Barcelona Festival Chaos, Arnold Sighting, & Dad On A Box Truck: Listener Episode #23

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The reason Josh sings a song at the end of these is because Josh has always sung a song at our get-togethers with friends. But this is above and beyond the fact that you taught everybody different parts of the best song in Les Mis. Yeah, one day more. But this was one drink more for your friend Molly. And it was incredible. Who, but you sent me a video. Obviously, it was from different cameras, different phones. Who edited it together? My dear friend, Alex Gorosh, who is our director over at California Now. Gotcha. And so any of the stuff that we do on location there, he's our shooter and he's just a great director. We've worked together on a lot of stuff through the years and he, yeah, he compiled sort of all the different phone videos. He edited it together with the best shots. He laid in the subtitles. So if you aren't picking up the lyrics, they're right there for you. And yeah, I watched it yesterday and he was like, Hey, is this okay? Like, do you have any notes? And I was also crying and I was like, No, no, no notes. It's something else. It really speaks to, I'm going to cry again, but it speaks to the kind of friend you are to people, Poshi. Yeah. Well, I was not a lot of people get an expression of You're a one of one, Posh. No, Sufi, thank you. It was my honor to do it and I was so, I have talked about it here, but I was so delighted that everyone jumped on board and people rehearsed their parts on their own. That part was amazing. And like, I will say, and I don't know if I said this before, but we had a rehearsal. We were up in Ojai for this birthday party and we were staying at this great hotel and Mackenzie and I had this little patio that we hadn't used at all. And people were like, are we going to have a rehearsal? And I was like, I don't know when it's going to work out to have a rehearsal. And there were a couple of people who had solos and they were kind of clamoring for it. And then there was a little gap in the afternoon. It was like 4.30 and I could tell some people were like going to go take a little nap before the evening kicked off. It was a seven o'clock cocktail hour, eight o'clock dinner. And I was in the pool and got a sense that Molly was going to take a nap. And I was like, all right, six o'clock rehearsal in our room. And we probably had 20 people piled into our little patio. And I was like, let's just be quiet, but people couldn't be quiet. Yeah, it's a very hard song to be quiet for. Yeah. And rehearsal was so fun. And every like first time through people were great. Like, and I was like, do we do it again? And people said, yeah, let's do it. So, yeah. I also, I mean, it is, I might be my favorite Broadway song of all time. It is also a song that I sing full-throatedly when the Steelers extend their season. Yeah. It's that it leads up when we go away for our sort of our fantasy football draft weekend. It's typically like a one day more text goes out the day before we all get there. It is a true rallying call. Yeah. I remember once there was some sort of event at my apartment. It was before Alexia and I were married and she was hosting our family and there was a lot going on. I don't think you were there, but dad was there, mom was there. And the Steelers were, if they lost, they were out. And I remember just, they were losing by a lot and then they beat maybe the Packers. But I remember like bringing mom and dad into my bedroom and closing the door and soft singing one day more. Well, it's nice that you say such nice things about me. And because also when I first talked about Ohai on this, on the pod, it was for a listener episode. And you were not there for, it wasn't a listener episode. I was an intro to the episode that Mackenzie was in. Oh, right. And I had to record a solo intro. And Mackenzie was very worried about, am I going to sound okay on the show? Am I going to look okay? Like she was just, it's not what she does. So she was a bit unsettled and she was worried about the episode coming out. And then it comes out and she's great. She's so charming. She's so sweet. And me, I'm not a big comment person, but... You don't like the comments. The comments section is not for you. I don't want to engage with it too much because then it makes me self-conscious. And I think choosing to not engage with the comments section is a very healthy choice. I was not being judgmental. Yeah. I mean, I like that people are commenting and occasionally there might be cause to go in. But Mackenzie starts reading comments and she sends me one about the solo intro. And apparently I was pretty ornery the morning I dropped it. So, and Mackenzie is like, if you need to do a solo intro, maybe I should do it with you. Maybe just to like calm you down a little. Because I told the story about, you know, me and Devin where people... People thought you were a little bit of a Karen. Yeah. Yeah. So, I'll read this review. But I was mad that this like fancy golf course that I'd paid a lot of money to play. There were two Five-Sums in front of me and Devin. And for the uninitiated, a Five-Sum is sort of a bit of a no-no, correct? It's definitely, it's against the rules. And if we've also established... Okay, so it's not, this is not a gray area. This is... No, it's hard. Yeah. It's hard and fast. And you know, we also, we talk about games and rules. And we like rules. We like rules. Rules are an incredible part, an incredibly vital part to a functioning society. Yeah, but T.G. Weiss 67 wrote of me in my intro. I love you guys, but wow, Josh is a real Karen. Tatletail complainer. Just be direct and ask if you can move in front of the Five-Sums. Quite whiny, passive aggressive. I hate to call them out, but it did feel a little lame. Wow. I would say no punches pulled by DG74 or whatever it was. Yeah, T.G. Weiss 67. I hear you, T.G. Weiss. I will say we did say, hey, can we go through and the Five-Sum in front was like, there's a Five-Sum in front of us too, which doesn't really... And I'm not looking to get in a fight on the golf course. I just lodged a complaint with the pro shop. Yeah. Well, I personally don't think that you are a Karen in this case. Thank you. I would also say, yeah, I don't know what I would do. I probably would have just been like, all right, I guess this is a sign we should go home. Yeah, but we really wanted to play this golf course. And we could have driven around them, but then you missed three holes and we weren't there to play. That's 15 holes of golf. Right, right, right. It probably cost us 45 minutes on our day. I'm sorry about the pool set. That's okay. I've rallied back. You've rallied back. But I think the important thing is no solo intros for old Poshi. That's when he takes out his axe and grinds it. I just sort of write some quick notes. 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Apple Card is issued by Goldman Sachs Bank, USA's Salt Lake City branch. Terms and more at applecard.com. Here we go. Well, this is very exciting. It's time for stories from listeners. We asked our listeners- I hope they're not stories about me being a Karen. No, no, but we did say to our listeners, send in a story where you behaved as badly as Josh did on the golf course. That's not true. Yeah, this is no Karen's, but we do have stories we love listening to them. We're very lucky to have Sam here, a producer, who's going to roll them for us. All right, so let us hear our first one, Sam. Hi, Josh and Seth. This is Andrew from Oregon. As a Foreign Service Officer living overseas, I've enjoyed the show's nostalgic focus on memories from a particular time in America when travel was basically road trips and boardwalks and backseat bingo. Here's my story. I grew up in Oregon, which in part means two things. We all go to the Oregon coast on vacation. We don't call it the beach. It's not warm enough. And we all have an encyclopedic knowledge of the movies filmed at the coast. For example, Short Circuit and Point Break. This second point is important in my family because my dad grew up in Astoria, the location of the most famous Oregon film- Goonies. The Goonies. Released in 1985, the Goonies was a sort of backdrop for our family trips to Astoria for a few reasons, including my grandma's longstanding but unverified claim that she had been an extra in one of the downtown Astoria scenes, only to be left on the cutting room floor. Most of our yearly road trips to Astoria included visits to the jail the Fertile's escaped from at the start of the movie, Mikey's Victorian style house on the hill, and scenic bluffs overlooking Haystack Row. With us pretending we were looking through a stone skull to identify the location of one of Willie's treasure. One of our yearly stops was actually just south at Ecolos State Park near Cannon Beach. Ecolos State Park stretches for nine miles along some of the most beautiful coastline in Oregon. Once explored by Lewis and Clark in search of a beached well, the park has sweeping views of the misty coastline, including the famous Haystack. On one visit, which included my visiting aunt, uncle, and cousins from Illinois, my dad aimed the Dodge Ram Van up the hill toward Ecolos and our favorite viewpoint. The Oregon coast is not warm, even in summer. Most people don't swim without a wetsuit and rolled up jeans for tide pulling and hoodies or the uniform. Reaching a good viewpoint on a sunny day, which it was, especially with out-of-town visitors, is kind of the unicorn of Oregon coast activities. As an important aside, let me say that my dad was a lawyer who made his living in dissecting local ordinances and my uncle, an aerospace engineer, happened to be pretty buffed due to bodybuilding during his youth. As we reached the entrance to the park, we were stopped by a young boy scout, which was unusual. My dad rolled down his window and the kid politely told us that the park was closed for the day due to the filming of a movie. A movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. We were equal parts frustrated and thrilled. We had family to impress on one of the few sunny days at the coast. And Arnold was in town. Family memories diverged at this point. Some say my dad looked down his nose at the poor, peach-fuzz-faced boy and said, son, I'm an attorney registered with the Oregon Bar Association. I know for a fact you cannot block entry into a public state park. Others say my dad looked at the boy, looked at my uncle and said, son, this man here is a stunt double for Mr. Schwarzenegger and he needs access to the set right away. Whatever he said, the boy scout shrunk back and let us through. We somehow found a parking spot amid a swarm of legitimate extras and quickly blended into the background of what appeared to be a school carnival scene. We were captivated as the Austrian oak stood at the center of actors, cameras, lighting, and to the disbelief of my mom, an assistant whose only job appeared to be to hold an umbrella over Arnold's head. As Oregonians, we generally avoid umbrellas in favor of raincoats. But the idea of using an umbrella, really a parasol, to avoid the famously meek Oregon coast's sun, shocked us. Did the Terminator really need an umbrella in a 70 degree day, my mom wondered aloud? We had stumbled upon kindergarten cop, in which Arnold plays John Kimball, a hard boiled LAPD detective who goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher in small town Astoria to catch the bad guy. It of course became one of our family favorites, both because it was filmed in Astoria and because we like to think we might spot ourselves in the background. Our trips to Astoria, Cannon Beach, and nearby seaside, where you can still find pronto pup corn dogs, agate shops, and bumper cars are some of my best memories growing up. Your show reminds me of that feeling, a feeling I hope I'm sharing with my children when we take them home over the summer from wherever we're living overseas to Oregon. Mine is Arnold, of course. Thanks for the awesome podcast. That was just a fantastic story. Thank you, Andrew. I think I've been to that park. The Oregon coast, if you've never been, is just jaw dropping. It's beautiful. It's so rugged. And then to add on top of that, Arnold. Yeah. Well, my umbrella. The two suns. Somebody give my umbrella to protect me from the Oregon sun. I will go swim later. Where's my wetsuit? This is a tiny wetsuit. How am I supposed to fit into this to sew together two wetsuits for my jaw muscles? This one wetsuit. This guanies is good enough for me. Later, I'm going to go to the police station where they got away. No way. They shot guanies here. Here's where they shot guanies with Joey pants. No way. Also short circuit. The mama from the train. These are other fatalities in the movie. John Matuzak, he was an NFL player. He was junk. I mean, talk about a movie that holds up. Yeah. I haven't seen guanies in a while, but you got kids. So you were watching some guanies. Well, the first, I was on a plane, and we've talked about this sensation where somebody like a row up and one, like the aisle across one row up was watching guanies and I was just like watching them watch guanies. Because it didn't seem like I should watch guanies on a plane. But then at some point, I'm like, how would I just watch guanies? And first of all, it's beautiful, that movie. Like, because again, it does take place in the most beautiful place. For me, I like a rainy, sort of like mossy, like everything to look a little like soft. Yeah. That's what's going on up there. I got that old growth. The guanies genuinely scary, genuinely moving. Great, great movie. And a fun one. Josh Brolin, a young Josh Brolin is the older brother. You know what? Movie I think I've maybe never seen. What's that? Kindergarten Cop. I have never seen Kindergarten Cop. I feel like it felt too young for us when it came out. Definitely was. And so it's like, I don't know. But I bet it's really fun. I can do one line from it. Oh yeah? Well, can you? You got it. I know you got this. No, it's not a tumor. It is, it's not a tumor. Yeah, there's a kid in the kindergarten. I only know it from the trailer. Yeah. But it's not a tumor. Yeah. All right. Well, sorry, I delivered it so questionably. You've got to believe in yourself. Yeah. I remember we were at our grandmother Addie's house in Marblehead, New Hampshire, and the witches of Eastwick was being shot. Oh yeah. And I remember like Cher walking by. Yeah. And we saw like a couple people and it is like, it's so exciting or it was so exciting to see a celebrity and be like, what's being shot here? And to stumble upon, unexpl... Like to be going somewhere and then all of a sudden have a turn into like, oh no, Arnold Schwarzenegger's here. That's... I'm going to tell you, I'll do you one better. I'm... I have a talk show. I meet celebrities every day. When I walked on the street in New York City and they're filming a movie, I'm always like, oh, there's a movie. I was like, oh my God. Are there any celebs? Anybody see any celebs? Like it's like, you just feel like you're stealing, I don't know, like you're just like, it's like free showbiz. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's a great park. I'm confident I've been there. And really, I feel like kindergarten cop is maybe one that you could watch with your kids. I, another book that takes place up in logging country, maybe top five Sufi book is sometimes a great notion by Ken Keezy. And it was a movie with Paul Newman that is impossible to find. And there was a clip of it. Ethan Hawke did this fantastic documentary about Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. And there was a clip of it in the movie. And I actually wrote Ethan and said, you know, I've been trying to see that movie for years. It goes, it's so hard to find. And I then followed up and said, I, you know, I've heard it's not great. And he said, it's way better than you've heard. And there's one of the great movie scenes of all time. So that's kind of continues to be my like, I don't know, my white whale of a movie that I'm dying. Yeah. There's a very, there's one of the most haunting sections ever in that book. Yeah. So I'm going to go into now, but also like that book jumps narrators, like paragraph to paragraph. It's not, you can't be super casual in reading it, but if you put in the time, it sort of pays you back. It is one of those, not to, not to get into, turn this into a late night lit, but it's a very challenging book that pays off. Like once you figure out what's going on, everything, you know, nothing has been written to confuse you. Right. It is, it's all purposeful. And, you know, I'm in a book club. I'm not ashamed about that. We're reading A Sound in the Fury by William Faulkner. Another one that is just impenetrable off the jump. Just an impenetrable narrator. I think it's just like, I had to like read, there's like nine different timelines in the first chapter, nine, you know, just moments in time. And you're like, this is, and then as you read, it's four chapters by the fourth section, you cannot put it down because you're like, oh, I understand everything now. And I get what everything's for. Not dissimilar to like the wire is like, it's like, it's slow. It's like, I don't know. And then it's when pieces start connecting, it's like, oh, no, no, this is, no, everything they've done this entire time has been for a reason. Yeah. Well, thank you, Andrew. I hope you guys still, thank you for, for your work there and the Foreign Service as well. Yeah. Keep looking out. Thanks for looking out. Yeah. We got another story, Sam. Hi, my name is Brandy Graf. I'm from Inca, Alaska. And in 2019, my husband and I went to Barcelona for our honeymoon. At the time we were living in Boise, Idaho, and it took over 24 hours to get from Idaho to Spain. By the time we landed, we were a little exhausted and overwhelmed, especially trying to figure out how to get from the airport to our Airbnb. Someone at the airport was really helpful and pointed us to an underground subway and told us exactly what stopped to get off on. We start heading down to the subway and it felt like endless stairs. It was like we were going into the depths of the earth. We finally get on the train with all of our luggage. I definitely do not pack lightly and we ride for a while, completely exhausted, but also excited to get to our place and finally get some sleep. We get off at our stop as we were told and we cannot find a way out. We're wandering around this underground platform looking at all the stairs, trying to figure out how we actually get to the street level. We finally find the right stairs and as we're walking up, I can see the night sky and I'm so relieved to see open air. I'm thinking, okay, we're close, we're almost there, we can finally go and relax. But then I start hearing noise, like a lot of noise, a huge crowd of people. We get to the top of the stairs and the streets are flooded with people. There are signs and chanting and singing and what looks like a full-on parade. And that's when I realized we've come up right in the middle of the International Women's Day march in Barcelona, which I later learned is one of the largest in the world. So here we are, dragging our very heavy luggage, which everyone told us not to pack, over Calvastone streets, trying to weave through this massive crowd and not bump into anyone or get in the way. And at one point, we literally have to cross the street in front of the parade. Eventually, a taxi driver pulls over, well, wasn't pulled over, they were just there, we come across them and asked if we're where we're going and if he can take us there. Again, we're relieved, like here we go, maybe they can get us where we need to go. And my map is still showing we're like two miles from the Airbnb. We hop in and then we don't move at all, we don't move at all, like not even a single foot. The place is so packed with people that our car can't even move an inch. We sit there for about 15 minutes and don't go anywhere. Finally, the driver turns to us and is like, well, sorry, this is as far as I can take you, and charges us 15 euros for that. We end up walking the rest of the way to the Airbnb and thankfully our host was incredible. He was waiting outside for us to make sure that we found our way. He had a bottle of wine ready and we got to our room. The whole time I had such a brave face on, but as soon as we shut the door, I broke down crying. We drank the entire bottle of wine and we got 12 hours of sleep and had an amazing rest of the trip. Everything was flawless after that and I wouldn't change a single minute. That is fantastic. Now, Posh, do you think the taxi driver was like, I'm going to be sitting in traffic anyway? Yeah. It might as well pick up a fare. If someone's willing to get in, I also think it might have been worth 15 euros to sit for a half an hour and have your luggage taken care of instead of having to stand and be jostled. I don't think it's really a great service that that taxi driver provides. No, we don't want to make him the hero or anything. Coming up against a parade, I imagine when they said they had to cross right in front of it, it's that sort of running in front of an approaching train kind of a vibe. Because if the head of the snake of a parade is coming your way and you've got to pull luggage in front of it, you know what they call International Women's Day Parade in Spain? What's that? The running of the girls. Now, as a dude, I feel like when you're in the middle of a women's day parade, are you like, do I help my wife with her luggage? Or is that the patriarchy? Yeah. Is it like, I told her not to pack this much? Or is it like, we're equals. She's got to carry her luggage. I carry my luggage. I would definitely be like, I don't know what way to play this. It is, when you travel, I imagine you rarely are checking luggage. We almost never check. Yeah. Yeah. That's one of the nice things about, by the way, there's almost nothing nice about this, but now that our kids were buying full plane tickets for our kids, right? I think they're only free until they're two years old, but you have, at this point, you have the luggage allowance for five people. Right. That which is not bad. But it's so, I'm very much like, if Mackenzie's checking, then I'm like, all right, then I'll bring my check back too. Yeah. But then, yeah, we know some people who are old school checkers, like Andrew Moskos, I remember. Yeah. He's, but he also thinks like being at the airport is part of the vacation. So, you don't want to be like rolling around the suitcase saying, and now I go shopping. Yeah. This also, this friend of ours, Andrew Moskos, has a theory that if you've never missed a plane, then you're getting to the airport too early, and his wife is like- He's an insane person. I never want to miss a plane. I never want to miss a plane. Also, I missed one flight one time and was like, it completely changed the way I operated, whereas he's like, right at passage. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm glad that Brandy's take is that she wouldn't have changed a thing. I think it is those gauntlets that you have to go through, those trials that make the rest of a trip like that so much sweeter. I hope it was the bump in the road and the rest of it was smooth sailing. And I think if he had been with you, Arnold would have said, 15 euros for this. This is the vibe. We've only got a few blocks. Really good, Sufi. Really been dialing. Thank you, buddy. I wanted to wait until you forgot that was part of this episode. Oh no, it's a parade. Oh no. Go back down the stairs. I will say, horror movie nightmare style being in a foreign subway where I don't know how to get out. Oh yeah. That feels like- I mean, our buddy Jordan Peele should just make a fucking movie where somebody gets on a subway in a foreign country and then gets out at the end of the line and it's just like- I mean, that's kind of what the us, you know, where they just like go down like, stairs, stairs and stairs. Yeah. I was going to say, we almost had Arnold on the pod, but it didn't work out timing-wise. He had a book a couple of years ago. But we would love to have him on and we would love to see- I had the tons of dronk. To do with Eastern time and it was specific. I miss the family trips. Oh, some of the good stuff. So it turns out, Sufi, we both do very good impressions of California governors. Yeah. Oh, that's true. Yeah. Yeah. Good way of looking at it. Yeah. Finally. And also, there's only one of him. So it's not like when you do an Australian impression, a whole fucking country's mad at you. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, there are other Austrians. Yeah, but I feel like- Do you think they all sound like him? You've ever heard Bill Burr's bit? Bill Burr has a great bit, which was like, like he pulled off the hardest, like a guy born in Austria became a weightlifting star, than a movie star, than the governor of California. Just like, like that it's the most impressive act that anyone has ever accomplished. And he's not right. Impressive man. He's not wrong. Yeah. No doubt about it. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from Butcherbox. Spring is giving fresh start vibes. Like suddenly you want to open the windows, drink more water, maybe act like you have your life together. But then all of a sudden, dinner rolls around and you are, you know, all of a sudden you're back to your old habits. You're ordering takeout. But that's why Butcherbox is where you should turn. 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But for whatever reason, one year we decided we were going to go to a different place for spring break and we had some family in the Maryland Delaware area, so we were like going to go down there for, you know, change it up. So we rented a condo on the beach and it was just like a small condo, simple rent on the beach so we could go to the beach and hang out. We get to the condo, we drove down from Vermont, we get to the condo and there's no sheets or pillowcases or towels anywhere in the entire house. So apparently we were supposed to bring that stuff with us, which we didn't know whether it was an oversight on our part, I have no idea, but we didn't have any sheets or towels or anything like that. So we go to like Walmart or Kmart, buy some towels, buy some sheets, pillowcases, so we can, you know, have something to use while we're there. And to preface, my mom really didn't want to do this trip, I don't think, and my dad was like, it'll be great. So that's like strike one for the trip so far. And then the idea of staying in the condo on the beach was that we could just go down to the beach and it was somewhere that we could walk from our condo. And then we get a notification from the condo association that there's some sort of like wartime relic being dug up from the beach that washed up and could potentially explode. So there's like a bomb warning down on the beach and the whole entire beach is closed for the duration of however long it takes them to dig that up and get like a bomb squad and whatever. So now we are no beach, no towels, no sheets or pillowcases. So, you know, the trip goes on and we're trying to find stuff to do because, you know, we can't go to the beach. So we're trying to find stuff to do in the area, driving around in our suburban. And all of a sudden we get rear ended so hard in traffic by a box truck. And like all of us slam forward, I whiplash, the truck tries to pull away and leave the scene of the crime. And my dad who is probably the most passive man I know, like to make him, I've probably seen him mad like three times in my life. And this was one of them. My dad gets out of the car, runs up to the box truck and like hops up on the side and is like, you're not going anywhere. And we're in the middle of traffic in Delaware, like what's dad doing? And so anyway, the truck did not leave, the police came, you know, we did the whole thing. And so now our car is bent so that we can't open the trunk anymore. And we all have whiplash. And we like go back to our condo where we don't have sheets or towels, we can't go to the beach. And I'm pretty sure if I remember correctly, like I was fairly young at this time, but I'm pretty sure we ended up going home early because we were just like, let's cut our losses and drive back to Vermont. But it does make for a good story. And I do think my mom likes to rag on my dad because she was like, I told you so, we shouldn't have done that. But anyway, it was a great story to be able to tell and look back and laugh at it because in the end, none of it was a huge deal at all. Love listening to the pod, love hearing the calling stories of people and quite army. Right, just kill. Right, just kill. Fantastic. And I kind of like the thesis of our pod when we started, which was how memorable a great, how memorably great a bad vacation is. Yeah. Yeah, that's one that's going to stick with you. That's a comedy of errors. A dad jumping on the side of a box truck is pretty good. Yeah. A mild mannered dad. Now our dad is not mild mannered and I could see him jumping up on the side of a box truck. Oh yeah. That would just be like Tuesday. Yeah. I think we've talked about it, but there was, we were at Skipple airport in Amsterdam. And there was like a long line to like check luggage and two business guys walked by to like the front of the line. And according to dad, they were acting like they were like misunderstood where the line was. And then since they were at the front of it, they just tried to kind of weasel their way in and dad stepped out of line and pointed at them and said, hey, you, get in the back. And they were, and then they kind of like started doing, they started like speaking Dutch and he's like, you speak English. You speak English. And he wasn't wrong. I mean, there's no, there's no businessmen and Holland that don't speak English. So dad was like, fuck, you don't die. I know you. Yeah. Really good. Every, every part about that was just, just fantastic. Going home early from a trip, I think is, I think that's allowed. I think that's pretty cool. Yeah. Sometimes it's the right call. What are you gonna, how are you gonna put it back together once the piece is. It's also like, hey, everybody's ready to love home. Everybody love home now. Let's go. Also, like if you get home, if you get home and you still have say two days of vacation time, that's like, you do whatever you want to do. Like, yeah, if we want to go out, go get pizza, we want to just go to the movies. Like we're still on vacation, but we're here. Yeah. Very, very, very allowed. I also think I like that observation that the mom, her mom likes that trip because she can still bust on the dad for it. So I'm so, I screwed up so bad, Posh, which is, you know, stand up one week in a month. Yeah. Book Denver on a Friday. Said to my agent, hey, try to find me something close enough. He's like, you want to go to Albuquerque and I'm like, great, I'll go to Albuquerque. It's the Saturday before Mother's Day. I know Albuquerque, go there all the time because that's where my wife's from. There's no way to get back in time for Mother's Day. It's the fucking hardest place in the world to get back from. Saturday, like, oh, Saturday and then Sunday. Sunday morning. So now Sunday, it's Mother's Day. And like, even if I bust ass and get the first flight out, got to connect, blah, blah, blah. And I own this and it is totally my fault and I feel great shame about it. However, I do secretly think the best Mother's Day gift I can give her is something to complain about. Like where she's unimpeachably in the right, you know what I mean? Like this is not a complaint where like, you know, she's not, she's right. Like I've given her. Right. And there's no, there's no like, oh, well, you were off making money that supports our family. Oh. Like, cut that part out, Sam. I got this nice. Cut that part right out, Sam. But then maybe Posh and I'll reconnect on that later. Yeah, that's tough. We were, I was going to maybe try to go home for Mother's Day this year, but I got a buddy's 40th that weekend and it's a big, we're going away, but I'm going to see them shortly thereafter. And you got to write a huge fucking musical number for it. Mom will, mom will understand and I'm going to see her nine days later. So. Nice. Yeah. All right. That's a great story, Samantha. Thanks as always for those fantastic stories. It is, you know, one of our nicest parts of our week to listen. Yeah, great stories, great, great details in those stories. The story's in the details and, you know, a box truck helps you sort of visualize it. The International Women's Day March. That's Arnold with the parasol. Yeah. I got hit once. I got re-rendered by a bag truck once. I think we should probably wrap this up. I think I've lost my mind. Oh, wait. Should we wrap it up or do you want, should Arnold wrap this one up? There was a bag truck. They put the mirror in the back of the wheels. All right. Love you, Pashi. Thanks everybody. Love you, Sufi. Yeah, listeners. Good trip gone bad. Three stories to laugh with. Once a month, don't you know that we drop a listen to episode. So here we go. In Oregon, family trip was going on. Out in Astoria, for Alpha Storia. Short circuit and point break. Uncle was up, beefcake. Nicola stayed, park was closed. At least that's what they were told. When they, when they pulled up, there was a voice scout. Said that they had to be kept out. Dad took a look and said, I'm a lawyer and that's against the law. Drove up was a movie shooting and it wasn't an illusion. Arnold was under an umbrella. The governor was under an umbrella. Sunday, day, two, day. More of a parasol than an umbrella. I need more shade. Was just a giant fella. You heard a rumor. Under an umbrella. It's not a tumor. And Brandy Wayne's from Idaho to Spain. Full day spent on a plane. And then the subway went down so many stairs. Couldn't get out of there. Immersion located. Middle of a parade. No way. Brandy and her husband pulled and luggage. Through the streets while they were flooded with women marching in unity. Brandy just want to get to that B and B. Problem solved. They found a taxi. Took the load off in the back seat. Fifteen minutes. They just sat there. Fifteen euros to go nowhere. They had to pay up without going nowhere. Waited but gave up. That is just no fair. Dark rest of the way. Least there was a host there. Mine made it okay. Samantha went to Delaware. Beach was closed for a bomb. Scared gotta be kidding me. There were no sheets on the bed. Box truck re-rendered her dad. Jumped up onto the truck's cab. No, not going anywhere. Trip was doomed from the beginning. I know didn't have the linens. Beach was closed cause there was a bomb. Pretty good validation for her mom. Overall they were unlucky. Failed early cause it was sucky. Maybe next time Florida. Always had fun in Florida. Grandma, grandpa. Eh, eh, eh. Down in Florida. They have sheets and pillowcases. Down in Florida. What a bust of a spring break break. Delaware or Maryland. Won't make that mistake again. Once again, all is no sentiment. And they went three for three with stories. Once again, all is no sentiment. And they went three for three with stories.