The Adam Friedland Show - Julian Casablancas Ft The Black Keys - The Lost Episodes

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• 0:05Adam Friedland?

  We're back again, guys, with the lost episode series. Adam Friedland here at the Adam Friedland's Corporate HQ here in Manhattan, New York. We're hard at work on some shit. I know I keep saying that. What does it sound like, guys, when I say that kind of thing?

• 0:21Speaker 01

  Exciting.

• 0:22Adam Friedland?

  I'm pretty excited about what's to come. Here is the second installment of our lost episode series. The guest this time was Julian Casablanca, who... Let's be real, folks. I'm gonna be candid, okay? When I was in high school and I was reading Spin magazine, I would see pictures of this gentleman who was on the show that you're about to see, and I don't know if he was gay, but I just wanted to know him. I thought New York City was a place where it was nighttime 24 hours a day and everyone was the Strokes. I thought it was that and I thought it was like Seinfeld.

• 1:06Adam Friedland?

  I thought it was a place where Jewish men, Jewish gargoyles, can date elevens and/or you could be the Strokes, okay? And I was like, either way, that's the city I want to part of one day when I'm a 37-year-old... It wasn't a gay thought. I never had gay thoughts about this guy. I just thought I wanted to be like him. I just wanted to know him. That album, the first album, you guys remember?

• 1:35Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 1:36Adam Friedland?

  What was your favorite song, Thomas?

• 1:38Speaker 01

  I don't remember. It was so good.

• 1:41Adam Friedland?

  What a shit answer. I'm with my staff right now, my troops, as I call them. I've installed one of those buttons under my desk that Matt Lauer had that locks the door. Ah, no. Yeah, it's just me here still. I really do think now I can do this. I can do this, guys. This is an episode that was recorded, what, 27 years ago with Julian Casablanca. There are a couple of fun complications that you will...

• 2:15Adam Friedland?

  Guys, this is the second episode.

• 2:19Speaker 01

  First episode of Luca as a Laker.

• 2:21Adam Friedland?

  What?

• 2:23Adam Friedland?

  Okay, enough ad-libbing on the other side of the camera.

• 2:27Adam Friedland?

  Oh, okay, yeah. Here's the other thing. This one, we actually shot an intro sketch for. Which, uh, so this was never aired, but this is another sketch. Kind of a problem that Nick and I kept running into was the sketch. The sketches that we wrote continuously were the same thing where it's like, "Well, we don't have anything for the intro this week."

• 2:49Adam Friedland?

  So this fell in line with that. You know, we weren't necessarily in love with this. These are lost episodes, guys. Make of them what you will. I actually think this intro is really funny. I had to watch it in about a year and a half, but I think it is pretty funny. So first, we're gonna show you the intro, then we'll be back with a word from our sponsors. And then, please, ladies and gentlemen, enjoy our interview with Julie and Cas Blancas.

• 3:15Speaker 02

  Did you see 12 Years a Slave?

• 3:18Speaker 02

  No, you didn't? It's a very tragic movie, but it came out like 10 years ago. And I haven't seen it, I haven't seen it since it came out in theaters. And not being able to emotionally connect with the memory of seeing the movie, it is kind of very funny, as a premise.

• 3:33Speaker 02

  Go on. Well, just thinking. What the hell were you thinking? He's like a doctor or something, he's a biologist. Doing an interview behind my back. He just gets kidnapped? I'm sorry. You're sorry?

• 3:45Speaker 02

  Sorry isn't gonna cut it. You're gonna have to pay for this.

• 3:50Speaker 02

  I've decided I want more of the money. But you're already taking 95% of the money. Well, I've decided it should be 100%. Yeah, but what about the work that I do? The work you do? Your job is to come up with a monologue and write shitty sketches? And this is what you've done to me? That's maybe the movie I wanted to see. It's a modern day Martin Lawrence. Being kidnapped by, by, by slave catchers that have a time machine, something?

• 4:16Adam Friedland?

  You know, I don't know what's worse, the idea that you could just bullshit your end of the bargain, or, or...

• 4:23Adam Friedland?

  Or this attempt to replace me.

• 4:25Speaker 02

  I wasn't trying to replace you.

• 4:27Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, well, you couldn't. I could very well be the greatest interviewer of all time. You remember, this is The Adam Friedland Show. It's not The Adam and Nick Show, and it's certainly not Come Town.

• 4:36Speaker 02

  Yeah, I've been trying to write monologue stuff.

• 4:38Adam Friedland?

  Write me a goddamn monologue!

• 4:40Speaker 02

  It's just that the, the news isn't funny.

• 4:43Adam Friedland?

  It's been over a year since you've written anything. There must be something.

• 4:47Speaker 02

  I look and I look and I look.

• 4:48Adam Friedland?

  Well, fucking look harder!

• 4:50Speaker 02

  Okay, alright. Okay.

• 4:57Speaker 02

  See, monologue. Monologue jokes, newyorktimes.com.

• 5:05Speaker 02

  What do we got? Supreme Court, Trump.

• 5:10Speaker 02

  None of this shit is fucking funny. God damn it, I just wish we lived in a fucking funnier world.

• 5:21Speaker 02

  Come on.

• 5:26Speaker 02

  Alright, wait a minute.

• 5:32Speaker 02

  He shit his pants?

• 5:37Adam Friedland?

  Thank you, thank you. And, switching over to entertainment news, fat actor John Goodman has shit himself on the set of his new film. Yeah, I heard it's actually a sequel to The Flintstones, which would explain the yabba dabba doo-doo he took in his pants.

• 5:56Adam Friedland?

  Alright. In the sports world, a local neo-Nazi has been waiting outside of Citi Field telling passersby that he could not be more excited for the upcoming baseball season. Yeah, I guess it must be springtime for Hitler. Thanks, thank you. And lastly, a man has died while on vacation in Saigon after being kicked in the back of the head by a horse. Gee, it sounds like that Charlie horse is a real pain in the neck.

• 6:31Adam Friedland?

  Alright, we're just having fun. Thank you guys, okay? We got a great show for you today. We'll be right back with Julian Casablancas, who's excited!

• 6:41Adam Friedland?

  Thank you! Thanks a lot, guys.

• 6:48Adam Friedland?

  That was great. Where'd you get these stories?

• 6:52Speaker 02

  Um, no, it was all front page in New York Times.

• 6:55Adam Friedland?

  What? No! No!

• 6:57Speaker 02

  Yeah, I guess, uh, like, lucky break.

• 7:00Adam Friedland?

  Wait, this is insane. Oprah's tits exploded?

• 7:05Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 7:09Adam Friedland?

  Hopefully the news stays like this. What? What's wrong? Why do you look like... Come on, why are you so concerned, man?

• 7:16Speaker 02

  I don't know, I mean, it just, it feels bizarre. I mean, it's like, somebody's changing reality to make the world funnier, just to make the monologue good.

• 7:25Adam Friedland?

  Well, maybe it's God. I mean, maybe someone up there recognizes that we're working really hard over here, that we deserve this.

• 7:34Speaker 02

  Yeah, see, but that's the thing, is that we're not good people, and we're lazy, and we're untalented.

• 7:40Adam Friedland?

  Well, whoever's watching and helping us out, thank you.

• 7:49Adam Friedland?

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• 8:30Adam Friedland?

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• 9:34Adam Friedland?

  Our next guest is a legendary American musician. Everyone, please welcome Julian Casablancas. Let's get some energy. You guys are our audience.

• 9:46Speaker 04

  Welcome, sir.

• 9:49Adam Friedland?

  How you doing?

• 9:49Speaker 04

  Pretty good.

• 9:51Adam Friedland?

  Do you think this whole, like, the set and my suit and everything, you think it's like Strokes vibes?

• 9:57Speaker 04

  Kind of, now that you mention it, yeah.

• 9:59Adam Friedland?

  Hell, yeah. It's pretty cool, man.

• 10:02Speaker 04

  That's, yeah, it's glad I was a positive influence, maybe.

• 10:07Adam Friedland?

  I remember I'd go to Borders Bookstore with my grandma and look at Spin Magazine and just see pictures of y'all, boys, and be like, "I just can't wait to get pussy one day." These guys at the Coop. So, first question, have you ever gotten pussy before?

• 10:26Adam Friedland?

  It's so embarrassing. I just wanted to be you.

• 10:29Speaker 04

  No, no, no. Oh, shit. Wow.

• 10:34Adam Friedland?

  What's it like?

• 10:36Speaker 04

  Look at this meticulous preparation.

• 10:38Adam Friedland?

  Don't read it, dude. It's embarrassing.

• 10:41Speaker 04

  Damn.

• 10:43Adam Friedland?

  You ever, um...

• 10:44Speaker 04

  Serial killer preparation.

• 10:46Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, I was like...

• 10:47Speaker 04

  His penis, 14 inches.

• 10:50Adam Friedland?

  Six foot two.

• 10:55Adam Friedland?

  What's it like? Okay, so...

• 10:59Adam Friedland?

  What is that? What are you reading? It's just excerpts from other interviews.

• 11:04Adam Friedland?

  Ugh, I don't care.

• 11:05Speaker 04

  I didn't even know what it was.

• 11:07Adam Friedland?

  Um...

• 11:07Speaker 04

  Need a cigarette though, this is a cool ashtray.

• 11:09Adam Friedland?

  I remember when the band, like, first came out, there was like this legend about boarding school, like, New York City, blue-blood kinda lads. But you met them in New York, right?

• 11:21Speaker 04

  Yeah, Nikolai I was friends with since we were kids. I think one, I got sent to boarding school when I was kind of like, a fuck up.

• 11:29Adam Friedland?

  Where is it, Switzerland?

• 11:30Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 11:32Adam Friedland?

  Were there like war criminals kids at that school?

• 11:35Speaker 04

  Probably. I mean, I was, you know, I think I was the only kid there without a trust fund, probably. It was like, it was wild. But I wasn't friends with him, but at the time Albert had also gone there for like, six months.

• 11:48Adam Friedland?

  Did Kim Jong-un go to that boarding school?

• 11:51Speaker 04

  I don't think so.

• 11:52Adam Friedland?

  Cause I think he went to Switzerland. I think the old man sent him off to probably your school, you probably roommates, no?

• 11:58Speaker 04

  Oh my god, no, I had, no, I had a Korean roommate, but no, it wasn't him.

• 12:02Adam Friedland?

  It's probably him.

• 12:03Speaker 04

  He listened to End of the Road like, a thousand, five hundred times.

• 12:07Adam Friedland?

  You hated that?

• 12:08Speaker 04

  Oh yeah.

• 12:09Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 12:10Speaker 04

  That song, yeah.

• 12:11Adam Friedland?

  Apparently Kim Jong-un got addicted to Emmentaler cheese when he was in Switzerland. And he'd have it like sent to North Korea. And he got, ate so much cheese, it almost killed him. He got gout.

• 12:24Speaker 04

  Oh wow.

• 12:25Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. Right, like...

• 12:29Adam Friedland?

  So I was like in adolescence when, you know, your first two albums came out, right? I was like a little boy. But like, your contemporaries in that era, it was corn, you know? Or like, Limp Bizkit. Were you at the Grammys with those freaks?

• 12:45Speaker 04

  We were at something where we lost...

• 12:47Adam Friedland?

  Who'd you lose to? Corn? The better man won, let's be honest.

• 12:52Speaker 04

  No, it wasn't corn. I would have bowed down. I mean, I, you know, I don't know.

• 12:57Adam Friedland?

  You like corn?

• 12:59Speaker 04

  I wanted to love. I loved a lot about it, but maybe musically sometimes I had problems with it. You know what I mean? I wanted like something.

• 13:08Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, because it sounds like shit.

• 13:09Speaker 04

  Hard.

• 13:10Adam Friedland?

  I like that one song that's like.

• 13:13Adam Friedland?

  You know that one? The corn? Freak, freak on the, oh, wah ah ah ah is good.

• 13:18Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 13:18Adam Friedland?

  Whenever I hear that music, I think of a guy in Afghanistan. Like.

• 13:24Speaker 04

  Sure.

• 13:24Adam Friedland?

  During the war, you know, it's post nine eleven. He's listening to, there is that clip of that guy being like, I listen to Let the Bodies Hit the Floor while I'm in Kabul. Kind of a nightmare, no?

• 13:37Speaker 04

  What, the war or the music?

• 13:40Adam Friedland?

  The juxtaposition.

• 13:43Speaker 04

  The juxtaposition makes sense to me.

• 13:46Adam Friedland?

  Because lads like me were listening.

• 13:48Speaker 04

  Like upset, you know, sometimes you just want.

• 13:51Adam Friedland?

  So you're pro-Iraq war?

• 13:56Speaker 04

  Defending freedom at all costs. No, um.

• 14:00Adam Friedland?

  That was a crap war, in my opinion.

• 14:03Speaker 04

  Okay, that's not a controversial.

• 14:07Adam Friedland?

  I just want to make it clear, Colin Powell shouldn't have lied to the UN.

• 14:10Speaker 04

  He said that in.

• 14:11Adam Friedland?

  A lot of people aren't willing to say this, but they, you know, where were the weapons of mass destruction?

• 14:15Speaker 04

  I mean, if you said that in two thousand and three, you'd get like fired from the New York Times and stuff. But now it's fine.

• 14:23Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, now they're defending other.

• 14:25Speaker 04

  There's a new lie to defend.

• 14:26Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's your favorite war?

• 14:29Speaker 04

  My favorite?

• 14:30Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 14:34Speaker 04

  My favorite war, I think World War Two.

• 14:38Adam Friedland?

  Fire.

• 14:40Speaker 04

  Is, not like the study of it, but yeah, just, at least from the American perspective, it was like, you know, we tried to stay out of it and then.

• 14:49Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 14:50Speaker 04

  Eventually, I feel like people thought, you know, the world was going to be taken over by the Nazis or, you know, America, California was going to be invaded by Japan. So that was at least understandable.

• 15:02Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 15:03Speaker 04

  And then, of course, it built a war machine that.

• 15:05Adam Friedland?

  US Civil.

• 15:09Adam Friedland?

  So sick.

• 15:13Adam Friedland?

  What side would you have been on?

• 15:18Adam Friedland?

  You're a pretty progressive guy in politics.

• 15:21Speaker 04

  I mean, I would like to pretend to care about the truth. I don't know, whatever that means.

• 15:31Adam Friedland?

  But you're pretending. You don't care?

• 15:33Speaker 04

  No, no, no. I just...

• 15:34Adam Friedland?

  You're a nihilist?

• 15:35Speaker 04

  I don't want to sound arrogant. But yeah, truth is important and I think rarely kind of in the lens, in the mainstream view.

• 15:46Adam Friedland?

  When you guys played that thing for Bernie, did you meet him? You met the man?

• 15:49Speaker 04

  Briefly. He was pretty, didn't seem like he really knew or cared, which is fine.

• 15:56Adam Friedland?

  What do you think he listens to?

• 15:58Speaker 04

  Whoa.

• 15:59Adam Friedland?

  Wooly Bully, probably.

• 16:01Speaker 04

  He seems, he seems like the kind of guy who doesn't listen to music.

• 16:06Adam Friedland?

  It's too much noise. What's this noise with the, I don't know.

• 16:12Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 16:12Adam Friedland?

  No, he probably likes like, he went to college in the 60s? He probably likes like just finger popping style doo-wop. No?

• 16:23Speaker 04

  Finger popping?

• 16:23Adam Friedland?

  Sorry, you know, like you go to Lover's Lane and try to finger pop to it.

• 16:27Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah, no, I don't know. Still what you're saying.

• 16:33Adam Friedland?

  And then he kissed me.

• 16:35Speaker 04

  Fingering music, I don't know what that is.

• 16:37Adam Friedland?

  I think pops in the stroke.

• 16:39Speaker 04

  Finger pop?

• 16:40Adam Friedland?

  Jewish summer camp.

• 16:41Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 16:43Adam Friedland?

  Well, it's better than let the bodies hit the floor in Afghanistan.

• 16:47Speaker 04

  Is it?

• 16:47Adam Friedland?

  Yes. Yes, that's love.

• 16:50Speaker 04

  That's arguable.

• 16:51Adam Friedland?

  Between two ugly teenagers, that's love.

• 16:54Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 16:54Adam Friedland?

  It's arguable. What are you talking about? Clearing out a village in fucking Tora Bora or whatever?

• 17:00Speaker 04

  One made me nauseous and one didn't.

• 17:03Adam Friedland?

  When'd you swipe your V? Like 12, probably.

• 17:07Adam Friedland?

  You're probably one of those cool NYC kids.

• 17:09Speaker 04

  No, no, no.

• 17:10Adam Friedland?

  You guys grow up quick, you know?

• 17:13Speaker 04

  I was a late bloomer, I think.

• 17:15Adam Friedland?

  Everyone I know that grows up in the city is like, oh, I had my coke phase at 11, I'm over it.

• 17:21Speaker 04

  No, no, it was later.

• 17:23Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, me too. You liked punk as a kid?

• 17:27Speaker 04

  I mean, sure, still.

• 17:29Adam Friedland?

  Still? What's your favorite?

• 17:32Speaker 04

  My favorite punk band?

• 17:38Speaker 04

  I mean, that's, uh, like, uh, I mean...

• 17:43Adam Friedland?

  TV party tonight. We're gonna have a TV party. Alright.

• 17:49Speaker 04

  Yeah, I think, uh, probably, I would say, I mean, in a way... Oh, man, just the evolution to punk is actually pretty strange.

• 17:59Adam Friedland?

  Yoko.

• 18:00Speaker 04

  Yeah, Yoko.

• 18:01Adam Friedland?

  She kind of invented low-key. She's kind of the first punk, no?

• 18:05Speaker 04

  I don't know about that, man.

• 18:07Adam Friedland?

  Why not?

• 18:08Speaker 04

  I can't with Yoko.

• 18:10Adam Friedland?

  You don't like her?

• 18:13Adam Friedland?

  Kind of that, when she was going, "Ah, ah, ah, ah."

• 18:16Speaker 04

  Exactly, yeah, that's a problem.

• 18:18Adam Friedland?

  That's kind of bad attitude punk style, no?

• 18:20Speaker 04

  Okay, maybe.

• 18:21Adam Friedland?

  "Ah, ah, ah, ah."

• 18:23Speaker 04

  Yeah, my favorite punk artist, Yoko.

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• 20:19Speaker 04

  I think a lot of people used to think that we were trying to do 70's punk, but I think it was just a coincidence that like 70's bands and me were trying to copy Velvet Underground.

• 20:34Adam Friedland?

  You were a Velvet's kid? That was your band?

• 20:37Speaker 04

  That was maybe, well, that was probably one of the first bands that I kinda got into.

• 20:40Adam Friedland?

  Really? Did you meet Lou?

• 20:42Speaker 04

  I did, yeah.

• 20:43Adam Friedland?

  Did he say you were cool?

• 20:44Speaker 04

  It's funny, because I met him before we were, you know, did anything and and I, there was a book signing and we met him and he was super kinda weird and cryptic and cool, I thought. And then we met him years later, we did like an interview thing, we did a song with him, we did like Walk on the Wild Side and stuff.

• 21:04Speaker 04

  Yeah, he said, he was nice.

• 21:06Adam Friedland?

  There's a bad word in that song.

• 21:08Speaker 04

  There's a what?

• 21:08Adam Friedland?

  There's a bad word.

• 21:11Speaker 04

  The Colored Girls? It's funny that you bring that up, because, well, it's funny because, okay, so we were doing the song and then he was like, oh, he like didn't say it and I was like, no one cares, it's fine. It was, you know, this is before Trump, I guess, you know what I mean, it was kinda...

• 21:27Adam Friedland?

  It was when it was cool.

• 21:28Speaker 04

  It was just, no, it was just not like, I think we've kinda gone back on the sensitivity meter.

• 21:35Adam Friedland?

  Sure, there was like a moral crisis.

• 21:36Speaker 04

  There was just a time when, no, I was just like, it's fine, it's like, who cares, it's a legendary song, like, no one cares. And he was just like, I think I said it when we did it or something. And then years, fast forward a years later, they asked me to do this thing with like Q-tip and they literally had like black vocalists doing the background for Wild Side.

• 21:56Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 21:57Speaker 04

  And so I had to kinda like face the music thing, I was like, uh, do you guys, like, should I not say this line?

• 22:04Adam Friedland?

  And you learned an important lesson that day.

• 22:06Speaker 04

  They said, no, definitely sing it.

• 22:08Adam Friedland?

  Nice.

• 22:09Adam Friedland?

  Nice brother. So you got the pass?

• 22:12Speaker 04

  I mean, they, I don't know, I was just, I was definitely like, it was like a pretty much like, majority black audience too, so it was like, I was like, they, they told me to do it.

• 22:22Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 22:23Speaker 04

  Lou Reed song, "I'm just hired to..."

• 22:25Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, I didn't write this crap. Have you blown it with like a hero? Have you like met a big one and just like, thought like, thought of like, this line is gonna be fire, I'm gonna say this to him?

• 22:35Speaker 04

  A little bit, maybe, almost.

• 22:37Adam Friedland?

  Who'd you blow at the worst?

• 22:38Speaker 04

  I kind of, Eddie Vedder, I think, it's just, I was like, too much of a fan. I think maybe I've made it up and we're okay again. I like, practiced being cool the next three times we met.

• 22:48Adam Friedland?

  Dude, it's, it's so embarrassing when you meet a guy like that. Kinda like right now. Anyone else you blew with, epically?

• 22:59Speaker 04

  Kate Moss, Rivers Cuomo.

• 23:03Adam Friedland?

  Did you meet Bowie?

• 23:05Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 23:06Adam Friedland?

  Was he the best?

• 23:06Speaker 04

  Oh, I kind of embarrassed myself in front of him too.

• 23:08Adam Friedland?

  What?

• 23:09Speaker 04

  Well, I had like a dumb theory and I was...

• 23:12Adam Friedland?

  What'd you say?

• 23:13Speaker 04

  Punk kid and I was probably drunk, I don't know. I asked him if Velvet Goldmine was like about anal sex.

• 23:22Adam Friedland?

  And you bombed?

• 23:24Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 23:24Adam Friedland?

  And he was probably so polite, he was probably so polite about it, he was such a gentleman.

• 23:28Speaker 04

  He's like, "Uh, no, it was about the London Underground."

• 23:31Adam Friedland?

  Before we were doing the interview, you were saying how you have zero respect for the, for Great Britain.

• 23:37Speaker 04

  I did not say...

• 23:39Adam Friedland?

  You did, and you said you were glad Queen Elizabeth passed.

• 23:45Speaker 04

  Oh my god.

• 23:47Adam Friedland?

  Does it bother you?

• 23:47Speaker 04

  You said, "I love England," and you were like, "Don't you?"

• 23:51Adam Friedland?

  Does it bother you that they sing in an American accent? Why'd they be doing that? They're all like singing American style. Yeah, step off, Adele.

• 24:04Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 24:05Adam Friedland?

  Did you ever meet Susan Boyle?

• 24:09Adam Friedland?

  What?

• 24:12Speaker 04

  No.

• 24:13Adam Friedland?

  I watch that video when I wanna cry. She like goes out on that stage and everyone's like, "Ha, ha, ha." "Look how nasty this lady is." And they're like, "What do you wanna do?" She's like, "I want to be a singer." And they're like, "Ah, you're too nasty to sing." And then she just does fucking "Lame Is," perfect.

• 24:34Adam Friedland?

  It makes me weep.

• 24:36Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 24:41Adam Friedland?

  What's wrong, dude? You have a history with her?

• 24:50Adam Friedland?

  I wrote a song.

• 24:52Speaker 04

  You wrote a song?

• 24:55Speaker 04

  Play for me.

• 24:57Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 25:00Adam Friedland?

  Oh my god.

• 25:02Adam Friedland?

  But it's maybe not your song.

• 25:04Speaker 04

  Are you gonna pull out like a microphone? What are you?

• 25:07Adam Friedland?

  Here, I have headphones.

• 25:08Speaker 04

  Really?

• 25:09Adam Friedland?

  It's just a demo, dude.

• 25:10Speaker 04

  Are you joking? What, is this a song you wrote?

• 25:15Adam Friedland?

  It's just a demo, dude.

• 25:17Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 25:20Adam Friedland?

  I wrote this after my mom died too. Alright.

• 25:28Adam Friedland?

  Oh my god.

• 25:36Adam Friedland?

  He's not. Fuck.

• 25:46Adam Friedland?

  He's crying.

• 25:59Adam Friedland?

  Oh, fuck.

• 26:23Adam Friedland?

  Ginsberg is over?

• 26:26Speaker 04

  Dang.

• 26:27Adam Friedland?

  What's he doing?

• 26:29Speaker 04

  Where'd he go?

• 26:34Speaker 04

  Like to kill himself.

• 26:39Speaker 04

  That was intense. If that's true, I can't. I was like, at first, I was wondering if it was like a joke.

• 26:44Adam Friedland?

  No, it's real.

• 26:45Speaker 04

  It's good.

• 26:46Adam Friedland?

  You think?

• 26:47Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah.

• 26:47Adam Friedland?

  No, come on.

• 26:49Speaker 04

  Well, I was thinking of like, I don't know if the whole thing you were saying was a joke, but...

• 26:54Adam Friedland?

  No, it's true.

• 26:55Speaker 04

  It worked. It was like, I was thinking of your mom and it was like sad.

• 27:00Adam Friedland?

  Thanks, man.

• 27:03Adam Friedland?

  So it's like one of the best songs ever.

• 27:05Speaker 04

  Is it one of the best? It's pretty cool, actually. The chords you're playing are kind of what? You play the guitar?

• 27:11Adam Friedland?

  Not well.

• 27:13Speaker 04

  I thought it was cool.

• 27:14Adam Friedland?

  You wanna listen again? It's only 59 seconds. 59 seconds.

• 27:18Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 27:21Speaker 04

  At first, I thought maybe you were playing a joke.

• 27:23Adam Friedland?

  It paused in the middle. You didn't even finish it.

• 27:25Speaker 04

  It just stopped.

• 27:26Adam Friedland?

  Oh, you didn't even hear the whole thing, bro. You lie. You're lying on my ass right now.

• 27:30Speaker 04

  If you're gonna give me an attitude here, I'm being...

• 27:33Adam Friedland?

  We're rock. We're rock, dude. We have attitudes.

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