Adam Devine: From Door Guy to Headliner

33:09They're like, that's not a good deal for us. Which is one of the infuriating aspects of the business, right? It's so crazy. Yeah. It's so crazy. Was it the Full House or Family Matters song? It's Full House, but it sounds exactly like Family Matters. Okay. So for Pitch Perfect, I didn't know, like, realistically, I did not know that it was a singing movie. You thought it was a baseball movie? I thought it was a baseball movie, Pitch Perfect. It sounds like a baseball movie. That being said, if I read the damn email, I would have figured it out. But I showed up. I looked at the sides. the reason it was so hectic and I didn't know that it was a singing movie was I was shooting Workaholics and they're like, they want you to read for this.

34:05You can go on your lunch break and we can move a scene around and you'll have time to come back. And I'm like, I don't want to go audition for something else when the middle of the show that I'm one of the executive producers, creators of, and it was season one. And some of your buddies also did not want you to do this. Yeah, and I was like, I don't even want to go audition for this thing. this cool baseball movie. And I show up, I read the sides. I'm like, this doesn't seem like a baseball movie at all. And I'm pretty good at memorization, so I was able to quickly memorize it. And I go in, I do the audition, realizing it's not a baseball movie.

34:40And they're like, what song did you prepare? And I'm like, I didn't prepare a song. And they're like, well, just sing something that you know all the words to. And the first song that popped into my head was, whatever happened to predictability? The mill man, the paper boy, Oh, the evening TV. And I got the movie, dude. I have no idea. Because I sing like Rihanna in the movie. I'm like, please don't stop the music. I'm like, why did they think me singing like a 60-year-old jazz singer from New Orleans or wherever that guy's from that sang that song would make a good singer in the movie? But I don't know.

35:20I booked it. What did you film on stage in front of a sold-out stand-up crowd for Warner Brothers that helped in securing Mike and Dave? Oh, yeah. Yeah. So I was on tour. And you wanted this bad. I wanted Mike and Dave. But you maybe weren't the—I don't know if you were not the first choice initially, but you needed some extra encouragement. Yeah. At first, they were like, you're not big enough to be Mike in this big movie. Like, sorry, you're just not there yet. And maybe the cousin. And I'm like, dude, I'm Mike. I'm telling you I'm Mike. And I'm talking to the executive producers of the movie.

36:01I'm like, I'm Mike. And what gives you that confidence in those situations? I'm delusional. You got to be. You got to just be like, I'm the guy. And they're like, you're not the guy. And you're like, watch this. And then they're like, what? And I'm like, I don't know. I'm gonna figure out what you're gonna watch and you're gonna like it and I auditioned and It went great and they were like It's between me and one other person and I did a Read like a chemistry test with me and Zac Efron and it went great And it was like right there whether it's gonna be the other guy or me and I was on tour and I was I need I know the head of the studio didn't know who I was was like I'm unfamiliar with this guy.

36:45Obviously, she doesn't watch Workaholic. Nerd. And she didn't watch Workaholics. And so I was like, all right. So I filmed the entire crowd chanting Mike and Dave. And it sounded, the lights were low. It was like 2 ,000 people. But it sounded like 20 ,000 people. They were so loud. And it was like, everyone was like, Mike and Dave. Mike and Dave. And we pan around me. And I'm like, I'm going to be Mike. I know I am. and I think I might have called her name out or something. And I sent that to them. It was the weekend that they were making their decision. And then Monday morning, I was still on tour.

37:23I got the call that I got it and lost my mind. It was awesome. Who called? I think my manager, Isaac. Yeah. That was a big deal. Yeah, sometimes he has good things to call me about. He's sitting over there. You've alluded to the cement truck on a couple of occasions. And, you know, I think you're 11 years old. This is 95. They think the thing's, what, like 42 tons? Yeah, something like that, yeah. What's the last memory you have? Yeah, I think the last memory I have was leaving my house, telling my mom we were going to go get candy. Because we were going to go to the convenience store and get candy.

38:09and we what we also would do was we'd rip out pages of like playboy and penthouse dirty dogs uh magazines and we'd rip out the pages and uh stuff i don't know why we didn't just steal the whole magazine i guess we thought in our little kid brain that was much much worse to steal an entire magazine so we would just rip out pages um but But so we were on our way to do that. And from that moment on, I don't remember anything that happened. But I'm told that when we get to this busy street in Omaha, Harrison Street, there was three symmetrics going up the hill and two were coming down. Or maybe it was the opposite, but symmetrics going up the hill, symmetrics coming down the hill because we lived in the suburbs and just new houses are popping up everywhere.

39:00and my friend yells, is already across the street, and he yells, come on. And that just means I'm excited to go get a razzmatazz sucker and see some boobs, you know? But I took that as coast is clear. And so I was like, okay, he's like, come on. And I walked out, and I got clobbered and taken under the wheel and spit out, and I flew like 500 feet, they said, and was helicoptered away. Ripped the skin off your legs, essentially, from the knees down. Ripped the skin. Yeah. Yeah. Exclusive. Graham exclusive. How long did it take to get... Looks like uncooked chicken, if you look at it. Doesn't that look like uncooked chicken?

39:47Yeah. Yeah. How long did it take to get the legs back to normal? I mean, they're still messed up. I still, like, deal with things. Like you can't remember a time where the legs weren't in pain. Yeah. Your mom was telling me you had to relearn to sit, stand, walk, run. Explain what you guys would do in the backyard, like where you would practice. We had a little chair that they'd wheel me in the backyard because they figured like if I'm going to fall, at least the grass is a little softer. And I had like a chair that I'd practice like standing up from. and you try to take a few steps and then we would lay like pillows down so like if I fall, if I fell, I could land on a pillow.

40:35And even going to school, like how to just use the bathroom at the time when you got there because you couldn't walk for like, what, a couple years? Yeah, I couldn't walk from sixth grade, all of sixth grade, all of seventh grade and then summer, and then eighth grade is when I, All the seventh grade it was I would get up to a walker and then I had to have another surgery and Then I'd be back down in a wheelchair and then I get up to the walker and then I get up to crutches and I'm like It's gonna happen crutches. That was a big deal Yeah, and then I'd have to have another surgery and then I'd go back and I was having surgeries every few weeks You'd like 26.

41:13Yeah something like yeah And and then that has gone up more because I've had maybe a dozen since then just like little things that have happened You remember thinking to yourself, like, will I ever walk again? Yeah, for sure. You know, but also, like, you can't help but think that because you can't walk. And you're like, am I ever going to be able to walk? But then here's your mom who took a break from the dental assistant job to be there who's, you know, Captain Positive. She's so positive. And it was nice having that. and just I kind of always thought I would like she was always just drilling that in my head like you're it's all gonna be fine you're gonna be okay it's all gonna work out you're we're gonna get through this I know it's hard now but we're gonna get through this and I think by thinking that way things do work out because even when something bad happens you're she's able to spin it into a positive which I think is something that I have been able to take from her and I I think that's, like I was hit by a cement truck, and I'm like, I was able to spit in a positive.

42:23Like I wouldn't have this career if I wasn't hit by that cement truck, you know? You think so? Yeah, for sure. Like I wouldn't have even thought it would be possible to move out here. But after I was hit by the cement truck and then relearned how to walk and do everything that I had to do, and like those step by step by tiny step to get back to being an able-bodied person, I think I was able to have the confidence in myself to move out here. When before, we didn't know anyone in California. So I think it just would have been a crazy thought to even entertain. And also my parents, I was hit by the cement truck, so they're like, you're good, whatever.

43:11You didn't die. If you want to move to California and just obviously be a burnout. You think they thought that? I know you're going to move to Venice and grow white guy dreadlocks and just have dirty feet and just scat everywhere you go. That's what I'm sure my dad thought was going to happen. Was there a moment that was kind of the biggest turning point during that recovery process? You know, I don't really remember like a it was such a slow steady like Now I'm on crutches and now and then now I could like sort of walk but in my house to where like I knew I could get from my desk to my bed because that's five steps and I can fall into the bed and then In the hallway I knew that I could if I needed to I could brace myself And then and then from there, you know, you get walking around the house good enough and then you're like, okay take it to the streets and then I'd be like in school in the wheelchair and be like okay I'm gonna get up I'm gonna walk from here to that desk and then I could sit down.

44:17And classmates were pretty good right and you had a buddy that I mean there was one kid that was a bit of a but you had a buddy that kind of had permission to be like your bodyguard. Oh yeah I had a bunch of friends that were sort of my little bit of a protector but it was great even Even though middle school kids can be viciously mean, you will never be more hated than if you beat up the crippled kid, and I knew that. So, like, I was talking my , dude. Were you? Yeah, man. Like, what would you say? Try to take me down. I got freaking quips. I would, like, write notebooks full of, like, epic slams to make fun of someone.

45:00Genuinely. Specifically, if, like, a kid were to make fun of me about XYZ, I would write like a little bit. I can't really remember any now. Do you still have the notebooks? No. I asked my mom where it is and I've looked because I'm like, were they good? I remember being like, you know, you drop a bomb on someone in the sixth grade lunch table and everyone's like, oh, Adam the crippled kid just took him down. I'm like, what's up? Try to swing on me, bitch. I know you won't. I know you won't. I'm crippled. What stands out from calling into the edge? Oh, man, that was the best. That was the best.

45:36You did your research. We tried. Graham, you dog. I think that was, I consider that maybe my, like, break into Hollywood. Why? I would call into this radio station, 101.9, The Edge, and I would call in and I would do different characters and different impressions, but everything was, like, Omaha-specific, and it became like a local hit on the radio station. And they were like, we want you to be part of the drive time hour. And so my mom loaded me into the minivan, drove me downtown, unloaded me, got me in my wheelchair. My legs were extended because my legs couldn't bend at that point. So I'm like wheeling in like this.

46:26And they were like, oh, we can't hire you. You're a crippled child. We thought you were an adult man who was just a funny person. We can't. But they paid me in concert tickets and any giveaway that the radio station had. And any CD. So you want to hook up on Goo Goo Dolls? You want lit? Do you want live? Do you want Seven Mary Three CDs? I got you covered, Graham. You were pretty big into the—you saw the Foo Fighters. a bunch too from what i got foo fighters man and then the video rental store uh hooked you up oh yeah uh-huh yeah main street movies in omaha they would you know from the accident everybody was like does you know we got to give this kid something he's he's fully crippled hit by a cement truck that's a funny truck to get hit by we got to hook him up so i mean good for the town though on a You had a good person, though, in kind of rallying.

47:25Yeah, it was awesome. And the people of Omaha are grade-A people. Lived in Iowa before moved, right before the accident. Yeah, I moved when I was, I think, 10 from Waterloo, Iowa. And just Midwestern people are great. In Omaha specific, they're fantastic. and the movie rental, Main Street movies, gave me as many rentals as I wanted. So I rented every comedy movie imaginable and every action movie imaginable. And we watched so many movies that they ended up revoking it after a couple years. They're like, okay, we gave you enough movies. We said for a lifetime, but you're good. So we've profiled comedians before on the show And, you know, oftentimes there's something really challenging in the past or painful that has connectivity to why they chose their career.

48:26And I guess I wonder, like, have you ever thought about if what you went through then, like, there's a direct line between that and choosing to make people laugh for a profession? Yeah. You know, I don't know if it was like, I'm going to take this pain. Yeah, right. and turn it into laughter. But I think... Taught you the resilience you spoke about. Yeah, and I think I always just loved comedy. And I was like, I thought I was a freak athlete, Graham. I thought I was going to the big leagues, baby. You wanted to be pro baseball player. I wanted to be a pro baseball player. Never made the basketball team, although you got the shoes every year.

49:06Oh, yeah. Yes. But I wanted to be a baseball player. and I was like, I'm, and I was a good little kid baseball player, but you know, you're in fourth grade. So how good actually are you? And, uh, but that was my dream. And then, but then after the accident, obviously I couldn't be a professional baseball player. I couldn't walk. So I knew that dream was dead and that was hard. Uh, but I loved comedy so much. And then when I got on the radio station and I was making people laugh like making adults laugh we would I would do it and my mom I remember she was getting her hair done and the radio station was on and it comes on and my bit is is playing and the people are laughing in the hair salon and my mom's like that's my son that's my son and it was just such a good feeling that like I was making people laugh and I was doing something that people enjoyed.

50:03And yeah, so essentially I, that that was like the launching point of like, oh, I can actually do this. This could be something that I can do, that I can write comedy now. And then when I'm able to stand, I can stand up and do comedy. So I know at some point recently, you know, because of stuff connected to your injuries, there was like, you only had to go a few blocks but you could walk a block then you had to take a taxi a couple blocks or there's been a very joints or with the groin hip ligament and back yeah like what's what's going on there they don't really know and I was having spasms all over and I still kind of do they don't really know for a while they they told me I was dying literally within this last year they told me that they told me I had this disease called stiff person syndrome and that's when your muscles get so tight that you then you can no longer walk you can no longer move then your heart will stop beating because your heart is a muscle and it gets too tight to beat and then you die and so essentially they the average life expectancy is six years for someone that has it and they told me that I have that literally a month before my son Bo was born and so I'm like oh great now I'm gonna die he's gonna be six years old he's only gonna know a crippled father and then they told me we think you might not have that and then six months go by then they're like and it wasn't getting much better and I could only walk a few blocks before I'd get so tight that I couldn't really move anymore uh and they're like we do we actually do think you have it go see the the guy that coined the phrase stiff person syndrome he's the the expert in the field and so I went and saw him and he's like, you don't have it.

51:59You do not have it. He's like, this is from your accident from when you're a child. The spasms are a little unexplainable, but it could just be you got so tight that your body doesn't know what to do with it. So you're misfiring a little bit. And essentially during the pandemic, I worked out so much. I was so bored. You cycle all the time. I have sort of the personality that I have to do things 110%. I can't just, when I do stand-up, I have to do it all day, every day. It has to be my life. When I'm doing a movie, I have to be all in on the movie, on the project. Whatever it is, I kind of do that.

52:37Even if it's a favorite food or song. Yes, if it's a favorite food, I have to, like I went through a rotisserie chicken string. I went through a rotisserie chicken phase. I ate so much rotisserie chicken. I ate it every day. One day I was this is too much information Graham, but whatever let's get dirty and I went and I was taking And I thought I had a tapeworm coming out of me and I was like oh god What is that? I'm like oh and I pull and I pull on a pole and it's still coming out I'm like this is the grossest thing that's ever happened like why am I not skinnier? I had a tapeworm coming out of me and I pull it out.

53:14It's a chicken string Graham a A rotisserie chicken string. I ate the rotisserie chicken so fast that I ate the string that holds it together. So I'm that way, and if I hear a song that I like, I'll just play that song incessantly until other people are like, play another damn song. And I'm like, this is my favorite song right now. I'm gonna play it 3 ,000 times. So I'm just that way. So what was I saying? So you were talking about during the pandemic, exercising constantly and the connectivity to what your health was. Yeah, during the pandemic, I just got into cycling and CrossFit. And so I had all the time in the world.

53:53So I'd go on, I'd ride the bike 40, 45 miles a day. And then I would do a CrossFit workout, which is super intense, jumping, lifting weights over my head. And I think I just got so tight and so tightly wound that my body has all these things that are a little wide. and a little wrong with it that I just sort of snapped. And I think I'm still dealing with it. It's been three years now. And what are you dealing with now? Like, it hurts to sit for too long, it hurts to stand for too long, it hurts to walk for too long. I have to foam roll two or three times a day. I have to do stretches two or three times a day.

54:40How'd the stem cells in Columbia? You know, I think they're kind of working. I don't know. I'm the best I've been now in for the past three years. I'm the best that I like right now, I think is the best I've been. Because it's been like, oh, I'm doing good. And then for whatever reason, I'll tighten back up or something will stiffen. And then all of a sudden I can't walk, can't do the things that I normally could do. But I went and got stem cells in Medellin, Colombia. and I got over my knees and my hips and my back and I really think it's working I had multiple hip surgeries last year because I was told that it was my hips before before we kind of got the diagnosis of it was just from your accident they're like yeah your hips are a little messed up but it shouldn't be causing this amount of pain and I was just in so much pain that I'm like well well, let's figure this out.

55:39Give me hip surgeries. So I had two hip surgeries. And you said hip replacements and knee replacements are inevitable eventually. Yeah, probably down the line I'm going to be a – What's the goal, though, with all the – To be fully bionic. Yeah. Just to have fully fake legs. But just like the goal is to just figure out how to best ease the pain. Yeah. I am. And you know, I'm, it's sort of now when I'm thinking about movies that I want to do, I was always like, I want to be an action star. Cause those are the movies that I liked growing up. It's action and comedy. I'm like, I want to be a comedy action star.

56:18Uh, and, uh, now I'm like, I'm going to be the comedy guy in the action movie with an action star. And he does all the action stuff but I really wanted to be the guy that does it all because I like doing stunts I think it's cool but now I'm I'm sort of trying to walk that line and see what I can do and what I can't I want to run through some luminaries you've crossed paths with over the years okay the first one being and just kind of get what comes to mind uh the time Adam Sandler invited you to smoke a cigar oh yeah I was working the door at the improv and uh I think he just thought I was like a nice kid I'm standing there and I'm probably was just staring at him like oh uh you know he's a legend and a true true hero of mine and he's been a legend for 30 years and so i i was like enamored and he was like do you want to they opened up the cigar shop next door for him and his friends to smoke cigars in and he asked if i wanted to join and i stood in the corner and didn't say a word and like didn't chime in wasn't a part of the conversation wasn't i didn't do anything i just was like oh oh and couldn't believe i was there you know i was like 20 years old or whatever, but it was just cool to see how nice of a guy he was, that he was willing to just see some kid that is staring at him and was able to throw him the olive branch of smoking a cigar that for sure probably made me puke.

57:59By the way, do you need to take a break for? Or says...

58:13The app is now in the Shop -Apotheke-App.

58:41Good to go. Is that the normal routine?

58:49Yeah, Graham. It's your turn. By the way, do you remember the time your parents told you not to have anybody over at the house and then you don't listen and the dog greets the parents when you come back? No. Your mom was telling me this yesterday. Apparently the dog had a condom. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, she told the story wrong. It was I had sex with my girlfriend, high school girlfriend, and I had a condom. And she told me I can't throw that away at the house. And it was a banana-flavored condom. And so I'm like, I'm going to throw it away. but I throw it I put it in my pencil pouch of my backpack bad place to put the condom and I go home and I have to go to the I'm like oh I gotta throw that condom away I was gonna throw it away on the way home but I forgot and I opened it up and I'm like oh I gotta go to the bathroom real quick so no one was home and I go to the bathroom my parents come home and I hear my dog like uh playing I go I'm looking for the condom and I hear my dog playing with something.

1:00:09And my mom goes, what you got there, Maggie? Oh no. What you got there? And she goes, oh my god, Adam? And I'm like, huh? And she comes marching down the hallway and she's holding it. And she's like, what is this? What is this? And I go, it's a condom? And she goes, is this yours? And I go, no. And she goes, yes, it is. And I go, no. But I knew that she knew that I have condoms and probably was having sex with my girlfriend. And I go, no. I wasn't ready to own up to the condom. So I go, no, mine wasn't yellow like a banana. Mine was red like an apple. What? What kind of cover is that, dude? Red like an apple?

1:00:59and she was like, this is disgusting. And then, no, poor, poor woman. And then she like, washed her hands, I'm sure, I hope. And then she's down in the laundry room and she's crying and I have to go be like, I'm so sorry. Like, you know, I wasn't sorry but I'm like, come here. And she's like, you're not my little boy anymore. I'm like, that's right, I'm a man. I'm a man. All right, So we were talking about folks you've, or luminaries you've crossed paths with, somebody you've worked with a number of occasions, Zac Efron. Did he ever end up staying here? No, dude. He calls me, there's a few, maybe six months ago now, but he was like, we're on this text chain, me, Aubrey, Anna, and Zac, and our director, Jake Sivansky.

1:01:55and so Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza, Zac Efron, Jake Szymanski, myself were on this text chain. For whatever reason, I think Mike and Dave is airing a lot on TV and it's on Max or something and people are watching it a lot now. And so we were texting like, oh yeah, just ran into someone, they told us about Mike and Dave. Yeah, oh yeah, this happened to me, this happened to me. And then Zac calls me, hasn't called me in a couple years. and calls me out of the blue. He's on some private island somewhere. And he's like, hey, man, I just want to let you know that I miss you. And I'm like, I miss you too, dude.

1:02:34You're a good friend of mine, yada, yada. And he's like, you still have that place down by the beach? And I'm like, I do. And he's like, would it be cool if I came and crashed with you for two weeks? And I'm like, yeah, no, yeah, yeah, sure. Yeah. Yeah. Come stay with me. And he's like, all right. I'm going to call you tomorrow to get all the details. And then I'll be there early next week. Okay. And then you'll send me the address and all that. I'm like, all right. And so I come back in. I'm like, Chloe, I think Zach's going to come live here with us for a couple weeks. I don't know. And she's like, okay.

1:03:11Yeah, I guess so. And then he ghosted me, dude. Never called. Never called back. I even texted him like, are you going to stay here? and haven't talked with him since. So I have no idea, dude. No idea. Neighbors premiere. You're at an after party in a hotel room. Set the scene and tell about Crossing Pass with Danny McBride. Yeah, so I'm at this after party of the movie, and we're in a hotel room, and so Seth Rogen is obviously the star of the movie. We had a little cameo in the movie and he... You and Seth liked that fun. Yeah, and so I'm trying to go toe-to-toe with Seth smoking weed and I can smoke weed, but I can't smoke weed like Seth Rogen, obviously.

1:04:07No, dude. I mean, he's a chimney. He's just like, that's how his air that he breathes is weed smoke. And you prefer booze or weed? I like them both. Okay. I like them both, Graham. But I can't smoke like him, you know? And so I'm going toe-to-toe, and I'm like cross-eyed. I'm like, how's you? I'm doing great. And then through the smoke emerges the legend that is Danny McBride, and he's on my Mount Rushmore of comedy heroes. Like, he's fantastic. I love the guy. And why? What made him that for you? Well, Eastbound and Down and Foot Fist Way, his movie that he made before Eastbound and Down. I remember we watched it when we were still doing sketches, me and the workaholics guys.

1:04:58And we were doing sketches, and Anders comes in, and on our day that we would write the sketches, Wednesdays, and he came in and was like, we have to watch this movie. He had a friend that was an agent, and he was like, these guys, evidently this is the movie that's the talk of Hollywood. And we're like, okay. and so we watched the movie and then we watched it right back and then from there we were like those guys seem like us like it's not like Will Ferrell seems bigger than life he was on SNL he was like part of the machine that is SNL and then they launched you thought we kind of thought you had to do something else before you could get your shot and he for us Danny was the the blueprint of how to go about it outside of the system.

1:05:47So Danny emerges from this cloud of smoke, and I'm so excited to meet him, and he's a hero of mine. So I go, you're Danny McBride! And he's like, I know. And I don't know why I thought this was a cool thing to say to him or even a thing to say to anyone. I go, you're a bright shooting star. That's what I said to Danny McBride. You're a bright shooting star. And he goes, yeah, man. And I grabbed my girlfriend at the time, and I was like, we have to leave. And she's like, why? I'm having fun. And I go, I just called Dana McBride a bright shooting star. And she's like, you're right. Let's go. Let's get out of here.

1:06:29So did you think when you realized you could be up for Righteous Gemstones, there was any shot? Yeah, well, it kind of came out of the blue. They were like, hey, they're interested in you for Righteous Gemstones, this show that Danny McBride is putting together. And I'm like... Now, did you have that in the back of your head? Oh, dude, I was like, me? He's thinking about me? I called him a bright shooting star. He's going to think I'm a total nerd. And luckily, Danny, I think, was also pretty stoned at this party because he doesn't really... He kind of remembers it, but he was like, yeah, I don't remember you being as awkward as you think you were.

1:07:04So I'm like, thank God. But because in my head, I was like, don't, you're a bright shooting star! You know, and in his head, I was like, what's up, Danny? Nice to meet you. So thank God. And then I got offered Righteous Gemstones, and here we are four seasons later. Okay, so you talked about this before. You like to have a good time. You'll burn the candle at both ends. Sure. Ever get to be too much? Not yet. You know, it's different now because I have a one-year-old son. so you just can't there's no like hangovers suck now they used to kind of suck but you're like well whatever you just go get brunch I'm gonna cure with the curtains the what you had some oh I lack out oh I'm black every room I'm in has to be blacked out but yeah you I'm like you just deal with it it's totally fine and I don't really get that bad of hangovers but when a child wakes you up at 6 a.m.

1:08:04and like we used to bring him in between the two of us early in the mornings and hopefully he would go back to sleep and we could get another 30 or 40 minutes but now he's like like goes over the pillow he just smiles in your face and you're like one you just feel horrible you're like I'm a dirtbag for being hung over in front of this sweet innocent baby and two you just don't you have responsibilities now so now I I don't I don't nearly party like But in fairness to you too, you were conscious enough of where that line is or was even back then, right? I mean, because you talked about, you know, your peers who you saw at the comedy club back in the day who wouldn't grind like you.

1:08:47Oh, sure, sure, sure. It's something that you were always aware of. Like, where's the... Well, my mom, they never really minded that I smoked weed. Like, because I even smoked in high school. and they were just like, we don't want you to be a burnout. That was my mom's biggest fear. She was like, don't be a burnout. Have ambition. Go after your dreams. So that was always in the back of my head of like, you could have fun, but handle your s***. And pick your spots too. I was never the type of guy that would wake up and smoke weed all day long or drink all day long or whatever it was all day long.

1:09:26It was like, no, I have stuff to do. So I'll smoke weed when I'm done with the stuff that I have to do. Exercise has also been a pretty consistent theme in your life. Let's just say I'm a freak athlete. You flexible? Is that what that is? You hired Chris Pratt's trainer at one point, right? I did, yeah. I had his trainer. I had his nutritionist. I'm like, do whatever you did to that schlub to turn him into that. I want you to do that to me and they failed they failed with me but No, I that was during Mike and Dave and I got in great shape. I just didn't want to be I'm Zac Efron's older brother.

1:10:10I just didn't want to be his fat older brother You know, I wanted it to look like we might be in the same gene pool And that's just kind of how it goes for me I'll get in like really good shape and then I'll let it go for a couple years and then tighten it back up and And I always kind of want to be within a few months of being in good shape. You really will feel like you'll let it go? I never let it go to where you're like, woo! Yeah. But I feel like, yeah, I'll, you know, eat and drink too much over the holidays or whatever, and then rein it back in. How's having a kid changed your life? It hasn't.

1:10:50Piece of cake. It's the best. You know, I kind of thought I would like it. But I love it way more than I thought I would. Really? I knew I would like it. Just because I like kids and I like playing with kids. I'm like, it seems like it'd be a fun thing. But it's like, I get such a kick out of it. It's just the best. And especially now that he's like one and he has like a real personality. I was going to say, what makes it better than you expected? He's just so much fun to kick it with. He's like a funny guy. and he will do little bits with you, he's hilarious. I'm like, this guy, I'm going to mold him, Graham, to be the funniest little guy.

1:11:33I'm going to stick him on the improv stage at like three. And he's like, ah! I can't wait. I'm just so excited for him to grow up. If he came to you one day and was like, Dad, I want to do comedy. People that, actors or comedians or whoever, that are like, I would never let my child be in this business. I'm like, well, then you don't like your job. I think it's the best job in the world. I'm like, I'm living my dream life with my dream family, and I have the best job in the world. Like, why wouldn't you want that for your child? We can end there? Yeah. Thanks for doing this. Thanks, buddy. Yeah, this was fun.

1:12:13It was pretty painless, right? Yeah. Anything I did not ask that? No, you covered the jizz in the bathtub. So that was important. What I left out was when your parents went to watch a DVD in their bedroom. Do you hear that story? No, what is that? They realized another DVD was in there, and your mom said it was called Boobs, Boobs, Boobs. Yeah, that checks out. Yeah, there you go. That does it for my chat with Adam Devine. As always, the sit-down was just one part of our day with him in Orange County, California. We also talked with his wife, Chloe, who shared insight into their family life. Plus, Adam took us out on a boat, which I quite stupidly used as an opportunity to convince him to jump with me off the roof, many feet down, into the frigid Pacific waters.

1:13:14And I might also add that I once again stupidly did not have appropriate swim attire for the affair. If you want to check out more of our time with him, head over to youtube.com slash Graham Bensinger. If you get a chance, leave the podcast a rating and review. Thanks again for listening.

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