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This episode is brought to you by State Farm. Listening to this podcast instead of doom-scrolling? Smart move. Another smart move? Getting help from one of State Farm's 19,000 local agents when you choose to bundle home and auto. Bundling. Just another way to save with the personal price plan. Prices are based on rating plans that vary by state. Coverage options are selected by the customer. Availability, amount of discounts and savings, and eligibility vary by state. Hi, Bashi. Hi, Sufi. How are you? I'm good. I'm a little nervous. Yeah, you've got some stuff coming up. When is the big day? It is on the 13th, June 13th. So it will have happened by the time this comes out. But I'm addressing the graduates of the School of Communication at Northwestern. Yeah. And, yeah, kind of a big deal. I'm very honored. It's an undertaking. Yeah. Like, you've got to really, like, it's a real writing of remarks. Yeah. And I kind of, like, cleared the decks. Mackenzie was back east for a little bit. So I had just sort of days where I, like, I wasn't even, you know, watching a show at night. I was just sitting at the dining room table working on this and just jamming through it. And then I made a last-minute call just yesterday. We're recording this on Tuesday, but I invited mom and dad. Oh. And mom and dad are going to come. That's wonderful. Yeah. So I called them, and a half hour later, they had booked flights in a hotel. So I was like, would you want to come? And they're like, yeah, and booked it. So that's wonderful. So you guys will be back. And, again, you know, we've talked about this. Not only did we go to Northwestern, but we were, because mom and dad went to Northwestern, we were born right there. Yep. So you will, it's a real, it's a real circle of life moment. Yeah. I don't know when the last time they've been back at Northwestern was. Yeah. I think it's been a minute. I mean, probably not since we graduated. Yeah. And I, yeah, and I didn't go to my graduation, so they weren't there for that. Right. So, yeah, probably sometime my senior year. Didn't have the grades, in case you're wondering what happened. Didn't have the grades. No, I graduated. I had to go take that job at Boom Chicago. He took a job. He took a job at Boom Chicago. It's a good reason not to. That's good. Yeah. That's very exciting. We've, we had some graduations for our kids last week. Yeah. Like, my daughter's not even done with, like, preschool. And they, she has one more year, but they still, like, did a whole cap and gown thing. Yeah. These schools, they can't, they can't get enough of graduations. Look, as not, as a non-parent, I don't know if I can really, if I'm allowed to look askance at this, but I, every time I hear someone's having, like, a first grade graduation, I'm like, get the fuck out of here. Yeah. No, there's a, your tone. There's a, there's an askanceness to your tone. Yeah. Do we need to make these kids feel that special? Oh. Ash did go, Ash is going to middle school next year. Uh-huh. So it's officially what's called middle school. And, uh, there was a, at his ceremony, they showed, uh, for every kid, baby picture, first day of kindergarten picture, picture from this year. Yeah. And, uh. You better bet I cried when Ash. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Although I also turned to Alexia and I'm like, God, you really? I really went with a thirst trap picture of Ash there at the end. Because, like, you know, Ash be handsome. And she, like, she, she chose a picture of him, like, uh, like, I don't know, like, it was, like, a black and white photo where he was, like, looking out over the sea. And then, uh, to Ash's credit, he was like, why did you use that one? So he wasn't, but. Less thirst trap in that moment. Yeah, I know. Yeah. She was very, oh my God, we're doing a thing right now, just trying to reward, uh, as we go into the summer. Like, rewarding, uh, good behavior with the kids, which is, um, they have, like, uh, we have three mason jars with, uh, pom-poms, like, just, you know, little, little pom-poms. And when they do something good, you put a pom-pom in the mason jar. Totally backfired to the point that I heard Alexia say to Ash, uh, yesterday, the next time you say the word pom-poms, you lose a pom-pom. Because he just, like, keeps asking about how do I get a pom-pom? Did I really lose a pom-pom? And, uh, and mostly you just realize, like, pom-pom is, like. It's, like, fun to say a couple times, but to hear it all day, you just are hating it as a word. Who currently has the most pom-poms in their jar amongst your children? Uh, their cousin, who's visiting. Fucking crushing them. Just a dominant pom-pom performance from the visiting cousin. Has anyone, has Axel, basically, uh, thought to maybe unscrew the jar and pour other people's pom-poms into his jar? Great question. And then, once again, credit to Alexia. He was out in front. of it, the pom-poms are different colors for each person. So Axel can only get a blue pom-pom. What if you look in his jar and you see a bunch of red ones? Or just like, yeah, like with magic marker blue. We had our first, I know we've talked about it, we had our first game of Clue that actually was played to completion. That was really exciting. Yeah, yeah. Oh, also Quirkle. Do you know the game Quirkle? I mean, I feel like I might own it, but I don't know if I've ever actually played it. It's a tile game, you know, where it's basically a little bit like dominoes, but if you put six of the same, there's six shapes, and if you do six in a row that are all the same color, so the reds of all the, that's called a Quirkle, so you get the six points for the six and another six. And I was driving, I was going somewhere to get a coffee, and I got a, when I left they were playing Quirkle, and Ash was still sleeping, so Axel was playing with Lexi, and Axel called me to be like, Dad, I got four Quircles in a row. I got a red Quirkle, I got all of the diamond Quircles, and he does, and he's screaming. Like, Axel on the phone just screamed. And then while he was on the phone with me, Ash walked into the kitchen, and Axel goes, Ash, you'll never believe what happened. And Ash goes, did you get four Quircles in a row? Like, there's really something lovely when your children, like, develop that, like, a wryness to their sense of humor. It's a real win. So are they all done with school now? They're all done with school. Yeah, school's over, and yeah, it's summertime. They're going to camp right now. Do they get sad at the end of a school year, or are they just psyched for summer? Not even a little bit. Axel's teacher, Axel's second grade teacher, who he loved a great deal, is moving to California to teach out there, and he's very, he was very sad. About that. And he kept, on the last day, he kind of kept going over to give her a hug. But ultimately, I think they're pretty good. They just want the summer. Yeah. Well, good luck to all the parents out there who have their children around them for all those extra hours of the day. Yeah. And good luck on your commencement. Thank you. Address. Thank you. It's convocation. It's not the official. The commencement is the next day with Sarah Jessica Parker. SJP? Yeah. So, yeah. Well, that's great. Have fun with Mom and Dad. Will do. I gave the commencement, and they chose not to come. Wow! Did you invite them? I probably didn't. Looking back, I probably didn't. But I was only, I think I came in, yeah, I also think I was just, like, day of, I went in. Yeah. I think I was at a wedding the day before. Gotcha. So glad you're making a weekend of it. Yeah. And day before, we've got friends that live nearby, and the World Cup is starting up, so we're going to go over to the Bennetts up in Wilmette. Great. And watch Game 1 of the U.S., and hopefully they come out with the W. And I think Sunday is the first Holland game. Yeah. Netherlands-Japan. Very exciting time for those of you and those of us who like these World Cups. All right. I love your podcast. Oh, Kerry Kinney. Oh, yeah. Just, what a fantastic conversation. Yeah, we knew her originally from the state, and currently on the Four Seasons, and just lovely, funny. Yeah. Yeah. Big fan. This one's going to go to Mom and Dad's head. She has nice things to say about Mom and Dad. That's always problematic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's always a bummer. With a guest, no Mom and Dad. It's always, we pay for it. We pay for it down the line. Yeah. Also, we're looking for some more listener stories. So, if you have a good one, a good story from a family vacation that you've taken, maybe from a time that went poorly, maybe the greatest trip of your life, but really, the poorly ones are the ones that tend to play a little bit better, please send them to us. You can do that at speakpipe.com familytripspod. That's speakpipe.com familytripspod, and we really appreciate it. All right. Well, everybody, thanks. All right. Love you, Zufy. Do it. Love you. Family trips with the Myers brothers Family trips with the Myers brothers Here we go Hello. Oh, boy. Oh, my goodness. How do I make this big? Oh, yeah. I don't know. I don't know if you can make it big. I can't make it big. Did you make it big? I know, that's why. Oh, I made it big. Oh, you did. Look at that. If you're wondering why Josh and I are both wearing glasses, it's because we haven't figured out how to make it big. I've heard that about you. And I wasn't wondering. Don't flip that. Don't flip that audio out of context. Carrie, I just encountered you. I don't know if you recall, but I was at the Puppet Up show. And you were doing like a staged reading the next day, I want to say. And I'm friends with that stage manager, Joe Witt, who worked with you guys. And you were there to sort of check out the space, the Montalban Theater in Los Angeles. And Joe Witt and I worked together on the Pee Wee Herman show years and years ago. And I had seen Susie Eddie Izzard's Hamlet in that theater. And he was like, you should come to Puppet Up. And I was so, you and Thomas Lennon and all of sort of the state crew, I was too nervous to say hello. Oh, my gosh. You guys. Oh, my gosh. That's insane to me. And I wish you had seen the reading. It was the dumbest thing ever. Can you hear me? Can you guys hear me okay? Yeah. We hear you great. Okay, good. Crystal clear. Can you hear us? Yeah. I'm kind of a pro at this, so I don't want to brag, but I'm kind of an AV. You were worried the whole time we hadn't been able to hear. That's all. I just want to make sure. I listen to the podcast and it's fine. Like the sound is fine. But I just want to make sure this one's really good. So I want to ask, because you are, you were working, you finished season two of a vacation themed show. Yes. Has it, because again, it's a big cast, so there are days I imagine that you have off. Does it feel like a vacation to be up there or is it just like a drag? This is the four seasons that Seth is talking about. The four seasons. Yes and no. I mean, our schedule is, you know, because it's such an ensemble show, we are all on camera. Most, most of the time, but the beauty is it's not one of those shows where you finish your scene and you get driven back to your trailer and you're sitting there all day waiting for your scene. We're on set all the time, all of us. And so just the locations we go to, yes, sitting there feels like vacation. Season one, when we went to Puerto Rico, they were so concerned about the weather and I was only in one of those episodes because they wanted you to think Anne had gone away. So I basically was. So I was just sitting on a lounge chair off camera for a week, giving a thumbs up with a Mai Tai while those guys were working because they were worried if it rained, they might have to pop me in. But yeah, so it does. The people make it feel like a vacation. Obviously, the locations make it feel like a vacation. And but it's, you know, it's work. Yeah. But a cast like that, I imagine when they're, you know, when they're turning it around or doing, you know, the technical stuff in between. I imagine the conversation is exceptional, is just like exquisite. It's exquisite is the most perfect word. I've been using the word delicious, which is a little creepy, but it is both exquisite and delicious. I'm sure. I obviously, I think any viewer will know these are some of the funniest people in the world. Some of the deeply kindest people I've met in show business are in your show. I totally agree. And it isn't. It's not fake. It's the real deal. Yeah, it really is. I mean, down the line and like people even, you know, obviously a lot of your cast members I've known for a great many years, but then you just meet somebody like Coleman Domingo and you're like, oh, my God, where did he come from? Yeah. I keep waiting for him to slip up and the mask to fall off. And there isn't one. He's just he's as divine as you would hope. He is just and also just incredible gratitude. I think, you know, an actor who's obviously been at it for a long time. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And now the whole world is like, we actually need you to work every day for the rest of your life because we're so late to the party on you, Coleman. I think that's it. And I think that's what he feels. I think that's why he's so gracious and grounded, because he has been doing this for as long as we all have. Right. We are obviously we are of an age where we knew you from your very first job or at least your first TV job was the state. Right. Oh, I was going to say, you knew me from when I worked over at the manor. House. Yes. I was going to say, you knew me from when I worked over at the manor. And we have some feedback. We have some feedback on the clams. I'm really sorry about that. Wait, where was the mansion clam house? In Westport, Connecticut. Okay, gotcha. And I worked a couple places there. I worked the Red Barn restaurant. My first day, I dropped a rack of chickens. They weren't dead. They were cooked. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. That's good. So they couldn't escape. No, no, no. They didn't escape, but they still were not psyched about me. Yeah, right, right. So restaurant work, thank God comedy worked out because restaurant work wasn't great for me. I did try, though. Yeah. Did you have to, was your group, your cohort that came to be the state, were you guys also working New York restaurant jobs, or did you not have to do that in the same way? Let me put it this way. We made, on our show on MTV, there were 11 of us. Yeah. We made $100 less than we would have made on unemployment at the time. So, yes, we had other jobs. I continued to work my job where I worked at a catering company, but I worked in the bakery part, decorating cookies. I continued to work there through Viva Variety. Wow, yeah. And then also I was doing the band at the same time. So that's why I do a lot of napping now because I worked really hard back then. It's interesting because, you know, you guys were on, again, this is a time. Even though you were an indie show, it was part of the monoculture. Like, there was a real awareness of your show, and people must have thought you guys were so wealthy based on the fact that they could see you on TV. And that must have been a very awkward years where you had to explain, actually worse than not having a job. I don't think I ever explained it. I felt rich no matter what we had because we had something, and we had a TV show who gets that the day they graduate college. It's absurd. God bless. God bless MTV for that. Is that really? So it was that fast? It was that fast because while we were at NYU, we did a show, which was also Jon Stewart's first show, called You Wrote It, You Watch It. And so we were the sort of cast to that show. People would write in letters, and we would act them out, and Jon was the host of that. So that was while we were at NYU. And then as soon as we graduated, they gave us our own show. I mean, they had to teach us, like, this is a mark. This is where you stand. This is, you know, we're going to count down and act. I mean, it's not a lot to learn, but they had to teach us how to do television while we were doing our first TV show. I mean, that happened for me at SNL, but I was surrounded by other people who knew television, so you could also kind of learn by watching. But it's really funny that there were 11 of you with no experience at all. No experience. But that scares me more, Seth, to hear. I mean, that's – to be in that. With people that know what they're doing, in a way, I could fade into the background of people who didn't know what they were doing. I guess that's a good point. I feel like the one – I wouldn't say that I could observe and actually be as good as the people who were doing it, but I was very good at following rules, so I think I at least learned that very quickly. I'm a rules follower, too. Yes. Did you – and so the 11 of you, all of you were NYU? We all were NYU originally. That's amazing. And then David Wayne and Michael Jackson. Michael Showalter went to Brown. They transferred to Brown, and that was like a big upheaval. You can't leave the group. What's going to happen to the group? We'll never work again. And we hadn't even begun yet, so. Yeah. It is fun. But, like, I mean, Josh and I were in, you know, improv troupes and sketch comedy groups. It is very funny looking back at, like, all the drama that you thought was, you know, the end of it all. Oh, there were so – You look back, you're like, oh, that was so nice. So many chairs were thrown, so much screaming, so much crying. We would do check-ins where we would sit in a circle. We were all theater or film students. We'd sit in a circle and emote. And, yeah, it was deadly serious. Yeah. Well, your emotions are so close to the surface. I feel like the swings that you have at 18 are just so different than what they are now in terms of how the level of passion and the level of insult that can sort of throw you one way or the other. It's just like – it's – yeah. I don't know. Well, I love that for you, Josh, but speak for yourself because I'm going through menopause. Oh, yeah. All right. All right. Well, that's – Just without all the pimples. On the pirate ship at the amusement park, you've swung to the other side now. I once very angrily threw a – I remember throwing, like, a Subway sandwich in a parking garage. I was so mad at one of my improv team members. And then, like, when I calmed down, one of the other people had gone over and sort of put the sandwich back together and came over and was like, hey, man, do you want it? I'm like, what? I, like, got mad all over again that they thought I wanted it. And, yes, you did want it. I mean, I was – I will say, like, the $5 footlong was probably my whole week's allowance on food. Yes, and I'll eat that, Sammy. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from Avocado Mattress. Hey, Pashi. Hey, Sufi. I'm so excited to tell everyone about our new sponsor, Avocado Green. Avocado Green Mattress. 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I'm not near a chain restaurant that I have in my hometown, but I'm by a cafe that only those who live there and walk those cobbled streets are familiar with. And so when Alexi and I went to Paris on a vacation, we booked an apartment on Airbnb. What neighborhood were you in, Sufi? We were in the Marais, Pashi. Oh, the Marais. And if you haven't been to the Marais, I don't even know how to describe it to you. You know what they call it in Paris? What's that? La Marais. Or Le Marais. One of those. You've been. You've been. I haven't, but I would love to. And let me just tell you that it's just wonderful. You're just in a home that the owners have taken great care and attention to make comfortable for you on your vacation, and you're just amongst everyone. You're a me. That's friend, Pashi. Oh, you're a me. Laissez-moi. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Laissez-moi. Booking a trip on Airbnb makes for a better trip. You could be traveling with family, you could be looking to discover authentic and local experiences, you could be taking a trip with a group of friends. A group of a me. To laissez-moi. All right, so you are, you're a little Connecticut, you're a little Illinois. Is that right? I'm a little, let me tell you, here she comes. Look out. This is the long and short of it. I was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. My dad was in radio. He still is a big voiceover guy. He's the Cocoa Puffs bird and Count Chocula, and he was Lionel, Lord of the Thundercats, which was a big one for our generation. So immediately in radio, he started getting drive-time jobs, which shot us around the country when I was little. We landed in New York when I was almost four. Okay. And so we lived in Manhattan for a little bit, and then we moved out to Connecticut, to Westport, Connecticut. And then my parents got divorced soon after that. My dad was in Manhattan, so I split my time. And then summers, we would go to Illinois most of the time with, or I would go to be with my grandparents, my aunts and uncles and everybody there. And that was dad's side or mom's side? That was dad's side. Mom didn't have a big side. Okay. Yeah. So dad's side, and I'm still very close with all of them today. Oh, just the best. The best. The best. I mean, I'm so lucky, beyond lucky, to have gotten to grow up in the sort of J. Crew catalog that was Westport, Connecticut, and then the West Village in New York City in the '70s and '80s. Wow. And then summers in Illinois with running around barefoot in corn cribs and hanging out in the back of pickup trucks watching drive-in movies. I mean, it just like, you couldn't, to me, write a better childhood. Fantastic. Yeah. Where, so was that sort of Southern Illinois? Southern Illinois. Where were you? Okay, gotcha. Yeah. It's called Pekin. I'm sure you know it. Okay. They thought it was on the latitudinal line of Peking, China when they named it. It is not. Is it spelled the same or is there no G? P-E-K-I-N. Right. And it's claim to fame is that it's like half an hour from Peoria. Okay. That'll do it. So yeah, you get it. Yeah. Well, they were, no wonder they were trying to come up with something cool like being on the same latitude as Peking. So you had how many, it was your grandparents, but you had, there were other uncles, aunts, cousins? All of them. All of them. Yeah. I technically grew up an only child. My father remarried and had two kids that I'm very close with today, but we're a different generation. So I, my growing up years was as an only child. Yeah. And I was an only weird, you know, soon to be sketch comedian who would spend a lot of time just sort of like talking to myself in the mirror and, you know, putting on weird clothes and doing accents by myself. And so the summers were such a delight going to Illinois because, you know, I had immediate, I just fell into the, into the, the rat pack of kids immediately. We were, you know, running around together, playing softball. Swimming, just like the, the, the catching lightning bugs, that sort of classic summer, you know, you come in when the, when the porch light goes on. So this was something you eagerly looked forward to all year in Westport. Loved it. And then in the other times I would go, my dad, when I, well, before my parents got divorced, we did a couple of trips together that I remember. I'm sure we did more than this, but the two that I remember, and it's a miracle that I did not clock the divorce was on its way. But the first one was that we went to Jamaica and of course my mom bought like little outfits, you know, we were all, we were going to be, you know, matching for dinner and it was going to be all cute. The day we got there, a huge hurricane came and we spent the entire vacation in the lobby of the hotel because all the power had gone out. And so for about four days, we ate out of cans in the lobby with everyone else in this high rise hotel. Until we could fly home. But in, in, in memory, it was, it was kind of fun, but when I came back, you can't come back from. from a spring break without a tan at that age. So I laid under my mom's sun lamp and she was at work because it wasn't allowed. And I took what I found in her drawer were these like sticky pads. And I was like, oh, this is perfect. I'll cut these out and I'll put them on my eyes so I don't burn my eyes. And I stuck them. And then about 30 seconds, my face was on fire because they were wart remover pads. So I went back to school with no tan, having spent a week in a lobby, eating out of a can and playing Monopoly by Candlelight with like sores on my eyelids. It's really something. That's rough. Did you, four days in the lobby and like looking back, you're like, oh yeah, my parents weren't super getting along. I would say even a couple that loved each other very much. That's going to, that's going to test it. It's rough. Although then I didn't clock it at all. I didn't clock it really. I think until our bicentennial camper trip that we did any, listen, any RV trip is going to try even the greatest marriage. And we went, we did the bicentennial trip, the 1976 trip. So many of my, did you guys do a bicentennial trip? No, I mean, I was, I was, I was born in 76. Okay. So you would, but I feel like I would have seen you, you know, at the Liberty Bell because we all were there. We were, so our mom is sort of from Marblehead, Massachusetts. And so there was a, I do remember like a lot of colonial, you know, but buntings up and about. Yeah. There was a lot of hoopla about it. Let's put it this way. Everybody was talking about it. Everyone. I'm going to say something not to get political. I feel like there's a lot less buzz about the 250. They're trying. They're trying, but it's not, it's not happening. Not as much bunting. No buzz, no bunting. I don't know if there's going to be a quarter for this one. Well, that trip ended pretty soon after, in my memory, the divorce was announced, which in hindsight is, is hilarious because all I have from it is a photo of me standing next to what looks like the actual Ben Franklin. And I look miserable. Do you remember, so you went to Philadelphia, you like, where was the RV trip? Where did you, what were your ports of call? We went to see the Liberty Bell. We went to Virginia. We went to DC. And I really, I don't know if this, uh, is something for a psychiatrist or a therapist to dig into, but my memories are really based on photographs at that age. So I can tell you for certain, the only thing that I know that happened was that I met Ben Franklin and I have proof. I have the proof. Gotcha. Gotcha. And he, when like he was watching your parents, when they took the picture of the two of you and he leaned over and whispered, like, I don't think this is going to last kid. Worse. He had an affair with my mom. Oh no. Yeah. Yeah. And then she told, she told your father, like I, I discovered electricity last night. Yeah. And how sick of her. I mean, I love the woman. On a trip. On a trip at the bicentennial with all the bunting about. It wasn't her birthday. It was the nation's. Um, you, uh, where, where in the West village were you guys before you moved to West Village? I moved to a new apartment there in the West village and my, um, dad moved in there first or that's where we would visit. And then eventually the two of them got an apartment up on the Upper East Side, which at the time was, it sounds really fancy. It was nowhere, nowhere land. It was like, you know, just a bunch, it was German town, just a bunch of old people, but it was great because one bar to put it into cell phone coverage terms. So one bar. There you go. It was a one bar location. Even before bars, it was one bar. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And, but it was. What were the cross streets of the West village? Well, listen, it's so funny that you say this and I'm going to look it up as we're talking because I couldn't remember. And I was just there. Friend of mine just moved there. Um, and is this exciting? Yeah. Yeah. We can cut all this out, right? For somebody who's. Seth has lived sort of West village. 25 years. Stop it. Well, I had to text my dad to see where, what street it was because I couldn't remember. This is a good time to say that what we have in common. Here we go. To Charles street. Oh, I used to live on Charles and Washington. Now I got to see where Charles is. That was my first New York city apartment. That's incredible. This is for an audio format, like a podcast. It's great when people are just looking at maps that the listener can't see. You, uh, we, uh, we have some, uh, something in common, which we're really happy about is, uh, we all have dad's name, Larry. Oh, yeah. Believe me, believe me. I, I'm a list. First, first, first of all, let me just say, I, we have two issues today. One is which I'm a super fan of this podcast. And two is which I've had way too much coffee for this time of day. So I am well aware that we both have Larry's and I get excited every time. And I so desperately want to go to dinner with your parents when I. When I heard that, um, who was it? Marty ran into him, who ran into them? Oh, Amy Poehler ran into them at a restaurant or, oh, Steve Carell. I was so jealous. I was like, I want to run into them. They're, uh, they're great. I it's to me, I think Larry is the perfect, especially for people of our era. It seems strange to me that not everyone has a dad named Larry. And by the way, I don't know if I've ever heard this part about it. Born a Larry, born a Lawrence. Born a Lawrence. But I, I don't think ever call he's Lawrence Myers Jr. Um, and his dad was, so his dad was also Larry, but his father went by Leish, uh, which I don't know that anyone has ever gone by, but his father was Leish. And then, yeah, he's always been Lair or Larry. What's this little baby look like? Larry. Yeah. That's wonderful. And my mom was Sharon, a name you don't hear anymore either. I mean, it really, I mean, it is, it is perfect. Perfect. That era. Perfect era. To be born, to be born to a Larry and Sharon, uh, that close to the bicentennial is a true American story. If somebody's really trying to test someone's age, you just ask what their parents' names are and they say it real quick and you go, yeah, 1970. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, would your dad come when you would go? Did he come to Southern Illinois or were you, was he working and you would, he would just sort of send you off? No, they would come like my mom and I would usually drive across country to get there or halfway across the country to get there. And my mom was absolutely gorgeous. She looked like Terry Gar. She'd wear these little sundresses and we would drive in her Buick over to Illinois to her, to my dad's family. And she'd spend a little time with us. And sometimes my dad would fly out, but on our way, my mom had a CB radio. Oh my God. Because, I mean, we were essentially carried by these big rigs. They would take such good care of us, these guys. We never paid for a meal at a, at a truck stop. Um, it really was wholesome and adorable. And I learned some of the lingo and, you know, that's how we would know if traffic is up ahead or they, they'd put us in the cradle, they'd call it. Now it sounds creepy in hindsight, but we would be the car in the middle of two trucks so that we could sort of, you know. Be escorted, you know, along the whatever freeway. Did she, was that the reason you would have a CB radio back in the day? Was just for the purposes of communicating and making your drive a little bit easier? Seth, I've never thought of the answer to that question. I've never questioned it. Because this is now, for our younger listeners, this was not common to have a CB radio in a, in a Buick. And by the way, I didn't know that either because I just assumed everyone had a CB radio in a Buick and an eight track. Tape player filled with Kenny Rogers. Yeah. That's a, that seems like a pretty good drive. It was a great drive. Did your mom have like, did your mother have a call sign or did she, would she? She did. It was super skirt. No wonder you guys didn't pay for a meal. By the way, my mom was the most like deliciously persnickety put together sort of church lady. So this is all sort of like. Yeah, that's great. Really. Sweet. Would you, would you ever get on the radio? Would you ever get the controls or was it super skirt or nobody? I, super skirt or bust. Yeah. A great new band name. I don't recall. I, I must, I assume so. I assume so. Yeah. I mean. Yeah. I was a budding basic cable minor celebrity. So. This seems, I mean, you know, obviously being a child. A child of divorce, never easy, but it seems like if your mom's willing to drive you there and hang out there for a couple of days, like maybe a pretty decent split in the end. Very decent. Very decent. They were so wonderful to each other and about one another. I only ever heard, you know, if I complained about one or the other, I only ever heard, you know, your mother loves you very much. Your father loves you very much. They, they were really superheroes in that, in that area. That's really great. Yeah. I'm really lucky about that. Yeah. What was the gap between you and your mom? And your half siblings? My half sister was born when I was in high school. My half brother was born when I was in high school. graduated high school. So I was more like an aunt to them when they were little and now we're siblings. They're grown people with children. Was there a period of time where the life you were leading was very cool to them? Oh, for sure. My half-sister, oh God, they're the sweetest people in the world. And my half-sister, when she was little, she would come and stay with me at my apartment in New York. And I remember one time I had just gotten back from doing the show Bus Stop in Amsterdam at the Amsterdam Theater Festival. And she, and yes, I know, I eat up your stories about Amsterdam. You watch our eyes get real big. You're like, slow down, guys. I'm aware. But it was the experimental theater version of Bus Stop. So my character was sort of, I played it almost like Courtney Love. If she were, you know, Marilyn Monroe were alive today, like, what would she be like? And so my suitcase was filled with, like, sort of S&M style wardrobe for the show. And when I got back, my sister came to visit me in the city and opened up the suitcase. And I remember I was in the bathroom. I came out and this little, like, four or five-year-old had put on some of these sort of harnesses and things. She was fully clothed, to be clear. And she put them on over top. And I have a great picture of that somewhere, which I'll use to embarrass her at some point in her life. I'm just waiting for the right moment. Of course. You got to, yeah, wait for the right time. Yeah. What year was that that you went over to Amsterdam for the experimental Bus Stop? Isn't that a good question that I knew you were going to ask? So it had to be, it had to be 91. Oh, wow. Because it was the year before I graduated NYU. Yeah. Oh, my God. You went over, you were doing experimental theater before you were even, out of college? Oh, yeah, yeah. Well, that was part of my, it was part of my program. Right. It was part of the program. Just to do it overseas is so exciting. I know. I know. I can't believe we got to do that. Yeah, I learned so much over there. That whole program, the experimental theater wing was incredible. When did you, you met Thomas Lennon before NYU, correct? Yeah. Tom and I met at, it's called Cherubs. It's a program. Oh, yeah. Yeah. At Northwestern, a summer program for high school. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. This just keeps looping back. Yeah. Go cats. So, so, so, I met at Cherubs. We met at Cherubs in, oh, gosh, what summer would that have been? 87? Yeah. So, wait, hold on. Is this something that I missed? You guys were Cherubs? No, but we went to Northwestern. Oh, you went to, well, let me tell you this. We would have known each other a long time ago. But when Tom Lennon and I met at Cherubs, we said, we're going to be best friends forever. We're going to work together forever. We're going to do theater in Chicago forever. We're going to apply to Northwestern. And then NYU is a backup school. And neither one of us got into Northwestern. So, oh, I wasn't smart enough. But, well, our parents met at Northwestern. So, maybe we had that. That helped us a little bit. Well, not necessarily. No, we don't know that. Yeah. I can tell. I can tell it's, I can tell you're smart. I think when they, I will say, when it's a coin flip, they choose the children of a Larry who went there. Right. Well, we had half of that going. You, I will say, my experience with Cherubs is, because a fair amount of Cherubs do end up going to Northwestern. And you would show up, and the ones who had been Cherubs acted like they owned the place. I grimaced. Because they had spent a summer there. But it did seem like an incredible, and so that was that the, that must have been the summer between your junior and senior year of high school? That's correct. Yeah, and I grimaced when you started to say the Cherubs that came in for the, because I can only imagine. The confidence that program gave us was, it was, I mean, really, if you, we must have been insufferable when we came back. But I will say, for a parent, what a reminder that you send your kids to a program that's going to bring out their confidence. Like, maybe it makes them a little irritating to their peers, but it's just so great. I mean, it must have been so exciting for your parents when you came home from there. You would, one would think, but what actually happened was, my father came to pick me up, and then we drove to, see my, the family in Illinois, of course, because we were there. And he came to pick me up thinking, I'm just picking up my daughter from camp. We're going to throw the stuff in the car. I'll hear a couple stories, and then we'll go to his dad's. But what happened was, we were so theater kiddy and so dramatic that everyone was crying as if we had all just died. And we expressed it physically. Open your mouth a little bit. By putting Band-Aids on our faces to show the pain that we had to now leave one another because the program was over. So when my dad arrived, he was like, what the hell did I pay for? Is this some, he literally, he was like, is this a cult? Why are adults crying that you're leaving? This is, something is off. And it was. It was that I was for sure an actress. That's the best part. I mean, again, if they wanted to send you to theater camp, they should have. If they sent you to experimental theater, your kids are going to come back with Band-Aids on their faces. Read the fine print, buddy. Support comes from First Leaf. Hey, Poshy. Hey, Sufi. You know, after a hard day of podcasting with you, even somebody I love, you know what I mean? 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it's just wonderful you know what i mean you're just in a home that the owners have taken great care and attention to make comfortable for you on your vacation and you're just amongst everyone you're you're a me that's friend poshy oh you're a me a trip on airbnb makes for a better trip you could be traveling with family you could be looking to discover authentic and local experiences you'd be taking a trip with a group of friends a group of a me too lazy me so was that like kind of the first summer you did a proper camp was it always just illinois until then yeah it was i was too afraid my mom was my girl scout leader so i would go on girl scout trips with her like girl scout camp out things but only because my mom was my girl scout leader um i was too i was very shy when i was younger i was a real observer a real i was a real watcher and i now realize i was really i think taking in behavior and um and i'm i'm grateful for that time although i'm sad for that girl at the time because i really wanted a friend i'll never forget when my dad took me to puerto rico for one spring break and it was just he and i and we always had a good time but you know at a certain age you start wanting to have a friend too yeah and there was this girl on the beach that looked about my age and we could tell that she was a local and my dad said go over to her and say hello and i was like i i don't know how i don't know how to speak spanish and he's like you just say hola hola just say hola and we'll go from there and probably she speaks english we must have spent seven hours on that beach as i sort of got closer and closer to her playing with my little sand stuff and practicing it i mean it sounds a little sad and psycho but i never got up the courage i never got up the courage to to to say hello to say hola yes it's very sweet and i imagine that as a parent it's such a tricky thing as far as how much you can push because ultimately ultimately you're the one who has to say hola ultimately you're the one who has to say hola is such a great uh that's such a a great way to explain parenthood yeah you can only teach him the hola i think my dad was napping in fairness god bless him he woke up seven hours later and said what she's still here my we had some amazing trips my dad and i because i mean you know he's a single dad just trying he you know my mom used to take care of the details so when my dad was was the one taking me on spring break trips it was you know he wanted to make it the best thing ever and but we had many times like we would go to action park a lot i don't know if you know about action park they there was a where is action park it's i believe upstate new york but it's a it's a there was a documentary that came out recently and oh yeah class action park so you would go there to get severely hurt so i would come back from there just like road rash and i would go to action park and i would go to action park and i would go to action park and i would come back from there just like road rash bruised having had the best time of my life sunburned and you just knew oh you guys went to action park and had a blast by the way yeah would your dad go on rides and things at action park was he down oh yeah dad is always down to clown i think he still would be down to clown at action park except for his trick hip yeah gotcha they if you don't got one they'll give you one but if you got one they uh my i we took my kids to which is a great like just one of those like local summer memorial day weekend fairs with like the you know traveling uh rides you know they're there for a weekend they pick up and go somewhere else on the east coast and my daughter who's four like went on this like little dragon roller coaster smallest thing in the world she got off i was like how was it she goes i kept banging my head i'm like don't be dramatic and then the next day just like a crazy golf ball size bruise i was like is that from she goes yeah i told you i was banging my head i'm like oh my god oh my god doesn't that just feel the worst i have so many parenting moments like that where you're like come on and then the next day they're they're limping and doctor's like why didn't you oh my god poor little thing and she's gonna remember that forever by the way that's the only thing she'll remember from that trip and then right and then when that when doctors are like and so you did nothing yes looking back that was the air what how old is your uh child now 20 he's gonna be 21 this summer i know i can't i i love i say that like you guys know him and you're like oh i can't believe he got so old he's 20 already what i just heard he was 19 well he's also six four which sort of adds to the drama of it all yeah yeah every time he comes like walks across around the corner i'm like jesus christ i mean you're i mean so you're tall is your husband tall as well or is he got is he i'm six seven and my husband is seven foot nine so yeah our son is small for for our family so it's he's actually yeah no no he just feels shame when i'm shocked it's at how short he is how did this happen you must trip over him like just constantly i did he is like one of those mini dachshunds but he'll be back at college soon what would what would he say was the greatest uh family trip you guys ever took i would say we had oh i hate that i had to put a a d at the end of have a cabin in northern california in a town called happy camp california like almost oregon border and we didn't own it because you couldn't own it but we had the caretaking rights to a historical cabin up there and we have the we still have the mineral rights to the property so we do gold mining up there jade mining on this beautiful river i mean it look you have to use coordinates to get to the property you have to use coordinates to get to the to get in and it looks like the garden of eden for real i mean the water is jade color it it's those trips you know just fully when you know carrying a rifle to go to the outhouse because you might encounter a bear you know or a crackhead um was they those were i mean i don't know it's interesting though would he say that probably not he'd probably say lego land where where we would spend nine thousand dollars for him to go to the outhouse and he'd probably say lego land where where we would spend nine thousand dollars for him to sit in a room and build a car out of legos that he would race against someone else and then it was time to go home yeah yeah yeah well we just went to uh i took my oldest to boston he's 10 and someone had told him there was a lego store in boston and that's all he he was like so how far away is the lego dude we live in new york lego store there we're gonna see we're here for american history yeah but this boston lego store tell me more about it yeah i'm like they got a lego store in boston they got a lego store in boston they got the same legos they got the same legos um this how uh uh did you have you did you ever encounter a bear were you ever carrying a rifle and encountered a bear no but i was carrying a rifle and encountered a pickup truck full of gentlemen who had who were sitting at our camp when we got back from a hike oh creepy and um that's about as exciting as the story gets because as we walked up they were like hey we did uh it was totally fine um but the but the lead-in is really exciting yeah yeah yeah no it's a it's like it's the beginning of a of a movie and then it just falls it falls apart immediately right there's no sequel to this movie yeah yeah in fact it barely makes it past the opening credits hey hey hey you want i love this hey we love this date hey we're um when your mom was your girl scout leader would that would you go on uh just to just like little outings or would you go weekends away sort of cabins uh on the east coast we would do we would do well my mom and i would camp my mom and i would go to like little weekend camps up the um appalachian trail like just little camping she was a badass though but she would bring like you know her her virginia slims and her iced tea in a tub and toilet paper so she we were prepared um it was nice camping my mom was very very good at that um and then for girl scouts we would just do yeah it was like cabins i I don't think we ever did tents. If we did tents, it was outside the cabin. Not a big deal. We had these things that we would make, which now in hindsight sounds so 1950s girl camping. We would make sit-upons, which were newspaper that you would cover in wallpaper, and then you would stitch it together with yarn, and you'd carry it like a bag. And then when you had to sit down, you would sit upon it so you didn't get your Girl Scout uniform dirty. It sounds like I was raised in the 20s. Where's your sit-upon, honey? And we would eat buck. It was before you even had to give anything a clever name. You just called it what it was. Just was a sit-upon. There were so few things you could just call it a lean-to. Yeah, that's exactly right. Call it what it is. Call it what it is. Did you. Did you know that you. I mean, obviously now we know that you tried to go to Northwestern first, but were you happy to end up back in Manhattan for college? Very happy. Ultimately? I would imagine immediately. I think I was really honestly scared at the idea of moving away and going to Northwestern anyway. I know I would have made the best of it, but being that close to my parents was amazing. My dad at that point was now in Connecticut as well. So it was kind of the perfect distance. I could hop on a Metro North and be at my dad or mom's house in 45 minutes. Yeah, that's nice. That's really great. And then how. When have you. You're out west now? Yeah, I live in Malibu. How many years has it been? Well, I've lived in this house for 22 years and 23 years, but I've been in L.A. since 98. Gotcha. 98. I moved out here with Tom Lennon. Ben Grant and Michael Black because we were doing Viva Variety and we were about to do another season, but we all wanted to move here. So we said, let's move the show there and then we can move together, which was really such a dream. And we lived at the Oakwoods, you know. Yeah. Fantastic. Yeah. Did. When you were at the Oakwoods, how do you remember? The Oakwoods were furnished? Oh, furnished. Yes. Furnished with this like sort of hotel industrial furniture. Yeah. I remember how excited we were when we each got to our rooms. We were yelling down the hall to one another. They gave us placemats. We have plates. Everyone got so excited. You get to use the placemats. There's like a table setting. There was a plate, a salad plate. We had salad forks. I mean, this was some grown-up stuff. That was when people overhear you talking like that. They're like, I don't think the state paid these guys that much. Well, that's the beauty of it. That's the beauty of it. I will say, doing sketch really created, and I find this for most people, I think you could probably relate, you guys, that having started in this sketch world, I have zero ego about anything. I also am a team player. I know when to shut up. I know when to jump in. I know this is not my area or they need my help here. And if somebody says this isn't working, I'm like, great. Tell me. Whatever you say. Sketch sort of – It's like a boot camp for that, especially when it's you and 11 other people or 10 other people. So, you know, I think I did kind of – that mentality has served me very well, I believe. Yeah. And the money part, too, to be honest with you. I mean, my lawyer would kill me for saying this, but the truth is every time I get paid a sort of real wage on television, I'm like, what? He's like, honestly, it's not that great. I'm like – Yeah. I mean, I remember when we got our first paycheck from the state and I went and bought my mom a set of dishes, which, by the way, no one wants a set of dishes. She had dishes. They chose them for somebody else. Yeah. Yeah. But I wanted to get her something big and heavy in a box that was, like, grown up. So I went to Pottery Barn and I bought her some terracotta dishes. Does she still have them? She's passed away. Oh, she's – And she had gotten rid of the dishes. She had gotten rid of the dishes long before, which is why we went no contact. I went no contact, but I've heard that she's passed. And you felt nothing. You felt nothing because of the plates. Felt nothing, and I'm still searching for the dishes. I have going on Dr. Phil. This is great. If you've seen them. Yeah. If you've seen a box of plates. That's why I'm doing this podcast. It's not about four seasons. I am – I will find these plates before I die. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I really hope you do. Did – wait. Oh, I – you said that about your business manager. It's so true. Like, when people are – I think people are shocked when they find out, like, everybody in showbiz has an agent who, like, takes a percentage. And they're always like – and they're like, how do you – that doesn't make any sense. I'm like, here's the thing. I would always say yes to the first offer anyone ever gave me. A million percent. If you came up to me on the street and offered me something, I'd be like, okay. Do you want me to wear this? I'm like, I need one person who values me 11% more than I value myself, and it's worth it. I said to 11% more. I said to someone in front of my lawyer, I would do four seasons for the rest of my life. In fact, I would pay them to do it. And he pulled me aside. He said, please don't ever say that out loud again. Really, really hard. There's minimums. That's what the union's for. Yeah, yeah. The minimums. They're called the Kerry-Kenny minimums. That's right, for a reason. This has been absolutely delightful. I'm so excited for another season of The Four Seasons and just seeing the most wonderful people on screen together. And the next time I encounter you in real life, I'm just going to say hello. I'm going to say hola. Oh, but then I'll start crying and everything will get weird. There she is. You're a very nice person. Josh and I are nice people. Do you resent how nice a person Will Forte is because it then makes you feel like a little bit of a bad person? I feel like a monster around Will Forte. Also, like, every weekend he would run off and do a charity on an airplane. He'd fly on an airplane to go do a charity. And he has two little kids. And we're the same age. So I had zero excuse. But I was like, I have to learn my lines. He would show up. He knew every line. He had just, you know, I'm looking on Instagram. I'm like, wait, yesterday you were in. You were in Dallas dancing around to the Bee Gees. Like, what is happening? That's the other thing about Forte. He doesn't do a charity event where he just shows up or even just, like, introduces somebody. It's always, like, a full carnival performance. He's got costumes. When we're doing, when we're sitting, you know, in between, when they're doing different setups on Four Seasons, he's mumbling to himself. I'm like, are you learning lines? Do you want me to help? He's like, no, I'm learning this new Chapel Roan song that I'm going to sing this weekend in Poughkeepsie. I'm like, what? Yeah, I don't have, I just, I guess I think I got really tired real early. I did a lot. I've done a lot. Yeah, we've done a lot. So back off. What I'm saying is back off, Seth. Well, no, back off Will Forte. You can slow it down a little bit for the rest of us. Yeah, really. I don't know that he sleeps. I imagine if you saw Will Forte sleeping, you would think that his eyes might just pop open and he would just go, hello. That was a very good Will Forte, by the way. Yeah. I've heard Seth doing Will Fortes for several years. For several years now. So I've learned everything from you, Susie. Forte does not like my Forte. He does not. Hello, friend. How can he not hear that? I know. He, when he does, sometimes he's like, your impression of me sounds like this. And then he does it and it sounds, he sounds the same to me. Yeah. I'm like, you're just literally just talking like yourself. All right. It's time for the speed round, Carrie. And Josh is going to kick us off. All right. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous, or educational? I will say currently relaxing. Yes. Very good. What is your favorite means of transportation? I love them all. You love them all. I thought you said you love them all. I do. I do. I love them all. She's going to pick one, though. Okay. I am going to pick one. And you know, this is going to sound real crazy, guys. Train. Yeah. No. Train's one of our most popular answers. Is it? Okay. I think everyone. Yeah. Okay. I thought initially, I thought you said, I love a mall. And I was like, well, I love a mall. Well, a mall's not a means of transportation. Have you been to the Mall of America? It's a lot. That's true. It's far. The Mall of America is basically a way to. Yeah. 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? The royal family. Great. Ah, lovely. I just want to be like, I want to be in the Cotswolds, like, I don't even know what that is, but playing that game with the stick. Like croquet? Yeah, I have a lot to learn, but I'm going to be a great guest. Yeah, no, I would give yourself like a week to learn the lingo. Yeah, I'll get the encyclopedia and read all about it. You're going to be like, they were like, we'd love you to come to the Cotswolds. You're like, great. I'll be there right away. Where, now where is that? Where exactly? What is that stick game again? Please, what is this stick game? Will we be doing stick? Do I bring my own stick? If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? I think it's myself. My son, and I love my husband very much, but the reason is my son is like a real MacGyver and he's an engineering scientist. student so he would be able to make like a coconut phone and we could call him yeah yeah it's a you're choosing it you're choosing you're putting your safety first by choosing i'm putting let's be clear i'm putting myself first and i'm putting my son in danger oh there you go that's very nice to admit that what is your dream destination for a family vacation hmm i want to go to japan yeah that's very common yeah i think that might be my answer yeah i i know it's your answer seth because you say it all the time yeah but i'm constantly in flux i'm i'm not just the same guy every day i don't want well i don't want to get weird but i know our families have never met you and i have never met in person but do we plan it a one month trip to japan together just see how it goes i'm glad you said that carrie i was so in my i also i know we have not met in person but i also cannot you believe it i can't believe it either i was so hesitant to say it because i've just my awareness of you is like i'm coming up on like you know like 25 or more years and i'm like is it possible so i felt a little bit better knowing that you've lived out uh on the west coast for 25 years yeah yeah right but still at the same time it's the same circles it's very strange well when i'm in person like michael jackson did i wear a full i'm in disguise yes so we have yeah so we have met we have met but not spoken right you thought it was sia yeah oh i met her tons of times oh yeah yeah so that's all we had fun that was fun um is westport connecticut do you consider that your hometown huh it's so hard i mean i went to school there but um in a way i i think of new york that way i guess because i stayed um but let's say westport okay so if you had to get more families to come visit westport connecticut how would you sell that town i would say it's an adorable idyllic east coast new england vibe town with lots of fun little shops and i'm not losing them i'm losing the audience um i would say um i'll um you should totally totally go there it's great there's things you could do and see and be who you are i see their bookings are just going up it's i actually was going to say people who had previously booked a trip to westport are trying to cancel their car and i work for the tourism bureau oh they're going to be so mad i was just on the cover of the westport lifestyle magazine and i thought oh my gosh i've made it yeah i've made it um seth has our final question and i'm going to ask you a final questions okay carrie have you been to the grand canyon i have not and do you want to go not really yeah i don't i don't tall people it's a huge mistake because you guys there's just the chance of tipping wait yeah hold on please explain well yeah like you get near the edge strong wind you don't have you know also if your tiny son is running under your legs yeah i just don't like it i don't i don't think tall people should go to the grand i don't think it yeah i don't i mean i have i have google it's for shorties great it's for short fat people let's be clear let's be clear i'm too wispy too wispy you're the kind of person that just goes frisbees over the side i'm if i was the new board of tourism for the grand canyon it would be like just for shorties do you look like a spark plug get on over here get on over here if you're a fire hydrant shaped person also we'd love to have you on the edge i know that i know that the grand canyon involves like some version of sports and i'm not into the sports it's very active yeah i'm not into not anymore a little hike a paved hike a paved hike and a stick game in the cotswolds and you're good to go that's me i once had a i'm sorry i just have to tell you one thing i just remembered i totally forgot this i went skydiving one time and i bought a license plate cover that said i'd rather be skydiving so that is that is that is that explains me perfectly so if i ever did go to the grand canyon i would leave with a license plate cover that said i'd rather be in the grand canyon can it's so funny you did it once got a thing and then never did it again which really disproves the license plate and had it for years um this has been absolutely lovely cannot wait to speak to you in person me too and josh will not uh ice you the next time he sees you yeah come on josh that is yeah i'll step up i'll step up that is creepy um this was delightful thank you love to your family thank you so much love to your larry tell larry i said hi and i miss him you do the same okay thank you guys bye thank you family trips with the my brothers family trips with the my my brothers brothers here we go carrie's a very funny girl she was born in indiana i did some time in manhattan carrie's a very funny girl she was born in manhattan and then connecticut westport summer and then connecticut westport summer and then connecticut westport summer in peking illinois in peking illinois in peking illinois where she would kick it with her cousins where she would kick it with her cousins where she would kick it with her cousins town had the latitude of peking china town had the latitude of peking china town had the latitude of peking china but really it did not but really it did not but really it did not ow now oh the bicentennial they rented ow now oh the bicentennial they rented ow now oh the bicentennial they rented nrp got a pic with ben franklin thought nrp got a pic with ben franklin thought nrp got a pic with ben franklin thought it was pretty sweet her dad's whole name it was pretty sweet her dad's whole name it was pretty sweet her dad's whole name is larry check his birth certificate is larry check his birth certificate is larry check his birth certificate while mama went by sharon and she drove while mama went by sharon and she drove while mama went by sharon and she drove a few weeks she looked like terry gawd a few weeks she looked like terry gawd a few weeks she looked like terry gawd she would drive that car and hop on her she would drive that car and hop on her she would drive that car and hop on her cv cv cv yeah yeah yeah break a break a one nine this is super skirt super skirt put me this is super skirt super skirt put me this is super skirt super skirt put me in the cradle truckers let's super skirt super skirt truckers let's super skirt super skirt truckers let's super skirt super skirt she went down to jamaica there was a she went down to jamaica there was a she went down to jamaica there was a hurricane turned into four days in the hurricane turned into four days in the hurricane turned into four days in the lobby that trip was kind of lame got lobby that trip was kind of lame got lobby that trip was kind of lame got home and used mom's son you gotta have a home and used mom's son you gotta have a home and used mom's son you gotta have a tan and stickers meant for warts was not tan and stickers meant for warts was not tan and stickers meant for warts was not part of the plan mom was her girl scout part of the plan mom was her girl scout part of the plan mom was her girl scout leader she smoked virginia's limbs she leader she smoked virginia's limbs she leader she smoked virginia's limbs she packed the icy and the tp packed the icy and the tp packed the icy and the tp they get crafty making cinnabons they get crafty making cinnabons they get crafty making cinnabons they'd sew them up with yarn they'd sew them up with yarn they'd sew them up with yarn she went to puerto rico a trip just with she went to puerto rico a trip just with she went to puerto rico a trip just with her dad wanted to meet a friend she her dad wanted to meet a friend she her dad wanted to meet a friend she wanted it so bad dad said just go say wanted it so bad dad said just go say When she woke up the nerve And seven hours later She hadn't said a word A summer arts program Made some theater friends But when Jack came to pick her up Whoa, was she okay? Had band-aids on her face, on her face To represent the pain Northwestern say, oh, oh, oh Band-aids would show the pain When they all had to go away Dad thought, "What the fuck is a Metatown?" Tellin' an instant friend It had a happy end Went from college straight to MTV When she got on the stage She bought some dishes for her mother And now thinking about it She'd really like 'em back Skydive Cotswolds Stick game Cotswolds Stick game Cotswolds Stick game Cotswolds Stick game Cotswolds Stick game Cotswolds