Picasso Museum, April Fools Sandcastle, & Muddy Mountain Mischief: Listener Episode #22

Family trips with the miles, brothers, family trips with the miles, brothers, here we go.

Hi, Bosheep.

Hi, Jouvi.

It's that time again.

I know you missed the last listener episode.

Well, Bravo, though, to you and Mama.

Yeah, she really stepped in there.

By the way, I don't call her Mama, but my kids call Alexi Mama.

Yeah.

So I do want to amend that and say, uh, mommy did a great job.

Yeah.

We're a Mama family, and I, we grew up in a Mommy family.

But you're not a Papa, are you?

No.

Yeah.

They don't really address us as Seth.

Him?

That one.

But not, not in that way of like, he, him, the way like,

right, they do in sports.

It's more like, what's?

He, him, he, him.

My pronouns are who, Dad?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, but it's, uh, Dad, I'm just dad.

Daddy, dad, daddy.

Okay.

So that's all right.

Yeah.

But we do love these listener episodes.

So, uh, I hope you're a little jelly that you missed the last one.

I am jelly that I missed it.

But I'd like to be able to listen to you and Mama.

Do your thing.

Yeah.

And, um, Sam has, uh, once again, cultivated our finest listener stories.

And, uh, we're going to queue up the first one, Sam.

All right.

Um, hi.

My name is Jana.

And I wanted to share a story about when I was actually living abroad in Paris.

I'm originally from Springfield, Illinois.

And my mom had never left the country other than to go to Mexico.

For a weekend until I moved to Paris in my early 20s.

Um, my mom really wanted to go on some different weekend trips while I was in France.

And one of the places that she decided she wanted to go was Barcelona.

So she booked us a trip for the two of us and looked at all of these fun museums

and different things in Barcelona that she wanted to try.

And one of them that we thought would be fun was the Pablo Picasso Museum.

So we booked our tickets, we go to the museum.

And I, at the time, didn't, wasn't fully fluent in French.

And my mom only speaks English.

So we are these two bigger-bodied American women, very clearly American,

as I've been told just by us having blonde hair.

And we were at the Pablo Picasso Museum and we keep looking at all of these different

paintings and we keep seeing at the bottom dinosaur Pablo Picasso.

And in our heads, we're thinking, oh my goodness, this must be a family member

that just had a bunch of Pablo Picasso's paintings.

How nice of him that he gave them to the museum.

So we go through probably six or seven rooms of the Pablo Picasso Museum

continually seeing dinosaur Pablo Picasso.

And multiple times my mom and I are going, I really wonder what family member this is.

We should look it up.

So we finally get to one room and it was pottery that was donated by his wife.

And it very clearly says this pottery was all donated by Pablo Picasso's wife.

And I can't remember her first name, but I know what we finally saw a tag that said like

dinosaur Mary Picasso or whatever her name is.

And we started laughing so hard at our just American ignorance, our lack of Spanish fluency.

And the fact that we spent the entire time at a Spanish museum as teachers,

not realizing that the word dinosaur just meant donated in Spanish and that they had all been

donated by Pablo Picasso himself. Big fan of the pod.

Thanks so much, you guys and Seth Quaid Army for life.

Oh, right, just kill. I really enjoy that.

And Denacio, I mean, there's a funny name to give your kid.

Yeah, I mean, we just had Vincent Denacio.

Oh, yeah. Vincent Denacio was fantastic.

That is great. I love, I love Jenna's enthusiasm all around.

Yeah, it was a good vibes all around for sure.

Yeah, I love that people in that museum appreciated having somebody like

like her and her mom walking around.

They'd probably bring in better vibes than are usually in the old Picasso museum.

Yeah, I bet they're big laughers too. I bet when they realized the error of their ways,

I bet it was a pretty good scene. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Also, like good on her mom for getting out of the country for the first time,

aside from that weekend in Mexico and being like, hey, I want to take advantage of this.

Like, if I'm going to go, I like that when somebody, the reason they weren't traveling

wasn't that they weren't going to be a good one. Yeah, actually, when they actually got a chance.

I also, I love it when you can laugh at yourself.

When you know there's a joke that you didn't know was a joke and then you find it out and there's

not really, it seems like there was more joy than embarrassment.

I think if that was our family, Dinosya would forever be just a name we would call each other.

Yeah, maybe, yeah, I mean, I would say maybe you would name a dog, Dinosya, but whom I couldn't,

they name all the dogs out there. Yeah, all their dogs out there.

I play Albert now with Adi because she likes Albert so much and that just means I get on top of her

and won't stop kissing her neck.

Yeah, that was a different game as a child, but I don't know where a bulldog came from like

loony tunes, I want to say, but a bulldog, to bulldog, someone was just to go lay on them with

all your weight, like full dead weight. Yeah, so and yeah, mom would don't care for a bulldog.

Yeah, well, she would care when, yeah, depending who it was, give it a tour.

Yeah, but it was also that thing of like, when a kid's like, don't tickle me, don't tickle me,

but they want to be tickled. So yeah, there's sort of no bulldogs. Yeah, yeah.

Thanks for that great story and a good tip for any, any Americans who are heading over to the

museum, not to, not to loudly say, well, this, this Dinosyo Picasso's generous of heart. Yeah,

I wonder if there was a moment when they worried that they were not in the Pablo Picasso museum,

that it was like they were in the Dinosyo Picasso museum, which is like a lesser-known artist.

It was just cash in and on his parents. I wonder these tickets were so cheap.

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Hey guys, my name is Mary and I'm from Minneapolis.

I love your podcast and especially like the listener episodes, so I thought I would share

a story for my own childhood that still makes me laugh.

I was lucky enough to be able to go on family trips at least once a year that my grandparents

would also accompany us on.

These vacations were usually over spring break and often included the beach.

I should also point out that our spring break trips often took place during the week that

includes April 1st.

That's an important detail for this story because my mom, although she's a pretty unassuming

mild-mannered Midwestern mom, loves a good April Fool's Day prank.

Nothing too dramatic, just something to mark the day.

A quarter super glued to the sidewalk, a fake dog turd made of play dough left on the floor,

you get the idea.

One of our favorite destinations was Hilton Head, South Carolina.

I loved going there because of the days we would spend playing in the sand, building elaborate

sand castles for hours on end, so on this particular trip, since we had already started

the morning off of the silly April Fool's Day prank, we figured my mom had gotten her

fix.

It was a perfect beach day and the sand was just right.

My grandma and grandpa had surprised me with new sand toys and we had everything we would

need to create something amazing.

We built for hours and hours and enjoyed every minute.

Our creation was stunning, probably one of our best ever, and then it happened.

A lifeguard from the beach approached us.

We thought he was just stopping over to say hello until us how amazing our sand artistry

was, but his demeanor and tone were clearly very serious as he just started to speak.

He told us that in no uncertain terms, our sand castle creation was a safety hazard.

For other people who might want to just walk and enjoy the beach, he then said we had

to knock it all down and return the sand to a solid flat surface immediately.

He further explained that no sand building was allowed on the beach and that he would

have to issue us a ticket if we didn't have it all cleaned up within 15 minutes.

I mentioned that my mom is mild-mannered and my grandpa, her dad, is even more so.

In fact, until that day, I don't think I'd ever heard him swear, but he was furious.

I believe I heard.

And I quote, what the hell?

What kind of a beach doesn't allow a kid to build a damn sand castle?

Then my grandma started chiming in trying to argue our case, but the lifeguard persisted

and continued to quote the beach safety rules.

Then just when the argument had reached its peak and triggered shocked looks from other

beachgoers, the stern lifeguard flashed us a smile, shouted April Fools, gave my mom

a wink and trotted away to his lifeguard stand.

It took us all except my mom who had clearly orchestrated the whole thing.

A minute to figure out exactly what had happened before we burst out into laughter.

If that lifeguard is out there, thanks for playing along for my mom, silly prank, and for

doing it so convincingly.

You gave us a great memory and a funny story we're still telling all these years later.

Yeah, shout out to the lifeguard.

Shout out to anyone who's like, I'm going to join in the party.

Yeah, I'm going to help a family out.

Yeah, it's fantastic.

And also you've got to, when an old man's yelling at you, you've got to really have kind

of nerves of steel.

Yeah, especially a mild man or an old man who might be sort of flexing the few, even like

borderline curse words, hell and damn.

Those are the bad, yeah, when you can tell when somebody is mad and only says hell, they're

not used to that.

Yeah.

I also like, I don't know if you're a lifeguard and you're at your lifeguard stand and someone

approaches you, I imagine it's typically like, oh boy, but that has to be such a nice

one.

Hey, you want to help me pull one over on my kids and parents and be like, oh yeah, this

is fun.

This is better than saving someone who's got a cramp in the ocean.

Well, that's a, you know, the other problem is, let's be honest, like most of the, most

of the lifeguard's days pretty, pretty slow.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Anything to spice it up that's not someone drowning is a party.

Yeah.

It's a plus.

It's a real plus.

Have you ever been asked to help somebody with like a prank?

I'm sure I have, but nothing comes to mind at the moment.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Sometimes it's weird, like sometimes old people would be like, will you make a video

and say to my friend Diane, hey, Diane, you're not as funny as you think you are.

I was like, dude, I want to help out, but like, you know, without context here.

Yeah.

You know, so I'm always like a little, a little loath to be mean to somebody who

have never met.

Yeah.

Whereas I love to be like, hey, where were you?

We missed you.

You know, that sort of thing.

Because we record this, it is, it is St. Patrick's Day at the moment, so happy St. Patrick's

Day.

And to you.

Yeah.

You know, leading up to April Fool's Day.

But our friend, this sort of feels like a prank, but our friend Doug Stradley used to

always try to catch leprechauns with his daughter and they would set traps.

And then there came a year where like, I feel like she put tape at the bottom of the

stairs, which was like a net and then dish soap, like both in his shoes and on the stairs.

And it was like, he was like, wait, wait, wait, this is so dangerous because it would

be like, if a leprechaun was trying to creep down the stairs, it would slip on the soap

and then get stuck in the tape at the bottom.

And at some point, he was like, we got to, we have back off what we're doing here.

But yeah, pranks, there was always a prank that I heard of that I've never, I don't know

if it's, I'm sure it's been done, but I think is, is a bad one just because of the result.

But, but I also think it's kind of brilliant.

But if you lift up a toilet seat and put, um, just, uh, saran wrap over it, yeah.

And then close it and it looks like there's nothing there.

And then if someone like gets up to pee and it just goes everywhere, but yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I'm not a great lover of, uh, of that kind of prank.

Yeah.

I feel like, um, um, Alex, he was just, uh, telling somebody like, oh my God, Seth's family

just loves to surprise each other.

Oh, yeah, we really do.

Yeah.

But like, we surprise, not surprise you to like, boo, we like surprises, by like our

presence.

Like he weren't expecting me to be like, for example, in Arizona and now here I am.

Yeah.

It's called juking and I have to recommend it.

Yep.

Um, well, thank you, Mary.

Thanks for listening.

Thank you, Mary.

Thanks for, uh, thanks for the great story.

And, uh, yeah, kudos to your, to your mother and to that lifeguard.

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I said hi Josh, I'm your dinner, calling in from Poland, all the way across the

pond.

I love the podcast, even though I have to say you're the reason my neighbors think I've lost

my mind.

Every time I walk my door can listen to you guys, I end up laughing out loud on the street,

so thanks for that.

My story takes place in Poland sometime in the 90s.

My family's always been super, super outdoorsy.

We love the mountains, hiking, camping, all of it.

Every summer, my parents would take us to this campsite way up in the mountains.

Now to help you picture it, it was definitely a place Josh would love, Seth, maybe you'd

last have an hour there.

You had to hike up a mountain for about an hour and then right in the middle of the forest

that was this open meadow with three big tents, some spots for smaller ones and a super

basic kitchen, just a wooden table and a wood burning stove.

And here is the key detail.

The only source of water was a stream running through the meadow.

So if you wanted to brush your teeth or wash dishes, you had to fill up a bucket with freezing

stream water, warm it up on the stove and go from there.

There was even an outdoor shower rigged up in the forest, same deal, cold stream water,

maybe warm up if you were lucky.

That year, we were there for two weeks.

Me, my parents, my two younger brothers and a couple of family friends with kids.

In total, 12 kids, all between 3 and 10 years old.

And then it rained, the entire first week.

So picture 12 muddy, hyper children stuck in tents while parents slowly lost their minds.

Finally, when the sun came out, the parents basically pushed us out of the tents and said,

go, play, don't come back until dinner.

So we run into the forest and someone suggested we play hide and seek.

Then my brother, Janus that he is, had an even better idea, camouflage.

We looked around and found mud.

Then we found cold ashes from the campfire.

We mixed them into a paste and proceeded to smear it everywhere.

Faces, arms, legs, her pants.

We re-applied it multiple times just to stay invisible for longer.

It was amazing.

We had the best time.

And then we came back.

Now, remember the drastic hygiene setup I mentioned?

Imagine our parents' faces when they saw us.

12 kids, five of us girls with long hair, head to toe, in mud and ash.

The sun was going down.

It was getting cold.

And we didn't exactly have backup outfits.

Pretty sure I still had mud in my hair a week later when I finally got a hot bath back

at home.

That is...

You guys were terrible children.

You seem like a lovely adult, what terrible children.

I loved you finally got out and finally got freedom and then immediately misused it.

But I mean, there's so many kids between such young ages, 12 kids between 3 and 10.

It's like, yeah, to just...

And I guess being stuck in tents with them for so long means that you'll be like whatever

they do.

It'll be fine.

I just don't want to be around them for a minute.

Just full.

You guys immediately lowered the flies, did it.

Lureds of the fly, did it.

Yeah, that's fantastic.

It is that thing when your kids decide to like put, like, just make themself dirty on purpose

because they don't...

They get dirty all the time without trying.

And so when they go out of their way to do it, it is just stunning.

Yeah.

It reminds me of like Mackenzie and her friend Julia when they were little...

They did it to like two different bathrooms, but they were in like one of the bathrooms

in one of their houses and they were like, hey, let's put toothpaste on everything.

Like the walls, the sink, like just let's cover everything with toothpaste.

And then it just seems like a good idea in the moment because you're not thinking of

the cleanup.

And then when the parents saw it and the notion that they then went to the other house,

I feel like, you know, shortly thereafter probably not the same day, but we're like, oh yeah,

let's do that again.

That's so good.

I will say having your only source of water be a freezing cold stream is, you know,

that would give me pause, even going.

I love being outside, but cold shower as your only option can be tough.

I have less of a hesitation about that, but why is that?

I don't know because your body is just a callus.

I wasn't going to ever take a shower.

No matter what.

No matter what.

To me, it was like refreshing water to drink.

And by the way, the whole time she was saying, I'm like, this is awesome.

What's wrong with that?

I was like, all right, some people shower.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's a goodie.

Yeah.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

And I think Sam was very cagey about the next thing we had.

Oh, yeah.

It's not a story.

It's a suggestion.

It's also not a question.

It's a suggestion.

Which we didn't ask for.

You know what I mean?

We asked for questions or stories.

Well, I mean, we are sort of prejudiced.

Yes.

So let's see.

Maybe it's a great suggestion.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Maybe the suggestion is to not be so negative before you hear what something is.

But TBD, Sam, let's hear it.

Hi, this is Laurie Ray.

And I'm from North Carolina.

And I just heard the listener episode with Harry and Pashi.

And I think the idea of awarding the best Pashi song with something,

some recognition would be really awesome.

And as equal time is so important these days, I would like to propose a Sufi award for

the guests that spends the least amount of time talking about travel to our family trips.

So just an idea.

Well, guess what?

I really enjoy listening to the brothers chat and all of the great travel stories.

Well, you know what?

I think I was right.

I'm saying that this is not a podcast for me to take suggestions.

Yeah.

There is, you know, there's an award in our fantasy football league that was previously

named the Golden Sufi, which is now called the Golden Pair for reason.

It's very unfair.

I won the first three years of our fantasy football league.

And you know, Vince Lombardi won the first two Super Bowls, so it's called the Lombardi

trophy.

It's called the Golden Sufi Forever.

And then our friend Jake basically called it shot.

And said, if I win it this year, he'd never want it.

If I win it this year, we're going to call it the Golden Pair.

Yeah.

And he wanted that year.

So what could I do?

Like a guy calls his shot.

I'm not going to stand in the way of it.

Also, I was kind of, I was kind of hoping somebody else in the league would be like, no,

we're not changing it.

And also, you know, another tip of my cap to that group of dudes and to the songwriting

this ties in, these songs are born of your college friends, friends of mine as well,

but your friends writing songs for weekends where you got together.

And he didn't just call his shot saying like, hey, if I win, we're going to call it the

Golden Pair.

He wrote a song to play at the draft.

And it was all about how he was going to win and he was going to change the name of

this trophy.

Yeah.

So he went, he really did all the leg work and so we didn't change the name of the trophy.

Yeah.

And it's true.

Like, even to this day and like one of the reasons that I suggested slash forced Josh

to write a song at the end of every episode is that Josh started with the aforementioned

Doug Strathley doing the yearly song and it's really the highlight of our weekend.

Yeah.

It's a good little moment.

It's sort of the whole weekend builds to a moment where you're all in very high spirits

and then we all quiet down and listen to a song.

In the same way that, you know, Josh's songs here reference the interview, you've just

heard there, they're often about, I mean, they're always about the 12 guys sitting around

the fire.

Yeah.

Very nice.

Very nice.

Good suggestion, Laurie.

Thank you for that.

Kind of a shorter episode this week.

Kind of shorty.

You know what?

Kind of a separate episode and this is coming out on a Thursday, I feel like is usually

the play.

And you know what you guys have more of right now is you have more of your lives to

go live.

Yeah.

Thank you for spending a little bit of it with us.

We really appreciate it and we will talk to you all very soon.

Thanks again for sending your stuff in.

Thanks everybody.

Mary found grapes and on a trip out to hill head and she built a castle to the sky.

A lifeguard came around.

Said he kids got a knock this thing down.

It's a hazard and someone could die

And Grandpa, he got mad, said those are dumb

Oh, the lifeguard, winked at mom

And said it broke through

Well, Jenna and a mom went to see what was going on

Using Paris as their own base

So they got on a flight

Bars alone of a two or three nights

The Picasso museum was the place

As they went, room to room

From painting to painting

All the labels they read

Said the same thing

DiNasio, but probably was really denial

DiNasio, not a man, but just

Man, the paintings had all been

Don't need it

Just enough when can't be

The whole first week never stopped raining

So inside is where they had to stay

So much time in a tent

When the sun came out their parents

Pushed the mound and said

Just go play

So the kids went to play

Hide and go seek

But her bro said you know

What would be so neat

Camouflage

We can make it out of modern ash

Camouflage

The more layers the longer it lasts

Camouflage

Makes it up like a paste

Camouflage

Had a freezing cold stream

Still had mud in her hair for days

Oh, not fun