EP 331 Grateful Dead Publicist Dennis McNally
The Adam Ferrara Podcast
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🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 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 Vuelly opposite Edie Falco on Nurse Jackie. He was a co-host on the U.S. version of Top Gear. Adam, the podcast is a big hit and available everywhere. |
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| 0:44.8 | My guest in the ADD interview is an author. |
| 0:47.5 | I just finished his book, The Last Great Dream, |
| 0:50.5 | How Bohemians Became Hippies, and Created the 60s. |
| 1:12.8 | He was also the publicist for the Grateful Dead for 20 years. His name is Dennis McNally. Yeah. Wait a minute. What? Yeah. What bad? Yeah. Oh, I'm very excited about this. Yeah. And we want to welcome everyone from our Talk to Me Tuesday family. That's our conversation we have every week. Nine o'clock Eastern, 6 p.m. Pacific. Go to my website. Click the link, join our conversations. |
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| 1:26.0 | Yes. |
| 1:30.1 | And Jimbo Carter, apparently stern nose him personally. |
| 1:44.5 | Jimbo, I'm going to call you. We're glad to have you on board. Yes. And Jimbo Carter, apparently Stern knows him personally. Jimbo Carter sent us an email. Stern, if they want to get a whole of us, where do they go? The Adam Ferrar at Gmail. He was trying to come see me in Milwaukee. I just did a bunch of shows of the Milwaukee Impro. By the way, thanks everybody for coming out. It was a great time. |
| 1:46.4 | But he said, I'm going to try and convince my wife. |
| 1:48.4 | She missed you when you were at the Chicago Improv. |
| 1:50.7 | Stern, if he was there, he didn't come up and say hello. |
| 1:52.8 | And you know, I always ask people to come up and say hello. |
| 1:54.6 | Yes, you do. |
| 1:58.7 | That's one of the great things at the end of your show is the interaction. |
| 2:02.8 | Yes. show is the is the uh interaction yes and start after doing my dive into the grateful dead i want you to know that you are my scarlet begonia yes every time i hear that song i think of you dancing |
| 2:11.2 | well first of all i am thrilled that you are dipping your toe into The Grateful Dead. |
| 2:20.5 | Yeah. |
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