The Adam Friedland Show Podcast - Episode 26

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Hello and welcome to the Adam Friedland Show podcast.

You ever think about changing it up and not saying it in the exact same way every single time?

Like the office didn't.

Hello and welcome.

Like every time, every single time.

That's what a show is.

Like,

what, they have a different theme song every?

I mean,

I guess the wire did it every season.

What's wrong with my intro?

You do one.

Nick.

It's just, you know, you could just say it differently.

You do one.

You could just say it differently.

Just give me an example.

Just fucking.

Hey, hey, how's it going, guys?

It's Wednesday, October 25th, 2:25 p.m.

And

the IDF has just murdered his family.

That was really good.

Yeah, really good.

Al Jazeera journalist Whale Al Dudu's family has been murdered.

Al Dadu.

Whale Al Dadu.

You made fun of a guy who just lost his entire life.

I'm struggling to read.

You just fucked his name.

Yeah, you just fucked his name.

I'm sure.

I'm mourning man.

Struggling to read.

All right, so that's a.

I mean, Nick.

Well, you just tried to silence me.

I don't understand why.

As soon as I brought it up.

You called a guy that just lost his entire family.

Well, I said the IDF.

You called him Al Dudu.

As soon as I said the IDF is murdered, you said, all right, I.

What?

I mean, it's on the record.

I just said that it's 2.25 p.m.

and the IDF has just murdered this man's family.

And you said, all right, all right, all right.

You wanted me to stop speaking?

So I was kind of flustered because you were silencing.

Because I knew that you were about to call him Pooh Poo.

No.

Yeah, I did.

No, you didn't.

Yeah.

And you managed to offend both sides.

So congratulations.

No, I didn't.

Rachel Dolores.

First of all, I didn't call him that.

I'm trying to read his name while being silenced by you.

I'm not being silenced.

I'm just saying that.

Do you not want to talk about that?

I mean, we don't have to if you'd like to

You want to talk about this guy's family?

What did you see this?

Yeah, you just showed it to me 20 seconds before we

know, but I mean do you not want to talk about it?

It's fine.

Wait, are you like claiming that I'm trying like what that I'm

I don't want to talk about an incredibly tragic thing that happened?

Well, I don't know.

It seemed like you just why because of uh because I'm a Jewish person?

You're the one saying it.

I'm not saying it.

No, I mean, but you're like weren't making eye contact.

You're a little bit like looking to the side.

That was a little bit of an anti-Semitism phase.

An anti-it's like Pixar face.

That's a DreamWorks face.

It's an anti-Semitism phase.

All right, so R.I.P to the Al Jazeera guy's family.

It is pretty wild.

It's crazy.

Like, yeah.

The video is crazy where he's like.

Well, because

there's another headline with Blinken bragging that he went to fucking Qatar and told them to tell Al Jazeera to tone down their fucking

reporting on the bombings.

Blinken did that.

Yeah.

And they said, okay.

I don't know what they said, but I mean,

to go, like, I mean, it's just the.

Have you seen that video of him playing guitar?

The great Satan of the West is just taking L after L after L.

You're talking about, what's his name?

Mikey Gervais.

The United States of America.

Sorry, United States.

Western hegemony.

That was so funny when Ahmedinejad spoke at the UN right after Bush, and he's like, I still smell the sulfur from Satan's speech.

Did he say that?

Yeah, he's like, I can still smell the sulfur.

Yeah.

Oh, guys, before we begin the episode, we're going to be covering all the topics today.

Before we begin the episode, October 27th, this weekend and 28th, Seattle, Washington laughs comedy club.

It's going to sell out, guys.

There are very few tickets left.

Get own it.

If there even is still a Seattle at the end.

Why do you keep...

Every time I go to speak, you're like, shut up.

I thought my

react,

my reflex was that you were going to be like, it's going to not be funny.

And

you're a loser if you go to that show.

No, the only thing Seattle really had was Jimi Hendrix.

Well, Ken Griffey Jr.

and

Frazier.

And Jimi Hendrix.

Frazier.

And

Grunge.

Anyways, but the Fraser reboot is dog shit.

It is.

Yeah.

Who is it?

It's...

The kid is goth now.

I don't know.

Freddy.

I don't know.

Who cares?

Is there a reason?

So what's the latest with the war?

That's the only thing.

And that's all anybody's talking about.

That's all you want to hear about.

We'll stay on.

Well,

I don't know.

Because it's tough because like...

The genocide.

We've got two lists now.

You are fed kind of the information that the algorithm tailors to you.

And so...

I'm not.

I don't don't have an account.

All I see is Ben Shapiro and Michael Rappaport.

And so, like, that's my version of the war.

Michael Rappaport is the best one to go to right now.

He's killing it.

Yeah.

What?

The bum bum bing?

Well, he has a video where he's.

He has like the information.

I mean, he is like a famous New York Post commentator.

You know, he's like a commentator.

He's the remnant of the old New York kind of thing.

Yeah.

Just where all of his information is just like, just the, like,

the kind of I mean he might if there like he might as well think Santa Claus is real.

You know, it's like that's like a cartoon explanation of like the history of the Middle East.

Yeah.

Well, I mean he's as scared as I am about well he's scared about the same thing that I'm scared of.

I would say

with the impending

wave of anti-Semitism that will grow inevitably out of the instability.

But you know the answer to that is for is for Judaism to go back to its roots.

Which is what?

Which is based in ritual and pogrom.

Well, no, not pogrom.

I'm talking thousands of years ago.

What you need to do is you put a big dish outside of, pick any synagogue in America, and then we get Megan McCain and we drape her over it and we slit her throat and drain all of her blood.

Oh,

and then boil it.

Oh, you're saying like a sacrificial.

Well, you don't sacrifice pigs in the temple, actually.

There were animals sacrificed.

Outside.

Yeah.

Outside.

You don't bring Megan McCain in there.

I mean, that would be...

That would be anti-Semitism.

I feel like Jews in that temple would walk outside and they wouldn't be like...

I guarantee you.

I feel like they wouldn't be like, thank you.

If we got a video of a rabbi slitting Megan McCain's throat

and burning her blood outside.

Why Megan McCain?

I don't.

When I imagine a beast being sacrificed, that's what pops into my head.

If we had a video of that, I guarantee you it would forestall any anti-Semitism for at least at least least 500 years.

Returning to my point about Rabbort,

I don't tend to agree with him about any of this crap, about the war in the Middle East, but him and I, I can look into his eyes and I can see that he's afraid of the state.

Can you?

I don't think anybody can anymore.

It's fucking old.

He's kind of like this.

He's a little bit like this.

Okay.

But when I see him, right, when I see him do his

front-facing camera.

I told you I was standing right there when him and Ari Shafir got into the oldest man fistfight I've ever seen in my life.

Jews tearing each other down.

I was standing there talking to Ari, and Michael Rapport walks up and he's like, hey, are you are you Ari Shafia?

And he's like, yeah.

And he's like, um, he was like, he was like, do you know who I am?

And fucking Ari's like, yeah, of course.

Super boy.

And then he's like, he's like, you say I beat women?

And then like, Ari was like, yeah, don't you?

Does he?

And I don't know.

He had his like ex-wife at a restraining order or something.

Okay.

You gotta hear both sides of that.

Yeah, so Ari said that he

and then and then they started like, you know,

horse.

Were they slap boxing?

Well, I mean they're both fucking 75 years old.

Ari's not that old.

Yeah, he's like 40.

He's older than you think he is.

Yeah.

Anyway, Ari was already like famous when I was 12.

When you were 12.

Yeah, like amazing racist shit came out way, way back when.

He was on the amazing race?

No, amazing racist.

It was these videos he did where he'd like

round up day laborers and then drive the INS and blast the the horn.

It's pretty mean.

Yeah, it was pretty mean.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Do you say sorry for that?

I don't know.

Ari, though.

What are you doing?

Well, it was a long time ago.

It was 20.

It was pretty funny.

What?

Like, to laugh at them or something?

That's like bum fights level content.

Well, you're going to go after him?

Well, I just didn't even know about this.

You purchased sex slaves.

I don't know why you'd go after him.

I never purchased sex slaves.

All right.

What do you fucking...

What are you doing?

Well, you're going after Ari, a friend of ours,

for doing a, yes, a tasteless.

You described something that sounded very mean that I'd never.

Okay, but I'm just saying, glass houses.

Listen, we're both.

You're coming in hot today.

We're brothers of the history.

We're coming in hot today, Sam.

We're brothers of the mic.

We're brothers of the salesman.

You're coming in hot today saying we're not going to bring up the...

Okay, listen.

Wait, I can't even get my Michael Rappaport point apart.

I'm not going to mention that.

No, you started.

I'm going the blink.

No,

you popped off immediately when I said hello and welcome to the the Adam Freeland Show podcast.

I said, Man, are you going to fucking do it the same way every time?

And then I said, what is it?

And then you're like, do it a little bit different, is all I'm saying.

I'm just saying, I thought that if you have a consistent format, then people feel like you're relying on it.

You're censoring

right off the gate, censoring.

And then what was the last thing you just did?

Oh, yeah.

You accused Ari of buying sex slaves when that's what you have done yourself.

Three things right there.

I just had you describing taking

an undocumented immigrant to INS as a prank sounds kind of mean.

It sounds kind of a little bit mean, no?

Yeah.

Okay, thank you.

I didn't bring it up.

I'm sorry, I did.

You should.

I just said that.

You brought it up.

I didn't even know what it was.

I thought you were talking about the fucking CBS show The Amazing Race.

No, legitimately, I did.

He had a series called The Amazing Racist.

I don't know what it was on, but I mean, I've been aware of Ari Shakur.

It was on television.

I don't remember.

I've been aware of Ari Shapiro since like 2002.

Okay.

My main point about Michael Rappport is this: right, he's going one side, I'm going the other side.

We don't agree on the politics of this situation, right?

We don't agree on the morality of the situation.

But him and I are both afraid of the same thing.

Megan McCain.

No.

With the inevitable impending wave of anti-Semitism that will come,

no matter what happens.

People are going to be hot.

They're going to be tight-end Jews after this, right?

Are they?

Will they?

I think so.

They already are.

Who?

It seems like the only people actually criticizing Israel are Jews.

It's just because we live in Brooklyn, so we think it's everybody.

The rest of the country is all Christian psychos that are like, kill all the Muslims now.

Kill them right now.

Israel's finally doing the job.

Okay.

The Jews are finally good.

Okay, so I'm not saying it's an inevitability, but if that is a fear that Rappaport and I have, the only reason we have that fear is what?

Well, Michael Rappaport's,

you know, I think he's like...

We might lose something.

He's Alzheimer's.

We might lose something

that is important to both of us.

The World Series?

No.

Being a hip-hop style Jew.

Oh, okay.

If we're not allowed to do that anymore,

if I'm not allowed to

like

the NBA and hip-hop because people are re-evaluating the Jews,

that would be painful for me.

And it would be painful for me.

He gets away with it because he's a relic from the early days.

I don't think he gets away with it.

I think people laugh at him.

Yeah, well, I know, but I mean, he gets away with it because he's a 90s guy.

Yeah.

I don't even see him as a hip-hop style Jew.

I think of him as 90s, he's a 90s guy.

His entire thing is being a hip-hop style Jew.

If, like, if I saw him hanging out with the seven-up dot,

you know, remember that guy?

Or the Noid from Pizza Hut?

I'd be like, yeah, that makes sense.

I wouldn't interpret that as me having like a stroke that I would see living cartoon characters.

I would think, oh, yeah, there's Michael Rabbitport and his friends, the Hawaiian punch mascot.

I think your brain is just like

90s.

Rabbitport.

Dot.

Noid.

Yeah, right, exactly.

I don't like it.

I think it's like

it's like

free associating.

Everyone sees Michael Rappaport as a 50-year-old man who still talks in hip-hop slang.

Right, like

was it David Frostin?

I don't think that you know.

Who's that?

David Frostino from Married with Children.

Bud?

He talks like that?

Yeah, he was a rapper.

It was him, Scott Kahn,

Michael Rappaport, who else?

Rude Jude.

Seth Green.

Rude Jude as a book out.

No, Seth Green was never like that.

Seth Green was more of like a neon colored guy.

Oh, like a like Coachella cut style.

Well, not even Coachella.

He's like my association with Seth Green is he was created by the color palette of 1998.

Scott.

Yeah.

Scott.

Yeah.

Every day I think of him and I think of, yeah, like hot orange and day glow.

Slime green.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Like

sort of like a snowboard

color.

Yeah.

If that makes sense.

But anyways, anyway, all I'm saying is this.

Rapboard is deflecting because he's afraid of the same thing I'm afraid of,

which is that we can't be hip-hop style anymore.

Well, what I want to happen is that I want it to be taken away from the Indian guys.

No, they're getting away with murder right now.

It's insane.

I see the way they're allowed to...

My internal dialogue is that.

But I know that if I speak in that manner, people are going to think I'm an absolute joke.

Yeah.

But those lads, they're allowed to go full hip-hop style.

They are.

Anyway.

I'm sorry.

And Nicholas.

What?

You know,

we needn't be contentious

for our friends that are watching the show right now.

We needn't be...

Prickly.

What are you talking about?

I got defensive because you were telling me that my introductions to the show were bad, bad, and then it evolved into something else.

I don't know.

It doesn't have anything to do with the winning.

Today's episode is brought to you by...

Have I mentioned this on the show yet?

So obviously, we've been really into the Pakistani memes targeting Hindus.

I don't think we've actually talked about them.

That's probably...

I mean, they're amazing.

They're really cooking right now.

They're really funny.

But something that's been shocking to me, and this is something that interests me quite a bit, is in a lot of the Pakistani-generated memes that go after Hindus for supporting Israel.

The Indian guys are always portrayed with stink lines over them or that they're stinky.

That they smell bad, which is

I feel kind of vindicated

in having made stinky jokes.

And because it's not a broad thing.

You're just not going to go with anything today.

I'm just going to fucking zero everything out.

What it was in my face?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Congratulations.

Oh, Oh, okay.

Congratulations.

No, that's fine.

You're mad at me.

What do you mean, vindicated?

What's the appropriate response?

Nothing.

You're right.

Never mind.

What's the appropriate response?

I'm not vindicated.

You're saying stinky for Palestine.

No, that's not what I'm saying.

You're saying it smelled crazy in there for Palestine.

I didn't know.

No, what did I say?

It's a conversation we already had.

We had this off, Mike.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, the memes are quite incredible.

The one with the guy covered in poo using the computer.

Yeah.

Because I brought this up and then you said that's crazy because they both stink.

No, I didn't say that.

Yes, you did.

No, we'll just say with the conversation like, because you said Pakistani people stink also.

And I said, no, they don't.

That's what's funny.

Obviously, it's like if these Pakistani guys think it's just

because they all stink.

That's what you said.

No.

Yeah, I mean, yeah.

That was how the conversation went.

And then I bring this up and you're staring at me like

you feel vindicated I feel vindicated you feel vindicated in because I feel like it would be racist to say

there's like make jokes about stink lines and and Hindus

if you meant it in a way that was just broadly generalizing an entire group of people there's a specific Hindu odor that you're not talking about

You're not talking about if the Pakistani guys know yep, they're mortal enemies.

Of course they can say they stink because Pakistani people don't have that smell whatever it is and is there food that you smelled them yes who

that's the main way you can tell the difference

you said it what this is what I mean you're trying to throw me I never said you're trying to you're trying to you're trying to fucking just just but why is that a victory lap for you instead of something that's funny because two guys that are pissed at each other calling each other like smelly and saying that the other guys because I would feel bad about it if I was saying oh these guys stink and and i meant but you're making it about yourself you're like well i

i was just because then it is a a it is a a considerate maybe not nice but a considerate and and knowing observate cultural observation you know what i mean make it a joke i don't think that that's i don't think that that's wrong you know

Like if you understand like a very slight cultural difference, that's not that's just observing something.

yeah.

And I've also said, I've been on the record saying this, I don't think Indian people stink.

I think they have a unique smell, which is this is that should be fine to say.

So, are you like

like

taking like up arms with the Pakistanis?

I'm not taking up arms with the Pakistanis.

I'm saying that them pointing this out is, all right, whatever.

You're gonna pretend like,

I'm not.

An hour ago, you're like, Pakistani people stink.

I literally did not say that.

You literally did not say that.

You literally said that one word.

Now you're still, now that it's, now you're trying to fucking like make it seem like I'm making some point that I'm not.

No, the point you're making is that you've seen Pakistani memes in response to Hindu nationalists support for Palestine.

And that Pakistan...

And that Pakistan is

counter-memeing them.

And they're cooking them, which, for effect is happening.

But oftentimes, the theme of these memes is that

the Hindu nationalists smell like doo-doo.

And you're responding to them.

Not even that they smell like doo-doo, but there's in one of them, one of them is covered in poo, and there's one that he's using the computer, which is also covered in poo.

That might not even be an indication of a smell thing.

It could just be, oh, this guy's just covered in shit using the computer.

It would smell crazy in there.

There's the other one.

It would smell crazy in there if the guy was in the computer lab.

There's a different one.

There's a different one where a guy just has stink lines coming off of him.

Yeah, like a.

Yeah.

Like, what do you call it?

Like a pig pen.

Yeah.

And again, too, you're trying to

sell me up the river here.

But you made my point.

You made a point independently that said that that is good for you.

I feel vindicated.

Because

it's indicative of like a

subtle cultural difference.

It's not that.

It's two people.

Because I've never said, I've never said that.

It's two people with nukes pointed at each other.

Yeah.

I mean, I've never seen that.

Actually, you're the one that's like poo-poo.

I'm not going to say that I've never said the word stinky because in instances where a pun was available that may have relied on that.

It's funny because, but like, but my honest opinion has never been that these people smell bad, but there is a unique smell.

Sure.

Like, yes, okay.

And different countries have different smells.

Yeah, yes, but when you travel,

but that's the thing.

It's like, if it was just, if I was like, oh, brown people all smell the same, that would be racist.

Sure.

But culturally, specifically, if you say, what is it that, and there's probably an answer.

Some people say.

It's in the food they cook.

Is it though?

When you go to your Indian friends.

But I don't smell it.

I don't like

it.

I eat asparagus 30 minutes later.

My piss smells like asparagus.

You're

eating all over their house.

I'm talking with that.

I'm saying, when you go to your Indian friend's house growing up and it smells different than Punjabi.

You told me if I ate nothing but Indian food for a month, I would say.

It's not about what you eat.

It's about that you're cooking it in the house.

Is Pakistani cuisine different than Indian cuisine?

It's Punjab.

I mean, yeah,

there's an overlap, but it's a regional overlap.

Do you think that caused Punjabi?

The war?

Yes.

I mean, could it have been that it started off with cuisine?

I think maybe it's Brulee.

And they're like, well, we have to be a different religion.

I maybe think it's like Hindu versus Muslim, maybe.

But they're like, well, we got to, but there's no way we can be.

I'm not going to spend eternity in the same places as these guys.

So we have to have a different religion.

Because of the food?

The smell.

Because they're just cooking with a lot of spices, and your house smells like spices.

It's like if you smoke cigs in a house, it smells like cigs.

But other people use those spices.

Not for every meal.

Yeah.

You know?

If you're having a fucking garam masala for brekki, lunch, and dinner every day, the house is going to smell.

But it is funny when a black person,

when someone from black Twitter says, it looked like it smelled crazy in there, and then 500,000 people are like, I will kill you, you bastard.

You know, that is funny because you see a cultural exchange that

that never really happens naturally in the world that can only exist on the internet, right?

So that's funny too.

But saying that Pakistan making those memes is

good for you.

It's not good for you.

That's what I was responding to.

No, I said it's vindicated.

I'm not saying it's good for me, like, oh, you know, in my war against the Indians, which is not how I feel.

You feel like the DNA evidence came out and you had your sentence

commuted

by the governor.

You were vindicated.

You feel like you're outside of the courthouse saying, free at last, free at last.

Not to that extent.

What's wrong with this?

What's wrong?

You're deliberately not hearing what I'm saying.

I'm hearing it.

Well, you hear this often.

No.

Yeah, you deliberately don't hear what I say.

That's what.

You don't ever say anything of substance.

Yeah, of course.

That's my thing.

Okay.

I'm no substance atom.

I'm like a gas.

Yeah.

I'm not like a, I'm not a solid.

I float, but I'm like the

cloud of dark matter from...

Everyone says it's the cooking, but I don't.

I think it might be something else.

What is it?

I don't know.

Bad attitude?

No.

Maybe the clothes?

I don't know.

What do you mean the clothes?

They wear shirts and pants?

Yeah, but like the...

The dyes they use or something.

I don't know.

They invented dyes.

Yeah, well maybe they're, you know.

A lot of our clothes that we wear today are dyed in India and Pakistan.

Yeah, I don't know.

I don't know what it is.

But it's not the same.

I guess it was just very interesting for me to see that, to see Pakistani people saying that Indian people stink.

What do you mean?

It is.

Again,

it is.

No,

it's interesting.

An hour ago.

An hour ago.

I literally didn't say that an hour ago.

Whatever, sure.

We were in the car.

We were on our way.

We were reading an article.

We were on our way to the coffee shop.

You're pissed.

We're on our way to the coffee shop.

We were walking in the coffee shop and you say, and I said to you, I'm like, it's interesting because in these memes, especially the one where...

And I said,

all them fellas smell like poo-poo.

That's what I said to you?

Something along that.

No, I did not, Nick.

You don't have to lie on my ass.

I mean, come on.

You don't have to besmirch my name.

I've said plenty out in the open that's fully

in the public record that could be fully picked apart and belittled.

You don't have to

go off the...

You don't have to go off on a side quest.

What?

You're reading more war right now?

Yeah, this is what people want to hear about.

They want to hear about the war.

We're journalists.

Yeah, of course.

We're not journalists, dude.

Do you see the numbers people are doing right now, just getting mad about this thing?

They're putting up big numbers.

I think think we should be madder

maybe like the for the show like we should like kind of have more of a fair and balanced thing though

like what what was that shitty what was that dog shit show on fox to hannity and combs you remember that yeah hannity used to just dunk his ass

yeah man that might have been the worst show ever on the news yeah yeah

combs would just be like i know i was trying to drop off my wife for you to have sex with her last night, and you were late.

Well, you know, I'm gay, so

I think that Barack Obama should fuck my mouth.

It was like pre-Obama.

I think it was like a Bush.

Yeah, it was.

Yeah, it was like 2006.

Yeah, and then Hannity and Combs.

And Combs would just get absolutely rocked.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, they used to have that.

It was like their version of Crossfire, if you remember.

Crossfire, the libs on Crossfire were also amazing.

Remember that guy, Paul Bagala?

No.

Yeah, rating 3.2 out of 10 for this show.

Hannity and Combs?

Yeah.

What happened to Al with Alan Combs?

Yeah Alan Combs.

Is he dead?

I think he might be dead.

Yeah.

Hannity sunned him too heavy?

Yeah he killed himself.

Alright.

Oh no.

That's sad dude.

What?

Someone kills themselves.

Especially because of Sean Hannity?

No, he was on the Greg Gutfield show.

Was he?

Is he alive?

No, he died.

He did die.

Yeah.

He killed himself.

Oh, my God.

I don't know how much more bad news I can take, dude.

I'm sad about losing Combs.

Yeah, I'm sad about losing a lot.

My innocence.

Did you say the promo code for this thing?

Yeah, like four times.

Okay.

I can't believe you tried to let me hang out the dry on that one.

Twice.

Twice.

Unreal.

What do you want?

What do you need?

Huh?

What do you need from me?

I don't know.

You want me to be like

in a movie scene?

Like one of the rant...

No, you go...

Like a guy with one line in the movie that's like, that's right, Nick.

Good one.

We got to mix it up, dude.

This is about exchange of ideas.

No, it's about yes, and it's pretty basic format.

We've been doing it professionally for eight years.

Yes, and?

Yeah, yes, and the basic.

How many times have you yes anded me?

Constantly.

You know fucking if you have a premise.

You know, fucked me.

If you every time and time again.

If you actually pitch something that is a joke and not just saying things.

Pitched plenty of things.

You just say things.

None of them are ever a premise.

What was the last premise?

What is this?

What is this?

When was the last time you said, well, what about this scenario?

I would run with it.

I was trying to talk about how Michael Rappaport and I are afraid that

we can't be hip-hop Sal Juan.

And it took me 20 minutes to get it out.

And what I said, well, and then this is a yes and

this is a yes answer.

He's more of like a 90s guy.

Right.

That's not a yes and yes, it is.

No, no, it's not.

If I responded to you, you would be.

He was a hip-hop.

You would be like, why are you fucking saying no to everything I say?

No, no.

But you do say no to everything I say.

No, I don't.

Yeah.

No, I don't.

You're doing it right now.

No, you're in.

Right now.

No, you're in one of those.

You're baby mood, Nick.

Baby mood.

Oh, right.

Yeah, that's it.

That's it.

You are a baby mood.

Baby mood.

That's the problem.

You are a baby mood, Nick.

Sure.

What are you talking about?

Okay, you want to talk about went out in the car today?

What about happening in the car?

When I said, you were like, it's just bullshit.

It's shit.

I don't care anymore.

I don't care.

And I was like, well, it's kind of fun that we get to like, that we got to do that shoot this weekend.

Like, we get to like make this stuff right now and what did you say well i what i say is bullshit that i don't want to talk about anymore it's like all of these phone calls and meetings determining who's going to be the liaison with fucking youtube to deal with the censorship stuff or all this strategizing that doesn't really amount to anything that's that's what i'm tired of

They're like, oh, we got to get the social media, maybe the social media guy.

Maybe if he's editing the show, then that would be different.

It's like, I don't fucking, I don't, I don't know.

I never said that.

Yeah, that's

the exact conversation.

That was not the conversation.

Yeah, it wasn't.

No, it wasn't conversation.

You're like, yeah, we need to figure it out.

Baby Moon Nick.

You're being baby moon Nick.

No, I'm not.

Yes, you are.

No, I'm not.

Yes, you are.

No, you're like, yes, you are.

You're trying to go.

I said, I like working on the show.

I thought it was pretty cool this weekend.

You know?

And what did you say?

I didn't say anything.

You said it's just so much fucking bullshit.

It's all bullshit.

You come to the studio, one of the

cords aren't plugged in correctly.

Yes,

it's one thing if not the other thing.

There is.

There's a lot of stuff that goes wrong.

Cameras are clearly clear.

You're complaining about a cord.

You don't do any of this stuff.

You don't have to do it.

You're complaining about a cord that wasn't plugged in correctly, which got fixed in one second.

I was talking about a list of things that are just constant.

This light's still broken.

But why does that even go in a list?

Because it's not.

Why is that a list?

Because it's not just not plugged in correctly.

It was broken again this morning when we just went to go do this.

No, No, this needs to be fucking this.

Okay, fine, whatever.

Then you fix it.

I'm not going to touch anything ever.

Very principled.

Very principled stance.

I'm just saying, I was telling, I was talking to you, I was like, it's really fun when we get to do these kind of things like what we did on Sunday and what we're doing after this today.

And you were like, it's all fucking bullshit.

It's bullshit.

It's all bullshit.

And I was like,

oh, it's baby midnight time.

It's kind of nice.

Yeah, if you say so.

Yeah.

I was trying to look on the bright side of things.

Guys, don't worry.

We love each other.

Say it to them.

Say what?

Tell them we love each other.

Oh, yeah.

Definitely.

You don't know what to say.

Look into the camera.

Tell them.

Yeah, guys.

We love each other.

Definitely.

Now I know why Combs killed himself.

What?

You feel like you're Combs, I'm headed on?

I'm Combs, definitely.

Having to put up with your bullshit.

What do you mean?

Just all the time.

What do you mean by bullshit?

Me trying to see the positive in things?

What's wrong with that?

There's a difference between seeing the positive and just

like...

Folks, a new episode of the Adam Freeland Show will be out by the end of the week or the beginning of next week and we're very close on it and basically what Nick and I are talking about right now is that we were discussing that in the car I said yeah I think we're like we're like we can do this pretty like we're not that as far out as we think and you I believe you took exception with that with that assertion right

you're like it's fucked it's all fucked I didn't say it was all fucked no you did

no I'm not this one yeah it'll be another it's nice four or five days of work to get this one out.

I don't know what it is, but it's not.

Which is fine.

No, it's just there's no, uh, I guess, yeah, the there's no real light at the end of the tunnel for any of this.

The show is never going to be sold.

The money, we keep losing money.

It's been a year.

Oh, my God, dude.

What do you mean?

I don't know how much longer it's going to be profitable.

That's true.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But beyond that, what do you mean it's never going to be like

we've made, we've been like making the show in this format for like what?

A matter of a couple months now.

One year ago, we did did an episode with Shane, which was like a live podcast with costumes.

The color was dog shit.

Do you remember?

Think about how far we've come since that, Nick.

Yeah, no, that's all fucked.

That's lovely.

But I got to think about it.

You got to think about,

you know, like what's sustainable.

Okay, the Monopoly man hasn't invited us into a fucking limo and given us a check for $500 million.

This is true, but that doesn't mean that like everything is fucked.

I'm not saying everything's fucked.

You're misrepresenting my my complaint you said there's no luck no no you literally just says there's no light at the end of the day let's put it this way a year into it i would like to not still be dealing with just like technical stuff constantly all the time yeah sure it's an annoyance and the only way that that would be resolved is if like you know we could like maybe sell the show or something and there's but that's just not going to happen so

it's like uh yeah there's still going to be a lot of

getting on a fucking ladder or doing production stuff.

I think to expect to sell the show probably six months into us defining a format for the show

is probably a little bit impractical.

I mean, I'm not naysaying or anything like that.

I'm just saying, we're doing a great job, buddy.

People love chat.

People have Jadakiz, Cuomo.

This next one, I don't think people are going to like.

I think I'm really annoying in it.

And I think the guy hates me.

But you guys are really gonna like who the guest is.

And I know you don't like when I pre-no, you can do whatever you want.

Um,

tell him we love each other again.

No,

we already did that, bit it was funny, I guess.

You yes, and did it too, and you said it into the camera.

I appreciate that, sure.

Yeah, you yes-and that bit.

See, there you go,

there you go, buddy.

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Do you know about this?

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Yeah.

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Yes.

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Is it in boxing or MMA?

It has to be in boxing.

Former heavyweight champion of UFC, Francis Naganu is fighting Tyson Fury, the Gypsy King.

You know, I'm a big Gypsy King fan.

Do you know Tyson Fury, Nick?

Do you know what Turkey is?

He said British, like...

He's a gypsy.

He's like, I can't read.

I'm ugly.

I'm fat.

He's great.

Yeah.

He's like, I'm fat.

I'm ugly.

He's like John Fetterman.

Yeah, he's like kind of the John Fetterman, but like if John Fetterman just whopped everyone.

People are mad at John Fetterman right now.

He's going heavy Israel.

Yeah.

My boogie guy.

Can he speak yet?

Is he still.

I don't know.

I haven't heard him speak.

He's got a crazy look, that guy.

Yeah.

He has that Cro-Magnon, like,

eyebrow ridge thing.

Yeah.

Well, he looks like Slingblade.

I mean, it's crazy.

Yeah, but he looks more like a prehistoric.

You know what I mean?

He looks like early man.

Yeah, people are mad at him for what?

For like kicking out Palestinian activists from his office or something?

I think so, yeah.

Yeah.

But he didn't do it.

His fucking chief of staff did it.

I haven't really paid attention.

But people are like, oh, I knew he was bad.

Everyone knew?

Yeah.

No, they're all bad guys.

They're all bad.

Yeah, I mean, like,

apropos of our conversation before, Nick,

typically

in a

production cycle or the creative process,

this is the moment, this last couple-day run-up where we start stressing and tearing each other down

as men, you know?

And that's just part of the process.

What does that have to do with my bookie?

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I was just explaining to the audience.

I thought you got this money bag line.

I did.

The money line.

You guys know how that works?

It's crazy.

They they get a $500 limit.

Yes.

But then they randomize your odds.

So they randomize your odds.

They choose a team for you, and

they give you like insane odds.

And if your team wins at the end of, it's like kind of like a, you go like a spin a wheel, and then you get a team, and then they give you like plus 38,000.

And if you put $500 down, then that goes, what is that?

That's

what's 38 times 5.

What are your chances of...

So what's like the what's the best?

What are the, I guess, worst odds in the entire NFL?

Those odds are the best odds.

No, I'm saying, like,

what's the

what is the, what are the odds for the shittiest team in the NFL?

Who's the rank lowest?

I mean, that would be, like, something like 38,000.

38,000.

So they give you, like, if you get the Chiefs, who are one of the best teams, were the Eagles, who just had another stunning victory this weekend.

There's 32 teams?

There are 32 teams, I believe.

I'm going to say 1 in 32 odds.

So those odds are...

1 in 32 is, I don't know.

It's a 3 3%

probability.

Okay, but

that being said,

the individual teams themselves don't just have a 3% chance.

That's what I'm I'm trying to figure out what your

odds are, the weighted odds.

I guess if it's randomized, then it is 1 in 32 because you don't get to choose a team.

Right.

Yeah.

But

if

you end up getting the Eagles,

you know,

then

that

outweighs what it would be like to get a shit team.

Yeah.

So yeah, that's kind of a

smart money play.

Yeah.

I suppose.

Do you think they're going to cancel the World Series because of Gaza?

It's such boring teams, too.

Yeah, I know.

Diamondbacks are racing.

They should cancel the World Series if it's gay.

If it's gay teams.

Yeah, if it's okay.

I don't think it's been cool since 2001 Diamondbacks Yankees.

Yeah.

That was the best baseball has ever been.

Snakes and the fucking...

Well, it was after 9-11.

Italians.

It was after 9-11.

That would be an awesome matchup.

Snakes versus Italians.

Just put some Guido in a pit with a bunch of Cobras.

Yeah.

And just tell him he's only allowed to punch.

Yeah, he's like, what do you got?

You got a fucking problem?

Ah, fuck.

Just getting him.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Ah, fuck.

And you can bet on that.

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No, it's,

I'm not interested in baseball in general, but what does one to 33 odds mean?

Odds versus probability.

Note that odds and probability are not the same.

Are you learning betting right now?

I'm learning basic math percentages.

I always forget.

Huh.

Yeah, it's like a like a roulette wheel, guys.

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We got a big fight.

I'm going Tyson Fury.

You're going Tyson you're going Francis Naganu.

It's Fetterman versus Fetterman versus

Africa.

Yeah, really strong guy from...

Is he Nigerian?

I think it's Nigerian.

Yeah.

His punches are really strong.

Yeah.

Yeah, they're really powerful punches.

But he's an MMA guy.

He's not a boxer.

And Tyson has the heart of a lion.

Does he?

Yeah, he's amazing.

He's incredible.

Yeah, he does have John Fetterman's.

Yeah, and his body's very cool.

He's got like a dumpy body.

He's super tall.

Why does he have these shorts?

Let me see.

What are his shorts look like, guys?

Well, they wear shorts high because they like because of the undercut or low

low blows.

Yeah.

Yeah, but I mean, that's that's not he's not going to the ring like that, is he?

I think he, yeah, he looks like shit.

Yeah, yeah,

he's got no drip.

Actually, he dresses pretty cool outside the ring.

He wears like um

like Gucci shit, and like he dresses like a Italian pimp sometimes.

He looks cool, yeah.

But we're going Tyson, we're going Gypsy King on this one: Manchester Zone,

the Gypsy King, Tyson Fury.

Hellboxer fought back from a day.

Oh, he was addicted to something.

What was he addicted to?

Looks like Girl Scout cookies.

Oh, yeah, he beats off a ton.

He said he's addicted to beating off.

You could bet on that at my bookie.aging.

Yeah, yeah.

Just look up how many times a day he beats off.

Struggles with addiction.

Was he addicted to beating off?

Is that right?

I'm looking.

He was also depressed, too.

Yeah.

What are

Huh?

How many times a day does he jerk off?

I don't see it, and it's not in this article.

I'm going to look it up right now.

All right.

I'm going to talk about this.

Holmes died of cancer.

I'm going to talk about this Al Jazeera thing while you look it up.

All right.

Al Jazeera used to have mail.

You said have what?

They used to have mail.

He used to be able to have.

I had an Al Jazeera email address.

Before Gmail?

Yeah.

People forget that.

Isn't that at Al Jazeera?

At Al Jazeera.

At PopMail.

Yeah, Al Jazeera.

He says he masturbates seven to eight times a day, and that's the secret success to his box.

I just remember that.

I had an Al Jazeera email account.

Yeah.

Al Jazeera

free email address.

Let's see if there's anything, any relics on the internet.

Yeah.

should we go to Qatar

I hear it's boring yeah there's nothing really to do there I think yeah it's like a big mall it's like yeah you can like go to like Louis Vuitton

and then drink in like a like one bar I'm getting

I'm getting ready to leave America where are you gonna go though I don't know fuck this country no one wants you though Why?

Because we are an American.

No one likes us.

Yeah, but I'm an artist.

It's true.

You are an artist.

You know what

would get you into another country?

If you

were a pedophile,

the French would be like, bravo.

Also, Israel, right?

I've seen that going around.

Did they just take sex offenders?

Do they?

I don't know.

I've seen that all over Twitter this week.

I remember Meyer Lansky tried to go there at the end when

the FBI was trying to get his ass, and Israel denied his.

Yeah, some of the stuff I see it, I'm like, all right, is this really one of the stories we should be sharing

I don't know because that seems like a separate issue there seems like a lot of stories yeah yeah that's sometimes you gotta you gotta do one let's do one thing at a time don't do genocide yeah yeah if we stop the genocide maybe after that we can take a look at the pedophile thing yeah but for right now

you got it you gotta have a priorities list you know it's also it's not like they're letting the pedophiles go to Gaza

right

That's only hurting them.

No, yeah.

It's about immigration policy for Jews and extradition, right?

They don't extradite in Israel?

No, they do.

They do extradite.

Yeah, they really.

Why are these pedophiles allowed to go there then?

I don't know.

I just read that.

They don't extradite.

They do extradite for everyone unless you're a pedophile.

Yeah, I think that's...

It's like France.

Yeah, it's like France.

It is like France.

Yeah, yeah.

It's like, oh my God, he's an artiste.

Yeah.

It's amazing.

Yeah.

Did you see Woody at Venice Film Festival?

He got like a 20-minute standing ovation for the new movie.

He's just sitting there like,

he's sitting there like this.

He's like, wow, thank you so much.

And we're like, ah,

you are incredible.

Really?

Yeah.

Europeans love him.

And Polanski.

You know, I've never been to a film festival.

I've never seen a film festival.

But when I hear about these standing ovations,

I'm like, that sounds like the most embarrassing thing I've ever.

It's so European.

Can you you imagine clapping in a movie?

It's so European.

Yeah.

For 10 minutes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm going to clap at a movie.

Or not even that, the walkouts, too, when they're like, this is a Travis D.

Yeah.

When people like can get mad at a movie.

Can't you just like something or not like something?

Just sit there, watch the movie go home.

Yeah.

Have some snacks.

Good, yeah.

Yeah, it's a movie.

Yeah.

You're supposed to just sit there and chill.

Yeah.

It's so European to be furious or like about to come from like a, what, like a light comedy?

Well, that's why, because they don't have, they can't, they're not, Europeans aren't good at extracting anything out of life, right?

You know, Americans are good at that, that's why they have to, oh, art,

cinema, have this transcendent experience that I have to clap at.

Yeah, so whereas here, we got fireworks, you can blow shit up, you can kill your neighbor with a gun.

We know how to live,

you know.

So then they have to just like, yeah, they don't have that, they have to cry.

Yeah, right, exactly.

They have to cry.

They weep.

They have to cry.

Oh, it chiny my head.

They make me feel.

Yeah, no.

It makes me feel alive for the first time.

Can you imagine a French guy sitting in a monster truck rally?

Blow his fucking mind.

Yeah.

What would he make of it?

I don't know.

Israel should do that.

Honestly, that's the way to win back

half of half of this country.

Just get into redneck shit.

Well, no.

I mean, just drive fucking gravedigger through Gaza.

Just crush.

People would be like, this is horrific, but you gotta watch the video.

It's it's kind of awesome you gotta watch the video i mean i'm against it but the video is crazy it would win me back honestly if the idf just cruised right down the middle of the gaza strip with with bigfoot seven whatever the the newest they make the biggest monster truck in the world what's the biggest one now i don't know it's like bigfoot five or six oh it's yeah they would go after the cold war ended i guess they went they went over to the soviet union they found tires bigger than any

just these big tires that the soviets did and they made a truck out of that I watched this like history channel thing the other day about this tank the Nazis were trying to make which was the biggest tank of all time yeah but it would like run out of gas and like it would like had like a five mile like it would have to be refueled every like five miles yeah but it was like it was massive yeah I've seen that yeah like mega that was like one of those things I when I was a kid yeah it's one of those history channel things like secret Nazi technology revealed yeah they love the Nazis Aaron had that book on his couch who Aaron.

Oh, don't tell them.

Oh, they don't know who that is.

Yeah.

Yeah.

This guy that we met this weekend.

He's like, I've read all of these books.

He's like, I'm incredibly into it.

I'm very political.

He kept saying I'm very political, but he didn't indicate what his politics were, which I kind of liked.

But all his books were like Nazi secrets revealed, and there was like clearly self-it was a self-published.

It was like card tricks for dummies.

Yeah, it was like

half of his books were self-published, like from like a man with schizophrenia on the street.

Yeah, yeah.

Anyway, let's let's let's do

let's shoot.

All right, well, we got to get this.

I got to get this string out done so we know what we have to shoot around.

Show Ginsburg what you did last night.

Let's shoot, okay?

All right, I might.

We're gonna have a good rest of the day.

I might need a little treat or something.

So, haven't you?

Just had a treat.

Why are you eating your feelings?

Nick, we're gonna have a good rest of the day.

I haven't vaped.

I've been vaped in an overall day.

That's what it is.

That's what all this is.

It's just nicotine withdrawal.

I haven't vaped in a week.

Okay, so it's nicotine withdrawal.

I love you.

Do you?

Yeah.

Oh, okay.

Why don't I?

It's so exhausting that, like, continuously, I have to prove my love to someone.

Well, it's a bizarre thing to say.

I mean, I don't love you.

What is love?

I don't know.

We're business partners.

Son, you always.

That's your love.

That's your fucking going

back to the fucking well.

We're business partners.

Anytime you're being a little bit like, oh, like sensei, you're like, oh, but you're just my business partner.

We have been friends for fucking 13 years.

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