D'ARCY CARDEN Went Glamping in Bordeaux

Hey, buddy. Hey, so Vy. How are you doing? I'm good. Yeah, I'm good. You're in the closet today. I am in the closet. We're getting a new roof on our building. There's some noise. There's no quiet roof installations. Yeah. I mean, they had moved to a different part of the building, but today they're really right over the top of where I would normally record. And it's not bad in here. All right, that's good. You were worried you were going to get a little hot and sweaty, but you seem to be looking all right. You're holding up for you well. Yeah, I'm okay. You're busy because you've been traveling a lot for your other podcast, California Now. Yeah, I went to... We're doing two episodes on the FIFA World Cup locations here in California. So I went to SoFi, went to Levi's Stadium, and then some cool bars in San Francisco, and got to interview Kobe Jones of the LA Galaxy and the US Men's National Team at the LA Galaxy Stadium. So yeah, it's been cool. You also... We haven't actually talked. I called you when you were in a car with somebody else. You were on Kimmel and Jimmy Kimmel Live, and you did your exceptional Gavin Newsom impression right next to the actual Gavin Newsom. Yeah, Met Gavin, which was really fun. I was all... I'd gone through hair and makeup before he got there. So I was in my dressing room, and I wandered out just to see if he was there yet, and two of his security detail were there, and they definitely double-clutched because those people are supposed to know where their principle is at all times, and they saw me. So they were like, oh, we're about to get a earful because we... Yeah, we're like... We know he's pulling up in 10 minutes, but he's standing right here. Somebody's dropped the ball. And then I went back in my dressing room, and they called me out when he got there, and both of us were like, whoa. Because it was... Height-wise, about the same too? He's taller. He's definitely taller. He's a tall dude. But he's a politician. He's made it his... He's figured out how to be approachable and easy to talk to. He also did a great move on camera, which I was going to talk to you about. He leaned into your impression of him, which is a really fun thing to watch. Because if... You can tell when a politician does the other move, which is, this is a cartoon version of me, so I'm going to just be the straight one. Right. No, he was having fun with it, and also he had done three segments. So I feel like he... If I don't imagine that guy has any nerves for going on a talk show, I think he's always up. Yeah, he's pretty good. But I think you get your looser in your third act than you are in your first. Sure. And the audience is on your side. Yeah. And also, I will say all the script for that bit was, my bits were scripted, Jimmy had some scripted lines, but all of Governor Newsom's were just like, just react naturally in the moment. So anything he said was just off the cuff. Yeah. It was really good. Newsom to some, really enjoyed that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, it was fun. I hope to meet him again down the line here, but it was pretty exciting. Very cool to work. We had our last ski day of the season, and it's a real accomplishment to get through ski season. Yeah. I've had a lot of opinions about skiing over the years. Very few of them are positive. And yet here I am. You know, I ski once a week. I was texting with our friend Kevin Cohen, who's like a huge skier. He's like, you know you ski more than I do now. Yeah. And Addy did not want to take a lesson this week. She wanted to ski with me. And I will say truly, with no exaggeration, greatest three hours of skiing in my life. Amazing. I go up with Addy, chatterbox on the lift, and then she is just such, she is so dutiful compared to my sons. Yeah. Where I'm like, we're just going to go down and I'll do turns and you just follow me. And she just like, I just do big S turns all the way down. She's just right behind me. Just so fun. And then she wants to go straight down at the bottom, like, you know, whatever, the bottom fifth. I'm like, okay, now you can just go straight down. Yeah. Let her rip. Yeah. You said big S turns, not big S turns. Yeah. No, but they were big S turns. They were big S turns. Yeah. I don't know if we talked about it here or not. I know we talked about you going to Montana and skiing with the boys, but there is a video that I forget if we referenced it here, but great video of your three kids and you pan across and they're sort of like, there's a little track that the kids are skiing in. You know, there's an instructor there. So it's like follow us kind of through these gates. Yeah. So think about it's like a little bit of like, yeah, like almost like a little bobsled track type thing. Right. It's like kind of carved out of the snow. It's not like an actual metal track, but they're just going through a path. After you pan past your eldest, who's, you know, going pretty quick through this little track, then Addie, who's a little slower, then you see your middle boy Axel, who's not in the track at all, but tries to cut across it. And his skis hit the sort of edge of the bank that if he were in the track, he would be, you know, no trouble, but instead he hits it and his skis just stay right where they are and he goes launching forward. Yeah. It's really great. He both, it is, it shows you how like good this, the bindings are because he literally launches out. Also, he's coming down and like, he's the only one who always, he's just always yelling something that is not in line with the kind of skier he is. He's like, I think it was like the third video I took that I had to stop because he had fallen. Oh, wow. Yeah. And just like always some weird thing where he was just overconfident. Yeah. And I also think he's like, I don't know, his natural state is to be just lying in a pile. So I think he's like, oh, we made it. But of course he wants to watch it. He's made us watch it like a hundred times. Yeah. That was a great video. Yeah. That was a great video. Great fail. We just wanted to say real quick a rest in peace to Eric Dane, the actor. We had him on this podcast. He was a fantastic conversation. He was a great actor. He passed away a couple of months ago and we're just really lucky we get to cross paths with him. Yeah. Such a cool guy. You know, just talking about his sort of water polo career and how like even in later years he still sort of had that fire to be like, no, if I got in there, I'd want to like sprint after someone and try to take him down. Yeah. He was such a joy and yeah, a terrible loss and we certainly feel for his family and are lucky that we, yeah, got some time to chat to him. Our friend Darcy Cardin is our guest today and we are lucky to know her and her husband Jason very well and you're about to be very lucky to hear about her. Really, she just, it seems like she just came from a great family. Yeah. Yeah. Good vibes. Good trips. A lot of siblings. And enjoy. Am I here? Yeah. You're here. Hello. Brothers. Hello, brothers. Hello, friend. Hi, guys. We're just going to start off Darcy by saying we know you well. We know your husband very well and yet I did not know that you guys met at Disneyland, which seems very fitting for the theme of this podcast. Yeah, that's right. That is such a weird fact that whenever anyone says it, I'm like, well, no, no, like it makes it sound like full Disney adults, which we are not. Yeah. But even though. But you just, you're not full of Disney adults. You just met the love of your life at Disney as an adult. And we probably go once a year. Adults aren't bad people. No, they're not. They're not bad people. Yeah. And the people that are listening to this podcast that are doing the adults, we love you and we thank you for your patronage. Right. Yeah. Yeah, we did, we met, we met at Disneyland. I was like, I was visiting friends in LA. And he was in the group of friends of the friends I was visiting and they were going to Disneyland for the day. Gotcha. And so I was like, I was like the out of town friend going to Disneyland and like the odd man out and he was really nice to me. I will say it does sound like a nice place to meet somebody. Like you're walking around all day, you're doing rides. Yeah. You know, you're like standing in line. You're kind of getting to know each other. It's not alcohol fueled. Yeah, that's right. Or is it? Or was it? There's always, there's that secret bar that you hear about. I don't know if it's more accessible now than it used to be, but there was always chatter of the secret bar at Disney. Right. I've never indulged in alcohol at Disneyland. I think I like ate weed one time when I was younger. I think, I think, I think. We've all ate weed at the same park. Yeah. But it was sweet. And you know, can you imagine like there's this moment where, you know, when you're at a theme park, you have to like couple up to go on a ride together, you know? And there was like, and I think I was often riding with my friend's daughter. Okay. It was like four. And there was like one ride where Jason was like, right at me. And all of a sudden I was kind of like, okay. Like a little, a little bit of a flutter. Wow. Yeah. That's really nice. What ride was it? Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. Yeah. And what is marriage if not Mr. Toad's Wild Ride? Wow. That is, if you go back and watch that movie. Yeah. Mr. Toad was very big in our household growing up. It was? Oh, like the movie? Or the books and the books. I know. I'm like, what is it? What is it? There's the, the wind in the willows. The wind in the willows is the book. And then the, but the movie's great. But the movie, it's one of those, by the way, now the sound off in the comments, Disney adults, I feel like the movie is like the headless horseman. It's not a full movie. Okay. But it's not like a little cartoon either. I don't know what it was. I think it was like maybe a thing they showed before like Bambi. Okay. Okay. That totally sounds right. And I feel like it was darkish. It was like a little, a little, it wasn't bright and happy Disney. It was like a little. No, but it's awesome. It genuinely is. Yeah. I remember loving it. Yeah. Also headless horseman, a bit of a crush of mine. Ooh. Ikebaid Crane. I was always like, yeah, this dude's hot. I liked doing a lot to disabuse those who call you a Disney adult. And who's calling me that? Man, my husband untoward ride. Not a full Ikebaid Crane, but close enough. He's giving full Ikebaid. Where? So you went to, obviously you got your, with schooling in New York and then in early theater stuff. You know what? I got my schooling in Ashland, Oregon. But then moved directly to New York. So my, my, I grew up in the Bay Area. Got it. That's where Danville, California. Danville, California. We all know Danville, California. Sure. We didn't just read it for the first time in your life. Yeah. And depending on where you're from, some people say Danville. Okay. But nobody in California does. And then, yeah, went to school in Oregon in like the, the southernmost little town in Oregon, which is very popular for its Shakespeare festival and good, good little theater school. And then, yeah, moved to New York directly after, after college and lived there for a decade or so. But you've got three siblings. Correct. I have three siblings. Lainey, Will, Miranda. And where do you fall? I'm the second, which I always say is like in the middle, but it is in the middle. Yeah, it's the middle. Miranda was a little bit of an afterthought child. She came nine years after me. Yeah. We still haven't figured out the right way to say this. We still, I know, I like that you didn't use Mrs. Stake, but afterthought also doesn't feel like the warm embrace. What we call it in our family is A team and B team. The two oldest are the A team and the two youngest are the B team, which they don't love. What's the gap between two and three? Is that the gap? The gap between two and three is like five years. Okay. So that, I mean, that's no small thing either. What are you guys, two years? Two years, yeah. My, Lainey and I are like 16 months or something like that, you know, really close. And that was so close. They were like, we gotta give it a full. Half a decade. This is too much. So yeah, the oldest two girls are really close in age and then little brother was how we were for a long time. And then Miranda came along and brightened up our lives. So Miranda is like a full, you were almost in college by the time she came around? I was, you know, I was only nine when she came. So I mean, in a way that's almost in college in the grand scheme of life. Yeah. If you're looking at a full life. Sure. Sure. Yeah. So now that we've got that. Yeah. It's a blink. But yeah, so she came, she came late, but it's, you know, I think some people have the type of, when there's a big gap in siblings, you're, you're, especially if you are almost in college, you're like, well, I didn't really live with them very much. But Miranda, she's the light of our lives. That's great. She came, she came along and, and she was ours. She was like, my older sister and I was like, this is our baby. That's, yeah. Yeah. I feel like my oldest boy is nine, my oldest child too. He's, he's happy to be a boy, but he would, I think he would embrace a young child if we had one now. Yeah. He's, he's very sweet. Yeah, do it. And he'd have to, yeah. All right. All right. Yeah, just do it. Okay. All right. That's all it took. That's all it took. I'm looking at your mother's name and I love it. And I feel like I've never seen it before. Okay. Her last name? Well, I don't know, Engelfried? Yeah. That's her maiden name. Oh my gosh. They've listed her first name, which is very exciting. Wait on, on Wikipedia or something? Oh, just to learn where to get it? Family Trips, recent Family Trips has a new AI that's pretty shape. No, this is great. I thought her first name was Engelfried and it's going to be lights? It's chat, chat FT is not the best. Well, it's still in like its early stages. Give it some time. Yeah, so this is just a normal name, Lori. Okay, yeah. But then Angle Free is a strange, you know, I've never heard it before other than my whole life, but you know, outside of this family. Right. But she goes by my maiden name, which is Erika. Got it. Did you know that I had a maiden name? No, so weird. Did you think that Jason and I were siblings and we were all... Well, I feel like you have so much in common, you're both Disney dolls. Both, both cartons. Most of it just... Yeah, you know what I'm gonna say. She goes by, okay, wait. I know, there's too many fucking names. And by the way, it's simple. My family all goes by Erika. Okay. But then when Jason proposed to me, how good does Darcy Cardin sound? It's very good. Yeah. And Erika is a great last name, but has never been pronounced correctly once in my entire life. How do you spell it? E-R-O-K-A-N. Oh yeah, that's awesome. A rock name. There's so many different ways you could do it. Totally. And this is something I feel like you guys will understand. Imagine every time my name was... Every time I was introduced at UCB, the theater that I came up in in New York, where I knew these people like family, it would be like, and welcome to the stage, Darcy. E-R-O-K-A-N. I'm looking at it just so stressed out about how to say it. So I kind of welcomed the cardin. I can't believe. Engelfre does sound like, I'm surprised it wasn't used in at least one 80s movie about like the nerd in the back. Like Engelfre does seem like what you'd call. But so Erika is Turkish. Turkish. And I feel like that would be, I feel like nobody, so very few people know how to pronounce Turkish names. It's a tough one. And also my grandpa made it up. Oh, so it's even harder. It's even harder. Two levels of difficulty. Yeah. So even Turkish people are like, this is the one of ours. Don't pin this on us. Yeah. But Engelfre does is, my mom has a big old family, seven siblings, a lot of Engelfreeds into my life. So your dad from Turkey, from Istanbul. Yeah. And he came, how old was he when he emigrated? He was really young. He was like three or four. Oh, wow. Yeah, really young. To California? To Boston for a while. They're Greek and Turkish actually, half Greek, half Turkish. So all of the Greek family lived in Boston, which I think is popular, right? A lot of Greeks in Boston or Massachusetts. And then moved to the Bay Area when he was maybe in like junior high, met my freaking mom, got freaking married, had four freaking kids. Wow. Wow, in junior high. Yeah, really young. 12 and 13. You can do it though. Was Turkey part of his life? Did he go back to Turkey? No. Okay, interesting. Yeah, and we've always sort of been like, what the hell man? Yeah. Take us there. Yeah. Yeah, we... And was he from Istanbul as well? Yeah. Yeah, that's like a bucket list city for me too. So it's very... I know. I gotta get to the bottom of this actually. Well, there was something like, there's some, my family will be listening to this right now and they'll know the answer. By the way, I'm gonna say the fact that your grandfather made up a last name, there might be some legal issues. That's right. I honestly, honestly, there is something, my family knows the story so well and I don't. Yeah. Because I guess I'm a self-centered actor. But it's like... Our story began when I was cast in a good place. We all know it well. But my grandma was Greek and my grandpa was Turkish and they weren't allowed to really live in either of those places together. So there was like a bit of a... Get out of here. A bit of a flee, a bit of a, you must leave now. So there might be some like residual resentment. I don't know, like you didn't want us. I don't, I mean, my dad has never said that but my siblings and I have discussed. And there was also something about like, he could be put in the army until pretty late. If he went back, what am I talking about? It was like, if you went back and somehow you owed conscription for both your dad and your grandfather. And I... Yeah, no, you're doing a full eight. You have to. Welcome, yeah, yeah. So we haven't been, but I'd like to, I have been to Greece but damn, would really like to go to Turkey. Have you seen family in Greece? Well, only in the face of every fricking woman I pass by. Sorry, sorry, sorry, you spit out. Truly. That's fantastic. It was wild. I didn't expect that, but every Greek woman that passed, I was like, hello, grandmother. Yeah. But I didn't, I went with, we all know it. The good place took me there for the finale of the show. Everybody knows, no, nobody knows this. But we shot a bit of the finale in Greece so we got to go. And it was just three of you, right? Or was it every, yeah, it was just you and Christina. It was truly like, it was Kristen and William Jackson Harper and an absolute bone thrown to me. Is that what you say? They threw me a bone, which is like, I had like one line. A man, as a man who's caught many bones that were thrown by my shirt over the years. Yes, you caught them. Yeah, it's a great bone to catch. So it was truly like, yeah, you can put you in the scene. Great. Yeah, it rules. Hey, we're gonna take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. 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Were you doing big group trips once everyone had arrived? I was thinking about preparing for this. I was thinking about... And then decided yay or nay. I was thinking about preparing and I decided no. I was thinking about this. Yeah. Got it. You little smartasses. You little brother bullies. I'm a snarky. We were gonna call it the snarky twins. Originally it was gonna be the name of it. Yes, you are in a closet, but great sound. No, there's roofers on my roof this morning. Oh, where else would they be? Well, for it. You're kind of being a bully. I can snark anyway I want. Josh, we have to snark on him at some point. I know, what? Good luck. I'm snark-proof. So we did do a lot of trips. He's shower-proof too, also. Oh boy. He's shower-proof. I put down my guard, he got me. Yeah, we both showered. I mean, your hair looks like it's... You've done something to yourself today and Seth has put on a sweatshirt. Sorry. Are you saying that Seth didn't shower today? Yeah, that's what he's saying. But did you know that for a fact? I mean... You can just tell. Yeah. I would say growing up with me, like he knew where to put the money. Yeah, yeah, totally. I am very proud of myself. I did spend the five minutes before we started. One of my, the ties of my thing was in the hood. That's not an easy task. No, I got it wrong. Kind of had to do like a ______. I real, it's real slow and I feel real proud of myself. Sorry, I interrupted you, but... No, no, no. So we... So we took a lot of trips, growing up in the Bay Area, there's so many places to go by car. Growing up in California, really. We did a lot of houseboating trips on Lake Shasta, a gorgeous lake. We did a yearly or twice yearly trip to LA, where sometimes we would stay in LA for the whole entire ______ summer. Wow, where? I know. Okay, I don't know if this will mean anything to you guys because you are... No, no, no, this might mean, okay. Do you know what the Oakwood Hotel is? Only from actors. Yeah, yes. So we would... I also calling it a hotel. I've never said hotel in my life. Oakwood Residence, I think it's what it is. It's like a long-term apartment. The one on Barham? Yeah, long-term, short-term, you guys. So we, for our listeners, this is like if you are like young actors particularly, someone lives in New York and they book a job in LA, maybe a summer movie, and they would last minute be able to book a residence at the Oakwood. At the Oakwood. This is not flashy. This is not flashy. It's furnished, it's not flashy. And also young actors, but specifically child actors. I believe there's a child actor wrangler that is there. Not more than a babysitter, but somebody that's sort of like the children come with me. So my dad worked in the Bay Area, but had an office in LA. And so he would come to LA for the summers and we would join. He would like work in the LA office. Got it. But was the plan, like, would he have had to go to LA anyway? Or was he like, you know what? I'll work out of the LA office because that's a better place for my kids to spend the summer. No, I think it was, I mean, he was the, I'm sorry to brag, boss. Oh. The CEO. Oh, wow. The editor-in-chief. Oh. Okay. Of a magazine. Of Erdekon Importers. And I don't know what they did. And I still don't know what to ask. Don't ask any questions. Erdekon, great. Yeah, he had magazines in the 70s, 80s and 90s. And the music magazine, BAM Magazine, had a big LA office. Got it. You know, big LA music scene in the 80s. And would you look forward to a summer in LA? Totally. Okay. I mean, it's funny thinking back on it because I don't remember like big tearful goodbyes with friends or anything. Right. I think because we had so many siblings and LA was really fun, we would like go to the beach a lot and go to Disneyland. And it was such a work summer for my dad and it was like such a vacation summer for my mom and the kids. My mom, I'm sure she's like, Jesus Christ, gotta cut these kids all over LA. Cause I would say right, Oakwood to the beach is not close. Not close, but also like, you know, when you don't like live here, you do things like that. Does that make sense? Yeah. I mean, by the way, like we in New Hampshire when we go to the beach in the summer probably more than an hour, right? Yeah. I mean, it was about an hour, but also, I mean, if you're at the Oakwoods, you're sort of right on the highway there. So if you do it at the right time. And like, I'm guessing you make a day of it. If you're- Make a day of it. There were two summers of these many summers that we stayed at the Oakwood in Marina Del Rey. That was like on the beach. That was like walk to the beach. Anyway, so the LA summers were really fun. What was, not to go back, but Lake Shasta. Yeah. Where is Lake Shasta? Lake Shasta is North, so North, North, North California. I mean, I think of the, when I say Northern California, I always think of the Bay Area. And then there's like more Northern California. There's a lot more. There's so much more. Again, kind of making it about myself. And it's up near, like on the way to Oregon. Yeah, got it. North, North, I'm being very clear. It's in the shadow of Mount Shasta. Yeah, it is. Yeah. Was your family outdoorsy? Was that like when you would go to Lake Shasta? This was kind of the extent of the outdoorsy. And we would go with a couple other families who were probably more outdoorsy. We did it, we loved it and did a good job of being outdoorsy, but like I wouldn't call my dad like Mr. Outdoorsy. Right. Would you call, were you guys, were you guys super outdoorsy? I was the most outdoorsy of us. We spent a lot of time outside, but we weren't super outdoorsy people. Yeah, I feel like we camped like once or twice. Yeah, and I wouldn't call my dad Mr. Outdoorsy only because he was already Mr. Screams his head off. And it would be like, who are you talking about? They wouldn't know, the mailman wouldn't know where to, like who's this guy? Yeah, exactly, Screams his head off. I did not have a Scream, my dad isn't Screams his head off. Oh yeah, that's nice. My dad is like, I'm disappointed. So if you were on a houseboat, were you on a houseboat with other families or did you, did every family have their own? Yeah, that's okay. So I think there were like four families and I think we would get two houseboats and we would sort of like, traveled a sail, float, boat together next to each other. And then when we would dock, we would like tie the boats up together. So it was kind of like a double boat. And that was really fun. This was with like, four of us, four families, everybody had kids, a lot of, it was just, I think like, I think of houseboating as like a luxury vacation it's because of these trips. Like I have suggested to friends that we go houseboating and everyone's like, huh? Do you sleep on the boats? You sleep on the boat, you sleep on the roof under the stars. There's, it's like a little, have you ever been on a houseboat? Yeah. You know, it's like, there's rooms and there's a kitchen and there's a living room and you can sleep in the rooms on like in the bunk beds, but everybody would sort of pile onto the roof and we would, I think we'd like go in August when there was a meteor shower. It was just kind of magical and fun. It was just, again, it seems like this is another one, based on what you're talking about, that you like looked forward to. Totally look forward to it. Like Shasta. Yeah. It was like, it was probably our outdoors-iest. So it would be like, let's go on a hike or let's go jump in that waterfall or like, you know, or swim in the dam lake. I do remember, you know, this is like 90s. I'm picturing my brother who's three years younger than me, Will, who was definitely like, like punk, emo. No, I wouldn't even say goth, but he was, my man was wearing black and metal. He was wearing black, he was wearing things with studs in it. And this, so this was not like his area. I remember, you know, like being in the sun all day, like hiking around. I remember- Yeah, you never hear people dress like that being like, love the outdoors. Exactly, exactly. Love, I love when the metal gets hot. I'm picturing this one day that he was like, there was like a little top nook of the houseboat. So like on the roof, there was like a little nook that you could go in, I guess, for, I don't know, I don't know, for, there would be a shade. It was like, imagine a little cave on top of the roof and he would go in there to read and like draw. And there was one day that like his little feet were sticking out and I think he fell asleep in his, in the rest of the trip. He just had absolutely red top of feetsies, just burnt to a crisp. Josh had some real embarrassing, like sunburns over the years. Yeah, like, but Josh is always like shopping for a sunburn because he's so pale. And does a great job. And I should say like, as an adult, you've done a great job, Josh. You take your skin health very seriously. Yeah, I mean, I think multiple skin cancer removal things. Yes, that'll do it. Well, change a man. That'll ring the bell, the alarm bells. But as a kid, you're like, get SPF the hell away from me. Or like a sun hat, right? You're just like, I want to play in the sand. The red foot of shame is a very fun thing. The red foot of shame. Would you go to sort of different places on land? Would you bring the boats to sort of, would you swim off and then go hike in the woods? Yeah, we would like, a lot of hikes. I don't remember ever like, you know, stopping to go like into town or anything. We wouldn't like dock and like go to the local, restaurant or whatever. It was very much contained into these two boats. So we would dock, we would like barbecue. A lot of cards were played. It was a lot of like different aged kids, like teenage boy down to like a couple little kids. And everybody got along really well. It was sweet. It was sweet. It's really sweet. Nobody was making out. And when you've got the boats tied together, is it just sort of like your footprint has just gotten that much bigger and you can just hop boat to boat if you want to hang out with the older kids, you're over there and the younger kids are on. Yes, in fact, I think there was like a little swinging gate thing that you would open in. So it was all one basically, you know? Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, there was no, it was no, there was no like distinction almost on whose boat was whose. It was all one big old square. Yeah, how fun. But it was really fun, really sweet. Like I truly would like to do that again. Yeah. I don't know if anybody wants to do it with me, but I want to do it again. Did your parents, four kids, that's a lot, were they sort of stressful travelers? Were they laid back travelers? I feel like this is common that like dad was, he was like, he was like a commander, you know what I mean? Like especially if it was an airport situation. But even with packing and, oh wow, I just, oh, it's so fun when a little memory flashes. I am realizing in this moment, I was like his good little soldier, you know what I mean? I was like, oh, I'll help you with the bags, dad. I'm your best son. And he would like compliment me on like, good, you're so strong. And I'd be like, God, this is gonna hold me for weeks. So that's my oldest, is this real, he wants to be a helper and he wants to be strong. That's so cute. And so we were leaving the ski place the other day and there were like two bags and all these skis. And so I had one bag, he had another bag. And then we have another kid named Axel who's could care less. And I was like, I'll go get the car, you can just set the things down so we don't have to carry him. And Ash was like, no, give me the bag, I'm not gonna let him touch the snow. And I'm like, they're waterproof bags. You're not, this is not. And he's like, I got him and he was like, and then I like, you know, took me like 10 minutes to pull the car around and he was just standing there like, I mean, well like Axel is just like leaning against the snow drift, who care less. I love it, I love that. And all he wants is for you to be like, God, you're so strong, buddy. You're so strong. Yeah. Did you give it to him? Oh, 100%. Okay, good, good, good. I look, the fact that any of my children want to be helpful, they get a lot of positive feedback. Yeah. I remember also like, you know, being at airports at the baggage claim and the way like a dad would be like, you guys sit back there, you know, you guys like hold a spot and I'll grab the, I would be right next to my dad being like, I got this bag, dad. No, no, no, I got it, I got it. It like takes you out. It is a thing that kids don't realize. I'm like, it's a bad look to the other parents when you're like, ouch. So many of these trips were, we would drive to them, but I'm thinking, okay, so thinking about the baggage claim, I do remember a trip, this was a rad trip. We went to Phoenix, Arizona to go to the A's spring training. Wow. What? Yeah. This was like 90-ish, 89, 90, absolute freaking Bash Brothers ass. Like, I mean, my grandma, Anita, my Greek grandmother, was a gigantic A's fan. Kenshiko was like her man. I think she had like a framed picture of him on her wall. It's great. And she really wanted to go to spring training. So my- In the right light, Jose Kenshiko looks a little Greek. Yeah, for real. Probably helped, probably helped Anita. Come on, totally. Like a Greek god, totally. Yeah, really, truly. Truly, yeah. There's multiple statues in Athens really. I think that's Kenshiko. Is that Kenshiko? So we went to spring training and, I don't know why we did this. I mean, it's great that we did this, but how do we do this? We stayed at the same hotel that they stayed at. Wow. So we, like, I'm remembering like morning breakfast buffets, just being in between these like gigantic baseball players. And my brother remembers that Kenshiko ate like a dozen eggs a day. I don't know if that's true, but I think it is. I think that's probably true. I think that's very believable. Did you, so I was gonna say like, wow, A's spring training with two older, like the two girls are the oldest. And it seemed very dad driven, but was this Anita's idea? Was this like, oh, that's fantastic. I know. She was like the reason that we were all A's fans. I don't know why that happened. It wasn't like a lifelong thing of hers. It might have been because of the, that excitement of that time on the A's. The 88, 89, 90, whatever that era was. She just loved Dangers. She was like, I don't care. And then it was just like Dangers Central in the old Coliseum. And she's like, I'm in on this. Tell me more about, what are the rules of this game? If there was a bandwagon to be on, that was a pretty good one. That was the one, yeah. And she would get angry if they lost. And it was like, it was really, really important to her. It really became like her thing. And so we all just jumped on with her. And weirdly that Towne grew up in Danville, had a lot of A's players lived there. I can say, go lived in Danville. Wow. Dennis Eckersley, Walt Wise, all these guys, you'd like to see them at the local, I don't know, diner. So is the Lonely Islands, the Bass Brothers Company special, like a seminal work for you? It literally, it literally brought tears to my eyes. It's so good. I mean, it's so goddamn good and funny, but I was like, did it come out during COVID? Yeah, I think it was. Okay, whatever. So we're all emotionally on this. Exactly. But I remember watching it with Jason and having tears in my eyes. And I was like, I feel like they wrote this for me. Like I knew every reference. And Jason and I listened to that a lot. We listened to it a lot. It's great album slash Netflix special. Yeah, it is. Also, I've been to Arizona during spring training for like, you know, guys golf trips, but we've never gone to those games. They're like, the stadiums are tiny or they're so much more accessible. Totally. Yeah. So were you seeing a lot of games? Seeing a lot of games, seeing a lot. It was like, yeah, I'm sure we would go to a game a day. I mean, also I don't remember, you know when you're like a little kid, these trips you're like, did we go for the weekend? Did we go for a month? Yeah. That's why these LA trips feel too, where I'm like, we went for months to like, we live there. But yeah, I'm sure we went to like three games or something, but the big excitement was the hotel. Like going to, I remember being in the hot tub with my older sister, Lainey and Mark McGuire, just dropped his gigantic body into the hot tub with us. And we were like, holy shit. By the way, it speaks about like, how much more money is in sports now? Like I guarantee you, Aaron Judge is not sharing a hot tub with a couple of kids. A children's. On from Danville. Right, right. It wasn't a fancy hotel. It was like a very average hotel. Yeah, that's unbelievable. Yeah, I wonder what the hotel was like. Do you feel any abandonment over the fact? It's very sad that the A's have left Oakland. I do, but more, my sister, Lainey, my older sister lives still in the Bay Area and is a big, she's a huge, she's a huge baseball family. Yeah. Make it make sense. They are a huge baseball family. Her son, my nephew, Dash is like an incredible baseball player and I'm sure will go on to be a damn A. So they call A's, it's singular A. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. It is fun. I wonder if you guys, it's always been my dream to be an A. Yeah, I guess that's how you say it. Yeah, I'm an A and we are A's. So they are so upset. Like they know all the ins and outs and who to be mad at and everything. I'm more just like, oh, I want to see more games in Oakland. But I am like such a, the sports that I love, I love them from like the time that I loved them. I have never stuck with a, we were like really into the Warriors too. And now I, but back when they like weren't good, when it was, maybe they were good, but it was like Chris Mullen and Tim Hardaway. Yeah, they were, they were interesting. They were great, but I don't think they won a lot. No shade, Chris Mullen, I find him in my DMs. He's like, oh, the fuck. Run TMC. Yeah, run TMC. Yeah. Can you name the TMC and run TMC, Posh? There's no way. Can you, oh, oh, oh, oh. I'll ask you Darcy, you can, Josh won't be able to. No. Is there no way? There's no way. The M is Chris Mullen. No. Yeah. The C is Chris Mullen. Okay. TMC. No, I can't. This was a fun game. Tim Hardaway, yes. Chris Mullen, TM. Josh, people love this. Wait, T, Mitch Richmond. Yes. That was great. And everybody in the cars right now is clapping and they're like, oh my God, I'm so glad Josh didn't derail that before she got it. Josh, who was your, were you into basketball? Not enough. Apparently. I mean, we would Celtics fans, but I'm not. Celtics fans, yeah. That does it. I mean, I was not like some giant, I just remember there was a run TMC poster. Yes. And I think that someone of my friends had it. That's the only reason. Don't you remember it so well? I do. I mean, like it had graffiti all over the wall. Is that your one? Yeah. It's like a lost thing. Maybe it's not, but I feel like posters are a lost thing. Freaking posters. Freaking posters, dude. I don't know. I bet posters are still around. Posters are, you're not in the demo for posters anymore. I bet if you go to like a mall, they got poster shops. And if you were of a certain age, you'd be buying posters. You know what? Demo, my kids are never gonna be in a demo, which is a mom who's not Alexi. There ain't no posters going up in her house. It is a poster free. Yeah. When they go to college, their dorm is going to be poster. Oh, the amount of posters. I mean, every single inch will be plastered. Did young Darcy have a poster? Was there a? Yeah, I had a poster. You guys, listen to how cool this room was. Imagine this. One of my entire walls from floor to ceiling was corkboard. Oh, wow. So if I didn't have a poster on it, it would, I mean, it was covered. It was like- That's super cool. Not cool at all. It was like all four of my walls were corkboard. We lived in a cork house. Yeah. And also it sort of has to be a kid's room or maybe an office, but like, that's not for everybody. And my older sister only had half a cork wall. Sorry, Leigh. Oh man, that's the best. So what kind of posters were up there? It was like a lot of pictures of Eddie Vedder. Sure. A lot of like, you know, just plastered in like grunge music and maybe like a Keanu Reeves here and there. And then, yeah, a lot of music. A lot of music. Then a giant, I had this shirtless Ichabod crane. Oh yeah, Ichabod. Don't get me started on my freaking crane posters. I had my, if you said, it's like, Posh, I'll let you answer this question. Let's see if the trivia can get a little easier for you. I'll make it about the house you grew up in. If you were to say what's the most seminal poster in my room, girl, I got. Poster, well, I mean, I got a movie poster. A movie poster. A movie poster. Yeah, probably. Give me one more hint, I'm gonna do the post, I'm gonna do the post, was it, Ferris? Oh, oh, Whiskey Business? Yeah, Ferris Beulars Day, yes. I had a Ferris Beulars Day post, like literally the first thing I would see in the morning when I woke up was Matthew Broderick and then I made the mistake when he was on the show telling him that, and he was like, How'd it feel? Oh, all right. He's like, summer. Okay. It was really weird. He was young too. Yeah, we're young guys just in hanging out in my bedroom. That's right. I also like a lot of, you know, like movie tickets. It just was a cool, it was kind of like a preteen teenager dream to just be like sticking things to the wall. Would you swap it around very often? Yes, I would. And you feel like once, okay, yeah. Yeah, that's important, I think. Yeah, it would be, yeah. I was also like really into changing like the furniture in my room, which just means bed and dresser, I guess. But, you know, like once a year or something, I mean like today's the day. I'm gonna face the other way when I sleep. Yeah, yeah. This'll be huge. Mackenzie's been pitching switching sides in the bed. Oh, interesting. I don't know. Just try it. Because we used to be on different sides, but then like our last dog got old and he was like wandering around on the side of the bed. And I was like, I'll go to that side so I can like, you know, deal with him. And now based on sort of like nothing, we like switched one night when we were at a friend's house in New York and she's like, I think it's better to be switched, but like, I don't know, all her stuff's on that end table. Josh, you can do it. And to Trace, do it, you're saying do it. Yeah, you can do it. I have a question. Do it. This is a question for you and Jason. When you travel, do you stay on, do you sleep on the same side? We don't. That's when you were at home. Like what we always end up doing is that Jason wants to be closer to the door, to the door of the hotel to stop a murderer from killing me. Good man. Yeah, good man. So we always sort of end up doing that. I sleep in the closet because I'm worried about the murder. Maybe they won't find me here. And I put a pile, well, I put a pile of pillows on my side of the bed so it looks like something. My goal, and that's close to the door because my hope is they come and just stab that a bunch of people and then leave. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't come out and get them over the head while they're... No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Maybe Alexi does? No, no, no, no, that gives a way. She seems strong. You know, she's got an eye mask. She can do whatever. She barely knows that. Anybody's there? Mine is wherever we go, Alexi wants to be closer to the bathroom so that the side switches based on that. 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Yeah, huge part of, yeah. And a lot of them lived in the Bay Area. I mean, it's just a huge part, yeah. There was like, we, we, it's, I mean, just thinking under the umbrella of trips, I don't remember a ton of trips with them. We would, you know, like one family lived in Washington and one family lived in Oregon. So we would do a Washington trip in Oregon. Would there be, would there be times where the entire family would get together? Like, like all meet at one house for a reunion of sorts? Yeah. Definitely like most holidays, like, you know, Christmas or Thanksgiving or anything, any excuse for us all to get together. And yeah, and we'd often, we'd like look around and be like, this is everybody, we did it. That's great. Yeah, it's cool. It's cool. Were you driving up there to Oregon and Washington? I feel like the, I feel like it was like a, okay, the answer is no, because I feel like we would do seven hours. I feel like we never did more than that. Okay. That was your, like, was that a stated sort of limit? I always feel like my parents would say from the Bay Area to LA was seven hours. It's not seven hours, it's like five hours, but probably with four kids at seven hours. Yeah. So that was the big thing is like, we got seven hours in the car guys, like, like get your coloring books ready or whatever it was. And, and, but I don't remember ever driving anywhere farther than that. Like we flew to Arizona, we flew to Oregon. Right. How were your car dynamics on a drive to LA on a sizable drive? Like, it was good. And we, we, we very like, I'm going to say musical family, but what I mean is like really into music, really into the same music. So we'd be like, put on Paul Simon. Wow. Yeah. We were a big Paul Simon family. Like let's listen to the whole traveling Willowry's album or whatever we were doing. Another one. Yeah. You're throwing fastballs right now. I think it just speaks to the quality of those albums. Yes. Totally. Totally. And sometimes we'd be like, can we listen again? Yeah. Yeah. A Fleetwood Mac album, I guess it would be which one? There's one where there's like kind of a horny song on it that I'd always be like, I'm sleeping. Like where they're sort of making like oo and ooze and oz. What is it? I mean, I'm not going to do them for you guys. So stop asking me to do them. But it was just like a little bit of a horny song. And I remember being really embarrassed by it. But yeah, a lot, a lot of music. I remember listening to like one, is there a book called like Prince Caspian or something like that? Sounds right. Yes, Lewis maybe. Okay. I remember trying to listen to a book, a book on tape or something. And we were like, this is not, this is not working. We need music. Would you sing along if you were listening to these things? Especially my dad and I with just full voice, maybe harmony. And do you think you were locked in on the lyrics or were you sort of mumbling through it? Well, I think I was locked in on the lyrics, but do you guys find that like albums like this, like maybe Graceland or something, when you listen to as a full adult, every once in a while you'll catch yourself singing something that you're like, well, that's certainly not the lyric. That's the lyric I've thought it was for 30 years, but that's not what it is. I have a bunch of those where like, maybe I'll hear Jason sing it or something. And I'm like, wait, what is it? For our dad's 70th, Josh and I went home and we ended up back at the house. There was a party and then it was just the four of us. And John Prine, the first John Prine album, was like the most listened to album. We put it on and we were laughing so hard at how confident we were, we knew every word. Yes. And how much, like just like full-throated mumbling was in there. Mumbling, yeah, a lot of mumbling, a lot of, yeah, just kind of the vibe, the vibe. But I think, this is another thing, I'm such a little like adult pleaser. I would love it when like my dad would be like, wow, you really know this song. God, you know every word. Oh, that sounds great, Dars. I'm like, oh, thanks dad. Yeah. Yeah. I will say, when they know lyrics, it's amazing how little they have to do for you to be like, God, you guys are crushing it. Yeah, absolutely. Especially when it's like your music, I imagine. It's not like K-pop, Demon Hunter, no shade. But I mean, like when it's something. No shade, by the way, full credit when they know that. Although they've got this awful thing now, like one of the K-pop songs, and it speaks to the popularity of the film, there's like, it's not like a recorded version, but like the schools, it's somehow permeated through society, that there's a version where you like switch gold into toilet. And they all know, so they all know like this like weird Al version of gold. Oh, that's great. Oh my God, weird Al, get on it. Get on it. It's now or never. Yeah. Did you ever, so even though you had parents with like European roots, did you ever as kids go, you flew to Europe? Great question, because the answer is yes. Okay, so we, I mean, okay, great question. You read my mind. We did one big, gigantic, gorgeous vacation vacation. This is when I was about to be a sophomore in high school. We went to England and France for three weeks. We did a week in London, a week in Bordeaux. Wow. We went to this like, and it's hard to explain, like a camping, it's like a camping place with airstreams. It's sort of like glamping, but this is so long ago that I don't know what that was. And then- It was pre-glamping. It was just fancy camping. It was pre-glampsia. I guess, good job. That was really good. That was really good. Did you come up with pre-glampsia before you, no, you said pre-glamping to set it up. Yeah, yeah. Or pre-glamping. You said pre-glamping to set it up. I mean, don't, don't, don't hold back the curtain. Okay, sorry, no, cut this off, cut this off. No, no, keep it in, keep it in. Yeah, that's what I did. I came up with pre-glampsia and then I laid in pre-glamping and then made it sound like I just came up with it. This is inspiring, truly. Yeah, it was that. It was pre-glampsia. And then we did a week in the English countryside, a place called Tring, which is where we have family. So this is not our, obviously, like our Greek and Turkish family. This is our, this is our white British family. We have like a cousin, a very loved, beloved cousin who has six children and they live in England. And so we would, they'd come to America a lot. And so this time we were like, let's go to you guys. And we had a great, a really special, amazing, like bonding. It's kind of like before that, my older sister, Laney and I were like, I wanna kill you, sort of that vibe. I wanna fucking kill you every day. And then after that, we were like best friends. It was like a very bonding trip for us. If you could go back to one of those three locations, which one would you, do you feel like you have the fondest memories of? The glamping in Bordeaux was incredible. It was amazing. Also, I was like, what would that age be? Like 15, there was a bunch of families there. We sort of became friends with these like cool teenagers that were from England and they were older than us and they took us under their wing and we got to like drink with them. And it was like, fun family time during the day. And then because it was, I mean, we were under age as hell, but I guess drinking age is 18 there. And it was just wine, I think it's like 13. Yeah, exactly. I remember it was something called a snake bite. That was the drink that I remember we would drink a lot, which I think is bad. That's probably not, yeah. I think it was like just dump, dump, dump, dump. When they don't even bother to try to make the name, sounds good. A snake bite, isn't a snake, I feel like a snake bite's a like a Guinness with like, it's not a black and tan with a harp, but it's like cider. I think it's cider and Guinness or something. It's like cider and wine. You know, this is way better than I thought. In my mind, a snake bite was like, like serving those little fireball. Yeah, no, it's a little like classier than that. But I think, yeah, it was really fun. It was like, I don't know, they were just cool. There was, you know, there was like, maybe a little make out here or there. I don't know, I don't remember it. I don't remember every single second. Man, nobody made that. It's Bordeaux. It's Bordeaux. Remember Bordeaux. I can't remember their first and last name. I can't. Were you traveling around or were you kind of just like, this is our glamping site and we're gonna just explore there? We did one amazing canoe day down the Bordeaux, river, the one that we all know in Bordeaux. And it was stunning, gorgeous. Like I would like to go back there. I feel like I appreciated it as a 15 year old, but you know the way you don't really appreciate anything when you're a kid, not really. Things like this where you're like, now I would just want to take in the view in a way that I don't know if I really fully appreciated it. I think it was just like stunning views, you know? Seth, do you remember the French word for river? Mitch Richmond. Mitch. Mitch River. Mitch River, man. Mitch River, yes. Well, mama would be happy. I think it's river. Well, that's kind of, that seems like, Oh, I believe you guys, I believe you. It's 100% not that. I'm surprised you can't remember the French word for river. I know me too. I bet it might be river, it might just be river. Yeah, it's revere. Revere. Yeah. That's where it comes from. Yeah, yeah, but it was really great. It was an amazing trip. You know, like the London week was, it was just all great. It was just like a really, it was the kind of perfect, I think when you have four kids and the ages were probably like 16, 15, 12 and like four or whatever, the math is there. That's stressful to bring them to a different country. It was like such a smooth, fun, wonderful trip. I think everybody has such fond memories of that trip. You gotta put so much, I mean, you gotta put so much planning into it. So shout out to your parents for that. You gotta have good vibes. You have to like, you know, be like, Hey, there's like a zen-ness, I think, to do a parent vacation, which is, but also, I mean, again, I think if you have, you guys, you were probably pretty hungover from the sound of the things too. They had to put up with that. Yeah, but yeah, even that, do you get hungover when you're 15? Maybe not. You're just like, I just got, I processed that so fast. Exactly, exactly. But that was a great one. And yeah, even, I can even remember like the, yeah, just, we were kind of talking earlier about the vibes of the parents when traveling and dad was like, like, you know, get organized, get there early, kind of quiet, like I don't want to talk about things. I just want you to follow my lead or whatever. And my mom was a little bit more like organized, but dad was just in charge when it came to like, the travel part. I just remember the traveling to Europe and back was like really smooth. It was all great. It was fun. Yeah. It was fun. Well, I mean, shout out to your parents. I feel like they did a fantastic job. They really did. I mean, we only know you, but they've raised at least one person. Yeah, they're so great. Josh, did you meet my parents at the birthday show this year? No. No, I didn't. It was it. Shout out to your birthday show. By the way, I went two years ago to Darcy. And were your parents at the year? They weren't there at the first one. Okay, gotcha. Yeah. But it's growing. Your birthday show is one of the most exceptional things. Oh, that's so nice. Your birthday is January 4th. You are a 4ther. You and your friends, the twin sister. Katie and Alison Crutchfield, yeah. Yeah, both excellent musicians and singers. And you host this concert that the first one, or was the second one billed as a sweet 16 as well? Yeah, yeah. Okay, so it's sweet 16. So you have guests sing songs that were important to them when they were 16. And there's a little banter back and forth. And it's a lot of people, you know, and it's some musicians, it's some comedians. And people come out and explain. It's so wonderful. I can't remember the last time I've been in a concert. Josh is so good at concerts. I'm not good at all. And I just had the best time because it was like a different person would come out. They'd talk about themselves at 16, then they'd sing a song. I would say I knew 60% of the songs. Yeah, they were bangers. They were like, you're a banger. Everything. And I was like, oh, I got to, you know, and so you have so many friends who are telling musicians, you had an awesome band that you put together. This band would just like learn all these songs. Yeah, it was, I was kind of, oh, you guys, this is the sweetest thing. It's kind of like my favorite day of the year. It's becoming the thing I like look forward to the most. It's really special. And then, you know, like having all these fun actor, comedian friends do songs, but then like Jeff Tweedy and, you know, I mean, it's really like, it's, I can't even, it kind of is overwhelming. Sam Richardson to me was a revelation this last year. Truly. What song did he do? Overkill. He did Overkill by Men at Work. And when it, when there's a key change later and that song when it's like, I can get to sleep and like just hits it. It's so impressive. Yeah. The band was like, when he came in, did the like, you know, the rehearsal the day before and he just kind of like had his hands in his pockets and just kind of like, yep, let's do it. And he did it. And the bands, all of their jaws just hit the floor. Like his, he was perfect. Cause it doesn't really matter how good you sound in this show. It's like, everybody sounds fun and good and they're all trying their best. And it's, it's pretty great. But, but nobody is, Sam was like a professional singer. He sounded incredible. Yeah. Oh, Carrie Brownstein bringing the damn house down. Oh, what did Carrie do? She did, she did a Sonic Youth song, cool thing. Oh my God. And just truly like, it just was special. It was special. Anyway, all this is to say my parents were there and I wish you had met them, but maybe next year. Yeah. But you never were able to have a great birthday because it's so close to Christmas and New Year's and the holiday season. So now January 4th, you've reclaimed it. Exactly. And yeah, maybe there's going to be another show next year. So check it out if you're in LA. It's a hobby. You also, you can also check out Darcy and a couple of shows that are coming out very soon. Later this year, five star weekend. Holy shit. Incredible cast, Chloe Sevignier, Jennifer Garner, Regina Hall, Gemma Kahn and also Oliphant, right? Yeah, Oliphant. Agent of chaos, Timothy Oliphant. An absolute agent of chaos, yes. He comes up a lot on the pod. I bet, yeah, yeah. And then Sunday nights with our friend Will Forte. Yeah, the best. That comes, that's, that's, that's out. That's like imminent. That's out. Oh, it's out? It's out with this airs. By the time this airs, that's out. By the time this airs. But I have not seen it yet because it's not officially out. And I have to go through the awkward thing that happens every time a Will Forte show comes out, which is it's the only comedy my wife will watch because he is her favorite comedian. I love that. I'm very excited. I love that. We will, we will immediately be binging Sunday nights on Hulu. Great. And we didn't get to it, but you shot it in Australia. So you've, you've had some real trips. Yeah, I'll come back again. Josh is going to take you through our speed round, Darcy. All right, here we go. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous or educational? I think relaxing. What is your favorite means of... But I love adventurous. Sure. Okay. What is your favorite means of transportation? I love, I love a road trip. I love to drive. Love it. Great. 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? There is one family that just popped into my head and I have to honor my truth. Hmm. The Hux de Poles. Great. You honor your truth. You know what? A lot of people would have backed off that in 2026. And yeah, obviously it's free troubles. That's not hit. That's a different God. That is a different God. That's a different God. It's a whole family. It's a whole family. That family is great. That is a great family. That is a great family and you cannot take that away from me. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? Jason Grant Carden. Yeah, yeah. Love that too. Yeah. What is your dream destination for a family vacation? Hawaii. I wanna go there with my whole family. We've kind of talked about it for years. Yeah, we gotta do that. You are from Danville, California. If you had to get more families to come visit Danville, what would you tell them? I'd say come to Danville. It's green as hell. It's green as Ireland. The hills are beautiful. And go to Domenico's deli and get a turkey sandwich every day and you'll be happy. It'll be worth the trip. Great. The specificity will be appreciated. Yeah. And then Seth has our final questions. Darcy, have you been to the Grand Canyon? I have. And was it worth it? A few times. It is worth it. Great. Seth, okay. Oh no. Have you gone yet? Yeah, we looked over the side. Okay, is that since the podcast started? Yeah, we went. My friend burned me and we had our fancy football draft there. So I had to go. And did you, looking over the side, were you, how do you feel about it? It looked, everything was exactly what I had pictured in my head. Yeah, okay. God damn it. So it has to, like, I think it just like, look, if it just opened, I think I'd be blown away. But I think due to the fact that it's just, like there's been around too far. It's like a little bit like if somebody, you know what I mean? Like you want to see a movie the week it comes out. Otherwise everybody talks about how awesome it is. And by the time you see it, you're like, oh, okay. Can I tell you a cute little Grand Canyon story? I've been a few times, but the last time I went was during the pandemic, Jason and I went on an amazing, incredible cross country RV trip. And, you know, during COVID, it was like the perfect way to get out and not stay at hotels and not have to be around anybody. But anyway, we also, two friends who you guys know, Beck Bennett and Jesse Hodges, were also doing a big road trip as well. And because the damn world was our oyster and time meant nothing, they were like, we think we're going to go to the Grand Canyon in like two days. And we just like turned around wherever we were. And we were like, if we do, yeah, we would make it at the same time. So we met at the Grand Canyon. We hadn't like been near each other in so long because of COVID. We, one night we watched the sunrise, we went back to our little RVs, slept in our RVs. And then wait, I said one night we watched the sunrise sunset. The next day we watched the sunrise. We had our dogs with us. It was like the most, it was one of my favorite COVID memories. It was really a cute little, it was worth it, so to speak, Seth. It was worth it. Yeah. That's fantastic. All right, well, you didn't convince me, but I was so proud of how hard you tried. It's so great to see you, Darcy, you're the best. I adore you guys. Thanks for having me. We love you. Love, love, love you. And we'll talk to you soon. Give our love to Jason. I will. Bye, boys. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. And her brother fell asleep in the boat nook. But his legs, they stuck out. And his feet cooked. Saw the English countryside and Bordeaux for glamping nights. British teams and snake bites, little make it now. Run TMC warriors, corkboard Keanu's and Vedder's. Jason stops the murderers. At least that's the plan. Grandfather made up the last name. No one can pronounce Eric in. And no one knows what he was running from. 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