KEVIN O'LEARY Talks Marty Supreme, Shark Tank, Millionaire Lifestyle

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 6:06Speaker 02

  Well, I don't know, it was kinda smooth and slow. What do you think?

• 6:15Speaker 02

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• 7:22Adam Friedland?

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• 8:07Adam Friedland?

  or by clicking the link in the description of this video. Also, there's a link for Patreon if you prefer to support the show through Patreon. Hey, guys, merch is available. Christmas is what, two days, three days away? You can get it for maybe, probably after Christmas. I don't... Yeah, you can get it for after Christmas. I'm not gonna make any clips. You can get it tomorrow. New Year's gift. You can get it for a New Year's gift. My guest this week is legendary rock musician Kevin "Mr. Wonderful" O'Leary.

• 8:35Adam Friedland?

  His nickname is "Mr. Wonderful" because he's known primarily for being wonderful at playing guitar and dressing wonderful as well. Caleb.

• 8:47Adam Friedland?

  We've all heard the tracks, but Kevin is making the musician goes actor turn official with the release of Marty Supreme: Music and Movies. Music and Movies, Alexander wept, for there were no more lands to conquer. Smart. It's the end of the year, guys. I'm wearing the same clothes as last week. Guess why? Because we... Because I'm recording. We're dropping... I'm not saying it. Have a nice Christmas. Enjoy this one. Go see Marty Supreme in theaters everywhere. Support the movies, okay? Because pretty soon, pretty soon, pretty soon, there's gonna be one fucking studio. And that is...

• 9:31Adam Friedland?

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• 11:27Adam Friedland?

  Ladies and gentlemen, entrepreneur, business legend, entertainment legend now, and now actor. He's in the movie Marty Supreme, coming out Christmas. Everyone, please put your hands together for Kevin O'Leary.

• 11:44Adam Friedland?

  More noise.

• 11:47Speaker 02

  Thank you, thank you, thank you so much. I really appreciate it.

• 11:50Adam Friedland?

  So Kevin's a massive fan. He's been emailing us nonstop. I said, "You can finally do the show."

• 11:55Speaker 02

  Before I came in here, I checked you out. You're OK.

• 11:58Adam Friedland?

  I'm OK.

• 11:58Speaker 02

  I'm gonna give you 7.2 out of 10. I think that's reasonable.

• 12:01Adam Friedland?

  7.2?

• 12:01Speaker 02

  You may be able to increase your score depending on how today goes.

• 12:04Adam Friedland?

  Oh, I think, I think I'm gonna be 9.9 after this.

• 12:07Speaker 02

  Really?

• 12:08Adam Friedland?

  I have a feeling we're gonna be best friends. I don't know why.

• 12:10Speaker 02

  OK, that's good.

• 12:11Adam Friedland?

  And I need a lot of advice from you, so I think...

• 12:13Speaker 02

  I'm ready to give it.

• 12:14Adam Friedland?

  Oh, first of all, I want to congratulate you on the film, on Marty. I was at the premiere at Lincoln Center. Were you there, or no?

• 12:22Speaker 02

  No, I have only seen the sequences that I did the voice-overs on. I intentionally waited, and I do not talk to Josh every day, almost. I'm gonna do the SAG screening for the first time on Sunday, and then do the LA premiere on Monday of next week, then come to New York. We're on a full promotional swing on this movie.

• 12:42Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 12:43Speaker 02

  Obviously, 824 is excited about it. There's a good Oscar buzz for Timmy. I want to see him win it, obviously. That would be great.

• 12:50Adam Friedland?

  What about you?

• 12:52Speaker 02

  I don't think they push us hard on the supporting actor role somehow, but you know, we'll see. I was seeing that, honestly, at least in nomination. I'd love it. I mean, I've never acted before. I had no idea what I was getting into. And I have a theory that you may want to consider, and here's what it is. I'm really primarily an investor. That's what I do. I invest in a lot of businesses and people. And so, over the years, you know, you invest in a startup or a nascent company, half of them fail. But five years later, maybe seven years later, the winning companies, when you're exiting and you're getting 10,000 X on your money, the men and women that run those, do they have any common attributes?

• 13:36Speaker 02

  I started to ask myself, what do they have that's common? Even though they don't know each other, even though the businesses are in different sectors, they're all different. And what is common? Well, there is one thing, and this is kind of unique. True. If you look and talk to them, because you get to know them after five years, and they say, you know, you ask them, "How do you spend your time? I mean, I know you're working like hell, but what else do you do?" In every case, they spend 20, 30% of their day doing something completely out of their comfort zone. Crazy shit, like paragliding, going to Switzerland and jumping off a cliff and learning how to do that, which is, I think, nuts, but they do it.

• 14:21Speaker 02

  Or they go to space. They buy one of those things up in, you know, Virgin or whatever it is. Spaceship, yeah. Or they learn how to play the cello, or... What's yours? Well, I like to think that the things that really keep me passionate are my black and white photography that I still do with Leica cameras and Hasselblads. I've been doing that my whole life. I remain an editor. I cut at least one of our social media posts every week on Premiere because I used to cut film. I practice my guitars as much as I can. I collect watches. Those are all different than what I do as an investor. But my point is, when you get an opportunity... So here's what happened with Ronnie Supreme. I get a call from Josh and Ronnie, and it

• 15:06Speaker 02

  actually came through my agent, and he said, "Listen, Kevin," great guy, Jay Surs, I've known him forever, been all the way up through television for years with him. He said, "You know, look, I want you to think about this seriously. You've built a big franchise here." But you don't know how to act and you've never done this. You could go out there and shit the bed and totally destroy our franchise that we've built together. And I said, Jay.

• 15:31Adam Friedland?

  Fuck him.

• 15:32Speaker 02

  Well, I said, how do you know I'm gonna shit the bed? How do I know I'm gonna shit the bed? How do I know until I try it? My whole point is you gotta go do something that you... Even though you may think, shit, it may not work. Why not give it a shot? Because fifty percent of the time you have a great outcome.

• 15:49Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 15:49Speaker 02

  Which I think, hopefully, will let the audience decide. In the case of, the reviews looked pretty good. But I didn't know how to act and they told me after we read the lines and they came up to my lake house. They said, "Look, we're looking for a real asshole and you do that naturally."

• 16:06Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 16:06Speaker 02

  So, okay.

• 16:09Adam Friedland?

  The answer is you did know how to act because you've been in show business. You've been on television.

• 16:13Speaker 02

  Yeah, but I wouldn't say that reality TV is the same as the cadence between scripted lines, which is what I learned the first day of shooting.

• 16:19Adam Friedland?

  Sure, yeah.

• 16:20Speaker 02

  It's different.

• 16:21Adam Friedland?

  I will say, and I'm just some guy, but from my, in my opinion, as a first-time actor, and it's a sizable performance. I mean, it is natural. I mean, you do not communicate as like, oh, this is a gimmick casting. You communicate as a great actor and I like, I commend you on it.

• 16:40Speaker 02

  Well, I'm very, I'm really flattered. I like, I'm glad you feel that way. But when you're, you know, what I learned and what I saw and when I saw the rushes and I saw the cuts.

• 16:49Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 16:50Speaker 02

  What those guys, the way those two work, and I hope I'm not giving any industry secrets away here, is they wrote the script together. So they've been living this thing for seven years. But here's what actually happens when you're shooting. Ronnie goes into the production tent downstairs, wherever the hell it is. Different sets in Tokyo or in New York or whatever. But he's in Josh's ear with an IFB. And...

• 17:16Speaker 02

  He's the editor, well, they cut it together, but he's kind of the lead editor guy. And, you know, I'm not used to being told what to do, so obviously, I learned right away that a film set is not a democracy. Cause I'd say to Josh, "What the fuck, I got it, we're done, we've shot it ten times. I nailed it already." He said, "You haven't nailed it till I say you've nailed it. Do it again." And then after multiple takes of the script, he'd say, "Okay, let's improvise. We got a cadence going here with Timmy, or with Brett, you know, whoever. And let's pick up on what you said on that last one, or what he said on that last one." But when you see the final edit, what they did is they took some of the script,

• 17:58Speaker 02

  and some of the improvisation, and they cut it together into what I think is masterful.

• 18:03Adam Friedland?

  They captured the moment.

• 18:04Speaker 02

  And sometimes those two dudes don't agree, and they take it outside. Because you don't want to be fighting in front of the cast. But, you know, they just don't agree, and it's three in the morning, and they're going at each other, and they come back with a solution.

• 18:16Adam Friedland?

  It's an intense, like, environment.

• 18:18Speaker 02

  It's a fucked up creative process that I think you can't emulate any other way than just doing it. You know, shooting it.

• 18:28Adam Friedland?

  In some ways, Josh was your first boss since Nabisco. Is that right? You haven't had a boss since then.

• 18:36Speaker 02

  That's a great analogy.

• 18:37Adam Friedland?

  I've, listen, I've studied you.

• 18:39Speaker 02

  No, I've never had a boss, except back then. I've only been fired once, and I've never worked for anybody. But I did work for Josh Safdie, I actually was an employee. That's how I felt. And he's a reasonable guy, but

• 18:53Speaker 02

  the hours we worked, the hours, the immense hours, like eighteen, twenty hours.

• 18:59Adam Friedland?

  You might get them in trouble with the union, I don't know if you're allowed to say that. They worked regular hours and...

• 19:06Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, regular hours, but when we were shooting the...

• 19:09Adam Friedland?

  Jimmy Hoffa might break your knees.

• 19:11Speaker 02

  When we were shooting the spanking scene, that happened at about 4 a.m. And it was intense, and it was, it was really intense, and it... We didn't get it at the beginning, the cadence wasn't right, the vibe wasn't right, the room wasn't right, whatever the hell it was. We just kept going, and...

• 19:31Speaker 02

  We had a stand-in ass, but...

• 19:34Adam Friedland?

  A stunt ass.

• 19:35Speaker 02

  A stunt ass.

• 19:36Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 19:37Speaker 02

  But Timmy wouldn't, didn't want the stunt ass. He wanted to immortalize his ass.

• 19:42Adam Friedland?

  It's incredible.

• 19:43Speaker 02

  And I said, "Look, I gotta hit your ass with this." Because the fake ping-pong paddle broke. So now we're dealing with a real paddle, stiff wood. And Josh is saying, "Look, I want to hear that smack-a-tino. I want to hear an explosion of ass here."

• 19:58Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. I mean, there are women all over the country. They're very jealous of this.

• 20:02Speaker 02

  And I'm telling you, I wound up like a baseball bat and hit him. And...

• 20:06Adam Friedland?

  You fucked his ass up.

• 20:07Speaker 02

  His ass had imprints of the paddle rubber on it.

• 20:10Adam Friedland?

  Timothy's ass, that's a hot ass right now.

• 20:12Speaker 02

  It's a hot ass, but it was very hot after that.

• 20:14Adam Friedland?

  You're doing a little bit of a brag right now, I think.

• 20:17Speaker 02

  I am, but I'm telling you.

• 20:18Adam Friedland?

  All 12 ladies watching this are gonna be very jealous.

• 20:22Speaker 02

  I'm very proud of that scene, but when I got back...

• 20:25Adam Friedland?

  Did he say anything about me the whole time you were working with him?

• 20:28Speaker 02

  I don't recall.

• 20:28Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 20:29Speaker 02

  No, I don't recall. But when I got back to Casatua, I was staying there down on South Street in New York. It was 7:00 a.m. and I was fried. I mean, I was just wired, you know?

• 20:40Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 20:41Speaker 02

  And I said to the maître d', "Look, I want some scrambled eggs and some, you know, smoked salmon and a bottle of 2022 Boulainet Montreux." He said, "It's breakfast. What are you, nuts?" I said, "Well, it's not breakfast for me. I've been awake for two days, so I want the bottle." And I drank the whole, I put a straw in it. And I called my wife up and said, "Do you want some Montreux?" She said, "It's 7:30 in the morning." So it's a guilty pleasure, but that's how I unwound that day. And I'll never forget it. It was a great experience, the whole thing.

• 21:15Adam Friedland?

  So you're, you just played music for us. You're a guitarist, you're a photographer. You're now an actor. You are a documentarian. You've made a documentary film before, in your early years.

• 21:27Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 21:28Adam Friedland?

  You are an entrepreneur. You are a kind of a, kind of a elder statesman of business in, you know, North America, I'd say. Would you consider yourself a modern-day Renaissance man? Or like a Da Vinci of sorts?

• 21:43Speaker 02

  You know, the...

• 21:46Speaker 02

  The journey of entrepreneurship is not a destination, it's a journey. And the reason you would want to do that now, and I tell everybody this, because I teach entrepreneurship at places like MIT and Harvard now. It's not about the grade of money, because you just listed off a bunch of things I couldn't do if I wasn't free to do them.

• 22:04Adam Friedland?

  That's what money buys you, the time.

• 22:06Speaker 02

  It's not about the grade of money. I don't need more money, I need more time to pursue the things that really interest me. And so, what you find out is that if you're motivated by money as an entrepreneur, you will never get it.

• 22:22Adam Friedland?

  Right.

• 22:22Speaker 02

  You have to be so insanely passionate about what you're doing, and all the competitors are pursuing you. And then one day you wake up and you're filthy rich. That's how it happens. Every guy I've ever talked to that's had a huge exit has said, "I never saw it coming." Because I was just myopically focused on my business. It was the same for me, and then one day we were acquired for 4.2 billion. And then, what I found was amazing, for all of us, the nine core people, we didn't know what to do the next day, we just went back to work.

• 22:52Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 22:53Speaker 02

  I mean, that's all we know.

• 22:54Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 22:55Speaker 02

  And so, we just kept doing other things, and I've done many other successes and failures in that period. But, you know, it's allowed me to do some really interesting things. And that's what keeps me going, and, you know, pursuing stuff.

• 23:14Adam Friedland?

  Uh huh, yeah.

• 23:14Speaker 02

  It's very interesting.

• 23:16Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, but you have to be able to afford the time, right?

• 23:19Speaker 02

  The time is the problem, you can't buy any. And that's the one thing, no matter how rich you get, you can't buy. You can't buy health, and you can't buy, you know, you can't be guaranteed health. You've got to be very careful. And I certainly think about that a lot. And I do try and use my time very carefully, because I don't have to do anything. So, I'm kind of, I'm here because I want to be here, and so I block this because it's...

• 23:44Adam Friedland?

  You're a big fan.

• 23:45Speaker 02

  Yeah, well, also, I just, you guys do interesting work. I've seen some of it, and it's interesting. I thought this could be good. So, you know, that's why. And then, I'm going to do some other crazy shit tonight, and...

• 23:59Adam Friedland?

  What's that?

• 24:01Speaker 02

  I'm going to have a dinner with the auctioneer of the FP Journe Francis Ford Coppola watch, which I put on television about an hour ago.

• 24:10Adam Friedland?

  Oh, wow.

• 24:11Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's probably the most coveted watch on earth. It's probably going to sell on Saturday for between three and five million dollars. I wanted to hold it in my hand before it went into a private collection for a generation. So I suggested we bring it to television.

• 24:25Adam Friedland?

  Did you consider stealing it?

• 24:26Speaker 02

  Yeah, the problem with that is I know Journe, I'm wearing one of his watches. The thing about watchmaking, which I really learned as time passed, is collectors now covet the independent watchmaker. Journe is now considered a living Picasso. He is making only 900 watches a year. There are thousands of collectors around the world that want a Journe. But he personally decides who gets each piece.

• 24:56Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 24:57Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 24:58Adam Friedland?

  And they cost, what, over a thousand dollars probably? What's funny about that?

• 25:03Speaker 02

  Yeah, the secondary market would be in the millions. Primary, you can get one as inexpensive as 18,000, but you can't. I mean, that's the problem. The Elegant, which is the entry-level watch, sells for 18, secondary market's 158,000. And that's a beautiful piece. Very simple.

• 25:21Adam Friedland?

  I want to try something, because this is like kind of a free education for me. Because I'm an entrepreneur of sorts. I don't think of myself as one. I'm kind of a bum.

• 25:31Speaker 02

  You're supporting yourself with what you do.

• 25:33Adam Friedland?

  I have a staff now, and I...

• 25:34Speaker 02

  You have a responsibility.

• 25:36Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, and they look up to me, and they see me as a friend more than a boss.

• 25:42Speaker 02

  I bet some of them think you're an asshole. That's probably true.

• 25:45Adam Friedland?

  No, I think that they think... Well, okay. One thing that I've struggled with, and maybe you can, as an educational thing for the audience, you could kind of impart some wisdom on me, is firing. Like, I don't like... There is one individual who's not here today.

• 26:04Speaker 02

  Cause you whacked him?

• 26:05Adam Friedland?

  No, because I, and I've, it's probably been a matter of three months that he's, should have been fired, but every time I get close, I just don't have it in me. So perhaps if we could like act it out, you could, we could like kind of, you could kind of show me, you could be me, I'll be him, and then you could kind of like, cause I really, I don't know how to do this. I called my girlfriend's dad and said, how do you fire?

• 26:30Speaker 02

  What's, what's his name?

• 26:31Adam Friedland?

  Uh, Paul.

• 26:32Speaker 02

  Okay, so you're Paul.

• 26:33Adam Friedland?

  No, no, the guy?

• 26:34Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 26:34Adam Friedland?

  Oh, uh, [BLEEP], yeah.

• 26:36Speaker 02

  So...

• 26:37Adam Friedland?

  [BLEEP]. Hey, hey, Skip.

• 26:41Speaker 02

  Okay, so, listen.

• 26:43Adam Friedland?

  He's not here right now also.

• 26:44Speaker 02

  You know, I get it, but I'm gonna give you, here's how it goes down. [BLEEP], you know,

• 26:50Speaker 02

  I want you to be happy. I really wanna be, I want you to be happy, and I have a feeling you're not happy. And the reason I feel that way is you're not with the team anymore. You're not on the same agenda, and that must be that you're not happy. Now-

• 27:08Adam Friedland?

  I'm happy, I'm fine, I like it.

• 27:10Speaker 02

  Well, the team isn't happy with you, because they feel you're not happy. And I'm gonna make it very simple for you. We're gonna end our relationship today, but the good news is, I'm gonna give you a fantastic exit package, cause I want you to be fairly treated, that's number one.

• 27:28Adam Friedland?

  How much?

• 27:29Speaker 02

  And number two is, you know-

• 27:31Adam Friedland?

  How much is the exit package?

• 27:33Speaker 02

  I'm gonna pay you three months of your salary.

• 27:36Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 27:37Speaker 02

  I don't have to, I could pay you six weeks-

• 27:39Adam Friedland?

  To be a good guy, cause I'm a good guy.

• 27:40Speaker 02

  Listen, that's why they call me Mr. Wonderful.

• 27:42Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 27:42Speaker 02

  So, I'm gonna give you-

• 27:44Adam Friedland?

  Do I call myself Mr. Wonderful?

• 27:45Speaker 02

  But what's important is that we, that we go our own ways now. I don't want you sitting around, in fact, I've cleaned out your whole place, there's a box outside on the street, it's waiting for you.

• 27:56Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, okay.

• 27:57Speaker 02

  And, but I've, I got you a limo, the box is in the limo, and it's gonna take you wherever you want.

• 28:00Adam Friedland?

  Okay, can I just do that right now? I swear to God.

• 28:04Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 28:05Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, I mean, you did-

• 28:06Speaker 02

  Well, that's how you do a fair, um-

• 28:09Adam Friedland?

  A fair, yeah, a shit can. Okay, I, I mean, I'll be nice about it, but, okay, I mean, just give me a minute. I know we're pressed for time, but I'll just, I'll just get him out of here, cause this has been driving me nuts.

• 28:21Speaker 02

  Well, I think you gotta, you gotta, you gotta make a decision, that's my whole point.

• 28:25Adam Friedland?

  Hey, hey. Hello? Hey, where are you?

• 28:32Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, well, um, why aren't you here right now?

• 28:39Speaker 05

  Um, I have a family emergency.

• 28:44Adam Friedland?

  It's a fucking, hold on one second. He bullshits the worst. It's the worst bullshit I've ever heard. Well. Wait, give me a second, yeah. Okay, well, you know, I gotta say, um, I'm starting not to, listen, it doesn't matter, but I don't, it's been a-

• 29:03Speaker 05

  My son is in the hospital right now.

• 29:09Adam Friedland?

  He is?

• 29:11Speaker 05

  Yeah, he relapsed. Um, you know, I know that you know the issues, but he-

• 29:17Adam Friedland?

  Is he okay?

• 29:18Speaker 05

  He relapsed, he overdosed, he's gonna be, he's not dead or anything, he's okay, but he is, um, it was pretty bad.

• 29:29Adam Friedland?

  I'm sorry, dude, and since-

• 29:31Speaker 05

  I know.

• 29:32Adam Friedland?

  Since your, since your wife, yeah, I know.

• 29:34Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 29:35Adam Friedland?

  He's got the same, because it's a disease, yeah.

• 29:39Speaker 05

  I know, and it's just like, it's happening again. And I just, I can't lose them both, and it's just, I'm sorry I didn't text you. I thought I did.

• 29:48Adam Friedland?

  Well, here's what I'm gonna do. I can tell that you're not happy, and the team isn't happy with you.

• 29:57Adam Friedland?

  Um, yeah, and what I'm gonna do is offer you a very generous package.

• 30:04Speaker 05

  Are you like, are you firing me?

• 30:07Adam Friedland?

  What I'm gonna do is, I want you to be happy, so I'm gonna offer you three months of-

• 30:13Speaker 05

  Fine.

• 30:14Adam Friedland?

  -your pay, and then, um, and then, uh, you're bought, I packed up a box and your stuff is outside right now.

• 30:22Speaker 05

  My son is in the hospital right now. And you're telling me I'm gonna lose my health insurance?

• 30:28Speaker 02

  Well, listen.

• 30:29Speaker 05

  That I get through this show?

• 30:30Speaker 02

  This is, this is, it's, business is-

• 30:34Speaker 05

  Are you filming this right now?

• 30:35Speaker 02

  No, I'm not filming this. No, I wouldn't, no, come on. No, no, I'm just saying, um, I gotta-

• 30:41Speaker 05

  Like a prank saying?

• 30:42Speaker 02

  But, no, no, I gotta go. It just, um, good luck with everything in three months and, uh-

• 30:48Speaker 05

  You put this out, I'm gonna sue-

• 30:50Speaker 02

  Okay, anyway, well-

• 30:52Adam Friedland?

  Oh, man.

• 30:53Speaker 02

  That's, that's a horrible story if it's true.

• 30:56Adam Friedland?

  If he made that up, he's a bad person, right?

• 30:59Speaker 02

  I don't know. I just, but you know-

• 31:01Adam Friedland?

  I feel like an asshole right now.

• 31:03Speaker 02

  Well, I think, you know, there could be asshole factor six in you, I don't know.

• 31:07Adam Friedland?

  Was it not the right time? Should I not have done it then?

• 31:09Speaker 02

  It, unfortunately, these two things are horrific. They're both bad. But, you know, there, there has to be some, there has to be an outcome. That's the whole point. Because it's, I don't think it's gonna get better for him. I mean, this is, this is, listen, my heart goes out to him if that, if that story's true.

• 31:26Adam Friedland?

  Nah, I didn't know that at all.

• 31:28Speaker 02

  Well, do you know that?

• 31:30Adam Friedland?

  Well, I know that there've been problems in the family and he is dealing with a lot.

• 31:33Speaker 02

  Well, that's, that's a very, very tough situation. I mean, I, I don't wish that on anybody, but-

• 31:38Adam Friedland?

  Should I say sorry? Should I hire him back? I, I feel like I should.

• 31:41Speaker 02

  Um, why do you think it'll be better?

• 31:47Speaker 02

  No, but the whole point is, why is the original problem still, it's still gonna be there? Whatever it was. I mean, I don't know the details, but- Listen, you know, business is-

• 31:56Adam Friedland?

  You're right. You know what you're talking about. You're right. Yeah.

• 31:58Speaker 02

  It's, it's kind of like you have to take care of the remaining employees. That's what matters.

• 32:03Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 32:03Speaker 02

  You could be more generous if that story's really true.

• 32:06Adam Friedland?

  Maybe six months, or maybe a year, or maybe a raise? Maybe, maybe, well, okay, let's move on, because we have, we, this, I said-

• 35:22Speaker 06

  Hey. Listen, um, I know I'm not who you're looking for. I know I'm not the usual type of girl that gets the guy at the end of the movie. I know I'm definitely not Matcha Girl. But when I saw the words on your website that you made using Squarespace.com, it made me want to be wanted the way that you wanted Matcha Girl to be wanting you. Look, I know I'm a loser. I'm a freak. And I can't imagine why someone like you, who could make such an amazing website on Squarespace using their built-in tools like AI-assisted blueprint and search engine optimization and their...

• 36:05Speaker 06

  Oh, scheduling.

• 36:06Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, their scheduling.

• 36:08Speaker 06

  Could ever want me. But just so you know, if you ever did, I'd love you. I'd love you until...

• 36:18Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, sure. You wanna go?

• 36:21Speaker 06

  Oh.

• 36:21Adam Friedland?

  All right.

• 36:21Speaker 06

  Okay. Yeah, yeah, thank you.

• 36:29Speaker 07

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• 37:00Adam Friedland?

  As I'm saying, I'm a nascent entrepreneur. But like I have business partners that kind of engage in the business side. I get to focus on the creative. And I fancied myself a businessman for far too long. And I realized I got my shit handed to me too much. And then what's important is that I'm good at this part. And I have business folks that do the other part. So like, how would you, to an idiot, a real dumb dumb? Like, explain, like, what is like economics? Like, in your, like, and you're talking to a dumb guy.

• 37:35Speaker 02

  The thing about entrepreneurship is very binary. You either make money or you lose money. There's no gray. It's one or the other. And so you should put time into the equation. You say to yourself, I'm starting a business. And if I can't make money in 36 months, I'm going to take it behind the barn and shoot it. Because at that point, you've run out of an idea. That idea is not working. You weren't able to prove that you could acquire customers economically. The business is unprofitable and you're burning cash. And you're bankrupting yourself if you're borrowing money against your house or whatever it is.

• 38:13Adam Friedland?

  No, we're doing good. We're doing.

• 38:14Speaker 02

  Okay, so the idea is that entrepreneurs fail sometimes. But they shouldn't spend all their time wallowing in failure. And entrepreneurs that are unsuccessful don't have the guts to take it behind the barn and shoot it.

• 38:27Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 38:27Speaker 02

  That's what you have to do. Bad businesses are like a cancer. They kill your time.

• 38:33Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 38:34Speaker 02

  So you gotta shoot it.

• 38:35Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 38:35Speaker 02

  That's it.

• 38:36Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 38:36Speaker 02

  And I've done that, you know, I've had good ideas, bad ideas, but I never, never let them spend. Like, these days, if I can't figure it out in 18 months, I shoot it.

• 38:45Adam Friedland?

  This thing is, I mean, it's a good product. People like the product.

• 38:49Speaker 02

  But once you know it works, you gotta spend 110% of your time on it.

• 38:52Adam Friedland?

  Oh, I'm married to this.

• 38:53Speaker 02

  Yeah, of course.

• 38:54Adam Friedland?

  What do you do when you get in trouble from the lady? For working too much.

• 38:58Speaker 02

  Well, that's a big challenge for everybody, you know. You should basically set aside some quality time for me. I try and make it weekends. And I'm very fortunate, I can say, "Look, where does the family want to go this weekend? You want to go to Geneva, you want to go to Thailand, you want to go to Paris? Let's go. The ticket's on me. Spend the weekend together, and then after that, we all disperse again. Because I'm traveling all week.

• 39:21Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 39:22Speaker 02

  So, you know, it's quite, and lately, particularly on this Marty Supreme promotional tour, we're going everywhere.

• 39:28Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 39:28Speaker 02

  My wife Linda said, "I want to go with you to see what it's like." And she, after the first week, she went, "Wow. I don't want to get in another airplane." I said, "Well, we're just starting." Because you spend most of your time hopping cities.

• 39:40Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 39:41Speaker 02

  Sometimes three cities in a day.

• 39:42Adam Friedland?

  You seem like, the, the, the concept of a businessman, like a successful person, I guess maybe it comes from movies, is that, that because they're making big bets, and they're like, there's a, there's a rush coming from it, that they also have other, like, vices. But you seem like relatively well-adjusted in your life.

• 40:01Speaker 02

  What I try and do, and not everybody has vices, but my, my routine is, I get up at five. In my, well, I live in Miami, I live on the beach, and we have a twenty-two mile boardwalk.

• 40:12Adam Friedland?

  Fabulous.

• 40:13Speaker 02

  So, when the sun rises at about, so at five to six, I'm kind of listening to all the news feeds, because I do a lot of live TV during the day. There's usually five news stories worldwide. I listen to them. You know, the, the outlets I listen to, I try and get balanced. BBC in London is very good. Al Jazeera, Fox, CNBC, BBC in Canada, because a lot of stuff going on between.

• 40:38Adam Friedland?

  You guys have a BBC too?

• 40:40Speaker 02

  No, BBC is, is England, but CBC is Canada.

• 40:43Adam Friedland?

  CBC, yeah, CBC.

• 40:44Speaker 02

  But the point is, they all have the same five stories with a different tilt on it. So by the time I'm finished, like, forty minutes of that stuff, I've got a pretty good idea of what's on the, on the plate for the day. Then I get on the bike, and I ride for about an hour and twenty minutes with thousands of other bikers as the sun is coming up. There's only bikes and dog walkers, that's it. Then I go to the gym for twenty minutes. I don't eat breakfast, so I fast for sixteen hours a day, and then I eat at two o'clock. My only, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke. My only vice is wine. I like wine.

• 41:14Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 41:15Speaker 02

  So, I have to limit myself, you know, I don't drink till six o'clock, I have a glass of Montrachet. The thing about wine... The problem with wine is if you drink it before you go to bed, you don't sleep well.

• 41:28Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 41:29Speaker 02

  If you can get seven hours of sleep a night, you feel amazing.

• 41:33Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 41:33Speaker 02

  You know, don't eat shit food, get some exercise, and don't drink too much.

• 41:39Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 41:39Speaker 02

  So that's the problem, and that's where I, you know, that's my advice.

• 41:43Adam Friedland?

  And be happy.

• 41:44Speaker 02

  Yeah, you know, the thing is, the key is-

• 41:47Adam Friedland?

  Are you a happy person?

• 41:48Speaker 02

  Yeah, I'm pretty happy.

• 41:48Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, you seem like it.

• 41:49Speaker 02

  I should be drinking at breakfast.

• 41:51Adam Friedland?

  Hell, yeah.

• 41:51Speaker 02

  That way I'd have plenty of time before I went to bed.

• 41:53Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 41:54Speaker 02

  Trying to convince my wife of that, let's do some more Montreche in the morning with eggs.

• 41:58Adam Friedland?

  Well, I could talk to her. At your level of elite entrepreneurial, like, business people, you must have met some real freakazoids that, uh-

• 42:08Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 42:09Adam Friedland?

  Outside of the boardroom.

• 42:11Speaker 02

  Well, where I see the guys from other planets is in the technology deals I invest in. The programmers, the coders, the firmware developers.

• 42:20Adam Friedland?

  And what are they doing, like?

• 42:21Speaker 02

  They're, they're just eclectic dudes.

• 42:23Adam Friedland?

  Sex.

• 42:24Speaker 02

  I mean, the really, the really good ones are, the really great engineers are not normal people. They're just-

• 42:30Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 42:31Speaker 02

  -unusual people. And they have the ability to be extremely focused on the signal of the work they're doing, and they don't let noise get in the way. They're, they're very eclectic, and I've, I've been working with guys like that and women like that for 20 years.

• 42:44Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 42:45Speaker 02

  So, the guys that wrote Mist, it's a title from way back that became very famous. Five guys in a house, they all had Ferraris.

• 42:53Adam Friedland?

  Wow.

• 42:53Speaker 02

  Using unusual, they were unusual, but they wrote this software-

• 42:59Adam Friedland?

  Unusual how?

• 43:00Speaker 02

  Well, you know, I don't, I don't wanna say, but they, they were, they were on the edge.

• 43:04Adam Friedland?

  What?

• 43:05Speaker 02

  Yeah, they're on the edge.

• 43:06Adam Friedland?

  So, uh-

• 43:06Speaker 02

  And they were, but they wrote amazing code, and I have to go out there and get them to finish it on time so we could ship 12 million copies to Walmart.

• 43:13Adam Friedland?

  And they keep trying to pull you into a cuddle puddle.

• 43:15Speaker 02

  Yeah, but you know, the thing is with coders, they don't, they never wanna stop. They just wanna make it better and better, but at some point you have to- Cut the version and ship it.

• 43:23Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 43:24Speaker 02

  But I did that my whole life, and so I've got a pretty good respect for what they do.

• 43:27Adam Friedland?

  Uh huh.

• 43:27Speaker 02

  And that was one of our competitive advantages. Developers like to work for me because I gave them a lot of slack on the creativity, but was able to manage their time and say, "Look, we gotta ship it next month."

• 43:38Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 43:39Speaker 02

  It's gotta ship.

• 43:40Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 43:40Speaker 02

  And because you're trying to fill shelves for holiday and whatever else. But, and I still do that to a certain extent, but I'm not an operator anymore, I'm just an investor.

• 43:48Adam Friedland?

  When you see, like in New York City, when you see someone on the street, like a homeless person, like what do you make of the, what's your, what's your whole take on that?

• 43:57Speaker 02

  It's sad, but usually it's mental illness.

• 43:59Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 43:59Speaker 02

  That's what it is. And we, our society has a very hard time.

• 44:02Adam Friedland?

  You shouldn't tell them to take it outside, it's kinda inhumane.

• 44:05Speaker 02

  It's, you look at other societies, like Asian societies, for example, or even, even in Europe, in Switzerland, they covet the elderly.

• 44:17Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 44:17Speaker 02

  They, they want to, to bring them into their homes and they, they keep their grandparents around because that's how the family values work. We don't have that in North America.

• 44:26Adam Friedland?

  I feel like in, like the future, like, have you seen the show Mad Men?

• 44:31Speaker 02

  Yeah, of course.

• 44:31Adam Friedland?

  Like, there's a, you remember they're going for a picnic?

• 44:34Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 44:34Adam Friedland?

  And then they shake out all their garbage into a field and you're like, "Oh, they didn't know what littering was." I feel like in the future, they'll look back in the, at us and they'll be like, "You just walked past a guy just suffering and dying on the street?"

• 44:46Speaker 02

  Yeah, so there's homeless in every society, but usually if it's mental illness, it's being supported by a family somewhere, so there's less of it. Certainly, the Asian countries are the same.

• 44:57Adam Friedland?

  Can we do a thought experiment?

• 44:59Speaker 02

  Sure.

• 45:00Adam Friedland?

  Okay, you go to bed, Miami, beautiful life, beautiful house, you're Mr. Wonderful. You open your eyes, you are, you have zero dollars. And you go around, you're like, "I'm Mr. Wonderful." People are like, "I've never heard of Mr. Wonderful," okay? What do you do? Seriously, the first day-

• 45:17Speaker 02

  Well, maybe that'll happen to me in a dream, you never know.

• 45:19Adam Friedland?

  But I'm saying, let's, a thought experiment, you wake up, you're on the street, and you have zero dollars, what do you do your first day to, to get back on your feet? Make money?

• 45:29Speaker 02

  Yeah, I would probably go be a laborer as I did when I was young. I was a bricklayer and then I washed dishes.

• 45:35Adam Friedland?

  But you can't really go, you can't really go up that way, right?

• 45:38Speaker 02

  No, no, but you have to get some cash. I mean, you've gotta be pragmatic. You know, you've gotta get some clothes, get some cash.

• 45:45Speaker 02

  I would probably go and use my skills in photography and, you know, find a job in doing social media or something because that's a growth area. But you gotta start at the bottom again and, you know, basically, there's a lot of work for people that wanna work. Maybe it's in the field, or maybe it's, you know, in service industries. They don't wanna do that, though.

• 46:09Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. How long would it take you to get a million dollars from zero? If, just a thought experiment. From that circumstance, no one knows who you are. You're not a star of a screen and

• 46:19Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 46:19Adam Friedland?

  And, uh, small

• 46:21Speaker 02

  I think I could do it again.

• 46:23Adam Friedland?

  You think? Three months, you get a million?

• 46:25Speaker 02

  I don't think if I, I'm not sure I could do it in, uh, in three months, but

• 46:28Adam Friedland?

  I would assume three weeks.

• 46:31Speaker 02

  You know, the way, the way you, you make a million dollars is you don't buy shit. Like, you actually have money to invest.

• 46:38Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 46:39Speaker 02

  That's how I figured it out. Took me a while to figure it out. You know, I was able to make a million when I was pretty young by, by just, I had, you know, when you go into someone, go into your own closet and look at all the shit you bought over the years you don't wear. I mean, that's such an easy one to see.

• 46:56Adam Friedland?

  But you're a, you're a, you're a dandy.

• 46:58Speaker 02

  No, I, I can, I can afford to

• 47:00Adam Friedland?

  But you can afford it.

• 47:01Speaker 02

  Yeah, I can afford to get great clothes now and I have a lot of fun, you know, between the different brands. Right now, I'm working with Dolce, they're doing

• 47:07Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 47:08Speaker 02

  That's because of Marty Supreme.

• 47:09Adam Friedland?

  Give it up for that.

• 47:10Speaker 02

  Dolce is doing, thank you, thank you. What I like about

• 47:14Adam Friedland?

  That's the weakest applause ever.

• 47:16Speaker 02

  Well, you know, what the hell, it's great. But they are working with material and designs from the 30s and 40s, which kind of fit the whole Marty Supreme vibe.

• 47:25Adam Friedland?

  Wow, yeah.

• 47:26Speaker 02

  So for the, I've got some very crazy shit coming for the premieres in New York and, uh, LA.

• 47:33Adam Friedland?

  No. Like Lady Gaga level?

• 47:36Speaker 02

  I think I might beat her on these.

• 47:38Adam Friedland?

  You're gonna wear meat?

• 47:39Speaker 02

  I should wear meat, but I've got an amazing jacket from sort of Louis XIV kind of vibe.

• 47:45Adam Friedland?

  Whoa. I love that for you. That's actually pretty cool.

• 47:49Speaker 02

  It's definitely me.

• 47:50Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, that's you. That is wonderful, yes.

• 47:52Speaker 02

  It's a wonderful kind of, you know, anyways, it's fun and I bring it home and my daughter and wife just go out of their minds when they see this stuff.

• 48:01Adam Friedland?

  Your wife gets turned on a lot of the time.

• 48:03Speaker 02

  Well, I remember when I bought my first Porsche, I collect Porsches and, you know, I drove it home. It was a...

• 48:10Adam Friedland?

  911?

• 48:10Speaker 02

  Yeah, it was a 911 turbo convertible Cabriolet.

• 48:13Adam Friedland?

  Woo!

• 48:13Speaker 02

  Stick shift. And all she said to me was, "Oh, great, another bald asshole in a Porsche."

• 48:19Adam Friedland?

  They don't understand how cool, cool stuff is.

• 48:22Speaker 02

  I love that car and I like the new Porsches. I got the 50th anniversary. These cars are amazing. You know, German precision, all that stuff.

• 48:31Adam Friedland?

  It's like a watch.

• 48:31Speaker 02

  I might put 1,000 miles on it a year. I don't drive it very often, but I like to just look at it.

• 48:39Adam Friedland?

  Come on, dude.

• 48:40Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 48:40Adam Friedland?

  Why don't you just look?

• 48:41Speaker 02

  Well, you think about a car.

• 48:42Adam Friedland?

  I'm a young you.

• 48:43Speaker 02

  Watches are easy to collect because you can actually store them in a bank vault, but cars, you gotta get a garage, climate-controlled facility, tricklers and all. It's complicated.

• 48:53Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, it's a lot of headache.

• 48:54Speaker 02

  Insurance is crazy.

• 48:55Adam Friedland?

  And the maintenance, yeah.

• 48:56Speaker 02

  Nuts, nuts.

• 48:56Adam Friedland?

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• 49:38Adam Friedland?

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• 50:19Adam Friedland?

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• 51:00Adam Friedland?

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• 51:45Adam Friedland?

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• 51:53Adam Friedland?

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• 52:35Adam Friedland?

  Use code TAFS at monarch.com in your browser for half off your first year. That's 50% off your first year at monarch.com with code TAFS. Alright, that's the last ad of the year. That's the last ad of the year. You have a really interesting background, like in childhood. And I wouldn't have expected, you know, like I kind of knew you from TV. I'm like, "Oh, this guy's like, I don't know, blue-blood, like Wharton boy." But you lived, you were born in Canada, obviously.

• 53:06Speaker 02

  Montreal, moved to Champagne, Urbana, outside of Chicago in Illinois. Went to, you know, school there, Bottonfield, I'll never forget it. I lived, Bottonfield School, I don't even know if it's still there.

• 53:23Adam Friedland?

  But you lived in Cambodia as well, before the Khmer Rouge?

• 53:27Speaker 02

  Yeah, after that, when my stepdad, my original dad died, my stepdad was graduating from the University of Illinois and he became a PhD in management. And he got a job with the ILO, the United Nations. And we traveled every two years. He worked on infrastructure projects like water and highways.

• 53:46Adam Friedland?

  He was a spook. Sounds like a spook to me.

• 53:48Speaker 02

  Well, he did a hell of a job for the UAE. He was there when the founder was there and that's how I got my residency there. He helped get the water system going for those guys.

• 53:57Adam Friedland?

  Now look at them.

• 53:58Speaker 02

  Yeah, they're doing okay.

• 53:59Adam Friedland?

  They're doing alright.

• 54:01Speaker 02

  Yeah, they actually were pretty smart about how they made that country.

• 54:04Adam Friedland?

  You met Haile Selassie as a kid?

• 54:06Speaker 02

  I did.

• 54:07Adam Friedland?

  And is it true, is he Ja?

• 54:11Speaker 02

  He was, he was.

• 54:12Adam Friedland?

  Are you Rastafarian kinda guy?

• 54:14Speaker 02

  Yeah, he, well, he is the leader of the Rastafarians.

• 54:17Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, I know.

• 54:18Speaker 02

  He also, I met his lion cubs. I met Paul Pott, who went nuts and killed everybody in Cambodia.

• 54:24Adam Friedland?

  What are you, James Bond?

• 54:26Speaker 02

  It was just random. I mean, you know, the expats would always get together at these cocktail parties and they would throw them at the palace. And, you know, the ILOers would bring their kids and that's how I met him, I just.

• 54:37Adam Friedland?

  And you played poker against a guy with an eye patch?

• 54:39Speaker 02

  Well, I met, I met Si Anuk too. I mean, that was when the.

• 54:43Adam Friedland?

  Met who?

• 54:44Speaker 02

  Vietnam War was spreading into Cambodia.

• 54:46Adam Friedland?

  Why, everywhere you go, war follows?

• 54:48Speaker 02

  It was tough. I mean, that was tough.

• 54:50Adam Friedland?

  You're the angel of death, Kevin.

• 54:53Adam Friedland?

  Wait.

• 54:54Speaker 02

  But, you know, I've been to some interesting places.

• 54:56Adam Friedland?

  So you're raised by your stepfather primarily?

• 54:58Speaker 02

  Yeah, he was very pragmatic with me.

• 55:00Adam Friedland?

  And your, your parents split up after you moved or before?

• 55:04Speaker 02

  No, my parent, my parents, my original father, they got divorced and then he died, actually, when he was 37.

• 55:12Adam Friedland?

  When did he die? When you moved or around the time?

• 55:15Speaker 02

  No, we, he had, they were divorced already. My mother was now, you know, starting dating, I guess, my stepfather, but then he passed away, my original father, and then they moved to finish off George's PhD. That's what happened.

• 55:33Adam Friedland?

  And did you, you didn't get a chance to say goodbye or?

• 55:36Speaker 02

  I did, I knew, I, you know, I spent weekends with him, but one day he was just gone. It was tough. My brother's two years younger, so it's really hard on him. That was difficult. But, you know, when I started moving every two years, I thought everybody lived that way, but it's not true.

• 55:50Adam Friedland?

  No.

• 55:50Speaker 02

  But it ended up being a huge advantage for me because I've been to every culture in the world.

• 55:54Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 55:54Speaker 02

  So, you know, Iceland and Norway and France and Switzerland and Germany and Japan and Ethiopia, all of those places.

• 56:02Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, and another thing is, well, a funny thing, correct me if this is wrong, but your stepfather at the end of high school asked you what you wanted to do and you said, "I want to take photographs of hot chicks."

• 56:16Speaker 02

  He said, "You're not good enough."

• 56:18Adam Friedland?

  That's so us, by the way. That's awesome. That is the most awesome answer I've ever heard.

• 56:24Speaker 02

  And he said, "Look, you're not good enough. You'll starve to death. Why don't you just take a couple of years off and go get a business degree? Then you can figure out what to do." He was right. But I went right back into photography. I founded a company called Special Event Television. We did all the hockey programming on Saturday nights for the original six teams.

• 56:39Adam Friedland?

  And you developed the technology for like digital graphics.

• 56:44Speaker 02

  Yeah, we did that. That was that turned into Learning Company. There was a bunch of things that happened in that journey. And you just don't know what's going to happen when you start a company. But we did Don Cherry's Grapevine. The original six was another format we owned. I didn't know what a television format was, but I owned it. And so somebody came along and said, "I want to buy it." That was the first exit we had. We took that money, started the Learning Company, and the rest is history.

• 57:09Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 57:11Adam Friedland?

  Another surprising thing about you is that you, you know, I'm old pinko glasses, New York Jew over here. I would assume like, I would never have assumed that you'd be an environmentalist. That you studied environmental studies. You made a documentary.

• 57:27Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 57:27Adam Friedland?

  And you happen to be one to this day?

• 57:30Speaker 02

  I was one of the first cohorts with Sally Lerner and Reg Mikulakowski were the two of them. They founded it in the architecture department. And but what Sally told me, which I'll never forget, she said, "You know, Kevin, you're, you should pursue entrepreneurship. You should go start a business because, you know, this, you don't look to me like a guy who's ever going to keep a job. You just, you know, you just don't know how to work for anybody. And it's, it could be bad, it could be good. But, but she was one of the ones that really edged me on. And I'll never forget that. It was, it was, because she was right. I mean, in the end, I never was able to hold down a job for anybody. I never will.

• 58:14Adam Friedland?

  Tell us about the cat food.

• 58:15Speaker 02

  Yeah, that was a summer. I had to have a summer job. And I worked for a guy. But that ended up being a very important lesson because he took me to show how cat food was made. And it's just two engines. It's Sea of Japan tuna, the belly. That's for the fish protein. And the other is chicken faces and beef faces and all the parts that we don't eat of a cow. And they get sort of melted into a mush with papaya juice. And then squeezed out and that paste is the protein that is

• 58:45Adam Friedland?

  Chicken McNuggets at McDonald's.

• 58:47Speaker 02

  Well, these are for cats, but so, but think about the idea. It's either Sea of Japan tuna on this side or the chicken faces on the right.

• 58:57Adam Friedland?

  Sounds nicer, the tuna.

• 58:59Speaker 02

  Yeah, 15 years later, I'm sitting with my partner at the learning company. We're buying all these software companies with their developers making educational software. And the only two things we're doing is math and reading scores. We're doing hundreds of millions of dollars of sales advancing math and reading scores.

• 59:15Adam Friedland?

  Yes.

• 59:16Speaker 02

  And I said to Mike, let me tell you this story about cat food. And I said, why don't we fire all the developers that we don't need and just have one chicken face team and one Sea of Japan tuna team? The Sea of Japan tuna does the reading software. The other guys do the math. And then all we do is take the titles because when you make cat food, you add bacon bits or little egg bits or, you know, and you call it, you know, souffle or whatever. But it's just the same paste. We did the same thing. We took, we licensed, you know, characters from Disney and characters from

• 59:55Adam Friedland?

  Mattel, right?

• 59:56Speaker 02

  Yeah, Big Bird. We had all these titles. And we pay a royalty on it and our cost of development dropped by 30%.

• 1:00:02Adam Friedland?

  But didn't you try to rebrand the cat food and then they said, would you eat it?

• 1:00:08Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:00:08Adam Friedland?

  That's what I was asking.

• 1:00:09Speaker 02

  I did have to eat it in front of the sales force, but apparently that's sort of like a hazing thing they did at that company.

• 1:00:14Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 1:00:15Speaker 02

  They made the young guy eat the food, and I knew how it was made, so it really made me sick.

• 1:00:19Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. I threw it in my shoes. And then you were like, "I'm not gonna have a boss ever again."

• 1:00:23Speaker 02

  (laughing).

• 1:00:24Adam Friedland?

  And it's kind of for a good reason.

• 1:00:25Speaker 02

  Well, it was an important lesson. I think you learn these things in life, and they come back and they're very good for you later. That's the whole idea.

• 1:00:32Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:00:32Speaker 02

  But, that was an important lesson, the two engines of protein. Because that changed the outcome of the learning company a big way.

• 1:00:40Adam Friedland?

  I wanna talk about your turn into entertainment.

• 1:00:44Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:00:45Adam Friedland?

  I mean, like, I'm a comedian, I've gone on the road, I've watched thousands of hours of Shark Tank. It's just the best show. And like, you are just a fucking hit, you know that.

• 1:00:58Speaker 02

  Well, it's been on for seventeen years, we're shooting our eighteenth season. I actually have a theory about why that happens. The real stars, and the reason people keep watching it, is every time someone walks through those doors, they've never seen that product or service before. They can't believe someone else thought of it instead of them. It's, "Why didn't I think of that?"

• 1:01:20Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:21Speaker 02

  Because half of these things turn into huge successes, the other half go to zero.

• 1:01:25Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:01:25Speaker 02

  But, every once in a while, you get some crazy idea that ends up being fucking huge.

• 1:01:32Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:01:32Speaker 02

  And we've seen it happen.

• 1:01:33Adam Friedland?

  You missed on that Ring door thing, you guys.

• 1:01:35Speaker 02

  Ring was huge, Cat DNA was huge.

• 1:01:39Adam Friedland?

  What's that?

• 1:01:39Speaker 02

  Wicked Good Cupcakes, it was called Base Paws, it was a monster hit.

• 1:01:43Adam Friedland?

  Cat DNA?

• 1:01:44Speaker 02

  Cat DNA. You stick a Q-tip up the cat's ass, you send it in, and it tells you what to feed it to extend its life by thirty percent.

• 1:01:52Adam Friedland?

  That's a dog, that's not a gem. What's your thing, a dog or a gem?

• 1:01:56Speaker 02

  No.

• 1:01:56Adam Friedland?

  A dog or... A dog or a business dog or a business gem?

• 1:02:01Speaker 02

  Well, I'd say, "Look, it's a howling dog from hell."

• 1:02:05Adam Friedland?

  That sounds like the dumbest idea for anything.

• 1:02:08Speaker 02

  But it's not.

• 1:02:08Adam Friedland?

  That pisses me off that that's successful.

• 1:02:10Speaker 02

  Yeah, but, you know, I've seen so many pitches now, I kinda have an idea what's gonna work and what isn't.

• 1:02:15Adam Friedland?

  I like when you're mean to kids.

• 1:02:18Speaker 02

  I don't like kids.

• 1:02:19Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, when they're like, "I'm three years old and I have a business." And you're like, "You're an idiot." Get off of the screen.

• 1:02:26Speaker 02

  The way I get out of that problem is I say to the parents, "I'll invest in the three-year-old if you take him out of school for the rest of his life."

• 1:02:32Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:02:32Speaker 02

  So that he can work for me full-time.

• 1:02:34Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, he shouldn't be going to school.

• 1:02:35Speaker 02

  I don't know why anybody would invest in a kid in high school. It's a gimmick. It's gotta wait till they graduate. And I don't do it. I think it's dumb. But, you know, it's TV, and so it happens.

• 1:02:45Adam Friedland?

  You crush it on that. How much of Mr. Wonderful is a character? Because I'm meeting you right now, you seem like you're just a, like, calm, friendly, well-adjusted, zen-out dude.

• 1:02:56Speaker 02

  Well, I don't think you can...

• 1:02:58Adam Friedland?

  And you're telling a baby that he should never work again.

• 1:03:01Speaker 02

  You can't, you can't...

• 1:03:03Adam Friedland?

  You really, you turn it on.

• 1:03:04Speaker 02

  No, no, you can't fake it for seventeen years. You can't do that. That's who I am when it comes to investing. I scrutinize deals. I am not acting. I'm not faking it. That's, that's who I am. And you can ask the people I work with, my team, that's how I am.

• 1:03:18Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:03:19Speaker 02

  And so, you know, it's sort of like, it's, for me, Shark Tank, I don't see any cameras on Shark Tank, nor does anybody else.

• 1:03:27Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 1:03:27Speaker 02

  We've been doing it for so long. I mean, I, you know, it's just, bring it on, let's have a look at it. But if it's dogshit, I'm gonna say it's dogshit.

• 1:03:34Adam Friedland?

  You, you, you tell the truth. That's, that's what you're known for.

• 1:03:37Speaker 02

  I think telling the truth is extremely helpful in the case of business, because you don't want them to waste the money. You want them to actually say, "Maybe it is dogshit if everybody won't invest." I find it very disingenuous when Barbara or Lori say, "Well..."

• 1:03:50Adam Friedland?

  That pisses me off, too.

• 1:03:51Speaker 02

  "Oh, you're so nice, and I, I think you're wonderful. You should just go do what you do. You don't need any of us." What they're saying is, "Your product's a piece of shit, and I would never invest in it." I just say, "Your product's a piece of shit, and I'd never invest in it."

• 1:04:05Adam Friedland?

  No, they're setting them up. They're gonna lose them money. By, like, gaslighting them.

• 1:04:08Speaker 02

  You know, Barbara's on this side, Lori's here, and I say, "What are you doing? You're lying through your teeth to these people."

• 1:04:13Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:04:14Speaker 02

  You're giving them such bad advice to tell them to keep going on this dogshit crap they have. Like, why? Why don't you just call it what it is, "Dogshit crap"?

• 1:04:21Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:04:22Speaker 02

  Do them a favor. Tell them the truth.

• 1:04:24Adam Friedland?

  Because in reality, those people are gonna think that it's not dogshit crap, and it's gonna cost them time and money.

• 1:04:29Speaker 02

  It's so bad, I can smell the odor of dogshit off the product.

• 1:04:31Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:04:32Speaker 02

  Just from, I'm in the room, ten feet away, saying, "It's horrible. Shoot it."

• 1:04:36Adam Friedland?

  It's like, it's, it's, they're being kind, but they're not being kind. In fact, you're being kind.

• 1:04:40Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 1:04:41Adam Friedland?

  By telling that kid to kill himself.

• 1:04:42Speaker 02

  Thank you, finally, somebody realizes it.

• 1:04:44Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, I mean, I do.

• 1:04:45Speaker 02

  Look at the, look at the heat I take from everybody. Oh, you're the mean shark, you're the bad shark. No, I'm not, I'm just telling you.

• 1:04:50Adam Friedland?

  No, you're the star of the show. You're the star of the show. You sit in the middle.

• 1:04:55Speaker 02

  No, the point is, it's a piece of crap.

• 1:04:58Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:04:59Speaker 02

  It is.

• 1:05:00Adam Friedland?

  And they're gonna waste their, their lives on it.

• 1:05:01Speaker 02

  And their parents' money.

• 1:05:03Adam Friedland?

  And their parents' money. Yeah, yeah.

• 1:05:04Speaker 02

  Yeah, that's, that's the real problem.

• 1:05:06Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. Do you respect people that just didn't have to work for it to have a lot of money? Or do you think that they're pussies? Or, sorry for saying that word. I don't know.

• 1:05:15Speaker 02

  Well, you mean, they've inherited it.

• 1:05:16Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, are you like, you're a fucking liquid man?

• 1:05:19Speaker 02

  But let me tell you what happens.

• 1:05:20Adam Friedland?

  You've grinded.

• 1:05:21Speaker 02

  Inherited wealth is generally dissipated within two generations.

• 1:05:25Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:05:26Speaker 02

  So, you shouldn't give your money to the idiot cousin. It's not a good idea. You, you, you know, if you have a business, nepotism destroys it. What you do is you put the kids at the board level and you hire professional managers.

• 1:05:40Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:41Speaker 02

  And that way, you can sustain the family for, you know, long after you're gone, as long as they don't try and run it. Most people can't do what their parents did.

• 1:05:49Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:50Speaker 02

  Sometimes.

• 1:05:50Adam Friedland?

  It's like the Bush administration, right?

• 1:05:52Speaker 02

  It's, it's difficult.

• 1:05:54Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:05:54Speaker 02

  But, you know, you don't wanna, sometimes there's exceptions, but not often. And so, if you're gonna be an entrepreneur, it's better to try and do it in your twenties, when you can take a hit. You don't have a lot of responsibility, you don't have a family, you don't have a mortgage, just go do it. And in eighteen months, you'll find out if you can pull it off or not. And if you do, it sets you free.

• 1:06:12Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:06:13Speaker 02

  There's something wonderful about being able to do what you wanna do. And the only way in America you get there is you gotta be successful in the American dream.

• 1:06:19Adam Friedland?

  There's a competitive element to business, right? You wanna win.

• 1:06:22Speaker 02

  Yeah, of course.

• 1:06:23Adam Friedland?

  Right?

• 1:06:23Speaker 02

  It's a giant competition.

• 1:06:24Adam Friedland?

  So, you have to fucking hate the other guy at some point, a lot of the time, right? Like, who, who's the biggest fucking fraud? Just name names.

• 1:06:32Speaker 02

  Well, I mean, we, I mean, you're talking about the other shark?

• 1:06:35Adam Friedland?

  Just, no, no, not, no, but those are our friends, we love them.

• 1:06:38Speaker 02

  Well, no, I, but let me tell you how friendly I am.

• 1:06:40Adam Friedland?

  Dude, when, when Mark, when Mark quit, you were, you were genuinely emotional.

• 1:06:44Speaker 02

  I think I can get Mark back on the show.

• 1:06:45Adam Friedland?

  You're trying to get him back, you missed him.

• 1:06:47Speaker 02

  I am, I am.

• 1:06:47Adam Friedland?

  That's your boy.

• 1:06:49Speaker 02

  Because I think we have a great dynamic.

• 1:06:50Adam Friedland?

  You do.

• 1:06:51Speaker 02

  I'm teaching him, and he's learning from me, and it's fantastic.

• 1:06:53Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. He's like the sensei and the student, yeah.

• 1:06:56Speaker 02

  And Barb, you know, he's my grasshopper. And Barbara, the only reason that she makes it to the set each year is I buy her a new broom. That's how kind I am.

• 1:07:07Adam Friedland?

  You're keeping the band together. You're like Paul McCartney.

• 1:07:09Speaker 02

  Every year, brand new, the latest broom for the witch.

• 1:07:12Adam Friedland?

  Mark is like John Lennon. He's up with Yoko doing heroin. You're like, just get to the studio. Let's make Abbey Road.

• 1:07:19Speaker 02

  Get back in the chair and let's get back to work.

• 1:07:20Adam Friedland?

  I love it. So you're like the capitán a little bit.

• 1:07:23Speaker 02

  I like to think that way.

• 1:07:24Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, I like that.

• 1:07:25Speaker 02

  Call me El Capitán.

• 1:07:26Adam Friedland?

  This is cool for me, because I'm a massive fan. It's just cool to hear this.

• 1:07:30Speaker 02

  Look, I don't think of myself as the star of the show, because I know with certainty if we didn't have the pitches, there'd be no show. What we've learned is, what's really good now about Shark Tank is the 100-plus producers that after 17 years can curate great deals. They go out there, just like on American Idol. They listen to pitches, thousands of pitches, thousands of pitches. And the woman that's done it from the beginning is named Mindy Castings. I don't know what her real name is, but I call her that.

• 1:08:00Adam Friedland?

  From The Office.

• 1:08:01Speaker 02

  And she has seen every pitch. Can you imagine that?

• 1:08:04Adam Friedland?

  Holy shit.

• 1:08:05Speaker 02

  And then she says that one, that one, that one, that one. Then she sends it into the, you know, the editorial team that says it's appropriate. It isn't. But she has done such an incredible job with her team that that's why the show works.

• 1:08:20Adam Friedland?

  I assume there's due diligence, though, after you make a deal.

• 1:08:23Speaker 02

  There is, afterwards, and there's also diligence before.

• 1:08:25Adam Friedland?

  What's the craziest thing that's come out in due diligence, after making a deal with some...

• 1:08:29Speaker 02

  The guy was in prison.

• 1:08:30Adam Friedland?

  The guy was...

• 1:08:32Speaker 02

  One of our deals.

• 1:08:33Adam Friedland?

  They let him out of prison to do Shark Tank?

• 1:08:35Speaker 02

  No, no, he didn't tell the truth, obviously.

• 1:08:39Speaker 02

  He was a felon. That's not useful. You know, I think it's better to tell the truth.

• 1:08:44Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 1:08:45Speaker 02

  I'm not against felons. I think they've redeemed themselves. They've served their time.

• 1:08:48Adam Friedland?

  That's what Miami's all about.

• 1:08:50Speaker 02

  Well, it was built on larceny. But the point is, you gotta disclose that. You have to tell.

• 1:08:58Adam Friedland?

  You think Timothy would have fun on the show?

• 1:09:01Speaker 02

  I do, I do. And I think his, and his, I met many of his friends when we were shooting. I think he would have.

• 1:09:07Adam Friedland?

  I've met him before. He's awesome.

• 1:09:09Speaker 02

  He's a great guy.

• 1:09:10Adam Friedland?

  He's really cool.

• 1:09:11Speaker 02

  He's a, to me, he's a classic method actor, because he gets into the zone, and you shoot the scene, and then he checks out, and you know, he's quite, quite something.

• 1:09:21Adam Friedland?

  What lessons did the other actors impart on you on set?

• 1:09:25Speaker 02

  Well, as you saw in the movie, there's a lot of interaction between a lot of people simultaneously in those big scenes in restaurants.

• 1:09:32Adam Friedland?

  Kind of like Robert Altman, kind of, yeah.

• 1:09:34Speaker 02

  Yeah, and so it's a roaming camera and you do those sequences multiple times and you get new cadence of what the script is. There were some great people in that thing that really knew what they were doing and that made it easy for me.

• 1:09:46Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 1:09:47Speaker 02

  I mean, I thought probably by the fourth or fifth day I was into the kind of groove of how that, you know, Josh and Ronnie worked.

• 1:09:55Adam Friedland?

  Did Gwyneth ask you for like tips for her Goop company?

• 1:09:59Speaker 02

  Actually, we met two years earlier on Shark Tank.

• 1:10:02Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 1:10:03Speaker 02

  She was a guest shark.

• 1:10:04Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, because she's an entrepreneur.

• 1:10:05Speaker 02

  Yeah, she was, Goop.

• 1:10:07Adam Friedland?

  Goop, yeah.

• 1:10:07Speaker 02

  Yeah, so the ladies.

• 1:10:09Adam Friedland?

  The ladies love this stuff, yeah.

• 1:10:10Speaker 02

  You know, she's, that's a tough gig.

• 1:10:12Adam Friedland?

  I don't even know what it is, yeah.

• 1:10:13Speaker 02

  And so we knew each other already, so it was very easy to roll into the husband-wife scene, it was very easy.

• 1:10:18Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, you felt like husband and wife already from Shark Tank.

• 1:10:20Speaker 02

  Yeah, but a loveless marriage, she was a horrible person to me.

• 1:10:23Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, you felt like she was a bad, she hated you.

• 1:10:25Speaker 02

  But you know, there was.

• 1:10:26Adam Friedland?

  Did you feel like you were being when you were shooting a scene, like you were the guy?

• 1:10:30Speaker 02

  It was really interesting because it was easy to get into that character, you know. Milton in 1952, that was quite something. I didn't have a hard time becoming Milton, that was good. It was good for me.

• 1:10:44Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, you killed it, dude. I mean, seriously, I'm genuinely impressed. Can I tell you what happened to me at the premiere?

• 1:10:51Speaker 02

  Sure, tell me.

• 1:10:52Adam Friedland?

  We'll end on this, but this guy, I was with this guy there. I'm, Josh is on stage, he said, "I finished editing this last night, this is the movie, enjoy it, the lights are going down." I'm walking down my row and I have a pair of pants and they have a snap button on the back. There's a woman in the row, my pants brushed past her hair and her hair got stuck in my pants.

• 1:11:15Speaker 02

  Oh.

• 1:11:16Adam Friedland?

  And then the lights are going down.

• 1:11:18Speaker 02

  And she's screaming.

• 1:11:19Adam Friedland?

  And she's like, "Ouch." And then her friend, she was with her gay friend and he was like, "You're hurting her." And then, and then everyone on the other side of me was like, "Sit down, the movie's starting." So I'm like going like, "Sorry, sorry, sorry." And it was, and he's sitting there and he's just. Laughing in my face at it. And it was perhaps, that's so that's how I started. The movie started for me, actually.

• 1:11:43Speaker 02

  Oh, that's.

• 1:11:43Adam Friedland?

  I was apologizing to a woman for her hair.

• 1:11:47Speaker 02

  Well, I think.

• 1:11:48Adam Friedland?

  And I couldn't get it out.

• 1:11:49Speaker 02

  I think you deserve the abuse. I mean, you know.

• 1:11:51Adam Friedland?

  What did I, it's not my fault.

• 1:11:53Speaker 02

  I don't know what kind of pants for those. That's crazy.

• 1:11:55Adam Friedland?

  They were from Double RO.

• 1:11:57Speaker 02

  Oh, no kidding?

• 1:11:57Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, it's a nice line.

• 1:11:59Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:11:59Adam Friedland?

  I wear a lot of, you know, I have it here.

• 1:12:02Speaker 02

  I see that.

• 1:12:03Adam Friedland?

  Do you know Lifshits Ralph?

• 1:12:05Speaker 02

  Of course.

• 1:12:05Adam Friedland?

  He's a good guy.

• 1:12:06Speaker 02

  I think the thing is, it's a shame that happened, but a little excitement doesn't hurt.

• 1:12:10Adam Friedland?

  No, it's hilarious.

• 1:12:11Speaker 02

  But, you know, I was getting, I think you were at a screening where I had some friends and they were texting me during the, that's the first interaction.

• 1:12:18Adam Friedland?

  We just saw the most Jewish man in the world.

• 1:12:20Speaker 02

  No, I think they said there's some asshole pulled up some woman's hair.

• 1:12:28Adam Friedland?

  Kevin O'Leary, everybody. Give it up for him.

• 1:12:30Speaker 02

  Thank you, thank you very much.

• 1:12:31Adam Friedland?

  This is gonna pleasure.

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