STAYING ALIVE: Will Arnett, Part 1!
2/26/202642 min
Hey, Smarties! Please enjoy the first half of this hilarious, in-depth interview with Will Arnett on SmartLess Media’s show Staying Alive! Hosts Jon Gabrus and Adam Pally (101 Places To Party Before You Die) sit down with Will to ask him about keeping in shape, cutting out sugar, viral podcast clips, and the nuts and bolts of making his new film, Is This Thing On? Plus, Pally has a text exchange with Will that he’d like to ask him about, and Gabrus might have to buy new budgie smugglers.
Go to the Staying Alive feed HERE for Part 2!
Full video episodes available HERE.
Check out Will’s movie Is This Thing On? HERE.
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This episode was recorded February 5, 2026 on the information superhighway
Staying Alive is produced by Devon Torrey Bryant and Anne Harris
Engineered and edited by Devon Torrey Bryant, who also wrote the music
Associate producer and video editor is Maddie McCann
Executive produced by Jon Gabrus, Adam Pally, Sean Hayes, Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Bernie Kaminski, and Rich Korson
Keywords for this episode: Tony Stark, Castaway, Springsteen, Romesh Ranganathan, tattoos, budgie smugglers, Rubirosa, CAA, New Zealand, metric system, sushi, street fighting, Basil Hayden, Zyn, nicotine, OnlyFans, Tom Hanks, Wes Anderson, Bradley Cooper, Bob Castrone, The Comedy Cellar, prop comedy, Tony Gilroy, Pedro Pascal
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Jon Gabrus· Host1:14
Hey, Smartless listeners, it's John Gabrus, one of the hosts of Staying Alive, a health and wellness podcast hosted by the unhealthy and unwell. That's Adam Pally and I. And we've got Will Arnett on our pod today. We got to spend some QT interviewing our podfather,