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JASON SCHWARTZMAN RETURNS (And Went Overboard In Lake Tahoe)

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JASON SCHWARTZMAN RETURNS (And Went Overboard In Lake Tahoe)

The hosts share a lively and heartfelt account of a recent vacation filled with both comedic mishaps and meaningful family moments. After returning from the beach, they discover a lice infestation in their home, which leads to a memorable and educational visit from a group called "Lice Mamas" who check everyone’s heads and emphasize that lice thrive in clean hair—challenging common misconceptions. The trip includes joyful beach activities, like playing beach football and engaging in imaginative games such as "Count Olaf," which showcases the children’s energy and creativity. The family also experiences a moment of near-drama during a white water rafting trip in Lake Tahoe, where the host accidentally loses their life vest and is thrown off a raft, sparking a moment of panic and relief. The hosts reflect on their evolving parenting style, emphasizing how they now prioritize shared experiences like camping and outdoor play, which foster deeper family bonds. A pivotal life change—moving to North Carolina—originates from a childhood memory of kindness from a local man and a deep connection to the area’s culture. The episode concludes with gratitude for the simplicity and warmth of family traditions, such as bedtime story time and shared meals, which reinforce a grounded and joyful lifestyle. These stories highlight not just the humor and chaos of family life, but also the quiet, enduring moments of connection that define it.

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- Hey, Baji. - Hey, Sufi. How are you? - I'm great. How are you? - Good. We had a pretty cool visitor at our apartment this morning. - I'm fascinated. - Do you want to guess? - Visitor at the apartment. - I don't-- - Lice. - Oh, jeez. [laughter] - It was actually last night, so Adi, we went on vacation, and Adi was scratching her head, my sister in Lauria was like, "I think she has Lice." I'm like, "No, we're just going to the beach every day. She gets in in her hair." - Yeah. - And then we came home last night, and we had one of those little Lice Combs. - Yeah, 'cause you got so fancy. - Yeah, so Alexi pulled the Lice Com through her hair, and then put it on a tissue paper, and there was a little dot. And she was like, it felt tiny. She goes, "Can you take a picture of it with your phone?" - Yeah. - And then zoom in. And she's like, "What's taking so long?" I'm like, "I can't, 'cause the dot keeps moving." [laughter] It's like, "I can't get a picture of it. It's moving around." - Oh, no, that's a process. - It, well, you know what, I think it's the best now that it's ever been, right? Like, we found, I think it's called Lice Mamas. Hashtag not an ad. - For real, like, we called it a place, and they were being like, "Hey, what's up, Lice Mamas?" - Oh, yeah. And they came over, and so they checked all their heads. - Mm-hmm. - I guess, dude, I have Lice. - I'm gonna guess you did not. - I had Lice. [laughter] I didn't have the most Lice. - Yeah. - Also, they said something very nice, which was they go, "You know, a lot of people say that dirty hair has Lice. Lice actually likes clean hair." And I was like, "Oh, based on that, I thought I was in the clear." - That's what I thought. That your hair was gonna be so awash in, like, I don't know, old gel that Lice wouldn't be able to see. - Yeah, that the Lice would be like, "No, thank you." Like this one-star hotel. - Yeah, so we had to do the light. But it's a process in that it's like a hour person to get the Lice out. - Right. - And they like slather you up and drag those combs through your hair, right, don't they? - Yeah, I looked real, I had a real Gordon Gekko who I'm this morning when I walked into the building. People were like, "Hey, new hairstyle or a Lice?" And I was like, "Lice, is it incumbent upon you if you're a family with Lice to then sort of tell the world, is it like we've got COVID, is it?" - Oh, interesting. And now I'm wondering if it's bad that it's on the podcast. - I'm pretty sure that when you have the people come and like, delice you. - The Lice moms, you're in the clear. 'Cause like they basically, they don't leave until they're confident that you ain't got no Lice. - Right, well, that's fun. - Yeah. - Good way to come back to the city after our vacation. We had a great vacation and a lot of beach football with the boys. - Oh, that's fun. - They can't catch if they're moving. - So it's a lot of, get to a spot. - A lot of butt hooks. - Let's just, I'm like, let's play catch. I'm like, it's a lot of families have full robust lives just playing catch and they're always like, "No, we want to play a game, we want to keep score." Like their whole life is like, who's winning, who's losing. - Yeah, it's never just like, let's have a nice time together. - Do you, I bought, you weren't there the last time I went to your apartment, but I found a tech, a tech mobile board game. - It's fantastic. - It's fantastic. I played it with them and it's so fun and it's so fun. - It's so just throwback and it's so basic, but it's good. - I haven't seen you because they have this like new, I can't remember what's called like, but they have this like refurbished Game Boy type thing where they can only play like Mario Tetris, that kind of thing. - Yeah. - And they got a tech mobile for that, which I haven't seen yet, but I've heard they don't like it, which I'm surprised by, because they loved playing your tech mobile board game. But I think there was something about the actual tech mobile that they had fallen in love with the board game version more, which is obviously in the state age, incredible. - Yeah. - What kind of football are you throwing around? Little Nerf ball or? - No, little like rubbery leather thing, but like smaller. - Yeah. - You know it's not an official football, 'cause it's like Aqua and there's a bunch of like sea life on it. - Yeah. - If it goes through their hands and hits them right on the head, is somebody crying or is it like soft? - Stunned. - Stunned and then assessing whether or not they should cry and then find. - Yeah. - Yeah. - And you had the whole ash posse with you for it. - The Mishbukka, as it's known. Yeah, we had the whole Mishbukka. - Lovely. - Yeah. - You know, they're a good group. - Yeah. - Were Tom and Joanne, the grandparents on that side, were they off doing their own thing? - No, they were with us most of the time. They're a good hang. - Yeah, I know they are. - They also like doing their own things. - They do like doing their own thing, but they didn't have a social life. Like a lot of times, we are with them and their friends are around. - Right. - And so they didn't have any of that here. - Gotcha. You will enjoy that at one point. And I kept my cool on this trip, but I think I did a really good job. Right at the end, I was very mad at Axel. Both Alex and I said, don't bring your wallet. He has this like old wallet. And he has all his money in it, which is like $41. And like he has like a decommissioned ID of mine. Like just like it says, but he means a lot to him and we're like, don't bring it. - On the trip. - You just don't lose it. - Yeah, he wanted to bring it on the trip. Just on the trip in general, like don't bring your wallet. He's like, I need it. - So he brings his wallet. Last day, he's like, I don't know where my wallet is. And we got like an hour before we leave. And to my credit, I literally spent an hour looking for this wallet. And there's one, at one point like everybody's like, have we checked the loft? There's like this sort of loft room. And I'm like actually even in a loft. He's like, I wouldn't in a loft. And so I was like, I'll go check the loft. So I go and check the loft. I don't see the wallet. And I'm just like, you know, I'm like Axel, we don't have your wallet. And he's like so upset. And you know, it's the same time. I'm like, which doesn't matter to a kid. But I'm like, we told you not to bring it. He's not like, ah, you're right. So it's a teachable moment. It's a teachable moment, Papa. So then Ash goes up in the loft on his own and finds the wallet. So it was somewhere else. I missed it. Yeah. In the loft and Ash comes down. I'm so happy. And then you could imagine this from my in-laws. Yeah. And I hope they're like, didn't we say to look there? I said to check the loft. And I'm like, didn't I thought I said to look there? And then I think I said something along the lines. I'm like, oh, look at us go turning a positive into a negative. Have you considered the possibility that Ash had stolen this wallet? And then was like, oh, I'll go look for it. Oh, here it is. Oh, oh, oh, the whole time. And he was like, this is, I'm holding on to this piece of high property. And I need to find a way to write this ship. And I'll go look at the place that everyone's saying to go look and I've had it the entire time. I mean, he, because he did me so dirty. Well, because he came down and he was like, not only was he like, because I was like, oh, my God, you found it. And instead of being like, yeah, it was under the, because he's like, yeah, it was right there. How did you miss it? Like immediately. And I'm like, yeah, just be like, if your brother doesn't want it, it was bad. And it was right at the end. But I was very, I felt very good. I was in the water a lot, playing with the kids. Addy had this little inflatable flamingo, like, you know, a little ring that she'd be in the middle of. Yeah. And she, all she wanted to do was go as deep as we could in the ocean. And then she would tell me to go and check how deep it was. And I had to go underwater. We play a game where I pretend to be Count Olaf from the Lemony Snicket books. And it is an exhausting game that I don't want to play anymore. (laughing) 'Cause I have to do a voice. And it's someone the voice gets frustrating to do. And she's very bossy when we play Count Olaf. She'll be like, Count Olaf, you are Count Olaf, but you are nice and you are hungry. And the only one who has food is me. And it's just, she's the best though. She's also watching her swim. We also had a pool and she likes to dive for rings. And she's just like a very strong swimmer. And like being underwater and watching her, like, go like kick her little legs and get down it. Yeah. I like diving for rings too. I haven't found any of those for the game. Yeah. If I'm at a pool and they have them, I'll just throw them into myself and go. Did I tell you the story by me and Axel negotiating what time he could wake me up? Yeah, mom and dad told me to talk about something I shouldn't do. No, but like, it's a good story. Yeah, yeah. Relate the story for our listeners. The story is I was having a sleep in the bunk bed. Axel and Axel's upper bunk because Axel was sick and sleeping with Alexey. And so I said, Axel, remember, don't wake me up until 70. And he goes, I'm going to wake you up at six and I'm like, 640. And he goes, 620. And I'm like 630. [BLANK_AUDIO] he's 620 and I go 625 he goes 620 and I go 621 he goes all right fine, but I might be a minute early. That's like for the best. And what time did he get you up? Oh you know what? 630 and he said and you look tired no 625 he said you look tired so I gave you five more minutes. Do you think for that five minutes he was just standing next to you looking at you? I think he like I was top bunk so yeah I think he might have been because I feel like I heard like some creaking on the I think he creaked up the stairs creaked down and they're like thought you know he did the best he could. Yeah. He wakes up he's ready to go. We had our niece with us and there was we put all four of them in one room and kind of a disaster. Oh yeah. But it was fun at night when the three of them all went to bed together. Yeah, also no screens, but we have these you know these like story boxes that are sort of the rage right now. Yeah. Four kids with headphones on going to bed is a very funny look. It does it looks like it looks like first class in an airplane like they're just like right like four lifelad seats so I can't just agree to listen to one story together. No. Yeah, and then eventually we just we moved to mattress into our room and out he slept with us. There you go. Very good. Super fun. Super fun trip. I. Oh, the other thing is that we were driving a you know what a moke is you know those little cars. No. They're very cool. You like a moke. Yeah. And I was you know, I was very excited to drive one and went to this restaurant and evaluate it and then it was right there was right by the valet stand. And so you know I paid the guy and I'm like it's that one right there. He's like do you want me to pull it out for you I'm like oh man I'm good. And then I fully backed it into a motorcycle. And the guy who had just I just been like I got it was literally did this. He was like I am looking at it's cool. It's very cool. Yeah. That was fun. But I had to I do want everybody know it was not like the the motor's like it was not. You couldn't tell anything but I didn't give the guy my number and was like tell him what happened. And nobody called me. No. There you go. I mean I sorry. I gave him a number. I gave him an axles number. We have a returning guest first time we've had just a straight up someone's been a guest and they came back and they're doing a full episode of guest again. It's Jason Schwartz, but everybody he's the best. He kind of requested he was like give me back out there. Yeah. And he kind of requested again. Yeah. I think this isn't the last is the last he's heard of. He's got a new a new show called Kevin which he'll tell you he loves it. Yeah. He just loves it. He plays like that. We love him. Yeah. And do enjoy and it's great to see you poshy. Yeah. It's been a week away. Yeah. Yeah. Here's Jeff Tweety. You know this is the first time. Yeah. First time we've had a return guest. Well, elephant, elephant's been on twice, but he's kind of, yeah, he's a, he comes uninvited. He just clinks on a zoom link that is to see if he kind of has. Yeah. He has one of those. His zoom is that premium zoom where you can just join any zoom you want. He gets an alert and there's a podcast. I feel like Jason's already frozen. No, there he is. No, he came back. I don't mind. Is it my problem? No, it is your problem because you've moved out of a center of our industry. Well, you used to be where the industry was where the internet was good and now you've decamped. Are you, are you public about the fact that you've left Los Angeles? Should I be using a personal hotspot as always? I have a land, I have a land line hotspot. Wait, I do notice it, but is it better now? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Well, we're working on it. I mean, I haven't told, I mean, some of my family probably doesn't know that I'm here. Okay. But I love it. I love it. That's great. I love it. Are you, have you moved out of the state? I don't need you to say exactly where you've landed here. It's so mysterious. I'm, I'm sorry. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, you're in Montreal. I'm in Montreal, I've all placed, no, we moved to North Carolina. What was the impetus behind it? Do you have, do you have a connection to it? Well, it's, it's not a funny story, but I'll tell you because you just asked. There's, it's, it's, it's, it's a, it's a weird story and I don't know how the right way to tell it. Uh, first of all, here's how I found out about us moving. I, that's, that's, I found out about it. My last year, um, I was checking in with my family who was, um, they were on spring break and I was working. Yeah. And, um, my, my eldest daughter's best friend since kindergarten. They're like sisters. It's like another, we're very lucky to have that. Mm-hmm. I'm, you know, very like, she's like another daughter of us in a way. And, um, so our two families were on a trip together, which, yes, I wasn't on. And, um, we were just catching up my wife and I, and then she said, oh, I have to go, but we're thinking about moving it, moving to North Carolina, um, if, and we can talk about that boy, but, both, but, but soon the girl, if we do it, we're going to do it before, before ninth grade. So we have to move this summer about half to go. And I said, okay. All right. Is this, is this in line with the way your wife often is or were you, were you taking it back by this or were you like, oh, that's her? That's her. Great question. Um, it's not in line for her to, that's a pretty big like. Yeah. I mean, if she's doing this kind of stuff all the time, that's a, I mean, um, no, I mean, but it's not in line for me to hear like, hey, we're going to have pizza tonight, you know, if you're, of K with it, yes, no problem. Um, but yeah, but no, yeah, we're not, we're moving this fall is not something that, but, um, anyway, but I get, you know, and they had my wife and, and the wife of their family have been talking about it and, um, yeah, I think it was just like wanting a different way of life. And our kids really kind of were the ones that's like initiated it to be honest, um, but, by, but the story for me, that is, so we have no roots down here or anything. But, um, in 1994 or five, I forget when the first Benfolds five record came out. That's right. By the way. Yeah. I remember I got it and, um, looking through the book, the booklet and I remember there being a picture inside of it of them playing live and it said, um, it said the name of the venue in North Carolina. I don't know if the, you know, and I said to myself, okay, I, if we ever get to tour and, and, and, and play, I think this is going to be like a big place for me, gotta go there and sure enough, uh, seven, you know, two thousand two or one or two, we, we, we get, we get to, we get to this, uh, venue, um, and it's, I'm so happy to be there. We're loading in and everything and I'm just like a real dream come true and, um, uh, anyway, I was going to call a taxi to go to a market to get food for our next, um, leg of our journey. And this gentleman who was helping us there was like, Oh, no, there's a, you don't have to call it. He was just very sweet. He's like, there's down there to the left to the right, this wonderful co-op and they're dead and tell them I said, and he was just so helpful and, and so sweet and kind. And you know, when you're in a place for just a short amount of time, that, a person like that can come to represent the place to, you know, um, though we went back many times, it was like Chapel Hill, they're nice, you know, like that really was the impression, it was so sweet. And, um, sure enough, so when we came to all, anyway, I said the name, well, mm-hmm. Sure. Yeah. Blow up your own spot. Fuck. Yeah. It's okay. Well, anyway, I could tell from the window is Chapel Hill, by the way. Get ready, Chapel Hill. Here come the crowds. Here come the, uh, no, I, it's, it's, it's not, it's really, well, I didn't want to say because it really is just a billbell a check move to here. We want to just kind of check it out. Follow. We're in to it. Yeah. We're just following. We kind of take them. your daughter's friend is girlfriend? No, no, no, no, but they have, but that is funny. They have the same name. I'm not kidding. But anyway, but here's the story. So we come back here just, you know, to my to check it out to see if our kids like it. We go to the club. I take my son to the club that I played because I have a friend that lives here, a musician, and I said, hey, we're in town, and I would love to see it. And he said, well, I'm going over there right now. If you want, I'm going to do like a music video type thing and you want, I can show you guys around. I said, great. So my son and I go over there. We walk over and my friend standing outside and he says, oh, Derek, this is Jason Jason. This is Derek. Derek runs the place. I say, hello, it's nice to meet you. He goes, I loaded in your drums for you 24 years ago. And I said, I said, no, you say that, you know, to all the drummers. And he said, um, no, you had a black sparkle. Bloodwood drum set with little drawings that he knew. He remembered like very knew it. And as he's talking, I realize this is the person that told me where to go to this to this co-op. And it's I didn't ever tell him. I still haven't told him, but it just was so powerful because I thought, gosh, in many ways, this gentleman's kindness 24 years ago was really the reason why when my wife said, are you open to moving to this place? I was like, absolutely, because of that guy. And I just, I know, it's so just bizarre to me. Like I couldn't believe it. And it was very, it was very cool. I think well, you seem very happy about the move. So I, it's not great. I don't love it. It's like, it's, but you know, I'm hardly here. I'm mostly in LA. I just went down. I did stand up in Durham maybe two months ago. You're kidding. I know. I'm bummed. And I feel like maybe somebody told me when I was after the show, somebody mentioned that you'd move down there. And I was equally bummed. But I just want to say about the area you're talking about. Yeah. Not only one of the best shows I've done in that in regards to how responsive the audience was. Yeah. But afterwards we walked to like a local bar. And just so we, we ended up kind of walking down the street with people who'd been at the show. Yeah. And it was just the most lovely people to be around. So it is so nice to that area. Where do you, do you remember where you? Deepak. Okay. I love that. We, I went, took my son, we went, um, Neil DeGrasse Tyson there. And it was really so it was pretty, it would have been redundant if you saw me. It's pretty, it's pretty similar. Yeah. I don't like the everywhere of the same place twice except 24 years later. It's me, it's me with the, the no science stuff, no science knowledge talking about me. I wonder where you went though. Oh, yeah. No science. I do a lot of sides. We went to a cool little bar. Although we went, do you know Emily Spivey? She's, of course. Yeah. So that, I think that might have been who said that you were down there. She, she lives down there. And she, yeah, she came to the show and we went to a bar and it was a really cool bar. And then maybe at like 10 o'clock, the bar was like transitioning into more of a nightclub and they turned the music up and it was, we felt a hundred years old because we were having so much fun and then we immediately were like, well, I can't hear anything. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know it's, but there are so many wonderful, I wonder where you went because there's so many wonderful, I haven't really explored, but it's wonderful down there. I love it. So did the move have anything to do with you being intimidated by Nick Offerman? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. At the end of the last episode you talked about. No, it's what I, you didn't, you didn't say his name, but I, we, I pretty, you know, I'll tell you. I think, yeah, I guess I ran away or yeah, I left, right rather than rather than confront the situation. Yeah. And it's great because here I speak with an English accent. And I just kind of, I reinvented myself and it's, it's so cool because you don't get to do that in life. You know, it's like, it's so funny for an actor to think they can move and reinvent themselves. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Yes. I'm, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I work for a cream cheese company. I work out, uh, researching your local bagels, which you do have derries here. Oh, yes. And then you're, you're very clearly going to take them over firm deferries. Yes. Do show me your derries. And so these bagels, they're sold at a price such as this. Really? They're like, hey, Jason Schwartzman's acting like a dumb British person. So he's shocked by the cost of everything. What's this many pounds for a bagel? Why? Anyway, sorry. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. The support comes from article. Hey, Abaji. Hey, Sufi. Are you looking for furniture that is curated for every style? 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The first time you were on Seth asked you like what was a big vacation that you took and you responded there weren't any, so yeah so this is, but then at the end of the episode you said I had so many stories that I wanted to tell. So I kind of like feel free to just tell any of those stories. I forgot, I forgot so many of what they were, because they were so coming out of things we were talking about, but I know that one really big one was that we talked about. Towards the end we actually brought up these two big trips that I did take where I went to a playwriting festival, remember we talked about this, and did I go into it in great detail, though? There was one in Italy where you would go to the talk box, and then the other one that your mom got invited to and then never went to a show, but you would tell the show. Okay, so I've done those, I've done the thing, so no, okay, those were, those were big ones that I was excited to talk about more, but why don't, why don't I, why don't we just find new things to talk about, and where, where, where did we leave off? Can you refresh me? Those were the, those are the last, I did want to ask you, you didn't go into much depth about puppetry or rocketry camp. Yeah, I can tell you about that. Yeah, and in depth, I mean, but what is depth? What is depth? I mean, by the way, for a kid who, at one point was going to rocketry camp and now bringing his own son to see Neil DeGrasse Tyson, what a, what a life is a flat circle or, well, let's talk about this. No, no, but here, I think that's just, I know what you're saying, but we were going to Neil DeGrasse Tyson to like, we were just tailgating. We didn't actually see him. Oh, I see. Yeah. Hang it out outside. Yeah. Hang it out outside. Well, let's just say we hang out with the anti-science crap. Yeah. Right. Cause a little trouble at Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Hey, were you, were you idiots going, going into there? Deepak, huh? Okay. But we don't, you know, so it's funny, you say, my, my kids go to sleep away. They go to the camp and they love it and they go for two weeks, which, and my son went for the first time when he was six, God, or like, yeah, I mean, like a remarkably young age truly to be away for two weeks in a totally different place. And he loved it. And it's funny because my wife, she loved camp. She went, I think for like, she was one of those people who go for a month. And the idea of that is was, you know, a hard thing for me to want to do as a kid. And I said to my wife, why did you, like, were you, like, when you was like raised to, like, a booey, did, you know, everyone line up on the dock and that's not what I am good at. And I don't like that kind of, that kind of instant competition. I think that's what led me to rocket tree and puppetry camp was because it was a bit more like, I mean, though some rockets would go higher than others and it would be easy to tell they're a clear, you know, better rocket. It was a bit more supportive and I think that, you know, I could come home and the puppetry camp, I loved so much because I still have the puppet. My mom still has it. It was a giant worm. It's one of the, yeah, I have a photo of myself with it. And I just, I think that I loved that's the environment that I felt kind of better in. I think even at a, at a young age was like, is that weird to say that it's a, it's, it's, it's kind of, I guess it's non competitive in a way compared to other stuff. Like it was, I liked the idea of like, oh, what do you got over there? Oh, good buttons. Those are good. That's really good. Did you keep going with that? Is that a spider? I think that like I was really, I liked that environment and, and seeing when everyone, I liked making things. And I think that that's always been like a, you know, even now we're my, like, you know, my wife's really good at, well, running our lives and our families, but, but also, you know, and part of that is trips and coming up. And it's so funny how unnatural it is to me to think ahead to plan a trip. It's not, no, you know, and I, and I don't know, I don't know if it's from never doing it. But she said to me recently, like, well, what is your idea of like fun or relaxing? And it was such a weird question because I have so much fun. And I'm like, I love, I love everything and I'm so relaxed, I think, but it was, it didn't stop me. Yeah. I don't know how to answer such a question. And it is very funny for someone you've been married to for a very long time and three children correct? Yeah. To ask me what's my idea. Which is a big leap. And if you like. Well, what, what chills you out? What are you into? Winter birthday. No, we, no, it's, well, no, it was just, I think she was a little frustrated and I think genuinely confused. Right. I mean, do you find the same things fun that you found fun? When you were a kid, have the, is there a through line? Nothing's changed for me as far as what I find fun. And what I find, but I actually think more things are fun to me as I got older as opposed to us. Well, because my kids are wired a little bit differently than I was, my wife is very wired differently. And so it's a lot of being outdoors. It's a lot of beach and like boat and things that I have not covetous of. And yet I have found that because that's where my children are. If I kind of open my heart to it, it's a great way to spend time. But like, even when Josh, what I go, you know, our parents would bring us to Florida and I would just want to like sit in a hotel room and really look like that's what everyone is doing. And you can't do that as a dad. What do you do? No. And what do you do at the beach? Now I feel like, you know, they are just like, they're a little bit more, they can, you know, the boys are about to be ten and eight and so they can entertain themselves a little bit. But like, if they bring a football to a beach, like they want me to throw at the whole time. Yeah. That's not bad. It's more fun. I like that more than five years ago where it was like dig us a whole lot of like dig us a whole. Oh. And that was just, I just felt like, I don't know, there's that scene of money python and holy grail where they're just like, there's some people like just putting mud in like buckets. Like, that's like what surfs did and like, that's kind of like what I felt I was doing. It's just like, just putting mud in a bucket because we might need it later. Right. Oh, I hear you. I hear you. The beach that, you know, Seth and his kids will go to, I've been there and there are these little sand crabs and you dig in the sand and inevitably there's like two or three sand crabs with every scoop of sand. Which kinds of little tiny, tiny little white, almost translucent. Yes. That disappears sort of quickly. Yeah. Um, and Seth's middle son, Axel would always point them out like it was the first time, but it was every single scoop. He'd be like, say crap. I got it, bro. I got it. Oh, say crap. Um, and it was like, you couldn't, you could not pick up sand without getting a sand crab. Does he love, does he love on the sand when you have a bucket of sand and a sand crab goes in the bucket? Yeah. Definitely. I mean, just in here. Yeah. And then right, they're like, there's so many in this bucket and you're like, it's all, there just be a hundred sand crabs is basically the same as no sand crabs to me. Yeah. No, it's funny. You say that because that is I do love that. Like I loved you give me some buckets and a shovel. I, I will dig and I last summer, two last summer. We were, we went to Lake Tahoe and I was sitting on this beach, this little beach by the lake, it was so beautiful and cooked up this idea of my son that we could try to make some type of like a pipe, a pipeline, connecting one thing of water to another to have it filter in around a sandcastle. So we went to the hardware store and we bought, went to the plumbing section, I bought various like pipes and things and I had no idea what I mean, it's the first time I've ever been to the, that part of the heart. And it was just weird. I mean, the guy, I didn't want to tell him what I was there to buy. I mean, why it was like, he was like, what's your project? You're like, yeah. Um, you know, uh, it's a three-bedroom, um, Laguna Jason, but like, like, you're like, winking at your son, like, don't give up the game. Yeah, but we bought this. I bought this really cool fun pipe. And we went out there and we must have dug all dead and buried it and tried to, and it was just like, and other kids were coming over. What are you doing? You know, we're like, we're building a, uh, tunnel from the, you know, it was like, and it just became kind of like, get in if you want to get everyone's helping. And it didn't work at all. Um, but it was, that's, that was, uh, that's an idea of like a perfect that I love. Like, uh, kind of getting lost on a weird mission. Like that, I love. Word. Did any other parents come by and look at it and be like, no, it was not going to work. No, I felt one, there was one guy looking at me from a distance. That's what I felt he was thinking, but that, that was could be total projection. But I did feel that he was clearly going like, it is, if you just, if you just had it higher than the other side of it, the war would go straight down. I mean, I don't know much, but I think that, I think that was obviously that I know that. I know that I know, obviously. I didn't. I just, you know, but, uh, I think he just taught you that at rock. How, uh, yeah, your oldest is, is your oldest is a teenager, right? 15. Wow. So what is the, what are family vacations like now with a 15-year-old? Great. Well, they're, um, they're, she loves, she really loves a pool. Mm-hmm. They love, you know, they like, they like, it's like, I mean, a kind of a classic, she likes a pool and a book. And, uh, you know, they love that. That's what they, they, uh, so there's a lot of like, it's a pool focused type thing, I find. But, uh, but still part of the family unit, she hasn't like rejected, like the idea of, oh my god, no, we have the, I mean, I'm so lucky to say that my kids are, I just, I love them so much. And, um, no, they're pretty now with, I mean, that said, I do have a thing where other people talk about what they're about to do at a trip. And it makes me feel like I'm not a good, there's a lot of things I didn't learn to do that I therefore can't really impart. Yeah. Um, and I, you know, and, and put, like we, like, yeah, puppets we could, we could do all day here. Um, but I, I feel the same way where I would, I would like to go camping with my kids and I'm a little worried about doing it. Yeah. Unless we're with some people who've done some camping. Yeah. But I think one of the great things, I don't know if you felt this way, but like my dad, what, um, was a very like, um, knew what to do type of person. At least that was the impression I got. I'm sure that he did, maybe didn't, who knows, but like a real like that guy is a, like a, to me, like a, like a super hero, just badass, you know, and new things, new answers to things. And I, I just, I think that for whatever reason, I'm, I'm obviously different than him. And, um, I've really just embraced that. And I think that it's been, I just kind of go with it. So like the camping thing, I would probably be like, let's figure it out together. Like I try to make it, but that, I, that's what I'm saying. I kind of feel like my son's like, I don't want to learn it with you. I want you to go out on a reconnaissance mission, do your homework, figure out the thing, and then show me how to camp. Uh, when you learn how to do it, I don't want to be on YouTube in the mountains watching how to assemble, uh, a tent, like with the poles, I just want you to do it. Yeah. It turns out kids, kids are drawn to competence. It does. Well, I'm finding that, well, I'm finding that to be true. And, you know, and the weird thing is that, uh, well, I don't know if this is a good thing to say, but you know, so much of the things that I do for a living, they don't get to see me do. Right. Um, which I'm not competent in that either, but if it's the one place in my life where I sort of feel competent and I, but they don't get to see that. So for all they know, as I'm talking to you now, it sounds like a pretty terrible child for them. I mean, they really don't have a father. Well, but I will say we went to a music store the other day in town because my son's taking drum lessons now. And, uh, they were really, uh, I felt so, uh, into, uh, I just knew, you know, I was, that I was in my element there. And I think they were really like, we walked out my gut and say, wow. You really knew your way around there. They really liked you. It was a game. That's great. Yeah. They felt, I felt like, uh, see. I mean, dude, it's embarrassing. But like, I, when my kids come to my show, I'm so happy. They can see a place where I know what I'm doing. Where I think it's just like I'm over there like, okay. Right. All right. Thank, thank God. I think God, there's some place where he, he, he's, you really feel terrified? I really do. I'm like, Oh, see? Look, Daddy knows where to go, knows where to stand. So there's people clapping for daily. They know, right? He's right here. Wow. Yeah. It's just nice when they're like, Oh, he doesn't just leave to go act like he does here. Right. Exactly. Exactly. And it, yeah, it's just, and you know, it's also too like, for me, you know, if I, if I'm going to go to work or something and so much of it is just kind of like thinking, you know, you're just thinking about stuff all day long. Like it's just on your mind, all the time, you can't stop thinking about stuff. So, but it, that doesn't look like your work, I mean, from a distance, that looks like you could be staring at the floor or something. And so it's, it's weird, you know, like you're thinking about stuff so much. But, you know, your kids just see you sitting there sometimes. And yeah, you're like, I'm sorry, I am kind of, I mean, I'm not technically working. But, you know, this is part of what I do. And, but I was at work recently. And I was like, bye guys, I got to go to work. And then 10, 20 minutes later, it was on the set. So it was showing me like, want to see the cool, um, chimney gag? How we can get the guy to fall down straight to the chimney? I was like, this is the best. Like, I just wish, like, it doesn't feel like a, you know, I wish they could see me go to work. And the first, this is what I do for work. And I just, I'm the happiest person in the world. I love working. I could just, I could, I'm the best version of myself. Oh, I love it. I mean, I think, you know, we're lucky. And I was talking, I just incurred rustle on the show and he was talking about how many of his grandkids were like, you know, of creative people. Yeah. And, and both how you are excited that they're doing something love, but also a little worried because, you know, what the business is like. And I was just like, the problem is like, we, we love it. And why wouldn't they want to do a thing that it looks fun? It is fun. Yeah. Yeah. And I, it, yeah. I mean, Kurt Russell, I met him just one time, by the way, and I'll never forget how his hands felt. Yeah. It was like a, it was incredible. It was like, it was like, literally shaking hands with like a beautiful baseball mitt or something like that. It was, it was enveloping and it was enveloping and like, had a feeling like established 1872. Like, you know what I mean? Like, it was just like, it was like for real. Like, right. And I should never, you shook my hand. I was like, I have never had this experience. I've never had this experience shaking someone's hand like this. This is a different type of hand. And I couldn't believe the only thing that was just distracting besides that was his eyes. So blue and beautiful. And I just can't, you know, you can't believe it. But yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's a real deal. But, but what's I going to say is, yeah. I mean, I think that, yeah, we do love what we do. And it's fun too because, you know, I love what I do that. 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Really? Yeah. Where's her family from? Do you know? Crack out, I want to say. Okay. But I might be making it up. But you know, it's that weird thing where like, you know, obviously, you know, Jewish people from Poland often didn't leave for the best reason. And so I think it's a weird way. The visit back is like an issue. Right, right. To make it. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Really. Sure. No, absolutely. And my grandparents, so they left earlier anyhow. I think they hit, but, but yeah, I grew up, I didn't even realize they had accents until I remember being like 25 and then realizing they had accents one day because that was just how they talked. But they spoke, they taught themselves how to play English by, by playing Scrabble every night. Which is pretty fun. Yeah. It was neat. That's great. And, you know, I still remember their breath and everything. Um, any, uh, you mentioned so bored right now. Are you so bored? No, no. I was just trying to imagine what their breath was like. Oh, it's good. I'm letting you guys down. I'm sorry. I fucked up. I fucked up. I just thought I fucked up because I was like, oh, they got they know they want. I forgot. It was me who's saying I had more talk. I was just like, oh, you just wanted to talk. Yeah, I was like, they got stuff for me. I was like, they got stuff for my, I've got more to ask you, like, uh, because they were, we're about to maybe embark on our first, um, uh, family Disney trip. It was that something the Schwartz minutes have done. Yes. And yes, very much. As a kid, a few times, as parents, a lot. Yes. Where are you going to go? Not no. I mean, I would like to, I think it's, you know, it's Florida and it's a, you know, because there's also universal down there. And so maybe, you know, you're going to do that. I think we might do it. Yeah. Okay. Um, so that's a little, so I grew up in an L.A. I know Disneyland. I know. Yeah. I only went to the Florida one last two summers ago. I don't know. It's totally different. It's so big. Yeah. I mean, it's too much. It's five parks or something, right? Yeah. It's great. Yeah. It's humongous. Um, yeah. Another, that's another, and then we went to the water slide park that's a, um, connected to universal and yeah, that was another one, like water slide partly. What am I doing at a water slide park? Well, what did you do? I mean, would you go on the most daring of rides? Guess which one I went on? The lazy river. Oh, yeah. That seems like your speed. No, I love it. I love it because there's a part where it's like kind of rapid. Like, whoa, you know, I like that part. And then you know, I got, whoa, we're just going to get through this one park. Where did you ever have you not to, I'm going to step away from a second. Have you ever been on an actual white water raft? Um, no, I've never been white water rafting. Um, I've always wanted to do that. We didn't want to do that. We did it once when we were young. Yeah. Really? And they were, I, it was one of those, it was the most of those photos where you do an experience where there's like one part of the white water rapids. And this was on a proper river, but it was a tour and they clearly knew the best place to take a picture. Yeah. How many of them were you? We were young. We were young. But our parents were there. Uncle probably like probably eight to 12 to a boat, something like that. Okay. And there was a really great picture of us going over the white waters. Yeah. We took the picture of someone from the side. I think someone who worked for the, like, is like, we're going to stand up there and that's going to be the picture. That's awesome. But I feel like our uncle Kurt was like stabbing like his or through the air. Yeah. That's awesome. That's awesome. Day one fall out. No. No, I feel like there was a place where you could jump out and just like float here for a little bit because it's hot day. But my wife's uncle who passed away was younger, but he was a guide on the snake river. And that just sounds like the most beautiful. That's like a trip I would love to do is like go down, really go down a river or quite far would be really fun. I think it'd be nice. You know. But no, but I will say could we just not put out this episode because it just make I'm just losing everything. I'm just a loser. We were probably going to come back a third time. We were in Lake Tahoe. We were in Lake Tahoe last year. And we were, we went down this, it's called the trucky river, which is not a white water river. It's quite you float the river as they say, you know. Yeah. But there are slight part. Anyway, I did have a thing where we were on the boat. And I've never had anything like this happen to me. I had, I didn't have my life vest on. And there was a lot of, there was a bunch of kids and adults. And we were heading towards Iraq. And I went to sort of like push as we were as we were approaching the rock. I was sort of trying to put out this the the the war to sort of deflect us off. And I just didn't realize that, you know, how quickly we were heading towards the rock. And I hit, we hit the rock. And I went flying off the back of the thing. And I went like, I mean, really flying. And, and I didn't, it's not like a very fast river or anything. But where it was was a little crazy at that point. But so even that I was getting tumbled around. And my apparently my son was my wife had to grab my son. He was going to jump in after me, which is so sweet. And but they threw me like, but I was getting tumbled around. And there are, you know, there are so many rocks underneath. And I was, there was a moment where I was like, this is incredible. But also like, I'm really like, I am having a heart. I am. They were yelling, you're gonna be okay. And I was like, I know it's not deep. But I am really struggling to say about the waters. What I was thinking is like, I, this is, I get this is hard. You know, and did you have a moment where you're like, oh, please don't drown in shallow water. Well, I wasn't thinking about the shallow. I was just thinking, well, please don't let me drown in front of them. Yeah, maybe, maybe let them get far than if I had right. Yeah, I didn't think, yeah, I didn't think I did say go. I didn't think I was gonna drown. But I did start to, it was colder that I expected. And I was like, I mean, it's so funny how quickly you are totally like a just panicking idiot. You don't know. Yeah. I mean, if you go ragdoll in a river, it wouldn't say my bad. I was like hitting. I was like, oh, and I got back in the boat. You're like, are you okay? And I was like, yeah, it was fine. Did it look fun? It was, it looked cool. Yeah, like, yeah. I mean, I was, I was definitely, I was scared as hell. Were you beat? Were you bumped and bruised? Were you? Yes, very, very bruised. Yeah, very bruised. But hey, that's what happens on the truck your river. And that's, that's just, you know, that's the risk you always take. You know that going in. You always know it going in, and you know it going out and you just remember it during. Um, and that's what happened. I mean, the greatest, the greatest thing learned on that is that your brother, your son, excuse me, was going to jump in after you, like that's an incredible, incredible thing to know. I know. But also heartbreaking because I feel like he shouldn't have to feel that he should, that's going back to the comp, I mean, he should feel like, like, that's got this, like hell, look at that. He's a hell of a sliver. He's got this. You don't worry. I'll give him five minutes. He'll be back in this. He used to go to a camp where they swam to a buoy and then you're in and you're out. Your daughter's like, that was mom. He made a worm puppet. He's like, I gotta get in there. Yeah, I gotta go. Yeah. They were like, yeah, but it was, that was a scary moment, but I've always wanted to do the river rafting. I don't, yeah. I don't have a lot of family photos of, of anything really. My wife has a lot of them. It looks like such a great, you know, you see photos of people's lives on a wall and it really, you know, it's easy to think that they had this like perfect, yes, life because you're just seeing the kind of edited highlights and stuff. It's very interesting. Why do you think you guys weren't of photos on the wall kind of family? Do you think you were? I don't know. Yeah. I don't think they're. I don't know. We were a family though that took a lot of home videos, right? Well, that makes sense. That's right. More than my dad. I mean, we had a lot of it and it is, you know, so there was that. There was a sentimental or there was a need to film and stuff like that, but yeah, like a lot of my friends don't have family, we have so many videos. And one thing I did that I was really happy about was I went to my mom's house and I found tons of them and she, she always has this like fear that I keep stealing stuff, which is true because I just have this fear that it will get lost in the house. I keep, but I took every video I could find and I sent it to an archivist, not an archivist, but that's right. But and I had all of it copied and digitized from like every different medium. Yeah. I started to do it myself and it was too sad. I couldn't. I couldn't. I don't like. I can't even watch them. I can't watch a video from yesterday as my children. I will start crying. I don't know why. Yeah. Our father always said that he didn't want home movies because they would make him too sad. Yeah. Yeah. And we like, we don't really have. You don't have any. Just for the first time and I did it because Josh was getting married, but Josh, I had videos of my wedding and Josh gave the greatest best man speech of all time. And because in preparation for doing it, by the way, I shouldn't watch it because it was likely it was unachievable. But like watching it was not like, I was like, this is just making me so, it's my favorite thing. Like watching it again is, I'm just like, couldn't like process the emotions I was having. It was too early. Whereas like my wife's family will watch the amount they're like, have you seen this video? I'm like, a hundred times. You've shown me a hundred times, you've seen a video where I got a bike for Christmas. I'm like, yeah. Really? To the point that I think I got a bike for Christmas. Wait, wait, wait. How are you? When are you watching those videos? When you go back? No. Now that like they're all, you know, my wife sent me to do a great job of like digitizing everything. Yeah. They like email old videos. They're sending them to you. They're just sending them. Oh my goodness. Or they're just like, sit down. Have you ever seen this one? I'm like, yeah, man. And by the way, they're great. I just, at some point, you're like, I feel like I'm watching a, like a long documentary about unfamous people. Yeah. Ken Burns. Does he? Yeah. Well, yeah. Well, it's, it is, it's funny. That is one thing though that I will say I think about with the iPhones now and people filming a lot of videos and their iPhones that they're, they film such shorter things. Yeah. You know, the intention is like, just get the thing, hopefully get the moment where there's a lot of those videos. You know, they will go on for, oh, dude, four hours. Like, I just think it's like, it'll be just like, put that down. Put that down. All right. Yeah. There you go. Come at me now. Hey, what? We're out back. It's just like, it's just like, it's just all rolling though. So I think those are some of the best things in those videos, by the way, are those moments that are, you know, the, the, when they're just rolling and rolling and rolling and unfortunately, I feel like, but the, yeah, now we have less of this and stuff, but I guess you, um, uh, we're, we're going to run out of time with you. So I do want to say, because I'm very excited about your show, Kevin Aubrey Plaza. This is a worst day of my life. We are. We have another guest. Who is it? Who is it? If you want to call Elizabeth Banks. Elizabeth Taylor. If you're worked with Elizabeth Banks. Yes. We tell her, I said hi. I will. I will. God. I mean, I feel like we have so much to talk about. Well, I mean, at this point, we're going to have you on again. I got to work with, like, Baron Holt for the first time, really. Where? Where? Last year, we did this movie called Artificial. Great. And I just, like, spent, and I know he's, I've known, you know, we know him. Simon Rich. That's a sign in rich. God. Yes. Yeah. But what a fuck. This guy. Oh, my gosh. In real life, when you spend that long working with him, I can't, I can't believe it. I can't. I don't believe it. He is the definition of mench, right? Like with the, when people like, what does that word mean? You're like, mench means like Baron Holt. That is, could not, this man, the kindness, the sweetness and the, the, the, the endless, he seems to be having so much fun. Yeah. And he, and he makes you, he's laughing, he's enjoying, he's eating, he's, it's so, it's thrilling to be around. I'm like, we were, we were working in Italy and I would walk with him. And I just felt like, honestly, it was like drafting behind like a race car. Yeah. I was like, you know, I was just watching him, like, this is incredible. This is, this is life. Yeah. Yeah. He, he, he was, he got to try this. It's the best thing you've ever had. Yes. And he's just, it, and it's, we always say like, you know, he, he, he exists in hyperbole, but without being inauthentic, like, he truly, when he says, this is the best ice cream you've ever had. 10 minutes later, he's like, this is the best ice, he's not a contradiction. Like you think in this moment, it could not be better ice cream than this ice cream. And he's inclusive of every, he, he's like, hey, we're going out to dinner. I've invited every single person we met today. And we're all going to this place as, you know, I just, I love him and God bless him. I just, I wanted to just say that as I, he changed my life. He made me really see life through a different lens working with him. But yeah, my show, on the show, yeah, that's a fun, it's a, I love it. Well, I love it. But yeah, it's, it's on Amazon. It's on April 20th, but I did it with Aubrey Plaza and Joe Wangart. And we've been working this for a long time. I mean, this was the first thing. This might have been like early on in pandemic. They reached out. We started recording it like in there, I believe. But it's so fun. I love it. I mean, they are, Aubrey is, you know, of course, very singular. And Joe, I don't know. Do you know Joe? I don't know Joe. Oh, my gosh. It's so freaking funny. And Philip, deep Philadelphia, you know, every time you go into the recording session, it's like, well, what new Mitchell and this Philly gear will I see this time? It's like, just like, really cool stuff. But, you know, I play it, yeah, it's fun because I play a cat. They get these two guys get a divorce and I'm a cat that goes out of my own for the first time. And I love it. We love talking to you. We are going to book you again. What's Elizabeth thinks that I talked about? Yeah. What she got coming up? She's got a miniature wife with Matthew McFaden and her on peacock. She did that. She ended up doing that. I was wondering who actually took it. Who's there? Today, today, as we're talking to you, the 40th anniversary of rad is today. I cannot believe you just brought that up. Fuck yeah. And it's in theaters. And I thought, my brother just set me a whole, yeah, my brother is then runs that whole, you know, he puts it out and everything. And my God bless my brother. It's, yeah, I thought there was a chance I was going to see you tonight at Universal, but maybe it's in the back of my mind. You know, I saw these rad 40 t-shirts and I was like, I should get one of those. Yeah, my brother is like a whole different, I don't know who he is. He's incredible. He's something like, yeah, if it's Matthew and Robert, one of those, then those two guys were hanging out and you had a lock on your door. So you really did review the show right before we came out this morning. I would never. I mean, why you shut up being like, I went to theater camp. I know we didn't get to it last night. We didn't talk about it, but theater camp. You know, no, no, I just had more details about stuff, but guys, I don't, next time bring the worm. You got to bring the worm. Oh, I know what I'm going to tell you guys. I'll tell you next time. All right. You're the man. Should we skip? Should we skip the speed round? Yeah, we're going to skip the speed round. Can I just say your show, thank you for what you, your show is the one. It just brings me so much pleasure at the end of the day. I count on it so deeply. Oh, thank you. Well, we hope we see you in person. I appreciate it. It's the year of the best and I love to everyone. All right. Love to you, buddy. Rock and roll. Rock and roll. By now. ♪ In school, I mean he went to camp for puppetry ♪ ♪ Was not the guy to swim back first from the buoy ♪ ♪ And his rockets didn't fly so high ♪ ♪ It is camp for rocketry, oh gee ♪ ♪ Very supportive, what do you find fun? ♪ ♪ No competition, what is relaxing? ♪ ♪ A water tunnel underground ♪ ♪ Shovels and pipes, pockets and more at the hardware store ♪ ♪ What are you trying to build, don't ask? ♪ ♪ Hey kid, you wanna get in on this ♪ ♪ Do you think that it's gonna work? ♪ ♪ I don't think it's gonna work ♪ ♪ There were two pools there to connect ♪ ♪ And maybe someone should have checked one was up and one down ♪ ♪ But there was no flow through the tunnel underground ♪ ♪ He's no, our committee's no ♪ ♪ Find it didn't work, don't be a jerky still had fun ♪ ♪ Oh weird missions, what he crazed ♪ ♪ The smell water was flushed around ♪ ♪ He'll fade it pipeline underground ♪ ♪ The smell was flushed around ♪ ♪ But nobody drowned him ♪ ♪ A water tunnel built underground ♪ ♪ A river floating trucky ♪ ♪ Pushed off of a rock with his or her ♪ ♪ Probably got launched into the water ♪ ♪ Should be no trouble 'cause it wasn't tea ♪ ♪ But as it turned out, he got bounced around ♪ ♪ Hit rocks, yeah ♪ ♪ Fish fall, yeah ♪ ♪ Stop, yeah ♪ ♪ Over four, over four ♪ ♪ Ooh ♪ ♪ Guess he's not savvy with an orb ♪ ♪ That's not an orb ♪ ♪ It is not thought to save him ♪ ♪ When Jason was propelled over a orb ♪ ♪ Daddy ♪ ♪ When he was away, he spent with me ♪ ♪ He wasn't easy ♪ ♪ It was practical to come and come dream ♪ ♪ He was working out of town ♪

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. The hosts had a lice infestation at home after returning from vacation, leading to a humorous and educational experience with a group called "Lice Mamas" who thoroughly inspected everyone’s heads.
  2. They discovered that lice prefer clean hair and that the process of removing them is labor-intensive and requires multiple combing sessions.
  3. The hosts shared a fun anecdote about a trip to Lake Tahoe where they went white water rafting, narrowly avoiding injury by not wearing a life vest and getting thrown off the boat during a rocky section.
  4. The family bonded through beach activities, beach football, and playful games like "Count Olaf," with children actively engaging in physical play and exploration.
  5. A key family tradition involves using story boxes and avoiding screens before bedtime, with children eventually sleeping in the parents’ room after a period of chaos.
  6. The hosts reflect on a significant life shift—moving to North Carolina, motivated by a childhood memory of kindness from a local man and a personal connection to the area.
  7. They express admiration for the local culture and community, especially the warmth and hospitality they observed during a trip to a local bar after a show.
  8. The episode highlights how parenting evolves with children’s interests, emphasizing shared experiences like camping, music, and outdoor adventures that build family connection.

Summary:

The hosts share a lively and heartfelt account of a recent vacation filled with both comedic mishaps and meaningful family moments. After returning from the beach, they discover a lice infestation in their home, which leads to a memorable and educational visit from a group called "Lice Mamas" who check everyone’s heads and emphasize that lice thrive in clean hair—challenging common misconceptions. The trip includes joyful beach activities, like playing beach football and engaging in imaginative games such as "Count Olaf," which showcases the children’s energy and creativity.

The family also experiences a moment of near-drama during a white water rafting trip in Lake Tahoe, where the host accidentally loses their life vest and is thrown off a raft, sparking a moment of panic and relief. The hosts reflect on their evolving parenting style, emphasizing how they now prioritize shared experiences like camping and outdoor play, which foster deeper family bonds. A pivotal life change—moving to North Carolina—originates from a childhood memory of kindness from a local man and a deep connection to the area’s culture.

The episode concludes with gratitude for the simplicity and warmth of family traditions, such as bedtime story time and shared meals, which reinforce a grounded and joyful lifestyle. These stories highlight not just the humor and chaos of family life, but also the quiet, enduring moments of connection that define it.

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They discovered lice in their apartment after their sister-in-law suspected they were there. The family used a lice comb and found a tiny dot, which moved when observed, making it hard to photograph. They then consulted 'Lice Mamas,' a group who thoroughly checked everyone’s heads and confirmed the presence of lice.

The hosts learned that lice actually prefer clean hair over dirty hair, and that it's a common misconception that dirty hair attracts lice. This surprised them, as they thought lice would avoid greasy or messy hair.

The family went through the process of using a lice comb and a lot of effort to remove lice from their hair, which took a significant amount of time and involved slathering hair with treatment and combing through it thoroughly.

They enjoyed playing the tech mobile board game, finding it fun and nostalgic, even though they had previously seen a refurbished Game Boy-style device that didn’t appeal to them as much.

They played with a small, rubbery, sea-life-themed football that was not an official football, and it was often used in games where kids would try to catch it, sometimes resulting in a stunned reaction when it hit someone.

Axel brought his old wallet with $41 and a decommissioned ID, which was lost during the trip. The host spent an hour searching for it, eventually finding it in the loft. It became a teachable moment about not bringing wallets on trips.

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