Alexa, who is Adam Ferrar?

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

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

Adam Podcast is a big hit and available everywhere.

Sounds like it could be funny.

Sounds to me like 30 minutes you'll never get back. It's showtime.

Yes, it is showtime again, and I am so glad you are here.

You got another great show for us this week.

You bet your ass.

My guest in the ADD interview is actor, comedian, author, my pal. You know him from

the movie Rocket Man, dumb and dumber, just to name a few. His name is Harlan Williams. 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 my website, click the link, join our conversation. We would love to have you there. And our superfan shout out is for Bob and Alex. Bob and Alex are friends of our friend, Frank. They're going through a tough time. And we just want you guys to know that we are here for you. Honey, if they want to get a hold of us, where do they go? The Adam Ferrara at Gmail. Okay. You probably surmised that that's not Alex, and Stern is at the U.S. Open, Phil is adrift at sea, and I'm standing in my closet in the apartment in New York. Yes, we get better sound in here. And this weekend I am at Uncle Vinnie's Comedy Club in Point Pleasant, New Jersey.

Come see me. I'll make you laugh. So I'm doing this to get a show out for you and I had a great interview with Harland that I want you to hear. So it's just me and you, baby. So I'd like to begin today's proceedings by telling you that my wife is a pain in the ass. Now, we all know we say I love you on this show by saying you're a pain in the eyes, and I hate it when she's right.

I tend not to listen to Alex like she'll say something and I'll just go yeah, yeah, yeah. And then a month, two months later, someone will say the same thing. And I'm like, that's brilliant. And my wife has already told that to me. Well, that's what happened in this harlan interview um my wife said something to me that harlan echoed in there and i said my wife says

that all the time and it struck me like why why do i do that i look this up uh this is on awaken

dot org on the article is called why we listen better to Strangers than Family, and it's by Katie Murphy,

if you guys want to follow along at home.

And the article says, once you know people well enough to feel close, there's an unconscious

tendency to tune them out because you think you already know what they're going to say.

It's kind of like when you've traveled the same route for several times, you no longer see road signs or the scenery. This is called

closeness communication bias. Okay, I feel better that things got a name. Closeness communication

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