Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - ADAM PALLY Went On The Road Trip From Hell

Episode Date: April 22, 2025

Adam Pally joins Seth and Josh on the pod! He talks all about growing up in NYC and then moving to Chicago, having lounge-singer-parents, his memories of his dad being in medical school when he was younger, his love for swimming pools at The Holiday Inn, marrying his high school sweetheart, and so much more! Plus, he chats about his new comedy-meets-wellness podcast, “Staying Alive!” Support our sponsors: Ancient Nutrition Right now, Ancient Nutrition is offering 25% off your first order when you go to AncientNutrition.com/trips Helix Go to helixsleep.com/TRIPS for 20% Off Sitewide Nissan Family Trips is brought to you by the All-New 2025 Nissan Armada. Take your adventures to new heights. Learn more at NissanUSA.com Visit Baltimore Start your culinary adventure at Baltimore.org slash dining. Baltimore is just a quick drive or train ride from New York, Philly, and D.C. Plan your visit today at Baltimore.org

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 more at NissanUSA.com. Hi, Baji. Hey, Sufi. Big day today. Who's that? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Axel's birthday. Lobby baby turned seven.

Yeah. 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. Well, he's never gonna grow up all the way. No, he's very unique. They took their annual photo where Alexi and him

laid on the floor in the lobby. They take it once a year. Does he curl up in her arms? He lies on her belly. So he lies on her chest like he had when. I mean, I'm always like, wouldn't it be funny if he was crawling out of your pants, but nobody wants to take that one. But it was also his yes day.

Do you know this development of kids wanting a yes day for their birthday? No, but I don't know if I like it. It's just that they get a yes day where you have to say yes to everything. But it's nonsense. Yeah, it's nonsense. Also, you're not gonna live by it.

Also Axel immediately said he wanted his first thing. I was like, all right, what do you want first during your yes day? He goes, 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. Isn't there like a whole sort of parenting scheme now

that you're like, you're not supposed to tell your kids no. Right. And now there's a day where you're supposed to say yes to everything? It's by the way, it's not a scheme, it's a scam. It's parenting scams. 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 Alexi said, no, it looks cute. You look nice. And he said, I want it. I'll 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.

Yeah. I have a question about something. I need you to go to your memory bank. Sure. Oh, good luck. It's pretty locked up tight in there. Alexi sent an Instagram video to you, me and Mackenzie about rogue waves in Iceland.

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

Sneaker wave, that's right. 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 like pipes. with these amazing sort of geological structures, these like weird black almost like pipes. I feel like it maybe was a, they had used it in Game of Thrones. 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. Don't think Josh is some normie guy who's still taking slow-mo videos. This is back when everybody was cool. This is back when it was cool. It was cool.

Yeah, hella cool. So she did it, but she was 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. And she goes- This, by the way, if you're a sneaker wave, everything you're overhearing right now is the best.

Yeah, you're like licking your chops. Yeah, you're licking your chops. Yeah, your little foamy fingers are just tinted in joy. 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 and- Did you have the slow mo, did you get the slow motion video of her getting sneaker waved? Yeah, I mean, I've got it somewhere. Great, I mean, I think we gotta throw that

in the show notes. 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... It feels a little bit like, yeah, some Victorian novel

about a guy who's trying to get his wife killed. One more time, sweetheart. Closest in the water, sweetheart. But he's painting her. Yeah. Yeah, there's no slo-mo. It's like, what more will I paint you with the waves licking your feet? Oh, you got taken, you're taken.

Oh, this is a much better painting now. She was dressed to be found, you know. much better painting now. She was dressed to be found, you know. She was, yeah. But if you get pulled out, and it's not like when we were in Iceland, there was any thought of swimming. No.

Yeah. I feel like they definitely like named their country in a way to disabuse people with the notion that there'd be a lot of swimming. Yeah, also we were there for New Year's, so it was like, it was winter. It would have been sad. I mean, do you think it would have put sort of a,

I don't know, like a bad vibe on New Year's had she been sneaker'd away? Yeah, probably. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it would have been a bummer. Was it the day before New Year's had she been sneaker'd away? Yeah, probably. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, would have been a far. 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?

I think it would have rolled over. Yeah, it might have been a roll over. I do think it was in late December. Late December. So you don't think on like New Year's Eve, you're gonna be like, oh, well, glad 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 sneaker'd away. I remembered it, but I had 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 would our mom call a sneaker wave? We did this before, I said a sneaker peeker wave. Oh yeah, we did do it a lot. I think you're right. In my head, that was the one. Mom's going on a family trip right now.

Her sister Alex is flown across the country. Yep. And then they're gonna drive down, or maybe they fly down to their other sister's house in Bethany Beach, Delaware. They're gonna go see Christie. Yeah. And I sent, I put together a list of like possible movies

for them to watch. Oh, good. Yeah. All right, so this is a septuagenarian and octogenarian movie list. What were some of your choices? I think they should watch that documentary, They Shall Not Grow Old, I think is incredible. World War I doc, right?

World War I doc and 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-Vents 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. Oh yeah, she's like a 90 year old bank robber. Yeah, The Taste of Things with Juliette Binoche, which I haven't seen. I saw Taste of Things and I think they would like it. 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. 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. Yeah. Maybe that's our mom and sisters. It's French, French horny painting. In like an island or just sort of a very remote. Remote, yeah. It definitely starts with somebody showing up with a bunch of paints and a boat.

Yeah. They got there by boat. Yeah, which that's a, I mean, if that doesn't say horny, I don't know what does. It gets pretty horny. I'm just saying, it was a good, ticked a lot of horny boxes. Yeah, oh, and Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,

which I still haven't seen, but looks like it's a real charmer up there, Ali. We've fully switched into recommendation mode. But you know, maybe people are- Recommendations for mom and her sisters? 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 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. Yeah, Mackenzie, it's on our list.

Eight episodes, half an hour each. Michelle Williams, who is truly one of our greatest living actors, is 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, I'm recommending this and that. And so, oh, and I think, you know, I'm in a book club.

And our book this last month was Slaughterhouse Five. 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, and I have not watched any of my wedding toasts since my wedding, except for Will Forte's. Right. Because it felt like a comedy sketch. But like anything emotional, I didn't want to watch again because I just, and I watched

Dad's again because it was about Slaughterhouse Five. And it's truly such a wonderful toast. But it's also the most dad thing because he says, you know, I reread Slaughterhouse Five because 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. But he had this really lovely point about reading the book.

I mean, you know, 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 gonna rewatch yours cause I just, I think it'll put me through the emotional wringer again. Yeah. Save it. Yeah. Save it. For those who don't know, the whole time Pasha was like, you should get married. She should marry me.

It was so weird. All right. We have a wonderful conversation coming up. Yeah. Adam Pally. Adam Pally. Adam Pally is a real fun human being and I was so happy to have him on. All right, give him a listen.

Thanks everybody. Family trips with the Mice Brothers. Family trips with the Mice Brothers. Here we go. Yeah. Yeah. Good morning. That was a very brotherly entrance to the morning. That's what we do. That's how we roll. Yeah. No, it was great. It's like seeing two friends from college that are brothers at the same time.

And they're like, hey, hey! Hey! You know, again, a lot of people that we went to college with have that joyfulness because we are friends with a lot of the same people from our college years. Yeah, yeah. I saw, Ike was on the show last night that reminded me of that.

You guys just have such a lovely familial energy. It's really uplifting. Thank you. We just, we had Ike, I had dinner with Ike last night, which is lovely. With Pete Gross as well, another person you know. Oh yeah, I'm siphoning all your old friends that you came up with to do my comedic bidding.

We, I think we see it another way, which is we believe you're coming into the fold. Oh, that's very nice. I've been told the exact opposite of that. This is rising tide. This is rising toad lifting all boats. Oh, good, good, good. Which is what I believe our economy should be as well.

Should we just talk about the economy? My Reaganonomic views. I had this thing where 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 this, you've seen him in that. And I always wanna add, I've seen him in his tighty whities. While he was very, like, making pizza rolls.

Yeah, in jeans shorts. It's so lovely to have you here, buddy. Thank you for joining us. Are you kidding? Thank you so much. I love this podcast, and I'm so happy to be here. Thank you. You have your own podcast now with an old friend of yours. Yeah, ugh, I'm miserable about it.

I... I'm fucking about it. I... I'm fucking... 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. Oh, oh, right, right, right. Yeah. Like, I don't under...

Why? I don't... I'm talking now? Yeah, you're talking. I mean, look, Rob Lowe, he just joined the space. Like, don't understand why, I don't, I'm talking now? Yeah, you're talking, I mean look, Rob Lowe, he just joined the space, like don't. Rob Lowe, like I wanna hear from Rob Lowe. I do want those people who've never seen Adam to hear his voice and then picture what kind of movie star you think he looks like.

I know, every time I go on that rant, someone's like, what world are you a movie star? In what world are you living in? No, it's nice, and to do it with my buddy like you guys are doing is awesome. Gabris is the, John Gabris is one of the funniest human beings on the planet, 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? Yes, that's right. It's called 101 Places to Party Before You Die. We got to eight. I will say, and then your friend died? Pretty much, the show.

In this age of television, it's very bold to establish with the title that you're gonna do 100 episodes. 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 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, and stay alive. And that's a wellness podcast for people who are coming to the idea of wellness a little bit later. Yeah, or just learning it, just learning that concept. I mean, truly some of the things that, like we had this dietician 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?

Yeah. Like that was just not. I feel like 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. I 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, oh, 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- Yeah, and death creeps in through the gums. Yeah, that's what they keep telling you. Just read, you know, not flossing is the new smoking.

Yeah. The new sitting, which is the new, which is the new nappy gum. Sitting. Monjaro, yeah, you gotta be on all that. You wanna live. Hey, we're gonna take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors.

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and you can't get it together. That's a, whoa, whoa. That was half a compliment and I accept it. But you had kids young. You have, how's your oldest now? My oldest, actually this weekend is my, I have Irish twins, they're 13 and 12. And I don't know, I don't think that phrase is so good, but I have Irish twins, they're 13 and 12. And I don't think that phrase is so good,

but I have twins close together and they're getting bar mitzvah this weekend. So they're 13. Wow. Wait, they're so close together, you can do one bar mitzvah? Mm-hmm. Wow. And did they sign off and agree on that?

I mean, I think that's Jewish twins. Don't think I didn't think about that at conception. I was like, you know, 12 years from now down the line, we can do it two for one. But yeah, no, it's, it's, it's why I feel like I, I feel young, but I'm, I'm, I'm 43 and I had kids at 30. And that was, I guess it's like, in entertainment 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 I was like, okay, you know. I think that's about right. Like late for non showbiz, but very early for showbiz. Oh, actually, well, yeah. But like when I got married, I was a writer. Yeah.

And you also married a high school sweetheart? High school sweetheart, yeah. So I did not think any of this would happen. 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. Oh yeah, no, no, no, okay.

This was like, you know, this was supposed to be my office in my head. Yeah. And then reality said 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.

There is a telltale sign of a man who thought it would be his room, which is there's a guitar over your shoulder. Oh, there's a couple of guitars. 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 got a bunch of them.

I don't play, I never play. So these are like yard sale guitars? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, these are actually quite expensive. I just wanted to put a nice image up there. But no, I can't play a lick. Alright, so I'm very excited. New York City kid? Where were you born in the city? Well, New York City in Chicago. I was born in New York City and grew up in the Lower East Side and Staviston Town until I was like nine,

and then we moved to Skokie. What was the impetus behind going to Skokie? So 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 hotels are even there anymore,

if they mean anything to you guys, because you're from a different area, but like Kutcher's or the Tamiment, like these old vaudeville- Are these like Catskills? Yeah, like Catskills Jewish giant getaways. Dirty dancing is what we should be picturing, yes. Yes, they would be-

My wedding. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They would be the couple from the Dresden that played in the lobby, right? and They did that till I was like nine years old and then my father Had a string of close close falls 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 34. Oh, wow.

At 34. Wow. With three children. So medical school, and he went to medical school in Illinois? University of Chicago. Oh, wow. Yeah.

By the way, like that seems like a very good medical school for a guy who was a lounge singer. 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 assistants to go. So for like my whole life, I was like, University of Chicago. And now I'm like, wait a minute.

Is that in like Panama? Did he, had he been a good undergrad student? Yeah, yeah. I mean, he was, he was into the arts, you know, and like he was the theater kid and was like a couple credits shy of graduating. And so he was probably great in the interview. Yo, yeah.

You're kidding, your looker too. So handsome. You guys want to see a picture? Yeah. And were they always a team? All right. He's going to retrieve a picture. Okay.

It was, he's taking 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. They're, this is fantastic. I mean, it looks- Need a photo of this for the show notes. Yeah. It looks like they would have like toured

with the Bee Gees. Yeah, I will say your parents are very attractive. Thank you, yes, no, they're lookers and they, and yeah, you wouldn't, can you imagine when I get into the doctor's office and seeing that and then being told like, that's me. Yeah, that's me. And also, guess what? Let's take a look.

And 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. Yeah. Anyway, what are we dealing with today? So, how was your mom, was your mom behind this idea?

When he said, hey, you know what? We gave it, I gave it a shot and now I'm gonna be a doctor? 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 wanna be a doctor, I think she was like, oh! You know what? I was like, oh, okay. I don't know if she realized how long that would take and how much debt we would go in, but it all worked out.

Nine years old was that, where do your two sisters, where do they fall? Above you, below you? Younger than me. Okay, gotcha. Yeah. Yeah. How do you remember taking News of the Move? I really liked it.

I loved Skokie. You know, Skokie is a pretty great place to grow up. Yeah, we were born in Evanston and then both went to Northwestern. So we know the area. 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 was exciting to be, from going from a New York kid, you know, one of the things I'm seeing 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 and was, you know, calling it pop. And, you know, calling it pop. And, you know, I did not, I did not look back. Yeah. Well, at nine years old, you're certainly going to sort of fall in line with what other kids are doing.

Yeah, completely. And I was a new kid and it was just like, you know, and it was awesome. And 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. Gotcha. Far outside of the city or?

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

You know, because you're like, you're gonna stick around? Like. Yeah. Yeah. Did you, did you ever go on a vacation that was a working vacation for your parents when you would go to Pinterest?

All the time. I mean, 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. Like going over the lyrics to you gotta have friends. I can't right now. Like going over the lyrics to you gotta have friends. I can't right now. It's a great song.

It's really a great song. I was like, how could you not? There's like two lyrics. 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? It's a hundred percent. That's what it was.

And every time it's one of the only people that can share that reference because of our age. Yes, yeah. Like anytime I, I'm like, it's like the Fabulous Baker Boys, people look at me like, what the fuck is that? Yeah. You know, it's like,

it's not a movie that really penetrated culture. Weirdly, although I think if you were of age when that movie came out. For us, yeah. I mean, it's like Michelle Pfeiffer in that red dress. On a piano. On a piano. She was Jessica Rabbit in the flesh.

Exactly, and it was like burned into your skull. Except for some reason, it just like never, like anyone under our age, that movie doesn't exist. Yeah. Weird. So did you ever watch them perform or was it just where they performed me too late at night? They were performing late at night.

I watched them a couple of times like from the side but I don't really have like recollection of like, I have audio of it that we've listened to which is really fun. But I don't have like recollection of like watching them do it really. What were they called? Pally and Pal.

Oh great. That's really good. Oh yeah. Can't beat it, can't beat it. I've pitched on it. And so was it in like, were the summers their busy time when people were sort of packed into hotels up in the Catskills or were they weekend performers?

Weekend performers, you know, weekend performers. And then my dad, during the week, played at the Empire Diner, which 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'd take the bus up 14th Street and then walk to 23rd and sit in the Empire Diner

from like seven till nine, till he finished and then we go home. I don't know, I'm unfamiliar with the Empire Diner. Is it just a diner? It's just like a diner on 10th Avenue that is pretty famous for being like the last diner before you hit the Lincoln Tunnel kind of, you know? And it looks the way you want a diner to look in a, you know, in sort of a late 60 want a diner to look in a,

you know, in sort of a late 60s, early 70s New York movie. 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. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And do you, and your recollection,

so that's your pre nine years old and you are just sort of hanging out at the diner, probably having dinner with your mom. Yep. And are your sisters there too? Yeah, my younger sisters were there and then my mom was pregnant with my littlest. That's, you know, for most of my memory of it.

I'm sure she wasn't. Are you sort of doing homework at the diner? That's, what an amazing memory to have. Yeah, it's cool. It's like, it's also very cool to have that like, also in contrast to a very normal childhood of like, you know, going to Solomon's Check your day school in Skokie and like, you know, like it's very quickly shifted. It almost, it's like you were a family on the run from your past, even though nothing about your past was illegal? I often think that. I often wonder what my dad actually did.

Yeah. And he's such a genial, kind of sweet, he's a doctor, you know? And he looks like Kevin Kline. He looks like a yoked Kevin Kline. And I just can't imagine him running a numbers scheme, but we ran from Skokie pretty quick. You got out.

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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. My dad is like, as close to a show dad as you can get. You know, it's like, any movie or show I'm working on, 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 nice. I think especially as I got 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. Oh, that's great.

Yeah. When you were- Go ahead, Josh. Whoa. I was just gonna, whoa, yeah. Well, I'm gonna steer more, man, the sun's really pouring in on my face. Yeah, it's really just like a white hot sun

on Poshi today. I'm surprised considering your background. I know. That he looks like he's about to take a family. Horrible photo booth. It does, it just looks like a family photo at Sears. Would 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. I just, that curtain didn't get closed last night. And it's very early here in Los Angeles, Adam. I know, I'm so jealous. No. So when you were living in New York City, would you ever take trips that were unrelated to your parents performing?

Would you ever? So 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 Aries 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. Wow. And so what was in Skokie before, is that before you moved to Skokie?

Well, we did that, we would do it, we did it when we first decided that's where we were gonna go. So we got an apartment, then we came back, we packed up the house, then we drove back. Then every like rush to Shawna, we'd like drive back, stay till we get to the Kipper, and then we came back, we packed up the house, then we drove back. Then every like rush to Shana, we'd like drive back, stay till the Yom Kippur, and then drive back. And then like, you know, be there for a while,

and then drive back for a drive back. And it was like, you don't- Is that because the relationships at the temple were so strong? No, it was 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 the, like a holiday in 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 is kind of 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 real trudging through America. Did you have sort of assigned seats?

Did you have your seat in the areas? You were the oldest and I imagine the biggest and could you sort of say? Well, we did have assigned seats until there was one time where the car got like completely destroyed by both my mom and my sister having like bathroom accidents at the same time. What? It was awful. Was it a food poisoning situation?

No, it was more of a like a, it was 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 emptying your bowels when we stopped for gas. Yeah, on command. Like now's the time.

Because otherwise there was no way he was gonna stop because we were like always trying to make good time. Right, to get to the Indiana hotel. Yeah, I remember always being like, what, why, like are we on a deadline? Like, why? Maybe he was like moving drugs or something, but like, 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 youngest sister, was like, 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. You know, it's not like you can make it, Karen.

And then it became like a marital, you know, you always do this. 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 Stephen. It's really tense. And then it started to 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 holiday inn. And so we couldn't use the air conditioning. And it smelled like really bad. And we realized that the cars on either side of us were transporting horses. Oh god. You know, 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 drive and gag and she was like yelling and my dad while I was going on. She was like, uh, uh, uh, uh, she was like, and then 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, and 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. She's she's peeing in a car. My six year old sister is like, I'm peeing. And I'm like, 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. Yeah. They're not going to absorb it, right? No, it's going to roll right out. It's going to roll right out. 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 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 so the rest of the car ride was... It's a long... That's a long rest of the car ride. Horrible. The next day was like walking... The walk from the outdoors,

like a motel where you like walk outside and 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. Did you guys roll up to the holiday and with you and your dad still shirtless? Oh yeah, oh yeah. Cause he was not gonna spend money on like an I Love Ohio shirt at a gas station.

You guys walked in and they're like, wait, are you Pally and pal? He was like, here for the gig, sat down right away at the like loose piano in the hallway. Shirtless. Now, I feel like that seems like maybe a bygone era, like dads who wouldn't stop, right? Like I wouldn't do that. I mean, I think that that is a bygone era of like the dad is the dad and that there's things like,

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. Yeah, I think it's gone. Certainly amongst, yeah. In my house? Oh yeah, in my house, yeah. Well also you've gone through something.

Yeah, that's true. I would never be like, we're making good time. Yeah, you remember Ohio. No, I have a, yeah, no, I have a tattooed, remember I say to my sisters, remember Ohio. No, I have a tattooed, remember, I say to my sisters, remember Ohio. Do you feel like this is accurate to your memory of our youth is that, cause 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 the ration and I feel like we especially in road trips Like we grew up at a time where your parents 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 snacks Snacks for the car is like something, I don't know where that got invented.

Like my wife will say that, we'll be driving to my sister-in-law in like Connecticut, which is no joke, like maybe 45 minutes hour from the house. And the amount of like cool Yeti bags. What is it? Why? And it does nothing except the kids just eat the whole time. You just hear, and my kids are so gross and they eat. Like the sound of my 12 year old daughter

like eating something is like worse than my dog licking itself. It's like a horrible sound, you know? Like the mouth is open, shit is flying everywhere. There's like, you can hear stuff spilling with disregard, like whoops, ha ha. You're like, oh. Like, you know, it's, but still, like you were saying,

it's like you can't turn around as the dad and be like, I just got it washed! I would never, I would never! It's a bygone era. Yeah, no. But I think that's good though, probably. Yes. 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? 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 it'll be like white. Oh yeah. You know, from the light, like all over his hand. It's like on his neck. He looks like he just like did a rail in the bathroom. I'm like, and then he'll come back and it's like, those things are circle for a reason, man.

You put your tongue in the middle of it and play around. He wants to hold it like a lollipop. He's making his fingers. I'm like, there's no stick, Einstein. 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 a, I cut up some vegetables and hummus. And I'm just like, don't make me. That's like, that's the legit like wipeout. You might as well be jumping on a giant red ball. And just like sitting in a three, like it's a three of us in a booth on a train and they're just like, it just like covered, the fronts of them are just covered, painted in hummus. Nothing worse than like seven o'clock in the morning, there's a Starbucks across from, from my kid's school.

And like, if my youngest youngest is Drake is like, I want a bagel. That is fucking 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, Miners Boys? We have just achieved pure podcasting in its purest form. Which is?

Three white dudes complaining about our wives. Yeah, we get it. I haven't said anything about my wife. You're guilty by association. You didn't say enough nice. You had plenty of times jump in and say you had a good one. 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. Also, Josh is a newlywed, so none of it counts. Oh, come on. Yeah, none of it counts. Hey, we're gonna take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support comes from Helix. Hey, Pashi.

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Were your grandparents in the city? My grandmother 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 Wow. Yeah, it was like a shtetl. It was like legit, you know What how what were the sleeping arrangements before you moved? Well, there was, yeah, it's still there. It's still in our family too.

Actually, my cousin still lives in the apartment. But if you've ever been to Stuyvesant Town, all the apartments, they're like, they're the same configuration. And 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. Wow. And then my mom and dad were in the living room on the pullout and my grandma was in the bedroom. Gotcha, and was that something, was sleeping among grandma's coats,

did that have an excitement to it? Oh yes. Oh yes. Well, I don't know. Grandmas could, you could love the smell of those colors. It was 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, like my games and stuff. And like, but there was also still a lot of my stuff, like 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. It, it, but at the same time, again, I don't look back on it all negatively because my, my parents were young and we were young and it felt, and because I was the oldest, you know, my parents were young and we were young and it felt, and because I was the oldest,

my parents were like, if my dad was 33 when he went to medical school and I was nine, he was like 24 when he had me. He was like really, and so it all just felt like we were part of this, 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, 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. It's great. So you can ask, did you Are you close? Are your sisters, are you still close to them? Yeah, we're all really close. They live in New Jersey, like 30 minutes away. And they live, I think, like two, like three houses. You can cut through their houses through backyards. Oh, fun. Oh, that's great. Which 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 all very, you know, nice like that. Did you go on, as adults, did you ever go on vacation with your parents? We did, you know, money 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 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 tied to. And that trip was a disaster. Oh, how so? Total disaster. Because we what happened? How so? Total disaster. Because we were low on, well, my sisters, my mom, my aunt's husband, my uncle Robert is very high up at Deloitte and always was. So 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 yes, cuz 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, and like that was always weird. Cause you'd be like, you know, but, but,

but that was my parents being like they, we can't pay. So we're not going to involve ourselves. You know, 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 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, eh?

Like, and we were like, I don't 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. And that's, I mean, again, cause it's not a, you know,

it's an incredible city, but like you get far out of the center, like it's like you're somewhere else. It's like, yeah, it's like New York or any city. It's like, you know, you, like student housing from a public university in Florida is not gonna be the best housing in London. Yeah. Right. You know. That's one of the first rules they teach university in Florida is not going to be the best housing in London. That's one of the first rules they teach on hotels.com. That's one of the first things they tell you.

There were so many options too. And like, like I, we, we saw a holiday in London and I was like, let's do that. You guys want to have points? After all this time? But, and then, and then they rented a car and my uncle 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 mirror just like right off the thing. And it was like, you know, this like disgruntled Jewish guy who's like screaming in the middle of like a traffic circle, like

going walking out to pick up the mirror. 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. My father being like, me too. Robert's got a show and she can drive. And like me and my sisters in the back, just like holding on for dear life. This is your grandmother was saying to her son, I want to be in a different car.

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, Jewel, what idea was this? 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? Dad is 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. And I don't have to be like, I think you're okay. 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. Oh, I knew it. He's like, get outside and look. I was like what?

the other way How bad is it? I don't know what do you want to hear? What about the curve on the other side? We're closer to that one, I guess. Everybody's already looking at you, Dad. Dad, there's horses in the lane. There's horses. And then do you, do you feel like if you pulled 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. Oh yeah, it's known as a meltdown. I mean, it was one of the biggest meltdowns I've ever seen my father.

You know when you see your father have a meltdown that he has to, like after we parked at the new hotel, he walked around. Yeah. 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. And like, oh, but like, yeah, that was a tough watching your father do that. It's just tough. Yeah. 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 trench coat, you know,

remember he's a man of the theater, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Was your mom in sequins? 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 that? Did you know that? Do you think he was more on edge when he was on a vacation with Robert? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah, I mean, I get that too. That seems like a lot to carry. 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 were doing what? You know, I've never been in syndication like that. It'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. So this was his, Robert married his wife's sister, your mom's sister. Yeah.

Yeah, I think that must be tough. And they came in a pair, you know, and 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 Aries still. It's like, it's just all, it doesn't look right. You know, like why does the doctor live in a condo in the suburbs is like, it was-

It's a late starting doctor. I mean, that's, you know. 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. I'm like, yeah, no, I was there. I was there.

I was sleeping underneath your mom's coats. Yeah, I remember. Tell me more, tell me more. Tell me more about how it used to be back. What was it like with your son? Was it hard for him? Yeah, but he didn't have it so easy, huh? 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. All right, here we go. You can only pick one of these. Is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous, or educational?

Relaxing. What is your favorite means of transportation? Driven in a car. 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 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? My wife. My wife. What do you consider your hometown? New York City. Would you recommend New York City

as a vacation destination? Absolutely not. Really? No, no. Okay. 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 on 48th and sixth. All right. And then Seth's got our, our closer questions. Adam, have you ever been to the Grand Canyon? Nope. Do you want to go? Yes. All right.

Yeah. I went to school in Arizona for a little bit. Gotcha. Yeah. Cause they, after a couple of years, they were like, we think you got it. Yeah. I'm the first person to be told they finished University of Arizona in six months. We're the Doogie Houser of U-Val.

Our mutual pal, Ike Barinholtz. Our mutual pal, Ike Barinholtz 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 dropped out. Pretty sure for Ike, yeah. Ike dropped out of school. Ike finished high school.

He did, he finished high school, but he had some issues with college. He gave him that certificate. Yeah, yeah, he paid the bill. Thank you, buddy. It's always such a delight to talk to you. Thank you guys so much, I love you guys, I appreciate it. Love you too, buddy.

And good luck with Staying Alive, the new comedy meets wellness podcast. Oh, guys. Yeah. Fuck me. Welcome to the space. Oh, God. Love you, buddy.

All right. See you, Adam. Trying to get to the hotel stuck between trucks that really smell of horsey shit. Makes your mom vomit. Leads to laughter in the back. Prompts a full bladder attack From Adam's sis, 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

And to go from bad to worse Pally boys took off their shirts To clean the seats Curious technique Thank you.