EP 84 Showtimes's Belushi doc director RJ Cutler
The Adam Ferrara Podcast
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4.9 • 526 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Adam geeks out on the Blues Brothers movie and music and tells the story how Pope John Paul II blessed the set. Director RJ Cutler stops by and tells us about Belushi' life, career, drug use and how he gratefully gained John's wife Judy's trust and grant him access to her personal recording and letters for the documentary.
Phil tells the story of the first day writing for SNL, Darell Hammond take him on the the stage where they did the Blues Brothers for the first time.
Link of John Belushi kissing pope ring https://bit.ly/37OZZbi
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| 0:00.0 | Alexa, who is Adam Ferrar? |
| 0:11.0 | 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 US |
| 0:22.7 | version of Top Gear. He has had three comedy central specials and his new album is called it |
| 0:27.6 | scary in here. Adams' new podcast is a big hit and available everywhere. Sounds like it could be funny. |
| 0:35.4 | Sounds to me like 30 minutes you'll never get back. |
| 0:43.5 | Hi guys, thank you for joining us again or checking us out for the first time. |
| 0:46.7 | Either way, we are glad you are here. |
| 0:49.3 | And we end up to the great show for you this week. |
| 0:50.9 | My guest in the ADD interview is an Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated director-producer and his latest project is the Balushi documentary on Showtime that I friggin loved. And I'm so glad he made time for us. He is R.J. Cutler. And we want to welcome everyone from our Talk to Me Tuesday family, which is our conversation we have every week. 9 o'clock Eastern 6 p.m. Pacific, go to my website, click the link, and join us. And our superfan |
| 1:14.8 | share... Talk to Me Tuesday family, which is our conversation we have every week, 9 o'clock Eastern, 6 p.m. Pacific. |
| 1:11.6 | Go to my website, click the link and join us. And our superfan shout out is for Maddie. |
| 1:16.5 | Say hi to Matt, everybody. Hey, Maddie. |
| 1:19.1 | Hey, Maddie. And I want to apologize to you guys before we start because I'm a little hungry. |
| 1:25.0 | Right now? Yeah. I was going to have a ricochet biscuit. |
| 1:29.7 | What? |
| 1:30.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.7 | A ricochet biscuit is that kind, that particular brand of biscuit that's supposed to |
| 1:33.9 | bounce back off the wall into your mouth. |
| 1:36.4 | And if it don't bounce back, you go hungry. |
| 1:40.1 | Bow, bow, bow, bow. |
| 1:41.2 | What? |
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