A Smokey Eye & A Whiz Whiz (w/ Stavros Halkias)

On this episode of Staying Alive, hosts Jon Gabrus and Adam Pally sit down with the hilarious and thoughtful Stavros “Stavvy” Halkias (Stavvy’s World, Cum Town, Bugonia) to discuss his experience being on “The Juice,” the problem with having three years of awesome days in a row, internalized fatphobia, getting the call from Yorgos Lanthimos, and building a stand-up career out of spite. We really get into it about addiction to all kinds of things this episode, this is a good one.

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This episode was recorded October 15, 2025 at SiriusXM studios in New York City

Special thanks to Jared O’Connell and Casey Holford

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: Vince McMahon, Starry, beef tallow, Marriott, food noise, Yorgos Lanthimos, Sober October, Wegovy, Zepbound, seafood tower at Mastro’s, Cum Town, crowd work, therapy, Tren, SCRUFF, weed, booze, food, Liza Treyger, Bobby Kelly, Tom Papa, Venice Film Festival, The Rock

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