Family Trips: ANDY SAMBERG Had a Closet for a Room

Hello, Lonely Island podcast listeners.

This is Seth, and I have another podcast.

I do it with my brother.

It's called Family Trips with the Myers Brothers.

And we've been lucky enough to have Yarma on, and we've also been lucky enough to have Andy on.

And we wanted you to give that episode a listen.

It's a lot of fun.

We hope you enjoy it.

And if you do, why don't you head over to Family Trips and subscribe to

that?

Akiva hasn't done it because he is

an asshole.

Hi, Pashi.

Hi, Sufi.

We talked a little bit about Costa Rica.

The boys still talking about Yosef, Santiago.

Shout out to those guys who get our kids on the boards.

Nice.

Now, Posh, Alexi loves to surf.

The boys love to surf.

Baby Addie even went on the front of the surfboard a few times when Ash was surfing.

I should note the water was very shallow.

So

she did roll off, but then immediately stood up.

So I don't want people to worry about my daughter's surf, you know.

She's good in the water.

She's good in the water.

good in the water now so we that's it four out of five like surfing what do you think where do you think i land oh i bet

i'm gonna say you didn't even try oh okay so i did better than

well you're probably um i mean i wasn't there but i'm guessing you were no

you know laird hamilton on the board i'm guessing you didn't get the rush no that's true i think there's another thing i'm that's happening to me Posh.

What's that?

You're getting old.

I'm getting old.

I think that my, my floor and my ceiling are incredibly close

for surfing.

You know what I mean?

How much better am I going to get starting where I started?

Well, that's one way to look at it.

And the other thing, and this is going to be more positive than maybe people are used to

refreshing for me.

You know what?

Here's where the rush is.

Watching my boy surf.

That was a rush, genuinely.

Standing there, Addie and I, when she wasn't on her brother's board, we would just sort of lounge about sort of waist-deep water, two of us sitting there having a grand old time watching the kids surf.

And it was great.

Now, do you think

your kids aren't at a place yet where they could like,

you know, throw a baseball back and forth with any regularity?

They could not.

for a billion dollars throw a baseball back and forth.

But that time will come.

Do you think when that time comes, you're going to be like, yeah, let's have a catch?

Are you going to be like, I'm going to sit in a chair over there?

Oh, no, I would love to play catch.

You just throw it to each other.

I'm going to

hold on to my floor and my ceiling.

I'm just going to be under the floorboards of this.

How dare?

You know me better than anyone on earth.

What does the thing you just described have that surfing doesn't, water skiing doesn't?

You stand in the same place.

No, a ball.

I like a ball.

I've always liked things where a a ball is involved and you can keep score.

And that is why I would love to play a catch.

Axel and Nash and I played soccer this weekend.

Yeah.

All the best games, I feel like, I feel like the games that dad got really into when we were little, he would be stationary.

Yeah, he would even say standing among place games are his favorite.

Yeah.

And he would be all-time quarterback.

We played,

what was that sock catching game?

Knee football.

Knee football.

Well, knee football, but then there was one where it was just like you would just go out to make catches, but it was still, it was in the family room.

He would sit in the corner of the couch.

Oh, yeah, and he would just throw socks to us.

Maybe just

a lot of shagging flies.

He would, we would go out to the Little Efield and he would just hit balls.

He would stand home play and hit balls, but that was a lot of fun.

I like shagging flies.

Yeah.

I mean, my kids, again, they're not great with balls yet, and it might, that moment might not come.

I do feel.

Come on, it's got to come.

Well, no, I mean, you you know, did it ever come for me?

Would you say, oh, Seth's really good with?

No, but you could, you were serviceable on

catch, on playing catch.

Thank you, Parker.

So nice.

You won most serviceable.

I did.

I did.

The Little League team, didn't you?

Yeah, unless it was tennis, because then they said, we don't want to call you serviceable because that might lead people to think you know how to surf.

Yeah.

So anyway,

it was, it was good watching them surf.

I liked it a lot.

The other thing is, I mean, again, I wish I'd learned how to surf when I was eight or six.

I think they've got a bright future ahead of them.

Oh, absolutely.

The other thing that happened is we were flying a little plane to the main airport to then go home.

And as we were flying, it smelled really bad on the plane.

And

there was a sense that maybe Addie, you know, had had an accident or maybe one of the boys had just like blown some gas in the plane.

And we also,

Posh, do you know what our kids call it when they have gas?

Poo-poo gas.

Poo-poo gas.

Our kids say poopoo gas.

We've disabused them of ever saying fart, and I do highly recommend poopoo gas.

It's great.

All of a sudden it smelled so bad.

that the pilot had to get on and tell us it was the smell of the volcano.

Because I think the pilot could tell that there was maybe going to be a riot on the plane.

Yeah.

With the amount of finger pointing that was going on.

It was the earth farting.

The earth was farting.

The earth was having poo-poo gas.

There will come a time in your kid's life where they're going to have to switch to fart.

Yeah, it's already starting.

You can't be in high school and be like, oh, who poo-poo gased in here?

Yeah, no, you can't do that, especially if you don't know how to throw a fucking ball.

Oh, but the other thing is I was sitting next to Axel, and the pilot comes on and goes, if you're wondering what that smell is, it's a volcano.

And I said, Axel, good news.

It wasn't anybody.

It was, we're smelling the volcano.

And Axel said, also, I poo-poo-guffed.

So Axel, even given the chance for having blame it on the volcano.

Yeah.

He's a good dude.

Yeah.

I'd never thought about that, but yeah, that makes sense.

Yeah.

There you go.

That's a little bit.

We had a little bit of a geology lesson here today.

Uh-huh.

Not one I think you could take with you and apply to anything, but we're worth having in your back pocket.

Sure.

So my friend, our friend, Andy Sandberg, we went on a vacation with Andy Sandberg once.

Didn't even talk to him about it during today's interview.

Yeah.

That was a miss.

The two of us, Andy Sandberg and Colin Jost,

went to Copenhagen,

Helsinki,

Amsterdam, correct?

Yeah.

Wonderful trip.

Summer 09.

I was actually just last night,

the day we got to Copenhagen, we went to a bar and there were these like cute danish girls and we were like hey what should we drink like what's a good danish drink and they and i can't believe we didn't talk to colin about this but they were like oh fischmans

with fishmans which i still don't know what fishmans is but colin sent me a bottle of it after that trip yeah this trip is how long ago do you think oh eight it is oh eight oh eight so it was 24.

i have more than half of the bottle of fishmans last night terrible But I had a glass of it last night.

No way.

Yeah.

You had a glass of Fishmans?

Were you out of everything else?

No, I started watching a Norwegian show and I wanted to drink something that was automatically.

That was, yeah.

And I had started, I wanted to watch this movie, Magritte, Queen of the North,

about this Danish queen in the 1400s.

And

the only thing Amazon has is a dubbed English version.

So I like, I fired up my Fishmans and I fired up Magreet.

And then at the beginning, I was like, what in the world?

Who

wants to watch it?

Watches it.

It's a dubbed movie.

Yeah.

Yeah.

More like dud.

Dud.

Yeah.

More like the

other thing we should have talked about, Joe.

We were in Helsinki.

We were going to go to Tallinn, Estonia.

Decided we were too hungover, especially Joe, it should be noted, was too hungover to get on a ferry.

Yeah.

And then we we went, we flew to Amsterdam instead, and we were going through customs at the Helsinki airport, getting our passports checked.

And we were, the four of us were in a line, and the three of us went through, you, me, and Andy.

And then the guy went on break right before Joe got there.

And Joe was so hungover, he just stood there

in front of an empty kiosk.

And I had to scream at him to go one line over.

He was also, he was also weirdly sick.

He had had like yeah so he had like a flu of the brain yeah he had brain flu

um but anyway one of our favorite people andy sandberg is joining us today to talk about his family trips but first let's listen to mr jeff tweety

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brothers

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here we go

hey pal hello

hello how are you not like not a day has passed josh here we are with andy sandberg now andy

yeah you and i have a different podcast from this one it premiered yesterday it's called the lonely island and seth myers podcast And one of the things you say in almost every episode is how little you respect the art form of podcasts.

That's right.

You don't care for them at all.

No.

You low-key hate that you're doing one.

At all times.

And you're super bummed to be a guest on this one.

Correct.

Across the board.

But I'm glad to be lining your pockets, Myers Brothers.

You also, it should be noted, texted me an hour ago.

So wait, do I have to to talk about a trip?

Yeah, and no response, by the way, just full.

We were recording another one.

With whom?

With whom, I'd like to know.

Oh, Julie Andrews.

Julie Andrews.

Oh, shit.

Oh, my God.

Podcasts have really taken off.

Yeah.

I should have been Julie Andrews and her daughter.

Excuse me, Dame Julie Andrews.

I have to talk to one of my oldest friends who's less prepared for my podcast than you, Dame Julie Andrews.

Look, I looked up the titles of all the other ones and and saw that, like, you know, Mulaney had a mishap or something.

I don't know what you guys call these.

Thanks for looking at the titles.

Yeah, like, you know, Ike Baron holds clogged a toilet.

I don't know.

Now I'm just guessing.

But

look, here's, oh, we're going to start with this.

Okay.

One of the things I like about you.

And I genuinely think it's made you kind of what a solid dude you are.

Two older sisters.

True.

How much older?

True.

Three and six years older.

Okay.

Now that's that's the pretty decent age gap, but did you guys, were you close?

Yes.

I mean, my eldest sister, the six years older, was going through teen years and college years and stuff when I was still kind of a dinky doodle.

I think that's the medical term, a dinky doodle.

Yeah.

So we connected a lot when we were little kids, and then she was sort of off doing her own thing.

And then we have connected more now as adults with kids.

And then my middle child, my sister Darrow, she and I were very close pretty much for the duration because of our proximity and age.

You are, I feel,

obviously, I'm on this podcast with my younger brother.

I feel like you sort of have a consummate younger brother vibe to you.

Yeah, and I think that's probably what has made our friendship flourish, right?

Yeah, I think it's good.

I think you never really outgrew Dinky Doodlehood.

But were you sort of an irritating younger brother?

Yeah.

Yeah.

But did they think you were funny?

Did we, because I will say this.

I, my first take when I met you, I've often talked about this, was irritating.

Yeah.

And then, and then I had a real like, oh, but I like it.

But that's that, that's that youngest sibling.

You like,

irritating, but you're noticing me.

I exist.

Yeah.

Josh, you know what I'm talking about.

Yeah, that's pretty much, those are my moves.

You're so much more like stoic than me, though, as a younger sib.

Is it because there's just two of you guys, you had like more of a firm place in the universe i think that's true i don't know

perhaps i mean i was very much a uh like i was a i was a crier

i was a i'm gonna run up to my room because what's going on right now is making me upset or i'm being

teased perhaps or yeah something i don't like the state of the world so he was a real cry he was a real drama king i think you can say that these days yeah this is gonna sound like a bit but there was a split second when you said you were a crier.

And I was imagining like a town crier

where you were like the guy who was like, six o'clock and all is well.

Well, that's.

I was like, what?

Where did you guys grow up?

This is, but this is a true story.

Josh also, I'm not also doing a bit.

My dad's nickname for Josh was the town crier because Josh used to also run into a room and announce a thing he'd just seen.

He was a little rat.

He was usually a little rat, but my dad was like, he's the town crier.

Josh would just i was also called radio because i would i think also just report on things that were going on and the movie radio is based on you

yes

kimon good jr i mean he does a great it was a very unkind

i think when you look at josh now and you see how he played radio i think it was unkind

wait so i just to backtrack you would see a mouse Like, did you guys have mice?

Yeah,

but the sort of announcements, yeah, there would be a lot of like he would run in and say, like, I tip something over.

Nark would have been a better nickname for Josh than Town.

But a self-nark, no, narking on me.

Oh, you knock something over, yeah, right.

Seth, yeah, radio silence.

He was called Radio Silence when he knocked something over.

So he'd be like, 10:25 a.m.

and Seth knocked something over.

What's new?

Yeah, he would do it.

He was like, This is Josh on the fives.

Oh, he's like a shock jock.

He was, he was,

he was baby shock jock.

If anyone's wondering if my old brother Seth got into some trouble this morning, the answer is a resounding yes.

We're going to fling this in some

limp biscuit.

Maybe blast limp biscuit.

Yeah.

Now, all right, so you're, you grow up in the Bay Area.

Oh, my God.

Andy's taking the longest sip of coffee.

You grow up in the Bay Area.

Did you get your coffee?

Those are two-handing a mug.

Like you are like a soap opera girl who just like got pulled pulled out of a river.

The mug is a special gift for my dear friend Akiva.

Oh, that's lovely.

Skywalker what?

Sound.

Skywalker sound.

He got to go up there to mix Rescue Ranger.

Did you take, were you a family trips family?

We would do some trips, not a ton.

We weren't exactly flush.

Your dad was a photographer, your mom a teacher?

That's right.

Sounds like you would have been rolling in it.

Shout out, mom and dad.

Love you guys.

Love you guys.

Thank you for all that you did.

I know it wasn't easy, but we made it.

Hey!

Woo!

That was a big old couple job.

Here we go again, Seth.

Yeah, we would do, I grew up in Berkeley, Berkeley and Oakland.

And we would sometimes go to Stinson Beach for the summer, which is over Mount Tamil Pius, which, and it's now impossible to go there because of Silicon Valley stuff.

The prices have skyrocketed.

But it is, that was a lovely place to go.

And you'd go for a whole summer?

Would you get like a little cabin, a little spot on the beach?

A little cabin.

It was literally called Uncle Bob's Cabin.

Great.

And, you know, you get your boogie board on.

You go to the Parkside Cafe, get a little burger, get a little hot dog.

You know, you go to the local library, read every Garfield book they had five times over.

Would you check it out or would you just read in the library?

Well, it started off as in the library.

And I realize now my mom is smart.

She'd be like,

this little piece of trash.

I'm just going to sit him down in the library.

He's going to read Garfield for the next three hours straight on the floor like an orphan.

I do remember being,

like, we rented a house once, and there were old comics, like old

uncles, like Scrooge McDuck comics, which are really great.

And because there are a lot of like, um, they're like Tintin comics.

There's a lot of like world traveling and felt like Indiana Jonesy.

And I just would sit in a hot room in a beach house and just read comics all day.

I would, those Tintin books, I also got into on these exact same trips, Garf's and Tin Tins.

And looking back on it, Tin Tin is like, is it for kids?

I don't know if it's for kids.

I will say I loved it very much.

And I think maybe 20% probably don't have a super problematic drawing.

Exactly.

You got to want, you definitely want to.

Count a three favorite character, one, two, three, Captain Haddock.

He didn't say anything, but I assume that's a good idea.

Of course it's Haddock.

Of course it's Haddock.

You definitely want to read the 1010 books where he stays in Europe, if you can guess what I mean.

Yeah, I wasn't a comic guy.

Seth would be reading his comics.

I'd be off digging around in the in the dirt for worms or

looking for worms.

Tintin, though, is Tintin's more of a graphic long, long book.

More so than Garfield, for sure.

But I will say those, I remember.

There are some special Garfields.

I went to get a Scrooge McDuck book for the kids, and I picked it up, and it was way more Tintin than Garfield.

Those books as well.

They're a lot of, like, the voice bubbles are super dense.

Got it.

A lot of plot.

You're talking about the novelization of the movie Scrooge.

Yeah.

Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors

Hey, do you remember the story about when you played Scrooge McDuck at Update?

What's the story of it?

You did Scrooge McDuck, and at dress, you had a joke about diving into a pile of money that worked.

And at air, it's the biggest gap between how a joke went it was radio silence it was oh it didn't land and i was expecting it to land i it was so quiet i heard your gasp of realizing it

you like said

you're dressed like a duck you're like oh

here comes the here comes the clincher and then you're like it a foil of money and it was like

I think I did Australian.

Do Scrooge McDuck.

Can you cold, give me a cold read of your Scrooge McDuck?

When I'm with my nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie.

I can't believe it didn't work.

That's my guess.

So,

all right, so you're in the library, you're reading.

And are you excited when you guys go on these trips?

Are you the kind of kid who's like, yes, vacation?

Oh, yeah.

Super psyched to go to the beach.

Knowing it's going to be like a free-for-all.

I'm going to get my Garf on.

I'm going to watch Captain Haddock just cuss his ass off.

Knowing that our dog, Mel, is going to roll in at least three dead seal carcasses.

Bring that back into the house.

How did Mel travel?

Were you guys...

I feel like you were a station wagon fan.

We had a Volvo station wagon.

I mean, I would barf every time, windy road there, and we had the Volvo station wagon way back seat that faces backwards.

Yep.

And I notoriously would get nauseous, still, by the way.

Yeah.

And I think at a certain point, they were like, Andy's going to throw up no matter what.

So let's put him in the barf seat.

Yes.

And sure enough, I mean, they would just check in periodically and hope to get it, get me out of the car before it happened.

But it was pretty much every time we drove over the hill, I would have to throw up.

How long a drive?

Like six minutes.

No.

I want to say

from home to there total or just the hill part.

No, though, from the home to there.

I want to say 45 to an hour.

Yeah.

Now, was it so ominous your knowledge about the upcoming barfing that you dreaded that part of it?

Or did you just?

Okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But not so much that I didn't want to go because I knew once we were there, I would be happy.

Yeah.

And you also said like you'd go for the summer.

Would you sort of drive that 45 minutes and you wouldn't go back to Oakland or Berkeley for the rest of the summer?

And maybe you would skip those trips for the obvious reason.

To me, the whole summer was, it was probably two weeks.

But for me, you know, when you're young, that seems like 10 years.

Was there any fear in the water that those seals would be

bumping into you?

Well, it's funny you should ask.

They don't bump into you, but I've had like multiple instances, some of the greatest moments of my life of like floating on a boogie board as the sun was setting.

And then like a little seal putt pops its head up and stares right at you from like four feet away.

And you're like,

hi.

Wow.

And it's like,

what a beautiful and magical universe.

And then it like pops back down.

And it's honestly feels like a bluey episode or something.

Yeah.

I think of any, I mean, best possible animal to make eye contact with, seal?

Seal, probably.

Yeah.

And I've been told by multiple people they think that's possibly my spirit animal is a seal.

I would seal you.

I would go seal you've talked to multiple people who said yeah seal is your yeah where are you coming across these people berkeley they're mostly seal experts

i was gonna say my my

stereotype of berkeley is that's mostly what people are talking about yeah like who your spirit animal is yeah my god seth you would get so banked on at my high school you have no idea i hope that

i hope banked on is good you'd be coming through there just like oh here are my thoughts and they'd be like get the fuck out of here.

Like, oh, Berkeley's not nice.

All right.

That is important to note.

I do think of Berkeley as hippy-dippy, but it is, you guys went to like a hardcore school.

Yeah, I would say in moments, hardcore.

Yeah.

In moments.

Certainly compared to experiences of some of my friends that I've talked to.

I didn't realize it at the time.

But yeah,

there was a lot of fighting and stuff.

I was waiting for you guys to finish talking because I didn't want to interrupt you, but I had something to say.

And then we kind of moved on away from the big hill.

So I'm just going to go back and be impressed like I came up with it at the time.

So on those drives to the beach, would you say your mantra is got to barf to get to the garf?

Can we cut that in?

We can take that piece and cut it back in.

We're going to run it the way it showed up.

Hey, how much of the comedy you've written over your life, would you say, what percentage of it is barfing and diarrhea?

I would say like five percent, four and a half.

Oh,

I would have thought higher.

I mean, in my defense, at the show, a few of my barf things were not written by me.

Yeah, I could see wanting to write something that's barf-based and being like, Who are we going to put in this?

True, and then like, well, yeah, Samber.

I had sort of like made it clear I was down to clown in that regard.

Your spirit-bodily fluid is barf.

Comedically, got stoned, got stoned hard by both dudes.

I really don't like actually barfing or actual barf at all.

Like, it bums me out.

You don't?

No, there's something in my brain where I can separate it.

Sorry, I know you were being sarcastic, Josh, but

just, I just want to make it clear, though, because since I do, you know, deploy it for comedy as Seth hates.

Yeah.

There's something about seeing it like, in like, you know, Monty Python or something that doesn't give me the squix the same way real barf stuff does.

Yeah.

If that makes sense.

The cartoony version of it, I find funny, but no other version.

Every time Ash, my oldest, has seen someone barf, he's barfed.

It's like a standby me?

He can't.

Yeah, he really is.

He's just...

And so when you got a barf, not that I've barfed in front of him, but my wife did when she was pregnant with the baby.

Yeah.

And so she, she basically had to like, it was the worst thing because she was this wildly pregnant woman who then had to like get out of her eye line of her oldest to not start a barf domino when's the last time you threw up seth i feel like you never throw up no i haven't thrown up in forever like you drink well you used to now we don't have time but you would drink a lot you would sleep for three hours then wake up and work out and then i would see you like 20 hours later i've thrown up from being sick but i've never thrown up from drinking right josh oh yeah yeah younger Younger.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We're sensitive.

It's also like, I was, yeah, you're going to,

it's a good, it's a good move.

It's how you get better.

It's how you're not going to feel so terrible.

You got to get some of that stuff out of you.

First time I ever got drunk, I threw up.

Yeah, same.

Same.

Boons, Strawberry Hill.

That'll do it.

That'll do it tomorrow.

If you drink.

Drink that.

It was pretty good, though.

When you go on your summer trips, where does, you have two older sisters.

Where do you stay?

Do you get your own room because you're the soul boy no there was a bunk bed there is a story that is famous within the uh five members of my family which is i was on the top bunk of the bunk bed i think this is pretty common but at the time we thought it was insane where i was sleeping on the top bunk of the bunk bed and apparently in the night rolled out

and fell hard from high up off the bunk bed with my blanket

and was still asleep.

I never woke up.

And my mom came in in the morning and saw me just on the floor.

And she's like, How the fuck did he get on the floor?

My sister was like, Oh, yeah, I heard a, I heard a big thump in the night.

Yeah.

Was your sister in the lower bunk?

Is that what was happening?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's, I mean, it's the same thing as being in a station wagon facing backwards that is not okay.

The fact that there were bunk beds without rails

is nuts.

Also, and when you're the youngest and the smallest, just proven over and over, you kind of get just like shoved into whatever corner is available.

Yeah.

Like at a certain point, I moved out of, we were all three in one room together.

And at a certain point, they were like, hey, we don't want him in our room anymore.

He's a boy.

And

I was like, what?

And they gave me my own room.

I'm making air quotes, which I was so hyped about.

And then I realized years later was a closet.

But when you're small, there's something to be said for a closet.

I was stoked.

I was in there with my hamster and my tin tins.

You traveled with your dog when you would take him out to the beach?

Yeah.

Are you going to ask if he would get like a bright pink boner in the back seat?

Because, yeah, he did.

I feel, I knowing you said that, I was like, here it comes.

And would we all go, ew!

and scream and laugh?

Yeah, of course.

And did we laugh so hard that we farted?

Undoubtedly.

isn't it just being a child?

I feel like you're just describing being a child.

These are your words.

You're like, it's amazing.

For somebody who doesn't like podcasts at all, you're doing a great job of hosting and being a guest at the same time.

I'm steamrolling.

I'm telling you, it's this gibbity job, man.

Those are all.

Hey, I heard Yorm didn't record his audio.

He got some of it.

Was he good?

Was he a good guest?

What kind of dog did you guys have?

No clue.

Really?

Yeah.

He had black hair

and he had one ear that went halfway up and then hung over.

Mel, did you say his name?

Mel, yeah.

Okay.

Was that his whole name or did he have like a longer name?

Was he Melvin?

Oh, no, just Mel.

Yeah.

Gotcha.

I thought you meant like Mel Torme or something.

Did you have?

That also would be a longer name.

But one word.

Did you have more dogs or was mel the only dog you guys ever had mel was the only one got it but i i have a lot of issues around mel because i loved mel but i was again the youngest so i sort of was born into a life of taking care of a dog that i had no choice in getting yeah

and then at a certain point my sisters were gone and me and mel remained

was mel already part of the family when you were born i think i think they got mel when i was a baby okay gotcha So we kind of came around the same time.

But you didn't, you never felt like he was your dog.

Exactly.

It's that's the same thing with Mike because we had,

and I'm loath to bring her up, but we had Frisbee first,

our dog Frisbee.

And then the kids, I mean, the kids are far more Andy

on their take with Frisbee than they are.

They align with you pretty well, I would guess.

Gotcha.

Yeah.

They think Frisbee's like rotten.

They just kind of think she doesn't bring much to the table.

And they think that she looks like sort of like the middle of that fast-motion raccoon carcass video from the Nine Inch Nails video.

Like

sort towards the tail end of the decomposition.

Yeah.

They most, my kids almost describe everything in regards to that Nine Inch Nails video.

Is it a raccoon or is it a fox?

Or

a fox.

Is that the impression Fred Armison does an impression of a fox decomposing?

Oh, really?

Yeah.

I mean, if you can imagine.

Of course he does.

Of course he does.

That's how Fred gets impressions that aren't well trod.

How great to have a friend who will be like, hey,

this is a fox decomposing.

You're just hanging out.

It's not for anything but you.

So

did you guys ever take any, did you fly anywhere ever?

Do you have any trips that we flew to Florida?

We flew to Florida.

Was that great?

Disney grandparents?

No, no Disney.

My family never Disney'd.

All right.

I didn't Disneyland in L.A.

until I was in high school and I went with friends.

So grandparents in Florida, whereabouts in Florida?

Sarasota, I want to say.

And were those trips fun?

They were pretty fun.

I mean, that's when I first learned about Publix with an ex.

The supermarket.

The grocery store chain?

Yeah.

That was pretty much the main takeaway, I think.

I will say, I do also remember that about going, like when you went to somewhere other than your home and went to a grocery store, it was weirdly exciting because you felt like you're like, why isn't it Safeway?

But also, you got to build the food from ground up.

You got to be there with your parents and just say, I know we're only here for a few days.

So let's just get the chips I like.

I promise to eat them before we go.

Cookie crisp.

Yeah.

Was there a sweet cereal you guys were allowed to have?

We had

tasted flakes,

but I don't like cereal to this day.

Yeah.

Rice Krispies, not really sweet cereal.

No, that's a joke.

Yeah.

I like those.

I feel like we'd go to camp and we'd get those little boxes.

Yeah.

Those

corn pops, some frosted flakes, the cocoa puffs.

But Seth didn't even like them, so you just get everything you wanted.

Yeah, Seth would just have English breakfast tea.

And then, you know, and then rashers.

I liked a few rashers.

In general, just in English, a full English breakfast.

Yeah.

You're like, I want the big, messy, grilled tomato.

Yep.

My mom, God lover, figured out how to make blood pudding

at the campsite.

Were you a camping family?

We camped a few times.

I remember it being good.

I don't have a lot of really distinct memories of it, though.

Did you have like a big tent that you would all be in or multiple tents?

I feel like we had to have had one big tent.

And did they install a small tent closet for you to

they just put me in the cooler.

I feel like I have a very distinct memory of my dad trying to put the tent together and muttering under his breath.

Yeah.

Fuck it.

Yeah.

I think most I think most children have that memory.

Yeah.

And then now, now, you know, when I try and put a tent together, I realize what he was going through and I have a lot of sympathy.

It sucks.

It sucks a lot.

You, and I bet it's easier for us than it was for them based on tech improving for children.

Yeah, no YouTube videos back then.

Exactly.

Yeah.

I also, when I get to a campground now, I will set up a chair first

and I will sit in the chair and I will like look at the instructions for the tent.

And I feel like.

Most mistakes are made because people just launch right into it.

Yes.

And that's just a great way to make a but I've been there with Josh and what he's leaving out is when he sets up the chair, he's like, oh, fuck.

The chair is a tough setup.

The chair is a really tough setup.

The chair's got a bunch of moving parts.

You know, you asked if we ever would fly.

We did fly to New York.

Both my parents and their families are from New York.

So we went to New York as well a few times.

To the city?

To the city.

Yeah.

That's exciting as a kid.

It was crazy.

And in fact, I do have an anecdote, which is

we went to, I want to say we spent the day with

like my uncle and cousin and my dad.

And we went, I think we went to the Natural History Museum and we were up around that area.

And then we realized we were starving and we all had to pee.

So we just walked into some random like bar restaurant.

And walking to the bathroom, I must have been like 10, 12 years old at the bar, Bill Murray.

Get out of town.

Wow.

And at that age, I mean, that was 100% the first famous person I'd ever seen.

We were big Murray heads, as you probably could have gathered based on my novelization of Scrooge reference.

And we all were like freaking out.

Did you talk to him?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Okay.

But I remember being like, he's just at a restaurant, bar?

Just like, shouldn't he be in some fancy place?

And he was, you know, there he was, just kind of at the posted up, just chatting with people.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I went to a Northwestern UConn basketball tournament game.

I think that's a basketball tournament game.

I went to the NCAA tournament in Brooklyn.

Northwestern, my alma mater, played UConn.

And they were cutting around people in the stands.

And I was like, here he goes.

They're going to cut to me.

Mr.

Celeb.

And then they cut to Bill Murray.

And I'm like, oh, so I guess it's probably, I'm probably not after him.

That's probably their closer.

So if they haven't cut me, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, my God.

We've been through that.

Me, Kevin, Yorn went to a Dodger game kind of recently, and they were like, we're going to cut you guys.

We were like, awesome.

And then we realized like, not only were we early in the order of who they were cutting to, but like, there was like three other times out of commercial that they cut to bigger and bigger people.

By the time it got to Will farrell and the whole stadium went fucking ape shit we were like oh man we were pretty early in the rundown

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Did you ever go to like summer camp?

Oh, yeah.

Okay.

Did you have like a regular one that you went every year?

Yes.

Well, first, I started off before that, I went to a sleepaway one-week soccer camp.

One of the most embarrassing moments of my childhood was we arrived there with a friend of mine and we like, there's like a little like rules and regulations manual for the campers.

And they were like, for the first big, you know, assembly in the gym, everyone wear your camp uniform.

And it was like this dumpy t-shirt and the shortest short shorts you can imagine.

And we were like, oh, man, we don't look cool, but those are the rules.

And we showed up and we were literally the only two kids in the whole place wearing those damn short shorts.

And everyone was actively, unapologetically laughing at us.

And it's so, yeah, it took a couple of days to climb back out of that hole.

Do you have that picture?

Is there sort of a welcome to camp picture that you're just.

Yeah.

I'm sure it exists somewhere.

Yeah.

But if I ever had it, I'm sure I burned it.

Yeah.

If anyone listening has a copy of it and knows that you were at camp with Andy Samberg, please send it our way.

Maybe you don't even, you know, like you didn't even know it was Andy because he was just a kid then, but now you're thinking, wait, I got a picture where it's everybody and there's two dinky doodles

wearing short shorts.

They're taking out their magnifying glass right now, being like, holy shit, that is Andy Sandberg.

Yeah, yeah.

Everyone who went to a soccer camp for one week in the Bay Area and they have Dinky Doodle aged photos.

They open up their folder in their files labeled dinky doodle age.

That's tough to get off to a bad start at a week-long camp.

And it was co-ed, too.

So we were definitely crushing on girls and stuff.

And it was like, oh, yeah, you guys are the fucking losers.

You're the shorts, guys.

Well, at least you made a name for yourselves.

Yeah, we were like,

rules and regulations, everyone.

And then after that, you went to a more, like a real summer camp camp.

Yes, a more traditional sleepaway camp in Yosemite near Bass Lake.

Oh, man.

And I started off as a camper there.

I was a camper for five years, starting at, I want to say, age 12.

And then I became junior staff.

And then I was a full counselor there as well.

So I have a question for you.

You loved camp then.

Loved it.

Do you still have friends from camp?

I do.

I feel like that's true of everybody I know who goes to summer camp two or more years.

My question to you is, would you support the idea of your kids going to a summer camp?

Because Because everyone I know who went loves it.

Everyone, every parent I know who has kids who go say they love it.

And yet I can't imagine wanting to let my kids go away in the summer because I love having them around so much.

I see.

I don't know.

Yeah.

If my kids really wanted to, I wouldn't want to deprive them of that because it was so formative for me.

Like, I really feel like I was able to figure out who I was outside of like the intensity of public school and that dynamic.

What going to summer camp and being like, oh, and when I'm here, just kind of on my own and with people, I find people I get along with, and this is who I want to be.

And a lot of that was, by the way, performing.

You know, I ended up being obnoxiously

prolific around the campfire time.

You know, I would write stuff and perform stuff and meet up with people who wanted to do that kind of thing too, and et cetera.

Was that like a four-week camp, or was it all, all was it eight?

Was it four?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then

I always have this impression of like counselors is like, obviously you're a little bit older, but you can

fuck around a bit more.

Or there's like rumors of that.

So how does it evolve from just a little dinky doodle camper to

cool as shit counselor?

I think a lot of the stuff that was going on is not happening now.

Like,

I think just like insurance-wise and that sort of thing, like we were still on the tail end of the sort of 70s and 80s version of summer camp.

It was right before the, the major legal shift happened.

So like the counselors were partying.

Yeah.

I remember having that revelation when I went from camper to counselor.

I was like, oh, like.

The reason this camp is so chill is because everyone's hella high and drunk.

And how how wonderful

i actually think i don't haven't been properly taught canoe

definitely not is that where you had your strawberry boons was it a camp no no that was junior high that was just around my neighborhood what were the counselors drinking at camp um

i want to say schnapps Great.

There was like peppermint schnapps in hot chocolate thermos stuff happening.

That's good.

That's good camp.

Camp coffee.

Still yummy.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But then you can also say you're sitting around a fire with some probably campers and you're like, I'm just sipping on this and you can't crack a beer.

Yes.

Yeah.

Drink some spiked.

Yes.

I do want to say I think most of the drinking and stuff happened when counselors were not on duty.

Like even if it was like, oh, the kids are all asleep in the cabin, now I'm going to go do it.

Or I have my one day off a week.

So we're going to go rage by the lake.

Right.

You know, we were

coming from the Bay and some of my friends in there were from LA.

So, and it was the early 90s.

So we were like, let's go get 40s.

Like, that's pretty much all we did for so long, which is hilarious to think about now.

But, you know, it's inexpensive and you want to just drink and be like your favorite rapper.

It is funny how I feel like the downside of where we grew up as far as rules and regulations was that we were driving around without seatbelts and rolling off the top of bunk beds.

But the upside is that we got to rock and roll at things like camp.

There was definitely SoCo also.

Oh, yeah, Soco, yeah.

A lot of SoCo.

That's a bad, that's a, that, that's not something I'd order today.

No, a lot of acoustic guitar and Soco.

I remember one of the first, one of the first times a couple of my buddies drank, an older sister of theirs bought them stuff and like made a list of all these like drinks they can make with these ingredients.

And one of them was a slow, uncomfortable screw.

And it had Southern Comfort, Slow Gin,

and Juice Bradley.

Yeah, I don't know, but it was like both of those dudes couldn't stop throwing up.

It was a terrible, terrible.

It was called a slow, uncomfortable screw.

Yeah, the drink was called a slow, uncomfortable screw.

And what a nightmare.

And Matt Coburn and Chuck Lansbury had a rough go of it.

Now, Andy, did you?

Because I feel like you have a, I've always had very good radar for things that suck.

Thank you.

And my question is, did you, at even a young age, know that it sucked when someone took out a guitar at a campfire?

I would say

it was song dependent.

Okay.

You know what I mean?

Like there was a lot of like Steve Miller.

Right.

Like you love her or whatever.

To this day.

I had obviously had a year at high school where I loved Steve Miller band.

I mean, best is Steve Miller.

I would argue I probably had a two-year run where I listened to it almost all the time.

Or, like, leave it, a lot of leave it on a jet plane.

Yep.

Cat Stevens, father and son,

like a lot of that stuff.

I would say I was kind of in it.

I was kind of in it.

I just sort of gave my snobbiness over to the vibe of summer camp stuff.

I will say, there's no, again,

if I could give any advice to people that age, I would say just turn your snob off.

The light.

Just turn your snob off.

Turn your snob off.

Save it.

Save it for later.

You got time.

Just squeak close that snob faucet.

No girl at the campfire wants to hear you explain why this thing she likes actually stinks.

It's true.

Although now, because of Barbie, playing guitar at a campfire correctly is kind of lame.

And I just saw some commercial ripped it off.

Yeah.

Which, again, so annoying when commercials do that.

They just straight up take a thing from a thing and go like, look at this thing we came up with.

Like, like, we all saw Barbie.

Like, we just all saw it.

You have another podcast where you go at commercials pretty hard, right?

The one that I just do alone.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No guests.

No guests.

Just me ranting on commercials.

But you don't have the rights to any of the commercials, so you have to describe them.

You can never play them.

Exactly.

Yes.

It's a hard one.

She's like, where's the beef?

And I'm like, duh.

fuck?

So you go.

Anyway, thanks for tuning in or whatever this is.

The real bummer is it's almost impossible to get ads for your podcast because everybody's like, I feel like he's just going to crap all over us.

And then every time I try and read one, I end up sort of deconstructing it while I'm reading the thing.

Have you taken your parents on any trips as an adult?

I haven't taken them specifically.

I did that PBS show, Finding Your Roots.

Yeah.

You know this well.

Shout out to Henry Louis Gates.

Heyo, that's the guy.

Professor Henry Lewis Gates.

And my mom was adopted and they found out who her parents were.

And

my mom was half Sicilian.

Yes.

So

recently our entire family, my sisters and all extended family, went to Sicily and

me and my sisters and my mom and dad went to like the village town where her family originated from.

So I didn't like like pay for their tickets, but I

did foot a lot of the bill, if that's what you're asking.

It was, it was still all the questions about the bill.

I mean, you asked, did you take them on a trip?

I feel like the implication is like, now that you're a grown-up and you have jobs.

I should have, you're right.

I should have said, did you go on a trip with your?

So this is, I want to say, and it's a really, my episode is super boring.

Your episode of Finding Your Roots is really exceptional.

And your mom had no sense that she was half Italian because she was adopted.

And I would imagine, I mean, talk about the family trip.

Was it emotional for her when she went to Sicily?

Yes.

I mean, when we went to the town, especially.

Did you encounter any family?

Were you trying to sort of find connections?

Not any like relatives, but people who knew

members of our, I was going to say her, but I'm her son, so our family.

Yeah.

And like showed us where her family had lived, you know?

How young was she when she was adopted baby yeah so that's crazy what a thing in new york and so and this was the thing i i mean i think it's very cool she never ever would have known that if you hadn't done uh yeah and it was the only reason i did the show as you know i don't like to talk about too much i mean i'm doing this podcast so i'm cooked but

Traditionally, I would always be like, I don't want people to know too much about what's going on with me and my personal stuff.

And then when I got asked to do that, I asked her if she would want me to do it, if there was any chance, even though there's a chance it would be like on TV that we find out something terrible about,

you know, who she was related to and who her parents were and stuff.

And she was like, I just really want to know.

So I just did it.

And it turned out to be incredible and a huge relief.

And then I found out our great uncle Joe was the zodiac killer.

No, you did not.

He, I still think, Josh still thinks, yeah, but I'm like, it would have come up.

He was weird.

He was a weird guy.

And you always wrote notes in like weird codes.

It would have been incredible if their finding your roots finally cracked.

Yeah, when you got a card, when you got a card from Uncle Joe, you were really like, I don't want to open it.

Yeah.

I felt like if anyone was going to figure out who it was, it'd be Gyllenhaal.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know what I mean?

That would have been a real, if Gyllenhaal did it and found out his, he was related to the Zodiac Killer, that would have been real.

Talk about a twist ending.

Yeah.

He'd be like, yeah, I just felt drawn to this part.

I just really

i needed to know my father

my real father was a bouncer oh shit now that's roadhouse yeah yeah we switched to roadhouse yeah

how many times did you see the first roadhouse um i'm gonna say at least 10.

i think that's right i would say 10 it was on cable a lot when i was younger yeah i had a college roommate and we think roadhouse made him go crazy because he watched it so many times in a row and it was was right before finals and he then he like just disappeared and he withdrew from school

and had to like retake his senior year and we think Roadhouse broke his brain we couldn't like he really was watching it like on a loop and do you think he just loved the movie or was he just like sitting there waiting for the bone scene

a bit of a little from colonel from colinet i think i know he told i know he told the dean he just kind of couldn't stop watching it but we think yeah it might for the bouncer so we should call the dean is what you're saying i think let's check in and now it's time for a new segment checking in with the dean

look

everyone takes for granted now that we know about all the different ways to do crazy sex but when we were younger roadhouse introduced the concept to a lot of people of having sex up against a wall.

Yes.

That's true.

I think at our age, we only thought of walls as sort of ways to divide rooms.

And then all of a sudden we're like, whoa, hello.

Yeah, not something to like smash on while your knees get all shaky.

Well, yeah.

Unless you were as strong as Swayze.

Swayze had no trouble.

He didn't have shaky knees.

But trust me, if they had panned down on Swayze, those knees were knocking shaky.

But it wasn't Swayze, right?

Swayze wasn't

wall pound.

No, Swayze was wall pound.

We're talking face-to-face on the job.

Oh, right.

I'm thinking of a different scene.

You're talking about from behind in the closet with all the kegs and stuff.

I was thinking about that.

Which I double-douche.

I didn't know that.

Closets.

That was the first time I saw closets that way.

You must have managed.

It's been hard for you, Andy.

You saw them bowing in a closet and you were like, that's a child's bedroom.

Yeah, that's my house, dude.

Also, then he gets fired.

He fires him for having sex on the job.

Yeah, he does.

You can't do it in that.

This is turned into a real.

But again, at least we're spoiling the old one and not the new one.

Yeah.

I'm sure it has all those scenes, though, right?

It's not like a reboot.

It's super fun.

I will say.

New Roadhouse, super fun.

I do want to see it.

Yeah.

It's good time start to finish.

All right.

I feel like we should ask Andy his questions.

Yeah, we got some questions for you.

These we ask everybody, so don't feel like you're getting grilled grilled or anything.

Okay, this is like the questionnaire of your thing.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

You can only pick one of these.

What's your ideal vacation?

Relaxing, adventurous, or educational?

Relaxing.

What is your favorite means of transportation?

Train, plane, automobile, boat, bike, walking?

I love a train, but generally that's not a viable option to go where you want to go.

If a train's available, I'll go train.

If not, I think plane.

Great.

If you could take a family vacation with any family, alive or dead, fictional or real, other than your own family, what family would you like to take a vacation with?

The Royals.

Perfect.

Thank you.

If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be?

My immediate family or my new family that I've created?

Either one.

Yeah.

Anyone that I'm related to at all?

Correct.

Yeah.

Would I know that someone is taking care of the kids?

Yes, and that they're happy, yes, yeah, then my wife.

We lied, your kids don't know you're gone and they're losing their shit.

Oh, man,

we abandoned them.

Sorry, dude, that was your mistake.

Um, should have done more research,

and your hometown, uh, you consider it Berkeley or Oakland?

What do you consider your hometown?

Yeah, most of my life, my childhood.

Would you recommend Berkeley as a vacation destination?

Oh, yeah, a short vacation.

Yeah.

I've never been.

I'd like to go.

There's a lot of beautiful stuff there, Tilden Park, and especially if you're a foodie, there's incredible food there.

All right.

And then Seth has our final questions.

Andy, have you ever been to the Grand Canyon?

No.

Do you want to go?

Yes.

Oh, interesting.

Josh wants to go.

I don't.

I think it'd be cool.

Do you think of that as a thing?

Are you the kind of person I think?

Because I'd like to bring my kids there.

Yes, I think we will.

Okay.

That's really nice.

Seth thinks his kids are going to fall in.

I do.

But his kids are real tippy.

Their kids are tippy.

They have to jump so far.

I don't know, man.

I will say Addie's not tippy at all.

Our daughter is very.

She's the sturdiest of the kids.

Yeah.

Would you like to bring Frisbee to the Grand Canyon?

I mean,

I think you know where this is going.

Well, Liz, you know what that's like?

I think I know where Frisbee's going.

Don't name a gross dog something you chuck.

If you don't want it.

I can't believe you're finding new ways to burn Frisbee.

You've been burning Frisbee the entirety of her life.

I named it thing.

God, don't name a gross thing something you chuck.

All right.

Well, I love you despite your cruelty for my dog.

I love you.

Thanks for doing this.

Oh, and thank you, Andy.

One more

plug.

If you want to hear Andy and I talking more, sans posh,

check out the Lonely Island and Seth Meyers podcast, which has already, the new episode, the first episode just came out yesterday, and it's a lot of fun.

And what's it about, Seth?

We talk about the digital shorts.

Those are the things that Andy and Akiva and Yarma made when they were on SNL.

And they're really good, some of them, some stink hard, but we talk about those two, and we talk about SNL.

It's a lot of fun.

Yeah.

And also stuff that Seth was up to, thus the title of the podcast, which I just kind of feel like I also am just like sort of facilitating.

Nothing makes me happier

than talking with you guys.

So it's been, it's a fun to do and it's a fun listen.

And this is a lot of fun too.

Thanks for coming, bud.

My pleasure.

Great to see you.

Thanks, Andy.

Thanks, buddy.

When the school year was finally over,

Andy hung up his book bag.

He was just a little dinky doodle and he hopped into the station wag

Then head to Uncle Bob's cabin Got to drive over the hill

Hope to see the sea light on the water That's a spirit animal

On the road to Stenson Beach get your bar found

in the back seat Get your zar found at the library

get your car found

mundanes, but he loves lasagna.