ZOHRAN MAMDANI Talks Meeting Trump, Mayoral Election, Arsenal

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• 1:26Adam Friedland?

  What is it like? Like you go to the White House, right? You take a selfie on a plane.

• 1:32Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:34Adam Friedland?

  No caption. That is like Drake vibes a little bit.

• 1:36Speaker 03

  Hit the emoji though.

• 1:37Adam Friedland?

  You hit the emoji.

• 1:40Speaker 03

  You know where I was going.

• 1:41Adam Friedland?

  What are you thinking? Like, what's the game plan there?

• 1:42Speaker 03

  Honestly, I knocked out on the plane.

• 1:44Adam Friedland?

  I mean, you looked like, you looked a little bit like. That was the joke on the internet. You look a little bit like you took the, you hit nothing.

• 1:51Speaker 03

  You can say it.

• 1:52Adam Friedland?

  You look a little bit like you hit the edible before the flight.

• 1:54Speaker 03

  Why would you say that?

• 1:55Adam Friedland?

  I'm sorry, Mr. May.

• 1:56Speaker 03

  Why would you say that?

• 2:27Adam Friedland?

  Hello and welcome to a very special episode of The Adam Friedland Show. I'm Adam Friedland. Because this is such a special episode, we've decided to release this episode to the public two days early. Additionally, we've got to give the boy some time off for Thanksgiving. I'm such a good guy, wow. Also, we don't want to leave our members and patrons hanging. So, starting next week, we will be commencing a weekly members-only stream, State of the Tafts. Is that what the name is? Sure. Okay. It's called State of the Tafts, where we will be taking... But it's The Adam Friedland Show, so State of The... The Tafts.

• 3:02Adam Friedland?

  Sounds good to me. State of Tafts. What's the problem?

• 3:03Speaker 04

  State of The...

• 3:05Adam Friedland?

  State of The Tafts.

• 3:07Speaker 04

  State of The... State of The...

• 3:09Adam Friedland?

  State of The Adam Friedland Show. Okay, well, let's stick with State of the Tafts, okay? So, starting next week, we will be commencing with a weekly, members-only stream. It's called State of the Tafts, where we'll be taking questions from members and patrons. So, please, if you don't already, support The Adam Friedland Show on YouTube or Patreon. There's links in the description. You guys are the ones that keep the show going. We are proudly member-supported, kind of like a socialism vibes. My guest this week is mayor-elect of New York City and former striker of the Bronx Science Wolverines, Zohran Mamdani. On Friday, my staff huddled around the office computer, and we all watched the mayor-elect's historic press conference with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

• 3:54Adam Friedland?

  My 22-year-old employee Zach tapped me on the shoulder. His voice was quivering. A tear was rolling down his cheek. I remember it clearly. He said, "Dad, I mean, Adam, the man on the screen, standing next to the President of the United States, will be here in 36 hours' time. But how do we get him off the computer and into the real world?" I smiled and looked at him and said, "If you can figure out how to do that, Zach, I'll give you a million fucking dollars."

• 4:32Adam Friedland?

  So please enjoy my conversation with Zohran Mamdani, everyone.

• 4:40Adam Friedland?

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• 6:09Adam Friedland?

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• 6:34Adam Friedland?

  Ladies and gentlemen, Maryland, New York City. Zohran, Mom, Donny, everyone.

• 6:40Adam Friedland?

  Elect. Congratulations.

• 6:43Speaker 03

  How you doing, man? How you doing?

• 6:44Adam Friedland?

  How you doing?

• 6:45Speaker 03

  Good.

• 6:46Adam Friedland?

  It's funny, like, when I met you, we just talked about sports. I wasted your time like four days before an election.

• 6:52Speaker 03

  I thought it was great.

• 6:53Adam Friedland?

  I know. We talked about all of our collective pain.

• 6:56Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 6:56Adam Friedland?

  The game's on right now. The North London Derby's on right now.

• 6:59Speaker 03

  3-0, baby.

• 6:59Adam Friedland?

  You said you've been too busy. You've been too busy,

• 7:04Adam Friedland?

  running for mayor to watch the games this year.

• 7:06Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 7:07Adam Friedland?

  Now you're making me too busy to watch.

• 7:09Speaker 03

  But, like, we'll get an update if it's 4.

• 7:11Adam Friedland?

  Oh, shit.

• 7:14Adam Friedland?

  This is unprofessional.

• 7:16Speaker 03

  I thought I'm...

• 7:17Adam Friedland?

  I gotta... Someone text me.

• 7:21Adam Friedland?

  Oh, shit.

• 7:24Adam Friedland?

  You need to see this.

• 7:27Adam Friedland?

  Oh, no. Guys.

• 7:31Speaker 05

  Eyes around, how you doing, Ian, right here?

• 7:33Speaker 03

  What?

• 7:34Speaker 05

  I just want to say a massive, massive congratulations on what you've achieved. The real work, no, starts now. But, God willing, you can achieve everything that you have...

• 7:46Speaker 03

  I love you.

• 7:47Speaker 05

  ...set out to achieve.

• 7:48Speaker 03

  Are you gonna cry?

• 7:49Speaker 05

  We're gonna need some of that...

• 7:50Speaker 03

  How did you do this?

• 7:51Speaker 05

  Winning energy that you've got, my friend. And get behind the boys. It's a long way to go.

• 7:56Speaker 03

  I'm gonna cry.

• 7:57Speaker 05

  You just have to stay calm. Back, Mikel, and all the boys. Up the Gunners, baby. Take it easy and God bless, my friend.

• 8:07Adam Friedland?

  I just got a text.

• 8:08Speaker 03

  How did you do this?

• 8:08Adam Friedland?

  My boy.

• 8:11Speaker 03

  I'm just gonna watch it again.

• 8:12Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, just watch it.

• 8:12Speaker 05

  I just want to say a massive, massive congratulations...

• 8:16Speaker 03

  I love this man.

• 8:17Adam Friedland?

  He's the best guy of all time.

• 8:19Speaker 03

  Have you seen the video where he is reunited with his teacher?

• 8:22Adam Friedland?

  Mr. Pigeon. I thought you was dead.

• 8:25Speaker 03

  I thought you were dead.

• 8:26Adam Friedland?

  We have... Okay, here's the problem, guys. I don't want to expose you, but we...

• 8:29Speaker 03

  Can you...

• 8:30Adam Friedland?

  We... Yeah, just... We... It's cra... I mean, Ian, right, right, right. Okay.

• 8:37Speaker 03

  What a man.

• 8:38Adam Friedland?

  How did I do that? I really, really bothered...

• 8:40Speaker 03

  And you actually... And I thought there was something wrong.

• 8:42Adam Friedland?

  I know. Yeah, yeah. Mr. President.

• 8:45Speaker 03

  I didn't know where you were going.

• 8:47Adam Friedland?

  No, no, it's not a... It's not a... No.

• 8:49Speaker 03

  How did you do that?

• 8:50Adam Friedland?

  I... I knew that it was gonna be...

• 8:54Speaker 03

  I love him.

• 8:55Adam Friedland?

  I love him so much. He's the best guy of all time. You know his background story. He was like, uh, working in a factory and then he tried to get, he's like, I'm gonna try one more time. And then he, uh, he went to Crystal Palace.

• 9:07Speaker 03

  These are like the stories I would read when I was seventeen and on the B team of a travel team in New York City.

• 9:11Adam Friedland?

  What did you play? What position did you play? Wrong side?

• 9:15Speaker 03

  I played up top.

• 9:16Adam Friedland?

  Up top?

• 9:17Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 9:17Adam Friedland?

  You were nine?

• 9:19Speaker 03

  I think I was twenty-three.

• 9:20Adam Friedland?

  Okay, but you were a striker?

• 9:21Speaker 03

  Yes. It's no relation to the number on the back of my jersey.

• 9:24Adam Friedland?

  We have like a lot of our brain is occupied by the most useless information related to this, to this, to this soccer.

• 9:30Speaker 03

  Every day I wake up, I think about Sebastian Scalachi.

• 9:33Adam Friedland?

  Oh my god.

• 9:33Speaker 03

  Pascal Cigon.

• 9:34Adam Friedland?

  I think about.

• 9:35Speaker 03

  Marwan Shamak.

• 9:36Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, I, when I caught, I caught you, like, I'd be a little bit of a politician, because I said that Osbida was giving me nightmares and you're like, Jackson Heights is in the balance.

• 9:45Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's like, can you lay off my Colombian goalkeeper for a moment?

• 9:49Adam Friedland?

  No one cares. No one cares. We're embarrassing ourselves. Okay. Um, well, you grew, you grew up in the Upper West Side.

• 9:55Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 9:55Adam Friedland?

  New York City kid.

• 9:56Speaker 03

  Yep. Yes, sir.

• 9:57Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 9:58Speaker 03

  Where did you grow up?

• 9:59Adam Friedland?

  Well, we actually, we both lived a little bit, uh, as kids in Cape Town. Yeah.

• 10:03Speaker 03

  You lived in Cape Town?

• 10:04Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, wasn't it, what, where did you live? Observatory?

• 10:06Speaker 03

  I lived in Oranijzecht.

• 10:08Adam Friedland?

  That's where my mom grew up.

• 10:09Speaker 03

  From ninety-six to ninety-nine.

• 10:11Adam Friedland?

  That's, my, my mother grew up in Oranijzecht. Yeah, both my parents are from Cape Town.

• 10:16Speaker 03

  What?

• 10:16Adam Friedland?

  I, I was born in LA. My dad was on a list of some sort.

• 10:21Speaker 03

  You gotta give me more than that.

• 10:23Adam Friedland?

  My dad and mom both went to university in London.

• 10:25Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 10:26Adam Friedland?

  Were Jews from Cape Town.

• 10:27Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 10:27Adam Friedland?

  And then, uh, and then my, they, they met in, uh, South Africa. Uh, they met at home in Cape Town. They get, they kept getting set up on blind dates. And she was like, this fucking guy again. And then somehow he wore it down. And then, uh, she, they got married and then he got a letter to, that he was being sent to Angola, to the civil war. And so they left. They just, uh.

• 10:48Speaker 03

  What, when did they leave? What year?

• 10:49Adam Friedland?

  Eighty-two. So I was born in LA.

• 10:52Speaker 03

  Okay. And you've been to.

• 10:53Adam Friedland?

  My dad was on an enemies list of, because of, of the apartheid regime. And so I, I lived there when I was a kid. And then I was there back, my, my granny's from Seapoint. None of the grannies left. And, uh, actually, an interesting thing.

• 11:06Speaker 03

  Are they still there?

• 11:07Adam Friedland?

  Granny's still there, 94, she just got a hip. You wanna send her a video?

• 11:11Speaker 03

  Let's do it.

• 11:11Adam Friedland?

  Hi, hi Granny.

• 11:12Speaker 03

  Yeah. Congrats on the hip.

• 11:14Adam Friedland?

  Congrats on the hip, Esther, congrats on the hip. I promise, I'm, uh, I don't, um, I'm trying my best in life. No, she's very, she's very proud of me. I told her I have the mayor coming on. And, uh, no, no, so, yeah, my diva actually was, he was like, when I was a kid, I used to write my, like, essays, like, who's your hero on, uh,

• 11:33Speaker 03

  My diva?

• 11:34Adam Friedland?

  On my diva, cause like, it connected me to my parents. Cause like, it was like, you know, it's South African.

• 11:39Speaker 03

  That's amazing.

• 11:39Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, so, but he went to our synagogue after parts, after he got out of jail, he was elected. And he was like, you gotta tell your kids to come back, cause we need everyone to build a country. And like, my parents' whole generation would use.

• 11:52Speaker 03

  So why are you not following my diva right now?

• 11:54Adam Friedland?

  Uh, cause I had to talk to you. You know, and I got this studio, and it's fucking, like, it's a lot, it's a lot.

• 11:59Speaker 03

  You know, I, last time I went back was in 2010.

• 12:03Adam Friedland?

  2010.

• 12:04Speaker 03

  For the World Cup.

• 12:05Adam Friedland?

  Steve fucking, to the Jabalala. Was it, was it obnoxious?

• 12:08Speaker 03

  Vuvuzela.

• 12:09Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, could you not hear anything?

• 12:11Speaker 03

  You hate it if you're not the one doing it. And I was one of the people doing it.

• 12:14Adam Friedland?

  You got one?

• 12:15Speaker 03

  Yeah, I brought them back.

• 12:16Adam Friedland?

  You're fucking loud. I brought one back to college, yeah, yeah, to college.

• 12:19Speaker 03

  I went to a D3 basketball game, my roommate was on the basketball team.

• 12:22Adam Friedland?

  With a vuvuzela.

• 12:23Speaker 03

  And I had the vuvuzela, I think I was at Bates College, and I pulled it out and I blew it, and the ref stopped the game.

• 12:28Adam Friedland?

  Uh huh.

• 12:29Speaker 03

  You need to fucking stop.

• 12:30Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, and you, you're like, come on, didn't you see the World Cup? Didn't you see the ball that went in all different directions?

• 12:36Speaker 03

  But I was at the Ghana-Uruguay game.

• 12:38Adam Friedland?

  No.

• 12:39Speaker 03

  That's where I cried in public.

• 12:41Adam Friedland?

  No.

• 12:41Speaker 03

  Yeah, Luis Suarez.

• 12:44Adam Friedland?

  Asamoah Gyan. Dude, I can't, but, guys, this is like.

• 12:49Speaker 03

  It was the closest.

• 12:50Adam Friedland?

  The mayor caring about, caring about soccer is, the mayor caring about Arsenal is like Wakanda for me. It's like, I feel like, it's like representation.

• 12:59Speaker 03

  Do you remember that tweet?

• 13:00Adam Friedland?

  You're one of them, I remember your tweet.

• 13:02Speaker 03

  No, no, no, not, not the, what is it, Ruth Conda forever?

• 13:05Adam Friedland?

  Ruth, oh my god. Yeah, like when I met you, one thing that was like remarkable is like, um, we were talking, we were talking about soccer and hip-hop.

• 13:15Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 13:15Adam Friedland?

  And I was like, "We are losers." I was like, but I was like, "We're the same like..."

• 13:19Speaker 03

  Representation matters.

• 13:20Adam Friedland?

  "We're the same generation," right? It dawned on me that my entire life, uh, it's, this is kind of feels like the first time that someone from my generation has ascended to leadership. I guess Mayor Pete did, but he was more of a suck-up to the parents. You're more of one of us, I think. I don't know, he couldn't laugh at that, or he couldn't laugh at that? No, you're, are you mad at me? She gets mad at me. She yells at me, Olivia. Can you tell her a second? Um, anyway, uh, that's, uh, give it up for Olivia. I had a communication. Why is everyone so nervous?

• 13:50Speaker 03

  Well, that's, that's Monica.

• 13:51Adam Friedland?

  That's Amelia. Oh, Amelia, sorry.

• 13:53Speaker 03

  That's Amelia.

• 13:54Adam Friedland?

  Oh, sorry. Okay, cut that, okay. How are you, yeah, you're, you're, you're mayoring people older than you do. Are you getting unked?

• 14:02Speaker 03

  Okay, can you explain to me, what does unked stand for?

• 14:05Adam Friedland?

  Uncle.

• 14:07Speaker 03

  Someone told me it stood for uncool.

• 14:09Adam Friedland?

  No.

• 14:10Speaker 03

  It's uncle.

• 14:11Adam Friedland?

  It's uncle.

• 14:11Speaker 03

  All right.

• 14:12Adam Friedland?

  You have, uh, old heads, unks, and OGs.

• 14:15Speaker 03

  Just wanted to make sure.

• 14:15Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. You were, you were unknown, like, a year ago.

• 14:19Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean, I, even my friends didn't know what an assembly member was.

• 14:22Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. I don't, I still don't know, and I don't want to know, in fact. I mean, you're, you're perhaps one of the most famous people in, in America right now. I mean, it's weird.

• 14:30Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 14:31Adam Friedland?

  How have you adjusted to that?

• 14:34Speaker 03

  I think I try and spend as much time as possible with people I knew before.

• 14:38Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 14:38Speaker 03

  I was.

• 14:39Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. The day ones.

• 14:41Speaker 03

  The mayor-elect.

• 14:41Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 14:42Speaker 03

  And I think the nice thing about being an assembly member is I was still working in politics, but I was also walking around my neighborhood like anybody else.

• 14:48Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 14:48Speaker 03

  I mean, I, I went to...

• 14:50Adam Friedland?

  You went to the White House, okay?

• 14:51Speaker 03

  I went to the White House. I was gonna tell you, I went to Duane Reade. But both of them are true.

• 14:55Adam Friedland?

  Okay, let's start on the Duane Reade.

• 14:57Speaker 03

  Okay, start on the Duane Reade. We went in there, picked up something from the apartment.

• 15:00Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 15:01Speaker 03

  This guy in front of us has a pack of condoms and breath mints, and he turns around and he goes, "Mr. Mayor." And he looks at my wife, he goes, "Mrs. Mayor."

• 15:08Adam Friedland?

  Uh-huh.

• 15:09Speaker 03

  And that's our experience now at Duane Reade.

• 15:11Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, and...

• 15:11Speaker 03

  Best life in Astoria.

• 15:12Adam Friedland?

  Oh, the condoms had...

• 15:14Speaker 03

  I have, I don't know.

• 15:15Adam Friedland?

  He was like, "Mr. Mayor, I'm about to lose my virginity," yeah.

• 15:18Speaker 03

  He left it at that.

• 15:19Adam Friedland?

  "I would like you to know, I'm about to become a man."

• 15:22Speaker 03

  He just gave the titles.

• 15:23Adam Friedland?

  Um, what is, what does this last year feel like? And what has the adjustment been like? Like...

• 15:27Speaker 03

  I mean, it's, it's...

• 15:31Speaker 03

  To be honest with you, I haven't spent all that much time reflecting on it.

• 15:33Adam Friedland?

  You should.

• 15:34Speaker 03

  Because it's so go-go-go.

• 15:35Adam Friedland?

  You should just work a lot. Have you checked the Reddit?

• 15:38Speaker 03

  You sound like the inner voice.

• 15:39Adam Friedland?

  Is there a Zohran Mom Donnie Reddit?

• 15:41Speaker 03

  I don't know, is there?

• 15:42Adam Friedland?

  Probably, don't check it though.

• 15:43Speaker 03

  No.

• 15:43Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, just don't read the comments.

• 15:45Speaker 03

  No, I always forget to put the extra slash R when I'm like typing into the URL, so I don't even.

• 15:49Adam Friedland?

  What is it like, like you go to the White House, right? You take a selfie on a plane.

• 15:56Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 15:57Adam Friedland?

  No caption, that is like Drake vibes a little bit.

• 15:59Speaker 03

  Hit the emoji though.

• 16:00Adam Friedland?

  You hit the emoji.

• 16:03Speaker 03

  You know where I was going.

• 16:04Adam Friedland?

  What are you thinking, like you think, like what are you, what's the game plan there?

• 16:07Speaker 03

  Honestly, I knocked out on the plane.

• 16:08Adam Friedland?

  You slept.

• 16:09Speaker 03

  Slept.

• 16:09Adam Friedland?

  It's a 30 minute flight, I mean you looked like, you looked a little bit like. That was the joke on the internet, I don't know if I can make these jokes. You look a little bit like you took the, you hit nothing.

• 16:20Speaker 03

  You can say it.

• 16:21Adam Friedland?

  You look a little bit like you hit the edible before the flight.

• 16:23Speaker 03

  Why would you say that?

• 16:23Adam Friedland?

  You know it was 30 minutes, I'm sorry Mr. May.

• 16:25Speaker 03

  Why would you say that?

• 16:25Adam Friedland?

  I don't know, I apologize. You walk in, like, did he, he gave you a tour of the White House?

• 16:30Speaker 03

  He gave me a tour of...

• 16:31Adam Friedland?

  What was the weirdest thing he showed you?

• 16:32Speaker 03

  The Oval Office and the Cabinet Room.

• 16:37Adam Friedland?

  He had to have showed you something, one thing weird.

• 16:40Speaker 03

  I mean, he showed me the, he showed me the portraits of all the presidents in the Cabinet Room.

• 16:46Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, he saved the FDR for you.

• 16:49Speaker 03

  The FDR was beautiful.

• 16:50Adam Friedland?

  It was really nice.

• 16:51Speaker 03

  And we talked about FDR for a little bit. And honestly, you don't have, you don't have the LaGuardia record if you don't have FDR.

• 16:59Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 16:59Speaker 03

  But we talked about that.

• 17:03Speaker 03

  I walked in, first you get there and it's just you alone and there are two people like guiding you through to get to the Oval Office. And they're like, you know, they want you to see this room and that room.

• 17:17Speaker 03

  And then I sit down waiting to, for the time of the meeting. And in front of me are like all these different coffee table books, and one of them is UFC at the White House.

• 17:28Adam Friedland?

  Oh yeah, he's bringing it there, right?

• 17:29Speaker 03

  I had no idea, but I was.

• 17:31Adam Friedland?

  The rose.

• 17:31Speaker 03

  Flipping, flipping through that.

• 17:33Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, and so you saw like guys fighting each other?

• 17:36Speaker 03

  No, it was just a.

• 17:37Adam Friedland?

  What was it, US?

• 17:38Speaker 03

  Visualization.

• 17:39Adam Friedland?

  Oh, of the.

• 17:39Speaker 03

  Of like what the.

• 17:40Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, the octagon is.

• 17:42Speaker 03

  Yeah, it's gonna look like.

• 17:42Adam Friedland?

  Are you gonna go?

• 17:44Speaker 03

  No.

• 17:46Adam Friedland?

  Can I ask you a question, like how did you not laugh?

• 17:49Speaker 03

  When, the 1:35?

• 17:50Adam Friedland?

  How did you keep the face during the press conference? Because we were all dying. And I'm like, my boy Zohran was like, just straight face. He said, "Just tell him yes." Yeah, how did you keep that face?

• 18:04Speaker 03

  Honestly, I was just thinking about New York City.

• 18:06Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 18:07Speaker 03

  I mean, it's like, the whole time, I was trying to think about the difference between if you have a White House that is working towards an affordability agenda, or one that's making it harder to live in the city.

• 18:19Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 18:20Speaker 03

  That's kind of what kept.

• 18:22Adam Friedland?

  Do you feel like, do you feel like as if, you know, the president sees your popularity, you know? He loves the ratings, ton of reporters. He sees, I think handsome. I think he thought handsome. Did you ever, "Eyes up here, Mr. President"? You were elected because you were trusted on your policies for affordability. Do you think he's maybe a little bit trying to swaggerjack a little bit?

• 18:45Speaker 03

  You know, I actually think there's, there are a lot of places of disagreement with the president. I think one of the things that was remarkable to me is, I told him that, you know, our campaign started on October 23rd of last year. But the moment when a lot of people, or not a lot of people, some people started paying attention, was after he won the presidency. We did the video on Fordham Road, Hillside Avenue. We talked to Trump voters, and we asked them why they voted for him. And it just went back to cost of living, and it went back to cheaper groceries. And that was a lot of our campaign.

• 19:13Adam Friedland?

  And he liked that it was 1 in 10, right? That's like, he liked.

• 19:16Speaker 03

  Yeah, 1 in 10.

• 19:16Adam Friedland?

  He liked.

• 19:17Speaker 03

  And it was, I mean, did you see the guy who has the MAGA from Um Donnie hat?

• 19:20Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 19:20Speaker 03

  And then he did the...

• 19:21Adam Friedland?

  How'd that feel?

• 19:22Speaker 03

  The MAGA from Um Donnie hat?

• 19:22Adam Friedland?

  Kind of badass.

• 19:24Speaker 03

  It was wild. I remember we were gonna step, I was gonna step on, I sound like such a fossil, everything is we. I was going to step on the stage at Forest Hills where we were doing our rally.

• 19:32Adam Friedland?

  Did you think it was a prank?

• 19:33Speaker 03

  Well, I had a member of the NYPD pulled me aside, and they're like, "I just want you to know that there is a man in your line of sight with a red MAGA hat." We checked, and he's actually sincerely here for the rally.

• 19:43Adam Friedland?

  Oh, nice.

• 19:45Adam Friedland?

  So you really had to bring it. You had to do a Trump-style rally for him. You had to really do, you had to do YMCA. This guy's accustomed to some wild rallies. This guy's accustomed to a stadium full of...

• 19:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, it was just me and Al Visgar Church.

• 19:57Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 19:58Speaker 03

  And somebody from MTV Lebanon.

• 20:00Adam Friedland?

  Did you expect him to like you as much as he did?

• 20:03Speaker 03

  I...

• 20:05Speaker 03

  I was trying to prepare for a lot of different situations.

• 20:07Adam Friedland?

  I know. It's like when you're on that plane taking that selfie, I mean, that could have gone any, that could have gone in any direction. I mean, like, did that feel best-case scenario? Or like, were you like?

• 20:17Speaker 03

  It honestly felt like the most productive meeting we could have had.

• 20:20Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 20:21Speaker 03

  I mean, a meeting where we talked about U L R P, we talked about, you know, groceries, con ed, rent, childcare, that feels like the best meeting you could have had.

• 20:31Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. Were Eric or Donald Jr. there?

• 20:34Speaker 03

  No, no, it was.

• 20:35Adam Friedland?

  Did you worry that, like, to see that was maybe difficult for them?

• 20:40Speaker 03

  I wasn't thinking about that.

• 20:41Adam Friedland?

  Maybe it's like the hang has just been so bad. This cool guy came, and he's like, now I have to go back to these guys. Did he say, can you sleep over?

• 20:51Adam Friedland?

  Did he come up to New York and see you?

• 20:53Speaker 03

  He didn't, he didn't ask me that.

• 20:55Adam Friedland?

  Oh, man. I mean, it was one of the most surreal things we've ever seen as Americans.

• 20:59Speaker 03

  Robin Van Persie against Charlton, baby.

• 21:02Adam Friedland?

  What's the score?

• 21:03Speaker 06

  3-1.

• 21:04Speaker 03

  What?

• 21:04Adam Friedland?

  Fuck!

• 21:05Speaker 03

  Who scored?

• 21:06Speaker 06

  For Charleston, from halfway line.

• 21:07Adam Friedland?

  Oh, did he do the pigeon? From halfway line?

• 21:10Speaker 06

  No, dude, he was being weird about it.

• 21:12Speaker 03

  He scored from the halfway line?

• 21:13Speaker 06

  Yeah, he chipped right out.

• 21:14Adam Friedland?

  What, he off the, it was off his line?

• 21:16Speaker 06

  Yeah, it wasn't right, it's fault. It was honestly just a great play from him.

• 21:20Speaker 03

  Why would you say that?

• 21:22Speaker 06

  Because they're not a threat.

• 21:23Adam Friedland?

  They're not a threat.

• 21:24Speaker 03

  Famous last words. What's, what's this time?

• 21:26Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 21:26Speaker 06

  73rd.

• 21:27Adam Friedland?

  What time is it right now?

• 21:28Speaker 06

  74th minute.

• 21:31Adam Friedland?

  What time is it? 1:02.

• 21:33Speaker 03

  Did you watch the 4-4 Arsenal-Newcastle?

• 21:35Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, we talked about it. It was the worst day of my life. This is an interesting moment for us because we have like an opportunity to have like a snapshot of you after an historic election and prior to the assumption of your, of one of the most powerful positions in America.

• 21:52Speaker 03

  Co-host of the show.

• 21:53Adam Friedland?

  Co-host of the Adam Friedland Show.

• 21:54Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 21:54Adam Friedland?

  What made you run for mayor? Like, what made you decide to run for mayor?

• 21:58Speaker 03

  I think one of the things was that I was very frustrated with the fact that

• 22:08Speaker 03

  Eric Adams, who was at that point running for reelection, was making it more expensive to live in New York City in clear ways that he had direct control over, and then pretending like he was just a bystander. He would write a letter in support of Con Ed when they want to increase gas and electric by more than 60 bucks a month. He would raise the rent more than 12%. He would increase the water bill. He would...

• 22:33Adam Friedland?

  But like, the conditions for you, I mean?

• 22:35Speaker 03

  I mean, for me...

• 22:36Adam Friedland?

  You're like, "This is the time I'm gonna run for mayor."

• 22:38Speaker 03

  I think the thinking was that

• 22:43Speaker 03

  I wanted to make a case specific about cost of living. And there were a lot of people who looked at the swing of our politics and thought that the only way to beat someone heading towards the right is to head towards the right yourself.

• 22:58Adam Friedland?

  And you felt like you were gonna win?

• 23:00Speaker 03

  I felt like I had a 3% chance of winning. And that's probably giving me an extra 2 points.

• 23:04Adam Friedland?

  Was there someone that you spoke to who said, "Don't run"?

• 23:08Speaker 03

  Oh, tons.

• 23:09Adam Friedland?

  Tons. Did your girl say that?

• 23:11Speaker 03

  No, my wife.

• 23:12Adam Friedland?

  Your wife?

• 23:13Speaker 03

  Fuck, you gotta...

• 23:13Adam Friedland?

  I mean, she's still your girl. She's always gonna be your girl. Did your wife, she said, "Run"?

• 23:19Speaker 03

  She was down for it. That was the final decision that we had.

• 23:23Adam Friedland?

  You're allowed, yeah. Is she mad at you for working so much?

• 23:26Speaker 03

  No, she's lovely.

• 23:28Adam Friedland?

  She is a little bit.

• 23:29Speaker 03

  She what?

• 23:29Adam Friedland?

  Is she a little bit? She gets, no, but it's annoying for her, a little bit. She lets you work so much? Mine doesn't.

• 23:36Speaker 03

  This is all permission given.

• 23:37Adam Friedland?

  Mine doesn't.

• 23:37Speaker 03

  No, but I think, to be honest with you, it's

• 23:42Speaker 03

  to meet someone in one stage of your life, and then

• 23:47Speaker 03

  to have your life and their life transform,

• 23:51Speaker 03

  what it also, just like, the level of love and support it takes from someone. I mean, I would not be able to do this without her.

• 23:59Adam Friedland?

  She gets mad at you for working too much?

• 24:01Speaker 03

  That's not what I said.

• 24:02Adam Friedland?

  I feel it. I feel it. I looked into your eyes. I see a fellow brother. What was the moment you knew you'd win?

• 24:09Speaker 03

  For the primary?

• 24:10Adam Friedland?

  No, the primary and the general, I suppose.

• 24:13Speaker 03

  I got 2 questions? You know, there isn't like, a single moment.

• 24:19Speaker 03

  There is, the funny thing to me is that in both of the elections, from 6 to 9pm, I thought I was gonna lose. Of Election Day.

• 24:25Adam Friedland?

  Cause there was like bad, uh, like exit polling?

• 24:29Speaker 03

  In the general, there was a rumor at around 6 o'clock that there were two major news networks that had bad exit polls. And that showed Cuomo with an advantage.

• 24:36Adam Friedland?

  He started that rumor?

• 24:39Speaker 03

  I mean, definitely worked. Ruined my night. Ruined my night. Primary, I remember, um, Kevin, Kevin Elkins.

• 24:48Adam Friedland?

  How did you fall for that?

• 24:50Speaker 03

  I'm such a mark of this stuff. Kevin Elkins, who was working on Cuomo's campaign, put out a tweet like, I guess the most important thing is that everybody had fun. And I was like, oh man. This means they know they're gonna win. And he's saying that to us.

• 25:02Adam Friedland?

  He's in a room full of four guys at his, at his, at his election night party. You're in a stadium, you're in a stadium in front of a Dory fan. I think you should have looked around.

• 25:12Speaker 03

  Yeah, but never, I mean, this is like, you know, being an Arsenal fan.

• 25:15Adam Friedland?

  It's the hope that kills you.

• 25:16Speaker 03

  It's never done until.

• 25:18Adam Friedland?

  That is, that meant so much to me. I know exactly what you're talking about.

• 25:22Speaker 03

  You cannot count it.

• 25:22Adam Friedland?

  It's a reminder that you're gonna die one day. It's like, you think, you think that once, any, anytime you think something good is gonna happen, it just goes away.

• 25:30Speaker 03

  You have to hold your.

• 25:31Adam Friedland?

  I think it's made us better people, though.

• 25:33Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean, we've had to deal with disappointment for decades.

• 25:35Adam Friedland?

  I think if we were like Real Madrid fans, we'd be like cheating on our taxes, we'd be like, I'm gonna live forever. We'd have affairs, multiple families.

• 25:42Speaker 03

  Create a retractable roof.

• 25:43Adam Friedland?

  I think for us, we're like, we're like, uh, we're like, uh, it's gonna all go away, so I have to like, make, make, uh, take advantage of the time I have. It means nothing to these people. Okay.

• 25:53Speaker 03

  Wait, what's the, what's the?

• 25:55Adam Friedland?

  Let's fucking go. Sorry for Chrissy. 4-1?

• 25:59Speaker 03

  Sorry to me.

• 26:00Adam Friedland?

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• 28:25Adam Friedland?

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• 28:42Adam Friedland?

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• 29:23Adam Friedland?

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• 30:52Adam Friedland?

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• 31:08Adam Friedland?

  This has become a national news story, right? And it's a crappy time. You've made a lot of people feel inspired. Municipal politics is obviously messy. What balance in your team that you're building right now? Do you have between the guys that know just like the mud? And then the guys that have the vision?

• 31:29Speaker 03

  I think it's looking to combine that in everybody. And I think it's tough because sometimes the more fluency and experience you have in government, the less imagination you have as to what government can be. Because you've had to deal with its failures for decades.

• 31:42Adam Friedland?

  You've been in the cigar rooms.

• 31:44Speaker 03

  And I think we've made a few appointments so far. The first appointment to me, Dean Fulehan is the first deputy mayor. I appointed him and Elle Bysgar-Church is my chief of staff. Elle is somebody I've known since I've been in office. I hired her as my chief of staff when I was in the Assembly.

• 32:02Adam Friedland?

  She's been with you.

• 32:03Speaker 03

  From the jump, and she's incredible. And Dean is somebody who'd been in government for 47 years. And he'd worked as a first deputy mayor before. He'd worked as the head of the budget before. He worked in Albany. And the thing that I love about him is that he's worked through all of that. And still, his orientation is how do we make a no into a how? When it comes to any political problem. And that's, a lot of people lose that the longer they work in government.

• 32:27Adam Friedland?

  Do you remember the night Obama won? Do you remember what it felt like? Where like, America is different now. You feel like to me, the first generational talent that's come out of the progressive side of politics. But what we saw was like, he wasn't prepared. That the popularity didn't translate to legislative success. Did you take any notes from that? Did you learn from that? I mean, I'm trying to draw a parallel here.

• 32:52Speaker 03

  No, I think, look, I think the thing...

• 33:00Speaker 03

  The next challenge now is fulfilling the agenda.

• 33:02Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 33:03Speaker 03

  This excitement, inspiration, this hope, it will carry us through the beginning of the work, and then you have to start to deliver on the work. And I think that is, that is actually what makes me excited, is that I actually see a path on each of the three key agenda points. And every time you win one of them, it validates people for believing. Because there are a lot of people who, they don't know if they should give themselves permission to hope again because of how many times they've been disappointed. And you have to prove that they were right to believe. You have to give them, like, if we've spent an entire campaign talking about freezing the rent for rent, stabilized tenants, fast and free buses, universal childcare, the urgency of starting to deliver on that, it's what makes people

• 33:47Speaker 03

  understand that they were right to demand more.

• 33:49Adam Friedland?

  But is there a balance that you have to strike? Do you have to, like, those people that believe in you, do you feel like there's a necessity to kind of inoculate them to understand it's not going to be overnight, right?

• 33:59Speaker 03

  Yeah, and I think that's, you have to be honest about a timeline and that, you know, I'm not going to tell anyone in the first 100 days we're achieving these three things. But they have to be able to see that you are working towards it and that you can actually deliver it while you're the mayor. And that's, like, I've been a legislator and the legislature, it's an incredible place for where you can craft bill ideas, vote on them, debate on them. So much of whether or not they succeed has to do with whether the executive wants to implement them. You could pass it through both houses, and if you have a, you know, when I first came into Albany, Cuomo was the governor. And you knew that the implementation of the law, it could be completely different than what you intended. And now I will be the executive in New York City.

• 34:41Speaker 03

  And that's also what gives me so much hope is that you have the ability to follow through on so much of this. And we've been told again and again what politicians can't do, it's really what they won't do. And that's, that's why I'm here on the Adam Friedland Show.

• 34:58Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, thank you. There are plenty of ways they can fuck with you, right? Right? And it's not only City Hall, it's like, which is, but it's, you know, Albany, it's DC, and it's like, it's you going out to see the president, like, showing face and showing abs, maybe? I don't know what you did.

• 35:13Speaker 03

  I don't have zero abs.

• 35:14Adam Friedland?

  I don't know what you did in that room. Oh, yeah. Are there contingencies in place? You know? Are you prepared for the fight? Because they're gonna try to fuck with you.

• 35:21Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean, you have to be ready for it.

• 35:22Adam Friedland?

  You know it's the worst job that you have.

• 35:24Speaker 03

  I don't think, I don't think it's the worst job.

• 35:26Adam Friedland?

  Why do you, why are you doing this?

• 35:27Speaker 07

  Because you get to represent New York City.

• 35:29Adam Friedland?

  No, it's the worst job. You get booed everywhere you go.

• 35:31Speaker 03

  I mean, I used to get booed anyway.

• 35:33Adam Friedland?

  I saw De Blasio get booed at a Paul Simon concert.

• 35:36Speaker 03

  No.

• 35:37Adam Friedland?

  And it was like an NPR parent family, and they're like, they're like, "Oh, fuck yourself." I was like, "What? It's the mayor, he has to get booed." I mean, no, really, what it is...

• 35:45Speaker 03

  But like, that's also what I love about, like, to be a New Yorker, you're gonna hear a lot of people's opinions. Like, I went to the Wu-Tang concert a few months ago.

• 35:53Adam Friedland?

  And you got booed?

• 35:54Speaker 03

  Well, most of the reception is like, "Great." People are like cheering, waving, they want photos, and this one guy's like, "Yo, come take a photo with me." I'm like, "Yeah, what's up, dog?" And as soon as we take the photo, he pulls out the selfie, and then he just flips me off in the selfie.

• 36:05Adam Friedland?

  That's funny.

• 36:06Speaker 03

  And I'm like, "Respect."

• 36:07Adam Friedland?

  It's pretty funny. He's doing a bit, though, yeah. He likes you. I do that to my friends all the time.

• 36:11Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 36:12Adam Friedland?

  No, it's not that, it's, what it is, is that it's a slog.

• 36:15Speaker 03

  It is definitely a slog.

• 36:17Adam Friedland?

  You have to do it your way, I assume.

• 36:19Speaker 03

  I think, I think a big part of it is you have to, you have to keep yourself through it all. And you have to balance between the demands of what the city will require from you and how you don't lose yourself in the process of it. When I was, when I started in local politics, the first organization that I joined was the Muslim Democratic Club of New York. And one of the founders, her name is Aliya Latif, she gave me this advice of, whatever you do, make sure you can recognize yourself in the mirror at the end of the day.

• 36:47Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 36:48Speaker 03

  I think that's a big part of how I'm thinking about this, that work as hard as I can, and do so to fulfill the vision we've had, not to comport yourself for a box that's being created.

• 36:58Adam Friedland?

  I met Lena Khan, she was on the show.

• 37:00Speaker 03

  She's great.

• 37:01Speaker 06

  Real quick, just a four-minute warning.

• 37:02Adam Friedland?

  Four-minute warning.

• 37:03Speaker 03

  And, um... Can we get a score update?

• 37:05Speaker 06

  4-1. It's domination.

• 37:09Adam Friedland?

  It's domination.

• 37:12Speaker 03

  Do you ever watch the Fox Soccer Channel commercials?

• 37:15Adam Friedland?

  No.

• 37:16Speaker 03

  This is, they used to have the EPL.

• 37:17Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 37:18Speaker 03

  It'd just be like, long commercials of Drogba.

• 37:21Adam Friedland?

  Oh my, don't.

• 37:22Speaker 03

  Just descriptions of, "Planet of a Man, Didier Drogba."

• 37:26Adam Friedland?

  That's the nightmares we have.

• 37:27Speaker 03

  The nightmare I have is Didier Drogba bullying.

• 37:29Adam Friedland?

  You made Senderos cry.

• 37:30Speaker 03

  Michael Essien's goal.

• 37:32Adam Friedland?

  I guess, yeah. I met Lina Khan, she was on the show. And like, she's perhaps one of the most impressive people I've ever met. And when I heard she was part of the transition team, I was like, oh, he's got like, he's got it. I mean, genuinely, I mean, I asked her if she's ever lied, and she said, "Well, maybe in elementary school." And I don't think, I think that was true. I mean, like, I think it was true. And what was really effective was that she communicated antitrust laws in like, this complex stuff in a very clear and concise way.

• 38:03Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 38:04Adam Friedland?

  Sometimes progressives feel like snobs when they're talking to people.

• 38:08Speaker 03

  I remember, I mean, when I was running for state assembly, we put together our first palm card.

• 38:14Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 38:14Speaker 03

  And I thought it was absolutely fire.

• 38:16Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 38:17Speaker 03

  And I remember giving it to a friend of mine, Karen McCurdy, who is a great photographer. And she read it, and she was like, "What do these words mean?"

• 38:24Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 38:25Speaker 03

  Because so much of the time, it feels like we're just speaking to ourselves.

• 38:28Adam Friedland?

  I mean, I think that's one thing that is gonna be important, is like, just communicating not above people's heads.

• 38:33Speaker 03

  Just actually speaking with them.

• 38:34Adam Friedland?

  With people.

• 38:35Speaker 03

  And I think that's the, it's, the point is to bring people in to politics.

• 38:43Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 38:43Speaker 03

  Not to condescend to them as to why they're not already there.

• 38:47Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 38:47Speaker 03

  And it's also just much easier being yourself.

• 38:51Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 38:51Speaker 03

  When you're speaking to people and...

• 38:54Adam Friedland?

  You're gonna get old, you think? Your face?

• 38:56Speaker 03

  Brother.

• 38:57Adam Friedland?

  You see them always, yeah. You're going bald already?

• 38:59Speaker 03

  What do you mean already? I've been going bald.

• 39:01Adam Friedland?

  What are you doing for it?

• 39:02Speaker 03

  I'm just, I worry.

• 39:03Adam Friedland?

  No.

• 39:04Speaker 03

  Did you do anything? Did you do like, monoxyl?

• 39:06Adam Friedland?

  We could go to Turkey.

• 39:07Speaker 03

  I, that's one place I'm not going.

• 39:09Adam Friedland?

  I'll go rhinoplasty, you go here. Oh, you can't go. Yeah, yeah.

• 39:13Speaker 03

  You look great.

• 39:14Adam Friedland?

  Okay, last, last question.

• 39:16Speaker 03

  Just gonna say that.

• 39:17Adam Friedland?

  When I saw Lena, when I spoke to Lena, she said one thing that stuck with me.

• 39:21Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 39:21Adam Friedland?

  And I said, like, the most powerful companies in the world, the most powerful people in the world, like, are pissed at you. She had, like, hundreds of op-eds in newspapers. No one knew what the fuck the FTC was. And her response to me was very impressive. It was like, she said, like, I said, "Did you ever clap back or anything?" She looked, like, confused, and she was like, "No, I just have to, like, I don't know, like, win the lawsuit."

• 39:44Speaker 03

  Let the work speak for itself.

• 39:45Adam Friedland?

  If you're getting pummeled in the press, like, how are you gonna keep your horse platters on and just focus on the agenda? You know?

• 39:52Speaker 03

  I think you, you have to both be responsive, but I think she's right. Which, she's, there's two things she said about that experience that have really stayed with me. The first is that you always have to remember that the opinions that you're hearing, that especially from the wealthy and the powerful, they will always be amplified in a way that working peoples are not.

• 40:13Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 40:14Speaker 03

  And if you remember that context, you take that seriously, and you also don't think of it as surround sound in the way that it feels.

• 40:19Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 40:20Speaker 03

  And part of that means getting out of the office, getting actually into New York City.

• 40:23Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 40:24Speaker 03

  Speaking to people, asking them what they're thinking about, what they're worried about. And then the other thing is that every time you win in your agenda, it proves that people are right to believe in that agenda in the first place.

• 40:35Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 40:36Speaker 03

  You have to both be able to respond to this and never let it distract you from the work that you're supposed to be doing. Because if she wins that lawsuit, then that's the proof. And if we deliver on this agenda, that's the proof. And I mean, Bernie talks about the thing that people are afraid of is that the power of example.

• 40:53Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 40:54Speaker 03

  That's what people are fearing. Not that we won't get it done, but that we will.

• 40:57Adam Friedland?

  Can you, like, can you get him, can you text him?

• 41:00Speaker 03

  I don't have my phone's on.

• 41:01Adam Friedland?

  You have his number, though? You should.

• 41:05Adam Friedland?

  Oh, shit. I got...

• 41:08Adam Friedland?

  No, no, I got a text. Oh, shit.

• 41:12Speaker 03

  I gotta give it a second time?

• 41:16Speaker 03

  You're my friend.

• 41:18Adam Friedland?

  Shit.

• 41:19Speaker 03

  Just in right again? Yes, Zohran. No! No! And the tash, but, um... Hold on.

• 41:28Adam Friedland?

  Look how handsome.

• 41:29Speaker 03

  I gotta go for the beginning.

• 41:30Adam Friedland?

  Look how handsome, dude.

• 41:31Speaker 03

  Yes, Zohran, how are you, my friend? We gotta go back to you, though. I don't know if you recognize me with this badge and this hair and the tash, but, um...

• 41:39Adam Friedland?

  We love him.

• 41:40Speaker 06

  told me that you guys were gonna watch the derby together.

• 41:43Adam Friedland?

  We're now, you know, you made me miss the derby.

• 41:44Speaker 06

  Before, after halftime, but I'm sure that we're winning somehow. Um, also, I wanted to say that I always have this theory that um, being an Arsenal fan is heavily linked with being a fucking cool person. That my theory is really truly standing uh, right now.

• 42:06Adam Friedland?

  I, I, dude.

• 42:07Speaker 06

  Huge congratulations.

• 42:08Adam Friedland?

  It's like when Aiden Ross gave Trump a Tesla. I, I, I just love you.

• 42:13Speaker 06

  Even here in Spain, we feel the energy of what's happened. Uh, it's truly needed.

• 42:19Adam Friedland?

  I love him so much too. He was rapping.

• 42:22Speaker 06

  Needs right now, what the world needs right now, and man, just sending you lots of love and respect from here, from Spain. From a big Arsenal fan and former Arsenal player, to a massive Arsenal fan as well, to you, Adam, as well. Uh, sending you lots of love, big hug, and hope to see you guys soon. Enjoy the game.

• 42:44Speaker 06

  Yes, Laura.

• 42:46Adam Friedland?

  I'll send these to you.

• 42:47Speaker 03

  Oh my god.

• 42:48Adam Friedland?

  I'll text these to you. I, I DM'd everyone. I DM'd everyone. He's our era too.

• 42:55Speaker 03

  He's our era? He's a style icon? He's incredible?

• 43:00Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 43:03Adam Friedland?

  I can't believe I did that. I feel like Oprah right now. You got a car. I'll text these to you.

• 43:09Speaker 03

  Hector, I love you.

• 43:11Adam Friedland?

  Go ahead.

• 43:51Adam Friedland?

  What's the score? 3-1. Fuck!

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