WEBVTT - Adam Pally 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:21.439 I'll that's all. 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:24.520 That's okay, becaus no one. 0:00:24.480 --> 0:00:25.120 Here is. 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:31.560 Hello and welcome to teen Beat. I'm Danielle Fischel, podcaster, 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:36.560 TV director, celebrity ballroom contestant, mother of two, and as 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:40.560 nostalgic forty year olds everywhere, We'll tell you to Pango 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:44.559 Lawrence from the nineties TGIF Staple Boy Meets World. And 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:48.440 thanks to that very program, my entire teenage existence from 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:52.559 twelve to nineteen years old unfolded simultaneously in front of 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:55.960 a live studio audience and millions of viewers at home. 0:00:56.400 --> 0:01:00.200 From my first kiss to my first haircut, everything was 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.880 caught on camera. So now thirty years later, it's time 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.720 to turn the tables on Team Beat. I will sit 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.880 down with interesting people who have accomplished interesting things, hoping 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:14.960 that a look into their untelevised upbringings will help us 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:19.199 understand who they have become. Since their puberty wasn't written 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:22.080 into a popular Friday night sitcom, the least they can 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.399 do is share it with me. Now I gave you 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:28.199 my childhood, it's time we hear yours. And this week, 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:30.440 I'm sitting down with someone who has not only been 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:34.520 open about how his upbringing shaped a thriving career in comedy, 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:38.800 but he's now actively shaping my children's definition of funny, 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.920 and frankly, there is nothing I can do about it. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:45.320 The New York native first burst onto the scene as 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:50.040 Max Blum in the criminally underrated show Happy Endings, leading 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:53.559 him to another high profile TV gig on seasons two 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:56.920 and three of The Mindy Project. But he's most recognizable 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:00.920 to my boys as Officer Wade Whipple, integral part of 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:05.360 the Sonic Cinematic Universe and its spinoff series Knuckles, a 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:09.480 project I know intimately thanks to a number of repeat 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:13.600 viewings usually reserved for hair salons that only own one DVD. 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:18.160 His new HBO comedy special and Intimate Evening with Adam 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.320 Pally finds him with a guitar and a burning question 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.160 why even do this in the first place, which maybe 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.000 he'll be able to answer next year when he'll play 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:32.200 music industry mogul Alan Klein in Sam Mendez's four film 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:37.400 Cinematic Beatles Event. But underneath all that funny and all 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.440 those cool guy credits, I have to think there's an 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:45.399 awkward teenage East Coaster ready to share embarrassingly endearing stories. 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:49.280 So welcome to this week's teen Beat, Adam Pally. 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.960 Hi, that was such an amazing Thank you so much. 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.560 And also I just as from being a friend of 0:02:56.560 --> 0:02:59.840 yours from us a decade. You know, I forget how 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:07.079 traumatic you're up like you so casually read it. You're 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:10.800 like my puberty was written into television show we all watch. 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:14.680 It's like, but now sitting here talking to you as to. 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:19.800 Like God, the fact that you are walking and talking 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:24.560 and breathing and yeah and and a talented uh you know, 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:30.720 force in its own self is truly like Macaulay Culkin 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:32.160 level miracle. Wow. 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:35.280 Well, thank you, thank you for that. I we are 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:39.200 about ready to hit the season seven episode of Boy 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:44.080 Meets World where I am fat and they write about 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:48.200 it and oh my god, and it's I've been dreading 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:52.240 it since we started podmets World because I remember everything 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.280 about knowing that episode was coming, because you know, ore 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:57.920 e people that will and I into the office and said, 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.760 so obviously everyone can see you guys have gone fat, 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:05.320 and so we're we we might obviously have to write 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:05.760 about it. 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:12.080 W was running Boy Meets World, Warne Michaels. It's a 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:15.120 Harvey Weinstein running Boy meets World. 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.040 It's a yeah, little known fact. That's where Harvey got. 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.760 A shine easiest Christ. That's like, that's like cut that. 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.080 You don't hear that. I didn't hear that stuff on 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:25.160 on Happy Ending. 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:28.280 Yeah, no, it's it's pretty crazy. And then and then 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:30.040 the whole episode and the whole week it was just 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:33.400 and then every week after that, I just kept like, oh, wow, 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:36.160 like all these people that I work with, that I've 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:39.599 worked with for seven years, that's how they think of me. 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.240 That's how they see me. So anyway, I am dreading 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:44.480 that one. But you know. 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:46.359 That's that's an actor's you know. 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:48.960 That's another thing about kid actors that doesn't get talked 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:52.719 about enough is like the psychological acting is is a 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:58.000 psychological you know, exercise and and you're going into your 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:02.880 own mind, you know, to to work. And when children 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.120 do it, like you're like, oh, this is what everyone 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:06.839 thinks about me. 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.720 You know, that's like an acting you know. 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.640 Thing that you you a shoe as you get better 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:17.160 and older, and like it's just so poisonous to have 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:21.200 like a little kid being like reading, pretending and like 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:25.000 going into the depths of their mind to do something 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:27.800 for someone. It's just a real insidious I mean, and 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:31.760 I'm not innocent of it. I mean, at every job 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:34.000 I do, there's someone that plays my kid, you know. 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.800 But I'm like, just hearing you talk about it now 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.359 is wow, it's wild. 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:43.040 It's pretty nuts. But thank you so much for chatting 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:45.560 with me. I have to be honest, it's very comforting 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:51.800 to hear your voice, considering it rings throughout my house NonStop. No, 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:54.359 do not be so your husband. 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:55.400 I apologize. 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.120 I know, I know Jensen has texted you about this. 0:05:58.240 --> 0:06:01.440 But here is a list of the shows and movies 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:06.400 my children watch on repeat that all coincidentally include you. 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:11.520 And this is one hundred percent not a bit okay, Knuckles, 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:15.800 Sonic one, two and three, Archibald's next big thing, the 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:21.760 main Event, duc Tails, Firebuds, Randy Cunningham, ninth grade, Ninja 0:06:21.960 --> 0:06:28.039 Great American Baking Show, and is it cake? All of 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:31.800 those you are everywhere everywhere we go that my kids 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:33.680 are like, let's watch that, let's watch that, let's watch that. 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:34.799 You are. 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.279 I you know, I've that's very nice because I was 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:40.039 the other day this first of all, this is so 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:41.880 nice of you. Thank you so much, and thank your 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:47.960 family and and like I was the other day. I 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:51.080 saw someone on social media like put out like where 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:54.560 to find like you know, it's a bigger star, you know. 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:56.479 It's like, here's where you can find all my stuff, 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:58.400 you know, and it's like, my here's my movie is 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:01.480 streaming here, and my TV are streaming on this thing 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:02.720 and here's there. And I was like, you know what, 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.800 I'd like to do that for my fans, and I 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:13.560 realized I don't have there's like one thing left. So 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:16.720 it's nice. It's nice to hear that, like your your 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.120 children are watching, because I literally in my mind was 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:22.200 like I don't think that shows even on a streaming service. 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:24.840 I can't even see that one anywhere find that. 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.640 Yeah, so it's nice that at least it's playing somewhere. 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.480 Oh yeah, it's it's definitely playing. And I just I 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:34.160 do wonder when you were studying Edgy improv at UCB 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:36.800 in New York, did you ever think, like, man, I 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:38.280 can't wait to be a four and a six year 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:39.200 old's favorite actor. 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:42.080 No, I didn't. 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:45.760 I didn't at all, And in fact, in fact, I 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:49.760 think just knowing myself and where and who I am 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:51.480 and when I when I was coming up and when 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:56.000 I was like, you know, building finding my voice. I 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:59.520 think if you would have told me that, then I 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:03.840 would have really uh said no way and done and 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:05.960 and worked hard to make sure that didn't. 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:07.480 Happen, right, to push against it. 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:12.520 To push against it. But as an older, you know, 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:18.960 more complete person, children of my own, it's really it's 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:23.360 really nice to hear anything at all, like, uh, you know, 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:25.200 I have seasonal Award show depression. 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:26.000 Okay. 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:27.560 I don't know if you get that. 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:29.000 No, I don't. 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:32.600 I get seasonal Awards show depression, okay, which is like 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.520 I think it's like sometimes when you're in Hollywood and 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:40.560 you've been in in the like invited to the season. 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.360 That's why I don't have it. I've never I don't 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:44.520 get invited. 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:48.120 Totally like you will and you should and you have probably, 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:51.400 but I I, you know, earlier in my career, I 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:54.400 was part of that you know season, and as my 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.000 career has gone on, I moved to New York and 0:08:56.040 --> 0:09:00.600 I'm you know, don't things go up and down? I 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:03.960 every year look at Seasonal like this time of year, 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:07.800 at the award shows, and I get like, yeah, you know, 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:09.200 seasonal Award show depression. 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:09.520 I get. 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:12.760 I'm like well, I'm not there anymore. I'm not involved. 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:17.079 The truth is you are, like, it's not a club, 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:21.320 it's just a it's like a moment, you know, Like, 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:24.040 and so if you're working in the industry, you are involved, 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:27.880 even if you're not sitting in that room. But I find, 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.800 to be totally honest with you, it's very hard to 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:36.920 be removed that like that, and so it really I 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:40.640 would say that, like as a more complete person, it 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:44.320 means so much and I am so I really truly, 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.720 Like anytime you guys text me and you're like, we're 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:51.520 watching it's the greatest. 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:54.120 Well, I hope there's also the and maybe you've thought 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:55.760 of it this way or maybe you haven't, and it's 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:58.400 a nice way of reframing it too. But like, one 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.520 of the incredible things about being someone in your shoes 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.840 who has been in those rooms, been invited to those 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:08.360 award shows is that it means you have left a 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:12.280 legacy and are continuing to leave a legacy that all 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:14.880 of the younger people or all of the people who 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:19.400 are currently in those rooms have are partly there because 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:23.520 of your work and because the ways you've inspired them. 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.240 And you know, those are people who would say gosh, 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.800 I got into this because of Adam Palely. 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.160 I mean, that's what I was. 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:34.920 I I've been trying to tell Jacob Elordi that about 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.600 for like, I'm like, you're telling me that Frankenstein performance 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.959 had nothing to do with my brother, right, No, I 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.840 hear you completely, And I do think oftentimes like I 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:48.760 think I'm fairly safe as far as in memoriam goes. 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.120 Yeah, for sure, I think. 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:51.720 I'm fairly safe. 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:53.440 Like I think I would get I think I would 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:56.240 get it at the Emmys for sure. That's living. 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:57.120 Emmys are a lock. 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:58.240 Emmys are a lock. 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:02.400 Golden globes, I think golden globes because of my TV work, 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.920 Oscars like I have. Look, I've I've started a lot 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:10.199 of movies. You know, they haven't they haven't culturally m m. 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.560 You know, I'm not Marty Supreme. But like, I think 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:16.920 I would make the memorium in the Oscars. I think 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:19.800 if I didn't, I think there would be some people 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:20.640 would be like, that's. 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:24.400 Yeah, I completely agree with you. I would definitely not 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:26.880 make the Oscars and I would only make. 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:29.559 Yes. 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:33.320 But it would say to Panga. 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:36.120 No, Danielle, you're no, you're under You would get a 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.760 stop beat. You would get a stop beat, you would 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:46.040 get like a full like in the arms, and then 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:50.280 it would slowly from and it would be a picture 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.360 of that episode seven Seaside. 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:13.839 So, like me, you had young parents, but unlike very young. 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:15.040 How old were. 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:18.440 They My mother was twenty two when she had me, 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:19.600 and my father was twenty three. 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.760 My parents were twenty three. Yeah, so I mean, can 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:27.920 you believe that? Now? Literal kids, my parents were married 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:31.280 at twenty one and had me at twenty three. It's 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:32.360 the same crazy. 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:33.959 It's wild too. 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:34.880 My mom's not a round anymore. 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:38.839 But my dad, Like, people see my dad and they're like, yeah, what, 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:41.520 They're shocked, you know, And I'm like, yeah, he was 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.240 twenty three when he had me child. 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:48.000 I know my parents my parents are sixty seven. 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:49.320 Yeah, my dad's sixty seven. 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:50.600 I know. I know. 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:52.760 It's weird. I'm like, my dad goes to hot yoga with. 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:56.319 Me, right exactly. People are weird. That's your dad, that's weird. 0:12:56.360 --> 0:13:00.760 I know people, And like oftentimes people have seen him 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:05.040 with my wife and been like, you know, asked if 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:08.720 they're dating, especially Los Angeles. That used to happen mostly 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.120 in Los Angeles because we lived like Pan Pacific Park, 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:13.600 and so when I would shoot, you know, my dad 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:15.400 was very helpful and he would come out for a 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:17.720 couple weeks and like help take care of the kids 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.760 early on, and he was like, no matter what, if 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:26.800 I'm out with Daniella, someone will be like, oh, congratulations, 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.600 and my wife will be like stop it now. 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:35.600 When I was fifteen or sixteen years old, I took 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:37.560 my dad to New York for the US Open because 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:40.800 my dad's a huge tennis fan. Awesome, and so we 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.040 it's you know, one of the perks of being a 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.080 teen on a television show where you make good money 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.319 is that you can give gifts like that. 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:52.040 You're so self effacing, Danielle, you are culturally famous. I 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:56.040 hate it's like you we can drop this charade, okay, 0:13:56.120 --> 0:14:00.800 Danielle's it is a charade. It is a sar Odd Carmichael. 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:05.160 You're the name daniel Fichelle, like you said in the intro, 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:09.280 like we know you, we know you. Oh, al is 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:14.240 my Ficelle crime? People want to but I always thought 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.920 it was also targe ish. Okay. I do like that 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:19.800 because like a show biz. 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.400 Put a flair on it. Thanks it does. 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.840 Make me show biz, you were always famous. 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:27.080 It's like, can't just be ficial. 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:29.360 You can just call me to panga. It works. I 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:31.960 answer to it. But I took my dad to New 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:33.680 York for the US Open and we get to the 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:39.280 hotel and the woman checking us in goes, hi, welcome, okay, 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.920 oh I see here, we have two beds. I'll go 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.480 ahead and change that to a king. And I was like, 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:49.160 oh my god, no, no, no, no, no, we want we wanted 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:53.640 the two beds. This this is my father. Yeah, it's 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:54.360 pretty mortified. 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.560 I've also had it like my like my dad loves 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:00.920 He didn't love it when we were young. When I 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.680 was young and people like didn't respect him, he hated it. 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.040 But now he like loves to go to premieres with 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.600 me and have people be like, oh, your dad's so young. 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:10.160 It's like he loves it. 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:10.360 You know. 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.360 Oh yeah yeah that I mean. I also love it 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:16.000 when people at this point still tell me I look young. 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.560 I'm like, thank you. I'm at that age now where 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.400 it's you need that validation. 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.960 I don't wan't know what that's like the amount of 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:29.280 age for like I I give off. The other day, 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:33.960 I saw an actress who's doing a play and I 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:35.600 really wanted to work with her, and so I email 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.120 my agent and I was like, I would love to 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.200 do this play. Is there is who's the male lead? 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:41.680 I would love to do it? And they go, oh, 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:45.520 they're looking at younger people. And I was like, she 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:47.360 graduate We graduated college together. 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.000 We're the same age. 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:51.800 We're the same age. 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:53.240 I was like, does a script call for is it 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:57.040 like like a younger right? Right? No, same age? 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:03.360 Oh, by the way, the people who should just go yes, Adam, 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:04.920 I will make that call. 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:07.360 They did make the call. They did make the call, 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.240 and then I didn't hear anything. So I was like, Hey, 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:11.960 what's coming on with that play? And they were like, oh, 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.280 they're looking for a younger lead to balance out? 0:16:14.360 --> 0:16:17.480 Was a balance out? 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:25.320 Well? Unlike my parents, your parents were lounge singers. What 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:29.160 do you remember about them? Being an adorable husband and 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:29.760 wife act? 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:36.880 I remember, you know it. 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:42.080 I remember it all feeling very similar to the way 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:47.240 I was brought up after that, you know, so like 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:51.480 if they were doing a gig in at like the 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:56.280 Tamama in Pennsylvania, you know, on Friday morning, they I 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:58.560 would miss school, which was. 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:00.320 Like what like first grade, like give a. 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:04.800 Shit, and we'd get in a Dodge ares and and 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.280 drive up to the Tamament and in that car ride 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:12.440 my parents would be singing and harmonizing and working out stuff. 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.760 I was like, you know, five six, like just being 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:20.359 like watching, you know. And then we'd get to the 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:24.239 place and they'd it would just be like later at night, 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:26.280 and they'd a babysitter. 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:27.160 Would come up from the hotel. 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.000 Yeah, and then they'd be in like a gown and 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:33.639 a tuxedo and they'd leave, you know, and then they'd 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:36.320 come back and and I'd see them in the morning 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.520 and we'd have like a day at the hotel, you know, 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:40.600 and then my dad and then my dad would leave 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:43.160 because would play piano for like the buffet. 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:44.080 Oh. 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.240 It was just like very It was just very like 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:49.480 matter of fact in that way. They were very workmen 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:53.080 about it. And I think in a lot of ways 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:58.600 like that, the the the like nose to the grindstone 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:00.960 of show business that my parents it was is kind 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:01.680 of was a good. 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:06.240 Thing because I never thought that this was easy, right, Yeah, 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:08.920 It definitely that life doesn't give the impression that this 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:12.199 is something just anyone can do at the drop of 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:12.639 a hat. 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:15.560 No, and they were also on the periphery. They were 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.639 not fam like they weren't. Show business is not all 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.520 the top, you know, there's like this mostly not it's 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:24.600 mostly the bottom, you know, which is like a huge 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:29.359 ecosystem of show business. And so for me, I guess 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:31.639 I always just thought of show business as that it 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.240 was like it was the same thing as being a 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:37.200 doctor or which my dad ended up being, like a doctor, 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:39.960 or a lawyer, or a baseball player is like fireman, 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:42.639 you know. It was just that the business was was 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:46.639 not far away in Hollywood. It was like right in 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:48.639 front of you, and it was just about what you 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:50.159 did to like earn money. 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:54.560 And obviously, as you get older, this fact about the 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:57.919 two of them becomes something anyone would like cherish and 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:01.040 think back fondly on. But at the time, were you 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:04.400 ever embarrassed by it? Did you? Was there ever any 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:05.960 part of you that didn't like it? 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:10.359 No? The only thing I didn't like, No, I was 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:14.280 never like embarrassed. I always felt behind the eight ball 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:20.199 a little bit because my parents were so weird, you know, 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:26.320 like weird and singular, and you know, so like I remember, 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:28.840 you know, we grew up in New York City for 0:19:28.880 --> 0:19:30.719 a little for most of my childhood, and then we 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:32.640 moved to Chicago when my dad went in too medical 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:36.200 school and we got to the suburbs, and like, I 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:40.359 didn't know, like how to play hocky. I didn't know 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:42.920 what hockey was, Like I had just and I knew 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:44.800 New York had a hockey team, I guess, but like 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:48.080 when they put the the stick down in the and 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:51.040 the puck, I was like, didn't know what to do, 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:53.280 and like got made fun of. And then and I 0:19:53.320 --> 0:19:57.399 feel like I was like, like I feel like I 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:00.680 feel like a lot of my adolescence was catching up 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:03.399 because we moved around so much, and so much of 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:05.280 my life was in the back of that car, and 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:08.720 like you know so and we never had roots down, 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:11.720 so it was like I feel like that's the only 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:14.520 thing that I was ever kind of like upset with 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:17.760 my parents. On the rest of it, I think I'm 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:19.560 too shallow to think of. 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:22.679 What was the car your parents had when you were 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:23.040 a kid. 0:20:23.160 --> 0:20:26.800 It was a Dodge aries Dodgery, yeah, which had three 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:29.480 a three banger in the front and a three banger 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:30.000 in the back. 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:31.879 I love a three banger in the front. 0:20:32.240 --> 0:20:34.840 Yeah, it was great, sit up front next to your mom. 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:35.720 Dad was the best. 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:37.000 Oh so cool. 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:37.560 Yeah. 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:40.320 I love that my parents have a picture of driving 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:43.080 me home from the hospital. This is years before car 0:20:43.119 --> 0:20:45.399 seats were mandatory. My mom's just in the front seat 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:47.800 holding me, just in a blanket. That's how I went 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:48.680 home from the hospital. 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:51.360 Tons of pictures of me and my sister, like going 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:54.280 across country with us just in the back seat with blankets. 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:55.520 That's it. 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:56.120 That's it. 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:57.919 It's like, I hope this is kind. 0:20:57.760 --> 0:20:58.440 Of like an air bag. 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:03.720 Did your parents ever try to dissuade you from life 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:07.600 in the entertainment industry? Did you ever ask them if 0:21:07.640 --> 0:21:08.600 you could act as a kid? 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:11.320 Yeah, yeah, if I think a lot of kids did 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:14.560 do or did at the time, especially you know, we 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:16.440 grew up at a time and you're you're you're part 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:17.880 of it on the other end, but like, we grew 0:21:17.920 --> 0:21:22.560 up at a time where child actors were were mythologically 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:31.679 canonized you and you know, people like Fred Savage or 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:33.359 Cauli Culkin or. 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:35.679