MIA KHALIFA Talks Viral Fame, Fatwa, Being the Goat

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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 1:30Speaker 00

  I'm pro football Hall of Famer Brian Dawkins, and I lived for a long time with something I did not know the name of: major depressive disorder. I carried sadness and anger because I thought I could handle it alone, but I couldn't. Now I want to make sure others know that that support is out there. If you're experiencing similar symptoms, talk to a healthcare professional. Visit MDDAllies.com to watch my story.

• 1:55Speaker 01

  Paid partnership with Johnson & Johnson. Brian Dawkins has not prescribed Caplyta lumateperone.

• 2:07Speaker 02

  I needed more from my antidepressant. So my doctor added Caplyta, lumateperone. Proven to provide greater relief from depression symptoms than an antidepressant alone. Building on my progress without starting over. Caplyta is for adults with major depressive disorder when used with an antidepressant and is available by prescription only. Individual results may vary. In clinical trials, weight gain was not common.

• 2:27Speaker 01

  Elderly dementia patients have increased risk of death or stroke. Caplyta is not approved for dementia-related psychosis. Call your doctor about new or sudden mood changes, behaviors, or suicidal thoughts right away. Antidepressants may increase these risks. Report fever, confusion, stiff muscles, which may be life-threatening, or uncontrolled muscle movements, which may be permanent. High cholesterol and weight gain may occur, as can high blood sugar, which may be fatal. Monitoring is recommended. Common side effects are sleepiness, dizziness, nausea, dry mouth, feeling tired, and diarrhea. These aren't all the side effects.

• 2:54Speaker 02

  Ask your doctor about Caplyta. Learn more at caplyta.com or call 888-252-4824.

• 3:01Adam Friedland?

  Do you have autism?

• 3:02Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 3:03Adam Friedland?

  Everyone is...

• 3:04Speaker 04

  Everyone's a little autistic. It's a spectrum.

• 3:05Adam Friedland?

  No, I don't think I am at all.

• 3:06Speaker 04

  It's like no one's fully straight.

• 3:07Adam Friedland?

  No, I don't think I'm autistic at all.

• 3:09Speaker 04

  Oh!

• 3:09Adam Friedland?

  I cry everything. Yeah, yeah. It used to be called Rude.

• 3:14Speaker 04

  I'm dead.

• 3:17Adam Friedland?

  Remember Rude?

• 3:19Speaker 04

  Do you remember Rude? They bring Brandon.

• 3:20Adam Friedland?

  Remember Rude? Yeah.

• 3:21Speaker 04

  They changed their logo, like Jaguar.

• 3:23Adam Friedland?

  Somebody could be a [bleep] dickhead and they're like, "He's just... He's so autistic." And I'm like, "I don't care. What am I, I need to read the DSM-2? I'm not a doctor."

• 4:01Adam Friedland?

  Welcome to the Adam Friedland Show, guys. It's Adam Friedland. First off, as always, I want to thank our channel members for supporting the show. If you'd like to become a member, you can click the link in the description. You get early access to all of our episodes, discounts on merch, and if you subscribe to the second or third tiers, you'll get your name in the credits of every episode of this fine program. Also, there's a link to our Patreon if you prefer supporting the show through Patreon. Also, I'd like to note that our merch store has been restocked. Go to adamfriedland.show to check out our stuff. We have t-shirts, hats. They sold out real quick last time. Get them before they're gone again. My guest this week is media personality and influencer Mia Khalifa.

• 4:45Adam Friedland?

  Mia, or Sarah, as I know her, and all of her friends, that's what her friends call her. First came to prominence in 2015 for her brief stint as an adult film actress. She quickly became a global phenomenon, earning her the title of Most Searched Adult Actress for both 2016 and 2018. And now, of course, this is the part where I do some hilarious bit before I show you my interview. But let me be clear, I'm not going to go there this week. Folks, as my star rises, the target on my back gets bigger and bigger, and the margin for error gets smaller and smaller. Piers Morgan is watching everything I do.

• 5:25Adam Friedland?

  The man is relentless and dogged, and I have to be mindful and careful not to lose everything that I've worked so hard for. I'm fairly certain, also, that I think I'm being followed. I don't know if it's Piers. I think it could be a member of my family. Anyway, guys, this might be tough for some of you, but it's become clear that my days of being an immature baby for an adoring audience are over. I'm an adult now. I have to be. It's true, my guest this week was a beautiful woman, but as you'll see, I treated her like I would any other guest, be it hot guy, ugly woman, or hip-hop and R&B legend.

• 6:07Adam Friedland?

  So if you've come here for nasty jokes, you can turn off now. This is an adult show for an adult audience. I'm no longer making baby stuff for babies. I'm in the adult industry now. So pour yourself a glass of wine, maybe, sit back on a piece of white furniture, and enjoy. My thought provoking conversation with Mia Khalifa.

• 6:35Adam Friedland?

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• 8:03Adam Friedland?

  Big clap. Hi. Hi. Nice to meet you. Thank you for coming. Thank you for having me. Your tissues are there? Thank you. She brought tissues because of my boogers during Sarah Jessica Park? It's okay. So embarrassing. No, it's not. Do you have a change of diaper? Okay, why did we start this way? Thank you for coming on. I guess like, you know, how do we start this thing? Like, where do we start? We start at the beginning, right? We start at the beginning, yeah. 10,000 B.C. No, no, I want to start, what is the date today, of course?

• 8:41Speaker 04

  Oh, happy 9/11!

• 8:42Adam Friedland?

  It's not, just stop it with your edgelord jokes, okay?

• 8:44Speaker 04

  Oh my god!

• 8:45Adam Friedland?

  Okay, we're not gonna start that way, but you moved to America shortly after or shortly before 9/11?

• 8:50Speaker 04

  Shortly before.

• 8:51Adam Friedland?

  Okay. You are from Lebanon, right? You were born there, and you moved here, what, you were 11 or something?

• 8:56Speaker 04

  I was eight.

• 8:57Adam Friedland?

  Elementary.

• 8:58Speaker 04

  2001.

• 8:58Adam Friedland?

  2001. And you moved to the greater DC area?

• 9:01Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 9:02Adam Friedland?

  Right? And you moved during a time of Islamophobia?

• 9:05Speaker 04

  Right before.

• 9:06Adam Friedland?

  Anti-Arab?

• 9:07Speaker 04

  I guess it was always there, but yeah.

• 9:09Adam Friedland?

  I think it escalated after 9/11.

• 9:11Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 9:12Adam Friedland?

  And now it's kinda back, right?

• 9:13Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 9:13Adam Friedland?

  It's kinda vintage.

• 9:14Speaker 04

  Cyclical!

• 9:15Adam Friedland?

  It feels like a little Toby Keith, like, kinda post-9/11 moment we're having again right now.

• 9:21Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 9:22Adam Friedland?

  We'll stick a boot in your ass.

• 9:23Speaker 04

  Stick a boot in your ass.

• 9:24Adam Friedland?

  Kind of a good song.

• 9:25Speaker 04

  It's so fucking good!

• 9:27Adam Friedland?

  You know, "I Love This Bar" also, great song.

• 9:29Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 9:30Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 9:31Speaker 04

  What else? I love country music, actually.

• 9:32Adam Friedland?

  I do too. Yeah, what's your favorite?

• 9:34Speaker 04

  Hmm...

• 9:35Adam Friedland?

  "Florida Georgia Line," you like that one?

• 9:37Speaker 04

  No, I like, um...

• 9:39Adam Friedland?

  "Make me your star, you make me wanna roll my window down and cry," you know that one?

• 9:45Speaker 04

  It's actually good, you wanna harmonize with me? Do that again?

• 9:47Adam Friedland?

  No, Zach, he's teaching me harmony right now, Zach the intern.

• 9:51Speaker 04

  How to harmonize?

• 9:53Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, he's actually, we, I shouldn't say it on the camera, should I?

• 9:58Speaker 04

  Just turn away from the camera.

• 9:59Adam Friedland?

  Okay, we do Friday afternoon choir, me and the four employees every week.

• 10:04Speaker 04

  That's so beautiful, all of you just stand, like, is there pedestals?

• 10:07Adam Friedland?

  Well, I grew up Jewish, so, I am Jewish, but like, I always wanted to do like, Christian songs, like...

• 10:12Speaker 04

  Oh, that's so beautiful.

• 10:13Adam Friedland?

  "Amazing Grace," it seems so beautiful if you get to do that at church. So now I make, uh...

• 10:18Speaker 04

  "Like a Virgin" is also a beautiful...

• 10:20Adam Friedland?

  I don't think that's from church.

• 10:21Speaker 04

  I do.

• 10:22Adam Friedland?

  Is it?

• 10:22Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 10:23Adam Friedland?

  I think it's about...

• 10:24Speaker 04

  It's about Mary.

• 10:25Adam Friedland?

  "Like a Virgin Touched For The Very First Time," I think it's about getting your pussy touched.

• 10:29Speaker 04

  No, her being touched by the power of God.

• 10:32Adam Friedland?

  "Like A Prayer," is that a, that's about, uh, blowjobs?

• 10:37Speaker 04

  Is that Madonna?

• 10:40Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, my mom, my mom used to play that in the car, and I used to ask her what it was about, and she said, "Stop talking." About, you moved to Montgomery County, Maryland?

• 10:48Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 10:48Adam Friedland?

  Right?

• 10:49Speaker 04

  Shout out Montgomery.

• 10:49Adam Friedland?

  Gaithersburg.

• 10:50Speaker 04

  Gaithersburg, Maryland.

• 10:51Adam Friedland?

  Mia, Sarah, Sarah Mia is from the same town as Mr. Nick Mullin, give it up for him, everyone?

• 10:59Adam Friedland?

  My former partner.

• 11:00Speaker 04

  Where did he go to high school?

• 11:02Adam Friedland?

  I don't know.

• 11:02Speaker 04

  You don't have that off the top of your head?

• 11:03Adam Friedland?

  I think he went to community, uh, community college. I think he-

• 11:07Speaker 04

  He just skipped high school, went straight from middle school to community college?

• 11:09Adam Friedland?

  I think he GE, got a early GED and then-

• 11:13Speaker 04

  Oh, good for him.

• 11:14Adam Friedland?

  I think he was a bad boy, but you know.

• 11:16Speaker 04

  I went to military boarding school.

• 11:17Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. So what led you to that? You were a bad kid? Smoking reefer? Really?

• 11:22Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 11:22Adam Friedland?

  Your parents caught you smoking trees?

• 11:24Speaker 04

  Mm-hmm.

• 11:24Adam Friedland?

  Mine did too.

• 11:25Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 11:26Adam Friedland?

  But they'd never sent me to the army. What army did they send you to?

• 11:29Speaker 04

  No, literally, it was the feeding school for West Point. It was an army, it was like army, not navy.

• 11:34Adam Friedland?

  Were you good at the army when you went there?

• 11:35Speaker 04

  I was so good.

• 11:37Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 11:37Speaker 04

  I was so good. I loved it so much. I tried there.

• 11:39Adam Friedland?

  What'd you have to do, like make your bed and stuff?

• 11:41Speaker 04

  Yeah, and I still can do hospital corners you could bounce a quarter off of.

• 11:44Adam Friedland?

  What, really?

• 11:45Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 11:45Adam Friedland?

  You make your bed every day now because of the army?

• 11:47Speaker 04

  No. I like getting back into a bed with like crumpled sheets. It's cozy.

• 11:50Adam Friedland?

  What, like what is like, uh, the, so you went for the rest of high school to military school?

• 11:55Speaker 04

  Mm-hmm.

• 11:56Adam Friedland?

  So you didn't really have, have like a, like a typical high school experience?

• 12:00Speaker 04

  I feel like I had more of a normal experience there than at public school.

• 12:03Adam Friedland?

  Did you speak English before you moved to the States or you only spoke Arabic?

• 12:06Speaker 04

  No, I spoke French and Arabic.

• 12:07Adam Friedland?

  French and Arabic?

• 12:07Speaker 04

  Yeah, because I went to a French school.

• 12:08Adam Friedland?

  So how did, like what moment did you feel like you'd integrated into American culture? Like, uh, after you moved to your elementary school?

• 12:16Speaker 04

  I'll let you know.

• 12:17Adam Friedland?

  You still don't feel like it?

• 12:18Speaker 04

  No.

• 12:18Adam Friedland?

  I mean, you have an American accent. You like-

• 12:20Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 12:21Adam Friedland?

  You like sports.

• 12:21Speaker 04

  And Arab people see me as American, not Arab.

• 12:24Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, right. But for me, like my parents come from a different country and like I also like, you like sports and films, right?

• 12:30Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 12:30Adam Friedland?

  And like that was one way that I kind of learned American culture.

• 12:33Speaker 04

  Me too. That's why I embedded myself so deeply into sports. I felt like I was, it, like I, it gave me something to, to talk to the kids about at, at school the next day.

• 12:42Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 12:43Speaker 04

  So I very much obsessed over football and basketball and that's how I kind of found my little friend groups.

• 12:48Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. You've advocated publicly to change the name back to Redskins? Months, no.

• 12:54Speaker 04

  No.

• 12:55Adam Friedland?

  Is that true?

• 12:55Speaker 04

  No, I hope not.

• 12:56Adam Friedland?

  You said I want it to be Bullets and Redskins again.

• 12:59Speaker 04

  Okay, Bullets, Bullets we can talk about. That's on the table.

• 13:03Adam Friedland?

  You played lacrosse as well? That's very Mid-Atlantic, right?

• 13:05Speaker 04

  It's very white.

• 13:06Adam Friedland?

  Did you put bitches on the deck when you were playing?

• 13:09Speaker 04

  No, I did not. I actually got a concussion and now there's a little hole in my head. You want to feel it?

• 13:13Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, I guess so.

• 13:17Adam Friedland?

  Oh god, that's disgusting. You wanna feel something disgusting on my head? Here.

• 13:22Speaker 04

  What is that?

• 13:22Adam Friedland?

  Uh, it's fucked up, no?

• 13:23Speaker 04

  Are you okay?

• 13:24Adam Friedland?

  It's uh, I've just had it my whole life. It's like a massive disgusting mole.

• 13:27Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 13:28Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, that's why if I go bald, I'm...

• 13:30Speaker 04

  Oh yeah, I can't go bald either.

• 13:32Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 13:32Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 13:33Adam Friedland?

  You can't go bald as well, yeah. Thank god dude, that's my biggest fear actually. I had a dream the other night that I woke up bald.

• 13:39Speaker 04

  Oh my god.

• 13:40Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. And I was like, what do I do?

• 13:43Speaker 04

  Get a wig!

• 13:44Adam Friedland?

  I, I think I would go rug.

• 13:45Speaker 04

  Fuck yeah.

• 13:46Adam Friedland?

  I would go turkey.

• 13:47Speaker 04

  What does that mean? Oh, to turkey?

• 13:48Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 13:49Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 13:49Adam Friedland?

  Have you been there before for a, for a procedure?

• 13:52Speaker 04

  No, I do all of mine in LA.

• 13:54Adam Friedland?

  What, what procedures have you had? You've had your schnoz?

• 13:56Speaker 04

  I've got my nose done, yeah. Got my, my implant, I have breast implants. What else have I done? I mean, other than like the little injectables here and there?

• 14:04Adam Friedland?

  I'm thinking about getting a BBL myself, but I would only go to South America for that.

• 14:09Speaker 04

  Gotta go to Colombia.

• 14:10Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, well, I get a lot of like Instagram reels for uh...

• 14:14Speaker 04

  BBL promotions?

• 14:15Adam Friedland?

  For like, I don't get, know why it's on my Instagram, but it's like, no, no, for hair replacement and Colombia trips.

• 14:21Speaker 04

  You have great hair though!

• 14:22Adam Friedland?

  I know, thank god, thank god. Alright, um, I saw, uh, I went through your letterbox.

• 14:28Speaker 04

  Oh god.

• 14:30Adam Friedland?

  And I, I was actually upset by one of them.

• 14:32Speaker 04

  Which one?

• 14:33Adam Friedland?

  Harry Met Sally.

• 14:35Speaker 04

  Oh, wait, what did I say about that one?

• 14:37Adam Friedland?

  You gave it three stars.

• 14:38Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's a three star, it's a three, okay, but a three star and a like is different than just a three star.

• 14:43Adam Friedland?

  What are you talking about?

• 14:44Speaker 04

  A three star and a like, there's a difference, it's very nuanced.

• 14:47Adam Friedland?

  You're really, no, it's, it's just, it's one of the worst movies, uh, it's...

• 14:52Speaker 04

  No, no. The reason why...

• 14:54Adam Friedland?

  It's a very upsetting movie to me.

• 14:56Speaker 04

  Why?

• 14:56Adam Friedland?

  Because he doesn't deserve her.

• 14:59Speaker 04

  Why doesn't he deserve her?

• 15:00Adam Friedland?

  Cause his face looks like Niyoki. Every joke he's telling, she's laughing at, and it's not funny. He's like doing like, hello mammy, and she's so gorgeous, and she's like, ha, ha, ha, ha. I'm like, that's not funny, he's being disgus-

• 15:12Speaker 04

  Isn't that Nancy Meyers's fault? That's a, that's, that's a fault in the script.

• 15:15Adam Friedland?

  I just don't like him, and then sometimes I think like, when I have a girlfriend, is, is that what it looks like? Does it look like Harry and Sally?

• 15:23Speaker 04

  No.

• 15:23Adam Friedland?

  No, I think it does, I think I, cause my greatest fear is that I am like that Billy Cr- like Billy Crystal in that movie.

• 15:31Speaker 04

  What? Absolutely not!

• 15:32Adam Friedland?

  Disgusting, yeah. Have you seen me do my Jasmine character, Sally?

• 15:37Speaker 04

  What else is he in also? That's the only thing.

• 15:39Adam Friedland?

  City Slickers, City, uh, City Slickers 2, the Curly's Gold?

• 15:43Speaker 04

  And City Slickers 3?

• 15:45Adam Friedland?

  No, is there a three?

• 15:47Speaker 04

  No. But those are the only two you named, City Slickers and City Slickers 2.

• 15:51Adam Friedland?

  So, wait, so how would you describe yourself in high school, though? Like, were you popular?

• 15:56Speaker 04

  No, not at all, not at all. I weighed 170 pounds, I had a unibrow.

• 15:59Adam Friedland?

  170?

• 16:00Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 16:00Adam Friedland?

  You're a B girl.

• 16:01Speaker 04

  I was a big girl. I was security big.

• 16:03Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 16:04Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 16:04Adam Friedland?

  Oh, okay, and so then, like, when did, uh, like, when did you lose weight, I guess?

• 16:10Speaker 04

  Um...

• 16:11Adam Friedland?

  Post-fat is like kind of a genesis of evil, I feel like.

• 16:13Speaker 04

  Yeah, like, like, between 19 and 20.

• 16:16Adam Friedland?

  19 and 20?

• 16:16Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 16:17Adam Friedland?

  I feel like a lot of, like, uh, like, that guy Richard Spencer, do you remember that alt-right guy? I was like, that guy definitely was like 250 pounds, and now he hates minorities.

• 16:26Speaker 04

  Oh, no, I don't hate minorities, just because I was fat.

• 16:29Adam Friedland?

  There's a hate that's in a lot of them boys' hearts.

• 16:32Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 16:32Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. Because it's like, uh...

• 16:34Speaker 04

  A little resentment.

• 16:35Adam Friedland?

  I think so, yeah. I have, I have a lot of friends that, like, grew up fat, and they're like, they think of themselves still as fat. You don't understand how hard it is for us.

• 16:42Speaker 04

  Oh, no, that, that stays with you for a long time, and that's why you seek validation.

• 16:45Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 16:45Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 16:46Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 16:46Speaker 04

  You gotta go to therapy, like, if you, if you lose weight...

• 16:49Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 16:49Speaker 04

  Yeah, no, for real, for real, because then you're suffering, then in your head, you're still behaving like, that's... Oh, you time it when the camera's on.

• 16:57Adam Friedland?

  Stop it. It's embarrassing. It's tough.

• 17:01Speaker 04

  What's the ask straight for? Be a man, smoke a cigarette.

• 17:03Adam Friedland?

  I can't do it in here, does anyone... I'm not gonna smoke both. Okay. Uh, yeah, I feel like that's a tough addiction to have, food, right? Because it's like...

• 17:12Speaker 04

  It is, and that's what it is, an unhealthy relationship with food.

• 17:15Adam Friedland?

  Right, but it's like, you can't quit food.

• 17:17Speaker 04

  No, and to be completely transparent, I'm on Ozempic now because the fucking, like, mental battle of, like, battling with binging, or like borderline anorexia, and like overcontrolling, or like overworking out, that takes care of all of that.

• 17:32Adam Friedland?

  What does Ozempic do? If you have any food, you vomit it out?

• 17:35Speaker 04

  No, you just...

• 17:37Adam Friedland?

  Or you crap it out immediately?

• 17:38Speaker 04

  I...

• 17:39Adam Friedland?

  What, I, I don't know.

• 17:41Speaker 04

  The way I react on it is, um, I eat when I'm hungry, and I don't crave things that I shouldn't, that I shouldn't be eating.

• 17:48Adam Friedland?

  Mm-hmm.

• 17:48Speaker 04

  So, I, I just have a normal relationship with food now. I don't eat as like a coping mechanism.

• 17:54Adam Friedland?

  It must be tough, yeah, because it's like, it's like you have to have a healthy amount of crack every day, right?

• 17:59Speaker 04

  Just a little bit, which is basically what high school kids are on.

• 18:04Adam Friedland?

  On what, crack?

• 18:04Speaker 04

  I don't know, isn't that the same thing?

• 18:06Adam Friedland?

  No, I'm just saying like, you can't, if you have a food addiction, you have to just have like, it's not like, you can't go cold turkey, you have to just have a little bit of crack.

• 18:14Speaker 04

  Yeah, just a little Oreo here and there, crush it up, sniff it.

• 18:18Adam Friedland?

  Growing up, post nine eleven, like, what was your experience like with prejudice, you know, in, especially in the DMV, like, what were your experiences after moving to America?

• 18:29Speaker 04

  Well, my nickname was Sand N-word.

• 18:33Adam Friedland?

  What, really?

• 18:34Speaker 04

  Yeah. Me and the other Indian kid in school. No, it's not, it's not. But we were also in like, elementary, middle school, so like, you know?

• 18:42Adam Friedland?

  They used that one in elementary?

• 18:44Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 18:45Adam Friedland?

  Oh my god. You're Lebanese?

• 18:47Speaker 04

  Mm-hmm.

• 18:48Adam Friedland?

  Uh, in Australia, they're like, so racist, like, I was, uh, I was in an Uber and someone was like, "You don't want to go down there."

• 18:55Speaker 04

  That's a good accent.

• 18:56Adam Friedland?

  "It's a bunch of Lebo's."

• 18:57Speaker 04

  Oh my god, what?

• 18:59Adam Friedland?

  And I was like, I was like, lesbians? And he's like, "No, Lebo's, Lebanese." And I was like, "There's like, four million of them on earth, and you have a slur for it."

• 19:05Speaker 04

  Oh my god, Lebo's?

• 19:07Adam Friedland?

  I was like, "You guys are the best at slurs." Yeah.

• 19:09Speaker 04

  That's hilarious.

• 19:10Adam Friedland?

  Have you heard that one before?

• 19:11Speaker 04

  They need to shorten everything. No, I've never heard it. But it sounds endearing, I like it.

• 19:14Adam Friedland?

  It's kind of cute, right?

• 19:15Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 19:15Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, it's like a, yeah, it's like a Beanie Baby name, yeah.

• 19:19Speaker 04

  Little Lebo's.

• 19:19Adam Friedland?

  Look at a little Lebo.

• 19:20Speaker 04

  Lebo.

• 19:21Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. I think that, like, I've watched, I've like, done a lot of research and watched a bunch of interviews with you, and it's kind of like, you have kind of a thing that you're asked about constantly. But what's more interesting, I think, is before, uh, your kind of viral success, and then after your viral success. It's very, it's very interesting, like, you only worked in the industry for what, like, a matter of weeks?

• 19:42Speaker 04

  A couple of months, yeah.

• 19:43Adam Friedland?

  A couple of months, yeah.

• 19:44Speaker 04

  Yeah, three months.

• 19:45Adam Friedland?

  And what was, what was, like, how much money did you make while you were doing it? Like, not very much money.

• 19:49Speaker 04

  Eleven thousand dollars.

• 19:50Adam Friedland?

  Eleven thousand dollars, right? Was there a concept at the time that, what, what, the work you were doing was like, a success? Or like?

• 19:58Speaker 04

  No, no, and there was no intention for anything to be successful, that wasn't ever the intent, it was...

• 20:07Speaker 04

  I mean, honestly, it was just extremely poor judgment and extremely poor foresight. Like, I didn't think further ahead past where I was in that moment at 20, which, as I mentioned earlier, when, when you've never had male attention in your entire life.

• 20:27Adam Friedland?

  You just lost weight?

• 20:28Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 20:29Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 20:30Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 20:30Adam Friedland?

  Oh, interesting.

• 20:31Speaker 04

  And after I had lost the weight, I...

• 20:33Adam Friedland?

  Got a boyfriend?

• 20:34Speaker 04

  No, I got, well, yes, I was, yes, I was in a relationship at the time, but, um, no, I got, I got my breast augmentation. And so, everything came at once.

• 20:42Adam Friedland?

  So it was like the movie She's All That, it's like you like, uh, took your glasses off and you're the weird art girl? And then you, you'd taken the glasses off?

• 20:49Speaker 04

  Exactly, when she's coming down, oh, I love that movie.

• 20:51Adam Friedland?

  With Freddie Prinze Jr.?

• 20:52Speaker 04

  Yeah, what happened to him? I think he's not problematic.

• 20:56Adam Friedland?

  He's on, uh, Little St. James.

• 20:58Speaker 04

  What?

• 20:59Adam Friedland?

  No, I don't know.

• 20:59Speaker 04

  Oh, my God.

• 21:00Adam Friedland?

  What happened to Freddie Prinze Jr.?

• 21:01Speaker 04

  Isn't he married to, yeah?

• 21:04Adam Friedland?

  Ghislaine Maxwell?

• 21:05Speaker 04

  No, leave him out of this, they're unproblematic.

• 21:07Adam Friedland?

  Who's he married to?

• 21:10Adam Friedland?

  What?

• 21:10Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 21:11Adam Friedland?

  He got Buffy?

• 21:12Speaker 04

  No, he got his, no, they were both in, um, Scooby Doo.

• 21:16Adam Friedland?

  Oh, my God, he got Valma?

• 21:17Speaker 04

  He got his Scooby Tree. No, he got Daphne.

• 21:20Adam Friedland?

  Daphne, Valma's like, oh, brother.

• 21:23Speaker 04

  Oh, brother, where are my glasses?

• 21:25Adam Friedland?

  Oh, brother. Okay, I guess, um...

• 21:28Speaker 04

  I know, that was Scooby.

• 21:29Adam Friedland?

  Okay, anyway, um, I think that's, so none of the rabbis that were on set said like, this is gonna be huge? No one said that at all?

• 21:37Speaker 04

  No, but I did tell them that, that they're, they're gonna get me killed.

• 21:41Adam Friedland?

  Why? By who?

• 21:42Speaker 04

  What do you mean?

• 21:43Adam Friedland?

  Your family?

• 21:43Speaker 04

  No, no, no, just by, in general, when it was, um, when, when I was told what I was gonna be wearing and what I was going to be doing.

• 21:52Adam Friedland?

  Oh, that thing?

• 21:52Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 21:53Adam Friedland?

  Oh, yeah, the hijab.

• 21:54Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 21:55Adam Friedland?

  I think it's like, interesting, it's like, I was thinking about how to handle it, and like, you know, Nor- Normal Adam's like, oh, I don't know what that is? But like, I think, yeah, in a real sense, probably like, every guy you've met, and a lot of women you've met are like, uh, are familiar with it, you know? And it's just like, um, you became a viral sensation, but like, what I was wondering is like, to what extent like, like, whether or not you realize that this has like, become incredibly famous?

• 22:22Speaker 04

  So, at that moment, I still thought that no one was ever going to find out about this.

• 22:27Adam Friedland?

  Right.

• 22:28Speaker 04

  Um, but I think the way it happened was very... Just circumstantial. It was very like, it was just lightning in a bottle because of everything that was happening in the world at the time. Charlie Hebdo had just happened. Me Too had just really taken off. There was a lot of social things going on that, that really were the reason why I was a part of that and why it kind of exploded the way it did.

• 22:55Adam Friedland?

  You're from an immigrant family, like so am I, right? Like, was one of your concerns that, that it would cause a rift in a traditional immigrant family?

• 23:03Speaker 04

  Not necessarily, because I did not think anyone would ever find out. So, everything happened very, very quickly.

• 23:10Adam Friedland?

  And subsequently, did it, did it cause tension in the family?

• 23:14Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, we were estranged for a long time after that.

• 23:17Adam Friedland?

  Right. I guess like, you were telling me on the phone, like you got a job, so like after getting out, like, you left on your, your own terms?

• 23:24Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 23:25Adam Friedland?

  It was only a matter of a couple of months?

• 23:26Speaker 04

  Yeah, after everything kind of happened like that, I, I mean, obviously, yeah, that wasn't the intention and that is not what I wanted to do or be doing. I basically just had my early twenties slutty phase in front of everybody in the world.

• 23:40Adam Friedland?

  But you, you were telling me you got a job and then...

• 23:42Speaker 04

  I did, yeah, I was a bookkeeper at a construction firm.

• 23:44Adam Friedland?

  And is that when it dawned on you? Like, what was the moment where like, it dawned on you that like, every, that the world was like, you were famous?

• 23:53Speaker 04

  I felt like a burden at, at the office. Because any, any clients who would come in, anytime I would have to go onto a job site, anytime I would have to do anything that involved interacting with other people who didn't just work in the office with me, it was, it was a huge distraction. Like, not, not a distraction, but like, I, I realized that I can never work a normal job again.

• 24:18Adam Friedland?

  What, what were the guys doing? Were they like, "Ugh"?

• 24:21Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 24:21Adam Friedland?

  They're busting in their pants? Every guy that walked in?

• 24:24Speaker 04

  No, but there was like whispers and talks and, you know what I mean?

• 24:27Adam Friedland?

  And it, did it cause you to be paranoid or like, did it cause, it caused you like...

• 24:31Speaker 04

  Yeah, there was a lot of instances where, like, I just had interactions with people that I realized, wow, my life is not the same. I can't go to the grocery store. I can't go to the laundromat. I can't do any of these things.

• 24:44Adam Friedland?

  And like, how did you process that like, stress that that put you under?

• 24:49Speaker 04

  I didn't process it for a really long time. I didn't start therapy until like, 2016, 2017. And that's when I started processing it. But until then, I was just lashing out on anybody who would cross my boundaries, even though I didn't know what my boundaries were quite yet.

• 25:06Adam Friedland?

  And it caused you to like, lose trust in people and did it affect your sex life?

• 25:12Speaker 04

  Yes, very much so. Very much so. Yeah, and it's and it still does.

• 25:16Adam Friedland?

  You think so?

• 25:17Speaker 04

  Yeah, absolutely. I can't even like, mentally get past somebody wanting to be with me for the novelty or for that reason. So I'd much rather just be alone. I've been in two long-term relationships since then, and that's that's it in the in the last 10 years.

• 25:37Adam Friedland?

  I remember there being a response in the Arab world.

• 25:40Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 25:40Adam Friedland?

  You received fatwas, is that right?

• 25:42Speaker 04

  Yeah. I mean, not, I don't know if it's an official one, but I'm not going to...

• 25:47Adam Friedland?

  What's an official fatwa?

• 25:49Speaker 04

  I think when the government does a press release and like, officially announces it.

• 25:53Adam Friedland?

  And there's a seal, they get it notarized?

• 25:56Speaker 04

  Right? I feel like they need to be notarized.

• 25:58Adam Friedland?

  It worked out for Rushdie, right? He gets hot girls because of the fatwa.

• 26:02Speaker 04

  Really? Where are my hot girls? I got one.

• 26:05Adam Friedland?

  He got, what's her name from, from, what's her name, Top Chef?

• 26:08Speaker 04

  Padma?

• 26:09Adam Friedland?

  He got Padma Lakshmi.

• 26:10Speaker 04

  Wait, she, I love her so much.

• 26:12Adam Friedland?

  There's an episode of Curb where he's like, yeah, this guy's cleaning up because of the fatwa.

• 26:16Speaker 04

  Oh my god.

• 26:17Adam Friedland?

  Do you think that like...

• 26:18Speaker 04

  When's it my turn?

• 26:19Adam Friedland?

  And and your fame is sustained. That's what's interesting is that you went from virality to like, proper fame, right? Around 2017, is that correct?

• 26:26Speaker 04

  Around 2017, what?

• 26:27Adam Friedland?

  Well, you reopened your Instagram account.

• 26:29Speaker 04

  2016, yeah.

• 26:30Adam Friedland?

  2016. What was the impetus behind that decision?

• 26:33Speaker 04

  That was at the same time that I left the construction firm and decided to be, literally, an influencer.

• 26:39Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 26:40Speaker 04

  My my goal was to reopen Instagram because ISIS sympathizers had hacked my Instagram, so Instagram shut it down.

• 26:48Adam Friedland?

  ISIS did? Really?

• 26:49Speaker 04

  They were posting like, propaganda. So Instagram immediately shut it down, and I didn't have an Instagram for like, a year, and I worked a normal job and all of these things. So, yeah, I reopened Instagram, moved to Austin, Texas.

• 27:01Adam Friedland?

  Oh, nice. Comedy mothership.

• 27:03Speaker 04

  Yeah, exactly. And yeah, just try to be an influencer.

• 27:07Adam Friedland?

  Did you have like, um, like, uh, like kind of management or like?

• 27:11Speaker 04

  No, I haven't had management until three years ago.

• 27:14Adam Friedland?

  You can't trust these people.

• 27:15Speaker 04

  No, it's not that, it's just...

• 27:17Adam Friedland?

  They're so annoying. They're like, "Take pictures of yourself looking sexy and put it in GQ and every comedian's gonna make fun of you, Adam."

• 27:25Speaker 04

  Yeah, "Hold the mic this way, they'll love that."

• 27:27Adam Friedland?

  You just lay on the ground and...

• 27:29Speaker 04

  Yeah, like... Twirl the wire around your head.

• 27:31Adam Friedland?

  Every comedian's gonna just shit on you in every group chat. No, uh, so wait, so, but you've been remarkably successful, right?

• 27:38Speaker 04

  Thank you.

• 27:39Adam Friedland?

  You've become kind of like a media personality and like a cultural figure, right? Do you, in a lot of your interviews, I've noticed that you talk, there are two words that are like, uh, kind of come up. And one, you talk about shame and then, but you talk about regret, right?

• 27:54Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 27:55Adam Friedland?

  Um, like, uh, can, can you like, talk about shame first of all and like, what your understanding is?

• 28:00Speaker 04

  I'll give a soliloquy about shame.

• 28:02Adam Friedland?

  Go off.

• 28:02Speaker 04

  I can talk about shame all day.

• 28:03Adam Friedland?

  Go off, queen.

• 28:04Speaker 04

  Oh my god, it's...

• 28:04Adam Friedland?

  I'd love to hear it.

• 28:05Speaker 04

  It's such, like, a visceral human emotion. I think, I think it's, I think deep down behind every negative emotion, there's a layer of shame there. And shame is a really, really difficult thing to get past because along with shame, comes guilt and comes regret and comes all of these other emotions that are just, they're, they're very overwhelming and they feel suffocating. And you feel very trapped when you're, when you're dealing with, with shame or trying to work through it.

• 28:33Adam Friedland?

  And shame is something to be, to overcome, is that what you're saying?

• 28:37Speaker 04

  Yeah, I believe so.

• 28:37Adam Friedland?

  It's a negative emotion, right?

• 28:40Speaker 04

  I, I think it can also be a positive one. Like, if you have no shame, you probably are not a good person. You should have a little bit of shame, sometimes.

• 28:48Adam Friedland?

  And what's the difference in your mind between shame and regret, I guess?

• 28:53Speaker 04

  I can, I regret things that I'm not ashamed of.

• 28:57Speaker 04

  Like, I regret speeding and getting a ticket.

• 29:00Adam Friedland?

  Cause you're being a bad citizen, right? If you cut someone off in traffic.

• 29:05Speaker 04

  No, I don't regret that.

• 29:06Adam Friedland?

  You don't regret that?

• 29:07Speaker 04

  No, everyone gets their turn getting cut off.

• 29:09Adam Friedland?

  So you have no shame, you're saying?

• 29:11Speaker 04

  Not, not in that instance.

• 29:12Adam Friedland?

  I think that's shameful.

• 29:13Speaker 04

  But if I were to be pulled over for not using a turn signal, I would have regret, not shame.

• 29:17Adam Friedland?

  Okay. I mean, you've become an incredibly impressive and successful person. So, how do you manage shame and regret in relation to your instant virality?

• 29:29Speaker 04

  Therapy.

• 29:30Adam Friedland?

  Therapy.

• 29:30Speaker 04

  Therapy. I've worked through that for years, and I'm still working through it, but the battle isn't as tough as it was seven years ago. Now, it's just maintaining.

• 29:41Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. I don't know.

• 29:43Speaker 04

  And reminding myself, like, I don't need to carry that guilt. I made a mistake. I was a kid. Everybody makes mistakes. Everything is fine. I didn't kill anybody.

• 29:52Adam Friedland?

  You didn't make your money mining blood diamonds. I mean, I think, like, you probably... You didn't do any... I think you didn't do... you didn't do anything... any harm.

• 30:02Speaker 04

  No.

• 30:03Adam Friedland?

  In fact, you made some folks feel alright.

• 30:06Speaker 04

  Oh, my god.

• 30:07Adam Friedland?

  No, sorry. I mean, like, honestly, it's not like a net negative on society, right? Like, uh...

• 30:12Speaker 04

  No, but there are... there are people who... Like, I don't give a fuck what the... what the incels on the internet think. But I do give a fuck about what

• 30:22Adam Friedland?

  No, I'm not...

• 30:23Speaker 04

  Fatima713, you know, thinks. Because she's being called Mia Khalifa, but she's deeply religious, and it makes her feel Right. like she's being over-sexualized. So, like, that... that gives me guilt and shame.

• 30:34Adam Friedland?

  You're kind... you're a good... you're still... you could be a good person. You're not like... you don't own a rubber...

• 30:39Speaker 04

  You still have a chance to be a good person.

• 30:40Adam Friedland?

  No, you... I mean, you don't own a rubber plantation in Africa, in the Congo, right?

• 30:44Speaker 04

  No, I'm not mining for...

• 30:45Adam Friedland?

  Right. You didn't, like, take advantage of anyone. Like, you... I don't know. You're just like... I don't... you make six million dollars a month?

• 30:53Speaker 04

  No!

• 30:53Adam Friedland?

  So sick.

• 30:54Speaker 04

  No, that's... that's crazy. I wouldn't be here if I did.

• 30:57Adam Friedland?

  You wouldn't be here?

• 30:58Speaker 04

  Absolutely not. You would never see me again.

• 31:00Adam Friedland?

  I would be a ghost.

• 31:01Speaker 04

  You would never see me again.

• 31:02Adam Friedland?

  What would you be doing if you had, like, a billy?

• 31:04Speaker 04

  Building a moat.

• 31:06Adam Friedland?

  A moat. I would buy a sports team.

• 31:08Speaker 04

  If you had six million, you think you can buy a sports team with six million?

• 31:10Adam Friedland?

  No, a billy, if I had a billy.

• 31:12Speaker 04

  Oh, a billy? Oh, yeah, I'd build a moat. I'd build a moat.

• 31:15Adam Friedland?

  Where, in Florida?

• 31:16Speaker 04

  Florida.

• 31:17Adam Friedland?

  You live in Miami?

• 31:18Speaker 04

  I do.

• 31:19Adam Friedland?

  Do you have like, uh, animal, you, would you put like, uh, you know, sharks and stuff in there?

• 31:24Speaker 04

  No, I'd put crocodiles, those are way more realistic.

• 31:26Adam Friedland?

  Oh, that's kind of, uh, in this day and age, a little tough. I would buy a sports team.

• 31:30Speaker 04

  What, what, what, what sport?

• 31:32Adam Friedland?

  I would buy like a shit soccer team and do like what, uh, what the guy from It's Always Sunny and Ryan Reynolds have done.

• 31:38Speaker 04

  What? They have a soccer team?

• 31:39Adam Friedland?

  They have a soccer team and then the whole town likes them and they do shots with the Welsh guys in the town.

• 31:44Speaker 04

  Oh, you just want friends.

• 31:47Adam Friedland?

  A lot of friends.

• 31:48Speaker 04

  Yeah, that's what I'm saying, you want more. That's what it sounds like.

• 31:51Adam Friedland?

  Who's your best friend?

• 31:54Speaker 04

  Well, Samantha.

• 31:55Adam Friedland?

  Samantha? Samantha, hi. Samantha's your best. What's like, what's your guys vibe as, as a, as a crew? You and Samantha?

• 32:06Speaker 04

  Me and Samantha? Well, you know.

• 32:08Adam Friedland?

  You do face masks?

• 32:09Speaker 04

  We actually see each other like, once a year.

• 32:11Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, it's like.

• 32:12Speaker 04

  She lives in Boston.

• 32:13Adam Friedland?

  Oh, come on, I see my friends all the time, they just, they, they just happen to be my employees.

• 32:18Speaker 04

  She knows more about me than anyone else, I talk to her more than anybody else.

• 32:21Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 32:21Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 32:22Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, I, well, I don't know, I, I was trying to think like, actually, it's kind of an interesting question, it's like, for you to have gained success for such a short amount of time doing something and then walk away on your own terms, is there any, like, comparison in sports, art, literature, like, uh, film? It, is it, actually, it sounds like an int- like, uh, it would be, there'd be an easy answer, and it's taken me two weeks to figure it out.

• 32:52Speaker 04

  There's gotta be a one and done.

• 32:54Adam Friedland?

  Try. I think I, I found the answer.

• 32:56Speaker 04

  Yahoo.

• 32:57Adam Friedland?

  No, no, you have to guess.

• 32:58Speaker 04

  Okay, hold on, hold on.

• 32:59Adam Friedland?

  You know sports too.

• 33:00Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 33:00Adam Friedland?

  But it's not, I, I won't say that it is or isn't sports.

• 33:04Speaker 04

  Jordan and baseball.

• 33:06Adam Friedland?

  He still, he stunk at baseball. Also, he left because of gambling and he killed his father. Yeah, okay.

• 33:11Speaker 04

  And he killed his father?

• 33:12Adam Friedland?

  It doesn't matter.

• 33:14Speaker 04

  Did he? Fact check that, please.

• 33:15Adam Friedland?

  That makes him the goat, okay. Wait, think, let's, let's, I want you to guess, because it's very, it's tough. And it can't be-

• 33:22Speaker 04

  I'm trying to think of a director who's only made one film.

• 33:25Adam Friedland?

  It can't be because of death.

• 33:26Speaker 04

  Oh, fuck!

• 33:26Adam Friedland?

  So, James Dean, like, made like three movies?

• 33:28Speaker 04

  Hanson.

• 33:30Adam Friedland?

  Hanson, they could, drac, crap, okay. And they didn't walk away from music, they probably, they just became-

• 33:36Speaker 04

  Tracy.

• 33:37Adam Friedland?

  Chapman?

• 33:38Speaker 04

  Yeah. Yeah.

• 33:40Adam Friedland?

  How many albums?

• 33:41Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 33:41Adam Friedland?

  How many albums?

• 33:42Speaker 04

  One. Not even one, was it just a single?

• 33:44Adam Friedland?

  She didn't just make Fast Car. She did Ravelo, shout out, she did that one? What else did she do? I'll look it up right now on the iPad. I don't think that's right. There is, okay, there is one sports comp, but I don't think it works perfectly.

• 33:59Speaker 04

  Who?

• 34:02Adam Friedland?

  Jim Brown, maybe.

• 34:03Speaker 04

  Oh my god.

• 34:04Adam Friedland?

  He just left to be a civil rights icon.

• 34:07Speaker 04

  Same.

• 34:07Adam Friedland?

  And an actor. Okay, I want, I want you to... Okay, here's the clue, it's, it's in literature.

• 34:16Speaker 04

  Oh, who wrote one, but, no.

• 34:19Adam Friedland?

  It's, it's one of the, one of the best-

• 34:20Speaker 04

  Oh, Homer.

• 34:23Adam Friedland?

  Homer wrote the Iliad.

• 34:24Speaker 04

  Oh, fuck, he did two!

• 34:26Adam Friedland?

  And yeah, that shit is like, mad long, too. That's not, that's not a couple of months. It doesn't have to be a couple of months, but it has to be like a short amount of time.

• 34:36Speaker 04

  We don't know how fast he wrote it. Are you gonna interview him?

• 34:38Adam Friedland?

  Homer? Okay, it's one of the best books ever, you, we all read it in school. We all read it in school.

• 34:46Speaker 04

  Yeah, we did.

• 34:46Adam Friedland?

  It's got a great, uh, message.

• 34:49Speaker 04

  Wait.

• 34:50Adam Friedland?

  Ninety-six to present, she's been making albums. Tracy Chapman has nine albums, you're lying on her ass. Lying on freaking Tracy's ass.

• 34:58Speaker 04

  Wait, then why is, why did she come out of retirement for that, for that performance?

• 35:04Adam Friedland?

  What do you mean retirement?

• 35:05Speaker 04

  Not retirement, but it was like her first, like, you know, it was a big deal, because like, she had gone away and she didn't, like, she left the public eye. Yeah, it was a big deal that she came back.

• 35:15Adam Friedland?

  She left your eye, because you didn't-

• 35:16Speaker 04

  I just stopped looking, I closed my eyes.

• 35:18Adam Friedland?

  You didn't keep up with her.

• 35:19Speaker 04

  Those eye doctors, man, I'm telling you.

• 35:22Adam Friedland?

  Okay, it's, it's a book we all read, I'd say probably ninth grade.

• 35:26Speaker 04

  Ninth grade?

• 35:28Speaker 04

  We read Catcher in the Rye, we read...

• 35:30Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 35:31Speaker 04

  No, J.D. Salinger has many.

• 35:32Adam Friedland?

  Salinger went crazy, he didn't walk away.

• 35:34Speaker 04

  No, but he also has many. Freddy and Zoe is just as good.

• 35:39Adam Friedland?

  That's F. Scott Fitzgerald.

• 35:41Speaker 04

  Oh shit, no it's not.

• 35:42Adam Friedland?

  Yes it is.

• 35:42Speaker 04

  Oh fuck.

• 35:43Adam Friedland?

  Is it?

• 35:44Speaker 04

  No, it's not. It is.

• 35:45Adam Friedland?

  Is that Salinger?

• 35:48Speaker 04

  Who?

• 35:49Adam Friedland?

  It's Fitzgerald.

• 35:51Speaker 04

  It's Salinger, yeah.

• 35:52Adam Friedland?

  Fitzgerald made... Fitzgerald...

• 35:54Speaker 04

  He did Great Gatsby.

• 35:55Adam Friedland?

  Which is the great American novel, but he did four books and 20 years of making, doing books. So it doesn't count. But you're close, you're in the... you're so close right now.

• 36:07Speaker 04

  It's not Of Mice and Men, I read that last week, and I know that...

• 36:11Adam Friedland?

  What'd you think about that one? Lenny?

• 36:13Speaker 04

  I'm going, I'm going through all of... Lenny? I just want to read the Lennys.

• 36:17Adam Friedland?

  Oh my god, yeah. So scary. He didn't know his own strength.

• 36:21Speaker 04

  I know, poor guy. No, tell me, tell me.

• 36:23Adam Friedland?

  You're so close. Think about it, it's a great lesson for kids to have.

• 36:28Speaker 04

  Oh, um, um...

• 36:32Speaker 04

  The one about the dystopian...

• 36:34Adam Friedland?

  No.

• 36:35Speaker 04

  Oh, The Giver? No.

• 36:38Adam Friedland?

  Come on, we're close. We're right there.

• 36:40Speaker 04

  The Alchemist? No. What is it?

• 36:43Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 36:44Speaker 04

  Tell me, please.

• 36:45Adam Friedland?

  I'll tell you a character.

• 36:46Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 36:48Adam Friedland?

  Boo.

• 36:49Speaker 04

  Oh my god, wait, no, she wrote multiple books.

• 36:52Adam Friedland?

  No.

• 36:52Speaker 04

  Boo Radley.

• 36:53Adam Friedland?

  One and done.

• 36:54Speaker 04

  She only wrote To Kill a Mockingbird?

• 36:55Adam Friedland?

  And then they released a second one a couple of years ago, but people are like, that's half fake.

• 37:00Speaker 04

  Oh, I enjoyed it, because I love To Kill a Mockingbird.

• 37:02Adam Friedland?

  You're the Harper Lee.

• 37:02Speaker 04

  Yeah, Harper Lee.

• 37:03Adam Friedland?

  You're one of the greatest artists of all time.

• 37:04Speaker 04

  I'm Harper Lee!

• 37:05Adam Friedland?

  You're Harper Lee.

• 37:06Speaker 04

  I'm Harper Lee.

• 37:07Adam Friedland?

  You're kinda Harper Lee.

• 37:07Speaker 04

  I'm Harper Lee.

• 37:08Adam Friedland?

  Or you're Vince Young, University of Texas, but...

• 37:10Speaker 04

  I'll take either, actually.

• 37:12Adam Friedland?

  No, but he washed out in the league. It doesn't count.

• 37:14Speaker 04

  I didn't wash out in the league.

• 37:17Adam Friedland?

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• 37:43Adam Friedland?

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• 38:27Adam Friedland?

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• 39:06Adam Friedland?

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• 39:43Adam Friedland?

  So, like, in terms of your career currently, like, um, do you feel fulfilled in your career? Like, what are your, like, motivations moving forward? Like, do you wanna make a movie? You like movies.

• 39:52Speaker 04

  I do.

• 39:52Adam Friedland?

  What kinda movie you wanna make? Like, a Harry Potter song?

• 39:56Speaker 04

  No.

• 39:56Adam Friedland?

  What's your number one movie?

• 39:57Speaker 04

  My number one movie of all time?

• 39:59Adam Friedland?

  Uh huh.

• 40:00Speaker 04

  Trainspotting.

• 40:01Adam Friedland?

  Come on. Actually, come on.

• 40:03Speaker 04

  Vertigo.

• 40:04Adam Friedland?

  Actually, okay.

• 40:05Speaker 04

  That's my second.

• 40:06Adam Friedland?

  Not number one ever, though.

• 40:07Speaker 04

  Yeah. Okay, number one ever, ever? And the only reason I'm not saying it is because it sounds way too, like, way too new, but it... Ask her. Oppenheimer.

• 40:17Adam Friedland?

  Ever?

• 40:17Speaker 04

  I saw it 12 times in IMAX 70mm.

• 40:19Adam Friedland?

  Oh, that's...

• 40:20Speaker 04

  12. I traveled to 3 different states.

• 40:21Adam Friedland?

  That's 36 hours. Yeah.

• 40:24Speaker 04

  And that doesn't include streaming and regular IMAX.

• 40:27Adam Friedland?

  That's your best ever?

• 40:28Speaker 04

  Ever. But it's because I'm autistic and was obsessed with the Enola Gay as a kid.

• 40:32Adam Friedland?

  You have autism?

• 40:33Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 40:34Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. Everyone, it's everywhere.

• 40:37Speaker 04

  It's a spectrum.

• 40:37Adam Friedland?

  No, I don't think I am at all.

• 40:39Speaker 04

  It's like no one's fully straight.

• 40:39Adam Friedland?

  No, I don't think I'm autistic at all.

• 40:41Speaker 04

  Oh!

• 40:41Adam Friedland?

  I cry everything.

• 40:42Speaker 04

  Hmm.

• 40:43Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. What, it came around like 6 years ago?

• 40:47Speaker 04

  Autism?

• 40:47Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 40:48Speaker 04

  Because of the vaccine?

• 40:48Adam Friedland?

  It just dropped.

• 40:50Speaker 04

  Just kidding.

• 40:50Adam Friedland?

  It used to be called Rude.

• 40:53Speaker 04

  I'm dead.

• 40:55Adam Friedland?

  Remember Rude?

• 40:58Speaker 04

  Do you remember Rude? They rebranded.

• 40:59Adam Friedland?

  Remember Rude? Yeah. Now someone could be like...

• 41:01Speaker 04

  They changed their logo, like Jaguar.

• 41:02Adam Friedland?

  Someone could be a fucking dickhead and they're like, "He's just, he's so autistic." And I'm like, "I don't care. What if I, I need to read the DSM 2? I'm not a doctor."

• 41:11Speaker 04

  You could be an eye doctor if you tried, though.

• 41:12Adam Friedland?

  It's not a real doctor.

• 41:13Speaker 04

  Exactly.

• 41:14Adam Friedland?

  We talked about this before the episode. Don't, stop trolling me. They're just glasses sellers.

• 41:18Speaker 04

  Alright, do you have a prescription in yours?

• 41:20Adam Friedland?

  What do you think I am? A frickin liar? My integrity is, is all I have. The, the audience trusts me more than they trust anyone in, in the news media these days.

• 41:30Speaker 04

  You're a journalist.

• 41:31Adam Friedland?

  No, I'm not a journalist. Do you think about, like, what you would've done had, like, uh, had you, like, just gone to college?

• 41:37Speaker 04

  Yeah. All the time. I'd be in the fucking guts of the Smithsonian Museum.

• 41:42Adam Friedland?

  In the guts?

• 41:42Speaker 04

  Yeah. Like, in the basement, in the, yeah.

• 41:44Adam Friedland?

  Like, like, uh...

• 41:45Speaker 04

  Just filing things away.

• 41:46Adam Friedland?

  Dusting a dinosaur bone or something?

• 41:47Speaker 04

  No, because you need to be an archaeologist for that.

• 41:49Adam Friedland?

  You could've been an archaeologist.

• 41:51Speaker 04

  No. I have no interest in that. I have interest in...

• 41:53Adam Friedland?

  You would've been a file clerk?

• 41:54Speaker 04

  Data collection and filing, yeah.

• 41:56Adam Friedland?

  Oh, you are autistic.

• 41:57Speaker 04

  That's my passion.

• 41:58Adam Friedland?

  Proper autistic. That's, that sounds like the she, the suckiest... Thing ever.

• 42:01Speaker 04

  No, no, you can't even get to work in the basement. No one gets to talk to you. There's no windows. It's a dream.

• 42:07Adam Friedland?

  That sounds really scary.

• 42:09Speaker 04

  No, it's amazing.

• 42:10Adam Friedland?

  I used to have to do filing.

• 42:12Speaker 04

  Do you know how many colors the Smithsonian has in their possession that don't exist anymore?

• 42:16Adam Friedland?

  No. What, what, what was that question? How many colors? The Smithsonian has.

• 42:22Speaker 04

  They are in possession of 150 colors that are no longer in existence.

• 42:26Adam Friedland?

  The human head weighs 15 pounds. Have you seen Jerry Maguire? 16 and a half?

• 42:31Speaker 04

  I'm kidding.

• 42:31Adam Friedland?

  Jerry Maguire, that kid?

• 42:33Speaker 04

  Isn't Jerry Maguire Show Me The Money?

• 42:35Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, of course.

• 42:35Speaker 04

  Oh, I've seen that, I've seen that.

• 42:36Adam Friedland?

  Sports.

• 42:37Speaker 04

  But I thought you were calling me autistic, so I assumed right.

• 42:39Adam Friedland?

  No, the little kid goes, here my head, right, 15 pounds.

• 42:42Speaker 04

  Was that Stuart Little?

• 42:43Adam Friedland?

  It was Stuart Little, it was a mouse. It was the mouse.

• 42:46Speaker 04

  Yeah, it was a mouse?

• 42:47Adam Friedland?

  No, it was that kid with the glasses.

• 42:48Speaker 04

  Yeah. You know, I hate that kid, I always want to punch him in the face.

• 42:51Adam Friedland?

  Jonathan Lefnicki.

• 42:53Speaker 04

  I hate him.

• 42:54Adam Friedland?

  Whoa, I got that?

• 42:55Speaker 04

  Wow.

• 42:56Adam Friedland?

  What a pull.

• 42:58Speaker 04

  Great pull.

• 43:01Adam Friedland?

  Trainspotting not a good movie.

• 43:02Speaker 04

  Trainspotting is a phenomenal movie.

• 43:03Adam Friedland?

  Ah, no, no.

• 43:04Speaker 04

  Is your issue with Danny Boyle or with great acting?

• 43:07Adam Friedland?

  It's just mess, it's just a mess, so it's good art. Have you read the book? Oh, no, I can't read, I don't, I don't know.

• 43:12Speaker 04

  The glasses are big.

• 43:13Adam Friedland?

  No, no, I do with, uh, listening.

• 43:15Speaker 04

  Okay, so Trainspotting, you, well, you probably could.

• 43:17Adam Friedland?

  I read his history.

• 43:18Speaker 04

  It's written phonetically, in the Scottish accent. So it's amazing, and there's a, there's like a key in the back with, for all of the Scottish slang.

• 43:27Adam Friedland?

  So it's a lot of work? To like, b, b, b.

• 43:30Speaker 04

  Have you ever read House of Leaves, where you have to like turn the book around as you're reading it and like?

• 43:34Adam Friedland?

  Is it?

• 43:34Speaker 04

  Yeah. There's like some pages that are like written around the corner, yeah.

• 43:38Adam Friedland?

  Who wrote that?

• 43:39Speaker 04

  I can't remember.

• 43:41Adam Friedland?

  I've never read that.

• 43:42Speaker 04

  Not Harper Lee.

• 43:44Adam Friedland?

  You kinda are, Harper Lee. You should change your bio, the Harper Lee of.

• 43:47Speaker 04

  Are you kidding? I am going to rest on that laurel for the rest of my life.

• 43:50Adam Friedland?

  I kinda think like maybe it's, it's kinda dope.

• 43:53Speaker 04

  I love that, I love To Kill A Mockingbird.

• 43:56Adam Friedland?

  Um, yeah, I love it too. I mean, that's, I've kinda modeled myself after, uh, Boo Rabbly in my career.

• 44:04Speaker 04

  Boo, after, after Boo, okay.

• 44:06Adam Friedland?

  Um, I think, I think like, um, so you, you think that like what, you studied like data collection, science kind of stuff?

• 44:15Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 44:16Adam Friedland?

  And then?

• 44:16Speaker 04

  That's what I would want, that's what I would want to do.

• 44:18Adam Friedland?

  And, and do you, would you have considered that like a, a better alternative at cer- certain points?

• 44:22Speaker 04

  I think that's very, that's, that's, that's up to, that's up for debate.

• 44:27Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 44:28Speaker 04

  I think, well.

• 44:31Speaker 04

  I am

• 44:32Adam Friedland?

  Your proper

• 44:33Speaker 04

  Successful. No.

• 44:35Adam Friedland?

  You live in Miami?

• 44:36Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 44:37Adam Friedland?

  Big ass house? You got on the water?

• 44:39Speaker 04

  No, no.

• 44:40Adam Friedland?

  Star Island?

• 44:40Speaker 04

  No, I live in like essentially a condo but with a backyard.

• 44:43Adam Friedland?

  Do you like, like what's your crew in Miami? You like living there?

• 44:47Speaker 04

  My crew is two people.

• 44:49Adam Friedland?

  Two people?

• 44:49Speaker 04

  Yeah. I don't love living there.

• 44:52Adam Friedland?

  Who's your crew?

• 44:53Speaker 04

  My two girlfriends.

• 44:54Adam Friedland?

  Her?

• 44:55Speaker 04

  Boston. Can't get her to move to Miami.

• 44:57Adam Friedland?

  Why don't you move to Miami with your best friend?

• 44:59Speaker 04

  She has two.

• 45:01Adam Friedland?

  They can move too. How old are your kids?

• 45:03Speaker 04

  Yes, Sam!

• 45:05Adam Friedland?

  They're under three?

• 45:06Speaker 04

  Yeah. Mamacita. She's a mommy.

• 45:09Adam Friedland?

  If they move to Miami, they'd be, they'd, they'd love it.

• 45:13Speaker 04

  They are really, they'd suffer.

• 45:15Adam Friedland?

  Whatever, they'd like, they'd be fine. They'd just do Molly when they're 11, they get over it.

• 45:19Speaker 04

  Oh my god, that's literally how kids in Miami grow up.

• 45:21Adam Friedland?

  I know, it's crazy. I grew, I went to college with some of those kids and they, they really like, they were like

• 45:27Speaker 04

  Where'd you go to school?

• 45:28Adam Friedland?

  GW.

• 45:28Speaker 04

  Oh, right.

• 45:29Adam Friedland?

  You've, you've since become like a, like a fashion person, right?

• 45:33Speaker 04

  Thanks.

• 45:33Adam Friedland?

  Do you like that world?

• 45:34Speaker 04

  Yes. That, yeah, I do.

• 45:36Adam Friedland?

  Do you, you're a designer?

• 45:38Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 45:39Adam Friedland?

  What do you, what's your, what's your line called?

• 45:41Speaker 04

  Chaitan.

• 45:42Adam Friedland?

  Chaitan? Is that French?

• 45:43Speaker 04

  No, it's, it's Spanish. No, it's Arabic.

• 45:46Adam Friedland?

  Arabic?

• 45:47Speaker 04

  Yeah, it means devil.

• 45:48Adam Friedland?

  Have you been back to Lebanon in the last couple of years?

• 45:51Speaker 04

  No.

• 45:51Adam Friedland?

  Are you allowed to?

• 45:53Speaker 04

  I'm not not allowed to, but I don't think it would be the smartest decision to go somewhere where I get a lot of threats from. It's difficult there.

• 46:03Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. Are you in contact with anyone that's like, or like, have, do you feel like an obligation to advocate for individuals that are in the industry?

• 46:14Adam Friedland?

  Or?

• 46:15Speaker 04

  I, I, I advocate for the rights of sex workers and for the protection of sex workers and I advocate for changing the, the age of, of consent

• 46:25Speaker 04

  for doing porn specifically. I'm, I'm not talking about the age of consent in general, but at the very least for, for the adult industry, to 21.

• 46:33Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 46:35Speaker 04

  But I also know that actual sex workers and women who are still in the traditional porn industry do not like it when I speak on the industry.

• 46:47Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 46:48Speaker 04

  At all.

• 46:48Adam Friedland?

  So you feel in divide?

• 46:49Speaker 04

  Because they think that my opinion is completely irrelevant and doesn't, yeah.

• 46:54Adam Friedland?

  That's interesting. Yeah, I guess because you were only there for a short time, so they feel like you have no right to speak on it.

• 46:59Speaker 04

  Yeah, and there's this weird, like, there's this weird thing of they see me as biting the hand that fed me because they take so much pride in what they do and they're so proud of it and I kind of demonize the industry because that's what it is. Like, the traditional production porn industry is predatory and toxic and terrible, absolutely terrible, top to bottom.

• 47:23Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 47:24Speaker 04

  So, yeah, they do, they don't like it when I talk about it that way, but that's, that's the truth.

• 47:29Adam Friedland?

  Right. Yeah, I guess that's a difficult position to be placed in because you obviously want to, certainly.

• 47:35Speaker 04

  Want to what?

• 47:36Adam Friedland?

  To be like a, an advocate, right?

• 47:39Speaker 04

  No, not necessarily.

• 47:40Adam Friedland?

  Well, you do it like when it comes to, you know, what's the Middle East, you do it when it comes to women's rights, you know, like, you know.

• 47:46Speaker 04

  Yeah, but I will never advocate for the traditional porn industry. I think it should be dismantled and disbanded completely and I think that everybody should be, I, I don't think it should be legal to sign a contract in perpetuity when it involves a woman's body.

• 47:59Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. Yeah. I guess who's gonna do it if, if we take it away from the Israelis? Cut that, seriously, go ahead.

• 48:12Speaker 04

  No, that's the lead.

• 48:13Adam Friedland?

  Should I get a rhinoplasty?

• 48:15Speaker 04

  No!

• 48:15Adam Friedland?

  What was the recovery process like?

• 48:17Speaker 04

  Oh my god, a day, not even. I didn't take any pain meds after.

• 48:20Adam Friedland?

  Maybe just a little bit small, a day?

• 48:22Speaker 04

  A day, not even.

• 48:23Adam Friedland?

  And it was, and it looks like a little bit, just a little bit smaller, maybe?

• 48:28Speaker 04

  Don't get a rhinoplasty.

• 48:29Adam Friedland?

  What about like-

• 48:30Speaker 04

  Strong noses on men are so nice.

• 48:32Adam Friedland?

  What about like a, like a, like a little bit of like a Michael Jackson style?

• 48:35Speaker 04

  Oh my god.

• 48:35Adam Friedland?

  A tiny.

• 48:36Speaker 04

  I wonder if it comes with the-

• 48:37Adam Friedland?

  A snape. What if I got a snape?

• 48:39Speaker 04

  Snape?

• 48:40Adam Friedland?

  Or no, I mean a-

• 48:40Speaker 04

  Voldemort.

• 48:41Adam Friedland?

  Voldemort, yeah.

• 48:42Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 48:42Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 48:43Speaker 04

  Just a slit, just two slits?

• 48:45Adam Friedland?

  Come on. You think girls like that?

• 48:48Speaker 04

  Yeah. What, Ray Fiennes is sexy.

• 48:50Adam Friedland?

  No, I like my nose. I've recently started liking it. Are you, were you baptized? You got a batm- what's the batmismah, confirmation?

• 48:57Speaker 04

  I had a first communion, I had a confirmation. Yeah, everything, everything.

• 49:01Adam Friedland?

  They, in Lebanon, do they do Arabic mass?

• 49:04Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah. Lebanon is predominantly Christian, actually.

• 49:09Adam Friedland?

  Predominantly Christian, yeah.

• 49:10Speaker 04

  Fifty-one percent? Like barely predominantly, but still.

• 49:13Adam Friedland?

  That sounds like a little bit of exaggeration. Fifty-one.

• 49:16Speaker 04

  Yeah, maybe, maybe they're, they're fluffing those numbers, but yeah, there's a huge, huge Christian community.

• 49:23Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, I guess like, um, just moving forward, like what, what are your like big projects that you're looking forward to and like you wanna work on and like, goals you have like in your career?

• 49:32Speaker 04

  A documentary, a book.

• 49:35Adam Friedland?

  Documentary about, what, what, what would the focus be?

• 49:39Speaker 04

  Harper Lee.

• 49:40Adam Friedland?

  Harper Lee? Kind of a little bit true, no?

• 49:43Speaker 04

  I'm telling you, I'm running with this in my head.

• 49:46Adam Friedland?

  Maybe Bo Jackson?

• 49:48Speaker 04

  Bo Jackson?

• 49:49Adam Friedland?

  But he played professionally too.

• 49:51Speaker 04

  Exactly.

• 49:52Adam Friedland?

  It doesn't count, it doesn't count. I was thinking John Casell, that guy, but he wasn't like the Mia Khalifa of those movies.

• 49:58Speaker 04

  Oh, damn.

• 49:59Adam Friedland?

  He was in five movies that all got nominated Best Picture and he died. Died doesn't count.

• 50:03Speaker 04

  Died doesn't count, no.

• 50:04Adam Friedland?

  You know, he was Meryl Streep's partner.

• 50:07Speaker 04

  Aww.

• 50:08Adam Friedland?

  You know that Fredo from The Godfather?

• 50:10Speaker 04

  Oh shit. He was Meryl Streep's partner?

• 50:13Adam Friedland?

  Uh, Dog Day Afternoon, Godfather I, II, Deer Hunter, and The Conversation.

• 50:19Speaker 04

  Deer Hunter.

• 50:19Adam Friedland?

  All nominated Best Picture.

• 50:20Speaker 04

  Oh my god.

• 50:22Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, but he wasn't the Mia Khalifa of those movies.

• 50:23Speaker 04

  That's quite a run.

• 50:25Adam Friedland?

  There's only one other one, but the legacy hasn't lasted. Bjorn Borg, the, the Swedish tennis player-

• 50:32Speaker 04

  Oh my god, that's so funny.

• 50:33Adam Friedland?

  Retired at twenty-six.

• 50:33Speaker 04

  No, he has, he has the underwear line.

• 50:35Adam Friedland?

  Who?

• 50:35Speaker 04

  Bjorn Borg.

• 50:36Adam Friedland?

  Look that up, let's see it.

• 50:38Speaker 04

  Doesn't he?

• 50:38Adam Friedland?

  So both of you guys retired and started underwear stuff?

• 50:41Speaker 04

  Yeah, exactly.

• 50:43Adam Friedland?

  Bjorn Borg did?

• 50:44Speaker 04

  Right? Look up the Swedish underwear brand, cause my ex-husband was Swedish and he always wore like things on the waistband that said Bjorn.

• 50:53Adam Friedland?

  What was it like being married to a Swede?

• 50:56Speaker 04

  Um, lots of

• 50:57Adam Friedland?

  Do they, do they

• 50:58Speaker 04

  Ikea trips.

• 50:59Adam Friedland?

  Do they laugh? Really, not they, they don't do that.

• 51:02Speaker 04

  No, they don't.

• 51:02Adam Friedland?

  That's, that's offensive. That's incredibly offensive to say.

• 51:05Speaker 04

  Is it?

• 51:06Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, what, they're going to Ikea and eating horse meat and stuff? He retired at Where's the underpants? You're making this up. Very handsome guy.

• 51:15Speaker 04

  Look up Bjorn Swedish underpants then, because I'm just, I'm just misremembering who owns the brand. Bjorn is a common name.

• 51:23Adam Friedland?

  Personal life.

• 51:26Adam Friedland?

  Oh, his business ventures failed.

• 51:28Speaker 04

  Oh, oh my god.

• 51:32Speaker 04

  Poor guy.

• 51:33Adam Friedland?

  And now he's trying to go back to tennis at the age of 68. Sad when you

• 51:38Speaker 04

  For what?

• 51:39Adam Friedland?

  I know, I'm just kidding. I was just joking. So, so you've been married twice.

• 51:44Speaker 04

  Hmm.

• 51:45Adam Friedland?

  Um, like, is it? Have you found that that's like been like a difficult thing for you, like to like trust people? Like a reestablished trust, like after like processing your, your experiences prior?

• 51:58Speaker 04

  No, I think I have really good discernment.

• 52:00Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 52:00Speaker 04

  And if I don't trust someone from like instantly, I'm never going to.

• 52:05Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 52:06Speaker 04

  That's not something that you can build.

• 52:07Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 52:08Speaker 04

  It's something that you either like, you know?

• 52:10Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 52:11Speaker 04

  So, no, yeah. Those relationships ended for very different reasons.

• 52:17Adam Friedland?

  Mm-hmm.

• 52:18Speaker 04

  Um, mostly just growing, growing and not growing at the same time.

• 52:23Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. Babies.

• 52:25Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 52:25Adam Friedland?

  Baby boys?

• 52:27Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 52:27Adam Friedland?

  They were baby boys?

• 52:28Speaker 04

  Yeah, every boy is a baby boy till 57.

• 52:30Adam Friedland?

  I can't, I can't trust these men, right?

• 52:33Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 52:34Adam Friedland?

  Do you think that men are becoming like the girls?

• 52:36Speaker 04

  Yeah, they are.

• 52:38Adam Friedland?

  Because all my friends are like All my friends are like, I just want to like open up and share my feelings. But I feel like she's withholding. And I'm like, isn't this what the girl, the guy, isn't that, we're supposed to be doing that?

• 52:53Speaker 04

  You're supposed to be fighting in wars and building houses.

• 52:55Adam Friedland?

  We're supposed to come back from the, from the black lung place and be like-

• 52:59Speaker 04

  The coals, the coal mines?

• 53:00Adam Friedland?

  And she's gonna be like, "I wanna talk about my day," and we're supposed to be like, "I can't do that," but now it's, the girls are doing that to us. What happened to us?

• 53:10Speaker 04

  The coal mines shut down. We need to go back to fossil fuels.

• 53:13Adam Friedland?

  We stopped violence. I think we stopped violence.

• 53:15Speaker 04

  We need to start beating the men.

• 53:16Adam Friedland?

  No, the, no-

• 53:17Speaker 04

  Ladies, we gotta start beating the men!

• 53:19Adam Friedland?

  I think our grandfathers were like, about to be like, "When I was eight, I had a traumatic thing," but then they did violence instead.

• 53:26Speaker 04

  Yeah, and that's how you exert all of that, yeah.

• 53:29Adam Friedland?

  We stopped the violence and now we're like, just now we're like, "Just I want her to understand the real me."

• 53:35Speaker 04

  Okay, so after this, I'll punch you in the face.

• 53:37Adam Friedland?

  No, it's the opposite.

• 53:38Speaker 04

  You need to punch me in the face?

• 53:39Adam Friedland?

  You can punch me in the face right now to end the episode.

• 53:41Speaker 04

  But I have a nose job.

• 53:42Adam Friedland?

  I'm not gonna punch you in the face. I don't wanna hit anyone, let alone a girl.

• 53:46Speaker 04

  We have to rebalance the scales.

• 53:47Adam Friedland?

  Let alone a cultural icon, and a noted anti-Semite that I've-

• 53:51Speaker 04

  Oh my god!

• 53:54Adam Friedland?

  I don't wanna be hit.

• 53:55Speaker 04

  We could do it through blocking.

• 53:57Adam Friedland?

  It's a little bit like-

• 53:57Speaker 04

  You don't know how to fling yourself and pretend like you got hit?

• 54:00Adam Friedland?

  People do this, when they make, it's too much, like, it's, it's nice vanilla, no?

• 54:06Speaker 04

  What?

• 54:06Adam Friedland?

  Just, just regular, like, "I love you" and stuff, that kinda stuff.

• 54:11Speaker 04

  Without a slap? Does it really mean anything?

• 54:12Adam Friedland?

  No, I don't wanna be hitting and stuff and doing hitting and she's like, "Hit me," and I'm like, "I don't, I will if you want," but like, it doesn't feel nice to do.

• 54:21Speaker 04

  Why?

• 54:22Adam Friedland?

  Cause I like, like, just like, ball gown, tuxedo.

• 54:25Speaker 04

  Yes. Through the sheets, through the bed sheets.

• 54:27Adam Friedland?

  Dance, like a, like a romantic dance and a twer- a spin, and then, yeah, and then like a huge, you know, with a canopy bed, and then just like, you know, exploring, and then-

• 54:40Speaker 04

  And then soaking.

• 54:41Adam Friedland?

  I love, what's soaking?

• 54:42Speaker 04

  Soaking is what the Mormons do.

• 54:44Adam Friedland?

  Oh, yeah, yeah, I heard about that. What does they do? They just, they just go to bed inside of a girl?

• 54:49Speaker 04

  And then there's somebody under the bed and they're pushing the mattress up, so technically, they're not having sex. They accidentally are going, are-

• 55:00Adam Friedland?

  Do you think culturally, we should, just, people should not-

• 55:03Speaker 04

  Stop being Mormon?

• 55:04Adam Friedland?

  No, people should just like, we should know, like-

• 55:06Speaker 04

  Kill the Mormons?

• 55:07Adam Friedland?

  People should have secrets again. I don't need to know everything when someone talks, you know, like, I don't, like, the way you fuck is like a big part of identity now. And it's just sometimes I'm like, I don't care, like, it's like, I wanna get my sandwich and get out of here.

• 55:23Speaker 04

  Is that what you call cookie, a sandwich?

• 55:26Adam Friedland?

  No, I'm, I'm at, like, if I'm at a bagel place and they're like, "I'm a Dom Daddy Top," I'm like, a little bit like, "Can we just go back to secrets?" "How can we make things nice again, Sarah?"

• 55:43Adam Friedland?

  We can make things nice.

• 55:44Speaker 04

  We got on the right track yesterday.

• 55:45Adam Friedland?

  No, I mean, this is kind of a nice thing.

• 55:48Speaker 04

  This is nice, yeah.

• 55:49Adam Friedland?

  No, but like, a kind of a, to see, you know, to see us getting along.

• 55:54Speaker 04

  Yeah, we're bridging, we're bridging worlds.

• 55:55Adam Friedland?

  Christian and Jewish?

• 55:57Speaker 04

  Hmm, yeah.

• 55:58Adam Friedland?

  Yeah? That's nice.

• 55:59Speaker 04

  Palestinian chicken?

• 56:00Adam Friedland?

  Do you think people are seeing this as an inspiration right now?

• 56:02Speaker 04

  Yeah, of course.

• 56:03Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 56:04Speaker 04

  This is the two-state solution.

• 56:06Adam Friedland?

  No, come on, I don't want two states.

• 56:09Speaker 04

  I don't either, there's only one.

• 56:10Adam Friedland?

  I don't want a state at all. Do you think that?

• 56:13Speaker 04

  Just open all the borders, we're citizens of the world.

• 56:16Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, I guess, like, um, I guess, let's just, uh, I guess, let's, let's leave it at this.

• 56:23Speaker 04

  Okay.

• 56:26Adam Friedland?

  No, I mean, I think that, like, uh, let me see, I had one more that I wanted to, uh, to say.

• 56:40Adam Friedland?

  Do you think that, um,

• 56:44Adam Friedland?

  are you the Harper Lee of porn? Are you the, so, short career, big impact, Harper Lee? Really, all these notes are about Harper Lee? I, I think,

• 56:57Adam Friedland?

  sorry, I'm sorry, I, normally I'm way more professional than this.

• 57:18Adam Friedland?

  I guess like, uh, I brought up when Harry met Sally.

• 57:31Adam Friedland?

  So you got your name from Wiz Khalifa?

• 57:33Speaker 04

  No, it was my first dog's name.

• 57:35Adam Friedland?

  And the last name from Wiz Khalifa?

• 57:37Speaker 04

  Yeah, more or less, yeah.

• 57:39Adam Friedland?

  Is he your favorite rapper?

• 57:40Speaker 04

  No, but I love weed.

• 57:44Adam Friedland?

  Alright, me either.

• 57:46Speaker 04

  Thank you.

• 57:49Speaker 04

  My hands are clean.

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