Pod Insights SmartLess INTRODUCING: Staying Alive with Jon Gabrus and Adam Pally About this episode Welcome to Staying Alive, a new comedic health and wellness podcast from Jon Gabrus and Adam Pally, two comedians, best friends, and hosts of TV’s 101 Places To Party Before You Die. These two love to get wild, but they’ve also hit their 40s, and they’re realizing if they don’t get some balance in their lives they won’t be alive long enough to visit the other 93 places. On this show they’ll be talking to expert guests and funny friends about the little or the big things they do to…STAY ALIVE. Staying Alive is out now, anywhere you get your podcasts, episodes are available a week early and ad-free on Sirius XM Podcasts+ on Apple Podcasts. Check out the video version of the show on YouTube on the SmartLess Media channel.
Transcript Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.
0:09 Sean Hayes? Hey guys, So Smartless Media has a new show coming out. It's called Staying Alive. It's awesome. It's hosted by Adam Pally and John Grabus and, uh, sorry, Gabrus.
0:18 Speaker 01 Gabrus.
0:18 Sean Hayes? Sorry, I changed the R and the A. I don't know, it's something I do all the time.
0:22 Speaker 01 Please, I do it.
0:23 Sean Hayes? Yeah, Gabrus.
0:25 Speaker 02 Also, there is something Garbus and Garbled. There's something like-
0:27 Speaker 01 Garbage and Glaberous.
0:29 Speaker 02 There's something that you wanna just like-
0:31 Speaker 01 There's a lot of words going on there. Mons Pubis.
0:34 Sean Hayes? Yeah. By the way, we could talk about that whole episode. The, uh, so it premieres Thursday, uh, April 24th, which is just around the corner, and new episodes released every Thursday. You guys, I'm so happy you guys are doing this. It's very exciting. Please tell, uh, cause I fucking do a horrible job. Please tell us what it's about.
0:51 Speaker 01 Wait, look, this is so exciting. You, you are one of our Pod Fathers. It's like, I guess in our contract, you've requested we call you that. So we're so, we're so excited to be part of this-
1:00 Sean Hayes? Acting like you, like it's not in the contract.
1:01 Speaker 01 Yeah, right. All right. Sorry. We're supposed to keep that up too.
1:04 Speaker 02 Now I, now I can call you daddy in another frame of reference.
1:09 Speaker 01 Now I call you daddy in front of other people.
1:11 Sean Hayes? Yeah. If I had a dollar. Okay. Yeah. Tell us.
1:14 Speaker 02 So it's basically John and I were, have been best friends and comedy partners for a long, long time. And we hosted a, a travel show called 101 Places to Party Before You Die. It was John Max and, uh-
1:24 Sean Hayes? Yes, it's awesome.
1:25 Speaker 02 We, we like to indulge and we kinda live by this lifestyle of like when in Rome and oftentimes that Rome is Las Vegas. So it's like, we, we tend to get down and we find ourselves kinda growing up a little bit and thinking, well-
1:40 Speaker 01 We're in our early 40s now and like you do have to counteract-
1:44 Speaker 02 Speak for yourself, John. Early 40s.
1:46 Speaker 01 Are you mid 40s? Are you calling yourself mid 40s?
1:48 Speaker 02 No, I'm 29. I just turned 29.
1:50 Sean Hayes? That's, that's how the term mid started, right?
1:53 Speaker 02 Yeah.
1:53 Speaker 01 Yeah, I'm emphasis on the mid over here.
1:56 Speaker 02 I'm tech avail to play Sam Freed.
2:00 Sean Hayes? I'm on ice.
2:00 Speaker 02 I'm on ice. I'm on ice for Sam Freed. Put a pin in me.
2:04 Speaker 01 I'm trying to play Jack Black's before pictures, so I'm-
2:10 Speaker 02 So we, we, we took an interest, we, we both have an interest in staying alive as long as we can.
2:15 Sean Hayes? It's so good. You know, it's so, it's such a thing that you, all of a sudden you try to, you find yourself talking about, right?
2:20 Speaker 02 Everybody.
2:21 Sean Hayes? You know, right. And your thirt- in your twenties and thirties, there's this part, you eat whatever you want, you drink whatever you want, you do go anywhere, you do anybody you want. Like anything, anything that brings like pleasure or whatever. And then all of a sudden you find yourself.
2:33 Speaker 01 With lower back pain.
2:35 Sean Hayes? Yeah, exactly. You're like, you talk to your, hey man, what's going on with it? Do you have this problem too? Like, does it hurt when you pee? Or like whatever it is, right? And you start talking about it. I noticed that too. It's like.
2:46 Speaker 01 And part of the impetus to the show was, we wanted to talk to health and wellness professionals to learn more and bring that information to other people. But also, once you're a certain age, all your conversations with even comics, if you're not shit talking another comic. The thing you're talking about is like, have you started taking fish oil yet? Are you doing vitamin C tablets?
3:05 Sean Hayes? What are you streaming and what's wrong with you physically?
3:07 Speaker 01 Yes, exactly.
3:08 Sean Hayes? What are you watching?
3:09 Speaker 01 How are your streams? Your piss and your movies?
3:13 Sean Hayes? Right, exactly.
3:14 Speaker 02 Weak, all of them weak.
3:16 Speaker 01 Dribbly.
3:16 Speaker 02 Dribbly.
3:17 Sean Hayes? So can you tell us like one of the things that was the most, I know you probably get asked this a lot. But one of, one of the most eye opening things are the things that you implement now more than ever.
3:27 Speaker 02 Well, I mean, it, it runs the gamut from like, you know, we had, um, an immunologist on from the NIH, uh, who.
3:35 Sean Hayes? Oh, wow.
3:36 Speaker 02 Told us one of the simple things you can do is add, uh, I'm gonna say it wrong, but cru- cruciferous.
3:42 Speaker 01 You got it.
3:43 Speaker 02 Cruciferous vegetables into your diet.
3:45 Speaker 01 And now we use that word like just to kind of be big dog you a little bit, Sean, but that means broccoli and cauliflower. We're so happy to have learned it that we bring it up in every conversation.
3:55 Speaker 02 She was like, those are the, those are the vegetables that are really worth.
3:58 Sean Hayes? What do you mean? Like, what do you mean? Like if you just eat those, you're good?
4:01 Speaker 01 They're, they're nutrient dense.
4:03 Speaker 02 They're nutrient dense and they're worth it to add to your diet.
4:06 Speaker 01 If you're not eating them, get them.
4:07 Speaker 02 So a general physician would say, okay, like, uh, if you're ordering Chinese food, chicken and broccoli is not a bad order because you're getting broccoli, you know?
4:16 Sean Hayes? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
4:17 Speaker 02 You know?
4:18 Sean Hayes? Okay, very good.
4:19 Speaker 02 It's it's simple things, you know, on that level.
4:21 Speaker 01 But then we also had like a friend on who, uh, Elna, who told us that salvia can transport you to the quantum realm and you can experience true formlessness. Now, I don't know if I'm gonna bring that into my routine, my health routine, adding some rips of salvia. But this is the kind of information you can get.
4:37 Sean Hayes? Yeah. Yeah, I love that. It's everything I'm for because I, I, I need it. The other day, literally just a week ago, Will Arnett said to me, I said, he goes, what'd you do yesterday? And I was like, well, I had this lunch with an agent of mine and then, and he goes, lunch? And I go, yeah, I like to keep my dinners free. And he goes, from what? Vegetables? I never eat that.
4:56 Speaker 02 Yeah.
4:57 Speaker 01 I know it's crazy that I'm in my, uh, but I have super late twenties and I'm being told eat more vegetables. And I'm taking that as like, holy shit, I haven't really considered that.
5:05 Speaker 02 Yeah, I mean, I add it in juice. Like, that's just like the way that I'm getting it is now like in a juice form.
5:12 Speaker 01 Yeah, I, I stuff a cauliflower into my blunt.
5:17 Speaker 02 That's my filter.
5:18 Sean Hayes? Did you say into your butt?
5:19 Speaker 02 Yeah.
5:20 Speaker 01 Oh, yeah, well, there's always one, there's already one there.
5:22 Speaker 02 Yeah, he's gotta get his remote control out of there first.
5:25 Speaker 01 My vibrating, my vibrating cauliflower.
5:29 Speaker 01 That only Adam has the remote to.
5:31 Sean Hayes? All right, we're gonna listen to the trailer really quick. Here we go.
5:33 Speaker 01 Listen up, podcast fans. Joe Rogan, Theo Von, Tim Dillon, won't be on our show at all.
5:39 Speaker 02 They've said no.
5:40 Speaker 01 They've said no.
5:41 Speaker 02 Because of our beliefs.
5:46 Speaker 01 That's Adam Pally.
5:48 Speaker 02 That's John Gabrus.
5:49 Speaker 01 And we are the co-hosts of Smartless Media's new podcast called Staying Alive.
5:54 Speaker 02 That's right. Staying Alive, our new health and wellness podcast that is neither for the healthy or well.
6:00 Speaker 01 Well, it's maybe for health by health.
6:05 Sean Hayes? We'll have guests like our friend, actor Jerry O'Connell. Pally, you are looking good.
6:09 Speaker 02 Thank you.
6:09 Sean Hayes? I've seen you not looking good and you're looking good.
6:12 Speaker 02 Thank you, Jay.
6:12 Speaker 01 You're not the first guest to say, I've seen you look worse.
6:16 Speaker 01 Comedian Paul Scheer. I love the cold plunge. I, I
6:19 Speaker 02 Found a lot of success.
6:20 Speaker 01 Do you have one in your house?
6:21 Speaker 02 I do. I also flooded my house with it, but that's why it's outside then.
6:25 Speaker 01 It's outside.
6:26 Speaker 02 Ketamine therapist, Dr. Steven Radoits.
6:28 Speaker 03 It's like called spiritual herd immunity. Now, when you're in this place, I start to see through those things.
6:32 Speaker 02 I believe in spiritual herd immunity because I'm a spiritual anti-vaxxer.
6:36 Speaker 03 Yeah.
6:37 Speaker 02 So I think that that's kind of the only way.
6:40 Speaker 01 Ego wodum talking to us about how she hates breakfast.
6:44 Speaker 04 Here's my thing is I'm not, I don't have an appetite in the morning because I'm eating up until the minute I close my eyes.
6:52 Speaker 04 And I'm serious.
6:53 Speaker 02 Cardiologist, Dr. Amar Shear.
6:55 Speaker 03 Stress, actually, it affects the blood pressure. So as much as you can kind of reduce your stress.
7:00 Speaker 02 And it's chill to do coke, right?
7:03 Speaker 03 Definitely don't do coke.
7:04 Speaker 02 Okay, all right, not chill to do coke.
7:06 Speaker 03 Yeah.
7:06 Speaker 01 Jillian Bell.
7:07 Speaker 02 I think it's natural also for our age too, like Jillian's 25 and you and I.
7:12 Speaker 05 I'm a hard 25.
7:13 Speaker 02 You're a hard 25. Yeah, you've lived a life.
7:15 Speaker 05 I'm a rough.
7:16 Speaker 02 And I'm a road hard 34.
7:17 Speaker 01 And I'm not that hard and 43.
7:21 Speaker 02 And so many more, so many more.
7:23 Speaker 01 You know, Adam and I, we may not be wellness experts, but I can tell you this, we are curious freaks who love to talk about this shit.
7:29 Speaker 02 And we've done enough harm to our bodies to know that now's the time to maybe make a change.
7:35 Speaker 01 Yeah, we can't say we can make a U-turn in our lives, but at least we could pump the brakes a little.
7:39 Speaker 02 And maybe make a left.
7:42 Speaker 01 Hey, two wrongs don't make a left.
7:45 Speaker 02 Right.
7:46 Speaker 01 Correct.
7:48 Speaker 02 Staying Alive premieres April 24th, anywhere you get your podcasts. Get them a week early and ad free with Sirius XM Podcast Plus on Apple Podcasts.
7:56 Speaker 01 Visit Sirius XM Podcast Plus to start your free trial today.
8:00 Speaker 02 Check out the video version of the show on YouTube on the Smartless Media Channel.
8:03 Speaker 01 Yeah, and why don't you do us a favor in the meantime? Stay alive.
8:12 Sean Hayes? You guys, you're awesome. I can't wait for everybody to hear this. Adam Pally, John Gabrus. "Staying Alive" again premieres Thursday, April 24th. You guys are fucking hilarious. Great idea for a show. I will totally be listening. Thank you for doing it.
8:26 Speaker 02 Thank you, Sean.
8:27 Speaker 01 Thank you for not only having us here, but greenlighting us in general.
8:30 Speaker 02 Thank you for the greenlight.
8:32 Sean Hayes? Guys, it was exhausting greenlighting you.
8:33 Speaker 02 I know. You carried us over that finish line. We need someone to push the ball uphill like you, Sean.
8:38 Speaker 01 And you are gonna delete all the photos, you said, right?
8:41 Sean Hayes? Done, done and done.
8:42 Speaker 01 Okay, thank you.
8:42 Speaker 02 More like Sean Spacey over there.
8:49 Sean Hayes? That's fucking hilarious.
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