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Hello and welcome to the Adam Friedland Show.

What's up?

Hi.

Well,

damn, I'm out of breath.

Why?

I don't know.

All I did was go to the bathroom.

Yeah.

You're out of breath from pissing?

Uh, yeah.

You're a young man, Nick.

I know, something's wrong.

You've got to stop thinking of yourself as an senior citizen.

It probably is.

Everything's always in your head.

Yeah.

You know.

Anyways, so,

yes.

It is

Monday or Wednesday,

September 6th.

Fall is here.

It's fall in New York City.

Right.

Summer's over.

And coronavirus is almost finally, we're finally ready to just go back to living in hell.

Right.

We're on the home stretch, folks.

And it's about to just be a shittier life that we all live, except now we're all, we all have neurological damage from either the virus itself or the quote-unquote

everybody's fucked.

And they still haven't restocked PS5.

They did.

They did.

We saw it both.

You can get them anywhere.

We saw it at Best Buy and we saw it at PC Richards.

But I saw it at Best Books.

But those were empty boxes.

No, they weren't.

They weren't.

Because they're gone.

They're gone.

Yeah.

They're just sitting there.

Oh, they are?

Yeah.

Oh, so no one, everyone's over it?

No, I think that we happened to go to PC Richards and his Best Buy on a day where they just happened to have them in stock.

And because I saw it at both places, I'm like, well, now you can get it anywhere.

I don't want it anymore.

But

no, I think it's still hard to get.

Yeah.

Yeah.

What else is in the news?

How are you?

You're good?

I'm all right.

We just moved into the office.

I probably haven't been drinking enough water today.

Here, I got water

at the store.

Oh, wow.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Smart water.

Wait, can I ask you a question on mic?

What?

Because maybe this will keep you honest.

Yeah.

Because I've asked you this multiple times at this point.

Can we please get a water cooler for the office?

No.

No, that's the building's responsibility.

Come on, man.

I guess.

We keep going to the store for.

We don't even know where the we don't know where the mini fridge is supposed to go yet.

It has to go into the office.

We'll move it in right now.

I don't think it would look good in here.

I don't know if the mini fridge.

Why do you care about the aesthetic of it?

Because it's a limited amount of space.

This is the chill zone.

We have the fucking mini fridge in the chill zone.

In the office.

The project, folks, Nick's drinking water.

The project is going well.

I'm very excited about next Monday's episode, which should be

a real step forward.

I'm excited, too.

I just wish I didn't feel like fucking dog shit all the time.

Yeah, come on, bro.

I got my psych to recommend a therapist.

Yeah, why isn't that the same thing anymore?

Well, the psych costs $400 a fucking hour.

I mean, the therapist costs what?

$200.

$200.

But the psych you have to go to to get the pills.

Right.

But in the Sopranos, she gives him the pills.

I can't keep living my life like this.

I just went to Philly.

Did you find a good one?

I went to Philly.

I had a great time.

Yeah.

And the entire time, I'm like, why does this suck?

Why does this suck?

Everyone was so nice.

The shows were ni.

It was good.

The shows were good.

It was good to be back in Philly doing that club.

You love Philly.

I had a great, I mean, I should have had a good time, but something,

like, it just doesn't, I don't.

And then in my head, I'm like, well, then it must be the thing.

And not that, like, you know,

I'm just not, I just don't.

Because brass tacks, like.

Something bad will happen, something small,

and then I just don't.

A minor inconvenience.

I just blow past it.

And the big stuff, I blow past that, too.

And then you're like, yeah.

Don't blow past the big stuff.

Everything's going fine.

I'm like sleeping on the couch.

You don't blow past the big stuff.

Yeah.

I watched Alien twice yesterday.

You don't like inconveniences or complications.

Yeah.

You were shouting at the photo printer to get the I'm Gay book jacket perfect.

That's not true.

Don't disparage.

Don't make it.

I'm not disparaging you.

First of all, don't disparage it.

I'm admiring you because you're a perfectionist.

We do a lot of, we talk a lot of, there's a lot of jokes around the show who does what and what's being delegated, but

do not take our department away from me as if that is not the only thing.

No, you've treated this whatever this is

as if like like like James Cameron treated no I just want to do the silverware in the Titanic I just want to do art department stuff at the end I mean the book is incredible at the end of all of this I'll just I'll get I'll have a nice job making fake hands also you always say crap like this like you're going back to GameStop or something you're literally a famous

beloved comedian I never said anything about going back to GameStop that's not gonna happen you've said that multiple times I only worked at GameStop for about a month.

You were seasonal, I know.

I just real quick, make a little extra money,

get the 25% store discount.

Yeah, that's true.

In a year.

Make fun of that guy who shit his pants.

In a year where it was important to do that, 2008.

Which, you know what?

I've talked to you guys.

The games were good in 2008.

You know what I got to do?

Fuck therapy.

I'm going to go pick up Last of Us and play that because I heard it's great.

But I thought that a large contributing factor to

what frustrates you is that the games are no longer good.

Well, I think that one's supposed to be good.

First of all, that game's almost 10 years old now.

Is it?

Yeah.

But I'm telling you, I was, when Red Dead Redemption 2 came out, I was about to fucking kill myself, dude.

It saved your life.

Literally, yes.

It saved your life.

Yes.

Not only the game itself, but then growing a beard like Arthur for two years afterwards,

that game carried me.

Dude, I was losing my mind.

Through the Trump years.

You know me.

The second that man was elected, I was.

I had to fucking power through story mode because I was in a failing relationship and I was told that she was going to leave me

playing my family.

Probably the worst thing Dash ever did to you is make you rush through Red Dead Red.

The worst thing she did was she said, give me the controller.

And then she.

Oh, what is she going to do with it?

Fucking get.

And then she made Arthur punch my horse and it broke my heart.

What is she going to do?

Make the controller even drier with her pussy?

Friend of the show.

Friend of the show.

Oh, what's she gonna do with the PlayStation controller?

Dry it out?

No, I mean, is her pussy like a blow dryer to get all the hands?

It was so funny.

She was, I was like, literally, I was losing my mind trying to power through story mode because I was like, I have to finish.

And she was like, I can't be less attracted to you.

She was like, this is disgusting.

Oh, shit.

What is this?

I might have to say.

Is it scam likely?

No, it's not.

Hello.

We got a phone call, folks.

We got a live one.

Bitch.

What is it, scam?

Some bitch.

Damn, drinking just this bottle of water I already feel maybe 10% better.

I love that, Nick.

Yeah.

Listen, dude.

You get by with a little help from your friends.

You got to listen to the people.

You drank my entire water.

Oh, I thought you were handing me a water to drink.

No, I got a water because I was thirsty.

No, I thought you were giving me a water to drink.

I can also feel.

What's Last of Us?

It's a first-person shooter?

Yeah, I don't know.

It's some fucking indication.

It's the end of the world.

Is there any better indication that video games are just like

when people talk about our video games art?

And it's like the best ones are like

geared towards people that have severe fucking depression.

It's not just a fantasy.

It's a fantasy in which like you don't exist in this world.

Everyone's dead.

Everyone's dead.

It's just you.

It doesn't matter.

You're barely hanging on, but

for some reason, it's cool.

That's it.

That's all of them.

Well, that's what happened to Warren Planning.

Red Dead Redemption 2.

The first one was already pretty grim, but they're like, yeah, it's not enough that you're a cowboy in the Wild West.

You got to be dying.

Yeah, well, I just have tuberculosis.

I would check my phone and think it was like 10:45 p.m.

And it would literally be like

5:30 a.m.

Yeah, you just like completely, you're not in the world.

But I want that world, it was so great

it felt so nice yeah i was at the coffee shop i'm not gonna say the name so the freaks don't ruin it for me and get me kicked out but i was at the coffee shop even risk it you've already been down this road i overheard this girl this this lady telling another lady about her video game that she's making

And she's like, so it's a dystopian future?

Girls make video games, though?

She said, yeah, she's like, what's it called?

Bitch Mario?

It's called Super Bitch.

She's like, it's a dystopian future, and a trans girl is like realizing that her parents are abusing her.

And she has to figure out a way.

What do you mean, realizing that her?

Wait a minute, I've been sucking a dick this whole time?

What do you mean, realizing?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And so she comes to terms with her gender and also breaks away from her abusive family while dealing with the society crumbling.

And that was,

you know, and I, you know, I didn't say anything, of course.

What are you reading on your phone?

I'm looking at the reads for this week.

Oh, shit, I forgot that we have ads.

Yes, ma'am.

Guys, I showed Nick the first five minutes of the new episode, and guess what?

I think he liked it.

Made me feel really good.

Yeah, you did a good job.

Thanks, man.

It made me feel really good.

Why?

Because I want you to love it.

Why do you want my approval?

We've been working together for a fucking decade.

It's not about...

Shouldn't you want my approval?

No, I just want to be happy.

You don't care.

No, I want you to be happy and I'm laughing.

It doesn't feel good at all.

Look,

we are middle-aged men that have been involved in the arts for our entire lives.

Dude, if at this point you're not just running on your own goddamn fumes, you're lost.

I covet our creative furniture.

I have.

I really do.

I don't give a fuck what anybody thinks.

I want to make shit that I think is good.

And it probably could be the worst shit in the world.

No, your shit's good.

I don't care.

There's a weird, it's like,

you'll do something right sometimes, and it'll hit your fucking,

it'll just, you're like,

you know,

it's like sort of the antidote to whatever's going on in your head.

Yeah, your whatever.

yeah yeah whatever you call it your fucking pineal gland or whatever yeah

listen dude all i'm saying is this okay

is we are right now we have the ability to do anything we want and it's pretty cool because for years we discussed wanting this and we have it right now

so you shouldn't like just like you shouldn't be like uh

i i i hate life i hate you know i don't say i hate life We're so lucky.

First of all, don't get it twisted.

I'm not like some 17-year-old fucking.

You literally are.

No, no.

You literally are.

I'm not like I hate life more.

It's like,

why don't

why am I not enjoying things?

And then it's more just frustration.

Well, you're never going to.

Like, that's part of the creative process.

Like, you're going to feel good for 10 minutes and then you're going to hate it.

But that's fine.

You should

make another thing.

Food should taste good.

I shouldn't feel like

I shouldn't wake up.

Maybe that's

the virus, dude.

I shouldn't feel fucking tired all the time.

Yeah.

But, anyways,

yeah, I guess I'll kill myself.

The Elvis movie is in theaters.

Did you finish it?

No, we just, we already talked about it.

No, we talked about it.

But I tell you what, I did let myself yesterday just fucking be a couch a couch queen

and just sit there and watch hit s hit hit up stars encore.

Whew

perfect day of

doing

nothing.

Sorry.

I don't know why I fucking

it's just just so difficult to read here the reads for this week.

Okay.

All right.

I got it.

You got them?

Yeah, we got'em.

Last brother.

We got'em.

Um

Yeah.

Is there anything you wanted to discuss?

No.

I don't even know what's going on in the world.

Yeah.

I was editing for 14 hours yesterday, and we're still not done.

It's crazy.

It's fun.

Yeah.

It's really cool.

Well, when he sits there and he does all that editing, you understand why Steven's a drug addict.

I really thought he was our friend that liked opioids.

I didn't think, like, when he's editing, it looks like an Asian kid playing piano.

Like, can you believe that's nine?

I mean, it doesn't look like it looks like an Asian kid.

It looks like an Asian kid working in a playing card factory.

He's so good.

He does it so quickly.

The shortcuts.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's really, it's really fucking.

I got one of those keyboard overlays

for editing.

That does not speed anything up.

Well, you just have to learn the shortcuts on the keyboard.

Yeah, when I sit there looking at a keyboard, I've never seen it.

Now there's just a million buttons.

The swag in editing is that it's gay to use the mouse.

Yeah.

It's cool to use only keyboard.

Like only shortcuts.

The swag.

The swag of it.

Yeah.

That's cool.

I'm going to start saying it's lit.

Yeah, it is lit.

And pause.

Swerve.

You say pause after someone says something gay.

How about swerve?

Remember that?

Yeah, I remember swerves.

Swerve was a thing people would say when we were a young guy, when we were 20.

I think swerve is maybe still going on.

What is swerve?

Like you're drunk and you're driving?

Yeah, swerve into a fucking group of kids.

Group of Zoomer kids coming up with new language that I don't approve of.

Oh,

damn.

Yeah, I'm going to drink another big thing of water and then maybe have a little diarrhea

later.

From water?

Yeah, I guess.

Water and fucking beans.

I was eating bean.

I thought you saw being vegan.

No, I didn't.

Oh, you kept going.

What made you think I stopped?

You tweeted that you stopped being vegan.

Everything I say publicly is a joke.

I'm not even vegan.

I actually feel fine.

I haven't been depressed in forever.

I'm a fucking millionaire with a great life.

But you don't tell these people that.

Yeah.

We should tell them less.

Yeah.

We really expose our assholes to the world too much.

And we really show our whole anus.

We show our whole.

You'd be cool to have a little half moon anus.

Yeah.

Like that Brooks and Dunn song, half moon anus.

And I got a nasty hole

like a fingernail moon.

I got a fingernail moon.

What's he sound like again?

Which is the singer?

Brooks or Dunn?

They're both the singers.

Oh, they are.

Yeah.

Ronnie Brooks or Ronnie Dunn.

Ronnie Dunn, yeah.

Ronnie Dunn sucked my penis.

That's your guy right there.

Imagine saying that to him, and then he has to kill himself.

He invites you up on stage.

He's like, that's a step too far, brother.

He invites you up on stage, and you're more like Ronnie Dunn, suck my penis.

He's like, well, that's it for me, folks.

Folks, this has been a good run.

It's time for me to kill myself.

When my asshole is

out of my pants,

and everyone can see

it's a fingernail moon shape.

Yeah.

You know, something like that.

Podcasting's so good.

What?

You don't like it anymore?

You just want to be a filmmaker?

Yeah, I want to be an autour, no.

Yeah, I mean, me too, honestly.

After you get a taste of it, it's so exciting.

You're like, this is bullshit.

This is retarded.

I mean, I wasted six years of my life.

Dude, and honestly, like,

I had a fun weekend.

Yeah.

And it's like, I'm already tired of this fucking hour.

I'm not going to record it.

I'm just like slowly plugging more shit into it because it's all topical bullshit.

And half of it doesn't hit anyways.

But, and then mostly crush.

Mostly you go out on the road to

say hi to people.

Because that's nice.

You do this, you do this.

I mean, all this internet-based shit, it turns you into a fucking psycho.

Yeah.

Because it's like you don't have any connection.

All that exists is being on the other side of like a parasocial relationship,

you know, yeah, where it's like

you don't have no connection, it's just like somebody that's like knows way too much about you.

It's so gay that we're talking about you getting a therapist from your psychiatrist.

Meaning that they're like, I'm happy that Nick's finally taking those steps.

I don't know.

They're not taking that at all.

They're like, he's lying.

He's lying to sound cool.

Well, whatever.

Either way.

Who cares?

I mean, like, no, you go out on the road and it immediately, like, because even the fucking freaks that come out that want to talk to you about, like,

when you said, you know, this is because some, 99.99% of them.

But even the freaks.

In person, it's like, oh, this is just a...

It's just a guy.

This is just a weird guy.

Yeah.

He's just weird.

He's trying his best.

Yeah.

Just like me.

Yeah.

Except it worked out for me and it didn't for him.

He says shit that's out of pocket on the internet.

It's fine.

It's fine.

Yeah.

He's not going to shoot anyone.

And even if he does, some people shoot Pete.

That's just a thing that happens.

That's fucking the most shooty guy of all time, Steven Paddock.

No one would deny that he seems like the little we know about him.

Nothing.

One picture of him with his Filipina girlfriend, and you're like, I would have a drink with him.

Yeah, he's fucking fucking.

I would fucking

chill.

100%

chill.

You know that guy was.

He

helicopters.

Yeah.

Yeah, he was tight.

I mean, if he's anything like his brother, he was cool.

I'm sure they were kind of similar.

Yeah.

And that guy killed more people than anyone.

He killed the most people.

And if he came to a show,

I would be like, wow, this middle-aged guy came.

That's cool.

Hopefully, him.

You're a good set, dude.

Yeah.

I would be like, awesome.

Thanks for coming to Philly.

Hopefully, you and your immigrant wife had a good time.

Oh, man.

Yeah.

Dude, I need to get another water.

I'm parched.

Yeah.

Do you want to take a break?

No, we don't have to take a break.

What time is it?

20.

Oh, perfect.

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One second.

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Where'd you go?

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called

Football Inn or Football Tavern or something.

Soccer Tavern.

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Mm-hmm.

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on Google Maps and it brought up a gay bar off

she said it was called Amsterdam Hardware and I think I put that in this gay bar called hardware came up.

She was trolling.

And then I thought I'm I'm going to make my family come here for my birthday.

Just for the one joke of you thinking that it's a fucking construction-based bar?

No, no, not at all.

I don't know why I didn't think of that in the past.

Just find a bar that doesn't sound like a gay bar.

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And then

make my extended family come have lunch with me at a bar with Tom from Finland stuff all over the walls.

It's pretty good yeah yeah the joke uh the joke being that they would be very out of place yeah yeah fish out of water fish out of water anyway I picked her up at that bar and it was just filled with Chinese degenerate gamblers and they were just like watching horse races on television and there was like a main bookie guy who was taking all the bets and then just like old-timers that had been there forever and there was one guy, right?

This like Italian guy who was there.

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And he's like,

You know, I grew up with John Gotti.

And he's like, I was sick of all those fucking WAPs.

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And he's like, I've been coming here for the last 16 years just to get away.

And I was like, oh, this neighborhood?

And he's like, no, this neighborhood's fucking disgusting.

Because it's like Brooklyn's Chinatown.

And

And he's like, yeah, like the funniest thing he said was he said, yeah, like, I remember when Transvesticles first came to New York.

Transvestites, he means?

Yeah, he called it Transvesticles.

Do you remember fucking...

Have you remember Sean Patton's bit about old guys at neighborhood bars in New York?

Yeah, the guy that's been there for 150 years.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's a great bar.

Yeah, I've been in this neighborhood for 137 years.

I remember when they invented the Yankees.

Yeah.

No, that's.

What's the line?

No, it's because it's like

he's like, yeah, 38th Street, but back before the dirty Irish came up, the dirty Irish came up from under it.

We're just doing Sean Patrick.

It's fun.

We don't have anything else.

Yeah.

The dirty Irish came up from under 38th Street.

And the fire department back then, they didn't have water.

So everything, the whole block, everything used to be on fucking fire.

And the fire department was the dirty Irish.

They'd come up and they'd throw fucking potatoes at the...

No,

it was something like the I, that you'd throw potatoes at the dirty Irish.

And he's like, and that's how baseball started.

That's how they saw it.

Yeah.

Like they throw fucking.

That's how the baseball started.

They throw potatoes at him and they go, get the fuck out of here.

They bat it away.

That's so funny.

Best comedian in the world.

I mean, he's in another.

Like, he's the only guy.

He's the only guy that's making art.

Exactly.

Yeah, with that form.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, exactly.

He's like the last actual creative, good stand-up comedian, might be otherwise, it's dead.

No, but he might be the only one ever, like, really, yeah, I don't, I think, yeah, Sean's maybe, Sean's, yeah, there's no, there's people that are very good at comedy, yeah, very fucking good at stand-up comedy, plenty, but Sean's the only person I've ever seen where I'm like, he this guy is doing something completely different that

transcends just fucking

I'm just remembering it.

I can't say it on the show.

What?

What?

He said it in Helium.

At Helium.

Yeah, that was amazing.

That was one of the funniest things I've ever.

That was an amazing night.

He took his dick out.

When my dick comes out and I show my asshole,

I got a finger moon, asshole.

Go on.

No, I'm not going to say it.

Yeah, he didn't really take his dick out.

He more just pulled.

He pulled his ass out.

He put his ass directly in your face.

Yes, it was very funny.

And his 40-year-old balls were hanging down to his knees.

He's the best, man.

Yeah.

If you're listening to the show,

go see him if he comes to your town.

Sean Patton.

Our favorite comedian.

Yeah, what else, dude?

You watched movies yesterday?

Yeah.

You finally had an off day.

Yeah.

Well, I mean, I kind of just...

I'm happy about that.

Yeah, let's see.

What did I watch here?

Let's run through it.

Definitely Alien.

That came on.

The Hours.

Two Mules for Sister Sarah.

That came on.

It was a good day of movie watching.

I know I watched something else.

I'm already forgetting.

Damn.

Yeah, that's how you know it's depression.

Yeah.

I can't even remember what movies I watched.

You slept on the couch?

Yeah.

Yeah, it's fashion.

And I got this muscle knot in my back, too.

I can't figure out if it's a muscle knot or my kidneys are hurting.

It's probably a knot.

It's definitely a knot because when I jam my thumb in there, it feels better.

For your kidneys, it would feel worse.

Yeah.

Right?

I don't know about

anatomy or medicine or science.

Yeah, it sucks, dude.

People say it, but maybe I am just a fucking whiny baby.

But

once you get into your 30s, it's just feel like fucking shit all the time, always.

Yeah, I don't think about it.

Yeah, I'm not so

thoughtful about life.

I think I'll just drop dead suddenly at a certain point.

That would be nice, huh?

Yeah, but I'm just not going to think about it.

Yeah.

Oh, I'm not like worried.

I'm not like, is something wrong with me?

I'm just like in physical discomfort.

It's the Irish in you.

No, I don't think it is.

It's the Jewish associated New York.

It's my fault.

Yeah, it's all these New York Jews.

And I'm such an empathetic person that I can't help.

I can't help but

adopt.

This is really, it's my body.

It's like, look, you need to ingratiate yourself to Adam and

make him feel comfortable.

No, I'm the one that's supposed to feel like I'm dying.

Yeah, exactly.

It's like, oh, aren't we all dying?

Yeah.

And that's me being like, can I get you anything?

Can I get you a coffee, maybe?

Where are you going?

You're getting your coffee?

When the sun goes down

on my asshole.

How about that?

How about that?

I'm excited to do these pickups after this fucking podcast is over.

Pickups, dude.

The language.

I'm learning the list of lexicon.

I'm learning the slang.

What's it called?

Lexicon or jargon?

What do you call it?

Jargon, I guess.

Yeah.

And when my dick gets hot,

for another guy.

Damn, that Freedom Tower was a real fucking

real miss.

Like in terms of how it looks.

No one cares about that building.

I mean it's the tallest one.

I know, but nobody's like coming either.

Nobody's like, I gotta go see the Freedom Tower.

My dad was hyped on it when he came to New York.

Literally no one.

wants to see that fucking building.

My dad was hyped on it.

I'm mad at Shane for discrediting my theory about the Chinese.

What was it?

About the fucking

the fortune cookies.

Oh, yeah.

Well, he had anecdotal evidence.

Yeah, I got him last week.

I think he's lying.

You think he's trying to shit on you?

I think he has his own fortune cookies at home.

He has his own agenda.

He's gaslighting you.

Do you think anyone's so fat that they've just purchased their own fortune cookies for at home?

Yeah, as a snack?

Yeah,

to have like

Trader Chang.

What's it called again?

Trader Zhang's.

Trader Chang.

I think it's just Trader Chang's.

Yeah, I think it is.

That's awesome.

So funny they did that.

And they only stopped a couple of years ago.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Hilarious.

Yeah.

Trader Joe's was doing Blackface until a couple of years ago.

And then they kept the white ones, right?

They still got like Trader fucking.

Giottos.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's funny.

Very funny.

Dude, I just want to finish this episode.

I like literally don't care about podcasting anymore.

It's bad form.

I mean, listen, folks, if you're listening right now, if you're still listening, here's what's going on with me and Nick.

Okay.

We are,

I would say, four weeks out from what we want to do.

So we are buying time.

We're not even that far out, dude.

Now that I got the...

It might be three weeks.

Three weeks even.

I don't think that's accurate.

We got the key components.

components coming.

Next week is Maimon.

The key components come tomorrow.

After we get Maimon in here.

And the shit tomorrow.

Yeah.

Well, I don't know.

No, then we have the.

Sound off in the comments.

And by that, I mean text Adam your opinion.

No, yeah.

And you can find this.

You can Google this.

It's pretty easy, yeah.

And

we are getting the set will be built, but should we, and this is, this is, we got to figure this out.

Whether, because I, I personally, my instinct instinct is to not show any of the actual set in piecemeal.

Like,

I want the fucking thing.

It has to be a reveal.

Perfect.

Done.

Done, done, done, done, done.

And that requires not only getting the set in here, but getting a DP in here and lighting it properly, making sure everything looks fucking right.

Wardrobe, that's on point.

Fucking like every.

We have that.

Well, close.

But I mean, I want it fucking perfect.

Yeah, so we'll do that.

You're right.

Maybe three weeks out.

Yeah, three to four weeks.

Right now, what we're doing is this is a bridge.

We're like treading water.

A bridge to terabithia.

Yeah.

We're treading water and we're making like video content where we're just fucking around and having fun and learning a lot about how to make shit.

Yeah.

And honestly, it's pretty fucking fun.

I don't know if I told this story on the podcast.

Did I say tell this?

I was in the fucking hotel in Irvine.

No.

And this fucking fat guy with his like, maybe prostitute girlfriend, who knows?

This fat, older.

That's not a girlfriend.

Well, this fat, older girlfriend for now.

This fat, older, fucking, like,

you know, like, necklace guy, you know.

Yeah.

He comes down to the pool.

I was reading by the pool, and he's fucking hitting the, like,

the, there's like a bartender, or like a guy that just serves drinks.

I guess he's not really much of a bartender.

who is in middle-aged Indian man.

And he's hitting him with the fucking Spanglish to like, hey, muchas gracias you know

yes better go chat and he's fucking just like sprinkling in that's amazing oh no no mash today no mosque no mosque you're not living moss today and then this guy like he you know he just he he gets he goes and this guy's living life you know i got my prostitute girlfriend i'm i'm speaking i'm showing off my spanish to an indian man and then he jumps in the pool and just belly flops and then fucking he's it's like breaststroke the loudest swimming I've ever heard in my life in three feet of water, just slapping, just slapping, splashing water over, but barely moving.

Yeah, that guy was awesome.

Dude.

Yeah.

Yeah, so

we're three weeks out from not having to do this anymore.

The podcast?

I mean, unfortunately, we have to do the podcast.

But it'll be different enough where it's not this.

The more it is a shame because it's like, and we'll see how that affects business going forward.

But yeah, I really don't want to do a fucking podcast anymore.

I want to have a talk show.

I want to be good.

I want to like.

Yeah, that's what we're going to do.

The idea of sitting around having a fucking meandering conversation and then, like, I mean,

if I ever have to do a Chinese guy voice again in my life, I'm going to kill myself.

I just don't.

I just don't.

I'm done with podcasting.

Yeah.

I'm ready for

bigger, big, yes.

We're maintaining a schedule,

but there is

kind of a light at the end of the tunnel,

of which both of us are quite excited about.

Yeah.

And, like, I don't want to oversell it, but

it's going to be good.

What is that expression, a light at the end of the tunnel?

I think

you think you're in the darkness, and then you notice that

you're going to actually.

Yeah, but whoever gets lost in a fucking tunnel?

I don't know, a train.

yeah, but you're in it no one I've never in my life gone through a tunnel and been like oh no

This is this forever right exactly.

Yeah, yeah, I don't know who came over that some fucking idiot.

I guess yeah

Yeah, I mean, I don't know

It's cool.

I feel like we're kind of on the precipice of something new in our lives no homo mm-hmm And I feel quite good about it.

This is gonna be and look at it.

I know not to ruin it, but we're

doing Degrassi the Next Generation.

Yes.

Yes.

We have reconstructed the entire school.

We've edited lockers.

We've edited ourselves into Degrassi the Next Generation by building all of the sets from the show.

Yeah.

And Nick has been a psycho about it.

Yeah.

It's the same, we've sourced the same lockers, the same lunchtime.

We've actually reshot the entire first season, but I can't get the accent right, so that all went into the garbage.

I deleted the files.

I deleted the files.

Everyone was begging me, please, we can salvage it.

He got mad that my Canadian wasn't good enough.

It was me.

I couldn't get, I couldn't.

Were you talking about Sarah?

Were you talking about Sarah?

What are you talking about, Sarah?

Okay.

Yeah, sure.

I'll say sorry to your pussy for reaping you.

I'm sorry I reaped you.

I'm a reap at the party.

And we went through the party together and I ripped you and you're pussy.

And I'm sorry, but maybe your pussy shouldn't have have been so sarksy to me here in Canada.

In Canada, she has such a sarksy pussy to look at,

dude.

I

was like laughing the other day.

I don't know if it's when my sun goes down on my penis.

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We have a read, yes, sir.

All right, what is it?

Well, I'll tell you

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and guys if you're listening to the show and you're like what the fuck is you're pissed what has happened to the show it's bad now you're gonna have to

just check out the

talk show

because

we're three weeks out the sooner we can just have a talk show

we don't have to do this fucking gay ass shit this is for children this is for babies.

This is for children and culture war guys.

And we're done with that.

We are sick and fucking tired of it.

I'm not a culture war guy.

I'm trying to go to lunch with everybody.

Every kind of person.

I don't care.

You want to scream at me about fucking Trump or Biden, whatever.

I'm celebrating a diversity of opinions in my life.

That sounds great.

Cool.

Hey.

This meatball sub, is that vegan?

And then the waitress looks at me and she says,

No, sorry.

And then I go, Oh, damn, is there a way to make it vegan?

And then she goes, I mean, we could take the meatballs out of it.

Yeah, it's just sauce.

Yeah, and I'm like, sorry, that was just my, that's like a joke I do.

And then no one laughs.

Yeah.

And then she's like, oh, and I'm like, can I, do you want to hang out?

And then she goes,

no.

And then I'm like, okay.

Yeah.

Fair enough.

And then And then I get up and I leave the restaurant.

And that's what an adult, that's me now.

Yes.

You know?

No more of this podcast stuff.

No more I want to kill myself, GameStop stuff.

I go to lunch, people of all different political stripes.

And then I strike out.

I strike out trying to just find the,

you know, I don't even, I just, I want stability, and it would be nice to have somebody to be nice to.

Yeah.

Or learn that.

Practice being nice on someone.

Learn being nice at 33 years old.

Learn saying, how was your day?

and not saying it in a way where I go, okay, how was your fucking day?

Yeah.

And then

audibly sighing, listening to me.

I fucking said it.

You bitch at me constantly.

Here I am.

As soon as you come in, I say, How's your day?

And now you're still fucking mad.

So I guess, yep.

I guess no matter what I fucking do.

Listen,

Old Nick and Adam are growing up.

Yeah, and you guys are gonna grow up too You're gonna follow us on this fucking journey.

No, I told you

I can't go to any of your family events any of them every single time.

I'm busy also guys on Monday on patreon.com slash T A F S

We're gonna have a new episode.

I went to Thanksgiving at your family's house six years ago.

So you can't say I've never fucking, I don't do anything.

And we had a great time.

Was it not a good time?

That's right.

So then what the fuck?

It's got to be every fucking year.

Right.

I did it once.

I did it one time.

Yeah.

And you told me your family hates me anyways.

So, yeah.

And I'm not fixing that.

Yeah.

Your family's fucked up, not me.

Yeah.

It sounds like they're fucking abusive.

It sounds like they're abusing you, and you should stop talking to them.

It sounds like you should never leave the apartment.

Sounds like you should quit your job.

Hey guys, you're listening to the Cool Boyfriend podcast.

The How to Be a Boyfriend podcast.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, I'm just kidding.

I haven't been able to feel anything forever.

You think that?

Yeah, and then the older you get, it's like...

You're like, I'm just waiting for the right person, but then there's a million right people, and you're like, yeah, whatever I was feeling in the past was just like some sort of deranged attachment predicated upon unresolved trauma and

you know, you never like you're like, did I ever love anybody or was it just they made me feel bad in some way and I was trying to make it up for it by

being like, well, they must be special because they make me feel like shit.

Mm-hmm.

You know?

And then you, once you feel good about yourself, you're like,

oh, I just, I just want to like

maybe work with retarded retarded kids or monkeys or something and then have a nephew.

I don't know.

I have no idea.

I have no idea.

The closest I'll get to a family is bringing Mike Racine on the road and paying him extra to feature so that he can feed his son.

That's as close as I'll ever.

Through our Italian friend.

Yeah.

That I'll ever get.

Yeah, I guess so.

I think things are going to be okay.

And as I was saying before, on Monday on patreon.com slash T-A-F-S,

we have something pretty good that we've been cooking up, which is something that was shot last weekend.

And we've learned.

I don't want to put my name on.

I did absolutely nothing.

This is Adam's attempt at being an artist, at deciding at 35 years old to start being an artist,

which is a real gamble, folks.

That's the best part about the Adam Freeland Show is like, we can just do that and then

never do something like that again.

Or the next week, the premise could be that you're a cop.

Yeah, there's no through line.

There's no continuity.

No, there's nothing at all.

Yeah, we really don't.

You can do whatever you want.

There's nobody to be like, this doesn't make sense.

This is fucking,

you know.

And then it used to be, it's like, well, as long as it's funny, you know?

And now I'm thinking, fuck that too.

It's like, how about just as long as we continue making money, we spend, we try to, you try to, you try to hit the, hit it on the dot, spend all the money, you know?

And the show,

it's just a matter of figuring out how to spend all the money every week.

How do you feel about that?

That sounds good, dude.

How do you feel about fingernail moon asshole?

Ronnie Dunn's half moon asshole.

Yeah.

That'd be cool.

Imagine.

You know what's like the best middle-aged black guy name?

Yeah.

That I can't believe I didn't think of until recently.

Lonnie.

Lonnie?

Yeah.

That's pretty good.

Yeah, how are you doing?

My name is Lonnie Grovewood.

You don't see a lot of Lonnies anymore.

I'm the finance manager here at

Dickhead

Honda.

Yeah.

You know?

Yeah.

Lonnie is a great name.

Well, folks, what's going on with Taiwan?

That's what everybody wants to know.

Let's discuss.

Taiwan.

Ty.

Fuck.

Slaya's downstairs.

I want to tell her to come up.

She can't get in.

Oh, I'll go get her.

Here, I'll just pause this.

I'll go get her.

All right.

And we're back.

And what were we talking about?

Charlotte Ruse?

What was that?

For fat women?

Yeah.

No, that was for slutty girls.

Oh, okay.

So, yeah, guys, two guests just showed up.

You want to introduce yourselves?

Hey, yeah, let's practice you sorry all right

welcome to the Adam Friedland show to your host Adam Friedland

your

director for Monday's episode.

Maybe use like a normal your normal all right.

Welcome to the Adam Friedland show.

It's your host Adam Friedland our director for Monday's episode director of

stage?

No, not stage ever.

Screen and

sorry, let me take it back.

Maybe try the Charlie Rhodes voice and then do it again.

Our guests today, two guests just.

Let's go not silly Charlie Rose, but

just regular Charlie Rose, and then try to nail that.

And then do like, you know, you're Charlie Rose.

Just his level of enthusiasm.

And intelligence.

Yeah.

Hold on one second.

Close me again.

And wearing a bathrobe in the Hampton sort of Charlie Rose.

Yeah, a suit, but a suit

design.

It looks like a suit, but it's a bathroom.

It's a bathroom.

It's a Charlie Rose bathroom.

Yeah, the wee wee underneath.

They left that part of the story out.

He was accused of raping that woman, and they made it seem like he was just wearing a regular bathrobe, but it was

like a tuxedo bathrobe.

It's a Trump Lloyd.

Okay, cool.

Let me try the Charlie thing.

Try Charlie Rose.

Okay, do get hit, Eugene, real quick.

Our guest today was the director of such films as Wobble Palace from 2018 and Spree, most recently from 2020.

Wobble Palace, of course, starring our guests and a woman that I was once engaged to.

Our guest is Eugene Kotlarenko.

Yeah, great.

Thanks for having me.

It's been honestly, it was honestly my dream as a little kid

watching PBS

at

10 p.m., 11 p.m.

beyond Charlie Rose.

That's the best film.

I always wanted to be on Charlie Rose.

And it says, isn't it a great filmmaker?

Charlie Rose getting me too, is that it was someone from PBS,

which is true for that.

Well, it's like caught Big Bird, Elmo, Big Bird, no, Elm, the guy the guy who played Elmira, that big black guy that plays Elme.

No, but it was a false accusation.

He was innocent.

He was innocent?

He was innocent.

Yeah, it was a gay Me Too, and he was innocent.

I understand.

Falsely.

Our gay Meeting.

He was a gay black guy.

Eugene, it says you were here.

Hold on.

Leia, can you talk?

Let me make sure.

Yeah.

She sounds good.

She's good.

Don't silence women, guys.

Yeah, Jesus.

Oh, and all other guys.

I just wanted to make sure our gay Me Too's real, guys.

Our other guest

who also worked on this upcoming episode, the Monday episode of the Adam Freeland Show,

Camera Ops, what's your title?

Yeah, right?

DP.

DP.

DP.

Co-producer.

Co-producer.

DP.

You book people.

You're a producer.

Yeah.

Co-producer.

Yeah.

Vibe curator.

Yeah.

For the upcoming Monday episode.

And we, of course, the upcoming pickups for the end of the Monday episode that we are about to shoot.

Leia Jospi.

Yeah.

Is that how you pronounce it?

Jospy?

No.

Jospy.

Josepe.

Yes, that's correct.

No, it's a...

I say Jospy, but it's like Jose with a P in there.

Josepe.

Yeah.

My name is that.

Yeah, I'm Latino.

Oh, nice, dude.

Diversity and femme.

Yeah, something like that.

Woman.

Now,

Latinx.

Now,

Eugene, it says here on IMDb, you were born in Odessa, Ukraine.

Right.

Yeah.

With the war and everything.

With the war and everything.

Thank all your fans, all of the African Show fans for supporting Ukraine.

Did you give a shit about that?

The wars?

Well, I went back for the first time last year.

I was born there, and then we left.

Refugee to this country.

Like that.

You got a refugee and a Latinx woman.

That's pretty.

I thought there was a refugee from Odessa.

Nice balls.

Oh, from Odessa?

That ain't Latinx.

I'm not Latino.

So then I went back for the first time last year.

Odessa is kind of a Latinx name, though.

Yeah.

Right.

Hot.

I could could tell.

Oh, you're fucking with me?

Okay.

How often do you think people do that?

Like, Anya Taylor Joy sort of like just roll with it, and no one challenges it.

She's supposed to be Latina?

Yeah, she's, I think she's her, like, she's from every royal house.

Yeah, all the Habsburgs that move into the Western Hemisphere.

Right, she's Latina in the same way that fucking like some like English retard nephew married some dumb bitch and like owned Spain 300 years ago.

So, yeah, she's Latina.

Yeah, I care because I met people and they're like fighting and like hiding and like running away.

And it's also sad like, you know, kind of a beautiful city getting bombed and shit.

People, I don't like how people are dying.

The city of Kyiv you're talking about.

Oh, yeah, but they're bombing Odessa's.

Sorry, that was just for the...

Right, you're going to keep doing that.

Oh, sorry, sorry.

I just wanted you to.

And of course, the correct pronunciation is Kyiv.

You're going to make Adam intro himself the whole time?

That's kind of sad.

No, I introduce him at the top of the show.

I like that.

That's my job.

Okay, got it, got it.

But when he brings guests on,

I don't want him doing the Charlie Rose thing forever.

Yeah, but just Charlie Rose is the best at it.

You start with Charlie Rose, and we find Adam somewhere in there.

Yeah.

Nice.

Yeah, beautiful.

You can find Adam.

That's producing.

Is that your best impression, like a southern guy?

No, I'm not good at any impressions.

You're good, Nick at impressionists.

I do a nick impression.

I thought you were a nick impressionist.

I can approximate, but some people

are impressionists, where it's like, I can get 90% there with a lot of them.

But unless you get that fucking, unless you have some thing where you click over and it says the guy, it doesn't have that magic that some impressions have.

Everybody can do Trump.

Everybody can do Barack Obama.

Everybody can do.

But then sometimes you can.

I learned this watching Drag Race, actually.

They do a lot of impressions.

Yeah.

There's like a whole,

it's all impressions.

Oh, yeah, with impressions of drag as well.

When they do this, like, game, they do it.

And some of them are just fall so flat, it's awful, but they're usually otherwise pretty funny.

So

I liked it when what's his name, Norm McDonald used to do Bob Dole.

Remember that?

I'm Bob Dole.

And then he said something about that in an interview that I thought was good.

He's like,

the best impressions are going to come from you when you love the person you're making fun of.

You actually have to get them and love them, and then you can do a really fucking good impression.

Yeah.

That kind of makes sense.

To be inside, though.

I don't know.

That sounds like bullshit.

Sounds like bullshit.

Yeah, I think he's just a little bit more.

Maybe because

I watched this good footage you you did of this Chinese guy, you know?

And I think he did such a good job on this previous episode of getting this Chinese guy.

I was like, oh, he must really love Chinese guys.

He must have this passion for Chinese guys.

For the sake of keeping myself, keeping my nose clean.

Sure.

Well, these Chinese guys, you're probably not keeping your nose clean, if you know what I mean.

I don't think Chinese people care.

No.

It's very funny to imagine that Chinese people would care about any kind of racism.

You know what I mean?

Like a Chinese person.

Like a real Chinese person?

Right.

Yeah.

No, they don't care.

No, not at all.

They literally don't even care that you're on the sidewalk.

Yeah.

Like, get out of the way.

Yeah.

They communicate by spitting.

They're like, I'm talking about your podcast or anything.

Yeah, exactly.

Real Chinese people.

Yeah.

That's who I like, is real Chinese people.

When Chinese people get mad at me, I'm like, yeah, but what do the real Chinese people think?

How many patrons do you think you have from like China?

mainland

zero.

Yeah.

That's cool.

But how many listeners?

You might have thousands of listeners.

I don't think you can get this show in China.

I don't think that their internet's kind of locked down.

Right.

Right.

My friend made a movie that no one saw.

He put it up on YouTube.

No one saw it for like 10 years.

Then one day he looked at the video.

It had 5 million views.

Because, no, because there's this one section, like 43 minutes in, where he's like simulating

eating a girl's pussy.

And it's like a normal movie.

And some Indonesian guy found it.

And they can't get like porn Indonesia.

They get this video.

And like literally every single guy in Indonesia has seen this 10-second clip.

It's like the 12-second clip.

On YouTube, they would have

how to do a breast exam.

Things like that.

And then all the comments are like, oh, my God.

Please kiss me, baby.

They're like just fucking guys.

Yeah, Indonesian guys.

They're losing their minds.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

So are we going to get to work?

What do you mean?

You want to end the show?

I thought we had a good report.

No, this is way better than the episode has been thus far.

We did 15 minutes of perhaps one of the worst episodes we've ever had.

Does he have guests?

No, honestly.

Just tell me,

when I got on the elevator in here, there were these two guys that honestly looked like pathetic, bizarro you guys.

And then I was like, oh, man, like, their guests are getting really pathetic looking.

Like, they're getting just mirror people.

You know, they said couples look alike, people look like they're dogs.

Like, they're just getting guests that look like pathetic versions of them.

Yeah.

But these were just other guys who work in the building, I guess.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

Well, we should maybe we should get them.

You're the pathetic versions of them.

We should get them.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Well, it's a good sign.

It's a good sign because the more this show does not function without guests, the closer it gets to being a talk show.

Exactly.

So

thanks for joining us.

If you have anything you want to plug, perhaps.

I want to plug the new episode of the Adam Friedman Show.

It's going to be a good one, guys.

I'm excited.

I'm excited for what people think.

Nick, I would love to hear your contributions.

He watched the rough cut of the first

one.

I only saw the first segment.

It's good.

I'll see you guys.

I had fun.

I guess I'll have to wait till the gags really.

He told me you shot 250 minutes.

Yeah, we shot 25 minutes.

And then he was like,

do you want to come help edit?

I was like,

no chance.

I'm not going to lie.

And Adam's such a good editor.

I just want to say Adam's.

Really?

I love it.

Oh, Adam's such a good idea.

I do J-cuts.

Classic.

Yeah, yeah.

And part of the cut.

What's a J-cut?

That's like a circumcision?

Hey,

that's good.

Zingo.

That's good.

Hey, I thought you were off the road, I didn't know.

You're still on the road.

You know, you got to stay sharp.

Yeah.

All right.

Guys, thanks for coming on the show.

I know it's a dream come true for both of you.

Yes.

All right.

I'll be in Indianapolis September 16th through the 19th at Helium Comedy Club.

I will absolutely cancel the shows if the tickets don't fucking start moving soon.

So if you're anywhere within six hours of Indianapolis, you gotta come.

You gotta go.

September 18th is my birthday.

They should go for my birthday.

They should go for Leo.

They should go for my birthday.

What did Adam call you?

Josepe?

I don't even know.

Josepe.

Josepe.

And guys,

Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, end of this month, go to adamfreeland.com/slash tour for tickets.

Thanks so much to our guests and to my co-host, Nick Mullen.

Wow, thanks for having me back.

Thanks for involving me.

Your top picture on IMDb is you and Vish.

Me or Leia?

No, you.

Oh,

yep.

That was one of the great moments in my life.

Looking at an IDMDB picture.

You look good in this pic.

But I am credited as being a bit more dangerous.

Vish looks better, though.

Sadly.

He's a handsome guy.

Vish is a very photogenic guy.

Yeah.

Super.

I like his look.

He's an actor.

All right, folks.

Thanks a lot.

Bye.

Bye.

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