BROOKS WHEELAN Went to Noah's Arc in the Wisconsin Dell's

-Hey, Baji. -Hi, Sufi. -How are you? -I'm good. -That's good. I had a punk weekend. -Yeah, you sure did. It was punk-tastic. -Yes, I heard. I talked to them on their drive home. -Excellent. -Yeah, you said it was a great time, and they said it was a great time, and yeah, I just sound it awesome. -It was very nice. You know, the kids just are a little bit older, and they don't need the full punk's attention. And the punk's obviously enjoy a down hour here and there. -Don't we all? -Yeah. -What's in the punk's are? -If the punk's aren't moving, they are dead quiet. -Oh, yeah. -You would have no idea they're in your house. Now, the minute they get up, it's fucking the elephant's on parade. [ Laughter ] -But, you know, the kids will be outside, and I would think, "Did they go home?" And then you would just find them in another room, like doing their puzzles. -Yeah, yeah, yeah. -They're like a moment in Widow's Bay that you might not expect. -Yeah, yeah, yeah, room, and there's just like two people sitting there, which I've been really enjoying, by the way, just a little shameless-- -Shout out to Widow's Bay, which is exceptionally good television. Yeah, they're great. There are a couple of little Alan Turing's doing their little puzzles, trying to crack the codes. [ Laughter ] -Yeah. -Just constantly working on it. -Yeah. But what'd you guys do? What'd you guys get up to? What's-- -They were there. It was very fun. They were there. When me and the boys got up, they had arrived earlier than I did, and Dad said he'd already been playing like an hour of hide and go seek with Addy. -There aren't that many places to hide. -No, I know. -But it was very sweet to show up, and she had no interest in me arriving or the boys arriving. It was just she was holding Pucky Erie's hand and just walking him around telling him what was time to play. So again, as a parent, your dream is to watch your-- your parents and your children connecting, and they really were. -Yeah. Now, I like-- if I went to a new place, you know, I've talked on this trip, and we didn't do this, but I went to this, you know, vacation, or this birthday weekend out in Palm Springs, and we were in this big, huge property. I think it would be very fun to play hide and go seek, sort of as a throwback as myself today, but at what age does hide and go seek sort of fall off the radar? Because your boys don't seem into it, but Addy is still so into it. -Show into it. But the thing is, as a parent, you don't want to play it when your kids are actually good at it. -Right. -You don't actually want to be seeking. You know, the great thing about Addy is you kind of count to 20, then you give yourself a minute, and again, like there's never a time where she's hidden from view when you walk into a room. -Yeah. -You can always see. -But, yeah, so I guess is that when it flips is when they get to an age where they figure out how to hide. -When they're too good at it, you try to steer them towards other games. -Yeah. -Yeah. -We played-- oh, you know what? We've been playing, which is an absolute blast, is Clue. -Oh, yeah. -So Clue has come into the rotation, the only downside of Clue. Have you played Clue in recent years? -There's a newer card game version of Clue that I've played. -Yeah. -But I haven't played Clue proper in years. For those who don't remember, you know, it's basically an elimination game where you're trying to, you know, through your questions, you know, eliminate enough of the suspects, the rooms, and the weapons to make a guess. And when you make a guess, it goes to your left and the, you know, person with their cards either shows you one of the things you guessed, or they say they don't have anything. And if it goes around it, everybody says you don't have anything, then you feel pretty good, and then you make your guess. -Yeah. -I've had so much fun playing Clue, not one time have I made a guess and then I look and I'm like, wait, does somebody have a knife? Because I, you know, again, I said knife, and now all of a sudden knife's not there. And Ash six times in a row was like, oh, yeah, I do have that. Sorry, I didn't say it. And again, not 14 cards in his hand, three. And then, so I tell we play Clue, and I really, I say to the boys, like, let's work really hard, you know, like, and again, probably part of this is, you know, we come from a card playing family, a board game playing family. I want to show off to mom and dad that, like, I'm raising my boys right today, like, so I'm really, like, focused, look, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, I finally get around and make my guess. And once again, it happens. And I'm like, who has just somebody of rope? -And punky, Yeri. -Daddy boys, like, oh, I got rope. So one of these days, I mean, I have the satisfaction of getting the end. But, yeah. But that was good. Yeah, we played Clue. We played some baseball outside, you know. -Yeah, dad says the boys are very into baseball. -They're very into baseball. -If I can say, he says two things, because there's, when you play offense and defense in baseball, what do you think dad thinks their strength is? -Offense. -Yeah. -Because he also says, they can't catch shit. That would be one way of saying it. That would be probably the most efficient way to say it. -Ash can hit the ball. He can really hit it. -Yeah. -But they can't, those boys can't catch shit. -I have a, you know, we got them there. You know, we went to a proper Paragon Sports in New York, which is sort of a famous sport, a good store. And, you know, I really did have the dude, and they really good service there, get them the right myths. And I got to be honest, I think the myths are like too small for baseball. Like, you know, we're not playing with little baseballs. -Yeah. -And I feel like that's one of the issues. Now, dad might take issue with that and say, are they like the problem? -Are they missing the ball? And it's like pinging off their foreheads? -No, fortunately not. There's, I will say, they're playing with enough fear to never put their foreheads in the path of the ball. -Right. -You know, we're not, they haven't ever played on a proper infield. So I'm hitting ground balls to them as well. And it is that thing when you do it on grass, some pretty janky hops. Still, they're very bad at that. And the other problem is like, you get out there and it's so fun to just like, for me, to throw balls and have ash hit balls. And we got, there was a batting cage in our town. And so they sell like old baseballs for a buck a pop. And so I bought like $20 for the balls. So we have like a ton of baseballs. It's so fun. All I want to do is like, throw the ball, have them hit the ball or just hit them grounders and have them, you know, feel grounders. All ash wants to do is a full game. And I'm like, we have four people. And he's like, set up the bases. There's ghost runners. What are the rules? I'm like, oh, and I'm, it's bad parenting. The amount I turn into like Ash's friend in a bad way will be played baseball where I'm like, it doesn't matter. Stop it. Just lights play. And I'm, are the amount I'm like, oh, fine. I don't care. Whatever. I don't care. Well, I mean, you and I in your boys' defense, we used to play a whiffle ball just one on one. And yeah, we made that one on one whiffle balls, the dream. But again, that's like, they don't want that. They don't want to like, because I'll even say like, if you hit it here, it's, you know, it's one point here. It's in there like, no, no, no. I want to run the bases. I'm like, we don't have a first baseman. And then I'm like, all right. But then we have to play pitcher's hand for first base. And they're like, that's not fair. I'm like, no, and then that's when I'm like, I don't care. However you want to play it. And then they're like, what's the score? I'm like, you tell me, I don't want, I'm not also the scorekeeper. You tell me. So obviously I'm doing a good job. Yes, sounds like good. And then I'm trying to think of what else we did. We went over to a friend's house, which is really lovely. And going back to our childhood and dad, teaching us how to play baseball. There was, and I know your kids are, money motivated. But we used to sort of do that. You'd get hit 10 grounders in a row. Or you would, if you could catch 10 grounders clean in a row, that was a dollar. And that was huge. Yeah. But that does require, I feel like a proper infield or some dirt. So you can, and I said, like, let's go to a literally field. The problem is, you know, it's just the whole, even though they love playing baseball, the clock is immediately ticking. And so there's, it's just safer to play it in the backyard as opposed to, like, let's load up the car. Let's go 15 minutes away to the literally field. And then you get there. I mean, Axel, basically, his permanent state is the cusp of quitting. So, but yeah, it was also last night. It's my other, sorry, one more story about Ash, which is, he's, you know, it's last week of school for him. And he had a book to finish. It's the last night I put Axel to bed, and I like check it on a laxie. And then I went downstairs and it was like 830. And I walked into, like, our, our, our family room. And Ash was just sitting, reading in the dark. Like, I can't, like, all, and I was like, bud, you want to put a light on? He's like, oh, yeah, that'd be great. So I turned the light on. And then I'm like, I'm so proud of you for it. it's like I actually take it. I think it's like maybe closer than nine o'clock at night. - Okay. - And it's right around his bedtime, but we've talked about he has to finish this book tonight. And he's reading, and I'm just so proud of him. I'm like, "Oh, bud, let's grab some glad you're reading." He goes, "Yeah, you know, I gotta get it done by tomorrow." I'm like, "Great, good for you." I'm like, "How many pages do you have left?" He goes, "140." (laughing) - He does think after you. - Dude, and I'm like, "Dude, what's your plan?" And he's like, "Well, just keep reading." And he was like, then he was like, "Would you stay in the room with me?" I'm like, "Of course." And so then I'm like doing a little math. I'm like, "All right, honey." And I'm like, "It's a nigga." It's not like gravity's rainbow or anything. Like, you know, it's a kid's book, but. So I'm looking at the pages. I'm like, "All right, 140, you know, what's he reading?" And so I'm like doing the math. I'm like, "I'm gonna wait 10 minutes and see how many pages he left." Has left, you know. Do the math of how long he's gonna take 10 minutes past. I'm like, "How many pages do you have left?" And now he's like, "135?" I'm like, "Oh, what are we gonna do here?" (laughing) - So, you know, I'm kind of famously fast-talking speed reader, dude. - Yeah. - Yeah. - And I'm like, "Ash, we're going to the kitchen." So we go to the kitchen, 'cause again, the light. And even with all the lights on, as you know, my sister-in-law, who's an incredibly accomplished designer and has purchased all the lamps for our home. They're all like five-watt lamps. - Yeah. - This is dark. - Even the mobs are like, "We're gonna go elsewhere." - Yeah. - Ash could be forgiven if he thought the lights were on when you're sitting in the dark. - Kitchens, the one example, the exception. So I go to the kitchen and I'm just like, "I'm gonna read you this book as fast as I can." And he's like, "Okay, so I'm just jamming through the book." Just like, so fast that I keep stopping and being like, "Are you following the book? Are you following?" I'm like, "What's the last thing that happened?" And he really is. He's like, "Okay, with me." But he's also like, "I'm gonna go get some ice." I'm like, "What?" He goes, "I just wanna suck on some ice." And I'm like, "You gotta find whatever we need to do, get through this book." And then I'm reading this book. And by the way, my throat's getting sore and like, so he's like, "Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh." And finally I'm like, "You gotta stop doing that, man." Yeah, he's just gotta suck it. And he goes, "What if I do it like this?" And then he just sucks on it really quietly. I'm like, "Fine." Anyway, all of a sudden it's 10 o'clock at night. There's like 50 pages left of this book. And you know, Alex, he's like, "He's gotta go to bed." And I'm like, "Hey, I know, I know, I know." So he's like, "We'll finish in the morning." And I'm like, "Oh, we're not gonna finish in the morning." So instead, this is how awesome my life is. Ash goes to bed and I finish his kid's book. Also, I go up to bed. I get in bed. I turn on the light to read it. And Alex, he's like, "That light's too bright." (laughing) And she's like, "I'm going to bed too." And I'm like, "Fine." And now I'm back in the kitchen. Reading a book, you know, a fourth grader's book, so that I can cliff-snote Ash at breakfast while Axel's there. And then I like to hell hash the exciting conclusion of this book and that Axel's like, "Oh, that book's great, you have to read it to me." I'm like, "I don't wanna read it again." (laughing) But we got it done. We got it done, Poshy. Well, that's good. This episode. You're running mate. I'm running mate. Who I just saw on Sunday at the Beacon Theater Brooks wheeling. He's a fun episode. You know, I listen back to these because of writing the song and gosh, this dude. He's got some stories. He's such a good vibe. And he's a great trip. I mean, I'm on trips with him more than outside of my family. He's who I'm tripping with the most these days, 'cause he's my fellow road dog. And he's a winner. He's Brooks wheeling. And he's from the great state of Iowa. And he loves comedy. But he cares the most about college wrestling. Which I don't think comes up. I can't remember how much. It comes up if at all. It comes up. Yeah. Enjoy and yeah. I also, one of the other great things about the punk is visiting is, you know, it's like a three hour drive. And so they always show up, having just listen to three episodes. Yeah. And then they leave. Like, it's so funny. They were literally. Driving out on the, they were driving past me. I was on the front steps and they were driving past. And the window was down and dad's like, how's Billy Eichner? And I was like, and I want to be like, you're gonna listen. Just listen. He also, when they're caught up, he's like, there's no, I don't know, I think we're caught up. But I'm like, yeah, he's like, all right. Well, you need to, you need to put more out. And it's like, we, they come out once a week, bro. Yeah, dude. And then like, yeah, what? I have bonus listener episode once a month. So that's the day. Like him, I'm like, calling up the Boston Globe being like, I finished the puzzle. Like, sorry man, the next one's not till tomorrow. But I'm done. Yeah. He's definitely finished the puzzle of Boston Globe. All right. Love you, poshie. Love you, Sufi. ♪ Family trips ♪ ♪ With the miles ♪ ♪ Brothers ♪ ♪ Family trips ♪ ♪ With the miles ♪ ♪ With the miles ♪ ♪ Here we go ♪ Brooks, it's so good to see you. Yeah, dude, it's so good to see you guys. This is great. You're like my, basically, my road trip, buddy now. So I'm like going on more trips with you than my actual family. That is very true. That is happening. We have, we've really had some adventures. We've had a wonderful time. Yeah, last time I saw you, Brooks, you were in Arizona. And you guys had, I think, Seth, did you pick Brooks up in LA and then you guys drove to Palm Springs and then drove to Arizona? I drove to Palm Springs, Met Brook, and then we drove from Palm Springs to Scottsdale. Just like listening to tunes. Yeah. The fix that we have where now we drive from one place to the other makes it so much more fun. Yeah. 'Cause we were gonna fly from Palm Springs to Phoenix and then we're like, "Or we just drive four hours and listen to music?" And that was the move. Also, there's that thing. You know what I mean? By the way, this is a very unfair bounce on you, Brooks. But I feel like early morning Brooks at an airport, I'm trying to avoid. Yeah, that's fair. (laughing) That's fair. I was just somewhere with Catherine, my girlfriend. And I didn't realize, but she just started video recording 'cause it was like seventh or eighth of the morning, I was playing Fat Lit by some 41, explaining a movie I had about high school. And it was still loud and jarring, but I didn't realize 'til she played it for me later and she goes, "This is what it's like when you wake up." I go, "That's a lot." I'm sorry. (laughing) So do you hit, you hit the ground running when you wake up? You're not a slow way up. Yeah, yeah, the panic starts right away for me. Yeah, I'm up and out of. You also, I feel like I'm always worried. You're like, "No, I can't be at the door." Like at the time we say. And the reality is you've been up for like an hour. You usually have a coffee. You just look like you just woke up. That's true. Yeah, I have a resting, look tired face. (laughing) Your resting face is full frazzled. Yeah, yeah. I'm like, "Oh my god, what happened?" You're like, "This is me when everything is gone according to plan." Yeah, this is great. I'm feeling great. We did have to get up at like three, 40 in the morning when we were in Phoenix, that was rough. Yeah, what was that was like to get home, right? Yeah, that was leaving. Yeah, 'cause we had a show in New York that night. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, we were both, we were doing a show in a casino. Josh, we'd seen you. We'd seen both of you guys' parents. And Seth and I were like walking back, bragging to both of our, to each other about how it's nice that we didn't gamble. And we don't have the urge to gamble. Seth, good night. Had left my key, immediately went to get a new key. And on the way back, lost $200 under the leg. (laughing) It was like 10 seconds after we just bragged. And I texted Seth, I go, "I'm down to 100." He's like, "That's fair, that's fair." It's literally like the card saw you going back alone. And they're like, "Hey, man, you get ready to lose a friend." (laughing) Exactly. You want to take a little spin, Roxy? Yeah. I mean, I lost 200, so did my father, so did my mother. So, yeah, that's how they get you. And again, as a younger man, when I would do casino shows, it was a sucker's bet. 'Cause I would obviously get paid handsomely for doing stand-up. And I would just slowly bleed it back to the people who had a range for me to come. Absolutely. And I like, there's this one casino. Well, I won't say where it is, but it's in Connecticut. And it is, it's the only thing around for, I think, 200 miles. What are you saying? Like, Will Forrest would Will Forrest be a good color? Oh, go close. It would be very close to that. And I was just trapped there. I was like, one of my first gigs, and it's like four days in this casino, nothing to do. I left down, after being paid, I left down $1,000. After being paid. And I was like, I think I got to kill myself. (laughing) - You, you Brooks are famously from Iowa. Two older brothers. And your siblings are like my children, all bees. - Oh, yeah, yeah. My brother did it again too. He's got three elves, Lincoln, Landon, and Layton. And we're Brad Bretton Brooks. - Yep. - And yeah, you have a good joke about it about how it is the meanest thing you can do to your parents. It's your grandparents. Yeah, they're the ones who are just like, what? I can't. - I don't wanna. (laughing) - Yeah. - But we also had a, there's a, I mean, I guess it wasn't the wheel inside of the family that we saw on our drive across Missouri. But we did, we did St. Louis into Kansas City. We stopped Midway at Columbia, Missouri. home of Mizzou University and you said we were meeting one of your cousins for lunch and there were 15 people there. It got leaked. It got leaked that I think if it was just me we would have met one but it got leaked that you were going to be there. So 15 plus a couple friends showed up. Yeah and it was actually really fun. That was great. It was great. Where do you guys go for a lunch like that? How do you do a 15 person lunch? What's your venue? This is the dream of being on the road with Brooks. I actually have a lot of cousins who went to University of Missouri because they're all from Jefferson City and so for this one I just texted them. Where's a great spot that we could get food and they were all like shoot. I forget what it was called but everybody had the exact same answer. It was like Gacha. I don't know. Erkholz, not something like that. This is a little hamburger spot. It reminded me of a member that place we used to go to. What was the play Dagwoods? Remember that part? Yeah. In Lansing, Michigan. So it just felt like a place like the wood. It was like the softest wood at the table. You could just press your thumb down and leave a leave a print. Absolutely a pool hall that serves chilly in a college town. That's where it was. It was perfect. Yeah, it was really good. We knocked out our burgers and we're on our way. But there was a lot. There's a lot of you. Also. There's just many, many, many cousins wrestling stock. Everybody looks like they're ready to wrestle and I'm talking about like a collegiate wrestling like singular wrestling. My cousin who was there, he just got forth at the Missouri State Tournament. A little stud. Yeah. Yeah. Very, I mean, there are intense guys. My uncle on that side coolest thing could possibly happen when I was like seven. He was on American gladiators in one like five episodes. Wow. Yeah. It was when you're seven and you're literal. Your uncle is crushing laser. It's very exciting. Yeah. That's the dream. Also, Brooks is the first person I know who follows and wants to watch college wrestling and posh. It will not surprise you. This is not often on the big screen at the sports bar. Brooks. No. Brooks is I like. Brooks is like watching it. His like his computer hooked up to like a smaller computer. He's like watching. It's real it's real pay to play. You got to pay to play to one. Yeah. But it's it's been very fun. I've been with Brooks during some some cool pins and. Yeah. You watched him. This kid, my brother coach, Ryder Block. He he he penned this guy who I'm getting Ryder and I'm getting six at the NCAA's. But he pinned the guy who got fourth at the NCAA is very incredible and set those there and he just got off stage. I don't know where we were, but I was like, you got to see this pin set. And he's like, okay, okay. But it was very you do a very good job of you would be a very good color man for that level of wrestling. I got very by the time the pin happened, I was very invested and very excited. I also understand what not to show people. You know, I'm only showing you touchdowns. I'm not showing you something. Yeah. Not a lot. Not just like long grapples. You know, no, no, no, we're not for the grapples. I'm not showing you a double over time one to one ride outs. That's not what anybody wants to see. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from Blue Land. Hey, Boschie. Hey, Sufi. You know, what's wild is plastic everywhere and it's going to be everywhere forever because it doesn't despair. It breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces. They stick around in our environment. Blue Land at least is doing its part to help makes dish laundry and other household cleaning products designed to reduce single use plastic. Their cleaning tablets are 100% plastic, free and microplastic free and the laundry tablets are just fantastic, Boschie. 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It's just my girlfriend's from Louisville and she's like, let's go. We'll see my friends. It sounds great. But it is, I will say. Just as we record this, it's Tuesday. You know the Kentucky Derby's not today, right? It's a week. Turns out it's week. We're going. So today is 502's day. It's for the locals. Tomorrow is Wednesday. They go every day. So we're here for Derby week. Gotcha. Gotcha. I see. Okay. Yeah. I just didn't want you to get there and be like, well, wait, when's the Kentucky Derby? Yeah. That's what I did ask. I asked Catherine since this is Tuesday. I'm not the real one on Saturday. Are these horses fast at all? And she said they are. Yeah. They're going to be fast. Where will you watch it from? Are you going to be in the infield? Or is those days behind it? She's been going, she's essentially showing me all the all the ends in the out. She grew up going as a high school kid, like getting arrested here. So yeah. That's a good place to get arrested. Yeah. Yeah. The infield. They got a jail in there and everything. A little horse jail. The horse jail. Yeah. The inmate, wait, no. What do they call them? Who runs jails? The prison guards horses. Yeah. The prison guards. Oh, that's good. Yeah. But to answer your question, no, did not grow up going on any trips, never really left Iowa or Missouri. And so I think maybe that's what the reason I go on all these trips now is I, I, I can. But were you like, I mean, I would have guessed that you camped as a kid, like, is your, I mean, you seem like. No, really? Never. No, I grew up in the woods, like way out in the woods outside of Manchester, Iowa. So I always thought, why would I camp? I already live camping. I wanted to go to cities. Right. So it's like, you just want what you don't have, you know? Yeah. So yeah, never, never traveled. Like, would go to Missouri in the summers to farm. Like, that was a vacation. Because you're family. Your family had a working farm. Yeah. Yeah. So we've go there and we would help on my grandparents farm. My whole life, I ever went on, I went on two vacations in my whole, like, growing up, both were to the Wisconsin delts, which was, I don't know, four hours away. Yeah. But like, if you, if you asked me how far away it was based on how much my dad flipped out. got mad. I would guess a four day like horse ride. It was, yeah, it was, yeah, I, I, I, I thought we were going to the moon with the stress that he would bring. So did you, you went twice, were you excited the first time before you saw the delves? Was this a sort of trip a kid from Iowa's like psyched about? Yeah. The Wisconsin delves are the water park capital of North America. Yeah. I don't know what's going on in Asia. Probably some pretty sick water parks, but it was the most exciting thing that I've ever been a part of. It was incredible. I went to Noah's Ark, which is the biggest water park in North America. They had a new ride there called Black Thunder. I still think about it. It was awesome. To describe Black Thunder, what goes down? You go down. You go down very fast. It's a black tube, and it's just got thunder sounds. So, but then on the inside, there's like lightning. So like, you'll be going through pitch black and then out of nowhere. So it lights up like it's like you're in a storm. And so you can't see anything. And like, you know, I was 10 and I was like, I swear to God, I got air in there. I'm not even joking. My head touched the top of the tube. Like it was the most fun thing I've ever done. Also, the first time we went, my dad was stressed about money. And he, there was Arby's was doing a five for five deal. And so we stopped in Dubuque, Iowa. And he got 50 Arby's roast beef sandwiches. 50. And he put them in a blue cooler that just the ice, like it was like a heater for ice. It got it turned into a tub right away. And so the Arby's got so wet. And the plan was to eat these 50 Arby's roast beef sandwiches for the trip for the whole family. Oh my god. So we all had it for lunch. And then at dinner time, we're like pulled over the side. And my dad's like, all right, time for dinner. He goes to open up the Arby's and my mom goes, Jim, this is fucking crazy. And they were, they were observably bad to eat at that point. Yeah, but he wouldn't admit this was a bad idea. Right. So he, we didn't have to eat anymore, but he's like fine for me. He ate wet Arby's for the rest of the week. As just to spite everybody. You'd be like, I don't know what you guys are talking about. Just gagging on Arby's. I like that his esophagus was black thunder for the Arby's just like that. That was like just water slide Arby's. Yeah. So that was fun. I remember, also in that first room, I remember both of my brothers got to bring their girlfriends. And I didn't get to bring up anybody. So that was pretty weird looking back that like they were just hanging out. My parents are hanging out. And then I was just running around Noah's Ark having a blast. But the other crazy part about my family and vacations is before I was born, I'm the youngest, they had gone to Disney World twice, all of them. Actually, one time after I was born, they left me. They were like, two, and they're like, we're not going to bring this guy. This guy sucks. So they had gone to Disney World twice. And my house was covered in photos of my brothers and my mom and dad at Disney World. And like chip and Dale holding my brothers and my mom and dad smiling. And I only know these people as miserable eye with people. So I would like, they'd gone places. And I asked my dad for real when I was like, five, I was like, why don't we go to Disney World anymore. And he said, because we had you, we can't afford it anymore. We're a perfect family for four. Now we got five. We can't do Disney World anymore. And that doesn't make your brothers love you. No, right. They were pretty upset. Yeah. How much younger are you? Four years, not insane. Okay. All right. What's the gap between the first two boys? Two years. Yeah. So it does. You do seem like an afterthought. And then your dad has made a demonstrably clear that you were. Yes. You're like, here's the thing, Brooks, you got to be as charming as chip and Dale. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm like, when the Rugrats had Dill, how old were you on that first trip to the Dells when your brothers are bringing girlfriends? I would have been like 12 probably. So I'd have been like 16 and 18. Okay. I remember also on that trip, they each, you know, you can go dressed up like old timey. Like a like a western guy and get like an old western photo. Yeah. Both my brothers wanted to do that with their girlfriends. And I won it one too. And my dad was like, well, just jump in one of your brothers and his girlfriend. So there's one of my brother and his girlfriend. And he's my oldest one. He's like, he's not coming in mind. And then my other brother was like, brat, he was nice. He was like, he can be in mind. So it's him and his girlfriend as cowboys. And then I'm just in the back with a gun. Yeah. We have one of those that's, I feel like still in the bathroom at home. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm a, I'm in a dress. I wanted to wear like a full like what, what is it? Not flappers. I don't know what they call those dresses back of the day. Yeah. I was like, where? You know, like those western saloon dresses. It's real like deadwoods, deadwoods sort of dress. Yeah. But why would you, why did you pick? Why did I want to be a dress like an in a dress? I don't know. I think I thought it would be like attention grabbing. I was trying to like make headlines, you know? And I was a dude. And I remember Seth is like stealing, we borrowed like a credit card from mom and dad. And Seth was like stealing money from. Yeah. I'm like stealing money from you. That I remember dad thought that would be like priceless. I remember a lot of coaching. Larry was 100% behind it. Yeah. But so wait, so your parents are all, you're all four in this? No, it's just the two of us. But dad is like, this will make this a priceless moment. You're going to be like robbing Josh. And so Josh has a real like wow, wow, face. Josh has given sort of Larry David end of curb face. That's good stuff. And I'm yeah. Before Larry David was doing it. Yeah, we're just full. Yeah. I probably got it from that pick. Absolutely. Yeah. So second del's, how long at break? Was it one year in between, do you think? Oh, two years, probably two years. And it was, it was less great because, you know, we'd done it. But it was, you know, 14 versus 12 out of water park, there's a big difference there. You know, I've seen black thunder. I know what it's bringing. Yeah. I'm excited for the, I'm excited for the plunge. But yeah, we win. I remember that time I got yelled at because I wanted strawberries and some lemonade that I got. And my dad's like, he's got strawberries in the limited. And we went to like, Oh, I remember on that one, I did. I, we went to, we went to like a bar that was having karaoke. First time I've ever seen karaoke ever. And it's like a real bar. It's not like a family bar. It's not like senior frogs, just a bar in those constant delts. And I, I karaokeed the Hanukkah song by Sandler. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Two 14 year old to a bar of people who are not, they don't think this is funny. Right. Cute. They're like, what's he doing in here? He shouldn't be here. And I can't read the words fast enough. I'm bomb and it was terrible. But it's interesting because we just played that song for our kids who do celebrate Hanukkah. And you realize among the Adam Sandler work, like that is a super catchy anthem, but less jokes for a kid, you know, they don't get like, you know, Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, like a Rod Drew he converted, like, or I bet his agent is like, there's like the joke, whereas my wife played a piece of shit car for them. And it's the hardest I've ever seen them laugh. It's a fact. They were, they were like, they were shaking so hard. I thought they were going to like literally like David Banner into the whole cow to their car seats. Truly, I remember when they're all going to laugh at you, came out, you know, we couldn't have it at school. Absolutely not. You know, but we had it on a compact disc and like we were listening to it at recess like truly laughing the, because nothing, there's no better laughing when you can't laugh. Yeah. So it was just like, he's trying to hold it in because we're going to know we're listening to him say I'm there for laughing. Dude, it was that stuff was the best. Yeah. Where do you are? You guys in a hotel room? Are you spread out when you go? Oh, everybody in one hotel room, even the girlfriends, even when they were there. Girlfriends. I'm pretty sure. Wow. I don't really see, I don't really see a splurgeon on two rooms. There's, you know, so are there some sleeping bags on the floor then? Or like one million percent? Yeah, one million. I remember the first time I got to sleep in a hotel bed. I was like 23. I was very ready. Right. I was very hotel floor. I was a hotel floor boy. They said a cot is extra in your dad made you sleep on the wet arbise. He's a little guy. He's a little guy. It's a little coffin. It's fun. He didn't get in there. But yeah. So we also, I went one time my dad drove us to a NASCAR race. That was fun. We went to Michigan NASCAR race one time. Did you, when you talk about your summers, like how long would you go work on the farm? Was that like a week vacation? Or was it longer? Yeah, it would be however much time my mom had off, you know, so like maybe two weeks we'd go to Missouri. Would you look forward to that? Yeah, very much so. I loved going to Missouri, but it seemed labor intensive. Or it sounds labor intensive. But it was, but like it was a cool farm. It was a dairy farm versus like Iowa is all like hog farms. And so like farming there is like fun. You got like, you know, 50 cows you're just dealing with and my grandpa's milking and like my cousins are all there. So very much enjoyed that, but that was a seven hour drive. And, you know, I would think about that drive like four months out. I'd be like, oh my God. I guess we're going to seven hour in the back of the devastated. And I had, you know, I had children brothers and they would play this game when we were on long drives called snake, which was just that middle belt buckle. It was a snake that ate knees. So it was this snake loved joints, it was just attacked joints. Was there any, was there any music in the wheeling car? Yeah, but it was all like what my oldest brother and my dad, like they would play this game too, where they would try to guess the music first. And I was pretty far behind an age. So unless it was literally Adam Sandler, I was never going to get it. It was like listening to the radio and playing. Yeah. Yeah, like pressing next and being like, oh, fucking ACDC. You know, oh, oh, the Trisha Yearwood. And I couldn't even, I couldn't keep up with it at all. So it was a lot of me in the back, praying that we would somehow get on a joke station. You talked, I mean, I, you know, again, we're on the road together. You have very funny material about your family based on that. And based on what you've said earlier in this podcast, your dad over the course of a seven hour drive, like how many times is he kind of losing his ship? Oh, none because we were afraid he would. So we didn't talk or anything, you know? I mean, like when I'm getting, when I'm getting the belt buckle to the knees, I got to eat that. I cannot make a noise. Otherwise, then he will lose his shit. So yeah, I was just, you know, it's seven hours of just the tensed silence. What's your mom doing? Your mom's just like, is your mom chill up there in the passenger seat? Yeah, it was, it was kind of the thing where if you had to pee, you told you whispered it to my mom. You sent like a smoke signal to her. So she would then be like, Jimmy, Jimmy have to pee. So then he couldn't say no to her pain. He could say no to us. So I was like, I'm afraid it'd be. And she's like, Jimmy had to pee. What were your responsibilities on the farm? What kind of stuff were you doing? I honestly, if you, I was, I was pretty young, but I was mostly just hanging out like, while my grandpa drove around on the tractor. Like, he had like this old Alice Chalmers tractor. I would sit on the side and let my feet dangle. And there was these massive wheels. And then my, my heels would just get kicked by these treads on this huge tractor that I'm sitting on that like, if we hit a bump, I'm falling into like some sort of torture device. Like, yeah, I would be killed within, I don't know, one second. And it's not like people hadn't fallen off the fucking tractor and got run over. This is consistent on this farm. People are getting run over all the time. But since this is my mom's dad, she's like, he knows what he's doing. I was like, I don't know if he knows what he's doing. But it was, it was really fun. I was cool hanging out there. I remember one summer. I was there on my birthday. It was in August. And a calf was born and I was, I was jazz, I watched this cow get born. They had to like put a rope in and pull it out. It was crazy. It was like coming out the wrong way. So it was just like, my uncle's pulling a cow out of another cow. And I'm like, I'm turning eight. I'm like, Jesus. And I remember my grandma was like, oh, it's your birthday. You can name the cow. And I was like, oh, sick. BJ Armstrong is my favorite Chicago bull. He played at Iowa. I don't even BJ Armstrong. I'm turning eight. I bet my grandma's 60 at the time. She's like, no, I hate that name. We're not naming the cow BJ Armstrong. She's like, we're going to name it Brooks. I go, what? Well, I also just tell me its name is BJ Armstrong. I don't live there. She's just be like, yeah, sure, BJ Armstrong. I liked it. The punishment for a kid is like, if your name's bad enough, it's your name. So you get one shot if we hate it, it's you. It was so quick. No, that sucks. You're going to name it Brooks. What? And then like, I'm not even joking. So that had been in the summer. We went back at Christmas and I was like, where's Brooks? Where's my cow? Where's Brooks? And my grandma's like, what? I don't know. And like completely not even named it that. So it doesn't point it. I was like, I have a cow. And she's like, no, you don't mean it. We were just being nice with your birthday. Did you ever take a trip without your parents back to the dels? Or have you just gone the two times in your life? Just the two times in my life. I would love to go back. I really genuinely, like, I really want like a white lotus that happens at the Wisconsin dels. Like I think that, like I want to make that sort of a show. When I was 21, was the first time I ever saw the ocean. Me and my friends drove to Myrtle Beach from Iowa City. Wow. Just through the night. Just had to get there. And when we went swimming in the ocean, it would have been so cold. I can't believe how cold that must have been. But we'd never seen the ocean. So we all just jumped in with like Boogie Boards. We're spoiled being, you know, East Coast kids whose mom grew up in, you know, like a coastal town that we used to go visit. But like, what's it like when you see the ocean for the first time at 21? Is it like, I mean, if you've seen it so much in like film and television that it doesn't blow your mind? I mean, I'd already had a tattooed on my body. I already had a seascape tattooed on my body by this point. Because I just was obsessed with going to the ocean. You know, my whole like surfing looks so cool. It looks so cool. And you know, I love it Iowa. Is I also kind of think Iowa, I'm a little frustrated about my parents decided to raise a family there. Because it couldn't be further from anything that I found cool. Like, it's great if you like it. But I was like, I really want to go to the mountains of the ocean. They're like, they are forever away. So the first time I got to see the ocean, I like, I'm pretty sure I was with my girlfriend and we grew up together and we're like, cried. Like, oh my God, like it is truly the coolest thing I'd ever seen. And it took me maybe, I'd say that I moved to Los Angeles not long after that. It took me like maybe five years before every time I saw the ocean, I had to go jump in. Like no matter what. I didn't matter if I was going to the beach or not. I was like, there's the ocean. We gotta go get in. Because we can because it's a possibility. So and then when I moved to Los Angeles, I had a job as a biomedical engineer at this company in Irvine, called Edwards Life Sciences. And Irvine is like 15 miles from the beach, probably in Orange County. And it was a really good job. They hooked me up with like a realist, a realtor to go show me around and like pick up, pick an apartment. And they gave me a signing bonus of $7,500. And my like starting salary was like $80,000. I had made $0.00 my whole life. So I was like, this is incredible. I'm really rich. And so the realtor was taking me around to nice apartments, like around Irvine. And I was like, ah, now I'm going to be by the ocean. And she's like, okay. And then we went to Newport Beach. And she was like, here's this. You got to see the ocean. I want to be able to see the ocean. And she's like, it's like over that hill. I got to see it. I got to see it. So then she was like, I think I know like this trap house you might like. It was on beach in PCH and Huntington Beach called the breakers. And I was like, it was so much worse than anything she had shown me. But I was like, I love it. I was the ocean. It's right there. And so I moved there and met a bunch of real psychos who also were excited about the ocean. And that was great. And so what was your commute to work every day based on the fact that you had to be the ocean? Like an hour of hell. Right. It was brutal. Yeah, that doesn't seem like. That doesn't seem like Irvine, the Huntington Beach. You never, you don't picture people being like, oh, that's, that's a super easy drive. No, it wasn't too bad. But then I would drive from Irvine to Los Angeles after that to go to work. I mean, to go to do stand up. And that was that was brutal. I will tell you this story about engineering. The first time I ever, I also never flew on an airplane until I was 22. And the reason I did the first time was I was going to college for engineering. And I just did the career fair. And I just gave my resume to a bunch of different people. And I got an interview with this company called Schlumberger, which is a, it's an oil, it's an oil refinery company located in Dallas, Texas. That will accept all types of engineers, mechanical, biomedical. I was also working in like cardiovascular biomechanics. So that was tubes, which oil fields are, you know, tubes. So like I had a good reason that I could possibly be able to work there with fluid dynamics. But I didn't want to work there because it was in Texas. And then an oil industry. I didn't want to do any of that. But I did want to fly on a plane. And they were willing to fly me on a plane to interview in Dallas. And I was like, cool, I'll come out. I never flown a plane. I was so sick. We fly to Dallas from Cedar Abids and I land. And I'm like, amazing. But then I have two days of interviews. And I'm like, I'm a, I don't want to, I'm a, want to make people happy. So I try really hard in my interviews. You know, I'm doing my best. And I realized on the last day that if they offer me this job, I probably should have to take it. I might have to take it because it'll be a good paying job. And I don't have any money. And I went to college for this. So in the last day, I might exit interview with there. We're like, tell us why you're a slumber, Jay person. And I just, I was very honest with myself. And I literally told him, I go, please don't give me this job. And he was like, I'm sorry. What? I go, I don't want to live in Dallas. And he goes. was what why did you always know. And I was like, yeah. And he was like, why did you come out here and do the interviews? I was like, I never flown a plane. You guys flew me on a plane. (laughing) And he was like, oh my God. 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It broke down in Fredericksburg or somewhere in South Carolina. His mom's van broke down and he goes, fuck it. And we'd all just got, he left it on the road and we all got in a plane and flew home. When we got back to Iowa, his mom's like, where's my van? He was like, oh, it broke. You can't just leave it. Wow. So then yeah, but that trip was crazy. That was a really fun. Those are full spring break, senior frogs trip. So it was like, it was not, it was planned. This was not like like senior plans last minute. Somebody's like, let's get in the car right now. It was totally planned. We had like Airbnb or whatever it was at the time and it was really, really fun. I remember a different drive with that same group of friends one time we were going to the Irish Southside Parade in our freshman year of college. And my buddy Steve, he's like, I'll drive and we're like sick. And we get in the car to drive to go meet my other friend Pat's house and we're like, coming into Chicago, like maybe a half hour out and I was like, all right, let's get the map quest out, like pulled out the map quest and then I look at it and I realized Steve had just mapped quested to Chicago. Like, just typed in Chicago. And I was like, what the fuck, this isn't Pat's house? We're going to the bean. So we had to like pull over, call Pat. It was yeah. - Yeah, Chicago is a sprawling city. - You were not. - Yeah. It was one of the last times they still had the Southside Irish Parade. Did you guys ever go to that? I don't never did. - No. - Yeah. - Oh, it was gnarly, man. It was the first time I was ever like with Chicago kids who grew up in Chicago. We were 18 and 19 freshman college. First time I've ever seen this happen where we were walking down the train tracks and my buddy Pat's like, ah, fuck. I go, what? He goes, we gotta go fight these guys. And I'm like, we do? And he's like, yeah, they went to brother rice, dude. Fuck rice. So then they fought on the train tracks. Oh my god. - Yeah, they were real Southside guys. They were crazy. - Well, you and Emmer, we tried to do a show together once called Best Day Ever. And the idea is that you would go to different towns on there what they consider their best day of the year. Like be it a parade, be it a festival. And you've kind of made this a staple in your life. Where are some of the places you've gone on their best day that you've loved? - That's such a good point. Like, I mean, 2013, 14, 15 was like peak comedy, standup comedy was cool with Indy Rock. - Yeah. - And so I went and performed at a lot of festivals. Like Bonero outside lands, like Sasquatch. So all of those festivals, like Bonero truly for me is the most fun three days I've ever had anywhere. I might not be the same anymore, but like back in the day, that was truly like the coolest. I really wanna go, I haven't been, but I wanna go to the Pamplona, like for the Bulls. That looks pretty fun. - Yeah, I think it would be really good of that. - Yeah, there's a tomato festival there. I'm trying to think what like cool, cool stuff I've seen. I'm not a planner. So really it's only if I'm there and something's happening is I'm like, oh, sick. - Well, I remember what. - Yes, we were in Columbus, Ohio. And I'm gotten better, 'cause this was like a couple weeks before my special. So I was like very like dialed in and like didn't wanna do anything during the afternoon. So I've gotten a lot better being on the road with you, like taking advantage of the day. - Yeah. - Whereas you were like, hey, it was the pride festival in Columbus and you just like, I remember we checked into the hotel and you're like, I'm gonna go find the parade and you just like walked out into the city. - Yeah, yeah, fully. Yeah, I think it was like ended up on a float, Ferris Bueller style, being like, - Woo! - Yeah, I mean, Pride Parades in smaller towns are the best. There's so much fun, 'cause like everybody's really jacked up, you know, oh my God, I was in Nashville with my dad recently and it was Nashville's Pride Parade down Broadway. The main strip and a lot of conflicted men watching that. (laughing) A lot of that looks fun, but I don't know about that. - It does look fun, no matter where you land. - Yeah, like that looks super fun. - It looks fun. - I think Josh will enjoy this. We were driving into Scottsdale and I was doing what I do, looking for a place that's old baseball cards. - Wait, can I tell, can I tell what I think you're gonna tell real quick? - Yeah, yeah. - Over there's a couple things. - Well, I just wanna talk about how I was pulling a Scottsdale. Seth had picked up the car in LA, met me in Palm Springs and then we'd driven Two, Scott Stale. Having the best time, chat, and listen to music. Um, this is, it's, we're in the middle of Phoenix. It's like eight lanes of highway. We're as far to the left as we can be. We're, it's going to take us two miles to merge to the right. Uh, and then Seth goes, Seth goes to me. He might, like my friend, my old boss, like, I really look up to Seth. I think he's really smart guy. He goes, you think I'm almost out of gas? I look over the needle was below the, I didn't know it could go. It wasn't touching it how far down it was and I go, we got to get gas, man. We're so far in the middle of a highway. Like if the car goes down, we're, we have to call like a helicopter. Like it was fascinating that you did not think to get gas. Yeah, we mentioned it. It was the longest I've ever had a conversation with somebody while I was filling up a take gas. I feel like you could have listened to a full chapter of a book on tape. It was like, you also didn't you go from, from L.A. X to Palm Springs to Scottsdale on a single tank of gas? Yeah, it was not. Yeah, it was, it was crazy. It made me not, I don't believe the fuel gauges anymore. I'm like, you can go forever on that thing. I don't, I think gas is a lie. We then posh. I was like, Oh, I'm going to try to find a baseball card store. Then we realized there was an actual, what would you call it? Like a baseball card show at, uh, at the stadium. So we like parked at the, where the diamond backs play. And Brooks got to see me walking around a baseball card show. Well, also Seth goes, uh, I really hope that, uh, I hope it's not all, like, Pokemon nerds, uh, which made me realize that in the card collector worlds, there are higher arcies. I'm like, you're all doing cards, uh, you're all nerds, man. Yeah, yeah. You're like, we're doing a bully different card guys. Um, but it was a lot of Pokemon stuff. I do agree. But, uh, yeah, I like the Pokemon though. So I was excited for the Pokemon stuff. Uh, Brooks took a video of me walking in the baseball card, uh, show. And then, uh, he posted it on social media. What's the happiest I've ever seen? Yeah, you basically brought like this happy. I just, you know, and I, uh, how did I respond when I saw you posted on social media? Um, I mean, I got to pull it up. It's, because it's pretty funny. Uh, first time you've ever kind of yelled at me, uh, let me find it. But it was, uh, uh, it was basically like, my wife can't see that. He goes, he goes, so we're, we're such, I, I've such a good friendship with Seth. I was like, we're never mad at each other. We're both just kind of like hanging out. So it's first time he's ever like, um, I get out of nowhere. I'm talking to Catherine with phone, just to heat a text exchange. Dude, you can't post take dude. You can't post then a tea. So nothing, take it down. So you're just scrambled in, um, and then the next, next line, I don't respond right away. My wife can't know. I went to all caps, baseball cards show. So I feel bad. I go down, down, down, sorry. You go immediate divorce. She gets all the cards. Yeah, it was, uh, it was very good times. But, um, we've had, uh, we've had our adventures. It's really fun. And we've got, I should say, I mean, what a nice time to shout out. Uh, Brooks and I are going to be in Denver. Uh, what is it like, May, May 9th and then I may 8th, I think. And then I think our most fun drive yet, we're driving to Albuquerque. Yeah. And we have a show of Albuquerque, uh, May 9th. We can listen to some Billy the Kid podcast. Yeah, something less fun is this might come out after that. That would be the least fun. You're right, posh, obviously, but, uh, uh, I will say Brooks is going to meet a lot of Alexi's family. Uh, yeah, it's going to be my in-laws, uh, Alexi's aunt, cousins. So it's going to be fun. I feel like I'm going to do for you what you did for me and Missouri. It's going to be a blast. I, I can't wait. Mike, to my cousin's credit, my cousin's all, what was so nice about Seth meeting my cousins is my cousins. They're really nice. They're wonderful. I love them hardcore Republicans, hardcore Republicans. And so it was nice for them to meet Seth where they're all like basically whispering after he left. He was, he didn't bite. Like they couldn't believe he didn't have horns. Like they, and let me say as well, they were so lovely. And then we saw him for lunch and then a bunch of them came to the show. And after the show, they were being so nice and so complimentary. And then Brooks, who's just like a total shitster, which is like, like, Uncle Dave, what'd you think about Seth jokes about Trump? Like just immediately. I know, I literally go, I go, Travis, why don't you tell Seth your political leanings and then my cousin. He just goes, I wish you just, I wish you wouldn't after both sides. And it was a really, really fun. But he said it in a very funny way. He was everybody was fun on the joke. And it was a, it was a nice reminder of times we used to live in. Yeah, I mean, that's just it. It was truly a really fun time with people who got, like, you know, who cares? Very funny. We're having a fun time. Yeah, everybody said that. It was the best. It was, it was like 2010. It felt like what is your of the, like, I mean, I remember you were in, were you in Switzerland recently? Were you, I feel like I wasn't, I was in the French Alps in Corsica, not that long ago, which was, that was a real seat of my pants. The person I was dating had it. We were in New York. I was doing the show with you and John Oliver at the beacon. And then the girl I was dating, she had work in London. So we just went from New York to London. And then literally in London, she had French cousins. She was French and she was like, do you want to go to like, uh, I was reading this book by, um, John crack, I were called Eiger dreams. And in it, he goes to, uh, fuck, it's in the French Alps, like the main town. Um, I don't remember, but Shamanie, he goes to Shamanie. And I was like, I was like, you want to go to Shamanie? And she was like, I have cousins to live in Shamanie. So we just flew to Geneva, uh, got on a train, met her cousins in Shamanie, goofed around the French Alps, lost my wallet backpacking through the French Alps. That was pretty exciting. Um, but still in my passport, then we flew to Corsica, which it was one of the coolest places I've ever been. But I'll tell you what doesn't accept a lot of Apple Pay Corsica. Wait, we tell John, how did you pay for lunch in Corsica cigarettes? So explained. Okay. So we go, we get to Corsica, um, uh, we get our rental car. We're lied to so quickly by a 12 year old who's renting cars. Um, it's, uh, electric car. I go, I think I'd rather have a gas car. So we don't have any Corsica is the capital of electric car charging, charging stations in the world. No, it's not, um, I think there's like 12 on the island. Everyone jockies for, you're, you're post most half my time in Corsica was trying to charge my car with other people who'd been swindled, uh, just fuming. But, uh, so we get this car also allegedly goes 300 kilometers on a single charge. Maybe 40. It would maybe. And so I'm stressed that I'm hungry and we stop at this little town to get a sandwich, like a bag at and like I should have known right away. Um, like the cash register is like, you know, uh, uh, 1920s casino cash register, but not in a fun way, like a real way. And I was like, catching or whatever. Um, and I'm like, oh, my god, this is no way this guy's going to accept my phone for money. And then I, you know, he finishes the sandwiches. I don't speak French, but, um, Sophie did. And so she's talking to the guy and she's like, he's pretty upset. He just made us, you just watched him make the sandwiches. Now you can't pay him and I was like, I know, I don't know how to do it. So he was like, he had a good idea. He had a good work around. He was like, there is like, uh, a town down the road, um, go to the gas station. They'll accept Apple pay by me, two packs of cigarettes come back. I'll trade you a pack of cigarettes for a sandwich to bring back two packs. And I was like, incredible. I did that, but I bought a bunch more cigarettes and everyone in Corsica will give you a shit for cigarettes. It's like, it was great. I bought like so many sandwiches with cigarettes. And I got better at bartering. I'm like eight cigarettes. How many cigarettes is this sandwich? Uh, and it truly, it was amazing. It was really, really fun. And so despite, uh, maybe the lack of Apple pay, um, but the, uh, cigarette pay alive and well and lack of charging stations, you loved Corsica. Corsica is one of the coolest places I've ever been in my life. Like there was, it's always great when you know, and I didn't, I didn't see one American the whole time. It was kind of like where French people go. I felt like France is Puerto Rico where it's like, it's part of France, but like the people there are like, we are not part of France. And they're pretty intense and they're rad and the best cliff jumping. I've ever seen big. I'm big on jumping off cliffs into water. That's my favorite thing. Did you do some cliff jumping yourself? Yeah, yeah, it's called a Piana de la Clonks or something like that. The Clonks of Piana, which is where I went, um, just ended up finding a Airbnb there and stayed like that's also how I do vacations them. I don't plan ahead. But if I find something good, I'm like, why would we leave here? It's awesome. We're chilling. The Clonks is also that Corsica movie where the one actor plays the whole family, right? Probably. I don't know. It was good stuff. Oh, we had good stuff, Seth. That's good stuff. That's really good. It's not good stuff. But I will tell you that is a real reminder how much more tuned in Josh's my terrible setups. Well, I would say if it was just Clonks, but it's Colonk. - So I was saying along. - Oh yeah, got it. - To me, that sounds like that's the sound of like a body that's supposed to be hitting the water and it hits rock instead. - Yeah, oh my God, dude. I was trying to impress some teenagers so bad. I was jumping from so high off these fucking rocks that in the morning, I figured it felt like I was in a bad car wreck. Like I was like, oh my God, like my neck was goo. - Because of how you hit the water? You hit the water so bad? - I mean, I just kept going higher and higher and higher and I don't know what I'm doing, you know? So I'm just like, you're catching your arm bad or something, you know what I mean? But then there's also, we called them like, yeah, there's a kid there I called the King of the Teens. This guy's doing backflins, he's doing ganners. So I was just trying to outdo the King of the Teens. - But just a terrible instinct at your age. - Yeah, no, no, yeah, I'm like almost 40 and like not like at no point like athletic. - No, it's in pot, it's literally technically impossible for you to be the King of the Teens and yet you're still true. - Yeah, yep, yep, yep. But following isn't an athletic sport. So you can fall, you just gotta have the courage to jump, baby. And then once you're in the air, you'll figure it out, you'll figure it out. - You fundamentally just told us the opposite. - I was heard in "Mad Man". - You can over rotate, you can over rotate. - Were you always like, have you always had this love of jumping from high places? The first time you saw as an opportunity, like I'm in. - Yeah, we would grow up like jumping off bridges into the rivers in Iowa. Like it's big, like big jumping off bridges and rivers. - Are you a feet first jumper, I'm guessing? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. - Yep, yep, yep, I'm not, I'm not insane. - I'm not the King of the Teens. - Yeah, the King of the Teens, you know, that absolutely does that. - I'm very excited. It's so fun to talk to you, bro, because I can't believe I get to see you again in just under two weeks. Looking forward to it. - Yeah, I'm excited. Here's what I'm really excited about what we're going to do. We're going to be driving through Billy the Kid Territory with Lincoln County, New Mexico. So, you know we got to stop at some restaurant that's Billy the Kid theme. It's going to be amazing. - We're going to go, let's do a, let's get an old-timey photo with you and address stealing out of my wallet. - Oh, yeah, that's probably a really good idea. We also have to, we're going to stop and say at a pay. We're going to eat in one of my favorite places. Obviously, we've talked a lot about Iwonstrance.com on my other podcast, but we were, Posh, we were in Kansas City. Great food town. - Oh my God. - I've talked about this on my other podcast, but we went to this restaurant. It was a, what was it, a noodle shop? It was recommended. - It was a noodle shop. It looks really good. It smelled really good. We were hungry. We purposely didn't eat all day, so we could have a nice dinner. - We have four went, because we did two shows in KCF four and a seven. We were like, let's not eat in between, because that's not like dressing room food, no matter how good it is, not rewarding. And then after the show, we had a lot of guests. We were like, super, it was nice to talk to. We didn't rush out. And then we get to this restaurant. We forget, you know, it's not in New York City. It's Kansas City. And we walk in to the noodle shop and the maturity, very kindly. He's like, oh, we just shut down the kitchen. And Brooks is like, oh, can we? And she's like, no. And she like, it was, it was, it was 10-0-1. It was 10-0-1. And I didn't feel good about what I did. - But I felt worse. - I felt worse. - Brooks goes through, I threw Seth under the bus a little bit. - Brooks goes, do you know who he is? And she was like, yes. And he was like, and it doesn't make a difference. She's like, no, I'm sorry. And he goes, okay, okay, but I'm the one who said it, right? Like, you can never say he's the one who said it. - I did was like, he did not say, do you know who I am? I actually don't know this guy. I can't believe he's in here separate from me. No, I had your back being like, I really feel bad that I did that, but please do not tell anybody. It says, said, do you know who I am? I want my noodles. And then we ate across the street in a Too Fast, Too Furious movie. - Truly. - But with none of the stars. - Yeah. - None of the stars. - Just like eyes, like, just revving cars and motorcycles. Like in a little hamburger shop, like right next to the parking lot. It was the loudest. Also, Brooks got the weirdest sandwich I've ever seen. It was the most stressful. It was more stressful than watching my dad eat the Arby sandwiches. Like, it was so stressful to eat there. - Also, we were standing in line behind a woman who had been at our show and very kindly was like talking to us for a long time. And then like, but like too long, and then I was like, because they were like, I was like, oh, do you need to order? She's like, oh, no, I already ordered. And I'm like, oh, you're really standing in a line position. I was like, what did you think we were doing then? - Right, right. - Yeah, so yeah. - So we had to look around, make our order. - So I got a hot dog, I got a Coney Dog. I got a Coney Dog, and I'll send you a photo of it because it's so fucking crazy. Coney Dog, and then you know, what do you want to go? Everything Coney style. It was, they did not warn me of how this Coney Hot Dog was going to come, which was three half slices of a hot dog. Three, not, it was one and a half hot dogs, but on a hamburger bun, in a star shape. And they just was like, here's your hot dog. - Brooks was so spun out about where the other half of the second hot dog was. I want to life's great mystery. - Yeah. - Brooks was just like, he couldn't get over it. It was a bad thing. - Then you know, I thought about the next day that I was like, that was really crazy that we did that. We walked through the fast and the furious parking lot to back to the hotel. And there was like a crevice that we squeezed through, which were two cars that were on. - Yeah, like bumper to bumper, like ready to just drive into each other. We're like, just going to squeeze through real quick, guys don't mind. In the middle of a race, I'm like, we really could have gotten here. - Yeah, they were like trying to back one car up. And we were just like, it was a real show of masculinity from us that had no reward. The other thing, I haven't told Josh this. And I'm happy to say it did not leave the mark I wanted. We had a real quick turnaround of like, let's drop our bags, which by the way, we shouldn't have done. We should have gone straight to the noodle shop. But like, let's drop our bags and then meet at the noodle shop. And I walked in, it was a nice hotel room. Okay, the city nice hotel. And I walked in, and there was, if you can picture Josh in the bathroom, the toilet part of the bathroom had a shower door, like a glass shower door. But like, it was weird because like, I know like, sometimes in an ensuite bathroom, there'll be a door to the bathroom. But like an all glass door seems crazy because like, what? - Yeah, right, precisely. - And I thought, when I went into my room, I kicked that glass door because I also was like, didn't see the door. So I like kicked it with my, on accident, like, hit it with my foot. And I was like, oh, I got a, I wonder if Seth had this problem. - And then I came in with the biggest welton my forehead. He ran face first into it. - Fuckin' face first, and like, poshie, sauce stars. Like, literally had to like, hit it so hard made, that made the kachonk. Like, the Corsican Cliffs just crashed my head, had to sit on like the edge of the tub, being like, will Brooks know to get a doctor if I don't show up? When you saw stars, did they have three halves of a hotdog? - Yeah, it was a hotdog. - Yeah, yeah, it was hot. - No, you were, it was crazy. That's when I knew like, you're, you can tell like that, like guys, I guess, who had dads who would fly off the handle a little bit. And I feel like the kids of them are either go, same or nothing bothers them. You hit your head in a way that our dads would have gotten a hammer to that door. You know, they would have shattered that door. - And you were just like, oh, it was very much right. I was, I took blame, whereas my dad would have blamed the door. Yeah, even though I do think the design was faulty. Like, you still can't walk into a door in your bathroom like that. - No, it didn't make any sense for that door to be there. - It doesn't make any sense. - Right, it's like, so what end? A glass door, so now you're with somebody and they're pooping, but you can like see them. Also, it's not like a, it's not like a sealed, smellproof door. Like, nobody wins. - It just comes up and over the top. - Yeah. - All right, Brooks, before we let you go, Josh is going to ask you our speed round questions. - Okay. - All right, you can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing adventurous or educational? - Adventurous. - 100% of course. What's your favorite means of transportation? - Trends. - If you could take a vacation with any family, alive or dead, real or fictional, other than your own family, what family would you like to take a vacation with? - Uh, it's always sunny Philadelphia family. - Great, great. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? - Um, yeah, I might get it. Oh, pass, pass. What is your dream destination for a family vacation? - Um, I really want to go to Southeast Asia. I want to go Vietnam. - Yeah, um, you are from Manchester, Iowa? Is your hometown correct? If you had to get more families to come visit Manchester, Iowa, what would you tell them about your town? - Nothing, I would give them, if you wanted to visit, you can't tell them what it's like. You got to trick them, if you want to get people to visit Manchester, you got to lie, you know, say, oh my god, it's, it's, uh, it's like, I can't, it's like a Santa's workshop. They do a Santa's workshop. - Yeah, yeah, I mean, maybe I'd tell them about uh the the pet shop called uh the fish shack that has a bird named peaches that if it's out it does bite um and so you know when you're little you open the door to the fish shack because you want to look at a fish you go is is the bird out uh and uh if it is you you know you don't go in and it's out most of time. All right um very good Seth. Yeah Seth has our final questions. Have you been to the Grand Canyon? Yeah I wrapped it on the Grand Canyon 18 days uh 230 miles. I knew the answer to this and you had uh you almost died but it was worth it. Almost died it was worth it but honestly I here's what I know that you have the problem with the Grand Canyon. I agree like from the top Grand Canyon interesting cool and fine very whatever. I'm very what I was very whatever about the Grand Canyon until I did an 18 day rafting trip through it with some pals and no guide and uh after that I was like oh this is one of the coolest adventures I've ever been in but I agreed just to look at it. What you gonna do? You see a photo on this far. Yeah yeah. All right great well it's my view of course uh and I was surprised here I got the most out of it so very impressed. Yeah and now based on that review I imagine Seth is just looking at his calendar trying to find 18 days. Oh nothing makes me book a trip more than almost died. Well honestly that was for the it was for the SNL 50th I literally I the SNL 50th was happening and um I had to choose between uh going to that going and having the most anxiety I could possibly have in my life or almost dying in the Grand Canyon. I was like I'm gonna almost die in the Grand Canyon. I think it's gonna be I really thought about I was like I think the Grand Canyon will be better for my brain than the SNL 50. You're like I like my odds better. I'm gonna take the Canyon odds. Yeah yeah exactly. All right I'll see you in like 10 days Brooks. Yeah Josh I'll see you in LA. Also I just want I do want to say one thing that's what's fun about being friends with both of you is one time I was recently with Seth in I don't know let's say we were in Columbus and like I said bye bye you go to New York I go to LA and then I was in Franklin Village by UCB which uh and then I heard uh what I thought was Seth arguing about the Steelers which is the thing that he does and I'm like no I just saw him get on a different plane a different way I turned out it's Josh that was your I was just like oh yeah you guys it was very fun to see both in the same date and it really confused me. Yeah that's what we do. We cover the coasts. Yep. All right I love you buddy. Love you guys you're the back of your set by Josh. Thank you thank you. Yeah it's fun. Here we go. The young Brooks we went and only took two trips. Never got to go to Disney that's some bullshit. All the same he was sighted but had to be aware couldn't make his dad angry or his temper would land. Went to the capital of Walter Parks. No Wisconsin Dales and North Wazaar. Black Thunder Ride would give you a scare. Might hit your head and catch some air catch some air. Old timey picture that's always fun. Background of his brother and his girl was Brooks with the gun. Still smiled real big. Showed them teeth. Throughout the trip daddy went roast beef 7 hour drive to the dairy farm. If you had to pee whisper too far. Brooks got to see a baby cow get born. He named that cow BJ Armstrong. And of you who went down to Texas. Said don't you give me this job with uncommon directness. Why would you do that to slumber jay. He never flew on a plane they flew him on a plane. In Corsica no apple pay cost him stress. So he paid his way in C. the rain. And the colonsies are the king of jeans. And learn courage is all you need. All you need. First time he saw the ocean. He drove all the way from Iowa. He had 20 friends. Murder of beach. And went to see your cows.