
Season’s Greetings, listeners! On this episode of Staying Alive, hosts Jon Gabrus and Adam Pally catch up about holiday stress before sitting down with one of their more handsome and jacked friends, writer/comedian Dan Levy (Indebted, Mulaney, The Goldbergs) to talk about keeping a fitness routine going while touring, Instagram workout detectives, TRT, and being dads with three kids. Plus, several of the least expected celebrity encounters ever, and Dan tells a story so intense that the phrase “secondhand embarrassment” barely covers it. Follow Dan @danlevyshow on Insta Full video episodes available HERE. Check out Staying Alive merch at siriusxmstore.com/stayingalive This episode was recorded February 6, 2025 at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles Special thanks to Lee Nason and Brian Baldinger Staying Alive is produced by Devon Torrey Bryant and Anne Harris Engineered and edited by Devon Torrey Bryant, who also wrote the music Associate producer and video editor is Maddie McCann E...
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John Gabris
Smart Last. Merry Christmas.
Adam Pally
Merry Christmas.
John Gabris
Well, not yet. Do we. We have to. We have to say Happy Hanukkah, buddy. We're still deep in it right now.
Adam Pally
Yeah. But I feel like it's okay.
John Gabris
Christmas season is like Thanksgiving to January 5th.
Adam Pally
Like, yeah, I mean, like, yeah, Hanukkah.
John Gabris
Hanukkah was like, we're gonna go eight days. So we Christians are happy about their one Christmas Day and the Christmas. And Christians were like, you know what? We're going to call it the Christmas season. You're with your eight days, you're like, it's so unfair.
Adam Pally
And then Chinese are like, well, it's the year of the Bunny. So all you.
John Gabris
Yeah, we're just doing Bunny all year. Let's see what you got. Oh, enjoy your little eight nights of oil.
Adam Pally
Enjoy your eight nights in.
John Gabris
I can't believe it's December. I can't believe we are like, whatever, 30 episodes into the show. I can't believe the year is ending. I didn't do any of the. I said I was gonna do this.
Adam Pally
No, you did. No, you did. You did. Yeah, I think that's not true. I think that, that. That it feels that way. I mean, I. I feel that way. It always feels that way.
John Gabris
Yeah.
Adam Pally
I hate this time of year. I. I was. I. I just hate this time of year. It's so dark and like, literally, figurative. Literally figuratively. I used to do better with it when I lived in la, because in L. A. You can kind of trick yourself into. All of a sudden, like, December 20th feels the same as. You know. Yeah.
John Gabris
You can go out for a walk without like chapping your fucking cheeks and nose. Bridge your nose. Yeah.
Adam Pally
But here, I mean, it's already that way. Like yesterday I was like. It was. It was like 50 degrees out and I was like, you know what? I'm going to exercise outside. I'm going to go for a run. It was like 3:30 felt great, except at 4:00 it was pitch black.
Unidentified Guest/Producer
I know.
Adam Pally
And I was on the west side highway, like, damn it, now it's 20 degrees. This was so stupid, you know? And like, there's no one out anymore and then there's tourists everywhere. It just feels very lonely in the city this time of year, you know? Yeah.
John Gabris
Because people also leave too. People are. Got their holiday trips and shit like that.
Adam Pally
We're not going anywhere.
John Gabris
La, when it thins out, rules. When New York, when it thins out, feels like Omega man and you get a little. It feels like fucking I am legend. It gets a Little.
Adam Pally
It does a little bit. Yeah.
John Gabris
But in la, when it's empty, you're like, I'm driving to the. The Glendale Galleria with no. Within eight minutes. It feels like you feel like you're on. On vacation somewhere.
Adam Pally
It does. It does a little. But that also is why I feel like I prefer LA in this time of year. As I get older, it's like I just want to be distracted. I don't want to know that time is passing. And I feel like that may be what. What gets me down about this chunk of time between Thanksgiving and New year's. Like, once January 2nd comes around, I do feel popped back up.
John Gabris
Yeah. I mean, there's also the element that, like, work slows. If I can get in a good headspace about work slowing down and, like. And if my money is remotely right, which in December 2025. Tis. Not is.
Dan Levy
But.
John Gabris
Yeah, but if it was, I can get into the headspace of, like, it is fun that nothing happens for two weeks. I mean, you're. You're a parent, and so you have like. Like your kids are home from school, but no.
Adam Pally
But child.
John Gabris
This guy. For a child. This guy. It's like no one's emailing me from, like, December 19th through, like, January 3rd. There's, like, nothing I have to worry about.
Adam Pally
But. But. But I felt this way even before.
John Gabris
A touch of sadness to that. But, yeah, I felt.
Adam Pally
I felt that way even before. Kids, though, too, is this certain element. There's always. I always have a sense of feeling of like I'm not involved or like I'm missing something. Yeah, we're both pretty.
John Gabris
I guess we're both pretty FOMO y people. That's why we do so much.
Adam Pally
Yeah. No, truly, because I don't like to feel like I'm, like, missing something. And so this time of year, you're inclined to feel that way because you're so disconnect. Everybody kind of retreats and work stops, and you're just like, the world slows down, which is what's supposed to happen. But for me, that is a kind of hell in its own space, you know?
John Gabris
You know, Right, Yeah. No, I understand that. Totally. Not to make you feel super bad about the weather, but I'm going swimming later today at an outdoor.
Adam Pally
What's it like in la?
John Gabris
It's brisk. It's nice and brisk. Like, it's.
Adam Pally
It.
John Gabris
We're in that good phase where it's like sweatshirts in the morning and night, and in the middle of the day, you can, like, walk around outside with A T shirt.
Adam Pally
T shirt.
John Gabris
T shirt on, I guess off. I got tarps off. The sun's out. Tarps off.
Adam Pally
Yeah. No, it's the type of cold in New York where, like, Brick. The word brick is being thrown around.
John Gabris
Oh, yeah, it's brick ass. Yeah, it's brick as brick.
Adam Pally
Yeah, it's that type of. It's that type of vibe where you're like, God damn. Like, where you're. Where you're basically, like, picking how you're gonna. Am I gonna get rained on and wet and cold, or am I going.
John Gabris
Am I going to get windy?
Adam Pally
Windy and wet.
John Gabris
Dry.
Adam Pally
Yeah, it's gonna be dry.
John Gabris
No one ever says, like, oh, it's a dry cold. Like, you see, like, a dry heat. No one ever says, ooh, a dry cold.
Adam Pally
You pray for that. You pray for that. I pray for a dry cold. Speaking of a dry cold.
John Gabris
Speaking of a dry cold. Open how we do it. We got a good. But we got a good butt on the podcast today.
Dan Levy
You're.
John Gabris
You're in your indebted collaborator.
Adam Pally
Collaborator.
John Gabris
Yours.
Adam Pally
Yeah. One of the funniest dudes around. And just, like, he. To me, this guy is like the modern day dad.
John Gabris
Yeah.
Adam Pally
He is the ultimate dad.
John Gabris
Yeah, he's. He's got. He's got cool dad vibes. Like, he. And he's like. And not in, like, a corny way. And like. No, he's an aspirational. He's aspirational in a lot of ways. Like, I want to just take a second to say, like, you and I have been friends for so long, but we've obviously done a lot of stuff separately. And every time I meet a friend of yours that I get tighter with, whether it's like Libman Levy, Casey, or. Or you get. Meet a friend of mine and get tighter with, like, Stav Stange, you know, and like, we. We every time we fucking, like, bring these people to each other, and all of a sudden we're like, of course I like this dude. Pally loves you. Of course. Because Levy's. Levy's one of my faves, dude.
Adam Pally
He's like.
John Gabris
He makes me laugh. And he's his. His. Just his Persona and how forthcoming he is is so obviously perfect for guys like us.
Adam Pally
I was with his brother.
John Gabris
Whoa.
Adam Pally
Couple nights ago. Yeah. His brother is an agent at uta.
Unidentified Guest/Producer
Whoa.
Adam Pally
Who reps a lot of our friends and peers and people we like. And I ran into him, and his brother was so nice about the podcast in a way that reminded me so much of Dan. And I was like, you know what? That, that really is the Levy thing.
John Gabris
Yeah.
Adam Pally
Like, there's a certain sweetness and no bitterness. And no, he's not rooting for anybody's demise. He's rooting for everybody's success. And he's so secure in the fact that he'll be fine that it's like there's not any of that. You know what I mean?
John Gabris
He doesn't care about. I gotta. I gotta learn that.
Adam Pally
I got me too, because I'm constantly putting needles in voodoo dolls and shit.
John Gabris
You know, like, I'm rooting for my friends all the time, but if someone is just like one degree outside my close friend group, I'm like, why isn't that me that got this thing that I actually couldn't do if I got it anyway?
Adam Pally
Yeah.
John Gabris
No, I would be physically or ment. Unable to do it anyway. But I'm furious at this.
Adam Pally
I gotta say, that is Dan's superpower, is that he just goes through life in a way. And I guess you probably do when you're like, jacked and handsome and funny, it's probably easy to be like, yeah, life is great. Yeah.
John Gabris
He has a wonderful family.
Adam Pally
Yeah. Beautiful family. He's got money, everything's good. Steady income. It's like, yeah, you know what, Dan? Life is great.
John Gabris
Yeah.
Dan Levy
Funny.
John Gabris
Good at what he wants to do.
Adam Pally
Good at what he wants to do. Kind of living his dream life. He's got a Porsche.
Dan Levy
You know what?
John Gabris
Off Dan. You know what, actually, dude, I don't like Dan around here.
Adam Pally
From now on, I'm not gonna hang out with Dan.
John Gabris
I'm only hanging out with his brother. I hope his brother needs to sign a barely successful middle aged guy.
Adam Pally
Hey, rep. Stop.
John Gabris
Fuck. Then he doesn't need another one. He doesn't need a less popular one. Well, without further ado, you know what? Let's let our listeners be the judge of how sweet or how much of a prick this guy is.
Unidentified Guest/Producer
Yeah.
Adam Pally
Ladies and gentlemen, we gas him up.
John Gabris
For like three minutes, rip the rug out, which is kind of a description of how we do deal with everybody.
Adam Pally
Ladies and gentlemen, the other Dan Levy. We're here. We're in it. We're doing it.
John Gabris
We are. Adam, you are on the west coast and we needed a studio availability, so we're recording in the world famous Comedy Store. Yeah.
Adam Pally
Which is nice because something funny will happen here.
John Gabris
Yeah. This is the basement, baby.
Adam Pally
Yep. I'll repeat it.
John Gabris
Welcome to another episode of Staying Alive with Me, John Gabris, Adam Pally, and our guest today is Dan Levy.
Adam Pally
World world famous.
John Gabris
Here I am.
Adam Pally
Comedy writer, Stand up.
Dan Levy
The closest. The closest person. The person who lived the closest to the studio.
Adam Pally
Last night, we literally thought our talent.
John Gabris
Booking department's like, we still haven't found someone for the first session. It's like.
Adam Pally
Because I found someone for the second session was like. My friend Dan lives about five minutes up the hill. I know. After he drops his kids off at school, he's looking for something to do.
Dan Levy
And here we are.
Adam Pally
He's got a Zoom at noon.
John Gabris
Man, I'm jealous. Zoom. General.
Adam Pally
Well, it may not be a general. You never know what a zoom. It could also be a realtor.
Dan Levy
It is. It actually is a realtor.
John Gabris
It could just be a. Trying to get out of la.
Dan Levy
No, I love la.
Adam Pally
It's great. Levy. So we on this podcast, obviously by name, but we. We mostly talk about just what we're doing to stay alive. Because Gabrius and I, as you know, we live kind of out there.
Dan Levy
Yes.
Adam Pally
Lifestyle. Yes. We're revved up sometimes.
Dan Levy
We're reining in.
John Gabris
Yeah, I'm. I'm getting fatter as I sit here.
Adam Pally
Yeah.
John Gabris
I'm feeling my buttons. Is the mic picking up my buttons, screaming for help.
Adam Pally
I'm actually the. The saddest thing I can say today, statistically about myself is that this sweater is a double xl. Oh.
John Gabris
Oh, hell yeah.
Dan Levy
But that brand, now that this is a podcast, not about that, but that brand, a little.
Adam Pally
It runs a little tight, but still, I would love it.
John Gabris
Of course, you fucking fashionistas know that. I know that if I can only wear a double xl, if the company is like an American, like, it has to be like Tommy Bahama X's for actual double X people. But if I'm like, oh, it's a British designer. It's a double X. Like, the sleeves come up.
Adam Pally
Oh, yeah, yeah, this is Italian. Yeah.
John Gabris
This is an Italian sweater.
Dan Levy
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Ad Voice
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Dan Levy
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Ad Voice
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John Gabris
Hey, we want to let you know about a new smartless media show celebrating the world's Dumbest Criminals. It's called Crimeless, and it's hosted by journalist Josh Dean and my favorite comedian, Rory Scoville.
Adam Pally
Every week, Josh tells Rory a story or two or three about some ridiculous stranger than fiction crime, starring some of the most hilarious ding dongs you could possibly imagine. Think Coen brothers.
John Gabris
But real life, we're talking staged deaths, pretend hitmen, fake drugs, heists targeting Guy Fieri, crimes against cats. And what show would be complete without gangs of monkeys rampaging through towns, terrorizing tourists.
Adam Pally
New episodes of Crimeless are out every Wednesday, wherever podcasts are available.
John Gabris
So we like to kick off our interviews asking this dumb question. Dan Levy.
Adam Pally
Yeah.
John Gabris
What are you doing to stay alive?
Dan Levy
Well, I'm doing a lot.
John Gabris
That's the. That's the answer.
Adam Pally
Most and honestly, one of the most refreshing, honest things. Cuz a lot of times the people we talk to, they give you this kind of like, I don't know what the. What the right adjective for it is, but it's like they really look down on you and they go like, it's really easy. You know, like, it's not that hard.
Dan Levy
You know, it's so hard. There's so much to do. All my Instagram algorithms is telling me to take steroids. Like, I am so close to buying trt, I can't even tell you.
Adam Pally
What is trt?
John Gabris
What is testosterone replacement therapy? Trust me, I go to. I go to a WeHo Men's Health Clinic.
Adam Pally
Oh, yeah.
John Gabris
It's either that or prep like everything's about HIV and TRT through this.
Adam Pally
My.
John Gabris
My six favorite letters.
Adam Pally
Is anything. Is anything a word?
Dan Levy
No, no, no, no. No more words.
John Gabris
Dan, I'm in the same boat as you, except I am. I am fighting for a reason. I'm always talking to my doctor. I'm like, I don't know. I feel sluggish. Can we test my testosterone?
Dan Levy
You need a better doctor. The doctor I go to just is like, what do you want? Anabolic steroids. Trt. Like the rock trend will kill you.
John Gabris
Yeah, Trend balloon will trend.
Adam Pally
Trend is like, I put that on my nose.
John Gabris
No, no, you put it in your ass.
Dan Levy
You put your ass. Trent is like control.
Adam Pally
I don't want it. Yeah.
John Gabris
It's not like a hormonal steroids, like a full blown anabolic. Yeah, like bodybuilders and up weirdos.
Dan Levy
Yeah. It makes you fully insane. I follow a bodybuilder on Instagram is my favorite guy. He lives in. No, he's a detective. He's a detective. He's called the hardest Working detective. And he works out at all sorts of hours. He never sleeps. He is on so many steroids. And it makes me think like, what is this guy? What is police?
John Gabris
A guy from long island who has a bicep tattoo. I'll say. That's one of the most long island guys ever. He's a cop and a steroid user. He could be a mayor.
Dan Levy
He wakes up, he wakes up. And, and if you're like really like working out, you know, you need to be on like a routine. You gotta wake up like, like you gotta sleep. Sleep's the most important thing. Everyone knows that. This guy wakes up 11:00pm 2:00am 4:00am I'm the hardest working detective and he's. He sleeps for an hour, jumps in an ice bath, jogs to a gym in a garage, works out for three hours and then goes. Fights crime.
John Gabris
He's like fucking.
Adam Pally
You know that most of those crime cases are just like him choking out black people.
John Gabris
He's like Batman, but more racist.
Adam Pally
Yeah. A lot of those crimes end up being lawsuits.
Dan Levy
Batman, this guy.
Adam Pally
Yeah, I can just see him walking into a wawa, approaching whatever minorities. Like, you gotta pay for that. I'm gonna warn you right now.
Dan Levy
Hopped up.
Adam Pally
Yeah.
Dan Levy
Slept in seven weeks. Shoots everyone.
Adam Pally
Yeah.
John Gabris
Gets a kettlebell out of the trunk.
Adam Pally
Of his car, throws it through a bus window.
Dan Levy
But that I follow that guy and my whole algorithm is all trend is like a really intense there. It also makes you crazy.
John Gabris
Yes. That's the one that gives you roid rage that people say. Well, also people, there's like safe doses of a lot of this stuff that everyone. But there's. It's become a sort of a meme to be like how I watch like these. I'm sure you get a lot of these too. Just people at like fitness expos. Like natty or not. Yeah, straight up. Everyone's very comfortable talking about. I mean in Hollywood no one talks about ozempic, but in everywhere else, everyone's like, I'm on fucking steroids.
Dan Levy
Oh yeah. Like all everyone in the east coast ts T shirts. Everyone's into it. Everyone lies in L. A.
John Gabris
But.
Dan Levy
But you can't lie when you're on trend. You look like the ultimate warrior.
John Gabris
Right.
Adam Pally
And you're screaming at children, screaming at.
John Gabris
Your children in public to help you understand T. TRT.
Dan Levy
Yeah.
John Gabris
TRT has caused all these 70 year old bald jacked guys that you see around now that are like weirdly pink.
Dan Levy
Like Harvey from tmz.
John Gabris
Yes, Like Harvey from TMZ is a good example. You get like super yoked. You kind of lose some hair because too much testosterone makes you go a little bald. But you get on the Rogaine Minoxidil ahead of time. These guys get jacked and they get that weird color that's like purple. They're like a purplish color. Not the Hulk Hogan. Like that.
Dan Levy
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He, he talks about being on TRT forever. Like all those, all those guys are. But I think they, they, the trend is.
Adam Pally
You think Dax Shepar's on trc?
Dan Levy
He is. He's, he's, he said on his podcast. Yeah, he said change his life.
Adam Pally
Yeah. For the worst. It changed my life. I'm crazy now.
John Gabris
Yeah. I'm finally considered crazy.
Adam Pally
Have you heard some of the production stories about me?
Dan Levy
They're all true.
Adam Pally
Anyone on bless this mess? I'm not.
John Gabris
I love that part of our podcast is keep mentioning other even more famous, more popular podcasters, hoping they clip us and make fun of us.
Adam Pally
Oh, for sure. We're making enemies.
John Gabris
Left the ovon on TRT is Tim Dylan.
Adam Pally
Trust me, dude, Tim Dylan's not on tr.
Dan Levy
No, I, I, I am not on it. But, But I take creatine like an 11th grader.
Adam Pally
Okay, so what? Okay, so I just ordered like, first Instagram got me okay for like this like collagen powder in my coffee.
Dan Levy
Okay.
Adam Pally
Yeah, I haven't been about two weeks.
Dan Levy
Not done yet.
Adam Pally
No, I've been, I've been doing every day. Nothing. It's like, it's a big nothing. It's like.
Dan Levy
You look good, though.
Adam Pally
You do. I, I look exactly the same as I've looked since I'm 13 years old.
John Gabris
Huge victory, by the way.
Dan Levy
Worse before.
John Gabris
Whoa. You're a pig.
Adam Pally
You see me in some bloated stages, right?
Dan Levy
But you look really good right now. But your skin looks good.
Adam Pally
I don't think it's because of the college. Maybe it is.
John Gabris
Collagen is, is a, is a solid source of protein that also offers up hair, nail, and skin. I take collagen in my post workout drink. Creatine is not just for meatheads anymore because it has, it's as Joe Rogan would say, it's nootropic. It, it helps with your brain health.
Adam Pally
So I gotta add in.
Dan Levy
You add on creatine after you work out.
Adam Pally
After you work out.
Dan Levy
Yes, yes.
Adam Pally
Yeah, yeah. When we put it in my high life.
Dan Levy
Yeah, I throw it in a martini. Whatever you need.
John Gabris
I'll have a dirty creatine.
Dan Levy
Oh, come on.
John Gabris
We have to be drinking creatinis at our next show.
Adam Pally
No, that happens once a show.
John Gabris
Yeah. Our one decoration that we have is this, this picture me and Adam insisted on taking because we think we're Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey and now they sold out even more than happen.
Dan Levy
Should we tell the audience that this was shipped? Even though you could just email pictures out?
John Gabris
It is a, it's a print up. It's not like it's professional.
Adam Pally
By the time we're done with the season one, this is, that thing's going to be torn to.
Dan Levy
I hope one of the 30 people who are watching this from the portal.
John Gabris
30 people who are watching this upon release. It's a stacked market.
Dan Levy
No, no, you guys are the only podcast.
Adam Pally
Yeah, no, no, no, we're the only, we're, we're the only podcast just currently filming from the basement of the comedy store at 9:30.
John Gabris
So you said you do so much to stay alive. We've heard Creatine, Instagram Detective.
Dan Levy
I work out.
Adam Pally
Okay, so take me through the workout because this is where I really, this is where I, this is the only thing that you and I all do that is the same.
Dan Levy
Okay. So I work out probably. I work out six days a week.
John Gabris
Hell yeah.
Dan Levy
I work, I work out. I try to work out early, but I have multiple kids.
Adam Pally
Right.
Dan Levy
So it's hard.
John Gabris
Now you might, viewers might not know this because he's in all vintage raw Italian denim or some shit, but Dan is pretty shredded.
Adam Pally
Dan is shredded.
John Gabris
Danny's Dan, I would say you're like comedian really jacked.
Adam Pally
You know what I mean?
John Gabris
Yeah.
Adam Pally
Oh yeah.
John Gabris
You can move to Austin for a comedian.
Adam Pally
Yeah.
John Gabris
Yeah. You're actually a little too funny though. So you have to figure some out.
Adam Pally
Yes.
Dan Levy
Maybe Dallas.
John Gabris
Dallas comedian.
Dan Levy
I'm just a Dallas comedy.
John Gabris
Hey there. Is there that Dallas needs something to look forward to.
Adam Pally
Come on, who's a more, who's a more jacked comic than you?
Dan Levy
Oh, I don't, I mean, no one, right?
Adam Pally
Yeah, that's what's, that's what's wild and so. All right, so you work out six times a week. What, what happens in these workouts?
John Gabris
Yeah, what's your split?
Dan Levy
Well, I work out at a homeless shelter called Planet Fitness and unhoused.
John Gabris
That is so I, I, I had to leave it. I was broke when I first moved here and trained at a 24 Hour Fitness and it got me so much anger, I was like afraid to go in the locker room and stuff. And so I had to be like, like, you know what? I'm gonna go into credit card debt, going to a better gym, and it changed my life.
Dan Levy
Yeah, that gym. There was a guy smoking by the door yesterday, and they asked him to leave and he's like, what the fuck? Like, you can't smoke indoors anywhere in la. Especially at a gym.
Adam Pally
Was it Chappelle running a set?
John Gabris
There was a guy at the 24 Hour Fitness. I went to. I would go into locker room, there'd be a guy with a surge protector plugged into the wall and like, 60 things charging.
Dan Levy
Oh, yeah, and fully.
John Gabris
And then you go into the sauna. I'll be like, I gotta use the sauna. That'd be fun. Go in there. There's a guy in jeans and boots and, like a hat, and he's shadow boxing in the sauna.
Unidentified Guest/Producer
Yeah.
John Gabris
And then it's like in the pool. It's just like. Like, we, like, it's. Dude, it was.
Dan Levy
There was a pool.
John Gabris
There's the 24 Hour Fitness. That's in the Arc Light.
Adam Pally
It was a puddle.
John Gabris
Yeah. I used to go lift smoke weed in my car and then go see a movie at the Arc Light. It was like the best afternoon ever. But then I truly. And then, as I'm getting afraid of this place, they. The fucking police, kill someone in the locker room of the 24th. In the locker room, tase him. And he died. Like some guy who was having like a. You know, he was disturbing the peace. And I think they call people, call them EDPs. Emotionally distressed person.
Adam Pally
Okay.
Ad Voice
Yeah.
John Gabris
And they.
Dan Levy
That's every member of Planet Fitness.
Adam Pally
How would you know?
John Gabris
I know. They iced this guy.
Dan Levy
That gym is so, so crazy. There's a guy there who brings his dog, a German shepherd without a leash, and no one complains.
Adam Pally
Without a leash?
Dan Levy
Without a leash. A giant German shepherd just slowly walks around the Planet Fitness, and that's supposed to be like our cardio running from this giant fanged German shepherd. You don't want to see a German shepherd as a Jew.
Adam Pally
At Planet Fitness, a German shepherd jumped on me the other day. I was telling the story. I was checking into my hotel here and, like, kind of just head down on the phone and the elevator opened and a German shepherd with, like, an orange training vest jumped at me, like, lunged at me. And I was like, whoa. Like, you know, and especially me, like, when I saw a German shepherd, I'm like, oh, well, in this climate where.
Dan Levy
You'Re like, it's happening.
Adam Pally
Yeah.
John Gabris
Well, it sounded like the dog said papers.
Adam Pally
Yeah, it's always. The dog. The dog kept putting its Snout to me to open up my mouth so it could check my fillings. The.
John Gabris
The.
Adam Pally
So it, like, lunged at me and I, like, went back and it knocked my suitcase over. And I'm picking it up and. And the guy who's holding the leash is like, hey, man, I'm sorry about that.
Dan Levy
He had a green bandana.
Adam Pally
No. And I'm like, okay. He had like, a bucket hat on and, like, stringy gray hair, tattered jeans. I was like, that's all right. And then this, like, super tall, beautiful blonde woman was like, that's Skip. We're training him. He's brand new. Eventually he'll be an amazing dog, an amazing companion for someone. And I was talking to Neil Young and Laura Dern.
Dan Levy
Oh, my God.
Adam Pally
I was like.
Dan Levy
Oh, my God, that's so insane. Because yesterday I was at Trader Joe's and I thought I saw a shooter. Like, I was convinced this guy was going to shoot up Trader Joe's, okay? Dark sunglasses, hat down. It was camo. And he kept on looking weird around the aisles and stuff. And I got so scared, I paid so quickly and ran out. And then I ran into David Stassen, our friend, and I go. He goes, what's going on? I go, dude, I think there's like a guy in a shoot up Trader Joe's. And then the same guy ran past us. And I go, that's the fucking guy. And he goes, that's Emile Hirsch.
John Gabris
He's just keeping a low profile.
Dan Levy
What the fuck's doing Trader Joe's?
Adam Pally
He owes 60 bucks, by the way.
Dan Levy
If you see him, well, he's gonna kill.
Adam Pally
I know.
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Dan Levy
So I do 20 minutes of StairMaster.
Adam Pally
Just to warm up.
Dan Levy
Yeah, to warm up right next to this woman named Maria.
Adam Pally
Every time, Every time.
Dan Levy
She's always there and she always looks at me, she goes, you're late, Maria. Yeah, it's very judgmental. So then, and then I do weights. So I'll do like two body parts. I'll do like, you know, normal.
John Gabris
Like now you're doing what we call in the business a bro split.
Dan Levy
Exactly.
John Gabris
Like a chest and tries a back and buys. Or are you doing push, pull legs?
Dan Levy
That's what I do. I, I, I do chest tries. Yes, every day back buys legs.
Adam Pally
Oh, you alternate days?
Dan Levy
Yeah.
Adam Pally
You alternate in the gym, you do.
Dan Levy
No, I alternate days. So I'll do, you know, chest and tries on Monday, back and buys Tuesday. It's a lot legs Wednesdays and then again. Yeah, and then, then I was doing this like, like separate day where I just do shoulders.
John Gabris
Right.
Dan Levy
Then I hurt my shoulders because I was like overdoing a shoulder workout, which led me to taking peptides. Oh, I took, I took the BCP357.
John Gabris
I don't know much about pep.
Adam Pally
What's that world? A peptide stomach.
Dan Levy
No, that's Pepto Bismol.
Adam Pally
Oh.
John Gabris
A peptide is a chain for diarrhea.
Dan Levy
Singing the song is peptide.
Adam Pally
The alternate to Coca Cola.
Dan Levy
Peptide is a chain of amino acids. Acids. So it helps sort of like a, like rebuilding, like a tear or something like that.
John Gabris
I take caas in my.
Dan Levy
Oh, yeah, there you go.
John Gabris
Branch chain amino acids. I take with my, I can't take.
Adam Pally
Amino acids because I'm not Italian.
Dan Levy
It's supposed to be good for your gut health.
John Gabris
Yeah.
Dan Levy
So as a Jew, it's supposed to be good for you.
Adam Pally
Yeah, I gotta get a better gut health. Everyone's screaming at me about my gut health, but I feel pretty regular because my, my, I, I don't do much. Like, my gut health is like, like Metamucil.
Dan Levy
Okay.
Adam Pally
Is like my, I'm like regular on metamuse.
Dan Levy
See, I pound Tums whenever I get black ever.
Adam Pally
It comes out looking like Skittles.
Dan Levy
Everything's fine. Are Tums bad for you?
John Gabris
I. I don't know. I like.
Adam Pally
I know they taste bad for you. I can't get them down. It's like swallowing like candy.
John Gabris
It's like poisoned razzles.
Adam Pally
Yeah. It's like a smarty from 1965.
Dan Levy
I like them. I have like, the fruit punch fl and I'll take a few at night if. If I have a little upset stomach.
John Gabris
Yeah, I'm.
Dan Levy
Sour stomach, I call it.
John Gabris
Yeah.
Adam Pally
Sour. Oh, that's adorable.
John Gabris
Can you take your fruit punch gummies to help with your sour stomach?
Adam Pally
So you're 12?
John Gabris
Yeah.
Dan Levy
How much old do you have one?
John Gabris
I have the rumblies. Rachi, Rachi.
Adam Pally
Could you stop dealing with our babies and go to the counter and get.
Dan Levy
Me my silly tummy mitts? I get a sour tummy?
Adam Pally
Yeah. And you don't want to go to bed with a sour tummy.
Dan Levy
And I also try to eat like, well.
Adam Pally
Well, that's going to be the next thing. So. All right, so you're doing abs are.
John Gabris
Made in the kitchen. But I can't out train a bad diet.
Adam Pally
So what. What's this diet?
Dan Levy
Well, it's not consistent because it's hard.
John Gabris
This is something, because we're part of our show that we enjoy is we're talking a lot of health professionals.
Dan Levy
Right.
John Gabris
Who have these, like, prescriptions and things. They do. But then for us, the appeal of talking to comics and actors who have, like, schedules that make no sense.
Dan Levy
Right.
John Gabris
And it's just like you did. Yes. You know, I get. I want to get seven and a half hours of sleep, but sometimes I'm flying to Bloomington to do the fucking thing and I. I have to eat at that airport Starbucks twice.
Dan Levy
Yeah. The Rain Forest Cafe. Because it's the closest.
Adam Pally
Yeah. I mean, you did like 200 dates with Mulaney one year, right?
Dan Levy
Yeah.
Adam Pally
Five countries and.
Dan Levy
Yeah.
Adam Pally
How. How do you stay on it like that?
Dan Levy
That was hard because that was like different time zones and, you know, I. You try to like, just eat like protein and a vegetable, you know, like, consistently. Yeah. Like, are always eggs. But then if you're in a fun place, you want to like. Yeah.
John Gabris
You're in Cincinnati. You're not going to get. What are you going to not get? Pasta with chili on top.
Dan Levy
You just want to like, like you also, you know, I feel you the same way. You're like, you want to celebrate things too. You're like, yeah, we just had a good show. Let's eat. Five. Five pounds of Chinese food.
Adam Pally
Yeah.
John Gabris
You know, we also love the like, the living by, like, the when in Rome of it all. So if you're like touring and you're international, it's like, how are we not going to do bangers and mash or a full English while we're in London? How like, you, you, you don't want to. We don't. You know, you don't make enough money in this career to not also take some of the other perks. Or like, while I'm here in fucking Texas, I might as well go to this barbecue place.
Dan Levy
Oh yeah, Memphis. It was like so many ribs.
Adam Pally
Oh my God.
Dan Levy
You walk out, you're like, I'm gonna have a stroke on these stairs.
John Gabris
Other people at these barbecue places and you're like, their feet are huge. And you're like, Jesus Christ, guys.
Unidentified Guest/Producer
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Dan Levy
They're putting in their insulin for their diabetes.
Adam Pally
After you would hit those ribs, you would hit. You would do your workout or you do it before. You'd get.
Dan Levy
I would do in the morning. I would always try to work out in the morning. Morning.
Adam Pally
Did you work out this morning?
Dan Levy
This morning I did work out.
Adam Pally
Wow. Good for you.
Unidentified Guest/Producer
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John Gabris
We. He showed up at 9:45. So you gotta work out. I mean, you are a dad. So that. I have no kids, so time is confusing for me when people are like, yeah, no, I'm up and out of the house at 7. I want to put a fun game.
Dan Levy
Yeah. Like if I, if I could get up early, then I prefer to work out before.
Adam Pally
Me too. Me too.
John Gabris
Because it's just so easy to put something in front of it.
Dan Levy
Yeah. It messes up my day. Because then I'm like, oh, when should I actually.
Adam Pally
Yeah, no, I know. I mean, I have that this morning. I per. The last few nights I like haven't had a drink. I've been like hitting the gym really hard. And I was like, I know I have an early call tomorrow, but I'm gonna get up early and like, get it in tomorrow morning. Okay. And instead I got up and stared at my phone for an hour.
John Gabris
Yeah.
Adam Pally
Like, my alarm went off at like 7:30. I was like, sick and just like, oh.
Dan Levy
And then I was gonna movie.
John Gabris
Yeah.
Adam Pally
I was like, let me see. Yes, exactly. And then I was like, oh my God, it's 8:45. There goes that. Like, but, but doing it in the morning, the, the, the other thing that I've learned with doing it in the morning is that Sometimes I feel like that buzz from the exercise goes away by the time the evening hits, and I feel like I haven't worked out.
John Gabris
Interesting.
Dan Levy
Oh, interesting. I. I just. It's more for, like, routine for me, right? Like, I. I. What? Whatever. The energy that I get from it, it's just been, like, so. It's just part of, like, my life for so long that I just kind of keep it going.
John Gabris
Going.
Adam Pally
Do you write on a. On a daily basis as well? Like, I know a lot of comedians who will, like, this is my. This is my block, our block to write. And even if it's trash, even if it's nothing, I'm just gonna go through my notes and I'm gonna see what I was thinking or what the joke. Like, do you do. Are you that disciplined or, like.
Dan Levy
No, I mean, I am with, like, if. Like, you know, writing a script or something. Like, I'll get paid.
John Gabris
Yeah, exactly.
Dan Levy
Crazy how fast I. But normally for, you know, I'll say that I'm like, oh, today I'm gonna write some jokes and I'll do that, but it's not consistent. It's more like if something happens, you know, like, if I see. Email Hirsch, Trader Joe's, I'll write that down, and then I'll see if it's funny. I think it's pronounced email, Email, email Hirsch.
Adam Pally
I'm pretty. Yeah.
Dan Levy
Email, email Hirsch.
John Gabris
My phone just texted Judd Hirsch by accident. She's misunderstood all these voices to jump back to the morning workout. No, no, no. No apologies, please. It. I'm up. I. I'm a big fan of the More. I'm not a morning person, but I'm a big fan of the morning workout. For me, part of it is, too. If I work out in the morning, I make healthier choices for the rest of the day, too, right? Because I feel like, oh, like, what, am I going to eat a garbage lunch now? I ate a good. You know, and then I feel like I'm making the right choice. And then if I do something, if I'm trying to be like, I'll work out at 5pm like, today, I'm like, oh, I'll squeeze in a workout after this before I do my evening thing.
Adam Pally
That's what I was.
John Gabris
But if I eat. If I eat a junkie lunch or something like that, it could all fall apart for me. You know, I'm so momentum and inertia based that if on, like, a daily basis, if I just like, the fight to not smoke weed or have a beer or, like, overindulge on something is, is so real that I just want to make sure I get my workout in every day.
Adam Pally
It's kind of how I feel or like sometimes I feel like I work insanely hard to look this shitty. You know where. It's like, you know where you don't look that bad.
John Gabris
No, I look that bad.
Adam Pally
You don't have to do that. I'm not looking.
John Gabris
You looked way worse in the past.
Dan Levy
I told you, you look great. No, no, but you pumped up on collagen.
Adam Pally
To the gills on collagen right now. No, but you know what I mean. Like, it's like I feel like that is a common thing to, with, with a lot of people in our industry where it's like you, you, you know that you're not living by a normal code and to be in a regimented thing where like my meals are delivered and I'm only eating these calories and nothing else and I'm working out at this time and sleeping eight hours and all that, that doesn't exist for us or comedians, you know? So the, the goal is just to like, work out as. Work as hard as you can to stay alive and look this shitty.
John Gabris
It's like putting new windshield wipers on. Like a 77 Buick entry with 200,000 miles.
Adam Pally
Exactly.
John Gabris
You're like, oh, hold on. Now my windshield looks great.
Adam Pally
I guess it does still wipe the rain away.
Dan Levy
My little peptide wipers, My peptide wipers.
John Gabris
Oh, and I put cold collagen in the tank and I got an extra mile.
Adam Pally
If you think the exterior is wiped, don't look at the inside.
John Gabris
That's so fun. When I add supplements into my diet, people are always like, do you notice a difference? I'm like, my system is so up and all over the place that I have no idea if adding something is even helping or not.
Adam Pally
I was like, how do you know what's causing the diarrhea? You have a color.
John Gabris
It's like, is creatine working for you? I'm like, it's hard to tell this week because I got a delivery of a thousand wings and I've been eating them all month. I've been wearing super bowl catering trays since mid worry. I'm like 6 foot hero and 100 wings helping with your memory?
Dan Levy
I don't know. I smoke a pound of weed every day.
John Gabris
Yeah, I'm fighting. I. I might as well just take rip fuel and weight gainer and let them all fight in my body. You're.
Adam Pally
You're like a four loco.
John Gabris
You're the four loco of fitness and I should be banned and kids are dying because of me.
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John Gabris
Are you doing anything for your mental health? Which I know is like a kind.
Adam Pally
Of another part of Speaking of marriage.
Dan Levy
Yeah, Marriage, mental health. Yeah. I'm in therapy.
John Gabris
Yeah.
Adam Pally
Are you? And you're married with three kids.
Dan Levy
Married with three kids.
Adam Pally
How long have you been married?
Dan Levy
Almost 15 years.
John Gabris
Holy congrats. That's awesome. Two dads of three kids. That's wild.
Dan Levy
And we are the greatest dads.
Adam Pally
Yes. I. I happen to. I happen to think that you and I are pretty great dad.
John Gabris
I agree.
Dan Levy
And I say this a lot to my wife and I'll. And I'll compare and I will as.
John Gabris
She'S driving away, Remember, I'm a good dad every day when she leaves for work.
Dan Levy
And I'll bring up other. Other dads who aren't as good as me. And I'm always like, well, you're not married to that guy. And she's like, yeah, I'm not. Don't bring him up. And I'm like, I'm just trying to win this argument.
Adam Pally
I. I ran into Max Greenfield the other day from. From New Girl. Yeah. I was just getting a smoothie, and.
John Gabris
We were just from the neighborhood.
Adam Pally
From the neighborhood. From the neighborhood. Yeah.
John Gabris
So I'm in the neighborhood.
Adam Pally
Yeah. Yeah. And we. He's old friend of mine. We've been friends forever. And he. We were talking, and he was saying. I was just saying, oh, man, it's so exciting. Your career is so amazing. You have two shows. And, like, we're just like, you know, I was just gassing him up. Yeah.
Dan Levy
And then he did my podcast at.
Adam Pally
9Am I podcast at 9am he's like, I live too far away.
Dan Levy
Okay.
John Gabris
Dan will do it.
Adam Pally
Dan. I was like, oh, actually, don't worry. Dan lives closer. But. And so then he. He goes. He was trying to be nice to me back, and he was like, you know, my kid is, like, obsessed with Sonic the Hedgehog and. And Stefan Curry, and every time you do something, he's like, like, dad, how come you didn't do that? How come you're not doing with Steph Curry? How come you're not doing with Sonic the Hedgehog? And I was like, okay, that's really nice. Why don't you send your son to my house in Harlem, and I'll send my son to your house in Beverly Hills. Yeah, exactly. And where you're currently renegotiating. And then we'll see whose son is so happy about what project.
Dan Levy
Yeah, exactly. I like the Dallas. Who doesn't do six episodes an out.
John Gabris
Yeah.
Adam Pally
I'm sure he would like me a lot less when he realizes you do 24 and I do 6.
John Gabris
A lot of kids know about that third season. Re, re, re. It's like, oh, yeah. Once you hit season three, you get MFN with Cedric. You know, you're go.
Adam Pally
I was. I was like.
John Gabris
I was like, is that the most insightful?
Dan Levy
MFN with Cedric is a very funny thing to say. I'm happy to be here.
Adam Pally
It's been a. It's been a blast. I'm so happy.
Dan Levy
Max, cancel.
Adam Pally
It's been a.
John Gabris
So happy. Max had a table read.
Adam Pally
He's Got nine of them a day.
Dan Levy
So. Yeah, we have three kids, so.
Adam Pally
And we're great dads, and I think we are.
John Gabris
Therapy is like mental personal training. Like, almost everyone could benefit.
Adam Pally
Are you. So is this personal or is this marriage?
Dan Levy
This is personal.
Adam Pally
Okay. Doing marriage counseling.
Dan Levy
No, just. Just this one. Just personal for me. This Jewish woman I talked to her.
Adam Pally
Unnecessary microaggression. Why does it. Why is it important to you that she's Jewish?
John Gabris
Italian therapist.
Adam Pally
Yeah.
Dan Levy
Well, she's kind of always on my side and I'll write stuff down and then I'll bring it to my wife and be like, you need to, you know.
Adam Pally
Oh, God, this sounds already. This is not the writing stuff.
Dan Levy
Started writing down notes for my therapy session. Which was. Which one? One of the notes was, she's not attached to reality.
Adam Pally
That your wife is not attached to reality.
Dan Levy
I sent it by accident to her.
Adam Pally
Oh, my go.
John Gabris
Oh, my God, I have such secondhand anxiety. I just started sweating. I just started. I mean, I've been sweating for a while, but I just started really sweating.
Dan Levy
I said to her when she had.
John Gabris
The flu, oh my God, now you have to do couples.
Dan Levy
She was like, what the is this?
Adam Pally
No wonder you're here at 9:30. You have nowhere to go. Can't go.
Dan Levy
You're at the Planet Fitness living in the shower.
John Gabris
Yeah.
Dan Levy
And I was like.
John Gabris
I was like, how do you stay so jacked? Well, I'm forced to live in a Planet Fitness.
Adam Pally
How do you. How do you say so jacked? Well, every day I put my hat on and I shadow box in the sa. One time this big guy came in there and I really freaked him out.
Dan Levy
And then I got tased anyways.
Adam Pally
He thought I was dead.
John Gabris
It was the only way to get away from my family. They thought I had to fake my own death. I was tased by LAPD and my. My 24 Hour Fitness.
Adam Pally
What a vacation. That night in the cell was.
John Gabris
Sorry, babe. That email must have come while I was mid taste.
Dan Levy
I was getting killed in the Planet Fitness. That wasn't meant for you.
John Gabris
Oh, my God, Dan, that stressed me out.
Adam Pally
When you sent it, were you like. Like the panic must have been.
Dan Levy
Yeah. I go, oh, this road. And she was. She wrote like, question mark, question mark.
Adam Pally
What did it. What did it. What did the text say? Was it the list or.
Dan Levy
It said. No, it said.
Adam Pally
It said, Rachel's not att.
Dan Levy
Rachel is enough. Rachel does not attach to reality.
Adam Pally
Oh my God.
John Gabris
My, my, my.
Adam Pally
I'm having. I got.
John Gabris
And now when you go to therapy, is your wife like texting?
Dan Levy
Yeah, like is his therapist.
Adam Pally
I'm texting Daniel. If Rachel says anything to you. I, I'm not that close with Dan. I once sent, I once sent a text to my mother in law that I thought I was sending to my sister that said that I wanted to throw my mother in law in front of a bus.
John Gabris
Oh my God.
Dan Levy
You said mother in law in.
John Gabris
I said, oh, you use names. That would be so fun to that here.
Adam Pally
It was bad, it was bad, it was bad.
Dan Levy
What she say to you?
John Gabris
This was the day after her bus accident, right?
Adam Pally
Yeah, no, she was, she was telling me a story how she got just, she was like, I can't believe the bus missed me by a half an inch. And I was like, I'll do it. No, sorry.
Dan Levy
Meant for sister.
Adam Pally
Yeah.
John Gabris
The frequency in which I tell someone I can give him half an inch.
Adam Pally
No, I, I, I was just like, she was, we, we were moving from LA to New York and it was really stressful and there's just, you know, we were staying with my in laws and it was just like stressful.
Dan Levy
You stayed with them so much too much.
Adam Pally
And it was just like it got, I got, I got stressed out. My, and I was like venting and while I was having a conversation about the busy work that I was supposed to be doing. Doing, you know what I mean? Like, and, and it just like went right to her and she was like, excuse me. And then, and I was in the house, in the house that she was when I sent it. So I just had to like nip it in the bud and I like walked out and I was like, listen, I don't want to throw you in front of a bus. Like, you know, I'm just so stressed out. Stressed out. And my sister was asking how are things going? And wow.
Dan Levy
And I was being honest, I was being funny.
Adam Pally
I, I think I, I assumed she thought that because I, you know, because I love her. I don't want to throw her in front of a bus.
Dan Levy
Right?
John Gabris
Yeah. Yeah.
Dan Levy
But you did in that moment.
Adam Pally
In that moment I was ready to. Yeah.
John Gabris
Oh yeah. Understandable. Just being, being a grown up and having to like regress in those situations, like crashing at my mom's house for like a long weekend.
Adam Pally
Yeah.
John Gabris
The dynamic is absolutely brutal all over again somehow. And it's like I'm like, you love me. I love you. I can spend a weekend with people I fucking hate and survive. And yet for some reason on day two, I'm, I'm looking at motels on.
Dan Levy
Long is.
John Gabris
I'm like, is this Airbnb have a pool? Like, I'm gonna get the.
Adam Pally
It's just the dynamic of, like, being back because I've known her mother, you know, since I was a kid. And so it's just the dynamic of, like, being put back in your place or like, or like, big life decisions that now as a 40 year old, you're like, I make these now.
Dan Levy
Right. Like, I. Yeah, you always go back. That's the problem. It's like, they don't never. Like, I'm an adult.
Adam Pally
Yeah.
Dan Levy
You always have to say, like, I'm, I'm 4:40.
John Gabris
To quote Joanne Gabris, this is her big one. I'm still your mother, aren't I?
Adam Pally
Right, right.
John Gabris
And I'm like, okay, yeah, but I need to take care of you actually.
Adam Pally
Like, yeah, but that mother, that only holds so much weight. And I, I, I, I really like Will.
John Gabris
Oh, I disagree with.
Adam Pally
Yeah, like, I'm gonna try to not do that with my kids when, as I get older because, like, there will be a point. There's a point now. Like, sometimes Cole will say something to me that I did not that I don't know or like, that is shocking to me or whatever, but I'll never be like, no, not true. Let me check it out. Like, it's like, you have to be able to learn what is being said to you from someone younger.
Dan Levy
Yeah. The weirdest thing is, though, when you have kids, then your parents try to help, you know, and then you have to tell them not. You can't do that.
Adam Pally
I think that that's what it was referring. When I look back and I'm sure.
Dan Levy
That that's one's the most stressful. Cuz I remember being like, no, you can't. Can you just, like, we just need you to do this.
John Gabris
And then we're doing something different. And it's like, oh, well, I raised you fine.
Dan Levy
You turned out okay.
Adam Pally
And I'm like, I'm in therapy and sending texts, messages to the wrong person.
John Gabris
My mom, like, kind of half makes fun of me for being in therapy. And she was a psych nurse for a long time. She said, she, she straight up, I, at one point, she said to me, I was like, you know, everyone, blah, blah, blah. My dad is deceased. I was like, blah, blah, blah. My dad, everyone says he was so nice. I mean, like, I love the guy, but I don't know if nice was the adjective. She goes, well, some of us remember things differently. And I go, yeah, that's the big problem. I agree we both remember things wildly differently.
Dan Levy
Trauma.
John Gabris
Like when did we.
Dan Levy
I.
John Gabris
We told some crazy story about how we made my. This is too weird to just say in passing, but we made my youngest brother try to piss on the dog one time. Like cuz we were just all kids home alone, of course. And we told that story in front of my mom and mom's like, when did that happen? I don't remember that. I go, you weren't around. She's like, when wasn't I around? I was like, Monday through Friday, 1989 through 1997. Like you were working. I. No judgment, but we were alone all the time.
Adam Pally
Can I ask you a question about the peeing of the dog?
John Gabris
Of course.
Adam Pally
When you say try, was it like pants down stream trying to catch. Or was it like. Or was it like was trying to.
John Gabris
Convince him to do it? This is the thing about three boys like that are home alone like you. Eventually it becomes Lord of the Flies. So like we got my youngest brother to get his little wang out and try to pee on the dog.
Adam Pally
Did he. Was he peeing everywhere?
John Gabris
Yeah, he was in the, in the yard. Was he. He was like 19? 6. 6 or 7. But like the dog was like, I'm not going anywhere near.
Adam Pally
Yeah, the dog's like, I just got back from being pissed on at the park.
Dan Levy
What the is this?
John Gabris
Did dog parks exist in 90s? Because my parents, we never. I never even heard of that until I moved to New York.
Adam Pally
Any park where there was two dogs, like, I feel like anytime I took my dog to a park, anytime another dog is like immediately humping it or pissing on it.
John Gabris
We have one of those dogs that like my like when you would see someone walk a dog, you'd be like.
Dan Levy
What are you doing?
John Gabris
Like you just let it out in the yard and let it run around, right?
Dan Levy
My met a beagle and he just ran away. Every day, every day my brother would be hysterical crying because the Ralph would run away. Ralph is he lived to like 18?
Adam Pally
Yeah, he was.
Dan Levy
Yeah. My dad, My dad.
John Gabris
He's on the neighborhood spin off is he is. It's Ralph the entertainer. Is his name.
Dan Levy
The Entertainer? Yeah, he was a beagle. And every time you open the door, he ran away. And he was so fast. Yeah, every, every week he'd run away. We'd just walk around. My brother would cry. It was a cycle we were in.
Adam Pally
Yeah.
Dan Levy
And he got super old.
Adam Pally
When we still lived here, we had a dog that we've had. We had forever conditioned. Then one day Daniella was just Like, I really want to get another dog. So she went to the pound not telling anybody. It was like a weekend. And she came home Saturday after, and she's like, come outside. Bring the kids outside. So I walk outside with a four year old and a three year old, and she gets out of the car holding this little cute puppy. And she's like, everybody, meet Winston. And she puts it down and it busts out into the street. And the kids are like. And I was like, I'm running through Studio City trying to catch this little dog that's never seen me before. So the dog's like looking back at me like, who the is that guy? Danielle is out in the car.
Dan Levy
Daniela.
Adam Pally
Kidnapped. Yeah, the dog. And Danielle is riding around Studio City Green like, Winston.
John Gabris
It's been the dog's name for one day.
Dan Levy
I had to like, it's Cleo.
Adam Pally
Started going up Fryman. I had to jump on it and hold it. People were looking at me and like, the hell is that guy doing that dog? It was like slithering around like a salmon, you know?
John Gabris
This just reminded me of a random dog story that I want to tell now. Cause it involves the two of us, one super bowl at the old Martell house.
Dan Levy
Yeah.
John Gabris
Yeah. All the kids were around and some people. And you were like, let's go walk. We should take the dog for a walk. AKA go smoke weed. So we took Knish out, we went around the block, and we stopped in front of this dude's house and we blasted a fucking J to the dome. But while we were doing it, Knish had insane diarrhea. Like a fucking huge puddle. And we didn't have. Of course, this is the most pally shit ever. I'm like, you have the doggy bags. He's like, oh, fuck no. And we're like, okay, let's get out of here. And the dude just of his house, and he's like, hey, what the are you guys doing? There's like diarrhea everywhere. Smoking joints at like halftime at the Super Bowl. And it's Adam's neighbor.
Adam Pally
Like, wait, you know what's worse?
John Gabris
You know.
Adam Pally
You know who that neighbor was?
Dan Levy
Ed Begley Jr. He works out at Planet Fitness.
Adam Pally
End it there, folks.
John Gabris
Thank you to Dan Lee.
Adam Pally
Thank you so much, Stan Levy, really, for bailing us out and coming and talking.
John Gabris
Check out Uninsured if you can find it.
Adam Pally
Did we call it Uninsured?
Dan Levy
No, it was called indebted, but it was called un. Was called unsure. That was the pilot.
Adam Pally
Yeah.
John Gabris
I only saw the pilot.
Adam Pally
Yeah, so did Most people, they currently.
Dan Levy
Available on Red Tube.
Adam Pally
You got to stand up if you want to see it, you got to get a copy of it outside 711 on Beverly.
Dan Levy
You got to break it to Fran Drescher's house.
Adam Pally
May I open? Still standing. Seriously? So awesome, Dan, watch any plugs you want to do?
Dan Levy
No, Mulaney doesn't need it.
John Gabris
No.
Dan Levy
You should have the new show. You can just follow me on Instagram.
Adam Pally
Follow Dan on Instagram.
Dan Levy
Yes, follow me on Instagram. We have a lot of things going on.
Adam Pally
Oh, a lot of. A lot of irons in the fires.
Dan Levy
In the fire.
John Gabris
He doesn't need this podcast.
Adam Pally
Awesome. Well, thank you again, Dan.
Dan Levy
Bye, guys.
Adam Pally
You roll, dude.
John Gabris
I, I, I hope it's true that laughing burns calories because I don't have time to go to the gym today. And Dan has me sweating and cracking up. I feel like I don't even need the sauna.
Adam Pally
I also want to send a public apology to my former Neighbor, Ed Begley Jr. Ed, I, I know that that was not the only time that that happened, and I want to apologize greatly. I was at a time in my life where I wasn't exactly taking responsibility for things or taking care of myself. And I also want you to know that Knish has passed.
John Gabris
Rip to a real one.
Adam Pally
Rip to a real one. And she's so thankful to you for letting her diarrhea all over your lawn and not calling the police those times. So thank you very much.
John Gabris
And while I have you here, Ed, I'd like to apologize too. I do. I don't drive a hybrid and I don't take LA public transit. I'm so sorry. I'm so happy that you do that. But you're inspirational. Your environmentalism is inspirational. Thank you.
Adam Pally
And Ed, real quick, before we leave, I want to apologize for my friend John not driving a hybrid and looking after the environment. I know you specifically don't like that.
John Gabris
We gotta get Ed on the pod.
Adam Pally
And I also want to apologize for. For that solar panel incident that at the time I said was the winds. Santa Ana winds. That was. I threw a rock. I wanted to see if I could knock out the panel, and I did. So anyway, thank you. I hope you enjoy the pod.
John Gabris
Check out our next episode. Until then, stay alive. Ed Begley and whoever else might be watching. You have been listening to Staying Alive with John Gabris and Adam a Smartless Media production in association with Sirius xm.
Adam Pally
Produced by Devin Tory Bryant and Anne Harris. Engineered and edited by Devin Tory Bryant, who also wrote the music Associate producer.
John Gabris
And video producer is Maddie McCann. Social media producer Tommy Galgano, assistant engineer, Kyle McGraw.
Adam Pally
Special thanks to Jared O' Connell at SiriusXM.
John Gabris
Executive producers are John Gabriel. Ooh, me. Adam Pally. Ooh, you. Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, Richard Corson, and Bernie Kaminsky. Do us a favor, Just rate and review the podcast. It actually helps.
Adam Pally
Just so everyone knows, we do not have a discord.
John Gabris
Don't reach out to us.
Adam Pally
See us on the street. Walk the other way or you'll catch hands. Dan has never had where Rachel's walked in the room and you've been like, embarrassed about the way you look.
John Gabris
Yeah, he's always like, mid chin up.
Adam Pally
Yeah. He's like, oh, did you pick up the kids? Oh, no, you didn't. All right, well, I'll go do it.
John Gabris
I should be able to pick them up eight to ten times.
Dan Levy
I'm just, I'm just scared because he's going to yell at me for something that I didn't do. Right.
Adam Pally
Yeah, that is. Yeah, that is different.
John Gabris
Okay, well, I think I could have told that same story with scared because that's my life.
Adam Pally
Yeah, I know.
Dan Levy
Like, did you, did you, did you put Romy's top sheet away? I don't even know what that means.
John Gabris
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Episode: "Creatinis & Collagen" (w/ Dan Levy)
Date: December 18, 2025
Podcast Network: SmartLess Media
In this episode, comedians and self-styled "professional partiers" Jon Gabrus and Adam Pally are joined by their longtime friend and collaborator Dan Levy, a comedy writer, stand-up, and self-proclaimed "modern day dad." They set out to discuss their real, honest, and often hilarious journeys through health, wellness, and what it takes to "stay alive"—especially after years of questionable lifestyle choices. From gym horror stories and the perils of collagen supplements, to parenting, therapy mishaps, and sending the wrong text to your spouse, the trio share candid stories and genuine insights into what health and self-care look like for working creatives in their 40s.
Multiple Holidays, Different Vibes: Adam and Jon joke about the extended length of the Christmas season versus Hanukkah, ending with a tongue-in-cheek nod to the Chinese zodiac:
“Christmas season is like Thanksgiving to January 5th.” (Jon, 00:22)
“And then Chinese are like, it's the year of the Bunny. ... Enjoy your eight nights.” (Adam & Jon, 00:41)
Seasonal Sadness: Both hosts grapple with this dark, slow time of year, especially in New York, where Jon compares a deserted city to "I Am Legend."
“When New York, when it thins out, feels like Omega Man ... like I am legend.” (Jon, 02:32)
FOMO & Productivity Anxiety: The pair admit to always feeling like they’re missing out—especially when careers slow for the holidays.
Adam and Jon lavish praise on Dan Levy for his humor, relatability, and alleged superhuman ability to be supportive and non-bitter.
“He is the ultimate dad ... aspirational in a lot of ways.” (Adam, 05:55)
They candidly examine the envy that creeps into showbiz friendships, revealing Dan’s talent for rooting for everyone’s success:
"There's a certain sweetness and no bitterness. ... He's rooting for everybody's success." (Adam, 07:15)
"He just goes through life in a way ... I guess you probably do when you're like, jacked and handsome and funny, it's probably easy to be like, yeah, life is great." (Adam, 07:54)
Supplements, Social Media, & the Pressure to Optimize:
“There's so much to do. All my Instagram algorithms is telling me to take steroids. Like, I am so close to buying TRT, I can't even tell you.” (Dan, 13:17)
Steroid & Supplement Rabbit Holes:
“TRT has caused all these 70-year-old bald jacked guys that you see around now that are like weirdly pink.” (Jon, 16:30)
"I follow a bodybuilder on Instagram ... He sleeps for an hour, jumps in an ice bath, jogs to a gym in a garage, works out for three hours and then goes. Fights crime." (Dan, 14:20)
Supplements That Do (and Don’t) Work:
"I just ordered ... this collagen powder in my coffee ... it's a big nothing." (Adam, 17:59)
'Creatinis' – Mixing Fitness and Party:
"I'll have a dirty creatine." (Jon, 18:58)
Training at Planet Fitness:
"I work out at a homeless shelter called Planet Fitness ... That gym is so, so crazy. There's a guy there who brings his dog, a German shepherd, without a leash." (Dan, 21:00, 22:39)
Workout Split & Challenges:
"I do chest tries. Yes, every day, back buys, legs. Oh, you alternate days?" (Dan & Adam, 27:07)
Shoulder Injury & Peptides:
Gut Health & Supplement Overload:
“I take Tums whenever I get black... it comes out looking like Skittles.” (Dan, 28:20)
"Abs are Made in the Kitchen," But ... :
"You don't make enough money in this career to not also take some of the other perks ... might as well go to this barbecue place." (Jon, 30:30)
Celebrating With Food:
The Reality of Discipline:
"Sometimes I feel like I work insanely hard to look this shitty." (Adam, 34:28)
Supplements vs. Real Life:
"When I add supplements into my diet, people are always like, do you notice a difference? ... my system is so up and all over the place that I have no idea if adding something is even helping." (Jon, 35:47)
Therapy as Mental Health Maintenance:
“Started writing down notes for my therapy session. ... One of the notes was, she's not attached to reality. I sent it by accident to her.” (Dan, 41:53, 43:38)
“Oh my God, I have such secondhand anxiety.” (Jon, 42:11)
Parental Regression:
Wrong Text to the Mother-in-Law:
“I once sent a text to my mother-in-law ... that said that I wanted to throw my mother-in-law in front of a bus.” (Adam, 43:52)
Dog Ownership Comedy:
The Diarrhea Dog Story & Ed Begley Jr.:
“Of course, this is the most Pally shit ever ... And the dude just [comes] out of his house, and he's like, hey, what the are you guys doing? There’s diarrhea everywhere.” (Jon, 51:21)
| Timestamp | Speaker | Quote | |-----------|-------------|-------------------------------------------------------------| | 07:15 | Adam | "There's a certain sweetness and no bitterness. ... He's rooting for everybody's success." | | 13:17 | Dan | "There's so much to do. All my Instagram algorithms is telling me to take steroids. Like, I am so close to buying TRT, I can't even tell you." | | 17:59 | Adam | "I just ordered ... this collagen powder in my coffee ... it's a big nothing." | | 21:00 | Dan | "I work out at a homeless shelter called Planet Fitness ... That gym is so, so crazy. There's a guy there who brings his dog, a German shepherd, without a leash." | | 31:35 | Adam | "Did you work out this morning? ... Good for you." | | 34:28 | Adam | "Sometimes I feel like I work insanely hard to look this shitty." | | 41:53 | Dan | "Started writing down notes for my therapy session. ... One of the notes was, she's not attached to reality. I sent it by accident to her." |
Creatinis are Born (18:58):
"I'll have a dirty creatine." (Jon)
The Therapy Text Blunder (41:53):
"Started writing down notes for my therapy session. ... One of the notes was, she's not attached to reality. I sent it by accident to her." (Dan)
Accidental Insult to the Mother-in-Law (43:52):
"...that said that I wanted to throw my mother-in-law in front of a bus." (Adam)
Planet Fitness is Wild (21:00+):
Diarrhea on Ed Begley Jr.'s Lawn (51:21):
"And the dude just [comes] out of his house, and he's like, hey, what the are you guys doing? There’s diarrhea everywhere." (Jon)
This episode encapsulates the raw reality, relentless humor, and grossly forthcoming honesty that makes "Staying Alive" a window into the minds (and bodies) of comics striving for self-improvement in adulthood. Between the slapstick gym tales, serious talk of therapy, and the never-ending quest to optimize health amidst chaos, Jon, Adam, and Dan keep things real—and distinctly hilarious. If you’re looking for a podcast that acknowledges both the victories and absurdities of self-care, you’re in the right place.
Follow Dan Levy on Instagram and catch him on tour with John Mulaney or at a comedy club near you.
And as Adam says, "Work as hard as you can to stay alive and look this shitty."