ELIZABETH BANKS Jumped Off A Moving Train

Hey, Bashi. Hey, Sufi. We had a poshi setting in New York City. Oh, yeah. Oh, I was like, who? But yeah, me. The other poshi. You know, tall poshi. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Had a little afternoon hang. We had an afternoon hang. It was a really beautiful spring day in New York City. You came to pick up with me. We got the boys. We hung out with Ash for a bit, and then we got Addy, eventually Axl. But it was like really a great night because we just kind of hung out in my apartment as the sunset in New York City. Golden light coming through the windows. My in-laws, Tom and Joanne, came over. You were walking. I was walking with Ash and you were walking with another uncle, Tolia, my brother-in-law. And Ash at one point said, boy, poshi and Tolia are really getting along. I don't know each other. We've always gotten along. But it's just like, I just like, he was like, oh, it's kind of, because again, like, he doesn't see the two of you guys together that often. Right. It was just kind of sweet that he thought, I thought that was a nice thing to observe. It was adorable. Addy got home and it was adorable. She was in her ballet gear. And you were like, when she comes in the door, you're like, hide, hide. But then she comes in and she's always just a hair's breath away from laughing at anything. And so walked in and sort of like, laughed just to see you. And then saw me and kept laughing. And yeah, in her little sort of. It was really great. Yeah. She just pinked. This morning, Alexi's on a family trip right now with Axel. First time the two of them have taken a trip together. We're going out to California to see a friend of Alexi's whose daughter is very close with Axel. So that's very exciting. And then me and Addy this morning had a really nice morning. She has a little ukulele now and she did a show and she went into a room and closed the door and told me, I had to turn over like one of those little hourglass, plastic hourglasses that come with board games. Yep. Turn that over while she set up chairs. And then I went in and I'd love to send you a video of her song. But she, when I came in, she said, no cameras. Yeah. Yeah. It's sometimes nice to just have to experience it. 100%. 100%. It was a great show. And I'm really glad that I was in the moment. But I think she went to like a magic show where they said no cameras. And so now she's like, no, no, no, this is a show. She did have that little hourglass timer when I was over as well. And at one point we were all sitting around in the living room and she said, no one talk. No one make any noise until this is done. And she really was hard and fast to that rule. And I got to say, it was delightful. It was delightful. And she really, when anybody even giggled, she would press her finger right against her mouth and make her eyes real big. Yeah. She's also, she's very demanding. She had me turn that couch and the little TV room into her pirate ship. Yeah. Oh, I posted a fun video online where you were... Oh, yeah. She insisted that I get inside and I sort of had to belly crawl into this little between these two little... What can I not think of those? Christians. Oh, like Ottomans? Ottomans. Yeah. There's like two Ottomans with a pillow over them to the couch and I had to squeeze my way into that little tight space. And she kept telling me I wasn't in yet until I was fully all the way underneath. It was pretty great. She did a thing. What was the... Is she... You were ordering pizza from her and she was on Pizza Boat. I had to order pizza, yeah. Yeah. She was the captain of the Pizza Boat. It was pretty confusing. Oh, oh. Yeah. I know this. You didn't get your pizza. He did. Yeah. At one point she gave me my pizza, but that was just her hand saying, here's your pizza. Yeah, it was a bad idea. Our dog Woody found a piece of pizza yesterday at the park. There was a birthday party going on and he went up to the table. And did he then try to return it to the rifle owner? No, he was truly like the dog that caught the car and that he had a full piece of pizza in his mouth and didn't know what to do about it. He couldn't just take one bite. He just sort of was walking around with it in his mouth like, I don't know what to do. So he got... I pulled it away from him and he got a healthy bit, but it was clearly some kid had dropped it and at this birthday party they were like, we'll clean this up later, but Woody got it and was pretty psyched. That's great. Good for Woody. I'm happy. I'm happy with nice things happening in that dog. Yeah. Yeah. He deserves the nicest dog in the world. I will report back soon. I'm taking Ash to his first Red Sox game. And we're going to meet up with mom and dad. We're going to be very touristy in Boston. We're going to do the duck boat tour. We're going to go to the Boston Tea Party Museum. We're going to go to the aquarium. We're going to go to Faneuil Hall. We're going to go to a Red Sox game. Great. Pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. Amtrak. We're going to take the train. And yeah, we're very, very excited about it all. Yeah. Yeah. I'm very good. It's very lucky because once again, shout out to my in-laws, but like I can, you know, Alexi is on a trip with Axel. I'm taking a trip with Ash and we can leave Addy with her grandparents, with her aunt, with her uncle, and she's equally excited about it all. Has Ash spent any time in Boston? No. Not really. And he's read a lot of, he's at the age where they've read a lot about the Revolution and War, so he's pretty excited. Okay. Although he was huge, he did root for the British. So I think it'll sting a little bit. Yeah. He liked their coats. He did. He did. His red coats. Just were sharp. Did we talk about Axel's outfit on his golden birthday? I mean, so were you aware of golden birthdays when we were kids? Kind of, but it's sort of. I don't know. It almost feels like it was an early, like, I know it was pre-social media, but it feels like a social media thing. Right. So, you know, it was Axel turned eighth on the eighth. He knew it was his golden birthday. Yeah. Yeah. He was very excited about it. So much so that it months out. And just to explain, just to explain, it's the day of the. Oh yeah. So it's when you turn, yeah, what the year, when you turn the year of the day it is. So I was, my golden birthday was when I turned 28 because I'm born on the 28th. Yeah. Yours was, mine was on the way. Yeah, Axel, eighth. Okay. Yeah. You're an Axel. Sorry. Just check it. Yeah. Yeah. And then, oh, so, um, he, but he, a month out, he told Alexi he wanted to wear all gold. So she bought him a full gold suit, gold shoes, and pretty rad. And like, we just went to like teacher conferences and, uh, it is very, it is very, uh, nice when they're like, yeah, I've never seen a kid like Axel. In a good way. Yeah. In a good way. They're never like, we've never seen a kid who reads as well as Axel. That never happens. But a lot of the fashion stuff. That outfit. Yeah. Um, they're never like, Hey, you know the movie, uh, beautiful mind. He's like that, but for gold suits. Uh, man, Elizabeth Banks. Yeah. Speaking of Boston, you're just a good old fashioned New England, New England lady. Mm hmm. Yeah. I mean, been a fan from the jump from the, uh, the wet hot American summer days. We were going to have her on, uh, for something else, like a year ago or a year and a half ago, and it didn't work out and it was a bummer. But then it was like, well, it's Elizabeth Banks. She's going to keep making stuff. And well, sure enough, she did. Uh, she's got, uh, the miniature wife has just come out. And, uh, great, great reviews as well. Yeah. So I checked that out on Peacock and, uh, enjoy our friend Elizabeth Banks. Hi. Hey. Hi buddy. I realized it just popped on. That's how it happened. We're happy to have you. I know. Uh, we just talked to Jason Schwarzman who said hello. Oh, hi Jason. Oh man. Can we do all that we should have done all four of us. He was very mean because he did not like that we were wrapping up with him to talk to you. Wow. So there was some cruelty at first. Yeah. Isn't he just the cruelest? He is. Yeah. What's the worst friend? Yeah. We told him we had to cut him off and he's like, why, what do you guys have? What are you, what are you doing? What are you doing now? If you want to call Elizabeth Banks and tell her that we're, you know, we're still on with you, you're welcome to. And then we said you were doing, he goes, what's she doing? What's she promoting? And we said the miniature wife, uh, with Matthew Mifatian and he said, uh, oh, he's the one who said yes to that. How are you friend? What's up guys? How are you guys doing? We're thrilled to talk to a fellow, uh, a fellow New Englander. I literally was just thinking the same thing. You guys are in New Hampshire though, right? Yeah, we're in New Hampshire. Yeah. Right, right. Close enough. Where's Pittsfield? Were you, were you on the border? We're pretty close enough to the border, but it was about 50-50 to get to Boston, right, Posh? Uh, yeah. Like we drove to Boston at half of the time. Yeah. Got it. But you're Pittsfield, that's way west. Yeah. Oh, as west as you can get before you're in New York. Yes. Got it. My, uh, my wife is from Shelburne Falls, which is about an hour from you. Oh, yes, of course. Yeah. You know, um, I just did Finding Your Roots, which was incredible. And, uh, but you know, the very first question that, uh, Skip Gates, Henry Lewis Gates Jr. asked you when you're on there's like, you know, where are you from? Like, where do you think your people are from? And I'm like, oh, I, I'm Massachusetts, like from the beginning. Like there's nowhere. They got there. They went from England to New England, and then they never went anywhere else. And that is totally true. It turns out I was correct. He's like, we did, uh, we did a world map to show where the banks is. Aren't there's like two red dots. It's literally also, it's so funny. I'm so Irish. And you know, if you were from the British Isles, like nobody got to you. It was like the British Isles, like maybe a Viking got in every once in a while. And like, maybe if you could take a boat to Northern France, you maybe got a little of that, but like that was it. Like they did not. We are just, just boom. That's all I am 95% Irish. Were there a lot of banks in, in Pitsail mass? Did you have like aunts and uncles and stuff? Well, wildly there are no banks is cause that is a made up fake name. But yeah, I had to make up a name cause Elizabeth Mitchell was in SAG. Got it. That's my real name. I'm Elizabeth Mitchell. And then there are a lot of Mitchell's, uh, yes. Mitchell, much more like English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh Mitchell. Right. Yeah. Um, yeah. So did you enjoy the, the having the opportunity to pick a new name or will you bum that you couldn't, uh, bring Elizabeth Mitchell to the, to the world? It's so interesting. Cause in the moment I was super bummed and it was really that I felt like my, it's such a funny message. She's a thing too. I wanted my parents to get credit for me. And I felt like if I changed my name, people would be like, nah, she's not your daughter. Right. You know? And like, like I was worried for them cause I just wanted them to be proud of me and I thought like, Oh, they won't be as proud if they don't get to be like, no, really, that's my daughter. Not thinking that like women change their name all the time when we get married. Right. And so of course someone said that to me. And then also it was actually David Wayne and Michael Ian black and the whole gang from what had American summer. I had to literally change my name to be put in the credits of that movie. And so they, and they all changed their names and they're like, who cares? Like just do it. And so I did it for what had American summer. It became banks. I literally made a list and put it in alphabetical order and called SAG. And I said, is banks available? And they said, yeah, it's available. I go, I'll take it. It was like, I have it. I also think there's a fear in New England, not just that your parents wouldn't be like that there's a thing of like the New Englanders would be like, why'd she change it? So 100%. A hundred percent. Yeah. Some, a little shame. So she getting trouble. She getting trouble. I love New England. And yet there's, there's still a, I would, I don't know, like a haunting lack of trust about the people that I call my closest, my closest companions. Haunting lots of trucks. The way I like to think of it too is, well, the state motto is you're not better than me. Right. And so I also think there's just that like, oh, you change your name. What are you fancy now? Like, what are you? You know, it's a lot of. One of my favorite, uh, there was an SNL when Nancy Carrigan hosted SNL, they were, they did a sketch about her being in like a home cause she was from Massachusetts. Like a parade where she came back after the Olympics. And Adam Sandler crawls in the back of the car and goes, uh, how'd you get that job? And she was like, as a skater. It is just like the best. Like there's some sense of like somebody pulled a string for you to be an Olympic skater. Of course. Um, but then ultimately changing my name became super weird in that I feel like I was able to create this alternate personality that is the actress Elizabeth Banks that actually has nothing to do with my real life in a way. They've obviously melded more and more over time, but I remember my husband, who I've been with now for 34 years. Say he would say to me all the time, like when I, after I changed my name would be doing stuff, I, you know, I'd be doing, so I get all dressed up and then I do something stupid and he go, there's Liz Mitchell. There she is. That's a real Liz Mitchell. You can tie a bow, you can tie a Banks bow and a Liz Mitchell, but every no one that it comes on. There she is. Yeah. What were your, uh, so what was your vacation life like being from Western mass? Well, I, so because I'm from this giant Irish Catholic family and my dad is from eight and my mom is from seven kids. And so we had so many aunts and uncles all over the place. And so most of my family trips were just car rides to visit people. Right. Like we were just going to go visit, you know, my granddad moved to Chicago and it's like, well, we're all going to, we're getting in the car and driving to Chicago. And maybe we would stop along the way and visit like an aunt in Cleveland. Like it was always never like the exact route. It was like, well, we got to stop off places and visit any other relative we've ever met. Because if you don't, are you, are those people offended? Well, you drove through and you didn't come for lunch. Right. You know, yeah, you got to stop over. Um, so we did a lot of car rides and train rides, loved Amtrak growing up. We took Amtrak to, to Chicago of several times when my grandfather had was living there and then he moved to Cleveland. So it was like Cleveland and Chicago. And then my dad's family was all South. So everybody, the Carolinas and, um, Franklin, Tennessee, and then we would go down to Florida. So my grandparents late in life ended up in central Florida, not by the ocean. Mind you, right? Um, in central Florida, living down there in the winters, because, you know, Massachusetts winter is no joke if you're 80 years old. Um, and they drove like a VW, uh, like Vanagon, like there are now they're like back and cool again. The ones with like the table in the back and like, we would pile into that thing. My gr, my grandpa's VF, uh, van. And that was my favorite thing to drive around and me and all my cousins. I had so many cousins. We were always going to visit people. So mostly it was car rides to visit people. I didn't go on an airplane until I was 12. And it was on People's Express, which yeah, no memory. No memory. People's Express was like, I think it was lowlier than spirit airlines would be now. You know, their tagline, we're more people's than plane. Pretty much. So we took like a People's Express plane to Washington, DC to visit, visit my uncle, obviously, and, uh, go stay with him and see the monuments and do the Smithsonian, all that stuff. And we dressed up to get on the plane. Like, because we thought like it was, you know, if you're going to plane, you're a rich person, like you gotta get fancy if you're riding on an airplane. Um, so yeah, it was trips like that. I mean, I didn't have a passport until I was in college and it was, you know, I was going to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with a production of what was it called? Um, like Odysseus, like a really old college production, a college production of that, that we went to. So we, Josh and I did Edinburgh in our early twenties. Yeah. I would have been 22. I mean, greatest summer of your life. One of the best times I still think about it all the time. Actually, the craziest thing that happened there, I just brought this up to somebody because we, I can't remember, we were traveling somewhere and we couldn't pull up a Google map. Right. And I was remembering back then, no maps. Yeah. We went out, we went out. I don't know where we were staying in some dorms or something, the University of Edinburgh and like, we went dancing one night out pubs and then just like late night party, party, party. And then it was freezing, which is of course in August, right. In Scotland, it was freezing. Um, it's nowhere else in the world is as cold as this in August. And we were shivering at a taxi stand, trying to get home, like, you know, drunk and like, coming down off of like the best sign of our lives. We get in, we wait 40 minutes in a taxi line, freezing. The taxi pulls up, we pile into it. Can we tell him where we're going? He rolls his eyes and drives us around the block. Like literally drives us 500 feet. He drove us. And it was like, you were right here. You never needed a taxi. You could have been home an hour ago. You didn't need to be cold. We have no idea where we were. You know, we were in like a foreign city. We thought it was like, you know, it is really fantastic having fully crossed the threshold into, you can't believe how hard it used to be. You know what I mean? Like just the amount of like, I mean, that's also like, you know, that's a story about what it was like without Uber, you know, cause there was so much of my European life was taxi lines. Taxi lines and not really knowing where, you know, there was no, that maybe, what are you going to bring a paper map to the club to go dancing? Like, you know, that's what we were relying on. Like paper foldable paper maps. So we would stick in like purses. We used to live in Amsterdam. There was like that unique experience of like going out and maybe having like a, a sort of a narcotic aided evening dancing where you just really start thinking like, oh my God, we're all going to live forever. Everybody I know is magic. Like smash cut to like rainy cab line. And you're like, nope, we're all assholes. We live in a city of assholes. Exactly. 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Did your family come over to visit you while you were in Edinburgh or is that one that they just let you? No. My mom got a passport for her 50th birthday. We got my mom her passport. She went to London in Paris. I sent her for her birthday. Good daughter that I am. And then with my one of my sisters went, she got to go have this amazing time. And then ultimately my mom ended up like going to China and standing on the Great Wall of China, like all these amazing things that happened later in life. But, you know, the save act guys is something that would really affect someone like my mom. My mom has not, her passport expired. She doesn't travel anymore. Like she's married. Her birth certificate is not her name. I just want to say. Yeah. For Edinburgh. Even if her birth certificate was her name, who has their birth certificate? My birth certificate is long gone. By the way, I changed my name for Mitchell to Banks. I don't have a birth certificate of the batches. Well, by the way, once you do that, you, you, you lose the right to vote as far as I'm concerned. Well, I'm also a woman. I don't want to be that guy, but that's crazy. I have, I'm of the, you know, a woman who changes her name to not the name of her husband has lost the right to have a say in our election. That's definitely what they think. Do you, can I ask you real quick? I have a lot of, I love a train and, but I also feel like a lot of my train life was first Europe where obviously they care a lot more about their trains and then a cellar, which is, you know, is it, is the trip to Chicago? I want to romanticize it in my head, but is it, is it a good ride? It's, it's a great ride. I'm also very comfortable with that Northeast corridor guys. Like that was my whole, because I went to, I went to Philadelphia for college. And so to get home, it was always taking that a cellar or the Amtrak. Yeah. Um, we loved it. The greatest memory I have though was we went out like pre holiday, probably, you know, between Thanksgiving and Christmas to go visit relatives to then be home for Christmas morning for Santa was coming. And there was a massive snowstorm and where I'm from Pittsburgh, Massachusetts, as we said, little town in Western mass. So the train really stops in Albany and it goes to Springfield and Boston. And that's it. And if you have these little towns in between, you are in a snowstorm, the train is like, we can't stop because if we fully stop, we won't be able to get going again, right? Cause they're going to, they're sitting on tons of snow on the track. So coming back from Chicago, I remember because I was like six and my, my sister was little and then my mom had my baby sister, a literal baby. They were like, came to us and we're like, we're not stopping. So if you want to get off here, you can go to Springfield where we had no car, no way to get back to Pittsburgh in a snowstorm. They're like, we're going to slow down and we're going to toss you off this train. Literally what happened. So I remember my parents being like, okay, here's what's going to happen. And like with the conductor and like the guy, they took our luggage with my dad and they started before the train got to the station, just chucking our bags just into snowdrifts, into the snowdrift. And then my dad jumped down and my mom, the guy threw me out and I just went into the snowbank. Like, like it was the most fun thing in the world. My dad left me, my sister next just gets tossed in the snow. Like we think it's the greatest time of our lives. Then my mom has to throw, like come down the stairs and try and toss a baby to my father who's trying to go sideways in a snowbank. And then the, and then my mom jumped out and like, that was us. So we were, it was like well planned and it was the most fun as a kid. It was like, oh my God, it's the most fun thing ever. Yeah. You change your name to banks. I remember my dad having them to trudge through the snow to go get our bags, which were like hundreds of feet down the track to pick up our luggage and bring it to the car. And it was completely insane, but that was so fun. I have so many questions about this incredible moment. It was so fun. So fun for you. Was your, were your parents like, this is fun? Or were your parents like, oh my God, this is, yeah, okay. I'm sure that they were in a full panic about it. Weirdly, the people on the train were like, we're going to slow down. Like it's going to be okay. And, but I mean, it was sort of like, it was like they were doing us a favor. Like we're doing you the favor of getting you off the train where you want to get off, but to be clear, like we're, it was just like, look, it's, we're Jeff, definitely, we're just definitely not stopping for real. Were they, were, do you feel like there were other families that were getting chucked at different stops on the way? Other people got off. I remember they jumped off there, but not with three kids, a baby in tow. You know, that's what was really crazy. But at the end of the, I'm telling you, it was a four foot snowbank. Like you could literally just like fall off the train and you were in the snow. So it's not. It's actually weirdly good for a person and bad for the luggage. It was the, the hardest part was having to trudge back and get the luggage for sure. Yeah. And I feel like they threw the luggage and then there's. Cause luggage has no, uh, concern. It's like, I'm fine to jump. And then there's that hesitation before the first person in your family is like, oh wait, this is, we're doing this. And then you get further away from your luggage. Yeah. Because my dad got off. I was like, oh fun. Like, you know, it was no, I was like, this seems like the best time ever. And I grew up playing in snow. So it didn't seem weird, but looking back on it, I don't know if they do that anymore. Like, yeah, that doesn't seem like. I don't think they do. So nuts. Do you, um, was that immediately family lore? That's such a good story. Is that like something, I mean, that's the greatest cause I would say like, once you're safe and, and in the car, you must immediately, I would hope your parents would know, oh my God, this is an all timer. It was so fun. I think it was in the moment. Yes. It's become family lore. There are a few stories like that of traveling stories. That's one, because it was just so crazy. And it's like, well, what were we going to do? Go to Springfield and then who was going to pick us up and how are we going to get home? Right? It's even worse than Christmas. And you're trying to beat Santa. Yeah. So we had to do it. We had to get, jump off that train. Um, So how many siblings did you end up? I'm the oldest, I'm the oldest of four. I have a baby brother who is 11 years younger than me. He was not born when this happened. Oh, And was it, is the rest of it, is it girls and then him? Three girls and then a baby brother, Unbelievable. Master Mitchell. Um, the other family lore, great fun stories. We had that, uh, I don't even think they allow these anymore because they're so unsafe. The, um, the car, the station wagon that had the backseat that face backwards. Remember that? Like the best, right? So we did a lot of trips in that car. And so we loved sitting in the way back. We called it the way back. And so we get to sit in the way back. You'd face backwards. There was no AC back there at all, as I recall. You spend so much summer travel, just like dying back there. Um, so we would sit back there and I remember we were on the mass pike. And there are a lot of rest stops on the mass pike. So we had pulled off to a rest stop. It was a McDonald's. I remember it was a big deal to go to a McDonald's and get a happy meal and you're a little, right? And so we went to the McDonald's and as we were, pulling out of the McDonald's, I remember waving to my sister who had been left behind. It's just like, oh, um, oh, whoops. Bye. Like, oh well. So you didn't call it out. I think I was like confused about it. You know, like wait, is that her and why are we driving already? And I don't know, you know, just getting, I'm sure there were cousins in the car. It was probably as I think about it, like we might have been going, we were probably going to like a softball tournament with a bunch of kids in the car or something. And I just remember the only reason we even knew we left with her was because I was facing backwards and could see her, right? Like waving, like running after us, like coming out. And I remember we used to, when you went into the rest stop, you know, they always had those, the pinball machines and like the claw, you know, and we would just sit at that claw and like watch people try and do it. Never really putting me money into it. We would always beg to do it. And could we get candy and all the things that kids do at those places. And I'm sure that my sister was just like hanging out, looking at the claw when everybody got in the car and drove off. So we had to like do the thing where you go to the next, my mother in a full panic for the next 25 minutes of like driving around, go to the next exit, get back on, get back off, come go to the next exit, get back on, go back, you know, to get my sister who is fine and was there and it was not a big deal. But you know, those 25 minutes, but thank God I would imagine if your sister had not seen you way better. Like she probably had faith that like, all right, they'll be back. But also where is she going? I mean, she's not going to get in a car with a stranger or Lord knows we knew enough to not to do that. Yeah. Yeah. Mass pipe, go in North please. We got to catch that car. See the girl in a way. So yeah, that one. And then we took a trip on the way to Chicago once via Canada. So we went on the Canadian, it was an amazing trip in Canada, but my father is no longer welcome in Canada and hasn't been for 30 years. We got into this is, this is Mark Mitchell. Mark Mitchell. Okay. Yep. Bless him. Um, Mark got into a little car, a mini car accident that he absolutely claims. And it's probably true. We got rear ended and I find in a rear ending situation, it's usually the person that hits you that is, right? Yeah. Famously aren't they supposed to be the person? That's my dad would always say if like, if somebody, if you hit somebody from behind it's your fault. No question. Yes. Like no questions asked. Anyway, so I remember getting rear ended. I remember the car we were meant to go to a, we were in Toronto. We were going to the Toronto blue Jays game that night, the baseball game. And I, I'd never been Toronto, but now I know the city fairly well. And I know exactly kind of where we were down by the marina on the waterfront. When this accident happened, this car accident happened and my dad ended up getting a ticket for something. I don't know what, maybe he was making a left where he weren't allowed to or something. And that's why he got, I don't know exactly what happened cause again, I was facing backwards. Yeah, of course. I just saw the guy hit us. Um, we were all fine. You saw the accident. I saw it all happen. We were all sitting there. And, um, so my dad gets into this whole tizzy with the police there and long story short, it was a ticket he never paid. He was like, just could not just did not believe he owed any money to Canada and was never going to pay this ticket. And then I was like, dad, you know, like you really can't go to Canada now. He was fine with that. Yeah. I believe at one point he's like, there might be a warrant out for this. Like I definitely owe Canada something. And I'm like, okay, well maybe, maybe we're not going to Canada. A lot of actors obviously work there now and it's probably very good that you're at banks. He's never gone back to Canada that I know of. Do you, so you though had the vantage point being in the way back. Do you feel like what you saw your dad was at fault? I really don't know. I just know that the guy hit us and then was like really mad about it. Got it. The things I remember from that trip, that trip was sort of epics. We didn't, we did a lot of like, like I said, car rides, this one, so many things went sideways. We went to Niagara Falls, which is incredible and I recommend. I don't think enough, I think people are sleeping on Niagara Falls these days to be honest. It comes up, it comes up a lot on the pod and everyone's always pro, I will say. I wonder of the world. That made of the mist. I remember the, people say Canada side. Yeah. Yeah. You gotta go to the Canada side. Of course the American side is, it's all just capitalism writ large. They're just trying to sell you stuff. But man, that, we did Niagara Falls, we did the bed with the, we put the money in and it jiggles like we did the jiggle bed. Yeah. Oh yeah. I just thought fingers or whatever. I just thought it was for kids. Now that I'm older, I realized what the jiggle beds are really far. Although also as I'm older, I don't like, I don't know if that would make it better. No, I agree. I agree. For the lady, for the lady. Oh, interesting. Okay. I was, I was looking at it through the wrong, through the male gaze. Once again, my problem. Yeah. That's right. I'm going to put it into the female gaze. I think it's not bad. So the jiggle bed, I remember, but the thing was my brother was born at this point and he was little and he, again, no, the AC barely working in this vehicle. We have all the windows down. We're driving around and my brother, right before we went through the checkpoint, the border checkpoint into Canada through his bottle out the window, just out the window. And my mom, I remember thinking she was basically like, I only brought like two or three bottles. So she's like, I got to get out, you know, get the bottle. And like, so we pulled the checkpoint and my mom's like hiking back to try and find this bottle on the road, which I believe she came back empty handed and someone yelled at her to get back in the car. She gets back in the car. My brother has the last bottles, whatever. He thinks it's the funniest thing in the world that he threw his bottle at the window, then gets a pacifier immediately throws that out the window. That's gone. Like it was just one of these really fun trips. Also my dad, this is disgusting and his family lore though has happened all the time. My dad has post nasal drip and which I have inherited, but uh, the he made a big lewki spit it out the window on the highway. It came back in the back window and slapped my sister on the face. Oh my gosh. The lewki out the window, boom right back in the window that happened on that trip, the bottle out the window on that trip, the car accident in Toronto on that trip, the jiggle bet on that trip, the made of the mist on that trip, like we really loved, we got to see the Toronto blue jays. Um, it was a really epically fun trip. And we also went to in the St. Lawrence river, thousand islands, which I also highly recommend. Nobody, I feel like I don't know anyone who goes here. Yeah. Thousand islands are all these islands in the St. Lawrence river, which is the border between the United States and Canada up there off of Lake Erie. And you can visit little islands there where half the islands in America and half is in Canada. So they have flags on both like a house will be there and it will have flags for both countries. And it's, and there's like, there's a giant castle there that's like the Hearst castle of this area that we got to tour. And I just remember thinking this was like the most, the coolest notion of like, you're, you're in, you are you American or are you kidding? I just thought it was the coolest thing and you take a boat trip through all these islands, the thousand islands. Anyway, highly recommend it's really magical place. Yeah. In the St. Lawrence river. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from delete me. Hey, Pashi. Hey, Sufi. Delete me makes a quick, easy and safe to remove your personal data online at a time when surveillance and data breaches are common enough to make everyone vulnerable. I need to look out for myself. Pashi, I can't have somebody pretending to be Seth Meyers. You know what I mean? 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So like did everything together, dress the same at the holiday, you know, always wearing the same outfits, did the dance classes, the tap dance, you know, recycle together and stuff, played softball together, et cetera. Would your, um, would your younger sister say if, if she could say it, um, in secrecy that you guys were good older sisters or bad older sisters? Well, we're really close now. So my hope is that she would say we were good older sisters. We were a very, very tight family now, but I'm going to be honest with you. I barely remember her existence. I would say, you know, that time when you're like 12 to 18, when you just become so self-involved and so like about your friends and like, you're never really home and you're like, you leave, you leave home at seven in the morning and you're like, you're doing your sports and your activities and I did the play. And like, it's like, I came home like 10 o'clock at night. Like I have no idea. I don't know who her friends were. Right. I don't know much about 12 year old girls, but I know the least interesting thing to them is a seven year old girl. The least interesting thing in the world is a seven year old girl. Like get out of here. That's so funny though, that life where, you know, and again your kids, it's probably already happening for a minor, a little bit younger, but like, right, they just have their own lives and you just don't see them. And I say we just, we, you know, we had a nanny forever. I'm a working mother. I build a village. Um, so I have great help in my life. And I recently we transitioned to what we now call just like the family assistant because I'm like, Oh, I just live in a house with four very busy people, all of whose schedules need to be coordinated. My kids tell me nothing about what they're doing. Right. Like, I'll be like, okay, so we're, and I'm very, I need it to be very organized. Am I, I on the daily, I'm like, so you're picking them up at four. And it's like, no, he texted me. He's coming home at seven. And I'm like, wait, what's happening? What do you mean? Every day is just like, Oh, actually he's at this other kids house. I don't know where he is. I don't, I never know where my kids, what's happening. They tell me it's all, I mean, it's all cars. It's all, all cars. It's all about the pickup and the drop off. My kids don't drive yet. And so somebody has to coordinate to get them home at some point. And I've actually recently started really letting it go. Like, I don't know. They're old. They're, they're like almost six feet tall. Nobody is messing with them. Like they're going to, if they had to walk four miles, they could, do you know what I mean? Like, they know where we live. They'll figure it out. Like they'll get home. And I kind of, I've become more accepting of just like, I don't know. That's how I was. Like you just got home. Yeah. Yeah. Are they, are your boys close? Yes, they are. They're really close. Yeah. Must be the best feeling in the world. It is. They're, they're only 18 and a half months apart, but also, you know, we traveled so much for work. So I would bring, it's like, we went and lived in Germany. We went and lived in Ireland. We've lived. So they had to be each other's playmates for so long. They were each other's like best bud. And then the pandemic, what's the whole thing? I hope I, do you remember that guys? We were locked in our houses. Dude. Yeah. It's crazy. I have like, two soft pandemic jokes. Like when I do stand up, just about like masks. Right. And it's crazy. You can, you really feel the audience be like, Oh, right. Like it's the, like the collective memory loss, which I feel like is part of the coping. It a hundred percent. It's our trauma response. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. A million people died. A million people died. It was a, it was a major 18 month disruption. We're just like, yeah. We're like, oh, yeah. We did play hearts once. Elizabeth. That's right. We did. Mid-pandemic. We played hearts. We played hearts in the pandemic. We had cross paths in our lives, but then like Liz Kikowski was like, Hey, I, you play hearts. Uh, I'm, you know, I'm getting on a zoom to play hearts with, uh, Oh, you played zoom hearts. Yeah. Well, there's a website that you can play cards on. So my family plays pitch. And so I was playing pitch a lot. And hearts is also on the same, the same site that you can log onto and you can play with people all over. And is pitch a four person game? Yeah. It's a four person trick taking game, like hearts and was pitch like a family game when you were a kid? Yes. And it's still a very much a family game. Like it is. And so was that your parents and you and your, and your, uh, Irish twin were the pitch teams? Yes. My dad and I play against my mom and my sister. And, and by the way, played not that long. My parents are divorced, but we played pitch together last summer, I want to say, and it was one of the greatest. It was like, it was, it was so much fun because my parents are so competitive. They're also insanely good card players and they've like handed it down to us. So we're, I'm, I'm a very good competitive card player, but I'm not, I'm not as good as my parents, even, even to this day. And they were, they were like just digging at each other. We were dying, laughing. I mean, we were having the best time and it was like, I was a kid again. It was very, how often are they together? Uh, physically? They're, they're, they're friendly. So like, they'll, they'll do it. When we're all there with the grandkids and stuff, they'll get together. So it's not a big deal. That's so great that they don't have to sacrifice any of that. No, it's not a big deal. We were a big hearts family. And, um, I will say like the, one of the only downside I can think of the fact that I have three kids is it's going to be a problem with hearts. Um, but we have, it's very sad, which is, uh, at the end of every hand, uh, our mom forgets all the rules to hearts. So it's a little bit, it slows it down a little bit because we have to do it. We have to do it. So it's very, very critical because it is, the teams are me and my father versus, but they're only, but for only the last 35 years. Yeah. Exactly. But my, my son made a shoot the moon joke like yesterday. And I don't even know when it was in response to it, but I'm like, I like that he had that reference. So are they, uh, and do you guys play? Do you, in your, we play the four of us play. It's a nice, nice round number. We, I literally just packed it. We're going on spring break and I just packed the cards and like, we have a little pad of paper where we keep the score going. Yeah. We haven't quite shaken out the teams. It's usually me and my oldest and my husband and my youngest, but we'll mix it up a little bit. So I'm like, yeah. But then I ultimately we're, we're creatures of habits. I mean, we sat at the same, we had a little, when the first time my wife, Alexi saw like the table we ate out in the kitchen, she was like, Oh, you guys did not build your life for visitors. Just the tiniest little table and the kids. We all ate at, yeah. And like, I don't even know where you'd get another chair from. Yeah. We were like, yeah. It's like, where do I sit? I'm like, I don't think we, I don't think you do. I think you, there's a later seating for your breakfast. I have multiple card tables in my, in my home, because it's like not every, we also, we play a lot of cribbage. We play, we're a big game family. So we play a lot of, a lot of cards, a lot of cribbage. I have been teaching every one of my life, Majang. I taught Liz Kikowski, Majang recently. Um, I'm a huge Majang. My mother plays, um, my sister's play. So are you part of the Majang boom? Is this something you were doing 10 years ago? Cause it feels like this is the last year and a half I'm hearing about. I am a bit part of the boom. I would say I'm on early to the boom. Yeah. Gotcha. I've been playing now for a little over three years. So my first card was the 20, the early 2023 card. That's how you know how long you were playing. We just got the 20, 26 card. Can I ask what was, what brought, do you know what the boom was? You know, cause I remember the poker boom was because of like Bravo celebrity poker, you know, or whatever, or the, or the, the, the poker, I shouldn't say the poker boom was because they figured out that camera and then that was on. Yeah, that's exactly right. Yeah. Yeah. What was Majang? I don't really know. I, I, my friend grew up playing it and had wanted to teach us for so long, constantly talking about cause, and she, I play hearts with her. I had a card game with her every Tuesday night for 10 years. So for all this time I've known her, she's been like, let's learn Majang. And it's intimidating to learn. I won't deny that. Like it's there, there is a, it's, there's a barrier to entry when it comes to Majang. And she finally was like, I'm just going to bring a teacher over, like let's get a group together and let's just do it. And so she brought a teacher. I think she was playing more in the pandemic. I think the pandemic got a lot of people playing these kinds of games. So bringing it back to that wonderful time. Um, I think was part of the kickoff, the boom, but yeah, I don't know. So yeah, we started playing a few years ago and now have like, I have a, I have a day group and a night group that I play with. That's fantastic. Yeah. Are there in your family, when you're playing, are there ever like little fights? I know your parents might take jabs at each other, but do people get upset? No. It's all good natured. And also the other thing is like my parents very rarely make mistakes in cards. Right? So that's the other thing. Like they're playing, if there's like the best card to play at any given time, they know what they're playing it. Like they're not messing up. Right? So it's usually, it's usually like, at one point my mom, my mom lives in a like assisted living, but like, you know, it's kind of fabulous place. And so she's over playing cards with us. And she's like, gosh, I've been playing with like the memory care people. You know, I'm not, I haven't been playing that often. And my dad literally goes, Oh, and they beat you too. So it's like jokes like that, you know, like they're fun jabs. We had a, we're, I mean, we have a lot of fun when we play cards. We don't like, you know, beat up on anybody for bad play, but we are also, which I guarantee you are Elizabeth Banks, Ney, Liz Mitchell. You are probably, you adhere to the rules of every game. I do. Are my wife's family, the way they play games is just like the loosest adherence to the rules. And it has been, it has been an issue because we're not together that much, both families, but like at Thanksgiving's, it's like, let's play like a board game. You cannot believe. And again, when we try to, when we just try to enforce it gently, it is taken as a personal attack. I feel like Josh, I feel like they're still stung by like, what, what's the spy game? Uh, code names, code names. Love a code name. Great game. And there's a lot of like, like they do that sort of thing. Right. Right. Right. Shut the fuck up. No. One word. One word. Yeah. Them's the rules. Them's the rules. Um, I got banned from playing Settlers of a Catan a while ago. Gotcha. Cause I got really into the negotiating part of it with a friend of mine, who's also like a hardcore negotiator, my friend, Joe, and essentially all the, my husband and her and the wife, my friend were like, we shouldn't, you too can't play this together anymore. Like it's too intense for the rest of us. Like, you know, I'd be like, I need that wheat and you don't need it. And I'm giving you a break. Like what do you mean? I mean, we would go 20 minutes of negotiating before someone would like, I love, by the way, uh, the idea that you're going on spring break and you're packing cards because that, you know, it's interesting. We, I kind of forget what a big part that was of our family vacations, Josh was like, yeah, to, to, you know, have dinner, maybe at some like, you know, Florida hotel and then like go back to a hotel room and just play cards. And that made us like very happy. Yeah. We, we play, my husband and I played gin, Rummy before like, we'll go to cocktails. It's our favorite thing to do. So like go to the bar, have a cocktail, play gin, wait for the table, get seated, dinner, hang. And then, you know, that's our night. We love it. I feel like I saw that in my wife and I were in Ireland last year for like a week before we went to this wedding, but you would see, I would see these Irish families in pubs with decks of cards. Like there would be the traditional music going on, but like, there was a lot more card playing out in public. And I just think it's great. It's funny though, cause I did it in Ireland a lot. We were in London recently in a hotel. We were in the fabulous bar dressed up. I'm sure I had done like scram Norton or something all dressed up. We bring, I'm like, I can't wait. I'm going to have a martini and we're going to play gin. And the waiter came over and said, you can't play cards in here. And we were like, what are you talking about? And he's like, no, it's a weird gamb, it's an old gambling law. Like we don't know. We can't allow gambling. And so, and we're like, well, it's just the two of us. We're just playing gin. And he's like, no, we cannot have cards on the table here. Wow. And I, we were shocked. It was the only time in my life I've been told we can't play cards in the restaurant. Old gambling law. We were in Ireland with a couple of our old friends from Amsterdam and our parents playing. What was, what's the other one? The group game, Josh? The crew. The crew. Fantastic family game. The crew is a cooperative trick taking game. There are two versions of it. There's a space one and an underwater one. The underwater one is maybe fixed some things that were, it's built on the first one, but it's a great game. I love getting a new game. Okay. You're going to love it. It's such a fun four person game. I think you can, can you play with six too? Maybe? Or no, is it? I think you can play with five, but it was just so fun. But there is this thing where you have to, you know, when you're with a bunch of people, when you're on a trip playing cards, it's also like you need to like be with people who understand like, so we're, we'll chat in between hands. Yeah, exactly. But like, we can't, I can't play hearts where I'm like a sensibly card trick counting. And that's also a problem with, with my mom. True. And your mom. Yeah. Well, mom, well, she has so many questions like she has to ask questions all the time. So yeah. Yeah. I, um, I'm a big card counter to you. I mean, that's how you win at cards. You have to know what, yeah, what's already out. Yeah. What, um, were there, did you ever get all Mitchell's together? Were there ever any big family reunions? Guys, we have so many reunions. It's really, there's one coming up in Texas that I probably won't be able to go to. It's going to be one of the first ones I've missed. We do it every two to three years. We were doing it every three years. And then we've kind of upped it to two because the, the older generations getting up there and we want to, you know, we like getting together as much as we can while they're all still here. That's my dad's side. So we have a Mitchell family reunion. And then I have a Howard family reunion on my mom's side every summer on Cape Cod, every summer on Cape Cod. We're about to get together. Where about some Cape Cods are you guys? Hyannis is where my aunt is and where we had our, like we would always go to the little cottage every summer based in Hyannis. Yeah. Right around the corner from the fairies. So. Did you, did you do new, when you got married, was it New England? I got married in LA in an attempt to have less family come because I was paying for the wedding myself and they all came. If you put out a sign that says free liquor and a party, they're all showing up. It turns out it also was like, people went to Disneyland. I remember, you know, it's like people really made like a whole trip out of it, which was unexpected. And like my wedding was 188 people. And I want to say 120 was my family, like my husband's friends and family were much like a, maybe a quarter or a third. Have you, do you think based on, have you folded your husband? Has your husband max folded more into your family than obviously the other way around? Well, his family is just much smaller and they're much, and they're more spread out and they're, so my family is just like so bad. I mean, I think he has, he has cousins I've never met for instance. And that's just not, he had, I have cousins he can't name when he sees them. I mean, so many of, I think, you know, I, there's cousins of ours I haven't seen in years. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. And, and Alexi has never met them. Yeah. Likely never will. I have, he has cousins I've never met. So, and never will, whatever we'll say. And what goes down at either of these family reunions, if you're be at the Cape or the Mitchell ones, is there sort of a, is there a big group activity? Is it kind of a barbecue kind of a thing? What's the, There's always, well, you know, the first thing is there's, I will say technology has made family reunion planning so much easier and better these days. It is kind of wild to just send out like a Google link to everybody, just be like, what's your T-shirt size? And like, you know, so cause it's always about, you gotta have that group photo with everybody wearing the same shirt, you know, no matter what. Um, there's always a logo. We're always like making the logos nowadays. Um, how it works in my dad's family is our, our generation, all the cousins, we basically each of the eight, we call them the grade eight, they, each family has to plan it, right? In wherever they want to do it. So it goes through the family. And so when it was my siblings, me and my siblings turned to host, um, we hosted it in Utah. We did, we had a logo. We got to get cups. You got to get beer, koozies. You got to get, you know, all the merch for the reunion. Um, and it's usually like we, we try and keep it cost effective for everybody. We want everybody to be able to come and have fun. So it's a lot of like state parks and like get a pavilion in the state park and put on, you know, a, a bring your own. Uh, everybody's got their coolers and their whatever. And we're like buying, you know, frozen burgers at Costco and doing that. Okay. We keep it like really just like very relaxed. And then there's usually a big activity. So in Utah, we did a giant river float one day, which was just, so, I mean my 80 year old aunt was just like out in a tube. Like my dad was just tubing down a river in his seventies, you know, um, it was pretty fun. It was really, do your boys get excited about a giant Mitchell family? They do. I think there's enough kids. Like my generation has so many kids now that they all know, you know, it's really fun. I mean, I was just, was back in Massachusetts. I, um, I'm an investor in the Boston legacy NWSL team, the women's soccer team that is just, that's just starting. We literally just had our home opener at Gillette stadium and I got a suite and I had like 46 people come and I'm related to all of them. Do you know what I mean? Like the whole, if we, if there's a chance to get together, like we do it. We really try to take it. We really all love hanging out with each other. It's really fun. We grew up together. Also you have, I mean, that's a credit to you for delivering a pretty cool place to hang out. It was a cool, it was a fun, it was a fun day. Yeah. Still, still just burgers, still just maybe Costco burgers, but it was, um, this is the inaugural season for this. inaugural season. Yes. They, they and Denver are the two new expansion teams in the NWSL. That's fantastic. How many teams are there in the NWSL? Now there are 16 or 17 and they're about to be two more. That's fantastic. It's really cool. And I think it's Boston. I think is a really primed currently to welcome women's sports. We obviously such a storied title town. I mean, we have these incredible teams and they've won a lot of championships and, you know, and the places where they play Fenway and the garden, you know, these are storied places. And I feel like, the soccer team, there's no other women's team, professional women's team. We have a, we have women's professional hockey that I think the Olympics just like really helped put on the map, which is going to be incredible and that's going to grow too. But in terms of growth, the NWSL is doing an amazing job. And I think Boston is really primed to welcome them. And we're building a stadium simply for the team, white stadium, um, down in, down in, uh, Franklin park, which is sort of Jamaica plain work, by the way, where my great grandparents grew up, um, which is really cool. So I'm excited for that as well. It's at the end of the greenway in Boston. Amazing. That's good. I'm very excited about your show with Matthew. Yes. The Mitchell wife coming on a peacock April 9th. April 9th. Very excited. I'm very excited when peacock makes shows. Peacock making shows. It's really exciting. People just watch the burbs was just out and many wife is cut. I mean, they're really, they're doing it. Yeah. I agree. Really exciting. Uh, we also had, uh, we just had a Samara weaving on the show. Yes. And her husband just, I just wanted to use her husband as a reason to shout out cocaine bear. One more time. Yes. Her husband, Jimmy, Samara weaving's husband, Jimmy wrote cocaine bear, which we, I love talking about. I mean, it does. I mean, I feel like while we're talking about family trips, it does not encourage camping. It's not particularly. Um, well, look I, that was a really particular case. Yeah. What are the chances? Yeah. The circumstances. Yeah. A bunch of cocaine is going to fall out in the woods. It's unlikely. It's unlikely. Um, but I also just wanted to say you, you've had such a, um, it's, it's such a cool career to follow and the things you do are, I mean, to, and then to find out you're also, uh, you have your hands on inaugural Boston women's soccer team is, of course, makes perfect sense based on everything else you've done. I really love Massachusetts. Like I said, it's my roots. And I really wanted to build a legacy there. I mean, I, I like enjoy living in California, but again, I have no family here. Like my husband, I have really had to like build the whole village here and it's lovely. Um, but I think people forget too, when you're an actor in LA, you rarely work here unless you're on a television show that shoots here, which is rarer and rarer these days. Um, it's you're, you spend half your life like out and about, you know, at one point, my, my son had lived more time in Louisiana than anywhere else in the world. Like he was basically a citizen of Louisiana. So we made the pitch perfect movies there. And that's where he was. Basically I had him on my hip, like, you know, the first movies and then was doing hunger games and look, making those in North Carolina and like Atlanta. And so, I mean, we were never really here. So it's interesting. We'll be like, aren't you from there? I'm like, well, my kids are from here, but I'm not from here. You know, I've been talking to some Massachusetts people lately who are still pretty mad about you changing your name, but they do feel like you're slowly working your way back. Thank you. They feel like this sock and they said that you're like 40% back. Thank you. I'm trying to make up for it. If the Boston globe will print anything nice about me, that will go a long way towards my reputation. Means the most to my dad. When he liked the amount he sends me, if the globe says something nice, if Matthew Gilbert says something nice. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. Yeah. Are you in the globe? Um, we have to, before we let you go though, uh, you have to answer Josh's speed round questions. Oh gosh. Okay. There we go. You're, you'll be fine. You'll do great. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous or educational? Relaxing, but I'm going to fight about this with my husband currently because I just want to go to beaches and he literally just put a mandate down. No more beaches. Oh my God. He, because he's worried that our kids are getting too, like we're not going to have them much longer, but she's right about and like we've not done like the cities of Europe. Like we've not done home. You know what I mean? Like he's like, we got to go take them to places where they learn educational stuff, like take them to museums. And I'm like, I just want to do nothing. So lie around, you know, but no, his instincts are right. Like on paper, on paper, but like I just don't think like your kids are going to learn anything. Okay. I'm not going to tell him that you sided with him. No, no, I didn't. I think it like it sounds good. And then your kids are like, Oh, I want to be a walk around all day. That's what college is for. I'm confident there are some hotels in Rome that have like beautiful pools and you could just hang there and be like, go show them the stuff you want them to see. I'll be here. I'm going to say, I don't know if they do. I don't think Europe is like, I don't think European cities have good pools. Well, I'm saying there's one. I bet there's a couple. Maybe I, I don't get to seek it out. Yeah. But I'll tell you this. It ain't heated and it's, and there's a, there's three weird guys in it right now. And they're going to be in it later. Banana hammocks. Yeah. Exactly. What is your favorite means of transportation? Um, my favorite means of transportation is gross. I obviously love any private jet I can get my hands on. Okay. Yeah. Well, rare, rare, rare. Um, so I would say the train. I want, I'm dying to go on the Orient Express. Oh, that's, yeah. Yeah. I really want to get it. If you could take a vacation with any family, alive or dead, real or fictional, other than your own family, what family would you like to take a vacation with? I shot a film once on a, on a boat on a beautiful yacht off of Malta. And the guest book had the McCartney's in it, Paul and set like the whole family. And to this day, I was like, man, that would have been a really nice way to spend a week of my life. I think it's a very good vibe to travel. That would have been a fun, fun vibe. So probably that. Yeah. Uh, if you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? My dog, Saucer. Great. What kind of dog? No hesitation. Saucer is a schnoodle, but he's got, he's got just enough terrier hound in him. I think that he would catch me some food, right? Yeah. I think he would help me get fed and he would just be, I think, uh, he would be a help. I like the, I'm trying to frame this as anything other than you like him the most. I just, it's a survival thing. I really, you know, it's not about anything but survival the rest of my family. He'll just help me survive. Yeah. What is your dream destination for a family vacation? I really want to go on safari. I've never been on safari. I really want to go safari in Africa big time. You are from Pittsfield, Massachusetts. If you had to get more families to come visit Pittsfield, what would you tell them about the town? Pittsfield, I would say, um, tons of arts organizations in Pittsfield. There's so much to do and see in terms of Tanglewood and Jacob's Pillow and Berkshire Theater Festival. The summer is glorious there. So I really love being in there in the summer. I, my kids go to camp back East in the Berkshires and it's because in the summer it's like you're at camp, like, you know, you can kayak and it's just so lovely. So that's my, that's the sell. Yeah. Uh, and then Seth has our final questions. Elizabeth, have you been to the Grand Canyon? I have. And was it worth it? Yes. Yes. It's so worth it. Yeah. But given the choice, if you were talking to somebody and they're like, I can either go to Niagara Falls or the Grand Canyon. Where should I go? Niagara Falls, I think. Thank you. Cause it's just, you get it, but you can do it in two hours. I, the Grand Canyon, I also think about you got to go to Zion and you got to go to arch, you know, there's so many, there's almost two, you need a whole week. Like you need to go to all, there's so many places to go. And I, there's some that I haven't been to and some that I have and I, I, and also then you've got Yellowstone and Yosemite. Hey, I'm sold. I'm going to see Niagara Falls. So Niagara Falls, you're like, you did it. You can do it in a couple of hours. You go in the mate of the mist and you're like, your brain is blown out of your head. Perfect. This has been delightful. So nice to see you. Love to you and your family. Thanks guys. It's so fun to see you guys too. And anytime you want to play online hearts, you know where I am. Yeah. And check out the crew. Also Skull. I don't know if you've played Skull. Skull is my new, my new favorite game that's come out of nowhere. Okay. Skull. I'm into it. All right. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Got to give thanks to Elizabeth Banks. Showed up to the podcast with stories. Her parents divorced, but it's not a bad sit. They're still trading playful barbs when they play pitch. Station wagon in the way back. Love the cell. I did her time on them track. Visiting family. One time coming home from Chicago. You know, it's starting to snow. So Elizabeth Banks jumped off the train. Conductor said they were doing that. My favorite first went the bags. Then went her dad. Mama had to throw out the baby. Oh, probably broke laws. The train didn't pass. Had to get home so they could beat Santa Claus. Only option for the little stations. Because if they stopped, wouldn't get going again. Her little sis was like she didn't exist. One time she got left on the mass fight. The car drove away. Elizabeth wave. I was wicked panic, but she was OK. Lost to discuss about their Canada trip. Dad got a ticket, but he never paid it. Blue Jays win the thousand islands. Dad spit out the window. It just came back in the head. Her sister's head, they got those jiggly beds. Brother chucking things out on the road. Niagara Falls. Car accident. How's it your fault when you get re-rendered? Did a movie? Found out somebody. Had her exact name on the screen actors' guild. So she changed her name to Elizabeth Banks. But when things go sideways, Liz Mitchell still gets the blame. When things go sideways, Liz Mitchell still gets the blame.