March 8, 2023 • 22 mins
You know Adam from Happy Endings, The Mindy Project, Iron Man 3, and 101 Places to Party Before You Die, and he brings us a hilarious and poignant story about life, death, and hummingbirds. Follow Adam on Instagram and Twitter, and check out his latest film "Who Invited Charlie?" We give it a 6 out of 5.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, no, I felt my kids at like, just wheel
me in front of the ocean and like, while I'm
looking at it, blow my brains out, Just push me
into the sea. Yeah. All of them agreed, which was like,
I don't think that was a looking for a little
too quickly. It was. It was a quick response. Someone
(00:38):
once said life is precious, and I think that's stupid.
I disagree. You know, when I think of something that's precious,
I think of a thing that that's fragile and breakable
and it sits behind thick glass or on a mantle
and it's not meant to be handled or play with.
And that's not how life is. You know, life is,
it's interactive. Life is meant to be, to be, to
(01:00):
be played with. You know, you should take life out
of its original packaging and play with it. And someone
who I think does a really good job of living
life is actor, comedian and world traveler Adam Pally. Now
you may know Adam from Happy Endings or The Mindy
Project or his latest show One hundred and one Places
to Party Before You Die. And if you haven't seen
the show, it's freaking great and it's just so fun
(01:23):
watching Adam and his best buddy, John Gabris, who is
also a fellow actor, comedian, and podcaster, and they just eat,
drink and smoke their way across the US, and they
try new things like forging weaponry in Portland, or writing
four by fours in Moab, or wearing cool hats and
smoking cigars in Puerto Rico. And you know, I just
feel like we've all been cooped up in our houses
(01:44):
for the past few years, scared of dying, and I
think it's time to get out there and just do
some living, you know. And no one knows that better
than Adam. I'm will wander lust to McFadden And this
is hashtag storytime, brought to you by iHeartRadio. So my mom,
my mother passed away suddenly at fifty two, UM, twenty
(02:08):
days before my son was born, and my first child.
And it was like a bit of a struggle for me,
Like within that first year, as far as um, like
my my senses had been knocked off, like as far
as like good, bad, numb anything. Like I just was
(02:31):
like kind of fogged out and not feeling much. I
was thirty one, thirty two, UM, so I mean old
enough to be equipped to handle something like that. But
I think sudden death is is is shocking for anybody. Yeah,
(02:51):
you know, um, especially when someone you know, fifty two
is relatively young, sou it. It threw me for a
for a big loop, and I was kind of struggling
for a while, and um, I found this. You know.
We had to go home and like sell my my
(03:14):
my parents house and go through all the stuff and
like you know, do all that. And while I was
going through all this stuff, I found this a little
journal that my mom had head kept and it had
a little logo of a like a hummingbird. And in
(03:36):
the journal, Um, she'd written some stuff about like you know, um,
she saw me perform, and she saw my sister play
sports and stuff, and she's just like written some stuff down.
It was heartwarming, and it wasn't really consistent. It was
just like every couple of months she'd throw something in
there for a couple of years, you know. And it
(03:58):
was posthumously found that you know. I think I found
about a year after a death and I was cleaning
everything out, so I was about one. It kind of
rocked me again, brought everything back. But I really liked
the image of the little bird, and so I took
(04:18):
that and I took it to a tattoo artist because
I am like the edge of a gen z or whatever. Say,
I'm I have a bad tattoos. I don't know what
like age that is when like I just hit the
caught off off, I do I have bad tattoos, right?
But so I got this this bird right here. Yeah, that,
and it made me feel really good, you know, because
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I was like, oh, okay, like something that kind of
connects me to my mom all the time, you know,
because I think sometimes in death you one of the
things that at least I deal with. It's like you
don't almost want to move past it because you feel
a sense that if you move past it, you'll miss
then then that's it. Then they're really gone. You know.
It's like you almost get used to feeling their their
(05:03):
presence not being there, and if you get comfortable with that,
then you really lost them. Kind of. Yeah. Anyway, so um,
I was doing the int that great, and my wife
was like, you know, we should take um Cole, who
was two at the time. My daughter was like six months.
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We should go to Palm Springs with like your sisters
and just have like a family kind of weekend away
from everything because it's a little nuts and I could
afford to take my sisters and their kids and their family.
So we did it. And I didn't. She made all
the plans like I was shooting. I didn't really know
(05:47):
what was going on in and again like I was like,
not doing great. And we all meet at my house
in stud the city, and then we drive. We start
driving it Palm Springs and we get to the resort
and on the gate of the resort is the exact
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same bird that I have on my arm, but it's
like welded into things, but it looks it's like exactly
the same thing. Oh, my sisters are crying. I'm like,
I can't believe it's the weird moms here. I'm vacation
or whatever. When we go to check in, and I asked,
I was like, what is the what's the deal with
(06:30):
the gate? You know? Yeah? Yeah, And the guy's like,
this resort the pond because there was like a golf
course or the pond naturally has attracted these birds forever
and so we have like an enormous population of these
(06:50):
humming birds like our on our property. Yeah. And I
was like, you know, I was like, oh, that explains it.
It's not some like freak thing, but it is interesting
that like we would pick that resort, you know, that
that thing it would be on the image would be there.
It was kind of like, you know, I started to
(07:11):
get a little bit like, hum maybe something is cosmically
like going on. Yeah, And so we rented this villa
and it was so nice and we we walk outside
to the to the back of Palm Springs and this
the pool is like beautiful, beautiful in the mountains are
there and it's all glass. Like the fence is all
(07:35):
glasses of little kids, and we wanted to fence the
pool and stuff. It's truly like luxurious, luxurious living. And
so we go out that night when the sun is
coming down, when you can like finally go out in
Palm Springs. And we're literally in Palm Springs this last
weekend and it was one hundred degrees at midnight. Yeah,
it's it's brutal, brutal, yeah. Uh. And we go outside,
(07:58):
weren't having a glass of wine, and all of a sudden,
like from the pond, I can see like one of
the hummingbirds like take off from the flock and start
like flying it looks like it's coming towards us, and
I'm like, this is just this is just incredible, isn't it.
And my sisters and I started talking about We started
(08:18):
watching and I bring my son out, was two, and
I point to the bird and I tell him the
story and he's looking at it, and the bird is
just it's so free. It's just like glide. It's beautiful.
It's just like gliding and humming. And we're all watching it.
And right at that moment, it's smacked into the glass
(08:43):
fence of the pool and broke its neck. Oh my god,
and landed and started twitching like Racie. My sisters started screaming.
My wife was like the November rain video. My son
was like, what happened? People grabbing things? Then I they're like,
(09:05):
what do we do with the bird? Then I have
to go out there with like pots and pans from
the villa and like put it in the pan, close
the lid, and I just going. I can hear like
it's like neck broken, neck wing, like hitting the inside
of the pan, and I have to like walk it
down to the front desk. I put the pan down
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and I was like, we had an incident with a bird,
and the guy was like, it happens all the time.
And I was like, well, of course there's If this
is the capital of hummingbirds, it must also be the
capital of hummingbird death. Yeah. But it was like it
(09:49):
was an odd thing because it was like it was
so beautiful and the circumstance was so cosmic, you know.
But then to watch to watch that bird die in
front of my family right, who I had gathered there,
(10:13):
It's almost like I made them sit through my mother's
death again, like to kind of relive the whole thing. Yeah,
And the rest of vacation was on tilt. I would
say things were off. They kind of change that The fencing,
you know, I don't think they have it's a gorgeous fence,
(10:33):
it truly is. They need to make it, you know,
visible in some way to the eye of the hummingbird.
I think that's the problem of the hummingbird, right or
they need to evolve. Yeah, you're saying that's a hummingbird issue. Yeah,
I think probably. Yeah, Yeah, they need to figure that's
a fence issue. Okay. It woke me up a little,
(10:59):
you know, in a way, because I was like everything
it was like everything guy like I happened in a
Woe is Me for the since I'm you know, which
is hard to get out of. Yeah, you know. And
then when I saw that happen again, I think it
like clicked in something to me that was like, I
just gotta keep going, like one foot in front of
the other, because eventually you're gonna walk into your own
(11:19):
glass fence, right, and then somebody's gonna scoop you up
with some pans. And I think we had a pally issue.
I have kind of this opposite situation where my father
is getting is getting much older now, and he's starting
(11:41):
to talk about his mortality a lot and often and
kind of always like every time I see him or
talk to him, you know, it's uh, you know, uh,
well I got a few few good you know, time
is limited and yeah, or like he always says, you know,
my rebates up. He's eighty four. Oh yeah, his time
(12:07):
is gone. Yes, yeah, he's he's at the end. But
you know, I have look at Norman Lear, you could
have another sixteen in him. He hates that that idea. Also,
he's like please, he's like, please put me, you know,
sit me down and put a shotgun in my mouth
if I you know, if I need to be in
a home. Yeah no, I told my kids at like,
(12:30):
just wheel me in front of the ocean and like,
while I'm looking at it, blow my brains out, just
push me into the sea kind of a yeah. All
of them agreed, which was like, I don't think that
was a looking for a little too quickly. It was
a it was a quick response, and I'm sure he'll
haunt me in other strange ways. You know, I don't
(12:50):
believe in ghosts. I've never seen one or talk to one.
They I mean, I get scared of them that they
don't exist. That's probably why you heard it here first, folks,
ghost start real a lot of hate. Could that that
could be another show that you guys do. That's like
(13:11):
a ghost hunting show. But you just don't believe in
ghost settle bullshit. That's just static. That's just that's nothing,
you guys. You're blowing on my neck. Stop it just
that's totally possible. Sci Fi Channel will be all over
this HLN like, yeah, we can slote you in in
(13:34):
between forensic files and ancient aliens. Let's do that. That
sounds like a good time slot. That's great. I find
that a lot of great stories come from first, last, best,
and worst experiences in your life. So the first time
(13:58):
something happened, last time, best time, worst time, And usually
what we do is we pick some sort of category
and then just quickly run through the first, last, best,
and worst. So what was what was the first the
first job you ever had? Your first real job? I
worked at a winter sporting good shop in East Hanover,
(14:18):
New Jersey. How old I was like fourteen to sixteen, okay,
and I was terrible at it. Yeah, actually it was
awful at it was it didn't know what I was
doing with bindings. I'd like, screw the thing to be
like yeah it's great, Like I mean, you know, I
would like they'd be like, you know, it was worth
(14:39):
the cash. D just say like sure, popopop, Like I
don't know what the hell I was doing the confidence
that you know a fourteen year old has walking good Yeah,
place like crazy And I just did it from my
north face like money off. And that was it, um.
And then what's the next one? That was first? Last job? Yeah,
(15:02):
last job was the I did two movies in two
weeks or two movies in a month in Canada. I
did or one series, one movie h with one with
Arnold Schwarzenegger and one with Finn Wolfard. Wow, So that
was my last job? Was that? Was that the first
time working with with Arnie Arnold? Yes, it was my
(15:25):
first time and it was great. He's great, he's the best.
He's just a terrific guy. On my uh, on my degree,
my diploma from college, it's his his signatures the governor
science you know. Oh cool, Yeah, that's that was the
window when I when I graduated from from college, not
(15:46):
high school. But no, no, he's he's terrific, Like he's
he's great, and like you can tell, like his whole
crew is it's been with him forever. And I said
that to him. I was like, I think it's amazing
that your your crew is, like you know, just as
they love you, they're so loyally when with you forever.
And he goes, of course, I'm the best. Yeah, I mean,
(16:07):
I can't imagine he had he would have like a
high turnover rate. Like once you start working for Arnie,
like you're in life, you're in. And also his TikTok's crazy.
It's just like him running around with donkeys and like
I try not to watch the act I'm like, I
don't want to. This is gonna Sully the Ruins something
for me? Yeah, yeah, kind of death. But what's the
(16:30):
what's the best job you feel like you've ever ever had?
One on one by far places departed before you die, Like,
it's working with your best friend on a job where
you're the whole thing is just making up as you
go and that's your like skill set. It couldn't be better.
In traveling the country it's a dream. Yeah, so that
(16:52):
that would be the best one by far. Easy good food,
good place is good friend food. You're paid to drink
kids like, Yeah, it's great. Yeah. Jealous jealous of that one, um,
and that should be it's really great work if you've
got it. Yeah, I gotta just uh I need to
find a best friend and uh well it's like, you know,
(17:13):
it's you know, it's good work. If actors like famous
movie star actors or jealous of like meals by couge, Yeah,
you know, it's like, you know, then there must be
something in the work of Yeah, you're you're something personality
Yeah yeah, um all right, well then, uh, what would
be the worst the worst job you've ever had? I
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uh was a bus boy for a day in a
Upper east Side power punch spot more like an hour
forty five minutes tough. I spilled the water instantly on
a table because the tray Like again like I thought
(17:58):
I could get like you know how to carry a
one or try. I was like, yeah, sure I did not.
It is harder and it's not one handed and it's
still Then I was so in bad. I got yelled
at by like these like power brokers, and I got
so nervous that I ran away. I ran away. Did
(18:21):
you even like give your notice or did you just
run out? No? I took my apron off and made
sure I had my cell phone and I which was
like a Nokia, and I put it in my pocket,
and when the major d that hired me wasn't looking,
I ran away, just kept running. How many blocks did
(18:45):
you run for before you ran into my apartment? All
the way at home? Yeah, I was like twenty And
I remember just running away from the job. And then
never are walking on Second Avenue again And just think
between like sixty third and forty nine, like nowhere near
(19:07):
that were you afraid they'd be like you gotta come
in here and finish your ship. I was afraid that
the boss would see me. I was afraid that the
people I spilled on with seems just like I don't
want to be near this name. Really yeah, And I'm
sure even to this day, probably still walking down that.
I just think about it every time I walk past
that restaurant. Do you pick up your pace just a
little bit still? Yeah? Sometimes when I'm out of the
(19:31):
Midtown so I don't, and I'm headed up town, I'm like,
pick up the pace on Second Avenue, don't look. Yeah,
Oh my god, I've never heard that. I've never heard
of somebody literally just running just I just ran. I
ran away. It's beautiful, and like no one came after me.
I don't think this isn't a rom com. Wait no,
(19:56):
no one. No one was like you can do this.
If you try, people are like the going on. It
just took off. Don't give up. We believe in you, man.
I was like, going out of here, you could do that.
I was so embarrassed. I was like, this feeling of
embarrassment will never happen to me ever again. I'll never
(20:18):
Because you're getting dressed down in public is horrible, you know,
and especially when you're like a bus boy and you've
you've it's your fault and you've soaked someone and they're like,
you know, what, are you an idiot? You know? And
you're like twenty, you know, and you're like I so sorry,
you know, and they're like it's fine, just like fuck,
(20:40):
you know. And I remember, like the guy was like
it's fine. I was like I'm sorry. I was like,
maybe we can comp your meal. He's like maybe, and
I was like I don't know, let me go check.
And like I went back, I took my apron off,
grab my phone and booked like I passed him right
(21:03):
down to the table. They were charged full price. I
don't know what happened to that man. Honestly, I don't care.
It was just a horrific experience. Yeah, that guy maybe
because I it was was dumb. I didn't even check
with anybody. I wish I had some I wish I
had some jobs. I just ran. I can't do it
anymore because if I gave him bad if I did
(21:25):
a bad take in my coverage and there where's Yeah,
where's where's Pally? He's not flying in, he's flying out.
He is running down the one old one it's a
dead style holding a lightsable. What Oh my god? Well, uh,
thank you, Adam, thank you so much. Hey, thanks so
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much for listening to hashtag Storytime. I just want to
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Yeah, no, I felt my kids at like, just wheel
me in front of the ocean and like, while I'm
looking at it, blow my brains out, Just push me
into the sea. Yeah. All of them agreed, which was like,
I don't think that was a looking for a little
too quickly. It was. It was a quick response. Someone
(00:38):
once said life is precious, and I think that's stupid.
I disagree. You know, when I think of something that's precious,
I think of a thing that that's fragile and breakable
and it sits behind thick glass or on a mantle
and it's not meant to be handled or play with.
And that's not how life is. You know, life is,
it's interactive. Life is meant to be, to be, to
(01:00):
be played with. You know, you should take life out
of its original packaging and play with it. And someone
who I think does a really good job of living
life is actor, comedian and world traveler Adam Pally. Now
you may know Adam from Happy Endings or The Mindy
Project or his latest show One hundred and one Places
to Party Before You Die. And if you haven't seen
the show, it's freaking great and it's just so fun
(01:23):
watching Adam and his best buddy, John Gabris, who is
also a fellow actor, comedian, and podcaster, and they just eat,
drink and smoke their way across the US, and they
try new things like forging weaponry in Portland, or writing
four by fours in Moab, or wearing cool hats and
smoking cigars in Puerto Rico. And you know, I just
feel like we've all been cooped up in our houses
(01:44):
for the past few years, scared of dying, and I
think it's time to get out there and just do
some living, you know. And no one knows that better
than Adam. I'm will wander lust to McFadden And this
is hashtag storytime, brought to you by iHeartRadio. So my mom,
my mother passed away suddenly at fifty two, UM, twenty
(02:08):
days before my son was born, and my first child.
And it was like a bit of a struggle for me,
Like within that first year, as far as um, like
my my senses had been knocked off, like as far
as like good, bad, numb anything. Like I just was
(02:31):
like kind of fogged out and not feeling much. I
was thirty one, thirty two, UM, so I mean old
enough to be equipped to handle something like that. But
I think sudden death is is is shocking for anybody. Yeah,
(02:51):
you know, um, especially when someone you know, fifty two
is relatively young, sou it. It threw me for a
for a big loop, and I was kind of struggling
for a while, and um, I found this. You know.
We had to go home and like sell my my
(03:14):
my parents house and go through all the stuff and
like you know, do all that. And while I was
going through all this stuff, I found this a little
journal that my mom had head kept and it had
a little logo of a like a hummingbird. And in
(03:36):
the journal, Um, she'd written some stuff about like you know, um,
she saw me perform, and she saw my sister play
sports and stuff, and she's just like written some stuff down.
It was heartwarming, and it wasn't really consistent. It was
just like every couple of months she'd throw something in
there for a couple of years, you know. And it
(03:58):
was posthumously found that you know. I think I found
about a year after a death and I was cleaning
everything out, so I was about one. It kind of
rocked me again, brought everything back. But I really liked
the image of the little bird, and so I took
(04:18):
that and I took it to a tattoo artist because
I am like the edge of a gen z or whatever. Say,
I'm I have a bad tattoos. I don't know what
like age that is when like I just hit the
caught off off, I do I have bad tattoos, right?
But so I got this this bird right here. Yeah, that,
and it made me feel really good, you know, because
(04:40):
I was like, oh, okay, like something that kind of
connects me to my mom all the time, you know,
because I think sometimes in death you one of the
things that at least I deal with. It's like you
don't almost want to move past it because you feel
a sense that if you move past it, you'll miss
then then that's it. Then they're really gone. You know.
It's like you almost get used to feeling their their
(05:03):
presence not being there, and if you get comfortable with that,
then you really lost them. Kind of. Yeah. Anyway, so um,
I was doing the int that great, and my wife
was like, you know, we should take um Cole, who
was two at the time. My daughter was like six months.
(05:27):
We should go to Palm Springs with like your sisters
and just have like a family kind of weekend away
from everything because it's a little nuts and I could
afford to take my sisters and their kids and their family.
So we did it. And I didn't. She made all
the plans like I was shooting. I didn't really know
(05:47):
what was going on in and again like I was like,
not doing great. And we all meet at my house
in stud the city, and then we drive. We start
driving it Palm Springs and we get to the resort
and on the gate of the resort is the exact
(06:07):
same bird that I have on my arm, but it's
like welded into things, but it looks it's like exactly
the same thing. Oh, my sisters are crying. I'm like,
I can't believe it's the weird moms here. I'm vacation
or whatever. When we go to check in, and I asked,
I was like, what is the what's the deal with
(06:30):
the gate? You know? Yeah? Yeah, And the guy's like,
this resort the pond because there was like a golf
course or the pond naturally has attracted these birds forever
and so we have like an enormous population of these
(06:50):
humming birds like our on our property. Yeah. And I
was like, you know, I was like, oh, that explains it.
It's not some like freak thing, but it is interesting
that like we would pick that resort, you know, that
that thing it would be on the image would be there.
It was kind of like, you know, I started to
(07:11):
get a little bit like, hum maybe something is cosmically
like going on. Yeah, And so we rented this villa
and it was so nice and we we walk outside
to the to the back of Palm Springs and this
the pool is like beautiful, beautiful in the mountains are
there and it's all glass. Like the fence is all
(07:35):
glasses of little kids, and we wanted to fence the
pool and stuff. It's truly like luxurious, luxurious living. And
so we go out that night when the sun is
coming down, when you can like finally go out in
Palm Springs. And we're literally in Palm Springs this last
weekend and it was one hundred degrees at midnight. Yeah,
it's it's brutal, brutal, yeah. Uh. And we go outside,
(07:58):
weren't having a glass of wine, and all of a sudden,
like from the pond, I can see like one of
the hummingbirds like take off from the flock and start
like flying it looks like it's coming towards us, and
I'm like, this is just this is just incredible, isn't it.
And my sisters and I started talking about We started
(08:18):
watching and I bring my son out, was two, and
I point to the bird and I tell him the
story and he's looking at it, and the bird is
just it's so free. It's just like glide. It's beautiful.
It's just like gliding and humming. And we're all watching it.
And right at that moment, it's smacked into the glass
(08:43):
fence of the pool and broke its neck. Oh my god,
and landed and started twitching like Racie. My sisters started screaming.
My wife was like the November rain video. My son
was like, what happened? People grabbing things? Then I they're like,
(09:05):
what do we do with the bird? Then I have
to go out there with like pots and pans from
the villa and like put it in the pan, close
the lid, and I just going. I can hear like
it's like neck broken, neck wing, like hitting the inside
of the pan, and I have to like walk it
down to the front desk. I put the pan down
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and I was like, we had an incident with a bird,
and the guy was like, it happens all the time.
And I was like, well, of course there's If this
is the capital of hummingbirds, it must also be the
capital of hummingbird death. Yeah. But it was like it
(09:49):
was an odd thing because it was like it was
so beautiful and the circumstance was so cosmic, you know.
But then to watch to watch that bird die in
front of my family right, who I had gathered there,
(10:13):
It's almost like I made them sit through my mother's
death again, like to kind of relive the whole thing. Yeah,
And the rest of vacation was on tilt. I would
say things were off. They kind of change that The fencing,
you know, I don't think they have it's a gorgeous fence,
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it truly is. They need to make it, you know,
visible in some way to the eye of the hummingbird.
I think that's the problem of the hummingbird, right or
they need to evolve. Yeah, you're saying that's a hummingbird issue. Yeah,
I think probably. Yeah, Yeah, they need to figure that's
a fence issue. Okay. It woke me up a little,
(10:59):
you know, in a way, because I was like everything
it was like everything guy like I happened in a
Woe is Me for the since I'm you know, which
is hard to get out of. Yeah, you know. And
then when I saw that happen again, I think it
like clicked in something to me that was like, I
just gotta keep going, like one foot in front of
the other, because eventually you're gonna walk into your own
(11:19):
glass fence, right, and then somebody's gonna scoop you up
with some pans. And I think we had a pally issue.
I have kind of this opposite situation where my father
is getting is getting much older now, and he's starting
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to talk about his mortality a lot and often and
kind of always like every time I see him or
talk to him, you know, it's uh, you know, uh,
well I got a few few good you know, time
is limited and yeah, or like he always says, you know,
my rebates up. He's eighty four. Oh yeah, his time
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is gone. Yes, yeah, he's he's at the end. But
you know, I have look at Norman Lear, you could
have another sixteen in him. He hates that that idea. Also,
he's like please, he's like, please put me, you know,
sit me down and put a shotgun in my mouth
if I you know, if I need to be in
a home. Yeah no, I told my kids at like,
(12:30):
just wheel me in front of the ocean and like,
while I'm looking at it, blow my brains out, just
push me into the sea kind of a yeah. All
of them agreed, which was like, I don't think that
was a looking for a little too quickly. It was
a it was a quick response, and I'm sure he'll
haunt me in other strange ways. You know, I don't
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believe in ghosts. I've never seen one or talk to one.
They I mean, I get scared of them that they
don't exist. That's probably why you heard it here first, folks,
ghost start real a lot of hate. Could that that
could be another show that you guys do. That's like
(13:11):
a ghost hunting show. But you just don't believe in
ghost settle bullshit. That's just static. That's just that's nothing,
you guys. You're blowing on my neck. Stop it just
that's totally possible. Sci Fi Channel will be all over
this HLN like, yeah, we can slote you in in
(13:34):
between forensic files and ancient aliens. Let's do that. That
sounds like a good time slot. That's great. I find
that a lot of great stories come from first, last, best,
and worst experiences in your life. So the first time
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something happened, last time, best time, worst time, And usually
what we do is we pick some sort of category
and then just quickly run through the first, last, best,
and worst. So what was what was the first the
first job you ever had? Your first real job? I
worked at a winter sporting good shop in East Hanover,
(14:18):
New Jersey. How old I was like fourteen to sixteen, okay,
and I was terrible at it. Yeah, actually it was
awful at it was it didn't know what I was
doing with bindings. I'd like, screw the thing to be
like yeah it's great, Like I mean, you know, I
would like they'd be like, you know, it was worth
(14:39):
the cash. D just say like sure, popopop, Like I
don't know what the hell I was doing the confidence
that you know a fourteen year old has walking good Yeah,
place like crazy And I just did it from my
north face like money off. And that was it, um.
And then what's the next one? That was first? Last job? Yeah,
(15:02):
last job was the I did two movies in two
weeks or two movies in a month in Canada. I
did or one series, one movie h with one with
Arnold Schwarzenegger and one with Finn Wolfard. Wow, So that
was my last job? Was that? Was that the first
time working with with Arnie Arnold? Yes, it was my
(15:25):
first time and it was great. He's great, he's the best.
He's just a terrific guy. On my uh, on my degree,
my diploma from college, it's his his signatures the governor
science you know. Oh cool, Yeah, that's that was the
window when I when I graduated from from college, not
(15:46):
high school. But no, no, he's he's terrific, Like he's
he's great, and like you can tell, like his whole
crew is it's been with him forever. And I said
that to him. I was like, I think it's amazing
that your your crew is, like you know, just as
they love you, they're so loyally when with you forever.
And he goes, of course, I'm the best. Yeah, I mean,
(16:07):
I can't imagine he had he would have like a
high turnover rate. Like once you start working for Arnie,
like you're in life, you're in. And also his TikTok's crazy.
It's just like him running around with donkeys and like
I try not to watch the act I'm like, I
don't want to. This is gonna Sully the Ruins something
for me? Yeah, yeah, kind of death. But what's the
(16:30):
what's the best job you feel like you've ever ever had?
One on one by far places departed before you die, Like,
it's working with your best friend on a job where
you're the whole thing is just making up as you
go and that's your like skill set. It couldn't be better.
In traveling the country it's a dream. Yeah, so that
(16:52):
that would be the best one by far. Easy good food,
good place is good friend food. You're paid to drink
kids like, Yeah, it's great. Yeah. Jealous jealous of that one, um,
and that should be it's really great work if you've
got it. Yeah, I gotta just uh I need to
find a best friend and uh well it's like, you know,
(17:13):
it's you know, it's good work. If actors like famous
movie star actors or jealous of like meals by couge, Yeah,
you know, it's like, you know, then there must be
something in the work of Yeah, you're you're something personality
Yeah yeah, um all right, well then, uh, what would
be the worst the worst job you've ever had? I
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uh was a bus boy for a day in a
Upper east Side power punch spot more like an hour
forty five minutes tough. I spilled the water instantly on
a table because the tray Like again like I thought
(17:58):
I could get like you know how to carry a
one or try. I was like, yeah, sure I did not.
It is harder and it's not one handed and it's
still Then I was so in bad. I got yelled
at by like these like power brokers, and I got
so nervous that I ran away. I ran away. Did
(18:21):
you even like give your notice or did you just
run out? No? I took my apron off and made
sure I had my cell phone and I which was
like a Nokia, and I put it in my pocket,
and when the major d that hired me wasn't looking,
I ran away, just kept running. How many blocks did
(18:45):
you run for before you ran into my apartment? All
the way at home? Yeah, I was like twenty And
I remember just running away from the job. And then
never are walking on Second Avenue again And just think
between like sixty third and forty nine, like nowhere near
(19:07):
that were you afraid they'd be like you gotta come
in here and finish your ship. I was afraid that
the boss would see me. I was afraid that the
people I spilled on with seems just like I don't
want to be near this name. Really yeah, And I'm
sure even to this day, probably still walking down that.
I just think about it every time I walk past
that restaurant. Do you pick up your pace just a
little bit still? Yeah? Sometimes when I'm out of the
(19:31):
Midtown so I don't, and I'm headed up town, I'm like,
pick up the pace on Second Avenue, don't look. Yeah,
Oh my god, I've never heard that. I've never heard
of somebody literally just running just I just ran. I
ran away. It's beautiful, and like no one came after me.
I don't think this isn't a rom com. Wait no,
(19:56):
no one. No one was like you can do this.
If you try, people are like the going on. It
just took off. Don't give up. We believe in you, man.
I was like, going out of here, you could do that.
I was so embarrassed. I was like, this feeling of
embarrassment will never happen to me ever again. I'll never
(20:18):
Because you're getting dressed down in public is horrible, you know,
and especially when you're like a bus boy and you've
you've it's your fault and you've soaked someone and they're like,
you know, what, are you an idiot? You know? And
you're like twenty, you know, and you're like I so sorry,
you know, and they're like it's fine, just like fuck,
(20:40):
you know. And I remember, like the guy was like
it's fine. I was like I'm sorry. I was like,
maybe we can comp your meal. He's like maybe, and
I was like I don't know, let me go check.
And like I went back, I took my apron off,
grab my phone and booked like I passed him right
(21:03):
down to the table. They were charged full price. I
don't know what happened to that man. Honestly, I don't care.
It was just a horrific experience. Yeah, that guy maybe
because I it was was dumb. I didn't even check
with anybody. I wish I had some I wish I
had some jobs. I just ran. I can't do it
anymore because if I gave him bad if I did
(21:25):
a bad take in my coverage and there where's Yeah,
where's where's Pally? He's not flying in, he's flying out.
He is running down the one old one it's a
dead style holding a lightsable. What Oh my god? Well, uh,
thank you, Adam, thank you so much. Hey, thanks so
(21:49):
much for listening to hashtag Storytime. I just want to
give another big thanks to Adam Pali for being on
the pod. Make sure to check out one hundred one
Places to Party Before you Die. It's on HBO Max.
It's so fun. I can't recommend it enough. You can
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