EP 127 Writer Director Ash Avildson
The Adam Ferrara Podcast
AdamFerrara.com
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
The animals are invading the house! Alex is caring for a wounded dove in the bathtub. Not kidding
Ash Avildson is the founder and CEO of Sumerian Records as well as an award winning writer director who created the Amazon hit Paradise City that is steaming right now. His father was academy award winning director John Avildson, he directed Rocky, the Karate Kid and Lean On Me. Ash didn't meet him until he was 34. It's an inspiring story.
Adam doesn't carry a grudge, he wages a vendetta.
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| 0:00.0 | Alexa, who is Adam Ferrar? |
| 0:10.0 | Adam Ferrar is an American actor and comedian known for playing the roles of Chief Needles Nelson on Rescue Me. |
| 0:17.0 | Sergeant Frank Vilelli opposite Edie Falco on Nurse Jackie. He was a co-host on the U.S. version of Top Gear. He has had three comedy central specials and his new album is called it Scary and Here. Adam's new podcast is a big hit and available everywhere. |
| 0:32.6 | Sounds like it could be funny. Sounds to me like 30 minutes. You'll never get back. |
| 0:45.9 | All right, let's do this. |
| 0:47.6 | We have a great show for you this week. |
| 0:49.4 | My guest in the ADD interview is the founder and CEO of Samarian Records, as well as an award-winning screenwriter and director. |
| 0:56.9 | His new project is called Paradise City that is currently streaming on Amazon. |
| 1:01.0 | And his name is Ash Abelson. |
| 1:03.6 | And we want to welcome everyone from our Talk to Me Tuesday family. |
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| 1:12.0 | And our superfan shoutout is for Byron James. Say hi to Byron James, everybody. Hello, Byron. Hey, Byron, what's up? What's happening, Byron? And Byron, of course. He's a friend of ours. And he sent us an email. |
| 1:27.1 | And honey, if they want to get a hold of us, where do they go? |
| 1:29.3 | The Adam Ferrar at Gmail. |
| 1:30.9 | And you can do what Byron did. The subject line was, I finally did it with an exclamation point. An eight-year dream has finally come to reality. I moved to New York City. I got my apartment and he sent us pictures of his apartment. |
| 1:44.5 | Oh, cool. Yeah. He's in Brooklyn. He's on 3rd Avenue and that's all I'm going to say. |
| 1:50.6 | Is that like secret New York code? |
| 1:53.0 | No, because God forbid something happens to the kid. I ain't getting sued. |
| 1:55.5 | Oh, I get it. |
| 1:57.7 | I would like to thank you for inspiring me and supporting my dream of moving to New York. |
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