Giovanni’s Superfan Sidebar 05/25/2015 – ‘Take a Knee’ with Nate Adams

Giovanni’s Superfan Sidebar 05/25/2015 – ‘Take a Knee’ with Nate Adams

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Take A Knee – Special Presentation

Guest – Nate Adams

Recorded 04-24-2014 – Release Date 04-27-2014 – Take a Knee Feed and 05-25-2014 – ACS Feed

Production Number #24

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Adam has a special intro for this very special presentation of ‘Take a Knee’ the 3rd time this show has aired in the ACS feed.

Adam is plugging his projects and moving on to a live read.

 

Adam is doing a ZClip live read

 

Adam is now doing a Burger King Live Read for the Croissan’wich

 

Adam opens the 24th Take a Knee with Nate Adams, Adam explains he’s only known Nate for two years and welcomes him to the show.

Adam is asking Nate about his journey, Nate’s telling them about his early days in Montana and the wisdom of his mother that led to him pursuing wrestling fulltime instead of spreading his energy out over multiple sports.

Adam is making a point about typing over football when reality makes it clear you won’t be playing in the NFL.

 

Adam says that ‘Road Hard’ came about when Adam and Nate had a meeting via a mutual friend, Adam brings up Nate’s idea for a comedy about short men who go after tall women.

Adam is sharing how that meeting led to ‘Road Hard’ and he’s waxing poetic about ideas and using a simple but perfect relationship analogy.

Adam says that you should examine the quality of an idea instead of wasting more time on a bad one, Nate tries to take it back to ‘Road Hard’ and not his as of yet un-filmed short guy project.

 

Adam is asking Nate how he got to Hollywood and he’s telling them about his late brother who died in a motor vehicle accident while on the way home from a funeral.

Nate says that incident led him down a negative path of substances and mischief.

Nate is telling them about his other brother who passed away too soon, Adam is telling people to be receptive to good ideas and meeting new people.

 

Adam explains that at 48 he’s more creative with the likes of Nate Adams than anyone he went to High School with.

Nate is complimenting Adam’s ability to “clock somebody” and Adam says it’s a good thing to develop, a keen tuning to be able to figure out who people are and read their affect.

Adam is sharing how he can spot “out of it” drivers and avoid them before it’s too late, Adam is back to the self-discipline of Nate and his state championship in wrestling and how that was an important factor in sizing up Nate.

 

Adam is back to the 2nd deceased brother, Adam wants to know what it did to Nate’s mother and father.

Nate says that his father was the first car that responded to the accident that took his brother, he says that his sister was in the backseat and her femur was snapped.

Nate has an anecdote about the era where wrestling coaches could hit the kids.

 

Adam is asking him if the wrestling was merely an escape or a method to go college.

Adam says he grew up with a lot of crazy kids too and cites Mike Reese and the era of teachers fighting with students, he mentions the many headlocks he witnessed with teachers holding students.

Adam is asking him what weights he wrestled at, he shares how he was wrestling at 119lbs during his senior year.

 

Nate is telling Adam about his DUI and mentions some early B&E activities, he shares how he was scared straight and how much losing a match would affect him.

Nate says he would get drunk and high when not wrestling and says his father is an alcoholic and Adam says it is a disease better diagnosed by those around, it effects the people around you most.

Nate is telling them about a relative who was drinking himself to death through liver failure while completely jaundice.

 

Adam is sharing his Japanese Gardener theory and says it sounds like they’re talking about 200 years ago when talking about their parents, Adam says it’s amazing how fucked up the 1970’s and 80’s were.

Adam says now you look around and everyone has a huge TV and is kind of living the dream.

Nate is telling them about his father dying of liver cancer and how that led to him being told old stories about his youth including the time he wandered onto railroad tracks when he was 2.

 

Nate is explaining how realized he didn’t have a friends during his senior year and how that led to him getting involved with the drama class.

He shares how the kids he became friends with presumed he would assault them, Adam is now sharing his belief that Hollywood has convince the world that jock types abuse and bully smaller kids.

Adam says they’ve created a myth and the jocks are fighting the other jocks, you can’t fight someone who won’t fight back, he’s breaking down how most disagreements start between testosterone filled young men.

 

Adam is now showing Nate his yearbook as sent in by a huge fan and discussed on this episode of the Adam and Dr. Drew Show.

ADS #235 – Exploring the Bowl

Adam is back to Nate’s story and has him continue with his time at college, he shares how he processed the deaths of his brothers.

 

Nate shares how he finally saw beyond wrestling and the Olympics and how Drama exposed him to a different style of creativity.

Adam is commenting on ‘The Love boat’ and says he watched it like some young black kid watching president Regan giving a speech, he didn’t even know how to process the events depicted on the show.

Adam is asking Nate about his TV options, he says his older brothers would always make him watch ‘Star Trek’ and he still doesn’t like it to this day.

 

Adam is now bringing up his take on ‘Star Trek’ and how he would’ve never believed it would be this popular today, he says he watched it like punishment.

Adam says he understands the attraction to M.A.S.H. and ‘Modern Family’ but can’t imagine the people who truly still enjoy ‘Star Trek’.

Nate is back to his days wrestling and telling Adam about getting his marketing degree that led to a part in an independent movie when he moved to Portland, the movie still hasn’t been released to this day, sounds like one of my dad’s movies.

 

Nate is telling them about how his writing led to him getting big meetings and script doctoring jobs, Adam and Nate are talking about the art by committee approach to screenwriting that hurts modern big budget films.

Adam has a funny “Rosalita” one liner while describing how the studio system would destroy the work of a songwriter like Bruce Springsteen.

 

Adam is talking about his car guy Bodie Stroud and how he must come in for cars that are left in shambles and save the rebuild, he compares that to the studio scripting process.

Adam says he would get into that with a lot of people when it comes to jokes and how people can perform their jokes better than ones written by others.

Adam is talking about the Black List of Hollywood scripts that haven’t been produced, Nate is telling them about working for an MMA company and how he produced their roll-in package.

 

Nate is explaining how they created their “countdown” series and how that show led to more work as a producer.

Nate is explaining how his worked branched off and led to him meeting and working with Adam and how they made two films together in about two years.

Nate has some nice anecdotes about the process and Adam says it was “Art by committee” and mocks the “you’re never really done are you!?” proclamations from other people about making a movie and the process.

 

Adam is now explaining how he can “shake his head like an Etch a Sketch” and cites the smoke detectors they would hear on Classic Loveline in the background sound of out of it callers homes.

Adam says that most of them would be going off for years, he explains that they’re engineered to be so annoying to force people to replace the batteries.

Adam is talking about people’s wiring and how his wiring allowed him to view his documentary with fresh eyes and a fresh brain each time, Nate says he still tears up during the Willy T. Ribbs segment, Adam describes the scene and they wrap up the show, very solid appearance!

 

Adam is closing out the show, he mentions he’s on an airplane right now.

 

Adam is doing a Castrol Live Read

 

Adam gives out some closing plugs and wraps up the show.