01-30-26 - Adam Ferrara - Desert Ridge Improv - In Studio

Summary

Podcast Summary: Holmberg's Morning Sickness — Adam Ferrara In Studio

Episode: 01-30-26
Date: January 30, 2026
Host: John Holmberg (with Brady Bogen, Bret Vesely, Dick Toledo)
Guest: Adam Ferrara (Desert Ridge Improv)

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Episode Overview

Comedian and actor Adam Ferrara returns to the HMS studio for a candid, hilarious, and occasionally irreverent conversation with John Holmberg and the crew. While promoting his standup shows at Desert Ridge Improv, Adam banters about the perils of aging, physical ailments, the peculiarities of society, family quirks, brushes with fame, and the realities of life as a comedian and performer. The episode is heavy on personal anecdotes, sharp observational humor, and a behind-the-scenes peek at both Adam’s career and the bizarre listener-submitted videos the show is infamous for.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Aging, Health, and Comedy in the Golden Years

• The segment opens with Adam and John joking about birthdays, aging, and the ever-increasing physical costs of getting older.
  • Quote:
    "When does the wisdom show up in your life? When does that happen? I'm the same idiot I've always been, but now my knees hurt. That's it." — Adam Ferrara (02:03)
  • Adam and John share a litany of modern "old man" injuries (sleep injuries, standing still pain), and compete over whose joint replacements are better.
  • The hosts and Adam agree they're all playing "prevent defense," exercising only to stave off decline.

Society’s Oddities & Listener-Sent Shock Videos

• Holmberg and the crew subject Adam to their notorious segment of gross, bizarre, and usually NSFW listener-submitted videos.
  • Adam provides live commentary while viewing, initially horrified and then trying to make sense of people’s behavior.
  • Quote:
    "Look, I believe in humanity. I'm discovering that people suck. But as a whole, the idea looks good on paper." — Adam Ferrara (04:05)
  • The bit spirals into a comedic examination of why people do these things, the prevalence of deviant behavior, and the universal search for "normalcy."
  • Ferrara jokes he’s “cured” from internet use forever after the onslaught.
  • Quote:
    "You know what that cured? That cured me ever going on the Internet again." — Adam Ferrara (10:01)

Family, Childhood, and Learning to Make People Laugh

• Adam and the hosts reminisce about the influence of early comedy albums, radio shows, and making parents laugh as a bonding tool.
  • Discusses parents presenting different faces at home and in public; stories about their unique and sometimes hilariously abrupt approaches to the "birds and bees" and other life talks.
  • Quote:
    "This was it. My father walked in my room with, 'Adam, don't kiss guys.' Jesus Christ. That was it. You're on your own." — Adam Ferrara (15:02)
• Adam delves into childhood ADD and dyslexia, and the comic misunderstandings this created in his Italian-American household.

Personal Anecdotes: Sexuality, Appearances, and Family Expectations

• John shares being mistaken for a girl due to long hair, and both he and Adam laugh about their fathers suspecting they might be gay based on stereotypical cues.
  • “I wish I was gay, but I was born this way.” — John (18:14)

Life as a Performer: Fame, Recognition, and Funny Encounters

• Adam discusses what it’s actually like to be “sort of famous”—people squinting at him in Walgreens, being recognized but not remembered.
  • Quote:
    "I'm not famous, but people know me. So I get the intrusion on financial benefit. Isn't that lovely? But it's fine..." — Adam Ferrara (27:04)
  • Both Adam and John share stories of mistaken identity, including a woman convinced John is adult film star Johnny Sins.
  • The group lampoons the odd social currency of having your photo taken with "somebody," even if you don’t know who they are.

Comedy Industry: Breaks, Resilience, and Serendipity

• Adam revisits his almost-casting in “The Sopranos”— auditioned around ten times but never landed a part.
  • Notes that those repeated auditions built his nerve for later, higher-stakes roles.
  • Shares how similar rituals led to landing his part on “Nurse Jackie,” reading scene partners and eventually being “called back” by Edie Falco herself.
  • Quote:
    "So you just keep shoveling coal into the engine. ... The direction of your life is going to happen when you're not even in the room." — Adam Ferrara (25:38–25:45)
  • Discussion about how entertainment career paths are increasingly unpredictable—keep “throwing things at the wall.”

Brushes with Legends

• Adam tells stories about meeting comedy heroes:
  • Meeting Richard Pryor at the American Comedy Awards and being personally complimented.
    • “He just saw my clip. ... He looks at me, goes, 'Effing funny.'” — Adam Ferrara (33:43)
  • Opening for George Carlin, the process, nerves, and Carlin’s grace and generosity.
  • Doing a benefit for politicians, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, and breaking the ice with brutal honesty.
• John and Adam both reminisce about what it feels like to meet true heroes, and the rarefied, surreal air of those encounters.

Final Banter and Plugs

• Adam notes his shows at Desert Ridge Improv, enduring another round of the show’s outrageous videos as the price of reappearing.
  • Quote:
    "It's the second day I'm here. I'm coming in to sell tickets. I get Asian vomit. This is what I get." — Adam Ferrara (18:27)
• Adam jokes about his plans for a "no pants" Monday back home with his wife, closing the episode on a typically irreverent and personal note.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "When does the wisdom show up in your life? I'm the same idiot I've always been, but now my knees hurt." — Adam (02:03)
• "Look, I believe in humanity. I'm discovering that people suck. But as a whole, the idea looks good on paper." — Adam (04:05)
• “You know what that cured? That cured me ever going on the Internet again.” — Adam (10:01)
• "I'm not famous, but people know me." — Adam (27:04)
• "He looks at me, goes, 'Effing funny.'" — Adam, on Richard Pryor (33:43)
• “I wish I was gay, but I was born this way.” — John (18:14)
• "So you just keep shoveling coal into the engine. ... The direction of your life is going to happen when you're not even in the room." — Adam (25:38–25:45)
• "It's the second day I'm here. I'm coming in to sell tickets. I get Asian vomit. This is what I get." — Adam (18:27)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 02:00–03:00 — Aging, injuries, and fake joints humor
• 04:00–07:00 — Adam reacts to infamous HMS shock videos
• 13:00–16:00 — Comedy influences, family, and making parents laugh
• 15:02 — Adam's dad gives him the world's shortest "birds and bees" talk
• 18:00–19:00 — Joking about gay stereotypes, home life, and neighbor envy
• 21:33–22:48 — Adam’s endless “Sopranos” auditions and career perseverance
• 25:38–26:00 — On perseverance and serendipity in show business
• 33:40–34:50 — Meeting Pryor, Carlin, and the significance of their approval

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Tone and Style

The episode is brash, irreverent, warm, and riff-heavy, with the hosts and guest volleying quick jokes, sharp observations, and occasionally dark or gross-out humor in the show's trademark style. Adam Ferrara blends perfectly with the crew, contributing both humility about his career and fast, self-deprecating wit.

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Summary Takeaways

Listeners get a front-row seat to the unvarnished reality of modern standup, American families, and the weirdness of contemporary culture, all filtered through the comic lens of Adam Ferrara and the HMS crew. Fans of comedy, storytelling, and raw, rolling morning radio will find a lot to savor—and some things they probably can't unsee.

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For tickets to Adam Ferrara’s shows:
Desertridgeimprov.com

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Transcript

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[Adam Ferrara]

The old method of treatment for a person in this condition was to throw him in jail.

[John Holmer]

Oh, we just got to serenaded. It was beautiful. Adam Ferrara's back once again. We had the the lovely visit with Adam yesterday's at Desert Ridge Improv this weekend. And we said hey, you know, if we didn't move any tickets, come back tomorrow. And here you are.

[Adam Ferrara]

We had a great night. We had a great night last. Think Friday. Two of them are sold out. This crazy. I. What? I can't. I can't come back. Cuz I love you.

[John Holmer]

We love you. But this is silly. You should get some sleep.

[Adam Ferrara]

That's good night. It's Brady's birthday.

[John Holmer]

It's Brady's birthday on Friday.

[Adam Ferrara]

Hey, Brady.

[John Holmer]

And we got you a gift. It's him.

[Adam Ferrara]

That's it.

[John Holmer]

Enjoy it.

[Adam Ferrara]

I'm going to jump out of the next day. Adams is the second Monday.

[John Holmer]

Oh, yours is Monday. How about that?

[Adam Ferrara]

How old are you?

[John Holmer]

Can we ask?

[Adam Ferrara]

This is the oldest I've ever been.

[John Holmer]

Yeah, I know. Isn't it Crazy terrible. Is it?

[Adam Ferrara]

When does the wisdom show up in your life? When does that happen? I'm the same idiot I've always been, but now my knees hurt. That's it.

[John Holmer]

Yeah. Sleep can hurt you now.

[Adam Ferrara]

Wow.

[Underdog Fantasy Announcer]

Yeah.

[John Holmer]

I pulled a muscle, I think, standing still yesterday.

[Adam Ferrara]

Really?

[John Holmer]

I was standing next to someone. I'm like, ah. And he goes, what's wrong? I don't know. My shoulder just decided it doesn't want to be a shoulder anymore.

[Adam Ferrara]

I don't know what this pain is, but it's like, I'm going to be moving around. Yeah.

[John Holmer]

And I. And I started to, like, roll it. And he's like, you didn't move. And I'm like, I have no idea.

[Adam Ferrara]

Why that happened, but you know you're in trouble when you're hurting yourself thinking, yeah, yeah.

[John Holmer]

Well, that's what just happened. That has never been my problem.

[Adam Ferrara]

I was. I working out, and I realized I'm working out so things don't get worse.

[John Holmer]

Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

Yeah. We're all in the prevent defense.

[John Holmer]

We're in the umbrella. We're the umbrella zone right now.

[Additional Guest]

One fall away.

[John Holmer]

Yeah. I got two fake shoulders and two fake hips.

[Adam Ferrara]

Really? I got a fake hip. I got pretty nice. Yeah.

[John Holmer]

It's not bad.

[Adam Ferrara]

A bone didn't form when I was born.

[John Holmer]

That's the same thing. Well, you had a different one than me, but mine was mine. I. I don't want to brag. My bones were too big for the holes they were in.

[Adam Ferrara]

Huh.

[John Holmer]

So they had to cut us off. That's true.

[Adam Ferrara]

I have to hear this story.

[John Holmer]

Yeah. He. I tell it the same way because it's the truth, and that tends to bother people.

[Adam Ferrara]

Bones were too big for the bones.

[John Holmer]

And my shoulders and my hips were. Were too big for the joints. Ah. So over time.

[Adam Ferrara]

Right.

[John Holmer]

They wore.

[Adam Ferrara]

Whittled away. Yeah. Yeah. So mine. The right. The right. Like the ball and soccer joint. The ball was, like, mushroomed. Yeah. So they put me in a brace and.

[John Holmer]

Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

I was walking around, you know, it's brutal. I'm deaf.

[John Holmer]

You know, it's dragging.

[Adam Ferrara]

Your Esmeralda thinks I'm cute.

[John Holmer]

Let's show. Let's show Adam the way the world works on.

[Adam Ferrara]

Hold it, hold it.

[John Holmer]

We have to do this for you. We do this for our guests who make second appearances. And Brad knows. Look at the smirk on Brad's face.

[Adam Ferrara]

What is he laughing?

[Additional Guest]

And we go through it.

[Underdog Fantasy Announcer]

Wait a minute.

[Adam Ferrara]

Captain Mountain Dew is getting excited.

[John Holmer]

Yeah. Yeah. He's all amped up on Mountain Dew. Yeah. All right, so the videos will Be right here. And this is. This is. You're not a big fan of society, right?

[Adam Ferrara]

As a whole, I. Look, I believe in humanity. I'm discovering that people suck. But as a whole, the idea looks good on paper.

[John Holmer]

Everybody see a lot of hole. Everybody stay quiet and let Adam please do play by play of what you're seeing.

[Adam Ferrara]

For the rest of you, all right, There's a lady overexposed. Too much light. And there's looks like another. She just threw up in this woman's lap. And the woman's just sitting there.

[Additional Guest]

Here is volume.

[Brett Vesely]

What.

[Adam Ferrara]

First of of all, what did she. What? Why would you. All right, look at this. What is this called? Is this called. Is this called bulimia or not?

[John Holmer]

What is this called? UCLA sorority house. It's between math homework. Look. Now it's sexy.

[Additional Guest]

It's laptop.

[Adam Ferrara]

It's laptop.

[John Holmer]

They're naked now.

[Adam Ferrara]

I got up for this.

[John Holmer]

We told you.

[Adam Ferrara]

No, no, no.

[John Holmer]

Br thinks that. That's a fish. You're shoving it around a fish. Fish fillet like a raw fish. This is.

[Adam Ferrara]

I'm done.

[John Holmer]

We're in a city of five and a half million people, right? This is going on somewhere out here. No. Yes, it is.

[Adam Ferrara]

Why bring it in here?

[John Holmer]

I don't know. It's because we need to remind ourselves that we're normal.

[Adam Ferrara]

Listen, listen. If the one thing we're not is normal, we're better than that. Yeah, we're somewhere on the vibrational scale.

[John Holmer]

Brett, hit it. All right, let me show you another one.

[Adam Ferrara]

There's more.

[Brett Vesely]

Oh, there's a different one.

[John Holmer]

Yeah, this is. This is a new practice that's going around the Internet. This is Friday. Dark, dark wood.

[Adam Ferrara]

Just wait, just listen. No, no. Why would I do.

[John Holmer]

No. We got driverless cars in this now.

[Adam Ferrara]

What are you. I gotta go.

[John Holmer]

Yeah, me too.

[Adam Ferrara]

I gotta go and I gotta sneeze. I don't know what a lady.

[Additional Guest]

Snort navage.

[Adam Ferrara]

What are we.

[John Holmer]

We're bored as people. Yeah. You're telling me that there was a God at one point that got tired of our behavior at Sodom and there was a God. This isn't enough.

[Adam Ferrara]

No, there was a. There's a God looking down like. And sitting here. I got to start a group of monkeys. I can't.

[Additional Guest]

It's getting close to reset again.

[John Holmer]

Like, he flooded it once because we.

[Brett Vesely]

Were out of control about the amazing party trick. Well, this is from last year.

[John Holmer]

Okay.

[Brett Vesely]

Oh, this is an amazing party trick.

[John Holmer]

This is actually. This is beautiful women. And one is being probed. Analy. Oh, come On. Watch this, watch this, watch this, watch this. This is something you've never seen ever in your life.

[Brett Vesely]

Watch.

[John Holmer]

It's incredible. How about that?

[Adam Ferrara]

Is that an egg? She's a mammal.

[John Holmer]

It's a woman, actually.

[Adam Ferrara]

All right, I'm gone.

[John Holmer]

Pooping. Pooping a sex toy into another woman.

[Adam Ferrara]

Here's what I got to do.

[John Holmer]

I got.

[Adam Ferrara]

I got to go to the news station.

[John Holmer]

I can't do.

[Adam Ferrara]

I'm gonna go sit. I gotta go. Go somewhere else.

[Byron from MMP Guns]

Good enough.

[Adam Ferrara]

That's good. Oh, my God.

[John Holmer]

Yeah. This is what we get from our listeners every week. Multiple videos. And that's why I have now become convinced that in large cities at your crowd tonight, over at Desert Ridge Improv, see Adam Farrar. If you want to go Friday, Saturday.

[Adam Ferrara]

That'S where you put the plug.

[John Holmer]

Hey, that's exactly right. Desert ridgemphrop.com.

[Adam Ferrara]

Were you talking to Brady? Listen, I know it's your birthday. Where do you think this should go? Should just go between the nose and the ass. Should we just start with it? Where should we put Adam's plug?

[John Holmer]

You've got two shows tonight, two shows tomorrow. One or two shows, one Sunday.

[Adam Ferrara]

Two sh. One, one Sunday. And then I'm going to therapy.

[John Holmer]

Five more shows. And I guarantee you in that audience of one of those five shows is someone who has been through what you've just watched. That is statistically impossible to avoid.

[Adam Ferrara]

All right, all right.

[John Holmer]

Just don't shake hands is what I'm.

[Adam Ferrara]

God bless you.

[John Holmer]

A lot of fist bumping and a lot of high. How are we.

[Brett Vesely]

Got videos on that?

[Adam Ferrara]

Yeah, I'm walking around like a sneeze guard around me like a salad bar.

[Additional Guest]

Imagine one day, you just someone. You see them face to face.

[John Holmer]

They're in the video. It's gonna happen. Yeah, because the weird thing is, we'll get videos like this fairly regularly. We never see the same people doing it twice.

[Adam Ferrara]

Would you do that more than once?

[John Holmer]

Well, if I was into it.

[Brett Vesely]

We had the bald guys.

[Adam Ferrara]

Nobody's into it. Everyone's just saying the word after that is how much. But that's what it is.

[John Holmer]

Crooked pot, crooked lid. You have to find people to ask that question to. And five of them showed up to throw up on that Asian lady.

[Adam Ferrara]

Okay.

[John Holmer]

Would you be one of those.

[Adam Ferrara]

Excuse me, sweetheart.

[John Holmer]

You look sick.

[Adam Ferrara]

You want to make some money?

[John Holmer]

I noticed you at the Indian restaurant. Would you come with me for a second? I got an idea. God.

[Adam Ferrara]

Yeah.

[John Holmer]

That's our world. That's our world.

[Adam Ferrara]

No, no. Don't paint with that big. It's part of our world.

[John Holmer]

That's our world.

[Adam Ferrara]

No, it's most of us. Every garden's got some weeds, all right?

[Additional Guest]

And I'm in denial that that activity right over is not happening here.

[John Holmer]

5 million people. Somewhere out there, somebody's getting barfed on voluntarily.

[Additional Guest]

I don't know. I'm with. I think that's a, that's a paid.

[John Holmer]

You just don't want. Yeah, and I'm saying that somebody's getting paid to do it tonight.

[Additional Guest]

It's Friday.

[Adam Ferrara]

It's Friday. No, I feel bad for it. You know, I feel bad for. Look, that, that's our choice, and we do have the power of choice. It's fate versus free will. That's another discussion.

[John Holmer]

Oh, it's huge. But I, but I, I, I feel.

[Adam Ferrara]

Bad for the guy just trying to make a living. The, the lab assistant of a guy that invented the rectal thermometer showed up for work, and his boss went, look, I got this glass tube filled with deadly mercury. Now what I need you to do. And the guy dropped his pants and went, I got a kid. I got a mortgage.

[John Holmer]

It worked.

[Adam Ferrara]

There we go.

[John Holmer]

And then to find out, we got to sell this to the people. This is too good to keep in just our house.

[Adam Ferrara]

Yeah, but at least that, that is the illusion of the intention of benefiting humanity. This just has.

[John Holmer]

Well, you don't know.

[Adam Ferrara]

Scotchg, maybe.

[John Holmer]

There's medical advances that come from this.

[Adam Ferrara]

There's no advances that come from that.

[John Holmer]

That cured something. You found out that vomiting all over.

[Adam Ferrara]

You know what that cured? That cured me ever going on the Internet again.

[John Holmer]

Well, that's a cure because that's a very dangerous place. Yeah, I, I agree. I just, I don't.

[Adam Ferrara]

Terrifying.

[John Holmer]

Yeah. I don't like looking at. I go to, like, Circle K's and stuff. I see what's going on. Those people, you try to put them.

[Additional Guest]

In a category, I bet you pull in for gas.

[Adam Ferrara]

I need a granola bar. You look at the guy. I know why you're eating that.

[John Holmer]

He's a vomitorium. He's taking a few loads the other way. Yeah, but there you go. Adam Ferrara, Desert Ridge Imp. Improv. Another plug right there. Perfect spot. Tonight, tomorrow, and Sunday. Desert ridgeimprov.com Last night's show went well.

[Adam Ferrara]

Great.

[John Holmer]

Had a lot. I got an email from somebody that said it says, I loved having Adam on yesterday. It was so funny. But I couldn't help but think that it was Mo Sizlak from the Simpsons. That's what he pictured. While you yeah. And then I want to close my eyes and hear what he sees. That's what you forget. People don't know what you look like their own faces out there of it.

[Adam Ferrara]

I. You know what? When I was a kid, you would. You would listen like do you have comedy albums when you were kid. Oh, yeah. Who'd you have?

[John Holmer]

My. My big one. I love. It was weird as a little kid. I like Bob Newhart a lot.

[Adam Ferrara]

The phone calls.

[John Holmer]

Oh, the phone calls were brilliant. Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

Something, something.

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[Podcast Announcer]

Holg's morning sickness.

[John Holmer]

So you didn't even see. Yeah, like the the good parts and then I Just thought that was great. But I was a big one. Richard Pryor and. Yeah, Carlin was huge. Yeah. My mom liked comedy albums.

[Adam Ferrara]

Yeah. The 2000 Year Old Man. Do you.

[John Holmer]

I knew it.

[Adam Ferrara]

I didn't have it, but, yeah, I knew that one. Robert Klein.

[John Holmer]

Oh, Robert Klein. Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

He's a good dude.

[John Holmer]

Yeah, the. Yeah, the comedy albums were pretty awesome and then. But I didn't really know what was going on. I just knew that it was making my house better.

[Brett Vesely]

Yeah.

[John Holmer]

You know what I mean?

[Adam Ferrara]

It's like I wanted to be in that. Where I'm like, look how smart these people.

[John Holmer]

Yeah. Well, that's the reason I started radio, actually.

[Adam Ferrara]

Why my dad would.

[John Holmer]

Like, I told you yesterday, he said he was tense all the time. And when we would go to. He would take me to school in our K5 Blazer. Oh, Brad, you'd have loved it. There you go. And we're driving in this thing. And he had Larry Lujak on. In Chicago on wls. Okay. And he laughed every day. He loved it. Yeah. They had this thing called Animal Stories. Little Tommy. And I was five, Right. And I remember this vividly because I'm like, this is the happiest this guy can be. And it brought me to think, this is where joy lives.

[Additional Guest]

Keep him laughing. Stop touching me.

[John Holmer]

But I associated radio with happiness. Yeah. Yeah. These hand jobs are ridiculous. On the way to school, I'm five crisis.

[Additional Guest]

Really funny.

[John Holmer]

Yeah. So then I'm like, I love radio. And then I got into radio and realized how wrong my dad was.

[Adam Ferrara]

No, but I. I had the same thing. Like, I could make my father laugh.

[John Holmer]

Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

And that was like. I'm like, oh, that's how I fit in.

[John Holmer]

Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

Because you would see, you could see the. The stress just melt away.

[Brett Vesely]

Yeah.

[John Holmer]

And that morning show got him just to be in a different spot. It got him to be himself.

[Adam Ferrara]

Yeah.

[John Holmer]

Because my dad at work, all his friends told me, oh, your dad's hilarious. He wasn't at home.

[Brett Vesely]

No.

[John Holmer]

But he was fun and carefree when he wasn't around those horrible people.

[Adam Ferrara]

That was my mother. My mother was like, there was my mother. Is my mother in the house? And then when the phone rang, everything switched.

[John Holmer]

Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

It'd be like, I'm gonna throw you down a flight of stairs.

[John Holmer]

Hello? Yeah. The house changed dramatically when it wasn't.

[Adam Ferrara]

About us and it was company. My father, too, was like, you never let anyone outside this house know we talk about in here. Pop. The windows are open and you're screaming. They can hear you.

[John Holmer]

How did your parents give you. The talk. What talk? The sex. Birds and bees.

[Adam Ferrara]

This was it. My father walked in my room with Adam. Don't kiss guys.

[John Holmer]

Jesus Christ. That was it.

[Adam Ferrara]

That was it. You're on your own.

[Additional Guest]

It's one thing I gotta tell you.

[John Holmer]

Jesus Christ.

[Adam Ferrara]

That was it.

[John Holmer]

And you followed up with that? Yeah. This is the only. Don't do it. Did you. Was he seeking or seeing a trend that was maybe leading that way that I.

[Adam Ferrara]

Because I. They could fix any. That's why I love cars. My father could fix it. I don't have the. If day go to statement. I hold the light right. You know, But I can make everybody laugh. And I had ADD and no one had. They know what it was when I had it. And there was no knock at all. Yeah, that was the cure was this. Sit down. That was it. And I got dyslexic. Dyslexia. So they didn't know what to do with me. And in second grade they just said, you know, they thought it was gay. Come with us.

[John Holmer]

They were leaning that these. This must be leading them towards gay.

[Adam Ferrara]

I don't fit in. Right. And I'm sitting there going, well, I like this. I go, I guess I'm an artist. I said, I think I'm an artist. He's like, he could be gay. Artists are gay. I'm just saying, like cousin Aldo. Aldo's not gay. He hasn't met the right girl. Yes, he has. And her name is Steve. They're a lovely couple. Leave them alone.

[John Holmer]

They are not roommates. That's a one bedroom apartment.

[Adam Ferrara]

They're not roommates.

[John Holmer]

Steve's on the couch. Yeah, there's my dad for sure. Thought I was gay for a while.

[Adam Ferrara]

Okay.

[John Holmer]

Because I wouldn't talk to him about girls because he embarrassed me. And then.

[Adam Ferrara]

But how old were you?

[John Holmer]

He had a long blonde. I'm pretty sure the. He was convinced I wasn't gay after the wedding.

[Additional Guest]

Well, one of the good co workers.

[John Holmer]

Well, that was. That wasn't gay so much.

[Brett Vesely]

What about the ruler story?

[John Holmer]

Well, that's a different thing too. I had a longer blonde hair, right. And my dad was in construction, major, like big, built like stadiums and stuff. And he would take me to the. On weekends. And I'd had a remote control car once.

[Adam Ferrara]

Wow.

[John Holmer]

And I could run this. It was a Camaro Z28. Could run this thing hundreds of.

[Podcast Announcer]

Sure.

[John Holmer]

You know, it was an awesome space for a kid with a remote controls. I'm running around my long blonde hair there and my dad's friend's there and he goes, how old's your daughter? And I just heard, ah, Jesus Christ. And we get in the car, and he goes, you get your haircut. I'm like, what? Cut your hair off today? Everybody thinks you're a girl. I'm like, oh. And then I heard him once. We were on a fishing trip, and I was sitting on a stream, and it was a little rock between me and my sister and dad were on the other side of the rock. They didn't know I was there. And it kind of echoed through this, like, little cavern stream. And I just heard my dad night. And then I hear him go, it's okay if he's gay. Just have him tell me.

[Additional Guest]

Yeah.

[John Holmer]

I'm like, oh, no.

[Adam Ferrara]

Yeah.

[John Holmer]

But then I had to, like. Then I had, like, really small shorts, socks pulled up past my knees, and.

[Adam Ferrara]

A half shirt on and a boyfriend and.

[John Holmer]

And the guy. That was. That I took on the trip with us. Yeah, but it was dad.

[Adam Ferrara]

I'm not gay, but this is Trevor.

[John Holmer]

He's a nice kid. Yeah, he was pretty sure.

[Adam Ferrara]

You know, I get the upkeep.

[John Holmer]

I got.

[Adam Ferrara]

I got gay friends, and the upkeep is too much.

[John Holmer]

It's way too much.

[Adam Ferrara]

The gym, the plucking, the dress, the dressing.

[John Holmer]

The house has to be spotless a lot. Yeah, it's a lot. Can't leave beer cans anywhere. They lose their mind. I have gay neighbors, and their house is just imagine immaculate constantly.

[Brett Vesely]

So are they. Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

And kind.

[John Holmer]

Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

I'm like, there's pressures.

[John Holmer]

Best neighbors ever. But they also have two massive incomes. Yeah. And that's a benefit.

[Adam Ferrara]

Okay.

[John Holmer]

And they both like football.

[Adam Ferrara]

Can I live with them?

[John Holmer]

That's what I'm saying.

[Adam Ferrara]

I don't have to clean. I can watch the game.

[John Holmer]

I wish I was gay, but I was born this way.

[Adam Ferrara]

Yeah. I'm sorry. I can't.

[John Holmer]

Yeah, I can't switch. But it seems like a pretty fiscally smart operation they got going on. Got a couple houses. They're always going on vacations. I'm humping it.

[Adam Ferrara]

Yeah. It's the second day I'm here. I'm coming in to sell tickets. I get Asian vomit. This is what I get.

[John Holmer]

Well, you know, that's gonna move some people. Promise them those videos. We sell out a show every year for the top 10 videos of the year. Pack the place, sell it out in seconds. We don't even have to get up and do other shows.

[Adam Ferrara]

It's terrifying.

[John Holmer]

It's great. We go on the news and tell them, you got to go do news tv.

[Adam Ferrara]

No, I did what I did already. I didn't. I won yesterday.

[John Holmer]

Who'd you do?

[Adam Ferrara]

Oh, not. I didn't radio again yesterday.

[John Holmer]

Oh, yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

Brad puts me in a car and takes me.

[John Holmer]

What are the shows? Oh, you did the country show?

[Adam Ferrara]

Country show.

[John Holmer]

They gotta hate you over there.

[Adam Ferrara]

Thank you.

[John Holmer]

I'm just saying, why don't you wander in there? You're one of them.

[Podcast Announcer]

Oh, my God.

[Adam Ferrara]

We got a Yankee coming up after this, after the Squarespace spot.

[Additional Guest]

You hear his mouth?

[John Holmer]

Well, they got to automatically assume New York. You're like a socialist, and they're just gonna attack you the entire time.

[Adam Ferrara]

We won't care for everybody. We gotta keep the sames with the sames and the difference with the difference.

[John Holmer]

We got Adam Farrar on this morning. Pretty sure he's for Sharia law.

[Adam Ferrara]

You don't. You don't sound like he's from Scottsdale.

[John Holmer]

Yeah. Do you find that, though, across the country, that the accent? Sometimes. No, because we had some people calling. Listen, if that guy ever comes back on, take his Sharia law and shove.

[Adam Ferrara]

It up, for God's sake. You bring that guy down.

[Additional Guest]

You have that man, Damian.

[John Holmer]

Yeah. I just didn't know if that was like a. That's a big audience for you.

[Adam Ferrara]

I. It's. You know what? It's making people laugh.

[Additional Guest]

It's like.

[John Holmer]

I guess it's universal.

[Adam Ferrara]

It's pretty easy. It's not easy, but it's. I. I know it's what I'm supposed to do. I know. Fixing cars. That ain't it.

[John Holmer]

That ain't it. Looking at him.

[Adam Ferrara]

Looking at him's good. And I can drive questionably. Drive him at high speeds.

[John Holmer]

But, hey, you got through it so far.

[Adam Ferrara]

Yeah.

[John Holmer]

Right. But.

[Adam Ferrara]

But I knew that this is what I wanted to do, or I knew I belonged when I first did stand up, because I got that. Oh, okay. This is the feeling. Yeah. And I don't know how long they're gonna let me stay here.

[John Holmer]

Yeah. Keep going until they kick out.

[Adam Ferrara]

I was 20. I'll say. 21. 22. July 13, 1988.

[John Holmer]

You never. You never find it. What do you think you would have been doing?

[Adam Ferrara]

I would have been sitting in the back of my uncle's Pontiac holding a bat, hoping nothing goes wrong.

[John Holmer]

You'd have gotten. You'd have been one of the guys.

[Adam Ferrara]

You know, there was.

[John Holmer]

That was the path.

[Adam Ferrara]

It was construction.

[John Holmer]

Was it?

[Adam Ferrara]

Or it was. You know, I'm an entrepreneur, businessman, an earner businessman.

[John Holmer]

You don't like reason to know. Yeah. Were you?

[Adam Ferrara]

I'm a Union delegate.

[John Holmer]

You were surrounded by that.

[Adam Ferrara]

It was there. It was in the. It was in my family. We were. I, I. I grew up. I basically grew up in a crime family without the money, power, or influence.

[John Holmer]

Just.

[Adam Ferrara]

Just the fear and paranoia and the culture.

[John Holmer]

Rico was around the corner, but we're.

[Adam Ferrara]

Not sure if you did it. Yeah. So I was like that.

[Additional Guest]

There's a lot of advice, like, you don't want to go there.

[Adam Ferrara]

Yeah. But I thought it knew.

[Podcast Announcer]

Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

Look, if something falls off a truck.

[Additional Guest]

Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

We're not putting it back.

[John Holmer]

Right.

[Adam Ferrara]

But. But no one's getting killed in office.

[John Holmer]

Yeah. You might get slapped around. Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

You might not even happen.

[John Holmer]

Yeah. Did you watch the Sopranos and have been like, that ain't right.

[Adam Ferrara]

No. I was like, that's home movies. I'm not watching that.

[John Holmer]

You didn't watch the Sopranos?

[Adam Ferrara]

I said, well, you know what happened? I auditioned for the Sopranos many, many times.

[John Holmer]

Really?

[Adam Ferrara]

Yeah. Almost 10 times, I'm thinking, because I lived in. I was in Greenwich Village, and you would take the. They were at Silver Cup Studios. So every time you had an audition for the Sopranos, you had to take the N. And er. You had to take the subway in the heat of rush hour.

[John Holmer]

Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

Crush of humanity. You get there and there's like 30 gyndaloons that look just like you. Everyone's in the hallway holding their sides, mumbling like Luca Brasi. You know, I hope your first child is. And ask him. Everyone's nervous. You walk in and there's. There's all of them there. And then really, you read and you leave and, you know, you don't hear anything, but they come back to you. What? I didn't know they liked me. They were trying to find something for me, but I was frustrated because I never got anything. They would always call me back, and it was the same thing.

[Additional Guest]

Here we go.

[Adam Ferrara]

Yeah. So at some point, I went back. I walked in, I went, all right, what aren't you gonna like now? So I never got a part in the Sopranos, but my body got used to doing that, so I got used to. So all the nerves were kind of run out of it. Today I get a call to do Nurse Jackie. I was doing Top Gear at the time, and I was gone for two weeks. So I called my wife. I said, honey, I'm coming home. Pants, free weekend. Me, you, the dogs. Nobody wears pants. Let the chips fall where they may.

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[John Holmer]

So the dog wears pants most of the time. Yeah. Okay, I'm just checking.

[Adam Ferrara]

We got, we got, well, a pantsuit.

[John Holmer]

I see very, it's like a Hillary.

[Adam Ferrara]

Very tidy.

[John Holmer]

Sorry I misunderstood your pants free week.

[Adam Ferrara]

I'm sorry. So when I get a call from my manager and I, I pick it up, I go, no, right, right.

[John Holmer]

It's pants free.

[Adam Ferrara]

It's so I, I, I get the call, I gotta go. So I walk upstairs, I look, my wife sees my face. She's like, what? I said, I just gotta call, I gotta fly to New York and I gotta read with Edie Falco for this part on Nurse Jackie and my wife Looked at me and said, put your pants on. What do you get out of here?

[Additional Guest]

Get it.

[Adam Ferrara]

Go get that job.

[John Holmer]

Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

And I did. I flew New York. So I get there and I'm. Yeah, because it's. This is it. I'm going. I'm not going through anything. I'm reading right with her. They know who I am.

[John Holmer]

This is screen test.

[Adam Ferrara]

Yeah. Same thing. Same. It gets in the same studio. So when I got on the subway, my bot. I knew. Yeah.

[Additional Guest]

Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

So it was. Here we go again. But there wasn't a lot of nerves because I've done it.

[John Holmer]

Muscle memory times.

[Additional Guest]

Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

So I walked in and there was eating. It was a bunch of people. I read with her and I made her laugh. And the next day they. They called me up and I got together.

[John Holmer]

Nice. Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

So you just keep. You keep putting shoveling coal into the engine.

[John Holmer]

You keep throwing things against the wall.

[Adam Ferrara]

That's all we can do. The choices and direction of your life is going to happen when you're not even in the room. Exactly.

[John Holmer]

And that's the crazy. This year I've had talks with people. Adam Ray was one Kelly Endo and I. It's like, it's the. The guardrails seemingly are off of entertainment.

[Adam Ferrara]

Right.

[John Holmer]

The more you throw, you're just waiting for one to stick.

[Adam Ferrara]

Yeah.

[John Holmer]

You know, and it's. And it isn't about ambition. It's about just go.

[Adam Ferrara]

Yeah.

[John Holmer]

Instead of.

[Adam Ferrara]

It's being present. I mean, it's just like 90 of life is just showing.

[John Holmer]

Showing up.

[Adam Ferrara]

Yeah. Just being there.

[Additional Guest]

Adam Ray is the kitchen. Think Adam Ray will come down every ep? I mean. Yeah. Done a little of everything.

[John Holmer]

But he keeps throwing stuff that I think most people would be like, nah, I'm gonna work on this. Or he doesn't care. Like, it's a go, go, go. And it's great. Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

You have to.

[John Holmer]

Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

Just. You take any gig. Like the, the. The thing that you get though is because I've done comedy, I've done drama, and I've got, you know, top gear and all this other stuff. And then when they. Some people come and see me, like, I didn't know you were a stand up. I'm like, what'd you think was gonna happen?

[John Holmer]

I bought tickets to. Just in case.

[Adam Ferrara]

Did you think I was gonna do donuts in the parking lot out. What do you think I was gonna do?

[John Holmer]

Yeah, I'm gonna play all the parts in this.

[Additional Guest]

This is a scene I was in.

[John Holmer]

And yeah, people do that sometimes. They go, I don't know. I I watch, like, when you see a comedy club and somebody in the crowd goes, I don't know who you are. Yeah, you weren't. Are you. Have you been trafficked here? Why are you in the building? Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

Why am I entertaining you against your will? What am I. Is this a bet you lost?

[John Holmer]

Why do people. And they make them.

[Adam Ferrara]

No, I'm not.

[John Holmer]

I don't even know who you are.

[Adam Ferrara]

I had one. Here's the thing I get is I. I'm not. I'm not famous, but people know me.

[John Holmer]

Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

So I get the intrusion on financial benefit. Isn't that lovely? But it's fine because. But people, when they know me, I love this because they look at me, but they look at me like they're smelling bad cheese. Who is that? This squinting and I think he's an actor now. That's Nicole's brother. I think he's your cousin. They got no clue.

[John Holmer]

Who do they think you are? What do you get, like most?

[Adam Ferrara]

I. I don't. I. I got one woman. This was hysterical. This woman came up. She was angry. Yeah, she was angry because she kept. Because I was. I was in. I was in a wall Greens. And she's looking at me. So I go around, I see her looking at me again. And we're at the checkout, and she looks at me, goes, where do I know you from? Where have you been, lady?

[Additional Guest]

Aisle six.

[John Holmer]

I was the guy in aisle six, my last role.

[Additional Guest]

Yeah, I like how they want you to answer that question. Where do I know you from?

[John Holmer]

Yeah, well, you're the one asking me.

[Adam Ferrara]

I don't know.

[John Holmer]

I don't know. Your log. Yeah. The.

[Adam Ferrara]

Then when you tell us something you've done.

[John Holmer]

Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

I was like. You see the movie Little Lily? That's not it. I'm sorry.

[John Holmer]

I think it was City Slickers.

[Additional Guest]

Is that it?

[John Holmer]

No, it was Bruno Kirby.

[Adam Ferrara]

Are you the karate kid?

[John Holmer]

See, I just go with it.

[Adam Ferrara]

Yeah.

[John Holmer]

Yes, I am.

[Adam Ferrara]

Oh. So I was watching this. This was. I was sitting with the producers of Nurse Jackie, and Edie was in a play. So we're sitting in the play, and there's. There's old women behind me. Because it's a matinee. It's a matinee. Everything smells like Bengay. They all come out.

[John Holmer]

It's the Voltaire.

[Adam Ferrara]

Yeah. Yeah. They're just sitting. So there's two women looking at me. And I heard. I think he's an actor. And the one woman goes, again, where do I know you from? So as the curtain's coming down, I Go, did you see Torch Song trilogy? She goes, yeah. I said, I played the torch. He played the torch. And the lights come in.

[John Holmer]

I was out with some friends the other night, and a guy came up, and he goes, hey, love the show guy. I'm like, oh, thanks. And go get a picture. I'm like, sure, take a picture. And the table next to us, this girl goes, who are you? Like, it's not important. She goes, who are you? Are you? And then I see her go to her phone, like, she's just gonna go, who's the guy next to me? And Google's gonna be like, I don't know.

[Adam Ferrara]

Hold up the phone.

[John Holmer]

My black friend Joe. And she goes, and I know you too. And I'm like, that's just racist. This is gonna get good, okay? And then she said, oh, you're on. Mayor of Kingstown. And Joe's like, yep, that's me. And she goes, and who are you? And she keeps screaming at the next. So she finds the guy in mayor of Kingstown, and she's convinced herself that my friend Joe is this guy. And I. So I'm on the phone while they're talking, right? And she's like, oh, that prison rape scene had to be horrible. And Joe's like, yeah, we. 17 takes. It was brutal. And she's like, oh, I. I fell for your character so bad. You're such a good actor. And he's like, thank you. Thank you very much. And I look and I show him a picture of. Of the dude. It doesn't look anything like him. It's just general black guy that. She's like, that's it. So I told her that I.

[Adam Ferrara]

He.

[John Holmer]

And then Joe says, you don't want to know who he is. Points to me, and he goes, he's in porn, right? And she goes, oh, my God. You're Johnny Sins. That's right. That's exactly. She assigned us her fame. That's great.

[Adam Ferrara]

God bless you.

[John Holmer]

It all started with somebody going, love the show.

[Adam Ferrara]

I will play whatever role you want.

[John Holmer]

That's all I wanted to do is just keep that alive for a little while.

[Adam Ferrara]

And her friends are like, the Johnny Sins Show.

[John Holmer]

She took a picture of me and sent it to her boyfriend, and her boyfriend's like, that's not Johnny Sins. That guy's old as dirt. Well, hold on. Boyfriend's a dick.

[Adam Ferrara]

Yeah. There's makeup. They have filters now.

[John Holmer]

That's what I said.

[Adam Ferrara]

They shoot into a cheesecloth like Barbra Streisand.

[John Holmer]

And I told her. I said, I'm not in like, shape for filming right now. I took a year off.

[Adam Ferrara]

It was actually like, it.

[John Holmer]

I like the way your face is shaped better. Now you have convinced yourself you're amongst famous. And it was fun. It was about an hour. We had fun with it. That's with her racism and her silliness. And then all her friends were gone. She's like, I'm hanging out with. They're famous. Like, yep, we. We are famous. Whatever.

[Adam Ferrara]

What is the. Yeah. I don't. I don't get it.

[John Holmer]

I don't understand. I've never had that. Like, you've met a lot of famous people. Yeah. And you're like, do you starstruck? Anybody get you?

[Adam Ferrara]

I did. Yeah. I got. Once I did. I did a benefit for. At the St. Regis Hotel for the Senators.

[John Holmer]

I did.

[Adam Ferrara]

I played. I was gonna say it's like playing the Senate. And it was because they were there.

[John Holmer]

There.

[Adam Ferrara]

I told them, I said I'd say this. And some guy went up. He wrote a book about lbj.

[John Holmer]

Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

And just died. That was the opening act.

[John Holmer]

That's an easy.

[Adam Ferrara]

And then I gotta go up, right? So I went up. First one went in the toilet. Second one went in the toilet. I said. I said, listen, I'm waiting for healthcare. I ain't waiting for these laughs. You guys gotta do your job, too. That broke them a little bit.

[John Holmer]

Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

And. And they were all Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, all of the senators, Pat L. All those guys. They were all there.

[John Holmer]

How'd you get that job?

[Adam Ferrara]

I got hired by the guy that owns a St Regis Hotel, Sydney Kimmel.

[John Holmer]

Okay.

[Adam Ferrara]

Saw me. I did his birthday party. His wife was watching tv and I was doing a late night spot and she went, I want that one. And I was.

[John Holmer]

He.

[Brett Vesely]

It's like Richard Pryor in the Toy.

[Adam Ferrara]

Yeah, yeah. I want. I wanted. I want that one. So I was summoned to the castle.

[John Holmer]

Wow.

[Adam Ferrara]

And you. Because obviously I went, yeah.

[John Holmer]

But Clinton was there. You get to meet all.

[Adam Ferrara]

Yeah, I got. I got to meet all of those guys. And this was when he wanted to do a talk show. And it was going in the toilet.

[John Holmer]

Oh, no.

[Adam Ferrara]

And I looked at him, I go, and you want to do a talk show?

[John Holmer]

This is the shit.

[Adam Ferrara]

This is the stuff you're going to have. I said, and you want to do a talk show? This is the crap you're going to have to deal with. Open up a library. Play golf. What are you doing?

[John Holmer]

He listened to you?

[Adam Ferrara]

Yeah. Crazy.

[John Holmer]

Were you put off by meeting someone like that?

[Adam Ferrara]

I was. I will tell you When I shook his hand, and I'm not political at all. When I shook his hand and he gave me the hand and the hand on the elbow, and he looked at me, I go, oh, I get it. I get it now.

[John Holmer]

I'm gonna blow this guy.

[Adam Ferrara]

Oh, my God.

[John Holmer]

You still have the dress?

[Adam Ferrara]

I got it. Keep it for evidence, but I got it.

[Additional Guest]

I'm wearing it now.

[Adam Ferrara]

Yeah, I got that. So that one got me. Prior got me.

[John Holmer]

Oh.

[Adam Ferrara]

When I met Pryor.

[John Holmer]

Huge.

[Adam Ferrara]

And I met him under the best. He was in the chair when I met him. The best possible conditions for me, it was. I got nominated for an American Comedy Award. So it was when I think it was on either ABC or Comedy Central. And so they play a clip, right? And my table was right here, and Prior table right behind me. Richard Pryor. So they play a clip of all the standups and then they go to commercial. And during commercial, people shake hands. Babies.

[John Holmer]

Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

So I'm terrified. My friend Mary Ellen, who went with me, said, we got to go get on the line to meet price. Like, it's Prior. You're never gonna have this opportunity. Get up.

[John Holmer]

Yeah, okay.

[Adam Ferrara]

Huge. So I go over and there he is. And he just saw my clip. And I. I said, Mr. Prior, I. The Santa Monica concert is the reason I do what I do. It's a pleasure to meet you and thank you so much for the inspiration. He looks at me, goes, without you on the clip. Yeah, he goes effing funny.

[John Holmer]

It's. It's like getting knighted. You're getting knighted.

[Adam Ferrara]

I'm done.

[John Holmer]

You're getting knighted.

[Adam Ferrara]

That.

[John Holmer]

That.

[Adam Ferrara]

Between that and Carlin. When I met Carlin, that was. That was it.

[John Holmer]

And Carl Carlin.

[Adam Ferrara]

No. I got a call from Mike Lacey. It's a great club. One of my favorite clubs is the Comedy Magic Club in Hermosa beach. And Mike and Rich, who run the place, and I was headlining there for the weekend. So I get a call from my manager, and he says, mike's gotta move your weekend, but if you wanna open, you can open. And right away, my ego just went open.

[Brett Vesely]

Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

What do you. I'm open. What sword swallow is bumping me and I'm gonna open. He goes, george Carlin? I go, does he need a rod? I can pick him up at the hotel. Be no problem. So you walk. It's like a little theater.

[John Holmer]

Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

So you walk in and the green room is George's. You can't go in before the show.

[John Holmer]

Right.

[Adam Ferrara]

But. And he tells you. He said, look, George would love to meet you after the show. But he's preparing. You know, he doesn't improvise. He memorizes.

[Brett Vesely]

Right.

[Adam Ferrara]

I said, it's Colin. He can do whatever he writes. Right. So the emcee goes up. I go up. I do like half hour.

[John Holmer]

Whatever I do.

[Adam Ferrara]

Right. I walk off stage and there's this silver beard. Oh, these two little eyes. And he's looking at me. He goes, you're funny. And I went, and you're Colin. And I shook his head.

[John Holmer]

Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

And we have a mutual friend who's since passed away, a guy named Chris Rush that started with George. So I've known Chris for years. I go, you know Rush as he goes, oh, my God. We're telling stories. We're talking. He quoted a joke. He's like, that Dick Clark New Year's joke was great. When did you write that? And he's talking to me. All of a sudden we hear the audience start clapping. Goes, is that for me? I go, they don't want to see me again. George, you better get out.

[John Holmer]

Wow.

[Adam Ferrara]

He went out after the show. My wife was there. He took pictures with my wife.

[John Holmer]

Oh, that's awesome.

[Adam Ferrara]

He was up in Santa Rosa by my in laws. I mean, couldn't be more gracious. He aware of his position in our world.

[John Holmer]

Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

And he was very gracious. Knowing that you can see. I got. I got a picture.

[John Holmer]

So many guys get to that point where they just. They. They don't want to deal with anything. And that's huge. That he was.

[Brett Vesely]

Yeah.

[Adam Ferrara]

And it was just like, I'll look for the picture. You want to play another vomit video?

[John Holmer]

I'll play a vomit video. And Adam Ferrara is here. Desert Ridge Improv tonight, tomorrow and Sunday. And it's always good to have you, my friend. You're the best. Desertridgeimprov.com if you want to ago. Adam did two days with us. That's getting extra work done, Brady. So everybody is required.

[Adam Ferrara]

Birthday baby.

[Brett Vesely]

That's right.

[John Holmer]

And yours too. You got Monday your plans?

[Adam Ferrara]

I'm flying home.

[John Holmer]

All right. That sounds fun.

[Additional Guest]

And it's a no pants day.

[John Holmer]

Are you going no pants Monday night?

[Adam Ferrara]

I am. The wife is going to be like, here's the towels.

[John Holmer]

Thank adam Ferrara, everybody. It's 98 KUPD.

[Adam Ferrara]

It's not weird.

[Additional Guest]

It's pretty cool, actually.

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