Podcrushed - Adam Pally

Episode Date: October 15, 2025

Comedian Adam Pally joins Penn, Nava, and Sophie for an episode that’s equal parts hilarious and tender. From the chaos of constantly moving as a kid to finding his voice (and trouble) at Livingston High, Adam opens up about the lessons behind Happy Endings, The Mindy Project, and his brand-new comedy special. But it’s what he reveals about marriage, fame, and why he almost quit comedy that’ll stick with you long after the episode ends.Shop SKIMS Fits Everybody collection at skims.com/podcrushed. #skimspartner Head to https://prettytasty.com and use code PODCRUSHED at checkout for your first subscription order FREE (up to a $49 value), plus 15% off every subscription order after that. Look for the blue box at retailers everywhere or shop https://jlab.com and use code PODCRUSHED for 15% off your order today. Use code PODCRUSHED or go to https://Harbor.co/PODCRUSHED for $50 off and experience the security every parent deserves. Take the guesswork out of your dog's well-being. Go to https://ollie.com/podcrushed and use code podcrushed to get 60% off your first box! Our new book Crushmore is out now! Go go go! https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Crushmore/Penn-Badgley/9781668077993    🎧 Want more from Podcrushed? 📸 Instagram 🎵 TikTok 🐦 X / Twitter     ✨ Follow Penn, Sophie & Nava Instagram Penn Sophie Nava   TikTok Penn Sophie Nava See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lemonada I have this great teacher named Mr. Daly who's still there and I was shooting a movie last week in New Jersey actually and the script supervisor came over to me and she was like, you know, hello, my name is Alyssa. I went to Livingston High School and was in the TV program

and someone said that you went to Livingston High School. and I was like, wait a minute. Mr. Daly doesn't talk about me? She was like, no. Someone on the cruise said that you went to the least house. I was like, wait, wait a minute. Wait a minute. He doesn't tell everyone that I was a student.

Welcome to Pod Crushed. We're hosts. I'm Penn. I'm Nava. And I'm Sophie. And I think we could have been your middle school besties. Scheming on how to get our happy endings. Hello, Pod Crusher.

Welcome back. Sophie, you keep trying to. to make pod crushers happen. We are crushies. It's been determined. It's true. It's like a nervous tick or something because I don't like pod crushers and that's always been the thing is I don't like pod crushers and I have been adamantly against it. So I don't know why I keep saying it. It does roll off the tongue. It's so funny. Welcome crushies. Today is super exciting. It's October 15th. It is the day after our book launch and we are so excited. We hope that you have ordered it or are about to order it and we're so proud. If you're in the U.S., this is the book that's waiting for you.

Yes, I just was able to casually grab it off my bookshelf. No problem. And if you're in the U.K., it's very similar, but a little bit bigger. You know what they say. Everything's bigger and bigger. Yeah, bigger and better. That's the famous expression. Everything's bigger and better in London. No, we're so excited for you guys to read it. Excited, a little bit nervous. We spilled a lot of our guts into this book.

And so it's a little bit vulnerable for us. We hope you love it. Yeah. And if you listen to the audiobook version, I think, I mean, obviously it's like an incredibly capitalistic thing to say that you should get both versions. Don't get both versions if you can't afford them. If you can't afford them, they are totally different experiences, in my opinion.

Certainly as like a writer versus a narrator, it was a really different experience. The audiobook version, there's definitely one essay where I was like full, like full on hyperventilating crying. It was incredibly vulnerable. So I'm really nervous for people to hear that one. I definitely didn't think we were going to use that take and that's the take we used. So I'm really scared for that to be out in the world. but also like how interesting that people are going to be in on that with me. No spoilers, but it was the essay where Anava talked about how much she loved me at Penn.

Yeah, that's the one. I was just like, I love him so much. Speaking of hyperventilating, today we have the incredible comedian Adam Pally. You know him, you love him. Sophie. Tell us a little bit about Adam. Adam Pally was in happy endings. He was in Mindy Project, so many iconic things. Honestly, he produced.

and starred in the show, Mr. Throwback with Steph Curry and Ego Wodom, who we also had on the show and loved. And then most recently, he has a new podcast called Staying Alive. It's a health and wellness podcast, but like with a twist. He has a new special out called An Intimate Evening with Adam Pally, which you definitely have to check out. Adam brings all the lefts. You're not going to want to miss it today.

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Oh, God. Hey, everybody, I'm Mandy Patinkin. And I'm Catherine Grotie. And we have a new podcast. It's called Don't Listen to Us. Many of you've asked for our advice. Tell me, what is wrong with you people? Don't listen to us.

Our Take It or Leave It Advice show is out every Wednesday, premiering October 15th. A Lemonada Media Original. We would love to know if you could tell us just about 12-year-old Adam, what was your school life like, your home life, your inner life? I had moved around a lot as a kid. My father and mother were in a band when I was young called Pally and Pall. That played like the Catskills. and my father was an actor, and my mother was a singer,

and they really wanted to be, you know, stars. And then they decided they didn't anymore, and my father went back to medical school when I was eight years old. So we moved from New York City to Chicago, Illinois, which is why my accent is really messed up. And then around 11, we moved back after he was. I was done with medical school to New Jersey. And I was the new kid in public school at 12 years old at a school called Heritage Middle School.

And I didn't have any friends. I was punk. I thought I was cooler than everybody because I was from two cities and now I was in the suburbs. So, yeah, I had a lot to learn. I, you know, I had like long hair parted in the middle, and I played guitar, and, you know, I had a great collection of band t-shirts that I still have. So I hope that's painting a good enough picture of 12-year-old Adam. Did your parents ever bring you on the stage when Pally and Pals was out? No, no. I would watch, I would watch from the wings sometimes, but a lot of times it was late.

They would open for whatever the act was at the hotel they were playing, but all. a lot of times that meant that they would be playing in the lobby during the day and stuff to make money. So it was kind of like an all-encompassing job. It wasn't really like, you know, the glitz and glamour of Hollywood. It was the hard road of the cat skills. Yeah. I have a friend who is a musician and his father was a musician and then ended up becoming a corporate lawyer to support his family. and I think I was talking to my friend, Ben, who said he feels like his life has been informed in a lot of ways by his father's choices and maybe his choice to leave music and how he felt about that and how that was passed down to him.

Just the feelings of like regret and such. I'm curious if you feel like any of your choices have been informed by your parents' like winding career path. Definitely. I mean, you know, like Hollywood was always. something um that like loomed in my house you know and i think my parents felt like connected to it in in a way even though they weren't you know so i i think naturally as a kid you look for ways to to get your parents attention you know and i found early on that making people laugh was a way that I could kind of that was kind of my skill and it was unrefined at first and it was came out of

a deep need to be seen you know and like to have something special about me um but I think that that came from also seeing that like my parents could play piano and they could sing and and like it didn't seem so foreign to have something special about yourself it was like attainable you just had to find it. But, like, my grandmother will say that I was sent from hell to finish the job. That's so good. So I kind of feel it's both of those things together. What a mission.

That makes me curious when your sense of humor was, like, burgeoning. I'm curious about two things. Were there, like, early comedic influences, like comedians that you were connecting with? And I'm also curious about if you have, like, memory of a moment where you had like a joke that you're really proud of or like where you like made your classmates laugh if anything like stands out no I don't you know I was very lucky in my high school and I played sports early on and then when I realized that I didn't like I didn't like playing sports that competitively I was lucky enough that my school had this um television

studio. And I, in Livingston, New Jersey, and I spent a lot of time learning how to edit, learning how to take my ideas and like make them, put them on camera, especially like a man on the street stuff, which I still sometimes do. I like that, I was doing that in high school, like walking around with a camera crew and interviewing people and making it funny and cutting it together and stuff. And then they started playing those on the morning announcements. And by my junior year, they had given me every Friday to like make my own show. It was like my passion in a lot of ways and probably got me into college. But I think that was the first time I was like, you know, being recognized at the local bagel shop because a parent was like, I saw you skit on the public

access and I was like oh wow like this is how it works that is so cool you know and then you get a little bit of that and you're like well maybe this is what I'm going to do I have this great teacher um named mr. Daly uh who's still there and I was shooting a movie last week in New Jersey actually and the script supervisor came over to me and she was like you know hello my name is Alyssa, I went to Livingston High School and was in the TV program and someone said that you went to Livingston High School. And I was like, wait a minute. Mr. Daly doesn't talk about me? She was like, no, someone on the cruise said that you went to Livingston, I was like, wait, wait a minute, wait a minute. He doesn't tell everyone that I was a student. She was like,

No, he didn't even mention it. I was like, God, fuck. It's actually surprising. So surprising. And, like, my high school has, like, a good amount of celebrities from it. And they don't want anything to do with me. Do they want anything to do with the other celebrities or is it across the board? Oh, no.

Yes, they're always claiming Chelsea Handler and Jason Alexander and Chris Christie. They'd rather be involved with Chris Christie than me. I don't know what I did. But, like, Livingston lays no claim to me. That is so funny. One of the things that we ask our guests who come on the show is about, you know, those times of heartbreak, first crushes, what was going on for you around 12 or whenever your first feelings of love were? Yeah, 12 was an interesting time. You know, I met my wife when I was a kid.

When I met her when I was 16. So, this was before then, and I was a new kid in town, and I was a bit, you know, I got a lot of attention coming in young, big head of hair, blue eyes, you know, guitar. I was like a, you know, mysterious kind of, you know. So I, yeah, I did have, I had a few girlfriends like, you do. between at that age. I actually, one of them, two of them, oddly, are parents, co-parents of my youngest son at the same school in New York City. My youngest son goes to school in New York City, and two of his friends are kids of two

of my ex-girlfriends from Hyden from my hometown. It was taking me a long time to get there. I was like, are you divorced? I didn't know. No, I'm not divorced. In fact, it's so funny. People are like, you have three kids, same mom. I'm like, yeah.

I think I mentioned to someone that I wanted three kids and they're like, are you Mormon? Yeah, people often assume I'm religious, but I'm actually just careless. My parents were high school sweethearts, were high school sweethearts. And they had a really great marriage. They, you know, were always singing. And, like, the house was really quite joyful. even though we didn't have a lot of money and we were in debt and we were moving around all the time and driving in a Dodge area from New York to Chicago.

It was like a really fun house and my sister's degree. And my wife, her parents were high school sweethearts. Wow. And similarly, it was like quite a joyful house. And then I think on my side, at least what I've come to in therapy, on my side, when you move around a lot as a kid, and I don't have,

one of the things that I don't have in my life is like a best friend, a family that I grew up with next to me. I never had a lot of, like, you know, close relationships like that because we're always moving. And you were always, you'd make a friend, then you'd move to another town, and you'd make a friend, you'd move to another town.

So I think when I met my wife, who was the coolest person I had ever met and not just, you know, beautiful and funny and fucking punk. But she's so cool and still, like, so much cooler than me. And, like, I learned so much from her all the time every day. And so I think it was just, like, Once I was lucky enough to meet her, even though we were young, I was like, oh, this is something I can't let go of.

Like, I need, like, you know, I kind of found something here. And there have been a lot of permeations of it, you know, on and off and on and off and and on and off and and then, you know, on and and. But through all the times we were off, I think both of us were like. just didn't, you know, knew that something was there. You know, I had read that your parents were high school sweethearts as well. I didn't know that your wife's parents were also high school sweethearts, which is an interesting fact because it's supposedly pretty rare. Like only 2% is the statistic that I found online.

2% of marriages come from high school sweethearts. And I'm curious if there's anything you remember about the early days of, your relationship that has like made it into these later years oh yeah it all does it all does i mean that's one of the the joys of of being with someone since you were a kid is that like you know them and and and i've known many different danielas you know not just the one i married but but still she's still like the coolest person I know and that dynamic doesn't change between the two of us you know and so

I think that there's something really special and nice about that that like that's very sweet you know I'm always just like oh where do you come up with that or know that or how do you know that or how did you put that together, you know? It's like, and you, I think that's what like, I guess, love is. When you're like, I need that thought in my mind all the time.

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I wish it was a straight line. You know, I think it often is not. I moved to New York and back to New York in 2000. I went to the school at University of Arizona for a couple years. and really had a great time there and loved my time. And then was like, I should do something. And so I took some of my old sketches and movies and made this tape and got into the actor's studio and the new school. And when I got there, I started UCB at night and was just like interning and, you know, picking up cigarettes and taking any class I could.

But I was really lucky because at the time it was really, really small and and the people that you had access to that that I still have relationships with today who taught me and are mentors and friends you know it's like it's wild but there was a such a small really impressive amalgamation of people there that I was able to like you know click in with and um as a polar says you like find your your tribe And then that, it all just, like, starts to affect you, and you start to, like, write and teach and do bits. And I was lucky enough to get a couple commercials and then book a couple movies, small parts. And then this role came along, and I read for it.

And just my friend Casey Wilson, who I had made from UCB, New York, was also reading for it. it and then we got cast and we did it together and it just was you know from there I wish it was more someone saw me on the street was like you you're the one but it was just a lot of years of doing shows and

grinding and grinding and grinding and not really having I think the one thing that I did that I would look back on and say that was probably the right way to look at it was I never had a goal I never like was like okay I'll get on SNL and then I'll right for Conan and I'll you know I just was like as long as I'm as long as I'm doing comedy then something will happen and that's kind of how I still feel about it is like as long as

I'm out here doing my part then something I'll happen yeah then you were on the Mindy project I love the Mindy project I still quote like bits from it specifically there's this one where like a recurring where Mindy would refer to herself as just like a little bird, like a frail little bird. Very small. Yeah, dainty. I do that all the time. I love it. But I would love if you could tell us just a little bit about working on that set,

if there's any, like, stories that stand out to you. Oh, I mean, that was, like, grad school. Working with Mindy was, like, grad school was the first time. I think that's where I realized, like, oh, I want to be in charge. I don't just want to be a passenger. on this because I got to watch her every day she's just amazing

she's everything all at once you know she's hilarious and can sit down and have a conversation to make you laugh and at the same time she's in her head

writing four bits and writing a script and acting and directing and I was like I didn't know you could do that you know I thought you just I thought you just got put somewhere and we're you know

and then I watched her just be in total command of everything and that show was her voice completely and it was so good and like the number one thing I took from that is just like it's more than just about

flowing and being there if you want to make something then you have to make it and Mindy makes stuff you know I'm still inspired I love any chance I get to be around Mindy I jump at it. And you guys have amazing chemistry.

So we'd love to see more of you together. Yeah, I'd love to see more. I just talked to the other day. She doesn't need to act anymore. She's so, she's got like 15 shows. She'll need to slum it with me. So funny. Mr. Throwback, it seems like you are kind of putting that.

You are kind of behind the scenes now as well as in front of the camera. And Mr. Throback, you and Ego have such like fun frenemy chemistry. I'm curious if you can tell us a little bit about how. you how you're building that how you how you've sort of been doing both both roles uh well i got to do it i've done it a couple times now on a couple shows uh like champagne ill and the president show and um uh mr throwback and a show called him dead it like but it's it's nice to be in charge of what you say in a way and and your taste and your your your vibe is like put into the screen.

I think that's something that you don't always get as an actor, so I really like that. And then with Ego, you know, some people, you just click in, and that role originally was written for a man. Ooh. And, but in Stefan Curry's real life, the person that runs his day to day is this incredible woman named Tiffany. And we were seeing every actor in how,

Hollywood and they were great. They were, I mean, everyone was killing it, but there was something missing when there was two men, like, arguing over Stefan's attention. There was something very, like, immature about it. And we went to Ego, we flew to New York, we went to 30 Rock, we set up a camera in her dressing room, and Ego and I just started improvising. And one of the creators, Matthew Liman, was there. And the tape was so, there was so much laughter from the.

back of the room on the tape because we were just like going at each other and I like I remember I sat down and she immediately was just like why is your beard so shitty and I was like what she's like it's like all patched she's like you can't grow a normal beard I was like I grow a normal beard she's like that's not like normal to me and it was just like we were in it you know and it just felt like we had been doing it for our whole lives and yeah that it was a special time and I and again like amazing friend to have that now I can't get rid of. The two of you are so fun to watch together. You should see us eat.

I really love to see. Yeah. It's a murder scene. I can't imagine. I heard you say actually on her podcast, because we had her on, which is when I first listened to your episode on her podcast, thanks dad. Or thanks dad, yeah. And you said that your favorite, like the thing you look forward to most is dinner. Yeah.

That's all that's worth living for. I wake up with dinner on my mom. mind. I'll say I'm with you. Like, yeah. Yeah, what else is there in life? It's just dinner. Yeah.

Honestly. Yeah. I honestly, I could do two dinners instead of a dessert, but I hear you. Something that's always happening to me, which I think is universal experience, is like, the following day after a meal, regretting what I didn't eat from that meal, you know, like when I'm hungry again, I'm like, I should have stuffed myself. Like, I shouldn't. There's a word for that.

What is it? Hungiety. Yeah, that's me. I have that. Adam, you have done a couple projects with John, who is your best friend. Gabris, yes, John Gabris. Yeah. It feels weird to be this old and have like a best friend, but yes.

No, it's so sweet. Yes, he's my best friend. I think that working with your best friend, in my mind, it's like the dream, but then also I can imagine that it has, you know, there's some things to negotiate when you have such a close friendship. Is that true or do you feel like it's just been smooth sailing? No, I mean, it's smooth sailing for sure. I mean, there's always stuff that you have to, like, navigate when you're working with friends, like, even if it's just like, oh, you're late. You know, like, well, normally you'd be like, yeah, who cares?

You know, now you're like, oh, I'm making John late, you know. So, but that can be good, too. And I think for us, it's just we've, we have such a good way. with each other about each other's bullshit. Like it's, it's so accepting of how bullshity we both are that like you're, I think it makes for good teat, a good teat. Well, speaking of John, you guys have a podcast together called Staying Alive. And I feel like, I feel like you're actually performing a really valuable public service

with the show because I imagine that, so the show was, because we're pro vaccine. because we're the only white men on the internet that are pro-vaccine. I also feel like there's an entire demo who would be turned off by health and wellness. Like if you just said, like, this is a health and wellness podcast, they would not tune in. But because it's you and John, they would. And I'm curious, what was your motivation in starting the podcast? And I'm also curious if there's ever been a guest who's given a piece of advice that you've been like, fuck you, never.

I will never implement that advice. Um, there's never been a, I'll answer the last one first. There's never been a guess where we've been like, fuck you. I'm not going to take that advice. There, there is a large portion of the health and wellness industry that is like slightly snake oil salesman where you're like, people are like pay 1999 for me to tell you to get eight hours of sleep, you know, which is like, oh, okay, like sometimes a guest will say that to me and I'm like, okay, fuck you. Like I have three kids. I'm not getting eight hours of sleep. Like I haven't slept for eight hours. in 13 years but you know part of why john and i did it to answer your first part is because we we love dinner like we said we like to party we like a drink we like a smoke we like um to alter reality we like to experience we like say yes to things you know and that can shorten your your life and so we were like well maybe let's take some of that energy and not just put it all into shortening it, but also to elongating it since we are so open to everything. And, you know, along with that does come some stuff that doesn't work. But, you know,

the fun of it is that John and I do it together. And if it doesn't work, it's kind of fine because we weren't doing anything anyway. The podcast is really, is really funny. I'm curious who's been your favorite guest so far? My dad has been my favorite guest. And my dad has been my least favorite day. How's why? Can you tell us why? He's so difficult. He's so difficult. He's so difficult. He's rescheduled on us like 15 times. We had to have his water and his green juice and he only wanted to talk about Hollywood. He's a diva. He's a diva. He's a diva. He's a diva. He didn't know he was going to talk about wellness, even though he's a job. No, he knew what he was there for. He just

wanted he had an agenda, you know, which is quite my dad. And, but he's also my favorite guest. because he is, to me, he is like a superhero to me and what he does. And I just, sometimes when I see him in action and stuff, I'm just like, I completely floored. It is amazing to me how many different types of intelligence there are. And I'm constantly saying to my husband, like, thank God someone wants to do that thing. Like I was talking to someone the other day who designs like chips, microchips. And I was like, thank God you want to do that. And I could never do that, and I don't want to do that.

But I'm so glad that everyone has their, exactly. Yeah, I often think about that. Like, who would want to do this? Thank God they're there. Yeah. Yeah. I heard you say on the episode with your dad, before he came on, that one of the things he's always doing is like trying to go up to celebrities and talk to them.

Like, that's his favorite thing. And I, and how embarrassed you are by it. And I was curious if you could tell us, like, who were you most embarrassed for him to go up? do. Yeah, there's just so many. Really? Dads. Yeah, my dad, you know, he considers himself a showbiz dad, like a show dad, even though his child is 43, which is like, it's not cute.

The job never ends. I tell him, like, you're not exactly like dropping off the Culkins at work, you know, you're like roaming around the set looking for snacks. But I don't know, he used to, when I was on Broadway, he would come. straight from his work and sit in my dressing room while I was on stage and wait for whoever the celebrity was in the audience because sometimes they if there's a celebrity they'll come by and so he would oftentimes introduce me to the celebrity in the audience which was always jarring like when you'd come off stage and you'd see your dad and he'd be like

Adam I want you to meet Leah Friber and you'd be like why are you talking to leave Schreiber like that was bad one time we were hiking he was at my house in Los Angeles and we were hiking through Freiman Canyon and he saw them filming this is a long time ago he saw them filming the hills you remember that show with Heidi Montag I believe yeah

and that's a reality show so that it's like pretty fairly you know it's a set you walked right onto the set went right up on camera while they were filming. No. Yeah. And said, how beautiful is today?

He's like, maybe I'll get some air time. And they security, like, rushed him off the set. I was like, what are you doing? What are you doing? That is amazing. Yeah, he's a liability. You got to be careful with him. Like, I just did a movie.

I just wrapped a movie with Philippa Sue from Hamilton. She's so great. And in the middle of the movie, I got a text from her while we're filming, and it's a picture of her with my dad. And I was like, how, what, and she was like, I was walking in Central Park, and I saw this guy, and he looked at me and he went like this. I love him. I love your dad. And I was like, and just I called my dad. I was like, dad, why did you go up to Philippa soon?

He's like, I felt like I knew her because you're working with her. That's so sweet. I was like, oh, my gosh. Dr. Pally. Dr. Pally. You're sighing and you're going like, oh, dad, you're rolling your eyes. But is there a part of you,

there has to be a part of you that's like, that feels good that he's so. Oh, yeah, no. I think it's the only way, I think I'm very lucky to have a dad that's interested. You know, I think, I think it's probably better for my psyche that he is.

Yeah, that's so sweet. The total non-sequitur, but do you remember the names of any of the Pali and Pals songs? Now I'm just so curious about your dad. Well, they're mostly covers. Oh. So, like, the one I remember the most was they would take this, like, banter break where my dad would be, like, playing.

And my mom would, like, drape over the piano and, like, a silky red dress or something. And then she would be like, my dad would be like, do you know what the most important thing in the world is Karen? She would be like, what's that, Stephen? And he would be like, friends. And she would be like, oh, you got to have friends. And then they'd sing, you got to have friends. I remember that quite a lot. Stick around. We'll be right back.

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I see a lot of you wondering, is this the show? And then you go, yeah, this is the show. You've got a DJ. You're telling jokes. How did you come up with this format that seems to be kind of like uniquely your own? I don't know if there's a format. It's sort of formatless.

That's its format. Formatless, I would say, yeah. I started doing like some, I wouldn't even call it stand-up because I feel like that's not nice, just real stand-up comedians, you know? And like Chris Rock told me that it takes 10 years to be good enough to do a special. And it took me too. So I just don't, kind of easy. But I, yeah, I just sort of wanted to make something. I really wanted to make a movie.

I knew I wanted to make a movie. And I knew I wanted it to be about me trying to make a comedy show. And so the show, the movie is the show, and the show is the movie. And it just kind of works. It's got a lot of, it feels a lot like The Muppet Show. it's like will it actually happen and there's guests and music and my dad it's fun sweet we're for a ride well we can't wait i hope so i hope i hope i hope so i mean people are going to hate it i know that people are going to comedians are going to hate hate it if comedians hate no oh yeah well

comedians hate when they see a comedian with a guitar wait till they see a comedian with a guitar no jokes in an HBO special yeah yeah this guy you're going to hate it you're going to hate it I can't wait to watch it. Oh, thank you. Excited. Well, that'll be out October 17. I'm sure we'll all be tuning in. Oh, that's nice.

I hope so. I don't know how that goes for specials. Like, I don't know how they measure that. You'll find out. Hashtags? Yeah. Yeah. Well, Adam, we have a final question that we ask every guest,

which is if you could go back to your 12-year-old self, what would you say or what would you do? I could go back to them. Oh, if I go back to my 12-year-old, self, I would just say, you just keep doing what you're doing, kid. You got it. I'm very lucky in that way. You know, I would run home from school and like play guitar, electric guitar in my mirror, you know, and like, and I didn't have my friends. Again, I was a new kid and like, didn't have a band to play with it. I just so badly wanted to be in front of people and

and to be seen. And I would say to that 12 year old like don't worry they'll see you sweet that also inspired a new question for me to ask guests like what would you do in the mirror because when you said that I was like oh I used to cry in front of the mirror like I wanted to see what I looked like you know I'd be crying I'd be sad about something but also like intrigued right what do I look like you can get you you could roll tears like that nice good for you no like if I was crying I'd go I'd run to the mirror what does this look like yeah but I just makes me so curious like you played electric guitar that also makes me laugh yeah and i sometimes i find

myself still doing it you know like not in the mirror anymore because like i kind of know what that looks like but i do find myself in the same place i was 30 years ago you know in a room playing guitar by myself imagining something so sweet oh adam this was a pleasure thank you so much for coming on thank you so much for having me i really i'm sorry i was a little late but i i really thank you for having me and um uh tell this this this this pen guy whatever yeah thanks for not knowing pen we needed someone truly every time i was like i'm doing this podcast they were like oh that guy's on you and it would turn into like a abbott and castell a bit because i would be like who and they'd be like the guy pen i'd be like who's that and they'd be like the guy on you and i'd be like who's on me and they'd be like no

on you and i'd be like who and they're like pen and i'd be like who's pen You can catch an intimate evening with Adam Pally on HBO out October 17, and you can follow Adam online at Adam. Pally. Pod Crushed is hosted by Penn Badgley, Navacavalin, and Sophie Ansari. Our senior producer is David Ansari, and our editing is done by Clips Agency. If you haven't subscribed to Lemonada Premium yet, now's the perfect time, because guess what? You can listen completely ad-free. Plus, you'll unlock exclusive bonus content, like the time we talked to Luca Bravo about the profound effect that the film Into the Wild had on him.

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Okay, okay, good. I did see that. I hope he knows. What if he didn't catch that? I don't know who Penn is. Okay. Perfect. Every caregiving journey is unique. But the isolation, guilt, and exhaustion we all feel, that's universal.

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