COLBY MINIFIE Grew Up Busking In Central Park

- How's it going? - Good, how are you? - I'm good. What are you up to? - Yeah, I don't know. Beautiful day here in LA. - It's a beautiful day here in New York City as well. We finally got spring. It was a long time coming. - Yeah. Very exciting development that I think is your kids. Also, I can't quite remember what it was like to be a three, four, five years old. So I feel like oftentimes I'm serving my children and I'm like, I don't know if I ever acted like that or did that. But now that they're like eight and ten, especially the boys, I'm like, oh, this feels like being poshy. They really like playing baseball on the weekend. And the only downside is I think we usually only make it like one and a third innings before axle quits. That's tough. That's tough. But dad got them one of these nets where you, you know, has like a yellow square. And so you can throw the ball and the net and it'll bounce back. - Oh, yeah. So it works really good. It's a backstop when you're playing baseball. We can call balls and strikes. And then also if they want to go out and play by themselves. So we're playing like we have this beautiful day of playing basketball. And then the worst thing happened, which is they also got. Somebody gave them these like plastic bow and arrows. And which I have something else to say about that, which is. And they decided, oh, we can play the Hunger Games. And so they put the bow and arrow and then a bunch of sticks and just like weapons and a pile. I don't know if you know how the Hunger Games works, posh. - I will admit that I don't. - So in the Hunger Games, the book and then the film, everybody, there's a circle around this like weapons cash. - Okay. - And I go, everybody runs to the middle and grabs a weapon. - Got you. - So they played Hunger Games. And now would you bet that somebody did or didn't get hurt when my kids started playing Hunger Games? - I mean, as soon as you said plastic bow and arrows, I thought one of your kids was in the hospital. - And the best thing about the old Hunger Games was. - Ash going like, "I got hurt!" - And I'm like, "At the Hunger Games?" - So, but it was, I was still, you know, a beautiful day, kids outside. You know, they do mountain biking. They're very good. - Yeah. - I'm very proud of them for how much they're outside in the weekends. - Yeah. - Gotta be. It's beautiful out there. You know, I've been watching Ken Burns did a Henry David Thorough. - It's not a Thorough, I guess. - Thorough. - Interesting. - Yeah. - And I've been watching that in it, like all of the stuff around Walden and all of, you know, the nature stuff that he was sort of very, very well known for. They show these, you know, beautiful images of New England and these paths and these lakes and the mountains and, you know, that's where your kids are essentially. Like, it's very close to there. - Yeah. - That's where they're spending their time outside. And it's just beautiful. - If you don't take advantage of it, then, yeah, you're missing out. - When we moved to New Hampshire, I think the, I look, because we moved mid-year. And I remember the, I think the first thing we did when I moved was like a Thorough, like, unit. - Yeah. - I think I was a fourth grader. Is that seem right? - Yeah. - Maybe a little younger. No, maybe fourth. I can't remember. Young and fourth. But I remember reading about it, like, how our teachers were, like, really hammering home, how lucky we were to live in New England. - I think this is, I'm sure, yeah, kids who grow up everywhere. And they're correctly so, or told that where they live is special. I think that's a good thing to get across. - Yeah. - Can I tell you my new, at least, everything the kids do on the walk to school? - Yeah, please. - They each guess what time we'll get there. So I tell them what time we leave the door. - It's like 25 minutes. - They each guess. - And then, do they just leave it? - That's how the game is fun. - Is they just leave it and we get to the thing. And then, but they can't, Ash now has been cheating because I didn't realize he's got a little digital watch. So, all of a sudden I look, I'm like, "Why is he half black ahead?" I'm like, "Oh, and then Axel's like, "It's not fair. He has a watch." - And so it just, it's, yeah. - I was a real watch person. And then my watch broke, like, four months ago now. And I just haven't replaced it. And it's kind of nice. - I've never been a watch person. And the only reason I'm kind of thinking about, like, watch life is just, you know, like health apps, like a health track. I don't never care, obviously. - Yeah, I don't have a time it is. - But yeah. So, anyway. I might watch it up as well. - Fantastic conversations today with Colby Menifey. - Yeah. I don't think either of us, she hadn't been on your show. You didn't know her. - No. Yeah. But she was that delightful of first-time meeting on the old part. - Yeah. - Some good stories. So, little New Hampshire. - Little New Hampshire. - Little New Hampshire way up there. - And like, yeah, that hardcore, northern New Hampshire. - Little tip. - Yeah. - Really enjoyed this conversation. Really enjoyed hearing about her sort of path in the theater world is fascinating. - And she's a great story. Great parents. Hey, Posh, do you mind if I use this time real quick to shout out some stand-up dates? - Yeah, no, go for it. - I'm going to be in Denver on Friday, May 8th doing a couple of shows at the Paramount Theater. I think a 7 and a 10, 730 and a 10. And then an Albuquerque at the Route 66 Casino. I'm going to be with our very good friend, Brooks Wheeling, who's hilarious. And do check it out if you're there about in the area. - Great. - You can go to Seth Meyers.com for tickets, Posh. How about that? - Yeah. - Yeah. - There you go. - All right. Enjoy it. A cold bee. And thanks for listening, everybody. - Hello. - Hello. - Hello. - Look how it is. - I'm good, how are you? - Good. So nice to see you to meet you to all the things. - Yes. See you meet you all the things. You guys look exactly the same. - That's what we hear. And I'm not even wearing it. When I put my glasses on, I hope I am. See? - Yeah, that's best. - Oh, it's your twins. - Yeah. - How far apart are you? - Two years. - Oh, yeah. There you go. - So I just want to start by saying I'm very happy to meet New York City raised. - New York City born and raised. - So I'm very happy because like we're obviously we're like suburban New Hampshire kids. And I'm raising New York City kids. And so anytime I meet one that's like sort of a well-adjusted good person, it gives me faith. - But we don't know that. - We think that we're about to find out. - Yeah, you know, I'm actually a nightmare. - If you ever hear that I move to the suburbs, no, it's because of this interview. - There's so much riding on this interview. - Yeah. - Where are suburban New Hampshire? Where are you guys from? - Bedford New Hampshire. - That's right, Manchester. - Manchester New Hampshire. - Yes, I know exactly. I spent every summer in Randolph. So like Northern New Hampshire, close to Berlin and Gorham way up there. - Yeah. - And was that camp time? - Not so much camp. No, my dad's whole, my dad's one of six. And all of his siblings bought this cabin in the woods in this tiny little town. I'm getting a UPS delivery right now. So if you hear that, that's what's happening. You can't, you never know when they're going to come. - Nope, yeah. - And so they bought this little cabin in the woods and we would all go up there an eight hour drive from New York City. So that's where I spent every summer. But we would drive right through. - Yes. - So an eight hour drive and you would go, would you really go for the whole summer? - No, the two weeks. - Okay. - And then we'd go home and then we'd come back for another week. And then we'd go, or it was, sorry, one, first week was one week. And then we'd go home and then we'd come back for two weeks. - And was that because of there were too many people there? Or was like, your parents say, we have to go back to the city for work or was it? - It was a share. It was probably work related. - Yeah. - And then also we had, we had to like, we'd be like, well, Ned gets this week. And then Chad gets this week. - Gotcha. - And we get these weeks and, you know, yeah. - Could you do two family simultaneously? Or was it really? - Yeah, sometimes it was, because there were two houses. It sounds grand, but they're really, really old. They're like built in the 18 set. I'm probably butchering that date. My dad is going to be really mad. No. Because he's told me this story a million times. They were really old cabins that were built out. And then there's a tiny little cabin on the side. That's like very cute. That has enough space for like one of those 17 inch stoves. And like a tiny little kitchen. So oftentimes would be like, oh, Ned's going to stay in the little house. And we get the big house then we'd switch or, you know. - And did you look forward to this? Were you excited to go? - Oh, yeah. - Okay. - Yeah, I learned how to ride a bike up there. I mean, learning, this is the thing. Where do you teach your kids how to ride a bike in New York? - Yeah. By the way, my wife is like on the street. Like she's like, I have a fearless wife who will be like, let's take a bike ride. I'm like, in this city, she's like, yes. - Yeah. - I mean, by the way, a different city now. More bike paths. Way more, I used to bike tune from high school every day. And that was before a lot of those bike paths were put in. And I had to go through Columbus Circle. And, you know, my, because my dad, I grew up. My dad biking in the city. That's how he got around. He had like a little thing on the back of it was it was like a car seat that he'd like Took apart and put on the back of his bike and then he had a one of those Just a seat that he put on the crossbar for my sister and so I was in the back Bungie courted in and then my sister was on the front Crossbar and that's how we got around so biking has always been safe learning how to ride a bike Yeah, yeah, where do you do that? Yeah, you're right. Where did you what part of the city did you grow up in upper east side great? Yeah, I know are your parents still there my it's a Brent Stabilized Department my mom moved from DC into that apartment in 1977 and has never left and so they pay like nothing for a three-bedroom two bath on the upper Wow, that's crazy. Yeah, yeah, were you aware growing up in New York City that it was a Unique upbringing or was it only after you left to met people who didn't grow up in New York City that you realized that I started realizing it was unique I think When I was going to middle school in high school in Times Square and having to like walk through all the tourists and be like Why are you taking these videos of a billboard? I need to get to school like right right class and like, you know and then I was like oh people like like this Place this. Yeah, this is a cool zone to grow up in yeah, yeah, Josh. Do you live in the city? No, I live in Los Angeles But it's a city. Yeah, yeah, and and you have kids I do not do not do not have kids Yeah, because that's a unique that's also a rare thing having Kids that grow up are born and raised in LA born and raised in New York. I feel like yeah, yeah And we know a lot of them you know if you're in this business you get to know a lot of them and Anytime they turn out normal, you're very impressed. It is it is rare Would you meet and hang out with local kids when you would go up to New Hampshire? Yes, there were some kids I used to Smoke some weed with which I probably shouldn't say this is a family podcast Yeah, family podcast you heard it was a podcast That's why you wanted to come on You're like, I got yeah, I got stories the right before we went live you were like oh, no, no, no, no a pod. It's a pod No, yeah, there were some kid we would hang out with some local kids But I do think there is that thing you know of of the city the like summer people and the local people And the local people were very welcoming to us, but I think there was that like Who are these? Kids coming through who do you think like like were you? You know, I don't want to make this Two weed centric, but like were they like more weed forward than you were or were you like that kid who shut up Like hey, I'm from New York. We've got the drugs around here The set real quick Colby. Yeah, there's the second Podcast we've recorded today and Seth used that voice in the last one But I used it for Olympic swimmer Mark Smith Yeah, it was his impression of Mark Spitz, but anyhow. Please. I'm New York Colby. You need the good voice. We have to have the voices here Maple tree I got a tap To get some of the good stuff. You got to get and that's where all the good maple syrup Yeah, I I will be doing this whole thing in a Brooklyn accent just for fun No, I'm trying to remember how that went I feel like it was I was really into weed in high school. So it was probably me It's good that you weren't so into it that you don't have the memory for it Was it was it lake liven was it lake life up and Randolph? It was There was a lake. There was a very cold Lake where the water would melt off the white mountains and be extremely cold And then we dip in that and then there was a man made lake right close by that we would dip in that was warmer But it was hiking. It was mainly hiking. Yeah, yeah, and my you were a kid who was like I feel like that's very That speaks well of you that you were a kid who was like oh my god a vacation where we're gonna go hiking But you liked that you would get excited. Yeah, I would yeah, yeah, I realized like Halfway through high school that I Even though I grew up in New York City. I felt like I knew nothing and Then proceeded to travel as much as humanly possible because I was like I don't know anything about nature really Like I remember I this is really embarrassing, but I bought a house recently in the Hudson Valley and And the after the first winter, you know, I had such a hard time mowing my lawn I was I was like I'm not gonna make anybody a moment. I'm not gonna pay for that. I'm gonna do that and I I Let it go for like four months and then tried to mow it and then broke this rider mower And then had to get it. I mean, it was like such a I really didn't know what I was doing and I remember after the first winter I had some Best people looking at my house and I was like I don't know who's been mowing my lawn But like it's so it's still short like it's been short for months, and I like well the grass doesn't grow in the winter Back and I I should not have gone to that town meeting and said we have a ghost mower Well, you're all hanging your Christmas decorations. I want to know who's been mowing my damn lawn Without giving content pilgrims had a very similar first winter. Yeah, in New England Yeah, yes, were you guys a trip family outside of your like sort of summer and Randolph would you guys travel a lot? Not really we were we were yeah, it was like My parent I think my parents traveled a whole bunch before they had kids and after they had kids they had kids later in life And after they had kids they were like Yeah, I think we like comfort. We this is too much, but we did do we did have this one magical This is when I heard about this podcast. I was like I know exactly what story I'm gonna tell very excited We love we love this person who shows up My mom worked for gourmet magazine Which is now defunded it closed my senior year of high school, but she worked there for 32 years Wow, and this was back when magazines like had you know money, yeah, and on my my my mother's 25th anniversary of being at this magazine. They said we're gonna gift you a trip anywhere you want in the world with your family and my parents picked Rome and Venice and Italy and this was like our big fancy trip and There were a few things that happened on this trip that were really spectacular one is I wasn't I didn't grow up watching TV My parents like I didn't even know how to turn on the TV Growing up my dad to like put the remote behind his back and like snap his fingers when he wanted to watch a movie We get like a movie a a weekend, and so we were like this magic box. How does it work? This is the I'm gonna tell you something less and less surprised you didn't know about grass in the winter Is that what they teach on TV I didn't know Wow, oh no, I'm really I'm learning a lot. Is that what they taught on like Arthur? Yeah, yeah Our third yard varic was basically like don't embarrass yourself This is this is what happens with grass. This is how grass grows Yeah, no, yeah, so I we got to Rome and we were in this hotel in my sister and I put on the TV and there was MTV and we were like what is this thing this MTV I was 12 my sister was 14. She's two and a half years older. She's probably 14 going on 15 and We just in Timberlake What is the song where he's like? I'll have you naked by the end of this song You know that song. Yes, is it sexy back? I'm bringing sexy back. Yeah, yeah, okay. Thank you. See you Yes, it is no, yes, you guys were raised in the world. I was raised in some TV Baron land you were raised in a family of magicians who would snap their fingers And so we had we watched this this Music video over and over again. We were like, oh my gosh. This is so fun and my sister was like I was like this is like you know Brisky like he's saying naked. What is this? He's saying like ooh hate it like he's saying naked and my sister was like He's not saying naked. He's saying I'll have you naked by the end of this song and she was so adamant about him having said Nekid instead of naked to like save the Embarrassment of watching this. Oh she wasn't she was she was embarrassed on her own behalf She had to make it naked. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. I think she was like yeah, we're not it's this is not like a sexy So this even though it's called I'm bringing sexy back. This is by the way every parent's dream when they first bring their children to Italy This is the culture we want them to get exactly. It's just just in Timberlake really is what we want in Italy Yeah, and then we I remember we went to this Jolato place every single day called GLET, which we just had our boys Rome premiere like the premiere of the last season in Rome. And I went to Geoliti as much as humanly possible to kind of relive that trip. Did you were are you the kind of like cast of mate who's like, Hey, guys, Geoliti's came as a kid, gonna blow your mind. Everybody with me. Yes, but nobody came with me. I was like, you have to go to this place and they're all like great, great, great. See you later. I did it. Hold up. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I even compared it to some other place because there's only one, you know, and I compared it to some other places where I couldn't get to Geoliti. I was like, I have to go, you know, try some more gelato because we're here in freaking Italy. We have to go and didn't wasn't nearly as good. Yeah. So it's great. It's so nice to know that you're that your childhood memory held out. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from Blueland. Hey, Baji, Sufi. You don't plastic. I feel like I, yeah, there was a part of me that knew the plastic wasn't the best thing in the world. We were growing up, but now there's really no excuse to know that plastic doesn't just disappear, breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces that stick around in our environment forever. 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But yeah, so then we went to Venice and I remember this one night. We were, you know, we were also eating the best food because my mom was doing, she was like, I have to research. I have to do this research trip. So we were eating all right. Unbelievable food everywhere we went. And you know, it was considered research. She would go on the gourmet tap as far as I remember. And we were at this really nice restaurant that was overlooking a canal in Venice. And the windows were open in the restaurant. And there was this Italian guy with like, you know, his shirt buttoned down three or four buttons and his chest hair popping out, smoking a cigarette out the window of the restaurant. And my parents were like, oh God, why can't does he have to smoke? I'm just someone knowing, you know, my dad who used to smoke being like, yeah. And my dad's an opera singer. And he's the most amazing thing about him is that he will just sing wherever he goes. He's just like, it's like he'll be mowing the lawn because he understands lawns. And he will just start singing in the middle of mowing the lawn. He'll just stop mowing and it'll just, you know, break out in an area. And that's I think the most he's just shares himself everywhere he goes, which is really really spectacular. And not quite like opera singers aren't known for singing really. Yeah. I mean, unless it's truly sotovoce, but I'm guessing is he belting when he's out of the hole? He is full. Yeah. Full voice everywhere. Everywhere he goes. Yeah. And with this was never there was never an age where this was caused for embarrassment for you. It was always about this age. Yeah. I mean, it was like now or this age in your event. No, no, and in Venice. I mean, I feel like even at that time, probably, you know, I don't, I actually don't think maybe when I was like a little older 17, 18, I started getting embarrassed. But then I realized like this guy is so special. Why? Why? You know, this is so cool and unique. And that's good. I'm glad you realized that before. Yeah. Well, it was part of our culture too growing up. Like we would, he would go busk at the boat pond in Central Park where they would sail. There's like two boat ponds. There's the restaurant and then there's the one who you sail those rental boats in Central Park, you know, I'm talking about. Yeah. And he would put his help. We would bike there. He would put his helmet out and he would sing. And then he'd be like, okay, kids, get up and sing. Sing a song. And we would sing too. And so it was always part of the deal with us. So, you know, when he breaks out in song, Italy, we're like, yeah, this is normal. And he sings this Italian aria. And then he says to my sister, he had taught her Omiobembi in Ocado. So he's like, go, go. Oh, so sorry, where he's singing is on this bridge that is right outside that goes over the canal. That's right outside the restaurant. So he's like, he's like, I just want to sing right now. So he goes outside to the bridge and we all follow him. I don't even know if we paid our check yet. We were just like, we're just going to do this and we'll come back. And so he's singing on this bridge. And then he gets my sister to go up and sing Omiobembi in Ocado. And she is an amazing voice. My sister's like very skilled and super talented. And it's this beautiful Italian aria that she's singing. And there are people in Gondola's like Taurus and Gondolas that are going under the bridge on the canal. And they're recording my sister thinking that she's this Italian opera singer at 15, 14, 15. And the guy who had been smoking in the restaurant comes out of the restaurant, goes up to my sister, places his hands on either side of her face and gives her a big kiss on the lips. And my sister, I think this was my sister's first kiss. Like this is. And it was this like epic moment. And then of course the only songs I knew were like, don't fence me in like some old cowboy clown song. Cause that's the only kind of singing I do. And dad was like, go up and sing your cowboy song. So I did that and everybody like quickly dispersed. Cause they were like, what the hell is this? Now what is when your dad's like go sing is he like, go sing because it's fun to sing. Like what did he or is he like, we're having fun then you're part of your fun is singing. I think. Oh, so great. Or is it like, I want to like, I want you to learn like like the performance chops of like just doing it right now. Like cause obviously it paid off right? Yeah. Well, yeah, I guess it did. Yeah. I mean, I think he, I think he just wanted to instill in us the, the idea that we could do this anywhere that this is. Yeah. It's such a cool thing. Yeah. It was, it's a really, it was, I really value it now. I think at the time I was like, like at the, not at that time, but a little bit later, I was like, I just like, I don't feel comfortable. When you would go to the like, would he say like, hey, we're going to go to Central Park and like, dad's going to sing a little like, would you know, that was what you were going for? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it would be fun. Yeah. And how long is that like a bike ride into the park, some busking, is that like, you're there for an hour? Probably a couple hours. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And at one point, some guy, I remember distinctly, there was this, my dad was singing and then he had us sing and then he came back to sing and some guy in the park said, let the kids sing. We want to hear the kids and my poor dad's like, okay, that's over for me. He's like, what is the on my own but to earn. I forced them to sing and now I've been replaced. Oh yeah, exactly. Fortunately, there's probably like six good opera songs about that exact feeling. Yeah. Oh, yeah. replaced by a younger. Yeah. Yeah. The all-out eve of opera. Yeah. Did Gourmet fly you guys? Do you remember if you flew first class or? Oh, definitely not. Yeah. We flew the economy. Yeah. They were like, well, we'll do this, but it's yeah, you're going to throw up on the plane for you. They were also like, we're going to pay for all your food. No apps. Was that the first time you flew anywhere? No, I think we had flown to see family out in Tacoma. What? Out in where were we actually? Northern California where they had orange trees, which they have all over California. But I remember distinct orange tree and this family's backyard. Where was that? That was start to the S sacrameno. Sacrameno. Sacrameno. It was sacrameno. Wow. And oh, yeah. I knew that state capital. I'm out here. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I've never been to California. No. How long was this trip? How long did you guys? Did you go for? I think we went for like 10 days or something. That's a really good trip. Yeah. It was a great trip. Did you like, do you remember liking Rome more than Venice or vice versa? I remember liking all of it. My dad hated Rome. He was like, it's too busy. There's too many vespas. They go by you loud and my dad used to drive a motorcycle. So I don't know why he. Right. Seems like your dad, like if there's one takeaway it said he's he's a huge. It seems like your dad's a huge hypocrite like that. Yeah. He hated this guy smoking. He quit yesterday. I think it's like a tool around his motorcycle everywhere. It's the first time he hears the Vespas. He's like covering his ears. Yeah. He's like, oh, that singing is so loud. Why are they singing? What did what did I would imagine? It's a weird sensation to be mad at a guy for smoking. And then moments later, he's just fully giving your daughter a kiss. How did your dad react to that moment? He was like, oh, cool. He's done a really good job with the singing there. I mean, I guess that's like, there is something funny about like an opera singer being like, there's no higher praise than being so good that a stranger has to come and kiss you. I do think I do think that was yeah. He was like, that's what I've always wanted. Right. In my life. Yeah. Yeah. And my mom, meanwhile, it is not a performer. And she used to stutter as a kid. So she's like, she was quite shy. And she, I remember sitting her, she was sitting on the bridge looking at us just like, I can't believe I made these children. These told like how? How did that happen? But yeah. Yeah. That's the big crazy trip story. We did, I'm just remembering we did go to France once. But I don't remember when that was. Got you. Do you remember where in France you went? I think Paris. Yeah. I think that might have been after that. Do you remember it fondly? I do. I remember I threw up a lot. I get motion sickness, motion sickness, motion sickness. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A lot. And I would, I remember throwing up like consistently on the plane and then after. Do you and your sister travel well together? Like when you were young, we did. Yeah. Yeah. But we, I, we don't, we haven't taken a family trip in a really long time. Yeah. Really long time. Yeah. When I was filming in Toronto a lot, they would, they came to visit Toronto a couple times. And the, and my sister came with her ex-boyfriend. And we would, we like, you know, went eight everywhere. And, you know, and that was really fun. But we haven't been, I would love to go on a family trip with them. Yeah. And they, my dad, my, where my dad wants to go is to, he lived in London for nine years. And he would love to go back and see how it's different and go to like, you know, our family spot. There's a small town called Hanaton that's supposedly our ancestors are from that my dad would like to go. Was he singing then? Was that what he was doing in England? Yeah. Yeah. He was, yeah. He's always wanted to be an opera singer. And he was there. He played Henry VIII for eight months at a theater and doing that. I know. Isn't that cool? You, uh, I'm going to diverge because I believe if your bio is right, you were in a show that I, to this day, kick myself because I didn't see it on Broadway, which is Pillow Man. Oh, yeah. My bio is correct. Although I was never on stage in Pillow Man, I was an understudy. Gotcha. But you were there. How old were you for that? I was, I booked it when I was 12. And I think I started when I was 13 or turned 13 when that was happening. But I had the gift of getting to watch it. I can't imagine for six months. Yeah. Yeah. Billy crude up man. Yeah. We had him on. He was talking about it. He had, yeah, I heard that episode. Yeah. Oh my god. He's father. He's father. Yeah. I'm an, I'll, I'll name drop London and a pretty cool. I just was in London and I had dinner with Martin McDonough. Yeah. Is he still as hot as he was when I was 13? Yeah. I mean, I, well, only I'm only saying that because I don't think the, yeah, I don't think it's possible that a person could be hotter than he is now. So he's still as hot. Yeah. He was, he, I remember meeting him. He's got that great like gap to thing. Yeah. That I borrowed. You inspired you early on. Yeah. Yeah. That's why I didn't wear my retainer. Yeah. He, I remember meeting him once because I came on so late. You know, the understudies come on in tech. I remember being there my first day and when they were teching the show and being like, who is this man that wrote all these children killing stories like, what, what is this? And I remember just being enamored with him. And yes, it was, it was Billy, it was Jeff Goldblum. It was Michael Stoolbarg and Jelko Ivanoch. And I understudied all of the kids. So there was a boy that was supposed to be young Billy Crude up and then, and then Madeline Martin who played like three different kids. And because I was pre-pubescent, you just put a wig on me and I looked like a young Billy Crude up. So my brows and a wig I looked exactly. Yeah. Like a young Billy Crude up. And I just remember watching that show as much as possible and loving it. And for Halloween that year, I was a girl who committed suicide because because I was like, oh, this is a dark show. I have a dark person now. It is really funny though. It's like every, it's like the, every parents nightmare about letting their kid do that play. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They're like, oh, my child will be really into blood and guts and gore. Yeah. Did, uh, was that your first? Yeah, it was my first job. And so what was that life like when you're that age and you're obviously still going to school? And was it exhausting? Or did you just figure it out right away? How to manage it? I was so into it. There was no, I also went to a middle school and high school that was made for kids who worked. So it's called professional performing arts high school. And so you like, we, we, they would take attendance and there would be a kid that would be on tour with the Lion King. And they'd be like, they'd call our name out. And we'd say she's on tour in the Lion King. She's not here. But we never met her. And, but they would send her work to the tour. And you would, you'd had, you'd had to have a, a tutor required by the union there. Gotcha. And you'd have to have like three hours of tutoring. So I was in school. And then on Wednesdays, I'd go to the theater. I leave school early and go to the theater. And the school was right on 48th between 8th and 9th. So it was right there. So I'd walk through, I had like my path through the Edison hotel to like get to the theater at the booth. And I was great to say your commute to the, to work must have been, I mean, like nothing. It was nothing. Yeah. It did you, how, how young were you that you, when you enrolled in that school? 11. So yeah, I got to the, I got to that school. And I was, I met all these kids who had been in a bunch of Broadway shows at like five Broadway shows before the age of 11. Like there were multiple kids who had that resume already. And I remember going home and sobbing, being like, I'm behind. I need to, get it. I need to get an agent like I need to do this. I was just like, my career is suffering. Did it help to have, you know, a dad who, you know, bid in that professional world and understood the ups and downs of it? Like was he like, when you had that feeling? Because again, like, I mean, it's amazing how young kids are. Yeah. And they think they're behind. And anything, like sports at, you know, everything. They're just like so clocked into their peers. Yeah. So I can imagine how real that felt was your dad like, no, it's everybody succeeds in their own. I think he was, I think he was just excited that I had direction and wanted to do this. And I think that it was a conversation that they had. My parents of like, is this something we want to do now? And I do think they were like, well, let's see. And this is an agent that one of her classmates, mom, said, rep's kids, like, let's have Colby go and talk to this person and it probably won't work out. And we'll just have have to console her. That's fine. And then the agent was like, no, I'll rep her. But if she doesn't get a call back, she's signed with me and she's trapped here. So it was like this weird first agent that I had. But they did it. Yeah. They were like, let's just see what happens. And I think it just kind of surprised them. But my dad has taught me a lot in that he's always looking at things as a learning opportunity. So when I was, you know, even now I'll be like, I don't know, I got this audition for this thing. And I'm not sure it doesn't just say, it's not really hitting the thing I want to do. And he's like, well, you could learn something. Yeah. We should do it. Just do it. Yeah. So learning opportunity. And there are times I have to quiet that voice sometimes, you know. There are those, there are those parts for children and it's like, well, a child is going to play this. It's always something striking about a very young child coming out on stage and a Broadway show. Any show really. And it's like, oh right, like, yeah, there's a, this play has a five year old in it or whatever. And it is, it sort of always strikes me in the moment as an audience member when one of those kids comes out. And it's like, if you're, if you're not auditioning for it, there's another 11 year old who's going to audition for those things and do them and, yeah, and why not you? Yeah. And also, it got me in the union immediately and that was really helpful. And I also think like it's like dogs and babies and children coming out on stage. It's like that, that's the only thing that people think can watch because they're like, oh my god, there's like a real life thing that doesn't know it's on stage. Like what's going to happen with this dog? Yeah. Yeah. The start is like, you know, there, I don't, there was some jazz butter worth play where there was like a eight month old baby on stage. There was a, I can't remember the name of that play, but I remember, I was like, I didn't, that's crazy. Like, that's wild. I did not start. What's that audition process like? Yeah. Yeah. Does it cry on cue? What if you pinch it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's not crying. So have you stayed in on the East Coast for most of your great, did you ever have you ever met? You did well. Yeah. I've never, I've never moved. I've worked in LA twice, two or three times maybe, and I really like it out there working. It's really nice. But I also, I'm worried, I have a really great group of friends out there and I think that's the key with LA is finding a great group of friends. But I, I, I would be worried about my mental health if I wasn't working out there just because I, what I like about New York is that if you're in a terrible mood, you're on the train and something will happen and it, you have to get shoved out of whatever mental state you're in. Right. Whereas in LA, I feel like if I were to get in my car and, you know, you're kind of, I mean, it depends. And maybe I just haven't spent enough time there, but you're, in your house, then you get in your car, then you go wherever you need to go and you get back in your car. There's not enough being shoved in your face to change your sense of being alive. Very good way, buddy. I do feel like, yeah, it's less incumbent upon yourself to figure out a way to like shake yourself out of a, yeah, yeah, of course, you can often get shaken or shoved into a worst funk in New York, but very, very, I just, I, I, yeah, Josh and I are very close and feel very differently about our home cities. Yeah. Yeah. Like when I'm in LA, I'm like, oh, you can just go on a hike in the middle of the city. And it's right there. And you don't have to get in a car or you don't have to drive anywhere or take a very long train. Yeah. And the food is amazing and the air is incredible. It's just, yeah. Last time Josh and I, last time I was there, Josh took me on a hike and I, I will say, I saw the appeal. It was a wonderful way to spend the day. Um, you, uh, you mentioned your dad was one of six siblings. Did you guys, was cousins a big part of your upbringing? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Did you like your cousins on the whole? Oh, yeah. I don't think there is a cousin. I don't like. Let me think about that. Right. Just, if you come up with one, maybe just don't say it. Yeah. Yeah. I'll, I'll say it publicly. Yeah. This is good. No, I don't have anything else. Bill. No one likes Bill. Yeah. We don't have an account bill. Yeah. Bill knows. Bill knows. He's cousin by blood only. I have like 18 cousins. I have a lot of them. And they're all so interesting and have done my, my family is a cookie family, man. Like, my dad grew up with those six siblings in Grace Church, which is on 10th Street and Broadway downtown, New York. They moved there in 1959. My grandfather was the minister there. Oh my God. They lived in Grace Church. They lived in the 40 room mansion. That's the rectory attached to Grace Church. Oh my God. And like, yeah. And so they, there were these six kids like running around downtown, New York. Like, my dad was a flat, it was a flower delivery boy like stealing random stuff that he found in the street. Like, they did, they did all kinds of stuff. And so they are very unique people. And that's right. By the way, we live right down there. I walk by that I cannot believe people lived there in my head. Oh, yeah. Nobody lives there. It's crazy in there. I went there. I haven't been in there in a really long time. I've been in the church just to, you know, take a look. There's like a plaque of my grandmother and grandfather in there. My dad's name is up on the head choir boy's plaque area. But they, yeah, the rectory, you enter the rectory and there's this huge red staircase. That goes all, like, goes, it's like in the center of the room and it goes up. And then there's a balcony up at the time. I mean, it's wild in there. And my dad, my grandfather one time, I remember this story of him, you know, New York was so different back then. And much more dangerous. My dad said, you wouldn't go to Union Square unless you wanted to die and you wouldn't go to the Bowery. You know, there were just certain areas that are now totally, like, they're like Disneyland, you know, and my grandfather woke up in the middle of the night one night and a man was standing over him with a hammer in his hand. And my grandfather was such like an imposing presence that he got up out of bed and said, you're going to leave my house right now on the guy left, like, didn't do anything, didn't steal anything. Yeah. But yeah, those, that was the kind of place they grew up in. So I have my uncle Ned had a farm when we were growing up, up in the Berkshires in Massachusetts. So we go up there a lot for Christmas. We'd spend a lot of Christmases up there after my grandmother died. And when my grandmother was living actually in Newport, Rhode Island until she died and we would go and stay in a Howard Johnson's hotel in Newport and we would take over the hotel, like as many cousins as we could get to get up there. And we would, I mean, I'm sure they every time they saw us coming, they were like, oh my god, not these people again. Yeah. They didn't have like a little diner attached or was there, there was an apple bees, an apple bees attached to. Yeah. Like we were just on a, my son, this winter had like a school skiing trip where it was at a hotel and the parents stayed and the kids stayed and like that thing of like a group of kids taking over a hotel and just like how like running down hallways, which is absolutely the worst thing that could happen for anybody who's not connected to that group of kids. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Because we showed up the second night and all the parents were like, get ready for a phone call. Like literally calling around every brand, be like get your kids out of the hallway. But it's so, it's like, it's a kind of freedom that is just impossible. It's so narcotic. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's no, when you're a kid and you have free rain like that, you're in like a new space like that. Yeah. There's nothing to stop you. Yeah. Speaking of which, the plane that I took back from Rome just a couple weeks ago, it's like a 10-hour flight from Rome to New York. And there were about 100 lawless Italian teenagers that were coming for the UN to be something in New York. Yeah. I have never seen a plane like this. I was like, how is this not affecting how the plane is flying through the air? They were running down the hallway, just standing in the hall. You tried to like get past them in an aisle and they, you'd be like, excuse me. Like, schoozy. And they would just not move whatsoever. I was like, how is this? How old were these Italians? Like 15 through 17 probably. Oh, yeah. So you don't want to mess with them. No, okay. Yeah. They had, and they must have had the best time of their lives, the best time. I love that they, the minute they like flew into like US airspace, they were like, let's be the real stereotype of what people think the worst version of us is. You're like, he's an out of your aisle. I'm a marker spits. I'm a little marker spits. Yeah. Support comes from Aura Frames. Hey, Pashi. Hey, Sufi. Mother's Day is coming up and let's be honest. Your mom is so great, it's hard to find a present that's as great as she is. Aura Frames, very few things come as close as Aura Frames. These are incredible, we have one for our mom, and she loves it, Posh. She really does. Also, when you started this, you said, "Your mom is so great." No, it was going to be like, "Well, she's your mom, too." Right, I was talking to our listeners now. Yeah, but your mom is so great, and it would be nice if you ever express that to her. [laughs] I do all the time. Yeah, she's just amazing. 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And it's like, "Oh, it's actually not that great of a picture." You can delete a picture right from the frame. You don't have to go into the app or anything, so. Oh, so I've pre-loaded it with my photos, and now you have it, and you're like, "I don't like that one." They can take the control right back. Yeah, exactly. It's really good. It's a really nice thing. Aura Frames was named number one by Wirecutter. You can save on the GIFs mom's love by visiting AuraFrames.com for a limited time. Listeners can get $25 off their bestselling Carver Matt frame with code trips. That's AURAFrames.com, promo code trips. Support the show by mentioning us at checkout. Terms and conditions apply. Christmas in the Berkshire's was that a bunch of families getting together, or was that just like you and that uncle and his three kids? Yeah, it was mainly Ned and us, and they had about 13 horses up there. And there was one Christmas where one of the horses went to pee. And I think they like extend their penis when they pee, and it got. Nature showoffs? Nature, exactly. The showoff to the animal king. Nature's foot long, and they, the horse went to pee, and it was so cold that winter that his penis got frozen, open, elongated. And so we showed up in our car to the house. And we look over, and there is a horse with like this huge penis with like 12 socks duct taped to the penis. And my dad, my dad who finds a story in everything, he just, he'll write, he'll write a story about any little thing he finds. He wrote a story that year called Christmas in the Frozen Penis, which I have to find because. My wife is in a question, and I can't wait to ask her about this, but can I get frozen open? It's very, like that seems like a thing, that seems like a thing at like, I don't know, like a ski-vy horse is like telling the cops. Like, no, man, I can't frozen open. I can't, I can't put it away, I can't. Look, look. They're like, hey, man, they're colds out here. He's like, I know, I know, it's freezing cold. Yeah, yeah, it's just, it's not my fault officer. Hey, look at this. I wonder if McKenzie's going to say, like, yeah, what you do for that is you just take a bunch of wool socks. Wool socks, he's just, yeah, and duct taped them to the horse. Yeah. She's an equestrian. Yeah, yeah, she's an inventor and a trainer. What? Yeah, that's her deal. So how does she, where, I guess she grew up near the Berkshire's, like just sort of a western Massachusetts. Yes, yeah, Shelburne Falls, but she grew up riding there and I know that Shelburne, they were in, yep, can't remember, Springfield, close to Springfield. Yeah, kind of close to Springfield. Yeah, but it's the bridge of flowers. If you have been to Shelburne Falls, you would know the bridge of flowers. The bridge of flowers feels like a very good place for your dad to break into song. Yeah, oh, yeah. Yeah, we need to get him there ASAP. The bridge of flowers sound so lovely. It is. I proposed on the bridge of flowers. Oh, well, that was a good spot. Yeah, I wasn't the first, but yeah, but it's the right call. Those flowers are like, we've seen so many proposals here. All right, move on. Move along. was like, so I'm starting to go back to this because I'm so fascinated by the logistics of like your dad bikes, you guys to the Central Park, busks for a couple hours helmet bike helmet now like cash in the bike helmet. Yeah, yeah, lots of bike helmets. My mom wouldn't let him leave the house without a bike helmet. But then he like, he like just piles the money out of the cash. The cash is in the helmet. Cash is in the helmet and then it goes into his pocket problem. Gotcha. And is it like, yeah, and was there was there a real like good job, everybody? Like, look at us. I think it was like, I mean, he would sing all the way home too on the bike. Like he would sing at the, so there was, it never stopped. There was no like and the show was done. It's like, right. It wasn't like only sing for money. I sing because I sing and if sometimes I get money for it, it's really great. Good and great. I mean, it is like, do what you love. I mean, yeah, oh, yeah, yeah. And he loves it. It's his favorite thing until he'll he thinks giving he'll be like, I'm going to break out into song, everybody ready? And he brings his, he brings his pitch pipe with him everywhere and he, and I'll be like, whoa, it's really, it's really spectacular. Yeah. If people ever sing along, would he take kindly to that? If you, yes, he was singing a classic, you know, is it you typically Italian? What he's singing? If he's singing opera stuff and I'm assuming. I think he, yeah, he's, he's moved on to some cabaret stuff. So I think if people join, he's like, hell, yeah. I think he comes from a, from a place of loving people singing together of like that was a time that he, I mean, that people don't really do that anymore, you know? Yeah. Do you sing around Christmas? Is there like if you were? Yes. Okay. He plays the piano. So he starts singing a, he'll just just sit down at the piano and start playing a him and my sister and I will come run. Even if we're helping mom and the kitchen will come running around the piano and we'll, you know, join in on, on stuff. Yeah. It must be like, that must be his dream come true that like you guys love it as much as you do. Yeah. I think it is. That's really awesome. How did your parents meet? Blind date, believe it or not. They had their first date on the TV show on the MTV show. Yeah, that's right. It was actually love is blind. And they were like, we're going to be so embarrassed if our kids ever find out about this. And they'll be like, we just want to let them watch TV. They'll never know. And then they took us to Rome and we found flashing. And they're like, I'm all places. We left a, we let our guard down in Rome. Yeah, that would have been really great. But she was never, your mom was never in the arts, right? She just went on a blind date with. No, I mean, she's an artist in her own right with the cook. She's like unbelievable. But she did, she did art in school when she was, you know, in college, she did ceramics and she was, she studied art history. So that's, you know, she, they've all got this making brain. Yeah. Yeah. I know. Where was their blind date? Yeah. Blind date was at Fassalka. And they had borscht. And then they went, I think to McSorley's. And, you know, the Lori side was totally different then. And my dad lived in a loft that he had renovated, you know, it was as he was squatting in this loft that he had renovated. And my mom was like, oh, we're moving to my apartment when it's time to get married because she was, I mean, it was very different, you know, back then. And then, yeah, I was going to say, what do you call an opera singer who squats in an apartment? I feel like it's the opposite of a catch. I mean, like who said I'm on this blind date? She was like, what's your type? Yeah. Just a man who sings and squats singing, squatting while singing. He sings, he squats, he's got everything he wanted. Yeah, I do think there was, I mean, he did. He started a business renovating people's apartments all over. I was going to say America, but no, just just Manhattan. Well, to a lot of New Yorkers, that's it. Yeah. Yeah. You were born there. You didn't leave. That's the world. The entire world is there. Yeah. So he was making money that way. But I do think that it was, I do think it was a thought for a second of like, is this, is this, huh? But mom was, you know, she had such a great job that allowed her to marry for love. Love it music. Love and song. Love and song. Yeah. That's fantastic. It's so nice to meet you and congrats. The boys is such a fun show. It's such a good show. It seems like the people who work on the show are just lovely. Yeah, we have such a blast. I mean, when you when you have exploding, [BLANK_AUDIO] this one, this penis wasn't frozen, but when you have an exploding 10 foot high penis, you have to be able to laugh easily. And so that's the kind of people you have on that show. Everybody works so hard. So it's sad for it to be ending. I know. It's you've done it. You've done it all. I know. We get to see it, but you've done your part. Yeah, I know. Well, thank you for your service. Oh, you're welcome. Yes, it was such a hardship. But before you go, Josh is going to give you our speed round questions. Oh, speed round. Good luck. Here we go. Good luck to you. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing adventurous or educational adventurous? What is your favorite means of transportation? Train. 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? First thing that pops my head is the family from running on empty. That's the same choice. Literally, I mean, it's inspired, but I'm like, you want to see, you want to go on vacation with a family literally on the lamp. No matter what they do, it's a vacation. They can't rest. They're creative. They work creative. That was a movie where it's a, they're like weather underground, right? Yeah, yeah. They're like radicals and they're on the run. And I remember, did River Phoenix have like, he had a little piano, like, but like the roll out, like, fabric piano? Yeah. It was made of wood, but it had no sound. So he'd practice without sound, which I mean, how do you even do that? I know. Well, look, it sounds like a great vacation. They would know how to do some stuff though. They would know how to do some stuff. Yeah. Yeah. And they're scrappy. Like, they don't need a lot. They were very much in love too. It's a great movie. Oh, yeah. They also knew like, value systems were really high. Them singing in the kitchen to fire and rain. Yeah. Is like one of the greatest scenes of all time. And they attract people like Martha Plumpton, which, I mean, what could be better? Still going here. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? If I have a boyfriend, but we're not legally wed, does that count? No. No. Okay. Rejected. Yeah. I just, I got to break up when I joined I don't think I've ever said no. So I was like, I'm going to try this out. No. Okay. No boyfriend. I would say my cousins, Hart or Hannah, both of them grew up on that farm. They are really strong women. Hannah was on the rugby team. She can do anything. Hart was on the trail crew in the white mountains at the Appalachian Trail Crew. She's super strong. I'll take either of those. All right. What is your dream destination for a family vacation? Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. You can bring your boyfriend to this one. Oh, thank god. Oh, that changes everything. I felt bad about. You got left out of the last trip. I would thank you. I would say Japan probably. Yeah. Yeah. That might be mine. It's okay. You are from New York City. If you had to get more families to come visit New York City, what would you tell them? We're not actually mean. We just are we are supportive and kind, but not nice. Yeah. Like we're not going to like be like, you know, I don't know what night, the difference would be nice and kind, but yeah. Like we're going to like, if you're in trouble, we will help you, but we'll do it very quickly. We're busy. Yeah. We might not invite you up, but we'll make sure. Yeah. Okay. I think that's a very like we're like very we're very busy, but we're also nice. Yeah. And we're not going to leave you alone stranded. Like you ask us how to get to where you're going. And we will take you there. There's a great new collection. I don't I think it's old essays, but a collection of Zadie Smith essays. And she has this great essay about New York City because she lived here for a long time and doesn't anymore about a woman falling and how like this this this like throng of street people all like stop what they were doing and like came and like got her on her feet made sure she was fine and then just dispersed again. Yeah. And she was like that is kind of New York. It's finest, which is like this like throbbing mass of people that are all going about this thing. They will come to the rescue and then everybody move on and like nobody is going to be like, well, that was crazy. Yeah, we do we do. We really show up. I do think it's that like, you know, I mean, it's like it's like when the that plane went down to the Hudson River, the amount of boats and fishermen and barge people that were like here we're making this we're getting there, you know, because it's so hard living in this city. I got this tugboat. I'm not going to not use it right now. Yeah. I mean, if I had a tugboat, I would use it every day to get to where I needed to go. Yeah, wherever wherever I used to go. Yeah, schlepping. There's a book that we were just talking about. There's this children's book called The Fireboat. And it's about this old decommissioned fireboat in New York City. And I was reading it to my son a few years ago. He's nine else. He's like six. And I'm reading this book. And I had no idea that this is the story was about this was a decommissioned fireboat that like came back into action on 9/11. And so you don't realize like halfway through the book. There's like, you know, it's an illustrated book of like a plane flying into power and I like gasped. Oh my god, and then I was like sobbing through the end of this book because it's like the little engine that could, but it's about this thing that I lived through and I was like, am I sound like, wait, what happened? I'm like, I don't worry about it. Oh my god. Jesus. Yeah, but a great book. I'm really curious. Were you guys in the city for? I was. I just just moved here. You must have been here. I was here. I was in fourth grade. Wow. Yeah. But I remember, I remember getting, now we're talking about 9/11. We got there. We got there. We got there at some point. I remember every kid got pulled out of class throughout the day. And I remember going I was just left in school and I was like going up to the teachers like, why is everybody leaving? And they were like, oh, there's a transportation issue. So, you know, students want, parents want to make sure their kids get home safe. And I was like, well, Ali Greenberg just got, you know, sent home and she was across the street for me. So what the hell is going on? And I remember leaving school when at the end of the day and those streets were full of people. And my parents were there and they're like, this is what, this is what happened. And then, you know, my god, we went down there actually really soon after and saw the rubble, which is like a weird kind form of tourism, you know. Very strange. It felt like it was bearing witness. I think. Yes. Because I did the same thing. I mean, it's like people, people will go check out Altadena and all the stuff. Yeah. You just got just one too. Yeah. Just to sort of wrap their heads around it. I'm just glad that when every kid, when every kid left and you were like, what happened? They didn't say, uh, they got cast in a play. You're the only one that would have actually leave tour. They're touring. Super upsetting. They're, they got touring the really modern millie and you're so far behind. You're so far behind. You're never going to catch up. And so that way, you would have had a hard time coming back from that. Yeah. Oh, uh, wait, Josh, maybe you know, Seth, you've got, Seth, that's the final question. Have you been, uh, have you been to the Grand Canyon? Yes, I have. I have hiked down and a day, which they have signs everywhere saying we do not recommend doing this in a day. But I did it with my friend Annie Funkebone together. We have to go with. I mean, you got to go with the funky bone. You got to go. If that, by the way, if that's your friend that's telling you, we get to be fine. Exactly. She did all the research. I just, we started at five in the morning and we got to, it was, you know, it's like 7,000 feet of elevation or something. It's like 26. Wow. I'm wrong on all of these numbers. It's like 26, 27 miles. And we did it. I remember, I mean, talk about singing. We got through the whole thing. She's a great actor and a great singer and has been on Broadway a bunch and musicals. And she, we sang our way all the way through that. And that really got us through. It's amazing. Right. Yeah. That's perfect. Have you been to Grand Canyon? To peak over the side. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's scary down there. I mean, I'm impressed you did it. You got to look. It's, it's scary down when you're in it. When you're in there, it's not scary. But looking down, I think it's way, it's way scarier. Yeah. Yeah. Because how did that happen? We kind of went there. We were, we had a weekend nearby. Yeah. I've driven, I've driven by it and like, stopped with a dog, but I couldn't take the dog below the rim. You're not allowed to do that. So I still haven't been below the rim. Yeah. No. They don't allow that. Why? I don't know. National parks. National parks aren't great with where you can bring your pets. Oh, boy. That's making me second guest getting a dog. Yeah. You don't want to cost you the canyon. love the canyon too much. I can throw it away for some dumb dog. Yeah. Yeah. No. Never. This was a delay. Can I ask you a personal question? Yeah. Who writes the songs at the end of your episodes? I do. Yeah. That's amazing. How lucky are you? Do that? Yeah. By himself every week. Sometimes two in a week. Oh my God. That is so cool. I was like, who does this? This is amazing. It's me. It's I've not used any AI yet. Wow. But I do buy like a karaoke track. I'm not writing the music, but I'm writing the lyrics and going recording it in a closet. Are you excited? Does that mean you're excited to hear yours? I am. So I won't I'm not excited to listen to myself talk. Right. You'll skip to the end. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Great. Yeah. No one needs to hear it. It's very exciting to know that someone's looking forward to it because it's an incredible gift. It's amazing. I heard it and I was like, well, they surely don't do this for every one. Yeah. No. And then I listened to Billy Crittups. And by the way, my I burned up. It was my idea when we started this because Josh. I know Josh has skill. Josh just did it for a friend's birthday. A friend's 50th who loves Les Mizz and I did one day more at the end of every night when you're hanging out with my friend Molly Klaus. She's always like, should we have one more drink? And it's just like her refrain. She just wants to keep hanging out. She loves friendship. Like she loves friendship more than just about anything else. Yeah. And so she was having this weekend in Ohio, which was great. And we had kind of taken over this hotel. But we had like a 40 person dinner. And I had recorded all the parts rewritten the lyrics. Oh my gosh. It casted out a reached out. And I was like, if anyone wants to participate. So we had just like great people who stepped up to, you know, I had two Mariuses. I had. Did you say it live or was it a recording? No, we sang it live. We did a lot at dinner. And afterwards she said that might have been the greatest moment of my life. So I was pretty happy without it. I would check out. Did you record it? Yeah. Eventually. You recorded it. Yeah. But I like I recorded every part. And then if you wanted to do it, I would send you a version where it was me singing all the parts. I would sing. I would have your part boosted. And I would send you a version with your part eliminated. So you could practice. However you soft it. So you made it easy for everybody to participate. I tried to make it as easy as I could. And it worked. Like people really people heard it seriously. They showed up and they were ready. And they wanted to deliver. And they did. So my compliments to everyone who was part of that performance. It was great. Wow. That's a move right there. Yeah. One day more. One more drink. He's a he's a real your dad when it comes to singing. Yeah. Yes. You just have to share it. It's my my niche. Yeah. I found my niche. So I hope now we've talked about it so much. I really hope I deliver on your song. Cool. Yeah. You deserve nothing less. You've been a wonderful guest. So I think yeah. It'd better be amazing. Now you know what? Just to burn you. I'm gonna do yours. And I'm gonna put very little thought into it. Perfect. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. That sounds fitting. Trying and frozen hostage. Singing for now. My name wrapping up with the socks now. So great to see you and talk to you. Great to meet you guys. You too. Thanks. This was really fun. And congrats on the boys. By the time this comes out, the fifth season will be out. Oh my gosh. The video. Wow. Yeah. Good luck to everybody. Hope they have their therapy session scheduled. All right. Thank you so much. So much. Colby. Great. Great meeting you. Bye. Nice to meet you. Bye. [Music] Spent part of the summers and ran off New Hampshire. The drive took eight hours. They were singing for Dancher. Dad had a cabin with his siblings. They each got a couple weeks. Colby kicked it with local kids. He knows she brought food. City girl. Out in the country. What a world. City girl. But even back in the city, they were a family who bites. Colby ride on the back. His sister up on the handlebars. And they go singing the park, make some good cash in a couple hours. Thanks to mom and Colby magazine. They went to Italy. 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