Mondays with Mel: How to Survive a Family Road Trip
Don't Make Me Come Back There with Dustin & Melissa Nickerson
Dustin Nickerson
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Mel and Dustin are back in the Frontseat to drop some tips to make a better road trip including: frequent stops, the beautiful efficiency of not letting your kids pick what they eat and the hotel pool being better than ANY national park.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody welcome to don't make me come back there we are a funny |
| 0:06.7 | podcast about family my name is Dustin Nickerson I'm stand-up comedian and the |
| 0:09.8 | host of the aforementioned podcast and alongside me in the southwest corner of our bedroom |
| 0:13.4 | slash studio is my lovely wife Melissa Nickerson hey |
| 0:20.3 | always debatable of what she is more awkward on the hey hello at the beginning or the sign off at the end |
| 0:28.1 | Welcome to our podcast everybody Melissa and I are back in the saddle in by saddle I mean again |
| 0:37.0 | the corner of our bedroom doing a podcast with you but we are back from vacation we lived to tell the tale |
| 0:44.8 | our van 11 days is living not thriving it's struggling it's got a little click in it it's got a little click in it. It's got a little something. We've had two mechanics look at it and they've both said I don't do that |
| 0:59.8 | Which is not good. I don't think it's it seems like I guess that's the equivalent of a general doctor referring you to a specialist |
| 1:11.2 | It's like I don't do knee surgeries, bro. Yeah, you've got to see a knee guy. |
| 1:16.0 | Yeah. You've got to go see someone who's a little more specific than that. |
| 1:20.0 | Essentially what it comes down to is there's a rattling a rattling in the engine on the inside of the engine |
| 1:26.3 | And here I thought it was just like a little whirling of a fan we thought it was a fan thing. Like it's a whirl. |
| 1:32.6 | But that's how much we know about cars. |
| 1:36.2 | We're like, there's like a fan in there, right? |
| 1:38.3 | There's like, I know, I don't know about cars, |
| 1:41.6 | but I know about fans. It's like somebody's spinning but not |
| 1:43.9 | perfectly spinning. There's got to be something in there like I know fans. I know when |
| 1:50.6 | there's like a click in a fan yeah and that sounds like a click in a fan no |
| 1:57.1 | apparently a engine something to do with pistons and rotors routers routers routers |
| 2:07.0 | routers rotors all things I don't know anything about I don't know how to say |
| 2:11.6 | them I don't know what they are. I know that they are significant things in my life. I know nothing to do with them. But... And I made you take it to our mechanic. Well, it was my idea. |
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