Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers

This week on the pod, Seth and Josh welcome Josh Johnson! Josh talks about growing up in Alexandria, Louisiana, his path from working a variety of jobs to becoming one of comedy’s most prolific voices, and the moves that took him from Louisiana to Chicago and eventually New York. He also shares stories about family travel, including childhood road trips across the South, annual vacations with his...

This week on the pod, Seth and Josh welcome Jimmy Tatro! Jimmy talks about growing up in Los Angeles in Venice, CA and the family trips that shaped his childhood. He shares stories from annual adventures to Sequoia family camp, long road trips to Colorado ski resorts, and the snowboarding accident that left him with a broken back. Jimmy also reflects on making early comedy and skate videos with hi...

Josh is joined by a special guest co-host for this month’s listener episode…his wife, McKenzie! While Seth is away, the two catch up about Mackenzie’s recent trip home to western Massachusetts for her high school reunion, including nostalgic visits to her old campus, time with both parents, a newly renovated porch and chimney that sparked plenty of conversation, and a stop at the recently reopened...

This week on the pod, Seth and Josh welcome Marla Mindelle! Marla talks about growing up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, her journey from musical theater kid to Broadway star, and the path that led her from performing onstage to creating her own work. She shares stories from the whirlwind of Tony season, including performing at the Tony Awards while starring in Titanique. Marla also reflects on ear...

This week on the pod, Seth and Josh welcome Kerri Kenney-Silver! Kerri talks about growing up between New York and Connecticut, spending summers with family in Illinois, and the memorable trips that shaped her childhood. She shares stories from a Bicentennial RV adventure, a hurricane-interrupted vacation in Jamaica, visits to the infamous Action Park, and how her parents navigated a supportive di...

This week on the pod, Seth and Josh welcome comedian Brooks Wheelan! Brooks talks about growing up in Iowa with few family vacations, spending summers on his grandparents’ farm in Missouri, and taking memorable trips to the Wisconsin Dells. He shares stories about not seeing the ocean until he was 21, discovering travel later in life, and finding himself on adventures everywhere from Corsica, wher...

This week on the pod, Seth and Josh welcome Tatiana Maslany! Tatiana shares what it was like growing up in Regina, Saskatchewan, AKA the “middle of nowhere,” her multilingual upbringing, learning German as a baby, doing French improv as a kid, vivid memories of adventurous family trips filled with hiking, biking, cross-country skiing, and long drives to Banff, plus stories of Regina Beach fish and...

Josh is joined by a very special guest for this month’s listener episode of Family Trips with the Myers Brothers...his dad, Larry Meyers! The two chat about Larry’s recent cruise through Morocco, Spain, and Portugal, a stressful lost-passport situation in Porto, podcasting’s shift toward video, and of course, the family’s beloved Old English Sheepdog, Albert VI. They also hear some incredible list...

This week on the pod, Seth and Josh welcome Ziggy Marley! Ziggy talks all about growing up in Kingston as the son of Bob Marley, what his father’s fame felt like during his childhood, and the family trips that shaped him: from modest weekends in the Jamaican countryside to traveling to Zimbabwe for the country’s 1980 independence celebration. He also shares stories about moving to Delaware for a y...

This week on the pod, Seth and Josh welcome Billy Eichner! Billy talks all about growing up in Queens with supportive parents, his early dreams of becoming a child actor, and how his live comedy show eventually evolved into Billy on the Street. He also shares family trip stories including annual Miami and Disney vacations, seeing Starlight Express on Broadway, and a memorable San Francisco motel s...

This week on the pod, Seth and Josh welcome Anna Konkle! Anna talks all about growing up between Vermont and Scituate, Massachusetts, meeting her PEN15 creative partner Maya Erskine in an experimental theater program in Amsterdam, stories from her family’s annual Vermont camping week, communal dinners, lake traditions, a delivered RV, and a terrifying storm that traumatized her daughter. Anna also...

This week on the pod, Seth and Josh welcome Colby Minifie! Colby talks all about growing up on the Upper East Side in an apartment that’s been in her family for years, what it was like having an opera-singer dad who would break into song anywhere—from Central Park to the canals of Venice. She shares stories about biking around NYC, her dad’s larger-than-life upbringing in a 40-room church rectory,...

Seth and Josh are back with the monthly listener episode and this one’s got it all! We hear some incredible listener stories including one recalls Oregon coast family trips, visiting The Goonies filming locations, and bluffing his way into Ecola State Park during the filming of a movie with a very famous actor (Arnold), another shares a honeymoon arrival in Barcelona during the International Women...

This week on the pod, Seth and Josh welcome Andy Serkis! Andy talks about growing up in a multicultural family with an Iraqi-Armenian father and British mother, being one of five siblings, and feeling caught between two very different worlds: Middle Eastern adventures and classic British caravan holidays. He also shares incredible stories including spending summers in Baghdad, traveling to places...

This week on the pod, Seth and Josh welcome Elizabeth Banks! Elizabeth chats all about growing up in Western Massachusetts in a big Irish Catholic family, what she learned from her Finding Your Roots results, and why she changed her name. She also shares some truly wild family travel stories, from being tossed off a train into a snowbank to accidentally leaving her sister at a Mass Pike rest stop,...

This week on the pod, Seth and Josh welcome back Jason Schwartzman! That's right...our first guest to come back on the pod, Jason chats all about his move from Los Angeles to North Carolina, sparked by his family’s desire for a different lifestyle. He also shares stories from his childhood, including rocketry and puppetry camp, family trips, digitizing old home videos, and a scary river incident....

This week on the pod, Seth and Josh record live from Brooklyn at On Air Fest! Through a New York snowstorm they still made it to the podcast festival where they chatted in front of a live audience about Seth’s recent trip to London, a family ski trip to Montana, and their kids’ growing arcade obsession. Seth also shares stories from Milan, including attending the women’s gold medal hockey game and...

This week on the pod, Seth and Josh welcome Samara Weaving! Samara chats all about being born in “RADadelaide” and what her global upbringing was like, moving to places like  Singapore, Fiji, Indonesia, and more. She also tells stories of life with her younger sister, living in Florence for six months, visiting the Grandmother who thought they were the “Devil’s Spawn” and so much more! Plus, Samar...

Seth and Josh are back with the monthly listener episode and it's a fun one! With stories from one listener recalling visiting Barcelona’s Pablo Picasso Museum with her mom and the one mistake they kept making, a Hilton Head spring break April Fools prank, another listener from Poland remembers a rainy mountain camping trip with 12 kids, and finally they get one suggestion from a listener: the “So...

This week on the pod, Seth and Josh welcome Vincent D’Onofrio! Vincent chats all about being born in Brooklyn and spending summers there with his grandfather, his family opening the first Italian restaurant in Hawaii, going on a trip with his dad and grandfather to Napoli, bodyguarding at studio54, his excitement for the magic shows at Disneyworld and his very “boring” magic story that turned out...

D’Arcy Carden joins Seth and Josh on the pod this week! She talks all about meeting her husband at Disneyland, growing up in Danville, CA, being second of four siblings, her father’s Turkish/Greek roots, houseboat trips to Lake Shasta, summers in LA at the Oakwood, her three-week England/France trip, and so much more! Plus, she chats about her comedy series, SUNNY NIGHTS and upcoming series THE FI...

This week on the pod, Suzy Eddie Izzard joins Seth and Josh! She talks all about growing up in Aden, moving to Northern Ireland at a young age, attending boarding school as a child and what visits home were like, dropping out of university, building Edinburgh Fringe sketch shows, learning through London street performing and sword-fighting, plus her love of Monty Python. Plus, Suzy also chats abou...

Ilona Maher joins Seth and Josh on the pod this week! She talks all about growing up in Burlington, Vermont with sisters Olivia and Adrianna, competing in the Olympics, what she wished she did with her teammates to celebrate, her mom’s infamous pacing, visiting the largest escalator in North America, going to Greece when it was snowing, and so much more! Plus, she chats about her new show with her...

Seth and Josh are back with the monthly listener episode, and it's a very special one because THE Hilary Meyers subs in for Seth this month! Josh and Hilary listen to hilarious stories from a temple visit gone wrong, to one woman's recounting of her father telling the kids to prepare to jump out of a moving car, and we even hear the podcast's first poem submitted by a listener! Want to submit your...

Taylor Tomlinson joins Seth and Josh on the pod this week! She talks all about growing up in California, what life is like with three siblings, memories from Disneyland, visiting grandparents in Northern California, trying to explore new cities when she’s on tour, her favorite cities abroad to visit, and so much more! Plus, Taylor also chats about her Netflix special, Prodigal Daughter, out now! W...