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The Adam Ferrara Podcast

EP 193 Acting Legend Paul Dooley.

The Adam Ferrara Podcast

AdamFerrara.com

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.9527 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Phil ran out of gas one mile from a gas station in the rain on Christmas night. Yes, Phil is a grown man.

Legendary actor Paul Dooley stops by and tells us about how he first passed on the movie 16 candles, scolding Walter Matthau and how his second wife disappeared with his children.

Adam explains how he drew on his father for some of the roles he has played and that brought him a better understanding of his dad


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0:00.0

Alexa, who is Adam Ferrar?

0:11.4

Adam Ferrar is an American actor and comedian known for playing the roles of Chief Needles Nelson on Rescue Me.

0:17.6

Sergeant Frank Vile opposite Edie Falco on Nurse Jackie. He was a co-host on the U.S. version of Top Gear.

0:24.3

Adam, podcast is a big hit and available everywhere.

0:28.4

Sounds like it could be funny.

0:30.7

Sounds to me like 30 minutes you'll never get back. It is Showtime. It's a new year, and I'm glad that everybody is here. We've got a great show for you this week. My guest in the ADD interview is a legendary actor, you know, from 16 candles, a mighty wind, curb your enthusiasm. One of my favorite movies, Breaking Away, and his new book is called Movie Dad. His name is Paul Dooley. And we want to welcome everyone from our Talk to Me Tuesday family. That's our conversation we have every week. 9 o'clock Eastern, 6 p.m. Pacific. Go to website on Tuesday click the link join our conversation and our

1:11.2

superfan shout out is for joy say how to joy everybody hello joy there you go phil says hello

1:19.1

to phil says hi joy I'm I'm exhausted I think that's what he said when I spoke to him but I I did speak to

1:27.1

him hold on you all right, baby?

1:30.0

Alex is smoking while we're recording. Put that, put the lucky out. You never smoked, did you?

1:34.0

Not till this show. Thank you. Really? I thought like a cool model living in Paris and all over the

1:39.7

world, you would be smoking cigarettes. Yeah. I smoked cohabas.

1:44.6

Cigars. Thin cohabas. Thin cohabas? Yeah? I figured you smoked a galois. Good one. No. I smoked, I smoked the, just occasional thin cigar. Thin cigar. I started smoking Lucky Strikes because I'd stolen, I steal him from my father from the truck. Right. Yeah. That's a man cigarette. That's a commitment.

2:01.7

That's, you know.

2:03.1

I told you, my father's like, I said,

2:04.6

Pops, smoke. from my father from the truck right yeah that's a man cigarette that's that's a commitment

2:01.4

that's you know I told you my father's like I said pop smoke something with a filter

2:05.7

a filter's bad for you there's chemicals in there I've seen someone cut the filter off

2:11.3

like a rip it off yeah oh yeah that's what you did yeah because my mother was smoke

2:15.2

bench and the hedges so I break the filter off and just smoke them like a lucky. Yeah, that was the move. Yeah. Those were long cigarettes. My grandmother used to smoke 120 max, max 120s. You need someone else to light them. They were just all the way your arm didn't reach. I played a character once that had to smoke and they gave me a cigarette case for it.

2:36.1

And the only thing that would fit in it were unfiltered cigarettes.

2:38.6

So I started smoking luckies.

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