Seth Can’t Swim, Mr. Irregular, & Horseback Kidnapping: Listener Episode #26

♪ Family trips with the Myers brothers ♪ ♪ Family trips with the Myers brothers ♪ ♪ Here we go ♪ - Poshy! - Hi, Sufi. - How's it going, Poshy? - Okay, I've had a lot of medical over here. - Oh, no. - Yeah, well, I have this little skin cancer thing on my face. I'm wearing a little scar sheet. But I will say, I think my surgeon, my doctor, my guy, Dr. Gharavi over at Cedars did a really nice job. I thought it was just gonna be like a couple stitches, and then as it happened, it was like nine, and also my face was all iodined up, so it was all a different color, and Mackenzie took care of it. She took a picture of me, and it looked very Frankenstein-y, but then I got the stitches out, and that doctor did a very nice job, so. - Dr. Gharavi? - Dr. Gharavi. - Were you, as a vegan, is it hard to have a doctor whose name is so close to gravy? - I found my way through. - Okay, that's good. - And then I had the delight of doing another Gavin Newsom on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, but, sitting in the chair for Kimmel was our dear friend Ike Barinholtz. - Yeah. - Yeah, and then Ike and I used to do something in our live two-person show that we called Hit Prov, which, one of the classic tenets of improvisational comedy is you agree with your partner. - Yes. - You keep the scene moving forward. Yes and, there it is. - And then we devised this clever game where we would intentionally disagree, and to solve the disagreement, we would physically fight. - Yeah. - It was no heads, no nuts, no knees, was our sort of rule of thumb, and-- - This has been, you guys developed something that no other two improvisers have adopted. - Well, it's a bad-- - Hit Prov started and ended with you guys. - Yeah, and we did our live show six times before we, you know, the TV, I want to say, and three fights per show, and I was 0 and 18. - Wow. - Yeah. I was taking some Taekwondo at the time. - You guys fought on stage three times a show because the other improv thing you developed was diminishing returns, the value of diminishing returns. - So, yeah, I was 0 and 18. - Yeah. - It was over the lifetime of that. But then, you know, he was sitting in for Kimmel, and we did a Newsome, and the writers had seen that, so they decided-- - Oh, they had seen Hit Prov back in the day? - I think so. I mean, I have to imagine, because in the script it says, "Then Gavin Newsome and Ike fight for real." And so that was how we sort of, it, you know, bled out into commercial. And we were, I don't know, I don't think actually he hit me with a shot that sort of hurt my ribs in a way that they still hurt now. I also had a mic pack in my left breast pocket, and I think that's sort of what did it. So either he hit it into me, or I think when it was all over and it was commercial, I went to give him a hug, and he just gives, like, such great big hugs. - Yeah. - And we're coming out of, like, we're both pretty jacked up because we've been fighting. And so there's that added bear hug quality of it all. And I think the mic pack just got jammed into me. And I got some x-rays, and my ribs are not broken, but I- - You had to get, you had to actually get x-rays for this. - Yeah, I was in so much pain. Like, increasing levels of pain. Like, four days later, I could, like, barely move. - Gosh, you know what, I'm starting to reassess. Maybe Hit Prov is bad. - It was a hit. It was a hit. - I will say it was a hit, and I highly recommend everybody go and watch Josh and Ike. First of all, Ike did a fucking fantastic job filling in for our friend Jimmy Kimmel. - Yeah. - Obviously, no surprise here that Ike is an incredibly affable host, and a wonderful watch. Also, shout out to you and the makeup team, because this was fresh off your surgery. - Oh yeah, my stitches in. - And they came up with a very, very good idea that Gavin Newsom would be wearing, what do you call those under eye patches? - Um, I don't know, I mean-- - They're sort of the thing, like, makeup people wear. It's like what, sometimes I'll walk into someone's green room before they're getting ready for my show, and dudes have these under their eyes to just sort of, like, get rid of the bags. - Oh, yeah, I don't know what you call those, but. - But that's what you were wearing, is Gavin Newsom. - Yeah. - And it certainly was in line with the way you play Governor Newsom, is that he would be wearing those things. - Yeah. - It was a lot of fun to watch, and yeah. I mean, I love seeing you guys together. - Yeah. - Guillermo also, you know, I know him, and I saw him on set before Ike came out, and he's like, "This guy who's hosting, he's really good. "He's really, like, funny." And I was like, "Oh, I know, I know him." He's like, but he's like, "He could read all the monologue stuff, "and he was just like, yesterday, he was so good." And I was like, "I know, I know him." - Ike is one of those, I think a lot of the reason that people love working with Ike is one, he executes every time, and so everywhere he shows up, and he's fun, and he's a big laughter, and he's given, but his secret sauce is that he's also a hundred times smarter than he looks. So everybody, like, Guillermo, everybody like Guillermo is like, "Hey, I think I just discovered someone." 'Cause you can't believe how good this dummy is. I think that's how he won "Celebrity Jeopardy," just lulled the other contestants into a false sense of security. - Yeah, yeah. - But he's the sharpest knife at the door. He's the best. - I'm a little wary of repeating a story that I told on my other podcast. So for the Venn diagram of people who are in the middle, I really should have saved this story for Poshy, and so hopefully you'll forgive me for telling it, but- - If it's any consolation, I don't listen to your other podcast. - That is so clear. You left a voice note for the last podcast, and it was really, people really enjoyed- - Oh, good. - That your disdain was palpable. - I don't think I, I didn't throw shade. - You had the very idea, you were like, "Ah, Kuwait Army Registration." - But that was just being Yorma. That was almost a Yorm. - It was enjoyable. - So did I tell you about how Alexi signed me up to swim a mile for cancer awareness? - Nope. Also, I know about cancer without you swimming a mile. - Well, it was with other people, though. Their eyes are open for the first time. So, you know, obviously our friend, Mike Lazaro, my dear friend, Dave Lynn, and his wife, Jennifer Goodman Lynn, rest in peace, started this incredible organization called Cycle for Survival, which is spin bikes, raising money for cancer. It's incredible. That raises money for rare cancer. This one is called Swim Across America. It's a very similar organization, insofar as you have dedicated people who bring communities together. This was the inaugural Swim Across America. - I was in a community center in Martha's Vineyard, and Alexi said, "I signed you up to swim a mile." Now, I run a lot. - Yeah, lots of miles. - I feel pretty fit. - Yeah. - In my head, I'm kind of thinking, all right, I could do a mile. You know, how hard can a mile be? I mean, I think it could be hard, but right? Like, is it five miles hard? In my head, I'm thinking swimming's a fifth, or I should say five times harder than a mile. - Yeah. - So, it's open water, though. - Yeah. - It's the ocean. - Mm-hmm. - And probably about 200 people. And when I show up, I realize that you could do a quarter mile, a half mile, or a mile. So, the fact that Alexi signed me up for the longest. I mean, I'm not gonna. Dad, full on, was like, "You know this is. This is her trying to kill you." - Yeah. - And I was like, "Yeah, I'm gonna do it." And he was like, "Yeah, you're gonna do it." And I was like, "Yeah, you're gonna do it." you can do a quarter mile, a half mile, or a mile. So the fact that Alexi signed me up for the longest. I mean, I'm not going to. Dad full on was like, you know, this is her trying to kill you. So they even say, she says, you can switch. But, you know, if she said a half mile, I would have stayed a half mile. But I didn't want to be like, yeah, no, I can't do a mile. Also, they make you wear different swim caps based on your distance. So you didn't want to wear the. Yeah, you know. Yeah. So. I want to belittle yourself. So you also, the thing about the ocean, even in the summer, so cold. And I get in the water and I do three freestyle strokes. And I think this is the worst thing I've ever done. I'm going to drown. And I just, I don't know how to swim. That was the real thing that came. Like, I know how to, I know how to float. And I know how to, like, swim in a pool. Yeah, we were never on the swim team. We did swim lessons and we did, like, a morning thing at the town pool. But we were not. No. Yeah. I did a few swim races at our, at our town, at our public town pool. And it was always a disaster. Mm-hmm. Now, are you wearing, like, are you wearing, because it is so cold. Are you just in a bathing suit? Or are you wearing. I wear a swim shirt. I wear a swim shirt. All right. And then you're wearing, like. Like some Speedos on the bottom or you got some, you're classic baggies. Just classic baggies. Yeah. And that, I think that drag might be why I finished dead last. Or at least it would be if there weren't so many other dudes in baggies and ladies. So I'm, I'm just, it's two loops to do a mile. Okay. And I'm pretty quickly locked into the idea that I'm just going to be a one loop dude. Right. And even that, I have to switch to breaststroke almost immediately just from the amount of water I'm swallowing. Yeah. Did you go out too fast? No, I never had any speed at all. I never, all that happened was me, I just constantly was getting passed by men my age, men younger than me, women 20 years older. At one point I was like in a pod of women in their 70s. And I thought, just stay with it. Just stay with this group. Yeah. Couldn't do it. Couldn't do it. Just, and then I was like, just, all right, you know what? It's just about finishing at this point. Just get your half mile. So, um, I, uh, and by the way, I would say in the, in the last quarter of my first half mile is when, uh, I started getting lapped by people who are now finishing. Oh yeah. So there were, there were definitely the people who did the mile, the fastest, absolutely finishing. It before I did half a mile. Now I get out, I'm actually feeling my whole body is aching and shaking. I was cold for two hours after this. I walk out and I'm still like, this is good. The one thing about when you swim in open water, and I guess anytime you do a race, whatever you're chipped, right? I'm wearing a Velcro thing around my ankle and you kind of go through an archway, uh, that has sensors and that starts your time. And when you come out and end your time. Yeah. Uh, there's no. There's no chip that says you are at halfway or full way it's out of the, into the water, out of the water. Yeah. I did not think about this. Anyway, a buddy of mine, uh, sends me a thing and he's like, dude, congrats. You won your age group. Now the issue here is the color cap you were wearing. Yeah. And I did a half a mile and, uh, and so it's, uh, it's a real, uh, I, I emailed the race website, but it's, it's not like specific to that, you know, race. It's like, oh. It's like one of those like race at large, uh, websites. Right. Cause it's not just 200 people in Martha's vineyard. Aren't going to swim across America. There's it's happening at multiple places. I, I, you know what? I think it was just that one that day, but I think ultimately the website that does the times you like farm it out. It wasn't like there was somebody local who was like, oh, right. Uh, that did look strange. That did look strange to us. Yeah. Anyway, I feel like we should probably post who did win my age group. Yeah. Um, but, uh, yeah, I would just say. Uh, good cause bad time. Yeah. Yeah. Real bad time. I could see, I feel like it's very in character for you if you were thinking of the cap to just like yell to someone, they're like, give me a yellow cap. They're like, here's my blue cap. Give me the yellow. The problem. What, who do you yell to? You're in the ocean. Yeah. But when you come out and come under an archway, like if there's someone there, you'd entered earlier, right? So the computer had me in for a mile. Gotcha. So at that point. The cap was, yeah, the cap was a thing you wear. If you were trying to lie, everything I was doing looked like a guy who was trying to lie about how he finished. Right. Because again, I didn't win the race as we've established. Like I finished like 14th cause of all the people who passed me. Yeah. So it wasn't even suspicious. I, you know what, for anybody listening who does want to win their age group, this is how I do it. Did you get, uh, did you get like kicked in the face? Was it like, uh, no, there weren't enough. People to get kicked in the face. All right. But it wasn't like you felt like chum in the water. And, uh, no, it was interesting that a few times I watched as people were just sort of got off. They, their law, their straight line was a little angled towards me and they were getting really close in the last minute they'd veer off. And what I was realizing then is, uh, they were not looking where they were going because when you swim fast, you don't look up the whole time. Like I was doing. So I was the guy who was like going slow being like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa, slow down. It's not a race. It is a race. So you can do a lot of talking out there too. Oh, a lot of chatter, a lot of chatter. I try to, there's also, if there's so many people on kayaks and paddle boards, like working for the race, there's so many safety people that you don't get on a road race. It's great, but it is a reminder that you're not supposed to be out there. It's yeah. Um, well, congratulations. Well, thanks. Uh, uh, what else? I'm trying to think if there's any other news. Oh, Ash went on a, he did a camp on a boat for a week. Yeah. And, uh, he, he had the best time ever. That's great. And I, you know, Axel, we asked Axel if he wanted to do it. He didn't want to do it. Axel now has FOMO. He definitely wishes he had done it. Yeah. Well, live and learn, kiddo. Live and learn. But we're also a little relieved because I think it was more special. Yeah. More special for Ash. Yeah. Because Axel wasn't there. Yeah. And I think it's like, if you had done something when we were little and then I went the next year with you, I feel like you could have sort of Mr. Mayored me around and like, Hey, this is, I know the ropes. Um, but we would get pictures, uh, every now and then from the camp and there would be like nine kids on the deck of the boat and two of them would be wearing life jackets, but not buckled. Uh huh. Just imagine a loose. And so we said, why were some kids wearing life jackets? Did they not pass their swim tests? And Ash said, no, if you cursed, you had to wear a life jacket for an hour. And I was like, that's the best punishment. That is the best. Like, you know what I mean? Like if you're 10 and a 19 year old counselor is like, yeah, you gotta wear the life jacket for an hour and you just have to walk around like flappy straps. Yeah. Looking like a kid who can't swim. So good. Uh, they also asked, he shared a little like cabin with three other dudes. Uh, and he said, we were like, how did you go to bed at night? He's like, well, if they caught you talking, uh, they would just come in and unscrew your light bulb. It's like everything about this is like, great. It's a real, uh, Captain Barbosa was in charge. Yeah. Um, and then. He, I liked that he immediately had a catchphrase, which is every time Addie or Axel have irritated him in the last five days, he said, ugh, get me back on the boat, please. Like now. Yeah. He's a boat guy. You should, uh, maybe I'll get him a pillow that says that, uh, for Christmas. Yeah. Give me back, give me back on the boat. Yeah. Uh, it was also cool because it was not, um, there were like, you know, he's 10 and there were, I think it was like eight to 15. So it wasn't just this age. And so they kind of all intermingled and like at the amount, Ash is like, Dad, I love being around teenagers. They make me laugh so hard. I'm like, great. Well, it's coming. It's coming. He'll be one. Uh, you guys have done a lot of listening to us today, but, uh, which is fitting because it's a, it's about time to do a listener episode, right, Pashi? Yeah. Let's let, let's us do some listening too. It was a pretty good transition from you all. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was a pretty good transition from you all, from old Seth there. Yeah. Okay. Congrats again. Congrats on your half mile swim and your transition. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from Cash App. Hey, Pashi. Hey, Sufi. Big news over at my house. You know what the news is? What's that? Uh, Lego has a new Goonies set. Oh. Pirate ship. And, uh, it, you know, look, it ain't free. What I've learned about Lego, especially the, uh, Lego that's based on IP. Don't come for free. Uh, and it's times like these that you want to, uh, teach your kids about money. 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And if you haven't been to the Marais, I don't even know how to describe it to you. You know what they call it in Paris? What's that? La Marais or Le Marais. One of those. You've been. You've been. I haven't, but I would love to. And let me just tell you that it's just wonderful. You're just in a home. That the owners have taken great care and attention to make comfortable for you on your vacation. And you're just amongst everyone. You're, you're a me. It's friend, Pashi. Oh, you're a me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Les amis. Booking a trip on Airbnb makes for a better trip. You could be traveling with family. You could be looking to discover authentic and local experiences. You'd be taking a trip with a group of friends. A group of a me. Two les amis. This message is a paid partnership with AppleCard. Planning family trips can get chaotic. But my AppleCard makes things way easier. I applied right for my iPhone in as little as a minute. And now I use it for everything travel related. I saw it in action when you picked up dinner last time I was in LA for your birthday. Well, you didn't have your wallet or your phone. Oh, my phone is in my pocket. But you love your AppleCard, right? Yes, because with AppleCard, I can spend, track my purchases, and earn up to 3% daily cashback per month. That's what AppleCard is all about. And that's what AppleCard is all about. - He says, he goes, Daniel Day takes her and then it's just pretzels all day. Oh, I thought his same dream was that he would be swept away. No, no, no. He wants her out of the house. He wants it, yeah. He says, when Daniel Day's riding her away, he goes, just have her back. Time to make dinner. I love going off the beaten track, kind of anywhere. And I love that Susan's father just sort of threw caution to the wind. But seeing, I mean, a church split by a volcano is definitely something I'm going to be Googling later. Diesel, shout out to diesel getting, you know, nice advertisement for diesel. Yeah, although, you know, Mackenzie, she's got a diesel truck and I can speak from a diesel-owning household. Modern-day diesels. Diesel not cheaper anymore. Oh, okay, gotcha. And I don't know if. You know what's a healthy snack, by the way? What's that? That kids really like? Diesel nuts. What? Such a forced deez nuts joke. But that's the thing. I feel like you don't get the one. By the way, we've spent a lot of time together. And I think that you still are a fantastic audience for my very obvious I-have-a-joke-coming moments. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I always want to hear it. It's not Alexi no-can-do. Yeah. Alexi the other day said to someone, like, can you really not tell when he's just teeing up a joke? And I'm like, honey, honey, don't take the magic away. I was telling Mackenzie a story yesterday, and then she, like, someone texted her, and she was like, keep talking. I just have to reply to this. And it's like, well, no, now you're texting my story. And the whole end of my story fizzled. And I finished telling it, and she was finished texting. And she was like, oh. And it's like, yeah, that's true. The, um, Brooks Whelan has a really good joke about just, like, how people who just, like, made conversation look at their phones. And he's like, it would have been like if, like, 50 years ago, you're like, keep talking. I just gotta look at this book. I just gotta read this book for a few minutes. If I don't read this book, I die. Um, that was a fabulous story, Susan. That was really, yeah, A plus. Really, really fun. Um, and, uh, yeah. And yeah, I don't know if, I don't know if, uh, yeah, I would say, like, you should fly somewhere with your parents because you haven't done it yet. But it sounds like you'd go to some pretty cool places. Yeah, if it ain't broke. Don't fix it. Yeah, congrats to you and your whole family. I think you guys obviously know what you're doing. Uh, thank you for that. Fabulous story. Uh, what's next, Sam? Hey, Seth and Josh, this is Becky. You might remember me from a few years ago where I called in about, uh, a outhouse in Vermont. Oh, yeah. And I'm here to tell another family trip. Uh, this one takes place on the Buffalo River in Arkansas. Uh, this was a very special trip because my dad is a canoe enthusiast and often from the time I was probably six, um, would take me on these river trips. And this trip was special because my mom, uh, came with us. And it was off to a great start. Um, except for the first night I was running around barefoot as, you know, a wild child from Vermont with no indoor plumbing would, um, and got a two inch long thorn in my barefoot. Um, but that didn't stop me too much, you know, being that age. Um, the second day we were taking off and my dad and I were at the front of the canoe, pulling it into the water. And my mom was picking up the back of the canoe and kind of dragging it to bring it into the river. And I guess she, when she moved, the canoe underneath it was, uh, a very dangerous snake with a triangle head. My dad would know exactly the name of it, but all I remember from that time is that it was supposedly very dangerous. So we were a little bit on the edge after that. Um, we had a few more beautiful, wonderful days, but as the trip went on, my dad continually was unable to go to the bathroom. Might have been from all the dehydrated camping food that we were eating. And, um, I guess my parents are in their seventies. And there was a commercial from the 1960s that used to talk about Miss Irregular. And it was maybe an advertisement for prunes where it'd say something along the lines of, are three enough? Are six too many? Um, and we would start to call my dad, Mr. Irregular. Um, and then by night six, I think he got kind of fed up with it and he decided to eat an entire bag of prunes. Um, to this day, my family will still say, are 10 enough? Are 16 too many? Because the answer was certainly that 16 is too many. 16 or more were far too many. Um, I remember about an hour later seeing my dad take off with a trowel and start to dig a hole a little bit over a bank mint. Oh my God. Now this night that we were staying on this particular camping spot was just a sandbar. So you could see the entire circumference of the area that we were staying on with almost no privacy. Luckily there is a little bit of a hillock. Um, but when my dad took off, um, and started digging, we knew it was not going to be, it wasn't going to be good. And it wasn't. Uh, he reported back later on that the hole that he had time to dig was certainly not deep enough for what was to occur. Um, we were pretty much privy to every wave of peristalses that came with the 16 or more prunes that were consumed. Um, as a young child, it was probably the most hilarious thing that could have happened for me. Um, my dad came back looking like he would never be the same again. The expression on his face, I'll never forget. Um, and it's something that we often refer back to in our family. Um, anytime that someone's struggling with a little bit of irregularity. Um, we had a great time the rest of the trip and this is something that for the rest of my life and the rest of their lives for sure will be something that we refer back to. Um, I absolutely love your show. Me and my dad listened to every episode and I hope you guys are well. Wonderful. Yeah. Um, I think a great visual as to how bad the bathroom emergency is, is someone grabbing a shovel. A tiny shovel. A tiny little trowel. How are you going to get to work? Um, I do know, I do know what the name of that diamond-headed snake is. I don't know if you do, Suv. Uh, the diamond-headed snake. Yeah. Uh, Greg. Oh, Greg. You know him personally. Yeah, that's Greg. Uh, um, that's, uh, uh, Greg. Also, when something that, uh, felt familiar to me, Posh, is, um, knowing an old commercial slogan that you never heard because your parents still say it. Uh-huh. Uh, so mom and dad would always say, brush up, brush up, brush up with the new Ipana. Yeah, the new Ipana. So the Ipana was the company, I guess, that made a toothbrush. Yeah, it was like the Colgate of their time. Um, and so the entirety of our, uh, childhood was them singing that song while we brushed our teeth. Yeah. I hope whoever owned Ipana got bought out and just made a ton of money. Yeah. Which would have been, at the time, like, a hundred grand. Uh, you know, the other one, uh, is, uh, what does mom say when she says the color green? Greeny stick'em caps? So, um, greeny stick'em caps was another. They're like Mattel, uh, shooting shells. Oh, those are a real thing, too. Greeny stick'em caps, believe it or not, it sounds like the most mom-coded nonsense, but greeny stick'em caps were a real thing. And, of course, the minute mom heard it, she was like, oh, I'm gonna use that to represent the color green for the rest of my life. Forever. I'm trying to think if there are other ones, but I feel like it is a really fun thing. And, um, again, I'm, uh, I, I lament the loss of monoculture every day and while also appreciating that, you know, it, there's a, a wealth and diversity of, uh, of options and creators right now, which is better, but I feel like slogans and, and, and, uh, jingles are lost. I don't know if my kids will ever know a jingle. Yeah. Uh, also, like, uh, like theme songs to TV shows that everyone watches. Yeah. Those are kind of gone. Um, there was a very nice, um, somebody wrote an article about how the best thing about the World Cup was it felt like the monoculture again. Like, everywhere you went, people were like, did you see that? And there's something nice about did you see that? Yeah. Yeah. Um, you, uh, you and your friends did sort of a canoe trip. Yes. Um, and just to be on, on Becky's theme of, uh, you know, from one, from, from Outhouses and her last story to, uh, digging a trowel. But you, you guys had one of the greatest, uh, sort of word combinations. Yeah. We would, uh, every time somebody went off into the woods to do their business, uh, someone else would sneak after them with a disposable Kodak photo and, uh, take a picture of them squatting over a hole. And, uh, that person was called the Pooperazzi. And so you would, you would try really hard to sneak away from the campfire without the Pooperazzi knowing, that you had left, but it was real, it was real hard. And the best thing about the Pooperazzi photos, which we have saved to these days, is it's just the sort of side flank, you know what I mean? These are not pornographic photos. No, not graphic in any way, but certainly catching someone when they don't want to be caught. Right, and nothing about it is gross. You would look at these photos and you would just see the white sort of hip flank of a guy crouching. And the best Pooperazzi photos is you always, you waited to take a picture until they saw you. So they were always looking at the camera. Yeah, it's almost like the, gosh, I'm going to forget the name of it, but the video of Bigfoot. Yeah. When he turns and looks. It's that freeze frame. And it's a real defeated look because the thing about squatting over a hole is there's no quick cover up. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, the Pooperazzi was, lives on. Yeah. Lives on in our memory. Yeah. Thank you very much, Becky. And thanks for circling back. Yeah. I love that. So, second, two stories. So, hey, everyone out there, if you haven't called in. Yeah. If you haven't put your stories together, Becky's showing you it's possible. Becky's lapping you like a 70-year-old woman's lapping me in the mile swim race. Just leaving you in the dust. Hey, we're going to. 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A few years ago, my wife and I took a dream vacation to Europe. We both took German in high school and a little bit in college, and we both have some ancestry from German-speaking parts of Europe. So our trip was a success. Our trip was focused on southern Germany, Austria, and eastern Switzerland. We had a great time on our trip and did and saw a lot of amazing things. Our favorite part by far, though, was renting a car and driving around tiny towns where my wife's ancestors were from and popping into little churches where important events had happened in their lives, like marriages and christenings. These places were way off the typical tourist routes in rural areas, and we were getting lots of chances to use our rudimentary German skills, which we greatly enjoyed. As we were walking up to one of these tiny churches in eastern Switzerland, we heard what sounded like harpsichord music from inside and thought this would be a great chance to hear some local traditional music. We went in for the concert. As soon as we entered, an usher ushered us into the third row from the back and then sat down herself on the aisle end of the pew. Things that struck me right away were that this church was tiny, like 70 people at max capacity, and we had just filled seats 69 and 70. It was tiny and packed. The harpsichord music was really lovely, and we noticed that the musician was fully decked out in lederhosen and the feather cap and everything. We thought we had totally lucked into this authentic local cultural gathering. Then we started to notice that it wasn't just the musician in traditional Swiss garb. Something like half the audience was dressed that way, too, and the rest were in their Sunday best. When the song ended, a preacher came up to the pulpit and started to preach in Swiss German. We noticed that the music was very different from what we had heard before. We also noticed that a good portion of the audience was in tears. Just as my wife was pointing out some lovely flowers at the front of the chapel, they projected the image of a kind-looking older gentleman onto the screen at the front of the chapel with his full name and two dates under it. This is when it dawned on us that we were uninvited guests at a stranger's funeral in rural Switzerland. We immediately started looking at our escape options, but the pews were really narrow, and we were boxed in by the usher at the end of the chapel. We were also hesitant to just get up and leave because we figured we'd already been disruptive enough by bursting cheerfully into a funeral in the middle of a musical number in our shorts and t-shirts, so we decided we better try to stick it out until there was a more opportune moment to bolt. After the preacher sat down, the congregation stood to sing a hymn. A normal person might have used this as the chance to get out past the usher, but we are church-going folk and have experienced singing from a hymn. We thought, "We could read German. Let's do this." We didn't know the song, but it was very high and very slow. At some point during the song, the reality of what was going on hit me in a way that was making it very hard not to laugh. My wife and I were sharing a hymnal, and she noticed that my hands were starting to shake, and she thought I might be crying, because I am a crier. When she saw that I was stifling laughter, she started to discreetly kick and elbow me and to whisper, "Stop it! Stop it!" That made it even harder to keep it together. As soon as the hymn ended, we seized the opportunity to slip out past the usher before she sat back down. Once outside, my wife told me her mind had been racing trying to figure out how to explain to the other attendees how we knew the deceased. She had been trying to figure out how to say, "We are his friends. We are his friends." "We are his friends from America" in German. We sprinted all the way to our car and didn't feel safe to laugh until we got there. Once we did, we laughed until our sides hurt. So that's our story of crashing a Swiss funeral. Thanks again for having us on. We love the pod. It's so great. Yeah. Such an A+ story. Yeah. I mean, I'm not a religious person, but I do love going into churches. I'm always sort of drawn to them because the architecture is amazing. And, you know, I have a natural sense of reverence for them. So I would 100% have been sucked in there. But then to get pinned in by the usher and, like, if you go and then you're there for longer than you want to be and for a reason you don't want to be. I like any time American tourists, though, do something that is not one of the stereotypical things that we get burned for. So I just like now that there's this Swiss time where, like, yeah, the Americans, they wear their flip flops and their T-shirts and they come to the funerals of strangers. You know, the Americans, they laugh. I love a funeral of someone they've never met. Pretty good. I think that's how they all sound. Yeah. That's your Swiss German. Swiss German. Yeah, I assumed, I assumed, yeah. I assumed we were in the northeastern corridor there. Yeah. It is, it's a lot of fun also to just be the people who are confidently like, we'll do the hymn. Like, I like that they were like, we got to get out of here. And then they're like, hold up, we can do the hymn. I mean, if I learned anything in mom's French classes, it's how to sing in French. Yeah. Yeah. True. So. That's fantastic. What a great story. I also, you know, and again, I remember going to the, it was the Kennedy Center Honors a few years ago and Lorne Michaels was honored. And so a lot of SNL people went and I sat next to, a poller and Keenan Thompson was the bro behind us. And, you know, over the course of the night, very little of the night was actually focused on Lorne. There were a lot of other people. And so just Amy and I were like whispering jokes to each other all night long. And then at the after party, Keenan said, you guys were, your shoulders were shaking. You looked like kids in church. And it, I always like stayed with me because that thing about like laughing in church. I do think it gets pretty contagious. And pretty hard to suppress. Yeah. When you're on a roll. Yeah. Yeah. Because anything that's funny is funnier because it's not supposed to be there. Yeah. Yeah. I know. And you know what? The one thing I'll say is, based on everything I know about the Swiss, whoever the deceased was probably had a great sense of humor. Great story. Great stories all around. Thank you, everybody. That was a real, that was a real good one. And yeah. And hey, everybody, if you listen to these stories and thought, oh, I have stories as good as those or better than those stories, then we want to hear them. And we would love to play them on next month's listener episode or any of our future listener episodes. So if you have these stories, please go to speakpipe.com slash family trips pod. And give us your stories. All right. Well, thank you to all our listeners. Thank you, guys. We'll be back with another episode next week. Family trips with the Myers brothers Family trips with the Myers brothers Here we go Here we go Here we go Here we go Every month on the family trips pod A batch of stories from the listeners we got Souffle and I then get regaled Vacation victories, vacation fails We're unaware of the story's contents Listen and just make some comments We hold on to our shop We're not afraid to propose Every listener episode Every listener episode We're not afraid to propose a new story to you. We're not afraid to propose a new story to you. © transcript Emily Beynon