BONUS: A Live Staying Alive, First Guest Announcement!!

Summary

Staying Alive with Jon Gabrus & Adam Pally

Episode: BONUS: A Live Staying Alive, First Guest Announcement!!
Release Date: July 21, 2025

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Episode Overview

In this bonus episode of Staying Alive, hosts Jon Gabrus and Adam Pally delve into their latest adventures, upcoming live shows, and personal health journeys. The conversation is marked by their trademark humor and candid discussions about balancing their partying lifestyles with newfound health-conscious habits.

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Live Show Announcement and Special Guest

The highlight of the episode is the exciting announcement of their first special guest for the live show, Carolyn Brown, MS, IN RD. Jon and Adam introduce Carolyn as a registered dietitian and integrative nutritionist, emphasizing her expertise in health and wellness.

• Adam Pally (01:17): "Our first special guest for the live show Alive, Staying Alive in the Bell House, Brooklyn, is Carolyn Brown, MS, IN RD. She's a registered dietitian and integrative nutritionist."

Carolyn Brown is also noted for her role as the co-founder of Indigo Wellness and her collaboration with Eaton Botanicals, the gummy company partnered with Jon and Adam. The hosts express their enthusiasm about incorporating functional gummies into their live show, aiming to educate the audience on health benefits.

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Personal Health Journeys

Jon and Adam share updates on their personal fitness routines and dietary habits, providing a glimpse into their efforts to maintain a healthier lifestyle.

• Jon Gabrus (02:46): "So yesterday I did eight miles."

Jon reveals his dedication to running, mentioning an impressive eight-mile run the previous day and a 6.8-mile run the day before. Adam contrasts his own experience by humorously recounting his high beer consumption:

• Adam Pally (02:49): "Yesterday I did like 12 beers. The day before that I did like 29."

Despite the indulgences, Jon discusses his attempts to balance with healthier choices, such as eating broccoli slices shortly after a run:

• Jon Gabrus (03:29): "I ate three broccoli slices within 30 seconds of entering."

The hosts highlight the challenges and humor in their journey toward better health, blending their comedic personas with genuine efforts to improve their well-being.

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Upcoming Live Show Details

The conversation shifts to logistical details about their upcoming live show at the Bell House in Brooklyn on August 5th. They emphasize the importance of attending the live event, whether in person or via live stream.

• Adam Pally (06:07): "We were talking about how on August 5th at the Bell House, Brooklyn, we're doing a live Staying Alive and also eating Botanicals. Will be at the show, educating and elevating with their functional gummies."

Jon expresses particular interest in the functional gummies, mentioning a friend who introduced him to the concept:

• Jon Gabrus (06:38): "My buddy Jason was just presenting me with, like, functional tobacco."

Adam elaborates on the benefits of these gummies, which include ingredients like turmeric and ashwagandha to aid in microdosing and reducing inflammation:

• Adam Pally (07:07): "I'm interested in, like, these functional things that are giving you that, like, you know, poor man's highball, to quote Paul Rust. Like... a little bit of bad with a lot of good."

The hosts encourage listeners to purchase tickets for the live show, providing links and emphasizing the interactive experience awaiting attendees.

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Vacation Updates and Personal Anecdotes

Jon and Adam share updates about their current vacations on Long Island, discussing their activities and mishaps with humor and camaraderie.

• Adam Pally (01:41): "I'm at... I was formerly on vacation in Montauk, but now I'm back at my mom's house..."

Jon describes his own vacation in Water Mill, mentioning his fitness activities:

• Jon Gabrus (02:01): "I'm on vacation in Water Mill."

Their lighthearted banter includes anecdotes about errands, shopping for gadgets like the "AOS personal game Xbox," and humorous reflections on their summer indulgences, such as excessive beer consumption.

• Adam Pally (04:50): "Oh, I've been drinking light beer by the fucking gallon."

Jon adds to the humor by mentioning his diet antics and interactions with friends:

• Jon Gabrus (05:15): "I have a couple friends over this weekend at our spot... a lot of them are huge Staying Alive fans."

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Interactions and Future Plans

The hosts discuss upcoming plans, including doctor's appointments, live dates in Chicago, and a brother's bachelor party. They also touch upon maintaining their friendship despite busy schedules and vacations.

• Adam Pally (08:57): "I gotta get back to LA and get my together for like five days before I turn around, fly and out to doing live dates in Chicago..."

Jon mentions his own commitments, balancing work and vacation time:

• Jon Gabrus (09:14): "I'm going to a bachelor party the 12th of September in redacted city."

Their conversation underscores the importance of balancing personal life, professional commitments, and health goals, all while maintaining their comedic edge.

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Quotes Highlights

• Jon Gabrus (02:46): "So yesterday I did eight miles."
• Adam Pally (02:49): "Yesterday I did like 12 beers. The day before that I did like 29."
• Adam Pally (07:07): "I'm interested in, like, these functional things that are giving you that, like, you know, poor man's highball..."
• Adam Pally (06:07): "We're doing a live Staying Alive and also eating Botanicals."

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Conclusion

This bonus episode of Staying Alive offers fans an engaging look into Jon Gabrus and Adam Pally's lives as they navigate the challenges of staying healthy while embracing their lively lifestyles. With upcoming live shows, special guests, and personal anecdotes, the hosts provide a blend of humor and sincerity that resonates with listeners seeking both entertainment and genuine insights into health and wellness.

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Transcript

[John Gabris]

I just read this thing about how hard it is to get people out to theaters and stuff right now.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah. Would you read a tweet, a headline?

[John Gabris]

Oh, I'm sorry. I'm making. I'm just making this up. I'm just making this up.

[Adam Pally]

Have you heard about this? Have you heard about this?

[John Gabris]

Have you heard about this? People have fell down another hill. Can't stand up straight. Oh, my car's on fire. I should not be driving.

[Adam Pally]

Our first special guest for the live show Alive, Staying Alive in the Bell House, Brooklyn, is Carolyn Brown, MS, IN RD. She's a registered dietitian and integrative nutritionist. I don't know what it is, but I'm excited to find out. She's the co founder of Indigo Wellness and she works with. With Eaton Botanicals, the gummy company that Adam and I are working with. Also Eaton Botanicals will be at the show educating and elevating with their functional gummies. We are trying to sell tickets. We're recording this. We're both standing in Union Square park, handed out flyers to the show.

[John Gabris]

Old school.

[Adam Pally]

Old school. Yeah. I can't believe I used to do that in my early 20s.

[John Gabris]

God, what a nightmare.

[Adam Pally]

The show you directed of ours, me and Justin would be in Speedos in Union Square.

[John Gabris]

Funniest videos, though. That's like the real punk rock shit. That's like the real, real shit. Anyway, where are you. We should get. Tell the audience where. Where we are, I guess. Like, we're both on Long Island.

[Adam Pally]

We're both on Long Island. I'm at. I was formerly on vacation in Montauk, but now I'm back at my mom's house in. Want to. Of course, all those are different towns. Pronounced different towns. Same colonization, same culture. St and from.

[John Gabris]

Yeah, I'm. I'm on vacation in Water Mill.

[Adam Pally]

I'm on like, I'm on like day 11 of having a bagel or pizza.

[John Gabris]

Or like in the middle.

[Adam Pally]

I've not zeroed out yet. I've had.

[John Gabris]

Right in the middle. I did, but I've been working out a lot. Right. And actually I've been running a lot since our last. I wanted to show you my stats. Not to. Not to show off just because I was like. Remember when we. When we interviewed Randall.

[Adam Pally]

Upcoming interview tease, Randall Park. Great guy. We had a blast.

[John Gabris]

Yeah. So how do I. How do I see what I've done in the last. Like, how do I see the daily thing?

[Adam Pally]

Hit the heart app.

[John Gabris]

Yeah. And then hit review it.

[Adam Pally]

There should be like walking or. And running or yeah, walking, running. Walking and running. Yeah, click that. And then you should be able to daily like D D W. Yeah, yeah.

[John Gabris]

So yesterday I did eight miles.

[Adam Pally]

Jesus. Holy, dude.

[John Gabris]

Yeah, I'm feeling good. I'm like. And the day before I did. The day before I did 6.8.

[Adam Pally]

Jesus. Yesterday I did like 12 beers. The day before that I did like 29.

[John Gabris]

Oh no, but that's the thing. Like so, so today I did. I have to look. I think it was like four point something. It wasn't a huge one, but it was like enough. Feel good. I came back in the house and my friends are here this weekend and they had ordered American pieces and I ate three broccoli slices within. Within 30 seconds of entering. Still sweating from the run as if it was Gatorade.

[Adam Pally]

Cruciferous though. So you're.

[John Gabris]

You're Gucci a little bit, but man.

[Adam Pally]

A little bit. A little bit of broccoli.

[John Gabris]

A little bit. I mean it was so good, dude. Like, oh, you know what I did get? I stopped at the. On my way out today because I was like killing time and every 20 minutes there was another accident on the LIE and so I would be like, oh God. So I stopped like and did a bunch of errands. Like I stopped at Best Buy and got myself a aos.

[Adam Pally]

A what?

[John Gabris]

Like a personal game Xbox thingy.

[Adam Pally]

Oh, sick, dude. I don't know what that is. That's.

[John Gabris]

It's like a Steam deck, but it's Xbox based so I'm going to try that out lately. And then I drove another 30 minutes at Riverhead, hit traffic, stopped at the New Balance outlet and I got the most Gabrius shoe of all time. You want to see it? I was telling you about them. I was telling you about them and I found them in the outlet.

[Adam Pally]

Wow. Wow. Those are like peak bad. Me making bad choices. But I like them, dude.

[John Gabris]

What do you mean? This is like something that you would.

[Adam Pally]

Wear this, like I'd wear this white water rafting.

[John Gabris]

You wear this in the tuxedo.

[Adam Pally]

They're awesome.

[John Gabris]

I knew you'd like them. Yeah, no, but we are in the throes of summer and I feel like both of us, I mean, we're doing a lot, but we are also indulging a lot.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah, dude. Oh, I've been drinking light beer by the fucking gallon. You know, I'm always going on about the Sam Adams American Lights, but I found on Long island, the Blue Point, Long island lights.

[John Gabris]

If there wasn't some up tonight.

[Adam Pally]

Get them, dude. They are fucking Drinkable as hell. Blue Point, Long Island Lights. Come at the Pod. I'd like friends of the Pod, please. We're big fans of the.

[John Gabris]

You know what a friend of mine said, because, like, I have a couple friends over this weekend at our spot, like Danielle. It's all the parents of the kids who are also at camp who are also at camp. Oh. And a lot of them are huge Staying Alive fans. And my buddy Jason, who is like an enormous fan and was. Was like referencing all our episodes to me and whatever, and he. Wait, what were you just talking about?

[Adam Pally]

Oh, man, I'm like, partially laughing because I can't remember what we're talking about. I feel like what we were. We were talking about is how on August 5th at the bell House, Brooklyn, we're doing. We're doing a live Staying Alive and also eating botanicals. Will be at the show, educating and elevating with their functional gummies.

[John Gabris]

And I really am interested in functional gummies. In fact, my friend Jason, who is an enormous fan.

[Adam Pally]

Ah, Bateman, is going to be so pissed that we're talking about him like this.

[John Gabris]

No, but. But my buddy Jason was just presenting me with, like, functional tobacco.

[Adam Pally]

Whoa.

[John Gabris]

Yeah. And, like, I'm really interested in, like, these functional things that, like, are. Are giving you that, like, you know, poor man's highball, to quote Paul Rust. Like.

[Adam Pally]

Right.

[John Gabris]

You know, it's like a little bit of bad with a lot of good, you know.

[Adam Pally]

Right.

[John Gabris]

I'm interested.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah. Yeah. I like that. That, like, if I'm gonna have gummies, throwing some Rishi and some turmeric in there to help me with my microdose and alleviate some swellings and some inflammation in my gut.

[John Gabris]

Yeah.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah. Let's go. So if you're in Brooklyn, get tickets to the live [e-mail] or Ticketmaster. We say go to thebellhousenewyork dot com I think that'll link you to Ticketmaster anyway, so don't worry about it. And if you're not in Brooklyn, you can watch the live [e-mail] staying alive. Veeps.com staying alive. I'm out of breath, dude.

[John Gabris]

Thank God for you, man. I'm not equipped to do that right now.

[Adam Pally]

What, reading? Yeah, I'm not doing hot right now. It's Friday at 4pm the only time that you and I could meet. I'm on day 12 of a vacation. You're on day one of a vacation?

[John Gabris]

Yeah. So we've been. We've worked, we're literally crossing benders.

[Adam Pally]

We literally drove past each other on.

[John Gabris]

The 2027 today and now we're in the same place. The other one was.

[Adam Pally]

I got one more. I got my brother's housewarming party tomorrow, so I'm going to get foggy.

[John Gabris]

That's going to get it back up.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

So you're not going to. What, are you going to go see a movie tonight or something?

[Adam Pally]

I'm trying to maybe go see F1 or I'm going to just play in my mom's pool until I'm tuckered out.

[John Gabris]

I heard F1 is awesome.

[Adam Pally]

I saw Superman and I enjoyed it. I like, it was kind of like soft and goofy and weird, but. And some of the CGI annoyed me, but I had a blast. I think the main three are great actors and. Yeah, pretty fun.

[John Gabris]

I'm gonna love it. I'm gonna love it when I watch it on a plane.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah.

[John Gabris]

So what's your plan? You're going back to la?

[Adam Pally]

Going back to la. Got some doctor's appointments lined up to strap into the GLP1 adventure Welcome, my friend. I got.

[John Gabris]

It's a journey.

[Adam Pally]

I gotta get back to LA and get my together for like five days before I turn around, fly and out to doing live dates in Chicago, then meeting you in New York for a live show. Then I'm going to my brother's bachelor party in redacted city. I don't want you sickos finding me.

[John Gabris]

Yeah, I'm going to a bachelor party the 12th of September in redacted city.

[Adam Pally]

And the second best day to fly.

[John Gabris]

I am. Well, no, I'll be flying on the 11th. The party starts on the 12th. Just like, just like in 2001.

[Adam Pally]

Just like in Jersey City. Just like celebrating.

[John Gabris]

Just like Zoron said.

[Adam Pally]

I'm wearing Staying Alive merch. Dude.

[John Gabris]

I was almost gonna put it on, but it's. The color makes me look like I'm gonna throw up.

[Adam Pally]

I'm so tan right now that it works.

[John Gabris]

You're like fucking. Yeah, a tomato.

[Adam Pally]

I got the hot dog color. Like. Like, what's his face like? Hogan. I. I felt Hogan and Rogan.

[John Gabris]

I fell asleep the other day outside and I got like an A Sun. Can you see in my eye like a bat.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah. Yeah. I would keep those bad boys on.

[John Gabris]

Oh, yeah. Well, I'm. Legally, I have to. Especially if I'm by the school today.

[Adam Pally]

And I'm by the school every day.

[John Gabris]

And guess what?

[Adam Pally]

Today's no bad news.

[John Gabris]

Some bad news. Today's a normal day for me.

[Adam Pally]

All right, well, I'll see you Tuesday, August 5th, at 7:30. Before then, maybe Monday, August 4th, we will get together and eat sushi.

[John Gabris]

Man, that's. Wow. I mean, I guess it's so. It's so close, but I. Yeah. I miss you, buddy.

[Adam Pally]

Yeah. Well, this is a fun guy. Even though we FaceTimed already this week, but, like, yeah, now we could do it while Ann and Devin listen in. Those little sickos.

[John Gabris]

It doesn't feel any different. Is that weird?

[Adam Pally]

I forget that they're there until this moment right when I'm like, how do we hang up this thing?

[John Gabris]

This feels the same as when I'm like, hey, what are you doing? Like, you know, I don't think that's good either. I think that's how people end up canceled. Right?

[Adam Pally]

Yeah. We gotta. We gotta remember that this isn't our private FaceTime conversations, which are, my wife is riding me.

[John Gabris]

I'm coming.

[Adam Pally]

All right, I'll see you at the bell house, brah.

[John Gabris]

Later, brah.

[Adam Pally]

You have been listening to Staying Alive with John Gabris and Adam Pali, a Smartless Media production in association with Sirius xm.

[John Gabris]

Produced by Devin Tory Bryant and Anne Harris. Engineered and edited by Devin Tory Bryant, who also wrote the music.

[Adam Pally]

Associate producer and video producer is Matty McCann. Social media producer Tommy Galgano, assistant engineer Kyle McGraw.

[John Gabris]

Special thanks to Jared O' Connell at SiriusXM.

[Adam Pally]

Executive producers are John Gabris. Ooh, me. Adam Pally. Ooh, you, Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, Richard Courson, and Bernie Kaminski. Do us a favor. Just rate and review the podcast. It actually helps.

[John Gabris]

Just so everyone knows, we do not.

[Adam Pally]

Have a discord, don't reach out to us.

[John Gabris]

See us on the street. Walk the other way or you'll catch hands.