Larry Meyers, ChickenPox, & Missed Connections: Listener Episode #24

Propel Fitness Water with Gatorade Electrolytes, Zero Sugar, and Vitamins. Propel hydrates better than water to help you get the most out of your workout and get back to your best self. What propels you? Propel with Gatorade Electrolytes. Hey, you tripsters. Poshy here. This is another very special listener episode because once again, we find ourselves without Sufi. So my mom, Hurry, joined us for a listener episode. And now, just to make things even and things come out right, I know him as D-Money, the counterfeit trader, the sultan of style. You know him as Larry or Yerry Myers. Daddy boy, how are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm good. We just saw each other. I was just in New Hampshire for a couple days. It was so nice to see you. Yeah, it was great. We had really great weather when you were here. We got to play some golf, and then as soon as you left, it was 95 degrees for the last two days, and it's about 50 today. So welcome to New England. Yeah. Real quick, you'll read articles. About the podcast industry, and you'll sort of send Sufi and I little things that we might be interested in. And you sent us a clip from something, I think, from the Wall Street Journal this morning, just talking about how video is becoming a real big driver of sort of the success of podcasts. And I'm wondering if you think that Sufi reading that will make him be more or more likely to take. Showers before we record these episodes. It certainly should, but it certainly won't. Because, because, you know, Sufi, in addition to this and whatever else he's doing, and, you know, the other podcasts that he does, and the show and the kids and whatever, he just squeezes it in whatever he can. And yeah, there's no. Prep, you know, or anything like that, as long as the technology works, that's good enough for him. Yeah, I mean, I was, you know, I was just home and I have become a very because of Mackenzie Mackenzie, like, insists on showering before bed. So I get up in the morning and kind of one of the first things I want to do unless I'm going to work out is I want to get clean just to start the day off. Right. So I'll always do that shower. And then I do a shower before bed and hurry. She was talking about she's like, you're such a clean boy and your brother's just not. That's just the way it is, I guess. When you were when you were kids, I used to call you filth cutlets. And yeah, and somehow Sufas retained that. But, you know, he's got the show. So I figure he showers like Monday. Right. Yeah. He showers before his show. Yeah. You know, it's even, you know, if he has to shower somewhere else, that's it's still good accounts. I mean, I don't I don't shower at home very often because I go to the gym all the time. So that's usually where I although I did shower for this. I did. Yeah. Very good. Yeah. And you also, you know, I heard it when I was home. But we have you know, we have a sheep dog. We have Albert the sixth. And you had a couple of friends, Matt Coburn, Randy Suazo come over and you were telling. Them about how you and Albert play soccer in your bathroom and you keep a tennis ball in there that while you're brushing your teeth, you will try to kick a ball past him. And his reactions are so lightning fast that he's like the best World Cup goalie you've ever seen. Yeah. If you if he was two feet away and you kicked a ball as hard as you could, he would catch it. Yeah. He has amazing reflexes. Amazing. It's just one of the many amazing things. But today, speaking of showers and stuff, I did take a shower at home and he was outside because because mom was going someplace and he likes to chase the cars when when you go. He won't leave the property because we have an invisible fence. So there's no concern about that. So while he was chasing her, I got got the opportunity to take a shower and brush my teeth and shave. Without him, which is in a way, it's a treat because it takes so much less time. So, yeah, we took Albert on a bunch of walks when I was home. We always go to this this park and have one of those chuckets and throw him the balls. And man, he just he loves it so much. But he also lets you know when he's too tired. You know, he has been he's got a short summertime haircut because. Because the weather has gotten hotter, but he'll chase that ball and chase that ball. And then at some point he just lays down and you're like, oh, well, that's it. Yeah, you think it's that's it. He's just tired because he's been running wind sprints. And then, yeah, you go and you pick the ball up and he's ready to go again. But he won't. He won't. Yeah, can't go as long as he went before. But he'll he'll he'll he'll never quit. He's a dog. He's not. He he also, you know, he always sleeps in the hallway. Or in your room. But when I'm home, me and Albert, we have a pretty good relationship. And he's he's always very happy to see me. And so he will come into my room and get onto my bed and maybe sleep for part of the night there. But the first night I was home, he jumps up into my bed. And first he does this thing where he will like nip at the blankets where my legs are underneath the blankets with the front of his teeth, which are very sharp. This is a big dog. What does he weigh? About 80 pounds. Yeah, 80 pounds. And it's like he's just trying to pinch my legs with these little nips. And it is certainly a show of affection, but it doesn't feel like it. And then when I try to like if I pet him, he'll growl at me and like nip at my hands, like sort of like clap his teeth closed at my hands. And it is such an aggressive form of love. But he clearly loves me. But it just. It just doesn't feel like it. You were actually home when we got him. I don't remember why. Because he remembers you as a puppy. A very, very young puppy. Yeah. Well, I have those pictures of him with his fat tire. He has this fat tire toy that he plays with every morning. And when we first got him, it would fit over sort of his muzzle. And we have great pictures of him just as a tiny, tiny puppy. Yeah. He sleeps all over the place. And normally sleeps in your bed a lot when you're not there. And then you'll find him on the floor in our bedroom. But ultimately, in the morning, he always asks if you'll start hearing him push the covers on the side of the bed. And I invite him up for the last half hour. And he puts his head on my pillow and goes to sleep until I roll over. And then I get about a thousand kisses. It's a great way to start the day. Great way to start the day. Yeah. My first night there also, you know, he's in bed and he's trying to bite my legs. But then I looked and there were like 15 bugs, like little beetles. Like, I don't know if they were beetles, but they were little creepy black bugs that were crawling around on my bedspread. And I killed them all. I was very tired because we stayed up late to watch one of these NBA games that I can't believe how late they start on the East Coast. And so I kill all these bugs. And then I look at his. Paws and there are bugs on his paws. And clearly the bugs are on him. I couldn't, you know, give him a bath at that hour. And I just had to kick him out into the hallway. And I felt so bad because I was only home for two nights and he tried to nose his way back in. I'm sorry that I can't have you in bed with these bugs. And then the next day the bugs were gone. So, yeah, because it's never happened before. Yeah. Only that was the only time. So if it was going to happen. Best that it happened the night you were here. Absolutely. Yes. Yeah. You, I mean, it's a, you know, it's a family trips podcast. You and mom just took an amazing trip. Yes. You got back just before, just before I got up to New Hampshire. Tell, tell the listeners where you went. So over the last few years, we've been going on these small boat cruises, about 200 people or less. And it looks like an ocean liner. Yeah. Until you're next to one. And, and it's, it's all through different college alumni associations is how they market these trips. And they all have some sort of a theme. And so we've done a few of them. And this one we just, just did. We, we flew from Boston to Casablanca and then we saw a bit of Cas, Casablanca and then the boat left and we went to Rabat. in Morocco and cangera in in morocco and then uh up to spain and to i think it's uh malaga i may have that wrong then um we were there you went to see the alhambra and uh down to um uh gibraltar the phil lagos and in portugal and then sailed up and finished the in in porto uh in portugal so it was yeah very all places we've never been before um yeah it was it was really a lot of fun um and then you guys sent us a video from rick's cafe yes in casablanca which is you know i'm sure it's came after the movie yeah um and it mom said it's like it's very touristy but also it's great like it sort of gives you that actually it came before the movie it was the inspiration for rick's cafe in the movie it doesn't look anything like the movie uh oh i thought it would okay it doesn't have it's not as big um yeah with a big bandstand or anything like that in fact it's it's three stories high all open to the sky with with balconies all around and so it there's three levels and there is a piano and a drums and they weren't we were there at lunch and so they weren't music but a fancy old bar guys wearing fezzes uh you know they look look sort of like uh you would imagine from from the movie but it was the inspiration it was the inspiration for the director gotcha and then so there was no music so you didn't hear as time goes by while you were there i whistled a couple bars but your mother didn't recognize it um well uh yeah i think it's awesome that you guys do those trips uh every time i tell mackenzie about them i say she says we should do one as well but i'm like they're i think these are pretty much exclusively retirees trips well they're alumni first of all and and yes they're mostly people that are retired that have the time to travel that's one of the benefits of being retired is that you have time to travel and um so yeah so i would say it's very rare that you would see younger people uh and and in fact one young woman she's i didn't have a chance to talk to her too much and uh she couldn't have been more than 40 and which made her a like a baby on this trip but but she turns out she was with a a group of people from smith college alumni and she was kind of being the you know the sort of host of them and what happens with with professors and stuff when they have a good cohort like six or seven eight ten people from one school they'll they'll bring a faculty member member and give them a trip just to you know be act as a host and that's what she was very nice lady yeah great um well they yeah they do sound like amazing trips and every time you guys tell me about them i'm jealous uh so bravo to you but uh this is a we're joined by our producer jeff today sam is on the road um so jeff you got a story for us hi sufi hi poshy my name is michael and i'm in colorado this family trip dates back to the holiday time in 1998 and 99 when i was on my study abroad program in the city of maastricht in the netherlands as a quick side note when our program started that august we had student guides take us to amsterdam for a weekend trip and one of the attractions we saw was boom chicago i do recall the audience being asked for a celebrity suggestion and i shouted cindy crawford and it was used in the final sketch of the night anyway back to maastricht at the end of the year instead of going home for the christmas holiday my older sister flew out to join me and we made a plan to spend new year's in paris this being the 90s and my sister having already spent her own time during a study abroad traveling europe cheaply she had the notion that the best way to get to paris would be to hitchhike so we planned to go to paris and we went to paris and we went to daypack each and headed out to the border between the netherlands and belgium on our way to paris i remember it being relatively easy to get a ride to paris and after roughly three four hours traveling in a car we were dropped somewhere in the middle of the bustling city we spent a few fun-filled days seeing museums eating crepes and new year's eve was spent under the eiffel tower afterwards we planned to visit one of my sister's friends in a small town outside of paris again we hitchhiked only this time it was pouring rain we were soaking wet and it proved much more difficult to find a ride and a place to stay we walked on the side of the road in the small town while it was getting dark and we were very lucky to be picked up by a nice young man who did not speak any english nor did we speak any french but managed to communicate that he would take us to our destination in the morning he generously took us to his house where his wife unaware of our arrival until we walked in fed us and gave us a place to sleep for the night and the next morning she shuttled us to our destination after visiting my sister's friend for a day he had to work and we were left in his quiet little apartment figuring out the rest of our trip now having spent about 10 straight days with my sister and traveling in unusual and stressful situations we had the downtime needed to do what sisters do best and we had a huge blowout fight the details of the fight escaped me partly because of instead of staying to work it out i grabbed my bag with small amount of french francs i had and headed out the door i remember being very determined to show my sister that i didn't need her to get home and instead i started the process of hitchhiking back to my dorm by myself i was helped out by several different car and truck drivers i remember walking alongside the highway waiting for the next driver for many excruciating kilometers along the way i made some very questionable decisions out of stubbornness and determination to get back home while much kindness was shown to me by a truck driver that bought me some snacks and a coke at a gas station i was equally met with much luck that i made at home safely after getting into the back seat of a two-door coupe that already had four men in the car the passenger seat occupied by a man with a fully casted broken arm but in the end i did make it home safely i spent very little money and a few days later my sister rejoined me back in my dorm and we repaired our relationship for the duration of her trip love your podcast hello to the punkas and quaid army uh i forget what you're supposed to say when someone says quaid army that's a it's a lonely island thing righteous kill righteous kill yeah okay um um punkieri have you been uh have you ever hitchhiked um i i probably oh yes i know in high school there was um uh an area uh between where different people lived and then one area was way up on top of a hill and and after school the people that lived up there there was a bus but no but not a school bus but a city bus uh everybody would go to this one corner and we would you would hitchhike that's how you would go home and everybody if you you know if there was anybody that um you lived up there a parent or you know that knew knew you you you always got a ride or sometimes if you had you know a buddy that had a car and you could go out to get a hit so nobody ever it didn't everybody had a car and you could go out to get a hit so nobody ever it didn't everybody had a car probably in history paid to get up on top of that hill so if you were going up there to hang out after school i think that's when i would hitchhike but i think that's the only probably the only time and and i think one of the the most interesting thing about that story is she understated badly understated the word lucky yeah yes yeah it's it to me it's a terrifying proposal with with someone else and certainly alone and uh yeah not a a sexist judgment but i just think as a as a woman as a woman alone uh that is not advisable not advisable for a man alone but um but for a woman it's a good piece of sexist judgment good well you know you don't know how that guy got it his arm on the cast that could be a fake cast that could be she had a knife in there yeah good for i'm glad she's she made it glad she made yeah yeah yeah but i think that also i mean the 90s is a little late i feel like you in high school in pittsburgh um is a different time i think there's always been a certain danger there's a certain you think danger you think the 60s are different i don't know why you thought Yeah. You know, back in the day, there is this romantic notion about it. But yeah, a few after school specials and horror stories and it changes tune. But I do think Europe, it was probably it's it might still be more acceptable or I don't know. A quick non hitchhike story. It should have been a sure should have been a hitchhike story when I and my high school buddies while we were in college, we went to Europe as as young folks do. And we arrived in the resort town in what was then Yugoslavia and now Slovenia of Patija because we had an exchange student from my high school that lived at this resort for the summer with her family. And we were in such dire economic straits that spending a few days with this girl was critical to the whole project. And when we arrived on a boat from Ancona, Italy, it's a resort right on the water, right in the Adriatic. And there's hotels and so forth. And we go in this hotel. And we have her address. And I don't remember. Let's say her address is 300 Ocean Drive. Sure. In Serbian, whatever that is. And we go. We show this guy who's like the night clerk in this hotel that that's where we want to go. And he takes us out on the street. He points up the street. He shows us his address of the hotel, which is like 12. And we're looking. We're looking for 300. And this is before. Doesn't seem like it's too far. That's just. That's what we thought. 280 right away. This is in about 1968, 69. And it's amazing that from the dawn of time until some time in the 70s, 1970s, from cavemen. From cavemen. From cavemen. To 1970s. Nobody thought to put wheels on the suitcase. No. That is amazing. Never thought. So we have suitcases. And it's hot. It's it's summer. It's hot. So we go from the 10, whatever the address was, and we go a few more and it goes to like, I don't know, 16. Then it goes to moving in the right direction. Yeah. And it goes to 18. Anyway, long story short, we schlep these suitcases in this heat, what seemed like five miles until we end up at the, and we find the place and we're organizing things with, with our classmate. And while we're talking, a car pulls up, you know, it is, it's a dude from the hotel. He was coming home from, he was the night clerk and his shift was over. And instead of saying, you know, point to sit down, I'll give you a lift. I'll take you. No. Yeah. Walk up there and he comes up. How you doing? Glad you find the place. That was it. So that would have been one time that hitchhiking would have been the best result. Yeah. Yeah. Well, Michael, I'm glad you made it out of there. Maastricht. We've been to Maastricht. We love Maastricht in the South of Holland. Beautiful place. Yeah. Very nice. And yeah. I do. I do love just being in a fight, just grabbing your bag and hitchhiking, hitchhiking away from your sister. It's such a, such a rash move, but it all worked out. But by the way, that's the kind of thing you would have done. Yeah. No, that's a hundred percent. That's a hundred percent. Seth wouldn't do it because it was too much. But you, you would have, why don't you, I think, picked up your bags and, and, and went from Northwestern to back where we lived in Michigan because you had some tumult like that. Yeah. So that was, that's your, your. I broke up with a girlfriend and I wanted to go to the last place I remembered being happy, which, which was like a four hour drive away. Yeah. That's, that's your, that's, that's your move right there. That girl, you and her have a lot in common, except you didn't hitchhike. You had a car. Yeah. Which Seth thought I stole because I didn't tell him. Yes. That's in fact, he called that morning. He, he called that morning and say, bad news. The car stolen. And then. Yeah. No, I took it. I took it. Sufi to drive back to. But then he called back and said, good news. 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To les amis. All right. What's our next story, Jeff? Hi, Josh and Seth. This is Joanne from Wakefield, Rhode Island. I have many family vacations. Stories from trips with my core four family, my mother, father, sister, and me, which I could tell stories ranging from melted crayons, destroying a rental car somewhere in the Arizona desert to my heart of hearing father, absolutely losing his mind at my sister in Disney because he thought she was swearing, when in reality she was just singing Zippity-Doo-Dah. But those stories will have to wait, because today I bring you a story starring my grandmother, Nana Betty. The story takes place in your home state, at a place I'm positive you both visited growing up, probably on an end-of-year school field trip or as the classic New England family day trip destination, Canobie Lake Park. This was the mid-1970s. Nana Betty lived in Massachusetts near the New Hampshire border, and one summer, when I was maybe five or six, my parents sent me to spend the week with her. Now, Nana Betty was one of those grandmothers who truly believed any problem in life could be solved with chocolate, sunshine, or a trip somewhere fun. So one day, she and my uncle decided to take me to Canobie Lake Park. At first, I was thrilled. We pulled into the parking lot, and I was ready for the best day ever. But then something changed. I went on exactly one ride. And after that, I refused to go on anything else. Every ride suggestion was met with me digging my heels in like a cat being forced into a bath. The roller coaster? No. Ferris wheel? Absolutely not. Kiddie rides? Hard pass. My Nana tried everything. Encouragement? Bribery? Negotiation? Cotton candy? Nope. Ice cream? No thank you. And then she tried the nuclear option. She bought me one of those enormous amusement park balloons that on any normal day would have made me lose my little mind with excitement. Nothing. I just stood there holding this giant balloon with the energy of a kid waiting outside the principal's office. Now, my grandmother had raised six children. Six. Very little rattled her. But even at five years old, I could tell my lack of enjoyment was getting her annoyed. She had paid for the tickets, bought the treats, purchased the balloon, and meanwhile, I was acting like she had taken me to a tax seminar instead of an amusement park. Eventually, we gave up and left early, all three of us sitting in the car silently with matching frowns. On the drive home, Nana Betty finally started giving me the disappointed grandmother speech. You know, I spent a lot of money trying to give you a nice day. I just don't understand why you didn't want to have any fun. At that point, my uncle turned around, from the front seat to say something to me, but instead stopped mid-sentence and looked at my grandmother. Uh, ma, what are those spots all over her face? Turns out I had chicken pox, and within hours, the spots that started on my face had spread everywhere. This explained why I suddenly didn't want to ride spinning carnival rides or eat dairy products in 90 degree heat. For years afterward, my Nana would tell that story and talk about how bad she felt for getting frustrated with me. Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure the bigger issue was that she unknowingly brought a child with active chicken pox to an amusement park packed wall-to-wall with kids in the 70s. Basically, the public health equivalent of releasing a raccoon into a buffet. Thankfully, Nana didn't, Betty didn't let one unfortunate case of amusement park chicken pox stop her from continuing to travel with me. In fact, years later, when I was 15, she took me to Australia, where we visited the National Park of Australia. I was there for a year, and I was the great barrier reef. While snorkeling, the boat crew accidentally started throwing the lunch scraps into the water before realizing I was still out there swimming. There's truly no sound quite like that of hearing tens of thousands of fish rushing towards you because it's feeding time. I got out of the water very quickly, and thankfully, before any bigger fish decided to join the buffet. Looking back now, traveling with Nana Betty always meant something memorable was going to happen, and honestly, I'm not sure I would have done it without Nana Betty. I'm not sure I would have done it without Nana Betty, but honestly, I wouldn't trade a second of it. I was incredibly lucky to have her in my life for so long. Nana Betty lived to almost 101 years old, and I still miss her and our adventures every single day. Thanks for the great podcast. It always gives me a laugh and somehow manages to bring back memories of family trips I haven't thought about in years. Oh, thank you, Joanne. And yeah, big applause to Nana Betty for being there for you all those years. I think Nana Betty was so disappointed, and when she wanted to do something else, she said, well, we're in New Hampshire, and we're at Canby Lake Amusement Park. Let's do something that she'll like. So she skipped the whole United States, including Disneyland, and let's go to Australia next. Yeah, she wasn't taking any chances. No chance. Yeah. Yeah. I would love to see the Great Barrier Reef, and I bet the reef was in better shape when Joanne got there. But Canby Lake Park, have you been there? Not since you guys were kids. I think about it, if Seth would bring the kids up here in the summer season, it would be one of my first stops. Because I think it's far more than I remember. Yeah. I thought Joanne was going to say that the first ride she went on, which at five, they wouldn't have let her on, the Turkish twist. But the Turkish twist was a ride where you would get into this circular room, and it would just start spinning. And you would get pressed against the wall from the centrifugal force, and the floor drops out. And you could sort of reposition yourself on the wall, but you're looking across at other people, and boy, oh boy, I think I did that once and had to lay down on a park bench afterwards and was nauseous and just got too dizzy. It's the only ride I can remember from Canby Lake Park. But we went there. Definitely every year there was a field trip there. Yeah, I think there was school trips. I think he went there more with the school than with us. But her story reminds me of when you take kids to something you think they're going to real like, and they don't fully invest. And when mom was a teacher, we would, in like February, April vacation, there's two in New Hampshire, we went to, we would go typically, no, it had to be April. We would go to somewhere warm. And I remember going to the Bahamas one year, and it's beautiful, and there's beaches, and there's all kinds of stuff. But it was always the week of the NFL draft. And it wasn't the draft like it is now, which is three days and four TV stations and everything. It was on, you know, maybe ESPN, just old ESPN. And Seth would be inside watching the draft, waiting to see who the Steelers would draft. And then he'd come out and tell us, and then he'd go back inside. So he didn't miss. The next other 30-run team, so he didn't miss the next draft choice. And we'd be out playing in the sand and swimming and everything. But if he didn't want to miss the draft, that was a whole weekend. I still, I didn't understand then, and I don't understand now. That didn't make any sense then. Yeah. Your best friend, Denny, will like text a text chain with, you know, me, you, mom, Seth, during the draft, and be like, I love this pic. And I'm like, I'm out living. I'm like, what are you talking about? I'm like, I'll find out later. I'll find out when they're playing football, if they're good. But that was, yeah, that was his thing. We'll go to the Bahamas. I'm going to go watch ESPN. Yeah. I don't recall, did we, did we have chicken pox? Yeah, I think so. But yes, yes. Seth has one pockmark, I think, if I'm not mistaken. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I think he did have chicken pox. I don't remember anything else about it. Yeah. I don't, I just have no knowledge of like, oh, yeah, you would never, you feel terrible and you wouldn't want to be going on rides because of chicken pox. But I'm going to take Joanne's word for it, that it's maybe not, not the best combo. No, it's not. But as you get older, as you, you're my age, okay, chicken pox is not, it all has to do with, if people have shingles, you have to know if you had, when you were a kid, did you have, so you hear about people, shingles is terrible. I mean, you get a shot for it, so you don't get it. But that, that's, as you get older, this goes away. And now you start thinking about it in another context. It's just another thing about aging. You'll go look forward to it. Yeah, no, I just, I just actually got a text from CVS or whatever saying I'm now eligible for the shingles vaccine. Oh, congratulations. Congratulations. Yeah, thanks. Yeah. Um, uh, all right. I think we've got another story, Jeff. Hey, Seth and Josh, this is Megan from Longmont, Colorado. I wanted to share one of our more stressful yet hilarious family trip adventures. My family of four go to a resort in Mexico every year for spring break, because by the time spring break rolls around, we are just done and need to go somewhere where we don't have to do squat. So after a week of rest and recharging and relaxation, we woke up at three o'clock in the morning on our departure day, and we because our transfer service insisted on an insanely early pickup time. we always fly direct, but this time we had to connect. No big deal. We have plenty of time to make the connection. So after sitting in the Cancun airport for hours, we fly our tired selves to Houston and go through customs. But because they were massively understaffed for the number of international flights coming in, it took over two hours to get through. So we missed our connecting flight to Denver. We rebook flights and try to go on standby for a direct Houston to Denver flight home. We wait at the gate with fingers crossed, and just as they're about to let us on the plane, two latecomer ticketed passengers come jogging up to the gate. So all four of us can't go. We decide my 11-year-old son and I will go, and my husband Alan and our eight-year-old daughter will hopefully get on the next direct flight, or at the very least, a connecting flight through San Antonio for which they have confirmed seats. I take all the things I'll need to get home. Parking lot card, location of the car, phone chargers, credit card. Get on the plane, get in the air, and I get a text from my husband that I don't have car keys. Great. But he's contacted his friend Ryan, who will go to our house, grab the spare set, and meet me at the airport. God bless Ryan. Great plan, except Alan gave Ryan the wrong code to the home alarm, which goes haywire when he tries to get into the house. He gets that taken care of. I then get another text from Alan that the next direct flight to Denver is oversold. And they gave away their seats on the San Antonio flight because for some reason they were counted as being on my flight. He gets that fixed. Now all he has to do is get to San Antonio and make the flight to Denver. Well, the Houston to San Antonio flight is now delayed because they changed aircraft at the last minute to a bigger one with full fuel. Too much fuel for a short flight, which would make the landing really bad. So they had to degas the plane. My husband and daughter finally get to San Antonio. They get on the plane. I get a text from my husband. I get a text from my and make the Denver connection with minutes to spare. When they told the flight attendant all that had gone on, she gave him a free drink and my daughter a snack box saying, you earned this. So they arrive in Denver and I head back out to the airport to pick them up. And that's when I learned there was even more to the saga. When he realized I didn't have car keys, Alan ran back to the gate yelling, stop the plane, stop the plane, hoping they could run the key on board to me. But it was too late for them to go down the jetway. The gate crew thought the ground crew could use a lift and hand the keys through the cockpit window. Sadly, the plane was too much in motion. So the next plan was for the crew of the next flight to Denver to take the keys and I would wait at the Denver airport for them and meet up with them for a handoff. Mind you, all these schemes were the ideas of the United Airlines staff, not us. But the next crew said, no, they didn't want the responsibility. So that's why the Ryan home alarm plan went into action. No wonder the flight attendant gave him a drink. So my kids got a big fat lesson in rolling with it and the importance of flying direct. Always fly direct. So thanks guys. Absolutely love the pod and the family I would want to vacation with without doubt is the Myers family. I just want to sit in a corner with one of your moms G and T's and listen to you all. Oh man, that just sounds like a nightmare. Absolutely. Yeah. You've, uh, you've got some experience, uh, leaving things behind. I, I am on the U S Olympic loser team of not that I'm a loser, but the, I lose stuff all the time. And, um, recently I was coming home from Florida and I had a carry bag that I don't often use and um, skipping a few details. My car keys fell out and I realized that when I got home, there was no way to get into my car. And, um, so, you know, your mom had to pick me up. I have spare keys and went and got the car the next day, but I have this thing called a tile. It's a product. Oh yeah. Yeah. I'm going to tell you, go, sorry. Now tile, you might want to sponsor after why I gave you some props here because I bought you those tiles as a gift. Yes, you did. And I have a flat tile that is in my, uh, a wallet and it looks just like a credit card. And I have a fob like on my key chain. Um, and, uh, I couldn't imagine where I locked this. I go to the file app and I'm looking at the, map of the East coast from Florida all the way to Boston where I was flying. And there's all these places where the tile was hitting all the way to Florida. So I, I opened the floor Floridian side of it and it's Orlando and I open it and it gets bigger and it's the Orlando airport and I get open it a little bigger and it shows it's the Avis car return at the Orlando airport. Okay. That's where it is. So I call, I go online, actually Avis, you fill out a form. The next day Avis calls me, we got your keys. Yeah. And if, you know, these electronic keys that people have today, they're very expensive. I think that Avis sent it to me 30 for 30 bucks, well worth, and it was great. And that's, you know, that's one, but no, that's nothing. That's nothing. We just came home on the trip. You referred to we're in Porto, Portugal, and we are helping these other people that we traveled with, um, get the, they had these, these, um, storage electronic storage facilities that you could leave your bags and go into town and then come back and get them. And we're helping this guy and, and his wife drags so much luggage. We have one roller each, uh, everything. Learned your lesson from when you were in Yugoslavia. Absolutely. Uh, if it don't roll, I don't take it. And they, we go back, help this guy. They've got a big, you know, cart with all this luggage. We're just rolling up. We go up to the, um, TAP counter. Yeah. The airline, the Portuguese airline reach into my pocket, come up with one passport, your mother's no passport for me. None, not for you. No, no passports for Larry. And I say to the girl at TAP, what happens? This must have happened before. And she said, well, call the embassy, which is in Lisbon. And I called, which is how far away from Porto, uh, probably a two hour train ride. And I talked to somebody in the embassy. Yeah. You come up here, come tomorrow, stay over another day. You have to different flights. We'll get you a temporary passport, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And, um, it sounds bad. So I said, he'll go home. I'll figure it out. She was already on the way to go on home, by the way. He wasn't, I wasn't, it was no goading. Her, he's not going to wait. She wasn't goading. She said, I'm going to go get a gin and tonic. I'm going to go to the lounge. Forget this. Yeah, of course. She knows what to do. Tap lady said, why don't you go talk to the airport police? Because we were trying to get, we thought it might've been an Uber and the lady, the Uber driver wouldn't answer the phone. She would answer it, but she says, I'm busy and hang up. She says, well, maybe if the police call and they say, this is the police, she'll look in the car for my passport. Okay. So I go over to the police station and I say, Hey, this is what happened. And the lady, um, there were three, three women police officers. And I says, I lost my passport. And the one woman police officer does this. Are you Larry? Just pulls it out. Yeah. Good hearted person. When I was taking all that luggage out, it fell out of my pocket. Somebody picked it up and an airport and the, and took it over to the, uh, police and, and I got it back and no hassle. Well, uh, until the, uh, until on the plane, I lost it again in the seat and they had to pull the seat up because it was on the floor. I'm sure mom didn't give you a hard time about that. Uh, yeah. You don't hear or see her anywhere. Do you? I haven't seen her since we got home. She did say that anytime we travel now, she will carry the passports and something that has a zipper. Yeah. I pointed out that my, my pants have a zipper and that's where they were in my pocket. Evidently not good enough. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The zipper has got to be closed. I think part of the technology that wasn't clear to me at the time. I had a very similar thing recently. I went to a McKenzie and I went to an event and you had to valet your car. And I like when I'm getting out of the car, I got to, I want to give the keys to the valet and I had to, uh, you know, get my wallet and get my glasses and all these things. And, and I get handed a ticket. And when we left, I couldn't find the ticket. And I went up to the little, valet stand and i was like i i don't know where my ticket is and they were like do you have tan shoes on and i was like yeah and the woman just like held up my ticket she's like i took a note i saw tan shoes walking away from this ticket the second someone gave it to them uh and yeah lots of eye rolls for mckenzie but it all works out because there's so many people that know people like us and are always on the lookout for lost stuff i think it's like a peter pan thing the lost boys it's something somewhere people were so uh attentive to that and it's kind it's great that they're kind enough to not just say ah forget about it yeah that's good yeah yeah you gotta you gotta you gotta help to pay that that car you gotta pay it forward pay it forward yeah that's right yeah um well megan i'm glad you guys all finally made it home uh you I really uh subscribe to that flying direct uh oh yeah i just don't i don't like a layover it's only in the in the most dire of 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favorite restaurant is it's not a restaurant per se but it was a hot dog place called called original and it had been around for like 50 or 60 years and and it didn't survive the the covid problems and and it closed and that was always the first stop every time that uh we went to we went to pittsburgh um there is a a place right now a small italian place in in shadyside called oh yeah very uh very intimate very they don't take reservations people wait to get in not very big but uh very good italian food and um so i i would put that high on on the list right now and we we ate there last year the last two times we've been in pittsburgh and the owner's like brother you went to school with the owner's yeah the owner's brother was a few years older than me went went to my high school peabody high school his brother was very good athlete as i recall and so yeah so we were kind of got over come hello how you doing so it's very very a very pittsburgh thing very very good food very good yeah it's just off uh walnut street right yeah i can't remember the name of the street but just off of walnut street yeah yeah uh yeah that's a great spot um what else we got okay these are two questions for both of you from abby l uh first question what do you think about the food that you're eating right now what do you think would be a good name for seth's eventual book um i bet he's got the name already he's working on a book um well that's a that's a that's a pretty good uh question um wow well we have uh we talk we have this meyer's lexicon you know yeah they know you know about the words um and maybe like the word novel novels you know we always you know we point to something you would say this they started when the kids were little and they would say do you want another and they would say i want to i want another or then it got to be uh again give me that novel you know so somehow getting that in um but i do remember no you'll remember just we ran into a um in in in amsterdam years ago when you guys were boom chicago um and he he he would always come and and the first thing he would say is oh bad news guys and then he'd say whatever he was going to say and seth said that if he ever wrote a book it would be called bad news and other stories oh it was that guy would have been really good but i i would have to yeah he'd have to work as tom kilty yeah but tom kilty yeah and he'd have to work some some something with the lexicon or the word albert would be good for me yeah i don't know you got any ideas you thought well staying in the same world uh fifi good sufi i feel like would be good would be good fifi good yeah fifi good means very good uh and uh but yeah i think he's probably gonna go i don't know he's not gonna call no he's not gonna close any of that seth meyer he's not gonna call it any of these i don't know what he's gonna call it um it better be clever though yeah sufi otherwise we're not reading that no we're not gonna get some books got a dull cover we're not gonna bother reading um abby had a second question oh yeah her question was what is your favorite go-to concession food for steelers games um well as a vegan i'm pretty limited i gotta say yeah there's usually there's some there's some like uh vegetable uh what is it there's like a vegetable sushi roll that i might have but that's you don't want that you don't want that abby l no um look if you're just you know like i i you know in the concessions in in you know at the stadium and you're in pittsburgh you might as well go with the right primanti brothers yeah um yeah yeah that's you know that's very hometown and and that's that's a good you know to go wrong there um yeah so and that's a big sandwich with french fries on the sandwich right um yeah yeah yeah i would go with something like that yeah it's a classic yeah um by the way i think bruce springsteen was just in the berg last night if i'm not mistaken oh yeah yeah getting a primanti brothers sandwich yeah he was on yeah he's on on stage singing and playing the guitar and eat a primanti at the same time he's the boss nobody nobody but nobody better uh larry you mentioned albert a second ago so we've got an albert question actually from erica from norway uh she asked have you had alberts that behaved in similar ways absolutely they they uh the six dogs from different breeders um i think maybe two of them from the same breeder but very different uh breeders uh the current uh albert is from colorado i think we got him during the um during the pandemic um but they're amazing uh common characteristics personalities i think it's just endemic to old english sheepdogs and um yeah they're herding dogs and they're herding dogs and they're herding dogs and they're herding dogs so they just they they're very loyal and then they want to keep their family around and yeah and they're they're just they they like dogs they like people they're really really friendly um very affectionate um so um yeah i just think more it's it's endemic of the breed and although the one i've got right now the best absolutely and i can't i can't can't keep them straight to tell you the truth anymore but then i can't keep i don't know where my wallet is or my passport so the fact that i can't keep them straight don't don't read too much into that yeah we used to have as well uh great pyrenees we had three great pyrenees along the line of these six old english sheepdogs and the great pyrenees are um also herding dogs but they they're guard dogs guard dogs right so they um and i've like seen a lot of active uh great pyrenees guard dogs uh like overseeing a herd of goats or uh you know one of mackenzie's clients who have horses and all these you know chickens and animals and they've got these two great pyrenees that you can't i've never met because they are working um and they're not for sort of for me to just scratch and play with but the pyrenees with the great pyrenees they're very they would love to sit outside and sort of look over the property make sure things were okay and when we had them the sheepdogs the alberts would spend more time outside because they had a family member essentially to be with but now that we don't have a pyrenees i feel like albert doesn't like to spend a lot of time outside unless you're out yeah he spends he's definitely more attached to us but weren't we just some at some place josh where there was a fence and i think in california and there was oh yeah that golf course a golf course and they said don't yeah don't come in in this area don't pet these it was a fence don't pet these because because they're guarding some kind of goats it was goats wasn't it yeah there were goats that were clearing brush from a hillside um and uh the goats were just eating stuff and then these yeah two big pyrenees would just bark at you as you drove by in your little golf course i i but i once saw a thing about pyrenees on on tv where this guy was a farmer uh a cattle farmer down in texas but he had a lot of scrubby land that that he needed to clear for he was more concerned about fires you know brush fires and he had say he had 200 goats and he had three great pyrenees and when they were puppies they would put them in with it with the sheep and they would drink the milk you know from the female from the ewes and as they grew they that was their family you know and they would guard it sit out in this heat all day watching the goats and they had predators there they're you know pumas or some kind of wild cats and you would see them they'd see one of these cats and in this video that the the prayer pyrenees would get up and start to go out after them and i remember what the farmer said is that at the end of the day he said if um if i have all my dogs i know i have all my sheep they won't leave the sheep behind it was really yeah really amazing the dogs do amazing things anyway so yeah um all right everybody well thank you so much thanks for the oh do we have more questions or is that it jeff we have one more question one more question from laurie uh she asked larry have you ever coached a team that seth or josh played for yes the blue jays it was a uh little league team um and uh and uh i i i guess it was little league they they had to have been no more than 12 and uh say 10 to 12 somewhere in there and so yeah i i coached that and um i remember being i remember we had we made up a i made up a song uh yeah it's something josh has obviously inherited from me uh and uh with all of the kids names were in the song so we're talking baseball we're talking for yeah to the song we're talking baseball and uh i still remember it they go ahead yeah we're talking baseball the scotches and de mayo's talking baseball la point and stavariti's the myers boys chris martin jeff laplante stirred the hearts of all the blue jays fans with andy colmer mark reagan and the goose there we go and i mean it's amazing uh that this many years later because we had like we weren't good we weren't like a successful team but we had a barbecue at the end of the season and you uh you sang that at the barbecue and uh i feel like we all learned it and it is stuck in my head there we go so yeah you know those of our listeners uh when this you know we finished talking and you'll hear josh's song we'll expect you to remember it yeah um also you you coached and then at some point like you know we've we've all got our uh myers tempers and you decided you were better as an umpire because then you could never be wrong i like that because you you were the law you were judge dread and uh and you umpired for a long time yeah 16 years and long after you guys were you know done college and in high school and and even some some uh adult leagues i did it for 16 years it was a hobby i liked it a lot yeah i like it a lot i stopped i started playing golf and i don't have time to do it anymore and probably i don't have the knees for it anymore but either but sure yeah i really did enjoy it um all right everybody well i think that's it uh well thank you daddy boy for filling in here uh this has been wonderful uh it's great now i just i don't want seth to be upset if the listeners and send in a lot of information say does seth have to come back yeah and the answer is no he doesn't have to but okay it'll hurt his feelings so um yeah well uh sufi we do miss you he will be back um but it is uh it is great to be able to go to our bullpen daddy boy and uh yeah and get the the right hander the left hander if it's you or hurry and uh mckenzie also eager eager to get in on this so it was the show that she did the pod that she did was well she was great because i i think you just we had some no no notice both hillary and i had some notice she didn't yeah and she she stepped up and she was great and so yeah uh yeah that just yeah she we needed a little prep a little bit anyway she didn't have anything she stepped up yeah and she had a live audience to connect a live audience not nothing that's that's for sure um all right well thank you daddy boy okay it's great i love you too really enjoyed it thank you listeners and uh we'll be uh we'll be back with uh another episode next week bye we just love these listener episodes listeners send us stories from all over the world and from way back in time michael was studying out in maastricht stayed to travel right after christmas traveling companion their older sis. Together they hitchhiked out to Paris. Ten days later, things got testy. Michael grabbed their bag and hitchhiked right back to Holland. Dicey decisions made on that drive. Michael is lucky to be alive. Joanne from Rhode Island went to Canobie Lake. In her condition, that was a mistake. No cotton candy, no funnel cake. Sweet Nana Betty thought, give me a break. On the way home, Nana Betty. Said, Joanne, what gives? That park is great for kids. That's when her uncle saw all of her spots. Joanne had a raging case of chicken pox. Megan and her family from Colorado spent the spring break down in Mexico. Three a.m. wake up and they had to go. Does that make sense? Master was waiting, wouldn't you know. In Houston, God's stuck in customs. And thanks to those Texans, they missed their flight connection. Series of mishaps is what happened next. Consider yourself warned and fly direct.