got pictures of you both days, one day at like 7:10 and one day at like 6:40, you napping on the same couch on the porch of that lovely house. It was, I had a good nap. There was a day where I laid down and I kind of was like, ugh, I wish I'd fallen asleep. And then my little health app was like, you were out, bud, for like 45 minutes. There also, there was And some of the guys were saying, it's just great that we're still doing this. We're all over 50 now. And there is a video of one guy laying on this gigantic, inflatable sort of trampoline out in the lake. And two other guys just jumping on the trampoline simultaneously, playing a game of kind of King of the Hill. Like, you can't really push each other, but we're going to jump until someone gets knocked into the water. And yeah, just hats off to this group of guys. Still doing it. Still doing it. And as we get older, it's a little bit less crazy. And there's a lot more vocal appreciation. Yeah. You know, I think there's less. I think we used to do a lot of shots during the draft. I don't think anybody had a shot this weekend, but it was a lot of like raising a wine glass to toast somebody else's memory. Marijuana drink. Yes. And to say, to friend you. There were a lot of spritzers going around. A lot of spritzers. We've entered our spritzer era. Shall we? Oh, by the way, our friend Claire, who's married to Doug, and it was her parents who led us to the lake house. She also was then nice enough to drive me and our friend Lazaro to the airport, to the South Bend airport. And I was like, man, what a friend. Salt of the earth. What a pal. What a group of people. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from IM8. Hi, Poshy. Hi, Sufi. Poshy, I am 52. Yeah, I am 52. I've been around a little bit. Yeah. True story. And I know a good product when I see one. Yeah. Well, you know, back in the day, you know, we were trying to, we were both on like these big smoothie kicks. And we had all these jars on our counters because we wanted to make sure we were getting all the right things. And then you try to get like supplements and you can have pill bottle after pill bottle after pill bottle. And IM8 has taken that problem and really streamlined it and made it so easy to get everything that you need. Co-founded by one of the world's ugliest people, David Beckham. Built by leading doctors and researchers. 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Three generations of football fan going to Pittsburgh to see the football team in Pittsburgh play. And my wife is coming. Yeah? She's coming. She's coming. She's your generation. Yeah, but it's going to be her first time in Pittsburgh. I like that she's going to be able to enjoy it like a local because we're going to be in a neighborhood that our father was very familiar with as a child and that we've been staying in for years now. I like the neighborhood. I like the bakeries. I like the restaurants that are right near there. And I also like that Mackenzie and I and mom and dad are going to get there a day before you. But it's not like we're going to score the best bedrooms because we've got a five-bedroom. It's not like we're going to score the best bedrooms because we've got a five-bedroom house. It's really good. And I've seen the pictures. It looks gorgeous, comfortable. The living room's got a nice wraparound couch. We've got some college football to watch on Saturday. 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We were then told we could take a flight from LaGuardia, so we took a cab there, only to be told again that the plane was oversold. At that point, we headed home without our luggage, which apparently enjoyed its own vacation to Florida and back without us. Desperate to salvage the trip, I discovered that a brand new airline, Northeastern, was flying out of MacArthur Airport on Long Island, and that its inaugural flight to Florida still had seats, which by then sounded like a miracle on wings. I quickly drove to MacArthur, bought five tickets, came home, gathered a family, and turned right back around for the airport. Our luggage, unfortunately, was at JFK, in the opposite direction from MacArthur, and there was no way to retrieve it. Before the new flight departed, unless I had suddenly acquired a helicopter, I called Delta to explain that our bags were now at JFK and needed to be sent back to Florida. They told me, quote, we don't ship bags without people on board. I pointed out that they had done exactly that the day before, when our bags had gone to Florida and returned home without the inconvenience of taking us with them. After much hand-wringing, they finally agreed to send the bags. When we arrived in MacArthur, a reporter from Newsday. - Tuesday interviewed us because this was a normal flight from Long Island to Florida. By then, I assume we look less like a family on vacation and more like a field test for airline crisis management. Miraculously, when we landed in Florida, our bags were waiting at the airport, possibly rested and refreshed from their earlier solo trip. It was an anxiety-driven 36 hours with three young boys, which is not so much a travel delay as a controlled experiment in parental endurance. Later that day, I rolled a son, then eight years old, wrote a blistering letter to Delta to complain about the trauma he had to put them through with his family. It was probably the most forceful customer service correspondence ever produced in crayon. The following year, we bought a conversion van and road tripped our way to Florida, proving that if the airlines would not take us, we would simply take ourselves. Fantastic. A happy ending that they actually managed to make some headway being logical with an airline. And saying, hey, you did this. Yeah. And I do want to credit whoever they talked to at Delta for allowing that to happen. Yeah. I mean, I get overselling airlines because people don't show, but it really feels like that's shady. You know what? I don't think you can oversell. I don't think you're allowed to oversell a flight that's going to Disneyland. You know what I mean? Who are you going to disappoint? You know what? Again, where's a place where nothing fun happens? I'm not going to say it. But like Omaha. Oh, soof. The comments. The comments. Just oversell. Oversell a flight to Omaha. Until they get their own Disney. Yeah. But yeah, that seems like, you're right. It's just, you can't oversell a flight like that. Yeah. I mean, airlines are doing all right. Although, who was it? Northeastern Airlines. I don't even know about them anymore. Not doing great. Would you do an inaugural flight on a new airline? Yeah, I would. Yeah, I think I would too. Yeah. I kind of feel like that might be the one to take. Right. I feel like they're triple checking. Yeah. Although, I'm sure a lot of people said the same thing. Yeah. I'm sure a lot of people said the same thing. About the old Titanic. And the Hindenburg, right? I'm like, come on. But the Hindenburg, was that the first? First time up on the Hindo? No, that's true. Yeah. Well, I feel like it did feel like everybody was certainly paying a lot of attention to it. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Hold on. Now I got to check. People love, people just were, people are always looking about paying attention to what's going on with dirigibles. Yeah. Dirigibles. Is it? Dirigibles? Yeah. I don't know. Your glasses seem to magnify your eyes. Well, yeah. But like in an incredible way. In a way that like you like or are put off by. I feel like you're not liking it. Yeah, I don't know. Is that where they're supposed to sit on your face? I don't know. There are the headphones. I see. Okay. The Hindenburg was not its inaugural flight. It was the first North American transatlantic crossing of its second commercial season. So. Well, back to Alan and his family. Yeah. I love a letter to complain about something. Yeah. I have written several of them over my lifetime and I really applaud his eight-year-old son. And what did Tiffany Haddish tell us about working in an airline? What's the letter worth? 5,000 phone calls, wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah. They were saying a letter is a real like that matters. Yeah. And more than a tweet. Yeah. Yeah. Which you think it's like, yeah, no, but everyone gets to see my tweet. And it's like, yeah, everyone sees all that. If you famous a tweet, the most effective. You probably. Yeah. Yeah. But if you a civilian write that letter. Right. And yeah, I really I'd love to. To read that thing. I hope I feel like it should be framed. Yeah. In Alan's house. Thanks for that story. We're glad that you. It's also great dad work to be like, there's a new airline. Yeah. Also, Alan sounds like a good, mild mannered guy to like deal with all of the oncoming that incoming that this trip sent his way. Alan has a real NPR voice. If Alan had a show on NPR called Inaugural Flights. Hello, it's Alan. And there's a new airline. And I'm going to be taking a trip. Yeah. Thank you so much, Alan. Appreciate that. I hope you guys had fun at Disney. Also, we should say our producer today is Jeff. Jeff is with us. Yeah. No, Sam, Jeff. Yeah. So Jeff, you probably remember him from previous episodes, but in particular. Recently, the live Boston and Philly episodes, Jeff was our, uh, our hero. So if any issues you had with those, I'm afraid to say anything. Cause last time I was on this, you yelled at me for talking too much. So you just get your little chatty. Support comes from Warby Parker. Oh, poshie. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a Warby guy. You've been a Warby guy for a long time. My kids are Warby kids. Yeah. Uh, it's just so nice. It's they, you know, you can go into their shop, you try on all their frames. Also they'll send frames to your house, which, uh, was really what I, uh, what I liked the most about the glasses purchasing process from Warby Parker. I knew the sort of styles that I wanted. They sent three frames to my house. I sent them back and then they sent me my prescription glasses cause I got a prescription Sufi because I have a, uh, an astigmatism. So, uh, I'm going to send them to my house. I'm going to, uh, yeah, I can't just buy a pair of readers. I need some real deal glasses. And I am obsessed with Warby Parker. These are the Winstons. You look great. You've always had a good head for glasses, but it's gotten a lot better once you switched to Warby. Yeah. Um, that's true. And it's nice. Like if anything's ever wrong with my glasses, I just walk into the shop and they will, uh, sort of give them a nice polish. They'll tweak, uh, you know, any loose screws or anything. Not that that's, you know, not a big deal, but, you know, that happens very often, but they are very attentive to their customers. Uh, you could also get an eye exam right in the shop, which was really nice. And, uh, yeah, they're nice people. Uh, and they make nice glasses. Their prescription glasses start at $95. You can actually get quality and stylish frames at an affordable price right now. Buy one pair of glasses and get 20% off any additional pairs at warbyparker.com/trips. That's 20% off any additional pairs. When you purchase one pair at W-A-R-B-Y Parker.com/trips. That's 20% off any additional pairs at W-A-R-B-Y Parker.com/trips. You know, Poshy, once you're at 45, it's time to screen for colon cancer. No matter how young you look, Poshy, it's one of those things that's easy to put off because you think it'll be a hassle and life is so busy. Yeah. And I think a lot of people assume they need to schedule a procedure, take time off work or deal with all the prep that comes with a colonoscopy. I requested the test online via telehealth professional that was delivered right to my door. I sent it back without having to press fast or rearrange my schedule, my busy schedule, my podcast loaded schedule. Yes, same here. It fit right into my day and it really took away a lot of the excuses people have for putting screening off. It's non-invasive, can be completed at home in about 15 minutes, and you can get it for 45% of colon cancers. We also learned that colon cancer is actually the number one cancer killer in people under 50 in the U.S. Good news, it's also one of the most preventable cancers. So keep up to date with your screenings. If you're 45 or older and at average risk, talk to your healthcare provider about screening for colon cancer and ask if ColoGuard could be right for you. ColoGuard results should be interpreted with caution as false positives and false negatives do occur. Their how-to charcuterie solution makes creating a premium charcuterie spread so easy. It's a great way to give your family a chance to enjoy the holidays. And if you're a fan of the show, I'd love to see you on the show. I'm your host, Dr. Boar's Head. I'll see you next time. Bye. Give everyone something to snack on while you catch up and get the festivities started. It's the savory centerpiece for your holiday meal, slowly oven-roasted and delicately smoked for a subtly smoky flavor with the traditional taste of a bone-in ham and a boneless cut. Made with premium ingredients and no fillers or byproducts, it's a delicious, effortless way to bring everyone together around the table. Boar's Head has been family-owned for more than 120 years with a commitment to exceptional taste, premium quality, and trusted craftsmanship so you can serve something special for the people who matter most without making hosting more complicated than it needs to be. All right, why don't you go? We got the next one, Jeff. Yep. Tracy. Hey, Pashi. Hey, Sufi. This is Tracy, currently living in Arizona. I just have a quick funny story for you about when I went to visit the beautiful country of Ireland back in 2004. It was my first time there. I instantly fell in love with the people, the culture, and just the incredibly beautiful land. One of my favorite times of day there was always really early in the morning, just before the sun comes up. Everything is wet from the morning dew and the rains overnight, and it just looks so pretty, and it always smells so incredible. So one late night, my friends and I had been out driving the West Coast. We were traveling between Galway and Dingle, and we decided to save some time and money and not look for a hotel. We just wanted to pull over on the side of the road out in the middle of nowhere and inside this little alcove and just sleep in our rental car. So I was sleeping in the passenger side, had my head up against the window, and as I was sleeping in the passenger side, I had my head up against the window, and as that next morning was coming up, I heard what I thought was rain, but it was sounding weird. It was like something's streaming. I was trying to wake up. I couldn't really figure out what was going on, and then I see all this steam coming up by my window. So I lifted my head to the crack in the window only to see, you guessed it, a very large man outside my window peeing. That stream that I was hearing was definitely not from rain, I can tell you that. But he very quickly zipped up and was on his way without issue. And nothing can change the way I feel about Ireland. It's such a beautiful country, and I had such a great trip. And I just love your podcast. I always feel so good listening to it. Thank you so much. I love your speed round questions. Like, what person, alive or dead, other than family, that I'd like to go on vacation with? Guys, there's only one answer. With Jason Sudeikis and his kids. You know that potato chip thief wouldn't be peeing outside my window in Ireland. I love you guys, and thanks for all you do. Bye. Bye. Very wise choice, Sudeikis. Also, Sudeikis comes from travel agent. He's a travel agent kid. Yeah. So you'd be a very, very, very wise person to travel with. Great choice. It is. I mean, you would want to say, like, oh, how rude to pee outside a parked car, but, like, you should definitely not expect there to be two sleeping tourists in it. Right. I mean, a parked car is probably, like, it's a good thing to pee against if you're out. Maybe you're hiding from the wind. Maybe they, uh. Yeah. I mean, I've been on that western coast of Ireland, and I've done the drive from, uh. I went Dingle to Galway, not Galway to Dingle. But, uh, yeah. Windy. It can be windy out there. That seems like the beginning of, uh, like, an Irish limerick. Like, Galway to Dingle, not Dingwell to Galway. There wasn't a toilet. We met in the hallway. I don't know. It is a beautiful country. Yeah. Beautiful country. And I love a rainy place. I would say, like, that's, uh. If I was going to sleep in a car, the way I'd most want to wake up is, like, rain on the rooftop. Yeah. Um, yeah, that's nice. I do, uh. I mean, back to our weekend with our guys, uh, I. We got to the house, and it was like, all right, everybody, just find a bed. Take whatever bed you want. And I got there first, and I went upstairs, and there was a room with, like, a king bed. Everyone had their own bed. There were a lot of single beds throughout the place. And I was like, you know what? I'm gonna take this bed. And it had a shared bathroom, with a room that had two single beds. Um, and our friends Kevin and, uh, Bags were sleeping in that room. And Kevin was very worried that he was gonna have to share a room with someone who snored. Very worried. Very worried. Asking a lot of questions to everyone about, uh, their snoring, uh, history. Yep. Whether or not that's a problem. Mm-hmm. Um, and, uh, at 3.30. Well, I didn't know that. I didn't know that it would happen at 3.30 in the morning. I went downstairs after our first night sleeping there to find our friend Bags sleeping on the couch in the living room because Kevin snored so loud. Yeah. Um. He maybe, uh, protested too much about the snoring. Yeah. Um, and then, so I switched rooms with, uh, with Kev. I gave him the nice big room. So he snored his way into a single. He snored his way into a single, and then he also was like. Uh, I thought it was just, like, a conversational thing. He was like, hey, how many pillows. How many pillows do you sleep with? And I was like, just one, usually. Like, I'll have two when I'm reading, but then one. He's like, all right, I might take a pillow from your bed. I was like, on the single bed that I switched into? Like, you have five pillows on your bed. And he was like, yeah, those are just, they're not as good. So he also ganked a pillow from me. Um, but point of my, point of my story is I sleep, uh, when I travel with a, uh, a rainstorm on a, uh, that I play just to have some white noise. Yeah. And so I was then sharing a room with Bags who just kept dreaming that this, like, great storm had rolled in the first night I slept with him. And I told him I was gonna play this thing. Uh, and he woke up and couldn't believe that it was just, like, a nice picture-perfect day. I was the last man in and, uh, ended up in a bunk room with two of our bros. Yeah. Uh, on, like, felt like smaller than a twin bed. I think that maybe. No, those were singles, yeah. Yeah, those were singles. It was, like, a full. Like, army cot size. Yeah. Yeah, kid's bed. Um, two dudes who were both could get into the snore zone. I'm not gonna lie. It wasn't dead silent. Yeah. Still slept the sleep of angels. Tiny bed. Yeah. Uh, and I, I just, I just think, like, that knowing, going to bed knowing I won't be woken up early by a child Mm. is a, is just the. It's all, it's the way you want to sleep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, yeah. But thank you, Tracy, uh, for that story. Also, my only trip to Ireland, uh, Jason Sudeikis officiated a wedding. So, um, yeah. That's not true. Oh, no. I, two trips. I got two trips. Yeah, liar. Just remember, there's one of us, when you're trying to be like, I wonder if Seth was telling the truth about being the best at football. Yeah, I'm not the liar. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Uh, I didn't realize that. I don't remember the other trip, Sufi, because it was with the Ponkas and you. Aw. Aw. No, it was a great trip. It was a great trip. Yeah. Um, all right. Thank you, Tracy. Thank you, Tracy. One more story, Jeff. Hi, Josh and Seth. This story takes place in the Grand Canyon, which I know Seth is gonna love, because this is gonna give him another reason why the Grand Canyon's the worst place to go. So, about three years ago, my sister, um, was living in Las Vegas, Nevada, with her husband and her wife, and their one-year-old son. And they decided that they were gonna move back to where our family is from, which is the Quad Cities, so right on the Illinois and Iowa border. And so, being the nice sister, I said, I'll spend my spring break and help you guys drive back. Our first part of the trip was going to be stopping at the Grand Canyon. And to give you some backstory, our father had passed away from cancer, and his favorite place in the world was the Grand Canyon, and that's where we spread his ashes at. So, it kind of has a sentimental family, um, story tied to the Grand Canyon. So, me and my sister had not been there since our dad had passed away. So, we get in the car. We're already running late, because, you know, how moving it is, and with a one-year-old. So, you're trying to get out and get moving, and we just could not do it. So, we're already kind of, like, behind schedule, which is not great. By the time we're getting near the Grand Canyon, it is sunset, but it's not a pretty sunset. It's just dark. So, that was a great sign of how, what was gonna happen, so, we get into the Grand Canyon, and we are driving around and cannot find a single parking spot. So, my brother-in-law, who's driving, says, okay, you guys jump out, and I'll just meet you guys where you're at. Let me know what's going on. And so, me and my sister jump out, grab my nephew, and we finally find a bus stop with a bus driver at it. And so, we go talk to the bus driver, try to figure out where we even spread his ashes, because we couldn't remember what it was called or what it was called. what stop we were at, mind you, also spread his ashes illegally the first time. So we couldn't really tell this guy what we were doing, but we just told him we needed to get to this area. And he looks at us and he's like, yeah, you can't get there today. And we're like, what? What do you mean? And he said, yeah, it's all blocked off. Like there's something happened there today. So people aren't allowed to get off at that stop. So we finally asked him, can you stop 10 feet in front of the stop and let us off? And he goes, sure. So he's like, you're not going to get there. You can't get up to that area. So me and my sister take the challenge. We walk up and there is caution tape completely surrounding the area. Not a great sign, right? When we get there, there is a ranger standing there and he's like, okay, you guys can't come in. And so we try to give him the sob story and really try to play up that like, we really want to see this area. The dead dad card did not work. So of course we asked him what happened here. And he said, okay. About an hour ago, a man fell off from that spot and he points directly to the area where our dad's ashes were spread. So we took this as a little sign from our dad that if you were just on time or didn't dilly dally or got out the door, you could have probably seen the spot, but instead a man fell in that exact area. Oh my God. Hopefully it didn't fall right on your dad. Yeah. I mean, at least two people have fallen from that spot. One as ashes and one as a full body man. I mean, I like that. It's a really funny and lovely thing to years later, have something like that happen and remember how your dad would have been a dad on vacation. This is why we're supposed to leave earlier. Yeah. I also love that they couldn't, they kept saying, we really want to see that. We want to see this spot, but not being able to say why. And it's just like, there's so much Canyon. Like just go any, go anywhere else. Like just not right here. And it's like, yeah, but you can't own up to the fact that, yeah, you did some illegal, illegal scattering. There must be so much scattering at the grand Canyon. And look, I think two things are true. One, I do think it should be against the rules. And two, I think people should continue to do it. And I would like to say to the park rangers, right? Like definitely, you know, look the other way. If you see somebody with like an urn or a baggy kind of shaking it out. Right. I mean, I think it's a lovely, it's a lot of people. I mean, obviously people who, you know, aren't right in the head, it's a lot of their favorite places. And I think it's a really incredible place to, uh, to, to want to help your loved ones spend eternity. And, and, and one, um, one of the great wonders of the world, not my words. Well, I don't know if we can run that back, Jeff. I think that's right. No, I'm just saying when I'm saying wonders of the world, that's like quote unquote wonders of the world. I see. I see. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I own the rest of that. But do you have any concern that if too many people do it, maybe, uh, fills up? Yeah. Maybe that's my hope. Maybe that's what I'm hoping. Um, I think you have to make it against the rules because you don't want it to be a thing where like everybody's making a big show of it. Right. I, and I also think there's something in general, I'm a really big believer in, uh, secretly, uh, scattering ashes. Yeah. I like the, I like, I like that you get to do a thing as a family that you are, you are violating man's law for the purposes of, uh, of what you might perceive as to be an eternal peace for a loved one. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but I think, uh, it would be, but don't ever put it in someone's coffee. I feel like, sorry, it's my last thing and I'll let it go. I imagine, uh, also the, the rim of the grand Canyon. If a lot of people did that, or if, I mean, if three people did it, I imagine it's very likely that you're going to have sort of a big Lebowski. Situation. Yeah. Excellent point. Right back at you. Um, so we can't, we can't have that. Yeah. I mean, well you can, but it's, uh, it's not going to give you any peace. No. Right. And then I think that, you know, people are going to see that and there's going to be a real, like, they're going to be onto you right away. Yeah. And then already whatever, uh, grief you're dealing with only gets amplified by all the people who would be laughing at you. Um, or it blows back on them and they're like, all of a sudden, like, well, picnic, picnics over. Yeah. Yeah. Um, yeah. Uh, those are great stories. Thanks everybody. Um, it's a little, it's a little bit of a shorty this week, but you know, sometimes, you know, we take what we can. Listener episodes are, it's, it's nice. It's cause these come out on a Thursday. You're not used to us having episodes come out on Thursday. So back to your life, everybody. It's a little treat, everybody. Um, Poshy, I look forward to seeing you the next time. It's really, I'm, I'm just going to say this. It was a family trip cause you were there. And one of the great things in my life is that you and I share the same group of friends. I can't imagine what it would be like if you weren't there. Cause it's one of the times where we get to be uninterrupted with each other for three days. Yeah. It's awesome. It's really great. Yeah. Can't wait for next year, but I'll see you before then. I know. I know. Uh, all right. Love you, Poshy. Love you too. Do it. Do it. Brothers. Family trips. With the Myers Brothers. Here we go. We heard from Allen from Virginia. He took a trip down to Disney. Went to JFK, LaGuardia, MacArthur with his whole young family. His luggage took a ride. Delta, glue those bags back again. Went to JFK, LaGuardia, His eldest son wrote a letter. The flights were all the same. Tracy was on the road from Galway, sleeping in the passenger seat. Thought the raindrops started falling, but there was steam from all the heat. There was a man outside, and he zipped up and walked away. So Tracy got the double dangle for sleeping on the side of the road. ♪ Lily went to the Grand Canyon To see where her dad's ashes lay But at the spot where he'd been scattered A ranger stood right in their way A man fell off the side An hour before they got there They were denied and they complied Because the canyon, it was closed Yeah, the canyon, it was closed ♪