
#2187 - Adam Sandler
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#2187 - Adam Sandler mentions Brother Sam by Bill Kinison, Best Evidence by David Lipton, The Strange Death of Vince Foster, and Murder Machine with timestamps, quotes, and episode context.
If you're a fan of stand-up, I tell anybody, go buy that book because it's a great book.
I remember reading this book going, What the fuck?
I read this book called The Strange Death of Vince Foster.
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The host mentions 'Brother Sam' to highlight the significant changes in Sam Kinison's career and personal life as des…
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“His brother wrote about it. Do you ever read his brother's book? Uh-uh. Brother Sam? His brother Bill. I heard about it. It's a great book. It's a great book. If you're a fan of stand-up, I tell anybody, go buy that book because it's a great book.”
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“A friend of mine who was in a band gave me a book once on the road, and it was a book called Best Evidence by this guy, David Lipton. It's all about the He's like, You got to read this. The government killed Kennedy.”
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“I read this book called The Strange Death of Vince Foster. It's all of a Vince Foster, a guy who worked with Clinton, who got murdered in a very... They said it was a suicide.”
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“Joey Diaz gave me this book called murder Machine once. It's about Roy DeMayo. You know Roy DeMayo? I'm not sure. He was a serial killer who worked for the mob.”
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The host mentions 'Brother Sam' to highlight the significant changes in Sam Kinison's career and personal life as described by his brother. The boo…

The host mentions 'Best Evidence' as a pivotal book that introduced him to conspiracy theories, particularly surrounding the assassination of JFK.…

The host mentioned 'The Strange Death of Vince Foster' while discussing how certain books can influence one's mindset and perception of reality. Th…
Movies & Documentaries Mentioned
When Stand Up Stood Out
“Franz Solomita made this great documentary about the heyday of Boston Comedy called When Stand Up, stood Out. It was all about the transition between these guys being these local comics that were as good as anyone in the world.”
Happy Gilmore
“When you do movies, do you just come up with a premise first? When you decide to do a film, if you decided to do Happy Gilmore, how do you make your movies? How do you start?”
Wedding Singer
“Same thing with Happy Gilmore, Wedding Singer, Bobby Boucher, all that shit. We were just like, came up with a couple of lines of what we thought as an interesting idea.”
Billy Madison
“That was just lucky premise I'm Billy Madison. I remember. I thought, Oh, this could be great. A guy who, a grown up who does elementary school again.”
Little Nicky
“We went on an Adam Sandler run. We watched basically every... The only one we didn't watch is Little Nicky.”
Zohan
“I might have just seen the Zohan 20 times. Wow. I fucking love that movie.”
The Unsinkable Shecky Moskowitz
“At the time, it was called the Unsinkable Shecky Moskowitz, but now it's called Babes of and I was 22. Wow.”