This week, The Daily Drama Podcast — brought to you by DailyDrama.com, “the one-stop shop for the soap viewer” with stories, community, giveaways, spoilers, recaps, and lots and lots of Steve Burton and Bradford Anderson — welcomed their General Hospital costar Adam J. Harrington AKA John “Don’t Call Me Jagger” AKA John John “Jagger’ Jingleheimer Schmidt as special guest.

What Is In A Name?

Fun fact about Harrington: Despite his name already conjuring up soap bubbles (don’t act like you haven’t slipped and called him Adam Carrington), there was a plan to christen him Reed Wesley Harrington, a moniker perfectly suited for a character in any melodrama.

All About Adam

More fun facts:

Mr. Harrington is a bona fide marine biologist with a master’s in cell physiology and the undergraduate school he attended looked exactly like the campus from St Elmo’s Fire.
To make ends meet, Harrington toiled in a gravel pit and after obtaining his master’s, he served as the curator of an aquarium.

An Actor Emerges

Despite the disapproval from Mom, who fancied her boy the next Jacques Cousteau, Harrington eventually shifted gears and gave acting the old college try — make that the old university try.

Soon the Hamilton, Ontario native was getting bookings and busy-ish. Quickly approaching forty, Harrington headed to the US where the work began to pile up. He landed a most memorable guest gig on CSI New York, intoned the famous (infamous?) “We are farmers” line from the Farmers Insurance commercials, supplied his pipes to various video games and played many a G-man in primetime programs galore.

Getting Admitted To General Hospital

Then came his roundabout hiring at GH. First, he’d come in for a chemistry read opposite Laura Wright (Carly Spencer) for a character that decidedly wasn’t Jagger *shoot, we mean JOHN!

He was thanked and told he hadn’t gotten the role but he would be getting a call at a later date. Sure enough, a few months passed and he was hired. “[I] still didn’t know who I was playing,” admitted Harrington with a chuckle. ” And I should have asked at that point. First lesson [learned].”

It’s not that Harrington would have turned down the offer, just that “there would have been some questions.”

In no time flat Harrington developed a deep respect for his costars and the behind-the-scenes personnel. Said he: “I am in absolute awe of the cast and the crew and watching how you do this on a train that refuses to stop!”

Harrington’s trial by fire: 120 pages of dialogue over his initial three-day period.

The latest installment of the Daily Drama Podcast is a rollicking good time. But don’t just take out word for it. Check it out in full then take to the comments section and share your thoughts.

Show Notes:
Introduction – 0:00
Opening Credits – 1:06
Adam’s Early Days – 2:45
Small World After All – 3:22
Soclastic Achievement – 4:40
Breaking Into Acting – 8:33
Coming To America – 12:10
Early Victories – 19:11
Being Admitted To GH – 24:34
What’s In Store – 34:00
A Few Months On – 35:11

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