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The Adam Ferrara Podcast

EP 349 Brad Meltzer

The Adam Ferrara Podcast

AdamFerrara.com

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.9527 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Adam tells the story about his brother leaning on the funeral director at his father's funeral.
 
Author , TV producer, comic book writer Brad Meltzer stops by and tells us about his new book, The Viper, How2 is father put his college education on a credit card in his name and how he's working on acceptance an forgiveness. 

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Transcript

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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 Vilelli opposite Edie Falco on Nurse Jackie.

0:21.2

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.

0:30.6

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

0:34.3

I'm so glad you guys are with us because it's showtime and do we have another great show for you again.

0:39.1

My guest in the ADD interview is a TV producer, a writer, a comic book writer, an author.

0:45.5

His new book is called The Viper and it's available for you wherever you get your books.

0:50.0

He's my pal and his name is Brad Meltzer.

0:53.3

And we want to welcome everyone from our Talk to Me, Tuesday family. That's our conversation we are every week. 9 o'clock Eastern, 6 p.m. Pacific. Go to my website, click the link, join our conversation because we would love to have you there. And our super fan shoutout is for Chesson. Say hi to Chesson. Chesson. Chesson? Chesson. Yes. Chesson. How you doing? It's a great name. Yes. Chesson. And his wife came to see me, I believe it was in Vegas. His wife got her master's degree. And he is our superfan shout out for today. And I just want to take a minute and put condolences out to the family of one Bob Weir.

1:31.4

Yes. Yeah. Grateful Dead Rhythmian guitarist passed away. Yeah. My condolences to his family.

1:38.2

And this is the thing. And I know we got a lot of stuff to talk about. Like there was something on him in

1:43.1

Sports Center because he was a huge 49ers fan. Sure. Like, there's been all these sort of, like, tributes coming out of places that you just wouldn't expect. And that made me incredibly happy that his life is being celebrated the way it is. So, yeah, you did good, Bobby. We got to watch. You take it easy. I was thinking about, you know, how I want to go. I told Alex, I said, don't tell anybody I'm dead. Stuff me, put me up in the upstairs room under a light, because I'm going to take out a bunch of loans before I go, and the government's going to be looking for me. And when they knock on the door, we're looking for Adam Farrar. I'll just go, he's upstairs. And I'll be under the light, standing up with rigormorous in this finger. Yeah, I got it for you right here. Right here. I've been waiting for you. What should I stuff you with? What? Which I I stuff you with? Cotton or Rock? It depends.

2:49.7

If they have to get the body, stuff me a rock so they get a hernia picking me up. If you got to do it, just make it, make it cotton and just burn me in the backyard. Taxidermy style? Yeah. Okay. Big smile. Didn't your old man have that plan? Like at the end? He wanted me to take him to get alone.

2:51.5

He said, I look okay.

2:53.4

I go, you're breathing through a fucking tube.

2:54.1

Stop it.

2:51.5

They're going to know. like at the end? He wanted me to take him to get alone. He said, I look okay.

2:53.4

I go, you're breathing through a fucking tube.

2:54.1

Stop it.

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