ADAM PALLY Went On The Road Trip From Hell

Summary

Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers – Episode: "ADAM PALLY Went On The Road Trip From Hell"

Release Date: April 22, 2025

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Introduction

In this episode of Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers, lifelong siblings Seth Meyers and Josh Meyers delve into the chaotic yet memorable world of family vacations with their guest, actor and comedian Adam Pally. The conversation takes a deep dive into Adam's early life, highlighting the trials and tribulations of childhood road trips that have left an indelible mark on his family dynamics and personal growth.

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Adam Pally’s Early Life and Family Dynamics

Relocating to Skokie and New Jersey

Adam Pally begins by recounting his childhood move from the bustling streets of New York City to the suburb of Skokie, Illinois, at the age of nine. This transition was primarily driven by his father's late entry into medical school, shifting the family's base to suburban New Jersey when Adam was in his early teens.

Adam Pally [24:22]: "I was born in New York City and grew up in the Lower East Side in Stuyvesant Town until I was like nine. And then we moved to Skokie."

Parental Influence and Career Shifts

Adam's parents were lounge singers and actors, performing in venues reminiscent of the Catskills' Jewish getaways. However, financial strains and his father’s career aspirations led to significant lifestyle changes, including his father's decision to pursue medicine later in life.

Adam Pally [25:53]: "He went to medical school at the University of Chicago at 34 with three children. It all worked out, but it was a significant shift for the family."

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The Infamous Road Trip Disaster in Ohio

Annual Dodge Aries Adventures

Family road trips were a staple in Adam's upbringing, typically involving multiple trips a year from Skokie to New York City and back in their trusty but cramped Dodge Aries. These trips were marked by long hours in a vehicle lacking modern comforts like air conditioning, leading to tense and often humorous situations.

Adam Pally [42:49]: "We did it when we first decided that's where we were going to go. We'd drive back, stay for a while, and then drive back. It was real trudging through America."

The Turning Point: A "Road Trip From Hell"

One road trip stands out as particularly harrowing. While driving through Ohio, Adam’s mother, who was pregnant, experienced severe discomfort requiring urgent bathroom use. Their father’s refusal to stop exacerbated the situation, trapping the family between trucks carrying horses. The car began to fill with the unbearable smells of horse transport alongside the chaos of their mother’s distress.

Adam Pally [44:50]: "We got trapped between a truck in front of us, a truck behind us, trucks on the side."

As the situation deteriorated, his mother began to vomit and desperately needed to relieve herself, leading to a comical yet distressing scene where the youngest siblings found amusement amidst the chaos.

Adam Pally [47:56]: "And my sister finds that to be like the funniest thing she's ever seen. She can't stop laughing and starts screaming that she's peeing in a car."

Eventually, after enduring 20 minutes of inordinate discomfort and smell, their father finally relented, pulling over to the side of the road. The aftermath involved cleaning up the mess manually, including Adam and his brother removing their shirts to scrub the seats.

Adam Pally [74:06]: "Causing her to piss. If only they had been a little closer, then everything would have been oh, so kosher. Or dad could have pulled over."

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Family Bonds and Humor in Adversity

Despite the disastrous incident, Adam reflects on how such experiences strengthened the family bond, embedding a sense of resilience and shared humor in the face of adversity. The ability to laugh about these tough times has played a crucial role in maintaining their familial relationships.

Adam Pally [62:00]: "It felt like this is what we do to help mom and dad. The team always felt connected."

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Adam’s Current Life and Ventures

Launching “Staying Alive” Podcast

Transitioning from his chaotic childhood, Adam shares insights into his current life, notably his new podcast "Staying Alive," a blend of comedy and wellness aimed at exploring ways to live healthier lives despite past indulgences.

Adam Pally [73:35]: "Staying Alive is an all-new podcast from Smartless Media hosted by Adam Pally and John Gabris."

Parenting and Modern Challenges

Adam discusses the nuances of modern parenting, contrasting his upbringing with the current generation's experiences. He highlights the differences in car travel comfort, willingness to accommodate children's needs, and the evolving dynamics within the family unit.

Adam Pally [51:03]: "Snacks for the car. My kids are so gross. The sound of my 12-year-old daughter like eating something is like worse than my dog licking itself."

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Notable Quotes

• Adam Pally [42:49]: "We did it like six times a year."

• Adam Pally [44:50]: "We got trapped between a truck in front of us, a truck behind us, trucks on the side."

• Adam Pally [47:56]: "My sister finds that to be like the funniest thing she's ever seen."

• Adam Pally [62:00]: "The team always felt connected."

• Adam Pally [73:35]: "Staying Alive is an all-new podcast from Smartless Media hosted by Adam Pally and John Gabris."

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Conclusion

Adam Pally's vivid recollections of his family's tumultuous road trips offer listeners a blend of humor and heartfelt reflections on family dynamics, resilience, and the enduring bonds that hold a family together through thick and thin. His journey from chaotic childhood adventures to launching his own wellness podcast encapsulates the essence of navigating life's challenges with laughter and love.

Listeners who tune into this episode are treated to a candid and entertaining exploration of what it truly means to embark on a "Family Trip," even when the road gets rough.

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Note: Timestamps correspond to key moments in the conversation for reference.

Transcript

[Sufi]

This episode of Family Trips is brought to you by the all new 2025 Nissan Armada. Because going big never goes out of style. Learn [e-mail] Here we go. Hi, Baji.

[Pashi]

Hey, Suvi.

[Sufi]

Big day today.

[Pashi]

What's that? Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Sufi]

Axel's birthday lobby baby turns seven.

[Pashi]

Yeah.

[Sufi]

An incredible development. Weirdly, totally normal to me that my oldest is nine. Crazy to me that my middle is seven. Like, that's the one. Axel growing up is stranger to me than Ash.

[Pashi]

Well, he's never going to grow up all the way.

[Sufi]

No, he's a. He's very unique. They took their annual photo where Alexi and him laid on the floor in the lobby. It's a very. They take it once a year. It's going to make.

[Pashi]

Does he curl up in her arms or.

[Sufi]

No, he lies on her belly. So he lies on her chest like, Edwin. I mean, oh, that's great. I'm always like, wouldn't it be funny if he was crawling out of your pants? But nobody wants to take that. But it was also his yes day. Do you know this development of kids wanting a yes day for their birthday?

[Pashi]

No, but I don't know if I like it.

[Sufi]

It's just that they get a yes day where you have to say yes to everything, but nonsense. Yeah, it's nonsense. Also, you're not going to live by it. Also, Axel immediately said he wanted his first thing. I was like, all right, what do you want first on your yes day? He goes every day after, this is also a yes day. That's not so. He's literally like the kid who gets a genie and just wishes for infinite wishes.

[Pashi]

Isn't there, like, a whole sort of parenting scheme now that you're like, you're not supposed to tell your kids no.

[Sufi]

Right?

[Pashi]

And now there's a day where you're supposed to say yes to everything.

[Sufi]

It's. By the way, it's not a scheme. It's a scam. Okay, well, it's parenting scam. But the other really funny thing is, Ash was wearing a sweater this morning he didn't like. He said the sweater was too small. And Alexei said, no, it looks cute. You look nice. And he said, I want it. I go, just wear it. And then Axel, who got a bunch of Legos this morning, so he was just toiling away at his Lego. He put one index finger in there. He goes, it is my yes day, and I demand you get my brother a new sweatshirt. And I was like, all right. And then I started walking upstairs. He goes, wait, I have changed my mind. It is my yes day. Ash, you have to wear that sweatshirt. And then Ash was like, all right. And so. But that was fun. Like, him using it as a benevolent tyrant was very enjoyable.

[Pashi]

Yeah.

[Sufi]

I have a question about something. I need you to go to your memory bank.

[Pashi]

Sure. Oh, good luck. It's pretty locked up tight in there.

[Sufi]

Alexi sent an Instagram video to Yumi and Mackenzie about rogue waves in Iceland.

[Pashi]

Oh, yeah.

[Sufi]

And I had forgotten that, because I asked her what the context was of her sending it, and she said, did you forget that Mackenzie got hit by a rogue wave? And I had forgotten. So talk about it.

[Pashi]

Well, in one of our Listener episodes, someone talked about getting hit by a sneaker wave.

[Sufi]

Sneaker wave. That's right.

[Pashi]

In Northern California. And Mackenzie, after she listened to that episode, was like, I can't believe you didn't talk about me getting hit by that wave in Iceland. We were just outside the town of Vik. There's a famous, like, black sand beach with these amazing sort of geological structures. These, like, weird black almost.

[Sufi]

I feel like it maybe was a. They had used it in Game of Thrones.

[Pashi]

Yeah. Yeah. And we. Mackenzie was wearing this, like, gold, like, yellow mustard coat and this red hat. And we were. I was taking a video of her slow mo running away from a wave and. Cause, like, slow mo was a new thing on our phones at that point. And I was like, oh, this is gonna be fun.

[Sufi]

Don't think Josh is some normie guy who's still taking slow mo videos. This is back when everybody was.

[Pashi]

This is back when it was cool.

[Sufi]

It was cool.

[Pashi]

Yeah. Hella cool.

[Sufi]

So she did it, but she was.

[Pashi]

Like, so far in front of the wave. And I was like, hey, hang on. Can we do this one more time? And she's like, okay. Okay.

[Sufi]

This, by the way, if you're a sneaker wave, everything you're overhearing right now is the best.

[Pashi]

Yeah, you're, like, licking your chops.

[Sufi]

Yeah, you're licking your chops.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah.

[Sufi]

Your little foamy fingers are just tinted in joy.

[Pashi]

And so she gets a little closer to the water. And I was like, all right, now. And it came in so big and hit her probably at the back of the knees is where it connected. But it came up to her waist. Yeah, Her. You know, she was wearing hiking boots and wool socks. But she had to. We had to, like, go to the little snack shop near there and get some plastic bags for her to put her feet inside of and newspaper. And then Alexi found this thing On Instagram and. Because I hate Instagram and don't know how to, like, open videos and read all the text. But I think it said it was, like, one of the most dangerous places in the world for sneaker waves. For sneaker waves. And people get taken there on the regular.

[Sufi]

And do you have the slow motion. Did you get the slow motion video of her getting sneaker waved?

[Pashi]

Yeah, I mean, I've. I've got it somewhere.

[Sufi]

Great.

[Pashi]

I mean, I think we got to.

[Sufi]

Throw that in the show notes.

[Pashi]

Yeah. And also that it was. That she had done it, essentially, and I was like, no, no, no, no, no. One more. Yeah, do one more. And then that one got her. So I was. Obviously, I caught a lot of the.

[Sufi]

It feels a little bit like. Yeah, some Victorian novel about a guy who's trying to get his wife killed.

[Pashi]

One more time, sweetheart.

[Sufi]

Yeah, except toaster's in the water, sweetheart, but he's painting her. Cause, you know, there's. Yeah, yeah. There's no slow mo. Yeah, it's like one more paint job with the waves licking your feet.

[Pashi]

Ah, you got taken. Oh, this is a much better. Much better painting now.

[Sufi]

She was dressed to be found, you know, she was. Yeah, yeah.

[Pashi]

But if you get pulled out, like, and it's not like when we were in Iceland, there was any thought of swimming.

[Adam Pally]

No. Yeah.

[Pashi]

Yeah.

[Sufi]

I feel like they. I. They definitely, like, named their country in a way to disabuse people with the notion that there'd be a lot of swimming.

[Pashi]

Yeah. Also, we were there for New Year.

[Sufi]

So it was, like.

[Pashi]

It was winter. It was cold.

[Sufi]

It would have been such. I mean, if you. Do you think it would have put sort of a. I don't know, like a. A bad vibe on New Year's head. She'd been sneakered away.

[Pashi]

Yeah, probably.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Pashi]

Yeah, yeah.

[Sufi]

Was it the day before New Year's or the day. Would it have been a bad end of the year or a bad start?

[Pashi]

I think it would have rolled over.

[Sufi]

Yeah, it might have rolled over.

[Pashi]

I do think it was in. It was in late December.

[Sufi]

Late December. So you don't think on, like, New Year's Eve, you'd have been like, oh, Glenna, Glenn, I got a fresh slate. I will say that I echo. On behalf of MacKenzie, I am deeply disappointed in both of us that we talked about sneaker waves on this podcast and did not remember that she almost got sneakered away.

[Pashi]

I remembered it, but I had, you know, recently been to. I told a story about being in Oregon and these people telling me I had never heard the term sneaker wave until I was there. And when I heard that woman tell a story about a sneaker wave, I just went to Oregon and was thinking about Manzanita and. Yeah. What.

[Sufi]

What would our mom call a sneaker wave?

[Pashi]

We did this before. I said a sneaker peeker wave, but.

[Sufi]

You had no that. I think you're right. In my head, that was the one.

[Pashi]

Mom's going on a family trip right now. Her sister Alex has flown across the country. Yep. And then they're going to drive down, or maybe they fly down to their other sister's house in Bethany Beach, Delaware.

[Sufi]

They're going to go see Christie. Yeah.

[Pashi]

Yeah. And I sent. I put together a list of, like, possible movies for them to watch.

[Sufi]

Oh, good.

[Pashi]

Yeah.

[Sufi]

What was. All right, so this is a septuagenarian and octogenarian movie list. What were some of your choices?

[Pashi]

I think they should watch that. That documentary, they Shall Not Grow Old, I think is incredible.

[Sufi]

World War I doc. Right?

[Pashi]

World War I doc. And their. Their grandfather was there in the Somme. I think that's really good. It's not like. Yeah, it's fascinating. It's really great. There's another documentary called the Gardener, which is about this beautiful garden up in Canada called Les Quatre Vin that I watched on a plane once. And it's just beautiful. There's a new movie, Thelma, that I haven't seen with June Squibb.

[Sufi]

Oh, yeah.

[Pashi]

She's like a nice girl. Yeah. The Taste of Things with Juliette Binoche, which I haven't seen.

[Sufi]

I saw Taste of Things, and I think they would like it.

[Pashi]

Yeah. And then I also really liked. It was a while ago now, but Portrait of a Lady on Fire is another beautiful French movie.

[Sufi]

Yeah. Pretty horny, that one. It's a little horny, but I would say it's deeply horny. I highly recommend it to anybody who wants a little horniness.

[Pashi]

Yeah.

[Sufi]

Maybe that's French.

[Pashi]

French horny painting, like an island or just sort of a very remote remote.

[Sufi]

Yeah. It definitely starts with somebody showing up with a bunch. With a bunch of paints and a boat.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah.

[Sufi]

They got there by boat.

[Pashi]

Yeah.

[Sufi]

Which.

[Pashi]

That's a. I mean, if that doesn't say horny, I don't know what does.

[Sufi]

It gets pretty horny. I'm just saying it was a good. Ticked a lot of horny boxes. Yeah.

[Pashi]

Oh, and Mrs. Harris goes to Paris, which I still haven't seen, but looks like it's a real charmer up their alley.

[Sufi]

We've fully switched into Recommendation mode.

[Pashi]

But, you know, maybe recommendations for mom and her sister.

[Sufi]

Yeah, but I. You know. And also, you know, our listeners are hearing it now, but I just finished. In two nights, I finished a show that I. There was a bit of a barrier of entry for me because I thought, oh, this is maybe just gonna be too depressing. The show Dying for Sex, Michelle Williams. And based on a real story about a woman who had stage four terminal cancer. And it is such a wonderful show.

[Pashi]

Mackenzie. It's on our list.

[Sufi]

Eight episodes, half an hour each. Michelle Williams, who is truly one of our greatest living actors. Better than I've ever seen her. And Jenny Slate and Rob Delaney and wonderful guest stars. So, you know what? Since you were just, like, just taking up so much space, being, like, recommending this and that. And so. Oh, another thing. You know, I'm in a book club. And our book this last month was Slaughterhouse 5. And I realized your dad's toast at my wedding was thematically about Slaughterhouse Five. Oh, and what dad said. And it was the most dad. And I have not watched any of my wedding toasts since my wedding. Except for Will Fortes.

[Pashi]

Right.

[Sufi]

Cause it felt like a comedy sketch. But like anything emotional, I didn't want to watch again. Cause I just. And I watched Dads again because it was about Slaughterhouse 5. And it's truly such a wonderful toast. But it's also the most dad thing because he says, you know, I reread Slaughterhouse 5 cause I knew it was one of Seth's favorite books, and I'd read it a long time ago, and I didn't like it. And so I read it again. I still don't like it.

[Adam Pally]

But.

[Sufi]

He had this really lovely point about reading the book. I mean, dad didn't like it, but he fully understood it and understood what was beautiful and cool about it. And I clipped it and sent it to everybody at the book club. And so most of our book club was talking about what a good toast dad has. With that said, Pashi. With that said, I still don't think I could. I don't know what day I'm going to rewatch yours, because I just. I think it'll put me through the emotional wringer again.

[Pashi]

Yeah, save it.

[Sufi]

Yeah, save it. For those who don't know, the whole time, Pashi was like, you shouldn't get married. She should marry me. It was so weird. All right, we have a wonderful conversation coming up.

[Pashi]

Yeah. Adam Pally.

[Sufi]

Adam Pally. Adam Pally is a real fun human being. And I was so happy to have my AirPod. Yeah. All right. Give him a listen. Thanks, everybody.

[Adam Pally]

Family trips with the M. Brothers. Family chips with mine.

[Pashi]

Yeah.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Pashi]

Good morning.

[Adam Pally]

What a. That was a very brotherly. Brotherly entrance to the morning. Thank you.

[Pashi]

That's what we do. That's how we roll.

[Adam Pally]

No, it's great. It's like. It's like seeing two friends from college that are brothers at the same time, and they're like, hey, hey.

[Sufi]

You know, again, a lot of people that we went to college with have that joyfulness because we. We are friends with a lot of the same people from our college years.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah. Yeah. I saw Ike was on the show last night that reminded me of that. You guys just have such a lovely. A lovely familial energy. It's really uplifting.

[Sufi]

We just. We had Ike. I had dinner with Ike last night, which is lovely. With Pete Gross as well. Another person, you know.

[Adam Pally]

Oh, yeah. I'm siphoning all your old friends that you came up with to do my comedic bidding.

[Sufi]

We. I think we. We see it another way, which is we. We believe you're coming into the fold, so.

[Adam Pally]

Oh, that's very nice. I've been told. I've been told the exact opposite of that.

[Pashi]

Rising tide, lifting all boats.

[Adam Pally]

Oh, good, good, good. Which is how what. I believe our economy should be as well.

[Pashi]

I have just talked about the economy.

[Adam Pally]

My Reaganomic.

[Sufi]

I. I had this thing where I. Every time. It was the 10th time Ike was on the show, and I have this feeling every time I'm introducing him at the top of the show, I'm like, you've seen him in. You've seen him in this, you've seen him in that. And I always want to add, I've seen him in his tighty whities. Was very, like, making pizza.

[Adam Pally]

Amster Amsterdam in jean shorts.

[Sufi]

It's so lovely to have you here, buddy. Thank you for joining us.

[Adam Pally]

Are you kidding? Thank you so much. I love this podcast, and I'm so happy to be here. Thank you.

[Sufi]

You have your own podcast now with an old friend of your.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, I'm miserable about it. I. I'm. I do not understand how we got here. I. I mean, like, all due respect to podcasts and everything, I just. I'm a movie star.

[Sufi]

Oh, oh, right. All right.

[Pashi]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

Like, I don't understand why I don't. I'm talking now.

[Pashi]

Yeah, you're talking. I mean, look, Rob Lowe, he just. He just joined the space. Like, don't.

[Adam Pally]

Like, I want to hear from Rob Low.

[Sufi]

Those people who've never seen Adam. To hear his voice and then picture what kind of movie star you think he looks like.

[Adam Pally]

I know every time I go on that rant, someone's like, what. What world are you, a movie star? And what world are you living in? No, it's. It's. It's nice. And to be. To do it with my buddy like you guys are doing is. Is awesome. Gabris is the. John Gabris is one of the funniest human beings on the planet.

[Sufi]

So you and John did a. It's very in line with this podcast, but it was not about family trips. You did a show called. What was it? 101 places to party before you die.

[Adam Pally]

Yes, that's right. It's called 101 places a party before you die. We got to eight.

[Pashi]

And then your friend died.

[Adam Pally]

Pretty much the show in this age.

[Sufi]

Of television, it's very bold to establish with the title that you're gonna do 100 episodes.

[Adam Pally]

Especially for my track record, which is pretty much one and done. It was a bold choice, but I think it lives on in that way. But the podcast was kind of, like, born from that, because the show was about us going to these different cities, like we would when we were touring improv comedians and partying for the weekend. And now we're in our mid to late 40s, and we have to kind of get it together. And so we're, like, trying to get well, essentially.

[Sufi]

And that's a wellness podcast for people who are coming to the idea of wellness a little bit later.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, yeah. Or just learning it. Just learning that concept. I mean, truly, some of the things that. That, Like. Like, we have this. This dietitian on who was like, you need to get eight hours of sleep. And I was like, okay, so, like, what can you do besides that? Like, that is just not.

[Pashi]

I feel like I. I had a similar thing with my. My dentist has always been telling me to, like, floss more, and I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Sufi]

I.

[Pashi]

Like, I will. And then they just had to do some procedure, like this crazy deep cleaning thing. And they were like, yeah, and now you have to floss more. And I was like, all right. And they were like, or you'll get gum disease. And I was like, all right, so now I'm gonna start flossing, But I made it almost 50 years without really doing it, so.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah. And death creeps in through the gums.

[Sufi]

Yeah, that's what they keep telling you.

[Adam Pally]

I just read, you know, not flossing is the new smoking, the new sitting which is the new. Which is the new. Not sitting. Mounjaro. Yeah, you gotta be on all that. You wanna live.

[Sufi]

Hey, we're gonna take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support for family trips comes from Airbnb. Hey, Bhaji.

[Pashi]

Yes, Ufi?

[Sufi]

We've got a big trip coming up.

[Pashi]

We sure do.

[Sufi]

We're going to Amsterdam. The nice thing about any place in Amsterdam, especially a place like an Airbnb, where people live steepest, most fun stairs for kids to see in person. Yeah. The stairs in Amsterdam. It's almost a ladder.

[Pashi]

Yeah, it's like our old attic stairs. Like, we had to pull out sort of a trap door and then fold this ladder out. And that's what every stairwell in Holland feels like.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Pashi]

I've always loved getting an Airbnb in Amsterdam because you have a little living room with a television and a little kitchen, and you can go to the Albert Hein, which is the Dutch grocery store, and stock up. If you're just in a basic hotel room, you can't do all that stuff. You don't have the infrastructure.

[Sufi]

With Airbnb, you can reinforce the idea of making memories, both as a traveler and as a host, because, you know, hosting brings in a little extra scratch. Posh, if you're not in your house, why not turn it into some cold, hard cash?

[Pashi]

Yeah. One of the great things about Airbnb also is that if you have a lovely home and you've made it nice for yourself, you could be out of town, you could let someone come stay at your house, you could make a little money, and you could let them enjoy life the way that you've set your life up to be.

[Sufi]

And Posh, if you don't mind, could you, in a way that is offensive to Dutch people, but funny to everyone else, please be a Dutch person telling me that your home is available via Airbnb for 100 guilders a night.

[Pashi]

Yeah. When? Come here. Oh, in June. Okay, perfect. Yeah, I have small room, and then there's also my friend Yap. Has a whole beautiful apartment on a canal.

[Adam Pally]

Oh.

[Sufi]

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[Pashi]

Hey, Sufi.

[Sufi]

Yeah, Paschi?

[Pashi]

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[Sufi]

Oh, I remember. Going big never goes out of style.

[Pashi]

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[Sufi]

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[Pashi]

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[Sufi]

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[Pashi]

Yeah, that's right.

[Sufi]

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[Pashi]

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[Adam Pally]

Here we go.

[Sufi]

All right, so pally, first of all, you also have three children. I think that sometimes you present as a guy who's just like in perpetual youth and you can't get it together.

[Adam Pally]

That's a. Whoa, that was half a compliment and I accept it.

[Sufi]

But you had kids young. You have. How's your oldest now?

[Adam Pally]

My oldest, actually this weekend is my. I have Irish twins. They're 13 and 12. And I don't, I don't think that phrase is so good. But I have twins close together and they, they're getting bar mitzvah this weekend, so. They're 13.

[Sufi]

Wow. Wait, they're so close together you can do one bar mitzvah. Wow. And did they sign off and agree on that?

[Pashi]

I mean, I think that's Jewish twins.

[Adam Pally]

Don't think about, don't think. I didn't think about that at conception. I was like, you know, 12 years from now down the line, we could do it two for one. But yeah. No, it's wild. I feel like, I feel young, but I'm 43 and I had kids at 30 and that was. I guess it's like in entertainment. That's. That's old, but in like, my high school friends, it's like I was one of the later ones to like, settle down and have kids.

[Sufi]

You know, I think that's about right. Like late for non showbiz, but very early for showbiz.

[Adam Pally]

Oh, extreme. Well, yeah, but like, when I got married, I was a writer.

[Sufi]

Yeah. And you also married a high school sweetheart.

[Adam Pally]

High school sweetheart, yeah. So I did not think, I did not think any of this would happen.

[Sufi]

By the way you just gestured in a room where it seems like. And again, it might just be the perspective that you could reach out and touch both walls.

[Adam Pally]

Oh, yeah, no. Okay. This, this is like, you know, this was like supposed to be my office in my head. Yeah. And then reality said it and that I have a mother in law and she, and so it became like this, this kind of like throw everything in that room of the house. And now this is where I conduct zoom business.

[Sufi]

There is, I, I, there's a telltale sign of a man who thought it would be his room, which is, There's a guitar over your shoulder. Well, there's in a guitar, there's a couple guitars.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, no, I'm an actor also, so I saw that if you're gonna be on any sort of zoom, you have to have at least one guitar. So I, I got a bunch of them. I don't play never.

[Sufi]

So these are like yard sale guitars.

[Adam Pally]

Oh, yeah, yeah. No, no, these are actually quite expensive. I, I just Nice image up there. But no, I, I, I, I can't play a lick.

[Sufi]

All right, so I'm very excited about New York City, kid. Where were you born in the city?

[Adam Pally]

Well, New York City and Chicago. I, I was born in New York City and grew up in the Lower east side in Stuyvesant Town until I was like nine. And then we moved to Skokie.

[Sufi]

And what was the, what was behind, what was the impetus behind going to Skokie?

[Adam Pally]

So my, my parents were lounge singers when I was a child and actors, and they had a very, I don't think there's a word for the opposite of illustrious. But they had a career. They had a career and they would, like, sing like, you know, I don't know if these, these hotels are even there anymore, if they mean anything to you guys, because you're, you're from a different area. Like Kutchers or the Tamament. Like these old vaudeville.

[Sufi]

Are these like Catskills?

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, like Catskills. Jewish giant, like, getaways.

[Sufi]

You know, Dirty dancing is what we should be picturing yes, yes, they would.

[Pashi]

My wedding.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They would be the, like, couple, like, from the Dresden that played in the lobby.

[Pashi]

Right.

[Adam Pally]

And they did that till I was, like, nine years old. And then my father had a string of close, close balls to things he almost got. And it kind of sent him into this, you know, taking stock of your life. And he went to medical school at.

[Sufi]

Oh, wow.

[Adam Pally]

At 34.

[Pashi]

Wow.

[Adam Pally]

With three children.

[Sufi]

So medical school. And he went to medical school in.

[Adam Pally]

Illinois, University of Chicago.

[Sufi]

Oh, wow.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah.

[Sufi]

By the way, like, that seems like a very good medical school for a guy who was a lounge singer.

[Adam Pally]

You know, I thought that as well, except it had come to my attention recently that it also was the only medical school at the time that would give scholarships to Jewish people, because there was a slightly anti Semitic pushback in the medical community, especially at the time, to, like, not let so many Jews into this industry. And so a lot of medical schools were capping numbers of Jews that you could. That could go. And so the University of Chicago was one of the only schools that did the opposite of that. They, like, brought Jews in. So they gave my dad, like, a bunch of assistance to go. So for like, my. My whole life, I was like, university of Chicago. Now I'm like, wait a minute. Is that in, like, Panama?

[Sufi]

Did he. Had he been a good undergrad student?

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, yeah. I mean, he was. He was into the arts, you know, and, like, he was the theater kid and. And was, like, a couple credits shy of graduating, and so he was probably.

[Pashi]

Great in the interview, yo.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, they're kidding. The looker, too. He's so handsome. You guys want to see a picture?

[Sufi]

Yeah. Yeah. And were they always a team?

[Pashi]

All right, he's going to retrieve a picture.

[Sufi]

Okay. It was. He's taken off the wall. He's taking a framed photo off the wall. In this day and age, it's really awesome to. Oh, my God. There. This is fantastic.

[Pashi]

I mean, it looks.

[Sufi]

Need a photo of this for the show notes.

[Pashi]

Yeah, it looks like they would have, like, toured with the Bee Gees.

[Sufi]

Yep. I will say your parents are very attractive.

[Adam Pally]

Thank you. Yes. No, they're lookers. And they. And. And, yeah, you would. Can you imagine walking into a doctor's office and seeing that and. And then being told, like, that's me.

[Sufi]

Yeah, that's me. And also, guess what? They're like, you went to the University of Chicago, though. How'd that work? And it's like, oh, only because I'm Jewish.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah. Anyway, what are we. What are we dealing with today.

[Sufi]

So how was your mom. Was your mom behind this idea? When he said, hey, you know what? I gave it a shot, and now I'm gonna be a doctor.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah. I think in a lot of ways, that was like, you know, winning the lottery for. It's like, she really liked theater, but it was never her thing, and she did a lot of the organizational things to get them from place to place. So when my father was like, I want to be a doctor, I think she was like, oh, you know, okay. Uh, I don't know if she realized how long that would take and how much debt we would go in, but, you know, it all worked out.

[Sufi]

Nine years old was that. Where do you. Your two sisters, where do they fall above you, below you?

[Adam Pally]

Younger than me.

[Sufi]

Okay, gotcha.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Sufi]

How do you remember taking news of the move?

[Adam Pally]

I really liked it. I loved Skokie. You know, Skokie's a pretty great place to grow up.

[Sufi]

Yeah, we did.

[Pashi]

We were born in Evanston and then both went to Northwestern, so we know. We know the area.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, I really love Skokie. I was actually back there this summer shooting. We shot the Steph Curry show there, and it was wild to be, like, shooting at that, like, public pool, you know, where I would, like, have camp, you know, it was just, like, a surreal experience. But it. It was exciting to be from going from a New York kid, you know, One of the things I'm seeing it now with my kids, New York kids can be really jaded really easily, and nothing kind of impresses them at all, because every day, like, my kids take a train through Times Square. It's like, you know, and someone's climbing on the pole, and, like, you know, it's like, very little is going to throw them. And I remember having that sensation as well, especially growing up in Stuyvesant Town. And, like, I remember walking on 14th street as a young kid was, like, not in the. On the Lower east side was, like, not good. And so when we went to Skokie, there was this, like, kind of, like, something special about me that was like, I'm now from a small town, usa. And I remember, like, really embracing it. And even I think that's why psychologically, probably, like, my accent is such a hot mess because I was so happy to get. Find friends in Chicago and get there. And, like, I just, like, assimilated right away.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

And was, you know, calling it pop. And, you know, like, I did not. I did not look back.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Pashi]

Well, at nine years old, you're certainly gonna Sort of fall in line with what other kids are doing.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, completely. And I was a new kid, and it was just like, you know, and it was awesome. And we. We stayed in Chicago until I was like, 14, and then we. 13, 14. Then we came to New Jersey, where my dad opened up a practice far.

[Pashi]

Outside of the city or.

[Adam Pally]

No, about 20 minutes. So I had all my, like, family and friends and stuff, but he. He was. We were now, like. I went to high school in, like, suburban New Jersey, which was another change, which is where probably, again, psychologically, why, how you end up with your high school sweetheart?

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

No, because you're like, you're gonna stick around.

[Sufi]

Did you. Did you ever go on a vacation that was a working vacation for your parents when YouTube.

[Adam Pally]

All the time. I mean, all that was. My whole life was just, like, waiting, hating the babysitter and throwing fits about how, like, I could be alone in the hotel room and, like, yelling at my mom, who was, like, in a sequins gown, you know, like, going over the lyrics to you gotta have friends. She's like, I can't right now.

[Pashi]

You know, it's a great song. It's a really a great song.

[Adam Pally]

And I was like, how could you not? There's, like, two lyrics.

[Sufi]

Is this. Am I, like, wrong to picture sort of fabulous Baker Boys, like, your dad at a piano and your mom on the piano? That's exactly.

[Adam Pally]

It's 100%.

[Sufi]

That's it.

[Adam Pally]

That's what it was. And every time. You're one of the only people that can share that reference. Because of our age. Yes. Like, any time I. I'm like, it's like the fabulous Baker Boys, people look at me like, what the fuck is that?

[Pashi]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

You know, it's like. It's not a movie that really penetrated culture.

[Sufi]

It weirdly. Although I think if you were of age when that movie came for us.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah. Michelle Pfeiffer in that red dress on a piano.

[Pashi]

She was. She was Jessica Rabbit in the flesh.

[Adam Pally]

Exactly. And it's. It was like, burned into your skull, except for. And it just, like, never, like, anyone under our age. That movie doesn't exist.

[Sufi]

Yeah, you. But so did you ever watch them perform? Or was it just. Were they performing too late at night?

[Adam Pally]

They're performing late at night. I watched them a couple times, like, from the side. But I don't really have, like, recollection of, like, I have audio of it that. That we've listened to, which is really fun. But I don't have, like, recollection of, like, watching Them do it. Really?

[Pashi]

What were they called?

[Adam Pally]

Pally and Pal.

[Pashi]

Oh, great.

[Adam Pally]

Oh, yeah. Can't beat it. Can't beat it.

[Pashi]

I In like with. Were the summers their busy time when people were sort of packed into hotels up in the Catskills, or were they weekend performers?

[Adam Pally]

Weekend performers. You know, weekend performers. And then my dad during the week played at the Empire Diner, which I have. I have way more memories of that as a kid because it was like, right up 13th Street. So my mom would pick me up from school and we take the bus up, up 14th street and then walk to 23rd and sit in the Empire Diner from like 7 till 9, till he finished, and then we'd go home.

[Pashi]

I'm unfamiliar with the Empire Diner. Is it the Empire Diner?

[Adam Pally]

It's just like a diner on 10th Avenue that is pretty. Pretty famous for being like the last diner before you hit the Lincoln Tunnel, kind of.

[Sufi]

Yeah. You know, and it looks the way you want a diner to look in a. You know, and.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah.

[Sufi]

Sort of a six, late 60s, early 70s New York movie.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah. And there's a piano in the corner and my dad would like, sit there and play and people would put money in the, like, you know. Piano man.

[Pashi]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Sufi]

And do you. And your recollection. So that's your pre 9 years old and you are just sort of hanging out at the diner, probably having dinner with your mom.

[Adam Pally]

Yep.

[Sufi]

And are your sisters there too?

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, my. My younger sister's there. And then my mom was pregnant with my. My littlest. That's, you know, for most of my memory of it.

[Sufi]

I'm sure she started doing homework at the. At the diner. That's what. What an amazing memory to have.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, it's cool. It's like. It's also very cool to have that, like, also in. In contrast to a very normal childhood of like, you know, going to Solomon check your day school in Skokie. And like, you know, like, it's very quickly shifted.

[Sufi]

It almost. It's like you were a family on the run from your past, even though nothing about your past was illegal.

[Adam Pally]

Like, I often think that I often. I often wonder, like, what my dad actually did.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

And he's such a genial, kind of like, sweet. He's a doctor, you know, and like, he looks like Kevin Klein. Looks like a yoked Kevin Klein. Like, I just can't imagine him like, you know, running a numbers scheme. But, like, we ran from Skokie pretty quick. You got out middle of the night. I ended up in Florham Park, New Jersey hell.

[Pashi]

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[Sufi]

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[Pashi]

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[Sufi]

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[Pashi]

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[Sufi]

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[Pashi]

No, it was a basket. It was a basket.

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[Pashi]

Yeah, keep it lean.

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[Pashi]

Yeah, I call them the SH&L. Call them the S, H and N.

[Sufi]

You call the S. Wait, you call skin, hair and nails the S, H and L. So you use S and H cause they're the first letters of skin and hair, but then L. Cause is this the fourth letter of nails?

[Pashi]

It's dominant.

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[Adam Pally]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. My dad, my, my dad is like as close to a show dad as you can get. You know, it's like any, any movie or show I'm working on. I, you know, I have to introduce my father because he'll show up like day three and, you know, and he like touches my hair on set and stuff and it's like, it's very sweet. And, you know, I enjoy it too. It's. It's nice, I think, especially as I get an old. I've gotten older and my mom's not here anymore. It's like, you know, it's nice to remember that feeling of like, oh, yeah, I probably did start this just to make my dad laugh in some way. So the fact that he's like sitting there still is kind of nice.

[Pashi]

Oh, that's great.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah.

[Pashi]

When you were.

[Sufi]

Go ahead, Josh.

[Pashi]

I was just gonna, I was. Well, yeah, well, I'm gonna, I'm gonna steer more and. Yeah, man, the sun's really pouring in on my.

[Sufi]

Yeah, it's really just like a white hot sun on Posh today.

[Adam Pally]

I'm surprised, considering your background.

[Sufi]

I know that he looks like he's.

[Adam Pally]

About to take a horrible photo booth.

[Sufi]

It does. It just looks like a family photo at Sears.

[Adam Pally]

Can you imagine? Like, let me just set this up as close to the natural light as possible. We'll have the two fighting at all times.

[Pashi]

I just. That curtain didn't get closed last night and it's, it's very early here in Los Angeles, Adam.

[Adam Pally]

I know. I'm so jealous.

[Pashi]

When. So when you were living in New York City, would you ever take trips that were unrelated to your parents performing? Would you ever?

[Adam Pally]

So we, we didn't have a lot. We had no money. But one of the things that we would do a lot is we had a Dodge Aries and we would pack the Dodge Ares up and drive from Skokie to New York and back in like a 10 day period. And we did that, I would say, like six times a year.

[Sufi]

And so what was. But so what was in Skokie before is that before you moved to Skokie?

[Adam Pally]

Well, we did that. We would do it. We did it when we first decided that's where we were going to go. So we got. You got an apartment. Then we came back, we packed to the house, then we drove back, then every, like Rosh Hashanah. We'd like drive back, stay to Yom Kippur and then drive back and then like, you know, be there for a while and then drive back for. And drive back and was like, does that.

[Pashi]

The relationships at the temple were so.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah.

[Pashi]

Strong.

[Adam Pally]

No, it's just like we didn't have. My parents didn't have any friends and didn't have any money, so it was like, where. The only place to go back to was New York and they couldn't fly us all, so we would, like, you know, drive and like, stay in. Stay in Holiday Inns, you know, and with like the. I remember like a Holiday Inn with an indoor pool was the coolest ever. You know, it was like an enormous deal. Yeah. And we'd stay in one in, like, Indiana and then another one the next day in, like, Pennsylvania and then be there, stay for two days and then get back in the Dodge areas, which smelled like vomit and like, you know, like popcorn in every single area of the seats. You know, like, just no air conditioning because my dad didn't want to pay for it because the gas was expensive. You know, like, just. Just real trudging through America.

[Pashi]

Did you have sort of assigned seats? Did you have your seat in the Aries? You were the. The oldest and I imagine the biggest. And could you sort of say, well.

[Adam Pally]

We did have assigned assigned seats until. Until there was one. One time where the car got, like, completely destroyed by both my mom and my sister having, like, bathroom accidents at the. At the same time. What? It was awful.

[Sufi]

Was it. Was it a food poisoning situation?

[Adam Pally]

No, it was more of a like a is my dad's fault kind of. But we were. We were driving from Chicago to New York and my dad really had a thing about pulling over. Like, you had to. You guys are like, empty your bowels. When. When. When we stopped for gas.

[Sufi]

Yeah. On command. Like now. Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

Because otherwise there was no way he was going to stop because we were like, always trying to make good time, you know.

[Pashi]

And I remember to get to the Indiana Hotel.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

I remember always being like, what?

[Sufi]

What?

[Adam Pally]

Like, are we on a deadline? Like, why? Maybe he was like, moving drugs or something. But like, I. I was like, why are we running so fast? But he would not, you know, and so around Ohio somewhere. My mom, who was pregnant at the time with my young. My youngest sister, was like, I. I really need to go to the bathroom. And my dad was like, really? On one, even though she was pregnant, was like, we're going to be at the Holiday inn in like, 20 minutes. Like, you know, it's not like you can make it, Karen, you know, and. And she. And then it became like a marital you know? Yeah, you always do this, you know. And he was poised not to. And we got. At that moment, we got trapped between like a truck in front of us, a truck behind us, trucks on the side. And so my mom was like, well, now we can't. Now we can't pull over, Steven. It was really tense. And then it started smell like really bad. Like really, really bad. And the windows are open, obviously, because we're running low on gas because we're not stopping for gas till we get to the, the Holiday Inn. And so we couldn't use the air conditioning. And it smelled like really bad. And I. We realized that the cars on either sides of us were transporting horses.

[Sufi]

Oh, God.

[Adam Pally]

You know? Yeah. As you used to see on the highway. And it was really hot and it was just like blowing into the car. And my mom started to like dry heave and, and gag and she was like yelling. And my dad, while it was going on, she was like, she was like. And then, and my dad is like, you, what are you. Like, you can make it, you can make it. And she's like, I can't, I can't. She's like looking for something to like throw up in, and we don't have anything. So she just like moves her hands and she starts like throwing up in her hands. And then my sister finds that to be like the funniest thing she's ever seen. And she can't stop laughing and she starts screaming that she's. She's peeing in a car. My six year old sisters, like, I'm peeing, am I? And I'm like, I'm like, what is happening? I'm like holding myself by the thing so that my butt is not on the seat because I'm worried because it's like those veneer seats.

[Sufi]

Yeah, they're not gonna absorb it, right?

[Adam Pally]

No, it's gonna roll right out. It's gonna roll right out.

[Pashi]

Like.

[Adam Pally]

And my dad is screaming like, we can make it. And my mother's just like vomit everywhere. And it just like was in the car and the horses were on both sides and we couldn't even get away from it. It took like, it took like 20 minutes. And finally like, one of the trucks gave a little bit of like, leeway and my dad like busted through it and we pulled over to the side of the road and we all got out and it was, it looked like a murder scene, you know, and it was just like, you know what to do. Took our shirt. My dad and I took our shirt off and we're like moving the vomit and cleaning the pee. And then we rode the rest of the way because he still wouldn't stop to clean it, like, for real. Till we got to the hotel and we got to the hotel and that was in Ohio. And like, so the rest of the car ride was.

[Sufi]

It's a long. That's a long rest of the car ride.

[Adam Pally]

Horrible. The next day it was like walking, like the walk from, like the outdoors. Like a motel where you like walk outside. You can see the cars parked. Like the walk, the family walk from the room to the car. Like knowing. Knowing what you're gonna get into.

[Sufi]

Did you guys roll up to the Holiday Inn with you and your dad still shirtless?

[Adam Pally]

Oh, yeah, because he's not gonna spend money on like an I love Ohio shirt at a gas station.

[Sufi]

You guys walked in, they're like, wait, are you pally and pal.

[Adam Pally]

He was like, here for the gig. Sat down right away at the like, loose piano in the hallway, shirtless.

[Sufi]

Now I feel like that seems like maybe a bygone era. Like dads who wouldn't stop, right?

[Adam Pally]

Like, yeah, like, I wouldn't do that. I mean, I mean, I think that that is a bygone era of like, the dad is the dad and the. There's things like.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

You know, small things that matter to your dad that run the whole family. Like that patriarchy. I can safely say that small part of the patriarchy is gone.

[Sufi]

Yeah, I think it's gone, certainly. Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

In my house.

[Sufi]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Pashi]

So you've gone through something.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, that's true. I would never be like, we're making good time.

[Pashi]

Yeah. You remember Ohio?

[Adam Pally]

No, I have a. Yeah, no, I've tattooed. Remember? I say to my sisters, remember Ohio?

[Sufi]

Do you. Do you feel like this is accurate to your memory of our. Of our youth? Is that because now Pali having kids, I feel like the amount we think about, do they have. They recently had water? Do we have water with us to give them? Did they. You know, and I feel like we, especially on road trips, like, we grew up at a time where your parents are like, you could have a little bit of water before we leave and then you won't have water again. Like, don't ask us about water. Like, we never. That idea of like, I need a water on a road trip. I feel like I would never say.

[Adam Pally]

Snacks for the car.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

Is like something. I don't know where that got invented. Like, my, My wife will say that we'll be driving to my. My sister in law in like, Like Connecticut, which is no joke. Like maybe 45 minutes, hour from the house. And the amount of like cool yeti bags.

[Sufi]

What is it?

[Adam Pally]

Why? And, and it does nothing except the kids just eat the whole time. You just hear. And my kids are so gross. Like the sound of my, of my 12 year old daughter like eating something is, is like worse than my dog licking itself. It's like a horrible sound, you know, like the mouth is open, is flying everywhere. There's like, you can hear stuff spilling with disregard. Like whoops. You're like, like, you know it's. And, but, but still like the, like you were saying. So like you can't turn around as the dad and be like, I just got it washed. Like I would never, I would never, I would.

[Sufi]

It's a bygone era.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah. And, but I think that's, that's good though. Probably. Yes.

[Sufi]

My daughter the other day, three and a half told me she had a secret. And then she leaned in and was like fully just eating. And so it was like really close like. And I'm like, honey, want it? Can you tell me the secret? When you're done, when you're done with that mouthful.

[Adam Pally]

Oh, my seven year old will sometimes like eat things weird. Like, like he'll like take like a lifesaver, you know. And like he'll be like. And then like take it out of his hand and be like white.

[Sufi]

Oh yeah.

[Adam Pally]

You know from the light, like all over his hand. It's like on his mat. He looks like he just like did a rail in the bathroom.

[Pashi]

I'm like.

[Adam Pally]

And then he'll come back and it's like, dude, those things are circle for a reason, man. You put your tongue in the middle of it and play around.

[Pashi]

He wants to hold it like a lollipop he's making. I'm like, there's no stick, Einstein.

[Sufi]

We. My wife will also do this thing where she will. When it's. I'm in charge. It's like a higher level difficulty of snack. Sometimes I'll bring the boys on a train and she'll say, oh, I made. I cut up some vegetables and hummus. And I'm just like, don't make me. That's like, that's legit.

[Adam Pally]

Like wipeout. You might as well be jumping on a giant red ball and just like.

[Sufi]

Sitting in a three. Like it's the three of us in a booth on a train and they're just like, just like covered. The fronts of them are just covered. Painted in hummus.

[Adam Pally]

Nothing worse than like 7 o'clock in the morning. There's a Starbucks across from, from my kids school. And like, if my youngest is Drake is like, I want a bagel that is ninja war time. Because you have to like the bagel comes with a thing of Philadelphia like that. Yeah. And you're holding his water bottle and his backpack and his helmet for his scooter. So you have to like take, you have to take the plastic knife, hold the bagel, and in one chop be like, like trap it enough because you know it's not going to get through. And then like jam it down all the while it's like, I'm late, I'm late, I'm late, I'm late. You know what I actually just realized, Myers boys, we have just achieved like pure podcasting in its purest form, which is we're three white dudes complaining about our wives.

[Sufi]

Yeah, we did it.

[Pashi]

I haven't said anything about my wife.

[Adam Pally]

You're, you're guilty by association.

[Sufi]

You didn't say enough. Nice. You had plenty of times jump in and say you had a good one.

[Adam Pally]

If I was your wife, I'd be like, what about all the good pack? I mean, a lot of snacks get in that bag that are mine that are good that you like.

[Sufi]

Also, Josh is a newlywed, so none of it counts.

[Adam Pally]

Oh, come on.

[Sufi]

None of it counts. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from Helix. Hey, Pashi.

[Pashi]

Yeah, Sufi?

[Sufi]

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[Pashi]

I don't know, I don't.

[Sufi]

I got a, I got one of these rings that tells you how you sleep and it's really nice because you like to know how your body is behaving when you're not awake to watch it. But also, you like stats too. You like stats. I like stats, but I don't like bad stats. And one of the things about these wearable devices, sometimes their news is not great, right? And they're like, hey, you know, you are not sleeping well. And you know, for me, I'm just now like, I'm fully just waking up sometimes with, with, you know, bad neck, bad back. I'm getting a little bit older, but I got myself one of these Helix mattresses.

[Pashi]

Oh, yeah, me too. Man, oh man.

[Sufi]

They're pretty fantastic.

[Pashi]

Yeah, there's on their website, there's a quiz that you take and you sort of describe you and your partner's sleeping, you know, habits. Do you sleep on your back, your side, your stomach do you like things firm, soft, medium? And they've got so many different mattresses and you can dial it into what you specifically need. And then we got this mattress and it's the best.

[Sufi]

I've had immediate improvements in my sleep tracking. And to echo what you just said, when my stats are better, I'm in a better mood because also it means I slept better.

[Pashi]

Yeah, I used to sort of sleep in my. I'm a side sleeper most of the time and I'd wake up with like sore shoulders because the mattress was just too firm. But I do like a firm mattress. But now I've got this Helix mattress that's firm but with a little bit of softness. Like, it's sort of. It splits the difference between medium and firm, which is what I needed. And it's a dream.

[Sufi]

I would say between medium and firm is kind of splitting the difference between mom and dad.

[Pashi]

Okay.

[Sufi]

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[Pashi]

Yes, Doofy.

[Sufi]

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[Sufi]

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[Pashi]

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[Sufi]

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[Pashi]

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[Adam Pally]

Here, go.

[Sufi]

All right, so on when you came, when you went back to New York City, were you visiting a family? Were your grandparents in the city?

[Adam Pally]

My grandmother. Yeah. Actually moved into the apartment that I grew up in. So we would go right back and stay again. This is like, I don't know how, how we did this. We would stay in the one bedroom apartment that we all grew up in with my grandma.

[Pashi]

Wow.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, it was like a shtetl. It was like legit, you know.

[Sufi]

What, how, what were the sleeping arrangements before you moved?

[Adam Pally]

Well, there was a. Yeah, it's still, it's still there. It's still in our family too. My, actually, my cousin still lives in the apartment, but if you've ever been to Stuyvesant Town, all the apartments, they're like, they, they're, they look, they're the same configuration, right? And they, they have this one super long closet in the hallway of the one bedrooms. And so that got turned into me and my sister's rooms with two twin beds and a little, it was like a railroad. And so when we came back, they just shoved two small mattresses in that closet and we slept like amongst my grandma's coats and stuff.

[Pashi]

Wow.

[Adam Pally]

And then my mom and dad were in the, in the living room on the pull out, and my grandma was in the bedroom.

[Sufi]

Gotcha. And was that something was sleeping among grandma's coats? Did that have an excitement to it?

[Adam Pally]

Oh, yes. Oh, yes.

[Pashi]

Well, I don't know. Grandma's could. You could love the smell of those coats.

[Adam Pally]

Finally. It was. Putting on that mink was the first time I really felt like myself. Yeah, no, it was awful. It was like, smelled like moth balls and stuff. And like, but there was also still a lot of my stuff. Like the, the like my games and stuff were like talked in on the shelf. So there was also this other weird feeling of like being displaced but at the same time, again, I don't look back on it at all negatively because my. My parents were young and. And we were young and it felt. And because I was the oldest, you know, my parents were like, if. My dad was 30, 33 when he went to medical school and I was 9, he's like 24 when he had me, you know, like, he was like, really? And so it all just felt like we were part of this. Like, I don't know. It felt good in a way. You know, I'm sure. I'm sure there were negative parts of it that I've just completely buried, but, like, just to sleep in that closet with my sister felt like, oh, yeah. It was like, this is what we do to help mom and dad. And like, I don't know. The team. The team always felt connected.

[Sufi]

That's great. That's all you can ask.

[Adam Pally]

Did you.

[Sufi]

Are you close. Are your sisters. Are you still close to them?

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, we're all really close. They live in. In New Jersey, like, 30 minutes away, and they live, I think, like, two minutes, like three house. They can. You can cut through their houses, through backyards. Oh, fun.

[Sufi]

Oh, it's great.

[Adam Pally]

This is really sweet. Which is how my. Actually, my mom. When we finally moved to New Jersey, we were in a house that was like a block from my aunt. So it's. It's all very, you know, nice like that.

[Sufi]

Did you go on, as adults, did you ever go on vacation with your parents?

[Adam Pally]

We did. You know, money was. Was tight because of all the going to school so late. You know, student loans kind of made everything a little dicey, but my parents never really let on. We. We did do one major trip to London when I was, like, 16 with my mother's sister and her kids, who we all kind of grew up really tight to. And that trip was a disaster.

[Sufi]

Oh, wow.

[Adam Pally]

So total disaster. Because we were low on. Well, they. My sisters, my sisters, my. My mom, my. My aunt's husband, my Uncle Robert is. Is very high up at Deloitte and always was. So he. They were well off, you know, so when we would vacation with them, there was like, you know, it's a little awkward, like, you know, sometimes because they would be like, well, we're gonna go. Yeah. The imbalance would be because just socially, like, they would go out to a nice dinner and. And there were times where, you know, we would all be hanging out and then they would go to dinner and with their kids and we would not, you know, and, like, that was always weird because, you'd be like, you know, but, but. But that was my parents being like, they. We can't pay, so we're not gonna in involve ourselves, you know. Right. It was never. It was not. Yeah. It was never from the other side. But this one trip, we. Everyone really wanted to go to London. And so because my parents couldn't really afford it, they, through a family connection, were able. We're given housing at Florida State University's exchange program. And for some reason, my parents thought this would be like, a good vacation. And when we got there, we were in like, Shoreditch, like, East London, in, like, a dorm with kids from all over the world who were like, Florida State.

[Pashi]

Like, and we were like, I don't.

[Adam Pally]

Know anything about Florida. Like, you know, it was freezing. There was no heat. It was like, raining. And my uncle and Ann, who had money, were just. It was just like, became very clear as soon as we walked in. My uncle just like, walked out. Walked in and walked out and went to a hotel.

[Sufi]

And that's. I mean, again, because it's not a. You know, it's an incredible city, but, like, you get far out of the center, like, that's like you're somewhere else.

[Adam Pally]

It's like, yeah, it's like New York or any city. It's like, you know, you. You like, student housing from a public university in Florida is not going to be the best housing in London.

[Sufi]

Right. That's one of the first rules they teach on hotels dot com. That's one of the first things they tell.

[Adam Pally]

There were so many options too. And like, like, I. We saw a holiday in. In London, and I was like, let's do that.

[Sufi]

You guys don't have points after all this time, but.

[Adam Pally]

And then. And then they rented a car. And my uncle, who had. Who had traveled a lot to England, was very comfortable driving a car out to the country. And then my father was like, not. And he pulled out of the rental car place and immediately took the wind. The mirror just like, right off. And it was like, you know, this like, disgruntled Jewish guy, he's like, screaming in the middle of like, a traffic circle. Like, going. Walking out to pick up the mirror. Like, it was just. My grandmother was there and she was in our car, and she was like, I'd really like to be in the other car. Like, my father being like, me too. Robert's gonna show us he can drive. I'm like, me and my sister's in the back just, like, holding on for dear life.

[Sufi]

This is. Your grandmother was saying to her son. I want to be in a different car.

[Adam Pally]

Yes. And my mother would. My mother was just, like, so nervous, and, of course, being like, you're making me nauseous. You're making me nauseous. My dad being like, whose idea was this? You know, like, that same thing. And then, like, we finally got an hour away, and we had to, like, parallel park, and my dad was just, like, losing his mind. How do they do this on this side? He's like, adam, get out. Get out of the car. Look in the front. I would have to be like, I think you're okay.

[Sufi]

Oh, that. As a kid, when your dad's melting down and asks for your help, and you're like, I don't think I'm gonna deliver.

[Adam Pally]

Oh, I knew. He's like, get outside. And was like, what?

[Pashi]

Look the other way.

[Adam Pally]

Like, look at what?

[Sufi]

I really don't want to look.

[Adam Pally]

Tell me how bad it is. How bad is it?

[Sufi]

I don't know. What do you want to hear?

[Adam Pally]

Like, we're nowhere near the curb, dad. It's real bad. What about the curb on the other side?

[Sufi]

I don't need to look, dad.

[Adam Pally]

We're closer to that one, I guess.

[Sufi]

Everybody's already looking at you.

[Adam Pally]

Dad. Dad, there's horses in the lane. There's horses.

[Sufi]

And then do you. Do you feel like if you polled your sisters and your parents, you know, was their history of it as well? Like, that London trip was a disaster, or do you think they were like, oh, yeah, okay.

[Adam Pally]

Oh, yeah. It's known as a meltdown. I mean, it was. It was one of the biggest meltdowns I've ever seen. My father. You know, when you see your father have a meltdown, then he. That he has to. Like, after we parked at the. The new hotel, he. He walked around.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

Like, he just got out of the car and walked around. Yeah. And was like. Like, we could see him, you know, like, walking around. Like, he wasn't, like, walking away. He was just walking around, just blowing off some steam. Yeah. Which is the definition of blowing off steam, which is like, just something which I will say I have done that. I. I have now as a dad, like, slammed the car door and walked around. I mean, like, whoa. But, like. Yeah, that was a tough. Watching your father do that is just tough.

[Sufi]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

And he was all dressed up because he's, like, you know, thought of himself as, like, an American abroad. He was, like, in a scarf, like a trap, a trench coat, you know? Remember, he's a man of. The man of the theater.

[Pashi]

You know, was your mom in sequins?

[Adam Pally]

Oh, yeah. No, my mom had like a big hat on. She was like, you're making me nauseous. And he was like, he's like, we can't. In France. It's the same side, you know. Did you know that?

[Sufi]

Do you think he was more on edge when he was on a vacation with Robert?

[Adam Pally]

Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Sufi]

I mean, I get that too. That seems like a lot to carry.

[Adam Pally]

I mean, I think I can relate to that immensely, especially being in showbiz. Like, you know, you make friends with showbiz people and then it's like, you know, okay, we're all going away to Sun City, Idaho. You can only get there by four planes. And you're like, we're doing what? I've never been in syndication. Like, that's like, you know, you are. That. That is a reality. I think still hits, but I think it was probably harder related. Like, being related must have been really tough.

[Sufi]

So his. This was his. Robert married his wife's sister, Your mom's sister. Yeah, yeah, I think that must be tough.

[Adam Pally]

And they came in, you know.

[Sufi]

Right.

[Adam Pally]

Like, so it was. You're always together and, you know, he's a doctor, but he's in debt. It's like, difficult to explain, you know, why, like, the doctor is driving a puked up Dodge area still. It's like, it's just all. It doesn't look right, you know, like, why. Why does the doctor live in a condo in the suburbs? Is like. Yeah, it was.

[Sufi]

It's a late. It's a late starting doctor. I mean, that's, you know.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, no, totally. And he'll tell you that now from his, like, you know, Upper west side penthouse. He'll be like, you know, it wasn't always like this. Yeah, no, I was there. I was there.

[Sufi]

I was sleeping underneath your mom's coats.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, I remember. Tell me more, tell me more, tell.

[Sufi]

Me more about how it used to be.

[Adam Pally]

What was it like with your son?

[Sufi]

Was it hard for him?

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, I bet he didn't have it so easy, huh?

[Sufi]

Fantastic. It is always a delight to see you and to talk to you. But before we let you go, Josh is going to ask you the questions that we ask everybody. So brace yourself. Speed round.

[Pashi]

All right, here we go. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing. Adventurous or educational?

[Adam Pally]

Relaxing.

[Pashi]

What is your favorite means of transportation?

[Adam Pally]

Driven in a car.

[Pashi]

If you could take a vacation with any family, alive or dead, real or fictional, other than your own family, what Family. Would you like to take a vacation with the Wayans? If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be?

[Adam Pally]

My wife. My wife.

[Pashi]

What do you consider your hometown?

[Adam Pally]

New York City.

[Pashi]

Would you recommend New York City as a vacation destination?

[Adam Pally]

Absolutely not.

[Pashi]

Really?

[Sufi]

No.

[Adam Pally]

No.

[Pashi]

Okay.

[Adam Pally]

No. Great place to live and, like, you know, feel a part of things or whatever, but. Got it. I can't imagine, like, being like, I want to relax. Let's go to see a show at. On 48th and 6.

[Sufi]

All right.

[Pashi]

And then Seth's got our. Our closer questions.

[Sufi]

Adam, have you ever been to the Grand Canyon?

[Adam Pally]

No.

[Sufi]

Do you want to go?

[Adam Pally]

Yes.

[Sufi]

All right.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah. I went to school in Arizona for a little bit.

[Sufi]

Gotcha.

[Pashi]

Yeah.

[Sufi]

Because you. They. After a couple years, they were like, you. We think you got it.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah. I'm the first person to be told they finished University of Arizona in six months.

[Sufi]

We had the duty.

[Pashi]

Our mutual. Our mutual pal Egg Barinholz used to always wear an Arizona State shirt that was like a Monopoly board, and it said, Arizona State College. It's just a game. And then Ike, famously. Famously for Ike.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah. I don't think I finished high school.

[Pashi]

He did. He finished high school, but he had some issues with college.

[Adam Pally]

They gave him that certificate.

[Sufi]

Yeah, yeah.

[Pashi]

He paid the money.

[Sufi]

Thank you, buddy. It's always such a delight to talk to you.

[Adam Pally]

Thank you guys so much. I love you guys. I appreciate it.

[Sufi]

Love you too, buddy.

[Pashi]

And good luck with Staying Alive, the new comedy meets wellness podcast.

[Adam Pally]

Oh, God, yeah, Me.

[Pashi]

Welcome to the space.

[Adam Pally]

Oh, God.

[Sufi]

Love you, buddy.

[Pashi]

See you, Adam. Trying to get to the hotel. Stuck tween trucks that really smell of horsey shit. Makes your mom vomit. Leads to laughter in the back. Prompts a full bladder attack from Adam.

[Adam Pally]

Sis.

[Pashi]

Causing her to piss. If only they had been a. A little closer, then everything would have been oh, so kosher. Or dad could have pulled over. And to go from bad to worse, pally boys took off their shirts to clean the seats. Curious technique.