Comedian Adam Ferrara on The John DeBella Show
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00:00The star of the new film, Little Italy, for some reason it takes place in Canada, is joining us this morning.
00:25And you're playing this music.
00:26Well, yeah, it deserves it.
00:27Why don't you just be throwing a pizza when I come in here?
00:29Well, that's what you do in a movie.
00:30That's true, yeah, but it's good to see you, Polly.
00:33How are you?
00:33It is very good to see you, too.
00:35Nice to be back.
00:36All right.
00:36So how are things?
00:38Things are great.
00:39Adam is in a new film called Little Italy.
00:41Yes.
00:42Which you told us about the last time you called me in.
00:44Yeah, we did a press tour.
00:45I called you.
00:45Well, last time I called in was when you were going to the Super Bowl.
00:49No, no, no.
00:50It was the time in between.
00:51It was the time in between?
00:52Yeah.
00:52I remember the Super Bowl one because being a Jets fan, I was like, thank you, and I have
00:56to warn you.
00:57Because there was, remember that crap?
00:58He hurt his hand.
00:59Right.
01:00No, he didn't.
01:00No.
01:01He's never going to die, and if he is, just drive a wooden stake through his heart to make
01:05sure because it's just the depression.
01:08But then when you guys won the Super Bowl and the guy ate the horse crap, and I was like,
01:14I forgot about that.
01:14Oh, I got to get this out of my system.
01:16I don't know.
01:17Because look, man, I've been excited, and I've been hungry at the same time.
01:23And I've been drunk all three.
01:24I never looked at a horse after he's done like, you finished?
01:28Can I have that?
01:30You've obviously had the carrots.
01:31So, yes, and I think that's the last, I think it was the last time.
01:37And they greased the poles so you wouldn't climb stuff, and you guys are sitting there
01:43going, oh, that's just a challenge.
01:46You don't scare me.
01:48So, yeah, I think that was the last, or I think I called him to plug the movie after
01:52that.
01:52The movie is fun.
01:54Yeah, it's a nice family movie.
01:55We shot it in Canada.
01:56It's like Romeo and Juliet with two boring pizza families.
02:00I learned how to throw pizza, which was nice.
02:03And I realized, because Toronto's such an international city.
02:05You were the dough family, right?
02:06No, I was the sauce people.
02:07Oh, you were the sauce people?
02:08Okay.
02:08Animale.
02:10Look at you.
02:11Yeah, it was Romeo and Juliet, and I was Lord Capulet.
02:14I was Emma Roberts' father.
02:16Right.
02:16We shot it in Canada, and it's such an international city that they have all this weird fusion food.
02:21Right.
02:22I don't think there's any rules for what fusion should be, because we were shooting this barbecue
02:26scene, and they went to these local restaurants, and we had Mexican-Korean.
02:31What?
02:31Yeah.
02:32There's a reason those countries are separated by an ocean.
02:35There was a lot going on in that taco, man.
02:38There was kimchi and Mexican spice.
02:41I'm like, wow.
02:42And I think it was North Korea, because I passed a missile.
02:45I swear.
02:46You hate that.
02:48There's no next way you're saying that, man.
02:50I have to ask how the dog is, because the album cover is...
02:56Me and my dog.
02:57You and your dog, both with the collar of shame on it.
02:59Yeah.
03:00Well, she had the surgery, and the name of the album is called Unconditional, Sometimes
03:03Love is a Pain in the Ass, because I had to wear a cone when my dog had a cone, because
03:07I didn't want her to feel upset, because she was shamed.
03:09And so I was walking around, you know my wife?
03:12Yeah.
03:12Yeah, wow.
03:12She was afraid the dog's going to be emotionally scarred, because my wife, she's a hippie.
03:17It's 2018.
03:18Yeah, I know.
03:19Dogs have feelings, too.
03:20Well, we know the dog, the heat was getting to her body, because the dog's acupuncturist
03:26told us that.
03:27I'm not making it up.
03:29I am not making this up.
03:31The dog has an acupuncturist, because she comes and gets the heat out of the body, and
03:35then the eye went bad, and she got glaucoma, but what happened was, I try to fix stuff,
03:43because I'm codependent and Catholic, so I got a lot of problems.
03:46You know, he's dead, my fault.
03:48That's the way I started life.
03:51So I'm trying to take care of everybody, so I couldn't, when the dog started going blind,
03:55I was like, you know, I couldn't fix it, and my heart's breaking.
03:57My wife took little bells and safety pinned them to the back of her jeans, and walks around
04:01the house.
04:02My sister-in-law does the exact same thing.
04:03Here's the bells, and her tail's wagging, and I'm like, I don't know if she feels the
04:07compassion coming from another being, or it's the weed, because she's got glaucoma, and
04:13weed, in California, we got weed biscuits.
04:16You go to the dispensary, you know, my dog is sick.
04:18Take these, dude.
04:19And the dog chews the weed, and is following around the house.
04:22My wife is tinkerbelling around the house, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, and the dog is
04:25high behind her, like, wow, wow, wow, yippee-ah, yippee-ah, walking around the
04:31house, happy as can be.
04:33I put her on the album, because with pictures with the cones.
04:36And that's the album.
04:37That's how you sell the album now.
04:39It's an access card.
04:40I know.
04:41If you can't, this is great radio.
04:42This is how you say it.
04:43Look at this.
04:44So it's just a regular access card.
04:46You don't sell albums anymore.
04:47I know you're thinking, how am I going to clean my weed on that?
04:49Right, exactly.
04:50Well, but it's good for blow.
04:52Yeah.
04:52Oh, my gosh.
04:54Because you remember, we were kids.
04:56You're like, you know, you kids with the vape.
04:57Look at you.
04:58We had to pick out seeds and stems.
05:01We had to work for it.
05:02You can just go to a dispensary.
05:06You know, oh, I can't sleep.
05:08Take this.
05:08Breathe this in.
05:09We had to go to some creep's basement and make believe your friends.
05:13Listen to an Emerson Lake and Palmer album.
05:16Admire his homemade taxidermy.
05:18Oh, you stuff this yourself?
05:20Oh, God.
05:21The eyes are so real.
05:24You know what?
05:25The thing that you guys don't get is how close to real what he's saying is.
05:28It smells like grandma's basement.
05:31He hasn't showered in a while.
05:33And he's got a wallet with a chain on it.
05:35There's nothing in the wallet.
05:36There's six bucks and a picture of his motorcycle.
05:38It doesn't work.
05:42But it's true.
05:44It was always that creepy guy and you always went down in the basement and you always made
05:47like you were his friend.
05:48Yeah, I had to make believe you were his friend.
05:50No, really.
05:50And he had the black light with the posters from Spencer's Gifts.
05:55You know, the black light now you use in a hotel room to see like all the human stains
05:59that you're living with.
06:00This guy had one down there ahead of the curb.
06:04Right, right, right.
06:05And a Hendrix poster.
06:06Yeah, a Hendrix poster.
06:10And Japanese throwing stars sticking out of the wall.
06:14And you were afraid he was going to ask you to stand against the outline, dude.
06:17No, I'm getting better.
06:19Can I get a nickel bag and go home?
06:24Yeah.
06:25I just don't see you as, you know, a pot smoker.
06:31I don't see you as a druggy in any way.
06:33I'm not, as far as you know.
06:35I mean, I'm not.
06:36I can't even take the medicine that's good for me.
06:38I mean, the ADD.
06:39It's raging today.
06:39Did you notice?
06:41Because I can't take, when it first came out, they gave me the Adderall.
06:44Right, right.
06:44Because it's counterintuitive.
06:45But it does work for ADD.
06:47But it's speed.
06:48I mean, it's not at its expense.
06:50It was $125 for a prescription.
06:52And the doctor said, I said, what is this?
06:54He goes, it's amphetamine sulfate.
06:56I can go to Port Authority and get a bag of whites for $30.
07:00What is this?
07:01So I took it.
07:02And it does work.
07:03But it's speed.
07:04I can't be on speed.
07:05I don't understand why you would take somebody who is hyper already and give them more hyper.
07:10I don't know.
07:10But it works.
07:11Caffeine kind of works, too, a little bit.
07:13It just, I don't know why.
07:14And I had it before anyone knew what ADD was.
07:17You know, the cure when I was a kid.
07:18You had to be first.
07:19Yes.
07:20And before it was trendy.
07:22When I had it, sit down!
07:24That's the way it was dealt with then.
07:28Now there's a name for it.
07:31You know what I always found interesting is that you're a guy who, I mean, you've had so much time doing Top Gear.
07:37Yeah, yeah.
07:38Right?
07:38All right.
07:39But when you live in New York, you don't have a car, do you?
07:42Well, I grew up on Long Island, so I grew up in the suburbs.
07:44Oh, okay.
07:44So I had a car.
07:45All right.
07:45And cars were important.
07:46You know, now it's like, you know, the biggest thing in a car now is, can I get on the internet?
07:50Right.
07:51You get in a car to get away from that stuff.
07:53You know, I like to drive.
07:54I play Vegas, so every time I go to Vegas...
07:57You're kidding.
07:57You take the drive from LA?
07:58I drive.
07:59Really?
07:59I just did a thing for Shelby.
08:01The Shelby Museum is in Vegas, and they said, we'll fly you in, and I went, or send me a
08:07Shelby to drive.
08:08So they gave me a new Mustang.
08:10I was happy as anything.
08:11See, this is why I hate you.
08:13Why?
08:13Because you get to drive all of the cars that I dream of driving.
08:17Yes.
08:18All right.
08:19Yes.
08:20That's good.
08:21You have a Super Bowl trophy.
08:22Shut up.
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