Not Skinny But Not Fat - ADAM PALLY IS MR. THROWBACK
Episode Date: August 27, 2024Actor Adam Pally is on the show today! We discuss working on Happy Endings, The Mindy Project, raising kids in NYC, meeting Arnold Schwarzenegger and starring alongside his idol Ste...phen Curry in Mr. Throwback on Peacock!Produced by Dear MediaThis episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct, or indirect financial interest in products, or services referred to in this episode.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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I'm your host, Amanda Hirsch, and I still can't believe that I get to chat with some of my
favorite stars from my very own podcast, where you'll feel like you're just talking shit
with your best friends in your living room.
I'm Pally's here.
Hello.
Hi.
Thank you for coming.
Thank you for having me.
It's so nice in here.
Yeah, it is.
I feel like we're in.
We're like waiting to check out at a West Elm.
It is.
It's almost too nice in here.
No, I like it.
It's pleasant.
Okay.
It's really nice compared to like normal, normally when you do something like this year,
like a table where everyone's written their name and a marker.
You know, so like this is truly a pleasant experience.
I know.
It's a high society here, you guys.
For real.
into middle names lately, and I saw your middle name is Saul.
That's true.
Is that from, like, a great-grandpa?
I don't know if it's from a great-grandpa, but you know, Jews, they name you, it's like,
you're not named after someone.
They take your first initial and name it, so I'm sure I had, like, a grandpa, a grandpa, Scott or something.
Oh, so you don't even know?
No, I don't really know where it came from.
You never asked?
No, I never asked. I never asked. I was just always embarrassed of it, honestly, as a kid.
Yeah, it's a little intense.
Well, it was also very telling, like, you know...
Pally isn't.
Pally is not.
And sometimes before I, you know, when I don't have a beard and I don't look like I'm like the coolest rabbi at like the, like, reform temple.
Yeah.
I could pass, possibly.
And you wanted to pass, though?
I just didn't want to be the own.
It was just, you know, you didn't want to be the only one.
Why?
You grew up in New York.
I grew up in New York City in the beginning, which I wasn't the only one.
But then I was in Chicago for a little bit.
and in New Jersey at some points
you're the, you're just kind of the only one sometimes.
Yeah, Chicago doesn't, Chicago isn't
very Jewy. It is in the suburbs
and stuff, but yeah, you can
just sometimes be the only one.
And they would say, like, is Adam Saul?
Yeah, Adam Saul, Pally,
and then I'd be like, oh.
And still, never asked where
the Saul is from. Never, no.
Can you? After this plot?
I guess I could, but I'm not really interested.
I think I'm Amanda Nicole.
Not that you asked, what I'll tell you?
I was that's where I was going. Oh, you're going. So I'm in Nicole and you're right. I'm after like
Norbert. Right. That's what we do. That's, I stopped it. I stopped the tradition. I didn't give my
kids a middle name. I don't believe in them. What about you? Did you? Oh, you did. Yeah, we gave our
kids middle names and we did. We didn't, we didn't stop the cycle. You kept it going. Yeah, except my daughter,
my daughter's name is GGG, but not like Gigi, like G period, G period. Right, because it's at Georgia
Grace, which is very not Jew.
Very not true.
Like you didn't want her to feel like the only one.
We honestly didn't have it planned and then we kind of met her and she was just like a Gigi.
She's like, she just like had it.
Yeah.
You know, and it just like came to us right away.
When she was born?
Mm-hmm.
No way.
Usually people lie.
You know when like your wife's pregnant, you're like, do you have a name?
And you're like, no, except you have a name.
Yeah, we have like several names.
Yeah.
We were going back and forth and back and forth and back and forth.
And then with all of them
And then we'll like, we'll just meet her
Yeah
And then it was like, oh, she's Gigi
Is she the oldest or you're having
She's the middle, boy girl boy, so she's like the oldest
Three kids is like a lot nowadays
It's a lot, it's a lot
How did that happen?
My mistake
It's a couple mistakes
Like did you want
We all yeah, we want
Yeah, I'm from three and she's from three
So I think we didn't talk about it
But I don't think we ever had like a goal in mind
Right
But, yeah, I don't know, timing, I don't think we chose the timing for any of these children.
It is true, though.
You know, when I watch, like, The Bachelorette or, like, a dating show, and they have those dates.
And it's like, how many do you want four?
Me, two, I want six.
And you're just like, you have no idea what you're saying.
When my sister says three, my sister-in-law has three.
And when I hear them, I'm like, you're done, right?
Yeah.
And if they even are like, I don't know, I'm like, you're crazy.
Four to you, like, this is crazy.
Because three was not, like, going from two to three is so wild.
Like, I feel like one to two, you're like, oh.
Yeah.
You feel like he needs a sibling.
Yeah, whatever.
When you go to two to three, it's panamonium.
It's crazy.
You're just like survival every day.
Really?
Yeah.
But then I heard the three to four, it's kind of like bring on another.
No, no.
No.
So you're done for jerseys.
Yes.
Did you do like the snippy sniff?
No, but.
Oh, okay.
No.
Okay.
I just, no.
You're just not going to do it.
Yeah.
And your youngest is Drake, I saw his name is.
Yeah.
Is that after our beloved?
It is after our beloved.
Shut up.
Yeah for him.
Tough year for my son to be named Drake.
Like, I was saying a lot of people, he like, it's like at a couple years ago, he was
walking around real head high.
This year is not so much.
Wait, was it really like you're a huge Drake fan and you want it?
I'm an average Jewish dad Drake fan.
So like, I'm a big Drake fan, but I'm not, I'm not.
But you like the name.
You were like.
But we had this kind of, we had a bunch of names.
And then we were like, his middle name is.
James were like Drake James Pally.
It just felt really like cool.
It almost felt like something you would see
on like a Southern Hotel or something, you know?
And we were like, I don't know.
It sounded regal and cool and...
And Drake is Jewish.
And Drake is Jewish and the best Jewish rapper, in my opinion of all time.
So, no shade to, you know, Mike D. and Adam Horowitz.
Yeah.
You know, it just not the...
The Beast Boys aren't in the same league as rapping-wise as Drake.
Yeah.
So I thought it was cool and I think we still think it's cool.
And he is, he's such a, a good, Drake.
Drake is such a good kid.
It's like, it's just a pleasure having a Drake.
Oh, that's so cute.
Yeah.
So he's like the good kid of the three.
No.
He's just, like, he's just sweet in a way that the other two aren't.
Maybe they get less sweet when they get older or no.
No.
It's like from birth.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's like, I mean, I don't mean sweet.
Like all my children are, you know.
empathetic and lovely and beautiful people.
But there's something about the baby that's just kind of like, he's around us more.
He just is, like, alone.
Oh, so he's how old?
He's seven.
Was he excited when you did Sonic and Knuckles?
Yes.
Like, did he know Sonic from before?
Yes.
And then you were in it?
Yes.
And Knuckles.
And it was a very big deal.
Yeah, he was very excited.
It's a huge deal in our house.
And your older ones?
They're kind of like, it's cool that I'm in a movie.
and stuff, but they're like, whatever.
Yeah?
Don't, yeah, they're just like,
don't call me, like, you know,
officer fart face junior or whatever.
They're like, they're not, like, psyched on it.
They're just like, yeah, whatever.
I'm like stupid dad.
But when you got the role for,
to be in Sonic,
was that something you haven't really done before
with, like, the animated thing?
Yeah, I mean, it was, I've never done anything like that before,
but it was, yeah, it was exciting.
It was cool?
Yeah.
How do they do it?
Do you talk to someone,
pretend and he's like with the stickers
it's not
no it's not so much of that
it's not like a little person
with like stickers on them
no I meant the stickers that turn them
into it's not like that really
they have it's pretty technologically advanced
they have like a puppet that is like
looks exactly like the thing that you're seeing
on television and then they like digitally
enhance it oh cool it's like there's a character
there yeah and I was
I think I was probably
introduced to you first with the Mindy project.
Okay.
Obsessed with that show.
Like anyone who didn't watch it needs to binge it.
That's very nice to you. Thank you.
It's just such a good show. And you played Peter Prentice.
I did. Yes. A doc.
Yes. Again, a college. O.B.G.Y.
Yeah. You were so good in that.
Thank you.
And you had such a good vibe with Mindy. Yeah. I love Mindy. She's the greatest.
Was that one of your biggest, like, breakout roles?
Yeah. I mean, it was very fortunate. I mean, again, very fortunate. And I had,
I had just come off a show called Happy Endings
that I did actually with the creator of Mr. Throwback.
And that show was really beloved,
but not quite watched that much.
And so I was needing a job.
And Mindy kind of snatched me up
and gave me a place to work for a long time.
Did she know you?
No, we didn't really know each other.
I think she's just seen the show and liked my work and was like, you know.
Does she thought of you for the role?
I wouldn't say that.
You'd have to ask her.
I think there were maybe other.
people that she was thinking of for the role and maybe I was the one that it came down to possibly
doing. But I, however it worked out, I couldn't be more thankful. It was a few years, a few good
years you were on the show. Yeah, it was great. It was great. And it was like a fun. It was awesome.
I loved working there. I loved everybody there. Ike Berenholtz, Dave Stasson, Tracy Wigfield,
Jack Birdett. I mean, just heavy hitters and Langfisher. Just unbelievable. And fortune.
Fortune themes are, yeah. Yeah.
Who I'm still working with.
Right.
I just came back from working with.
Wait, so you did Fubar with her a little bit.
I'm doing it again now.
And you're doing, there's two.
I'm doing Fubar too right now.
And you're also, well, separately, you're going to be in a new Arnold Schwarzenegger thing for Netflix that came out.
It did.
The spy thing.
It did?
It did.
That sounds fun.
Yeah.
I look forward to that.
No, it did come out, though, Adam.
Oh, I'm excited.
I didn't read it.
I really, that sounds awesome.
I hope I'm being paid well.
Yeah.
It's Netflix.
So I'm not sure, but we'll see.
I'll check in.
I'll check in on it.
I really haven't heard that.
Really?
Yeah, no, I haven't heard that.
Wait, but you you acted with Schwarzenegger.
How is that?
It's the best.
Yeah?
Yeah.
He's a vibe.
He's the coolest dude.
Like, he really is just a good guy.
And like he, I mean, not, you know, said his shit, I guess.
But like, yeah, everybody on set, he's the best movie star I've ever worked with of that level.
Like, he's early.
Early. He eats lunch with the crew. He talks to everybody. He listens to jokes. He knows everybody's name. He's just a mensch.
Wow. Yeah. Arnold Schwarzenegger. It is weird looking back because now I'm like, am I showing my son like this superhero movie too early? For me, like I definitely watch like Arnold Schwarzenegger movies too early.
Oh, you know, like I was, I mean, I was just watching it in an age where like doesn't make sense. Like, you know, you know, the Asela Vista baby.
Like, what year was that?
Terminator, yeah.
Well, Terminator 1, I think, was like 85, 84, but Terminator 2 was like 90-something.
There were like 10 years between them, I think.
So you were excited to meet him?
Yes, very much so.
I grew up on Arnold Schwarzenegger, you know, and especially his comedy is like kindergarten
cop and twins, his stuff with Ivan Reitman.
Yeah.
Yeah, I really was looking forward to working with him, and it's been a, it's a blast.
I love doing it.
I can't wait to fin it.
Yeah.
back from doing a couple weeks. I have a few more to go. And I just, I need time. Like,
he could call me and I would do whatever he wanted. And he called, like, you're on text and
phone vibes? No. He's smarter than that. He knows not to give me his phone number.
Really? You think you would, like, call him? Oh, I just know myself. I would, like, I would take
advantage of that. Yeah, you would. Yes, I would. So we were talking about it before, like,
you grew up in New York, a little bit in New Jersey, and Chicago. Yes. Yeah. My parents moved around
a lot. Really? How was that?
It was formative.
You know, I think you form a sense of humor and a very good sense of self when you move
around a lot.
You're a new kid a lot.
So you have to be really ingratiating to like, you're always kind of meeting new people.
Right.
So did that make you like more confident or like more?
No?
Because I'm thinking now as a mom, like I am so overly, I mean, they call us our generation
and kind of like the gentle parent vibe.
They do?
Kind of.
I didn't know that.
Yeah.
I think so.
I would say we are.
I'm overly gentle.
Like literally, like, if Noah, you know, feels bad for one second, I'm like, oh, my God, what am I doing wrong?
You know, and it's like our parents did not think that.
They moved you around.
It's like, okay, whole deal.
He'll make new friends, you know?
Yeah, we didn't really have a choice.
Yeah, when I was born, my parents were, they made their money as a duo called Pally and Palmy and Pal, that would tour the cat skills and sing.
like cover songs and do jokes and like
Ben Midler tunes. Stop.
And yeah. Oh, so you come from
like a performing fan? A little bit. And then
when my sister came,
my father, I guess
it wasn't cute anymore. And
so he had this passion
for medicine and he went back to medical school,
which he was almost, there was a couple credits shy of
and he finished medical school
here, or finished pre-med here. And then
we moved to Chicago and he went to the University of Chicago
for four years where he did his
residency. And so that's
Then we lived in Chicago in Skokie.
And then we, he did his internship and opened up a practice in Florin Park, New Jersey.
And so we lived in Livingston, New Jersey.
Wow.
So that was your last stop.
Your last stop.
Before college.
Before college, which you did in New York, too.
I made one quick pit stop for two years at University of Arizona.
Oh, before the new school?
Before the new school, yeah.
Arizona's like party party, no?
Yes, it is.
Like frats and stuff.
Yes.
Was that a vibe?
It was a fun vibe.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I can see you.
I mean, it's like going to a frat school is such a different thing.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's a different thing.
You weren't in a frat.
Yes, I was.
You were in a frat?
Okay, I didn't see that for you.
Really?
Yeah.
You give frat, you think?
Yes.
Wait, just because you can like, what, drink a lot?
Can I even drink a lot?
I don't know.
I don't know.
That was an assumption.
I know.
I can.
I know I'm a garbage person.
Yeah, I went to the University of Arizona for two years.
And I wouldn't even call it attending.
I was on academic probation from the moment I stepped foot on campus until the moment I left.
You left or you were?
I auditioned for the actor's studio and got in.
And then I was like, okay, I'm going to head out of here.
So when you went to Arizona, you didn't go for?
No, I did nothing.
For acting or anything?
I did nothing.
So how did you all of a sudden think like, oh, let me audition for getting into an acting school?
was in high school I we had a thing called morning announcements as I'm sure every high
school does where like on the TV broadcast to some of the school you would announce what's
going on in school today and whatnot and so I mean a friend of mine started hosting the morning
announcements when when I was pretty young and then it became like a thing in the town because
we would do like sketches and stuff and it became kind of like well known throughout the town
and people outside of school would tune in to watch what
what I would do in the morning announcements.
And then I...
You would say, like, you would write them before?
We would...
We would...
Sketches and shoot them and edit them.
We had a TV studio in our high school.
How old were you?
I was, like, a sophomore.
And then we had great teachers and a great staff,
but we were, like, encouraged to do that.
And so that became, like, my thing.
And I would, like, edit videos and make sketches and stuff.
And then when I was applying for school,
I could have gone to a couple film schools
because of my bodywork in high school.
Yeah.
But I was also kind of a, you know, I wanted to get down.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I wanted to party.
Yeah.
And so I was like, no, I'll go to like the University of Arizona for two years.
Dude, no regrets, though.
None.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's so much fun.
And then when you came back for the new school, that was like work.
I came back at 20 and I had gotten in, which was a nice thing, which was like kind of channel.
Feels good.
Yeah.
And not everyone does.
So that was good.
And then I started the Upright Citizens Brigade, like the day I moved back and started.
So at night, I was going to the Upright Citizens Brigade and taking classes from, like, you know, people like Matt Walsh and Paul Shear and Amy Poehler.
So, like, I, you know, that was at night and then acting school during the day.
And then at 20, you're just like.
You're emerged.
You're just going.
You're in it.
Yeah, 24 hours a day, everything.
You're just doing it.
The UBG.
UCB.
UCB
The UBGD
Is that like a Russian
That was me trying really hard
To say the initials
of the upright citizens
brigade.
Right.
There's not a G in there.
But I had a baby like two months ago
So that
Wow.
Really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Yeah.
So nice of year even if you're lying.
I'm not lying at all.
Thank you.
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it. I always thought it was in Chicago.
Second city is in Chicago
and then IO
and then they started there and then they brought it here.
Oh, so it didn't start here.
It started here but they brought
some of the teachings that they learned.
Oh, that's like a big deal.
That's like the profesh one.
It was profesh.
Yeah.
Sort of, I guess.
Wait, so you started doing, you were like in comedy groups.
Yes.
You still are.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm not as active as I should or would like to be just with children and a life and a career.
It's like, you know, but I wish I was more.
You were still doing a, because that's fun.
It's fun.
It's good.
It's just like a good.
And, yeah, and it's really, I find it's highly creative.
Like, when you're doing it, you're just better on everything.
Did you think you were going to go on that path?
Like stand-up comedy shows?
I never thought I'd be a stand-up comedy.
I tried it once, and I was never really, like, good at it.
I always liked having other people on stage, and I never really even, even when I started
performing, I didn't really see myself being necessarily, like, in front of the camera.
I always thought, oh, maybe I could be, like, in the writing staff or something.
And then it's just like slowly evolved.
Did you want to do SNL?
Of course, yeah.
Did you audition?
I did.
I never made it to learn.
I audition for Seth, which you can ask Seth about.
Wait, really?
Did you ever tell this story publicly?
I have told this story publicly.
I was young.
I was like 24.
Do you need an agent to get to an SNL audition?
You do. I mean, you always helps.
I had one.
I had a manager.
I didn't have an agent.
And I was doing the signature show at the,
time called Askat, which was like where like celebrities would come and tell stories. And then
there would be a group of improvisers that the theater thought was like, you know, the best
improvisers from their faculty would improvise those stories and was always sold out. It was like the
biggest show. And I did it a couple times with Seth. And Seth liked me. And so he asked me to make
a tape. And my comedy style, it's like I wasn't ready basically at the time. So I went
instead of making like a tape of here are my characters and here are my auditions,
I went to a public access station in Staten Island where they did like a midnight show
and I asked to do a five minutes set there and I bombed or like it was horrible and the hosts were
like, you know, crickets and they all had horrible Staten Island accents and it was all grainy
and it looked really bad.
It was like a...
That's what you sent in?
And I sent it in.
Why?
That sounds like sabotage.
self-sabotized.
I thought that it would be, it was funny, but it, and Seth thought it was funny.
Like, ironically, it was funny.
Kind of, yeah.
It was like an anti-odddd-ish, and I don't know.
Yeah.
And Seth thought it was funny.
And I didn't get it.
And Seth was so kind.
And it's still so kind.
You know, one of the best dudes and very important to me in my career and comedy.
I didn't get it.
But then a couple years ago, we were filming Knuckles.
And Yorma Toconi was directing.
directing it, who is part of the Lonely Island.
Right.
And it was thunderstorm and raining, and we were shooting this big action scene,
so we were held in our trailer, we were in London, and we were face-timing people,
and Yorm and I were just, like, giddy and overtired, and we facetimpsed, and we were
talking, and Yorma was like, I want to see Adam's audition, and this was right at
the time where the writers were about to go on strike.
And Yoram was like, I want to watch Adam's audition, but I don't know if it's legal with
the writer's strike, and Seth said, oh, no, I wouldn't call it writing.
So you let him watch it?
You let him watch it.
And it is really embarrassing.
You just pulled it up?
They had pulled it.
Seth had, yeah, he had it.
Oh my God.
I had clips of it on his phone.
Because I'm sure that it was bad and funny, but bad.
Do you have like any regrets from that?
No, I wasn't ready and I probably wasn't right for it.
And I revere the show so much.
I love it so much that it's like just the fact that Seth formed a relationship with me
And then, and then...
Right.
Like, you got that out of it.
Yeah.
And, like, and now look where it took me.
So I don't, I don't think of it like that.
That's good.
Hashtag and no regrets.
Your accent is like, what would you say it is?
I've been trying to think about it.
Is it like Chicago-y?
It's like a dialect coach's worst nightmare.
Is where I would say it.
Wait, they don't ask you to, like, accentuate it for certain roles?
Sometimes they do.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
And then sometimes they're like, dial it back, buddy.
They're like, what is that?
When you grow up in New York City.
Right.
And you speak one way and then immediately are shifted to Chicago, Illinois.
Wow.
Yeah.
The combination is crazy.
And then you spend your form of your teen years in New Jersey.
Yeah.
It's like there's just some words I say Midwest and some words I say East Coast and some words I say like really Italian influence.
Like I have no.
I don't know what.
Like who are you?
I'm me.
Yeah.
No, I was like, is it Chicago?
Some of it is.
But you don't hear it on yourself.
People tell me I sound like New York, but I don't hear it.
Or they tell me I sound like a dumb bitch.
That I hear a little bit.
That I hear a little bit.
No.
You don't hear it?
No.
A little.
No, no, no.
It sounds comforting.
Thank you.
Yes.
One of the things I saw that you did that was so funny.
First of all, funny or die?
Does it exist still?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I think there's a company.
I think they produce at midnight.
So they're around, but I don't know if it's like a website anymore.
So that was big for us.
Like that was before, obviously, like, social media.
That was like a website that you would go to and there were like funny videos.
Huge.
So you started working on that.
I worked there early on freelance.
Like I was never on.
They had a huge amazing staff, but I would come in and do shorts for friends of mine that
a lot of the people that ended up working there from Adam,
Kay, who is a frequent, you know, person at the Upper System's Brigade, it just all kind of melded
together.
You did something funny that was a 50-hour live stream marathon of entourage.
I did.
Yes.
Consecutive 50 hours?
No.
The credit on that goes to my buddy Gilozeri, who is a true genius and one-of-a-kind.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He thought of that idea, and we just executed it, and we rented a house in the hills that was
so gross and entourage and then we watched 50 hours and no sleep no sleep we had friends come
by and and watch the the whole entirety of the show were you super fans of the show no no no no
you just thought it was funny to do that it was like we did it we had done it a couple we had done one
that was two and a half days of two and a half men where we watched so we were just kind of looking
for that we still might do another one we might do all the sandler movies but we you know who has
the time oh my god and did that like take off
Like to, people liked it.
It was fun.
Yeah, but we're so hard.
I don't know if we could, now we're in our 40s.
I don't know if I could do that again.
I know, but today, like, you could go viral.
Whereas then, yeah, I guess like funny or die could go viral on funny or die.
Yeah, we didn't make any money.
So I wouldn't, you know, you did my quote.
No, but that's crazy.
But yesterday's price is not.
So you're saying, Andres wasn't your favorite show even.
No, it wasn't.
I mean, I loved to spoof it.
Yeah.
I did a sketch.
Yeah.
I spoofed it on college humor.
I loved, I just thought it was so silly and I loved it.
But I didn't, you know.
But you sounded so grateful before when you were saying, like, look where it got me now.
Like, you're super.
Oh, extremely.
This is a lot.
I mean.
You didn't envision this.
No.
Like making movies and.
No.
I always just hoped to survive and to get by and to have a little place in the city where
I could, like, live and do comedy and work and whatever, whatever that meant, I never thought
that it would be at this scale.
Wow.
Yeah.
And I'm so thankful.
and I try to never leave any bite on the plate.
Any bite on the plate?
What does that mean?
Like all this stuff is so one of a kind, like, how many people get interviewed?
You know, it's like, it's an honor to somebody like, hey, I want to talk to you.
So I want to like have that experience too and like fulfill it and and not leave anything,
not leave an experience.
So you don't get competitive like with yourself?
Because like I feel like with me, I could be really like.
happy and proud and be like,
doing this is so cool. I'm so grateful to
even get. And then in a moment I can switch
and be like, you know, want what
somebody else has. Sure. Yeah. I think
that's only natural, though. Like, yeah. I mean,
even just driving here today,
I saw so many production trucks and I was like,
God, everything's shooting in New York. I'm not shooting anything
in New York. You know, I'm flying
a freaking Toronto. Why am I flying at Toronto?
It's like, but who cares?
You know? But it's, that's
natural. But it's fun to shoot in New York, probably.
Yeah, it's fun to shoot New York.
Where did Mindy Project shoot L.A.?
Yeah.
But you, did you ever do a scent of L.A.?
Yeah, I lived there for like 11 years.
Oh.
Mm-hmm.
And did you like it?
I loved it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I love L.A.
Yeah.
My family was here.
My wife's family's here and our kids are getting older and our parents are getting older.
Oh, that's nice.
Yeah.
I want to be next to them.
We wanted to be close to our siblings and I did a play here about six years ago and we just had
such a good time and the kids really liked it.
They like the city.
They like the city.
They like the school.
They like their friends.
Are you in the city city city?
We are in the city.
Oh, that's cool.
Oh, nice.
So three kids in the city is doable.
Sure.
Yeah.
No, because you know how everyone when you live in your, I mean, you're an actor, so they
probably maybe don't say that to you, but I feel like in the normie, normier places.
They do.
They're like, wait, you're having another kid.
Like, are you, so where are you moving?
Like, where, what suburb are you going to?
Yes.
No, they say the same thing to us.
Yeah?
Yeah.
So are you anti?
suburbs? No, I just grew up there, so I really like, you know, and we live in such
in a great area and we have such an amazing home that I, you know, I just think I prefer
being here, you know, and I prefer, I get such little time at home that I, I don't want to have
to go so far away from the, like, where everything is. Yeah, it's nice to go downstairs and, like,
have all the things. It's great. Yeah. So your kids never lived in L.A. The part of the 11 years was
when they were here.
Okay.
And what do they like better?
They probably some, I mean, you'd have to ask each one of them, you know.
My mom was just saying yesterday we had friends coming from the suburbs.
And my mom decided that kids from suburbs are less cool.
Like, not cool.
My mom likes to gossip even about kids.
So she was just like, that kid and that kid, they were being like this.
And you know why?
It's because they're from the suburbs.
And they were like, mom, pick me up, drive me here and like city kids aren't like that.
and they're less spoiled.
And I was like, that is not true.
Not true.
No.
We might be,
I think city kids are probably cooler.
They're cooler, but yeah, no, my daughter will be like, can you come pick me up?
I'll be like, no, she's like, final Uber.
Does she over by herself?
Sometimes.
Really?
How old is she?
12.
I mean, I guess now you can, like, track it.
And I guess I was, like, hitchhiking, by the way, at 12.
I mean, like, do you want her on the subway late at night?
Like, it's like, what are your?
Yeah, I was also on the subway late at night.
Sure.
What do you want?
Right.
What's better?
Are they in private schools or public schools?
Private school.
Yeah.
What schooler?
Public.
Yeah.
But we missed the block thing by like a little bit.
Maybe we'll get it if we move.
Yeah.
For high school.
I don't see it's moving.
Schools are so hard to decide on.
It's really hard.
Especially that like the private or the public or the Jewish.
Like not, you know what I mean?
Like all those things are.
Yeah.
Like what do you decide for them?
Then I look at what I did and I was like, I went to public school.
I thought that was like cool.
I did both.
Yeah.
I went to a Jewish day school for and then I was told not to, I was removed.
And then I went to a regular public school and I like that too.
But I just, you know, I think you just have to make the decision like my kids go to different schools.
So you just have to find what's right for them.
For that kid.
We were talking before about happy endings.
I'll be honest with you.
I didn't watch it.
Now I want to because of the way.
I kind of want to binge it.
Is it available anywhere?
I believe it is. Yeah, I'm a horror. I think Hulu.
Okay. So, because the way you're doing a recap podcast with Casey Wilson.
Yes. And you said it had a cold following is to what we tell ourselves.
Yes, that's true. That's funny. That's true.
But it sounds like it did. It sounds like it was like really beloved by a lot of people.
It was, but it was beloved by a small amount of people who are very vocal. And that's nice to have.
But it left an impression on like people that it.
I think the people that love it, love it.
Yeah.
And I think that that's nice to have something like that.
And like Mindy loved your work in it.
Mindy liked it.
I think that's where she saw it.
I really do want to binge that.
And Casey Wilson, who you do the podcast with,
she's like a huge Bravo fan and stuff.
Huge, yeah.
Did she rub off on you at all?
Do you like any reality TV?
I like reality TV a little bit.
Yeah.
Like what?
I was into the Vanderpump saga.
Scandival?
Scandival.
I was into Scandival.
Did your wife?
You get you into it?
No, she's more of a documentary nut.
Uh-huh.
You know, she's like right now, we're watching the boy band documentary.
With the Backstreet Boys?
Yeah.
Oh, I didn't start that yet.
And we just finished the Simone, like, we go through, she's like a big doc.
She's moved, her taste is a little more highbrow than that.
Yeah.
But I do like a reality TV binge, especially on a flight.
Wait, so you heard about the Scandival and then.
I was already, I was already kind of knowing about it.
Privy to the, to the ins and outs of it.
Yeah.
And I started becoming like, what's going to happen?
Yeah.
So do you know all the people and everything?
I know the players.
I know the players.
Yeah.
So if another season came out, you'd watch?
I probably would.
Do you think Sandoval deserves a redemption?
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No.
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Okay, I wanted to ask you
because I saw recently
that a couple people said no to hosting the Oscars.
Yes.
And I can understand that as, like, I'm like,
that's a scary job.
Would you host the Oscars?
Yeah.
He was.
And I actually have an idea for them
on how to get,
the people they want because I think you don't have to make fun of the celebrities I
even I even have a bigger okay it's so much easier okay pay them wait son paid oh it's like if
it is it's like scale is what I'm told so like a best way to get the people you want is to
pay them but do you think that's why they don't want to do it I feel like they're scared to like
make a joke to Leonardo Caprio no you would be way less scared if you were getting
million dollars so would you do it on paid no you would do it paid yes okay would you be scared
to make fun of anyone no you would make fun of Robert De Niro yes I would I would do it right to
Uncle Robbie's face yeah you would yeah we have a relationship though oh really yeah what did
you did we did a movie together oh my god I just like said Robert De Niro but at this point I'm
so old and I've been around kicking around this town yeah for
like 20 plus years that I you could say anybody's name is like there's a chance i'm kind of like
the jewish kevin bacon in that like there's a chance that i could get i've worked with someone
wait speaking of the jewish thing like i kind of really notice and like that in kind of everything
that you do you put the jewish i don't know if it's your choice or if it gets written in it's not
always my choice and when it's not my choice i have to go like is this anti-somatic but i do i do do
it. Right. Okay. So Knuckles, there was like a Shabbat. That was not my choice. I was just
written. Okay. And then with your new show, Mr. Throwback, there's a lot of Jewish stuff.
Yes. Well, there's as much Jewish stuff as a Jew would have in there. Right. Yeah. But that you put in,
because you're like, you co-created then. I co-created that show with David Kasp, who's who's Casey Wilson's
husband. Oh. Who did happy endings with me. And yeah, we're Jews. You know, it's like we try not to,
It has no saying on anything other than we're Jews.
We brought up Jewish.
Yeah.
And so we put it in our stuff as much as it needs to be.
And then if it's too much, we pull it out.
Is Peter Prentice Jewish?
I don't think so.
Right?
I don't think so.
Oh, my God.
No, I don't think he was.
Yeah.
He didn't give.
No.
He gave, like, brat.
Brat, yeah.
He gave that kind of like on the mayor of like small town Pennsylvania.
Yeah.
non-Jew.
Yeah.
No, but that is a question, though, the anti-Semitic thing.
Because, like, on one hand, you're like, yeah, Jews, like, represent, Shabbat, put it in there.
Have an Aguilah, tell them.
You know what I mean?
Put it in.
Yeah, put it in.
That's how I look at it.
Yeah.
I'm like, as long as it's not, like, egregious or overly opinionated.
It's like, I don't want anything like that.
Yeah.
I'm a Jewish kid from New York City.
It's like, there's, if I'm writing something.
that reflects that, then that's, you know, be in the show.
So you said you kind of worked with everybody, anybody,
wouldn't be scared to, like, throw a diss at De Niro.
Is there anybody that you would get stars struck by meeting them?
Stefan Curry.
Okay.
Well, thank you for that transition, Adam Saul, Pally.
Still doesn't sound great.
So Mr. Throwback, I just saw a few episodes of your new show on Peacock.
By the time this comes out, it will be out, and you can binge all six, seven,
episodes, which is such a fun binge.
They're 30 minutes. It's super fun.
Yeah.
It's a mockumentary.
And like you said, wait, it's not Stephen.
It's Stefan.
Right.
So hard for me like the UCB.
Yes.
No, I know.
And Steph is the short.
Steph is shorthand, sure.
That's like.
That was big.
That was a big thing.
Yes.
I was starstruck by far.
Yeah?
Are you a huge fan of his team?
I, well, I'm not a huge.
I now I'm a Warriors fan, but I am I am a Nick fan.
die hard.
But I love the NBA
and I love staff.
I mean, he's a four-time champion.
He's the goat, you know?
So I was just
Well, tell me about Mr. Throwback
because this, give us like the elevator pitch of it.
The elevator pitch.
Mr. Throwback is about a down on his luck,
vintage and memorabilia salesman
who needs a little bit of help
in a short amount of time.
And the only person that he knows that can do that
is his old middle school basketball
teamate, Stefan Curry.
Who plays himself.
Who plays himself.
So when you, you thought up the concept of the show together with the other?
Yeah.
And then was straight in your mind the first guy to play this, the famous basketball players?
Well, actually, it really, it happened really organically.
Like, Stefan's lovely wife, Aisha, or had a game show where married couples would come on from all
different areas of expertise and, like, have drinks and chop it up.
And my wife and I went on and really kind of.
gave them the business and we hit it off the four of us and then the episode after we taped
Casey Wilson and David Casp went on and they hit it off with Steph and then Steph put it together
that we worked together so his team called us with him the next day and was like if we'd love to
listen to any idea you had and so we were like give us a second and we called because he's been what
wanting to do wanting to do a show he has a production company that's really has done a bunch of cool
stuff. So we were like, okay. And then we called our two friends who we created another show
with called Champaign Ill that were also in happy endings, the Libman Brothers. And the four of
us pitched it to Steph. And now we're here. Oh, wow. So did his production company produce it?
Yeah. We bought his and ours. Oh, so he's also a producer on it. And seeing him act, I was like,
okay. He's really good. Did he do any training for it? Did you help him? Like, what was the process?
No, I would never, no. I did not.
help him.
You're like, in any tips.
Yeah, no, I did not help him.
No.
The only help I gave him was like, sometimes you don't want to engage the background actors.
What do you mean by that?
Because sometimes you get trapped in a conversation.
Like, you know, it's like you want to be super nice to everybody.
And obviously, background is so important to the making of a film and you want to take
them with the utmost respect.
When we were shooting a scene with like 500 background, you got to memorize lines,
sometimes you just want to keep your head down because if you make eye contact with
someone in your background, they're like, nice day, right?
Yeah.
And you're like, uh-huh.
And then you're just like, what am I doing?
You know, so it's like, just don't.
So you gave him like little tips like on the go.
You know, how to just like, you know, but he didn't even need him.
He's amazing.
Wait, did you see you were starstruck by him?
Totally, completely starstruck.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yeah.
He's got an aura about him.
Yeah.
He's so, he's an amazing person.
Yeah.
It was really like, whoa.
I love the cast on it.
Aidan, Maieri plays your wife.
She's so good.
You know, when you like someone's so good and you don't know them, you look him up and
you're like, oh, that's her name.
What did she do?
Like, she was just so good.
She was on a show a couple years ago with Vanessa Bear called I love that for you.
Uh-huh.
And that's where I first came aware of her.
And she's, she's so talented and just such a movie star.
Yeah, she was so good.
So good.
I feel like this is going to be.
Yeah.
And Ego Woboom.
Yeah.
Is, I can't say enough.
From SNL.
Yeah.
So funny.
So funny.
Such a good cast.
It's so fun.
Like, I think I stop.
at like the fourth episode.
I'm dying to know how it ends.
Oh, yeah.
It's super funny.
Thank you.
You played Danny.
Danny Grossman.
When you came in today, I was like, you're kind of dressed because
Danny has like a lot of style.
Danny has good style.
Even though he's like in the, you know, he's not doing well.
We know, we dug deep, you know, and those vintage salesmen, they're all really cool.
And they all really have a certain specific style.
And they all, everything they wear is like really curated.
And, you know, so we wanted to be true to form of that.
There is a real Mr. Throwback.
Oh, it's based on a real guy?
It's not based on a real guy, but there is a store in New York City in the East Village called Mr.
Throwback that sells sports memorabilia and it's great.
Everyone should go there and buy all their jerseys and stuff.
And he was so generous to let us use the name.
Oh, you asked him.
You just asked him and he said yes?
Yeah.
Did he get money for it?
Of course.
Yeah, he's part of the team now.
Okay.
Oh, he's, oh, damn.
Yeah, part of the team.
Oh, do you use his actual store?
No, we created our own store called double dribble, but we just, we wanted to show
respect to the culture. Yeah. And we thought like, you shop a vintage? I try to shop vintage. Oh,
like that it's a choice. I try to, unless it's like something fancy. Not just always as a choice,
but I try to pick out my own clothes. Like not use a stylist. Yeah. I do have a stylist, an amazing
stylist named Olivia Perdock, who actually did the styling on Mr. Throwback and does work with me on a lot of
my movies and stuff like that. But I, together, I think we just try to like use stuff I have. Keep the incoming
stuff low. Yeah. So that it doesn't, like, I always wonder, like, where does that stuff
go? You mean, like, the clothes? Like, you just see all this close for, like, one appearance,
one look. I know. I know. You're like, where does that go? It's a lot. And so I just trying to not do
that. So is this your stuff? This is mine, yeah. No, so I didn't realize that you were, like,
into clothes, IRL. Yeah, I am. I mean, I think you grow into it naturally being in this business.
Because you're like, what do I like?
What am I wearing?
What do I like?
You're doing fittings all the time.
You're going to things.
You start to form an interest.
And then I've always just kind of been into Johns, as my boys would say.
And like, what are Johns?
Johns are like, you know, new shit.
Oh.
Which boys say that?
Oh, shout out to the throwing fits.
I got.
I love Johns.
Wait, and the hair.
Was that a character thing?
The hair was a character thing.
We wanted him to feel a little out of control.
Uh-huh.
And then now I have to, the beard and the hair, I have to keep for Arnold.
Oh, okay.
There were a lot of pop culture references in the show, which I appreciated as a pop culture
girly.
There was like a Taylor Swift reference in the very first episode.
A couple of them, yeah.
Is your daughter a fan?
My daughter's a huge fan.
Did you go, did you take her to the air?
We didn't, we couldn't make it.
You didn't make it?
Did she hate you for that?
She was, yes.
Yes.
She hates you for it.
She's really, like, if I do not get my daughter to Billy Eilish, I am a dead.
it, man. Oh, my God. Girls are hard. You had a Fave Kardashian, and I love that was, oh, it was
Stormy, not Chicago. No, we don't know enough about Chicago yet. Some, maybe. Sam has grown
up. Who's your favorite Kardashian? Stormy. Stormy. Okay. There was a bear reference, like it killed
me when he said, thank you cousin, the waiter. Yeah. He did not like that. I don't know. Also,
you made a reference of having to get rid of all your Yeezies and that being.
An issue. Traumatic. Yes.
That is an IRL thing.
It is. It was very traumatic.
Did you take, did you get rid of your Yeezy?
Well, yeah. My wife was like, we're getting rid of all the Yeeys in the house.
And I was like, yeah, let's do it. Now there's a closet full of Yeezy.
That you didn't.
That I was just sitting. I don't know what to do with it.
Yeah. It's hard.
But it does feel weird like if if like 30 years from now my grandson has friends over and they find a closet of his like, is like finding Nazi memorabilia.
I don't know. I haven't decided. I actually didn't get rid of my.
Yeezys. Good for you. Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, a lot of times... One day, I wore them in, like,
how were you saying it before? Like, it was like
it was kind of like I was protesting
the protest. But it is,
I hear you. It is like you're protesting
the process. Because, like, I've had that struggle, too,
because I like some of my easy stuff. Like, no, I know. It's just
like, everyone's anti-Semitic.
Right. But don't you also
think as a Jewish person
when you're like
on a plane? Yeah. And you see someone
walk in with Yezies, you're like, well, they're not
a fan. Yeah. Right. I know. I
know, but then I feel like I can.
Sure.
Yeah.
Sure.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah, I mean, sure.
We're all wearing Adidas.
Right.
Right.
We do, we're like, la, la, la, la.
Yeah.
Okay.
A quick pop culture quiz for you.
Let's see how you're doing.
I might do deece.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Okay.
Who did MGK collab with on his latest song?
Jelly roll.
Okay.
Just so you know, you guys, it was going to say jelly bean and good thing I looked it up.
It was called Lonely Road.
Who was in the music video?
I'm just going to, Megan Fox.
Yeah.
Oh, you didn't see it.
She was like pregnant in the music video.
People thought she was pregnant.
Okay.
What shocking role is Ben Affleck set to play?
Oh, someone just told me, my wife told me that he has a crazy haircut.
I don't know.
Polk Hogan.
Oh, that's good.
I see that.
You do?
Yeah, that'll be great.
Okay.
Who's directing it?
I don't know.
That sounds good.
Yeah.
It's about the whole gawker thing.
Look into it.
That sounds good.
Oh, it's probably by the people that do like Tammy Faye, right?
Oh, I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Creative team.
Call me.
Why are you?
Sounds good.
Okay.
Was Ben Affleck at J.
Lo's...
Aflick stuff here.
Yeah, I know.
It was on a roll.
Was he at Jalo's 55th birthday in the Hampton?
No.
So which celebrity did Ego become friends with on S&L and is now trying to set her up on dates?
I told this story the other day.
Oh, Josh Brolin?
No, Jason Mamoa.
Jason Mamoa.
Yeah.
Close.
I was close.
Having Jason Mamoa.
set you up, man.
I don't know.
You're going to end up with like a dude that loves to like unbox machetes.
It's like some random shit.
Yeah.
I read somewhere that you spend money like an NBA lottery pick.
Is that still true?
Yes.
I'm not great with money.
Like on what?
Like on why are you spending money on?
Just bullshit on stuff.
I, yeah.
Like what?
Gadgets?
Yeah.
Stuff, clothes.
I don't know.
I'm not great with money.
You're not.
No.
I like to eat and drink.
Yeah.
eat. I feel like that's where the money goes.
Well, there's a lot of places that can go. I gamble.
You gamble? What, like poker?
I'll do. I'll put gamble. I'm throwing money on anything. What do you like?
What do you mean? Like casino vibes?
Yeah, casinos. I like games.
Like, who's going to win?
Prap. Poker, blackjack. Are you good at poker?
I'm not a great poker player, but I'm a good gambler.
What does that mean? Like I can win money on a crap table or a book.
Oh, like when it's chance.
Yeah, sure.
When it's chance. Because poker is not really a chance.
So my husband lies to me.
Right.
He says it's skill.
Why do you?
No, no.
It's, I mean, it's skill and chance.
And chance.
Okay.
So do you have, like, self-care stuff?
Are you into, like, Manny Pettys, facial?
Not as much as I should.
I really should be better at it.
I just thought you.
I took a Benadryl today.
I want to tell your skin is good.
Thank you.
That's from the Benadryl.
I took a Benadryl like two hours ago.
I had, like, I had, like, clear it up your skin.
I don't know.
I had, like, it had, like, a puffy eye and I, I don't know.
Like an allergic reaction to something.
No, but like the rest of the, I'm not, like, your skin is good.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Yeah.
That's, yeah, Montauk water.
Don't show off.
What's one thing people would be shocked to find out about you?
Pretty open book.
Yeah?
Yeah.
I don't know.
One thing that they would be shocked to find out about me, I think people would be surprised at how much I exercise.
Really?
Yeah.
Like, I exercise so much to look like shit.
Wait, you exercise so.
I don't want to be shocked that you're not fit.
Like, you look fit, but you always.
so don't look like a bodybuilder.
That means you don't look fit.
And thank you.
And thank you.
I look like a regular person.
You look like a regular person.
Okay.
Great.
Thank you.
You work out every day.
Yeah.
Shut up.
Yeah.
What kind?
Like, it doesn't matter.
I need to work out every day.
It's like compulsion.
Like, I have to try.
And yet still.
I'm acting so.
I know.
And yet still, I look like garbage.
Stop.
You do not look like garbage.
I mean.
But that is, damn.
And I think I have a reputation.
being kind of like a loose cannon and like a party guy or nuts or like you're healthy and i'm
actually quite healthy like in the way you eat too yeah and live yeah like you care about it i care
about living longer yeah so like salads and stuff yeah i eat a lot of salads damn i know you wouldn't
think well you're hollywood you know true to the bone to the bone damn the scruff is a lie it's for a
roll.
Damn!
You only get that.
Okay, you guys.
So that's it.
Adam Powell, you guys,
go check out Mr.
Throwbacks on Peacob.
Thank you so much for having me.
Thank you for coming.
It was so fun.
I listened to years ago on
armchair and I loved it.
Oh, thank you.
And it was years ago,
I looked at it.
It was like 2019.
Yeah, I'm an old man.
Time flies.
Been kicking around.
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