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• 0:00Speaker 00

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• 2:15Adam Friedland?

  A lot of your thing is you just debate gay people? I mean, I did one recently. Knowles versus transgenderism, Knowles versus protesters, that's got 2.4 milli. Oh, people will come up. Story of detransitioning, 1.4 milli. I was gay, she was trans, 1.1 milli. No longer gay. No longer gay. Not dating trans, bigoted. So you argue with gay people? No. All the time. I don't, I don't. Their job? They argue with me. You could've gone to finance. Why do you, like, you went to Yale, why are you?

• 3:16Adam Friedland?

  Good evening and welcome to The Adam Friedland Show. I'm Adam Friedland. First off, as always, I want to thank our members for supporting the show here on youtube.com. You guys are the ones that make it happen. So if you'd like to join the Friedland Family Foundation, you get bonus content, you get your name in the credits, you get discounts on merch, you get the show early before the rest of the pigs. You'll be at the water cooler knowing what's gonna be in the show. So guys, go to the top of the screen and click "Join", or click the link in the description of this video. You could also support us at patreon.com/theadamfriedlandshow, if you prefer to support the show through Patreon. And speaking of merch, the store is restocked. You can check out theadamfriedland.show. We got everything you need.

• 3:59Adam Friedland?

  Shirts, hats, check it out. They look good. My guest this week is conservative political commentator from the Daily Wire, Michael Knowles. His podcast, The Michael Knowles Show, has amassed millions of followers and over 1.5 billion views, making him one of the most prominent conservative pundits in media today. A former actor, known for his traditionalist, Christian perspective on American politics, Knowles has openly expressed his opposition to LGBTQ rights, specifically amongst children. Now, those of you who know what's in my heart on this issue, know that Michael Knowles and I couldn't disagree more. I am... A proud supporter of gays and I don't want anyone to confuse me having someone like

• 4:44Adam Friedland?

  Michael Knowles on the show for supporting his point of view in any way. So that's why in true talk show style, I think it's a good idea to lead us into this interview. But I made a list. This is my top 10 gay guys from history. All right, 10. Caravaggio, my goat painter, obviously. 9. Elton John, he raised a ton of money for AIDS in Africa and he wrote some of the most legendary songs with Bernie Taupin, his songwriting partner. 8. Plato, enough sad, everyone knows. 7. Tim Cook. I mean, I don't know if I'm alone in this, but when Steve Jobs died, I really thought

• 5:25Adam Friedland?

  Apple was cooked, but then they had someone, they had Cook come chef it. Yeah. 6. Alan Turing, one of the smartest gay guys of all time, his math was, uh, won the war. I think, what did he do? Benedict Cumberbatch. I didn't see that movie, did you see it? Okay. 5. Oscar Wilde. I love the, his sayings. He's brilliant, uh, his wit is brilliant and his style, flamboyant style was awesome. 4. George Michael, he was Greek and gay double trouble. 3. Tim Dillon, he's actually gay. I don't know if you guys knew that. He's gay.

• 6:10Adam Friedland?

  2. Wentworth Miller from, uh, the show Prison Break. Apparently he's gay and I, I love that show. 1. This is my god, Nathan Lane, personal favorite of mine. His performance, have you seen The Birdcage? His performance as Albert in The Birdcage is perhaps the funniest movie character I've ever seen. His range is really what impresses me. The thing is, like, he could play some of the most iconic straight characters too. He was, a lot of you might not know, he played Timon. The Lion King. These are some of our most talented artists, performers, thinkers. These people are unparalleled in their fields.

• 6:52Adam Friedland?

  But to people like Michael Knowles, these are people that have problems and they suffer from some sort of spiritual affliction. So how can you have an honest and meaningful dialogue with someone like that? Well, you'll just have to see. So please enjoy my conversation with Michael Knowles.

• 7:17Adam Friedland?

  All right, we ready, Michael?

• 7:19Speaker 05

  I'm ready.

• 7:20Adam Friedland?

  Is it Michael, or Mike, or Mikey?

• 7:22Speaker 05

  I defer to you. I generally go for Michael, but I defer to you.

• 7:25Adam Friedland?

  Well, I generally go for Mike. Okay. Ladies and gentlemen, prominent conservative pundit from the Daily Wire, Michael Knowles, everybody.

• 7:34Speaker 05

  Thank you.

• 7:37Speaker 05

  It's a full house, thank you.

• 7:38Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, full house, yeah. We collected these guys from Times Square, a bunch of fat tourists. We're pressed for time, you have to go to, where?

• 7:46Speaker 05

  LaGuardia.

• 7:47Adam Friedland?

  LaGuardia.

• 7:47Speaker 05

  I do, I have to.

• 7:48Adam Friedland?

  That's the destination.

• 7:50Speaker 05

  It is. I stayed at Delta Lounge, I could stay there all day.

• 7:52Adam Friedland?

  Actually, the TWA Hotel is quite nice.

• 7:55Speaker 05

  That's right.

• 7:55Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's where you can, you can take a nap there, actually. I've taken a nap there before. Okay.

• 8:03Speaker 05

  Yep.

• 8:04Adam Friedland?

  Let's go to you. You know, our audience is like, barely can read, so like, we're gonna have to introduce you a little bit and then I want to get into, kind of like, I've been watching a bunch of stuff you've done and I think it's pretty interesting and I kind of want to discuss a couple of things about yourself, about where things are at currently. And then, I don't know, we can, I don't know, I'll show you some TikToks or something.

• 8:31Speaker 05

  Right.

• 8:32Adam Friedland?

  Okay, okay. So you're from Westchester?

• 8:36Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 8:37Adam Friedland?

  Correct. And then you went to Yale?

• 8:39Speaker 05

  I did.

• 8:39Adam Friedland?

  But you were a child actor?

• 8:41Speaker 05

  I was, yeah, I did a little acting as a child and a little bit in my early twenties.

• 8:44Adam Friedland?

  Was your mom taking you to the city for auditions?

• 8:47Speaker 05

  No, she really discouraged it, actually.

• 8:48Adam Friedland?

  Your mom didn't want it?

• 8:49Speaker 05

  Yeah, because child actors go crazy and they're exploited a lot.

• 8:52Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 8:53Speaker 05

  So I really wanted to be an actor as a kid. And I would do little things, commercials or whatever, but she really put the kibosh on it. And, but I would, finally I convinced her to let me do an acting conservatory type thing. Right around here, actually. And so I did that a little bit. A little bit in college, a little bit in New York afterward. And then my final gig, I got some like low-budget movie in LA. And it wrapped photography on the day of the 2016 election. And the election results were coming in. And everyone really liked me on the set, I was very popular. And but then they were all getting really sad, and I was not getting sad. And then they realized my political views, and they liked me less, I concluded.

• 9:30Adam Friedland?

  Oh man, you should have seen Brooklyn on that night.

• 9:34Speaker 05

  Were you at the center?

• 9:35Adam Friedland?

  I was saying, this probably won't make the show, I said it the other, no, I wasn't at the Javits. I wasn't getting things thrown at me by Hillary, uh, no. I mean, it is kind of such a comedy of errors, that whole thing.

• 9:46Speaker 05

  It was amazing, and frankly, there were a lot of conservatives. A lot of the, you know, real establishment types were devastated. They thought it could not happen.

• 9:53Adam Friedland?

  Well, Reince was like trying to throw another body at Trump every week during that primary. He was like, Ted, just try this week.

• 10:00Speaker 05

  And yeah, Marco.

• 10:01Adam Friedland?

  And he was like, you're gay, your wife, I have dirt on your wife.

• 10:05Speaker 05

  They did, you know, Reince then ended up becoming Chief of Staff. It's amazing how that didn't work out very well.

• 10:10Adam Friedland?

  I, yeah, well, I, it's, it's, yeah, little Marco's now the Secretary of State, yeah.

• 10:15Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah.

• 10:15Adam Friedland?

  It's funny, when they were all humiliated publicly by this guy, and then they were like, phone banking, depressed, like, yeah, Ted, there's a picture of Ted like phone banking like during the general, like this.

• 10:26Speaker 05

  Well, you know, this is the thing I really like about Trump and all those guys. They, they were always accused of taking everything personally. They took nothing personally, including Trump.

• 10:34Adam Friedland?

  I think he hurt their feelings. It definitely hurt their feelings.

• 10:37Speaker 05

  He was a brutal, he was an insult comic for the entire 16 primary.

• 10:40Adam Friedland?

  He was Lisa Lampan, he was like, on the verge, Joan Rivers became the president. She was, it was like, Fashion Police became the president. She was like Kesha, I love your outfit, it would look better on a woman, yeah, like, that's, that's basically, yeah. I, I do say often, like, he does, like, he does act a lot like, like the, the women in my family. A lot, like, no one respects me, you wish I was dead, you'll be happy when I'm dead.

• 11:10Adam Friedland?

  You're very unfair.

• 11:11Speaker 05

  Yes, oh yeah.

• 11:12Adam Friedland?

  He's the first Jewish woman president.

• 11:14Speaker 05

  And you know why too, it's because he's from Queens.

• 11:16Adam Friedland?

  He's an outer borough New Yorker.

• 11:19Speaker 05

  Yes, when he would do, he would do this thing, no one understood, he'd put things in quotes, like, "I'm really good," or whatever, you know, "I'm the best president." And he writes, like my grandmother used to write in New York, he used the quotes to be, like, bold-faced or something, and random capitalizations and all, but that is, New Yorkers of a certain era, era, rather, that's how they would write, you know, and so, I don't know, I felt very familiar with it.

• 11:43Adam Friedland?

  There is a moment, I kind of felt like he was for real, when he was like, they were like, "How can we," it was like Ted, or Ted, I think, he was like, "How can we vote for Donald when he gave money to Hillary Clinton?" And he's like, "I'm rich, I give money to everybody."

• 11:56Speaker 05

  I bribe everybody.

• 11:57Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, and it's just like, but for the public, like, the public knew that that was true, but no one, no one had admitted it, it was kind of like a mask-off moment, where it's like, "This is a thing that we all know is true," and I'm like, "Oh damn, I think he's actually for real."

• 12:10Speaker 05

  Well, that was the read of authenticity, is he would do a bit about running for president. Like, he would even joke, he'd say, "All right, I'm gonna be really presidential today, today's my day to be presidential," and it read as quite sincere, I mean, I don't know.

• 12:23Adam Friedland?

  He was renegotiating his contract with Jeff Zucker for Apprentice, he didn't want to be the president, he just realized that the rest of these people are such losers that he could actually win. It's kind of like me becoming the most famous late-night talk show.

• 12:37Speaker 05

  You're the Joe Rogan of the left, I heard.

• 12:39Adam Friedland?

  I'm Joe Rogan of the left.

• 12:40Speaker 05

  I read that, I read that somewhere.

• 12:41Adam Friedland?

  I'm the fucking, I'm Mahatma Gandhi of Generation Alpha. I just don't, the newspaper wrote three articles that, I don't even know how to read, my brother.

• 12:51Speaker 05

  I know, but you're very famous now.

• 12:53Adam Friedland?

  This is, I'm not very famous, I'm not like Brad Pitt.

• 12:57Speaker 05

  You're not Brad, you're quite famous.

• 12:58Adam Friedland?

  I'm incredibly famous.

• 13:01Speaker 05

  Extremely, extremely.

• 13:02Adam Friedland?

  So, wait, so you went to Yale?

• 13:04Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 13:05Adam Friedland?

  From, from, from your, you know, from your childhood in Westchester?

• 13:10Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 13:11Adam Friedland?

  You're a Yanks fan?

• 13:12Speaker 05

  Yankees fan, yeah.

• 13:13Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, how's it feel right now?

• 13:14Speaker 05

  I kind of uh.

• 13:16Adam Friedland?

  It's kind of different now.

• 13:17Speaker 05

  I stopped the religious viewing of the games halfway through the summer. I took my kid though to his first ever Yankee Red Sox game over the summer. And that we lost again, but.

• 13:27Adam Friedland?

  I think it was the new stadium.

• 13:28Speaker 05

  It was, yeah, listen, I love the old stadium.

• 13:30Adam Friedland?

  The new stadium, it was like, it's a corporate headquarters. It's soulless.

• 13:34Speaker 05

  It's, it's, it's sort of like the Colosseum. Like, I'm not totally opposed to it. It's this symbol of imperial power. It's like, but I agree, it doesn't have that, that same, that same soul.

• 13:45Adam Friedland?

  The fans aren't dickheads anymore. You guys used to be fucking dickheads.

• 13:50Speaker 05

  I was walking, it was out of the old stadium, I think it was. And I, it was a Yankees Red Sox game 20 years ago. And there was, I don't know what happened, but some Red Sox fan was being like beaten, beaten to a pulp on the street. I thought, ah, yes.

• 14:05Adam Friedland?

  It used to be, yeah.

• 14:06Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 14:06Adam Friedland?

  It used to mean something.

• 14:07Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 14:08Adam Friedland?

  We used to throw, Pedro used to assault Zim.

• 14:11Speaker 05

  Mm-hmm, that's right.

• 14:12Adam Friedland?

  Do you remember when his fat ass got thrown to the ground by Pedro?

• 14:15Speaker 05

  In fairness.

• 14:16Adam Friedland?

  Just waddling up.

• 14:17Speaker 05

  Zim kind of started it. I mean, he charged him, you know, he was the one who charged him. And then one time Big Poppy spit his gum at me at the stadium. I was heckling him.

• 14:25Adam Friedland?

  He did?

• 14:25Speaker 05

  He was walking to the dugout, yeah.

• 14:26Adam Friedland?

  What'd you say?

• 14:27Speaker 05

  I was a kid or whatever.

• 14:28Adam Friedland?

  You said deport, deport.

• 14:29Speaker 05

  I did. Tom Homan's gonna get you. No, I didn't.

• 14:33Adam Friedland?

  It was so badass after the Boston bombing when he was like, these are fucking seeds. Do you remember that?

• 14:38Speaker 05

  I don't remember that.

• 14:39Adam Friedland?

  There, he was addressing the stadium, he goes, these are fucking seeds.

• 14:43Speaker 05

  I gotta go back to the tape.

• 14:44Adam Friedland?

  Please don't curse. Dude, yeah, I mean, they were kind of like the Washington Heights team though.

• 14:50Speaker 05

  Mm.

• 14:51Adam Friedland?

  They had Manny, they had Poppy, they, they, they're a very Dominican team.

• 14:55Speaker 05

  They're very Dominican.

• 14:56Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 14:57Speaker 05

  And he, Big Poppy is my fellow cigar man. He's a cigar manufacturer.

• 15:01Adam Friedland?

  Oh, really?

• 15:02Speaker 05

  Yeah, that's, that's the, that's the only thing he and I have in common.

• 15:04Adam Friedland?

  Why is it good in communist Cuba? Why are those considered the best?

• 15:08Speaker 05

  Well, they were considered the best. I think the quality has gone down a lot, mostly because the Chinese bought them and it's been declining since communism.

• 15:16Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 15:16Speaker 05

  But, you know, it's like, why is Bordeaux wine so good? It's just the dirt and the sun, basically.

• 15:20Adam Friedland?

  Okay, and they had good dirt?

• 15:22Speaker 05

  And they have good dirt in Cuba. The problem is, the quality has declined. So you buy a box of Cuban cigars, you might have to throw out half the box. They don't even smoke. You can barely light them.

• 15:30Adam Friedland?

  Uh huh.

• 15:30Speaker 05

  And so if you want really good cigars, you gotta get Mayflower cigars, in my experience.

• 15:34Adam Friedland?

  Is that yours?

• 15:35Speaker 05

  Coincidentally, it's mine, yeah.

• 15:36Adam Friedland?

  You named it after the Puritans?

• 15:39Speaker 05

  Yeah, the boat, yeah.

• 15:40Adam Friedland?

  Oh my god, you guys are obsessed with the dumbest shit.

• 15:44Speaker 05

  The founding of America?

• 15:45Adam Friedland?

  Okay, the Buckles guys? They weren't the founders of America. They were guys that didn't want to have sex and they just came and went on a boat.

• 15:51Speaker 05

  They had a lot of sex. You know, I descend from some of them. They had enough sex to produce me.

• 15:55Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, like, three times, dude. They were the prudes, weren't they?

• 15:59Speaker 05

  They were, you know, look, I'm not a Puritan.

• 16:01Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 16:02Speaker 05

  Because I'm a Catholic.

• 16:02Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 16:03Speaker 05

  So they're probably rolling in their graves.

• 16:04Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 16:05Speaker 05

  But they were feckoned. They were a feckoned lot.

• 16:08Adam Friedland?

  They were feckoned?

• 16:09Speaker 05

  They were feckoned.

• 16:09Adam Friedland?

  You have Mayflower blood, though?

• 16:11Speaker 05

  I do, yeah. Even though I'm kind of swarthy, yeah.

• 16:14Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, you're not swarthy. You like to, like, you play up, you play up Itralian?

• 16:19Speaker 05

  I'm exotic, yeah.

• 16:20Adam Friedland?

  So that's, is that, you're like, that's your wheelhouse at the Daily Wire? You're the Itralian?

• 16:24Speaker 05

  I'm the diversity hire, yeah.

• 16:26Adam Friedland?

  It is kind of like, it's kind of like Barstool Sports, right? Like, you guys, like...

• 16:30Speaker 05

  I've never heard that comparison, yeah.

• 16:32Adam Friedland?

  Well, it's just like, it's like, you guys have all the talent. I was looking at the roster. You have everyone except for Candace.

• 16:38Speaker 05

  We had Candace.

• 16:39Adam Friedland?

  Fuentes, oh, you had Candace. And then you don't have, like, forgetting Sarah Marshall. You don't have that guy?

• 16:44Speaker 05

  No, we don't. We should be hiring him.

• 16:46Adam Friedland?

  Get him to the Greek?

• 16:47Speaker 05

  I don't, yeah. His name escapes me.

• 16:49Adam Friedland?

  He sits there, not wearing, like, shoes, he's, like, doing yoga, and he's like, "Wokeness is a disease."

• 16:55Speaker 05

  Oh, Russell Brand.

• 16:56Adam Friedland?

  Russell Brand, yeah.

• 16:57Speaker 05

  That's true.

• 16:57Adam Friedland?

  What happened to that guy?

• 16:59Speaker 05

  He, I thought he was gonna convert. I heard he was considering...

• 17:02Adam Friedland?

  To what?

• 17:02Speaker 05

  Or he maybe might have been baptized. He was baptized, and he was praying the rosary, but I don't know that he became Catholic.

• 17:07Adam Friedland?

  Okay, so wait, let's back up a bit, right? So you went to Yale, you went to LA to become an actor?

• 17:12Speaker 05

  Yeah, well, New York a little bit, and then I went to LA.

• 17:14Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. I saw a reel of some of your work.

• 17:17Speaker 05

  Did you?

• 17:17Adam Friedland?

  Did it suck? Were you repped in LA?

• 17:20Speaker 05

  I was repped, yeah, and in New York also.

• 17:21Adam Friedland?

  Who were you with?

• 17:22Speaker 05

  I was with DDO Artists, which was a smaller...

• 17:24Adam Friedland?

  That sounds pedophilic. What is DDO Artists?

• 17:27Speaker 05

  They, what did it stand for? Dorothy Deotis, I think.

• 17:30Adam Friedland?

  Oh, he was getting turned out, left and right. No one can hear you scream from the Hollywood Hills.

• 17:35Speaker 05

  No, no, that was, those were my reps in New York.

• 17:38Adam Friedland?

  But then I came out. These guys, him?

• 17:40Speaker 05

  No, not, no, not those guys.

• 17:41Adam Friedland?

  You're in talent?

• 17:42Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 17:43Adam Friedland?

  Who, who you got on your ass there? Did you ever get invited to a freak off when you were a young actor?

• 17:49Speaker 05

  Not, not once, though I...

• 17:51Adam Friedland?

  David Geffen never invited you to a cool place?

• 17:53Speaker 05

  I never made it that far. I don't know, I only did the low budget movies and the off, off Broadway plays, you know. I never, I never got far enough to go to a freak off.

• 18:00Adam Friedland?

  Oh, man. It would be an honor, I would, you know?

• 18:04Speaker 05

  Hey, hi, hello, sir, hi, nice to meet you.

• 18:06Adam Friedland?

  I was invited to a freak off.

• 18:07Speaker 05

  Were you?

• 18:08Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, and it turned out that it was only just the Monopoly man.

• 18:13Speaker 05

  Rich Uncle Pennybags.

• 18:14Adam Friedland?

  It was just one guy, that's his name? You know the name of the Monopoly man?

• 18:17Speaker 05

  That's his Christian name, yeah.

• 18:18Adam Friedland?

  Rich Uncle Pennybags?

• 18:20Speaker 05

  Yeah. I'm descended from him, too.

• 18:22Adam Friedland?

  Oh, my God. Okay, wait, so, so if you're sitting next to someone on a plane, right? And they're like, what do you do?

• 18:28Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 18:29Adam Friedland?

  Right? So it's like dicey, because people like are like want to, want to scrap these days.

• 18:33Speaker 05

  They do.

• 18:33Adam Friedland?

  What do you say to like some, like, let's imagine I'm like the, like a Jew, the most Jew, like Jewish, like

• 18:39Speaker 05

  You're Ben Shapiro.

• 18:39Adam Friedland?

  65 year old woman.

• 18:41Speaker 05

  Yeah, okay, yeah.

• 18:42Adam Friedland?

  So I could go any direction on you.

• 18:44Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 18:44Adam Friedland?

  What would you say, so, why, why do you, do you?

• 18:47Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 18:48Adam Friedland?

  What do you, what do you do for a?

• 18:50Speaker 05

  Ma'am, can I offer you a hank?

• 18:51Adam Friedland?

  What do you do for a living?

• 18:53Speaker 05

  I work in media, I work in media.

• 18:55Adam Friedland?

  What, oh, so you're Jewish? What do you do, what, what do you, like, what do you do in media?

• 19:00Speaker 05

  I, oh, it's online media, it's kind of new media, yeah.

• 19:04Adam Friedland?

  What does that mean?

• 19:04Speaker 05

  Oh, I, um, well, I do this.

• 19:06Adam Friedland?

  I'm old, I, I, you're on Facebook?

• 19:08Speaker 05

  Yeah, I do, I, I am, I'm on Facebook and MySpace and Zanga and I, you know, a little bit with the news, a little culture. It's a little, little theology and philosophy, yeah.

• 19:17Adam Friedland?

  Theology and philosophy?

• 19:18Speaker 05

  Yeah, a little touch of that.

• 19:19Adam Friedland?

  You do podcasting?

• 19:20Speaker 05

  I do a podcast, but everyone does, every white man under 70 has a podcast, so.

• 19:24Adam Friedland?

  Is that right?

• 19:25Speaker 05

  Yes, that's a, by federal law, I think. Yeah, every one of them.

• 19:28Adam Friedland?

  Zach doesn't have a podcast.

• 19:30Speaker 05

  You don't have a podcast?

• 19:31Adam Friedland?

  He's a band, dude.

• 19:32Speaker 05

  Are you, are you a white millennial man? You are?

• 19:34Adam Friedland?

  Well, he's Jewish.

• 19:35Speaker 05

  All right, Jew, yeah, I mean, it kind of cuts both ways.

• 19:37Adam Friedland?

  In America, it's white.

• 19:38Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, wow. We have to rectify that, that wrong. We've got to get him a podcast.

• 19:43Adam Friedland?

  Oh, I thought you meant take white away.

• 19:45Speaker 05

  Take his whiteness away. Your card's revoked.

• 19:47Adam Friedland?

  So how'd you link up with the goat? How'd you meet the goat?

• 19:50Speaker 05

  With Mr. Shapiro.

• 19:51Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, Mr. Shapiro.

• 19:52Speaker 05

  It's just so, well, it was this lovely elderly Jewish woman on the airplane, she, you know.

• 19:55Adam Friedland?

  She's like, I have a son?

• 19:58Speaker 05

  Are you in podcast? You have to meet him.

• 20:00Adam Friedland?

  Let me show you some pictures of Benjamin. Ma'am, why are you screaming? The air marshal's coming.

• 20:07Speaker 05

  He, so I met them because I knew Drew Clavain. I worked with Drew Clavain a little bit, whose son I went to school with and we like, I directed him in opera and stuff. And I worked in politics and a little bit in show business. And so I connected with them. And there was this group in Hollywood of conservatives who worked in all sorts of different parts of entertainment.

• 20:26Adam Friedland?

  Hollywood conservative, James Woods?

• 20:28Speaker 05

  James Woods, yeah, he was one of them. He was in there. John Voight, of course, is very famous. Many secretive people who don't want their names revealed.

• 20:36Adam Friedland?

  Is it like, is it like homosexuals in the 50s?

• 20:40Speaker 05

  It was, yes.

• 20:41Adam Friedland?

  Are they like, you're also a confirmed bachelor? That's what, that's what being a Hollywood conservative is?

• 20:46Speaker 05

  It was literally, it was called Friends of Abe, like Friends of Dorothy, like you were a gay guy in the 50s. That's actually where we got Abe Lincoln.

• 20:51Adam Friedland?

  Oh, I thought you meant like Friends, it's like, it sounds like Jew, Abraham.

• 20:56Speaker 05

  Right, yeah, yeah. Well, they were all Jews, obviously, also.

• 20:58Adam Friedland?

  That's disgusting.

• 21:01Speaker 05

  That kind of vile antisemitism will not tolerate.

• 21:03Adam Friedland?

  The other thing is like, also like, like conserving like American culture is like, it kinda is, you know, the WASPs, the us and then, and cool black people that gave them the...

• 21:13Speaker 05

  The culture, yeah, we brought spaghetti, the mafia, yeah.

• 21:15Adam Friedland?

  What, no, no, I mean, the Medegon, like, what, what movies have they made?

• 21:19Speaker 05

  These Medegon, yeah, they, hmm. I mean, look, they inspired, the real WASPs inspired a great cigar company that...

• 21:27Adam Friedland?

  There's nothing. Is that Goodfellas? Is that Casino?

• 21:31Speaker 05

  Yeah, no, listen to my...

• 21:33Adam Friedland?

  Is that, is that friggin', is that friggin' Tootie Fruity? I'm just saying, like, what's one song that Medegon have made? We made the Christmas songs. We made the Christmas songs. We wrote Jewish, Irving Berlin wrote like...

• 21:47Speaker 05

  Yes, all the Christmas songs.

• 21:49Adam Friedland?

  I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.

• 21:50Speaker 05

  I love, it's like, hey, name me a black hip hop artist. Little Richard, Little Tootie Fruity, that's the one, that's the one.

• 21:56Adam Friedland?

  He's not a hip hop artist, no.

• 21:58Speaker 05

  No, he's not.

• 21:58Adam Friedland?

  He was a homosexual piano player that inspired everyone. Yeah, he was incredible. You know, Tootie Fruity's original lyric was "big booty"?

• 22:07Speaker 05

  No, it wasn't.

• 22:07Adam Friedland?

  It's a song about anal sex. I swear to God, no, no, that's a true thing.

• 22:12Speaker 05

  Like Tootie Fruity, big booty.

• 22:13Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 22:14Speaker 05

  No.

• 22:14Adam Friedland?

  Big booty, wow.

• 22:16Speaker 05

  I'm not even making that up. I want to fact check on that. Is there a...

• 22:19Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, well, you do a daily wine fact check. We'll see if it's really a song about gay sex.

• 22:25Speaker 05

  Actually, the idea.

• 22:27Adam Friedland?

  Wait, so you, so you, through Klavien, you met Ben?

• 22:29Speaker 05

  Yeah, I met Ben, had dinner, uh, early on when I moved to LA with Ben. And Ben was kinda known at the time, like, he'd been on.

• 22:35Adam Friedland?

  Where did you have dinner, kosher restaurant or at the house?

• 22:37Speaker 05

  Yeah, it was at Klavien's house.

• 22:38Adam Friedland?

  At Klavien's house?

• 22:39Speaker 05

  Yeah, we had nice bacon wrapped scallops and.

• 22:42Adam Friedland?

  Is Klavien kosher?

• 22:43Speaker 05

  No, no.

• 22:43Adam Friedland?

  Ben's kosher, though.

• 22:44Speaker 05

  Ben's kosher.

• 22:45Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. So, how do you eat?

• 22:46Speaker 05

  We didn't let him eat, no, it was just water.

• 22:48Adam Friedland?

  He said that he had water?

• 22:49Speaker 05

  No, I don't know, he ate some, maybe, we might have ordered in kosher or something for it.

• 22:52Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, kosher Chinese.

• 22:53Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 22:54Adam Friedland?

  Shalom.

• 22:55Speaker 05

  I think all Chinese is kosher, isn't it?

• 22:56Adam Friedland?

  No, no, that's not, no, no.

• 22:58Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 22:58Adam Friedland?

  Mushu pork is. But he, he, does Ben, Ben used to live in LA? Pico Robertson?

• 23:03Speaker 05

  He grew up in LA, yeah.

• 23:04Adam Friedland?

  Pico Robertson?

• 23:05Speaker 05

  Yeah, I think so, no, that or the valley, he might have, he was living in the valley by the end of it, but he might have grown up in Pico Robertson.

• 23:10Adam Friedland?

  What's it, so is the, where are you based? You're based in, uh.

• 23:14Speaker 05

  In Nashville.

• 23:14Adam Friedland?

  In Nashville, and Ben's in Miami?

• 23:16Speaker 05

  Ben is, yeah, promised land of Boca Raton.

• 23:18Adam Friedland?

  Oh, my god.

• 23:19Speaker 05

  He said there were only about seven Jews in the state of Tennessee, which is an overestimate, and so he high-tailed it, he went to Florida.

• 23:26Adam Friedland?

  Tell me about Ben, like, tell me about his intelligence and like, what, as a leader?

• 23:30Speaker 05

  That guy's never read a book, he doesn't, like, what does he know?

• 23:32Adam Friedland?

  Would he like me?

• 23:34Speaker 05

  He, he, hmm, I don't, we've only spent about 10 minutes together, I can't, I can't come to a conclusion.

• 23:38Adam Friedland?

  So, the answer's no?

• 23:39Speaker 05

  I don't know, I just don't know.

• 23:41Adam Friedland?

  Can you say?

• 23:41Speaker 05

  You don't like BB, I mean, that, that might be a knock against you.

• 23:44Adam Friedland?

  But, I don't know, that doesn't mean I'm a bad guy.

• 23:47Speaker 05

  You might be a good guy, I just don't know, I don't know.

• 23:49Adam Friedland?

  He could like me as a guy.

• 23:50Speaker 05

  He could, I don't know, I mean, you've got a nice jacket.

• 23:52Adam Friedland?

  What if BB's more important than just a new, a guy that you're, you know?

• 23:56Speaker 05

  Yeah, but I mean, well, what if you came out?

• 23:57Adam Friedland?

  What if I said that Ben is, I like Ben, I like.

• 24:00Speaker 05

  Do you like Ben?

• 24:00Adam Friedland?

  I like watching Ben.

• 24:01Speaker 05

  Do you, do you? Are you a Shapiro head?

• 24:03Adam Friedland?

  I find it entertaining, not in, like, an LOL way, I just like the way he works.

• 24:08Speaker 05

  Yes, and he also.

• 24:09Adam Friedland?

  The way he works.

• 24:10Speaker 05

  The fact that he.

• 24:10Adam Friedland?

  I like to see the boy do work.

• 24:12Speaker 05

  Yeah, you like, you say, cook, let Ben cook. He, Ben, because Ben doesn't care about making friends ever, he.

• 24:19Adam Friedland?

  He has no friends.

• 24:20Speaker 05

  He, he actually has friends, as I've tried to, he, one said to me, he goes, I don't have any friends. I was like, what, what am I?

• 24:25Adam Friedland?

  He said that you're not his friend?

• 24:26Speaker 05

  He said, he implied it, he heavily implied it.

• 24:28Adam Friedland?

  Did you tell him that, I'm actually your frie, I'm friends with, you're my friend?

• 24:32Speaker 05

  Yeah, I am, we're friends.

• 24:32Adam Friedland?

  And what, what was his response?

• 24:34Speaker 05

  He said, I don't know, some people are family people, some people are friends people, I'm a family guy.

• 24:37Adam Friedland?

  Could you send Ben a, like, a, just send Ben a picture of me right now?

• 24:40Speaker 05

  I'll send, I'll send a picture right now.

• 24:42Adam Friedland?

  Sure.

• 24:44Speaker 05

  Let's see.

• 24:44Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, say, just tell him I say what. Shinatava!

• 24:51Adam Friedland?

  You're gonna send Ben that pic?

• 24:52Speaker 05

  I'm sending it right now. I'm gonna text it to him right now.

• 24:55Adam Friedland?

  Wait, can I see the pic?

• 24:57Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 24:57Adam Friedland?

  Do I look cool?

• 24:58Speaker 05

  Yeah, it looks good. It's kind of foggy. I don't know what I've got.

• 25:01Adam Friedland?

  You have like, you have like, skin like, oil on your camera.

• 25:05Speaker 05

  I do.

• 25:05Adam Friedland?

  Oh, you are a proper Italian.

• 25:07Speaker 05

  I am. I am produce olive oil.

• 25:09Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 25:10Speaker 05

  Adam Friedland.

• 25:13Adam Friedland?

  Adam Friedland, he says, uh, he says shanatova.

• 25:16Speaker 05

  You a picture from the show.

• 25:20Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 25:20Speaker 05

  He says shanatova.

• 25:24Adam Friedland?

  Tova.

• 25:25Speaker 05

  Tova.

• 25:25Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. And I say, "Next year in Jerusalem."

• 25:27Speaker 05

  Next year in Jerusalem.

• 25:28Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, okay. All right, um, wait, so let's, so are you like, you, are you, are you the Seth Meyers?

• 25:35Speaker 05

  The Seth Meyers? That's very offensive, thank you very much.

• 25:37Adam Friedland?

  No, no, no.

• 25:38Speaker 05

  I'm the Marlon Brando.

• 25:39Adam Friedland?

  No, I'm saying, are you like, the Conan to his Leno?

• 25:42Speaker 05

  I, I guess in a way.

• 25:44Adam Friedland?

  Are you the number two bull in, in the stable?

• 25:46Speaker 05

  Yeah, I, man, could I be the, what could I be the, I don't know.

• 25:50Adam Friedland?

  I'm just saying.

• 25:50Speaker 05

  Dick Cavett to his...

• 25:52Adam Friedland?

  Ben's that, Ben's, Ben's the top dog.

• 25:53Speaker 05

  Ben's the guy. He's the top dog.

• 25:54Adam Friedland?

  Okay, so then, what?

• 25:55Speaker 05

  But I don't know.

• 25:56Adam Friedland?

  Are you, you conceive of yourself as, as the...

• 25:59Speaker 05

  No, in, in a way, because we do different things, and the thing about the Daily Wire, also with Matt and other people we've had.

• 26:05Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 26:06Speaker 05

  We do all disagree on a lot of th- I mean, you know.

• 26:09Adam Friedland?

  About what?

• 26:10Speaker 05

  Oh, goodness.

• 26:10Adam Friedland?

  Who's the worst minority?

• 26:12Speaker 05

  Uh, yeah, yeah, we, we, all of them. We actually agree on them.

• 26:15Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 26:15Speaker 05

  No, we, we disagree on, you know, there are a lot of different ways to come at the conservative view.

• 26:20Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 26:20Speaker 05

  And Ben is a little more libertarian, generally. I'm a little more traditionalist.

• 26:24Adam Friedland?

  You're Catholic.

• 26:24Speaker 05

  We're Catholic, yeah.

• 26:24Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. But you were, started as atheist?

• 26:27Speaker 05

  Yes. Well, I was a cradle Catholic, fell away at my confirmation. I was an atheist for like 10 years.

• 26:31Adam Friedland?

  Cradle Catholic is a little, yeah.

• 26:32Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, well, you know, we baptize infants, which I think is a good thing.

• 26:35Adam Friedland?

  You try to baptize Ben?

• 26:37Speaker 05

  I, I've, I've never tried. I've threatened it.

• 26:39Adam Friedland?

  I thought you said, there was a, you tried to do a prank where you, where you have a Dixie cup of water and you talk?

• 26:44Speaker 05

  No, one time, I was boring Ben by talking about religion and, and like, sacramental, incarnational theology, and I could tell I was boring him a lot. And so I was like, "Fine, fine, fine. All right, I'll knock it off." I was like, "But," and we were on an airplane. I said, "If the plane gets shaky..." Just to be safe.

• 26:58Adam Friedland?

  So he goes to heaven.

• 26:59Speaker 05

  That would be an act of charity, yeah.

• 27:00Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 27:01Speaker 05

  I think he took it that way.

• 27:03Adam Friedland?

  Honestly, can I get Ben's number, because I have a good counterprank.

• 27:07Adam Friedland?

  Imagine, you show up for a meeting, right? You have like, you know, frickin', you know, you have Emperor Palpatine, Miriam Madelso, you've got the whole squad together, right?

• 27:17Speaker 05

  That's our board of directors.

• 27:18Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, you've got the whole squad, and then he's got a moil there, and he's like, "It's your turn, it's your turn."

• 27:26Adam Friedland?

  He's got like, with a long beard, he's like, "It's time for your bris."

• 27:30Speaker 05

  That's to bet, presumably it.

• 27:32Adam Friedland?

  That's how you join the club, dog.

• 27:34Speaker 05

  I heard a foreskin joke yesterday.

• 27:37Adam Friedland?

  Let's hear it, better be good.

• 27:38Speaker 05

  It's kind of bawdy, I don't do bawdy jokes, I'm a very wholesome...

• 27:40Adam Friedland?

  Whatever, you're on a gross show.

• 27:42Speaker 05

  Okay, alright, so, I heard this just yesterday, actually, I'm serious.

• 27:46Adam Friedland?

  Who'd you hear it from?

• 27:46Speaker 05

  I heard it from a man in this room, I heard it from one of my colleagues, I'm not gonna say which, I'm not gonna say which.

• 27:52Adam Friedland?

  Morin Boebert?

• 27:53Speaker 05

  It was him, it was, so a...

• 27:55Adam Friedland?

  My man. Oh, so I don't know why I did that, I meant this. He gave me a zin before this.

• 28:01Speaker 05

  You didn't give me a zin. I kinda want, I like that ashtray, I kinda want to smoke on this set, but we don't have any cigarettes.

• 28:07Adam Friedland?

  You can smoke, dude.

• 28:08Speaker 05

  Could I?

• 28:09Adam Friedland?

  Not a cigar, dude.

• 28:10Speaker 05

  Yeah, that's all I like to smoke.

• 28:11Adam Friedland?

  What, are you frickin' Charlie Chaplin?

• 28:12Speaker 05

  Yeah, I'm Groucho Marx.

• 28:14Adam Friedland?

  Okay, well, let's hear your fucking dick joke.

• 28:17Speaker 05

  So, I just, I can't take credit for this.

• 28:19Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 28:20Speaker 05

  A career moil, he retires, and, you know, as part of his career, he's, he's collected all of them over the years.

• 28:29Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 28:29Speaker 05

  Yes, and, so, he, as a retirement gesture, he goes to a leather worker, and he says, "This is, I've collected these for my whole career, and I would, I would like you to turn it into something for me, to remember my, my career." And, so the guy, he says, "Okay, alright, come back in a week." Comes back, and he says, "Okay, I've, I've made you this..."

• 28:51Adam Friedland?

  Dildo?

• 28:52Speaker 05

  Beautiful wallet, no, no, it's a wallet.

• 28:53Adam Friedland?

  Oh, wallet, yeah.

• 28:54Speaker 05

  He says, "Hold on, I've been in this line of work for 30 years, I bring, and all you could make is a, is a wallet." And the leather worker says, "Yes, but if you, if you rub it, it turns into a suitcase."

• 29:05Adam Friedland?

  Oh, okay. Incredibly offensive, actually.

• 29:10Adam Friedland?

  Actually, I'm gonna tell Ben you said that.

• 29:12Speaker 05

  I might be anti-Semitic, I don't know.

• 29:14Adam Friedland?

  It really hurts my feelings.

• 29:15Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 29:16Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, cuz babies can get boners. Great joke, dude. Makes total sense.

• 29:21Speaker 05

  You're reading too. You're reading too much into the joke.

• 29:24Adam Friedland?

  Freaking nasty gross creep. Why don't you debate 20 Jews?

• 29:28Speaker 05

  Surround it.

• 29:30Adam Friedland?

  Alright. How has, like, so you kinda got into the conservative media ecosystem like 2018?

• 29:38Speaker 05

  No, I worked in politics from when I was like 19 years old.

• 29:41Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 29:42Speaker 05

  I worked, my first campaign, which was successful, I was kind of involved in it.

• 29:45Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 29:46Speaker 05

  At a higher level. And we were running against this congressman who was a, he was a rock star in the 80s. He was in the band Orleans. You know, like, "Still the one that makes..." It was like that.

• 29:54Adam Friedland?

  Great song.

• 29:55Speaker 05

  Yeah, great song. And so, anyway, I did a, I did this bit called "The Young Voters for an Orleans Reunion Tour", and I ripped off all his songs, and it was about, you know, making him...

• 30:02Adam Friedland?

  You did parodies?

• 30:03Speaker 05

  Ah, there were parodies. He threatened to sue me over this.

• 30:05Adam Friedland?

  So what's the, what is the, what was the name of your song? I'm gonna listen to one.

• 30:08Speaker 05

  It was "Vote With Me". Vote With Me, let's make John Wall...

• 30:11Adam Friedland?

  Vote With Me is the, is the parody of "Still the One"?

• 30:13Speaker 05

  No, of "Dance With Me". "Dance With Me, I want to be your partner." That's a good song.

• 30:19Adam Friedland?

  That's a disgusting song.

• 30:20Speaker 05

  What do you mean, "That's a disgusting song"?

• 30:22Adam Friedland?

  I say "Girlfriend", actually, okay? We're not in a real estate practice together. "Vote With Me", by, okay, by Orleans?

• 30:32Speaker 05

  By, no, the song is by "The Young Voters for an Orleans Reunion Tour".

• 30:35Adam Friedland?

  So you're claiming that your lame-ass songs beat this congressman?

• 30:39Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 30:40Adam Friedland?

  You're out of your mind, dude.

• 30:41Speaker 05

  No, I mean, look, we had a great candidate in New Haven.

• 30:42Adam Friedland?

  What a waste of a Yale education.

• 30:43Speaker 05

  Yeah, no, well, I was, I was still a sophomore or something. Anyway, then I got recruited to other campaigns, I was working in campaigns.

• 30:50Adam Friedland?

  To make songs?

• 30:51Speaker 05

  To make songs, yeah. That was my artistic career.

• 30:54Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 30:55Speaker 05

  And, so anyway, I was working in them, and I really liked it. I mean, I was a political junkie from a kid.

• 30:59Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 31:00Speaker 05

  And so I was doing that.

• 31:01Adam Friedland?

  Me too.

• 31:02Speaker 05

  Yeah, I mean, I had a political consulting job.

• 31:03Adam Friedland?

  How old are you?

• 31:04Speaker 05

  How old am I now?

• 31:05Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 31:06Speaker 05

  35.

• 31:07Adam Friedland?

  I'm 38.

• 31:08Speaker 05

  38?

• 31:09Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 31:10Speaker 05

  I feel, 35 made me feel old.

• 31:11Adam Friedland?

  You missed the gipper, dude.

• 31:12Speaker 05

  I did. I just missed the gipper.

• 31:14Adam Friedland?

  35, you just, you just became the president, eligible for president, don't worry, dude.

• 31:15Speaker 05

  Ah, thank you.

• 31:16Adam Friedland?

  That's the one thing I tell myself, I was like, "Only three years I've been able to be president. I'm not that old."

• 31:21Speaker 05

  It could happen any day now.

• 31:22Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah. I don't want to, but I'm gonna have to, because they don't have anyone else.

• 31:26Speaker 05

  Yeah. It's you or Gavin, I guess.

• 31:28Adam Friedland?

  It's me, Gavin Newsom, or, or the lady from the Bud Light can.

• 31:34Speaker 05

  Oh, she's beautiful.

• 31:35Adam Friedland?

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• 33:05Adam Friedland?

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• 35:22Adam Friedland?

  Okay, so wait, so then you worked on another campaign?

• 35:27Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 35:28Adam Friedland?

  So you're in like campaigns and elections?

• 35:29Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 35:30Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, you know, it's the scummiest part of politics.

• 35:32Speaker 05

  It is. It teaches you a lot, though, about politics.

• 35:34Adam Friedland?

  Doesn't it? It's so nothing.

• 35:36Speaker 05

  So at the congressional level, you've got national issues, but you've got all the like spaghetti dinners and all the corrupt county clerk of whatever, you know?

• 35:45Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 35:46Speaker 05

  And I found it was an amazing political education. I think it's much better than studying it.

• 35:52Adam Friedland?

  I lived in DC and those were the biggest dildos in DC, the campaigns, elections people. I had more respect for lobbyists.

• 35:58Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 35:59Adam Friedland?

  Those people, you know, they can lose every time and then they get a promotion each time.

• 36:04Speaker 05

  Yes, yeah.

• 36:05Adam Friedland?

  Yeah.

• 36:06Speaker 05

  No, I found in the political consulting world, in my, no offense to my DC Beltway consultant friends, it's the local ones who are much better for those kind of races. The minute they bring in the DC team for congressional race, things start to get squirrely. I found.

• 36:18Adam Friedland?

  And you played dirty? What was your dirtiest trick when you were doing campaigns?

• 36:23Speaker 05

  No, I didn't really, I mean, look, I just told you, I confess to ripping off this opponent's song. But I didn't do really nasty, it was awful, I know.

• 36:30Adam Friedland?

  You did a parody song?

• 36:32Speaker 05

  Yeah, without licensing.

• 36:33Adam Friedland?

  That's not dirty.

• 36:34Speaker 05

  That's without, no, I didn't pull dirty tricks, really. People did, I mean, people would rig elections.

• 36:38Adam Friedland?

  That's fun.

• 36:39Speaker 05

  People would, you know, the other side, they would bus in union workers from out of district to, like, brazenly, the buses, you know, with SEIU or whatever, they'd come in, so you'd have election watchers.

• 36:49Adam Friedland?

  That's sick.

• 36:50Speaker 05

  Yeah, I would have been more successful if I pulled more dirty tricks.

• 36:52Adam Friedland?

  Can you imagine how fun Illinois during the 1960 election would have been?

• 36:57Speaker 05

  Just like killing people, yeah.

• 36:59Adam Friedland?

  No, just dead people, yeah, yeah, dead people.

• 37:02Speaker 05

  You know, Lyndon Johnson stole his race in 48 in Texas.

• 37:05Adam Friedland?

  He's the best guy ever. Who's your favorite president?

• 37:09Speaker 05

  My favorite president ever, Chester A. Arthur is a favorite.

• 37:12Adam Friedland?

  Really?

• 37:13Speaker 05

  I'm not even really.

• 37:14Adam Friedland?

  Why?

• 37:15Speaker 05

  He really didn't want to be president, he sobbed when he had to become president.

• 37:18Adam Friedland?

  So he was like Trump, yeah.

• 37:19Speaker 05

  He's kind of like Trump, he just, he wanted to be vice president, because he could be a corrupt machine politician from that office, and then he actually improved. He exchanged letters with this lady in New York, and she convinced him to be moral, and he actually was like a virtuous man, and reformed the civil service, which ended up being a bad thing.

• 37:37Adam Friedland?

  Who was the lady?

• 37:38Speaker 05

  She was like some shut-in in New York. She was like a random lady who just wrote to him, and he read her letters.

• 37:42Adam Friedland?

  Some like mentally ill woman was writing him letters?

• 37:45Speaker 05

  I don't know if she was meant, she was definitely a bit off.

• 37:47Adam Friedland?

  Like a cat woman?

• 37:48Speaker 05

  Yes, yeah, basically.

• 37:49Adam Friedland?

  That's such a hipster answer. Chester A. Arthur?

• 37:52Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, man, look, you've probably never heard of him.

• 37:54Adam Friedland?

  Lincoln, dude, you idiot.

• 37:56Speaker 05

  Lincoln?

• 37:57Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, the best president.

• 37:58Speaker 05

  He was the best one, better than Washington.

• 37:59Adam Friedland?

  He saved the Union.

• 38:00Speaker 05

  Sure, I mean, Washington founded the country.

• 38:03Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, but the Union fell apart, like, Lincoln had to do the impossible.

• 38:07Speaker 05

  Yeah, I mean, I don't know, like, yeah, it's impressive, I'm not knocking Lincoln.

• 38:11Adam Friedland?

  And then also, just like, yeah, he like, he just, he kind of like, I don't know, he decided to end slavery like midway through, because he's like, it's the right thing to do.

• 38:20Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 38:21Adam Friedland?

  It wasn't like, a lot of people think that the war was over slavery, but that didn't happen until like, you know, midway through.

• 38:28Speaker 05

  It was, it was about slavery. In the, I know there-

• 38:31Adam Friedland?

  I mean, I guess, yeah-

• 38:32Speaker 05

  It was about, that was the issue that was like, leading to the national crisis, but yeah-

• 38:37Adam Friedland?

  They hadn't emancipated them yet.

• 38:38Speaker 05

  And I'll be pilloried by my southern friends for saying it was a war about slavery.

• 38:41Adam Friedland?

  You don't have southern friends, bro.

• 38:43Speaker 05

  I do, believe it or not.

• 38:44Adam Friedland?

  You just live there in Nashville and people are like, "What the fuck is this guy's problem?"

• 38:47Speaker 05

  It was this Yankee, no, I- And you're like, "I used to direct operas at Yale."

• 38:51Adam Friedland?

  And they're like, "Nancy, they, they're probably like, 'Fucking Pelosi over here.'" Pelosi!

• 38:57Speaker 05

  No, they, you know, they're very cultured in the south. The south is the-

• 39:01Adam Friedland?

  I love the south, dude.

• 39:02Speaker 05

  I love, it's the, really the only instantiation of the old world in America. It's like, you know, genteel, kind of-

• 39:08Adam Friedland?

  Also, they're just honest about being racist.

• 39:10Speaker 05

  They, I don't, I don't find them racist.

• 39:12Adam Friedland?

  They, in the north, they're just like, "Go to your neighborhood." "Just be quiet and go to your neighborhood, okay?" Alright, so I watched, uh, I watched some of your bangers.

• 39:22Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 39:23Adam Friedland?

  I watched, uh-

• 39:24Speaker 05

  What's your favorite one?

• 39:25Adam Friedland?

  A lot of, a lot of your thing is you just debate gay people?

• 39:28Speaker 05

  I, I mean, I did one recently. I did one recently where I debated 25 gay guys.

• 39:33Adam Friedland?

  Noel's versus transgenderism, Noel's versus protesters, that's got 2.4 milli.

• 39:38Speaker 05

  Oh, people will come up at my events.

• 39:40Adam Friedland?

  Story of de-transitioning, 1.4 milli. "I was gay, she was trans," 1.1 milli. Conservative versus trans.

• 39:48Speaker 05

  But you know why they started coming after me?

• 39:50Adam Friedland?

  "No longer gay."

• 39:52Speaker 05

  No longer gay, hold on.

• 39:53Adam Friedland?

  "Not dating trans, is bigoted."

• 39:55Speaker 05

  What's that one, hold on.

• 39:56Adam Friedland?

  "Man is confused by why people think he's a man." Heated debate, LGBT, so you just, yeah, so you argue with gay people?

• 40:03Speaker 05

  No, I-

• 40:04Adam Friedland?

  All the time.

• 40:04Speaker 05

  I don't, I, they argue-

• 40:06Adam Friedland?

  Is it your job?

• 40:06Speaker 05

  They argue with me.

• 40:07Adam Friedland?

  You could've gone to finance, why do you, like, you went to Yale, why do you-

• 40:11Speaker 05

  I could've gone to McKinsey or something.

• 40:12Adam Friedland?

  Doesn't this feel like, a little bit like, uh-

• 40:14Speaker 05

  No, you know why they came up and argued with me.

• 40:16Adam Friedland?

  Why?

• 40:17Speaker 05

  Because I gave a speech.

• 40:18Adam Friedland?

  Because you said that they should be eradicated.

• 40:19Speaker 05

  That is why. I didn't say they should be eradicated. I said the ideology.

• 40:22Adam Friedland?

  You know what you're doing.

• 40:23Speaker 05

  I am being clear with my language.

• 40:24Adam Friedland?

  You're not being clear with your language.

• 40:25Speaker 05

  I was being clear, yeah.

• 40:26Adam Friedland?

  You know what you're doing.

• 40:27Speaker 05

  You just said your audience is illiterate. I'm explaining to you the precision of my language.

• 40:31Adam Friedland?

  These people have mostly PhDs in gender studies.

• 40:35Speaker 05

  You just said... Fair enough. All right, that's a great silence.

• 40:37Adam Friedland?

  Listen, we're both straight guys, right?

• 40:40Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 40:40Adam Friedland?

  We're both men's men.

• 40:42Speaker 05

  The alpha men.

• 40:43Adam Friedland?

  Yeah. I don't know what it's like to be a gay guy.

• 40:46Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 40:46Adam Friedland?

  What am I gonna tell them what it's like to be a gay guy?

• 40:49Speaker 05

  It's probably tough. Yeah, well, you would tell... At least, look, again...

• 40:53Adam Friedland?

  What is the objective, right? So like, I watched the 20 gay guys versus you in...

• 40:59Speaker 05

  That sounds worse, the way you did it. Hold on.

• 41:01Adam Friedland?

  Okay, it sounds worse. It's a ridiculous concept, right?

• 41:05Speaker 05

  It is.

• 41:05Adam Friedland?

  By the way, we pitched one and they said yes and then they said no, right Caleb?

• 41:09Speaker 05

  What was the topic?

• 41:11Adam Friedland?

  The pitch was that bodybuilding is destructive to American culture. So I wanted it to be 20 bodybuilders against one wimp. And I was gonna be like, "This leads to toxic masculinity. It leads to Andrew Tate. It's gay to have fashion muscles."

• 41:33Speaker 05

  Why would they reject that? That's a great episode.

• 41:36Adam Friedland?

  Because I think they realized I was taking the piss.

• 41:40Adam Friedland?

  Bizarre video shows male cheerleader for Minnesota Vikings.

• 41:47Adam Friedland?

  What?

• 41:48Speaker 05

  Wait, what was that one? That was one of mine?

• 41:50Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, you got 82K.

• 41:52Speaker 05

  That's not a big video. That's a minor... That's a very minor video.

• 41:54Adam Friedland?

  But did you have a big ol' thing?

• 41:56Speaker 05

  The what?

• 41:57Adam Friedland?

  Here's the thing, right? I know why you're doing it, right?

• 41:59Speaker 05

  Doing what?

• 42:00Adam Friedland?

  What's the objective? If you're debating LGBT person, what's the objective for that debate? Do you want to convince them not to?

• 42:06Speaker 05

  They usually come to me with these things. And... But so I guess they're upset that I think we should get rid of transgenderism. So I guess the objective is to persuade them.

• 42:15Adam Friedland?

  What is transgenderism? Is it that transgender people or is it...

• 42:17Speaker 05

  No. It's the belief that a man can be a woman. That's the ideology.

• 42:21Adam Friedland?

  And who came up with that? Who's the author of that?

• 42:23Speaker 05

  A bunch of deviants and ideologues.

• 42:26Adam Friedland?

  Like what, like what, where'd it come from?

• 42:28Speaker 05

  Well, it often is traced back to Magnus Hirschfeld in the 20th century.

• 42:32Adam Friedland?

  Who cares?

• 42:33Speaker 05

  But, you know, it's an ideology that has cropped up at various times throughout history. It's kind of Gnostic. It would go back to some of the ancient Gnostics to suggest that your true identity has nothing to do with your body.

• 42:42Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, but those people didn't have toilet paper. Who cares?

• 42:44Speaker 05

  Yeah, I guess that's true. They had good aqueducts, though, you know.

• 42:46Adam Friedland?

  I don't know, dude. But don't you want to be a nice guy? Don't you want to be nice?

• 42:49Speaker 05

  No, I don't care about being nice.

• 42:51Adam Friedland?

  Why?

• 42:51Speaker 05

  I want to be a good guy. I want to be, you know, courteous.

• 42:54Adam Friedland?

  It's a little nosey. It's a little bit, it's a little bit nosey.

• 42:57Speaker 05

  It's not nosey. They demand that I lie, and I'm not going to lie because that's a mortal sin.

• 43:01Adam Friedland?

  You posting the vid, bro?

• 43:03Speaker 05

  They're, but they're the ones who want the debate, and they're the ones who made it a political issue.

• 43:07Adam Friedland?

  It's your vid, though.

• 43:08Speaker 05

  Yeah, I'm reacting to it, of course.

• 43:09Adam Friedland?

  You're doing numbers with it, right?

• 43:10Speaker 05

  I am doing numbers with it.

• 43:11Adam Friedland?

  And the other thing is, is like, be honest, right?

• 43:13Speaker 05

  Because people agree with you.

• 43:13Adam Friedland?

  Be honest, like, in terms of the culture war aspect of it.

• 43:16Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 43:16Adam Friedland?

  The libs walk in on that every single time.

• 43:19Speaker 05

  Every time.

• 43:20Adam Friedland?

  Right?

• 43:20Speaker 05

  Yeah. Well, now I think it's changing. I think they lost. I think they got destroyed on that issue, and they're starting to give it up. Because it's ridiculous.

• 43:26Adam Friedland?

  They're starting to give it up?

• 43:27Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 43:28Adam Friedland?

  What I'm seeing from your side?

• 43:30Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 43:31Adam Friedland?

  Is this all day long.

• 43:32Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 43:33Adam Friedland?

  Okay?

• 43:33Speaker 05

  Well, but we didn't start it. It was the left that pushed this in the elementary schools and in the sports leagues.

• 43:39Adam Friedland?

  This is what I'm saying, seeing you guys highlighting.

• 43:41Speaker 05

  Yeah, because they forced it on us, and we reacted to it.

• 43:43Adam Friedland?

  It doesn't seem to me like a big deal, right?

• 43:46Speaker 05

  If it's not a big deal, then why doesn't the left just give it up? It's not a big deal, let them give it up.

• 43:50Adam Friedland?

  What do you mean, give up? Like what?

• 43:51Speaker 05

  Give up transgenderism. Stop putting boys in the girls' bathrooms. Stop taking over the sports leagues. Stop castrating the little kids. Give it up. It's not a big deal? Good, I agree. Then give it up.

• 43:59Adam Friedland?

  No, I'm just saying it's not a big deal. Like, for your guys' agenda, right? I'm not hearing anything about...

• 44:04Speaker 05

  What's my agenda?

• 44:04Adam Friedland?

  Okay, conservative politics, right?

• 44:06Speaker 05

  Yeah, my agenda is the truth of public life.

• 44:08Adam Friedland?

  I'm not hearing anything about, I'm barely hearing anything about the budget deficit. I'm barely hearing anything about insolvent...

• 44:14Speaker 05

  I don't know, castrating little kids is more important than, like, you know, the budget deficit.

• 44:19Adam Friedland?

  You think that if Social Security is insolvent, that's less of an important issue?

• 44:25Speaker 05

  I, I think...

• 44:25Adam Friedland?

  I'm saying, and that's your guys' issue.

• 44:27Speaker 05

  I think committed, well, yeah, I mean, I think...

• 44:29Adam Friedland?

  But I'm not hearing shit from, about that.

• 44:31Speaker 05

  No, you...

• 44:32Adam Friedland?

  I'm hearing about babies' penises.

• 44:33Speaker 05

  Yeah, I, baby, well, we're not, they're not castrating babies.

• 44:36Adam Friedland?

  You guys talk about kids' penises all day long.

• 44:38Speaker 05

  Yeah, I think if...

• 44:39Adam Friedland?

  It's a little bit perverse to me.

• 44:41Speaker 05

  Well, we're not the ones who started it, okay? And this is what the libs do. They say, hey, we're going to chop up little kids, we're going to teach them a bunch of weird sex stuff in kindergarten, and if you object, you're the weird one. Why are you talking about this? Because you're doing it. It's weird, man.

• 44:52Adam Friedland?

  Is it happening?

• 44:53Speaker 05

  It, yeah.

• 44:55Adam Friedland?

  Is it happening all the time?

• 44:56Speaker 05

  All over the country. Well, now it's since there've been laws.

• 44:58Adam Friedland?

  All the kids are getting their penises chopped.

• 45:00Speaker 05

  Not all the kids.

• 45:01Adam Friedland?

  How many kids are getting their penises chopped?

• 45:02Speaker 05

  And on and.

• 45:03Adam Friedland?

  How many guys are.

• 45:04Speaker 05

  Any number larger than zero is a problem.

• 45:06Adam Friedland?

  It's like five people.

• 45:07Speaker 05

  Yeah, no, it's more. There was a study.

• 45:09Adam Friedland?

  You don't think it's any.

• 45:10Speaker 05

  A study just came out of the UN. It was something like 700 awards and medals were taken away from women because of the trans guys in the sports.

• 45:15Adam Friedland?

  700 medals?

• 45:17Speaker 05

  Yeah, that's a lot.

• 45:17Adam Friedland?

  You don't think that your guys' thing is social security becoming insolvent?

• 45:21Speaker 05

  That's not my. What are you saying? That's my thing.

• 45:22Adam Friedland?

  Conservative politics.

• 45:23Speaker 05

  I don't talk about social security all the time.

• 45:25Adam Friedland?

  Right, but I'm saying that entitlement like reform is your guys' thing.

• 45:28Speaker 05

  Are you like a bloomer con? This is, is this 2008 now? We're talking about social security?

• 45:33Adam Friedland?

  This is like baby penis gets clicked.

• 45:35Speaker 05

  That.

• 45:35Adam Friedland?

  Baby penis does numbers. Just admit. That's why you're debating.

• 45:39Speaker 05

  I am not admitting that, no.

• 45:40Adam Friedland?

  Baby penis does more numbers than like social security will go bankrupt, which it used to be your thing.

• 45:46Speaker 05

  Pointing out visceral injustices against the most vulnerable and innocent people, yes, it arouses more passion than like budgetary measures. That's true.

• 45:54Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah.

• 45:55Speaker 05

  But it should. That's just human nature.

• 45:56Adam Friedland?

  But like, why do you want to be the boss of that?

• 45:58Speaker 05

  Well, because it's an injustice that we need to correct in a self-government. It's politics.

• 46:03Adam Friedland?

  I've met trans people, right? And they've expressed to me that it's like, it must suck if you think that you're, you're, you're not in the right body, right?

• 46:11Speaker 05

  Yeah, we should help them.

• 46:12Adam Friedland?

  I don't fucking understand, right?

• 46:14Speaker 05

  So how do you? What don't you understand?

• 46:15Adam Friedland?

  What it's like to feel that way?

• 46:17Speaker 05

  Yeah, I'm sure it involves a lot of pain. So are you going to affirm them in that painful delusion that makes them more miserable? Or are you going to try to help them by telling them the truth?

• 46:25Adam Friedland?

  Uh, what? I don't want to make the rules for someone that I don't understand.

• 46:29Speaker 05

  You live in a self-government in America, and so you're supposed to weigh in on it. That's what voting is.

• 46:33Adam Friedland?

  So you're saying the rules should be what?

• 46:34Speaker 05

  The rules should be that we acknowledge reality, that men and women are different in this case.

• 46:38Adam Friedland?

  If you're, you have kids, right?

• 46:40Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 46:40Adam Friedland?

  If your kid was like, I'm gay, what would you tell him?

• 46:42Speaker 05

  I would say, well, you know, I'm pretty and witty and gay too. You know, I'm very happy, but.

• 46:47Adam Friedland?

  No, no, you're doing the thing. I've heard you just say that in other things. Cause you did theater.

• 46:50Speaker 05

  I did.

• 46:51Adam Friedland?

  You also were in gay movies.

• 46:53Speaker 05

  I played.

• 46:53Adam Friedland?

  You played gay guys. And now you, what, now you think that.

• 46:57Speaker 05

  Gay, well, bisexual characters.

• 46:59Adam Friedland?

  What does that mean? Bisexual is even gayer than gay. What the fuck is bisexual?

• 47:04Speaker 05

  I want you to know, that gay character I played in the Yale movie, that is the straightest thing that ever came out of Yale.

• 47:10Adam Friedland?

  You played gay characters and now you say that it's a social contagion?

• 47:13Speaker 05

  Bro, I played Satan in a play once. I'm not like, you know, I go to church too.

• 47:16Adam Friedland?

  And so the story was that you being gay with another guy was a social contagion? No, your character was gay.

• 47:24Speaker 05

  Yeah, but again, like...

• 47:25Adam Friedland?

  Is that why you're doing this? Because you're embarrassed about the gay movies?

• 47:28Speaker 05

  No, in acting. And listen, I'm a very old-school thespian.

• 47:32Adam Friedland?

  Same, same.

• 47:33Speaker 05

  Oh, yes. And so in the old days, it used to be when you...

• 47:35Adam Friedland?

  Men were playing women.

• 47:36Speaker 05

  They were, that's true.

• 47:38Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, boys were.

• 47:39Speaker 05

  And in the old days, you would, when you played a role, you would pretend to be someone that you were not. Like, for instance, I'm not the prince of Denmark, but if I were to be in a Shakespeare play, I would pretend.

• 47:49Adam Friedland?

  You went to some sort of freaking, I had to access some sort of molestation that never happened in order to access this notion?

• 47:55Speaker 05

  No, no, no, not that stuff. I don't like, I don't, I never got into that.

• 47:58Adam Friedland?

  Where'd you, where'd you study theater?

• 47:59Speaker 05

  I studied at the Stella Adler School, right around the corner.

• 48:02Adam Friedland?

  And what is, what's her theory?

• 48:04Speaker 05

  Well, it comes from the Stanislavski system at the Moskowitz Theater.

• 48:08Adam Friedland?

  Uh-huh, which is you neg the target?

• 48:10Speaker 05

  Which is, yeah. No, it's that you use your imagination, basically.

• 48:14Adam Friedland?

  I saw something actually pretty interesting, kind of related to the gay debate that you were in, and I wanted to know if you... I wanted to know if you'd seen this. No, because this is like an interesting take that I saw on homosexuality. And I, I know you do a lot of reactions, like videos in the lot.

• 48:34Speaker 05

  Now we can react to...

• 48:36Adam Friedland?

  So I'd like you to, I'd like you to tell me what you think about this.

• 48:40Speaker 05

  Okay, let's see.

• 48:40Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 48:44Adam Friedland?

  No, no, no, no, this is a remix, this is a remix. Wait, wait, wait. You have to see this. No, this is interesting, this is a pastor from Uganda.

• 48:52Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 48:52Adam Friedland?

  And he took, uh...

• 48:56Speaker 05

  Yeah, I think I

• 48:57Adam Friedland?

  So this is

• 49:03Adam Friedland?

  But this is actually like, I hadn't heard this before.

• 49:09Speaker 05

  Barack Obama's back office, right?

• 49:20Speaker 06

  Good morning, everyone. My name is Pastor Dr. Martin Sempa. I'm here in the capacity as the chairman of the National Task Force Against Homosexuality in Uganda.

• 49:30Speaker 07

  At the press conference, Pastor Sempa was flanked by religious leaders, both Christian and Muslim.

• 49:35Adam Friedland?

  It's interesting. Continue.

• 49:39Speaker 05

  Barack Obama, oh, because

• 49:42Speaker 06

  To make sure that so no man homosexuality never sees the light of legality in this land of the part of Africa.

• 49:52Speaker 07

  In a room packed with local and international

• 49:55Speaker 05

  I'll just show you the good part.

• 49:56Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, hold on, that's less saucy than

• 50:00Speaker 06

  I've taken time to do a little research to know what homosexuals

• 50:04Adam Friedland?

  So he watched gay porn?

• 50:06Speaker 06

  One of the thing they do is called anal leaking, where they a man's anus is leaked like this by the other person, like ice cream. And then what happens, even poop comes out, the other poop is out, and then they eat the poop. The other they do is they have a sex practice called fisting, where they insert their hand into the other man's hand, and it goes

• 50:34Adam Friedland?

  Do they do that?

• 50:34Speaker 06

  Into the anus all the way, and it is so painful, they have to take drugs, but they enjoy it. Now, if we have any children, please step out. This is a parental guidance moment. Hey, that child can't be moved out.

• 50:48Speaker 05

  It was a little late.

• 50:49Speaker 06

  I've done research. This is what they do.

• 50:52Speaker 05

  No, hold on, is it gonna show?

• 50:54Speaker 06

  You can see a man here having sucked the other person's rectum, and the other person is pooing, and this one is eating the poop all over the place.

• 51:06Speaker 06

  Tell me, when you have a law against homosexuality, do you say, except eating poop?

• 51:13Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 51:14Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah. No, he makes a good point.

• 51:16Adam Friedland?

  So, apparently, they lick the other man's rectum like ice cream and then poo poo come out.

• 51:24Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 51:25Adam Friedland?

  You could have mentioned that during your debate against 20 gay guys, I thought. I don't think that ever came up.

• 51:31Speaker 05

  I didn't prepare enough, is the problem.

• 51:32Adam Friedland?

  And sometimes they do anal fisting where he put their arm into...

• 51:35Speaker 05

  It's very painful, but they like it anyway.

• 51:37Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, and they must take drugs.

• 51:38Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah. Yeah.

• 51:40Adam Friedland?

  So, do you feel as if Pastor Sisempa is a comrade or kind of like a...

• 51:45Speaker 05

  Him, especially, actually. I mean, he's really done the work on this. Yeah, no, for me, I was just looking up like, you know, philosophy and anthropology, but he...

• 51:55Adam Friedland?

  The philosophy of gay sex?

• 51:56Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 51:57Adam Friedland?

  I think this guy did the work and he saw the poo poo coming out.

• 52:00Speaker 05

  He did.

• 52:01Adam Friedland?

  And I think he actually has a more firsthand kind of...

• 52:03Speaker 05

  We might need more immigration from that area, because that is a job that the Americans don't want to do.

• 52:08Adam Friedland?

  So, when you're debating a gay or a trans person, like, how does it feel? Like, is it fun?

• 52:15Speaker 05

  It's painful, but it gives me pleasure anyway.

• 52:18Adam Friedland?

  What gives you pleasure about it?

• 52:19Speaker 05

  No.

• 52:20Adam Friedland?

  What gives you...

• 52:21Speaker 05

  I don't know. Why... You're asking why debate someone you disagree with?

• 52:25Adam Friedland?

  How do you qualify winning? Like, in your mind, what is winning?

• 52:28Speaker 05

  Oh, well, it depends on the kind of debate. For some kind of debates, you know, you're just, you're fighting someone for the audience and you, one of you wins.

• 52:34Adam Friedland?

  You're catering to your crowd, though.

• 52:35Speaker 05

  Yeah, that's in one kind of debate.

• 52:37Adam Friedland?

  No one's watching that and they're like, "I was on the fence about eat up poo poo and then you convinced me not to eat up poo poo."

• 52:42Speaker 05

  I don't know. I mean, look, that's not my tactic.

• 52:44Adam Friedland?

  You haven't convinced one guy not to eat up poo poo.

• 52:46Speaker 05

  Yeah, he might have. He might have. If he didn't, if he...

• 52:49Adam Friedland?

  I'm saying you against 20 gay guys.

• 52:51Speaker 05

  No, I, yeah, I have a different approach. But for some of the, some of the debates, you know, you actually do want to convince the other guy. And that, you know, that doesn't play on the internet.

• 53:00Adam Friedland?

  Have you convinced one gay guy not to be gay?

• 53:01Speaker 05

  Well, on the trans issue, I think I've probably convinced people, yeah. In fact, I had a girl come up to me. She said, "Hey, Michael, I thought I was trans and I, but I was listening to you and other people, and luckily my parents didn't like trans me. And then my doctor, and I had a good priest, and my doctors actually ended up diagnosing me with autism and treated me for the autism, and then my gender dysphoria went away."

• 53:23Adam Friedland?

  So, that sounds like that person's had a difficult life, right?

• 53:25Speaker 05

  Yeah, and now it's getting better because she's accepting the truth and not being affirmed in her religion.

• 53:30Adam Friedland?

  Well, it's probably just also like, they've had a tough time figuring out who they are, right?

• 53:33Speaker 05

  Yeah, but she figured out the truth of it, not the lie that's being promoted.

• 53:36Adam Friedland?

  Don't you think to some extent, like, the way we talk about children is a little bit cruel?

• 53:40Speaker 05

  How do you mean? I do agree broadly.

• 53:43Adam Friedland?

  Listen, I'm the, you know, I'm the freaking Voltaire of the left, right? Okay, but like-

• 53:50Speaker 05

  Don't degrade yourself by comparing yourself to Voltaire.

• 53:52Adam Friedland?

  I'm the freaking Spinoza of the left.

• 53:56Speaker 05

  You're the Marquis de Sade of the left.

• 53:57Adam Friedland?

  I am, I am, yeah, yeah, exactly. I'm the Sun Tzu of the left. But like, I do think that there isn't on both sides of political discourse. And first of all, sides, it's just you guys, really.

• 54:12Speaker 05

  Who?

• 54:13Adam Friedland?

  And we can get into that. It's like, why has there been an advantage in like, online discourse on one side, really?

• 54:19Speaker 05

  Oh, you're saying on the right? Yeah, it is mostly on the right.

• 54:21Adam Friedland?

  I don't want to go there yet. But I don't want to go there yet. But like, I do think there hasn't been a discussion enough about, when we talk about kids, we just talk about their penises and vaginas.

• 54:36Speaker 05

  Again, I'd like to question your premise here.

• 54:38Adam Friedland?

  And I think it's a little perverse, and I don't think it's Christian. I don't think that's a Christian approach to like, talking about how-

• 54:44Speaker 05

  Yeah, but I don't think we do that. I think that's a false premise.

• 54:47Adam Friedland?

  If I'm reading, if I'm reading your big-

• 54:50Speaker 05

  You're right that the liberal politicians came out and said we need to castrate kids.

• 54:55Adam Friedland?

  I don't think that's true.

• 54:57Speaker 05

  You don't think that we castrate kids?

• 54:59Adam Friedland?

  I don't think, I think that's-

• 55:00Speaker 05

  You don't think we do the trans procedures on kids?

• 55:01Adam Friedland?

  I don't think Pelosi said we need to cut their dicks off.

• 55:03Speaker 05

  Said we need to support trans children. That is a euphemism to mean we need to put them on cross-sex hormones, and in some cases mutilate.

• 55:09Adam Friedland?

  Across the board, whether they're trans or not, they weren't able-

• 55:14Speaker 05

  Coast to coast, national politicians, like Nancy Pelosi.

• 55:17Adam Friedland?

  You're talking about something that is probably just a statistical insignificance, and you're highlighting it-

• 55:23Speaker 05

  The 2024 election was one on that issue.

• 55:25Adam Friedland?

  You're highlighting it, you're highlighting it-

• 55:26Speaker 05

  No, it's not, it's a major political issue.

• 55:27Adam Friedland?

  You're highlighting it to vilify an entire group of people.

• 55:29Speaker 05

  I'm not vilifying anyone. Again, I really don't agree with the premise. I mean, there are a lot of things to talk about with kids.

• 55:34Adam Friedland?

  You know that I won that one. You know I just won that one.

• 55:36Speaker 05

  I don't, I don't think so.

• 55:37Adam Friedland?

  You went to Yale too, bro.

• 55:38Speaker 05

  I don't, no, I don't think so.

• 55:39Adam Friedland?

  You went to Yale and I won that one.

• 55:40Speaker 05

  Did you?

• 55:41Adam Friedland?

  Damn, I should have taught at Yale. Okay, I just- So, okay, you also go on those shows where it's like, uh, like OnlyFans?

• 55:50Speaker 05

  Uh, the whatever podcast.

• 55:51Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, and you like yell at, you yell at girls that show their titties and vaginas?

• 55:56Speaker 05

  I definitely don't yell at them.

• 55:57Adam Friedland?

  But you tell them that they're like, that you're a high-value cigar man and that they're low-value prostitutes?

• 56:02Speaker 05

  I'm not sure I've ever said that, yeah.

• 56:04Adam Friedland?

  What does your wife say to you before you go to one of them shows?

• 56:06Speaker 05

  I, yeah, I say, "Have a good work trip, honey." I don't, yeah.

• 56:09Adam Friedland?

  Your wife, come on, bro, think about that. She said, "I support you," and yelling, "A work trip?"

• 56:14Speaker 05

  I don't yell.

• 56:15Adam Friedland?

  You go on a plane?

• 56:16Speaker 05

  I think your premises are a little suspect.

• 56:17Adam Friedland?

  You go on a plane to the yelling at, at, uh, OnlyFans show?

• 56:20Speaker 05

  I don't, I don't.

• 56:21Adam Friedland?

  You travel on a plane to that?

• 56:22Speaker 05

  I don't, yeah, I travel on a lot of planes.

• 56:24Adam Friedland?

  And what does your wife say?

• 56:25Speaker 05

  She, well, she's, she says...

• 56:26Adam Friedland?

  "My girl would kill me if, if, my girl would kill me."

• 56:28Speaker 05

  If you went on a, on a dating podcast?

• 56:31Adam Friedland?

  A dating podcast?

• 56:33Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah.

• 56:33Adam Friedland?

  No, it's a podcast where like, girls like, that take their clothes off for money, get told by men, and there's a black...

• 56:39Speaker 05

  Well, I guess the difference is I tell them not to.

• 56:41Adam Friedland?

  There's a white guy one and a black guy one, right?

• 56:43Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 56:44Adam Friedland?

  And the black guy one, they are all Holocaust deniers now.

• 56:46Speaker 05

  I've never been, I've never been on the black guy one, actually.

• 56:49Adam Friedland?

  You should go on the black guy one, dude.

• 56:50Speaker 05

  I don't think they've invited me on, but I would be...

• 56:52Adam Friedland?

  So you go on a show where you tell girls, uh, not to do OnlyFans?

• 56:56Speaker 05

  Yeah, don't, yeah, "Don't sell your bodies for sex," is my name.

• 56:58Adam Friedland?

  You should go on Goldman Sachs, dude. What the hell are you doing?

• 57:02Speaker 05

  That sounds way more boring.

• 57:03Adam Friedland?

  It's so...

• 57:04Speaker 05

  Because if I were at Goldman Sachs, I'd be like, "What do you do?" I say, "I invest money and whatever." You ask me, "What do I do now?" I don't know, I just kinda talk.

• 57:11Adam Friedland?

  You seem like a nice guy, right?

• 57:12Speaker 05

  Appreciate that.

• 57:12Adam Friedland?

  But like, what's the motivation behind telling a stranger they're a bad person?

• 57:16Speaker 05

  I don't tell them they're a bad person.

• 57:17Adam Friedland?

  But you are effectively telling them that their entire life is bad and that they're...

• 57:21Speaker 05

  They should improve it, that they would be happier and flourish if they improved it.

• 57:25Adam Friedland?

  But it's a stranger, it's a stranger, right?

• 57:26Speaker 05

  Uh, yeah, I don't know these girls.

• 57:28Adam Friedland?

  It's, and it's also someone that doesn't, you have some modicum of power, it's someone that has, it's some nobody. You're telling a nobody that they're stupid.

• 57:36Speaker 05

  I don't do that, no.

• 57:37Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, you do.

• 57:37Speaker 05

  I think all of your premises are a little bit mistaken.

• 57:40Adam Friedland?

  Why are you smiling, then?

• 57:41Speaker 05

  Uh, wha...

• 57:42Adam Friedland?

  Bro, why are you smiling?

• 57:43Speaker 05

  Because of...

• 57:44Adam Friedland?

  You know you're going on the process, you should tell them that they're like, that they're, that they're, that they're, uh, that they're loose women.

• 57:50Speaker 05

  I, I tell...

• 57:51Adam Friedland?

  And they shouldn't be loose women.

• 57:52Speaker 05

  I do tell them they shouldn't be loose women, that's true.

• 57:55Adam Friedland?

  Well, like, why is it, you, you, it's not, it's just, I don't wanna get involved with that.

• 58:00Speaker 05

  I know, you, you, your premise, I guess, is you don't wanna be involved with other people. I think I'm a human being who lives in a society, and I think we should conduce to the common good, and we should help our fellow man, and have charity for them. So that would be a...

• 58:11Adam Friedland?

  It's not charitable, though.

• 58:13Speaker 05

  It is charitable.

• 58:13Adam Friedland?

  It's not charitable to tell someone that they're...

• 58:15Speaker 05

  Charity is to will the good of the other.

• 58:16Adam Friedland?

  That they're being a bad person.

• 58:18Speaker 05

  No, no, no. To say, "Hey, you should not do things that are bad for you, and you should do things that are good for you."

• 58:22Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, but if someone's already had all the trans surgeries, and they're like, "I'm happy now," and you're saying that, you tell them that what they're, that they're actually a man and stuff, you know that they're not, you're not being nice to them.

• 58:32Speaker 05

  I am certainly, I think the truth is nice.

• 58:34Adam Friedland?

  It's a stranger.

• 58:34Speaker 05

  And I think lies are very mean and disrespectful.

• 58:37Adam Friedland?

  You know it's not nice to them.

• 58:39Speaker 05

  I think it's nice to tell people the truth. You have to tell people the truth, like, in love. You can't say like, "Hey, you fat, ugly jerk."

• 58:45Adam Friedland?

  It's a know-it-all. But can't you just admit it's just showbiz and it does numbers?

• 58:49Speaker 05

  No, it's not just, it does do numbers.

• 58:51Adam Friedland?

  That is just showbiz, dude.

• 58:52Speaker 05

  No, it's not. It's not. It's important to tell people the truth.

• 58:54Adam Friedland?

  It's not.

• 58:55Speaker 05

  And it's good for them.

• 58:56Adam Friedland?

  Okay. Can we call Ben? I just want to say what I...

• 58:59Speaker 05

  Did he text me back? Let me see.

• 59:01Adam Friedland?

  He definitely didn't.

• 59:02Speaker 05

  He totally did.

• 59:04Adam Friedland?

  What did he say?

• 59:04Speaker 05

  Hold on, let me, I gotta, I'm gonna read it first before I...

• 59:06Adam Friedland?

  What did he say?

• 59:07Speaker 05

  Hold on.

• 59:09Adam Friedland?

  Just hit him up, dude, please. This'll be the amazing finale for the episode.

• 59:12Speaker 05

  This is great.

• 59:14Adam Friedland?

  What did he say?

• 59:14Speaker 05

  He said, "LMAO, tell him same."

• 59:18Adam Friedland?

  Wait, just call him.

• 59:19Speaker 05

  He said that.

• 59:20Adam Friedland?

  Call him real quick. Please, call Ben.

• 59:21Speaker 05

  This is my show.

• 59:22Adam Friedland?

  It's El Capitan, dude.

• 59:23Speaker 05

  No, I'm not putting...

• 59:24Adam Friedland?

  Why are you being afraid of the boss? Dude, be a little bit bold.

• 59:26Speaker 05

  Yeah, I'm not, I don't want to... Hey, what do I care? Hey, what do I care? You know, what do I care what Ben's doing? It's not up to me. It's not my... What do I care?

• 59:34Adam Friedland?

  What do you mean? He's being gay right now?

• 59:36Speaker 05

  I did not, I did not call him gay. I didn't call Ben gay.

• 59:39Adam Friedland?

  Can I say something to you? My sister, my sister is like, um, my sister's...

• 59:42Speaker 05

  Is she a Ben fan?

• 59:43Adam Friedland?

  Rather woke, and she said his wicked review was incredible. She said Ben hit the nail on the head.

• 59:50Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 59:50Adam Friedland?

  He's like, "This is not as good as the original cast recording." Kristen Chenoweth sang "Let It Go." Idina Menzel sang "Let It Go." Much better. Can you please call Ben?

• 1:00:04Speaker 05

  Yeah, no. No.

• 1:00:05Adam Friedland?

  You can't go LaGuardia until you call Ben.

• 1:00:07Speaker 05

  I'm not calling him.

• 1:00:08Adam Friedland?

  All right, thought experiment.

• 1:00:11Adam Friedland?

  Either you do my thought experiment.

• 1:00:13Speaker 05

  Yeah, I'm in.

• 1:00:13Adam Friedland?

  Okay, you're walking down the street, you see two guys having sex with each other.

• 1:00:19Adam Friedland?

  Michael, answer my question. You're walking down the street, you see two fellows, fully in the nude. Actually, they're both wearing Jordans.

• 1:00:25Speaker 05

  Since in Uganda.

• 1:00:26Adam Friedland?

  They're both wearing Jordan ones, they're having sex with each other, right?

• 1:00:28Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:00:29Adam Friedland?

  Do you intervene and say, like, tell them to stop having sex?

• 1:00:33Speaker 05

  Yeah, actually. In the street, if it were in their private room.

• 1:00:36Adam Friedland?

  What do you say to them?

• 1:00:37Speaker 05

  Hey, fellas, please stop it.

• 1:00:39Adam Friedland?

  Okay, and they keep having sex after you say that?

• 1:00:41Speaker 05

  Yeah, I say, then I call, first I call Ben Shapiro, obviously, because you asked me to. And then I call the police, and I say, get those guys out of the street.

• 1:00:49Adam Friedland?

  The police are too far, okay.

• 1:00:50Speaker 05

  They're too far.

• 1:00:51Adam Friedland?

  You see a six-year-old walking down the other side of the street.

• 1:00:54Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:00:55Adam Friedland?

  You're next to the, around the corner, you're at a corner, right? You see these two fellows, fully in the buff, having sex? Six-year-old coming towards you, right?

• 1:01:02Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:01:03Adam Friedland?

  Okay, you got about, like, what are you gonna say?

• 1:01:05Speaker 05

  Split second.

• 1:01:06Adam Friedland?

  Caleb, how long is that six-year-old going down a full city block?

• 1:01:08Speaker 05

  Ten seconds.

• 1:01:09Adam Friedland?

  Ten seconds, you got ten seconds, what are you gonna do? Physical intervention?

• 1:01:13Speaker 05

  I guess I'd...

• 1:01:15Adam Friedland?

  Are you gonna punch them?

• 1:01:16Speaker 05

  No, I would probably divert the six-year-old. Say, hey, hey, hey, don't go, because I don't want to really get that involved with the guys. I don't know if they, this might be like Scott Wiener in California.

• 1:01:27Adam Friedland?

  They are pretty buff these days. The gay guys are like, they look like...

• 1:01:29Speaker 05

  They're buff.

• 1:01:29Adam Friedland?

  They look like John Cena these days.

• 1:01:31Speaker 05

  Yeah, I'm not trying to, I'm not trying to catch that, you know, monkey box or anything.

• 1:01:34Adam Friedland?

  Okay, but the six-year-old has an appointment, and the six-year-old is like, I have an appointment, I cannot, I cannot miss it.

• 1:01:39Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:01:39Adam Friedland?

  The six-year-old's like, stranger, stranger, stranger.

• 1:01:42Speaker 05

  Yeah, I say, no.

• 1:01:43Adam Friedland?

  So the six-year-old, like, the six-year-old jukes you Barry Sanders style, okay? The six-year-old's continuing, you have, you have about five seconds now.

• 1:01:51Speaker 05

  I dive, I have to...

• 1:01:52Adam Friedland?

  You have to dive on the men having sex?

• 1:01:53Speaker 05

  You know what, I would probably take my jacket off, and throw it on the men in the buff, so that the six-year-old wouldn't see them.

• 1:02:00Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 1:02:00Speaker 05

  And then I would have to get a new jacket.

• 1:02:01Adam Friedland?

  Jacket blocked, jacket on the floor.

• 1:02:03Speaker 05

  By the homosexual?

• 1:02:04Adam Friedland?

  Yeah, yeah, so you have three seconds now.

• 1:02:05Speaker 05

  Yeah, I, uh, now I've...

• 1:02:07Adam Friedland?

  The kid has a very important appointment.

• 1:02:09Speaker 05

  I've got, and can I, can I sort of walk alongside the kid, to kind of block? So he's still walking, but I'm kind of blocking his view.

• 1:02:17Adam Friedland?

  You're too skinny, you're not gay, actually. Yeah, you're not buff like gay guys. Yeah, yeah, the kid is also like, the kid is fast and wily.

• 1:02:24Speaker 05

  Yeah, okay.

• 1:02:24Adam Friedland?

  And the kid has to turn the corner, too.

• 1:02:26Speaker 05

  Yeah, so at that point...

• 1:02:28Adam Friedland?

  And plus, your body's not gonna block two incredibly jacked gay guys only wearing Jordan 1s.

• 1:02:33Speaker 05

  You want me to tackle the homosexuals, don't you?

• 1:02:36Adam Friedland?

  I don't want you, I'm gonna say, "What do you do?"

• 1:02:37Speaker 05

  What do you want me to do? You want me to jump on the gay guys?

• 1:02:40Adam Friedland?

  Okay.

• 1:02:41Speaker 05

  That's what you're clearly saying.

• 1:02:42Adam Friedland?

  I'm saying, "What do you do?"

• 1:02:44Speaker 05

  What do...

• 1:02:45Adam Friedland?

  I don't know what to do.

• 1:02:45Speaker 05

  At that point, I can either tackle the six-year-old...

• 1:02:48Adam Friedland?

  I'm a liberal, I'm gonna tell the six-year-old that this is their sexual education. So tell me what you do if you see these two hunk... You see these two... You see, there's these two guys, they look like Tom of Finland illustrations. They've got huge ones, too. You've never even seen that big, okay? You're seeing that they're going at it. I mean, it's kind of like the most athleticism and tenacity on display you've ever seen.

• 1:03:13Speaker 05

  If not for the child there, I might marvel.

• 1:03:15Adam Friedland?

  In fact, you're like, watching them having sex, you're like, in fact, like, they have to be gay.

• 1:03:19Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 1:03:19Adam Friedland?

  Right? Like, it's their weight class. They can't have sex with a woman, because they'd kill them. Right? These two Adonises.

• 1:03:26Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 1:03:27Adam Friedland?

  They literally, they...

• 1:03:28Speaker 05

  They're Greek.

• 1:03:30Adam Friedland?

  The tenacity and athleticism on display is just phenomenal.

• 1:03:34Speaker 05

  And so the kid says...

• 1:03:35Adam Friedland?

  And say, "Listen, it's not my thing, but I, you know..."

• 1:03:38Speaker 05

  And you know, on that point, then, the kid would say, finally, he sees it, it's three seconds, he says, "Ah, what's that?"

• 1:03:43Adam Friedland?

  So you let the kid see it?

• 1:03:44Speaker 05

  I don't, well, I apparently can't stop him. And he sees it, and so what do I say? I say, "That is Achilles and Patroclus, and this is a lesson in ancient Greece."

• 1:03:54Adam Friedland?

  So you do sexual education, seven-year-old style?

• 1:03:56Speaker 05

  I do historical.

• 1:03:57Adam Friedland?

  You do seven-year-old sexual...

• 1:03:58Speaker 05

  Historical, yes, non-sexual.

• 1:04:00Adam Friedland?

  You do drag queen story hour at the library?

• 1:04:04Speaker 05

  I would not lie to him. I would just take a partial truth.

• 1:04:08Adam Friedland?

  This is how the blue pill, he took the blue pill, everyone. Give it up for Michael Knowles, everyone. Michael Knowles!

• 1:04:15Speaker 05

  Thank you, wow.

• 1:05:09Speaker 08

  Are you looking for support in your weight management journey? Zepbound Terezepatide may be able to help. Zepbound is a prescription medicine used with a reduced calorie diet and increased physical activity to help adults with obesity, or some adults with overweight who also have weight-related medical problems, to lose excess body weight and keep the weight off. Zepbound is approved as a 2.5, 5, 7.5, 10, 12.5, or 15-milligram injection. Zepbound contains Terezepatide and should not be used with other Terezepatide-containing products or any GLP-1 receptor agonist medicines. It is not known if Zepbound is safe and effective for use in children. Don't share needles or pens, or reuse needles.

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  Don't take if allergic to it, or if you or someone in your family had medullary thyroid cancer, or if you've had multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2. Tell your doctor if you get a lump or swelling in your neck. Stop Zepbound and call your doctor if you have severe stomach pain or a serious allergic reaction. Severe side effects may include inflamed pancreas or gallbladder problems. Tell your doctor if you experience vision changes before scheduled procedures with anesthesia, if you're nursing, pregnant, plan to be, or taking birth control pills. Taking Zepbound with a sulphonal urea or insulin may cause low blood sugar. Side effects include nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting, which can cause dehydration and worsen kidney problems. Talk to your doctor.

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  Call 1-800-545-5979, or visit zepbound.lily.com.

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