AMY RYAN Loved a KREE-MEE

AirBnB PreRoll this episode is brought to you by Airbnb hi bosy hi Sufi we ate it pretty Episode Intro hard the other day yeah but I don't know I it was in the fly did you know we we said The Fosters were our first siblings Aaron and Sarah and we forgot the Heim sisters maybe it's because there were just three of them I think it was because there were three of them I was just trying to think of pairs of siblings yeah I also uh I mean I guess this is this is an excuse but uh I have a terrible memory yeah I do too so um you don't I I feel like you deserve more blame for this than I do I feel like everyone would expect me to forget and you would be like oh no no no this happened um you know here's I have a good memory for something I'm almost certain a minute ago I told my son Axel that I needed 10 minutes yeah Axel uh we'll talk if you're gonna talk be here talk say something yes yes I'm here little you don't have to talk that loud Axel if you want to be here you have to say something interesting okay all right Axel this is a we're talking about family vacations tell you're talking about the wedding no we're not oh you want are you excited to go to posh's wedding yeah what are you going to do there um I don't know you going to dance how many teeth are you missing right now one just one looks like it's a big one looks like it's a significant tooth that you're missing no there's a big gap already oh yeah well your father once had uh 11 11 teeth pulled out of his mouth at one time when he was getting his braces on all I had like I had what's known as a shark's mouth do you look scary I did look scary how scary like this yeah scarier than that even that's pretty scary I don't know if he looked that's scary that's pretty scary that was Axel [Laughter] everybody um so yeah so we blew it on for siblings we just shouldn't even say that anymore we should now that we know we've had we've had married couples we blew that for the record when we said uh first married couple we were wrong about that we said for siblings we just shouldn't even try we should we should stop yeah we should stop with no research in real time trying to make broad pronouncements about the Pod yeah yeah because also what's to be gained yeah I'm pretty confident that's the first time Axel has totally derailed an intro to one of our podcasts I don't know yeah I'm not willing to say yeah I'm not willing to say either so there's something I loved this week that I just want to bring up um he's he's from our neck of the woods a hero of ours Adam Sandler has a new Netflix special oh I haven't watched it yet but I'm excited about it I there was a part where I laughed so hard Addie came into the room crying because she thought something was wrong with me and that's really that's Pinnacle comedy where you're just laughing so hard that a child thinks you know you're being attacked or you're having some sort of a respiratory attack yeah I have uh not an entirely dissimilar thing but um uh my dog Woody when I sneeze a lot and our father huge sneezer big sneezer I'm a big sneezer big loud sneezer but uh my dog Woody will cry when I sneeze really yeah and just look at me like what what is happening to you um I'm gonna tell you what just happened to me I I can see out a window mhm and I uh I just removed Axel from the room and I locked the door and I just saw him run by the window and then I saw him run back by with a pair of pliers which means that right now I have a six-year-old I know for a fact is using a tool on a lock yeah probably probably damaging it um pretty badly MH yeah well good luck with that yeah the important thing is I'm the only parent you know I'm there's not a second parent for these three children who could during my podcast keep them away from the tools well that's the danger you guys your uh your uh stepfather lives next door there and uh father-in-law my father-in-law father-in-law father-in-law um and uh that guy's got some tools laying around and likes to show the kids how to use him so now they're probably uh just dipping into his k i do I do at this moment feel as though I'm I'm trying to finish a podcast it would be like um if shelle Duval's character in The Shining was doing a podcast in the bathroom while Jack Nicholson was axing the door down and uh and by that I mean while I'm keeping my cool I do feel as though it's best right now for us to transition into the episode sure which we recorded earlier a s at a simpler time yeah we sure did with uh with someone that we we both love uh been big fans of for a long long time and uh yeah her name's Amy Ryan she's she has a lot of names but Amy Ryan's the one you know her best as and uh now I'm having a real I'm having a mental breakdown right now he's now screaming outside the window and he has a hose and now he's spraying water against the window maybe we should just get to the episode to let's get to the episode and you know what Jeff Tweety calm me down CHS with the my brothers chips with the [Music] brother hello hi there hi Seth how are you you hi oh thanks for having me on no thanks Amy Ryan Interview for joining us wonderful to see you same here I'm so sorry um I won't get to see you in person totally fine are you East Coast or West Coast right now East good we very I you're one of our favorite East Coast uh actors I don't I don't feel good when you're in LA and I'm an I'm an adventure you don't feel good when you're in La I I am not my best self when I'm in LA I'm better in my skin uh over here yeah Josh Josh thrives as a West coaster so I think I feel like I thrive anywhere that I am but okay well what's your secret I don't know just uh or or not a secret what have you published about this I yeah I've published nothing um but I don't know I just try to try to make the best of whatever situation I'm in but uh but I do enjoy Los Angeles I'm not uh I've never you raised well yeah yes I don't know raised in the woods of New Hampshire so uh oh there you go and you're Queens you you grew up in Queens Amy I grew up in Queens but I also feel like I grew up not far from you guys because I spent every summer in southern Vermont my mom and dad would we drop us off in at my aunt's house and we got to run free for the entire summer so this is fascinating they would they said they wouldn't spend the summer at your aunt's house they just dropped you off yeah uh my because they worked they my parents both worked 9 to5 I don't know they didn't have much time off so it was like the sprinkler on you know our 6x8 in lawn 6 foot by 8 foot long or our neighbors above ground which was pretty fantastic it figure 8 you know aluminum sided pool that every kid in the neighborhood swam in yeah um that was summer or go to Vermont so Vermont seemed a better choice and it was you and two older sisters two older sisters yeah and so the three of you uh and with with this the you would all pack into a car we'd pack into my parents Lincoln Continental oh we had a Lincoln Continental fancy right yeah was like what I thought uh that's what I thought wealth looked like like same yeah same it was fancy and no seat bels of course because that was the 1970s and um but lots of room and yeah we would we would be uh we'd ride up to Vermont for hours felt like it took forever and um then Summer started amazing and were you all uh equally excited about this trip you and your uh sisters oh for sure yeah because you know yeah they had horses they had dogss they had chickens and then when we were teenagers my aunt and uncle bought the local creamy stand oh my God and uh so there were fast food burgers and sof served ice cream and we all worked there um and so it was you know we we really we really thought we hit it big up there is that the family that creamy stand no everyone's gone from Vermont it's g i think it's a gas station now it's so sad my my fiance is from Western Massachusetts and I had never heard the term creamy until I S started going there um and I find it very disconcerting as a I don't think I so I didn't so I was thinking creamy stand was a branding but that is just a type of ice cream it's soft serve oh it's soft serve and it's you know I hate I I don't like when places advertise and they misspell on purpose cars for kids drives me crazy it drives everyone crazy that's part of the idea and and I don't know if crey is a real word but it was spelled k re e- M that's incred what is that a real word I I don't know but I don't know if it's spelled with a c as a real word either so do you think the hope there is that kids will you know kids who are learning to read will know how to say creamy if it's that spelling earlier than if it has the Y cuz I feel like you The Branding is like you want your kids to scream creamy and or it's yeah creamy yeah creamy I don't know creami I feel like that yeah that's no good Perhaps Perhaps but um that seems like a so course of the summer if you spend a whole summer working at a creamy stand I'm assuming you're having a fair share of Soft Serve Yourself are you sick of it by the end of the summer you're sick of it yeah yeah you're you're sick of it and you've you know you're you put on 10 lbs as a teenager and a face full of zits and then you go back home to school they say the problem is the end of the summer they can't get you out the door of the creamy stand did you work there as well I worked there it's it's actually the only other job I've had other than being an actor but uh which were you uh which was your call oh you did both you did both it depended what customer if they were someone would pull up and they'd go to the ice cream window or they'd go to the the burger window so you know left to right left or right what's it going to be yeah we wor we all worked there it was it was you know it was it was fun what's the age Gap with you and your sisters uh I'm the youngest of the three of us and there's my middle sister's three years older and my other sister's five years older and then our cousin kind of align in the same ages as well uh that's a pretty big gap did you guys get along well I think with three there's you know the triangle keeps shifting so there's a time when you in the middle of are closer in interests and then then I got kicked to the side as my middle sister was more of a teenager and hung out with my older sister and but now now we're now it's all leveled out our 50s it all levels up was there ever a time when the middle sister uh was left out and you uh you and the eldest um that's a good question I no I feel like she was always the connective tissue yeah yeah yeah I mean the middle has to get something right that's funny you do at some point you're like I am yeah being a connective tissue is uh underrated as a nice thing for for a middle to have yeah our time in Vermont was uh you know we were we were left to kind of roam free but that really wasn't our vacation um vacation time was I maybe because we had to work we worked at the creamy um but we would go we would go my mom I'm kind of jumping so sorry forgive me if I shouldn't be doing this my mom was a nurse and she wanted to travel and at one point in her life she thought she'd be a flight attendant but you couldn't be married and have kids then um so which is an insane rule back then but so my mom took her Nursing degree and applied to American Airlines at LaGuardia Airport where there's a little infirmary I think it's still there and it was just for pilots and other American Airlines staff but that would give her a travel allowance and she could take a family of five plus her parents who live nearby and we' go to the Caribbean or Mexico Every Spring Break wow from school and um but this time always fell over my birthday and so I was always irate that I couldn't stay home in Queens and have a birthday party my 10-year-old self is like why are we going to St cry why are we going to Bermuda but it would cost I asked my mother recently she said it only cost 20 bucks per person wow wow and she did this specifically she was thinking ahead of the game I will be a LaGuardia nurse for the purposes of these travel batchers um I think well I think she did enjoy nursing very much but that was definitely a job perk that was a total win for her so she loved to travel so um so you know she would take off when she could but when it was a family affair we would go and get sunburn beyond belief with our you know B bandis solay number four I think it DraftKings Ad was hey we're going to take a quick break and here from some of our sponsors support for family trips comes from DraftKings hey poshi yes sui football season woo it's here and I'm very excited to play some bets on DraftKings and sometimes people can get a little intimidated maybe they don't know who's going to win the game what the spread is over under but you can just bet on who you think's going to score a touchdown yeah you know who usually does stars stars bet for your favorite star and see 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your order at true nutrition.com with promo code trips take the guest work out of nutrition with true nutrition Here It Go Amy Ryan Interview [Music] uh what about so wait uh when is your birthday cuz I have a I have a a spring break uh child May okay all right so we have a March so it's like the early spring but it's never he's never in school and does he regret that does he is he mourning so mad so mad yeah so do you celebrate his birthday uh no tell we tell him if it didn't happen during school it doesn't count it just doesn't go well he's still Z yeah he's still Zer years old or you're going have to bring the friends with him that'll be the next one uh so when you guys uh would go uh to the Caribbean would uh all the girls uh share a room oh I think the whole family shared a room it wasn't that it wasn't that much of a per it's like $20 for the flight and then on the rooms we're going to try to make 20 as well there's two beds we could fit yeah I think I'm sure it's it's the three of us and maybe my grandparents but uh I remember this one place we went to I think it's still in operation but I saw talk about like feeling Fancy with the Lincoln Continental we stayed at this hotel in Mexico um in aapco called The Princess Hotel and there it was this giant pool or so it felt giant when I was a kid and you swam through a waterfall oh yeah and then on the other side of the waterfall was a bar was like a bar with Stone stools and they were somehow on dry land which always blew my mind I couldn't figure out how that was possible but we would swim through and you'd just order coca-colas all day long and honestly I don't think we ever got out of that pool but I know we were hopped up on a lot of soda so I'm sure us along with every other child in that pool right exactly was you know peeing away but um that was such a spectacular ular place and I wonder what I wonder what uh I wonder what my daughter would think of it now going back or you know if it is as magical as I thought it was but I do love just the design that goes into making something like that and realizing that so many people from places like queens or anywhere where there are no waterfalls loves the idea of going under one to a bar and that that will be the thing that they will take away from a trip and it's just really lovely yeah yeah that it's that Innovation and that something you show off when you go home not not you're right not the culture and not the different food you ate but that you can get a Coca-Cola while swimming you never have to get out of your bathing suit and dry off to go get a Coca-Cola oh my God yeah were you mostly pool people when you went on these trips or would you were the beaches also a draw I would both but to this day I I look at the ocean and I go in ankle deep or maybe Knee Deep because my ocean experience as a kid going through the washer tumble dry yeah I was oh I mean I we had swimming lessons in Vermont but nothing prepares you for for an ocean and as a kid you just think you know you just you just Dive Right In you know you pay the price but oh I was I was turned upside down so I'm I'm pretty I like to say I'm respectful of the ocean and that's my way of uh hiding the word that I'm terrified of the ocean so I respect I respect Mother Nature's ocean so I'm going to stand back here and and Marvel in her awe but no I I'm I'm I'm not I'm not a I I like a good calm Caribbean Sea I like pools yeah a lake IES Vermont was probably pretty Lake forward Lake forward cold but clean and you can't see the bottom but still you know there aren't sharks there no sharks in a lake which parents would come uh was it your uh mom's or your dad's parents that would join you guys my mom's parents my mom's parents lived five blocks from us um so we would uh we would see them more often than my dad's parents who also lived in Queens but they were further out um were they sort of as you got older was that just house you would be able to stroll over to on your own yes it was well we would go once a week for dinner and it was on the way home walking home from school so you'd stop into Grandma and Grandpa's and um and it was yeah it was a very it was it was my grandparents were both really fun their basement was again these you know well look it's These Bars oh my God suddenly I suddenly I hear a theme coming to my my parents my grandparents basement they refinish it and all this wood paneling they had they had a pool table they had retan furniture they had a bar it was like that it would be it would look amazing in some 1950s retro magazine the a photo shoot of it but it was um so we would go there and play pool just kind of play in the basement there was darts things like that so they were they were they were a big social outgoing I feel I'm gonna guess this was you know sounds like maybe a middle class family is that a fair to say definitely yeah I think if you have a bar in your basement you're living like a a king it is just royalty and I feel like youve I I just feel like you've hacked the code and I recently was doing a show in New Mexico and a friend of mine lives in Santa Fe from college and I went over to his house afterwards and he had a bar in his basement and I I just thought this is nicer than the the Ritz Carlton like to be in a basement with a bar is just the best a basement in a bar and I don't know where my grandparents came up with that CU I don't even think they were big drinkers I think I I know my grandmother was happy to have her youngest son and his friends this is you know this is the 60s she's like she wanted them in the basement doing whatever they were doing she you know and uh I don't know what she was really looking out and observing and taking care of or you know but just knowing it was somehow contained but um but they would also you know I feel like my mother my mother's when she was in her 20s and certainly my grandparents they would dress up a lot to go out to dinner and you see those old photographs from you know like a souvenir photo from the restaurant um but they would dress up to go to the basement I there are photos of my grandparents like done up I mean I that's a Marvel to me but I I uh I they they just took yeah pride in their appearance and uh it's so funny it's so funny to think of par saying you're going to the basement dressed like that would they would they have friends over and entertain like would they would it be like a couple couples coming over and uh they they would have yeah there were parties there were I'm just because I see photographs you know like family albums there you know um Halloween parties and all the you know costumed parties and um but uh but when we went over for funny when we would go over to her house for like a Christmas or something I don't think we went to the basement though suddenly that was now family time and we're in the the little living room sitting next to the the tree um I don't I don't have memories of just family events in the basement did you ever uh when you became of drinking age or whenever you maybe started uh drinking I started before you were allowed to but would you have friends and bring them over to your grandparents basement or was that sort of that would be crossing a line no definitely didn't do that I did have in the fifth grade I had a dance party which um and then the winner got a 4 a 45 I handed out a 45 I mean I feel like for our maybe listeners that's an album which sounds more like now in this day and age sounds more like you gave someone a handgun or yeah or like is it was it Colt 45 handed out some yeah yeah I gave them a oh my God yeah uh it was it was a record that played two songs two sides two songs but that was the prize um I think I was host and judge of the dance party as as is only fair yeah you know through grandparents bar you know you get yeah get to be make the rules yeah how so uh Ryan is not your last name uh no can you pronounce it for me because I'm looking at it and I I can see why you switched it to Ryan for the purposes of being an actor yeah it's uh Chivan Kowski but I met I met um I met someone once whose grandmother was polish and they said tell tell my grandma your last name and I said Janowski she says no janovski like well sure I find Polish names when you look at them written out you're like this is going to take forever to say and then someone says it and it's like oh no it actually it comes right out yeah I had someone once say to me they go you you need to get your ass on Wheel of Fortune and buy yourself a vowel it's all all consonant all consonant it's all it's like almost like polish is existing to just make a home for all the Lesser used consonant I think so that and lesser used deli meats Ki of perog Ki was it a did it was it a but I guess that's your dad's side was your mom's side yeah my dad's side my dad is we had some dooy of names my dad is Polish and Irish his grandmother was hussy so I okay guess I could say my grandmother was a hussy y technically and my mother's side is uh Irish and English they came from the ISA man in London oh great did you uh was how did you land on Ryan Ryan is my mother's name oh great right now you know my banking code this is really excellent yeah now I knew I didn't want to it felt odd to me um you know we we had we had names like because our name was so impossible growing up but by the you know I'm the third of you know two older sisters so my time going through school the teachers knew My Name by then so that was no problem but on our block growing up everyone knew our long name but nobody nobody wanted to deal with that and so my dad just picked a new name for us we were known as The Parkers I made me Parker I made me Parker to a large group of people I made me Jimi to schoolmates I made me Ryan as an actor and I am me sloven you know my husband Eric SL uh so um I have I have uh many alter OS going that's really so the Parker he when was the decision made like how old were you when he decided going to be The Parkers we uh he he had an aunt that he really loved and her name her last name was Parker and he just took that uh I was you know as young as I can remember walking and talking we were both wow we were both yeah so there I guess it helps as an act as an actor probably helps to like at an early age be basically foot presenting as three different people like exactly just try on it all you did know uh uh you did know young that this is what you wanted to do and did your parents uh see it in you and support it I knew yeah I knew young I didn't know what it was but I knew I liked well probably just getting attention at the dinner table making everybody laugh or um and yeah they were my mother was really supportive she ALS she liked theater and she liked going to dance class herself and uh but we didn't have any reference for it growing up there's no one else in our family or our neighborhood who did it there were a few along the way like my sixth grade teacher went to the high school performing arts when she was a kid so I started like hearing things along the way my mother um as well so they didn't they didn't like certainly push me into it they didn't pull me from it uh they were just like okay what's you know this um see how this goes so after my career that the creamy but that was going to take off so would you ever go into the City and see shows oh yeah all the time we'd go to the tkts booth and um we we'd see mostly musicals which yeah I I liked but I knew I had no place there even as a young kid I was like I can't do that um but but I I don't know something connected there something I it was kind of it's it was hard to understand but I didn't I I knew I didn't want to do anything else yeah so um that's what I that's what when I'm asked now younger people say you know they want to do this I'm like well what else can you think of you might be good at you know if if anything else do that and if not try this but I don't discourage people because it I I'm so grateful I wasn't discouraged you know every once in a while do you ever like and maybe like younger or two in in earlier in your career when you weren't recognized like I would be on a flight somewhere and you know maybe I was flying business or first class because I had a job suddenly and I'd ultimately be stuck next to some business guy who would oh what do you do you're an actor and immediately they would say oh that's such a that's such a tough job that's such a tough industry everything was so negative about it yeah and I would just say whether it was or not at the time I was like Oh no I got to tell you it's great I said I get to travel I I make a lot of money I meet interesting people I like you know and these are times like I'm dead broke I have no job but I was like [ __ ] you don't tell me this is the worst thing in the world what are you doing you're flying Ohio true you would never you would never say if someone's like I'm in finance you would never be like oh tough job tough job seems like a lot of numbers all that cocaine all that all those lot women trying to date you what oh must be terrible for you yeah know so I I I always enjoyed like you know bursting their bubble that's good I like that you were I it was like sort of like I like that it was like what's it called like um there's something not like viral marketing but I like that you were like just very like one at a time trying to Grassroots that acting is a great job on flights across America that's sorry that's right myamp some corporate lawyer gets home and says to his wife like I feel like I blew it feels like acting is where the funest J he he joins an improv group family falls apart did you guys all so all uh would all five of you go to plays together would you like was it like a family affair like we're going to go into New York City and see see a musical pretty much it depends like if my sisters weren't that into it as much so it to be big like Greece is a family affair sure yeah you know Doug hening the magic show was a family affair Chorus Line that was for me I love that one so um it was it was it was uh it was a little haphazard but it wasn't you know my sisters were more athletic I think they enjoyed that more doing sports hey we're going to take a LinkedIn Ad quick break and hear from some of our sponsors support for family trips comes from LinkedIn ads hey poshi yes suie do you know what B Tob means business to business business to business and if you're a busino business marketer you know how noisy the ad space can be if your message isn't targeted to the Right audience it just disappears into the noise poshi oo well with LinkedIn ads you can precisely reach the professionals who are more likely to find your ad relevant with linkedin's targeting capabilities you can reach them by job title industry company and more stand out with LinkedIn ads and start converting your B to be audience and highquality leads today 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we had that was really special we had a porch swing uh-huh we took photos on a porch swing yeah can I say something every one of them worse than the last and I will say porch swings are wonderful they take worse photos than you think I think porch swings are good to take photos of children I think for adults it's just all thigh H yeah you know what I mean it was a real meaty like a lot of meaty thighs in that photo I think I was standing off to the side you were smart point is maybe you're someone right now who's listening you're like I got a port swing I've got one of these houses that has these little details the details that I've put a lot of thought into and maybe a family would like to come and stay at my place instead of at a hotel your home might be worth more than you think find out how much at airbnb.com Amy Ryan Interview slost here did you um did you ever go overseas as a family uh did you guys ever go to Europe not together no we we didn't have have that kind of right like finances but my mother my mother did took she took my sister to Rome when she was 13 and again I just like these images of my you know in the in the photo album with the plastic sheet over it you know protecting the um but yeah she took my older sister no we were strictly you know strictly Caribbean do you uh you you and Eric and I should note uh er uh I was lucky enough to work with Eric at SNL he wonderful yeah and uh please give him my love but uh uh do you guys travel as a family well uh the three of you do we travel well yeah like um yeah Eric is amazing at the planning of trips and oh he's the planner he's the planner he's the Deep dive internet guy on where to stay what to see what to do so I like happily let him take that lead and and sometimes we'll travel through you know like work and then we'll tack on stuff like you know something after you know that but he's he's amazing at that he's really good and you're comfortable sort of turning it all over are you presented a list of options no I I know he'll run stuff by me but I I trust his taste he's got really good taste and uh I'm I'm so happy I I for him to take that over good at it uh teenage daughter so my question is have does she still like hanging out with you guys if you take a trip yeah she does you know we we just we just have one and I think uh I think we get along really well I mean she's still sometimes we will take friends or her cousins with us um we did a trip out west riding horses and one of my nieces came along um but she still likes us I think I think she thinks we're kind of cool but uh but we're definitely annoying that's for sure I think every parent's annoying and not all parents are cool so I think in the end that's a win yeah then then definitely we're on track we're on track and she's a great traveler she Lo she does an adventure camp every year and you know the destinations are getting more and more you know there longer trips like she wants to go to South Africa next summer and this summer she just she got back from bise in Costa Rica and I was like this is this is not Vermont she's having she's having a great childhood so far I think in terms of how long is Adventure Camp how long do you go it's she only goes for a couple of weeks the next and as you get older that the we you know maybe goes edges into like three weeks but um she loves traveling she's not afraid to fly she's she likes meeting new people and being outside her school world and so that's amazing I I don't think I had that at her age um that Curiosity but I also had a built-in you know sisters cousins Kids on the Block you know playing that we even though we live in the city we don't we don't have that old world of go out and play you know come home at dinner and so she's she's she's with us a lot but she's also um you know has these other worlds of travel and then school friends and uh she plays Sports so she's got that group so she yeah when you take a horseback riding trip out west my fiance is like that's what she does professionally is ride horses and I always think like it would be good to do a trip like this but I would worry about my physical like getting on a bike two days in a row when you're not riding a bike can be painful like so when you go on a horse trip yeah how is it getting on a horse the second day yeah you're definitely walking funny um yeah we we did a few years out Montana this kind of Family Camp is I mean it's so staggeringly beautiful out there and um again in Georgia she rode horses she had more experience than me or Eric and um she wasn't afraid so she'd be off in the faster group Eric and I would do like the walk Trot walk Trot club and she was off with the younger kids you know Galloping do they just kind of clock you when you walk into the ranch do they like cuz I will say I love Eric But Eric the first time I laid eyes on him I would have said you're Walker Trot I think trots your ceiling oh yeah uh Eric I could ask him he's in the kitchen I hear him here he's um he he's he's a walker he's no he's he does not he does not look or sound like he came from horse people he did not come from horse people but one thing I think is a nice surprise about Eric is that he's very athletic yes he is he is a really good athlete and so he can navigate uh that that uh that horse pretty well um I think there's a he's actually there's a kind of New York guy that he is uh that I feel like he grew up in an era where there was a lot of like sports outside like that neighborhood thing you were talking about yeah and they're guys that are surprisingly better at things like basketball and baseball baseball was his they present yeah yeah did you guys play sports growing up yeah but like I think like Suburban Little League where it was s like um the bar of Entry was so low that you kind of feel like yeah I played baseball and then you like actually play with people who are good at baseball and you realize yeah I played JV baseball and then when it came time to maybe move up to Varsity it was like oh no this isn't going to happen for you you know when your parents would talk about things like oh I had to walk five miles to school you know uphill in the snow to get to school both ways or one of those stores Eric's version of that is when we're driving anywhere throughout the city especially up the Westside Highway he's like I played baseball there my team played there but there was no grass it's all there was no grass it was full of rocks it was full of needles and it was you know that's his survival 5et of snow um but he did he would play all over the city um because his high school team um but he he loved baseball love it I think there's that thing like you have to really love to play baseball in New York City you have to really love it whereas like to play baseball in the suburbs it's so easy like your parents drive you you go to a field well manquer you play to pick you up whereas like like again like you had to go to like needle needle Park you really love baseball he got he got mugged going and coming took his lunch you had to keep a dollar in your cleat got exactly I think his father told him to always have like extra money in case you get the best it's so that thing of uh when people you know because you know obviously like the national news will do it too but it's like you know New York's very unsafe right now and like I'm like literally everyone I know who grew up here it's like we used to like have two wallets oh my God I like when I got out of high school and I started going on auditions 1986 and down to playwrights Horizons and I was so excited to audition for a play and I had to walk down 42nd street and you know siick of the like crack epidemic and you know it was scary it was so scary you know um I mean I also find it kind of equally as frightening because it's so crowded now I'm like what's worse like like you know but yeah yeah and so you were how so how old were you when you got your first big job cuz you're out of high school you went to per performing arts high school right went to Performing Arts which is now LaGuardia um I was 18 it was a few months after graduation and I started working and uh mostly in theater theater and all like those beginning years um and then never you know that was that I was I was hooked I was going to go to I was enrolled in NYU and I got that job of uh buy Blues Neil Simon play and um uh then I just never went back to school someday maybe I will plenty of time uh this is our parents uh which they were really great because like we again we grew up New Hampshire but they would bring us to Boston to see shows and I remember seeing the trilogy of like Brighton Beach Memoirs and then I think we came to New York to see bloxy blues and it was so it was so exciting how they kept us interested and that sort of thing obviously you know both professionally but just as an audience was so exciting yeah Boston's a great town for theater and obviously music yeah and seeing things before they go to Broadway was so exciting yeah did you guys grew up in a rural area or was it were you in a town or yeah pretty rural um I want to say our town is now 30,000 people something like that but it wasn't that at the time so I mean it wasn't tiny tiny but it was woodsy and we were close to a farm you know wasn't it wasn't our farm but you know we were a mile from a farm are you near Lake wiip pasak no we're Southern New Hampshire yeah but yeah we know all to to Lake wiip pasak people we lived in a bustling Metropolis yeah wow okay do you still travel uh with your sisters do you get together with your family is there do you guys do any family reunion kind of stuff or does Eric have siblings that you guys get together with not not really I mean we do for holidays but mostly here uh in Brooklyn uh Thanksgiving and things like that um my mother still travels my mother right now my mother's almost 83 years old and she's in she's at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival right now get out of town she's with her pal Patty and they're taking in some shows amazing yeah she's like she's she's the one but she has a really serious travel B now is that her do is it her or Patty that picks the Edinburgh Fringe Festival her it's my mom that's my mom and she heard about it did she just yeah yeah she she reads and she follows what a fantastic thing to end up on her radar as an 83 year old I know I mean I haven't been yet we both Josh and I both performed at The Fringe uh back in the day I will say this I you're I hope it sounds like your mom is uh is as hail and and Hardy because I will say Edinburgh is one of the hilliest places to walk around yeah my my mom is a cancer survivor not that long ago like she's she's uh she battled cancer last year and it's is not like I can't say she's hearty but I would say she is uh determined determined but optimistic and and um you know she's uh really just excited still by life and what she can do in it and um so no no Hill in Scotland's gonna stop her that's fantastic is it her first uh is it her first trip to Edinburgh or is this a regular thing that she does no it first it first time it's so great yeah she oh man I'm jealous did you guys did you enjoy as much as did you have to like do that thing where you're Eric told me this when when he and Leo were there all the years ago like you'd stand out all night night long and trying to get your audience inot out yeah yeah I imagine that's kind of almost as fun as performing it just it was it's you know this is a festival for those who don't know there's all these shows all this standup all this theater and it's so much competition for audience that basically even though people are all in town for the festival everybody with a show stands with a handful of Flyers about their show and just tries to self-promote and it was just for me so devast to say to people no it's definitely worth it and then my fear would be I'd see their face during the show that I was doing and i' register that they didn't think in the end it was worth it that I not that I li the smallest amount of attendance did you have we I feel like we kind of kicked ass with our ticket sales like we filled houses we were though we were part of this theater boom Chicago so we had like a bit of a a promotion arm behind us unlik I'm sure when uh slovin and Allen were there they were just like you know a self a self-run organization and that was uh yeah I mean I did I mean I once did a show in Chicago for seven people and uh with me and my partner Jill and uh five of them were blood relations that so yeah but we also our the guy that ran the theater that we worked for it was is is and was such a good salesman and so he would sort of come up with a script that we would tell people on the street um and it would just work he would say like do you want to see a five star show if we had like a review already from the Scotsman and we could show them that um we would have tickets on us that a lot of shows would say like go to the box office but we would buy tickets and then sell them to people on the street which I don't know if you were supposed to be doing but it all comes out in the wash and you guys are the creative scalper there yeah and he would say like do you want to see a great show like if you like it you can buy me a beer if you don't like it I'll buy you a beer um which sort of would stop people um because everyone wanted a beer and his argument too is that no one will actually collect on that no one will actually say after show I didn't like it buy me a beer my mom's probably collecting on that now the Myers Brothers told me I could get a beer yeah I didn't like want to bear um well I hope she has a wonderful time good good honor for getting out there it's a good reminder that uh age should not be a barrier to seeing new and cool things absolutely uh by the way very excited uh that you're finally working with uh Clooney and pit with the three of you I figure if you know this whole this I feel like the whole there's such a shift going on in film and TV world so if if this is my last harah it will not be your last harra but I will say uh the the trailer uh the movie is called wolves the trailer looks really delightful I hope it was fun to make it was it was so much fun to make it's a a funny tightly woven script um I expertly put together John Watts our director writer is amazing and um and he did those he did those two um I think two terrific Spider-Man films Spider-Man and this um this really beautiful independent film he did starring Kevin Bacon called cop car which yeah great yeah um and so yeah we had a blast making this film shot um primarily New York City and uh and uh yeah puts those two uh gentlemen back together and they know what they're doing how happy are you how happy are you when it's a a New York movie I'm thrilled and I'll tell you a funny thing though all my stuff are um interior scenes and I got flown to La sorry I know the costume designer also lives in in New York and she she texted me she's like we're about to go to La do you want me to do your fitting in New York so you don't have to come out sooner like yeah you're that's a dream thank you yeah so um but I I actually I enjoyed I enjoyed uh when I do get La most of my friends have moved out there so um I uh it's it's a great it's a great time to catch up with them yeah and um and then when when the work is fun I don't mind being there uh well I can't wait to see it we're gonna let you go but first uh Josh has some questions for you that we ask everybody on the podcast okay some quick questions here you can only pick one of these is your ideal vacation relaxing adventurous or educational relaxing what is your favorite means of transportation train plane automobile boat bike walking train train if you could take a vacation with any family Alive or Dead real or fictional other than your own family what family would you like to take a trip with the Brady Bunch Brady Bunch great great I don't know just cuz I want to be on an episode I want to eat beans out of a flash like if you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family who would it be it would not be Eric and I say this all the time because he doesn't understand portion control like you ate all the blueberries why did you it's definitely not Eric as much as I love him I have a Eric Story based on uh food oh little Tu it's one of my it's a it's more of a Will Forte story but ask Eric later if he remembers this Forte uh Leo and Eric were working on a sketch probably the falconer this is great SNL sketch that the three of them did and Eric had ordered food I think Chinese food and it was taking forever to come and he was complaining about how hungry he was and how long it was taking and he kept checking with the interns and basically Forte and Leo told me it was just incessant how upset he was that the food was taking so long and he was sitting at the computer and then the food came the intern handed it and Forte took it and walked right over to the window opened the window and dropped it out and what floor were you on yeah what floor the 17th floor and there was a it didn't there was a uh on the 11th floor there was a a landing and it was the it was late so there was no fear that somebody would be out there but he just it was uh yeah it was it was a real Forte would always raise the stakes uh higher than anybody thought was appropriate but I just I remember their impression of Eric after he uh dropped it out was one of my made me laugh harder than anything which was just just could not believe that he complained for two hours about his food and then for he dropped out the window all right so no Eric so no Eric so who do you want to be on that desert island with oh gosh um I probably my mom she'd figure a away off off or she she'd keep it fun yeah um and uh you're from Queens correct correct would you recommend Queens as a vacation destination well uh uh yes to get to one of the airports in order to leave it for sure um real yeah no oh there's such a I'm from flushing Queen so you have to like Square your shoulders when you tell people you know this is a bad joke like you know oh did you ever hear Flushing Queens Yes sounds like a good idea to me you know but uh you know I I even looked up like oh no it's it's actually vissen Jin which is the Dutch for salt Meadows like the name is um no but I since I've I left Queens Queens is amazing now I mean the most languages spoken in New York uh are spoken in Queens it's a foodie destination um I I think you can go to some pretty exciting uh like day spas but um I think there's a lot to do there but if you're coming to New York for a very brief um visit yeah maybe go there for food and uh hit the museums in Manhattan how's that for maturity excellent well played um and then Seth has our final questions Amy have you been to the Grand Canyon I have not do you want to go yes I do okay are we going this an invite family camper you you you've entered a a raffle by saying yes it's gonna be me or Bobby kavali get the raffle we're definitely bringing we're definitely bringing a legendary New York actor it's okay fantastic okay I hope I win so lovely seeing you as always same thank you so much for my love to your whole family I will and congrats with Wolves thank you guys appreciate [Music] [Applause] it Brothers family chips with the his brothers here we go [Music]