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If you listen to these, your impression of us, dad saying your impression of, you know, him and mom has declined on the show. I want to make sure. I think we need to rectify this. Yeah. You know, these are incredibly fit and hip people, septuagenarians. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And, you know, I just want to. I just want to apologize for our most loyal listener and let him know that, you know, I know I'll still send him, you know, Instagram reels that I think are really funny. Yeah. And I know he goes straight to the library to print them out. Yeah, no. I'm actually, you know, we're heading to Pittsburgh this weekend, so I'm here right now ahead of that. And so, yeah, I'd love to say that, no, they're really on top of their game, but these motherfuckers. I was saying to somebody, I don't think there's a single thing in the house they both know. Yeah. So you're like, hey, where are the pans? And dad's like, I don't think we have pans. Yeah. And then you're like, yes, mom, like, what's the Wi-Fi? She's like, I think it just came with the house. There's a big argument last night. The. The way the pans are, I've been doing, like, you know, a lot of. Yeah. Josh has been retrofitting the home for a modern era. Yeah. Fine-tuning. Yeah. I did have to point out, like, you know, mom was heating up a sauce that goes on this, like, these chicken breasts just in the microwave. And she puts it, like, we have, like, beautiful, what do you call, like, ceramicware? Like, we have tiny little cups. Yeah, yeah. Like, all this, like, very nice stuff. But things that if you put a sauce in it and put it in the microwave, it'll burn. Yes. It'll burn you. Yeah. So then she's, like, got oven mitts and towels and she's trying to pour this stuff. And I'm like, you have these, like, Pyrex, like, measuring cups that have handles and, like, spouts to pour. I was like, use those. I was like, they don't get hot. And she's like, oh. She's like, what would I use those for? I was like, everything you're doing with these tiny cups. Yeah. I was like, it's so, I was like, or measuring things. Yeah. I think I bought those for her ages ago. And then there was a big argument. A lot of their stuff that they, like, cook in looks like they dug it out of the dirt from Pompeii. Dad wants to, because, like, once I start making improvements, like, he's like, oh, there's, yeah, I got some ideas as well. So where the pots and pans are, Dad wants to install, like, a rack that you could pull out so you don't have to, like, Great idea. Yeah. Mom is like, I don't need it. And he's like, it'll just make it easier. Right. She's like, no, I'll sort it. I'll go through there and I'll clean it out. So she probably threw out three pots yesterday that she needs, but she's like, I don't. And that's, she thinks that's gonna satisfy Dad. Just to not have the convenience of a drawer with pans. Right. Yeah. And, but then, she goes to bed earlier than Dad. Also, every night, she's like, I can't stay up this late, Yeri. And he's like, then go to bed. Well, and again, just to, just so we can hammer home, like, what, how not an old fogey Dad is. You guys were recording this the day after game four of the World Series, which went 12 innings and ended about 1230 at night. And you guys stayed up for all of it. We were up for all of it. Yeah. I mean, there's no way I could, in my current, like, situation, stay up till 1230 to watch a World Series game. Oh, yeah. But we did. And, but after Mom goes to bed, he's like, hey, we should get that rack and we should get, there's a couple more places in the kitchen where we should get those racks to make it easier. So, he sort of is scheming with me behind the scenes to install these things that she says are unnecessary. So, but he's, he's on the kick as well. So. There you go. I love it. They're keeping it, they're keeping it, they're keeping it fresh. They're keeping it modern. Mm-hmm. Hurry, I think her issue is when she hears the rack, she thinks of, like, the medieval torture device. Or she certainly acts like this rack will be that. We watched, a couple nights before I got here, our cousin Shannon was here and they watched North by Northwest. Everybody loved it. Yeah, yeah. And then, she was like, all right, Hitchcock, what else we got? And she looked up, like, what are Hitchcock's top 10 movies? And so, my first night here, she's like, Vertigo. Let's do Vertigo. Now, Vertigo, pretty slow. Vertigo is a little bit slow. I will say, I'm a huge Hitchcock fan. Whenever everybody's like, that's the best one, I'm always like, eh. Yeah. But, so we watch Vertigo. They also, mom and dad, don't do slow movies. Anything that's a slow burn, they're like, ugh. They really need, like, action. Yeah. But, at the beginning of Vertigo, it's like, I want to say it's Paramount, and so there's that, like, the mountain sort of symbol. And that, that comes in, right away mom goes, ugh. Like, she gasps. She gets scared by the Paramount. The opening logo. Yeah. And then, she just, the questions, the questions throughout the whole movie. And at the end, it's like, you know, it's twisty. Yeah. And, there's some deception. And there's, you know, there's the big plot twist. And so, as the movie's still playing, she wants the explanation. And we're both like, just wait till the end. yeah. Someone's written this out more cleanly online, and I'll read it to you. And so, it was very, I will say Vertigo was very unsatisfying, all the way around. Yeah. Yeah. I would say also Vertigo is a good way to describe how mom feels about most movie plots. Also, I'm going to say Cary Grant, you know, lean to the Cary Grant over the Jimmy Stewart for mom. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She needs that, she needs that charming hunk. Yeah. Jimmy Stewart, I love Jimmy Stewart. And I will say, Mackenzie somehow can't even with Jimmy Stewart. And I'm like, how's that possible? But she can't. You know what I'll say about that? Well, hold on there. Hold on one second. Hold on one second. Hold on one second. Hold on one second. Oh, Mackenzie? He's, he's buried in this cemetery in Los Angeles and like in Glendale, I want to say the, I forget what it's called, but I've walked through this, the cemetery and with, I think with Mackenzie? No, she wasn't with me. And I, I saw it and I like took a picture and I was like, oh, I saw this. And she's like, oh, I never really liked him. I was like, oh, come on. There you go. You know what? Put your, put your flag in the ground on that one. Yeah. Robbie Benedict, this is one of your old friends. Yeah. tell you right now that when mom does eventually listen to this episode he tells a story at the end about a street performer and I make the observation that no one is going to gasp but I realized when you said that thing about the Paramount logo mom will yeah she will be the only person that will be in line with Robbie as in so far as she did not know how it was going to end yeah yeah I look forward to her listening to that yeah Robbie is you might know Robbie from way back on Felicity also he's a very key character in Supernatural he hosts the Supernatural Relisten podcast with Richard Spate and yeah he's one of my nearest and dearest and I just love this guy. Yeah I was going to say he's a key part of your life he's been one of your close friends for many years and you know we love to have friends on the pod. Hey buddy thanks for listening and do enjoy. Brothers family trips with the mother's brothers here we go Yeah Robbie Hey buddy. Hey guys This is very exciting Yeah so exciting. Just for the listeners I'm a Robbie and I go way way back Yeah. Real ride or dies here and I've been in your little recording studio there but I've never seen it from this vantage point. Yeah. What do you think? I like it. Do you have notes? It's really good. Well I mean it's more alive than either set. There's a lot going on. I think it's interesting to note that a lot of times these recording studios that look the best on camera probably in person seem really cluttered and messy Yeah. Yeah. But it does come alive on screen. Well that's good. That's good. Alive is a good word. It feels a little bit because it's a smallish space. Yeah. I've got a map of L.A. here. That's what that is in the back. That you hung up yourself. That I hung up. Yeah. Yeah. It's wallpaper. I'm sorry. Are we giving like extra credit for hanging a map? Well it's like wallpaper. It's wallpaper. Ah I see. I take it back. I take it back. Thanks. I was a real wallpaper guy for a second. I mean I think that I wallpapered a map is way more impressive than like look who hung a map No no I got the pictures on the wall myself. Wow I didn't frame them. I took them to a framer and they put a little thing They put a nail rope. Yeah. No and I you know but I really did the wallpaper thing. Yeah. That's great. I hung it up Thank you. It's always exciting to have a guest on the pod who has been to one of our weddings Yes. Indeed. Yeah. And you had to do some work to get to my wedding. You were you were traveling a lot and I feel like you guys were on the road Yeah it was one of those things where we do these conventions you know we do the fan conventions for Supernatural Yeah just for the listeners who don't know you you were on Supernatural. Your character is essentially God in the universe Yes. So pretty important Pretty important. Pretty important. They want let's just be honest you're gonna if you're doing a convention you're gonna want to get the guy who played God. Yeah you know it would be good right But yeah you do conventions all over the world Yeah. And yeah. I do. Yeah and so we we had a convention that weekend I can't even remember but I like it was like flying in for your wedding and then flying out again it was I like I only had 48 hours because I had to be a day late but I made the wedding. But you don't you don't pull your punches like if you've got 48 hours you give it everything you've got. Yeah. Yeah. Like my son Calvin just graduated college earlier this year and I was at a convention that weekend in Boston and so I flew I conventioned on Friday and then I flew to Chicago to watch him graduate and then I flew back to Boston on Sunday morning. It was crazy. Yeah. So for the convention weekends because again this is travel. Yeah. So I think Josh will allow it. Josh hates when I talk about people's professional lives. Okay. Alright well If it's a three day convention in Boston is that are you do you have commitments for three straight days is it do you feel like you get to see the city? No I don't get to see the city much. Yeah. It's pretty it's pretty straight through and there are random things where I might come in a day early like Chicago. Yeah. You know because we all the three of us went to school there. Yeah. We haven't mentioned that yet. We're all graduates. Yeah. Go cats. And so I go there maybe a day early or stay a day late and also my son lives there now. So where did your son graduate from? DePaul. Fantastic. Yeah. Yeah. He's he's going to be a therapist and I will say I think I've known your son since he was born. Yeah. Um and uh you know just early memories of him being tiny tiny and he's always been very like interactive. Yeah. Um like when I first was dating Mackenzie I remember I was at your house. Yeah. And I was in the hot tub. Yeah. He came out he was like an early teenager. Yeah. Yeah. He like came and like squatted down and was like hey man is this your new GF? Yeah. Mackenzie was my new girlfriend. Yeah. Yeah. And he kept saying how did and how does that make you feel? Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. He's the therapist even then. He will be a great therapist. He is such an easy person to talk to. And your daughter Audrey as well is uh you know last time she was in town uh she had like one more day before she was heading back to college and uh I forget what movie we saw. Maybe Bone Temple? Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. She's been coming with us to the movies. And I was like I can't believe you're spending your last night in town here and she's like no it was great. I loved it. Yeah. Yeah. She had a blast. Yeah. We had a really good time. It's fun when they get to the age that they can come hang out with you and your buddies. You know what I mean? It's like the best. And you've also you got a little one now who's fun. I was gonna say you enjoyed it so much you're like let's run it back. Let's keep it going. Let's just keep it going. It's like going back to college. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I have a two and a half year old now. She loves saying hi. So it's basically you're like an empty nester who is like hold up there might be a little egg here. Exactly. Might have a little egg in the nest. You guys go on. You guys go on. Yeah. That's me. That's my life. It's weird. It's a weird one. You know because the old ones are gone and I do feel like an empty nester. And yet I had this little baby. Yeah. And it's wild. It's really wild. Seth how old are your kids now? Mine are 10, 8, and 5. Okay. And so. You're still in it. I'm very in it. Love where I'm at. Love this chapter. You and I are similar age Robbie. And so like I had kids later than most. Right. Not as late as you had your second. And so my question is I do kind of feel and you actually have the perspective to see it from both sides which is my kids aren't keeping me from anything. You know I have my kids at the right age. Like I wish I had more energy. Don't get me wrong. But I'm like you know what? I had my kids when like I was 42 and there was like no one. There was nothing social that I'm like oh if it wasn't for these kids I'd be rocking it out super hard. Right. Do you. What is. How has your perspective changed on just having kids at different. Two different parts of your life. You know when I. So I had my first batch early. Early for us in L.A. Right. I mean I was in my early 30s. Yeah. It is. That is so early in L.A. Right. I was the first one. It's so weird. You know of course back in the Midwest everyone had like their kids had already gone off to college. But I was the first man out of here. And at that time I really did feel like I was missing out. And Josh. You know I've got extreme FOMO. It's the worst. He's got it worse than anyone you know Seth. Yeah. Well. And I feel like from what I've heard from Josh. You make no efforts to hide your FOMO. No. No. No. I wear it like a badge. Yeah. You're always just like I'm just so afraid. Yeah. It's my superpower. It's my FOMO. Okay. And so I thought recently I wanted to open maybe a bar called FOMO. But that'd be good. Like you know what I mean. Like where all your friends are but you're not invited. Anyway. So yeah. So I did feel like I was missing out when I was when I was like 32 and like you know Josh and Scott Speed were off to and God knows what. And I really just wish I'd been out with them. But now you know I'm in my 50s and no I don't I don't feel that way. I feel more more like well the baby's just going to come with us. Yeah. Yeah. You guys. I mean Margaret does. She travels a lot. She's been to Scotland like three times. Yeah. Yeah. Robbie's partner now is Scottish I should say. Ruth with a like a classic brogue. Yeah. Great accent. And she's always been Scottish when you say his partner now is Scottish. It's not like she became Scottish. Right. Well there was this. There was a Korean partner. Yeah. Yes. Born and raised in Iowa. Yeah. And she just transitioned to Scottish. Yeah. But she's yeah she's a real life Scottish like born and raised and Josh knows every bit like so Scottish like yeah like she just got off the boat what you know it doesn't know what anything in America is called even though she's been here like 15 years. But I was very worried that Josh had oversold how Scottish Ruth was when he told me about her. And so when I met her I was delighted to know that it was exactly as Scottish as I hoped. Yeah. Yeah. She's basically Merida. you know she's like from Brave like that's her yeah we watched we watched uh brave for the first time with little margaret the other day and uh and it's mommy i mean i mean it really is mommy he just talks like mommy he's got red long red hair like mommy yeah um also margaret like when she says no she says like no no yeah totally yeah and i get and from ruth i get like no yeah there was a great there was a classic fight uh that ended between robby and ruth where ruth just said oh poor you i'm like slam the door and then like that's like you can't there's nothing i could say i mean like after i get the oh poor you rob poor you i was like okay well that's it's over now it's yeah yeah it's hilarious but also that's a soundbite uh that's like yeah yeah we say that all the time seth you were just a little bit younger than me at northwestern i feel like yeah i don't know if we overlapped i graduated 96. i graduated 93 so i would have been a senior when you were on campus yeah and were you a theater major i wasn't i was radio tv film oh yeah you were so we wouldn't i you were theater josh correct yeah i was theater and radio tv film technically i was interdepartmental studies but that's not a flex technically nobody by the way nobody felt that was a flex i got a tattoo like it sounds like it yeah yeah i got this tattoo right here interdepartmental studies it sounds like what the major they give someone who's maybe not good at anything hey we kind of thought we'd spread you out across the departments try to lessen the blow for the teaching staff i thought to bring the kids along from interdepartmental studies uh yeah yeah hey we're gonna take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors support comes from amazon hey bhaji hey sufi i know it's early but i got a question for you yeah what's up when uh when do you poshie officially decide it's the holiday season oh boy i mean i i start feeling it pretty early but i'm classically after 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have you toured there i i did i did university of missouri and then i recently did st louis kansas city we drove across missouri yeah i stopped we stopped in columbia we also went to a great burger place that i can't believe i'm already uh yeah maybe that's it yeah it's a great little town i mean it's one of those uh it is a great little town yeah my mom just uh she still lives there which calls it the little blue dot in missouri but it's like it's it's uh it's a you know one of those hip college towns in in those mid you know it's the austin of missouri right yeah uh it was a great place to grow it was idyllic uh just because you know especially at the time the town was small and the town was this the school now it's really grown and it's a bigger more of a small small city now but uh it was just it was just it felt insular i never left i didn't i didn't the first time i left the state i was a teenager wow oh really chicago that was my big trip out to the big city yeah so what does that mean you guys were doing for uh family trips if you were uh stayed within the state lines i just i i lied that was the first time time i flew gotcha the first time i gotcha yeah all right well let's get your let's get your sibling sort of situation you're the baby i'm the baby i'm the youngest of four uh i've got two older sisters and one older brother okay and i was very much the baby very much just sort of carted around you know dragged from thing to thing uh you know had no say in the matter and uh and then and because it was the 70s and and and early 80s i was like very much just like kind of left to my own devices a lot of the time you know what i mean so that's where my i always say my sort of acting thing came in because i would just like play in the woods by myself and make up these stories in these movies and be all these different characters and it sounds sad now but at the time it was really cool like i felt cool about it you know yeah you look a lot of missouri feral wood children don't make it as actors right i am testament to that yeah yeah um yeah i don't know there's something in there that where my fomo comes from i'm probably but uh uh there was always something else going on but i was in the woods did you have like costumes in the woods or was it all in your head it was all in my head and then i had um i had a baseball league that was all me and i had all the teams i had i had like an american league in the national league i had different teams what i remember one league was all colors like you know the blues the pinks the reds the browns and then the the other league was like uh the whammies the bammies the slammies and then and i would throw a tennis ball against the steps and then like where it would go would be if it was a hit or not and i had different players for different teams and i'd keep records and have a world series it was all me now i do want to jump in and save you because as nerdy as that sounds i can one-up you yeah i created a baseball game that was just a deck of cards and uh 10 would be a hit and like so and then one through nine would be like an out to that position oh and like queens would be strikeouts kings would be walks and i would literally play this for hours and i kept like a like i would keep box scores i would keep score in like a uh and wow oh so you could play with yourself i was i could only play with myself right because it's a random like oh nobody else wanted and he was an indoor child so so yeah the fact like the fact that you were bouncing a ball the steps makes you like the lebron james of self-gaming yeah yeah wow yeah like the what i was doing i didn't develop any hand i right but yeah but you but still it was your brain was working yeah my brain was working i was doing little i would do averages because let me tell you something i sucked at sports i was great in this league but then when it came to actual team sports like i just my brother so this is interesting my brother's six four and i'm five i'm rounding up and and and matt uh was for the headshot for the headshot yeah exactly for the audition sometimes it's five eight uh but uh and then ruth is on the other side of the camera going no okay five seven um and my brother was like a star basketball player he's like really great at basketball and he like set records at my high school for like most three points uh went on to play college ball in wisconsin and i uh i tried out for the team when i was a freshman i didn't make the team i thought oh god because that in my mind was like that's that's where it's all headed right yeah i just followed in his footsteps and this is what you do then you play basketball and i never thought that like i'm a shrimp uh who really can't shoot because small small people are great at sports i just that that was not me they do say that they if you're a small basketball player who also can't shoot at that point they're like you're a coach they're like would you like to do interdepartmental sports and that's when i got the tattoo um yeah uh it's uh yeah so i didn't quite i was the manager they let me be the manager of the basketball team because in that i think just was because of my brother you know they were like let's just let him keep score because again i was good at keeping score you know like right yeah so yeah so i've got a pitch picture of me like with a suit on and like a and like a a clipboard like the that's my team pictures like me on a knee yeah like that you know that's my team basketball picture and i'm like oh my god i'm gonna be a basketball player in high school and i lettered they let me letter and and literally with an m and did they give you the same letter as the guys who played well they give you the letter they give you then they give you a pin a basketball pin and i had a basketball pit and then i had another pin that said manager it's an mngr but i didn't i didn't wear that one do you still have that uh that jacket i still have the letter jacket yeah i think it's at my mom's i like they gave you a letter but you had to wear yours on a lanyard they sewed the other ones on the jackets but you're like yours is more like of a it's like a pass but it's a letter it's a it is a letter but here's the thing you just wear it around your neck yeah i a famous larry meyer stories i remember uh i ran track but like to know uh great success when i was in high school and i think junior year like i thought i was gonna letter but they literally because they didn't cut anybody from track so it was like you could participate but then they only gave the letters to people who like had earned them and i remember being so upset junior year when i found out that i was going to be a member of the team but i hadn't lettered and i remember like being telling dad and him saying would you have given you a letter but like not not to be a jerk but to basically say like step back and like based on why you want it would it mean anything if you got it and i was like yeah i guess you're right it can't just be like went to practice yeah that's tough though but that was before uh the sort of the world went to participate participation starts yeah yeah yeah i want to retroactively get all my uh participation trophies that yeah our generation didn't get me too i'd have a lot of soccer trophies yeah we did that yeah you wouldn't have room for them in your little recording studio there i would i'd really have no more i've got no more room well i gotta take down some of the pictures of family at some point family's gotta go um but i uh so so yeah so i you know and i also did the track thing everyone lettered and track at where i went to school yeah so i didn't have the the larry minors uh rule of would you i bet i did i did get one senior year and uh it didn't in the end mean that much to me did you buy the jacket because you had to buy the jacket i think i maybe did buy the jacket but then i should know where the jacket is so yeah maybe i didn't i feel like i've never seen you in a letterman jacket right well probably because you just like it hurt your feeling so much that i had when you were a kid yeah i feel like i've never seen you in a letterman jacket and you didn't josh were you uh uh were you a sporty guy no i mean i played baseball through my like sophomore year i was on the ski team but i was the first alternate so i would like get to miss school to go to meets but i would only race if somebody got hurt and nobody ever got hurt so i would just get i would just like go ski on my own and then like every hour i'd have to go to the meets and be like hey is everyone okay and they'd be like yep and i'd be like all right see you well you're first alternate so you could have been second but you were first yeah of the alternates yeah uh yeah this might have been an only alternate situation what do you think i think i might yeah i think that was the only person who got to miss school they were like oh i see i see okay so they were like you're the first alternate and you were like oh i can't wait to meet the second alternate they were like uh yeah here's the thing so there's someone who looks up to me uh well not so much um yeah did you have uh were your grandparents local um yes yeah i had uh everybody was local i had a uh a grandmother that lived like kind of down the street uh another grandmother lived in both grandmothers lived in town both my grandfathers one died before i was born the other one died when i was five when i and so it was really my grandmothers and my uncle lived down the street so it really was we had family all right there and and uh yeah so it was really all i mean it was this microcosm that was just my world and you ride your bikes around i mean stuff like that right yeah you wait till mom called you for dinner um literally like robbie like i heard her and then you know so she used your name she did yeah i know she did use my name uh and i'm like oh my god i'm like oh my god i'm like oh my god that's how i knew it was me yeah and i'd come in from the woods um that was like you were doing a one-man show i'll never forget when mom would yell dry in the dishes and then the pie the pie would be up would you when you guys would go on vacation with four kids were you guys road tripping yeah so we were road tripping uh because i literally the first time i rode on a plane was to chicago chicago when i was a teenager uh to visit my sister who went to northwestern um so i'm like you guys like my dad went there my older sister went there uh so uh but yeah road trips we uh we our big first road trip uh i was like five and we rented a camper van and we drove to disney world in florida from missouri so it's you know that's a good trip uh we had a stop Stop it. way down to florida we'd stopped at uh a couple places at to camp right and we stopped at uh we had they had my parents had friends in uh uh alabama gulf shores alabama and uh it's funny because i was like five so the stories i remember from this trip are epic stories that are retold in the family to the point where i don't remember experiencing them but i know they happen because everyone says they happen as the youngest you know you're like huh um we stopped off at this first place and my sisters my older sisters met some boys at the campsite and they would have been my sisters would have been early teens and they went off the boys and they took my brother and me with them and uh they something my they were like late getting back with us and my parents my dad was pissed yeah because they were late getting back i remember that we said there was one of the boys that they met their boys were like from alabama or something and we used to laugh because he would say uh you're you're making me talk to a girl i don't even know and we always used to say that and really make each other laugh at that alabama that i don't even know um and uh anyway my sisters were late coming back and my dad was like that's it we're going home trip's over oh wow yeah he was pissed and so i went to bed that night like in tears like i can't believe this trip's over and then then early the next morning we're on the road and like i look out and we're like we're going we're going we realize we're still on the way we're going to florida yeah you know what i mean you've got your compass yeah exactly i don't know how but somehow i knew yeah you could probably read the room it was 1975 but i had my iphone out um they were geese right you said like oh if the geese are going this way exactly exactly i was brilliant i was really brilliant and so uh so but i knew we were you know the geese were going this way and so uh so but i knew we were you know the geese were going this way and so uh so but i knew we were you know the geese were going this way and so uh so but i knew we were you know the geese were going so uh so but i knew we were you know still going the right way and then we we stayed at this place called uh that it was a campsite that said camp fish relax and at five i said i called it camp fish relax i mean perfect right so again the family thought that was really funny and that's i mean immediate family lore yeah exactly what a gift yeah yeah if you guys remember camp fish relax yeah yeah exactly great i want to go back to camp fish relax yeah exactly right if you say camp fish allows to my sisters they you know it's again it's one of those things but that was my first that was my first real family trip and it really was it was you know i had shrimp for the first time josh oh my god rob ain't nobody like shrimp like robbie i love me my shrimp so it's like robbie's full nightmare that everyone's at a shrimp fry but him that's it oh that's about as bad as it can get now you understand me there's an all you can eat fish night yeah shrimp night and they didn't bring robbie eddie vetter's hosting it i said seth i can't watch your show anytime any of our friends are on because i feel like god damn it you got tonight tonight scott speedman and i are gonna make some shrimp tempura no why i tear my map down no um yeah so uh and and then we finally got to disney world all i remember is the firework show that's all i can remember in my my little five-year-old brain is the firework show it's just seemed like heaven it seemed like this is the this is exactly where i've i've come to the mecca you know what i mean yeah happiest place on earth happiest place on earth so uh yeah there was that that was like the first family trip the trip i really wanted to talk to you guys about i was older now i'm like 13 14 and my my cousin and i uh went with his parents uh we drove he lived in kansas city and we drove to colorado and to aspen and so we we we drove in this uh this uh you know he had like a station wagon his dad smoked windows rolled up like i remember that smell of smoke almost like relaxes me you know what i mean yeah it's weird and uh but we're going because his dad knew this really like rich person in kansas city who like owned a lumberyard who had these tickets and he couldn't go so we all went to the celebrity tennis tournament in aspen colorado and this would have been like 1982 and it and so we so like battle of the network stars era yes yeah and so it was like some kind of it was just it was like tennis but it wasn't because they're like mackinrow was there but he was like joking he was he could get mock mad and argued a call but it was all a bit yeah and and celebrity and so we have pictures like taken with a little camera of these celebrities i got webster i got a picture of webster uh i got jack nicholson was there wow yeah um we we had a front row seats to the dion warwick concert wow i was i was front i was front and center for dion uh was that your first concert my first concert was that was probably technically my first concert i mean dion probably paid about four songs you know what i mean it was a smaller room but i always count rick springfield as my first concert which is around the same time i saw rick springfield in the jesse skrill days yeah and the motels opened up that is uh i mean talk about monoculture yeah like mackinrow dion warwick nicholson like in 82 yeah when you were famous every single person knew who you were yeah yeah uh and christopher reeve was there too no one for reeve i think and i got pictures of all yeah and and you're right i would say webster was the least famous because that wasn't his name exactly that'd be if you were like jack torrance was there james bond all the james bonds uh yeah you're right but uh but to us that was like the biggest celebrity yeah um yeah it you're right i you know i watched the the brooks shields documentary and she talks about that like in the 80s like there were only this small group of famous people it is you um that is exactly what i was thinking when i said that because i saw that documentary as well and it was when she said that it's obvious once she says it but you're like oh my god that's right like if there's there's just like pictures of like brooks shields with michael jackson right because they they weren't that many famous people that's all there is yeah yeah totally totally uh yeah uh it's so bizarre uh but yeah so so to be from missouri and this little insular community that i lived in and not traveling a ton this was mind-blowing to be in the same space as these people i see on tv it was mind-blowing uh and so you know it was just one of those trips we're like how are we this lucky that we you know um that we got it was aspen it was an aspen yeah which is also an incredible place to be incredible which i went the last summer for the first time in my life i've never been to aspen oh wow you go it turns out places where uh rich people convene when you actually get there uh you understand why right away it turns out rich people on on the whole are right about the destinations they choose to go to and you're like holy yeah yeah yeah and in the summer i mean honestly obviously winter's a big pull but uh in the summer just to be in colorado in the summer but aspen there's something that's really cool about it is that you get to go to aspen and you drive to aspen uh there's a small town well actually when we drove we we stopped off at this town called georgetown yeah and it looks like like a like if you're building a train set it looks like a pretend little town you know what i mean it's it's unbelievable it's gorgeous it's picturesque and uh i just remember being just again mind blown at what colorado looked like coming from missouri and driving through kansas and then you reach this like sort of epic uh place uh so yeah it was it's beautiful just i was in when i was in aspen summer people kept apologizing for the air quality because i guess there were you know uh fires which are obviously no joke but like you know hundreds of miles away and they were like oh my god sorry about the air i'm like i live in new york exactly yeah it's literally hot garbage 24 7 oh god so you have no working olfactory system yeah that works you what what tell me i don't know this i don't have a great sense of smell oh yeah yeah and you know what i keep hearing is that i smell bad which is i can assure you a news to me is this a hereditary thing or view is it just a set thing no it's a set and josh really has the worst of both worlds which is he he can a smell and be lived with me really is that a thing uh yeah yeah yeah that's josh's catchphrase i would say when we're hanging out is uh taking a shower today bud you what do you think bud i want to i don't know if this is uh okay or not but when we left our last fantasy football draft which was in michigan yeah i don't think i've told you this yet suve um but uh we were at our buddy's wife's parents house on this lake in michigan uh three-story house and i hadn't been up to the third floor um because my bedroom was on the second floor and everyone's like packing up and you know stripping the sheets and whatnot and i was just curious i was like oh just i'm gonna walk up to the third floor so stanch and somebody else was up there with you son yeah dv so dv and stanch are upstairs packing up and stanch dv scooter was there yeah big bob got that we got jj and it's like you know it's three single beds and then there was like a little tv and some uh you know some beanbag chairs it's like that kind of hang for the younger set in this lake house and dv and stanch were We're like both like murmuring to each other. And I was like, what's up? And they were like, do you think that your brother used one of our towels or never took a shower while he was here? Just thought jumping in the lake a couple times was good enough. And because they were like, because there's a ton of towels in here. Clean, dry towels, fold it up. If he wanted a towel, he could have done that. Or I wouldn't put it past him. They know him very well. They're like, I wouldn't put it past him to have just used one of our towels. So, Suf, can you answer this? Do you think? Definitely used one of their towels. Definitely, I think, took a shower and realized I hadn't pulled a towel out first. Was like wet. Because as I would say, like, I'm as lazy as I am bad smelling. Okay. Okay. Okay. Also, by the way, those guys. The thing I'll say about those. There's two pointing fingers is I would have loved to take if they had taken their pointing fingers and stick them up their buttholes. 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Because of my, I've never been for the festival. But my, my image is that there's just something going on on every block. Yeah. Every, every like, you know, bars turn into standup venues. You know, school cafeterias turn into stages for plays. There's a lot of stuff that's, you know, the regular infrastructure for, you know, theater and whatnot, but it, any, any place has turned into a venue and there's so much to see. And the difficulty is sorting through. Yeah. All of it to find out what's sort of, what are you gonna see? Right. What's worth your time and scheduling and all. And it is an incredible thing too, because you think, oh, there's our, there's already so many things. It would be foolish to try to do a tiny standup show as well, but there's so much audience and you're never going to have a better chance than when you actually go to the place where everybody is and every act is there as well. But I imagine it's like South by Southwest in, in, in Austin a little bit where like there's someone playing, there are bands playing. There's a lot of people playing in corners and in open lots and wherever they can. It's not just. Yeah. The idea is like, it's worth trying to squeeze in because the right eyeballs, I'll never be in a place with the right eyeballs like this. Right. And so it's really cool. God, so cool. And the streets are just thick with people, you know, street performers and people trying to get you to come see their shows. Right, right, right, right. Yeah. And it's a year ago. You want to go to a family trip and your kids like heavily accented jugglers. Uh-huh. That's the place to go. I mean, I'd put it first on your list. Wow. First on your list. Um, I have a, I have a street performer story. Uh, um, I, uh, took my older kids and Ruth and I last summer, we went to Rome. They'd never been to Italy before. And there's an Italian convention we do every year in Rome. And so I've gone every year for the last 15 years and I just love that city. Rome is incredible. Yeah. And so I just really wanted my older kids to like experience Rome. And I was really excited to that showing them Rome, right? So we get in town as I was when the heat dome was over Europe. It was just hot as hell and, um, but it cooled off at night and at night and, and, and I kind of cooled down too, cause I was really like stressed about, I got to show them this, got to do this, do this. Um, so we probably like we saw the Vatican or something. And then that night we walked around, we had a great dinner, we got gelato, uh, I showed them the Trevi fountain and right above the Trevi fountain, it said, it says Benedictus. And I always take a picture of that with me in front of the Benedictus cause you know, that's my last name plus two letters. Um, and so. so then uh we're walking back and there's a guy uh doing a bit with uh shells right and there's a big crowd around all right come on kids let's this is italy is like the street guy street guy doing street guy things this is fun so we we've settled out we're you know and before i know it we're kind of watching him he's doing the thing and at dodger stadium i do great with this game you know what i mean it's the show right yeah i'm sorry you actually oh oh you mean on the big screen at dodger stadium there's a big right when they're not actually trying to rip you off exactly exactly and that's the part i didn't know they're trying to rip you off i thought this was good fun he's a he's a magician right you're like oh he must know the guys who work for jumbotron exactly i do great at dodger stadium so he's doing the things and he was like and they points at me at me and i'm just like okay well this is fun guys you see this you know my kids are at the time they were like 21 and 21 and 17. i mean he was probably excited to meet a real benedictus minus two letters that's what it was minus two letters minus two chromosomes uh and so i uh he pointed at me you know kind of like where do you think the ball is i'm like well obviously it's in that one but i don't know and he's like 100 euros and i was like what 100 years now i've gone to i've gone to rome for the last 15 years and you always get a per diem so i've i've had a a pocket full of euros that i've been sitting on that again it's like play money to me except that it's real money except that it's real and if you bring it home you can put it in a bank yeah exactly you can pay for things or spend it on food or gifts yeah yeah but this is for people to know because this is a very exciting thing about when you go on the road to do showbiz jobs they do give you a per diem and uh in rome actually they call it a per day because they switch it they always want it to be in the language that's not that it's not but it's usually like you know and it is like here's an envelope with 700 or whatever maybe not that much 200 but it is so exciting and it does even though and mostly because people in show business are bad with money we do think it's our job to sort of spend it right yeah and i'm notorious for in rome going and spending it on expensive rome clothing yeah that that ultimately doesn't fit me and i never wear but you come home and and and ruth is like did you get any per diem and you're like no and she's like where'd you get that giant scarf this is i love rome yeah so uh so uh yeah i'm notoriously uh not not so again this goes back to the fact that i didn't travel a ton as a kid i never you know first time i i left the country on a plane was 99 i did a pilot in france that was the first time i left the country so i'm still kind of naive did a pilot you weren't like sleeping with a female pilot no no no no not that time back in the day they used to call it pilots once you play god on supernatural though it's pretty much all pilots uh you just you just walk on a plane and point uh so anyway i'm on the street in rome he points at me he points at me i go well i have been watching but i don't want to ruin your magic trick but yeah it's obviously under that shell there he says 100 euros i was like okay this is fun guys this is just fun i give him the hundred i'm gonna make us a quick hundred and we're gonna walk away and he he picks it up and it's it's not there i'm like oh wow okay well whatever that happened and he's like come on let's let's do it again and he watch it he closes it he he lifts up the shell and i thought oh cool he's making it easy for me because he can see that it's my kids he lifts up the shell and keeps it there and he has a woman sitting next to him who's i thought was another member of the crowd she also puts her hand on it so he got hands on the okay it's something he's like where is it i said well it's obviously it's under there he's like 500 euros and i was like okay and then we walk away guys i'm gonna 500 because clearly it's there it can't go anywhere it's right there right this is fun guys this is fun this is we're in rome i'm showing you aroma time there by the way i don't know the end of the story they're still talking about you oh yeah oh they're on some podcast right now called easy marks in italy they're like and then it is a guy envelope full of money benedictus minus two letters benedictus minus the two letters so uh so i and q those were the ones that were missing uh so i uh i gave him you know 500 euros and uh it picks it up and sure enough it's gone it's not there yeah sure enough it was just there guys it was there no one listening gasped no no so uh you know i'm like i i feel like i've been robbed that's what i felt that was the feeling oh oh crap so we all kind of walk away in a daze like what just happened and ruth and my son calvin are upset on my behalf sure like that was bullshit like we thought that you were you thought you're watching a magic trick and you know that this is a scam we kind of get ourselves worked up about it we get almost way back to the hotel they're like let's go back so we go back i'm like guys i don't think this is this is my son and and ruth leading the way like no she's like no we're gonna tell him we knew it was ruth and so ruth and calvin get we don't take away our per diem our per day they can take your lives they won't take away our per diem so she goes up to the guy they both are like kind of how dare you this is he's just trying to show his kids a good time he took his money and the guy was like i and the guy was like i he gave it to me fair and square i didn't take it from him he gave it you know i had this big italian versus scottish argument and during the argument he even said i'll do it again right now for free no money here's the ball here's his tell me where the ball is and calvin was like me he's like he's like no money just tell me for free calvin's like well it's right there and he lifts it up and it's not there and he's like see he's did the trick one more time uh and we we by the end people had started scatter and the guy kind of packed up his stuff and we got him to leave basically but nothing happened they just set up shop somewhere else you know and we realized that the people around him and you guys are looking at me like you've heard this story before but this is all new the people around him were part of the game yeah yeah yeah the woman who put she was she knew and then he said uh and then he said to to ruth and your kids you're like you know what it's just it's fine you know what we're on vacation doesn't matter now let's all split one piece of pizza it's just money yeah let's have a so you know what let's get one small gelato and never speak of this again yeah no for the rest of the trip i actually i feel like i spent more money because i was trying to prove that i was fine that you know what i mean so like you ended up getting this expensive boat ride that i you know didn't need to get this uh i think it's called in america it's um it's a movie about uh irish-american immigrants i think that's what it's called patty you know the great actor patty considine yeah yeah there's a scene where he's trying to win it takes place it must be early 80s based on what i'm about to say a stuffed et doll at a street fair in little italy and it's it's throwing a ball knocking down milk right and uh they have no money like that's the whole the thing you know about this family is they're like literally hand to mouth and he keeps doubling down because he wants to win his daughter this and it's just i remember it's it that it has the tension when i think of like what's your favorite scene from a sports movie i always think about that because it ends and he's just you see he's got this like furious irish face at the end as they're walking away but then it cuts down and he's carrying it oh well so he got it but he's just still yeah yes he left a piece of himself there yeah i left a piece of myself on the that uh roman street there uh but yeah yeah well it's uh now it's now i've learned my lesson i'm never gonna do that again we're not gonna we're not gonna top that story robbie that was fantastic thank you for sharing it you're welcome and uh and if you do want to give a sketch artist description of that guy we would love we'll have our trippers uh keep an eye out for him he was roman he looks like he's from rome he had dark hair he had one of those back of the old coin faces yeah oh he talks with an italian accent oh helpful uh all right uh robbie posh is gonna hit you with the speed round all right all right here we go you can only pick one of these is your ideal vacation relaxing adventurous or educational uh relaxing uh what is your favorite means of transportation uh road trip car uh 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 obamas great answer uh if you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family who would it be my my my birth family or that my my either uh i would say my brother matt great he's he's six four yeah he's gonna save me from the bears on the island you know the island of bears oh you guys got stranded on bear island bear island yeah you're also like well we're never gonna get one of those coconuts and he's like you're never gonna get it pluck then he throws a ball underneath one of the shells he's like go play your little game with this over on those uh island steps um what would be a dream destination destination for you for a family vacation well tokyo i've never been to japan at all never been to asia at all so i'm going to say tokyo because that's my dream place i really really really want to go yeah okay great too um you are from columbia missouri if you had to get more families to go visit columbia what would you tell them about that town oh man it's such it's a university town uh if you're with your kids there's so much to do but go see a football game go see like if you haven't like a college football in a place like missouri it's just like no other so go see a football game on a saturday afternoon great and then seth has our final questions robbie benedict have you been to the grand canyon no do you want to go yeah okay i believe you do i win a trip at the end of this podcast is that what this is man wouldn't that be great we should do that posh but we're gonna start next week you tricked again what a delight to see you so fun to see you too this is great this is the best i was so excited yeah i'll uh always looking forward to the next time i see you robbie hopefully hopefully it's going to be very soon yeah absolutely yeah i love you boys yeah i love you too buddy thank you yeah you're very welcome robbie is my friend benedictus without the u.s used to play in the woods by himself all alone mom would yell robbie dinner that was time to go home older brother had some size robbie following his foot sketchy just knew it tried out for basketball coach said i got an idea how about you join us as the manager you ever seem to be the manager with the clipboard how awesome is that he took a trip to disneyland parents for kids in a rented camper van sisters met a couple boys they brought robbie and his bro boys were talking to the girls that i don't even know but they came back so late dad said we're just going home you girls blew it robbie laid in bed and cried into the night but in the morning they were on their way how robbie knew he couldn't say and hence for shrimp how awesome is that went to disney the fireworks they were a sight to see and spent a night at camp fish and spent a night at camp fish relaxed and spent a night at camp fish relaxed road trip in a station wagon with his uncle who always smoked through georgetown up to aspen saw a wefter and was so stoked he saw christopher reeve, dion, warwick and jack he saw christopher reeve, dion, warwick and jack in rome got roped into a street shell game in rome got roped into a street shell game got ripped off into pretty land got ripped off into pretty land with someone to blame with someone to blame with someone to blame with someone to blame with someone to blame ruth and his son said "right fuck that" ruth and his son said "right fuck that" ruth and his son said "right fuck that" so they went back so they went back and ruth and calvin went on the attack and ruth and calvin went on the attack and ruth and calvin went on the attack But they didn't get their money back life is all about making decisions sometimes you make questionable ones like buying a new tv that's too big for the wall because the electronics store employee was a little too good at their job then sometimes you make great ones like protecting your home and auto with progressive you get customized coverage options so you 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