ELIZABETH BANKS Jumped Off A Moving Train

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And Ash at one point said, boy, Poshy and Tolia are really getting along. I don't know if they know each other. We've always gotten along. But it's just like, I just like, he was like, oh, it's kind of, because again, like, he doesn't see the two of you guys together that often. Right. It was just kind of sweet that he thought that was a nice thing to observe. It was adorable. Well, Addie got home. And it was adorable. She was in her ballet gear. Yeah. Yeah. And you were like, when she comes in the door, you're like, hide, hide. But then she comes in and she's sort of like, she's always just a hair's breadth away from laughing at anything. Anything. And so walked in and sort of, like, laughed just to see you and then saw me and kept laughing. And, yeah. And her little sort of. It was really great. Yeah. She just. Pink. This morning. Get up. Alexi's on a family trip right now with Axel. First time the two of them have taken a trip together. They're going out to California to see a friend of Alexi's whose daughter is very close with Axel. So that's very exciting. And then me and Addie this morning had a really nice morning. She has a little ukulele now and she did a show and she went into a room and closed the door and told me I had to turn over like one of those little hourglasses. Plastic hourglasses that come with board games. Yep. I had to turn that over while she set up chairs and then I went in and I'd love to send you a video of her song, but she, when I came in, she said no cameras. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's sometimes nice to just have to experience it. A hundred percent. A hundred percent. It was a great show. And I'm really glad that I was in the moment. But I think she went to like a magic show where they said no cameras. And so now. Yeah. She's like, no, no, no, this is, this is a show. Yeah. Yeah. She, she did have that little hourglass timer when I was over as well. And at one point we were all sitting around in the living room and she said, no one talk, no one make any noise until this is done. And she really was hard and fast to that rule. And I got to say, it was delightful. It was delightful. And she really, when any, anybody even giggled, she would press her finger right against her mouth. Yeah. To make her eyes real big. Yeah. She's also, she's very demanding. She had me turn that couch and the little TV room into her pirate ship. Yeah. Oh, I posted a fun video online where you were. Yeah. She insisted that I get inside and I sort of had to, you know, belly crawl into this little between these two little, I'm not thinking of the cushions, the footrest. Oh, like Ottomans. Ottomans. Yeah. It's like two Ottomans with a pillow over them to the couch. And I had to squeeze my way into that little tight space. And she kept telling me I wasn't in yet until I was fully all the way underneath. It was pretty great. She did a thing. What was the, she, you were ordering pizza from her and she was on a pizza boat. I had to order pizza. Yeah. Yeah. She was the captain of the pizza boat. It was pretty, pretty confusing. Yeah. I didn't know what was going on. I didn't know what was going on, but I was also. I know this. You didn't get your pizza. You did, yeah. At one point she gave me my pizza, but that was just her hand saying, here's your pizza. Yeah. It was a magic pizza. Our dog, Woody, found a piece of pizza yesterday at the park. There was a birthday party going on and he went up to this picnic table. And did he then try to return it to the rightful owner? No, he was truly like the dog that caught the car in that he had a full piece of pizza in his mouth and didn't know what to do about it. Uh-huh. He couldn't just take one bite. He just sort of was walking around with it in his mouth like, I don't know what to do. So he got, I pulled it away from him and he got a healthy, healthy bit. But it was clearly some kid had dropped it. And at this birthday party they were like, we'll clean this up later. But Woody got it and was pretty psyched. That's great. Good for Woody. I'm happy. I'm happy when nice things happen in that dog. Yeah. Yeah. He deserves it. Nicest, nicest dog in the world. Um, I'm, uh, I will report back soon. I'm taking, um, I'm taking Ash to his first Red Sox game. Oh. And we're gonna, uh, we're gonna meet up with mom and dad. Mm-hmm. Uh, we are, we're gonna be very touristy in Boston. Uh, we're gonna do the duck boat tour. We're gonna go to the, uh, Boston Tea Party Museum. Mm-hmm. We're gonna go to the aquarium. We're gonna go to Faneuil Hall. Uh, we're gonna go to a Red Sox game. Great. Pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. Amtrak. We could take the train. Oh, wow. And, uh, yeah, we're very, very excited about it all. Yeah. Yeah. I'm very good. It's very lucky because, uh, once again, um, shout out to, uh, my in-laws. But, like, I can, you know, Alexi's on a trip with Axel. I'm taking a trip with Ash. And we can leave Addie, uh, with her grandparents, with her aunt, with her uncle. And she's equally excited about it all. Has Ash spent any time in Boston? No. Not really. Not really. And he's read a lot of. He's at the age where they've read a lot about the Revolutionary War. So he's pretty excited. Yeah. Okay. Um. Although he was huge, uh, he did root for the British. So. I think it'll sting a little bit. Yeah. He liked their coats. He did. He did. Those red coats. Those red coats. Just were sharp. Yeah. Um. Did we talk about Axel's outfit to, uh, on his golden birthday? No. I mean. So, I. Were you aware of golden birthdays when we were kids? Kind of. But it sort of. I don't know. It almost feels like it was an. An early, like. I know it was pre-social media, but it feels like a social media thing. Right. So, you know, it was Axel turned eighth on the eighth. He knew it was his golden birthday. Yeah. Yeah. He was very excited about it. So much so that a month out. And just explain. Just explain. It's. Oh, yeah. So it's when you turn. Yeah. What the year. When you turn the year of the day it is. So. Right. I was. My golden birthday was when I turned 28. Because I'm born on the 28th. Yeah. Yours was, uh. Your Axel. Your Axel. Mine was on the what? Axel. Eighth. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're an Axel. Sorry. Just checking. And that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then, uh. Oh, so, um. He. But a month out, he told Alexi he wanted to wear all gold. So, uh. She bought him a full gold suit, gold shoes, and, uh. Pretty rad. Yeah. And, like, we just went to, like, teacher conferences, and, uh. It is very. It is very, uh, nice when they're like, yeah, I don't know. I've never seen a kid like Axel. In a good way. Yeah. In a good way. They're never like, we've never seen a kid who reads as well as Axel. That never happens. But a lot of the fashion stuff does. That outfit. Yeah. Um. Yeah. They're never like. He goes for it. Hey, you know the movie, uh, Beautiful Mind? He's like that, but for gold suits. Uh, man, Elizabeth Banks. Yeah. So great. Yeah. Speaking of Austin, you're just a. Good old-fashioned New England, New England lady. Mm-hmm. Yeah. She's got it. I mean, been a fan from the jump, from the, uh, the wet-hot American summer days. We were gonna have her on, uh, for something else, like, a year ago or a year and a half ago, and it didn't work out, and it was a bummer. But then it was like, well, it's Elizabeth Banks. She's gonna keep making stuff. And, uh, sure enough, she did. Uh, she's got, uh, The Miniature Wife has just come out. And, uh, great reviews as well. Yeah. Um, so, uh, check that out on Peacock, and, uh, enjoy our friend Elizabeth Banks. Family trips with the Myers brothers. Here we go. Hi. Hey. Hi, buddy. I realize it just popped on. That's how it happens. We're happy to have you. I know. Uh, we just talked to Jason Schwartzman, who said hello. Oh, hi, Jason. Oh, man. Can we do all—we should have done all four of us. He was very mean because he did not like that we were wrapping up with him to talk to you. Oh, wow. So there was some cruelty at first. Yeah. Isn't he just the cruelest? He is, yeah. Once it was worth finding out. We told him we had to cut him off, and he's like, why? What do you guys have? What are you doing? What are you doing now? I was like, if you want to call Elizabeth Banks— and tell her that we're, you know, we're still on, With you, you're welcome to. And then we said you were doing, he goes, what's she doing? What's she promoting? And we said the miniature wife with Matthew McFaddy. And he said, oh, he's the one who said yes to that? How are you, friend? What's up, guys? How are you guys doing? We're thrilled to talk to a fellow New Englander. I literally was just thinking the same thing. You guys are in New Hampshire, though, right? Yeah, we're in New Hampshire. Right, right. Close enough. Where's Pittsfield? Were you on the border? Where are you from? We were close enough to the border. It was about 50-50 to get to Boston, right, Posh? Yeah. Like, we drove to Boston half of the time. Got it. But you're in Pittsfield. That's way west. Yeah. Oh, as west as you can get before you're in New York. Yes. Got it. My wife is from Shelburne Falls, which is about an hour from here. Of course, of course. You know, I just did Finding Your Roots, which was incredible. But, you know, the very first question that, Skip Gates, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. asked you when you're on there is like, you know, where are you from? Like, where do you think your people are from? And I'm like, oh, I'm Massachusetts, like, from the beginning. Like, there's nowhere. They got there. They went from England to New England, and then they never went anywhere else. And that is totally true. It turns out I was correct. He's like, we did a world map to show where the banks are, and there's, like, two red dots. It's literally also, it's so funny, I'm so Irish. And, you know, if you were from, if you were from the British Isles, like, nobody got to you. It was like the British Isles, like, maybe a Viking got in every once in a while. And, like, maybe if you could take a boat to northern France, you maybe got a little of that. But, like, that was it. Like, they did not. We are just, just, boom. That's all I am. 95% Irish, basically. Were there a lot of bankses in Pittsfield, Mass.? Did you have, like, aunts and uncles and stuff? Well, wildly, there are no bankses, because that is a made-up fake name. Oh, great. Yeah. I had to make up my mind. I had to make up a name, because Elizabeth Mitchell was in SAG. Got it. That's my real name. I'm Elizabeth Mitchell. And there are a lot of Mitchells. Yes. Mitchell, much more like English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh Mitchell, right? Yeah. Yeah, so. Did you enjoy having the opportunity to pick a new name, or were you bummed that you couldn't bring Elizabeth Mitchell to the world? It's so interesting, because in the moment, I was super bummed. Right. And it was really that. I felt like my—this is such a funny Massachusetts thing, too. I wanted my parents to get credit for me. Mm-hmm. And I felt like if I changed my name, people would be like, nah, she's not your daughter. Right. You know? And, like, I was worried for them, because I just wanted them to be proud of me. And I felt like, oh, they won't be as proud if they don't get to be like, no, really, that's my daughter. Not thinking that, like, women change their name all the time when we get married. Right. And so, of course— Of course, someone said that to me. And then also, it was actually David Wayne and Michael Ian Black and the whole gang from What Had American Summer. I had to literally change my name to be put in the credits of that movie. And so they—and they all changed their names. And they're like, who cares? Like, just do it. And so I did it for What Had American Summer. It became Banks. I literally made a list and put it in alphabetical order and called SAG. And I said, is Banks available? And they said, yeah, it's available. I go, I'll take it. It was like, that was it. I also think there's— There's a fear in New England, not just that your parents would be like— Yes. There's a thing of, like, the New Englanders would be like, why'd she change it? Something happened? A hundred percent. A hundred percent. Yeah. A little shame. She'd get in trouble. I love New England, and yet there's still a—I don't know, like, a haunting lack of trust about the people that I call my closest companions. Haunting lots of trust. The way I like to think of it, too, is—well, the state motto is, you're not better than me. Right. Right. And so, I also think there's just that. Like, oh, you changed your name? What are you, fancy now? Like, what are you? You know? It's a lot of— One of my favorite—there was an SNL—when Nancy Kerrigan hosted SNL, they did a sketch about her being in, like, a home—because she was from Massachusetts—like, a parade where she came back after the Olympics, and Adam Sandler crawls in the back of the car and goes, how'd you get that job? And she was like, as a skater? And it's just, like, the best. Totally. There's some sense of, like, somebody pulled a string for you to be an Olympic skater. Of course. But then, ultimately, changing my name became super weird in that I feel like I was able to create this alternate personality that is the actress Elizabeth Banks that actually has nothing to do with my real life, in a way. They've obviously melded more and more over time. But I remember my husband, who I've been with now for 34 years, he would say to me all the time, like, after I changed my name, would be doing stuff, you know, I'd be doing—so I'd get all dressed up, and then I'd do something stupid, and he'd go, oof, there's Liz Mitchell. There she is. That's a real Liz Mitchell right there. You can tie a Banks bow on a Liz Mitchell, but every now and then it comes up. There she is. Yeah. What were your—so what was your vacation life like, being from Western Mass? Well, I—so, because I'm from this giant Irish Catholic— I'm from a Catholic family, and my dad is from eight, and my mom is from seven kids. And so we had so many aunts and uncles all over the place. And so most of my family trips were just car rides to visit people, right? Like, we were just going to go visit—you know, my granddad moved to Chicago, and it's like, well, we're all going to—we're getting in the car and driving to Chicago. And maybe we would stop along the way and visit, like, an aunt in Cleveland. Like, it was always—never, like, the exact— It was like, well, we got to stop off places and visit any other relative we've ever met. Because if you don't, are you—are those people offended? Yeah. You drove through and you didn't come for lunch? Right. Like, you know. Yeah. You got to stop over. So we did a lot of car rides and train rides. Loved Amtrak growing up. We took Amtrak to Chicago several times when my grandfather was living there, and then he moved to Cleveland. So it was, like, Cleveland and Chicago, and then my dad's father. And my family was all South. So everybody—the Carolinas and Franklin, Tennessee, and then we would go down to Florida. So my grandparents, late in life, ended up in Central Florida. Not by the ocean, mind you. Right, right. In Central Florida, living down there in the winters, because, you know, Massachusetts winter is no joke if you're 80 years old. And they drove, like, a VW. Like, van again. Like, there are now—they're, like, back and cool again. Yeah. The ones with, like, the table in the back. And, like, we would pile into that thing, my grandpa's VF van. And that was my favorite thing to drive around in, me and all my cousins. I had so many cousins. We were always going to visit people. So mostly it was car rides to visit people. I didn't go on an airplane until I was 12. And it was on People's Express. Wow. Which, yeah. I have no memory. No memory. Of People's Express. People's Express was, like, I think it was lowlier than Spirit Airlines would be now. You know, it was, like— Their tagline, we're more peoples than plane. Pretty much. So we took, like, a People's Express plane to Washington, D.C. to visit my uncle, obviously, and go stay with him and see the monuments and do the Smithsonian and all that stuff. And we dressed up to get on the plane, like, because we thought, like, it was— you know, if you're going on a plane, you're a rich person. Like, you gotta get fancy if you're riding on an airplane. So, yeah, it was trips like that. I mean, I didn't have a passport until I was in college, and it was, you know, I was going to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a production of— what was it called? Like, Odysseus? Like, a really old— A college production? A college production of that that we went to. So we— The Fringe Festival. Josh and I did Edinburgh in our early 20s. Yeah. I would have been 22. I mean, greatest summer of your life? One of the best times. I still think about it all the time. Actually, the craziest thing that happened there— I just brought this up to somebody because we— I can't remember. We were traveling somewhere, and we couldn't pull up a Google map. Right. And I was remembering back then, no maps. Yeah. We went out— I don't know where. We were staying in some dorms or something, the University of Edinburgh, and, like, we went dancing one night out, pubs, and then just, like, late-night party, party, party. And then it was freezing, which is, of course, in August. Right. In Scotland, it was freezing. It's nowhere else in the world as cold as this in August. And we were shivering in a taxi stand, trying to get home, like, you know, drunk and, like, coming down off, like, the best side of our lives. We get in— We wait 40 minutes in a taxi line, freezing. The taxi pulls up. We pile into it. We tell them where we're going. He rolls his eyes and drives us around the block. Like, literally drives us 500 feet. He drove us. And was like, we're right here. You never needed a taxi. You could have been home an hour ago. You didn't need to be cold. We had no idea where we were, you know? We were in, like, a foreign city. We thought it was, like, you know. It is really fantastic having fully crossed the threshold into you can't believe how hard it used to be. You know what I mean? Like, just the amount of, like— I mean, that's also, like— Like, you know, that's a story about what it was like, Without Uber, you know, because there was so much of my European life was taxi lines. Taxi lines and not really knowing where, you know, there was no map. What, are you going to bring a paper map to the club to go dancing? Like, you know, that's what we were relying on. Like, paper, foldable paper maps that we would stick in, like, purses. We used to live in Amsterdam. There was, like, that unique experience of, like, going out and maybe having, like, a sort of a narcotic-aided evening of dancing. Where you just really start thinking, like, oh, my God, we're all going to live forever. Everybody I know is magic. Like, smash cut to, like, rainy cab line. And you're like, nope, we're all assholes. We live in a city of assholes. Exactly. Oh, man. 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And I've seen the pictures. It looks gorgeous, comfortable. The living room's got a nice wraparound couch. We've got some college football to watch on Saturday. So we're going to be. We're going to be able to cozy up in there and play games. And we're going to have our snacks and we're going to have our drinks. And we're going to have all the things we want to have because we have a nice little kitchen. And I hope Mackenzie is ready to play dad's favorite game when he gets back to Pittsburgh, which is. What did that bank used to be? It is such a great way to travel and it's such a great way to be with a group of friends or your family. I'm so excited for it. I would be less excited if we were not staying. I would be less excited if we were not staying at a house that we booked through Airbnb. Support comes from Boar's Head. The holidays are here and they're about bringing people together. 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But, you know, the save act, guys, is something that would really affect someone like my mom. My mom has not. Her passport expired. She doesn't travel anymore. Like, she's married. Her birth certificate is not her name. I just want to say. Yeah. By the way, even if her birth certificate was her name, who has their birth certificate? My birth certificate is long gone. By the way, I changed my name from Mitchell to Banks. I don't have a birth certificate that matches my ID. Well, by the way, once you do that, you lose the right to vote, as far as I'm concerned. Well, I'm also a woman. I don't want to be that guy, but that's crazy. I'm of the, you know. A woman who changes her name. What am I thinking?. to not the name of her husband has lost the right to have a say in our election. That's definitely what they think. Do you. Can I ask you real quick? I have a lot of. I love a train, but I also feel like a lot of my train life was first Europe, where obviously they care a lot more about their trains, and then Acela, which is, you know. Is the trip to Chicago. I want to romanticize it in my head, but is it a good ride? It's a great ride. I'm also very comfortable with that Northeast Corridor, guys. Like, that is my whole. Because I went to Philadelphia for college, and so to get home, it was always taking that Acela or the Amtrak. Yeah. We loved it. The greatest memory I have, though, was we went out, like, pre-holiday, you know, between Thanksgiving and Christmas to go visit relatives, to then be home for Christmas morning for Santa was coming. And there was a massive snowstorm. And where I'm from, Pittsburgh, Massachusetts, as we said, a little town in Western Mass. So the train really stops in Albany, and it goes to Springfield and Boston, and that's it. And if you have these little towns in between, you are in a snowstorm. The train is like, we can't stop, because if we fully stop, we won't be able to get going again, right? Right. Because they're sitting on tons of snow on the track. So. Coming back from Chicago, I remember because I was like six and my sister was little. And then my mom had my baby sister, a literal baby. They were like, came to us and were like, we're not stopping. So if you want to get off here, you can go to Springfield where we had no car, no way to get back to Pittsfield in a snowstorm. They're like, we're going to slow down and we're going to toss you off this train. And that is literally what happened. So I remember my parents being like, okay, here's what's going to happen. And like with the conductor and like the guy, they took our luggage with my dad and they started before the train got to the station, just chucking our bags out into the snow. Just into snowdrifts. Into the snowdrifts. And then my dad jumped down and my mom, the guy threw me out and I just went into the snowbank. Like it was the most fun thing in the world. My dad left me. My sister next just gets tossed. We think it's the greatest time of our lives. Then my mom has to throw, like come down the stairs and try and toss a baby to my father who's trying to go sideways in a snowbank. And then my mom jumped out and like, that was us. So we were, it was like well-planned and it was the most fun as a kid. It was like, oh my God, it's the most fun thing ever. Yeah, you changed your name to Banks. Remember my dad, having them to trudge through the snow to go get our bags, which were like hundreds of feet down the track. Yeah. To pick up our luggage and bring it to the car. And it was completely insane. But that was so fun. I have so many questions about this incredible moment. It was so fun. So fun for you. Was your, were your parents like, this is fun? Or were your parents like, oh my God, this is, yeah, okay. I'm sure that they were in a full panic about it. But weirdly, the people on the train were like, we're going to slow down. Like, it's going to be okay. And, but I mean, it was sort of like, it was like they were doing us a favor. Like, we're doing you the favor of getting you off the train where you want to get off. But to be clear, like, we're, it was just like, look, it's, we're just definitely not stopping, for real. Were they, were, do you feel like there were other families that were getting chucked at different stops on the way? Other people got off, I remember. Yeah. Like, jumped off. Yeah. Like, jumped off there. But not with three kids, a baby in tow. You know, that's what was really crazy. But at the end of the day, I'm telling you, it was a four foot snowbank. Like, you could literally just like, fall off the train and you were in the snow. So it was fine. It's actually weirdly good for a person and bad for the luggage. It was, the hardest part was having to trudge back and get the luggage, for sure. Yeah. And I feel like they threw the luggage and then there's, because luggage has no concern. It's fine. Luggage is like, I'm fine to jump on. And then there's that hesitation before the first person in your family is like, oh wait, this is, we're doing this. And then you get further away from your luggage. Yeah, because my dad got off. I was like, oh fun, wee! Like, you know, there's no, I was like, this seems like the best time ever. And yeah, I grew up playing in snow. So it didn't seem weird. But looking back on it, I don't know if they do that anymore. Yeah, that doesn't seem like a thing. I don't think they do. So nuts. Do you, was that immediately family lore? Yeah. Such a good story. Is that like something, I mean, that's the greatest. Because I would say like, once you're safe and in the car, you must immediately, I would hope your parents would know, oh my God, this is an all-timer. It was so fun. I think it was in the moment. Yes, it's become family lore. There are a few stories like that of traveling stories. That's one, because it was just so crazy. And it's like, well, what were you going to do? Go to Springfield? And then who was going to pick us up? And how are we going to get home? In a snowstorm, right? It's even worse. And then it's Christmas. And you're trying to beat Santa. It's like, yeah. So we had to do it. We had to jump off that train. Wait, so how many siblings did you end up with total? I'm the oldest of four. I have a baby brother who's 11 years younger than me. He was not born when this happened. And was it, is the rest of it, is it girls and then him? Yeah, three girls and then a baby brother. Unbelievable. Master Mitchell. The other family lore, great fun stories. We had that, I don't even think they allow these anymore because they're so unsafe. But the car, the station wagon that had the backseat that faced backwards, remember that? Like the best, right? So we did a lot of trips in that car. And so we loved sitting in the way back. We called it the way back. And so we get to sit in the way back. You'd face backwards. There was no AC back there at all, as I recall. You spend so much summer travel just like dying back there. So we would sit back there. And I remember we were on the Mass Pike. And there are a lot of rest stops on the Mass Pike. So we had pulled off to a rest stop. It was a McDonald's, I remember. It was a big deal to go to a McDonald's and get a Happy Meal when you're little, right? And so we went to the McDonald's. And as we were pulling out of the McDonald's, I remember waving to my sister who had been left behind. Just like, oh, hey, um, um, oh, whoops, bye. Like, oh, well. So you didn't call it out? I think I was like confused about it. Yep, that makes sense, right. You know, like, wait, is that her? And why are we driving already? And I don't know, you know, just getting, I'm sure there were cousins in the car. It was probably, as I think about it, like we might've been going, we were probably going to like a softball tournament with a bunch of kids in the car or something. And I just remember the only reason we even knew, we left her there is because I was facing backwards and could see her, you know, like waving, like running after us, like coming out. And I remember we used to, when you went into the rest stop, you know, they always had those, the pinball machines and like the claw, you know, and we would just sit at that claw and like watch people try and do it and never really putting any money into it. We would always beg to do it. And could we get candy and all the things that kids do at those places. And I'm sure that my sister was just like, hanging out, looking at the claw when everybody got in the car and drove off. So we had to like do the thing where you go to the next, my mother in a full panic for the next 25 minutes of like driving around, go to the next exit, get back on, get back off, come go to the next exit, get back on, go back, you know, to get my sister, who was fine and was there and it was not a big deal. But you know, those 25 minutes. But thank God, I would imagine if your sister had not, seen you wave at her, like she probably had faith that like, all right. They're coming back. They'll be back. Liz is on this. But also where is she? I mean, she's not going to get in a car with a stranger. Lord knows we knew enough not to do that. Yeah. Yeah. Mass Pike going north, please. We got to catch her. We got to catch that car. See the girl in the wagon. That's nice. So yeah, that one. And then we took a trip on the way to Chicago once via Canada. So we went on the Canadian. It was an amazing trip in Canada, but my father, is no longer welcome in Canada and hasn't been for 30 years. Oh, what went wrong with your dad? We got into. This is a, this is Mark Mitchell. Mark Mitchell is okay. Yep. Bless him. Um, Mark got into a little car, a mini car accident that he absolutely claims and is probably true. We got rear-ended and I find in a rear-ending situation, it's usually the person that hits you that is right. Like aren't they supposed to be the person that's my dad would always say if like, if somebody, if you hit somebody from behind, it's your fault. No questions asked like no questions asked anyway. So I remember getting rear ended. I remember the car we were meant to go to a two. We were in Toronto. We were going to the Toronto blue Jays game that night, the baseball game, and I had never been to Toronto, but now I know the city fairly well, and I know exactly kind of where we were down by the Marina on the waterfront when this accident happened, this car accident happened. And my dad ended up getting a ticket for something. I don't know. I don't know what, maybe he was making a left where he weren't allowed to or something. And that's why he got, I don't know exactly what happened. Cause again, I was facing backwards. I just saw the guy hit us. Um, we were, you saw the accident, we were all sitting there. And, um, so my dad gets into this whole tizzy with the police there and long story short, it was a ticket he never paid. He was like, just could not, just did not believe he owed any money to Canada and was never. We're going to pay this ticket. And then I was like, dad, you know, like you really can't go to Canada. Now he's like, yeah, I believe at one point he's like, there might be a warrant out for this. Like I definitely owe Canada something. And I'm like, okay, well, maybe, maybe we're not going to Canada. A lot of actors obviously work there now. And it's probably very good that you're a banks. He's never gone back to Canada that I know of. Do you, so you though had the vantage point being in the way back, do you feel like. What you saw your dad was at fault? I really don't know. I just know that the guy hit us and then was like really mad about it. Got it. The things I remember from that trip, that trip was sort of epics. We didn't, we did a lot of like, like I said, car rides. This one, so many things went sideways. We went to Niagara Falls, which is incredible. And I recommend, um, I don't think enough. I think people are sleeping on Niagara Falls these days, to be honest. It comes up, it comes up a lot on the pod and everyone's always pro. I will say. It's a wonder. I love the world that made of the mist. I remember the mist people say Canada side. Yeah. Yeah. You got to go to. the Canada side of course the American side is it's all just capitalism writ large um they're just trying to sell you stuff but man that we did Niagara Falls we did the bed with the with the we put the money in and it jiggles like we did the jiggle bed yeah oh yeah I just thought fingers or I just thought it was for kids now that I'm older I realize what the jiggle beds are really for although also as I'm older I don't like I don't know if that would make it better no I agree I agree for the lady for the lady oh interesting okay yeah I was I was looking at it through the wrong through the male gaze once again my problem yeah that's right I'm gonna put it into the female gaze I think it's not bad um so the jiggle bed I remember but the thing was my brother was born at this point and he was little and he again no the ac barely working in this vehicle we have all the windows down we're driving around and my brother right in front of me is like oh my god I'm gonna put this thing in the car and I'm like oh my god I'm gonna put this thing in the car and I'm like oh my god I'm gonna put this thing in the car and I'm like oh my god I'm gonna put this thing in the car and I'm like oh my god I'm right before we went through the checkpoint the border checkpoint into Canada through his bottle out the window just out the window and my mom I remember thinking she was basically like I only brought like two or three bottles so she's like I gotta get out you know get the bottle and like so we pulled the checkpoint and my mom's like hiking back to try and find this bottle in the road which I believe she came back empty-handed and someone yelled at her to get back in the car she gets back in the car my brother has the last bottles whatever he thinks it's the funniest thing in the world that he threw his bottle out the window then gets a pacifier immediately throws that out the window that's gone like it was just one of these really fun trips also my dad this is disgusting and his family lore that was happening all the time my dad has post nasal drip and which I have inherited but uh the he made a big loogie spit it out the window on the highway it came back in the back window and slapped my sister on the face oh my gosh the loogie out the window boom right back in the window that happened on that trip the bottle out the window on that trip the car accident in Toronto on that trip the jiggle bed on that trip the maid of the mist on that trip like we really loved we got to see the Toronto Blue Jays um it was a really epically fun trip and we also went to in the St. Lawrence River Thousand Islands which I also highly recommend nobody I feel like I don't know anyone who goes here yeah Thousand Islands are all these islands in the St. Lawrence River which is the border between the United States and Canada up there off of Lake Erie and you can visit little islands there where half the islands in America and half is in Canada so they have flags on 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topped with cold foam and sprinkles made to charge your holiday spirit now at mcdonald's did you have uh were your siblings like a four i mean obviously your brother's so much younger uh with the three girls were you a threesome were you a trio or did you guys kind of pair off my sister sarah and i are irish twins basically we're 13 months apart got it and and then my little sister is five years younger and then my brother 11 years younger so we were we were kind of in co like my my sister sarah and i were like basically you know raised nearly like twins so like did everything together dressed the same at the holiday you know always wearing the same outfits did the dance classes the tap dance you know recitals together and stuff played softball together etc would your um would your younger sister say if if she could say it um in secrecy that you guys were good older sisters or bad older sisters well we're really close now so my hope is that she would say we were good older sister we were a very very tight family now but i'm gonna be honest with you i barely remember her existence i would say you know that time when you're like 12 to 18 when you just become so self-involved yeah and so like about your friends and like you're never really home and you like you leave you leave home at seven in the morning and you're like you're doing your sports and your activities and i did the play and like it's like i came home like 10 o'clock at night like i have no idea i don't know who her friends were Right. I don't know much about 12-year-old girls, but I know the least interesting thing to them is a 7-year-old girl. The least interesting thing in the world is a 7-year-old girl. That's so funny, though, that life where, you know, and again, your kids, it's probably already happening for, mine are a little bit younger, but like, right, they just have their own lives and you just don't see them. I say we just, we, you know, we had a nanny forever. I'm a working mother. I build a village. So I have great help in my life. And I recently, we transitioned to what we now call just like the family assistant because I'm like, oh, I just live in a house with four very busy people, all of whose schedules need to be coordinated. My kids tell me nothing about what they're doing, right? Like, I'll be like, okay, so we're, and I'm very, I need it to be very organized. Am I, I, on the daily, I'm like, so you're picking them up at four and it's like, no, he texted me. He's coming home at seven. And I'm like, wait, what? What's happening? What do you mean? You know, like every day it's just like, oh, actually he's at this other kid's house. I don't know where he is. I don't, I never know where my kids, what's happening. They tell me some schedule. In LA, it's all, I mean, it's all cars. It's all. All cars. It's all about the pickup and the drop off. My kids don't drive yet. And so somebody has to coordinate to get them home at some point. And I've actually recently started really letting it go. Like, I don't know. They're old. They're, they're like almost. They're six feet tall. Nobody's messing with them. Like they're going to, if they had to walk four miles, they could, do you know what I mean? Like they know where we live. They'll figure it out. Like they'll get home. And I kind of, I've become more accepting of just like, I don't know. That's how I was. Like you just got home. Yeah. Yeah. Are they, are your boys close? Yes, they are. They're really close. Yeah. Must be the best feeling in the world. It is. They're, they're only 18 and a half months apart. But also. So, you know, we traveled so much for work. So I would bring, it's like, we went and lived in Germany. We went and lived in Ireland. We've lived. So they had to be each other's playmates for so long. They were each other's like best bud. And then the pandemic, that's a whole thing. I hope I, do you remember that? Guys, we were locked in our houses. Dude. Yeah. It's crazy. I have like, like two soft pandemic jokes. Like when I do standup, just about like masks. Right. And it's crazy. You can, you really feel the audience be like. Oh, right. Like it's the, like the collective memory loss, which I feel like is part of the coping. A hundred percent. It's our trauma response. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which is like. A million people died. It was a, it was a major 18 month disruption. We're just like, yeah. We're like, isn't that crazy? Yeah. Yeah. We did play hearts once, Elizabeth. That's right. We did. Mid-pandemic. Mid-pandemic. We did play hearts. We played hearts in the pandemic. We crossed paths in our lives, but then like Liz Kikowski was like, hey, you play hearts. I'm, you know, I'm getting on a Zoom to play hearts with. Oh, you played Zoom hearts. Yeah. Yeah. Well, there's a website that you can play hearts on. So my family plays Pitch. And so I was playing Pitch a lot. And Hearts is also on the same, the same site that you can log onto and you can play with people all over. Is Pitch a four person game? Yeah. It's a four person trick taking game like Hearts. And was Pitch. Pitch like a family game when you were a kid? Yes. And it's still a very much a family game. Like it is that game. And so was that your parents and you and your, and your Irish twin were the Pitch teams? Yes. Yes. My dad and I play against my mom and my sister. And, and by the way, played not that long. My parents are divorced, but we played Pitch together last summer, I want to say. And it was one of the greatest, it was like, it was, it was so much fun. Yeah. Cause my parents are so competitive. They're also insanely good card players and they've like handed it down to us. So we're, I'm, I'm a very good competitive card player, but I'm not, I'm not as good as my parents, even, even to this day. And they were, they were like just digging at each other. We were dying laughing. I mean, we were having the best time and it was like, I was a kid again. It was a very fun time. How often are they together physically in the same space? They're, they're, they're friendly. So like they'll, they'll do it when we're all there with the grandkids and stuff, they'll get together. So it's not a big deal. It's so great that they don't have to sacrifice any of that. No, it's not a big deal. We were a big hearts family. And, um, I will say like the, um, one of the, the only downside I can think of the fact that I have three kids is it's going to be a problem with hearts. Um, but we have, it's very sad, which is, uh, at the end of every hand, uh, our mom forgets all the rules to hearts. What? So it's a little bit, it slows it down a little bit because we have to do it. We have to do it. Seth is very, very critical because it is, the teams are me and my father versus Seth and my mother. But for only, but for only the last 35 years. Yeah, exactly. But my, my son made a shoot the moon joke like yesterday and I don't even know what it was in response to, but I'm like, I like that he had that reference. So are they, uh, and do you guys play? Do you? Yes. We, we play the four of us play. It's a nice. It's a nice round number. We, I've literally just packed it. We're going on spring break and I just packed the cards and like, we have a little pad of paper where we keep the score going. Yeah. Yeah. Um, we haven't quite shaken out the teams. It's usually me and my oldest and my husband and my youngest, but we'll mix it up a little bit. So I'm like, yeah, but then I ultimately we're, we're creatures of habits. I mean, we sat at this, we had a little, when the first time my wife, Alexi saw like the table we ate out in the kitchen, she was like, Oh, you guys did not build your life for visitors. It's like a five top. Just the tiniest little table in the kitchen that we all ate at. Yeah. And like, I don't even know where you'd get another chair from. Yeah. We were like, Oh yeah. It's like, where do I sit? I'm like, I don't think we, I don't think you do. Oh no. Where I think you, there's a later seating for your breakfast. I have multiple card tables in my, in my home. Um, because it's like not every. We also, we play a lot of cribbage, we play, we're a big game families. We've got a lot of, a lot of cards, a lot of cribbage. I have been teaching everyone in my life mahjong. I taught Liz Kikowski mahjong recently. Um, I'm a huge mahjong. My mother plays, um, my sisters play. So are you part of the mahjong boom? Was this something you were doing 10 years ago? Cause it feels like this is the last year and a half I'm hearing about. I, I am a bit part of the boom. I would say I'm an early to the boom. I've been playing now for a little bit. A little over three years. So my first card was the 20, the early 2023 card. That's how, you know, how long you've been playing. We just got the 2026 card. Can I ask what was, what brought, do you know what the boom was? You know, cause I remember the poker boom was because of like Bravo celebrity poker, you know, or whatever, or the, or the, the poop. I shouldn't say the poker boom was because they figured out that camera and then it was on. That's exactly right. Yeah. Yeah. What was mahjong? I don't really know. I, I, my friend grew up playing it and had wanted to teach us for so long, constantly talking about, cause, and she, I play hearts with her. I had a card game with her every Tuesday night for 10 years. So for all this time I've known her, she's been like, let's learn mahjong. And it's intimidating to learn. I won't deny that. Like it's there, there is a, it's, there's a barrier to entry when it comes to mahjong. Um, and she finally was like, I'm just going to bring a teacher over, like, let's get a group together and let's just do it. And so she brought. A teacher. I think she was playing more in the pandemic. I think the pandemic got a lot of people playing these kinds of games. So bringing it back to that wonderful time, um, I think was part of the kickoff, the boom. But yeah, I don't know. So yeah, we started playing a few years ago and now have like a, I have a regular, I have a day group and a night group that I play with. That's fantastic. Yeah. Are there in your family when you're playing, are there ever like little fights? I know your parents might take jabs at each other, but do people get upset? No, it's all good natured. And also the other thing is like, my parents very rarely make mistakes in cards, right? So that's the other thing. Like they're playing, if there's like the best card to play at any given time, they know what they're playing it. Like they're not messing up. Right. So it's usually, it's usually like at one point, my mom, my mom lives in a, like a assisted living, but like, you know, it's kind of fabulous place. And so she's over playing cards with us. And she's like, gosh, I've been playing with like the memory care people. You know, I, I'm not, I haven't been playing that often. And my dad literally goes, oh, and they beat you too. So it's like jokes like that, you know, like they're fun jabs. We have, we're, I mean, we have a lot of fun when we play cards. We don't like, you know, beat up on anybody for bad play, but we are also, which I guarantee you are Elizabeth Banks, nay, Liz Mitchell. Yeah. You are probably, you adhere to the rules of every game. I do. Our, my wife's family, the way they play games is just like the loosest adherence to the rules. And it has been, it has been an issue because we're not together that much, both families. Yeah. But like at Thanksgiving's, it's like, let's play like a board game. You cannot believe. And again, when we tried it, when we just tried to enforce it gently, it is taken as a personal attack I feel like Josh I feel like they're still stung by like what's the spy game Codenames Codenames love a codename great game and there's a lot of like like they do that sort of right right right shut the fuck up no one word one word yeah them's the rules them's the rules yeah I got banned from playing Settlers of Catan a while ago gotcha because I got really into the negotiating part of it with a friend of mine who's also like a hardcore negotiator my friend Joe and essentially all the my husband and her and the wife my friend were like we shouldn't you two can't play this together anymore like it's too intense for the rest of us like you know I'd be like I need that wheat and you don't need it and I'm giving you a brick like what do you mean I mean we would go 20 minutes of negotiation before someone would like I love by the way the idea that you're going on spring break and you're packing cards because that you know I kind of forget what a big part that was of our family vacations Josh was like to you know have dinner maybe at some like you know Florida hotel and then like go back to a hotel room and just play cards and that made us like very happy yeah we play my husband and I play gin rummy before like we'll go to cocktails it's our favorite thing to do so like go to the bar have a cocktail play gin wait for the table get seated dinner hang and then you know that's our night we love it I feel like I saw that in my wife and I were in Ireland last year for like a week before we went to this wedding but you would I would see these Irish families in pubs with decks of cards like there would be the traditional music going on but like there was a lot more card playing out in public and I just think it's great do you know what's funny though because I did it in Ireland a lot we were in London recently in a hotel we were in the fabulous bar dressed up I'm sure I had done like Graham Norton or something all dressed up I'm like I can't wait I'm gonna have a martini and we're gonna play gin and the waiter came over and said you can't play cards in here and we were like what are you talking about and he's like no it's a weird it's an old gambling law like we don't know we can't allow gambling and so and we're like well it's just the two of us we're just playing gin and he's like no we cannot have cards on the table here wow and I we were shocked it was the only time in my life I've been told we can't play cards in the restaurant I remember old gambling law we were in Ireland with a couple of our old friends from Amsterdam and our parents playing what was what's the other one the group game Josh the crew the crew fantastic family game I don't know the crew is a cooperative trick taking game there are two versions of it there's a space one and an underwater one the underwater one is maybe a big fix some things that were it's built on the first one but it's a great game I love getting a new game you're gonna love it it's such a fun four person game I think you can can you play with six too maybe or no I think you can play with five but it's just so fun but there is this thing where you have to you know when you're with a bunch of people when you're on a trip playing cards it's also like you need to like be with people who understand like so we'll chat in between hands yeah exactly but like we can't I can't play hearts where I'm like ostensibly card trick counting yeah and then like and that's also a problem with my mom with crew and your mom yeah well mom well she has so many questions like she has to ask questions all the time so yeah yeah I'm a big card counter too I mean that's how you win at cards you have to know what yeah what's already out yeah what were there did you ever get all Mitchells together were there ever any big family reunions guys we have so many reunions it's really there's one coming up in Texas that I probably won't be able to go to it's going to be one of the first ones I've missed we do it every two to three years we were doing it every three years and then we've kind of upped it to two because the older generations getting up there and we want to you know we like getting together as much as we can while they're all still here that's my dad's side so we have a Mitchell family reunion and then I have a Howard family reunion on my mom's side every summer on Cape Cod every summer on Cape Cod whereabouts in Cape Cod are you guys Hyannis is where my aunt is where we had our like we would always go the little cottage every summer based in Hyannis yeah right around the corner from the ferries did you did you when you got married was it New England I got married in LA in an attempt to have less family come because I was paying for the wedding myself and they all came yeah if you put out a sign that says free liquor and a party they're all showing up it turns out it also was like people went to Disneyland I remember you know it was like people really made like a whole trip out of it which was unexpected and like my wedding was 188 people and I want to say 120 was my family like my husband's friends and family were much like a maybe a quarter a third have you do you think based on that have you folded your husband has your husband Max folded more into your family than obviously the other way around well his family is just much smaller and they're much and they're more spread out and they're so my family is just like so big I mean I think he has he has cousins I've never met for instance and that's just not he had I have cousins he can't name when he sees them I have I mean so many of I think you know there's cousins of ours I haven't seen in years yeah for sure and Alexi has never met them yeah likely never will I have he has cousins I've never met so and never will whatever we'll see and what goes down at either of these family reunions if you're be it the Cape or the Mitchell ones is there sort of a is there a big group activity is it kind of a barbecue kind of a thing what's the there's always well you know the first thing is there's I will say technology has made family reunion planning so much easier and better these days it is kind of wild to just send out like a Google link to everybody just be like what's your t-shirt size and like you know so because it's always about you got to have that group photo with everybody wearing the same shirt you know no matter what there's always a logo we're always like making the logos nowadays how it works in my dad's family is our our generation all the cousins we basically each of the eight we call them the great eight they each family has to plan it right in wherever they want to do it so it goes through the family and so when it was my siblings me and my siblings turned to host we hosted it in Utah we did we had a logo we got to get cups you got to get beer koozies you got to get you know all the merch for the reunion and it's usually like we we try and keep it cost effective for everybody we want everybody to be able to come and have fun so it's a lot of like state parks and like get a pavilion in the state park and put on you know a bring your own everybody's got their coolers and their whatever and we're like buying you know frozen burgers at Costco and doing that we keep it like really just like very relaxed and then there's usually a big activity so in Utah we did a giant river float one day which was just so I mean my 80 year old aunt was just like out in a tube like my dad was just tubing down a river in his 70s you know it was pretty fun it was really wild do your boys get excited about a giant Mitchell family they do I think there's enough kids like my generation has so many kids now that they all know you know it's really fun I mean I just was back in Massachusetts I'm an investor in the Boston Legacy NWSL team oh fantastic the women's soccer team that's just starting we literally just had our home opener at Gillette Stadium and I got a suite and I had like 46 people come and I'm related to all of them do you know what I mean like the whole if there's a chance to get together like we do it we really try to take it we really all love hanging out with each other it's really fun we grew up together also you have I mean that's credit to you for delivering a pretty cool place to hang out it was a cool it was a fun it was a fun day yeah still just burgers still just maybe Costco burgers but it was this is the inaugural season for this team inaugural season yes they and Denver are the two new expansion teams in the NWSL that's fantastic how many teams are there in the NWSL now there are 16 or 17 and they're about to be two more that's fantastic it's really cool and I think it's Boston I think is really primed currently to welcome women's sports I mean obviously such a storied yes title town I mean we have these incredible teams and they've won a lot of championships and you know and the places where they play Fenway and the Garden you know these are storied places and I feel like the soccer team there's no other women's team professional women's team we have a we have women's professional hockey right that I think the Olympics just like really helped put on the map which is going to be incredible and that's going to grow too but in terms of growth the NWSL is doing an amazing job and I think Boston is really primed to welcome them. And we're building a stadium simply for the team. White Stadium, down in Franklin Park, which is sort of Jamaica Plain. By the way, where my great-grandparents grew up, which is really cool. So I'm excited for that as well. It's at the end of the Greenway in Boston. Amazing. Let's congratulate. I'm very excited about your show with Matthew. Yes, The Mineral Wife, coming out on Peacock, April 9th. April 9th, very excited. I'm very excited when Peacock makes shows. Peacock's making shows. It's really exciting. People just watched The Birbs was just out, and Mineral Wife is coming. I mean, they're really doing it. Yeah, I agree. Really exciting. We also had, we just had Samara Weaving on the show. Yes. And her husband, I just wanted to use her husband as a reason to shout out Cocaine Bear one more time. Yes. Her husband, Jimmy, Samara Weaving's husband, Jimmy, wrote Cocaine Bear, which I love talking about. I mean, it does. I mean, I feel like while we're talking about family trips, it does not encourage camping. Not particularly. Well, look, that was a really particular case. Yeah, what are the chances? Yeah, what are the circumstances? Yeah. What are the chances? A bunch of cocaine's going to fall out in the woods? Yeah, it's unlikely. It's unlikely. But I also just wanted to say, you've had such a, it's such a cool career to follow, and the things you do are, I mean, and then to find out you're also, you have your hands on an inaugural Boston women's soccer team, as of course. Makes perfect sense, based on everything else you've done. I really love Massachusetts. Like I said, it's my roots, and I really wanted to build a legacy there. I mean, I, like, enjoy living in California, but again, I have no family here. Like, my husband and I have really had to, like, build the whole village here. And it's lovely, but I think people forget, too, when you're an actor in L.A., you rarely work here unless you're on a television show that shoots here, which is rarer and rarer these days. And it's, you're, you spend half your life, like, out and about, you know? At one point, my son had lived more time in Louisiana than anywhere else in the world. Like, he was basically a citizen of Louisiana. So we made the Pitch Perfect movies there, and that's where he was, basically, I had him on my hip, like, you know, the first movies, and then was doing Hunger Games and making those in North Carolina and, like, Atlanta. And so, I mean, we were never. We were never really here. So it's interesting when people are like, aren't you from there? I'm like, well, my kids are from here, but I'm not from here, you know? Yeah. I've been talking to some Massachusetts people lately who are still pretty mad about you changing your name, but they do feel like you're slowly working your way back. Thank you. They feel like this sock. They said that you're, like, 40% back. Thank you. I'm trying to make up for it. If the Boston Globe will print anything nice about me, that will go a long way towards my reputation. Means the most to my dad. When he, like, the amount he sends me, if the Globe says something nice. If Matthew Gilbert says something nice, yeah. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Are you in the Globe? We have to, before we let you go, though, you have to answer Josh's speed round questions. Oh, gosh. Okay. Okay, here we go. You'll be fine. You'll do great. You're going to nail him. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous, or educational? Relaxing, but I'm in a fight about this with my husband currently. Because I just want to go to beaches, and he literally just put a mandate down, no more beaches. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. He, because he's worried that our kids are getting too, like, we're not going to have them much longer, which he's right about, and, like, we've not done, like, the cities of Europe. Like, we've not done Rome. Like, he's like, we got to go take them to places where they learn educational stuff. Like, take them to museums. And I'm like, I just want to do nothing. That's rough. So, lie around, you know? But, no. His instincts are right. Like, on paper, on paper, but, like, I just don't think, like, your kids are going to learn anything. Okay, I'm not going to tell him that you sided with him. No, no, I didn't. I think it, like, it sounds good, and then your kids are like, oh, I want to be a. Yeah, they don't want to walk around all day and. That's what college is for. Ay, ay, ay. I'm confident there are some hotels in Rome that have, like, beautiful pools, and you could just hang there and be like, go show them the stuff you want them to see. I'll be here. I'm going to say, I don't know if they do. I don't think Europe is, like, I don't think European cities have good pools. Well, yeah. I don't, I bet there's, I'm saying there's one. I bet there's a couple. Maybe. I'm going to seek it out is the point. Yeah, but I'll tell you this. It ain't heated. No. And there's three weird guys in it right now, and they're going to be in it later. And they're wearing banana hammocks. Yeah, exactly. What is your favorite means of transportation? My favorite means of transportation is gross. I obviously love any private jet I can get my hands on. Okay, yeah, well. Rare, rare, rare. So I would say the train. I'm dying to go on the Orient Express. Oh, that's, yeah. Yeah, I really want to do it. 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? I shot a film once on a boat, on a beautiful yacht off of Malta. And the guest book had the McCartneys in it, Paul and, like, the whole family. And to this day, I was like, man, that would have been a really nice way to spend a week of my life. I think they're a good vibe to travel with. That would have been a fun, fun vibe. So probably that. Yeah. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? My dog, Saucer. Great. What kind of dog? No hesitation. Saucer is a schnoodle. Okay. He's got just enough terrier hound in him, I think, that he would catch me some food, right? Yeah. I think he would help me get fed, and he would just be, I think, he would be a help. I like that you're trying to frame this as anything other than you like him the most. I just, it's a survival thing. I really, you know. It's not about anything but survival, the rest of my family. No, he'll just help me survive. Yeah. What is your dream destination for a family vacation? I really want to go on safari. I've never been on safari. I really want to go safari in Africa. Big time. You are from Pittsfield, Massachusetts. If you had to get more families to come visit Pittsfield, what would you tell them about the town? Pittsfield, I would say tons of arts organizations in Pittsfield. There's so much to do and see in terms of Tanglewood and Jacob's Pillow and Berkshire Theater Festival. The summer is glorious there, so I really love being there in the summer. My kids go to camp back east in the Berkshires, and it's because in the summer, it's like you're at camp. You can kayak, and it's just so lovely. So that's the sell. Yeah. And then Seth has our final questions. Elizabeth, have you been to the Grand Canyon? I have. And was it worth it? Yes. It's so worth it. Yeah. But given the choice, if you were talking to somebody and they're like, I can either go to Niagara Falls or the Grand Canyon, where should I go? Niagara Falls, I think. Yeah, thank you. Because it's just, you get it. You can do it in two hours. The Grand Canyon, I also think about. You've got to go to Zion, and you've got to go to Arches. You know, there's so many. There's almost two. You need a whole week. Like, you need to go to all. There's so many places to go. And there's some that I haven't been to and some that I have. And also, then you've got Yellowstone and Yosemite. Hey, I'm sold. I'll see you in Niagara Falls. So Niagara Falls, you're like, you did it. You can do it in a couple hours. You go on the Maid of the Mist, and you're like, your brain is blown out of your head. Perfect. This has been delightful. So nice to see you. Love to you and your family. Thanks, guys. It's so fun to see you guys, too. And anytime you want to play Online Hearts, you know where I am. Yeah, and check out the crew. Also, Skull. I don't know if you've played Skull. Skull is my new favorite game that's come out of nowhere. Okay, Skull. I'm into it. All right, thank you. Bye, guys. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. It's divorced, but it's not a bad sitch. They're still trading playful barbs when they play pitch. Station wagon in the way back. Loves the Acela, did her time on Amtrak. Visiting family, one time coming home. From Chicago. You know it's starting to snow. So Elizabeth Banks jumped off a train. Conductors said they were doing them a favor. First went the bags, then went her dad. Mama had to throw out the baby. Oh, probably broke laws. ♪ The train didn't pass ♪ get home so they could beat Santa Claus. Only option for the little stations, cause if and they stopped, wouldn't get going again. Her little sis was like she didn't exist. One time she got left on the Mass Pike. The car drove away. Elizabeth waved. Mom was wicked panicked, but she was okay. Lots to discuss about their Canada trip. Dad got a ticket, but he never paid it. Blue Jays win the thousand. Thousand Islands. Dad spit out the window. It just came back in low hit. Her sister's head, they got those jiggly beds. Brother chucking things out on the road. Niagara Falls, car accident. How's it your fault when you get rear-ended? Did a movie, found out somebody. Had her exact name in the Screen Actors Guild. So she changed her name to Elizabeth Banks. But when things go sideways, Liz Mitchell still gets the blame. When things go sideways, Liz Mitchell still gets the blame.