The podcast features a live episode recorded at City Winery in Philadelphia, celebrating an energetic audience and a vibrant in-person experience. Hosts introduce guest Sheila Watko, a former Late Night photo researcher who now works as a reporter for NBC 10, bringing humor and personal insight to the conversation. The discussion delves into family traditions, including regular Disney visits, shore trips to Sea Isle and Ocean City, and a deep connection to military family life. A central theme is the joy of rule-breaking, such as pool hopping at Shades of Green and sneaking into movies, which the hosts and guests describe as joyful, rebellious, and deeply rooted in family bonding. The episode also highlights personal anecdotes, including family interactions with pets, outdated tech, and travel mishaps, reinforcing the idea that family trips are not just about destinations but about shared memories and inside jokes. Guests share their experiences working in Disney—such as Sheila’s time on the Jungle Cruise—adding depth to the narrative of family, humor, and nostalgia. The conversation ends with a playful nod to Disney adults’ loyalty and a reminder that even in modern times, family traditions remain powerful and meaningful.
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Hi, buddy!
Hey, Suvi!
So, this is an intro to a live episode.
We're recording the intro after we recorded the episode
live at City Winery in Philadelphia.
And you'll be able to tell right away
what a delightful vibe it was from the audience.
Oh my God.
Just walking on stage, it was so exciting
because you see a room before anyone's in there
and you're like, I don't know, I hope this is all right.
Yeah.
And we walked out and it was just great.
Yeah, we did back to back
and there'll be a forthcoming episode
that we did in Boston, equally great audiences.
And so just thanks to the trippers who showed out.
Yeah, and a great guest, unexpected guest probably
for a lot of our listeners.
Someone who used to work for you.
Yes, her name is Sheila Watko
and she was a photo researcher at Late Night
and she left us to go be the local traffic reporter
at NBC 10.
Traffic and entertainment at NBC 10 in Philadelphia.
And she's a fantastic conversation.
I was not surprised at all
based on how many work.
I was surprised with her fascinating Disney adult.
She's got some Disney adult,
unabashedly, unashamedly Disney adult.
And it was great.
We did a Q&A.
That was a lot of fun.
So let's dig into it.
But again, thanks to everybody at City Winery.
Thanks to everybody who showed up.
We had a blast.
Absolutely.
Thanks, guys.
Hey, everybody.
Hello.
Thank you so much.
Oh, man.
This is absolutely fantastic.
We are so. This is the first time we're doing a live show.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And we had no idea how it would go.
Or if people would care about it.
Or if people wanted to see it.
And we just want to thank Philadelphia.
It sold out right away.
And yeah, we're just so excited to get started.
And cheers, Posh.
And cheers, everybody.
Cheers.
There we go.
We're so happy to be at City Brewery.
That's right?
That's our beers?
City Winery.
Oh, well, we obviously ordered terribly.
Yeah, we blew it.
But I did go yin-ling.
I did go yin-ling.
She feels right.
It's great to be with all of you.
Thank you.
And what a. I mean, this is the time to come to Philly.
Like, 92 degrees.
Who's here?
Is there anybody in Philadelphia on vacation right now?
Okay, a couple of you.
Right.
They were like. Your travel agent was like, August.
You want to go now?
Now, I want to say something, though.
And I mean this genuinely, Poshy.
Which is, I love a northeastern heat in a city.
I was very happy.
I walked here from the hotel.
Yeah.
And I was just delighted in the wall of heat.
You grew up on the East Coast.
You're a trader.
You moved to California.
Yeah.
I like it drier.
Yeah.
You act like the governor all the time.
That's why you love it over there.
I do.
And. But did you. Were you turned on by this heat today?
Were you like, ooh, this is nice?
No, no, no.
No, no, no.
I mean, I'm thrilled to be in Philadelphia.
But at no point was I like, this is nice.
Yeah.
I had like a little gap of time where I was like,
where are those rocky stairs?
Where's that?
And it was like, it's a 28-minute walk from where you are.
And then I checked the temperature and it was, yeah.
It was like. Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm not going to see those stairs.
If Rocky Ababo had done the running up the stairs in this heat,
he would have died.
Yeah.
I would have been, no, Rocky would have been 45 minutes.
And then he would have been like, yeah.
Yeah, done deal.
We've got to find another fighter.
That guy, remember that lefty?
He's dead.
We also have both been, I mean, obviously I live on the East Coast.
You've been back on the East Coast.
We have both recently. Visited home.
Yeah.
We visited mom and dad.
And how was your visit home?
It was good.
I mentioned it on the podcast.
I recently went to Comic-Con.
I sort of, I got suckered into going and signing autographs at a table.
And people did not want those autographs.
I spent a weekend of my life being embarrassed and feeling bad about myself.
Just a big old stack of headshots.
Big old stack.
The guy that. Sort of suckered me into going.
I was like, I don't know, how many headshots do I bring?
He's like, to be on the safe side, I'd like print a thousand.
I was like, okay.
I sold 12.
And it's also a weird deal to like sell a headshot to a person who's right in front of you.
Yeah.
Everything about it made me feel bad.
Yeah.
However. Did it feel, what did it feel like when you were storing 988 headshots?
I'm just, my wife, Mackenzie, hasn't asked.
What those boxes are yet.
And I don't want to tell her.
That would be like, you remember in The Shining where she finally sees his manuscript and it's just like all work and no play.
Like when she opens it up and she's just going through it, it's just like headshot after headshot.
Yeah.
So it was, I was there.
It was like a Mad TV Rewind thing.
And so he was like, well, print up some Mad TV things.
And then when you sit at one of these tables, they create a banner that says your name and it has your headshot.
And then it had like a picture from that 70s show and a picture from Red Oaks.
And a picture from Mad TV and something else.
And it's a big banner.
And it was sort of evidence of my own shame to have to bring it home.
Yeah.
But then in our basement in New Hampshire, Seth's done a lot of stuff and he's done a lot of shows.
And sometimes those shows have posters involved that they might put outside of a theater.
And the walls are peppered with pictures of Seth.
Yeah.
And. I love it.
And I'm represented, but not. I'm sort of blown out of the water by you.
But I have this big thing.
And I was like, oh, I'll bring it home to mom and dad.
And I'll start to take back the basement.
Yeah.
Good idea.
So you have a big banner.
Big banner.
And I show it to dad.
And he's like, oh, yeah, you can hang that in the basement if you want.
And I was like, well, Seth has all these things up.
And he's like, yeah, but I don't look at those either.
Okay.
And so. Well, how did this end up being a burn on me?
I don't know.
It was a burn on both of us.
And then even worse, dad was like, also, I have these 12.
I have 12 headshots of you I don't need.
Yeah.
If you're trying to complete a set.
We both, we were remarking to each other because we only briefly overlap.
But during the day, we were not home.
We did not share a night at home.
Correct.
Mom and dad have a screened-in porch, which is where they spend 95% of their time.
As long as it's not too cold, that's where they live.
Yeah, they're out there.
And I was recently, it just dawned on me, like, it's a great job.
It's a great shame to you and I how shitty their TV is.
It's bad.
Like, we've let them down.
I mean, I have ordered them a new television.
Yeah.
But it is laughable.
Yeah.
It's like I had to measure it because I was getting them a new TV,
and I wanted to know how big this one is.
And a single ruler would do the trick.
Yeah.
Like, it's like, is this a 40-inch?
And it's like, well, this ruler pretty much does it.
And it's like. They got it at worst buy.
Yeah.
And it sits in the corner of a screened-in porch,
which is open to the elements.
So it's always getting rained on, and it's, like, dusty.
The one thing, I think one of the reasons they keep it is,
you know, they've had it for a long time,
and they, you know, obviously, the remote,
they have no idea how it works.
They have two remotes.
They have to change the TV input.
Yeah.
They lose the remotes.
Yeah.
They try to, when Dad tries to fast-forward,
it, like, goes, like, three days into the future.
But by the time he stops, like, it's literally. If he starts fast-forwarding, like, a Godfather,
by the time he stops, it's Godfather 3.
He's, like, jumped ahead two movies.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
The other takeaway that I had when I was home
is how nerve-wracking it is to pull out of our driveway
with their dog, Albert.
He's, yeah, he's a thing.
So maybe for listeners of the podcast, you might know this.
My parents have an old English sheepdog.
His name is Albert.
This is their sixth old English sheepdog.
They've all been named Albert.
This is because my dad believes in his bones
that all sheepdogs are named Albert,
and only he's smart enough to know that.
Yep.
If he sees another sheepdog and somebody tells him what name it is,
he gets close and whispers Albert in their ear.
Mm-hmm.
And they're, you know, they have, but they have hurting instincts.
Like, Albert basically doesn't like, even when we were kids,
because the first Albert, I think we were, like, 7 and 5
when they got Albert 1.
Yeah.
And it was. Funny, because if you went to different parts of the house,
Albert would just, like, walk, he would just, like, do, like,
it was like a cop walking the beat.
He would just walk in your room, look at you,
walk into another room, look at you.
Like, he just, he was only happy when everybody was in the same room.
Yeah.
He was, like, one of those guys that checks off in the bathroom.
Like, clean this room.
Yep, yep, yep.
Clean this room.
Every time we washed our hands, he would check it.
Yeah.
But this is, he, when you pull out,
and obviously our parents are now very used to this,
he doesn't like the car to leave.
And so he acts as though it is. As a sheep trying to make a run for it into the Pyrenees or whatever.
Yeah.
and this is my impression.
You pretend like you're driving the car,
and I'm going to be Albert.
Okay.
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
In the rear-view camera,
he's a blur.
He keeps coming.
You're in reverse,
and you keep seeing him buzz by.
It's so disconcerting.
You really don't want to kill the dog.
Yeah.
But, you know,
you do take solace in knowing
they would just immediately
replace it with another one.
Right.
Josh, when the last Albert,
rest in peace,
passed away,
because, you know,
Albert is a giant dog
that, like, pulls on a leash.
Yeah.
When you walk him.
And Josh wisely,
you know, our parents live
on the top of a hill
in a part of the country
that gets icy and cold,
and you were worried
about mom's,
mom's well-being
with the dog
just, like, pulling her
basically on skates
down the hill.
Yeah.
And you did a lot of research
into smaller dogs.
Yeah.
That were a better fit
for old people.
Yeah.
I've had smaller dogs.
They're great.
They're great.
By the time you finished
putting together your document,
there was another Albert.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, that's how little
they considered waiting
for you to, like,
fill them in.
Yeah.
No, they don't,
they're set in their ways.
They're very set
in their ways.
Oh, I was going
to ask,
because I was thinking
about dad,
who's seen The Odyssey?
Make some noise
if you've seen The Odyssey.
You haven't seen it yet.
I have not.
I, you know,
there's a lot of think pieces
about The Odyssey.
It's a wonderful film.
I highly recommend it.
But, and again,
I'm, you know,
I don't feel like
you can spoil The Odyssey.
No, no, it's been,
it's been a book.
Yeah, it's been,
it's been, yeah,
it's a good book.
It's a good book.
But basically,
the whole, like,
the whole problem
with The Odyssey,
as far as Odysseus
and his men are concerned,
is, like,
the war
ends,
and he's, like,
he's, like, dad.
He's, like,
I think I know
a better way to go home.
Literally,
the entirety of,
like, he's the asshole
the whole time.
I know it's like Matt Damon,
you're rooting for him,
but you're, like,
this asshole should have
just followed the other boats.
He's, like,
no, I got a better way to go.
I'm good.
So it's real dad vibes.
And it's a real
family trip movie.
It is a real family trip movie.
You know, it really is.
Yeah.
Our dad, Larry,
Larissius,
what would you call him?
Yeah, I think that works.
Larissius?
Yeah.
Larissius is like
Odysseus,
except he,
instead of, like,
getting mad at, like,
cyclopses,
he gets mad at, like,
inanimate objects.
Also, I was with
my kids this weekend,
and I wanted to talk to you
about your nephews
and your niece,
but obviously,
you know, boys,
10 and 8.
I got a little girl
who's 4.
And I have a problem,
and I'm apologizing
in advance because
I am going to use
some profanity here.
My 10-year-old
has a,
he has a
he curses all the time.
And it's a problem
we're really worried about.
Now, we have not heard
that it's something
he does at school,
but, like,
other parents who, like,
see him, like, socially
are like,
whoa.
Yeah.
And the real issue, though,
is he is great at it.
Oh.
Like, he curses,
like, really,
he curses, like,
a Boston sports fan
or, like,
a Philly sports fan.
I'm sure I don't know
you as well, but, yes.
But you curse.
You curse.
Yeah.
But, like,
I feel like there's that way
that kids curse
where they're like,
you're an ass
or, like, penis head.
And it's just, like,
kids.
His cursing is so adult.
And we were,
my father-in-law
has a boat,
you know,
and he was pulling
the 10-year-old,
Ash, my oldest,
and Addie,
the four-year-old girl.
And they were
in an inner tube behind
and pulling.
And Addie was crying.
And we were actually
not even paying
that much attention to them
because we were just
pulling them behind the boat.
We were going fast.
We were, like,
going from one place
to another.
And it's nice
to have a break.
It's nice to have a break.
But Addie is screaming.
Addie is screaming.
And then all of a sudden,
we just hear Ash go,
hey, stop the boat.
And so we all,
so we stopped the boat.
And he goes,
I'm not riding
with this asshole anymore.
She scratched
my fucking back.
And it was,
it was so good.
It's exactly,
it's like Bill Burr.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then the problem was,
it was so good.
And then we have
the eight-year-old
is on the boat with us.
Because, of course,
it's that moment
where it's so good
that you want to laugh.
And the eight-year-old
almost knows.
So he hears it.
And then he's got
these big glasses
that just, like,
his eyes are so magnified.
And so he hears it.
And then he just
immediately looks at us like,
because, like,
even the wrinkle
of a smile,
he is just going to be,
he's over the moon.
Oh, that's great.
Yeah.
He's good at cursing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Dad's good at cursing.
He is.
Yeah.
He always said it's overused.
You need to do it well.
Yeah.
And it's good that your kids
are doing it well.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Well done.
Yeah, well done.
Well done, Dad.
And, yeah, I mean,
we're really hopeful.
Oh, the other thing is
we did a road race.
I went,
it was 5K.
Yeah.
And the 10-year-old
wanted to do it.
And we're really happy
that he did it.
He did it with a friend.
And, you know,
bad.
He did bad.
He's 10.
He's never run.
I think he was, like,
really excited.
I don't think he realized,
like, that 3.1 miles
is a lot of time to run.
Right, sure.
But then the 8-year-old
also wanted to do it.
And we were like,
oh, because you don't
want to tell your kid,
like, you can't.
Right.
Like, you're not good
enough to do it.
Yeah.
That's good parenting.
Yeah, but we were like,
you should do it.
Great, you should do it.
And he,
I mean,
I love him so much.
I think out of
1,731 runners,
he finished 1,730.
No, again, he's 8.
Yeah.
I think he might have
stopped for, like,
multiple,
I think he might have,
like, stopped at the
water table for a good
long time.
Do you think he wants
to know who 1,731 is
so he can go rub it in?
Oh, yeah.
Knowing him,
he probably would.
Yeah.
He probably waited
at the finish line
and was like,
ah, eat my dust.
Oh, so one other thing
is we're going to bring
out a guest real quick.
We're also,
when we finish with that,
we are going to open it up
if anybody has any questions.
We're going to have
somebody come around
with a microphone.
We'd love to hear
anything you have to ask.
Also, maybe you'll say,
I don't have a question,
but I have a family trip story.
We'd love to hear that, too.
So we kind of leave it up to you
if you want to start
thinking about that.
And do, quick caveat,
like, if you have
a good family trip story,
if you have a good story
and you can keep it
kind of tight,
think, like,
90 seconds, two minutes,
and, uh. Yeah, if you've been on a trip,
that's not enough.
Right.
Yeah.
I think the expectation
is that we kind of all have.
Yeah, we want those stories
that are like,
oh, we talk about this story
years later
because it was so good.
Right.
This is lore.
Yes.
There was somebody,
actually, during the road race,
for real,
somebody ran next to me
and he was, like,
running with me
and he goes,
hey, my wife called in
a family trip
to a listener episode.
And I'm just like,
not. No.
He didn't medal.
He medaled
in his age group.
I didn't technically medal.
I finished top five.
Top five.
Top five.
Top five in my age group.
Right.
No, that's all right.
I was saying
that I've learned the trick
to finally having
athletic success
is just wait
for the herd to thin.
Just get older.
It turns out
a lot of guys my age
just don't want to run.
Yeah?
Yeah, and that's how I went.
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- All right, so we're very excited.
We have a local joining us here.
She used to work at my show at late night.
Photo researcher.
And now she works for NBC 10.
She left our show to come work for her local news station
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Please welcome Sheila Watko, everybody.
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The big couch.
Kick back.
Oh, I meant to, I had a plan in my head.
I was going to sing along with the theme song,
and I got too excited.
That's okay.
Now, for anybody who doesn't believe that Sheila
is actually from Philly,
we're going to let her talk for a second.
Did you guys get your water backstage?
We did, we did.
Thank you.
So, Sheila, what part of Philly are you from?
I'm from, okay, I'm fake.
I'm from Glenside.
So, it's Montgomery County.
Okay, it doesn't seem like it's that face.
G-side, G-side, let's go.
Okay.
So, I'm like a suburban girl.
Okay, you're a suburban girl,
and you grew up in the Philly area.
Yes.
And you have two siblings.
Two siblings.
I'm the oldest of three girls.
Okay.
Yes.
Celine is here tonight, I believe.
She's the middle sister.
The youngest one is, oh, yeah, there she is.
The youngest is Grace.
So, Sheila, Celine, and Grace,
and Grace is in California right now for a wedding.
Okay, gotcha.
Loved growing up with two sisters.
And was Philly a place you would come,
would you come visit Philly from where you grew up?
Yes, but it was a very special,
special occasion.
So, now I live in Center City,
but when I first moved here,
I was 20, almost 29 years old,
and really, like, we would come down to see a show,
like, twice a year, and get dinner,
and go back home.
Or maybe come down for,
my mom was big on Christmas cards.
So, like, art museum steps,
we'd run up the steps like Rocky,
and it would say, like,
I hope your Christmas rocks or something.
Oh, you would come in, you would take your own.
Who would take the photo
if your whole family had to be in it?
My mom, she would not appear in it.
She would make us do a whole photo shoot,
and we dreaded that day every year.
Okay, so your dad wasn't in either.
It was, like, a kid's photo shoot.
It was a kid's photo shoot, yes.
Okay, gotcha.
Now they've added themselves in.
Gotcha.
Yes.
Were you dressed in a way
that you were happy about
in those Christmas cards?
You know, yeah.
Okay.
A lot of Gap kids,
that was big in the Watco household.
I feel like usually matching,
or a t-shirt in different colors,
but the same design.
Gotcha.
Yeah.
Do you think your parents lived here
because they knew Sheila Watco
would be just the most fun thing to say
with a Philly accent?
Actually, when I first started it,
NBC10, my news director at the time,
wanted me to change my name.
Really?
And then he said,
what's your middle name?
And I said, oh, Irene.
And he was like,
well, think of something.
But I argued to keep my name
because I'm the only one.
He wanted you to switch out Sheila?
Sheila Watco.
He didn't like Watco or Irene.
But I'm the only one on Facebook,
so I like to say
I'm the only Sheila Watco in the world.
Yeah.
That's fantastic.
It's such a funny point of view to have
that somebody's like,
they're not gonna wanna hear traffic
from a Sheila Watco.
Sheila Watco.
Wait, and real quick,
this is for anybody who's wondering,
what are your hours
being a traffic reporter?
Yes, so we start at 3.30.
That's when we have our first meeting.
That's in the morning.
I take it on teams.
That's in the morning, yes.
And then I usually work
until around 11.30,
sometimes 12,
sometimes earlier.
Sometimes I'll work later or earlier,
but usually 3.30 to 11.30.
Okay, gotcha.
Yeah.
That sounds so fun.
It's not good.
And I guess the wonderful thing
would be at that hour,
no traffic.
No traffic.
And you know what?
Just get right into the office.
I actually don't drive.
So I'm the traffic reporter,
but I don't drive
I don't have a car.
Really?
And one time my old boss said,
don't ever say that,
but now you guys know.
So you worked at late night
and then you were like,
I bet I can go later.
Exactly.
I bet I can go later than this.
And so,
but so real quick,
you were working for us.
You were a photo researcher
at late night
and it is,
I just remember
when you hear like,
oh, you know Sheila
who works for us?
I'm like, of course.
They're like,
she's leaving to go do traffic
back in Philly.
It's so funny
when somebody leaves
to do a job
that is so specific
but how did it come about
that you did it?
So I was working
at late night
and that was Monday
through Friday
and on weekends,
before I worked
at late night
for a year and a half,
I worked at 95.5 PLJ
in New York.
It doesn't exist anymore.
So then I got a job
on the weekends
at new 1027.
So when I was working
for you on the weekends,
I would do that
just for travel money
because we had great vacation time
at late night
and that would be
my vacation money
and I learned
to do traffic
on the radio
and I was supposed
to be the fill-in
for Friday
for Fox 5 New York.
It didn't pan out.
They were like,
we don't have a green screen.
We're not going to make a demo.
It was very weird.
So I was like,
I'm going to take matters
into my own hands
and there was a position
open on the NBC
internal careers website
and I applied
like kind of as a joke
and then got it.
I was like,
oh, I don't think
I want to move.
I love working here
but I did
and I do miss it.
I loved working at late
night.
It was awesome.
The team,
all my friends are there.
I made so many
of my best friends.
It's a great team.
Well, we miss you
but we're very happy you're here.
Thank you, thank you.
So the Wacos growing up,
where did the Wacos go
on family vacations?
Great question.
So we did a few.
And probably one
that you knew was coming.
Some of our guests
seemed surprised by it.
Some of our guests
were shocked.
They're like, oh.
We would do a few.
My grandparents,
my dad's parents
had a shore house
and that's a thing
in Philly.
You go down the shore.
We would do that sometimes
but other than that,
our main thing,
we're a Disney family.
Okay, gotcha.
So world or land?
So world.
Okay.
World.
And we are Disney adults
but the normal kind.
The cool kind.
Is there such a,
make some noise
if you're a normal
Disney adult.
Hey!
Make some noise
if you're a Disney adult
and you know it
a little weird.
Yeah, you know.
You know.
You're like, yeah,
I'm not trying to be normal.
I'm a Disney adult.
Okay, but when,
we've talked a lot
about this in the pod
of like my kids
but like do you remember
how old were you
the first time you went?
So my dad's in the,
he's not in the Navy anymore
but he was in the Navy
for a while
for 30 years.
So we lived in Pensacola
briefly and I believe
I was taken a few times
as a baby
the first time I was
I remember it was first grade.
Okay.
It was first grade, fourth grade, eighth grade,
then every other year pretty much since then.
Would you always stay in the same place?
Yes.
So there is, this is why we were able to go so often.
There's Shades of Green.
It's the military hotel.
Air Five, my friend.
Yes.
Oh, she didn't do it.
Air Five, there we go.
So you two don't know each other.
You just confidently yelled out Shades of Green.
So the military has a hookup at Disney.
On property.
And you get the best discounts.
You can get like five or six days of park hopping tickets
for like $300, which at Disney is a very good deal.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah.
And how long has Fields of Green existed?
That's, okay, that's a good question.
What's it called?
Shades.
Shades of Green.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Disney adults.
You're right.
Fields of Green is an idiotic name.
That's a really good question.
I want to say it's existed in some form
since like the 70s.
I think it used to be called the Disney Villas,
but as a military resort, I think 90s and 2000s.
Okay, gotcha.
Yeah.
And so you would go to Shades of Green.
And so how, and was it a multi-night extravagant?
Okay.
Usually a week.
And we had so much fun.
We loved it so much.
The thing about the Shades of Green is,
one of the perks, it's directly across
from one of the deluxe resorts, the Polynesian.
Really nice.
And you used to be able to walk across the road
and use the monorail.
Okay.
Which was a really nice part.
They have since shut that down,
which I think is a slight on the military families,
but that's just me.
Yep.
Disney adult, I'm so sorry.
But yes, you used to be able to walk across the road.
And when we did, you would walk through different room blocks
and they had different names like Tonga,
Great Ceremonial House,
and you'd walk past the pool.
Now the Shades of Green has two pools.
They are perfectly lovely.
Standard, the Polynesian pool.
There is a volcano slide.
It's zero entry, so it looks like it's the ocean.
And we were like, we want to go to that pool.
What is zero entry?
Zero entry is when it starts like this as it gets deeper,
so it's like you're walking into the ocean.
Yep, yep, got it, got it.
And they had sand on the floor.
Oh my gosh.
So my dad was like, well, we could pool hop.
Right.
Now, something about the Watco girls,
we are goody-two-shoe nerd rule followers.
Yes.
Because our mother is a goody-two-shoe nerd rule follower as well.
So she was horrified.
She said, you can't pool.
Pool hop, that's against the rules.
That's terrible.
It's impossible.
And then my dad got more excited.
And we were like, this is the coolest thing ever.
Our dad's going to let us pool hop.
It's not that big a deal.
But we thought, this was 2006, we thought it was groundbreaking.
Mom's like, you can't, you can't.
She was trying to convince us not to.
And she was like, well, what if they ask,
what room you're staying in?
Without a beat, my dad goes, Tonga 26C.
Great.
And we're like, we don't even know if that's the format.
It's usually not two digits.
It's usually not a letter.
I think that's like what,
how they did the phone board on Mad Men.
It's like, hello, Tonga 26B.
She was horrified.
So my dad said, okay, well,
it actually follows the rules of the reasonable man theory.
And we're like, what is this?
He made it up.
And he said, there's three postulates
to the reasonable man theory.
First of all, if it's not hurting anyone,
it's probably okay.
Okay.
Okay, yeah.
If it's not inconvenience anyone, it's probably okay.
And three, there's always usually a way around the rules.
And with that,
that convinced us.
I love how unreasonable the reasonable man theory is.
It's very, very debatable.
You feel like the reasonable man theory
should end with everybody here going like,
uh-huh.
And instead you're like, whoa, what?
Even more questions.
And we did it.
We pool hopped.
It was awesome.
Our mom did not.
She stayed at the Shades of Green pool and read her book.
But in the years since,
we pool hopped every time since then.
What's the moment like when you walk in?
Is there like, you throw,
you just walk by lounge chairs and you throw towels down
and you just get in the pool and it's like disappear.
So you wear your clothes over your bathing suit
so no one knows what you're up to
when you're walking across that street
into the other property.
And you walk right in, you claim a chair,
you just act like you own the place.
Yeah.
That's probably also part of the reasonable man.
And then we would get a drink,
like they have these non-alcoholic pina coladas for kids.
We would get those.
Yeah.
It was fantastic.
And every, no mom does join us now,
but she stresses out every time.
Yeah.
Every single time.
And we-
It's an addictive crime.
Oh, yes.
This isn't something you retired years ago.
You're just going to admit it on a podcast.
I will say too,
the youngest one in our family is 29 and a half
and we are still loving this and get a thrill.
Also that you're still saying 29 and a half.
29 and a half.
That's the reasonable woman theory.
Yeah.
You round down.
Yeah.
I like that, Seth.
I like that.
I like to think of your mom just being so nervous
at the Shades of Green hotel without her family sitting
reading a book.
And anytime somebody walking by her
just yelling out a cover story nobody asked for.
Yes.
Just being like,
I don't know where they are.
I think the park.
We also make her like sneak into movies.
I'm 36.
I don't need to be sneaking into a movie for $13,
but we make her and she can't.
She says,
oh, good morning.
Good morning to everyone.
We're like, mom, you got to play it cool.
But she's not,
she doesn't like to play it cool.
What is it?
She says good morning to people in a movie theater?
Someone over working at the popcorn stand.
Good morning.
We're like, mom.
Oh,
just be friendly.
I just want,
because I feel like you don't know.
Like,
it sounds like your mom's like the only like,
she's the reasonable,
just like the only real member of society.
And your family's like,
I mean,
it's all like at some point,
somebody's got to follow norms.
And then,
so my sisters and I all ended up also working in Disney.
And like,
I would on my days off,
pull hop.
And they've made it harder.
Now,
in theory,
you can't pull hop.
That's all I'll say.
There's only,
there's one resort you literally can't because they check your IDs at the gate.
Gotcha.
That's the beach club.
Gotcha.
All right.
So wait,
you did,
wait,
did you say your sister worked at Disney?
All three of us did.
Oh,
where did you work?
So I worked on the jungle cruise.
I was skipper Sheila.
Okay.
Great.
Great job.
Like a really good job for you.
It was a great job for me.
It was so one time someone came up and they were like,
you know,
you really should work on SNL.
And I was like,
thank you.
It's a script.
I didn't write it.
And I was just like,
Oh my God,
thank you so much.
And it gave me such a high,
but I didn't write any of those jokes,
but there's so,
but the jungle cruise is a very tightly scripted and it is,
uh,
they're comedic moments.
Yes.
It's a 10 minute cruise through a fake for fake jungles.
And there's fake animals.
A lot of people get upset.
They're like,
these are plastic.
And I'm like,
yes,
for the next 10 minutes.
And I'm so sorry.
You waited in that line.
We couldn't get a real two can to do.
What we wanted it to do on cue.
Exactly.
Exactly.
We had to build them.
So can I just ask you a question?
So how many jungle cruises would you do in a given day?
Yes.
Okay.
My record was 32.
And that was in a 16 hour shift.
We were paid minimum wage,
which in 2012 was like $7 in Florida.
And they would just be like,
can we extend you?
And I'll be like,
okay.
And they have extra magic hours.
So you're there until 2:00 AM.
And the fun thing is later in the night,
it's.
Mostly just adults.
So on my break,
I could ride someone else's cruise.
If I had time to change and some of them get bold and
they would make it like jungle after dark,
I didn't,
I'm a goody two shoe rule follower.
Yeah.
So I'm sticking to that script.
Would you ever ad lib?
Would you get,
you would go off.
I had two jokes.
I was really proud of.
So could you tell them in 2012,
remember there was like the meme.
It was like,
gingers don't have souls.
I'm so sorry to any redheads,
but that was very funny to millennials.
I was 22 years old at the time.
And there's a scene where you go past.
Two alligators.
And you say,
Oh,
wave hi to old smiley.
That's his girlfriend,
ginger.
Watch out.
Ginger snaps.
She's a real tough cookie.
Sorry.
I'm just milking it.
You say that every time,
every 10 minutes,
but I would add,
Oh,
also ginger doesn't have a soul and millennials loved it.
As comedians,
you're probably like,
Oh God.
But as millennials,
they loved it.
And then also hunger games,
movies were out at the time.
And when the fireworks went off,
this didn't always happen.
It didn't line up with your cruise,
but if you were in the jungle and you couldn't see the fireworks
in,
they were going off.
I would be like,
Oh my God,
the poor tributes.
Cause it sounded like the cannons.
Thank you.
I was really proud of that one.
Everything else.
I was very on the script.
I mean,
were you ever,
I mean,
doing it 32 times in a day,
was that pushing you towards the cusp of a mental breakdown?
Yes.
There was a point in the ride where you get to this elephant pool.
It's towards the end.
And very often I would just,
and you're in the temple and you come out and in the temple,
you're allowed to not talk for like 60 seconds.
And then I would come out and just be like,
if you look over there,
there's the elephant,
his name is Donald trunk.
And like it was 2012,
it was 2012 simpler time.
That was one of the scripted jokes,
but I would just be like thousand yard stare.
But it was overall looking back a fun experience.
How so a fun experience.
Do you,
was that a ride jungle cruise,
which I'm sure I did once in my life.
I think that's the appropriate amount of time.
Um,
and you know,
I don't really have a memory of it,
but did you,
did you feel like,
was that a ride that people were ultimately happy to be on?
Do you think that that was a fun one?
That's a very good question because Disney fans love it.
People who don't know what it is do not.
And I'd say more often than not,
I am playing to a boat of you fit 40,
35 to 40 people on the boat.
If you load it properly,
I was good at loading it.
And,
um,
usually everyone's just like,
and maybe one person's giving a really nice pity laugh.
Yeah.
And then sometimes you get old skippers who would whisper the jokes,
punch,
before you get to it and that was really irritating.
- Oh my God.
ride it i'm like i know the feeling yeah do you think when someone is giving a jungle cruise and
someone's reacting like that they just know they're like oh they used to have this job
the only people that react like this used to have this job they know what it's like they feel we
i brought my son on a duck boat ride in anybody on the boston duck boat ever um really fun and
there was just like an old salt boston guy with like a boston accent he his comedy was he was
wearing a boston bruins jersey uh and he kept he's introduced himself as bobby orr but the back
of his jersey was spelled o-a-r kids love that joke kids love that they love word play kids love
just bobby orr stuff they just love bobby orr stuff right that's the thing like no point of
context to bobby orr then he's like literally looking at my 10 year old he's like you know
the famous picture of bobby orr my son's like i have no idea what anything uh but the best thing
in that ride because i feel like you know
it was less i think he had his scripted jokes i did not think his script was like all the duck
boat jokes which is i remember that thing where like uh there was a guy in the boat who said he
said anybody here from boston and a guy said i went to harvard and then the rest of the boat
ride he called that guy harvard and before everything he's like now in uh 1787 why don't
you tell us what happened here harvard and it was just just the best comedy and i was like oh there's
people in boston we're like if your name last name's sullivan your nickname's like sully and
if you went to harvard your nickname's harvard yeah like just like across the board there's one
of our favorite amusement parks is in the south of holland called the efteling and there is like
this lazy boat ride and there is something nice about in a day of going on sort of thrill rides
just taking a break and getting on a boat and just let being pulled around but that i will say
and this is where i have empathy for you like that boat ride you don't have to like
watch a performance there's no you're just being pulled around yeah but it's lovely i sometimes
just get stressed out when i feel like i have to watch yeah performance yeah yeah but after 32 times
in a day you're probably pretty good at yeah that's true yeah i would imagine so uh and what
did your sisters do at disney so celine was friends with some characters okay okay you know
what that means is that like you you're like hey we gotta get you out of here yeah like this is like
no i think it means that like for example is there an age limit in the room um okay i just don't like
to ruin it for kids okay yeah okay i'm very you can't ruin the magic all right but kids will
listen and you'll ruin it so that means so basically they're friends with goofy because
goofy is goofy i see goofy right yeah celine was celine but she was friends with doc mcstuffins
and she was friends with mike wazowski and the chipmunks and jake the pirate great um jesse how
uh uh did did her friends ever tell her how hot their heads got yes yes however if you're friends
with a character you also get a really good break schedule it's like 30 on 30 off where i would get
a 15 minute break in a six eight hour shift and my break room was outside so you don't have to
feel that bad for them gotcha they have a nice little room where they can stretch but would you
have traded places so it's a little point of contention because i did audition three times
she got it on the first try and i never got it you
were not offered a job being a friend of a character what do you think you were doing wrong
i think i was trying too hard in the dance audition and i wasn't that great yeah where
celine embraced it and there was a double pirouette that i was trying and failing and
she instead did like a little like like a russian jump thing yeah they loved it yeah so then done
so they their basic takeaway was like if kids saw one of these characters moving the way that
you were moving it would be a disconcerting yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
they're like their experience will be lame it is not worth the disney ticket money my uh daughter
and i were somewhere where uh there was a uh somebody was in a shark uh mascot costume and
uh we went over to get a picture and the shark uh held addy's hand and uh then when it was over
she goes and she goes i think there's a person in there
and i said why and she goes i felt fingers
real sherlock it was great but it was like i liked that she was like i don't know if we should
tell everybody else but that's a person dad that's not a shark so i i respect the you know not giving
away uh and then so you had one uh one friend and then what was the other and then grace worked at
the bippity boppity boutique okay so she would do little girl's hair and nails um every single
day there was at least one case of lice she told me okay wow they did a whole thing they
be like oh let's put your hair up like ariel and they were checking for lice let's do a braid down
the middle like and they're checking for lice um but she really enjoyed it and they had very
cute costumes yeah that's when they need the friend you thought it was that escorts people
oh my god you're so cute what's your name amanda amanda we got a special place in the
bippity bop and then they just walk you out a door and you're in the parking lot
uh what is it's like when you would work there though how long would you work there would you
so i worked there so i did the disney college program that's what we all did but i did it the
semester after i graduated so i worked there for seven months um june through january so you kind
of got every season it does get your body acclimates i guess but in december i would wear
like four turtlenecks and put hand warmers in my hands and my shoes and my bra and everywhere just
to like stay warm because it did get cold back there in the jungle in the jungle it's a man-made
river and one time tom cruise came on the jungle cruise
oh my god
and i helped him and suri in the boat and do you guys remember the band carmen
they sang brokenhearted yeah i've been waiting okay i was gonna sing it for you so okay you
saved everyone the more you sing the more we're agreeing with where disney landed
hey you wanted to make the right choice the jungle cruise is great they rode my boat and
they're really nice now she goes by queen herbie i believe but um yeah they were really nice and
i was like staring at them and just like i know i'm gonna i'm gonna go out on a limb and say that
tom cruise was a very giving audience
i bet he was too so he was my friend sienna was his skipper but i did help them step into the boat
because you every two boats you get out and you work a land position okay gotcha but he was i will
say they did two trips around it was just him and his daughter but he waved to everyone in line he
smiled for pictures in line like he seemed like he knows he knows the job he knows the job and he i
kind of i appreciated that like people were excited to see him he knew that um and liam um oh r.i.p
liam pain from one direction i saw him and i was like oh my god i'm gonna go out on a limb and say
hi i'm gonna go out on a limb and say hi i'm gonna go out on a limb and say hi i'm gonna go out on a limb
there got some 1d fans yeah um there's definitely other people who came through but it was very it
was always do you think tom cruise was disappointed they weren't real animals
definitely yes it was the best job it was so fun and um i will say my parents are here too the
reasonable man himself yes yes the actually reasonable woman great and they're great and
she's a really fun theme park buddy she just gets very stressed to pull up yeah fair enough i am a
rule follower my wife is not a rule follower yeah you were a rule follower and my wife is not a
rule okay so me alexi mckenzie we'll do a little girls day yeah think about uh not uh being married
to someone who does not follow the rules it's incredibly uh stressful but then you often like
reap the rewards yeah but we feel like you feel weird about it you feel weird about it but like
my my wife is also just like stubborn and like uh just like won't take no for an answer and the
like at a restaurant
where I'm like,
just this table is fine.
And then she'll just like
wear down this.
No, she's one of those.
She's one of those.
But then like we end,
it's like I get the best
of both worlds
because like I end up
at a fucking kick-ass table.
But I also get to look
at the waitstaff
and be like,
oh my God, I know, right?
And like,
and they're like,
oh, it must be hard.
I'm like, it is hard.
And then I'm like,
this view is amazing.
When you,
we can stay on Disney,
but also when you would
go to the shore,
what were those?
That's by the way,
just something we've learned
is when you're talking
to a Disney adult,
you need to make sure
you say things like,
we can stay on Disney.
We promise.
Because a Disney adult,
if they feel as though
you're changing the subject,
before they're done
talking about Disney,
they sometimes can get aggressive.
Yeah.
So feel free.
You can push back.
You can push back here
and you'll get no pushback
from me.
But when you would go
to the shore,
what shore is that?
We would go down the shore.
We went to Sea Isle
growing up.
And then I think
they sold the house
maybe,
when I was like 14-ish.
And we've been to Ocean City
for day trips a few times.
We're also a Margaritaville family.
So once a year,
we usually go to the
Margaritaville and AC.
Just then we go for lunch
and come back.
And we take my grandma.
She likes the drink
called the Incomunicado.
And it's like
a Long Island iced tea.
Great.
So we put her in a wheelchair.
I'm hoping a grandma
only does one Incomunicado.
She usually does two,
but we drive her.
Okay, gotcha.
And we push the wheelchair
or the walker
to help her out.
She comes to Disney too.
I'm not just going back
to Disney.
No, no, no, you're not.
But she does come with us.
Oh my God,
this is so shocking
that we're back here.
Oh yeah,
we used to go to the shore.
And then my dad,
being in the Navy,
growing up,
he retired 10 years ago.
But we used to go.
He would be in the reserves
for most of his career.
And he would be stationed
in Virginia Beach.
So we went there a few times.
We went to Annapolis,
the Naval Academy.
And then mostly Disney.
My sisters and I,
we like to travel together.
I actually like traveling
with my family and my sisters
so much that otherwise
I really don't want to travel.
solo travel. I've done a few trips with Emily Rodas from Seth Meyers
we went on a trip together a few of my other friends um i'm trying to think if i went with
other seth friends i don't think so but a few different other friends usually i travel solo
if i can't go with my sisters so i'm guessing just based on the reaction a lot of people here
in this audience will know what a shore vacation is i don't feel like we quite know so uh and feel
free to hiss and boo if she gets it wrong but what is when you say the shore because i think a lot of
us like you know we we probably have like you know we know about the jersey shore for like all the
wrong reasons yes yes but what is a what was a jersey shore vacation be with you and your family
i will say so i think like when you think of jersey shore you probably think of like northern
jersey like seaside heights maybe they call it central jersey i might get yelled at for that
the south jersey shores are they're more chill it's honestly don't get mad it's not super my
style because a lot of it is sitting on the beach i burn very easily i don't like the water because
i'm scared of sharks but the boardwalk
if you can get close enough and grab a fin the only downside is if you don't feel fingers at that
point game over yeah swim you're way too close you've basically done their job for them yeah
otherwise it's like i feel like you just go i guess people when you're older i don't really
go as an adult but like probably drink with your friends on the beach um a lot of it is the same
people go time and time again so i think there's a camaraderie it's like
seeing your shore neighbors you rent the same house or in the same street um so it's a very
sweet tradition we just i did i never really fully did it because we would hang out with my
grandparents they would take us to like their favorite restaurants it was really cute but i
just only did it as a kid really gotcha so i'm a i'm basically the worst person now uh but no i
want to go back to the incommunicado um because i remember uh when you talked about too we once
went on a trip to bruges in belgium yes and there was this uh brewery where
they the beer was so the alcohol content was so high for the beer yeah that they would only serve
you two beers and that was it you were cut off after two and it was by the way you would take
these crazy steps to get up there and they were like old uh like slippery rock because they'd
just been like worn down over years it was like an old monastery and mom was so mad when they cut
her off yeah she was bullshit she was bullshit we say about mom that she's bullshit when she's mad
and then she made you remember because dad only had one beer she's like order your second
she made dad order a second beer and like by the way the waiters saw what she was doing and
it was just at this point he's like what can he do you know yeah and we like we played hearts we
were a big hearts family and so we were playing hearts there and then there was a salvador dali
exhibit yeah and there was there's some famous sculpture in a church something like that and
we wanted to go to the dali and they wanted to see the sculpture and we got up to leave and we're so
yeah like we kind of didn't know what was happening because we were just playing cards
and then when we stood up it was like oh yeah this is problematic meanwhile mom's going down
the steps two at a time yeah but then i was i mean then we went and looked at this dali stuff
and like i mean everything's melting anyhow and that added on top of the belgian monk beer yeah
it was uh yeah wild day in bruges hey we're gonna take a quick break and hear from some of our
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uh so you guys uh did you ever go overseas
with your family when you were young we did no not till um 10 years ago so i was 25 my dad had
just retired from the navy for 30 years captain ed wako very proud of him um my selene had just
graduated college and grace had just graduated high school so like let's do a family trip my
mom and i just like yeah let's go just along for the ride so we went to um it was our first time
overseas as a family we went to italy and germany and we had so much fun my mom is very she's so
this is why she gets stressed out about breaking the rules she's very bad at ignoring the street
vendors oh yes so in rome there's so many street vendors she came home with fake purses with these
little like things you fling in the air and they light up and i remember there was a guy selling
scarves and he's like so beautiful bella bella like you need a scarf and she's like oh we're
going to dinner but we're gonna be back in one hour bye and he's like no no please and she's
looking at us and she's giggling so then we're giggling and my dad is like
no we can't but thank you but it's oh let me look oh it's so pretty she walked away with a five
dollar fake burberry scarf oh my god this is so heartbreaking she wasn't at comic-con when josh was
trying to sell these headshots yeah what a dream what a dream he did not get a single uh mamawako
that whole day she would have oh she would have bought the whole thing she feels so bad she gets
she loves she's not good at not talking to people so like you're nice to her if her big thing is oh
she probably said about you guys they seem nice to moms and that's if someone's nice to moms that's
like the highest i've always my my demo has always been girlfriends mothers yeah uh not the girlfriends
haven't always liked me but their mothers sure have yeah um what uh how did you get from place
to place italy and germany um we took the train it was beautiful which i guess we took the train
from we went to rome florence and venice and then i think we took the train to it was oh actually
callback. Oh my gosh.
You took a jungle cruise.
The
shades of green the military hotel there's actually four of them orlando disney property hawaii south
korea and garmisch parton kirken and that one's called edelweiss so we stayed at edelweiss the
military hotel that's great and we were like oh my god it's the german shades of green we were really
excited about that and oh my gosh they had sorry i'm just taking it away i've no please no please
you're you're our guest once a week they have karaoke night at this place called zuggies base
camp and i am not a good singer but i love karaoke but my family doesn't really do it but
they're like we'll watch sheila my parents are like and so i did karaoke and the man hosting it
i'm guessing he was retired and this was like his fun job based on his age um which is great
but he was very into karaoke he took it very seriously um most people were doing ballads
which isn't always the karaoke vibe if it's like celine diana sing along
it was like blue bayou so i was like i'm gonna knock their socks off and sing goodbye earl
um by the chicks yeah and i'm not gonna lie like it kind of brought the house down just because it
was boring before that so the man was like sheila we need to do a duet do you know meatloaf paradise
by the dashboard light and i said actually that's another go-to it's just so long that i don't
usually pick it so we sang it and there's that long interlude in the middle with all the baseball
analogies yeah the phil risotto yeah oh no not right that
like a baseball announcer right yeah and so he i'm not a sports girl he was like all right come
come here come here and he like ran me to a closet off stage and he's like all right mess up your
hair and like fix your buttons and make and he was not creepy i cannot stress enough it was
wholesome because he was committed to this performance yeah he took the art of karaoke
so seriously and we we we did it we were in character as meatloaf i forget the woman's
name who sings it but yeah it is so funny to think about it
if this had happened in a workplace setting just like a man saying to hr like it wasn't creepy
i take karaoke very seriously this was a do you know the song
i think if you listen to the song you'll understand this was not creepy
um yes that's fantastic so how long was that trip how long that was two weeks and
actually celine left i i sound so annoying she left halfway through to do the disney college
she was not with us in germany just for italy right and um in rome also we had this amazing
airbnb it was called pantheon in the window jean luca lovely host and it looked at the pantheon
but before the pantheon there was this little rooftop and there were these little like chubby
birds we love animals so we just loved the little chubby birds every day they were like playing with
each other and rolling around and when we left rome we were going around like what's your favorite
part of the trip and my mom said my favorite part of rome was the little birds she's very wholesome
yeah that's great but then it was like what's your favorite part of the trip and my mom said
it was a little bit less funny when she opened her suitcase and she brought home multiple little
birds her favorite of the who were not native to this part of the country and have been a real
problem tsa was like uh is there a problem with that um uh that's fantastic so uh wait what was
the other question oh what about your trip to annapolis tell us about that oh i was little
we went with um my parents friends and they i remember they had two little boys who were younger
than me and my mom loved all of us and like wanted to hold her hand and he was like three he was so
cute peyton and spencer um but i remember we went to the naval academy and we just thought it was so
cool and i think we like were confused we're like did dad go here no but he was in the navy and like
we didn't really get the rules but we liked the trip um virginia beach i remember i was very scared
because the year before there was a news story about like a shark attack so i was very scared
back to this this is a real issue for you yeah it's a recurring theme yeah and then selena and i
and i too but celine and i actually went to bruges because you had said once your favorite movie is
in bruges i love the movie bruges i don't know if you've ever seen a bridge selene won't watch she
still hasn't watched it she's like i'll get to it we went to bruges and she hadn't seen it so you
have to tell her to watch it celine watch it it's a good movie watch it celine celine celine watch it
was that good enough yeah that's gotta be good enough i will say uh i don't know if anybody
it is my favorite movie it's great and uh i went
to i dragged my wife to bruges uh because i wanted to go to bruges after seeing the movie in bruges
and we got in the train station we got in a taxi and the speed in which the taxi driver clocked me
as a guy who was only there because he liked the movie in bruges was so embarrassing because
i think like for like from like 2009 to 2013 there were just like a lot of dudes who like looked and
acted like me being like oh this is from this scene and there's a moment where somebody falls
off the uh a clock tower
and then they land on the ground and they are able to give a dying declaration
to the you know and uh this you know belgian cab drivers like i will tell you this much
i've seen a couple people fall off that clock tower you would not be able to say anything
they did not they were not they did not have any final words and i was like i bet that's
right when i actually saw it i'm like yeah i don't think you like landed or like one more thing
um these are just absolutely fantastic thank you give it up for sheila wako everybody thank you
wait can i be annoying and say two fun facts yes this time last year i was preparing because august
13th i came to studio ag and interviewed you that's correct yes you did and when i left seth
meyers i don't know if you remember this i went to say bye to you in the office and um i told you
as a joke so at late night there i feel like if people cancel last minute you had some friends
like i feel like wolf blitzer was a friend who would come in and like do a last minute thing
and i said as a joke seth if you ever need a last minute guest and you want a local traffic reporter
so when you invited me to do this i was like oh my god seven years ago my wish came true
well it couldn't have gone better for us and it was fantastic but
you still have to uh go through the speed round questions that josh is going to ask
okay okay uh let's see you would think i would know these by now
all right you can only pick one of these is your ideal vacation relaxing adventurous or educational
oh educational uh 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 oh my gosh um i feel like the first one that comes to mind is
like raven baxter's family from that's so raven okay great i feel like that the baxter's would be
fun yeah yeah that's so by the way that answer is so sheila uh if you had to be stranded on
a desert island with one member of your family who would it be probably grace right because
she's not here she's not here my dad probably has the survival skills oh my god yes captain
i don't you'll be very annoyed with me oh okay but i'm gonna go with the navy yeah you're the first
person who's ever answered that question of thinking about it from the other person's
perspective nobody's ever like oh i would definitely bring this person they would not like
it he would be the mvp he'd be like how do i ditch this girl i don't care that she's my daughter
um what is your dream destination for a family vacation oh for a family vacation
i i studied in england probably england newcastle and london
with my whole family great um you're from glenn's side yes if you if you had to get more
families to visit glenside what would you say about it i would say they have the best chai tea
latte i've ever had at keswick coffee and the keswick theater where seth you've performed
yep love the keswick as did i as a elementary schooler um great theater they have great guests
clearly and um it's really cute the the train goes right there it's easy to take public transport and
it's safe and cute all right great great and then also just because we are here in philadelphia
everyone here is from philadelphia what's a good thing to do in philadelphia that's
not one of the classic tourist things because there's so many tourist things but what's
something you love to do in philadelphia okay um well josh and i were talking actually backstage
this is awesome vegan food scene also if you are vegan or vegetarian or just vegan curious delicious
vegan food well we you you said we had to go to a place that josh and i actually went this afternoon
monster vegan yes josh and i went to monster my brother is a vegan and when i go to a different
city i want to go to a cool restaurant but i also love my brother so i'm like i will go to a vegan
restaurant and i looked for best vegan restaurants and there's one i mean hopefully people here know
monster vegan where they it is like a horror themed vegan restaurant which for me is perfect
because i'm horrified that's not true it was delicious i had a philly cheesesteak i knew i
wanted to have a philly cheesesteak and i had you had a vegan chicken steak and uh but it
was great so that was wonderful they project like the twilight zone on the walls yeah we
were watching carrie i feel like that's what you want to watch while you're having lunch
but it's vegan so it's okay yeah it's vegan it's made of plants yeah it's great and i love um i
always recommend either the moodle museum or a ghost tour because everything's like ben wrinklin
haunts this place and it's like does he haunt all six of these buildings but it's fun to learn some
history i mean he did a lot of traveling he did he walked and walked around quite a bit and actually
i believe he was vegetarian okay yeah i learned that yesterday um uh seth has our final questions
sheila have you been to the grand canyon oh my gosh no i haven't because they don't have a
uh shades of green exactly or a margarita bell can you believe it but i enjoy your
stories about the grand but would you want to go i would actually my sister tried to
go as a family trip one time and my mom was like no because a lot of college
couples go there and push each other off.
And Salim was like, well, I'm not gonna push you off.
Are you gonna push me off?
So we have not been as a family.
I would like to go.
I think it'd be fun.
- It's very funny for your mom to say to her children,
I don't wanna go anywhere where there's a ledge.
- But it also sounds so something like
what our mother would say.
People are always pushing each other off of that place.
- Yeah, just like no, you're like,
can you just, I'll give you an hour with your computer.
Find me one pushing story.
- I do like Hillary and Connie.
- This is very similar to me.
I have always said, I remember my dad
for like his whatever birthday,
really his dream was to go up in a hot air balloon
with all of us and I would not do it.
And my reasoning was if anything went wrong,
'cause I feel like you would just know
you were gonna die for too long.
Like, you know, as you're falling
and that whole time would be my mom saying to my dad,
you went to fucking go one night.
Like, it was just too much.
I was like, I'm happy to die in a hot air balloon,
but just not with you guys like fucking.
- There we go.
You guys, this is Sheila Walker.
- Sheila Walker.
- Thank you guys, I'll stick around.
- Yeah, stick around.
- This is the coolest thing
that's ever happened in my career.
So thank you guys.
- She was the best.
And now, so I think Jeff, our producer, Jeff,
is with, is gonna come out or maybe he's already in there.
Where, yeah, Jeff.
- Jeff, make some noise, Jeff.
All right, Jeff's back there.
Put a hand up.
There's one up here, Jeff,
if you can work your way down here.
- He might've found someone already.
- Maybe, oh yeah, I don't mean to.
- Someone with a hand up.
So yes, put your hand up.
- Great, yeah, and Jeff will find you.
And he's coming, there we go.
- I have lots of questions for you guys.
I'm excited.
You really made my drives back and forth to Philly
just the best, wherever I drive.
- Yeah.
- Thank you.
- Really, you're just so quick and so funny.
But anyway, I don't wanna blow your heads up here.
My question is for Sheila.
- Great, great, great.
- What was your first name?
- My first name?
- Yeah.
- Oh, Barbara.
- Oh, hi, Barbara.
- Are you single?
- Yes, yes, I am.
- So I have a 39-year-old son.
- Disney son.
- Great.
Tell me more, Barbara.
If this is how this happens. Oh, my goodness.
It's going to be our last live show.
How are we ever going to top it?
We'll have to have a wedding on the show, on the podcast.
Well, no, we're going to have the wedding at Disney.
I think that's. At the Polynesian.
No sneaking in.
No.
Dream.
By the way, it's like we're all. The wedding's at the Polynesian, but here's the thing.
We're not staying there.
Staying across the street and walking.
Like, just walk in like you know. Like, walk in like you're there.
Because, Seth, if it's not hurting anyone. It's not.
You're a reasonable man.
And the thing is, is that he takes me on all these Disney trips, so I. Oh, you want out.
I want out.
You want out.
Barbara wants out.
She's got to find. This is your. It's like a monkey paw.
You've got to find. No, it's like the ring.
You've got to find somebody else to watch the video.
Oh, my gosh.
So, he works in the business.
Not what you do.
Okay.
But he's in the film business.
I was so worried he was. He works in traffic.
Is he my competitor?
He's a producer.
Okay.
Okay.
I guess I could say he's NFL films.
Oh, my gosh.
Very good.
Oh, my gosh.
That's great.
So, it's not like he's, you know, just a loser at Disney.
Gotcha.
Gotcha.
He's a cool Disney adult.
No.
Yeah.
He's that and other things.
Yes.
He's so much more.
What's your mother's name again?
I'm Connie.
Connie.
Okay.
Well, I think Connie's over here.
So, maybe you need to talk to Connie.
Yeah.
Connie's dream is to set me up.
And this is me.
By the way, very hard. Barbara, thank you so much.
This is going to be very hard to follow.
Wait.
Okay, Barbara has more.
I do have a candy trick, but I don't want to take up. Yeah, no.
I think you have to turn it over.
I think you used your time for matchmaking, and we respect that.
We respect it.
You did great.
We did great.
Barbara, he can DM me.
Yeah, DM me.
At Sheila Watko.
There you go.
There you go.
Don't forget.
Well, how can you forget Sheila Watko, everybody?
There you go.
There's only one.
I'm the only one.
There's only one.
One of one.
And my niece is from Glenside, right behind me.
A Glenside girl.
All right.
Fantastic.
All right, thank you.
All right, Jeff, take the microphone.
I love her.
I love her.
I feel bad she makes her question on me, but I love it.
Anyone else?
What way can I write in to try to get SNL tickets every year?
With that, it's over right now.
Yep.
What is your best advice?
I wish I had any.
And let me stress, my own personal pull to SNL tickets has dried up way faster than I
thought I would, considering I still work in the building, and technically, Lorne Michaels
is my executive producer.
But yeah, it is the hardest thing in the world.
I wish you the best of luck in the lottery.
I wish I had a trick for you.
And yeah, I will only say, if you're ever lucky enough to go.
It's a very, you know, this goes without saying, it's a very cool thing to happen
live, to see live.
I was lucky enough, I was in the audition process, and I got to see it one time before
I worked there, and I'm so glad I got to see it with those eyes before I became jaded and
sad.
But when he was working on that show, I had a lot of friends who were like, hey, can your
brother, could I get tickets to your brother?
And I had a standard response, and it was no.
Yeah.
It was just, it was too hard.
It was too hard.
It was too hard.
Yeah.
Uh, Barbara, I also work at NFL Films.
Oh.
Wow.
That's fantastic.
I wish Barbara had said her son's name so we could ask that guy to vouch for him.
Although I'm guessing, based on Barbara, he knows Barbara's son.
Over here.
Hi.
I'm Margo, and I was on Listener episode 15.
Yeah.
Thank you, Margo.
Wow.
What was your. Can you remind us of your story?
So, what I thought was funny about the story is I told the story, and you put Guido in
Greece as the title of the story, which is my. Oh, yeah, yeah.
It was like you ate something.
It was a. Oh, it was a terrible trip.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah.
But those are good.
Those are good for the show.
Yeah, good story.
Bad trip, good story.
Yeah, yeah.
And the thing you liked best about the story was my cat spooks meowing, if you remember,
and I said, Basta.
Oh, yes.
Basta.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
In the middle of your message.
Exactly.
Yeah, the voicemail.
So, I have an update.
Spooks is dead.
Well, Basta.
Basta, indeed.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sorry for your loss.
Yeah.
Oh, she was awful.
That's the spirit.
It was being pooped everywhere.
Yeah.
Sorry for those who just ate.
Yeah.
So, um. Or those who like cats.
And then the other update is. We're going to give you both a book, and I wanted to welcome you to Philly and give you both a book.
Okay, great.
Jeff, when you come back, will you grab the books?
And thank you so much.
And, you know, I'd say rest in peace to spooks, but it feels like we're pretty happy about it.
She can still get a rest, though.
All right, Jeff is moving around.
These are great.
Thank you, everybody.
Uh-oh, Jeff started moving fast.
Oh, yeah, he did.
That's the first time I've ever seen that.
Jeff, I've never seen Jeff move that fast.
There.
Righteous kill.
Righteous kill.
I grew up with a sister, and so I relate to a lot of what you talk about.
But we always wondered what, like, my family name is Rose.
What a Rose brother would be like?
Like, would he be cool?
Would he try to date my friends?
Would he be a big nerd?
What would a Myers sister have been like?
It's such a good question, and it's so fascinating to watch because, you know, we have. My sons are the exact same a year and day apart.
Two years, 11 days is Josh and I.
So we're the exact same.
And so I felt like I was watching.
I was watching just this carbon copy, and then we threw in a Myers girl, right?
Which was the thing I never had.
And I am so. Again, obviously, you know, any. I think, you know, any sibling's dream is to be close enough with the other one to have a podcast.
So we're doing fine.
But I am jealous of it.
I am jealous that they are getting to spend time with, you know, a girl at a younger age.
And I just feel like they're so sweet.
Sweet with her.
And so I don't know.
I would say, like, birth order obviously matters.
But I feel like a younger Myers sister, if Addie is any indication, would be, like, sort of tough as nails.
Very funny.
But also, you know, not like. You know, she's also very much like a little girl.
Like, she likes her. You know, there's times where she wants to do what the boys are doing.
And there's other times she's, like, thinks it's the most boring thing in the world.
But I think all of their lives are fuller for the fact that. That they, you know, they have brothers and sisters, which is great.
Yeah.
We did. We talked about it when we were younger.
And we, like, thought that we would have been pains in the asses to guys that would try to date our sister.
Yes.
But it was all. It's all very theoretical.
I think. But Addie is so sharp.
Yeah.
And she kind of, like, rules the roost over there.
Yeah.
Addie's latest was she was driving the car.
Driving?
She was driving the car, and that was two days ago?
We don't know where she is.
So she was in her car seat and we were driving down our road and she goes, can I unbuckle?
And I said, you cannot.
And then she goes, can I say something about bad language?
And I said, okay, what do you want to say about bad language?
She goes, when I said unbuckle, I wanted to say fuckle.
But I stopped myself.
And it was just like, good work stopping yourself.
Yeah, she had a bit.
She's doing bits.
We got another one?
All right, my name is Bill.
Hi, Bill.
And I'm one of five kids.
Oh, yeah.
So I have a question for the brothers.
And it's pretty simple.
Did you guys, when you went on your trips, have pissing contests?
Literally or figures?
Gotcha.
I mean, in terms of, like, not a contest, but we did do a thing with our father.
If you were ever, like, at a urinal at, like, a baseball stadium, we would simultaneously pee into the same urinal or into the same toilet.
And any time you did it, what would Dad say?
Pals forever.
And it was just, like, such a bonding thing.
And I still think about pals forever all the time.
Yeah.
We say, I say pals forever with my boys all the time.
Yeah.
It's, like, sometimes, too, like, you would, like, go out and you'd all, like, you'd run home and, like, two of you would, you would, like, run into the bathroom with him.
Yeah.
And, like, you would just, like, pee into the same toilet at home.
Right.
And you'd just be, like, pals forever.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It was, yeah, it was our version of, like, yeah, like, spitting in your hand.
You were mentioning, you were telling me something else that one of the nice details.
One of the nice details of the screened-in porch in regard to that.
Oh, yeah.
If you're, like, if you're sitting out there, which is a beautiful screened-in porch, you're really, like, in the woods and you've got the TV in the corner.
But every now and again, our dad will just, like, saunter out around the sort of, you can see him go along the little wall.
And then he just goes to the edge of the deck and just whizzes off into the woods.
And he's, like, right behind the TV.
So.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You hope the crickets can drown out the noise.
Yeah.
And not that they're being drowned.
Right.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's one.
You could just pass the mic one over.
Hi.
I have a story.
I just wanted to say, I told all my friends I was going to tell you I love you so much.
Oh, thank you.
I'm a huge fan who watched you from SNL from day one, watch your show every single night, go to bed.
And I love nothing more than Thanksgiving with your family.
Oh, that's the best.
Thank you.
You guys are lovely.
Your children are adorable.
Thank you.
It's really.
You know, it was it was sort of borne out of necessity.
Not really.
But we, you know, it's hard to book Thanksgiving shows because obviously people with their
family and my producer was like, what if we have your family on as guests for the Thanksgiving
show?
And so it is now a tradition and it's whatever, 12th year, 13th year.
I don't know how long you've been doing it.
Yeah, I know.
Your show.
It's this will be 13.
So this will be our 13 Thanksgiving.
But the other thing is our Thanksgiving show is every year.
It is.
The highest rated show we have.
Now, the reason it's the highest rated show we have is.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Yeah.
NBC has a Thanksgiving football game at eight o'clock at night that 60 million people watch
that game.
And then because of that are we have the highest rating of the year because people just forget
to turn their TV off or they fall asleep.
Yeah.
Like just like the turkey.
And then it just like stays on.
So it's very, very clearly about the NFL.
And try telling that.
To my parents.
No, by the way, Larry and Hillary are like, I don't think so.
But they're very happy about the fact that they are every year.
And by the way, I will say I'm very happy.
It's, you know, it's incredible for me to have Josh and have my parents on.
I love that.
It's something people look forward to outside of me.
And then, yeah, this last year, my my children were on and did a great job.
They were all they were all the best versions of themselves, which doesn't always happen.
So.
And then.
Hi, I'm Linda.
Hi, Linda.
I grew up in Chutney.
I'm at this park.
So I'm not real happy about Chutney right now, but it was good back then.
So a couple of things.
One is we have a fabulous.
If it doesn't work out, Barbara, this young lady at our table, it's fabulous.
And she's looking.
He has two dates.
Is he even here?
He's not even here.
That's why you can do this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
OK, great.
Great.
OK.
So.
So being back to the 1960s before you were born.
Yeah.
OK.
Well, it's hard to think.
It is.
Yeah.
About.
So three kids in the back.
Mom and dad in front of a big new Electra 225.
And we go on road trips.
And my dad would invariably in the middle of the highway go, you kids have enough room
back there?
And we'd be like, what if we don't?
Like, who are we going to get rid of?
I'm going to work for my brother.
There you go.
Love you guys.
Thank you.
Thank you, Linda.
Thank you.
And here comes Jeff.
Oh, make a line wrong again.
There you go.
Great.
Thank you.
All right.
Here comes Jeff.
These have been great.
Hi.
Hi there.
Big fan.
Right.
Just kill.
I have a family trip story.
Emma can't hold.
Yeah.
And then it says Rachel.
I'm sorry.
I mean, I started to call you out.
But yes, I feel like your story.
My family's from the Philly area.
We went to California for this awesome family trip about the second day in.
My mom got helicopter airlifted out of the canyon because of dehydration because my dad said we're going on a nature walk.
We weren't.
We went like two miles down into a canyon with no water.
Oh, my God.
So we how so.
All right.
So it's so bad that how many of you, other than your parents, it's you and how many other people?
I have two other siblings.
OK, gotcha.
And who was the first one who actually thought, like, we might need to call for a helicopter?
So we, me and my siblings are like, we'll go back and get help.
Parking lot's empty.
So then it's just my parents out there.
And my, we, like, there's no service either.
Finally, my brother gets a hold of my dad.
He's like, mom's not making it.
And we park in the parking lot.
It's filled with, like, fire trucks and police, like, cars.
And he's doing, like, a helicopter.
And then finally, my dad comes down alone.
And we're like, what's going on?
And so then he's like, yeah, a helicopter got her.
Now, did he, did your mom punish him for this?
Like, no.
OK.
She usually gets rude somehow.
Gotcha.
Topanga Canyon's also, it's pretty heavily populated.
Yeah.
I don't know, like, what we were doing.
But, like.
Yeah, me neither.
Yeah.
But your mom actually did see people hiking, like, with us.
And they had, like, packs.
And we had, like, two little boxes the hotel gave us.
Was it hotter than a normal day?
No, but we're, like, used to humidity here.
So, like, it wasn't humid.
So we didn't even realize.
And then it's all downhill.
And so we had to walk back uphill, not realizing.
Yeah.
It was, like, we were hot.
Do you think that they get this so much that they were like,
we got another Philly lady in the canyon?
Yeah.
She thought it would be humid.
And she brought a tiny box of water.
Was she revived quickly?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Was she, like, you know, discharged from the hospital the same day?
Yeah, we picked her up at the hospital.
We met and got in and out.
Yeah.
That's a great L.A. experience.
When you picked her up, did she, like, give shade to the fact she was in a car?
She's like, this is so boring.
Compared to a helicopter, this is so boring.
Yeah.
She's really bougie after that.
Well, that's great.
What a great story.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
These are all wonderful.
You're doing a great job, Jeff.
You were a little bumpy at first.
But really getting a lot better now.
I feel like he's not planning this out well.
Hi.
Hi.
Love this podcast.
This has been amazing.
So, my family story is that I married someone from Massachusetts.
And people from Massachusetts love the game.
Yeah.
I'm from Philly.
I'm from South Philly.
And so, we go up there every other year because we were going to a game.
We're going up there every year.
And I said, I can't do that drive.
Because driving through Connecticut is the worst.
Yeah.
Everyone agrees.
Yeah.
It's the worst.
It's the worst.
You think New York, going through New York part is bad.
But, oh, no.
It's the Merritt Parkway.
It's just part of it.
So, and then it became the whole thing.
So, coming back this time, and my son, we always try to make sure, like, before we get
on a parkway, we've got to go to the bathroom.
My son's eight, so you know how this works.
So, we're on the Merritt Parkway.
He's like, all right, let's stop.
He's like, we don't want to eat at Dunkin' Donuts because also driving through Connecticut,
it's only Dunkin' Donuts and Subways.
And so, he gets there.
He's like, no, no, no, no.
Five minutes later, I've got to go.
He's like, we're on a parkway.
The next one is about 15 minutes away.
Then it's traffic because there's always traffic.
And then it's like, all right, you've got to pee in a bottle because that's all we have
right now.
I've never peed in a bottle before.
How do you do it?
And it's like, I mean, just put it in.
Just do it.
But how?
You're going to be, when it comes time, when it comes time.
Next time for the Birds and the Bees talk,
you're gonna be great.
So it's like, you tilt it, you stand up,
and you're like, "All right."
He managed to figure out, and then he's like,
"How do I close the bottle?"
And we're like, "Oh, jeez."
And it's like, "I don't want to close it for you
'cause it's warm at this point."
It's like, "I gotta do it, I don't want you to spill it."
And it's like, handed it back
because he only had his own cup holder.
And so it's like, just put it in the side
and just hope you don't spill it on the way out.
So that is our family trip story.
- That's fantastic.
That is fantastic.
- Hi. - Hi.
- My name's Karen. - Hi, Karen.
- And I have to talk to you
about my perhaps unrealistic expectations
about family trips, thanks to both of you.
- Oh, no.
- So I have two adult children,
and they're like 19 and 23.
Okay, and we're at that stage
where I still want the family vacation.
They're on the fence.
I didn't vacation with my parents when I was an adult child,
but I look at your family and I think that's what I want.
So like, where do we go?
Do I let them go?
Do I up the game and make the vacations
like so great that basically bribe them?
- Gotcha, this is a great question.
- Yeah.
- We started doing some trips
that were a little bit bribe-y maybe,
but like we went to Rome and Positano with mom and dad.
And it was just like, well, this is gonna be cool.
Or we did a trip when we were like mid-20s to Bermuda,
and it was just sort of understood like,
hey, we're gonna do this.
We would love it if you, like they,
our parents would say to us, we'd love it if you'd come.
And then you're like, yeah, why not?
This would be great.
- Yeah, they didn't try to plan it as a family trip.
They planned a trip to Bermuda and then invited us.
Which actually worked out better.
I think that puts less pressure on it.
Now that was a cool trip for you.
It was less cool for me because what was my issue in Bermuda?
- Seth can't, in Bermuda, there aren't a lot of cars.
There are like taxis and then it's Vespas or mopeds.
And Seth can't drive a moped.
- Correct.
- He has tried and he has knocked them down.
- I am not, I can't pass the test.
- Where you go do a circle and come back.
- And they, I swear to God, they wanna rent,
they want to rent you the scooter so bad.
Like these are not like safety officials at NASA.
They wanna fucking get you out of there.
And they like, the amount of times they've looked at me
and they're like, yeah, you can't have it.
- And I think you maybe had yours for a day.
And I felt great.
- I also, I feel abject fear on a scooter, motorcycle,
moped, anything like that.
That's my shark.
- And I'm cruising the island, like it's great, it's fun.
And then the next day, I got him
back holding me around the waist.
And it's just like, it's lost some of the luster.
Yeah, but I feel like, I think that also it was a time
and I don't know how your kids are doing financially,
but we sort of were like,
we couldn't sort of afford those trips.
So our parents would be like, we'll fly you to Bermuda
or we'll fly you to Rome or something like that.
And we'll get the places.
- Bribery.
- Bribery, so bribery works, yeah.
- Unrelated follow up, dropping my daughter
off at Pitt next week.
I know her.
- Oh, yeah.
- So I've been to the French farm place, not a big fan.
Any other recommendations?
- Yeah, you know what, I get that.
I get what you're saying.
What's the other recommendation?
- There's a great vegan Polish place called Apteka.
- Apteka, yes, which is a genuinely great,
was a New York Times like top 50 restaurant.
And it's a great, highly recommend Apteka.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- The Andy Warhol Museum's great.
- Oh, that's awesome.
- Yeah, it's great.
- Okay, thank you.
Hey, you guys, we're gonna wrap it up here.
And I just wanna say this has been beyond our wildest dreams
how much fun this has been to be with you.
Thank you, Philly.
May they all be this much fun.
One more time for Sheila Watkins.
- Sheila Watkins, everybody.
- Thank you, guys, this is literally a dream come true.
Thank you so much.
- Thank you, Philly.
Thank you, City Winery.
We really appreciate you guys.
♪ I had trips with my brother ♪
♪ Family trips with my ♪
♪ Brother's brothers ♪
♪ Here we go ♪
♪ Family are Disney adults as they're the normal kind ♪
♪ But from my own experience, those are hard to find ♪
♪ Week-long trips to Florida at the shades of green ♪
♪ Mom was shy but Dad's the guy for switching up the scene ♪
♪ So to the Polynesian wearing undercover suits ♪
♪ Order virgin daiquiris and load 'em up with fruits ♪
♪ Captain Watko and his daughters were all working in cahoots ♪
♪ No one's hurt or inconvenienced ♪
♪ There's a way around the rules ♪
♪ It's the reasonable man theory when you're ♪
♪ Hoppin' Poo ♪
♪ Hoppin' Poo ♪
♪ Celine was friends with characters ♪
♪ Grace in the boutique ♪
♪ Sheila had some dance moves ♪
♪ Turned out they were weak ♪
♪ So they made her a skipper ♪
♪ Put her on a boat ♪
♪ Everything was scripted ♪
♪ She had a couple jokes ♪
♪ Her passengers would bellyache ♪
♪ Be like, "What's the deal?" ♪
♪ Assumin' that the animals would actually be real ♪
♪ Once did 32 trips in a day ♪
♪ Now that is an ordeal ♪
♪ An ordeal ♪
♪ She once helped the embarkation of Surrey and Tom Cruise ♪
♪ I lied of your vacation, it's the Jungle Cruise ♪
♪ Jungle Cruise ♪
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Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The podcast hosts share a live recording from Philadelphia, highlighting an enthusiastic audience and a memorable in-person event at City Winery.
Guest Sheila Watko, formerly a photo researcher at Late Night, now works as a traffic and entertainment reporter for NBC 10 in Philadelphia, bringing a unique blend of humor and nostalgia to the conversation.
The hosts and guests reflect on family traditions, including frequent Disney vacations, shore trips to Sea Isle and Ocean City, and a strong bond with their military-connected family history, while also sharing personal stories of rule-breaking, like pool hopping at Shades of Green and sneaking into movies.
Summary:
The podcast features a live episode recorded at City Winery in Philadelphia, celebrating an energetic audience and a vibrant in-person experience. Hosts introduce guest Sheila Watko, a former Late Night photo researcher who now works as a reporter for NBC 10, bringing humor and personal insight to the conversation. The discussion delves into family traditions, including regular Disney visits, shore trips to Sea Isle and Ocean City, and a deep connection to military family life.
A central theme is the joy of rule-breaking, such as pool hopping at Shades of Green and sneaking into movies, which the hosts and guests describe as joyful, rebellious, and deeply rooted in family bonding. The episode also highlights personal anecdotes, including family interactions with pets, outdated tech, and travel mishaps, reinforcing the idea that family trips are not just about destinations but about shared memories and inside jokes. Guests share their experiences working in Disney—such as Sheila’s time on the Jungle Cruise—adding depth to the narrative of family, humor, and nostalgia.
The conversation ends with a playful nod to Disney adults’ loyalty and a reminder that even in modern times, family traditions remain powerful and meaningful.
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