ALEX EDELMAN Didn’t Get To Tell All His Family Trip Stories

Nissan Tag this episode of family trips is brought to you by the 2024 Nissan Pathfinder with seven Drive modes the Pathfinder is built for even the most epic Journeys learn more at nissanusa.com Episode Intro here hi poshy hi Sophi how are you I'm good how are you good I just want to we're recording this after we talked to Our Guest today Alex Edelman and you know what I do eat my words about halfway through this episode because we talk a little bit about the standup comedy in Boston yeah and you do that thing where you get like scaly and unlikable and you tell us to tell us to get onto the family trips tip and by the time we do I I'm going to say maybe he had more great family trips than anybody we've ever talked to and we ran out of time so just fully owning it and one of the reasons I bring this up is I saw mom and dad this weekend MH Mom and Dad listen to episodes of family trips while they're driving to see me and my family yeah they had very very high praise for Ben Schwarz uhhuh yeah I do too and I think you know I think we saw that coming yeah right that was going to be one and uh mom said to me she go you know there's I get so sometimes I get so antsy when people aren't talking about family trips and I want to I want to yell at the car radio get back to the trips so you know what I'm saying is you know we all give Josh a hard time but just know he's you know this is a real nurture thing this came from this came from our mom who's always even as kids she was very single-minded she always said when we were little if a podcast says it's going to be about something it should only be about something I mean I like that you say that we all give Josh a hard time I don't know who the all is because I feel like what I keep hearing out in the world is that I have there's a lot of support for my trying keep it on track yeah no I mean me and the silent majority the people that don't want that aren't going to like come up to you at a at your weird vegan grocery store and be like hey man let them talk about what they want to talk about um yeah sure well you listen to this episode and yeah no but again I was wrong and again I like talking to Alex about everything but soing I feel like we scratched the surface yeah so um he was he was an absolute joy and uh also a real joy to see Mom and Dad this weekend yeah how was that it was great you know it's always really uh great to see him we had a very nice time with kids and uh yeah A+ um games were you guys gaming around I knew you were sort of rained in one day we got I will say Dad to his credit dad had knee surgery and um he you know we sort of have a hill that goes up to the basketball we have a little tiny basketball hoop uhhuh and the boys now have it in their head that they like to play basketball basketball and they don't like to play basketball at the same time but both boys wanted to play with Dad and he had to do this like sort of long walk up to the hoop and then I would say somewhere between 30 to 45 seconds into it the boys decided they were done playing and then he had to walk all the way down and then the other one and but he he just was like great grandfather service top to bottom did he bring his uh I bought them mom and dad both like hiking sticks for Christmas CP come on that's a perfect time to use your sticks I use sticks when I hike like if I hike a something that needs it and definitely if I just had meniscus surgery and you know how like when the like the two or three times people have come up to you and been like hey those are cool sticks uhuh everyone else has thought you're a dork well say much like they haven't yeah go ahead by the way yeah go ahead no I'm I was just joking I think sticks are great go ahead when I hike with my sticks I'm in places that you definitely want them and people that don't have them I'll I'll be hiking on trails and you'll see people in jeans and you'll see people with uh you know improper shoes and those people are in trouble and they're not having as much fun as I am and they're not seeing as much as I am because they have to look down at roots and rocks and the dumb flats that they're wearing instead of uh proper here's the things when I go hiking two things I make sure I bring my Crocs and a growler full of IPA a big old glass Growler I like to have it in the glass and an external and a speaker to play your jams an external speaker that I have to carry to play your pop hits yeah and that's only because my boom box is in the shop right yeah um yeah no they didn't have any sticks um it was great they is a thing the ponas oh there's a really nice development which is you know the boys called Mom and Dad Panka yeri and PKA hurry Addie in that great development Addie calls them pyer and hurry Potter Harry Potter yeah oh because she the boys talk about Harry Potter a lot so she's heard and so she called her hurry Potter I think not realizing it was she she wasn't doing word play right but it is word play yeah it is word play and so it made everybody laugh so it's a real winner yeah it's the kind of word play that for those of us ourselves included when we drop some word play on maybe we should be a little less proud of ourselves if uh if a baby's stumbling into like a good one it's like oh yeah these are sort of you kind of teed up for some of these sometimes we have a lot of words that mom and dad still say because we said it as kids M so uh our mind niece Agnes came over dressed in a full princess suit and so what did Mom and Dad call her they didn't call her a princess they called her a princess no what prina oh okay yeah okay oh princess you thought princess oh yeah no prina prina so and it was explained to the kids that you when you were a baby obviously you've grown out of it based on the fact that I teed it up and you put it in the put it to let it roll to the back stop um Prince what you said when you kid and so they still say prina and Addie had Addie's birthday was not during the school year so she did not have a birthday party at school she had what they call a special day but she called it a FAL day and I'm pretty sure I'm going to call special FAL for you know the rest of my life yeah I mean you hold on to it for as long as you can and then you'll try to convince your kids to say it like that and then one day they'll forget it well that's the thing they outgrow it and you're still saying orages instead of oranges and they're like what the [ __ ] wrong with you yeah I've learned it from you yeah um yeah our buddy Finn that used to say dogs would slubber I know Alexi was like Alexi loved slubber and then when she eventually heard him say slobber she was like oh yeah he got it right now sber is a better word for it yeah um and uh some other breaking news should we break news on the Pod yeah we have a venue selected for the wedding and we are getting our ducks in a row and we're going to be sending out save the dates and we got to figure out invitations we got to figure out our guest list it's stressful but we're uh yeah we're very excited yeah so we're Full Speed Ahead and uh it's exciting it's a little stressful but we're trying not to let it be too stressful um we've already had a couple moments where we can sort of sense some tension between us and we've been a to laugh that off because we know that it is we know exactly what it is born from um and uh yeah I think we're both giving each other uh a bit of a longer uh longer lead are you worried that Dad will be at a gas station and the guy on the pump next to him will be wearing a Steelers hat and he'll strike up a conversation with him and then he'll call you and say he would like him to get an invite I don't I don't think that's going to happen I hope that's not going to happen he's definitely good talk to that guy if that guy's wearing he's definitely going to talk to that guy if you're that guy don't worry my dad's going to talk to you yeah um so yeah that's very exciting can't wait also we made an error could I reference an error we made oh yeah we don't usually like to admit to our errors no exactly we were we were raised by Larry Myers and we have been we have been taught not no um uh we had JK Simmons and his wife uh Michelle schumacker on the show and I said they were our first married couple we also had Paula pel and Janine Breo and thank you a lot of our listeners pointed that out yeah blew it we blew it I mean in our defense in our defense 95% of our listeners are um hardcore Christian nationalists but they they love our sponsors they love our sponsor they support uh apologies to Janine and Paula one of my favorite married couples yeah also Mom and Dad but I feel like you know if you can call that a marriage they're over 50 years they're crushing it they are crushing it you know what they are crushing it yeah still you know what it's amazing huh 50 years they've still never used those sticks 50 years of marriage they haven't even unwrapped the sticks you got them oh well one day A Boy Can Dream a son can dream that the gifts he buys make his parents life better and easier will eventually you know what there's another path you know what the other path is don't buy him anything don't get him [ __ ] oh I almost oh I came so close to clicking by now on those sticks and then I thought I bet they'll never use them yeah you'd be right also I think you're really I'm really love talking to Alex and let me just say U because we talk about a little bit I can't say enough about Alex Edelman has a special called Just For Us on HBO it's his wonderful stage show he did um he's a really funny comedian this is way more than just a stand-up special he tells a story about basically going to a uh an event at a white nationalist house and very rarely do you uh watch something this funny that also has such a a a nice dramatic thrust to it so do check out just for us that's available on Max and uh first why don't you listen to some Jeff Tweety CHS with the my brothers chips with the here go there he is he brookly Alex Edelman Interview finest oh my gosh Conan's here so wait John hodan's here oh Hodgman too well there you go I do love Hodgman I am like the ninth most successful comedian from brookly and kind of it's a Hot Pocket we come from a Hot Pocket you know because we we kind of have Sandler and Silverman oh my God from our neck of the woods in New Hampshire which is crazy oh my God that's right I forgot that you're from where in where in new hampsh we're in Bedford but we went to high school in Manchester where Adam's from but Silverman belongs to Bedford so it's a pretty it's a good gang Josh I'm such a fan and so nice to finally meet you oh thank you thank you you've never met look at this Alex with the photo of us together at a Red Sox game where that were you had the photo of you and Fallon we met at a Red Sox game but we were not photograph together I don't know that we were photographed together but I saw you host the Red Sox team dinner when I was working there yeah wow that went really well that must have been between 2003 and 2007 is the only thing that I can figure on it was I feel like it yeah good years yeah I think it was maybe a breakfasty type thing because I remember I feel like it was no it was before they won so it was between three and four they had not won part of me thinks it was after we had won the World Series and then it was you know what I think you're right it was the I think it was the team opening dinner for the next year but you I remember you crushed and even then I had not started comedy yet but I remember thinking this is not an easy gig yeah I would not think a baseball dinner would be where you want to do your uh do a tight 10 because I'm sure they're not giving you five I'm sure you they want you to do a little more I did Pedro Martina is like Charity Dinner last year and um and I was getting nothing and then I started Ed making jokes about the ball players and then they were all ears and that was the yeah I uh remember the one the only joke I REM that Johnny Damon's book was called idiot is that right yes and uh I said yet another thing he has in common with Doki wow uh yeah I know we were at that first game of the uh of the season after they won the World Series because we were sitting on Monster seats uh and Doug Mir belly hit a homer ripped it and our Dad tried to catch it barehanded and it hit both of his hands so cleanly and dropped out of them and someone else got the ball and then he had to hold two bags of ice because his hands were swelling up it was also freezing freezing cold it was freezing cold and I was not on the wall seats for that moment because me and Mike sh had gone to buy jackets in the like me like the sport store in Fenway the sports store that's what they're called right you worked at Fenway sports store yeah yeah we called it the sports store people were like going to go down to the sports store for some for some uh Boston uh red stockings baseball hats so I you know we are obvious going to talk about family trips but you know we were an hour from Fenway and that was you know not maybe a full trip but it was a huge deal for us to go to Red Sox games how often when you were a kid did you guys go my parents um my parents do not like baseball my my parents are polite about uh my love of baseball and when I was a kid when I took when I got a job there at the Red Sox when I was like 13 or 14 I'd bring my dad to ball games which is a nice roll reversal for her what usually usually a 13-year-old is like Dad we're going to go down a Fenway today and Dad's like oh boy you know like us the around but I bring my dad down to Fenway and it was for him for a little while and then once he brought a Tom Clancy novel and uh and he sat there leafing through like hunting for the Red October while the Red Sox were playing and uh and I was up in the Press Box doing some work because I'd leave my in my I heard one of the announcers making fun of my dad uh CU he was on camera in the employee seats but but um you know we so my parents took me very rarely sorry it was a long tangent but it's good this is all about long tangents as long as your family's involved my parents took me very rarely but my grandparents my uh my dad's parents um uh uh took me and loved the atmosphere and had my grandmother in particular who was a Chicago Cubs fan and a Red Sox fan and died the year before the Red Sox won the World Series like was born in like was born like the year after they won my grandmother rooted for the the my unlucky grandmother rooted for the Cubs and the Red Sox her entire life but she uh she loved the the socks and took me to uh a bunch of games and I think my first game was in August of 9 uh five so I would have been six years old and uh and yeah they Fenway was special and whenever we went to a city that had a ballpark though my parents were always good about T I saw a game at the Montreal EXP Bose field a couple times yeah OIC Stadium right yes and so big so big and such a horrible place to watch you know what's so funny when you're a kid I genuinely like I remember like my sense memories of ball games are mostly of being a little opinionated [ __ ] where it's just like we're like I'm in Olympic Stadium like this is cavernous and not a good atmosphere you know like I'm like 11 years old with these like hot takes on architecture I'm like you know what if only the stadium Felts a little less impersonal maybe they could really do something here well you you were coming out of a Fenway existence which uh you know is is a pretty great ballpark so to see something else to see another Ballpark and be like oh wait they're not all as sort of charming or as storied or as beloved we went the other way our first game was at Three River stadium in Pittsburgh oh my god wow our dad's from Pittsburgh and but that's a you know that was a you know you go to Fenway after that and you realize oh okay this is why po poets have written essays about this stadium and there's no famous you know there's no famous like John Updike uh a lyric uh Recreation of something right about this like it looks like an upside down whatever birthday cake you know it's so funny Three River Stadium um my my mentor at the Red Sox guy Nam Larry lukino who just passed away actually rest in peace Larry yeah he was a really wonderful guy um Larry liked to say that he built um his additions to fway park were the things that he wanted as a child at Three River stadium in Pittsburgh oh wow so so Fenway Park is sort of based on this like dream of like of uh family stadiums Renovations are sort of based on the things that Lino thought he might like to have as a young person in uh in um growing up in Squirrel Hill so God what a baseball heavy uh start to uh that's all right I mean I we were not going to miss the opportunity to connect on our New England Roots I will say I recently saw Larry and he told me of I I hope I'm remembering the story right that his his mom would whenever his mom saw Bob Craft would give him a hard time about uh the Patriots being a bunch of cheaters which I liked that Larry Lino's Pittsburgh mom was still busting on Bob Craft she was so funny and so um and so sharp and uh manino who was the mayor of Boston who was like depending on who you ask like a complete idiot or one of the smartest Mayors in American history like by the way the answer may have may have been both which is that he only ever wanted to be the mayor of Boston had no other aspirations and once he became the mayor of Boston only wanted to help the city and also had a limited attention span like he was always at this ice cream place in Fel Hall every Wednesday once I mentioned that after he died to someone who worked for him they went oh well Wednesday mornings we do budgets and the mayor didn't really have a great attention span so we'd promise him ice cream after the he's a seven-year-old child the mayor of Boston got ice cream at Sluggers Dugout underneath Fel Hall and solved your problems solved the Civic problems that you needed solved but again even as like a kid I remember seeing Mar minino eating bubblegum flavored ice cream you know like the blue ice for some reason Bubblegum flavor is always blue with like little little like pink pieces of bubblegum in it I saw minino eating pink bubble like like pulling a piece of pink bubblegum out of bubblegum flavored ice cream and I'm like what sicko eats bubblegum ice cream what freak there are so many I I your special is so wonderful and uh it was you know a an incredibly well regarded stage show as well and there's so many wonderful details about your family and I I do want to pull from it without burning anything special but your parents elazar and Cheryl where did they grow up so my dad grew up in uh Brooklyn Massachusetts uh just just a 25 minute walk away from where I grew up um and we walked a lot cuz we'd go over on chavas and we weren't able to drive so there was that my mother grew up in a part of Cincinnati called Amberly Village and so she um and so my my I have a mid Western mom and a sort of East Coast Bostonian uh dad and your grandparents were a huge part of your upbringing enormous enormous my father's parents were you know like sometimes I get annoyed I get annoyed at the word grandparents because I feel like for me and maybe other people maybe many other people it doesn't fully service the amount it implies a sort of like you know by anual visit and sort of like uh really like uh Dutch uncle qualities of like hey sport but like my grandparents were like serious parts of my upbringing they were like very very which is what you literally just asked me word for word but yeah they were they were well I think it's a that's an interesting distinction you don't hear that much because I will say that I think Josh and I had grandparents the way people classically say it whereas I feel like my wife had exactly what you had and you almost want to call them great grandparents but then that that's yeah then that's a whole different they've ruined it by stealing that for the other thing cuz we weren't allowed to say super old grandpar yeah but Seth do you feel like your grandparents I feel like this is like a nice cliche that happens to be true for like many many many people which is that my grandparents were the vacation from the parenting rules that every kid kind of needs where like you know we weren't allowed TV after a certain hour but when we were at my grandparents house that's when we could you know do that or we weren't allowed certain foods but like my grandparents my grandfather always had a box of graham crackers in a specific place and even when he was really really um unwell the last couple I mean for him he was sharp to the end thank God but like um whenever we went into his house almost as a show of normaly for him we would go over to that place where he kept the gram crackers and eat you know and like open the cabinet and as we're saying like how's it going Papa we everyone would take a graham cracker and eat a gram cracker almost as like a sort of like very ashkanazi communion wafer was like we're like we had to have this like you know sort of like entrance ritual to my grandparents house um but yeah they were a vacation my grand my grandma my grandpa I know this isn't like specific but I do think the one connection between like Alexis's grandparents and yours is like Judaism because our grandmother was really waspy on our mom's side our our grandmother on our dad's side was really Catholic and uh you know our our Jewish grandfather we barely knew because he passed away like when we were very young so it is but it does feel like that like everybody is a parent uh was definitely a part of her upbringing and it sounds like a part of yours as well well she's a human rights attorney yes right like like Alexi's a a very selfish woman very selfish take take take would she would she say that like um would she like I think I ascribe a lot of like my moral backbone to my grandparents do you know what I mean with like 100% okay yeah well also you know that you know she they were survivors they were Holocaust Survivors her grandparents and so and then they were you know it seemed like especially her grandfather like believed like one of his roles was like to educate and like to go speak about his story anywhere he was ever invited to tell it and you know she grew up in New Mexico but he was just this vital part of the new Mexican you know Jewish community and wow and uh it's is very I mean I I sadly never met him but he does seem like a person that I don't feel like Alexi is trying to make him proud because I don't think he ever would have not been but I do feel like she is very much trying to live on a path that uh of of the values that they had you know what's so interesting is I've never I don't know that I've ever talked about this so I'm sure actually you know I think my dad will be okay with me saying this but um you know my grandmother passed uh when I was you know like 12 13 years old and was really my first s sense of loss which was a shame but you know that's what grandparents do right grandparents sadly uh die right they're not going to like graduate like grandparents the thing that they do my friend Alfie always points that out he's like grandparents uh they're supposed to die like there you're supposed to lose your grandparents otherwise like something else is going like it's the best CA weirdly the best case scenario is that you meet your grandparents you have some time with them and then they die and it's sort of like I not St but like it is almost like training wheels grief like it's not you know it's not not more hardcore than a Geral right but it matters it like it's deeply felt and it's an important thing to happen someone told me by the way not to totally it's just too good not to mention um my friend Liz was tell me that somebody in a friend of their friend group they had a turtle and the turtle died and uh the kids are like N9 10 years old and so they buried the turtle as sort of like a training wheel for grief and then they went back to they wanted to visit you know Shelly's grave or whatever so they go Turtle name yeah they go back like four days later and the turtle's alive oh man and they're like that teaches you all the wrong lessons about death but it teaches you all the right lessons about Christianity oh my God the turtle came back and then the turtle comes back and that's the most important thing as long as you believe in the turtle all hail Shelly all hail Shelly oh my God I'm stealing that so much oh my God we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our GameTime Ad sponsors family trips is supported by game time hey poshi yes sui you love a concert I love concerts and I buy a lot of tickets for a lot of concerts and sometimes I buy those tickets just right when 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close in age that we just like disagree on everything where it's like I volunteered for Obama he volunteered for Romney like I am like you know I'm surprised that he's still a boy like like he like I think he just truly want to go in the other direction every single uh every single way but but I mean he's a he's an athlete of great distinction he made the Olympics for Israel um which no surprise he and I don't completely agree on politically yeah I'm actually raising money for Hezbollah I'm and we are GNA put a link up um his as patreon you know your special is so much more than just great jokes because it is this incredible story with that said there are so many great jokes so by asking you to burn burn this one great joke I don't feel like I'm ruining this you mentioned your uh your brother is a uh athlete uh for the is national team he is a skeleton what do you even call it a skeleton racer skeleton yeah he he he does skeleton he does skeleton you have the most wonderful it's one of the it's the best chunk about skeleton you I mean you didn't know you needed it and it's so I'm just jeal I you know what I'll say it I'm so I was watching I was so [ __ ] mad Josh wasn't in skeleton I was watching you crush and I'm like what a gift that your brother did skeleton do you know it's so it's so I'm I'm I'm blown away that you watch a special honestly like I really can't believe that you did I'm really really thrilled but like holy moly man really but like uh but look I also I try to uh people always go how does your family feel about you doing material about them and for the most part my material is actually like like extremely either loving or like almost humble braggy about like I make fun of my Olympian brother which is which which all I do is like like you'd have to be people are like how does he feel about you burning him and I'm like burning him by mentioning to a national television audience that he made the Olympics in a very difficult sport I think he's chill you know like like it's a you're like ah how do you feel about your dad telling this there's a story in the special which is my probably favorite story about having Christmas uh for a woman who had nowhere else to go for the holiday uh my Jewish Family at Christmas for this woman and people were like how do your parents feel about you making fun of them I'm like uh for them doing this extremely outside the box altruistic thing that is a extremely high indication of character I think they have managed to deal with it but um which isn't to say that comedy families don't uh comedy families like they're like they're tying a yellow ribbon around a mic stand or something like that like comedy families don't deal with uh a lot but but I I think that uh and by the way I misrepresent them for uh humor sake quite a bit of course course yeah like I I'm an only child but uh but I honestly I'm not even Jewish I get misrepresented in Seth standup and I'm fine with it but it's also like you know it's not look it's not making the Olympics but I have Jo jokes about Josh uh uh being vegan and I think you're very proud about being vegan you don't hate that the word gets out right me no I don't care so there what I mean it's kind of the same right like I get a few little Burns in but the main gist of it is a positive thing about you yeah thousand per. how often do your parents come how many times did they see just for us I think my parents probably seen it like nine times or something like that great that's the part that's all that says everything right that they can come and see it nine times they saw it nine times and also you know it was but the funny thing is each one they came to it was a special one or it made it special for them maybe even more but you know what's so great is I looked in the audience at the last show that they saw the County Center in late March and they were laughing and I was like you know glad that they still yeah at least you know I had a director named Adam brace who's my closest pal we worked together for a long long time and Adam probably saw the show 50 times much more many more or would listen to the show um actually know 50 seems about right but um and Adam listened to the show a bunch and uh he was a great collaborator and he would laugh but he and I were laughing at a different he would laugh sometimes in the show and hearing his laugh which is very distinctive would make me laugh but the thing that we were laughing at wasn't the joke it was the difference in how I did the joke that revealed either our ER conversation about the way the joke should be performed or you know like something that we had worked on really hard and I really had to nail and I messed up as soon as I got on stage you know what I mean like he was laughing at me whiffing at something like there was a line that I figured out only worked if I said it a specific volume if I yelled at it didn't work if I muttered that it didn't work it didn't work and I went on stage stage and I said the line uh exactly the right all exactly the right volume but with the words all on the wrong order and I had to stop for a minute because Adam was laughing so hard in this like 200 seat room everyone's like that sentence made no sense why is this guy like losing his mind he wasn't laughing so my parents sorry sorry my parents uh they they laugh I think at a different they laugh at a different or they're watching a different show after like the fifth time my producer Mike Shoemaker who will always say can you tell when I'm laughing and I'll always say yeah cuz you're the only one like every time you laugh no one else is laughing but the one on our show which is that same thing when you're over focused on one is if there's a name that I'm nervous I'm going to say wrong I like blow the follow-up name like so you know like like I'll be like she would tell EDG you for get it right and then I'll be like and Ike bernholz like meanwhile like we've known Ike Barz for like a million years you're like you're like I yes Oscar nominees R yuchi Sakamoto and Len B Bley you know like it's um so what growing up did you guys were you a trip family we were we would go every um we were such a trip family and it I had a joke about it that I haven't done on stage in a long time maybe I only did it once or twice but like it makes me wonder we were such a family trip family that it makes me wonder why people don't go to the why America hasn't been back to the Moon more CU every couple years my mom would be like we should go to Fort Lauderdale and I'd be like why and she was like to see if there any new kosher restaurants and I was like that's why you go to Fort La I'm like why aren't we going to the moonm to be like maybe there's a butterfly res preserve now cuz that's we went back to Fort Lauderdale cuz they put in a butterfly Preserve like the moon we should see what's you know what's going on see what's going on there yeah but we would we my mom isn't just a f we not just a family trip family there was also the postmortem photo album that nobody ever cracked open ever again which is just like like hey uh yes this my my poor mom because I travel for a living so now the last thing I want to do is like travel extraneously so what I do is I will try to wrap work around um or or like rrap a personal interest trip that I have to take around a family trip like I'll I'll like route tour shows around my and then they'll be like oh great we'll come and I'm like no this is not for you to come too this is like me working out like new material or like it'll be some weird corporate gig and my mom be like oh no I've always wanted to you know want to see you entertain the people at Deo and touch exactly my parents have come to like corporates my parents have been like my parents came to a corporate in Baltimore love having my parents at shows let me stress I love having but if I try a new joke there's no way to not get my dad to say I don't think that worked and I'm like yeah I also know now it's a new joke my parents I found out at the same time as you that it didn't work my parent there's a show in Boston that was the first comedy show I went to it's called Comics come home Dennis Larry runs it yeah I got to do and Comics come home is the first show I ever saw I was like 13 or 14 and maybe want to be a comedian cuz all of them seemed like they were having so much fun and I got to do it a couple years ago and I've done it the last two years actually and it's at the place where the Bruins play my parent my dad is a big hockey fan and we all play hockey and so I brought my parents down and this past year they went I don't think that went as well as the year before and I was like yeah thanks thanks our parents did really really good job of bringing us to see comedy when we were little really and I'm wondering if it if you managed to cat I mean you were interested at a young age so maybe do you remember Steve Sweeney did you ever see Steve Sweeney oh my God I think I have the best Steve Sweeney story Steve Sweeney for those who have never heard is we're gonna do this yeah all right we're gonna do this Steve Sweeney story then we're talking about family trips this all counts Josh this is our parents brought us to it's really Barnstormers [ __ ] stand up but but it's we were with our parents my God it wasn't like this isn't even about performing this is about being young people and having parents who support us anyway I'm just saying Steve Sweeney Steve Sweeny is a sort of OG Boston standup he's everything you think Boston people are if you've never been to Boston J jokes about Dunkin Donuts and The Big Dig and I'll have a lodge you know like and we the one time we saw him at a place called Barnstormers and I just remember there was like 5 minutes about like you know you made it big when you're playing B stomas just hardest my mom's maybe ever laughed all right so what's your Steve Sweeney story and then we'll get back to family trips God for no no I mean oh oh do you not have enthusiasm for it after Josh just like crumbled no no no I I went to go see him at the cowon off Route One in SAS uh not to brag and it's a it's although although the callon is the biggest chin restaurant in the world I assume there are restaurants in China that would that would really want to Cle with that but it is often reported as the biggest Chinese restaurant in the world and they have a comedy club in the Attic which is huge very sizable and I run into Sweeny and Sweeny goes Alex I got a new joke and by the way Steve is a brilliant comedian one of the best to ever do it in the city of Boston but also has a bunch of tried and true material yes and I'm in the back and he breaks into this new gym J which is to be fair a great joke and there's this guy sitting there in the back row last row and he's got his arm around his wife or his girlfriend or whatever and big guy and he looks at C Sweeney and he looks at his girlfriend and he looks confused and after a minute he just leaned in and went I don't know this joke like he was Furious that it was like he wasn't there to see new I don't want new stuff yeah play the H he was he was there to see the opening five which is always you know you made it big when you're playing the C the attic of a Chinese restaurant it was such a funny perfect thing um but yeah I'm sorry my parents never took me to see actually my parents took me to see Robert kleene when I was younger uhuh at The JCC in Newton and it was exactly the right I was the youngest person there by like 50 years but it was because my my my parents knew that I loved comedy really early but no we we were not uh I don't know that my parents my parents just sort of let me do my thing uh comedy wise probably all right so Fort Lauderdale that was a annual would you guys go to Florida often we would we would go somewhere yeah my grandparents live there and and so we' go to Cincinnati a lot until my uh grandparents moved to uh to penberg Pines uh in or in C it was called Century Village but everyone called it Cemetery Village which was not uh cute but uh I I did not like Florida um we would go off to where the grandparents were but we took memorable trips to um as adults the trips get better when you're adults actually I think the family trips get better and they become way less frequent they become annual if you're lucky for me or by anual if you're really lucky but um but yeah my family took a trip to Japan uh Tokyo which is right after I got staffed on a television show uh my mom was like I had a week off and I mentioned to my mom the minute I found out I was getting this job I was like can can we go you know somewhere we would go to Israel a lot um and would you go was that when it's is once a year a lot like how often we get to Israel probably once every year year and a half we have a lot of family there but um it almost doesn't count as vacation really that's the thing do these family trips count if you're going to see a specific relative yeah we still count it yeah would you look forward to the Israel trips was that family that you had a good time hanging out with they were so different from me in almost every way almost um but yeah I did I think my love of strangeness was built by family trips I really loved the the weird I really love the weirdness I remember once I was out on the street in Israel with a Game Boy this is how long it was it was not even a Game Boy Color and there was talking to this Arab kid in his limited English and my very limited uh Arabic I spoke a little bit kid didn't speak spoke a couple words of Hebrew I spoke a couple words of Hebrew so we're mostly like conversing in he Hebrew mixed with Arabic and English and this kid was trying to trade me his keychain game like a tomagotchi style snake keychain game for my Game Boy and even at like 11 years old I knew that it was such an unfair trade but I couldn't immediately kibos it right like I couldn't like and I also didn't want to like Bob Craft with Vladimir Putin style like give it to him to play thinking that he was going to like so I held the Game Boy while he played on The Game Boy for a little bit and like I remember just like feeling that intense moment of connection with someone over something that was so completely not in either of our worlds you know what I mean like like just I remember standing in the street in this like neighborhood in East Jerusalem like holding this game boy while like this you know while this like uh Israeli Arab kid played uh and so like I think that I've been chasing sort of that for a long time does that make any sort of sense it does did your were when you were on trips like that did your parents were you the kind of kids that had the freedom to like go out and do your own thing my parents it is a miracle I have not been murdered like I am so even like looking back at some of my like formative memories in Boston my parents were like hey yeah go do whatever it is you need to do it was like whatever it is I need to do I'm 13 you like letting me I was the ball boy for the Boston College men's basketball team I would roller I was like 12 years old literally 12 I there was a guy named Troy Bal who was on the team who was very good and I'd rollerblade down there wearing like my own sweats in a Boston College t-shirt and like I would rollerblade the like 45 minutes to BC and then afterwards sometimes like a stranger would take me home like a like a relative like stranger who worked for the program but usually my dad P me up but in retrospect like I didn't have a cell phone I was just like go but yeah when we were on family trips sometimes I'd say to my parents as like a teenager i' be like I'm going to go do my own thing and my parents would be like okay try to be back for XYZ like and when you did that would the four of them be hanging out together were you just the total outlier or were your brothers also you know what it actually is a point of guilt that you have I I have I have uh sometimes even on our most recent adult family trips sometimes I like go do my own thing and my parents and my brothers hang out together I try to be there for highlights of the trip but sometimes or I try to like drag them now your argument is when you're there that's the Highlight So you you're like anytime I'm here hey everybody it's Alex time listen they're getting for free with the gentleman at Delo T has to pay for you know that is a joke I don't really think that about um but like sometimes I will arrange for something on a family trip thinking that it's like a really cool thing and they'll be like when we were I was in Japan doing a pottery apprenticeship and my parents do yeah of course why not my family was there it was one of those things that I had to go do and my there was like a family trip wrapped around it like a few days before my parents were there and I had to go and I thought I'd go sometime in November but my parents were going to be there in December so I delayed it a couple weeks to go do this thing and so my family was in Tokyo but I was like hey just so you know I'm going to have to like split off for a few days to go to this like rural Village and like sleep on a floor and like so did that but when I got to Japan um the guy who is the ambassador to Japan now is raem Manuel so so like and I'm and I eight the person that like owns the agency that I'm at who I've like met like one time in passing his is AR Emanuel is Ron Man's brother so I get to Japan and somehow like get invited to the ambassador's residence like I mentioned to my agent or someone I was going to Japan I got like a DM from someone being like come by to the Ambassador so I say to my family like Hey we're going to go to the ambassador's residence for like lunch at this hour and they were like to my family's credit they're like we have plans and I was like C could you move them and they were like no like we want to see our friend madori and Midori is like this is when Midori can meet so we'll be we'll be there when we're there and my parents showed up like I show up it's me the and like the emanuels of Japan and like my family showed up like an hour and 15 minutes L just sort of like to or like just breezed in now I will say I am enamored by your parents loyalty to madori I like that they did not break plans totally totally and they did move they like the lunch where they were eating was was close but my dad texted me being like he was like yeah maybe be a quick lunch and he as soon as he sat down he text me be like this is like a ceremonial lunch where it's like 17 courses and stuff like that and he's like I like that's a nice heads up that's a very thoughtful heads up it was very thoughtful it was very thoughtful but my dad was like there might be a different Ambassador in Japan by the time this lunch is over you know like I don't know is your dad funny not intentionally but every so often he lands on a joke and lives in it for like five years do you know what I mean he'll be like he'll accidentally do something funny so he knows it's fun like um my dad's favorite joke is SN no no s what I don't know what's s with you Seth oh Jesus by the way we Josh and I almost made it without asking yeah I mean we we kept waiting by the way no one's ever waited made you wait longer to have to I was like Southern Southern New Hampshire University my God I don't know SE what's new with you I mean like I uh my father-in-law and my brother-in-law just walk around like quoting Ace Ventura no they do not they do and like now my kids like the amount they're like all righty then and I'm like God damn it sucks so much that's so funny they're the best but they really like all their literally their entire like comedy touchstones or like Jim Carrey movies from like 92 to 99 do you have any weird like it's so funny when I think of family trips now I'm thinking of so many like outlier memories like I I could tell you the exact date our family took a trip to Paris because I remember watching TV and Dale nhart died like that was like remember watching a t in Paris and Dale Earnhart they were like the news and I was like weirdly despondent at like 12 years old about like Dale Earnhardt's dying and that and then all the restaurants were closed in Paris for like the week right on theart on the Dale news they lowered Paris lowered its checkered Flags to half mask for that they lowered their Bret and Stripes to have mask but I but yeah like like I think I could tell you about all of these like all these trips based on like one weird outlier memory with you know like but H gosh even like going to the Montreal expose games like I mentioned we went on a Montreal went to I remember it was it was like dog day at the Expos and the Expos were so bad this is like two years before they moved or something like that and uh it would and there were more dogs than people at the Ballpark people were bringing multiple dogs so there are like you know like 10,000 people but like 12,000 dogs you know and lady brought eight of them you know like it was it was that must be when you're playing in a game like that you must be like we got to get out of here yeah just like McDonalds Ad imagine hey we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors this episode of family trips is brought to you by McDonald's hey poshi yeah sui you know I've often got a whole family in my car yeah you got a lot of kids yeah I also don't have to tell you this podcast is about family trips and one of the key things about a family trip is is keeping them fed and sometimes you're on the road and everybody's hungry and you just time time is of the essence my man do you hear meh time I do I hear you and what I love about the McDonald's app is you can order your food in advance you can sense that this window is about to close where you can feed your children and they will not melt down 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thing or it would be all three of us in a room and the parents in the other which feels which feels fair and then as we got older then it would be two boy shared room what was one like it was just a really and the split would be would be weird but AJ and I would would fight apparently as children so so there's always a someone there to keep the peace or we would but I think we shared I think the boys shared shared rooms which I actually didn't mind sharing rooms with my with uh with my brothers but but uh and also in family trips I could convince my brothers to do a little more Adventure like I'm the adventure brother and they're more the sort of like stay in chill brother so like when we were in Japan last a like AJ my brother AJ knows Japan very well like he trained there for the Olympics and like is a real real like really loves Japan and speaks Ser like enough Japanese to order at a restaurant or or get into a taxi somewhere and so AJ who really knows his his stuff J uh Japan wise like we're able to convin convince him to come out with us and like go to different places but the problem is he's such a comfortable local that he was like oh we're going to have the best thing to eat and I was like oh my God amazing then we went into like a 7 11 and he buys like a ball of like tuna and rice and I was like AJ no like I don't he's like no no it's way better here that it is in America and I'm like no but I'm in Japan so I really want to go to like some weird bar or something like that he's like but the 711 stuff is like pretty much the same level of quality or higher than the 7-Eleven and stuff you get at home and I was like no AJ that's not the thing I want to see in Japan I definitely had 7-Eleven Sushi when I was in Japan oh my God it's good for 7-Eleven and it's good like but like if anyone's ever like it's the best sushi I'm like it's not the best sushi you're going to like find it better in some weird hole in the wall like shut up yeah everybody wants to come home and by the way nobody is impressed when you come home and you're like their 7-Elevens are so because again I'm not looking to go so I'm not like my biggest problem with America is not like I wish the 7-Elevens were a little better I wish the 7-Elevens had better Sushi I wish sushi at my 7-Eleven was just you know how you're at 7-Eleven and you're craving Sushi and you're like I'm not going to get it here well that's not a problem in Japan Israel is hey here's my question what's the weirdest outlier place that you guys have been like a load of times on family trips like more than you'd think I don't know we don't we didn't really double up yeah we didn't we did not double up much we didn't go to the same place very often we went to Salt Lake City a lot wow okay why ski to ski Al okay oh yeah that's good and we'd stay at like the one okay Hotel in Salt Lake City at the time now I'm sure there are more but like we've been to and then my little brother moved there for work and so we been to Salt Lake City is a family trip quite a bit if real quick if uh 15 years ago we'd seen the three Edelman Boys on skis would we all been able to pick which one would be a winter Olympian yes okay and it wouldn't have been me I SK you know the funny thing is I don't like I think this says a lot about me I am really good at the very difficult courses that go through the trees narrowly but I get really panicked on the big wide open Mountain faces I get intimidated by the choice in the scale of the mountain and the possibility that I don't not seeing ex so if I can focus like this I'm great but if I have to like look around and see if like something there if I can see for a half mile in front of me I'm like freaked out it's like probably a really good metaphor for creativity where if it's like if I can see the one task in front of me I can absolutely do it but if they're like in 10 minutes you're going to have to do that I'm like I don't want to do that in 10 minutes I want to do this thing in 30 seconds or if I do it wrong I might die like it's a really uh but AJ's AJ's a really good skier Austin's an amazing skier like a really really incredible and then by the way when AJ was qualifying for the Olympics we took a family trip to St meritz which was really like cool really funny really fun and my parents like were so happy to be there for a purpose that we weirdly like like I remember like this sums up my parents so well I have a bunch of pictures on my phone of my mom and dad in the back of a fish restaurant they enjoyed in St Mar they're like they H it off with the Mater D and he took them to the back to like see where they keep all the fish and stuff and so I have all these like photos of like Cheryl and elor Edelman like standing in the back of like a whis fish restaurant just with like their arm around around you know like Gabor you know like just like no I wouldn't have thought you know am I uh ignorant to think like you gota when you go to Switzerland you got to get the fish like am I we got to get the fish everywhere because my parents here's what makes family trips complicated parents are Kosher ah gotcha so like they there's got to be fish options or vegetarian options or vegan options Josh um or kosher options and if not no bueno like my parents can't just like go anywhere they've got to go to a place where there's like stuff they can eat so if they're going to a place for a reason other than we picked the kosher restaurant like it's got to be a fish place because fish you can get kosher pretty much you know anywhere as like as long as they're turn serving like tuna salmon there's a way to get fish kosher but like if you're in St meritz I don't know how many kosher restaurants there are in in St meritz they can't just like walk into a little place that looks nice yeah I would guess zero I would say it would be probably was there any expectation when you were young that you uh and your siblings would eat kosher oh yeah we didn't eat I didn't eat a non- kosher place until I was you know like uh working on the Red Sox and did you tell did you cop to that you were like hey it was hot dog city today at the at the Ballpark I wouldn't rub it in their face I wouldn't come home smelling of bacon it is really if you like kept kosher and you were like and then it was a Fenway Frank like I I broke it I broke Kosher for a middle of the road if not below the road it was the 7-Eleven Sushi of uh of no I by the way I still have never had bacon I've never had shellfish all right I'm like I still keep like a modum of kosher but being a tour and comedian even more than that I was like this is not going to work you know like I can't like only eat fish for 6 months or something like that where I'm like on the road in Scotland and it's like yeah my my parents are still like they always find the place and I've gone through big stretches where I only eat like kosher and strictly kosher too for like a little while and it's like it's it's it's it's a very possible dream but like it does suck to go to like Paris and they're like on a family trip and even as a kid I'm walking around being like that place looks pretty good that place looks looks pretty good that place looks pretty good and they're like no no we're going to this place and you walk in and it's got the it's got like the feel of like a Scottdale Marriott restaurant and you're like God God damn it like you know like it's such a shame because wherever you go there's still the same food that tastes the same as the chicken you have in Brooklyn Massachusetts and your parents are like no no this is really great and you're like this isn't great this is average yeah Great's right down the street yeah Great's down there was literally we walked by I remember when I was 10 years old or 11 years old like walking by some French beastro in like Paris and like there was a like woman outside who literally looked like she hadd been pulled out of like a cartoon she was just like in her 60s but she had like one of those cigarettes in the long holders and she was like smoking while she ate her steak and there was a wi wine in front of her and I was like oh man I want to do that my parents took us into like a kosher restaurant and everybody in there was like from New Jersey and I was like oh I'm going to literally die if this is like if this is my upbring if like if like but that's the thing like I always wanted to I wanted non-homogeneous environments and so like trips family trips were like really amazing for that in some respects but every so often you get invited be like all right kids time to go to the place where all the other American kosher tourists are you know yeah but then the rest of the trip I mean I guess it's ultimately it only just hamstrings you at Meal Time like it seemed like your parents were incredibly adventurous and wanted your their kids to see the world totally we did by the way a kosher cruise to Alaska that's a really memorable family trip it's also where I um I think had like one of my first kisses with another girl I don't know how embarrassing are we should we get on this yeah how embarrassing is your first kiss I had like a like full relationship with this like relationship with this girl who is um also like the same age on this like boat how old are we I want to say we're 16 but the truth is we're like 18 I think you can say 16 but we all know say 16 but we'll all know 18 yeah Sam can you take out where he said 18 yeah but then leave in where I said 18 oh my God it was and I was really into this girl and we became convinced without any of us ever losing either of our clothes that she somehow could conceivably be pregnant yeah oh my God this different rules different rules uh on a boat yeah it's rules what what an indictment of the of the Brooklyn High School's sex ed Department oh the Brooklyn Yeshiva high schools oh there you during sex ed or Yeshiva High School Ariel Diamond lean back in a way that got a laugh it's not embarrassing that he said it it's embarrassing saying that he said it all cool he went when are we going to need any of this stuff thinking that and everyone was like yeah I mean like he's right like when are we ever going to need sex you know yeah I need sex said all of us are going to be like virgins like cool virgins the rest of our lives in what world and which timeline does this come into play yeah what sex we're 17 why would we need sex at Jesus that was crazy so you uh how and so you both but you both felt uh this Panic you and your you and your boat life she started the panic I I I bought into it so enthusiastically and I told my physician Father Who had who has worked in like Boston hospitals for a very long time that I was like I may have gotten someone pregnant and my dad was like okay and I was like and he's like I didn't know you were like having sex I was like no we didn't have sex my I was like what and I was like then you're good well and my dad was like Alex like I could see him like laughing at me and I was like but what and he was like we'd have to call this kid Houdini like if this like like if this he's like if you got this girl pregnant like that kid needs to be born you know like it's like it's truly an Immaculate do you feel like he was more relieved that you hadn't got her pregnant or more disappointed that you didn't know how it worked I I think he was more disappointed in my anxiety that refused to Abate yeah but it was a by the way I think this is a weird and funny Cod at now but at the time I was Furious the girl didn't tell me she had her period for a couple of months because she was worried we would stop speaking after that so we left the boat and I was like um I was like H it was like really weird insane something that only happens to a teenager and you're still with her right yeah that's my wife we have no children we've never had sex we have no children we we sh our our sexual activity is limited in triumphing on boats or whatever she will only do it on a boat and we still keep her clothes on but she's the best she's my she loves the Lonely Island but yeah um all right so U we first of all this is the I'm I want you to this sincerely I feel like we've really only scratched the surface of your family trip so you might be the first guest we're going to ask to come back on and you know what I'm going to own it I'm gonna own it Josh oh I blew it I blew it talking about Steve Sweeny because wa do we do we I'm sorry I'm sorry about that no no no it's my it's I it's my fault and I just like you are like the the depth and wealth of these family trips are are wonderful but we are going to let you go and Josh is g to ask you some questions before we do um okay okay I feel like I I I feel like I should have been more focused in my ADHD no you did a great and let me say you know what you did that my mom is really going to appreciate what you said family trips a lot I think she really likes that yeah because that's what we need we need recognition of yeah the title I really liked I listened to the um I listen to the Pamela Allon episode like last uh like last week and she was so focused and like Patton when I read his um not read when I listen to his episode he was really good so now I'm just like no this is I'm regrets no regrets I'm mostly just saying like I just feel like you've got another hour of family trips in you and this has been such a delight you should be honored that we're talking about having you back like we've never done it I I so want to come back I would so love that but I I feel bad for my lack of focus and I feel Oh jez no you're great you're great uh we got some quick questions um you can only pick one of these is your ideal vacation relaxing adventurous or educational adventurous yeah adventurous what's your favorite means of transportation train plane automobile boat bike walking Etc it depends on the city okay right Amsterdam's a bike City Venice is a boat city right but generally Boston Boston rollerblades roller blade City but duckboat roller blades it's one of the other generally train I think trains like amazing train cities or train countries like the best family trip we ever took was to Peru we did Machu Picchu and we took the train from urubamba to Machu Picchu and just like taking this like old school train through the rainforest it's just like one of the coolest things I like I'll never forget it as long as I live I'm glad we didn't talk about it um you know what these things come back to you and spurt yeah yeah I get it look I'm going to this is I'm never going to hear the end of this one from Josh it was really incredible full of lavish detail and really you know the thing I remember about it and made all the other family chips we ever took uninteresting um if you could take a vacation with any family alive or dead fictional or real other than your own family what family would you like to take a family vacation with uh the Swiss Family Robinson I'm sure gets mentioned a good amount don't they not a mentioned yeah people love the Swiss Family Robinson but it it does feel like they made it work this like huge amazing tropical thing they were so industrious they like were able to like they totally nailed this assignment of being like Shipwrecked on this island and they put together this like weird little island paradise so the swi Family Robinson seems pretty sick and in terms of like a real life family um I think imagine being on like imagine being on a vacation with like the early Rockefellers or like the early Rothchilds like The Grand Tour was still a thing and like people were going to like Egypt from Europe for the first time or like had the ability to like go to Italy like like I think a lot of these ideas come from fiction but like and I have such crazy fiction wander lust but like the idea being like with a rual person like like that's my love of trains like like whenever you watch the porah movies like the BR like the Brana movies or the earlier ones like you're like oh my God to be rich in the 1800s or the early 1900s and like traveling by rail through Europe like with trunks with like trunks of new clothes trunks that you don't have to carry with trun you never even touch a trunk no you get D like 4our breakfasts in the in your private car with with hand made hot chocolate like that's the freaking life you know like that's what you want if you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family who would it be well I could say my brother AJ for Endless debate um no I if I want be strand on my you know what I never get tired of talking uh to my dad right uh I really and by the way I say that I don't talk to him enough he always reminds me whenever I call him one of his jokes be like who's this I'll be like Alex like hm Alex and I'll be like yes your son he's like oh my son I know I have several Sons but this one so rarely goes or like the and then and then he tells you what's new oh my God by the way I fall for it intentionally every couple of years him a thrill I'll be like Dad how's it going he'll be like you know Sno and I'll be like today's not your day Dad you don't get it but yeah my father my father is a real and he's an engineer so he buil things great uh you're from Brookline would you recommend Brookline as a vacation destination you know what not joking like a thousand per. great like genuinely you know what's so funny Mark Kates who's a really great guy Fenway Fenway recordings yeah Fenway recordings Mark Kates is uh is a music manager he manages MGMT he's like a really good buddy of mine from Brooklyn and lived in LA and moved back to Brooklyn with his family cuz he wanted to raise his kids there instead of like making them La pukes and so and he wanted to like be able to walk to Fenway which he which he does and Mark was on a tour of Japan with MGMT and uh went like all over Japan for a month and then came home and found a new Ramen place that had opened in this arcade in Brookline underneath his office like directly underneath his office at the time and went to the ramen place which was opened by a couple from Hokkaido and said I ate Ramen every day in Japan for a month at the most authentic Japanese places I came home to Brookline went downstairs and had the best bulll of ramen I'd had in years which is like go points brookln Brooklyn's become weirdly like a place to open like there are new businesses it's like it's close to Boston there's like stuff to do but like I mean it's not Paris and I'm but yeah I I I make it I make an effort to get home to Brooklyn just to hang out sometimes when I'm feeling a little fatigued he'll just like go home BJ Novak's got the same approach he'll just like head back a couple of days but oh yeah you're nowhere close to the most famous person in Brookline even close be's Newton so I got a little that's right that's right but yeah the other one who's famous from Brookline is um John F Kennedy so oh yeah right right right so even Conan even Conan's looking up yeah um Seth has our final two questions Alex you've been to the Grand Canyon do you not do you not remember if you've been to the Grand Canyon I have driven by it but not enough to like you know what I mean like so we're not gonna count it do you want to go desperately um I felt based on your love of Adventure you would say that a secret trip that people know about but don't really do is uh Slot Canyon Country like again like these big wide open Canyons everybody knows about like the grand Canyon's amazing but there's a place called Antelope Canyon in paig Arizona which is the coolest place I have ever been and it's this gorgeous like it's this gorgeous Kaleidoscope of like different colored Stone and the Canyon's very narrow some places only big and so like I've always preferred slot kenyons to huge ones so like Utah Arizona those places are lousy with them but like everyone knows about the Grand Canyon but I highly recommend highly recommend Antelope Canyon which is um on Native American land in paage Arizona such an incred incredible place I mean on top of everything else the fact that Alex sort of finished up with the best her about Canyons we've ever had I don't know when it's going to happen but for everybody listening like we hope you enjoyed this and do stick around maybe a year from now maybe sooner for Alex zlan part two I don't want to wait a year from now I've got a special to plug and to consider oh by the way just for us just for us is so a wonder and I'm going to I'm I'm sorry I am going to prompt you into the hardest I laugh very hard but you uh again talking about your brother talking about him uh doing The Skeleton uh national team Israel you had a nickname for him and then your mom told you to stop and you came up with a better nickname that's right we used to call him the Frozen chosen um but eventually my mom was like stopped calling him that and so then I switched over to Sho Runnings which is really one of my uh which is one of my which is one of my faves but um but guys this is such a pleasure and Seth not to do not to uh not to embarrass you here but I would be remiss if I didn't say um what a huge influence you were on me as a young person uh comedically and so if you watch a special there are a few people like this um but if you watch a special I really hope you can see your fingerprints on it in terms of like uh writing wise and even a little bit as I am lovingly teased for by others uh performance- wise but like yeah really big uh well that is that is an incredibly High compliment because it is uh it is the kind of special and I mean this as the highest compliment it makes me jealous that's oh that's so nice there you go that's all you can ask for um thank you Alex it just been wonderful chips with the my brothers family chips with the m is [Music] here we go [Music]